Lord I lifted up my voice and loud did cry And he out of his holy hill answer'd me by and by verse 5 I laid me down and quietly I slept and rose again Because Jehovah doth himself mine heart and state sustain verse 6 If of the people presently ten thousand round about In good array against me stood I would not fear or doubt verse 7 Rise Lord save me my God thou smot'st the jaws of all my foes And brok'st the teeth of wicked men that up against me rose verse 8 Unto the Lord Jehovah be ascrib'd salvation Thine own elected people let thy blessing be upon Psalm 4. LOrd Patron of my righteousnesse answer me when I cry When I was in great straits thou didst set me at liberty With favour Lord respect me now I sue only for grace Accept and hear the pray'r that I pour out before thy face verse 2 You great mens sons how long will ye my glory turn to shame Your whole delight 's in vanity to seek lies is your aime verse 3 But know that God hath for himself the godly set apart And he will hear me when I cry to him with all my heart verse 4 Tremble and fear and sin no more with your own hearts advise Upon your beds quiet the thoughts which in your minds do rise verse 5 Make peace with God by sacrifice of truth and uprightnesse And in Jehovah put your trust with holy stedfastnesse verse 6 Many enquire for worldly good that they may it embrace But lift thou up on us O Lord the brightnesse of thy face verse 7 That hath rejoic'd me more and made mine heart within more glad Then those that of their Corn and Wine a large increase have had verse 8 With that therefore lie dow will I and sleep in quiet peace For thou alone Lord mak'st me dwell in confidence and ease Psalm 5. GIve ear unto my words O Lord my meditation waigh verse 2 Attend to my loud cry my King my God to thee I pray verse 3 My pray'r each morning I 'le direct in order unto thee And will look out each morning when I cry thou hearest mee verse 4 For thou art not a God that art pleas'd with iniquitie Neither shall any evil thing sojourn at all with thee verse 5 Mad foolish men shall never stand before thine holy eye But thou in heart dost hate all those that work iniquitie verse 6 And thou shalt utterly destroy all those that utter lies The man of blouds the Lord abhors and such as frauds devise verse 7 But I in thy large mercies will within thine house appear And in thine holy Temple thee will worship in thy fear verse 8 Because mine enemies watch my steps Lord in thy truth lead me And clear thy way before my face lest I ensnared be verse 9 For there 's no firmnesse in their mouth within them mischief lies Their throat 's an open sepulcher their tongue speaks flatteries verse 10 Destroy them Lord and let them still fall by their own counsell Cast them out in their many sins against thee that rebell As for all those that put their trust in thee let them rejoice And always in loud shouts for joy let them lift up their voice Because thou sav'st and cover'st them and those that love thy name Continually let them likewise be joyful in the same verse 12 For thou Lord on the righteous wilt cause blessings to abound And with thy favour as a shield thou wilt him compasse round Psalm 6. LOrd let not thy rebukes on me in wrath inflicted be And in thy burning anger Lord forbear to chasten me verse 2 Be gracious unto me O Lord for I am weak and sore Lord heal me for my very bones are troubled more and more verse 3 Yea and my heavy soul in me is vext exceedingly But Lord how long wilt thou delay to cure my misery In favour Lord return again my soul from death set free And for thy boundlesse mercies sake save and deliver mee verse 5 For none that sleep in death can thee once in remembrance have Or who O Lord shall praise thy name that dwelleth in the grave verse 6 My mourning hath quite weari'd me while no relief appears Each night I make my bed to swim and wash it with my tears verse 7 Sorrow and indignation quite fret and consume mine eyes And they wax dim and old because of all mine enemies verse 8 Get you away from me all ye that work iniquity The Lord himself hath heard my voice my weeping and my cry verse 9 The Lord my supplication and sute hath heard ev'n now The Lord will always graciously receive my pray'r I know verse 10 Let them be vexed sore and sham'd that enemies are to me Yea let them all turn suddenly back and ashamed be Psalm 7. O Lord my God I put my trust and rest only on thee From all that me do persecute save and deliver mee verse 2 Lest as a Lion he my soul tear and in pieces rend While no deliverer can me from his fierce rage defend verse 3 O Lord my God if I have done this thing which wrongfully They charge on me or in mine hands be found iniquity verse 4 If I rewarded ill to him that was at peace with me Yea I deliver'd him that was causlesse mine enemie verse 5 Then let my foe pursue my soul and take it let him thrust And tread my life to th' earth and lay mine honour in the dust verse 6 For my foes rage lift up thy self in wrath arise O Lord Wake for me to the judgement now commanded by thy Word verse 7 Then shall th' assembly compasse thee to praise thee publiquely For their sakes Lord return and take thy Judgement-seat on high verse 8 And thou that of the world art Judge O Lord now judge thou me According to my righteousnesse and mine integritie The Second part verse 9 O let the wickeds mischief cease but stablish stedfastly The just man O thou righteous God that reins and hearts dost try verse 10 The mighty God he is my shield from him defence I have And he alone all those that are upright in heart doth save verse 11 The mighty God for righteous men gives judgement righteously But ev'ry day he threatneth sore such as walk wickedly verse 12 If he return not and repent the Lord his sword hath whet And bent his bow and on the string his arrows ready set verse 13 And deadly weapons hath prepar'd the wicked to destroy And whet his shafts for those that his pursue and still annoy Behold the wicked travails with painful iniquitie Conceiving mischief and at length he hath brought forth a lie verse 15 He digg'd a ditch and delv'd it deep another there to take But he himself is faln into the pit which he did make verse 16 The mischief which he labour'd in returns on his own head On his own pate the violence comes down where it was bred verse 17 For
but vvalk in darknesse on All the foundations of the earth out of due course are gone verse 6 I unto you high titles gave and said that Gods you be That of the highest God you are the children all of ye verse 7 But like the rest of mortall men you die and perish must And like to other Princes you shall fall and turn to dust verse 8 Arise O God to judge the earth do thou thy self advance Thou shalt all Nations challenge as thine own inheritance Psalm 83. KEep not thou silence now O God no longer hold thy peace Remove not still O God nor cause thy vvorking hand to cease verse 2 For now behold thine enemies rise up tumultuously And they that hate thee vaunt themselves and lift their heads on high verse 3 For they against thy people have conspired craftily And have against thine hidden ones resolved cruelly verse 4 Come let us cut them off say they that they no more may be A nation nor shall Israels name be kept in memory verse 5 They do all vvith one heart and minde together counsel take Yea against thee O Lord they do their combination make verse 6 There vvere the tents of Edomites there Ismaels children were With them were join'd the Moabites the Hagarens were there verse 7 Gebal and Ammon joined do with Amalek conspire With them the Philistims agree with those that dwell at Tyre verse 8 To them hath Ashur join'd his foree in league with them is he That to Lots children he an aid and arm of strength may be verse 9 As to the Midianites thou didst so deal thou with them here As with Jabin and Sisera the brook of Kison neer verse 10 Which were at Endor slain and there did perish utterly Their bodies in the fields cast out like dung on earth did lie The Second Part. verse 11 Let all their noble men O Lord like Zeb and Oreb fall As Zeba and Zalmunna were make thou their Princes all verse 12 Who proudly said into our hand let us Gods houses take Yea all his houses through the land our own possession make verse 13 But O my God make thou them like to wheels that cannot stay As stubble doth before the winde so let them fly away verse 14 Or as the flame of fire the wood consumeth speedily And on the mountains burns the thorns and briars when they 're dry verse 15 As with a tempest with thy wrath pursue them speedily And vvith thy fury like a storm do thou them terrifie verse 16 Cover O Lord and fill their face with their deserved shame That they confounded thus O Lord at length may seek thy name verse 17 Let them be to confusion brought and troubled very sore And put to a perpetual shame and perish evermore verse 18 That men may know that thou whose name Jehovah is alone Art most high over all the earth and besides thee is none Psalm 84. HOw lovely is thy dwelling place O Lord of hosts to me Thy Tabernacles glorious more then can expressed be verse 2 My soul within me longs yea faints the Courts of God to see My heart and flesh cry out aloud my living God for thee verse 3 The sparrow findes her out an house the swallow hath a nest Wherein she laies her young but I for my feet finde no rest Thine Altars O thou Lord of hosts my Lord God and my King verse 4 Blest are they that dwell in thine house to thee still praise to sing verse 5 Yea blessed are those men to whom thou art their strength and stay That with their hearts and whole desires to thine house mindes the way verse 6 When through the Valleys dry they go where wells they dig up still The rain from Heaven doth them all most plentifully fill verse 7 From strength to strength they walk on stil unwearied they bear Their travel till before the Lord in Zion all appear verse 8 Hearken O Lord the God of hosts to that which I do pray O God of Jacob give an ear to that which I do say verse 9 O God our shield and our defence Behold and look upon And graciously accept the face of thine anointed one verse 10 Because within thine house one day is better to abide Then in another place to stay a thousand days beside verse 11 Much rather would I keep a door in the house of my God Then dwell in tents of wickednesse as now I do abroad verse 12 For God the Lord our Sun and shield will grace and glory give And no good thing withholds from those that do uprightly live verse 13 O Lord of hosts that man is blest and happy still shall bee Whose heart by faith doth ever rest and firmly trust in thee Psalm 85. O Lord our God unto thy Land thou hast done graciously Thou hast brought Jacob back again from his captivity verse 2 Thou to thy people didst forgive their great iniquities And all their sins which they had done hast cov'red from thine eyes verse 3 Thou all thy wrath hast quite withdrawn which on them heavy lay And from the fiercenesse of thy wrath hast turned clean away verse 4 O God of our salvation return us back again Unto our former state from us O Lord thy wrath refrain verse 5 Why shall thine anger never cease but still lie upon us And shall thy wrath itself extend unto all ages thus verse 6 Wilt thou not us restore again and quicken us that we Who are thy people evermore in thee may joyful be verse 7 Thy mercy and thy favour Lord shew us and us relieve And thy salvation in thy love unto us freely give verse 8 Now vvill I hear what God will say for he with peace will blesse His Saints and folk but let them not return to foolishnesse verse 9 Surely to such as do him fear is his salvation nigh That glory now may in our land abide continually verse 10 For faithful truth and mercy free shall now together meet And righteousnesse and peace with kisse shall there each other greet verse 11 Truth and uprightnesse on the earth out of mens hearts shall spring And faithfulnesse from Heaven shall look down and blessings bring verse 12 Yea every good thing shall the Lord give to us bounteously And then our lands with fruits shall us abundantly supply verse 13 Before his face shall righteousnesse go forth which shall us lead And in the way shall set us so that we his steps may tread Psalm 86. DO thou O Lord bow downn thine ear and hear me graciously And help me and consider Lord that poor and weak am I. verse 2 Preserve my soul for I am one that favour'd is by thee O thou my God thy servant save that puts his trust in thee verse 3 Be merciful to me O Lord to thee I daily cry verse 4 Rejoice thy servants soul O Lord for unto thee do I verse 5 Lift up my soul thou Lord art good and pardon'st graciously And unto those
judge with speed verse 7 His ways to Moses he made known his acts to Israels seed verse 8 The Lord is very gracious and merciful he is To anger slow but plenteous still in mercy to all his verse 9 Though he contend vvith man a vvhile he vvill not always chide Nor keep his anger in his breast for ever to abide verse 10 Nor yet according to our sins the Lord doth us regard And after our iniquities he doth not us reward verse 11 For as the distance is between the earth and heav'n above So large his mercy is to those that him do fear and love verse 12 He hath remov'd our sins from us and our transgressions all As far as is the rising Sun full distant from his fall The Second Part. verse 13 And as a father passeth by faults of his children dear So hath the Lord compassion on those that do him fear verse 14 The Lord that made us know full well our frame and temper must He cannot but remember still that vve are all but dust verse 15 The days of man are like the grasse that quickly doth decay His flourishing is like the flow'r in field that fades away verse 16 For it is gone when ever it the windy storm doth pass The place shall never know it more vvhere once it standing was verse 17 But yet Gods mercy to his saints for ever is and was And to their childrens children down his righteousnesse doth pass verse 18 To all such as his Covenant strive to keep stedfastly And think on his Commandements to do them faithfully verse 19 The Lord his Throne of Majesty in Heaven did prepare His kingdome ruleth over all and all his subjects are verse 20 Ye Angels that excel in strength blesse ye the Lord that doe His just Commandments and the voice of his word hearken to 21 Yea all ye mighty hosts blesse ye the Lord and praise him still Ye Ministers that ready are to execute his vvill verse 22 Ye all his vvorks in places all vvhere he doth rule as King Blesse ye the Lord and thou my soul his praises ever sing Psalm 104. O Blesse and praise the Lord my soul thou art exceeding high O Lord my God vvith honour cloth'd and glorious Majesty verse 2 With light as vvith a robe thy self thou cover'st round about And like a spacious curtain thou the Heavens stretchest out verse 3 The beams of his large Chambers he doth in the waters lay And on the Clouds as Charets he doth ride and poste away verse 4 And on the vvings of vvinds doth vva'k and he their blasts doth take For Messengers his Ministers a flaming fire doth make verse 5 The firm foundation of the earth so stedfast he doth lay That never from the fixed place it may be mov'd away verse 6 As with a garment thou the earth with the great deep dost cover The deep whose swelling vvaters once the mountains flowed over verse 7 At thy pow'rful rebuke O Lord they fled and did not stay And at thy thunders dreadful voice they hasted soon away verse 8 Over the mountains they ascend and pass by Valleys low That to the place which thou for them hadst founded they may goe verse 9 There hast thou shut them in vvith bounds vvhich shall them still restrain That back they never do return the earth to drown again Yet to the fruitful Valleys thou by Springs dost vvaters send Which to the sea among the hills their winding course do bend verse 11 These do give drink to every beast that rangeth in the field And by their vvaters they do quench the thirst of asses vvilde verse 12 Neer them their habitations the fowls do build on high Among the branches they delight to sing melodiously The Second Part. verse 13 As for the hills he vvatreth them from his Chambers on high And with the fruits of his own works the earth doth satisfie verse 14 There makes he grasse for beasts to grow and herb for mans use good That out of the dead earth he may bring forth sufficient food verse 15 And wine to glad mans heart and oil to make the face shine fair And Corn for bread which may the strength of weak mans heart repair The tallest Trees Cedars themselves of Lebanon Gods plants Are full of sap that none of them sufficing moisture vvants verse 17 In them the birds and fowls of Heaven do choose their nests to make As for the stork the fir-trees she doth for her dwelling take verse 18 To the wilde Goats the mountains high a place of refuge be The Conies also to the rock do for their shelter flee verse 19 The Moon thou dost appoint by course the seasons to discern From thee the Sun his certain time of going down doth learn verse 20 Thou bringest darknesse on the earth and it is night and then Beasts of the forests each of them creeps forth out of his den verse 21 After their fearful prey the yong lions do roar and rave And meat to satisfie themselves of God himself they crave verse 22 But when the Sun doth rise away together they do flie To hide them from the light and down they in their dens do lie verse 23 Then man may safely come abroad and to his labour goes Each to his vvork vvherein the day till evening he bestows verse 24 O Lord how manifold are all thy vvorks in wisdome thou Mad'st them and thou to fill the earth thy riches dost bestow The Third part verse 25 Thou dost this great wide sea likewise replenish where are things Creeping innumerable beasts both small and great it brings verse 26 There in the swift ships to and fro do passe as in away There is Leviathan vvhich thou hast made therein to play verse 27 These in their divers kinds on thee do wait and all attend That thou sufficient food to them in season due mayest send verse 28 That vvhich thou scatterest to them they gather thou thine hand Dost open wide and they are fill'd with good at thy command verse 29 Thou hid'st thy face and then they are troubled with vvant and pain Thou tak'st their breath they die and to their dust return again verse 30 Thou sendest forth thy Spirit they are created by and by Thus of the whole earth thou the face renew'st continually verse 31 The glory shall for ever last of God the Lord of might And in the works of thy right hand thou greatly shalt delight verse 32 If he do but the earth behold it trembleth fearfully If he the mountains only touch then smoak they presently verse 33 While I do live unto the Lord I 'le sing continually While I my being have sing praise unto my God will I. verse 34 My meditation of the Lord most sweet shall be to me And in my good and gracious God right joyful shall I be verse 35 Let sinners from the earth consume and wicked be no more Blesse thou the Lord my soul praise ye the Lord and
2 Thee vvill I blesse each day and vvill thy name for ever praise verse 3 Great is the Lord worthy great praise his greatness none can reach verse 4 One race shall to another praise thy works and vvonders teach verse 5 I of thy glorious Majesty the honour vvill record And will remember all thy works most wonderful O Lord. verse 6 Men of thine acts the might shall shew thine acts that dreadful are And I thy glory to advance thy greatness vvill declare verse 7 The memory of thy goodness great men largely shall express And shall in joyful songs of praise extoll thy righteousness The Lord is gracious and from him compassions largely flow In mercy he is very great and is to anger slow verse 9 Good unto all and over all his tender mercies bee verse 10 Yea all thy vvorks shall praise the Lord thy saints shall honour thee verse 11 And of thy Kingdomes glory they shall speak and power shall show verse 12 That all the sons of men his works and mighty acts may know And may thy Kingdomes majesty and glory understand verse 13 Thy Kingdoms Lord a Kingdome is that shall for ever stand And thy dominion through each age verse 14 Endures and those that fall The Lord upholds those that are bow'd down he up raiseth all The Second Part. verse 15 The eyes of all do wait on thee and thou dost them relieve And thou to each sufficing food in season due dost give verse 16 Thy bounteous hand thou openest wide and then thy goodness gives Enough to satisfie the need of ev'ry thing that lives verse 17 The Lord is just in all his ways his works are holy all verse 18 Near all he is that call on him in truth that on him call verse 19 And the desires he vvill fulfill of those that do him fear Yea he vvill surely save them all and he their cry doth hear verse 20 The Lord all these preserveth safe that love him in their heart And he all those that wicked are will utterly subvert verse 21 My mouth the praises of the Lord right gladly shall express Yea let all flesh his holy name for ever praise and bless Psalm 146. PRaise ye the Lord praise God my soul to God that me doth save verse 2 Will I sing praises all my days whilest I my beeing have verse 3 In Kings and Princes put no trust nor in the sons of men In whom there is no help at all verse 4 He turns to earth and then His thoughts do perish in that day verse 5 Happy is he vvhose aid Is plac't on Jacobs God whose hope on God his Lord is staid verse 6 Which made the earth and heaven high the seas that are so deep And all that therein is who doth his word for ever keep verse 7 Who by judgement th' opprest relieves to those that hungry be He giveth food and graciously doth set the prisoners free verse 8 The Lord doth send the blind their sight the Lord again doth raise Those that are bowed down the Lord favours the just always verse 9 The strangers doth the Lord preserve relieves the fatherless And widows but turns up-side down the way of vvickedness verse 10 The Lord for evermore shall reign thy God O Zion he Unto all generations rules the Lord still praised be Psalm 147. PRaise ye the Lord for it is good unto our God to sing For it is pleasant and to praise it is a comely thing verse 2 The Lord his own Jerusalem doth raise and build alone And the out-casts of Israel doth gather into one verse 3 He heals the broken in their heart their sores up he doth binde verse 4 He counts the number of the stars and names for them doth finde verse 5 Great is the Lord and of great power his wisdome hath no bound verse 6 The Lord lifts up the meek and casts the wicked to the ground verse 7 Sing vvith thanksgiving to the Lord always in him rejoice Unto the Lord our God sing ye praises with harp and voice verse 8 Who ore the Heavens spreads the clouds who for the earth below Prepareth rain who makes the grass on mountains high to grow verse 9 He gives the beast his food he feeds the ravens vvhen they cry verse 10 His pleasure not in strength of horse nor in mans legs doth lie verse 11 But those that fear the holy Lord and strive him to obey And on his mercy set their hope ev'n his delight are they The Second Part. verse 12 O praise the Lord Jerusalem thy God O Zion praise verse 13 For he the bars hath strengthened wherewith thy gates he staies Thy children he hath blest in thee verse 14 And in thy borders he Hath setled peace and with the flow'r of wheat he filleth thee verse 15 He sends out his Commandement his creatures all unto On earth and swiftly runs the Word which from his mouth doth go verse 16 His snow both soft and white like wooll on earth he giveth out His hoary frost like ashes he doth scatter round about verse 17 His ice or hail like morsels he doth cast out with his hand Before the sharpness of his cold who able is to stand verse 18 He sendeth forth his powerful Word and melteth them again His winds he makes to blow and then the waters flow amain verse 19 The doctrine of his holy Word to Jacob he doth show His statutes and his judgements he gives Israel to know verse 20 He with no nation thus hath dealt his judgements and his Word Not any one of them hath known praise ye the living Lord. Psalm 148. PRaise ye the Lord bless ye the Lord from Heaven which is on high And in the places high above him praise and magnifie verse 2 All ye his Angels praise ye him praise ye him all his hosts verse 3 Praise ye him Sun and Moon and Stats bright shining in all Coasts verse 4 Praise him ye waters 'bove the heavens ye heaven of heavens on high verse 5 The Lords name praise for by his Word they were made powerfully verse 6 He also for eternity hath them establisht sure And setled by a firm decree for ever to endure verse 7 Praise ye the Lord all ye on earth all deeps and dragons too verse 8 Fire hail snow vapours stormy winds at his command that go verse 9 Ye mighty mountains and all hills fruitful trees cedars tall verse 10 Both creeping things and flying fowls and beasts and cattel all verse 11 Kings of the earth and people all Princes and all that be verse 12 Judges on earth young men and maids old men and babes praise ye verse 13 The Lords great name for he alone advanced is on high Above the earth his glory is above the starry sky verse 14 He also doth alone exalt the horn the power and name Of all his people which to them is their praise and their fame Those are the seed of Israel his holy ones whom he Makes near by Cov'nant to himself the Lord alone prase ye Psal 149. PRaise ye the Lord sing to the Lord a new rejoycing song And let the praise of him be heard his holy saints among verse 2 In his Maker let Israel rejoyce and to him sing Let all that Zions children are be joyful in their King verse 3 And let them in an holy dance praise his most holy name Let them vvith timbrel and with harp sing praises to the same verse 4 For in his people whom he chose the Lord doth pleasure take The meek with his salvation he beautiful will make verse 5 In all the glory of the Lord let all his saints rejoyce Let them to him upon their beds in joy lift up their voice verse 6 And let them with their mouth sound forth high praises of the Lord In their hand let them ready have the sharp sword of his Word verse 7 On the rebellious heathen folk a just revenge to lay And on the people punishments refusing to obey verse 8 To binde their greatest Kings in chains their Lords in iron strong Judgement on them to execute which doth to them belong verse 9 Decreed by Gods written Word this shall the honour be To all that are the saints of God wherefore the Lord praise ye Psalm 150. PRaise ye the Lord praise God within his holy place with fear And in the Firmament praise him whence his pow'r doth appear verse 2 And praise him for his mighty acts and them declare and tell After his greatnesse praise the Lord wherein he doth excell verse 3 With Trumpets and with Cornets sound advance his praise on high Praise him with the melodious harp and with the Psaltery Praise him with timbrel and with flute organs and Virginals verse 5 Praise with joyfulness of heart upon the loud Cymbals Praise him on Cymbals sounding loud verse 6 Let every thing accord That breath enjoyes to praise the Lord. Praise ye the living Lord. FINIS Mr. Jo Cotton singing of Psalms a Gospel Ordinance Mr. Tho Ford singing of Psalms the duty of Christians under the New Testament in sundry Sermons on Eph 5.19 Mr. Tho Manton Pract Comment on James 5.13