a Reprobated mind unseemly things to do Who knowing well God's Judgment just what death such men deserve Both do such things and please their lust in liking those that swerve To Father Son and Holy Ghost all glory be therefore As was and is to th' uttermost and shall be evermore HYMN 97. Winking at the times of ignorance Act. 17.30.1.7 Mat. 24.36 GOD winked at the times that were in former blindness spent But now are all men every where commanded to repent Because the Lord whose power 's no less hath set the day unknown To judg the world in righteousness by his appointed one Act. 17.31 Rom. 6.9 Whereof he hath sufficiently inform'd us all before By raising him miraculously from death to die no more To Father Son and Holy One be all the glory then As hath been done since time begun World without end Amen HYMN 98. Works Words and Thoughts for the Lord's-day All People c. Mark 2.27 Rev. 1.10 THIS is the day God made for man To Spiritualize a Christian This is the day upon record Whereof the Son of Man is Lord. Isa. 58.13.48.17 Lord make thy day my dear delight To think and speak and act aright For Thou alone art God most high That teachest us to edifie Ibidem Psal. 139. ult Thou art our guide and thou dost show The way wherein we ought to go Cause us to take the path most blest That leads to everlasting rest Heb. 4.9.3 For such a rest there doth remain For God's own People to obtain And all that are believers true Are sure to enter thereinto Rev. 4.13 All glory to the Holy One That sits upon the Sovereign Throne And to the Lamb of God therefore Be Praise and Honour evermore 2. PART 2 Thes. 3.1 Psal. 51.13 LORD give thy Gospel a free course And crown it with effectual force That converts may come in to Thee And Saints this day built up may be Col. 4.3 Rev. 3.8 John 5.25 A door of Utterance open Lord To him that speaks thy Holy Word A door of Entrance also give That thy dead men may hear and live Rev. 3.7 O thou that hast at thy command The Keys of David in thy hand Thou onely openest or canst shut Into whose hands those Keys are put Luke 24.45 Psal. 51.15 Open our hearts to apprehend The Scriptures which thy Prophets penn'd And open Lord our lips alwaies To make our mouth shew forth thy praise Rev. 4.13 All glory to the Holy One That sits upon the Sovereign Throne And to the Lamb of God most high Be given praise perpetually HYMN 99. Wrongs to be remitted or a Lesson of true Charity Mat. 18.21 Heb. 12.25 THUS Peter to our Saviour spake How oft O Lord said he Must I forgive my Brothers faults Till seven times must it be Our Saviour made him this reply I that do speak from Heaven Say not to thee till seven times but times full seventy seven For if ye pardon faults to men this Charity assures That God your heavenly Father then will also pardon yours But if ye do not from your heart forgive as ye should do Your heavenly Father will impart no pardon unto you Rev. 1.4 To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be glory done as first begun and shall be evermore HYMN 100. Worldly CARES forbidden Mat. 6.31 25 32. O Take no thought solicitous what you shall eat or drink And wherewithall you should be cloth'd be never toyl'd to think Is not the life much more than meat the body than the cloaths And that your need of these is great your heavenly Father knows 26 28 29. The fowls that neither sow nor reap nor into Barns do gather Consider how they are supply'd by your celestial Father Think how in fields the Lilies grow that neither toyl nor spin Yet made that glory no such shew that Solomon liv'd in 30 25. And sure if God so cloath the grass cut down when at the heighth Shall he not then much more cloath you O ye of little faith Take ye therefore no thoughtfull care for present life I say What ye should eat or drink or wear for bodily array 32. 1 Pet. 5.7 Jude 25. For after all these things abroad the Gentiles do pursue But cast ye all your care on God for he takes care for you God onely wise our Saviour have all the glory then Dominion Majesty and Power both now and ever Amen 2. PART Phil. 4.6 Be carefull for no worldly thing but still in all distress Your Prayers and Supplications bring to God with thankfulness 7. And then the peace which God imparts past all that can be known Shall sweetly keep your minds and hearts through Christ the Holy One. Jude 25. God onely wise our Saviour have all the glory then Dominion Majesty and Power world without end Amen The end of the First Century The Second Century Hymn CI. Acclamations of Praise for Babylon's Fall. Rev. 14.8.16.5 NOW Babylon is fall'n and sunk drunk that City great in state Because she made the Nations with wine adulterate And Thou O Lord art righteous who art and alwaies wast And art to come most glorious for judging as thou hast 6 7. For thy Saints bloud hangs on the score thy Prophets bloud they shed And bloud to drink thou gav'st them store as they have merited Even so Lord God omnipotent we gladly do confess Thy Judgments are most eminent for truth and righteousness 19.3 1 7. Now Allelujah sing aloud Salvation Glory Fame Be given to the Lord our God and Honour to his Name Be glad in God for this just doom rejoyce and honour Him The Marriage of the Lamb is come his Wife hath made her trim HYMN 102. ALLELVJAH for the same Give laud c. Rev. 19.5 6. PRaise to our God proclaim O ye his Servants all And ye that fear his Name together great and small Allelu-jah For God supream with power doth reign and bears the sway 9.1 O they be ever blest that shall be call'd unto The Lambs great Marriage Feast These are God's words most true Allelu-jah Strength Glory Power and Fame to our Lord God alway 2. For thou hast powred forth thy wrath on that great whore That did corrupt the earth with all her acts impure And hast this day Aveng'd the flood of thy Saints bloâ—d Allelu-jah 11.15 The Kingdoms of this world are every one become The Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ his Son And he alway Shall reign on high with Majesty Allelu-jah HYMN 103. ALMS-DEEDS Isa. 32.8 Psal. 112.9 THE Just deviseth liberal things and by such things shall stand He hath disperst his Charity and with a liberal hand With honour and with dignity his horn shall sure be rais'd And these his deeds of piety for ever shall be prais'd 2 Cor. 9.6 Ecc. 11.1 For he that soweth liberally shall gather many a heap And he that soweth sparingly but sparingly shall reap Then on the waters cast thy bread it shall not be
in time of sickness 58 Humble Supplications in time of tempest Ibid. Humble Supplications in time of transgression and revolt 59 Humble Supplications in time of war 60 Humble Supplications in hard times 248 I. JAcob's sadness cheered 230 Idols their vanity 250 Idolatry forbidden 138 Idolatry exploded 241 Jerusalem God's Jealousie for it 56 Jew and Gentiles call 138 Jew and Gentiles fulness held out in many Promises 140 Immortality and Mortality 162 Imperfection 143 Impure and Pure described 303 Invective against Hypocrisie 31 Job Expostulated by God 225 Job's Answer 226 Jonah's Deliverance from Shipwrack 45 Joys of Heaven 145 310 Joyfull Death or the Song of holy Simeon 13 Israel restored 253 Israel's revolt 266 St. Jude's Admonition Exhortation and Benediction 309 Judgment waited for 60 Judgment upon the proud and scornfull 61 Judgment day forewarned 146 Judgments heavy 274 Justification 147 K. KInd love of God in Christ 62 King David's Exaltation and Type of Christ 64 His Elegie of Saul and Jonathan 29 His Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan Ibid. L. LArge Mercies Corporal 65 Large Mercies Spiritual 66 Large Mercies Temporal 67 Large Mercies Eternal 68 Laud and Praise for God's Judgments or the Lambs Song 148 Leaven 289 Lamentation of David for Saul and Jonathan 29 Lesson of true Charity 94 Life and Conversation Conscientious 69 Light and Darkness discovered Ibid. Lively Hope 85 Longing after Christ 148 Looking and longing for the general Dissolution 70 Lord our Righteousness 251 Love of God 149 Love of God in Christ 62 Loves Link or the Golden Chain of God's Mercies 71 Love in Deed and in Truth Ibid. Love of the World forbidden 151 Love Engraven 231 M. MAN's mortality minded 227 Marriage 152 Mediator 153 Meek constantly seeking of God 39 Memorial of God's Mercies 72 Mercies recorded and requested 238 Mercy and Terrour mixt 155 Mercies 154 The Second Part 210 Mercies Corporal 65 Mercies Spiritual 66 Mercies Temporal 67 Mercies Eternal 68 Merit disclaimed 157 Michael our Prince 265 Ministerial Gifts conferred 73 Miracles at Pentecost 15 Mitigation of mourning at Funerals 23 Mixture of Mercy and Terrour 155 Moral Precepts prest with Arguments 157 Moderate Affections 294 More Spiritual Precepts 161 Morning Exercise 14 Mortality and Immortality 162 Mortification 163 Moses Song 215 Mourners comforted 232 Murmuring Restrained 254 Mustard-Seed 289 N. NOnsufficient Sacrifices 277 New Jerusalem 311 O. OATH of Grace 260 Obedience blessed 100 Old good way 242 Oppressors wo to them 251 Oppression and Rapine dissuaded 165 Our Advocate in Heaven 307 Our Saviour's call to the Nations 74 Our Saviour's Rapture 288 Our Saviour's coming in the Clouds 297 Our thorough Sanctification prayed for 74 P. PAcification by Repentance 257 Pardon the blessedness thereof 36 Partridge 250 Passion and Compassion of Christ 167 Passover slain for us and preparation thereunto 75 Patience 169 Patience to press at Funerals 24 Peace of God and Prayer 170 Peace with all men 293 Peril and Pennance of Adulterers 42 Perpetuity and Power of Christ's Resurrection 75 Perseverance 170 Portion of the little flock 171 Power and prevalency of Christ's Resurrection 75 Power of prayer 172 Praise to the Creator 77 Praise to the giver of grace Ibid. Praise to the Prince of Potentates Ibid. Praise to the redeemer 78 Praise to the Trinity Ibid. Prayers of Captives Effectual 252 Preachers lips 234 Pretiousness of the Saints death 24 Priesthood 279 Prince Michael 265 Promise of sending the Holy Ghost and of the Miracles of Pentecost 15 Prophet Jonah's deliverance 45 Pure and impure described 303 Q. Qualifications of blessedness 103 Qualifications of Charity 105 R. RApine and oppression dissuaded 165 Rapture of our Saviour 288 Reasonable Service 172 Recovery of the Church 173 Redeeming of Time 174 Redemption out of the Songs of the Blessed Virgin of Zacharias and old Simeon Ibid. Reformation 177 Regeneration 179 Remission of sin 79 Renewing of Joy Ibid. Repentance 179 Repentance pacifies 257 Repentance urged 259 Reproach for Christ and imitation of him 182 Restoration of Israel 253 Restraining of Fleshly lusts 80 Resurrection 24 183 Revenge forbidden 184 Reward of Charity 304 Rich Charged with Charity 297 Right reasoning of Temptation 80 Robes of righteousness 235 Role for swearers and cursers 44 S. SAbbath 184 260 Sacrament of the Supper 185 Sacrifices nonsufficient 277 Saints Communion 109 Saints their safety in death 25 Saints the pretiousness of their deaths 24 Saints their sweet rest 25 Salvation shining 189 Sanctification 190 Sanctification prayed for 74 Satans Children described and distinguished 307 Saviour's Rapture 288 Saviour's Call 74 Saviour's call to the Nations 74 Saviour's coming in the Clouds 297 Saul and Jonathan lamented by David 29 Scriptures 192 Seven Abominations 43 Secrets revealed 193 Secrets unrevealed 194 Seeking God betimes 225 Sin confessed 38 Sins of Sodom recorded 256 Sluggard rouzed 86 Sobriety Prayer and Charity enjoyned 81 Solemn Ascension of Christ and leading Captivity Captive 81 Son of righteousness arising 284 Song of Holy Simeon 13 Song of Deborah 119 Song to celebrate the Restoration of the Church 17 Song of Zacharie 175 Song of Simeon and Zacharie 176 Song of Hannah 222 Song of Moses the man of God commanded to be learned by heart of all Israel 215 Souls under the Altar 195 Sowing to the Spirit 295 Spirit of God dwelling in us 82 Spiritual precepts 161 Spiritual Shepherds 196 Strait Gate 197 Subsistance of God's Kingdom 294 Supplications and Confessions 56 Supplications in time of Drought 57 Supplications in hard times 248 Suffering and self-denyal 197 Swearers and Cursers their flying Role 44 T. TE Deum Laudamus 2 4 7 9 Testimony prophetical of the Birth and Kingdom of Christ 21 22 Temptations succoured 199 Terror and mercy mixt 155 Test to the Covenant 214 Thanksgiving at or after the Sacrament 26 Thorough sanctification Prayed for 74 Three and four Transgressions 271 Time of Drought Sickness Tempest Transgression Revolt and War Vide Humble Supplications Treading the Wine-press alone 237 Treasures of deceit challenged 278 Tree good 199 Trinity 200 True Fast 87 V. Vanity of Idols 250 Vessels of honour 299 Vineyard of Israel 201 Vineyard of Red-Wine 228 Vile-bodies changed 88 Vnity and Amity 296 Vnity and love of Brethren 202 Vniting the Nation 264 Vocation 204 W. WANT of Charity discovered and censured 308 Warning of Judgment by beginning at God's House 89 Warning of the general Dissolution Ibid. War with lusts 305 Well approved hearers 90 Whirlwind of God's wrath Ibid. Whole Armour 206 Will for the Deed 207 Winking at the times of ignorance 91 Wisedoms Exhortation 208 Wise builder 287 Wise Merchant 290 Woe to the oppressors 251 Wofull bewailing our Corruptions and Calamities 27 Wofull Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan 29 Word preached 209 World and the Church 211 Worldly cares forbidden 95 Work of Mercy magnified 210 Work of grace Ibid. Works Words and Thoughts for the Lord's Day 92 Wrongs to be remitted or a Lesson of true Charity 94 Z. ZAchary's Song 175 Zealous
anew by thy kind love restor'd Because thy word is true from the beginning Lord it faileth never And every clause of thy just laws abide for ever Psalm 119. v. 161 to 168. 21. PART The watchfulness of Saints PRinces have persecuted me without a cause O Lord Yet stands my heart in awe of thee and trembles at thy word And in that word Lord all the while I did as much rejoyce As he that finds the greatest spoil and bears away the choice But lying Doctrines of deceit I ever have abhorr'd While my affection is full great unto thy Law O Lord And surely seven times a day I will give thanks to thee Because thy judgments do display such righteousness to me All they that love thy Law to find such great content and peace That nothing shall offend their mind to make their comforts cease And for thy sweet salvation Lord I have waited still And led my conversation according to thy will. My soul hath kept with constancy thy laws in every part I love them so exceedingly and from my very heart Thy Testimonies I have kept thy precepts I pursue For thou beholdst me every step and seest what ' ere I do Psalm 119. v. 169 to 172. 22. PART The work of Grace permanent UNto the Lord let my cry come and near approach to thee Of understanding give me some as with thy words agree My humble supplication before thee let appear For thou art my salvation my God my Lord most dear Then shall my lips applaud thy name in holy Songs of praise And to thy Statutes my heart frame when I am taught thy ways My tongue shall thy true word declare thy righteousness unfold Thy Commandments that are so rare shall to the Saints be told O help me Lord by thy right hand because I trust in thee Thy chosen precepts shall command me with humility For thy salvation Lord I sought and longed very much Thy laws delight me wisedom taught I never pains did grutch Long live my soul the Lord to praise his Name to glorifie And by thy judgments guide my ways to all eternity Lord like a sheep thy servant stray'd in pity Lord seek me For of thy law I 'm not affraid forgot ne're let me be HYMN 527. Living in quietness longed for Psal. 120. 1. METRE I Cry'd to God in all my wrongs who heard me when I pray'd verse 2 From lying lips and crafty tongues Lord save my soul I said verse 3 What shalt thou have O slandrous tongue and what shall be thy hire verse 4 Sharp Arrows of a Champion strong and burning coals of fire verse 5 Ah wo is me that am constrain'd in Meshech still to dwell And that I have so long remain'd in Tents of Ishmael verse 6 Too long a time my soul hath sate with them that peace oppose verse 7 I am for peace and speak for that but they contention chose 2. METRE To the proper Tune IN my distressfull day I to the Lord did pray and he redrest my wrong Lord save my soul say I From lips inur'd to lie and from a double tongue O false tongue what shall be Awarded unto thee or what shall be thy hire Sharp Arrows such as go Out of a Giants bow and burning coals of fire O wo is me that I Sojourn constrainedly with men contentious And am enforc'd to dwell So far from Israel among the barbarous My soul hath dwelt too long With him that likes of wrong and hates a quiet life I am to peace inclind But when I speak my mind they are for war and strife HYMN 528. Looking up to God. Psalm 121. 1. METRE UP to the hills I lift mine eye whence comes my help at need verse 2 From him that made both earth and sky doth all my help proceed He will not let thy foot be mov'd for still thy keeper wakes verse 4 Lo he that keepeth his belov'd no sleep nor slumber takes verse 5 The Lord at thy right hand shall be thy shadow of defence verse 6 The Sun and Moon shall shed on thee no harmfull influence From evils all he keeps thee sure and guards thy soul about Henceforth for ever to secure thy goings in and out 2. METRE Give laud c. I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills on high From whence my sure supplies do come continually my help comes forth From God the Lord whose powerfull word made heaven and earth And suffer he will not thy foot once mov'd to be Nor slumbers he a jot that watcheth over thee lo he that keeps His Saints each one he slumbers none nor ever sleeps The Lord thy Keeper is the Lord 's the shady Boweâ— At the right hand of his by his right hand of power that neither shall The Sun by light nor Moon by night hurt thee at all To keep thee safe from harm the Lord shall still provide The Lord thy soul shall arm and all thy goings guide thou hast therefore The guard of Heaven henceforth and even for evermore HYMN 529. Lovers of Sion Have mercy c. Psalm 122. 1. METRE I Joy'd to hear them say to Sion take your way verse 2 Behold our feet shall shortly meet in God's own house to pray verse 3 Jerusalems buildings are like to a City fair verse 4 For form exact and close compact whereto the Tribes repair To it God's people went to Israel's Testament That every Tribe might there ascribe his praise with joynt assent verse 5 The judgment throne 's for them are there for David's stem verse 6 O pray that peace may never cease from fair Jerusalem verse 7 Thy lovers God shall bless thy walls let peace possess Thy palaces the Lord shall please to crown with happiness verse 8 For my companions sake and brethren that partake verse 9 For Sion's good and neighbour-hood these constant prayers I make HYMN 530. Lovers of Sion blessed The mighty God c. Psalm 122. 2. METRE FULL glad was I when as they said to me Come let us hasten to the house of God Our feet shall stand where we desire to be Within thy Gates O Salem's safe abode Jerusalem is built up most compleatly Like to a City joyn'd together neatly Whither go up the tribes whereof we tell The tribes of God unto that stately frame Unto the Testament of Israel To render thanks to God's most holy Name For there are set the thrones with grace engraved The thrones of Judgment for the house of David Pray for the peace of sweet Jerusalem Pray that its peace may bear a lasting date For they shall prosper ev'ry one of them That love the good of Sion's good estate Peace be within thy walls with double blessing Prosperity thy palaces possessing Yea for my Brethrens sake that shall have part And my Companions every one of them Now will I say and say it from my heart Peace be within thee O Jerusalem And for the Lord our God's most holy dwelling Iâ—ll seek thy good as of a
Then God made Adam fall asleep And so he slept a sleep full deep Then took the Lord a Rib most fit And clos'd up flesh instead of it And of that Rib a Woman made And brought her to the man who said Bone of my bone is this to me And flesh of mine own flesh is she Woman she shall be call'd because Took out of Man himself she was Therefore a man shall leave behind Father and Mother ne're so kind And cleave unto his Wife alone And they shall be one flesh and bone And both were naked fairly fram'd Man and his Wife and not asham'd Psal. 106. ult Psal. 67.3 Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore From first to last for evermore And let the people all proclaim The praises of his holy Name And let us all with one accord Say here Amen praise ye the Lord. HYMN 4. Paradise All People c. Gen. 3.8 AND God did plant his Garden trees East-ward in Eden full of these All that was pleasant to the sight And good for food or for delight And into Eden thus adorn'd He brought the man whom he had form'd And made all Paradise his seat To dress it and to keep it neat The tree of Life of greatest price Was in the midst of Paradise And there the Tree of Knowledge stood Knowledge of evil and of good And God did bring each Bird and Beast Even from the greatest to the least For Man to name and by his Word Was named every Beast and Bird. Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore From first to last for evermore And let all sorts of people then Say cheerfully Amen Amen HYMN 5. The Covenant of Works All People c. Gen. 2.16 AND God the Lord did give command To Adam saying understand Of every tree this ground doth bear Thou may'st eat freely any where But of the tree of Knowledge still Knowledge I say of Good and Ill To eat thereof be not entic'd For if thou eat thereof thou dy'st This tree I say which I so call Thou shalt not eat of it at all For in the Day that thou shalt try To eat thereof thou sure shalt die All Glory to the Holy One That sits upon the Soveraign Throne And to the Son and Holy Ghost Be Glory to the uttermost HYMN 6. Man's shamefull Fall. Our Father c. Gen. 3.1 BUT now the Serpent was more deep Than any Beast the field did keep Subtler than all that God had made And to the Woman thus he said Yea hath God said ye shall not eat Of all the Garden-trees for meat Fear not ye shall not surely die For God doth know assuredly That when ye both thereof have eat Your eyes it shall illuminate And ye as glorious Gods shall be Knowing both good and ill as he And when the Woman having view'd Saw that the tree was good for food And very pleasant to the eyes And to be wisht to make one wise She took the fruit thereof and ate And of it did communicate She gave her Husband of the meat And he did also take and eat Then were the eyes of both awak'd And saw that they were wholly nak'd And then they sew'd fig-leaves together Aprons to hide their shame however Then hear the voice of God did they There walking in the cool of day And in the Garden got aside They sought where they might closely hide Thinking from him that all things sees To hide themselves among the trees Adam's Arraignment and Excuse Our Father c. Gen. 3.9.11 THEN God call'd Adam And said he Adam where art thou answer me I heard thy voice then Adam said i th' Garden and I was afraid And hid my self because that I Was naked thus opprobriously v. 11. Then said the Lord how didst thou know That thou wast nak'd Who told thee so What! hast thou eaten of the tree Which flatly was forbidden thee Whereof with penalty so great I charg'd thee that thou should'st not eat The Woman Lord then said the man Thou gav'st for my Companion She gave me of it it was she That offer'd that unhappy tree She gave to me of that dear meat And I unwittingly did eat Eve's Arraignment and Excuse Gen. 3.13 1 Tim. 2.14 Rom. 5.12 THEN to the Woman who was first In the Transgression most accurst Thus said the Lord what thing is this That thou hast done so much amiss For thou hast done as thou shalt find To the Destruction of Mankind Then said the Woman that foul fiend The Serpent whom I thought my friend The Subtile Serpent it was he That cousned and beguiled me And I beguil'd by his deceit Was so unhappy as to eat HYMN 9. The Serpent's Censure and the Covenant of Grace intimated to his Sorrow Gen 3.14 15. THEN to the Serpent said the Lord Since thou hast done this thing abhorr'd Above all beasts to thee be woe Upon thy belly shalt thou go And Dust to thy extreme disgrace Shall be thy food all thy life space Between thee and the Woman-kind I will put enmity of mind Also between thy seed and hers There shall be everlasting Wars To bruise thy head as thou shalt feel And thou shalt also bruise his heel HYMN 10. The Woman's Censure and the Mans. Gen. 3.16 17 18 19. AND to the Woman God said thus Thy sorrows shall be numerous And also thy conceptions In sorrow shalt thou bring forth Sons Thy mind shall to thy husband be And he shall Lord it over thee 17. And unto Adam thus he said Because that thou hast disobey'd Hearkning to what thy Wife did say And her suggestion did obey And so hast eaten of the tree Which flatly was forbidden thee The ground is cursed for thy sake With grief thereof thou shalt partake In sorrow thou shalt eat thy bread As long as thou on Earth dost tread Thistles and thorns to thee 't shall yield And thou shalt eat the herb of th' field With sad and sweaty face shalt thou Eat carefull bread got by the plow Till thou return unto the Earth Whence also thou wast taken forth For by Creation Dust thou wast And shalt return to Dust at last Adam's Expulsion from Paradise Gen. 3.21 to ult AND unto Adam and his Wife Now in a mortal state of life Did God the Lord make coats of skin To cloth their naked bodies in Then said the Lord Almighty thus The Man 's become as one of us Behold said God his deeper skill How well he knows both good and ill And now lest he put forth his hand To th' tree of life and think to stand And eat thereof and never die As he may think presumptuously Therefore the Lord depriv'd him quite Of that sweet garden of delight And to confute his fond device He put him out of Paradise And sent him forth with open shame To till the ground from whence he came So God drove out the man disgrac'd And at the East of Eden plac'd The Cherubins with flaming sword On every side that turn'd
high 16. Psal. 84.11 Munitions of the Rocks shall be his resting place secure Store of Provision He shall see his waters shall be sure For God that is both Sun and Shield will grace and glory give And all good blessings freely yield to them that purely live Psal. 106.48 Let Israel's God the Lord most high be ever blest therefore From time to time eternally Amen for evermore HYMN 60. Light and Darkness discovered 1 John 2.9 HE that shall say he is in light and doth his Brother hate That man doth yet in darkness sit in unregenerate state But he that loves abides in light and not in darkness dim And there is none occasion of stumbling found in him But he that doth his Brother hate in depths of darkness lies And whither he goes he never knows for darkness blinds his eyes HYMN 61. Looking and longing for the general dissolution 2 Pet. 3.12 THe coming of the day of Christ we look for and desire Whenas the Heavens shall be dissolv'd and th' Elements melt with fire Yet as his promise holds it forth we Christians ne'retheless Expect new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwells righteousness Wherefore Belov'd give diligence to keep in such a frame As to be found of him in peace without offence or blame Because we look for such a thing as this Worlds new Creation Accounting God's long suffering to aim at our Salvation HYMN 62. Love in deed and truth All People c. 1 Joh. 3.18 MY little Children every one Let us not love in word alone Neither in tongue and onely so But deed and truth our love must show And this a confidence will breed That we are of the truth indeed And that by this we may assure Our hearts before him to be pure For if our hearts do us condemn God's greater far who searches them But if our hearts be pure and clear Boldly may we to God draw near And whatsoever thing we crave Of him we shall be sure to have Because we keep his Laws aright And do things pleasing in his sight HYMN 63. Loves Link or the Golden Chain of God's Mercy Rom. 8.28 WE know that all shall work for good to those that love the Lord That as his Holy purpose stood are called by his word For his foreknown he pre-ordain'd before all time begun That they might be conformable to th' image of his Son. The blest first-born that he might be of many Brethren dear Moreover whom he pre-ordain'd he call'd and brought them near And whom he call'd he justifi'd from their iniquities And whom he freely justifi'd he gloryfi'd likewise Rev. 1.4 To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be Glory as at first was done and shall be evermore HYMN 64. Memorial of God's Mercies Ye Children c. Isa. 63 7. NOW will I mention and record The Loving Kindness of the Lord and praises of the Lord above Answering to all He hath bestow'd And his great goodness sweetly show'd to th' House of Israel in his love According to the multitude Of his compassions still renew'd for thus He said they are my flock They are my people certainly Children that will not falsifie So He became their saving rock 9. Chap. 50.1 Neh. 5.8 Psal. 72.19 In all their grievance He was griev'd And th' Angel of his eyes reliev'd and sav'd them when to Enemies sold In 's love and pity he redeem'd And sav'd them as his high esteem'd and bare them all the daies of old Let Israel's God the Lord most high Be honour'd to ETERNITY with everlasting praise therefore And let his glittering glory then Replenish all the Earth Amen Amen say we for evermore HYMN 65. Ministerial Gifts conferred All People c. Eph. 4.11 2 Cor. 9.15 CHrist hath ascended up on high And Captive led Captivity And streightway gave his gifts to men Ordaining some Apostles then Some Prophets some Evangelists Some Pastors and some Teaching Priests For making of the Saints compleat And Ministerial work so great And for upbuilding by the word The Sacred Body of our Lord To him that gave these gifts therefore Be Praise and Honour evermore HYMN 66. Our Saviour's call to the Nations Isa. 45.22 LOOK unto me O all ye Lands and be ye sav'd thereby For I am God who so commands and there is none but I. And by my self and none beside shall all the faithfull Seed Of Israel's house be justifi'd and glory in my deed HYMN 67. Our thorough Sanctification prayed for 1 Thes. 5.23 AND now the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout And grant that such a rich increase of grace may be powr'd out That your whole spirit regenerate body and soul I pray May be preserv'd immaculate till Christ our Saviour's day Faithfull is he that calleth you and he will do it sure To whom be praise as iâ— most due for ever to endure HYMN 68. Passover slain for us and preparation thereunto 1. Cor. 5.7 LO Christ our Blessed Passover is sacrific'd for us Now let us keep the Feast therefore Subduing all our lusts So not with leaven inveterate of th' unregenerate flesh Nor with the leaven of debate of spight or wickedness 8. Col. 3.17 But let us keep it carefully conforming to our head With Sanctifi'd Sincerity and Truth 's unleavened bread And in the name of Christ alwaies do every work and word To God the Father giving praise through Jesus Christ our Lord. HYMN 69. Perpetuity and Power of Christ's Resurrection Rom. 6.9 CHrist being risen from the dead now never dies again No longer over Christ our Head may death for ever reign For dying he took sin away at once and altogether But living is without decay and lives to God for ever So count your selves as dead to sin But yet to life restor'd To live to God through grace brought in By Jesus Christ our Lord. To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be Glory as at first was done and shall be evermore HYMN 70. Power and prevalency of Christ's Resurrection 1 Cor. 15.20 NOW Christ is risen from the dead the hope that Christians have And is to be acknowledged the first fruits from the Grave For as by mans defection Came sin and death to reign So came the Resurrection by man to live again Rev. 1.4 For as by Adam all men dye So all by Christ revive And in the twinkling of an eye must all be made alive To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be Glory done as first begun and shall be evermore HYMN 71. Praise to the Creator Have mercy c. Rev. 4.11 WOrthy art thou O Lord to wear the glorious Crown All honour we ascribe to thee All power and all renown For thou O Lord alone didst all the Creatures make Even all that are and made they were for thy good pleasure sake Luke 2.14 Glory to God on high on earth be plenteous peace And great good will extended still among men to increase HYMN 72.
106.48 Let Israel's God the Lord most high be magnifi'd therefore And people then say all Amen Amen for evermore HYMN 87. The day of grace proclaimed 2 Cor. 6.2 Rom. 10.10 11. LO I have heard thee saith the Lord in an accepted time And in the day which doth display Salvation unto mine Behold saith he I succour'd thee when Gospel-time took place This is that prime appointed time this is that day of grace And every one that calls upon the Name of God most high And call's in faith as Scripture saith shall sure be sav'd thereby To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be glory done as first begun and shall be evermore HYMN 88. The great Condemnation 1 John 3.19 Eph. 5.13 THIS is the Condemnation great that light to men is brought And men lov'd darkness more than light because their deeds were nought For evil doers hate the light nor come they thereunto Lest that their deeds should be reprov'd which light is sure to do But he that doth the works of truth comes to the light abroad Whereby his deeds are manifest that they are wrought in God. HYMN 89. The Lively Hope Give laud c. 1 Pet. 1.3 BLessed be God above the Father of Christ our Lord Who in abundant love begat us by his Word To ' a lively hope By Christ our head rais'd from the dead to raise us up To an inheritance new pure endless uncorrupt Reserv'd in Heaven for you who by his power are kept Through faith t' ascend God's blest abode sure to be show'd when time shall end Wherein ye much rejoyce though now if need so press The season be for sighs and groans of heaviness Which sighs and groans On you take hold through manifold temptations The tryal of your faith which is of price far higher Than gold that perisheth though it be try'd with fire That then it may Great glory praise and honour raise at Christ his day HYMN 90. The Sluggard rouzâ—d Prov. 6.6.10.4 5. GO to the Ant thou slothfull one learn of her and be wise Who having Guide or Ruler none to order or advise Provides her meat in Summers heat in harvest stores her food While thou art deep in sloth and sleep and still in that dull mood Whereby thy want and poverty comes fast and fiercely on As travaylers come suddainly or like an armed man. For he is sure to grow full poor that lets his business slack But understand the diligent hand makes rich and feels no lack A prudent son is he therefore and that shall be his stile That labours hard and lays up store in heat and harvestâ— while But he that keeps his bed and sleeps in harvest is to blame And fitly shall be stil'd of all a son that causeth shame HYMN 91. The true fast Isa. 58.6 THIS is the fast and none but this chosen saith God by me To loose the bands of wickedness and let th' opprest go free The heavy burdens to unbind all injuries to redress To deal thy bread to th' hunger-pind and house the harbourless To cloth the naked when thou seest in what great need he â—â—ood And not to hide thy self i' th least from thine own flesh and blood Then shall thy light break forth as day thy health shall soon appear Thy righteousness shall lead the way God's glory be thy rear And thou unto the Lord shalt pray and answer shall be made And thou shalt cry and he shall say Lo here am I thine aid If thou shalt take away from thee the yoke of Tyranny The beckning fingers mockery and speaking vanity 2. PART 10 11 12. If thou draw out thy tender soul the hungry to relieve And with th' afflicted dost condole to satiate souls that grieve Then shall thy light arise to thee in thine obscurest night And all thy darkness then shall be as noontide shining bright The Lord shall guide thee evermore suffice thy soul in drought And make thee fat with plenteous store of blessings poured out Thou shalt be like the watred soil within the garden pale And as a spring whose waters boil break forth and never fail And they that be produc'd of thee shall build the old decays And ground-works laid for many an age thy buildings shall up-raise And thou shalt then be call'd of men repairer of the breach Restorer of the dwelling-paths so far thy fame shall reach HYMN 92. The vile bodies change Phil. 3.20 Mat. 24.31 OUR Conversation is in Heav'n from whence we do expect The Lord our Saviour Christ to come and gather his elect And he shall change our body vile how vile soever it is For to be fashion'd in a while a glorious one like his His mighty working power to shew whereby the Holy One Is able all things to subdue unto himself alone HYMN 93. Warning of Judgment by beginning at God's house 1 Pet. 4.17 THE time is come that Judgment must at God's own house begin And if it first attack the just what case are sinners in And if the righteous scarce go free from judgment so severe What shall the end of sinners be or where shall they appear Let him therefore that bears distress according to God's will Commit his soul in uprightness to God's protection still As knowing that he doth commit his Soul to him alone Who by his power created it and is the faithfull One. HYMN 94. Warning of the general dissolution 2 Pet. 3.9 THE Lord is not of promise slack as some men slackness call But is indeed long-suffering and patient towards all Not willing any should be lost but all should turn and live Because the day of Christ shall come and shall no warning give When Heaven shall pass away with noise the Elements melt with heat The Earth and all its works likewise burn up with fire so great Since all things then must be dissolv'd what manner of men should we With grace and godliness resolv'd in all points aim to be HYMN 95. Well approved hearers Jam. 1.25 vers 22. THE perfect law of liberty whoever looks into Continuing in it constantly the same to know and do Not being a forgetfull one but hearing with good heed To do the work that man alone is blessed in his deed Be doers of the word therefore and not as nothing else But hearers meerly and no more deceiving your own selves HYMN 96. Whirlwind of God's Wrath. Jer. 23.19 Rom. 1.18 BEhold a whirlwind of the Lord with fury over spread A grievous whirlwind falling hard upon the sinners head Because the wrath of God most high from Heaven is reveal'd Against lewd mens Iniquity that truth have so conceal'd Rom. 1.19 25. For that which may be known of God is manifest in them For God hath made it understood theâ—r doings to condemn Who chang'd the truth of God to lies and creatures did adore And the Creatour did despise who 's blest for evermore 26.28.32 The lusts therefore of vilest kind God gave them up unto And to
of him that is most high and shall forthwith appear All they to sure Salvation whose works are good and right And they to condemnation in evil that delight Prov. 12.28 Rom. 6.23 Gal. 6.8 For life is found in righteous ways no death can be therein But death the certain wages pays of all unpardon'd sin All they that sow to sinfull flesh corruption shall inherit But endless life shall them refresh that sow unto the Spirit 1 Cor. 15.58 Be stedfast Brethren now therefore and alwaies be unmov'd Abounding now and evermore in works of God approv'd Because ye know his Holy Word doth make the Promise plain So that your labour in the Lord can never be in vain 2. PART Luke 21.34 Be carefull lest at any time you should by your excess Surcharge your souls with surfeiting or shamefull drunkenness And lest your heart be overcome with weight of worldly cares And so that day the day of Doom o'retake you unawares 1 Thes. 5.2 3. Luke 12.47 Because the day of Christ will come like as a Thief by night And when they say Peace Peace will be shall suddain vengeance light He that did know his Masters will and not himself prepare To do according to his skill full many a stripe shall bear 37 38 44. But blessed are those Servants all that watch with wakefull mind Whom Christ shall at his coming call and in this posture find He shall come forth assuredly and set them at his board And make them partners in the Joy of their advanced Lord. HYMN 145. Justification Rom. 8.33 34. IT is the Lord that justifies who therefore shall condemn It is our Saviour Christ that dy'd or rather rose agen Who also is at God's right hand ascended up on high And maketh intercession there for us continually Heb. 4.16 Col 3.17 Now therefore let us boldly come in certain hope to speed Unto the Throne of grace for grace to help in time of need And let all things we speak or do be in the name of one To God the Father giving thanks through Christ our Lord alone HYMN 146. Laud and Praise for God's Judgments or the Lambs Song Rev. 15.3 4. THY works are great and marvellous Lord God th' Almighty one Thy ways are true and righteous thou King of Saints alone Who shall not fear thee O most high and glorifie thy Name For thou alone for sanctity deservest laud and fame For all the Nations of the earth shall come and worship thee Because thy judgments are set forth so plain for us to see HYMN 147. Longing after Christ. Ye Children c. Joh. 6.32 35. Chap. 7.38 THE bread of God so truly callâ—d That giveth life unto the world is he that down from Heaven came And with this sweet celestial bread Lord let us be replenished and give us ever of the same For he that as the Scripture saith Laies hold on Christ by lively Faith shall never thirst or hunger more For by that Faith and feeding so Out of his belly there shall flow of living waters plenteous store Rev. 22.17 20. Cant. 8.14 Jam. 5.8 Come say the Spirit and the Bride And so of all let be reply'd that hear the Lamb and his dear Wife Come all that thirst and take your fill Take freely whosoever will the water of eternal life Make hast my love and be not slow Be like the nimble Hart or Row tracing upon the Mountains spic'd And I behold come speedily The coming of the Lord draws nigh Amen so come Lord Jesus Christ. HYMN 148. Love of God. Joh. 3.16 1 Joh 4 9. Joh. 3.17 SO greatly God did love the world that freely he did give His onely and begotten Son that we through him might live God sent him not into the world the world for to condemn But that he might be manifest a Saviour unto men Rev. 1.5 Joh. 3.16 Rev. 21.24 Who loved us and gave himself for our eternal good And washt away our scarlet sins in his own precious blood And whosoever trusts in him shall never perish quite But he shall have eternal life and live in endless light Luke 2.24 To God therefore that dwells on high be praise and glory still On earth be true tranquillity and unto men good will. 2. PART 1 Joh. 2.3 c. 5.3 Hereby we know undoubtedly that we do love the Lord By keeping with fidelity the Precepts of his Word And this is sure God's love in us that we his Laws fulfill Nor do we count them burdenous but do them with good will. 4.19 Eph. 1.4 1 Joh. 4.10 19. The perfect Love of God most high is manifested thus And we love him so perfectly because He first lov'd us Herein is love not ours it is but his for our dear sake In sending that sweet son of his our debts to undertake Rev. 5.13 To him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb therefore Be glory strength dominion and honour evermore HYMN 149. Love of the World forbidden Mat. 16.26 Col. 3.2 WHAT shall it profit any man the world to purchase whole And thereby miss the certain bliss of his immortal soul Oh set your strong affections then on things that are above And let no worth of things on earth be motives of your Love. 1 Joh. 2.16.15 All in the world is pride of Life and lusts of flesh and eyes Which do not from the Father come but from the world they rise Love not the world nor things thereof if any love so low The perfect Love of God above in him can never flow 17. These worldly things all pass away and periâ—h altogether But to fulfill God's holy will makes to abide for ever HYMN 150. Marriage Heb. 13.4 THE due estate of Marriage as Scripture doth assure Is honourable every where the bed preserved pure But Harlots and Adulterers that violate this thing By practice of unchastity will God to Judgment bring 1 Thes. 4.4 Col. 3.19 20. Then let us every one know how his vessel to possess In honourable dignity and spotless holiness And Husbands dearly love your Wives giving no bitter word And Wives submit obediently to them as to the Lord. 1 Pet. 3.3 4. And your adorning let not be in any pompous way Of plâ—ited hair and wearing gold or putting on aray But of the heart and hidden man where no corruption lies And of a meek and quiet soul which God doth highly prize 1 Cor. 7.39 1 Pet. 3.7 And be not yoakt unequally but joyned in the Lord Honouring the Wife the weaker Sex according to the Word And live together lovingly as heirs of Grace of Life That disagreements hinder not the prayers of Man and Wife Mat. 22.30 And in the Resurrection where none are in Marriage given Ye shall be like the Angels there Triumphant Saints in Heaven HYMN 151. Mediator All People c. 1 Tim. 2.5 ONE God there is and one alone and Mediator none but one The man whom we Christ Jesus call who gave himself full price for all 1 Joh. 2.1 3.
their hire verse 7 For God most just without defect in justice doth delight His countenance with kind aspect beholdeth the upright HYMN 320. Confusion of the wicked 2. METRE The Mighty God c. Psalm 11. I Trust in God why do ye daunt my soul hast as a bird unto your Hill ye say The wicked bend their bows without controll and string their shafts the upright soul to slay If Faith whereon we ground be not assured What can the righteous do to be secured The Lord is in his Holy Temple still his Throne 's in Heaven he can see us then His eyes behold all people good and ill his eye-lids try the Childeren of men God trys the just man who in patience waiteth But wicked men and cruel his soul hateth Upon the wicked he shall rain down snares Brimstone and Fire from which they cannot flee And a prodigious Tempest he prepares and this the portion of their cup shall be For God that 's righteous righteousness affecteth His grace so good all good men so respecteth HYMN 321. Corruption of the Times Psalm 12 1 2 3. HELP Lord for godly men decay the faithfull are but few Men lie and flatter and betray with tongue and talk untrue But God will cut those lips away whence fraud and flattery springs And tongues that dare presume to say such proud blasphemous things 4 5. Our lips say they shall lord it still and hold the upper hand Our Tongues are ours to speak our will. what Lord shall countermand Now for the sighs of needy men and poor mens wrongs and woes I 'll rise saith God and rescue them from proud oppressing Foes 6 7 8. Pure words that will the test abide God's promises come forth Like silver seven times purifi'd in Furnaces of Earth Lord thou shalt keep thy Saints alway from this ungodly Race Though every where they hunt their prey when vile men are in place Psalm 106.48 O let the God of Israel then be prais'd perpetually And let all people say Amen the Lord to magnify HYMN 322. Curbing of the Wicked 2. METRE The Mighty God c. Psalm 12. HELP Lord the Godly cease there 's few of them The faithfull fail among the Sons of men Each man to 's neighbour vanity imparts With flattering lips they speak and double hearts But Godwill cut off every lip that flatters And tongues that speak such proud presumptuous matters Who thus have said our tongues shall bear the sway Our lips are ours and who shall us gainsay Now for the poor men under proud controll And for the sighing of the needy soul I 'll rise saith God and be his sanctuary And set him safe from his proud adversary The Words of God are pure as silver try'd In Earthen Furnace seven times purifi'd Thou shalt preserve O Lord and keep the poor From this lewd generation evermore The wicked walk on all sides to devour When Vilest men are set in place of power HYMN 323. Degenerate World described 1. METRE Psalm 14.1 THere is no God the fool hath thought they are corrupt and lewd Abominations have they wrought and none of them doth good The Lord look'd down from Heaven high man-kind for to discern If any knew spiritually or sought God's Will to learn. But all were wandred from the way defiled by the fall Not one did good not one I say did any good at all Are workers of iniquity so brutishly mis-led To eat my people greedily devouring them like bread Upon the Lord they never call yet greatly did they fear For God will surely be with all the righteous every where The poor man's Counsel ye disdain whose trust on God is stay'd But Oh that Israel might obtain from Sion saving aid When God turns our Captivity and sets poor Sion free Jacob shall joy triumphantly and glad shall Israel be HYMN 324. Degenerate World through Atheism described 2. METRE All People c. Psalm 14. FOOLS say in heart there is no God and with such thoughts their fancy feeds Corrupt they are and none doth good but act abominable deeds The Lord from Heaven view'd all mankind to see who knew or sought for God All were defil'd and far declin'd not one by Nature doing good Are wicked workers all so dead and void of knowledge since the fall To eat my People up like bread without regard of God at all Yet do their hearts with terror quake and guilty makes them to mistrust For God doth in protection take the Generation of the Just. Ye sham'd the Council of the poor because his hope on God was stai'd But O that Israel might procure from Sion Hill some saving aid When God brings back from captive state the chosen flock of Sion Hill Then Jacob shall rejoyce thereat and gladness Israel's heart shall fill HYMN 325. Description of true Christians Psalm 15. THE Tabernacles of thy Grace Lord who shall rest in still Or who shall have a dwelling-place in thy most Holy Hill verse 2 The man that walks in God's true fear whose works are just and straight Who speaks the truth from heart sincere who utters no deceit verse 3 That to his neighbour doth no hurt in body goods or name Nor taketh up a false report to prejudice his fame verse 4 The man whose pure impartial eye vile persons doth contemn But whoso fear the Lord most high he highly honours them His Oath and all his promises that keepeth faithfully Though he sustain the damages that might accrue thereby verse 5 That putteth not to usury the money that he lent Nor takes reward to testify against the innocent He that shall do the will of God whereof this is the sum Shall never perish in this world nor in the world to come HYMN 326. Description of true Citizens of Sion 2. METRE All people c. Psalm 15. O Who shall have a blest abode Within thy sacred Tents O God Thy Holy Hill who shall possess Sure he that walks in uprightness The works of righteousness that doth And from his heart doth speak the truth That slanders none with spightfull tongue Nor doth his neighbour any wrong That takes not up an evil fame Against his neighbours honest Name That doth of vile men vilely deem But hath the Saints in high esteem That changeth not what once he swears Though he the loss and damage bears That puts not out his coyn whereby To get his gain by usury That takes no bribes to circumvent Or prejudice the innocent He that doth these things is approv'd And never shall that man be mov'd HYMN 327. Expectation of Resurrection Psalm 16.8 I Set the Lord still in my sight and trust him over all Since he doth stand at my right-hand I know I shall not fall verse 9 This therefore fills my heart with joys my glory joys in this My flesh shall rest in hope likewise in hope of endless bliss verse 10 Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell nor wilt thou Lord permit Thy Holy One as lost and
command with my whole heart for ever 35 36. In paths of thy Commands Lord make me go aright For my desire so stands and therein I delight Incline my heart O Lord that I may not digress Incline it to thy word and not to covetousness 37 38. Lord turn away mine eyes turn them O Lord I pray From viewing vanities and quick'n me in thy way Establish thou thy word unto thy servant dear Who is devoted Lord unto thy faithfull fear 39 40. The obloquy I fear Lord turn away from me Eor I confess how clear how good thy judgments be Behold how my desires do for thy precepts press O stir those holy fires to shew thy righteousness Psalm 119. v. 41 to 48· 6. PART The great freedom of the Godly LORD let thy mercies come to me The saving health that flows from thee according to thy promise Lord So shall I have to answer those That are my most reproachfull foes for I have trusted in thy word And take not Lord the word of truth Take it not quite out of my mouth for in thy judgments do I hope So shall I keep and not and not give or'e To keep thy Statutes evermore for that is all my aim and scope And I will walk at liberty Because I seek unfeignedly the precepts which thou hast proclaim'd Thy Testimonies are such things That I will mention them to Kings and never be thereof asham'd And I will much delight my mind In thy Commandements enjoyn'd which I have loved to relate My hands likewise I will direct To thy commands which I affect and in thy Statutes meditate Psal. 119. v. 49 to 56. 7. PART Hearty comfort had in Godliness THY promise to thy servant mind whereon thou mad'st me rest This comfort in thy word I find it cheers me when distrest Though proud men have me greatly scoft thy laws I did not leave Thy judgments old I thought on oft and comfort did receive Yet horrour takes me for this age that leaves thy Statutes quite But in my house of Pilgrimage thy laws were my delight Thy name in mind I have retain'd when night her curtain draws I kept thy word and thus I gain'd because I kept thy laws Psalm 119. v. 57 to 64. 8. PART The Just man's portion and practice THOU art my portion O my Lord I said that I would keep thy word according to thy flat decree I beg thy favour from my heart Thy mercy Lord to me impart as thou hast kindly promis'd me I thought upon my sinfull way And turn'd my feet without delay unto thy Testimonies true I hastned and have not delay'd To keep the word which thou hast said commanding our obedience due The wicked men by troops and bands Have rob'd me with injurious hands yet have I not forgot thy Laws But ev'n at mid-night I will rise To reader thanks in Sacrifice thy righteous Judgments give such cause A dear cumpanion Lord am I To all that fear thee faithfully and of them all that keep thy way The Earth O Lord is richly stor'd With mercies which thou dost afford teach me thy Statutes to obey Psalm 119. v. 65 to 72. 9. PART The keenest affliction profitable ACcording to thy promise free Lord thou hast dealt full well with me Who am thy Servant fearing thee Teach me good judgment Lord I pray And knowledge of thy word and way for I believe what thou dost say While unchastised with thy rod I went astray from thee O God but in thy paths I since have trod Lord thou art good thy nature 's so And thou dost good thy works do show teach me O Lord thy Laws to know The proud against me forg'd a lie But my whole heart I will apply to keep thy precepts faithfully As fat as grease their heart is grown But Lord the Law which thou dost own is my delight and that alone 'T was good for me to undergo Th' afflicting hand of God I know that I might keep thy Statutes so The Law of thy dear mouth I hold Better to me a thousand fold than heaps of Silver and of Gold. Psalm 119. v. 73 to 80. 10. PART The love of Saints to Grace and Godliness I Am created Lord and fashion'd by thy hand O give me skill to know thy will and practice thy command All they that fear thy Name to see me will be glad For I O Lord believ'd thy word and therein help I had Thy Judgments Lord are just I know them so to be And in thy fidelâ—ty thou hast afflicted me Let thy kind love I pray for my true comfort make According to thy promise do for thy dear servants sake O let thy tender love come to me in thy sight That sweetly I may live thereby who in thy Law delight Let proud men be asham'd for they without a cause Have used me with injury but I will mind thy Laws Let those that fear thy Name turn in O Lord to me And every one to whom is known thy precepts what they be O let my heart be sound and in thy Statutes true That no just blame may bring me shame for any thing I do Psalm 119. v. 81 to 88. 11. PART The making God our hope MY soul for thy salvation faints with vehement desire Yet doth thy word uphold my heart with hope that cannot tire Mine eyes do fail for thy sweet word and thus they seem to say When wilt thou comfort me O Lord why dost thou thus delay For I am like a bottle Lord that in the smoak is set Yet do not I at any time thy holy word forget But Lord how long must I compute the time to bear controll When wilt thou Judgment execute on them that hunt my soul The proud have digged pits for me far from thy Law they are Thy precepts and their practices do differ very far But thy commandments O most high are faithfull just and true O help me for most wrongfully do they my soul pursue They had almost consumed me and sent me to the Grave Yet did not I forsake thy Law my very life to save Therefore in loving kindness Lord now quicken me with speed So shall I keep the righteous word which doth from thee proceed Psalm 119. v. 89 to 96. 12. PART The never failing of God's word FOR ever Lord thy word doth last And is in Heaven fixed fast Thy faithfulness all ages see The Earth abides as fix'd by thee They all continue to this day As thou appointest all obey Had not thy Law been my delight Affliction had o're-whelm'd me quite Never will I forgetfull be Of thy sweet Laws that quickened me Save me O Lord for I am thine And I have sought thy Laws divine The wicked have my death design'd But I thy Testimonies mind I find the worlds perfections fail But above all thy Laws avail Psalm 119. v. 97 to 104. 13. PART The power of Religion in practice THY Law O how I prise I mind it all the day Thereby thou
right-hand O thou most high my sure defence shall be verse 8 The Lord will perfect thoroughly that which concerneth me Thy mercy doth O Lord abide for that can never fade O do not lay the work aside which thine own hands have made HYMN 564. Service and safety of the Humble God's true favourites Ye Children c. Or To the proper 〈◊〉 of the Old 127. Psalm Except the Lord c. Psalm 138. 2. METRE LORD from my heart I 'll praise thy Name Before the Gods I 'll sing thy fame prostrate at Sion's sacred frame For thy sweet love and truth so try'd For thou thy Word hast magnifi'd yea more than all thy Name beside Thou heard'st me when I cry'd to thee With inward strength thou strengthenedst me and didst my soul from danger free All those that Earthly Scepters bear Shall praise thee when thy Words they hear and know how well fulfill'd they were Yea they shall sing and give thee praise Walking as Converts in thy waies whose Wonders admiration raise Though God be high above the Skies He on the lowly casts his eyes but doth the proud as much despise And though I walk in midst of woes Thy hand shall save me from my foes and raise me in their overthrows My perfect peace shalt thou command Thy mercies Lord for ever stand leave not the works of thine own hand HYMN 565. Seeking God or supplications at our awaking All People c. Or O Lord Consider c. Psalm 80.1 121.4 139.17 18. O Shepherd that dost Israel keep Who never slumbrest nor dost sleep How precious are thy thoughts to 〈◊〉 How great a sum O God they be If I thereof would take account The Sands in number they surmount And whensoever I awake These things into my thoughts I take And I am ever with thee still To contemplate of thy good will As for the wicked and the lewd All such companions I exclude For thou wilt surely slay such men And bring destruction upon them They speak against thee wickedly And talk of God whom they deny I hate their bold impieties I hate them that against thee rise I count no man so much my foe As him that doth thy fear forgo Nor do I speak from feigned zeal To thee O Lord I dare appeal Search me O Lord and see my heart Try me and prove my inward part See Lord If I do go astray In any evil wicked way And guide me that I may not miss The way to everlasting bliss HYMN 566. Supplications for the Morning Psalm 141.2 3. LORD let my prayer be now set forth as incense in thine eyes And the uplifting of my hands as th' evening Sacrifice Lord set a Watch before my mouth that no ill Words take place And keep the door of both my lips by thine effectual grace 4 5. Incline my heart to no ill thing no wicked work to follow With them that act iniquity nor their sweet baits to swallow But let the righteous smite me Lord and it shall be a favour And his reproof a precious oyl of acceptable savour 5. Such smiting shall not break my head and I 'll requite their care When their calamities shall need the succours of my prayer 2. METRE All people c. LORD let my prayer be now set forth Before thee as a thing oâ— worth As incense let it Lord arise Or as the Evening Sacrifice Lord set a carefull watch before My mouth and lips to keep the door To no ill thing incline my heart With sinners let me take no part Nor let me of their dainties eat That swallow sin as men do meat But let the righteous man reprove And smite me with the checks of love As precious Oyl or Odours shed Such smiting shall not break my head And in my prayers I shall bless The Saints when falâ—'n into distress HYMN 567. Supplications in times of extream danger Psalm 142. 1. METRE WITh earnest voice I cry'd to God I shew'd my wofull case With earnest voice I cry'd aloud and humbly su'd for Grace verse 2 My lamentation I prepar'd before him to express I shew'd before him and declar'd my trouble and distress verse 3 When over-whelm'd in spirit I was thou didst my danger see How in the way that I did pass they laid a snare for me verse 4 On my right hand I looked hard but none did notice take All refuge fail'd none did regard my life that lay at stake verse 5 I cry'd to thee O Lord and said to thee my hopes arrive Thou art my portion and my aid while I remain alive verse 6 Attend my cry O Lord and see how very low I lie From my pursuers rescue me since stronger far than I. verse 7 O bring my soul from this dark den that I may praise thy Name The Just shall flock about me then thy bounty to proclaim HYMN 568 Supplication of King David To the Tune of the Old 124. Psal. Now Israel c. Psalm 142. 2. METRE I Cry'd to God aloud with all my might I cry'd aloud unto the Lord most high I made my supplications earnestly I powr'd out my complaints before his sight I shew'd before him my distressfull plight When as my heart was overwhelm'd with care Thou knewst my path and how I was beset The way I went was lined as a net Mine enemies had laid a secret snare That I might fall into it unaware I looked on my right-hand and beheld But none would know me no man did condole All refuge fail'd none cared for my soul I cry'd to thee and said thou hast excell'd God is a Refuge most unparallel'd Thou art my portion whilst I live an hour Attend my cry for I am brought full low O save me from my persecuting foe For they that seek my soul for to devour Are stronger far than I and more of power O bring my soul from prison by command That I may shew and celebrate thy fame And render praises to thy holy Name Then shall the righteous round about me stand When thou shalt bless me with a bounteous hand HYMN 569. Supplications relating to Posterity Psalm 144. LORD make our Sons as thriving Plants which growing youth doth grace Our Daughters as the battlements of some fair polish'd place Our Garners full of each good thing our Sheep in numbers great Their thousands and ten thousands bring within our fields to bleat Our labouring Oxen strong and stout that there be no restraint No breaking in nor going out Nor in our streets complaint Happy are men in such a case yea rather we record That people blest in every place whose God is God the Lord. 2. METRE The mighty God c. LORD make our Sons as plants grown up in youth our Daughters as the carved corner stones Of some fair Pallace which an artist doth erect with Pillars making curious ones Our Garners full all sorts of store containing Our Sheep by thousands and ten thousands yeaning Our Oxen strong to labour fat of
c. Gen. 8.20 AND Noah built an Altar to the Lord And of clean beasts and fowl he offered two And with these Offrings was Gods Altar stor'd And God well pleas'd that Noah so should do And so the Lord resented a sweet savour And Noah for this Act was in his favour And thus said God whose bowels yern'd within I will no more for mans sake curse the ground For mans imaginations are but sin And such by Nature from his youth are found Neither will I for ever any more Smite all things living as I did before And while the Earth and Mountains shall remain Seeds-time and Harvest ever shall abide And cold and heat shall never fail again Summer and winter shall retain their tide And Day and Night increasing or decreasing Shall keep their seasons without fail or ceasing Gen. 9.12 And this shall be the Covenant which I make And this the Seal betwixt my self and you And every living Creature for your sake And all the Generations that ensue I 'll set my Bow i' th' Cloud to be a token Between me and the Earth as I have spoken Doxology Rev. 1.4 5. Chap. 4.8 1 John 5.7 To him that was and is and is to come To God Almighty the most Holy One And unto Jesus Christ his onely Son And to the seven Spirits before the Throne To Father Son and Holy Ghost together Be Kingdom Glory Power and Praise for ever The Table of the Prefatory Hymns Hymn 1. CReation The First Day i. The Second Day ii The Third Day Ibid. The Fourth Day iii. The Fifth Day iv The Sixth Day Ibid. 2. The Sabbath vi 3. Marriage vii 4. Paradise viii 5. The Covenant of Works ix 6. Man's shamefull Fall. Ibid. Adam's Arraignment and Excuse xi Eve's Arraignment and Excuse Ibid. 9. The Serpents Censure and the Covenant in Christ intimated xii 10. The Womans Censure and the Man's Ibid. 11. Mans Expulsion from Paradise xiii 12. The World degenerate xv 13. The Ark ordered xvi 14. The Deluge or Flood rising xvii 15. Eight Souls saved in the Ark. Ibid. 16. The Deluge ceasing xviii 17. The Raven sent forth and the Dove xix 18. The Dove with the Olive-leaf xx 19. Noah Coming out of the Ark and the Covenant of the Rainbow Ibid. Noah's Sacrifice xxii The First Century Hymn I. Access to the Throne of Grace at our awaking 1 Tim. 4.10 2 Cor. 1.10 Psal. 119.133 Jude 21. Psal. 73.24 Rev. 22.8 Tune Ye Children c. O God the Saviour of all men And most especially of them That faithfully believe in thee Who hast preserv'd us all times past And wilt preserve us to the last As still our trust and hope shall be Order our steps in thy good word And let no sin reign in us Lord But keep us ever in thy love And let thy Counsels be our guide Till thou receiv'st us to abide In glory with thy Saints above Psal. 28.9.115 1. Mat. 6.13 Psal. 123.3.33.22.31.1 Lord save thy Church in every Age Govern and bless thine Heritage And lift them up for evermore We daily magnifie thy fame And thy most high and holy Name World without end we still adore Vouchsafe us Lord thy grace herein To keep us clear this day from sin Shew mercy Lord shew mercy free Shew mercy Lord as we confide On thee O Lord have I reli'd Confounded let me never be The second Metre The Mighty God. O God the Saviour of all sorts of men Especially of them that do believe Author finisher of the faith of them Whose sure salvation Loâ—d thou wilt atchieve Who hast preserv'd us always heretofore And wilt we trust preserve us evermore Order our steps in thy good word O God And let no wickedness in us bear sway But Sin and Satan let be under-trod And all our steps upholden in thy way And let thy Counsels guide and never leave us Till to thy glory Lord thou shalt receive us Hymn II. Acclamations of Praise or Te Deum Laudamus Exemplifi'd with proofs of Holy Scripture Rom. 15.6 Rev. 11.17 All people c. WE praise thee O God with one accord We acknowledge thee to be the Lord All the whole Earth adores thy Name Father of everlasting fame Rev. 7.11.5.11 Isa. 6.2 To Thee aloud all Angels cry The Heav'ns and all the Powers on high Both Cherubin and Seraphin bright Continual cries of praise recite Isa. 6.3 Rev. 5.11.4.8 O Holy Holy Holy LORD Great God of Sabbaoth they record With splendor of thy glory spread In Heav'n and Earth replenished 2. Part. Rev. 4.10 Th' Apostles glorious Company Praise Thee O God perpetually The Prophets goodly fellowship Praise Thee and let no moment slip Rev. 7.7 9 10. The noble and victorious Host Of Martyrs do thy praises boast The Holy Church throughout the Earth Acknowledge and extoll thy Worth. Isa. 9.6 Joh. 14.36 The Father of boundless Majesty Thy true and only Son most high Also that sweet Remembrancer The Holy Ghost the Comforter 3. Part. Psal. 34.10.2.7 Thou art O Christ King of renown Invested with a Glorious Crown Thou art before all time begun The Fathers everlasting Son. 1 Pet. 3.18 Gal. 4.4 Heb. 9.15 Thou undertaking in our room Didst not abhor the Virgins Womb. The pains of Death orecome by Thee Made Heav'n to all Believers free Heb. 1.3 John 5.22 At God's right hand Thou hast thy Seat And in the Fathers glory great We do believe that Thou shalt come To judge us at the Day of Doom 4. Part. Rev. 5.9 Mat. 8.11 Lord help thy Servants whom when lost Thy bloud redeem'd at so great cost Place them on Everlasting Thrones Of glory with thy Holy Ones Psal. 28.9 Thy People Lord do Thou protect And bless thine Heritage Elect Govern thy Church and Lord advance For ever thine Inheritance Psal. 145.1 2. From day to day O Lord do We Highly exalt and honour Thee Thy Name we worship and adore World without end for evermore 5. Part. Mat. 6.13 Psal. 123.3 Vouchsafe O Lord we humbly pray To keep us safe from sin this day O Lord have mercy on us all Have mercy on us when we call Psal 33.22 31.1 Thy mercy Lord to us dispence According to our confidence Lord I have put my trust in Thee Confounded let me never be The second Metre Rom. 15.6 Rev. 11.17.7.11 Ye Children c. O God we praise thy Holy Name Thy Sovereign Lordship we proclaim Confessing Thee the Lord alone All the whole Earth doth worship Thee The Father from ETERNITY The true and Everlasting One. Angels loud voices joyn with ours The Heavens and all the Heavenly Powers do ever magnifie thy fame To thee the winged Cherubim And the bright burnâ—ng Seraphim Continual acclamations frame 2. Part. Isa. 6.3 Rev. 5.11.4.10.7.7 Thrice Holy Lord they joyntly say Whose royal Power all Hosts obey thy glory bright fills Heav'n and Earth Th' Apostles glorious Company And Prophets sweet SOCIETY perpetual praises do pour forth The Noble Host of Martyrs stout The
Ghost therefore Be glory as at first was done and shall be evermore 2. PART On the Birth Kingdom and Conquests of CHRIST Isa. 9.3 4. NOW Lord before thee we rejoyce as men in Harvest-while As Conquerors lift up their voice when they divide the spoil For thou hast broke the burd'nous yoke the Staff that bare the sway The Rod of our Oppressors Power as once in Midian's day For every battel generally of Warriours prime and good Is with confused noise and cry and Garments roll'd in bloud But this of Christ's against his Foes that spightfully conspire Shall be with burning where it goes and Fuel mixt with Fire The day doth come as God assures that like an Oven shall burn And all the proud and wicked doers that day shall overturn But unto them that fear my Name there shall arise and spring The Sun of Peace and Righteousness with healing in his wing To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be glory done as first begun and shall be evermore Hymn XII At FVNERALS to mitigate Mourning Job 1.21 NAked we go unto the Grave as from the womb we came God gives and takes but what he gave and blessed be his Name For he shall wipe off tears one day and make all faces free And our rebuke quite take away and no more death shall be No sorrow shall nor crying last nor any further pain Because the former things are past and never come again Hymn XIII At Funerals to press Patience 1 Tim. 6.7 Job 1.21 NOthing we brought into this world and it is out of doubt That we from hence when-ever call'd can carry nothing out The Lord of his good pleasure gave the Lord doth take away And let his Name the honour have and bless him day by day Hymn XIV At Funerals touching the preciousness of the Saints death Psal. 116.15 Rom. 14.8 A Thing of price unparallell'd in God our Soviour's eyes The death of all his Saints is held when any of them dies For while we live we live to God to God we also die And live or die we are indeed the Lords peculiarly Hymn XV. At Funerals touching the Resurrection Job 19.25 I Know that my Redemeer lives I know he lives alway And shall appear and stand up here on earth at Judgment day And though my skin and next to that my body turn to dust Yet in my flesh restor'd afresh I shall see God I trust Whom I shall perfectly behold when I from dust recover Not otherwise but with these eyes my self and not another Hymn 16. At Funerals touching the Saints safety in Death John 11.25 26. THE Resurrection and the Life saith Christ our Lord am I And he that hath in me belief shall live although he die And whosoever here he be that draws this mortal breath And stedfastly believes in Me shall never more see death Hymn 17. At Funerals touching the Saints sweet Rest. Rev. 14.13 I Heard a voice that spake and said to me from Heaven on high Write blessed henceforth are the dead that in the Lord do die Yea saith the Spirit that such men may leave their labours hard Their works likewise do follow them to reap a full reward Hymn 18. A Thanksgiving at or after the Sacrament All People c. Luke 2.13 GLory to God in Highest Place On Earth be peace to Men free grace We praise we bless thee we adore And glorifie thee evermore Rom. 11.17 We thank thee for thy glory great Lord God that hast the Sovereign seat O heavenly King and God alone The Father the Almighty One. John 1.14 29. Acts 2.36 O God the true begotten Word Son of the Father Christ and Lord O Lamb of God that tak'st away The worlds great sin thy grace display 2 Cor. 5.21 1 Pet. 2.24 Thou that wast made sin for our sake Who knew'st no sin some pity take Thou that did'st in thy body bear The sins of all receive our prayer Eph. 1.20 21. Job 10.30 Thou that dost sit at God's right hand One with the Father in Command Above all Angels having place Have mercy on us and shew grace Acts 2.27 33 36. For Thou art Christ the Holy One The onely LORD and Thou alone Art with the Holy Ghost most high In God the Father's Dignity Hymn 19. Attonement sought upon Humiliation or a woefull bewailing of our Corruptions and Calamities Dan. 9.4 5. O God that great and dreadfull art who keepest truth and grace To them that love thee in their heart and do thy Laws embrace O we have sinned we confess we have done wickedly We have rebell'd by wickedness and great Apostasie 6 7 9. Not hearkning to thy Messengers who spake by thy command To Princes Kings and Ancestors and People of our Land. But Lord to thee belongeth grace to us contrary way Belongs confusion of the face as at this present day 14.12 Therefore the Lord hath watch'd the stroke and brought it on us all And hath confirm'd the Word he spoke against us so to fall Our Judges too that judged us on them the Lord hath brought The evil so prodigious for sins which we have wrought 12 13. For under the whole Heav'ns of God among all sorts of men The like hath not been done abroad as to Jerusalem Yet sought we not to know the truth nor for repentance pray'd But God is just in all he doth for we have not obey'd 2. PART Dan 9.8 11. Confusion of the face pertains to us and to our Kings Our Peers and Parents for our pains in doing wicked things For all have broke thy Law O Lord revolting worse and worse That we might not obey thy Word which pours out all this curse 9.16 But mercy and forgivenesses belong O Lord to thee Though our rebellious Trespasses grow to a high degree O Lord according unto all thy righteousness we pray Let not thy dreadfull fury fall but turn thy wrath away 18.19 For we present not our address before thy Mercy-Seat For any of our righteousness but for thy mercies great Lord hear forgive and pity take hearken O Lord and do Defer not for thine own dear sake now thou art pray'd unto 18.17 Incline thine ear O Lord and hear open thine eyes and see Our desolations and the place relating unto thee And let thy face behold with grace thy Sanctuaries seat Whose present state is desolate for Christ's sake we intreat Hymn 20. A wofull Lamentation or David's Elegy for Saul and Jonathan 2 Sam 1.19 THY beauty is O Israel in thy high places slain O how those mighty Champions fell and we the loss sustain O tell it not to any one nor publish it in Gath Nor in the streets of Askalon that Israel bears such wrath 20.21 The Daughters of the Philistins lest they therein rejoyce And those uncircumcised ones lest they lift up their voice Ye mountains great of Gilboa let neither Rain nor Dew Nor fields of Offrings from that day for ever fall on you 21. For there the
high And sin is a reproach no less to any Family Psal. 107.34 A fruitfull Land doth God expose to barrenness for sin And for the wickedness of those that live and dwell therein Job 22. ult But God doth save the smallest Land of th' innocent and pure And by the pureness of thy hand it is delivered sure HYMN 41. Excellent Counsel of Wisedom Prov. 8.1.33.1 32 33. WIsdom puts forth her voice and cries and such like words doth use Hear ye instruction and be wise and do not now refuse For ease shall slay those simple souls that let devotion dye And the prosperity of fools destroys them utterly But whoso hearkneth unto me shall dwell in safety still And shall be quiet safe and free from fear of any ill 2. PART 8.34 35 36. Blessed is he that heareth me saith Wisedom to her friends That at my Gate doth daily wait and at my door attends For surely he that findeth me finds life and shall obtain The favour of the Lord above to his eternal gain But he that sins against such things wrongs his own soul thereby And all that hate on me to wait love death and so shall dye HYMN 42. Fallow Ground to be dressed Hos. 10.12 SOW to your selves in righteousness and reap in mercy sweet Your fallow ground break up and dress for seed to make it meet For it is time to seek the Lord till he descending on you Shall come and of his own accord rain righteousness upon you HYMN 43. Gods Covenant for us with the Creatures Hos. 2.18 19 21. THUS saith the Lord above I have betrothed thee In mercy truth and tender love for ever unto me And in that day will I a faithfull Covenant make With all my Creatures generally for thy sweet safeties sake The heavens shall hear the earth the earth shall hear the corn The corn and wine that thence come forth shall hear my Church new born HYMN 44. Gods Jealousie for Jerusalem Zach 1.14 THUS saith the Lord of Hosts a Jealous God am I For Sion and for Salems Coasts with eager Jealousie 15. And I am unappeas'd towards Heathens yet unscourg'd For I was but a while displeas'd and they th' affliction urg'd 16. Therefore saith God I am return'd for all their sin With mercies to Jerusalem to build my house therein HYMN 45. Humble Supplications and Confessions All People c. Deut. 32.4 Rom. 7.12 14. O Thou most just and righteous God! Thy Law is holy just and good But we are carnal of our selves As sold to sin and nothing else Rom. 3.23 Psal. 15.5 For all have sinn'd of every sort And of thy glory are come short Our shape in sin we did assume And are transgressors from the womb Rom. 7.18 19. We from polluted Parents spring And in our flesh dwells no good thing The good we would do that we bate And do the evil that we hate Hos. 14.2 Take off all our iniquity And Lord receive us graciously So shall we sacrifice to thee The Fatlings of our lips most free HYMN 46. Humble Supplications in time of Drought All People c. Jer. 14.20 LORD we acknowledge and confess Our grievous sins and wickedness Our Fathers faults we do deplore For we have sinn'd against thee sore 21. For thy Name sake loath not thine own Do not disgrace thy glorious Throne Remember and do not infringe Thy Covenant with us for our sins 22. Can any of the Idol Powers Cause rain or can the heavens give showers O Lord our God art not thou he And therefore will we wait on thee Chron. 6.27 Send rain O Lord upon this Land Put here into thy peoples hand Lest Britain be one dried Strand And all our Earth be turn'd to Sand. And teach us that good way to know Wherein we alwaies ought to go HYMN 47. Humble Supplications in time of Sickness All People c. Jer. 10.24 COrrect us but in Judgment Lord Not in thy wrath with sharpened Sword Lest thou should'st bring us down thereby To dust and ruin utterly 9.21 Death climbs our windows by disease Enters into our PALACES Cuts off the Children from without And from the streets the young and stout 14.7 Isa. 38.9 O Lord though our Iniquities As witness-clouds against us rise Our help and healing undertake And do it for thine own Names sake HYMN 48. Humble Supplications in times of Tempest All People c. Psal. 103.19 Isa. 64.6 O Thou that dost in Heaven Reign We all are as a thing unclean And all our righteousnesses are As filthy rags unfit to wear And therefore are we justly made Like as a Leaf to fall and fade And our transgressions bearing sway As wind have taken us away Psal. 107.25.77.17 18. At thy command big storms arise Thunder and lightning fill the Skies The Clouds pour down their watry load Thy flaming Arrows fly abroad Joel 2.17 Isa. 64.9 Hab. 3.2 O spare thy People gracious God! Redeemed with thy precious Blood Keep not our sins upon record In wrath remember mercy Lord. HYMN 49. Humble Supplication in times of Transgression and Revolt All People c. Isa. 43.27 OUR Father Our first Father Lord Hath sinn'd and disobey'd thy Word And all our Teachers at the best Against thee greatly have transgress'd Isa. 64.9 Lord be not angry very sore Nor mind our faults for evermore See we beseech thee and behold How we are all thy Flock and Fold 8. Thou art our Father at this day Thou art the Potter we the Clay And we are all and every one Thy handy-work O Lord alone HYMN 50. Humble Supplication in time of War. All People c. Isa. 64.1 O That thou would'st the Heavens rend And in thy Glorious power descend And that the mountains might flow down At presence of thy face and frown 2. As when the melting fire doth flame It makes the waters boil a main To make thine enemies know thy might And Nations tremble at thy sight 3. When dreadfull things were done by thee Such as we never look'd to see Then at thy presence and thy frown The mighty Mountains flowed down Lam. 3.42 Isa. 64.5 But we have sinn'd and for our crimes Thou hast not spar'd but scourg'd the times But in thy mercies is ingrav'd CONTINVANCE and we shall be sav'd HYMN 51. Judgment waited for Luke 21.19 Jam. 5 7. Hab. 2.3 Heb. 10.37 POssess your Souls with patience and wait unweariedly Untill the coming of the Lord for lo the day draws â—â—gh For yet a little while endure Th' account shall not miscarry And he that shall come will be sure to come and will not tarry Heb. 10.38 39. Hab. 2.4 Now then the Just shall live by Faith but if a man draw back My soul shall have no joy in him that true belief doth lack But we are not of those that do draw back to condemnation But those that do believe unto the Souls assur'd Salvation HYMN 52. Judgment upon the Proud and Scornfull All People c. Prov. 8.13 THE fear of
Praise to the giver of Grace Eph. 3.20 TO him whose mighty Power exceeds our asking and our thought According to his mighty deeds which he in us hath wrought To him let all God's Heritage give Glory yet agen By Jesus Christ from age to age world without end Amen HYMN 73. Praise to the Prince of Potentates O Lord Consider c. 1 Tim 6.15 THE blest and onely Potentate The King of Kings and Lord of Lords Who onely hath immortal state in Light that no access affords Whom no man yet did ever see nor can behold with mortal eye To him all Praise and Honour be for ever to Eternity HYMN 74. Praise to the Redeemer Ye Children c. Rev. 1.5 6. Eph. 5.27 ALL praise to him whose grace so good washt off our sin with his own blood So to present us pure and clean The faithfull witness Christ our head The first begotten from the dead and Prince of princes here that reign Heb 10.14 Rev. 1.6 Who dying fully clear'd the score Of all his saints for evermore By one oblation offered then And made us Kings and Priests to God And to the Father O give laud and praise to him for ever Amen HYMN 75. Praise to the Trinity Give laud c. 1 John 5.7 Rev. 1.4 UNTO the Three in One that bear Record above The Father and the Son and holy Spirit of Love Be Glory then As first begun and shall be done for Ever Amen HYMN 76. Remission of Sin. 1 John 1.5 THIS message have we heard from God and shew'd to great and small That God is light in whom no cloud of darkness is at all If then we say we know the Lord and walk without the light We plainly falsifie our word and do not what is right But we that walk with him in light have fellowship together And Christ his bloud shall wash us white from all sins whatsoever To God the Father and the Son and holy Ghost therefore Be Glory as at first was done and shall be evermore HYMN 77. Renewings of Joy. Isa. 65.18 REjoyce saith God as Joyfull men in that which I create For I create Jerusalem a joyfull happy State. And they shall build their houses new and dwell in what they build And plant them Vineyards thereunto and with the fruits be fill'd They shall not build and others take their Habitation seat Nor plant as for a strangers sake for other men to eat As Trees stand long before they die my peoples time so stands And mine Elect shall long enjoy the labours of their hands HYMN 78. Restraining of fleshly lusts All People c. 1 Pet. 2.11 NOW we beseech You Brethren dear As Strangers and as Pilgrims here Ye would all fleshly lusts controll As foes that fight against the Soul. Phil. 2.15 That pure and blameless ye may be The Sons of God from blemish free Amidst a Cross and Crooked race Shining as lights in every place Phil. 1.10 That ye may give a full assent To those things which are excellent And also be sincere and clear From all offence till Christ appear HYMN 79. Right reasoning of Temptation Jam. 1.13 LET no man say when drawn by Sin some evil deed to do That it was God that tempted him and led him thereunto For God Almighty neither can be tempted unto ill Nor ever tempts he any man to so corrupt a will. But every man is tempted then when his own lust bears sway And lust conceiv'd brings guilt on men And guilt of sin doth slay Watch ye therefore and evermore pray hard against Temptation And with sincere and awfull fear woâ—k out your own salvation HYMN 80. Sobriety Prayer and Charity enjoyned 1 Pet. 4.7 8. THE end of all things is at hand let us therefore have care To walk in all Sobriety and watch to earnest prayer And specially let charity on all sides be kept in For Charity helps mightily and hideth many a sin HYMN 81. Solemn ascension of Christ and leading Captivity captive Psal. 68.18 Eph. 4.10 THOU didst O Christ ascend on high and by almighty power Lead captive our Captivity in that triumphant hour Thou gavest then thy gifts to men to them that did rebell That God the Lord th' eternal Word might with the Gentiles dwell To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be glory done as first begun and shall be evermore HYMN 82. Spirit of God dwelling in us 1 Thes. 3.23 24. THIS is the Lord's Commandement and chiefly to be done That every one should trust upon the Name of Christ his Son. And that we should love mutually as his Commandment ties And doing thus God dwells in us and we in him likewise And that the Lord abides in us hereby a Christian knows Namely by his good Spirit it is which he on us bestows HYMN 83. The Benediction from the God of Peace Heb. 13.20 21. AND now the very God of peace that brought back Christ our head Even Jesus our sweet Saviour and rais'd him from the dead That Shepherd of the Sheep so great by whose most precious blood The Lord did grant a Covenant to our eternal good He perfect you in all good works to do his will aright Working in you to act and do things pleasing in his sight Through Jesus Christ our Saviour who dy'd and rose agen To whom always be given praise World without end Amen HYMN 84. The Children of light exhorted 1 Thes. 5.4 9. BRethren ye are not of the dark but children of the light Children I say of lightsome day and not of darksome night Let us not sleep in sin therefore as others ill inclin'd But Brethren we must watchfull be and of a sober mind For they that sleep do sleep by night and drunkards light eschew But Christians they are of the day and fear not open view Be sober then and putting on brest-plates of faith and love And take with you that helmet too the hope of life above For God ordain'd not us to wrath which is for sinners stor'd But to obtain Salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. To Father Son and Holy Ghost all Glory be therefore As first begun and shall be done henceforth for evermore HYMN 85. The Confidence accursed Jerem 17.5 6. Psal. 106. ult CUrsed is man that trusts in man to keep him safe from harm And lets his heart from God depart to make proud flesh his arm He shall be like the desart heath not seeing future good But shall possess the Wilderness not having friend or food Let Israel's God the Lord most high be magnifi'd therefore From first to last till time be past Amen for evermore HYMN 86. The Confidence applauded and blessed Isa. 30.18 Jer. 17.7 BLest is the man that waits on God and doth in him confide For he shall be like fruitfull tree set by the water side Whose leaf still green shall feel no heat but keep a spreading root And shall not fear the droughty year nor cease from yielding fruit Psal.
and us from death restor'd 3. Gal. 4.4 1 Pet. 1.8 For when the Law was weak through Flesh and had no strength to save God sent his Son of Virgin-seed and him to us he gave Whom having never seen we love and through belâ—ef no less Rejoyce with joy unsâ—eakable and full of gloriousness Jude 25. Rev. 4.13 God onely wise our Saviour that on the Throne doth sit Have honour glory praise and power for ever so be it HYMN 111. Christ's Commission Mat. 10.1 8. WHenas our Lord had call'd his twelve he gave them power at large Against all Devils and Disease and thus he gave them charge Go heal the sick the Leaprous cleanse the dead men cause to live Cast Devils out your grant is free and therefore freely give 14 15 16. Whoso receives or heâ—rs you not it shall be far more ease For Sodom and Gomorrah's Land at judgment than for these Behold as Sheep in midst of Wolves I send you forth saith he The Serpents wisedom therefore use and Doves simplicity 2. PART Mat 28.18 19. Behold all power is given me in Heaven and Earth likewise Go therefore into all the world and Nations gospeâ—ize Baptize them in the Fathers Name in every Land and Coast And in the Name of God the Son and of the Holy Ghost 20. Rev. 19.16 Gal. 1.5 And teach them to observe and do whatever I command And I behold am now with you and while the world doth stand To Christ the King of Kings therefore and Lord of Lords most high Be praise and glory evermore to all eternity HYMN 112. Communion of Saints Heb. 12.22 23. NOW are we come to Sion Mount the City of abode The Heavenly Jerusalem where dwells the living God. To Hosts of Angels numberless and to th' assembly there The General Church of God's first born whose names in Heaven appear 24. Mat. 25.32 And unto God the Judge of all on whom the world must wait And to the Spirits of all just men made perfect in that State. To Jesus Mediatour of the covenant now made new Whoâ—e sprinkled blood speaks better things than Abelâ—s â—s blood could do Rev. 5.13 Blessing and glory and renown then give we altogether To him that on the Throne sits down and to the Lamb for ever HYMN 113. Confession of Christ. Mat. 10.32 Rom. 10.10 HIM that confesseth me to men will I saith Christ record And will acknowledge him agen before my heavenly Lord. For man believes to righteousness with humble heart alone And with the tongue doth man confess unto Salvation 1 Tim 3.16 This Mystery of Godliness is very great and high God manifested in the flesh the Spirit did justifie The blessed Angels saw his face his word the Gentiles heard Believ'd on in the world he was to God's right hand preferr'd HYMN 114. Confession of Sin. All People c. Heb. 1.13 Dan. 9.6 O Lord that art of purer eye than to behold iniquity We all have sinned we confess and have committed wickedness Isa. 59.12 Ezr. 9.6 Our trespasses against us show our sins we cannot chuse but know For they are swollen above our head and are unto the Heavens spread Luke 15.18 O Father we have grievously offended Thee that dwell'st on high Unworthy to be own'd therefore as thy dear Children any more Ezra 9.13 Ezek. 18.32 Yet hast thou never punish'd sin so much as our deserts have been Nor is the death of him that dies a matter pleasing in thine eyes Neh. 9.27 Ezek. 13.32 For thou art unto anger slow and dost with grace and mercy flow Thou art most ready to forgive therefore let us return and live HYMN 115. Confidence in God. O Lord consider c. Hab. 3.17 18. ALthough the fig-tree shall not spring although the Vine no grape shall yield The Olive fail her fruit to bring nor any food be in the field The flock be cut off from the fold no beasts can in the stalls be had Yet in the Lord my joyes shall hold in God my Saviour Iâ—le be glad HYMN 116. The Conquest All People c. Deut. 33.26 to the end THere is not one 'tis truly said like Jeshurun's great God on high Who rides on heaven for thy aid with excellency on the sky Th' eternal God thy refuge is his everlasting Arms thy stay He will thrust out thine enemies before thee saying kill and slay Then Isr'el shall dwell safe unmixt and on a Land of Corn and Wine There Jacob's Fountain shall he fixt the Heavens dropping on his Vine O happy Isr'el we record whom like to thee doth God advance O people saved by the Lord the shield of thy deliverance Thy excellency's Sword is he and all thy foes of forreign Powers Shall be found lyers unto thee and thou shalt tread on their high Towers HYMN 117. Conscience 2 Tim. 1.5 Prov. 4.23 Act. 21.16 THE end of all the Law is Love out of an heart unstain'd A conscience that we can approve and out of Faith unfeign'd Keep then your heart with diligence with all the care you can A Conscience void of all offence both towards God and Man. Heb. 10.22 2 Cor. 1.12 1 Joh. 3.21 And so draw near with upright heart with faith both full and sure Our Conscience cleans'd our Bodies wash'd with Baptism-water pure And our rejoycing shall be this our consciences attest For if our hearts condemn us not on God we boldly rest HYMN 118. Contentation Prov. 30.8 9. LORD give me neither poverty nor too abundant store Give me to live conveniently and I desire no more Not riches Lord too largely deal lest pride should be my bane Nor poverty lest I should steal and take God's Name in vain Phil. 4.11 12. Heb. 13.5 And teach me if my state be scant or if I fulness find To know how to abound or want with a contented mind And let my conversation still be void of covetousness For God hath said I never will forsake thee in distress HYMN 119. Covenant-Grace Give laud c. Isa. 55.1 2 3. HO all that thirst and pine come to the waters here And ye that have no coyn Come buy and eat good chear O Come I say Buy milk and wine without your coyn without your pay Why do ye money spend for that which is not bread And labour to no end not bâ—ing fill'd or fed Heark diligently And eat ye food both fat and good to your souls joy Incline your ear and come hear and your soul shall live And I will make you room and I to you will give My Covenant-grace The mercies sure which shall indure to David's race 2. PART Give laud c. Ezek. 36.25 Besprinkle you will I wiâ—h water that shall cleanse And I will purifie your conscience by this means from Idols then And all excess of filthiness I 'le make you clean 26. I will in you create a heart with grace refin'd I will regenerate the Spirit of your mind your heart of stone I will remove and make it prove a tender
one 27. My Spirit I will place within you and will cause That you shall by my grace walk in my Statute-Laws so that ye shall Observe with trust my judgments just and do them all 3. PART Give laud c. Heb. 10 11. And this shall be in sum the Cov'nant of my word Made good in daies to come to Isr'el saith the Lord My Laws will I Put in their hearts and inward parts effectually 12. And they shall all know me together great and small And gratious I will be to their offences all Their sins therefore And doings ill I never will remember more Jer. 32.40 My people then shall they be stil'd and I their God Nor will I turn away from doing of them good My fear shall be In them so put that they shall not depart from me 4. PART Jer. 50.5 They shall enquire the way with faces Sion-ward Come joyn ye shall they say in Covenant with the Lord such as shall bind Perpetually and never be put out of mind 32 39. And I will give them all one heart and way saith God And fear me then they shall for ever for their good Their good alwaies And of their Sons and little ones in after daies Ezek. 34.23 Zech. 14.9 One Shepherd I will place over my pasture stock A King of David's race and he shall feed my Flock Then shall there be One Lord alone and his name one in midst of thee HYMN 120. Counsel of Christ. Rev. 3.18 I Counsel thee to buy of me Gold tryed in the fire And white array to make thee rich and trim in thine attire That in this dress thy nakedness and shame may not appear With eye salve then anoint thine eyes to make thy eye-sight clear 19 20. All whom I love I do reprove with wholsome chastisement Be zealous therefore in my way and of thy sloth repent Behold how I most graciously stand at the door and knock If any man attend to me and will the door unlock 21 22. I will come in and sup with him and he with me alone And he that overcomes with me shall sit upon my Throne Who hath an ear now let him hear what things the Spirit saith Unto the Churches every where to keep them in their Faith. HYMN 121. CREED All People c. Or O Lord consider Gal. 1.8 1 Cor. 3.11 Eph. 2.20 SHould we another Gospel preach or if a glorious Angel durst Contrary to our Doctrine teach let him be holden as accurst Other foundation none can lay than what is laid to build upon Namely what Holy Scriptures say Christ that is made chief corner-stone Eph. 4.4 5. 1 Co. 8.7 Eph. 1.7 Ro. 4. ult 25. One Body and one Spirit free one hope whereto we have our Call One Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of us all One Jesus Christ in whom we have redemption through his precious bloud Who dy'd for us from sin to save and rose to make th' assurance good Ro. 8.34 Jo. 2.3 Luk. 24.47 Act. 26.18 Heb. 1.3 Who by the word of his command made and upholds whatever is Who sits enthron'd at God's right hand and intercedeth there for his Repentance preached in his Name and free remission of our sin That we thâ— inheritance might claim among the Saints by faith in him Heb. 6.1 Act. 3.19 Mat. 24.35 Luk 1.45 The Resurrection of the Flesh and the eternal Judgment Day When Christ his Presence shall refresh and Heaven and Earth shall pass away Blessed are they that have believ'd for every thing and every word Shall be accomplish'd and atchiev'd that hath been spoken by the Lord. Deborah's Song Judg. 5.2 3. SIng praise O Israel to the Lord that hath avenged thee When as the people went to fight offering themselves so free Ye Kings give ear ye Princes hear I even I will sing And sweetly raise my voice in praise to Israel's mighty King. 8.6 7 10. My heart is towards the Governours that did their help afford Offering themselves so willingly wherefore bless ye the Lord. Ye travellers and passengers and ye that ride in state And ye that yet in judgment sit now speak it in the Gate 11.6 7. They that are freed from frightfull noise of Archers at the Well Shall oft rehearse God's righteous Acts his Acts to Israel The Passengers were wanderers in by-paths up and down And none could dwell in Israel but in a walled Town 2. PART 12 19. Awake awake O Deborah rise Barak sing a Song Abinoam's Son thy captives lead thy captives lead along There fought the Kings hard by the springs of great Megiddoes plain But brought away no prize nor prey to glory of their gain 30 20. Curse Meroz said God's Angel then curse Meroz bitterly That would not help the Lord against a potent Enemy But there were those against our foes that fought from Heaven that day The Stars in course did fight with force against keen Sisera 27 31. At Jael's feet he bow'd he fell he bow'd and fell down dead She smote and pierc'd his temples through and then cut off his head So perish those that are thy foes but Lord let all thy Lovers Be like the Sun when he at noon his brightest beams discovers HYMN 123. Diligence in Duties Phil. 2.12 2 Pet. 1.8 10. WORK out your own salvation with trembling and with fear That barren ye may neither be nor fruitless plants appear But use all circumspection that ye may so find out Your Calling and Election to make it out of doubt 5 6. Add to your Faith the Vertuous Path to Vertue Knowledge knit With this advance sweet Temperance and Patience joyn to it To Patience add true Piety with Piety express The Kindness that is Brotherly and Charitableness 5 10 11. Besides all this ye may not miss of Diligence in all For if ye do these things pursue then can ye never fall Opening a door of large extent by this devout behaviour Into the Kingdom permanent of Christ our Lord and Saviour HYMN 124. Dragon's Downfall Ye Children c. Rev. 12.10 11. NOW is salvation come abroad The strength and Kingdom of our God now hath his Christ extoll'd his might For the Accusers made to fall He that accus'd our Brethren all before our God both day and night And him they quell'd and overcame By the pure blood of Christ the Lamb and by their testimony true For by that double-edged Sword The witness of their faithfull word this enemy they overthrew 12. Nor did they spare their utmost breath Nor love their lives unto the death but boldly laid down all at stake Therefore ye Heavens lift up your voice And ye that dwell in them rejoyce in this Salvation to partake But woe to you to you O Sirs The Earth and Seas inhabiters guilty of our Accuser's Crime For Satan is come down to you Having great wrath because he knew he now must have but little time 11.17.7.10 12. We give thee thanks with one consent O Lord our God
person saith That he hath faith and hath not works is that a saving Faith But wilt thou know O thou vain man that Faith by Works unknown Is not a living Faith but dead it being all alone 26. Gal. 5.6 For as that body is but dead the which no breath supplies So Faith that is not perfected by Works is dead likewise And neither circumcision avails with God above Nor yet uncircumcision but Faith that works by Love. HYMN 133. God's Glittering Sword. Deut. 32.39 43. I Kill saith God and make alive I wound and heal alone And there is none with me can strive to rescue any one For I lift up my hand on high to heaven above and say Behold I live eternally and am without decay If once my hand with Judgment close and whets my glittering Sword With vengeance on my hatefull Foes I 'le execute my Word I 'le make mine Arrows drunk with blood my Sword shall flesh devour The slain and captives shall be food from the revenging hour Rejoyce ye Nations with his Land to whom he will be good And while his foes shall feel his hand avenge his Servants blood HYMN 134. Government 2 Sam. 23.1 Deut. 16.20 2 Cor. 4.4.1.17 2 Chr. 19.6 Psal. 82.1 THE Prince that Ruleth over men must be exceeding just And govern in the fear of God that putteth him in trust Because the judgment is not mans but God's the judge on high Who sits among these earthly Gods to judge most righteously Rom. 13.1.5 1 Tim. 2.2 And every soul must needs submit unto the powers supream And not for wrath but conscience sake be subject unto them And pray for Kings and Rulers all that we through their defence May live in Peace and Godliness with all good conscience 2 Cor. 5.10 For we must every one appear and personally come Before the Judgment seat of Christ there to receive our doom As hath been in the body done by each man bond or free And as the work is good or bad so shall his sentence be 2. PART 1 Thes. 5.12 13. 1 Pet. 4.10 Obey those Rulers over you that warn you in the Lord And for their work-sake prize them much that preach to you the Word As each man hath receiv'd the gift let him discharge his place As good and faithfull Ministers of God's abundant grace 1 Th. 5.14 2 Th. 3.6 14. 1 Tim. 5.22 Warn the unruly help the weak support them lest they fall Comfort the feeble-minded ones be patient towards all Withdraw from the inordinate to shame them from their sin And no way be partakers of the sins that such live in Heb. 12.15 16. 1 Cor. 14.26 33. And let no root of bitterness no person vain and vile Spring up with you to trouble you and many to defile Let all be done to edifie for God's the God of peace In all the Churches of the Saints to make disorders cease 2 Cor. 13.11 Rom. 13.8 And live in peace and holiness whereto ye have your call And then the God of love and Peace shall still be with you all And owe to no man any thing but one to love another For 't is the Laws accomplishing to be a perfect Lover 3. PART Eph. 6.1 2 4. Obey your Parents in the Lord ye Children as 't is fit This is the first Commandement with Promise made to it Parents provoke not unto wrath your Children in their youth But bring them up in fear of God and nurture of his Truth 5.6 9. Servants obey your Masters will with reverential fear Not with eye-service pleasing men but as Christs servants dear And Masters do your Servants right knowing ye have on high A Master who hath no respect of Persons partially Rev. 1.7.22.12 Behold he cometh in the Clouds whom every eye shall see And every man shall have reward so as his works shall be HYMN 135. Government of the Tongue Jam. 1.26 Mat. 12.36 IF he that seems religious doth not his tongue refrain That man's Religion verily is altogether vain For sure of every idle word that any man shall say He is to give account thereof at God's great Judgment day 5.22 Jam. 3.2 Rash anger shall be judg'd a sin contemptuous speech goes higher And he that saith thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire But not to sin in Word or Tongue doth testifie and tell A perfect man and one that can rule all the body well HYMN 136. Harvest Have mercy c. Mat. 9.37 38. THE Harvest truly Sirs is very great to view But loe the faithfull Labourers are but a very few Pray ye the Lord therefore whos 's own the Harvest is To send out Labourers good store into this field of his Joh. 4.35 36. Phil. 4.17 That he that doth engage to sow and reap or either May have eternal life for wage and both rejoyce together And that our fruit amount as we desire and pray Abundantly to our account in that great Harvest-day HYMN 137. High and lofty One. O Lord Consider c. Isa. 57.15 THUS saith the high and lofty One inhabiting Eternity Whose Name is Holy be it known I dwell in Holy place on high Also with him that is contrite whose humble Spirit sighs and groans To cheer the humbled in my sight to cheer the heart of contrite ones 16.66.2 For still contending with the frail and keeping anger unallay'd The Spirits would before me fail and those poor souls which I have made But unto him will I be sure to look with favour saith the Lord That is in Spirit meek and poor and trembles at my Holy Word HYMN 138. Humiliation Hos. 6.1 COme now and let us search and try the ways that we have trod And turn again unfeignedly unto the Lord our God For he hath torn and put to pain and he hath made the wound And he will bind it up again and make us whole and sound 3. Jam. 4.9 After two daies he will revive and raise us up the third And set us in his sight alive that felt so sharp a Sword. Be then afflicted weep and mourn repentance to express Your laughter into mourning turn your joy to heaviness 10. Mic. 6.9 Joel 2.13 Hear him that smiteth and the Rod humble your selves and stoop Cast down your selves in sight of God and he shall raise you up For he is gratious mercifull and unto anger slack Of kindness great and one that will his judgments soon call back HYMN 139. Idolatry Forbidden 1 Cor. 10.14.22 2 Cor. 6.14 FLEE fast from all Idolatry from Idols keep you free Provoke we God to Jealousie are we more strong than he With Belial can Christ accord or can these things unite The house of Idols and our Lord the darkness and the light 15 16 17 18. Unrighteousness can that combine with righteousness to dwell Or can the true believer joyn with any Infidel Be therefore separate and clear and all uncleanness flee And ye my Sons and Daughters dear and I your God shall be Rev. 3.4 For but a
near To worship God with reverence and Godly filial fear And for the food that perisheth be not at any Strife But for the food that doth indure to everlasting life Mat. 6.33 And seek God's Kingdom first of all his righteousness pursue And then shall all the other things be added unto you HYMN 157. Mortality and Immortality Isa. 40.6 7. All flesh is grass and soon must yield for all the goodly show Which is but as a flower in field that some short time doth grow The grass doth wither and is gone the flower doth fade and pass Because God's Spirit blows thereon the people sure is grass 8. 1 Cor. 15.53 The grass doth change the flower doth fade at one rebuking blast But loe the word our Lord hath said for ever standeth fast The corruptible must put on a state that cannot die The mortal must be cloath'd upon with immortality 54 56 57. The Scriptures sayings then shall be fulfil'd for Saints to sing O Grave where is thy Victory O Death where is thy Sting The Sting of Death Sin needs must be the Law the strength of Sin But thanks to God for Victory through Christ our Lord herein HYMN 158. Mortification Col. 3.5 Rom. 6.12 c. 8.13 YOUR earthly members mortifie and let no sin bear sway Or in your mortal body reign while ye the lusts obey For if ye serve the flesh ye dye but if that by the Spirit The bodies lusts ye mortifie then shall ye life inherit Chap. 6.16 Chap. 13.14 For his ye are whom ye obey whether of sin to death Or else of righteousness to life after this mortal breath Put on then Jesus Christ the Lord and for the fleshes ease Make no provision nor regard the lusts thereof to please 2. PART Rom. 8 7. Chap. 12.2 The carnal mind is enmity against the living Lord Not subject neither can it be to his revealed word Be chang'd therefore by minds renew'd that ye may understand What pleasing good and perfect things the Lord doth here command Chap. 8.6 Chap. 6.11 8. Because to be of carnal mind is death without release But if Spiritually inclin'd it savours Life and Peace Then count your selves as dead to sin to God in Christ alive Because if we be dead with him we trust we shall revive Mose's Song All People c. Exod. 15.1 NOw sing unto the Lord will I for he hath triumph'd gloriously The Horse and Rider both of these his hand hath cast into the Seas 5 6. The depths devour'd them every one they sank to th' bottom as a stone Lord thy right hand with power shines bright thy right hand crusht the enemy quite 7 In thy great excellence O God thou hast those Rebels under-trod Thou sentâ—â—t forth thy wrath whereby they were consum'd as stubble dry 9 The enemy thus proudly spake I will pursue and overtake The spoil â—saith he I will divide my Lust shall so be satisfi'd 10 Then didst thou blow with blustring force the Sea returned to its course And covering them became their graves they sank as Lead in mighty Waves 11. Among the Gods who 's like to thee who like thee shines in sanctity Fearfull in praises as exceeds and doing rare and wondrous deeds HYMN 160. Oppression and Rapine disswaded Prov. 4.14 15 16. GO not with wicked men my Son go not with them I say Their crooked paths avoid and shun and come not near their way For if they do no wicked deed they take no rest at all Their sleep departs unless they speed of making some to fall Mic. 22. Prov. 4.17.2.13 They covet fields and violently they take them for a prey Oppressing Town and Family because they bear the sway They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of strife They leave the paths of Righteousness to lead a brutish life Isa. 59.7 8. Destruction and unhappiness are ever in their waies Nor do they know the way of peace for still their Judgment straies They make them crooked paths of sin form which they cannot cease And whosoever walks therein shall never know true peace 2. PART Prov. 1.10 11 13. My Son let sinners ticing thee be constantly withstood If they say come let us agree let us lay wait for blood All precious substance we shall find to make us rich and great And with the spoil of every kind shall fill our house compleat 14 15 16 18. Cast in thy Lot among us now let us have all one purse Refrain my Son and go not thou with them in this lewd course For unto rapine they run fast but loe their laying wait Shall be for their own lives at last and their own bloud the bait 19 31. The projects which they prosecute shall pay them home one day And they shall eat the bitter fruit of their own cursed way Such ways are his whoever strives his hands with bloud to stain To take away the owners lives for greediness of gain HYMN 161. Passion and Compassion of Christ. 1 Pet. 3.18 Chap. 2.24 LO Christ hath suffered once for sin the Just for wicked men That he might bring us unto God now reconcil'd agen Who bare our sins in his own flesh upon that cursed Tree That we should live to righteousness and dead to sin should be Isa. 53.6.3 All we like sheep have gone astray each took his course to fall And God hath laid the Load on him to answer for us all A man of sorrows sure he was and he hath born our grief Mean while we hid our face from him And gave him no relief Joh. 10.11 Lo this is that sweet Shepherd then so infinitely good That for his sheep laid down his Life and spilt his pretious bloud 2 PART Joh. 15.13 Rom. 5.7 A greater Love than this hath none to act or apprehend Than that a man should stake his life and lose it for his friend For scarce will any dye for him that lives most righteously Yet haply for a special friend some one might dare to dye 18. Chap. 14.9 But God commends his tender Love to us ward in this wise In that Christ Jesus dy'd for us when we were enemies And therefore did our Saviour die recover and revive To be the Lord both of the dead and those that are alive Heb. 13.15 By him therefore give we to God the sacrifice of praise The gratefull fruit of thankfull lips blessing his name alwaies HYMN 162. Patience Jam. 1.4 Heb. 10.36 LET Patience have her perfect work that ye may be intire And nothing wanting in your grace which God doth here require For ye have need of Patience that having done his Will Ye may receive the Promises which God shall then fulfill Chap. 6.19 Rom. 5.4 5. 2 Co. 4.17 For Patience works experience experience hope doth gain And hope shall never make asham'd whatever we sustain And lo our light affliction which is but transitory Works for us a more excellent eternal weight of glory 2 Tim. 2.12 Jam. 5.72 For they that suffer with the
THUS saith the Lord of Hosts but yet a little while And I will shake all Coasts yea every Land and Isle Yet once again I shake all these heav'n earth and seas and all the main 7. All Nations I will shake the Long desired day Which doth all Nations take loe that shall come I say And for all Coasts This house I will with glory fill saith God of Hoasts 9. The glory of this last far greater shall it grow Than of the Temple past the Lord of Hosts saith so And in this place Will I the Lord of Hosts afford sweet peace and grace Zach 4.6 7. H. 2.22 Yet not by might nor power but by my Spirit alone Saith God of Hosts our Tower The strength of all in one For who art thou O Mountain great the Empires seat to hinder now Zach. 4.7 Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain The stone that doth excell The head-stone of the same His hand shall fit And bring it out with general shout grace grace to it 9. Hag. 2.22 The hand of that same Man that laid the ground-work low Shall end what he began and I will overthrow The Heathen Kings Who then are they that slight the day of smaller things HYMN 172. Regeneration Joh. 3.5 Gal. 6.15 EXcept a man be born again of water and the spirit He cannot any way attain salvation to inherit For circumcision serveth none the priviledge is small Nor serves uncircumcision but a new creature 's all 2 Cor. 5.17 Jam. 1.18 Behold a man in Christ therefore and a new creature view Old things are past and come no more and all things are made new By his own will and word hath he wrought our regeneration A kind of first ripe fruit to be of all his whole Creation HYMN 173. Repentance Isa. 59.1 2. GOD's arm is never shortened but it can reach to save His ear not dull or wearied to hear us what we crave But from you do your sins divide your God that was so near And cause the Lord his face to hide so that he will not hear Ezek. 18.13 2 Cor. 30.9 Lay therefore your transgressions by repent and turn saith he And so your great iniquity your ruin shall not be Because the Lord is full of grace ready to pardon sin And will not hide away his face if ye return to him Luke 15.7 10. One sinner that returns agen makes Angels joy exceed More than do ninety nine just men that no repentance need 2. PART Jer. 3.13 1 Joh. 1.9 Acknowledge how ye have transgrest against the Lord your God And only let it be confest what by-paths ye have trod For if we do our sins confess faithfull and just is he From sin and all unrighteousness to cleanse and set us free Prov 28.13 Joel 2.13 Neh. 9.17 Ez. 18.32 For he that hides his sins shall fall they prosper but a space But to confess and leave them all shall with the Lord find grace For he is unto anger slow and ready to forgive And doth abundant kindness show wherefore return and live Exod. 34.7 For he reserves compassion for thousands that come in Remitting all transgression iniquity and sin 3. PART Isa. 55.6 7. Seek ye the Lord unfeignedly now while he may be found Oh call on him while he is nigh with mercies that abound Oh let the wicked leave his Lusts the way that sinners take And let the man unrighteous his sinfull thoughts forsake Chap. 1.18 And turn again unto the Lord while mercy now takes place And to our God so richly stor'd with guifts ef pardoning Grace For though your sins were crimson-like as red as scarlet full I saith the Lord will make them white as white as snow or wool Rev. 1.5 6. To him that thus hath loved us and washt off all our score With that pure floud of his own bloud be praise for evermore HYMN 174. Reproach for Christ and Imitation of him 1 Pet. 4.14 16. IF that ye be reproacht for Christ happy are ye and blest The Spirit of God and glory great upon your souls shall rest On their parts he 's ill spoken of but glorifi'd on yours Therefore let no man be asham'd that Christianly endures Mat. 5.11 12. Blessed are ye when men revile and speak each evil word Against you falsly for the sake of Christ your Sovereign Lord. Rejoyce and be exceeding glad considering the reward How great it is in heaven above for suffering Saints prepar'd 2. PART Phil. 2.5 7. Let that good mind be in you all that was in Christ our Lord Who being in the form of God the true eternal Word Yet made himself of no repute to death did condescend And came not to be tended on but to observe and tend Phil. 2.9 10. Heb. 9.28 Therefore God gave to him a Name above all Names most high That every knee should bow to him and every tongue comply Who came to take our sins away once by his own oblation And shall appear the second time without sin to salvation HYMN 175. Resurrection All People c. or O Lord consider c. 1 Cor. 15.20 21 22. NOW Christ is risen from the dead as whom no bands of death could keep And is to be acknowledged as the first fruits of those that sleep For as by man came death to raign so by a man to rise again And as by Adam all men die by Christ came immortality Col. 3.1 2 3 4 If ye be risen then with Christ set all your heart on things above And be not any way intic'd on earthly things to set your love For ye are dead to things abroad and your life hid with Christ in God When Christ who is our Life appears ye must shine with him in the Spheres HYMN 176. Revenge forbidden Rom. 12.19 Luke 6.27 Mat. 5.44 DEAR Saints avenge not your own selves nor let fierce wrath incense For vengeance saith the Lord is mine and I will recompense Love ye your very enemies and them that curse you bless Do good to them that use you ill with hate and spightfulness 45. And people persecuting you curse not but bless them rather That ye may be the children true of your celestial Father For he doth cause his rain to fall and lets his Sun to rise On good and bad in general just and unjust likewise HYMN 177. Sabbath Isa. 58.13 IF from my holy Sabbath-day thou turn away thy foot And do not by thy pleasures stray my Sabbath to pollute But call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord And thine own carnal pleasure slight in thought in deed and word 14. Then shalt thou joy in God alone with sweet and sacred mirth And he shall make thee ride upon high places of the earth With Father Jacob's heritage the Lord shall feed thee fat For thus doth God's own mouth engage and thou mayst trust to that HYMN 178. Sacrament of the Supper Cant. 1.1 2. Chap. 2.5 LET those life-breathing lips of thine be joyn'd O Christ to me
as this word doth represent in them there is no light 2 Tim. 3.16 17. For Scriptures sacred verities came all by inspiration Able to perfect and make wise in all things to salvation HYMN 182. Secret reveal'd 1 Cor. 2.7 8 14. GOD's wisedom in a mystery we speak to perfect men But not the wisedom of this world nor what is known to them For man while merely natural receives not what we press The things of God spiritual he counteth foolishness Prov. 24.7 Mark 4.11 Too hard for him to know or learn for natural men too high And such as nothing can discern but a spiritual eye But unto you dear Saints it is touching the things of heaven To know that Kingdom 's Mysteries to them it is not given 2 PART John 1.18 No man hath seen Almighty God since first the world began He that in heaven hath blest abode declar'd him unto man The onely and begotten Son of God the Holy One Did from the Fathers bosome come to make this Doctrine known John 3.32 Jude 25. Attesting what he saw and heard yet faith appear'd in few But whosoever believes his Word hath seal'd that God is true To God our Saviour onely wise be all the praise therefore Dominions Thrones and Dignities Amen for evermore HYMN 183. Secrets unreveal'd Rom. 12.3 Deut. 29 29. BE wise unto sobriety as God hath given faith And dealt to each man diversly the measure that he hath The secret things that are decreed belong to God alone But to our selves and to our seed the things that are made known 1 Tim. 6.17 Now to the blessed Prince of might the chief of Kings and Lords Who onely dwells in endless light which no access affords Whom no man can behold and see nor ever did see yet To him all praise and glory be for ever so be it HYMN 184. Souls under the Altar Give laud c. Rev. 6.10 HOw long O Lord how long thou holy one and true Ere thou avenge our wrong and judge with judgment due Them that have spilt Our blood on earth and pouâ—'d it forth with hainous guilt Luke 18.7 8. And shall not the most High avenge his own Elect Which night and day do câ—y and pray to that effect Though he bear long I tell you he will speedily avenge their wrong Rom. 8.36 Psal. 44.23 24. But we are killed thus all day for thy dear sake As sheep they count of us which they for slaughter take O God arise Why dost thou yet our griefs forgeâ— and our sad cries 2 Thes. 1.6 7. But with the Lord ye know the thing is just and due To render wrath and woe to them that trouble you But ye that thus Afflicted are shall surely share sweet peace with us 8. When Christ shall come abroad in flaming fire from Heaven And they that know not God shall have their portion given Of Vengeance meet Because that they would not obey his Gospel sweet HYMN 185. Spiritual Shepherds Acts 20.28 1 Pet. 5.4 TAKE heed you Shepherds to your charge to feed with wholsome food The flock which God hath purchased with his own precious bloud And the chief Shepherd coming down from heaven at his great day Shall crown you with a glorious Crown that never fades away Zach. 11.17 But to the Idol Shepherd woe a Sword will God assign To cleave his arm and his right eye that leaves the flock to pine 〈◊〉 arm to nothing withered â—lean dryed up shall be And his right eye so darkened as not at all to see HYMN 186. Strait Gate Mat. 7.13 14. O Enter at the narrow Gate for wide is that of sin And broad the way that leads astray and many go therein Because the Gate to life is strait and all the way thereto Is as I say a narrow way and they that find it few Luke 13 24 30. Strive then to hit the narrow Gate the right way to attain For not a few I say to you shall seek and seek in vain And there are first that prove the worst and last that first prepare For in this world are many call'd but few elected are HYMN 187. Suffering and Self-denial Mat 10.34 21. THink not saith Christ that I am come to send all peace on earth But through malicious minds of some a Sword must I send forth The Father shall the Son betray the Daughter her own Mother Brethren shall Brethren seek to slay set one against another 26 30 28. Yet fear not men in these affairs nor have them in such dread For God hath numbred all the hairs that grow upon your head Who kill the body fear not them that then no more can do But him that can to Hell condemn both soul and body too 2. PART Mat. 10.39 38. Luke 14.27 33. He that doth find his life shall be at loss of it thereby And he that loseth it for me shall find it gainfully And he that leaves not all to loss to follow after me Nor for my sake takes up his Cross my follower cannot be Mark 10.29 30. But whoso laies down all at stake forsaking Friends and Lands For me and for my Gospel sake to follow my commands An hundred fold shall he regain although with persecution And afterwards a life obtain that fears no dissolution HYMN 188. Temptations succoured Heb. 4 15. SUCH an High Priest we have not now as is not touch'd at all With sense of such infirmities as on his Saints do fall But suffered such temptations as we our selves fall in And was in all points like to us but yet excepting sin Chap. 2.18 1 Cor. 12.13 Isa. 40.31 In suffering such temptations the tempted he can aid And no temptation taketh you But what on Saints is laid But God is faithfull verily who will not suffer you To be assail'd above the strength which ye shall still renew But will in all temptations provide and order so That ye may have a way to scape and strength to undergo HYMN 189. The Tree good Prov. 21.27 Mat. 7.16 18. THE sacrifice of wicked men is hatefull to the Lord And offred with a wicked mind is then much more abhor'd For figs of thistles cannot grow nor grapes of thorns be had A bad tree cannot bear good fruit nor yet a good tree bad Chap. 12.35 33. From the good treasure of the heart good men bring forth good things And from the evil treasury bad fruit the bad man brings Now therefore let the tree be good the fruit will then be so And make the tree an evil one the fruit the same will show 3.10 And now 's the Ax laid to the root and therefore every tree That brings not forth good wholsome fruit cut down for fire shall be HYMN 190. Trinity 1 Joh. 1.7 Joh. 6.57 Luke 11.13 THree witnesses there are above and all these three are one The Father Son and sacred Dove one Deity alone The living Father sent the Son who by the Father lives And unto them that ask of him the Holy Ghost
he gives 1 Cor. 12.4 5. Diversities of gifts indeed there are that he bestows But from one spirit all proceed who doth them so dispose And his Administrations great difference afford And divers operations but one Almighty Lord. 6. 2 Cor. 13 14. All these in great variety from his good hand do fall But one adored Deity that worketh all in all The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and love of God therefore And comforts of the Holy Ghost be with you evermore HYMN 191. Vine-yard of Israel Isa. 5.1 2 3. NOW will I sing to my belov'd although with mournfull voice A Song of my Beloved one touching his Vine-yard choice A Vine-yard my beloved had plac'd in a fruitfull hill He fenc'd it and plucktâ—out the stones and planted it with skill Choice Vines he set and built therein a Wine-press and a Tower Expecting it should bring sweet grapes and lo it brought forth sower And now O ye inhabitants of Salem pray you see And men of Judah judge between my Vineyard here and me What could be to my Vine-yard done more than I did to it Why therefore brought it forth sowre Grapes when I expected sweet And now go to know what I 'le do to this my Vine-yard-soil I will break down the hedge therefore and leave it to the spoil I 'le lay it waste unprun'd undig'd for Bryers and Thorns alone I also will command the clouds to rain no rain thereon 7. The Vine-yard of the Lord of Hoasts the house of Israel is The men of Judah are the plant that pleasant plant of his And when he lookt for judgment done behold great cruelty And when he lookt for righteousness behold a dolefull cry HYMN 192. Vnity and love of Brethren Col. 3.12.13 PUT on Belov'd as Gods Elect bowels of mercies kind Long-suffering meekness sweet respect and humbleness of mind Forbearing one another long forgiving one another If any have received wrong done by his Christian brother 14. Ph. 2.2 Eph. 4.3 As Christ forgave you so do ye your brethren that transgress And chiefly put on charity the bond of perfectness Of one mind and one judgment be and let all discord cease Keeping the Spirits unity in sacred bonds of peace 2. PART 1 Pet. 1.22 Heb. 12.1 1 Joh. 1.16 See that ye love with fervency and with an heart most pure And let this love so brotherly perpetually endure For God we know is perfect love and whoso dwells herein He surely dwells in God above and God most high in him 3.14 Rom. 13.8 And hence our change is understood from death to life above Because we love the brother-hood with true and perfect love Owe nothing then to any man but love to one another For he 's a perfect Christian that is a perfect lover HYMN 193. Vocation 1 Cor. 12.2 Tit. 3.3 YE know that we were Gentiles once and carried away To Idols and dumb vanities as we were led astray And sometimes disobediently and foolishly we swerv'd By divers lusts and vain delights which we our selves have serv'd 1 Pet. 2.9 But a peculiar people now a chosen generation A Royal Priest-hood are we made and call'd an holy Nation That we should shew the praises forth of him that called us From darkness great to greater light that is most marvellous 1.16 As he therefore that called us is holy so must they That are to this profession call'd be holy every way 2. PART Eph. 2.11 12 19. Remember ye were aliens from Israel's Common-wealth And strangers from the Covenants which promise saving health But now are ye that were far off made nigh by Christ his blood And fellow Citizens with Saints and of the house of God. 20 21 22. Built on the sure foundation laid down in holy writ And Christ himself head corner-stone who makes the building knit In whom together built ye grow into an holy place An habitation of the Lord by his sweet spirit of grace Rom. 8.16 Which spirit witnesseth with ours and testimony bears That we are made the Sons of God and if his Sons then Heirs 3 PART Jam. 2.5 1 Cor. 1.26 Hearken beloved brethren dear your call ye plainly see How God hath chose the poor on earth full rich in faith to be Not many mighty men are call'd not many wise and learn'd Nor yet in many noble men this calling is descern'd 27. Matt. 11.26 But God hath chose weak foolish things and such as men despise To bring to nought and to confound the noble great and wise We thank thee Father Lord of all that hast these things conceal'd From many wise and prudent men and them to babes reveal'd 1 Cor. 1.29 31. Even so O Father since it was thy pleasure and decree That in thy sight no flesh on earth might glory but in thee HYMN 194. Whole Armour Eph. 6.10.13 14. BE strong my brethren in the Lord and in his powerfull might Put on your soul his Armour whole to make you stand in fight Stand therefore having girt your loyns with truth which ye profess And having done the breast-plate on of perfect righteousness 15 16. And with the preparation of the Gospel of our God The Gospel of his peace and love let both your feet be shod And chiefly take the shield of faith that so your valiant hearts May quench thereby most powerfully the wickeds fiery darts 17 18. The helmet of salvation take and that two-edged Sword The Sword of his good Spirit it is to wit God's holy Word And alwaies in the spirit pray with all requests and prayer And watch thereto what e're ye do with constancy and care HYMN 195. Will for the Deed. 2 Cor. 8.12 Mat. 10.42 IF there be first a willing heart the Lord the same accepts And what one hath takes in good part and pardons our defects Cold water onely one small cup to a Disciple spar'd For that names sake is sure summ'd up and shall not miss reward 20. Rom. 8.26 Eph. 3.20 Nor will he quench the smoaking flax nor break the bruised-reed Till judgment have a sure dispatch with victory to speed And though we know not how or what to pray for as we ought His spirit helps our wants in that beyond our speech or thought 21. To him in all the Church therefore be glory yet agen Through ages all for evermore by Jesus Christ Amen HYMN 196. Wisdoms exhortation Have mercy c. Prov. 1.20 21. LO wisdom crieth out she crieth in the streets She uttereth her zealous breath where all the concourse meets In opening of the gates of Cities populous She calls and cries with words most wise exhorting sinners thus 22 23. How long ye simple ones will ye delight in folly And scorners in so vile a sin and fools hate knowledge wholly Turn you at my reproof behold I will pour forth My Spirit to take hold on you I 'le shew you words of worth 2 PART Have mercy c. Prov. 4.5.7 8. Chap. 3.15.17 Get wisdom O my Son with all the care thou
canst She is of all things principal and most to be advanc'd Of greater price than pearls and all desired treasure Her paths and ways have all the praise of perfect peace and pleasure 18 14 16 18. A tree of life to them upon her that lay hold Her Merchandise of greater price than silver or than gold Her right hand length of days her left bears wealth and honour And happy he who e're he be that lays fast hold upon her HYMN 197. Word preached All people c. 2 Cor. 10.4 Heb. 4.12 THe weapons of our warfare here have nothing carnal plac'd therein But mighty thorow God they are to pull down all strong holds of sin God's Word is such a powerfull one sharper than any two-edg'd sword It parts the marrow from the bone and is an heart-discerning Word 1 Pet. 2.2 Jam. 1.20 Then shunning guile and malice lewd envy reproach hypocrisie As babes new born desire the food of God's pure Word to grow thereby And let us set all sins apart with meekness to receive and have God's Word ingrafted in our heart which is of power our souls to save 2. PART Work of mercy magnifi'd or The second part of mercies forgot to be inserted in its due place 2 Cor. 7.13 If I shut heaven saith the Lord or leave the Land to be devour'd By Locusts or if I dispence some drought or dreadfull pestilence If then my People whom I grace with my great name shall seek my face Humble themselves and joyntly pray And turn them from their evil way Then will I hear in heaven high and pardon their Iniquity Most graciously I will forgive and heal the land wherein they live Jam. 2.13 Psal. 136.1 Thus mercy with triumphant voice against strict judgment doth rejoyce O thank the Lord of Heav'n therefore whose mercies last for evermore HYMN 198. Worker of Grace 2 Cor. 3.5 Phil. 2.12 WE have not the sufficiency and power of our own To think so much as one good thought as of our selves alone But all our whole sufficiency doth of the Lord proceed Who works in us most graciously both the desire and deed Jam. 1.17 Rom. 9.16 For every good and perfect gift proceeds from God above With whom there is no varying nor shadow of remove It is not then of him that wills nor him that runs the race But all our good on us distils from God that sheweth Grace Jude 24 25. To God therefore the only wise our Saviour strength and stay Be Thrones Dominions Dignities for evermore we pray HYMN 199. World and the Church 1 John 5.19 WE know we are of God most high for we are born of him And this whole world most generally lies soaking in their sin And lo the Son of God is come and we the same have known And he hath thus instructed us to know the faithfull one 20. Rev. 5.13 And we are in him that is true in Jesus Christ his Son This is the true God known to you and endless life begun Blessing and power and praise therefore to him be altogether That sits upon the sacred Throne and to the Lamb for ever HYMN 200. Zealous Ejaculations at Evening or Bed-time Give laud c. Psal. 31.6 Rev. 1.5 MY spirit O God do I into thy hands commit Lord God of Verity Thou hast redeemed it Thy grace so good Washt off our sin and bath'd us in our Saviour's blood Psal. 141.2.51.12 Mic. 7.19 Now let my prayers be as incense in thine eyes And hands up-lift to Thee as th' evening Sacrifice O cleanse my heart My sins subdue and still renew my inward part Rom. 14.8 That whiles I draw this breath I may live up to Thee And when I die the death to Thee Lord it may be That live or die Whatever time I may be thine perpetually Psal. 4.8 Rev. 1.4 And now my lying down shall be both sweet and sure For thou O Lord alone my dwelling dost secure All glory then To Father Son and Holy one forever Amen The End of the Second Century THE Third and Last Century OF CHAPT HYMNS Newly Translated HYMN 201. The Covenant of Grace entred to Abraham All people or O Lord consider c. Gen. 17.1.15.5 THus said the Lord to Abraham Lo I the Lord Almighty am Walk thou before me for thy part Sincere and with a perfect heart And covenant with thee will I And with thy seed successively Number the Stars and thou shalt tell The Summ whereto thy seed shall swell And he believed in the Lord Relying on his faithfull Word And it was counted unto him For Righteousness to trust therein So all that are of faith indeed Are blest with Abraham as his seed To Abraham's God be praise therefore From first to last for evermore HYMN 202. The Test to the Covenant All people c. Deut. 26.16 THis day the Lord commandeth thee Obedient to his Laws to be Keep them therefore in every part With all thy soul and all thy heart Thou hast avoucht the Lord this day To be thy God To keep his way His Statutes Laws and Judgments choice And still to hearken to his voice And God this day avoucheth thee His own peculiar stock to be As his most gracious promise stands That thou shouldst keep all his commands To Israel's God be praise therefore From first to last for evermore And let all faithfull people then Say cheerfully Amen Amen HYMN 203. The Song of Moses the man of God commanded to be learnt by heart of all Israel Deut. 32. to 44. v. Moses's Title Psalm 90. To the Tune of the Ten Commandments GIve ear O heavens from on high and I will speak this present day And hear O Earth attentively the awfull words which I shall say My doctrine shall drop down as showers my speech as dew shall gently pass And as small rain on herbs and flowers and as the showers upon the grass Because I will this day proclaim and publish fully all abroad The Lord our God's Almighty Name ascribe ye greatness to our God. He is the Rock his work 's compleat and all his ways just judgment be A God of truth without deceit exactly just and right is He. 2. PART v. 5. They are corrupt they bring a blot upon themselves of foul disgrace Their spot is not his Childrens spot they are a cross and crooked race Requite ye thus the Lord most high ye foolish people Is not He Thy Father dear that did thee buy hath he not made and stablisht thee Remember now the days of old the years of ages long ago Thy Father ask thou shalt be told and ask thine Elders they shall show When the most high did first divide inheritances unto men And separated far and wide all Adam's Sons as he did then He set the people bounds compleat but chiefly one that did excell According to the Number great of all his people Israel 3. PART v. 9. For lo the Portion of the Lord is Israel whom he doth advance And Jacob's house
the dust and lifts the beggar from the dungil base Sets them with Princes in high place of trust t' inherit thrones of glory in their place For Earths strong Pillars God alone doth own them And He hath stablisht all the World upon them He will preserve the feet of all his Saints as for the wicked silent they shall be In utter darkness where are sad restraints from light and comfort in the least degree For by the strength of man mans sole indeavour Shall no man in the World prevail for ever The Adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in peices by his power put forth Thunder upon them out of heaven shall He the Lord shall judge the ends of all the Earth He shall give strength unto his king appointed And will exalt the Horn of his anointed Let Israel's God that is the Lord most high be ever blest and magnifi'd therefore And let the whole Earth universally be fill'd with his renown for evermore And let the people rich and poor together Say all Amen and praise the Lord for ever HYMN 205. The Change. Job 14.1 MAN that is of a woman born hath but few daies on Earth And with continual trouble worn even from his very birth He comes up as a flower that dies and is cut down freightway And shadow-like he flits and flies and keeps no constant stay Untill therefore the utmost date and full appointed summ Of all my daies here will I wait untill my change shall come HYMN 206. Seeking God betimes All People c. Job 8.5.22 23. IF thou wouldst seek to God betimes and to th' Almighty prayers would'st make If thou wert pure and free from crimes then would the Lord for thee awake Prosperity should still befall thy Habitation blest with peace Though thy beginning were but small thy latter end should much increase Return thou then to God most high and He shall build thee up full sure And put away INIQUITIE far from thy House and be secure HYMN 207. God's expostulation with Job All People c. Job 40.6 THEN unto Job God answer made Out of the Whirl-Wind and He said Gird up thy Loyns now like a man And answer my demands who can Wilt thou my judgment disanull Wilt thou condemn me as more full More full of righteousness than I Hast thou a stem like God most high Or canst thou thunder all allowd Like Him that rules the ratling Cloud Deck now thy self with Eminence Of Majesty and Excellence Array thy self in glory bright And beauty which is exquisite Cast thou abroad in every path Cast thou the tokens of thy wrath Look upon every man that 's proud And mask him with a dreadfull Cloud Blast all the proud with foul disgrace Tread down the wicked in their place Hide them in dust at once to dye And bind their faces secretly And then will I confess to thee Thine own right hand thy help can be HYMN 208. Job's Answer To the Tune of the Ten Commandments Job 42.1 THen answered Job to God and said I know thou canst do every thing And there 's no thought can be convey'd Or hid from thy DISCOVERING Who 's this that doth his counsel hide and void of knowledge as do I I utter'd words exceeding wide things that I knew not and too high Lord I beseech thee hear thou me and I will speak with awfull care Instruction I must ask of thee and unto me do thou declare I heard of thee by hear-say Lord but now I see thee and relent Yea and I have my self abhorr'd in dust and ashes I repent HYMN 209. Man's mortality minded To the Tune of the Ten Commandments Isa. 2. ult CEase ye from man whose fading breath Is in his Nostrils near to death For wherein is he since the fall To be accounted of at all Psal. 39.9.144.3 Man flourishing in all his wealth Is like to vanity it self His days are as a slitting shade Which dayly doth decline and fade Psal. 90.12 Eccl. 11.8.12.1 Lord teach us how to count aright Our days that have so long a night That we thereby may bring our heart To wisdom and betimes convert HYMN 210. A Vine-yard of Red Wine Isa. 27.2 A Vineyard of red sparkling wine Sing to her in that day I saith the Lord do keep that Vine I water it alway Lest any hurt it I stand by to keep it day and night And there is in me verily no fury to affright But who would set the thorns and briers against Me in aray I would go through with flames and fires and burn them up streightway Or let him on my strength take hold and make his peace with Me And if he seek it as he should we surely shall agree And God shall cause all Jacob's Race to take effectual root Blossome and bud and fill the face of all the world with fruit Let Israel's God the Lord most high be ever blest therefore From first to last perpetually Amen for evermore HYMN 211. Debate in measure Isa. 27.7 DID ever God smite Israel as He hath smote his foes Or hath it been with slaughter keen as God hath smitten those In measure when it shooteth forth He shall therewith debate He staies th' unkind rough Eastern Winde when storms are at the height By this therefore shall Jacob's House be purg'd and cleans'd within And all the fruit of this pursuit to take away his sin Let Israel's God the Lord most high be ever blest therefore And people then say all Amen Amen for evermore HYMN 212. Commands for comfort Where righteousness c. Isa. 40.1 O Comfort Comfort Ye my people all of them Speak comfortably as may be unto Jerusalem Say to her saith your God now ends her Warfare here Her sins are as a darksome cloud which God doth fully clear For now receiv'd hath she in Gods so kind account A payment double in degree to what her sins amount And I will saith the Lord take off her heavy score And never at all will I record her trespass any more Jacob's sadness cheer'd All People c. Isa. 40.27 WHY do'st thou Jacob speak and say Hid from the Lord is my sad way My judgment also undertrod Is passed over from my God Hast thou not heard hast thou not known That God the everlasting one Creator of the Earths far ends No weariness nor fainting spends His understanding none can search He giveth power to his faint Church And unto them that have no might He raiseth strength unto the height The youths shall faint as wearied all The young men utterly shall fall But they that on the Lord do wait Shall have their strength renewed streight They shall mount up on Eagles wings And run as do the nimblest things Of weariness make no complaint But they shall walk and shall not faint HYMN 214. Love engraven Isa. 49.14 BUT Sion said so sad was she The Lord hath quite forsaken me And now the Lord hath me forgot As one whom he remembreth not What can
above I surely will record According to his gifts most free and loving kindness show'd With love and liberalitie on Jacob's house bestow'd According to his grace renew'd which at his hands we find According to the multitude of his compassions kind For sure said he they are my flock children that will not lie Therefore he was their saving Rock in their adversity In all their grievances that were himself was grieved sore And th' Angel of his presence there preserv'd them evermore He in his love and pity then redeem'd his flock and fold He bare them and he carried them even all the daies of old 2. PART v. 10. But they rebell'd and vexed so his holy Spirit of might That he was turn'd to be their foe and did against them fight Then thought he on those ancient days Moses and Israel's stock Where 's He that brought them from the Seas with Shepherds of his flock O where is He said God most high that did within him place In ancient times so powerfully his holy Spirit of grace By Moses's hand that led them right with glorious Arm and Name Dividing Waters in their sight to get eternal fame That led them through the deeper Seas untill to Land they got As Horses in the Wilderness that stumble they might not As Beasts go down into the dale God's Spirit made them rest Thou led'st thy people not to fail Thy Great Name to attest 3. PART v. 15. Look down from Heaven and behold from that thy dwelling seat Of Holiness prepar'd of old and of thy glory great Where is the zeal and strength in Thee thy bowels mov'd and pain'd And of thy mercies towards me are they O Lord restrain'd Doubtless thou art our Father dear though Abraham hath forgot Or ignorant of us appear and Israel knows us not Thou art our Father still the same thou didst us Lord redeem From Everlasting is thy Name a stranger do not seem O Lord why hast thou made us err from thy most holy path Hardning our hearts from thy true fear in thy provoked wrath Return and have rememberance for thy dear servants sake The Tribes of thine Inheritance which thou did'st chuse and take HYMN 222. Idolatry exploded Jer. 2.11.5.23.16.20 HATH ever any Nation chang'd their Gods which yet were none Yet have my people been estrang'd from me and wholly gone And they have chang'd their glory great for Gods which they have got Meer Idols that are all deceit and things that profit not O Heavens be amaz'd hereat and horribly affraid And be ye very desolate as God the Lord hath said For lo my people Israel have these two evils done Forsaking Me who am the Well whence Living Waters run And hew'd out Cisterns to themselves too shamefull to be told Meer broken Cisterns and none else that can no water hold HYMN 223. Backsliders called back All people c. Jer. 3.22 REturn backsliding Israel And I will your backslidings heal Behold we come with one accord To Thee that art our God the Lord. Truly in vain do men expect Salvation for the hills t' effect And from the mountains multitude No safety sure can we conclude But truly in the Lord our God Is sure Salvation to be had The saving health of Israel Is all of Him we know full well Let Israel's God be blest therefore From first to last for evermore And let all faithfull people then Give praise to God and say Amen HYMN 224. The old good way Have mercy c. Jer. 6.16 THus saith the Holy One stand in the ways and see Inquire I say for th' old good way the paths that ancient be And walk ye all therein and ye shall surely find A very blest Estate of rest contenting to your mind To Israel's God most high be all the praise therefore And people then say all Amen Amen for evermore HYMN 225. False fears and false Deities derided Our Father c. Jer. 10.1 HEar ye the Word which God doth say to you O house of Israel Learn not saith He the heathens way nor fear what they count terrible At signs of Heaven be not dismay'd For so the Heathens are afraid For peoples Customs are but vain one from the Forrest cuts a tree The work of workmen are they plain which with the Ax cut down must be Then deckt with silver and with gold The nails and hammer make it hold Like a Palm-tree they stand upright but never can they speak a word And needs they must be born by might that go no farther than they 're stirr'd Let no man fear these Logs of Wood For they can do nor ill nor good Since there is none like thee O Lord for very great indeed thou art â—reat is thy Name upon record who would not fear thee from their heart The King of Nations thou dost reign And fear to thee doth appertain 2. PART v. 8 10 11. But they that err and Idolize are altogether brutes and fools The stock 's a Book of vanities but the true God for ever rules He is the Lord the Living One The King with everlasting Throne His Wrath shall cause the Earth to quake the Nations cannot bear his blow Tell them that Gods which did not make the Heavens above and Earth below Even they shall perish from this Earth And from these Heavens which God set forth Each man is brutish in his skill men founder is confounded quite His graven Image fools him still his molten Image gives no light They have no breath they are but vain The work of errors are they plain The workmen and these works of his shall perish at God's visiting Unlike them Jacob's portion is for he hath formed every thing Israel's the lot which he doth claim The Lord of Hosts is his great Name 3. PART Isa. 44.9 They that make graven Images are all of them meer vanity They profit not howe're they please as they themselves can testifie They see not neither do they know But may be sham'd it should be so Who makes a God or who hath fram'd a molten Image good for nought Lo all his fellows shall be sham'd they are but men that have them wrought Let all stand up and gather near They shall be strook with shame and fear The Smith with Tongs doth work it warm with Hammers doth he fashion it He works it with his strength of arm he labours and is hunger-bit His strength must fail upon constraint He drinks no Water and is faint The Carpenter extends his rule with lines he makes it as he please He fits it with his plaining tool he marks it out with compasses He forms it like a man compleat To make a household God most neat 4. PART He hews him down the Cedar-trees he takes the Cypress and the Oke He glories in the choice of these which through the forrest bear the stroak He plants an Ash as also fit And leaves the rain to nourish it With part thereof the fire is fed he warms his body at the flames
He kindles it He breaketh bread yea and a God thereof he frames A graven Image makes he new He worships and falls down thereto A part he burneth in the fire with part thereof he eateth flesh He rosteth rost to his desire and doth with warmth himself refresh Aha saith he well warm'd am I I saw the fire burn cheerfully He maketh of the residue his God his graven Image dear He worships it and prays thereto he falleth down with awfull fear He saith to it Deliver me I for my God acknowledge thee 5. PART v. 18.20 They have not known nor understood for God hath closed up their eyes They can not see their Gods are wood yea he hath shut their heart likewise So that they can not understand That there 's a lye in their right hand And none considers in his heart nor hath he wit or skill to say I in the fire have burned part yea I have baked bread this day Upon its Coals I bak'd my loaf I rosted flesh and ate thereof And shall I make the residue abomination for to be Shall I fall down and kneel think you unto the stock of any tree He feeds on ashes all that while An heart deceiv'd doth him beguile Isa. 44.21 22. O Jacob and O ISRAEL my servant whom I form'd of old As a thick Cloud I did dispell thy sins and failings manifold Remember and return to me For I alone redeemed thee 6. PART v. 24. Thus hath the Lord thy Saviour said that from the womb hath formed thee I am the Lord that all things made Heaven is stretcht out alone by ME. I spread abroad the spacious Earth And by my self I laid it forth The lyars signs that nullifies and makes Diviners mad to be That turneth back the worldly wise and makes their knowledge foolery That seals the Word of 's Ministers And counsels of his Messengers That to Jerusâ—lem doth declare thou shalt have dwellers in thee plac'd And Judah's Cities I will rear and raise up all her places waste That saith unto the deeps be dry And dry thy Rivers up will I. That said of Cyrus yet unborn He is my Shepherd it is He That all my pleasure shall perform and saith Jerusâ—lem built shall be And to the Templ ' of old He said Thy sure Foundation shall be lay'd HYMN 226. Humble Supplications in hard times To the Tune of the Ten Commandments Jer. 14.7 O Lord though our INIQUITIES As Witnesses against US rise Yet do it of thine own accord Save us for thy Names sake O Lord. For we confess our sins to thee And our backslidings many be And we have very oftentimes Provok'd thee by our hainous crimes O Thou the Hope of ISRAEL That canst assist and save so well The onely Saviour we confess In time of trouble and distress Why shouldest thou whom Nations dread Be as a man ASTONISHED And as a very MIGHTY MAN That cannot save for who then can And thou although estranged thus Art in the very midst OF US And we are called by thy Name O leave us not to utter shame HYMN 227. The Glorious Throne Jer. 17.12 A Glorious Throne exalted high since first it did begin Is that high place the Sanctuary which our God dwelleth in O God the Hope of ISRAEL and worthily so nam'd All that forsake thee and rebell shall surely be asham'd Yea all that do depart from ME in whom they ought to trust Saith God the Lord destroy'd shall be and written in the dust Because they have forsook the Lord the fountain and the spring Of Living Waters richly stor'd with every good thing Heal me O Lord as I have crav'd and healed I shall be O save me and I shall be sav'd my praise is all of Thee HYMN 228. Vanity of Idols Jer. 16.19 O Lord that art my strength and fort my refuge in distress The Gentiles shall to Thee resort and thus they shall confess Surely Our Fathers dull of sense have all inherited lies And Vanity and things from whence no profit can arise Shall men make Gods unto themselves and Lo no Gods they be Therefore behold my Soul resolves this once to make them see And I will make them know my hand my might shall they record And they shall know and understand that my Name is the LORD HYMN 229. The Partridge Jer. 17.11 LIke as the Partridge gathers young which are not of her own So he that gathers wealth by wrong but right thereto hath none Shall leave them to another's Rule in midst of all his years And at his end shall be a Fool as by his work appears HYMN 230. Wo to Oppressors Jer. 22.13 WO be to him that builds his house by wrong and injury And by such deeds injurious his Chambers builds on high That doth his neighbours service use without the wages pay'd And doth the recompence refuse that should maintain his trade 1 Thes. 4.6 Col. 3.25 For God avengeth all such things as we have told you true And testifi'd with threatenings before-hand warning you For the wrong-doer surely shall receive his just reward And there is no respect at all of persons with the Lord. HYMN 231. The LORD our Righteousness Jer. 23.6 BEhold the days shall shortly come as saith the Lord our God That I will raise to David's House a righteous Branch and ROD. And there shall reign and prosper much a King of Royal birth And judgment He shall execute and justice in the Earth In His daies Judah shall be sav'd and Israel dwell in peace And by this Name shall he be call'd THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS HYMN 232. Effectual Prayer of Captives All People c. Jer. 29.11 I Know the thoughts of my good Will which towards you I saith God intend The thoughts of peace and not of ill to give you an expected end And then unfeignedly shall ye call on ME and your Prayers pursue And ye shall go and pray to ME and I will hearken unto you And ye shall seek and find me then when ye seek for me from your heart And I will bring you back agen from whence I caus'd you to depart And found I will be at your hands and have your Captive-state restor'd And gather you from all the Lands to which I drove you saith the Lord. HYMN 223. Restoration of Israel Jer. 30.7 ALAS the Day is great and chief and none is like thereto It is the time of Jacob's grief but he shall well go through And it shall come to pass that day saith God the Lord of hosts That I will take the yoke away that binds his neck so close And I will burst their bonds that hour they shall not bind a limb And strangers shall no more have power to serve themselves of him But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their good King Whom I 'le raise up with ruling rod for their good governing O let the God of Israel then be prais'd with one accord And people then say all Amen Amen praise
ye the Lord. HYMN 234. The constancy of God's covenant Jer. 33.20 THUS saith the Lord if ye can break my Covenant of the day My law of night if ye can check and take those times away My Covenant may be broken then with David serving ME That he shall have no Son to reign or on his Throne to be The Levites Priests and Ministers and Jacob's House may fail And Covenants with your Ancestors no more at all avail But as the Hosts above our head in Heaven none can count Nor can the Seas be numbered to what their sands amount So I 'le increase and still prefer my Servant David's seed And Levites that administer to me as I decreed Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore of all and all together From first to last for evermore Amen Amen for ever HYMN 235. Murmuring restrained To the Tune of the Ten Commandments Lam. 3.39 WHY should a living man complain A man that sins to suffer pain For it is good in very truth That man should bear his yoke in youth He sits alone with silent soul Because He bears a just controul He puts his mouth into the dust If hope may be in whom to trust He gives his cheek to them that smite He 's filled with reproach and spite For thus he thinks God will restore And not cast off for evermore For though a while He causeth grief Yet will He surely send relief And in his mercies multitude Shall his compassions be renew'd HYMN 236. God afflicts not willingly Lam. 3.33 THE Lord afflicts not willingly Nor grieves mankind with misery To crush with foot or cruel hand All the poor prisoners of the Land. Of man's just right to turn the stream Before the face of God Supream And to subvert a mans just cause The Lord approves not by his Laws Who 's he that saith a thing shall be And it is come to pass saith he When possibly God may permit But never He commanded it Psal. 62. ult Out of the mouth of God most high Comes evil and good with equity For both He censures what is nought And gives reward to works well wrought Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore From first to last for evermore And people all with one accord Say here Amen praise ye the Lord. HYMN 237. Exhortations to Repentance All people c. or O Lord consider c. putting two Verses into a Staff. Lament 3.40 COme let us search and try our way And turn to God without delay Let us lift up our hearts and hands To God in Heaven that commands We have transgrest we have rebell'd And thou thy pardon hast withheld Thy cloud hath hid us from thy view So that our prayer should not pass through Turn us O God turn us to Thee And truly turned we shall be Renew our days as 't was of old Thy face and favour to behold Psalm 79. ult So we thy flock and pasture-store Shall give Thee thanks for evermore And will shew forth to great and small Thy praise to generations all HYMN 238. The Sins of Sodom recorded Tune of the Ten Commandments Ezek. 16.49 REmember this was Sodom's sin great pride and fullness of their bread And IDLENESS was much therein and in her Daughters whom she fed And also that she did not care to strengthen the distressed hand Of such as poor and needy were but waxed haughty in the Land Abominable deeds did they which were committed in my view Therefore I took them quite away as I my self saw good to do Psal. 106. Let Israel's God the Lord most high be prais'd and magnify'd therefore And let his glorious Majesty fill all the Earth for evermore HYMN 239. Pacification by Repentance Ezek. 16.62 I Will establish now with thee the Covenant of my Word And thou shalt know this thing of Me that I am God the Lord. That thou mayst call to mind the same and be confounded sore And never speak a word for shame of this thing any more When I am pacifi'd in this towards thee gratiously For all that thou hast done amiss saith God the Lord most high HYMN 240. The exact Doom Ezek. 18.4 5 9 BEhold saith God all souls are mine and mine peculiarly The Fathers Sons and every ones the Soul that sins shall die But if a man be just and good and doth things just and right The Lord will give that man to live for ever in his sight 10 11 14. If he beget a wicked Son that Son shall surely die His bloud I 'll shed on his own head for living wickedly Now lo if he beget a Son his Fathers sins that sees And shuns them quite and doth things right even he shall live in these 24. If he that seems a righteous man forsakes good ways and true And takes a course to worse and worse as wicked people do The righteousness that he hath done no more shall mention'd be But in the sin he trespass'd in most surely die shall he 21 27 22. And when the wicked leaves his lusts and for my grace doth strive And shall delight to walk aright he saves his soul alive All the transgressions he hath done no more shall mention'd be In his approved righteousness most surely live shall he 29. Psal. 106. ult O House of Israel hearken then for needs confess ye must My Ways to be pure Equity and your own ways unjust Let Israel's great and gratious God have all the praise therefore And people then say all Amen Amen for evermore HYMN 241. Repentance urged Ezek. 18.30 REpent and turn your selves from sin and all transgressions flee And so the sin ye lived in your ruin shall not be Cast your transgressions quite away trespass no more thereby Make new your heart and inward part for wherefore will ye die Why will ye die O Israel's House when I such warning give Ill pleas'd am I that sinners die wherefore return and live HYMN 242. God's Oath of Grace Ezek. 33.10 WHEN Israel speaks as thinking thus the Lord will not forgive And we in our transgressions pine and how then shall we live Say to them as I live saith God I swear it solemnly I have no pleasure in the death of wicked men that die But that the wicked man should turn from his ungodly way That 's my desire and my delight thus therefore shalt thou say O turn ye turn ye speedily from evil and do well For wherefore will ye chuse to die O House of Israel HYMN 243. The Sabbath Ezek. 20.12 MOreover said the Lord to me I gave my Sabbaths signs to be betwixt my self and them That they might know assuredly I am the Lord that sanctify and make them holy men But Israel's House rebell'd no less Against me in the Wilderness than by their former sin And they despis'd my Judgments too Which if a man with care shall do he shall even live therein My Sabbaths they did much pollute Then threatned I to EXECUTE my Wrath in great degree Yet for my Names sake
wrought I then That it among the HEATHEN men polluted might not be 2. PART v. 18 20. Thus to your children I did say Walk ye not in your Fathers way but let my paths be trod Hallow my Sabbaths which shall show My Covenant that ye may know I am the Lord your God. Yet did their whole posterity Rebell against me wickedly and did my Laws transgress Wherefore I threatned to let fall And power my wrath upon them all within the Wilderness Yet shall the House of Israel Serve me at home and please me well and there will I require Your First-Fruits and your Offerings Your Odors and your holy things and all that I desire 3 PART v. 42.15 And ye shall know that I am God That brought you to your own abode and gave into your hands The Land of Israel which I sware To you and to your Fathers there the glory of all Lands And there shall ye remember still Your ways and all your doings ill wherewith ye were defil'd And loath your selves in your own sight For all your deeds that were not right when ye are reconcil'd And ye shall know that I am God When I have wrought with you abroad My Name for to record Not answering to your wicked ways Nor deeds corrupt in former daies O Israel saith the Lord. Ezekiel's evil Hearers To the Tune of the Ten Commandments Ezek. 33.30 O Son of man thy people still Are talking of thee very ill They talk against thee by the wall And doors of houses where they call To one another thus they talk Brother to Brother as they walk Come pray you let us hear the word that now proceedeth from the Lord. And they come to thee not a few And as the People use to do They sit intent before thy face As People whom my Name doth grace They hear thy Words as faithfull men But never will they practice them For with their mouth much love they show But after gain their heart doth go 2. PART Moreover know O Son of Man Thy people blame thee all they can They take the oportunity To talk against thee secretly And whatsoever they profess Their heart pursues their Covetousness And thou art as a Song most choice Of one that hath a pleasant Voice As one that giveth great content By playing on an Instrument For this is their perpetual spot They hear thy Words but do them not And when the matters propheci'd Are come to pass and verifi'd And come they must then shall they know They had a Prophet told them so HYMN 245. Vniting the Nation Give laud c. Ezek. 37.21 BEhold now I will take the Sons of Israel And them one Nation make in Israel where they dwell And there they shall In midst of thee divided be no more at all Nor shall themselves defile with Idols any more And their transgressions vile I will take off the score And David there Shall be my King for governing my People dear Isa. 40.11 And he shall lead his flock as Shepherds that have care Gathering his Lambs whole stock them in his bosome bear And with mild hand Lead those along that are with young in all the land Ezek. 37.23 And I will save them sure out of their darksome dens Where they have dwelt impure and will their Conscience cleanse So their abode Shall be with ME and I will be the Lord their God. 26. Moreover I will make a Covenant of peace For Israel's dear sake to stand and to increase I 'le heap their store And fix my Name in midst of them for evermore HYMN 246. Michael our Prince The mighty God c. Dan. 12. from 1. to v. 5. and 10. AT that time shall stand up Michael your Prince for children of his people that shall stand And troub'lous times shall be as were not since there was a Nation liv'd in any land Then shall thy people all obtain salvation That in the book of life have nomination And many of them that sleep in dust forlorn shall waken some to everlasting light And some to shame and everlasting scorn the wise shall shine as firmament most bright And they that turn to righteousness great store Shall shine as stars in heaven for evermore And many people shall be purifi'd from filthiness of their iniquity And many shall be white as purely try'd but still the wicked shall do wickedly And none shall understand that live profanely But wise and good men shall perceive most plainly Let Israel's God the Lord that is most high be prais'd therefore and wear the sovereign Crown And let the whole Earth universally be filled with his glory and renown And let Gods chosen People altogether Give praise to Him and say Amen for ever HYMN 247. Back-slidings censured or Israels Revolt Hos. 11.1 WHEN Israel was a tender child then did I bear him love And call'd my Son from Lands defil'd from Egypt to remove But as they call'd they went from them and did their fancies please They sacrific'd to Baalim then and Graven Images And Ephraim too I taught to go I took him by the Arm But they their healer did not know that cur'd them of their harm With cords of men I did them draw with cords of kindness great I took the yoke from off their jaw and lay'd before them meat HYMN 248. Aptness to back-sliding holpen by Grace Hos. 11.7 MY Folk are to back-sliding bent and 't is their general fault And though they call'd them to repent none would his name exalt How shall I give thee up O how shall I to wrath deliver My heart is turn'd within me now my bowels yern together I will not execute my Wrath with fury to annoy I will not take the angry path to ruin and destroy O Ephraim look for grace from Me for I am God not man And dwelling in the midst of thee the Holy One I am HYMN 249. The Calves of our Lips. Have mercy c. Hos. 14.1 O Israel return unto the Lord thy God For thou by thy Iniquity hast many by-paths trod Take with you humble Words and turn unto the Lord And to him say now Lord we pray to thee with one accord O take away from us all our INIQUITIE And now that we draw nigh to thee receive us gratiously So shall we render soon the Fatlings of the Lip The thanks that bind a gratefull mind no praise to overslip Nor will we have recourse for ever any more To th' outward force of men or Horse as was done heretofore Nor to our handy Works will say in any case Our Gods are ye for Lord in thee the Fatherless find Grace 2. METRE Where Righteousness doth c. O Israel return unto the Lord thy God For thou mayst well discern what by-paths thou hast trod Take with you gratious Words and turn unanimous Unto the Lord of Lords and say unto him thus Lord take thou quite away all our iniquity And as we humbly pray receive us gratiously So we whom grace
absolves and from our sins sets free Shall sacrifice the Calves of these our lips to thee It is not outward force which we shall trust unto Nor strength of man or horse or any works we do Nor any more shall we those Idol-Gods embrace For Lord alone in thee the Fatherless find grace HYMN 250. Backslidings healed All People c. Hos. 14.4 I 'LE heal backsliding Israel and love him freely as I say Because mine anger that did swell is ceast from him and turn'd away My grace as dew I will bestow on Israel that he may come on And he shall like a lilly grow and cast forth roots as Lebanon His branches shall grow forth full well his beauty as the Olive-tree As Lebanon shall be her smell and such his spreading out shall be And they that dwell beneath his shade shall then return from captive state They shall revive as Corn i th' blade and grow as Vines most delicate Ephraim shall say what should I do with shamefull Idols any more I heard him and observ'd him too he will not do as heretofore Now am I like a green firr tree that groweth on the fertile ground And know O Israel that from Me and me alone thy fruit is found Whoso is wise and well inclin'd even he shall understand these things And he that hath a prudent mind shall know whence all this blessing springs For all the Ways of God are right and all the just shall walk therein Yet shall transgressors deviate quite still running into farther sin HYMN 251. The Fast proclaimed Joel 2.15 BLOW ye with Trumpets loudest blast in Sion warning all O sanctifie a solemn Fast the great Assembly call The Congregation sanctifie the people gather near Assemble th' Elders generally gather the children dear O Let the Bride-groom humbled low pass from his chamber door The Bride out of her closet go to humble them the more And let the Priests the Courts that keep the Ministers of the Lord Between the Porch and Altar weep and say with one accord Lord spare thy people do not give thine Heritage to reproach And under Heathen Lords to live that on thy right encroach And then the Lord of Israel will be jealous for his Land And they shall find most plentifull compassions at his hand HYMN 252. Three and four Transgressions Amos 1.3 6 c. THUS saith the Lord for three sad crimes Damascus did and four I 'le take revenge in after-times and never quit their score Because they threshed Gilead with iron flayls in wars But fire shall burn up Benhadad and break Damascus bars Thus saith the Lord for three sad crimes of Gaza and for four I 'le take revenge in after-times and never quit their score Because they carried quite away the whole captivity Delivering them to be a prey unto the Enemy 2. PART Amos 1.9 11. Thus saith the Lord for three sad crimes of Tyrus and for four I 'le take revenge in after times and never quit their score Because the whole captivity of Edom they resign'd The Covenant so brotherly came not into their mind Thus saith the Lord for three sad crimes of Edom and for four I 'le take revenge in after times and never quit their score For hunting Jacob with the sword all pity cast aside His anger was extremely stirr'd and ever did abide 3. PART Amos 1.13 Thus saith the Lord for three sad crimes of Ammon and for four I 'le take revenge in after times and never quit their score For ripping up with cruel hand the Women then with Child T' enlarge the borders of their Land that was with bloud defil'd Chap. 2.1 3. Thus saith the Lord for three sad crimes of MOAB and for four I 'le take revenge in after times and never quit their score Because the King of Edom's bones they burned into lime The Judge the Prince and their high Thrones shall fall at some sad time 4. PART Chap. 2. v. 4 6. Thus saith the Lord for three sad crimes of Judah and for four I 'le take revenge in after times and not acquit their score Because they did God's Word despise and did not as he bid And they were made to err by lies as their Forefathers did Thus saith the Lord for three sad crimes of Israel and for four I 'le be aveng'd in after times and not acquit their score Because for silver they did sell the just and righteous Jews And sold the poor of Israel just for a payr of shooes 5. PART Joel 2.12 Now therefore turn to me saith God and with an heart sincere With fasting and with mourning loud and many a brinish tear And rent your hearts with one accord but keep your garments whole And turn unto the Lord your God withall your heart and soul. For He is gratious mercifull and unto anger slow Of kindness great and sensible of our excessive Woe Who knoweth if He will repent and blessings leave behind Meat and drink-offerings to present to your Lord God so kind HYMN 253. Heavy Judgments Our Father c. Amos 4.5 6. O House of Israel saith the Lord I smote you at your dining board I gave you emptiness of teeth In all your Cities to your grief And want of bread in every place Yet to repent ye had no grace The rain from you I have held back When THREE Months did to Harvest lack One City I did rain upon And on another there was none One piece was rain'd upon and sped And that which was not withered I smote you with a blasting Dew When Gardens Vineyards Figtrees grew And when increas'd your Olive-trees The Palmer-Worm devour'd all these Yet turn'd ye not with one accord To seek my favour saith the Lord. I sent on you the Pestilence As Egypt felt when ye went thence Your young men I with sword did slay Your Horses I did take away I made the savour of your Camp Come to your Nostrils like a damp I have o're-throwen some of you As God Gomorrah overthrew And Sodom and by gratious hands Ye were pluckt forth as fire-brands Yet turn'd ye not with one accord To seek my favour saith the Lord. Therefore will I do this to thee And am resolv'd it so shall be And since new judgments shall begin Greater than all that yet have been Against that time prepare thou well To meet thy God O ISRAEL For he that did the Mountains form That did create the Wind and Storm That shews to man what is his thought That hath the Morning Darkness wrought That treads on all the Earths high Coasts His Name is call'd the Lord of Hosts Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore From first to last for evermore And let the whole Earth up and down Be filled with his bright renown And let all sorts of people then Give praise to God and say Amen HYMN 254. Grass-hoppers and Fire Amos 7.1 WHEN God had formed Grass-hoppers as once it came to pass And made them his Commissioners to eat up all
the Grass The time was at the latter growth of shooting out the blade And I to see the judgment loath on this wise spake and said Forgive Lord our iniquities I humbly cry and call By whom shall Jacob's House arise for he is very small Then did the Lord repent for this and thus He said to me Though they have done so much amiss yet this thing shall not be Then cald He to contend by fire devouring all the deep And eat a part though not th' entire then did I pray and weep Lord cease these wofull miseries and hear my cry and call By whom shall Jacob's House arise for he is very small Then did the Lord repent for this and thus he said to me Though they have done so much amiss yet this thing shall not be Then shew'd he me a plummer line pointing at Israel's score To shew that God would not incline to pardon any more Lord spare thy flock do not condemn thine Heritage to shame That Heathens should rule over them dishonouring thy Name For wherefore should the Heathen say while we are undertrod Now where is Israel's God say they where Now is Israel's God Then will the Lord of 's own accord be jealous for his Land And pity his own flock that is under the Heathens hand Let us always give laud and praise to Israel's God therefore And people then say all Amen Amen for evermore HYMN 255. Nonsufficient Sacrifices Now Israel may say c. Micah 6.6 WHerewith shall I or any man be bold to come before the Lord confidingly and bow my self before the Lord most high With Offerings shall I come of flock and fold Burnt Offerings or with calves a just year old Will God be pleas'd and with our sins dispense for thousands of fat Rams which we shall boyl or for ten thousand Rivers full of oyl Shall my first-born my trespass recompence Fruit of my body for my souls offence But he hath shew'd thee what is good O man and what doth God the Lord require of thee but to do justly and exact to be Mercy to love and shew it all we can Walk humbly with thy God and so go on Let Israel's God the Lord that is most high be ever blest and magnifi'd therefore and let the spacious Earth the Sea shore Be filled with his glorious Majesty And people say Amen unanimously HYMN 256. The Treasures of deceit challenged The mighty God c. Micah 6.10 Deut. 25.14 AND are there yet the treasures of deceit in wicked Houses now so general And the scant measure or the small and great which is abominable unto all Or shall I count them pure with wicked ballance And of deceitfull Weight which I can challenge For their rich men are full of violence and their inhabitants are full of lies Also their tongue is full of foul offence and of deceitfull wicked treacheries Therefore I 'le make thee sick in visitation And for thy sins to be a Desolation And thou shalt eat and not be satisfi'd thy casting down shall be in midst of thee And thou shalt take fast hold on every side but not deliver when thy siege shall be And that which thou deliverest Son or Daughter I will give up unto the sword and slaughter And thou shalt sow but shalt not reap the crop and thou shalt tread the Olive from the tree But not anoint thee with the Oyl one drop and Wine to drink but none at all for thee Therefore saith God return to Me returning Withall your heart with fasting tears and mourning And rent your heart but keep your garment whole and turn unto your God so patient So gratious great in kindness mercifull and soon repents him of our punishment Who knows if He will turn and leave behind him A blessing that for ever we may find Him HYMN 257. The Priesthood The Mighty God c. Zech. 3.1 AND lo He shew'd me Joshua God's High Priest standing before the Angel of the Lord And Satan at His right Hand to resist then spake the Lord to Satan this sharp Word The Lord that chose His Church check thy desire For is not this a BRAND pluckt from the fire Now Joshua was clad in vile array and stood before the Angel of the Lord And God commanded take those rags away and give him change of rayment at my Word So then they gave him change of rayment brighter And on his head they set a comely Mitre Then did the Angel of the Lord protest if thou O Joshua wilt observe my charge Then will I give thee Walks among the rest to judge my House and keep my Courts at large Hear now O Joshua my Priest desired Thou and thy fellows that are men admired 2. PART Zec. 3.8 9. Heb. 10.14 Behold I will bring forth and will advance my choice elected the foundation stone My chosen servant who is call'd the Branch my Well-beloved and the Holy one That is endow'd above all mortal merit With all the Graces of my Holy Spirit I will engrave with graving of my hand concerning him the Lord of Hosts doth say And those Iniquities of all the Land I will remove and quit in one short day For by one Offering made by him that died Perfect for ever are the sanctified And in that day as saith the Lord of Hosts such amity and unity shall be That they shall call their friends in all the Coasts under the Vine and under the Fig-tree Let Israel's God be magnifi'd therefore And people say Amen for evermore HYMN 258. The Brother-hood Give laud c. Zech. 7.9 THUS speaks the Lord of Hosts let every man of you In all the Lands and Coasts just judgment now pursue And mercy show Even all ye can to every man both friend and foe And do not ye oppress the Widow any more Nor wrong the Fatherless the Stranger nor the Poor Let none of you His Brother judge nor bear him grudge whate're ye do But they refus'd to hear and pull'd their neck away And stopt their willfull ear from all that I did say Yea every one Did quite depart and make their heart as th' Adamant Stone Lest they should hear the Law and Words which God had sent Which former Prophets saw and call'd them to repent Therefore there came On Israel's Land by God's command great Wrath to flame And therefore as He cry'd and yet they would not hear So was their cry deny'd and I would not give ear Saith God of Hosts And thus alas It came to pass in Israel's Coasts So I did scatter them as when fierce whirlwinds blow Among all Nations then and whom they did not know And thus their Land And whole Estate lay desolate by God's Command Thus was it with the Jew their Land was left forlorn That no man might pass through nor any might return For their own hand Lay'd desolate that delicate and pleasant Land. HYMN 259. God's Jewels Where righteousness doth say c. Mal. 3.16 THEN they that fear'd
the Lord spake oft to one another And God gave ear and heard What each man told his brother A Book then of record was written of the same For them that fear'd the Lord and thought upon his Name And they shall then be mine in that appointed day When I shall new refine my Jewels as I say And I will spare each one of them as some kind man Spares his obedient Son that serves him all he can And then shall ye return and difference shall be had That ye may well discern betwixt the good and bad And â—t will be seen abroad how different is the Lot 'Twixt him that serveth God and him that serves him not 2. METRE Have mercy c. Then they that fear'd the Lord spake oft to one another And God gave ear and kindly heard what each man told his brother A Book then of record was written of the same For them that truly fear'd the Lord and thought upon his Name And they shall then be mine in that appointed day When I shall make up and refine my Jewels as I say And I will spare each one of them as some kind man Spares his obedient humble son that serves him all he can And then shall ye return and difference shall be had That ye may well and soon discern betwixt the good and bad And 't will be seen abroad how different is the lot 'Twixt him that truly serveth God and him that serves him not HYMN 260. The Son of Righteousness arising Mal. 4.1 BEhold the day shall come saith God that like an Oven shall burn And all the Wicked and the Proud shall God to Stubble turn And them into that Oven put his justice to advance The day that comes shall burn them up not leaving root nor branch But unto you that fear my Name the blessed Son shall spring Of righteousness with shining flame and healing in his Wing And ye like fatlings of the stall shall go forth with renown And have the power wherewithall to tread the Wicked down And they beneath your feet shall be as ashes undertrod When this thing shall be done by Me saith your Almighty God. Let Israel's God the Lord most High have all the praise therefore From first to last perpetually Amen for evermore Finis Hymnorum Veteris Testamenti HYMNS Out of the NEW TESTAMENT HYMN 261. The Fan of Judgment Mat. 3.12 THE Lord whose fan is in his hand shall one day purge his floor And he will purge it thoroughly that it shall need no more Into his glorious granary gathering his wheat together But then will He burn up the chaff with fire that burns for ever HYMN 262. The Agreement necessary Mat. 5.25 AGree thou with thy ENEMY while with him in the way Lest he should hale thee to the judge that will compell to pay The Judge unto the Officer commit thee by command And thou be made a Prisoner under the Serjeants hand For verily I tell thee right from thence thou shalt not get Till thou hast pay'd the utmost mite of all thy dreadfull debt 2. METRE All People c. Agree thou with thy Creditor In dues that he contendeth for Agree with him betimes I say While thou art with him in the way Lest thou be haled by the foe Before th' impartial Judge to go The Judge by his severe command Commit thee to the Serjeants hand And then the Serjeant that doth wait Shall cast thee into Prison straight I tell thee thou shalt not get thence Till thou hast pay'd both pounds and pence HYMN 263. The Cabinet Mat. 6.19 LAY not your treasures upon Earth where worldlings love to deal And where the moth and rust corrupt and thieves break through and steal But heap in heaven treasures pure from all corruption free For where your treasure is be sure your hearts will also be HYMN 264. The wise builder Mat. 7.24 WHoever hears these Words of mine and doth them saith the holy one Is like a wise man in 's design that built his house on rocky stone And Rain and Floods and Winds in course Did beat upon that House with force And it fell not for all the shock For it was founded on a Rock But he that hears without regard of doing that which I command To a foolish man shall be compar'd that built his House upon the Sand Then Flouds of Rain and Tempests great Upon that House did fiercely beat And down it fell unto the ground And great the fall thereof was found HYMN 265. Our Saviour's Rapture Our Father c. Mat. 11.2 25. Luk. 10.20 John. 5.23 WHen John the Baptist free from doubt Sent two of his Disciples out To ask our Saviour and to know If he were very Christ or no Tell John said Christ what things they be Which ye your selves do hear and see The Blind receive their cheerfull sight The Lame are heal'd and walk upright Deaf hear and Lepers cleansed are The Dead rais'd up these things declare And while by Worldly-Wise despis'd The poor are taught and gospeliz'd I thank thee Father from my heart The Lord of Heaven and Earth that art Because thy wisdom hath seen good These things should not be understood But hid from wise and prudent men And hast to babes revealed them Even so O Father let it be Since so it seemed good to Thee For what so seemeth in thy sight Must needs be holy just and right God onely wise have praise therefore From first to last for evermore HYMN 266. The Mustard-seed All People c. Mat. 11.31 THE Kingdom of our Lord indeed Is like a grain of Mustard-seed Which sown of all seeds is the least But when 't is grown the most increast So grant us Lord in every place That we may richly grow in grace And in the Knowledge of our Lord Whose name we praise with one accord HYMN 267. The Leaven All People c. Mat. 13.33 THE Kingdom of God's Word from heaven Is like unto a piece of Leaven Which in a mass of meal was hid Untill the whole was leavened So grant our Body Lord and Soul May be preserv'd entire and whole In holiness untill the day Of Christ our Lord Amen we pray HYMN 268. The wise Merchant Mat. 13.45 Prov. 2.6 GOD'S Kingdom in a Christian Is like unto a Merchant-man that sought rich pearls of wealth Who having found a pearl of price Sold all he had and did rejoice to buy it for himself So grant us Lord the truth to buy And not to sell it foolishly for wisdom flows from thee Instruction understanding too Grant we may carefully pursue and rich to God may be 2. METRE To the Tune of the 113. Psalm God's Kingdom in a Christian Is like unto a Merchant-man that sought rich pearls of worldly wealth Who having found a pearl of price Sold all he had and did rejoice to buy it wholly for himself So grant us Lord the truth to buy And not to sell it foolishly for purer wisdom flows from Thee
Instruction Understanding too Grant we may carefully pursue and wise to God thereby may be HYMN 269. The Draw-net Mat. 13.47 Pet. 12.3 THE Kingdom of the Gospel here which is for grace design'd Is like a net cast in the Sea gathering of every kind Which when 't was full men drew to shore sat down to make survey In Vessels gather'd up the good and cast the bad away So shall it be at this World's end the Angels shall come forth Severing the wicked from the just on all the Coasts on earth And they shall cast the wicked ones into a furnace-flame There shall be weeping gnashing teeth and everlasting shame HYMN 270. The Fool in grain Ye Children c. Luke 12.16 THere was a certain rich mans ground That plentifully did abound and made the wealthy owner say What shall I now devise to do Because I want a barn or two wherein I might my harvest lay But now it comes into my mind There is a means that I shall find to lay up all my wealthy Crop I will pull down my barns and build Much greater barns and have them fill'd and heaped up unto the top And I will say unto my Soul Soul live at ease without control eat thou and drink and merry be For worldly goods enough thou hast Lay'd up for many years to last and there can come no want to thee Thou fool said God this night shall they Require thy Soul and take 't away what then becomes of all thy store Such is the man that heaps up wealth And worldly treasures to himself and is not rich to God but poor HYMN 271. The best fear Mat. 10.23 Luke 12.4 MY friends said Christ to you I say fear ye not them that threaten you And can perhaps the body slay but after that no more can do But I will give you warning here and be ye warned by my word Whom ye should ever have in fear namely the mighty Sovereign Lord. Who after he hath smote and slain having all power of life and limb Can cast to hell and endless pain yea I say to you fear ye him HYMN 272. The best rejoycing Now Israel c. Luke 10.17 AND lo the Seventy Disciples came As they return'd from preaching of the word And thus they spake said unto our Lord O Lord we cannot but with joy proclaim How Devils are subject to us through thy Name Our Saviour said I know it must be so I saw proud Satan falling from on high Like to a flash of lightning from the Sky For his power shall come down but yours shall grow And conquer all the forces of the Foe Nevertheless rejoice ye not in this that Devils are subject unto your command But rather much rejoice to understand Your Names are written in the book of bliss And of Eternal life ye shall not miss To Him that sits upon the Throne therefore And unto Christ the Lamb the Holy One And to the seven Spirits before the Throne Ascribe in heaven and earth on sea and shore Dominion power and praise for evermore HYMN 273. Peace with all men Rom. 12.18 AS far as it is possible and in your power doth fall Retain ye still this Principle to live at peace with all Because the fruit of righteousness is sown of him in peace Whose quiet mind is still inclin'd to make Contention cease And therefore follow peace with all and holiness together Without which grace none see the face of God above for ever HYMN 274. Subsistance of God's Kingdom Rom. 14.17 GOD'S Kingdom is not meat and drink the things desir'd of most But righteousness and peace it is and joy i th' Holy Ghost And he that in these things serves Christ as all men ought to do Is much set by of God most high and men commend him too Let us therefore pursue the things that make for mutual peace And things whereby to edifie and make true Love increase HYMN 275. Moderate affections All People c. 1 Cor. 7.27 BRethren I say the time is short And this remains for every sort The Married so to lead their lives As free and not as having Wives The sad as sorrowing not too deep But weeping as they did not weep And they that joy in their fair lot Should joy as if they joyed not The buyers free from carefulness As if not buying to possess Using the World as doth befit And not at all abusing it For lo the World doth quite decay The fashion of it fades away But he that doth the Will of God Hath an Eternal blest abode All Glory to the Holy One That sits upon the soveraign Throne And to the Lamb of God therefore Be praise and Honour evermore HYMN 276. Sowing to the Spirit Gal 6.7 BE not deceiv'd my brethren dear God is not mock'd we know For all shall reap for things done here according as they sow He then that soweth to the flesh corruption shall inherit And they eternal happiness that sow unto the Spirit Unwearied then let us pursue good Works without complaint For we shall reap in season due if that we do not faint And taking opportunity do good to every man But chiefly to the family of Faith the best we can HYMN 277. Amity and Vnity Phil. 2.1 IF any Consolation in Christ is to be had If any Delectation in love to make us glad If any fellowship be felt in God's sweet Spirit of grace If any bowels that can melt or mercies taking place Fulfill our joy like-minded be in mutual love combin'd Having the self-same amity and unity of mind Let nothing out of strife be done or of vain-glory wrought But others to themselves each one preferring in his thought And look not every man of you on his own things alone But on the things of others too to comfort every one HYMN 278. Our Saviour's coming in the Clouds 1 Thess. 4.16 THE Lord himself shall once descend from Heaven with a shout And God's Arch-Angel shall attend and his loud voice break out And then the Trump of God likewise shall his alarum sound And first the dead in Christ shall rise and stand upon the ground Then shall the living that remain to Heaven in clouds repair And be caught up with all the train to meet the Lord i th' air And then shall we for ever joy in presence of the Lord Comfort your selves then mutually with this so sweet a Word HYMN 279. Charity charged upon the rich Now Israel c. 1 Tim. 6.17 THE rich in this World charge thou solemnly Not to be puffed up with secret pride Nor in uncertain riches to confide But on the living Lord that they rely Who gives us richly all things to enjoy That they do good and largely give to th' poor Ready to distribute of their estate And to be willing to communicate A good foundation laying up in store Of gaining life that lasts for evermore HYMN 280. The Call of Grace 2 Tim. 1.9 T IS God that lov'd and
called us with an effectual call Of his good pleasure marvellous not for our Works at all But of his purpose and his grace ordain'd to every man And by Christ Jesus given us before the World began And now is made most manifest in that which doth appear By coming of the ever-blest the Lord our Saviour dear Who hath abolish'd death thereby and hath in every place Brought life and immortality to light by Gospel grace To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be glory done as first begun and shall be evermore HYMN 281. The Cross and Crown All People c. 2 Tim. 2.11 THIS is a very faithfull Word If we be dead with Christ our Lord Then will he us to life restore To live with him for evermore For if we suffer and sustain Then shall we with him also reign If we deny Him then I say He 'll deny us another day If we believe not wanting faith Yet is He true to what He saith And howsoe'er we falsify Yet can He not Himself deny All Glory to the Holy One That sits upon the sovereign throne And to the Lamb of God therefore Be glory now and evermore HYMN 282. Vessels to honour 2 Tim. 2.19 Mat. 22.14 Eph. 5.3 THE Lord's foundation stedfast is having this seal thereto The Lord well knoweth who are his and they are but a few Therefore let all unanimously that name Christ's Holy Name Depart from all iniquity which is to Saints a shame But in a great House are at once Vessels as seemeth good Not onely Gold and Silver ones but likewise Earth and Wood. And unto Honour some are fram'd and to dishonour some If any shun the things here blam'd and as refin'd do come A Vessel it shall him produce of honour and regard A meet one for the masters use to all good Works prepar'd To him that sits upon the throne and to the Lamb therefore Be Glory and Dominion and Honour evermore HYMN 283. Evill Times to be amended The Mighty God c. 2 Tim. 3.1 THIS also known as that which must be known that in the last days perilous times shall come Men shall be lovers of themselves alone proud covetous boasters and blasphemers some Unthankfull yielding Parents no subjection Unholy void of natural affection Truce-breakers false accusers violent Traitors and disesteemers of the good Heady highminded and incontinent loving their pleasures more than loving God Having a form of Godliness denying The power thereof with these is no complying 2 Tim. 2.22 1 Thes 5.15 But follow righteousness with one accord faith charity and peace unanimously With all the Saints that call upon the Lord out of an heart that savours purity And that which good is follow altogether Among your selves and all men whatsoever HYMN 284. Exhortations to good Works All people c. Tit. 3.1 PUT them in mind all those of ours Subject to be to higher Powers To Principalities and STATES And duteous to the MAGISTRATES To all good Works addicted still To speak of no man any ill To use no bitterness or gall But shewing meekness unto all For we our selves in former times Were much addicted to such crimes Foolish we were to envy bent And very DISOBEDIENT Deceiv'd and serving divers lusts And pleasures most pernicious Living in malice and debate Hatefull and given much to hate But when appear'd the kinder love Of God our Saviour from above Not by the Works of Righteousness Which we have acted more or less But saved by his grace from Wrath And his regenerating BATH And by the very innermost Renewing of the Holy Ghost Which he shed on us plenteously By Jesus Christ to justify Through grace which He towards us bears Of endless life to make us HEIRS HYMN 285. Dehortation from evil All People c. Tit. 1.8 THIS is a saying very true And always to be press'd on you That they that do in God believe Should carefully good Works atchieve And let all ours learn to produce Good Works for charitable use These things are good for us and them And profitable unto MEN. But foolish Questions still avoid And Genealogies of pride And vain contentions of the Law Which from the Ways of Truth withdraw An Heretick of any SECT When twice admonisht soon reject Knowing such are subverted quite And sin against their inward light And shun the Words that are prophane And bablings which are all in vain For they will grow to more excess Of error and ungodliness Beware therefore lest led aside By wicked errors wandring wide And leaving truth which ye profess Ye fall from your own stedfastness But have a care to grow a pace To grow in knowledge and in grace Knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord Whose Name we praise with one accord HYMN 286. Pure and impure described Tit. 1.15 Rev. 3.4 UNTO the pure are all things pure but to the faithless and defil'd Is nothing so ye may be sure for mind and conscience both are soil'd They still profess to know the Lord but in their deeds deny him straight Abominable and untow'rd and t' every good Work reprobate But some are holy and upright and keep their garments clean and fair And these shall walk with God in White for worthy Saints esteem'd they are HYMN 287. Fruitfulness blessed Heb. 6.7 THE Earth which oft drinks in the showers And bringeth forth sweet Herbs Flowers Meet for his use by whom 't was drest Is blest of God and richly blest But that which bringeth forth far worse Rejected is and near a curse Namely that brings forth thorns and briers Whose end is burning flames and fires HYMN 288. Charity rewarded Heb. 6.10 Gal. 6.9 THE Lord is not unrighteous your labours to forget Which ye have shew'd towards his Nameâ— with love so strongly set In that ye have administred unto his Saints so dear And still ye do administer unto his servants here And we desire each one of you with diligence to attend Unto the full assurances of Hope unto the end And be not slack through negligence but followers of all these That thorough Faith and Patience obtain'd the Promises And let us all good Works pursue not fainting any jot For we shall reap in season due if fainting hinder not To Father Son and Holy One be praise and glory then As was and is and shall be his World without end Amen HYMN 289. Benediction from the God of peace Heb. 13.20 THE God of peace we now intreat that brought our Saviour from the dead That Shepherd of the Sheep so great whose pretious bloud for us was shed And th' everlasting Covenant seal'd through that dear bloud which he did spill Make you compleat through grace reveal'd in all good Works to do his will Working in you through Jesus Christ things pleasing for the Lord to see To whom be glory in the high'st for evermore Amen say we HYMN 290. Evenness of Spirit in all conditions Jam. 1.9 LET Brethren of a low degree be joyfull to
in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Your Servant for Jesus sake William Barton Of the TUNES THE Tunes here set down are none of the common ones except that of the 100 Psalm Note That the Tune of the 51 Psalm O Lord consider c. or any Tune of eight Sillables in each Line when four Lines make up the Verse may be sung in the Tune of the 100 Psalm Note that the Tune call'd Where Righteousness c. may be changed into the usual Tune of the 67 Psalm if you put in two Sillables more in the third Line of every four Note That the New Tune set in Mr. Sandy's Psalm-Book by Mr. Henry Lawes for the 531 Hymn pag. 646. may be changed into the Tune of the 113 Psalm Ye Children c. if you put in two Sillables more into every third Line Note That the old 127 Psalm mentioned in the 564. Hymn pag. 678. hath no proper Tune of its own but in the old Psalm-Book is referred to the Tune of the 112 Psalm which is the proper Tune of the Lord's Prayer as it is in the old Psalm-Book Note That the 111 Psalm as it is in the old Psalm-Book may be sung in the Tune of the old 120 Psalm which is a shorter Tune And all these Tunes except the New Tunes are taken out of the old Psalm-Book rectified by Mr. Ravenscroft The TUNES of several HYMNS in this Book PSALM 50. The mighty God c. PSALM 51. O Lord consider c. PSALM 100. All People c. PSALM 111. With heart I do accord c. PSALM 112. The man is blest c. PSALM 113. Ye Children c. Ps. 120. In trouble and in thrall c. Psalm 121. I lift mine Eyes c. Psalm 122. I did in heart rejoyce c. Psalm 124. Now Israel may say c. Psalm 125. Such as in God do put c. Psalm 126. When that the Lord c. Psalm 130. Lord to thee c. Psalm 148. Give laud c. Complaint of a Sinner The New Tune for the 524. Hymn of the Sixth Century Page 617. The New Tune of the 532. Hymn of the Sixth Century Page 646. Here follows an Example of turning the Tune Where Righteousness doth say into the plain Tune of the 67 Psalm 6th Century Hymn 526. p. 622. 2. M. Have mercy c. TEach me O Lord the way whereto thy Statutes tend So shall I never go astray but keep it to the end Give me to understand and then shall I endeavour To act O Lord by thy command with my whole heart for ever In paths of thy commands Lord make me go aright For ver'ly my desire so stands and therein I delight Incline my heart O Lord that I may not digress Incline it to thy holy word and not to covetousness Lord turn away mine eyes turn them O Lord I pray From viewing worldly vanities and quicken me in thy way Establish thou thy word unto thy servant dear Who wholly is devoted Lord unto thy faithfull fear The obloquy I fear Lord turn away from me For I confess to thee how clear How good thy Judgments be Behold how my desires do for thy precepts press O stir these heats these holy fires to shew thy righteousness Here follows a perfect Praxis for the Tune of the old 111 Psalm because those Examples of p. 508. 2. M. and of the 120 Psalm want Hypermeters to each second Verse and may well be sung in the proper Tune of the 120 Ps. but not in the Tune of the old 111 Psalm Pardon of sin implored the suit pursued the mercy assured Out of the 130 Psalm OUT of the dreadfull deeps Where fear and horror keeps I cry'd to thee O Lord Lord hear my voice said I ATTEND unto my CRY And to my suits accord For shouldst thou mark O God What by-paths we have trod By sinfull Conversation Who then O Lord shall stand Or scape thy heavy hand Of righteous Condemnation But Lord there is with thee Forgiveness full and free That thou may'st be ador'd I wait upon the Lord My soul waits on his Word And there my hopes are stor'd My soul waits patiently Upon the Lord most high And for his words performing More eagerly than they That watch for break of day And dawning of the morning Yea Lord my soul and mind Attendeth still to find Free favour in thy sight Whereafter I enquire With earnester desire Than Watch-man for the light Let Israel hope therefore In God for evermore For with the Lord is mercy And plenteous grace with him To pardon all our sin Which made the Controversie A Perfect Praxis for the Tune of the old 126 Psalm Out of the 117 Psalm PRaise ye the Lord O all ye Nations far and near His praise record O all ye people every where Because we find How very great and marvellous His mercies kind And his compassion is to us His Faithfull Word Endures for evermore Praise ye the Lord Praise ye the Lord therefore The Fourth Century Beginning the PSALM-HYMNS HYMN 301. A blessed Man described Psalm 1. THE man is blest whose piety forbids to turn aside In Counsel or Society with men unsanctify'd That from those evil paths doth keep wherein the wicked are And joyns not in their fellowship that sit in scorners chair verse 2 But in the Law of God the Lord he placeth his delight And meditateth on his Word devoutly Day and Night verse 3 He shall be like a planted tree that near a River springs Which always as his seasons be abundant fruit forth brings verse 4 Whose leaf likewise shall never fade but flourish still and stand And prosperous shall his works be made what'ere he takes in hand verse 5 But as for men of wicked minds far otherwise are they And like the chaff which boisterous winds drive easily away verse 6 Therefore th' ungodly never may in Judgment rise up clear Nor sinners in the Judgment Day among the Saints appear verse 7 For God doth favourably know the Godly Persons Path Whereas the way that sinners go shall perish in his Wrath. HYMN 302. 2. METRE Argument Good men and bad this first Hymn comprehends Discovering fully both their ways and ends Have mercy c. Psalm 1. A Blessed man is he that is not led aside By counsels of impiety to go where sinners guide Nor sits in scorners seat but in Gods Law delights And in this Law doth meditate continual Days and Nights He shall be like a plant set by the Rivers side Whose boughs no timely fruit do want whose leaf shall fresh abide And well shall he succeed in all good works design'd Not so th' ungodly they shall speed as chaff dispers'd with wind Therefore ungodly men shall not stand justify'd Nor sinners with the righteous then when Judgment must be try'd For ways of men upright the Lord doth kindly know But sinners paths shall perish quite with everlasting woe
HYMN 303. A difference betwixt good and bad 3. METRE Psal. 1. THE Man is blest that shuns the snare of wicked mens advice Whom sinners paths and scorners chair by no means can entice But his Delight both Day and Night is in Gods Holy Law Whereon he waits and meditates with constant care and awe Like planted tree by water-springs shall such a man be made A tree that timely fruit forth brings whose leaf shall never fade And all he doth is blest of God the wicked are not so But are like chaff dispers'd abroad when stormy wind doth blow Therefore th' ungodly shall not stand in judgment clear and quit Nor with the just at Christ's right hand shall any sinner sit For men upright are God's delight their ways to him are known But sinners ways shall soon decay and quite be overthrown HYMN 304. 4. METRE Argument The good and bad are here compar'd Both in their Works and their reward The mighty God c. Psalm 1. THE man is blest that walketh not astray by evil counsels of ungodly men Nor doth comply with sinners in their way nor cometh high the scorners seat with them But with delight on God's good word he waiteth And Day and Night thereon he meditateth He shall be like a tree by th' River side whose fruit is ripe and in his season sure Whose leaf in youth and greeness shall abide and all he doth shall prosperously endure Ungodly men may look for no such matter But are like chaff which stormy wind do's scatter Therefore ungodly men shall never stand at Judgment Day as righteous men may trust Nor any one of all the wicked band come in the Congregation of the just For just mens ways the Lord doth know and cherish But Days will come when sinners paths shall perish HYMN 305. Psal 2. Argument Christs Kingdom how oppos'd and hated And how the wrong is vindicated All People c. WHY do the Heathen rage and fret and people plot a thing so vain They rise and are in councill set Rulers and Kings on Earth that reign Against the Lord they proudly speak against his Christ advising thus Their bonds asunder let us break and cast away their cords from us But he that doth in Heaven dwell their wicked doings shall deride And laugh to scorn his foes that swell with such presumptuous haughty pride Then in his wrath the most supream shall all his enemies controll And in Displeasure most extreme shall he torment their guilty soul. HYMN 306. 2. PART Argument Christ's Kingdom how exalted high By type of David's sovereignty UPON my Sions sacred Hill yet have I set my sovereign King Thou hast decreed and wilt fulfill and I will now declare the thing The Lord hath spoken thus to me thou art my true and onely son This Day have I begotten thee ask of me and it shall be done All Heathen Kingdoms I will make to be th' inheritance of thy birth And thou shalt in possession take the utmost parts of all the Earth Thine Iron Rod of sovereign might shall dash thy foes and make them break Yea dash them into pieces quite As Potters Vessels that are weak HYMN 307. 3. PART Argument Kings here are mov'd the Psalmist saith Christ's Kingdom to receive by Faith. NOW therefore O ye Kings take care that ye may truly understand Be well instructed ye that are the Princely Judges of the Land. See that the Lord have service done with reverence and due respect Rejoyce with trembling kiss the Son lest in his wrath ye should be checkt So should ye perish from the way for lo if his least anger flame Blessed O blessed then are they that trust upon his Holy Name HYMN 308. Psalm 3. Argument The Enemies of Saints encrease But God do's still procure their peace Ye Children c. LORD how the number multiplies of my incensed enemies that daily do against me rise Many O Lord many are they that of my soul presume to say God cannot help him any way But Lord thou art a shield for me my head is still upheld by thee in Honour and in Dignity For when with voice so loud and shrill I call'd on God he pleased still to hear me from his holy hill 2. I lay'd me down and sweetly slept I wak'd and was in safety kept for God's good hand did me protect And tho' ten thousand of my foes should me now round about enclose I would not be afraid of those Arise O Lord and plead my cause for thou hast smote them on the Jaws and broke the teeth of all my foes Thus are th' ungodly overthrown salvation is of God alone and thou O Lord dost bless thine own HYMN 309. Felicity of God's protection Psalm 4. PITY me Lord for well I know I am belov'd of thee I find it so because my foe triumphs not over me I am upholden by thy grace in my integrity Thou giv'st me place before thy face and that perpetually The Lord the God of Israel's Name for ever day by day And all his fame let us proclaim Amen Amen I say HYMN 310. Affiance and repose in God. Psal. 4.6 THE greater sort crave worldly wealth and riches they embrace But Lord grant us thy saving health and shining of thy face verse 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart by those thy beams Divine Much more than they that had their part of plenteous corn and wine verse 8 In peace therefore will I lye down and take my sleep secure For thou O Lord and thou alone dost make my dwelling sure HYMN 311. Psal. 6. Argument He supplicates the Lord to spare Those Chastisements he cannot bear Have mercy c. IN thy incensed wrath O Lord rebuke me not Nor on me lay thy chastning hand in thy displeasure hot verse 2 Have mercy on me Lord for I am wonderous weak Heal me O Lord because thou knowst my bones with anguish break verse 3 My soul is sorely vex'd how long stay wilt thou make verse 4 Return Lord free my soul and save me for thy mercies sake verse 5 For none can after death of thee remembrance have Who can give thanks to thee O Lord when lying in the grave verse 6 I 'm weary with my groans all night I make my bed To swim in sorrows and my couch with tears I watered verse 7 By reason of my grief mine eye consumed is It waxeth old and that because of all mine enemies verse 8 Depart therefore from me ye wicked workers all For lo the Lord has heard my voice when I did weeping call verse 9 My supplication the Lord hath kindly heard The Lord will gratiously receive my Pray'r to him preferr'd Let all mine enemies be sham'd and vexed sore Let them return and suddenly be shamed evermore HYMN 312. Arraignment of Persecutors Psal. 7.11 GOD is a righteous Judge be sure and one that will repay And with the lewd and wicked doer God's angry every day verse 12 Unless he do his sins forgo
gone to perish in the pit verse 11 The path of life thou wilt declare to me with joys full store And Lord at thy right hand there are sweet pleasures evermore HYMN 328. Extolling of Scripture verity and virtue Psalm 19.7 MOST perfect is the Law of God of Soul-converting might His Testimonies are most pure and give the simple light verse 8 The Statutes of the Lord are right and fill the heart with joys The precepts of the Lord are pure inlightening the eyes verse 9 The fear of God his word is clean and doth endure for ever The Judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether verse 10 Yea more than Gold than much fine Gold to be embrac'd alway The hony and the hony-comb are not so sweet as they verse 11 They are thy Servants Monitors how he his life should frame And great reward 's provided for 's if we observe the same HYMN 329. Faith seen in fear of Sin. Psalm 19.12 LORD who can all his Errors see O cleanse my heart within verse 13 From secret faults and keep thou me from all presumptuous sin O let it have no power to reign in me at any time And so shall I be free from stain and scape the greatest crime verse 14 O let the words which I recite my thoughts and whole behaviour Be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and Saviour HYMN 330. Faith's Triumphant Banner Have mercy c. Psalm 20. THE Lord attend thy cry in this distressfull hour Great Jacob's God most gratiously defend thee by his power verse 2 He send thee succour still out of the sanctuary And strengthen thee from Sion Hill against the Adversary verse 3 Thy Offerings in like wise O let him have in mind And let thy whole burnt Sacrifice a good acceptance find verse 4 The Lord now grant to thee thy very hearts desire And let thy prudent councils be accomplish'd all entire verse 5 We will our Joy proclaim in thy assur'd defence And spread our banners in the Name of God our Confidence The Lord now grant in love what-ever thou would'st have verse 6 And now I know that God above doth his Anointed save And he will hear his King from Heaven his Holy Throne With saving strength which he shall bring by his right hand alone verse 7 Some people make their boasts of Chariots some of Horse But in our God the Lord of Hosts we reckon all our force verse 8 While these bow down and fall we rise and stand upright Save Lord and hear us when we call O King of Soveraign might HYMN 331. Faith's Victorious Banner 2. METRE O Lord Consider c. Psalm 20. LORD hear our King this troublous day the Name of Jacob's God defend Help from his holy place convey and succour out of Sion send Remember well and highly prize Thine Offerings and Burnt Sacrifice Thy hearts desire he grant thee still And all thy councils God fulfill In thy Salvation we 'l rejoyce and in our God's great Name shall we Our Banners raise with prayerfull voice all thy requests God grant to thee Now God I know will save from harm With saving strength of his right arm And heareth his anointed one From Heaven his high and Holy Throne Some hope in Chariots help to find and some in Horses hope the same But we will ever bear in mind the Lord our God's all helpfull Name They are brought down and fallen quite But we are risen and stand upright Save Lord O let the King give ear Now when we pray our prayer to hear HYMN 332. Psalm 21. Argument The King's supply and sure defence Obtain'd by Prayer and Confidence THE King rejoyceth to record the comforts of thy might And in thy saving health O Lord How much shall he delight Thou gav'st him what his heart desir'd and that important thing Which he with humble lips requir'd was not deny'd the King. Blessings of goodness to be sure thou hast on him powr'd down And made a Crown of Gold most pure his royal head to crown He askt thee life and thou didst please to give it in such store That he might see the length of days and live for evermore Great is his glorious dignity in this thy saving aid For honour and great majesty thou hast upon him laid For as one ever blest of God thou didst thy King advance And thou hast made him wonderous glad with thy sweet countenance For on the Lord he doth rely to see thy promise prov'd And through thy mercy O most high he never shall be mov'd HYMN 333. 2. PART Argument The sure destruction of rebellious men The Lord is prais'd for Judgments upon them THY hand shall find out all thy foes whoever Lord they be And thy right hand shall find out those that bear ill will to thee And make them as the Ovens hot steam what time thy wrath shall light The Lord in wrath shall swallow them and fire devour them quite Their fruit likewise shalt thou destroy from off the Earths increase And cut off their posterity and cause their seed to cease For they intended ill to thee and thought they should succeed In their mischievous Tragedy but could not act the deed And thou shalt make them for these things to turn their backs apace Charging thine arrows on the strings against their very face Be thou exalted O most high in thine own strength therefore And so our Songs shall magnify thy might for evermore HYMN 334. Psalm 23. Argument God's the good Shepherd of our lives and souls No danger need we fear nor foes controlls Have mercy c. THE Lord my shepherd is and he that doth me feed Since he is mine and I am his what comfort can I need He makes me to lie down on tender pasture grass Then to the streams he leads me on where waters gently pass And when I go astray he doth my soul reclaim Conducting me in the right way for his most holy name Yea though the paths I trod in deaths dark vale should be would not fear for there 's my God a staff of strength to me Thou mak'st me sit and dine even in my enemies sight My head with Oyl my cup with Wine run over day and night Thy goodness sure and grace shall measure all my days And thy house be my dwelling place to give thee endless praise HYMN 335. 2. METRE Argument God the Good Shepherd doth supply No dangers need to terrify All People c. Psalm 23. MY Shepherd is the Lord most blest I shall not want but be supply'd In pastures green he makes me rest by sweet and silent waters side He doth restore my soul that strays the paths of truth he makes me take To walk in his most righteous ways and this he doth for his Name sake Yea though I pass deaths dark abode afraid of ill I will not be For thou art with me O my God thy rod and staff they comfort me In spight of foes thou dost
for many such there be And thou hast seen how sharp and keen their malice is to me O keep and save my soul I crave and put me not to shame But keep me safe because I have believed in thy Name O Lord let my integrity and uprightness in me Preserve me still from every ill because I wait on thee To Israel now O God do thou thy sweet redemption send And bring all his adversities unto a happy end HYMN 345. Greatness of God seen in Tempests 1. METRE Psal. 29. GIVE to the Lord ye mighty men give glory strength and fame verse 2 Give glory great I say agen as due to his great Name Worship the Lord with head down bow'd in beauties holy place verse 3 Whose Thundring Voice upon the Cloud makes rain pour down apace The Glorious God makes Thunder fly from th' Elements Watry Towr verse 4 God's Voice is full of Majesty God's Voice is full of Power verse 5 He lets his thundring voice fall on and breaks the Cedar-trees The Cedars of mount Lebanon the Lord breaks such as these verse 6 He makes them dance as Bullocks do or youngling Unicorn Mount Lebanon and Syrion too with tottering Earth-quakes torn verse 7 His Voice divides the lightning flame verse 8 the Wilderness it shakes And Parans Wilderness by name by such concussion quakes verse 9 God's voice doth through the Forrest pierce and Hinds to calve compels And all his house his praise rehearse each tongue his glory tells verse 10 The Lord sits King upon the floud his Kingdom shall not cease verse 11 His peoples power he will make good and bless his Church with peace HYMN 346. Greatness of God seen in Thunder 2. METRE Psalm 29. YE mighty in your stock and tribe All Glory to the Lord ascribe In beauty of his holiness His Glorious Name adore and bless The Lord by his commanding power Brings down the Clouds in many a shower The Glorious God the Thunder sends And many Watry Clouds he rends His Voice is powerfull in the sky His Voice is full of Majesty His Voice when he in Thunder speaks The high and lofty Cedars breaks Like sporting Calves the Mountains trip Great Lebanon doth leap and skip Syrion by his motion born Leaps as a youngling Unicorn God's Voice divides the flames of fire When Lightnings with the Clouds conspire At his rebuke the Desart shakes The Wilderness of Kadesh quakes He makes to calve the frighted Hinds He bares the Forrest with his Winds And all that in the temple are His Soveraign Glory must declare God sits above the Watery main This Glorious God doth ever reign His Peoples strength he will encrease And bless them with long lasting peace HYMN 347. Psalm 30. Argument Escape from Death his thoughts employ He tells the quick return of joy I Will advance thee O most high that am advanc'd by thee Who hast not left an enemy to triumph over me verse 2 I cry'd to thee O God to save and thou hast made me whole verse 3 And from the all-devouring Grave brought back my gasping soul. To me a new life thou didst lend and wouldest not permit That I should hastily descend into the dreadfull pit verse 4 Sing to the Lord ye Saints of his and thankfully express How sweet the due remembrance is of his pure holiness verse 5 For though his anger burns a space it quickly slacks again But in his favour and his grace doth constant life remain Though sorrows lodge with â—s a night and make us weep and mourn Yet joy comes in at mornings light making a quick return HYMN 348. 2. PART Argument Prosperity puffs up then Grace withdraws Prayer is excited and gives God th' applause Psalm 30. verse 6 IN my prosperity I laid I never shall be mov'd verse 7 So strongly was my mountain laid so free thy favour prov'd Thou didst no sooner hide thy face But trouble did invade verse 8 Then Lord â—ory'd to thee for grace and supplication made verse 9 What proâ—it is there in my bloud when I to Grave go down Can Dust declare thy praise O God can Dust thy truth renown verse 10 Hear me O Lord O bow thine ear and pity on me take O Lord unto my help draw near for thy sweet mercy sake verse 11 My mourning then to melody thou didst for me convert My sackcloth thou hast quite laid by and me with gladness girt verse 12 To th' end my Glory may sing Laâ—d to thee and not give o're O Lord my God I will applaud thy Name for evermore HYMN 349. Happiness conferr'd on the Saints Psalm 31.19 O God how great felicity hast thou laid up in store For men affected faithfully to fear thee evermore What goodness Lord what recompence is wrought by thee for them That put their trust in thy defence before the sons of men verse 20 The secret of thy presence Lord shall those thy Servants hide And be their safety and their guard from man's insulting pride And thou shalt keep them secretly in a Pavilion sure And save them by that secrecy from strife of tongues secure Psalm 35.10 Psal. 76.10 And who O Lord is like to thee that sav'st the poor from spight Of 's over-potent enemy that seeks to crush him quite Surely the wrath in men that reigns shall turn unto thy praise Remaining wrath thy power restrainâ— when passion oversways Psalm 72.18 19. O Let the Lord of Israel be prais'd of rich and poor Whose works are such as do excell and he the onely doer And let the whole earth generally be fill'd and fill'd agen With his renown and Majesty Amen Amen Amen HYMN 350. Exceeding happiness of pardon· All People c. Or O Lord Consider c. Psalm 32. THE man is blest whose sin 's remitted Whose crimes are covered and acquitted To whom the Lord imputes no fault Nor guile is harbour'd in his thought For while I no confession made My strength with daily grief decay'd Thine anger burnt the day throughout My moisture turn'd to summers drought Then I confest and kept not in But said I will confess my sin And thou when I Lord did confess Forgav'st my sinfull wickedness For this cause all the Godly Race Shall seek thee in a time of Grace That when great flouds of waters roll No danger may come near their soul. Thou art my hiding place from wrongs To close me round with safeties songs I 'll tell and teach the faithfull so Mine eye shall guide them how to go O be not like the Horse and Mule Whom understanding doth not rule Whose stubborn mouths we must restrain From violence with bit and rean The wicked shall be curbed so And are reserv'd to many a wo But them that in the Lord confide Shall mercy close on every side Be joyfull therefore in the Lord Ye righteous men with one accord And shout for joy with great delight All ye that are in heart upright HYMN 351. Psal. 33. v. 13. to 21. Argument
Protection and Provision from above For those that fear the Lord and trust in 's love THE Lord lookt down from Heaven high beholding all abroad All mortal mans posterity from place of his abode In all the Earth and all the parts the dwellers he survays He fashioneth alike their hearts and all their works he weighs No numerous Hosts can save a King the strength of limb saves none Nor can the Horse deliverance bring his great strength saves not one But lo the eye of God above is ever fixt on those That fear his Name and in his love their confidence repose To save their souls from sharpest sword of Famine that can be Wherefore our soul waits for the Lord our help and shield is he For in him shall our hearts be glad because we can proclaim The confidence that we have had in his most holy Name HYMN 352. Honouring God at all times Psal. 34.1 AT all times I will bless the Lord my mouth shall spread his fame Continually it shall record the praises of his Name My soul shall make her boast in God the humble men shall hear And they shall gladly spread abroad his praises every where O magnifie the Lord with me and let us altogether Exalt his Name in high degree and speak his praise for ever I sought the Lord with fervent cries and graciously he heard And did deliver me likewise from all the harms I fear'd The meek lookt up and sought his Name and they enlightned were Their Faces did receive no shame that fled to him by Prayer This poor man cry'd unto the Lord the Lord did hear his call And saving health to him afford out of his troubles all HYMN 353. Holy Angels protecting Saints And Exhortations to fear God. Psal. 34.7 GOD'S Holy Angel doth encamp round about all those men That have Relâ—gions real stamp and he delivereth them O tast and see that God is good O blessed men are they That have that goodness understood and make it all their stay O fear the Lord ye Saints of his and on his care rely For they that fear him never miss a competent supply Young Lyons shall have meat full scant shall hunger and lack food But they that fear the Lord shall want for nothing that is good HYMN 354. How to fear God aright Psalm 34.11 12 COme unto me my Children dear and hearken to my word And I will teach you how to fear the true and living Lord. Who is the man that would live long and lead a blessed life See thou refrain thy lips and tongue from all deceit and strife 13 14 15. Refrain thee still from doing ill and all good deeds embrace Inquire for peace and quietness and follow it apace Because the Lord's most gracious eye upon the just is bent His ears are open to the cry of all the innocent 16 17. But he looks down with angry frown upon the wicked train To cut their memory from the Earth that none of them remain But when the just do call and cry the Lord doth hear them so That out of pain and misery he lets them timely go HYMN 355. Jewels of God's keeping Psal. 34â—19 FUll many be the miseries which on the just do fall But God doth soon deliver them and help them out of all 20. He keepeth every bone of theirs by his Almighty Arm That not so much as one of them is broken to their harm 21. Evil shall slay the wicked man for sin which he hath wrought And such as hate the righteous man shall quickly come to nought 22. But them that fear the living Lord he keepeth safe and sound And them that put their trust in him no malice shall confound HYMN 356. Psalm 36. Argument Ill deeds describe the wicked sort Godâ—s mercies are the Saints support The mighty God c. verse 1 TRangressions of the lewd to me suggest that there 's no fear of God before his eyes verse 2 For still he sooths himself in his own breast till all abhor his foul iniquities verse 3 The words of his foul mouth are fraud and lewdness He hath left off all wisedom grace and goodness verse 4 He studies mischief on his secret bed he sets himself to go in no good way No evil action doth he hate or dread yet is thy mercy my sufficient stay verse 5 The Heavens O Lord thy mercy comprehendeth Thy faithfulness unto the clouds extendeth HYMN 357. 2. PART Argument God's mercies keep both man and beast His comforts make the Saints to feast Psal. 36. verse 6 THY righteousness is like the mountains great thy Judgments are a most unfathom'd deep Thou Lord art he that holds the sovereign seat thy preservation man and beast doth keep verse 7 How excellent O God is thine affection Which makes mankind to trust to thy protection verse 8 they shall be satisfy'd abundantly with fatness of thy house and holy place And thou shalt make them drink pure streams of joy And pleasures there imparted by thy grace verse 9 For Lord with thee is life's pure fountain present And in thy light shall we see light most pleasant HYMN 358. 3. PART Argument God's mercies to the Saints secure Great woes attend the wicked doer Psalm 36. verse 10 O Lord continue thy compassions kind to them that know thee by experience And let the upright hearted people find thy righteousness for their assur'd defence verse 11 Let not the foot of pride with power oppress me Nor let the hand of lewd men dispossess me verse 12 See there those workers of iniquity how often times they fall before our eyes Yea they shall be cast down eternally and never more be able to arise O let the God of Israel therefore Be prais'd from first to last for evermore HYMN 359. Joys of Heaven 2. METRE Psalm 36.5 THE Heavens O Lord thy mercy fills thy truth doth reach the sky verse 6 Thy justice over-tops the Hills and deep thy judgments lie Thou dost preserve both men and beasts for Lord thy grace excells verse 7 And underneath thy wings in peace mankind securely dwells verse 8 With dainties of thy house most sweet replenish'd they shall be And drink the streams of pure delight imparted there by thee verse 9 For Lord from thee the fountain flows that giveth light to thine And in thy light shall we disclose our lasting light to shine HYMN 360. Just mens vindication Protection and Provision Psalm 37.3 TRust confidently in the Lord to goodness give thy mind So shalt thou dwell in Israel and sure provision find verse 4 Delight thy self in God likewise and he shall set thee have Yea grant entire thy hearts desire whatever thou dost crave verse 5 Commit thy way unto the Lord and rest in him secure And he shall bring to pass the thing and make the issue sure verse 6 He shall bring forth thy righteousness as manifest as light Thy â—udgment he shall make to be as noon-tide shining bright 2. PART verse 18 God
knows the days of upright men how far their tryal goes And doth engage an heritage which they shall never lose verse 19 They shall not be asham'd at all when some are hard bestead And in the day of famine they shall be suffic'd with bread verse 25 I have been young and now am old yet ne're saw Saints so poor Nor yet their seed in so much need to beg from door to door Psal. 55.22 Then cast thy burden on the Lord and he shall well provide For not a whit will he permit the righteous man to slide HYMN 361 Just mens sure safeguard and happy end Psal. 37.37 MARK and behold the perfect man for that mans end is peace verse 38 But quickly shall transgressors fall be quite cut off and cease verse 39 But the salvation of the â—ust is of the Lord most high Their strength and stay mâ—th evil day of their adversity verse 40 And he shall shield and save the just and keep them life and limb Delivering them from wicked men because they trust in him HYMN 362. Knowledge and acknowledgment of Mortality All People c. Psalm 39.5 WHAT is our life but as a span So meer a vanity is man And reckon'd at his best estate Is reckon'd at no higher rate verse 6 Man walketh in a shadow vain And toyls himself with needless pain He gathers wealth with wretched care And knows not who shall be his heir verse 11 When thou rebukest man for sin A sad condition he is in Thou mak'st his beauty like a cloth fretted and eaten by the moth Surely every man how great soever Is vanity yea altogether And reckoned at no higher rate When reckon'd at his best estate verse 12 Lord hear my prayer attend my cry Slight not my tears for what am I A stranger and a Sojourner With thee as all my Fathers were verse 13 O spare me Lord a little space That I may gather strength of grace Before I lose this mortal breath And shall be taken off by death HYMN 363. Lovers of Charity blessed 1. METRE Psalm 41.1 THE man is blest that minds the poor that suffers sore distress The Lord will sure deliver him when perils most oppress verse 2 The Lord will keep him safe alive and bless him in the Land And he will not abandon him unto his enemies hand verse 3 Upon his bed of languishing the Lord will strengthen him And in his sickness make his bed to ease each weary limb verse 4 Then in my sickness thus said I be gracious Lord to me And heal my sick and sinfull soul that hath offended thee HYMN 364. Falseness of Persecutors 2. METRE Psal. 41.5 MINE enemies speak ill of me when comes his dying-day And when shall we survive to see his blessed Name say they He visits me with complements his heart he fills with fraud And vile intents all which he vents whene're he goes abroad My haters all lie whispering against my soul combin'd Some hurtfull thing on me to bring devising in their mind An ill disease doth him surprize and cleaves to him so fast That now he lies he shall not rise but breaths say they his last My trusted friend fed at my board against me lifts his heel But help me Lord that when restor'd they may my justice feel HYMN 365. Psalm 42.1 to 5. Argument The Saint when from God's house confin'd In Sighs and Prayer sets forth his mind All People c. LIKE as the chased hart doth pant after the cooling water brooks So Lord my soul pursu'd and faint pants after thee with longing looks verse 2 I thirst for God the living God O when shall I come and draw near The place of his most blest abode and in his glorious courts appear verse 3 Both thoroughout the night and day my mournfull tears have been my food While constantly my foes do say where now is thy most faithfull God verse 4 When I these things have thought upon my grief of soul has much renew'd Because I formerly had gone among the zealous multitude I went with them to God's own house with cheerfull voice of joy and praise Where multitudes did follow us that kept the solemn Holy daies verse 5 O Then my soul why shouldst thou be so over-whelm'd in thy distress O wherefore art thou mov'd in me and tossed with unquietness Hope still in God's deliverance for I shall surely yet again Praise him for his sweet countenance and help I shall thereby obtain HYMN 366. Psal. 43. Argument When persecutions greatly grieve and grind God's Ordinances cheer the Godly mind verse 1 Judge me O God and plead my cause against th' ungodly train From subtil tyrants greedy jaws my righteous soul sustain verse 2 For of my strength thou art the God why dost thou leave me so And why walk I so heavily oppressed by my foe verse 3 Send out thy light and truth so bright and guide me with thy grace And so conduct me to thy hill and to thy dwelling place verse 4 Then shall I to the Altar go of God my hearts delight And on the harp O God my God thy praise I shall recite verse 5 Why art thou then so sad my soul and fret'st thus in my breast O why art thou so troubled now and taken off thy rest Hope still in God and him applaud whom I shall yet record Who doth advance my countenance and is my God my Lord. HYMN 367. 2. METRE Argument He cheers his soul in God's free love And Comforts flowing from above Give Laud c. Psalm 43. verse 1 MY judgment Lord maintain and plead my needfull case Against a Nation vain and destitute of grace O save thou me From men unjust and such as trust in treachery verse 2 For thou art my support my God my strength and stay Why seem'st thou â—n such sort to cast me clean away Why do I go So mournfully oppressed by my cruel foe verse 3 O Lord send out thy light send out thy word most true And let them lead me right and let them bring me to Thy holy Hill That dwelling place where thy sweet grace abideth still verse 4 And then O Lord will I unto thine Altar go To God my wondrous joy from whom my comforts flow There I 'le give laud And honour thee with Psaltery O God my God. verse 5 Why art thou then so low dejected O my soul Why do such waves of woe within thy bosome roll And why art thou With fear and dread disquieted within me now O let thy hope be set on God that helpeth thee For I shall praise him yet for his great aid to me When undertrod Who doth advance my countenance and is my God. HYMN 368. METRE Argument Canaan the Type of Heaven fell By Gods free grace to Israel All People c. Psalm 44 v. 3. O God our Fathers have us told What works thou didst in days of old And we have heard it with our ears What works thou didst in times of theirs
How thou didst drive out Heathen men With thy strong hand to plant in them How thou those people didst afflict And cast them out in judgment strict For neither their own sword or hand Did get possession of the Lâ—nd Nor was it their own chivalry That sav'd them from the enemy But thy right and powerfull arm That kept them evermore from harm And Lord it was the lightsome glance Of thy sweet face and countenance Thou wast the aid of Israel still Because thou bear'st them great good will To Israel's God be praise therefore From first to last for evermore HYMN 369. Martyrdom or slaughter of the sheep 2. METRE Psalm 44.20 IF we have now forgot the Name of our Almighty One And stretched out our hands in vain to Idol-Gods unknown verse 21 Should not our God the matter try and understand the whole For he doth know undoubtedly the secrets of our soul. verse 22 Yea for thy sake O God are we slain all day long indeed And counted as the sheep we be which men for slaughter feed verse 23 Awaken and arise therefore why sleepest thou O Lord Cast us not off for evermore as people quite abhorr'd verse 24 O wherefore dost thou hide thy face and dost our grief forget In this forlorn and wofull case that hath our souls beset verse 25 For down to dust our soul is thrust our belly cleaves to th' Earth verse 26 Rise and afford some succour Lord to set thy mercy forth HYMN 370. 3. METRE All People c. Psalm 44.20 IF our God's name we have forgot or bow'd to gods whom we knew not Should not our God the sin disclose the secrets of our hearts that knows Yea for thy sake thus ill we fare that killed all day long we are Counted as sheep that have their life exposed to the slaughtering knife Awake why sleep'st thou Lord arise O do not quite cast off our cries Why dost thou hide thy face so long forgetting all our grief and wrong For to the ground our soul is thrust our belly cleaveth to the dust Arise our aid to undertake and save us for thy mercy sake So we thy flock and pasture-store shall give thee thanks for evermore And as thy mercies do engage shew forth thy praise from age to age HYMN 371. Psalm 45. Argument The praise of Christ who spake as no man did His powerfull word disclosing secrets hid Have mercy c. MY heart indicts good words To praise the Lord of Lords More swiftly than the Writers Pen My tongue his praise records O fairer than mankind Thy Lips with grace have shin'd And God therefore for evermore To bless thee hath design'd Thy sword gird on thy Thigh O mighty Majesty Ride on O King all conquering And ride on prosperously Because thou dost express Truth meekness righteousness And mak'st that word thy conquering sword Thou shalt have sure success HYMN 372. 2. PART Argument The power of Christ converting Souls But stubborn Enemies he controuls Psalm 45. THE right hand of thy might Thine Enemies shall smite With dreadfull sense of Conscience Till yielding to thy right Full sharp shall be thy dart In the King's enemies heart Nothing shall ease the Consciences Till they to thee convert As for the stubborn foe Well shall thy right hand know To wound such hearts with dreadfull darts And work their overthrow HYMN 373. 3. PART Argument The Throne of Christ with justice deckt The Graces of his Saints elect Have mercy c. Psalm 45.6 THY throne O God most high Abides perpetually Thy Government is excellent For truth and equity Thou lovest righteousness And sin thou hat'st no less Therefore hath God thy God bestow'd On thee such blest success And hath anointed thee With gifts of grace so free And oyl of joy transcendently Above all saints that be Thy graces all divine Which do from Heaven shine Like Cassia Myrrhe and Aloes are The joy of thee and thine Chief Saints in every place Shall come before thy face At thy right hand shall Israel stand All deckt in robes of grace HYMN 374. 4. PART Argument The Spouse of Christ he doth exhort The Gentiles call'd to Sions Court. Have mercy c. Psalm 45. v. 10. HEarken O spouse most dear consider and give ear Forget thy birth that sprung from earth And as new born appear So shall the King desire Thy beautious grace entire For none but he thy Lord must be Pure worship to require And converts most compleat Shall come with gifts full great The Gentiles which are great and rich Thy favour shall intreat And I will cause thy Name To be of endless fame And therefore all the people shall Thy praises still proclaim HYMN 375. 5. PART Argument The Churches inward beauty her succession The Jew and Gentiles glory with confession Of Christ our Saviour's praise past all expression Have mercy c. Psal. 45. v. 13. THE Kings dear spouse behold Deckt in her cloth of gold The inward dress of Holiness And graces manifold Be brought to Christ shall she In robes of sanctity Her Virgin mates confederates Must all be brought to thee With joy shall they resort And in triumphant sort Gentile and Jew be brought into The Kings celestial court And in the Fathers stead Thou shalt have children bred As Princes high for piety The Earth to overspread And I will cause thy Name To be of endless fame And therefore all the people shall Thy praises still proclaim HYMN 376. Psalm 46. Argument The Lord proclaim'd a present aid The foes with fear are much dismay'd All People c. GOD is our strength and present aid Our refuge in our need Therefore we will not be afraid Nor tottering earthquakes heed Though midst of Seas huge hills be hurl'd though troubled waters roar And swelling of the billows curld make mountains tremble sore A River there with Crystal stream shall glad that City of his The sacred tent of God supream the Lord amidst her is Right early God shall help her there she shall not once be mov'd The Heathen Kingdoms moved were and most outragious prov'd He uttering then that voice of his the earth did melt away The Lord of Hosts with Israel is and Jacob's God our stay Come see the work of God's own hand what desolation's made How wars are husht in all the Land and how he breaks the blade He burns the Charriot breaks the Bow be still and know saith he That I am God on earth below and there extol'd will be Of Heathens I 'll be magnifi'd in this my glorious power The Lord of Hosts is on our side and Jacob's God our tower HYMN 377. 2. METRE Argument A present refuge God appears Therefore the Saints should banish fears All People c. Psalm 46. GOD is our refuge and relief A very present help in grief Therefore we will not fear at all Although the earth should flit or fall And though the mountains should be hurl'd Amidst the Seas throughout the world Although
And trusting in God's mercies free shall dwell perpetually verse 9 And I will ever spread thy fame for doing things so meet And wait upon thy Holy Name to all thy Saints so sweet The Fifth Century OF PSALM-HYMNS HYMN 401. Properties of Tale-bearers cursed and the blessing conferred on Saints Psalm 52. WHY dost thou boast of mischief most O man of worldly might God's goodness sure doth still endure to save me from thy spight Thou dost incline that tongue of thine to practise mischief great Yea it hath been a razer keen in working of deceit A readier will thou hast to ill than good to entertain And righteousness thou lovest less than for to lie and feign Thou lovest words as sharp as swords false tongue that doth betray Therefore the Lord shall bring a sword to cut thee clean away He shall destroy thee utterly pluck'd from thy dwelling place And bring about to root thee out from all the living race With terrour then shall righteous men look on and laugh and say See what befel an Infidel that made not God his stay But trusted more in worldly store and riches to possess And thus he fed and strengthened himself in wickedness But I shall be an Olive-tree in God's house growing still And in his grace my trust I place and so I ever will. On thee will I wait constantly for this thy deed Divine And spread the fame of thy great Name Which is so good to thine HYMN 402. Punishment of Atheists and protection of Saints 1. METRE Psalm 53. THE fool that is Atheistical hath spoke it for his part There is not any God at all for so he thinks in heart Corrupt they are exceedingly and so is all the brood Have acted vile iniquity and none of them doth good verse 2 The Lord lookt down from 's heavenly throne on sons of men below To see of whom the Lord was known or who did seek to know verse 3 But they were every one gone back defil'd with filth of sin Not one did tread in vertues track not one was skil'd therein verse 4 Are wicked doers so quite misled such by-paths have they trod To eat my people up like bread they have not call'd on God. verse 5 Sore terrours there shook every limb where was no cause of fright For God hath burst the bones of him that did against thee fight And thou hast put them all to shame God blasting all their ways verse 6 And O that such salvation came to Israel now a days When God brings back the captive state of Sion now so sad Then Jacob shall rejoyce thereat and Israel shall be glad HYMN 403. Punishment of Atheists and protection of Saints 2. METRE All People c Or O Lord Consider c. Psal. 53. FOOLS say in heart there is no God no God that humane actions heeds Corrupt they are and none doth good they do abominable deeds The Lord from his celestial throne lookt down on mortal men below To see if there were any one that knew God's will or sought to know But all were gone aside from grace wholly defil'd and in their bloud There was not one of all the race not one by nature doing good Have they no knowledge in their head these workers of iniquity Eating my people up like bread they never call on God most high They fear'd a fear where no fear was for God hath scattered all their bones That durst encamp against thy cause and thou hast sham'd those guilty ones And therefore were they thus dismay'd because despised of thy God And O that Israel's saving aid were come from Sion all abroad When God shall once from bondage bring the captive flock of Sion-hill Then Jacob shall triumph and sing and gladness Israel's heart shall fill HYMN 404. Judgments against Persecutors Psalm 54. BY thy great Name O God defend and judge me by thy might verse 2 O hear my prayer my words attend and do not set them light verse 3 For strangers do against me rise oppressors seek my soul They set not God before their eyes their actions to controle But God my helper doth abide the Lord doth still take part With those that gather on my side and do uphold my heart verse 5 He shall unto my foes repay the ill that they have wrought Lord in thy justice cut away and bring them all to nought verse 6 Most freely then shall I accord my offering to present And I will praise thy Name O Lord for it is excellent verse 7 For he hath me delivered from all my grief and wo Mine eye hath seen accomplished his will upon my foe verse 8 Let Israel's God and none but he from everlasting then To everlasting praised be Amen Amen Amen HYMN 405. Psalm 55.17 Argument Frequent prayer prevalent Want of Godâ—s fear destructive AT Morning Noon and Evening-tide unto the Lord I pray When I so constantly have cry'd he will not say me nay verse 19 Yea God shall hear when I complain and vex mine enemies sore Even he that doth of old remain and is for evermore Because they see no sudden change but find a fixt abode Therefore their courses are so strange therefore they fear not God. verse 23 Yet shall they soon be undertrod that wicked works commit For thou wilt bring them down O Cod into destructions pit The bloudy and deceitful one shall not live half his daies But I will trust in thee alone and give thy Name the praise HYMN 406. Quieting of Cares or repose in God. 1. METRE Psal. 61. LORD hear my cry my prayer attend verse 2 from Earths remotest part Mine earnest cries to thee I send when over-whelm'd in heart verse 3 Unto the rock of higher power Lord lead me graciously For thou â—â—st been my fort and tower against the enemy verse 4 Within thy tents I chuse to dwell and dwelling to endure Beneath thy wings I know right well I shall be safe and sure verse 5 The vows that did my soul engage Lord thou wast pleas'd to hear Thou gavest me the heritage of them that do thee fear verse 6 The life of thine anointed one thou wilt O Lord maintain As many a Generation before thee to remain verse 7 He shall abide before thy face for ever to endure Prepare thy mercy truth and grace which may preserve him sure verse 8 So shall I sing and utter still the praises of thy Name That all my vows I may fulfill and daily pay the same HYMN 407. Quieting of Cares or the Rock of Refuge 2. METRE Ye Children c. Psal. 61. LORD hear my cry my prayers attend For from the very utmost end of all the Earth to thee I cry When as my heart with sorrows weight Is over-whelm'd O lead me straight unto the rock that 's higher than I. For thou a shelter wast for me And a strong tower I have of thee against the adversaries face I will abide within thy tent And evermore be confident under thy Wings
thou hast dealt most favourably with Jacob's Land of late And turn'd our sad captivity into a free estate Unto thy people thou didst please to seal a pardon free Their grievous sins and trespasses are covered all by thee Thou hast removed from the path where all thine anger lay And from the fierceness of thy wrath hast turn'd thy self away Turn us O God our Saviour thus with thee for to comply And cause thine anger towards us to cease perpetually Wilt thou be angry evermore and not thy wrath recall Wilt thou draw out thy wrath so sore to Generations all Wilt thou not quicken us again and so far set us free That we thy people which remain may much rejoyce in thee HYMN 449. 2. PART Argument The Church redeem'd and warn'd gives God the praise He prophesies great good in Gospel Days NOW will I hear attentively what God the Lord will say In hope of true tranquillity to follow many a day For to his Saints and people dear the Lord will utter peace But let them take a warning here and former follies cease And sure the Lord's salvation is Nigh them that fear his Name That Glory may dwell here with his and fill our Land with fame Mercy and truth together meet whilst Christ the Kingdom sways And righteousness and peace do meet in Glorious Gospel-Days And truth shall spring from humane race by Christ our Saviour's Birth And righteousness looks down with Grace from Heaven to bless the Earth Yea God shall give us each good thing with righteousness and peace And he shall make our Land to bring abundance of encrease That sure example for our sake the righteousness of God Shall go before and make us take the way that he hath trod Psalm 86. to v. 7. HYMN 450. Argument The Saints Calamity and God's propensity Strong Arguments of pity All People c. LORD bow thine ear attend my cry for I am poor and in the dust Preserve my righteous soul for I in thee my God do put my trust Thy mercy Lord to me extend and hearken to my mournfull voice Daily my cries to thee ascend O make thy Servants soul rejoyce Thou Lord art good for rvermore to pardon sins art still inclin'd And all that do thy grace implore shall thine abundant mercy find To thee I humbly make address Lord hear my prayer my voice attend I 'll call on thee in my distress for thou wilt me an answer send HYMN 451. Turning or conversion of the Gentiles 2. METRE All People c. Psalm 86.8 9. AMong the Gods there 's none like thee nor any works like thine O Lord All Nations whom thou mad'st to be shall come to thee with one accord 10. With Adoration they shall come to glorify the Holy One For the great God great things hath done yea thou O God art God alone Psalm 106.48 Let Israel's God the Lord therefore be blest and praised yet agen And let all people evermore say cheerfully Amen Amen HYMN 452. Turning the Gentiles or Sions Glory 1. METRE Psalm 87. IN Holy Hills the Ground-work lies of Sion's Edifice verse 2 Whose Gates beyond all Jacob's Land the Lord doth love and prize verse 3 O City of God renown'd and fam'd thy Converts are proclaim'd verse 4 Egypt for one and Babylon I to my friends have nam'd Philistia Tyre and Ethiop ' there was born and made an heir verse 5 And Sion they shall point and say did this and that man bear And the most High shall stablish her and such mens birth refer verse 6 To Sion Mount so make his count when he doth register As well the voice of him that sings as he that tunes the strings verse 7 Of musick sweet therein shall meet in thee are all my Springs HYMN 453. Turning the Gentiles to the Church 2. METRE All People c. Psalm 87. THE Church well built upon the word is consecrated to the Lord Who bears to Sion great respect and chiefly to his own Elect. Most Glorious things of her fore-told in Gospel-days we shall behold The Gentiles shall convert and dwell as heirs of life with Israel Tidings shall be of many a man born there a famous Christian And God shall stablish them and theirs and count them his adopted heirs Then Lord our giving thanks to thee the musick of our souls shall be For all the Springs of Grace and Skill are made to flow from Sion-hill HYMN 454. Validity of promises or faithfulness of God's Chastisements All People c. Psalm 89.30 31. IF David's seed my Law forsake and do not execute my will If they infringe the Laws I make and do not my Commands fulfill 32. Then will I visit and chastise their bold transgressions with the rod Correcting their Iniquities with stripes and punishments saith God 33. But of my loving kindness yet I will not wholly him bereave Nor will my faithfulness permit to fail and take a final leave 34. My Covenant with my faithfull King I 'll not reverse nor quite eclipse Nor will I alter any thing that I have spoken with my lips Psalm 106.48 Let Israel's God the Lord most high be ever blest and prais'd therefore And let all people magnify his blessed Name for evermore HYMN 455. Vanishing of Life Psalm 90.10.5 THE days of our determin'd years are threescore years and ten And if at fourscore strength appears that strength is weakness then So speedily we pass away and we are quickly gone Just like a floud that makes no stay but hastily runs on 6 12. Like Grass which in the morning grows but is cut down at night At morning fresh and fair it shews at evening withers quite LORD let our frail mortality be so well understood That we may wisely learn of thee for our eternal good HYMN 456. Vanishing of Life or the short age of man. All People c. Psalm 90.10 THE common age of mortal men is counted threescore years and ten And if to fourscore some attain Their life is but a lengthned pain So quickly comes it to decay And suddenly we drop away Lord teach the numbring of our days To bring our hearts to wisedoms ways HYMN 457. Wishing for good times Psal. 90.13 REturn O Lord how long a space let it repent thee much Touching thy Servants wofull case whose sufferings have been such 14. O satisfy us speedily with thy compassions kind That all our days may yield us joy and gladness chear our mind 15. As thou hast sent us sorrows keen so send us comforts glad For days and years that we have seen so sorrowfull and sad 16. O let thy work appear unto thy servants every one Thy Glory to their Children show when we are dead and gone The Lord our God shine on his Church and grace our joynt endeavour O prosper thou our handy-works and stablish them for ever HYMN 458. Psal. 91. Argument Choice Saints preserv'd in pestilential times While Sinners smart for unrepented crimes All People c. verse 1 WHO
full of sanctity This mighty King loves Judgmenâ— well thou dost establish right Thou execut'st in Israel just Judgment by thy might O then applaud the Lord our God extoll his Name alone And falling at his foot-stool flat adore the holy one Moses and Aaron with his Priests and Samuel anciently Among his suppliants made requests and he did make reply To them aloud he in the Cloud and fiery pillar spake They kept with trust his Judgments just and laws which he did make Thou didst them hear O Lord our God a pardoning God wast thou Though thou didst scourge them with thy rod and not their sins allow O then applaud the Lord our God and at his holy Throne His Name adore for evermore for he 's a holy One. HYMN 475. Zeal in publick Worship 1. METRE Psal. 100. Deut. 32.18 SHout to the Lord in every place O all ye lands and tongues verse 2 Serve him and come before his face with Gladness and with Songs verse 3 Know that the Lord is God our Rock he made us every one Not we our selves we are his flock and pasture people known verse 4 Enter his Gates with Gratitude praise in his Courts proclaim Be thankfull to him and speak good of his most holy Name verse 5 For good and gracious is the Lord his mercy never fades The truth of his eternal word endures from age to age Rev. 1.5 To God the Father and the Son and holy Ghost therefore Be Glory as at first was done and shall be evermore HYMN 476. Zeal in the publick Worship 2. METRE Psal. 100. MAKE joyfull noises to the Lord O all ye Nations of the Earth Serve him with joy his praise record come in his sight with Songs of mirth Know that the Lord is God alone we are the flock which he doth keep His workmanship and not our own his people and his Pasture-sheep Enter his Gates with thankfulness and come with joy into his Courts Great gratitude to him express and bless his Name in fullâ—resorts For lo the Lord is good and kind his mercy everlasting is His truth all Generations find for evermore assur'd to his HYMN 477. A Pattern of Princely Government 1. METRE Psal. 101. LORD I will sing of mercy sweet and judgment to thy praise verse 2 And wisely guide my wary feet in all thy perfect ways When wilt thou Lord fulfill thy word and I shall do my part To order my whole Family with uprightness of heart verse 3 I will no wicked thing abide before mine eyes to be I hate their work that turn aside it shall not cleave to me verse 4 The froward heart from me shall part and have no more access And I will no such persons know as practice wickedness verse 5 The man that slandereth privily I will cut off be sure The stout in heart whose looks are high I will not once endure verse 6 I 'll look out then the faithfull men that they may dwell with me And they that press for perfectness my servants then shall be verse 7 None guilefull will I entertain within my house to dwell Nor shall he in my sight remain that loveth lies to tell verse 8 I 'll soon cut short the wicked sort and evil-doers condemn And quite suppress ungodliness From God's Jerusalem HYMN 478. A Pious Prince described The mighty God c. 2. METRE Psalm 101. OF Mercy and of Judgment I will sing and Lord my Song I dedicate to thee And Wisely will I walk in every thing when wilt thou come Lord and establish me I will not set before me a Temptation To any ill but ever shun th' occasion I hate the work of them that turn aside there shall no such corruption cleave to me The froward heart with me shall not abide no wicked man my favourite shall be The secret sland'rer I will quite cashier Nor will permit proud men to domineer Mine eyes shall note the faithfull of the Land my house and house-Communion to enjoy And he that walketh after God's command shall be my servant whom I will employ My house shall harbour none that craft conspire Nor will I suffer in my fight a Lyar. I will destroy the wicked of the Land and take a care to cut them off betimes And I will cleanse my Kingdom out of hand of persons that commit notorious crimes Chiefly Jerusalem God's City pure Shall soon be purg'd of every evil doer HYMN 479. Appearing of Hope or Sion'â— Reparation Psalm 102.13 THOU wilt arise in mercy yet and Grace to Sion send Because the time for favour set is now come to an end verse 14 For even in the stones thereof thy servants take delight Her very dust is cause enough of favour in their sight verse 15 And then the Heathen far and near shall fear thy holy Name And all the kings on Earth shall fear thy Glory and thy fame verse 16 Whenas the Lord shall once repair poor Sion's broken wall His Glory then shall shine so fair it shall appear to all verse 17 He will regard the destitute and not despise their prayer He will regard their humble suit with tender love and care verse 18 This shall be found in holy writ for ages that succeed The people not created yet shall praise him for this deed verse 19 O let the God of Israel then be prais'd with one accord Henceforth for evermore Amen Amen praise ye the Lord. HYMN 480. Stability of the Church All People c. Psalm 102.25 OF old O Lord thou hast laid forth The strong foundations of the earth The Heavens o're our head that stand Are all the works of thine own hand 26. And they shall perish to be sure But thou O Lord shalt still endure And all these Orbs which we behold Like to a Garment shall wax old And as a Vesture old and worn Thou shalt invest them with new form And from their former state estrang'd Shalt change them and they shall be chang'd 27. But thou O God art still the same Though Heaven and Earth do change their Frame And lo Thy years shall have no end Though all things to corruption tend 28. And Lord thy faithfull servants seed Shall still remain as 't is decreed And fixt before thee they shall stay When Heaven and Earth shall pass away Psal. 72.19 Let Israel's God be blest therefore From first to last for evermore And let the whole Earth ring agen With his renown Amen Amen HYMN 481. Applause of God's Mercies All People c. Or O Lord Consider c. 1. METRE Psal. 103. O Praise the Lord O praise his Name my soul and all that in me is verse 2 My soul do thou set forth his fame and mind those benefits of his verse 3 Who all thy trespasses forgave who cur'd thy grief and clos'd thy wound verse 4 Thy life that saved from the Grave and thee with loving kindness crown'd verse 5 Thy mouth with good things he doth fill and Eagle-like he makes thee young
METRE Give Laud c. Psal. 104.31 THE Glory of the Lord for ever shall abide And in his works well stor'd Jehovah shall be joy'd his looks provoke The Earth to quake his touch doth make the mountains smoke I 'll sing unto the Lord whilst breath prolongs my days And whilst I am record my God in Songs of praise each thought shall add Sweet joy to me and Lord in thee I will be glad Let sinners be consum'd out of the Earth therefore And wicked men be doom'd to have no being more but O record God's praise alway my soul and say praise ye the Lord. The End of the Fifth Century The Sixth Century OF PSALM-HYMNS HYMN 501. Deliverance celebrated 1. METRE For the Fifth of November Psal. 105.1 2 3. GIVE thanks to God call on his Name his deeds to men make known Sing Psalms to him and O proclaim his wonders every one Glory in God with cheerfull voice his holy Name record And let the very heart rejoyce of them that seek the Lord. 4 5 6 7. O seek the Lord his strength intreat for ever seek his face Remember well his wonders great perform'd in every place O ye his servants Abraham's seed by your spiritual birth The Lord our God he is indeed his Judgments fill the Earth Psalm 44.7 Psalm 57.6 Psalm 106.48 He sav'd our Land from th' Enemies hand and puts our foes to shame They digg'd a pit and fell in it themselves must bear the blame But Israel's God we must applaud at all times evermore Ye people then say all Amen praise ye the Lord therefore HYMN 502. 2. METRE Argument All Israel's Seed and Holy Race Are charg'd to seek God's Holy Face For Works and Judgments shew'd in every place All People c. Psalm 105. verse 1 GIVE thanks to God call on his Name his mighty deeds to men make known verse 2 O sing his praise his works proclaim and shew his wonders every one verse 3 Let hearts rejoyce that seek his face boast in his holy Name always verse 4 Seek seek the Lord his strength and grace O seek him ever all your days verse 5 Remember with religious care the wondrous works that he hath done His Miracles and Judgments rare which from his holy mouth have come verse 6 O ye his servants Abraham's seed his chosen Jacob's Sons by birth verse 7 He is the Lord our God indeed his Judgments are in all the Earth HYMN 503. 2. PART Argument Canaan the type of Heaven promised His people through strong Kingdoms safely led A Princely people chiefly honoured verse 8 HIS Covenant he call'd to mind for evermore to stand full fast The faithfull word which he design'd a thousand ages to outlast verse 9 Which Covenant he with Abraham drew and next to faithfull Isaac swore verse 10 And for a Law confirm'd it new to Jacob as to them before An everlasting Covenant firmly with Israelâ—s â—s seed to stand verse 11 Saying to you I freely grant All Canaans rich and fruitfull Land. An Heritage allotted you verse 12 when but a few the people were The number was but very few and they were also strangers there verse 13 When from one Nation they were sent and to another pass'd along From one t' another Government verse 14 he suffer'd none to do them wrong But Kings for their sakes he controll'd verse 15 and said let no presumptuous Arm Touch mine Anointed nor be bold to do my Prophets any harm HYMN 504. 3. PART Argument Joseph reserv'd for many Lands relief In time of famine he 's preferr'd in chief Psal. 105. verse 16 MOreover then th' Almighty spake that Famine should the Land o'respread A dreadfull Dearth thereby to make and wholly break the staff of Bread. verse 17 But Joseph he had sent before whom for a slave his Brethren sold verse 18 Whose feet with fetters they made sore they lodg'd him in the irons cold verse 19 Untill his words accomplishment the man was try'd by God's decree verse 20 The King the peoples Ruler sent to loose him and to set him free verse 21 He made him Lord of 's Family and Ruler of his Royal wealth verse 22 To teach his Senate policy and bind his Peers as pleas'd himself HYMN 505. 4. PART Argument Israel in Aegypt harbour'd then oppres'd Moses sent in and plagues their Land infest verse 23 THEN Israel into Egypt came and Jacob's houshold there found place To sojourn in the Land of Ham verse 24 and there they multiply'd apace He made them stronger than their foes verse 25 and of their foes to be abhorr'd And subtilly they dealt with those the faithfull servants of the Lord. verse 26 He sent his servant Moses then and Aaron his own chosen man verse 27 They shew'd his signs among those men and wonders in the Land of Ham. verse 28 A darkness he among them sent and it was dark that none could see These were not disobedient unto the word of his decree HYMN 506. 5. PART Argument The plague of bloud of flies of lice of hail And Caterpillars Aegypt's Land assail verse 29 HE turn'd their waters into bloud and slew their fish in ponds and springs verse 30 Their Land brought Frogs a monstrous brood filling the Chambers of their Kings verse 31 Strange flies and lice by his command in all their Coasts there did remain verse 32 He gave them Hail in all their Land and flames of fire for showers of rain verse 33 He smote their vines and their figtrees their trees in field and wilderness verse 24 He spake and Locusts swarm'd like Bees and Caterpillars numberless verse 35 Upon the Lands Green Herbs they fed and did their dainty fruits devour verse 36 All Aegypts first-born he smote dead the chief of all their strength and power HYMN 507. 6. PART Argument Israel departs from Aegypt Land And with an high and mighty hand verse 37 HE brought them forth without controll both hir'd with Gold and Silver bribes And there was not a feeble soul among the Israelitish Tribes verse 38 Full glad was Egypt when they went their terrour did so sore affright verse 39 He spread a Cloud a sheltering Tent and fire to light them all the night verse 40 The people asked to be fed he brought them Quails to eat their fill And satisfy'd them with the bread which he from Heaven did distill verse 41 He opened the rock of stone and thence the waters gushed out The desarts dry were over-flown as if a River ran about verse 42 For he on 's holy promise thought and on his Servant Abraham verse 43 His chosen people thence he brought with joy and gladness every man. verse 44 The Heathens labours and their Lands upon his people he bestow'd To keep his Laws and his commands O spread his praises all abroad HYMN 508. Felicity of the Church pray'd for 1. METRE All People c. A Short Collect. Psalm 106. v. 4. REmember me with favour Lord such as thou bearest to thine
sex to Devil-Deities verse 38 And innocent bloud they shed which their own Children bled Daughter nor Son blind zeal could shun for them they offered To Idols made of wood they offered and made good The barbarous rites of Canaanites and stain'd the Land with bloud Psalm 106. 12. PART Argument The vile misdeeds of Israel he records For which their Enemies must rule as Lords verse 39 THUS they themselves did stain with their own works profane And basely bent a whoring went with their inventions vain verse 40 The wrath of God therefore against them kindled sore So that the Lord his own abhorr'd such blame the heritage bore verse 41 He left them in the hands and under the commands Of Heathen men whose hatred then they felt in forrein Lands verse 42 Their Enemies also oppress'd and brought them low His people were subjected there under a forreign foe Psalm 106. 13. PART Argument The â—ries of Israel in their great distress Move God to pity and to great redress verse 43 HE spar'd them many times though mov'd by their designs And were brought low they vext him so with their abhorred crimes verse 44 But never a whit the less he pityed their distress And gave regard whenas he heard their cry in bitterness verse 45 Then Covenant-thoughts took place for those of Abraham's Race Made him repent their punishment of his abundant Grace verse 46 He made the Enemy to use them favourably Even all those men that carried them into captivity Psalm 106. 14. ult PART Argument A prayer for Captives and redemption free That God may have the praise and none but he verse 47 SAVE us O Lord our God and gather us from abroad From Tyrants hands in forreign Lands where we have had abode To give thy holy Name great thanks with laud and fame And with great joy triumphantly thy praises to proclaim verse 48 Let Israel's God most high be prais'd perpetually And people then say all Amen his Name to magnify HYMN 509. Free favours to Captives 1. PART All People c. Psal. 107.1 2. EXtoll the goodness of our God whose mercies know no period Let God's redeemed ones say so whom he redeemed from the foe 3. And gathered them out of the Lands From all their Cruel Enemies hands From East and West from North and South O that his praise fill'd every mouth 8. O that all people would record The gratious goodness of the Lord Declaring both with tongue and pen His wonders done for sons of men Psalm 106.48 Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore From first to last for evermore And let the Church with one accord Resound Amen praise ye the Lord. 2. PART Free favours to Colonies or Planters Psalm 107.4 THE praise of God let those express That wander'd in the wilderness In solitary desart Ground Where they no dwelling City found 5 6. Hungry and thirsty by constraint Their very souls did in them faint Then cry'd they in their bitter grief To God who sent them sweet relief 7 8. He led them forth by ways direct Fit Habitations to select O that men prais'd God's goodness then And wonders done for sons of men 3. PART Free favours to distressed ones Psalm 107.9.10 THE longing foul God satiates still His goodness hungry souls doth fill Such as in darkness scarce draw breath All covered with the shade of death 11. Such as by his afflicting hand Are bound as with an iron band For they rebell'd against the Lord And scorn'd the counsels of his word 12. Therefore did he bring down their heart With labour and they felt the smart Yea they fell down with loading pain And none could lift them up again 13 15. Then to the Lord they made address And he releas'd them from distress O that men prais'd God's goodness then And wonders done for Sons of men Psal. 106.48 Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore From first to last for evermore And let the Church with one accord Resound Amen and praise the Lord. 4. PART Free favours to Prisoners Psalm 107.16 OFten hath God broke Gates of Brass To let the wofull prisoner pass And often hath he cut in two The iron bars to let them through 14 15. He brought them out of Dungeons deep Whom shades of death did fold and keep He brake their bands asunder quite O that men praisâ—d him to the height O that all people would record The gratious goodness of the Lord Expressing both with tongue and pen His wonders done for sons of men 5. PART Free favours to sick-men Psalm 107.17 FULL oft are foolish men surpriz'd With sicknesses and sore chastis'd So high do their transgressions rise So foul are their iniquities 18 19. Their souls abhor all kinds of food The Gates of death do them include Then cry they to the Lord in grief And soon he sends them sweet relief 20 21. He sends his word to heal and save And keep them from the gaping Grave O that men prais'd God's goodness then And wonders done for sons of men verse 22 And let them sacrifice always The Sacrifices of his praise And with rejoycing tell abroad The wonders of Almighty God. 6. PART Free favours to such as go to Sea. Psalm 107.23 24. THEY that go down to Sea in Ships And are employ'd upon the deeps These see the work of God most plain His wonders on the watry main 25 26. For storms arise at his command And make the waves on tiptoes stand They mount to Heaven then down they go Making mens souls to melt for wo. 25 28. They reel and stagger Drunkard-like And are as men whom terrour strike Then in their grief to God they cry Who brings them out of misery 29 30. He makes the storm a calm of peace So that the raging waters cease Then are they glad the storm blown o're When Landed at the wished shore 31. O now that men would praise the Lord His goodness that they would record Declaring both with tongue and pen His wonders to the sons of men Psalm 106.48 Let them exalt his Name likewise In Congregated Companies And in th' assembled Elders seat His praises let them now repeat 7. PART Fruits of the Earth perish or prosper as men behave themselves to Godward Psalm 107.33 SOmetimes doth God for sins excess Turn Rivers to a Wilderness And where fresh waters did abound He turns it to a barren Ground 34. A delectable fruitfull Land He turns to heath and heaps of sand And so he punisheth the sin Of wicked men that dwell therein 35 36. And then again he turns and brings The Wilderness to Water-springs And there he makes the hungry dwell Cities and Towns to furnish well 37 38. To sow their fields and Vine-yards plant To yield increase and feel no want He blesseth them they greatly thrive And keep their Cattel all alive 15. O then that people would record The loving kindness of the Lord And praise him both with tongue and pen For wonders done for sons of men
8. PART God's several dealings with good and bad men to be regarded Psalm 107.39 40. AGain they minish and grow less Through grief oppression and distress He pours on great ones great contempt From Dens and Desarts not exempt 41 42. Yet sets the poor upon a rock And makes his family like a flock The just shall joy to see the sight And it shall silence envy quite 43. Whoso is wise and will observe The things that so much heed deserve Shall understand and well record The loving kindness of the Lord. Psalm 106.48 Let Israel's God be blest therefore From first to last for evermore And let all faithfull people then Say cheerfully Amen Amen HYMN 510. Gratulations to God and supplications for the Church Have mercy c. Psalm 108.1 2. MY heart O God most high is fixed stedfastly Now will I raise my voice in praise with songs of melody My Glory now awake thy Harp and Psaltery take And I likewise will early rise sweet melody to make 3 4. I 'll praise thee with my Songs amidst the thickest throngs That every Land may understand what praise to thee belongs Because thy mercy great doth reach the Heaven's high seat Thy truth O Lord which we record is to the Clouds compleat 5. Then Lord exalt thy fame above the Heavens frame And O set forth o're all the Earth thy Glory and thy fame 2. PART Have mercy c. Psalm 108.8 11 12. THAT thy belov'd may be delivered and set free Lord save our Land by thy right hand and kindly answer me For wilt not thou again lead out our martial train Thy help afford in trouble Lord for man's help is but vain 13. Psalm 106.48 With God's assistance crown'd we shall do acts renown'd The power is his and he it is that shall our foes confound To Israel's God most high be praise perpetually Ye people then say all Amen the Lord to magnifie HYMN 511. Greatness of Christ's Kingdom 1. METRE Psalm 110. THE Lord unto my Lord thus said here at my right hand sit Untill thine enemies be made a foot-stool for thy feet verse 2 The Lord shall out of Sion bring the Scepter of thy power Rule thou amidst thy foes O King in that successfull hour verse 3 The people at first call shall come submitting to thy Grace As drops of dew from mornings womb in beauties holy place verse 4 He sware that never Oath will break thou art ordain'd O Christ By order of Melchizedeck an everlasting Priest. verse 5 in th' day of his fierce anger then the Lord at thy right hand Shall strike through Kings and wound chief men in many a Heathen-Land verse 6 Filling the places where he struck with bodies of the dead verse 7 And in the way drink of the Brook and so lift up the head HYMN 511. Greatness of Christ's Kingdom expressed and explained 2. METRE Psalm 110. THE Lord unto my Lord thus said sit thou at my right hand Till I thy foes a stool have made whereon thy feet shall stand The Lord shall out of Sion bring the Scepter of his might Amidst thy foes be thou the King and ruler in their sight The people shall come willingly submitting to thy truth Yielding a fruitfull progeny of Converts in thy youth Thy beautious spouse shall bring to thee to fill the sacred room As fruitfull births as dews can be that drops from mornings womb This word God sware and will not break thou art the sacred one A Priest like to Melchisedech whose lineage was not known The Lord that is at thy right hand for thy support and stay Shall strike through Kings that dare withstand in his most wrathfull day Among the Heathen he shall judge and all the places fill With limbs of men that bare thee grudge whom thou shalt slay and kill And as the war with fury spreads to multiply the slain He shall proceed and wound the heads o're many Lands that reign Then shall he drink that bitter cup the torrent in the way Therefore shall he the head lift up at 's Resurrection day The God of Israel therefore be praised altogether From first to last for evermore Amen Amen for ever HYMN 512. Priesthood and power of Christ. 3. METRE THE Lord unto my Lord thus said here at my right hand sit Until thine Enemies be made a foot-stool for thy feet verse 2 The Lord shall out of Sion bring the Scepter of thy power Rule thou amidst thy foes O King in that successfull hour verse 3 The people at first call shall come submitting to thy Grace As drops of dew from mornings womb in beauties holy place verse 4 He sware that never Oath will break thou art ordain'd O Christ By order of Melchisedeck an everlasting Priest. verse 5 In th' day of his fierce anger then the Lord at thy right-hand Shall strike through Kings and wound chief men in many a Heathen Land. verse 6 Filling the places where he struck with bodies of the dead verse 7 And in the way drink of the brook and so lift up the head HYMN 513. Great works of God celebrated 1. METRE Psalm 111. PRaise ye the Lord whom I record and praise with all my might In meetings where the just appear and in the Churches sight verse 2 The works of God must all applaud so great they still have been Sought out of all in general that take delight therein verse 3 His works renown'd with honour crown'd a glorious work therefore His righteousness renown'd no less indures for evermore verse 4 His wonders he hath made to be retain'd in thankfull mind The Lord is known a gracious one compassionate and kind verse 5 He giveth meat for them to eat that fear his holy Name He will record his faithfull word still to perform the same verse 6 He shew'd his might in Israel's sight and did his power ingage That he might so on them bestow the Heathens Heritage verse 7 The works he doth are full of truth his Laws are just and sure verse 8 They all stand fast and ever last accomplish'd true and pure verse 9 Redemption is sent down to his by him who did proclaim His Covenant sure so very pure and reverend is his Name Psalm 106.48 verse 10 God's fear and dread is fountain-head of Wisedom in our ways They want no skill that do his will perpetual is his praise Let all proclaim the blessed Name of Israel's God therefore From first to last till time be past Amen for evermore HYMN 514. Great works of God for his Church 2. METRE All People c. Psalm 111. PRaise ye the Lord I for my part Will praise the Lord with all my heart In the Assembly of th' upright And in the Congregations sight God's works are great and as 't is meet Sought out of all that find them sweet His work is glorious and renown'd His righteousness for ever crown'd His works of wonder he hath wrought To be for ever in our thought The Lord 's a
not lack Tremble O Earth and quake for fear When God in presence doth appear The mighty God Of Jacob's Race Who made the Rock a standing pool And fiery Flint a Fountain cool For Israel in the Desart place HYMN 522. Idols derided Psalm 115.1 2. LORD not to us Lord not to us do thou the Glory take Yea for thy truth we praise thee thus and for thy mercies sake Why then O Lord endurest thou the Heathen thus to say Where is your God O Israel now where is he now say they 3 4. But our God be it known to you he is in Heaven on high And what it pleaseth him to do he doth continually The Idol Gods of Heathen Lands are Silver Brass and Gold They are the work of work-mens hands and such as men did mold 5 6. They have indeed both mouths and eyes such take them as they be But blind and speechless Deities and neither speak nor see Ears have they for the greater grace yet hear not what we tell And they have Noses on their Face but want the sense to smell 7 8. On either side they have a hand and yet they handle not And they have feet whereon they stand but never stir a jot Their hollow throats no breath goes through their makers like them are The truster's like the trusted to the work-man like the ware HYMN 523. Liberty of the Gospel 1. METRE Have mercy c. Psalm 117. PRaise God ye Nations all let all the praise be his For great to us and marvellous his loving kindness is The Gospel-truth of God endures for evermore In time to call the Nations all praise ye the Lord therefore HYMN 524. Liberty and latitude of the Gospel 2. METRE To the New Tune PRaise God all Nations and all Lands Great mercy have we at his hands His praise record His truth is sure still to endure Praise ye the Lord. HYMN 525. Liberty and latitude of the Gospel 3. METRE The mighty God c. Psalm 117. YE Nations all O praise the Lord above O praise him all ye people here below For great towards us is his tender love and greatly ratifi'd let all men know The Gospel truth of God endures for ever Praise ye the Lord and praise him altogether HYMN 526. Life of Religion Psalm 119. 1. PART O Blessed are the innocent and perfect in the way Who from the Lord's Commandement do Never go astray 2. Blessed are they that care to keep his Testaments entire And such as for the Lord do seek with all their hearts desire 3 4. They practice no iniquity but in God's ways they go And we must serve thee diligently for thou hast charg'd us so 5 6. O that my ways were made direct and to thy Statutes fram'd Which when I generally respect I shall not be asham'd With upright heart I 'll give thee praise and keep thy Laws aright When I have learn'd thy righteous ways O do not leave me quite 2. METRE Psalm 119.1 All People c. BLessed O blessed are the pure that never from God's Laws depart That keep his Testimonies sure and seek him with a perfect heart They also do no wickedness but keep his Laws and never swerve So strict a precept thou dost press that we with care thy Laws observe O that my ways were made direct and to thy Statutes rightly fram'd Which when I wholly do respect doubtless I shall not be asham'd With upright heart I 'll give thee praise when I have learn'd thy judgments right And I will surely keep thy ways O do not Lord forsake me quite The Corruption of youth bridled 2. PART Psalm 119. v. 9 to 16. HOW may a young man cleanse his way and curb the lusts of youth If that he mark what thou dost say and keep the word of truth Lord I have sought thee all my days with heart unfeign'd and free Let me not wander from thy ways through ignorance in me I hid thy word within my heart that I might not transgress A blessed one O Lord thou art thy laws to me express The righteous Judgments of thy mouth My lips have spoke with pleasure Rejoycing more to keep thy truth than get the greatest treasure And I will study of thy Name and thereof frame my talk As at a mark so will I aim thy ways how I may walk And my delight upon thy Laws shall be so surely set That I will not for any cause thy holy word forget The Devotion of pious Pilgrims Psalm 119. from v. 17 to 24. 3. PART DEAL largely with thy Servant Lord That I may live and keep thy word Open mine eyes that I may see What wonders in thy Laws there be I am a stranger here below Hide not the Laws which I should know My soul doth break with longing sore After thy Statutes evermore Thou hast rebuk'd the proud that durst Err from thy Laws and are accurst Remove from me reproach and shame For I have walkt as free from blame Princes that sat condemnâ—d my cause Yet did thy Servant mind thy Laws Thy Testaments are my delight And Counsellors to set me right The dull and drooping Saints quickened Psalm 119. from v. 25 to 32. 4. PART MY Spirit cleaveth to the dust Lord quicken me as thou art just I have declar'd my ways to thee And thou hast hearkened unto me Teach me thy Statutes I thee pray And let me know thy Precepts way So my discourse shall wholly tend Thy works and wonders to commend My heart doth melt for very grief Lord for thy Word-sake send relief The way of lies from me withdraw And grant me gratiously thy Law. Lord I have chosen prudently The way of truth and verity I laid thy judgments in my sight That I might always do aright Thy Testaments I stuck unto Lord shame me not for what I do I 'll run the way thou giv'st in charge When as thou shalt my heart enlarge 5. PART 1. METRE The faithfulness of Saints to the end Psalm 119. v. 33 to 40. LORD teach me in thy Statutes way and I shall keep it to the end O give me knowledge that I may with all my heart thy Law attend Yea I shall keep and keep them sure make me therefore to go aright In paths of thy Commandments pure for therein onely I delight Incline my heart unto thy Law and not to avarice I pray From vain delights mine eyes withdraw and quicken me in thy good way Thy promise to thy Servant prove who is devoted to thy fear My fear'd reproach from me remove for Lord thy judgments are sincere Lord I have long'd with earnestness thy blessed Laws to know and do Vouchsafe then in thy righteousness to move and quicken me thereto 5. PART 2. METRE Life of Religion in practice Psalm 119. v. 33 34. TEach me O Lord the way whereto thy Statutes tend So shall I never stray but keep it to the end Give me to understand and then shall I endeavour To act by thy
mak'st me wise yea wiser Lord than they that are my foes For still with me thy precepts be whence wisedom flows I have attain'd more skill than all my teachers have By studying on thy will and more than men more grave I understand Because I do keep close unto thy strict command My feet I have refrain'd from every evil way That I might keep unstain'd the word which thou dost say I have not gone From thy decrees for thou by these hast led me on Thy Words how sweet they are how sweet unto my taste Yea sweeter Lord by far than honey for repast thy precepts praise It Is that I get skill and fly from all false ways Psalm 119. v. 105 to 112. 14. PART The pure Lamp of the word THY word 's a Lamp unto my feet A light to guide my paths most meet that I may never go astray And I have made a solemn Oath And to perform it am not loath that I will keep thy righteous way I am afflicted very sore Now quicken me O Lord therefore according to thy promise free The free-will Offerings which I mov'd I pray thee Lord let â—e approv'd and teach thy judgments unto me My soul is ever in my hand My life doth in such danger stand yet do I not forget thy Law The wicked laid a snare for me And yet I erred not from thee Nor from thy precepts did withdraw Thy Testimonies I have stor'd My heritage for ever Lord for all my hearts delight they be I have inclin'd my heart therefore To keep thy Statutes evermore untill I die and come to thee Psalm 119. v. 113 to 120. 15. PART The renouncing of ill courses and companions I Hate vain thoughts but love thy Law thou art my hiding place O Lord My shield when dangers near me draw and I have hoped in thy word Ye evil doers from me depart your company my course withstands For I am purpos'd in my heart to serve my God as he commands Uphold me Lord that I may live and Lord perform thy promise claim'd That of the hope which thou dost give I may at no time be asham'd Uphold me for if thou protect I shall be very safe thereby And I will have a due respect unto thy Laws continually Thou hast in anger under-trod all those that from thy Statutes stray For all their subtle shifts O God is but a foul deceiving way For all the wicked of the Earth as basest dross thou turnest by Therefore as things of greatest worth I love thy precepts wondrously Yet when I find what judgments fall my flesh doth quake for fear of thee Whose dreadfull hand so acts them all as makes me sore afraid to see Psalm 119. v. 121 to 128. 16. PART Supplication for deliverance and direction I Do what equity commands O leave me not to Tyrants hands that would oppress me out of spight Be surety for thy servants good Let proud oppressors be withstood and let them not o'rethrow my right Mine eyes for thy salvation fail I wait to see thy word prevail that rghteous word of thy decree Deal with thy Servant I intreat According to thy mercy great and all thy Statutes teach to me I am thy Servant give me skill That I may understand thy will. and may thy Testimonies know And now it is a needfull time For thee O Lord to work for thine for all thy Laws they overthrow Therefore do I thy Statutes love Above bright Gold yea far above The Gold that goes at greatest rate Therefore I count all thy decrees In all things right and none but these and all false ways I truly hate Psalm 119. v. 127 to 136. 17. PART The true Zeal and Charity of Christians THY Testimonies are most rare Therefore my souls delight they are The entrance of thy word gives light And makes the simple know aright I gaspt and panted very much My longing for thy Laws was such Look on me Lord and let me claim Thy Grace as one that loves thy Name Order my steps in thy good way And let no sin in me bear sway From mans oppression set me free So shall I keep to thy decree Thy face let on thy servant shine And teach to me thy Laws divine Rivers of tears run down mine eyes Because thy Statutes they despise Psal. 119. v. 137 to 144. 18. PART The true zeal and purity of Christians RIghteous art thou O Lord thy judgments are upright The precepts of thy word to which thou dost excite so earnestly Are most express for righteousness and equity My zeal Lord after those made me consume and pine Because my wicked foes forgot those words of thine but O most pure Is thy sweet word thy servant Lord loves it therefore And though I am but small and of as small regard Yet mind I most of all thy words which I have heard for ever doth Thy righteous word remain O Lord thy Law 's the truth And though adversity in very deep degree And great perplexity have taken hold on me yet in this plight My comfort stands in thy commands there 's my delight The righteousness O Lord Of thy Decrees Divine Doth stand on sure record and never can decline to me O give Compleater skill to do thy will and I shall live Psal. 119. v. 145 to 152. 19. PART The unwearied seeking of God. WITH earnest voice I cry and call Lord hear the words which I let fall for I will keep thy Statutes all O save me Lord I cry'd to thee Thy Testimonies then shall be most faithfully observ'd by me I did prevent the dawning day I' th morning I did cry and pray I made thy word my hope and stay Mine eyes prevent the watches late That I might freely contemplate and on thy word might meditate According as thy judgments be And after thy compassions free Lord hear my voice and quicken me Lo they draw nigh and near me press That follow after wickedness but from thy laws they far digress But thou O Lord art very nigh And thy commandments generally are perfect truth and equity Concerning thy decrees behold I knew O Lord I knew of old that thou hast founded them to hold Psalm 119. v. 153 to 160. 20. PART The unworthiness of the wicked counterpoised THINK how I am beset and Lord deliver me For I do not forget the word ordain'd by thee plead for me Lord And set me free and quicken me by thy good word Thy saving health is far from all ungodly men For what thy Statutes are is not sought out by them thy mercies kind Are great O Lord O let thy word cheer up my mind Many O Lord are those for they are not a few That are my utter foes and do my soul pursue with ill intents Yet do not I decline from thy Commandements Transgressors of thy laws I saw and seeing wept For I was griev'd thy word they have not kept consider Lord The love sincere which I do bear unto thy word Lord quicken me
place excelling HYMN 531. Meekness of Captives Psalm 123. 1. METRE O Thou that dwell'st above the skies I lift mine eyes to thee verse 2 Behold as servants bend their eyes the Masters hands to see As hand-maids on their Mistresses so do our eyes attend Untill the Lord our God shall please his succouring Grace to send verse 3 Thy mercy Lord to us apply and pity our sad case For we are fill'd exceedingly with hatred and disgrace verse 4 Exceeding great contempt and scorn our souls do now abide Of such as have lift up the horn with pamper'd ease and pride HYMN 532. Meekness and mourning of Captives 2. METRE To the new Tune O Thou that dwell'st above the spheres To thee thy humble servant rears A meek and mournfull eye Behold as servants mark the hands Of Masters under whose commands They serve submissively And as a Maidens eyes erect Upon her mistress with respect Compassion crave and love So on our God our eyes do wait Till he shall us commiserate With favour from above Have mercy on us O good Lord Have mercy on us here abhorr'd And under miseries bow'd Our soul is fill'd even while they please With insolence of men at ease And scorning of the proud HYMN 533. Miracles of Mercy or the snare broken Have mercy c. Psalm 124. 1. METRE HAD not the Lord this day now Israel may say Had it not been that God came in to be our strength and stay verse 2 Had not our God so good on our side firmly stood When cruel foes against us rose like some impetuous floud verse 3 They had let none survive but swallowed up alive When in such heat of fury great they did against us strive verse 4 Then then without controll the waters that did roll With boisterous waves had been our graves and gone quite o're our soul. verse 5 Blessed be God alway that gave us not a prey Into their teeth to be therewith devoured that same day verse 6 Our souls escaped fair as from the fowlers snare When broke in two the bird gets through so we escaped are Our help we now proclaim to be in that great Name Of God the Lord whose powerfull word did Earth and Heaven frame HYMN 534. Miracles of Mercy or the snare broken To the proper Tune Psalm 124. 2. METRE NOW may we say of Israel's Heritage Had not the Lord himself been on our side Had not the Lord himself oppos'd their pride When wicked men against us did ingage They had devour'd us quick in their fierce rage Like foaming flouds our foes incensed thus Had overwhelm'd our Souls without controul Then the proud waters had gone o're our soul Blessed be God that hath not given us To be a prey for cruel teeth to crush Our soul 's escaped just as doth a bird Just as a bird out of the fowlers snare The snare is broke and we delivered are Our help is in the Name of God the Lord Who made both Earth and Heaven by his Word HYMN 535. Mount Sion's sure standing Psalm 125. 1. METRE WHoever on the Lord rely like Sion Mount are sure To stand with all stability and ever to endure verse 2 Environ'd as Jerusalem is with mountains huge and high So doth the Lord environ his henceforth perpetually verse 3 God will not leave the sinners rod on just mens lot to rest Lest righteous men should fall from God when overmuch opprest verse 4 Do good O Lord to all good men and graciously impart Thy love and favour unto them that are upright in heart But wicked men that turn aside perverseness to encrease To share with sinners God shall guide but Israel shall have peace HYMN 536. Mount Sion's sure standing Give Laud c. Psalm 125. 2. METRE ALL they that do confide and trust in God above So firmly shall abide that nothing can remove their station sure But stedfast still like Sion hill they shall endure And as high mountains do enclose Jerusalem So have God's people too a safeguard sheltring them they have therefore The God of Heaven henceforth and even for evermore Because the righteous God will not permit too long The sinners scourge and rod to do the righteous wrong lest it should force Most righteous men to follow then some wicked course Do good Lord to the good and to the pure in heart But those that to their lewd and sinfull ways depart God casts to hell With evil doers but peace assures to Israel HYMN 537. Mourning turn'd to rejoycing for Israel's deliverance from Babylon Psalm 126. 1. METRE WHEN from his sad captivity the Lord did Sion bring Like to a dream it seem'd to be but prov'd a real thing Our mouth and tongue were sweetly fill'd with joy and laughter then verse 2 And such like speeches past along among the Heathen men Great things the Lord hath done for them great things we do confess verse 3 Great things to glad Jerusalem and stir up thankfulness verse 4 Lord perfect our deliverance and make a full return As flowing streams do change the soil which parching heat did burn verse 5 They that iâ— dearth and time of tears their seed do sadly sow The crops of Corn with full grown ears shall gladly reap and mow verse 6 Though carrying forth his costly seed it made the seeds-man mourn He shall no doubt bring whom his sheaves and make a glad return HYMN 538. Mourning turn'd to rejoycing or the dream made real Give laud c. Psalm 126. 2. METRE WHEN God had turn'd the stream of our Captivity We were like them that dream affected doubtfully but when it prov'd Our mouths and tongues with joyfull songs were sweetly mov'd Thus also did they say among the Gentiles then The Lord hath done this day great things for those poor men yea God hath done Great things for us which ravish us to think upon Turn our Captivity as Rivers in the South Which help the Desarts dry against the parching drouth who sows in tears Through scarcity shall reap in joy their full grown ears He that goes weeping out and bears forth precious seed Returns with joy no doubt and happily shall speed for he receives A pledge to come well laden home and brings his sheaves HYMN 539. Nativities blessed or Blessings of the Womb. 1. METRE Psalm 127. UNless the Lord the house do build vain pains the builder takes Unless the Lord the City shield in vain the watchman wakes verse 2 'T is all in vain to watch and wait and eat of sorrows bread While God's belov'd in their estate sleep quietly in bed verse 3 A fruitfull womb and children sweet God onely can bestow verse 4 Which are in youth as Arrows fleet shot from a Giants Bow. verse 5 The quiver herewithall repleat imports a happy state Such shall not be affraid to treat with enemies in the Gate HYMN 540. Nativities blessed or Blessings of the Womb. All People c. Psalm 127. 2. METRE UNless the Lord the house sustain
The builders labour but in vain In vain the watch abstain from sleep Unless the Lord the City keep In vain ye rise before the light And break the slumbers of the night In vain ye eat the bread of care While God's belov'd the labour spare Lo Children are an heritage That come from God and grow to age As formidable to the foe As Arrows from a Giants Bow. Happy is he and most renown'd Whose quivers with such shafts abound It shall not shame him to debate With adversaries in the gate HYMN 541. Olive Branches Psalm 128. 1. METRE BLessed are all that fear the Lord and walk in his good ways verse 2 For thou shalt of thy labours eat with comfort all thy daies verse 3 Like fruitfull Vine on thy house side thy loving Wife shall be Thy Children round about thy board as plants of Olive-tree verse 4 Lo thus the man that fears the Lord is blessed in his ways verse 5 The Lord shall send from Sion-hill to bless thee all thy days The welfare of Jerusalem to thy mature decease verse 6 And Childrens Children thou shalt see with Israel's stablish'd peace HYMN 542. Olive Branches Ye Children c. Psalm 128. 2. METRE BLessed O blessed on record Is every one that fears the Lord and walketh in his perfect way For thou shalt have in store to eat Of goods well got by thine own sweat O happy happy thou I say Like to a Vine with fruitfull boughs On thy house side such is thy spouse with goodly branches springing out Thy daughters and thy sons shall be Like to the plants of Olive-tree decking thy Table round about Behold that thus above the rest Shall such a man be surely blest who fears the Lord unfeignedly The Lord shall plenteously distill His blessings out of Sion-hill that thou may'st be enrich'd thereby Yea all the days that thou dost live This blessing God to thee shall give to see Jerusalem do well And Childrens Children thou shalt see Of thine own loyns that spring from thee and likewise peace on Israel HYMN 543. Onsets upon Israel or the Plowers defeated Psalm 129. 1. METRE EVEN from my tender infancy many a time have they verse 2 Afflicted me from infancy may Israel now say Many a time have they set on with all their spight and power Yet have they fail'd and not prevail'd against me to this hour verse 3 The Plowers plow'd upon my back long furrows did they make verse 4 The righteous Lord hath cut their cord Yea all their cords he brake verse 5 And let them be confounded all turn'd back in their design And put to flight that Sion spight and bear ill will to thine verse 6 Let them be made like to the Corn upon the houses top Which gets no height but withers straight before it comes to crop verse 7 Which neveâ— fills the Reapers hand nor his that comes â—ehind To pluck and pull a bosome full for sheaves and bands to bind Concerning which the passengers no benediction frame Nor never say along the Way we bless you in God's Name HYMN 544. Onsets upon Israel or the Plowers defeated Give laud c. Psalm 129. 2. METRE FULL often of a truth and many a time have they Distrest me from my youth may Israel now say even from the first Yet could they not effect their plot and do their worst They plow'd upon my back as plow-shares tear the Ground Long furrows did they make and many a grievous Wound with wicked hands Just is the Lord who cut their cord and brake their bands And Lord confound them all and bring it so to pass That Sion's foes may fall and all may be as Grass on houses top Which withers straight before the height of growing up Which never hath the hap to fill the mowers hand Nor lies in binders lap so much as makes a band nor passengers Along the Way do never say God-speed you sirs HYMN 545. Pardoning mercies Psal. 130. 1. METRE 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O Lord to thee I make my moan in these my depths of Grief I call I cry I sigh and groan trusting to find relief verse 2 Hear then O Lord hear my request thy gracious ear incline And let it fully be possest with these desires of mine verse 3 O Lord if thou shouldst strictly weigh the sins that we have doneâ— Who should escape or who could say that he could answer one verse 4 But thou O Lord art rather bent to tenderness and Grace That we might have encouragement to fear before thy face verse 5 Therefore my soul with patience doth wait upon thy Will And on thy Word with confidence my hope is fixed still verse 6 My soul with longing appetite doth wait on God alway More eager than the Watch for light the Watch for break of day verse 7 Let Israel boldly trust upon the Lords's free grace and love And plentifull redemption that comes from God above verse 8 Who from the more abundant store of Grace which he supplies shall blot out all the heavy score of our iniquities HYMN 546. Pardoning mercies implored Psalm 130. 2. METRE OUT of the Depths I cry'd to thee Lord let my voice be heard And let thine ears attentive be unto my suits preferr'd Such are our sins that none could stand If thou shouldst mark the same But there 's forgiveness at thy hand that men may fear thy Name I wait on God and on his Word my soul doth wait and stay I wait more earnest for the Lord than Watchmen for the day I say more earnestly than those that watch for morning light Let Israel thus on God repose whose mercy 's infinite Redemption in most plentious wise with him is found to be And from all his iniquities he shall set Israel free O render thanks to our great God the God of Heaven therefore Whose mercies know no period but last for evermore HYMN 547. Pardoning mercies plentifull All People c. Or O Lord Consider c. Out of Psalm 130. 3. METRE OUT of the deeps I cry'd to thee Lord hear the prayer that I have prest And let thine ears attentive be unto the voice of my request For if thou mark iniquities Lord who may stand before thine eyes But there 's forgiveness Lord with thee That sweetly feared thou may'st be I wait for God my soul doth stay his word I hope in day and night My soul waits for the Lord I say more than the Watch-men for the light Let Israel hope in God therefore For with the Lord is mercy store Plentious Redemption he brings in To save all Israel from his sin HYMN 548. 4. METRE Argument The depths of mercy give relief Vnto the utmost depths of Grief Psalm 130. FROM the depths of troubled mind Lord to thee I cryed And to thee O Lord most kind were my prayers applyed Lord vouchsafe to hear my cry in commiseration Bow thine ear attentively to my supplication If thou mark iniquity who Lord should be cleared
But forgiveness is with thee that thou may'st be feared I am waiting for the Lord yea my soul attendeth And on his most holy Word all my hopes dependeth My soul waits for God I say more than men for morning More than Watch-men for the day for the days returning Hope thou Israel in the Lord with an apprehension How with him is richly stor'd mercy and redemption And he shall his Church redeem from their vast offences Though they do past pardon seem and cry loud against us O give thanks to God therefore for the Lord is gracious And his mercies evermore kindly do embrace us HYMN 549. Pride mortified Psalm 131. 1. METRE NO haughty heart O Lord have I in great affairs to deal verse 1 Nor do mine eyes look loftily to thee I dare appeal I have not sought nor entertain'd the things for me too high verse 2 But as a child an infant wean'd so meek and mild am I. The weaned childs behaviour my soul hath altogether verse 3 Thus Israel in his saviour must hope henceforth for ever HYMN 550. Pride to be mortified A Praxis for the proper Tune of the old 50. Psalm The mighty God c. Psalm 131. 2. METRE NOT self-high-pris'd but meek and mild am I Not exercis'd in things too great and high But as a Child wean'd from his mothers breast So am I mild and set my heart at rest And in this way must Israel endeavour To trust and stay on God henceforth for ever HYMN 551. Promotion of the Church and State. Psalm 132.8 9. ARise O God into thy rest and settle us now at length As when thy Ark did once invest the Temple of thy strength O let thy Priests perpetually with righteousness be clad And make thy Saints to shout for joy and be exceeding glad 13 14 16. Because the Lord hath Sion chose desiring there to dwell This is for ever my repose I love and like it well My saving health shall cloath throughout his Priests perpetually And I will make her Saints to shout and shout aloud for joy 15.17 And I will in abundance spread provisions for her store And I will satisfie with bread the numbers of her poor There will I make the horn to bud of David on his Throne I have ordain'd a lamp so good for mine anointed one 18. As for his enemies that combine I 'll cloath them all with shame But on himself his Crown shall shine and flourish with his fame HYMN 552. Promotion of Vnity Psalm 133. 1. METRE verse 1 BEhold how sweet it is to see how happy a thing to find When Brethren live in amity and unity of mind verse 2 It 's like the precious unction which was pour'd out and spread Upon the Priestly function on Aaron's honour'd head It wet not onely head and hair but on his beard ran down And wet the garments which he ware and border of his gown As dew distill'd upon the tops of Hermon's fragrant hill Or Sion with his silver drops the fields with fruits doth fill So plentiously the blessing flows commanded from above With everlasting life on those that live in peace and love HYMN 553. 2. METRE Argument Vnity and Christian Love Bring great blessings from above Have mercy c. Psalm 133. BEhold how good a thing and pleasant 't is to find That Brethren where cohabiting firm unity should bind 'T is like the Oyntment shed and by command conferr'd On Holy Aaron's Priestly head which wet both head and beard And did from thence distill his Garment skirt to wet 'T is like the lovely Hermon hill with drops of dew beset Like Sion's silver showers descending on the dales For there the Lord the blessing powers of life that never fails HYMN 554. Promotion of Vnity The mighty God c. Psalm 133. 3. METRE BEhold how good how sweet it is to see when Brethren by the laws of love are led Dwelling together all in unity 't is like the Oyntment that perfum'd the head The head and beard of Aarons Priestly Order And wet his Garments to the skirt and border It 's like the fruitfull showers of morning dew that did upon the Hill of Hermon fall Or that which doth descend in drops not few on Sion Mountain fruitfullest of all For there the Lord commands the happy blessing Of life so sweet and endless in possessing HYMN 555. Protection out of Sion or the Levites Blessing Psalm 134. 1. METRE BEhold bless ye the Lord O ye his servants all That in his house by night keep guard according to your call Lift up your humble hands within his holy place And bless the Lord as he commands and humbly beg his grace The Lord shall ye say stiâ—â— that made both Heaven and Earth Accomplish thee from Sion-hill with blessings thence powr'd forth HYMN 556. Protection out of Sion or the Levites Blessing A Praxis for the proper Tune of the 124 Psal. Now Israel c. Psalm 134. 2. METRE LO ye his servants praise the Lord most high Ye that by night within his Temple stand There bless the Lord and us with raised hand The Lord say ye that made both Earth and Sky Out of his Temple bless thee bounteously HYMN 557. Providences to Israel God's peculiar treasure Ye Children c. Psalm 135.1 to 5. PRaise ye the Lord and spread his fame O ye his servants still proclaim the praises of his holy Name Ye that do stand within his gate And at the Sacred Altar wait of our great God his praise relate Praise ye the Lord for good he is Sing praises to that Name of his for a most pleasant work it is For God hath chosen and foreknown Jacob and Israel as his own for his peculiar wealth alone 5 6 7 8. For that the Lord is great I know And infinitely doth outgo all gods and great ones high and low For whatsoever doth him please In heaven in earth in deeps in seas he acts in all in each of these Vapours he draws from earths far ends Lightnings for Rain from Clouds he rends and Winds out of his treasury sends Who smote all Egypts first increast The first of Man the first of Beast all from the greatest to the least 9 10 11 12. Wonders and Sines send forth did he O Egypt in the midst of thee on Pharaoh and his Family Who did the mighty Nations smite And slew the Kings of potent might as Sion that strong Amorite And Og who sate on Bashan Throne He also slew nor him alone but Canaans Kingdoms every one And to his People gave their Land He gave it into Israels hand an heritage at their command HYMN 558. Pureness of God's Worship and derision of Idols Ye Children c. Psalm 135 13. to 17. 2. PART THY Name O Lord shall never die And thy memorial O most high endures to all posterity For God to Judgment will awake His peoples cause to undertake repenting for his servants sake The Heathens Idol-Gods behold They are of
righteous men affect The bowed down he doth erect Opening likewise the blind mans eyes and strangers doth the Lord protect The Lord relieves the fatherless and helps the Widow in distress But in his Wrath the sinners path the Lord doth utterly suppress The Lord shall reign continually thy God O Sion rules on high And so he shall to ages all his Name do ye still magnifie HYMN 579. 7. METRE Argument Creation-works demands our praise And all the Churches all our days Three Children c. Psalm 136. verse 1 GIVE thanks to God ye Saints of his for good he is For his mercies sure for ever do endure verse 2 Unto the God of Gods give praise his honour raise For his mercies c. verse 3 Give thanks to God the Sovereign Lord with one accord For his mercies c. verse 4 To him that doth such wondrous deeds whose fame exceeds For his mercies c. verse 5 To him whose wisedom skilfully made Heaven on high For his mercies c. verse 6 To him that set the solid Ground the Seas to bound For his mercies c. HYMN 580. 8. METRE Argument Creation works and wonders wrought of old Require thanksgiving great and manifold Psalm 136. verse 7 Praise him that made by power Divine great lights to shine For his mercies c. verse 8 The Sun that hath the brightest ray to rule the Day For his mercies c. verse 9 The moon and stars of lesser light to rule the night For his mercies c. verse 10 That smote all Egypt's first increase of man and beast For his mercies c. verse 11 And brought out Israel from among the barbarous throng For his mercies c. verse 12 With his strong Arm and stretcht-out hand of high command For his mercies c. HYMN 581. 9. METRE Argument God's greatness and his goodness past our search Are celebrated by his faithfull Church Psalm 136. verse 1 O Render thanks to our great God for he is good For his mercies c. verse 2 The God of gods give thanks unto as ye should do For his mercies c. verse 3 Unto the Lord of lords confess with thankfulness For his mercies c. verse 13 To him that parted the Red Sea for Israel's way For his mercies c. verse 14 And Israel through the midst of it he did transmit For his mercies c. verse 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host on that Sea Coast. For his mercies c. verse 16 That led his people past the bounds of desart Grounds For his mercies c. HYMN 582. 10. METRE Argument God's wondrous works of judgments wrought of old Require thanksgiving great and manifold Psalm 136. verse 17 PRaise him that wrought such wondrous things Who smote great Kings For his mercies c. verse 18 And famous Kings and not a few he overthrew For his mercies c. verse 19 King Sion that strong Amorite his power did smite For his mercies c. verse 20 And Og the King of Bashan too he overthrew For his mercies c. verse 21 And gave their Land an heritage to th' after age For his mercies c. verse 23 Who thought on us in low estate and desolate For his mercies c. verse 24 And hath redeemed us from those that were our foes For his mercies c. verse 25 Who giveth food for to refresh all mortal flesh For his mercies c. verse 26 All thanks and praise be therefore given to th' God of Heaven For his mercies c. HYMN 583. Variety of mercies magnified Psalm 147. 1. METRE PRaise ye the Lord sing to the Lord for very good it is Pleasant and comely to record and praise that Name of his The Lord builds up Jerusalem his repossessed throne And Israel's outcasts all of them he gathereth into one 3 4 5. The wounds of every broken heart he heals with gentle hand He numbers all the Stars apart and names them as they stand Great is our Lord of Israel and of great power and might His understanding doth excell for it is infinite 6. The Lord lifts up the meek on high But doth the proud confound And casts the wicked scornfully down to the very ground 1. METRE 2. PART Ver. 7 8. SING to the Lord with thanksgiving sing praise with one accord Upon the solemn Harp O sing unto our God the Lord. Who makes thick Clouds o'respread the Skie to feed the Earth with rain And Grass to grow on Mountains high as on the fertile plain 9 10. He giveth to the beast his food with plentifull supply And feeds the Ravens callow brood when hunger makes them cry God takes no joy in any horse nor in a Champions limb Nor can their courage strength or force delight or pleasure him 11. But lo the Lord doth take delight in them that fear his Name And in his mercies infinite their confidence proclaim HYMN 584. Variety of mercies magnified 1. METRE 3. PART Psalm 147.12 13 14. O Praise the Lord Jerusalem thy God O Sion praise For lo thy gates and bars of them he very strongly staies Thy Children in thee he hath blest thy peace he makes full great And fills thee with the very best and finest of the Wheat 15 16. He sends out his commandement on all the Earth so vast No sooner can his word be sent but runs exceeding fast He giveth snow like gentle wool and scatters all abroad His hoary frost most plentifull like ashes that are strow'd 4. PART 1. METRE 17 18. THE Lord casts out his Icy hail like morsels to behold And who can stand and shall not quail to feel his pinching cold He sendeth out his word and lo it melteth them again He causeth then his winds to blow and waters flow amain 19 20. God shews his word to Jacob's house that they may know it well His Laws and judgments righteous he shews to Israel He hath not dealt so large a lot to any Land beside As for his Laws they know them not the Lord be magnifi'd HYMN 585. Variety of Providences praised 2. METRE Give laud c. Psalm 147.1 GIVE laud unto the Lord it is a pleasant thing His praises to record and his sweet songs to sing who on a rock His Church erects and recollects his scatter'd flock He heals the heart contrite and binds up all their wounds He tells the Stars of light whose number so abounds and he can call Each shining flame of them by name he knows them all Great is this God of ours yea most exceeding great His power above all powers and hath the sovereign seat and as his might So likewise his pure wisedom is most infinite The Lord lifts up the meek the wicked throws to ground Praise him with songs most sweet and harps harmonious sound the Heav'ns he fills With Clouds for showers makes Grass and flowers to grow on hills The beasts and ravens young he feedeth when they call In horse or Champion strong he joyeth
not at all but God above Delights in them that fear his Name and trust in 's love HYMN 586. Variety of Providences praised 2. PART 2. METRE Psal. 147.12 O Salem praise the Lord praise him O Sion-hill Who hath thy Gates well barr'd and doth thy Cities fill thy peace full great He makes to be and filleth thee with flower of wheat Through th' Earth his mandats go his word most swiftly flies Like wool he giveth snow his frost as ashes lies his Ice is roll'd As morsels and O who can stand before his cold He speaks and straight it thaws he breaths and water flows To Israel his Laws and to none else he shows as for his word No heathen land doth understand praise ye the Lord. HYMN 587. 3. METRE Argument Praise suits with Saints for God his Grace imparts To Israel's outcasts and to broken hearts He tells the Stars his power and skill abounds He cheers the meek and lewd men he confounds Psalm 147. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord for it is good his praises to forth-tell And to sing praises to our God for it becomes us well verse 2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem's Walls to bring his people thither And Israel's outcasts he recalls and gathers them together verse 3 He heals the broken in their heart where sense of sin abounds And taking pity of their smart binds up their bleeding wounds verse 4 He tells the number of the Stars and calls them all by Name Superiour of Superiours must we our God proclaim verse 5 So very great is God indeed So great in power and might His understanding doth exceed for it is infinite verse 6 The Lord doth save poor humble souls whom sharp afflictions wound But all the wicked he controlls and casts them to the Ground HYMN 588. 3. METRE Argument He praiseth God who gives to all their food But he takes pleasure onely in the good 2. PART verse 7 SING to the Lord with thankfulness and spread his praise abroad With solemn harp his praise express and sing unto our God. Who covers Heaven with Clouds of Rain t' inrich the Earth below And on the hills as on the plain he makes the Grass to grow verse 9 Both beasts and birds he kindly feeds young Ravens cry to him verse 10 He takes no joy in strength of steeds nor in a strong mans limb verse 11 But lo the Lord's delight and joy is ever in the just In them that fear him faithfully and in his mercy trust HYMN 589. 3. METRE Argument He praiseth God that sendeth peace And plenty in the fields increase 3. PART Psalm 147. verse 12 O Praise and magnifie the Lord O Salem praise him still The praises of thy God record O Sion's sacred hill verse 13 For he hath strengthened the bars which to thy Gates pertain And blesseth the inhabiters within thee that remain verse 14 He makes abundant peace to be within thy borders spread And plenteously he filleth thee with finest of the bread verse 15 He sendeth out on Earth below his word which runneth swift Like locks of wool he sends the snow that also is his gift HYMN 590. 3. METRE Argument God sends the Seasons from above In token of his tender love But the chief Glory's Israel's In freedom of God's Oracles 4. PART verse 16 THE hoary frost he spreads about as ashes on each side His Ice as morsels he casts out his cold who can abide He sendeth out his word in course and melts the Ice and snow He makes his wind to blow with force and then the waters flow He shews his word to Jacob's Land and shews it for this cause That Israel may understand his judgments and his laws The tokens of such tender love no heathens can record His judgments they know nothing of wherefore praise ye the Lord. HYMN 591. Vniversal thanksgiving or Benedicite c. 1. METRE Psalm 148. PRaise ye the Lord praise ye the Lord from Heavens lofty frame Him from on high O magnifie all Angels praise his Name O all his hosts his praise record O praise him moon and sun Ye stars of light that shine so bright the like of you be done Ye Heav'ns of Heav'ns that are so high praise him with one consent And water ye on high that be above the firmament O let them praise and magnifie the Lord's Almighty Name For lo they were created there when his commandment came He likewise did contrive it so to stablish them for ever So firm Decree ordained he that pass it they shall never Praise ye the Lord from Earth below ye Dragons and each deep Fire Vapour Snow Hall-storms that blow his word that firmly keep All Mountains high and fruitfull trees All hills and Cedars tall Ye Fowl with wings and creeping things ye Beasts and Cattel all Kings Princes People all degrees ye Judges praise his Name Young men and Maids Children and Babes and old men do the same The Lord 's great Name still praised be for that alone excells And far more high than Earth or Sky his glittering Glory dwells The praise of all his Saints is he and he the horn doth raise Of Israel's Sons his dearest ones O give the Lord his praise HYMN 592. Vniversal thanksgiving or Benedicite c. 2. METRE To the proper Tune Psalm 148. GIVE Laud unto the Lord from the Celestial Coasts All ye his praise record his Angels and his hosts him glorifie Sun Moon and Stars ye higher Spheres and cloudy Skie O let them praise his Name since made by his command Who stablish'd all the frame perpetually to stand He also made A firm decree which needs must be by them obey'd Praise God from Earth below ye Dragons and ye deeps Fire hail clouds wind and snow whom in command he keeps hills low and high Trees all that grow Beasts swift or slow fowl all that fly Kings and the vulgar throng Princes and Judges all Ye men and maidens young old men and Children small praise ye his Name Whose Name alone as th' onely one excells in fame Whose Glory bright doth blaze above the Earth and Sky Of all his Saints the praise he sets their horn on high Even their 's that spring Of Israels race much in his grace his praises sing HYMN 593. Works of grace to the Church Psalm 149.1 PRaise ye the Lord sing to the Lord a new-composed Song His memorable praise record where all his Saints do throng verse 2 Let joyfull Israel shout and sing in their Creatour's Name Let Sion's Children in their King triumphant joys proclaim verse 3 In dances let them praise his Name the Harp before him bring And joyn the Timbrel to the same with these his praises sing verse 4 For lo the Lord exceedingly in Israel doth delight The humble he will beautifie with robes of saving might verse 5 In glory let the Saints be joy'd sing loud upon their bed And their Religious mouths imploy'd verse 6 the Lord 's high praise to spread And with a
charge you by the chief of powers That ye a constant silence keep Nor till he call disturb his sleep Chorus Who 's this whose feet the hills ascend From desarts leaning on his friend The Church I my belov'd first rais'd when he Lay under the Pome-citron tree Thy carefull mother in that shade With anguish her fair belly lay'd Be I oh thou my better part A Seal imprest upon thy heart Let me thy fingers Signet prove For death is not more strong than love The Grave not so insatiate As jealousies inflame debate Should falling clouds with flouds conspire Their waters could not quench loves fire Nor all in Natures treasury The freedom of affection buy We have a sister immature Who hath no breasts as yet obscure What ornaments shall we bestow When mortals her endowments know Christ. On her if strongly built to bear We will a silver Pallace rear Or if a door to deck the same We 'll leaves of carved silver frame The Church I am a firm foundation For my belov'd to build upon My breasts are towers I his delight His object and sole favourite Christ. Late at Bal-hamon Solomon Let forth his Vine-yards every one For fruits and wine there yearly made A thousand silver pieces paid The Church This Vine-yard thus which I possess With diligence I daily dress Thou Solomon shalt have thy due Two hundred more remain for you Out of the surplus of our gains Who in our Vine-yard took such pains Christ. O thou that in the Garden liv'st And life-infusing counsel giv'st To those that in thy song rejoyce To me address thy cheerfull voice The Church Come my belov'd O come away Love is impatient of delay Run like a youthfull Hart or Roe On hills where pretious spices grow A CATALOGUE OF VERTUOUS WOMEN Recorded in the Old and New Testament 1 Cor. 7.16 What knowest thou O Wife whether thou shalt save thy Husband Or how knowest thou O Man whether thou shalt save thy Wife The Second Edition with Additions LONDON Printed for William Cooper at the Pelican in Little Britain 1688. To the Right Honourable the Lady FRANCES Countess of Rutland Right Honourable and Renowned Lady THE favourable acceptation which this small Present found with you incouraged me to communicate it to other vertuous Ladies and Gentlewomen who were very desirous of a Copy of it which desires growing ample and importunate made me weary of writing and willing though not ambitious to impart it to the Press partly to commemorate the honourable acceptation and partly to congratulate and gratifie the respects it found Moreover by much perusal I perceived that I had left out many memorable Persons of high account in Holy Scriptures and that some that were put in had too scant a Character wherefore to make all compleat and to leave a living Monument of those Resplendent Vertues that are recorded of the Female Sex which will undoubtedly excite good Women to Godly imitation I have presumed to make this Paper publick for the honour of that Sex which God hath so highly honoured as the most acute Aretius observes upon the pious Womens coming first to the Sepulchre of our Saviour Luke 24.1 Totum hoc ad gloriam Muliebris Sexus pertinere That it did all belong to the Glory of the Female Sex and learned Polanus saith on the same occasion Syntag. Theol. Christ. Page 419. at the letter C. Column 1. Resurrectio Christi primum ab Angelo annunciata est mulieribus quia voluit Deus sic ornare pietatem illarum quarum Zelus pro Gloria Christi fervidior erat quà m Virorum The Resurrection of Christ saith he was first told by the Angel to the Women because their zeal for the glory of Christ was hotter than the Mens Considering therefore that it cannot be condemned for flattery for none can inherit such glory but they that imitate them nor can it provoke envy or disdain which is so clear a record of the Holy Scriptures neither doth it derogate from the Man but dignifie him For as he is her head so she is his glory 1 Cor. 11.3.7 And a Vertuous Woman is a Crown to her Husband Prov. 12.4 I humbly crave your Honours allowance and acceptation of the Publication in your Name And so with supplications for your Honours long health and happiness I rest Your Honours duly devoted and most humble Servant William Barton To the Right Honourable the Lady FRANCES Countess of Rutland An EPIGRAM Presented on the Feast Day of our Blessed Saviour's Nativity Anno Dom. 1669. 'T IS a famous Character Which I oft have heard of Herâ— Corresponding to the Fame Of her Noble Father's Name Thus Religion understood Often runneth in a Bloud And for multitude we find Most what of the Woman-kind This is still the true Renown Vertue which puts envy down So the Sacred Book defines All the Ancient Heroines A CATALOGUE OF VERTUOUS WOMEN c. Gen. 3.26 Vers. 15. EVE the Mother of all Living Who was sav'd by God's forgiving When she first embrac'd the Creed Of the precious promis'd Seed Gen. 3.15 Deeply doubtless she resented Her transgression and repented Had her share in Godly grief If therein she was not chief Ibidem Neither did she so far grieve But as truly did believe In the Saviour promised Who should break the Serpents head Gen. 4.2 Vers. 25 26. She brought forth the Proto-Martyr And good Seth that follow'd after In the daies of which good man Publick worship first began Gen. 4.25 And of whom she prophecy'd This said she did God provide In the room of Abel slain By the cruel hand of Cain Ibidem Thus was Eve in primest place Mother of the Godly Race And a Pattern doth appear Of them all that follow here 1 Pet. 3.6 Gen. 17.15 Sarah that obey'd the word Of her Dear and call'd him Lord Though her own Name mounts so high And a like doth signifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Lady or Princess Gen. 22.20 c. Milcah mightily renown'd Springing forth as fruitfull Ground Mother of Bethuel saith the text Father of her that follows next Gen. 27.26 Vers. 12. Good Rebeccah griev'd to death With the Heathenish Dames of Heth Wishing him the Pristaâ—ly place That was principal in â—erâ—ce Mat. 2.18 Gen. 35.19 Jer. 31.15 Beauteous Rachel whose sad cross Lack of Children seem'd as loss For as loss it was resented And as mournfully lamented See Diod. on Mat. 2.16 c. Jer. 31.15 Thus by Faith she prophecy'd Of the Bethlehem babes that dy'd Mothers tears and Childrens bloud See Postsc Made a lamentable Floud Note 1st Gen. 30.22 Ch. 41.28.36 Ch. 47.25 Yet at length her Prayers obtain'd Such a Seed as rul'd and reign'd Aegypt's Foster Father Who did large provisions gather 1 Sam. 10.21.24 Gen. 48.16 Ch. 49.22 Benjamin from whom did spring Israel's first exalted King And from Joseph soon ensu'd Ephraim's populous multitude Exod. 6.20 ch 2.2 c. 1.21 Next is to be
Ejaculations at Evening or Bedtime 212 Zealous applause of Christian Conquests 30 Zealous invective against Hypocrisie 31 FINIS The Three Last Centuries OF SELECT HYMNS Collected out of the Psalms of DAVID By William Barton A. M. late Minister of St. Martins in Leicester Col. 3.16 Teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs c. St. Chrysost. Vol. 3. Hom. 3. The Holy Ghost descends not to our throngs At Sacraments alone but at our Songs LONDON Printed by J. Heptinstall for William Cooper at the Pelican in Little Britain 1688. To the Right Worshipfull the Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs of the Honourable City of Coventry And To the Right Worshipfull Sir Richard Hopkins Knight Steward of the said City And To the Right Worshipfull the Mayor Recorder and Aldermen of the Corporation of Leicester And To the Right Worshipfull the Mayor Recorder and Aldermen of the Corporation of Northampton Right Worshipfull MY Birth Breeding and Abode in your respective Corporations together with your kind encouragements and costs bestowed upon these long Labours of Psalm and Hymn-Translations after my own excessive Charge and Detriments have made me excusably ambitious to Dedicate unto your Worships these Three ensuing Centuries accommodated with some variety of Tunes and Metres hoping to leave these as a living and lasting Monument of my respect and gratitude and of your Christian Love and Liberality Having also finished the Psalm-Book it self with like variety of Metres to most of the shorter Psalms and to some of the longer sort The aim and end of all is to revive increase and promote Godliness which is profitable to all things and hath the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 In hopes therefore of some good issue of these Labours and in humble apprecation of the flourishing Felicity of the Corporations to which I stand ingaged I rest and subscribe my self Your Worships much obliged and devoted humble Servant William Barton THE EPISTLE TO THE READER Courteous Reader I Find no clear distinction in Scripture between Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs Psalm 18 and 45. and Fifteen more beginning at the 120. are called Songs Psalm 92. is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Psalm or Song for the Sabbath day Psalm 145. is intituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 David's Hymn or Psalm of Praise And from this saith learned Schindler the Title of the whole Book seems to be taken for it is intituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Book of Hymns or Praises Quod major Psalmorum pars Dei Laudes contineat Because the greater part of the Psalms consist of the Praises of God And of such Psalms the major part of these Centuries is Composed As for the parts and parcels of Psalms conducing to this Composure I find an Example in the Holy Scriptur◠1 Chr. 16. where from the 7th ver to the 36th are sundry parts and parcels of the 105.96.106 and 136 Psalms collected into a Psalm or Hymn upon which consideration I take more liberty to pick and chuse places and put in parallel Scripture as it serves the purpose Now for the great variety and plenty of them in these Centuries set out I have great variety of reasons to plead 1. Because I know nothing so much excepted against in my Edition of the Psalms 1654. as that the variety of Metres was very much omitted neither did the Impression go off in five times the space that the former did 2. Because many of these Psalms are done more elaborately than those of the former Edition till they were corrected and compleated and printed Anno 1682. with Aliters to my mind as they are now finished 3. Because I may gratifie the Reader with examples to accommodate the choicer old Tunes whereof I have omitted none that I know and have put in more frequent examples for these two delicate and expeditious Tunes of the Old 50th and the 124th As in the 320th and 322d and in the 338th and 341st Hymns of the Fourth Century you may see Examples 4. Because I might take liberty in some Hymns to Paraphrase for the Exposition of some hard passages for instance it is said Psalm 139.21 Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee c which I think to be clearly interpreted in Hymn 565. and more largely varied Psalm 139. of the last Edition thereof printed Anno 1682. The latter end of the 51st Psalm I found very dark for when he had said Thou desirest not sacrifice c. Thou delightest not in burnt offering c. He saith presently Then shalt thou be pleased with burnt offering and whole burnt offering and Bullocks which I think to be clearly interpreted in the 4.7 and 8. Metres of the 51st Psalm A passage in the 72. Psalm vers 17. I counted choicely done and keeping the Allusion which the Hebrew seems to hint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nomen ejus filiabitur saith Montanus His name shall be continued among the posterities saith the Old Translation Yet I thought it needfull to put it plainer by an Aliter as you may find it The 8th Psalm was hardest of all to me to be explained carrying a construction of Christ our Saviour as the Apostle saith Heb. 2.6 Which Psalm shewing the glory of man in his Creation intimates mans re-investing in his Dominion by Redemption I have annexed the Intepretation in a different Character 5. Because these Centuries were formerly put forth against my will by an imperfect Copy and in great disorder An. 1668. I have put them into a handsome method passing by no Psalm of common use but have in whole or in part inserted it and have put the whole Psalms together in double Metres and in some more 6. Finally I have endeavoured to doe the Work so well as that whosoever approves of the Psalm Book as it is now compleated Anno 1682. may not think these Hymns unnecessary or unworthy for Printing to precede or follow them I might have annexed Scripture-Proofs to that famous Hymn Te Deum harping upon Scripture all along but having done that already in the Chapter-Hymns wherein those that are well acquainted may readily find the most noted Sentences of Holy Scripture as by a Concordance I let these go for a demonstration how much the old Version needs amendment and how near the Verse-Translation may come unto the Prose I aimed principally in all this pains to promote Godliness I much affected that Noble Sentence put out by the famous Dr. Cudworth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be Godly O my Son for Godly men Do Christianize it with the best of them And sure there is nothing more effectual to breed Godliness than Holy Scripture nothing will preach Scripture to us or print Scripture in our minds more than Scripture-Hymns Wherefore I conclude all with that precept of the Apostle Col. 3.16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisedom teaching and admonishing one another