eternall salvation through Iesus Christ Amen Psa 82. A Psalme for Asaph It may be sung at our publike Iudicatures before them who administer in the great affaires of Church or Commonwealth to minde them of their duties c. For it instructs reproves Princes Pastors Magistrates abusing their Authority declares the reward of their Iniustice invokes God to take the iudicature to himself GOd stands where he doth see The Lords to Counsell goe And when the Gods in Iudgment be He judgeth what they do 22 Yee Nobles wherfor then Are yee vnjust so long Why favour yee vngodlie men To do the righteous wrong Selah 4 The pore young Orphanes greev'd The needie opprest Should by your Iustice be releev'd And from proud hands releast 4 But yee are men vnwise And walk without the light Ev'n you on whome the land relies Are out of order quite 5 You therefore whome I call The sonns of God most high And termed Gods like men shall fall And like such Princes dye 6 Thy self oh God! advance And give the world her doome For thine by due Inheritance All nations are become Grant almighty God that they to whome thou committest the goverment of thy Churches or Common-weales may not as it often happneth Be their greatest oppressors But give thy grace oh heavenly Father to all whome thou settest in Authority that they considering whose powre they have what they were what they shal be hereafter may become so wise in them selves such lights to others that Righteousnes may be advanced Vngodlines suppressed the pore fatherles releeved all abuses reformed and that such Dignities may be still conferred continued to the publike profit to thy eternal glorie Amen Psa 83. A Psalme or song for Asaph It may be vsed as a prayer against the Leagues Confederacies of the Churches soes such as Pagans Turks Hereticks and Falsebrethren for the whole List of them is here typically registred vnder their Names who were enimies to the Iewish Church BE e silent Lord no longer now To speak oh God no more forbear For lo thy foes do furious grow And proudly rais'd thy haters are They plot thy people to betray And thy intirest freinds to take Come of Isr'el now say they A nameles nation wee will make 2 As in one League all these combine And are against thee Lord agreed Ev'n Edom land Ism'els line And Moab's race Hagar's breed Philistim's Gebal Ammon Tyre Huge Amaleck Ashur to To help the Sonns of Lot conspire Assisting them in all they do Selah 3 But Lord like Madian make thou them Like Sisera and Iabin's traines Who slaughtred were by Kishon stream And lay like dung on Endor plaines Their dukes like Zeb Oreb make Like Zeba and Zalmana's Peers Who said they would God's houses take And his Possessions to be theirs 4 Lord wheel them round as turn'd wee see The dust or chaf when whirl-winds blowe And let thy wrath among them be Like flames on hills where woods do grow Yea let a dreadful storm arise Persueng them with death shame Let feares troubles them surprise Vntill they seek praise thy Name 5 So when that men behold their fall They shall confesse there none cann be Whome wee ETERNAL ought to call Or sov'raigne of the world but thee Permit not oh Lord those enimies to praile who have made Leagues confederacies against thy Church But as heretofore thou hast overthrowne al those Nations who were great oppressors of thy auncient people the Iewes who were types of our confederated Adversaries So wee beseech thee bring to suddaine destruction all the plotts enterprises and combinations of Turks hereticks vnbeleevers false brethren Protect us also we pray thee from the snares powre subtilties of our spiritual foes that thou being known our defender our trust being alwaies in thy defence wee may not fear the powre of any adversaries But for our manyfold protections praise magnify thy Eternal name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 84. To the cheef Musitian a Psalm for the sonns of Chorah It setts forth the soules longings to be pertaker of the blessed Communion of saints the frution of God It shewes also the happines of such their demeanour in this vale of their Miserie c. It is vseful to stir vp in our soules on ardēt love to God his house c. OH Lord of Hoasts how pleasant are Thy dwellings thy courts to me In soul flesh for entrance there Eternal God my longings be The Sparrow findeth an abode The Swallow builds breedeth to Oh Lord of Hoasts my King my God Ev'n at thine alters thus they doe 2 Right blessed all thy houshold be For they are singing still thy praise Selah And blessed are the strong in thee Who in their harts affect thy waies As through the vale of tears they goe They find sweet springs of comforts there And they from strength to strength shal growe Till they with God in Syon are 2 Lord God of Hoasts give ear to me And mark oh Iacob's God my moane Selah Oh God our sheild behold see The face of thy Anointed-one For in thy house one day is more Then thousands any other where And I had rather keep thy dore Then live in pompe where sinners are 3 For as the Sunn thou shinest bright And wee from thee our light receive Thou art the sheild of men vpright And thou dost grace Glories give From such as walk the righteous way No needfull things withheld shall be For ever blest therefore are they Who trust oh Lord of Hoasts in thee Kindle in our harts oh Lord such an affection to thee such a longing after thy spiritual habitations that we may obtaine the measure of grace in this life that will fit us for the portion of glory in the life to come which thou hast prepared for all those who do hunger thrist after thee Number us among thy houshold-servants Make us to take pleasure in thy will in thy presence above all earthly preferments So enable us to walk from strength to strength that wee may become strong Walkers in thy waies and so instruct us to make a comfortable vse of all those afflictions which wee suffer in our Pilgrimage that wee may sincerely acknowledge our safetie our honor our sustenance all our temporal spiritual happines to be only from thee oh God who livest raignest world without end Amen Psa 85. To the cheef Musitian a Psalm for the sonns of Chorah The Church acknowledgeth God's benifits desires their continuance the forbearance of his wrath c. Wee may sing it to praise God for his bounty to his Church kingdome to desire the continuatiō of our happines by stil vouchsafing Mercy with his Iustice THou hast oh God thy Kingdome grac'st And Iacob's thrall repeald Thy peoples faults thou pard'ned hast And all their sinns conceald
he timely brings And his leaf shall neuer perish Ev'rie thing shall prosper to Which he vndertakes to do 3 Thus the wicked shall not fare But be like such dustie matter As the whirl-winde here there On the spatious earth doth scatter Nor shall they withstand their doomes When the day of Judgment comes 4 Neither haue they place or stay In the righteous congregation For God knowes the Just-mans waie With a gratious approbation But those paths that Sinners tread To assured ruine lead Psa 2. It is a prophecie of Christ his kingdom Act. 4. declaring the vaine furie of his Opposers the wrath of God against them his eternall Decree concerning that King the powre extent of his kingdom c. It exhorts Kings subiects also to fear serue him It may be sung to encrease Faith amid the Churches persecutions c. WHat mooves the Gentiles to repine What makes the people foolish growe That Earthlie Kings do thus combine And Rulers meet in Counsell so The Lord his beloved Christ Rebelliously they disobay His powre say these let vs resist And break cast their cords away 2 But God who sitts in heav'n aboue Their foolish purpose will deride His anger shall their torment proue And them in wrath he then shall chide Ev'n I' saith God my King did place Vpon my holy Syon hill And by the Lord what vttred was To me saith Christ now sing I will 3 Thou art my Sonn begot by me This day and if thou make demande The gentiles I will give to thee And make thee King of e'vry land An yron scepter thou shalt sway And if thy Lore they followe not Thou shalt compel them to obay Or break them like an earthen pott 4 Then Kings be wise Rulers lerne To serue the Lord with awfull joy Yea kisse the Sonn lest wroth he turne And ouerthrow you in your way For when his wrath inflamed growes Though but a litle moon'd he seem Then blest are all who shall repose Their constant hopes faith in him Blessed Sonn of God begotten before all time and by thy Father appointed to be King over the whole world let thy Kingdom come all the oppositions of thy adversaries be turned to thy glorie let thy grace erable vs to pluck downe that Antichrist which the world the flesh or the Devil shal seek to set vp against thee in the TeÌ„ple of our harts that wee yealding due obedience to thee thy commands may escape thy burning indignation sincerely embrace thy Gospell with awful ioy persevere in the way leading to that felicity which is prepared for those who put their trust in thee Amen Another of the same SUch uproars mad why do the Gentiles make What follies do the people doate upon Earths Kings conspire Rulers counsel take Against the Lord his Anointed-one Oh come let us break their bands they say Come let vs cast from vs their cords away 2 But God in heav'n deriding their designe Shall vexing them his minde in wrath declare Who e're saies he repines this King of mine On Syon fitts 't was I that plac'd him there And what the Lord himself to me hath told Concerning him I purpose to vnfold 3 Thou art my sonn this day begot I thee Demand therfore he said I will giue The Gentiles thine inheritance to be And rule of all the world thou shalt receiue An iron mace thou shalt vpon them lay And break them like a sherd of potters clay 4 Therfore yee Kings Rulers be more wise Come serve the Lord your God with awfull ioy And kisse the Sonn lest if his wrath arise You be destroid perish from the way For when inflam'd his burning anger growes Right blest are all who trust in him repose Psa 3. Apsalm of David when he fled from Absolom his Son It mistically Prophecied the multitude of Christs foes their bitter censures the great love of God the effects of Prayer Christ his Death Resurrection the confusion of his Adversaries the safety of his Elect. c It is vsefull to strengthen faith in our temptations c. MY foes how many Lord are they What swarmes of them there be And of my soul how many say In God no part hath he Yet thou art Lord my praise my gard Thou didst my head vprear And from thy holy-hill hast heard What my entreaties were 2 I lay slept safe arose Because thou brought'st me ayd And though tenn thousands me enclose I will not be afraid Rise Lord my God from all foes Me safe now also make Their Jaw-bone smite let thy blows The teeth of Sinners breake 3 For saving health alone to thee To thee oh Lord pertaines And whosoe're thy people be Thy peace on them remaines Sweet Iesu who being causesly compassed about with all those innumerable emnities persecutions which wee deserued didst nevertheles trusting in the powre of thy God head ly down without fear sleeping as it were in the midst of them by a voluntary Death wake againe the third day by the same powre to the confusion of thy foes Grant we pray thee that the multitude of our corporall spirituall enemies never make vs despaire of thy mercy but that in all troubles temptations we reioicing trusting in thy love may be kept harmles confesse that our salvation is by thee only who livest raignest world without end Amen Psa 4. To the cheef musician on Neginoth a Psalm of David It vpraides those who deride the Truth exhorts to faith Repentance The common with of world-lings the desire also of a faithful-soul is here expressed It serves to confirme vs against the scornes of Atheists meer carnal men c. OH God my Righteousnes give ear Enlargd I was by thee My humble suite now also hear And pitty take on me Vaine Sonns of men how long will yee My glorie thus abuse Though lies you seek assured be That God the just will chuse 2 Yea God will hear me when I cry Fear therfore to offend And on your bedd serch privatly Your thinckings amend Make Righteousnes your sacrifize On God assurance place For worldly Goods the world-ling cries But grant me Lord thy grace 3 For thou my hart hast joyed more Then corne wine's encrease Thou mak'st me safe I therefore In thee will sleep in peace Olthou fountaine of all righteousnes free justifier of thne Elect seeing by thy common grace we are som what enlarged from our natural bondage grant a full delverance from all our corruptions by thy speciall favour Let neither frailties discouragments nor alurements incline vâ—to vanitie But so cause vs to consider whome thou chusest that with a filial fear we may refrain from sinn having our inward man renewed as well as our outward actions reformed we may offer the true sacrifize of righteousnes Encourage vs also through assurance of thy favour that
kingdome become partakers of that Life-eternal to which he ascended So escaping those terrible Iudgments which thou inflictest on thy malitious foes we shall behold their confusion to the exaltation of the powre to whome he all honor glorie now for evermore Amen Psa 22. To the cheef Musitian vpon Aijleth Shaha◠A Psalm of David It is a prophecie of Christ his passion vnfolding divers passages thereof mētioning also the calling of the Gentiles c. It may be sung to commemorate the Passion some other misteries of our Redemption c. WHy hast thou oh my God my God Why hast thou me forgone Why nearer is not thy abode To hear help my mone Vnheard of thee I cry whole daies Whole nights the same I doe Yet thou art Isr'els cheefest praise And thou art holy to 2 Our fathers did on thee depend And. thou didst them secure They cride thou didst them defend Their faith did them assure But I pore worme an Abiect am No man but one forlorne The people make of me their game Their proverb their scorne 3 When me they vewe their heads they nod Make mouths jeering say God was his hope now then if God Him loves him save he may But thou didst gard me in the wombe Thou didst convay me thence At nurse my hope thou didst become And keptst me eversince 4 Er'e-since my birth my God thou art My trust is all in thee Oh! do not far fro me depart For perills compasse mee Strong Bulls ev'n herds of Bashan race Beset me round about They stand wide-gaping in my face Like Lions roaring-out 5 Like water I am pour'de aside My bones are strain'd apart E'vn potsherd-like my strength is dride Like wax dissolues my hart Vnto my Iawes my tongue is glew'd For thou didst me confound With cruel doggs I am persu'de By Sinners closed round 6 My hands feet they nailed fast My bones apparant were Vpon my vesture lots they cast My garments they did share Thine ayde therfore no more delay But Lord my strength draw near Cause not the sword my soul to slay Nor doggs to rend my dear 7 Me from the mouthes of Lions garde As I in former daies From hornes of vnicornes was heard So I will sing thy praise Thy fame I 'le in thy church record My brethren being there Oh! praise him yee that fear the Lord And Jacobs ofspring are 8 Him oh yee seed of Isr'el fear For he doth nor despize Afflicted soules nor stop his eare Nor turne from them his eyes But when thy crie their cries are heard For which his praise I sing And in great throngs where God is feard My vowes to him I 'le bring 9 The meek shal feed till they are full And praise the Lord therfore All yee who seek him in your soul Shal live for evermore The worlds far ends to minde shall call Their dutie to the Lord And he of heathen kingdomes all Shall see him self ador'de 10 For his the kingdome is indeed All nations ruleth he Earths fatlings on his bread shal feed And thanckful they shal be Yea they shall all before him bowe Whose lodging is the grave For none but he hath powre enough The soul from death to save 11 A seed whome he shall count his owne Shal then to God returne And make his Acts of Justice known To people yet vnborn Oh! thou glorie of Israel the hope of all who trust in thee seeing by a voluntarie humiliation thou hast in thine own person felt the bitternes of reproches the crueltie of persecuters the sharpnes of povertie the extream torments of the flesh the strongest Agonies of the soul and every horror which may affright vs when in our greatest tryalls temptations we seem as it were vtterly for saken both of God man remember oh remember thine owne passion have mercie vpon vs. Hear vs when we crie help vs when we can crie no longer And when all our strength faileth let thy powre plnck vs out of our tormenters Iawes that we they whom thou hast promised to collect from al places Ages of the world may meet in thy heavenly kingdome to glorify thee for ever ever Amen Psa 23. A Psalm of David The Christian soul acknowledgeth Christ her pastor enritching feedinge retoicinge reforming beautifieng her providing for her an eternall habitation in this owne presence c. It may be sung to praise God for the benifits herein mentioned c. THe Lord my Pastor daignes to be I nothing now shall need To drinck sweet springs he bringeth mee And on green Meads to feed For his Name-sake my hart he glads He makes my wayes vpright And I the vase of deaths black shades Cann passe without affright 2 Thy staffe thy presence thy rodd My joyfull comforts are And thou before my foes oh God My Table shalt prepare Oyle on my head pour'd out thou hast My Cupp doth over-flowe And thou on me whilst life doth last Thy favours wilt bestowe 3 Yea Lord thy goodnes thy grace Shall alwayes follow me And in thy house my dwelling place For evermore shall be Keep vs oh thou faithfull Sheapherd of our soules that the Devil take vs not out of thy folde nor entise vs from thy pastures by faire alurements Setle vs in thy Church Refresh vs by thy Spirit Instruct vs by thy Sacraments Guide vs by thy example reforme vs by thy father'y correction so comfort vs by thy presence that we may acknowledge there is no need of those beggerly assistances whereon worldlings depend and that we may walke without repininge through the aflictions of this life without fear through the shaddowes of Death to those mansions which thou hast appointed for thy chosen flock in the kingdome of heaven Amen Psa 24. A psalme of David It describes the largnes of Christs inheritance shewes who are members of his Church Then by a poetical prosopopeia the everlasting Gates are summoned to give passage for the Ascention of that glorious King It is vsed in commemoration of the Ascention THe Earth's the Lords with her encrease The world all her goods He founded it vpon the seas And layd it on the Flouds What man is he that shal have grace To climbe the hill of God Or Who shall in his holy-place Obtaine their free abode 2 Sure they whose hands are innocent Whose meanings are vpright Whose harts to folly are not bent Who swear without deceit Such gaine from God a blessed meed And from their faviour grace And such oh Iacob are their seed Who truly seek thy face 3 Yee Gates lift vp your heades on high Yee dores which last for aye The king of glory passeth-by Vnclose give him way Who is the king of glorie tell Oh tell who might he be The Lord who doth in strength excell That glorious king is he 4 Yee Gates aloft your Arches heave Yee dores that have no ende Vnto the king of
Lord Amen Psa 47. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme for the Sonns of Chorah It provoketh to reioicinge for the Ascention of Christ praiseth him for subiecting the world to his spiritual dominion for vniting Iewes Gentiles c. Wee should vse it to those purposes TO God all people ioyfullie Clapp hands with exultation For dreadfull is the Lord most high Great king of ev'ry Nation He vnto vs by his great powre Much people hath subjected And made our heritage the flowre Of Iacob his elected Selah 2 With trumpets with merry noise Is God the Lord ascended Oh! let him be with joyfull voice In songs of praise commended Of God our kinge the praise now sing Sing praise honour do him The Lord of all the world is king Sing praise with knowledge to him 3 God sitts vpon his holy throne Or'e all the Gentiles raigninge And calleth ev'ry willing-one To Iacobs God pertaininge For vnto God whome ev'rie tongue With high applause commendeth The worlds protection doth belonge And he the same defendeth Eternal Sonn God great in powre terrible in Iudgment King of Kings Lord of Lords who sitting on the right-hand of thy Father hast subiected the world to thy Dominion elected vnto thy selfe out of all Nations those willing-ones who are obedient to thy Call Oh grant that wee may not hide thy Talent or belie thy bountie by their perswasions who tell vs that thou expectest to reap where thou sowedst not but let vs thanckfully acknowledge thy Common grace VVhen we are perticulerly called let vs runn vnto thee by thy assisting Spirit obtain that speciall Favour which makes a sure Election and from which there is no falling So we shall see that Truth at which so many slumble with cheerfull harts triumphant voices ascribe our salvation wholy to thee all honor powre glory to thy maiesty now for ever more Amen Psa 48. A Psalm songe for the Sonns of Chorah It extolls the Lord the place of his dwelling confesseth his mercy his Bounty exhorts others to consider publish he same Wee above many other Nations should vse this to praise God for our Syon c. THe Lord is great great his Fame Should in his holy mountaine be For Syon is a goodly Frame The praise of all the world is shee Shee north-ward stands shee doth hight The Cittie of the King of might 2 The Lord is knowne to be her garde For when great kings against her came They much admir'd admiring feard And fearing fledd away with shame Ev'n with such pangs suchlike feare As women that in travaile are 3 For thou didst raise an Easterne winde Which all the shipps of Tarsus brake And Lord of Hoasts now true we finde What others of thy Cittie spake Yea wee have heard now wee see That God will still her keeper be Selah 4 Within thy Temple wee oh God Vpon thy loving-kindnes thought Thy Name is published abrode With Justice thy Right-hand is fraught And in thy Iudgments Syon shall Reioice with Iudah's daughters all Through Syon goe about her walke Her Bullworks marke her Turrets heed That of her beauties you may talke And tell her glories to your seed For God in life will be our guide And in our death our God abide Thou art worthy oh Lord God to receive honor praise powre for thou hast beautified soe fortified thy Cittie the Catholick Church thy auncient promises concerning her are so gratiouslie fulfilled that many famous Nations Kingdomes potentates who despised opposed her small beginning having since vewed her with reverence terror admiration are driven back from their Idolatries ashamed of their malitious Intentions Make vs oh God! faithfull Citizens of this thy Citty delighted so to observe publish the beauties priveledges thereof that the number of her inhabitans may be increased that wee they may there live vnder they protection for ever ever Amen Psa 49. To the cheef Musitian a Psalm for the Sonns of Chorah It declares the common vanity the solly of men in honor c. It is vsefull to comfort the weak Christian against the scandalls of the Crosse strengthens him that is offendeth at the prosperities of the wicked c. YEe dwellers all on earth give eare Both rich pore high lowe For musings deep I will declare And wisdome from my tongue shall flowe Dark Problems I will harken out A Ridle to my harpe I 'le sing For of that day what should I doubt Which all my faults will round me bring 2 They who their trust in Riches have And glorie in their wealths encrease Their brothers life shall neither save Nor with his God procure him peace For soules redemptions are so deare That no man cann sufficient have To purchase life for ever here Or scape the Dungeon of the grave 3 Men see both fooles wisemen die And that their gettings others wast Yet to their Names their lands they tie And thinck their house will ever last But man's vaine honor soone decaies Ev'n as the bruitish creature dies And though their seed their course do praise Their waies are neither safe nor wise Selah 4 Like sheep they food for death are made Who shall a cov'ring on them laie Their glories in the grave shall fade And Iust-men rise more blest then they Selah Despaire not then though some thou see Surpassing thee in place or pelfe Since God thy soul from hell will free And home receive thee to him self 5 For though their life more blest they thought And others did their path commend They to their grave shall carry nought Nor shall their pompe to them descend No to their Fathers they must passe And lie in darknes quite forgott For foolish men in honor'd place Are like the beast which dies to rott It is a Riddle oh Father of Wisdome that happines should be attained without wealth honours and such transitorie things Therfor worldings magnify them selves applaud others according to their temporal Acheivments But when Sinn followes at the heels to Iudgment when the grave shall devour our beauties when the price of Soules is required then their vanity will be apparant Grant therfor oh Lord that neither the worlds esteem of such things make vs to overvalue them nor our want of them to be discouraged but â—â—t vs be fully contented in our salvation by thee So when they perish like beasts are consumed forgotten in the grave who were honorable rich without understanding wee whome they iudged vnhappie shal at the Resurrection arise blessed and glorified through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 50. A Psalm for Asaph It prophecies of the last Iudgement summons Iewes Gentiles there vnto It declares by what lawe they shall be iudged Reprehends Hypocrites exhorts to repentance c. It is vseful to warne that wee be not hypocriticall in regard
only art the Catholick king it is no lesse then blasphemy for any other to assume that Title Rule thou therfor in thine owne Kingdome cast all Vsurpers out of thy Throne Publish thy glories to the world Let thy Truth Iustice terrify thy Foes consume all Ungodlines out of the land Root out all Idolatries that Iacob Syon thy Church her Children may reioice Enthrone thy self also in our harts let thy presence consume thence the Mountaines of our presumption with every thing which there exalts it self against thee that the hatred of Sinn the Love of thy presence the light of thy Truth the Ioye of the holy-ghost may be there established for ever ever Amen Psa 98. A Psalm The whole world is exhorted to sing the new songs of the Gospell the great powre Victories of Christ It showes also how we ought to praise him To these ends we should vse it c. NEw songs vnto the Lord indite For mighty marvailes he hath done His Right-hand hath prevaild in fight His holy Arme the conquest wonn The Gentiles have in publike vew'd Howiust healpfull he hath beene To Isr'el Truth Love he shew'd His Mercies all the world hath seene 2 Then through the world his glory sing Sing praises with triumphant voice To praise the Lord the Psalt'rie bringe And on the Harp with Psalmes reioice The Lord the King with mirth adore With Trump Flute this Ioye beginn Yee seas with all your fullnes roare Thou earth be glad all therein 3 Before the Lord your ioyes expresse Yee Flouds hills for lo he comes To judge the world with equalnes And give the people righteous doomes Almighty Sonn of God wee blesse praise thee for the manifestation of thy Mercy to the whole world in the miraculous work of our Redemption Thou didst come to us in despised weaknes Yet hast thou therein showne such vnresistable powre that it prevailed against the wisdome of the worldly-wise magnified thy derided Crosse above all the most renowned Deities of the Gentiles This thou didst by appearing in a contemptible estate Oh! how glorious how powrfull wilt thou be in thy second comming It now draweth nigh Oh! let it not come vpon vs as a theef in the night but as the Travaile vpon a womam who keepeth a iust reconing ioyeth in the hopes of her Birth more then shee feares the paines of her Travaile So according to the counsell of thy holy spirit wee may expect receive thee with praises Triumphs reioicings Amen Psa 99. It magnifieth the royall dignity of Christ exhorts to feare serve praise him according to the example of Moses Aron Samuel UUe may vse this to informe vs that wee the Patriarks have but one the same Christ our saviour THe Lord is King he doth make Betwixt the Cherubins his throne Yee people fear yee Kingdomes quake For great in Syon he is growne Or'e Nations all himself he rais'd His Name is fear'd holy to Oh! let this powrfull king be prais'd For he vprightly loves to do 2 His powre delights in righteous waies With Iacob he will justly deal The Lord our God oh therfore praise And at his holy footstool kneel His Preist with Moses A'ron was And Samuel did invoke his Name These humbly sought the Lord for grace And they from him obtaind the same 3 Hee from the Cloudie-piller spake And on his words those men relide They of his lawes did conscience make And God therfore to them replide Yea though their errors he did blame To them he did his grace afford Oh serve our God praise his Name For sacred is our God the Lord. Oh Christ who sittest betweene the Cherubims rulest both in heaven earth wee thy subiects do humbly tender our homage to thy royall Maiestie magnifieng thy Iustice thy Mercy thy powre Thou art the same yesterday to day for ever VVee beseech thee therfor to make vs both followers of the Patriarks thy servants in their faithfull obedience partakers also of those mercies which thou hast vouchsafed them Though iustly thou correc test our errors yet in pitty regard our infirmities accept our penitence hear our prayers even for the sake of thy bitter passion sweet Iesus Amen Psa 100. A Psalme of praise It commemorates two great Benifits our Creation which is common to all that Free Election which is peculier to the Chosen Flock of Christ whereby they have the Freedom of his pasturage and of his protection It is therfore vsefull to praise God for the same REioyce in God yee Nations In chearfulnes adore him With ioyfull acclamations Present your Selves before him For God the Lord did make vs No hand therein had wee He for his flock doth take vs His Pasture-sheep wee be 2 His Gates Courts possesse yee To thanck him goe yee thither His Name with gladnes blesse yee And sing his praise togither For God is kinde for ever His grace he freely daignes His Truth will faile vs never For endles it remaines Thy hands oh Lord did make vs therfor we praise thee for our Creation for all the naturall Faculties where with it pleased thee to endowe our soules bodies Thou hast also redeemed us wee therfor likwise praise thee for our Election Vocation Iustification Sanctification Illumination Preservation hope of Glorification for all the pretious Lincks of that golden Chaine wherein are ioyned together the meanes of our Salvation Thou hast wee confesse done already so much for vs that we have almost nothing to pray for but thanckfulnes the cōtinuatiō of thy free Mercies hitherto vouchsafed for which wee humbly beseech thee that wee may truly praise thee for thē for ever ever Amen Another of the same OH all yee Kingdomes praise the Lord Before him let your Ioy be showne With singing let him be ador'd And for your God let him be knowne 2 He made vs his owne wee be His Flock pasture-sheep wee are His Gates Courts then enter yee And give him thancks praises there 3 Yea praise him his Name confesse For in the Lord all good resides His Mercies his Faithfulnes Throughout all Ages firme abides Psa 101. A Psalme of David It personates Christ proposing the divine morrall political Oeconomical dutie of good Princes promising the execution there of in his Kingdome Famely This is indeed the right singing of Mercy Iudgmēt this Psalme is vsefull at the Coronatiō of Kings or when Magistrates are admitted into their places OF Iudgment of Love to thee Now Lord a song I will indite Oh come vnite thy selfe to me And I will keep my waies vpright With perfect hart my house I 'le guide No wicked thinge shall please mine eyes I 'le those detest who turne aside And all their deeds I will despise 2 No froward hart with me shall
stay I will elect no wicked mate The slandrous tongue I 'le cutt away High-lookes I shun proude mindes I hate But through the land to dwell with mee I will equire for men vpright And those men shall my servants be Whose harts in perfect waies delight 3 No Cheater shall with mee have place No Liers in my sight shall stay And from God's Land I soone will chase And root all wicked men away Oh Lord God! all Authoritie is from thee and thou placest good Magistrates Governours both in church Commōwealth for a blessinge or permittest Tirants Fooles corrupt persons for the punishment of a wicked people Defend us wee pray thee from this plague and grant that they whome thou settest over us may be suppressers of all vices protectors of al virtues favourers of true Pietie be alwaies good examples in life conversation both to their Equalls Inferiors Let us also be the same in our severall places Callings that walking with good consciences vpright harts in an vndefiled way wee may as well sing of thy Iudgments as of thy mercios Amen Psa 102. A prayer of the Afflicted when he is overwhelmed and poureth out his complaint before the Lord. The Title shewes it may properly be sung by the pore in spirit who are afflicted by the sight of their owne vnworthines c. It containes a confession with a prediction of the benifits of the Gospell shewes the eternity of Christ's Kingdome LOrd mark my suite receive my crie Be present at my need Thine eares to my complaints apply And hear my suite with speed For smoke-like fumes my tyme away My bones are parcht with heat My wounded hart dries vp like hay And I forgoe my meat 2 My panifull groanes have made me leane And nought but skinn bone I fare ev'n like a Pelicane In deserts left alone Yea like the desert owle am I And watching I have sate As when alone on buildings high A Sparrow wants her mate 3 Mee all day long my foes revile At mee they frett swear And Ashes are my bread the while My drinck my Weepings are For thou in wrath advanced'st me That vile I might be made My dayes like shades declininge be Like new-sprung grasse I fade 4 But Lord thy tymes are without end All Ages thee record Now then arise thou befreind Afflicted Sion Lord. For now the tyme to favour her Fullfilled is outright And greeved all thy servants are To vewe her wofull plight 5 That Earthlie Kings may stand in feare And Princes dread thy Fame Build Syon's wall shew thou there The glorie of thy Name Then thou shalt hear all those that mourne Then thou shalt healp the pore Which I 'le record that men vn-borne May praise thee Lord therefore 6 For from thy holy-place on high The world survayeng then Thou Lord shalt hear the pris'ners cry And save condemned men Thy Name in Syon to declare And in Ierusalem Where Nations all Assembled are To shewe thy praise to them 7 Short-liv'd weak ful of greefe Thou mad'st me in my way But Lord at noonetyde of my life Remove me not I pray Thy yeares through ages all extend Thy hands long since did frame Both heav'n and earth yet when they end Thou shalt remaine the same 8 They old shall growe as garments do And be renew'd by thee Yea thou oh Lord shalt change them so And they shall changed But from all Changes thou art free'd Thy yeares for aye endure And all thy servants their seed Shall bide in thee secure Oh Lord the sole comforter of all destressed soules pittie the sighes complaints of thy pore afflicted Childrē whome thy displeasure for Sinn hath worthily deseased both in minde Body Open vnto us the Armes of thy compassion grant that what we have lost by our Offenses wee may recover by thy Bounty vpon our true repentance amendment of life which amendment wee beseech thee to hasten lest wee be cut short in the midst of our hopes Repaire alsoe the Decayes of thy Church in thy tyme appointed that her children may praise thee for it before mē during their short abiding here that when thou hast changed our Corruption into incorruption we may glorify thee among thy blessed Angels world without end Amen Psa 103. A Psalme of David The Prophet praiseth exhorts to praise God for many perticuler Benifits magnifieng his Compassion longsuffring Iustice c. declares the frailty of man c. It is vsefull to magnify the manifold Mercyes which wee have receaved by Iesus Christ COme praise the Lord come praise his Name My soul all that is in mee My soul come praise his holy Name And of his favours mindfull be For all thine errors he forgave He cur'd thy greefs he clos'd thy wound Thy Life he saved from the grave And thee with tender mercies crown'd 2 With Goodnes he thy mouth doth fill He like on Eagle makes thee younge And righteous Doomes he giveth still To ev'ry one that suffers wrong His waies to Moses he declar'd His deeds to Isr'el he did showe And kinde gratious is our Lord To mercy prone to Anger slowe 2 He will not alwaies vs vprayd Nor evermore displeasd is hee Nor hath he soe our sinns repaid As justly they deserve to be For they that fear him finde his grace Out-reach the spreadings of the skye And he from vs our sinns doth place As farr as East from West doth lie 4 He pitties them who fear his Name As fathers pitty their owne seed For well he knowes our britle frame And that from dust wee did proceed Our tyme is like the feild-bred-flowres Which now doe make a goodly shewe Anon some blast their forme devours And leaves no token where they grewe 5 But still there 's mercy in the Lord For them that awfull of him bee To them that keep minde his word His righteousnes imputeth hee His Throne aboue the heav'ns is rais'd And over all he beareth sway Of powrfull Angells he is prais'd They hear his voice him obay 6 Let all his hoasts his servants to Performe his will and praise his name Yea soe let all his creatures doe And oh my soul do thou the same Father of all pittie who art slowe to anger ready to forgive Looke vpon our infirmities consider our frailties in thy abundant compassion forgive our trespasses and deal not with us according to our deserts Cause us to be renewed like Eagles by casting of the old Man Fill our Mouths with songs of thy praise our harts with thine owne selfe that vnmatchable sweetnes that vnspeakable goodnos Cure all our infirmities healp in all our weaknesses by thy fatherly care Preserve vs in thy feare in the remenbrance of thy Covenant and in the wayes of thy Commandements to our lives end That wee honouring thee by thy Creatures here may glorifie thee among thy Angells Saints hereafter world
Citty fortifide But God of whome despisd were wee 5 Oh God! who didst our hoasts forsake From vs our greefs thus alwaies take For man's vaine succours wee contemn Through God wee valiant Acts have done Our foes by him are overthrowne And he shall sett his feet on them Oh Lord God of Hoasts true in thy word powrful in thy performances According to thy auncient promises thy Church is wonderfully enlarged thou hast now thy lot of Inheritance in those places where they have bene enimies to thy Truth UUee beseech thâ—â— more more to enlarge thy Kingdome to be continually present with us in all our spiritual conflicts that by thy powre we may tread vnder foot the world the flesh the Devill making servants vnto us in the execution of thy will those affections which have heretofore prevailed against us VVee rely on thee only On thee only our harts are fixed And for thy goodnes we desire with all our faculties to praise magnify thy Name for evermore Amen Psa 109. To the cheef Musition a Psalme of David It is applied vnto Iudas Acts 1. 20. and is it vsefull to terrify Gods Foes all Hypocrites by shewing the Iudgments pronounced by the holy-ghost against all such But let none abuse this or any such like Psalmes by repeating them in their owne quarrells lest the Curses fall on themselves OH God my praise now silence breake For wicked men that guileful be With open Iawes against me speake And with false tongues have slandred mee With hatefull words they mee enclose Without all Cause with mee they warr And for my Love they are my foes Yet for their weal my prayers are 2 For my goodworks ill deeds I gett My love with hate they do requite Or'e them therefore some Tyrant set At his right-hand let Sathan waite Let Iustice them to death persue Account it sinn for them to pray Cutt short their dayes make them fewe Let others take their place away 3 Keep fatherles their Orphane-breed And husbandies their widdow'd wives Yea Cause thou their accursed seed To begg wander all their lives Their vncouth denns let then forsake To begg what must their life sustaine Their labors let oppressors take And Strangers rob them of their gaine 4 Let none regard though they lament Nor pitty take on such a race But quite away in one descent Their of-spring their Name deface Let God still minde the guilt they drewe From both their parents at their birth And keep it allway's in his vewe Till they are nam'd no more on earth 5 For why they no compassion shew'd To him that greev'd pained lay But they the needy soul persu'de The broken hart they sought to slay They Cursings Lov'd let them be made The part therefore of their just lot In Blessings they no pleasures had And therfor they possesse them not 6 With curses they themselves did clothe As with a gowne or with a cloke Therefore as oyle or water doth Through bones bowells let them soke Let Curses them like Belts inclose And as their clothes such men aray Ev'n thus oh Lord require my Foes Who of my soul amisse do say 7 But for thy Name sake save thou mee Deal wel with me mercy daigne For wounded is my hart in mee And I am pore full of paine I vanish like an Evening shade I Locust like am tost about My knees are weake through fasting made My flesh is leane wasted out 8 They mee despise ev'n to my face And scornfull nods at mee they make Oh Lord my God! of thy meer grace To bring me help now vndertake Make them to see then confesse That by thy hand I helped am Lord though they Curse yet do thou blesse And let them rise to see their shame 9 But make oh Lord thy Servants glad Whilst they that my illwillers are With shame ev'n their owne shame are clad As if with Robes arayd they were My tongue shall praise thee then therfore Confessing where Assemblies be That God is Patron of the pore And from false doomes their soules doth free Oh God! terrible art thou in those iudgments which thou dost pronounce against all malitious vnrepeÌ„taÌ„t Sinners UUee beseech thee therfore grant us grace to repent all our transgressions to shewe compassion to all thy pore members in their Afflictions that we may finde Mercy in our sorrowes UUee often see thy iudgments but wee neither know whome thou correctest in love to amendment nor whome in fury to their destruction For thou reservest that secret vnto thy self To keep vs both in our dealings Censures alway charitable to those whome thou smitest Oh teach us therefore true Charity let us never doe or wish evill to any man in our owne Causes But let us apply thy iudgmeÌ„ts to sinn in generall imprecate that they may fall only on the enimies of our Lord and saviour Iesus Christ Amen Psa 110. A Psalme of David It is literally of Christ Math. 22. it mentioneth the Deity Humanity Soveraignety Preisthood Powre Conquests Passion Resurrection of the Messiah We may sing it with respect to those perticulers VNto my Lord the Lord thus spake Sitt downe at my right hand And of thy foes I 'le footstooles make Whereon thy feet shall stand The Lord shall out of Syon bring The scepter of thy might And over them thou shalt be king Who now resist thy right 2 On thy great Day in serving thee Men willing mindes will shewe And from the wombe thy birth shall be As is the morninge dewe The Lord hath sworne will nor check Nor change the word he swore Thou art as was Melchizedek A preist for evermore 3 The Lord shall smite when wroth he growes Great kings at thy righthand The Gentiles judge slay his foes Which are in ev'ry land The heads of kingdomes he shall slay And as he passeth-by Shall drinck the Torrent in the way And raise his head on high Almighty God who hast given thy eternal Sonn with whome thou art the same in Essence to be in an unspeakable manner conceaved in the Virgines wombe To be made an everlasting preist for us after the Order of Melchizedek And in his Passage through this life to drinck the bitter Torrent of his Passion Grant wee beseech thee that by virtue of his blessed Incarnation our nature may be sanctified prepared for Grace that by his Death we may dye to sinn that by the powre of his Resurrection wee may arise to righteousnes by his glorious Ascention be victorious ever all our enimies both spiritual temporall for ever ever Amen Psa 111. Halelujah It praiseth God for his miraculous works his wisdome Mercy Iustice for the Covenant of has Grace c. It may be sung to continue in vs the fear of God to praise him for his benefits especially for our Redemption WIth all my hart God's praise I 'le sing Where saints
I will those wonders thou hast done That men from age to age may speak of thee Ev'n of thy Fame glories I will treat And shewe how rare thy wondrous workings are For when thy dreadfull Acts I shall repeat Then other men their largnes will declare Great speach of thy great goodnes they shal make And singing of thy Iustice they shalt showe How apt thou art compassion still to take How prone to pitty to wrath how slowe In doeng good to all thou Lord art free Thy Mercies are vpon thy Creatures all Kept glorious by thy deeds thy praises bee And therfor all thy Saints confesse thee shall Lord of thy kingdome 's glorie they shall tell And shewing ev'ry where what powre thou hast Make knowne how much thy mighty Acts excell And with what state thy royall Throne is plac't Not as a king that 's only temporall For endles eternall is thy throne On thee who e're depends though he should fall Thou Lord wilt lift him vp when he is down Plac'd are on thee all creatures eyes oh God! And thou dost give them food in season still Quite open thou dost reach thy hand abrode Each living Creatures longing to fulfill Right just thou art oh Lord in all thy wayes And as in all thy works thou holy art So thou art near to ev'ry one that praies To all that seek to thee with honest hart To thē that fear thy Name their wish thou giv'st And such as call vpon thee thou wilt save Vngodly men of safety thou depriv'st But all thy Lovers thy protection have Wherefore oh Lord to publish out thy fame In praisefull wise my mouth shall still endeaver Yea all flesh shall blesse thy holy Name And praise the same for ever for ever Oh Lord thy spirit hath said thou art good to all that thy Mercie is over all thy Works Stop the mouthes therfore of all those perverters of thy Truth and blaspheamers of thy most glorious Attribute who dare affirme that thou hast eternally Dereed purpossely Created irrevocably necessitated that the greatest number of soules should be vessells of wrath condemnation without any respect vnto Sinn Good God let this damnable blasphemy spread no further Give all men grace to perceave that they who pretend to honour thee by this doctrine do consequently vnavoydably impute vnto thy sacred Majestie all the wickednes both of men Devills contrary to all piety contrarie to thy expresse Word which is perverted to maintaine this heresy contrarie to that which naturall Reason hath written in our harts Lord these are they which have made thousands hide their Talent by sayeng that thou expectest to reap where thou sowedst not they have soe corrupted their owne iudgments most of their hearers that there is no meanes to prevent this pestilence of the soul but by prayer Vnto thee therfor wee pray Oh hear us even for thine owne honor sake for thy Mercie sake in Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 146. Haleluiah It stirreth vp the soul to perpetuall thanksgiving to depēdance vpon God alone giving reasons for the same c. Wee may sing it to minde vs of those duties MY soul praise thou the Lord As long as thou hast breath In song his praise record And honour him till death No credit place In earthlie kings or such vaine things As humane race 2 Breath failes dust they be One day their pompe destroies Right blest therefore is hee That Iacob's God enioyes And hopes in him Who framed these heav'n earth seas And all in them 3 For God is faithfull still Men wrong'd assist will hee The hungry he doth fill And setts the pris'ner free He Sight bestowes Loves men vpright maketh streight What crooked growes 4 The stranger he receives To Orphanes help imparts The widdowe he releives And Sinners paths subvarts The Lord therefore Oh Syon shall be king of all For evermore Haleluiah Almightie God Creator of heav'n earth the sure healper of all who trust in thee pitty our oppressions satisfy our spirituall hunger free vs from the bondage of sinn cure the blindnes of our Understandings be mercifull to vs in all the rest of our necessities infirmities Grant also that renouncinge all other Confidence depending only on thy favour wee may praise thee for these all thy Mercies in Christ Iesus Amen Psalme 147. It exhorts to praise God for encreasing building his Church typyfied by Ierusalem for many particuler mercies to his people for overthrowing the proud c. The vse is apparant OH glorifie the Lord For of God's praise to sing With justice doth accord Yea 't is a pleasant thing Ierusalem Hee will erect and recollect His Flock to him 2 The Contrite hart hee heales Hee cures their bruises all The Starrs he also tells And them by Name cann call This Lord of our In wise foresight is infinite And great in powre 3 The Lord the Meek doth raise The proud he brings to ground Oh therfor sing his praise Let Harps his praise resound He Clouds doth bring And shewres distills which on the hills Makes grasse to spring 4 Ev'n Beasts Ravens yonge He feedeth when they call In horse or footmen strong He ioyeth nought at all God loves all them Who in his grace their hopes doe place And honor him 5 Syon Salem blesse The Lord your God in song Who doth your seed encrease And hath your Gates made strong His Peace hath yet Your bounds vphild you he fild With flowre of wheat 6 Through earth his Mandates goe His word with swiftnes flies Like wooll he giveth snowe His frost like Ashes lies And then beside He forth doth slice cold flakes of Ice Which who cann bide 7 He speakes streight it thawes He breaths water flowes His statutes his Lawes He to his people showes No nation els His Iudgments know therfore soe With none he deals Haleluiah Most mercifull God who buildest vp thy heavenly Ierusalem by the gathering together of all the faithfull Not only taking notise of them who have starr-like perfections but even of vs also whoe are of those Blind and Lame whome thou hast caused to be called to thy banquet Nay though wee are as brute Beasts or vncleane Birds thou art ready to extend thy Mercy whensoever wee seek thee Oh make vs thanckfull for thy great Bounty Send out thy word to compell us by Stormes or to allure by Calmes according as it shal finde vs disposed let the graces of thy Spirit so thawe our congealed harts that the teares of true penitence may flow from vs produce all such other effects as may cause vs to know thy Iudgments to be of those people whome thou lovest in Iesus Christ Amen Psa 148. Halelujah All Creatures are here in a Poetical manner exhorted to glorify their Creator Wee should vse it to remember vs that God requireth all his Creatures
He gloriously hath freed And everlasting mercie shown To David his seed Vouchsafe most gratious Lord according to thy accustomed mercie to be still our Protector let thy Name be alwaies glorified for the miraculous deliverances of thy Church now in al Ages especially for the great worke of mans generall redemption Instruct vs in the spiritual warfar enable vs against all our visible invisible foes subdue vnto vs all our owne rebellious Affections deliver vs out of all our suffrings Give vs victorie over everie temptation Encrease thy kingdome by the calling of those who are not yet thy People And make vs vnfainedlie thanckful vnto thee for these all the rest of thy mercies through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psal 19. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme of David It declares the vniversal preaching of Gods Divinity by the book of his Creatures it is a prophecie of the generall pubâ—iation of the Gospel Rom. 10. It sheweth a so the properties of the divine word It may be used to praise God for the priveledges which we have by his word as a prayer for sanctification c. GOds glorie shines among the Sphears The heav'ns his handle-works disclose Their daylie speach his powre declares And e'vry night his wisdome showes Their language in al tongues is found Their Line about Earths globe doth runn Through-out the world their words do sound And there 's the Pallace of the Sunn 2 He Bride-groome-like refresh'd appears When he forgoes his lodging place Or gyant-like when vp he rears And chears himself to runn a Race His Iornâ—ies are from thence begun Ev'n where the bounds of heav'n are sett And he quite round the world doth runn Refreshing all things with his heat 3 God's Rule is plaine soules convarts His witnes firme maketh wise His lawes are just glad our harts His Precepts pure clear our eyes His blamles Feare is vn-confin'de Both true right are all his doomes More worth then gold ev'n gold refin'de More sweet then hony in the combes 4 Moreover they thy servant warne By keeping them he profit winns But Lord his guilt who cann descerne Oh! therfor purge my secreat sinns From daring Crimes thy sarvant save And let them bear no sway in me So I the lesse rebuke shall have And from the great-offence be free 5 Oh! when I speake let ev'ry word And ev'rie muzing of my hart Be pleasing in thy sight oh Lord For thou my strength saviour art No excuse is lest oh mercifull Father if we be ignorant of thee or vnconformable to thy will for by the book of thy Creatures it was long-since declared vnto the whole world which Text being corrupted by humane Inventions thou didst explaine it againe in the volumes of the Prophets Since then it was more illustrated by the writings of the Apostles And the prime scope of all these Bookes thy blessed Spirit daylie preacheth interpreteth throughout the world by ordinarie or extraordinarie meanes The powre truth puritie sweetnes profitabelnes of this divine word wee do or must confesse also to be evident Nevertheles because wee have much wilful ignorance many secret corruptions we humbly pray thee so extraordinarilie to enlighten our darknes to purge our concealed polutions that we being illuminated sanctified by the holie-ghost the vnpardonable Sinn may be avoided we made acceptable to thee in Christ Iesus Amen Psa 20. To the cheef Musitian A Psalme of David It is a prayer for spirituall graces with a protestation of affiance in God it mistically toucheth the Prest-hood royal dignity of Christ c. It may be vsed to desire Gods acceptance of vs in his Sonn may serve in some cases as a prayer for christian princes and pastors c. THe Lord at need vouchsafe thee grace Let Jacobs God thy cause defend Protect thee from his holy-place And strength to thee from Syon send Thy guifts let him remember still Let him accept thy Sacrifize Selah Thy harts request let him fulfill And prosper all thou shalt devise 2 We wil reioice thy peace to see And in Gods name our Ensignes wave When al thy suites are granted thee For God I know his Christ will save By his right-hand's almightie force God hears vs from his holy-hill Some trust in charrets or in horse But we Gods Name remember still 3 In that regard we raised are And stand vpright when they do fal Oh! let the king our prayers hear And save vs Lord when we do call Assist vs mercifully oh God in all our Aflictions Accept the Sacrifise offred for vs by Christ Iesus the high-preist of our seules in his Mediations grant vnto vs all our faithful petitions That so renouncing al temporall Assurances trustinge only in thy defence we may arise from those sinns into which many fall without repentance and that we may be made partakers of thy Salvation with our kinglie Mediatour who liveth raighneth with thee oh father thy holy-spirit world without end Amen Psa 21. To the cheef Musitian a Psalm of David It is a literal prophecie of the kingly dignitie of Christ mentioninge some of his royall prerogatives c. It may be vsed as a thanckfull commemoration of the preheminence of our spirituall king c. LOrd in thy strength how joies the king And of thine aide how glad is he His harts desires in ev'rie thing Have bene bestow'd on him by thee Selah With blessings thou didst him prevent With purest gold thou cowud'st his head To ask for life was his intent And he of endles life hath sped 2 Through thy defence he famous growes And is to high preferment reard On him thy blisse-evernal flowes Thy gratious lookes his hart have chear'd Through thy meer love the king shal stand Still firme if he on thee tepose And Lord thy hand ev'n thy right-hand Shall serch finde out all thy foes 3 As ovens hot with flames will do So thou shalt scorch them in thyne yre And in thy wrath consume them so As if they burned in the fire Yea thou shalt from the race of man Root out their fruite pluck their seed Because to wrong thee they begann Although they could not act the deed 4 Thou shalt expose them as it were A Marke within thy shooting-place Thy stringed shafts thou shalt prepare And stick thine Arrowes in their face Thus be thou still exalted Lord By thine owne powre thy trophies raise And then with joye wee will record Thy Matchles might in songs of praise Blessed be thy Name oh God for that high preferment which thou hast ouchsafed the Manhood by assuming the same to thy Deitie by bestowing theron a soveraigntie over al the rest of thy Creatures Give vs humility to ascribe al the glorie therof to Christ Iesus Hear all our petitions in him Teach vs by his example so to trust in thee that we may obtaine the priveledges of his glorious
all shall one day be disclosed c. THe Lord our God th'Almightie-one Hath spoke summon'd all That are bewixt the rising Sunn And places of his fall God's glorie Syon first will showe With noise approch will hee Before him burning fire shall goe A storme shall round him be 2 Through heav'n earth he shall aloud His folke to iudgment call His Saints that Sacrisizes vow'd Appear before him shall His Iustice heav'n shall shewe abrode For God the Iudge will be Hark Isr'el for ev'n I thy God Will thee accuse saith hee 3 I for thine Offrings blame thee not Which were my due of olde Nor Bullock ask I neither Goate Out of thy Stall or Folde For I more heards of Cattell owne Then all the Mountaines yeald To mee all Beasts Birds are known That live in wood or feild 4 If I were hungrie dost thou thinck Since all the world is mine Thy Goates bloud I would ask to drinck Or feed on Bulls of thine No rather pay in thanckfulnes Thy Vowes and call on me So I shall pittie thy destresse And have due praise from thee 5 But to the wicked saies the Lord How darest thou to prate Of my commands of my word Whilst thou dost Counsell hate For when thou dost a Theef perceive A share with him thou tak'st Thou in Adulterie dost live And wicked words thou speak'st 6 Thy Brother thine owne Mothers sonn Thou causles dost revile I silent was thou hast done These wicked things the while Yea thou hast therevpon suppos'd That I was like to thee But all thy folly shall disclos'd And now apparant be 7 Yee that of God forgetfull are Of this Remembrance have Els I shall you in peeces tear When there is none to save For I am glorifide of those That give due praise to mee And such as well their lives dispose My saving-health shall see Allmighty God who with maiestic terror shalt come to iudge the world require an Account of everie one according to the Talent receaved especially of vs who are Saints by an ordinarie visible Callinge give vs grace to offer the acceptable Sacrifize of Righteousnes true obedience Let not our Religion be meerly formall without the fruites of good life Let vs not be of those hypocriticall talkers professers of thy word whoe hate reformation vncharitably censure their owne Brethren neither let thy long forbearance of our Sinns cause vs any way to abuse thy mercies But grant rather that we may so vnfaignedly embrace thee in our harts so truly serve thee in our lives that thou maist be glorified by vs wee saved by thee in the last Iudgment Amen Psa 51. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme of David when Nathan the prophet came vnto him after he had gone into Bethsheba It personates a man trulie penitent and a true confession contrition purpose of amendment is the subiect of this Psalme Everie true penitentiarie may sing it in his humiliation c. OH Lord of thy abounding Love To my offence remissive be My Follies Purge my Sinn remove And of thy grace daigne grace to me For still my fault before me lies Yea by my selfe I am accus'd Thee thee alone my conscience cries Ev'n to thy face I have abus'd 2 Which here I do confesse oh Lord That when to censure thou art brought Men true my finde thy Truthfull word And judge thy Iudgments as they ought For sinnfull though my parents made My Beeing my Birth to bee From thee a secret grace I had To forme the Truth thou seek'st in mee 3 And if I purg'd with hysope were Mee thou shouldst make more white then snowe Yea thy Glad-message when I heare The bones thou brak'st will healthfull growe Then from my faults thy face divart Blot all my follies out of sight Creat in me a spotles hart And make my Spirit Lord vpright 4 Oh! let me not rejected be Take not thy Holie-ghost away To joiefull health restore thou mee Let thy free Spirit be my stay So I will other Sinners guide To seek thy grace walk thy waies And if my bloudie sinn thou hide Thy Iustice oh my God I 'le praise 5 Which praises that my tongue may sing My lipps oh Lord my God vnclose For Burnt-oblations I would bring But thou hast quite reiected those A greeved Soul a contrite hart Is God's best-liked Sacrifize With such oh God! thou pleased art And such thou never shalt despise 6 As thou art pleas'd Mount Syon blesse And wall about Ierusalem The Sacrifize of Righteousnes Shall then obtaine thy good esteem Yea thou shalt then their Guifts receive And they shall all their Offrings pay Ev'n whole Burnt-offrings they shall give And Oxen on thine Altar slay Oh Lord our owne Consciences accuse vs will pronounce thee iust if thou condemn vs for though it might somewhat moove thy compassion to consider our disabilities by Original Polution yet knowing what grace thou hast secretly infused both to resist that naturall corruption and to forme also within vs that Righteousnes which thou requirest wee have no excuse no hope but to appeal to thy mercie To thy Mercie therfor wee appeal beleeving to be perfectly purified by the sprinckling of thy dear Sonns bloud Oh! forgive vs for his sake Restore vs to thy favour repaire what is decaied in soul or bodie so comfort renue guide strengthen vs by the continuall presence of the Holy-ghost that our conversation may be more vpright all our future endeavours become acceptable to thy glorie to the saving of our Soules to the consolation of other penitent Sinners through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psal 52. To the cheef Musitian Maschil a Psalm of David when Doeg the Edomite came told Saul said vnto him David is come vnto the house of Abhimelech It mistically personates the Elect vpraiding their persecutors foretelling their shamfull ruine reicicing in their owne deliverances c. It is vsefull in persecutions WHy vaunt'st thou Tiraunt of thy wrong God's love will still the same appear Although thy mischeef-working tongue Faines lies as keen as Razors are Thou evill more then Good respect'st Thou lovest falshood more then right Selah All harmfull speaches thou affect'st And tongues which publish forth deceit 2 But thee from hence the Lord shall tear And from the Land thy dwelling take Selah The Iust shall see the same with feare And sport at thy destruction make Yea they shall say Loe this was hee Who sought not God to make him stronge But labour'd how he great might be By getting wealth doeng wrong 3 Then as for mee I prosper shall As Olive trees that have their place Within Gods holie temple wall And still depend vpon his grace There Lord I 'le spread abrode thy fame Yea then I 'le praise thee for thy love And trust for ever in thy Name Which all thy Saints will well approve Deliver vs oh gratious Lord from the
cruell insolencies falshood of those who seek their Advancement by iniurious wicked meanes Preserve vs also from the guilt of their abhominations but especially from being so shameles as to make vaunts of oppression or of any other sinn Disenable root out of the land all such insolent offenders that the righteous florishing as green Olive trees beholding thy Iudgments may with reverent awe reioice in their subversion who are friends to Vnrighteousnes with a fearles confidence in thy love magnify thy Holy Name for ever ever Amen Psa 53. To the cheef Musitian Maschil A Psalm of David It is almost the same with the 14. Psalm And may be vsed to minde vs that our Nature was wholie depraved and that wee should desire the comming of Christ by whome wee are to be renewed c. THe foole doth God in hart denay And all corrupt are growne Perverse wicked is their way There is no Righteous-one For God from heav'n his eye declin'de Man's of-spring to behold And searched who did seek to finde Or know him as they should 2 But all their waies prepostrous were All fillthie vnsound None sawe he live vprightlie there Not one good man he found Ev'n brutishlie fond Sinners eat God's people as their bread They seek not God and horrors great They feel where is no dread 3 The Lord will breake the bones of them That have beseiged thee And thou shalt shame them since of him They disrespected be Would wee God's healp from Syon had For Iacob triumph shall And Isr'el will there of be glad When them he brings from thrall Free vs oh Lord from that vniversall corruption which overspreadeth our Nature that wee neither become so foolish to deny thee in our harts nor so perverse as to dishonour thee in our waies Soe behold our polutions that thou maist cleanse vs from them Soe consider our weaknes that thou maist breake the bands of all our foes So make vs to fear thee that all our other feares may be turned into ioye And cause vs to be so desirous of that salvation which was promised out of Syon that being delivered from the thraldome of sinn and death wee every true Israelite may triumph in our Salvation Redemption through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 54. To the cheef Musitian on Neginoth Maschil A Psalm of David when the Ziphims came said to Saul doth not David hide himself with vs It mystically prophecied the Iewes trecheries tirannies against Christ c. It is vsefull when wee are or have beene betraied or persecuted by false brethren c. DEfend mee Lord for thy Name sake In thy great powre adjudg thou mee Of all thy suites quick notise take And let my words well heeded be For Strangers doe against me rise And Tirants for my life have sought Not setting thee before their eyes Although my healp thou still hast wrought 2 The Lord my Soules vpholders gards His Truth hath chas'd my foes away And them with Vengance he rewards For which my Vowes I 'le freely pay To laud thy Name is wel approv'd And I oh Lord thy praise will sing Because my greefs thou hast remoov'd And on my foes my wish dost bring Encline thtne eare oh mercifull father vnto all our iust petitions suffer vs not to be oppressed by our professed foes nor to be betraied into their hands by those Aliens vnto thy Truth Goodnes from whome wee have better deserved But as thou hast bene alwaies heretofore our Healper and the vpholder of them who have befreinded vs. So continue we pray thee to reward our friends according to their kindnes to requite our foes according to their deservings to deliver vs from all our sorrowes through Iesus Christ To whome with thy blessed Spirit wee will offer vp the free Sacrifize of praise and thancksgivinge now for ever Amen Psa 55. To the cheef Musitian Neginoth Maschil a Psalm of David It personatet the faithfull complaining petitioning against the inhumanitie of their foes It deciphers also false brethren declares their destruction the securitie of the Elect. It may be vsed as the former OH God! my praiers hear Hide not away thine eare But hear cast on mee thine eye For loud my foes doe roare The wicked greeve me sore And therfore Lord thus loud I crie 2 With wrongs they mee persue A wrathfull spight they shewe And I at hart am greatlie vext Deaths torments mee oppresse I shake through fearfullnes With horrors great I am perplext 3 I sayd Doves wings had I To rest I then would flie Lo then farr hence I would abide I then would haste away And in some Desert stay Which frō the Tempest mee should hide Selah 4 Destroy slitt their tongues For strife oh Lord wrongs Possesse their Cittie night day In midst thereof I spi'de Sinn fraud guile abide These in her streats still made their stay 5 A foes contempt or scorne I could have shund or borne But mee no publike foe abus'de It was my trusted Peer As friends wee freindlie were And wee God's house togither vs'd 6 Arrest them Death Hell With whome such Mischeevs dwell For I vpon the Lord will call To God at night I 'le pray At morninge at nooneday And mee both hear save he shall 7 In warr he gave mee peace And mee will still release Ev'n me the Lord will hear and save But God will punish them Selah For they his feare contemn Because that they no Changes have 8 Their hands the Peace did breake Where they a league did make And though their speach most freindlie were Yet are sometime their words Like darts or naked swords Let God therefore thy Burthen bear 8 For God is thy defence He gardeth innocence And Sinners downe to Hell will thrust Not half their daies they live Who murther or deceive But in the Lord I put my trust Many greevous oh Lord are those troubles which exercise thy Children especially in those places where prophanes or false worship is openly approoved but the greatest Afflictions are occasioned by Hypocrites False breathren those who abuse us vnder cullour of Religeon or by pretences of dearest Amitie Defend vs therfor oh God from those harmfull Serpents Give us the wings of Dovelike innocence to carry us above their snares Grant us those enterchanges of Prosperitie Adversity which may keep us both in thy Fear Love Suffer not the tribulations of the world nor the temptations of the Devill nor the miseries of the Flesh to oppresse us But let us lay all our burthens vpon thee confidently Trust in thee firmly Seek thee duly love thee sincerely enioy thy gratious protection for ever more Amen Psa 56. To the cheef Musitian vpon the mute Dove in the Desert a golden Psalm of David when the Philistims took him in Gath. It typically personates the Church in persecution is a prayer a complaint against her
continued in the Land Support those whome thou hast raised to be as it were pillers in thy Church or Commonwealth keep them from being so impudent or vaine glorious in their preferment as if it came either causuallie or by their owne Industrie or deservings But so cause theÌ„ us to perceive thy purpose thy providence both in our severall advancements humiliations that we may the better discharge our perticuler duties And when thou shalt fill out the redwine of thy wrath to all obstinate malefactors let us be refreshed by taking the Cupp of Salvation which thou hast prepared for all them who shall be iustified through the merrits of Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 76. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme or song for Asaph It is a Triumph-song to praise God for that knowledge of him which he hath vouchsafed vnto his Church typified by Iudah Ierusalem Syon It glorifieth Christ also for his conquests over sinn Death the Devill The vse is manyfest IN Iurie God is knowne full well His Name 's in Isr'el great He in Ierusalem doth dwell And Syon is his seat Shaft sword sheild he battred there Yea there he wonn the Feild Selah And more his powrs and honors are Then spoilers Burroughts yeald 2 The strong are foilde their dream is flowne Their strength hath not prevaild For at the God of Iacob's frowne Both horse Charret faild Thou dreadfull art none oh Lord Thine angry looks cann bear For when thy voice from heav'n is heard The Earth is dumbe with fear 3 The meek on earth when thou to save And judge them Lord shalt please Selah Thou by man's wrath shalt honour have And his hot rage appease To God make vowes presents give All yee that round him are For he doth kings of breath deprive And makes great princes fear Glorify thy self oh Lord God! in thy holy Catholick Church by the final overthrowe of all her enimies Let thy powre break all their Instruments of mischeef Let the preaching of thy Gospell the thundring of thy Iudgments which have already destroyed the powre made frustrate the Dreames of the old heathnish Idolaters their false Philosophie vtterly overthrowe the strength of that carnal wisdome which at this day standeth in opposition to thy Truth Let our furious dissentions be appeased let the frowardnes rage blind zeal of all men become a meanes of encreasing thy glory to the confusion of thy stoutest opposers to the Salvation of the meekeharted through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psal 77. To the cheef Musitian to Iduthun a Psalm for Asaph It expresseth those interchanges of Doubts Hopes Feares Comforts Assurances through which wee work out salvation with fear trembling It serves to minde vs of our fraile condition shewes how to order our throughts in spiritual combats TO God ev'n to the Lord I prayd And hee did hear my moanes Both day night I sought his aide With never-ceasing groanes My hart no comforts entertain'd But fixt on him her thought Selah And so I greev'd so complain'd That lowe my soul was brought 2 Mine eyes from sleep hee did with holde With paine I lost my tongue I mus'd on daies yeares of olde And what was once my song Yea all alone at night I lay Thus musing in my minde Lord wilt thou cast mee quite away And never more bee kinde 3 Is thy compassion lost out right Shall thy sirme promise faile Hast thou for got thy Mercie quite O're Love shall hate prevaile No this my frailtie is quoth I And these but changes are Wrought by the powre of God most high Which I in minde will bear 4 Thy works wonders past oh Lord I 'le therfor muse vpon Thy former Acts I will record And shewe what thou hast done Thy walkings in thy house declare That there 's no God like thee And what thy powre marvailes are Thou mak'st all people see 5 For Iacob's for Ioseph's race Thine arme did purchase aide Selah And seas Flouds to vewe thy face Were troubled afraide The Clouds did melt the Vapours crasht Thine Arrowes forth were shott Thy thunders roar'd the lightnings flasht And Earth a trembling got 6 Thou wentst through seas with steps vn-eide Thy paths were in the Deep And Moses did with Aron guide Thy people there like sheep Father of mercy God of all consolation who hast often tymes gloriously miraculously hertofore delivered thy Children made safe passage for them through horrible Feares troubles perills temptations be mercifull vnto us wee beseech thee in all our inward outward offlictions especially when our sinns cause thee to exercise us with such chaunges as may make us fearfull wee have lost thy favour UUee deserve to be deprived of thy compassion of all those comforts protections which wee have long enioyed by thy free grace Nevertheles grant that wee never fall quite away from thy regard but may so returne alwaies vnto thee that our frailties may be pitied our peni tence accepted our petitions entertained wee continued in a full fruition of all thy mercies gratious promises in Christ Iesus Amen Psa 78. Maschil for Asaph It commemorates the Iewes obstinate increduliâ—itie with God's plagues Mercies interchangeably sent among them vntill the tyme of David Wee should vse it to warne vs of God's long-suffring toward the whole humane Nature whose perversenes is here mistically set forth as also the sending of the true David Iesus Christ NOw to my Law my people give thine eare wel observ what weighty things are tolde For lo my lipps a problem shal declare And plainely sing grave sayengs dark old That nether what our Fathers have revealed Nor what we know be from our babes concealed 2 God's powr praisfull wonders I wil blaze His Testaments to Iacob I will showe How he likwise in Isr'el setled lawes Which they were bound to let their childreÌ„ know That so they might to their next ages teach them And Age to age for ever after preach them 3 That they in God a faithful hope might place And not forget his works or his command As heretofore their Fathers head strong race Whose hart with God vprightly did not stand Like Ephr'ims brood who bows weapoÌ„s bearing Forsook the Feild the day of hattell fearing 4 Gods law they brak his cov'nant they did slite And on his works or marvailes never thought Yet many signes wonders in their sight In Zoan feildes Egipt-land he wrought To make their way the sea in twaine he cleaved And high on heaps the rowling waters heaved 5 A pillerd-Cloud by day he made their guide A Column-fir'd to clear the night he sent More over he the Rocks did then divide And streams like seas along the Desert went From craggy flints sweet waters forth he brused And springs from theÌ„ce like Rivers were diffused 6 But they went on to move his anger
Selah Thine anger thou hast quite appeas'd And thy just wrath for borne Oh Lord of Hoasts now thou art pleas'd Let vs to thee returne 2 For why shouldst thou still wroth remaine And vexed rather be Then chear thy people's harts againe That they may joy in thee To save vs Lord thy favour showe And let vs hear in peace Thy word among vs preached soe That wee from sinn may cease 3 Then shall thy saving-health abide Near those who fear thy Name And in our Land shall still reside Thy glories thy fame Then Truth Love shall meet kisse And Iustice Peace embrace Yea Truth on earth Righteousnes From heav'n shal shew her face 4 The Lord with ev'rie needfull store Shall make our Kingdome flowe And send his Righteousnes before That wee his way may know Oh Lord wee acknowledge that from tyme to tyme thou hast bene exceeding gratious to thy whole Church to this parte thereof in perticuler For when thy Blessings made us wanton thou didst alwaies humble us by thy fatherly corrections when thou hadst worthilie afflicted us according as thy wisdome sawe cōvenient thou didst ever mercifully comfort restore us againe to thy favour Continue oh God wee pray thee this thy gratious respect vnto our infirmities grant wee may so repent of our sinns so vnfainedly professe thy Truth so diligently practise the works of righteousnes that Honestie Religeon Faith Good-works may inseperably be vnited in every one of vs that the abundance of thy temporal spiritual blessings may be powred forth on this Kingdome on thy whole Church for ever ever Amen Psa 86. A prayer of David It personates Christ in his humiliation prayeng in the behalfe of his mystical body for several necessities thereof intermixing some vowes of praise acknowledgments of Gods Attributes c. It is an vsefull forme of prayer in many temptations afflictions LOrd hear me for great wants I have My soules defender be My God! thy Saint servant save Who puts his trust in thee That thou thy grace to me afford My daylie crie requires Thy servants hart revive oh Lord Which vp to thee aspires 2 For thou good Lord soone pard'nest all Who seek thy grace to finde Oh! hear me now to thee I call And bear my suite in minde My dangers I to thee will show That thou mayst healp assigne For there is no such God as thou Nor any works like thine 3 All nations whome thou dist creat Shall praise worship thee For thou alone oh God art great And great thy wonders be Teach me thy waies in thy fear My soul to thee vnite So never shall my hart forbear Thy praises to indight 4 I scap'd the grave by thy large grace When proud cruel foes Who set not thee before their face To take my soul arose Oh God! thou art a gratious Lord Long-suffring kinde free With Truth Love most largly stor'd Now therefore pitty mee 5 Return oh Lord mee revive Let mee thy favour have Thy strength to me thy servant give Thy Handmaids of-spring save Yea for my good vouchsafe some signe That all my foes may know I am a Favorite of thine And blush they wrong'd me soe Almighty most mercifull Father have pitty vpon us according to thine infinite goodnes compassion Let vs not alwayes wander after our owne imaginations nor be continually exercised with such Afflictions as may make vs the scorne of all that hate vs but according to thy infinite mercy vnparaleld goodnes Have mercy vpon vs And not on vs only but on all those people whome thou hast created that according to thy promise they may all serve praise thee Setle them vs in thy Truth guide vs in thy waies so restore confirme vs in thy favour by some apparant signes of thy love speciall grace that our adversaries may be ashamed of their hatred we thanckfull for al thy Mercies through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 87. A Psalm or song for the sonns of Chorah It describes the scituation glorie of the Church typified by Syon prophetically declareth that all Kingdomes shall be incorporated into that Citty of God that all Nations shall there obtaine their New-birth c. It serves among other vses to informe that God's Church excludeth no Nation c. THe Lord hath his Foundations plac'd Above the heighest mountaines crownes Yea Syons ports he more hath grac't Then all the rest of Iacob's Townes And glorious things are fam'd abrode Of thee oh Cittie lov'd of God Selah 2 For God accounts as borne in thee Egiptians if they him desire Nay though from Babell sprung they be From Chush Philistia or from Tyre For he hath sayd that all on earth In Syon may renew their Birth 3 The God most high will strengthen her And shall record each faithful soul As having had first-beeing there Selah When hee his people doth enrowl For there are all that play or sing And thence proceeds each blessed thing Thou oh Lord art no accepter of persons but every one that feares thee worketh righteousnes of what place soever he be or from whom soever he were descended hath promise of admission into thy Church to be regestred as a free-borne Citizen of thy spiritual Syon Make vs thanckfull Oh God for this large priveledge And seeing none are exempted but such as willfully exclude themselves seing also it is manifest to thee only who they are let us hope charitably of all men whilst there is time of grace and repentance endeavoureng by our prayers instructions freindly reproofs good examples as much as wee are able to bring them to become the Members of this Corporation to enioy a Christian fellowship with vs in Christ Iesu our Lord. Amen Psal 88. A song or Psalm for the Sonns of Chorah to the cheef Musitian vpon Mahalath Leanoth Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite It personates Christ his members complaining of his their sorrowes contempts suffrings c. And it is full of passionate petitions expostulations We may vse it in private or Publike afflicctions LOrd of whose assisting might I was never yet denied All the day all the night I to thee have call'd cried Now regard my wofull plight 2 Let thine Ear thy Minde thine Eyes To the dropping pleading eryeng Of my Teares my Cause my Cries Grant me hearing weighing eyeng For my soul afflicted lies 3 I to Death am drawing nigh And am priz'd as one interred Like a strengthles man I lye As algeady slaine and buried Free among the dead am I. 4 Yea as one forgot of thee Or as from thy hand Abiected Darksome pitts my lodging be And in Dungeons deep afflicted Thy strict hand oppresseth mee 5 All thy wayes I doe sustaine Thou dost make my Lovers flee mee Selah And my freinds fro me restarine Shutt I am where none cann free me Then
thy grace did then vphold 7 When many thoughts opprest me much Thy comforts did my soul delight For thou partakest not with such Whoe sentence give against the right Or such as have the Iust withstood To death condemning guiltles blood 8 But thou oh Lord shalt me defend Thou art my God my Rock my Fort And all the harmes my Foes intend Thou shalt vpon themselves retort Yea for the guilt of their offence Thou Lord our God shalt root them hence Oh thou supream Iudge of the world severe Avenger of all wrongs Behold the fury the despight insolent Cruelties of our Adversaries and deliver the pore the widdowe the Fatherles all thy Oppressed Children out of their wicked hands Thy forbearance hath made the perverters of Iustice seeme to conceive that thou either see'st not or els regardest not their impieties Yea those oppressers are growne so powrfull so many that wee scarce finde any to take part with vs against their Iniuries but that wee have assurance of thy Assistance wee should be vtterly without hope Oh! continue our hopes in thee Sett thou in order all that is amisse destroy all the Favourers of Iniustice keep vs alway harmles both in soul body through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 95. This Psalme exhorts to praise God and warnes to harken to his voice whilst wee have tyme lest like our fore-Fathers wee be deprived of his Rest for our obstinacie It should be often sung to remember vs that wee embrace God's free grace whilst it is offred TO God our Saviour lett 's renewe Our songs with chearfull voice Our thanckfulnes before him shewe With Psalmes in him rejoice For God the Lord most powrfull is The King of Gods is hee The earth's obscurest vales are his And his high mountaines be 2 The seas he made they are his owne Drie land his Creature was Come serve him then fall wee downe Before our Makers face He is our God his flock wee are His pasture-sheep are wee That you his voice may therfor heare More tender-harted be 3 Not like your Fathers when that in The Desert proov'd they were And tempted him though they had seene His works of wonder there Full forty years they moov'd his wrath And therfor thus sayd hee A wandring hart this people hath My waies they will see 4 And I to them in my iust rage Did by mine Oath protest That none of all that froward age Should come within my rest Oh God! the Creator preserver governour of all things UUee give thee thancks for making vs after thine owne Image for sending thy Eternal-word to regenerate vs when wee were made worse then nothing So far wee ought to be from arrogating the powre either of our Beeing or Well-beeing that wee must confesse to vndoe our selves is all which wee are able of our selves do Like our fore Fathers our harts are wandring from thy waies all our life long wee do more mere harden them by custome in sinn Yet oh Lord seeing wee are the sheep of thy pasture bring us home to thy Fo de seeing we are thy People soften our harts givs us grace so to harken to thy voice in this Day of our Trial that in the Day of thy Iudgment wee may enter into thy Rest through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 96. UUee are herein exhorted to sing preach the New-songs of the Gospell to the praise of Christ our King And in regard other Gods are but vanities all nations are provoked to ioyne in praising him c. We should sing it to glorify Christ for his powre his Truth c. COme now in some New-indighting Blesse God the world's Almightie King His Name 's due praise in songs reciting Of his Salvation daylie sing His Fame works of admiration Yee people heed yee Nations hear His powre deserves high exaltation For all the Gods lesse dreadfull are 2 The Gentiles Gods are foolish fictions But our great God did heav'n creat Powr glory praise all perfections Attend him in his holy-seat To him due praise yee kindreds render Extoll his powre his glory sing To God's great Name fitt honours tender Approach his Courts offrings bring 3 Within his house with praise professe him And let him be adored there Let all the world their God confesse him And serve him with a holy feare Yea to the Gentiles let them publish The Lord their King that his might The wav'ring earth shall fast establish And do the wronged people right 4 Let heav'n earth with joy-excelling Reioice before him ever more The seas all things in them dwelling The feilds the woods all their store For lo the Lord approcheth nearlie Behold to judge the world he comes The wicked he will judge serverely And give the people righteous doomes Honour wisdome powre praise be ascribed vnto thee oh king of the world by all thy Creatures according to the severall faculties which thou hast bestowed vpon them Be thou glorified in thy selfe also according to that which thy In comprehensiblenes deserveth beyond what thy creatures are able to ascribe Let all heathenish deities all those Idolls which carnall men have set vp in their harts appear such vanities as they are let thy Soveraignty be acknow ledged thy worship truely celebrated by Iewes Gentiles all Nations throughout the world Let vs especially who are of thy visible Church performe this duty let our harts be so established so filled with Holines filial awe that wee may expect thy comming to Iudgment with comefort wellcome thy opproach with shouts of tryvmphs songs of exvltation Amen Psa 97. The soveraignty of Christ with his comming to Iudgment the Ioy which the faithfull shall conceive thereby the confusion which will fall on the wicked is here foretold c. It may be mystically applied also to our Saviours first coramling And may be sung to stir vp our spirituall reioicing in both his Advents THe Lord is king be therfor glad Yee Lands Iles now this is known With Clouds darknes he is cladd And Truth Iustice gard his throne A burning flame before him goes Wherewith he shall consume his foes 2 He to the world his Glory shew'd And earth beheld the same with fear Like waxe hills melted when they vew'd The Lord the world's great Lord appear His Righteousnes the heav'ns have showne His glories are to all men knowne 3 All Idoll servers he destroies And of all Gods will honor'd be It Syon gladds Iacob ioyes His righteous doomes to hear see Above the highest hills he dwells And all the Gods he farr excells 4 Hate sinn yee Lovers of the Lord For he his holie-ones will save And light Truth to those afford That harts vpright faithfull have Yee saints therefore record confesse And praise with Ioy God's holines Oh Christ the everlasting sonn of the Father Thou
hear And save thou mee according to thy vvord Yea save thou mee I thy praise will preach When thou shalt thy Commands to mee declare Thy vvord likewise to others I will teach For all thy Precepts true righteous are Yeald me thy hand my saftie to assure For thy Commands my chosen part I make Thy Saving-health I labour to procure And in thy Lavve oh Lord I pleasure take Yet longer let me live to sing thy praise And let thy Iudgments Lord my helpers be Now mee thy servāt seek who sheep-like straies For never is thy Lawe forgot of mee Most mercifull Father wee have all erred strayed from thy waies like lost sheep give us therefore that Lawe of Faith by which wee may be brought home to thy Folde UUhen wee have obtained this Grace let us truely esteeme it hartly praise thee for it diligently preach it to others Oh spare our lives vntill the New-man shall be fully perfected in vs that wee may accomplish the work for which wee were created glorify thy Name world without end Amen Psa 120. A song of Degrees VVhy these Psalmes are so called it is vncertaine for Iewish fancies are not vvorth heeding but perhaps our Degrees tovvard the spirituall Temple are here mystically included for the first degree thithervvard is to have a sight of our misery a detestatiō of the worlds vanities figured by Mesech Kedar in this Psalme It is vsefull when wee are constrained to live among false worshippers or wearied by our owne corruptions c. I Call'd on God in my destresse Who heard mee when I prayd From lieng deceitfulnes Lord save my Soul I said What hire oh thou deceitfull tongue Prepared is for thee But arrowes that are sharp strong And coales that burning be 2 Ah! woe is mee that I so long In Mesech must reside And that perforce I must among The Tents of Kedar bide My soul hath beene too long alas With such as wranglers are For when I speake to them of peace For warr they do prepare Father of Mercie Keep vs from the lieng deceits of the Devill his Members reward them according to their malice Vouchsafe to us also such a sight loathing of our naturall estate that wee may have an earnest longinge to be translated from the Tents of Vngodlines be incorporated into thy heavenly Ierusalem through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 121. A song of Degrees Another Degree is to fixe the eye of our soul on God acknowledging him only the meanes of our deliverance our defence c. It directs vs to whome wee should seek encourageth to depend on God in all our waies MIne eyes above the hills I reare And thence of healp I hopefull am For from the Lord my succours are From him that heav'n earth did frame My feet vnmoov'd he alway keeps He is my garde that ever wakes For he nor slumbers neither sleeps Who charge of Isr'el vndertakes 2 The Lord ev'n as thy shade will stay On thy righthand for thy defence Nor Moone by night nor Sunne by day Shall harme thee by their Influence For God will save thee from all woe Hee will thy soul from dangers free And whether in or out thou goe Thy gard at all times he will bee Gratious Protector Cause us to expect all our deliverances from thee with a constant dependance vpon thy savegard in all proceedings Keep us without slavish fear or wavering in our Faith And be thou all way soe watchfull over us so near vnto vs that neither those dangers whereto wee are commonly subiect nor the extraordinarie Influences of the heavens nor any other vnexpectede Evēts harme our bodies endanger our soules or interrupt our lawfull callings either now or hereafter Amen Psa 122. A song of Degrees Another Stepp is a delight in the pietie of others ioined with love to God's worship accompanied with harty wellwishing to his Church The Elect are here personated reioicing on this Degree Wee should vse it to provoke vs vnto the same I Ioyed when they said to mee God's house let vs ascend vnto For now Ierusalem to thee And through thy Ports our feet shall goe Ierusalem is fairly Scited A Towne well-built well-vnited 2 There meet the Tribes God's Tribes alone Hus name in Isr'el to declare There placed is the Iudgment Throne The Thrones of Davids house are there Oh seek her peare for they are blessed That have to Salem love expressed 3 Let Peace a Bullworke round her make Let Plenties in her Turrets be This Peace wee wish ev'n for their sake Who mates Brethren are to mee Yea God our Lord 's faire habitation Thus makes mee pray for thy Salvation Inspire us oh Lord with a delight mutuall desires to further each other in thy service Let us take pleasure in thy Sanctuarie be alwaies to our powre healpfull zealous to effect continue the Peace of Syon even for the sakes of our brethren for our owne sakes for thy glory sake oh Father that wee may reap the benifit of her Peace Plenties through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 123. A song of Degrees Another Stepp is obedient attendance on God's will in all suffrings with assured faith in him vvhich is here professed by the faithfull soul It is vsefull to advance vs to this Degree OH Lord that in the heav'ns remainest Lo wee advance our eyes to thee And Lord our God till healp thou daignest They shall on the affixed bee As men or Maides that waiting stand Vpon their Lord or Ladie 's hand 2 Oh grant vs Lord thy dear compassion For wee extream contempts have borne Vouchsafe vs Lord thy Consolation For why our harts are greev'd with scorne Ev'n by the scornes pride of them Who live at ease vs contemn Hovv ever thou shalt please to afflict vs oh Lord or hovv longsoever thou deferr any desired Blessing let vs be contented to attend thy Pleasure watchfull to performe what thou shalt require further at our hands soe our suffrings shall the sooner be redressed our dutiful obedience be rewarded through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 124. A song of Degrees Another Staire is acknowledgment of former deliverances of the beginnings of Gods graces already obtained as in this Psalme Wee may vse it after any Deliverances but especially such as are most publike BUt that the Lord our part did please to take But that God holpe vs Isr'el now may say When men did their Assaults against vs make Wee to their throtes had bene a living-prey For wroth at vs with spighfull rage were they 2 Wee by the Flouds had then bene closed round Ev'n quite above our soul the streames had gone The swelling flouds our soul had surely drownd Wee therfor blesse praise the Lord alone That by their teeth wee were not ceaz'd vpon 3 For as a bird out of a fouling snare Ev'n so our
soul escaped from the ginn The nett is broke wee deliver'd are And God whose work the heav'ns earth have binn Is hee whose Name our healp consisteth in Many times oh Lord wee are delivered by thy Mercy from evident vnavoidable perills But there is no moment in which wee are not compassed about with invisible foes vnthought of Dangers far more fearfull more impossible to be avoyded vnles thou didst gratiously defēd us Grāt therfor that a filiall awe of thy Iudgmēts a true esteeme of thy Mercies may make us hartily thanckfull vnto thee for them now for ever Amen Psa 125. A song of Degrees Another Ascent is firme Beleef in God The safetie of such is here alluded to the impregnability of Mount-Syon Ierusalem the punishment of wavering Apostates is threatned c. It is vsefull to raise vs to this Degree c. MOunt-Syon like for ever fixt are those Whose hopefull trust vpon the Lord is founded For he his faithfull People will enclose Ev'n as with hills Ierusalem is rounded As long as Time's perpetuall motion goes 2 The Rod of wicked men shall not alight Where God the Lot of righteousnes bestoweth Lest righteous men pertake in evill might For to the Good the Lord his mercy showeth And favours all that are in hart vpright 3 But Sliders-back such as wander wide In their owne crooked paths waies vneven Shall by the Lord be thither ledd aside Where portions due to hypocrites are given But Isr'el shall in endles peace abide Oh God many ignorances errors both in Iudgment Manners wee are naturally subiect vnto Teach us therfore what wee ought to Beleeve or practise then preserve vs vnwavering in our Faith so sincerely constant in a holy Life That wee may not have our portion with Apostates or Hypocrites but be pertakers in the true Peace of Isr'el through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 126. A song of Degrees another Degree is a reioicing in our Electiō spirituall freedome which is here typically expressed with a prophetical prayer for that ioye promised by Christ vnto the true Mourners Ioh. 16. 20. Wee may sing it as a thancksgiving for our Redemption to comfort in spirituall mournings WHen God made Syon free And her from thrall did bring It seemed as a Dreame to be And wee did laugh sing 2 The Lord the heathen sedd Great Marvailes wrought for vs. Great marvailes he hath wrought indeed And therfor sing wee thus 3 Lord back our Captives bringe As Flouds to sea-ward flowe So they shall then reioice sing Who did in sorrowe sowe 4 Who outward-bound doth mourne If he good seed employ Shall doubtles back againe returne And bring home sheaves with ioy Let our greatest reioicings oh Lord be in thy redeeming us from the Bondage of Sinn that our Names are in the Book of life for marvailous was this deliverance Let our greatest sorrowes be for our Offences and for the losse of thy favour which are indeed Causes of the greatest Lamentation soe our short sorrowe shall be turned in to everlasting Ioyes glorious Trivmphs world without end Amen Psa 127. A song of Degrees for Solomon Another Staire is to ascribe our beeing well-being to the Mercie providence of God It may be sung to acknowledge the same in all our works endeavours c. IF God the Pallace build not The workmen loose their paine If God the Cittie sheild not The watchman wakes in vaine In vaine is early stirring In vaine late watch wee keep Or eat the bread of caringe But those God loves may sleep 2 A fruithfull wombes possessing At God's disposing stands And Children are a blessing Like shafts in Giants hands Right blest is he that beareth His Quiver ful of those For in the Gate he dareth To meet smite his foes Grant almighty God that whether wee endeavour for our soules or bodies we never glory or trust in our owne workings For thou must blesse the beginning proceeding conlusion of every endeavour or all our industry is lost Nay wee have not so much as powre over our bodie or the fruite therof Let us therfor neither forget thee in the vse of the meanes nor neglect the meanes which thou hast appointed That what ever the events be our vndertakings may bring profit to us glory to thy holy Name So be it Psa 128. A song of Degrees Another Stepp is filiall feare of God to which many temporall blessings are here promised It is vsed at the solemnization of mariages serves to encrease in vs the feare of God IF God thou feare keep his way He blessings will bestowe Thy labour shall thy food purvay And happie thou shalt growe Like fruit-full vines vpon thy house Thy wife shall proove to thee Thy Children like faire olive-boughes Shall round thy Table be 2 Thus thon that fearest God shalt thrive From Syon he shall blesse And thou shalt see whilst thou dost live Ierusalem in peace He shall prolong thy life till thou Thy Childrens Children see And that thy ioye may greater growe In Isr'ell rest shall bee Oh Lord of thy abundant Mercy thou hast promised not only the blessings of the next life But alsoe all those which are most comfortable in this world so far forth as shall conduce to their happines who truly serve seare thee Oh teach us that filiall fear that obedience for which thou hast made those promises that wee may performe what thou requirest Yet not for the outward blessing sake but meerly for the love of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 129. A song of Degrees Another Step is a patient susstaining of the Crosse VVhich patience of the saints is here mentioned both the tiranny condition of their oppressors breefly illustrated Wee may vse it to increase continue Christian Patience FUll often since my youth may Isr'el say Full often since my youth they mee assailed And still without successe they went away trailed Yea on my back their ploughs the ploughers And on the same long furrowes ploughed they 2 The Lord who is a perfect Righteous-one The Cords of wicked men in peeces breaketh And Syons foes shall quite be overthrowne Ev'n like that grasse which root on houses taketh And fades away before it ripe is growne 3 For nor his Armefull nor his handful there Remaines for him that bindes or him that moweth Nor is there any high-way Passenger Who there is blessing in God's Name bestoweth Or doth so much as bidd them well to fare Sweet Iesu who wert persecuted even from thy cradle to thy grave on whose back the sharpe stripes ploughed long furrowes for our Sinns worthelie have wee deserved to be whipped with reproches to our face to be furrowed with slanders behinde our backs and to suffer all other indignities Nevertheles since by thy suffrings thou hast as well prevailed for us as for thy self make voyd the
attempts of our Adversaries enable us to sustaine with Christian patience that part of thy Crosse which thou appointest us to bear that being chearfull partakers of thy suffrings we may partake also thy victorious Trivmphs in the Kingdome of heaven Amen Psa 130. A song of Degrees Another Ascent is earnest prayer VVhich the Faithfull soul here powreth forth for assistance c. It may serve as a forme of prayer in great extremities LOrd from the depths to thee I sue My vocall prayer hear And when my Voice my wants doth shewe Encline to mee thine ear Lord who cann bear it if severe To mark our faults thou be But that wee faint not in thy fear Compassion waites on thee 2 On God I waite on his word My soul her hopes doth lay My soul more waiteth for the Lord Then watchmen for the day Oh Isr'ell trust in God for hee Hath gratious help in store And from thy sinns delivers thee Both now evermore Gratiously hear our prayers oh Lord in all our troubles enter not into iudgment with us thy servants vnles thou overshaddowe us by the wings of thy Mercy for our iustice is vnrighteousnes in thy sight Give us grace to hope in thee with patient expectation of thy good pleasure soe enable vs at least in our true desire to fufill our promises to thee that without infringment of thy Justice we may be delivered both from the guilt punishment of our sinns through thy Mercie in Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 131. A song of Degrees Another Degree is vnfained humilitie For such as humble them selves shall be exalted Here all arrogance ambition selftrust is disclaimed a sole dependance on God professed and others exhorted to the same It is vsefull to beget humility OH Lord I have no scornefull eie Nor proud nor loftie minde I seek not things that are too high But humbly am inclinde My soul is like an infant wean'd Ev'n from his mothers brest And Isr'el so to be sustaind On God should alway rest None of thy Creatures oh God have made them selves to be so vile as wee yet none are more proud or selfeconceited none more presumptiously inquifitive into thy forbidden Seacrets Oh give us more humility lesse desire to those curiosities which are above vs pertinent to advance the Kingdome of Sathan rather then the Kingdome of Heaven which is to be entred which a Childlike Obedience humiliation This Humiliation wee againe beseech thee to grant vs for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Psa 132 A song of Degrees Another Degree is a hartie purpose to prepare a Temple for God in our harts to endeavour the setling of his outward worship which is here mistically implied It is vsefull to stirr vs to this Degree REmember Lord what David's troubles be And what to Iacob's mightie God he swore In house or bedd I will not rest said he Nor shall mine eyes or sleep or slumber more Vntill a place be found of my providing For Iacob's God the mighty Lord's abiding 2 Lo Ephrata wee heard the place should be And in the forrest-feilds wee found the same Thy house therefore to enter purpose wee And at thy footstoole will adore thy Name Arise oh Lord ascend thy resting bowre Thou the Arck of thy Almightie powre 3 Let righteousnes thy sacred Preists aray And. let thy saints a ioyfull tryvmph make Oh turne not thy Messiah's face away For thy beloved Servant David's sake To whome thou swar'st thy promise vnrecalled That on his Throne his Seed should be installed 4 If they saidst thou my League word respect Thy Children on thy Throne shall ever sitt For I the Lord did Syon hill elect And for my dwelling I have chosen it My setled rest is there I 'le possesse it I love it with plenties I will blesse it 5 The pore thereof with bread I will sustaine Her Preists I 'le clothe will health her saints shal A Lamp for mine Anointed I 'le ordaine sing And I will make the horne of David spring I those will shame that for is harme endeavor But on himself his Crowne shall flourish ever Suffer vs not oh Lord to take rest in any thing vntill wee have provided thee a dwelling in our seules then let vs entertaine there nought els but that which may be serviceable vnto thee Take thou possession of vs furnish vs as becommeth Temples for thy presence Remember all thy promises to the Faithfull for they only are that seed of David to whome thy Covenants belong they are those Elected-ones whome thou hast promised never to forsake Give vs all outward meanes of this invisible grace Continue among vs the succession of holy faithfull Pastors The Bread of thy Word the Clothings of Righteousnes the Lampe of Illumination the Horne of good Government the Ioye of the Holy-ghost that the enimies of thy Church may be ashamed shee crowned with honour blessednes for ever Amen Psa 133. A song of Degrees Another Step is that which the preposterous Zeal of Schismaticks hath much defaced to wit Charitie brotherly Vnitie which is here excellenly Illustrated to moove vs to ascend it Wee should sing it to encrease Vnitie Love SEe Breth'ren see how sweet a blisse It is our lives in love to lead It like that pretious Oyntment is Which once anointed Aron's head And on his heard from thence did flowe Ev'n to his garment skirts belowe 2 It like refreshing dewe doth prove Which downe on Hermon's topp distills Ev'n like the dewe which from above Descendeth downe on Syon hills For there God promisd heretofore To blesse with life for ever more Oh God! so deare to thee is brotherly Love that all Faith yea Martirdome wanting that Uirtue is of no esteeme So profitable is it vnto vs That like pretious oyntment on the head or like shewres falling on high mountaines it descends spreads vntill every member be refreshed therewith Encrease therfor wee beseech thee this Virtue among vs without which all others are counterfeits let vs so preserve Vnity brotherly kindnes in this life that wee may enioy thy eternall Love Vniō in the life to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 134. A song of Degrees This is the last Degree For the highest Ascent is the glorifieng of God Note that the first last Degrees only are placed according to their Order because necessarily our first step to Godward must be the fight of our Misery The highest is to praise him The rest are not ascended by all in one and the same order therefore no precise order is observed in their placing Wee should sing it to provoke to this Dutie COme now praise the Lord all yee That his attendants are Ev'n you that in God's temple be And praise him nightly there Your hands within Gods holy-place Advance praise his Name And yov from Syon he shall blesse That heav'n
earth did frame Lord wee were created for thy Glorie All the time of our Pilgrimage on earth is to fitt vs for thy praise the highest Degree which wee cann attaine to either in this life or the next is to sing Halelujah vnto thy Name Oh grant wee may so honour thee in these Temples of our Bodies here vpon the Way on whome the Nights of affliction the Dayes of consolation doe interchangably succeed that in thy Ierusalem wee may sing praises vnto thee in that spirituall Temple wherein the presence of the Lambe maketh a continuation of Day of Ioy of all happines for ever more Amen Psa 135. Halelujah It exhorts to praise God in regard of his greatnes for our election for his omnipotency Mercy Iustice eternitie because other Gods are but ridiculons fictions c. To this end wee who are mistically the Sonns of Aron Levy should sing it c. OH all yee servants of the Lord His Name with praise confesse Ev'n you that of our God the Lord The house Courts possesse Oh praise God's Name for sweet it is To sing of his renowne For Iacob he hath chose for his And Isr'el for his owne 2 God is I knowe a powrfull-one He doth all Gods excell In heav'n his pleasure he hath done In earth in sea in hell He maketh vapours to arise Ev'n from Earth's farthest ends And he out of his Treasuries Winde raine lighting sends 3 The first-borne through the Egiptian coast Of man beast he slewe And on king Pharoh his hoast Rare wonders hee did shewe Great kings kingdomes downe he brought Ev'n Sehon Heshbon's king And Og of Bashan yea to nought All Can'an's Realmes did bring 4 Then for his Isr'els heritage Their lands he did bestowe For which hee 's fam'd from age to age And still shall famous growe When he to judge them doth appeare His people shall be sav'd But heathen God's man's makings were Of gold silver grav'd 5 Their carved mouthes are speachles found Their eyes no light cann see Though they have eares they heare no sound Their throates quite breathles be Much like to these their Makers are And they that serve them toe The Lord therefore let Isr'el fear And so let Aron doe 6 The Lord let Levie's houshould blesse In Syon let all them Who fear the Lord the Lord confesse That keeps Ierusalem Haleluiah Oh Lord our God wee hartely thanck thee for our creation preservation VVee magnify thy wisdom thy powre thy providence thy Iudgments thy Mercies and we acknowledge that the Deities of heathenish and carnall men yea all other things in which wee trust are but vanities false Gods fashioned by our owne wicked fancies Grant therfore that all of us even preist people who in Word professe thee may in hart fear thee in deed faithfully serve thee now for ever Amen Psa 136. This Psalme exhorts to praise God both for generall and perticuler benifits shewes that all are bestowed for his meer mercy-sake which is eternall It may be sung literally to commemorate what God did for the Patriarks or mistically as a thancksgivinge for the spirituall deliverances which these typified THe Lord is Good him therfore blesse And for his Grace that lasteth ever The God of Gods let vs confesse Because his Mercie faileth never The Lord of Lords with praise extoll For where he loves he alway loveth His Acts alone are wonderfull Because his Favour endles proveth 2 His Wisdome did creat the spheares For to all times his Kindnes lasteth And earth above the seas he rears Because his Pittie never wasteth He did the greater Lights provide For through each Age his Grace extendeth He made the Sunn the day to guide Because his Goodnes never endeth 3 He fram'd the Moone starrs for night For without bound is his Compassion And Egipts eldest-borne did smite Because his grace hath no cessation He brought forth Isr'el from their land For soe his endles grace procured With stretcht-out Arme powrfull hand Because his Mercie still endured 4 Hee did the Red sea then divide For. still his Kindnes he retaineth And Isr'el through the same did guide Because his Favour still remaineth There he did Pharoh's Army drowne For Love hee freely still bestoweth And through the Deserts brought his owne Because eternall Grace he showeth 5 Both huge powrfull kings he slewe For everlasting are his Graces Yea famous kings he overthrewe Because his Love times date surpasses Great Sehon king of th' Amorites For his Affection never faileth And Og that ruld the Bashamites Because his Mercy still prevaileth 6 Their heritage bestow'd hath he For so his endles Love required His Isr'el's heritage to be Because his Grace is vnexpired He did exalt vs from belowe For he to Pittie still enclineth And hee redeem'd vs from our foe Because no time his Grace confineth 7 Hee to all flesh their food hath given For his great Mercy faileth never Oh glorify the God of heav'n Because his Grace abideth ever VVhen wee looke back oh Lord vnto the beginning of thy visible workings pondering the never interrupted succession of thy Mercies vnto this day therewithall observe the performance of all thy promises to thy Church heretofore the continuance of thy abundant Loving-kindnes to us at this present UUee are assured that thy Goodnes Compassion is eternall VVee therfore beseech thee to give vs true thanckfulnes for the same that wee may confesse it aswell in deed as word praise magnify thy Name for ever ever Amen Psa 137. This Elegiacal Hymne mistically expresseth the Zeal love of the Faithfull to the Citty of God And Prophecies the fall of the spirituall Babilon Wee may sing it to comfort vs during the continuance of our Naturall bondage the tirranies of Antichrist AS wee nigh Babel River sate Wee overcharg'd with weepings were To thinck on Syon's pore estate And hung our harpes on willowes there For they to whome wee were inthralled On vs for songs of Syon called 2 Come sing they sayd a Syon-hymne Lord cann wee sing thy songs in thrall Vnles Oh dear Ierusalem Thee in my mirth preferr I shall Or if the thought of thee forgoe mee Let hand tongue prove vseles to me 3 Oh Lord remember Edom's brood And how whilst they Ierusalem Vnsackt vndefaced stood Her spoile was hast'ned on by them For loud thy cryed race it race it And to the groundwork downe deface it 4 Oh daughter of proud Babilon Thou shalt likewise destroyed be And he will prove a blessed-one Who shall avenge our Cause on thee Ev'n hee that payes thee our disgraces And braines thy babes in stony-places Oh Lord many of thy people suffer the scornes insultings of that Babilon which was typified by the Chaldean Citty And the Mysticall Edomites labour the vtter defacing of thy Church But deliver us oh Lord reward them according to their
Namesake Lord revive me Let thy Iustice be my gard Yea destroy of thy compassion Those that seek my soules vexation For I am thy servant Lord. Oh Lord God if thou shouldst iudg us according to our deservings wee all flesh should everlastingly perish VVee appeall therefore to thy Mercie with a thirsty longing desire speedy assistance according to thy accustomed Loving-kindnes lest wee be swallowed vp by Despaire or devoured by our Foes For thine owne sake even for thy Iustice for thy Mercy for thy Name sake direct us in thy waies Instruct us in thy VVill protect us from all evills bring vs into the Land of the Living through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Another of the same LOrd mark my suite my sad complaining hear And in thy Truth Justice answear give Iudg not thy servant with a doome severe For in thy sight not one doth blameles live The foe hath chas'd my soul of life nigh reft mee And in the dark as one long dead hath left mee 2 In mee therfore my spirits downe are cast My hart is fill'd with many a heavie thought I muse vpon the dayes that now are past And on thy works ev'n al thy hāds have wrought With stretchtout hands with soul-thirsty pāting I thirst for thee as Land when raine is wanting 3 My spirit faints oh God with speed give ear If longer thou thy face obscure I dye Oh let thy Love to mee betimes appear For I on thee on thee alone relye Yea let me Lord within thy Paths be trained For vnto thee I lift a soul vnfained 4 Protect mee Lord in thee is my abode Keep off my foes teach thy will to mee Let thy good sp'rite because thou art my God My guide vnto the Land of Iustice be Yea mee oh Lord for thy Namesake revive thou My soul ev'n for thy Iustice sake reprive thou And of thy grace all those that mee oppressed Destroy thou Lord for I am thine professed Psa 144. A Psalme of David It blesseth God for his regard of the humane Nature Desires Christ's approch to Iudgment And requesteth to be delivered from worldlings c. It is vsefull to these purposes to inform vs that to be God's chose-ones is the greatest happines c. OH praise the Lord for he is all my Powre My hands Armes in warlike feats directing My grace my gard my sheild my healp my Towre My trusty freind my foes to mee subiecting Lord what is mā that thou art pleasd to know him Or what his child that thou sholdst favor show him 2 Mā is as nought his ioys like shades forsake him The heav'ns oh Lord decline down descēd thou But touch the Hils thou to smoke shalt mak thē To scatter them thy dreadfull lighting send thou Shoot out thy shafts vntill they be destroyed Let thy strong hand to healp mee be employed 3 Oh save mee from the water's over-swelling Let mee from forraigne Children be secured Whose mouthes are alwaies lies folly telling And whose righthands to falshood are envred Then to thy praise new songs I will be singing On harp Psalt'ry of a tennfold stringing 4 Let him who doth on kings bestow salvation And from the sword his servant David saveth Protect me frō that forraine generation Whose mouth speakes lies whose right-hand deceaveth Who beg for sonns daughters in their prayer Like plants pretious stones welshap'd faire 5 Who pray for Granards fully stored ever Who 's floks yong breed evn in their streets aboundeth Whose wellfed Oxe in labour faileth never in whose Townes nor cry nor tumult soundeth For tho such men a blessing have possessed Yet they whose God 's the Lord are much more blessed Father of Mercy God of all Consolation thou art alwaies our powrefull deliverer becommest every thing vnto vs which our harts cann desire Oh make vs thanckfull vnto thee for thy great regard of soe vnworthy Creatures And though meer worldlings Carnall Professors seeke thee for temporall Blessings Let vs love serve praise thee meerly for thine owne sake Keep vs from their falshood Hypocrisie selfelove with all their other wicked Conditions And though they boast of thy transitorie Blessings which wee enioy not Let us be contented that thou art our God Let that be our portion of happines let vs enioye it oh Lord for ever ever Amen Psa 145. Davids Psalme of Praise It may be vsed as a Patterne wherby to glorify God according to his principal Attributes such as his Infinitenes Omnipotencie Majesty Justice Mercie Goodnes Providence c. UUhich are mentioned in this Psalme I 'Le honour thee oh God my king And laud thy Name for aye Ev'n to thy Name I 'le alway sing And praise thee ev'rie day For thou art great beyond all bounds And great thy praises are Through Ages all thy glory sounds Thy wonders they declare 2 I 'le also shew thy royall state And thy rare works vnfolde That men thy wonders may relate When I thy powre have tolde That they thy Righteousnes may show And much thy glorie minde For thou to anger Lord art slowe Right gratious meek kinde 3 Thy goodnes thy mercies be In all thy works exprest Ev'n all thy works Lord honour thee And thee thy Saints have blest Thy kingdomes glory they will showe And sing thy greatnes forth That all mankinde thy powre may knowe And see thy Kingdoms worth 4 For thou for evermore shalt raigne And rule through Ages all The weak oh Lord thou wilt sustaine And lift vp those that fall On God all creatures sixe their eyes And fedd in season be For all things living to suffice An open hand hath hee 5 The Lord is just in all his waies His works are sacred all Nigh them who call on him he staies Nigh those who truly call Their hopes who fear him he effects And 's hears saves all those Ev'n those who love him God protects But sinners overthrowes 6 Oh let my mouth due praise therefore Vnto the Lord expresse And let all flesh for evermore His holy Name confesse Great oh Lord is thy Kingdome thy Powre thy Glory great are thy VVorks thy UUonders thy Praises Great also is thy VVisdome thy Goodnes thy Iustice thy Mercy Yea so infinite art thou in these all other excellencies That no attributes are sufficient to expresse thee Nevertheles wee thy Creatures being partakers of thy Abundance witnesses of thy Bounty towards all whome thou hast made Do according to the measure of our Capacities blesse thee for the same And desire to praise and magnify thy Name for ever ever Amen Another of the same ADvance I will thy Name oh God my king For evermore I will extoll the same Blesse thee I will oh Lord alway sing A davlie song of praises to thy Name Consid'ring that thy Greatnesse bound hath none And how thine honor should as boundles be Declare