Lord from Ills shall keep thee free Thy Soul from Harms secure verse 8 Go out come in he 'll follow thee His Loves unchang'd endure Another Metre Proper Tune verse 1 ABove the Hills I raise my Eyes And thence assur'd expect That God should me protect verse 2 From God my certain Aid shall rise From that God whose Word gave Birth To the Skies and humbler Earth verse 3 No stumbling shall thy Feet surpize Thy Guardian never sleeps verse 4 That God who Israel keeps Can never shut his wakeful Eyes verse 5 But with his Protection blest Thou beneath his Shade shalt rest verse 6 The scorching Sun's directest Beams Unhurt thy Head shalt bear And no Distemper fear Nor shall the Moon 's malignant Gleams Poisonous Vapours us'd to kill With her Midnight Dews distil verse 7 The Lord from Harms shall keep thee free And all those I is controul Which might affect thy Soul verse 8 Go out come in he follows thee And with Goodness thee secures Which from Age to Age endures PSAL. cxxij verse 1 WIth Joy I heard the Captives cry Gods House is all our Quest verse 2 Our wearied Steps shall chearfully In Salem's Entrance rest verse 3 As where sweet Peace and Beauty join So Salem's Buildingss grow verse 4 And there God's holy Tribes combine And to his Presence flow There Israels Testimony stands And Gods great Name they praise verse 5 The Throne of Justice there commands And David's Offspring sways verse 6 O pray for Salem's Peace may those Who love thee prosper still verse 7 May Peace thy Battlements compose Thy Houses Plenty fill verse 8 For my dear faithful Brethrens sakes O may thy Joys encrease And where my God his Dwelling makes I 'll seek thy Wealth and Peace Another Metre Proper Tune verse 1 I Heard with inward Joys The Captives cheerful Cries Gods holy House is all our Quest Our often wand'ring Feet In one Design shall meet And in the Gates of Salem rest verse 3 As where the Sweets of Peace With curious Arts increase So Salem's happy Buildings rise verse 4 For there the Tribes ascend And Israel's God attend And Thanks and Praises sacrifice verse 5 There stands the Judgment-seat There David once was great And still it s to his Offspring due verse 6 O pray for Salem's Peace O may thy Friend's encrease And good Success their Loves pursue verse 7 May Peace and Wealth abound Thy Walls and Houses round And for my fairhful Brethrens sakes Thy Cause I 'le countenance Thy Good and Peace advance Where God his glorious Dwelling makes PSAL. cxxiij verse 1 UP toward thy Dwelling-place the Skies Almighty Lord to Thee We raise our sad despairing Eyes Consum'd with Misery verse 2 As some poor beaten Slave would watch His Master's angry Hands Or some corrected Maid dispatch Her Mistresses Commands Yet view each Look each turning Glance To find if Pitty there Would in their smoother Brows advance Or in their Eyes appear So justly we chastis'd for Sins In patient Silence wait Till God once more appeas'd begins To raise our mournful State verse 3 Pity ô pity Lord our Woes O hear our earnest Cries And let thy Vengeance silence those Who our sad State despise verse 4 Enough dear Lord enough we 've born The scoffing World's Abuse And all that Insolence and Scorn Which Pride and Wealth produce PSAL. cxxiv verse 1 HAd not the Lord our Cause maintain'd Sing now and show a grateful Mind verse 2 Had not the Lord our Right sustain'd When Men of Blood our Fall design'd verse 3 Our Land had been at once dovour'd All swallow'd by the barbarous Foe verse 4 As Brooks by mighty Rains o're-pour'd At once the Neighbouring Meads o'reflow verse 5 Thus had our happy Days been past Our Hopes our Joys our Souls Destroy'd Our Foes yet scarce appeas'd at last Or their inhuman Entrails cloy'd verse 6 But blest ô ever blest be He Whose careful Love our Souls redeem'd And us from cruel Hands set free His Name be prais'd his Works esteem'd verse 7 We ' scap'd as little Birds escape When just beneath the Fowler 's Hand Our God disclos'd the Fatal Trap And we through Him in Safety stand verse 8 Let then the cruel World combine And Malice private Plots devise Our Help 's at hand our Hope divine On God who made the World relies Another Metre Proper Tune verse 1 THis grateful Song may shew a grateful Mind Had not the mighty God our Cause maintain'd verse 2 Had not our gracious Lord our Right sustain'd When cruel Men with barbarous Oaths combin'd And to destroy our hated Land design'd verse 3 Their Rage which for a proper Morsel sought Their bloody Throats wide as Hell's dreadful Gate Had gorg'd our Church swallow'd down the State verse 4-5 The Deeps the swelling Waves which proudly wrought A Flood quite o're our Souls at once had brought verse 6 O blest be God who sav'd the trembling Prey verse 7 Our Souls as Birds from crafty Fowlers freed And broke the Snares and our Escape decreed verse 8 Our Souls for Help on Him alone shall stay Who made the worlds and whom the worlds obey PSAL. cxxv verse 1 THey fix'd as Sion's Mount endure Who in their Maker trust verse 2 As Mountains salem's Walls secure So God secures the Just verse 3 Ill Men shan't o're the Good prevail Or in their Quarters rest Lest they beneath Temptations fail Above their Strength opprest verse 4 Be good and kind dear Lord to those Who Peace and Goodness love To such thy gentle Smiles disclose Whose Hearts are fix'd above verse 5 But those who tread in Ways perverse Gods just Revenge shall find who 'll Peace among his own disperse And to his Saints be kind Another Metre Proper Tune verse 1 THose who on God have fix'd their Trust Unmov'd like Sion's Mount endure verse 2 As Mountains Salem's Walls secure So God Himself secures the Just His Mercies endless store Shall last when Time 's no more verse 3 He checks the Wickeds angry Course When they his holy Saints assail They may but never long prevail Lest Faith crush'd by unequal Force Should faintly quit the Field And to the Tempter yield verse 4 To those dear God who Goodness love To Men of upright Hearts be kind While those the Sinners Portion find Who stubborn and perversely move But on God's Israel Shall Peace eternal dwell PSAL. cxxvj. verse 1 WHen Home the Lord his Captives lead At first it seem'd a Dream verse 2 But Joy was quickly round us spread And Praise our glorious Theam The very Gentile Nations round Cry'd out at once amaz'd See how God's Favours there abound How soon his Friends are rais'd verse 3 God's Loves to us indeed abound Our Joys are truely great verse 4 That Work which Lord thy Hands have found O let thy Hands compleat So Judah's long deserted Lands Shall more Refreshment know Then where soft Streams thro' Southern Sands With constant Coolness flow verse
love thy Beauties more And thou his Deity adore And to his Heav'nly Will submit verse 12 Nor shall thy Beauties slighted lie Thy Service in Oblivion die But through the farthest Regions fam'd To thee shall Tyrian Dames resort And wealthy Princes make their Court To thee by thy Renown inflam'd verse 13 Fair are thy Eyes but fairer far Thy Soul a Thousand Beauties there Thy Diamonds and Rubies stain verse 14 When in Embroider'd Robes they bring Thy Majesty to meet thy King Attended with thy Virgin-Train verse 15 Bless'd by the ravish'd Croud they 'll move Bless'd by thy King 's exalted Love Thou 'lt in his Starry Palace reign verse 16 For thy old Stock a lovely Race Of Princely Youths thy Marriage grace And Royal Crowns and Empires gain verse 17 The Name great King I 'll Celebrate Thy Majesty and glorious State I 'll sing in never-dying Verse The World shall thy bright Throne adore The Suppliant World thy Grace implore Thy Spousals bless and praise rehearse PSAL. Xlvj. verse 1 GOD is our Hope our Strength our Aid When greatest Danger 's near verse 2 Whence for those dreadful Changes made On Earth we scorn to fear Though Mountains torn from ev'ry Shoar Into the Seas be hurl'd verse 3 And swelling Waves with threatning Roar Assault the trembling World verse 4 Yet near God's House and those fair Walls Which round his City go Refreshing Springs with gentler Falls And easie Windings flow verse 5 God in his House resides no Force No Strength his Walls can move God guards it Malice can't divorce It from his earliest Love verse 6 When he in dreadful Thunder spoke The frighted Nations heard The Kingdoms felt the fatal Stroke And Earth dissolv'd appear'd verse 7 With us the Lord of Hosts remains To us his Care extends With us the God of Jacob reigns And all our Coast defends verse 8 Come see the mighty Works which He Through all the World has wrought What wondrous Desolations He On ev'ry Land has brought verse 9 He makes the Noise of Battels cease And breaks the Spears and Bows And to the Flames to keep the Peace The ratling Chariot throws verse 10 Be still with humble Silence know I 'm God and only I To me the Nations round shall bow And raise my Glories high verse 11 With us the Lord of Hosts remains His Care to us extends With us the God of Jacob reigns And us from Ills defends PSAL. xlvij verse 1 WIth Hands and Hearts accod All People praise the Lord With Triumph's Voice in him rejoice His wondrous Name record verse 2 For He the Lord most High With dreadful Majesty A Monarch reigns and Earth restrains With his commanding Eye verse 3 He makes the People all Beneath our Empire fall The Nations meet to kiss our Feet And us their Masters call verse 4 But us He chose that we His Heritage might be His Favours grace the faithful Race Whose Wealth He loves to see verse 5 Our Lord 's gone up on high With Trumpets toward the Sky verse 6 Sing Praises sing to our great King With Songs and Praises vye verse 7 With Understanding raise Earth's mighty Monarch's Praise verse 8 Whose sacred Throne the Nations own Whose Will the VVorld obeys verse 9 To God his Servants now VVith neighb'ring Princes bow While He though high continually Defends our Earth below PSAL. xlviij verse 1 GReat is our Lord and greatly prais'd In Sion's sacred Hill On which immortal Buildings rais'd That glorious Mountain fill verse 2 Fair is its Sight the Pleasures vast It gives to distant Lands And on its Northern Quarters plac'd God's holy Temple stands verse 3 God in her Palaces is great A certain Refuge known verse 4 And angry Kings who fiercely met Are off as swiftly gone They saw admir'd and terrify'd From thence distracted flew Fear seiz'd 'em all and o'er their Pride Pangs as of Child-birth drew Though mighty Navies close combin'd For our Destruction meet He breaks them with his stormy VVind And scatters all the Fleet. Oft have we heard and oft have seen In thy bless'd Residence How Thou great God of Hosts hast been Thy City's strong Defence Secur'd by Thee it ne'er decays And in thy Temple we Thy Everlasting Mercies praise And sing dear Lord to Thee Great is thy Name thy Praises great Through all the VVorld resound Thy Name with Righteousness compleat Thy Hand with Justice crown'd verse 1 Let Sion's Mount rejoice and sing And Judah's Daughters dance Such Blessings Lord thy Judgments bring So much their Peace advance verse 2 VValk Sion round quite round her go Her Bulwark's Numbers find Her Battlements and Ramparts know Her stately Buildings mind Then let unborn Posterity Your wondrous Records have For God's our God for ever He Our Souls from Death shall save Another Metre As the 112th verse 1 OUR Lord is great and greatly prais'd From Salem's Walls and Sion's Hills verse 2 That sacred Mount which nobly rais'd Our happy Land with Glory fills That Temple guilds her Northern sides Where God the King of Kings resides verse 3 God in her Palaces is known A strong Defence and Refuge sure verse 4 See how th' assembling Kings are flown Nor could the glorious Sight endure verse 5 They saw and what they saw admir'd But off on Terrour's Wings retir'd verse 6 They felt such horrid Pangs and Throws As Women in their Child-birth feel By Land they met God's angry Blows verse 7 By Sea their shatter'd Navies reel By furious Eastern Tempests toss'd Till all their Strength and Pride are lost verse 8 Within God's holy City we Have seen what oft we'd heard of old The Lord of Hosts her Strength will be His Hand her lasting Walls uphold verse 9 Thy ancient Love and Kindness Lord We in thy holy House record Thy Name Earth's utmost Borders know As far great God thy Praises fly Thy Hands Eternal Justice show Let Sion's Mount then cheerfully Let Judah's Virgin-Daughters sing The Judgments of their glorious King verse 12 Walk Sion's Rounds her Towers describe Observe how strong her Bulwarks are The Palaces of Judah's Tribe Let those to come with theirs compare They 'll read God here and only He So good so sure a Guide could be PSAL. xlix verse 1 ALL People Nations all which o'er The World your Tribes extend verse 2 The High the Low the Rich the Poor My sacred Songs attend verse 3 My Mouth shall Wisdom speak my Heart Of Knowledge meditate verse 4 My Harp mysterious Truths impart And Things of ancient weight verse 5 Why should I fear in dangerous days By sinful Men distress'd verse 6 Who on their Lands and crafty Ways And mighty Treasures rest verse 7 Yet all their Wealth and all their Store Can't one lost Soul redeem Nor God to bate their sinful Score Their largest Gifts esteem verse 8-9 Nay though they live a Thousand Years The Grave 's expected Prey Such Price a Soul's Redemption bears As they can ne'er repay verse 10
rules above the Sky verse 5 Thy Promises dear Lord are true And all thy Testimonies sure Thy Flocks pure Holiness pursue And ever like thy Self endure Another Metre As the 111th proper Tune verse 1 THE Lord a King remains The great Jehovah reigns With Awful Glories crown'd As with a Robe of Light The Lord with wondrous Might And Strength is girt around By his Divine Commands The World securely stands From Alterations free verse 2 Thy Throne was fix'd of old Thy Deity extoll'd From all Eternity verse 3 Great God th' uncertain Croud Against thy Kingdom loud Like mighty Waters roar And with a surly Spite As breaking Billows fight And shock the neighb'ring Shoar verse 4 But let tempestuous Rage Their furious Hearts engage And Heav'n it self defy His stern Command alone Can beat their Madness down Who ever rules on high verse 5 Thy Testimonies true Thy Promises renew Both faithful both secure Thy Saints with Holiness Shall tow'rds thine A'tars press And ever bless'd endure PSAL. xciv verse 1 GReat God to whom Revenge belongs Great God of Vengeance rise verse 2 The Proud thou mighty Judge of Wrongs With just Rewards surprize verse 3 How long shall wicked Workers Lord Uncheck'd triumphant reign verse 4 Their impious Words and Pride abhorr'd With haughty Boasts maintain verse 5 Lord shall they crush thy People still Afflict thine Heritage verse 6 Their Widows and their Strangers kill Nor spare their Orphans Age verse 7 Yet thus they do and thus they cry Can God our Actions see We Jacob's unknown God defy From his Observance free verse 8 But think ye stupid Fools a while Think well ye senseless Crew verse 9 Can you his sacred Ears beguile Who Ears bestow'd on you What can't he see whose Hands the Eyes Those Orbs of Wonders made verse 10 He whose Hand the World chastise From Your Correction stay'd Can't He who Sense on Man bestows Their secret Thoughts descry verse 11 Men's Hearts alas He throughly knows And knows their Vanity verse 12 Lord happy 's he who taught by Thee Has all thy Laws obey'd verse 13 He in ill Times at Rest shall see The Pit for Sinners made Part 2. verse 14 Our God his Servants can't desert Nor his Inheritance verse 15 But Judgment will to Right convert And upright Souls advance verse 16 who 'll me from wicked Workers save Or my Assistant be verse 17 God only help'd me or the Grave Had quickly silenc'd me verse 18 My Foot ô Lord which seem'd to slide Thy Mercy 's He'p ensur'd verse 19 In Cares and Fears thy Comforts try'd My Soul's Delight procur'd verse 20 Wilt thou support the Tyrant-Crew Who settle Sin by Law verse 21 Whose Armies righteous Souls pursue And Blood of Martyrs draw verse 22 Though such their cruel Practice be My God will raise my State My solid Rock my Refuge He Whose Loves my Faith create verse 23 Our God observes their Wickedness Their Malice He 'll repay With sudden Strokes their Pride repress And cut their Hopes away PSAL. XCV verse 1 O Come your chearful Voices raise To our Eternal King The Lord our strong Salvation praise His Goodness loudly sing verse 2 With Thanks approach his awful sight And pleasant Anthems sing verse 3 The Lord's a God of boundless Might O're all the Gods a King verse 4 Earth's secret Deeps and Mountains high His powerful Hand commands verse 5 The Seas were made by Him and dry He laid the rising Lands verse 6 O come let us our Lord adore And at his Foot-stool low Our humbly bending Knees before Our great Creator show verse 7 For he 's our God his People we And in his Pastures feed Those wandring sheep which kindly He From Death and Darkness freed To day ô hear his Voice to day verse 8 For thus th' Almighty spoke No more your own false Thoughts obey My Wrath no more provoke No more with hardned Hearts refuse My necessary Grace Nor as in former times abuse My Word or Holy Place verse 9 Such Arts your Fathers us'd of old Who all my Wonders saw And many Years perversly bold Despis'd my righteous Law verse 10 At last thus by my self I swore With just Displeasure mov'd This wretched Nation sin the more The more by Goodness prov'd They neither know my self nor know Those Rules to them addrest Nor will I e're their Souls bestow In my Eternal Rest Another Metre As Mr. Sandys's 15th verse 1 COme ô come and let us sing To our Lord and to our King Let us make a joyful Noise To that God whose Love employs All his saving Health and Grace To protect his faithful Race verse 2 Let us all with Thanks and Praise Come before his Glorious Face And our Psalms and cheerful Airs Join with Vows and humble Prayers verse 3 For the Lord our God is great Lofty his Eternal Seat Every God to Him submits He a King above them sits verse 4 All the Earths Foundations deep Solid Rocks and Mountains steep All their strength 's by Him possest And by his Protection blest verse 5 Him the rolling Seas regard By his mighty Hands prepar'd Earth to Him submissly bows And his forming Power avows verse 6 Come ô come let 's all adore And his Footstool kneel before Let us kneel and prostrate all To our Lord and Maker fall verse 7 Hee 's our God our Lord alone We are all his People known Us His Hands securely keep Hee 's the Sheepheard we the Sheep Hear ô hear his voice to Day And that sacred Voice obey verse 8 Humble let your Hearts appear Let no Hardness center there As of o'd your Father's pride All my kindest Cares defy'd When their wandring Armies past Tho' the Deserts sandy waste verse 9 Oft they tempted oft they try'd me Often to Believe deny'd me Tho' my Wonders all they saw Knew my Power and heard my Law verse 10 All their Follies large Arrears Forty tedious rolling Years I with wondrous patience bore But at last in Fury swore 11 These a wretched People are All involv'd in Error 's snare Soon they have my Laws forgot Seen my Works but know them not By my Self my Self alone That 's the greatest Oath that 's known These shall never never blest Enter my Eternal Rest PSAL. xcvj verse 1 NEw Songs to great Jehovah sing Sing all the Earths around Your Blessings to his Altars bring His saving Health resound verse 2 Each Day your active Tongues employ To spread his glorious Name verse 3 Thro' all the Nations round with Joy His wondrous Acts proclaim verse 4 Our Lord is great and greatly prais'd More to be feard then those verse 5-6 Who by Vain Men to Godhead rais'd On Vainer Fools impose Our God stretch'd out the lofty Syes How glorious Majesty How strength with lovely Beauty vyes We in his Temple see verse 7 O give to God ye Nations all Give strength and Glorys due verse 8 On his great Name with Honour call To him with Offering's fue verse
thy obedient Race And their well-settled Heirs abide Secure before thy Face PSAL. ciij. As the 100th verse 1 O Praise the Lord with grateful Joy My Tongue my Soul his Praises sing verse 2 O let his Praise thy Powers employ His Loves to kind Remembrance bring verse 3 'T is He forgives thy Sins 't is He Thy Weakness heals thy Plagues removes verse 4 Redeems thy Life from Misery And crowns thee with his tenderest Loves verse 5 With good He fills the Youth and Age Thy Age with vigorous Youth renews verse 6 His Arms for Saints opprest engage His just Revenge their Foes pursues verse 7 He to his Israels Race of old By Moses made his Precepts known He by our Jesus still unfolds His Will and Goodness towards his own verse 8 Our Lord is kind his Mercies great His Vengance not his Mercy slow verse 9 He 'll not too oft his Strokes repeat Nor let his Anger alway glow verse 10 So with our se'ves He dealt our Crimes Though foul with Rods he gently lasht His pittying Eyes a thousand times Our still repeated Follies past verse 11 His Goodness so surrounds his own As Skies enclose our humb'er Earth verse 12 From us our Sins are farther thrown Then Sun-set's from the Mornings Birth Part 2. verse 13 More love to pious Souls he shows Then Fathers to their Darling Heirs verse 14 Our frailer Constitution knows Our mouldring Dust as gently spares verse 15 Weak Man like early Birds may rise Or Grass which shades the cheerful Plains verse 16 But struck with blasting Winds he dies And neither House nor Name remains verse 17 But Gods unfailing Grace pursues The Just and all their faithful Seed verse 18 Who on his Sacred Covenant muse And all his righteous Precepts heed verse 19 On high our God has fixt his Throne And thence his boundless Empire guides And o're the Subject World alone His Arbitrary Will presides verse 20 Praise Him ye Angel-flames whose Might Does in compleat Obedience shine verse 21 O praise Him all ye Sons of Light Bless'd Ministers of Love Divine verse 22 O all his Works your Maker praise Praise through his spacious Empire sing While I with grateful Anthems raise New Honours to my Glorious King PSAL. civ As the 100th verse 1 O Praise the Lord my tuneful Soul How great blest God how wondrous great What Majesty what Glories roll About thy Everlasting Seat verse 2 Light robes Thee with her Radiant Streams Thy Curtains are th' expanded Skies verse 2 Floods bear thy Chambers weighty Beams On humble Clouds thy Chariot flies God walks on groaning Winds in State verse 4 Attended with his Angel-Bands And Scrvant-Flames around him wait And fly to bear his great Commands verse 5 He Earth's Foundations strongly laid A well-pois'd never moving Load verse 6 A wavy Deep its Covering made Which o're the highest Mountains flow'd verse 7 But off the head-long Waters flew When his commanding Thunders roar'd verse 8 They took their place and strait in view Sweet Plains appear'd and Mountains soard verse 9 The Floods their Bounds appointed know Earth fears no more th' encroaching Deep verse 10 Through Valleys Crystal Fountains flow And round the Mountains softly creep verse 11 To Them the Savage Creatures fly And kindly cool their thirsty Flame verse 12 The Birds above them sing on high And there their curious Buildings frame Part 2. verse 13 His Rains refresh the parching Hills And make our Earth with Fruits abound verse 14 Thence Grass the hungry Cattel fills And Herbs for Men are useful found Through Him rich Corn o're-spreads the Fields verse 15 And Wine to chear our ' drooping Hearts Fat shining Juice his Olive yields His Bread a Vital Strength imparts verse 16 Sap feeds the lofty Cedar-Groves verse 17 Where Birds of Prey their Eieries raise verse 18 The Goat on Rocky Mountains roves Through Rocks the Coney breaks her Ways verse 19 The Moon the Sun their Seasons know And when to rise and when to fall verse 20 Nights gloomy clouds our World o'reflow And out the Forrest-Rangers crawl verse 21 The Wolves the Tygers howl for prey And loud the hungry Lions roar God for their Diet finds a way And feeds them with his secret Store verse 22 But when the Sun appears they fly And to their unknown Dens repare verse 23 And Men their business safely ply Till Night again o're-clouds the Air. verse 24 How various Lord how wisely fram'd Great God thy Works of Wonder are Thy Riches are through Earth proiclaim'd verse 25 Thy Wealth th' unfathom'd Seas declare Part 3. There Fishes great and small in strange Unnumber'd Numbers cut their Way verse 26 There Navies float and Monsters range And Whales in boundless Oceans Play verse 27 These All blest God depend on Thee Of Thee they beg their timely Food verse 28 Thy Gifts they catch thy Hands are free And All are fill'd with needful Good verse 29 Thou hid'st thy Face affrighted They Sink down to Dust and Dust remain verse 30 Thy Spirit commands the Dead obey And rise and fill the World again verse 31 God's Glory lasts He pleas'd reviews His Works his Looks his dreadful Stroke verse 32 Convulsions through the World diffuse And make the trembling Mountains smoak verse 33 To God my mighty Lord I 'll sing While Health or Life or Breath remains verse 34 My Heart in Him with Joys shall spring I 'll praise his Name in lofty Strains verse 35 He 'll soon confound the Sinner's Race And impious plotting Fools control And all their Stock on Earth deface O bless Ô praise the Lord my Soul PSAL. CV as the 100th or Mr. Sandys's 8th verse 1 O Praise the Lord invoke his Name His Acts through ev'ry Tribe proclaim verse 2 Sing sing aloud your Anthems raise Through all the World his Wonders praise verse 3 Him and his holy Name adpre His Smiles with chearful Hearts implore verse 4 And seek the Lord his Strength embrace And ever seek his glorious Face verse 5 O ye of Abr'ham's faithful Seed O ye of Jacob's chosen Breed verse 6 His strange his dreadful Acts relate And on his Judgments meditate verse 7 He 's our great God our Lord alone His Judgments through the World are known verse 8 His Covenant his Word of old Shall through a Thousand Ages hold verse 9 What He to Abraham spoke before What He to Isaac firmly swore verse 10 And as law on Israel laid And thus his lasting Cov'nant made verse 11 To you rich Canaan's Land I 'll give Where you its lawfal Heirs shall live verse 12 Though then their Seed were weak and small Add despicable Strangers all verse 13 When they a Thousand Movements made And round the neighb'ring Countries stray'd verse 14 He them against the World maintain'd And Ill-designing Kings restrain'd verse 15 From Wrongs be my Anointed free Let no malicious Injurie My Prophets or my Friends approach Or on my chosen Sons encroach Part 2. verse 16 Sharp
Counts verse 5 But his great Might and Actions wise All numbring Art surmounts verse 6 The Lord exalts the lowly Heart But casts the Sinner down verse 7 Then Sing to God a grateful part Your Harps with Praises Crown verse 8 With Clouds He covers all the Skies Which Rains as duely bring And makes the buried Plants to rise The Sun burnt Hills to spring verse 9 He feeds the Beasts and at their Cries For Birds of Prey provides verse 10 But strength of Horse and brawny thighs Of mighty Men derides verse 11 But Loves the Men who fear his Name And for his Mercies wait verse 12 O Sion Salem ô proclaim Thy God's Majestic State Part 2. verse 13 He strengthens all thy Gates and Bars And blesses all thy Seeds verse 14 Thro' Him thy Borders freed from Wars On Wheats pure fatness feed verse 15 He sends his Word his Word on Earth With wondrous swiftness flies verse 16 And gives the Snow its Flaky Birth Which all in Fleeces lies His heavy Frosts like Ashes you Spread o're the Fields behold verse 17 His Ice like Morsels lies and who Can stand his pierceing Cold verse 18 He sends his Word again and streight His Ice his Frosts and Snow Before his Warmer gusts abate And all in Waters flow verse 19 The Lord to Jacobs chosen Race His Sacred Writings gave His Laws his Judgments by his Grace His Israel only have verse 20 So well no other Nation far'd Nor of his sacred Word Nor of his Righteous Judgments heard Praise ye ô praise the Lord PSAL. cxlviij verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord ô Praise the Lord On High his Glories raise verse 2 Ye Angel Armys all record His Name with Joyful Praise verse 3 Sun Moon and lightsome Stars consent To praise his glorious Name verse 4 And Heavens high Throne the Firmament Of Waters praise the same verse 5 Let these advance his Name which He Made by his great Command verse 6 And fix'd 'um by a sure Decree Unmov'd unchang'd to stand verse 7 Him all ye Earth born Dragons praise And each unfathom'd Deep verse 8 Fire Hail Snow Winds which Tempests raise Yet still his Orders keep verse 9 Vast Hills small Hillocks Cedars high And every Fruitful Tree verse 10 Wild Beasts and Tame and Birds which fly And Insects each Degree verse 11 Kings Princes Nations Judges those Who rule the World below verse 12 Youths Virgins such as strength disclose And Heads adorn'd with Snow verse 13 Let all advance their Maker's Name Whose Name excells alone Whose Name is o're the Worlds vast frame On Winds of Glory blown verse 14 He only makes his People great His Saints his Praise record His Israel his near Friends repeat Praise ye ô praise the Lord Another Metre Proper Tune verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord Above The Skies his Praises sing Let Heaven the Seat of Love With Heavenly Praises ring Of his great Name Ye Angel Host With Reverence boast His Praise proclaim Bright Sun whose Golden Rays Fill all the World with Light Pale Moon bright Stars which blaze Thro' the dark Fields of Night Heavens outmost Frame Vast Deeps which lie Above the Sky His Praise proclaim Let these their Maker Praise By whose Command Divine The Sky its Wealth displays And all those Beautys shine Fix'd by his Will They all stand fast And Orders past With Joy fulfil Ye Dragons Earth-born Race And all ye Deeps profound With every Natural Grace Your Masters Praises sound In Praise agree Fire Clouds Hail Snow And Storms which blow At His Decree Let Soaring Mountains now And smaller Hills descend Fruit Trees before Him bow And stately Cedars bend verse 10 Beasts Wild and Tame Birds airy wings And creeping Things His Praise proclaim verse 11 His Praise all Kings on Earth And Subject Nations show Great Men of Princely Birth And such as Judgment know verse 12 Each-Youthful Tribe Each Virgin Throng With Old and Young His Praise describe verse 13 Let them with one consent Exalt their Maker's Name And various Ways invent To spread his glorious Fame His Name shall rise With Beams divine Thro Earth to Shine And reach the Skyes verse 14 He makes his Israel great And Praise is comely where Before his Mercy Seat His grateful Tribes appear O all accord Who Worship near His Presence there To praise the Lord PSAL. cxlix verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord with Anthems new The great Jehoviah praise His Praise in his Assemblys shew On all his Holy Days verse 2 With Joy let Israel's Faithful Race Their Maker's Power adore And Sion's Heirs with humble Grace Their Monarchs Smiles implore verse 3 Where Harp and Timbrel tun'd invites Let all his Praises sing To th' Meek in whom the Lord Delights Beauty and Safety spring verse 4 Let then each Pious Soul rejoice With lightsom Glories blest And Praise their God whose happy choice Secur'd their Downy Rest verse 5 To them let God's high Praises yield A Ground for all their Joys Then They a two edg'd Sword shall wield Whose very weight destroys verse 6 A Sword whose Point just Vengeance bears To all the Nations round Whose glittering brandish'd Edge with Fears Will all their Hearts confound verse 7 Till They their daunted Kings shall bind With Ease in Slavish Chains And till their Noblest Youth confin'd Strong Fetters weight restrains verse 8 To execute that Ancient Doom Which Holy Books record Such Honour all his Saints assume Praise ye ô praise the Lord PSAL. cl verse 1 O Praise the mighty Lord His Holyness proclaim His wondrous Acts record And praise his awful Name His dreadful might O celebrate His Power and State In Songs recite verse 3 Praise Him with Trumpets sound With sweet Tun'd Harp and Lute Sing all the Chorus round To cheerful Pipe and Flute verse 4 Your Voices raise The King of Kings With sounding Strings And Organs praise verse 5 Wind up the Cymbals high Till with a Shriller sound Wide as the vaulted Sky Your cheerful Notes rebound verse 6 With Spritely Flame Each living thing His Glories sing And Praise his Name Another Metre verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord ô praise the Lord His strength his Holiness adore verse 2 His Name his Might with praise record His Majesty with praise implore verse 3 Praise him with Trumpets Martial sound With Lute and Harp his praise advance verse 4 With Organs and with Timbrels round And Viols and a cheerful Dance verse 5 With high tun'd Cymbals praise his Name His Name to loudest Cymbals Sing And all whom Vital Spirits enflame O praise the World 's Eternal King To Father Holy Ghost and Son One blest one glorious Trinity As is as was e're Time begun So endless praise and Glory be The End of the PSALMS DOXOLOGIES For the 1st Metre of the 1st Psalm c. TO Father Son and Holy Ghost Immense Eternal Three in One By Us and all the Heavenly Host Be Glory pay'd and Homage done For the 2d Metre and all of 8 and
THE PSALMS OF DAVID IN English Metre Translated from the ORIGINAL And Suited to all the TUNES now Sung in CHURCHES With the Additions of several NEW By LUKE MILBOURNE A Presbyter of the Church of England 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adag Arab. Thus by the Streams the Spring is clearly shown And the Translation makes the Author known Lord Falkland None can condemn the Wish or Labour spent Good Matter in good Words to represent Bishop King to Mr. Sandys London Printed for W. Rogers at the Sun R. Clavill at the Peacock and B. Tooke at the Middle Temple Gate all in Fleet street J. Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultry and J. Tayler at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard 1698. TO His Highness THE DUKE OF GLOCESTER May it please Your Highness THis little Book wants a Protector And where could it find a Better than in Our other Hope Your Highness has here the greatest King and the best of Poets to excite Your Courage and enliven Your Devotion You have the Wit and Spirit of a Court without the Follies of the present Age Fineness of Thought without Loosness of Fancy Rapture without Extravagance and Piety without the Extreams of Superstition or Idolatry These Hymns contain nothing but what may adorn the Innocence of Youth and the Vigour of a Manly Age. The Masters of Musick may try their Skill here and sing God's Praises in as charming Notes as common and despicable Amours and advance the Love of their Redeemer above all the Atchievments of a fancied Hero From Your Highness's Hand this Work may be acceptable to His most Excellent Majesty and find Admission into the Closet of Your Royal Mother If read by Your Self it will be a Divine Monitor in Your Diversions a Companion in Your Privacy a Support under Uneasiness and a Security to Your Religion Those Holy Truths convey'd through the Channels smooth and easie Verse will with God's Blessing make You wiser than Your Enemies more knowing than any Earthly Teachers and more apprehensive than those of Elder Years May the God of Heaven bless Your Highness's Pregnant Youth with advancing Vertues and unfading Years May He crown You with Love and Honour here and with Love and Happiness hereafter Which is the most earnest Prayer of Your Highness's Most Humble and Most Obedient Servant Luke Milbourne To the Most Reverend Fathers in God the Archbishops the Right Reverend the Bishops and the Reverend Clergy of Great Britain and Ireland especially such as now do or hereafter may represent that whole Body in Convocation The Preface of Luke Milbourne Presbyter and Author of this Translation of the Psalms of David Most Reverend Right Reverend and Reverend Fathers and Brethren THat Psalmody was amongst the Jews a considerable Part of Divine Worship that Book of which this calls it self a Translation is a sufficient Evidence That it was used among Christians of old is unquestionable And perhaps it is no Disparagement either to the Jewish or the Christian Church that a great part of the old Heathen Worship consisted in Singing Hymns and Praises to their Gods There is somewhat so truly Divine and Charming in Well-set Notes and Vocal and Instrumental Harmony they are so apt to chear and revive languid and drooping Spirits so likely to make strong Impressions on the Memory and so extreamly affecting to the devout Soul that as the Agreeableness of their Numbers made Poets of old the sittest Treasures of Divine Knowledge so the Softness and Sweetness of their Notes may make the Masters of Sacred Musick among our selves were but their Lives as Heavenly as their Art the fittest Companions for happy Souls and Blissful Angels With respect to whom our excellent Waller says All that we know of those above Is that they sing and that they love What Thoughts our first Reformers in this Nation had of this part of Divine Worship is not easie to conjecture But whether they judged Singing of Psalms by the whole Congregation no necessary part of a Publick Liturgy or supposed that the Reading Psalms chaunted in Recitative or sung as at present in Cathedrals which seems favour'd by that Title they carry in our Common-Prayer-Book The Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be Said or Sung in Churches was enough to answer that part of Worship 't is certain they took no Care for any Metrical Translation of those sacred Hymns for publick Use And though some pious and learned Men had taken pains to put them into Verse the setled Liturgy took no notice of the Matter Nor could I ever find any Authentick Allowance for singing them in publick However the Practice of Singing prvail'd here every Day in Imitation the Reformed abroad and certainly tened very much towards the advancing the Reformation it self but after all was only connived at or tolerated And after the Restauration of our Religion and our Government neve◠Authorised or so much as mentioned a◠a Part of our Publick Service And the present and constant Practice of our Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches and our Colleges not to mention the Chape◠Royal and other Places where Choir◠are fixed intimates that such Psalms were never design'd to be setled by Authority Prose-Anthems being there generally sung taken out of the Reading Psalms some short Parts of other Scriptural Hymns some of private Composure and by chance sometimes a Verse or two out of Sternhold and Hopkins as particularly out of the 68th Psalm Let God arise c. Set I think by Mr. Laws Now the Cathedrals being patterns to our Parochial Assemblies at least in the main parts of solemn Worship they having no Example of such a Nature from them could pretend to no Right of Singing Psalms in Verse by the entire Congregation Hence though the great Sir Philip Sidney translated the whole Book of Psalms into Rhyme and the pious Bishop Hall and the renouned Lord Bacon and it may be some others turn'd several particular Psalms into Verse more correct doubtless than the former yet there never was any Motion towards introducing them into Churches And since our Convocations to whom that Work properly belongs never took any such Cognizance of these or of the Ancient Version as to recommend them with the Liturgy to the Parliament our Common Psalmody remains a Matter of Liberty And it never yet was made an Article of Enquiry at any Episcopal Visitation Whether any Psalms were sung or what Versions of them were used in Parochial Churches On this Account it was that whereas no Man better understood his own Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Affairs than Charles the First of blessed Memory yet though he designed the utmost Honour to the Memory of his Father when the new Translation of King James the First was made publick he only allow'd and recommended it to common Use which as Experience shew'd was not enough to break in upon Inveterate Custom or to exclude that which had for so many Years gotten Possession of our Bibles and Common-Prayer-Books
where needful and the Double Translation of the Reading Psalms in that called the Bishops Bible and the last in our common Bibles my Correctors Though I have not tied my self so superstitiously to any as not to use my own Judgment sometimes and in some Things to stem the Current of Paraphrasts and other Writers on that Divine Book Particularly I have adhered to those Applications made of several Passages here by the Inspir'd Pen-men of the New Testament whom to quit for over nice and Socinianizing Criticks I think absurd and dangerous I have in general made the Sense and Coherence so plain that this Version perhaps may be as serviceable to some as a Commentator The Measures I have used are the Old neither so hard nor so harsh as some have thought The Rhymes are every where double sometimes more such being when unforced more pleasant and more grateful I have generally avoided the Clashing of Consonants as Unmusical About 50 are twice Translated some thrice by that Means sometimes taking in those different Senses of particular Texts of which 't is hard to fix the best Paraphrasing some lofty Psalms more fully and using higher Expressions than a single Version could have admitted of Hence every Psalm has one Translation so close and plain as may be sung in the plainest Country-Congregations and yet I have used such Variety of Measures as may answer all the Tunes in Playford's Edition And that the Work might be the more compleat I have given all such of Mr. Sandys's Measures with their Tunes in Two Parts which could not be sung by the common Notes The whole indeed may be an entire Body of Church-Musick No Old Tune lost several New are added and the Words so sitted as to be more agreeble both to the Dutch French and English Tunes as sung in any of our Churches than any former Version has â—een I have generally followed the Stile of the Original rising and falling with That The Measures of Chearful Psalms are fitted to Chearful Tunes Those more Melancholick to Slow Tunes and of a sadder Air. The Repetitions in the Hebrew are so charming that I could not but think they would be very beautiful in English as particularly in the 118th Psalm I have industriously avoided both Obsolete an New-fangled Words I have invented none nor used any harsh Transposition of Words Though I doubt not but after all my Care many Mistakes may have escaped me which whosoever with charitably point out will lay the greatest Obligation upon me That we might use Doxologies as well to the Singing as the Reading Psalms I have suite One to every Measure through the whole Book A Right Reverend Prolate of our Church did me the Honour to read the whole over very carefully whose Encouragement was a great Motive to this Publication If it be acceptable to others and bless'd by God so as to promote his Honour I have my End And Non nobis Domine non nobis Sed Nomini Tuo da Gloriam Advertisement THat this Version of the Psalms may be the more usefull to those who delight in Church-Musick I have translated them to such variety of Measures that there 's no Tune in Playford's Editions either in the Psalms themselves or in the Hymns before or after to which there is not some particular Measure appropriated here That the Compass of Church-Musick might be the larger and more entertaining I have tun'd some to Mr Sandys's Measures the Musick of which was compos'd by that great Master Mr. Laws for the private use of his pious Master Charles the First of blessed Memory The whole then presents you with one Version of every Psalm to be sung in Common Tunes if at least we may call those of the 113 and 148 Psalms such and they are to be sung to the same with those of the same denomination in the old Version unless where the Measures are different and the Proper Tunes referr'd to Such as are not in Mr. Playford's Book are here set down with the proper Notes from Mr. Laws's and Ravenscroft's and the whole if encourag'd shall be re-printed with the Notes throughout And that we may have a just Opportunity at such a time as this to remember that Faith into which we are Baptiz'd in every part of Divine Worship I have suited particular Doxologies to every particular Measure in due Order at the end of the Book with what Psalms they refer to besides some in the Body of the Version Benedicat Deus Operi Authori. The Tunes of the Psalms A Thousand Blessings crown his Head Whose Heart all impious Counsel flies And hates those Paths where Sinners tread Who God and all that 's Good despise This serves indifferently for any Stanzas of Eight Syllables which have no proper Tune of their own For the 8th Psalm 2d Metre LOrd how Illustrious is thy sacred Name How blest great God of Hosts Eâ•Œterâ•Œnal King Whose Honours all the lower World proclaim Whose Honours all the Heav'nly Armies sing Psalm 11th 2d Metre MY Faith is fix'd on God most high Why then should Fools to vex me cry As Birds afraid by noises made Hence to the Mountains fly Psalm 15. 2d Metre BLest Lord how glorious is the place Thy Altars grace how is the hovly Temple blest By thee possest But O what happy Man is he Who there a daiâ•Œly Guest may be Psalm 18 or 78. HOW shall I praise my God my King Thus exâ•Œtaâ•Œsy'd with Joys and Love What worthy Halâ•Œleâ•Œluâ•Œjahs sing To his great Name who rules above Psalm 23. 2d Metre THe Lord 's my Sheepheard I the Sheep Whose Soul his Cares in safety keep Thro' flowry Meads He gentâ•Œly leads Me on where I seâ•Œcureâ•Œly sleep Or by His guidance go where silent Waters flow Psalm 24. 2d Metre THE Earth is God's her Fulness too Earth and all of Earth possess'd For on the Seas he pois'd it true On the Floods secur'd its Rest But who ô who Can Lord pursue Paths to reach thy saâ•Œcred Hill Or see thy Face in that bless'd Place There unmov'd aâ•Œbiâ•Œding still Psalm 33. 2d Metre YE Righteous in the Lord rejoyce It 's sweet when with a chearful voice The Just his Praises sing O let no Tongue or Hand be mute But with the Voice and Harp and Lute Praise out Imâ•Œmorâ•Œtal King Psalm 43. 3d Metre JUdge me my God revenge my Cause On cruel Hands and faithless Hearts Save me from him who from the Laws Of Truth and soâ•Œber Virtues starts Who boldâ•Œly acts the falsest Parts With strange Success and vast applause Psalm 53. 2d Metre THE Fool the senseless Fool Thus in his Heart hath said God 's but an awâ•Œful Tool By crafty Preachers made Thus all corâ•Œrupâ•Œted are And all in Sins deâ•Œlight But none for Truth deâ•Œclare None eâ•Œver practise right Psalm 58. 1 st Metre Psalm 72. Psalm 106. WHen you in private Council sit Are all your Conâ•Œsulâ•Œtaâ•Œtions just May others your Deâ•Œciâ•Œsions trust Their Lives to your pure Hands submit Psalm
Sacrifice Nor Mention of their Idols make They never from my Lips shall rise verse 5 My God's my bless'd Inheritance My Right his mighty Arm sustains verse 6 My Lines on pleasant Parts advance For me a goodly Let remains Part 2. verse 7 My Thanks I 'll to my Teacher show I nightly feel his gentle Hand verse 8 He 's ever fix'd before me so I still unmov'd unshaken stand verse 9 My Heart henee springs with rising Joys My Tongue 's with glorious Praises bless'd Though Death my Mortal State destroys My Flesh in certain Hope shall rest verse 10 The Grave shall soon my Flesh resign Death quit his Triumphs o'er my Soul Tombs sha'n't thy Holy One Confine Nor Worms my mould'ring Corps control verse 11 To me thy Grace new Life shall show Lord in thy Presence Joys abound With thee Eternal Pleasures flow And lasting Bliss with Glories crown'd PSAL. xvij verse 1 HEar me ô hear me Lord Accept my earnest Cry Thy Justice to his Pray'rs afford Who hates Hypocrisie verse 2 O weight my Right and let My Sentence come from Thee verse 3 Thou try'st my Heart thy Looks are set By Night to visit me Yet thou hast found me pure When in thy Furnace try'd My Lips by Resolutions sure Are to thy Precepts ty'd verse 4 Whate'r vile Sinners dare I know thy Word 's Divine And from destructive Paths with Care My wand'ring Feet confine verse 5 Lord all my Motions guide To tread thy sacred Way And never let my Foot-steps wide From Paths of Vertue stray verse 6 I only call to thee Who hear'st the Cries of thine Lord bow thy gracious Ears to me And to my Words incline verse 7 Thy wondrous Love disclose To those who trust in thee And save them from the Rage of those Who would their Ruin see verse 8 Keep me as Eye-lids keep And guard the tender Eye That I beneath thy Wings may sleep Beneath thy Shade may lie Part 2. verse 9 Save me from bloody Hands Who now inclose me round And all those cruel angry Bands Which would my Life confound verse 10 Who fat and haughty made Speak big with lofty Pride verse 11 But Snares which in our Paths are laid With down-cast Looks can hide verse 12 Who like fierce Lions would Surprize the trembling Prey Or Lions Whelps which mad for Blood In Thickets lurking stay verse 13 Rise quell their Malice Lord And break their Insolence From wicked Men thy deadly Sword Be thou my Soul's Defence verse 14 From Godless Brutes employ'd To scourge a careless Age Men who with Earthly Blessings cloy'd Their Hearts on Earth engage Whose craving Bellies all The secret Treasures fill Whose Sons are fat whose Lordships fall Down to their Children still verse 15 So I in Righteousness Thy glorious Face shall see Which when I 'm rais'd again shall bless Me to Satiety PSAL. xviij as the 100 th or Mr Sandys's 9 th verse 1 HOW shall I praise my God my King Thus ecstasy'd with Joys and Love What worthy Hallslujahs sing To his great Name who rules above He by a thousand sacred Bands Has made my greatful Heart his own verse 2 My Strength my Rock my Fort He stands His Forse in my Deliv'rance shown My God my solid Hope my Shield Against my fierce insulting Foes Safe in his Strength I keep the Field My Crown his mighty Arm bestows verse 3 Him will I praise to him I 'll pray And so from all my Foes be free verse 4 Tho' Death's strong Chains should stop my Way And Floods of Horrour compass me verse 5 Hell 's dismal Sorrows hedg'd me round Death's cruel Chains oppos'd my Way verse 6 Yet my Distress his Mercy found And from his Seat He heard me pray Part 2. verse 7 His Awful Nod my Cries receiv'd Which all the World's Foundations shook And Mountains from their Bases heav'd Unhing'd by his revenging Look verse 8 Thick Smoak his kindling Furies rais'd His Wrath the streaming Vapour show'd Devouring Flames before him blaz'd And Bolts with living Sulphur glow'd verse 9 He came Heav'ns bending Arches groan'd His Steps thick Darkness cover'd o'er verse 10 Triumphant Flames their Lord inthron'd On Wings of rapid Tempests bore verse 11 My sterious Gloom around him slow'd And where he fore'd his wond'rous Way His Way Majestick Darkness show'd And heavy Clouds obscur'd the Day verse 12 But soon his fiery Wrath dispell'd The Clouds the Clouds dissolv'd around And Drops to monst'rous Hail congeal'd With burning Bolts rak'd o'er the Ground verse 13 The thund'ring Skies his Voice reveal'd The Air returned the dreadful Sound And Drops to monstrous Hail congeal'd With burning Bolts rak'd o'er the Ground verse 14 Thick as his Hail his Arrows flew Nor could his Foes their Force avoid While his sure Hand thick Lightnings threw And all their scatter'd Hosts destroy'd Part 3. verse 15 Great God when thy sierce Fury storm'd Distracted Nature trembling lay And the unfarhom'd Deep deform'd Through horrid Ruptures felt the Day The Seas old Parent Springs appear'd And the great World's Foundations torn The tott'ring Hills their Doom's day fear'd By thy impetuous Wrath o'er-born verse 16 For me yet were his Loves engag'd His Brows with softer Glory shin'd He sav'd me from the Gulphs enrag'd And all the greedy Floods combin'd verse 17 His gracious Arm still rescues me From all my Foes insulting Hate That Arm which me alone can free And their prevailing Force abate verse 18 Their Spite my saddest Moments watch'd But God was then my Guard my Stay He lov'd he lov'd my Soul and snatch'd From hungry Jaws the fainting Prey verse 19 My harmless Innocence he knows And with his bounteous Love pursues verse 20 For I his sacred Methods chose Nor would his just Commands refuse Part 4. verse 21 God's Statures still before me lay verse 22 Nor durst I cast his Laws aside verse 23 But with Him trod the perfect Way And all my craving Lusts deny'd verse 24 So God my Love with Love repay'd Repay'd my righteous Innocence And to my Hands thus guiltless made Hee 'l still His kind Rewards dispense verse 25 God 's ever Just where Mercy shines His Mercy meet 's the tender Heart Where Man to perfect Deeds inclines His Smiles a perfect meed impart verse 26 Where the plain Heart sincerely moves God's Blessings are unmix'd and plain Where Man deceit and falshood loves False Hopes false Joys are all his gain verse 27 Thou shalt thy poor Afflicted raise Bring down the Looks which proudly swell verse 28 And make my Light more brightly blaze And all my darker thoughts dispel verse 29 By Thee with Godlike vigour arm'd Thro' rally'd Hosts I force my way Scale losty Walls till all alarm'd My ever conquering Sword obey Part 5. verse 30 God's ways are perfect try'd and pure His Word His Strength a certain Shield verse 31 What God but Ours can help secure What Lord so firm a Shelter yield verse 32 My God my Arm with strength supplies And makes
my Ways and Counsels plain verse 33 Through him my speed the Hart out-flies And I set high securely reign verse 34 He taught my unskill'd Arms the flight To throw the Spear and lift the Shield To break steel Bows with ease and fight The Duel or the Marshall'd field verse 35 Thro' Thee I 'me safe and guarded sure And Greatness gain and kind support verse 36 My Paths grow large my Feet secure My Foes my Conquering Armies sport verse 37 My flying Foes I 'le swiftly chase And seize and soon confound them all verse 38 Till in their Breasts my Shafts take place And Dead beneath my feet they fall verse 39 When numerous Armies take the Field With strength thy Spirit girds me round verse 40 Thou make'st my fierce Opposers yield Their humbled Necks to kiss the ground Thro' Thee my Hands with ease destroy Those Crouds whose spite my Glory cross'd verse 41 In vain to God for Help they cry Their Prayers their empty Cries are lost Part 6. verse 42 Thro' Thee my scatter'd Foes are blown Like Dust before the stormy Wind Or like vile Dirt in streets are thrown And I tread down their hated kind verse 43 No more shall strife the Tribes divide But I 'le by join'd Agreement reign And o're strange Heathen Lands preside And Realms unknown shall drag my Chain verse 44 They 'l by my Name alarm'd obey And Strangers smooth pretences make verse 45 And humble Reverence seem to pay When all their strongest Frontiers quake verse 46 Bless'd be my God! ô ever blest My ever-living Rock may He verse 47 Whose saving Help my Foes deprest More honour'd still more glorious be verse 48 Their Heads it's mark His Vengearice makes And He the subject Nation 's leads Me from their cruel Envy takes And sets me high above their Heads And tho' Man's heady Fury still Fly out thy Arms my Safety bring verse 49 And I before the Gentiles will Thy Praise in grateful Anthems sing verse 50 To Kings He great Salvation gives And sure of his protecting Grace His David his Anointed lives And all his long succeeding Race PSAL 19. As the 18th verse 1 LOok up obdurate Wretch Survey The Heavens the far extended Skyes See what those sacred Volumes lay Before thy Unbelieving Eyes To prove our God's Existence there A thousand starry Beauties shine A thousand glorious Marks appear Of Providence and Love Divine verse 2 If still thy fullen Silence dare Neglect thy great Creator's Praise Yet wiser Nature's grateful Care His Being speaks his Might displays There Days to Nights and Nights to Days Instructive Wisdom's Lectures read verse 3 Yet to proclaim God's wondrous praise They neither Voice nor Language need Orders prodigious Eloquence O're all the seeing World prevails And with strong Truth and weighty Sense Their willing Eyes and Hearts assails verse 4 Nor can Earth's darkest Corners be So far from Light or Sense remov'd But they our God's Existence see And Atheïstic Lyes disprov'd Part 2. Above in open Skies He blest verse 5 The Place from whence the lightsom Sun Like some Illustrious Bridgroom drest Or well-breath'd vigorous Youth should run verse 6 Thro' every Point he swifty drives And sheds his Influences round And as He runs disperses Lives His Heat's with vast Productions crown'd verse 7 Yet tho' that radiant Star declare So plain the Majesty Divine Tho' Nature speak her Maker's care And God in every Creature shine More happy we to whom his Grace Imparts his Will and sacred Laws Where through each Word the Poor may trace His Works and Him their mighty Cause Thy Laws in full Perfection shine Great God thy Statutes firmly stand Those sinful Thoughts to Good incline These make the Simplest understand verse 8 Thy Precepts right thy Dictates pure Give Joy and clear the Cloudy Eyes verse 9 Thy Worship ever shall endure Thy Judgments all are just and wise Part 3. verse 10 Honey we'd eat and Gold we 'd gain That for its Sweetness this its Price But nobler Sweets thy Laws contain More worth thy Word 's Divine Advice verse 11 They warn my Soul when Danger 's near Dangers which Health and Lust create And then conduct me safely where Rewards on just Obedience wait verse 12 Yet who ô holy God can know What Guilt his inmost Thoughts attends Who weighs his Words his Actions who Or on their Innocence depends Cleanse me ô cleanse my Soul my God From Sins o'er-look'd and Guilt unknown verse 13 O let me not beneath the Load Of Madness or Presumption groan So from great Guilt great Errours free verse 14 I 'll praise my strong Redeemer's Name Till all my Thoughts and Words with Thee May Favour and Acceptance gain PSAL. xx As the 12th verse 1 WHen press'd with weighty Cares The Lord accept thy Prayers Thee with his glorious Name defend verse 2 May his Assisting-Grace Come from thy Holy Place His Strength from Sion's Hill descend verse 3 O may thy Sacrifice Right from his Altars rise Consum'd at once by Flames Divine verse 4 He give thee wish'd Success And all thy Counsels bless While we in Thanks and Praise combine verse 5 With Joys Triumphant we Thy great Salvation see In God's great Name our Standards high With humbly grateful Praise And chearful Hands we 'll raise May God to all thy Prayers reply verse 6 He from his holy Throne Will his Anointed own On him his God's Salvation flows That Health and Safety strong Which to our God belong God's mighty Arm alone bestows verse 7 Some in their Chariots most And some in Horses boast But we in God's more pow'rful Name verse 8 They crush'd and broken all In weighty Ruins fall While we our Saviour's Strength proclaim Through that we strongly rise And with erected Eyes The Spring of all our Strength adore verse 9 O Thou our God our King Accept the Vows we bring When we thy needful He'p implore Another Metre As the 100th verse 1 THE Lord in dang'rous Times receive Thy Pray'rs his Name defend thee still verse 2 Thy Wants with holy Aids relieve And help thee from his sacred Hill verse 3 O may He all thy Vows record Consume thy grateful Sacrifice verse 4 Success to thy vast Thoughts afford And bless each mighty Enterprize verse 5 So in his Health Triumphant we Will raise our happy Standards high In God's great Name while kindly he Shall to thy servent Pray'rs reply verse 6 Now now I know the Lord his Health on his Anointed King bestows Whose Strength whose Happiness and Wealth From his Celestial Treasure flows verse 7 Some trust in well-arm'd Chariots some In Horses and in Horse-men's Force In God's more pow'rful Name we come To him alone 's our who'e Recourse verse 8 They quickly bend and quickly fall We rise more high and stronger stand verse 9 Help Lord and when distress'd we call For us thy Royal Aids command PSAL. xxj As the 100th verse 1 THE King shall in thy Might be glad And in
thy saving Health rejoice verse 2 Since he bless'd Lord his Wishes had And thou hast heard his humble Voice verse 3 Thy Goodness all his Hopes prevents And crowns his Head with envy'd Gold verse 4 He beg'd for Life thy Love consents He long may live and ne'er be old verse 5 Thy great Salvation set him high With all Majestick Glory crown'd verse 6 On him Eternal Blessings lie Thy Heav'nly Joys his Heart surround verse 7 The King on God above relies And in his Mercy firmly stands verse 8 No Foe beyond his Anger flies Nor scapes his long revenging Hands verse 9 Lord when thy dreadful Fury burns Its Flame their Stock at once consumes verse 10 And all their Race on Earth o'erturns And all their wretched Pride intombs verse 11 Against thee they conspir'd and fram'd Such Plots as no Effect could take verse 12 O let them turn their Backs asham'd Thine Arrows sharp against them make verse 13 Exalt thy Might thy Glory Lord Arise exalt thy lofty Name While we with Songs thy Might record And all thy wondrous Acts proclaim PSAL. xxij verse 1 WHY ô my God my God ô why Hast thou Forsaken me How long so distant from my Cry Shall thy Salvation be verse 2 To thee my God I cry by Day To thee by Night I cry With Tears with restless Tears I pray Yet unregarded die verse 3 Yet Thou art holy Lord and pure With faithful Praise ador'd verse 4 Our Father's Hopes in Thee were sure Thy Heâ—p their Souls restor'd verse 5 On Thee they call'd and hop'd in Thee Yet no Disgrace receiv'd Thy Hand procur'd their Liberty And all their Wants reliev'd verse 6 But I a wretched Worm the Name Of Man in vain have born By Men expos'd to common Shame And all the Vulgar's Scorn verse 7 Their Heads their Lips when I appear With Scoffs disdainful move verse 8 Let 's see they cry if God can hear If God his Cause approve God was his Hope in God his Trust On God the Wretch rey'd God if He 'll have him strongly must Espouse his Darling's Side verse 9 But from my Mother's Breasts and Womb Thou wast my God my Guide verse 10 Thy careful Hand my youthful Bloom My Infant Cries supply'd verse 11 So on thy Grace I still depend O never cast me by For daily Woes my Life attend And no Assistant's nigh Part 2. verse 12 Against me Sinners fierce engage And impious Arms prevail verse 13 And me with Lions rampant Rage And open Mouths assail verse 14 My Life runs off like Winter-Streams My Bones disjointed start As Wax before the Sun 's hot Beams So melts my careful Heart verse 15 My Strength quite dries away my Tongue Cleaves to my parching Jaws And I shall soon to Earth belong By Death's determin'd Laws verse 16 For angry Dogs around me meet And all the Godless Crew They pierce my bleeding Hands and Feet And Wounds on Wounds renew verse 17 Each Passenger may tell my Bones While here I rack'd appear And gaze in Scorn while deathful Groans My wasted Vitals tear verse 18 My Robes my cruel Murd'rers seize And carefully divide And for their Shares their doubtful Pleas Impartial Lots decide verse 19 But leave me not my Strength my Lord O fly to resoue me verse 20 My helpless Soul ô from the Sword And bloody Dogs set free verse 21 From Lions Mouths and Brutish Might O save and hear my Prayer verse 22 So I 'l in all thy Church's Sight Thy Name thy Praise declare Part 3. verse 23 O ye who fear the Lord with Praise His happy Smiles implore Ye faithful Seed his Glories raise His sacred Name adore verse 24 He ne'er despis'd nor cast aside The Poor's afflicted Case Nor hid his Face but when I cry'd Bestow'd his wonted Grace verse 25 To thee my God I 'll lofty Praise In Vast Assemblies sing My humblest Vows on holy Days With just Devotion bring verse 26 The Poor shall eat to Fulness there Thy Saints thy Praises found Their joyful Hearts with Heav'nly Cheer And Life Eternal crown'd verse 27 Earth's farthest Bounds to Thee shall bow The World thy Grace proclaim All Nations Thee their God shall know And bear thy sacred Name verse 28 For God above the Nations reigns And o'er the World presides His Word their quiet State maintains And Truth to all divides verse 29 The Rich shall all his Rights allow And just Obedience pay The Poor to him shall gladly bow And his Commands obey Nay those whose drooping Souls draw near The dark devouring Grave Shall at his Name reviv'd appear And his Protection crave verse 30 Their Seed their gracious God shall serve And in his Family Their happy States and Names preserve And all his Goodness see verse 31 They shall his Righteousness to all Succeeding Ages show That those to come on God nay call And all his Wonders know Another Metre As the 124th WHY ô my God ô why my God dost Thou Desert a Soul oppress'd with mighty Woe Thou whose uhbounded Mercies largely flow And ready Help and kind Supports allow To others who beneath their Suff'rings bow verse 2 Crush'd by thy weighty Wrath my dreadful Cries My flowing Tears consume the chearful Light My restless Groans disturb the silent Night Yet still my absent God his Smiles denies For Tears or Groans has neither Ears nor Eyes verse 3 What! Can thy Wrath against a Godless Race Thy Nature change or to thy Servants make Thy Promise fail Can God himself forsake O no! He 's holy still His wondrous Grace The faithful World with Praise and Thanks embrace verse 4 On him our happy Fathers long believ'd Their Faith in him in him their Hopes were sure Their Considence in him from Shame secure verse 5 His ready Arm their pressing Wants reliev'd Their ancient Freedom and their State retriev'd verse 6 But I 'm beneath a Man's exalted Name A trampled Worm a Wretch forgot forlorn Expos'd to all th' insulting Vulgar's Scorn My heavy Woes their scossing Wits inflame And think I merit greater Pains and Shame verse 7 See how they toss their Heads the barb'rous Crew Shoot out their Tongues with pointed Flouts and Jeers Unkind returns for all my sanguine tears With cruel Joys the Rout my Life pursue And my unutterable Torments view verse 8 God was th' Impostors Patron once they cry God was his Strength his Friend his Father too Let 's see what that Almighty Friend can do Let 's see his God through the dividing Sky On rapid Wings to his Assistance fly verse 2 Yet from my Mother's Breasts and Virgin womb Wast thou my God and I was only thine My Birth Conception Nature all Divine verse 10 On Thee I trusted in my early Bloom Thy Image in my Infant-Soul had Room And can I doubt my God's immortal Love Can Seas or Earth again or can the Sky Dissolv'd in one unshap'd Confusion lie Can groundless Hate pursue the spotless Dove Or can unkind Oblivion reign above
Lord with all That 's good or sweet are stor'd verse 11 Come then ye Children hear my Call And learn to fear the Lord Part 2. verse 12 Who 's he who loves long Life and fain Would see delightful Days verse 13 Thy Lips from all that 's ill refrain Thy Tongue from guileful Ways verse 14 Ill Works of ev'ry kind decline What 's good and vertuous do And Love and Peace with Flames Divine And constant Care pursue verse 15 God on the Just hath fix'd his Eyes His Ears their Pray'rs attend verse 16 His Frowns against the Wicked rise Their Lives from Earth to rend verse 17 To good Men's Pray'rs He Favour shows And sets them safe from Harms verse 18 But loves the broken Heart and those Whose Souls Repentance warms verse 19 A Thousand Ills the Good surround But God their Force dispels verse 20 And keeps their Bones and Entrails sound And all their Bruises heals verse 21 Ill Men their in-born Malice kills And those who hate the Just verse 22 While God his own with Goodness fills Who on his Mercy trust PSAL XXXV verse 1 LOrd plead my Cause my Battels fight With such as strive with me verse 2 Rise take the Shield defend my Right My mighty Guardian be verse 3 Put on thy dreadful Arms oppose My Persecutors Rage To me thy Saving Health disclose And for my Soul engage verse 4 Let such as hunt my Soul with Shame Their own Confusion see verse 5 With Scorn their Dastard Flight proclaim Who Mischief brew for me verse 6 Like flying Chaff let Angels Force Disporse their angry Crew Their slipp'ry Ways be dark their Course Angelick Arms pursue verse 7 For unprovok'd their Pits they made For me they laid their Snare O let such Woes their Hearts invade As unsuspected are verse 8 O let the Nets for mine design'd Their own Destruction prove While flowing Joys my raptur'd Mind With kind Salvation move Part 2. verse 9 O let my Bones his Praise dec'are Who gives the Poor distress'd verse 10 From savage Foes and deadly Care And bloody Tyrants Rest verse 11 False Witnesses against me rise And unknown Crimes object verse 12 With Ill for Good my Death devise And on my Soul reflect verse 13 Yet when on sickly Beds they groan'd I fasted mourn'd and pray'd Their Pains with kind Concernment own'd To Heart their Sorrows lay'd verse 14 If Mother Brother or my Friend My dearer Self had dy'd No farther could my Griefs extend My Love no more be try'd verse 15 But when I fail'd the Croud my Woes With barb'rous Joy survey'd The Rabble grew my sawcy Foes And us'd the flouting Trade verse 16 With Men of double Hearts combin'd The witty scornful Crew And at my Life with Hate resin'd And gnashing Fury flew verse 17 And canst thou this with Patience see O save my helpless Soul My Darling from their Jaws to free Their Lion-Force control verse 18 So where the great Assemblies are I 'll celebrate thy Name And where the valiant Bands repair Thy lofty Praise proclaim Part 3. verse 19 Let not my Foes rejoice uncheck'd My Causeless Haters smile verse 20 Who Wars with peaceful Men project Whose study'd Words beguile verse 21 They gap'd and cry'd Aha Aha! Our Eyes his Downfall see verse 22 Thou seest ô don 't in Silence stay O stay not long from me verse 23 Awake arise to judge my Cause My God my Lord descend verse 24 O clear me by thy righteous Laws And from Reproach desend verse 25 O lct not scornful Sinners say We have our Heart's Delight Nor let them proudly boast Aha! We have ' devour'd him quite verse 26 Let Shame and Blushes those pursue Who at my Harms rejoice And Horrour and Disgrace subdue The proud insulting Voice verse 27 But those who love my righteous Ways With chearful Spirits sing God loves his Servants Peace ô praise O praise our mighty King verse 28 So shall my Tongue with chearful Air Thy righteous Acts proclaim Thy Justice ev'ry Day declare And praise thy glorious Name PSAL. xxxvj verse 1 WHen th' horrid Acts of impious Fools My sober Censures try My Heart concludes by Reason's Rules Such Brutes a God deny verse 2 Their Consciences no Terrours wound But Sin 's their who'e De'ight Till all their dark Intendments found A gen'ral Hate excite verse 3 Their Taks deceitful all in vain And off their Vertue 's thrown verse 4 Vile Thoughts their very Beds contain In viler Actions shown verse 5 Thy Mercy Lord in Heav'n commands Thy Truth surmounts the Skies verse 6 Thy Righteousness Mountains stands Thy Judgments dark and wise Like some unfathomable Deeps Unbounded Wealth inclose And Man and Beast thy Favour keeps And Health on all bestows verse 7 What Worth thy Mercies Lord contain Beneath thy sacred Wings How safe the Sons of Men remain At Lov 's immortal Springs verse 8 They 're with o'erflowing Mercies fill'd And drink delightful Streams From those Eternal Springs distill'd And feel thy gracious Beams verse 9 From thee Life's lasting Fountains slow Thy Light affords us Light verse 10 O Goodness then and Justice show To those whose Hearts are right verse 11 From wicked Pride Lord set me free My tott'ring State restore verse 12 Till such as work Iniquity Sink fall and rise no more PSAL. xxxvij verse 1 FRet not nor for great wicked Men Thy self of Peace deprive Nor swell with secret Envy when The wicked Workers thrive verse 2 See how green Grass and Herbage dies And painted Flow'rs decay More swift the Sinner's Glory flies And sooner fades than they verse 3 Do good and trust in God and live And Faith and Truth defend verse 4 Delight in him he 'll largely give And all thy Pray'rs attend 5 Walk upright on his Grace recline For his Performance stay verse 6 He 'll make thy righteous Counsels shine Bright as the Cloudless Day verse 7 On God with faithful Silence wait But ne'er for Sinners grieve Nor wicked Men in all their State Secure or fix'd believe verse 8 But Wrath and wrathful Hate refrain Lest Sin on thee prevail verse 9 For Godly Men the World shall gain But Sinners sink and fail verse 10 Wait but a while the Sinner's Race Destroy'd no more shall be Yea thou shalt search to find his Place And not his Dwelling see verse 11 The lowly Hearts shall seize the Earth For their Inheritance There live and with delightful Mirth Abundant Peace advance verse 12 Sinners with gnashing Teeth and Rage Against the Just combine verse 13 God's scornful Smiles their Falls presage He sees their Days decline verse 14 Against the Poor and Righteous fierce Their Bows and Swords they try verse 15 But their own Hearts their Swords shall pierce Their Bows in Splinters fly Part 2. verse 16 On pious Men their humbler State More true Content bestows Than Sinners find when all their State With Pride and Plenty flows verse 17 For God's Almighty Arm sustains And strongly guards his own
And thy Salvation shows My Heart thy Mercy ne'er conceals My Lips thy Truth disclose verse 11 Thy Servant never never from Thy Pity Lord exclude To save me let thy Goodness come And all thy Truth be show'd verse 12 For Ills beyond all Numbers gone My wretched Heart surround My Trespasses too weighty grown My failing Sight confound More than my Hairs my Sins appear And break my fainting Heart verse 13 To free me Lord from all my Fear Thy winged Aid impart verse 14 Let Shame and Blushes on them fall Who hunt my Life with Hate Let dark Confusion seize them all Who for my Ruins wait verse 15 That black Disgrace design'd for me On their own Heads return Who laugh and proudly flout to see Thy wretched Servant mourn verse 16 Let those who love and seek thy Name With lively Briskness rais'd Sing all to thee and all proclaim The Lord the Lord be prais'd verse 17 But Lord I 'm poor in Sorrows lost On me some Thoughts bestow Nor let thy Help to me be cross'd Nor thy Assistance slow PSAL. xlj verse 1 THrice happy he whose tender Care The needy Poor supplies The Lord will to his Help repair When greatest Dangers rise verse 2 He shall be safely kept alive And prosper'd here below And the malicious Hate survive Of his designing Foe verse 3 When on his Sick-Bed faint he lies The Lord will raise his Head In sharpest Pains some Means devise To ease his restless Bed verse 4 Lord pity heal my Soul I said Too long in Sins employ'd verse 5 My Foes with Curses wish'd me dead My very Name destroy'd verse 6 If they pretend to visit me Their whole Discourse is Lyes Their publick Talk's Iniquity Which there their Hearts devise verse 7 My Hurt with hollow Whispers all My spiteful Foes contrive verse 8 God's Plagues they cry upon him fall He can't his Plague survive verse 9 Nay he my Confident My Friend Who was my daily Guest Could all his subtile Counsels bend Against his Master's Breast verse 10 In Mercy raise me Lord again And I 'll their Deeds requite verse 11 I see thy Love thy Hands restrain My Foes triumphant Spite verse 12 I 'll walk in my Integrity Thy Strength my Heart supports And all my Happiness shall be To tread thy sacred Courts verse 13 O bless'd be Israel's God! his Praise Through lasting Ages sing With loud Amens the G ories raise Of Jacob's mighty King PSAL. xlij verse 1 AS Harts by Thirst and Heat oppress'd Pant for the cooling Streams So pants my Breast dear God till bless'd With thy reviving Beams verse 2 My thirsty Soul to God would fly The living God be near O when shall I Lord happily Before thy Face appear verse 3 By Night Tears wash'd my restless Bed By Day my Cheeks o'erflow'd On Tears I fed while Scorners said Where 's now his boasted God verse 4 When that sweet Bliss of old possess'd My serious Thought re-calls In my sad Breast my Soul oppress'd Beneath its Burthen falls Then I with mighty Numbers proud To God's bless'd Temple went And all the Croud with Songs aloud To Him their Praises sent verse 5 But now alas Those Days are past Those blissful Minutes gone Yet where so fast With Sorrow's Blast Is all my Courage flown Why droops my Soul so much O why Dost thou disturb my Breast My Faith on High to God shall fly And on his Bosom rest Part 2. verse 6 Near Hermon's Caves and Jordan's Flows While I thus banish'd live Against my Woes tormenting Throws Dear Lord I vainly strive verse 7 Deeps call to Deeps and from their Source Thy treasur'd Tempests blow And in their Course with mighty Force The mighty Waters flow verse 8 All break on me yet Lord I find Thy Mercies still by Day To praise my Mind by Night 's inclin'd Or I devoutly pray verse 9 I 'll say to God my Rock O why Am I rejected so O why must I thus groaning lie Beneath my angry Foe verse 10 My wounded Heart with Scorn they view And with Reproaches fly And Scoffs anew my Soul pursue And Where 's his God they cry verse 11 Yet why my Soul dejected so In my despairing Breast What weighty Blow what dreadful Woe Thus breaks thy ancient Rest Hope yet in God in Patience wait On Him my Health my God I yet his State shall celebrate And spread his Works abroad PSAL. xliij BY Men of Blood beset distress'd By all the treach ' rous Crew My Pray'rs to pitying Heav'n address'd For Life and Safety sue O Thou just God assert my Cause My sinking Cause maintain And try'd by thy impartial Laws Let me thy Smiles re-gain verse 2 Thy Strength dear God is all my Stay Why from thy Presence thrown Must I despairing all the Day Beneath Oppression groan verse 3 O yet thy Truth thy Favour lend My wandring Steps to guide Till I thy holy Mount ascend And near thy House reside verse 4 There I 'll before thine Altars bow And chearful Anthems sing Thy Praise bless'd God my Harp shall shew On ev'ry tuneful String verse 5 Why so dejected then my Soul Within my wounded Breast Why should Despair thy Thoughts control Or break thy ancient Rest Trust yet in God! I shall my Part Still in his Love obtain And God within my grateful Heart Enthron'd in Joys shall reign Another Metre As the old 130th verse 1 JUdge me Lord revenge my Cause On those who Mercy hate From deceitful cruel Jaws O save my sinking State verse 2 All my Strength descends from thee Why then must I unbless'd Thus a constant Mourner be By barb'rous Foes oppress'd verse 3 Send thy Truth ô send thy Light And let them guide me still To thy House conduct me right And to thy holy Hill verse 4 I 'll to God's pure Altars go the God of all my Joy And his Praises there to show My tuneful Harp employ verse 5 Why my Soul then why depress'd Why thus disturb'd within On that God securely rest Who oft thy Help has been Fear not droop not I shall yet His Health with Praises see He 's my God and can'd forget My kind Defence to be Another Metre as Mr. Sandys's 22th verse 1 JUdge me my God revenge my Cause On cruel Hands and faithless Hearts Save me from him who from the Laws Of Truth and sober Virtues starts Who boldly acts the falsest Parts With strange Success and vast Applause verse 2 Thou art my God alone from Thee My Strength and Help and Hopes descend Why then must I rejected be Why thus beneath Oppressions bend On thee so long in vain attend From bloody Foes to set me free verse 3 O send thy Truth thy saving Light To be my constant faithful Guides To lead me to that sacred Height Where thy illustrious Name resides Where thy Illustrious House abides With thy immortal Glories bright verse 4 Then I 'll to God's pure Altars go That God who all my Joy creates To whom I
all my Pleasures owe On whom my Soul reviving waits My Lord my God in whose bless'd Gates His Praise my tuneful Harp shall show verse 5 Why then cast down my Soul ô why Thus vex'd in my uneasie Breast To God for Help and Safety fly On his Divine Assistance rest For with my God's Salvation bless'd I yet shall sound his Praises high verse 1 LOrd oft we 've heard our Fathers tell Thy wondrous Works of Old verse 2 How by thy Hand the Gentiles fell And we their Countries hold verse 3 Them their own Swords could ne'er advance Nor Native Valour save Thy Arm thy Love thy Countenance Their Lands and Safety gave verse 4 Thou art my King Salvation Lord For Jacob's Seed command verse 5 We 'll crush our Foes if thou afford Thy kind assisting Hand Their Heads in thy Almighty Name We 'll quickly trample o'er verse 6 And I 'll my Bow 's Defence disclaim And trust my Sword no more verse 7 Thou only sav'st us from our Foes And break'st their Hearts with Shame verse 8 Each Day we 'll with thy Glory close And ever praise thy Name verse 9 But thou hast cast us off and we A strange Disgrace endure Thy Aids no more our Armies see Nor can thy Help procure verse 10 Before their Foes the Dastards fly And we are spoil'd with Ease verse 11 Like scatter'd Sheep dispers'd we lie Where-e'er the Gentiles please verse 12 Thou hast thy wretched People sold Yet not advanc'd thy Gain verse 13 And us in Scorn our Neighbours hold And treat with proud Disdain Part 2. verse 14 We are the Gentiles By-word now At us each shakes his Head verse 15 And while we suffer Shame my Brow A Thousand Blushes spread verse 16 My Shame from Men's soul Blasphemies And black Reproaches grows The Barb'rous Acts and shameless Lyes Of our revengeful Foes verse 17 Yet though we 're this with Woes oppress'd We can't our God forget But in thy Covenant we rest Thy Truth before us set verse 18 Our Hearts have ne'er declin'd from Thee But to thy Judgments true verse 19 Though we the Dragon's Fury see And Death our Steps pursue verse 20 Had we forgot God's glorious Name Or Idol-Gods ador'd verse 21 Wou'd not our God have found the same Our secret Thoughts explor'd verse 22 For Thee we'ere kill'd all Day like Sheep To Slaughter deem'd for Thee verse 23 Wake Lord ô rise no longer sleep No distant Stranger be verse 24 Why Lord are all our Woes despis'd Why hid thy lightsom Face verse 25 While we with Sorrow's Dust disguis'd The Earth forlorn embrace verse 26 O rise With thy Almighty Aid Our sinking State retrieve Our Souls to Sorrow Captives made With Mercy Lord relieve PSAL. xlv verse 1 WArm'd by a Beam of sacred Light I 'll sing a lofty Song The Streins my busie Thoughts indite To our bless'd King belong And though the Pen-man's nimble Hand Flies swiftly o'er his Scrowl More swiftly and with more Command My Tongue attends my Soul verse 2 Fair be the Sons of Humane Race Thou Lord art fairer found Thy Lips distil Celestial Grace With God's due Blessings crown'd verse 3 Ride on thou Prince of wondrous Might Gird on thy dreadful Sword With Majesty and glorious Light And Truth 's All-conqu'ring Word verse 4 May Love and Righteousness attend Thee with assur'd Success Thy dreadful Arms all Fame transcend And all thy Foes depress verse 5 Before thy Pointed Arrows all Thy Foes shall spread the Field And at thy Foot-steps wounded fall And to their Conqu'ror yield Part 2. verse 6 Thy Throne ô God Eternal stands And Right thy Sceptre crowns Bright Justice filâ—s thy righteous Hands Sin dies beneath thy Frowns Mov'd with thy Gifts and Acts Divine Thy God anoints thy Head Thy Joys thy Fellows Joys out-shines On Thee in plenty shed verse 8 Myrrh Aloes and Cassia sweet From all thy Garments flow And round thy Iv'ry Palace meet And all thy Motions show verse 9 Kings Royal Daughters richly dress'd Among thy Maidens stand The Queen with Golden Crowns oppress'd Waits at her Sov'reign's Hand verse 10 Hear me great Queen my Words receive With humbly prudent Care Thy Fondness of thy Fathers leave And of thy Country's Air. verse 11 So shall the King his boundless Love To thy bright Charms allow For He 's the Lord He reigns above To Him ô humbly bow Part 3 verse 12 Then shall the Tyrian Dames resort With Gifts fair Queen to thee The wealthy Men shall make their Court To awful Majesty verse 13 Rich Robes the Royal Princess wears But richer far her Mind An inward Heav'nly Treasure bears By Love and Grace refin'd verse 14 Her they to see her King adorn With all th' Embroid'rer's Art Her Train's by Royal Virgins born Who share her Joys and Heart verse 15 Pleasures around their Bosoms play Their Eyes soft Loves create When to attend their Monarch they On their great Mistress wait verse 16 For Fathers Sons thy Court adorn A gallant sprightly Train Brave Youths to Crowns and Sceptres born And o'er the Nations reign verse 17 Thy Praise ô thou Immortal King I 'll ever thus proclaim And all the joyful World shall sing Thy Godlike Acts and Name Another Metre As the 113th verse 1 TOuch'd with a Beam of Love Divine My Heart my Head my Tongue combine To bless the World's Incarnate King No nimble Pen-man's flying Hand More swiftly can his Quill command Than I my Saviour's Glory sing verse 2 How wondrous bright how Heav'nly fair Dear Lord thy Godlike Beauties are Thy Lips Eternal Sweets distil Hence by thy mighty Father bless'd Thy humble but capacious Breast All Heav'n's immense Endowments fill verse 3 Gird on thy Thigh most mighty Lord Gird on thy dreadful glitt'ring Sword And with Majestick Honours crown'd verse 4 In prosp'rous State triumphant ride Truth Meekness Justice guard thy Side Thy Arm with Terrours brac'd around verse 5 Each Bow then drawn each Arrow loos'd By the Right Hand to Conquest us'd Shall pierce thy stubborn-hearted Foes And all the trembling World shall meet To cast themselves beneath thy Feet O'er-aw'd by thy resistless Blows verse 6 Thy Throne bless'd God for ever stands A righteous Sceptre fills thy Hands To Thee the suppliant Nations bow verse 7 The vertuous Soul thy Favour gains Thy Frown the wicked World restrains And Sinners fly thy threathing Brow Hence God thy God with Joys around Above thy Mates thy Heart has crown'd His Balmy Joys thy Passions warm verse 8 Thy Robes with noblest Odours flow Which from thy lofty palace blow And Sweets thy pleas'd Attendants charm Part 2. verse 9 Among thy Maids of Honour wait Fair Virgins all of Royal State Like bigger Stars i' th' Galaxy And at thy Hand enthron'd is seen Thy charmingly victorious Queen Her Crown pure Gold but purer she verse 10 Hear me illustrious Queen forget Thy native Land's and Father's Seat And for thy King thy Kindred quit verse 11 So shall he
Sleep Or high with sprightly Wines inflam'd verse 66 God struck his Foes their Wounds were deep And their Eternal Shame proclaim'd verse 67 Yet for their Sins He Joseph's Fields And Ephrain's Tribe though fruitful scorns verse 68 His Rest more happy Judah yields His House lov'd Sion's Mount adorns verse 69 There high his lofty Turrets rise And all the Town beneath command And deep the vast Foundaticm lies As Rocks the solid Buildings stand verse 70 Then from his Sheep and meaner Cares verse 71 Our God his Servant David takes And him his Israel's King declares His holy Nation 's Pastor makes verse 72 That nobler Flock with faithful Art He watches feeds and safely folds And with an upright prudent Heart Our happy Church and State upholds PSAL. lxxix As the 130th verse 1 LOrd the Heathen-Troops have spoil'd Thy bless'd lnheritance And thy holy House desil'd And still their Arms advance Salem's Walls on Heaps are laid verse 2 Thy murther'd Servants lie Preys to Wolves and Vultures made Beneath the open Sky verse 3 See a spacious Crimson Flood By dying Martyrs shed Salem's Streets with flowing Blood And mangled Corpses spread verse 4 Jacob's Tribes alas are grown Their nearest Neighbour's Scorn Out to vile Derision thrown By cruel Scoffs o'er born verse 5 Ah how long dear Lord how long Shall thy fierce Fury burn verse 6 O on all the Godless Throng Thy weighty Vengeance turn Let the Gentile-Nations all Who ne'er acknowledge Thee Underneath thy Judgments fall And just Severitie verse 7 They with cruel Teeth devour Poor Jacob's wretched Race And Destruction's Tempest pour On Israel's Dwelling-place verse 8 All our Sins bless'd God forgive And speedy Mercy show For by Thee alone we live Though now reduc'd so low Part 2. verse 9 Lord to our Assistance fly From Thee our Safety springs Honour to thy Name Most High Such Saving Mercy brings verse 10 Why Ô why should Heathens cry Now where's their mighty God Let them now the Lashes try Of thy revenging Rod Grant that Lord our longing Eyes Thy just Revenge may see While the Blood of Martyrs cries So loud great God to Thee verse 11 Let the Pris'ners Sighs ascend Before thy Majesty And with mighty Pow'r defend The Souls condemn'd to die verse 12 To our Neighbours Lord repay Their base reproachful Spite Such who in the Scorners Way And Blasphemies delight verse 13 So shall we thy Flock thy Sheep For ever praise thy Name And through endless Ages keep Thy everlasting Fame Or thus verse 1 DEar Lord the Heathen Bands have spoil'd Thy bless'd Inheritance And have thy holy House defil'd And still their Arms advance Poor Salem's Walls in Heaps are laid Thy murther'd Servants lie As Preys to Wolves and Vultures made Beneath the open Sky verse 3 See Lord a spacious Crimson Flood By dying Martyrs shed And Salem's Street's with flowing Blood And mangled Corpses spread verse 4 Sad Jacob's Tribes alas are grown Their barb'rous Neighbours Scorn And to Derision vilely thrown By cruel Scoffs o'er-born verse 5 But ah how long dear Lord how long Shall thy fierce Furies burn verse 6 At last on all the Godless Throng Thy weighty Vengeance turn O let the Gentile Nations all Who ne'er acknowledge Thee Beneath thy heavy Judgments fall And just Severity verse 7 For they with cruel Teeth devour Poor Jacob's wretched Race And total Desolation pour On Israel's Dwelling-place verse 8 O all our Sins bless'd Lord forgive And speedy Mercy show For by thy Mercy Lord we live Though now reduc'd so low Part 2. verse 9 Now Lord to our Assistance fly From Thee our Safety springs For G'ory to thy Name Most High Such saving Mercy brings verse 10 And why Ô why should Heathens cry Now where's their boasted God Let them too all the Scourges try Of thy revenging Rod Permit bless'd Lord our longing Eyes Thy just Revenge to see While yet the Blood oiF Martyrs cries So loud great God to Thee verse 11 O let the Pris'ners Sighs ascend Before thy Majesty And with Almighty Pow'r defend The Souls condemn'd to die verse 12 And to our Neighbours Lord repay Their base reproachful Spite To such as in the Scorners Way And Blasphemies delight verse 13 And so shall we thy Flock thy Sheep For ever praise thy Name And through Eternal Ages keep Alive thy glorious Fame PSAL. lxxx verse 1 HEar gracious Shepherd Thou whose Love Like Flocks thy Israel guides Shine forth Ô Thou whose Strength above The Cherubs Wings resides verse 2 Before our drooping Nation rouze Great God thy wondrous Might And with thy saving Strength espouse Thy ancient People's Right verse 3 Change Lord Ô change our mournful State And let thy Beams Divine Our Health and Safety to create With doubled Lustre shine verse 4 How long great God of Hosts shall we Thy Fury's Heat sustain How long thy People Lord to Thee Address their Pray'rs in vain verse 5 Tears are our Meat our Drink is Tears verse 6 When they our Spoils divide Our Neighbours quarrel and our Fears Malicious Foes deride verse 7 Change Lord Ô change our mournful State And let thy Beams Divine Our Health and Safety to create With doubled Lustre shine Part 2. verse 8 Of old from Egypt's fruitful Soil Thy Hands a Vine remov'd And made the Ganaanites recoil And here the Plant improv'd verse 9 Large was its Room and large its Root Through all the Country spread And with the weighty Purple Fruit It bow'd its noble Head verse 10 Its Shade the Mountains cover'd o'er Its Arms like Cedars stood verse 11 Down to the Seas its Branches bore And reach'd Euphrates Flood verse 12 Oh why are all her Fences gone Her Fruits by all destroy'd verse 13 Her Roots by Forest-Boars o'erthrown And savage Beasts annoy'd verse 14 Turn Lord of Hosts Ô turn at last And from thy lofty Skies On thy poor Vineyard void and waste O cast thy gentler Eyes verse 15 The Vineyard which thy mighty Hand In Canaan planted first And made its Branches strongly stand By Peace and Favour nurs'd verse 16 But now the Boughs are scorch'd the Trunk By cruel Hands cut down Thy People's Hopes and Vigour sunk Beneath thy angry Frown verse 17 Smile Lord Ô turn thy gracious Eyes On him that 's rais'd by Thee With Strength to ease our Miseries And set the Bond-men free verse 18 So we 'll no more from Thee decline Nor thy Commands transgress Our Hopes our Lives shall all be thine Thy Name we 'll daily bless verse 19 Change Lord Ô change our mournful State And let thy Beams Divine Our Health and Safety to create With doubled Lustre shine Psal 1xxxj As the 100th or Mr. Sandys's 8th verse 1 TO God our Strength your Voices raise Aloud the God of Jacob praise verse 2 A Psalm to th' merry Timbrel suit The pleasant Harp or charming Lute verse 3 The Moon her Infant-Horns displays Let 's feast on these appointed Days And with the shriller Trumpet 's
Off soon the Shadow flies And both with Beams Divine More bright and strongly shine So all the Nations round Have our Salvation found How God about us waits And all our Health creates verse 4 Let all the Nations round Their Maker's Praises sound O let the Earth rejoice And raise its chearful Voice And all the World combine In Thanks and Songs Divine verse 5 Sing to the Lord ô sing To our Eternal King To well-tun'd Harps ô raise Your Notes of Heav'nly Praise verse 6 O let the Trumpets found Let Cornets Notes rebound And with them loudly sing To our Eternal King verse 7 Let the loud Ocean roar Its Joys from Shoar to Shoar Let Angels bless'd on high With Earth in Praises vye verse 8 O let the Waters sound The ecchoing Hills rebound And with a chearful Noise Express their boundless Joys verse 9 Let All their Joy fulness Before the Lord express For loe He comes with Haste And Awful Glories grac'd His dreadful Summons all To his Tribunal call His Judgment then shall bless The World with Righteousness Truth from his Lips shall flow And all the World shall know Their glorious Judge and see His Love and Equity PSAL. xcix verse 1 CHrist reigns Let all the People round Beneath his Empire quake He sits above the Cherubs crown'd Let Earth's Foundations shake verse 2 The Lord in Sion's great and high Above the People rais'd verse 3 O may his dreadful Majesty His holy Name be prais'd verse 4 Judgment our mighty Monarch loves And Equity prepares And Judgment with his Justice moves In Jacob's bless'd Affairs verse 5 O then exalt the Lord our God Before his Foot-stool bow And spread his wond'rous Works abroad His holy Nature show verse 6 So Moses once and Aaron so Among his Priests appear'd And Samue ' with his Prophets who The God of Jacob fear'd These at his Footstool bow'd and there To him devoutly pray'd And always found his Answers near And all their Faith repaid verse 7 They kept his Testimonies sure His Statute-Laws obey'd And He to Them from Clouds obscure His gentle Answers made verse 8 Sometimes indeed his Wrath severe Their Follies would pursue Yet oft their Cries He 'd kindly hear His Mercies oft renew verse 9 O praise our God's exalted Name Before his A'tars bow Our God our holy Lord proclaim With Praise his Glory show PSAL. c. verse 1 YE who enjoy Salvation's Light To God your Voices raise verse 2 Appear with Gladness in His Sight And Sing your Saviour's Praise verse 3 Our Lord is God indeed it 's He Not We our selves have made Our Shepherd He his People we And in his Pastures laid verse 4 O then approach his Courts his Gates With Thanks and hearty Praise For Praise on his Assembly waits On all his holy Days verse 5 O b'ess his Name for God is good And all his Mercies sure His Truth from Age to Age has stood And shall unchang'd endure Another Metre As the old 100th verse 1-2 O Ye enlighten'd Souls with Praise Before our mighty Lord appear To Him your chearful Voices raise Adore his Name with humblest Fear verse 3 He 's our Almighty God not we But He to us our Substance gave He 's ours we His those Sheep which He Di'd by his own pure Blood to save verse 4 O then approach his Gates with praise And in his Courts his Glories sing On all his own appointed Days Your Sacrisice of Praises sing verse 5 He 's always kind and always good His Favour great his Mercy sure His Truth has ever firmly stood And shall from Age to Age endure PSAL. cj. verse 1 MErcy I 'll sing and Judgment praise And sing my God to Thee verse 2 And wisely walk in perfect Ways O come dear Lord to Me Then with an undissembling Heart I'â—l ever justly move And in my Court in every part Thy sacred Rules improve verse 3 No wicked Actions shall mine Eyes With Satisfaction see And those who things perverse devise Shall ne're be great With Me. verse 4 From Me all froward Fools shall part I 'll none that 's wicked own verse 5 But cut off those whose sland'rous Art Against their Neighbour's shown verse 6 The Heart that 's proud the Look that 's high I 'll ne're at Court endure Eut through the Land my searching Eye Shall faithful Friends procure That Man who treads a perfect Path My Favourite shall be verse 7 But Cheats and those who break their Faith Shall never dwell with Me I 'll bear no Liar in my fight The wicked I 'll destroy verse 8 Till Salem freed from Sinners quite Shall perfect Peace enjoy PSAL. cij A Soul with mighty Woes opprest May thus complaining pray And in deep Sorrows Language drest His weighty Griefs display verse 1 Hear Lord O hear my Prayers and Cries To Me thy Face disclose verse 2 My Soul lost in Affliction dies O heart O ease my Woes verse 3 Grief wasts my Days like Smoke and dries My Bones like Hearths with heat verse 4 My Heart like Grass quite wither'd lies And I forget my Meat verse 5 My Bones break through my shriveling Skin Through my unceasing Groans verse 6 I'm like those doleful Birds which in Wild Desents vent their moans verse 7 Like little Birds which spent with Grief Aboat their Nestlings mourn verse 8 While taunting Foes against my Life With bloody Oaths are sworn verse 9 Ashes my Bread my Drink was Tears While I endur'd thy frown verse 10 Thy I ove once rais'd me up from Fears Thy Wrath now hurts me down verse 11 The Shaddow falls my Life 's weak Flame So sinks like Grass it wains verse 12 But still thou ant thy glorious Name From Age to Age remains verse 13 Rise Lord for Sions help return In time her Woes relieve verse 14 Thy Servants o're her Ruins mourn And for her Ashes grieve verse 15 All Nations then thy Name shall fear All Kings thy Glory see verse 16 When Sions Walls new built appear And Glory springs from thee Part 2. verse 17 God hears the silent Mourner's Prayer O write his Goodness down verse 18 So shall Posterity declare Their mighty God's renown verse 19 God from his Holy Throne his Eye Turn'd down on Earth below verse 20 To save the Men condemn'd to die And let the Prisoners go verse 21 That they in Sions Walls might show His Praise his Name record verse 22 When thither Kings and Kingdoms flow To serve their Mighty Lord verse 23 My Strength my shortned Days he broke Then spare me Lord I pray'd verse 24 Suspend dear Lord thy deadly stroke Thy Years can never fade verse 25 Thy Hands this Earth's Foundations cast And stretch'd the lofty Skies verse 26 They perish but thy Nature lasts And Time it self defies They like a worn-out Garment fail And shall be chang'd for new verse 27 Thou' rt still the same Age can't prevail Nor time thy Steps pursue verse 28 Our Lands shall quickly be suppli'd With
That we may sing thy Praise and fall With Thanks before thy Glorious Face verse 48 The God of Israel's Name record His Piaise from Age to Age refound And let the joyful Tribes around Sing out Amen ô praise Lord PSAL. cvij. Part 1. Metre 1. verse 1 O Praise the Lord Exa't his Name His Goodness celebrate Let Age to Age resound his Fame His bounteous Acts relate verse 2 Sing to His Name ye whom from Chains His peaceful Arm redeem'd O be his Praise in grateful Streins His glorious Works esteem'd verse 3 He from Earth's utmost Quarters drew His lsrael's scatter'd Race verse 4 And the wild Desarts wandring thro' They found no Resting-place verse 5 Tho'pinch'd with Hunger scorch'd with Thirst Their wasting Spirits fail'd Yet with their pittying God at first Their humble Cries prevail'd verse 6 Thro'all their Streights his careful Hand Was their unfailing Guide verse 7 And smooth'd their Ways and made their Bands In well-built Towns reside verse 8 O praise his Goodness Praise his Name His wond'rous Mercies praise Thro' all the World his Acts proclaim His boundless Glories raise Part 2. Metre 2. verse 9 Praise God! His Springs we see Relieve the thirsty Soul The hungry Wretch revives when He Bestows his plenteous Dole verse 10 But when they foolish all his gracious Laws abus'd Despis'd their Maker's gentlest Call And Love's soft Voice refus'd verse 11 Then he the stubborn Crew In weighty Fetters chain'd Death's Chains around the Rebels flew And Woes their Souls restrain'd verse 12 Yet when oppress'd they bow'd Beneath the dismal Weight And when in vain they begg'd aloud For Men to ease their State verse 13 When to their God they cry'd And at his-Footstool laid Their pressing Griefs and mortify'd The softhing Rebe's pray'd verse 14 He cleared the Skies above And every Slave unchain'd And with warm Beams of gentlest Love The Sufferers entertained verse 15 O praise O praise his Name His bounteous Acts declare Let all Mankind with Thanks proclaim How great his Mercies are Part 3. Metre 3. As the 100th verse 16 Praise God! At his Command the Gates Of massive Brass their Leaves unfold No Bars of Steel nor sturdy Grates Against his powerful Words can hold verse 17 When Fools ' for Sins afflicted griev'd And with their Sins their Judge provok'd verse 18 No Meats their Appetites reliev'd Nor cas'd their Hungers stickly Stroke Their Stomachs loath'd bless'd Angels Food Sweet Manna dropping from the Skies And Quails disturb'd their curdling Blood Till Nature sunk without Supplies verse 19 Yet when the fainting Sinners pray'd He heard and heard them when they cry'd God's Word their dying Swoons allay'd And Appetites and Food supply'd verse 20 New Life new Spirits he bestow'd Where fading Nature's Force declin'd To them his healthful Favours show'd And their distemper'd Blood refin'd verse 21 O praise our God! Exalt his Name Above the Skies exalt his Name verse 22 Your Thanks with Sacrifice proclaim And Trophies to his Goodness raise Part 4. Metre 4. as the 148th verse 23 Such whose bold Courage o're The restless Ocean flies And fail from Shore to Shore For wealthy Merchandise verse 24 Such Men may fee How wondrous there God's Works appear How powerful He. verse 25 For if in Storms he speak The swelling Tempest roars And foaming Billows break And lash the bounding Shores While Wind and Tide On rolling Seas Where-e'er they please Triumphant ride verse 26 Now high the towring Fleet On Watry Mountains rise As if the Clouds they 'd meet Or brave the threatning Skies Now down they come Steep tumbling all With dreadful Fall To meet their Doom verse 27 Strait every shatter'd Sail. Reels here and staggers there While horrid Storms prevail And Courage yields to fear All Hopes are lost And in Black Night Ships guideless quite At random toss'd verse 28 But when on God they call He hears their mournful Cries verse 29 Loud Storms in Silence fall And Light remounts the Skies Rough Billows slake And gentle Gales Swell all their Sails Their Port to make verse 30 There with Delights unseign'd The wearied Sailers rest New Life and Safety gain'd Warms every fainting Breast Joys sweeter tast And the dear Shore Is va'u'd more For Dangers past verse 31 O praise O praise the Lord His Bounteous Actions praise Let all the World record His Mercy 's wond'rous Ways verse 32 In thickest Throngs Where Princes are His Loves declare With grateful Songs Part 4. Metre 4 As the 113th verse 33 O praise the Lord At his Commands Fair Streams desert the hirsty Lands And Springs no more their Waters yield verse 34 His Curse for Humane Crimes destroys Their blooming Hopes and ripening Joys And sows with barren Salt the Field verse 35 Yet for his own dear Servant's sakes He turns vast Lands to standing Lakes And makes the Sands with Waters flow verse 36 And then their hungry Troops he guides And thro' the new-rais'd Fields divides And makes new Towns and Cities grow verse 37 With noblest Grains they sow their Fields Rich Wines the grateful Vineyard yields Their Crops are full profound their Peace verse 38 God's Blessing on their Labours waits Their crowding Offspring throng their Gates And all their pregnant Flocks encrease verse 39 But when his ancient Love 's abus'd His Counsels his Commands refus'd A suddain Change o'returns their State Down falls their haughty Pride their Race Incessant Wars And Plagues desace Expos'd to every Neighbour's Hare verse 40 Their Princes with Contempt he treats Confounds them in their proud Conceits And lets their Hopes bewildred fall verse 41 Then to the Poor despis'd before Transfers his favouring Mercies store And feeds and multiplies them all verse 42 Admire ye living Saints with Joy While silent impious Atheists ly Admire his Providential Ways verse 43 Let wise Men all their Thoughts confine To meditare on Works Divine And sing their great Protector 's praise PSAL. cviij As the 110th verse 1 MY Heart is fix'd ô God my Heart Is fix'd thy losty Praise to sing I 'me ready with my noblest part To praise my everlasting King verse 2 Awake my Harp awake my Lute While I prevent the Morning's light verse 3 And thy dear Praises prosecute In all the wondring Nations fight verse 4 Swist are the Clouds and high the Skies Above our Thoughts and Measures far But higher Lord thy Mercies rise More swift thy Truths vast Conguests are verse 5 Lord o're the Skies thy Brightness show Let all the Earth thy Glories see verse 6 O hear ô save thy Servant so I 'le rescue those belov'd by Theo. verse 7 God swore once by his Holiness And by his Oath my Joy maintains I 'le quick Shichcm's Fields possess And measure Succoth's fruitful Plains verse 8 Fair Gileads mine Manasses too My Head on Ephraim's strength relies The Scepter 's Royal Indah's due My Kingdom He with Laws supplies verse 9 Moab my meanest Slave shall be And Edom prostrate at my Feet And conquere'd Palestina
me With humble Tribute gladly meet verse 10 Whoe'l me thro' Cities fortify'd Or Edom's rocky Frontiers lead verse 11 Lord let thy Help so long deny'd At last our fainting Armies head verse 12 Up Lord in times of Danger aid For Humane Helps are only shows verse 13 And valiant thro'thy Influence made Wee 'l trample o're our vanquish'd Foes PSAL. cix verse 1 O Thou dear God of all my Praise No longer silent go verse 2 For sinful Men in sinful Ways And Traitors bolder grow Against me-they their Rage excite Their Tongues with Falshood whet verse 3 And me with Words of deadly spite And causeless Hate beset verse 4 They for my kindness prove my Foes But I in silence pray verse 5 Malice to Goodness they oppose And Love with Hate repay verse 6 Make Him some wicked Tyrant's slave Let Satan bind his hands verse 7 And Sins severest Sentence have When He in judgment stands verse 8 Nay let his very Prayers be Sin verse 9 His Days be dark and few That Office fix another in Which to himself was due No Father let his Children see His widow'd Wife go mourn verse 10 His Off-spring common Vagrants be Expos'd to Want and Scorn Their Bread from cruel Hands intreaty verse 11 The Griping-Usurers trade Seize all his Wea'th and every Cheat His Pains and Gains invade verse 12 No Mercy let his Cries engage Nor all his Orphan race verse 13 But sink'um all in one short Age Their very Names deface Part 2. verse 14 In God's revenging Presence let Their Father's Crimes remain No length of Time or Years forget Their Mother's viler stain verse 15 Let them God's sleeping Vengeance move Their Memory to destroy verse 16 Since Grace could ne'er his Soul improve Not Love his Thoughts employ But the dear Man to Sorrows born With humblest Thoughts inclu'd The broken Heart with Anguish torn His bloody Hate pursu'd verse 17 Cursing and hellish Words he lov'd His Lot may Curses be His Heart no Blessings e'er approv'd Let him no Blessing see verse 18 He Curses for a Garment us'd And with their poisonous draught His Bowels washt like Oil diffus'd Quite thro' his Bones they wrought verse 19 May He no other Garments wear But Curses closely bound And Curses for a Girdle bear To gird him duely round verse 20 Be this the Just reward of those From God's revenging Hand Whose spiteful Words my Life oppose And who against me stand verse 21 But Lord for thy Names sake appear My Party kindly own Thy Mercy 's Goo'd ô let it here To vescue Me be shown Part 3. verse 22 For wretched and afflicted I With inward Wounds decay verse 23 And like an Evening Shadow fly Or Locusts hurld away verse 24 My Knees with tedious Fastings fail And all my Leanness see verse 25 My Foes with brutish scorn assail And shake their Heads at me verse 26 Help ô My God! ô save Me show Thy farmer Mercies now verse 27 That all thy Love to me may know Thy Helps dear Lord allow verse 28 Then let them Curse me stil on me Thy Blessings Lord bestow Let Them their own Confusion see But me thy gladness know verse 29 When great they seem like some large Cloke Let Shame be round them roul'd verse 30 And I 'le thy Name in Crouds invoke Thy Praise at large unfold verse 31 For God still by the Poor Mans side With sure assistance stands His Soul with saving Wings to hide From partial Judges Hands PSAL. CX verse 1 SIT here on my Right Hand the Lord Thus to my Lord has said Till thou shalt see thy Foes abhor'd Beneath thy Footstool lay'd verse 2 From Sions Hill thy regal claime Thy Scepter first shall rise Thence Reign and with thy awful Name Command thy Enemies verse 3 When thy Prodigious Might appears Thy ready Armies move And Preach those happy gladsome years The Reign of boundless Love Tho' at a mighty distance now The careless People stand To Thee they'I then as swiftly flow And own thy ruling Hand Wash'd from their Crimes and snowy white Their Tempers undefild And cloth'd with Innocence and Light And like their Matter mild These Conquests first belong'd to Thee E're dewy Mornings rose Or Time cou'd thro' Eternity Thy sacred Birth disclose verse 4 Then by himself thy Father swore And shook his awful Throne And when swift Time shall be no more He'el that Engagement own Thou' rt an Eternal Priest to Thee There 's no succeeding Heir And like Melchisedes shalt be And Crown and Miter wear verse 5 The Lord shall in his angry Day Rebellious Kings destroy verse 6 Among the Gentiles fierce'y sway And fill his own with Joy But where bo'd Opposition reigns The slughter'd Corpses round And dying Kings shall spread the Plains And stain the purple Ground verse 7 But he before the Conquest gain'd The Rage of Thirst shall know With Sorrow's streams be entertain'd And drink of deadly Woe Till all those Difficulties past His Glory 's largely spread And all shall see the Crown at last On his victorious Head PSAL. cxj. O Praise the Lord my Heart prepare To praise the mighty Lord Where-e'er his bless'd Assemblies me Will I his Name record verse 2 Great are his Works and earnestly By Men of Wisdom sought verse 3 His Works are all with Majesty And comely Beauty wrought His Righteousness eternally Shall with his Works endure verse 4 In grateful Minds his Clemency And his Compassions sure verse 5 For those who fear his sacred Name The Lord at large provides His ancient Covenant the same Still in his Thoughts abides verse 6 The Might where with his Works are wrought He to his People shows And Portions from the Gentiles brought On them at large bestows verse 7 His Works in Truth and Judgment done His Precepts just and sure verse 8 As first in Righteousness begun Through ev'ry Age endure verse 9 The Lord his People once redeem'd And gave them lasting Laws And still his holy Name esteem'd Our Veneration draws verse 10 True Wisdom springs from Godly Fear An Understanding pure Will in Obedience best appear And its just Praise endure PSAL. cxij. O Praise the Lord All Blessings wait On him who fears his Name In whom his just Commands create Pure Love's immortal Flame verse 2 Mighty on Earth his Seed shall be His Generation bless'd verse 3 His Righteousness shall last and he In Wealth and Plenty rest verse 4 To Men of upright Hearts the Light Through gloomy Darkness shines Mercy 's the righteous Man's Delight To Love his Soul inclines verse 5 He 's pitiful to Men distress'd And lends to those in Need In Judgment from his milder Breast No cruel Words proceed verse 6 He ne'er shall move his Memory Shall ever sweetly last verse 7 From Fear through heavy Tidings free His Heart in God be fast verse 8 His Heart from cold Despair secur'd Can on his God repose Till of the Down-fall he 's assur'd Of all his angry Foes
5 Thus Men may sow in Tears but hope To reap their Fields in Joy Their precious Seed may give them Scope For Faith's Divine Employ verse 6 Long may they wait and long may fear Their Seed was vainly sown Yet home their Sheaves triumphant bring At last a Burden grown Another Metre Proper Tune verse 1 WHen God at last Return'd his happy Captives home We all appear'd Like those who in their Slumbers dream verse 2 Mirth from our Lips Praise from our chearful Tongues would come Mirth daily was Our Food and Praise our daily Theam The very Heathens round us wondring cry'd See how God's Love to them is magnifi'd verse 3 God's Love to us Indeed is highly magnify'd Our present Joys Are more than former Sorrows great verse 4 Thou Lord who dost Ful◠Streams for Southern Lands provide O let our Restitution be at last compleat verse 5 So Judah's Lands shall more Refreshment know Than Sands thro' which thy cooling Rivers flow Thus tho' swell'd Grief Rou's in with an impetuous Tide Yet sliding off It soon its Place to Joy resigns verse 6 And he who pretious Seed on barren Mountains try'd And thro' a fond Mistake to cold Despair inclines Comes home at last with Joys triumphant Sound With weighty Sheves his fruitful Harvest crown'd PSAL. cxxvij. verse 1 IF God to build the House denies The Workmen build in vain And Towns without Gods wakeful Eyes A needless Watch maintain verse 2 Before the Mornings Blushes rise Your daily Works renew And till the Stars remount the Skies Your daily Works pursue Fare ne're so hard it 's all in vain If yet by God unblest Do all and but his Smiles obtain You 'll safely sweetly rest verse 3 Lo Children from the pregnant Womb By Gods blest Influence grow verse 4 Like Arrows in their youthful Bloom Shot from some Gyant 's Bow verse 5 O happy 's he whose Quiver's sill'd With such bright Shafts resound He 'll ne're to Force nor Malice yield While these his Foes confound Another Metre Proper Tune verse 1 IF God to build the House denies The Workmen build but build in vain And Cities useless Guards maintain If God withdraws his watchful Eyes Gods Help out-does the Builders Art And He performs the Watchman's Part. verse 2 Before the Morning-Blushes rise Your daily painful Works renew Your daily painful Works pursue Till Night again obscures the Skies Support your selves with meanest Fare The Drink of Tears the Bread of Care In vain you toil and build in vain If God still at a Distance stands And neither bless your Heads nor Hands But if his Love you once obtain Then rise or watch or fast or weep You 'll safely live and sweetly sleep verse 3 Lo Children from the pregnant Womb By God's immediate Blessing grow verse 4 Like Shafts sent from some Giants Bow They seem in all their youthful Bloom They too can hurl their deadly Darts With steady Hands and daring Hearts verse 5 O happy 's he whose Quiver sounds With such important Shafts as these The Man his Foes undaunted sees No Fear his Head or Heart confounds Nor will he quit the Martial Field While these Support and Comfort yield PSAL. cxxviij verse 1 HAppy thrice happy Thou Who in his own best way Dost to thy Great Creator bow And his Commands obey verse 2 His Blessings round thee wait And on thy Labours rest Thy meaner but contented State With Peace and Safety blest verse 3 Like some fair spreading Vine With purple Grapes o're-born So thy kind Mates chast Beauties shine Her Fruits thy Walls adorn The lovely Mother she With hopeful Issue crown'd Her Sons like Olive Plants shall be Thy Tables planted round verse 4 Thus sha'l the Lord his Grace On thee his Friend bestow verse 5 To thee from Sion's sacred Place A thousand Favours show Blest with a firm old Age Thy happy Eyes shall see Thy lively fruitful Heirs presage A long Posterity verse 6 Thy happy Eyes shall see The Churches blest encrease Secur'd by long Felicity And universal Peace PSAL. cxxix verse 1 ME from my Youth may Israel say My Foes have oft opprest verse 2 In vain from Youthful Years have they Distur'd my Peaceful Rest verse 3 Deep o're my Back the Wicked plow'd And long their furrows drew And would of short successes proud Their spiteful ways pursue verse 4 But God the Righteous Judge with ease Their Cords in Pieces tore verse 5 May Shame and Fear these Wretches seize Who hate to Sion bore verse 6 Let them like Corn on Houses dy Which Springs but quickly dyes verse 7 Which Mowers pass regardless by And Reapers all despise verse 8 No Passengers would kindly call To such as labour'd there Gods Blessing on Your Labours fall His Name your Harvest cheer PSAL. cxxx verse 1 FRom gloomy Deeps Dear Lord to Thee From gloomy Deeps I cry'd verse 2 O hear me let thy Mercy be No more to me deny'd verse 3 Shouldst thou our Sinns severely weigh Who Lord thy Wrath could bear verse 4 But Pardon is thy gentler Way The Spring of Godly Fear verse 5 My Soul Lord waits it waits for Thee And on thy Word depends E're I the dawning Morning see My Soul the Lord attends To him ô raise your Humble Eles Poor Israels scatter'd Race With him kind Mercy treasur'd lies And never failing Grace From Him Redemption freely flows And Hee 'l redeem Thee too From all thy Sinns and all those Woes Which justly Sinn pursue PSAL. cxxxj NO Prides aspiring Rage No swelling Thoughts engage Dear God my Heart to beat a part With this corrupted Age. I ne'r at Empire aim'd Nor Crowns nor Scepters claim'd Nor soar'd above with wanton Love Of Mysteries enflam'd But as some Babe at Rest Wean'd from its Mothers Breast Close Silence keeps with gentle sleeps Or Smiling Slumbers blest So Lord my Soul set free From careful Vanity From Earths delights and unknown Flights In Silence waits on Thee O Ye of Israels race O seek his glorious Face On Him besure your Faith secure And his Commands embrace PSAL. cxij. verse 1 REmember Davids Troubles Lord How in Affliction He verse 2 With faithful Vows engag'd his Word O Jacobs God to Thee verse 3 High tho my lofty Palace rise With Cedar nobly ciel'd And Beds with Golden Canopyes Would downy Slumbers yield verse 4 I 'll ne'r my Rooms of State approach Nor stretch my self at ease No sleep shall on my Brows encroach My Lids no Slumbers please verse 5 Till I that happy Place have found By Heavenly Favour blest Where Jacobs God on Holy ground Will fix his glorious Rest It 's done and as our Meaner Race Of old their Maker chose So rough and mean's that wondrous Place Where hee 'l at last repose verse 6 Ephrata's Fields and Shilohs Plains Are all alas destroy'd And Sions Mount unsmooth'd remains And rough obscure and void Yet there his Arke is fix'd and there His sacred Altars stand Till there his Temples roofs
to Thee verse 3 Thy wond'rous Art curious Hand My private Path displays By Thee my very Sleeps are scann'd And all my various Ways verse 4 What e'r my serious Thought produce Before the Words are fram'd Before my Tongue can find its use Is in thy Ears proclaim'd verse 5 When I my Shape so clean so fair Behind Before survey I know thy Hand thy ski ful Care Thus built my humble Clay verse 6 Would I into thy Secrets pry This Forming Wisdom know verse 7 For me such Skill is far to high And I alas too low Whither O whither then should I Go from thy piercing sight O whither from thy Spirit 's Eye Direct my secret flight verse 8 If I climb high above the sky Thy Throne of Glory 's there If in Hell's gloomy Deeps I lie In Hell thy Powers appear verse 9 If I on Morning's purple Wings Out-strip the fleeting Day And toward the Ocean 's Western Springs Find out an unknown way verse 10 Yet there thy far extended Hand Would lead me out at last And thy Right Hand my Steps command And ever hold me fast verse 11 Nay should I say the gloomy Night Shall sure my Steps conceal Around me soon a glorious Light Would all my Walks reveal verse 12 Should Night condense its darkest Steams One dismal Gloom to frame That Gloom with more than Mid-days Beams Would Night it self enflame Part 2. verse 13 For in my Mother's Womb of old Thy Hand my Reins possest And in a wondrous Covering roll'd Did all my Limbs invest verse 14 Since in my Shape and round me all Thy dreadful Wonders shine My Thoughts shall all my Works recall And in thy Praise combine verse 15 When in the lower Womb embrac'd My curious Texture grew Thy Wisdom all that Darkness trac'd And all my Substance knew verse 16 The Lord my formless Substance view'd And in His Book enroll'd And as each Day with Shape endu'd My growing Members told verse 17 How dear thy Counsels Lord to me How vast their Numbers are The Sands we round the Ocean see Can't with their Summs compare verse 18 On then all Day I closely muse And in my Nightly Dreams They through my Soul themselves diffuse And are my waking Themes verse 19 The Lord shall wicked Men destroy Begone Blood-thirsty Crew verse 20 Who against God your Tongues employ His Name with Lyes pursue verse 21 I with a perfect rage at those Who hate my maker fly verse 22 And such as if my deadly Foes With deadly hate defie verse 23 O search me Try my Heart and see Which way my Thoughts encline verse 24 And all ill Thoughts remove and me Conduct in Paths divine PSAL. cxl verse 1 FRom vile from godless Men Dear Lord O save O rescue me verse 2 Whose Hearts in wicked Plots accord And quarrel constantly verse 3 Their Tongues more pointed much than those Of angry Serpents are Their Lips more Venome far disclose Than fretted Asps prepare verse 4 From Sinners and the Violent Me Lord in peace bestow Whose spite against my ways is bent And would my Steps o'erthrow verse 5 Their Nets their Snares their Ginns they lay With unsuspected Arts And when they quite surround my Way They please their scornful Hearts verse 6 Thou art my God my Lord aâ—one Then to the Lord I said The Prayers the Supplications own By me thy Servant made verse 7 Thou art my strength alone from Thee My safety Lord descends When furious Battels compass me Thy Hand my Head defends verse 8 Lord let not wicked Workers thrive Nor gain their base Design Lest they their Hearts if thou connive To haughty Pride resign verse 9 But as for all that impious Crew Who now my Path surround Let the malicious Lyes they brew Themselves at last confound verse 10 On them let burning Sulphur rain Hot Flames about them fly And they O never rais'd again In dismal Darkness lie verse 11 Ne'er let the dismal Wordy Tool On Earth continue long Let mischief hurt the Griping Fool Who still delights in Wrong verse 12 I know th' afflicted Poor Man's Claim The Lord will still maintain verse 13 The Righteous then shall praise thy Name And in thy Sight remain PSAL. cxli. verse 1 I Call'd on Thee Lord haste and hear And let my Voice my Cries verse 2 As Incense prove my Hands appear As Ev'ning Sacrifice verse 3 Lord by thy Grace my Mouth secure My Lips with Wisdom close verse 4 And let my Heart from Sin be pure And wicked Works oppose Lest I associate with those Who only Sin pursue And feast where luscious Plenty flows Amongst the scornful Crew verse 5 Whene'er I sin with pity may The Good my Sins reprove Their Wounds are kinder far than they Who feign deceitful Love Let those Lord heal my Head as Oil Which heals and molliflies And though my Foes attempt my spoil For them my Pray'rs shall rise verse 6 May their Great Men in rocky Ways Be trampled under so That they my prudent Words may praise And Wisdom's sweetness know verse 7 As Chips from falling Timber fly Or Ploughs tear up the Ground So Lord our Bones unbury'd lie Our emptied Graves around verse 8 To Thee I lift my faithful Eyes O don't my Soul reject But from those Snares my Foes devise My Innocence protect verse 9 Let not the Sinner's crafty Snare Dear Lord entangle me verse 10 But while I ' scape O let his Care His own Confusion be PSAL. clxij verse 1 LOrd from a dismal Place I pray'd I cry'd to Thee verse 2 With earnest Prayers before thy Face I lay'd my Misery verse 3 My Spirits fainted quite But Lord thou know it my Way And how my Foes with active spite Their Snares about it lay verse 4 Where e're I cast my Eyes I stand alass unknown Where e're my Soul for Refuge flies It 's left forlorn alone verse 5 Yet to the Lord I cry'd And said My Hope's in Three Thou Lord while I on Earth abide Shalt all my Portion be verse 6 Lord hear my Cries my Woes My lost Condition view Save me from those too mighty Foes Who now my Life pursue verse 7 O let my Soul be free Thy holy Name to praise The Just with Songs shall compass me When Thou my Head shalt raise Another Metre verse 1 I to the Lord devoutly pray'd To him I cry'd aloud verse 2 And in his sight my Sorrows laid And all my Sufferings show'd verse 3 When my faint Spirit slowly mov'd Thou knewst my certain way How Snares by cruel Arts improv'd About my Footsteps lay verse 4 I look'd for some Assistance round But was alass unknown My wretched Soul no shelter found And was esteem'd by none verse 5 Then I in Prayer to God confest In Thee my Hope 's secure Thou art since I my Life possest My Lot my Portion sure verse 6 O let my Cries thy Ears engage My groaning weakness see Save me from Persecutor's rage Too strong alass
for me verse 7 Lord set my Soul from Prison free To praise thy sacred Name And when the Righteous compass me Thy Bounties I 'le proclaim PSAL. clxiij verse 1 LOrd hear my Prayers accept my Cries In Truth and Righteousness verse 2 And let not Judgments sharp surprize Thy Servant's Soul oppress For when thy searching Eyes begin To try our fading Years Lord in thy sight o'rewhelm'd with Sin The purest Saint appears verse 3 My Soul pursu'd by cruel Foes My Life quite overthrown I ly in Darkness lost like those Who to their Graves are gone verse 4 For this my Spirit faints in me My Heart deserted mourns verse 5 And to my labouring Memory My happier Age returns On all thy Acts I daily muse Thy Works run daily o're verse 6 And as the parching Earth soft Dews So Thee my Hands implore verse 7 I faint ô quickly quickly hear Thy smiles dear Lord I crave Least I like dying Men appear Who just approach the Grave verse 8 Let me thy Mercies early gain For Lord I trust in Thee To Thee I lift my Soul make plain The way of Life to me verse 9 Save me from all my Foes who still To Thee for shelter fly verse 10 Teach me to do thy sacred Will My Lord my God most High O let thy Spirit lead me to The Land of Righteosness verse 11 My Soul with active Life renew And for thy Glory bless Just Lord from Troubles set me free And all my Foes destroy Thy Mercy and thy Help let me Thy Servant Lord enjoy PSAL. clxjv verse 1 BLest be the Lord my strength whose Care And whose victorious Might Instructs my ready Hands for War My Fingers for the Fight verse 2 My Goodness Fort my Raiser He My Saviour and my Shield In Him I trust thro' Him to Me My willing People yield verse 3 Lord what is Man what Man 's weak Race Own'd by the favouring Ey verse 4 Meer Vanity His Age his Grace Like Shadows swiftly fly verse 5 Lord bow thy Heavens come down divide The Hills the Hills shall smoke verse 6 Shoot Lightnings break destroy their Pride With one confounding stroke verse 7 Lord from above thy Arms extend And save and rescue Me From Headstrong Crouds my Crown defend And Forreign Tyranny verse 8 From such whose Lips and Hands in Lyes In Deed and Word agree verse 9 So I 'll new Songs new Tunes devise On Lute and Harp to Thee Part 2 verse 10 The Lord his strong Salvation's Guards On Royal Head bestows And from his Servant David wards The plotting Traitors blows verse 11 Save Me my God! ô rescue Me From Forreign Enemies Whose Words Actions all agree In Treachery And Lies verse 12 So shall our Sons like Plants alive In Water'd Gardens show And with a kindly vigour thrive And daily stronger grow Our Daughters like fair Marble Coines Smooth'd by some Currious hand On which the building sweetly joyns The Roofs securely stand verse 13 All kind of Grain shall largely flow And run our Garners o're Till none by Numbers force can know Our never ending store Our Flocks their Young by thousands near Our very Gates shall lay Ten thousands in the rolling Year About out Pastures play verse 14 Our Cattel to their Work be strong We no Invasions fear No Captives know no Cries among Our peaceful Dwellings hear verse 15 Happy the Tribes must needs become On whom such Favour flows But ô more happy those on whom Their God himself bestows PSAL. cxlv verse 1 THy Name my God my King I 'll raise Above the lofty Skyes verse 2 Each Day thy Holy Name I 'll praise And Psalms of thanks devise verse 3 Great is our Lord his Glory 's great No Bounds his Greatness knows verse 4 And Race to race his Acts repeat His wondrous Works disclose verse 5 I 'll all my serious Thoughts address To search thy wondrous ways verse 6 The World thy Terrors shall confess While I thy Greatness praise verse 7 Thy Righteous Truth the World adores To mind thy Goodness brings And all thy Loves unfailing Stores In grateful Anthems Sings verse 8 Our Lord 's Compassionate and kind To vengeance only slow verse 9 His Goodness all his Creatures find O're all his Mercies flow verse 10 Thee all thy Works ô God shall Praise And celebrate thy Name Thy Saints as gladly all their Days Thy glorious Might proclaim Part 2. verse 11 Thy Might thy Kingdom 's glorious State Thy Servants Talk shall show verse 12 Till all thy valiant Acts relate Thy awful Glories know verse 13 Beyond Times bounds thy Kingdom stands Thy Government endures verse 14 Thy Help supports the weak thy Hand Their timely Ease procures verse 15 To Thee all raise their longing Eyes From Thee they beg their Food verse 16 Thy Bounteous Hand their Wants supplies And satisfies with Good verse 17 How Just blest God how gentle all Thy Ways and Works appear verse 11 Kind to those Souls which on Thee call To those who seek Thee near verse 19 Thou grantst the pious Suppliants Prayers Thou seest thy Servants Tears Thy Hand relieves their Various Cares And Ends their Doubts and Fears verse 20 But all the wicked World shall find Thy Judgments dreadful weight To thy revenging Wrath resign'd And unrelenting Hate verse 21 Thy Name blest God my Songs shall raise Above the lofty Skyes And all to Thee shall pay their Praise Till Times last Moment dyes PSAL. cxlvj. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord with praise my Soul Thy Maker's Glories raise verse 2 While Breath and Life are in me whole I 'll sing thy lofty Praise verse 3 On Kings on Men of mortal Birth For safety ne'r rely verse 4 Whose Breath goes out who turn to Earth And all whose Counsels dy verse 5 But happy 's He whose Hopes whose Aid On God his Lord depends verse 6 Who Seas Earth Heaven and all things made Whose Promise never ends verse 7 He for the Poor his Judgment shows When prest by Violence Does Prisoners free and Food to those Of Hungry Souls dispence verse 8 God to the Blind gives Sense and Eyes And with his healing Art Sets up the sinking Soul supplies With Love the faithful Heart verse 9 The Widows Orphans Stranger 's cause The Lord himself maintains But o're the Stubborn Sinner draws Destructions fatal Chains verse 10 Thy King thy Lord ô Sion reigns His Actions all record His Throne from Age to Age remains Praise ye ô Praise the Lord PSAL. cxlvij. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord its good to Sing Our Mighty Maker's praise It s pleasant and a comely thing His Glorious Acts to blaze verse 2 The Lord poor Salem's Walls repairs Her wretched Dust removes And home her wandring Outcasts bears Fenced with his tenderest Loves verse 3 The Lord finds out with pittying Art What Man from Man conceals And gently binds the bleeding Heart Its wounds as gently Heals verse 4 He names the Stars which fill the Skies And all their Number