But on Thy God O Israel trust He only is Thy help and shield O house of Aaron flee to Him that 's Just For He is Thine and help will yield All you who fear th' Almighty Lord Upon Him trust and flee unto His Word For He 's your help and He will be your shield And though you flee it is to gain the field VI. The Lord has mindful of us been And He will all Our joyes restore The house of Israel have His blessing seen And He will bless them more and more The house of Aaron He will bless And all who fear Him shall by ' His love encrease 'Twixt rich and poor He do's no difference know But by His blessing both in numbers grow VII Bless'd of that God who all things made Both Earth and Sea and glorious Heaven High Heav'n's His seat and of Him is afraid But He to Man the Earth has given 'T is there that we admire His Wayes Before the grave shut us up and His Praise There will we bless the God in whom we live And as He life to us Him praises give Hallelujah Psalm CXVI Delexi quoniam exaudivit c. I. I Love Thee Lord with my whole heart For Thou dost my petitions hear Because Thou to me hast inclin'd Thine ear And thus propitious to Thy servant art With new requests I 'll ever prove Thee And shew by that I love Thee II. The pains of death enclos'd me round Grief held my heart and teares my eyes My grave stood open and death thence did rise Trouble and Horror on all sides I found Death it self waited underneath Above the pains of Death III. Yet to the Lord I cry'd and said My God Thy help I now implore Deliver me as Thou hast done before When in my trouble I unto Thee pray'd Though I deserv'd to be deni'd Yet to the Lord I cry'd IV. To wrath He 's slow abounds in love Our sins most ready to forgive The Innocent upon His bounty live In Him they live who reigns their God above He help'd me when I was brought low For He to wrath is slow V. Then to Thy rest my Soul return For God has kindly dealt with Thee Thy feet from sliding life from death set free Nor shall Thy failing eyes in sorrow mourn Thy dayes to praise Him are increas'd Return Soul to Thy rest VI. Lord I believe and therefore speak I knew I should Thy Mercy praise Though when afflicted and in rugged wayes One sorrow did my heart and silence break Then I all flesh the ly did give And yet Lord I believe VII What shall I bring and yield the Lord For all His Favours shown to me A thankful heart my sacrifice shall be I 'll praise Him and rely upon His Word New songs of thanks I 'll to Him sing And this at least will bring VIII My Vowes which in distress I made Before His People will I pay His People shall rejoice that solemn day Whilst those who are His En'mies be afraid When He His plagues upon them throws And do's accept My Vowes IX Dear in His sight His servants are He will Himself repay their wrong Though in forbearing He may seem too long It is more deep to strike and not to spare Nor is the death of the upright Less pretious in His sight X. Lord I am Thine and thine will be Thy Handmaids Son whom Thou did'st save My God Himself a ransome for me gave And to a nobler service set me free Thou brake'st my bonds and made'st me mine And now Lord I am Thine XI This will I bring and yield the Lord For all His Favours shown to me A thankful heart my sacrifice shall be I 'll praise Him and rely upon His Word New songs of thanks I 'll to Him sing And this at least will bring XII My Vowes which in distress I made Before His People will I pay His People shall rejoice that solemn day And where I made them there shall see them pai'd Within the Courts of the Lord's House There will I pay my Vowes Hallelujah Psalm CXVII Laudate Dominum Omnes c. I. ALL you who to the Lord your Beings ow All Nations with His blessings crown'd All people through the World renown'd Sing praises to that God who made you so II. To God whose Mercy do's to all extend Is great to us and good to you And with His Truth do's still renew But like Himself knowes neither bound nor end Hallelujah Psalm CXVIII Confitemini Domino quoniam c. I. TO God's Almighty Name sing praise And you who know how good He is Resign to Him what 's truely His And Arches of His own great Mercies raise For like His Word they have been sure And to Eternity endure II. Israel the great Jehova's choice Who all His fearful Works have seen Who His great Care have alwayes been Let Israel now confess with thankful voice His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure III. Let those who by their place attend And at His Altar daily wait Their own experiences relate Sing as they see the sacred flame ascend His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IV. And to advance the Blessed King Let all the Righteous with them join And in a service thus Divine Bear their part too and in the Chorus sing His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure V. To God on high for help I cri'd Who from His Temple answer'd me Both heard my prayers and set me free The Lord of Host Himself was on my side I will not fear what man can do Since I 've a God to flee unto VI. With those who help'd me He was seen His Presence brought my greatest aid Nothing shall make me now afraid He 'll be my sword who has my Buckler been And when my Foes shall be o'rethrowne I 'll boast of what His hand has done VII Those who their Care on God do cast And know no other will but His Of sure recruits shall never miss But as a Rock i' th' midst of stormes stand fast On God 't is more secure to trust Than man who must return to dust VIII He never yet did any fail Most sure when most reli'd upon And though His Power subscribes to none He lets weak prayers o're Heav'n and Him prevail On God 't is more secure to trust Than Princes who must turn to dust IX Let Barbarous Nations girt me round And for my ruine all engage My trust is plac'd above their rage And stands unshaken on the higher ground For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all X. Round let them compass me and round And for my ruine all engage My Trust is plac'd above their rage And stands unshaken on the higher ground For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all XI Let them
Faithfull be And keep the Laws transmitted here to Thee Their Throne like Thine shall stand and be as Great VII For I have Sion made my Rest The place which I of all the World love best My house for ever where I choose to dwell All Her Provisions I will bless And thence Her poor shall look for their increase And when they see it wonder how it fell VIII There shall her Priests my Praises sing And with Loud Shouts My Saints their Offrings bring The Horn of David there I 'll make to bud An Horn of Plenty full and green Where some New blossoms ever shall be seen Whose fruit's as generous as the root is good IX There for my King I 'll set a light My eye shall make it burn and keep it bright Obscurity shall on His Foes be cast Cover'd with shame they shall ly down But on His head I 'll put a glorious Crown And I who put it on will hold it fast Psalm CXXXIII Ecce quam bonum quam c. I. BLest day wherein I live to see The Tribes like Brethren all agree Like Brethren striving who shall my best Subjects be II. God has by them restor'd my Crown And they secur'd what was their Own For what on me they pour'd upon themselves fell down III. Th' Annointing Oyl they on me spent On them in Acts of Favour went As if for them as much as me the Oyl was meant IV. Like that which on the High-Priest shed At first it only wet His head But then o're beard and cloaths and all was quickly spred V. Or like those mists which from the Main The sun draws up to send again In dews first on the Hills and then the humble Plain VI. With such th' Almighty loves to dwell And Souls agreed His Praise can tell How on them blessings when on others vengeance fell Psalm CXXXIV Ecce nunc benedicite c. I. PRaise Him Ye Servants of th' Eternal King Who alwayes in His Temple stay Till your loud songs the cheerful Morning bring And having chas'd the Night away Call to attend your Sacrifice the rising day II. And as you praise Him let your thankfull hands Their part in all the Service bear They have their language which He understands Though none beside their voice do's hear For them reserves His eye and for your lips His Ear III. The Lord from Sion on Thy Borders reign Showers like that Heav'n which sends them free Return Thy Blessings on Thee back again Let them Thine own and greater be That Gods who Heav'n and Earth did make all for Thee Psalm CXXXV Laudate nomen Domini c. I. YE Servants of th' Immortal King His Masters of request below To whom when We our just Petitions bring Immediately to Heav'n they go And by your means who there attend I' th' flames which burn the Sacrifice ascend To His Great Name which He delights to raise Though far above your reach direct your Praise II. There 's none like Him so full of love On whom you can your praise bestow And if great Goodness can affection move Then praise His Name for that is so For Jacobs seed He gave His voice And plac'd His Treasure where He made His choice So great that none can contradict His will But when they most resist it most fulfill III. His Pleasure Heav'n and Earth obey And Laws which He first gave them keep He chains the Sea and bounding sands do's lay For mighty fetters on the Deep Causes thick vapours to ascend And in one cloud moist Hail and fire do's blend Out of His Treasures brings th' unruly wind And Captive Tempests with strong Cords do's bind IV. In Egypt when He did begin Thus He their First Born would not spare The Beasts were punisht for their Masters sin Under the Curse because they were His Wonders God before Him sent And thither afterwards in Person went Egypt Thou saw'st His hand i' th mid'st of Thee When Pharaoh who did bear it Would not see V. He mighty Kingdoms overthrew Scattred their Forces slew their Kings And Victory which abroad at Pleasure flew Made serve at home without her wings Sehon and Ogg before Him fell In whose Possessions Faithfull Israel dwell That Promised Land which He their Fathers gave Who from that gift their surest Title have VI. Eternal God like Thee Thy Name Endures to all Eternity And as Its Power is constantly the same So shall Its just Memorial be For Thou wilt for Thy People rise Subdue and Scatter all their Enemies That under yoaks they shall no more remain But to Thy House and City be restor'd again VII Dumb Idols shall not Thee withstand Nor thousand Gods fond men adore For all though fashion'd by the Workmans hand Remain the Clay they were before Dull Clay which neither sees nor hears Though Art has given them eyes and made them ears Most Easy Gods to whom when any cry They therefore grant because they can't deny VIII Without or Speech or breath or sense Though they of All the Organs have In vain is help to be expected thence Where 's not enough themselves to save Blind Deities but blinder they Who knowing it to their own Work will pray Ne're thinking that it cannot to them turn And that one fire will god and Incense burn IX But Thou O Israel Bless Thy Lord O House of Aaron bless His Name And you who serve at th' Altar by His Word With coales from thence encrease your Flame Let joy in every Face appear And bless the Lord whom you have made your Fear From Sion bless Him who reigns King above But at Jerusalem is The God of Love Psalm CXXXVI Consitemini Domino Quoniam c. I. OPraise The Lord for He is Good And let the World His love adore For though His Power may aw them more His Love guards those who are by that withstood His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure II. Praise Him who o're all gods do's reign The God of Gods of Kings the King To whom all Thrones this Homage bring What He first gave them to resign again His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure III. All that We see His hand has done Who makes His Mighty Power appear With wonder strikes us and with fear For His own sake He did it and alone His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IV. He made the Heav'ns that glorious space Which has no bound and knows no end Whose greatness man can comprehend As little as that God who made the Place His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure V. The Flood at first hid all the Land Till He rais'd it above the Flood Where it unmov'd e're since has stood He stretcht it out by reaching out His hand His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VI. The Lamps of Heav'n ow all their light To Him who caus'd them first to shine He on them
look'd they like a Mine From thence took fire and ever since are bright His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VII He charg'd the Sun to rule the day Gave him His beams and influence Laws how he should his Flames dispence And when he rules then do's he most obey His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VIII The Moon and stars at night attend And on the guard in turns all wait Some go of sooner some more late And to relieve them God do's others send His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IX Praise Him who for their Fathers sin Smote Cham's first born did none pass o're Sent death to look on every dore Who frighted at no blood without went in His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure X. Who with strong hand and out-stretch'd Arm Deliver'd Israel from the Yoke Who all the Egyptian fetters broke And made His Israels March be their Al-arm His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XI Who all times did His Promise keep The Red-Sea for them did divide And what the Waves before did hide Made them His Wayes see truly in the Deep His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XII The liquid Deep in Walls did stand Of purest Chrystal through whose glass The Floods behind saw Israel pass And there as in themselves admir'd His hand His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XIII But when the army was gon o're God took His rein from of the Wave And Jacobs way was Egypts grave Was Sea again and wash'd its ancient shore His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XIV God did Himself direct their Way A fiery Pillar was their Moon Night follow'd close when they were gon And from their Foes hid where their journies lay His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XV. He potent Kings did overthrow Their Forces scattred scorn'd their rage Himself did for His Flock engage And made them conquer when He bid them go His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XVI Sehon who did their Way deny Found all His Troops to be but vain When God their Battles did maintain Instead of stopping them himself did fly His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XVII Ogg heard his fall but would come out Thinking a double Victory Would raise his glory to the sky But God who Sehon slew against him fought His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XVIII God to the Conquest wav'd His hand Descending in the Sacred Flame Weak Israel by His Power o'recame And they who ask'd but passage shar'd the Land His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XIX Praise Him who in Our low estate Did many Victories for us gain Unseen Our weakness did sustain Redeem'd us when we thought is was too late His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XX. Who for all Creatures do's provide Of His Own fulness gives them food Feeds both the Wicked and the Good Who from His Treasures alwayes are supply'd His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XXI Who to frail Man the Earth has given And made Him King and God below Where all things to His Scepter bow But is Himself Mans King and God of Heav'n His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure Psalm CXXXVII Super flumina Babylonis c. I. AS on the banks of Chebar we state down Lamenting Sions Miseries At Sions Miseries we forgot our own And wisht for her such Rivers in our eyes We envy'd there the rolling tide That at Our feet did gently slide That at our feet more streames than from our eyes did glide II. The Willows to our plaints bow'd down their ear And did in hollow murmurs grone The Willows bow'd as though they long'd to hear Again those griefs which they before had known They bow'd and on their heads we hung Our Harps untun'd Our Harps unstrung Sorrow their strings unloos'd but faster ty'd Our tongue III. 'T was then we suffred double misery When to us Our rude spoilers came And to deride our sad Captivity Imbittred it with Captive Sions Name Our selves we only griev'd before But when Their scorns just Sion bore At Her great suffrings of our own we thought no more IV. One of your songs let 's hear they proudly cry'd And one of Sions Anthems play Your griefs and pensive cares now throw aside Sion is here since we brought you away As if we at their base Commands Could sing forgetfull of our bands Could play when they who stop'd our mouths had ty'd our hands V. No! No! in forreign Lands if we do thus For Sion thus forget to grieve Let Her God too forget to pity us And these foud tongues close to their palats cleave Her Praises first our mouths did fill From Her Our hands first learn't their skill No wonder then if Sion mourns that they lie still VI. Remember Edom Lord who in the day Jerus'lem was a Captive made Joyn'd with Her Enemies and shar'd the prey And made us more than Babylon afraid Rase it they cri'd down with the Wall To the foundations Levell all She that to Babylon will not stoop 't is fit She fall VII Hold Babylon where will thy rage extend God has enough to Sion done Hold and prepare Thee Babylon for Thy end What mayst Thou fear if thus He serves His Own Mayst Thou in Thine Our miseries see And all the wrongs we bore from Thee And know that less than what Thou hast deserv'd they be VIII May Thy own Mercies on Thy head return Those Mercies which are Cruelties Mayst Thou in flames of Thy own kindling burn And send in vain to Heav'n Thy fruitless cries And Happy He who on the stones On Flints shall dash Thy little ones And have than flints less bowels for their dying grones Psalm CXXXVIII Confitebor tibi Domine in toto corde c. I. LOrd I will bless Thee and my cheerful voice Before the gods shall tell my joies Those glorious Powers to whom Thou dost impart Thy Name and Office here below Shall see me pay the praise I ow And as I had Thy ear return my Heart II. Then to Thy Sacred Hill my eyes I 'll raise And fetch new subjects for my Praise My Song shall count of what Thou didst for me Of Mercy and of Truth I 'll sing And when I'have wearied out that string Thy Faithfulness another ground shall be III. Thou hast exalted it and why not I For when to Thee I Loud did cry To Thee my God and mourn'd in my distress My dolefull groanes Thy heart did move Thou didst refresh me from above And answer gav'st of Thine Own Faithfulness IV. The heathen Kings when they Thy Wonders hear Shall both rejoice and serve with fear By My example in Thy Wayes shall sing Ascribe to Thee what is Thine Own Cast
that he To the All-seeing eye conceal'd shall be X. Arise O God to strike lift up Thy hand And on Thy En'mies let it fall That those who daily for Thy mercy call May thence Thy pitty understand That Thou do'st not their miseries forget But that their helps shall like their pains be great XI Why should the Wicked man Thy Power despise Or whilest Thou only dost forbear Think that indeed Thou canst not see or hear Deaf as himself to th' poor mans cryes For Thou hast seen and wilt his rage requite That by Thy hand he shall confess Thy sight XII With Thee the Poor entrusted has his wayes And Thou preserv'st the Fatherless To Thee he makes his suppliant address And on Thy mighty goodness stayes Therefore appear and by one fatall blow The wicked and his wickedness o'rethrow XIII Then as Sole Monarch Thou o're all shalt reign When thus Thou hast secur'd Thy land When thus they fall who slighted Thy command And all their spoils resign again When on the heathen Thou Thy chain shalt lay And make their proud Usurpers to obey XIV For this the humble and opprest do pray With groans that God delights to hear Though not to see the mis'ries which they bear For them He feels as well as they Arise then Lord to help the Fatherless Nor let the Sons of Earth Heav'ns seed oppress Psalm XI In Domino confido c. I. I Know my trust on whom I have believ'd So certain that I cannot be deceiv'd God is my rock and all in vain You like a bird to th' hills would have me fly For he who can this rock but gain His En'mies arrows may defie The bird whose feathers wing them never soar'd so high II. I saw the wicked draw the fatall bow And from the string I saw the arrow go It level'd was at the upright And had assur'dly sunk into his heart His Innocence had been the White Had not th' Almighty took his part And on his head who shot it turn'd the vengeful dart III. Th' Almighty God whose power all things sustains Heav'ns dreadful King who in His Temple reigns And with a look all hearts do's try Sentencing every work and word and thought There as they all unform'd do lye E're they are to perfection brought And into all their several shapes and fashions wrought IV. He sees the Righteous and the Wicked too Without His help what can the Righteous do They are His love but fire and rain And floods of Brimstone on th' unjust He 'l poure Fire which shall ne're be quench'd again But light those rivers with its shower Whose burning gulf at once shall both drown and devour V. Such is the mixture fills the wickeds Cup A brimfull bowle and he shall drink it up Darkness without one gleam of light Torments which have no measure or allay And after all Eternal night Whil'st God from heav'n shall dart a ray Upon the Just man and be both his Sun and day Psalm XII Salvum me fac Domine c. I. A Rise O God and save 't is time to rise And with Thee bring all Thy supplyes Help for the Faithful man no more Has either place reserv'd or power Is not at all and was but only scorn'd before II. There 's not a just man left they flatter all And Prudence what God hates miscall To one another lye and feign And what they least intend maintain And as their tongue is false their daring heart is vain III. But God such tongues shall cut out and such hearts Wound and strike through with their darts 'Gainst Him and Heav'n they up were thrown But on themselves are all hurl'd down And by the wounds they make they find they are their own IV. Who 's Lord o're us with dev'lish mouth they say Or who is He we should obey That 's I says God now I 'll arise And since my Kingdom you despise And subjects scorn to be you shall be Enemies V. I 'll rise now and in safety set the Poor From all the storms you raise secure That word has said it which is try'd Like Silver seven times purifi'd Pure without any dross too great to be deni'd VI. Thou shalt preserve them Lord by Thy Right hand I' th' midst of a rebellious land Where basest men most honour'd are Some on the Throne some in the Chair And they as Criminalls stand sentenc'd at the Bar. Psalm XIII Usque quo Domine c. I. HOw long my God wilt Thou thus hide Thy face And thus withdraw the presence of Thy grace How long shall I forgotten be As if indeed it were in vain Of all my mis'ries to complain And I might sooner mount the rocks than Thee I look and sigh and wait O come away Why should my En'my triumph when Thou dost but stay II. Arise O God and with Thee bring fresh aid Thy very sight will make my Foes afraid By it o'recome they 'll fall asleep Too weak to bear Thy glorious sight Will here begin their endless night Whil'st Thou my eyes shalt ever waking keep Let them not on Thy servants ruine stand Least what Thine only did they challenge to their hand III. Thou art my confidence in Thee I trust And though I am afflicted God is just I in His mercy shall rejoice In that Salvation He has brought In that deliverance He has wrought Something my heart shall do something my voice Both heart and voice in songs of praise shall move And since I am Thy Care Lord Thou shalt be my Love Another Version of the same By M. M. B. I. HOw long O God shall I forgottenly As one cast from Thy memory Wilt Thou from me Thy face for ever hide For so that time which nothing is to Thee Seems an Eternity to mee Who only on Thy favour have rely'd II. Wilt Thou no period to my griefs allow But fresh afflictions on me throw Which I as little as Thy wrath can bear To see my Enemies triumphing stand And my self stoop to their command Who only Thee and Thy command should fear III. In mercy Lord again remember mee And from Oppressors set me free Unto Thy servants prayers attention give Revive his hopes and let Thy glorious light His joys renew that in Thy sight Though now cast out he may for ever live IV. Why should my Enemy encrease his pride With Thee and conquest on his side And those who trouble me in this rejoice That I am exil'd from Thy resting place The sacred presence of Thy grace Who oft have glori'd that I was Thy choice V. But I have trusted in Thy power and love That Thou wilt all my fears remove And this sure hope with joy so fill my mind That I will now Thy mighty praises sing From whom my happiness shall spring Whose bounty like Thy self is unconfin'd Psalm XIV Dixitinsipiens in corde c. I. THere is no God the fool in 's heart do's say And that his life may
look o're their bounding sands And see what 's done at Land though they cannot come there V. Let them see how the Mountains glad as they Look from their tops when God will come away He comes But who His Presence can abide That the Great Judge of all shall be Yet who would not His entrance see When He with equall Justice shall each cause decide Psalm XCIX Dominus regnavit irascantur c. I. THE Lord do's reign let the Earth fear And tremble till its old Foundations shake For though Mount Sion He His Court do's make His Empire reaches every where Let the whole World before His Name fall low For it is Holy and most rais'd when they do so II. He Righteousness and Truth do's love Is the Kings strength as they His glory are Jacob His Judgements had and was His Care Exalt our God who reigns above The Holy God and at His Footstool bow For then you raise Him most when there you fall most low III. Moses and Aaron and the Quire Of Priests which alwayes in His Court attend Samuel with those whose praises there ascend And from His Altar have their fire In their distress when they did to Him fly He who their troubles saw as freely heard their cry IV. He heard them and that very Flame Which to His Presence did their Prayers conveigh No less for His return prepar'd the way Which through the Cloudy Pillar came He answer'd them and as He heard forgave And though reveng'd the sin yet did the sinner save V. Thus He of old their Faith did prove And unseen by them through the darkness saw How they observ'd His Word and kept His Law Exalt our God who reigns above The Holy God and in His Temple bow For then you raise Him most when there you fall most low Psalm C. Jubilate Deo omnis terra I. YOU who thrâ—ughout the World that Power adore Which first made it and then made you Give to the Lord what is His due And what Man ha's usurpt His Praise restore II. 'T is God alone who by His Word made All And by His Word that All sustains And Nothing by the Wonder gains Except to save and hear us when we call III. We are His People He Our Maker is Our Shepheard He and we His sheep Whom He secure do's ever keep And praise is all that He expects for this IV. Approach His Courts and enter them with praise And of His Mighty Power rehearse Make that the subject of your Verse And up to Heav'n with it His Goodness raise V. Who most shalt bless Him let 's together strive His Mercies have been ever sure His Truth for ever shall endure What can we less when He so much do's give Psalm CI. Misericordiam Justitiam c. I. I Will of Judgement and of mercy sing The greatest Praises of the greatest King And since mine 's nothing worth His own unto Him bring II. 'T was He discover'd to me first the Way I 'll follow where He shew'd the passage lay O come and lead me Lord that I may never stray III. With my integrity I 'll never part But be my Seed's as Thou my Pattern art And as Thy Way is perfect so shall be my Heart IV. No wicked thing will I with pleasure see My Innocent eyes no more shall guilty be Or look so low since they have once been rais'd to Thee V. I 'll hate the work of him who turns aside His way from life and happiness lyes wide And as he shuns me from him I my face will hide VI. The Privy slanderer I will ore'throw Reject the Proud nor with the froward go Their great heights when they fall shall make them sink more low VII But he in mine shall be as in Thy sight Whose heart and wayes Thy Laws have made upright To Thee a Servant but my Friend and chief delight VIII He in my house shall dwell but never there Shall the deceitful or false Man appear Destruction cannot be far of when they are near IX Early I will destroy them and my hand Shall cut them off and guiltless make the Land And on their spoils Gods City shall triumphing stand Psalm CII Domine exaudi orationem c. I. MY dearest God let my Pray'r come to Thee Nor at my sighes and cry offended be Dart through these pitchy clouds one ray Divine And make Thy glorious Face appear If Thou art pleas'd again to shine I will no longer fear But hope that He who sees my Pain will bend His ear II. But hear me then and answer speedily ' Ere 't is too late and I no more can cry For as dry wood do's in the fornace burn And vanishes in smoak away So all my strength to smoak do's turn And feels its own decay Whil'st on my bones and heart a fire unseen do's prey III. So fierce it rages that I quite forget Through pain and grief my very bread to eat The tears I shed do but the flame encrease My bones and flesh become more dry And all the while I held my peace Less burnt then now I cry And grass the Sun ha's toucht is not so scorch't as I. IV. And as the solitary Pelican And widdow'd Turtle for their mates complain Just like the Owle which do's in desarts dwell Hating and hated of the light That to the Rocks her moans do's tell So shun I every sight By day and weary with my mournfull cryes the night V. Both night and day I 'm made the common scorn And those who hate me are against me sworn Ashes and Tears have been my meat and drink Whil'st I continually did grieve Of Thy Just wrath and hand to think What mortal wounds they give Lifting me up a greater fall but to receive VI. And as the shaddow with the Sun declines And disappears when that no longer shines As with the Summer heat flowers pine away So pass my years e're well begun But an Eternal Now do's tay On Thyne ne're to be done When thousand Ages shall their several Race have run VII The mis'ries of Thy Sion Thou hast seen How great Her Sorrows what her Cares have been To save Thy Sion Lord at length arise Her mighty Jubilee is come And now her very dust we prize Her rubbish and Her lome And humbly begg Thou would'st return her captives home VIII So shall the heathen fear Thy Holy Name And all their Kings Thy Kingdomes rule proclaim When thus again Thou Sion shalt rebuild And in Thy glory there appear When all Her Courts with Vowes are fill'd And Thou inclin'st Thine Ear The Prayer of the Forsaken and their groans to hear IX For the next age this story we 'll record That they as well as We may praise the Lord Who from the height of Heav'n His Throne look'd down And did from thence the Earth behold Thence heard the dying Pris'ners grone Saw Justice chain'd with gold And sav'd both Her and them for
pot and shall sue to be A vassal to my basest drudgery Philistia shall my Chariot meet Honourd enough if she may bear the yoke Proud Edom has so often broke And Edom shall submit her neck and take my Feet VIII But who to Edom will direct my course And entrance for Me into Bozra force God shall direct me to the Town God who of late has seem'd to disappear And when He comes viewing Him there The Walls to make Him Way shall open or fall down IX Help usO God for we in vain implore A forreign aid which wants Our succour more Thou art my help through Thee my head With Laurel shall be crown'd and in my Wayes Some Enemies necks the ground shall raise So that my feet shall triumph too and on them tread Psalm CIX Deus laudem meam ne tacueris c. I. Guard of my Life and God of all my Praise Who see'st the Outrage off'red me Thy self and Power for my just sentence raise Nor let the wrongs I bear reflect on Thee Thou hear'st what cruel Words the wicked speak Let not them only and not Thou Thy Silence break II. With words of hatred I am girt around And from all parts they with me fight So hard that I am all but one great wound And the whole cause I give them is my Right With prayers for them their malice would reprove But those with Scorn with hatred they reward my Love III. Let him some Tyrant serve be made a Slave And Satan place at his right hand No other pitty find than what he gave And at his Enemies tribunal stand Let him be judg'd condemn'd and all his prayers Be made in vain to deaf or else to stubborn eares IV. Let suddain death his wretched life attend His office to another give Let on his wife and seed the curse descend They Fatherless and she a Widdow live Let them be vagabonds and begg their bread And have have no certain place to hide or rest their head V. Let the Extortioner catch all he has And strangers to his labours come Let him find none who will resent his case But with new miseries encrease the summ None who will to him any Mercy show Or on his Fatherless one friendly look bestow VI. Let them be all cut off and their curst Name In the next age be quite forgot Or if they be remembred let their shame On their Atchievments be a constant blot Let his fore-Fathers Sins be in Thine ey And all his Mothers lusts afresh for vengeance cry VII Let silence or reproach upon him rest And as it ne're was in his minde Either to favour or relieve th' opprest Neither reliefe nor favour let him find But as the Needy he with wrongs persu'd On his own head Let them be all again renew'd VIII As he Lov'd cursing let him still be curst And hated blessing seek in vain With envy which first swel'd him let him burst And then like water on him turn ' it again Like Oyle let it to ' his very marrow pierce And like those flames which boyle it be but far more fierce IX Give him no other garment for his pride Than this with which he was array'd Close with his girdle let his loines be ty'd To all a terror of himself afraid And executed by the hand Divine Let this his ruine be who only plotted mine X. But Lord my God for thine own great Names sake And for I hy Mercy rescue me Thou who the poor mans cause do'st undertake As ready to assist the helpless be Look how I stooping go and bow'd to th' ground But there no herb can find to ease or heal my wound XI My dayes and age are like a shaddow gon That when the Sun withdraws is lost And as the locust driven up and down From field to field from land to land I 'm tost My knees and flesh of strength through fasting fayl And those who wounded me with scornes my life assail XII But Lord my God for Thine Own great Names sake And for Thy Mercy rescue me That all may know the care Thou ' art pleas'd to take And in my sure deliverance honour Thee Bless Thou and let them curse confound their noise And make them all asham'd whilst I in Thee rejoyce XIII Shame and confusion to my Enemies Let it their Vest and Portion be Whilst I to Heaven in tuneful Numbers rise And tell abroad what God has done for me How from Oppession he the Poor did save And what his judges had deny'd just sentence gave Psalm CX Dixit Dominus Domino meo c. I. THE Lord said to my Lord The Mighty God to the Eternal Word Sit Thou at my Right hand Till I Thine Enemies command To be the Foot-stool to Thy Throne And freely yield their necks for Thee to tread upon II. Sion's that glorious Throne Whence with disdain Thy foes Thou look'st upon Thence Thou around shalt reign And by Thy Power new subjects gain Thy Enemies shall They obey And once return'd none shall more Loyall be than they III. And as the Summer Sun When Winters past and all its rage is done Do's every Morning view His way all strew'd with pearly dew Whose Numbers cannot reck'ned be T is a faint Emblem of Thy long Posterity IV. His Oath God will not break But King and Priest Thou ' art like Melchisedoc The Lord at Thy Right hand Shall let no Proud Usurper stand But Kings shall bow and in Thy Train Be captive led whilst there 's made Trophies of the slain V. He the Great Head shall wound When it shall Queeen of all the World be crown'd Drink of the brook i' th' way And follow till He gives the day But when His Cross shall death strike Dead Th' Eternal God Himself shall raise and crown His head Psalm CXI Confitebor tibi Domine c. I. WIth my whole heart I 'll praise the Lord Word And where He chose to honour it exalt His In the Assemblies of the just There will I all His noble Works disclose His Famous Acts sought out of those Who them their pleasure make and Him their Trust. II. His glorious Works are great and high No more to be conceiv'd than seen by mortal eye And shall for ever so remain Eternity it self is scarce enough To praise His Mercy and His Love And what we now unknown admire make plain III. He for His People did provide And never broke His Word or Covenant deni'd They saw His Signes beheld His hand How for their sake He made His power appear Prepar'd them conquests by the fear Which He sent first into their Enemies land IV. Justice and Truth are all His Wayes And on Eternal Faithfulness His Promise staies Beyond all ages they shall last And when Old Time it self away shall flee Remain as firm as now they bee And on their own great Basis fixt stand fast V. Deliverance He for Israel wrought And to save them His greatest plagues on
Egypt brought 'T was then they saw He was the same Which to their Fathers He was wont to be When He so strangely set them free The Holy God and Reverend is His Name VI. To worship Him true Wisdom is And to observe His Laws the only way to bliss No guide to knowledge like His fear For all beside what e're they may pretend Through a bad way reach a worse end But His Praise ever lasts and every where Psalm CXII Beatus Vir qui timet c. I. THat Man is truly blest who feares the Lord And with delight His Praecepts hears Who therefore loves because He fears Loves and yet trembles at the Sacred Word His seed upon the Earth renown'd shall be And he himselfblest in his seed shall see Riches and Wealth a full encrease No fear of ever being Poor Desires contented and a lasting Peace Alwayes unto his house are sure And ever constant as his Righteousness endure II. Clear day at night do's on the Just arise Some gleames His Spirit to sustain Some cheerful hopes amids his pain And what he gave he finds in others eyes That mercy which inclin'd His heart to lend In all his wants supplies do's ever send His works with Prudence manag'd are Nothing his foot shall ever move Both of his wayes and him God takes the Care And though he may his Servant prove He will reward his Righteousness and Crown his love III. How do the wicked tremble when the Just Secure in all his Fears is made I' th' midst of fears is not afraid But has his heart as fixed as his Trust Fix'd on his God nothing shall make him fear Though all around he should see ruine near For lo even then his just desire Shall be fulfill'd on'his Enemies When in their own wild flames they all expire And he behold the sacrifice To Heav'n in fire and clouds of pitchy smoak arise IV. His armes shall be what he has given away Or lent at any time the poor Whose Memory ever shall endure And with no fretting rust of age decay How he with Honour gain'd the Victory On Heav'ns Arch shall with ' his Name be grav'd on high Whereas it stand in sight of all The Wicked at it shall repine Shall see it fix'd when they must lower fall And those who did before combine Against him from their depth shall see it brighter shine Psalm CXIII Laudate pueri Dominum c. I. PRaise Him ye Servants of the Heav'nly King And to His Name your gratefull Praises sing That Name which is so full of Power And from Eternity was so Let the whole World before it bow And to Eternity that Name adore Praise Him for since at first the World He made T is fit this Chief-Rent to Him should by All be pai'd II. Above the Heav'ns He God o're all do's reign Nor can the Heav'n of Heav'ns His power contain His glory farr above the sky Exceeds the Compass of frail sight Invisible by Mortal light Those too weak means we view his greatness by Our eyes to Him we ne're can hope to raise For they 'll come short but we may reach Him with our praise III. Above He dwels yet sometimes do's He bend And stoop to hear the praise we upward send Humbling Himself sometimes to see Those beauties which in the Heav'ns are And at this distance look so fair Which of his Word the great Creation be Nay lower to the Earth He oft draws near And with His Presence makes it Heav'n when He comes there IV. In Heav'n and Earth all things obey His Will And though to them it be unknown fulfill At pleasure He bestows the Crown Honour and Wealth are in His hand And to the poor He gives Command Exalting him but throws the Mighty down Makes barren wombes with joy their fruit to bear And that which as the grave was deaf His voice to hear Psalm CXIV In exitu Israel de Egypto c. I. WHen Israel had thrown off th' Egyptian yoke And all the Chains of servitude A speech like them who us'd it rude And had their tongues unloos'd and fetters broke Th' Almighty Power who did that Wonder show Conducting by His mighty hand His People to the Promis'd land Did greater Wonders do Not only told them whether but which way to go II. The Sea farr off the Marching Camp beheld Saw how the Sacred Fire made way Yet knew not where their journy lay And to look round in higher billows swel'd But when to ' its shore it saw the Host draw nigh The mighty Sea began to fear And backward bid its floods to bear And those which could not fly Stand up in ranks and let the Israelites pass by III. Jordan fell back and to his Spring did hast Alarum'd at His scare'd Floods retreat The Aged Spring lost all his heat And boil'd no more but fainting swoon'd at last The mountaines saw the flood and they ran too The little Hills for Company Follow'd to see the Mountains flee Like frighted Lambs which go Though unpersu'd those wayes their trembling Mothers show IV. What ail'd the Sea that it should backward start Or what made frighted Jordans Spring Swoone and keep all his waters in Like spirits scarce able to secure the Heart Why ran the Hills Why did the mountains fly Tremble O Earth Thy God is near God who can make deaf Rocks to hear And when Thy Springs are dry From out their flinty Bowels fetch a new supply Psalm CXV Non nobis Domine Non nobis c. I. NOT unto us Lord not to us But to Thy Name give all the praise Thou Worthy art to be exalted thus For Truth and Mercy are Thy Wayes Why should the World deride Our trust And ask Where is the God whereof you boast Our God in Heav'n do's reign and what 's His Will Both Heav'n and Earth obey and Seas fulfill II. The Heathen Idols rule not so Nor by their own power can they stand Themselves do not their mean Original know Not how made Gods nor by what hand And though their Votaries them adore They are the same vile clay they were before Or if of Gold debas'd and more can do I' th' Ingot e're it 's a God then once made so III. 'T has mouth indeed and eyes and eares And the fain'd organs of quick sense But the dull thing nor speakes nor sees nor hears And what good can be look'd for thence 'T has feet 't is true and golden hands That ne're gave bribe but to receive them stands And nose that though the flames to it aspire Cannot the Incense smell nor scent the Fire IV. They and their Framers are alike And neither sense nor reason have But if they ' are gods let 's see them any strike Or from the curse their makers save Blind Deities but blinder they Who knowing it to their own work will pray Or think the stock which do's its titles ow To them can any thing they want bestow V.