and thou shalt honour me verse 16 To the wicked thus saith th' eternal God Why dost thou preach my laws and hests abroad verse 17 Seeing thou hast them with thy mouth abused And hat'st to be by discipline reformed My words I say thou dost reject and hate verse 18 If that thou see a thief as with thy mate Thou runn'st with him and so your prey do seek And art all one with bauds and ruffians eke verse 19 Thou giv'st thy self to backbite and to slander And how thy tongue deceives it is a wonder verse 20 Thou sitt'st musing thy brother how to blame And how to put thy mothers son to shame verse 21 These things thou didst and whil'st I held my tongue Thou didst me judge because I staid so long Like to thy self yet though I keep long silence Once shalt thou feel of thy wrongs just recompence verse 22 Consider this ye that forget the Lord And fear not when he threatneth with his word Lest without help I spoil you as a prey verse 23 But he that thanks offereth praiseth me ay â—â—ith the Lord God and he that walks this trace I will him teach Gods saving healtht ' embrace Another of the same by J.H. THe God of gods the Lord hath call'd the earth by name From whence the sun doth rise unto the setting of the same 〈◊〉 From Sion his fair place his glory bright and clear The perfect beauty of his grace from thence it did appear 〈◊〉 Our God shall come in haste to speak he shall not doubt Before him shall the fire waste and tempest round about 〈◊〉 The heavens from on high the earth below likewise He will call forth to judge and try his folk he doth devise verse 5 Bring forth my saints saith he my faithful flock so dear Which are in band and league with me my law to love and fear 〈◊〉 And when these things are tri'd the heavens shall record That God is just and all must bide the judgement of the Lord. verse 7 My people O give heed Israel to thee I cry I am thy God thy help at need thou canst it not deny verse 8 I do not say to thee thy sacrifice is slack Thou offerest daily unto me much more then I do lack verse 9 Think'st thou that I do need thy cattel young or old Or else so much desire to feed on goats out of thy fold verse 10 Nay all the beasts are mine in woods that eat their fills And thousands more of neat and kine that run-wilde on the hills The second part verse 11 The birds that build on high in hills and out of sight And beasts that in the fields do lie are subject to my might verse 12 Then though I hungred sore what need I ought of thine Sith that the earth with her great store and all therein is mine verse 13 To bulls flesh have I minde to eat it dost thou think Or such a sweetness do I finde the bloud of goats to drink verse 14 Give to the Lord his praise with thanks to him apply And see thou pay thy vows always unto the God mòst high verse 15 Then seek and call to me when ought would work thee blame And I will sure deliver thee that thou mayst praise my Name verse 16 But to the wicked train which talk of God each day And yet their works are foul and vain to them the Lord will say verse 17 With what a face dar'st thou my word once speak or name Why doth thy talk my law allow thy deeds deny the same verse 18 Whereas for to amend thy life thou art so slack My word the which thou dost pretend is cast behinde thy back The third part verse 19 When thou a thief dost see by theft to live in wealth With him thou runn'st and dost agree likewise to thrive by stealth verse 20 When thou dost them behold that wives and maids defile Thou lik'st it well and waxest bold to use that life most vise verse 21 Thy lips thou dost apply to slander and defame Thy tongue is taught to craft and lie and still doth use the same verse 22 Thou studiest to revile thy friends to thee so near With slander thou wouldst needs defile thy mothers son most dear verse 23 Hereat while I do wink as though I did not see Thou goest on still and so dost think that I am like to thee verse 24 But sure I will not let to strike when I begin Thy faults in order I will set and open all thy sin verse 25 Mark this I you require that have not God in minde Lest when I plague you in mine ire your help be far to finde verse 26 He that doth give to me the sacrifice of praise Doth please me well and he shall see to walk in godly ways Miserere mei Psal li. W. W. O Lord consider my distress and now with speed some pity take My sins deface my faults redress good Lord for thy great mercies sake verse 2 Wash me O Lord and make me clean from this unjust and sinful act And purifie yet once again my hainous crime and bloudy fact verse 3 Remorse and sorrow do constrain me to acknowledge mine excess My sin alas doth still remain before my face without release verse 4 For thee alone I have offended committing evil in thy sight And if I were therefore condemned yet were thy judgements just and right verse 5 It is too manifest alas that first I was conceiv'd in sin Yea of my mother so born was and yet vile wretch remain therein verse 6 Also behold Lord thou dost love the inward truth of a pure heart Therefore thy wisdom from above thou hast reveal'd me to convert verse 7 If thou with hyssop purge this blot I shall be cleaner then the glass And if thou wash away my spot the snow in whiteness shall I pass verse 8 Therefore O Lord such joy me send that inwardly I may finde grace And that my strength may now amend which thou hast swag'd for my trespass verse 9 Turn back thy face and frowning ire for I have felt enough thy hand And purge my sins I thee desire which do in number pass the sand verse 10 Make new my heart within my brest and frame it to thy holy will Thy constant Spirit in me let rest which may these raging enemies kill The second part verse 11 Cast me not Lord out from thy face but speedily my torments end Take not from me thy Spirit of grace which may from dangers me defend verse 12 Restore me to those joys again which I was wont in thee to finde And let me thy free Spirit retain which unto thee may stir my minde verse 13 Thus when I shall thy mercies know I shall instruct others therein And men that are likewise brought low by mine example shall flee sin verse 14 O God that of my health art Lord forgive me this my bloudy vice My heart and tongue shall then accord to sing thy
laid And of thy stormy wind and showre Lord make them all afraid verse 16 Lord bring them all I thee desire to such rebuke and shame That it may cause them to enquire and learn to seek thy Name verse 17 And let them evermore daily to shame and slander fall And in rebuke and obloquie to perish eke withall verse 18 That they may know and feel full well that thou art called Lord And that alone thou dost excell and reign throughout the world Quam dilecta Psal lxxxiv J. H. HOw pleasant is thy dwelling-place O Lord of hosts to me The tabernacles of thy grace how pleasant Lord they be verse 2 My soul doth long full sore to go into thy courts abroad My heart doth lust my flesh also in thee the living God verse 3 The sparrows finde a room to rest and save themselves from wrong And eke the swallow hath a nest wherein to keep her young verse 4 These birds full nigh thine altar may have place to fit and fing O Lord of hosts thou art I say my God and eke my King verse 5 O they be blessed that may dwell within thy house always For they all times thy facts do tell and ever give thee praise verse 6 Yea happy sure likewise are they whose stay and strength thou art Which to thy house do minde the way and seek it in their heart As they go through the vale of tears they dig up fountains still That as a spring it all appears and thou their pits dost fill verse 7 From strength to strength they walk full fast no faintness there shall be And so the God of gods at last in Sion they do see verse 8 O Lord of hosts to me give heed and hear when I do pray And let it through thine ears proceed O Jacobs God I say verse 9 O Lord our shield of thy good grace regard and so draw near Regard I say behold the face of thine anointed dear verse 10 For why within thy courts one day is better to abide Then other-where to keep or stay a thousand days beside Much rather would I keep a door within the house of God Then in the tents of wickedness to settle mine abode verse 11 For God the Lord light and defence will grace and worship give And no good thing will he withhold from them that purely live verse 12 O Lord of hosts that man is blest and happy sure is he That is perswaded in his brest to trust all times in thee Benedixisti Psal lxxxv J. H. THou hast been merciful indeed O Lord unto thy land For thou restoredst Jacobs seed from thraldom out of band verse 2 The wicked ways that they were in thou didst them clean remit And thou didst hide thy peoples sin full close thou coveredst it verse 3 Thine anger eke thou didst asswage that all thy wrath was gone And so didst turn thee from thy rage with them to be at one verse 4 O God our health do now convert thy people unto thee Put all thy wrath from us apart and angry cease to be verse 5 Why shall thine anger never and but still proceed on us And shall thy wrath it self extend upon all ages thus verse 6 Wilt thou not rather turn therefore and quicken us that we And all thy folk may evermore be glad and joy in thee verse 7 O Lord on us do thou declare thy goodness to our wealth Shew forth to us and do not spare thine aid and saving health verse 8 I will heark what God faith for he speaks to his people peace And to his saints that never they return to foolishness verse 9 For why his help is still at hand to such as do him fear Whereby great glory in our land shall dwell and flourish there verse 10 For truth and mercy there shall meet in one to take their place And peace shall justice with kiss greet and there they shall embrace verse 11 As truth from earth shall spring apace and flourish pleasantly So righteousness shall shew her face and look from heaven high verse 12 Yea God himself doth take in hand to give us each good thing And through the coasts of all the land the earth her fruit shall bring verse 13 Before his face shall justice go much like a guide or stay He shall direct his steps also and keep them in the way Inclina Domine Psal lxxxvi J. H. LOrd bow thine ear to my request and hear me by and by With grievous pain and grief opprest full poor and weak am I. verse 2 Preserve my soul because my ways and doings holy be And save thy servant O my Lord that puts his trust in thee verse 3 Thy mercy Lord on me express defend me eke withall For through the day I do not cease on thee to cry and call verse 4 Comfort O Lord thy servants soul that now with pain is pin'd For unto thee Lord I extol and lift my soul and minde verse 5 For thou art good and bountiful thy gifts of grace are free And eke thy mercy plentiful to all that call on thee verse 6 O Lord likewise when I do pray regard and give an ear Mark well the words that I do say and all my prayers hear verse 7 In time when trouble doth me move to thee I do complain For why I know and well do prove thou answerest me again verse 8 Among the gods O Lord is none with thee to be compar'd And none can do as thou a lone the like hath not been heard The second part verse 9 The Gentiles and the people all which thou didst make and frame Before thy face on knees shall fall and glorify my Name verse 10 For why thou art so much of might all power is thine own Thou workest wonders still in sight for thou art God a lone verse 11 O teach me Lord thy way and I shall in thy truth proceed O joyn my heart to thee so nigh that I thy Name may dread verse 12 To thee my God will I give praise with all my heart O Lord And glorify thy Name always for ever through the world verse 13 For why thy mercy shew'd to me is great and doth excell Thou seâ—t'st my soul at liberty out from the lower hell verse 14 O Lord the proud against me rise and heaps of men of might They seek my soul and in no wise will have thee in their sight verse 15 Thou Lord art merciful and meek full slack and slow to wrath Thy goodness is full great and eke thy truth no measure hath verse 16 O turn to me and mercy grant thy strength to me apply O help and save thine own servant thy hand-maids son am I. verse 17 On me some signe of favour show that all my soes may see And be asham'd because Lord thou dost help and comfort me Fundamenta Psal lxxxvii J. H. THat city shall full well endure her ground-work still doth stay Upon the holy hills full sure it can no
time decay verse 2 God-boves the gates of Sion best his grace doth there abide He loves them more then all the rest of Jacobs tent beside verse 3 Full glorious things reported be in Sion and abroad Great things I say are said of thee thou city of our God verse 4 On Rahab I will cast an eye and bear in minde the same And Babylon shall eke apply and learn to know my Name verse 5 Lo Palestine and Tyre also with Ethiope likewise A people old full long ago were born and there did rise verse 6 Of Sion they shall say abroad That divers men of fame Have there sprung up and the high God hath founded fast the same verse 7 In their records to them it shall through Gods device appear Of Sion that the chief of all had his beginning there verse 8 The trumpeters with such as sing there in great plenty be My fountains and my pleasant springs are compastall in thee Dominâ— Deus Psal lxxxviii J. H. LOrd God of health the hope and stay thou art alone to me I call and cry throughout the day and all the night to thee verse 2 O let my prayer soon ascend unto thy sight on high Incline thine ear O Lord attend and hearken to my cry verse 3 For why with wo my heart is fill'd and doth in trouble dwell My life and breath almost doth yeeld and draweth nigh to hell verse 4 I am esteem'd as one of them that in the pit do fall And made as one among those men that have no strength at all verse 5 As one among the dead and free from things that here remain It were more ease for me to be with them the which are slain verse 6 As those that lie in grave I say whom thou hast clean forgot The which thy hand hath cut away and thou regard'st them not verse 7 Yea like to one shut up full sure within the lower pit In places dark and all obscure and in the depth of it verse 8 Thine anger and thy wrath likewise full sore on me doth ly And all thy storms against me rise my soul to vex and try verse 9 Thou putt'st my friends sar off from me and mak'st them hate me sore I am shut up in prison fast and can come forth no more verse 10 My sight doth fail through grief and wo I call to thee O God Throughout the day my hands also to thee I stretch abroad The second part verse 11 Dost thou unto the dead declare thy wondrous works of fame Shall dead to life again repair and praise thee for the same verse 12 Or shall thy loving kindness Lord be preached in the grave Or shall with them that are destroy'd thy truth her honour have verse 13 Shall they that lie in dark full low of all thy wonders wot Or there shall they thy justice know where all things are forgot verse 14 But I O Lord to thee always do cry and call apace My prayer eke ere it be day shall come before thy face verse 15 Why dost thou Lord abhor my soul in grief that seeketh thee And now O Lord why dost thou hide thy face away from me verse 16 I am afflict as dying still from youth this many a year The terrours which do vex me ill with troubled minde I bear verse 17 The furies of thy wrathful rage full sore upon me fall Thy terrours eke do not asswage but me oppress withal verse 18 All day they compass me about as water at the tide And all at once with streams full stout beset me on each side verse 19 Thou settest far from me friends and lovers every one Yea and mine old acquaintance all out of my sight are gone Misericordias Psal lxxxix J. H. TO sing the mercies of the Lord my tongue shall never spare And with my mouth from age to age thy truth I will declare verse 2 For I have said That mercy shall for evermore remain In that thou dost the heavens stay thy truth appeareth plain verse 3 To mine elect saith God I made a covenant and behest My servant David to perswade I swore and did protest verse 4 Thy feed for ever I will stay and stablish it full fast And still uphold thy throne alway from age to age to last verse 5 The heavens shew with joy and mirth thy wondrous worke O Lord Thy saints within thy Church on earth thy saith and truth record verse 6 Who with the Lord is equal then in all the clouds abroad Among the sons of all the gods what one is like our God verse 7 God in assembly of the saints is greatly to be dread And over all that dwell about in terrour to be had verse 8 Lord God of hosts in all the world what one is like to thee On every side most mighty Lord thy truth is seen to be verse 9 The raging sea by thine advice thou ruâ—est at thy will And when the waves thereof arise thou mak'st them calm and still verse 10 And Egypt Lord thou hast subdu'd and thou hast it destroy'd Yea thou thy toes with mâ—ghty arm hast scatt'red all abroad The second part verse 11 The heavens are thine and still have been likewise the earth and land The world and all that is therein thou foundedst wâ—th tay hand verse 12 Both north and south with east and west thy self didst make and frame Both Tabor mount and eke Hermon rejoyce and praise thy Name verse 13 Thine arm is strong and full of power all might therein doth lie The strength of thy right hand each hour thou listest up on high verse 14 In righteousness and equity thou hast thy seat and place Mercy and truth are still with thee and go before thy face verse 15 That folk is blest that knows aright thy present power O God For in the favour of thy sight they walk full safe abroad verse 16 For in thy Name throughout the day they joy and much rejoyce And through thy righteousness have they a pleasant fame and noise verse 17 For why their glory strength and aid in thee alone doth fie Thy goodness eke that hath us staid shall lift our horn on high verse 18 Our strength that doth defend us well the Lord to us doth bring The holy one of Israel he is our guide and king verse 19 Sometimes thy will unto thy saints in visions thou didst show And thus then didst thou say to them thy minde to make them know verse 20 A man of might I have erect your king and guide to be And set him up whom I elect among the folk to me The third part verse 21 My servant David I appoint whom I have searched out And with my holy oyl anoint him king of all the rout verse 22 For why my hand is ready still with him for to remain And with mine arm also I will him strengthen and sustain verse 23 The enemieâ— shall not him oppress they shall him not devour Ne yet the sons of
his royal head that day Confitebor tibi Psal cxi N. WIth heaâ—tâ— do accord To â—raâ—â— and laud the Lord In presence of the just verse 2 For great his works are found To sâ—â—râ—h them such are bound As do him love and trust verse 3 Hâ—s works are glorious Also his righteousness It doth endure for ever verse 4 His wondrous works he would We still remember should his mercy faileth never verse 5 Such as to him love bear A portion full fair He hath up for them laid For this they shall well finde He will them have in minde And keep them as he said verse 6 For he did not disdain His works to shew them plain By lightnings and by thunders When he the neathens land Did give into their hand Where they beheld his wonders verse 7 Of all his works ensu'th Both judgement right and truth Whereto his statutes tend verse 8 They are decreed sure For ever to endure Which equity doth end Redemption he gave Hâ—s people for to save verse 9 And hath also required His promise not to fail But always to prevail His holy Name be feared verse 10 Whoso with heart full fain True wisdom would attain The Lord fear and obey Such as his laws do keep Shall knowledge have full deep His praise shall last for ay Featus vir Psal cxii W. K. THe man is blest that God doth fear And that his law doth love indeed verse 2 His seed on earth God will uprear And â—less such as from him proceed verse 3 His house with good he will fulfil His righteousness endure shall still verse 4 Unto the righteous doth arise In trouble joy in darkness light Compassion is in his eyes And mercy always in his sight verse 5 Yea pity moveth such to lend He doth by judgement things expend verse 6 And surely such shall never fail For in remembrance had is he verse 7 No tidings ill can make him quail Who in the Lord sure hope doth see verse 8 His heart is firm his fear is past For he shall see his foes down cast verse 9 He did well for the poor provide His righteousness shall still remain And his estate with praise abide Though that the wicked man disdain verse 10 Yea gnash his teeth thereat shall he And so consume his state to see Laudate pueri Psal cxiii W. K. YE children which do serve the Lord Praise ye his Name with one accord verse 2 Yea blessed be always his Name verse 3 Who from the rising of the sun Till it return where it begun Is to be praised with great fame verse 4 The Lord all people doth surmount As for his glory we may count Above the heavens high to be verse 5 With God the Lord who may compare Whose dwellings in the heavens are Of such great power and force is he verse 6 He doth abase himself we know Things to behold both here below And also in heaven above verse 7 The needy out of dust to draw And eke the poor which help none saw His onely mercy did him move verse 8 And so him set in high degree With princes of great dignitie That rule his people with great same verse 9 The barren he doth make to bear And with great joy her fruit to rear Therefore praise ye his holy Name Inexitu Israel Psal cxiv W. W. WHen Israel by Gods address from Pharaohs land was bent And Jacobs house the strangers left and in the same train went verse 2 In Judah God his glory shewâ—d his â—oliness most bright So did the Israelites declare his kingdom power and might verse 3 The sea it saw and suddenly as all amazâ—d did flâ—e The roaring streams of Jordans floud recoyled backwaâ—dly verse 4 As rams afraid the mountains skipt their strength did them forsake And as the filly trembling lambs their tops did beat and shake verse 5 What ail'd the sea as allamaz'd so suddenly to flee Ye rolling waves of Jordans floud why ran ye backwardly verse 6 Why shook ye hills as rams afraid why did your strength so shake Why did your tops as trembling lambs for fear quiver and quake verse 7 O earth confess thy sovereign Lord and dread his mighty hand Before the face of Jacobs God fear ye both sea and land verse 8 I mean the God which from hard rocks doth cause main flouds appear And from the stony flint doth cause gush out the fountains clear Non nobis Domine Psal cxv N. NOt unto us Lord not to us but to thy Name give praise Both for thy mercy and thy truth that are in thee always verse 2 Why shall the heathen soorners say Where is their God become verse 3 Our God in heaven is and what he will that hath he done verse 4 Their idols silver are and gold works of mens hands they be verse 5 They have a mouth and do not speak and eyes and do not see verse 6 And they have ears joyn'd to their heads and do not hear at all And notes eke they formed have and do not smell withal verse 7 And hands they have and handle not and feet and do not go A throat they have yet through the same they make no sound to blow verse 8 Those that make them are like to them and those whose trust they be verse 9 O Israel trust in the Lord their help and shield is he verse 10 O Aarons house trust in the Lord their help and shield is he verse 11 Trust ye the Lord that fear the Lord their help and shield is he verse 12 The Lord hath mindful been of us and will us bless also On Israel and on Aarons house his blessings he will show verse 13 Them that be fearers of the Lord the Lord will bless them all Even he will bless them everyone the great and eke the small verse 14 To you I say the living Lord will multiply his grace To you and to the children that shall follow of your race verse 15 Ye are the blessed of the Lord even of the Lord I say Which both the heaven and the earth hath made and set in stay verse 16 The heavens yea the heavens high belong unto the Lord The earth unto the sons of men he gave of free accord verse 17 They that be dead do not with praise set forth the Lords renown Nor any that into the place of silence do go down verse 18 But we will praise the Lord our God from henceforth and for ay Sound ye the praises of the Lord praise ye the Lord I say Dilexi quoniam Psal cxvi N. I Love the Lord because my voice and prayer heard hath he verse 2 When in my days I call'd on him he bow'd his ear to me verse 3 Even when the snares of cruel death about beset me round When pains of hell me caught and when I wo and sorrow found verse 4 Upon the Name of God my Lord then did I call and say Deliver thou my soul O Lord I do thee humbly pray
THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS Collected into English Metre BY THOMAS STERNHOLD JOHN HOPKINS AND OTHERS Conferred with the Hebrew Set forth and allowed to be sung in all Churches of all the people together before and after Morning and Evening Prayer and also before and after Sermons and moreover in private houses for their godly solace and comfort laying apart all ungodly Songs and Ballads which tend onely to the nourishing of vice and corrupting of youth James 5. If any be afflicted let him pray and if any be merry let him sing Psalms Colossians 3. Let the word of God dwell plenteously in you in all wisdom teaching and exhorting one another in Psalms hymns and spiritual songs singing unto the Lord in your hearts ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA HINC LVCEM ET POCVLA SACRA ¶ Printed by John Field Printer to the University of CAMBRIDGE Anno Dom. M. DC.LX.VI CVM PRIVILEGIO Veni Creator COme holy Ghost eternal God proceeding from above Both from the Father and the Son the God of peace and love â—t our minds and into us thy heavenly grace inspire That in all truth and godliness â—e may have true desire Thou art the very comforter â—â—all wo and distress The heavenly gift of God most high which no tongue can express â—â—e fountain and the lively spring of joy celestial The fire so bright the love so clear â—â—d unction spiritual Thou in thy gifts art manifold thereby Christs church doth stand 〈◊〉 â—ithful hearts writing thy law â—e finger of Gods hand â—â—â—ding to thy promise made â—â—u givest speech of grace 〈◊〉 through thy help the praise of God â—y stand in every place 〈◊〉 Ghost into our wits â—â—d down thy heavenly light 〈◊〉 our hearts with fervent love 〈◊〉 serve God day and night â—â—gth and â—â—ablish all our weakness â—â—â—eeble and so frail 〈◊〉 neither flesh the world nor devil â—unst us do prevail â—â—ack our enemies far from us 〈◊〉 grant us to obtain 〈◊〉 in our hearts with God and man â—â—out grudge of disdain 〈◊〉 grant O Lord that thou being 〈◊〉 leader and our guide â—â—y eschew the snares of sin 〈◊〉 from thee never slide 〈◊〉 such plentie of thy grace â—od Lord grant we thee pray â—â—â—thou may'st be our comforter â—â—e last dreadful day 〈◊〉 strife and distention Lord dissolve the bands 〈◊〉 â—ake the knots of peace and love â—â—â—ghout all Christian lands â—t us O Lord through thee to know 〈◊〉 Father most of might 〈◊〉 of his dear beloved Son â—ay attain the fight 〈◊〉 that with perfect saith also â—ay acknowledge thee 〈◊〉 Spirit of them both alway 〈◊〉 God in persons three â—â—â—nd praise be to the Father 〈◊〉 to the Son equal 〈◊〉 the holy Spirit also 〈◊〉 God coeternal 〈◊〉 pray we that the onely Son 〈◊〉 safe his Spirit to send 〈◊〉 that do profess his name 〈◊〉 the worlds last end The humble suit of a sinner M. 〈◊〉 Lord of whom I do depend behold my careful heart 〈◊〉 then thy will and pleasure is â—â—â—se me of my smart 〈◊〉 seest my sorrows what they are 〈◊〉 grief is known to thee â—â—â—cere is none that can remove â—â—â—ke the same from me â—â—ly thou whose aid I crave â—â—â—se mercy still is prest 〈◊〉 all those that come to thee â—â—â—ccour and for rest 〈◊〉 thou seest my restless eyes 〈◊〉 â—ars and grievous groan 〈◊〉 unto my suit O Lord. â—â—is well my plaint and moan 〈◊〉 hath so inclosed me â—â—â—â—past me about â—â—â—m now renâ—ediless â—â—â—cy help not out â—â—â—â—ral man cannot release 〈◊〉 gate this pain 〈◊〉 thy Christ my Lord and God 〈◊〉 my sins was slain 〈◊〉 bloudy wounds are yet to see â—â—gh not with mortal eye 〈◊〉 thy saints behold them all 〈◊〉 I trust shall I. 〈◊〉 sin doth hinder me a while 〈◊〉 thou shalt see it good I shall enjoy the sight of him and see his wounds and bloud And as thine angels and thy saints do now behold the same So trust I to possess that place with them to praise thy name But whil'st I live here in this vale where sinners do frequent Assist me ever with thy grace my sins still tâ— lament Lest that I tread the sinners trace and give them my consent To dwell with them in wickedness whereto nature is bent Onely thy grace must be my stay lest that I fall down flat And being down then of my self cannot recover that Wherefore this is yet once again my suit and my request To grant me pardon for my sin that I in thee may rest Then shall my heart and tongue also be instruments of praise And in thy Church and house of Saints sing psalms to thee always Venite exultemus Psal xcv O Come and let us now rejoyce And sing unto the Lord And to our onely Saviour Also with one accord O let us come before his face With inward reverence Confessing all our former sins And that with diligence To thank him for his benefits Always distributing Wherefore to him right joyfully In psalms now let us sing And that because that God alone Is Lord magnificent And eke above all other gods A King omnipotent His people doth not he forsake At any time or tide And in his hands are all the coasts Of all the world so wide And with his loving countenance He looketh every where And doth behold the tops of all The mountains far and near The sea and all that is therein Are his for he them made And eke his hand hath fashioned The earth which doth not fade O come therefore and worship him And down before him fall And let us kneel before the Lord The which hath made us all He is our God our Lord and King And we his people are His flock and sheep of his pasture Of whom he taketh care This day if ye will hear his voice Then harden not your heart As in the bitter murmuring When ye were in desert Which thing was of their negligence Committed in the time Of trouble in the wilderness A great and grievous crime Whereas your fathers tempted me And try'd me every way They proved me and saw my works What I could do or say These fourty years I have been griev'd With this same generation And evermore I said they err'd In their imagination Wherewith their hearts were sore cumbred Long time and many days Wherefore I said Assuredly They have not known my ways To whom I in my anger swore That they should not be blest Nor see my joy celestial Nor enter in my rest Gloria Patri All laud and praise be to thee Lord O that of might art most To God the Father and the Son And to the holy Ghost As it in the beginning was For ever heretofore And is now at this present time And shall be evermore The song of S. Ambrose called Te Deum WE praise thee God we knowledge thee the onely Lord to be And as eternal Father all the earth doth worship thee To thee all Angels cry the heavens and all the powers
therein To thee Cherub and Seraphin to cry they do not sin O holy holy holy Lord of Sabaoth Lord the God Through heaven earth thy praise is spread and glory all abroad Th' Apostles glorious company yeeld praises unto thee The prophets goodly fellowship praise thee continually The noble and victorious host of Martyrs sound thy praise The holy Church throughout the world doth knowledge thee always Father of endless Majesty they do acknowledge thee Thy Christ thine honourable true and onely Son to be The holy Ghost the comforter Of glory thou art King O Christ and of the Father art the Son everlasting When sinful mans decay in hand thou tookest to restore To be in clos'd in virgins womb thou diddest not abhor When thou hadst overcome of death the sharp and cruel might Thou heavens kingdom didst set ope to each believing wight In glory of the Father thou dost â—it on Gods right hand We trust that thou shalt come our Judge our cause to understand Lord help thy servants whom thou hast bought with thy precious bloud And in eternal glory set them with thy Saints so good O Lord do thou thy people save bless thine inheritance Lord govern them and Lord do thou for ever them advance We magnifie thee day by day and world without an end Adore thy holy name O Lord vouchsafe us to defend From sin this day have mercy Lord have mercy on us all And on us as we trust in thee Lord let thy mercy fall O Lord I have reposed all my confidence in thee Put to confounding shame therefore Lord let me never be The Song of the three Children O All ye works of God the Lord bless ye the Lord Praise him and magnifie him for ever verse 2 O ye the Angels of the Lord bless ye the Lord c. verse 3 O ye the starry heavens high bless ye the Lord c. verse 4 O ye waters above the skie bless ye the Lord c. verse 5 O all ye powers of the Lord bless ye the Lord c. verse 6 O ye the shining Sun and Moon bless ye the Lord c. verse 7 O ye the glistring Stars of heaven bless ye the Lord c. verse 8 O ye the Showres and dropping Dew bless ye the Lord c. verse 9 O ye the blowing Winds of God bless ye the Lord c. verse 10 O ye the Fire and warming Heat bless ye the Lord c. verse 11 Ye Winter and the Summer-tide bless ye the Lord c. verse 12 O ye the Dews and binding Frosts bless ye the Lord c. verse 13 O ye the Frost and chilling Cold bless ye the Lord c. verse 14 O ye congealed Ice and Snow bless ye the Lord c. verse 15 O ye the Nights and lightsome Days bless ye the Lord c. verse 16 O ye the Darkness and the Light bless ye the Lord c. verse 17 O ye the Lightnings and the Clouds bless ye the Lord c. verse 18 O 〈◊〉 the earth eke bless the Lord yea bless the Lord c. verse 19 O ye the Mountains and the Hills bless ye the Lord c. verse 20 O all ye green things on the earth bless ye the Lord c. verse 21 O ye the ever-springing Wells bless ye the Lord c. verse 22 O ye the Seas and eke the Flouds bless ye the Lord c. verse 23 Whales and all that in waters move bless ye the Lord c. verse 24 O all ye flying Fowls of th' air bless ye the Lord c. verse 25 O all ye Beasts and Cattel eke bless ye the Lord c. verse 26 O ye the Children of mankinde bless ye the Lord c. verse 27 Let Israel eke bless the Lord yea bless the Lord c. verse 28 O ye the priests of God the Lord bless ye the Lord c. verse 29 O ye the servants of the Lord bless ye the Lord c. verse 30 Ye Spirits and Souls of righteous men bless ye the Lord c. verse 31 Ye Holy and ye Meek of heart bless ye the Lord c. verse 32 O Ananias bless the Lord bless thou the Lord c. verse 33 O Azarias bless the Lord bless thou the Lord c. verse 34 And Misael eke bless the Lord bless thou the Lord c. The song of Zacharias called Benedictus THe onely Lord of Israel Be praised evermore For through his visitation And mercy kept in store His people now he hath redeem'd That long have been in thrall And spread abroad his saving health Upon his servants all In Davids house his servant true According to his minde And also his anointed King As we in Scripture finde As by his holy Prophets all Oft-times he did declare The which were since the world began His ways for to prepare That we might be delivered From those that make debate Our enemies and from the hands Of all that do us hate The mercy which he promised Our fathers to fulfil And think upon his Covenant made According to his will And also to perform the Oath Which he before had sworn To Abraham our father dear For us that were forlorn That he would give himself for us And us from bondage bring Out of the hands of all our foes To serve our heavenly King And that without all manner fear And eke in righteousness And also for to lead our lives In sted fast holiness And thou O Childe which now art born And of the Lord elect Shalt be the Prophet of the High'st His ways for to direct For thou shalt go before his face For to prepare his ways And also for to teach his will And pleasure all thy days To give them knowledge how that their Salvation is near And that remission of their sins Is through his mercy mere Whereby the day-spring from on high Is come us for to visit And those for to illuminate Which do in darkness sit To lighten those that shadowed be With death and eke opprest And also for to guide our feet The way to peace and rest The Song of blessed Mary called Magnificat MY soul doth magnifie the Lord My spirit eke evermore Rejoyceth in the Lord my God Which is my Saviour And why because he did regard And gave respect unto So base estate of his handmaid And let the mighty go For now behold all nations And generations all From this time forth for evermore Shall me right blessed call Because he hath me magnified Which is the Lord of might Whose name be ever sanctified And praised day and night For with his mercy and his grace All men he doth inflame Throughout all generations To such as fear his name He shewed strength with his great arm And made the proud to start With all imaginations That they beat in their heart He hath put down the mighty ones From their supernal feat And did exalt the meek in heart As he hath thought it meet
The hungry he replenished With all things that were good And through his power he made the rich Oft-times to want their food And calling to rememberance His mercy every deal Hath holpen up assistantly His servant Israel According to his promise made To Abraham before And to his seed successively To stand for evermore The song of Simeon called Nunc dimittis O Lord because my hearts desire Hath wished long to see My onely Lord and Saviour Thy Son before I die The joy and health of all mankinde Desired long before Which now is come into the world Of mercy bringing store Thou sufferest thy servant now In peace for to depart According to thy holy Word Which lighteneth my heart Because mine eyes which thou hast made To give my body light Have now beheld thy saving health Which is the Lord of might Whom thou mercifully hast set Of thine abundant grace In open sight and visible Before all peoples face The Gentiles to illuminate And Satan overquel And eke to be the glory of Thy people Israel The Symbol or Creed of Athanasius called Quicunque vult WHat man soever he be that salvation will attain The Catholick belief he must before all things retain Which faith unless he wholly keep and undefiledly Without all doubt eternally he shall be sure to die The Catholick belles is this that God we worship one In Trinity and Trinity in Unity alone So as we neither do confound the persons of the three Nor yet the substance whole of one in sunder parted be One Person of the father is another of the Son Another Person proper of the holy Ghost alone Of Father Son and holy Ghost but one the Godhead is Like Glory coeternal eke The Majesty likewise Such as the Father is such is the Son in each degree And such also we do beleeve the holy Ghost to be Uncreate is the father and uncreate is the Son The holy Ghost uncreate so uncreate is each one Incomprehensible Father is incomprehensible Son And comprehensible also is the holy Ghost of none The Father is eternal and the Son eternal so And in like sort eternal is the holy Ghost also And yet though we beleeve that each of thâ—se eternal be Yet there but one Eternal is and not Eternals three As ne incomprehensible we he yet uncreate three But one incomprehensible one uncreate hold to be Almighty so the Father is the Son Almighty so And in like sort Almighty is the holy Ghost also And albeit that every one of these Almighty be Yet there but one Almighty is And not Almighties three The Father God is God the Son God holy Ghost also Yet are there not three Gods in all but one God and no mo So likewise Lord the Father is and Lord also the Son And Lord the holy Ghost yet are there not three Lords but one For as we are compell'd to grant by Christian verity Each of the persons by himself both God and Lord to be So Catholick religion forbiddeth us alway That either Gods be three or that there Lords be three to say Of none the Father is ne made ne create nor begot The Son is of the Father not create ne made but got The holy Ghost is of them both the Father and the Son Ne made ne create nor begot but doth proceed alone So we one Father hold not three one Son also not three One holy Ghost alone and not three holy Ghosts to be None in this Trinity before nor after other is Ne greater any then the rest ne lesser be likewise But every one among themselves of all the Persons three Together coeternal all and all coequal be So Unity in Trinity as said it is before And Trinity in Unity in all things we adore Therefore what man soever that salvation will attain This faith touching the Trinity of force he must retain And needful to eternal life it is that every wight Of the incarnating of Christ our Lord beleeve aright For this the right faith is that we beleeve and eke do know That Christ our Lord the Son of God is God and man also God of his Fathers substance got before the world began And of his Mothers substance born in world a very man Both perfect God and perfect Man in one one Jesus Christ That doth of reasonable soul and humane flesh subsist Touching his Godhead equal with his Father God is he Touching his Manhood lower then his father in degree Who though he be both very God and very man also Yet is he but one Christ alone and is not persons two One not by turning of Godhead into the flesh of man But by taking manhood to God this being one began All one not by confounding of the substance into one But onely by the Unity that is of one Person For as the reasonable soul and flesh but one man is So in one Person God and Man is but one Christ likewise Who suffered for to save us all to hell he did descend The third day rose again from death to heaven he did ascend He sits at the right hand of God th' Almighty Father there From thence to judge the quick and dead again he shall appear At whose return all men shall rise with bodies new restor'd And of their own works they shall give account unto the Lord. And they into eternal life shall go that have done well Who have done ill shall go into eternal fire to dwell This is the Catholick belief who doth not faithfully Beleeve the same without all doubt he saved cannot be To Father Son and holy Ghost all glory be therefore As in beginning was is now and shall be evermore The Lamentation of a sinner O Lord turn not away thy face From him that lies prostrate Lamenting sore his sinful life Before thy mercy gate Which gate thou openest wide to those That do lament their sin Shut not that gate against me Lord But let me enter in And call me not to mine account How I have lived here For then I know right well O Lord How vile I shall appear I need not to confess my life I am sure thou canst tell What I have been and what I am I know thou know'st it well O Lord thou know'st what things be past And eke the things that be Thou know'st also what is to come Nothing is hid from thee Before the heavens and earth were made Thou know'st what things were then As all things else that have been since Among the sons of men And can the things that I have done Be hidden from thee then Nay nay thou know'st them all O Lord Where they were done and when Wherefore with tears I come to thee To beg and to intreat Even as the child that hath done ill And feareth to be beat So come I to thy mercy gate Where mercy doth abound Requiring mercy for my sin To heal my deadly wound O Lord I need not to repeat What I do beg or crave Thou know'st O Lord
rulers all be wise therefore and learn'd By whom the matters of the world be judged and discern'd verse 11 See that ye serve the Lord above in trembling and in fear See that with reverence ye rejoyce to him in like manner verse 12 See that ye kiss and eke embrace his blessed Son I say Left in his wrath ye suddenly perish in the mid-way verse 13 If once his wrath never so small shall kindle in his breast O then all they that trust in Christ shall happy be and blest Domine quid Psal iii. T. S. O Lord how are my foes increast which vex me more and more verse 2 They kill my heart when as they say God can him not restore verse 3 But thou O Lord art my defence when I am hard bestead My worship and mine honour both and thou hold'st up my head verse 4 Then with my voice upon the Lord I did both call and cry And he out of his holy hill did hear me by and by verse 5 I laid me down and quietly I slept and rose again For why I know assuredly the Lord will me sustain verse 6 If ten thousand had hemm'd me in I could not be afraid For thou art still my Lord and God my Saviour and mine aid Rise up therefore save me my God for now to thee I call verse 7 For thou hast broke the cheeks and teeth of these wicked men all verse 8 Salvation onely doth belong to thee O Lord above Thou dost bestow upon thy folk thy blessing and thy love Cum invocarem Psal iv T. S. O God that art my righteousness Lord hear me when I call Thou hast set me at liberty when I was bound and thrall verse 2 Have merâ—y Lord therefore on me and grant me my request For unto thee uncessantly to cry I will not rest verse 3 O mortal men how long will ye my glory thus despise Why wander ye in vanity and follow after lies verse 4 Know ye that good and godly men the Lord doth take and chuse And when to him I make my plaint he doth me not refuse verse 5 Sin not but stand in aw therefore examine well your heart And in your chamber quietly see you your selves convert verse 6 Offer to God the sacrifice of righteousness I say And look that in the living Lord you put your trust alway verse 7 The greater sort crave worldly goods and riches do embrace But Lord grant us thy countenance thy savour and thy grace verse 8 For thou thereby shalt make my heart more joyful and more glad Then they that of their corn and wine full great increase have had verse 9 In peace therefore lie down will I taking my rest and sleep For thou onely wilt me O Lord alone in safety keep Verba mâ—a auribus Psal v. T. S. IN cline thine ears unto my words O Lord my plaint consider verse 2 And hear my voice my King my God to thee I make my prayer verse 3 Hear me betime Lord tarry not for I will have respect My prayer early in the morn to thee for to direct verse 4 And I will trust through patience in thee my God alone Thou art not pleas'd with wickedness and ill with thee dwells none verse 5 And in thy sight shall never stand these furious fools O Lord Vain workers of iniquity thou hast always abhor'd verse 6 The liars and the slatterers thou shalt destroy them than And God will hate the bloud-thirsty and the deceitful man verse 7 Therefore will I come to thinâ— house trusting upon thy grace And reverently will worship thee toward thine holy place verse 8 Lord lead me in thy righteousness for to confound my soes And eke the way that I shall walk before my face disclose verse 9 For in their mouths there is no truth their heart is soul and vain Their throat an open sepulchre their tongues do glose and fain verse 10 Destroy their false conspiracies that they may come to nought Subvert them in their heaps of sin which have rebellion wrought verse 11 But those that put their trust in thee let them be glad always And render thanks for thy defence and give thy name the praise verse 12 For thou with favour wilt increase the just and righteous still And with thy grace as with a shield defend him from all ill Domine ne in furore Psal vi T. S. LOrd in thy wrath reprove me not though I deserve thine ire No yet correct me in thy rage O Lord I thee desire verse 2 For I am weak therefore O Lord Of mercy me forbear And heal me Lord for why thou know'st my bones do quake for fear verse 3 My soul is troubled very sore and vexed vehemently But Lord how long wilt thou delay to cure my misery verse 4 Lord turn thee to thy wonted grace my silly soul up take O save me not for my deserts but for thy mercies sake verse 5 For why no man among the dead remembreth thee one whit Or who shall worship thee O Lord in the infernal pit verse 6 So grievous is my plaint and moan that I wax wondrous saint All the night long I wash my bed with tears of my complaint verse 7 My sight is dim and waxeth old with anguish of my heart For sear of those that be my foes and would my soul subvert verse 8 But now away from me all ye that work iniquity For why the Lord hath heard the voice of my complaint and cry verse 9 He heard not onely the request and prayer of my heart But it received at my hands and took it in good part verse 10 And now my foes that vexed me the Lord will soon defame And suddenly confound them all to their rebuke and shame Domine Deus meus Psal vii T. S. O Lord my God I put my trust and confidence in thee Save me from them that me pursue and eke deliver me verse 2 Lest like a lion he me tear and rend in pieces small While there is none to succour me and rid me out of thrall verse 3 O Lord my God if I have done the thing that is not right Or else it I be found in fault or guilty in thy sight verse 4 Or to my friend rewarded ill or left him in distress Which me pursu'd most cruelly and hated me causless verse 5 Then let my foes pursue my soul and eke my life down thrust Unto the earth and also lay mine honour in the dust verse 6 Start up O Lord now in thy wrath and put my foes to pain Perform the kingdom promised to me which wrong sustain verse 7 Then shall great nations come to thee and know thee by this thing If thou declare for love of them thy self as Lord and King verse 8 And as thou art of all men Judge O Lord â—ow judge thou me According to my righteousness and mine integrity The second part verse 9 Lord cease the hate of wicked men and be the just mans guide
the right For by his means my secret thoughts do teach me every night verse 8 I set the Lord still in my sight and trust him over all For he doth stand on my right hand Therefore I shall not fall verse 9 Wherefore my heart and tongue also do both rejoyce together My flesh and body rest in hope when I this thing consider verse 10 Thou wilt not leave my soul in grave for Lord thou lovest me Nor yet wilt give thy holy One corruption for to see verse 11 But wilt me teach the way to life for all treasure and store Of perfect joy are in thy face and power for evermore Exaudi Domine Psal xvii T. S. O Lord give ear to my just cause attend when I complain And hear the prayer that I put forth with lips that do not feign verse 2 And let the judgement of my cause proceed always from thee And let thine eyes behold and clear this my simplicitie verse 3 Thou hast well tri'd me in the night and yet couldst nothing finde That I have spoken with my tongue that was not in my minde verse 4 As for the works of wicked men and paths perverse and ill For love of thy most holy name I have refrained still verse 5 Then in thy paths that be most pure stay me Lord and preserve That from the way wherein I walk my steps may never swerve verse 6 For I do call to thee O Lord surely thou wilt me aid Then hear my prayer and weigh right welâ— the words that I have said verse 7 O thou the Saviour of all them that put their trust in thee Declare thy strength on them that spurn against thy majesty verse 8 O keep me as thou wouldest keep the apple of thine eye And under covert of thy wings defend me secretly The second part verse 9 From wicked men that trouble me and daily me annoy And from my foes that go about my soul for to destroy verse 10 Which wallow in their worldly wealth so full and cke so fat That in their pride they do not spare to speak they care not what verse 11 They lie in wait where I should pass with craft me to confound And muâ—ing mischief in their minds to cast me to the ground verse 12 Much like a lion greedily that would his prey embrace Or lurking like a lions whelp wâ—thin some secret place verse 13 Up Lord in hast prevent my foe and cast him at thy feet Save then my soul from the ill man and with the sword him luâ—itâ— verse 14 Deliver me Lord by thy power out of these tyrants hands Which now so long time reigned have and kept us in their bands verse 15 I mean from worldly men to whom all worldly goods are rife That have no hope nor part of joy but in this present life verse 16 Thou of thy store their bellies fill'st with pleasure to their minde Their children have enough and leave to theirs the rest behinde verse 17 But I shall with pure conscience behold thy gracious face So when I wake I shall be full of thine image and grace Diligam te Dom. Psal xviii T. S. O God my strength and fortitude of force I must love thee Thou art my castle and desence in my necessitie verse 2 My God my rock in whom I trust the worker of my wealth My refuge buckler and my shield the horn of all my health verse 3 When I sing laud unto the Lord most worthy to be served Then from my foes I am right sure that I shall be preserved verse 4 The pangs of death did compass me and bound me every where The flowing waves of wickedness did put me in great fear â— The slie and subtil snares of hell were round about me set â—ed for my death there was prepar'd a deadly trapping net â— I thus beset with pain and grief did pray to God for grace â—â—d he forthwith did hear my plaint â—ut of his holy place â— Such is his power that in his wrath â—e made the earth to quake â—o the foundation of the mount of Basan for to shake â— And from his nostrils came a smoke then kindled was his ire â—â—d from his mouth came kindled coals of hot consuming fire â— The Lord descended from above and bowed the heavens high â—â—d underneath his feet he cast the darkness of the skie â— On cherubs and on cherubims full royally he rode 〈◊〉 on the wings of all the winds came flying all abroad The second part And like a den most dark he made his hid and secret place â—â—th waters black and aâ—ery clouds environed he was â— But when the presence of his face in brightness shall appear â—â—â—n clouds consume and in their stead come hail and coals of fire â— The fiery darts and thunderbolts disperse them here and there 〈◊〉 with his often lightenings he puts them in great fear â— Lord at thy wrath and threatenings and at thy chiding chear â—â—e springs and the foundations of all the world appear â— And from above the Lord sent down to fetch me from below 〈◊〉 pluckt me out of waters great that would me over flow â— And me delivered from my foes that would have made me thrall 〈◊〉 from such foes as were too strong for me to deal withall â— They did prevent me to oppress in time of my great grief 〈◊〉 yet the Lord was my defence my succour and relief â— He brought me forth in open place whereas I might be free â—â—d kept me safe because he had a favour unto me â— And as I was an innocent so did he me regard â—â—d to the cleanness of my hands he gave me my reward â— For that I walked in his ways and in his paths have trod 〈◊〉 have not wavered wickedly against my Lord and God The third part verse 21 But evermore I have respect to his law and decree His statutes and commandements I cast not out from me verse 22 But pure and clean and uncorrupt appear'd before his face And did refrain from wickedness and sin in any case verse 23 The Lord therefore will me reward as I have done aright And to the cleanness of my hands appearing in his sight verse 24 For Lord with him that holy is wilt thou be holy too And with the good and vertuous men right vertuously wilt do verse 25 And to the loving and elect thy love thou wilt reserve And thou wilt use the wicked men as wicked men deserve verse 26 For thou dost save the simple folk in trouble when they lie And dost bring down the countenance of them that look full high verse 27 The Lord will light my candle so that it shall shine full bright The Lord my God will make also my darkness to be light verse 28 For by thy help an host of men discomnt Lord I shall By thee I scale and overleap the strength of any wall verse 29 Unspotted are the ways of God his word is purely tri'd He is a
sure defence to such as in his faith abide verse 30 For who is God except the Lord for other there is none Or else who is omnipotent saving our God alone The fourth part verse 31 The God that girdeth me with strength is he that I do mean That all the ways wherein I walk did evermore keep clean verse 32 That made my feet like to the harts in swiftness of my pace And for my surety brought me forth into an open place verse 33 He did in order put my hands to battel and to fight To break in sunder bars of brass he gave my arms the might verse 34 Thou teachest me thy saving health thy right hand is my tower Thy love and familiarity doth still increase my power verse 35 And under me thou makest plain the way where I should walk So that my feet shall never slip nor stumble at a balk verse 36 And fiercely I pursue and take my foes that me annoy'd And from the field do not return till they be all destroy'd verse 37 So I suppress and wound my foes that they can rise no more For at my feet they fall down flat I strike them all so sore verse 38 For thou dost gird me with thy strength to war in such a wise That they be all scattred abroad that up against me rise verse 39 Lord thou hast put into my hands my mortal enemies yoke And all my foes thou dost divide in sunder with thy stroke verse 40 They call'd for help but none gave ear nor holp them with relief Yea to the Lord they call'd for help yet heard he not their grief The fifth part verse 41 And still like dust before the wind I drive them under seet And sweep them out like filthy clay that sticketh in the street verse 42 Thou keep'st me from seditious folk that still in strife are led And thou dost of the heathen folk appoint me to be head verse 43 A people strange to me unknown and yet they shall me serve And at the first obey my word whereas mine own will swerve verse 44 I shall be irksome to mine own they will not see my light But wander wide out of the way and hide them out of fight verse 45 But blessed be the living Lord most worthy of all praise That is my rock and saving health praised be he always verse 46 For God it is that gave me power revenged for to be And with his holy word subdu'd the people unto me verse 47 And from my foe delivered me and set me higher then those That cruel and ungodly were and up against me rose verse 48 And for this cause O Lord my God to thee give thanks I shall And sing out praises to thy Name among the Gentiles all verse 49 That gavest great prosperity unto the king I say To David thine anointed king and to his seed for ay Coeli enarrant Psal xix T. S. THe heavens and the firmament do wondrously declare The glory of God omnipotent his works and what they are verse 2 The wondrous works of God appear by every days success The nights likewise which their race run the self-same thing express verse 3 There is no language tongue orspeech where their sound is not heard In all the earth and coasts thereof their knowledge is confer'd verse 4 In them the Lord made for the sun a place of great renown Who like a bridegroom ready trimm'd doth from his chamber come verse 5 And as a valiant champion who for to get a prize With joy doth haste to take in hand some noble enterprise verse 6 And all the skie from end to end he compasseth about Nothing can hide it from his heat but he will finde it out verse 7 How perfect is the law of God how is his covenant sure Converting souls and making wise the simple and obscure verse 8 Just are the Lords commandements and glad both heart and minde His precept's pure and giveth light to eyes that be full blinde verse 9 The fear of God is excellent and doth endure for ever The judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether verse 10 And more to be embrac'd alway then fined gold I say The honey and the honey-combe are not so sweet as they verse 11 By them thy servant is forewarn'd to have God in regard And in performance of the same there shall be great reward verse 12 But Lord what earthly man doth know the errours of his life Then cleanse me from my secret sins which are in me most rife verse 13 And keep me that presumptuous sins prevail not over me And so shall I be innocent and great offences flee verse 14 Accept my mouth and eke my heart my words and thoughts each one For my Redeemer and my strength O Lord thou art alone Exaudiat te Dominus Psal xx T. S. IN trouble and adversity the Lord God hear thee still The majesty of Jacobs God defend thee from all ill verse 2 And send thee from his holy place his help at every need And so in Sion stablish thee and make thee strong indeed verse 3 Remembring well the sacrifice that now to him is done And so receive right thankfully thy burnt off rings each one verse 4 According to thy hearts desire the Lord grant unto thee And all thy counsel and device full well per form may he verse 5 We shall rejoyce when thou us sav'st and our banners display Unto the Lord which thy requests ful filled hath alway verse 6 The Lord will his anointed save I know well by his grace And send him help by his right hand out of his holy place verse 7 In chariots some put confidence and some in horses trust But we remember God our Lord that keepeth promise just verse 8 They fall down flat but we do rise and stand up stedfastly verse 9 Now save and help us Lord and King on thee when we do cry Domine in virtute Psal xxi T. S. O Lord how joyful is the king in thy strength and thy power How vehemently doth he rejoyce in thee his Saviour verse 2 For thou hast given unto him his godly hearts desire To him nothing thou hast deny'd of that he did require verse 3 Thou didst prevent him with thy giftâ— and blessings manifold And thou hast set upon his head a crown of perfect gold verse 4 And when he asked life of thee thereof thou mad'st him sure To have long life yea such a life as ever shall endure verse 5 Great is his glory by thy help thy benefit and aid Great worship and great honour both thou hast upon him laid verse 6 Thou wilt give him felicity that never shall decay And with thy cheerful countenance wilt comfort him alway verse 7 For why the king doth strongly trust in God for to prevail Wherefore his goodness and his grace will not that he shall quail verse 8 But let thine enemies feel thy force and those that thee withstand Finde out
thy foes and let them feel the power of thy right hand verse 9 And like an oven burn them Lord in fiery flame and fume Thine anger shall destroy them all and fire shall them consume verse 10 And thou shalt root out of the earth their fruit that should in crease And from the number of thy folk their seed shall end and cease verse 11 For why much mischief did they muse against thy holy Name Yet did they fail and had no power for to perform the same verse 12 But as a mark thou shalt them set in a most open place And charge thy bowe-strings readily against thine enemies face verse 13 Be thou exalted Lord therefore in thy strength every hour So shall we sing right solemnly praising thy might and power Deus Deus meus Psal xxii T. S. O God my God wherefore dost thou forsake me utterly And helpest not when I do make my great complaint and cry verse 2 To thee my God even all day long I do both cry and call I cease not all the night and yet thou hearest not at all verse 3 Even thou that in thy sanctuary and holy place dost dwell Thou art the comfort and the joy and glory of Israel verse 4 And he in whom our fathers old had all their hope for ever And when they put their trust in thee thou didst them ay deliver verse 5 They were delivered ever when they called on thy Name And for the faith they had in thee they were not put to shame verse 6 But I am now become a worm more like then any man An outcast whom the people scorn with all the spight they can verse 7 All men despise as they behold me walking on the way They grin they mow they nod their heads and on this wise they say verse 8 This man did glory in the Lord his favour and his love Let him redeem and help him now his power if he will prove verse 9 But Lord out of my mothers womb I came by thy request Thou didst preserve me still in hope while I did suck her breast verse 10 I was committed from my birth with thee to have aâ—ode Since I was in my mothers womb thou hast been e're my God The second part verse 11 Then Lord depart not now from me in this my present grief Since I have none to be my help my succoar and relief verse 12 So many bulls do compass me that be full strong of hâ—ad Yea bulls so fat as though they had in Basan field been fed verse 13 They gape upon me greedily as though they would me flay Much like a lion roaring out and ramping for his prey verse 14 But I drop down like water shed my joynts in sunder break My heart doth in my body melt like wax against the heat verse 15 And like a potsherd dâ—iâ—th my strength my tongue it cleaveta fast Unto my jaws and I am brought to dust of death at last verse 16 And many dogs do compass me and wicked coansel eke Conspire against me cursedly they pierce my hands and feet verse 17 I was tormented so that I might all my bones have told Yet still upon me they do look and still they me behold verse 18 My garments they divided eke in parts among them all And for my coat they did cast lots to whom it might befal verse 19 Therefore I pray thee be not far from me at my great need But rather fith thou art my strength to help me Lord make speed verse 20 And from the sword Lord save my soul by thy might and thy power And keep my soul thy darling dear from dogs that would devour verse 21 And from the lions mouth that would me all in sunder shiver And from the horns of Unicorns Lord safely me deliver verse 22 Then shall I to my brethren all thy majesty record And in thy church shall praise the name of thee the living Lord. The third part verse 23 All ye that fear him praise the Lord thou Jacob honour him And all ye seed of Israel with reverence worship him verse 24 For he despiseth not the poor he tuâ—neth not awrie His countenance when they do call but granteth to their crie verse 25 Among the folk that fear the Lord I will therefore proclaim Thy praise and keep my promise made for setting forth thy Name verse 26 The poor shall eat and be suffic'd and those that do their deaver To know the Lord shall praise his Name their hearts shall live for ever verse 27 All coasts of th' earth shall praise the Lord and turn to him for grace The heathen folk shall worship him before his blessed face verse 28 The kingdom of the heathen folk the Lord shall have therefore And he shall be their Governour and king for evermore verse 29 The rich men of his goodly gists shall feed and taste also And in his presence worship him and bow their knees full low verse 30 And all that shall go down to dust of life by him shall taste My seed shall serve and praise the Lord while any world shall last verse 31 My seed shall plainly shew to them that shall be born hereafter His justice and his righteousness and all his works of wonder Dominus regit me Psal xxiii W. W. THe Lord is onely my support and he that doth me feed How can I then lack anything whereof I stand in need verse 2 He doth me fold in cotes most safe the tender grass fast by And after drives me to the streams which run most pleasantly verse 3 And when I feel my self near lost then doth he me nome take Conducting me in his right paths even for his own Names sake verse 4 And though I were even at deaths door yet would I fear none ill For with thy rod and shepherds crook I am comforted still verse 5 Thou hast my table richly deckt in despight of my foe Thou hast my head with balm refresht my cup doth overflow verse 6 And finally while breath doth loft thy grace shall me defend And in the house of God will I my life for ever spend Another of the same by T. S. MY shepherd is the living Lord nothing therefore I need In pastures fair with waters calm he sets me forth to feed verse 2 He did convert and glad my soul and brought my mindâ— in frame To walk in paths of righteousness for his most holy Name verse 3 Yea though I walk in vale of death yet will I fear none ill Thy rod thy staff doth comfort me and thou art with me still verse 4 And in the presence of my foes my table thou shalt spread Thou shalt O Lord fill full my cup and eke anoint my head verse 5 Through all my life thy favour is so frankly shew'd to me That in thy house for evermore my dwelling-place shall be Domini est terra Psal xxiv J. H. THe earth is all the Lords with all her store and furniture Yea his is
psalms and songs I will apply to laud the Lord always The second part verse 9 Lord hear the voice of my request for which to thee I call Have mercy Lord on me opprest and send me help withall verse 10 My heart doth knowledge unto thee I sue to have thy grace Then seek my face say'st thou to me Lord I will seek thy face verse 11 In wrath turn not thy face away nor suffer me to slide Thou art my help still to this day be still my God and guide verse 12 My parents both their son forsook and cast me off at large And then the Lord himself yet took of me the care and charge verse 13 Teach me O Lord the way to thee and lead me on forth right For fear of such as watch for me to trap me if they might verse 14 Do not betake me to the will of them that be my foes For they surmise against me still false witness to depose verse 15 My heart would faint but that in me this hope is fixed fast The Lord Gods good grace shall I see in life that ay shall last verse 16 Trust still in God whose whole thou arâ— his will abide thou must And he shall ease and strength thy heart if thou in him do trust Ad te Dom. â—lamabo Psal xxviii T. S. THou art O Lord my strength and stay the succour which I crave Neglect me not lest I be like to them that go to grave verse 2 The voice of thy suppliant hear that unto thee doth cry When I lift up my hands unto thy holy ark most high verse 3 Repute me not among the sort of wicked and pervert That speak right fair unto their friends and think full ill in heart verse 4 According to their handy-work as they deserve indeed And after their inventions let them receive their meed verse 5 For they regard nothing Gods works his law ne yet his lore Therefore will he them and their seed destroy for evermore verse 6 To render thanks unto the Lord how great a cause have I My voice my prayer and my complaint that heard so willingly verse 7 He is my shield and fortitude my buckler in distress My hope my help my hearts relief my song shall him confess verse 8 He is our strength and our defence our enemies to resist The health and the salvation of his elect by Christ verse 9 Thy people and thine heritage Lord bless guide and preserve Increase them Lord and rule their hearts that they may never swerve Afferte Domino Psal xxix T. S. Give to the Lord ye potentates ye rulers of the world Give ye all praise honour and strength unto the living Lord. verse 2 Give glory to his holy Name and honour him alone Worship him in his majesty within his holy throne verse 3 His voice doth rule the watersall even as himself doth please He doth prepare the thunder-claps and governs all the seas verse 4 The voice of God is of great force and wondrous excellent It is most mighty in effect and most magnificent verse 5 The voice of God doth rend and break The cedar-trees so long The cedar-trees of Lebanon Which are most high and strong verse 6 And makes them leap like as a calf or else the unicorn Not onely trees but mountains great Whereon the trees are born verse 7 His voice divides the flames of fire and shakes the wilderness verse 8 It makes the desert quake for fear that called is Cades verse 9 It makes the hinds for fear to calve and makes the coverts plain Then in his temple every man his glory doth proclaim verse 10 The Lord was set above the flouds ruling the raging sea So shall he reign as Lord and king for ever and for ay verse 11 The Lord will give his people power in vertue to increase The Lord will bless his chosen flock with everlasting peace Exaltabo te Domine Psal xxx J. H. ALl laud and praise with heart and voice O Lord I give to thee Which didst not make my foes rejoyce but hast exalted me verse 2 O Lord my God to thee I cri'd in all my pain and grief Thou gay'st an ear and didst provide to ease me with relief verse 3 Of thy good will thou hast call'd back my soul from hell to save Thou didst revive when strength did lack and kept'st me from the grave verse 4 Sing praise ye saints that prove and see the goodness of the Lord In memory of his majestie rejoyce with one accord verse 5 For why his anger but a space doth last and slack again But in his favour and his grace always doth life remain Though gripes of grief and pangs full sore shall lodge with us all night The Lord to joy shall us restore before the day be light verse 6 When I enjoy'd the world at will thus would I boast and say Tush I am sure to feel none ill this wealth shall not decay verse 7 For thou O Lord of thy good grace hadst sent me strength and aid But when thou turn'dst away thy face my minde was sore dismaid verse 8 Wherefore again yet did I cry to thee O Lord of might My God with plaints I did apply and pray'd both day and night verse 9 What gain is in my bloud said I if death destroy my days Doth dust declare thy majesty or yet thy truth doth praise verse 10 Wherefore my God some pity take O Lord I thee desire Do not this simple soul forsake of help I thee require verse 11 Then didst thou turn my grief and wo into a cheerful voice The mourning-weed thou took'st me fro and mad'st me to rejoyce verse 12 Wherefore my soul uncessantly shall sing unto thy praise My Lord my God to thee will I give laud and thanks always In te Domine Psal xxxi J. H. O Lord I put my trust in thee let nothing work me shame As thou art just deliver me and let me quit from blame verse 2 Hear me O Lord and that anon to help me make good speed Be thou my rock and house of stone my fence in time of need verse 3 For why as stones thy strength is tri'd thou art my sort and tower For thy Names sake be thou my guide and lead me in thy power verse 4 Pluck thou my feet out of the snare which they for me have laid Thou art my strength and all my care is for thy might and aid verse 5 Into thy hands Lord I commit my spirit which is thy due For why thou hast redeemed it O Lord my God most true verse 6 I hate such folk as will not part from things to be abhor'd When they on trifles set their heart my trust is in the Lord. verse 7 For I will in thy mercy joy I see it doth excel Thou seest when ought would me annoy and know'st my soul full well verse 8 Thou hast not left me in their hand that would me overcharge But thou hast set me out of
band to walk abroad at large The second part verse 9 Great grief O Lord doth me assail some pity on me take Mine eyes wax dim my sight doth fail my womb for wo doth ake verse 10 My life is worn with grief and pain my years in wo are past My strength is gone and through disdain my bones corrupt and waste verse 11 Among my foes I am a scorn my friends are all dismaid My neighbours and my kinsmen born to see me are afraid verse 12 As men once dead are out of minde so am I now forgot As small effect in me they finde as in a broken pot verse 13 I heard the brags of all the rout their threats my minde did fray How they conspir'd and went about to take my life away verse 14 But Lord I trust in thee for aid not to be overtrod For I confess and still have said thou art my Lord and God verse 15 The length of all my life and age O Lord is in thy hand Defend me from the wrath and rage of them that me withstand verse 16 To me thy servant Lord express and shew thy joyful face And save me Lord for thy goodness thy mercy and thy grace The third part verse 17 Lord let me not be put to blame for that on thee I call But let the wicked bear the shame and in the grave to fall verse 18 O Lord make dumb their lips outright which are addict to lies And cruelly with pride and spight against the just devise verse 19 O how great good hast thou in store laid up full safe for them That fear and trust in thee therefore before the sons of men verse 20 Thy presence shall them fence and guide from all proud brags and wrongs Within thy place thou shalt them hide from all the strife of tongues verse 21 Thanks to the Lord that hath declar'd on me his grace so far Me to defend with watch and ward as in a town of war verse 22 Thus did I say both day and night when I was sore opprest Lo I was clean cast out of sight Yet heard'st thou my request verse 23 Ye saints love ye the Lord I say the faithful he doth guide And to the proud he doth repay according to their pride verse 24 Be strong and God shall stay your heart be hold and have a lust For sure the Lord will take your part sith ye on him do trust Beati quorum Psal xxxii T. S. THe man is blest whose wickedness the Lord hath clean remitted And he whose sin and wickedness is hid and also covered verse 2 And blest is he to whom the Lord imputeth not his sin Which in his heart hath hid no guile nor fraud is found therein verse 3 For whil'st that I kept close my fin in silence and constraint My bones did wear and waste away with daily mone and plaint verse 4 For night and day thy hand on me so grievous was and smart That all my bloud and humours moist to driness did convert verse 5 I did therefore confess my fault and all my sins discover Then thou O Lord didst me forgive and all my sins pass over verse 6 The humble man shall pray therefore and seek thee in due time So that the flouds of waters great shall have no power on him verse 7 When trouble and adversity do compass me about Thou art my resuge and my joy and thou dost rid me out verse 8 Come hither and I will thee teach how thou shalt walk aright I will thee guide as I myself have learn'd by proof and sight verse 9 Be not so rude and ignorant as is the horse and mule Whose mouth without a rain or bit from harm thou canst not rule verse 10 The wicked man shall manifold sorrows and griefs sustain But unto him that trusts in God his goodness shall remain verse 11 Be merry therefore in the Lord ye just lift up your voice And ye of pure and perfect heart be glad and eke rejoyce Exultate justi Psal xxxiii J. H. YE righteous in the Lord rejoyce it is a seemly sight That upright men with thankful voice should praise the Lord of might verse 2 Praise ye the Lord with harp and song in psalms and pleasant things With lute and instrument among that soundeth with ten strings verse 3 Sing to the Lord a song most new with courage give him praise verse 4 For why his word is ever true his works and all his ways verse 5 To judgement equity and right he hath a great good will And with his gifts he doth delight the earth throughout to fill verse 6 For by the word of God alone the heavens all were wrought Their hosts and powers every one his breath to pass hath brought verse 7 The waters great gathered hath he on heaps within the shore And hid them in the depth to be as in an house of store verse 8 All men on earth both least and most fear God and keep his law Ye that inhabit in each coast dread him and stand in aw verse 9 What he commanded wrought it was at once with present speed What he doth will is brought to pass with full effect indeed verse 10 The counsels of the nations rude the Lord doth bring to nought He doth defeat the multitude of their device and thought verse 11 But his decrees continue still they never slack nor swage The motions of his minde and will take place in every age The second part verse 12 And blest are they to whom the Lord as God and guide is known Whom he doth choose of mere accord to take them as his own verse 13 The Lord from heaven cast his sight on men mortal by birth verse 14 Considering from his feat of might the dwellers of the earth verse 15 The Lord I say whose hand hath wrought mans heart and doth it frame For he alone doth know the thought and working of the same verse 16 A king that trusteth in his host shall nought prevail at length The man that of his might doth boast shall fall for all his strength verse 17 The troups of horsmen eke shall fail their sturdy steeds shall sterve The strength of horse shall not prevail the rider to preserve verse 18 But lo the eyes of God intend and watch to aid the just With such as fear him to offend and on his goodness trust verse 19 That he of death and great distress may set their souls from dread And if that dearth their land oppress in hunger them to feed verse 20 Wherefore our soul doth whole depend on God our strength and stay He is our shield us to defend and drive all darts away verse 21 Our soul in God hath joy and game rejoycing in his might For why in his most holy Name we hope and much delight verse 22 Therefore let thy goodness O Lord still present with us be As we always with one accord do onely trust in thee Benedicam Dom. Psal
xxxiv T. S. I Will give laud and honour both unto the Lord always And eke my mouth for evermore shall speak unto his praise verse 2 I do delight to laud the Lord in soul and eke in voice That humble men and mortifi'd may hear and so rejoyce verse 3 Therefore see that ye magnifie with me the living Lord And let us now exalt his Name together with one accord verse 4 For I my self besought the Lord he answered me again And me delivered incontinent from all my fear and pain verse 5 Whoso they be that him behold shall see his light most clear Their countenance shall not be dashâ— they need it not to fear verse 6 This filly wretch for some relief unto the Lord did call Who did him hear without delay and rid him out of thrall verse 7 The angel of the Lord doth pitch his tents in every place To save all such as fear the Lord that nothing them deface verse 8 Taste and consider well therefore that God is good and just O happy man that maketh him his onely stay and trust verse 9 Fear ye the Lord ye holy oner above all earthly thing For they that fear the living Lord are sure to lack nothing verse 10 The lions shall be hunger-bit and pin'd with famine much But as for them that fear the Lord no lack shall be to such The second part verse 11 Come near therefore my children dear and to my words give ear I shall you teach the perfect way how ye the Lord should fear verse 12 Who is the man that would live long and lead ablessed life verse 13 See thou refrain thy tongue and lips from all deceit and strife verse 14 Turn back thy face from doing ill and do the godly deed Enquire for peace and quietness and follow it with speed verse 15 For why the eyes of God above upon the just are bent His ears likewise do hear the plaint of the poor innocent verse 16 But he doth frown and bend his brows upon the wicked train And cuts away the memory that should of them remain verse 17 But when the just do call and cry the Lord doth hear them so That out of pain and misery forthwith he lets them go verse 18 The Lord is kinde and strait at hand to such as be contrite He saves also the sorrowful the poor and meek in sprite verse 19 Full many be the miseries that righteous men do suffer But out of all adversities the Lord doth them deliver verse 20 The Lord doth so preserve and keep his very bones alway That not so much as one of them doth perish or decay verse 21 The sin shall slay the wicked man which he himself hath wrought And such as haâ—e the righteous man shall soon be brought to nought verse 22 But they that fear the living Lord the Lord doth save them sound And who that put their trust in him nothing shall them confound Judica me Domine Psal xxxv J. H. LOrd plead my cause against my soes confound their force and might â—ight on my part against all those that seek with me to fight â— Lay hand upon the spear and shield thy self in armour dress â—tand up for me and fight the field to help me from distress verse 3 Gird on thy sword and stop the way mine enemies to withstand That thou unto my soul mayst say Lo I thy help at hand verse 4 Confound them with rebuke and blame that seek my soul to spill â—et them turn back and flee with shame that think to work me ill verse 5 Let them disperse and flee abroad as wind doth drive the dust â—nd that the angel of our God their might away may thrust verse 6 Let all their ways be void of light and slippery like to fall â—â—d send thine angel with thy might to persecute them all verse 7 For why without my fault they have in secret set their grin â—â—d for no cause have digg'd a cave to take my soul therein verse 8 When they think least and have no care O Lord destroythem all â—â—t them be trapt in their own snare and in their mischief fall verse 9 And let my soul my heart and voice In God have joy and wealth â—â—at in the Lord I may rejoyce â—nd in his saving health verse 10 And then my bones shall speak and say â—â—y parts shall all agree Lord though they do seem full gay what man is like to thee The second part verse 11 Thou dost defend the weak from them that are both stout and strong 〈◊〉 rid the poor from wicked men that spoil and do them wrong verse 12 My cruel foes against me rise to witness things untrue 〈◊〉 to accuse me they devise of things I never knew verse 13 Where I to them did ow good will they quit me with disdain That they should pay my good with ill my soul doth sore complain verse 14 When they were sick I mourn'd therefore and clad my self in sack With fasting I did saint full sore to pray I was not slack verse 15 As they had been my brethren dear I did my self behave As one that maketh woful chear about his mothers grave verse 16 But they at my disease did joy and gather on a rout Yea abject slaves at me did toy with mocks and checks full stout verse 17 The belly-gods and flattering train that all good things deride At me do grin with great disdain and pluck their mouthes alide verse 18 Lord when wilt thou amend this gear why dost thou stay and pause O rid my soul mine onely dear out of these lions claws verse 19 And then will I give thanks to thee before the church always And where most of the people be there will I shew thy praise verse 20 Let not my foes prevail on me which hate me for no fault Nor yet to wink or turn their eye that causless me assault The third part verse 21 Of peace no word they think or say their talk is all untrue They still consult and would betray all those that peace ensue verse 22 With open mouth they run at me they gape they laugh they fleer Well well say they our eye doth see the thing that we desire verse 23 But Lord thou seest what ways they take cease not this gear to mend Be not far off nor me forsake as men that sail their friend verse 24 Awake arise and stir abroad defend me in my right Revenge my cause my Lord my God and aid me with thy might verse 25 According to thy righteousness my Lord God set me free And let them not their pride express nor triumph over me verse 26 Let not their hearts rejoyce and cry There there this gear goes trim Nor give them cause to say on high We have our will on him verse 27 Confound them with rebuke and shame that joy when I do mourn And pay them home with spight and blame that brag at me with scorn verse 28 Let them be
call and cry hide not thy self away verse 2 Take heed to me grant my request and answer me again With plaints I pray full sore opprest great grief doth me constrain verse 3 Because my foes with threats and cries oppress me through despight And so the wicked sort likewise to vex me have delight verse 4 For they in counsel do conspire to charge me with some ill So in their hasty wrath and ire they do pursue me still verse 5 My heart doth faint for want of breath it panteth in my brest The terrours and the dread of death do work me much unrest verse 6 Such dreadful fear on me doth fall that I therewith do quake Such horour whelmeth me withall that I no shift can make verse 7 But I did say Who will give me the swift and pleasant wings Of some fair dove that I may flee and rest me from these things verse 8 Lo then I would go far away to flie I would not cease And I would hide my self and stay in some great wilderness verse 9 I would be gone in all the haste and not abide behinde That I were quit and overpast these blasts of boistrous winde verse 10 Divide them Lord and from them pull their devilish double tongue For I have spi'd their city full of rapine strife and wrong verse 11 Which things both night and day throughout do close her as a wall In midst of her is mischief stout and sorrow eke withall verse 12 Her inward parts are wicked plain her deeds are much too vile And in her streets there doth remain all crafty fraud and guile The second part verse 13 If that my foes did seek my shame I might it well abide From open enemies check and blame some where I could me hide verse 14 But thou it was my fellow dear which friendship didst pretend And didst my secret counsel hear as my familiar friend verse 15 With whom I had delight to talk in secret and abroad And we together oft did walk within the house of God verse 16 Let death in haste upon them fall and send them quick to hell For mischief reigneth in the hall and parlour where they dwell verse 17 But I unto my God will cry to him for help I flee The Lord will help me by and by and he will succour me verse 18 At morning noon and evening-tide unto the Lord I pray When I so instantly have cri'd he doth not say me nay verse 19 To peace he shall restore me yet though war be now at hand Although the number be full great that would against me stand verse 20 The Lord that first and last doth reign both now and evermore Will hear when I to him complain and punish them full sore verse 21 For sure there is no hope that they to turn will once accord For why they will not God obey nor yet do fear the Lord. verse 22 Upon their friends they laid their hands which were in covenant knit Of friendship to neglect the bands they pass or care no whit verse 23 While they have war within their hearts as butter are their words Although their words were smooth as oyl they cut as sharp as swords verse 24 Cast thou thy care upon the Lord and he shall nourish thee For in no wise will he accord the just in thrall to see verse 25 But God shall cast them deep in pit that thirst for bloud always He will no guileful man permit to live out half his days verse 26 Though such be quite destroy'd gone in thee O Lord I trust I shall depend thy grace upon with all my heart and lust Miserere mei Psal lvi J. H. HAve mercy Lord on me I pray for man would me devour He fighteth with me day by day and troubleth me each hour verse 2 Mine enemies daily enterprise to swallow me outright To fight against me many rise O thou most high of might verse 3 When they would make me most afraid with boasts and brags of pride I trust in thee alone for aid by thee I will abide verse 4 Gods promise I do minde and praise O Lord I stick to thee I do not care at all assays what flesh can do to me verse 5 What things I either did or spake they wrest them at their will And all the counsel that they take is how to work me ill verse 6 They all consent themselves to hide close watch for me to lay They spie my paths and snares have ti'd to take my life away verse 7 Shall they thus scape on mischief set thou God on them wilt frown For in his wrath he doth not let to throw whole kingdoms down verse 8 Thou seest how oft they made me flee and on my tears dost look Reserve them in a glass by thee and write them in thy book verse 9 When I do call upon thy Name my foes away do start I well perceive it by the same that God doth take my part verse 10 I glory in the word of God to praise it I accord With joy I will declare abroad the promise of the Lord. verse 11 I trust in God and yet I say as I before began The Lord he is my help and stay I do not care for man verse 12 I will perform with heart so free to God my vows always And I O Lord all times to thee will offer thanks and praise verse 13 My soul from death thou dost defend and keep'st my feet upright That I before thee may ascend with such as live in light Miserere mei Psal lvii J. H. TAke pity for thy promise sake have mercy Lord on me For why my soul doth her betake unto the help of thee verse 2 Within the shadow of thy wings I set my self full fast Till mischief malice and like things be gone and overpast verse 3 I call upon the God most high to whom I stick and stand I mean the God that will stand by the cause I have in hand verse 4 From heaven he hath sent his aid to save me from their spight That to devour me have affaid his mercy truth and might verse 5 I lead my life with lions fell all set on wrath and ire And with such wicked men I dwell that fâ—et like flames of fire verse 6 Their teeth are spears and arrows long as sharp as I have seen They wound cut with their quick tongue like swords and weapons keen verse 7 Set up and shew thy self O God above the heavens bright Exalt thy praise on earth abroad thy majesty and might verse 8 They lay their net and do prepare a privy cave and pit Wherein they think my soul to snare but they are faln in it verse 9 My heart is set to laud the Lord in him to joy always My heart I say doth well accord to sing his laud and praise verse 10 Awake my joy awake I say my lute my harp and string For I my self before the day will rise rejoyce and sing
fulfil the same With godly gifts will he reward all those that fear his Name verse 6 The king shall he in health maintain and so prolong his days That he from age to age shall reign for evermore always verse 7 That he may have a dwelling-place before the Lord for ay O â—et thy mercy truth and grace defend him from decay verse 8 Then shall I sing for ever still with praise unto thy Name 〈◊〉 all my vows I may fulfil and daily pay the same Nonne Deo Psal lxii J. H. MY soul to God shall give good heed and him alone attend 〈◊〉 why my health and hope to speed doth whole on him depend For he alone is my defence my rock my health and aid 〈◊〉 is my stay that no pretence â—â—all make me much dismaid O wicked folk how long will ye â—â—e craft sure ye must fall â—as a rotten hedge ye be and like a tottring wall Whom God doth love ye seek always to put him to the worse 〈◊〉 â—ove to lie with mouth ye praise and yet your heart doth curse Yet still mysoul doth whole depend on God my chief desire 〈◊〉 all ill feats me to defend none but him I require He is my rock my fort and tower my health is of his grace 〈◊〉 doth support me that no power can move me out of place God is my glory and my health my souls desire and lust â—â—fâ—rt my strength my stay my wealth God is my onely trust Oh have your trust in him alway 〈◊〉 folk with one accord 〈◊〉 out your hearts to him and say our trust is in the Lord. The sons of men deceitful are on balance but a sleight 〈◊〉 things most vain do them compare â—â—r they can keep no weight Trust not in wrong robb'ry nor stealth let vain delights be gone â—â—ough goods well got flow in with wealth let not your hearts thereon The Lord long since one thing did tell which here to minde I call 〈◊〉 spake it oft I heard it well That God alone doth all And that thou Lord art good and kinde thy mercy doth exceed that all sorts with thee shall finde according to their deed Deus Deus meus Psal lxiii T. S. O God my God I watch betime to come to thee in haste 〈◊〉 why my soul and body both do thirst of thee to taste 〈◊〉 in this barren wilderness where waters there are none 〈◊〉 flesh is parcht for thought of thee â—or thee I wish alone That I might see yet once again 〈◊〉 glory strength and might 〈◊〉 â—as wont it to behold a thin thy temple bright Fâ—r why thy mercies faâ— surmount tâ—â—s life and wretched days 〈◊〉 â—ips therefore shall give to thee â—â—e honour laud and praise And whil'st I live I will not fail 〈◊〉 worship thee alway And in thy name I shall lift up my hands when I do pray verse 5 My soul is fill'd as with marrow which is both fat and sweet My mouth therefore shall sing such songs as are for thee most meet verse 6 When as in bed I think on thee and eke all the night-tide verse 7 For under covert of thy wings thou art my joyful guide verse 8 My soul doth surely stick to thee thy right hand is my power verse 9 And those that seek my soul to stroy them death shall soon devour verse 10 The sword shall them devour each one their carcases shall feed The hungry foxes which do run their prey to seek at need verse 11 The king and all men shall rejoyce that do profess Gods word For liars mouths shall then be stopt which have the truth disturb'd Exaudi Deus Psal lxiv. J. H. O Lord unto my voice give ear with plaint when I do pray And rid my life and soul from fear of foes that threat to slay verse 2 Defend me from that sort of men which in deceit do lurk And from the frowning face of them that all ill seats do work verse 3 Who whet their tongues as we have seen men whet and sharp their swords They shoot abroad their arrows keen I mean most bitter words verse 4 With privy sleights shoot they their shaft the upright man to hit The just unwares to strike by craft they care or fear no whit verse 5 A wicked work they have decreed in counsel thus they cry To use deceit let us not dread what who can it espy verse 6 What way to hurt they talk and muse all times within their heart They all consult what feats to use each doth invent his part verse 7 But yet all this shall not prevail when they think least upon God with his dart shall sure assail and wound them every one verse 8 Their crafts and their ill tongues withall shall work themselves such blame That they which then behold their fall shall wonder at the same verse 9 Then all that see shall know right well that God the thing hath wrought And praise his witty works and tell what he to paâ—s hath brought verse 10 Yet shall the just in God rejoyce still trusting in his might So shall they joy with minde and voice whose hearts are pure and right Te decet hymnus Psal lxv J. 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THy praise alone O Lord doth reign in Sion thine own hill Their vows to thee they do maintain and their behests fulfil verse 2 For that thou dost their prayers hear and dost thereto agree The people all both far and near with trust shall come to thee verse 3 Our wicked life so far exceeds that we shall fall therein But Lord forgive our great misdeeds and purge us from our sin verse 4 The man is blest whom thou dost choose within thy courts to dwell Thy house and temple he shall use with pleasures that excel verse 5 Of thy great justice hear us God our health of thee doth rise The hope of all the earth abroad and the sea coasts likewise verse 6 With strength thou art beset about and compast with thy power Thou mak'st the mountains strong and stout to stand in every shower verse 7 The swelling seas thou dost asswage and make their streams full still Thou dost restrain the peoples rage and rule them at thy will verse 8 The folk that dwell full far on earth shall dread thy signs to see Which morn and even in great mirth do pass with praise to thee verse 9 When that the earth is chapt and dry and thirsteth more and more Then with thy drops thou dost apply and much increase her store verse 10 The floud of God doth overflow and so doth cause to spring The seed and corn which men do sow for he doth guide the thing verse 11 With wet thou dost her furrows fill whereby her clods do fall Thy drops on her thou dost distill and bless her fruit withall verse 12 Thou deck'st the earth of thy good grace with fair and pleasant crop Thy clouds distil their dew apace great plenty they do drop verse 13 Whereby the desert shall begin
He cast upon them in his ire and in his fury strong Displeasure wrath and evil spirits to trouble them among verse 50 Then to his wrath he made a way and spared not the least But gave unto the pestilence the man and eke the beast verse 51 He strake also the first-born all that up in Egypt came And all the chief of men and beasts within the tents of Ham. verse 52 But as for all his own dear folk he did preserve and keep And carried them through wilderness even like a flock of sheep verse 53 Without all fear both safe and sound he brought them out of thrall Whereas their foes with rage of seas were overwhelmed all verse 54 And brought them out into the coasts of his own holy land Even to the mount which he had got by his strong arm and hand verse 55 And there cast out the heathen folk and did their land divide And in their tents he set the tribes of Israel to abide verse 56 Yet sor all this their God most high they stirr'd and tempted still And would not keep his testament nor yet obey his will verse 57 But as their fathers turned back even so they went astray Much like a bowe that would not bend but slip and start away The sixth part verse 58 And griev'd him with their hill-altars with offrings and with fire And with their idols vehemently provoked him to ire verse 59 Therewith his wrath began again to kindle in his brest The naughtiness of Israel he did so much detest verse 60 Then he forsook the tabernacle of Silo where he was Right conversant with earthly men even at his dwelling-place verse 61 Then suffered he his might and power in bondage for to stand And gave the honour of his ark into his enemies hand verse 62 And did commit them to the sword wroth with his heritage verse 63 Their young men were devour'd with fire maids had no marriage verse 64 And with the sword the priests also did perish every one And not a widow lest alive their death for to bemone verse 65 And then the Lord began to wake like one that slept a time And like a valiant man of war refreshed after wine verse 66 With emerods in the hinder parts he strake his enemies all And put them then unto a shame that was perpetual verse 67 Then he the tent and tabernacle of Joseph did refuse As for the tribe of Ephraim he would in no wise chuse verse 68 But chose the tribe of Jehuda whereas he thought to dwell Even the noble mount Sion which he did love so well verse 69 Whereas he did his temple build both sumptuously and sure Like as the earth which he hath made for ever to endure verse 70 Then chose he David him to serve his people for to keep Whom he took up and brought away even from the folds of sheep verse 71 As he did follow th'ews with young the Lord did him advance To feed his people Israel and his inheritance verse 72 Thus David with a faithful heart his flock and charge did seed And prudently with all his power did govern them indeed Deus venerunt Psal lxxix J. 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O God the Gentiles do invade thine heritage to spoil Jerusalem an heap is made thy temple they defile verse 2 The bodies of thy saints most dear abroad to birds they cast The flesh of them that do thee fear the beasts devour and waste verse 3 Their bloud throughout Jerusalem as water spilt they have So that there is not one of them to lay their dead in grave verse 4 Thus are we made a laughing-stock almost the world throughout The enemies at us jest and mock which dwell our coasts about verse 5 Wilt thou O Lord thus in thine ire against us ever fume And shew thy wrath as hot as fire thy folk for to consume verse 6 Upon those people pour the same which did thee never know All realms which call not on thy Name consume and overthrow verse 7 For they have got the upper hand and Jacobs seed destroy'd His habitation and his land they have left waste and void verse 8 Bear not in minde our former faults with speed some pity show And aid us Lord in all assaults for we are weak and low The second part verse 9 O God that giv'st all health and gracey on us declare the same Weigh not our works our sins deface for honour of thy Name verse 10 Why shall the wicked still alway to us as people dumb In thy reproach rejoyce and say Where is their God become Require O Lord as thou seest good before our eyes in sight Of all these folk thy servants bloud which they spilt in despight verse 11 Receive into thy sight in haste the clamours grief and wrong Of such as are in prison cast sustaining irons strong Thy force and strength to celebrate Lord set them out of band Which unto death are destinate and in their enemies hand verse 12 The nations which have been so bold as to blaspheme thy Name Into their laps with seven fold repay again the same verse 13 So we thy flock and pasture-sheep will praise thee evermore And teach all ages for to keep for thee like praise in store Qui regis Israel Psal lxxx J. 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THou Herd that Israel dost keep give ear and take good heed Which leadest Joseph like a sheep and dost him watch and feed verse 2 Thou Lord I say whose seat is set on cherubims most bright Shew forth thy self and do not let send down thy beams of light verse 3 Before Ephraim and Benjamin Manasses eke likewise To shew thy power do thou begin come help us Lord arise verse 4 Direct our hearts unto thy grace convert us Lord to thee Shew us the brightness of thy face and then full safe are we verse 5 Lord God of hosts of Israel how long wilt thou I say Against thy folk in anger swell and wilt not hear them pray verse 6 Thou dost them feed with sorrows deep their bread with tears they eat And drink the tears that they do weep in measure full and great verse 7 Thou hast us made a very strife to those that dwell about And that our foes do love a life they laugh and jest it out verse 8 O take us Lord unto thy grace convert our hearts to thee Shew forth to us thy joyful face and we full sate shall be verse 9 From Egypt where it grew not well thou brought'st a vine full dear The heathen folk thou didst expell and thou didst plant it there verse 10 Thou didst prepare for it a place and set her roots full fast That it did grow and spring apace and fill'd the land at last The second part verse 11 The hills were covered round about With shade that from it came And eke the cedars strong and stout with branches of the same verse 12 Why then didst thou her walls destroy her hedge pluckt up thou hast That all
the folk that pass thereby thy vine may spoil and waste verse 13 The boar out of the wood so wilde doth dig and root it out The furious beasts out of the field devour it all about verse 14 O Lord of hosts return again from heaven look betime behold and with thy help sustain this poor vineyard of thine verse 15 Thy plant I say thine Israel whom thy right hand hath set The same which thou didst love so well O Lord do not forget verse 16 They lop and cut it down apace they burn it eke with fire â—â—d through the frowning of thy face we perish in thine ire verse 17 Let thy right hand be with them now whom thou hast kept so long â—â—â—d with the Son of man whom thou to thee hast made so strong verse 18 And so when thou hast set us free and saved us from shame Then will we never fall from thee but call upon thy Name verse 19 O Lord of hosts through thy good grace convert us unto thee behold us with a pleasant face and then full safe are we Deo exultate Psal lxxxi J. H. BE light and glad in God rejoyce which is our strength and stay be joyful and lift up your voice to Jacobs God I say verse 2 Prepare your instruments most meet some joyful psalm to sing strike up with harp and lute so sweet on every pleasant string verse 3 Blow as it were in the new-moon with trumpets of the best As it is used to be done at any solemn feast â— For this is unto Israel a statute and a trade â—law that must be kept full well which Jacobs God hath made â— This clause with Joseph was decreed when he from Egypt came That as a witness all his feed should still observe the same â— When God I say had so prepar'd to bring him from that land Whereas the speech which he had heard he did not understand verse 7 I from his shoulders took saith he the burden clean away And from the furnace quit him free from burning brick of clay verse 8 When thou in grief didst cry and call I holp thee by and by And I did answer thee withal in thunder secretly verse 9 Yea at the waters of discord I did thee tempt and prove Whereas the goodness of the Lord with mutt'ring thou didst move verse 10 Hear O my folk O Israel and I assure it thee Regard and mark my words full well if thou wilt cleave to me The second part verse 11 Thou shalt no god in thee reserve of any land abroad Nor in no wise to bow or serve a strange or forein god verse 12 I am the Lord thy God and I from Egypt set thee free Then ask of me abundantly and I will give it thee verse 13 And yet my people would not hear my voice when that I spake Nor Israel would not obey but did me quite forsake verse 14 Then did I leave them to their will in hardness of their heart To walk in their own counsels still themselves they might pervert verse 15 O that my people would have heard the words that I did say And eke that Israel would regard to walk within my way verse 16 How soon would I confound their foes and bring them down full low And turn my hand upon all those that would them overthrow verse 17 And they that at the Lord do rage as slaves should seek him till But of his folk the time and age should flourish ever still verse 18 I would have fed them with the crop and finest of the wheat And made the rock with honey drop that they their fills should eat Deus stetit Psal lxxxii J. 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AMid the preass with men of might the Lord himself doth stand To plead the cause of truth and right with judges of the land verse 2 How long said he will you proceed false judgement to award And have respect for love of meed the wicked to regard verse 3 Whereas of due you should defend the fatherless and weak And when the poor man doth contend in judgement justly speak verse 4 If ye be wise defend the cause of poor men in their right And rid the needy from the claws of tyrants force and might verse 5 But nothing will they know or learn in vain to them I talk They will not see or ought discern but still in darkness walk verse 6 For lo even now the time is come that all things fall to nought And likewise laws both all and some for gain are sold and bought I had decreed it in my sight as gods to take you all And children to the most of might for love I did you call verse 7 But not withstanding ye shall die as men and so decay O tyrants I shall you destroy and pluck you quite away verse 8 Up Lord and let thy strength be known and judge the world with might For why all nations are thine own to take them as thy right Deus quid Psal lxxxiii J. 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DO not O God refrain thy tongue in filence do not stay Withhold not Lord thy self fo long and make no more delay verse 2 For why behold thy foes and see how they do rage and cry And those that bear an hate to thee hold up their heads on high verse 3 Against thy folk they use deceit and crast'ly they enquire For thine elect to lie in wait their counsel doth conspire verse 4 Come on say they let us expel and pluck these solk away So that the name of Israel may utterly decay verse 5 They all conspire within their heart how they may thee withstand Against the Lord to take a part they are in league and band verse 6 The tents of all the Edomites the Ismaelites also The Hagarenes and Moabites with divers other mo verse 7 Gebal with Ammon and likewise doth Amalek conspire The Philistines against thee rise with them that dwell at Tyre verse 8 And Assur eke is well appaid with them in league to be And doth become a sence and aid to Lots posteritie verse 9 As thou didst to the Midianites so serve them Lord each one As to Siser and to Jabin beside the brook Kison verse 10 Whom thou in Endor didst destroy and waste them through thy might That they like dung on earth did lie and that in open fight The second part verse 11 Make them now and their lords appear like Zeb and Oreb than As Zebah and Zalmana were the kings of Midian verse 12 Which said Let us throughout the land in all the coasts abroad Possess and take into our hand the fair houses of God verse 13 Turn them O God with storms as fast as wheels that have no stay Or like the chaff which men do cast with winds to flie away verse 14 Like as the fire with rage and fume the mighty forests spills And as the flame doth quite consume the mountains and the hills verse 15 So let the tempest of thy wrath upon their necks be
wickedness on him shall have no power verse 24 His foes likewise I will destroy before his face in fight And those that hate him I will plague and strike them with my might verse 25 My truth and mercy eke withall shall still upon him lie And in my Name his horn eke shall be listed up on high verse 26 His kingdom I will set to be upon the sea and land And eke the running flouds shall he embrace with his right hand verse 27 He shall depend with all his heart on me and thus shall say My Father and my God thou art my rock of health and stay verse 28 As my first-born I will him take of all on earth that springs His might and honour I will make above all earthly kings verse 29 My mercy shall be with him still as I my self have told My faithful covenant to fulfil my mercy I will hold verse 30 And eke his seed I will sustain for ever strong and sure So that his seat shall still remain while heaven doth endure The fourth part verse 31 If that his sons for sake my law and so begin to swerve And of my judgements have none aw nor will not them observe verse 32 Or if they do not use aright my statutes to them made And set all my commandments light and will not keep my trade verse 33 Then with the rod will I begin their doings to amend And so with scourging for their sin if that they do offend verse 34 My mercy yet and my goodness I will not take him fro Nor handle him with craftiness and so my truth forgo verse 35 But sure my covenant I will hold with all that I have spoke No word the which my lips have told shall alter or be broke verse 36 Once sware I by my holiness and that perform will I With David I shall keep promise to him I will not lie verse 37 His seed for evermore shall reign and eke his throne of might As doth the sun it shall remain for ever in my fight verse 38 And as the moon within thesky for ever standeth fast A faithful witness from on high so shall his kingdom last verse 39 But now O Lord thou dost reject and now thou changest cheer Yea thou art wroth with thine elect thine own anointe dear verse 40 The covenant with thy servant made Lord thou hast quite undone And down upon the ground also hast cast his royal crown The fifth part verse 41 Thou pluck'st his hedges up with might his walls thou dost confound Thou beatest eke his bulwarks down and break'st them to the ground verse 42 That he is sore destroy'd and torn of comers by throughout And so is made a mock and scorn to all that dwell about verse 43 Thou their right hand hast lifted up that him so sore annoy And all his foes that him devour lo thou hast made to joy verse 44 His swords edge thou dost take away that should his foes withstand To him in war no victory thou giv'st nor upper hand verse 45 His glory thou dost also waste his throne his joy his mirth By thee is overthrown and cast full low upon the earth verse 46 Thou hast cut off and made full short his youth and lusty days And rais'd of him an ill report with shame and great dispraise verse 47 How long away from me O Lord for ever wilt thou turn And shall thine anger still alway as fire consume and burn verse 48 O call to minde remember then my time consumeth fast Why hast thou made the sons of men as things in vain to waste verse 49 What man is he that liveth here and death shall never see Or from the hand of hell his soul shall he deliver free verse 50 Where is O Lord thine own goodness so oft declar'd beforn Which by thy truth and uprightness to David thou hast sworn verse 51 The great rebukes to minde I call that on thy servants lie The railings of the people all born in my breast have I verse 52 Wherewith O Lord thine enemies blasphemed have thy Name The steps of thine anointed one they cease not to defame verse 53 All praise to thee O Lord of hosts both now and eke for ay Through sky and earth and all the coasts Amen amen I say Domine refugium Psal xc J. 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THou Lord hast been our sure defence our place of ease and rest In all times past yea so long since as cannot be exprest verse 2 Ere there was made mountain or hâ—â—l the earth and world abroad From age to age and always still for ever thou art God verse 3 Thou grindest man through grief and pain to dust or clay and then And then thou say'st again Return again ye sons of men verse 4 The lasting of a thousand years what is it in thy sight As yesterday it doth appear or as a watch by night verse 5 So soon as thou dost scatter them then is their life and trade All as asleep and like the grass whose beauty soon doth fade verse 6 Which in the morning shines full bright but fadeth by and by And is cut down ere it be night all with'red dead and dry verse 7 For through thine anger we consume our might is much decay'd And of thy fervent wrath and sume we are full sore afraid verse 8 The wicked works that we have wrought thou sett'st before thine eye Our privy faults yea eke our thoughts thy countenance doth spie verse 9 For through thy wrath our days do waste thereof doth nought remain Our yearâ— consume as words or blasts and are not call'd again verse 10 Our time is threescore years and ten that we do live on mold If one see fourscore surely then we count him wondrous old The second part verse 11 Yet of this time the strength and chief the which we count upon Is nothing else but painful grief and we as blasts are gone verse 12 Who once doth know what strength is there what might thine anger hath Or in his heart who doth thee fear according to thy wrath verse 13 Instruct us Lord to know and try how long our days remain That then we may our hearts apply true wisdom to attain verse 14 Return O Lord how long wilt thou forth on in wrath proceed Shew favour to thy servants now and help them at their need verse 15 Refresh us with thy mercy soon and then our joy shall be All times so long as life doth last in heart rejoyce will we verse 16 As thou hast plagued us before now also make us glad And for the years wherein full sore affliction we have had verse 17 O let thy work and power appear and on thy servants light And shew unto thy children dear thy glory and thy might verse 18 Lord let thy grace and glory stand on us thy servants thus Confirm the works we take in hand Lord prosper them to us Qui habitat Psal xci J. H. HE that within the secret place of
dost keep in aw And through correction dost procure to teach him in thy law verse 13 Whereby he shall in quiet rest in time of trouble sit When wicked men shall be supprest and fall into the pit verse 14 For sure the Lord will not refuse his people for to take His heritage whom he did chuse he will no time forsake verse 15 Until that judgement be decreed to justice to convert That all may follow her with speed that are of upright heart verse 16 But who upon my part shall stand against the cursed train Or who shall rid me from their hand that wicked works maintain verse 17 Except the Lord had been mine aid mine enemies to repell My soul and life had now been laid almost as low as hell verse 18 When I did say My foot did slide I now am like to fall Thy goodness Lord did so provide to stay me up withall verse 19 When with my self I mused much and could no comfort finde Then Lord thy goodness did me touch and that did ease my minde verse 20 Wilt thou inhaunt thy self and draw with wicked men to sit Which with pretence in stead of law much mischief do commit verse 21 For they consult against the life of righteous men and good And in their counsels they are rise to shed the guiltless bloud verse 22 But yet the Lord he is to me a strong defence or lock He is my God to him I flee he is my strength and rock verse 23 And he shall cause their mischiefs all themselves for to annoy And in their malice they shall fall our God shall them destroy Venite exultemus Psal xcv J. 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O Come let us lift up our voice and sing unto the Lord In him our rock of health rejoyce let us with one accord verse 2 Yea let us come before his face to give him thanks and praise In singing psalms unto his grace let us be glad always verse 3 For why the Lord he is no doubt a great and mighty God A King above all gods throughout in all the world abroad verse 4 The secrets of the earth so deep and corners of the land The tops of hills that are so steep he hath them in his hand verse 5 The sea and waters all are his for he the same hath wrought The earth and all that therein is his hand hath made of nought verse 6 Come let us bow and praise the Lord. before him let us fall And kneel to him with one accord the which hath made us all verse 7 For why he is the Lord our God for us he doth provide We are his flock he doth us feed his sheep and he our Guide verse 8 To day if ye his voice will hear then harden not your heart As ye with grudging many a year provok'd me in desert verse 9 Whereas your fathers tempted me my power for to prove My wondrous works when they did see yet still they would me move verse 10 Twice twenty years they did me grieve and I to them did say They err in heart and not believe they have not known my way verse 11 Wherefore I sware when that my wrath was kindled in my brest That they should never tread the path to enter in my rest Contate Domino Psal xcvi J. 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SIng ye with praise unto the Lord new songs with joy and mirth Sing unto him with one accord all people on the earth verse 2 Yea sing unto the Lord I say praise ye his holy Name Declare and shew from day to day salvation by the same verse 3 Among the heathen eke declare his honour round about To shew his wonders do not spare in all the world throughout verse 4 For why the Lord is much of might and worthy praise alway And he is to be dread of right above all gods I say verse 5 For all the gods of heathen folk are idols that will fade But yet our God he is the Lord that hath the heavens made verse 6 All praise and honour eke do dwell for ay before his face Both power and might likewise excell within his holy place verse 7 Ascribe unto the Lord alway ye people of the world All might and worship eke I say ascribe unto the Lord. verse 8 Ascribe unto the Lord also the glory of his Name And eke into his courts do go with gifts unto the same The second part verse 9 Fall down and worship ye the Lord. within his temple bright Let all the people of the world be fearful at his sight verse 10 Tell all the world Be not agast the Lord doth reign above Yea he hath set the earth so fast that it can never move verse 11 And that it is the Lord alone that rules with princely might To judge the nations everyone with equity and right verse 12 The heavens shall great joy begin the earth eke shall rejoyce The sea with all that is therein shall shout and make a noise verse 13 The field shall joy and every thing that springeth on the earth The wood and every tree shall sing with gladness and with mirth verse 14 Before the presence of the Lord and coming of his might When he shall justly judge the world and rule his folk with right Dominus regnavit Psal xcvii J. 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THe Lord doth reign whereat the earth may joy with pleasant voice And eke the isles with joyful mirth may triumph and rejoyce verse 2 Both clouds and darkness eke do swell and round about him beat Yea right and justice ever dwell and bide about his seat verse 3 Yea fire and heat at once do run and go before his face Which shall his foes and enemies burn abroad in every place verse 4 His lightnings eke full bright did blaze and to the world appear Whereat the earth did look and gaze with dread and deadly fear verse 5 The hills like wax did melt in sight and presence of the Lord They sled before that Rulers might which guideth all the world verse 6 The heavens eke declare and show his justice forth abroad That all the world may see and know the glory of our God â— Confusion sure shall come to such as worship idols vain And eke to those that glory much dumb pictures to maintain For all the idols of the world which they as gods do call â—hall feel the power of the Lord and down to him shall fall â— With joy shall Sion hear this thing and Juda shall rejoyce â—or at thy judgements they shall sing and make a pleasant noise That thou O Lord art set on high in all the earth abroad â—nd art exalted wondrously above each other god â— All ye that love the Lord do this hate all things that are ill or he doth keep the souls of his from such as would them spill â— And light doth spring up to the just with pleasure for his part â—reat joy with gladness mirth and lust to them of upright heart Ye righteous in the Lord rejoyce his
holiness proclaim 〈◊〉 thankful eke with heart and voice and mindful of the same Cantate Domino Psal xcviii J. H. 〈◊〉 Sing ye now unto the Lord a new and pleasant long 〈◊〉 he hath wrought throughout the world his wonders great and strong With his right hand full worthily he doth his foes devour â—â—d get himself the victory with his own arm and power The Lord doth make the people know his saving health and might â—e Lord doth eke his justice show in all the heathens sight His grace and truth to Israel in minde he doth record â—at all the earth hath seen right well the goodness of the Lord. â—e glad in him with joyful voice all people of the earth â—ethanks to God sing and rejoyce to him with joy and mirth Upon the harp unto him sing give thanks to him with psalms Rejoyce before the Lord our King with trumpets and with shalms verse 7 Yea let the sea with all therein for joy both roar and swell The earth likewise let it begin with all that therein dwell verse 8 And let the flouds rejoyce their fills and clap their hands apace And eke the mountains and the hills before the Lord his face verse 9 For he shall come to judge and try the world and every wight And rule the people mightily with justice and with right Dominus regnavit Psal xcix J. 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THe Lord doth reign although at it the people rage full sore Yea he on cherubims doth sit though all the world do roar verse 2 The Lord that doth in Sion dwell is high and wondrous great Above all folk he doth excell and he aloft is set verse 3 Let all men praise thy mighty Name for it is fearful sure And let them magnifie the same that holy is and pure verse 4 The princely power of our King doth love judgement and right Thou rightly rulest everything in Jacob through thy might verse 5 To praise the Lord our God devise all honour to him do Before his footstool worship him for he is holy too verse 6 Moses Aaron and Samuel as priests on him did call When they did pray he heard them well and gave them answer all verse 7 Within the cloud to them he spake then did they labour still To keep such saws as he did make and pointed them untill verse 8 O Lord our God thou didst them hear and answeredst them again Thy mercy did on them appear their deeds didst not maintain verse 9 O laud and praise our God and Lord within his holy hill For why our God throughout the world is holy ever still Jubilate Deo Psal c. J. H. ALl people that on earth do dwell sing to the Lord with chearful voice verse 2 Him serve with fear his praise forth tell come ye before him and rejoyce verse 3 The Lord ye know is God indeed without our aid he did us make We are his flock he doth us feed and for his sheep he doth us take verse 4 O enter then his gates with praise approach with joy his courts unto Praise laud and bless his Name always for it is seemly so to do verse 5 For why the Lord our God is good his mercy is for ever sure His truth at all times firmly stood and shall from age to age endure Another of the same by J. H. IN God the Lord be glad and light praise him throughout the earth verse 2 Serve him and come before his sight with singing and with mirth verse 3 Know that the Lord our God he is he did us make and keep Not we our selves for we are his own flock and pasture-sheep verse 4 O go into his gates always give thanks within the same Within his courts set forth his praise and laud his holy Name verse 5 For why the goodness of the Lord for evermore doth reign From age to age throughout the world his truth doth still remain Misericordiam Psal ci N. I Mercy will and judgement sing O Lord God unto thee verse 2 And wisely do in perfect way until thou come to me And in the midst of my house walk in pureness of my sprite verse 3 And I no kinde of wicked thing will set before my sight I hate their works that fall away it shall not cleave to me verse 4 From me shall part the froward heart none evil will I see verse 5 Him will I stroy that slandereth his neighbour privily The lofty heart I cannot hear nor him that looketh high verse 6 Mine eyes shall be on them within the land that faithful be In perfect way who walketh shall be servant unto me verse 7 I will no guileful person have within my house to dwell And in my presence he shall not remain that lies doth tell verse 8 Betimes I will destroy even all the wicked of the land That I may from Gods city cut the wicked workers hand Domine exaudi Psal cii N. O Hear my prayer Lord and let my cry come unto thee verse 2 In time of trouble do not hide thy face away from me verse 3 Incline thine ear to me make haste to hear me when I call For as the smoke doth fade so do my days consume and fall verse 4 And as an hearth my bones are burnt my heart is smitten dead And withers like the grass that I forget to eat my bread verse 5 By reason of my groaning voice my bones cleave to my skin verse 6 As pelicane in wilderness such case now am I in And as an owl in desert is so I am such an one verse 7 I watch and as a sparrow on the house-top am alone verse 8 Lo daily in reproachful wise mine enemies do me scorn And they that do against me rage against me they have sworn verse 9 Surely with ashes as with bread my hunger I have fill'd And mingled have my drink with tears that from mine eyes have still'd verse 10 Because of thy displeasure Lord thy wrath and thy disdain For thou hast listed me aloft and cast me down again verse 11 The days wherein I pass my life are like the fleeting shade And I am with'red like the grass that soon away doth fade verse 12 But thou O Lord for ever dost remain in steady place And thy remembrance ever doth abide from race to race The second part verse 13 Thou wilt arise and mercy thou to Sion wilt extend The time of mercy now the time foreset is come to end verse 14 For even in the stones thereof thy servants do delight And on the dust thereof they have compassion in their sprite verse 15 Then shall the heathen people fear the Lords most holy Name And all the kings on earth shall dread thy glory and thy fame verse 16 Then when the Lord the mighty God again shall Sion rear And then when he most nobly in his glory shall appear verse 17 To prayer of the desolate when he himself shall bend When he shall not disdain unto their prayers to attend verse 18
this great Lord did make Which trees he doth nourish that grow up so long verse 17 In these may birds build and make there their nests In fir-trees the storks remain and abide verse 18 The high hills are succours for wilde goats to rest And eke the rock stony for conies to hide verse 19 The moon then is set her seasons to run The days from the nights thereby to discern And by the descending also of the sun The cold from heat alway thereby we do learn verse 20 When darkness doth come by Gods will and power Then creep forth do all the beasts of the wood verse 21 The lions range roaring their prey to devour But yet it is thou Lord which givest them food verse 22 As soon as the sun is up they retire To couch in their dens then are they full fain verse 23 That man to his work may as right doth require Till night come and call him to take rest again The third part verse 24 How sundry O Lord are all thy works found With wisdom full great they are indeed wrought So that the whole world of thy praise doth sound And as for thy riches they pass all mens thought verse 25 So is the great sea which large is and broad Where things that creep swarm and beasts of each sort verse 26 There both mighty ships sail and some lie at rode The whale huge and monstrous there also doth sport verse 27 All things on thee wait thou dost them relieve And thou in due time full well dost them feed verse 28 Now when it doth please thee the same for to give They gather full gladly those things which they need Thou openest thine hand and they finde such grace That they with good things are filled we see verse 29 But sore are they troubled if thou turn thy face For if thou their breath take vile dust then they be verse 30 Again when thy Spirit from thee doth proceed All things to appoint and what shall ensue Then are they created as thou hast decreed And dost by thy goodness the dry earth renew verse 31 The praise of the Lord for ever shall last Who may in his works by right well rejoyce verse 32 His look can the earth make to tremble full fast And likewise the mountains to smoke at his voice verse 33 To this Lord and God sing will I always So long as I live my God praise will I. verse 34 Then am I most certain my words shall him please I will rejoyce in him to him will I cry verse 35 The sinners O Lord consume in thine ire And eke the perverse them root out with shame But as for my soul now let it still desire And say with the faithful Praise ye the Lords Name Confitemini Dom. Psal cv N. GIve praises unto God the Lord and call upon his Name Among the people eke declare his works to spread his fame verse 2 Sing ye unto the Lord I say and sing unto him praise And talk of all his wondrous works that he hath wrought always verse 3 In honour of his holy Name rejoyce with one accord And let the heart also rejoyce of them that seek the Lord. verse 4 Seek ye the Lord and seek the strength of his eternal might And seek his face continually and presence of his sight verse 5 The wondrous works which he hath done keep still in mindful heart Ne let the judgements of his mouth out of your minde depart verse 6 Ye that of faithful Abraham his servant are the feed Ye his elect the children that of Jacob do proceed verse 7 For he he onely is I say the mighty Lord our God And his most rightful judgements are through all the earth abroad verse 8 His promise and his covenant which he hath made to his He hath remembred evermore to thousands of degrees The second part verse 9 The covenant which he hath made with Abraham long ago And faithful oath which he hath sworn to Isaac also verse 10 And did confirm the same for law that Jacob should obey And for eternal covenant to Israel for ay verse 11 When thus he said Lo I to you all Canaan land will give The lot of your inheritance wherein your seed shall live verse 12 Although the number at that time did very small appear Yea. very small and in the land they then but strangers were verse 13 While yet they walkt from land to land without a sure abode And while from sundry kingdoms they did wander all abroad verse 14 And wrong at no oppressours hands he suffered them to take But even the great and mighty kings reproved for their sake verse 15 And thus he said Touch ye not those that mine anointed be Ne do the prophets my harm that do pertain to me verse 16 He call'd a dearth upon the land of bread he stroy'd the store But he against the time of need had sent a man before The third part verse 17 Even Joseph which had once been sold to live a slave in wo Whose feet they hurt in stocks whose soul the irons pierc'd also verse 18 Until the time came when his cause was known apparently The mighty word of God the Lord his faultless truth did try verse 19 The king sent and delivered him from prison where he was verse 20 The ruler of the people then did freely let him pass verse 21 And over all his house he made him lord to bear the sway And of his substance made him have the rule and all the stay verse 22 That he might to his will instruct the princes of the land And wisdoms lore his ancient men might cause to understand verse 23 Then into the Egyptian land came Israel also And Jacob in the land of Ham did live a stranger tho verse 24 His people he exceedingly in number made to flow And over all their enemies in strength he made them grow verse 25 Whose heart he turn'd that they with hate his people did entreat And did his servants wrongfully abuse with false deceit The fourth part verse 26 His faithful servant Moses then and Aaron whom he chose He did command to go to them his message to disclose verse 27 The wondrous message of his signs among them he did show And wonders in the land of Ham then did they work also verse 28 Darkness he sent and made it dark in stead of brighter day And unto his commission they did not disobey verse 29 He turn'd their waters into bloud he did their fishes slay verse 30 Their land brought frogs even in the place where their king Pharaoh lay verse 31 He spake and at his voice there came great swarms of noysom flies And all the quarters of the land were fill'd with crawling lice verse 32 He gave them cold and stony hail in stead of milder rain And fiery flames within their land he sent unto their pain verse 33 He smote their vines and all their trees whereon their figs did grow And
and their hateful enemies opprest them in the land And they were humbly made to stoop as subjects to their hand verse 43 Full oftentimes from thrall had he delivered them before But with their counsels they to wrath provok'd him evermore Therefore they by their wickedness were brought full low to lie verse 44 Yet when he saw them in distress he hearkned to their crie verse 45 He call'd to minde his covenant which he to them had swore And by his mercies multitude repented him therefore verse 46 And favour he them made to finde before the fight of those That led them captive from their land when erst they were their foes verse 47 Save us O Lord that art our God save us O Lord we pray And from among the heathen folk Lord gather us away verse 48 That we may spread the noble praise of thy most holy Name That we may glory in thy praise and sounding of thy fame verse 49 The Lord the God of Israel be blest for evermore Let all the people say Amen praise ye the Lord therefore Confitemini Dom. Psal cvii. W. K. GIve thanks unto the Lord our God for gracious is he And that his mercy hath no end all mortal men may see verse 2 Such as the Lord redeemed hath with thanks shall praise his Name And shew how they from foes were freed and how he wrought the same verse 3 He gath'red them forth of the lands that lay so sar about From east to west from north to south his hand did finde them out verse 4 They wandred in the wildernesâ— and strayed from the way And found no city where to dwell that serve might for their stay verse 5 Whose thirst and hunger was so great in these deserts so void That saintness did them sore assault and eke their souls annoy'd verse 6 Then did they cry in their distress unto the Lord for aid Who did remove their troublous state according as they pray'd verse 7 And by that way which was most right he led them like a guide That they might to a city go and there also abide verse 8 Let men therefore before the Lord confess his goodness then And shew the wonders that he doth before the sons of men verse 9 For he the empty soul sustain'd whom thirst had made to saint The hungry soul with goodness fed and did them eke acquaint verse 10 Such as do dwell in darkness deep where they on death do wait Fast bound to taste such troublous stormâ— as iron chains do threat The second part verse 11 For that against the Lords own words they sought so to rebel Esteeming light his counsels high which do so far excel verse 12 But when he humbled them full low they then fell down with grief And none was found so much to help whereby to get relief verse 13 Then did they cry in their distress unto the Lord for aid Who did remove their troublous state according as they pray'd verse 14 For he from darkness out them brought and from deaths dreadful shade Bursting with force the iron bands which them before did lade verse 15 Let men therefore before the Lord confess his kindness then And shew the wonders that he doth before the sons of men verse 16 For he threw down the gates of brass and brake them with strong hand The iron bars he smote in two nothing could him withstand verse 17 The foolish folk great plagues do seel and cannot from them wend But heap on more to those they have because they do offend verse 18 Their soul so much did lothe all meat that none they could abide Whereby death had them almost caught as they full truly tri'd verse 19 Then did they cry in their distress unto the Lord for aid Who did remove their troublous-state according as they pray'd verse 20 For then he sent to them his word which health did soon restore And brought them from those dangers deep wherein they were before The third part verse 21 Let men therefore before the Lord confess his kindness then And shew the wonders that he doth before the sons of men verse 22 And let them offer sacrifice with thanks and also fear And speak of all his wondrous works with glad and joyful cheer verse 23 Such as in ships and brittle barks into the seas descend Their merchandise through fearful flouds to compass and to end verse 24 Those men are forced to behold the Lords works what they be And in the dangerous deep the same most marvellous they see verse 25 For at his word the stormy wind ariseth in a rage And stirreth up the surges so verse 26 Then are they lifted up so high the clouds they seem to gain And plunging down the depth until their souls consume with pain verse 27 And like a drunkard to and fro now here now there they reel As men with fear of wit berest or had of sense no feel verse 28 Then did they cry in their distress unto the Lord for aid Who did remove their troublous state according as they pray'd verse 29 For with his word the Lord doth make the sturdy storms to cease So that the great waves from their ragâ— are brought toâ—rest and peace verse 30 Then are men glad when rest is come which they so much did crave And are by him in haven brought which they so fain would have The third part verse 31 Let men therefore before the Lord confess his kindness then And shew the wonders that he doth before the sons of men verse 32 Let them in presence of the folk with praâ—â—e extol his Name And where the elders do convent there let them do the same verse 33 For running flouds to dry deserts he doth oft change and turn And drieth up as it were dust the springing well and bourn verse 34 A fruitful land with pleasures decâ—t full barren doth he make When on their sins that dwell therein he doth just vengeance take verse 35 Again the wilderness sull rude he maketh fruit to bear With pleasant springs of waters clear though none before were there verse 36 Wherein such hungry souls are set as he doth freely chuse That they a city may them build to dwell in for their use verse 37 That they may sow their Pleasant land and vineyards also plant To yeeld them fruits of such increase as none may seem to want verse 38 They multiply exceedingly the Lord doth bless them so Who doth also the brute beasts make by numbers great to grow verse 39 But when the faithful are low brought by the oppressours stout And minish do through many plagues that compass them about verse 40 Then doth he princes bring to shame which did them sore oppress And likewise caused them to err within the wilderness verse 41 But yet the poor he raiseth up out of his troubles deep And oft-times doth his train augment much like a flock of sheep verse 42 The righteous shall behold this sight and also much rejoyce
verse 5 The Lord is very merciful and just he is also And in our God compassion doth plentifully flow verse 6 The Lord in safety doth preserve all those that simple be I was in woful misery and he delivered me verse 7 And now my soul sith thou art sâ—fe return unto thy rest For largely lo the Lord to thee his bounty hath exprest verse 8 Because thou hast delivered my soul from deadly thrall My moistned eyes from mournful tears my sliding feet from fall verse 9 Before the Lord I in the land of life will walk therefore verse 10 I did beleeve therefore I spake for I was troubled sore The second part verse 11 I said in my distress and fear That all men hars be verse 12 What shall I pay the Lord for all his benefits to me verse 13 The wholsom cup of saving health I thankfully will take And on the Lords Name I will call when I my prayer make verse 14 I to the Lord will pay the vows that I to him behight Yea even at this present time in all his peoples sight verse 15 Right dear and precious in his sight the Lord doth ay esteem The death of all his holy ones what ever men do deem verse 16 Thy servant Lord thy servant lo I do myself confess Son of thy hand-maid thou hast broke the bonds of my distress verse 17 And I will offer up to thee a sacrifice of praise And I will call upon the Name of God the Lord always verse 18 I to the Lord will pay the vows that I have him behight Yea even at this present time in all his peoples sight verse 19 Yea in the courts of Gods own house and in the midst of thee O thou Jerusalem I say wherefore the Lord praise ye Laudate Dominum Psal cxvii N. O All ye nations of the world praise ye the Lord always And all ye people every where set forth his noble praise â— For great his kindness is to us his truth endures for ay Wherefore praise ye the Lord our God praise ye the Lord I say Confitemini Psal cxviii N. O Give ye thanks unto the Lord for gracious is he Because his mercy doth endure for ever towards thee â— Let Israel confess and say His mercy dures for ay â— Now let the house of Aaron say His mercy dures for ay â— Let all that fear the Lord our God even now confess and say The mercy of the Lord our God endureth still for ay â— In trouble and in heaviness unto the Lord I cri'd Which lovingly heard me at large my suit was not deni'd â— The Lord himself is on my side I will not stand in doubt Nor fear what man can do to me when God stands me about â— The Lord doth take my part with them that help to succour me Therefore I shall see my desire upon mine enemie â— Better it is to trust in God then in mans mortal seed â— Or to put confidence in kings or princes in our need â—0 All nations have inclosed me and compassed me round But in the Name of God shall I mine enemies confound â—1 They kept me in on every side they kept me in I say But in the Lords most mighty Name I shall work their decay â—2 They came about me all like bees but yet in the Lords Name quencht their thorns that were on fire and will destroy the same The second part verse 13 Thou hast with force thrust sore at me that I indeed might fall But through the Lord I found such help that they were vanquisht all verse 14 The Lord is my defence and strength my joy my mirth my song He is become for me indeed a Saviour most strong verse 15 The right hand of the Lord our God doth bring to pass great things He causeth voice of joy and health in righteous mens dwellings verse 16 The right hand of the Lord doth bring most mighty things to pass His hand hath the preeminence his force is as it was verse 17 I shall not die but ever live to utter and declare The Lord his might and wondrous power his works and what they are verse 18 The Lord himself hath chastened and hath corrected me But hath not given me over yet to death as ye may see verse 19 Set open unto me the gates of truth and righteousness That I may enter into them the Lords praise to express verse 20 This is the gate even of the Lord which shall not so be shut But good and righteous men alway shall enter into it The third part verse 21 I will give thanks to thee O Lord because thou hast heard me And art become most lovingly a Saviour unto me verse 22 The stone which ere this time among the builders was refused Is now become the corner-stone and chiefly to be used verse 23 This was the mighty work of God this was the Lords own fact And it is marvellous to behold with eyes that noble act verse 24 This is the joyful day indeed which God himself hath wrought Let us be glad and joy therein in heart in minde in thought verse 25 Now help us Lord and prosper us we wish with one accord verse 26 Blessed is he that comes to us in the Name of the Lord. verse 27 God is the Lord that shews us light binde ye therefore with cord Your sacrifice to the altar and give thanks to the Lord. verse 28 Thou art my God I will confess and render thanks to thee Thou art my God and I will praise thy mercy towards me verse 29 O Give ye thanks unto the Lord for gracious is he Because his mercy doth endure for ever towards me Beati immaculati Psal cxix W. W. BLessed are they that perfect are and pure in minde and heart Whose lives and conversations from Gods laws never start verse 2 Blessed are they that give themselves his statutes to observe Seeking the Lord with all their heart and never from him swerve verse 3 Doubtless such men go not astray nor do no wicked thing Which stedfastly walk in his way without any wandring verse 4 It is thy will and commandment that with attentive heed Thy noble and divine precepts we learn and keep indeed verse 5 O would to God it might thee please my ways so to address That I might both in heart and voice thy laws keep and confess verse 6 So should no shame my life attaint whil'st I thus set mine eyes And bend my minde always to muse on thy sacred decrees verse 7 Then will I praise with upright heart and magnify thy Name When I shall learn thy judgements just and likewise prove the same verse 8 And wholly will I give my self to keep thy laws most right Forsake me not for ever Lord but shew thy grace and might BETH The second part verse 9 By what means may a young man best his life learn to amend If that he mark and keep thy word and therein his time spend verse
10 Unfeignedly I have thee sought and thus seeking abide O never suffer me O Lord from thy precepts to slide verse 11 Within my heart and secret thoughts thy words I have hid still That I might not at any time offend thy godly will verse 12 We magnify thy Name O Lord and praise thee evermore Thy statutes of most worthy fame O Lord teach me therefore verse 13 My lips have never ceast to preach and publish day and night The judgements all which did proceed from thy mouth full of might verse 14 Thy testimonies and thy ways please me no less indeed Then all the treasures of the earth which worldlings make their meed verse 15 Of thy precepts I will still muse and thereto frame my talk As at a mark so will I aim thy ways how I may walk verse 16 My onely joy shall be so fixt and on thy laws so set That nothing can me so far blinde that I thy words forget GIMEL The third part verse 17 Grant to thy servant now such grace as may my life prolong Thy holy word them will I keep both in my heart and tongue verse 18 Mine eyes which were dim and shut up so open and make bright That of thy law and marvellous works I may have the clear sight verse 19 I am a stranger in this earth wandring now here now there Thy word to me therefore disclose my footsteps for to clear verse 20 My soul is ravisht with desire and never is at rest But seeks to know thy judgements high and what may please thee best verse 21 The proud men and malicious thou hast destroy'd each one And cursed are such as do not thy hests attend upon verse 22 Lord turn from me rebuke and shame which wicked men conspire For I have kept thy covenants with zeal as hot as fire verse 23 The princes great in counsel sat and did against me speak But then thy servant thought how he thy statutes might not break verse 24 For why thy covenants are my joy and my hearts great solace They serve in stead of counsellours my matters for to pass DALETH The fourth part verse 25 I am alas as brought to grave and almost turn'd to dust Restore therefore my life again as thy promise is just verse 26 My ways when I acknowledged with mercy thou didst hear Hear now eftsoon and me instruct thy laws to love and fear verse 27 Teach me once throughly for to know thy precepts and thy lore Thy works then will I meditate and lay them up in store verse 28 My soul I feel so sore opprest that it melteth for grief According to thy word therefore haste Lord to send relief verse 29 From lying and deceitful lips let thy grace me defend And that I may learn thee to love thy holy law me send verse 30 The way of truth both straight and sure I have chosen and found I set thy judgements me before which keep me safe and sound verse 31 Since then O Lord I forc'd my self thy covenants to embrace Let me therefore have no rebuke nor check in any case verse 32 Then will I run with joyful cheet where thy word doth me call When thou hast set my heart at large and rid me out of thrall HE. The fifth part verse 33 Instruct me Lord in the right trade of thy statutes divine And it to keep even to the end my heart will I incline verse 34 Grant me the knowledge of thy law and I shall it obey With heart and minde and all my might I will it keep I say verse 35 In the right paths of thy precepts guide me Lord I require None other pleasure do I wish nor greater thing desire verse 36 Incline my heart thy laws to keep and covenants to embrace And from all filthy avarice Lord shield me with thy grace verse 37 from vain desires and worldly lusts turn back mine eyes and sight Give me the spirit of life and power to walk thy ways aright verse 38 confirm thy gracious promise Lord which thou hast made to me Which am thy servant and do love and fear nothing but thee verse 39 Reproach and shame which I so fear from me O Lord expel For thou dost judge with equity and therein dost excel verse 40 Behold my hearts desire is bent thy laws to keep for ay Lord strengthen me so with thy grace that it perform I may VAV. The sixth part verse 41 Thy mercies great and manifold let me obtain O Lord Thy saving health let me enjoy according to thy word verse 42 So shall I stop the slandrous mouths of lewd men and unjust For in thy faithful promises stands my comfort and trust verse 43 The word of truth within my mouth let ever still be prest For in thy judgements wonderful my hope doth stand and rest verse 44 And whil'st that breath within my breast doth natural life preserve Yea till this world shall be dissolv'd thy law will I observe verse 45 So walk will I as set at large and made free from all dread Because I sought how for to keep thy precepts and thy read verse 46 Thy noble acts I will describe as things of most great fame Even before kings I will them blaze and shrink no whit for shame verse 47 I will rejoyce then to obey thy worthy hests and will Which evermore I have lov'd best and so will love them still verse 48 My hands I will lift to thy laws which I have dearly sought And practise thy commandments in will in deed in thought ZAIN The seventh part verse 49 Thy promise which thou mad'st to me thy servant Lord remember For therein have I put my trust and confidence for ever verse 50 It is my comfort and my joy when troubles me assail For were my life not by thy word my life would soon me fail verse 51 The proud and such as God contemn still made of me a scorn Yet would I not thy law forsake as he that were forlorn verse 52 But call'd to minde Lord thy great works shew'd to our fathers old Whereby I felt the joy surmount my grief an hundred-fold verse 53 But yet alas for fear I quake seeing how wicked men Thy law forsook and did procure thy judgements who knows when verse 54 And as for me I fram'd my songs thy statutes to exalt When I among the strangers dwelt and thoughts 'gan me assault verse 55 I thought upon thy Name O Lord by night when others sleep As for thy law also I kept and ever will it keep verse 56 This grace I did obtain because thy covenants sweet and dear I did embrace and also keep with reverence and with tear HETH The eighth part verse 57 O God which art my part and lot my comfort and my stay I have decreed and promised thy laws to keep alway verse 58 Mine earnest heart did humbly sue in presence of thy face As thou therefore hast promised Lord grant me of thy grace verse 59 My
may after thy judgements live verse 109 My soul is ay so in my hand that dangers me assail Yet do I not thy law forget nor it to keep will fail verse 110 Although the wicked laid their nets to catch me at a bay Yet did I not from thy precepts once swerve or go astray verse 111 Thy law I have so claim'd alway as mine own heritage And why for therein I delight and set my whole courage verse 112 For ever more I have been bent thy statutes to fulfil Even so likewise unto the end I will continue still SAMECH The fifteenth part verse 113 The crafty thoughts and double hearts I do always detest But as for thy law and precepts I love them ever best verse 114 Thou art my did and secret place my shield of strong defence Therefore have I thy promises lookâ— for with patience verse 115 Go to therefore ye wicked men depart from me anon For the commandments will I keep of God my Lord alone verse 116 As thou hast promis'd so perform that death me not assail Nor let my hope abuse me so that through distrust I quail verse 117 Uphold me and I shall be safe for ought they do or say And in thy statutes pleasure take will I both night and day verse 118 Thou hast trod such under thy feet as do thy statutes break For nought avails their subtilty their counsel is but weak verse 119 Like dross thou casts the wicked out where-ere they go or dwell Therefore can I as thy statutes love nothing half so well verse 120 My flesh alas is taken with fear as though it were benumm'd For when I see thy judgements straight I am as one aston'd AIN The sixteenth part verse 121 I do the thing that lawful is and give to all men right Resigne me not to them that would oppress me with their might verse 122 But for thy servant surety be in that thing that is good That proud men give me not the foil which rage as they were wood verse 123 Mine eyes with waiting are now blinde thy health so much I crave And eke thy righteous promise Lord whereby thou wilt me save verse 124 Entreat thy servant lovingly and favour to him show Thy statutes of most excellency teach me also to know verse 125 Thy humble servant Lord I am grant me to understand How by thy statutes I may know best what to take in hand verse 126 It is now time Lord to begin for truth is quite decai'd Thy law likewise they have transgrest and none agaâ—nst them said verse 127 This is the cause wherefore I love thy laws better then gold Or jewels fine which are esteem'd most costly to be sold verse 128 I thought thy precepts all most just and so them laid in store All crafty and malicious ways I do abhor therefore PE. The seventeenth part verse 129 Thy covenants are most wonderful and full ofthings profound My soul therefore doth keep them sure when they are tri'd and sound verse 130 When men first enter into thy word they finde a light most clear And very idiots understand when they it read or hear verse 131 For joy I have both gap'd and breath'd to know thy commandment That I might guide my self thereby I sought what thing it meant verse 132 With mercy and compassion Lord behold me from above As thou art wont to behold such as thy Name fear and love verse 133 Direct my footsteps by thy word that I thy will may know And never let iniquity thy servant overthrow verse 134 From slandrous tongues and deadly harms preserve and keep me sure Thy precepts then will I observe and put them eke inure verse 135 Thy countenance which doth surmount the sun in his bright hue Let shine on me and by thy law teach me what to eschew verse 136 Out of mine eyes great flouds gush out of dreary tears and fell When I behold how wicked men thy laws keep never a dell ZADE. The eighteenth part verse 137 In every point Lord thou art just the wicked though they grudge And when thou dost sentence pronounce thou art a righteous Judge verse 138 To render right and flee from guile are two chief points most high And such as thou hast in thy law commanded us straitly verse 139 With zeal and wrath I am consum'd and even pin'd away Too see my foes thy word forget for ought that I do may verse 140 So pure and perfect is thy word as any heart can deem And I thy servant nothing more do love or yet esteem verse 141 And though I be nothing set by as one of base degree Yet do I not thy laws forget nor shrink away from thee verse 142 Thy righteousness Lord is most just for ever to endure Also thy law is truth it self most constant and most pure verse 143 Trouble and grief have seis'd on me and brought me wondrous low Yet do I still of thy precepts delight to hear and know verse 144 The righteousness of thy judgements doth last for evermore Then teach them me for even in them my life lies up in store KOPH The nineteenth part verse 145 With fervent heart I call'd and cri'd nowan swer me O Lord That thy commandments to observe I may fully accord verse 146 To thee my God I make my suit with most humble request Save me therefore and I will keep thy precepts and thy hests verse 147 To thee I cry even in the morn before the day wax light Because that I have in thy word my confidence whole plight verse 148 Mine eyes prevent the watch by night and ere they call I wake That by devising on thy word I might some comfort take verse 149 Incline thine ears to hear my voice and pity on me take As thou waâ—t wont so judge me Lord lest life should me forsake verse 150 My foes draw near and do procure my death maliciously Which from thy law are far gone back and stray'd from it lewdly verse 151 Therefore O Lord approach thou near for need doth so require For all thy precepts true they are then help I thee desire verse 152 But thy commandments have I learn'd not now but long ago That they remain for evermore thou hast them grounded so RESH The twentieth part verse 153 My trouble and affliction consider and behold Deliver me for of thy law I ever take fast hold verse 154 Defend my good and righteous cause with speed some succour send From death as thou hast promised Lord keep me and defend verse 155 As for the wicked far they are from having health and grace Whereby they might thy statutes know they enter not the trace verse 156 Great are thy mercies Lord I grant what tongue can them attain And as thou hast me judg'd ere now so let me life obtain verse 157 Though many men did trouble me and persecute me sore Yet from thy laws I never shrunk nor went wry therefore verse 158 And truth it is for
fares with us Broke are their nets and we have scaped thus verse 8 God that made heaven and earth is our help then His Name hath sav'd us from these wicked men Qui confidunt Psal cxxv W. K. SUch as in God the Lord do trust As mount Sion shall firmly stand And be removed at no hand The Lord will count them right and just So that they shall be sure For ever to endure verse 2 As mighty mountains huge and great Jerusalem about do close So will the Lord do unto those Who on his godly will do wait Such are to him so dear They never need to fear verse 3 For though the righteous try doth he By making wicked men his rod Lest they through grief forsake their God It shall not as their lot still be verse 4 Give Lord to us thy light Whose hearts are true and right verse 5 But as for such as turn aside By crooked ways which they out sought The Lord will surely bring to nought With workers vile they shall abide But peace with Israel For evermore shall dwell Another of the same by R. W. THose that do put their confidence Upon the Lord our God onely And flee to him for their defence In all their need and misery Their faith is sure still to endure Grounded on Christ the corner-stone Mov'd with none ill but standeth full Stedfast like to the mount Sion And as about Jerusalem The mighty hills do it compass So that no enemies come to them To hurt that town in any case So God indeed in every need His faithful people doth defend Standing them by assuredly From this time forth world without end Right wise and good is our Lord God And will not suffer certainly The sinners and ungodlies rod To tarry upon his family Lest they also from God should go Falling to sin and wickedness O Lord defend world without end Thy Christian flock through thy goodness O Lord do good to Christians all That stedfast in thy word abide Such as willingly from God fall And to false doctrine daily slide Such will the Lord scatter abroad With hypocrites thrown down to hell God will them send pains without end But Lord grant peace to Israel Glory to God the Father of might And to the Son our Saviour And to the holy Ghost whose light Shine in our hearts and us succour That the right way from day to day We may walk and him glorifie With heates desire all that are here Worship the Lord and say Amen In convertendo Psal cxxvi W. W. WHen that the Lord again his Sion had forth brought From bondage great and also servitude extreme His work was such as did surmount mans heart thought So that we were much like to them that use to dream verse 2 Our mouths were with laughter filled then And eke our tongues did shew us joyful men The heathen folk were forced then this to confess How that the Lord for them also great things had done verse 3 But much more we and therefore can confess no less Wherefore to joy we have good cause as we begun verse 4 O Lord go forth thou canst our bondage end As to deserts the flowing rivers send verse 5 Full true it is that they which sow in tears indeed A time will come when they shall reap in mirth and joy verse 6 They went and wept in bearing of their precious seed For that their foes full often times did them annoy But their return with joy they shall sure see Their sheaves home bring and not empaired be Nisi Dom. Psal cxxvii W. W. EXcept the Lord the house doth make And thereunto doth set his hand What men do build it cannot stand Likewise in vain men undertake Cities and holds to watch and ward Except the Lord be their safeguard verse 2 Though ye rise early in the morn And so at night go late to bed Feeding full hardly with brown bread Yet were your labour lost and worn But they whom God doth love and keep Receive all things with quiet sleep verse 3 Therefore mark well when-ever you see That men have heirs t' enjoy their land It is the gift of Gods own hand For God himself doth multiply Of his great liberality The blessing of posterity verse 4 And when the children come to age They grow in strength and activeness In person and in comeliness So that a shaft shot with courage Of one that hath a most strong arm Flies not so swift nor doth like harm verse 5 Oh well is he that hath his quiver Furnisht with such artillerie For when in peril he shall be Such one shall never shake nor shiver When that he pleads before the judge Against his foes that bear him grudge Beati omnes Psal cxxviii T. S. BLessed art thou that fearest God and walkest in his way verse 2 For of thy labour thou shalt eat happy art thou I say verse 3 Like fruitful vines on thy house side so doth thy wife spring out Thy children stand like olive-plants thy table round about verse 4 Thus art thou blest that fearest God and he shall let thee see verse 5 The promised Jerusalem and her felicitie verse 6 Thou shalt thy childrens children see to thy great joys increase And likewise grace on Israel prosperity and peace Sape expugnaverunt Psal cxxix N. OFt they now Israel may say me from my youth assail'd verse 2 Oft they assail'd me from my youth yet never they prevail'd verse 3 Upon my back the plowers plow'd and furrows long did cast verse 4 The righteous Lord hath cut the cords of wicked foes at last verse 5 They that hate me shall be asham'd and turned back also verse 6 And made as grass upon the house which with reth ere it grow verse 7 Whereof the mower cannot finde enough to fill his hand Nor can he fill his lap that goeth to glean upon the land verse 8 Nor passers by pray God on them to let his blessing fall Nor say We bless you in the Name of God the Lord at all De profundis Psal cxxx W. W. LOrd to thee I make my moan when dangers me oppress I call I sigh plain and groan trusting to fiâ—de release verse 2 Hear now O Lord my request for it is full due time And let thine ears ay be prest unto this prayer mine verse 3 O Lord our God if thou weigh our sins and them peruse Who shall then escape and say I can my self excuse verse 4 But Lord thou art merciful and turn'st to us thy grace That we with hearts most careful should fear before thy face verse 5 In God I put my whole trust my soul waits on his will For his promise is most just and I hope therein still verse 6 My soul to God hath regard wishing for him alway More then they that watch and ward to see the dawning day verse 7 Let Israel then boldly in the Lord put his trust He is that God of mercy that his deliver
his wisdom made the heavens for his mercy endureth for ever verse 6 Which on the waters stretch the earth for his mercy endureth for ever verse 7 Which made great lights to shine abroad for his mercy endureth for ever verse 8 As sun to rule the lightsom day for his mercy c. verse 9 The moon and stars to guide the night for his mercy c. verse 10 Which smote Egypt with their first-born for his mercy c. verse 11 And Israel brought out from thence for his mercy c. verse 12 With mighty hand and stretched arm for his mercy c. verse 13 Which cut the Red sea in two parts for his mercy c. verse 14 And Israel made pass there-through for his mercy c. verse 15 And drowned Pharaoh and his host for his mercy c. verse 16 Through wilderness his people led for his mercy c. verse 17 He which did smite great noble kings for his mercy c. verse 18 And which hath slain the mighty kings for his mercy c. verse 19 As Sehon king of Amorites for his mercy c. verse 20 And Og the king of Basan land for his mercy c. verse 21 And gave their land for heritage for his mercy c. verse 22 Even to his servant Israel for his mercy c. verse 23 Rememberâ—ng us in base estate for his mercy c. verse 24 And from oppressours rescued us for his mercy c. verse 25 Which giveth food unto all flesh for his mercy c. verse 26 Praise ye the Lord of heaven above for his mercy endureth for ever verse 27 Give thanks unto the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for ever Another of the same by T. C. O Laud the Lord benigne Whose mercies last for ay verse 2 Give thanks and praises sing To God of gods I say For certainly His mercies dure Both firm and sure Eternally verse 3 The Lord of lords praise ye Whose mercies ay do dure verse 4 Great wonders onely he Doth work by his great power For certainly c. verse 5 Which God omnipotent By his great wisdom high The heavenly firmament Did frame as we may see For certainly c. verse 6 Yea he the heavy charge Of all the earth did stretch And on the waters large The same he did out reach For certainly c. verse 7 Great lights he made to be For why his love is ay verse 8 Such as the sun we see To rule the lightsom day For certainly c. verse 9 And eke the moon so clear Which shineth in our sight And stars that do appear To guide the darksom night For certainly c. verse 10 With grievous plagues and sore All Egypt smote he than The first-born less and more He slew of beast and man For certainly c. verse 11 And from amidst their land His Israel forth brought verse 12 Which he with mighty hand And stretched arm hath wrought For certainly c. verse 13 The sea he cut in two Which stood up like a wall verse 14 And made through it to go His chosen children all For certainly c. verse 15 But there he whelmed then The proud king Pharaoh With his huge host of men And chariots eke also For certainly c. verse 16 Who led through wilderness His people safe and sound verse 17 And for his love endless Great kings he brought to ground For certainly c. verse 18 And slew with puissant hand Kings mighty and of fame verse 19 As of Amorites land Sehon the king by name For certainly c. verse 20 And Og the giant large Of Basan king also verse 21 Whose land for heritage He gave his people tho For certainly c. verse 22 Even unto Israel His servant dear I say He gave the same to dwell And there abide for ay For certainly c. verse 23 To minde he did us call In our most base degree verse 24 And from oppressours all In safety set us free For certainly c. verse 25 All flesh in earth abroad With food he doth fulfill verse 26 Wherefore of heaven the God To laud be it your will For certainly c. Super fumina Psal cxxxvii W. W. WHen as we sat in Babylon the rivers round about And in remembrance of Sion the tears for grief burst out verse 2 We hang'd our harps and instruments the willow-trees upon For in that place men for their use had planted many a one verse 3 Then they to whom we prisoners were said to us tauntingly Now let us hear your Hebrew songs and pleasant melody verse 4 Alas said we who can once frame his sorrowful heart to sing The praises of our loving God thus under a strange king verse 5 But yet if I Jerusalem out of my heart let slide Then let my singers quite forget the warbling harp to guide verse 6 And let my tongue within my mouth be ty'd for ever fast If that I joy before I see thy full deliverance past verse 7 Therefore O Lord remember now the cursed noise and cry That Edoms sons against us made when they ras'd our city Remember Lord their cruel words when as with one accord They cry'd On sack and rase their walls in despight of their Lord. verse 8 Even so shalt thou O Babylon at length to dust be brought And happy shall that man be call'd that our revenge hath wrought verse 9 Yea blessed shall that man be call'd that takes thy children young To dash their bones against hard stones that lie the streets among Confitebor tibi Psal cxxxviii N. THee will I praise with my whole heart my Lord my God always Even in the presence of the gods I will advance thy praise verse 2 Toward thy holy temple I will look and worship thee And praised in my thankful mouth thy holy Name shall be Even for thy loving kindness sake and for thy truth withall For thou thy Name hast by thy word advanced over all verse 3 When I did call thou heardest me and thou hast made also The power of increased strength within my soul to grow verse 4 Yea all the kings on earth they shall give praise to thee O Lord For they of thy most holy mouth have heard the mighty word verse 5 They of the ways of God the Lord in singing shall entreat Because the glory of the Lord it is exceeding great verse 6 The Lord is high and yet he doth behold the lowly sprite But he contemning knows afar the proud and lofty wight verse 7 Although in midst of trouble I do walk yet shall I stand Renewed by thee O my Lord thou wilt stretch out thy hand Upon the wrath of all my foes and saved shall I be By thy right hand the Lord God will perform his work to me verse 8 Thy mercy Lord endures for ay Lord do me not forsake Forsake me not that am the work which thine own hand did make Domine probasti Psal cxxxix
N. O Lord thou hast me try'd and known my sitting thou dost know verse 2 And râ—â—ing eke my thoughts afar thou understand'st also verse 3 My paths yea and my lying down thou compassest always And by familiar custom art acquainted with my ways verse 4 No word is in my tongue O Lord but known it is to thee verse 5 Thou me behinde hold'st and before thou lay'st thine hand on me verse 6 Too wonderful above my reach Lord is thy cunning skill It is so high that I the same cannot attain untill verse 7 From sight of thy all-seeing Spirit Lord whither shall I go Or whither shall I flee away thy presence to scape fro verse 8 To heaven if I mount aloft lo thou art present there In hell if I lie down below even there thou dost appear verse 9 Yea let me take the morning wings and let me go and bide Even there where are the farthest parts where flowing sea doth slide verse 10 Yea even thither also shall thy reaching hand me guide And thy right hand shall hold me fast and make me to abide verse 11 Yea if I say The darkness shall yet shroud me from thy sight Lo even also the darkest night about me shall be light verse 12 Yea darkness hideth not from thee but night doth shine as day To thee the darkness and the light are both alike alway The second part verse 13 For thou possessed hast my reins and thou hast covered me When I within my mothers womb enclosed was by thee verse 14 Thee will I praise made fearfully and wondrously I am Thy works are marvellous right well my soul doth know the same verse 15 My bones they are not hid from thee although in secret place I have been made and in the earth beneath I shaped was verse 16 When I was formless then thine eye saw me for in thy book Were written all nought was before that after fashion took verse 17 The thoughts therefore of thee O God how dear are they to me And of them all how passing great the endless number be verse 18 If I should count them lo their sum more then the land I see And whensoever I awake yet am I still with thee verse 19 The wicked and the bloudy men O that thou wouldest slay Even those O God to whom Depart depart from me I say verse 20 Even those of thee O Lord my God that speak full wickedly Those that are lifted up in vain being enemies to thee verse 21 Hate I not them that hate thee Lord and that in earnest wise Contend I not against them all against thee that arise verse 22 I hate them with unfeigned hate even as my utter foes verse 23 Try me O God and know my heart my thoughts prove and disclose verse 24 Consider Lord if wickedness in me there any be And in thy way O God my Guide forever lead thou me Eripe me Psal cxl N. LOrd save me from the evil man and from the cruel wight verse 2 And from all those which evil do imagine in their sprite Which make on me continual war their tongues lo they have whet verse 3 Like serpents underneath their lips is adders poison set verse 4 Keep me O Lord from wicked hands preserve me to abide Free from the cruel man that means to cause my steps to slide verse 5 The proud have laid a snare for me and they have spread a net With cords in my path-way and grins for me eke have they set verse 6 Therefore I said unto the Lord. Thou art my God alone Hear me O Lord O hear the voice wherewith I pray and mone verse 7 O Lord my God thou onely art the strength that saveth me My head in day of battel hath been covered still by thee verse 8 Let not O Lord the wicked have the end of his desire Perform not his ill thoughts left he with pride be set on fire verse 9 Of them that compass me about the chiefest of them all Lord let the mischief of their lips upon themselves befall verse 10 Let coals fall on them let him cast them in consuming flame And in deep pits so as they may not rise out of the same verse 11 For no backbiter shall on earth be set in stable plight And evil to destruction still shall hunt the cruel wight verse 12 I know the Lord th' afflicted will revenge and judge the poor verse 13 The just shall praise thy Name just shall dwell with thee evermore Domine clamavi Psal cxli. N. O Lord upon thee do I call Lord haste thee unto me And hearken Lord unto my voice when I do cry to thee verse 2 As incense let my prayers be directed in thine eyes And the uplifting of my hands as evening sacrifice verse 3 My Lord for guiding of my mouth set thou a watch before And also of my moving lips O Lord keep thou the door verse 4 That I should wicked works commit incline thou not my heart With ill men of their delicates Lord let me eat no part verse 5 But let the righteous smite me Lord for that is good for me Let him reprove me and the same a precious oyl shall be Such smiting shall not break my head the time shall shortly fall When I shall in their misery make prayers for them all verse 6 Then when in stony places down their judges shall be cast Then shall they hear my words for then they have a pleasant taste verse 7 Our bones about the graves mouth lo scatt'red are they found As he that heweth wood or he that diggeth up the ground verse 8 But O my Lord my God mine eyes do look up unto thee In thee is all my trust let not my soul forsaken be verse 9 Which they have laid to catch me in Lord keep me from the snare And from the subtil grins of them that wicked workers are verse 10 The wicked into their own nets together let them fall While I do by thy help escape the danger of them all Voce mea Psal cxlii N. BEfore the Lord God with my voice I did send out my cry And with my strained voice unto the Lord God prayed I. verse 2 My meditation in his sight to pour I did not spare And in the presence of the Lord my trouble did declare verse 3 Although perplexed was my spirit my path was known to thee In way where I did walk a snare they slily laid for me verse 4 I look'd and view'd on my right hand but none there would me know All refuge sailed me and for my soul none cared tho verse 5 Then cry'd I Lord to thee and said My hope thou onely art Thou in the land of living art my portion and my part verse 6 Heark to my cry for I am brought full low deliver me From them that do me persecute for me too strong they be verse 7 That I may praise thy Name my soul from prison Lord bring out When thou art good to
me the just shall press me round about Domine exaudi Psal cxliii N. LOrd hear my prayer heark the plaint that I do make to thee Lord in thy native truth and in thy justice answer me verse 2 In judgement with thy servant Lord O enter not at all For justifi'd be in thy sight not one that liveth shall verse 3 The enemy hath pursu'd my soul my life to ground hath thrown And laid me in the dark like them that dead are long agone verse 4 Within me in perplexity was mine accumbred sprite And in me was my troubled heart amazed and affright verse 5 Yet I record time past in all thy works I meditate Yea in thy works I meditate that thy hands have create verse 6 To thee O Lord my God lo I do stretch my craving hands My soul desireth after thee as do the thirsty lands verse 7 Hear me with speed my spirit doth fail hide not thy face me fro Else shall I be like them that down into the pit do go verse 8 Let me thy loving kindness in the morning hear and know For in thee is my trust shew me the way where I shall go verse 9 For I lift up my soul to thee O Lord deliver me From all mine enemies for I have hidden me with thee verse 10 Teach me to do thy will for thou thou art my God I say Let thy good Spirit unto the land of mercy me convey verse 11 For thy Names sake with quickning grace alive do thou me make And out of trouble bring my soul even for thy justice sake verse 12 And for thy mercy slay my foes O Lord destroy them all That do oppress my soul for I thy servant am and shall Benedictus Dom. Psal cxliv. N. BLest be the Lord my strength that doth instruct my hands to fight The Lord that doth my fingers frame to battel by his might verse 2 He is my goodness sort and tower deliverer and shield In him I trust my people he subdues to me to yeeld verse 3 O Lord what thing is man that him thou holdest so in price Or son of man that upon him thou thinkest in such wise verse 4 Man is but like to vanity so pass his days to end verse 5 As fleeting shade Bow down O Lord the heavens and descend verse 6 The mountains touch and they shall smoke cast forth thy lightning flame And scatter them thine arrows shoot consume them with the same verse 7 Send down thine hand even from above O Lord deliver me Take me from waters great from hand of strangers make me free verse 8 Whose subtil mouth of vanity and fondness doth entreat And their right hand is a right hand of falshood and deceit verse 9 A new song will I sing O God and singing will I be On viol and on instrument ten-stringed unto thee verse 10 Even he it is that onely gives deliverance to kings Unto his servant David help from hurtful sword be brings verse 11 From strangers hand me save and shield whose mouths talks vanity And their right hand is a right hand of guiâ—e and subtilty verse 12 That our sons may be as the plants whom growing youth doth rear Our daughters as carv'd corner-stones like to a palace fair verse 13 Our garners full and plenty may with sundry sorts be found Our sheep bring thousands in our streets ten thousands may abound verse 14 Our oxen be to labour strong that none do us invade There be no goings out nor cries within our streets be made verse 15 The people blessed are that with such blessings are so stor'd Yea blessed all the people are whose God is God the Lord. Exaltabo te Psal cxlv N. THee will I laud my God and King and bless thy Name for ay verse 2 For ever will I praise thy Name and bless thee day by day verse 3 Great is the Lord most worthy praise his greatness none can reach verse 4 From race to race they shall thy works praise and thy power preach verse 5 I of thy glorious majesty the beauty will record And meditate upon thy works most wonderful O Lord. verse 6 And they shall of thy power and of thy fearful acts declare And I to publish all abroad thy greatness will not spare verse 7 And they into the mention shall break of thy goodness great And I aloud thy righteousness in singing shall repeat verse 8 The Lord our God is gracious and merciful also Of great abounding mercy and to anger he is slow verse 9 Yea good to all and all his works his mercy doth exceed verse 10 Lo all thy works do praise thee Lord and do thy honour spread verse 11 Thy saints do bless thee and they do thy kingdoms glory show verse 12 And blaze thy power to cause the sons of men thy power to know The second part And of his mighty kingdom eke to spread the glorious praise verse 13 Thy kingdom Lord a kingdom is that doth endure always And thy dominion through each age endures without decay verse 14 The Lord upholdeth them that fall their sliding he doth stay verse 15 The eyes of all do wait on thee thou dost them all relieve And thou to each sufficing food in season due dost give verse 16 Thou openest thy plenteous hand and bounteously dost fill All things what soever do live with gifts of thy good will verse 17 The Lord is just in all his ways his works are holy all verse 18 Near all he is that call on him in truth that on him call verse 19 He the desires which they require that fear him will fulfill And he will hear them when they cry and save them all he will verse 20 The Lord preserves all those to him that bear a loving heart But he them all that wicked are will utterly subvert verse 21 My thankful mouth shall gladly speak the praises of the Lord All flesh to praise his holy Name for ever shall accord Lauda anima Psal cxlvi J. H. MY soul praise thou the Lord always my God I will confess verse 2 While breath and life prolong my days my tongue no time shall cease verse 3 Trust not in worldly princes then though they abound in wealth Nor in the sons of mortal men in whom there is no health verse 4 For why their breath doth soon depart to earth anon they fall And then the counsels of their heart decay and perish all verse 5 O happy is that man I say whom Jacobs God doth aid And he whose hope doth not decay but on the Lord is staid verse 6 Which made the earth and waters deep the heavens high withall Which doth his word and promise keep in truth and ever shall verse 7 With right always doth he proceed for such as suffer wrong The poor and hungry he doth feed and loose the fetters strong verse 8 The Lord doth send the blinde their sight the lame to limbs restore The Lord I say doth love the right and
power Give to you and your nation his blessing mercy and favour Glory be to God the Father c. The ten Commandments of God Exod. 20. W W. ATtend my people and give ear Of ferly things I will thee tell See that my words in minde thou bear And to my precepts listen well commandment 1 I am thy sovereign Lord and God Which have thee brought from careful thral And eke reclaim'd from Pharaohs rod Make thee no gods on them to call commandment 2 Nor fashioned form of any thing In heaven or earth to worship it For I thy God by revenging With grievous plagues this â—in will smite commandment 3 Take not in vain Gods holy Name Abuse it not after thy will For so thou might'st soon purchase blame And in his wrath he would thee spill commandment 4 The Lord from work the seventh day ceast And brought all things to perfect end So thou and thine that day take rest That to Gods hefts ye may attend commandment 5 Unto thy parents honour give As Gods commandments do intend That thou long days and good mayst live In earth where God a place doth lend commandment 6 Beware of murder and cruel hate commandment 7 All filthy fornication fear commandment 8 See thou steal not in any rate commandment 9 False witness against no man bear commandment 10 Thy neighbours house wish not to have His wife or ought that he calls mine His field his ox his ass his slave Or anything which is not thine A Prayer The Spirit of grace grant us O Lord To keep these laws our hearts restore And cause us all with one accord To magnifie thy Name therefore For of our selves no strength we have To keep these laws after thy will Thy might therefore O Christ we crave That we in thee may them fulfil Lord for thy Names sake grant us this Thou art our strength O Saviour Christ Of thee to speed how should we miss In whom our treasure doth consist To thee for evermore be praise With the Father in each respect And with the holy Spirit always The Comforter of thine elect The Lords Prayer D. Cox OUr Father which in heaven art And mak'st us all one brotherhood To call upon thee with one heart Our heavenly Father and our God Grant we pray not with lips alone But with our hearts deep sigh and grone Thy blessed Name be sanctifi'd Thy holy word might us inflame In holy life for to abide To magnifie thy holy Name From all errours defend and keep The little flock of thy poor sheep Thy kingdom come even at this hour And henceforth everlastingly Thine holy Ghost into us pour With all his gifts most plenteously From Satans rage and filthy band Defend us with thy mighty hand Thy will be done with diligence Like as in heaven in earth also In trouble grant us patience Thee to obey in wealth and wo. Let not flesh bloud or any ill Prevail against thy holy will Give us this day our daily bread And all other good gifts of thine Keep us from war and from bloudshed Also from sickness dearth and pine That we may live in quietness Without all greedy carefulness Forgive us our offences all Relieve our careful conscience As we forgive both great and small Which unto us have done offence Prepare us Lord for to serve thee In perfect love and unitie O Lord into temptation Lead us not when the fiend doth rage To withstand his invasion Give power and strength to every age Arm and make strong thy feeble host With faith and with the holy Ghost O Lord from evil deliver us The days and times are dangerous From everlasting death save us And in our last need comfort us A blessed end to us bequeath Into thy hands our souls receive For thou O Lord art King of kings And thou hast power over all Thy glory shineth in all things In the wide world universal Amen let it be done O Lord That we have pray'd with one accord The twelve Articles of the Christian Faith ALl my belief and confidence is in the Lord of might The Father which all things hath made the day and eke the night The heavens and the firmament and also many a star The earth and all that is therein which pass mans reason far And in like manner I beleeve in Christ our Lord his Son Coequal with the Deity and man in flesh and bone Con ceived by the holy Ghost his word doth me assure And of his mother Mary born yet she a virgin pure Because mankinde to Satan was for sin in bond and thrall He came and offered up himself to death to save us all And suffering most grievous pain then Pilate being judge Was crucified on the cross and thereat did not grudge And so he died in the flesh but quickned in the sprite His body then was buried as is our use and rite His soul did after this descend into the lower parts A dread unto the wicked sprites but joy to faithful hearts And in the third day of his death he rose to life again To th' end he might be glorifi'd out of all grief and pain Ascending to the heavens high to fit in glory still On Gods right hand his Father dear according to his will Until the day of judgement come when he shall come again With angels power yet of that day we all be uncertain To judge all people righteously whom he hath dearly bought The living and the dead also which he hath made of nought And in the holy Spirit of God my faith to satisfie The third person in Trinitie beleeve I stedfastly The holy and catholick Church that Gods word doth maintain And holy Scripture doth allow which Satan doth disdain And also I do trust to have by Jesus Christ his death Release and pardon of my sins and that onely by faith What time all flesh shall rise again before the Lord of might And see him with their bodily eyes which now do give them light And then shall Christ our Saviour the sheep and goats divide And give life everlastingly to those whom he hath tri'd Within his realm celestial in glory for to rest With all his holy company of saints and angels blest Which serve the Lord omnipotent obediently each hour To whom be all dominion and praise for evermore A prayer to the holy Ghost to be sung before the Sermon COme holy Spirit the God of might Comforter of us all Teach us to know thy word aright that we do never fall O holy Ghost visit our coast defend us with thy shield Against all sin and wickedness Lord help us win the field Lord keep our King and his counsel and give them will and might To persevere in thy Gospel which can put sin to flight O Lord that giv'st thy holy word send preachers plenteously That in the same we may accord and therein live and die O holy Spirit direct aright the preachers of thy word That thou by them mayst cut
down sin as it were with a sword Depart not from thy pastours pure but aid them at their need Which break to us the bread of life whereon our souls do feed O blessed Spirit of truth keep us in peace and unity Keep us from sects and errours all and from all papistry Convert all those that are our foes and bring them to thy light That they and we may well agree and praise thee day and night O Lord increase our saith in us and love so to abound That man and wife be void of strife and neighbours about us round In our time give thy peace O Lord to nations far and nigh And teach them all thy holy word that we may sing to thee All glory to the Trinity that is of mighties most The living Father and the Son and eke the holy Ghost As it hath been in all the time that hath been heretofore As it is now and so shall be henceforth for evermore Da pacem Domine GIve peace in these our days O Lord Great dangers are now at hand Thine enemies with one accord Christs Name in every land Seek to deface Root out and rase Thy true right worship indeed Be thou the stay Lord we thee pray Thou help'st alone in all need Give us that peace that we do lack Through misbelief and ill life Thy word to offer thou dost not slack Which we unkindly gain-strive With fire and sword This healthful word Some persecute and oppress Some with the mouth Confess the truth Without sincere godliness Give peace and us thy Spirit down send With grief and repentance true Do pierce our hearts our lives to amend And by faith in Christ renew That fear and dread War and bloudshed Through thy sweet mercy and grace May from us slide Thy truth may bide And shine in every place The Lamentation O Lord in thee is all my trust give ear unto my woful cry Refuse me not that am unjust but bowing down thy heavenly eye Behold how I do still lament my â—ins wherein I do offend O Lord for them shall I be shent sith thee to please I do intend No no not so thy will is bent to deal with sinners in thine ire But when in heart they shall repent thou grant'st with speed their just desire To thee therefore still shall I cry to wash away my sinful crime Thy bloud O Lord is not yet dry but that it may help me in time Haste thee O Lord haste thee I say to pour on me thy gifts of grace That when this life shall flit away in heaven with thee I may have place Where thou dost reign eternally with God which once did down thee send Where angels sing continually to thee be praise world without end A Thanksgiving after the receiving of the Lords Supper THe Lord be thanked for his gifts and mercies evermore That he doth shew unto his saints to him be laud therefore Our tongues cannot so praise the Lord as he doth right deserve Our hearts cannot of him so think as he doth us preserve His benefits they be so great to us that be but sin That at our hands for recompence there is no hope to win O sinful flesh that thou shouldst have such mercies of the Lord Thou dost deserve most worthily of him to be abhorr'd Nought else but sin and wretchedness doth rest within our â—earts And stubbornly against the Lord we daily play our parts The sun above in firmament that is to us a light Doth shew it self more clear and pure then we be in his sight The heavens above and all therein more holy are then we They serve the Lord in their estate each one in his degree They do not strive for mastership nor slack their office set But serve the Lord and do his will hate is to them no let Also the earth and all therein of God it is in aw It doth observe the formers will by skilful natures law The sea and all that is therein doth bend when God doth beck The spirits beneath do tremble all and fear his wrathful check But we alas â—oâ— whom all these were made them for to rule Do not so know or love the Lord as doth the ox or mule A law he gave for us to know what was his holy will He would us good but we would not avoid the thing is ill Not one of us that seeketh out the Lord of life to please Nor doth the thing that might us lead to Christ and quiet ease Thus are we all his enemies we can it not deny And he again of his good will would not that we should dy Therefore when remedy was none to bring us unto life The Son of God our flesh he took to end our mortal strife And all the law of God the Lord he did it full obey And for our sins upon the cross his bloud our debts did pay And that we should not yet forget what good he to us wrought A signe he left our eyes to tell that he our bodies bought In bread and wine here visible unto thine eyes and taste His mercies great thou mayst record if that his Spirit thou hast As once the corn did live and grow and was cut down with lithe And threshed out with many stripes out from his husk to drive And as the mill with violence did tear it out so small And made it like to earthly dust not sparing it at all And as the oven with fire hot did close it up with heat And all this done that I have said that it should be our meat So was the Lord in his ripe age cut down by cruel death His soul he gave in torments great and yeelded up his breath Because that he to us might be an everlasting bread With much reproach and troubles great on earth his life he led And as the grapes in pleasant time are pressed very sore And plucked down when they be ripe and let to grow no more Because the juyce that in them is as comfortable drink We might receive and joyful be when sorrows make us shrink So Christ his bloud out pressed was with nails and eke with spear The juyce thereof doth save all those that rightly do him fear And as the corns by unity into one loaf are knit So is the Lord and his whole Church though he in heaven sit As many grapes make but one wine so should we be but one In faith and love in Christ above and unto Christ alone Leading a life without all strife in quiet rest and peace From envy and from malice both our hearts and tongues to cease Which if we do then shall we shew that we his chosen be By faith in him to lead a life as always willed he And that we may so do indeed God send us all his grace Then after death we shall be sure with him to have a place R. W. PReserve us Lord by thy dear word From Turk and Pope defend us Lord Which both would thrust
offered up himself as the onely sacrifice to purge the sins of all the world So that all other sacrifices for sin are blasphemous and derogate from the sufficiency hereof Which death albeit it did sufficiently reconcile us to God yet the Scriptures commonly do attribute our regeneration to his resurrection For as by rising again from the grave the third day he conquered death even so the victory of our faith standeth in his resurrection and therefore without the one we cannot feel the benefits of the other For as by his death sin was taken away so our righteousness was restored by his resurrection And because he would accomplish all things and take possession for us in his kingdom he ascended into heaven to enlarge the same kingdom by the abundant power of his Spirit by whom we are most assured of his continual intercession towards God the Father for us And although he be in heaven as touching his corporal presence where the Father hath now set him at his right hand committing unto him the administration of all things as well in heaven above as in the earth beneath yet is he present with us his members even to the end of the world in preserving and governing us with his effectual power and grace Who when all things are fulfilled which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his prophets since the world began will come in the same visible form in the which he ascended with an unspeakable majesty power and company to separate the lambs from the goats the elect from the reprobate so that none whether he be alive then or dead before shall escape his judgement Moreover I beleeve and confess the holy Ghost God equal with the Father and the Son who regenerateth and sanctifieth us ruleth and guideth us unto all truth perswading most assuredly in our consciences that we be the children of God brethren to Jesus Christ and fellow heirs with him of life everlasting Yet notwithstanding it is not sufficient to beleeve that God is omnipotent and merciful that Christ hath made satisfaction or that the holy Ghost hath his power and effect except we do apply the same benefits to us which are Gods elect I beleeve therefore and confess one holy Church which as members of Jesus Christ the onely Head thereof consent in faith hope and charity using the gifts of God whether they be temporal or spiritual to the profit and furtherance of the same Which Church is not seen to mans eye but onely known to God who of the lost sons of Adam hath ordained some as vessels of wrath to damnation and hath chosen others as vessels of his mercy to be saved the which in due time he calleth to integrity of life and godly conversation to make them a glorious Church in himself But that Church which is visible and seen to the eye hath three tokens and marks whereby it may be known First the word of God contained in the old and new Testament Which as it is above the authority of the same Church and onely sufficient to instruct us in all things concerning salvation so is it left for all degrees of men to read and understand For without this word neither Church Council nor Decree can establish any point touching salvation The second is the holy Sacraments to wit of Baptism and the Lords Supper Which Sacraments Christ hath left unto us as holy signs and leals of his promises For as by Baptism once received is signified that we as well infants as others of age and discretion being strangers from God by original sin are received into his family and congregation with full assurance that although this root of sin lie hid in us yet to the elect it shall not be imputed so the Supper declareth that God as a most provident Father doth not onely feed our bodies but also spiritually nourisheth our souls with the graces and benefits of Jesus Christ which the Scripture calleth eating of his flesh and drinking of his bloud Neither must we in the administration of these Sacraments follow mans fantasie but as Christ himself hath ordained so must they be ministred and by such as by ordinary vocation are thereunto called Therefore whosoever reserveth and worshippeth these Sacraments or contrariwise contemneth them in time and place procureth to himself damnation The third mark of this Church is Ecclesiastical Discipline which standeth in admonition and correction of faults The final end whereof is excommunication by the consent of the Church determined if the offender be obstinate And besides this Ecclesiastical Discipline I acknowledge to belong to this Church a politick magistrate who ministreth to every man justice defending the good and punishing the evil to whom we must render honour and obedience in all things which are not contrary to the word of God And as Moses Ezechias Josias and other good rulers purged the Church of God from superstition and idolatry so the defence of Christs Church appertaineth to Christian magistrates against all idolaters and hereticks as Papists Anabaptists with such like limbs of Antichrist to root out all doctrine of devils and men as the mass purgatory limbus patrum prayers to saints and for the dead free-will distinction of meats apparel and days vows of single life presence at idol-service mans merits with such like which draw us from the society of Christs Church wherein standeth onely remission of sins purchased by Christs bloud to all them that beleeve whether they be Jews or Gentiles and lead us to a vain confidence in creatures and trust in our own imaginations The punishment whereof although God oftentimes deferreth in this life yet after the general resurrection when our souls and bodies shall rise again to immortality they shall be damned to unquenchable fire and then we which have forsaken all mens wisdom to cleave unto Christ shall hear the joyful voice Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world and so shall go triumphing with him in body and soul to remain everlastingly in glory where we shall see God face to face and shall no more need to instruct one another we shall all know him from the highest to the lowest To whom with the Son and the holy Ghost be all praise honour and glory now and ever So be it FINIS A Table for the whole Number of Psalms and also in what leaf you may finde every of them Psalm A Folio 30 ALl laud and praise 7 49 All people 10 78 Attend my people 16 82 Amid the preass 17 100 All people that 20 Â B Â 81 BE light and glad 17 119 Blessed are they 24 128 Blessed art thou 27 134 Behold and have 27 142 Before the Lord 28 144 Blest be the Lord 28 Â D Â 83 DO not O God 17 Â E Â 127 EXcept the Lord 26 Â G Â 29 GIve to the Lord 7 37 Grudge not to see 8 48 Great is the Lord 10 54 God