to haue been made upon occasion of the second expedition which Saul made against David at the first instigation of the Ziphites at which time Dauid flying from the Desert of Ziph to that of Maon was in a plain there between the mountains enclosed by Saul But by reason of a sodain message that the Philistims did invade the land Saul left foloing of Dauid who so escaped HIGH Iudge of world cast doun thy rightÄ•ous eys Attentive hear while right for iustice humbly crys Not causeles fear nor sleight of faining lips Or needles douts prezents or plot disguisÄ•d uprips Iust grief appeals and sentence from thy face Of thee craves due redress thou then iust plea embrace THOU oft my soule yea oft in night didst vieu When thoughts in silent rest prezent appearance true And oft my hart with firi storms hast seen Dissolv'd and trial made what dross therein hath been Nought counterfeit no palliate thing hast found What secret mynd dooth think that mouth dooth truly sound All as my woords so deeds towărd men doo frame Thy sacred woord my rule the viÅlent wrongers blame I see and shun O still my feet contain In rightÄ•ous paths stil hands from acts not iust restrain THEE Lord I call for sure thou wilt me hear Ah then receive the plaint which faithful soule dooth rear Divide thy acts display thy mercies free Thou Saviour of thy Saints from those who them and thee With wicked hate attempt as light of ey Me fenced under Lord thy shadÅing wing let fly There let me rest there safe from impious crue My deadli foes protect who circling rage renue My strength to wast my life to earth to bring Engrosd with fat and proud out thundring threats doo ring AS Lion fierce with ireful hunger whet Flings out his prey to seek which ioious having met Stands foming rage or else as Lions whelp Who coucheth close in cave his strength with sleight to help Nor bold nor yet afraid so Lord my foes Now round with ramping troops our ways and walks enclose Prezenting death and now with spiteful ey Doun-cast dissembling leer advantage to espy THEN Lord arize and with encounter swift Affront their savage looks and bloud since is their drift Midst wicked troops that bloud may bloud repay To save us by thy hand with swoord mowe doun thy way SO Lord from men my grieving soule enfree From men of baser world who here we beast-like see In fading life their portion all possess And panches vile their God from thy rich storehouse bless Like sire like son same coorse their ofspring runs Ful gorge themselues what 's left that to their infants comes BVT I by faith in rightÄ•ous life shal vieu Thy gracious face And when thy powÄ•r shal death subdue Awakened Lord eternal glorious sight Of semblance thyn me like shal fill with pure delight PSALM 19. The Almighti Lord beeing made knowne to the World by his glorious woorks amongst which the Sun for beauti and power is eminent and moreover beeing attained to by menes of his Law and gracious Woord the vertues and happi effects whereof are mani and memorable DAVID praieth as wel for remission of secret as for preseruation from presumptuous transgressions of that diuine Law that so secured from final defection himself and his deuotions may be accepted of God his Redeemer THE heăvens declare the glori ' of God that worlds great arch foorth-tels His handi woork we are himself who thousand heăvens excels Both day to day resounds these woords and night to night inures This knowelege high which vieuing ey to muzing mynd assures No speach no language under sky which hath not heard their voice Their woords through earth to ends of world run rulÄ•d with glorious noise HE here the Sun in bour hath placÄ•d the Sun like bridegrome brave Who coming foorth like Giant stout to run his race dooth crave His course from utmost end of heăven he takes and round amain By mighti compas to ' utmost end of heăven returns again His glistÄ•ring rays all guild the world no less his quicning heat What earth what air what sea containth cheers up with comfort great GODS law is perfect soules to him restoring it betakes His testimoni ' is sure in woork and wise evÄ•n children makes Gods iustifyÄngs are sound and straight to raize the hart with ioy His mandates cleer from clouded eys to chase their dark annoy The fear of God is pure and keeps from dire corruption free His iudgements all as true and iust of heăvens adored bee More woorth desire then treasures huge of pearl and finest gold More sweet then sweetest food which Bee in curious cels dooth hold THEN Lord behold thy servant warn'd to keep thy law dezires Dezires thy law to keep which kept to high reward aspires Then thow inspire thy grace and Lord for who his falts can knowe To clenze my stains through sins unknowne thy gracious merci showe But strange presumptÅous sins keep off that those may never raign So from the great defecting sin I cleer shall ay remain And so my woords from humble lips my thoughts from thankful hart Thou shalt accept O Lord my strength redeemer myn that art TREBLE THe heăvens de clare the glori of God that worlds greatarch foorth tels His handi woork we are him self who thousand heăvens ex cels Both day to day re sounds these woords and night to night in ures This knowelege high which vieuing ey to muzing mynd as sures No speach no language under sky which hath not heard their voice Their woords through earth to ends of world run rulÄ•d with glorious noise BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 20. The praier of the faithful people of God for the safeti and victori of their King going foorth vnto war recorded by King DAVID himself IN day of troÅble ô woorthi king God cheer thee thence high valure spring And mighti name of Iacobs Lord Protect from stroke of hostile swoord That day from sacred throne to thee On Angels wings aid heăvenli flee And strength by prostrate Church implor̆ed From SÄonâ—… great Ark be fresh restorÄ•d THY praiÄ•r stil pierce his gracious ears As pious soule it humbly rears Thy gifts his eys benign receave And offrings burnt all cinders leave His light illustrate so thy face So favour his thy ways entrace That wish of hart that woork of brain Succesful end stil blest attain THVS wee enfreed from feard annoy For sâ—…feti thyn our deerest ioy All thankful shall Gods praises sing And glorious name to heavÄ•ns upring Yea when thy praiÄ•rs his powÄ•r performs And thee victorious ô returns We banners ensigns of his praise And trophes to ' his great name wil raize O FAITH assurÄ•d inspyrd from high Now knowe I God evÄ•n God drawth nigh Our King the Lords anointed deer Celestial sanctuări dooth hear There see I aid diuine decreed To save his persÅn in hours of need There Victori by Gods right hand By powÄ•r gainst which
no powÄ•r can stand SOME charrets make their strength and grace In horses som proud glori place Fond ioy false strength at thundring call Horse charrets men to ground doo fall We then to heăvens address our ey Where surer trust faiths eys descry A trust which whilÄ•st they doun are brought Our standing strength and triÅmph hath wrought Then hear vs Lord let heavÄ•ns great king Our king on earth home safely bring â—…ALM 21. King DAVID yieldeth solemn Thanks unto God at his return with Uictori over Gods enimies and farther foresheweth their utter extermination THE King Lord towărd thy glorious face Victorious eys dooth ioyful rear His strength thy spir̆it his health thy grace With doubled triÅmphs his soule dooth chear What hart could wish what lips did crave Thy bountÄ•ous hand him strangely gave YEA whÄ•ther his thoughts had nÄ•ver aspyr'd Thy blessing roial him prevents Of purest gold croun undesyr'd To humble head rich hand prezents Then lire he ask'd thou long to live Yea life eternal didst him give WHAT maiesti on earth can shine What woorship mortal man may grace What glori only not diuine Thy goodnes all on him dooth place That him all ages pattern rare Of matchles bliss shal ay declare THEN ioy his thankful hart hath fraught Which from thy face serene derives Which firm affiănce hath likewise wrought Which ioy again stil fresh revives For sith the King in th'HighÄ•st dooth trust Thou' rt safe ô King ô HighÄ•st thou' rt iust FOR as on thyn thy love is sign'd So powrful hand those monsters dire Which hate the sovÄ•rain good shal fynd And found confound in day of ire As firi furnace they shal fume Which kindled once dooth self consume WITH cursed sires corrupted seed From face of earth thou shalt destroy For spite gainst thee their brains doo breed Vain spite which woorks but self-annoy As mark their faces thou shalt lay On which thy winged shafts may play OTHOW who euerlasting reins Of world almighti Guid doost sway Advance thy strength and proud disdains Of miscrÄ•ants vyld great Lord repay So we thy powÄ•r shal sing and praize Which foes dooth quell thy servants raize TREBLE THe King Lord towărd thy glorious face Victorious eys dooth ioy-ful rear His strength thy spÄrit his health thy grace With doubled triumphs his soule dooth chear What hart could wish what lips did crave Thy bountÄ•ous hand him strangely gave MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR BASE LUTE PSALM 22. Our Saviours complaint vpon the Cross thanks giuing for deliuerance and propheci touching the great encrease and perpetuiti of his Church foretold by DAVID MY God my God why doost thou me forsake Why to my plaints thyn ear a stranger make By day I cry but thou far off art gone By night deer Lord but audience fynd I none YET Holi Lord thou same doost stil endure Thyn Israels ioy their song of praises pure Our Fathers Lord in thee did faithful trust On thee they hopÄ•d Thou to their hopes wert iust They cry'd and tears did not shour doun in vain Their crys thou heard'st and freedst them from their pain BVTI a worm not man but mans reproach Where abiects vyld their basest scornings broach What ey me vieuth same ey dooth me deride They wag proud heads false lips they wryth aside He trusts in God Let God from heăven above Make good this trust and now declare his love TRVETH Lord my hope from mothers brest thou wast Then hopes sure ground thy gracious promise past From mothers womb I rest bequeathd to thee Thence me receiv'dst my Saviour Lord to bee THEN saving Lord sith troÅble dooth press so neer Ah troÅble vntryd and no where help appear Be thow not far See Lord what buls are met Huge buls of Basan round haue me beset With gaping iaws much lion-like they play Which ramps to seaze and roars to rend his pray SEE vital iuice to watri stream distild My bones disioint my hart with anguish fild Like melting wax consumes as fire-burnt clay My spir̆its being dryd lifes vigours all decay Yea withÄ•ring tong to parched chops dooth cleve Thus me my Lord in dust of death doost leve FOR dogs have mee besiegÄ•d A savage rout Of vyld malfactors mee envir̆on about Hands Feet they 'ue pierc'd my bones may all be told Which gazing eyâ—… from flinted harts behold My robe vnript amongst them they divide And seamles cote by chancing lot decide BVT thow my Lord in weakest state my strength My hope in death look doun release at length From heavÄ•ns award my life from swoord discharge From powÄ•r of dog my desolate soule enlarge From lions mouth from unÄcorns horns with speed Now hearÄ•st ô save in soules extremest need THY glorious name I 'le preach to brethren deer And faithful Church in midst thy praise shal hear From thankful voice resound Ye sons of grace Who fear your Lord and thow great IsraÄ•ls race LovÄ•d Iacobs seed your revÄ•rend ioys enhance His praise through earth his name to heavÄ•ns advance FOR not with scorning mynd or loathing ey Th' afflicted wight he careles passed by Ne helpful face from rueful sight did hide But gracious ear to iust complaint applyd Then vows I 'le pay before them which thee fear And sacred praise assembli great shal hear THE spirits myld whom dews celestial bless Shal fruits of earth in plentÄ•ous rest possess Their gracious zele Gods glorious praise shal sing Your ended life shal life unending bring YEA natiÅns all which earth 's great globe doo fill EvÄ•n kindreds which hir bounds extremest till At length themselves remember shal and mourn Till whom they left to him again they turn To mighti king whose woord whole world dooth wield Thus worship due shal world united yield FOR him all states shal serve On earths great store The rich shal feed and heavÄ•ns great Lord adore And poorest wretch who doun in dust doth ly To him shal bow and dying death defy This course great ages run Their poster̆ous race In worlds cleer vieu his service shal embrace And so transmit that childrens children ay His iustice learn his sacred will obay PSALM 25. DAVID as it seemeth upon his last farewel and flight from the Coort of Saul understanding perhaps of the great levi of forces to persue him and entring in that distress of state as well into a revieu of sins of his coortli life past as into a forevieu of troubles which in this banishment he must endure wholy casteth himself upon the merci and favour of God Whom he praieth for Protection from his wrongful enimies for Remission of his sins and for Direction in the best coorse of life Withall he celebrateth Gods graciousnes toward his faithful servants and concludeth with a petition in behalf also of the people TO THEE his faithful soule thy servant Lord dooth rear My God my trust ô dain hir humblest suits to hear And let not black disgrace my lifes pure light obscure And frustrate hope proud foes insulting ioys alure Let none
who thee attend abasing shame depress Depress it those thy law who causeles ah transgress INLIGHTEN Lord my soule so with thy guiding grace That I thy trueth may fynd and found may firm embrace Revele thy paths divine ô thow my SaviÅur deer To thee perennal hope eternal love adhere THOSE gracioÅs mercies Lord which from thy goodnes spring And ay thy woorks orespred to myndful presence bring And from thy sight remoove the wyldnes of my youth The sins age more mature with sad remorse presÅeth O thow who goodnes art evÄ•n for that goodnes sake With merci mee behold so soules iust grief asslake MOST righteÅus gracious Lord He sinners shew'th his way To humble mynds myld spir̆its his iustice will display All trueth yea merci all his paths to them remain His witnest will who seek and covÄ•nant great maintain Then for thy gracious name propitiÅus mee behold My sin ah Lord how great in merci great upfold THRISE happi man whose hart Gods sacred fear endues For him shal grace direct to bliss right way to chooze And here his soule at ease midst blessings rich shal sit And goods wel got secure to childrens seed transmit These heavÄ•nli leaug partake yea misteries high conceald From worldli wits to them from heavÄ•n shal be reveald O THEN my waiting eys on God stil fixed bee For hee from snaring net my feet wil rightÄ•ous free Turn then at length thy face in bliss who sitst on high Since poor abandond wretch to onli thee dooth fly Ah Lord as wave dooth wave so wo dooth wo pursue As day dooth day fresh griefs so griefs forepast renue But thow my streits my pain my labours Lord respect And on my sins their cause ah merci Lord reflect BEHOLD my raging foes how thick their musters growe Whose poisÄ•ned gals uncausd with bittÄ•rest hate oreflowe But thow Preserver great my soule from force uniust My face from shame protect who livÄ•st my onli trust My onli trust and hope on safegard none I build Save what myn upright cause and goodnes thyn shal yield These then my gardiăns stand And thow benign with mee Thyn IsraÄ•l deer great Lord from pressures all enfree PSALM 32. DAVID here out of the sence of his owne experience teacheth that he is happi to whom God in merci imputeth not his sins which merci is obteined by seazonable confessing them must be continued by thankfully reforming our lifes which shall be accompanied with true ioy of spirit THE blessed man whom spring of boundles grace With mercies ey a Father-iudge dooth vieu Whose crimes and guilt with pardon free efface Foul stains orehele so pristin shape renue Yea thrice he blest whom who Creatour kynd All perfect framÄ•d declynd dooth not forsake Dooth not his sins impute and darkned mynd DischargÄ•d of guile to iustice dooth awake I WHILST my sin in silent brest conceald Benumbd asham'd at length with sicnes scurgÄ•d My bones consum'd and roars sharp grief reveald Which tiring pain my strength now tired urgÄ•d Thy grievous hand stil presd me day and night Nor Sun could cheer nor darknes rest prezent On faded face deaths name seemd palenes write So native iuice unnative heat had spent ADVIS'D I then to thee my sins confesd In vain conceald bade idle vail adieu I said Be now to God my falts expresd Who guilt from soule strait plague from corps withdrew OGRACIOVS Lord therfore our hopes abound And godli men excited by these fruits In time accepted when thou maist be found With faithful harts shal bring their needful suits And thow benign from worlds tempestÅous seas Wilt them remoove and mee my hiding place PreservÄ•d from wrack dischargÄ•d of streit unease Withioious crys of freedom round embrace THEN I who e're Gods service doost profess Wil make thee sciÄ•nt what paths thou must ascend What dounfals shun how errors to redress And guiding ey thy cariage shall attend BVT men by kynd transform not into guise Of sturdi horse or more unthankful mule Whose brutish brests no mutÅal duties prize Sole sharpest bits their mouths from mischief rule THE wicked hart whole swarms of woes shal seaze Of help without within of rest deprivÄ•d While faithful soule who gracious Lord shal pleaze With mercies fencÄ•d with ioys shal be revivÄ•d THEN rightÄ•ous mynds divorce your careful fear Gods woord who trust shout out with sounds of ioy His ways who walk your hopeful heads vprear Your light appears sad darknes to destroy PSALM 34. The Prophet DAVID to escape the cruel hands of King Saul beeing forced to fly to a neighbour King of the Philistims where the qualiti and woorth of his person beeing to his great danger discovered he counterfeited himself distract and so was driven from thence and closely returned to the confines of his countri whether his frends and other distressed persons assembled to him here he yieldeth to God solemn thanks for this strange deliveri encouraging withal and instructing his associats to serve God who never faileth to protect his Righteous servants from mischief neither yet to destroy their persecutours By the way is interlaced a prophâ—…ci of the not breaking of ani one Bone of our Sauiours who was the veri pattern and perfection of Righteousnes THE Lord for evÄ•r with humblest ioy my thankfulst thoughts shalbless In him my soule triumph my mouth his glorious praise express Let myld righteÅus mynds earths Saints with gladnes hear this praise Yea all vnite harts spir̆its and sounds to heăvens his name to raize When chasÄ•d from home in strangers land midst Hethen crue I moornd And sought my God my sighs he heard and safely mee returnd That mee his Saints example great shal cheerful ay recite This poore man cryd the Lord him heard and freed from hostile spite O THOUGHT-surmounting grace to earth from heăvenli host descends Gods Angel great and servants his as rampire round defends Then tast and see how good the Lord how sweet his merci flowes How blest the man who trusts in him on him vow'd love bestowes And ye Gods Saints his fear maintain when liÅns through hunger wast Yet scarsenes none of no thing good sour want his servants tast O COM deer children listen well while Gods true fear I teach How life to win how length of days in happiÄ•st state to reach Thy tong from venÅmed woords refrain thy lips let shun deceipt Decline from evÄl doo good seek peace this this be thy retreit The eys of God with pleazing vieu the rightÄ•ous race behold Their suits his gracious ears attend ful deer their lifes are sold But countÄ•nance stern the mighti Lord gainst proud malfactors bends And cursed names corrupted seed from earths fair bosom rends TRUE servants plaints â—…ust Lord dooth hear their tears and fears dicharge Their contrite harts enanguisht spiâ—…its from pressures streit enlarge Afflictions great it 's true ful oft most righteÅus Man endures God rids them all and in their midst his bones from brack assures No bone of His shal broken be
From less but better store with pitying helpful hand His wanting neighbour frames Gods goodnes t' understand For where Gods blessing rests possessions long shal last As curse divine at once bud branch and root dooth wast WHERE God mans way dooth pleaze mans steps he stable makes Yea fallÄ•n with succÅring hand from ground unbruzed takes I have been yong am old yet never knew the iust Forsaken quite ne're saw his seed in lothed dust Sit craving food but still his courteÅus nature lends And God his blessing deer to children all extends THEN thus thy thoughts conclude thyn hart see first be pure Fly sin good deeds apply so so dwel ay secure For righteÅus Lord loves right he free from wavÄ•ring change From Saints belovÄ•d dooth ne're his eys serene estrange But safe through his defence while impious houses fall They ancient land possess there dwell for ever shall THE righteÅus man whose mynd cald up from earthli thought Erect on high with love of heavenli law is fraught From harts abundance speaks His mouth with wisdom floweth In talk of iudgement grave glad time his tong bestoweth He nevÄ•r shall slip For though th'uniust maligner watch Both woords and ways his life in deadli snare to catch Yet shall not rightÄ•ous Lord him leve in wicked hand Ne when his iudgement coms condemned let him stand SO thow ô vertuÅus soule thy patient mynd retain And heavÄ•nli ways insist in heavÄ•n thy hopes remain Thy God shal thee exalt the land shal rest thyn owne When vndermining wretch thyn ey shal see orethrowne THESE eys of myn have seen th'uniust like self-sprung tree With arms all gay disspred in floÅrishing beauti glee But see the end he past and lo away was gone The vanisht man I sought but nues returned none Now vieu the upright man observe his sweet encrease His small in more his war stil ends in endles peace Not so defectours proud who marks of heavÄ•nli ire At once destroyd shal nevÄ•r to end dezirÄ•d aspire BVT from the righteÅus Lord stil saving grace descends Which servants his from wrack in needful hours defends For God shal them protect protect from hate uniust Hee save them since in him they chooze to place their trust PSALM 40. The Prophet DAVID an Ancester and Type of Christ in his thankful meditations of Gods former merci toward him passeth from thence into a profound admiration of the divine grace whereby the imperfection of the legal sacrifices beeing abolished Christ their perfection was to succeed a true accomplisher and teacher of righteousnes So returneth to crave the continuance of Gods merci in his present miseri drawn on or renued by menes of Sauls persecution as it seemeth not yet determined LONG patient hope Gods pleasure did attend At length he ear to grievÅus cry did bend And wretch forlorn who help now no where knew From miri clay of yelling hole updrew UPDRAWN my feet on stateli rock he placÄ•d My steps made firm so now with nue song gracÄ•d Praise praise t' our God my thankful glori sounds Which echÅing voice with thundring ioy rebounds For thousands who revieu my late distress Which revÄ•rent trust towărd God cheerd harts address THEN blessed hee the Lord who makes his trust Nor glorious pride whom self-loves charming lust Misdraws from God which fauning ey respects Nor thoughts on liÄ•rs fond failing hopes reflects O LORD my God thy gracious thoughts towărd man Are wondrous deep I would but no way can Or thankful them to thee in ray prezent Or count to men their store and vast extent WISDOMS abiss thyn owne ordeined rites Now sacrifice now offring no delights To thee can yield myn ears hath nüer law So piercÄ•d that thoughts towărd nobler obiect draw Not sinles beast nor mene-esteemed life In flames consum'd may ere compose the strife Wherein mans sin Iustice divine persuÄ•th Not so thy grace not so mans bliss renuÄ•th WEAK shades give place Then said I Lo I com Here Lord On mee thy blessed will be doon Sith sacred roll of everlasting book For mee hath taught worlds waiting eys to look THY blessed will sole scope of prudent thought Iust actions rule my pleazing cares haue sought To knowe and doo thy law in faithful hart EntresÅred liÄ•th thence never shall depart NOT silent lips nor yet vnthankful brest Thy goodnes Lord thou knowÄ•st have e're supprest Thy trueth my talk thy saving grace my song Thy bounties rich my not conceling tong Hath loud proclaim'd thy iustice mercies deer Assemblies great from faithful teacher hear THEN Lord ô then thy kyndnes not withhold Thy trueth my stay in merci still infold Distressed soule whose eys lift up on high Thee only thee their comfort can descry Thrung numberles of evÄls me wretch embrace My sins and pains so grasp my frighted face That failing hart their vieu can not endure Who thick as hair ten thousand griefs procure PLEAZE Lord at length my thralled life to free Relieve the soule who succour sole from thee Awaits make speed And blushing shame confound All those whose hate me seeks with mortal wound On earth to lay yea put to shameful flight Them in my ill who place their deer delight Who laugh my tears take pleasure in my pain Ah dire decay their shames reward remain BVT comfort sweet and sacred ioy refill Them all whose mynds conformd to heăvenli will Thy mercies seek saluation thyn dezire High spir̆it them ay t' extol thy name inspire NOW I a poor throwne-doun afflicted wight Yet hope on God protectour of my right And knowe on me my Lord wil one day think Ah cease delay least hart in sorroes sink PSALM 42. The Psalmist it seemeth David vnder Sauls persecution bewaileth with much passion his constrained absence from Gods presence in his Ark and Tabernacle and after a sharp combate of soule with mani deiecting afflictions in fine getteth above them by the strength of his faith and hope in God AS chased Hart with drouth enraged first Then ioid with hope towărd watri streams dooth bray So Lord my soule my panting soule dooth thirst At lifes high spring hir restles love to stay AH life of lifes when shall that ioying sight Of presence thyn reioice my ioyles ey Whom now salt teares are food to day and night While chasing foes Where 's now thy God stil cry SWEET-sour revieu my hart through eys distils How earst high ioys midst marching troop I broacht And sacred House whom beauteÅus presence fils With songs and praise in festivÄ•st guise approacht WHY then ô why my sad deiected mynd Should troubled thoughts thee restles now torment Ah thankful wait stil gracious Lord shalt fynd In bands of woes release who al-times sent YET Lord my soule behold stil dampt with grief While Iordans reeds while Hermons rocs she hants While Iuri mounts affoord their poor relief Remembrance thyn where melting hart redants SEE gulf of woes nue gulf stil duely cals Thy thunders roar thy fires com streaming doun And raging storm
NOW vieu this Princess branch of Kings See noble birth what genÄ•rose presence brings All gorgeÅus all with grace performd While wealth hath art and art hath wealth adornd Yet beautÄ•ous robes fair face exceeds But fairest mynd within chief glori breeds THUS happi King thy spouse to thee Dezired spouse is led and Virgin shee With virgin troop hir sociates deer Attended all to pleazed eys appear With signs with sounds of ioy they com Where roial palace yields them grateful room AND thow great King in fathers place Shalt children raize endÅed with fathers grace Whom zelous iustice to maintain Shalt Princes high through all thy Lands ordain AND I thy name shal make renoumd While heavÄ•n leads time where evÄ•r fair earth hir ground Extends yea whilÄ•st bothe worlds endure My verse thy praise from peoples shall alure PSALM 49. The Psalmist taking vieu of his old age and death approaching entereth into consideration of the vaniti of worldli mynds who plot for a perpetuiti of greatnes here where death and time devour and consume all things and contrariwise comforteth himself by faith in God who in the morning of the renüed world wherein righteous men shal bere dominion shal redeem him from the power of the grave and death and translate him to his owne everlasting habitation when as worldli men shal be remooved from their graves to hell to be consumed as beasts with death euerlasting YE sons of men where-evÄ•r o're earths great globe disperst Both ye of noble race and ye whom fathers unrehearst In menenes have obscurÄ•d ye rich and poor attend My mouth shal wisdom stream which hart from muzings deep dooth send My thoughts on sentence grave on parable profound Defixt at length my matter dark to harp shal cleerly sound WHY should unpleazing fears my sadded mynd torment When evil days approach sweet years of pleasure when are spent When sin with death at heels my wasting life persues See mighti man whose ey his wealth with gloryÄng trust revieus No one e're brother deer from thralling death redeems Can God the ransom pay who price too high of soules esteems For mortal powÄ•r to reach that cease may vain attempt Mans life in line stil on to draw from iaws of grave exempt HE seeth great sages dy evÄ•n so the brutish fool And leve their wealth th'untimeli thirst of thankles heirs to cool In inward thoughts then count their houses yet secure Their stateli seats shal undevourd through ages all endure And lands shal bere their names But man in honour placÄ•d Like beasts fals doun his house his seat his name from earth effacÄ•d LO ways of fool-wise men which yet their worldli race As proiects high of wisdom deep with much applause embrace But they in grave doo ly like sheep in narrÅed holds Where death as wolf devoured flesh in gnawing panch infolds There dead they dy And when worlds morning fair renues Their yelling crys shal iudging Saints with lordli doom refuze From grave then hell shal seaze and seaz'd their shapes consume When God my soule mee shall from bothe to him redeemd resume THEN feare not grieve not thow when godles person thrives His house when gloriÅus mounts For not when death of life deprives He all shal hence transport ne glori train to grave Though foolish mouth oft cursed soule in life fair blessings gave And though men praize thy mynd stil folÅing worlds delight He hence to fathers race shal pack ay shut from heavÄ•nli light O man great woork of price of wisdom if bereft If beast-like lives like beast he dys in dark destruction left PSALM 50. This Psalm beeing made by ASAPH that Master of Musick who was also a Composer of sacred hymns and a Prophet introduceth God revealing himself to the world by his Creatures by his Oracles and by his Iudgements Then falling to debate matters with his chozen people God sheweth that it is not their sacrifices wherein he taketh pleasure beeing a service to him neither proper of it self and which in fine should cease but in the spiritual sacrifices of praise thankful vows and invocation And he reprooveth those hypocrites that durst talk of the woord of God denying him and it in their lifes and manners whose end vnless they repented should be helples destruction THE mighti God our Lord from heavÄ•ns first glorious voice hath sent To call earths whole from rizing sun to sun declynd extent And then from SiÅn a complete world of beauties all refin'd By oracle by sacred woord more cleer to his hath shin'd To iudgement rests our God proceed In iudgements he dooth com To teach reproove afflict raize up then then comÄ•th final doom Before the Iudge a purging fire corruption shall devour And hidÄ•ous tempest round about from gloomi clouds shal shour BUT now with his peculiar folk to sweet debate he fals And heavÄ•ns fair eys and earths rich womb as conscious witnes cals Assemble me my chozen race takÄ•n up from world forlorn Who law who sacred leaug with mee through sacrifice have sworn O righteous Iudge thy iustice bright the heavÄ•ns great host proclaims Thow fountain whence all iustice flowes thy self more iust remains HEAR ô my people I wil speak thou Isrăel for with thee I will contest Thou knowÄ•st me God yea thy true God to bee That sacrifices rare to mee thy scanti hands have brought And sacred fire on altar oft in vain burnt-hosts hath sought Nor charge I thee nor bull from stall or goats from fold wil take Who world of wealth enioys think'st hee penurious stores should rake NOT so for midst the spatious woods what beast untam'd dooth breed What cattle sparst through thousand mounts on budding shrubs doo feed What bird the hils what savage fierce the desert plains dooth ply Are all myn owne and in my vieu at will serve liue and dy If hunger frail unwoorthi thought could me assail would I Who world and worlds rich store possess to thee forfood apply Or when thy sacrifice thow kilst canst thow so fondly think Base flesh of buls that I should eat or goats foul bloud should drink NAY if thyn humble thankful hart with sacrifice dezire The powÄ•r divine to pleaze and give what God dooth most require Pure sacrifice of praises bring the sacred tribute due From creature blest to King of bliss and of thy vows be true Then in thy troubled state toward heavÄ•n thy soule perplexed raize Crave help of mee thy suit I 'le hear thou me eftsoon shalt praize BUT unto th'impious thus saith God How dar'st thou wretch presume To teach my Law my gracious leaug in graceles lips t'assume Thy life for thereunto to frame through hate thou standst agast And woord divine thy speach promotes thy facts behynd thee cast A thief thy greedi ey hath seen thy hand with him conspires Adultrous crue with them leud hart combines in foul desires Malicious mouth addict'st to rail sly tong to forge deceipt And envious lips owne mothers son to closely
attend And loial harts towărd sacred mandates bend THE Lord in heavÄ•n his throne hath placÄ•d With kingli rule heavÄ•ns earth and seas embracÄ•d Ye Angels then heavÄ•ns happi gests Excelling strengths obsequious to his hests Ay bless the Lord adore our King Whose woord ye serve whose will to men ye bring YEA all his hosts through world arrangÄ•d Industrious troops servants of faith unchangÄ•d Bless ay his name whose glorious will Your sevÄ•red ways united woorks fulfill In sum his creatures great and small Where evÄ•r disperst throughout his empire all Bless bless our Lord bless thankful mynd Thy blessed Lord whom thow so good doost fynd TREBLE P Ure light of soule thou high bred mynd Deriv'd from God and God to praize assign'd Adore thy Lord his beauties bless And gloriÅus acts in prais ful hymns ex press Bless still my soule with all thy powÄ•rs That sacred name whence No tract of time ô e're ef face From thankful hart sweet bliss so rich ly shours vieu of boun tÄ•ous grace BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 104. A Psalm of Bliss and Glori prezented unto God as well in contemplation of his glorious estate as also of the round world and all the furniture and gests thereof beeing crëated governed and constantly preserved by the magnificent powër wisdom and goodnes of God A petition is annexed to consume utterly the wicked and sweep them out of the world beeing the cause of all the dishonour and calamities thereof MAgnănimous mighti glorious Lord my soule shal sing thy praise Whose Greatnes greatest heavÄ•ns surmounts whose Beauti dims their rays Thee King imperiăl Glories croun thee MaiÄ•sties dread attire MagnÄficence thyn whole world refils high Bliss transcends desire Great Lord my God eternal Life Perfection purest Light Unbounded Goodnes robÄ•st thy self with beams of glorious sight CREATOUR high first cause of all Hee beeÄng to all things gave Hee HeavÄ•ns like courtains fair disspreds with stars bespangled brave Grand Lights as lamps illuster all Those lighter Waters see As chambers how midst air he rears thick Clouds his charriots bee On wings of Wynds he swiftly walks Oft wynds as Angels makes And service dire to flying flames of high-bred Fire betakes THE Earth midst air hath rarely hangd yet hangd by rule so sure As nevÄ•r to moove while light in sun while stars in skys endure It first with cristal robe had helÄ•d all Sea no land was seen Deep flouds surrounding highest mounts no seat for man had been But strait at thy rebuke they fly them thundring voice dooth chase Up hill doun vale by shortest coorse to their commanded place Vast deep their foming streams receives Here bounds their surges fynd Proud waves to break here laws from thee their roring rage to bynd THUS land from sea ay free remains Then Springs to land dooth send Tween hils which run fair vales enrich encreasd to seas descend Hence moisture sweet draw flouri medes hence drink myld cattle take Here beasts of field doo quench their thirst wyld ass dry heat asslake By these wingd birds sweet gests of air on native arbours mount And pleazing notes mongst greeni leafs in cooling shade recount THE mountains from his raized lofts with sweet concocted Rain He watreth so that rich in fruits all parts of earth remain Pure fatnes drops strait pregnant earth in various robe arraid Sees Grass for beasts sees Herbs for man as tribute duely paid Man thus sustaind assisted thus by art derivÄ•d from high By gift of thyn the earths rich womb t'improove dooth soon apply Here Corn here Vines there Olives plants with bread his hart to cheer With wine his drooping spir̆its to glad with oil his face to cleer THE Trees of God like blessing draw the Cedars which his hand Not care of man on Liban plants there ages long doo stand Here Birds their curious nests doo build the Storks midst lofti boughs Of stateli Fir with parted love themselves half strangers houze Nought useles stands to Mountains steep the Shamois make retreit The craggi Rocks weak Connies shield thick Woods give Deer receipt LOOK up eftsoons see changing Moon made changing seazÅns to shew The Sun his certain race dooth run his nightli settings knowe Strait darknes black bids light withdraw withdrawn the forest mooves Wyld beasts in woods that lurk creep foorth seek food what each behooves Yong Lions rage and roar for prey from God their meat require And fed at suns return to dens their cooching lims retire Then foorth goÄ•th Man their Lord by thee hee at his daili toil Deserving so til eevÄ•ning bides and earth in earth dooth moil O LORD how manÄfold are thy woorks high wisdom all did frame Thy goods which earth which sea doo store no tong no thought can name The Sea a place of vast extent where cralling things abound Where swimming beasts both great and small past number all are found Here walk the Ships which worlds whole wealth dispersd by trade unite Stands wondring Whale there made to play himself more wondrous sight THESE creatures all thy care attend meet food in seazÅn to have Thow scattring they it spars'd colect larg'd hand gives all they craue If gracious face thou once avert they troubled all doo moorn Their spir̆it withdraw they breath gasp out and to their dust return If spir̆it of life thy grace send foorth which world with beÄ•ing endues Thow recrëatst his wasted store so face of earth renues BE then ô glori'ay be to God Thow praiz'd from thankful voice Receive due tribute gracious Lord So in thy woorks reioice Repair at length worlds great defects ô thow whose ires consume Whose stern aspect shakes trembling earth whose touch makes mountains fume I whilÄ•st my life while beÄ•ing dooth last shal still thy praises sing Sweet ioy shal thoughts of thee imbue ô thow my blisful King Let sinners foul who earth defile defilÄ•d have made abhord ConsumÄ•d from earth pay vengeance due Soule myn praize thow the Lord. Allelu-ia PSALM 107. A Celebration of the gracious providence of God and of his merci toward mankynd in relieving them who in ani extreme distress wholy cast themselfs upon him in praier Which is particularized in the examples of the Israelites in those times beeing times of exile and great calamiti whereof som in their return lost their way in wyld deserts other in not foloing the advice of God became prisoners in chains and dungeons A third sort by their wicked and lascivious life fell into the usual punishment of grievous diseases And a fourth endured sore tempests at sea All whom having had unexpected deliverance by God he exhorteth to be therfore grateful and in solemn assembli of Gods people before the senatours to profess their thankfulnes An advise foloed by the Iues even at this day in those foure cases Lastly he sheweth that the calamities which fall generally upon Nations be it by barrennes of the earth by oppression of Tyrants by contempt growne upon a land in their Nobles and
might get ani dominion over him And where it had pleazed God by private message to cauze David to be anointed King over Israel and on that promise to rely for which his proud enimies did deride and persue him he praieth God to be myndful and confirm that woord that having how to answer the reproaching him with that trust the shame might redound upon his scorning adversaries From whose oppression also he praieth now at length to be delivered that walking at liberti he might freely apply and exercise the law of God and good men might freely also associate themselves unto him And for observance of the divine law for the time to com he maketh here a solemn vow unto God whom he humbly withall praieth to accept that and other free offrings of his mouth vows praiers and praises beeing all he could offer Finally he concludeth with the sum of his suit the gift of understanding and freedom from his enimies that his life beeing continued he might praize the goodnes of God who now beeing chased out by Saul and wandring up and doun like a sheep that had straied yet did not ne could forget Gods commandments whose favour he again imploreth to give end to that extremiti This Psalm for the woorthines thus largely abridged remaineth a cleer mirrour of the godli hart of David which cauzed him to be a man after the hart of God and to wear the honour of that incomparable title ALEPH. O BLESSED they who men upright in mynd and way In Gods pure law delight his sacred will obey Yea blessed who embrace his woord that witnes true And God their sovÄ•rain good with flaming harts pursue Such men sure sin decline in paths divine proceed Them careful hold which held have high reward decreed O THEN fith thow so strait thy hests to keep hast chargÄ•d My ways were so addresd my feet so Lord enlargÄ•d As free thy steps to trace no blot shal mee distain No shame confound on thee while fixt myn eys remain Right hart thy praise shal sound for law of iustice taught Which learnd I le keep at length reduce me ô to thought BETH VVHEREWITH may careles youth his falti paths amend If heedful by thy woord he them to guid attend Ah Lord with hart entire I thee have truly sought O let not straying soule with trains of vice be caught Long I thy precious laws have treasÅred in my hart To purge out sin Blest Lord stil teach that sacred art REMEMBER Lord my lips and not unthankful tong How free thy woord have taught how glad thy praise have song How deer delight I take in way from heavÄ•n declarÄ•d Vain ioys breeds world of wealth with these true ioys comparÄ•d With muzing mynd I vieu and still thy law admire Nor sight gives end to search nor search to sweet desire GIMEL THIS gift this favour Lord on servant thyn bestowe That live I may and live thy saving grace to knowe Yea sacred woord to keep Then thow myn eys unsele And wonders of thy law to groping mynd revele I stranger rome on earth my seat with thee abides O hide not heavÄ•nli way which to thy presence guids DESIRE my soule consumes stil muzing on that path Which pride derides dead pride devowd to firi wrath But thou repell their scorns Ah zele to sacred law From Princes seats did griev'd unprinceli censures draw Yet still I still thy woord in studious thoughts renue Sole solace in my griefs in douts adviser true DALETH MY humbled soule to dust prostrate on earth dooth cleve Remynd thy woord and up revived servant heve My hart my state and ways to thee I did unfold Thou heard'st with grace then still me precepts thyn enrold In faithful brest direct Discloze thy beauteÅus way And moorning soule recheerd thy merveils let display REMOOVE by-paths of lys thy trueth hath been my choise Thy law my mirrour O make cleer thy gracious voice And foloÄ•r of thy woords grant through that favour high Be nor asham'd to live nor Lord afraid to dy Yea when my narroÄ•d hart shal noble grace enlarge Base lets despiz'd I 'le run what race thy mandates charge HE. GREAT Guid of men my feet address in righteÅus way My feet by thee addrest which ne're from thee shal stray Recleer my dimmed mynd sweet beauti of thy laws To vieu which vieud from hart like love abundant draws Thus hart deiect erect thy rizing paths to clime Thy woord my high delight in raized thoughts to shrine BUT from unwoorthi gain from vain aspects which fire Unwari brests disturn myn eys and frail desire And quickÄ•n me in thy way Ah to thy servant true Devoted to thy fear thy roial woord renue So feard reproach discharge with iudgements iust recheer The fainting soule which longs thy statutes to endeer VAV LET then thy mercies deer salvătion favours high Foretold by gracious woord at length great Lord draw nigh That those who mee reproach depending thus on thee Confounded quite their scorns my glori high may see Mene while let woord so true towărd him not wholy sleep Who trusts in thy decree still still thy law wil keep AND keeping thus thy law abroad I 'le boldly walk And of thy woord fore kings undanted freely talk O King of kings thou thow my love and sole delight Thy hests my ioy on them I still defix my sight Towărd them my hands I 'le raize to act what they require Who sole possess my thoughts command my chief desire ZAIIN THEN myndful of thy speach thou Lord stil true and iust Shine foorth sith in that woord hast causd thy servant trust Sole this to grieved mynd sweet comfort still derives This pressed state supports this dulled sprites revives The proud both it and mee with scorns profane deride Nor pride nor scorns profane from thee can mee divide FOR iudgements thyn of old my muzing thoughts revieu Which mee secure but ah stil horror then renue When ends of lawles men my pityÄng mynd foresees But I in pilgrim life stil singing thy decrees In silent night with ioy revolving Lord thy name Thy statutes keep which kept these ioys in mee enframe CHETH MY portion Lord art thow my thankful mynd resolv'd Thy woords to keep hir cares on thee hath all devolv'd And hart with fervent suit thy gracious face hath sought Let then those mercies shine which gracious woord hath taught For strait my earthli ways with vieu unpartial eyd Delay cut off I glad to heavÄ•nli coorse applyd THIS worldlings hate procures whose troops make me their prey Nor hate of world nor wrongs me from thy paths can fray Thou witness Night whose midst with thanks me rize dooth hear Gods iudgements iust to bless thou Day which God who fear His laws who love my deer companions all doost see Thow then whose grace earth fils thow Lord my leader bee TET I MUST confess my Lord that graciously with mee As was thy woord hast dealt ô grant from passions free With sence and science
soule purge out corrupted vse And safe through worldli waves to thy sweet rest conduce PSALM 141. This Psalm of DAVID seemeth by the matter thereof to have been made upon som occasion of an accident hapned out in Sauls third expedition against David when persuing him with three thousand of his choisest men up in the rocks of Engedi and having there withdrawn himself a side into a cave he had a skirt of his robe secretly cut off by David without offer of ani violence to his person At which time Saul in shew reconciling himself to righteous David yet afterward renued sharp persuit against him hoping how vainly and from how blynd desire at som time or other to effect his destruction whom God had declared successour in the kingdom David therfore in this Psalm prezenting his humble praiers as a sacrifice to Almighti God beseecheth him to preserve him in woord thought and deed from sin preferring the severe reproofs of a iust man before the delicacies and pleasures of the wicked Then closely intimating how kyndly he had dealt with Saul and how cruelly he was requited he praieth God to continue still his gracious protectour and that the snares laid by his enimies might entrap their owne gilti selfs whilest he with his innocenci did happily escape them TO thee ô Lord to thee my humbled mynd Hir humblest voice prezents ô let me favour fynd And hast my God let ear benign be lent To pitious cry to suit from grieffull hart upsent O let my praiÄ•r perfumÄ•d with heavÄ•nli grace So stand and sweetly smoke before thy pleazed face As incense pure midst holiÄ•st altars fire And hands let stretcht to thee like eevÄ•nings gift aspire MY speach so Lord my thoughts and deeds compoze That nothing thee offend A watch assign to cloze My mouth on woords unmeet the gate to heed That two-leafd gate of lips whence life and death proceed Retire my hart from poizÅned baits of sin Renforce my mynd that no provokements mee may win Untrue to thee with men that mischief breed To ioin their coorse to run on dainties their to feed LET iust mans zele me yea severely beat I kyndnes shall it deem let his religious heat Reproove my life as precious balm my head Not break it shall perfume And thankful hart imbred When change of times with sorroes him may press For comfort his to thee shal fervent suit address NOW these mens Iudges who with chozen bands My harmles life persue withdrawn were left in hands Of horrent rock where terrour none from mee But pleazing woords they heard from dout their soules to free BUT not they so requite When wee again Into their claws are light nought cruel they refrain But as in woods when stateli trees to ground Are hewÄ•d the chips and stics ly sparst on all sides round So bones of men devoured by their ire At graves sad mouth ly strawd and earths first womb dezire NOW then ô Lord myn eys since look to thee In thee I trust alone and succour none else see My God my Lord ô not my suit reiect Nor bare my soule of shield that sole can it protect My chased life from snaring net withdraw Which men who love their lusts not love thy sacred law For it have pitcht destroy deceiptful grin Which men compact of fraud have set t' entrap me in AND thow iust Iudge whose ey our mortal ways With right esteem beholds and snare with snare repays Let impious heads owne tangling nets infold While I with myn break through of thee who safeti hold PSALM 145. King DAVID now flourishing as it seemeth with prosperiti applieth most woorthily his thankful soule to sound out the high praises of the Author thereof He celebrateth therfore most excellently in this Psalm the incomprehensible Greatnes and glorious Maiesti of the Eternal King Then he singeth Gods Goodnes his Iustice and Merci embracing all his woorks with all favorable benigniti All which therfore he exciteth to return praise to their Lord and Maker And chiefly the true servants and Saints of God that by their menes the glori of the kingdom of God may be made knowne over all the world Himself then in example describeth the boundles extent and amplitude of Gods everlasting kingdom his assistance where need is his fatherls providence ministring food duely to all things whose lifes are therby susteined his iustice and holines in all his ways and actions especially in his gracious attentivenes to the iust petitions of his servants ever saving all those that love him as contrarily in his provoked severitie toward the wicked retributing to them their iust and deserved destruction For which he inviteth all men to ioin with him in ever praizing God GREAT Lord my God and glorious King My soule triumphs thy bliss to sing While heavÄ•ns shal last with grateful praise Bove heavÄ•n of heavÄ•ns thy name I 'le raize When Sun with Eastern rays up-springs And when doun West his flames he brings In toils of day at nightli rest Ay praiz'd and ay shalt thow be blest THY Greatnes first my mynd admires Whose right like praises great requires Thy boundles beÄ•ing which gulf to thought In bounds each creature fit hath wrought Thy woorks each age with praise recounts And powÄ•r which puÄsance all surmounts And I with wondrous acts that light Of glorious state will glad indite They prowÄ•s and valures strange confess I beautÄ•ous MaiÄ•sti would express THY Goodnes next prezents sweet vieu Where bounties rich stil gifts renue Glad hands receive and thankful tongs Shal sound what praise such grace belongs Here who thy Iustice can forget Where hymns where ioys are sweetly met Thy iustice fair with merci cround Of glorious bliss th'al-gracious ground O LORD benign of best desires To piti ay prone unprone to ires Towărd all thou good thou full of grace Thy Mercies all thy woorks embrace THERFORE Great Sire shal all thy woorks In heavÄ•n what shines midst earth what lurks What e're disperst through worlds great frame Ay blaze ay bless thy gracious name THEY chief who deer of thee esteemd Live Saints on earth from earth redeemd Thy kingdoms glories they shal teach Thy peerles strength they fearles preach That powÄ•r magnÄficent bliss divine And beauties there which glorious shine May sons of men to all made knowne All win to love and serve thy throne THY Kingdom Lord nought Kingles leves Nor mÄ•sure of things nor times receives DominÄon boundles evÄ•ri place Each time all things dooth round embrace Here reigns our Lord our bliss to breed Stil true of woord stil iust of deed Who gracious fallen man erects The sliding stays the staid protects HERE eys of all thy care attend Thy care due food which still dooth send Thou plentÄ•ous hand o're world doost spred Whence each thing livÄng rests largely fed Thus all thy pleasure Lord partake Thy pleasure still to good awake In righteÅus ways thus ay doost raign Ay kynd in all thy woorks remain AND lastly Lord
thou dwellÄ•st on high Yet still to iust requests art nigh Thy servants suits fynd gracious ear Their safeti shewth thy aid is neer For impious race wilt all destroy And all who love thee seat in ioy Wherfore my mouth incessant praise To thee shal pour and all my days My tong excite all humane flesh Ay ay that sacred name to bless PSALM 146. The Psalmist â—…owing perpetual praises to God advizeth not to fix our trusts or hopes on perishing Princes but upon the unchanging trueth and fideliti of God the Creatour of all things who is the Protectour and reliever of all that are in distress the overthrower of the wicked with all their ways and counseils and the King of his Church for ever ALLELV-IA MY soule with ioy thy self address The mighti Lord thy God to praize My tong his sacred name shal bless My hart towărd him I 'le alway raize While life dooth last the glorious King Yea whilÄ•st I am his praise I 'le sing NO TowÄ•rs of hopes on Princes raize What aid can mortal man perform Whose breath departs and ended days From dust derivÄ•d to dust return His thoughts and proiects dy withall Your towring hopes to ground doo fall BUT blessed they who chooze his name Whose hopes and helps with him abide Who heavÄ•ns and earth and seas did frame And world of gests which there reside His thoughts no wavÄ•ring can assail His woords are deeds and never fail THEN thee our Lord and God we sing Thow Iacobs God stil blessed bee Who iustice to the wrong'd doost bring The hungri feed the prisoner free Who blynd with ioious fight doost cheer And curbed lims doost upright rear THE iust he loves the stranger gards He wido shields and orphane guids But mischief dire iust wrath awards To wretch who rightÄ•ous way derides The Lord eternal King shal raign And Sions God ay so remain Allelu-ia FINIS THE TABLE PSALM 1. O Blessed wight To the 12. tune or to the 6. PSALM 2. What graceles fears To the 2. tune PSALM 8. Eternal Lord The FIRST tune PSALM 15. Lord who shal To the 5. tune PSALM 16. Then thow preserve me The SECOND tune PSALM 17. High Iudge of world To the 8. tune PSALM 19. The HeavÄ•ns declare The THIRD tune PSALM 20. In day of troÅble To the 1. tune PSALM 21. The King Lord The FOVRTH tune PSALM 22. My God my God To the 11. tune PSALM 25. To thee his faithful soule To the 2. tune PSALM 32. The blessed man To the 5. tune PSALM 34. The Lord for evÄ•r To the 3. tune PSALM 36. The bestial mynd To the 3. tune PSALM 37. Let not unpleazing vieu To the 2. tune PSALM 40. Long patiÄ•nt hope To the 11. tune PSALM 42. As chased Hart The FIFT tune PSALM 44. Our pleazed ears To the 12. tune PSALM 45. A noble act To the 9. tune PSALM 49. Ye sons of men To the 7. tune PSALM 50. The mighti God To the 3. tune PSALM 51. My sinful soule To the 11. tune PSALM 67. Be gracious Lord To the 4. tune PSALM 68. Let pleaze our God To the 7. tune PSALM 69. Help Lord and save To the 11 tune PSALM 73. Yet surely God To the 5. tune PSALM 79. The HÄ•then ô God To the 5. tune PSALM 82. The soverain Lord To the 12. tune PSALM 84. The fair aspect The SIXT tune PSALM 90. In pilgrim life The SEVENTH tune PSALM 92. A good a gracious act To the 9. tune PSALM 94. Avenger great The EIGHT tune PSALM 100. With raized voice To the 4. tune PSALM 101. Of Iudgements Lord To the 10. tune PSALM 103. Pure light of soule The NINTH tune PSALM 104. Magnănimous To the 3. tune PSALM 107. Ye woorthi mynds To the 8. tune PSALM 110. The Lord said To the 7. tune PSALM 111. My hart dooth To the 1. tune PSALM 112. O happi man The TENTH tune PSALM 118. Sing ô sound out To the 1. tune PSALM 119. O blessed they who men To the 2. tune PSALM 122. My longing hart To the 4. tune PSALM 128. O blessed they whose To the 10. tune PSALM 130. Out from the deep The ELEVENTH tune PSALM 137. By Babel streams The TWELVTH tune PSALM 139. Eternal light To the 8. tune PSALM 141. To thee ô Lord To the 8. tune PSALM 145. Great Lord my God To the 1. tune PSALM 146. My soule with ioy To the 4. tune THE Music beeing applied as was sit to serve the matter and the matter beeing divided into his seueral parts by beginning with a woord in Capital Letters it foloeth that in the same place the Music dooth also begin again Howbeit where the length of Music did conveniently extend it selfe to two branches of matter by reason of their breviti it is signified in the margent by this mark Where a branch of matter continueth on beyond the length of the Music whereby som strains of the Music are to be repeated the verses on which that repetition dooth fall are noted by a mark of the same fashion but larger size And lastly where the matter ends before the Music it is expressed by these prict lines at which the Music is to break off and beginneth as from the head at the verse ensuing And it hath been so provided in composing the Music that the same may be doon without disgrace vnto it Som other small varieties are not difficult to be perceived Falts escaped PAge 2. line 15. perplex read perplex l. 19. thee r. thee p. 3. l. 26. renound r. renoumd p. 9. l. 13. plaugs r. plagues p. 26. l. 6. Inone r. I none l. 36. malfactours r. malfactours p. 27. l. 35. run r. run p. 28. l. 16. embrace r. embrace p. 32. l. 32. dicharge r. discharge p. 33. l. 13. deprives r. depriues p. 35. l. 7. I'TS r. IT 'S p. 37. l. 12. gracÄ•d r. gracÄ•d l. 19. which r. with p. 38. l. 4. Entresured r. EntreasÅred p. 39. l. 25. SEE r. SEE l. 27. fals r. fals l. 43. fynd r. fynd p. 40. l. 2. stream r. streams p. 44. l. 11. razch'd r. rach'd l. 31. beloved r. belovÄ•d p. 46. l. 9. frame r. frame p. 51. l. 19. extends r. extends p. 54. l. 23. depend r. depend p. 55. l. 33. embrue r. embrue p. 60. l. 31 hs r. his p. 65. l. 32. swell r. swell p. 70. l. 29. evÄ•n r. eevÄ•n p. 76. l. 18. fadom r. fathom p. 77. l. 18. Earth r. Earths p. 80. l. 1. shal wicked r. Shal wicked p. 92. l. 27. glori r. glori ' p. 108. l. 5. O blessed r. O BLESSED l. 11. Hee r. HEE p. 111. l. 38. perfue r. pursue p. 113. l. 20. draw r. draw p. 122. l. 3. des pair r. des pair p. 125. l. 36. brought r. brought p. 131. l. 30. reveals r. reveals FINIS
SACRED HYMNS CONSISTING OF FIFTI SELECT PSALMS OF DAVID and others Paraphrastically turned into English Verse And by ROBERT TAILOVR set to be sung in Five parts as also to the Viole and Lute or Orph-arion Published for the vse of such as delight in the exercise of MVSIC in hir original honour LONDON Printed by Thomas Snodham by the assignment of the Company of Stationers 1615. 〈…〉 IN thee we live moove Lord by thee From thee pure mynds thee-knoweing light derive How then save through thy grace may wee That honour high to sing thy bliss atchieve Then thow draw vp my lowe desire And love of thee let noble thoughts inspire ETernal God! whose boundles time not led by circling sky Then former day now later leves whence wee som prime descry Whence first time gan his coorse thus parts which may arrange But thy blest time unmooving stands ay perfect void of change With thee eternal present all unknoweing first or last Deziring nothing yet to com regretting nothing past Thow infinite great Self-beÄ•ing Lord first highest pure unmixt Vnbounded sole to all thy woorks wel-mezured bounds hast fixt That glorious Sun fair Moon and Stars finite since wee doo knowe Nor Gods themselfs and made by thee more glorious Light may shew And dread we yet who serve this Lord have prov'd his helpful might Mans Feends assalts May earth with powÄ•r above-celestiăl fight But Hee though world conteins and fils comprended though of none Yet gracious to his chozen train his vieu in supreme throne Their eys with light of glori ' encleerd pure blessednes prezents Abiss of ioy that thought exceeds yet woords fresh thought prevents For thow Perfection ô entire perfections all containst No good not in thee ' above thee none whole Good pure Bliss remainst What Beauties ey what mynd delight what Sweetnes drawth desire What Maiesties we high revere what Glorious states admire What Wisdom richly vests the mynd and makes it All possess Redoubling all by right-drawn shapes what Goodnes things dooth bless Diffuzing round it self from thence what Vertues noble spring By woorthi acts to cheer the world and better age to bring What Happi life our thoughts conceive for ah how small a mite Of happi life we here enioy what Ioy what deer delight What flagrant Pleasures full and mere in blessed state are found In thee great Fountain of them all united all abound From thee as beams from beautÄ•ous Sun what evÄ•r is goodli seen In heavÄ•n or earth what rich what fair what evÄ•r we loveli deem And pleazed will alures from thee high Cause of All derivÄ•d By thyn aspect is all maintaind yea dead by thee revivÄ•d That all thy creatures supreme Lord thee Goodnes high define Themselfs from thee agnize to thee their praises all resign And dote we still on creatures mene in their perfections dwell Nor raize our loves towărd Him who them must thousand folds excell For as the matchles Sun though one imbuÄ•d with vertu high From richnes thyn in glorious walk brought round the broad-spred sky And lustring earth how poor a clod with beams and inflÅence sweet Of spÄrit sublime dooth various lifes each gracÄ•d with beauties meet Through land and sea disperse hence beasts hence fish each crauling thing Birds trees herbs flours fruits spices rare yea mettals deep respring All whose perfections great and mene in thousand kynds renuëd Whom thousand graces deck and yet with vertues more enduëd In Sun himself thy master-woork Cause whence they all proceed Must needs excell not beÄ•ing as here not so hast thow decreed By matter course embasâ—…d empaird by distance great by site Oblique alaiÄ•d diversifiëd repugnant that they fight By mixtures of ten thousand forms but there they all refine Vnite in one one uniform high rich perfection shine So glorious Cause of all in thee what lifeful Light in Sun What Greatnes fair in HeavÄ•ns dooth shine through Orbs what Beauties run What PowÄ•rs what Vertues nobly rich Intelligence what cleer What Wisdom Freedom Goodnes sweet in Angels blest appear What flagrant Loves what glorious Ioys Celestiăl Coorts embless In thee unite doost all in one eternally possess In infinite perfection more so sort in more sublime O purenes high whereto not mans nor Angels thoughts can clime For thow who Beeing art it self doost Beeings all contain Perfections all thence ô derivÄ•d more perfect there remain Then Lord from thee sith all proceed to thee in iust desire They bend at thee whence first they came Content they last require For thow First Cause Great End of all What evÄ•r true rest affects Perfection his what e're dooth seek what happi state expects Thee Lord ô thee it still pursÅeth som beam of bliss divine As due from bounti thyn it craves EvÄ•n senseles creatures thyn Through natures force inclin'd by thee woork out their Beeing best And place preserving seek But man with understanding blest And SpÄrits celestiăl strive to knowe thee ' who knowne doost Love alure Growe Knowledge Love wil growe True love dooth woorthi harts procure Thy will to woork thy Laws to keep which kept thow doost requite With high Reward with God himself Here blest with glorious sight They thee enioy to thee with love Eternal Bliss adhere O sourse of ioys Towărd which our hope unwoorthi though we rear And thee ah thee pursue Thow Lord in mortal life belowe Where hundred snares our soules beset where sin dooth all oreflowe Conduct us with thy grace and safe to life immortal bring With Angels where triumphant wee shal ay thy praises sing SACRED HYMNS PSALM 1. A description of the Righteous and their Feliciti also of the Ungodli and their Ruine in the day of Iudgement OBLESSED wight whose pure desires to stain Th'ungodli crue in vain their counseils bend In vain doo sinners ways his absence plain And scorners chairs in vain their poison spend Th'Eternals law hath rapt his whole delight Th' eternal law he muzeth day and night AS precious plant whom iuiceful veins doo fat Due fruits enrich unfading leafs doo grace The Masters ioy fair honour of the plat So righteous man whom blessings round embrace While wicked imps as rootles fruitles chaf Which whirled round the wynd seems cauze to laugh THERFORE when sovÄ•rain Iudge of heăvens and land By final doom shal destin to'each his place The iust shal shine and glorious senat stand When damned rout shal fly his dreadful face For righteous path th'alrighteous Lord advows But track perverse towărd dire destruction bows PSALM 2. The Prophet King DAVID though not here in the title yet elswhere in holi scripture named author of this Psalm foresheweth the vain conspiraci of the Princes of the world against Christ and his Kingdom proclaimed by God and establisbed over all the world And advizeth them therfore for their owne everlasting good to assubiect themselues to him and it WHAT graceles fears strange hates may Nations so affright Infuriate so gainst God with mad attempts to fight Gainst God and
gainst his Christ earths Kings and Peers shal band To force ioyn fraud ah fools Heăvens kingdom to withstand Fond earthi mynds ye hate your bliss Gods gracious hests Free laws as thrauling t ys your lawles life detests BVT Hee in heăvens that sits whose ey their thoughts divides Their wicked mynd abhors their vain attempts derides He then in wrath shal speak in wrath which sore shal vex And with distracted thoughts their troubled mynds perplex And then shal glorious voice from heăvenli throne proceed Lo here my Son a King to sacred SiÅn decreed THEN this decree I 'le shew God spake it first to Mee My Son thou art this day have I begotten thee Thy kingdom shal encrease Ask me and Gentile lands Yea utmost ends of earth I 'le render to thy hands VVhom thou obdur'd in sin with rod of irÅn shalt bruze As earthen pot shalt crash while they thy laws refuze THEN ô advize ye kings and ye instruction take Who Iudges are of earth your iudgements right to make Serve God with fear with fear best wisdom is begon With dread your ioys asseaz̆on Then homage to his Son With kiss prezent So so his kindling ire prevent Which them and all their ways gainst whom least spark is bent With horrour dire consumes But blessed ay the wight Who trusts in him to him who sacred faith hath plight PSALM 8. The Prophet DAVID admireth Gods graciousnes toward Man particularly in the future humiliation of Christ and in the exaltation of Mans nature in him and by him ensuing Where together with the supernatural dominion of Manintimated the restauration also of the natural is expressed By the way the Childrens acclamation to our Sauiour at his solemn entri into the Temple and the powerful effect thereof are pointedat ETERNAL Lord th' illustrous fame That sounds through world thy glorious name Whose greatnes fair transcends the skys Whose goodnes earth dooth not despize EvÄ•n tender lips of infants yong Thy grace inspires with praiseful song Whose force thy foes revengeful rage All danted strangely dooth asswage WHEN vp my wondring eys I raize Towărd higher coorts which preach thypraise The heăvens so huge the stars so bright That Prince of day this Queen of night All which doo thee their maker knowe Of peerles hand the matchles showe Lord what is man poor clot of mold That him in mynd thou still shouldst hold Or son of man defiled worm Thy gracious thoughts towărd him to turn A LITTLE thou wilt man abbase Beneath thy blisful Angels place Then ay shal man remain renound With prime of glori princely cround To him as King thy creatures bow And dueti prest shal ioyful vow What e're against his scepter swell His powrful foot thou doun makÄ•st quell THE cattle myld his service bear Yea beasts most wyld his frounds doo fear What flying wing the air divides What swimming fin through water glides What creeping thing in sea or land Hast all subiected to his hand O Lord our Lord what glorious fame Resounds through world thy gracious name TREBLE Eternal Lord th' illustrous fame Thatsounds through world thy glorious name Whose greatnes fair transcends the skys Whose goodnes earth dooth not de spize EvÄ•n tender lips of infants yong Thy grace inspires with praiseful song Whose force thy foes revengeful rage All danted strangely dooth as swage BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 15. The moral furniture of a true member of Gods Church set out by King DAVID LORD who shal in thy roial tent reside Whom shal thy sacred mount his dweller claim The man whose feet in paths direct abide Whose lips at trueth whose hands at iustice aim NO wronging tale his tong hath twynd no deed Of his hath neighbour harmd yea slander vile Gainst neighbour raiz'd which itching ears dooth feed With stern rebuke his righteous ears exile THE godles wretch from heăvenli coort reiected As foe he shuns as outcast base despizeth The godli wight by grace divine elected As frend he loves as precious highly prizeth HIS woord as oath his oath as sacred vow He firm observes though harm he thence endure Usurious trade the idles biting plow Ne gain nor ease can him to hold alure THE upright cause sole obiect of his sight No bribe can hurt no present needs to mend So hee the man whom nought shal shake or fright Whom sacred place and blisful ioys attend PSALM 16. The Prophet DAVID in this Psalm noted with a mark of excellenci declareth that beeing first prepared in soule by betaking himself wholy to the service and protection of God he had received supernatural infusion of Diuine Wisdom By vertue whereof with much ioy and exultation he foreprophecieth the speedi Resurrection of our Holi Saviour from death the ground of mans hope and comfort and the happines of the Life to com in the vision of God THEN thow preserve me Lord thou anchor of my mynd My wandring thoughts no rest save in thy favour fynd Thee thee my soule hath chÅzen thee vowd hir Lord to bee Though service myn I knowe can nothing ad to thee Yet to thy servants may in whom thy gifts excell Terrestrial Saints midst whom my high delights doo dwell BVT sorroes them befall yea heaped plaugs oppress VVho gifts from thee to dum or damned gods address Their murdring sacrifice shal never soil my face Their Gods accursed names my lips shal never grace THOW art my God my Lord the portion I love best My health and wealth my ioy my bliss and glorious rest And thow my earthli lot in place both rich and pure A goodli seat shalt long to mee and myn secure THE Lord with thankful praise my humble mynd adores VVho mee with counseil deep in nightli muzing stores For him before me ay my faithful eys engrave He at my right hand stands from falling me to save VVHERFORE my hart with ioy my spir̆it exults in praise And soule hir dying flesh in hopeful rest doun-lays For not my soule beneath exil'd thou'lt leue from thee Ne let thyn HOLI ONE impure corruption see But paths of life wilt shew which to thy presence bring VVhere fullest ioys for ay and purest pleasures spring TREBLE THen thow preserve me Lord thou anchor of my mynd My wandring thoughts no rest save in thy favour fynd Thee thee my soule hath chozÄ•n thee vowd her Lord to bee Though service myn I knowe can nothing ad to thee Yet to thy servants may in whom thy gifts excell Terrestrial Saints midst whom my high delights doo dwell BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 17. DAVID grounding upon the innocenci of his owne life and conscience appealeth to God for relief against the oppression and cruelti of his uniust enimies who men of the world place their happines wholy in the corporal pleasures of this life whereas his Feliciti consisteth in enioying Gods fauour in his righteous life here and in the glorious vision of God in the life after the Resurrection This Psalm seemeth
But those who hate the iust Shal perish all the wicked harts owne malice grynds to dust Their owne desires them plague But God shal rightÄ•ous souls redeem And none shal quail to him that trust who him their life esteem PSALM 36. DAVID here entituled the servant of God having described first the reprobate sence of the wicked breaketh out into admiration of the divine infinitnes in all perfections in the participation and fruition of which consisteth the final beatitude of Gods true Servants when the rebellious shal ly under euerlasting destruction THE bestiăl mynd forsaking God resolv'd to ioy in sin To shun remorse first natures light t' extinguish dooth begin Then cheers himself in blyndest ways no vyld desire refrains Til in my hart no dread of God before his eys remains At length evÄ•n gloriÄ•th in his shame and ioith ah wretched state Inventing ill which well adviz'd his trembling soule would hate DEFYLD distuned soule His lips which ought Gods praises sound And world with trueth assist in leud and lying woords abound His mynd of vnderstanding pure good thoughts it self deprives And nought but mischief fraud and wrong on silent bed contrives In sum estrangÄ•d from goodnes all enthral'd to ill he bends His steps towărd death where vengeance due rebelliÅus soules attends O LORD what highth what depth what bredth thy greatnes may profess What hart can goodnes thyn conceive what tong thy praise express Thy bounteÅus grace from heavÄ•ns to earth thy creatures all comprends Thy iustice mountains huge surmounts thy trueth yond clouds extends A deep abiss thy iudgements rest O thow doost all protect Thou man doost save ne simplest beast in needful things neglect BVT ô how precious towărd mankynd thy mercies Lord redound Whence servants thyn thy shadÅing wings their sure retrait have found And when at last through ended toils they at thyn House arrive There pleasantst food there sweetest streams ay pure delights revive For thow ô fountain great of life their life doost still refresh And beams from thee deriv'd their eys with sight al-gloriÅus bless THEN Lord hold on thy kyndnes deer towărd those that knowe thy name And iustice thyn array the soules whom sacred loves enflame And let not proud oppressing foot my gracious ways deface Nor sinning hand misdraw my soule thoughts sinful to embrace Lo sinners proud defecting soules throwne doun in dreadful guise In dead destruction ay involv'd to life shall never rize PSALM 37. King DAVID now full of years and experience remooueth here those great and difficult scandals of wicked mens prosperiti and good mens afflictions He sheweth that the godli who delight in the law of God and exercize themselves in heavenli wisdom live alwaies in the favour of God and under divine protection that God maketh them partakers even of the temporal blessings of this life though not alwaies in the largest yet in a sufficient and contenâ—…ful proportion and such as is for their greatest good which blessings are to them also more constant and permanent and that Gods holi hand both delivereth them from the malignant practises of the wicked and preserveth them in times of publick plagues and calamities furnishing them with abiliti to be helpful also to others yea that though they fall he raizeth them up again and what troubles soever they pass thorough in this life that their end yet is assured peace Wherein they have also this pleazing comfort that God will continue his blessings even to their seed and posteriti Contrarily he intermixeth a discoveri of the truly calamitous state of the wicked who beeing the enimies of God and deprived of his protection though they flourish for a while yeâ—… have no stabiliti but are sodainly cut off yea in the midst of their wealth and pomp they are not only uncontent and restles but endure also much want through inordinate desires and misgovernment As for their attempts against the good they return upon themselves beaten back upon them to their owne confusion And lastly their end is assured destruction involving with it often the ruine of their unblest posteriti Upon these grounds and reasons he exhorteth the good not to fret at the wickeds so false and fading prosperiti but to be careful to avoid sin to delight in God and to employ themselves wholy in dooing that which is good So trusting in God and waiting patiently upon him committing also their ways unto him they shal be both safe under his protection and happi by his blessing LET not unpleazing vieu of bad mens flouring state Through indignation sour thy ioious thoughts abate For doun like withering grass they quicly shall be mowne As bloom of tenderst herb their flour away be blowne BUT thow Gods servant true on him thy Lord rely In him delight and thoughts to rightÄ•ous woorks apply Inhabite then the land thou by thy land shalt live Yea God thy godli hart his full desires shal give IF troubles thee assail to God thy ways commit And trust to him who them to happiÄ•st end shal fit No shame shal thee attaint thy iustnes fair as light And cleer as shining noon he shall produce thy right THEN rest on God his will with patient hope attend And let not woorthles man who brings leud thoughts to end And prospers in his coorse thy discontent imbreed Shun wrath fierce choler rein great sins from rage proceed For proud misdoÅer shal rot while root they lasting take Who humbly wait on God his law their mirrour make BVT yet a while and lo the wicked shall not bee His stateli seat no place for him or his shal see When as the myld with ioy shal pleasant land possess Where length of plentÄ•ous peace shal thankful ioy rebless I'TS true the rightÄ•ous man whose life ill lifes reprooves His sight alone ill mynds to deep distemper mooves That him as publique foe the godles crues beset And practise vyld apply to wrap in snaring net Yea teeth through felnes gnash But God shal them deride Who seeth their day approach black night to all their pride Let swoords be drawn bend bowes the poor and iust to kill Bent bowes shal break drawn swoords the drawÄ•rs best bloud shal spill AND though som iust be poor th'uniust with plenti swell Yet in that one poor house more true content dooth dwel Then all their pomps can yield For God shal him maintain When pride and powÄ•r uniust with shivÄ•red arms remain OUR gracious Lord fit times for all his servants knowes And now he more now less but still their best bestowes ContinÅance is their bliss In perilous time from wrack In plague them shields from death in famin bare from lack WhilÄ• evÄ•n as tenderst faâ—… meer force of smoke consumes So impious wretch Gods foe soon spent to vapour fumes FOR though th'uniust by fraud by force have much purloind Yet nothing thrives leud gain hath vain expence adioin'd That still a borroÄ•r bare on neighbours goods he feeds And none repays The iust still rich in vertuÅus deeds
from cloudi spouts which fals With shouring fluds my pining soule dooth droun YET gracious Lord stil succÅring hand dooth reach His face serene returned ioy shal bring And gladsom day shal thankful euÄ•ning teach With praiseful hymn th'alglorious name to sing MENE while to God thy chased life betake And doleful tune exiled wretch renue My God my strength why doost thou me forsake Why moorning soule dooth murdrous foe persue O THOW who sole sustein'st my wear̆ied life My wear̆ied life whom powÄ•r of right bereves Yet iudge that cry mongst braiding foes so rife Where 's now thy God My bones it swoord-like cleves BVT why ô why my sad deiected mynd Should troubled thoughts thee restles still torment Com grateful hope My gracious God I fynd In throng of woes still swift relief hath sent TREBLE A S cha sed Hart with drouth enra ged first Then ioid with hope towărd wa tri stream dooth bray So Lord my soule my panting soule dooth thrist At lifes high spring hir restles love to stay Ah life of lifes when shal that ioy ing sight of presence thyn re ioice my ioy les ey Whom now salt tears are food to day and night While cha sing foes Wher 's now thy God stil cry BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 44. The faithful people of IsraÄ•l vanquished now and dispersed by their Hethen enimies it seems the Philistims in their thraldom also persecuted and martired for Gods true religion in complaining sort prezent to the high throne of grace their present condition beeing oppressed by the enimies of God and yet persisting in Gods true woorship and with great vehemenci implore his favour and succour who to their Ancesters had shewed himself so miraculously benign and helpful OUR pleazed ears renoumed Lord haue heard The ioious tongs of reverend elders tell What acts of thyn their state of old had reard Did cursed seed from chozen soil expell Thy powrful hand them racâ—…h'd vp ours did plant Made them nor wo nor blessing ours to want NOT mortal arm extermind Giants race Nor swoord terrene dezired land possesd Thy arm divine thy right hand lightsom face In favour deer from heavÄ•n their armies blesd Thou self same God my King doost still remain Command great King thy Iacobs strength again SOLE thou command revived strength our foes With horn should push with feet shal trample doun Not swoord not bowe hopes failing thou disclose That aid which foes in hates owne shame did droun Thy loveli name much ioy did then confess Much ioy same name in praise shal ay express THUS once we livÄ•d but now in life we dy Cast off debasÄ•d no more our armies head Harts grief to speak vile foes us force to fly And preying troops in dust our glories tread Thus scattÄ•red lo midst Hethen lands we live Where food to foes flock loved once doost give AH once beloved now sold and not for gain Thy wealth had yet our thralled lifes encreasd Less grief had been but scorn we now remain To neighbours round whose hate our shames appeasd Derided heard hast made a proverb growe Which scoffing HethÄ•n with wagging heads outcrowe WEAK comforts fade strong woes stil fresh renue My grief within without my shame torments Confusions ah confusions round accrue And soul disgrace stil lothed face prezents Reproaching voice blasphemous mouth and ire Of hostile eys dire anguish still enfire ALL this on us is com yet have not wee Forgot thee Lord or false thy leaug prophanÄ•d Nor harts repining writhe their loves from thee Nor feet decline from sacred ways ashamÄ•d Yea though us ruÄnd in Dragons wasts doost place And shade of death make weari lifes embrace IF blessed name unbleft we have forgot Disloial hands if stretcht in strangers guise To Gods no Gods and should our Lord it not Search out whose ey harts secretst thoughts espys Ah love of thee lo tyrants hate procures For thee we dy as knife fat sheep endures AH daily slain At length yet look arize Why sleeps our Lord awake and not bereve Thyn of thy face nor pressures their despize Whose soules to dust dead brests to ground doo cleve Stand up great Lord and for thy mercies sake Oh servants thyn to thy redemption take PSALM 45. A song of honour to the spiritual Marriage of Christ with his Church forâ—…described under the shado of the marriage as it seemeth of King Salomon with the Daughter of Pharao yet so that som circumstances are verified only in the figure and som other things only in the divine mysteri figured A NOBLE act of Kings dezirÄ•d Makes gladsom hart with high conceipts inspirÄ•d Boil o're and tong stream loveli sound Which echÅing pen through world shal ay rebound Of peerles King my song I frame And to that King give consecrate the same NOT mortal beauti decks thy face Ne humane sounds those princeli lips engrace That hieu divine those heavÄ•nli woords Nor race of man nor bliss of earth affoords Sure heavÄ•ns fair wight thee God hath blest So blest in bliss eternal shalt thou rest THEN on but first gird swoord to thigh Thow pÅisant Prince advance with glori high Ride stately foorth in comli sight Stil prosper still prevail brave Lord in fight So woord of trueth through world disspred Give laws fierce mynds in love to iustice wed With iustice myldnes still reside And striking arm let hart of merci guid BUT foes whom goodnes none can win Shal lightning hand with terrours dire begin To fright then shafts as thundred darts Sharp shafts shal pierce their blunt unpliant harts Thus to our King shal Nations bend And arm victorious wide his rule extend THY throne ô God for evÄ•r endures Thy scepter right through all thy state procures Thow iustice lovÄ•st hatÄ•st lawles ways Therfore dooth God thy God thy glori raize Yond all thy troop whose faithful love Thee serves by thee partakes same grace above BUT thow bove all with sacred oil With oils of ioy that earths unpleazing toil Alay imbuÄ•d drawst odour sweet Mir alöĕ cassia in thy garments meet Thus doost from ivor̆ie rooms proceed Whose pleasures deer stil ioying thoughts refeed STRAIT bevi fair prezents sweet vieu Kings daughters chief and lead the noble crue Bove all the Queen whom loveli bride Thou ioious setst on right hand by thy side With gold hir brests with gold hir head Embellisht best rich Ophir which had bred FAIR daughter now a while attend To sage advise thou happi ear shalt lend Thy contries rites thy peoples guise Yea fathers house forget fix sole thyn eys On him who then that beautÄ•ous sight Shal deerly love possess with pure delight He now thy Lord with pleazing grace Bow fair to him so love sweet love embrace LO neighbour Tyre great Queen of seas With curious gift ey finest strives to pleaze With home-bred purple far-fet gold Wil studious seek thy favÅring grace to hold Yea nobles rich with prezents great Shal pleazd aspect of countÄ•nance thyn entreat
mouths gainst heavÄ•n dead curse upbound THESE sights Gods folk to grievous thoughts reduce To whom full cups of mingled bitter geer Are wringd Dooth HeavÄ•n say they knowe earths abuse Or mortals coorse dooth powÄ•r immortal steer But vieu these men the heavÄ•nli leaug who shun Earths shame mans wrong see how in calmest peace Devoid of storm here lengthned race they run They health stil keep stil wealth and powÄ•r encrease IN vain then I ah all in vain have sought With careful thoughts my hart from stain to cleer In vain my hands in worthiÄ•st actions wrought Themselves to God in purenes washt doo rear For as stern sires their sons of sweet of life With sour reproofs and bitter strokes bereve With mee so griefs so blowes are daily rife Ne ioy sharp fits of mornli chastment leve BUT ô my God should I these thoughts embrace Should mazed soule illusions these entrance Lo impious wrong gainst thee gainst happiÄ•st race Of children thyn I faithles should advance PERPLEXED I then sought this dout t' untwine But ah in vain stil tangled stood my wit At length I piercÄ•d the Sanctuări divine There learnd mens ends then then the knot unknit SURE wicked men aloft on slippÄ•ri brows Thy hand dooth place with greater noise to fall Doun headlong rush they vain fly faithles vows How soon how sore thy frights their ioys appall MUCH like as dream unguided fanci fils With shapes untrue which wakened all are gone So when thou stirst their image Lord it spils Their pompous shews despiz'd from world are flowne THUS whilÄ•st my soule on bitter grief did bite While thorni thoughts my fuming hart did wound As brutified my mynd had lost hir light Yea groveling beast I in thyn eys was found YET still was thyn and thyn shal ay abide By right hand takÄ•n thou staidst me with thy grace Thy counseil mee in beautÄ•ous way shal guid And lastly safe in happiÄ•st glori place FOR whom can heavÄ•n whom earth save thee display In whom or ioy or rest my soule might fynd O spring of life when flesh when hart decay TowÄ•r partage thow eternal standst assignd LO Creatures strangÄ•d to thee Crëatour great Alegiance due who faithles soules deny Shal fail who thee of spouzed love defeat Adultring harts in ireful vengeance dy THAT good for mee estrangÄ•d from pleazing sin With God sole spring of pure delights to dwell There fixt to rest My trust then ioy in him His gracious woorks my thankful hart foorth-tell PSALM 82. ASAPH vieuing the corruption and insufficienci of Iudges in his time admonisheth them that God is present in their assemblies whose office they execute counseleth reprooveth and putteth them in mynd of their ends And seeing the Land by their falt was now all out of frame he praieth God to exercize his right of iudging the whole world himself THE SovÄ•rain Lord whence iustice all derives Who mesur̆ed powÄ•r to earthli Lords divides His Senate of his presence nevÄ•r deprives Th' immortal Iudge mongst mortal Gods resides Sith iudgement's his how dare ye iustice wynd To scurge the good while miscreănts favour fynd THE poor ye should the weak the orphane free From wicked strength stil bending to oppress But ignorance ah not for high degree And vainest thoughts your darkned mynds possess Thus ruled coorse of all things turn'd awry Makes trembling earth to heavÄ•ns for iustice cry ISTYL'D you Gods who Gods earth-ruling place As glorious sons of supreme Lord doo hold But dy ye shal as men of menest race As foregone Princes now resolv'd to mold And rize great Lord thy iudging right resume O're nations all whom tyrants wrongs consume PSALM 84. King David who in great likelihood was author of this Psalm and at such time as he was either driven from Sion by Absalom or withheld by the necessiti of som war far off displaieth here his great longing love toward the Temple and solemn service of God there performed accounteth them happiest who alwaies reside in Gods house to praise him them happi also who at the state times according to the law held their voiages thether through what difficulties of way so ever So earnestly praying God to be returned to that place of ioy he ioineth with them in spirit who profess their true life safeti and happines to be placed in God THE fair aspect of Tabernacles thyn Great Lord of hosts how loveli to'absent ey It self prezents my longing soule dooth pine And pining faint til shee thy Coorts descry Nor earth nor heavÄ•n sole thow lifes glorious spring To hart to flesh reviving ioy doost bring AH absent I when yet poor sparro may When swalo wyld hir house hir nestlet cling Neer Altars thyn and there hir yonglings lay Yet absent I from thee my God and King Twise blest be they who in thy house reside Thy praise with them their loves with thee abide AND blessed hee far off who cheerd in thee On causies thinks which to thy mountain guide Dry vales they pass sweet springs by art yet see And gracious rain fore-drouth of pools dooth hide From wasting strength by strength they walk renÅed To Sion fair where God of Gods is vieÅed THEN Lord of hosts then Iacobs God our shield Ah ey the face with favours thyn enduÄ•d With sacred oil perfuzÄ•d Hear Lord and yield Those longed Coorts where one sole day accrÅed Whole thousand stains With mee Gods doors excell The stateliÄ•st tents with impious pride that swell OUR sun our shield whence life whence light derives Whence sure defence whence strength proud foes to quell He rightÄ•ous mynds of nothing good deprives They here in grace in glori'above shal dwell That earth that heavÄ•n Lord God of hosts may cry Thrise blest the man whose hopes on thee rely TREBLE T He fair as pect of Ta berna cles thyn Great Lord of hosts how loue-li t' absent ey it self pre zents My long-ing soule dooth pine And pining faint til shee thy coorts des cry Nor earth nor heăven sole thow lifes glorious spring To hart to flesh re viving ioy doost bring BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 90. MOSES here intituled the man of God beeing in his charge of conducting the Israelites in the wilderness where for their increduliti and murmuring the divine indignation brake oftentimes out upon them til in fine an irrevocable sentence of death was pronounced against that whole generation from twenti years old upward which had seen Gods miracles in Aegypt two only excepted to be executed in that wildernes before their entrance into the dezired land in this Psalm discovereth his extreme grief of hart for that miserable estate the Peoples sins provoking God and Gods punishments consuming them vnto whom God in all former ages had been a stay and protection Therfore prezenting unto God the remembrance of his former graciousnes the confideration of his owne Eterniti and of humane mortaliti in general whose life groweing shorter by sundri degrees was now at length reduced to a
period of about seventi or fourescore years ordinarily he beseecheth God to have particular compassion upon this his chozen people sore wasted with the punishments which their sins had called doun upon them to make them wise by his grace to comfort them with his returning favour and lastly so to frame the coorse of their labours that his promise continuing cleer and hopeful to them might at length yet in their children have a glorious accomplishment IN pilgrim life our rest in thrald estate our stay From age to age thou Lord hast been and savÄ•d us from decay Thy self ere birth to hils to earth ere form didst give Ere world hadst framÄ•d from ay to ay alglorious God doost live But man thy creature fallÄ•n thy iustice dooth persue To dust and saith Ye Adams sons return whence first ye grew WHEN thousand years we livÄ•d those thousand in thy sight Not more appeard then one day past then watch in shortest night Yet soon encreasing sin those years much shorter makes While vengeance due desiled world to drouning flud betakes Since when our dreamlike life as weakest herb soon dys Which morn makes flour hote noon bids fade sad eeuÄ•n mowes doun and drys AH men unblest thy wrath our weariÄ•d life consumes Thy terrours great our soules affright so sore thyn anger fumes Our sins our foul revolts before thy face hast set And secretst falts to cleerest light or eys displeazÄ•d are fet What have our toils atchieu'd through anger thyn our day Black night devours our fruitles years as thought fly vain away MANS shortned life as now sole sevÄ•nti years dooth bide Great strength to fourescore may attain Of these evÄ•n flour and pride What is' t but toil and grief but vain pursuits and sin Which spent we hence to dusti home away to post begin OH who dooth duely waigh the powÄ•r of heavÄ•nli ire As terrors thyn so is thy wrath ô thow consuming fire Then teach us so our days our wasting years to count That wisdom true our thoughts towărd thee our endles end may mount Return ô Lord how long at length appeazd forgive Thy folk let favour shour in time that dying harts may live AND comfort cheer us Lord as chastiz'd long by thee Much evÄl our woful eys have seen like ioy so cauze us see This ioy with life shal last Then let thy woork growe cleer Towărd servants thyn on children their thy glori make appear And let Gods pleazed face us with his beauties bless And form our woorks ô thow our woorks to happiÄ•st end address TREBLE I N pilgrim life our rest in thrald e state our stay From age to age thou Lord hast been and savÄ•d us from decay Thy self ere birth to hils to earth ere form didst give Ere world hadst framÄ•d from ay to ay al glorious God doost live But man thy creaturefallen thy iustice dooth persue To dust and saith Ye Adams sons re turn whence first ye grew BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 92. This Psalm consecrated to the Sabbath as fit for an holi assembli exhorteth to praize by voice and musical instruments Gods goodnes and iustice apparent in the final destruction of the wicked now miserably flourishing and in his constant favour to the faithful inhabiters of his Church prosecuted even in old age with comli grace and fruitfulnes A GOOD a gracious act it is To praize the Lord to celebrate his bliss Thy name ô Highest to renoum With hymns which earth with heavÄ•ns high honour croun Thy bountÄ•ous grace let springing day Let silent night thy faithful trueth display Let ten-stringd lute with viole sweet Melodious harp in sacred consort meet Since ioy to me thy woork dooth bring Thy woorks great Lord my thankful ioy shal sing O LORD thy woorks how glorious great How deep thy thoughts thoughts shalo to defeat The floting brain of brutish man Not once observes not once it fadom can That when as grass the wicked growe When sinners proud doo sprout doo bud and blowe In flouring state they shall be mowne And all for ay to sad destruction throwne While thow ô Lord most high most iust Ay happi livÄ•st whole worlds sole endles trust FOR lo thyn impious foes ô Lord Thyn impious foes of heavÄ•ns and earth abhord From earth and heavÄ•ns lo chasÄ•d away In darknes dire their damned heads shal lay My strength but thow like stateli horn Of UnÄcorn stout with dread and beauti born Wilt long advance Oil fresh renÅed On me shal stream with gladnes sweet imbÅed And ey shal see ioid ear shal hear Chance wicked foes what gilti harts did fear THE iust mene while as fenced palm Shal flourish fair no storms shal him uncalm As cedar tall mount Libans praize His lofti top towărd heavÄ•ns high valt shal raize Men planted midst Gods sacred place In sacred coorts shal spring yea through his grace In age extreme stil fruit shal give Stil iuiceful still with greeni boughs shal live To shew that God my strength and light Ay iust persists ay pure from all unright PSALM 94. The Author of this Psalm living in time of ungodli tyranni under which himself did also greatly suffer prezenteth the state of the Land unto the vieu of Almighti God whom he calleth on to be an Avenger against those Tyrants who oppressing Gods people atheistically scorned his future iudgements the veriti of which he establisheth by invincible argument Then he comforteth the better sort by assuring them that this chasticement should turn finally to their good and iudgement should once again return to true Iustice and encourageth them to make a stand of defence against the wicked who in wrong-dooing and oppression might execute their owne powër but could not derive such authoriti from God unto whose gracious protection he in finâ—… betakes himself with assurance of his owne safeti and of his enimies destruction This Psalm is coniectured to have been made by David at what time he was persecuted by King Saul and his Coortiers and then seemeth most fitly to fall into the time when after that most cruel massacre of Gods Priests their wifes children servants and veri cattle in hate of David he began to think of standing upon his owne defence beeing anointed by God for successour in the Kingdom yet without any purpose of attempt against Saul in his person peace authoriti or digniti A VENGER great who mans presumptuÅus sin Earth righteÅus Iudge with plagues to chastize doost not lin At length shine out ô spring of purest light Rize up pay home the proud in worlds apparent sight How long great Lord how long shal godles sect Shal wicked crue triumph who heavÄ•nli laws neglect Shal tyrants fierce impunely fome their shames And grievous wrongs contrive then vant their hateful names THY servants Lord with iron teeth they grynd Th'elected race oppress no plea to barbărous mynd Nor widoes eys nor orphans palms can make Nor humbled strangers knees their murdÄ•ring rage to slake That doon
thus say Can this to God be told Or Iacobs Lord wil hee from heavÄ•n our facts behold O blynded soules gainst God ye cloze your eys Look up why natures light doo brutish mynds despize CAN soverain cause whence all perfections flowe Himself not knowe on man yet knoweing powÄ•rs bestowe Who plants the ear shall hee unhearing bee Who ey with sight endues himself ye fools not see Round world who rules who nations all dooth rein To check to scurge leud lifes may careles hee remain Yeas God dooth see th' eternal light dooth knowe Yea knowÄ•th in hart of man how vain conceipts doo growe O BLEST that man whom thow doost Lord correct And by correcting teach towărd sacred laws respect Midst days of evÄl in rest he safe abides For wicked wretch dead pit while vengeance due provides For sure our Lord his folk wil not forsake Wil not peculiar flock t abandon eâ—…re betake For iudgement shall to iustice pure return And draw all upright harts which now for iustice moorn AH who for mee dare gainst malfactors rize What courage take my part If thow thy gracious eys If succÅring hand deer Lord didst not extend My life towărd death my soule towărd silent place did bend But when I cry'd My foot ah Lord dooth shake Thy pityÄng grace did mee to staid protection take In swarms of cares midst sad perplexed thought Yet comforts thyn delight in troubled soule have wrought MAY viÅlent throne from thee Lord powÄ•rs derive That lusts for laws ordein and griefs for ease contrive By troops they range the rightÄ•ous soule to kill Yea iudgement seats abuze ungilti bloud to spill But God my towÄ•r my high retreit hath been My Lord my rock assurÄ•d in worlds fair vieu was seen He hee their wrongs their spite shal them restore Yea God our Lord their pride hew doun for evermore TREBLE A Venger great who mans presumptuÅus sin Earths rightÄ•ous iudge with plagues to chastize doost not lin At length shine out ô spring of pu-rest light Rize up pay home the proud in worlds apparant sight How long great Lord how long shal god-les sect shal wicked crue triumph who heavÄ•nli laws neglect Shal Tyrants fierce impuneli fome their shames And grievous wrongs contrive then vant their hateful names BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 100. An Invitation to all Nations to prezent themselves cheerfully in the Coorts of God with exclaming thanks and praises for his constant goodnes and merci toward mankynd whom he hath made and framed peculiarly to be his WITH raized voice and cheerful grace Approach ye Nations all our king On bended knees prezent his face With hymn of bliss which Angels sing For knowe Hee formd vs God not wee His flock his folk yea sons to bee O THANKFUL enter then his gate His coorts high praises make exclame Resound his acts and glorious state And prostrate bless his sacred name Whose goodnes great and favour sure Whose trueth like heavÄ•ns unchang'd dooth dure PSALM 101. DAVIDS vow unto God touching the wel governing of Himself his Coort and Kingdom made it seemeth a little before his actual coming to the Croun OF Iudgements Lord to thee I 'le sing Where Iustice Merci shall embrace Such thoughts shal righteÅus use make spring Towărd mee gainst pleazÄ•st to bend thy face MYN house an upright hart shal guid Which vice shal check which goodnes grace No pleazing sin shal train aside Those eys which thee before them place WHO thee forsake from mee I 'le shake Their woorks and them I 'le ay detest Nor perverse imp there root shal take Where evil all shal be supprest THAT sly deceipt the slandÄ•rous tong Which iust men heedles may beguile That secret seed of neighbours wrong Severe reproof shal strait exile THOSE hauti looks of swelling mynd Which Thee neglect and equals scorn That self-love hatred myn shal fynd I 'le soon pul doun their lofti horn WHAT woorthi person through the Land Myn ey can vieu what faithful wight He graced in my Coort shal stand His upright service my delight BUT false dissembling flattÄ•ring mates With lying tricks that plot their owne No harbour get within my gates Their tricks and They shal out be throwne MY kingdom then I will begin From foul corruptiÅns clean to pare To hunt the wicked to their gin Shal be my daili earliÄ•st care SO shall Gods Citie brightly shine So shall his people flourish ay When damned crues exiled pine And lawles folk are swept away PSALM 103. King DAVID with great thankfulnes and high ioy of spirit celebrateth here the excelling graciousnes of God toward himself in particular the race of Israel in especial and in general toward all men who fear him and keep his covenant Where at large he expresseth the goodnes of our heavenli Father full of compassion and merci prone to reclaim and forgivo mankynd offending and contrariwise slowe in punishing In fine he exciteth the happi Angels of God with all his loial hosts and ereatures to bless their great King who hath placed his throne in the heavens embracing them all with his supreme dominion And himself lastly conioineth with them in lauding God PURE light of soule thou high-bred mynd Deriv'd from God and God to praize assignd Adore thy Lord his beauties bless And glorious acts in praiseful hymns express Bless still my soule with all thy powÄ•rs That sacred name whence bliss so richly shours No tract of time ô e're efface From thankful hart sweet vieu of bountÄ•ous grace OF GRACE which all thy sins remits And all thy griefs sins pay with cures befits Thy life from grave which dooth redeem Redeemd dooth round with deer compassions steem With healthiÄ•st food thy mouth which fils That egle-like youths strength through age distils HE supreme iudge whence iustice springs To wrongd on earth from heavÄ•n iust iudgement brings He ways divine to Moses showne By Moses made to Isrăels ofspring knowne Same Israels race with ioy hath seen Those Acts to foes which terrour dire have been TH' algracious Lord with pitti'is fraught How slowe to wrath how soon to merci wrought Nor strive nor chide wil alwaies hee Ne let his ire though iust unending bee Not like our flats his strokes were found Sin wrath provok'd grace merci made abound FOR look how high earth heavÄ•n transcends How far from East to West huge space extends So great his grace towărd servants prooves So far our sins deer Lord from soules remooves As father tendreth feeble son With sonli fear like kyndnes his is won FOR well he knowÄ•th our brittle state Remembring whom of clay he did crëate As earth-sprung grass as flour of field So flouring man to earth whose days must yield When wynd sweeps o're fair flour is gone The place earst brave inglorious stands alone BUT ay benign still God the same Towărd them persists who fear who love his name Yea rightÄ•ous trueth to fathers sworn With race observes of childrens children born Sole that his covÄ•nant they
Governours whence much mischief ensueth or by ani other evil or sorro whatsoever are all brought upon them by their sins and that odious unthankfulnes to God who yet even in publick miseries preserveth and prospereth his humble servants and when Nations apply themselfs faithfully to his service poureth upon them all blessings opposite to those former punishments Which things wise men will consider and make use of especially so as to knowe and acknowlege the Crëatours goodnes YE woorthi mynds in whom Gods gifts excell Whose persons walk on earth high thoughts in heavÄ•ns doo dwell Renoum our Lord ring foorth his glorious name Whose goodnes no time fails sweet mercies still the same OBLAZE his acts ye now at rest that stand From hostile powÄ•r redeemd redeemd from strangers land Ye late dispersd now gathered by his grace From East from West from North yea from great Oceăns place In deserts wyld through uncouth invious ways All tired all forlorn they wandred nights and days With fainting spir̆its through thirst and hunger pin'd And no relief no steps towărd cultivÄ•d place could fynd IN need extreme when lo to God they cry He gracious hears their mone and help from heavÄ•n makes fly So strength renues so straying feet directs To peopled wals and safe from perils all protects O thankful then to God his grace confess His mervÄ•ilous woork to men with ioious tongs express Who thirsting soule with waters sweet refreshd The empti fild and pace towărd longed home addresd IN darknes sad in shade of grisli death With irÅn and anguish bound who sighd their servile breath Il-ruled mynds that this and more deserv'd That Highests woord despysd from Gods advise that swarv'd When hart-burst clean they grovÄ•ling rold in pain Ne hope of better saw nor place for worse remain IN need extreme to God their suit they bent Who pityÄng rueful plight from heavÄ•n sweet comfort sent He darknes dire grim shade of death dispels he cords from hands from feet he fetters burst repels O thankful then to God his grace confess His wondrous act to men with ioious tongs express Who brazen gates made all to fragments flee Brake bars of irÅn strong Lord and prison̆ers did enfree UNGOVERND fools transported by their lust From vertuÅus ways to vice when God severely iust Their wicked ioys afflicts such sicnes sends That soule abhorring meat at deaths pale door attends IN hour extreme to God then lo they cry Who gracious hears their grones and ease from heavÄ•n bids hy Doun comÄ•th his woord the per̆ishing soule to save And hasting life retracts from neer approached grave O thankful then to God his grace confess His mercies great to men with ioious tongs express And clensd in hart iust sacrifice of praise Let grateful hands yield vp renoum him all your days TO Seas in ships who Arts chief woork descend Adventrous harts by trade penurious state to mend Or spatious lakes who pass what wondrous sight Strange woorks of God in deep their staring looks affright Lo strait his woord tempestuÅus wynd dooth rear And roughest frouns on seas late smiling face appear Anon towărd heavÄ•ns on back of arched wave They mount dismount in trise towărd hels unloveli cave As drunk they reel then melting harts gin fail Nought toil nought careful coorse of Masters skil avail IN case extreme when lo to God they cry Who gracious hears griev'd voice and help from heavÄ•n bids hy Strait wynds repose smooth hieu calmd seas regain Harts ioy woorks cheer til safe they long longd havÄ•n attain Then thankful ô to God his grace confess His merveils great to men with ioious tongs express And let Gods Church let faithful people hear Vowd praise in senat grave his mercies rare endeer HEE bubling springs chokes up with thirsti sand Yea rivers rich accursd dry desert makes to stand And fertile soil in plague of owners sin To saltnes damns whence fruit nor skil nor toil can win AGAIN his grace dry desert stores with pools Sends springs and bare burnt earth with fruitful moisture cools There hungri soules their citti sets to place Who sowe their grains plant vines years sweet return embrace Abounding food then blest with restful peace To numbers huge themselves their flocks and heards encrease BUT harts puft up soon spurning heavÄ•nli law Ah fools in chains of sin enchained tortures draw Oppression foul sad days unthriving care Their ioyles mynds abase their branching numbers bare He vyld contempt on woorthles Nobles pours And wayles wasts makes walk chasÄ•d out from lordli towÄ•rs Yet godli poor raizd up from pressing need As tree makes branch as flock his branched race to breed THESE things the iust with reverend ioy shal see And wicked mynds and mouths appald and stopt shal bee Who then is wise these sights to hart to lay Gods goodnes they shal learn Gods praises they display PSALM 110. The Prophet DAVID foresheweth the everlasting Kingdom and Priesthood of Christ who after his Ascension sitting at the Right hand of God should send out his forces from Sion and Ierusalem to reduce the world unto him Which spiritual warfare should take so wonderful effect that not onli at the veri beginning infinite multitudes should adioin themselfs to the Church but in short time also the Empire of Rome it self then Head of mani Nations with other great kingdoms should be conquered and subdued unto the obedience of Christ and his law The proof whereof to the later ages did manifestly appear THE Lord said to my Lord Thow at my right-hand sit While foes their necks I to thy feet as foot-stool make submit From Sion seat of Grace the Lord thy scepters might Through world shal send midst all thy foes bear rule thou Prince of light What day thy warli ranks shal high exploit begin The people prest with cheerful strife to serve thee shal com in Anon as prime of morn with silvÄ•ri perls of dew Al-spreds the world like troops thy youth in sacred house shal shew THE Lord who will not change hath sworn fair Prince to thee A Priest thou art MelchÄsedek like and ay that Priest shal bee This Prince who ' on thy right hand great King of heavÄ•n thus shines Each earthli King in ire shal crush that gainst his rule repines He HÄ•then with swoord shall iudge fields streets with corps shal straw Imperiăl Head whom Nations serve assubiect to his law As lightning swift shal run in way of torrent drink Thus gloriÅus head triumphant raize while danted foes doo shrink PSALM III. The Psalmist here sings the praises of God both for his glorious woorks and for his gracious acts toward the Israelites in mercifully conducting them from the serviliti of Aegypt to the happi land of Canaan and therein chiefly for establishing to their everlasting good his sacred Law and Covenant In observance whereof true wisdom consisteth ALLELV-IA MY hart dooth heavÄ•nli heat enflame To sound high praise to glorious name Th'alglorious Lord midst rightÄ•ous press In sacred senate
shall I bless Great are Gods woorks and bless their sight Whose mynds in knowelege high delight His gracious hand all good hath formd All beautÄ•ous all with grace adornd OvÄ•r all Gods Iustice glorious raigns Which rightÄ•ous ay unswaid remains HIS acts which wondring Fathers saw So live enrold as guiding law That ages all with ioy recount Those graces thoughts which all surmount Hee gracious Lord with merci fraught His race elect from thraldom brought In desert bare in hungers raign With food celestiăl did sustain Hee who his covenant still remynds Where righteÅus fear true faith he fynds To IsraÄ•l deer his powÄ•r expresd Which them of Hethens land possesd THUS all his woorks are trueth and right Prints of his hand sparks of his light His sacred precepts faithful all And dying man to life recall Unchanging rule unerring guid So Lord and Law stil same abide For when he first redemption sent And feet late thrald at freedom went He law he leaug with them ordaind Eternal bothe from heăven proclaimd That man should awful thereto frame Sith holi ' and dreadful lives his name PRIME entrance unto wisdom true Gods greatnes is to fear O you Sole you right understandings bless Who tremble ' his mandates to transgress Adore him then whose praises pure As sun illustrous ay endure PSALM 112. A mixed description aswel of the vertuous as also of the prosperous life of a good man beeing an hart-grief to the wicked whose desires all perish ALLELV-IA O HAPPI man with humblest fears And purest loves towărd God who bends With sweet delight Gods law he hears And heard through actions all extends O HAPPI man thy ioys are true Thy house with plenteÅus wealth abounds Thy iustice yields and reaps hir due Hir fruit to thee stil blest redounds HIS ofspring noble in their race By noblest vertues so endure Long hold on earth great powÄ•rful place And world of blessings round alure YEA evÄ•n in time of darkest wo To him dooth cheerfull light arize To righteÅus man who no maâ—… fo Stil merciful stil merci trys HEE helpful bounteÅus lends and gives Reward from Gods sole grace expects In choisest thoughts stil blessed lives Which prudence rightly still directs THERFORE he stable ay shal stand Nor storm nor engin throwe him doun Yea gracious woorks of vertÅous hand With fame immortal shal him croun HIS setled mynd on God relys No troublous nues can him affright Firm stands his hart and fears defys Which on his enimies pates shal light THUS spends the iust thus ends his hours Dispersing hand the needi feeds Doun glorious blessing on him shours Reaps endles prize of ended deeds THE wicked this shal see and vex Shal grynd their teeth and pine to nought Sad fears shal duely them perplex Their deer desires to nothing brought ALlelu-ia ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij O happi man with humblest fears And pu rest loues toward God who bends With sweet de light Gods law he hears And heard through actions all ex tends O happi man thy ioys are true Thy house with plentÄ•ous wealth abounds Thy iustice yields and reaps hir due Hir fruit to thee stil blest re dounds 2. TREBLE Allelu-ia ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij MEANE COVNTERTENOR Allelu-ia ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij TENOR Allelu-ia ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij BASE Allelu-ia ij ij ij ij ij ij LUTE Allelu-ia PSALM 118. This Psalm is with great reason coniectured to have been made by King David and at his first coming to the possession of the kingdom of Iuda It conteineth first his inward great thankfulnes to God for deliveri by divine hand from so mani strong attempts against him admonishing no assurance to be like unto trust in God Secondly it reciteth the verse which the People had taken up to magnifi God with for this victori as it were atchieved in advancing David above his enimies And lastly it setteth foorth the dueti of a truly noble and religious King in the example of this King David who besides his private thankfulnes maketh here a solemn entri into the Coorts of God there prostrateth himself publicly in thanks and praier to the Almighti which doon he is blest of the Priests of God and received as beeing sent to them from God to be their Governour In fine legal sacrifices are slain and offered up with sound of triumphing praises to the eternal Lord and King In the person of King David his Son our Saviour is here prefigured who beeing refuzed by the Archbuilders the Prelates and Potentates of his time yet became by Gods grace the head-stone of the corner whereupon the spiritual Church is builded and wherein the Iues and Gentiles were united beeing received of the true Israel as sent unto them from God SING ô sound out Gods woorthi praise Who goodnes pure stil grace displays Let IsraÄ•ls race agnize the same And thankful now renoum his name Great Aărons house thou blest to bless Same goodnes same sweet grace confess Yea all who fear our glorious King His rich his endles merci sing IN streit distress the Lord I sought Who gracious fair enlargement brought That sith my God dooth mee assist Sith aiders myn his aid hath blist Nor fear I man doo man his woorst Nor faun on fo with rancour burst Much better ô in God to trust Then ground on man whose ground is dust On God yea better to rely Then Princes lo evÄ•n Princes dy MEE nations all encloz'd as toil But Gods great help all put to foil As circle they did mee surround But Gods great help bare all to ground Yea evÄ•n as cloud of Bees they swarmd With ireful stings against me armd As cracling fire of thorns soon spent By Gods great help to smoke they went THOU sore at mee my fo hast thrust My wrongful fo but God God iust With succÅring hand me staid from fall Thy plots thyn hopes defeated all He hee my strength my verse of praise Sole health sole ioy for ending days HARK voice of ioy triumphing sound Fils rightÄ•ous tents with safeti cround Sing God our God this fight hath wrought Whose right-hand valiant acts hath sought Advanced stands that powrful hand And powers terrene makes all disband IT 'S true God mee did sore correct Yet still from death my soule protect Then live I shall where's death thy sting O God thy woorks thy praise to sing NOW towărd th'Eternals glorious place With revÄ•rence bend we ioyful pace Ye sacred Priests to heavÄ•ns great King Who vows who praiÄ•rs sweet praises sing Uncloze your gates give praise access At gates which praises all possess Hence crue profane Gods gates are pure Sole rightÄ•ous mynds clean thoughts endure O KING of Kings who ear didst bend To iust requests and safeti send Lo prostrate here thy servant true Yields thanks brings praise great Lord thy due What stone th' Archbuilders did reiect Their folÅers scorn the world neglect Same stone now angles
fronted head Thy peoples strength and rest hath bred O GRACIOUS Lord thyn act it is Great act of merci act of bliss Our ravisht thoughts our wondring eys Thy woork makes mortal woorks despize This day thy grace hath made us see Which ay to ioy shal sacred bee Then still great King thy goodnes raign Stil safeti still this ioy maintain O blessed thow whom God hath sent And here dooth King in grace prezent We Priests of God Gods merci seat Who ay atend ay God entreat Appeaz'd his people deer to bless Wee bless you Long Gods bliss possess Hee th' onli God this light hath raiz'd This ioying light He sole be praiz'd To altars horns beasts festive bynd Let sacred bloud seal faithful mynd THOU art my God I 'le bless thy name Our Lord to heavĕns wee 'le raize thy fame Sing then sound out Gods glorious praise Who goodnes pure stil grace displays PSALM 119. This Psalm conceived to be Davids and after a long time of persecution under King Saul for that God had declared David for his successour is a treasuri of mani excellent parts of devotion mani choise things for instruction each Section beeing not incoherent within it self for matter though not so in form of speach by reason of tying the verse to an alphabetical order vzed also in som other Psalm◅ but in differing maner either in assistance of memori or to make the matter more remarkable David then first laieth here the ground of true blessednes to consist in converting our harts to God by seeking to knowe him in his woord and by bending to serve him in observing his commandments which infer an aversion from their contraries namely lying ways and sin He sheweth and often by his owne example the excellenci and blessed effects of Gods Law and Woord Gods woord is a light of heavenlitrueth It illuminateth the understanding and bringeth life unto man conducting him thereunto as a lamp or star through the pilgrimage of this cloudi world wherein we are strangers The Law also of God comprized in this woord is a law everlasting a law of perfect righteousnes continuing when all worldli perfections shall perish Wonderful are the treasures of Wisdom Vertu and Ioy wrapped up in this woord and law of God and which beeing unfolded bring understanding to the simple and are directions even for the yong They advance man in wisdom above the wit of his enimies the science of the learned the experience of the aged In cases doutful they are counselers in dangers they are hopes in disgraces countenancers in afflicted estate comforters in calm meditations most pure delights and ioys far exceeding the ioys of wealth and worldli prosperiti Lastly they place their foloers in so great repose of soule that no offence from the world can subvert or interrupt it Contrariwise we beeing all the woork of Gods hands who hath made the whole world and all parts thereof to serve him even as at this day they continue and seeing also our waysly open to the sight of God what can the proud despizers of Gods Law expect but the curse of divine vengeance persuing them by divers iudgements to everlasting d◅struction til as dross they be consumed from off Gods earth For although it be true that the mercies of God are great yea and that the whole earth is replenished with them yet far is salvation from the obduredly wicked The horrour of whose ends reprezented to prudent mynds breedeth in them a fear of the iudgements of God and maketh them more resolvedly to hate the vain inventions of godles persons whose trics and falshoods are but deceivings of themselves as also more carefully to consider their owne coorses and choozing the way of trueth to make hast to serve God refraining from everi evil and unapprooved way which might to his divine Maiesti be displeasing But David now applying these generals to his owne particular discovereth an extraordinari spirit and admirable desire toward God his woord his law and iudgements professing they were his studi meditation delight yea and matter of his speach that he dezired nothing so much as to have his hart and ways so addressed toward God as to knowe him and keepe his laws Seven times a day did he praize God for his iustice His praiers to God for assisting grace and protection were earlier then the dawning of the toilsom day his meditation on the woord of God and heavenli misteries prevented the nightli watches yea all the day long his loving and longing thoughts ran wholy upon the law of God And at midnight also when other men were at their natural rest and slept he wakening roze up to give thanks unto God in contemplation of his righteous iudgements These were his trust hope comfort and ioy Love of these bred an hatred in him of all lying and false ways a care to refrain from transgressing their rules in ani thing a lothing of the veri compani of ungodli persons an endevour to make his companions of them who feared God and kept his precepts a zele that even consumed him with bitternes of grief to see his enimes not forget only and viclate the law of God but with wicked desires and the pride of an high hand attempt utterly to displace it which called on God himself to take his quarrel in hand Lastly this love of Gods woord and law cauzed him to speak boldly thereof before Kings And though Princes traduced him in unprinceli maner yea and persecuted him without a cause though the pride of his enimies sought maliciously and wrongfully to bereave and deprive him of his goods by robbing him of his good name and reputation by forging lys and dispersing reproaches against him and lastly of life it self by lying in ambush to surprize him yet his hart beeing held in aw by the woord of God he forbare to repay wrong with wrong sin with sin but in silent sorro even with streams of tears bewailed their offences and ensuing punishment And for himself he confesseth this affliction was for his good that God sent it him in veri faithfulnes to reform his straying coorses which effect it had wrought and that his delight in the law of God and hope in his woord did both preserve and comfort him in all those troubles This beeing Davids estate and disposition of soule his praiers are sutable He praieth God that looking upon him and considering he was his and a lover of his law he would vouchsafe to teach him it by inlightning his understanding and by induing him with good sense and iudgement that he would give him a sound hart and so inlarge and quicken it with heavenli ioy and cheerfulnes as redily to run the way of Gods commandments That having inclined him to the way of righteousnes he would disturn his eys from regarding vaniti his hart from beeing caught with covetousnes that he would deliver him from lying ways and preserve him in such strength of vertu that no iniquiti
right thy servant still esteem For evÄ•n afflictions all I now thy favours deem Which straying soule reducÄ•d who since beleeves thy law Thow good and good who doost still me to goodnes draw THE proud with conscious gilt have lys gainst mee devizÄ•d I careful kept thy woord that kept their lys despizÄ•d Their harts hath tallo ' obdurÄ•d thy hests are my delight And since thy chastning hand my humbled soule aright In wisdoms school hath framÄ•d more deer thy laws I hold Then streams of silver fine then hils of purest gold IOD THY hands me made and formd reform thy servant Lord And understanding give which sin may make abhor'd Thy iudgements all are iust I knowe in faithful trueth And for my good thy love thus scurged hath my youth But now let promis'd grace with comfort shine that they Who fear thee knowÄ•ing my case thy praise may glad display YEA let thy mercies shour and weariÄ•d soule refresh That withÄ•ring hart revivÄ•d may life from thee confess Let pride ashamÄ•d remain to seek my causeles bane Whose harmles thoughts thy law their sole delight doo frame Let zelers of thy hests to mee themselves adioin And clenze my hart that shames sad scandal none eloin CAPH MY long erected soule stil looking for thy grace Thy woord stil trusting now bends doun hir fainting face Consumed are my spir̆its consumÄ•d my waiting eys Like bottle parch'd with smoke my self now self despize Yet still beleeve thy woord thy precepts still apply How mani rest my days when draw thy comforts nigh AND when shal I my Lord see swoord of iustice draw Gainst proud persuing foes who pits not so thy law For righteÅus steps have delvÄ•d Ah hate the most uniust Thow then whose hests are trueth my life neer trod to dust If still thy law I love if mercies thyn attend In merci keep which kept I 'le in thy service spend LAMED THY woord forevÄ•r great Lord in heavÄ•ns enthronÄ•d remains Thy woord which all did make and all things made sustains Thy trueths through age to age with stedfast coorse proceed Stands peized earth ne mooves by thee so Lord decreed Thus lo as thow ordainÄ•dst they all this day persist Thy servants all to act what e're thy iudgements list MY woes had mee consumÄ•d had solace in thy law Not cheerd that hart which nought can e're from thence withdraw For thyn I am ô thyn preserve from wicked swoord Which dogs my life who live in studyÄng Lord thy woord In tracing Lord thy ways O ways of widening ioys When else perfections all see fretting time destroys MEM. VVHAT Lord what heat my soule with sacred love inspires Of law divine what powÄ•r thus rapts my strong desires All day to quicned cares to pozed thoughts at night It self prezents stil shines high mynds admired light A light whose rays infuzÄ•d more sciÄ•nt me make and sage Then teachers books wit foes or gray experience age O LAW my thoughts delight desire those mandates pure Lawgiver great to pleaze dooth wari feet inure All sinful ways to shun thy woords high paths to hold Makes iudgements thyn observe which sacred rols have told Yea sweetest iuice my tast not so with sweetnes feeds As woord which wisdom true vyld falshoods hate imbreeds NVN. THY woord a lamp divine fair star that leads the day To paths obscure dooth shine and guids to heavÄ•nli way And I by sacred vow a vow in heavÄ•ns enrold Stand bound and rest resolv'd that woords iust rules to hold Afflictions mee extreme bere doun let promis'd grace Revive me ' ô then I pray poor lips frank gifts embrace MY soule see still in hand stands prest away to fly Such snares my life beset yet still thy hests I ey Can not thy Law forget O teach me Lord thy ways Thy woord since all my state sole ioy my hart to raize And thow my sovÄ•rain good since soule entire I bend Thy will to doo in this lifes breth extreme to spend SAMECH THY Law I deerly love mans vain conceipts despize Thow refuge myn and shield whose woord my waiting eys Stil holds in hope Avant avant then crue profane Gods mandates iust I 'le keep sole thow my hope from shame The hope thy speach hath raiz'd with life persuÄ•d defend SavÄ•d lifes so whole delight I 'le in thy statutes spend AND lo transgressours proud whose fraud shal self deceive Thyn earths inutil load of grace whom doost bereave As basest mire doun trod as dross with purging fire ConsumÄ•d shal sole remain sad marks of heavÄ•nli ire Therfore thy woord I love in love yet quake with fear When iudgements thyn I vieu yea hair dire horrours rear HAIIN IRIGHT and iust have wrought thy law hath been my guid Abandon then me not t'uniust oppressing pride But intercede with help my sureti ' and witnes true And failing eys with strength of rightÄ•ous speach renue Thy servant I deer Lord thy servant not forsake Give sciÄ•nce thy hests me teach and to thy favour take THUS I thy will shal knowe But time for thee great Lord For thee to woork whose laws of lawles mynds abhord Quite now they would displace I Lord so much the more Bove finest gold them prize thee fountain iust adore Their vertues high admire in all things alwaies right And falshoods ways perverse all spurn with iust despite PE. SO mervÄ•ilous shines thy woord in powÄ•r in wisdom high In goodnes that my soule with wingd desire dooth fly And pant it to attain Lo then thy sacred light I folo Lord with ioy since understanding bright DisclozÄ•d evÄ•n simple mynds it gives Thow mee with grace Aspect as those who thee in highth of loves doe place AND first my steps so guid in path of heavÄ•nli woord That sins dark powÄ•r decay Then mee with Iustice swoord From mans oppression free free man thy ways I 'le trace O thow thy servant teach And with thy gracious face Cheer up my grieved eys whence streaming tears doo thrill To see unthankful man neglect thy saving will TZADE HIGH Iudge of worlds from whom pure Iustice doun dooth flowe Whose law worlds perfect rule whose woord hid trueth makes knowe And iudgements all are right thou these with charge severe Hast man enioind to keep that mee griev'd zele dooth wear To see my foes forget thy speach proclaim'd above Thy speach which pure as heavÄ•ns drawth up thy servants love I SMALL and am despizÄ•d thy precepts yet apply Which mirrour true of thee which rule derivÄ•d from high Of iustice firmly pitcht of never changing right In toils in grasping griefs stil yield me sweet delight Sole thow my dazeling mynd pure lights eternal spring Illuminate which light shalt life eternal bring KOPH PROSTRATE with ardent hart with tear-distilling eys I call I cry ô thow who iust complaints despize Nor doost nor canst thou hear and save him who thy hests And witnest will wil keep if undefilÄ•d requests Morns dawning oft if oft my waking thoughts prevent Nights watches towărd thy woord
their hope in muzing bent LO fainting voice to thee my still unfainting hart Sends up send doun thy strength and Prince of grace who art Revive me ' as is thy wont See neer towărd me they draw Who mischief dire pursue far they from Lord thy law But thou art neer whose hests for never-changing trueth Long since thy teaching woord assurÄ•d my learning youth RESCH. AT length let pityÄng ey respect afflicted wight And thow mans hart who seest art conscious of my right And pressing fo observÄ•st plead thow my cause and free Soule cheered through thy woord addicted whole to thee Thy mercies Lord are wide yet far from godles crue Who seek not thee nor way to bliss that leads pursue BUT mee thy doom revive whom now persuing foes Not faithles to thy woord with swarming troops encloze O grief myn ey to see men break thy rightÄ•ous law Despize celestiăl bliss in lines of love which draw Thy servants soule see Lord and quickÄ•n them with thy grace Who iust eternal woord trueths sum with ioy embrace SCHIN VVITH causeles hate ô Lord and not unwronging swoord Have Princes mee persuÄ•d yet aw of heavÄ•nli woord My hart restraind from sin O woord whose ioys more draw My ly-detesting mynd and mynd that loves thy law Then ioy which Princes gifts or foes rich spoils can bring SevÄ•n times yea daily I thy righteÅus iudgements sing IN throng of worldli waves which sweet of life devour Their mynds stil calm abide no scandal there hath powÄ•r Where love of thee directs Lo then thy saving grace My hoping eys attend sole thow his love embrace Whose pure affection seeks thy pleasure to fulfill I fain not Lord my ways yea hart thou vieust at will THAV THEN let at length approach ô Lord my fainting cry Vouchsafe my suit access sole understanding I And riddance from my foes which promized hast require Thus taught thy will and free towărd thee my quick desire Shal spring my lips thy praise glad tong thy woord shal sound Where trueth where wisdom pure where statutes iust abound LET then thy hand now help if not with cold pursuit Salvation thyn I seek Vouchsafe me Lord this fruit Of making thee my hope thy law my choise delight O let my soule yet live preserv'd from tyrants might And it shal praize thy name Seek then thy straying sheep Who wandring now as lost yet strives thy law to keep PSALM 122. King DAVID having reduced the three parts of Ierusalem that of Iuda that of Beniamin and the Mount held by the Iebusites into one entire Citi and there in Sion seated the Ark of God having also according to the Law established there supreme Coorts iuridical for administration of Iustice to all Gods people taking a vieu of this woork performed by divine grace and of the peoples alacriti in frequenting Gods service he expresseth in this Psalm his religious ioy for the same and blessing Ierusalem and all them that bless hir concludeth with a promise on his owne behalf both for the peoples sake his brethren in race and religion and espeally for the Temples sake of God to procure studiously the good of that chozen Citi. MY longing hart deer ioy assaid As gracious sound strook grateful ear Religious mynds Each neighbour praid In Gods fair house let 's all appear Ierusalem our peaceful feet Now frequent in thy gates shal meet IERVSALEM the earths delight A Citie three compact in one To thee the Tribes in legal rite Gods chozen Tribes ascend alone Sole here shines out heavÄ•ns glorious King Here Israel all his praises ring RELIGION Iustice dooth embrace Who doubled bliss through land derive For iudgement thrones here hold their place And wronged right with aid revive Iudicial thrones the Kingdoms powÄ•r Of Davids croun most glorious flour O THEN Ierusalem respect Hir peace with vows to heavÄ•n commend Ierusalem who thee affect Them ioy them bliss stil prest attend O peace ay in thy towÄ•rs reside In houses plenti ay abide I FOR my frends my brethrens sake Whom race whom rites in love combine Shal alwaies pray Earths peace partake And heavÄ•ns rich light upon thee shine For Gods fair house my ioy I 'le sure Stil studious still thy good procure PSALM 128. The prosperous and happi estate both publick and private of the man who fearing God leadeth a life full of integriti OBLESSED they whose humble harts True fear of powÄ•r divine endues Religious soule that ne're departs From way which blisful life renues O BLESSED man thy ioys abound Thyn house thy cheerful hands shal rear And labours iust with blessing cround Shal feeding fruit stil plenteÅus bear THY wife a vine on wall disspred In fruitful love hast ioious met Thy children sweet in vertu bred Fair olive plants thy boord beset LO thus Gods fear thus gracÄ•d shal bee From Sion deer thee God shal bless And quiet home shal plenti see And life contented long possess THAT all thy days delighted ey Ierusalems great weal may vieu And wasting life it self espy In childrens children to renue O THANKFUL then Gods love alure Stil rightÄ•ous life with care maintain So happi long maist thou endure So peace with Isrăel long remain PSALM 130. The Psalmist in the continuance of som great publick calamiti wherein he had his part not unlikeli in the wearisom captiviti of Babilon sendeth up his humble cryâ—… unto almighti God not to call their falts to a strict account which the frailti of humane nature is not able to endure but to express now at length that merci of his which draweth men to fear and serve him with comfort So professing his hope in God and exercizing his patience in that hope yet continuing still his fervent desire in this patience he exhorteth all Israel to persevere in like attending trust assuring them that God would redeem them from all their sins and afflictions OUT from the deep to thee ô Lord I cry From place far off yet thow good Lord be nigh Lord hear my voice and with attentive ear Receive the plaints which humbled soule dooth rear IF strictly Lord transgressions thou shalt ey Lord who shal stand in sad despair we dy But Iustice thyn stil mercies thoughts displays That Greatnes fear and Goodnes love may raize WITH patiÄ•nce then on God my soule attend His woord my trust Hee 'le give thee ioyful end As morning rays rere sentinal desires So so and more towărd thee my soule aspires And patiÄ•nt ô await him Isrăel deer His great redemption now wil soon appear He merci is His merci from their thrall Yea from their sins shal ransom Isrăel all TREBLE O Ut from the deep to thee ô Lord I cry From place far off yet thow good Lord be nigh Lord hear my voice and with attentive ear Re-ceiue the plaints which humbled soule dooth rear If strictly Lord transgres But iustice thyn stil mer sions thou shalt ey Lord who shall stand in sad cies thoughts dis plays That great
nes fear and Gooddes pair we dy nes love may raize BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 137. The people of Iuda and especially the sacred Quires of the House of God after that great overthrowe of Ierusalem and the Temple by the Chaldeans beeing now in captiviti within the dominions of Babilon and having carried their instruments of Music with them are required in scorn by their insolent conquerers to make them merri with som song of Sion Which they refuzing to profane in that sort make a vow with execration against themselfs if ought before Ierusalem and hope of hir restauration ascend at ani time to ani highth of ioy in their now most woful mynds And conclude with betaking unto divine revenge the insulting malice of the unnatural Edomites and the cruelti of the Babilonians in that heavi day of Ierusalem BY Babel streams exil'd from Contri deer As doun we sate a sad dismaied crue Ah Sions wrongs to pensive mynds appear Sions whom now our eys no more should vieu Wee wept and trees that saw our tears abound Hang'd up those harps which wont our ioys resound THEN scornful Lords who Sions towrs had fir'd Gods Temple raz'd and vs to thraldom seaz'd In anguish mirth in tears a song requir'd And with som Hymn of Sion must be pleaz'd Should hymns divine to ears profane be song Can Sions Psalms to Babels coasts belong O SION fair and Gods elected seat Where envi earst but piti now may ground Ierusalem If thee I e're forget If in my ioys thow chiefest be not found Let parched tong to withÄ•ring palat growe And skilful hand no more his science knowe BUT thow ô Lord whose right-esteeming ey Ierusalems last traveils did behold Let Edoms malice never covÄ•red ly Which cruel mouths did strangely then unfold Their cursed cry record in heavÄ•nli ear Raze raze hir clean till loweëst stone appear AND Babel thow who Sions bane hast wrought Ne sacred Temple spar'dst with fire to burn Shalt see thy self to same destructiÅn brought And blessed they who thee the like return Yea blessed they who take thy cursed seed With dasht-out brains the crying stones to feed TREBLE B Y Babel streams exil'd from contri dear As doun we sate a sad dismai ed crue Ah Sions wrongs to pensive mynds ap-pear Sions whom now our eys no more should vieu Wee wept and trees that saw our tears a bound Hang'd vp those harps which wont our ioys re sound BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 139. DAVID in this divine meditation addressed to God acknowelegeth at large Gods knowelege of all things even before they have beeing and in particular of all the thoughts and ways of man rendreth a reason of this Omniscience from the creation of all and particularly from the merveilous fabric of man which ravisheth his mynd into such admiration that breaking into most affectionate praises of the manifold woorks and ways of God he professeth also that his thoughts are no sooner after sleep awakened but they first are seazoned with this sweet contemplation Contrarily falling into extreme detestation yea and imprecation against those wicked ones who blasphemous toward God vainly extol Gods enimies he concludeth with fervent praier that himself may be purified by the grace of God so conducted through the ways of this world as to attain finally his everlasting rest ETERNAL Light gainst whose al-seeing ey Mans thoughts his cares and ways doo all transparent ly Lo here my soule which thow with piercing vieu Hast searched and doost knowe so livÄ•st hir witnes true Great Iudge of harts who secret pleights unfold'st Who past with future things all present ay behold'st Thow knowÄ•st my coorse when doun I sit when rize Yea thoughts unborn far off thy foresight strange descrys BY day my walks at night my silent rest Thow doost envÄron with skill to all my paths addrest ObservÄ•st my tong no woord unwaigh'd doost leve Yea lips ere woords produce or thoughts hid speach conceve And grasp'st me so with thy al-guiding hand Behynd before as prest at pleasure thyn to stand Science profound of strange transcending law That man nor it can sound nor self from it withdraw FOR whether go how should I bend my flight Thy spirit Lord to balk or cloud me from thy sight If sore towărd heavÄ•ns in heavÄ•n thy throne resides If flag longst earth lo earth thy footstool lowe abides If stoop to hell and iaws which gastly gape Nor hell thy vieu nor feends thy thundring stroke escape If Eastern steeds and Mornings crimson wings I timely mount which round to utmost OcÄ•an brings Thou Easts great coorse and Morns fair wings doost guid Nor utmost OcÄ•ans gulfs from thyn aspect can hide PERHAPS might say yet darknes mee may hele Shee with hir sable robe from searchingst ey concele And canst once think weak shade which Sun dispels Should Light of lights eclipse who thousand Suns excels Fond base conceipt To thee ô Light divine Both dark and bright are like grim night as day dooth shine FOR iust and right that thou Creatour high Who all hast framÄ•d thy frame shouldst naked all descry And who my hart my reins in womb didst form With lims support attire with skin with sence adorn Shouldst hart and thoughts shouldst sence and ways posses Stupendious woork which ay great Architect shal bless A little world yet world of wonders great Which well my mynd conceipts and tong of it shal treat MY bones in weak in place obscure my sight In earth beneath my mynd fair spark of heavÄ•nli light Thou didst produce embroidÄ•ring evÄ•rie part With woork so rare that use with beauti strives in art And dout we yet if thow thy woork didst knowe Or can our tongs forbear thy glorious praise to shewe Yea tender mass while formles it remaind And day by day nue shape through vertu thyn aggaind Thyn ey saw all enrold in book divine Where all thy woorks to com as present cleerly shine BE blest great Lord thy wisdoms beautÄ•ous ways How precious deerly sweet to thee my soule doo raize In skill mans wit in count they pass the sands That still my wakened mynd with thee first present stands Admiring all thy woorks O righteous King At length then pleaze thy world â—…o first estate to bring Extermin race defil'd Ye men of bloud Whose base flagitious mynds despize th' eternal Good Who grace his foes of him profanely prate Avant from mee your selfs and damned ways I hate AH sovÄ•rain Iudge to thee my soule appeals My witnes true whose spir̆it mans secretst thoughts reveals That love of thee gainst them griev'd hatred breeds Whose venÅmous hate gainst thee breaks out in hostile deeds Thy foes are myn with them I leaug forsake And firm in perfect hate to vengeance iust betake THEN thow my Lord to whom I stand or fall Who rightÄ•ous mynds approov'st yet none canst perfect call Revieu my hart explore my thoughts again And waigh what grieving coorse dooth in my life remain Refine my