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A14186 The whole booke of Psalmes collected into English meter by Thom. Sternh., Iohn Hopkins, W. Whittingham and others, conferred with the Ebrue with apt notes to singe them withall ; set forth and allowed to be song in all churches, of all the people together before and after mornyng and euenyng prayer, as also before and after sermons, and moreouer in priuate houses for their godly solace and co[m]fort, laying apart all vngodly songes and balades, which tend onely to the nourishyng of vice, and corruptyng of youth.; Whole book of psalms. 1578 Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549.; Hopkins, John, d. 1570.; Whittingham, William, d. 1579. 1578 (1578) STC 2450.5 159,067 104

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the thynges that I haue done Be hidden from thee then Nay nay thou knowest them all O Lord Where they were done and when Wherfore with teares I come to thee To begge and to entreat Euen as the child that hath done euill And feareth to be beat So come I to thy mercy gate Where mercy doth abound Requiryng mercy for my sinne To heale my deadly wound O Lord I neede not to repeate What I do begge or craue Thou knowest O Lord before I aske The thyng that I would haue Mercy good Lord mercy I aske This is the totall summe For mercy Lord is all my sute Lord let thy mercy come ¶ The Lordes Prayer or Pater noster OVr father which in heauen art Lord hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come thy will be done in earth euen as the same in heauen is geue vs O Lord o●● dayly bread this day As we forgeue ou● detters so forgeue our dettes we pray Into temp tation lead vs not From euill make vs fr●e For kyngdome powe● and glory thyne both now and euer bee ¶ The x. Commaundementes Audi Israell Exod. xx HArke Israell and what I say geue hede to vn derstand I am the Lord thy God that brought thee out of Egypt land euen from the house wherein thou didst in thraldome lyne a slaue None other God 's at all before my prese●ce shalt thou haue No maner grauen Image shalt thou make at all to thee Nor any figure like by thee shall counterfatted bee Of any ●hyng in heauen aboue nor in the earth below Nor in waters beneath the earth to them thou shalt not bow Nor shalt them serue The Lord thy God a ielous God am I That punish parentes faultes vnto the third and fourth degree Vpon those children that me hate and mercy do display To thousandes of such as me loue and my preceptes ▪ obey The name thou of the Lord thy God in vayne shalt neuer vse For him that takes his name in vayne the Lord shall not excuse Remember that thou holy keepe the sacred Sabboth day Sixe dayes thou labour shalt and do thy needefull work●s alway The seuenth day is set by the Lord thy God to rest vpon No worke then shalt thou do in it ne thou nor yet thy sonne Thy daughter seruaunt nor handmayd thyne Oxe nor yet thine Asse Nor straunger that within thy gate hath his abidyng place For in sixe dayes God heauen and earth and all therein did make ▪ And after those his rest he did vpon the seuenth day take Wherefore he blest the day that he for resting did ordayne And sacred to him selfe alone appointed to remayne Yeld honor to thy parentes that prolongde thy dayes may bee Vpon the land the which the Lord thy God hath geuen thee Thou shalt not murther Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not steale Nor witnes false agaynst thy neighbour be Thou shalt not couet house that to thy neighbour doth belong Ne couet shalt in hauyng of his wife to do him wrong Nor his man scruaunt nor his mayd nor Oxe nor Asse of his Nor any other thyng that to thy neighbour proper is ¶ The complaint of a sinner WHere righteousnes doth say Lord for my sinne full part In wrath thou shouldst me pay vengeance for my desart I can it not deny but needes I must confesse how that continually thy lawes I do trans gresse Thy lawes I do transgresse But if it be thy will With sinners to contend Then all thy ●●ocke shall spill And be lost without end For who liueth here so right That rightly he can say He sinneth not in thy sight Full oft and euery day The Scripture playne telth me The righteous man oftendeth Seuen tymes a day to thee Whereon thy wrath dependeth So that the right wise man Doth walke in no such path But he falth now or than In daunger of thy wrath Then sith the case so standes That euen the man rightwise Falth oft in sinnefull bandes Whereby thy wrath may rise Lord I that am vniust And righteousnes none haue Whereto then shall I trust My sinnefull soule to saue ▪ But truely to that post Whereto I cleane and sh●ll Which is thy mercy most Lord let thy mercy fall And mitigate thy moode Or ●ls we perish all The price of this thy bloud Wherein mercy I call The Scripture doth declare No droppe of blo●d in thee But that thou didst not spare To shed ech drop for mee Now let those drops most sweete So moyst my hart so dry That I with sinne replete My liue and sinne may dye That beyng mortified This sinne of myne in me I may be sanctified By grace of thyne in thee So that I neuer fall Into such mortall sinne That my foes in●ernall Reioyce m● death therein But vouchsafe me to keepe From those in●ernall foe● And from that lake so deepe Whereas no mercy growes And I shall sing the songes Confirmed with the iust That vnto thee belonges Which art myne onely trust ¶ FINIS ¶ PSALMES OF DAVID Beatus vir Psalme i. T. S. THe man is blest that hath not bent to wicked reade his eare Nor led his life as sinners do not sat in scorners chayre 2. But in the law of God the Lord doth set his whole delight And in that law doth exercise him selfe both day and night verse 3 He shal be like the tree that growet● fast by the riuer side Which bringeth forth most pleasan●t fruite in her due tyme and tyde Whose leafe shall ne●er fade nor fall but florish still and stand ▪ Euen so all thinges shall prosper well that this man taketh in hand verse 4 So shall not the vngodly men they shal be nothyng so But as the dust which from the earth the windes driue to and fro verse 5 Therfore shall not the wicked men in iudgement stand vpright Nor yet the sinners with the iust shall come in place or ●ight verse 6 For why ' the way of godly men vnto the Lord is knowen And eke the way of wicked men shall quite be euerthrowen Quare fremuerunt Psal. ij T. S. ¶ Sing this as the first Psalme WHy did the Gentiles tumultes rayse what rage was in their brayne Why did the Iewish people muse seeyng all is but vayne verse 2 The kynges and rulers of the earth conspire and are all bent Agaynst the Lord and Christ his sonne which he among vs sent verse 3 Shall we be bound to them say they let all their bonds be broke And of their doctrine and their law let vs reiect the yoke verse 4 But he that in the heauen dwelleth their doinges will deride And make them all as mocking stockes throughout the world so wide verse 5 For in his wrath the Lord will say to them vpon a day And in his fury trouble them and then the Lord will say verse 6 I haue annoynted him my king vpon my holy hill I will therefore Lord preach thy lawes and eke declare thy will. verse 7
be euermore The song of Saint Ambrose called ●e Deum WE prayse thee God we knowledge thee the onely Lord to be And as eternall father all the ●arth doth worshyp thee To thee all Anngels cry the heauens and al the powers therein To thee Ch●ruh and S●raphin to cry they do not linne O holy holy holy Lord of Sabboth Lord the God Through heauen and earth thy prayse is spread ▪ and glory all abroad Thapostles glorious company yeld prayses vnto thee The Prophetes goodly felowship prayse thee continually The noble and victorious host of Martyrs sound thy prayse Thy holy Church throughout the world doth knowledge thee alwayes Father of endles Maiestie they do acknowledge thee Thy Christ thin● honorable tr●e and onely sonne to bee ▪ The holy Ghost the comforter ▪ Of glory thou ar●kyng O Christ and of the Father art the sonne euerlastyng When sinnefull mans decay in hand thou ●ookest ●p 〈◊〉 ▪ To be inclosed in virgins 〈◊〉 ▪ thou diddest 〈…〉 When thou hadst 〈…〉 the sharpe and cruell ●●ight Thou heauens kyngdome didest set 〈◊〉 to ech bele●yng wigh●● I● glory of the Father tho● doest si● on God●●right had We trust that thou shalt come 〈◊〉 iudge our cause to vndersta●d Lord helpe thy 〈◊〉 who● tho● 〈◊〉 bought with thy precious blo●d And in eternall glory set them with thy Saintes so good O Lord do thou thy people saue blesse thine inheritaunce Lord gouerne them and Lord do tho● for euer them ad●●unce We magnifie thee day by day and world without all end Adore thy holy name O Lord. Vouchsafe v● to defend From sinne this day Haue mercy Lord haue mercy on vs all And on vs as we trust in thee Lord let thy mercy fall O Lord I haue reposed all my confidence in thee Put to confoundyng shame therfore Lord let me neuer bee ¶ The song of the three children O All ye workes of God the Lord bles ye the Lord prayse him and magnifie him for euer verse 2 O ye the Aungels of the Lord Blesse ye the Lord prayse him and magnifie him for euer verse 3 O ye the starry heauens ●ye Blesse ye the Lord prayse him and magnifie him for euer verse 4 O ye waters aboue the sky blesse ye the lord c. verse 5 O all ye powers of the Lord blesse ye the lord c. verse 6 O ye the shinyng Sunne and Moone blesse ye the lord c. verse 7 O ye the glistryng starres of heauen blesse ye the lord c. verse 8 O ye the s●owers and dropping dew blesse ye the lord c. verse 9 O ye the blowyng windes of God blesse ye the lord c. verse 10 O ye the fi●e and warming heat blesse ye the lord c. verse 11 Ye Wi●ter and the Sommer tyde blesse ye the lord c. verse 12 O ye the dewes 〈◊〉 ●●●ndyng fro●tes blesse ye the lord c. verse 13 O ye the frost and chilling cold blesse ye the lord c. verse 14 O ye congeled yse and snow blesse ye the lord c. verse 15 O ye th● nightes and 〈…〉 blesse ye the lord c. verse 16 O ye th● darknes and the 〈◊〉 ▪ blesse ye the lord c. verse 17 O ye the 〈…〉 and the ●loudes blesse ye the lord c. verse 18 O let the earth eke blesse the Lord ▪ yea blesse the lord c. verse 19 O ye the mountaines and the hillers blesse ye the lord c. verse 20 O all ye 〈◊〉 thing●s 〈◊〉 the earth blesse ye the lord c. verse 21 O ye the 〈◊〉 springyng welles blesse ye the lord c. verse 22 O ye the Seas and eke the ●●o●des blesse ye the lord c. verse 23 Whales and all that 〈◊〉 water 〈◊〉 blesse ye the lord c. verse 24 O all ye flying foules of thayre blesse ye the lord c. verse 25 O all ye beastes and cattell eke blesse ye the lord c. verse 26 O ye the children of 〈◊〉 blesse ye the lord c. verse 27 Let Israell eke blesse the Lord yea blesse the lord c. verse 28 O ye the Priestes of God the Lord blesse ye the lord c. verse 29 O ye the scruauntes of the Lord blesse ye the lord c. verse 30 Ye spirites and soules of righteous men blesse ye the lord c. verse 31 Ye holy and ye meeke of hart blesse ye the lord c. verse 32 O Ananias blesse the Lord blesse thou the Lord prayse ●im and magnifie him for euer verse 33 O Azari●s blesse the Lord blesse thou the Lord prayse him and magnifie him for euer verse 34 And Misaell blesse thou the Lord blesse thou the Lord prayse him and magnifie him for euer ¶ The song of Zacharias called Benedictus THe onely Lord of Israell be praysed euermors For through his visitation and mercy kept inst●rer His people now he hath redemde that long hath bene in thrall and spread abroad his sauing health vpon his seruauntes all In ●●●uids house ●i● seruaant true 〈…〉 to his mynder ▪ And a●so his ●●noynted ●yng As we in Scripture find● As by his holy Prophetes all Oft tymes he did declare The which were since the world began His way for to prepare That we might be deliuered From those that make debate Our enemies and from the handes Of all that do vs hate The mercy which he promised Our Fathers to fulfill And thinke vpon his couenaunt made Accordyng to his will. And also to performe the o●●e Which he before had sworne To Abraham our Father deare For vs that were ●orlorne That he would geue him selfe for vs And vs from bondage bring Out of the bandes of all our foes To s●rue out heauenly king And that without all manner feare And eke in righteousnes And also for to lead our lyfe In stedfast holynes And thou O child which now art borne And of the Lord elect Shalt be the Proph●● of the hyest His wayes for to direct For thou shalt go before his face For to prepare his wayes And also for to teach his will And pleasure all thy dayes To geue them knowledge how that their Saluation is nere And that remission of their sinnes Is through his mercy mere Whereby the dayspring from on hye Is come vs for to visite And those for to illuminate Which do in darknes fit To lighten those that shadowed be With death and eke opprest And also for to guide their feete The way to peace and rest ¶ The song of blessed Mary called Magnificat MY soule doth magnifie the Lord my spirite eke euermore reioyseth in the Lord my God which is my Sauiour And why because he did regar de and gaue respect vnto so base estate of his hand mayd and let the mighty go For now behold all nations And generations all From this tyme forth for euermore ▪ Shall me right blessed call Because he hath me magnified Which is the Lord of might Whose name be euer sanctified
〈…〉 into English 〈…〉 Iohn Hopkins W. Whitting●●●● and others conferred with the 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 Notes to sing them withall ▪ ¶ Set forth and 〈…〉 to be sung in all Churches of all the people together before and after Mornyng and Evenyng prayer as also before and after Sermons and moreouer in priuate houses for their Godly solace and cōfort Laying apart all vngodly songes and balades which tend onely to the nourishyng of vice and corruptyng of youth 〈◊〉 JAMES v ▪ ¶ If any be 〈…〉 pray and if any be mery let him sing Psalmes ▪ COLLOS III. ¶ Let the word of God dwell plenteously in you in all wisedome teachyng and exhortyng one an other in Psalmes Hymnes and spirituall songes and sing vnto the Lord in your hartes HORVM CHARITAS J. D. AT LONDON Printed by Iohn Daye dwellyng ouer Aldersgate 1578. ¶ Cum gratia Privilegio Regia Majestatis Veni Creator ▪ COme holy ghost eternall God proceding from abo●e ▪ both from the Father and the sonne the God of peace and loue Visite our ●indes and in to vs thy hea●enly grace inspire that in all truth and godlynes we may haue true desire Thou art the very comforter in all woe and distresse The heauenly gift of God most high which no tongue can expresse The fountaine and the liuely spring of ioy celestiall The fire so bright the loue so cleare and vnction spirituall Thou in thy giftes art manifold whereby Christes Church doth stand In faythfull hartes writyng thy law the finger of Gods hand According to thy promise made thou geuest speech of grace That through thy helpe the prayse of God may stand in euery place O holy Ghost into our wittes se●d downe thy heauenly lights Kindle our hartes with seruent loue to serue God day and night Strength and stablish all our weakenes so feeble and so fraile That neither ●●esh the world nor depill agaynst vs do preuayle Put back our enemies farre from vs and graunt vs to obtaine Peace in our hartes with God and man without grudge or disdayne And graunt O Lord that th●n beyng our leader and our guide● We may eschew the snares of sinne and from thee ne●er slide To vs such pl●nty of thy grace good Lord graunt we thee pray That thou mayest be our comforte● at the last dreadfull day Of all strife and dissention O Lord dissolue the bandest ▪ And make the knots of peace and loue throughout all Christen landes Graunt vs O Lord through thee to know the Father of all might That of thy deare beloued sonne we may attayne the sigh● And that with perfect fayth also we may acknowledge thee The spirite of them both alway one God in persons thr●● Land and prayse be to the Father and to the Sonne equall ▪ And to the holy spirite also ▪ one God coet●rnall And pray we that the onely Sonne vouchsafe his spirite to send To all that doe prof●ss● his name vnto the worldes end ¶ The humble sute of a sinner M. O Lord of whome I do depend behold my care full hart and when thy will and pleasure is release me of my smart thou seest my sorrowes what they are my griefe is knowen to thee and the●● is none that can remoue or take the ●ame from me But onely thou whose ayde I craue whose mercy still i● prest To ease all those that come to thee for succour and for r●st And sith thou seest my restles eyes my teares and greuous grone ▪ Attend vnto my sute O Lord marke well my playnt and mone For sinne hath so inclosed me and compast me about● ▪ That I am now remedilesse if mercy helpe not ou● For mortall man can not release or mitigate this payne But euen thy Christ my Lord and God who for my sinnes was slayne Whose bloudy woundes are yet to see though not with mortall eye Yet do thy saintes behold them all a●d so I trust shall ● Though sinne d●th hinder me a while when thou shalt see it good I shall enioy the sight of him and see his woundes and bloud And as thine Aungels and thy Sayntes do now behold the same ▪ So trust I to possesse that place with them to prayse thy name But whilest I liue here in this vale where sinners doe frequent Assist me euer with thy grace my sinnes still to lament ▪ Least that I wo●d in sinners trace and geue them my consent To dwell with them in wickednes where to nature i● b●nt Onely thy grace must be my stay least that I fall downe ●lat And being downe then of my selfe can not recouer that Wherefore this is yet once agayne my sute and my request To graunt me pardon for my sinne that I in thee may re●t Then shall my hart my tongue and voyce be instrumentes of prayse And in thy Church and house of Sainte● sing Psalmes to thee alwayes Venite exultemus Psalme xcv ¶ Sing this as the Benedictus O Come and let vs now reioyce And sing vnto the Lord And to out onely Sauiour Also with one accord O let vs come before his face With inward reuerence Confessing all our former sinnes And that with diligenc● To thanke him for his benefites Alway distributing Where fore to him right ioyfully In Psalmes now let vs sing And that because that God alone ●s Lord magnificent And eke aboue all other Gods A king omnipotent His people doth not he forsake At any tyme or tide And in his handes are all the coa●tes Of all the world so wide And with his louing countenaunce He looketh euery where And doth behold the tops of all The mountaines farre and near● The Sea and all that is therein Are his for he them made And eke his handes haue fashioned The earth which doth not fade O come therefore and worship him And downe before him fall And let vs weepe before the Lord The which hath made vs all He is our God our Lord and king And we his people are His flock and sheepe of his pasture On whome he taketh care This daye if ye will heare his voyce Yet harden not your ha●tes As in the ●itter murmuring When ye were in desartes Which thing was of their negligence Committed in the tyme Of trouble in the wildernes A great and gr●●ous crime 〈◊〉 your Fathers tempted me And ●●yed ●●e euery ●ay● They proued me and saw my workes What I could do or say 〈…〉 Wh●● all this generation ▪ And euermore I say it they 〈◊〉 I● their imagination Wherewith thei● 〈◊〉 we●e 〈…〉 Long tyme and many dayes ▪ Wherefore I know assuredly They haue not knowen my wayes To whom● I i●●●ine anger swor●● That they should not be blest No● see my ioy c●lestiall Nor enter in ●y rest Gl●ri●patri All lau● and prayse be to thee Lord ▪ O that of mig●● art most To God the Father and the sonne And to the holy Ghost As it in the beginning was For euer heretofore And is now at this present tyme And shal
agaynst my Lord my God. The third part verse 21 But euermore I haue respect to his law and decree His statutes and commaundements I cast not out from me verse 22 But pure and cleane and vncorrupt appeard before his face And did refraine from wickednes and sinne in any case verse 23 The Lord therfore will me reward as I haue done a right And to the cleanes of my handes appearing in his sight verse 24 For Lord with him th●t holy is wi●t thou be holy to And with the good and vertuous men right vertuously wilt doe verse 25 And to the louing and elect thy loue thou wilt reserue And thou wilt vse the wicked men as wicked men deserue verse 26 I or thou doest sane the simple folke in trouble when they lye And doest bring downe the countenaunce of them that looke full hye verse 27 The Lord will light my candle so that it shall shine full bright The Lord my God wi●● make also my darcknes to be light verse 28 For by thy helpe an host of men discomsite Lord I shall By thee I seale and ouerleape the strength of any wall verse 29 Vnspotted are the wayes of God his word is purely tryde He is a sure defence to s●ch as in his fayth abide verse 30 For who is God● except the Lord for other there is none Or ●ls who is omnipotent sauing our God alone The fourth part verse 31 The God that girdeth me with strength is he that I doo meane That all the wayes wherein I walke did euermore keepe cleane verse 32 That made my foote lyke to the hartes in swiftnes of my pate And for my surety brought me forth into an open place verse 33 He did in order put my handes to battayle and to ●ight To breake in sunder barres of brasse he gaue mine armes the might verse 34 Thou teachest me thy sauing health thy right hand is my tower Thy loue and familiaritie doth still increase my power verse 35 And vnder me thou makest playne the way where I should walke So that my feete shall neuer slip nor stumble at a balke verse 36 And fiercely I pursue and take my foes that me annoyed And from the field do not returne till they be all destroyed verse 37 So I suppresse and wound my foes that they can rise no more For at my feete they fall downe flat I strike them all so sore verse 38 For thou do●st gird me with thy strength to warre in such a wise That they be all scattered abroad that vp agaynst me rise verse 39 Lord thou hast put into my handes my mortall enemies yoke And all my foes thou doest deuide in sunder with thy stro●e verse 40 They cald for helpe but none gaue eare nor holpe them with reliefe Yea to the Lord they cald for helpe yet heard he not their griefe The fift part verse 41 And still lyke dust before the winde I driue them vnder feete And sweepe them out lyke filthy clay that sticketh in the streete verse 42 Thou keepest me from seditious folke that still in strife be led And thou doest of the heathen folke appoint me to be head verse 43 A people strange to me vnknowen and yet they shall me serue And at the first obay my wordes whereas mine owen will swerue verse 44 I shall be irksome to mine owne they will not se my light But wander wide out of the way and rid them out of sight verse 45 But blessed be the liuing Lord most worthy of all prayse That is my rocke and sauing health praysed be he alwayes verse 46 For God it is that gaue me power reuenged for to be And with his holy worde subdude the people vnto me verse 47 And from my soe me deliuered and set me higher then those That cruell and vngodly were and vp against me rose verse 48 And for this cause O Lord my God to the e●en● thankes I shall And sing out prayses to thy name among the Gentiles all verse 49 That gauest great prosperitie vnto the king I say To Dauid thine annoynted king and to his seede for aye Coeli enarrant Psal. xix T. S. Sing this as the xiiij Psalme THe heauens and the firmament doo wondrously declare The glory of God omnipotent his workes and what they are verse 2 The 〈…〉 of God appeare by euery dayes successe The nightes lyke 〈◊〉 which their race runne the sel●e same thinges expresse verse 3 There is no language ▪ tongue or speach where their ●ound is not heard verse 4 In all the 〈◊〉 and coastes thereof their knowledge is conferd In them the Lord made for the Sonne a place of great ●enome verse 5 Who ly●e a bridgrome ready trimd doth from his chamber come And as a valiant champion who for to get a price With ioy in hast doth t●ke in hand some noble enterprise verse 6 And all the sky from end to end he compasseth about Nothing can hide it from his heate but he will finde it out verse 7 How perfect is the law of God how is his co●enaunt sure Conuerting soules and making wise the simple and obsevre verse 8 Iust are the Lordes commaundementes and glad both hart and minde His preceptes pure and geueth light to eyes that be full blinde verse 9 The feare of God is excellent and doth endure for euer The iudgementes of the Lord are true a●d righteous altogether verse 10 And more to be embraced alwayes then fined gold I say The hony and the hony combe are not so sweete as they verse 11 By them thy seruaunt is forewarnde to haue God in regarde And in performance of the same there shal be great reward verse 12 But Lord what earthly man doth know the errours of this ly●e Thou clense my hart from secret sinnes which are in mee most rise verse 13 And keepe me that presumptuous sinnes preuayle not ouer me And then shall I be innocent and great offences flee verse 14 Accept my mouth and eke my hart my wordes and thoughtes echone For my redeemer and my strength O Lord thou art alone Exaudiet te Dominus psal xx T. S. ¶ Sing this as the xiiij Psalme IN trouble and aduersitie the Lord God heare thee still The maiestie of Iacobs God defend thee from all ill verse 2 And send thee from his holy place his helpe at euery neede And so in Sion stablish thee and make thee strong in deede verse 3 Remembring well the sacrifice that now to him is done And so receaue right thankfully thy burnt offringes echone verse 4 According to thy hartes desire the Lord graunt vnto thee And all thy coun●ell and deuise full well performe may be verse 5 We shall reioyce when thou is sauest and our banners displaye Vnto the Lord which thy requestes fulfilled hath al ●ay verse 6 The Lord will his annoynted saue I know well by his grace And send him health by his right hand out of his holy place verse 7 In charets some put
much bloud to spill verse 10 Whose hand●s are heapt with craft and gu●●e their lyfe thereof ●s full And their right hand with wrentch and vile for bribes doth pluck and pull verse 11 But I in righteousnes intend my tyme and dayes to serue Haue mercy Lord and me defend so that I doe not swerue verse 12 My foote is stayd for all ●ssayes it standeth well and right Wherefore to God will I geue prayse in all the peoples sight Dominus illuminatio Psal. xxvii I.H. Sing this as the xviij Psalme THe Lord is both my helpe and light shall man make me dismayd Sith God doth geue me strength and might why should I be affrayd verse 2 While that my foes with all their strength begin with me to braul And thinke to eate me vp at length themselues haue caught the ●●ll verse 3 Though they in camp agaynst 〈◊〉 ly● my hart is not afrayde In ba●tayle 〈◊〉 if they will trye I trust 〈◊〉 God for 〈◊〉 verse 4 On● thing 〈◊〉 God I do require that he will not deny For which I pray and will desire till he to me apply verse 5 That I within his holy place my lyfe throughout may dwell To see the beauty of his face and vew his temple well verse 6 In t●me of d●●ad he shall me hide within his place most pure And keepe me secret by his side as on a rock most sure verse 7 At length I know the Lordes good grace shall make me strong and stout My foes to foyle ▪ and clane deface that compasse me about verse 8 Therfore within his house will I geue sacrifice of prayse With psalmes and songes I will apply to laud the Lord alwayes The second part verse 9 Lord heare the voyce of my request for which to thee I call Haue mercy Lord on me opprest and send me ●elpe withall verse 10 My hart doth knowledge vnto thee I sue to haue thy grace The● seeke my face sayest thou to me Lord I will seeke thy face verse 11 In wrath turne not thy selfe away nor suffer me to s●●de Thou art my helpefull to this day be still my God and guide verse 12 My parents both their sonne forsooke and cast me of at large And then the Lord himselfe yet tooke of me the cure and cha●ge verse 13 Teach me O Lord the way to thee and lead me forth aright For feare of such as watch for me to trappe me if they might verse 14 Doe not be take me to the will of them that be my foes For they 〈◊〉 agaynst me still false witnes ●o depose verse 15 My hart would faint but that in me this hope is fixed fast The Lord Gods good grace shall it see in lyfe that aye shall last verse 16 Trust still in God whose whole thou art his will abide thou must And he shall ease 〈◊〉 strength thy hart if thou in him doe trust Ad te Domine Psal. xxviij T.S. Sing this as the xxi Psalme THou art O Lord my strength and stay the succour which I craue Neglect me not least I be lyke to them that goe to graue verse 2 The voyce of thy suppli●●t here that vnto thee doth cry When I lift vp my handes vnto thy holy Arke most hye verse 3 Repute not me among the sort of wicked and peruert That speake right fa●re vnto their frendes and thinke ●ull ill in hart verse 4 According to their handy worke as they deserue in deede And after their inuentions let them receaue their meede verse 5 For they regard nothing Gods worke his law ●e yet his lore Therfore will ●e them and their seede destroy for euermo●e verse 6 To render thankes vnto the Lord how great a cause haue I My voyce my prayer and my complaint that heard so willingly verse 7 He is my shield and fortitude my buckler in distresse My hope my helpe my hartes reliefe my so●g shall him confes verse 8 He is our strength and our defe●ce our enemies to resist The health and the saluation of his elect by Christ verse 9 Thy people and thine heritage Lord blesse guide and preserue Increase them Lord and rule their ba●tes that they may neuer swarue Afferte Domino Psal. xxix T.S. Sing this as the xxi Psalme GEue to the Lord ye potentates ye rulers of the world Geue ye all prayse honor 〈◊〉 strength vnto the liuing Lord. verse 2 Geue honor ●o his holy names 〈◊〉 and ho●or him alone Worshippe him in his maiestie within his holy throne verse 3 His voyce doth r●le the waters all euen as himselfe doth please He doth prepare the thouderelapes and gouerns all the Seas verse 4 The voyce of God is of great force and wondrous excellent It is most mighty in effect and much magnificent verse 5 The voyce of God doth rent and breake the Cedar tre●s so long The Cedar trees of Liban●s which are both hye and strong verse 6 And make them leape lyke as a Calfe or els the Vnicorne Not onely trees but mountaines great whereon the trees are borne verse 7 His Voyce deuides the flames of fire and shakes the wildernes verse 8 It makes the defart-quake for feare that called is Cades verse 9 It makes the Hindes for feare to calue and makes the couert playne Then in his temple euery man his glory doth proclay me verse 10 The Lord was set aboue the flouds ruling the raging Sea verse 11 So shall he raign as Lord and king for euer and for aye verse 12 The Lord will geue his people power in vertue to increase The Lord will blesse his chosen folke with euerlasting peace Exaltabo te Dom. psal xxx I.H. Alllaud and prayse with hart and voyce O Lord I geue to thee which didst not make my foes reioyse but hast exalted me O Lord my God to thee I cryd in all my payne and griefe thou gauest an eare and didst prouide to ease me with reliefe verse 3 Of thy good will thou hast called backe my soule from hell to saue Thou didst reuiue when strength did lack and kept me from the graue verse 4 Sing prayse ye Saintes that proue and see the goodnes of the Lord In memory of his maiestie reioyce with one accord verse 5 For why his anger but a space doth last and slake agayne But in his fauour and his grace alwayes doth lyfe remayne Though gripes of griefe and panges full sore shall lodge with vs all night The Lord to ioy shall vs restore before the day be light verse 6 When I enioyed the world at will thus would I boast and say Tush I am sure to feele none ill this wealth shall not decay verse 7 For thou O Lord of thy good grace hadst sent me strength and ayde But when thou turndst away thy face my minde was sore dismayde verse 8 Wherefore agayne yet did I cry to thee O Lord of might My God with plaintes I did apply and prayed both day and night verse 9 What gayne is in my bloud
sayd I if death destroy my dayes Doth dust declare thy maiestye or yet thy truth doth prayse verse 10 Wherfore my God some pitye take O Lord I thee desire Doe not this simple soule forsake of helpe I thee require verse 11 Then didst thou turne my griefe and woe vnto a chearefull voyce The mourning weed thou tookst me fro and madest me to reioyce verse 12 Wherefore my soule vncessantly shall sing vnto thy prayse My Lord my God to thee will I geue laud and thankes alwayes In te Domine psal xxxi I.H. Sing this as the xviij Psalme O Lord I put my trust in thee let nothing worke me shame As thou art iust deliuer me and set me quite from blame verse 2 Heare me O Lord and that ●non● to helpe me Lord make speede Be thou my rock and house of stone my fence in tyme of neede verse 3 For why as stones thy strength is tryde thou art my fort and tower For thy names sake be thou my guide and lead me in thy power verse 4 Pluck forth my fee●e out of the snare which they for me haue layd Thou art my strength and all my care is for thy might and ayde verse 5 Into thy handes Lord I commit my spirite which is thy due For why thou hast redeemed it O Lord thou God most true verse 6 I hate such folke as will ●ot part from thinges to be abhord When they on tri●●es set their hart my trust is in the Lord. verse 7 For I will in thy mercy ioy I see it doth excell Thou seest when ought would me annoy and knowest my soule full well verse 8 Thou hast not left me in their hand that would me ouercharge But thou hast set me out of ba●d to walke abroad at large The second part verse 9 Great grief O Lord doth me assaile some pitie on me take Mine eyes waxe dim my sight doth sayle my wombe for woe doth ake verse 10 My lyfe is worne with griefe and payne my yeares in woe are past My strength is gone and through disdayn● my bones corrupt and wast verse 11 Among my foes I am a scorne my frendes are all dismayd My neighbors and my kinfemen borne to see me are affrayd 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 threates my minde did fray How they conspired and went about to take my lyfe away verse 14 But Lord I trust in thee for ayde not to be ouer●rod For I confesse and still haue sayd thou art my Lord and God. verse 15 The length of all my lyfe and age O Lord is in thy hand Defend me from the wrathes and rage of them that me withstand verse 16 To me thy seruant Lord expresse and shew thy ioyfull face And saue me Lord for thy goodnes 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 beare their shame and in the graue to fall verse 18 Oh how great good hast thou in store layde vp full safe for them That feare and trust in thee therefore before the sonnes of men verse 19 Thy presence shall them fence and guide from all proud brags and wronges Within thy place thou shalt them hide from all the strife of tongues verse 20 Thankes to the Lord that hath declard on me his grace so farre Me to defend with watch and ward as in a towne of warre verse 21 Thus did I say both day and night when I was sore opprest Loe I was cleane cast out of sight ▪ yet heard●t thou my request verse 22 Ye Saintes loue ye the Lord I say the faythfull he doth guide And to the proud he doth repay according to their pride verse 23 Be strong and God shall stay your hart be bold and haue a lust For sure the Lord will take your part sith ye on him doe trust Beati quorum psal xxxii T.S. Sing this as the xxx Psalme THe man is bl●st whose wickednes ▪ the Lord hath cleane remitted And he whose sinne and wretchednes i● hid and also couered verse 2 And blest is he to whome the Lord imputeth not his sinne Which in his hart hath hid no guile no fraud is found therin verse 3 For whilest that I kept close my sinne in silence and 〈◊〉 My ●●nes did weare and waste away with dayly mone and playnt verse 4 For night and day thy hand on me so greuous was and smart That all my bloud and humors moyst to driues did conuert verse 5 I did therefore confesse my fault and all my sinnes discouer Then thou O Lord didst me forgeue and all my sinnes passe ouer verse 6 The humble man shall pray therefore and seeke thee in due tyme So that the floudes of waters great shall haue no power on him verse 7 When trouble and aduersitie doc compasse me about Thou art 〈◊〉 refuge and my ioy and thou doest rid me out verse 8 Come hether and I shall thee teach how thou shalt worke aright And will thee guide as I my selfe haue learnd by proofe and fight verse 9 Be not so rude and ignorant as is the Horse and Mule Whose mouth without a rayn or bit from harme thou canst not rule verse 10 The wicked man shall manifold sorrowes and griefe sustain But vnto him that trustes in God his goodnes shall remaine verse 11 Be mery therfore in the Lord ye iust lift vp your voyce And ye of pure and perfect hart be glad and eke reioyce Exultate iusti psal xxxiii I.H. ¶ Sing this as the xxx Psalme YE righteous in the Lord reioyce it is a seemely sight That vpright men with thankefull voyce should prayse the God of might verse 2 Prayse ye the Lord with harpe and song in Psalmes and pleasaunt thynges With Lu●e and instrument among that soundeth with ten stringes verse 3 Sing to the Lord a song most new with courage g●ue him prayse verse 4 ●or w●● this word is euer true his workes and all his wayes verse 5 To iudgement equitie and right he hath a right good will And with his 〈◊〉 he doth delight the earth throughout to fill verse 6 For by the word of God alone th● heauens all were wrought Their hoastes and powers euery one his breath to passe hath brought verse 7 The waters great gathered hath he on heapes 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 scare God and keepe his law Ye that inhabite in eche coast dread him and stand 〈◊〉 ●aw verse 9 What he commaunded wrought it was at once with present speed What he doth will 〈◊〉 brought to passe with full effect in deede verse 10 The councels of the nations rude the Lord doth driue to nought He doth defeat
the wicked borroweth much and neuer payeth agayne Whereas the iust by liberall giftes makes many glad and fayne verse 22 For they whom God doth blesse shall haue the land for heritage And they whom he doth curse likewise shall perish in his rage verse 23 The Lord the iust mans wayes doth guide and geues him good successe To euery thing be takes in hand he sendeth good addresse verse 24 Though that he fall yet is he sure not v●tterly to quayle Because the Lord stret●hth out his hand at neede and doth not fayle verse 25 I haue bene young and now am old yet did I neuer see The iust man lest or els his seed to beg for misery verse 26 But geueth alwayes most liberally and lendes whereas is need His children and posteritie receiue of God their meed verse 27 Fly vice therfore and wickednes and vertue doe imbrace So God shall graunt thee long to hau● in earth a dwellyng place verse 28 For God so loueth equitie and ●heweth to his such grace That he preserues them euermore but stroyes the wicked race verse 29 Whereas the good and godly men inherit shall the land Hauing as Lordes all thinges therein in their owne power and hand verse 30 The iust mans mouth doth euer speak● of matters wise and hye His tongue doth talke to edifie with truth and equitye verse 31 For in his hart the law of God his Lord doth still abide So that where euer he goeth or walketh his foote can neuer slide verse 32 The wicked like a rauenyng Wolfe the iust man doth beset By all meanes seekyng him to kill if he fall in his net The fourth part verse 33 Though he should fall into his handes yet God would succour send Though men agaynst him sentence geue God would him yet defend verse 34 Wayt thou on God and keepe his way he shall preserue thee then The earth to rule and thou shalt see destroyd these wicked men verse 35 The wicked haue I seen most strong and placed in high degree Florishing in all wealth and store as doth the Lautell tree verse 36 But sodenly he passed away and loe he was quite gone Then I him sought but could scarse finde the place where dwelt such one verse 37 Marke and behold the perfect man how God doth him increase For the iust man shall haue at length great ioy with rest and peace verse 38 As for transgressors woe to them destroyd they shall all be God will cut of their budding race and rich posteritie verse 39 But the saluation of the iust doth come from God aboue Who in their trouble sendes them ayd of his mere gra●e and loue verse 40 God doth th●m helpe saue and deliuer from leud men and vniust And still will saue them whilest that they in him do put their trust Domine ne psal xxxviii I.H. ¶ Sing this as the xxxv Psalme PVt me not to rebuke O Lord in thy prouoked ire Ne in thy heauy wrath O Lord correct me I desire verse 2 Thine arrowes do sticke fast in me thy hand doth presse me s●re verse 3 And in my flesh no health at all appeareth any more And all this is by reason of thy wrath that I am in Nor any rest is in my bones by reason of my sinne verse 4 For lot my wicked doynges Lord aboue my head are gone As greater lode then I can beare they lye me fore vpon verse 5 My woundes stincke and are festred so as lothsome is to see Which all through myne owne foolishnes betydeth vnto mee And I in carefull wise am brought in trouble and distresse verse 6 That I go wayling all the day my dolefull heauynesse verse 7 My l●ynes are fild with sore dissease my flesh hath no whole part verse 8 I seeble am and broken sore I roare for grief of hart verse 9 Thou knowest Lord my desire my groaues are open in thy sight verse 10 My hart doth pant my sight hath faild myne eyes haue lost their light verse 11 My louers and my wonted frendes stand looking on my woe And eke my kinsmen farre away are me departed fro verse 12 They that did seeke my life layd snares and they that sought the way To do me hurt spake lyes and thought on treason all the day The second part verse 13 But as a deafe man I became that cannot heare at all verse 14 And as one dumb that opens not his mouth to speake with all verse 15 For all my confidence O Lord is wholly set on thee verse 16 O Lord thou Lord that art my God thou wilt geue eare to mee This I did craue that they my foes triumph not ouer mee verse 17 For when my foote did slip then they did ioy my fall to see And truely I poore wretch am set in plague a wofull wight And eke my griefull beauynes is euer in my sight verse 18 For while that I my wickednes in humble wise confesse And while I for my sinfull deedes my sorrow doe expresse verse 19 My foes do still remayne aliue and mighty are also And they that hate me wrongfully in number hugely grow verse 20 They stand agaynst me that my good with euill doe repay Because that good and honest thinges I do ensue alway verse 21 Forsake me not O Lord my God be thou not farre away verse 22 Hast me to helpe my Lord my God ▪ my safety and my 〈◊〉 Dixi custodiam Psal. xxxix I.H. ¶ Sing this as the xxxv Psalme I Sayd I will looke to my wayes for feare I should go wrong I will take heede all tymes that I offend not in my tongue verse 2 As with a 〈◊〉 I will keepe fall my mouth with force and might Not once to whisper all the while the wicked are in ●ight verse 3 I held my tongue and spake no word but kept me 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Yea from good talke I did 〈…〉 but sore agaynst my will. verse 4 My hart wax●ho●e within my brest with musing thought and doubt Which did increase and flyrr● the fire at last these worde● br●st out verse 5 Lord number out my life and dayes which yet I haue not past So that I may be certified how long my dayes shall last verse 6 Lord thou hast pointed out my life in length much like a span Myne age is nothyng vnto thee so vayne is euery man. verse 7 Man walketh like a shade and doth in vayne himselfe annoy In getting goodes and can not tell who shall the same enioy verse 8 Now Lord sith thinges this wise do 〈◊〉 what helpe do I desire Of truth my hope doth hang on th●● I nothing els require The second part verse 9 From all the sinnes that I haue done Lord quite me out of hands And make me not a scorne to fooles that nothing vnderstand verse 10 I was as dumme and to complayne no trouble might me moue Because I know it was thy worke my patience for to proue verse 11 Lord take from me thy scourge and
therefore Although the glory of his house increaseth more and more verse 17 For when he dyeth of all these thinges nothing shall he receaue His glory will not follow him his pompe will take her learne verse 18 Yet in this lyfe he takes himselfe the happyest vnder Sunne And others lykewise slatter him saying all is well done verse 19 And presuppose he liue as long as did his Fathers old Yet must he needes at length geue place and be brought to deathes folde verse 20 Thus man to honor God hath cald yet doth he not consider But lyke brute beastes so doth he liue which turne to dust and pouder Deus Deorum psal L. W. W. THe mightye God th eternall hath thus spoke And all the world he will call and prouoke Euen from the East and so forth to the west 2. From to ward Sion which place him lyketh best God will appeare in beautye must excellent 3. Our God will come before that long time be spent Deuouring fire shall goe before his face A great tempest shall round about him trace verse 4 Then shall he call the earth and heauens bright To iudge his folke with equitie and right verse 5 Saying go to and now my Saintes assemble My peace they keepe their gif●es do not dissemble verse 6 The heauens shall declare his righteousnes For God is iudge of all thinges more and lesse verse 7 Heare my people for I will now reueale List Israell I will thee nought conceale Thy God thy God am I and will not blame thee verse 8 For geuing no● All manner offringes to me verse 9 I haue no neede to take of thee as all Goates of thy fold or calfe out of thy stall verse 10 For all the beastes are mine within the woodes On thousand hills cattell are mine owne goodes verse 11 I know for mine all byrdes that are on mountaynes All beastes are mine which haunt the fieldes and fountaynes verse 12 Hungry if I were I would not thee it teil For all is mine that in the world doth dwell verse 13 Eate I the flesh of great Bulls of Bullockes Or drinke the bloud of Goates and of the flockes verse 14 Offer to God prayse and harty thankesgeuing And pay thy vowes vnto God euerliuing verse 15 Call vpon me when toubled thou shalt be Then will I helpe and thou shalt honor me verse 16 To the wicked thus sayth th eternall God Why doest thou preach my lawes and hestes abroad Seing thou hast them with thy mouth abused verse 17 And ●●test to be by discipline reformed My wordes I say thou doest reiect and hate verse 18 If that thou see a theefe as with thy mate Thou runst with him and so your pray do seeke And art all one with beaudes and ruffians eke verse 19 Thou geuest thy selfe to backbite and to slaunder And how thy tongue deceiueth it is a wonder verse 20 Thou sittest musing thy brother how to blame And how to put thy mothers sonne to shame verse 21 These thinges thou didst and whilest I held my tongue Thou didst me iudge because I stayed so long Lyke to thy selfe yet though I keepe long silence Once shalt thou feele of thy wronges iust recompence verse 22 Consider this ye that forget the Lord And feare not when he threateneth with his worde Least without helpe I spoyle you as a pray verse 23 But he that thankes offereth prayseth me aye Sayth the Lord God and he that walketh this trace I will him teach Gods sauing health to embrace ¶ And other of the same I. H. Sing this as the xxv Psame THe God of Gods the Lord hath cald the earth by name From where the sun doth rise vnto the setting of the same verse 2 From Sion his fayre place his glory bright and cleare The perfect beautye of his grace from thence it did appeare verse 3 Our God shall come in hast to speake he shall not doubt Before him shall the fire wast and tempest round about verse 4 The heauens from on hye the earth below lykewise He will call forth to iudge and try his folke he doth deuise verse 5 Bring forth my Saintes sa●th he my faythfull flocke so deare Which are in band and league with me my law to loue and feare And when these thinges are tride ▪ the heauens shall record That God is iust and all must bide the iudgement of the Lord. verse 7 My people O geue heede Israell to thee I cry I am thy God thy helpe at neede thou canst it not deny verse 8 I do not say to thee thy sacrifice is slacke Thou offerest dayly vnto me much more then I do lacke verse 9 Thinkest thou that I do neede thy cattell young or olde Or els so much desire to feede on Goates out of thy folde verse 10 Nay all the beastes are mine in woodes that eate their fills And thousandes more of neate and kine that runne wilde in the hilles The second part verse 11 The byrdes that bu●ld on hye in hills and out of sight And beastes that in the fieldes do lye and subiect to my might verse 12 Then though I hungred sore what neede I ought of thine Sith that the earth with her great store and all therein is mine verse 13 To Balles flesh haue I minde to eate it doest thou thinke ▪ Or such a sweetenes do I finde the blond of Goates to drinke verse 14 Geue to the Lord his prayse with thankes do him apply And see thou pay thy vowes alwayes vnto thy God most hye verse 15 Then seeke and call to me when ought would worke thee blame And I will sure deliuer thee that thou mayest prayse my n●me verse 16 But to the wicked trayne which talke of God ech day And 〈…〉 to them the Lord 〈…〉 verse 17 With what a face 〈◊〉 thou my worde once speake or 〈◊〉 Why doth thy talke my law allow thy deedes deny the same verse 18 Whereas for to 〈◊〉 thy life thou art so slac●●● My word the which thou doest pretend is cast behinde thy backe The 3 part verse 19 When thou a theese doest see by theft to liue in wealth With him thou runnest and doest agree lykewise to thriue by stealth verse 20 When thou doest them behold that wines and maydes defil● Thou lykest it well and waxest bold to vse that lyfe most vile verse 21 Thy lippes thou doest applye to slaunder and defame Thy tongue is taught to crafta●d lye and still doth vse the same verse 22 Thou studiest to ●euile thy frendes to thre so neare With slaunder thou wouldest needes defile thy mothers so●●e most deare verse 23 Hereat while I do winke as though I did not see Thou goest on still and so doest thinke that I am lyke to thee verse 24 But sure I will hot let to strike when I beginne Thy faultes in order I will set and open all thy sinne verse 25 Marke this I you require that haue not God in minde Least when I plague you
They are corrupt and they also a haynous worke haue wrought Among them all there is not one of good that worketh ought The Lord lookt downe on sonnes of men from heauen all abroad To see if any were ●hat would be wise and seeke for God. They are g●ne all out of the way they are corrupted all There is not one doth any good there is not one at all Doe not all wicked workers know that they do feede vpon My people as they feede on bread the Lord they call not on Euen there they were afrayd and stoode with trembling all dismayd Where as there was no cause at all why they should be afrayd For God his bones that thee beseegd hath scattered all abroad Thou hast confounded them for they reiected are of God. O Lord geue thou thy people health and thou O Lord fulfill Thy promise made to Israell from out of Sion hill When God his people shall restore that erst was captiue lad Then Iacob shall therein reioyce and Israell shall be glad Deus in nomitie Psal. Liiii I. H. ¶ Sing this as the xlvi Psalme GOd saue me fo● thy holy name and for thy goodnes sake Vnto the strength Lord of the same I do my cause betake verse 2 Regard O Lord and geue an eare to me when I do pray Bow downe thy selfe to me and heare the wordes that I do say verse 3 For straungers vp agaynst me rise and tyrantes vexe me still Which haue not God before their eyes they seeke my soule to spill verse 4 But loe my God doth geuenre ayde the Lord is straight at hand With them by whom my soule is stayd the Lord doth euer stand verse 5 With plagues repay agayne all those for me that lye in wayte And with thy truth destroy my foes with their owne ●●are and bayte verse 6 An offring of free hart and will then I to thee shall make And prayse thy name for there in still great comfort I do take verse 7 O Lord at length do set me free from them that crast coaspire And now mine eye with ioy doth see on them my hartes desire ▪ Exaudi Deus Psal. Lv. I. H. Sing this as the xxxv Psalme O God geue eare and do apply to heare me when I pray And when to thee I call and ●ry hide not thy selfe away verse 2 Take heede to me graunt my request and aunswere me agayne ▪ With plaintes I pray full sore ●pprest great griefe doth me constraine verse 3 Because my foes with threates and cryc● oppresse me through despight And so the wicked sort lykewise to vexe me haue delight verse 4 For they in counsell do conspire to charge me with some 〈◊〉 So in their hasty wrath and ir● they do pursue me shall verse 5 My hart doth saint for want of breath it pant●th in my brest The terrors and the dread of death do worke me much vnrest verse 6 Such dreadfull feare on me doth fall that I therewith do quake Such hor●●r whelmeth me withall that I no shift can make verse 7 But I do say who will geue me the swift and pleasaunt winges Of some fayre doue that I may flee and rest me from these thinges verse 8 Lot then I would go farre away to flye I would not ceafe And I would hide my selfe and stay in some great wildernes verse 9 I would be gone in all the hast and not abide behinde That I were quite and ouer past these blast●s of boystrous winde verse 10 Deuide them Lord and from them pull their de●ilish double tongue For I haue spide their Citie full of rapine strife and wrong verse 11 Which thinges both night and day throughout do close her as a wall In midst of her is mischiefe stout and sorrow eke withall verse 12 Her printe partes are wicked plaine her deedes are much to vile And in her streetes there doth remaine all crafty fraud and g●ile The second part verse 13 If that my foes did seeke my shame I might it well abide From open enemies checke and blame some where l'could me hide verse 14 But thou it was my fellow deare which frendship didst pretend And didst my secret-councell heare as my familiar frend verse 15 With whome I had delight to talke in secret and abroad And we together oft did walke within the house 〈…〉 verse 16 Let death in hast vpon them fall and send them quicke to hell For mischiefe raigneth in their hall and parlour where they dwell verse 17 But I vnto my God do cry to him for helpe I flee The Lord doth heare me by and by and he doth succourne verse 18 At morning noone and euening tide vnto the Lord I pray When I so instantly haue cry de he doth not say me nay ▪ verse 19 To peace he shall restore me yet though warre be now at hand Although the number he full great that would agaynst me stand verse 20 The Lord that first and last doth raigne both now and euermore Will heare when I to him complaine and punish them full sore verse 21 For sure there is no hope that they to turne will once accord Foe why they will not God obey nor do not feare the Lord. verse 22 Vpon their frendes they layd their ●andes which were in concnaunt ●u●t Of frendship to neglect the bandes they passe or care no whit verse 23 Whilt they haue war within their hartes as butter are their wordes Although their wordes were smoth as oyle they cut as sharpe as swordes verse 24 Cast thou thy care vpon the Lord and he shall nourish thee For in no wise will be accord the iust in thrall to see verse 25 But God shall cast them deepe in pit that thirst for blo●d alwayes He will no guilcfuli man permit to liue out halfe his dayes verse 26 Though such be quite destroyed and gone in thee O Lord I trust I shall depend thy grace vpon with all my hart and lust Miserere mei Psal. Lvi T. S. Sing this as the Lamentation HAue mercy Lord on me I pray for man would me deuour He fighteth with me day by day and troubleth me ech houre verse 2 Mine enemies dayly enterprise to swallow me outright To sight agaynst me many rise O thou most high of might verse 3 When they would make me most affrayde with boastes and brags of pride I trust in thee alone for ayde by thee will I abide verse 4 Gods promise I do minde and prayse O Lord I stick to thee I doe not care at all assayes what flesh can doe to me verse 5 What thinges I either did or spake they wrast them at their will And all the counsell th●● they take is how to worke me ill verse 56 The all consent 〈◊〉 selues to hide close watch for me to lay Then spye my pathes and s●ares haue tyde to take my lyfe away verse 7 Shall they thus scape on mischiefe set thou God on them wilt frowne For in his wrath he doth not let
earth alway of him shall stand in feare Exurgat Deus Psal. Lxviii T.S. LEt God arise and then his foes will turne them selues to flight His enemies then will run abroad and scatter out of sight And as the fire doth me it the waxe and winde blow smoke away so in the presence of the Lord the wicked shall decay verse 3 But righteous men before the Lord shall hartely reioyce They shall be glad and mery all and chearefull in their voyce verse 4 Sing prayse sing prayse vnto the Lord who rideth on the skye Extoll this name of Iah our God and him do magnifie verse 5 That same is he that is aboue within his holy place That father is of fatherles and iudge of widowes case verse 6 Houses he geues and issue both vnto the comfortles He bringeth bondmen out of thrall and rebels to distres verse 7 When thou didst marche before thy folke the Egyptians from among And brought them through the wildernes which was both wide and long verse 8 The earth did quake the raine pourd down● heard were great claps of thunder The mount Sinay shooke in such sort as it would cleane in sunder verse 9 Thine heritage with drops ofrayne aboundantly was washt And if so be it barren waxt by thee it was refresht verse 10 Thy chosen flocke doth the●e remayne thou hast prepard that place And for the poore thou doest prou●e of thine especiall grace The second part verse 11 God will geue women causes iust to magnifie his ●●me When as his people triumphes make and purchase brute and fame verse 12 For puissant kynges for all their power shall flee and take the foyle And women which remayne at home shall helpe to part the spoyle verse 13 And though you were as black● as pots your hew should passe the doue Whose winges and fethers seme to hau● sil●er and gold aboue verse 14 When in this land God shall triumph● over kynges both hye and low Then shall it be like Salmon hill as white as any snow verse 15 Though Basan be a fruitefull hill and in height others passe Yet Sion Gods most holy hill doth ●●rre excell in grace verse 16 Why brag ye thus ye hils most high and leape 〈◊〉 pr●de together This hill of Sion God doth loue and there will dwell for euer verse 17 Gods army is two millions of warrious good and strong The Lord also in Sinay is present them among verse 18 Thou didst O Lord ascend on high and captiues led them all ▪ Which in times past thy chosen flocke in prison kept and thrall Thou ma●est them tribute for to pay and such as did ●●pine Thou didst subdue that they might dwell in thy temple deuine verse 19 Now praysed be the Lord for that he pours on vs ●uch grace From day to day he is the God of our health and solace The third part verse 20 He is the God from whom alone saluation commeth playne He is the God by whom we scape all daungers death and payne verse 21 Thus God will wound his enemies head and breake the heary ●calpe Of those that in their wickednes continually do walke verse 22 From Basan will I bring sayd he my people and my sheepe And all myne owne as I haue done from daunger of the deepe verse 23 And make them dip their feete in blo●d of those that hate my name And dogs shall haue their tongues embrude with licking of the 〈◊〉 verse 24 All men may see how thou O God thine enemes doest deface And how thou goest as God and kyng into thy holy place verse 25 The singers go before with ioy the minstrels follow after And in the midst the Damsels play with Timbrell and with Taber verse 26 Now in the congregation O Israell prayse the Lord And Iacobs whole posterit●e geue thankes with one accord verse 27 Their chief was litle Beniamin but Iuda made their host With Zabulon and Neptalim which dwell about their coast verse 28 As God hath geuen power to thee 〈…〉 make firme and su●e The thing that thou hast wrought in vs for euer to endure verse 29 And in thy temple giftes will we geue vnto thee O Lord For thine vnto Ierusalem sure promise made by word The fourth part Yea and straunge kynges to vs subdued shall do like in those dayes I meane to thee they shall present their giftes of laud and prayse verse 30 He shall destroy the spearemens ranckes these Calues and Bulles of might And cause them tribute pay and daunt all such as loue to fight verse 31 Then shall the Lordes of Egypt come and presentes with them bring The Mores most blacke shall stretch their handes vnto their Lord and king verse 32 Therefore ye kingdomes of the earth geue prayse vnto the Lord Sing Psalmes to God with one consent thereto let all accord verse 33 Who though he ride and euer hath aboue the heauens bright Yet by the fearefull thunderclaps men may well know his might verse 34 Therfore the strength of Israell ascribe to God on hye Whose might and power doth farre extend aboue the cloudy skye verse 35 O God thy holynes and power is dread for euermore The God of Israell geue vs strength praysed be God therfore Saluum me fac psal Lxix I.H. Ane me O God and that with speede the wa ters flow ful fast So nye my soule do they proceede that I am ●ore agast ● st●cke full deepe in filth and clay where as I feele no ground I fall into such flondes I say that I am like be drounde verse 3 With crying oft I faint and quayle my throte is horse and dry With looking vp my fight doth fayle for helpe to God on hye verse 4 My foes that giltles do oppresse my soule with hate are lead In number sure they are no lesse then heares are on my head verse 5 Though for no cause they vexe me sore they prosper and are glad They do compell me to restore the thinges ●●u●ner had verse 6 What I haue done for want of wit thou Lord all ty●●s canst tell And all the same that I commit to thee is knowne full well verse 7 O God of hostes defend and stay all those that trust in thee Let no man doubt or shrinke away for ought that chaunceth mee verse 8 It is for thee and for thy sake that I do beare this blame In spite of thee they would me make to hide my face for shame verse 9 My mothers sonnes my brethren all forsake me on a row And as a straunger they me call my face they will no● know verse 10 Vnto thy house such zeale I beare that it doth pine me much Their checkes and tauntes at thee to heare my very hart doth grutch The second part verse 11 Though I do fast my flesh to chast yea if I weepe and mone Yet in my teeth this geare is cast they passe not thereupon verse 12 If I for grief and payne of hart in sacke
I will set forth thy prayse verse 15 My mouth thy iustice shall record that dayly helpe doth send But of thy benefite O Lord I know no count no● end verse 16 Yet will I go and seeke forth one with thy good helpe O God The sauyng health of thee alone to shew and set abroad verse 17 For of my youth thou tookest the care and doest instruct me still Therfore thy wonders to declare I haue great mynde and will verse 18 And as in youth from wanton rage thou didst me keepe and stay Forsake me not vnto myne age and till my head be g●●y verse 19 That I thy strength and might may show to them that now be here And that our seede thy power may know hereafter many a yeare verse 20 O Lord thy iustice doth exceede thy doynges all may see Thy workes are wonderfull in deede oh who is like to thee verse 21 Thou madest me feele afflictions sore and yet thou didst me saue Yea thou didst helpe and me restore and tookest me from the graue verse 22 And thou myne honor doest encrease my dignitie maintayne Yea thou doest make all grief to cease and comfortst me agayne verse 23 Therfore thy faithfulnes to prayse I will both l●●e and sing My hart shall sound thy laud alwaye● O Israels holy kyng verse 24 My mouth will ioy with pleasaunt voyce when I shall sing to thee And eke my soule will much reioyce for thou hast made me free verse 25 My toung thy vprightnes shall sound and speake it dayly still For grief and shame do them confound that sought to worke me ill Deus iudicium Psal. Lxxii I.H. LOrd geue thy iudgementes to the king therein instruct him well And with his sonne that Princely thing Lord let thy iustice dwell That he may go uerne vprightly rule thy folke aright And so de fend through equitie the poore that ha ue no might verse 3 And let the mountaines that are hye vnto their folke geue peace And the let litle hils apply in vertue to increase verse 4 That he may helpe the weake and poore with ayde and make them strong And eke destroy for euermore all those that do them wrong verse 5 And then from age to age shall they regard and feare thy might So long as Sunne doth shine by day or els the Moone by night verse 6 Lord make the kyng vnto the iust like rayne to fieldes new mowne And like to drops that lay the dust and fresh the land ●nsowne verse 7 The iust shall florish in his tyme and all shal be at peace Vntill the Moone shall leaue to prime ●ast chaunge and to increase verse 8 He shal be Lord of Sea and land from shore to shore throughout And from the floudes within the land through all the earth about verse 9 The people that in desert dwell shall kneele to him full thicke And all his enemies that rebell the earth and dust shall licke verse 10 Their Lordes of all the Iles therby great giftes to him shall bryng The kynges of Sabe and Arabie geue many a costly thing The second part verse 11 All kynges shall seeke with one accord in his good grace to stand And all the people of the world shall serue him at his hand verse 12 For he the needy sort doth saue that vnto him do call And eke the simple folke that haue no helpe of man at all verse 13 He taketh pitie on the poore that are with neede opprest He doth preserue them euermore and bryng their soules to rest verse 14 He shall redeeme their life from dread from fraud from wrong from might And eke the bloud that they shall bleede is precious in his sight verse 15 But he shall liue and they shall bring to him of Saba●s gold He shall be honored as a kyng and dayly be extold verse 16 The mighty mountaines of his land of corne shall ●eare such throng That it like Ceder trees shall stand in Libanus full long verse 17 Their Cities eke full well shall speede the fruites therof shall passe In plentie it shall farre exceede and spryng as greene as grasse verse 18 For euer they shall prayse his name while that the Sunne is light And thinke them happy through the same all folke shall blesse his might verse 19 Prayse ye the Lord of hostes and sing to Israels God eche one For he doth euery wondrous thing yea he him selfe alone verse 20 And blessed be his holy name all tymes eternally That all the earth may prayse the same Amen Amen say I. Quàm bonus Deus psal Lxxiii T.S. ¶ Sing this as the xliiij Psalme HOw euer it be yet God is good and kinde to Israell And to all such as safely keepe their conscience pure and well verse 2 Yet like a foole I almost slipt my feete began to slyde ▪ And or I wist euen at a pinche my steps away gan glide verse 3 For when I saw such foolish men I grudgd and did disdayne That wicked men all thinges should haue without turmoyle or payne verse 4 They neuer suffer panges nor grief as if death should them smite Their bodies are both stout and strong and euer in good plight verse 5 And free from all aduersitie when other men be shent And with the rest they take no part of plague or punishment verse 6 Therfore presumption doth embrace their neckes as doth a chayne And are euen wrapt as in a robe with rapine and disdayne verse 7 They are so fed that euen for fat their eyes oft tymes out start And as for worldly goodes they haue more then can wishe their hart verse 8 Their life is most licentious boasting much of their wrong Which they baue done to simple men and euer pride among verse 9 The heauens and the liuyng Lord they spare not to blaspheme And prate they do on worldly thinges no wight they do esteeme verse 10 The people of God oft tymes turne backe to see their prosperous state And almost drinke the selfe same cup and follow the same rate The second part verse 11 How can it be that God say they should know and vnderstand These worldly thinges since wicked men be Lordes of Sea and land verse 12 〈◊〉 may see how wicked men in riches still increase Rewarded well with worldly goodes and li●e in rest and peace verse 13 Then why do I from wickednes my fantasie refrayne And wash my handes with innocentes and cleanse my hart in vayne verse 14 And suffer scourges euery day as subiect to all blame And euery mornyng from my youth sustaine rebuke and shame verse 15 And I had almost sayd as they mislyking myne estate But that I should thy children iudge as folke vnfortunate verse 16 Then I bethought me how I might this matter vnderstand But yet the labour was to great for me to take in hand verse 17 Vntill the tyme I went into thy holy place and then I vnderstoode right perfectly the end of all these
might in thee doth lye Then in the strongest of the world that rob on mountaines hye verse 5 But now the proud are spoild through thee and they are falne on sleepe Through men of warre no helpe can be themselues they could not keepe verse 6 At thy rebuke O Iacobs God when thou doest them reproue As halfe in sleepe their charets stode no horsemen once did mo●● verse 7 For thou are fear●full Lord in deede what man the courage hath To bide thy fight and doth not dread when thou art in thy wrath verse 8 When thou doest make thy iudgementes hard ▪ from heauen through the ground Then all the earth full sore afeard in silence shall 〈◊〉 found verse 9 And that when tho● O God 〈…〉 in iudgement for to speak● ▪ To saue the afflicted of the land on earth that are full weake verse 10 The fury that in 〈◊〉 doth raigne shall turne vnto thy prayse Hereafter Lord do thou restrayne their wrath and 〈◊〉 alwayes verse 11 Make vowes and pay them to your God ye solke that ●ye him be Bryng giftes all ye that dwell 〈◊〉 for dreadfull sure is he verse 12 For he ●oth take both life and 〈◊〉 from princes of great byrth All full of terror is his fight to all the kynges on earth Voce mea psal Lxxvii I. H. I With my voyce to God do cry with hart and harty cheare my voyce to God I lift on hye and he my sute doth heare In tyme of grief I sought to God by night no rest I tooke But strctcht my handes to him abroad my soule comsort forsooke verse 3 When I to thinke on God entend my trouble then is more I spake but could not make an end my breath was stopt so sore verse 4 Thou holdst mine eyes alwayes from rest that I alwayes awake With feare am I so sore opprest my speech doth me forsake verse 5 The dayes of old in mynde I cast and oft did thinke vpon The tymes and ages that are past full many yeares agone verse 6 By night my songes I call to mynde once made thy prayse to thew And with my hart much talke I finde my sprites do s●arch to know verse 7 Will God sayd I at once for all cast of his people thus So that hence forth no tyme he shall be frendly vnto vs verse 8 What is his goodnes cleane decayde for euer and a day Or is his promise now delayde and doth his truth decay verse 9 And will the Lord our God forget his mercies manifold Or shall his wrath increase so whot his mercy to withhold verse 10 At last I sayd my weakenes is the cause of this mistrust Gods mighty hand can helpe all this and chaunge it when he lust The second part verse 11 I will regard and thinke vpon the workyng of the Lord Of all his wonders past and gone I gladly will record verse 12 Yea all his workes I will declare and what he doth deuise To ●ell his f●ctes I will not spare and eke his counsell wise verse 13 Thy workes O Lord are all vpright and holy all abroad What one hath strength to match the might of thee our Lord our God verse 14 Thou art a God that oft doest shew thy wonders euery houre And so doest make the people know thy vertue and thy power verse 15 And thine owne folke thou didst defend with strength and stretched arme The sonnes of Iacob that descend and Iosephes seede from harme verse 16 The waters Lord perceiued thee the waters saw thee well And they for feare aside did flee the depthes on trembling sell verse 17 The cloudes that were both thicke and blacke did rayne full plenteously The thunder in the ayre did cracke thy shaftes abroad did flye verse 18 Thy thunder in the fire was heard the lightnyng from aboue With flashes great made men afeard the earth did quake and moue verse 19 Thy wayes within the Sea doe lye thy pathes in waters deepe Yet none can there thy steps espye nor know thy path to keepe verse 20 Thou leadst thy folke vpon the land as theepe on euery side Through Moyses and through Aarons hand thou didst them safely guide Attendite populi Psal. Lxxviii T. S. ATtend my people to my law and to my wordes incline my mouth shall speake straunge parables and sentences diuine Which we our selues haue heard and learnd euen of our fathers old and which for our instruction our fathers haue vs told verse 4 Bicause we should not keepe it close from them that should come after Who should Gods power to their race prayse and all his workes of wonder verse 5 To Iacob he commanndement gaue how Israell should liue Willyng our fathers should the same vnto their children geue verse 6 That they and their post eritie that were not sprong vp the Should haue the knowledge of the law and teach their seede also verse 7 That they may haue the better hope in God that is aboue And not forget to keepe his lawes and his preceptes in loue verse 8 Not beyng as the●● fathers were rebelling in Gods sight And would not frame their wicked hartes to know their God aright verse 9 How went the people of Ephraim their neighbours for to spoyle Shootyng their dartes the day of war and yet they tooke the foyle verse 10 For why ' they did not keepe with God the couenaunt that was made Nor yet would walke or lead their liues accordyng to his trade verse 11 But put into obliuion his counsell and his will And all his workes most magnifique which he declareth still The second part verse 12 What wonders to our forefathers did he himselfe disclose In Egipt land within the field that called is ●hancos verse 13 He did deuide and cut the Sea that they might passe at once And made the waters stand as still as doth an heape of stones verse 14 He ●ed them secret in a cloud by day when it was bright And in the night when darcke it was with fire he gaue them light verse 15 He brake the rockes in wildernes and gaue the people drinke As plentifull as when the deepes do flow vp to the brinke verse 16 He drew out riuers out of rockes that were both dry and hard Of such aboundance that no floudes to them might be compard verse 17 Yet for all this agaynst the Lord their sinne they did increase And stirred him that is most hye to wrath in wildernes verse 18 They tempted him within their hartes lyke people of mistrust Requiring such a kinde of meate as scrued to their lust verse 19 Saying with mu●muration in their vnfaythfulnes What can this God prepare for vs a feast in wildernes verse 20 Behold he strake the stony rocke and floudes forthwith did flow But can he now gene to his folke both bread and flesh also verse 21 When God heard this he waxed wroth with Iacob and his seede So did his indignation on Israell proceede The third part verse 22 Because
Deus stet●t Psal. Lxxxii I.H. ¶ Sing this as the 81. Psalme AMid the prease with men of might the Lord himselfe did stand To pleade the cause of truth and right with iudges of the land verse 2 How long sayd he will you proceede false iudgementes to award And haue respect for loue of meede the wicked to regard verse 3 Whereas of due ye should desend the fatherles and weake And when the poore man doth contend in iudgement iustly speake verse 4 If ye he wise defend the cause of poore men in their right And rid the needy from the clawes of tyrantes force and might verse 5 But nothing will they know or learne in vaine to them I talke They will not see or ought discerne but still in darcknes walke For loe euen now the tyme is come that all thinges fall to nought And lykewise lawes both all and some for gayne are sould and bought verse 6 I had decreed it in my sight as Gods to take you all And children to the most of might for loue I did you call verse 7 But notwithstanding ye shall dye as men and so decay O tyrantes I shall you destroy and pluck you quite away verse 8 Vp Lord and let thy strength he knowes and iudge the world with might For why all nations are thine owen to take them as thy right Deus quis Psal. Lxxxii I. H. ¶ Sing this as the Lxxvij Psalme DO not O God refraine thy tongue in silence do not stay Withold not Lord thy selfe so long nor make no more delay verse 2 For why behold thy foes and see how they do rage and cry And those that beare an hate to thee holde vp their heades on hye verse 3 Against thy folke they vse deceite and crastely they enquire For thine elect to lye in waite their counsell doth conspire verse 4 Come on sayd they let vs expell and pluck these folke away ▪ So that the name of Israell may vtterly de●●y verse 5 They all conspire within their hart how they may thee withstand Agaynst the Lord to take a part they are in league and band verse 6 The tents of all the Edomites the Ismaelites also The Hagarens and Moabites with diuers other mo verse 7 Geball with Ammon and lykewise doth Amaleck conspire The Philistiues against thee rise with them that dwell at Tyre verse 8 And Assure eke is well apayde with them in league to be And doth become a fence and ayde to Lots posteritie verse 9 As thou didst to the Madianites to serue them Lord echone As to Cicer and to Iabin beside the brooke Kison verse 10 Whome thou in Endor didst destroy and waste them through thy might That they lyke doung on earth did lye and that in open sight The second part verse 11 Make them now and their Lordes appeare lyke Zeb and Oreb then As Zebah and Zalmana were the kinges of Madian verse 12 Which sayd let vs throughout the laud in all the coastes abroad Possesse and take into our hand the fayre houses of God. verse 13 Turne them O God with stormes as fast as wheeles that haue no stay Or lyke as chaffe which men do cast with windes to flye away verse 14 Lyke as the fire with rage and fume the mightye forrestes spilles And as the flame doth quite consume the mountayes and the hills verse 15 So let the tempest of thy wrath vpon their neckes be layd And of the stormy winde and shower Lord make them all affrayd verse 16 Lord bring them all I thee desire to such rebuke and shame That it may cause them to enquire and learne to seeke thy name verse 17 And let them euermore dayly to shame and slaunder fall ▪ And in rebuke and obloquie to perish eke withall verse 18 That they may know and feele full well that thou art called Lord And that alone thou doest excell and rayne throughout the world Quam dilecta psal Lxxxiiii I. H. Sing this as the lxvii Psalme HOw pleasaunt is thy dwelling 〈◊〉 O Lord of hostes to me The tabernacles of thy grace how pleasaunt Lord they be verse 2 My soule doth long full sore to 〈◊〉 into thy cour●●●broad My hart doth lust my flesh also in thee the liuing God. verse 3 The Sparowes finde a roome to rest and saue themselues from wrong And eke the swallowe hath a nest wherein to keepe her young verse 4 These byrdes full nigh thine altar may haue place to fit and sing O Lord of hostes thou art I say my God and eke my king verse 5 Oh they be blessed that may dwell within thy house alwayes For they all tymes thy factes do tell and euer geue thee prayse verse 6 Yea happy sure lykewise are they whose stay and strength thou art Which to thy house do minde the way and seeke it in their hart verse 7 As they go through the vale of teares they dig vp fountaines still That as a spring it all appeares and thou their pits doest fill verse 8 From strength to strength they walke full fast no saintnes there shall be And so the God of Godes at last in Sion they do see verse 9 O Lord of hostes to me geue heede and heare when I do pray And let it through thine eares proceede O Iacobs God I say verse 10 O Lord our shield of thy good grace regard and ●o draw heare Regard I say behold the face of thine annoy●ted deare verse 11 For why within thy courtes one day is better to abide Then other where to keepe or stay a thousand dayes beside verse 12 Much rather would ● keepe a doore within the house of God Then in the tentes of wickednes to settle mine abode verse 13 For God the Lord light and defence will grace and worship geue And no good thing shall be withhold from them that purely lyue verse 14 O Lord of hostes that man is blest and happy sure is he That is perswaded in his brest to trust all tyme● in thee Benedixisti psal Lxxxv. I. H. ¶ Sing this as the xxx Psalme THou hast bene mercyfull in deede O Lord vnto thy land For thou restoredst Iacobs seede from thraldome on t of band verse 2 The wicked wayes that they were in thou didst them cleane remit And thou didst hyde the peoples sinne full close thou coueredst it verse 3 Thine anger eke thou didst aswage that all thy wrath was gone And so didst turne thee from thy rage with them to ●e at one verse 4 O God our health do now conuert thy people vnto thee Put all thy wrath from vs apart and angry cease to be verse 5 Why shall thine anger neuer end but still proceede on vs And shall thy wrath it selfe extend vpon all ages thus verse 6 W●●t thou not rather turne therefore and quicken vs that we And all thy folke may euermore be glad and ioy in thee verse 7 O Lord on vs do thou declare thy goodnes to our wealth Shew forth to vs and
do not spare thine ayd and sauing health verse 8 I will harke what God sayd for he spake to his people peace And to his Saintes that neuer they returns to foolishnes verse 9 For why his health is still at hand to such as him do feare Whereby great glory in our land shall dwell and florish there verse 10 For truth and mercye there shall meete in one to take their place And peace shall iustice with his greet● and there they shall embrace verse 11 As truth from earth shall spring apace and florish pleasauntly So righteousnes shall shew her face and looke from heauen bye verse 12 Yea God himselfe shell take in hand to geue vs ech good thing And through the coastes of all out land the earth her fruites shall bring verse 13 Before his face shall iustice goe much lyke a guide or stay He shall direct his steps also and keepe them in the way Inclina Domine Psal. Lxxxvi I. H. ¶ Sing this as the lxxxi Psalme LOrd bow thine eare to my request and heare me by and by With greuous payne and griefe opprest full poore and weake am I. verse 2 Preserue my soule because my way and doinges holy be And saue thy seruaunt O my Lord that puts his trust in thee verse 3 Thy mercy Lord on me expresse defend me eke withall For through the day I do not c●ase on thee to 〈◊〉 and call verse 4 Comfort O Lord th● seruauntes soule that now with payne is pinde For vnto thee Lord I extoll and lift my soule and minde verse 5 For thou art good and bountifull thy giftes of grace are free And eke thy mercy plentifull to all that call on thee verse 6 O Lord lykewise when I do pray regard and geue an eare Marke well the wordes that I do say and all my prayers heare verse 7 In tyme when trouble doth me 〈◊〉 to thee I do complaine For why I know and well do proue thou aunswerest me agayne verse 8 Among the Gods O Lord is none with thee to be compard And noue can do as thou alone the lyke hath not bene heard The second part verse 9 The Gentiles and the people all which thou didst make and frame Before thy face on knees will fall and glorifie thy name verse 10 For why thou art so much of might all power is thine owne Thou workest wonders still insight for thou art God alone verse 11 O teach me Lord the way ▪ and I shall in thy truth proceede O ioyne my hart to thee so aye that it thy name may dread verse 12 To thee my God will I geue prayse with all my hart O Lord And glorifie thy name alwayes for euer through the world verse 13 For why thy mercy shewed to me is great and doth excell Thou settest my soule at libertye out from the lower hell verse 14 O Lord the proud agaynst me rise and heapes of men of might They seeke my soule and in no wise will haue thee in their sight verse 15 Thou Lord art mercifull and meeke full flacke and slow to wrath Thy goodnes is full great and eke thy truth no measure hath ▪ verse 16 O turne to me and mercy graunt thy strength to me apply O helpe and saue thine owne seruaunt thy handmaydes sonne am I. verse 17 On me some signe of fauour shew that all my foes may see And be ashamed because Lord thou doest helpe and comfort me Fundamenta Psal. Lxxxvii I.H. Sing this as the lxxxi Psalme THat Citie shall full well endure her ground worke 〈◊〉 doth stay Vpon the holy hilles full sure it can no tyme decay verse 2 God loues the gates of Sion best his grace doth there abide He loueth them more then all the rest of Iacobs centes beside verse 3 Full glorious thinges reported be in Sion and abroad Great thinges I say are sayd of thee thou Citie of our God. verse 4 On Rahab I will cast an eye and heare in minde the fame And Babilon shall eke apply and learne to know thy 〈◊〉 verse 5 Loe Pal●stine and ●yre also with Ethiop lykewise A people old full long agoe were borne and there didwise verse 6 Of Sion they shall say abroad that diuers men of fame Haue there sprong vp and the hye God hath founded fast the fame verse 7 In their recordes to them it shall through Gods deui●e appeare Of Sion that the chiefe of all had his beginning there verse 8 The trumpeters with such as sing therein great plenty be My fountaynes and my pleasaunt springes are compast all in thee Domine Deus Psal. Lxxxviii I.H. ¶ Sing this as the lxxxi Psalme 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 prayers sonne ascend vnto thy sight on hye Encline thine eare O Lord entend and ●arken to my cry verse 3 For why my soule with woe is fild and doth in trouble dwell My lyfe and breath almost doth yeald and draweth nye to hell verse 4 I am esteemed as one of them that in the pit do fall And made as one among those men that haue no strength at all verse 5 As one among the dead and free from thinges that heare remaine It were more case 〈◊〉 to be with them the which are slayne verse 6 As those that lye in gra●e I say whome thou hast cleane forgot The which thy hand hath cut away and thou regardest them not verse 7 Yea lyke to one shut vp full sure within the lowes pit In places darke and all obscure and in the depth of it verse 8 Thine anger and thy wrath lykewise full sore on me doth lye And all the stormes agaynst me rise my soule to vexe and trye verse 9 Thou putst my 〈◊〉 of from me and makest them hate me fore I am shut vp in prison fast and can come forth no more verse 10 My sight doth falle though griefe and woe I call to thee O God Throughout the day my handes also to thee I stretch abroad The second part verse 11 Dost thou vnto the dead declare thy wondrous workes of fame Shall dead to lyfe agayne repayre and prayse thee for the same verse 12 Or shall thy louing kindenes Lord be preached in the graue Or shall with them that are destroyd thy truth her honor haue verse 13 Shall they that lye in darke full low of all thy wonders wot Or there shall they thy Iustice know where all thinges are forgot verse 14 But I O Lord to thee alway do cry and call apace My prayer eke 〈◊〉 it be day shall come before thy face verse 15 Why doest thou Lord abhorre my soule in griefe that seeketh thee And now O Lord why doest thou hide thy face away from me verse 16 I am afflict as dy●ng still from youth this many a yeare The terrors which do vexe me ill with troubled minde I heare verse 17 The furies
ill report with shame and great disprayse verse 47 How long away from me O Lord for euer wilt thou turne And shall thine anger still alway as fire consume and burne verse 48 O call to minde remember then my tyme consumeth fast Why hast thou made the sonnes of men as thinges in vaine to wast verse 49 What man is he that liueth here and death shall neuer see Or from the hand of hell his soule shall he deliuer free verse 50 Where is O Lord thine ●uld goodnes so oft declard beforne Which by thy truth and vprightnes to Dauid thou hast sworne verse 51 The great rebukes to minde I call that on thy seruauntes lye The rayling of the people all borne in my brest haue I. verse 52 Wherewith O Lord thine enemies blasphemed haue thy name The steps of thine annoynted one they cease not to defame verse 53 All prayse to thee O Lord of hostes both now and eke for aye Through skye and earth in all the coastes Amen Amen I say Domine refugium Psal. XC I. H. Sing this as the lxxvij psalme THou Lord hast bene our sure defence our place of ease and rest In all tymes past yea so long sence as can not be exprest verse 2 Ere there was made mountaine or hill the earth and world abroad From age to age and alwayes still for euer thou art God. verse 3 Thou grindest man through griefe and payne to dust or clay and then And then thou sayest agayne returne agayne ye sonnes of men verse 4 The lasting of a thousand yeare what is it in thy sight As yesterday it doth appeare or as a watch one night verse 5 So soone as thou doest scatter thene then is their lyfe and trade All as a sleepe and lyke the grasse whose beautye soone doth fade verse 6 Which in the morning shines full bright but fadeth by and by And is cut downe ere it be night all whithered dead and dry verse 7 For through thine anger we consume our might is much decayde And of thy feruent wrath and fume Lord make them all 〈…〉 verse 8 The wicked workes that we haue wrought thou feest before thine eye Our priuie faultes yea eke our thoughtes thy countenaunce doth spye verse 9 For through thy wrath our dayes do wast thereof doth nought remaine Our yeares consume as wordes or blastes and are not cald agayne verse 10 Our tyme is threescore yeares and ten that we do liue on mold If on see fourescore surely then we count him wondrous olde The second part verse 11 Yet of this tyme the strength and chiefe the which we count vpon Is nothing els but paynefull griefe and we as blastes ar●gone verse 12 Who once doth know what strength is there what might thine ange● hath Or in his hart who doth thee feare according to thy wrath verse 15 Instruct vs Lord to know and trye how long our dayes remaine That then we may our hartes apply true wise 〈◊〉 to attaine verse 14 Returne O Lord how long wilt thou forth on in wrath proceede Shew fauour to thy seruauntes now and helpe them at their neede verse 15 Refresh vs with thy mercy soone and then our ioy shall be All tymes so long as lyfe doth last in hart reioyce shall we verse 16 As thou hast plagued vs before now also make vs glad And for the yeares wherein full sore afflicti●● 〈◊〉 haue 〈◊〉 verse 17 O Let thy worke and power appeare and on thy serua●nt●● light And shew vnto their children deare thy glory and thy might verse 18 Lord let thy grace and glory stand on worthy seruauntes thus Confirme the workes we take in hand Lord prosper them to vs. Qui habitat psal XCi. I. H. ¶ Sing this as the lxix Psalme HE that within the secret place of God most hye doth dwell In shadow of the mightiest grace at rest shall keepe him well verse 2 Thou art my hope and my strong hold I to the Lord will say My God is he in him will I my whole affiaunce stay verse 3 He shall defend thee from the snare the which the hunter layd And from the deadly plague and care wherof thou art afrayd verse 4 And with his winges shall couer thee and keepe thee saf● ly there His sayth and truth thy sence 〈◊〉 as sure as shield and spea verse 5 So that thou shalt not neede I say to feare or be at flight Of all the shaftes that flye by day nor terrours of the night verse 6 Nor of the plague that priuily doth walke in darke so fast Nor yet of that which doth destroy and at noone dayes doth wast verse 7 Yea at thy side as thou doest stand a thousand dead shal be Ten thousand eke at thy right hand and yet shalt thou be free verse 8 But thou shalt see it for thy part thine eyes shall well regard That euen like to their desert the wicked haue reward verse 9 For why O Lord I onely lust to stay my hope on thee And in the hyest I put my trust my 〈◊〉 sence is hee verse 10 Thou shalt not neede none ill to feare with thee it shall not mell Nor yet the plague shall once come neare thy house where thou doest dwell verse 11 For why vnto his aungels all with charge commanded hee That still in all thy wayes they shall preserue and prosper thee verse 12 And in their handes shall thee beare vp still wayting thee vpon So that thy feete shall neuer chaunce to spurne at any stone verse 13 Vpon the Lyon thou shalt go the Adder fell and long And tread vpon the Lyons young with Dragons stout and strong verse 14 For that he trusteth vnto me I will dispatch him quite And him delend because that he doth know my name aright verse 15 When he for helpe on me doth cry an aunswere I will geue And from his grief take him will I in glory for to liue verse 16 With length of yeares and dayes of wealth I will fulfill his tyme The goodnes of my sauyng health I will declare to him Bonum est Psal. XCii I. H. ¶ Sing this as the lxxxviij Psalme IT is a thyng both good and meete to prayse the highest Lord And to thy name O thou most hye to sing in one accord verse 2 To shew the kindnes of the Lord betime er● day be light And ●ke declare his truth abroad when it doth draw to night verse 3 Vpon ten stringed instrument on Lute and Harpe so sweete With all the myrth you can in●ent of Instrumentes most meete verse 4 For thou hast made 〈◊〉 to re●oyce in thinges so wrought by thee And I haue ioy in here and voyce thy handy workes to see verse 5 O Lord how glorious and how great are all thy workes so stout So deepely are thy councels set that none can try them out verse 6 The man vnwise hath not the wit this geare to passe to bring And all such fooles are nothing fit to
twenty yeares they did me greeue and I to them did say They erre in hart and not beleue they haue not knowen my way verse 11 Wherfore I sware when that my wrath was kindled in my brest That they should neuer tread the path to enter to my rest Cantate Domino psal xcvi I. H. ¶ Sing this as the lxxvij Psalme SIng ye with prayse vnto the Lord new songes of ioy and myrth Sing vnto him with one accord all people on the earth verse 2 Yea sing vnto the Lord I say prayse ye his holy name Declare and shew from day to day saluation by the same verse 3 Among the Heathen eke declare his honor 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 prayse alicay And he is to be dread of right aboue all Gods I say verse 5 For all the Gods of Heathen folke are Idols that will ●ade But yet our God he is the Lord that hath the heauens made verse 6 All prayse and honor eke do dwell for aye before his face Both power and might likewise excell within his holy plate verse 7 Ascribe vnto the Lord alway ye people of the world All might and worshyp eke I say ascribe vnto the Lord. verse 8 Ascribe vnto the Lord also the glory of his name And eke into his courtes do goe with giftes vnto the same verse 9 Fall downe and worshyp ye the Lord within his temple bright Let all the people of the world be fearefull at his sight verse 10 Tell all the world be not agast the Lord doth raigne aboue Yea he hath set the earth so fast that it did neuer moue verse 11 And that it is the Lord alone that rules with princely might To iudge the nations euery one with equitie and right verse 12 The heauens shall great ioy begyn the earth shall eke reioyce The Sea with all that is therein shall shout and make a noyce verse 13 The field shall ioy and euery thyng that springeth on the earth The wood and euery tree shall sing with gladnes and with myrth verse 14 Before the presence of the Lord and commyng of his might When he s●all instly iudge the world and rule his folke with right Dominus regnauit psal xcvii I. H. ¶ Sing this as the lxxvij Psalme THe Lord doth e●igne whereat the earth may ioy with pleasaunt voyce And eke the Iles with ioyfull myrth may triumph and reioyce verse 2 Both cloudes and darknes eke do swell and round about him beate Yea right and iustice euer dwell and bide about his seate verse 3 Yea fire and heate at once do run and goe before his face Whi●h shall his foes and enemies burne abroad in euery place verse 4 His lightnynges eke full bright did blase and to the world appeare Whereat the earth did looke and gase with dread and deadly feare verse 5 The hils like waxe did melt in sight and presence of the Lord They fled before that rulers might which guideth all the world verse 6 The heauens eke declare and shew his iustice forth abroad That all the world may see and know the glory of our God. verse 7 Confusion sure shall come to such as worshyp Idols vayne And eke to those that glory much dum pictures to maintaine verse 8 For all the Idols of the world which they as Gods do call ▪ Shall ●eele the power of the Lord and downe to him shall fall verse 9 With ioy shall Syon heare this thyng and Iuda shall reioyce For at thy iudgementes they shall sing and make a pleasaunt noyce verse 10 That thou O Lord art set on ●ye in all the earth abroad And art exalted wondrously abo●e ech other God. verse 11 All ye that loue the Lord do this hate all thinges that are ill For he doth keepe the soules of his from such as would them spill verse 12 And light doth spryng vp to the iust with pleasure for his part Great ioy with gladnes myrth and lust to them of vpright hart verse 13 Ye righteous in the Lord reioyce his holynes proclayme Be thankefull eke with hart and voyce and myndefull of the same Cantate Domino psal xcviii I. H. ¶ Sing this as the lxxv●● Psalme O Sing ye now vnto the Lord a new and pleasaunt song For he hath wrought throughout the world his wonders great and strong verse 2 With his right hand full 〈◊〉 he doth his foes deuo●●● ▪ And get him selfe the victory with his owne arme and power verse 3 The Lord doth make the people know his sauyng health and might The Lord doth eke his iustice shew in all the Heathens sight verse 4 His grace and truth to Israell in mynde he doth record That all the earth hath seen right well the goodnes of the Lord ▪ verse 5 Be glad in him with ioyfull voyce all people of the earth ▪ Gene thankes to God sing and reioyce to him with ioy and myrth verse 6 Vpon the harpe vnto him sing geue thankes to him with Psalmes Reioyce before the Lord our kyng with trumpets and with shalmes verse 7 Yea let the Sea with all therein with ioy both roare and swell The earth likewise let it begyn with all that therein dwell verse 8 And let the floudes reioyce their fils and cl●p their handes apace And eke the mountaines and the hils before the Lord his face verse 9 For he shall come to iudge and try the world and euery wight And rule the people mightely with iustice and with right Dominus regnauit psal xcix I. H. Sing this as the lxxvij Psalme THe Lord doth raigne although at it the people rage full so●e Yea he on Cherubins doth s●t though all the world d●●ore verse 2 The Lord that doth in Syon dwell is high and wondrous great Aboue all Gods he doth excell and he aloft is set verse 3 Let all men prayse thy mighty name for it is fearefull s●re● ▪ And let the● magnifie the same that holy is and pure verse 4 The princely power of our kyng doth loue iudgement and right Thou rightly rulest e●ery thyng in Iacob through thy might verse 5 To prayse the Lord our God deuise all honor to him do ▪ Before his footestoole worshyp him for he is holy to verse 6 Moyses Aaron and Samuel as Priestes on him do call When they did pray he heard them well and gaue them aunswere all verse 7 Within the cloud to them he spake then did they labour still ▪ To keepe such lawes as he did make and pointed them vntill verse 8 O Lord our God thou didst them heare and aunsweredst 〈…〉 verse 9 Thy mercy did on them appear● ▪ their 〈…〉 verse 10 O laude and prayse our God and Lo●d within his holy hill For why our God throughout the world is holy euer still Iubilat●●●● Psal. C. ALl people that on earth do dwell sing to ●●e Lord with cherefull voyce him
seru● with feare his prayse forth 〈◊〉 come ye before 〈◊〉 and re●oyce verse 3 The Lord ye know is God in deede without our ayde he 〈◊〉 vs make We are his folke he doth vs ●eede and for his sheepe 〈◊〉 doth vs take verse 4 Oh enter then his gates with prayse approch with ioy his Court● vnto ▪ Prayse laud and blesse his name alway●● for it is seemely so to do verse 5 For why the Lord o●● God●●● good his mercy is for euer 〈◊〉 ▪ His truth at all tymes firmely 〈◊〉 and shall from age to 〈◊〉 ¶ An other of the same Sing this as the lxvij ▪ Psalme IN God the Lord be glad and ●ight prayse him throughout the earth Serue him and come before his sight with singyng and with mirth verse 2 Know that the Lord our God he is he did vs make and keepe Not we our selues for we are his owne folke and pasture sheepe verse 3 O go into his gates alwayes geue thankes within the sam● Within his Co●rt●●● s●t ▪ forth his prayse and laud his holy ●●me verse 4 For why the good● 〈◊〉 the Lord for euermore doth 〈◊〉 From age to age throughout the world his truth doth still remaine Miseric●rdiam Psal. Ci. N. ¶ Sing this as the lxxxi Psalme I Mercy will and iudgement sing O Lord God vnto thee verse 2 And wisely do in perfect way vntill thou come to 〈◊〉 ▪ And in the midst of my house● 〈◊〉 in purenes of my spirite verse 3 And I no kynde of wicked thyng will set before my sight I hate their workes that fall away it shall not cleane to 〈◊〉 verse 4 From me shall 〈◊〉 the froward 〈◊〉 none euill will I see verse 5 Him will I stroy that flaundereth his ●eighbour peiuily ▪ The lofty hart I can not beare no● him that looketh hye verse 6 Mine eyes shal be on them within ▪ the land that faythfull be In per●ect way who worketh shall be seruaunt vnto me verse 7 I will no g●●●efull person haue within my house to dwell And in my presence he shall not remaine that lyes doth ●●ll verse 8 Betymes I will destroy euen all the wicked of the land That I may from Gods Citie 〈◊〉 ▪ the wicked workers hand Domine exaudi Psal. Cii N. ¶ Sing this as the lxvij Psalme O Heare my praye● Lord and le● my cry come vnto thee verse 2 In time of trouble do not hide thy face away from mee Incline thine cares to me make hast to heare me when I call verse 3 For as the ●moke doth ●ade ▪ so do my dayes consume and fall verse 4 And as a harth my bones ▪ are burnt my hart is smitten dead And withers as the grasse that I forget to eat my bread verse 5 By reason of my gronyng voyce my bones clea●e ●o my skin verse 6 As Pellican of wildernes such case now am I in And a● an Owle in desert is ●oc I am suc●●a one verse 7 I watch and as a Sparrow on the house top am alo●e verse 8 Loe dayly in reprochfull wise myne enemies do me scorne And they that do agaynst me rage agaynst me they 〈◊〉 sworne verse 9 Surely with ashes as with bread my hunger I haue fild And mingled haue my drinke with teare● ▪ that from myne eyes haue stild verse 10 Because of thy displeasure Lord thy wrath and thy disdayne For thou hast lifted me a 〈◊〉 ▪ and cast me downe agayne verse 11 The dayes wherein I passe my ly●● are like the ●lectyng shade And I am withered like the grasse that soone away doth fade verse 12 But thou O Lord for euer do●st remayne in steddy place And thy remembraunce euer doth abide from race to race The second part verse 13 Thou wilt arise and mercy 〈◊〉 to Sio● wilt extend The tyme of mercy 〈◊〉 the time forefet is come to end ▪ verse 14 For euen in the 〈◊〉 therof thy seruauntes do delight And on the dust therof they haue compassion in the spirite verse 15 Then shall the Heathen people feare the Lordes most holy name ▪ And all the kynges on ea●th shll dread thy glory and thy fame verse 16 Then when the Lord●●e ●igh●y God agayne shall Sion reare And then when he most nobly in his glory shall appeare verse 17 To prayer of the desolate ▪ when he himselfe shall bend When he shall nor disdayne vnto their prayers to attend verse 18 This shal be written for the age that after shall succed The people yet vncreated the Lordes 〈◊〉 shall sprede verse 19 For he from his ●ye sanctuary ●ath looked downe below And out of heauen hath the Lord beheld the earth also verse 20 That of the mournyng captiue he might heare the wofull cry And that he might deliuer those that damned are to dye verse 21 That they in Sion may declare the Lordes most holy name And in Ierusalem set forth the prayses of the same verse 22 Then when the people of the land and kyngdomes with accord Shal be assembled for to do their seruice to the Lord. The third part verse 23 My former force of strength he hath abayted in the way And shorter he did cut my daye● th●s I therfore ●id say verse 24 My God in midst of all my dayes now take me not away The yeares endure eternally from age to age for aye verse 25 Thou the foundations of the earth before all tymes hast layd And Lord the heauens are the worke which thine owne handes haue made verse 26 Yea they shall perish and decay but thou shalt tary still And they shall all in tyme waxe old euen as a garment will. Thou as a garment shalt them chaunge and chaunged shall they bee verse 27 But thou doest still abide the same thy yeares do ne●er flee verse 28 The children of thy seruauntes shall continually endure And in thy sight their happy seede for euer shall stand sure Benedic anima ▪ psal Ciii T. S. MY soule geue laud vnto the Lord my spirite shall do the same and all the secretes of my hart prayse ye his holy name Geue thankes to God for all his giftes shew not thy selfe vnkynde suffer not his benefites to slip out of thy mynde verse 3 That gaue thee pardon for thy faultes and thee restored agayne For all thy weake and f●ayle disease and heald thee of thy payne verse 4 That did redeeme thy lyfe from death from which thou couldst not flee His mercy and compassion both he did extend to thee verse 5 That fild with goodnes thy desire and did prolong thy youth Like as the Egle castes her bill whereby her ag● renueth verse 6 The Lord with iustice doth repay all such as be opprest So that their suffringes and their wronges are turned to the best verse 7 His wayes and his commaundementes to Moyses he did show His counsels and his valiaunt actes the Israelites did know verse 8 The Lord is kinde and mercifull when sinners do him greue The
mouth and guilefull mouth on me disclosed be And they with false and lying tongue haue spoken vnto me verse 3 They did beset me round about with workes of hatefull spight Without all cause of my desert agaynst me did they fight verse 4 For my good will they were my foes but then gan I to pray verse 5 My good with ill my frendlynes with hate they did repay verse 6 Set thou the wicked ouer him to haue the vpper hand At his right hand eke suffer thou his hatefull foe to stand verse 7 When he is indged let him then condemned be therein And let the prayer that he makes be turned into sinne verse 8 Few be his dayes his charge also let thou an other taker verse 9 His children let be fatherles his wife a widow make verse 10 Let his ofspring be vagabonds to beg and seeke their bread Wandring out of the wasted place where erst they haue bene fed verse 11 Let couetous extortioner catch all his goodes and store And let the straungers spoyle the fruites of all his toyle before verse 12 Let there b● none to pitie him let there be none at all That on his children fatherles will let their mercye fall The second part verse 13 And so let his posteritie for euer be destroyde Their name out blotted in the age that after shall succeede verse 14 Let not his fathers wickednes from Gods remembraunce fall And let not thou his mothers sinne be done away at all verse 15 But in the presence of the Lord let them remaine for aye That from the earth the memory he may cut cleane away verse 16 Sith mercy he forgat to shew but did pursue with ●pight The troubled man and sought to slay the wofull harted wight verse 17 As he did cursing loue it shall betyde vnto him so And as he did not blessing loue it shall be far him fro verse 18 As he with cursing clad himselfe so it lyke water shall Into his bowells and lyke oyle into his bones befall verse 19 As garment let it be to him to couer him for aye And as a girdle wherewith he shall girded be alway verse 20 Lo let this same be from the Lord the guerden of my foe Yea and of those that euill speake agaynst my soule also verse 21 But thou O Lord that art my God deale thou I say with me After thy name deliuer me for good thy mercyes be verse 22 Because in depth of great distres I needy am and poore And eke within my payned brest my hart is wounded sore The third part verse 23 Euen so do I depart away as doth declining shade And as the Grashopper so I am shaken of and fade verse 24 With fasting long from needefull foode enfeebled are my knees and all her fatnes hath my flesh enforced bene to leese verse 25 And I also avile reproch to them was made to be And they that did vpon me looke did shake their heads at me verse 26 But thou O Lord that art my God mine ayde and succour be According to thy mercy Lord saue and deliuer me verse 27 And they shall know thereby that this Lord is thy mighty hand And that thou thou hast done it Lord so shall they vnderstand verse 28 Although they curse with spight yet thou shalt blesse with louing voyce They shall arise and come to shame thy seruaunt shall reioyce verse 29 Let them be clothed all with shame that enemies are to me And with confusion as a cloke eke couered let them be verse 30 But greatly I wiill with my mouth geue thankes vnto the Lord And I among the multitude his prayses will record verse 31 For he with helpe at his right hand will stand the poore man by To saue him from the man that would condemne his soule to dye Dixit Dominus psal Cx. N. ¶ Sing this as the lxxvij Psalme THe Lord did say vnto my Lord sit thou on my right hand Till I haue made thy foes a stoole whereon thy feete shall stand verse 2 The Lord shall out of Sion send the scepter of thy might Amid thy mortall foes be thou the ruler in their sight And in the day on which thy raygne and power they shall see verse 3 Then hereby freewill offeringes shall the people offer thee Yea with an holy worshipping then shall they offer all Thy byrthes dew is the dew that doth from wombe of morning fall verse 4 The Lord hath sworne and neuer will repent what he doth say By the order of Melchisedech thou art a Priest for aye verse 5 The Lord my God on thy right hand that standeth for thy stay Shall wound for thee the stately kinges vpon his wrathfull day verse 6 The Heathen he shall iudge and fill the place with bodyes dead And ouer diuers countryes shall in sunder suite the head verse 7 And he shall drinke out of the brooke that runneth in the way Therefore he shall lift vp on bye his royall head that day Confitebor tibi Psal. Cxi N. WIth hart I do accord To prayse and laud the Lord For great his workes are sound To search them such are bound verse 2 As do him loue and trust His workes are glorious Also his righteousnes verse 3 It doth indure for euer His wondrous workes he would We still remember should His mercy fayleth neuer verse 4 Such as to him loue beare A portion full fayre He hath vp for them layd verse 5 For this they shall well finde He will them haue in minde And keepe them as he sayd verse 6 For he did not disdayne His workes to shew them playne By lyghtninges and by thunders When he the Heathens land Did geue into their hand Where they beheld his wonders verse 7 Of all his workes ensueth Both iudgement right and truth Whereto his statutes t●nd They are decreed sure verse 8 For euer to indure Which equitie doth end R●demption he gaue His people for to saue verse 9 And hath also required His promise not to fayle But alwayes to preuayle His holy name be feared verse 10 Who so with hart full fayn● True wisedome would attayne The Lord feare and obey Such as his lawes doe keepe ●●all knowledge haue full deepe His prayse shall last for aye Beatus vir qui. psal Cxii W.K. ¶ Sing this as the Pater noster THe man is blest that God doth feare And that his lawes doth loue indeede His seede on earth God will vpreare And blesse such as from him proceed verse 2 His house with good he will fulfill His righteousnes endure shall still verse 3 Vnto the righteous doth arise In trouble ioy in darknes light Compassion is in his eyes And mercy alwayes in his fight verse 4 Yea pittie moueth such to lend He doth by iudgement thinges expend verse 5 And surely such shall neuer fayle For in remembraunce had is he verse 6 No tydinges ill can make him q●ayle Whoe ●n the Lord sure hope doth see verse 7 His hart is
firme his feare is past For he shall see his foes downe cast verse 8 He did well for the poore prouide His righteousnes doth still remaine And his estate with prayse abide Though that the wicked men disdavne Yea guash his teeth thereat shall he And so consume his state to see Laudate pueri Psal. Cxiii W.K. YE childrē which do serue the Lord prayse ye his name with one accord Yea blessed be alwayes his name ▪ who from the 〈◊〉 of the sunde till it re turne where it begun is to be praysed with great fanic The Lord all people doth surmount as for his glory we may count aboue the heauens hye to be With God the Lord who may compare whose dwellinges in the heauens are of such great power and force is he verse 6 He doth abase himselfe we know Thinges to behold both here below And also in heauen aboue verse 7 The needy out of dust to draw And eke the poore which helpe none saw His onely mercy did him moue verse 8 And so him set in high degree With princes of great dignitie That rule his people with great fame The barren he doth make to beare And with great ioy her fruite to reare Therefore prays● ye his holy name In exitu Israel psal Cxiiii W. K. ¶ Sing this as the lxxvii Psalme WHen Israell by Gods addres from Pharaos land was bent And Iacobs house the straungers left and in the same trayne went. verse 2 In Iuda God his glory shewed his holynes most bright So did the Israelites declare his kingdome power and might verse 3 The sea it saw and sodenly as all amasd did flee The roaring streames of Iordans floud reculed backwardly verse 4 As Rams afrayd the mountaynes skipt their strength did them forsake And as the seely tremo●ing Lambes their tops did beate and shake verse 5 What ayld thee Sea as all amasd so sodenly to flee Ye rowling wau●● of Iordans floude why ran ye backwardly ▪ verse 6 Why shooke ye hills as Rams afrayd why did you● strength so shake Why did your tops as trembling Lambe● for feare qui●er and quake verse 7 O earth confesse thy soueraygn● Lord and d●ead his mighty hand Before the face of Iacobs God feare ye b●th Sea and land verse 8 I meane the ●ind which from hard rockes doth cause maine ●oudes appeare And from the stony flint doth make gush out the fountaynes cleare Non nobis Domine Psal. Cxv. N. ¶ Sing this as the Cxix psalme NOt vnto vs Lord not to vs but to thy name geue prayse Both for thy mercy and thy truth that are in thee alwayes verse 2 Why shall the heathen scorners say where is their Lord become verse 3 Our God in heauen is and what he will that hath he done verse 4 Their Idols siluer art and gold worke of mens handes they be verse 5 They haue a mouth and do not speake and eyes and do not see verse 6 And they haue eares ioynd to their head●● and do not heare at all And noses eke they formed haue and do not smell withall verse 7 And handes they haue and handle not and feete and doe not goe A throate they haue and through the same they make no sound to blow verse 8 Those that make them be like to them and those whose trust they be verse 9 O Israell trust in the Lord their helpe and shield is he verse 10 O Aarons house trust in the Lord their helpe and shield is he verse 11 Trust ye the Lord that feare the Lord their helpe and shield is he verse 12 The Lod hath mindfull b●ne of vs and will vs blesse also Ou Israels and Aarons house his blessing he will show verse 13 Them that be fearers of the Lord the Lord doth blesse them all Euen he shall blesse them euery one the great and eke the small verse 14 To you I say the louing Lord will multiply his gra●e To you I say the louing Lord shall follow of your race verse 15 Ye are the blessed of the Lord euen of the Lord I say Which both the heauen and the earth hath made and set in stay verse 16 The heauens yea the heauens hye belong vnto the Lord The earth vnto the sonnes of men he gaue of free accord verse 17 They that be dead do not with prayse set forth the Lordes renowne Nor any that into the place of silence do go downe verse 18 But we will prayse the Lord our God from henceforth and for aye Sound ye the prayses of the Lord prayse ye the Lord I say Dilexi quoniam psal Cxvi N. ¶ Sing this as the Cxix Psalme I Loue the Lord because my voyce and praye● heard hath he verse 2 When in my dayes I called on him he bowed his eare to me verse 3 Euen when the snares of cruell death about beset me round When paynes of hell me caught and whe● I wo and sorrow found verse 4 Vpon the name of God my Lord then did I call and say Deliuer thou my soule O Lord I do thee humbly pray verse 5 The Lord is very mercifull and iust he is also And in our God compassion doth plentifully flow verse 6 The Lord in safety doth preseru● all those that simple be I was in wofull misery and he relie●ed me verse 7 And now my soule sith thou art safe returne vnto thy rest For largely ●o the Lord to thee his bountye hath exprest verse 8 Because thou hast deliuered my soule from deadly thr●●l My moysted even from mornefull teares my sliding foote from fall verse 9 Before the Lord I in the land of lyfe will walke therefore verse 10 I did beleue therefore I spake for I was troubled sore verse 11 I sayd in my distresse and feare that all men lyers be verse 12 What shall I pay the Lord for all his benefites to me verse 13 The wholesome cup of sauing health I thankefully will take And on the Lordes name I will call when I my prayer make verse 14 I to the Lord will pay the vowes that I haue him behight Yea euen at this present tyme in all his peoples sight verse 15 Right deare and precious in his sight the Lord doth aye esteme The death of all his holy ones ▪ what euer man do deeme verse 16 Thy seruaunt Lord thy seruaunt loe I do my selfe confes Sonne of thy handmayd thou hast broke the bondes of my distresse verse 17 And I will offer vp to thee a sacrifice of prayse And I will call vpon the name of God the Lord alwayes verse 18 I to the Lord will pay the vowes that I haue him behight Yea euen at this present tyme in all the peoples sight verse 19 Yea in the courtes of Gods owne house and in the midst of thee O thou Ierusalem I say wherefore the Lord prayse ye Laudate Dominum psal Cxvii N. ¶ Sing this as the xcv Psalme O All ye nations of the world prayse ye the Lord alwayes And all
ye people euery where set forth his noble prayse verse 2 For great his kindenes is to vs his truth endures for aye Wherefore prayse ye the Lord our God prayse ye the Lord I say Consitemini Psal. Cxviii M. Sing this as the Cxviij Psalme O Gene ye thankes vnto the Lord for gracious is he Because his mercy doth endure for euer towardes thee verse 2 Let Israell confesse and say his mercy dures for aye verse 3 Now let the house of Aaron say his mercy dures for ay verse 4 Let all that feare the Lord our God euen now confesse and say The mercy of the Lord our God endureth still for aye verse 5 In trouble and in heauines vnto the Lord I cride Which louingly heard me at length my sute was not denide verse 6 The Lord himselfe is on my side I will not stand 〈◊〉 doubt Nor feare what man can do to me when God standes me about verse 7 The Lord doth take my part with them that helpe to succour me Therefore I shall see my desire vpon mine enemy verse 8 Better it is to trust in God then in mans mortall seede verse 9 Or to put confidence in kinges or Princes in our neede verse 10 All nations haue enclosed me and compassed me round But in the name of God shall I mine enemies confound verse 11 They kept me in on euery side they kept me in I say But through the Lordes most mighty name I shall worke their decay verse 12 They came about me all lyke bees but yet in the Lordes name I quencht their thornes that were on fire and will destroy the same The second part verse 13 Thou hast with force thrust sore at me that I in deede might fall But through the Lord I found such helpe that they were vanquisht all verse 14 The Lord is my defence and strength my ioy my myrth and song He is become for me in deed a Sauiour most strong verse 15 The right hand of the Lord our God doth bring to pas great thinges He causeth voyce of ioy and health in righteous mens dwellinges verse 16 The right hand of the Lord doth bring most mighty thinges to pas His hand hath the preeminence his force is as it was verse 17 I will not ●lye but euerliu● to vtter and declare The Lord his might and wondrous power his workes and what they are verse 18 The Lord himselfe hath chastened and hath corrected me But hath not geuen me ouer yet to death as ye may see verse 19 Set open vnto me the gates of truth and righteousnes That I may enter into them the Lordes prayse to confesse verse 20 This is the gate euen 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 geue thankes to thee O Lord because thou hast heard me And art become most ●●ningly a Sauiour vnto me verse 22 The stone which ere this tyme among the builders wa● refusde Is now become the corner stone and chiefly to be vsed verse 23 This was the mighty worke of God this was the Lordes owne fact And it is mar●eilous to behold with eyes that noble act verse 24 This is the ioyfull day in deede which God himselfe hath wrought ▪ Let vs be glad and ioy therein in hart in minde and thought verse 25 Now helpe me Lord and prosper vs we wish with one accord verse 26 Blessed be he that commeth to vs in the name of the Lord. verse 27 God is the Lord that shewes vs light binde ye therefore with cord Your sacrifice to the altar and geue thankes to the Lord. verse 28 Thou art my God I will confes and render thankes to thee Thou art my God and I will prayse thy mercy towardes me verse 29 O geue ye thankes vnto the Lord for gratious is he Because his mercy doth endure for euer towardes thee Beati immaculati psal Cxix W. W. BLessed are they that perfect are and pure in mind and hart whose liues and conuersation from Gods lawes neuer start Blessed are they that geue them selues his statutes to obserue● Seeking the Lord with all their hart and neuer from him swarne verse 3 Doubtles such men goe not astray nor do no wicked thing Which stedfastly walke in his pathes without any wandring verse 4 It is thy will and commaundement that with attentiue heed Thy noble and diuine precepter we learnt and keeps in deed verse 5 Oh would to God it might thee please my wayes so to addres That I might both in hart and voyce thy lawes keepe and confesse verse 6 So should no shame my lyfe attaint whilest I thus set myne eyes And bend my minde alwayes to muse on thy sacred decrces verse 7 Then will I prayse with vpright hart and magnifie thy name When I shall learne thy iudgementes iust and lykewise proue the same verse 8 And wholy will I geue my selfe to keept thy lawes most right Forsake me not for euer Lord but shew thy grace and might BETH The second part verse 9 By what meanes may a young man be●● his life learn to amend If that he mark and keep thy word and therin his time spend verse 10 Vnfaynedly I haue thee sought and thus seeking abide Oh neuer suffer me O Lord from thy precepts to slide verse 11 Within my hart and secret thoughts thy words I haue hid stil That I might not at any time offend thy godly wil. verse 12 We magnifie thy name O Lord and prayse thee euermore Thy statutes of most worthy same O Lord teach me therfore verse 13 My lips haue neuer ceast to preach and publish day and night The iudgementes all which did proceed from thy mouth full of might verse 14 Th● testimonyes and thy wayes please me no lesse in deed Then all the treasures of the earth which worldlinges make their meed verse 15 Of t●● precepts I will still muse and thereto frame my talke As at a marke so will I ayme thy waye● how I may walke verse 16 My onely 〈◊〉 shall be so fixt and on thy lawes so set That nothing can me so farre blynd that I thy workes forget GJMEL The third part verse 17 Graunt to thy scruaunt now such grace as may my ●●fe p●●long Thy holy 〈◊〉 then will I keepe both 〈◊〉 hart and tongue verse 18 Mine eyes which we●e d●m and shut vp so upon and make bright That of thy law and maruellous worke● I may haue the cleare fight verse 19 I am a straunger in this earth wandring now heare now theare Thy word therefore to me disclose my footesteps for to cleare verse 20 My soule is ra●●sht with desire and neuer is at r●st But seekes to know thy iudgementes hye and what may please thee best verse 21 The proud men and malitious thou hast destroyed ech one And cursed are such as do not thy hestes attend vpon verse 22 Lord turne from me rebuke and shame which
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The xvi part verse 121 I do the thyng that lawfull is and gene to all men right Resigne me not to 〈◊〉 that would oppresse me wit●●●eir might verse 122 But for thy seruaunt surety be in that thyng that is good That proud men geue me not the foyle which rage as they were wood verse 123 Myne eyes with wayting are now blind thy health so much I craue And eke thy righteous promise Lord wherby thou wilt me saue verse 124 Intreat thy seruaunt louyngly and fauont to him shew Thy statutes of most excellency teach me also to know verse 125 Thy humble seruaunt Lord I am graunt me to vnderstand How by thy statu●● I may know best what to take in hand verse 126 It is now tyme Lord to begyn for truth is quite decayd Thy law likewise they haue transgrest and none agaynst them seyd verse 127 This is the cause wherefore I loue thy lawes better then gold Or iewels fine which are esteemd most costly to be sold verse 128 I thought thy preceptes all most iust and so them layd in store All crafty and malitious wayes I do abborre therfore PE. The xvij part verse 129 Thy couenauntes are most wonderfull and full of thynges profound My soule therfore doth keepe them sure when they are tride and found verse 130 When men first enter into thy wordes they finde a light most cleare And very idiotes vnderstand when they it read or heare verse 131 For ioy I haue both gapte and breathed to know thy commaundement That I might guide my life thereby I sought what thyng it ment verse 132 With mercy and compassion Lord behold me from aboue As thou art wont to behold such as thy name feare and loue verse 133 Direct my footesteps by thy word that I thy will may know And neuer let iniquitie thy seruaunt ouerthrow verse 134 From slaunderous tounges and deadly harmes preserue and keepe me sure Thy preceptes then I will obserue and put them eke in vre verse 135 Thy countenaunce which doth furmount the Sunne in his bright hew Let shine on me and by thy law teach me what to eschew verse 136 Out of myne eyes great ●●oudes gush out of drery teares and fell When I behold how wicked men thy law keepe neuer a dell ZADE. The xviij part verse 137 In euery point Lord thou art iust the wicked though they grudge And when thou doest sentence pronounce thou art a righteous iudge verse 138 To render right and flee from g●ile are two chief pointes most hye ▪ And such as thou hast in thy law commaunded vs straightly verse 139 With zeale and wrath I am confumde and euen pined away To see my foes thy wordes forget for ought that I do may verse 140 So pure and perfect is thy word as any hart can deeme And I thy seruaunt nothyng more do loue or yet esteeme verse 141 And though I be nothyng set by as one of base degree Yet do I not thy Hestes forget nor shrinke away from thee verse 142 Thy righteousnes Lord is most iust for euer to endure Also thy law is truth it selfe most constaunt and most pure verse 143 Trouble and grief haue seased on me and brought me wondrous low Yet do I still of thy preceptes delight to heare and know verse 144 The righteousnes of thy iudgementes doth last for euermore Then teach them me for euen in them my life lyeth vp in store KOPH The xix part verse 145 With feruent hart ●eald and cryde now aunswere me O Lord That thy commaundementes to obserue I may fully accord verse 146 To thee my God I make my sute wit● most humble request Saue me therfore and I will keepe thy precept and thy hest verse 147 To thee I cry euen in the morne before the day waxe light Because that I haue in thy word my confidence whole plight verse 148 Myne eyes preuent the watch by night and ere they call I wake That by deuising of thy word I might some comfort take verse 149 Incline thine eares to heare my voyce and pitie on me take As thou wast wont so iudge me Lord least life me should forsake verse 150 My fo●s draw neare and do procure my death malitiously Which from thy law are farre gone backe and strayed from it lewdly verse 151 Therfore O Lord approch thou 〈◊〉 for neede doth so require And all ●he preceptes true they are then helpe I thee desire verse 152 By thy commandementes I haue learnd not now but long ago That they remaine for euermore thou hast them grounded so RESH The xx● part verse 153 My trouble and affliction consider ●nd behold Deliuer me for of thy law I 〈◊〉 take fast hold verse 154 Defend my good and righteous cause with peede me succour send From death as thou hast promised Lord keepe me and defend verse 155 As for the wicked far they are from hauyng health and grace Wherby they might thy statutes know they enter not the trace verse 156 Great are thy mercyes Lord I graunt what toung can them attayne And as thou hast me iudged ere now so let me ly ●e obtaynte verse 157 Though many men did trouble me and persecute most sore Yet from 〈◊〉 lawes I neuer shro●ke nor went awry therfore verse 158 And truth it is for grief I dye when I these traytors see Because they keepe no whit thy word nor yet seeke to know thee verse 159 Behold for I do loue thy lawes with hart both glad and faynes As thou art good and gra●●ous Lord restore my lyfe agayne verse 160 What thy word doth decree must be and so it hath bene euer Thy righteous iudgementes are also most true and decay neuer SCHIN The xxi part verse 161 Princes haue sought by cruelty causeles to make me crouch But all in vayne for of thy word the feare did my hart touch verse 162 And certainly euen of thy word I was more mery and glad Then he that of rich spoyles and pray great store and plenty had verse 163 As for all lyes and falsitie I hate most and detest For why thy holy law do I aboue all thy mges loue best verse 164 Seuen tymes a day I prayse the Lord singyng with hart and voyce Thy righteous actes and wonderfull so cause me to reioyce verse 165 Great peace and rest shall all such haue which do thy statu●es loue No daunger shall their quiet state empaire or once remoue verse 166 My onely health and comfort Lord I looke for at thy hand And therfore haue I done those thynges which thou didst me commaund verse 167 Thy lawes haue bene my exercise which my soule most desirde ▪ So much my loue to them was beut that nought els I requird verse 168 Thy statutes and commaundementes I kept thou knowest aright For all the thynges that I haue done are present in thy sight TAV The xxij part verse 169 O Lord let my complaint and cry before thy face appeare And as thou hast me promise
made sio teach me thee to scare verse 170 Myne humble supplication toward thee let finde acces And graunt me Lord deliueraunce for so is thy promise verse 171 Then shall my lips thy prayses speake after most ample sort When thou thy statutes hast me taught wherein standes all comfort verse 172 My toung shall sing and preach thy word and on this wise say shall Gods famo●s actes and noble lawes are iust and perfect all verse 173 Strech out thy hand I thee beseech and speedely me saue For thy commaundementes to obserue ●ose● O Lord I haue verse 174 Of thee alone Lord I craue health for other I know none And in thy law and nothyng els I do delight alone verse 175 Graunt me therfore long dayes to liue thy name to magnifie And of thy iudgementes mercyfull let me thy ●a●our ●ry verse 176 For I was lost and went astray much like a wandryng sheepe Oh seeke me for I haue nor fayld the commaundementes to keepe Ad Dominum psal Cxx. T.S. ¶ Sing this as the Cxj. Psalm● IN trouble and in th● all Vnto the Lord I call And he doth me comfort verse 2 Deliuer me I say From lyers lips alway And tongue of false report verse 3 What vantage or what thyng Ge●st thou thus for to s●ing Thou false and flatteryng lyar verse 4 Thy tongue doth hurt I weene No lesse then arrowes keene of whot consumyng fire verse 5 Alas to long I slacke With●n these tentes so blake Which Kedars are by name By whom the ●●ocke elect An● all of Isackes sect Are put to open shame verse 6 With them that peace did hate I came a peace to make And set a quyet lyse verse 7 But when my word was told Causeles I was controld By them that would haue strife Leuaui oculos Ps●l Cxxi W. W. I Life myne ●yos to Syon hill from whence I do attend that succour God me send The mighty God me succour will which heauen and earth fra● med and all thynges therein named verse 3 Thy foote from slip he will preserue And will thee safely keepe For he shall neuer sleepe verse 4 Loe he that doth Israell conser●e No sleepe at all can him catch But his eyes shall euer watch verse 5 The Lord is thy warrant alway The Lord eke doth thee couer As at thy right hand euer verse 6 The Sunne shall not thee parch by day Nor the Moone halfe so bright Shall with cold thee hurt by night verse 7 The Lord will keepe thee from distres And will thy ●yte sure saue And thou also shalt haue verse 8 In all thy busines good successe Where euer thou goest in or out God will thy thynges bryng about Laetatus sum Psal. Cxxii W. K. I Did in hart reioyce to heare the peoples voyce in offering 〈◊〉 i●illingly For let vs vpsay they and in the Lordes house pray Thus spake the folke full louingly Our feete that wandred wide shall in thy gate abyde O thou Ierusalem full fayre Which art so seemely set much like a Citie neat The like wherof is not els where verse 4 The tr'lbes with one accord The tribes of God the Lord Are thether bent their way to take So God before did tell That there his Isra●ll Their prayer should together make verse 5 For there are thrones crect And that for this respect To set forth iustice orderly Which thron●s right to maintayne To Dauids house pertayne His folke to iudge accordyngly verse 6 To pray let vs not cease For Ierusalems peace Thy frendes God pro●per mightely verse 7 Peace be thy walles about And prosper thee throughout Thy places eke continually verse 8 I wish thee prosperous state For my poore brethrens sake That comfort haue by meanes of thee verse 9 Gods house doth me allure Thy wealth for to procure So much alwayes as lyeth in me Ad te leuaui Psal. Cxxiii T. S. ¶ Sing this as the xxiij Psalme O Lord that heauens doest posses I lift myne eyes to thee Euen as the seruaunt lifteth his his maisters handes to see verse 2 As handmayds watch their maistres hands some grace for to atchiue So we behold the Lord our God till he do vs forgeue verse 3 Lord graunt vs thy compassion and mercy in thy sight For we be filled and ouercome with hatred and despight verse 4 Our myndes be stuffed with great rebuke the rich and worldly wise Do make of vs their mockyng stocke the proud do vs despise Nisi quia Domi. psal Cxxiiii W. W. NOw Israell may say and that truely If that the Lord had not our cause mainteind If that the Lord had not our right susteind When all the world 〈◊〉 vs furiously made their vprores and sayd we should all dye verse 3 Now long ago they had deuourd vs all And swallowed quicke for ought that we could deeme Such was their rage as we might well esteeme verse 4 And as the floudes with migh●y force do fall So had they now our life euen brought to thrall verse 5 The raging streames most proud in roaring noyce Had long ago ouerwhelmed vs i● the deepe verse 6 But loued be God which doth vs safely keepe From blou●y teeth and their most cruell voyce Which as a pray to eat vs would reioyce verse 7 Euen as the bird out of the foulers grin Escapeth away right so it fareth with vs Broke are their nets and we haue scaped thus verse 8 God that made heauen and earth is our helpe then His name had saued vs from these wicked men Qui confidunt psal Cxxv. W. K. SVch as in God the Lord do trust as moūt Sion shall firmely stand and be remoued at no hand the Lord will count them right and iust So that they shal be sure for euer to endure verse 2 As mighty mountaines huge and great Ierusalem about do close So will the Lord be vnto those Who on his godly will do wayt Such are to him so deare They neuer neede to feare verse 3 For though the righteous try doth he By makyng wicked men his rod Least they through grief forsake their God It shall not as their lot still be verse 4 Geue Lord to those thy light ▪ Whose hartes are true and right verse 5 But as for such as turne aside By crooked wayes which they out sought The Lord will surely ●ryng to nought With workes most v●le they shall abide But peace with Israell For euermore shall dwell An other of the same by R. W. ¶ Sing this as the x. Commaundementes THose that do put their confidence Vpon the Lord our God onely And flee to him for his defence In all their neede and misery Their fayth is sure firme to endure Grounded on Christ the cornerstone Moued with none ill but standeth still Stedfast like to the mount Sion And as about Ierusalem The mighty hilles do it compas ▪ So that no enemies come to them To hurt that towne in any case So God in deede in euery neede His
faythfull people doth defend Standing them by assuredly From this tyme forthworld without end Rightwise and good is our Lord Gods And will not suffer certainly The sinners and vngodlyes rod To tary vpon his family Least they also from God should goe Falling to sinne and wickednes O Lord defend world without end Thy Christian flocke through thy goodnes O Lord do good to Christians all That stedfast in thy word abide Such as willingly from God fall And to false doctrine dayly slide Such will the Lord scatter abroad With hypocrites throwen downe to hell ▪ God will them send paynes without end But Lord graunt peace to Israell Glory to God the Father almight And to the Sonne our Sauior ▪ And to the holy Ghost whose light Shine in our harts and vs succour That the right way from day to day We may walke and him glorifie With hartes desire all that are here Worshyp the Lord and say Amen In con̄uertendo psal Cxxvi. W. K. WHen that the Lord agayne his Syon had forth brought from bondage great and also sernitude ex treme his worke was such as did surmoūt mās hart and thought so that we were much lyke to the that vse to dreame our mouthes word with ●●ughter filled then and eke ou● tounges did shew vs ioyfull men verse 2 The Heathen folke were forced then this to confes How that the Lord for them also great thinges had done verse 3 But much more we and therfore can confes 〈◊〉 lesse Wherfore to ioy we haue good cause as we begon verse 4 O Lord go forth thou canst our bondage end As to desertes the flowing riuers send verse 5 Full true it is that they which fow with teares indeed● A time will come when they shall ●eape in myrth and ioy verse 6 They went and wept in bearing of their precious seede For that their foes full oftentymes did them annoy But their returne with ioy they shall sure see Their sheaues home bryng and not impayred be Nisi dominus psal Cxxvii W. W. ¶ Sing this as the Lordes Prayer EXcept the Lord the house do make And thereunto do 〈◊〉 his hand What men do build it cannot stand Likewise in vayne men vndertake C●ties and holdes to wat●● and ward Except the Lord be their sau●gard verse 2 Though ye rise early in the morne And so at night go late to bed Feedyng full hardly with brown bread ▪ Yet were your labor lost and worne But they whom God doth loue and keepe Receaue all thynges with quyet sleepe verse 3 Therfore marke well when euer ye see That men haue beyres to enioy their land It is the gift of Gods owne hand For God himselfe doth multiply Of his great liberalitie ▪ The blessing of posteritie verse 4 And when the children come to age They grow in strength and 〈◊〉 In person and in comlynes ▪ So that a sh●ft shot with courage Of one that hath a most strong arme Flieth not so swift nor doth like harme verse 5 Oh well is him that hath his quiuer Fornished with such artillery For when in perill 〈…〉 Such one shall neuer shake nor shiuer When that he pl●●deth before the iudge Agaynast his foes which beare him gr●●ge Beati omnes ▪ ps●l Cxxviii T. S. ¶ Sing this as the Cxxxvij Psalme BLessed are thou that fearest God and walkest in his way verse 2 For of thy labour thou shalt cat happy art thou I say verse 3 Like fruitfull vines on thy house side so doth thy wife spri●e out Thy children stand like Oliue plantes thy table round about verse 4 Thus art thou blest that fearest God and he shall let thee see verse 5 The promised Ierusalem and his felicitie verse 6 Thou shalt thy childrens children see to thy great ioyes encrease And likewise grace on Israell prosperitie and peace Saepe expugnauerunt psal Cxxix N. ¶ Sing this as the Cxxxvij Psalms OFt they now Israell may say me from my youth assayled verse 2 Oft they assayled me from my youth yet neuer they preuayled verse 3 Vpon my backe the plowers plowed and surrowes long did cast verse 4 The righteous Lord hath cut the cords of wicked foes at last verse 5 They that hate him shal be shamed and turned backe also verse 6 And made as grasse vpon the house which withereth ere it grow verse 7 Wherof the mower can not finde inough to fill his hand Nor he can fill his lap that goeth to gleane vpon the land verse 8 Nor passers by pray God on them to let his blessing fall Nor say we blesse you in the name of God the Lord at all De profundis Psal. Cxxx. W. W. LOrd to thee I make my moue when daun gers me oppresse I call I sigh playne and grone trusting to find● relesse Heare now O Lord my request for it is full due time And let thine eares aye be prest vnto this prayer myne verse 3 O Lord our God if thou way our sinnes and them peruse Who shall then escape and say I can my selfe excuse verse 4 But Lord thou art mercyfull and turnest to vs thy grace That we with hartes must carefull should scare before thy face verse 5 In God I put my whole trust my soule waytes on his will For his promise is most iust and I hope therein still verse 6 My soule to God hath regard wishyng for him alway More then they that watch and ward to see the dawnyng day verse 7 Let Israell then boldly in the Lord put his trust He is that God of mercy that his deliuer must verse 8 For be it is that must saue Israell from his sinne And all such as surely haue their confidence in him Domine non est Psal. Cxxxi M. ¶ Sing this as the Lamentation O Lord I am not putt in mynde ▪ I haue no scornefull eye● I do not exercise my selfe in thynges that be to bye verse 2 But as the child that wayned is euen from his mothers brest So haue I Lord behaued my selfe in silence and in rest verse 3 O Israell trust in the Lord let him be all thy stay From this tyme forth for euermore from age to age I say Memento Domine psal Cxxxii. M. REmember Dauids troubles Lord how to the Lord he swore and vowd a vow to Iacobs God to keepe for euermore I will not come with in my house nor clime vp to my bed nor let my temples take their rest or the eyes in my head verse 5 Till I haue found out for the Lord a place to fit thereon An house for Iacobs Gods to be an habitation verse 6 We heard of it at Ephrata there did we heare this sound And in the fieldes and forrestes there those voyces first were sound verse 7 We will assay and go in now his tabernacle there Before his footstoole to fall downe vpon our knees in feare verse 8 Arise O Lord arise I say into thy resting place Both thou and the Arke of thy strength the presence of thy
guide And thy right hand shall hold me fast and make me to abide verse 11 Yea if I say the darcknes shall yet shrewd me from thy sight Loe euen also the darckest night about me shall he light verse 12 Yea darcknes hi●eth not from thee the night doth shine as day To thee the darcknes and the light are both a lyke alway The second part verse 13 For thou possessed hast my raynes and thou hast coucred me When I within my mothers wombe enclosed was by thee verse 14 Thee will I prayse made fearefully and wondroufly I am Thy workes are mar●eilous right well my soule doth know the same verse 15 My bones they are not hid from thee although in secret place I haue ben made ▪ and in the earth beneath I shapen was verse 16 When I was sormeles then thine eye saw me sor in thy booke Were written all nought was before that after fashion tooke verse 17 The thoughtes therefore of thee O Lord how deare are they to me And of them all how passing great the endles numbers be verse 18 If I should count them loe their summe more then the sand I see And whensoeuer I awake yet am I still with thee verse 19 The wicked and the bloudy men oh that thou wouldest slay Euen those O God to whome depart depart from me I say verse 20 Euen those of thee O Lord my God that speake full wickedly Those that are lifted vp in vaine being enemies to thee verse 21 Hare I not them that hate thee Lord and that in earnest wise Contend I not agaynst them all agaynst thee that ●rise verse 22 I hate them with vnfained hate euen as mine vtter foes verse 23 Try me O God and know my hart my thoughtes proue and disclose verse 24 Consider Lord if wickednes in me there anybe And in thy way O God my guide for euer lead thou me Eripe Domine Psal. Cxl. N. ¶ Sing this as the Lamentation LOrd saue me from the euill man and from the cruell ●ight Deliuer me which euill doe imagine in the spirite verse 2 Which make on me continuall warre their tongues loe they haue whet verse 3 Lyke Serpentes vnderneath their lips is Adders poyson set verse 4 Keepe me O Lord from wicked handes preserue me to abide Free from the cruell man that meanes to cause my steps to slide verse 5 The proud haue layd a snare for me and they haue spread a net With cordes in my path way and grinnes for me eke haue they set verse 6 Therefore I say vnto the Lord thou art my God alone Heare me O Lord oh heare the voyce wherewith I pray and moue verse 7 O Lord my God thou onely art the strength that saueth me My head in day of battayle hath bene couered by thee verse 8 Let not O Lord the wicked haue the end of this desire Performe not his ill thought least he with pride be set on fire verse 9 Of them that compas me about the chiefest of them all Lord let the mischiefe of their lips vpon them selues befall verse 10 Let coales 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 euil to destruction still shall haunt the cruell wight verse 12 I know the Lord the afflicted will reuenge and iudge the poore verse 13 The inst shall payse thy name iust shall dwell with thee euermore Domine clamaui psal Cxli. N. ¶ Sing this as the 44. Psalme O Lord vpon thee do I call Lord hast thee vnto me And harken Lord vnto my voyce when I do crye to thee verse 2 As insence let my prayers be directed in thine eyes And the vplifting of my handes as euening sacrifice verse 3 My Lord for g●iding of my mouth set thou a watch before And also of my mouing lipes O Lord keepe thou the dore verse 4 That I should wicked workes commit incline thou not my hart With ill men of their delicates Lord let me eate no part verse 5 But let the righteous smite me Lord for that is good for me Let him reproue me ●●d the same a precious oyle shall be Such smiting shall not breake my head the tyme shall shortly fail When I shall in their mise●ye make prayer for them all verse 6 Then when in stony places down● their iudges shall be cast Then shall they heare my wordes for the● they haue a pleasaunt tast verse 7 Our bones about the graues mouth lo● scattered are they found As he that heweth woōd or he that diggeth in the ground verse 8 But O my Lord my God mine eyes do looke vp vnto thee In thee is all my trust let not my soule forsaken be verse 9 Which they haue layd to catch me in Lord keepe me from the snare And from the suttle grinnes of them that wicked worker● are verse 10 The wicked into their owne nets together let them fall While I do by the helpe escape the daunger of them all Voce mea ad Do. Psal. Cxlii. N. ¶ Sing this 〈◊〉 the xlv Psalme BEfore the Lord God with my voyce did I send out my cry And with my strayned voyce vnto the Lord God prayed I. verse 2 My meditation in his fight to poure I did not spare And in the presentes of the Lord my trouble did declare verse 3 Although perplexed was my spirite my path was knowen to thee In way where I did walke a snare they slyly layd for me verse 4 I lookt and wewed on my right hand but none there would me know All refuge sayled me and for my soule none cared tho verse 5 Then cryed I Lord to thee and sayd my hope thou onely art Thou in the land of lyuing art my portion and my part verse 6 Harke to my cry for I am brought full low deliuer me From them that do me persecute for me two strong they be verse 7 That I may prayse thy name my soule from prison Lord bring out When thou art good to me the iust shall prayse me round about Domine exaudi Psal. Cxiiii N. ¶ Sing this as the Cxlv. psalme LOrd heart my prayer harke the plaint that I do make to thee Lord in thy natiue truth and in thy iustice aunswere me verse 2 In iudgement with thy seruaunt Lord. oh enter not at all For iustified be in thy sight not one that liueth shall verse 3 The enemy hath pursued my soule my lyfe to ground hath throwne And layde me in the darke lyke them that dead are long agone verse 4 Within me in perplexitie was my accombred sprite And in me was my troubled hart amased and afflight verse 5 Yet I record tyme past in all thy workes I meditate Yea in thy workes I meditate that thy handes haue create verse 6 To thee O Lord my God loe I do stretch my crauing hands My soule desireth after thee as
do the thirsty landes verse 7 Heare me with speede my sprite doth fayle hide not thy face me fro Els shall I be lyke them that downe into the pit do go verse 8 Let me thy louing kindenes in the morning heare and know For in thee is my truse shew me the way that I shall goe verse 9 For I lift vp my soule to thee O Lord deliuer me From all miue enemies for I haue hidden me with thee verse 10 Teach me to do thy will for thou thou art my God I say Let thy good spirite into the land of mercy me conuey verse 11 For thy name sake with quickening grace aliue do thou me make And out of trouble bring my soule euen for thy instice sake verse 12 And for thy mercy slay my foes O Lord destroy them all That do oppresse my soule for I thy seruaunt am and shall Benedictus Dom. Psal. Cxliiii N. ¶ Sing this as the Cxlv. Psalme BLest ●e the Lord my strength that doth instruct my handes to fight The Lord that doth my fingers frame to battell by his might verse 2 He is my goodnes fort and tower deliuerer and shield In him I trust my people he subdues to me to yelde verse 3 O Lord what thing is man that him thou holdest so in prise Or sonne of man that vpon him thou thinkest in such wise verse 4 Man is but lyke to vanitie so passe his dayes to en● verse 5 As fle●ting shade Bo● downe O Lord thy heauens and descend verse 6 The mountaines touch and they shall smoke cast forth thy lightning flame And scatter them thine arro●es shoote consume them with the same verse 7 Send downe thy hand euen from aboue O Lord deliue me Take me from waters great from hand of straungers make me free verse 8 Whose subtill mouth of va●itie and fondnes doth entreat And their right hand is a right hand of falshode and deceite verse 9 A new song I will sing O God and singing will I be On viole and on instrument ten stringed vnto thee verse 10 Euen he it is that onely genes delineraunce to kinges Vnto his seruaunt Dauid helpe from hurtfull sword he bringes verse 11 From straungers hand me fane and shield whose mouth talkes vanitie And their right hand is a right hand of guile and subtiltie verse 12 That out sonnes may be as the plantes whom growing youth doth reare Our daughters as carued corner stones lyke to a pallace fayre verse 13 Our garners full and plenty may with sundry sortes be found Our sheepe bring thousandes in our streetes ten thousandes may abound verse 14 Our Oxen be to labour strong that none do vs inuade There be no going out no cry within our streetes be made verse 15 The people blessed are that with such blessings are so stord Yea blessed all the people art whose God is God the Lord. Exaltabo te Psal. Cxlv. N. THee will I laud my God and king and blesse thy name for aye for euer will I prayse thy name and blesse thee day by day Great is the Lord most wor thy prayse his greatnes none can reach fro raceto race they shall thy works prayse thy power preach verse 5 I of thy glorious maiestie the beautie will record And meditate vpon thy workes most wonderfull O lord verse 6 And they shall of thy power and of thy fearefull actes declare And I to publish all abroad thy greatnes will not spare verse 7 And they into the mention shall breake of thy goodnes great And I aloud thy righteousnes in singing shall repeat verse 8 The Lord our God is gracious and mercifull also Of great abounding mercy and to anger he is slow verse 9 Yea good to all and all his workes his mercy doth exceede verse 10 Loe all thy workes do prayse the Lord and do thine honor spread verse 11 Thy Saintes do blesse thee and they do thy kingdomes glory shew verse 12 And blase thy power to cause the sonnes of men his power to know verse 13 And of his mightye kingdome eke to spread the glorious prayse Thy kingdome Lord a kingdome is that doth endure alwayes And thy dominion through ech age endures without decay verse 14 The Lord vpholdeth them that fall the slyding he doth stay verse 15 The eyes of all do waite on thee thou doest them all relieue And thou to ech suffising foode in season due doest geue ' verse 16 Thou openest thy plenteous hand and bounteously doest fill All thinges what soeuer doth liue with giftes of thy good will. verse 17 Th● Lord is iust in all his wayes his workes are holy all verse 18 Neare all he is that call on him in ●ruth that on him call verse 19 He the desires which they require that feare him will fulfill And he will heare them when they cry and saue them all he will. verse 20 The Lord preserues all those to him that beare a louing hart But he them all that wicked are will vtterly subuert verse 21 My thankfull mouth shall gladly speake the prayses of the Lorde All flesh to prayse his holy name for euer shall accord Lauda anima Psal. Cxlvi I.H. ¶ Sing this as the Cxxxvij Psalme MY soule prayse thou the Lord alwayes my God I will confes verse 2 While breath and lyse prolong my dayes my tongue no tyme shall cease verse 3 Trust not in worldly Princes then though they abound in wealth Nor in the sonnes of morrall men in whome there is no health verse 4 For why their breath doth sonne depart to earth anon they fall And then the counsells of their hart decay and perish all verse 5 O happy is ●●at man I say whom Iacobs God doth ayde And he whose hope doth not decay but on the Lord is stayd verse 6 Which made the earth and waters deepe the heauens hye withall Which doth his word and promise keepe in truth and ●●er shall verse 7 With right alwayes doth he proceed for such as suffer wrong The poore and hungry he doth feed and lose the fetters strong verse 8 The Lord doth send the blinde their fight ▪ the lame to limmes restore The Lord I say doth loue the right and lust man euermore verse 9 He doth defend the fatherles the straunger sad in hart And quitte the widdow from distresse and ill mens wayes subuert verse 10 Thy Lord and God eternally O Sion still shall raigne In tyme of all posteritic for e●er to remaine Laudate Domino Psal. Cxlvii N. PRayse ye the Lord for it is good vnto our God to sing for it is pleasant to prayse it is a comely thing The Lord his owne Ierusalē he buildeth vp alone the dispe●st of Israel doth gather into one verse 3 He heales the broken in their hart their fore vp doth he binde verse 4 He countes the number of the starres and names them in their kinde verse 5 Great is our Lord great is his power his wisedome infinite verse 6 The
this sinne will smite verse 3 Take not in vaine his holy name Abuse it not after thy will For so thou might soone purchase blame And in his wrath he would thee spill verse 4 The Lord from worke the seneth day ceast And brought all thinges to perfect end So thou and thine that day take rest That to Gods hest●● ye may attend verse 5 Vnto thy parentes honor gene As Godes commaundementes do pretend That thou long dayes and good mayst line In earth where God a place doth lend verse 6 Beware of murder and etuell hate verse 7 All filthy fornication feare verse 8 See thou steale not in any rate verse 9 False witnes agaynst no man beare verse 10 Thy neighboures house wish not to haue His wife or ought that he calles mine His held his Oxe his Asse his ●lant Or any thing which is not thine A Prayer The spirite of grace graunt vs O Lord To keepe these lawes out hartes restore And cause vs all with one accord To magnifie thy name therefore For of our selues no strength we haue To keepe these lawes after thy will Thy might therfore O Christ we craue That we in thee may themm fulfill Lord for thy names sake graunt vs this Thou art our strength our Sauiour Christ Of thee to speede how should we mis In whom our treasure doth consist To thee for euer more be prayse With the Father in ech respect And with thy holy spirite alwayes The comforter of thine elect The Lordes prayer D. Coxe M.iij OVr Father which in heauen art an● makst vs all one brotherhood to call vpon thee with one hart our heauēly Father our God ●●raūt we pray not with lips alone but with thy hart deepe sigh and grone Thy blessed name be sanctified Thy holy worde mought vs inflame In holy lyfe for to abide To magnifie thy holy name From all errours defend and keepe The little flock of thy poore sheepe Thy kingdome come euen at this houre And henceforth euerlastingly Thine holy Ghoft into vs poure With all his giftes most plenteously From Sathans rage and filthy band Defend vs with thy mighty hand Thy will be done with diligence Lyke as in heauen in earth also In trouble graunt vs pacience Thee to obay in wealth and wo Let not flesh bloud or any ill Preuaile agaynst thy holy will. Geue vs this day our dayly bread And all other good giftes of thine Keepe vs from warre and from bloudshed Also from sicknes death and pine That we may lyne in quietnes Without all greedy carefulnes Forgeue vs our offences all Reliene our carefull conscience As we forgene both great and small Which vnto vs haue done offence Prepare vs Lord for to serue thee In perfect loue and vnitye O Lord into temptation Lead vs not when the feend doth rage To withstand his inuasion Geue power and strength to euery age Arme and make strong thy feeble host With fayth and with the holy Ghost O Lord from euill delinct vs The dayes and tymes are daungerous From euerlasting death saue vs And in our last neede comfort vs A blessed end to vs bequeth Into thy handes our soule receiue For thou O Lord art king of kinges And thou hast power ouer all Thy glory shineth in all thinges In the wide world vniuersall Amen let it be done O Lord That we haue prayde with one accord The xii Articles of Christian fayth ALl my beliefe and con●idence is in the Lord of might The father which all thinges hath made the day and eke the night the heauens and the fir mament and also many a star the earth and all that is therein which passe mans reason far And in lyke manner I beleue in Christ our Lord his sonne Coequall with the deitie and man in flesh and bone Conceiued by the holy Ghost his word doth me assure And of his mother Mary borne yet she a Virgine pure Because mankinde to Sathan was for sin in bond and thrall He came and offered vp himselfe to death to saue vs all And suffering most greuous payne then Pilate being iudge Was crucified on the crosse and thereat did not grutch And so he dyed in the flesh but quickened in the spirite His body then was buryed as is our vse and right His spirite did after this descend into the lower partes To them that long in darcknes were the true light of their hartes And in the third day of his death he rose to lyfe agayne To th end he might be glorified out of all griefe and payne Ascending to the heauens bye to sit in glory still On Gods right hand his father deare according to his will. Vntill the day of iudgement come when he shall come agayne With Aungels power yet of that day we all be vncertayne To iudge all people righteously whome he hath dearely bought The liuing and the dead also which he hath made of nought And in the holy spirite of God my fayth to satisfie The third person 〈◊〉 Trinitie beleue I sted fastly ▪ The holy and Catholick Church that Gods word doth 〈…〉 ▪ And holy Scripture doth alow which Sathan doth disdayne And also I do trust to haue by Iesu Christ his death Release and pardon for my sinnes and that onely by fayth What tyme all flesh shall rise agayne before the Lord of might And see him with their bodely eyes which now do geue them light And then shall Christ our Sauiour the sheepe and Goates deuides And geue life euerlastingly to those whome be hath tride Which is his realme celestiall in glory for to rest With all the holy company of Saintes and Angels blest Which serue the Lord omnipotent obediently ech houre To whome be all dominion and prayse for euermore ¶ A prayer to the holy Ghost to be song before the Sermon ¶ Sing this as the Cxix Psalme COme holy spirite the God of might comforter of vs all Teach vs to know thy word aright that we do neuer fall O holy Ghost visite our coast defend vs with thy shied Agaynst all sinne and wickednes Lord helpe vs winne the field Lord keepe our Queene and her Counsel and geue them will and might To perseuer in the Gospell which can put sinne to flight O Lord that geuest thy holy word send preachers plenteously That in the same we may accord and therein liue and dye O holy spirite direct a right the preachers of thy word That thou by them mayest cut downe sinne as it were with a sword Depart not from those Pastors pure but ayde them at all neede Which breake to vs the bread of lyfe whereon our soules do feede O blessed sprite of truth keepe vs in peace and vnitie Keepe vs from sectes and errours all and from all Papistrie Conuert all those that are our foes and bring them to thy light That they and we may well agree and prayse thee day and night O Lord increase our faith in vs and loue for to abound● That man and wife be
voyde of strife and neighbours about vs round In our time geue thy peace O Lord to nations farre and nye And touch them all thy holy word that we may sing to thee All 〈…〉 the Ternitie that is of might 〈◊〉 most 〈…〉 and the Sonne and eke the holy Ghost As it hath bene In all the tyme that hath bene here to lore As it is now and so shall be hence forth for euermore ¶ Da Pacem Domine G. GEue peace in these our dayes O Lord great daungers are now at hand thyne enemyes with one accord Christes name is euery land seeke to de face roote out and race Thy true right worshyp in deede Be thou the stay Lord we thee pray thou helpest alone in all neede Geue vs that peace which we do lacke Through misbelie sand ill life Thy word to offer thou doest not slacke Which we vnkindly gainstriue With fire and sword This healthfull word Some persecute and oppresse Some with the 〈◊〉 Coufesse the truth Without sincere godlynesse Geue peace and vs thy spirite downe send With grief and repe●ts once true Do pearce our hartes our liues to amend And by fayth in Christ renue That feare and dread Warre and bloustshed Through thy sweete mercy and grace May from vs slyde Thy truth abide And shyne in euery place ¶ The Lamentation O Lord in thee is all my trust geue eare vnto ●y wofull cry Refuse me not that am vn iust but bowing downe thy heauenly eye Behold how I do still lament my sinnes wherein I do of fend O Lord for them shall I be sheat Sith thee to please I do intend No no not so thy will is bent to deale with sinners in thine ire But when in hart they shall repent thou grauntest with speede their iust desir● To the● therfore still shall I cry to wash away my sinfull crime Thy bloud O Lord is not yet dry but that it may helpe in tyme. East thee O Lord hast thee I say to poure on me the giftes of grace That when this life must fi lt away in heauen with thee I may haue place Where thou doest raigne eternally with God which once did downe thee send Where Aungel● sing continually to thee be prayse world without end ¶ A thank of geuyng after the receauyng of the Lordes Supper ¶ Sing this as the Cxxxvij Psalme THe Lord be thanked for his giftes and mercies euermore That he doth shew vnto his Saintes to him be laud therfore Our toung●● can not so prayse the Lord as he doth right des●rne ▪ Our hartes can not of him so thinke as he doth vs preserue His benefites they be so great to vs that be but sinne That at our handes for recompenc● there is no hope to win O sinfull flesh that thou shouldst haue such mercies of the Lord Thou doest des●rue more worthely of him to be abbo●d Nought els but sinne and wretche does doth rest within our hartes And stubburnly agaynst the Lord we dayly play our partes The Sonne aboue in firmament that is to vs a light Doth shew it selfe more cleare and pure then we be in his sight The heauens aboue and all therein more holy are then wee They serue the Lord in their estate eche one in his degree They do not striue for master shy●● nor ●lacke their offic● let But feare the Lord and do his will hate is to them no let Also the earth and all therein of God it is in awe It doth obserue the formers will by skilfull natures law The Sea and all that therein is doth bend when God doth beck● The sprites beneath do tremble all and feare his wrathfull che●ke But we alas for whom all these were made them for to rule Do not so know or loue the Lord as doth the Oxe or Mule A law he gaue for vs to know what was his holy will He would vs good but we will not auoyde the thyng is ill Not one of vs that seeketh out the Lord of life to please Nor do the thing that might vs ioyne to Christ and quiet ease Thus we are all his enemies we can it do not deny And he agayne of his good will would not that we should dye Therfore when remedy was none to bring vs vnto life The sonne of God our flesh he tooke to end our mortall strife And all the law of God the Lord he did it full obey And for our sinnes vpon the crosse his bloud our dets did pay And that we should not yet forget what good he to vs wrought A ●igne be left our eyes to tell that he our bodies bought In bread and wine here visible vnto thine eyes and tast His mercies great thou mayest record if that his spirite thou hast As once the corne did liue and grow and was cut downe with fithe And threshed out with many stripes out of his buskes to driue And as the myll with violence did teare it ou● so small And made it like to earthly dust not sparing it at all And as the ouen with fire hot did close it vp in heat And all this done that I haue sayd that it should be our meat So was the Lord in his ripe age cut downe with cruell death His soule he gaue in tormentes great and yelded vp his breath Because that he to vs might be an euerlastyng bread With much reproch and trouble great on earth his lyfe he led And as the grapes in pleasaunt tyme are pressed very sore And 〈…〉 nor let to grow no m●● Because the iuyse that in them 〈◊〉 as comfortable drinke We might receiue and ioyfull be when sorrowes makes vs shrink● So Christes bloud out pressed was with nayles and eke with speare The i●yce wherof doth saue all those that rightly do him feare And as the cornes by vnitie into one loafe is knit So is the Lord and his whole Church though he in heauen fit As many grapes make but one wyne so should we be but one In fayth and loue in Christ aboue and vnto Christ alone Leadyng a life without all strife in quiet rest and peace From enuy and from malice both our hartes and tounges to cease Which if we do then shall we shew that we his chosen bee By fayth in him to lead a life as alwayes willed bee And that we may so do in dead God send vs all his grace Th●● after death we shall be sure with him to haue a place R. W. PR●serue vs Lord by thy deare word From Turke and Pope defend vs lord Which both would thrust out of his throne Our Lord Iesus Christ thy deare sonne Lord Iesus Christ shew forth thy might That thou art Lord of Lordes by right Thy poore assisted stocke defend That they may prayse thee without end God holy Ghost our comfortou● Be our patron helpe and succour Geue vs one myn●e and perfect peace All giftes of grace in vs increase Thou liuing God i● persons three Thy name be praysed in vnitie In all our
the night for man to rest in as thou hast ordained him the day to trauell graunt O dear● Father that we may so take our bodely rest that our soules may continually watch for the tyme that our Lord Iesus Christ shall appeare for our deliueraunce out of this mortall life and in the meane season that we not ouercomen by any fantasies dreames or other temptations may fully set our myndes vpon thee loue thee feare thee and rest in thee furthermore that our sleepe be not excessiue or ouermuch after the insatiable desires of our fleshe but onely sufficient to content our weake nature that we may be better disposed to liue in all Godly conuersation to the gl●ry of thy holy name and profite of our brethren S● be it ¶ A Godly prayer to be sayd at all tymes HOnor and prayse be genen to thee O Lord God almighty most deare Father of heauen for all thy mercies and louyng kindenesse shewed vnto vs in that it hath pleased thy gratious goodnes freely and of thine owne accord to elect and chose vs to saluation before the begynning of the world and euen like continuall thankes be geuen to thee for creating vs after thine owne Image for redeemyng vs with the precious bloud of thy deare sonne when we were vtterly lost for sanctif●ing vs with thy holy sprit in the reuelation and knowledge of thy word for helping and succouryng vs in all our needes and necessities for sauyng vs from all daungers of body and soule for comfortyng vs so fatherly in all our tribulations and persecutions for sparyng vs so long and geuing vs so large a tyme of repentaunce These benefites O most mercifull Father lyke as we knowledge to haue r●ceiued them of thy onely goodnesse euen so we beseeche thee for thy deare sonne Iesus Christes sake to graunt vs alwayes thy holy sprite whereby we may continually grow in thankefulnes towardes thee to be led into all truth and comforted in all our aduersities O Lord strengthen our fayth kindle it more in 〈◊〉 and loue towardes thee and our neighbours for thy sake Suffer vs not most deare Father to receiue thy worde any more in vayne but graunt vs alwayes the assistance of thy grace and holy spirite that in hart word and deede we may sanctifie and do worshyp to thy name Helpe to amplifie and increase thy kingdome and what soeuer thou sendest we may be hartely well content with thy good pleasure and will Let vs not lacke the thing O Father without the which we can not serue thee but blesse thou so all the workes of our handes that we may haue sufficient and not to be chargeable but rather helpefull vnto others be mercy full O Lord to our offences and seyng our det is great whiche thou hast forgeuen vs in Iesus Christ make vs to loue thee and our neighbours so much the more Be thou our Father our Captaine and defender in all temptations hold thou vs by thy mercyfull hand that we may be eliuered from all inconuenienees and end our lyues in the sanctifing and honour of thy holy name through Iesu Christ our Lord and onely 〈…〉 Let thy mighty hand and out 〈…〉 Lord he still out defence thy mercy and 〈◊〉 kind nesse in Iesu Christ thy deare sonne our saluation thy true and holy word our instruction thy grace and holy spirite our comfort and consolation vnto the end and in the end So be it O Lord encrease our fayth ¶ A confession of all estates at all tymes O Eternall God and most mercifull Father we confesse and acknowledge here before thy diuine mai●stie that we are miserable sinners conceiued and borne in sinne and iniquitie so that in vs there is no goodnes For the flesh euermore rebelleth agaynst the spirite whereby we continually transgresse thy holy Preceptes and commaundementes and so purchase to our selues through 〈◊〉 iust iudgement death and damnation Notwithstandyng O heauenly Father for asmuch a● we are displeased with our selues for the sinnes that we haue comitted agaynst thee and do vnfaynedly repent vs of the same we most humbly beseech thee for Iesus Christes sake to shew thy mercy on vs to forgeue vs all our sinnes and to increase thy holy spirite in vs that we acknowledgyng from the bottome of our hartes our owne righteousnesse may from hence forth not onely mortifie our sinnefull lustes and affections but also bryng forth such fruites as may be agreable to thy most blessed will not for the worthynesse thereof but for the merites of thy dearely beloued sonne Iesus Christ our onely Sauiour whom thou hast already geuen an oblation and offeryng for our sinnes and for whose sake we are certainely perswaded that thou wilt deny vs nothyng that we shall aske in his name according to thy will. For thy spirite doth assure our consciences that thou art our mercifull Father 〈◊〉 so lowest vs thy children through him that nothyng is 〈…〉 thy heauenly grace and fauour from vs to thee therefore O Father with the sonne and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end So be it ¶ A prayer to be sayd before a man begyn his worke O Lord God most mercyfull Father and Sauiour seing it hath pleased thee to commaund vs to trauell that we may relieue our neede we beseech thee of thy grace so to blesse our labor that thy blessing may extend vnto vs without the which we are not able to continue and that this great fauour may be a witnes vnto vs of thy bonntyfulnesse and assistaunce so that thereby we may know the fatherly care that thou hast ouer vs Moreuer O Lord we beseech th●e that thou wouldest strengthen vs with thyne holy spirite that we may faithfully trauell in our estate and vocation without fraud or deceit that we may endeuour our selues to follow thine holy ordinaunce rather then to seeke to satisfie our greedy affections or desire to gayne And if it please the● O Lord to prosper our labour geue vs a mynde also to helpe them that haue neede according to that abilitie that thou of thy mercy shalt geue vs and knowing that all good thinges come of thee graunt that we may humble our selues to our neighbours and not by any meanes lift our sel●●● vp aboue them which haue not receaued so large a portion as of thy mercy thou hast geuen vs And if it please thee to try and exercise vs by greater pouertie neede the our flesh would desire that thou wouldest yet O Lord graū vs grace to know that thou wilt nourish vs cōtinually through thy bountifull liberalitie that we be not so tempted that we fall into distrust but that we may paciently way● till 〈…〉 ●on to rest vpon thy mercie● Heare vs O Lord of 〈◊〉 through Iesus Christ thy sonn● our Lord Amen A Prayer for the whole state of Christes Church ALmighty God and most mercifull father we humbly submit our selues fall downe before thy maiestie beseeching thee from the
his sword is not so cruell but the Byshop of Rome on the other side is more fierce and bitter agaynst vs styrryng vp his Byshops to burne vs his confederates to conspire our destruction settyng Kynges agaynst their subiectes and subiectes 〈◊〉 to rebell agaynst their Princes and all for thy na● 〈◊〉 Such dissension and hostilitie Sathan hath set amonge it vs that Turkes be not more enemyes to Christians then Christians to Christians Papistes to Protestantes yea Protestātes with Protestantes do not agree but fall out for trifles So that the poore litle flocke of thy Church distressed on euery side hath neither rest without nor peace within not place almost in the world where to abyde but may cry now from the earth euen as thyne own reuerence cryed once from thy Crosse My God My God why hast thou forsaken me Amongest vs English men here in England after so great stormes of persecution and cruell murther of so many Martyrs it hath pleased thy grace to gene vs these Al●toa dayes which yet we enioye and beseech thy mercyfull goodnesse still they may continue But here also alacke what should we say So many enemyes we haue that e●●ie vs this rest and trauquillitie and doe what they can to disturbe it They which be frendes and louers of the Byshop of Rome although they eate the fatte of the land and haue the best prefermentes and offices and liue most at ease and ayle nothyng yet are they not therewith content They grudge they mutter and murmure they conspire and take on agaynst vs It fretteth them that we liue by them or with them and can not abyde that we should draw the bare breathyng of the ayre when they haue all the most libertie of the land And albeit thy singular goodnes hath geue● them a Queene so calme so pacie●● so mercyfull more like a naturall mother then a Princes to gouerne ouer them such ●s neither they nor thei● a●nciters e●er read of in the stories of this land before yet all this will not calme them their vnquiet spi●ite is not ye● 〈◊〉 they repine and rebell and needes would haue with the Frogges of E●ope a Ciconia au Italian straunger the Byshop of Rome to play Rex ouer them and ca●e not if all the world were set on fire so they with their Italian Lord might reigne alone So fond are we English men of straunge and forrein thynges so vnnaturall to our selues so greedy of new fangle nouelties neuer contented wit● any state long to continue be it neuer so good and furthermore so cruell one to an othe● that we thinke our life not quyet vnlesse it be seasoned with the bloud of other For that is their hope that is all their gapyng and lookyng that is their golden day their day of Iubiley which they thyrst for somuch not to haue the Lord to come in the cloudes but to haue our bloud and to spill our lyues That that is it which they would haue and lōg since would haue had their willes vpon vs had not thy gracious pitie and mercy raysed vp to vs this our mercyfull Queene thy seruaunt ELIZABETH somewhat to stay their furie For whom as we most condig●ely geue thee most hartie thankes so likewise we beseech thy heauenly Maiestie that as thou hast geuen her vnto vs and hast from so manifold daungers preserued her before she was Queene so now in her Royall estate she may continually be preserued not onely from their handes but from all malignant deuises wrought attempted or conceaued of enemyes both ghostly and bodely agaynst her In this her gouernement be her gouerner we beseeth thee So shall her Maiestie well gouerne vs if first she be gouerned by thee Multiply her reigne with many dayes and her yeares with much fel●citie with aboundaunce of peace and life ghostly That as she hath now doubled the yeares of her sister and brother so if it be thy pleasure she may ouer 〈…〉 And because no gouernement can long 〈◊〉 without good Counsell neither can any Counsell be good except it be prospered by thee blesse therefore we beseech thee both her Maiestie and her honorable Counsell that both they rightly may vnderstand what is to be done and she accordyngly may accomplish that they do Counsell to thy glory and furtheraunce of thy Gospell and publicke wealth of this Realme Furthermore we beseech thee Lord Iesu who with the Maiestie of thy generation doest drowne all Nobilitie beyng the onely sonne of God heyre and Lord of all thynges blesse the Nobilitie of this Realme and of other Christen Realmes so as they Christianly agreeing among them selues may submit their Nobilitie to serue thee or els let them feele O Lord what a friuolous thyng is that Nobilitie which is without the● Likewise to all Magistrates such as be aduaunced to authoritie or placed in office by what name or title soeuer geue we beseech thee a carefull conscience vprightly to discharge their dutie that as they by publicke persons to serue the common wealth so they abuse not their office to their private gayne nor priuate reuenge of their owne affections but that iustice beyng administred without bribery and equitie balanced without crueltie or partialitie thynges that be amisse may be reformed vice abandoned truth supported innocencie relieued Gods glory mainteined and the cōmon wealth truly serued But especially to thy spirituall Ministers Byshops and Pastours of thy Church graunt we beseech thee O Lord Prince of all pasto●● that they folowyng the steppes of thee of thy Apostles and holy Martyrs may seeke those thynges which be not their 〈◊〉 but onely which be thyne not caryng how many benefices nor what great Byshopprikes they haue 〈◊〉 well they can guide those they haue Geue them such ●eale of thy Church as may deuoure them and graunt them such salt wherewith the whole people may be seasoned and which may neuer be vnsauery but quicken dayly by thy holy spirite whereby thy flocke by them may be preserued In generall geue to all the people ▪ and the whole state of this Realme such brotherly 〈◊〉 in knowledge of thy truth and such obedience their Superiours as they neither prouoke the scourge of God 〈◊〉 them nor their Princes sword to be 〈◊〉 against her will out of the scaberd of long sufferennce where it hath bene long hyd Especially geue thy Gospell long continaunce amongest vs And if 〈…〉 the contrary graunt we beseech thee with an earnest repentaunce of that which is past to ioyne ●●arty purpose of amendement to come And forasmuch as the Byshop of Rome is wont on euery Good friday to accurse v● as damned her 〈…〉 we here curse not him but pray for him that he with all his partakers either may be turned to a better truth or els we pray thee gracious Lord that we neuer agree with him in doctrine and that he may so 〈◊〉 vs still and neuer blesse vs more as hee blessed vs in Queene Maryes tyme God of his mercy keepe away
that blessing from vs. Finally in stead of the Popes Blessing geue vs thy blessing Lord we besee●● thee and conser●e the peace of thy Church and course of thy blessed Gospell Help● them-that be needy and afflicted Comfort them that labour and be heauy laden And aboue all thynges continue and increase our fayth And for asmuch as thy poore little flocke can fearse haue any place or rest in this world come Lord we beseech thee with thy Factum est and make an end that this worlde may haue no more tyme nor place here and that thy Church may haue rest for euer Our Father which art in heauen c. A Prayer agaynst the deuill and his manifold temptations made by S. Augustine THere wanted a tempter and thou wa●● the cause that he was wantyng there wanted tyme and place and thou 〈◊〉 the cause that they wanted The tempter was present and there wanted neither place nor time but thou beldst me backe that I should not consent The tempter came full of darkenesse as he is and thou didst harten me that I might despise him The tempter came armed and strongly but to the intent he should not ouercome me thou did dest restraine him and strengthen me The tempter came transformed into an aungell of light and to the intent he should not deceaue me thou diddest rebuke him and to the intent I should know him tho● diddest inlighten me For he is that great red dragon the old Se●pent called the Deuill and Sathan which hath seuen heades and ten bornes whom thou hast created to take his pleasure in this ho●g● and broad sea wherein there creepe liuing wightes innumerable and beastes great and small that is to say diuers sortes of feendes which practise nothyng els day 〈◊〉 night but to go about seekyng whō they may deuour except thou rescue him O Lord Iesus For it is that old dragō which was bread in the paradise of pleasure which draweth downe the thyrd part of the Starres of heauen with his tayle and castes them to the ground which with his ve●● poysoneth the waters of the earth that as many mē as drinke of them may dye which trampleth vpon gold as if it were mire and 〈◊〉 of opinion that Iordan shall shall runne into his mouth and which is made of such a mould as he feareth no man. And who shall saue vs from his chappes O Lord Iesus Who shall plucke vs out of his mouth sauyng thou O Lord who hast broken the heades of the great Dragon Helpe vs lord Spread out thy wynges ouer vs O Lord that we may flee vnder them from the face of this Dragon that pursueth vs and fence thou vs frō his hornes with thy shield For this is his continuall indeuour this is his onely desire to deuour the soules which thou hast created And therfore we cry vnto thee our God deliuer vs from our dayly aduersary who whether we sleepe or wake whether we eate or drinke or whether we be doyng of any thyng els presseth vpon vs by all kynde of meanes assaultyng vs day night with traynes and policies and shooting his venemous arrowes at vs sometyme openly ▪ and sometyme priuily to sles our soules And yet such is our great madnesse O Lord in that whereas we see the Dragon cōtinually in a readynes to deuout vs with open mouth we neuertheles do sleepe and ryot in our owne slouthfulnes as though we were out of his daunger who desiteth nothyng els but to de●rey vs Our mischieuous enemy ▪ to the intent to kill vs watcheth continually and neuer sleepeth and yet will not we wake from sleepe to save our selues 〈◊〉 he hath pitched infinite 〈…〉 our seeke and ●●lled all our wayes with 〈…〉 to catch oursoules And who can escape 〈…〉 so many and so great daungers He hath Iesu for vs in our riches in our pouertie in ou● 〈…〉 in our pleasures in our sleepe and in 〈…〉 set snares for vs in our word 〈…〉 all our life But thou O Love 〈…〉 of the soulers and 〈…〉 geue prayse to 〈…〉 Lord who hath 〈…〉 pray for their teeth 〈…〉 as sparrow 〈…〉 net the net 〈…〉 and we 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Psalmes and also in what leafe you may finde euery of them Psalme Folio A. 30 ALl la●d and prayse 14 46 All people harken 24 78 Attend my people to my 41 82 Amid the prease with me● 45 100 All people that on 54 B. 81 BE light and glad in God 44 119 Blessed are they that perfect 66 128 Blessed art thou that 74 134 Behold and haue regard 76 142 Before the Lord God. 80 144 Blest be the Lord my 81 D. 83 DO not O God refrayne 45 E. 127 EXcept the Lord the. 74 G. 29 GEue to the Lord ye 13 37 Grudge not to see the. 18 48 Great is the Lord and. 24 54 God saue me for thy 28 105 Geue prayses vnto God. 58 107 Geue thankes vnto the Lord. 61 148 Geue land vnto the Lord. 83 H. 12 HElpe Lord for good and. 5 13 How long wilt thou forget 5 51 Haue mercy on me 27 56 Haue mercy Lord on 29 67 Haue mercy on 34 73 How euer it be yet God. 38 84 How pleasaunt is thy 46 91 He that within the secret 50 J. 5 INcline thine eares vnto 2 11 I trust in God how dare 5 20 In trouble and aduersitie 9 25 I lift mine hart to thee 11 34 I will geue laud and. 16 39 I sayd I will looke to my 20 40 I wayted long and sought 20 43 Iudge and reuenge my 22 77 I with my voyce to God. 41 91 It is a thing both good 51 101 In God the Lord be glad 54 101 I mercy will and iudgement 54 809 In speachles silence do not 62 116 I loue the Lord because 65 120 In trouble and in thrall 72 121 I lift mine ●yes to Sion 72 122 I did in hart reioyce to 72 L. 6 LOrd in thy wrath reproue 3 16 Lord keep● 〈…〉 for I trust 6 26 Lord be my 〈…〉 12 3● Lord pleade 〈…〉 agaynst 26 42 Lyke as the hart doth breath 21 68 Let God arise and then his 34 72 Lord geue thy iudgementes 38 80 Lord how thine eares to 47 88 Lord God of health the. 48 130 Lord to thee I make my 75 140 Lord saue me from the. 80 143 Lord heare my prayer 8● M 23 MY shepheard is the liuing 11 45 My hart doth take in 22 62 My soule to God shall geue 32 71 My Lord my God in all 37 103 My soule geue land vnto 56 104 My soule prayse the Lord. 56 143 My soule prayse thou the. 82 N. 115 NOt vnto vs Lord not 65 124 Now Israell may say 73 O. 3 O Lord how are my foes 2 4 O God that art my 2 7 O Lord my God I put 3 8 O God our Lord bow 3 15 O Lord within thy tabernacle 6 17 O Lord geue care to my 6 18 O God my strength and. 7 21 O Lord how
plague I can them not withstand I faynt and pine away for feare of thy most heauy hand verse 12 When thou for sinne doest man rebuke he waxeth woe and wan As doth a cloth that mothes haue 〈◊〉 ▪ so vayne a thing is man. verse 13 Lord heare my sute and geue good 〈◊〉 regard my teares that fall I soiourne like a stranger here as did my fathers all verse 14 Oh spare a little geue me space my strength for to restore Before I go away from hence and shall be sene no more Expectans expectaui psal xl I.H. ¶ Sing this as the xxxv Psalme I Wayted long and sought the Lord and patiently did bearer At length to me he did 〈◊〉 my voyce and cry to 〈◊〉 verse 2 He pluck● me 〈…〉 for deep● out of the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 And on a rocke he set my feet and he did 〈◊〉 my way verse 3 To the be taught a 〈…〉 which I must shew abroad ▪ And sing new 〈◊〉 of thankes alwayes vnto the Lord our God. verse 4 When all the fol●● 〈…〉 shall 〈◊〉 as people much afrayd●● Then they vnto the Lord will flee and trust vpon his 〈◊〉 ▪ verse 5 Oh blest is he whose hop● and 〈…〉 doth in the Lord remayne● That with the 〈◊〉 doth take no part nor such as lye and fayn● verse 6 For Lord my God thy wondr●● deedes in greatnes farre do passe ▪ Thy fauour toward y● exceedth all thinges that 〈◊〉 was verse 7 When I 〈◊〉 and do 〈◊〉 thy workes abroad 〈…〉 To such a reck●●● they 〈…〉 therof no 〈◊〉 I know verse 8 ●urnt offringes thou delight●● 〈◊〉 I know thy whole 〈◊〉 With sacrifice to purge his 〈◊〉 thou doest no man 〈◊〉 verse 9 Meat offering and fact 〈◊〉 thou wouldst not haue ●t all But thou O Lord hast open made myne eares to ●eare withall verse 10 But then fayd I behold and looke I come a meane to be For in the volume of thy book● thus it is sayd of me verse 11 That I O God should do thy mynde which thing doth like me well For in my hart thy law I finde fast placed thereto dwell verse 12 Thy ius●ice and thy righteousnes in great resortes I tell Behold my tongue no time doth cease O Lord thou knowest full well The second part verse 13 I haue not hid within my brest thy goodnes as by ●ealth But I declare and haue exprest thy truth and sauing health verse 14 I kept not close thy louyng mynde that no man should it know The trust that in thy truth I finde to all the Church I shew For I wi●● mischiefes many one am sore beset about My sinnes increase and so come on I cannot spy them out verse 15 For why in number they exceed ▪ the heares vpon my head My hart doth faint for very drede that I almost am dead verse 16 With speede send helpe and set me free O Lord I thee require Make hast with ayde to succour me O Lord at my desire verse 17 Let them sustai●● rebul●● and shime that seeke my foule to spill Driue backe my fo●● and them res●m● that wishe and wo●li●●●e ill verse 18 For their ill feates do them descry that would deface my name Al ●ayes at me th●● rayle and cry fye on him fye for Thame verse 19 Let them in thee haue ioy and wealth that seeke to the alwayes That those that loue thy 〈…〉 may say to God be prayse verse 20 But as for me I am but poo●e opprest and brought full low Yet thou O Lord wait me restore to health full well I know verse 21 ●or why thou art my hope and trust my refuge helpe and stay Wherfore my God as thou art iust with me no tyme delay Beat●s qui intelligit psal xli T. S. ¶ Sing this as the xxxv Psalme THe man is blest that carefull is the needy to consider For in the season perilous the Lord will him deli●cr verse 2 The Lord will make him safe and sound and happy in the laud And he will not deliuer him into his enemies hand verse 3 And in his bed when he lyeth sicke the Lord will him restore And thou O Lord wilt turne to bealth his sicknes and his sore verse 4 Then in my sicknes thus say I haue mercy Lord on ●●ee And heale my soule which is full woe that I offended thee verse 5 Mine enemies wished me ill in hart and thus of me did say When shall he dye that all his name may vanish quite away verse 6 And when they come to visite me they aske i● I do well But in their hartes mischief they hatch and to their mates it tell verse 7 They byte their lyps and whisper so as though they would me charme And cast their fetches how to trap me with some mortall harme verse 8 Some greuous sinne hath brought him to ▪ this sicknes say they playne He is so low that without doubt rise can he not agayne verse 9 The man also that I did trust with me did vse deceit Who at my table eate my bread the same for me layd wayte verse 10 Haue mercy Lord on me therfore and let me be preferned That I may render vnto them the thinges they haue deserued verse 11 By this I know assuredly to be beloued of thee When that mine enemies haue no cause to triumphe ouer me verse 12 But in my right thou hast me kep● ▪ and maintay●● alway And in thy presence place assignd● whe●e I shall dwell for aye verse 13 The Lo●d the God of Israel ▪ by pray se● 〈◊〉 Euen so be it Lord will I say ▪ euen so be it therfore Quemadmodum Psal. xlij I. H. ¶ Sing this as the xxxv Psalme LIke as the hart doth 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 the well springe● to 〈◊〉 So doth my idale 〈…〉 with the Lord 〈…〉 verse 2 My ●odle d●th thirst and 〈…〉 the liuing God of 〈◊〉 Oh when shall I come and appeare in presence of his sight verse 3 The teat●●aall 〈…〉 repast which from myne ●yes do l●yde● When wicked men cry out so fait where now is God thy golde verse 4 Alas what grief is it to thinke what freedome once I had Therfore my soule as 〈…〉 b●inke is most heauy and sad When I did march in good a●ay furnished with my trayne● Vnto the temple was our way with songes add har●es most s●yne verse 5 My soule why art thou sad alwayes and frearst thus in my bre●●● Trust still in God for him to prayse I bold●● euer best By him haue I succo●● at neede agaynst all payne and grief He is my God which with all speede will hast to 〈◊〉 relief verse 6 And this my soule within me Lord doth faynt to thinke vpon The land of Iordan and record the little Hill Hermon verse 7 One grief an other in doth call as cloudes burst on t their voyce The floudes of euill that do fall runne ouer she with 〈◊〉 verse 8 Yet I by day felt his goodnes and
helpe at all assayes Likewise by night I did not cease the liuing God to prayse verse 9 I am perswaded thus to say to him with pure pretence O Lord thou art my guide and stay my rocke and my defence Why do I then in pen sin ene● hanging the head thus walke While that mine enemies me oppres and vexe me with their talke verse 10 For why'they pearse myne inward partes with panges to be ●bhord ▪ When they cry out with stubburne hartes where is thy God thy Lord verse 11 So soone why doost thou faint and quayle my soule with payne opprest With thoughtes why doost thy selfe assayle so fore within my bre●● ▪ verse 12 Trust in th● Lord thy God alwayes ▪ and thou the tyme shalt se● To geue him thankes with●●●● and prayse for health restord to thee Iudica me Domine psal xliii T. S. ¶ Sing this as the xxxv Psalme IVdge and reuenge my cause O Lord from them that euill be From wicked and deceitfull men O Lord deliuer me verse 2 For of my strength thou art the God why putst thou mee thee fr● And why walke I so heauely oppressed with my s●ct verse 3 Send out thy light and eke thy truth and lead me with thy grace Which may conduct me to thy hill and to thy dwelling place verse 4 Then shall I to the altar goe of God my ioy had cheare And on my harpe geue thankes to thee O God my God most deare verse 5 Why art thou then so sad my soule and freust thus in my brest Still trust in God for him to prayse I hold it alwayes best By him I haue deliueraunce agaynst all paynes and grief He is my God which doth alwayes at neede send me relief Deus auribus psal xliiii T. S. OVr cares haue heard our fathers tell and re●e rently record the wondrous workes that thou hast done in alder time O lord How thou didst cast the Gētils out stroydst thē with strōg hād plāting our fathers in their place and gauest to them their land verse 3 They conquered not by sword nor strength the land of thy behest But by thy hand thy arme and grace because thou louedst them best verse 4 Thou art my king O God that hōlp● Iacob in sundry wise verse 5 Led with thy power we threw downe such as did agaynst vs rise verse 6 I trusted not in bow nesword they could not saue me sound verse 7 Thou keptst vs from our enemies rage thou didst our foes confound verse 8 And still we boast of thee our God and prayse thy holy name verse 9 Yet now thou go●st not with our ●●st but leauest vs to shame verse 10 Thou madest vs ●lee before our foes and so were ou●rtrode Our enemies robd and spoyled our goodes when we were spar● a●●●de verse 11 Thou hast vs geuen to o● foes as sheepe for to be slayn● Amongest the Heathen euery where scattered we do rema●us verse 12 Thy people thou hast sold lyke slaues and as a thing of noughe For profite none thou hadst thereby no gayne at all was sought verse 13 And to our neighbours tho● hast made of vs a laughing stocke● And those that round about vs dwell at vs do grinne 〈…〉 The second part verse 14 Thus we s●r●e for none other vse but for a common talke They mocke they scorne and nod their heds where euer they go or walke verse 15 I am a shamed continually to heare the●e wicked them Yea so I blush that all my face with red is couered then verse 16 For why'we heare such slaunderous wordes such false reportes and lyes That death it is to see their wronges their threatninges and their crves ▪ verse 17 For all this we forget not thee nor yet thy couenaunt breake verse 18 We turne not backe ou● hartes from thee nor yet thy pathes forsake verse 19 Yet thou hast trod vs downe to dust where de●nes of dragons be And couered vs with shade of death and great aduersiue verse 20 If we had our Gods name forgot and helpe of Idols sought verse 21 Would not God then haue ●ride this ou● for he doth knew our thought verse 22 Nay nay for thy names sake O Lord alwayes are we slayne thus As sheepe vnto the shambles sent right so they deale with vs. verse 23 Vp Lord why sleepest thou awake and leaue vs not for all verse 24 Why hidest thou thy countenaunce and doest forget our thrall verse 25 For downe to dust our soule is brought and we now at last cast Our belly like as it we● glude vnto the ground cle●nes fast verse 26 Rise vp therfore for our defence and helpe vs Lord a● neede We thee beseech for thy goodnes to rescue vs with speede Eructauit cor meum psal xlv I. H. ¶ Sing this as the xxv Psalme MY hart doth take in hand some godly song to sing The prayse that I shall shew therein pertaineth to the king ▪ verse 2 My toung shal be as quicke ▪ his honour to endite As is the penne of any scribe that vseth fast to write verse 3 O fay rest of all men thy speech is pleasaunt pure For God hath blessed thee with giftes for euer to endure verse 4 About thee gird thy sword O prince of might elect With honor glory and renowme thy person pure is dect verse 5 Go sorth with godly speede in meekenes truth and right And thy right hand shall thee instruct in workes of dreadfull might verse 6 Thine arrowes sharpe and kene their hartes so sore shall sting That solke shall fall and kn●●le to thee yea all thy foes O kyng verse 7 Thy royall seate O Lord for euer shall remayne Because the scepter of thy Realme doth righteonsu●s maintaine verse 8 Because thou louest the right and doest the ill detest God euen thy God hath nointed thee with ioy aboue the rest verse 9 With myrre and fauours sweete thy clothes are all bespread When thou doest from thy palace passe therein to make thee glad verse 10 Kynges daughters do attend in fine and rich aray At thy right hand the Queene doth stand in gold and garmentes gaye The second part verse 11 O daughter take good ●eede encliue and gene good eare Thou must forget thy kindred all and fathers house most deare verse 12 Then shall the kyng desire thy beauty sayre and trim For why he is the Lord thy God and thou must worshyp him verse 13 The daughters then of Tyre with giftes full rich to see And all the wealthy of the land shall make their sute to thee verse 14 The daughter of the kyng is glorious to behold Within his closet she doth sit all dect in beaten gold verse 15 In robes well wrought with nedle with many a pleasant thyng With virgines fayre on her to wayte she commeth to the kyng verse 16 Thus are they brought with ioy and myrth on euery side Into the palace of the kyng and there do they abide verse 17 In
of thy wrathfull rage full sore vpon me fall Thy terrours eke do not alwage but me oppresse withall verse 18 All day they compasse me about as water at the tyde And all at once with streames full stout beset me one ech side verse 19 Thou settest farre from me my frendes and louers euery one Yea and mine old acquaintaunce all out of my sight are gone Misericordias Psal. Lxxxix I. H. ¶ Sing this as the lxvii Psalme TO sing the mercy of the Lord my tongue shall neuer spare And with my month from age to age thy truth I will declare verse 2 For I haue sayd that mercy shall for euermore remaine In that thou doest the heauens stay thy truth appeareth play ne verse 3 To mine elect sayth God I made a couenaunt and behast My seruaunt Dauid to perswade I swore and did protest verse 4 Thy seede for euer I will stay and stablishe it full fast 〈…〉 vphold thy throne alway from age to age to last verse 5 The heauens shew with ioy and myrth thy wondrous workes O Lord Thy Saintes within thy Church on earth thy fayth and truth record verse 6 Who with the Lord is equall thou in all the cloudes abroad Among the sonnes of all the Gods what one is lyke our God verse 7 God in assembly of the Saintes is greatly to be dread And ouer all that dwell about in terrour to be had verse 8 Lord God of bestaw in all the world what one is lyke to thee On euery side most mightie Lord thy truth is seene to be verse 9 The raging Sea by thineaduice thou rulest at thy will And when the waues th● 〈◊〉 thou makest them calme and still verse 10 And Egipt thou Lord least subdude and thou hast it destroyde Yea thou my foes with mighty arme hast scattered all abroad The second part verse 11 The heauens are thine and still haue bene lykewise the earth and sand The world with all that is therein thou foundest with thy hand verse 12 Both North and South with East and west thy selfe didst make and frame Both Tabor mount and ek Hermon reioyce and prayse thy name verse 13 Thine arme is strong and full of power all might therein doth lye The strength of thy right hand ech boure thou liftest vp on hye verse 14 In righteousnes and equitie thou hast thy seate and place Mercy and truth are still with thee and go before thy face verse 15 That folke is blest that knoweth aright thy present power O God For in the fauour of thy sight they walke full safe abroad verse 16 For in thy name throughout the day they ioy and much reioyce And through thy righteousnes haue they a pleasaunt fame and noyse verse 17 For why their glory strength and ayde in thee alone doth lye Thy goodnes eke that hath vs stayde shall lift our horne on hie verse 18 Our strength that doth defend vs well the Lord to vs doth bring The ho●● one of Israell he is our guide and king verse 19 Sometime thy will vnto thy Sayntes 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 haue I erect your king and guide to be And set vp him whome I elect among the folke to me The third part verse 21 My seruant Dauid I appoint whome I haue searched out And with my holy oyle annoynt him king of all the route verse 22 For why my hand is ready still with him for to remaine And with mine arme also I will him strengthen and sustaine verse 23 The enemies shall not him oppresse they shall him not deuoure Ne yet the sonnes of wickednes shall haue of him no power verse 24 His foes likewise will I destroy before his face in sight And those that hate him I will plague and strike them with my might verse 25 My truth and mercy eke withall shall still vpon him lye And in my name his horne eke shall be listed vp on bye verse 26 His kingdome I will set to be vpon the Sea and sand And eke the running floudes shall be embrace with his right hand verse 27 He shall depend with all his hair on me and thus shall say My father and my God thou art my rock of health and stay verse 28 As one first borne I will him take of all on earth that springes His might and honor I will make aboue all worldly kinges verse 29 My mercy shall be with him still as I my selfe haue ●old My faythfull couenaunt to fulfill my mercye I will hold verse 30 And eke his seede will I sustaine for euer strong and sure So that his seate shall still remaine while heauen doth endure The fourth part verse 31 If that his sonnes forsake my law and so beginne to swerue And of my iudgementes haue none awe nor will not them obscrue verse 32 Or if they do not vse aright my statutes to them made And set all my commanndementes light and will not keepe my trade verse 33 Then with the rod will I begin their doinges to amend And so with scourging for their sinne when that they do offend verse 34 My mercy yet and my goodnes I will not take him fro Nor handle him with craftines and so my truth forgo verse 35 But sure my couenaunt I will hold with all that I haue spoke No word the which my lips haue told shall alter or be broke verse 36 Once swore I by my holynes and that performe will I With Dauid I shall keepe promise to him I will not lye verse 37 His seede for euermore shall raigne and eke his throne of might As doth the Sunne it shall remaine for euer in my sight verse 38 And as the Moone within the skye for euer standeth fast A faythfull witnes from on bye so shall his kingdome last verse 39 But now O Lord thou doest reiect and now thou chaungest cheare Yea thou art wroth with thine elect thine owne annointed deare verse 40 The couteaunt which thy seruaunt made Lord thou hast quite vndone And downe vpon the ground also hast cast his royall crowne The fift part verse 41 Thou pluckst his hedges vp with might his walles doest thou confound Thou beatest eke his bulwarkes downe and breakest them to the ground verse 42 That he is sore destroyed and torne of commers by throughout And so is made a mocke and scorne to all that dwell about verse 43 Thou their right hand hast lifted vp that him so sore annoy And all his foes that him 〈◊〉 loe thou hast made to ioy verse 44 His swordes edge thou doest take away that should his foes withstand To him in warre no victory thou geuest nor vpper hand verse 45 His glory thou doest also wast his throne his ioy his myrth By thee is ouerthrowne and cast full low vpon the earth verse 46 Thou hast cut of and made full short his youth and lusty dayes And raysed of him an