their hope in muzing bent LO fainting voice to thee my still unfainting hart Sends up send doun thy strength and Prince of grace who art Revive me ' as is thy wont See neer towărd me they draw Who mischief dire pursue far they from Lord thy law But thou art neer whose hests for never-changing trueth Long since thy teaching woord assurÄ•d my learning youth RESCH. AT length let pityÄng ey respect afflicted wight And thow mans hart who seest art conscious of my right And pressing fo observÄ•st plead thow my cause and free Soule cheered through thy woord addicted whole to thee Thy mercies Lord are wide yet far from godles crue Who seek not thee nor way to bliss that leads pursue BUT mee thy doom revive whom now persuing foes Not faithles to thy woord with swarming troops encloze O grief myn ey to see men break thy rightÄ•ous law Despize celestiăl bliss in lines of love which draw Thy servants soule see Lord and quickÄ•n them with thy grace Who iust eternal woord trueths sum with ioy embrace SCHIN VVITH causeles hate ô Lord and not unwronging swoord Have Princes mee persuÄ•d yet aw of heavÄ•nli woord My hart restraind from sin O woord whose ioys more draw My ly-detesting mynd and mynd that loves thy law Then ioy which Princes gifts or foes rich spoils can bring SevÄ•n times yea daily I thy righteÅus iudgements sing IN throng of worldli waves which sweet of life devour Their mynds stil calm abide no scandal there hath powÄ•r Where love of thee directs Lo then thy saving grace My hoping eys attend sole thow his love embrace Whose pure affection seeks thy pleasure to fulfill I fain not Lord my ways yea hart thou vieust at will THAV THEN let at length approach ô Lord my fainting cry Vouchsafe my suit access sole understanding I And riddance from my foes which promized hast require Thus taught thy will and free towărd thee my quick desire Shal spring my lips thy praise glad tong thy woord shal sound Where trueth where wisdom pure where statutes iust abound LET then thy hand now help if not with cold pursuit Salvation thyn I seek Vouchsafe me Lord this fruit Of making thee my hope thy law my choise delight O let my soule yet live preserv'd from tyrants might And it shal praize thy name Seek then thy straying sheep Who wandring now as lost yet strives thy law to keep PSALM 122. King DAVID having reduced the three parts of Ierusalem that of Iuda that of Beniamin and the Mount held by the Iebusites into one entire Citi and there in Sion seated the Ark of God having also according to the Law established there supreme Coorts iuridical for administration of Iustice to all Gods people taking a vieu of this woork performed by divine grace and of the peoples alacriti in frequenting Gods service he expresseth in this Psalm his religious ioy for the same and blessing Ierusalem and all them that bless hir concludeth with a promise on his owne behalf both for the peoples sake his brethren in race and religion and espeally for the Temples sake of God to procure studiously the good of that chozen Citi. MY longing hart deer ioy assaid As gracious sound strook grateful ear Religious mynds Each neighbour praid In Gods fair house let 's all appear Ierusalem our peaceful feet Now frequent in thy gates shal meet IERVSALEM the earths delight A Citie three compact in one To thee the Tribes in legal rite Gods chozen Tribes ascend alone Sole here shines out heavÄ•ns glorious King Here Israel all his praises ring RELIGION Iustice dooth embrace Who doubled bliss through land derive For iudgement thrones here hold their place And wronged right with aid revive Iudicial thrones the Kingdoms powÄ•r Of Davids croun most glorious flour O THEN Ierusalem respect Hir peace with vows to heavÄ•n commend Ierusalem who thee affect Them ioy them bliss stil prest attend O peace ay in thy towÄ•rs reside In houses plenti ay abide I FOR my frends my brethrens sake Whom race whom rites in love combine Shal alwaies pray Earths peace partake And heavÄ•ns rich light upon thee shine For Gods fair house my ioy I 'le sure Stil studious still thy good procure PSALM 128. The prosperous and happi estate both publick and private of the man who fearing God leadeth a life full of integriti OBLESSED they whose humble harts True fear of powÄ•r divine endues Religious soule that ne're departs From way which blisful life renues O BLESSED man thy ioys abound Thyn house thy cheerful hands shal rear And labours iust with blessing cround Shal feeding fruit stil plenteÅus bear THY wife a vine on wall disspred In fruitful love hast ioious met Thy children sweet in vertu bred Fair olive plants thy boord beset LO thus Gods fear thus gracÄ•d shal bee From Sion deer thee God shal bless And quiet home shal plenti see And life contented long possess THAT all thy days delighted ey Ierusalems great weal may vieu And wasting life it self espy In childrens children to renue O THANKFUL then Gods love alure Stil rightÄ•ous life with care maintain So happi long maist thou endure So peace with Isrăel long remain PSALM 130. The Psalmist in the continuance of som great publick calamiti wherein he had his part not unlikeli in the wearisom captiviti of Babilon sendeth up his humble cryâ—… unto almighti God not to call their falts to a strict account which the frailti of humane nature is not able to endure but to express now at length that merci of his which draweth men to fear and serve him with comfort So professing his hope in God and exercizing his patience in that hope yet continuing still his fervent desire in this patience he exhorteth all Israel to persevere in like attending trust assuring them that God would redeem them from all their sins and afflictions OUT from the deep to thee ô Lord I cry From place far off yet thow good Lord be nigh Lord hear my voice and with attentive ear Receive the plaints which humbled soule dooth rear IF strictly Lord transgressions thou shalt ey Lord who shal stand in sad despair we dy But Iustice thyn stil mercies thoughts displays That Greatnes fear and Goodnes love may raize WITH patiÄ•nce then on God my soule attend His woord my trust Hee 'le give thee ioyful end As morning rays rere sentinal desires So so and more towărd thee my soule aspires And patiÄ•nt ô await him Isrăel deer His great redemption now wil soon appear He merci is His merci from their thrall Yea from their sins shal ransom Isrăel all TREBLE O Ut from the deep to thee ô Lord I cry From place far off yet thow good Lord be nigh Lord hear my voice and with attentive ear Re-ceiue the plaints which humbled soule dooth rear If strictly Lord transgres But iustice thyn stil mer sions thou shalt ey Lord who shall stand in sad cies thoughts dis plays That great
nes fear and Gooddes pair we dy nes love may raize BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 137. The people of Iuda and especially the sacred Quires of the House of God after that great overthrowe of Ierusalem and the Temple by the Chaldeans beeing now in captiviti within the dominions of Babilon and having carried their instruments of Music with them are required in scorn by their insolent conquerers to make them merri with som song of Sion Which they refuzing to profane in that sort make a vow with execration against themselfs if ought before Ierusalem and hope of hir restauration ascend at ani time to ani highth of ioy in their now most woful mynds And conclude with betaking unto divine revenge the insulting malice of the unnatural Edomites and the cruelti of the Babilonians in that heavi day of Ierusalem BY Babel streams exil'd from Contri deer As doun we sate a sad dismaied crue Ah Sions wrongs to pensive mynds appear Sions whom now our eys no more should vieu Wee wept and trees that saw our tears abound Hang'd up those harps which wont our ioys resound THEN scornful Lords who Sions towrs had fir'd Gods Temple raz'd and vs to thraldom seaz'd In anguish mirth in tears a song requir'd And with som Hymn of Sion must be pleaz'd Should hymns divine to ears profane be song Can Sions Psalms to Babels coasts belong O SION fair and Gods elected seat Where envi earst but piti now may ground Ierusalem If thee I e're forget If in my ioys thow chiefest be not found Let parched tong to withÄ•ring palat growe And skilful hand no more his science knowe BUT thow ô Lord whose right-esteeming ey Ierusalems last traveils did behold Let Edoms malice never covÄ•red ly Which cruel mouths did strangely then unfold Their cursed cry record in heavÄ•nli ear Raze raze hir clean till loweëst stone appear AND Babel thow who Sions bane hast wrought Ne sacred Temple spar'dst with fire to burn Shalt see thy self to same destructiÅn brought And blessed they who thee the like return Yea blessed they who take thy cursed seed With dasht-out brains the crying stones to feed TREBLE B Y Babel streams exil'd from contri dear As doun we sate a sad dismai ed crue Ah Sions wrongs to pensive mynds ap-pear Sions whom now our eys no more should vieu Wee wept and trees that saw our tears a bound Hang'd vp those harps which wont our ioys re sound BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 139. DAVID in this divine meditation addressed to God acknowelegeth at large Gods knowelege of all things even before they have beeing and in particular of all the thoughts and ways of man rendreth a reason of this Omniscience from the creation of all and particularly from the merveilous fabric of man which ravisheth his mynd into such admiration that breaking into most affectionate praises of the manifold woorks and ways of God he professeth also that his thoughts are no sooner after sleep awakened but they first are seazoned with this sweet contemplation Contrarily falling into extreme detestation yea and imprecation against those wicked ones who blasphemous toward God vainly extol Gods enimies he concludeth with fervent praier that himself may be purified by the grace of God so conducted through the ways of this world as to attain finally his everlasting rest ETERNAL Light gainst whose al-seeing ey Mans thoughts his cares and ways doo all transparent ly Lo here my soule which thow with piercing vieu Hast searched and doost knowe so livÄ•st hir witnes true Great Iudge of harts who secret pleights unfold'st Who past with future things all present ay behold'st Thow knowÄ•st my coorse when doun I sit when rize Yea thoughts unborn far off thy foresight strange descrys BY day my walks at night my silent rest Thow doost envÄron with skill to all my paths addrest ObservÄ•st my tong no woord unwaigh'd doost leve Yea lips ere woords produce or thoughts hid speach conceve And grasp'st me so with thy al-guiding hand Behynd before as prest at pleasure thyn to stand Science profound of strange transcending law That man nor it can sound nor self from it withdraw FOR whether go how should I bend my flight Thy spirit Lord to balk or cloud me from thy sight If sore towărd heavÄ•ns in heavÄ•n thy throne resides If flag longst earth lo earth thy footstool lowe abides If stoop to hell and iaws which gastly gape Nor hell thy vieu nor feends thy thundring stroke escape If Eastern steeds and Mornings crimson wings I timely mount which round to utmost OcÄ•an brings Thou Easts great coorse and Morns fair wings doost guid Nor utmost OcÄ•ans gulfs from thyn aspect can hide PERHAPS might say yet darknes mee may hele Shee with hir sable robe from searchingst ey concele And canst once think weak shade which Sun dispels Should Light of lights eclipse who thousand Suns excels Fond base conceipt To thee ô Light divine Both dark and bright are like grim night as day dooth shine FOR iust and right that thou Creatour high Who all hast framÄ•d thy frame shouldst naked all descry And who my hart my reins in womb didst form With lims support attire with skin with sence adorn Shouldst hart and thoughts shouldst sence and ways posses Stupendious woork which ay great Architect shal bless A little world yet world of wonders great Which well my mynd conceipts and tong of it shal treat MY bones in weak in place obscure my sight In earth beneath my mynd fair spark of heavÄ•nli light Thou didst produce embroidÄ•ring evÄ•rie part With woork so rare that use with beauti strives in art And dout we yet if thow thy woork didst knowe Or can our tongs forbear thy glorious praise to shewe Yea tender mass while formles it remaind And day by day nue shape through vertu thyn aggaind Thyn ey saw all enrold in book divine Where all thy woorks to com as present cleerly shine BE blest great Lord thy wisdoms beautÄ•ous ways How precious deerly sweet to thee my soule doo raize In skill mans wit in count they pass the sands That still my wakened mynd with thee first present stands Admiring all thy woorks O righteous King At length then pleaze thy world â—…o first estate to bring Extermin race defil'd Ye men of bloud Whose base flagitious mynds despize th' eternal Good Who grace his foes of him profanely prate Avant from mee your selfs and damned ways I hate AH sovÄ•rain Iudge to thee my soule appeals My witnes true whose spir̆it mans secretst thoughts reveals That love of thee gainst them griev'd hatred breeds Whose venÅmous hate gainst thee breaks out in hostile deeds Thy foes are myn with them I leaug forsake And firm in perfect hate to vengeance iust betake THEN thow my Lord to whom I stand or fall Who rightÄ•ous mynds approov'st yet none canst perfect call Revieu my hart explore my thoughts again And waigh what grieving coorse dooth in my life remain Refine my
with speed and tender ey reflect Thou Goodnes pure thy servants not neglect In case extreme who mercies hand implore O spring of grace I mercies those adore Then Lord be neer yea for my ' insulting foes To free my soule once heavÄ•nli aid discloze AH see and iudge thou knowÄ•st my sad reproach Fore thee my foes my shames who shameles broach Stand all in sight Their wrongs have worn my hart Full chargÄ•d with grief I lookt if yet som part My frends would bere no frend condoling found If comfort speak but none least comfort sound For strengthning meat yea poizÅning gall they sent And vinÄ•ger tart my thirst to quench prezent THERFORE iust Lord their owne them home repay Their pleazing boord where ioys before them play Let turn a snare to catch them in their woords And that which foli ' as lot to fools affoords Their wishes hurt good fortunes bee their bane Mynds sight obscure their loins rough valure lame AND as in furi man laith lode of blowes So let revenge which from thyn anger flowes Ad stripe to stripe and seaze with raging ire Their hated heads which mischief sole dezire Void stand their castles dweller none be found To grace the tents where graceles facts abound FOR thow whom Lord with hand severe hast smit They fierce persue and inhumanely sit With grievous woords t' encrease thy woundeds pain Let sin so sin so plague to plague enchain Thy righteÅusnes that still they wretched miss Nor way e're fynd that leads to heavÄ•nli bliss Devowd to death from book of life efface Ne write their names where iust mens names have place NOW I stil poor sole rich in griefs remain Help saving Lord and raize me once again That raiz'd thy grace my song may thankful praize And blisful name to heavÄ•ns fair arches raize This sacrifice more pleazing God shal bee Then cleft-hoov'd steer at Altars horns to see THE myld of mynd great comfort hence shal take This sight shal ioy them O let harts awake To seek the Lord and so your harts shal live Nor wynds nor seas can from his anchor drive For ey of care who towărd mans wants reflects His prisÅners crys sure nevÄ•r at need neglects THEN heavÄ•ns and earth then seas and all your gests Which spatiate there conform to supreme hests Ay laud our King who Sion fair wil save And Iudahs touns repair There shall they have A seat and lasting state Thus God shal bless His folks true seed who love towărd him address PSALM 79. This Psalm which seemeth to have been compozed in the time of Antiochus the persecutour by som descendant of the famous ASAPH and who bare also his name which in that Tribe was frequent conteineth a most lamentable complaint unto God of the ruins of Ierusalem the defilements of the Temple and massacre of Gods faithful servants Then praying first for propitiation for the sins of the people the true cause of that calamiti he presseth on with most fervent suit for speedi deliverance and large revenge upon their Hethen enimies THE HethÄ•n ô God who fear not no nor knowe Thy glorious name into thy land are com And in thyn House whence blessings pure did flowe With hands impure polluting facts haue doon DEFYLD thy sacred seat thy rites profanÄ•d Thy treasures robd thy Citti set on fire Ierusalem earths ioy which earst was namÄ•d Throwne doun on heaps sits now in lothed mire THY servants slain for loial love to thee Their bodies dead heăvens fouls cast out to feed And flesh of Saints whose faith thyn eys did see To earths wyld beasts ingluvious throats decreed THEIR bloud as torrent streams about the wals Of sad Ierusalem no burriÄ•r found Opprobrious scorn us grievous lot befals And laughings proud in neighbours mouths abound HOW long ô Lord shal ever flame thyn ire Can no distress once moove to pitti take Thy iealous wrath and shal it rage like fire Which water none no tears may e're asslake AH turn it first gainst those who nor invoke Thy name great Lord nor knowe or seeke thy face Gainst Hethen kingdoms who with mortal stroke Thy Iacob wound lay wast h s resting place REDUCE not Lord to thyn offended eys Those falts forepast which still unthankful wee And fathers our have doon let grace arize Our soules from gilt of sorroed sins to free AND thou arize and with thy mercies deer Prevent our instant deaths Ah case extreme Denys delay Help source of goodnes meer And save vs thow whence safeties all doo stream RESPECT great Lord the glori of thy name Which wee revere our enimies proud despize Insulting HethÄ•n to say they doo not shame Where 's now the God on whom their hope relys BVT let our God make noble in our sight To Hethen eys his high revenging hand That giltles bloud pourd out and not in fight Of servants thyn may full revenged stand AND let the sighs and moornings of thy Saints Who grone in chains to thee access obtain And mighti arm excited by their plaints Them rescue ' who now to death consignd remain THUS neighbours scorns wherewith they thee reproach SevÄ•nfold to them in bosom Lord restore We then thy folk and flock thyn acts shal broach With thanks and praise will evÄ•r our God adore PSALM 73. The Prophet ASAPH by the sence of his owne afflictions and by contrari vieu of the exulting prosperiti of godles persons who pass on a pleasant time blaspheming God and oppressing his servants having endured like as other of the people of God a sore temptation of calling into question the veri Omniscience of God and his government over this loweër world at length getting the victori by Gods especial assistance he sheweth that out of the Sanctuari of God where his Oracles were delivered he had learned that it was not the condition of this transitori life but the end it self whereby the state of the good and bad was to be esteemed Seeing then the end of the wicked to be utter destruction and everlasting happines to attend the righteous he betaketh himself wholy to the conduct of divine direction with great assurance to be guided by Gods counseil in this life and afterward to be received by God into eternal glori In expectance whereof his soule repozeth YET surely God benign to IsraÄ•l stands To pure in hart But I was sore declynd Griev'd vieu of fools of wicked prospering hands Had welnigh sapt my weak unwari mynd FROM bands of death by sicnes force or snare They free pass on live lusti puft with ioy With humane toils and cares untroubled are Yea publick plagues them least and last annoy THIS makes with pride their out-stretcht necks like chein With violence fierce as robe they lims attire Their plentÄ•ous fare red strouting eys proclaim While heaping wealth surmounts evÄ•n harts desire FROM poizÅning filth their lothsom talk they change Oppressions proud with lofti stile to sound Their tongs through earth in wronging men doo range And hellish
But those who hate the iust Shal perish all the wicked harts owne malice grynds to dust Their owne desires them plague But God shal rightÄ•ous souls redeem And none shal quail to him that trust who him their life esteem PSALM 36. DAVID here entituled the servant of God having described first the reprobate sence of the wicked breaketh out into admiration of the divine infinitnes in all perfections in the participation and fruition of which consisteth the final beatitude of Gods true Servants when the rebellious shal ly under euerlasting destruction THE bestiăl mynd forsaking God resolv'd to ioy in sin To shun remorse first natures light t' extinguish dooth begin Then cheers himself in blyndest ways no vyld desire refrains Til in my hart no dread of God before his eys remains At length evÄ•n gloriÄ•th in his shame and ioith ah wretched state Inventing ill which well adviz'd his trembling soule would hate DEFYLD distuned soule His lips which ought Gods praises sound And world with trueth assist in leud and lying woords abound His mynd of vnderstanding pure good thoughts it self deprives And nought but mischief fraud and wrong on silent bed contrives In sum estrangÄ•d from goodnes all enthral'd to ill he bends His steps towărd death where vengeance due rebelliÅus soules attends O LORD what highth what depth what bredth thy greatnes may profess What hart can goodnes thyn conceive what tong thy praise express Thy bounteÅus grace from heavÄ•ns to earth thy creatures all comprends Thy iustice mountains huge surmounts thy trueth yond clouds extends A deep abiss thy iudgements rest O thow doost all protect Thou man doost save ne simplest beast in needful things neglect BVT ô how precious towărd mankynd thy mercies Lord redound Whence servants thyn thy shadÅing wings their sure retrait have found And when at last through ended toils they at thyn House arrive There pleasantst food there sweetest streams ay pure delights revive For thow ô fountain great of life their life doost still refresh And beams from thee deriv'd their eys with sight al-gloriÅus bless THEN Lord hold on thy kyndnes deer towărd those that knowe thy name And iustice thyn array the soules whom sacred loves enflame And let not proud oppressing foot my gracious ways deface Nor sinning hand misdraw my soule thoughts sinful to embrace Lo sinners proud defecting soules throwne doun in dreadful guise In dead destruction ay involv'd to life shall never rize PSALM 37. King DAVID now full of years and experience remooueth here those great and difficult scandals of wicked mens prosperiti and good mens afflictions He sheweth that the godli who delight in the law of God and exercize themselves in heavenli wisdom live alwaies in the favour of God and under divine protection that God maketh them partakers even of the temporal blessings of this life though not alwaies in the largest yet in a sufficient and contenâ—…ful proportion and such as is for their greatest good which blessings are to them also more constant and permanent and that Gods holi hand both delivereth them from the malignant practises of the wicked and preserveth them in times of publick plagues and calamities furnishing them with abiliti to be helpful also to others yea that though they fall he raizeth them up again and what troubles soever they pass thorough in this life that their end yet is assured peace Wherein they have also this pleazing comfort that God will continue his blessings even to their seed and posteriti Contrarily he intermixeth a discoveri of the truly calamitous state of the wicked who beeing the enimies of God and deprived of his protection though they flourish for a while yeâ—… have no stabiliti but are sodainly cut off yea in the midst of their wealth and pomp they are not only uncontent and restles but endure also much want through inordinate desires and misgovernment As for their attempts against the good they return upon themselves beaten back upon them to their owne confusion And lastly their end is assured destruction involving with it often the ruine of their unblest posteriti Upon these grounds and reasons he exhorteth the good not to fret at the wickeds so false and fading prosperiti but to be careful to avoid sin to delight in God and to employ themselves wholy in dooing that which is good So trusting in God and waiting patiently upon him committing also their ways unto him they shal be both safe under his protection and happi by his blessing LET not unpleazing vieu of bad mens flouring state Through indignation sour thy ioious thoughts abate For doun like withering grass they quicly shall be mowne As bloom of tenderst herb their flour away be blowne BUT thow Gods servant true on him thy Lord rely In him delight and thoughts to rightÄ•ous woorks apply Inhabite then the land thou by thy land shalt live Yea God thy godli hart his full desires shal give IF troubles thee assail to God thy ways commit And trust to him who them to happiÄ•st end shal fit No shame shal thee attaint thy iustnes fair as light And cleer as shining noon he shall produce thy right THEN rest on God his will with patient hope attend And let not woorthles man who brings leud thoughts to end And prospers in his coorse thy discontent imbreed Shun wrath fierce choler rein great sins from rage proceed For proud misdoÅer shal rot while root they lasting take Who humbly wait on God his law their mirrour make BVT yet a while and lo the wicked shall not bee His stateli seat no place for him or his shal see When as the myld with ioy shal pleasant land possess Where length of plentÄ•ous peace shal thankful ioy rebless I'TS true the rightÄ•ous man whose life ill lifes reprooves His sight alone ill mynds to deep distemper mooves That him as publique foe the godles crues beset And practise vyld apply to wrap in snaring net Yea teeth through felnes gnash But God shal them deride Who seeth their day approach black night to all their pride Let swoords be drawn bend bowes the poor and iust to kill Bent bowes shal break drawn swoords the drawÄ•rs best bloud shal spill AND though som iust be poor th'uniust with plenti swell Yet in that one poor house more true content dooth dwel Then all their pomps can yield For God shal him maintain When pride and powÄ•r uniust with shivÄ•red arms remain OUR gracious Lord fit times for all his servants knowes And now he more now less but still their best bestowes ContinÅance is their bliss In perilous time from wrack In plague them shields from death in famin bare from lack WhilÄ• evÄ•n as tenderst faâ—… meer force of smoke consumes So impious wretch Gods foe soon spent to vapour fumes FOR though th'uniust by fraud by force have much purloind Yet nothing thrives leud gain hath vain expence adioin'd That still a borroÄ•r bare on neighbours goods he feeds And none repays The iust still rich in vertuÅus deeds
slander wait THUS slave to passions vyld thou livÄ•st and I have silent been Whence yet more impious like thy selfe evÄ•n mee thou didst esteem But I not like to thee at length thy iust reproof have sent And ougli sins to fearful eys wil all aray prezent Consider this ô ye who God and Gods pure law neglect Least unrepenting harts I rend when none can them protect Who incense sweet of thankful praise sends up me right adores And rightÄ•ous life who leads from fall to bliss my grace restores PSALM 51. King DAVID reprooved from God by the Prophet Nathan for his grievous sin with Bathsheba leaveth in this Psalm an excellent pattern of an hart truly repentant returning to the service of God and care of his people MY sinful soule arraind of twofold gilt Of Spouse-bed wrongd of bloud ah fouly spilt With saddest grief in tears imbrynd repents And wailed crimes at mercies feet prezents O sourse of grace whence seas of mercies flowe Release my gilt and love returning shewe MY gilt releasd then clenze my soule from stain From stain which sin behynd stil makes remain And nue sin breeds But since my pensiue sight Sin gilt and stain stil wound by day by night With sour remorse since them I Lord deplore Ah cure them Lord and rightÄ•ous grace restore NO mortal law dooth me transgressour make Thy law divine whose iustice heăvens dooth shake Thee supreme Iudge sole thee my sin offends Whose piercing vieu to secretst thoughts extends Ah evÄl I Lord in thy pure eys have doon So iust reproof so iudgement right is com WHAT shal I plead of sin defiled mass From sin who com through sin to death must pass From mould deformd lo form I first receiv'd And mother frail in sin warm life conceiv'd But thow in soules thyn owne true form dezirÄ•st And wisdom deep it to restore inspirÄ•st AND thus I stood but now orethrowne by sin Deformd defyld ah Lord let grace begin Recure to woork with spring with hysop thyn So scour this soule more white then snowe to shyn And comfort Lord ô ioy now make me hear That bruz̆ed bones returning strength may cheer REMOOVE my sins from thy offended ey And cancel all my falts Hear once my cry Clean hart crëate right spir̆it in mee renue Then wavÄ•ring mynd with heăvenli stay endue Ah cast not off griev'd breaker of thy law Nor HOLI SPIRÄT soules sovÄ•rain life withdraw Restore the ioy of thy sweet saving grace And sins bond powÄ•r with thy free spir̆it displace THEN erring soules my thankful zele shal burn Thy ways to teach who glad to thee shal turn And then my song but bloud keep Lord away My saving Lord thy iustice shal display Sole thou my lips once open Lord again And ioiful mouth shal sacred praise proclaim IF sacrifice thy powÄ•r divine might please If offrings burnt thy burning wrath appeaze What would I spare but nought in heăven obtains Beasts life in man while beastlike mynd remains Man 's owne griev'd spir̆it is Gods best sacrifice His sighs his tears doost ne're iust Lord despize THEN ô return ô bless stil Sion deer Ierusalems stil lingring wals uprear With cleered harts then wee in legal rites Iust sacrifice wherein great God delights Shal bring yong buls at altars side shal bleed And offrings burnt th'undying flames refeed PSALM 67. A praier of the Church unto God to be gracious unto mankynd and to enlarge his blessed Kingdom over all the world whence happines both earthli and celestial shall ensue as hath been fulfilled by the coming of Christ. BE gracious Lord Let cleerly shine The beauties of thy blisful face That earth may see thy ways divine And nations all thy saving grace Let people bless thy sacred name Let people all renoum the same ALL wo exil'd let ioy return For thow who right doost still protect Shalt iudge them who for iustice moorn And erring nations here direct Let people praize thy glorious name Let people all adore the same THEN shall the earth as fild with love Hir gifts in great abundance poure And God our God from heavÄ•n above His choisest blessings richly shoure God shall vs bless and vtmost lands Shal all submit them to his hands PSALM 68. King DAVID having assembled the flour of all Israel to conduct the Ark of God with solemniti to mount Sion the chozen place of rest which was the occasion and is the argument of this Psalm beginneth his march with those sacred woords uzed by Moses alwaies at the remooving of the Ark in the wilderness Then with great exultation celebrateth both the Maiesti and the Goodnes of God as toward mankynd in general so especially toward his peculiarly elected race drawn from servitude and placed in great prosperiti Afterward prosecuting the occasion he setteth foorth the great honour of Sion thus chozen to be the onli seat of Gods aspectable presence amongst his people And upon the consideration of this triumphant ascending of Gods Ark beeing his Sanctuari upon earth he breaketh out into a prophetical description of the Ascension of our Saviour the Lord of that Ark into the celestial Sanctuari whereof that terrestrial was a shado and figure from thence to pour blessings of deliveri from death and of salvation upon mankynd to subdue all his enimies and once again to reduce that selected people from dispersion and miseri Lastly touching by the way the manner of the marching of the Ark he concludeth with a praier to God for the preserving of his people and repressing of their enimies that so forain lands may assubiect also themselfs to God whom finally he exhorteth all the kingdoms of the world to woorship LET pleaze our God to ărize that enÄmies his disband And hating foes in hated flight be chas'd by mighti hand As smoke strong wynds doo drive as fire dooth wax consume So shalt thou sweep them from thy face so wast them all to fume Then shall the rightÄ•ous mynds whose hopes on God depend Reioice in him and thankful shouts to heavÄ•ns high coort upsend SING ô sing praise to God advance that glorious name Th' Eternal SelfbeÄ•ing Lord who mounts on heavÄ•ns high arched frame Prepare make plain his way who o're alpestrious place Coms marching towărd his seat elect triumph before his face Not hee neglecting man despizing mortal care In sacred throne resides not so but chyld of parents bare Him Father fynds him wido Iudge he prison̆er frees To sole an house to rebel race dry parched soil decrees WHEN Captain thow ô God thy troops from PharaÅs thrall Victorious ledst through deserts wyld when march'dst before them all The mooving sea stood still th'unmooving earth it shakÄ•d The heavÄ•ns at presence thyn dropt sweat fore thee mount Sinai quakÄ•d All IsraÄ•ls God did dread Thow then with bountÄ•ous rain Didst chozen land enrich didst strength exhaust repair again HERE thow a seat for thyn thy poor despized bands A seat preparÄ•dst where ioious dwell and rule should neighbour lands
Thus did thy goodnes shine thy goodnes which their foes With conquÄ•rous arm subduing round large matter did discloze For damÅsels at return with ioying note to sound Kings armies fly they fly and spoils wee home-left soules haue found FOR though in servile state like scullions mongst the pots With soot ye long have lain begrymd yet now your happiÄ•r lots As dove shal make you shine who with hir lustring wings Now silver̆i hieu now golden light to ey delighted brings For when th'Almighti Lord those Kinglets strawd on ground Like snowe on Salmon black dark woes bright ioy so then had cround NOW Sion draws myn eys whom Bashans peer account Nor Bashans soil nor stateli clifts fair Sions praise surmount For why should worldli hils the earths huge towÄ•rs so rize And vant their might why hill of God with surli brows despize Here Gods dezired rest thus ay shal it excell Celestiăl squadrons here attend here Sinais glories dwell Twise thousands ten and more brave host of heavÄ•nli Knights Gods will observe receiv'd perform hee midst their love requites BUT thow victorious Lord ascended art on high In triumph great lead'st thraldom thrald and there great gest of sky Hast gifts of grace receiv'd mongst men which doost divide Yea race rebellious so doost win with thyn to thyn abide Be blest then Lord our God With saving graces hee Us daily loads For God's the God that brings salvation free Hath issuÄng ways from death but enÄmies head shal smite Yea hairi scalp of him in sin who still shal take delight BUT to his people saith I thâ—…m wil bring again From tyrants yoke from strangers coasts from land and Sea amain As once from Aegypts rod from deapth of sea and pride Of Bashans Giănt I them reducè'd made ancient fields divide That thow thy foot maist dip thy dog his tong embrue In smoking streams of fomi bloud which enÄmies brests out-spue AND now Gods march proceeds thy march ô God my King Who in thy Sanctuări residÄ•st there blessings man doâ—…st bring A â—…ight of ioy Before the singers hold their way Them instruments ensue in midst yong maids on timbrels play All cry with ioy Bless God Praize in assembli high Ye Isrăels stream the Lord. Here first smal Beniamin stands nigh Late Prince here Iudahs Lords their troops and here appear Naphthaliăn Lords from far with Lords who ZebÅlons honour rear AND now since gracious Lord commanded hath our strength Maintain from sacred house placÄ•d o're Ierusalem at length What thow great God for us what hast for fathers wrought So from subiected Kings to thee shal prezents due be brought RATE doun the reed-shafts beast the buls and heards so bold With peoples calf-like Lords who vain in silver plates have rold So woork thy peoples peace securÄ•d from Hethen spite O thow who scattrest them on war who set their fierce delight And then Aegyptiăn peers then Aethiopiăn lands Soon humbly shall with gifts to thee stretch foorth their suppliănt hands YE kings and kingdoms all o're earths fair face disspred With songs and sounds of ioy adore your God and supreme head Whence all your powÄ•rs derive Hee then on th'heavÄ•ns rides On heavÄ•ns of heavÄ•ns of old and rocks with thundring voice divides Ascribe all might to God whose glorious beauti shines On Isrăels head whose peerles strength the matchles sky designs O God thyn Israels strength what venerable fear Thy sanctuaries strike Be blest Our soules to thee we rear PSALM 69. The Prophet King DAVID in the time of Absaloms rebellion for then it should seem this Psalm was made by iniurious persecution of his enimies beeing reduced to extreme distress and miseri though happi that he was therein a type of our Saviour who was then also in him as a Son in his Ancester together with the historical narration of his owne wrongs and griefs prophetically also describeth and that more fully and properly the passions of Christ through the envi and malice of the Iues who cruelly constrained him to pay at a deer ransom the price of that whereof himself in his owne person was not gilti Thus oppressed reproached and scorned by his enimies and by his neerest frends abandoned for no other crime then for his zele toward the service and glori of God he flieth by a most fervent and argumentative praier to God for succour devoteth his enimies amongst whom first Achitophel then Iudas had their parts to utter destruction and lastly in his deliveri sheweth his owne particular thankfulnes the great comfort of Gods people and a general propension of all the creatures of God to praise him for his goodnes toward his chozen Church consisting of all his loving and faithful servants HELP Lord and save a poor distressed wight Not tost with waves though seas against me fight And beat my soule but sinking in the mud Where bottom none and where the surging flud With furious stream beres doun and whelms my life Ah save me Lord and end my bootles strife I strive though spent I cry when voice is quailÄ•d For God I look when eys have looking failÄ•d TH'iniurious spir̆its my not-deserved foes Who hunt my life with numbers me encloze That pass myn hair and rizing still in strength Press on til mee ô wrong they force at length What nevÄ•r I took as taken to restore Ah thee my falts my folies ly before BUT not for mee Eternal Lord of hosts Great Israèls God let those whose humble boasts Of thee have been confounded rest in mynd Nor shame in face when him forlorn they fynd Who thee with them in patient hope hath sought For thy sake Lord to this I lo am brought For thee I scorns and sour rebuke endure May service thyn great Lord such shame procure WHAT should I speak of frends unfrendli face My brethren deer same mothers home-born race A stranger mee an alien mere esteem And why The zele of which I worthi deem Thy sacred hests thy House and glorious name Which godles crues stil grieving mee prophane Hath eăten me up Reproaches throwne at thee From mouths infernal light have all on mee IN grief I wept and fasting fed on care My ioyles lims rough sacweb clothÄ•d on bare My weed they proverb mocks on fasting pour And laugh the tears which vexed hart dooth shour In iudgement place gainst mee the ancients spake Yea balads base vyld drunkards of me make AND I my Lord to thee now praying bend In needfulst time Let ô my crys ascend And time accepted fynd O God my trust If right thou seest and if my plaints be iust In plentÄ•ous merci ' and for thy saving trueth Send ô that help which life in death renuÄ•th OH free me Lord from sinking in this mire This groundles mire and from their fierce desire Whose hate my life persuÄ•th Draw from these waves Th' orewhelmed soule thy hand who drouning craves And prays Forbid this gulf my life t' inglut Devouring pit on me hir mouth to shut HEAR Lord
mouths gainst heavÄ•n dead curse upbound THESE sights Gods folk to grievous thoughts reduce To whom full cups of mingled bitter geer Are wringd Dooth HeavÄ•n say they knowe earths abuse Or mortals coorse dooth powÄ•r immortal steer But vieu these men the heavÄ•nli leaug who shun Earths shame mans wrong see how in calmest peace Devoid of storm here lengthned race they run They health stil keep stil wealth and powÄ•r encrease IN vain then I ah all in vain have sought With careful thoughts my hart from stain to cleer In vain my hands in worthiÄ•st actions wrought Themselves to God in purenes washt doo rear For as stern sires their sons of sweet of life With sour reproofs and bitter strokes bereve With mee so griefs so blowes are daily rife Ne ioy sharp fits of mornli chastment leve BUT ô my God should I these thoughts embrace Should mazed soule illusions these entrance Lo impious wrong gainst thee gainst happiÄ•st race Of children thyn I faithles should advance PERPLEXED I then sought this dout t' untwine But ah in vain stil tangled stood my wit At length I piercÄ•d the Sanctuări divine There learnd mens ends then then the knot unknit SURE wicked men aloft on slippÄ•ri brows Thy hand dooth place with greater noise to fall Doun headlong rush they vain fly faithles vows How soon how sore thy frights their ioys appall MUCH like as dream unguided fanci fils With shapes untrue which wakened all are gone So when thou stirst their image Lord it spils Their pompous shews despiz'd from world are flowne THUS whilÄ•st my soule on bitter grief did bite While thorni thoughts my fuming hart did wound As brutified my mynd had lost hir light Yea groveling beast I in thyn eys was found YET still was thyn and thyn shal ay abide By right hand takÄ•n thou staidst me with thy grace Thy counseil mee in beautÄ•ous way shal guid And lastly safe in happiÄ•st glori place FOR whom can heavÄ•n whom earth save thee display In whom or ioy or rest my soule might fynd O spring of life when flesh when hart decay TowÄ•r partage thow eternal standst assignd LO Creatures strangÄ•d to thee Crëatour great Alegiance due who faithles soules deny Shal fail who thee of spouzed love defeat Adultring harts in ireful vengeance dy THAT good for mee estrangÄ•d from pleazing sin With God sole spring of pure delights to dwell There fixt to rest My trust then ioy in him His gracious woorks my thankful hart foorth-tell PSALM 82. ASAPH vieuing the corruption and insufficienci of Iudges in his time admonisheth them that God is present in their assemblies whose office they execute counseleth reprooveth and putteth them in mynd of their ends And seeing the Land by their falt was now all out of frame he praieth God to exercize his right of iudging the whole world himself THE SovÄ•rain Lord whence iustice all derives Who mesur̆ed powÄ•r to earthli Lords divides His Senate of his presence nevÄ•r deprives Th' immortal Iudge mongst mortal Gods resides Sith iudgement's his how dare ye iustice wynd To scurge the good while miscreănts favour fynd THE poor ye should the weak the orphane free From wicked strength stil bending to oppress But ignorance ah not for high degree And vainest thoughts your darkned mynds possess Thus ruled coorse of all things turn'd awry Makes trembling earth to heavÄ•ns for iustice cry ISTYL'D you Gods who Gods earth-ruling place As glorious sons of supreme Lord doo hold But dy ye shal as men of menest race As foregone Princes now resolv'd to mold And rize great Lord thy iudging right resume O're nations all whom tyrants wrongs consume PSALM 84. King David who in great likelihood was author of this Psalm and at such time as he was either driven from Sion by Absalom or withheld by the necessiti of som war far off displaieth here his great longing love toward the Temple and solemn service of God there performed accounteth them happiest who alwaies reside in Gods house to praise him them happi also who at the state times according to the law held their voiages thether through what difficulties of way so ever So earnestly praying God to be returned to that place of ioy he ioineth with them in spirit who profess their true life safeti and happines to be placed in God THE fair aspect of Tabernacles thyn Great Lord of hosts how loveli to'absent ey It self prezents my longing soule dooth pine And pining faint til shee thy Coorts descry Nor earth nor heavÄ•n sole thow lifes glorious spring To hart to flesh reviving ioy doost bring AH absent I when yet poor sparro may When swalo wyld hir house hir nestlet cling Neer Altars thyn and there hir yonglings lay Yet absent I from thee my God and King Twise blest be they who in thy house reside Thy praise with them their loves with thee abide AND blessed hee far off who cheerd in thee On causies thinks which to thy mountain guide Dry vales they pass sweet springs by art yet see And gracious rain fore-drouth of pools dooth hide From wasting strength by strength they walk renÅed To Sion fair where God of Gods is vieÅed THEN Lord of hosts then Iacobs God our shield Ah ey the face with favours thyn enduÄ•d With sacred oil perfuzÄ•d Hear Lord and yield Those longed Coorts where one sole day accrÅed Whole thousand stains With mee Gods doors excell The stateliÄ•st tents with impious pride that swell OUR sun our shield whence life whence light derives Whence sure defence whence strength proud foes to quell He rightÄ•ous mynds of nothing good deprives They here in grace in glori'above shal dwell That earth that heavÄ•n Lord God of hosts may cry Thrise blest the man whose hopes on thee rely TREBLE T He fair as pect of Ta berna cles thyn Great Lord of hosts how loue-li t' absent ey it self pre zents My long-ing soule dooth pine And pining faint til shee thy coorts des cry Nor earth nor heăven sole thow lifes glorious spring To hart to flesh re viving ioy doost bring BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 90. MOSES here intituled the man of God beeing in his charge of conducting the Israelites in the wilderness where for their increduliti and murmuring the divine indignation brake oftentimes out upon them til in fine an irrevocable sentence of death was pronounced against that whole generation from twenti years old upward which had seen Gods miracles in Aegypt two only excepted to be executed in that wildernes before their entrance into the dezired land in this Psalm discovereth his extreme grief of hart for that miserable estate the Peoples sins provoking God and Gods punishments consuming them vnto whom God in all former ages had been a stay and protection Therfore prezenting unto God the remembrance of his former graciousnes the confideration of his owne Eterniti and of humane mortaliti in general whose life groweing shorter by sundri degrees was now at length reduced to a
thus say Can this to God be told Or Iacobs Lord wil hee from heavÄ•n our facts behold O blynded soules gainst God ye cloze your eys Look up why natures light doo brutish mynds despize CAN soverain cause whence all perfections flowe Himself not knowe on man yet knoweing powÄ•rs bestowe Who plants the ear shall hee unhearing bee Who ey with sight endues himself ye fools not see Round world who rules who nations all dooth rein To check to scurge leud lifes may careles hee remain Yeas God dooth see th' eternal light dooth knowe Yea knowÄ•th in hart of man how vain conceipts doo growe O BLEST that man whom thow doost Lord correct And by correcting teach towărd sacred laws respect Midst days of evÄl in rest he safe abides For wicked wretch dead pit while vengeance due provides For sure our Lord his folk wil not forsake Wil not peculiar flock t abandon eâ—…re betake For iudgement shall to iustice pure return And draw all upright harts which now for iustice moorn AH who for mee dare gainst malfactors rize What courage take my part If thow thy gracious eys If succÅring hand deer Lord didst not extend My life towărd death my soule towărd silent place did bend But when I cry'd My foot ah Lord dooth shake Thy pityÄng grace did mee to staid protection take In swarms of cares midst sad perplexed thought Yet comforts thyn delight in troubled soule have wrought MAY viÅlent throne from thee Lord powÄ•rs derive That lusts for laws ordein and griefs for ease contrive By troops they range the rightÄ•ous soule to kill Yea iudgement seats abuze ungilti bloud to spill But God my towÄ•r my high retreit hath been My Lord my rock assurÄ•d in worlds fair vieu was seen He hee their wrongs their spite shal them restore Yea God our Lord their pride hew doun for evermore TREBLE A Venger great who mans presumptuÅus sin Earths rightÄ•ous iudge with plagues to chastize doost not lin At length shine out ô spring of pu-rest light Rize up pay home the proud in worlds apparant sight How long great Lord how long shal god-les sect shal wicked crue triumph who heavÄ•nli laws neglect Shal Tyrants fierce impuneli fome their shames And grievous wrongs contrive then vant their hateful names BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 100. An Invitation to all Nations to prezent themselves cheerfully in the Coorts of God with exclaming thanks and praises for his constant goodnes and merci toward mankynd whom he hath made and framed peculiarly to be his WITH raized voice and cheerful grace Approach ye Nations all our king On bended knees prezent his face With hymn of bliss which Angels sing For knowe Hee formd vs God not wee His flock his folk yea sons to bee O THANKFUL enter then his gate His coorts high praises make exclame Resound his acts and glorious state And prostrate bless his sacred name Whose goodnes great and favour sure Whose trueth like heavÄ•ns unchang'd dooth dure PSALM 101. DAVIDS vow unto God touching the wel governing of Himself his Coort and Kingdom made it seemeth a little before his actual coming to the Croun OF Iudgements Lord to thee I 'le sing Where Iustice Merci shall embrace Such thoughts shal righteÅus use make spring Towărd mee gainst pleazÄ•st to bend thy face MYN house an upright hart shal guid Which vice shal check which goodnes grace No pleazing sin shal train aside Those eys which thee before them place WHO thee forsake from mee I 'le shake Their woorks and them I 'le ay detest Nor perverse imp there root shal take Where evil all shal be supprest THAT sly deceipt the slandÄ•rous tong Which iust men heedles may beguile That secret seed of neighbours wrong Severe reproof shal strait exile THOSE hauti looks of swelling mynd Which Thee neglect and equals scorn That self-love hatred myn shal fynd I 'le soon pul doun their lofti horn WHAT woorthi person through the Land Myn ey can vieu what faithful wight He graced in my Coort shal stand His upright service my delight BUT false dissembling flattÄ•ring mates With lying tricks that plot their owne No harbour get within my gates Their tricks and They shal out be throwne MY kingdom then I will begin From foul corruptiÅns clean to pare To hunt the wicked to their gin Shal be my daili earliÄ•st care SO shall Gods Citie brightly shine So shall his people flourish ay When damned crues exiled pine And lawles folk are swept away PSALM 103. King DAVID with great thankfulnes and high ioy of spirit celebrateth here the excelling graciousnes of God toward himself in particular the race of Israel in especial and in general toward all men who fear him and keep his covenant Where at large he expresseth the goodnes of our heavenli Father full of compassion and merci prone to reclaim and forgivo mankynd offending and contrariwise slowe in punishing In fine he exciteth the happi Angels of God with all his loial hosts and ereatures to bless their great King who hath placed his throne in the heavens embracing them all with his supreme dominion And himself lastly conioineth with them in lauding God PURE light of soule thou high-bred mynd Deriv'd from God and God to praize assignd Adore thy Lord his beauties bless And glorious acts in praiseful hymns express Bless still my soule with all thy powÄ•rs That sacred name whence bliss so richly shours No tract of time ô e're efface From thankful hart sweet vieu of bountÄ•ous grace OF GRACE which all thy sins remits And all thy griefs sins pay with cures befits Thy life from grave which dooth redeem Redeemd dooth round with deer compassions steem With healthiÄ•st food thy mouth which fils That egle-like youths strength through age distils HE supreme iudge whence iustice springs To wrongd on earth from heavÄ•n iust iudgement brings He ways divine to Moses showne By Moses made to Isrăels ofspring knowne Same Israels race with ioy hath seen Those Acts to foes which terrour dire have been TH' algracious Lord with pitti'is fraught How slowe to wrath how soon to merci wrought Nor strive nor chide wil alwaies hee Ne let his ire though iust unending bee Not like our flats his strokes were found Sin wrath provok'd grace merci made abound FOR look how high earth heavÄ•n transcends How far from East to West huge space extends So great his grace towărd servants prooves So far our sins deer Lord from soules remooves As father tendreth feeble son With sonli fear like kyndnes his is won FOR well he knowÄ•th our brittle state Remembring whom of clay he did crëate As earth-sprung grass as flour of field So flouring man to earth whose days must yield When wynd sweeps o're fair flour is gone The place earst brave inglorious stands alone BUT ay benign still God the same Towărd them persists who fear who love his name Yea rightÄ•ous trueth to fathers sworn With race observes of childrens children born Sole that his covÄ•nant they
Governours whence much mischief ensueth or by ani other evil or sorro whatsoever are all brought upon them by their sins and that odious unthankfulnes to God who yet even in publick miseries preserveth and prospereth his humble servants and when Nations apply themselfs faithfully to his service poureth upon them all blessings opposite to those former punishments Which things wise men will consider and make use of especially so as to knowe and acknowlege the Crëatours goodnes YE woorthi mynds in whom Gods gifts excell Whose persons walk on earth high thoughts in heavÄ•ns doo dwell Renoum our Lord ring foorth his glorious name Whose goodnes no time fails sweet mercies still the same OBLAZE his acts ye now at rest that stand From hostile powÄ•r redeemd redeemd from strangers land Ye late dispersd now gathered by his grace From East from West from North yea from great Oceăns place In deserts wyld through uncouth invious ways All tired all forlorn they wandred nights and days With fainting spir̆its through thirst and hunger pin'd And no relief no steps towărd cultivÄ•d place could fynd IN need extreme when lo to God they cry He gracious hears their mone and help from heavÄ•n makes fly So strength renues so straying feet directs To peopled wals and safe from perils all protects O thankful then to God his grace confess His mervÄ•ilous woork to men with ioious tongs express Who thirsting soule with waters sweet refreshd The empti fild and pace towărd longed home addresd IN darknes sad in shade of grisli death With irÅn and anguish bound who sighd their servile breath Il-ruled mynds that this and more deserv'd That Highests woord despysd from Gods advise that swarv'd When hart-burst clean they grovÄ•ling rold in pain Ne hope of better saw nor place for worse remain IN need extreme to God their suit they bent Who pityÄng rueful plight from heavÄ•n sweet comfort sent He darknes dire grim shade of death dispels he cords from hands from feet he fetters burst repels O thankful then to God his grace confess His wondrous act to men with ioious tongs express Who brazen gates made all to fragments flee Brake bars of irÅn strong Lord and prison̆ers did enfree UNGOVERND fools transported by their lust From vertuÅus ways to vice when God severely iust Their wicked ioys afflicts such sicnes sends That soule abhorring meat at deaths pale door attends IN hour extreme to God then lo they cry Who gracious hears their grones and ease from heavÄ•n bids hy Doun comÄ•th his woord the per̆ishing soule to save And hasting life retracts from neer approached grave O thankful then to God his grace confess His mercies great to men with ioious tongs express And clensd in hart iust sacrifice of praise Let grateful hands yield vp renoum him all your days TO Seas in ships who Arts chief woork descend Adventrous harts by trade penurious state to mend Or spatious lakes who pass what wondrous sight Strange woorks of God in deep their staring looks affright Lo strait his woord tempestuÅus wynd dooth rear And roughest frouns on seas late smiling face appear Anon towărd heavÄ•ns on back of arched wave They mount dismount in trise towărd hels unloveli cave As drunk they reel then melting harts gin fail Nought toil nought careful coorse of Masters skil avail IN case extreme when lo to God they cry Who gracious hears griev'd voice and help from heavÄ•n bids hy Strait wynds repose smooth hieu calmd seas regain Harts ioy woorks cheer til safe they long longd havÄ•n attain Then thankful ô to God his grace confess His merveils great to men with ioious tongs express And let Gods Church let faithful people hear Vowd praise in senat grave his mercies rare endeer HEE bubling springs chokes up with thirsti sand Yea rivers rich accursd dry desert makes to stand And fertile soil in plague of owners sin To saltnes damns whence fruit nor skil nor toil can win AGAIN his grace dry desert stores with pools Sends springs and bare burnt earth with fruitful moisture cools There hungri soules their citti sets to place Who sowe their grains plant vines years sweet return embrace Abounding food then blest with restful peace To numbers huge themselves their flocks and heards encrease BUT harts puft up soon spurning heavÄ•nli law Ah fools in chains of sin enchained tortures draw Oppression foul sad days unthriving care Their ioyles mynds abase their branching numbers bare He vyld contempt on woorthles Nobles pours And wayles wasts makes walk chasÄ•d out from lordli towÄ•rs Yet godli poor raizd up from pressing need As tree makes branch as flock his branched race to breed THESE things the iust with reverend ioy shal see And wicked mynds and mouths appald and stopt shal bee Who then is wise these sights to hart to lay Gods goodnes they shal learn Gods praises they display PSALM 110. The Prophet DAVID foresheweth the everlasting Kingdom and Priesthood of Christ who after his Ascension sitting at the Right hand of God should send out his forces from Sion and Ierusalem to reduce the world unto him Which spiritual warfare should take so wonderful effect that not onli at the veri beginning infinite multitudes should adioin themselfs to the Church but in short time also the Empire of Rome it self then Head of mani Nations with other great kingdoms should be conquered and subdued unto the obedience of Christ and his law The proof whereof to the later ages did manifestly appear THE Lord said to my Lord Thow at my right-hand sit While foes their necks I to thy feet as foot-stool make submit From Sion seat of Grace the Lord thy scepters might Through world shal send midst all thy foes bear rule thou Prince of light What day thy warli ranks shal high exploit begin The people prest with cheerful strife to serve thee shal com in Anon as prime of morn with silvÄ•ri perls of dew Al-spreds the world like troops thy youth in sacred house shal shew THE Lord who will not change hath sworn fair Prince to thee A Priest thou art MelchÄsedek like and ay that Priest shal bee This Prince who ' on thy right hand great King of heavÄ•n thus shines Each earthli King in ire shal crush that gainst his rule repines He HÄ•then with swoord shall iudge fields streets with corps shal straw Imperiăl Head whom Nations serve assubiect to his law As lightning swift shal run in way of torrent drink Thus gloriÅus head triumphant raize while danted foes doo shrink PSALM III. The Psalmist here sings the praises of God both for his glorious woorks and for his gracious acts toward the Israelites in mercifully conducting them from the serviliti of Aegypt to the happi land of Canaan and therein chiefly for establishing to their everlasting good his sacred Law and Covenant In observance whereof true wisdom consisteth ALLELV-IA MY hart dooth heavÄ•nli heat enflame To sound high praise to glorious name Th'alglorious Lord midst rightÄ•ous press In sacred senate
thou dwellÄ•st on high Yet still to iust requests art nigh Thy servants suits fynd gracious ear Their safeti shewth thy aid is neer For impious race wilt all destroy And all who love thee seat in ioy Wherfore my mouth incessant praise To thee shal pour and all my days My tong excite all humane flesh Ay ay that sacred name to bless PSALM 146. The Psalmist â—…owing perpetual praises to God advizeth not to fix our trusts or hopes on perishing Princes but upon the unchanging trueth and fideliti of God the Creatour of all things who is the Protectour and reliever of all that are in distress the overthrower of the wicked with all their ways and counseils and the King of his Church for ever ALLELV-IA MY soule with ioy thy self address The mighti Lord thy God to praize My tong his sacred name shal bless My hart towărd him I 'le alway raize While life dooth last the glorious King Yea whilÄ•st I am his praise I 'le sing NO TowÄ•rs of hopes on Princes raize What aid can mortal man perform Whose breath departs and ended days From dust derivÄ•d to dust return His thoughts and proiects dy withall Your towring hopes to ground doo fall BUT blessed they who chooze his name Whose hopes and helps with him abide Who heavÄ•ns and earth and seas did frame And world of gests which there reside His thoughts no wavÄ•ring can assail His woords are deeds and never fail THEN thee our Lord and God we sing Thow Iacobs God stil blessed bee Who iustice to the wrong'd doost bring The hungri feed the prisoner free Who blynd with ioious fight doost cheer And curbed lims doost upright rear THE iust he loves the stranger gards He wido shields and orphane guids But mischief dire iust wrath awards To wretch who rightÄ•ous way derides The Lord eternal King shal raign And Sions God ay so remain Allelu-ia FINIS THE TABLE PSALM 1. O Blessed wight To the 12. tune or to the 6. PSALM 2. What graceles fears To the 2. tune PSALM 8. Eternal Lord The FIRST tune PSALM 15. Lord who shal To the 5. tune PSALM 16. Then thow preserve me The SECOND tune PSALM 17. High Iudge of world To the 8. tune PSALM 19. The HeavÄ•ns declare The THIRD tune PSALM 20. In day of troÅble To the 1. tune PSALM 21. The King Lord The FOVRTH tune PSALM 22. My God my God To the 11. tune PSALM 25. To thee his faithful soule To the 2. tune PSALM 32. The blessed man To the 5. tune PSALM 34. The Lord for evÄ•r To the 3. tune PSALM 36. The bestial mynd To the 3. tune PSALM 37. Let not unpleazing vieu To the 2. tune PSALM 40. Long patiÄ•nt hope To the 11. tune PSALM 42. As chased Hart The FIFT tune PSALM 44. Our pleazed ears To the 12. tune PSALM 45. A noble act To the 9. tune PSALM 49. Ye sons of men To the 7. tune PSALM 50. The mighti God To the 3. tune PSALM 51. My sinful soule To the 11. tune PSALM 67. Be gracious Lord To the 4. tune PSALM 68. Let pleaze our God To the 7. tune PSALM 69. Help Lord and save To the 11 tune PSALM 73. Yet surely God To the 5. tune PSALM 79. The HÄ•then ô God To the 5. tune PSALM 82. The soverain Lord To the 12. tune PSALM 84. The fair aspect The SIXT tune PSALM 90. In pilgrim life The SEVENTH tune PSALM 92. A good a gracious act To the 9. tune PSALM 94. Avenger great The EIGHT tune PSALM 100. With raized voice To the 4. tune PSALM 101. Of Iudgements Lord To the 10. tune PSALM 103. Pure light of soule The NINTH tune PSALM 104. Magnănimous To the 3. tune PSALM 107. Ye woorthi mynds To the 8. tune PSALM 110. The Lord said To the 7. tune PSALM 111. My hart dooth To the 1. tune PSALM 112. O happi man The TENTH tune PSALM 118. Sing ô sound out To the 1. tune PSALM 119. O blessed they who men To the 2. tune PSALM 122. My longing hart To the 4. tune PSALM 128. O blessed they whose To the 10. tune PSALM 130. Out from the deep The ELEVENTH tune PSALM 137. By Babel streams The TWELVTH tune PSALM 139. Eternal light To the 8. tune PSALM 141. To thee ô Lord To the 8. tune PSALM 145. Great Lord my God To the 1. tune PSALM 146. My soule with ioy To the 4. tune THE Music beeing applied as was sit to serve the matter and the matter beeing divided into his seueral parts by beginning with a woord in Capital Letters it foloeth that in the same place the Music dooth also begin again Howbeit where the length of Music did conveniently extend it selfe to two branches of matter by reason of their breviti it is signified in the margent by this mark Where a branch of matter continueth on beyond the length of the Music whereby som strains of the Music are to be repeated the verses on which that repetition dooth fall are noted by a mark of the same fashion but larger size And lastly where the matter ends before the Music it is expressed by these prict lines at which the Music is to break off and beginneth as from the head at the verse ensuing And it hath been so provided in composing the Music that the same may be doon without disgrace vnto it Som other small varieties are not difficult to be perceived Falts escaped PAge 2. line 15. perplex read perplex l. 19. thee r. thee p. 3. l. 26. renound r. renoumd p. 9. l. 13. plaugs r. plagues p. 26. l. 6. Inone r. I none l. 36. malfactours r. malfactours p. 27. l. 35. run r. run p. 28. l. 16. embrace r. embrace p. 32. l. 32. dicharge r. discharge p. 33. l. 13. deprives r. depriues p. 35. l. 7. I'TS r. IT 'S p. 37. l. 12. gracÄ•d r. gracÄ•d l. 19. which r. with p. 38. l. 4. Entresured r. EntreasÅred p. 39. l. 25. SEE r. SEE l. 27. fals r. fals l. 43. fynd r. fynd p. 40. l. 2. stream r. streams p. 44. l. 11. razch'd r. rach'd l. 31. beloved r. belovÄ•d p. 46. l. 9. frame r. frame p. 51. l. 19. extends r. extends p. 54. l. 23. depend r. depend p. 55. l. 33. embrue r. embrue p. 60. l. 31 hs r. his p. 65. l. 32. swell r. swell p. 70. l. 29. evÄ•n r. eevÄ•n p. 76. l. 18. fadom r. fathom p. 77. l. 18. Earth r. Earths p. 80. l. 1. shal wicked r. Shal wicked p. 92. l. 27. glori r. glori ' p. 108. l. 5. O blessed r. O BLESSED l. 11. Hee r. HEE p. 111. l. 38. perfue r. pursue p. 113. l. 20. draw r. draw p. 122. l. 3. des pair r. des pair p. 125. l. 36. brought r. brought p. 131. l. 30. reveals r. reveals FINIS