unresisted Might his Holiness extol verse 6 Moses and Aron thus of old among his Priests ador'd Amongst his Prophets Samuel thus his sacred Name implor'd Distrest upon the Lord they call'd who ne'er their Suit deny'd But as with Rev'rence they implor'd he graciously reply'd verse 7 For with their Camp to guide their March the cloudy Pillar mov'd They kept his Laws and to his Will obedient Servants prov'd verse 8 He answer'd them forgiving oft his People for their sake And those who rashly them oppos'd did sad Examples make verse 9 With Worship at his sâ—cred Courts exalt our God and Lord For he who only holy is alone should be ador'd Psalm C. verse 1 2 WIth one consent let all the Earth To God their chearful Voices raise Glad Homage pay with awful Mirth And sing before him Songs of praise verse 3 Convinced that he is God alone From whom both we and all proceed We whom he chuses for his own The Flock that he vouchsafes to feed verse 4 O enter then his Temple Gate Thence to his Courts devoutly press And still your grateful Hymns repeat And still his Name with praises bless verse 5 For he 's the Lord supremely good His Mercy is for ever sure His Truth which always firmly stood To endless Ages shall endure Psalm CI. verse 1 OF Mercy 's never-failing Spring And stedfast Judgment I will sing And since they both to thee belong To thee O Lord adrress my Song verse 2 When Lord thou shalt with me reside Wife discipline my Reign shall guide With blameless Life my self I 'll make A Pattern for my Court to take verse 3 No ill Design will I pursue Nor those my Fav'rites make that do verse 4 Who to Reproof bears no regard Him will I totally discard verse 5 The private Slanderer shall be In publick Justice doom'd by me From haughty looks I 'll turn aside And mortifie the Heart of Pride verse 6 But Honesty call'd from her Cell In splendour at my Court shall dwell Who Virtue 's practice make their Care Shall have the first Preferments there verse 7 No Politicks shall recommend His-Countrey's Foe to be my Friend None e'er shall to my Favour rise By flatt'ring or malicious-Lyes verse 8 All those who wicked Courses take An early Sacrifice I 'll make Cut off destroy till none remain God's holy City to profane Psalm CII verse 1 WHen I pour out my Soul in Pray'r do thou O Lord attend To thy eternal Throne of Grace let my sad Cry ascend verse 2 O hide not thou thy glorious Face in times of deep Distress Incline thine Ear and when I call my Sorrows soon redress verse 3 Each cloudy Portion of my Life like scatter'd Smoke expires My shiriv'led Bones are like a Hearth parch'd with continual Fires verse 4 My Heart like Grass that feels the Blast of some infectious Wind Does languish so with Grief that scarce my needful Food I mind verse 5 By reason of my sad estate I spend my Breath in Groans My Flesh is worn away my Skin scarce hides my starting Bones verse 6 I'm like a Pelican become that does in Desarts mourn Or like an Owl that sits all day in hollow Trees forlorn verse 7 In Watchings or in restless Dreams the Night by me is spent As by those solitary Birds that loansom roofs frequent verse 8 All day by railing Foes I 'm made the Subject of their Scorn Who all possest with furious Rage have my Destruction sworn verse 9 When grov'ling on the Ground I lie opprest with Grief and Fears My Bread is strew'd with Ashes o'er my Drink is mixt with Tears verse 10 Because on me with double weight thy heavy Wrath does lie For thou to make my Fall more great didst lift me up on high verse 11 My days just hast'ning to their end are like an Ev'ning-shade My Beauty does like wither'd Grass with waning Lustre fade verse 12 But thy eternal state O Lord no length of time shall waste The mem'ry of thy wondrous Works from Age to Age shall last verse 13 Thou shalt arise and Sion view with an unclouded Face For now her time is come thy own appointed day of Grace verse 14 Her scatter'd Ruines by thy Saints with pity are survey'd They grieve to see her lofty Spires in Dust and Rubbish laid verse 15 16 The Name and Glory of the Lord all heathen Kings shall fear When he shall Sion build again and in full state appear verse 17 18 When he regards the Poor's Request nor slights their earnest Pray'r Our Sons for this recorded Grace shall his just praise declare verse 19 For God from his abode on high his gracious Beams display'd The Lord from Heav'n his lofty Throne has all the Earth survey'd verse 20 He list'ned to the Captives moans he heard their mournful Cry And freed by his resistless pow'r the Wretches doom'd to die verse 21 That they in Sion where he dwells might celebrate his Fame And thro the holy City sing loud praises to his Name verse 22 When all the Tribes assembling there their solemn vows address And neighb'ring Lands with glad Consent the Lord their God confess verse 23 But e'er my Race is run my strength through his fierce Wrath decays He has when all my wishes bloom'd cut short my hopeful days verse 24 Lord end not thou my Life said I when half is scarcely past Thy years from worldly Changes free to endless Ages last verse 25 The strong Foundations of the Earth of old by thee were laid Thy Hands the beauteous Arch of Heav'n with wondrous Skill have made verse 26 27 Whilst thou for ever shalt endure they soon shall pass away And like a Garment often worn shall tarnish and decay Like that when thou ordain'st their change to thy Command they bend But thou continu'st still the same nor have thy Years an End verse 28 Thou to the Children of thy Saints shall lasting Quiet give Whose happy Race securely fixt shall in thy presence live Psalm CIII verse 1 2 MY Soul inspir'd with sacred Love God's holy Name for ever bless Of all his Favours mindful prove And still thy grateful Thanks express verse 3 4 'T is he that all thy Sins forgives And after Sickness makes thee sound From Danger he thy life retrieves By him with Grace and Mercy crown'd verse 5 6 He with good things my Mouth supplies My Vigour Eagle-like renews He when the guiltless Suff'rer cries His Foe with just Revenge pursues verse 7 God made of old his righteous Ways To Moses and our Fathers known His Works to his Eternal praise Were to the Sons of Jacob shown verse 8 The Lord abounds with tender Love And unexampl'd Acts of Grace His waken'd Wrath does slowly move His willing Mercy flows apace verse 9 10 God will not always harshly chide But with his Anger quickly part And loves his Punishments to guide More by his Love than our Desert verse 11 As high as Heav'n its Arch extends Above
Therefore O Lord make plain the way wherein I ought to go verse 9 Their Mouth vents nothing but Deceit their Heart is set on Wrong Their Throat is a devouring Grave they flatter with their Tongue verse 10 By their own Counsels let them fall oppress'd with loads of Sin For they against thy righteous Laws have harden'd Rebels been verse 11 But let all those who trust in thee with Shouts their Joy proclaim Let them rejoice whom thou preserv'st and all that love thy Name verse 12 To righteous Men the righteous Lord his Blessing will extend And with his Favour all his Saints as with a Shield defend PSALM VI. verse 1 THy dreadful Anger Lord restrain and spare a Wretch forlorn Correct me not in thy fierce Wrath too heavy to be born verse 2 Have Mercy Lord for I grow faint unable to endure The Anguish of my aking Bones which thou alone canst cure verse 3 My tortur'd Flesh distracts my Mind and fills my Soul with Grief But Lord how long wilt thou delay to grant me thy Relief verse 4 Thy wonted Goodness Lord repeat and ease my troubled Soul Lord for thy wond'rous Mercy 's sake vouchsafe to make me whole verse 5 For after Death no more can I thy glorious Acts proclaim No Pris'ner of the silent Grave can magnifie thy Name verse 6 Quite tir'd with Pain with Groaning faint no hope of Ease I see The Night that quiets common Griefs is spent in Tears by me verse 7 My Beauty fades my Sight grows dim my Eyes with weakness close Old Age o'ertakes me whilst I think on my insulting Foes verse 8 Depart ye Wicked in my wrongs ye shall no more rejoice For God I find accepts my Tears and listens to my Voice verse 9 10 He hears and grants my humble Pray'r and they that wish my Fall Shall blush and rage to see that God protects me from them all PSALM VII verse 1 O Lord my God since I have plac'd my Trust alone in thee From all my Persecutors Rage do thou deliver me verse 2 To save me from my threatning Foe Lord interpose thy Pow'r Lest like a salvage Lion he my helpless Soul devour verse 3 4 If I am guilty or did e'er against his Peace combine Nay if I have not spar'd his Life who sought unjustly mine verse 5 Let then to persecuting Foes my Soul become a Prey Let them to Earth tread down my Life in Dust my Honour lay verse 6 Arise and let thine Anger Lord in my Defence engage Exalt thy self above my Foes and their insulting Rage Awake awake in my behalf the Judgment to dispense Which thou hast righteously ordain'd for injur'd Innocence verse 7 So to thy Throne adoring Crouds shall still for Justice fly O! therefore for their sakes resume thy Judgment-seat on high verse 8 Impartial Judge of all the World I trust my Cause to thee According to my just Deserts so let thy Sentence be verse 9 Let wicked Arts and wicked Men together be o'erthrown But guard the Just thou God to whom the Hearts of both are known verse 10 11 God me protects nor only me but all of upright Heart And daily lays up Wrath for those who from his Laws depart verse 12 If they persist he whets his Sword his Bow stands ready bent verse 13 Ev'n now with swift Destruction wing'd his pointed Shafts are sent verse 14 The Plots are fruitless which my Foe unjustly did conceive verse 15 The Pit he digg'd for me has prov'd his own untimely Grave verse 16 On his own Head his Spite returns whilst I from Harm am free On him the Violence is fall'n which he design'd for me verse 17 Therefore will I the righteous ways of Providence proclaim I 'll sing the Praise of God most High and celebrate his Name PSALM VIII verse 1 O Thou to whom all Creatures bow within this earthly Frame Thro' all the World how great art Thou how glorious is thy Name In Heav'n thy wond'rous Acts are sung nor fully reckon'd there verse 2 And yet thou mak'st the Infant-Tongue thy boundless Praise declare Thro' thee the Weak confound the Strong and crush their haughty Foes And so thou quell'st the wicked Throng that thee and thine oppose verse 3 When Heav'n thy beauteous work on high employs my wond'ring Sight The Moon that nightly rules the Sky with Stars of feebler Light verse 4 What 's Man say I that Lord thou lov'st to keep him in thy mind Or what his Off-spring that thou prov'st to them so wond'rous kind verse 5 Him next in Pow'r thou didst create to thy Celestial Train verse 6 Ordain'd with Dignity and State o'er all thy Works to reign verse 7 They jointly own his pow'rful sway the Beasts that prey or graze verse 8 The Bird that wings its airy way the Fish that cuts the Seas verse 9 O Thou to whom all Creatures bow within this earthly Frame Thro' all the World how great art Thou how glorious is thy Name PSALM IX verse 1 TO celebrate thy Praise O Lord I will my Heart prepare To all the list'ning World thy Works thy wond'rous Works declare verse 2 The Thought of them shall to my Soul exalted Pleasure bring Whilst to thy Name O thou most High triumphant Praise I sing verse 3 Thou mad'st my haughty Foes to turn their backs in shameful flight Struck with thy Presence down they fell they perish'd at thy sight verse 4 Against insulting Foes advanc'd thou didst my Cause maintain My Right asserting from thy Throne where Truth and Justice reign verse 5 The Insolence of Heathen Pride thou hast reduc'd to Shame Their wicked Offspring quite destroy'd and blotted out their Name verse 6 Mistaken Foes your haughty Threats are to a period come Our City stands which you design'd to make our common Tomb. verse 7 8 The Lord for ever lives who has his righteous Throne prepar'd Impartial Justice to dispense to punish or reward verse 9 God is a constant sure Defence against oppressing Rage As Troubles rise his needful Aids in our behalf engage verse 10 All those who have his Goodness prov'd will in his Truth confide Whose Mercy ne'er forsook the Man that on his Help rely'd verse 11 Sing Praises therefore to the Lord from Sion his Abode Proclaim his Deeds till all the World confess no other God PART II. verse 12 When he enquiry makes for Blood he calls the Poor to mind The injur'd humble Man's Complaint relief from him shall find verse 13 Take pity on my Troubles Lord which spiteful Foes create Thou that hast rescu'd me so oft from Death's devouring Gate verse 14 In Sion then I 'll sing thy Praise to all that love thy Name And with loud Shouts of grateful Joy thy saving Pow'r proclaim verse 15 Deep in the Pit they digg'd for me the Heathen Pride is laid Their guilty Feet to their own Snare are heedlesly betray'd verse 16 Thus by the just Returns he makes the mighty Lord is known While wicked
the Stars their several Names he knows verse 5 6 Great is the Lord and great his Pow'r his Wisdom has no bound The meek he raises but throws down the wicked to the Ground verse 7 To God the Lord a Hymn of Praise with grateful Voices sing To Songs of Triumph tune the Harp and strike each warbling String verse 8 He covers Heav'n with Clouds and thence refreshing Rain bestows Through him on Mountain-tops the Grass with wond'rous Plenty grows verse 9 He savage Beasts that loosely range with timely food supplies He feeds the Raven's tender Brood and stops their hungry Cries verse 10 He values not the warlike Steed but does his Strength disdain The nimble Foot that swiftly runs no Prize from him can gain verse 11 But he to him that fears his Name his tender Love extends To him that on his boundless Grace with stedfast Hope depends verse 12 13 Let Sion and Jerus'lem then to God their Praise address Who fenc'd their Gates with massle Bars and does their Children bless verse 14 15 Thro all their Borders he giyes Peace with finest Wheat they 're sed He speaks the Word and what he wills is done as soon as said verse 16 Large Flakes of Snow like fleecy Wool descend at his command And hoary Frost like Ashes spread is scatter'd o'er the land verse 17 When joyn'd to these he does his Hail in little Morsels break Who can againsst his Piercing Cold secure Defences make verse 18 He sends his Word which melts the Ice he makes his Wind to blow And soon the Streams congeal'd before in plenteous Currents flow verse 19 By him his Statutes and Decrees to Jacob's Sons were shown And still to Israel's chosen Seed his righteous Laws are known verse 20 No other Nation this can boast nor did he e'er afford To heathen Lands his Oracles and Knowledge of his Word Hallelujab Psalm CXLVIII verse 1 YE boundless Realms of Joy Exalt your Maker's Fame His praise your Song employ Above the starry Frame Your Voices raise Ye Cherubim And Seraphim To sing his Praise verse 3 4 Thou Moon that rul'st the Night And Sun that guid'st the Day Ye glitt'ring Stars of Light To him your Homage pay His praise declare Ye Heav'ns above And Clouds that move In liquid Air. verse 5 6 Let them adore the Lord And praise his holy Name By whose Almighty Word They all from nothing came And all shall last From Changes free His firm Decree Stands ever fast verse 7 8 Let Earth her Tribute pay Praise him ye dreadful Whales And Fish that through the Sea Glide swist with glitt'ring Scales Fire Hail and Snow And misty Air And Winds that where He bids them blow verse 9 10 By Hills and Mountains all In grateful Consort joyn'd By Cedars stately tall And Trees for Fruit design'd By ev'ry Beast And creeping thing And Fowl of Wing His Name be blest verse 11 12 Let all of Royal Birth With those of humbler Frame And Judges of the Earth His matchless Praise proclaim In this Design Let Youths with Maids And hoary Heads With Children join verse 13 United Zeal be shown His wond'rous Fame to raise Whose glorious Name alone Deserves our endless Praise Earth's utmost Ends His Pow'r obey His glorious Sway The Sky transcends verse 14 His chosen Saints to-grace He sets them up on high And savours Ifrael's Race Who still to him are nigh O therefore raise Your grateful voice And still rejoyce The Lord to praife Psalm CXLIX verse 1 2 OPraise ye the Lord prepare your glad Voice His Praise in the great Assembly to sing In our great Creator let Isr'el rejoyce And Children of Sion be glad in their King verse 3 4 Let them his great Name extol in the Dance With Timbrel and Harp his Praises express Who always takes pleasure his Saints to advance And with his Salvation the Humble to bless verse 5 6 With Glory adorn'd his People shall sing To God who their Beds with Safety does shield Their Mouths fill'd with Praises of him their great King Whilst a two-edged Sword their Right Hand shall wield verse 7 8 Just Vengeance to take for Injuries past To punish those Lands for Ruin design'd With Chains as their Captives to tie their Kings fast With Fetters of Iron their Nobles to bind verse 9 Thus shall they make good when them they destroy The dreadful Decree which God does proclaim Such Honour and Triumph his Saints shall enjoy O therefore for ever exalt his great Name Psalm CL. verse 1 OPraise the Lord in that blest Place Fromwhence his Goqdness largeiy flows Praife him in Heav'n where he his Face Unveil'd in perfect Glory shows verse 2 Praise him for all the mighty Acts Which he in our behals has done His Kindness this Return exacts With which our Praise should equal run verse 3 Let the shrill Trumpet 's warlike Voice Make Rocks and Hills his Praise rebound Praise him with Harp's melodious Noise And gentle Psaltry's sver Sound verse 4 Let Virgin-Troops soft Timbrels bring And some with graceful Motion dance Let Instruments of various Strings With Organs join'd his Praise advance verse 5 Let them who joyful Hymns compose To Cymbals set their Songs of Praise Cymbals of common use and those That loudly ssound on solemn Days verse 6 Let all that vital breath enjoy The Breath he does to them afford In just return of Praise employ Let every Creature praise the Lord. GLORIA PATRI c. Common Measure TO Father Son and Holy Ghost The God whom we adore Be Glory as it was is now and shall be evermore As Psalm 25. To God the Father Son and Spirit Glory be As 't was and is and shall be so to all Eternity As the 100. Psalm To Father Son and Holy Ghost the God whom Earth and Heav'n adore Be Glory as it was of Old is now and shall be evermore As Ps 37. and last part of the 113th Psalm-Tune To Father Son and Holy Ghost The God whom Heav'ns Triumphant Host and suffering Saints on Earth adore Be Glory as in Ages past As now it is and so shall last when Time it self must be no more As Psalm 148. To God the Father Son and Spirit ever blest Eternal Three in One All Worship be addrest As heretosore It was is now And shall be so For evermore As Psalm 149. BY Angels in Heav'n of ey'ry Degree And Saints upon Earth All Praise be addrest To God in Three Persons One God ever blest As it has been now is and always shall be AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE Shewing how to find any Psalm by its Beginnings Psalm A. Against all those Page 50 As Pants the Hart Page 64 As length by certain Page 109 B. Behold O God Page 124 Bless God my Soul Page 161 Bless God ye Servants Page 219 D. Defend me Lord Page 42 Deliver me O Lord Page 87 Do thou 0 God Page 83 F. For ever Blest Page 232 For thee O God Page 94 From lowest Depths Page
had soon destroy'd the weak Defence that I could make verse 18 Their subtil Rage had near prevail'd when I distrest and friendless lay But still when other Succours fail'd God was my firm Support and Stay verse 19 From Dangers that enclos'd me round he brought me forth and set me free For some just Cause his Goodness found that mov'd him to delight in me verse 20 Because in me no Guilt remains God does his gracious Help extend My Hands are free from bloody Stains therefore the Lord is still my Friend verse 21 22 For I his Judgments kept in sight in his just Paths I always trod I never did his Statutes slight nor loosly wander'd from my God verse 23 24 But still my Soul sincere and pure did ev'n from darling Sins refrain His Favours therefore yet endure because my Heart and Hands are clean PART IV. verse 25 26 Thou suit'st O Lord thy righteous ways to various Paths of Human-kind They who for Mercy merit Praise with thee shall wond'rous Mercy find Thou to the Just shall Justice shew the Pure thy Purity shall see Such as perversely chuse to go shall meet with due Returns from thee verse 27 28 That he the humble Soul will save and crush the Haughty's boasted Might In me the Lord an Instance gave whose Darkness he has turn'd to Light verse 29 On his firm Succour I rely'd and did o'er num'rous Foes prevail Nor fear'd whilst he was on my side the best defended Walls to scaie verse 30 For God's Designs shall still succeed his Word will bear the utmost Test He 's a strong Shield to all that need and on his sure Protection rest verse 31 Who then deserves to be ador'd but God on whom my Hopes depend Or who except the mighty Lord can with resistless Pow'r defend PART V. verse 32 33 'T is God that girds my Armour on and all my just Designs fulfils Through him my Feet can swiftly run and nimbly climb the steepst Hills verse 34 Lessons of War from him I take and manly Weapons learn to wield Strong Bows of Steel with ease I break forc'd by my stronger Arms to yield verse 35 The Buckler of his Saving Health protects me from assaulting Foes His Hand sustains me still my Wealth and Greatness from his Bounty flows verse 36 My Goings he enlarg'd abroad till then to narrow Paths confin'd And when in slipp'ry ways I trod the Method of my Steps design'd verse 37 Through him I num'rons Hosts defeat and flying Squadrons captive take Nor from my fierce pursuit retreat till I a final Conquest make verse 38 Cover'd with Wounds in vain they try their vanquish'd Heads again to rear Spight of their boasted Strength they lie beneath my Feet and grovel there verse 39 God when fresh Armies take the Field recruits my Strength my Courage warms He makes my strong Opposers yield subdu'd by my prevailing Arms. verse 40 Through him the Neck of prostrate Foes my conqu'ring Feet in Triumph press Aided by him I root out those who hate and envy my Success verse 41 With loud complaints all Friends they try'd but none was able to defend At length to God for Help they cry'd but God would no assistance lend verse 42 Like flying Dust which Winds pursue their broken Troops I scatter'd round Their slaughter'd Bodies forth I threw like loathsome Dirt that clogs the Ground PART VI verse 43 Our factious Tribes at Strife till now by God's Appointment me obey The Heathen to my Scepter bow and foreign Nations own my sway verse 44 Remotest Realms their Homage send when my successful Name they hear Strangers for my Commands attend charm'd with Respect or aw'd by Fear verse 45 All to my Summons tamely yield or soon in Battel are dismay'd For stronger Holds they quit the Field and still in strongest Holds afraid verse 46 Let the eternal Lord be prais'd the Rock on whose Defence I rest O'er highest Heav'ns his Name be rais'd who me with his Salvation bless'd verse 47 'T is God that still supports my Right his just Revenge my Foes pursues 'T is he that with resistless Might fierce Nations to my Yoke subdues verse 48 My universal Safeguard He from whom my lasting Honours flow He made me great and set me free from my remorseless bloody Foe verse 49 Therefore to celebrate his Fame my grateful Voice to Heav'n I 'll raise And Nations Strangers to his Name shall thus be taught to sing his Praise verse 50 God to his King Deliv'rance sends shews his Anointed signal Grace His Mercy evermore extends to David and his promis'd Race PSALM XIX verse 1 THE Heav'ns declare thy Glory Lord which that alone can fill The Firmament and Stars express their great Creator's Skill verse 2 The Dawn of each returning Day fresh Beams of Knowledge brings And from the dark Returns of Night divine Instruction springs verse 3 Their pow'rful Language to no Realm or Region is confin'd 'T is Nature's Voice and understood alike by all Mankind verse 4 Their Doctrine does its sacred sense through Earth's extent display Whose bright Contents the circling Sun does round the World convey verse 5 No Bridegroom on his Nuptial-day has such a chearful Face No Giant does like him rejoice to run his glorious Race verse 6 From East to West from West to East his restless Course he goes And through his Progress chearful Light and vital Warmth bestows PART II. verse 7 God's perfect Law converts the Soul reclaims from false Desires With sacred Wisdom his sure Word the Ignorant inspires verse 8 The Statutes of the Lord are just and bring sincere Delight His pure Commands in search of Truth assist the feebleft Sight verse 9 His perfect Worship here is fix'd on sure Foundations laid His equal Laws are in the Scales of Truth and Justice weigh'd verse 10 Of more esteem than golden Mines or Gold resin'd with Skill More sweet than Honey or the drops that from the Comb distil verse 11 My trusty Counsellers they are and friendly Warnings give Divine Rewards attend on those who by thy Precepts live verse 12 But what frail Man observes how ost he does from Vertue fall O cleanse me from my secret Faults thou God that know'st them all verse 13 Let no presumptuous Sin O Lord dominion have o'er me That by thy Grace preserv'd I may the great Transgression slee verse 14 So shall my Pray'r and Praises be with thy Acceptance blest And I secure on thy Defence my Strength and Saviour rest PSALM XX. verse 1 THE Lord to thy Request attend and hear thee in Distress The Name of ' Jacob's God defend and grant thy Arms success verse 2 To aid thee from on high repair and strength from Sion give verse 3 Remember all thy Off'rings there thy Sacrifice receive verse 4 To compass thy own Heart's Desire thy Counsels still direct Make kindly all Events conspire to bring them to effect verse 5 To thy Salvation Lord for Aid we chearfully repair With Banners
to diff'rent Realms may'st send to govern ancl protect verse 17 Whilst this my Song to future times transmits thy Glorious Name And makes the World with'one consent thy lasting Praise proclaim PSALM XLVI GOD is our Refuge in Distress A present Help when Dangers press In him undaunted we 'll conside verse 2 3 Tho' Earth were from her Centre tost And Mountains in the Ocean lost torn piece-meal by the roaring Tide verse 4 A gentler Stream with Gladness still The City of our Lord shall fill the Royal Seat of God most High verse 5 God dwells in Sion whose fair Towers Shall mock th' Affaults of Earthly Pow'rs while his Almighty Aid is nigh verse 6 In Tumults when the Heathen rag'd And Kingdoms War against us wag'd he thunder'd and dispers'd their Powers verse 7 The Lord of Hosts conducts our Arms Our Tower of Refuge in Alarms our Fathers Guardian-God and ours verse 8 Come fee the Wonders he hath wronght On Earth what Desolation brought verse 9 How he has calm'd the jarring World He broke the warlike Spear and Bow With them their thund ring Chariots too into devouring Flames were hurl'd verse 10 Submit to God's Almighty Sway For him the Heathen shall obey and Earth her Sov'reign Lord confess verse 11 The God of Holts conducts our Arms Our Tower of Refuge in Alarras As to our Fathers in Difsress PSALM XLVII verse 1 2 O All ye People clap your hands And with triumphant Voices sing No force the mighty Power withstands Of God the universal King verse 3 4 He shall opposing Nations quell and with succefs pur Battels fight Shall fix the Place where we must dwell the Pride of Jacob his Delight verse 5 6 God is gone up our Lord and King with Shouts of Joy and Trumpets Sound To him repeated Praises sing and let the chearful Song go round verse 7 8 Your utmost Skill in Praise be shown for him who all the World commands Who sits upon his righteous Throne and spreads his Sway o'er Heathen Lands verse 9 Our Chiefs and Tribes that far from hence to serve the God of Abr'am came Found Him their constant sure Defence How great and glorious is his Name PSALM XLVIII THE Lord the only God is great and greatly to be prais'd In Sion on whose happy Mount his sacred Throne is rais'd verse 2 Her Towers the Joy of all the Earth with beauteous Prospect rise On her North-side the Almighty Kings imperial City lies verse 3 God in her Palaces is known his Presence is her Guard verse 4 Confed'rate Kings withdrew their Siege and of Succefs despair'd verse 5 They view'd her Walls admir'd and fled with Grief and Terror struck verse 6 Like Women whom the sudden Pangs of Travail had o'retook verse 7 No wretched Grew of Mariners appear like them forlorn When Fleets from Tarshish wealthy Coasts by Eastern Winds are torn verse 8 In Sion we have seen perform'd a Work that was foretold In pledge that God for times to come his City will uphold verse 9 Not in our Fortresses and Walls did we O God conside But on the Temple fix'd our Hopes in which thou dost reside verse 10 According to thy Sov'reign Name thy Praise through Earth extends Thy powerful Arm as Justice guides chastises or defends verse 11 Let Sion's Mount with Joy resound her Daughters all be taught In Songs his Judgments to extol who this Deliv'rance wrought verse 12 Compass her Walls in solemn Pomp your Eyes quite round her cast Count all her Towers and see if there you find a Stone displac'd verse 13 Her Forts and Palaces survey observe their Order well That with Allurance to your Heirs this Wonder you may tell verse 14 This God is ours and will be ours whilst we in him conside Who as he has preserv'd us now till Death will be our Guide PSALM XLIX verse 1 2 LET all the list'ning World attend and my Instruion hear Let High and Low and Rich and Poor with joint Consent give Ear verse 3 My Mouth with sacred Wisdom fill d shall good Advice impart The sound Result of prudent Thoughts digested in my Heart verse 4 To Parables of weighty Sense I will my Ear incline Whilst to my tuneful Harp I sing dark Words of deep Design verse 5 Why should my Courage fail in times of Danger and of Doubt When Sinners that would me supplant have compass'd me about verse 6 Those Men that all their Hope and Trust in Heaps of Treasure place And boast and triumph when they see their ill-got Wealth increase verse 7 Are yet unable from the Grave their dearest Friend to free Nor can by Force or Bribes reverse th' Almighty Lord's Decree verse 8 9 Their vain Endeavours they maust quit the Price is held too high No Sums can purchase such a Grant that Man should never die verse 10 Not Wisdom can the Wise exempt nor Fools their Folly save But both must perish and in Death their Wealth to others leave verse 11 For tho' they think their stately Seats shall ne'er to Ruin fall But their remembrance last in Lands which by their Names they call verse 12 Yet shall their Fame be soon forgot how great fo'er their State With Beasts tneir Mernory and they shall share one common Fate PART II. verse 13 How great their Folly is who thus absurd Conclusions make And yet their Children unreclaim'd repeat the gross Mistake verse 14 They all like Sheep to slaughter led the Prey of Death are made Their Beauty while the Just rejoice within the Grave shall fade verse 15 But God will yet redeem my Soul and from the greedy Grave His greater Pow'r shall fet me free and to himself receive verse 16 Then fear not thou when Worldly Men in envi'd Wealth abound Nor tho' their prosp'rous House increase with State and Honour Crown'd verse 17 For when they 're summon'd hence by Death they leave all this behind No shadow of their former Pomp within the Grave they find verse 18 And yet they thought their State was blest caught in the Flatt rers Snare Who with their Vanity comply'd and prais'd their worldly care verse 19 In their Forefathers Steps they tread and when like them they die Their wretched Ancestors and they in endless Darkness lie verse 20 For Man how great foe're his State unless he 's truly wise As like a sensual Beast he lives so like a Beast he dies PSALM L. verse 1 2 THE Lord hath spoke the mighty God Hath sent his Summons all abroad From dawning Light till Day declines The list'ning Earth his Voice hath heard And he from Sion hath appear'd Where Beauty in Perfection shines verse 3 4 Our God shall come and keep no more Misconstru'd silence as before But wasting Flames before him send Around shall Tempests fiercely rage While he does Heav'n and Earth engage His just Tribunal to attend verse 5 6 Assemble all my Saints to me Thus runs the great Divine Decree That in my lasting Cov'nant
Request with constant Love attend verse 20 Then bless'd for ever be my God who never when I pray With-holds his Mercy from my Soul nor turns his Face away PSALM LXVII TO bless thy chosen Race in Mercy Lord incline And cause the brightness of thy Face on all thy Saints to shine verse 2 That so thy wond'rous Ways may thro the World be known Whilst distant Lands their Tribute pay and thy Salvation own verse 3 Let diffring Nations join to celebrate thy Fame Let all the World O Lord combine to praise thy glorious Name verse 4 O let them shout and sing with Joy and pious Mirth For Thou the Righteous Judge and King shalt govern all the Earth verse 5 Let diff'ring Nations join to celebrate thy same Let all the World O Lord combine to praise thy glorious Name verse 6 Then shall the teeming Ground a large increase disclose And we with Plenty shall be crown'd which God our God bestows verse 7 Then God upon our Land shall constant Blessings show'r And all the World in awe shall stand Of his resistless Pow'r PSALM LXVIII LET God the God of Battel rife And scatter his presumptuous Foes Let shameful Rout their Host surprize Who spitefully his Pow'r oppose verse 2 As Smoak in Tempest's Rage is lost Or Wax into the Furnace cast So let their facrilegious Host Before his wrathful Presence waste verse 2 But let the Servants of his Will His Favour 's gentle Beams enjoy Their upright Hearts let Gladness fill And chearful Songs their Tongues employ verse 4 To him your Voice in Anthems raise Jehovah's awful Name he bears In him rejoice extol his Praise Who rides upon high rowling Spheres verse 5 Him from his Empire of the Skies To this low World Compassion draws The Orphan's Claim to patronize And judge the injur'd Widow's Cause verse 6 'T is God who from a foreign Soil Restores poor Exiles to their Home Makes Captives free and fruitless Toil Their Proud Oppressors righteous Doom verse 7 'T was so of old when thou didst lead In Person Lord our Armies forth Strange Terrors thro the Desert spread verse 8 Convulsions shook th' astonish Earth The breaking Clouds did Rain distil And Heav'ns high Arches shook with Fear How then should Sinai's humble Hill Of Israel's God the Prefence bear verse 9 Thy Hand at famisht Earth's Complaint Reliev'd her from Celestial Stores And when thy Heritage was faint Asswag'd the Drought with plenteous show'rs verse 10 Where Savages had rang'd before At Ease thou mad'st our Tribes reside And in the Desart for the Poor Thy gen'rous Bounty did provide PART II. verse 11 Thou gav'st the Word we falli'd forth And in that pow'rful Word o'ercame While Virgin-Troops with Songs of Mirth In state our Conquest did proclaim verse 12 Vast Armies by such Gen'rals led As yet had ne'er receiv'd a Foil Forsook their Camp with sudden Dread And to our Women left the Spoil verse 13 Tho Egypt's Drudges you have been Your Army's Wings shall shine as bright As Dove's in golden Sunshine seen Or silver'd o'er with paler Light verse 14 'T was so when God's Almighty Hand O'er scatter'd Kings the Conquest won Our Troops drawn up on Jordan's Strand High salman's glitt'ring Snow out-shone verse 15 From thence to Jordan's farther Coaft And Bashan's Hill we did advance No more her Height shall Bashan boast But that she 's God's Inheritance verse 16 But wheresore tho the Honour 's great Should this O Mountains swell your Pride For Sion is his chosen Seat Where he for ever will reside verse 17 His Chariots numberless his Pow'rs Are heavenly Hosts that wait his Will His Prefence now fills Sion Tow'rs As once it honour'd Sinai's Hill verse 18 Ascending high in Triumph Thou Captivity hath Captive led And on thy People did'st bestow The Spoil of Armies once their Dread Ev'n Rebels shall partake thy Grace And humble Proselytes repair To worship at thy Dwelling-place And all the World pay Homage there verse 19 For Benefits each Day bestow'd Be daily his great Name ador'd verse 20 Who is our Saviour and our God Of Life and Death the Sov'reign Lord. verse 21 But justice for his harden'd Foes Proportion'd Vengeance hath decreed To wound the Hoary Head of those Who in presumptuous Crimes proceed verse 22 The Lord has thus in Thunder spoke As I subdu'd proud Bashan's King Once more I 'll break my Pople's Yoke And from the Deep my Servants bring verse 23 Their Feet shall with a crimson Flood Of slaughter'd Foes be cover'd o'er Nor Earth receive such impious Blood But leave for Dogs th' unhallow'd Gore PART III. verse 24 When marching to thy blest abode The wond'ring Multitude survey'd The Pompous State of Thee our God In Robes of Majesty array'd verse 25 Sweet-singing Levites led the Van Loud Instruments brought up the Rear Between both Troops a Virgin-train With Voice and Timbrel charm'd the Ear. verse 26 This was the Burden of their Song In full Assemblies bless the Lord All who to Israel's Tribes belong The God of Israel's Praise record verse 27 Nor little Benjamin alone From neighb'ring Bounds did there attend Nor only Judah's nearer Throne Her Counsellors in state did send But Zebulon's remorer Seat And Nepthali's more distant Coast The grand Procession to compleat Sent up their Tribes a princely Host verse 28 Thus God to Strength and Union brought Our Tribes at strife till that blest hour This Work which thou O God hast wrought Confirm with fresh Recruits of Pow'r verse 29 To visit Salem Lord descend And Sion thy terrestrial Throne Where Kings with Presents shall attend And Thee with offer'd Crowns attone verse 30 Break down the spearmens ranks who threat Like pamper'd Herds of Savage Might Their Silver-armour'd Chiefs defeat Who in destructive War delight verse 31 Egypt shall then to God stretch forth Her Hands and Africk Homage bring verse 32 The scatter'd Kingdoms of the Earth Their common Sovereign's Praises sing verse 33 Who mounted on the loftiest Sphere Of ancient Heav'n sublimely rides From whence his dreadful Voice we hear Like that of warring Winds and Tides verse 34 Ascribe ye Power to God most High Of humble Isr'el he takes Care Whose Strength from out the dusky Sky Darts shining Terrors thro' the Air. verse 35 How dreadful are the sacred Courts Where God has fix'd his earthly Throne His Strength his feeble Saints supports To God give Praise and him alone PSALM LXIX SAve me O God from Waves that rowl And press to overwhelm my Soul verse 2 With painful steps in mire I tread And Deluges o'erflow my Head verse 3 With restless Cries my Spirits faint My Voice is hoarse with long Complaint My Sight decays with tedious Pain Whilst for my God I wait in vain verse 4 My Hairs tho num'rous are but few Compare'd with Foes that me pursue With groundless hate grown now of might To execute their lawless Spite They force me guiltless to resign As Rapine what by right
Friend And he shall from unrighteous Dooms their guiltless Souls defend Psalm CX verse 1 THE Lord unto my Lord thus spake Till I thy Foes thy Footstool make sit thou in state at my Right-hand verse 2 Supreme in Sion thou shall be and all thy proud Opposers see subjected to thy just Command verse 3 Thee in thy Pow'rs triumphant Day the willing Nations shall obey and when thy rising Beams they view shall all redeem'd from Error 's Night appear as numberless and bright as Chrystal Drops of Morning Dew verse 4 The Lord hath sworn nor sworn in vain that like Melchizedech's thy Reign and Priesthood shall no Period know verse 5 No proud Competitor to fit at thy Right-hand will he permit but in his wrath crown'd Heads o'erthrow verse 6 The sentenc'd Heathen he shall flay and fill with Carcasses his way till he hath struck Earth's Tyrants dead verse 7 But in the high-way Brooks shall first like a poor Pilgrim slake his Thirst and then in Triumph raise his Head Psalm CXI verse 1 PRise ye the Lord our God to praise My Soul her utmost Pow'r raise With private Friends and in the Throng Of Saints his Praise shall be my Song verse 2 His Works for Greatness tho' renown'd His wond'rous Works with ease are found By those who seek for them aright And in the pious Search delight verse 3 His Works are all of matchless Fame And universal Glory claim His truth confirm'd thro'Ages past Shall to eternal Ages last verse 4 By precept he has us enjoyn'd To keep his wondrous Works in mind And to posterity record That good and gracious is our Lord. verse 5 His Bounty like a flowing Tide Has all his Servants Wants supply'd And he will ever keep in mind His Cov'nant with our Fathers sign'd verse 6 At once astonish'd and o'erjoy'd They saw his matchless Pow'r employ'd Whereby the Heathen were suppress'd And we their Heritage possess'd verse 7 Just are the Dealings of his Hands Immutable are his Commands verse 8 By Truth and Equity sustain'd And for eternal Rules ordain'd verse 9 He set is Saints from Bondage free And then establish'd his Decree For ever to remain the fame Holy and Rev'rend is his Name verse 10 Who Wisdom's sacred Prize would win Must with the Fear of God begin Immortal praise and heav'nly Skill Have they who know and do his Will Psalm CXII HALLELUJAH verse 1 THat Man is blest who stands in aw Of God and loves his sacred Law verse 2 His seed on Earth shall be renown'd And with successive Honours crown'd verse 1 His House the Seat of Wealth shall be An inexhausted Treasury His Justice free from all Decay Shall Blessings to his Heirs convey verse 4 The Soul that 's fill'd with Vertue 's Light Shine's brightest in Assliction's Night To pity the Distrest inclin'd As well as just to all Mankind verse 5 His lib'ral Favours he extends To some he gives to others lends Yet what his Charity impairs He saves by Prudence in Affairs verse 6 Beset with threatning Dangers round Unmov'd shall he maintain his Ground The sweet Remembrance of the Just Shall flourish when he sleeps in Dust verse 7 III Tidings never can surprize His Heart that still on God relies verse 8 On Safety 's Rock he sits and sees The Shipwreck of his Enemies verse 9 His Hands while they his Alms bestow'd His Glory 's future Harvest sow'd Whence he shall reap Wealth Fame Renown A temp'ral and eternal Crown verse 10 The Wicked shall his Trinmph see And gnash their Teeth in Agony While their unrighteous Hopes decay And vanish with themselves away Psalm CXIII verse 1 YE Saints and Servants of the Lord the Triumphs of his Name record verse 2 His sacred Name for ever bless verse 3 Where e'er the circling Sun displays his rising Beams or setting Rays due praise to his great Name address verse 4 God thro' the World extends his Sway the Regions of eternal Day but Shadows of his Glory are verse 5 To him whose Majesty excels who made the Heav'n in which he dwells let no created Pow'r compare verse 6 Tho' t is beneath his State to view in highest Heav'n what Angels do yet he to Earth vouchsafes his Care He takes the Needy from his Cell advancing him in Courts to dwell Companion to the greatest there verse 7 When childless Families despair He sends the Blessing of an Heir to rescue their expiring Name Makes her that barren was to bear and joyfully her fruit to rear O then extol his matcless Fame Psalm CXIV verse 1 WHen ' ISr'el by th' Almighty led Enrich'd with their Oppressors spoil From Egypt march'd and Jacob's Seed From Bondage in a foreign Soil Jehovab for his Residence Chose out imperial Judah's Tent His Mansion Royal and from thence Thro' Israel's Camp his Orders sent verse 3 The distant Sea with Terrors saw And from th' Almighty's presence fled Old Jordan's Streams surpriz'd with Awe Retreated to their Fountain's Head verse 4 The taller Mountains skipp'd like Rams When danger near the Fold they hear The Hills skipp'd after them like Lambs affrighted by their Leader's Fear verse 5 O Sea what made your Tide withdraw And naked leave your oozy Bed Why Jordan against Natur 's Law Recoild'st thou to thy Fountain's Head verse 6 Why Mountains did ye skip like Rams When Danger does approach the Fold Why after you the Hills like Lambs When they their Leader's Flight behold verse 7 Earth tremble on well may'st thou fear Thy Lord and Maker's Face to fee When Jacob's awful God draws near 'T is time for Earth and Seas to flee verse 8 To flee from God who Natures Law Confirms and cancels at his Will Who Springs from flinty Rocks can draw And thirsty Vales with Water fill Psalm CXV verse 1 LOrd not to us we claim no Share but to thy sacred Name Give Glory for thy Mercy 's fake and Truth 's eternal Fame verse 2 Why should the Heathen cry Where'snow the God whom we adore verse 3 Convince'em that in Heav'n thou art and uncontroul'd thy Pow'r verse 4 Their God's but Gold and Silver are the Works of Mortal Hands verse 5 With speechless Mouth and fightless Eyes the molten Idol stands verse 6 The Pageant has both Ears and Nose but neigher hears nor smells verse 7 Its Hands and Feet nor feel nor move no Life within it dwells verse 8 Such senseless Stocks they are that we can nothing like 'em find But those who on their Help rely and them for Gods design'd verse 9 O Ifr el make the Lord your Trust who is your Help and Shield verse 10 Priests Levites trust in him alone who only Help can yield verse 11 Let all who truely fear the Lord on him they fear rely Who them in Danger can defend and all their Wants supply verse 12 13 Of us he oft has mindful been and Israel's House will bless Priests Levites Proselytes ev'n All who his great Name confess verse 14
216 From my youth up Page 216 G. Give ear thou Judge Page 81 God in the Great Page 130 God is our Refuge Page 70 God's Temple Crowns Page 137 H Had not the Lord Page 212 Happy the Man Page 62 Have mercy Lord Page 77 Hear O my People Page 118 He 's blest whose Sins Page 45 He that has God Page 145 Hold not thy Peace Page 131 How blest are they Page 190 How'blest is he Page 1 How good and pleasant Page 146 How long wilt thou Page 15 How many Lord of late Page 3 How vast must their Page 219 I. Jehova reigns let all Page 152 Jehova reigns let therefore Page 154 I le celebrate thy Page 41 In deep disiress Page 210 In Juda thee Page 115 In thee I put Page 105 In vain O Man Page 79 Judge me 0 Lord Page 36 Just Judge of Heaven Page 65 I waited meekly Page 61 L. Let all the Just Page 46 Let all the Lands Page 95 Let all the Liftning Page 73 Let David Lord Page 217 Let God the God Page 98 Lord hear my Cry Page 90 Lord hear my prayer Page 230 Lord hear the Voice Page 5 Lord hear the Voice Page 93 Lord let thy Jnst Page 107 Lord not to us Page 185 Lord save me for Page 80 Lord thou hast granted Page 134 Lord who 's the happy Page 16 M. My Crafty Foe with Page 53 My God my God why Page 29 My Soul for help Page 91 My Soul inspird Page 159 My soul with grateful Page 186 N. No change of times Page 20 O. O all ye people Page 71 O come loud Anthems Page 150 O Mercies never Page 156 O God my Gracious Page 92 O God my heart Page 176 O God of hosts Page 132 O God to whom Page 148 O God who hast Page 89 O God whose former Page 178 O Israel's Shepherd Page 126 O Lord I am not Page 217 O Lord that my God Page 7 O Lord my Rock Page 39 O Lord our Fathers Page 66 O Lord the Saviour Page 143 O Lord that art my Page 4 O Lord to my Page 104 On thee who chvellest Page 212 O Praise the Lord Page 188 O Praise the Lord and Page 235 O Praise the Lord in that Page 241 O praise the Lord with Hymns Page 236 O praise the Lord with one Page 220 O Praise ye the Lord Page 240 O render Thanks and Page 164 O render Thanks to Page 168 O thou to whom all Page 8 O 't was a joyful Page 211 P. Praise ye the Lord Page 181 Preserve me Lord Page 227 Protect me from my Page 17 R. Resolv'd to watch Page 59 S. Save me O God Page 101 Since Godly Men Page 14 Since I have plac'd Page 13 Sing to the Lord Page 151 Sing to the Lord Page 153 Speak O ye Judges Page 86 Save wicked Fools Page 16 T. Thee I will bless Page 233 The Heavens declare Page 25 The King O Lord Page 28 The Lord hath spoke Page 75 The Lord himself Page 32 The Lord the only God Page 71 The Lord to thy request Page 27 The Lord unto my Page 181 The Man is blest who fears Page 215 The Man is blest who stands Page 182 The wicked Fools Page 80 This spacious Earth Page 33 Tho' wicked Men Page 54 Thou Lord by strictest Page 225 Through all the changing Page 48 Thy Chastning wrath Page 57 Thy dreadful Anger Page 6 Thy Mercy Lord Page 84 Thy Mercies Lord Page 139 Thy Presence why Page 12 To blest thy chosen Page 97 To Celebrate thy Page 9 To God I cry'd Page 116 To God in whom Page 34 To God our never Page 128 To God the mighty Page 222 To God with Mournful Page 230 To God your grateful Page 172 To my Complaint Page 135 To my just Plea Page 18 To thee my God Page 137 To thee O God Page 114 To thee O Lord Page 229 To Sion's Hill Page 211 W. We build with Page 214 When I pour out Page 157 When Israel by Page 184 When Sions God Page 214 When we our wearied Page 224 While I the Kings Page 68 Whom should I fear Page 37 Who place on Sion's God Page 213 Why hast thou cast Page 112 With chearful Notes Page 188 With Glory Clad Page 147 With my whole Heart Page 225 With one Consent Page 155 With restless and Page 1 Y. Ye boundless Realms Page 238 Ye Princes that Page 40 Ye Saints and Servants Page 183 DIRECTIONS About the TUNES and MEASURES ALL Psalms of this Version in the Common Measure of Eights and Sixes that is where the first and third lines of the single Stanza consist of eight Syllables each the se-cond and fourth lines of six Syllables each may be sung to any of the most usual Tunes viz York-tune Windsor-tune St. Davids Litch-field Canterbury Martyrs Southwell St. Mary's alias Hackney tune c. As the Old 25 Psalm may be sung the New 25 31 67 130. As the Old 113. the 37 46 50 63 76 91 110 113 120. As the Old 148. the 136 148. As the Old 104. the 149. The Psalms in this Version of four lines in a single Stanza and eight Syllables in each Line if Psalms of Praise or Chearfulness may properly be sung as the Old 100 Psalm or to the Tune of the Old 125 Psalm Second Metre The Penitential or mournful Psalms in the same Measure may be sung as the Old 51 Psalm Which Tunes with all the foremen-tioned are printed in the Supplement to this New Version as spscified in the following Advertisement A SUPPLEMENT to the New Version of Psalms by N. Tate and N. Brady containing 1. 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