high Let Peace abound on earth below To men Divine benignity Or Glory be to our glorious God Whose dwelling's in the highest heaven Let Peace come down on earth below Love and good will to men be given Or Glory to the Eternal God In heav'n which is his glorious place Let Peace on earth make her abode Let men receive his love and grace The Hymn called the Benedicte of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego Paraphrased Christian Philosophy 1 LEt this great wondrous frame And all God's works therein On which his glorious name Inscrib'd is clearly seen Jehovah bless To magnifie The Lord most high His praise express 2 Ye holy Angels bright Who see Jehovah's face Where his Life Love and Light Make heav'n a glorious place The Lord still praise His Majesty Still magnifie Bless him always 3 Ye heav'ns so high and great In glory which excel The blessed holy seat Where Christ and Angels dwell His praise shew forth Him magnifie More gloriously Than we on earth 4 Ye unseen Powers above Which mortals little know Who under God do move And rule the things below Praise ye God's name As all his will Ye do fulfil Bless ye the same 5 Let the great glorious Sun Earth's mover life and light And the resplendent Moon Which shines to us by night God's Glory show Praise and declare Him whose ye are To us below 6 Ye numerous Stars of light Great Orbs and glorious all Though here to Mortals sight By distance ye seem small Your wondrous frame So great and high Doth magnifie The Lord's great name 7 Ye clouds and showers of rain And earth-refreshing dew Which do its store maintain And all its fruits renew To all mens sense Of us God's care You do declare And providence 8 Ye unseen winds that blow When and where God commands Moving the air below Both over sea and lands The Lord most high Your unknown course And potent force Do magnifie 9 God's wondrous work call'd FIRE Whose substance near and great We know not but admire Its motion light and heat Doth intimate What spirits are God's praise declare And celebrate 10 Winter 's and Summer's course The year 's revolving times Keep still by Divine force In their prescribed lines Each day and hour Do glorifie The Lord most high And praise his power 11 The sharp congealing cold The Frost the Ice and Snow We feel and do behold But not their secrets know These praise the Lord Who doth command Both Sea and Land And all the World 12 The glorious Heav'n-born light Earth's beauty joy and guide Black darkness silent night When men in rest abide Both nights and days Bless our great Lord Obey his word And speak his praise 13 Lightnings and Tempests fierce Make sinful mortals quake Thunders the mountains pierce God makes the earth to shake All these proclaim And dreadfully Do magnifie The Lord's great name 14 In this great fruitful earth Though small to all the rest Where mortals have their birth God's greatness is exprest It s numerous train Doth bless our God and all abroad His praise proclaim 15 Ye mountains vast and tall Even with the cloudy sky Whence all below seem small Which in the Valleys lye You to man's eye The power of God Shew all abroad And magnifie 16 The fields and fruitful ground Each plant and beauteous flower Where God's sweet gifts abound Which shew his love and power All this rich store High praises gives To him that lives For evermore 17 Fountains and pleasant springs Sweet streams that never rest Food health and pleasure brings Refreshing man and beast These always flow Praising God's love Which from above Feeds all below 18 The Ocean deep and wide Is in God's eye and hand And Rivers all that glide To it from every land God's wonders there Which dreadfully Him magnifie To all appear 19 Great Whales dwell in this deep The fish in wondrous store God there doth feed and keep And brings for man to shore Out of man's sight These glorifie The Lord most high And praise his might The fowls that fly in air And sweetly sing on earth God's chore that praise him are And shew his glory forth To our Great King All these rejoyce With chearful voice And to him sing 21 The beasts of divers sorts The wild servile and tame God makes feeds and supports To glorifie his Name To this design'd The Lord they bless His praise express Each in his kind 22 O man to whom all these Thy God hath servants made This God to LOVE and PRAISE Should be thy life and trade Learn and be wise Will only ye The Rebels be And God despise 23 Return man to thy Lord Follow not vanity Trust and obey his word And trust not to a lye He is thy God Now seek his face Obey his grace Prevent his Rod. 24 O ye his chosen flock Brought near him by his love His Church built on the Rock Redeem'd for Joys above Your God adore Your voices raise And sing his praise For evermore 25 Ye sacred Priests of God Whose worship ye attend Whose house is your abode Your days there sweetly spend Unweariedly Spread ye his fame His holy name There sanctifie 26 All ye that serve the Lord Devoted to his will Rul'd by his holy word Trust and obey him still In him rejoyce And magnifie The Lord most high With heart and voice 27 Ye spirits of the just Advanc'd by saving grace Who here in Christ did trust And now behold his face In heav'n above You joyfully There magnifie The God of Love 28 All Saints in heav'n and earth In whom Love's holy fire Kindled in the new birth Towards God doth still aspire Spend life and days Redeem'd for this The work of bliss The Lord to praise 29 With these Lord number me Let love draw up my soul From all its bonds set free Let nothing it controul That I to please And magnifie The Lord most high May never cease 30 One God in Trinity Let heaven and earth adore From all Eternity The same for evermore All Glory 's his Who needing none Himself his own Perfection is The Hymn of St. Ambrose called Te Deum c. 1 MOst Glorious God we here present Our joyful praise to thee The only God the Lord of all Confessing thee to be 2 Th' eternal Father Lord of all Thy works do thee proclaim For all are made to honour thee And glorifie thy name 3 Thee the blest Angels magnifie The Heav'ns and Powers thee praise Cherubs and all the glorious spirits Do cry to thee always 4 Most Holy Holy Holy God The universal Lord Thy present glorious Majesty Fills heaven and all the world 5 The glorify'd Apostles there Praise thee continually With them the blessed Prophets joyn Thy name to magnifie 6 There are the Martyrs noble hosts Employed in thy praise Thy holy Church in heav'n and earth Acknowledge thee always 7 Father in greatness infinite Thy One True Glorious Son The Holy Ghost the
hath found out a house The swallow found a nest Where she may lay her young and where Her self and they may rest Even near thy holy Altars they May make their safe abode And why not I seeing thou art My King and only God 4 Blest are they in thy house that dwell They always give thee praise 5 Blessed is he whose strength 's in thee In whose heart are thy ways 6 Who passing as through Bala's vale Make it a place of wells And the descending plenteous rain The pools with water fills 7 Unwearied they forward go Marching from strength to strength Till all in Sion do appear Before the Lord at length 8 Lord God of Hosts my prayer hear O Jacob's God give ear 9 O God our shield look on the face Of thine anointed dear 10 Because one day within thy house Is better to abide Than in another place to stay A thousand days beside Much rather would I keep a door In the house of my God Than in the tents of wickedness To take up mine abode 11 For the Lord God our Sun and Shield Will grace and glory give And no good thing from them with-hold Who uprightly do live 12 O thou that art the Lord of Hosts That man is surely blest Who by a stedfast confidence On thee alone doth rest PSALM LXXXV 1 THou hast been favourable O Lord unto thy land And Israel's sad Captivity Thou brought'st back by thy hand 2 Thy people thou forgav'st The guilt that they were in And by thy free and plenteous gracâ— Didst cover all their sin 3 Thy wrath thou took'st away And didst to mercy turn Even from thine anger terrible That did against us burn 4 O God our Saviour Turn us unto thy peace And cause thine anger that 's gone forth Against us for to cease 5 Shall thy displeasure last Against us without end And to all generations Wilt thou thy wrath extend 6 Wilt thou not us restore And quicken us that we Who are thy people evermore In thee may joyful be 7 Shew us thy mercy Lord Which may thy flock relieve And thy salvation unto us In season freely give 8 I 'le hear what God to us Will speak It will be peace To all his Saints But let not them Return to foolishness 9 Surely to all those who In fear of God do stand His help is nigh that Glory may Dwell always in our land 10 Mercy and truth shall meet And no more parted be And Peace with Righteousness shall greet And blessedly agree 11 Truth here even on this earth Shall spring and prosper well And righteousness from heav'n descend And here among us dwell 12 The Lord shall give what 's good Our land shall yield increase 13 Justice to set us in his way Shall go before his face PSALM LXXXVI 1 BOw down thine ear O Lord Hear me for I am poor 2 And in distress Yet I am thine Preserve my soul therefore My God thy servant save Who doth on thee rely 3 Be merciful to me O Lord Who daily to thee cry 4 Rejoyce thy servant's soul For unto thee O Lord Do I lift up my soul in hope That thou wilt help afford 5 For thou O Lord art good And ready to forgive And rich in mercy and all those That seek thee dost relieve 6 Give ear to my request My praying voice attend 7 I 'le call on thee when troubles come For thou wilt answer send 8 Among the Gods O Lord None may with thee compare Neither among the works they do Any like thy works are 9 All nations made by thee Shall come and reverently Worship before thee our great God And thy name magnifie 10 For thou art high and great And wondrous things hast done Besides thee there 's no other God For thou art God alone 11 Teach me thy truth and way And I 'le walk in the same Unite my heart Lord unto thee To fear thy holy name 12 My God with all my heart To thee will I give praise And I the glory will ascribe Unto thy name always 13 For thy mercy to me In greatness doth excel Thou hast delivered my soul Both from the Grave and Hell 14 The proud against me rise Terrible men are met In troops that seek my life but thee Before them have not set 15 But full of pity Lord And gracious thou art found Thou art long-suffering and in truth And mercy dost abound 16 O turn thee unto me And mercy on me have Strengthen thy servant and the Son Of thine own handmaid save 17 Shew me some sign for good That all my foes may see And be asham'd because thou Lord Dost help and comfort me PSALM LXXXVII 1 UPon the sacred hills He his foundation sets 2 More than all Jacob's dwellings else God loveth Sion gates 3 Great things are said of thee O City of the Lord. 4 Rahab's and Babel's case to those That know me I 'le record It 's said of famous Tyre And land of Palestine And of the Ethiopian land This man was born therein 5 Of Sion't shall be said This man and that man there Was born and he that highest is Himself shall stablish her 6 When God recites their names Who his own people are To their great honour he shall count That this man was born there 7 Singers and those that play On musick there shall be Yea all my springs of holy peace And comfort are in thee PSALM LXXXVIII 1 O God who art my hope and help To thee I cryed night and day 2 Let my cries have access to thee Incline thine ear when I do pray 3 My soul with troubles doth abound My life draws nigh unto the grave 4 Like one that to be buryed goes I am as those that no strength have 5 As a companion of the dead Like those that slain in grave do lye Whom thou hast cut off by thy hand And dost put out their memory 6 Thou lay'st me in the lowest pit And as in deep and darksom caves 7 Thy wrath lyes hard on me and thou Afflictest me with all thy waves 8 My friends thou hast put far from me To them as burdensome I grow In sorrows I am so shut up That forth from thence I cannot go 9 My eye through my affliction mourns I call on thee from day to day To thee O Lord I have stretch'd out My craving hands to thee I pray 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead Shall the dead rise and praise thee here 11 Is thy love praised in the grave Doth death thy faithfulness declare 12 Are thy great works known in the dark Or is thy truth and righteousness Remembred and mention'd in The land of deep forgetfulness 13 But unto thee O Lord I cry My morning's pray'r shall thee prevent 14 Lord why dost thou cast off my soul Why is thy face against me bent 15 Even from my early youth I was Afflicted and as near to die While I thy terrors do endure I almost as distracted lie
to come and speak with so great concernedness about Prosperity and Adversity here and especially that he saith so much through almost all the Book against his Enemies and the Oppression and Cruelties of wicked men and his great danger of them and sufferings by them even cursing them and their Posterity Answ As to this it must be considered 1. That it is most certain that not only David but the Jews generally except the Sadducees believed the Immortality of the Soul and the Rewards and Punishments of the other Life And many passages in the Psalms prove it And so do the Histories of Enoch and Elias and Saul's seeking to dead Samuel and the raising of divers dead men and Herod thought that John was risen and others that Christ was one of the old Prophets All which had been impossible had not the soul survived He that ask'd Christ what he should do to inherit eternal Life spake but on the Principle of the Jews Faith 2. But the future state of souls being not near so fully revealed under the Law as it was after by Christ who brought life and immortality more to light by the Gospel God saw it meet to give men under the Law more motives to Obedience and against Sin both by his word and works from outward Mercies and Punishments than under the Gospel which much more teacheth us the Doctrine of the Cross. 3. And David was a King whose concerns therefore were publick even the Churches and Kingdoms as well as his own And all Christians must be greatly affected with publick Church concerns And as he was a Type of Christ his Enemies are cursed as Christ's Enemies which yet he seemeth oft to do but Prophetically 4. And it must be noted that it is not their damnation that is his usual curse and wish though he foretel it of the impenitent but their destruction on earth for the Churches deliverance by the utter extirpation of them and their Posterity 5. And though Christ teach us to love our enemies and bless them that curse us and pray for them that hate and persecute us yet he forbids us not to desire deliverance from them nor to hate their Diabolical Lying Malignity and Cruelty and Enmity to the Gospel and to Obedience to God It 's a great Duty to note the universal War in all Lands and Ages between the Serpent's and the Woman's seed and to know that Brutishness first and Cainism and Diabolism next are the Serpent's Progency as naturally prospering in corrupted graceless men as Maggots in a Carkass And they that live in an Age and Land where these prevail and are in power will have a sensible Commentary of David's Psalms And in Prisons and in Wars and Fields of Blood and Torments many have confessed that now they understood the Psalms of David which they never soundly understood before 6. Lastly Though David say not so much of the Life to come as we could wish he saith very much of the way to it and the necessary means He knew that Heaven is ready for us if we be but ready for it And all that must be done for it by us is in this short hasty life And as a Traveller doth not all the way talk and think so much of his Journeys end as of all passages in his way and yet doth all this for the end so a good Christian that layeth out his care and labour in obeying God's Word and avoiding sin and doing all the good he can in the World and this in faith and hope of Heavenly Felicity doth better than be that neglecteth present means on pretence of only contemplating the end We are all in our Baptism listed in Christ's Army as Cross-bearers against the Devil World and Flesh And he that lamenteth not the successes of Satan and the greatness of his Kingdom the vastness of the Dominions of Heathens and Infidels the fewness of Christians the greater paucity of those that are Christians indeed sincere and serious that are more for Heaven than for Earth and mortifie the Lusts of the Flesh by the Spirit and how wofully Satan hath prevailed to make Hypocritical Nominal Christians more false malignant and blood-thirsty than many Turks and Heathens and how lamentably in many Christian Nations he hath so far got Power and Ministry on his side as to be the most effectual hinderers of the serious Practice of that Christian Religion which themselves profess I say he that is not sensible of this is not a genuine Disciple of Christ and a skilful Souldier in his Army And he that is will understand David's Psalms but yet Christ will teach him that it is by Faith and Patience that Christians must be more than Conquerours while they are killed all the day long and counted as sheep to the slaughter while nothing can seperate them from the love of God § 5. Quest But are not the Psalms sufficiently by Translation and Metre already fitted to the Churches use What need any more help of yours Answ I am not so vain as to expect that my Version should be of publick Church-use Others have done well in several respects I delight to read them and love and honour all the Authors I wrote for my own use not intending any Publication and that in my Restraint when my soul 's great Concerns made it my chief and necessary Employment When it was my interest and daily work to speak to God And I found the Psalms so fitted to my use as if they had been purposely made for me When I used not to sleep one minute is many Nights through pain and disturbance these Psalms were my recreation And when Meditations of the same things still grow customary and dull Psalms especially of Praise revived and exhilerated my Soul both Night and Day And we are bound while we we have time to do good to all men and Grace as well as Nature is communicative And Charity to Souls is more excellent than to Bodies I have no hope of reaching the Seraphick strain of Mr. George Sandys especially on Job But he hath not fitted his Metres to the usual Tunes so that to the Vulgar they are almost useless Bishop King's are very good but the unusual-way of making the Rythme of the next Verse meet maketh it by disuse unpleasant to the most Mr. White 's the Scots and Mr. Row's his Second are an excellent Translation of the Hebrew Text But the ear desireth greater melody than their strict Versions will allow Mr. William Barton hath done excellently of whom I have made much use But his great labour for Rythmes hath made it though more excellent to some yet less grave and less taking to many others Mr. Woodford's and Sandy's and Patrick's and Davision's and some others that have taken a larger Paraphrastical liberty than I have done are much more pleasant and useful to many But when I perused all these and others for my own daily devotion and delight I found none of them that
Cedars break Which the Mount Lebanon doth bear 6 Yea he doth make the trembling hills Like a young Calf about to skip And Lebanon and Sirion Like the young Unicorns to leap 7 God's voice casts out the flames of fire This voice it makes the desarts quake 8 The Lord the great dry Wilderness Of Kadesh makes as mov'd to shake 9 God's voice doth make the Hinds to calve And makes the cover'd Forests bare And in his holy Temple all His glory do by praise declare 10 The Lord sits King on swelling floods His Rule and Kingdom never cease The Lord will give his people strength And he will bless them all with peace PSALM XXX 1 ALL thankful praise with heart and voice O gracious Lord I give to thee Who hast not made my foes rejoyce But hast sav'd and exalted me 2 O Lord my God to thee I cry'd In all my pain my fears and grief Thou soon didst hear and help provide And heal me with speedy relief 3 Lord thy great mercy did bring up My soul from death and hell to save Till now thou hast kept me alive From an untimely feared grave 4 O ye that are his holy ones Sing joyful praises to the Lord In memory of his holiness Give thanks to him with one accord 5 There 's but a moment in his wrath Endless life in his favour lies Though weeping be our evening's work Joy with us in the morn shall rise 6 In health and sweet prosperity My careless heart affected was As if I never should be mov'd And see what after came to pass 7 For thy great savour Lord did seem To make my present state secure My mountain of prosperity Did seem so setled strong and sure But when offended by my sin Thou hid'st from me thy pleased face My painful flesh and troubled soul Did quickly feel a changed case 8 Then did I cry to thee O Lord When pain and danger bid me pray I poured out before the Lord My earnest suit both night and day 9 I said what gain is in my blood If to the feared grave I go Doth silent dust there speak thy praise Doth it thy truth and mercy show 10 Hear gracious Lord a sinner's cries Who doth thy needful mercy crave Lord help me in this deep distress And from this feared danger save 11 Then didst thou turn my grief and moans Into a pleasant thankful voice My mourning garments thou took'st off And taught'st me to sing and rejoyce 12 That so my tongue may sing thy praise And never henceforth silent be O Lord my God for evermore I will give thanks and praise to thee The Old Metre lengthened 1 ALL laud and praise with heart and voice O Lord my God I give to thee Who didst not make my foes rejoyce But hast sav'd and exalted me 2 O Lord my God to thee I cry'd In all my woful pain and grief Thou gav'st an ear and didst provide To ease me with timely relief 3 Of thy good will thou hast call'd back My soul from death and hell to save Thou didst revive when strength did lack And sav'dst me from the feared grave 4 Sing praise ye Saints who prove and see The love and goodness of the Lord In memory of his Majesty Sing and rejoyce with one accord 5 For why his anger but a space Doth last and quickly slack again But in his favour and his grace Always doth blessed life remain 6 Though gripes and grief and pangs full sore Shall lodge with us all the dark night The Lord to joy shall us restore Betimes before the day be light 7 When I enjoy'd the Word at will Thus vainly would I boast and say Tush I am sure to feel no ill This health and wealth shall not decay 8 For thou O Lord of thy good grace Hadst sent me present strength and aid But when thou turn'dst away thy face My troubled mind was sore dismaid 9 Wherefore again yet did I cry To thee O gracious Lord of might My God with plaints I did apply And pray'd to him both day and night What gain is in my blood said I If hasty death destroy my days Doth dust declare thy Majesty Or yet thy grace and truth doth praise 10 Wherefore my God some pity take O Lord I humbly thee desire Do not this simple soul forsake My God of help I thee require 11 Then didst thou turn my grief and woe Into a glad and chearful voice The mournful weeds thou took'st me fro And mad'st me to sing and rejoyce 12 Wherefore my soul uncessantly Shall sing unto thy holy praise My Lord my God to thee will I Give laud and joyful thanks always PSALM XXXI 1 IN thee O Lord I put my trust Therefore let me not shamed be But in thy constant righteousness Do thou save and deliver me 2 Bow down thine ear to me with speed Vouchsafe me thy deliverance To save me by my Rock of strength My Fort and Castle of defence 3 For thou art in my strong Rock and thee I for my secure Fortress take Lead me therefore and keep me safe For thy own name and glory sake 4 Pull me out of the net which they For me in craft have closely laid Because thou only art my strength To which I trust and flie for aid 5 Into thy hand I do commit My spirit for thou alone art he Jehovah God of truth and grace Who hast in love redeemed me 6 Them that deceitful vanities Regard I shun and have abhor'd But my firm hope and confidence Is in my great and gracious Lord. 7 I in thy mercies will rejoyce Because my many miseries Thou weighest and hast known my soul In all my great adversities 8 Thou hast not left and shut me up Into my wrathful enemies hand Thou set'st my feet at liberty In a large and free room to stand 9 Have mercy on me O my God In my great trouble send relief Mine eye my belly and my soul Consumed are with pain and grief 10 My life is spent in grief my years In mournful sighs away do fly My strength doth fail my bones consume And this for mine iniquity 11 Among my foes I was a scorn And to my neighbours specially A fear to friends They that saw me Without away did from me fly 12 I am forgotten as a man That now a long time hath been dead And like a broken vessel cast Aside I am as perished 13 Many mens slanders I have heard Fear compass'd me about while they Against me did consult and plot By fraud to take my life away 14 But I did trust in thee O Lord When I by foes was under-trod This was my soul's support and rest I said Thou art my gracious God 15 My times are in thy hand and will Do thou save and deliver me From their hands who mine enemies And causeless persecutors be 16 On thine afflicted servant Lord Make thou thy pleased face to shine And save me for that mercies sake Which thou dost
My Saviour and my strong high place I shall not greatly moved be 3 How long will ye mischief devise You by the sword at last shall fall You stand but like a tottering fence And like a crazed bowing wall 4 Their consult is to cast him down That 's set by God in dignity They love to lie with mouth they bless But they hate and curse inwardly 5 My soul wait thou only on God For all my hope 's on him alone 6 He 's all my strength help and defence I shall not be mov'd and o'rethrown 7 All my salvation is in God My glory and my dignity He is the Rock of all my strength God is my refuge always nigh 8 At all times put your trust in him Ye people that indeed are his Pour out your hearts before him still For God our certain refuge is 9 Surely low men are vanity And high and great men are a lie Together in the ballance put They lighter are than vanity 10 Trust ye not in oppression then In theft and wrong become not vain Set not your hearts on wealth and on The increase of your worldly gain 11 This God hath spoken once and twice This certain truth I heard again That all disposing Ruling Power To God alone doth appertain 12 And to distribute Mercy doth Belong to thee O Lord alone For thou according to his work Rendrest in time to every one PSALM LXIII 1 O God thou art my God therefore Early I 'le seek near thee to be In an unwater'd weary land My heart and flesh doth thirst for thee 2 That I thy power may behold And see the glory of thy face As I have seen thee heretofore Within thy house and holy place 3 Because thy loving kindness is Better than life and length of days My joyful soul which thou hast sav'd And lips shall ever give thee praise 4 While thou continuest me in life Thus will I daily speak thy praise In worshipping thy holy name My heart and hands I will up raise 5 With thy fat-sweet delights my soul Shall fed and satisfied be My chearful heart with joyful lips Shall offer daily praise to thee 6 When on my quiet bed I thee Seek and remember with delight And when on thee I meditate In silent watches of the night 7 Because to me in all distress Thy helping hand still succour brings Therefore my soul shall still rejoyce Under thy safe and covering wings 8 My soul encourag'd by thy love Thus closely followeth after thee In all my dangers and distress Thy right hand still upholdeth me 9 But they that seek my life shall go Into earth's dark and lowest room 10 The sword let out their guilty souls And they the foxes prey become 11 But let the King rejoyce in God His faithful servants glory shall Who swear by him But God will stop The mouth of perjur'd lyars all PSALM LXIV 1 THe Prayer which to thee I make O God do thou vouchsafe to hear My life save thou from enemies And from all their perplexing fear 2 Hide me from their secret designs Who do live and plot wickedly From insurrection of those men That still do work iniquity 3 Who do their tongues with malice whet That they may cut like sharpned swords In whose bent bows are arrows set To shoot even false and bitter words 4 That they may at the perfect man In secret aim their cruel shot Suddenly do they shoot at him Harden'd in sin they fear it not 5 In ill encourage they themselves And commune how closely to lay Their snares for to entrap the just For who our plots shall see say they 6 They study for iniquity For it they use their greatest art Deep is their inward plotting thought And unknown is their wicked heart 7 God shall an arrow at them shoot And wound them deep and suddenly 8 Their tongues shall fall upon themselves All that see them away shall fly 9 And seeing this all men shall fear And shall God's dreadful works declare For wisely then they shall perceive That these his righteous doings are 10 The righteous shall rejoyce in God And in him wholly put their trust And all that be of upright heart In him shall boldly make their boast PSALM LXV 1 LOrd praise in Sion waits for thee The Vows made by us we 'll perform O thou that hearest sincere pray'r To thee all flesh for help shall come Injuries and iniquities Against me have had much success â—ut thou wilt purge away the sin And guilt of us who did transgress 4 Blessed is he whom thou dost choose To approach nigh to thee his God That in thy holy pleasant Courts He may have his constant abode Our souls shall satisfied be With the goodness and Divine grace Which in thy blessed house abounds Even in thy chosen holy place 5 Thy Justice will by dreadful things An answer to us waiting give God of our help the trust of all On earth or on the sea that live 6 The God of Power who by strength Set'st fast the great and massy hills 7 Who the great noise of sea and waves And raging people's tumult stills 8 Those that in utmost parts do dwell Are at thy dreadful signs afraid Mornings and evenings out-goings By thee sing and are joyful made 9 The earth thou visit'st watering it Enrich'd by thee with fruit to grow By God's full streams Thou Corn prepar'st Having for it provided so 10 Her ridges thou dost water well Her plowed surrows settlest With showers thou dost make it soft Her springing fruit by thee is blest 11 Thus thou the year from time to time Dost with thy bounteous goodness crown And thy high paths do from above On earth drop plenteous fatness down 12 They drop upon the pasture-grounds That lye even in the desart wide The little hills thereby refresh'd Rejoyce with fruit on every side 13 The pastures cloathed are with Flocks The vallies also covered be With Corn Thy blessing is their joy Their fruits sing praises unto thee PSALM LXVI 1 MAke ye a joyful noise to God All people of the spacious earth 2 Sing to the honour of his name His glorious praise do ye set forth 3 Say unto God How-terrible In all thy mighty works art thou Through thy great pow'r thy foes to thee Shall be constrain'd to crouch and bow 4 All men on earth shall worship thee Thy praise in songs shall they proclaim They shall sing Psalms of praise unto The honour of thy holy name 5 Come and the works which God hath wrought With fear and admiration see His doings towards the sons of men All great and very dreadful be 6 He turn'd the Sea into dry land And they thereby safe passage had All marching through the flood on foot There singing we in him were glad 7 He ever ruleth by his pow'r His eyes do all the Nations see The Rebels that exalt themselves By him full low shall humbled be 8 Ye people sound forth of our God
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me Thy terrors kill and cast me out 17 Like floods they daily on me come Gather and compass me about 18 My dearest friends that did me love Thou hast removed far from me Those that my old acquaintance were Into the dark are cast by thee PSALM LXXXIX 1 OF the great mercies of the Lord I will perpetually sing The notice of thy faithfulness To ages all my mouth shall bring 2 For I have said that mercy shall Be built for ever to endure And in the very heav'ns thou wilt Thy faithfulness establish sure 3 I to my chosen servant have My self by my own Covenant ty'd Even unto David and to him By oath I have it ratify'd 4 That I thy seed establish will That it for evermore endure And to all generations Thy throne will build and settle sure 5 The praises of thy wonders Lord The heav'ns shall gloriously express The Congregations of thy Saints Shall praise thy truth and faithfulness 6 For in the heav'ns themselves who may With thee the only Lord compare Who may be liken'd to the Lord Of all their sons that mighty are 7 God greatly to be feared is Th' assemblies of the Saints throughout And to be had in reverence Of all that him attend about 8 O thou that art the Lord of Hosts What Lord like thee with strength is crown'd Who 's like to thee in faithfulness Which doth thy Throne encompass round 9 When as the swelling Sea doth rage Thou over it dost rule and reign And when the waves thereof arise Thou quickly stillest them again 10 Rahab in pieces thou didst break As one that slain on the earth lies And with thy own Almighty arm Thou scattered hast thine enemies 11 The heav'n and earth the world is thine Their fulness all Thou foundest them 12 Thou mad'st the North and South Tabor And Hermon glory in thy name 13 Strong is thine arm high thy right hand 14 Justice and Judgment are the place Where thy Throne dwells Mercy and Truth Shall ever go before thy face 15 That people truly blessed is The joyful sound and call that know In the light of thy countenance O Lord they onward still shall go 16 In thy great name that people shall Rejoyce all day exceedingly And in thy perfect righteousness Shall they exalted be on high 17 Thou art the glory of their strength Thy love doth exaltation bring 18 Thou Lord alone art our defence And Israel's Holy One our King 19 In vision to thy Holy One Thou said'st I have laid help upon One that is strong and out of all I did exalt a chosen one 20 David my servant I have found With holy Oyl did him anoint 21 With whom my hand shall stablish'd be My arm shall strength to him appoint 22 His foes shall not exact on him Wicked men shall not him afflict 23 His foes before him I 'le beat down His haters I 'le with plagues correct 24 My mercy and my faithfulness Shall keep him and be with him still And while he trusteth in my name His horn of Power exalt I will 25 I 'le set his hand upon the sea And on the rivers his right hand 26 He 'll cry My Father and my God The Rock on which my help doth stand 27 Also I 'le make him my first-born Higher than Kings of any land 28 Mercy I 'le ever keep for him With him my Covenant fast shall stand 29 His seed I 'le make still to endure And as the days of heav'n his Throne 30 If his Children my Law forsake My Judgments do not keep and own 31 If they my statutes do prophane And keep not my Commandements 32 Their sins I 'le visit with the rod And their misdeeds with chastisements 33 Yet I 'le not take from him my love Nor will my faithful promise break 34 My Covenant I 'le not violate Nor alter what of him I spake 35 Once by my Holiness I sware And unto David will not lye 36 His seed and throne shall as the Sun Before me last perpetually 37 And it shall be established For ever and like to the Moon Which as a witness in the heav'ns My steady faithfulness makes known 38 But now thou dost him so forsake As if cast down thou dost him loath And with this thine anointed one Thou dealest as in heavy wrath 39 Thy servant's Covenant hast made void And on the ground prophan'd his Crown 40 His strong holds thou to ruin brought'st And hast broke all his hedges down 41 All spoil him that pass by the way To neighbours a reproach is he 42 And thou hast set up their right hand That his great adversaries be Thou hast made all his foes rejoyce 43 The edge of his sword in his hand Thou turned hast and hast not him Made able in the fight to stand 44 His glory thou hast made to cease His Throne down to the ground hast cast 45 His days of youth hast shortened And him with shame thou covered hast 46 How long Lord shall it ever be That thou wilt hide thy self in ire And shall thy wrath unreconcil'd Consume and burn us up as fire 47 Remember how short is the time That I must here on earth remain Wherefore hast thou all mortal men Made to live here as meerly vain 48 What man is he that liveth here And fatal Death shall never see And who is he that from the grave Can his own life save and set free 49 The former loving kindnesses Which thou O Lord to him didst bear Where are they now Which in thy truth Thou unto David then didst swear 50 Remember Lord the great reproach Which we thy servants daily bear How in my bosom I receive The scorn of them that mighty are 51 The scorn wherewith thine enemies Have thee reproach'd Lord think upon Even that wherewith they have reproach'd The steps of thine anointed One. 52 Blessed and magnified be For evermore our glorious Lord Let all thy Church resound with me Amen Amen with one accord PSALM XC 1 LOrd thou hast been our dwelling-place In all the Changes we have past Unto thy wandring people thou A certain guide and safety wast 2 Before the mountains were brought forth And thou the earth and world didst frame In and to all Eternity Thou art true God and still the same 3 Thou dost dissolve this frame of MAN By wasting age and chastning pain And say'st unto them Now return You mortal sons of men again 4 The long time of a thousand years Appeareth in thy boundless sight As yesterday when it is past And as a hasty watch by night 5 From whence thou carryest them away As things a speedy torrent doth They are asleep and like the grass Which is but of one morning's growth 6 In that morning it flourisheth It quickly grows up and is green And in the evening it 's cut down And dead and withered is seen 7 For by thine anger for our sin We are from earth consum'd
Law 's wondrous mysteries May be as in my sight 19 I am a stranger in this earth And need a certain guide Thy true and just commandements Let nothing from me hide 20 The daily longings of my soul Do make it pant and break That thy just judgments I may know And of their light partake 21 Proud wicked men thou hast rebuk'd They justly cursed are Who from thy true and righteous Laws Maliciously do err 22 Contempt and false reproach of men Do thou from me remove Because thy Testimonies pure I do observe and love 23 Princes against me falsly spake When they in Counsel sate But I thy servant did upon Thy statutes meditate 24 My comfort and my great delight Thy Testimonies be And they in all my doubts and streights Are Counsellors to me DALETH 4. 25 My life down to the dust declines So that I scarcely live According to thy holy Word Do thou my strength revive 26 I open'd all my ways to thee Thou didst to me attend Teach me thy statutes that I may My sinful ways amend 27 The way of thy divine Precepts Make me to understand That all thy great and wondrous works May my discourse command 28 My soul with grief and heaviness Doth melt and drop away Be thou according to thy word My strength support and stay 29 The way of lying and deceit Lord far from me remove Graciously grant that thy true Law I may believe and love 30 The way of undeceiving truth My fixed choice I made Thy judgments sure to be my guide Before me I have laid 31 It is to thy just Testimonies That constantly I cleave To wicked men's unjust reproach Do not thy servant leave 32 The way of thy Commandements I 'le â—â—n with chearful speed When my restrained streighten'd heart Thou hast enlarg'd and freed HE. 5. 33 Instruct me Lord to understand Thy Precept's righteous ways That through thy grace I may observe And keep them all my days 34 Give me an understanding heart To keep thy Law aright And I shall strictly it observe With all my heart and might 35 In the right paths of thy Precepts Thy conduct I require They are the pleasure of my soul Which I do most desire 36 Incline my heart thy testimonies To love and still observe From wordly covetous desires Turn it and me preserve 37 Govern and turn away mine eyes From sights of vanity And quicken thou my backward heart In thy most holy way 38 Stablish that blessed word of thine Which thou hast bid me hear Unto thy servant who is fast Devoted to thy fear 39 Turn by the slanders and reproach Of which I am afraid For thou wilt justly judge for them Who on thy Word are stay'd 40 Thou know'st how greatly I have long'd Thy judgments to enjoy Quicken me in thy righteousness That I may them obey VAU 6. 41 Thy mercies great and manifold Let me obtain O Lord Thy saving health let me enjoy According to thy word 42 So shall I stop the slandrous mouths Of lewd men and unjust For in thy sure and sacred Word I place my hope and trust 43 And never let the word of Truth Out of my mouth depart For in thy judgments I have set My only hope and heart 44 And while it pleaseth thee on earth My frail life to preserve Even while I have a day to live Thy Law will I observe 45 Enlarged from restraints and fears I 'le walk at liberty Because to know and keep thy Laws My heart I do apply 46 Thy Testimonies I will plead And daily them proclaim Unto the face of mortal Kings Without all fear or shame 47 Thy sure and just Commandements Guiding my ways aright Which I have dearly lov'd and kept Shall be my great delight 48 To thy belov'd Commandements My hands I 'll elevate And in thy sacred Status I Will daily meditate ZAIN 7. 49 Thy promise to thy Servant made O never do forget For upon it thou caused'st me My hope and trust to set 50 In all my various sufferings My comfort this shall be Thy holy Spirit by this word Renew'd and quicken'd me 51 The proud and such as God contemn Have made me long their scorn Yet did I not thy Law forsake Nor service have forborn 52 I lookt back on the days of old Thy judgments I did mind In this review of former things I did great comfort find 53 Horror hath taken hold on me When I mens evil saw How obstinately wicked men Hate and forsake thy Law 54 The World hath been my pilgrimage And as I past along Thy sure conducting Statutes were My guide my joy and song 55 Thy name I have remembred Lord By night instead of sleep And meditated in thy Law Which I resolve to keep 56 This sweet employment and delight By thee I did enjoy Because to mind and keep thy Laws I did my Soul employ CHETH 8. 57 My chosen portion and my lot Thou only art O Lord I have resolved and profest That I will keep thy word 58 My Soul did earnestly intreat Thy face to shine on me Give me according to thy word Thy mercies great and free 59 I did consider seriously My ways I thought upon I to thy testimonies turn'd In which I since have gone 60 When once convinc'd I did make haste And did no longer stay To keep all thy Commandements I did no more delay 61 The troups of wicked militants Did rob me at their will But thy supporting holy love I did remember still 62 At midnight I will wake and rise To render thanks to thee Because thy word and judgments all So good and righteous be 63 I choose the company of such As fear thee in their heart Who neither will for love or fear From thy Commands depart 64 O Lord thy mercies rich and great The earth throughout do fill O teach me to believe and do Thy statutes and thy will TETH 9. 65 Thy dealings with thy servant have Been always good O Lord For all have proved good to me And have made good thy word 66 Teach me with skill and jugdment how My ways I order must For I in thy Commandements Place my belief and trust 67 Before affliction call'd me back I err'd and went astray But now I keep thy holy word And by it guide my way 68 Thou art essential Love and Good All good proceeds from thee Thy Statutes to believe and keep O throughly teach thou me 69 The proud and wicked men have forg'd Against me many a lye But I with my whole heart will keep Thy Precepts constantly 70 Their hearts are fat with pride and wealth They live in mirth and ease But in thy Law do I delight And thee my God to please 71 It proved very good for me That thou didst me correct To understand and keep thy Law Thy rod did me direct 72 The good word of thy mouth to me Is better manifold Then Worldlings wealth and thousands be Of Silver and of Gold
art to give To those that love thy Name 133 Let all my steps by thy just word Exactly ordered be That no iniquity may have Dominion over me 134 Save me from mine oppressours all And I will keep thy word 135 O let thy face upon me shine Thy Statutes teach me Lord. 136 Rivers of water from mine eyes Ran down when as I saw How wicked men go on in sin And will not keep thy Law TZADDI 18. 137 Righteous art thou O Lord and all Thy judgments upright be 138 Righteous and faithful are thy Laws Which thou commandest me 139 My zeal hath even consumed me Because mine enemies Thy holy Word forgotten have And thy just Laws despise 140 Because thy word is try'd and pure Thy Servant loveth it 141 Small and despis'd I am but yet Thy Laws do not forget 142 Thy righteousness most steadfast is And ever doth endure Thy holy Law is truth it self Confirmed truth and sure 143 Trouble and anguish have me found And taken hold on me Yet in this trouble my delight Thy just Commandments be 144 Thy testimonies righteousness Even everlasting is Cause me to know them that they may Bring me to life and bliss KOPH 19. 145 With my whole heart I poured forth My cries to thee O Lord Hear and deliver me that I May keep thy holy word 146 In trouble I do cry to thee Thy Servant hear and save And then to keep thy testimonies Fully resolv'd I have 147 The dawning of the morning I Prevented with my cry For on thy true and faithful word My hope did all rely 148 My waking eyes betime prevent The watches of the night That in thy comfortable word Then meditate I might 149 After thy loving kindness hear My voice and answer give In mercy great with quick'ning grace Do thou my Soul revive 150 The wicked hunters do draw nigh Who after mischief run Thy holy Law they do forsake And far from it are gone 151 But thou O Lord art alway nigh Their mischiefs to repel And all thy word thou wilt make good Which doth in truth excel 152 As for thy testimonies all Of old I know full sure That thou hast firmly founded them For ever to endure RESH 20. 153 Consider my affliction great And me in safety set By thy deliverance for I Thy Law do not forget 154 Plead my just cause and it defend Deliver me O Lord Revive and comfort me again According to thy word 155 Salvation's far from wicked men It 's far from their intents To seek it in the only way Of thy Commandements 156 Many and very great O Lord Thy tender mercies be According to thy Judgments just Restore and quicken me 157 Many my persecutors are And foes who do combine Yet from thy testimonies pure My soul doth not decline 158 When I beheld transgressors ways I grieved and abhorr'd Their opposition to thy Laws Who would not keep thy word 159 Consider how on thy Precepts My heart with love is set Quicken me Lord according to Thy loving kindness great 160 From the beginning all thy word Hath been most true and sure And all thy righteous judgments shall For evermore endure SCHIN 21. 161 Princes have persecuted me Unjustly without cause But thy authority and word My heart and Conscience awes 162 I in thy word rejoice as one That findeth riches great 163 I love thy Laws but Lying all I do abhor and hate 164 Seven times a day in holy praise My Soul ascends to thee Because thy judgments and thy ways All good and righteous be 165 Great peace have these confirmed Souls Thy Laws who truly love No fears or scandal shall these men From God and Truth remove 166 For thy Salvation I have hop'd And thy Commandments done 167 My Soul thy Testimonies kept And lov'd them every one 168 Thy Testimonies and Commands I kept with constant care For all my ways and works I know Before thee open are TAU 22. 169 O Let my daily suit and cry Before thee come O Lord To me sound understanding give According to thy word 170 And let my supplication Before thee daily come My fears according to thy word Deliver thou me from 171 From a full heart my thankful lips Shall utter joyful praise When thou hast made me know and keep Thy statutes and thy ways 172 My tongue shall of thy word discourse Its goodness I 'll express Because all thy Commandements Are truth and righteousness 173 In all streights let thy mighty hand With succour me relieve For I by choice have made thy Laws The Rule by which I live 174 Lord for thy sure salvation My soul doth daily long Thy Law is still my heart's delight Its praises are my song 175 O let my drooping soul yet live And it shall give thee praise And let thy judgments succour me And be my help always 176 I like a lost sheep went astray Thy servant seek and find I yet forget not thy Commands Still print them on my mind PSALM CXX 1 IN my distress unto the Lord I poured out my mournful cry His ear attended my request He heard and help'd me speedily 2 From lying lips deliver me Lord and from the deceitful tongue 3 What shall be given and done to thee False mouth that causeth others wrong 4 Sharp arrows from a mighty hand With burning coals of Juniper 5 Woe 's me that I in Meshech stay And dwell in the Tents of Kedar 6 My soul hath too long dwelt with them That haters are of quiet peace 7 I am for peace but when I speak To war they soon themselves address PSALM CXXI 1 UNto the hills from whence my help Doth come I will lift up mine eyes 2 In God who made both heaven and earth My only help and succour lies 3 He will not let thy foot be mov'd Nor slumbers who thee always keeps 4 Behold he that keeps Israel He slumbers not nor ever sleeps 5 The mighty Lord thy keeper is And he doth always by thee stand To be a shade and a defence Daily to thee at thy right hand 6 The scorching Sun in Summer heat Shall not by day thee hurt or smite Nor the Moon 's hurtful influence Annoy thee in the darksome night 7 The Lord shall keep thee from all ill Thy soul he shall keep safe and sure 8 Thy going out and coming in The Lord shall still to thee secure PSALM CXXII 1 WHen in the willing crouding flock I heard that pleasant welcome voice Come let us go up to God's house It made my longing heart rejoyce 2 Our feet in God's Jerusalem Shall stand even in her Gates and Courts When those who were dispers'd by men Shall thither flock in great resorts 3 God's City is not a rude heap But built in comely form exact In great diversity of parts In order all are well compact 4 Thither the several Tribes go up The Tribes in Covenant with the Lord With thanks to celebrate his Name His Mysteries and holy
Word 5 There God hath placed Thrones of Power To judge his flock in righteousness The promis'd Thrones of David's house Which God 's own Government express 6 Pray for Jerusalem's true peace Lord prosper all her faithful friends 7 Her Courts bless with prosperity Let Peace within her walls defend 8 For my dear holy brethrens sake Who have my faithful comforts bin I 'le daily beg of God for thee Safety without and Peace within 9 And for the sake of God's own house Where we his name must praise and bless With all the powers of my soul I 'le seek thy real happiness PSALM CXXIII 1 LOrd in my lowest state To thee I lift mine eye Whose glorious dwelling is above Even in the heavens high 2 As servants eyes do look Unto their Master's hands And as a maiden doth expect Her Mistresses Commands So on the Lord our God Our eyes do still attend Until to our relief and help His mercy condescend 3 Have mercy on us Lord On us thy mercy show For we are filled with contempt From the insulting foe 4 Our souls fill'd with the scorn Of those that are at ease Are overwhelm'd with the contempt Of the proud foes of peace PSALM CXXIV 1 HAd not the Lord been on our side His Israel must now confess 2 Had not the Lord been on our side When men of blood sought our distress 3 Then they had swallow'd us alive When their hot wrath against us flam'd 4 The waters of their furious rage Over our sinking souls had stream'd 5 Then had these proud insulting waves O'rewhelm'd us with their cruel Laws 6 Blest be the Lord who made us not A prey unto their greedy jaws 7 Our soul like an entangled bird Escap'd out of the Fowler 's snare The snare our pow'rful Lord hath broke Our trembling souls escaped are 8 Our only help we find doth stand In the great name of our great Lord Whose power made the glorious heav'ns The earth and all things by his word PSALM CXXV 1 THey that in God put all their trust Shall firmly stand like Sion hill Which by no changes is remov'd But is the same and standeth still 2 And as about Jerusalem Mountains enclose that holy ground So will the Lord for evermore Himself his people compass round 3 For just mens rights and heritage Wicked men shall not still possess Lest righteous men should then put forth Their tempted hand to wickedness 4 Do good Lord to those that are good To men that are of upright heart But as for such as turn aside In crooked ways by sin pervert 5 The Lord shall lead them forth with those Who love and work iniquity But everlasting blessed peace On God 's true Israel shall be PSALM CXXVI 1 WHen God did lay aside his wrath And Captive Sion did redeem The great surprisal of our joy Made us like men that do but dream 2 Our mouth then fill'd with laughter did By singing our great joy express That God hath done great things for us The heathen enemies did confess 3 That God hath done great things for us We speak with glad and thankful mouth 4 Fully restore thy Captives Lord As streams refresh the scorched South 5 They that do sow in mournful tears Their water'd seed's not cast away But they a multiplyed crop Shall shortly reap with endless joy 6 He that in tears doth now go forth And cast his precious seed on earth With great increase in plenteous sheaves Shall come again with endless mirth PSALM CXXVII 1 EXcept the Lord do build house It 's but vain pains the builders take Except the Lord the City keep It 's but in vain the Watchmen wake 2 It 's vain for you betime to rise And late your selves from rest to keep To eat the bread of grief and care While God's beloved rest and sleep 3 Good Children are God's heritage The womb 's blest fruit is his reward 4 Children of youth like arrows are For Parents strength and joy prepar'd 5 Happy therein is he that hath His house his Quiver full of those For he unshamed in the gate Shall boldly speak unto his foes PSALM CXXVIII 1 BLest is each one that fears the Lord And walketh in his holy ways 2 For thou shalt of thy labour eat And happy shalt thou be always 3 As fruitful Vines by thy house-side So shall thy wife with fruit spring out Thy children like to Olive Plants Shall stand thy table round about 4 Behold the man that feareth God Blest visibly by him shall be 5 The Lord shall out of Sion give A plenteous blessing unto thee Jerusalem's good thou shalt see Whilst thou in life on earth dost dwell Thy Children's Children thou shalt see And promis'd peace on Israel PSALM CXXIX 1 MAny a time may Israel say With thankfulness to God in truth Have wicked men afflicted me Even from my prime and early youth 2 Many a time even from my youth Their cruel hands have me assail'd But for my wished overthrow They have not yet by rage prevail'd 3 The plowers plowing on my back Did long and bloody furrows make 4 But God is just and me preserv'd Their strongest cords he always brake 5 Let wicked men who Sion hate And all their plots confounded be Let them with shame be turned back And not their hop'd successes fee. 6 Let them be like the rootless grass Which grows a while on the house-tops And quickly withereth away Before they reach their wicked hopes 7 This grass fills not the mower's hand The binder finds no fruitful sheaves 8 Nor God nor man on such curs'd weeds A blessing either finds or leaves PSALM CXXX 1 OUt of the horrid woful deeps Where sin and wrath had cast me down To thee O Lord I poured forth My earnest suit and daily moan 2 O thou the Prayer-hearing God This humbled sinner's voice now hear To my loud cries and sad complaints Let pity grant a hearing ear 3 If in strict Justice thou should'st mark And charge on man iniquity Lord who shall stand at thy just bar Or who himself can justifie 4 But with thee there forgiveness is Thy word of grace doth this declare That sinful man may worship thee In joyful hope without despair 5 Therefore for thee O Lord I wait My soul doth daily wait on thee And on thy sure and faithful word My constant hope shall placed be 6 My soul more waiteth on the Lord Than they that watch for morning light More than the watchful man doth long To see a pleasant morning bright 7 O Israel still hope in the Lord Though low and broken be thy case For with the Lord still mercy is And we shall see his pleased face 8 Plenteous redemption with him is The Lord his chosen flock will bless He will redeem them from their sins And from their felt and fear'd distress PSALM CXXXI 1 LOrd I disclaim a haughty mind And an ambitious lofty eye I do not exercise my self In things for me
19 But my affliction 's not forgot The bitter wormwood and the gall 20 My soul doth still remember these And 's humbled in me under all The Second Part. 21 Yet this consider'd stays my grief It 's mercy that we yet do live 22 And that we are not all consum'd But God doth Hope and Being give 23 Mercies are every morning new God's love and faithfulness is great 24 The Lord 's my portion saith my soul Therefore my hope on him is set 25 Surely to all that wait for him The Lord is ever good and kind The soul that truly seeketh him At last shall his compassion find 26 It is man's only way to good Whatever be his grief and streight For the salvation of the Lord In hope and quietness to wait 27 Surely it is for man's own good In youth to bear the taming yoke 28 He sits alone and silence keeps Instructed by God's teaching stroke 29 His mouth he putteth in the dust Submits to any terms of hope 30 He gives his cheeks to him that smites With lying railers will not cope 31 God will not ever cast us off Nor from his chosen people go 32 Though he cause grief his mercies great In time will his compassion show 33 He doth not willingly afflict Nor love the sons of men to grieve 34 To crush earth's prisoners under feet Whom mercy rather would relieve 35 That Judges should deny men right In men of power God doth not love 36 To subvert just men in their cause The righteous Lord doth not approve The Third Part. 37 Whos 's word can stand when God gain-says Who can o'rethrow his potent will 38 The good or ill that us befals His word and counsel do fulfil 39 Why should a man chastis'd for sin Who 's yet alive grudge and complain 40 It 's better search and try our ways Repent and turn to God again 41 O let us lift up hearts and hands For help and hope to God in heav'n 42 We all have sinned and rebell'd And thou our sin hast not forgiven 43 From us poor persecuted men With wrath thou coverest thy face Thy just displeasure hath us slain Not pitying our doleful case 44 Cover'd thou art from our access Inclosed in a darksome cloud Which prayers do not penetrate Though suff'ring make them long and loud 45 Among the people we are made The refuse scorn and off-scouring 46 Our enemies mouths wide open'd are Thy flock's to them a scorned thing 47 Fear and a snare on us are come Anguish and ruin is our state 48 Mine eyes with streaming tears bemoan Thy broken flock that 's desolate 49 My heart still feeds my trickling eyes My grief and weeping ceaseth not 50 Till God in mercy look from heav'n On those that now do seem forgot 51 Mine eye affects my soul with grief To see my City's woful case 52 Mine enemies hunt me causelesly As Fowler 's harmless birds do chase 53 To prison they condemned me And shut me up sentenc'd for death 54 The waters overflow'd my head Seeming to stop my vital breath The Fourth Part. 55 I called on thy name O Lord In the low dungeon like to die 56 Thou heard'st my voice hide not thine ear Now from my doleful sighs and cry 57 In that day when I call'd on thee To succour me thou didst draw near Encouraging my fainting soul Thou kindly bidst me Do not fear 58 Thou Lord against oppressing men Didst undertake and plead my cause Thou hast redeem'd my threaten'd life From wicked mens devouring jaws 59 O Lord thou hast seen all my wrong Judge thou my cause whose word I speak 60 Their plots and vengeance thou hast seen Me and thy righteous Laws to break 61 Lord thou their false reproach hast heard The plots which they for me did lay 62 The words of those that me accus'd Their plots against me all the day 63 When to their ease their feasts their play In pride and pleasure they refort Thou seest though they fear not thee I am their musick scorn and sport 64 Render to them a recompense According to their unjust deed 65 Through thy just curse upon their hearts Let deserv'd grief and sorrow feed 66 Persecute thou these men in wrath Who persecute me and thy word Destroy them let them not abide Under thy Heav'ns O righteous Lord. Gospel-Hymns Zachary's Song Luke 1.68 BLess'd be the Lord even Israel's God For he hath visited his flock And them redeem'd and raised up A Saviour out of David's stock As by his holy Prophets mouths He our Redemption had fore-told Who ever since the world began Were sent unto his Church of old That by him we should saved be From our destructive enemies all And of all them that do us hate Be saved from the servile thrall Thus the great mercies to perform Which to our fathers promis'd were His holy Covenant to make good The Oath which he to Abraham sware That this deliverance he would grant To us that now enthralled are That saved from our enemies hands We may serve him without their fear In holiness and righteousness Even all the days that we shall live And thou the Prophet shalt be call'd Which the most High to us doth give For thou his ways for to prepare Shalt go before the Lord 's own face To call his people to repent And make them know his saving grace For the remission of their sin Through the great mercy of our God Whereby the day-spring from on high With us doth take up his abode To give his saving light to them Who sit enthralled in darkness And in death's shadow And to guide Our feet into the way of Peace Mary's Song Luke 1.46 MY soul doth magnifie the Lord My spirit in me doth rejoyce In God who is my Saviour Express'd by this my thankful voice For greatly he regarded hath His handmaid's mean and low estate Henceforth all ages shall my name As great and blessed celebrate For he who the Almighty is Great things indeed hath to me done Holy's his Name his mercy is To them that fear him largely shown He with his arm hath shewed strength He them that great and mighty be Hath put down and exalted them Who are of mean and low degree The poor and hungry he hath fill'd With what for them is truly good And the rich he hath sent away Empty through want of needful food His servant Israel he hath help'd For his own ancient mercies 〈◊〉 As to our fathers to Abraham And to his seed of old he spake Simeon's Song Luke 2.29 LOrd let thy servant now In peace to thee depart According to the gracious word Of thee who faithful art For him mine eyes have seen Who brings thy saving grace Which thou prepared hast to shew Before all peoples face To the Gentiles a Light Them to illuminate And to thy people Israel The glory of their state The Angels Doxologie Luke 2.14 GLory be to the glorious God Whose dwelling's in the heavens