of Life is done shall keep thy upright Way SAMECH verse 113 Deceitful Thoughts and Practices I utterly detest But to thy Law Affection bear too great to be exprest verse 114 My Hidihg-place my Refuge-Tow'r and Shield art thou O Lord I firmly anohor all my Hopes on thy unerring Word verse 115 Hence ye that trade in Wickedness approach not my Abode For firmly I resolve to keep the Precepts of my God verse 116 According to thy gracious Word from Danger set me free Nor make me of those Hope 's asham'd that I repose on thee verse 117 Uphold me so shall I be safe and rescu'd from Distress To thy Decrees continually my just Respect address verse 118 The wicked thou hast trod to earth who from thy statutes stray'd Their vile Deceit the just Reward of their own Falshood made verse 119 The wicked from thy holy Land thou dost like Dross remove I therefore with such Justice charm'd thy Testimonies love verse 120 Yet with that love they make me dread left I should offend When on Transgreffors I behold Thy Judgments thus descend AIN verse 121 Judgment and Justice I have lov'd O therefore Lord engage In my Defence nor give me up to my Oppressors Rage verse 122 Do thou be Surety Lord for me and so shall this Distress Prove good for me nor shall the Proud my guiltles Soul oppress verse 123 My Eyes alas begin to fail in long expectance held 'Till thy Salvation they behold and righteous Word fulfill'd verse 124 To me thy Servant in distress thy wonted Grace display And discipline my willing Heart thy Statutes to obey verse 125 On me devoted to thy Fear thy sacred Skill bestow That of thy Testimonies I the full extent may know verse 126 'T is time high time for thee O Lord thy Vengeance to employ When Men with open Violence thy sacred Law destroy verse 127 Yet their Contempt of thy Commands but makes their Value rise In my esteem who purest Gold compar'd with them despise verse 128 Thy Precepts therefore I account in all respects diving They teach me to discern the right and all false Ways decline PE. verse 129 The Wonders which thy Laws contain no Words can represent Therefore to learn and practise them my zealous Heart is bend verse 130 The very entrance to thy Word celestial Light displays And Knowledge of true Happiness to simplest Minds conveys verse 131 With eager Hopes I waiting stood and fainted with Desire That of thy wise Commands I might the sacred Skill acquire verse 132 With Favour Lord look down on me who thy Relief implore As thou art wont to visit those who thy blest Name adore verse 133 Directed by thy heav'nly Word let all my Footsteps be Nor Wickedness of any kind Dominion have o'er me verse 134 Release intirely set me free from persecuting Hands That unmolested I may learn and practise thy Commands verse 135 On me devoted to thy Fear Lord make thy Face to shiine Thy Statutes both to know and keep my Heart with Zeal incline verse 136 My Eyes to Weeping Fountains turn whence briny Rivers flow To see Mankind against thy Laws in bold defiance go TSADHI verse 137 Thou art the righteous Judge in whom wrong'd Innocence may trust And like thy self thy Judgments Lord in all respects are just verse 138 Most just and true those Statutes were which thou didst first decree And all with Faithfulness perform'd succeeding times shall see verse 139 With Zeal my Flest consumes away my Soul with Anguish frets To see my Foes contemn at once thy promises and Threats verse 140 Yet each neglected Word of thine howe'er by them despis'd Is pure and for eternal Truth by me thy Servant priz'd verse 141 Brought for thy sake to low Estate Contempt from All I find Yet no Affronts or Wrongs can drive thy Precepts from my Mind verse 142 Thy Righteousness shall then endure when Time it self is past Thy Law is Truth it self that Truth which shall for ever last verse 143 Tho' Trouble Anguish Doubts and Dread to compass me unite Beset with Danger still I make thy Precepts my Delight verse 144 Eternal and unerring Rules thy Testimonies give Teach me the Wisdom that will make my Soul for ever live KOPH verse 145 with my whole Heart to God I Call'd Lord hear my earnest Cry And I thy Statues to perform will all my Care apply verse 146 Again more servently I pray'd O save me that I may Thy Testimonies throughly know and stedfastly obey verse 147 My earlier Pray'r the dawning Day prevented while I cry'd To him on whose engaging Word my Hope alone rely'd verse 148 With Zeal have I awak'd before the midnight-Watch was set That I of thy mysterious Word might perfect Knowledge get verse 149 Lord hear my supplicating Voice and wonted Favour shew O quicken me and so approve thy Judgments ever true verse 150 My persecuting Foes advance and hourly nearet draw What Treatment can I hope from them who violate thy Law verse 151 Tho' they draw nigh my comfort is thou Lord art yet more near Thou whose Commands are righteous all thy promises sincere verse 152 Concerning thy Divine Decrees my Soul has known of old That they were true and shall their Truth to endless Ages hold RESCH. verse 153 Cosider my Affiction Lord and me from Bondage draw Think on try Servant in Distress who ne'er Forgets thy Law verse 154 Plead thou my cause to that and me thy timely Aid afford With Beams of mercy quicken me according to thy Word verse 155 From hard'ned Sinners thou remov'st Salvatien far away 'T is just should'st withdraw from them who from thy Statutes stray verse 156 Since great thy tender mercies are to all who thee adore According to thy Judgments Lord my fainting Hopes restore verse 157 A num'rous Host of spiteful Foes against my life combine But all too few to force my Soul thy Statutes to decline verse 158 Those bold Transgressors I beheld and was with grief opprss'd To see with what audacious Pride thy Cov'nant they transgress'd verse 159 Yet while they slight consider Lord how I thy Precepts love O therefore quicken me with Beams of mercy from above verse 160 As from the Birth of Time thy Truth has held through Ages past So shall thy righteous Judgments firm to endless Ages last SCHIN verse 161 Tho' mighty Tyrants without cause conspire my Blood to shed Thy sacred Word Has Pow'r alone to fill my Heart with dread verse 162 And yet that Word my joyful Breast with heav'nly Raptur warms Nor Conquest nor the Spoils of War have such transporting Charms verse 163 Perfidious Practises and Lies I utterly detest But to thy Laws affection bear too vast to be exprest verse 164 Sev'n times a day with grateful voice thy Praises I resound Because I find thy Judgments all with Truth and Justice crown'd verse 165 Secure substantial Peace have they who truly love thy Law No smiling Mischief them can tempt
their Guilt defac'd Thou hast not let thy Wrath flame on nor thy fierce Anger last verse 4 O God our Saviour all our Hearts to thy Obedience turn That quencht with our repenting Tears thy Wrath no more may burn verse 5 6 For why shouldst thou be angry still and Wrath so long retain Revive us Lord and let thy Saints thy wonted Comfort gain verse 7 Thy gracious Favour Lord display which we have long implor'd And for thy wond'rous Mercie 's sake thy wonted Aid afford verse 8 God's Anfwer patiently I 'll wait for he with glad Success If they no more to solly turn his mourning Saints will bless verse 9 To all that fear his holy Name his sure Salvation's near And in its former happy state our Nation shali appear verse 10 For Mercy now with Truth is join'd and Righteousness with Peace like kind Companions absent long with friendly Arms embrace verse 11 12 Truth from the Eirth shall spring whilst Heav'n shall Streams of Justice pour And God from whom all Goodness flows shall endless Plenty show'r verse 13 Before him Righteousnefs shall march and his Just Paths prepare Whilst we his holy steps pursue with constant Zeal and Care Psalm LXXXVI verse 1 To my Complaint O Lord my God thy gracious Ear incline Hear me distrest and destitute of all Relies but thine verse 2 Do thou O God preserve my Soul that does thy Name adore Thy Servant keep and him whose Trust relies on Thee restore verse 3 To me who daily Thee invoke thy Mercy Lord extend verse 4 Refresh thy Servant's Soul whose Hopes on Thee alone depend verse 5 Thou Lord art good nor only good but prompt to pardon too Of plenteous Mercy to all those who for thy Mercy sue verse 6 To my repeated humble Pray'r O Lord attentive be verse 7 When Troubled I on Thee will call for thou wilt answer me verse 8 Among the God there 's none like Thee O Lord alone divine To Thee as much inferiour they as are their Works to thine verse 9 Therefore their great Creator Thee the Nations shall adore Their long misguided Pray'rs and Praise to thy blest Name restore verse 10 All shall confess Thee great ahd great the Wonders thou hast done Confess thee God the God supreme confess thee God alone PART II verse 11 Teach me thy way O Lord and I from Truth shall ne'er depart In rev'rence to thy sacred Name devoutly fix my heart verse 12 Thee will I praise O Lord my God praise thee with Heart sincere And to thy everlasting Name Eternal Trophies rear verse 13 Thy boundless Mercy shewn to me transcends my Pow'r to tell For thou hast ost redeem'd my Soul from lowest Depths of Hell verse 14 O God the Sons of Pride and Strife have my Destruction sought Regardless of thy Pow'r that oft has my Deliv'rance wrought verse 15 But thou thy constant Goodness didst to my Assistance brings Of Patience Mercy and of Truth thou everlasting Spring verse 16 O bounteous Lord thy Grace and Strenght to me thy Servant s how Thy kind Protection Lord on me thine Handmaid's Son bestow verse 17 Some Signal give which my proud Foes may see with shame and Rage When thou O Lord for my Relies and Comfort dost engage Psalm LXXXVII verse 1 GOD's Temple crowns the Holy Mount the Lords their condescends to dwell verse 2 His Sion's Gates in his account our Israel's fairest Tents excel verse 3 Fame glorious things of Thee shall sing O City of th' Almighty King verse 4 I 'll mention Rabab with due Praise in Babylon's Applauses join The Frame of Athiopia raise with that of Tyre and Palastine And grant that some amongst them born their Age and Country did adorn verse 5 But still of Sion averr that many such from her proceed Th' Almighty shall establish her verse 6 his gen'ral List shall shew when read That such a Person there was born their Age and Country did adorn verse 7 He 'll Sion find with Numbers fill'd of such as merit high Renown For Hand and Voice Musicians skill'd and her transcending Fame to crown Of such she shall Successions bring like Waters from a living Spring Psam LXXXVIII verse 1 To thee my God and Saviour I By Day and Night address my Cry verse 2 Vouchsase my mournful Voice to hear to my Distress incline thine Ear. verse 3 For Seas of Trouble mel invade My Soul draws nigh to Death's cold shade verse 4 Like one whose Strength and hopes are fled They number me among the Dead verse 5 Like those who shrouded in the Grave From thee no more Remembrance have Cast off from thy sustaining Care verse 6 Down to the Consines of Despair verse 7 Thy Wrath has hard upon me lain Assicting me with restless Pain Me all thy Mountain Waves have prest Too weak alass to bear the least verse 8 Remov'd from Friends I sigh alone In a loath'd Dungeon laid where none A Visit will vouchsase to me Consin'd past Hopes of liberty verse 9 My Eyes from weeping never cease They waste but still my Griess increase Yet daily Lord to thee I pray'd With out-stretch Hands invok'd thy Aid verse 10 Wilt thou by Miracle revive The Dead whom thou forsook'st Alive From Death restore thy Praise to sing Whom thou from Prison would'st not bring verse 11 Shall the mute Grave thy Love consess A mold'ring Tomb thy Faithfulness verse 12 Thy Truth and Pow'r Renown obtain Where Darkness and Oblivion reign verse 13 To thee O Lord I cry forlorn My Pray r prevents the early Morn verse 14 Why hast thou Lord my Soul forsook Nor once vouchsas'd a gracious Look verse 15 Prevailing Sorrows bear me down Which from my Youth with me have grown Thy Terrors past distract my Mind And Fears of blacker Days behind verse 16 Thy Wrath hath burst upon my Head Thy Terrors fill my Soul with Dread verse 17 Environ'd as with Waves combin'd And for a gen'ral Deluge join'd verse 18 My Lovers Friends Familiars all Remov'd from Sight and out of call To dark Oblivion all retir'd Dead or at least to me expir'd Psalni LXXXIX verse 1 THY Mercies Lord shall be my song My Song on them shall ever dwell To Ages yet unborn my Tongue Thy never failing Truth shall tell verse 2 I have assirm'd and still maintain Thy Mercy shall for ever last Thy Truth that does the Heav'ns sustain Like them shall stand for ever fasat verse 3 Thus spak'st thou by the Prophet's Voice With David I a League have made To him my Servant and my Choice By Solemn Oath this Grant convey'd While Earth and Seas and Skies endure Thy Seed shall in my Sight remain To them thy Throne I will ensure They shall to endless Ages reign verse 5 For such stupendious Truth and Love Both Heav'n and Earth just Praises owe By Choirs of Angels sung above And by Assembled Saints below verse 6 What Seraph of Celestial Birth To vie with Isr'el's God shall dare
unresisted Might his Holiness extol verse 6 Moses and Aron thus of old among his Priests ador'd Amongst his Prophets Samuel thus his sacred Name implor'd Distrest upon the Lord they call'd who ne'er their Suit deny'd But as with Rev'rence they implor'd he graciously reply'd verse 7 For with their Camp to guide their March the cloudy Pillar mov'd They kept his Laws and to his Will obedient Servants prov'd verse 8 He answer'd them forgiving oft his People for their sake And those who rashly them oppos'd did sad Examples make verse 9 With Worship at his sâ—cred Courts exalt our God and Lord For he who only holy is alone should be ador'd Psalm C. verse 1 2 WIth one consent let all the Earth To God their chearful Voices raise Glad Homage pay with awful Mirth And sing before him Songs of praise verse 3 Convinced that he is God alone From whom both we and all proceed We whom he chuses for his own The Flock that he vouchsafes to feed verse 4 O enter then his Temple Gate Thence to his Courts devoutly press And still your grateful Hymns repeat And still his Name with praises bless verse 5 For he 's the Lord supremely good His Mercy is for ever sure His Truth which always firmly stood To endless Ages shall endure Psalm CI. verse 1 OF Mercy 's never-failing Spring And stedfast Judgment I will sing And since they both to thee belong To thee O Lord adrress my Song verse 2 When Lord thou shalt with me reside Wife discipline my Reign shall guide With blameless Life my self I 'll make A Pattern for my Court to take verse 3 No ill Design will I pursue Nor those my Fav'rites make that do verse 4 Who to Reproof bears no regard Him will I totally discard verse 5 The private Slanderer shall be In publick Justice doom'd by me From haughty looks I 'll turn aside And mortifie the Heart of Pride verse 6 But Honesty call'd from her Cell In splendour at my Court shall dwell Who Virtue 's practice make their Care Shall have the first Preferments there verse 7 No Politicks shall recommend His-Countrey's Foe to be my Friend None e'er shall to my Favour rise By flatt'ring or malicious-Lyes verse 8 All those who wicked Courses take An early Sacrifice I 'll make Cut off destroy till none remain God's holy City to profane Psalm CII verse 1 WHen I pour out my Soul in Pray'r do thou O Lord attend To thy eternal Throne of Grace let my sad Cry ascend verse 2 O hide not thou thy glorious Face in times of deep Distress Incline thine Ear and when I call my Sorrows soon redress verse 3 Each cloudy Portion of my Life like scatter'd Smoke expires My shiriv'led Bones are like a Hearth parch'd with continual Fires verse 4 My Heart like Grass that feels the Blast of some infectious Wind Does languish so with Grief that scarce my needful Food I mind verse 5 By reason of my sad estate I spend my Breath in Groans My Flesh is worn away my Skin scarce hides my starting Bones verse 6 I'm like a Pelican become that does in Desarts mourn Or like an Owl that sits all day in hollow Trees forlorn verse 7 In Watchings or in restless Dreams the Night by me is spent As by those solitary Birds that loansom roofs frequent verse 8 All day by railing Foes I 'm made the Subject of their Scorn Who all possest with furious Rage have my Destruction sworn verse 9 When grov'ling on the Ground I lie opprest with Grief and Fears My Bread is strew'd with Ashes o'er my Drink is mixt with Tears verse 10 Because on me with double weight thy heavy Wrath does lie For thou to make my Fall more great didst lift me up on high verse 11 My days just hast'ning to their end are like an Ev'ning-shade My Beauty does like wither'd Grass with waning Lustre fade verse 12 But thy eternal state O Lord no length of time shall waste The mem'ry of thy wondrous Works from Age to Age shall last verse 13 Thou shalt arise and Sion view with an unclouded Face For now her time is come thy own appointed day of Grace verse 14 Her scatter'd Ruines by thy Saints with pity are survey'd They grieve to see her lofty Spires in Dust and Rubbish laid verse 15 16 The Name and Glory of the Lord all heathen Kings shall fear When he shall Sion build again and in full state appear verse 17 18 When he regards the Poor's Request nor slights their earnest Pray'r Our Sons for this recorded Grace shall his just praise declare verse 19 For God from his abode on high his gracious Beams display'd The Lord from Heav'n his lofty Throne has all the Earth survey'd verse 20 He list'ned to the Captives moans he heard their mournful Cry And freed by his resistless pow'r the Wretches doom'd to die verse 21 That they in Sion where he dwells might celebrate his Fame And thro the holy City sing loud praises to his Name verse 22 When all the Tribes assembling there their solemn vows address And neighb'ring Lands with glad Consent the Lord their God confess verse 23 But e'er my Race is run my strength through his fierce Wrath decays He has when all my wishes bloom'd cut short my hopeful days verse 24 Lord end not thou my Life said I when half is scarcely past Thy years from worldly Changes free to endless Ages last verse 25 The strong Foundations of the Earth of old by thee were laid Thy Hands the beauteous Arch of Heav'n with wondrous Skill have made verse 26 27 Whilst thou for ever shalt endure they soon shall pass away And like a Garment often worn shall tarnish and decay Like that when thou ordain'st their change to thy Command they bend But thou continu'st still the same nor have thy Years an End verse 28 Thou to the Children of thy Saints shall lasting Quiet give Whose happy Race securely fixt shall in thy presence live Psalm CIII verse 1 2 MY Soul inspir'd with sacred Love God's holy Name for ever bless Of all his Favours mindful prove And still thy grateful Thanks express verse 3 4 'T is he that all thy Sins forgives And after Sickness makes thee sound From Danger he thy life retrieves By him with Grace and Mercy crown'd verse 5 6 He with good things my Mouth supplies My Vigour Eagle-like renews He when the guiltless Suff'rer cries His Foe with just Revenge pursues verse 7 God made of old his righteous Ways To Moses and our Fathers known His Works to his Eternal praise Were to the Sons of Jacob shown verse 8 The Lord abounds with tender Love And unexampl'd Acts of Grace His waken'd Wrath does slowly move His willing Mercy flows apace verse 9 10 God will not always harshly chide But with his Anger quickly part And loves his Punishments to guide More by his Love than our Desert verse 11 As high as Heav'n its Arch extends Above
this little Spot of Clay So much his boundless Love transcends The small Respects that we can pay verse 12 13 As far as 't is from East to West So far has he our sins remov'd Who with a Father's tender Breast Has such as fear him always lov'd verse 14 15 For God who all our Frame surveys Considers that we are but Clay How fresh so'er we seem our Days Like Grass or Flowers ' must fade away verse 16 17 Whilst they are nipt with sudden Blasts Nor can we find their former place God's faithful Mercy ever lasts To those that fear him and their Race verse 18 This shall attend on such as still Proceed in his appointed way And who not only knows his Will But to it just Obedience pay verse 19 20 The Lord the universal King In Heav'n has fixt his lofty Throne To him ye Angels praises sing In whose great strength his Pow'r is shown Ye that his just commands obey And hear and do his sacred Will verse 21 Ye hosts of his this Tribute pay Who still what he ordains fulfil verse 22 Let ev'ry Creature jointly bless The mighty Lord and thou my heart With grateful Joy thy thanks express And in this Consort bear thy part Psalm CIV verse 1 BLess God my Soul thou Lord alone Possessest Empire without Bounds With honour thou art crown'd thy Throne Eternal Majesty surrounds verse 2 With Light thou dost thy self enrobe And Glory for a Garment take Heaven's Curtains stretch beyond the Globe Thy Canopy of State to make verse 3 God builds on liquid Air and forms His Palace-chambers in the Skies The Clouds his Chariot are and Storms The swift-wing'd Steeds with which he flies verse 4 As bright as flame and swift as wind His Ministers heav'ns palace fill To have their sundry Tasks assign'd All proud to serve their Sov'reigns Will. verse 5 6 Earth on her Center fixt he set Her Face with Waters overspread Nor proudest mountains dar'd as yet To list above the waves their head verse 7 But when thy awful Face appear'd Th' insulting waves dispers'd they fled When once thy thunder's Voice they heard And by their haste confest their dread verse 8 Thence up by secret tracts they creep And gushing from the Mountain's side Thro' Valleys travel to the Deep Appointed to receive their Tide verse 9 There hast thou fixt the Ocean's bounds The threatning Surges to repel That they no more o'er-pass their mounds Nor to a second Deluge swell PART II. verse 10 Yet thence in smaller parties drawn The Sea recovers her lost hills And starting Springs from eve'ry Lawn Surprize the Vales with plenteous Rills verse 11 The Feild's tame Beasts are thither led Weary with Labour faint with Drought And Asses on wild mountains bred Have sense to find these Currents out verse 12 Their shady Trees from scorching Beams Yield shelter to the feather'd Throng They drink and to the Bounteous Streams Return the Tribute of their Song verse 13 His Rains from Heav'n parcht hills recruit That soon transmit the liquid Store Till Earth is burthen'd with her Fruit And Nature's Lap can hold no more verse 14 Grass for our Cattel to devour He makes the growth of every Field Herbs for Man's use of various pow'r That either Food or Physick yield verse 15 With cluster'd Grapes he crowns the Vine To chear Man's heart opprest with Cares Gives Oyl that makes his Face to shine And Corn that wasted Strength repairs PART III. verse 16 The Trees of God without the Care Or Art of Man with Sap are fed The Mountain-Cedar looks as fair As those in Royal Gardens bred verse 17 Safe in the lofty Cedar's Arms The Wand'rers of the Air may rest The Hospitable Pine from Harms Protects the Stork her pious Guest verse 18 Wild Goats the craggy Rock ascend It 's tow'ring heights their Fortress make Whose Cells in Labyrinths extend Where feebler Creatures refuge take verse 19 The Moon 's inconstant Aspect shows Th' appointed Seasons of the Year Th' instructed Sun his Duty Knows His hours to rise and disappear verse 20 21 Darkness he makes the Earth to shrou'd When Forest-Beasts securely stray Young Lions roar their Wants aloud To providence that sends'em Prey verse 22 They range all Night on slaughter bent Till summon'd by the rising Morn To skulck in Dens with one consent The conscious Ravagers return verse 23 Forth to the Tillage of his soil The Husbandman securely goes Commencing with the Sun his Toil With him returns to his Repose verse 24 How various Lord thy Works are found For which thy Wisdom we adore The Earth is with thy Treasure crown'd Till Nature's hand can grasp no more PART IV. verse 25 But still the vast unfathom'd Main Of Wonders a new Scene supplies Whose Depths Inhabitants contain Of every Form and every Size verse 26 Full-freighted Ships from ev'ry Port There cut their unmolested way Leviathan whom there to sport Thou mad'st has compass there to play verse 27 These various Troops of Sea and Land In sense of common Want agree All wait on thy dispensing Hand And have their daily Alms from thee verse 28 They gather what thy Stores disperse Without their trouble to provide Thou op'st thy hand the Universe The craving World is all supply'd verse 29 Thou for a Moment hid'st thy Face The numerous Ranks of Creatures mourn Thou tak'st their Breath all Nature's Race Forthwith to Mother-Earth return verse 30 Again thou send'st thy Spirit forth T' inspire the Mass with vital Seed Nature's restor'd and Parent Earth Smiles on her new created Breed verse 31 Thus through successive Ages stands Firm fixt thy Providential Care Pleas'd with the Work of thy own hands Thou dost the wastes of Time repair verse 32 One Look of thine one wrathful Look Earth's panting Breast with Terror fills One touch from thee with Clouds of Smoak In darkness shrouds the proudest hills verse 33 In praising God while he prolongs My Breath I will that Breath imploy verse 34 And joyn Devotion to my Songs Sincere as is in him my Joy verse 35 While Sinners from Earth's Face are hurl'd My Soul praise thou his holy Name Till with my Song the listning World Joyn consort and his praise proclaim Psalm CV verse 1 O Render Thanks and bless the Lord invoke his sacred Name Acquaint the Nations with his Deeds his matchless Deeds proclaim verse 2 Sing to his praise in lofty Hymns his wondrous works rehearse Make them the Theme of your Discourse and Subject of your Verse verse 3 Rejoyce in his Almighty Name alone to be ador'd And let their heart o'erflow with Joy that humbly seek the Lord. verse 4 Seek ye the Lord his saving strength devoutly still implore And where he 's ever present seek his Face for evermore verse 5 The wonders that his hands have wrought keep thankfully in mind The righteous Statutes of his Mouth and laws to us assign'd verse 6 Know ye his Servant Abraham's Seed and Jacob's chosen
free By making still their Course of Life with thy Commands agree verse 10 With hearty Zeal for thee I seek to thee for Succour pray O suffer not my carcless Steps from thy right Paths to stray verse 11 Safe in my Heart and closely hid thy Word my Treasure liew To succour me with timely Aid when sinful Thoughts arise verse 12 Secur'd by that my grateful Soul shall ever bless thy Name O teach me then by thy just Laws my future Life to frame verse 13 My Lips unlock'd by pious Zeal to others have declar'd How well the Judgments of thy Mouth deserve our best Regard verse 14 Whilst in the way of thy Commands more folid Joy I found Than had I been with vast Increase of envy'd Riches crown'd verse 15 Therefore thy just and upright Laws shall always fill my mind And those sound Rules which thou prescrib'st all due resped shall find verse 16 To keep thy Statutes undesac'd shall be my constant Joy The strict Remembrance of thy Word shall all my Thoughts employ GIMEL verse 17 Be gracious to thy Servant Lord do thou my Life defend That I according to thy Word my future time may spend verse 18 Enlighten both my Eyes and Mind that so I may discern The wond'rous things which they behold who thy just Precepts learn verse 19 Tho' like a Stranger in the Land from place to place I stray Thy righteous Judgments from my sight remove not thou away verse 20 My fainting Soul is almost pin'd with earnest longing spent Whilst always on the eager Search of thy just Will intent verse 21 Thy sharp Rebuke shall crush the Proud whom still thy curse pursues Since they to walk in thy right ways presumptuously refuse verse 22 But far from me do thou O Lord Contempt and Shame remove For I thy sacred Laws affect with undissemble'd Love verse 23 Tho'Princes ost in counsel met against thy Servant spake Yet I thy Statutes to obsrve my constant Bus'ness make verse 24 For thy Commands have always been my Comfort and Delight By them I learn with prudent Care to guide my Steps aright DALETH verse 25 My Soul opprest with deadly Care close to the Earth does cleave Revive me Lord and let me now thy promis'd Aid receive verse 26 To thee I still declared my Ways who didst incline thine Ear O teach me then my future Life by thy just Laws to steer verse 27 If thou wilt makc me know thy Laws and by their Guidance walk The wond'rous works which tho hadst done shall be my constant Taik verse 28 But see my Soul within me sinks press'd down with weighty Care Do thou according to thy Word my wasted Strength repair verse 29 Far far from me be all false Ways and lying Arts remov'd But kindly grant I still may keep the Path by thee approv'd verse 30 Thy faithful Ways thou God of Truth my happy Choice I made Thy Judgments as my Rule of Life before me always laid verse 31 My Care has been to make my Life with thy Commands agree O then preserve thy Servant Lord from Shame and Ruine free verse 32 So in the way of thy Commands shall I with Pleasure run And with a Heart enlarg'd with Joy successfully go on HE verse 33 Instruct me in thy Statutes Lord thy righteous Paths display And I from them through all my Life will never go astray verse 34 If thou true Wisdom from above wilt graciously impart To keep thy perfect Laws I will devote my zealous Heart verse 35 Direct me in the sacrcd Ways to which thy Precepts lead Because my chief Delight has been thy righteous Paths to tread verse 36 Do thou to thy most just Commands inditie my willing Heart Let no defire of worldly Wealth from thee my Thoughts divert verse 37 From those vain Objects turn my Eyes which this false World displays But give me lively Pow'r and Strength to keep thy righteous Ways verse 38 Confirm the Promise which thou mad'st and give thy Servant Aid Who to transgress thy sacred Laws is awfully afraid verse 39 The foul Disgrace I justly fear in mercy Lord remove For all the Judgments thou ordain'st are full of Grace and Love verse 40 Thou know'ft how after thy Commands my longing Heart does pant O then make haste to raise me up and promis'd Succour grant VAU verse 41 Thy constant Blessing Lord bestow to cheer my drooping Heart To me according to thy Word thy saving Health impart verse 42 So shall 1 when my Foes upbraid this ready Answer make In God I trust who never will his faithful Promise break verse 43 Then let not quite the Word of Truth be from my Mouth remov'd Since still my ground of stedfast Hope thy just Decrees have prov'd verse 44 So I to keep thy righteous Laws will ail my Study bend From Age to Age my time to come in their Qbservance spend verse 45 E'er long I trust to walk at large from all incumbrance free Since I resolv'd to make my Life with thy Commands agree verse 46 Thy Laws shall be my constant talk and Princes shall attend Whilst I the Justice of thy Ways with Confidence defend verse 47 My longing Heart and ravish'd Soul shall both o'erflow with Joy When in thy lov'd Commandments I my happy hours employ verse 48 Then will I to thy just Decrees lift up my willing Hands My Care and Bus'ness then shall be to study thy Commands ZAIN verse 49 According to thy promis'd Grace thy Favour Lord extend Make good to me the Word on which thy Servant's Hopes depend verse 50 That only Comfort in distress did all my Griefs controul Thy Word when troubles hem'd me round reviv'd my fainting Soul verse 51 Insulting Foes did proudly mock and all my Hopes deride Yet from thy Law not all their Scoffs could make me turn aside verse 52 Thy Judgments then of antient date I quickly call'd to mind 'Till ravish'd with such Thoughts my Soul did speedy Comfort find verse 53 Sometimes I stand amaz'd like one with deadly Horror strook To think how all my sinful Foes have thy just Laws forsook verse 54 But I thy Statutes and Decrees my cheerful Anthems made Whilst thro' strange Lands and desart Wilds I like a Pilgrim stray'd verse 55 Thy Name that cheer'd my Heart by day has fill'd my Thoughts by Night I then resolv'd by thy just Laws to guide my Steps aright verse 56 That Peace of Mind which has my Soul in deep distress sustain'd By strict Obedience to thy Will I happily obtain'd CHETH verse 57 O Lord my God ray Portion thou and sure Poffession art Thy Words I stedfastly resolve to treasure in my Heart verse 58 With all the strength of warm desires I did thy Grace implore Disclose according to thy Word thy Mercy 's boundless Store verse 59 With due Reflection and strift Care on all my Ways 1 thought And so reclaim'd to thy just Paths my wand'ring Steps I brought verse 60 I lost no
time but made great haste resolv'd without delay To watch that I might never more From thy Commandments stray verse 61 Tho' num'rous Troops of sinful Men to rob me have combin'd Yet I thy pure and righteous Laws have ever kept in mind verse 62 In dead of Night I will arise to sing thy solemn praise Convinc'd how much I always ought to love thy righteous Ways verse 63 To such as fear thy holy Name my self I closely joyn To all who their obedient Wills to thy Commands resign verse 64 O'er all the Earth thy Mercy Lord abundantly is shed O make me then exactly learn thy facred Paths to tread TETH verse 65 With me thy Servant thou hail dealt most graciously O Lord Repeated Benefits bestow'd according to thy Word verse 66 Teach me the sacred Skill by which right Judgment is attain'd Who in belief of thy Commands have stedfastly remain'd verse 67 Before Affliction stopt my Course my Footsteps went astray But I have since been disciplin'd thy Precepts to obey verse 68 Thou art O Lord supremely good and all thou dost is so On me thy Statutes to discern the saving Skill bestow verse 69 The proud have forg'd malicious Lyes my spotless Fame to stain But my fix'd Heart without Reserve thy Precepts shall retain verse 70 While pamper'd they with prosp'rous Ills in sensual pleasures live My Soul can relish no Delight but what thy Precepts give verse 71 'T is good for me that I have felt Affliction 's chast'ning Rod That I might duly learn and keep the Statutes of my God verse 72 The Law that from thy Mouth proceeds of more esteem I hold Than untouch'd Mines than thousand Mines of Silver and of Gold JOD verse 73 To me who am the Workmanship of thy Almighty Hands The heav'nly Understanding give to learn thy just Commands verse 74 My preservation to thy Saints strong Comfort will afford To see Success attend my Hopes who trusted in thy Word verse 75 That right thy Judgments are I now by sure Experience see And that in Faithfulness O Lord thou hast afflicted me verse 76 O let thy tender Mercy now afford me needful Aid According to thy Promise Lord to me thy Servant made verse 77 To me thy saving Grace restore that I again may live Whose Soul can relish no Delight but what thy Precepts give verse 78 Defeat the Proud who unprovok'd to ruine me have sought Who only on thy sacred Laws employ my harmless Thought verse 79 Let those that fear thy Name espouse my Cause and those alone Who have by strict and pious search thy sacred precepts known verse 80 In thy blest Statutes let my Heart continue always found That Guilt and Shame the Sinners Lot may never me confound CAPH verse 81 My Soul with long Expectance faints to see thy saving Grace Yet still on thy unerring Word my Confidence I place verse 82 My very Eyes consume and fail with waiting for thy Word O! when wilt thou thy kind Relief and promis'd Aid afford verse 83 My Skin like shrivel'd Parchment shows that long in Smoke is set Yet no Afftistion me can force thy Statutes to forget verse 84 How many days must I endure of Sorrow and Distress When wilt thou Judgment execute on them who me oppress verse 85 The Proud have digg'd a Pit for me that have no other Foes But such as are averse to thee and thy just Laws oppose verse 86 With sacred Truth 's eternal Laws all thy Commands agree Men persecute me without Cause thou Lord my Helper be verse 87 With close Designs against my Life they had almost prevail'd But in Obedience to thy Will my Duty never fail'd verse 88 Thy wonted kindness Lord restore my drooping Heart to cheer That by thy righteous Statutes I my Life 's whole Course may steer LAMED verse 89 Forever and for ever Lord unchang'd thou dost remain Thy Word establish'd in the Heav'ns does all their Orbs sustain verse 90 Thro' circling Ages Lord thy Truth immoveable shall stand As doth the Earth which thou uphold'st by thy Almighty Hand verse 91 All things the Course by thee ordain'd ev'n to this day fulfil They are the faithful Subjects all and Servants of thy Will verse 92 Unless thy sacred Law had been my Comfort and Delight I must have fainted and expir'd in dark Affliction 's Night verse 93 Thy Precepts therefore from my Thoughts shall never Lord depart For thou by them hast to new Life restor'd my dying Heart verse 94 As I am thine intirely thine protect me Lord from Harm Who have thy Precepts sought to know and carefully perform verse 95 The Wicked have their Ambush laid my guiltless Life to take But in the midst of danger I thy Word my Study make verse 96 I've seen an end of what we call Perfection here below But thy Commandments like thy felt no Change or Period know MEM. verse 97 The Love that to thy Laws I bear no Language can display They with fresh Wonders entertain my ravish'd Thoughts all day verse 98 Thro' thy Commands I wiser grow than all my subtil Foes For thy sure Word does me direct and all my Ways dispose verse 99 From me my former Teachers now may abler Counsel take Because thy sacred Precepts I my constant Study make verse 100 In Understanding I excel the Sages of our days Because by thy unerring Rules I order all my Ways verse 101 My Feet with Care I have resrain'd from every sinful Way That to thy sacred Word 1 might intire Obedience pay verse 102 I have not from thy Judgments stray'd by vain desircs misled For Lord thou hast instructed me thy righteous paths to tread verse 103 How sweet are all thy Words to me O what divine Repast How much more grateful to my Soul than Honey to my Taste verse 104 Taught by thy sacred precepts I with heav'nly Skill am blest Thro' which the treach'rous Ways of Sin I utterly detest NVN. verse 105 Thy Word is to my Feet a Lamp the way of Truth to show A Watch-light to point out the path in which I ought to go verse 106 I sware and from my solemn Oath will never start aside That in thy righteous Judgments I will stedfastly abide verse 107 Since I with Griefs am so opprest that I can bear no more According to thy Word do thou my fainting Soul restore verse 108 Let still my Sacrifice of praise with thee Acceptance find And in thy righteous Judgments Lord instruct my willing Mind verse 109 Tho' ghastly dangers me surround my Soul they cannot aw Nor with continual Terrors keep from thinking on thy Law verse 110 My wicked and invet'rate Foes for me their Snares have laid Yet I have kept the upright path nor from thy precepts stray'd verse 111 Thy Testimonies I have made my Heritage and Choice For they when other comforts fail my drooping Heart rejoyce verse 112 My Heart with early Zeal began thy Statutes to obey And 'till my course
nor frowning Danger aw verse 166 For thy Salvation I have hop'd and tho' so long delay'd With cheerful Zeal and strictest Care all thy Commands obey'd verse 167 Thy Testimonies I have kept and constantly obey'd Because the love I bore to them the Service easie made verse 168 From strict Observance of thy Laws I never yet withdrew Convinc'd that my most secret ways are open to thy View TAU verse 169 To my Request and earnest Cry attend O gracious Lord Inspire my Heart with heav'nly Skill according to thy Word verse 170 let my repeated Pray'r at last before thy Throne appear According to thy plighted Word For my Relief draw near verse 171 Then shall my grateful Lips return the Tribute of their praise When thou thy Counsels hast reveal'd and taught me thy just ways verse 172 My Tongue the praises of thy Word shall thankfully resound Because thy Promises are all with Truth and Justice crown'd verse 173 Let thy Almighty Arm appear and bring me timely Aid For I the Laws thou hast ordain'd my Heart 's free choice have made verse 174 My Soul has waited long to see thy saving Grace restor'd Nor Comfort knew but what thy Laws thy heav'nly Laws afford verse 175 Prolong my life that I may sing my great restorer's Praise Whose Justice from the depth of Woes my fainting Soul shall raise verse 176 Like some lost Sheep I 've stray'd till I despair my way to find Thou therefore Lord thy Servent seek who keeps thy Laws in mind Psalm CXX verse 1 IN deep Distress I ost have cry'd To God who neyer yet deny'd To rescue me opprest with Wrongs verse 2 Once more O Lord Deliv'rance send From lying Lips my Soul desend And from the Rage of stand'ring Tongues verse 3 What little Profit can accrue And yet what heavy Wrath is due O thou perfidious Tongue to thee verse 4 Thy Sting upon thy self shall turn Of lasting Flames that fiercely burn The constant Fuel thou shalt be verse 5 But O! how ' wretched is my Doom Who am a Sojourner become In barren Mesecb's desart Soil With Kedar's wicked Tents inclos'd to lawless Savages expos'd Who live on nought but Tehstand Spoll verse 6 My hapless Dwelling is with those Who Peace and Amity oppose and Pleasure take in others Harms verse 7 Sweet Peace is all I court and seek But when to them of Peace I speak they strait cry out To Arms to Arms. Psalm CXXI verse 1 To Sion's Hill I lift my Eyes From thence expecting Aid verse 2 From Sion's Hill and Sion's God who Heaven and Earth has made verse 3 Then thou my Soul in sefety rest thy Guardian will not sleep verse 4 His watchful Care that Isr'el guards will Isr'el's Monarch keep verse 5 Shelter'd beneath th' Almighty's Wings thou shalt securely rest verse 6 where neither Sun nor Moon shall thee by Day or Night molest verse 7 From common Accidents of Life his care shall guard thee still verse 8 From the blind strokes of Chance and Foes that lie in wait to kill verse 9 At home abroad in Peace in War thy God shall thee desend Conduct thee thro' Life's Pilgrimage safe to thy Journey 's end Psalm CXXII verse 1 O' T was a joyful Sound to hear our tribes devoutly say Up Isr'el to the Temple haste and keep your Festal Day verse 2 AT Salem's Courts we must appear with our assembl'd Pow'rs verse 3 In strong and beauteous Order rang'd like her united Tow'rs verse 4 T is thirher by Divine Command the Tribes of God repair Before his Ark to celebrate his Name with praise and Pray'r verse 5 Tribunals stand erected there where Equity takes place There stand the Courts and Palaces of Royal David's Race verse 6 O pray we then for Salem's Peace for they shall prosp'rous be Thou holy City of our God! who bear true Love to thee verse 7 May Peace within thy'sacred Walls a constant Guest be found With Plenty and Prosperity thy Palaces be crown'd verse 8 For my dear Brethren's sake and Friends no less than Brethre dear I 'll --- pray May Peace in Salem's Tow'rs a constant Guest appear verse 9 But most of all I 'll seek thy Good and ever wish thee well For Sion and the Temple's sake where God vouchsases to dwell Psalm CXXIII verse 1 2 ON thee who dwell'st above the Skies For mercy wait my longing Eyes As Servants watch their Master's Hands And Maids their Mistress's Commands verse 3 4 O then have Mercy on us Lord Thy gracious Aid to us afford To us whom cruel Fops oppress Grown rich and proud by our Distress Psalm CXXIV verse 1 HAD not the Lord may Isr'el say been pleas'd to interpose verse 2 Had he not then espous'd our Cause when Men against us rose verse 3 4 5 Their wrath had swallow'd is alive and rag'd wlthout Coutroul Their Spite and Pride's united Floods had quite o'erwhelm'd our Soul verse 6 But prais'd be our eternal Lord who rescu'd us that Day Nor to their savage Jaws gave up our threat'ned Lives a prey verse 7 Our Soul is like Bird escap'd from out the Fowler 's Net The Snare is broke their Hopes are cross'd and we at freedom set verse 8 Secure in his Almighty Name our Confidence remains Who as he made both Heay'n and Earth of both sole Monarch reighs Psalm CXXV verse 1 WHO place on Sion's God their Trust like Sion's Rock shall stand Like her immoveably by fixt by his Almighty Hand verse 2 Look how the Hills on ev'ry side jerusalem inclose So stands the Lord around his Saints to guard 'em from their Foes verse 3 The wicked may affict the Just but ne'er too long oppress Nor force him by Despair to seek base means for his Redress verse 4 Be good O righteous God to those who righteous Deeds affect The Heart that innocence retains let innocence protect verse 5 All those who walk in crooked Paths the Lord shall soon dostroy Cut off th'Unjust but crown the Saints with lasting Peace and Joy Psalm CXXVI verse 1 WHen Sion's God her Sons recall'd from long Captivity It seem'd at first a Pleasing Dream of what we wish'd to see verse 2 But soon in an accustom'd Mirth we did our Voice employ And sung our great Restorer's Praise in thankful Hymns of Joy Our Heathen Foes repining stood yet were compell'd to own That great and wondrous was the Work our God for us had done verse 3 'T was great say they t was wond'rous great much more should we confess The Lord has done great things where of we reap the glad Success verse 4 To us bring back the Remnant Lord of Isrel's captive Bands More welcome than refreshing Showr's to parch'd and thirsty Lands verse 5 That we whose Work commenc'd in Tears may see our Labours thrive Till finish'd with success to make our drooping Hearts revive verse 6 Tho' he despond that sows his Grain yet doubtless he shall come To bind his full ear'd
had soon destroy'd the weak Defence that I could make verse 18 Their subtil Rage had near prevail'd when I distrest and friendless lay But still when other Succours fail'd God was my firm Support and Stay verse 19 From Dangers that enclos'd me round he brought me forth and set me free For some just Cause his Goodness found that mov'd him to delight in me verse 20 Because in me no Guilt remains God does his gracious Help extend My Hands are free from bloody Stains therefore the Lord is still my Friend verse 21 22 For I his Judgments kept in sight in his just Paths I always trod I never did his Statutes slight nor loosly wander'd from my God verse 23 24 But still my Soul sincere and pure did ev'n from darling Sins refrain His Favours therefore yet endure because my Heart and Hands are clean PART IV. verse 25 26 Thou suit'st O Lord thy righteous ways to various Paths of Human-kind They who for Mercy merit Praise with thee shall wond'rous Mercy find Thou to the Just shall Justice shew the Pure thy Purity shall see Such as perversely chuse to go shall meet with due Returns from thee verse 27 28 That he the humble Soul will save and crush the Haughty's boasted Might In me the Lord an Instance gave whose Darkness he has turn'd to Light verse 29 On his firm Succour I rely'd and did o'er num'rous Foes prevail Nor fear'd whilst he was on my side the best defended Walls to scaie verse 30 For God's Designs shall still succeed his Word will bear the utmost Test He 's a strong Shield to all that need and on his sure Protection rest verse 31 Who then deserves to be ador'd but God on whom my Hopes depend Or who except the mighty Lord can with resistless Pow'r defend PART V. verse 32 33 'T is God that girds my Armour on and all my just Designs fulfils Through him my Feet can swiftly run and nimbly climb the steepst Hills verse 34 Lessons of War from him I take and manly Weapons learn to wield Strong Bows of Steel with ease I break forc'd by my stronger Arms to yield verse 35 The Buckler of his Saving Health protects me from assaulting Foes His Hand sustains me still my Wealth and Greatness from his Bounty flows verse 36 My Goings he enlarg'd abroad till then to narrow Paths confin'd And when in slipp'ry ways I trod the Method of my Steps design'd verse 37 Through him I num'rons Hosts defeat and flying Squadrons captive take Nor from my fierce pursuit retreat till I a final Conquest make verse 38 Cover'd with Wounds in vain they try their vanquish'd Heads again to rear Spight of their boasted Strength they lie beneath my Feet and grovel there verse 39 God when fresh Armies take the Field recruits my Strength my Courage warms He makes my strong Opposers yield subdu'd by my prevailing Arms. verse 40 Through him the Neck of prostrate Foes my conqu'ring Feet in Triumph press Aided by him I root out those who hate and envy my Success verse 41 With loud complaints all Friends they try'd but none was able to defend At length to God for Help they cry'd but God would no assistance lend verse 42 Like flying Dust which Winds pursue their broken Troops I scatter'd round Their slaughter'd Bodies forth I threw like loathsome Dirt that clogs the Ground PART VI verse 43 Our factious Tribes at Strife till now by God's Appointment me obey The Heathen to my Scepter bow and foreign Nations own my sway verse 44 Remotest Realms their Homage send when my successful Name they hear Strangers for my Commands attend charm'd with Respect or aw'd by Fear verse 45 All to my Summons tamely yield or soon in Battel are dismay'd For stronger Holds they quit the Field and still in strongest Holds afraid verse 46 Let the eternal Lord be prais'd the Rock on whose Defence I rest O'er highest Heav'ns his Name be rais'd who me with his Salvation bless'd verse 47 'T is God that still supports my Right his just Revenge my Foes pursues 'T is he that with resistless Might fierce Nations to my Yoke subdues verse 48 My universal Safeguard He from whom my lasting Honours flow He made me great and set me free from my remorseless bloody Foe verse 49 Therefore to celebrate his Fame my grateful Voice to Heav'n I 'll raise And Nations Strangers to his Name shall thus be taught to sing his Praise verse 50 God to his King Deliv'rance sends shews his Anointed signal Grace His Mercy evermore extends to David and his promis'd Race PSALM XIX verse 1 THE Heav'ns declare thy Glory Lord which that alone can fill The Firmament and Stars express their great Creator's Skill verse 2 The Dawn of each returning Day fresh Beams of Knowledge brings And from the dark Returns of Night divine Instruction springs verse 3 Their pow'rful Language to no Realm or Region is confin'd 'T is Nature's Voice and understood alike by all Mankind verse 4 Their Doctrine does its sacred sense through Earth's extent display Whose bright Contents the circling Sun does round the World convey verse 5 No Bridegroom on his Nuptial-day has such a chearful Face No Giant does like him rejoice to run his glorious Race verse 6 From East to West from West to East his restless Course he goes And through his Progress chearful Light and vital Warmth bestows PART II. verse 7 God's perfect Law converts the Soul reclaims from false Desires With sacred Wisdom his sure Word the Ignorant inspires verse 8 The Statutes of the Lord are just and bring sincere Delight His pure Commands in search of Truth assist the feebleft Sight verse 9 His perfect Worship here is fix'd on sure Foundations laid His equal Laws are in the Scales of Truth and Justice weigh'd verse 10 Of more esteem than golden Mines or Gold resin'd with Skill More sweet than Honey or the drops that from the Comb distil verse 11 My trusty Counsellers they are and friendly Warnings give Divine Rewards attend on those who by thy Precepts live verse 12 But what frail Man observes how ost he does from Vertue fall O cleanse me from my secret Faults thou God that know'st them all verse 13 Let no presumptuous Sin O Lord dominion have o'er me That by thy Grace preserv'd I may the great Transgression slee verse 14 So shall my Pray'r and Praises be with thy Acceptance blest And I secure on thy Defence my Strength and Saviour rest PSALM XX. verse 1 THE Lord to thy Request attend and hear thee in Distress The Name of ' Jacob's God defend and grant thy Arms success verse 2 To aid thee from on high repair and strength from Sion give verse 3 Remember all thy Off'rings there thy Sacrifice receive verse 4 To compass thy own Heart's Desire thy Counsels still direct Make kindly all Events conspire to bring them to effect verse 5 To thy Salvation Lord for Aid we chearfully repair With Banners
and Staff defend and comfort me verse 5 In presence of my spiteful Foes he does my Table spread He crowns my Cup with chearful Wine with Oil anoints my Head verse 6 Since God does thus his wond'rous Love through all my Life extend That Life to him I will devote and in his Temple spend PSALM XXIV verse 1 THis spacious Earth is all the Lord's the Lord 's her fulness is The World and they that dwell therein by sov'reign Right are his verse 2 He fram'd and fix'd it on the Seas and his Almighty Hand Upon inconstant Floods has made the stable Fabrick stand verse 3 But for himself this Lord of All one chosen Seat design'd O who shall to that Sacred Hill defir'd Admittance find verse 4 The Man whose Hands and Heart are pure whose Thoughts from Pride are free Who honest Poverty prefers to gainful Perjury verse 5 This this is he on whom the Lord shall show'r his Blessings down Whom God his Saviour shall vouchsafe with Righteousness to crown verse 6 Such is the Race of Saints by whom the sacred Courts are trod And such the Proselytes that seek the Face of Jacob's God verse 7 Erect your Heads eternal Gates unsold to entertain The King of Glory fee he comes with his celestial Train verse 8 Who is this King of Glory who the Lord for Strength renown'd In Battel mighty o'er his Foes eternal Victor crown'd verse 9 Erect your Heads ye Gates unsold in state to entertain The King of Glory see he comes with all his shining Train verse 10 Who is this King of Glory who the Lord of Hosts renown'd Of Glory he alone is King who is with Glory crown'd PSALM XXV verse 1 2 To God in whom I trust I list my Heart and Voice O let me not be put to shame nor let my Foes rejoice verse 3 Those who on Thee rely let no disgrace attend Be that the shameful Lot of such as wilfully offend verse 4 5 To me thy Truth impart and lead me in thy way For thou art he that brings me Help on thee I wait all day verse 6 Thy Mercies and thy Love O Lord recall to mind And graciously continue still as thou wert ever kind verse 7 Let all my youthful Crimes be blotted out by-thee And for thy wond'rous Goodness sake in Mercy think on me verse 8 His Mercy and his Truth the righteous Lord displays In bringing wand'ring Sinners home and teaching them his ways verse 9 He those in Justice guides who his Direction seek And in his sacred Paths shall lead the humble and the meek verse 10 Through all the ways of God both Truth and Mercy shine To such as with religiously Hearts to his blest Will incline PART II. verse 11 Since Mercy is the Grace that most exalts thy Fame Forgive my heinous Sin O Lord and so advance thy Name verse 12 Whoe'er with Humble Fear to God his Duty pays Shall find the Lord a faithful Guide in all his righteous Ways verse 13 His quiet Soul with Peace shall be for ever blest And by his num'rous Race the Land successively possest verse 14 For God to all his Saints his secret Will imparts And does his gracious Cov'nant write in their obedient Hearts verse 15 To him I list my Eyes and wait his timely Aid Who breaks the strong and treach'rous Snare which for my Feet was laid verse 16 O turn and all my Griefs in Mercy Lord redrefs For I am compass'd round with Woes and plung'd in deep Distress verse 17 The Sorrows of my Heart to mighty Sums increase O from this dark and dismal state my troubled Soul release verse 18 Do thou with tender Eyes my sad Afflictions see Acquit me Lord and from my Guilt intirely set me free verse 19 Consider Lord my Foes how vast their numbers grow What lawless Farce and Rage they use what boundless Hate they show verse 20 Protect and set my Soul from their fierce Malice free Nor let me be asham'd who place my stedfast Trust in thee verse 21 Let all my righteous Acts to full Persection rise Because my firm and constant Hope on thee alone relies verse 22 To Israel's chosen Race continue ever kind And in the midst of all their Wants let them thy Succour sind PSALM XXVI verse 1 JUdge me O Lord for I the Paths of Righteousness have trod I cannot fail who all my Trust repose on thee my God verse 2 3 Search thou my Heart whose Innocence will shine the more 't is try'd For I have kept thy Grace in view and made thy Truth my Guide verse 4 I never for Companions took the Idle or Prophane No Hypocrite with all his Arts could e'er my Friendship gain verse 5 I hate the busie Plotting Crew who make distracted Times And shun their wicked Company as I avoid their Crimes verse 6 I 'll wash my hands in Innocence and bring a Heart so pure That when thy Altar I approach my welcome shall secure verse 7 8 My thanks I 'll publish there and tell how thy Renown excels That Seat affords me most delight in which thy Honour dwells verse 9 Pass not on me the Sinners doom who Murder makes their Trade verse 10 Who others Rights by fecret Bribes or open Force invade verse 11 But I will walk in paths of Truth and Innocence pursue Protect me therefore and to me thy Mercies Lord renew verse 12 In spight of all assaulting Foes I still maintain my ground And shall survive amongst thy Saints thy Praises to resound PSALM XXVII verse 1 WHom should I fear since God to me is saying-Health and Light Since strongly he my Life supports what can my Soul assright verse 2 With fierce intent my Flesh to tear when Foes beset me round They stumbled and their losty Crests were made to strike the Ground verse 3 Through him my Heart undaunted dares with mighty Hosts to cope Through him in doubtful Straits of War for good Success I hope verse 4 Henceforth within his House to dwell I earnestly desire His wond'rous Beauty there to view and of his Will enquire verse 5 For there may I with Comfort rest in times of deep Distress And safe as on a Rock abide in that secure Recess verse 6 Whilst God o'er all my haughty Foes my lofty Head shall raise And I my joyful Tribute bring with grateful Songs of Praise PART II. verse 7 Continue Lord to hear my Voice whene'er to thee I cry In Mercy my Complaints receive nor my Request deny verse 8 When us to seek thy glorious Face thou kindly dost advise Thy glorious Face I 'll always seek my grateful Heart replies verse 9 Then hide not thou thy Face O Lord nor me in Wrath reject My God and Saviour leave not him thou didst so ost protect verse 10 Tho' all my Friends and Kindred too their helpless Charge forsake Yet thou whose Love excels them all wilt Care and Pity take verse 11 Instruct me in thy Paths O Lord my Ways
Request with constant Love attend verse 20 Then bless'd for ever be my God who never when I pray With-holds his Mercy from my Soul nor turns his Face away PSALM LXVII TO bless thy chosen Race in Mercy Lord incline And cause the brightness of thy Face on all thy Saints to shine verse 2 That so thy wond'rous Ways may thro the World be known Whilst distant Lands their Tribute pay and thy Salvation own verse 3 Let diffring Nations join to celebrate thy Fame Let all the World O Lord combine to praise thy glorious Name verse 4 O let them shout and sing with Joy and pious Mirth For Thou the Righteous Judge and King shalt govern all the Earth verse 5 Let diff'ring Nations join to celebrate thy same Let all the World O Lord combine to praise thy glorious Name verse 6 Then shall the teeming Ground a large increase disclose And we with Plenty shall be crown'd which God our God bestows verse 7 Then God upon our Land shall constant Blessings show'r And all the World in awe shall stand Of his resistless Pow'r PSALM LXVIII LET God the God of Battel rife And scatter his presumptuous Foes Let shameful Rout their Host surprize Who spitefully his Pow'r oppose verse 2 As Smoak in Tempest's Rage is lost Or Wax into the Furnace cast So let their facrilegious Host Before his wrathful Presence waste verse 2 But let the Servants of his Will His Favour 's gentle Beams enjoy Their upright Hearts let Gladness fill And chearful Songs their Tongues employ verse 4 To him your Voice in Anthems raise Jehovah's awful Name he bears In him rejoice extol his Praise Who rides upon high rowling Spheres verse 5 Him from his Empire of the Skies To this low World Compassion draws The Orphan's Claim to patronize And judge the injur'd Widow's Cause verse 6 'T is God who from a foreign Soil Restores poor Exiles to their Home Makes Captives free and fruitless Toil Their Proud Oppressors righteous Doom verse 7 'T was so of old when thou didst lead In Person Lord our Armies forth Strange Terrors thro the Desert spread verse 8 Convulsions shook th' astonish Earth The breaking Clouds did Rain distil And Heav'ns high Arches shook with Fear How then should Sinai's humble Hill Of Israel's God the Prefence bear verse 9 Thy Hand at famisht Earth's Complaint Reliev'd her from Celestial Stores And when thy Heritage was faint Asswag'd the Drought with plenteous show'rs verse 10 Where Savages had rang'd before At Ease thou mad'st our Tribes reside And in the Desart for the Poor Thy gen'rous Bounty did provide PART II. verse 11 Thou gav'st the Word we falli'd forth And in that pow'rful Word o'ercame While Virgin-Troops with Songs of Mirth In state our Conquest did proclaim verse 12 Vast Armies by such Gen'rals led As yet had ne'er receiv'd a Foil Forsook their Camp with sudden Dread And to our Women left the Spoil verse 13 Tho Egypt's Drudges you have been Your Army's Wings shall shine as bright As Dove's in golden Sunshine seen Or silver'd o'er with paler Light verse 14 'T was so when God's Almighty Hand O'er scatter'd Kings the Conquest won Our Troops drawn up on Jordan's Strand High salman's glitt'ring Snow out-shone verse 15 From thence to Jordan's farther Coaft And Bashan's Hill we did advance No more her Height shall Bashan boast But that she 's God's Inheritance verse 16 But wheresore tho the Honour 's great Should this O Mountains swell your Pride For Sion is his chosen Seat Where he for ever will reside verse 17 His Chariots numberless his Pow'rs Are heavenly Hosts that wait his Will His Prefence now fills Sion Tow'rs As once it honour'd Sinai's Hill verse 18 Ascending high in Triumph Thou Captivity hath Captive led And on thy People did'st bestow The Spoil of Armies once their Dread Ev'n Rebels shall partake thy Grace And humble Proselytes repair To worship at thy Dwelling-place And all the World pay Homage there verse 19 For Benefits each Day bestow'd Be daily his great Name ador'd verse 20 Who is our Saviour and our God Of Life and Death the Sov'reign Lord. verse 21 But justice for his harden'd Foes Proportion'd Vengeance hath decreed To wound the Hoary Head of those Who in presumptuous Crimes proceed verse 22 The Lord has thus in Thunder spoke As I subdu'd proud Bashan's King Once more I 'll break my Pople's Yoke And from the Deep my Servants bring verse 23 Their Feet shall with a crimson Flood Of slaughter'd Foes be cover'd o'er Nor Earth receive such impious Blood But leave for Dogs th' unhallow'd Gore PART III. verse 24 When marching to thy blest abode The wond'ring Multitude survey'd The Pompous State of Thee our God In Robes of Majesty array'd verse 25 Sweet-singing Levites led the Van Loud Instruments brought up the Rear Between both Troops a Virgin-train With Voice and Timbrel charm'd the Ear. verse 26 This was the Burden of their Song In full Assemblies bless the Lord All who to Israel's Tribes belong The God of Israel's Praise record verse 27 Nor little Benjamin alone From neighb'ring Bounds did there attend Nor only Judah's nearer Throne Her Counsellors in state did send But Zebulon's remorer Seat And Nepthali's more distant Coast The grand Procession to compleat Sent up their Tribes a princely Host verse 28 Thus God to Strength and Union brought Our Tribes at strife till that blest hour This Work which thou O God hast wrought Confirm with fresh Recruits of Pow'r verse 29 To visit Salem Lord descend And Sion thy terrestrial Throne Where Kings with Presents shall attend And Thee with offer'd Crowns attone verse 30 Break down the spearmens ranks who threat Like pamper'd Herds of Savage Might Their Silver-armour'd Chiefs defeat Who in destructive War delight verse 31 Egypt shall then to God stretch forth Her Hands and Africk Homage bring verse 32 The scatter'd Kingdoms of the Earth Their common Sovereign's Praises sing verse 33 Who mounted on the loftiest Sphere Of ancient Heav'n sublimely rides From whence his dreadful Voice we hear Like that of warring Winds and Tides verse 34 Ascribe ye Power to God most High Of humble Isr'el he takes Care Whose Strength from out the dusky Sky Darts shining Terrors thro' the Air. verse 35 How dreadful are the sacred Courts Where God has fix'd his earthly Throne His Strength his feeble Saints supports To God give Praise and him alone PSALM LXIX SAve me O God from Waves that rowl And press to overwhelm my Soul verse 2 With painful steps in mire I tread And Deluges o'erflow my Head verse 3 With restless Cries my Spirits faint My Voice is hoarse with long Complaint My Sight decays with tedious Pain Whilst for my God I wait in vain verse 4 My Hairs tho num'rous are but few Compare'd with Foes that me pursue With groundless hate grown now of might To execute their lawless Spite They force me guiltless to resign As Rapine what by right
Then Joy shall fill my Mouth and Song employ my chearful Voice My grateful Soul by Thee redeem'd shall in thy Strength rejoice verse 24 My Tongue thy just and righteous Acts shall all the day proclaim Because thou did'st confound my Foes and brought'st them all to shame PSALM LXXII LOrd let thy just Decrees the King in all his Ways direct And let his Son throughout his Reign thy righteous Laws respect verse 2 So shall he still thy People judge with pure and upright Mind Whilst all the helpless Poor shall him their just Protector find verse 3 Then Hills and Mountains shall bring forth the happy Fruits of Peace Which all the Land shall own to be the Work of Righteousness verse 4 Whilst he the poor and needy Race shall rule with gentle Sway And from their humble Necks shall take oppressive Yokes away verse 5 In ev'ry Heart thy awful Fear shall then be rooted fast As long as Sun and Moon endure or Time it self shall last verse 6 He shall descend like Rain that chears the Meadows second Birth Or like warm Show'rs whose gentle Drops refresh the thirsty Earth verse 7 In his blest days the just and good shall be with Favour crown'd The happy Land shall ev'ry where with endless Peace abound verse 8 His uncontroul'd Dominion shall from Sea to Sea extend Begin at proud Eupbrates Streams at Nature's Limits end verse 9 To him the savage Nations round shall bow their servile Heads His vanquisht Foes shall lick the dust where he his Conquest spreads verse 10 The Kings of Tarshish and the Isles shall costly Presents brings From spicy Sheba Gifts shall come and wealthy Saba's King verse 11 To him shall ev'ry King on Earth his humble Homage pay And diff'ring Nations gladly join to own his righteous Sway. verse 12 For he shall set the Needy free when they for Succour cry Shall save the Helpless and the Poor and all their Wants supply PART II. verse 13 His Providence for needy Souls shall due Supplies prepare And over their defenceless Lives shall watch with tender Care verse 14 He shall preserve and keep their Souls from Fraud and Rapine free And in his fight their guitless Blood of mighty Price shall be verse 15 Therefore shall God his Life and Reign to many years extend Whilst Eastern Princes Tribute pay and golden Presents send For him shall constant Pray'rs be made thro' all his prosp'rous Days His just Dominion shall afford a lasting Theme of Praise verse 16 Of useful Grain thro' all the Land great Plenty shall appear A Handful sown on Mountain Tops a mighty Crop shall bear Its Fruit like Cedars shook by Winds a rattling Noise shall yield The City too shall thrive and vie for Plenty with the Field verse 17 The Mem'ry of his glorious Name thro' endless Years shall run His spotless Fame shall shine as bright and lasting as the Sun In him the Nations of the World shall be compleatly blest And his unbounded Happiness by ev'ry Tongue confest verse 18 Then bless'd be God the mighty Lord The God whom Isr'el fears Who only wond'rous in his Works beyond Compare appears verse 19 Let Earth be with his Glory fill'd and ever bless his Name Whilst to his Praise the list'ning World their glad Assent proclaim PSALM LXXIII AT length by certain Proofs 't is plain That God will to his Saints be kind That all whose Hearts are pure and clean Shall his protecting Favour find verse 2 3 Till this sustaining Truth I knew My stagg'ring Feet had almost fail'd I griev'd the Sinners Wealth to view And envy'd when the Fools prevail'd verse 4 5 They to the Grave in Peace descend And whilst they live are hail and strong No Plague or Troubles them offend Which oft to other Men belong verse 6 7 With Prides as with a Chain they 'r held And Rapine seems their Robe of State Their Eyes stand out with Fatness swell'd They grow beyond their Wishes great verse 8 9 With Hearts corrupt and losty Talk Oppressive Methods they desend Their Tongue thro' all the Earth does walk Their Blasphemies to Heav'n ascend verse 10 And yet admiring Crowds are found Who servile Visits duly make Because with Plenty they abound Of which their flatt'ring Slaves partake verse 11 Their fond Opinions these pursue Till they with them prophanely cry How should the Lord our Actions view Can he perceive who dwells so high verse 12 Behold the Wicked these are they Who openly their Sins prosess And yet their Wealth 's increas'd each day And all their Actions meet Success verse 13 14 Then have I cleans'd my Heart said I And wash'd my Hands from Guilt in vain If all the day oppress'd I lie And ev'ry morning suffer Pain verse 15 Thus did I once to speak intend But if such things I rashly say Tuy Children Lord I must offend And basely should their Cause betray PART II. verse 16 17 To fathom this my Thoughts I bent But found the case too hard for me Till to the House of God I went Then I their End did plainly see verse 28 How high soe'er advanc'd they all On slipp'ry Places loosely stand Thence into Ruin headlong fall Cast down by thy avenging Hand verse 19 20 How dreadful and how quick their Fate Despis'd by Thee when they 're destroy'd As waking Men with Scorn do treat The Fancies that their Dreams employ'd verse 21 22 Thus was my Heart with Grief opprest My Reins were rack'd with restless Pains So stupid was I like a Beast Who no reflecting Thought retains verse 23 24 Yet still thy Presence me supply'd And thy Right-hand Assistance gave Thou first shalt with thy Coursel guide And then to glory me receive verse 25 Whom then in Heav'n but thee alone Have I whose Favour I require Throughout the spacious Earth there 's none That I besides thee can desire verse 26 My trembling Flesh and aking Heart May often fail to succour me But God shall inward strength impart And my eternal Portion be verse 27 For they that far from Thee remove Shall into sudden Rain fall If after other Gods they rove Thy Vengeance shall destroy them all verse 28 But as for me 't is good and just That I should stiil to Godrepair In him I always put my Trust And will his wond'rous Works declare PSALM LXXIV WHY hast thou cast us off O God with thou no more return O why against thy chosen Flock does thy fierce Anger burn verse 2 Think on thy ancient Purchase Lord the Land that is thy own By thee redeem'd and Sion's Mount where once the Glory shone verse 3 O! come and view our ruin'd State how long our Troubles last See! how the Foe with wicked Rage has laid thy Temple waste verse 4 Thy Foes blaspheme thy Name where late thy zealous Servants pray'd The Heathen there with haughty Pomp Their Banners have display'd verse 5 6 Those curious Carvings which did once advance the Artist's Fame With Ax and
themselves for Fear beneath their Channels sunk verse 17 The Clouds pour'd down while rending Skies did with their Noise conspire Thy Arrows all abroad were sent wing'd with avenging Fire verse 18 Heav'n with thy Thunder's Voice was torn whilst all the lower World With Lightning blaz'd Earth shook and feem'd from her Foundations hurl'd verse 19 Thro' rolling Streams thou find'st thy way thy Paths in waters lie Thy wond'rous Passage where no Sight thy Footsteps can descry verse 20 Thou led'st thy People like a Flock safe thro the Desart Land By Moses their meek skilful Guide And Aaron's facred Hand PSALM LXXVIII verse 1 HEar O my People to my Law devout Attention lend Let the Instruction of my Mouth deep in your Hearts descend verse 2 My Tongue by Inspiration taught shall Parables unfold Dark Oracles but understood and own'd for Truths of Old verse 3 Which we from sacred Registers of ancient Times have known And our Fore-fathers pious Care to us has handed down verse 4 We will not hide them from our Sons our Offspring shall be taught The Praises of the Lord whose Strength has Works of Wonder wrought verse 5 For Jacob be this Law ordain'd this League with Isr'el made With Charge to be from Age to Age from Race to Race convey'd verse 6 That Generations yet to come should to their unborn Heirs Religiously transmit the same and they again to theirs verse 7 To teach'em that in God alone their Hope securely stands That they should ne'er forget his Works but keep his just Commands verse 8 Left like their Fathers they might prove a stiff Rebellious Race False-hearted sickle to their God unstedfast in his Grace verse 9 Such were revolting Epbraim's Sons who tho to Warfare bred And skilful Archers arm'd with Bows from Field ignobly sled verse 10 11 They falsify'd their League with God his Orders disobey'd Forgot his Works and Miracles before their Eyes display'd verse 12 Nor Wonders which their Fathers saw did they in Mind retain Prodigious things in Egypt done and Zoan's fertile Plain verse 13 He cut the Seas to let 'em pass restrain'd the pressing Flood While pil'd in Heaps on either side the solid Waters stood verse 14 A wond'rous Pillar led them on compos'd of Shade and Light A sheltring Cloud it prov'd by Day a leading Fire by Night verse 15 When Drought opprest'em where no Stream the Wilderness supply'd He clest the Rock whose flinty Breast dissolv'd into a Tide verse 16 Streams from the solid Rock he brought which down in Rivers fell That trav'ling with their Camp each day renew'd the Miracle verse 17 Yet there they sinn'd against him more provoking the most High In that same Desart where he did their fainting Souls supply verse 18 They first incens'd him in their Hearts that did his Pow'e distrust And long'd for Meat not urg'd by Want but to indulge their Lust verse 19 Then utter'd their blaspheming Doubts Can God say they prepare A Table in the Wilderness set out with various Fare verse 20 He smote the flinty Rock 't is true and gushing Streams ensu'd But can he corn and Flesh Provide for such a Multitude verse 21 The Lord with Indignation heard From Heav'n avenging Flame On Jacob fell consuming Wrath on thankless Isr'el came verse 22 Because their unbelieving Hearts in God would not conside Nor trust his Care who had from Heav'n their wants so oft supply'd verse 23 Tho he had made his Clouds discharge provisions down in Show'rs And when Earth fail'd reliev'd their Needs from his Celestial Stores verse 24 Tho tasteful Manna was rain'd down their Hunger to relieve Tho from the Stores of Heav'n they did sustaining Corn receive verse 25 Thus Man with Angels sacred Food ingrateful Man was fed Not sparingly for still they found a plenteous Table spread verse 26 From Heav'n be made an East Wind blow then did the South command verse 27 To rain down Flesh like dust and Fowls like Seas unnumber'd Sand. verse 28 Within their Trenches he let fall the luscious easie Prey And all around their spreading Camp the ready Booty lay verse 29 They fed were fill'd he gave'em leave their Appetites to feast verse 30 31 Yet still their wanton lust crav'd on nor with their Hunger ceas'd But whilst in their luxurious Mouth they did their Dainties chew The Wrath of God smote down their Chiess and Isr'el's Chosen flew PART II verse 32 Yet still they finn'd nor would afford his Miracles Belief verse 33 Therefore thro fruitless Travels he consum'd their Lives in Grief verse 34 When some slain the rest return'd to God with early Cry verse 35 Own'd him the Rock of their Defence their Saviour God most High verse 36 But this Was seign'd Submission all their Heart their Tongue bely'd verse 37 Their Heart was still perverse nor wou'd firm in his League abide verse 38 Yet full of Mercy he forgave nor did with Death chastise But turn'd his kindled Wrath aside or would not let it rise verse 39 For he remember'd they were flesh that could not long remain A murm'ring Wind that 's quickly past and ne'er returns again verse 40 How ost did they provoke him there How ost his Patience grieve In that same Desart where he did their fainting Souls relieve verse 41 They tempted him by turning back and wickedly repin'd When Isrsel's God refus'd to be by their Desires consin'd verse 42 Nor call to mind the Hand and Day that their Redemption brought verse 43 His Signs in Egypt wond'rous Works in Zoan's Valley wrought verse 44 He turn'd their Rivers into Blood that Man and Beast forbore And rather chose to die of Thirst than drink the putrid Gore verse 45 He sent devouring Swarms of Flies hoarse Frogs annoy'd their Soil verse 46 Locusts and Caterpillars reap'd the Harvest of their Toil. verse 47 Their Vines with batt'ring Hail were broke with Frost the Fig-Tree dies verse 48 Light'ning and Hail made Flocks and Herds one gen'ral Sacrifice verse 49 He turn'd his Anger loose and let no time for it to cease And with their Plagues bad Angels sent their Torments to increase verse 50 He clear'd a Passage for his Wrath to ravage uncontroul'd The Murrain on their Firstlings seiz'd in ev'ry Field and Fold verse 51 The deadly Pest from Beast to Man from Field to City came It slew their Heirs their eldest Hopes thro all the Tents of Ham. verse 52 But his own Tribe like folded Sheep he brought from their Distress And them conducted like a Flock thro-out the Wilderness verse 53 He led'em on dnd in their way no cause of Fear they found But march'd securely thro those Deeps In which their Foes were drown'd verse 54 Nor ceas'd his Care till them he brought safe to his promis'd Land And to his holy Mount the Prize of his victorious Hand verse 55 To them the out-cast Heathen's Land he did by Lot divide And in their Foes abandon'd Tents made Isr'el's Tribes reside PART III
of our Misdeeds do thou of our just Doom repent verse 14 To satisfie and chear our Souls thy early mercy send That we may all our Days to come in Joy and Comfort spend verse 15 Let happy Times with large Amends dry up our former Tears Or equal at the least the Term of our-afflicted Years verse 16 To all thy Servants Lord let this thy wond rouswork be known And to our Offspring yet unborn thy glorious pow'r be shown verse 17 Let thy bright Rays upon us shine give thou our work success The glorious Work we have in hand do thou vouchsase to bless Psalm XCI verse 1 HE that has God his Guardian made Shall under the Almighty's Shade Secure and undisturb'd abide verse 2 Thus to my Soul of him I 'll say He is my Fortress and my Stay My God in whom I will conside verse 3 His tender Love and watchful Care Shall free thee from the Fowler 's Snare And from the noisom Pestilence verse 4 He over thee his wings shall spread And cover thy unguarded head His Truth shall be thy strong Defence verse 5 No Terrours that surprise by Night Shall thy undaunted Courage fright Nor deadly Shafts that fly by Day verse 6 Nor Plague of unknown Rise that kills In Darkness nor infections Ills That in the hottest season slay verse 7 A thousand at thy side shall die At thy Right-hand ten thousand lie While thy firm health untouch'd remains verse 8 Thou only shalt look on and see The Wicked's dtsmal Tragedy And count the Sinner's mournful Gains verse 9 Because with well-plac'd Confidence Thou mak'st the Lord thy sure Defence And on the Highest dost rely verse 10 Therefore no Ill shall thee besall Nor to thy healthful Dwelling shall Any infectious Plague draw nigh verse 11 For he thro-out thy happy days To keep thee safe in all thy ways Shall give his Angel strict Commands verse 12 And they left thou shouldst chance to meet With some rough Stone to wound thy Feet Shall bear thee safely in their hands verse 13 Dragons and Asps that thirst for Blood And Lions roaring for their Food Beneath his conqu'ring Feet shall lie verse 14 Because he lov'd and honour'd me Therefore says God I 'll set him free And fix his glorious Throne on high verse 15 He 'll call I 'll answer when he calls And rescue him when Ill befalls Increase his Honour and his Wealth verse 16 And when with undisturb'd Content His long and happy Life is spent His End I 'll crown with saving Health Psalm XCII verse 1 HOw good and pleasant must it be to thank the Lord most high And with repeated Hymns of praise his Name to magnifie verse 2 With ev'ry Morning 's early Dawn his goodness to relate And of his constant Truth each Night the glad Effects repeat verse 3 To ten-string'd Instruments we 'll sing with tuneful Psalt'ries joyn'd And to the Harp with solemn sounds for sacred use design'd verse 4 For thro thy wondrous works O Lord thou mak'st my Heart rejoyce The thoughts of them shall make me glad and shout with chearful Voice verse 5 6 How wondrous are thy Works O Lord how deep are thy Decrees Whose winding Tracts in secret laid no stupid Sinner sees verse 7 He little thinks when wicked Men like Grass look fresh and gay How soon their short-liv'd Splendor must for ever pass away verse 8 9 But thou my God art still most High and all thy lofty Foes Who thought they might securely sin shall be o'erwhelm'd with Woes verse 10 Whilst thou exalt'st my sov'reign Pow'r and mak'st it largely spread And with refreshing Oil anoint'st my consecrated Head verse 11 I soon shall see my stubborn Foes to utter Ruine brought And hear the dismal End of those who have against me fought verse 12 But righteous Men like fruitful Palms shall make a glorious show As Cedars that in Lebanon in stately order grow verse 13 14 These planted in the House of God within his Courts shall thrive Their Vigour and their Lustre both shall in old Age revive verse 15 Thus will the Lord his Justice shew and God my strong Defence Shall due Rewards to all the World impartially dispense Psalm XCIII verse 1 WIth Glory clad with Strength array'd The Lord that o'er all Nature reigns The World's Foundations strongly laid And the vast Fabrick still sustains verse 2 How surely stablisht is thy Throne Which shall no Change or Period see For thou O Lord and thou alone Art God from all Eternity verse 3 4 The Floods O Lord lift up their Voice And toss the troubled Waves on high But God above can still their Noise And make the angry Sea comply verse 5 Thy promise Lord is ever sure And they that in thy House would dwell That happy station to secure Must still in Holiness excell Psalm XCIV verse 1 2 O God to whom Revenge belongs thy Vengeance now disclose Arise thou Judge of all the Earth and Crush thy haughty Foes verse 3 4 How long O Lord shall sinful Men their solemn Triumphs make How long their wicked Actions boast And insolently speak verse 5 6 Not only they thy Saints oppress but uprovok'd they spill The Widow's and the Stranger 's Blood and helpless Orphans kill verse 7 And yet the Lord shall ne'er perceive profanely thus they speak Nor any Notice of our Deeds The God of Jacob take verse 8 At length ye stupid Fools your Wants endeavour to discern In folly will you still proceed and Wisdom never learn verse 9 10 Can he be deaf who form'd the Ear or blind who fram'd the Eye Shall Earth's great Judge not punish those who his khown Will defie verse 11 He fathoms all the Thoughts of Men to him their Hearts lie bare His Eye surveys them all and sees how vain their Counsels are PART II. verse 12 Blest is the Man whom thou O Lord in kindness dost chastise And by thy sacred Rules to walk dost lovingly advise verse 13 This Man shall Rest and Safety find in Seasons of Distress Whilst God prepares a Pit for those that stubbornly transgress verse 14 For God will never from his Saints his Favour wholly take His own Possession and his Lot he will not quite forsake verse 15 The World shall then confess thee just in all that thou hast done And those that chuse thy upright ways shall in those Paths go on verse 16 Who will appear in my behalf when wicked Men invade Or who when sinners would oppress my righteous Cause shall plead verse 17 18 19 Long since had I in silence slept but that the Lord was near To stay me when I slipâ— when sad my troubled heart to chear verse 20 Wilt thou who art a God most just their sinful Throne sustain Who make the Law a fair pretence their wicked Ends to gain verse 21 Against the Lives of righteous Men they form their close Design And Blood of Innocents to spill in solemn League combine verse 22
Friend And he shall from unrighteous Dooms their guiltless Souls defend Psalm CX verse 1 THE Lord unto my Lord thus spake Till I thy Foes thy Footstool make sit thou in state at my Right-hand verse 2 Supreme in Sion thou shall be and all thy proud Opposers see subjected to thy just Command verse 3 Thee in thy Pow'rs triumphant Day the willing Nations shall obey and when thy rising Beams they view shall all redeem'd from Error 's Night appear as numberless and bright as Chrystal Drops of Morning Dew verse 4 The Lord hath sworn nor sworn in vain that like Melchizedech's thy Reign and Priesthood shall no Period know verse 5 No proud Competitor to fit at thy Right-hand will he permit but in his wrath crown'd Heads o'erthrow verse 6 The sentenc'd Heathen he shall flay and fill with Carcasses his way till he hath struck Earth's Tyrants dead verse 7 But in the high-way Brooks shall first like a poor Pilgrim slake his Thirst and then in Triumph raise his Head Psalm CXI verse 1 PRise ye the Lord our God to praise My Soul her utmost Pow'r raise With private Friends and in the Throng Of Saints his Praise shall be my Song verse 2 His Works for Greatness tho' renown'd His wond'rous Works with ease are found By those who seek for them aright And in the pious Search delight verse 3 His Works are all of matchless Fame And universal Glory claim His truth confirm'd thro'Ages past Shall to eternal Ages last verse 4 By precept he has us enjoyn'd To keep his wondrous Works in mind And to posterity record That good and gracious is our Lord. verse 5 His Bounty like a flowing Tide Has all his Servants Wants supply'd And he will ever keep in mind His Cov'nant with our Fathers sign'd verse 6 At once astonish'd and o'erjoy'd They saw his matchless Pow'r employ'd Whereby the Heathen were suppress'd And we their Heritage possess'd verse 7 Just are the Dealings of his Hands Immutable are his Commands verse 8 By Truth and Equity sustain'd And for eternal Rules ordain'd verse 9 He set is Saints from Bondage free And then establish'd his Decree For ever to remain the fame Holy and Rev'rend is his Name verse 10 Who Wisdom's sacred Prize would win Must with the Fear of God begin Immortal praise and heav'nly Skill Have they who know and do his Will Psalm CXII HALLELUJAH verse 1 THat Man is blest who stands in aw Of God and loves his sacred Law verse 2 His seed on Earth shall be renown'd And with successive Honours crown'd verse 1 His House the Seat of Wealth shall be An inexhausted Treasury His Justice free from all Decay Shall Blessings to his Heirs convey verse 4 The Soul that 's fill'd with Vertue 's Light Shine's brightest in Assliction's Night To pity the Distrest inclin'd As well as just to all Mankind verse 5 His lib'ral Favours he extends To some he gives to others lends Yet what his Charity impairs He saves by Prudence in Affairs verse 6 Beset with threatning Dangers round Unmov'd shall he maintain his Ground The sweet Remembrance of the Just Shall flourish when he sleeps in Dust verse 7 III Tidings never can surprize His Heart that still on God relies verse 8 On Safety 's Rock he sits and sees The Shipwreck of his Enemies verse 9 His Hands while they his Alms bestow'd His Glory 's future Harvest sow'd Whence he shall reap Wealth Fame Renown A temp'ral and eternal Crown verse 10 The Wicked shall his Trinmph see And gnash their Teeth in Agony While their unrighteous Hopes decay And vanish with themselves away Psalm CXIII verse 1 YE Saints and Servants of the Lord the Triumphs of his Name record verse 2 His sacred Name for ever bless verse 3 Where e'er the circling Sun displays his rising Beams or setting Rays due praise to his great Name address verse 4 God thro' the World extends his Sway the Regions of eternal Day but Shadows of his Glory are verse 5 To him whose Majesty excels who made the Heav'n in which he dwells let no created Pow'r compare verse 6 Tho' t is beneath his State to view in highest Heav'n what Angels do yet he to Earth vouchsafes his Care He takes the Needy from his Cell advancing him in Courts to dwell Companion to the greatest there verse 7 When childless Families despair He sends the Blessing of an Heir to rescue their expiring Name Makes her that barren was to bear and joyfully her fruit to rear O then extol his matcless Fame Psalm CXIV verse 1 WHen ' ISr'el by th' Almighty led Enrich'd with their Oppressors spoil From Egypt march'd and Jacob's Seed From Bondage in a foreign Soil Jehovab for his Residence Chose out imperial Judah's Tent His Mansion Royal and from thence Thro' Israel's Camp his Orders sent verse 3 The distant Sea with Terrors saw And from th' Almighty's presence fled Old Jordan's Streams surpriz'd with Awe Retreated to their Fountain's Head verse 4 The taller Mountains skipp'd like Rams When danger near the Fold they hear The Hills skipp'd after them like Lambs affrighted by their Leader's Fear verse 5 O Sea what made your Tide withdraw And naked leave your oozy Bed Why Jordan against Natur 's Law Recoild'st thou to thy Fountain's Head verse 6 Why Mountains did ye skip like Rams When Danger does approach the Fold Why after you the Hills like Lambs When they their Leader's Flight behold verse 7 Earth tremble on well may'st thou fear Thy Lord and Maker's Face to fee When Jacob's awful God draws near 'T is time for Earth and Seas to flee verse 8 To flee from God who Natures Law Confirms and cancels at his Will Who Springs from flinty Rocks can draw And thirsty Vales with Water fill Psalm CXV verse 1 LOrd not to us we claim no Share but to thy sacred Name Give Glory for thy Mercy 's fake and Truth 's eternal Fame verse 2 Why should the Heathen cry Where'snow the God whom we adore verse 3 Convince'em that in Heav'n thou art and uncontroul'd thy Pow'r verse 4 Their God's but Gold and Silver are the Works of Mortal Hands verse 5 With speechless Mouth and fightless Eyes the molten Idol stands verse 6 The Pageant has both Ears and Nose but neigher hears nor smells verse 7 Its Hands and Feet nor feel nor move no Life within it dwells verse 8 Such senseless Stocks they are that we can nothing like 'em find But those who on their Help rely and them for Gods design'd verse 9 O Ifr el make the Lord your Trust who is your Help and Shield verse 10 Priests Levites trust in him alone who only Help can yield verse 11 Let all who truely fear the Lord on him they fear rely Who them in Danger can defend and all their Wants supply verse 12 13 Of us he oft has mindful been and Israel's House will bless Priests Levites Proselytes ev'n All who his great Name confess verse 14
7 O could I so perfidious be To think of once deserting thee Where Lord cou'd I thy Influence shun Or whither from thy presence run verse 8 If up to Heav'n I take my slight 'T is there thou dwellst enthron'd in light Or dive to Hell's insernal Plains 'T is there Almighty Vengeance reigns verse 9 If I the Morning's Wings cou'd gain And fly beyond the Western Main verse 10 Thy swister Hand wou'd first arrive And there arrest thy Fugitive verse 11 Or shou'd I try to shun thy sight Beneath the sable Wings of night One glance from thee one piercing Ray Would kindle Darkness into Day verse 12 The Veil of Night is no disguise No Screen from thy all-searching Eyes Thro' midnight-Shades thou find'st thy way As in the plazing Noon of Day Thou know'st the Texture of my Heart verse 13 My Reins and ev'ry vital Part Each single Thread in Natute's Loom By thee was cover'd in the womb verse 14 I 'll praise thee from whose Hands I came A Work of such a curious Frame The Wonders thou in me hast shown My Soul with grateful Joy must own verse 15 Thine Eyes my Substance did survey While yet a lifeless mass it lay In secret how exactly wrought E'er from its dark Enclosure brought verse 16 Thou didst shapeless Embrio see Its parts were registred by thee Thou saw'st the daily growth they took Form'd by the Model of thy Book verse 17 Let me acknowledge too O God That since this Maze of life I trod Thy thoughts of Love to me furmount The pow'r of Numbers to recount verse 18 Far sooner could I reckon o'er The Sands upon the Ocean's Shore Each Morn revising what I 've done I find the account but new begun verse 19 The wicked thou shalt slay O God Depart from me ye men of Blood verse 20 Whose Tongues Heav'ns Majesty profane And take th' Almighty's Name in vain verse 21 Lord hate not I their impious Crew Who thee with Enmity pursue And does not Grief my Heart oppress When Repobates thy Laws transgress verse 22 Who practise Enmity to thee Shall utmost Hatred have from me Such men I utterly detest As if they were my Foes prosest verse 23 24 Search try O God my Thoughts and Heart If mischief lurks in any part Correct me where I go astray And guide me in thy perfect way Psalm CXL verse 1 PReserve me Lord from crasty Foes of teacherous intent verse 2 And from the Sons of Violence on open Mischief bent verse 3 Their sland ' ring Tongue the Serpent's Sting in sharpness do's exceed Between their Lips the Gall of Asps and Adders Venom breed verse 4 Preserve me Lord from wicked Hands nor leave my Soul forlorn A Prey to Sons of Violence who have my Ruine sworn verse 5 The proud for me have laid their Snare and spread their wily Net With Traps and Gins where e'er I move I sind my Steps beset verse 6 But thus environ'd with Distress thou art my God I said Lord hear my supplicating Voice that calls to thee for Aid verse 7 O Lord the God whose saving Strength kind Succour did convey And cover'd my advent'rous Head in Battel 's doubtful day verse 8 Permit not their unjust Designs to answer their Desire Lest they encourag'd by Success to bolder Crimes aspire verse 9 Let first their Chiess the sad Effects of their Injustice mourn The blast of their envenom'd Breath upon themselves return verse 10 Let them who kindl'd first the flame its Sacrifice become The Pit they digg'd for me be made their own untimely Tomb. verse 11 Tho' Slanders Breath may raise a Sorm it quickly will decay Their Rage does but the Torrent swell that bears themselves away verse 12 God will assert the poor Man's Cause and speedy Succour give The Just shall celebrate his praise and in his Presence live Psalm CXLI verse 1 TO thee O Lord my Cries ascend O haste to my Relief And with accustom'd Pity hear the Accents of my Grief verse 2 Instead off'rings let my Pray'r like Morning-Incense rise My listed Hands supply the place of Evening Sacrifice verse 3 From hasty Language curb my Tongue and let a constant Guard Still keep the Portal of my Lips with wary Silence barr'd verse 4 From wicked Men's Designs and Deeds my Heart and Hands restrain Nor let me in the Booty share of their unrighteous Gain verse 5 Let upright Men reprove my Faults and I shall think 'em kind Like Balm that heals a wounded Head I their Reproof shall find And in return my servent pray'r I shall for them address When they are tempted and reduc'd like me fo sore Distress verse 6 When sculking in Engeddh's Rock I to their Chiess appeal If one reproachful Word I spoke when I had pow'r to kill verse 7 Yet us they persecute to Death our scatter'd Ruins lie As thick as from the Hewer's Ax the sever'd Splinters slie verse 8 But Lord to thee I still direct my supplicating Eye O leave not destitute my Soul whose Trust on thee relies verse 9 Do thou preserve me fcam the Snares that wicked Hands have laid Let them in their own Nets be caught while my Escape is made Psalm CXLII verse 1 TO God with mournful Voice in deep Distress I pray'd verse 2 Made him the Umpire of my Cause my Wrongs before him laid verse 3 Thou didst my Steps direct when my griev'd Soul despair'd For where I thought to walk secure they had their Traps prepar'd verse 4 I look'd but sound no Friend to own me in Distress All Refuge fail'd no man vouchsifd his Pity or Redress verse 5 To God at last I pray'd thou Lord my Refuge art My portion in the Land of Life till Life it sels depart verse 6 Reduc'd to greatest Straits to thee I make my moan O! save me from oppressing Foes for me too pow'rful grown verse 7 That I may praise thy name my Soul from Prison bring Whilst of thy kind Regard to me assembled Saints shall sing Psalm CXLIII verse 1 LORD hear my Pray'r and to my Cry thy wonted Audience lend In thy accustom'd Faith and Truth a gracious Answer send verse 2 Nor at thy strct Tribunal bring thy servant to betry'd For in thy sight no living Man can e'er be justify'd verse 3 The spightful Foe pursues my life whose Comforts all are sled He drives me into Caves as dark as Mansions of the dead verse 4 My spirit therefore is o'erwhelm'd and sinks within ray Breast My mournful Heart grows desolate with heavy Woes opprest verse 5 I call to mind the Days of old and Wonders thou hast wrought My former Dangers and Escapes employ my musing Thought verse 6 To thee my Hands in humble Prayer I fervently stretch out My Soul for thy resreshment thirsts like Land oppress'd with Drought verse 7 Hear me with speed my Spirit fails thy Face no longer hide Left I become forlorn like them that in the Grave reside verse 8 Thy kindness early let
me hear whose Trust on thee depends Teach me the Way where I should go my Soul to thee ascends verse 9 Do thou O Lord from all my Foes preferve and set me free A safe Retreat against their Rage my Soul implores from thee verse 10 Thou art my God thy righteous Will instruct me to obey Let thy good Spirit condust and keep my Soul in thy right way verse 11 0 for the sake of thy great Name revive my drooping heart For thy Truth's'sake to me distress'd thy promis'd Aid impart verse 12 In pity to my Suff'rings Lord reduce my Foes to shame Slay tham that persecute a Soul devoted to thy Name Psalm CXLIV verse 1 FOR ever blest be God the Lord Who does his needful Aid impart At once both Strength and Skill assord To weild my Arms with warlike Art verse 2 His Goodness is my Fort and Tow'r My strong Deliv'rance and my Shield In him I trust whose matchless Pow'r Makes to my sway fierce Nations yield verse 3 Lord what'sin Man that thou shouldst lov'e Of him such tender Care to take What in his Off-spring cou'd thee move Such great Account of him to make verse 4 The Life of Man does quickly sade His Thoughts but empty are and vain His Days are like a slying Shade Of whose short stay no Signs remain verse 5 In solemn State O God descend Whilst Heav'n its losty Head inclines The smoking Hills asounder rend Of thy Approach the awful Signs verse 6 Discarge thy dreadful Lightnings round And make my scatter'd Foes retreat Them with thy pointed Arrows wound And their Destruction soon complete verse 7 8 Do thou O Lord from Heav'n engage Thy boundless Pow'r my Foes to quell And snatch me from the stormy Rage Of threatning Waves that proudly swell Fight thou against my foreign Foes Who utter Speeches false and vain Who tho' in solemn Leagues they close Their sworn Engagement ne'er maintain verse 9 So I to thee O King of kings In new-made Hymns my Voice shall raise And Instruments of various Strings Shall help me thus to sing thy praise verse 10 God does to Kings his Aid afford to them his sure Salvation sends T is he that from the murd'ring Sword His Servant David still desends verse 11 Fight thou against my foreign Foes Who utter Speeches false and vain Who tho' in solemn Leagues they close Their sworn Engagement ne'er maintain verse 12 Then our young Sons like Trees shall grow Well planted in some fruitful place Our Daughters shall like Pillars show Design'd some royal Court to grace verse 13 Our Garners fill'd with various Store Shall us and ours with Plenty feed Our Sheep increasing more and more Shall thousands and ten thousands breed verse 14 Strong shall our lab'ring Oxen grow Nor in their constant Labour faint Whilst we no War nor Slav'ry know and in our Streets hear no Complaint verse 15 Thrice happy is that people's Case Whose various Blessings thus abound Who God's true Worship stili embrace And are with his Protection crown'd Psalm CXLV verse 1 2 THEE I will bless my God and King thy endless praise proclaim This Tribute daily I will bring and ever bless thy name verse 3 Thou Lord beyond compare art great and highly to be prais'd Thy Majesty with boundless Height above our Knowledge rais'd verse 4 Renown'd for mighty Acts thy Fame to future times extends From Age to Age thy glorious Name successively descendss verse 5 6 Whilst I thy Glory and Renown and wond'rous Works express The World with me thy Might shall own and thy great Pow'r confese verse 7 The praise that to thy Love belongs they shall with Joy proclaim Thy Truth of all their grateful Songs shall be the constant Theme verse 8 The Lord is good fresh Acts of Grace his Pity still supplies His Anger moves with slowest pace his willing mercy flies verse 9 10 Thy Love thro' Earth extends its Fame to all thy Works express These shew thy Praise whilst thy great Name is by thy Servants blest verse 11 They with the glorious Prospect fir'd shall of thy Kingdom speak And thy great Pow'r by all admir'd their losty Subject make verse 12 God's glorious Works of ancient date shall thus to all be known And thus his Kingdom 's Royal State with publick Splendor shown verse 13 His stedfast Throne from Changes free shall stand for ever fast His boundless Sway no end shall see but Time it self out-last PART II. verse 14 15 The Lord does them support that fall and makes the prostrate rise For his kind Aid all Creatures call who timely food supplies verse 16 Whate'er their various Wants require with open Hand he gives And so fulfills the just Desire of every thing that lives verse 17 18 How holy is the Lord how just how righteous all his ways How nigh to him who with firm Trast for his Assistance prays verse 19 He grants the full Desires of those who him with fear adore And will their Troubles soon compose when they his Aid implore verse 20 The Lord preserves all those with Care whom grateful Love employs But Sinners who his Vengeance dare with surious Rage destroys verse 21 My time to come in praises spent shall still advance his Fame And all Mankind with one Consent for ever bless his Name Psalm CXLVI verse 1 2 O Praise the Lord and thou my Soul for ever bless his Name His wond'rous Love while Life shall last my constant Praise shall claim verse 3 On Kings the greatest Sons of Men let none for Aid rely They cannot save in dang'rous times nor timely help apply verse 4 Depriv'd of Breath to Dust they turn and there neglected lie And all their Thoughts and vain Designs together with them die verse 5 Then happy he who Jacob's God for his Protector takes Who still with well-plac'd Hope the Lord his constant Refuge makes verse 6 The Lord Who made both Heav'nand Earth and all that they contain Will never quit his stedfast Truth nor make his Promise vain verse 7 The poor opprest from all their Wrongs are eas'd by his Decree He gives the Hungry needful Food and sets the Pris'ners free verse 8 By him the Blind receive their sight the weak and fall'n he rears With kind regard and tender Love he for the righteous cares verse 9 The Strangers he preserves from Harm the Qrphan kindly treats Desends the Widow and the wiles of wicked Men deseats verse 10 The God that does in Sion dwell is our eternal King From Age to Age his Reign endures let all his Praises sing Psalm CXLVII verse 1 O Praise the Lord with Hymns of Joy and celebrate his Fame For pleasant good and comely 't is to praise his holy Name verse 2 His holy City God will build tho' levell'd with the Ground Bring back his People tho' dispers'd thro' all the Nations round verse 3 4 He kindly heals the broken Hearts and all their wounds does close He tells the number of