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A20818	The harmonie of the church Containing, the spirituall songes and holy hymnes, of godly men, patriarkes and prophetes: all, sweetly sounding, to the praise and glory of the highest. Now (newlie) reduced into sundrie kinds of English meeter: meete to be read or sung, for the solace and comfort of the godly. By M.D.	Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.	1591 (1591)	STC 7199; ESTC S116525	25,418	50

He stood aloft and compassed the land And of the Nations doth defusion make The mountains rent the hilles for feare did quake His vnknown pathes no man may vnderstand The Morians tentes euen for their wickednes I might behold the land of Midian Amaz'd and trembling like vnto a man Forsaken quite and left in great distresse What did the riuers moue the Lord to ire Or did the floods his Maiesty displease Or was the Lord offended with the seas That thou camest forth in chariot hot as fire Thy force and power thou freely didst relate Vnto the tribes thy oath doth surely stand And by thy strength thou didst deuide the land And from the earth the riuers seperate The mountaines saw and trembled for feare The sturdy streame with speed foorth passed by The mighty depthes shout out a hideous crie And then aloft their waues they did vpreare The Sun and Moon amid their course stood still Thy speares and arrowes forth with shining went Thou spoilest the land being to anger bent And in displeasure thou didst slay and kill Thou wentest foorth for thine owne chosens sake For the sauegard of thine annointed one The house of wicked men is ouerthrowne And their foundations now goe all to wracke Their townes thou strikest by thy mightie power With their own weapons made for their defence Who like a whyrl-wind came with the pretence The poore and simple man quite to deuoure ●●ou madest thy horse on seas to gallop fast Vpo●●●e waues thou ridest here and there My ●●●als trembled then for verie feare 〈◊〉 at thy voice my lips shooke at the last Griefe pierc'd my bones and feare did me annoy In time of trouble where I might find rest For to reuenge when once the Lord is prest With plagues he wil the people quite destroy The fig-tree now no more shall sprout nor flourish The pleasant vine no more with grapes abound No pleasure in the citie shall be found The field no more her fruit shal feed nor nourish The sheep shall now be taken from the fold In stall of Bullocks there shall be no choice Yet in the Lord my Sauiour I reioice My hope in God yet wil I surely hold God is my strength the Lord my only stay My feet for swiftnesse it is he will make Like to the Hinds who none in course can take Vpon high places he will make me way A Song of thankes to God in that hee sheweth himselfe Iudge of the world in punishing the wicked and maintaining the godlie In the xv Chap. of the prophesie of Isaiah OH Lord my God with praise I wil perseuer Thy blessed name in song I wil record for the great wonders thou hast done O lord Thy trueth and counsels haue bene certain euer A mightie citie thou makest ruinat The strongest townes thou bringest to decay A place where strangers vsually do stay And shall not be reduc'd to former state The proudest people therefore stoupe to thee The strongest cities haue thee still in feare Thou strengthnest the poore man in dispaire And helpest the needie in necessitie Thou art a sure refuge against a shower A shadow which doth from the heat defend The raging blasts the mighty forth doth send Is like a storme which shakes the stateliest tower Thou shalt abate the forraine strangers pride Like as the heat doth drie the moistest place The glorie of the proud thou shalt deface Like as the cloudes the sunny beames doo hide The Lord of hostes shal in this mount prouide And to his people here shal make a feast Offatted things and dainties of the best Of Marrow and wines finely purified And in this Mountaine by his mightie hand That same dark cloud the Lord wil cleane destroy Euen with the vaile which doth his folke annoy And death no more before his face shall stand The Lord will wipe out of his chosens eies The teares which doo their faces so distaine And their rebuke shal now no more remaine Thus saith the Lord these be his promises And men shal say then loe this same is he This is our God on whom we did attend This is the Lord that will vs stil defend We will be glad and ioyfull Lord in thee Thy hand oh Lord here in this mount shall rest And cursed Moab shall by thee be beaten As in thy iudgment thou of long doost threaten As in Mamena straw of men is thresht And ouer them the Lord his hand shal holde As he that swimmeth stretcheth him at length And by his power and by his mighty strength The proud and stout by him shal be controlde Thy highest walles and towers of all thy trust He shall bring downe and lay them all full lowe Vnto the ground his hand shall make them bow And lay thy pride and glorie in the dust An other Song of the faithfull wherein is declared in what consisteth the saluation of the Church In the xvi Chap. of the prophesie of Isaiah ANd in that day this same shal be our song In Iuda land this shall be sung and said We haue a citie which is woondrous strong And for the walles the Lord himself our aid Open the gates yea set them open wide And let the godly and the righteous passe Yea let them enter and therein abide Which keepe his lawes and do his trueth imbrace And in thy iudgment thou wilt sure preserue In perfect peace those which doo trust in thee Trust in the Lord which dooth all trust deserue He is thy strength and none but onelie he He will bring downe the proud that looke so hie The stateliest buildings he wil soone abase And make them euen with the ground to lie And unto dust he will their pride deface It shall be troden to the verie ground The poore and needy downe the same shal tread The iust mans way in righteousnes is found Into a path most plaine thou wilt him lead But we haue waited long for thee oh Lord And in thy way of iudgment we do rest Our soules doth ioy thy name still to record And thy remembrance doth content vs best My soule hath long'd for thee oh Lord by night And in the morn my spirit for thee hath sought Thy iudgments to the earth giue such a light As al the world by them thy trueth is taught But shew thy mercie to the wicked man He wil not learne thy righteousnes to know His chiefe delight is still to curse and ban And vnto thee himselfe he will not bow They doo not once at all regard thy power Thy peoples zeale shall let them see their shame But with a fire thou shalt thy foes deuoure And cleane consume them with a burning flame With peace thou wilt preserue vs Lord alone For thou hast wrought great woonders for our sake And other Gods beside thee haue we none Only in thee we all our comfort take The dead and such as sleep within the graue Shal giue no glorie nor yeeld praise to thee Which here on earth no place

the last iudgement day For he such quenchlesse fire and gnawing wormes shal send Into their flesh as shal consume them world without an end A Praier of the Authour In the xxiii Chap. of Ecclesiasticus LOrd of my life my guide and gouernour Father of thee this one thing I require Thou wilt not leaue me to the wicked power Which seeke my fall and stil my death desire Oh who is he that shall instruct my thought And so with wisdom shall inspire my heart In ignorance that nothing may be wrought By me with them whose sinne shall not depart Least that mine errors growe and multiplie And to destruction through my sinnes I fall My foes reioice at my aduersitie Who in thy mercie haue no hope at all My Lord and God from whom my life I tooke Vnto the wicked leaue me not a pray A haughty mind a proud disdainfull looke From me thy Seruant take thou cleane away Vaine hope likewise with vile concupiscence Lord of thy mercie take thou cleane from me Retaine thou him in true obedience Who with desire daily serueth thee Let not desire to please the greedy mawe Or appetite of any fleshly lust Thy seruant from his louing Lord withdraw But giue thou me a mind both good and iust The Praier of Salomon In the ix Chap. of the book of Wisdome OH God of our forefathers all of mercie thou the Lord Which heauen and earth and al thinges els createdst with thy word And by thy wisdome madest man like to thy selfe alone And gauest him ouer thy workes the chiefe dominion That he shoud rule vpon the earth with equity and right And that his iudgments should be pure and vpright in thy sight Giue me that wisdome which about thy sacred throne doth stay And from amongst thine own elect Lord put me not away For I thy seruant am and of thy handmaid borne A sillie soule whose life alas is short and all forlorne And do not vnderstand at all what ought to be my guide I mean thy statutes and thy lawes least that I slip aside For though a man in worldly things for wisdome be esteem'd Yet if thy wisdom want in him his is but folly deem'd Thou chosest me to be a King to sit on royall throne To iudge the folk which thou of right dost chalenge for thy own Thou hast commanded me to build a Temple on thy hill And Altar in the self same place where thou thy selfe doost dwel Euen like vnto thy Tabernacle in each kind of respect A thing most holy which at first thy selfe thou didst erect Thy wisdome being stil with thee which vnderstands thy trade When as thou framedst first the world and her foundation laid Which knew the thing that most of all was pleasant in thy sight Thy wil and thy commandements wherein thou takst delight Send her down from that heauenly seat wheras she doth abide That she may shew to me thy will and be my onely guide For she dooth know and vnderstand yea al things doth foresee And by her works and mighty power I shall preserued bee Then shal my works accepted be and liked in thy sight When I vpon my fathers throne shall iudge thy folke aright Who knoweth the counsell of the Lord his deep and secret skil Or who may search into his works or know his holy will For why the thoughts of mortal men are nothing els but care Their forecasts and deuises all things most vncertaine are The bodie is vnto the soule a waight and burthen great The earthly house depresseth down the mind with cares repleat The things which here on earth remain we hardly can discern To find their secret vse and trade with labor great we learne For who doth search or seek to know with traueill with care The secrets of the mightie Lord which hie in heauen are Who can thy counsels vnderstand except thou doo impart Thy wisdome and thy holy spirit doost send into his heart For so the waies of mortal men reformed are and taught The things that most delighteth thee which wisdom forth haue brought A Song of Ihesus the sonne of Sirach In the last Chap. of Ecclesiasticus I Will confesse thy name O Lord And giue thee praise with one accord My God my King and Sauiour Vnto thy name be thankes and power I haue bene succoured by thee And thou hast still preserued me And from destruction kept me long And from report of slaunderous tongue From lips stil exrcisde with lies And from my cruell enemies Thou me in mercie doost deliuer Thy blessed name be praisde for euer From monsters that would me deuoure From cruell tyrants and their power In all affliction paine and griefe Thou succourest me with some reliefe From the cruell burning flame Poore I inclosde within the same From the deepe infernall pit From venom'd tongues that poison spit From speeches that of malice spring From accusation to the king From all reproch and infamy From slander and like villanie My soule to death praise thou the Lord And laud his name with one accord For death was readie thee to take And thou neare the infernall lake They compassed me round about But there was none to helpe me out I look'd when succour would appeare But there was none that would come neare Vpon thy mercies then I thought And on the wonders thou hast wrought How from destruction thou doost saue Such as in thee affiance haue In praier then I did perseuer That thou from death wouldst me deliuer Vnto the Lord I crie and call That he would rid me out of thrall Therefore I still will praise thy name And euer thanke thee for the same My praiers shall of thee be heard And neuer from thy eares debard Thou sau'st me from destruction And other mischiefs more than one Therefore wil I praise thee O Lord And in my songs thy name record The Praier of Hester for the deliuerance of her and her people In the xiiii Chap. of Hester O Mighty Lord thou art our God to thee for aid I crie To help a woman desolate sith danger now is nie Euen frō my youth I oft haue hard my predecessors tel That from amongst the nations all thou chosest Israell And chosest those our fathers were from theirs that went before To be thine owne and hast perform'd thy promise euermore Now Lord we haue committed sin most grieuous in thine eies Wherfore thou hast deliuered vs vnto our enemies Because that to their heathen gods with worship we haue gone Knowing that thou art God the Lord the righteous Lord alone Yet not content nor satisfied with these our captiues bands But with their Idols they thēselues haue ioin'd shaken hands Quite to abolish and subuert what thou appointed hast And this thine owne inheritance euen vtterly to waste To shut and stop the mouthes of those that yeeld thee thanks and praise Thy glorious temples to defile thine Altars vp to raise And to induce the heathen folke to laud their Idols

is woe for thee Mine eies poure foorth a flood of teares this dismal day to see Which art destroied and now lieth wast from sacred vse trade Thy holie place is now a den of filthy Foxes made But thou the euerliuing Lord which doost remaine for aye Whose seat aboue the firmament full sure and still doth stay Wherefore dost thou forsake thine owne shal we forgotten be Turne vs good Lord and so we shall be turned vnto thee Lord cal vs home from our erile to place of our abode Thou long inough hast punisht vs oh Lord now spare thy rod. The Song of Deborah and Baracke The fift Chap. of Iudges PRaise ye the Lord the which reuenge on Israels wrongs doth take Likewise for those which offered vp themselues for Israels sake Heare this ye kings ye princes al giue eare with one accord I wil giue thanks yea sing the praise of Israels liuing Lord. When thou departedst Lord from Seir and out of Edom field The earth gan quake the heauens rain the cloudes their water yeeld the moūtains hie before the Lord haue melted euery del As Synay did in presence of the Lord of Israell In time of Sangar Anaths sonne and in old Iaels daies the paths were al vnoccupied men sought forth vnknown waies The townes cities there lay wast and to decay they fel Til Deborah a matrone graue became in Israell They chose thē gods then garboils did within their gates aboūd A spear or shield in Israel there was not to be found In those which gouern Israel my heart doth take delight And in the valiant people there oh praise the Lord of might Speak ye that on white Asses ride that by Midden dwell And ye that daily trade the waies see forth your minds you tell The clattering noise of archers shot when as the arrowes flew Appeased was amongst the sort which water daily drew The righteousnesse of God the Lord shal be declared there And likewise Israel righteousnes which worship him in feare The people with reioicing hearts then all with one consent I mean the Lords inheritante vnto the gates they went Deborah vp arise and sing a sweet and worthy song Baracke lead them as Captiues forth which vnto thee belong For they which at this day remaine do rule like Lords alone The Lord ouer the mightie ones giues me dominion The roots of Ephraim arose gainst Amalecke do fight And so likewise did Beniamin with all their power and might From Macher came a company which chiefest sway did beare From Zebulon which cunning clarks famous writers were The kings which came of Isacher were with Deborah tho Yea Isacher and Barack both attend on her also He was dismounted in the vale for the deuisions sake Of Ruben the people there great lamentation make Gilead by Iorden made abode and Dan on ship boord lay And Asher in the Desart he vpon the shore doth stay They of Zebulon and Nepthaly like worthy valiant wightes Before their foes euen in the field aduanc'd themselues in fight The kings themselues in person fought the kings of Canaan In Tanach plaine wheras the streame of swift Megido ran No pay no hyer ne coine at all not one did seem to take They serued not for greedy gain nor filthy lucre sake The heauens hy and heauenly powers these things to passe haue brought The stars against proud Sisera euen in their course haue fought The stream of kishons anciēt brook hath ouerwhelm'd thē there My soule sith thou hast done thy part be now of harty cheare The hardened hooues of barbed horse were al in peeces broke By force of mightie men which met with many a sturdy stroke The Angel hath pronounc'd a curse which shal on Meroz fall And those that doo inhabite there a curse light on them all Because they put not forth their hands to help the liuing Lord Against the proud and mighty ones which haue his truth abhord Iaell the Kenit Hebers wife most happy shal be blest Aboue al other women there which in the tents do rest He asked water for to drink she gaue sweet milk to him Yea butter in a lordly dish which was full tricke and trim her left hand to the naile she put her right the hammer wrought Wherewith presumptuous Sisera vnto his death she brought And from his corps his head she cut with mortal deadly wound When through the tēples of his head she naild him to the groūd He bowed then vnto the earth and at her feet can fall And where he fell there still he lay bereau'd of sences all The mother then of Sisera in window where she lay Doth marueil much that this her sonne doth make so long a stay Her Ladies then they hearing that make answer by and by Yea to her speaches past before her selfe doth this replie Hath he not gotten mightie spoiles and now diuision makes Each one a Damosell hath or twaine which he as captiue takes Sisera of costly coloured robes ful rich with needle wrought Hath got a pray which vnto him as chiefest spoiles are brought So let thine enemies O Lord sustaine and suffer blame And let thy chosen blessed ones that loue and feare thy name Be like the Son when in the morne his glorie doth increase Or like the land which many a yeare hath bin in rest and peace Another Song of the faithfull for the mercies of God In the xii Chap. of the prophesie of Isaiah OH liuing Lord I still will laude thy name for though thou wert offended once with me Thy heauy wrath is turn'd from me againe and graciously thou now doost comfort mee Behold the Lord is my saluation I trust in him and feare not any power He is my song the strength I leane vpon the Lord God is my louing Sauiour Therefore with ioy out of the well of life draw foorth sweet water which it dooth afford And in the day of trouble and of strife cal on the name of God the liuing Lord. Extol his works and woonders to the sunne vnto al people let his praise be showne Record in song the meruails he hath done and let his glorie through the world be blowne Crie out aloud and shout on Sion hill I giue thee charge that this proclaimed be The great and mightie king of Israell now onely dwelleth in the midst of thee A Song of the faithfull In the third Chap. of the prophesie of Habacucke LOrd at thy voice my heart for feare hath trembled Vnto the world Lord let thy workes be showen In these our daies now let thy power be knowen And yet in wrath let mercie be remembred From Teman loe our God you may behold The holie one from Paran mount so hie His glorie hath cleane couered the Skie And in the earth his praises be inrolde His shining was more clearer than the light And from his hands a fulnesse did proceed Which did contain his wrath and power indeed Consuming plagues and fire were in his sight

might To magnifie a fleshly King a man a mortall wight Then let not such the Scepter sway whose glorie is of nought Least they deride vs when that we to miserie are brought And those deuises they haue wrought t'intangle vs withall May turne vnto their owne decay and on their heads may fall Remember Lord and shew thy selfe to vs in time of need And strengthen me thou King of kings Lord of power indeed Instruct my tongue with eloquence my speaches to impart Before the Lions face and by thy wisdome turne his heart To hate our deadly enemie so wholly bent to ill Destroy him and al such as doo consent vnto his will But let thy hand deliuer vs and help and succour me Sith I am now left comfortlesse and haue no help but thee Thou know'st right well all things O Lord this thou knowest then I hate the glory and the pompe of wicked sinful men And vtterly detest the bed of any heathen wight Vncircumcised most vnpure and odious in thy sight Thou knowest my necessitie and that with hate I beare This token of preheminence which on my head I weare And as a filthy menstruous cloath I take thereof such shame As being by my selfe alone I neuer weare the same And that at Hamans table yet thy handmaid hath not fed Nor tooke delight in princes feast nor drank wine offered And neuer wi'd in any thing since first I hether came Vntil this day but in the Lord thou God of Abraham Oh thou the high and mightie God heare thou the voice crie Of them whose hope whose trust and stay only on thee doth lie And now in need deliuer vs out of their cruell hand And from the dread and feare O Lord wherin we dayly stand The Praier of Mardocheus In the xiii Chap. of Hester Oh Lord my Lord that art the King of might Within whose power all thinges their being haue Who may withstand that liueth in thy sight If thou thy chosen Israell wilt saue For thou hast made the earth and heauen aboue And al things els that in the same do mooue Thou madest all things and they are all thine own And there is none that may resist thy will Thou know'st all things and this of thee is knowne I did not erst for malice nor for ill Presumption nor vaine glorie els at all Come nor bow downe vnto proud Hamans call I could haue bin content for Israels sake To kisse the soles euen of his verie feet But that I would not mans vaine honor take Before Gods glorie being so vnmeet And would not worship none O Lord but thee And not of pride as thou thy selfe doost see Therefore oh Lord my God and heauenly king Haue mercie on the people thou hast bought For they imagine and deuise the thing How to destroy and bring vs vnto nought Thine heritance which thou so long hast fed And out so far from Egypt land hast led Oh heare my praier and mercie doe extend Vpon thy portion of inheritance For sorrowe now some ioy and solace send That we may liue thy glorie to aduance And suffer not their mouthes shut vp oh Lord Which stil thy name with praises doo record A Praier in the person of the Faithfull The xxxvi Chap. of Ecclesiasticus HAue mercie on vs blessed Lord Which madest all thinges with thy word Behold vs Sauiour from aboue Illuminate vs with thy loue And let the wicked dread thy name Which neuer sought vnto the same And knowe that thou art God alone And like in woonders to be none Oh Lord lift vp thy mightie hand The world thy power shall vnderstand As by vs thou art sanctified By them so be thou magnified That they may learne thy power to knowe As we that be thy seruantes doo Thou art the liuing Lord alone And other Goddes besides thee none Renew the signes Lord thou hast showne And let thy woonderous woorks he knowne Declare the strength of thy right hand Let them thy power vnderstand Arise to iudgment in thine yre Poure out thy wrath as hot as fire Destroy the cruell aduersarie To spoile our foes Lord doo not tarie Shorten thou these wicked daies Thinke on thine oath at all assaies Let thy woonders Lord appeare And be thou praised farre and neare In burning fire Lord let them die Which doe escape and seek to flie And let them perish with annoy Which seeke thy people to destroy Cleaue thou the heads of mighty kings Our enemies in godly things And let the world behold and see That we are chosen vnto thee Lord gather Iacob vnto thee That they thy might power may see that they thy wondrous works may show And to be thine themselues may know Vnto thy folke impute no blame Which euer cald vpon thy name To Israel Lord be thou milde Thy only heir thy first borne child Vnto Ierusalem shew pitie Thy sanctuarie and thy citie Blesse Sion where thy prophets liue Thy glorie to thy people giue And be thou witnesse vnto those Which haue bene thine still to dispose And raise them vp oh Lord on hie Which in thy name doo prophesie Reward them Lord that waite for thee That they thy Prophets trueth may see Heare thou thy seruants praier oh Lord As thou to Aaron gauest thy word Guide vs in way of righteousnesse The earth thy glorie shall expresse And to the world it shall be knowne Thou art eternall and alone A Praier of Tobias exhorting all men to praise the Lord. Tobias Chap. xiii BLess'd be that king which euermore shal raign So euer may his kingdome blessed be Which punisheth and pittieth againe Which sends to hell and likewise setteth free Before whose presence may no creature stand Nor any thing auoid his heauie hand Ye children of his chosen Israell Before the Gentles stil confesse his name With whom he hath appointed you to dwell Euen there I say extol and laude his fame He is a Lord and God most gracious And still hath bene a father vnto vs. He wil scourge vs for our iniquitie Yet mercie will he take on vs againe And from those nations gathered shall we be With whom as strangers now we do remaine Yf in your harts he shal repentance find And turne to him with zeale and willing mind When as your dealings shall be found vpright Then wil he turn his face from you no more Nor thenceforth hide his presence from your sight But lend his mercie then laid vp in store Therefore confesse his name praises sing To that most great and highest heauenly King I will confesse him in captiuitie And to a wicked people shewe his might Oh turne to him vile sinners that you be And doo the thing is vpright in his sight Who's there can tell if he will mercie showe Or take compassion on you yea or noe I will extoll and laude thy name alwaies My soule the praise of heauens King expresse All tongues on earth shall spread abroad his praise All nations shew foorth his righteousnesse Ierusalem thou shalt be scourged then But he wil spare the sonnes of righteous men Faile not to giue the Lord his praises due And still extoll that euerlasting King And help to build his Tabernacle newe In which his Saints shall euer sit and sing In which the captiues shall haue end of griefe In which the poore shall euer find reliefe Many shall come from countries far and neare And shall great giftes vnto his presence bring Many before his presence shall appeare And shal reioice in this great heauenly King Cursed be those which hate thy blessed name But bless'd be those which loue like the same Triumph with ioy ye that be good and iust Though scattered now yet shall you gathered be Then in the Lord fix all your hope and trust And rest in peace till you these blessings see blessed be those which haue bin touch'd with griefe when they haue seen thee scourg'd want reliefe Those only shall reioice with thee againe And those shall be partakers of thy glorie And shall in blisse for ay with thee remaine Now passed once these troubles transitorie Then oh my soule see thou reioice and sing And laud the great and highest heuenly King And he will build Ierusalem full faire With Emeralds and Saphyrs of great price With precious stones he will her walles repaire Her towers of golde with worke of rare deuice And all her streetes with Berall will he paue With Carbunckles and Ophirs passing braue And all her people there shall sit and say Praised be God with Aleluiah FINIS