Another Mâ—re as Mr Sandys's 17th verse 1 LOrd how Illustrious is thy Sacred Name How bless'd great God of Hosts Eternal King Whose Honours all the lower World proclaim Whose Honours all the Heav'nly Armies sing verse 2 Yet when the Foes blind with malicious Rage Affront thy Honours or thy Name defie Poor Babes weak Infants on thy Part engage And quickly make the boasting Monsters fly More Strength more Truth from Infant-Language flows Than haughty Learning or presuming Pride The meanest Wretch by thy best influence grows A faithful Preacher a victorious Guide verse 3 When I survey the never-resting Skies Whose moving Arch thy curious Fingers spread When to the Changing Moon I raise my Eyes The Stars with inexhausted Brightness fed verse 4 Lord what 's poor Man or Man's polluted Race So pity'd yet so kindly own'd by thee How could he hope for such unbounded Grace That for his sake God should Incarnate be verse 5 Yet God for our Iov'd sakes our Nature took Beneath Himself beneath his Angels found Tho God-like Beauties grac'd his Heav'nly Look His Sacred Head Majestick Glories crown'd verse 6 Where-e'er He mov'd submissive Nature bow'd His Handy-works their great Creator knew And to adore his Feet th' impatient Croud On the swift Wings of just Obedience flew verse 7 Before Him savage Brutes their Fierceness laid On Him rough Lions fawn'd and Panthers gaz'd Weak Sheep with hungry Wolves all fearless play'd And with fierce Tygers Kine securely graz'd verse 8 On lofty Trees around his Glorious Head With strange Delight the feather'd Chorus hung O'er Him their fanning Pinions gently spread And in their native Tunes his Praises sung When o'er the Seas their King triumphant pass'd Beneath his Feet the Billows silent lay The finny Herd his wondrous Foot-steps trac'd And with their Silver Scales describ'd his Way verse 9 Thy Honours thus the Lower World proclaim Thy Honours thus all Nature's Armies sing Lord how illustrious is thy Sacred Name How bless'd great Lord of Hosts Eternal King PSAL. ix As the First verse 1 I 'LL praise the Lord with Heart and Voice His great his wondrous Actions praise verse 2 In Thee O highest God rejoice Thy Name in Songs Triumphant raise verse 3 My Foes shall turn their Backs and fall And sink before thy Glorious Face verse 4 Thy righteous Bar has judg'd 'em all And now my Cause obtains the place verse 5 Thy Hand o'erturns the Nations round Thy Hand the sinful World subdues Their Names Eternal Blots confound And dark Forgetfulness pursues verse 6 O Enemy presume no more To lay huge Towns and Countries waste Thy Rage our burning Cities bore Thy Rage their very Names defac'd verse 7 But our Eternal God appears His Bar prepar'd for Judgment stands verse 8 The World His righteous Sentence hears His wise Decrees and just Commands verse 9 The Lord their Refuge saves the Poor With mighty Cares and Woes oppress'd verse 10 His Saints live in His Help secure And in his constant Presence bless'd Part 2. verse 11 To Sion's God your Praises sing His Acts through all the World declare verse 12 When He his Quest for Blood shall bring He 'll grant the Poor's accepted Prayer verse 13 Thou who my Soul from Death couldst raise My Suff'rings Lord in Mercy view verse 14 I 'll then thy Name in Sion praise And Joys in thy Salvation shew verse 15 In their own Pits the Gentiles fall Their own strong Nets their Feet have caught verse 16 Their own false Hearts have trap'd 'em all So wisely God's Designs are wrought verse 17 The Wicked all shall sink and those Whose Heath'nish Souls their God forget verse 18 But Suff'rers sha'n't for ever lose Their Hopes or all in Darkness set verse 19 Rise Lord ô let not Men prevail But rise and judge the Nations round verse 20 Till all their Hearts with Terrour fail Not Gods but Men and mortal found PSAL. x. verse 1 WHY Lord ô why so far from me In my afflicted State verse 2 When Sin and haughty Pride agree And all our Woes create verse 3 O let their Arts themselves ensnare Who boast of Crimes they love Who bless the Covetous and dare What God abhors approve verse 4 His God the prosp'rous Sinner scorns God ne'er his Thoughts employs verse 5 The World beneath his Greatness mourns Which all Her Peace destroys Thy Judgments Lord exalted far Above his Sense appear Which makes him scorn his Foes in War And puff at Dangers near verse 6 His Heart concludes I 'm great no Ill Can change my certain State verse 7 His Mouth Fraud Lyes and Curses fill His Tongue mischievous Hate verse 8 Close in his Lurking-holes he lies To kill the Innocent Blood revels in his furious Eyes On their Destruction bent verse 9 He like some Lion Couchant lies To seize the trembling Prey And would God's holy Saint surprize And tear their Souls away A thousand Traps and Snares he sets Where harmless Vertue goes And to the Tangled in his Nets No Truth nor Mercy shows Part 2. verse 10 Sometimes the Wicked hangs his Head And feigns Humility That by his harmless Air mis-led The Meek may fall and die verse 11 God if there 's any God he says Forgets what Mortals do He can't discern our crafty Ways Our secret Actions view verse 12 Up Lord stretch out thy pow'rful Hand Afflicted Souls to save verse 13 For why should Fools against thee stand Thy dreadful Vengeance brave Why should they cry God minds it not verse 14 O let thy piercing Sight Look through their dark mischievous Plot Re-pay their secret Spite On Thee the Poor for Help depend To Thee sad Orphans fly verse 15 Break wicked Arms their Malice end And Sin it self shall die verse 16 The Lord for ever reigns his Arms Our Land from Gentiles freed verse 17 He hears the Meek their Courage warms And makes their Prayers succeed verse 18 He helps the Fatherless and Poor And quells the Sinner's Rage Left they our Ruins to procure Shoold all their Force engage PSAL. xj verse 1 IN God my Hope securely stands Why then should Wretches cry Fly fly to Hills or foreign Lands Like Birds affrighted fly verse 2 See how the Wicked bend their Bows And Nock their Arrows sure That they with unexpected Blows May Death to thine procure verse 3 And since Hopes best Foundations are By wicked Hands destroy'd Oh how shall Men of Justice fare Or how their Force avoid verse 4 God in his Holy Temple sits Enthron'd above the Sky And all the Faults weak Man commits His pierceing Eye-lids try verse 5 He proves the Just but hates all those Who Sin and Rapine love verse 6 On them Snares Flames and Sulphur throws And Terrors from above verse 7 For God who 's infinitely Just In Justice takes Delight And Upright Men may safely trust In His reviving Sight Another Metre as Mr. Sandys's 4th verse 1 MY Faith is fix'd on God most High Why then should Fools to
House the Sparrows find The Swallows build their Nests Where with their yet unfeather'd Kind The Dam in Safety rests But ah thine Altars wretched I Near them no more can sing While banish'd from thy House I sly Dear Lord my God my King verse 4 Ah happy Souls who in thy House Can live and praise thy Name verse 5 Whose Arms thy Heav'nly strength endows Whose Hearts thy Ways can frame verse 6 Though through the Vail of Tears they go Their Eyes with Sorrows drown'd Yet Blessings on their Teachers slow With Fruit their Pains are crown'd verse 7 From Strength to Strength from Grace to Grace Th' improving Learners go Till them the God of Gods embrace And Rest on them bestow Part 2. verse 8 My Pray'r great God of Hosts receive And kind Affistance bring verse 9 Consider O our Shie'd relieve Thy once anointed King verse 10 For in thy Courts one Day appears More bless'd more swoet to me Than could a Thousand Thousand Years At any Distance be I 'd rather keep thy Temple's Door And fiod thy Presence there Than in a Palace reign secure Where Sins uncheck'd appear verse 11 For God their Sun their Shield to those Will Grace and Glory give Who with his Laws sincerely close And on Obedience live verse 12 Happy ô happy that good Man Great Lord of Hosts must be Who through all Worldly Changes can Unmov'dly trust in Thee To Father Holy Ghost and Son Ono God in persons Three Be Glory paid and Homage done Through all Eternity PSAL. lxxxv verse 1 THY Favours Lord have kind at last To Israel's Captives been verse 2 And all thy People's Follies past And cover'd all their Sin verse 3 Thy gentler Thoughts with tender Love Thy Jealous Furies eas'd And He who pleads for us above Has all thy Wrath appeas'd verse 4 To us ô God our Saviour now From Anger kindly turn Some Limits to thy Wrath allow Which else would always burn verse 5 On us dear God new Life bestow To us new Vigour give verse 6 That we our Joys in Thee may show And in thy Favour live verse 7 To us thy Mercy Lord extend And thy Salvation show verse 8 What God shall answer I 'll attend Who will his Peace bestow On all his own His Saints shall find The Sweets of Heav'nly Peace When they from Sin 's foul Dross refin'd From careless Follies cease God's kind Salvation's always nigh The Wise who fear his Name That Glory o'er our Land may fly And raise our ancient Fame Kind Peace and Righteousness embrace And Truth and Mercy close Truth springs from Earth from Heav'n her Face Impartial Justice shows All Good on us shall God bestow Our Land shall fruitful prove And Justice with a wondrous Flow Before his Face shall move While we who err'd so oft before Bless'd with so sure a Guide From God shall never wander more But in his Paths abide Another Metre As the old 125th proper Tune BLess'd Lord thy kinder Thoughts at last Did Jacob's Captive-Tribes restore And all the People's Follies past Their Sins with Mercies cover'd o'er Thy Jealous Furies eas'd And all thy Wrath appeas'd To us ô God our Saviour now From thy tempestuous Anger turn Shall thy fierce Wrath no Bounders know But through Eternal Ages burn Us Lord again revive And in thy Joys we live To us thy Mercy Lord extend To us thy bless'd Salvation show To God's kind Answer I 'll attend For Peace he 'll on his Saints bestow His Servants shall have Peace When they from Follies cease verse 9 To pious Men Salvation's near That Glory may possess the Land verse 10 Mercy and Truth conjoin'd appear And Peace and Justice Hand in Hand verse 11 From Earth Truth from the Sky Fair Justice casts her Eye verse 12 Our God on us shall Good bestow Our happy Land shall fruitful prove verse 13 And Justice with a wondrous Flow Before his glorious Presence move And we with such a Guide Shall in his Paths abide PSAL. lxxxvj verse 8 LOrd to my Pray'r thine Ears incline For I 'm distress'd and poor verse 2 I'm wholly Lord and only thine Bless'd God my Soul secure verse 3 My God thy faithful Servant save Who hopes thy Grace to see Mercy thy Mercy Lord I crave And daily cry to Thee verse 4 To Thee alone my Heart I raise O make my Soul rejoice verse 5 Love Pardon Mercy are thy Ways Thou hearst my humble Voice verse 6 Lord hear my Pray'rs receive my Cry verse 7 In Woes address'd to Thee verse 8 Thy Might thy wondrous Works out-vye The Gods of Vanity All Nations whom thy Hands have made Shall fall before thy Face And with pure Worship duly pay'd Thy glorious Name embrace For Thou art God thy Works are great Thy self art God alone To me bless'd God thy Ways repeat And make thy Doctrines known I 'll walk in Truth then Lord unite My Heart to fear thy Name My Heart shall then thy Praise recite And all thy Praise proclaim Thy Mercy 's great to me from Hell Thou brought'st my sinking Soul Though Tyrants at me proudly swell And would my Life control No Sence of Thee the Rebels show But Pity Lord we see Grace Patience Mercy Truth we know In plenty dwells with Thee To me dear God with Mercy turn Thy Strength on me bestow To him who 's of thy Hand-maid born Thy kind Salvation show With me some Mark of Favour leave And shame my spiteful Foes When they thy Aid to me perceive And all thy Love disclose PSAL. lxxxvij as the 113 th WHen God in his All-searching Mind To fix his Church on Earth design'd Deep he her strong Foundations laid verse 2 But Sions Mount that sacred Place Tho' well He lov'd all Jacob's Race He his peculiar Darling made verse 3 How vastly wide how wondrous high Shall thy Immortal Glories fly Blest City of th' Eternal King verse 4 When AEgypt Assur Palestine And all th' Arabia's shall be thine And Vows to thy Protector bring Envy in Them no more shall reign But Saints to fill thy blissful Train Shall come from each converted Land verse 5 In Sion yet those Sons of Peace Shall more than other Lands encrease And in her God securely stand verse 6 When God shall all his Saints enrol The Gentiles Tribes shall fill the Scroul From Thee blest God! our Joy shall spirit verse 7 And all the Sons of Harmony Shall tune their chearful Strings to Thee And thy Eternal Praises sing PSAL. lxxxviij verse 1 BLest God of my Salvation I Call Day and Night to Thee verse 2 O hear my Prayer accept my Cry And kindly answer me verse 3 My Soul alas is fill'd with Woes The Grave attends my Fate verse 4 I 'me left by Life and Sense like those Just in a dying state verse 5 Among the slaughter'd dead I ly i th' Grave from Sorrows free Where Men thrust out from Memory Are cut from Earth by Thee verse 6 Down in the Pits
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