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A67268	Divine hymns, or, A paraphrase upon the Te Deum, &c. and the Song of the three children, or canticle Benedicite omnia opera, &c. as they are in the Book of common prayer by T. Walker ...	Walker, Thomas, 1658 or 9-1716.; Nicetas, of Remesiana, Saint, d. ca. 414. Te Deum laudamus.	1691 (1691)	Wing W415; ESTC R13384	12,832	40

Astonisht too in dire confusion move From crackling Orbs the Stars come tumbling down And in the hissing Sea their Tapers drown The Frame of Nature does dissolve and dye New Hev'ns and Earth the former's place supply Then holy Church with flagrant ardour burns Her sweetest praise to zealour prayers she turns Assist with thy Almighty aid we pray And guide poor mortals in the rightfull way We of our selves are helpless weak and blind Unthankful proud inconstant as the wind O'recome with passions and with Lusts opprest With Legions of infernal fiends possest Yet for such wretches thou resign'd thy breath And underwent a smart inglorious death Those streams of blood which from thy body ran Were shed to save and rescue sinful Man That precious blood which issu'd from thy side Wou'd have redeem'd a Thousand Worlds beside No finite tongue its value can repeat Whose worth and price was infinitely great This wondrous Love relieves our pining care Supports our minds and banishes despair Inspires with Hope and drives away our Dread And makes us dare to raise our drooping Head And beg the greatest Boon that can be giv'n The blest enjoyment of a glorious Heav'n Where with the Saints we shall for ever sing Sweet Halelujah's to th' Eternal King What Joys and raptures fill that blisfull place Where we shall view the God-head face to face Heav'n the best object of our longing mind Where happy Souls true solid pleasures find Securest Harbour whither can we fly When storms and clouds obscure our troubled Skie And that we may this calm safe Port obtain Save us from Shipwrack on the boistrous main From Pyrats guard us and from Sirens keep Whilst we are Sailing o're the dang'rous Deep Let not the Wolf the Lyon or the Fox Devour thy Church or harm thy tender Flocks But with thy true and faithfull Pastors feed The Scatter'd remnants of thy chosen seed Defend them from their proud insulting foes Whose rage still more and more imbitter'd grows Their sinking minds and feeble bodies bear Above the reach of worldly hope or fear And if thy wisdom thinks it just and meer Let all their foes lye prostrate at their feet We 're dayly mindfull of thy constant care And dayly offer up our thankful player In sacred Hymns w' extol thy glorious Name And in Thy Temple celebrate thy Fame And as thy Church for ever shall endure Under thy watchfull providence secure Nor blasting envy nor malicious rage With which so oft unarm'd she does engage Shall ever her foundation overturn Tho' men and Devils too against it spurn So whilst she sojourns here she 'l always bring An humble Tribute to her Heav'nly King Nor will she cease to praise and worship Thee When Time lies buried in Eternity Conscious of guilt and of our frailty too How prone we are our failings to renew We beg thy aid and thy assisting grace To keep our feet from stumbling in our Race And seeing Time so swiftly flies away And even to its self becomes a prey 'T is Folly to neglect the present Day Teach us our Instant moments to improve In all the duties both of fear and Love For life's uncertain and the Years to come May not be sprung from Times unfathom'd womb E're we be rotting in a loathsom Tomb. Our faults are many and our sins are great Therefore our calls for mercy we repeat Have mercy Lord for mercy still we cry Let not thy Love our humble suit deny For who cou'd stand before thy Judgement seat If Mercy did not with thy Justice meet We shou'd not boldly thus thy favour crave But that we know no other Gods can save We dare not to the best of Saints resign That fear and trust which are intirely Thine And as we place our confidence in Thee So from confusion ever keep us free From Worldly shame and Satans Tyranny NOTES PAG. the 2. lin 1. I have used resound in a transitive sense upon the authority of Virgil Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida sylvas Eclog. 1. lin 5. Pag. the 8. lin 5 6. Then those who never tasted bitter death Shall in a moment loose their sleeting breath Here I allude to the Mystery St Paul speaks off in the 15. Chap. of the 1. Epist Cor. 51. v. where he says we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed which I conceive is not so to be understood as that those who shall be found alive at the day of Judgement shall wholly escape the sentence denounc'd against Sin viz. Death Rom. 5.12 which is to pass upon all seeing that all have sinned but that they shall all dye suddenly either through fear or some other preternatural cause and under go a separation of their souls from their bodies but they being quickly to be reunited again and their bodies neither laid in the grave or turn'd to dust the persons so dying may be said not to sleep thô they were really dead because they were not laid in the grave for to sleep with their Fathers or to be buried with their Fathers are synonymous terms in holy Scripture So that this seems to be the Apostle's meaning we shall not all dye so us to be buried in our graves there to lye 'till we be rotten but some immediately or soon after the dissolution of their soul and body will have them reunited again and so appear in Judgement for it is appointed unto all men once to dye Heb. 9.27 and after that the Judgement But then wherein consists the Mystery mention'd by the Apostle herein as I suppose that from the instance of those who shall be found alive at the day of Judgment the Corinthians shou'd not take any occasion either to disbelieve or make any objection against the resurrection of the body for St Paul having before discours'd only concerning the resurrection of those bodies which were turn'd into dust he does in the verse before quoted as well farther instruct the Corinthians in this matter as preoccupy an objection which they might make against his preceding doctrin which we may suppose to be fram'd after this manner You have in your foregoing discourse treated concerning the body's being rais'd from dust and have illustrated your doctrin from seed sown in the ground V. 36. which is not quickned except it dye i.e. unless it be buried and dissolv'd in the Earth and after the same manner V. 42. you say is the resurrection of the dead it is sown in Corruption it is raised in incorruption and if so them what will become of those who shall be found alive at the day of Judgement whose bodies will not lye in the grave to be corrupted and turn'd to dust Shall not they therefore rise again Yes they shall and this is a Mystery I tell you thô they shall not sleep i. e. be lodged in the grave 'till they be turn'd to dust as those have been who died before them yet they shall both dye and be rais'd up again and

their corruptible bodies shall be chang'd into incorruptible From which Interpretation of the Text P. 579. Oecumenius upon the place does not disagree 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. As to what is said we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed it ought to be understood in this sense that we shall not sleep so long a sleep that we shall either lye in the grave or be turn'd to corruption but those who shall be found shall undergo a short death who cannot enjoy any long sleep by reason of the sudden resurrection that will follow but all shall be changed that is all shall put on incorruption A PARAPHRASE Upon the Canticle Benedicite omnia opera c. I. O Earth arise ye Heavens downward bend And to your great Creators praise attend Th' inspiring Theme will flowing Numbers lend II. Let all the Works which Gods commanding word From Nothing into Being brought afford Immortal praises to th' Eternal Lord. III. Ye Angels that in wondrous strength excell Praise the most High because you never fell And on that copious Theme for ever dwell IV. Ye Spheres whose high and vast expanded Face Can't limit Him who knows no Time nor Place Extend Gods praise beyond your bounded Space V. You who so nimbly climb and swiftly fly And in perpetual rolls dance round the Skie Your motions Tune to gratefull Harmony VI. Ye Waters which th' Almighty does prepare Above the spacious Regions of the Air In murmuring sounds His dreadful Name declare VII Ye Natu'ral Pow'rs whose dark mysterious Laws Confound the searchers into ev'ry Cause ' Advance His Pow'r whence Nature vertue draws VIII Bright Sun when thou arifest from thy bed And on the World thy pow'rfull beams doest shed God's praise with Heat and Light together spread IX Thou and the Moon which guide the Day and Night Send back your Rays up to the source of Light And raise God's Glory bove your dazling Height X. Ye Stars whose faint and languid beams bestow A weaker Influence on Things below Unite your force and God's Just Praises show XI Let fruitfull show'rs which cool the gaping Ground And make the Earth with Corn and Wine abound God's praises o're the Hills and Vales resound XII Ye Dews which on the Herbs fresh verdure bring Fly back in vapours to your Heav'nly spring And carry Praises on your balmy wing XIII Ye boistrous Winds which rend the trembling Skie Where e'er your never-flagging Wings shall fly Disperse your Sov'reigns Praises far and nigh XIV Let breezing Gales which Fan the buxom Air And o're the Seas the floating Castles bear Perfume their gentle breath with thankful Prayer XV. Enlivening Heat and All-consuming Fire From human use to sacred Rites retire And unto Heav'n in flaming Praise aspire XVI Ye diff'rent Seasons of the changing year Summer and Winter let your Praise appear Through ev'ry cloudy Day in ev'ry clear XVII Let blooming Spring and fruitfull Autumn try In richest praise each other to outvie And never cease 'till aged Time shall die XVIII Let all the Meteors hauging in the Air The hony Dews and Frosts with silver Hair Pure virgin Praises unto God prepare XIX Let lambent Flames which round our Temples play And wandring Fires which lead us from our way God's praise adorn in ev'ry shining Ray. XX. Ye gaudy colours of the Showrie Bow Which from reflection and refraction flow Let streaming Praise surround your painted Brow XXI Ye Frost and Cold whose rigorous force delays The pleasing Comforts of the warmer Days Bend all your rigour to th' Almighty's Praise XXII Let Snow which clothes the naked Earth in white And Ice which stops the liquid water's flight Dissolve in Praises to the God of might XXIII Wake sluggish Nights sing Days with cheerfull joy Your precious Hours to Gods great praise imploy 'Till He shall your alternate Course destroy XXIV Let Light the offspring of the glorious Sun Whose flight's so swift 't is finish't when begun As swiftly toward God in Praises run XXV Let Darkness too which fills the World with Dread And o're the Earth does quiet silence spread In awful Praises hide its gloomy Head XXVI Ye Lightnings which th' affrighted world amaze And dart quick death from your sharp-pointed rays In vocal Flashes speak the Thund'rer's praise XXVII Ye Clouds which from the Earth in vapours rise And intercept the Influence of the Skies Let praises trickle from your weeping eyes XXVIII Let Mother Earth which Herbs and Fruits does be●t And with a Thousand Joys relieves our care A solemn grateful Feast to God prepare XXIX Ye lofty Mountains of the greatest Fame O're your aspiring Heads exalt his Name Then Eccho't to the Valleys down again XXX Ye litle Hills with fruitfull vineyards Crown'd For healing Plants and flowing springs renown'd Let Praises from your shaggie Tops rebound XXXI Ye verdant Pastures and ye flow'ry Plains Which glad the careful hearts of labouring Swains Praise the Almighty in your Runal strains XXXII Let Cedars Cypress and the ●ery Pine The budding Rose the Olive and the Vine Flourish in Praises to the King Divine XXXIII Ye springs that do the Tops of Mountains creep In hollow caverns from the briny Deep Soft lulling Notes to God's great Glory weep XXXIV Some for unusual Ebbs and Flows renown'd Others that borrow vertue from the Ground Let all your Glory to the Lord redound XXXV Ye curling Seas that beat the crooked Shoar With foaming Mouths your thanks to Him restore Who curbs your waves calms you when you roar XXXVI Ye grateful Floods which travel to the Main And pay your Homage in a watry Train Return with humble Praises back again XXXVII Ye Whales and Tenants of the wat'ry Coasts Thô dumb and silent praise the Lord of Hosts In signs more grateful then the loudest Boasts XXXVIII Ye winged People of the azure Skie Where e're you can your well-fledg'd Pinions try In Artless Notes declare that God is High XXXIX Ye savage Beasts which o're the Desarts stray When in your Paws you 've seiz'd your panting Prey With Howls and horrid Yells your Thanks repay XL. Ye creeping Insects that with tardie pace Advance your Snakie foulds from place to place In all your winding turns God's Glory trace XLI Ye fleecy Flocks upon a Thousand Hills Whose hungry mouths the great Creater fills Bleat praise to Him from whom your Food distills XLII Your Shepherd never does his Temples steep In clammy Dews of soft refreshing fleep But with a watchful eye your Folds does keep XLIII Let other Beasts that in fat pastures feed The Lowing Oxe the Gow land neighing Steed Proclaim His Bounty who supplies their Need. XLIV Ye sons of Men whom reason ought to sway Thô Lords of all below no pride betray But Homage to the Worlds sole Monarch pay XLV You who 're endu'd with an Immortal mind Whom Angels leave not very far behind In praises be as constant and refin'd XLVI Let Isr'el God's peculiar people tread His Courts with praise who them from Egypt led And in the Wilderness with Manna fed XLVII Remember how you went o're ruddie sand Whilest wondring waves like walls of glass did stand 'Till you were safely guarded to the Land XLVIII Then did the willing streams together meet And with a humid kiss each other great And wash the drown'd Egyptians floating feet XLIX Let holy Priests with frag●●●● Incense come And load God's Altars with the choicest Gum Then with sweet praise their sacrifice perfume L. Ye Levites your devoted Hearts inflame With praises due to Gods tremendous Name And in Melodious Quires his Deeds proclaim LI. Ye servants of the Lord whose faithful eye Can Heav'nly Things thr● Earthy Types def●●y Contemn this World in Praise ascend on High LII Ye Souls who from the Earth have took your flight Releas'd from clay and cloth'd in Robes of White Let praises be your Joy and chief delight LIII Ye holy Men who tread th' unbeaten way Which leads to Regions of Eternal Day Praise God because you do not goe astray LIV. Ye humble Hearts whose only pride and Skill Is to pursue what 's good and fly from Ill To praise the Lord is to observe his Will LV. O Shadruch Meshach and Abednego Whom cruel Men into the Flames did throw Flames less revengefull than your raging Foe LVI You who by Miracle escap'd that Fire Mount up to Heav'n in Flames of hot desire And blessing live and praising God expire NOTE PAG. 15. Stanza ● It may be asked why the Angels are call'd upon and exerted to praise God seeīng it as their constant imployment in Heaven to sing Hallelujahs unto him To which it may be answered that their being excited to praise God is as much by way of congratulation as exhortation according to that saying of Ovid Qui monet ut facias quod jam facis ipse monendo Lafudat hortatu comprobat acta suo He that advises what thou doest to doe At once exhorts Thee and commends thee too FINIS