Faithfull be And keep the Laws transmitted here to Thee Their Throne like Thine shall stand and be as Great VII For I have Sion made my Rest The place which I of all the World love best My house for ever where I choose to dwell All Her Provisions I will bless And thence Her poor shall look for their increase And when they see it wonder how it fell VIII There shall her Priests my Praises sing And with Loud Shouts My Saints their Offrings bring The Horn of David there I 'll make to bud An Horn of Plenty full and green Where some New blossoms ever shall be seen Whose fruit's as generous as the root is good IX There for my King I 'll set a light My eye shall make it burn and keep it bright Obscurity shall on His Foes be cast Cover'd with shame they shall ly down But on His head I 'll put a glorious Crown And I who put it on will hold it fast Psalm CXXXIII Ecce quam bonum quam c. I. BLest day wherein I live to see The Tribes like Brethren all agree Like Brethren striving who shall my best Subjects be II. God has by them restor'd my Crown And they secur'd what was their Own For what on me they pour'd upon themselves fell down III. Th' Annointing Oyl they on me spent On them in Acts of Favour went As if for them as much as me the Oyl was meant IV. Like that which on the High-Priest shed At first it only wet His head But then o're beard and cloaths and all was quickly spred V. Or like those mists which from the Main The sun draws up to send again In dews first on the Hills and then the humble Plain VI. With such th' Almighty loves to dwell And Souls agreed His Praise can tell How on them blessings when on others vengeance fell Psalm CXXXIV Ecce nunc benedicite c. I. PRaise Him Ye Servants of th' Eternal King Who alwayes in His Temple stay Till your loud songs the cheerful Morning bring And having chas'd the Night away Call to attend your Sacrifice the rising day II. And as you praise Him let your thankfull hands Their part in all the Service bear They have their language which He understands Though none beside their voice do's hear For them reserves His eye and for your lips His Ear III. The Lord from Sion on Thy Borders reign Showers like that Heav'n which sends them free Return Thy Blessings on Thee back again Let them Thine own and greater be That Gods who Heav'n and Earth did make all for Thee Psalm CXXXV Laudate nomen Domini c. I. YE Servants of th' Immortal King His Masters of request below To whom when We our just Petitions bring Immediately to Heav'n they go And by your means who there attend I' th' flames which burn the Sacrifice ascend To His Great Name which He delights to raise Though far above your reach direct your Praise II. There 's none like Him so full of love On whom you can your praise bestow And if great Goodness can affection move Then praise His Name for that is so For Jacobs seed He gave His voice And plac'd His Treasure where He made His choice So great that none can contradict His will But when they most resist it most fulfill III. His Pleasure Heav'n and Earth obey And Laws which He first gave them keep He chains the Sea and bounding sands do's lay For mighty fetters on the Deep Causes thick vapours to ascend And in one cloud moist Hail and fire do's blend Out of His Treasures brings th' unruly wind And Captive Tempests with strong Cords do's bind IV. In Egypt when He did begin Thus He their First Born would not spare The Beasts were punisht for their Masters sin Under the Curse because they were His Wonders God before Him sent And thither afterwards in Person went Egypt Thou saw'st His hand i' th mid'st of Thee When Pharaoh who did bear it Would not see V. He mighty Kingdoms overthrew Scattred their Forces slew their Kings And Victory which abroad at Pleasure flew Made serve at home without her wings Sehon and Ogg before Him fell In whose Possessions Faithfull Israel dwell That Promised Land which He their Fathers gave Who from that gift their surest Title have VI. Eternal God like Thee Thy Name Endures to all Eternity And as Its Power is constantly the same So shall Its just Memorial be For Thou wilt for Thy People rise Subdue and Scatter all their Enemies That under yoaks they shall no more remain But to Thy House and City be restor'd again VII Dumb Idols shall not Thee withstand Nor thousand Gods fond men adore For all though fashion'd by the Workmans hand Remain the Clay they were before Dull Clay which neither sees nor hears Though Art has given them eyes and made them ears Most Easy Gods to whom when any cry They therefore grant because they can't deny VIII Without or Speech or breath or sense Though they of All the Organs have In vain is help to be expected thence Where 's not enough themselves to save Blind Deities but blinder they Who knowing it to their own Work will pray Ne're thinking that it cannot to them turn And that one fire will god and Incense burn IX But Thou O Israel Bless Thy Lord O House of Aaron bless His Name And you who serve at th' Altar by His Word With coales from thence encrease your Flame Let joy in every Face appear And bless the Lord whom you have made your Fear From Sion bless Him who reigns King above But at Jerusalem is The God of Love Psalm CXXXVI Consitemini Domino Quoniam c. I. OPraise The Lord for He is Good And let the World His love adore For though His Power may aw them more His Love guards those who are by that withstood His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure II. Praise Him who o're all gods do's reign The God of Gods of Kings the King To whom all Thrones this Homage bring What He first gave them to resign again His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure III. All that We see His hand has done Who makes His Mighty Power appear With wonder strikes us and with fear For His own sake He did it and alone His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IV. He made the Heav'ns that glorious space Which has no bound and knows no end Whose greatness man can comprehend As little as that God who made the Place His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure V. The Flood at first hid all the Land Till He rais'd it above the Flood Where it unmov'd e're since has stood He stretcht it out by reaching out His hand His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VI. The Lamps of Heav'n ow all their light To Him who caus'd them first to shine He on them
ear Forget Thy Father and Thy Countrey too What was theirs once is now a Sovereigns due Who merits all Thy honour love and fear The Kings who shall no less make Thee to reign And to Thy Rule Himself submit To th' Empire of Thy Eyes and Wit Become their slave and take the Chain And what Thy hands presented Him to them resign again IX Tyre with a Present shall her daughters send To seek thy favour and thy love entreat 'T is thy Alliance which shall make them great And not their own wealth though it knows no end Not that their gifts and store can add to Thine The rich embroydery of Thy Vest Where all the Needles art 's exprest To Beauties which are more Divine And all within unseen by mortal eye far brighter shine X. Thus shalt Thou be conducted to the King Whil'st all the Virgins who Thy Pomp attend In shouts to Heav'n their acclamations send And as they follow to the Palace sing Hail Fairest Queen forget Thy Fathers land Nor let His Throne disturb thy mind For Thou instead of them shalt find Children who with the Soveraign Wand More Empires than He Cities govern'd shall the World command XI My Verse shall praise Thee too and Thy great Name Shall in its lasting Monument survive My Verse Eternity to Thee shall give And thus it self perpetuate in Thy Fame For when the Age to come by that shall know These wonders and renew Thy Praise In Altars which their Zeal shall raise Thou then shalt make my Verse to grow And what to Thee it gave Eternity on that bestow Psalm XLVI Deus noster Refugium c. I. TO Armies some for refuge fly Others to Walls which they must first defend But God's our help and when to Him we cry Or He our troubles soon will end Or to a City where they come not us will send II. We will not fear though tempests roar And one storm mingle Sea and Earth and all Though reall Mountains torn from the loose shoar To Heav'n be tost and Heav'n quite fall The God who is our help will then be near our call III. Fly ye swift winds tempests be gone Be still proud Seas there is no need of you We have a stream which though it softly run Can more than all your billows do Both cleanse the Holy City and refresh it too IV. Slow Siloah which so gently glides As if 't were unresolv'd to go away And passing where the Most High God resides To view the place so long do's stay The enamour'd River one would guess forgot its way V. It Sion views where God do's dwell Sion His Throne which like the Earth remains Heav'n is her guard and all the Powers of Hell Shall ne're move her for there He reigns Who is the God o' th' Hills and layes on Vales His Chains VI. The Heathen Kings began to rage And all their strength against her did command But God Himself to save her did engage Utt'red His Voyce and shew'd His hand And though the Earth did melt Sion unmov'd did stand VII The God of Battles fights for us On whom the Hosts of Heav'n and Earth attend Through Him our arms shall be Victorious And when our Prayers to Him ascend He that is Jacobs God His Israel will defend VIII Come and behold what He has done The mighty works which His right hand has wrought How on their Foes He turn'd destruction But to His own deliverance brought And made them Conquerours when He for them fought IX All the World o're He ends all Warrs And in their room brings plenty mirth and ease He hides with Laurel the Triumphers scarrs And all but in their Pomps makes cease The Trumpets noyse and turns the broken arms to Peace X. Be still said He and see my Power Only be still that 's all you need to do For on your Enemies I 'll vengeance shower Exalt your heads but lay their low And they as well as you That I am God shall know XI The God of Battles fights for us On whom the Hosts of Heaven and Earth attend Through Him our Arms shall be Victorious And when our Prayers to Him ascend He that is Jacobs God His Israel will defend Psalm XLVII Omnes gentes plaudite manibus c. I. REjoyce O World and you who dwell therein This Solemn day your mirth commands Rejoyce for the great Show will now begin And lift your voice up with your hands Let them both joyn whiles you His Praises sing Who only is the Universal King II. Mighty and terrible the Lord of all His entrance those who will not meet Too proud to kiss his hands shall lower fall And yield their necks unto His feet So Jacobs seed He will make glorious And what Himself has done ascribe to Us. III. God is gone up ascended with a shout With sound of Trumpets risen on high And having put His enemies to the rout Upon their Trophies up did fly Sing praise to God your Praises to Him sing Who only is the Universall King IV. God only is the Universall King His Name with understanding praise And in the Services you to Him sing Let that inspirit all your layes The World around His just Commands shall own For Holiness is the Throne He sits upon V. See how the Tributary Kings croud in And one united People make Their Crowns to deck His Victories they bring And from His hands all new ones take Each in His Temple Homage to Him yields And there hang up their Consecrated Shields Psalm XLVIII Magnus Dominus c. I. GReat is our God and greatly to be prais'd Upon that Hill which He himself has rais'd Sion which He His City made Beautifull Sion whom the World obey'd And for whose Peace as for their own all Countreys prayd Which on the North Jerusalem do's guard Safer than gates most surely barr'd Which on the North do's on Jerusalem shine So that around it has the Sun or Naturall or Divine II. Within her Palaces the Lord is known For not hers more He counts them than His own The Kings perceiv'd it marching by But thither they no sooner cast their eye But from the conquering sight as soon they strove to fly Away they hasted thence but all in vain Their fears pursu'd them with fresh pain Like Child-bed throes till there is born a Son A greater pang succeeds as soon as e're the present's gone III. In Ships they thought their Spoyls to carry home But Thou at Sea their Navy didst o'recome All this O Lord we heard before And now believe because we see Thy Power But who that had seen half so much would not do more God will establish Sion and command The Sacred Pile unmov'd to stand Thither wee 'll come for help in our distress And where he has bid us bless him expect he us should bless IV. Lord as Thy Name is so shall be Thy Praise And to adorn it wee 'll invent
Tempests roar And Seas which threaten me are dash'd against the shore V. In God is all my Hope and Stay The Rock of Ages is my Shield By me O World to Him direct Thy way And like Thy Guide seek Him who help can yield He is Our Hope when all means fail And when none else His hands prevail The Poor want help the Rich are but a Lye And to be weigh'd are lighter both than Vanity VI. Then in Oppression never trust Nor Riches though they be increas'd They will deceive you for they are but dust And the worst Arms though fondly judg'd the best 'T was once spoke by th' Almighty's Words I heard it twice All Power 's the Lords Mercy O God do's also spring from Thee And as each Mans Work is so his reward shall be Psalm LXIII Deus Deus meus ad te c. I. EArly my God before 't is Light And all the Stars are up but that which makes the day Whil'st Heav'n alone with flames is bright And all below is hurl'd i' th sable veil of night Which they can neither draw nor take away Early I 'le worship and one glance from Thee E're 't is with others day shall make it noon with me II. And as this dry and thirsty land Where the ground ready to expire for want of rain Gaping and out of breath do's stand And shews its very bowels shriv'led like its sand And having drunk gapes for more drink again The Wilderness and I in this agree For as that thirsts for rain so Lord I thirst for Thee III. I thirst Thy glorious power to see As I have seen it in Thy Temple heretofore When ravish't with Thy love to me To dye I was content could I but so love Thee And so to dye this life would choose no more These thoughts so high my fainting Spirit do raise That through my lips they force their way in songs of praise IV. For this I 'le bless Thee and on high To Thy Great Name send up my praises whil'st I live For since at present I enjoy A mind content it shall prepare for more supply Though Thou at present only that do'st give Even that shall bring my famish't Soul more good Than what my Body ha's from most delicious food V. Marrow and Fatness it shall be And all the solid meats which please and feed the strong For I shall come at last to Thee Who art the Blessed End of all Felicity And the best subject of my humble song And on my bed when I revolve Thy might My Praises shall instead of Watches part the night VI. Exil'd distress'd and wond'rous low Under Thy wings secure I in my trouble lay Since I so well their covert know I 'le follow hard o'retake and never let Thee go Unless on them Thou bear me too away Then shall I be upheld by Thy Right hand And on the empty Air as on a Mountain stand VII Then shall my Enemies fall down By their own swords and hasting to th' untimely grave Reap truly what themselves have sown And their vile Carkasses to Dogs and Foxes thrown Receive no better Burial than they gave Such living Monuments which shall decay And be in other Beasts entomb'd as well as they VIII But I shall in my God rejoyce And as He raigns above be stablish't in my Throne below For I am His and He my Choice And as my heart now praises Him so shall my voice And all who fear Him and the Wonder know In joyous shouts shall their long silence break Whil'st my Foes burst with envy want all power to speak Psalm LXIV Exaudi Deus orationem c. I. LOrd to my voice incline Thine ear And set me free from danger and from fear Hide me from those who wicked plots devise Are my profess'd yet secret Enemies Who whet their tongues instead of Swords And shoot for poyson'd arrows bitter Words II. They bend their bow and out of sight Watch how they unperceiv'd may wound th' Upright At him they fearless shoot and plot the while If this dispatch him not what Engine will Through our disguise what man can see Or how say they can we discover'd be III. No art they leave untry'd but round Seek and ne'r rest till what they sought is found Each ha's his several way their heart 's so deep That each though partners their own counsel keep And dare not one another trust Though all in this agreed against the Just. IV. But God shall strike them with a dart That shall divide between the thoughts and heart Both shall be wounded both together fall And their own tongues shall give like death to all To spare their lives no man shall pray But frighted at their ruine flee away V. By their destruction all shall fear And dread the judgement which they see so near Shall think and speak of what the Lord ha's done And joy in Him whose Pow'r was thus made known The Righteous in Him shall rejoyce And up to Heav'n in praises lift their voice Psalm LXV Te decet hymnus Deus I. PRaises for Thee in Sion Lord attend Sion the fairest Stage in Heav'ns great road Whence thousand Praises daily do ascend And come in troops to Thy Divine Aboad There I my vows will pay And with the Convoy they find there direct their Way II. O Thou who all times do'st th' afflicted hear From the Worlds ends all Flesh shall come to Thee My sins I know may justly stop Thine ear And make a greater breach 'twixt Thee and me But purge them Lord and I Shall never pray in vain and Thou be alwayes nigh III. Thrice happy man on whom Thou wilt bestow That Grace which of a Slave shall make him Thine Thy Friend who in Thy House Thy love shall know And see Thy Glory as it there do's shine When He shall to thee pray Nor Thine own Face nor his Prayers wilt Thou turn away IV. By fearfull things in Truth Lord answer us Who sav'st Thy People and do'st take their part And not theirs only but propitious Th' Earths ends have found Thee their help Thou art The Earths ends to Thee are near And on rough Seas through storms and clouds Thou prayers dost hear V. God by His strength the Mountains ha's set fast Mountains whose heads are rais'd above the Sky His Word not their Foundations makes them last Though they as low as the World's Center lye Their tops no strom can shake Yet at His presence like the little Hills they quake VI. The Sea when up to Heav'n its billows swell As if it scorn'd in its old bounds to stay He with his girdle binds the mighty Well With charge the sandy Jaylor to obey Who when it heaves and roars Its fury checks and makes it keep within its shores VII And as tempestuous Seas His Word obey And at His lowder Call their voice hold still The People a more troub'lous Sea than they In all their tumults hearken to His
hope who is my Fear Happy I shall hereafter be contented here Psalm LXXIV Ut quid repulisti in finem c. I. Shall We for ever then be cast off thus And will Our God no more remember Us Shall then His flock no longer be His Care But more His rage than once His love they were Forget not Lord Thy Purchace and Thy Choyce Sion which Thou hast made Thine own The Wonders Thou for Her and Us hast done And let Our Prayers be heard amidst Our Enemies noysel II. Arise and to their great destruction come Who to Thy Temple Gates have brought it home Thy Holy Place and its Divine Recess Instead of stopping do's their rage encrease Thither they break and thence profanely bear The Sacred Treasures of Thy House It 's Vessels set apart from Common Use And on Thy Captive Altars their proud Trophys rear III. Our sad complaints Axes and Hammars drown As if it were some grove they would hew down And all th' Adornments of Thy Dwelling place They or to powder beat or else deface And to compleat Our ruin when no more The Ax or weary hand can do They fire into Thy Sanctuary throw And what Thou so didst consecrate with fire devour IV. Them and their Seed let Us destroy they say And in one ruin with their Temple lay What more accepted Flame to Heaven can rise Than an whole Synagogue for Sacrifice And they shall follow This We see and hear But have no Signes or Prophet more To tell us when this Tempest will be o're Or How long what too long already we must bear V. How long Dear God shall Our Proud Enemy Not us alone but Thy Great Power defy Shall his vile mouth for ever thus defame Thy Sacred and Unutterable Name Or wilt Thou alwayes thus Thy hand recall That Hand where all Our succours lie And only lift it from our sight on high Let it return at length and heavier on them fall VI. Thou heretofore hast made Thy Strength be known And Wonders which none else could do hast done Dividing by th' Almighty Wand the Flood And mad'st it truly a Red Sea with blood When there the Chamian King by Thy Right Hand That great Leviathan of the Main Sunk in the deep which cast Him up again That what its glutted Hosts had left might feast the land VII 'T was Thou who mad'st the Rock in streames to flow And Floods stand still to let Thy Israel go The day and night with all its lamps are Thine Ligh't from that Sun which Thou mad'st first to shine By Thee the bounds of the Round World are cast Both where they shall begin and end Summer and Winter on Thy Word attend All for Thy Pleasure made and during it shall last VIII Thou who hast done all this to raise Thy Name Guard it from those whose lips would blast its Fame Let not Thy mourning Dove become a prey To Vulturs but take wing and fly away Deliver her and minde Thy ancient Care Thy Covenant with Our Fathers made For th' Enemy Our very Graves invade And where we thought to lie retir'd their Counsels are IX Some answer to Our Prayers at length return Least shame confound Us and we ever mourn Arise and Thine Own Cause Thy self defend And let Thy Enemies Malice have an end Forget them not their blasphemies and pride Now that their Sin for vengeance cryes For they their heads have rais'd above the skies And Heav'n with all its Thunders to the Assault defy'd Psalm LXXV Confitebimur Tibi Deus c. I. LOrd We will praise Thee and Our chearful Song Shall of Thy mighty Name reherse For all the Wonders which to it belong Are truly great and so shall make Our verse To it We 'll fly and rest us there Adore its Power and beg its care And make it both the Subject of Our Song and Prayer II. When the Time comes sayes God that I shall call The World to Judgement my Right hand Alike it s Justice shall dispence to all And none it s equal sentence shall withstand It shall reward it shall chastise Some lower cast and make some rise And as my Hand 's impartial so shall be my eyes III. The Earth shall melt and all that in it dwell To their first nothing turn again By its own weight it long o're this had fell But that its mighty Pillars I sustain Fond Man then said I what mean'st Thou No more in vain Just Heav'n pursue Too great to be oppos'd to be gainsaid too true IV. For shame desist and your weak plots give o're They cannot take Heav'n is so High Against your maker vilely speak no more For though His Face you see not He stands by His breath it is whereby you speak He with one frown your pride can check And though you hold it ne'r so stiff bow down your neck V. The Sun which every day the World surrounds Father of all the Mines below And with a careful eye surveys his grounds Cannot the Riches which he makes bestow Though he in purple set and rise And rides in Triumph o're the skies Can give nor wealth nor honour to his Votaries VI. His God at will disposes of his gold And all his honours gives away Whilst his chief Work is only to behold And brightest shine on them who share his prey The Poor he rayses to the Throne And from it throws the Mighty down Is Judge of all and knows no pleasure but His Own VII For in His hand there is a dreadful Cup Whose sparkling Wine is red with gore 'T is large and fill'd with mixture to the top So full the active liquor do's run o're Of it all drink and when 't is done The dreggs are for the Wicked wrung But ne'r shall quench their thirst or ever cool their tongue VIII But I to future ages will declare The praises of th' Eternall King And since so Wonderful His glories are Of none but Jacobs God the Praises sing The Wicked down to Hell Hce'l throw The Righteous up to Heaven shall grow And Heav'n to his exalted head shall seem but low Psalm LXXVI Notus in Judaea Dominus I. The True the Only God in Judah reigns There is His Temple there His Court To Salem all the Tribes resort And learn to sing His Name in lofty strains No place such tokens of His love do's bear His Chariot He has set up there There broke the Arrows and there burnt the shield Spear II. Sion more glorious than the Hills of Bey How excellent dost Thou appear How full of Majesty and Fear When from them the Besiegers steal away Away the valiant ran but knew not why Till a dead sleep said Death was nigh And chaining up their hands scarce left them Heels to fly III. At Thy rebuke O God a sleep they fell The Horse and chariot were o're took The Rider stopt at Thy Rebuke And bow'd adown to the All-conquering spell Thou art indeed
His Rod Let Him now strike more Rocks and make them Bread That we may hope Our Armies shall be fed Nothing but Manna Can He flesh provide Here in the desert let His Power be tri'd And if He do's this we 'll distrust no more But all Our murm'rings as we ought give o're God heard them from above and in a flame To see and be reveng'd upon them came Down came the fire and like that Mighty Power Which gave Commission did uncheckt devour The trembling Camp could not but say 't was just And that no other flame could purge their lust Thus were they punish'd for their unbelief Who only in a plague knew Fear or Grief They would not trust Him though they all had seen How constant to His Word and them He ' had been Though from the Clouds He did their bread command And Heav'n did th' Office of a fruitful land Whole fourty years once a day open stood And at their dores they gath'red Angels food Made by an Angels hand for them to eat But still they discontented would have meat And so they shall A strong East Wind did blow And o're the East th' Allmighty Word did go They heard it rustle but without all fear And never dreamt another plague was near It blew all night and at morning along with the day Brought shoales of Quales which round the Army lay The Murmurers saw them but yet scarce believ'd The Miracle and wisht they were deceiv'd They saw them lie in heaps the Camp around So thick they seem'd a burthen to the ground Enough a greater Host than theirs to feed Would but th' event like the beginning speed But while the flesh was in their Mouths that God Who can of every Blessing make a Rod Scourg'd them with this and though they saw it not In dressing Death was truly in the Pot. And down their stomachs with the Quales it went And thence unto the Heart its poysons sent So swift they found it was in vain to flie And still eat on that they might sooner die The Rebel Princes in that plague did fall And God was Gracious not to ruin all Yet still they sinn'd and would not yet believe And only when He slew them thus would grieve Wherefore in vanity their years He spent Waiting to see if thence they would repent For when He slew them they ador'd His Wayes And unto God their Rock gave all the praise Only to flatter Him for still their heart Was only constant from Him to depart Yet He sorgave them and destroy'd them not And both His anger and their Sins forgot He knew they were but flesh a suddain Wind Which passes by and leaves no trace behind How did they tempt Him in the Wilderness Many their plagues their Sins were Numberless When in straight bounds they would that God confine Whose boundless Power beyond all bounds do's shine And measuring by themselves the Holy One Because they saw no help thought there was none How little did they mind His Mighty Hand Then conquering when He only bid them stand What signs in Pharaohs coast He for them wrought And gave deliverance e're He scarce was sought When with deep gore He stain'd the Chrystal flood And Egypt could not drink though thirst for blood Infinite swarms of flies did fill the air Through whose thick clouds the Sun could scarce appear Armies of Frogs did the whole land invade And active lice of nimble dust were made Then martial Locusts came and bore away What the Hayl left untoucht for their rich prey For th' Hayl before had torne the sturdie Oak And what scap'd that fell by the Thunders stroak Cattle and Flocks smote down together lay And scattered limbs of Men strew'd every way No Common Thunder 't was the Prince of th' Air With all the powers of Hell were ralli'd there God let them loose and bid them nothing spare Murrain on beasts Ulcers on men did rage An hand unseen against them did engage Darkness upon their Palaces did rest A too faint Emblem of that in their breast They would not see though God from Heav'n came down And killing their First-born chose Israels for His Own Then like a Flock they were through Kadesh led By Moses hand but God himself their Head Through Seas He lead them which more scar'd then they Rose up in hast and open'd them a way But when gone o're they look'd upon the Main Pharaoh lay drown'd their way was Sea again Through thousand dangers thousand Enemies past To th' Promis'd Canaan they were brought at last The Heathen conquer'd He gave them their Land Houses and Towns stood ready built to hand The Sacred lot did for each Tribe divide And what God gave was not by Man deny'd Yet here they sinn'd and did their God provoke And all His laws and their Own Cov'nants broke So hard it is to fix a Crooked bow And make that strait which Nature made not so High places now they seek and shadie Groves And to foul Idols prostitute their loves This when God heard and saw His laws abus'd By them whom He so tenderly had us'd He Israel hated Shilo did forsake And left that Ark which made His Foes to quake Who with Triumphant layes did bring it home After it had so often overcome 'T is taken and the Captive People fall And one small fire gives troops a Funerall No Marriage Songs are heard in all the Coast But Amorous Harps are in shrill Trumpets lost And every Virgin may before she die Unsworn bewayl her sad Virginitie Wives hear their husbands death without a groan And Preists unmourn'd for die now th' Ark is gone 'T was then God like a Gyant rous'd from sleep Whom Wine beyond His hour did Pris'ner keep That shouts and fights fell on and made them flie And on their backs reveng'd their curious eye The Ark returns but Shilo now no more Shall be its Residence as it was before Ephraim to Judah Shilo to Sion yields And to the Sacred Mount their fruitful fields So God would have 't who chose Himself the Place Sion the Habitation of His Grace 'T is there He 's known there He His Temple made Whose ground work stable as the Worlds was laid Davids design when from the Ewes with young By Him he was anointed to the Throne His Fathers flocks he carefully did keep And therefore made Chief Heardsman of Gods sheep Where all his time he fed them with such Care They never were so strong nor ever lookt so fair Psalm LXXIX Deus venerunt gentes in c. I. LOrd see the Miseries which we undergo And how with us Thy Temple suffers too Thither at length the Enemy is come And Solyma on heaps has layed Sion is but one Mighty Tomb And the Worlds glory now the scorne of all is made II Thy murd'red Saints in th' feilds unburied lie A prey to beasts and fowl which vengeance crie Their blood before was round Jerus'lem shed Increast its brooks and
will He give Nothing that 's good will He from His with-hold He only looks they should uprightly live And for returns expect a thousand fold Lord since to Thine All for the Best shall be Not only give but choose what 's fit for me XI Triumphant General of the Sacred Host Whom all the Pow'rs of Heav'n and Earth obey Who hast a Thund'ring Legion in each Coast And Mighty Armies listed and in pay Blest is that Man who on Thy Pow'r do's trust Others may only conquer but he must Psalm LXXXV Benedixisti Domine terram c. I. AT length O God Thy People are return'd And now Thy Land enjoyes her Peace For emptiness before she mourn'd And that her rest produc'd no rich encrease Israel to His inheritance is Come And Jacob from Captivity brought home II. Thou hast their sins forgiven and past by Those sins with which they stain'd Thy Land And having hid them from Thine eye Unless it were to help with-held'st Thy hand Thy wrath whereby they were consum'd before Chang'd all to Love ha's flames but burns no more III. Great God who hast been so propitious And made Thine anger thus to cease As Thou hast turn'd Thy self turn us And let this Truce conclude in Happy Peace A Peace which none may dare to violate And from this very day let it bear date IV. Will God be alwayes angry ever chide With them who daily seek His Face And though a while He turn aside Shall not one look revive us and Our Race Shew us Thy Love and Thy Salvation grant Our fulness shall exceed Our former Want V. Attentively what God shall speak I 'll hear And listen what He 'll please to say 'T is just His Saints incline their Ear To that which none can claim so much as They Peace to His People and His Saints He 'll speak If they by Sin do not their Cov'nants break VI. To such His help is nigh and power 's at hand And those who fear Him He will love His Glory shall o'reflow Our land And Truth and Mercy kiss here as above Mercy and Truth never to part shall meet And Peace Her old friend Equity shall greet VII Truth from the Earth shall spring the best increase Our land e're hop'd for or did yield And as it grows up Righteousness The fruit of Heav'n shall meet that of the Field Justice which has the Earth so long forsook Shall dwell where she of late durst hardly look VIII A thousand Blessings God to these shall joyn And only of All Goods the Best The generous Olive and the Vine And recompence with fruit their former rest Righteousness here shall make her constant stay Nor go to Heav'n till she prepare Our Way Psalm LXXXVI Inclina Domine aurem tu am c. I. O Thou who dost th' Afflicted hear From Heav'n O God bow down Thine Eare Never such need as Now Never was I so low Or Thou though never out of call less near II. Preserve the Soul which Thee adores And out that Soul unto Thee poures Thy Servant trusts in Thee In vain let it not bee But let Thy Son O God break through these showers III. Be Merciful to Me O Lord For I depend upon Thy Word To Thee alone I cry To Thee for help I fly Rejoyce Thy Servants Soul and help afford IV. I know O Lord that Thou art Good Thy Mercy is a plenteous Flood The dead Thou mak'st to live And sinners dost forgive May not Thy Pow'r be by my Sin withstood V. But to that Prayer O God attend Which from unfeigned lips I send When troubles compass mee Then will I call on Thee For Thou wilt to those troubles put an end VI. I knew Lord Thou wilt answer Mee And that none else can do but Thee Amongst the Gods there 's none That one can trust upon Nor can their Works to Thine compared be VII Therefore to Thee all lands shall come And to Thy glorious Name fall down For Thou dost wondrous things And art above their Kings Art God alone and all must waite thy doom VIII Teach me the way where I should go The Way of Truth unto me show To that unite my heart That it may never start From Thee Lord as 't is wont with me to do IX Then will I praises to Thee sing And to Thee all my service bring Thy Word for ever more Shall still supply new store Nor will I ever end when I begin X. Thy Mercy to me Lord is great For me from Hell it free has set That Hell which lies so low Where I did hast to go And didst not Thou restrain me should do yet XI The Proud O God against me rise And I have many Enemies But be not Thou my Foe I fear not what they do Who never have set Thee before their eyes XII For of Compassion Thou art full Though I am heartless Lord and dull Gracious Long-suffering Whose Truth and Mercie Spring And with their Streams o're flow my very Soul XIII Dear God at length unto me turn Look how I for Thy absence mourn Srengthen Thy servant Lord According to Thy Word To Thy Hand-maid and Thy Hand-maids Son return XIV Shew me some token of Thy love That shame may in my En'mies move Make hast to succour me And comfort bring with Thee And of Thy servant thus my God approve Psalm LXXXVII Fundamenta ejus in montibus c. I. T Was God himself the ground survey'd Compass'd the Mountains round about Among the Mountains chose This out In Holy Sion His Foundation lay'd And for His service took the Place His Pleasure made II. Glorious City Sacred Place Where God Himself delights to be Glorious things are told of Thee How much Thou dost all Cities else surpass And how the Worlds Great God Thy Mighty Founder was III. Philistia to the Lord is known He reckons up who was born there But none with Sion may compare Nor Ethiopia Tyre nor Babylon For Sion God above all lov'd and made His Own IV. God has establisht Sion fast Himself is both Her Towers and Wall Such and so strong as ne're shall fall Such and so strong as none shall ever waste Till He who was their Builder throw them down at last And when the Grand Inquest is made And God shall write the Nations down First beginning with His Own This Man was born at Sion 't shall be sai'd And for a Bearing to His other Honours lai'd VI. From Sion springs His Pedigree I both His Name and Office know What place He serv'd me in below But by His Birth place He shall numbred bee Where e're mine was let me O Lord belong to Thee Psalm LXXXVIII Domine Deus salutis meae c. I. GReat God whence my Salvation comes alone And who that Great Salvation art Thou day and night hast heard me groan O let Thine Ears at length affect Thine heart To Thee I pray let my Prayer come to Thee Or if that
look o're their bounding sands And see what 's done at Land though they cannot come there V. Let them see how the Mountains glad as they Look from their tops when God will come away He comes But who His Presence can abide That the Great Judge of all shall be Yet who would not His entrance see When He with equall Justice shall each cause decide Psalm XCIX Dominus regnavit irascantur c. I. THE Lord do's reign let the Earth fear And tremble till its old Foundations shake For though Mount Sion He His Court do's make His Empire reaches every where Let the whole World before His Name fall low For it is Holy and most rais'd when they do so II. He Righteousness and Truth do's love Is the Kings strength as they His glory are Jacob His Judgements had and was His Care Exalt our God who reigns above The Holy God and at His Footstool bow For then you raise Him most when there you fall most low III. Moses and Aaron and the Quire Of Priests which alwayes in His Court attend Samuel with those whose praises there ascend And from His Altar have their fire In their distress when they did to Him fly He who their troubles saw as freely heard their cry IV. He heard them and that very Flame Which to His Presence did their Prayers conveigh No less for His return prepar'd the way Which through the Cloudy Pillar came He answer'd them and as He heard forgave And though reveng'd the sin yet did the sinner save V. Thus He of old their Faith did prove And unseen by them through the darkness saw How they observ'd His Word and kept His Law Exalt our God who reigns above The Holy God and in His Temple bow For then you raise Him most when there you fall most low Psalm C. Jubilate Deo omnis terra I. YOU who thrâ—ughout the World that Power adore Which first made it and then made you Give to the Lord what is His due And what Man ha's usurpt His Praise restore II. 'T is God alone who by His Word made All And by His Word that All sustains And Nothing by the Wonder gains Except to save and hear us when we call III. We are His People He Our Maker is Our Shepheard He and we His sheep Whom He secure do's ever keep And praise is all that He expects for this IV. Approach His Courts and enter them with praise And of His Mighty Power rehearse Make that the subject of your Verse And up to Heav'n with it His Goodness raise V. Who most shalt bless Him let 's together strive His Mercies have been ever sure His Truth for ever shall endure What can we less when He so much do's give Psalm CI. Misericordiam Justitiam c. I. I Will of Judgement and of mercy sing The greatest Praises of the greatest King And since mine 's nothing worth His own unto Him bring II. 'T was He discover'd to me first the Way I 'll follow where He shew'd the passage lay O come and lead me Lord that I may never stray III. With my integrity I 'll never part But be my Seed's as Thou my Pattern art And as Thy Way is perfect so shall be my Heart IV. No wicked thing will I with pleasure see My Innocent eyes no more shall guilty be Or look so low since they have once been rais'd to Thee V. I 'll hate the work of him who turns aside His way from life and happiness lyes wide And as he shuns me from him I my face will hide VI. The Privy slanderer I will ore'throw Reject the Proud nor with the froward go Their great heights when they fall shall make them sink more low VII But he in mine shall be as in Thy sight Whose heart and wayes Thy Laws have made upright To Thee a Servant but my Friend and chief delight VIII He in my house shall dwell but never there Shall the deceitful or false Man appear Destruction cannot be far of when they are near IX Early I will destroy them and my hand Shall cut them off and guiltless make the Land And on their spoils Gods City shall triumphing stand Psalm CII Domine exaudi orationem c. I. MY dearest God let my Pray'r come to Thee Nor at my sighes and cry offended be Dart through these pitchy clouds one ray Divine And make Thy glorious Face appear If Thou art pleas'd again to shine I will no longer fear But hope that He who sees my Pain will bend His ear II. But hear me then and answer speedily ' Ere 't is too late and I no more can cry For as dry wood do's in the fornace burn And vanishes in smoak away So all my strength to smoak do's turn And feels its own decay Whil'st on my bones and heart a fire unseen do's prey III. So fierce it rages that I quite forget Through pain and grief my very bread to eat The tears I shed do but the flame encrease My bones and flesh become more dry And all the while I held my peace Less burnt then now I cry And grass the Sun ha's toucht is not so scorch't as I. IV. And as the solitary Pelican And widdow'd Turtle for their mates complain Just like the Owle which do's in desarts dwell Hating and hated of the light That to the Rocks her moans do's tell So shun I every sight By day and weary with my mournfull cryes the night V. Both night and day I 'm made the common scorn And those who hate me are against me sworn Ashes and Tears have been my meat and drink Whil'st I continually did grieve Of Thy Just wrath and hand to think What mortal wounds they give Lifting me up a greater fall but to receive VI. And as the shaddow with the Sun declines And disappears when that no longer shines As with the Summer heat flowers pine away So pass my years e're well begun But an Eternal Now do's tay On Thyne ne're to be done When thousand Ages shall their several Race have run VII The mis'ries of Thy Sion Thou hast seen How great Her Sorrows what her Cares have been To save Thy Sion Lord at length arise Her mighty Jubilee is come And now her very dust we prize Her rubbish and Her lome And humbly begg Thou would'st return her captives home VIII So shall the heathen fear Thy Holy Name And all their Kings Thy Kingdomes rule proclaim When thus again Thou Sion shalt rebuild And in Thy glory there appear When all Her Courts with Vowes are fill'd And Thou inclin'st Thine Ear The Prayer of the Forsaken and their groans to hear IX For the next age this story we 'll record That they as well as We may praise the Lord Who from the height of Heav'n His Throne look'd down And did from thence the Earth behold Thence heard the dying Pris'ners grone Saw Justice chain'd with gold And sav'd both Her and them for
But on Thy God O Israel trust He only is Thy help and shield O house of Aaron flee to Him that 's Just For He is Thine and help will yield All you who fear th' Almighty Lord Upon Him trust and flee unto His Word For He 's your help and He will be your shield And though you flee it is to gain the field VI. The Lord has mindful of us been And He will all Our joyes restore The house of Israel have His blessing seen And He will bless them more and more The house of Aaron He will bless And all who fear Him shall by ' His love encrease 'Twixt rich and poor He do's no difference know But by His blessing both in numbers grow VII Bless'd of that God who all things made Both Earth and Sea and glorious Heaven High Heav'n's His seat and of Him is afraid But He to Man the Earth has given 'T is there that we admire His Wayes Before the grave shut us up and His Praise There will we bless the God in whom we live And as He life to us Him praises give Hallelujah Psalm CXVI Delexi quoniam exaudivit c. I. I Love Thee Lord with my whole heart For Thou dost my petitions hear Because Thou to me hast inclin'd Thine ear And thus propitious to Thy servant art With new requests I 'll ever prove Thee And shew by that I love Thee II. The pains of death enclos'd me round Grief held my heart and teares my eyes My grave stood open and death thence did rise Trouble and Horror on all sides I found Death it self waited underneath Above the pains of Death III. Yet to the Lord I cry'd and said My God Thy help I now implore Deliver me as Thou hast done before When in my trouble I unto Thee pray'd Though I deserv'd to be deni'd Yet to the Lord I cry'd IV. To wrath He 's slow abounds in love Our sins most ready to forgive The Innocent upon His bounty live In Him they live who reigns their God above He help'd me when I was brought low For He to wrath is slow V. Then to Thy rest my Soul return For God has kindly dealt with Thee Thy feet from sliding life from death set free Nor shall Thy failing eyes in sorrow mourn Thy dayes to praise Him are increas'd Return Soul to Thy rest VI. Lord I believe and therefore speak I knew I should Thy Mercy praise Though when afflicted and in rugged wayes One sorrow did my heart and silence break Then I all flesh the ly did give And yet Lord I believe VII What shall I bring and yield the Lord For all His Favours shown to me A thankful heart my sacrifice shall be I 'll praise Him and rely upon His Word New songs of thanks I 'll to Him sing And this at least will bring VIII My Vowes which in distress I made Before His People will I pay His People shall rejoice that solemn day Whilst those who are His En'mies be afraid When He His plagues upon them throws And do's accept My Vowes IX Dear in His sight His servants are He will Himself repay their wrong Though in forbearing He may seem too long It is more deep to strike and not to spare Nor is the death of the upright Less pretious in His sight X. Lord I am Thine and thine will be Thy Handmaids Son whom Thou did'st save My God Himself a ransome for me gave And to a nobler service set me free Thou brake'st my bonds and made'st me mine And now Lord I am Thine XI This will I bring and yield the Lord For all His Favours shown to me A thankful heart my sacrifice shall be I 'll praise Him and rely upon His Word New songs of thanks I 'll to Him sing And this at least will bring XII My Vowes which in distress I made Before His People will I pay His People shall rejoice that solemn day And where I made them there shall see them pai'd Within the Courts of the Lord's House There will I pay my Vowes Hallelujah Psalm CXVII Laudate Dominum Omnes c. I. ALL you who to the Lord your Beings ow All Nations with His blessings crown'd All people through the World renown'd Sing praises to that God who made you so II. To God whose Mercy do's to all extend Is great to us and good to you And with His Truth do's still renew But like Himself knowes neither bound nor end Hallelujah Psalm CXVIII Confitemini Domino quoniam c. I. TO God's Almighty Name sing praise And you who know how good He is Resign to Him what 's truely His And Arches of His own great Mercies raise For like His Word they have been sure And to Eternity endure II. Israel the great Jehova's choice Who all His fearful Works have seen Who His great Care have alwayes been Let Israel now confess with thankful voice His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure III. Let those who by their place attend And at His Altar daily wait Their own experiences relate Sing as they see the sacred flame ascend His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IV. And to advance the Blessed King Let all the Righteous with them join And in a service thus Divine Bear their part too and in the Chorus sing His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure V. To God on high for help I cri'd Who from His Temple answer'd me Both heard my prayers and set me free The Lord of Host Himself was on my side I will not fear what man can do Since I 've a God to flee unto VI. With those who help'd me He was seen His Presence brought my greatest aid Nothing shall make me now afraid He 'll be my sword who has my Buckler been And when my Foes shall be o'rethrowne I 'll boast of what His hand has done VII Those who their Care on God do cast And know no other will but His Of sure recruits shall never miss But as a Rock i' th' midst of stormes stand fast On God 't is more secure to trust Than man who must return to dust VIII He never yet did any fail Most sure when most reli'd upon And though His Power subscribes to none He lets weak prayers o're Heav'n and Him prevail On God 't is more secure to trust Than Princes who must turn to dust IX Let Barbarous Nations girt me round And for my ruine all engage My trust is plac'd above their rage And stands unshaken on the higher ground For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all X. Round let them compass me and round And for my ruine all engage My Trust is plac'd above their rage And stands unshaken on the higher ground For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all XI Let them
IV. Like a lost sheep from Thee I went astray Nor to the fold again should come But seek me Lord and bring Thy Servant home For He do's yet Thy great Commands obey Around me let Thy Judgements shine And thus from danger sav'd the Praise shall all be Thine Psalm CXX Ad Dominum cum tribularer c. I. IN my distress unto the Lord I cry'd And though my troubles made me fear That God His Face would from me hide Even then my God was pleas'd to hear And then inclin'd His Willing ear And answer'd me when I most lookt to be deny'd II. Thou heardst me and Thy self didst set me free My Enemies saw their swords were vain And with their tongues did strike at me With lyes my Innocence sought to stain Lord on them turn their lyes again And let their tongues weak as their swords to hurt me be III. But what reward false tongue dost Thou desire Or who to give 't Thee dares come nigh Thou woundest when Thou dost retire As Parthians fight most when they fly Thy Words then kill when thou runn'st by Like Juniper Coles are sweet but burn worse than their fire IV. Unhappy Man who thus am forc'd to stay Exil'd from Him I love most dear From Thee my God O Come away Let me not be without Thee here But where Thou art let me appear Any where Lord so Thou wilt but Thy self display V. Than Mesech can a place more savage be Where all to Peace sworn Enemies are And for Her sake are so to me Kedar with Mesech may compare I cry up Peace They call for Warr Yet that were nothing Lord could I but there have Thee Psalm CXXI Levavi oculos meos in Montes c. I. UNto the Hills I rais'd my drooping eyes And look'd if any help were there Loaded with tears I made them rise To watch and give the sign when help drew near I rais'd them up but all in vain I could not keep them so Their own weight press'd them to the Earth again On high they would not be when I was sunk so low II. Up to your tops O Hills I 'll look no more An unexpected help is nigh I overlook'd this help before Look'd when I thought not high enough too high For lo my God my part do's take On my side do's appear God whos 's great word both Heav'n and Earth did make And what need other help when the Almighty's near III. Thy Foot He said it all times fixt shall stand And He shall watch about Thee keep The Lord shall lead Thee by the hand And never though thou slumbrest fall asleep For Israel He is still awake His eyes still open be And He who of an Israel care can take Fear not but He can well enough provide for Thee IV. Twixt Him and Thee no cloud shall interpose But He shall be Himself Thy shade To break the Malice of Thy Foes The Eternall God shall be Thy refuge made The Lord shall be Thy sure defence Thy guard both night and day Shall sweeten every Planets influence And to serve Thee make both the Sun and Moon obey V. God shall defend Thee and Thy life shall be Secur'd from danger by His love And all things which belong to Thee The Care which He has of Thy Soul shall prove Without He shall direct Thy Way Within shall bless Thy store And all the while from Him Thou 'rt forc'd to slay Shall what Thou hast make serve Thy turn or give Thee more Psalm CXXII Laetatus sum in his qua c. I. T Was the best news I wish to hear My very Soul stood ravisht at my ear Let 's go they say'd Come Let 's away Already we have tarried long enough Now let our speed declare Our love Why should we thus from Sion stay And only be unhappy by our Own delay II. Let 's go see at the City gates How God Himself to greet Our coming waits We Come O God nor will we rest Till we the place have in Jerusalem found Till we have trod that Holy ground Which Thou of all the World lov'st best Which Thou of all the World hast with Thy Presence blest III. Jerusalem is strong and fair Glorious above what other Cities are The Seat of the Eternal King Whose lofty Palaces approach the skies And to be near their God to ' Heav'n rise Thither the Tribes their Offerings bring And from their scattred Cities come His Praise to sing IV. There are the Thrones of Judgement set Her Power is large and Her Dominion great The Thrones of David there stand fast The Lord Himself in Sion founded them Has fixt them in Jerusalem Subject to neither change or Wast But such as shall by Him upheld for ever last V. Triumphant City Mayst Thou be Happy like Him who first establisht Thee May He from Warrs Thy gates secure And like Thee Thy well-wishers ever bless Give Thee a long and certain peace Make all His blessings to Thee sure And may Thy Peace as constant as His Power endure VI. For Israels sake Thou hast my love Second to none but His who rules above For Sions sake I 'll happiness On all Thy Palaces and Borders pray Thy Palaces shall ne're decay Within Thy Borders Warr shall cease For He who is Thy Guardian is the God of Peace Psalm CXXIII Ad te Levavi oculos meos c. I. TO Thee O Lord I lift my careful eyes To Heav'n where Thou sitst cloath'd with light And though I hopeless am to reach Thy sight I cannot choose but let them thither rise Tow'rds Heav'n they look and seek Thee every where And though they see Thee not know Thou art there II. As Servants on their Masters sign depend Know what to do what to forbear From thence though they no other language hear And with quick eyes unto their hands attend Wayting on Thee we more dependance show And though Thou art in visible do so III. We wait and waiting never will give o're Till Thou to us Thy Mercy show O on us Now Thy Mercy Lord bestow And what we long have lost again restore Thy Mercy Lord and since Thou 'rt Just and strong Repeal Our miseries and revenge Our wrong IV. Revenge the wrong which we endure from those Who at us scoff because We 're Thine Against us only for Thy sake combine And are Our envious and malicious foes Their sloth and ease make them Our pains deride And all Our grief 's the Triumph of their pride Psalm CXXIV Nisi quia Dominus c. I. HAD not the Lord our Cause maintain'd The Lord Himself may Israel say Had not the Lord the Victory for us gain'd Instead of getting We had lost the day And Captives been to them who now are made Our prey II. On us they came and like a flood Which would within no banks be held They fiercer grew the more they were withstood Increas'd in rage when we their force repell'd And by
with the ground And when he surely thought to conquer let him fly XVI Let him be backward forc'd and for the scorn His cursed malice threw on me Let on his head that scorn return And be himself as low as he wisht I should be XVII Whil'st those who on the Almighty's Arm do trust In Thee who their Salvation art Always rejoyce that Thou art Just And have their mouths as full of praises as their heart XVIII May I my God one of that number bee For though at present I am low Thou know'st I still belong to Thee And only for my sins till they are purg'd am so XIX Then help me Lord O do not ever stay But to my rescue come at last My troubles call Thee now away Let not Thy help be slow when they come on so fast Psalm XLI Beatus Vir qui intelligit c. I. BLest is that man who do's the poor relieve And feels the miseries which he sees them bear The Lord will sure deliverance to him give And alway to his Prayers incline His ear Will set him from his troubles free And his past griefs with pleasure let him see II. God will preserve him from the rotting grave And here on earth let him behold His face His life from all his Enemies will save And grant him now the presence of His grace His Enemies Wills shall stoop to His And here he shall begin his endless bliss III. When on the bed of sickness he shall ly His bed that God which holds him up will make Will give him strength though able scarce to cry And faithfull hands which Heav'n by force shall take That Mercy then which he has shown And all he gave shall truly be his own IV. Dear God said I on whom all things depend Though I have thus by Thy commandment done I merit nothing Lord for I have sinn'd And what I gave Thee was before Thine own Yet grant it mine Lord heal my Soul For Silver streams cleanse not what Sin makes foul V. My Enemies Thou know'st assault my Fame When will he die say they and leave behinde That which wee 'll look shall not bide long his Name But to it given be quickly turn'd to winde And when one comes to visit me Instead of Comfort he speaks Vanity VI. Notice of every groan he seems to take And weeps and sighs to bear me company But gone a sport of all my grief do's make And laughs to think how he impos'd on me Abroad he tells where he has been And lies invents of what he there has seen VII A base disease sayes he to him cleaves fast Thus Lord Thou know'st they still against me speak This sickness cannot choose but be his last His bodies pain his heart will doubtless break He cannot scape as heretofore But this time fallen he shall rise no more VIII Then to encrease my miseries my Friend Whom I till then more than my self could trust Who of my bread did eat new cares did send And then most fail'd when he was wanted most Against me has lift up his heel And for my love made me his malice feel IX But Thou O God to me be mercifull And raise him up whom Thou hast cast thus low Vengeance may I upon my Enemies pull And up to Heav'n my self more freely grow Hence 't is I know Thy love to mee That from their hands by Thine I am set free X. Thou art my stay and Thou dost me uphold Else my integrity would quickly fail In Thy warm Sun I never shall be cold Nor in Thy sight my darkness Lord prevail To Jacobs God let all sing praise And to His Name Eternall Arches raise Amen and Amen The End of the First Book of Psalms THE SECOND BOOK OF PSALMS Psalm XLII Quemadmodum desiderat c. I. LOok as the Hart by dogs and men pursu'd Seeing his heels betray their flight When he of both had lost the sight Pants for the streams and takes at last the flood With hopes by changing thus the Element To cool his heat and in its streams to drown the scent II. After my God so pants my chased Soul My Soul so thirsts for Thee my King When wilt Thou me to Sion bring Where I may serve Thee Lord without controll Thou know'st my grief how tears have been my food When my insulting Foes have cry'd Now where's your God III. I grieve but when I think the time will come That I shall to Thy Temple go And on my Harp Thy wonders show How I again in triumph shall come home These happy thoughts dispell my darkest fears And what grief did before my joy dissolves in tears IV. Why art Thou troubled Soul and restless grown As if forgotten through despair As if Thy God had left His care And lower than indeed Thou art cast down Trust in Him still for Thou His Name shalt praise And whom His absence has depress'd His sight shall raise V. Down to the Earth my troubled Soul is cast Yet will I Lord remember Thee The whole World is Thy Royalty Missar and Hermon part of Zions Waste Whither from thence my eyes delight to stray And though they cannot see it love to gaze that way VI. Deeps upon Deeps in lowder tempests call The Seas above to them bâ—low Together o're my head they go And on they bid the conquering billows fall In troops they come as to divide the prey And hollow to their fellow waves to haste away VII Fall on proud waves on me spend all your rage I can withstand your roughest shock Fall on and break against this Rock Which dares your pride and for me do's engage My God will still your noyse your fury lay And change this dismal night into a glorious day IX But where 's my God that I to him may sing Let me not ever suffer thus But to me be propitious Break forth O Sun and healing with Thee bring Pierc'd to the Heart Thou know'st I could weep blood When my insulting foes say daily Where 's your God IX Why art Thou troubled Soul and restless grown As if forgotten through despair As if Thy God had left His Care And lower than indeed Thou art cast down Trust in Him still for Thou His Name shalt praise And whom His absence has depress'd His sight shall raise Psalm XLIII Judica me Deus discerne c. I. THou who art Judge of all the World be mine Be both my Judge and Advocate My Cause both sentence and debate And let the issue prove that I am Thine From the deceitfull Man deliver mee Others he may deceive but ne're impose on Thee II. Thou art my strength and on Thee I rely Why do's my God this distance keep Whil'st I ly buryed in the Deep And only with my sighs can upward fly Pitty my Darkness Lord dispell this night And from Thy sacred Hill send forth Thy Truth and Light III. That gloâ—ious Light which may direct my way And where Thou
always art bring mee That we may still together bee In Sion where Thy Presence makes it day Then with my Harp I 'll to Thy Altar go And what above shall never cease begin below IV. Why art Thou troubled Soul and restless grown As if forgotten through despair As if Thy God had left His care And lower than indeed Thou art cast down Trust in Him still for Thou His Name shalt praise And whom His absence has depress'd His sight shall raise Psalm XLIV Deus auribus nostris audivimus c. I. GReat God we oft have heard our Fathers tell The Mighty works which Thou of old hast done When to make room for them where they might dwell And in a Land of thine own choice sit down The Natives by Thy hand were overthrown How Egypt at Thy Signs admiring stood And thinking to pursue were drown'd i' th' flood II. 'T was not their Bow or Sword which forc'd their way Nor the weak aids their helpless arms could bring But Thou whose Word the Sacred Hosts obey Made'st certain Victory attend their string And as their arrows flew direct her wing Thy Light and Favour was their Arms and Guide And when they fought to conquer Thou did'st ride III. May'st Thou again do thus who art Our King And new deliv'rance for their Seed command Thou only canst such great Salvation bring As may again return us to Our Land And make us on our Enemies necks to stand And when Thy Power Thou on our side shalt show And beat them down through Thee wee 'll keep them so IV. T was not our Bow or Sword that helpt wee 'll say Northose weak aids our useless Arms did bring But He whose Word the Sacred Hosts obey Made certain Victory attend our string And as our arrows flew direct her wing He put our Enemies to flight and shame And His great Praise for ever wee 'll proclaim V. But we alas not they are forc'd to fly Since Thou who lead'st our Armies out of old Art now become Thy self an Enemy And make'st them more successfull grow and bold That what with wrong they got by force they hold Like one great flock of Sheep we scatt'red are And wolves devour those whom the Shambles spare VI. We openly are sold but 't is for nought Nor do's Thy treasure by our sale encrease By those who hate us we for slaves are bought Nor by our miseries do's their fury cease But wee in Warr less suff'red than in Peace A shame reproach and proverb wee are made In scorn to hands which were of ours afraid VII 'T is not our disappointments and disgrace That are the only causes of our shame Not these alone with blushes fill our face But the sad thoughts that Thou should'st bear our blame And have expos'd with us Thy Sacred Name For what 's our own we could with Patience bear But Blasphemies 'gainst Thee can never hear VIII Yet both Lord we have heard and both have born But in our suff'rings not forgotten Thee Resolv'd our steps from Thy Laws ne're to turn How rough and hard soe're the way may be Or in Thy Oath to deal perfidiously Though for our Masters we fierce Dragons have And all our service is in sight o' th' grave IX Had we forgotten His or to strange Names Of Idol-gods stretch'd out our suppliant hands Should not God know and visit this in flames Who the vast Empire of all hearts commands And thoughts more than we actions understands But for His sake alone all day we ' are slain Like Sheep and where we fed have dy'd the Plain X. Awake why sleep'st Thou Lord awake and rise And turn nor us nor Thy bright face away Let our distress find pity in Thine eyes Which see the weights they on our shoulders lay And how we prostrate for Thy succour pray Ah cause Thy face for Thy loves sake to shine And for our help arise who still are Thine Psalm XLV Eruct avit Cor meum verbum c. I. A Thousand fancies from my heart the Spring Like a swoln stream which banks can ne're control Increasing still as it along do's roll And grown impetuous scorns to be kept in Too great already in my Soul to stay They out will burst and by my tongue Flow in a swift and numerous Song Will there or find or force their way And make my hand which cannot stop to run as fast as they II. Dread Sov'reign when the argument is Thine And Thou art pleas'd to give me leave to sing Of all that grandure which enthrones my King No wonder if my Verse be gay and fine Thy beauty not my skill do's make it so Thou who in beauty dost excell The fairest Soul which best do's dwell From whose soft lips there ever flow That Grace and Blessing Heav'n till now on Man did ne're bestow III. Go on then Valiant Prince and gird Thy Sword Wherewith Thou hast so often Conquerer been Appear more glorious than Thou e're wert seen And let the whole world own Thee for their Lord Then mount Thy Chariot and in triumph ride With Meekness Truth and Equity And all the Virtues running by Whil'st Vict'ry do's Thy journeys guide And flies before new Conquests and fresh Laurels to provide IV. Then shall Thy arm for slaughter be made bare And Thy proud Enemies receive the darts Which Thou shalt throw and bury in their hearts Whil'st those that yield Thou dost as freely spare Nor Time nor place shall Thy Dominion bound The Justice of Thy Righteous sway Shall make all Lands all men obey And wheresoe're Thy Name shall sound Amids Thy foes new Subjects of Thy Kingdom shall be found V. That Righteousness Thou lov'st shall be Thy Crown And at Thy Feet Envy and Hate shall lie The Mighty God who rais'd Thee up so high Above Thy Fellows pour His Unction down With greater lustre make Thy Face to shine When He the Sacred Oyl shall shed Himself upon Thy Royall Head And to express the Love Divine Meekness with Majesty and to Thy Joys Thy Peoples joyn VI. They shall rejoyce when from the Iv'ry Throne Clad in Thy Robes of State Thou shalt appear When all the perfumes which the East do's bear And the bright Sun or makes or looks upon To Thine their Spirits and richest Odours add And breathing out their Souls shall say Thou hast more Sweets more Charms than they Thus near Thee to have come are glad That they may higher scents receive thence than at first they had VII Daughters of Kings make Thy illustrious train To do what e're Thy pleasure shall command And chain our eyes but that at Thy right hand The Queen with hers remands them back again Next Thee she stands Her Pall with Gold all wrought Where curious Art and Nature strive Which greater Ornament shall give Beyond Inventions barren thought Made of the richest Spoyls were e're from Ophirs treasure brought VIII And Thou O Queen incline Thy willing