haue regard ye seruants of the Lorde Which in his house by night do watch prayse him with one accorde Lyft vp your hands on high vnto his holy place And geue the Lorde his prayses due his benefites embrace For why the Lord who did both earth and heauen frame Doeth Sion bles and will conserue for euer more the same Laudate nomen Psalme Cxxxv. M. He exhorteth all the faithful of what estate so euer they be to praise God for his merueylous worcks specially for his graces towards his people wherein he hath declared his maiestie To the confession of all Idolaters and theyr Idolls O Praise y e lord praise him praise him praise him with one accord o praise him stil al ye that be the seruaunts of y e lord o praise him ye that stand be in the house of the Lord ye of his court and of his house praise hym with one accord Prayse ye the Lord for he is good syng prayses to his name It is a comly and good thing alwayes to doo the same For why the Lorde hath chose Iacob his very owne you see So hath he chosen Israell his treasure for to be For this I know and am right sure the Lorde is very greate He is in dede aboue all Goddes most easy to intreate For what so euer pleased him all that fulwell he wrought In heauen in earthe and in the sea whiche he hath framde of nought He lifteth vp cloudes euen from the earthe he makth the lightnings and rayne He bringkth forth the windes also He made nothing in vayne He smote the first borne of eche thing in Egipt that toke rest He spared there no lyuing thyng the man nor yet the beast He hathe in thee shewde wonders great O Egipt voyde of vauntes On Pharao thy cursed kyng and his seuere seruauntes He smote then many nacyons and did great actes and thynges He slew the great and mightyest and chefest of theyr kynges Syhon king of Ammorites and Og kyng of Basan He slew also the kingdomes all that were of Canaan And gaue their lande to Israell an herytage we see To Israell his owne people an heritage to be Thy name O Lorde shall still endure and thy memoriall Throughout all generations that are or euer shall The Lorde will surely auenge his people all in dede And to his seruauntes he will shewe fauour in tyme of nede The Idols of the Heathen are made in all theyr coste and landes Of syluer and of golde be they the workes euen of mens handes They haue mouthes and cannot speake and eyes to at haue no sight They haue eares that heare nothyng Theyr mouthes be breatheles quite Wherfore all they are lyke to them that so doth set them forth And lyke wyse those that trust in them or thinke they be ought worth O all ye house of Israell see that ye prayse the Lorde And ye that be of Aarons house prayse him with one accord And ye that be of Leuis house prayse ye lykewise the Lorde And all that stand in awe of hym prayse him with one accord And out of Syon sound his prayse the great prayse of the Lorde Whiche dwelleth in Ierusalem praise him with one accord Confitemini Psalme Cxxxvi. N. ☞ A most earnest exhortaciō to geue thanks vnto God for the creation and gouernaunce of all thinges which standeth in confessing that he geueth vs all of his mere liberalitie PRaise ye y e lord for he is good for hys mercy endureth for euer Geue prayse vnto the God of Gods for his mercy endureth for euer Geue prayse vnto the Lorde of Lordes for his mercy endureth for euer which only doth great wōders work for his mercy endureth for euer verse 5 Which by his wisdome made the heauens for his mercy endureth for euer verse 6 Which on the waters stretcht the earth for his mercy endureth for euer verse 7 Which made great light to shine abrode for his mercy endureth for euer verse 8 As sonne to rule the lightsome day for his merry endureth for euer verse 9 The mone and sterres to guide the night for his mercy endureth for euer verse 10 Whiche smote Egipt with their first-borne for his mercy endureth for euer verse 11 And Israell brought out from them for his mercy endureth for euer verse 12 With mighty hand and stretched arme for his mercy endureth for euer verse 13 Whiche cut the red sea in two partes for his mercy endureth for euer verse 14 And Israell made passe there through for his mercy endureth for euer verse 15 And drouned Pharao and his host for his mercy endureth for euer verse 16 Through wildernes hys people led for his mercy endureth for euer verse 17 He whiche did smite greate noble kinges for his mercy endureth for euer verse 18 And whiche hath slayne the mighty kynges for his mercy endureth for euer verse 19 As Sihon king of Amorites for his mercy endureth for euer verse 20 And Og the king of Basan land for his mercy endureth for euer verse 21 And gaue their land for heritage for his mercy endureth for euer verse 22 Euen to his seruant Israell for his mercy endureth for euer verse 23 Remembred vs in base estate for his mercy endureth for euer verse 24 And from oppressors rescued vs. for his mercy endureth for euer verse 25 Which geueth fode vnto all flesh for his mercy endureth for euer verse 26 Praise ye the God of heauen aboue for his mercy endureth for euer verse 27 Geue thankes vnto the Lorde of Lordes for his mercy endureth for euer Super flumina Babilonis Psal. cxxxvii VV. VV ☞ The people of God in their banishment seing Gods true religion decaye lyued in greate anguish and sorow of harte the whiche grief the Eaideons did so litle pitie that they rather increased the same dayly with tauntes reproches and blasphemies againste God wherfore the Israelites desire God to punish the Edomites who prouoked the Babilonians againste them and moued by the spirite of God prophery the destruction of Babilon where they were handeled so tirannously WHen as we sat in Babylon y e riuers rounde about and in remēbraunce of Sion the teares for grief burst out We hāgd out harps instruments the willow trees vpon for in that placemen for their vse had planted many one verse 3 Then they to whom we prisoners were sayde to vs tauntingly Now let vs heare your Ebrue songes and pleasant melody verse 4 Alas sayd we who can once frame his sorowfull hart to syng The prayses of our louing God thus vnder a straunge kyng {punctel} verse 5 But yet if I Ierusalem out of my hart let flyde Then let my fingers quyte forget the warblyng harp to guyde verse 6 And let my tong within my mouth be tyde for euer fast If that I ioy before I see thy full deliueraunce past verse 7 Therfore O Lorde remember now the cursed noyse and cry That Edoms sonnes againste vs made when they razed our citie Remember
For I haue spied their citie full of rapyne stryfe and wronge verse 11 Which things bothe night day throghoute doo close her as a wall In middes of her is mischif stoute and sorow eke with all verse 12 Her priuie partes are wicked playne her dedes are muche to vyle And in her stretes there doth remayne all crafty fraude and guile verse 13 If that my foes did seke my shame I might it well abide From open enmies checke and blame some where I coulde me hide verse 14 But thou it was my fellow dere which frendship didest pretend And diddest my secrete counsell here as my famillier frende verse 15 With whom I had delight to taulke in secret and abrode And we to gether oft did walke within the house of God verse 16 Let death in hast vpon them fall and send them quicke to hell For mischief rayneth in theyr hall and parloure where they dwell verse 17 But I vnto my God doo crye to him for healpe I flee Ohe Lorde doth heare me by and by and he doeth succour me verse 18 At morning noone and euening tide vnto the Lorde I praye When I so instantly haue tryed he doth not say me naye verse 19 To peace he shall restore me yet though warre be now at hande All though the number be full greate that would against me stande verse 20 The Lord that first last doth raigne bothe now and euermore will heare when I to him complayne and punish them full sore verse 21 For sure there is no hope that they to tourne will once accorde For why they will not God obey nor doo not feare the Lorde verse 22 Upon their frends they laid theyr hands whiche weare in couenaunt knitte ▪ Of frendship to neglect the bandes they passe or care no whyt verse 23 while they haue war within their hart as butter are theyr wordes Although his words wer smothe as oyle they cut as sharp as swordes verse 24 Cast thou thy care vpon the Lorde and he shall nourish thee For in no wise wyll he accorde the iust in thrall to see verse 25 But God shall cast them deepe in pit that thirst for bloud alwayes He will no guilefull man permit to lyue oute halfe hys dayes verse 29 Thoughe such be quite destroyde gon in the O Lorde I trust I shall depende thy grace vpon with all my hart and luste Miserere Psalme Lvi I. H Dauid being broughte to Achis the kinge of Gath Saum complayneth of hys enemyes demaundeth succoure putteth hys trust in God and hys promisses and promiseth to performe hys vowes whyche he had taken vpon hym Wherof thys was the effecte to prayse God in hys Churche HAue mercy Lorde on me I pray for man woulde me deuoure Sing this as the. li. Psa. He fyghteth with me day by daye and troubleth me eche houre verse 2 Myne enmies dayly enterprise to swalowe me outeryghte To fyght agaynst me many ryse O thou moste hygh of myghte verse 3 When they would make me most afraid with boast and bragges of pryde I trust in thee alone for ayde by thee will I abyde verse 4 Gods promise I doo minde and prayse O Lorde I sticke to thee I doo not care at all assayes what flesh can doo to me verse 5 What thinges I eyther did or spake they wrast them at theyr will And all the counsell that they take is how to worke me ill verse 6 They all consent them sealues to hyde close watche for me to laye They spie my pathes snares haue tred to take my lyfe awaye verse 7 Shall they thus scape on mischef set thow God on them will frowne For in his wrath he doth not let to throwe whole kingdomes downe verse 8 Thou seest how oft they make meflee and on my teares doest looke Reserue them in a glas by thee and wryte them in thy booke verse 9 When I doo call vpon thy name my foes awaye doo starte I well perceaue it by that same that God doeth take my parte verse 10 I glory in the worde of God to prayse it I accorde with Ioye will I declare abrode the promise of the Lore verse 11 I trust in God and yet I saye as I afore beganne The Lorde he is my healpe and stay I doo not care for man verse 12 I will performe with hart so free to God my vowes alwayes And I O Lorde all times to thee will offer thankes and prayse verse 13 My soule frō death thou dost me defēd and keepe my feete vpright That I before thee may ascend with suche as lyue in lyght Miserere Psalme lvii I. H Dauid being in the deserte of Ziph where the in habitauntes did betraye hym and at length in the same Caue with Sauil. Calleth most earnestly vnto God with full confidence that he will perform his promis and take his cause in hand Also that he wil shew his glory in the Heauens and the earthe agaynst hys cruell enemyes Therfore doth he render laude and prayse TAke pitie for thy promise sake haue mercy Lorde on me For why my soule doth her betake Sing this as the. ill psal vnto the helpe of thee verse 2 Within the shadow of thy winges I set my selfe full fast Till mischief malice and lyke thyngs be gon and ouer paste verse 3 I call vpon the God moste hye to whom I sticke and stand I meane the God that will stand by the cause I haue in hand verse 4 From heauen he hath sent hys ayde to saue me from theyr spighte That to deuoure me haue assayed his mercy truth and myght verse 5 I leade my lyfe with Lyons fell all set on wrath and ire And with such wicked men I dwell that freate lyke flambes offyre verse 6 Theyr teeth are speares arrowes lōg as sharpe as I haue seene They wound cut with theyr quick toūg like swerdes and weapons kene verse 7 Set vp and shew thy selfe O God aboue the heauens bryght Exalt thy prayse on earth abrode thy maiestie and myghte verse 8 They lay theyr net and doo prepare a priuie caue and pitte Wherin they thinke my soule to snare but they are fallen in it verse 9 My harte is set to laude the Lorde in hym to ioye alwayes My hart I say doth well accorde to syng hys laude and prayse verse 10 Awake my ioy awake I saye my lute my harpe and strynge For I my sealf before the daye will rise reioyre and syng verse 11 Amonge the people I will tell the goodnes of my God And shew hys prayse that doeth excell in Heathen landes abrode verse 12 His mercy doeth extend as farre as heauens all are hie His truthe is highe as any starre that standeth in the skye verse 13 Set fourth and shew thy self O God aboue the heauens bryghte Extoll thy prase on earthe abrode thy maiestie and might Siuere vtique Psalme lviii I. H He describeth the malyce of hys enemyes the flatterers of Saule who bothe secretiye and openly sought hys dystruction
the Lorde The third parte My former force of strength he hath abated in the way And shorter he did cut my dayes thus I therfore did say My God in middes of all my dayes now take me not away Thy yeres endure eternally from age to age for ay Thou the foundations of the earth before all time hast layde And Lorde the heauens are the work which thine owne hands haue made Yea they shall perish and decay but thou shalt tary still And they shall all in tyme waxe olde euen as a garment will Thou as a garment shalt then chaunge and changed shall they be But thou doest still abide the same thy yeares doo neuer flee The children of thy seruantes shall continually endure And in thy sight their happy sede for euer shall stand sure 1 Benedic anima mea Psalm Ciii T. S. This is a Psalme most excellent wherin the Prophet doth prouoke men and angels and all creatures to prayse the Lorde for his fatherly mercyes and deliuerance of his people from all euils for his prouivence ouer all thinges and the preseruation of the faithfull My soule geue laud vnto the lord my sprite shall doo the same and all the secrets of my hart praise ye his holy name Geue thanks to god for all his gifts shew not thy self vnkind suffer not his benefites to slip out of thy mind verse 3 That gaue thee pardon for thy faults and thee restored agayne For all thy weake and frayle disease and healde thee of thy payne verse 4 4 That did redeme thy life from death from whiche thou couldest not flee His mercy and compassion bothe he did extend to thee verse 5 That filled with goodnes thy desyre and did prolong thy youth Like as the Egle casteth her bill wherby her age renueth verse 6 The Lorde with iustice doth repaye all suche as be opprest So that their suffrings their wrongs are turned to the best verse 7 his wayes and his commaundements to Moyses he did shew His counsels and his valiant actes the Israelites did know verse 8 The Lorde is kinde and mercyfull when sinners doo him greue The slowest to conceyue a wrath and rediest to forgeue verse 9 He chideth not vs contiuually though we be full of stryfe Nor kepeth our faultes in memory for all our sinfull lyfe verse 10 Nor yet according to our sinnes the Lorde doth vs regarde Nor after our iniquities he doth not vs rewarde verse 11 But as the space is wondrous great twixt heauen and earth aboue So is his goodnes muche more large to them that do him loue verse 12 God doth remoue our sinnes from vs and our offences all As farre as is the sunne rising full distant from his fall The second part verse 13 And loke what pitte parents deare vnto their children beare Like pitie beareth the Lorde to suche as worship him in feare verse 14 The lord y t made vs knoweth our shape our mould and fashion iust Howe weake and frayle our nature is and how we be but dust verse 15 And how the tyme of mortall men is lyke the withering hay Or like the floure right fayre in field that fadth full sone away verse 16 Whose glosse beautie stormy windes doo vtterly disgrace And make that after theyr assaults suche blossomes haue no place verse 17 But yet the goodnes of the Lorde with his shall euer stand Theyr childrens children do receyue his righteousnes at hand verse 18 I incane which kepe his couenant with all theyr whole desire And not forget to doo the thing that he doth them require verse 19 The heauens hie are made the seate and fotestole of the Lorde And by his power imperiall he gouerneth all the world verse 20 ye angels whiche are great in power prayse ye and bles the Lorde Which to obey and doo his wyll immediatly accorde verse 21 Ye noble hostes and ministers cease not to laude hym styll Which ready are to execute hys pleasure and his wyll verse 22 ye all his workes in euery place prayse ye his holy name My hart my mynde and eke my soule prayse ye also the same Benedic anima mea Psalm Ciiii w. K An excellent psalme to prayse God for the creation of the worlde and the gouernance of the same by his maruelous prouidence where in the Prophet prayeth againste the wicked who are occasions that God diminisheth his blessings My soule praise the lord speake good of his name O lord our great god how dost theâ— appeare So passing in glory that great is thy same honour and maiestie in thee shine most cleare with light as a robe thou hast thee beclad wherby all the earth thy greatnes may see the heauens in such sort thou also hast spread that it to a curtaine compared may be verse 3 His chamber beames lye in the cloudes full sure Which as his charet are made him to beare And there with much swiftnes his course dothindure Upon the winges riding of winde in the ayre He maketh his sprites as herauldes to go And lightnings to serue we see also prest His will to accomplish they runne to and fro To saue or consume thinges as semeth him best verse 5 He groundeth the earth so firmely and fast That it once to moue none haue shall sucke power verse 6 The depe afaire couering for it made thon hast Which by his owne nature the hilles wolde deuoure verse 7 But at thy rebuke the waters doo flee And so geue due place thy worde to obaye At thy voyce of thunder so fearfull they be That in theyr great raging they hast sone away The mountaynes full hygh they then vp ascend If thou doo but speake So likewise the valleis moste quickely descend Where thou them appointest remayne they doo still verse 9 Their bondes hast thou set how farre they shall runne So as in their rage not that pas they can For God hathe appointed they shall not returne The earth to destroy more whiche made was for man verse 10 He sendeth the springs to strong streames or lakes Which runne doo full swyft amonge the huge hilles verse 11 Where both the wilde asses their thirst oft times slakes And beastes of the mountaynes therof drink their filles verse 12 By these pleasant springs or fouutaynes full fayre The foules of the ayre abide shall and dwell Who moued by nature to hoppe here and there Among the grene branches their songs shall excell verse 13 The mountaines to moist the cloudes he doth vse The earth with his workes are wholy repleat verse 14 14 So as the brute cattell he dooeth not refuse But grasse doth prouyde them and herbe for mans meate verse 15 Yea breade wine and oyle he made for mans sake His face to refresh and hart to make strong verse 16 The ceders of Liban this greate Lorde dyd make Whiche trees he doeth nourish that grow vp so long verse 17 In these may birdes buylde and make there theyr nest In firre trees the storckes remayne and abyde verse 18
peruerse with grief shall stop theyr voyce verse 43 But who is wise that now full well he may these thinges recorde For certeinly suche shall perceyue the kindnes of the Lorde Paratum cor meum Psalme Cviii. N. This psalme is composed of two other psalmes before the seuen and fyftye and the sixtie The matter here conteyned is That Dauid geueth himselfe with harte and voyce to prayse the Lorde and assureth him selfe of the promes of God concerning his kingdome ouer Israell and his power against other nations who though he seme for to forsake vs for a time yet he alone in the ende will caste downe our enemies O God my harte prepared is Sing this as the. lxxxxv and eke my tong is so I will aduaunce my voyce in song and geuyug prayse also Awake my viole and my harp swete melody to make And in the morning I my selfe right early will awake By me among the people Lorde still praysed shalt thou be And I among the Heathen folke will sing O Lorde to thee Because thy mercie Lorde is great aboue the heauens hie And eke thy truth doth reche the clouds within the lofty skye Aboue the sterry heauens heighth exalt thy selfe O God And Lorde display vpon the earth thy glory all abrode That thy derely beloued may be set at libertie Helpe O my God with thy righte hand and harken vnto me God in his holines hath spoke wherfore my ioyes abound Sychem I shall diuide and mete the vale of Sucoth ground And Gilead shall be myne owne Manasses mine shall be My hed strength Ephraim and Law shall Iuda geue for me Moab my washpot and my shoe on Edom will I throwe Upon the land of Palestine in triumph will I goo Who shall into the citie strong be guide to conduict me Or who by whom to Edom land conueyed shall I be Is it not thou O God which late hadst vs forsaken quyte And thou O Lorde which with our host didst not goe fourth to fyght Geue vs O Lorde thy sauing ayde when trouble doth assayle For all the helpe of man is vayne and can no whit auayle Through God we shal do valiant acts and worthy of renowne He shall subdue our enemies ye he shall treade them downe Deus laudem meam Psalme Cix N. Dauid being falslye accused by flatterers vnto Sawl prayeth God to helpe him and to destroye his enemyes And vnder them he speaketh of Iudas the traitour vnto Iesus Christ and of all the like enemyes of the children of God And desireth so to be deliuered that his enemies may know the work of God Then doth he promise to geue prayses vnto God IN specheles silence doo not holde O God thy tong alwayes Sing this as the. lxxxxv O God euen thou I say that art the God of all my prayse The wicked mouth and gilefull mouth on me disclosed be And they with false and lying tong haue spoken vnto me Euen so doo I departe away as doth declynyng shade And as the grashopper so I am shaken of and fade With fastyng longe from nedefull fode enfebled are my knees And all her fatnes hath my flesh enforced ben to lese And I also a vyle reproche to them was made to be And they that did vpon me loke did shake theyr heds at me But thou O Lorde that art my God myne ayde and succour be Accordyng to thy merycy Lorde saue and delyuer me And they shall know thereby that thys Lord is thy myghty hand And that thou thou hast done it Lorde so shall they vnderstande Although they curse with spite yet thou shalt bles with louyng voyce They shall aryse and come to shame thy seruant shall reioyse Let them be clothed all with shame that enmies are to me â–ª And with confusyon as a cloke eke couerd let them be But greatly I will with mg mouthe geue thankes vnto the Lorde And I among the multitude hys prayses will recorde For he with help at hys ryght hand will stande the pooreman by To saue hym from the men that wold condemne his soule to dye Dixit dominus domino Plalm Cx. N Dauid prophecyeth of the power and euerlastyng kyngdome geuen to Chryste and of hys Pristhod whyche shoulde put an ende to the Pristode of Leuy Sing this as the. lxviii Psalm THe Lorde did say vnto my Lorde Sit thou at my right hande Till I haue made thy foes a stoule wheron thy fete shall stande The Lorde shall out of Syon send the scepture of thy myght A midde thy mortall foes be thou the ruler in theyr syght And in the day on which they reigne and power they shall see Then hearby frewill offringes shall thy people offer thee Yea with a holy worshiping then shall they offer all Thy birthes dew is the dew that doth from wombe of morning fall The Lorde hath sworne and neuer will repent what he doth say By thorder of Melchisedech thou art a priest for ay The Lord thy God on thy righthand that standeth for thy stay Shal wound for thee the stately kings vpon his wrathfull day The Heathen he shall iudge and fill the place with bodies dead And ouer diuerse contreyes shall in sonder smite the head And he shall drink out of the broke that runneth in the way Therfore he shall lift vp on hye his ryall hed that day Confitebor tibi domine Psalm Cxi N He geueth thanks to the Lord for his mercifull works towards his church declareth wherin true wisdom right knowledg coÌ„sisteth WIth hart I doo accord To praise laud the Lord Inpresence of the iuste For great his workes are founde To search them suche are bounde as doo hym loue and trust Hys workes are glorious Also his rightousnes It doeth indure for euer His wondrous works he wolde we still remembre shoulde his mercye fayleth neuer verse 5 Suche as doo loue him beare a portion full faire He hath vp for them laid For this they shall well finde He will them haue in minde and kepe them as he sayd verse 6 For he did not disdayne his workes to shew them playne By lightnings and by thunders when he the Heathens land Did geue into their hand verse 7 Of all his workes insueth bothe iudgement right and truth Wherto his statutes tend they are decreed sure verse 8 For euer to endure whiche equitie doth end Redemption he gaue his people for to saue verse 9 And hath also required his promes not to fayle But alwayes to preuayle his holy name be feared verse 10 Whoso with hart full layne true wisdom wolde attayne The Lorde feare and obey suche as his Lawes doo kepe Shall knowledge haue full depe his prayse shall last for aye Beatus vir Psalme Cxii VV. K. He prayseth the felicitie of them that feare God and condemneth the â—â—rsed state of the contemners of God THe man is blest that god doth feare And that his lawes doth loue in dede His sede on earth God will vpreare And bles such as from him
procede His house with good he will fulfill His rightousnes endure shall still verse 4 Unto the righteous doth aryse In trouble ioy in darkenes light Compassion in his eyes and mercy alwayes in hys syght verse 5 yea pitie moueth suche to lend he doeth by iudgement things expend verse 6 And surely suche shall neuer fayle for in remembrance had is he verse 7 7 No tidings ill can make him quayle who in the Lorde sure hope doeth se. verse 8 His hart is firme hys feare is past for he shall se his foes downe cast verse 9 He did well for the poore prouide his rightousnes shall still remayne And his estate with prayse abyde though that the wicked man disdaine verse 10 yea gnash his teeth thereat shall he and so consume his state to see Laudate pueri Psalme Cxiii VV. K. An exhortation to prayse the Lorde for his prouidence in that that contrarye to the course of nature he worketh in hys Churche YE childrē which do serue y e lord prayse ye his name with one accord yea blessed be alwayes his name who from the rising of the sunne til it returne where it begonne is to be praysed with great fame The Lord all peoples doth surmount As for his glory we may counte aboue the heauens hygh to be With God the Lorde who may compare whose dwellyngs in the heauens are of such great power and force is he verse 6 He doeth abase him self we knowe thinges to beholde bothe here belowe And also in heauen aboue verse 7 7 The nedie out of dust to drawe And eke the poore whiche helpe none saw verse 8 His onlye mercy did him moue And so him set in high degre with princes of great dignitie That rule his people with great fame verse 9 The barren he doth make to beare And with great ioye her frute to reare therfore prayse ye his holy name In exitu Israel C. xiiii VV. VVhit Howe the Israelites were delyuered out of Egipt and of the wonderfull miracles that God shewed at that tyme whiche put vs in remembraunce of Goddes great mercyes towardes his children and of oure vnthankfullnes for the same WHen Israell by Gods addres from Pharos land was bent Sing this as the. ixxviii psa And Iacobs house the straungers left and in the same trayne went verse 2 In Iuda God his glory shewde his holynes most bryght So did the Israelites declare his kingdom power and myght verse 3 The sea it saw and sodenly as all amased did flee The roring streaimes of Iordans floud reculed backwardly verse 4 As rammes afrayde the mountaines skipt theyr strength did them forsake And as the sely tremblyng lambes theyr toppes did beate and shake verse 5 What ayled the sea as all amased so sodenly to flee Ye rowlyng waues of Iordans floud why ran ye backwardly verse 6 Why shoke ye hils as Rammes afrayd why did your strength so shake Why did your tops as trembling lambs for feare quiuer and quake verse 7 O earth confesse thy soueraygne Lord and dread hys myghty hand Before the face of Iacobs God feare ye both sea and land verse 8 I meane the God which frō hard rocks doth cause many flouds appeare And from the stony flint doth make gush out the fountaynes cleare Non nobis domine Psalme Cxv. N. A prayer of the faythful oppressed by idolatrous tirants against whō they desire that God woulde succor them for asmuche as there is no comparyson betwene him and theyr false God or Idoles trustyng most constantly that God will preserue them in this theyr nede seeyng that he hath adopted and receaued them to hys fauoure promising finally that they will not be vnmindfull of so greate a benefyte if it would please God to heare theyr prayer and delyuer them by his omnipotent power NOt vnto vs Lord not to vs but to thy name geue prayse bothe for the mercy and the truthe that are in thee alwayes Why shall the Heathen scorners say where is theyr God become Our God in heauen is and what he will that hath he done Their idols siluer are and gold worke of mens handes they be They haue a mouth and do not speake and eyes and doo not see And they haue eares ioynd to their heds and doo not heare at all And noses eke they formed haue and doo not smell withall And handes they haue and handle not ▪ and feete and doo not goo A throte they haue yet through the same they make no sounde to blowe Those that make them be like to them and those whose trust they be O Israell trust in the Lorde their help and shield is he O Aarons house trust in the Lorde their helpe and shield is he Trust ye the Lorde that feare the Lord ▪ their help and sheld is he The Lord hath mindefull ben of vs and will vs bles also On Israels and Aarons house his blissing he will shew They did beset me round about with wordes of hatefull spite Without all cause of my desert against me did they fight For my good will they were my foes but then gan I to pray my good with ill my frendlynes with hate they did repay The second parte Set thou the wicked ouer him to haue the vpper hand At his right hand eke suffer thou his hatefull foe to stand When he is iudged let him then condemned be therin And let the prayer that he makes be turned into sinne Few be his dayes his charge also let thou an other take His children let be fatherles his wyfe a wydow make Let his ofspring be vagabundes to begge and seke theyr bread wandring out of the wasted place where erst they haue ben fed Let couetous extorcionet catch all his goods and store And let the straungers spoyle the frutes of all his toyle before Let there be none to pitie him let there be none at all That on his children fatherles will let their mercye fall And so let his posteritie for euer be destroyed Their name out blotted in the age that after shall succed Let not his fathers wickednes from Gods remembrance fall And let thou not his mothers sinne be done away at all But in the presence of the Lorde let them remayne foray That from the earth their memorye he may cut cleane away Sith mercye he forgat to shew but did pursue with spite The troubled man and sought to slay the woefull harted wight The third parte As he did cursing loue it shall betide vnto him so And as he did not blessing loue it shalbe far him froe As he with cursing clad himself so it like water shall Into his bowels and like oyle into his bones befall As garment let it be to him to couer him for ay And as a girdle wherwith he shall girded be alwaye Lo let this same be from the Lord the guerdon of my foe Yea and of those that euell speake against my soule also But thou O Lorde that art my God deale thou I say with me After thy
worlde so wyde verse 5 For in his wrath the Lorde will say to them vpon a day And in his fury trouble them and then the Lorde will say verse 6 I haue anoynted him my kyng vpon my holy hyll I will therfore Lorde preach thy lawes and eke declare thy will verse 7 For in this wise the Lorde him selfe did say to me I wotte Thou art my deare and only sonne to day I thee begotte verse 8 All people I will geue to thee as heires at thy request The endes and coastes of all the earth by thee shall be possest verse 9 Thou shalt them bruse euen with a mace as men vnder foote trode And as the potters sheardes shalt breake them with an yron rodde verse 10 Nowye O kinges and rulers all bewise therfore and learnde By whom the matters of the world be iudged and discernde verse 11 Se that ye serue the Lorde aboue in trembling and in feare Se that with reuerence ye reioyse to him in like manere verse 12 Se that ye kisse and eke embrace his blessed sonne I say Lest in his wrath ye sodenly perish in the midde way verse 13 If once his wrath neuer so small shall kindle in hys brest Oh then all they that trust in Chryst shall happie be and blest Domine quid multiplicati sūt Psal. iii. T. S. Dauid being persecuted briuen out of his kingdome by his owne sonne Absalon was greatly tormented in minde for hys sinne against God and therfore calleth vpon God and wareth bolde through hys promises against the great terrors of his enemies yea and againste deathe it selfe whyche he sawe present before hys eyes Finally he reioyseth for the good successe and victory that God gaue hym 〈◊〉 the Churche ouer hys enemies O Lord how are my foes increast which vexe me more more They kil my hart when as they say God cā him not restore but thou O Lord art my defence whē I am harde bestead my worship my honor bothe and thou holdst vp my hed verse 4 Then with my voyce vpon the Lorde I did bothe call and cry And he out of his holy hill did heare me by and by verse 5 5 I layde me downe and quyetly Gods strength muste not be measured by manes weakenes and therfore we ought to feare no daungers I slept and rose agayne For why I know assuredly The Lorde will me sustayn verse 6 If ten thousande had hemde me in I could not be afrayde For thou art still my Lorde my God my sauiour and mine ayde verse 7 Rise vp therfore saue me my God He retorneth to hys prayer for now to thee I call For thou hast broke the cheekes and teeth of these wicked men all verse 8 Saluation only doth belong to thee O Lorde aboue Thou doest bestowe vpon thy folke thy blessing and thy loue Cum inuocarem exaudiuit Psal. iiii T. S. Whē Saule persecutid Dauid be called vpō God trusting most assuredly in his promise therfore boldli reproueth his enemies who by wilfull malice resisted his dominion And fynally preferreth the fououre of God before all worldly treasures Let vs lykewyse learne to trust in Gods promises whē we are afflicted with any kinde of Crosse and so we shall neyther feare our enemies nor yet be ouer commen with tentations O God that art my righteousnes Lorde heare me when I call Sing this as the firste Psalme Thou hast set me at liberty when I was bonde and thrall Haue mercy Lorde therfore on me and graunt me this request God will delyuer hys church frō all dangers because he fauoureth it Selah For vnto thee vncessantly to cry I will not rest verse 3 O mortall men how longe will ye my glory thus despise Why wander ye in vanitie and folow after lyes verse 4 Knowe ye that good and godly men the Lorde doth take and chuse And when to him I make my plaint he doth me not refuse verse 5 Sinne not but stande in awe therfore examine well your heart And in your chambre quyetly see you your selues conuerte verse 6 Offer to God the sacrifice of righteousnes I say And loke that in the liuing Lorde you put your trustalway verse 7 The greater sort craue worldly goodes and riches doo embrace But Lord graunt vs thy countenaunce thy fauour and thy grace verse 8 For thou therby shalt make my hart more ioyfull and more glad Then they that of their corne and wine full great increase haue had verse 9 In peace therfore lie downe will I taking my rest and slepe For thou onely wilt me O Lorde alone in safety kepe Verba mea auribus percipe Psal. v. Th. Stern Dauid hauing suffered greate calamitie as well by Doeg and Achitophell Sauls flaterers as by other infinit enemies calleth to God for succor shewing howe requisite it is That god shuld punish the malicious enuye of hys aduersaryes After beyng assured of prosperous successe he conceiueth comforte concluding that when God shall deliuer him other also shall be partakers of the same mercyes INclyne thyne eares vnto my wordes Sing this as the thirde Psalme O Lorde my playnt consider verse 2 And heare my voyce my kyng my God to thee I make my prayer verse 3 Heare me betime Lorde tary not for I will haue respect My prayer early in the morne to thee for to direct verse 4 And I will trust through patience in thee my God alone That art not pleasd with wickednes and ill with thee dwelleth none verse 5 And in thy sight shall neuer stande The wicked can not escape Gods punishment who wil iudge all the worlde these furious fooles O Lorde Uaine workers of iniquitie Thou hast alwayes abhorde verse 6 The liers and the flatterers thou shalt destroy them then And God will hate the bloud thirstye and the deceitfull man verse 7 Therfore will I come to thy house In the depest of his tēptations he putteth hys full confydence in God trusting vpon thy grace And reuerently will worship thee toward thine holy place verse 8 Lorde leade me in thy rightuousnes for to confounde my foes And eke the way that I shall walke before my face disclose verse 9 9 For in their mouthes there is no truth theyr hart is foule and vayne verse 10 Their throte an open sepulchre their tonges doo glose and fayne verse 11 Destroy their false conspiracies that they may come to nought verse 12 Subuert them in theyr heapes of sinne which haue rebellion wrought verse 13 But those that put theyr trust in thee let them be glad alwayes And render thankes for thy defence and geue thy name the prayse verse 14 For thou with fauour wilt increase the iustand righteous still And with thy grace as with a shilde defend him from all ill Heb that will crowne hym 1. Domine in furore tuo arguas me Psal. vi T. S When Dauid by hys sinnes hathe prouoked Gods wrathe nowe felt not only hyshand against hym but also conceyued the horrors of deathe euerlastyng
he desireth forgeuenes be wayling that if God toke him away in hys indignation he shoulde lacke occasion to praise him as he was wonte to doo whilest he was amongest men Then so deinly felyng Gods mercy he sharpely rebuketh his enemyes which reioyseth in hys afliction LOrd in thy wrath reproue me not though I deserue thyne ire Ne yet correcte me in thy rage O Lorde I thee desire For I am weake therfore O Lorde of mercy me forbeare and heale me Lorde for why thou knowest my bones do quake for feare verse 3 My soule is troubled very sore and vexed vehemently But Lorde how long wilt thou delay to cure my miserie verse 4 4 Lord turne thee to thy wonted grace my sely soule vp take Oh saue me not for my desertes but for thy mercies sake verse 5 For why no man among the dead He feared not so muche the death of the body but trembled as it werfor fear of gods iudgement so waxed dimand cold not praise God remembreth thee one whit Or who shall worship thee O Lorde in the infernall pit verse 6 So greuous is my plaint and mone that I waxe wonderous faint All the night long I wash my bed with teares of my complaint verse 7 My sight is dymme and waxetholde with anguishe of mine hert Heb. mine eye is eaten as with wormes For feare of those that be my foes and would my soulesubuert verse 8 But nowe a way from me all ye God sendeth comfort boldenes in affliction that worke iniquitie For why the Lord hath heard the woyce of my complaint and crye verse 9 He heard not onely the request and praier of my heart But it receiued at my hande and toke it in good part verse 10 And nowe my foes that vexed me the Lord will sone defame And sodenly confunde them all to theyr rebuke and shame Domine deus meus in te speraui Psal. vii T. S. Dauid being falsely accused by Thus one of Sauls kinsmen he calleth to God to be hys defender to whom he commendeth hys innocency Firste shewyng that hys conscience dyd not accuse hym of any euyll towards Saule Next that it touched gods glory to awarde sentence against the wicked And so entring in to the consideration of Gods mercies and promises hewaxeth bolde derideth the vaine enterprises of his enemies threatning that it shall fall on theyr owne necks that which they haue purposed for others O Lorde my God I put my trust Sing this as the thirde psalme and confidence in thee Saue me from them that me pursue and eke deliuer me verse 2 Lest like a Lyon he me teare and rent in pieces small While there is none to succor me and rid me out of thrall verse 3 O Lorde my God If I haue done Where with Thus chargeth me He reioyseth that God only hath aproued hys cause the thyug that is not ryght Or ells if I be found in faut or giltie in thy syght verse 4 Or to my frend rewarded euyll or left him in distres Which me pursued most cruelly and hated me causeles verse 5 Then let my foes pursue my soule A sygne of a pure conscieÌ„ce and eke my life downe thrust Unto the earth and also lay myne honour in the dust verse 6 Stert vp O Lord now in thy wrath Selah and put my foes to payne Performe thy kingdome promised to me whyche wrong sustayne verse 7 Then shall great nations come to thee and know thee by this thing If thou declare for loue of them thy selfe as Lorde and king As touchyng my behauor towardes Saul and mine enemyes verse 8 And thou that art of all men iudge O Lorde now iudge thou me According to my rightousnes and mine integritie The second parte verse 9 Lorde cease the heart of wicked men and be the iust mans guide verse 10 By whom the secretes of all hartes are searched and descride verse 11 I take my helpe to come of God in all my grief and smarte That doth preserue all those that be of pure and perfect heart verse 12 The iust man and the wicked bothe God iudgeth by his poure So that he feleth his mighty hand euen euery day and houre He derideth Sauls enterprises beyng surely perswaded to be preseruedby Gods fauour verse 13 Except he chaunge his mind I die for euen as he should smite He whet his sword his bow he bendth ayming where he may hit verse 14 And doeth prepare his mortall dartes his arrowes kene and sharpe For them that doo me persecute The wicked sâ—me to labor of child â—â—ll thâ—y haue coÌ„fessed theâ—â— â–ª whilest he doth mischief warpe verse 15 But we though he in trauell be of his deuilish fore cast And of his mischief once conceiued yet bringeth forth nought at last verse 16 He digth a ditche and delueth it depe The wicked maÌ„ is beat with his owne rod. In hope to hurte his brother But he shall fall into the pit that he digde vp for other verse 17 Thus wrong retorneth to the hurt of him in whom it bread And all the mischief that he wrought shall fall vpon his head verse 18 I will geue thankes to God therfore that iudgeth rightuously And with my song prayse will the name of hym that is most hye Domine Deus noster Psal. viii Tho. Ster The Prophet considering thexcellent liberalitie and fatherly prouidence of God towards man whom he made as it were a God ouerall his workes doth not only geue great thanks but is astonished with thadmiration of the same as one nothinge hable to compasse suche greate mercies and so endeth O God our Lord how wonderfull Sing this as the thirde psalme are thy workes euery where Whose fame surmounte in dignitie aboue the heauens cleare verse 2 Euen by the mouthes of sucking babes thou wilt confound thy foes For in these babes thy might is sene thy graces they disclose verse 3 And when I see the heauens highe the workes of thine owne hand The Sunne the Mone and al the Starres in order as they stand verse 4 What thing is man Lorde thinke I then that thou doest him remember Or what is mans posteritie that thou doest it considre verse 5 For thou hast made him litle les Herein appeareth the greate loue of god toward man Hebr. 2. then Angels in degree And thou hast crowned him also with glory and dygnitie verse 6 Thou hast preferd him to be Lorde of all thy workes of wonder And at his fete hast set all thinges that he should kepe them vnder verse 7 As shepe and neat all beastes els that in the fieldes doo fede verse 8 Foules of the ayre fishe in the sea and all that therin brede verse 9 Therfore must I say once agayne O God that art our Lorde How famous and how wonderfull are thy works through the world Confitebor tibi domine in toto Psalm ix T. S. After he had geuen thankes to God for the sundry victoryes that he had sent hym against his enemies
and also proued by manifolde experience howe ready God was at hande in all hys troubles he beyng now likewise in daunger of new enemies desireth God to help hym accordyng to hys wont and distroye the malicious arrogancie of his aduersaryes WIth hart and mouthe vnto the Lorde will I syng laude and prayse Sing this as the. iii. ps And speake of all thy wondrous workes and them declare alwayes verse 2 I will be glad and muche reioyce in thee O God moste hie And make my songes extoll thy name aboue the sterry skie verse 3 For that my foes are driuen backe and turned vnto flyght They fall downe flat and are destroyd by thy great force and might Thou hast reuenged all my wrong God only defēdeth the iuste cause my grief and all my grudge verse 4 Thou dost with iustice heare my cause most like a righteous iudge verse 5 Thou doest rebuke the Heathen folke and wicked so confounde That afterwarde the memory of them cannot be founde verse 6 My foe thou hast made good dispatche and all our townes destroyed Thou hast theyr fame with thē defaced through all the world so wyde verse 7 Know thou that he whiche is aboue for euermore shall raygne And in the seate of equitie true iudgement wil mainteyne verse 8 With iustice he wyll kepe and guyde the worlde and euery weight And so will yelde with equitie to euery man his right verse 9 He is protector of the poore what tyme they be opprest He is in all aduersitie their refuge and theyr rest verse 10 All they that know thy holy name therfore shall trust in thee For thou forsakest not theyr sute in their necessitie verse 11 Sing Psalmes therfore vnto the Lorde We seke God there by prayer or by vpright godly lyfe that dwelleth in Sion hill Publishe amonge all nations his noble artes and will verse 12 For he is mindfull of the bloud of those that be opprest For getting not the afflicted hart that seketh to him for rest The second parte verse 13 Haue mercy Lorde on me poore wretche whose enemies still remayne Which from the gates of death are wonte to rayse me vp agayne verse 14 In Sion that I might set forth thy prayse with hart and voyce And that in thy saluation Lorde my soule might still reioyce verse 15 The heathen sticke fast in the pit that they them selues preparde And in the net that they did set their owne fete fast are snarde verse 16 God sheweth his iudgement which wer good The hebr willeth men to meditate dilygently on thys thynge for euery man to marke When as ye see the wicked man lye trapt in his owne warke verse 17 The wicked and the sinfull men go downe to hell for euer And all the people of the worlde that will not god remember verse 18 18 But sure the Lorde will not forget the poore mans grief and payne The pacient folke neuer loke for helpe of God in dayne verse 19 O Lorde arise lest men preuayle that be of worldly might And let the Heathen folke receyue their iudgement in thy sight verse 20 Lord stryke such terror feare and dread into the harts of them That they may know assuredly they be but mortall men Vt quid domine Psalme x. T. S. He complaineth of the fraude rapine tiranny and of all kindes of wrong which worldly men vse assigninge the cause thereof whiche was that wicked men beinge as it were dronken with worldly prosperitie and therfore setting aparte all feare and reuerence towardes God thinke they may doe all thinges without controwlinge Therfore he calleth vppon God to sende some remeady agaynst these desperate enyls And at length comforteth him selfe with hope of deliuerance WHat is the cause that thou O Lorde art now so sarre from thine Sing this as the thirde Psalme And kepest close thy countenaunce from vs this troublous time verse 1 The poore doth pearysh by the proude and wicked mens desire Let them be taken in the craft that they themselues conspire verse 3 For in the lust of his owne hart the vngodly doth delite So doth the wicked praise hym selfe and doeth the Lorde despite verse 4 4 He is so proude that right and wrong he setteth all apart Nay nay there is no God sayeth he for thus he thinketh in hart verse 5 Because his wayes do prosper still he doth thy lawes neglect And with a blast doth puffe against suche as would him correct verse 6 Tush tush saieth he I haue no dread lest mine estate should chaunge And why for all aduersitie to him is very straunge verse 7 His mouth is full of cursednes He meaneth that wickednes is so far ouergrowē that God must nedes nowe helpe or neuer of fraud deceyt and guyle Under his tong doeth mischiefsyt and trauell all the whyle verse 8 He lyeth hid in wayes and holes to slay the innocent Against the poore that passe him by hys cruell eyes are bent verse 9 And like a Lyon priuely lieth lurking in his den If he may snare them in his net to spoyle poore simple men verse 10 And for the nonce full craftely he croucheth downe I say verse 11 So are greate heapes of poore men made by his strong power his pray verse 12 Tush God forgetteth this sayeth he therfore may I be bolde His countenance is cast aside he doth it not beholde verse 13 Arise O Lorde G God in wome the poore mans hope doth rest Lift vp thy hand forget not Lorde the poore that be opprest verse 14 What blasphemy is thys to thee Lorde dost thou not abhorre it To heare the wicked in theyr hartes say tushe thou carest not for it verse 15 But thou seest all thys wickednes and well doest vnderstande verse 16 That frendles and poore fatherles are left into thy hande verse 17 Of wicked and malicions men By the Heathen he meaneth the Hypocrites whyche gloryed as yf they had bene of the churche then breake the power for euer That they with theyr iniquytie may pearish altogether verse 18 The Lorde shall raine for euermore as king and God alone And he will chase the Heathen folke out of hys lande eche one verse 19 Thou hearest O Lord the poore mans plaint vntyll theyr praiers request Their harts thou wilt confirme thine eares to heare be prest verse 20 To iudge the poore and fatherles and helpe them to their right That they may be no more opprest with men of worldly might In Domino confido Psalm xi T. S. This Psalme conteyneth two partes In the firste Dauid shewed how hard assaultes of temtations he susteyned and in howe great anguish of mind he was when Saul did persecute hym Then nexte he reioyseth that God sent hym succor in his necessitie declaryng his iustice as wel in gouernyng the good and the wicked men as the whole worlde I Trust in God how dare ye then say thus my soule vntill Sing this as the third Psalme Flee hence as fast as any foule
and hide you in youre hyll verse 2 Beholde the wicked bende theyr bowes and make their arrowes prest To shote in secret and to hurte the sound and harmeles brest verse 3 Of worldly hope and stayes were shrunke and clearly brought to nought Alas the iust and rightuous man what euill hath he wrought verse 4 But he that in his temple is most holy and most hye And in the heauens hath his seate of royall maiestie The poore and simple mans estate All thinges are gouerned by gods prouidēce considereth in his minde And searcheth out full narowly the maners of mankinde verse 5 And with a cherefull countenaunce the rightuous man will vse But in his harte he doth abhorre all suche as mischiefmuse verse 6 And on the sinners casteth snares as thicke as any rayne ▪ Fire and brimstone and whirle windes thicke As in the distruction of Sodom and Gomo appoynted for theyr payne verse 7 Ye see then how a righteous God doeth righteousnes embrace And to the iust and vpryght man sheweth forth his pleasant face Saluum mefac Deus Psalm xii T. S. The Prophet learnyng the miserable estate of the people and the decaye of all good order desyreth God spedely to sende succor to his children Then comfortyng himselfe others with thassuraunce of gods helpe he commendeth the constant beritye that God obserueth in keping his promises concluding that when all orders are most corrupted then will God delyuer hys HElpe Lorde for good and godly men Sing this as the third psalme doo perysh and decay And fayth and truth from worldly men is parted cleane away verse 2 Who so doeth with his neighboure talke his talke is all but vayne For euery man bethinketh how to flatter lye and fayne verse 3 But flatteryng and deceitfull lippes and tounges that be so stoute To speake proud words make great bragges the Lorde soone cut them out verse 4 For they say still we wyll preuayle our tonges shall vsextoll Oure tonges are ours we ought to speake what Lorde shall vs controll verse 5 But for the great complaint and cry The lord doth deliuer from all daungers of poore and men opprest Arise will I now sayeth the Lorde and them restore to rest verse 6 6 Gods worde is lyke to siluer pure that from the earth is tried And hath no les then seuen times in fire bene puryfyed verse 7 Now since thy promise is to helpe God can not deceue them that put theyr trust in him Lorde kepe thy promise then And saue vs now and euermore from this ill kinde of men verse 8 For now the wicked world is full of mischief manifolde When vanitie with mortall men so highly is extolde Vsquequo domine Psalme xiii T. S. Dauid as it were ouercomen with sundry and new afflictions fleeth to God as his onely refuge and so at the length being encouraged through Gods promises he conceyueth moste sure confidence againste the extreame horrors of deathe HOwe longe wilt thou forget me Lorde shall I neuer be remembred Sing this Psalm with the iii. tune ▪ How long wilt thou thy visage hide as though thou were offended verse 2 In hart and mynde how longe shall I. with care tormented be Howe longe eke shall my deadly foe thus tryumphe ouer me verse 3 Beholde me now my Lorde my God and heare me sore opprest Lighten mine eyes lest that I slepe as one by death possest verse 4 Lest this mine enemie sai to me beholde I doo preuayle Lest they also that hate my soule reioyse to see me quayle verse 5 But for thy mercyes and goodnes The mercye of God is the cause of our saluation my hope shall neuer start In thy relife and sauing health right glad shall be my hart verse 6 I will geue thankes vnto the Lorde and prayses to hym syng Because he hathe hard my request and graunted my wishyng Dixit insipiens Psalme xiiii T. 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He described the peruerse nature of men whiche were so growen to licenciousnes that God was brought to vtter cotempt for the which thing although he was greatly greued yet being perswaded that god would send som present remedy he comfort him selfe and others THere is no God as folish mē affirm in their mad mode their drifts ar al corrupt and vain not one of thē doth good The lord beheld frō heauen hie y e whole race of mākind and saw not one y t sought in dede y e liuing god to find verse 3 They went all wide and were corrupt and truely there was none That in the worlde did any good I say there was not one verse 4 Is all theyr indgement so farre lost that all worke mischief styll Eatyng my people euen as breade not one to seke Gods wyll verse 5 When they thus rage then sodenly great feare on them shall fall For God doth loue the rightuous men and will maintayne them all verse 6 He mocke the doinges of the poore to theyr reproche and shame Because they put theyr trust in God and call vpon hys name verse 7 But who shall geue thy people health and when wilt thou fulfill Where wicked men raine all felicitie is but very slauery lyke to Egipte or Babilon The promise made to Israell from out of Sion hill verse 8 Euen when thou shalt restore agayne suche as were captiues lad Then Iacob shall therin reioyse and Israell shall be glad Domine quis habitabit Psalm xv T. S This Psalme teacheth on what condition Goddid chuse the Jewes for his peculiar people and wherfore he placed his Temple amonge them whyche was to thentent that they by liuing vprightly godly might witnes that they were his speciall and holy people O Lorde with in thy tabernacle Sing thisas thr iiii Psa. who shall inhabite styll Or whom wilt thou receyue to dwell in thy most holy hill verse 2 The man whose lyfe is vncorrupt whose workes are iust and streit Whose hart doth thinke the very truthe whose tong speaketh no deceyt verse 3 Nor to his neyghboure doth none ill in body goods or name Nor willingly doeth moue salse tales which might empere the same verse 4 That in hys hart regardeth not malicious wicked men But those that loue and feare the Lorde he maketh muche of them verse 5 His othe and all his promises that kepeth faithfully Although he make his couenaunt so that he doth lose therby verse 6 That put teth not to vsury hys money and hys coyne Them the which doo not this shalbe cast out of the church with Ismaelli and the hipocrites Ne for to hurt the innocent doeth brybe or els purloyne verse 7 Who so doeth all thynges as you see that here is to be done Shall neuer perish in thys world nor in the worlde to come Conserua me domine psalm xvi T. S. Dauid prayeth to God for succor not for hys workes but for hys faithes sake protestyng that he hateth all Idolatry takyng God only for hys comforte and felicytie who suffereth hys to lacke nothing LOrde
strength my tonge it cleaueth fast Unto my iawes and I am brought to dust of death at last verse 16 And many dogges doo compas me and wicked counsell eke Conspire against me cursedlie they pearse my handes and fete verse 17 I was tormented so that I might all my bones haue folde yet styll vpon me they doo loke and still they me beholde verse 18 My garments they deuided eke in partes amonge them all And for my coate they did cast lottes to whom it might be fall verse 19 Therfore I pray thee be not farre fro me at my great nead But rather sith thou arte my strength to helpe me Lorde make speade verse 20 And frō the sword Lord saue my soule by thy might and thy powre And kepe my soule thy darlyng deare from dogges that would deuoure verse 21 And from the Lions mouth that would me all in sunder shiuer And from the hornes of Unicornes Lorde safely me delyuer verse 22 And I shall to my brethren all thy maiestie recorde And in thy church shall praise the name of thee the liuyng Lorde The thirde parte verse 23 All ye that feare hym prayse the Lorde Thou sede of Iacob honor hym And with al reuerence possible thou sede of Israell worship him verse 24 For he despiseth not the poore he tourneth not awrye His countenaunce when they doo call but graunteth to theyr crye verse 25 Among thy flocke that feare the Lorde I will therfore proclayme Thy prayse and kepe my promise made for settyng forth thy name verse 26 The poore shall eate and be suffised and those that doo theyr deuer To knowe the Lorde shall prayse hys name theyr hartes shall lyue foreuer verse 27 All costes of earth shall prayse the Lorde and tourne to hym for grace The Heathen folke shall worship hym before his blessed face verse 28 The kingdome of the Heathen folke the Lorde shall haue therfore And he shalbe their gouernor and kyng for euermore verse 29 The ryche men of his godly gyftes shall feede and fast also And in hys presence worship hym and bow their knees full low verse 30 30 And all that shall go downe to dust of lyfe by him must tast My seed shall serue and praise his name whyle any world shall last verse 31 31 My seed shall plainly shew to them that shalbe borne hereafter His iustice and his rightuousnes and all his workes of wonder Dominus regit me Psalm xxiii TS Because the prophet had proued the great mercies of God at diuers times and in sundry manners he gathereth a certayne assuraunce fully perswadyng hym selfe that God wil continue the very same goodnes towardes him for euer My shepehard is the liuing Lorde Nothing therfore I nead Sing this as the. xxi psalme In pastors fayre with waters calme he set me for to fead verse 2 He did conuert and glad my soule and brought my minde in frame To walke in pathes of rightuousnes for his most holy name verse 3 yea though I walke in vale of death yet will I feare non ill Thy rod thy staffe doeth comfort me and thou art with me styll verse 4 And in the presence of my foes my table thou shalt spread Thou shalt O Lord fill full my cup and eke annoynt my head verse 5 Through all my lyfe thy fauour is So frankly shewde to me That in thy house for euermore my dwelling place shalbe Domini est terra Psalme xxiiii I. 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Because the grace of God was then to be vttered in the temple more glorious then before it had ben in the tabernacle Dauid geueth it a more glorious title and with exclamation setteth forth the honor therof styring vs to the consideration of the eternall mansions prepared for vs in the heauens wherof this was a shadow and figure THe earth is all the Lordes with all Sing this as the. xxi psal ▪ her store and furniture Yea hys is all the worlde and all that therin doo indure verse 2 For he hathe fastly founded it aboue the sea to stand And layd alow the liquid flouds to flow beneathe the land verse 3 For who is he O Lorde that shall ascend into thy hyll Or passe into thy holy place there to continew styll verse 4 Whose hāds are harmles whose hart no spot there doth defyle His soule not set on vanitie who hathe not sworne no guyle verse 5 Him that is such a one the Lorde shall place in blisfull plight And God his God and sauior shall yelde to hym his right verse 6 This is the broode of trauelers in sekyng of hys grace As Iacob did the Israelite in that time of his race verse 7 Ye princes open your gates stand open the euerlastyng gate For there shall entre in thereby the king of gloryous state verse 8 What is the kynge of glorious the strong and mighty Lord The mightye Lorde in battailes stoute and tryall of the sword verse 9 Ye princes open your gates stand open the euerlastyng gate For there shall entre in therby the king of Glorious state verse 10 What is this kinge of glorious the Lorde of hostes it is The kingdome and the royaltie of glorious state is hys Ad te domine leuaui Psalm xxv T. S The Prophet touched with the consideration of his sinnes and also greued with the cruell malice of his enemies prayeth to god most feruently to haue his sinnes forgeuen especially suche as he had committed in his youth He beginneth euery verse according to the Ebrue letters two or three except I Lift mine hart to the my god guide most iust Now suffer me to take no shame for in thee do I trust Let not my foes reioyce nor make a scorne of me And let them not be ouerthrowē that put their trust in thee But shame shall them befall whyche harme them wrongfully verse 3 Therfore thy pathes thy rightwaies vnto me Lorde descry verse 4 Direct me in thy trueth and teache me I thee pray Thou art my God and sauiour on thee I wayte alway verse 5 Thy mercyes manifolde I pray thee Lorde remember And eke thy pitye plentifull for they haue ben for euer verse 6 Remember not the fautes and frailtie of my youth Remembre not how ignorant I haue ben of thy trouth Nor after my desertes let me thy mercy fynde But of thyne owne beningnitie Lorde haue me in thy mynde verse 7 His mercy is full swete hys truthe a perfect guyde Therfore the Lorde wyll sinners teach and suche as go asyde verse 8 The humble he will teache hys precepts for to kepe He wyll direct in all hys wayes the lowly and the meke verse 9 For all the wayes of God are trueth and mercy bothe To them that kepe hys testament the witnes of his trouth The seconde parte verse 10 Now for thy holy name O Lorde I thee intreat To graunt me pardon for my sinne for it is wondrous great verse 11 Who so doeth feare the Lorde True felicitye standeth in the feare of God
the Lorde doeth him direct To leade his lyfe in suche awaye as he doeth best accept verse 12 His soule shall euermore in goodnes dwell and stande His seede and his posteritie inherite shall the lande verse 13 All those that feare the Lorde know hys secret intent And vnto them he doth declare hys wyll and testament verse 14 Mine eyes and eke my hart to hym I wyll aduaunce That pluckt my fete out of the snare of sinne and ignoraunce verse 15 With mercy me beholde to thee I make my mone For I am poore and desolate and comfortles alone verse 16 The troubles of mine hart are multiplyed in dede Bring me out of this misery necessitiy and nede verse 17 Beholde my pouertie mine anguish and my payne Remit my sinne and myne offence and make me cleane agayne verse 18 O Lorde beholde myfoes how they doo styll increase Pursuing me with deadly hate that fayne would lyue in peace verse 19 Preserue and kepe my soule and eke deliuer me And let me not be ouerthrowne because I trust in thee verse 20 Let my simple purenes me from mine enemies shend Because I loke as one of thyne that thou shouldest me defend verse 21 21 Deliuer Lorde thy folke and send them some relief I meane thy chosen Israell from all theyr payne and grief Iudica me domine Psalme xxvi I. H Dauid oppressed with many iniuryes finding no helpe in the worlde called for ayde from God and assured of his integritie toward Saul desireth God to be his iudge and to defend his innocency causeles afflicted Finally he maketh mention of his sacrifice whiche he will offer for his deliueraunce and desireth to be in the company of the faithfull in the congregation of God whence he was banished by Saule promisyng integritie of life open praises and thankes geuingr LOrde be my iudge and thou shall see Sing this as the. xviii psalme My pathes be right and plaine I trust in God and hope that he will strength me to remaine verse 2 Proue me my God I thee desire my waies to searche and trie As men do proue theyr gold with fire my reines and hert espie verse 3 Thy goodnes laide before my face I durst be bold alwaies For of thy trueth I tread the trace and will doo all my dayes verse 4 I doo not lust to haunt or vse with men whose dedes ar vayne To come in house I doo refuse with the deceiptfull trayne verse 5 I muche abhorte the wicked sort their dedes I doo despise I doo not once to them resort that hurtfull thinges deuyse ▪ verse 6 6 My handes I washe and doo procede in workes that walke vpryght Then to the aulter I make spede to offer there in sight verse 7 That I may speak preache the prayse that doth belonge to thee And so declare how wondrous wayes thou hast ben good to me verse 8 O Lorde thy house I loue most deare to me it doeth excell I haue delight and would be neare wher as thy grace doeth dwell verse 9 Oh shut not vp my soule with them in sinne that take their fill Nor yet my lyfe amongst those men that seke much bloud to spill verse 10 whose hands ar heapt with craft guile their life therof is full And their right hand with wrēch wile for bribes doth pluck and pull verse 11 But I in rightuousnes entend my time and daies to serue ▪ Haue mercy Lorde and me defende so that I doo not swarue verse 12 My fote is stayed for all assayes it standeth well and right Wherfore to God will I geue prayse in all the peoples sight Dominus illum inatio Psal. xxvii I. H. Dauid maketh this Psalme being deliuerth frō great pearsts as appeareth by the prayses and thankesgeuyng annexed wherin we may see the constant fayth of Dauid against the assaults of all enemies and also thende wherfore he desireth to lyue and to bedeliuered only to worship God in his congregation Herby he promiseth hymself assuraunce though father mother forsake hym he teacheth this to be the only way to to see the good thinges in the land of the liuing and after his example he exhorteth to faith and to attend vpon the Lorde THe Lord is bothe my health and light Sing this as the. xviii psalme shall man make me dismayde Sith God doth geue me strength why should I be afrayde verse 2 While that my foes with all their strēgth might begin with me to brawle And thinke to eate me vp at length themselues haue caught the fall verse 3 Thoughe they in campe against me lye my hart is not afrayd In battell pight if they will trye I trust in God for ayde verse 4 One thing of God I doo require that he will not denye For whiche I pray and will desyre till he to me applye verse 5 That I within his holy place my lyfe throughout may dwell To see the beauty of his face and vew his temple well verse 6 In time of dreade he shall me hide within hys place most pure And kepe me secret by hys syde as on a rocke most sure verse 7 At length I know the Lordes good grace shall make me strong and stoute My foes to foile and cleane deface that compasse me about verse 8 Therfore within his house will I. Geue sacrifice of prayse With Psalmes and songes I will applye to laude the Lorde alwayes verse 9 Lorde heare the voyce of my request for whyche to thee I call Haue mercy Lord on me opprest and send me helpe withall verse 10 My hart doth knowledge vnto thee I sue to haue thy grace Then seke my face sayste thou to me Lorde I will seke thy face verse 11 In wrath turne not thy selfe a way Nor suffer me to slide Thou art my helpe still to this day be still my God and guide verse 12 My parentes both theyr sonne forsoke and cast me of at large And then the Lorde himselfe yet toke of me the cure and charge verse 13 Teache me O God the way to thee and leade me on forth ryght For feare of suche as watche for me to trap me if they might verse 14 Do not betake me to the will of them that be my foes For they surmyse against me styll false witnes to depose verse 15 My hart would faint but that in me this hope he fixed fast The Lorde Gods good grace shall it see in lyfe that aye shall laste verse 16 Trust still in God whose whole thou art His will abide thou must And he shall ease and strength thy hart if thou in hym doo trust Ad te domine clamabo Psal. xxviii I. H Being in great feare and pensiuenes to see God dishonoured by the wicked men he desireth to be rid of them and cryeth for vengeaunce against them and at length assureth hym selfe that God hath hard his prayer vnto whose tuition he commendeth all the faithefull THou art O Lord my strength and stay Sing this as the. xxi psal the succor
whyche I craue Neglect me not lest I be lyke to them that go to graue verse 2 The voyce of thy suppliant heare that vnto thee doeth crye When I lift vp my handes vnto thy holy arke moste hye verse 3 Repute not me among the sort of wicked and peruert That speake ryght fayre vnto theyr freÌ„ds and thinke full ill in hart verse 4 According to theyr handy worke as they deserue in dede And after their inuencions let them receyue theyr mede verse 5 For they regarde nothing Godes workes his lawe ne yet his lore Therfore will he them and theyr seede destroy for euermore verse 6 To render thankes vnto the Lorde how great a cause haue I My voyce my prayer and my complaynt that heard so willingly verse 7 He is my shield and fortitude my buckeler in destresse My hope my helpe my hartes relyef my songe shall him confesse verse 8 He is our strength and oure defence our enmies to resist The health and the saluacion of his electe by Chryste verse 9 Thy people and thine heritage Lorde blesse guide and preserue Increase them Lorde and rule theyr harts that they may neuer swerue Afferte domino Psalme xxix T. S. An excellent Psalme wherin the Prophet exhorteth the verye Princes and rulers of the world whiche otherwise for the most parte thinke there is no God at the leaste to feare hym for the thunders and tempestes for feare wherat all creatures tremble And though thereby God threatneth sinners yet is he alwayes mercyfull to hys and moueth them therby to prayse his name GIue to the Lorde ye potentates ye rulers of the worlde Sing this as the. xxi Psa. Geue ye all prayse honor and strength vnto the liuing Lorde verse 2 2 Geue honor to his holy name and honor him alone Worship hym in his maiestie within his holy throne verse 3 His voyce doth rule the waters all euen as him selfe doth please He doth prepare the thunder clappes and gouerneth all the sease verse 4 He meaneth the thunderinges tempestes The voyce of God is of great force and wonderous excellent It is most mightye in effect and muche magnificent verse 5 The voyce of God doeth rent and break the Cedre trees so long The Cedre tres of Libanus whiche are most hie and strong verse 6 And makth them leape like as a call or els the Unicorne Not only trees but mountaines great wheron the tres are borne verse 7 His voice deuideth flames of fyre and shakth the wildernes verse 8 It makth the desert quake for feare that called is Cades verse 9 It makth the Hindes for feare to calue and makth the couerte playne Then in his temple euery man his glory doth proclaime verse 10 The Lorde was set aboue the floudes ruling the raging sea So shall he raygne as Lord and king for euer and for aye verse 11 The Lorde will geue his people power in vertue to increase The Lord wyll blesse hys chosen folke with euerlastyng peace Exaltabo te domine Psal. xxx I. Hop When Dauid should haue dedicated hys house to the Lorde he fel so extreme sick that he was without all hope of lyfe therfore after hys recouery he rendreth thankes to God exhortyng others to the lyke learn by his example that God is rather mercyfull then seuere and rigorous towardes his childreÌ„ and also that the fall from prosperitie is sodeine This done he retourneth to prayer promisyng to prayse God for euer ALl laud praise with hart voice O Lorde I geue to thee whiche didst not make my foes reioyse but hast exalted me O lord my god to thee I cryde in all my paine grief thou gauest an eare and didst prouide to ease me with relief verse 3 Of thy good will thou hast calde backe My soule from hell to saue Thou didst reuine when strength did lacke and kept me from the graue verse 4 Sing prayse ye sainctes that proue and see the goodnes of the Lord In memorye of his maiestie Reioyse with one accord verse 5 For why his anger but a space doeth last and slake agayne But in his fauour and hys grace alwayes doeth lyfe remayne Though gripes of grief and panges full sore shall lodge with vs all night The Lorde to ioy shall vs restore before the day be light verse 6 When I enioyde the worlde at will thus would I boast and say Tushe I am sure to feele none ill this wealth shall not decay verse 7 For thou O Lorde of thy good grace hadst sent me strength and ayde But when thou turnd away thy face my mynde was sore dismaide verse 8 Wherfore agayne yet did I cry to thee O Lorde of might My God with plaintes I did apply and prayde both day and night verse 9 What gayne is in my bloud saide I if death destroy my dayes Doth dust declare thy maiestie or yet thy trueth doth prayse verse 10 Wherfore my God some pitie take O Lorde I thee desyre Do not this simple soule forsake of helpe I thee requyre verse 11 Then didst thou turne my grief and wo vnto a chearfull voyce The mournyng weede thou tokste me fro and madst me to reioyse verse 12 Wherfore my soule vncessauntly shall syng vnto thy prayse My Lorde my God to thee will I Geue laude and thankes alwayes Inte domine speraui Psal. xxxi Io. Hop Dauid deliuered from some great daunger in the desert of Maâ—â— or els wher first reherseth what meditation he had by the power of sayth when death was before his eyes his enemy beyng ready to take him then he adioyneth the fauor of God alwaies to be ready to those that feare him Finally he exhorteth al the faithful to trust in God to loue him because he preserueth and strengthneth them as they may se by his example O Lorde I put my trust in thee Let nothyng worke me shame Sing this as the. xviii psalme As thou art iust deliuer me and set me quyte from blame verse 2 Geue me O Lorde and that anone to helpe me make good spead Be thou my rocke and house of stone my fence in time of nede verse 3 For why as stones thy strength is tride thou art my fort and towre For thy names sake be thou my guyde and leade me in thy power verse 4 Plucke forth my feete break the snare which they for me haue layde Thou art my strength and all my care is for thy might and ayde verse 5 In to thy handes Lorde I commit my spirite whyche is thy dew For why thou hast redemed it O Lorde thou God most trewe verse 6 I hate suche folke as wyll not part from thynges to be abhorde When they on trifles set theyr harte my truste is in the Lorde verse 7 For I will in thy mercy ioy I see it doeth excell Thou seest when ought would me annoy and knowest my soule full well verse 8 Thou hast not left me in their hande that would me ouercharge But thou hast set me out of bande
to walke abrode at large The seconde parte verse 9 Great grief O Lord doeth me assaile some pitye on me take Mine eyes waxe dimme my might doth my wombe for wo doth ake verse 10 My lyfe is worne with grief and paine faile my yeares in wo are past My strength is gone through disdaine my bones corrupt and wast verse 11 Amonge my foes I am a scorne my frendes are all dismaide My neighbours and my kinsmen borne to see me are afrayde verse 12 As men once dead are out of minde so am I now forgot As small effect in me they finde as in a broken pot verse 13 I heard the bragges of all the route theyr threates my minde did fraye How they conspirde and went about to take my lyfe awaye verse 14 But Lorde I trust in thee for ayde not to be ouer trod For I confesse and still haue saide thou art my Lorde and God verse 15 The length of all my lyfe and age O Lorde is in thy hand Defend me from the wrathes and rage of them that me withstand verse 16 16 To me thy seruaunt Lord expresse and shew thy ioifull face And saue me Lorde for thy goodnes thy mercy and thy grace The thirde parte verse 17 Lorde let me not be put to blame for that on thee I call But let the wicked beare their shame and in the graue to fall verse 18 Oh how great good hast thou in store layde vp full safe for them That feare and trust in thee therfore before the sonnes of men verse 19 Thy presence shall thē fence and guide from al proud bragges and wrongs Within thy place thou shalt them hyde from all the stryfe of tonges verse 20 Thankes to the lord that hath declard on me his grace so farre Me to defend with watche and ward as in a towne of warre verse 21 Thus did I say both day and night when I was sore opprest Loe I was cleane cast out of sight yet heardst thou my request verse 22 Ye sainctes loue ye the Lord I say the faithfull he doth guide And to the proude he will repay according to their pride verse 23 Be strong and God shall stay your hart be bolde and haue a lust For sure the Lorde wyll take your part sith ye on him doo trust Beati quorum remissi sunt Psal. xxxii T. S. Dauid punished with greuous sicknes for his sinnes counteth them happy to whom God doeth not impute theyr transgressions And after that he had confessed his sinnes and obteyned pardon he exhorteth the wicked men to lyue godly and the good to reioyse THe man is blest whose wickednes the Lorde hath cleane remitted Sing this as the. xxx psal And he whose sin and wretchednes is hid and also couered verse 2 And blest is he to whom the Lorde imputeth not hys sinne Whyche in hys hart hath hid no guile nor fraude is founde therin verse 3 For whilst that I kept close my sinne in silence and constraynt My bones did weare and wast away with dayly mone and playnt verse 4 For night and day thy hand on me so greuous was and smert That all my bloud and humours moist to drines did conuert verse 5 I did therfore confes my fault and all my sinnes discouer Then thou O Lord diddest me forgeue and all my sinnes passe ouer verse 6 The humble man shall pray therfore and seke thee in due time So that the floudes of waters great shall haue no power on hym verse 7 When trouble and aduersitie doo compasse me about Thou art my refuge and my ioye and thou doest rid me out verse 8 Come hither and I shall thee teache howe thou shalt walke a right And will thee guide as I my self haue learnd by profe and sight verse 9 Be not so rude and ignoraunt as is the horse and mule Whose mouth without a raine or bit from harme thou canst not rule verse 10 The wicked man shall manifolde sorowes and grief sustayne But vnto him that trusteth in God his goodnes shall remayne verse 11 Be mery therfore in the Lorde ye iust lyft vp your voyce And ye of pure and perfect hart be glad and eke reioyce Exultate iusti in domino Psalm xxxiii I. 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He exhorteth good men to prayse God for that he hath not only created all thynges and by his prouidence gouerneth the same but also is faythful in his promises He vnderstandeth mans hart and soattereth the counsell of the wicked So that no man can be preserued by any creature or mans strength but they that put their confidence in hys mercy shalbe preserued from all aduersitie YE rightuous in the Lorde reioyse it is a semely sight Sing this as the. xxx psalme That vpright men with thankfull voyce should prayse the God of might verse 2 Prayse ye the Lorde with harp and songe in Psalmes and pleasant thinges With lute and instrument among that soundeth with ten stringes verse 3 Sing to the Lord a song most new with courage geue him prayes verse 4 For why his word is euer true his workes and all his wayes verse 5 To iudgement equitie and right he hath a great good will And with his gifts he doth delight the earth through out to fill verse 6 For by the worde of God alone the heauens all were wrought Theyr hostes and powers euery chone his breath to passe hathe brought verse 7 The waters great gathered hath he on heapes within the shore And hid them in the depth to be as in an house of store verse 8 All men on earth both least and most feare God and kepe hys lawe Be that inhabite in eche cost dreade hym and stande in awe verse 9 what he cōmaunded wrought it was at once with present spede what he doth will is brought to passe with full effect in dede verse 10 The counsels of the nacions rude the Lorde doth drine to nought No counsell cā preuaile against God but shall haue ill succes He doth defeate the multitude of their deuise and thought verse 11 11 But his decres continue still they neuer slake or swage The motions of his mind and will take place in euery age The secōd parte verse 12 And blest are they to whom the Lorde as God and guide is knowen Whom he doth chose of mere accorde to take them as his owne verse 13 The Lorde from heauen cast his sight on men mortall by birth verse 14 Considering from his seate of might the dwellers of the earth verse 15 Te lord I say whose hād hath wrought mans hart and doth it frame For he alone doth know the thought and working of the same verse 16 A king that trusteth in his host God only deliuereth and preserueth his people shall nought preuayle at length The man that of his might doth boast shall fall for all his strength verse 17 The troupes of horsemen eke shall faile their sturdie stedes shall sterue The strength of horse shall not preuaile the rider to
about his mothers graue But they at my dissease did ioye and gather on a route Yea abiect slaues at me did toye with mockes and checks full stoute verse 17 The belly gods and flattering trayne that all good thinges deride At me doe grin with great disdayne and plucke their mouth a syde verse 18 Lord when wilt thou amend this geare why doest thou stay and pause Oh rid my soule myne only deare out of these Lyons clawes verse 19 And then will I geue thankes to thee before thy churche alwayse And where as most of people be there will I shew thy prayse verse 20 Let not my foes preuayle on me whiche hate me for no faulte Nor yet to winke or tourne theyr eye that causeles me assaulte The third parte verse 21 Of peace no worde they think or say theyr taulke is all vntrue They still consult and would betraye all those that peace ensue verse 22 With open mouth they run at me they gape thei laugh thei flere Well wel say they our eye doth see the thyng that we desire verse 23 But Lorde thou seest what waies they take sease not this geare to mende Be not far of nor me forsake as men that fayle their frend verse 24 Awake aryse and stirre abrode defend me in my right Reuenge my cause my Lorde my God and ayde me with thy might verse 25 Accordyng to thy righteousnes my Lorde God set me free And let not them their pride expresse nor triumphe ouer me verse 26 Let not their hartes reioyce and cry there there this geare doth trime Nor geue them cause to say on hye we haue our will of hym verse 27 Confound them with rebuke shame that ioy when I do mourne And pay them home with spite blame that brag at me with scorne verse 28 Let them be glad and eke reioyce which loue mine vpright waye And they all times with harte voyce shall prayse the Lorde and saye verse 29 Greate is the Lorde and doth excell for why he doth delyght To see his seruaunts prosper well that is his pleasaunt sight verse 30 Wherfore my tonge I will applye thy righteousnes to prayse Unto the Lorde my God will I sing laudes with thankes alwayse Dixit iuiustus Psalme xxxvi I. 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Dauid greuously vexed by the wicked doth complayne of their maiyce wickednes Thē he turneth to consider the vnspeakeable goodnes of God towardes all creatures But specially towards hys children that by faithe therof he maie be comforted and assured of his deliueraunce by this ordenary course of Gods worke who in the ende destroyeth the wicked and saueth the ruite THe wicked with his workes vniust doth thus perswade my hart Sing this as the. xxxv psalme That of the Lorde he hathe no trust his feare is set aparte verse 2 Yet doth he ioye in his estate to walke as he began So long till he deserue the hate of God and eke of man verse 3 His wordes ar wicked vile and naught his tong no truth doth tell Yet at no hand will he be taught which way he may doo well verse 4 When he should slepe then doth he muse his mischife to fulfill No wicked wayes doth he refuse nor nothing that is ill verse 5 But Lorde thy goodnes doth ascend aboue the heauens high So doth thy truth it selfe extend vnto the cloudie skie verse 6 Much more then hilles so high steepe thy iustice is exprest Thy iudgments like to sease most deepe thou sauest both man and beaste verse 7 Thy mercy is aboue all thinges O God it doth excell In trust wherof as in thy winges the sonnes of men shall dwell verse 8 Within thy house they shalbe fedde with plenty at theyr will Of all delight they shalbe sped and take therof their fill verse 9 For why the well of life so pure doth ouer flow from thee And in thy light we are full sure the lasting light alwayse to see verse 10 From such as thee desire and knowe let not thy grace departe Thy righteousnes declare and shew to men of vpright hart verse 11 Let not the proude on me preuayle O Lorde of thy good grace Nor let the wicked me assayle to throwe me out of place verse 12 But they in their deuice shall fall that wicked workes maintaine They shalbe ouerthrowne with all and neuer rise agayne Noli emulari Psalme xxxvii w. w. Because the godly shoulde not wonder to see wicked men prosper in this world the prophet sheweth that all thinge shal be graunted according to theyr harts desire to them that loue and feare God they that do the contrary although they seme to florish for a tune shall at lengthe peryshe Sing this as the. xxxv psalme GRudge not to see the wicked men in wealth to florish styll Nor yet enuie suche as to ill haue bent and set their will verse 2 For as grene gras florishing herbes are cut and wither awaye So shall theyr great prosperitie sone passe fade and decay verse 3 Trust thou therfore in God alone to do well geue thy minde So shalt thou haue the land as thyne and there sure foode shalt find verse 4 In God set all thy harts delyte and loke what thou wouldst haue Or els canst wish in all the worlde thou nedest it not to craue verse 5 Cast both thy selfe and thyne affayres on God with perfect trust And thou shalt see with patience theffect both sure and iust verse 6 The perfect life and godly name he will cleare as the light So that the sunne euen at none daies shall not shine halfe so bryght verse 7 Be still therfore and stedfastly on God see thou wayte then Nor shrinking for the prosperous state of leude and wicked men verse 8 Shake of despite enuy and hate at least in any wise Their wicked steppes auoyd and flie and folow not their guise verse 9 For euery wicked man will God destroy both more and lesse But suche as trust in him are sure the lande for to posses verse 10 Watch but a whyle and thou shalt see no more the wicked trayne No not so muche as house or place where once he did remayne The seconde parte verse 11 But mercifull and humble men enioy shall sea and land In rest and peace they shall reioyse for nought shall them withstand verse 12 The leud men and malicious against the iust conspire They gnash their teeth at him as men whiche doo his bane desire verse 13 But while that leud men thus do think the Lorde laugh them to scorne For why he seeth their terme approche When they shall sygh and morne verse 14 The wicked haue their sword out drawē their bowe eke haue they bent To ouerthrow and kill the poore as they the right way went verse 15 But the same sword shal pearse their harts which was to kil the iust Likewise the bow shal breake to shiuers wherin they put theyr trust verse 16 Doubtles the iust mans poore estate is better agreat deale more Then
all these leud and worldly mens rich pompe and heaped store verse 17 For be their power neuer so stronge God will it ouerthrowe Where contrary he doth preserue the humble men and lowe verse 18 He seeth by his great prouidence the good mens trade and way And will geue them inheritaunce which neuer shall decay verse 19 They shall not be discouraged when some are hard bested When other shalbe hungre bit they shall be clad and fed verse 20 For whosoeuer wicked is and enemie to the Lorde Shal quaile yea melt euē as lābs grease or smoke that flieth abrode The thirde parte verse 21 Beholde the wicked boroweth muche and neuer paith againe wheras the iust by liberall giftes makth many glad and faine verse 22 For they whō God doth bles shall haue the lande for heritage And they whom he doth curse likewise shall pearysh in his rage verse 23 The Lord the iust mās waies doth guid and geuth him good successe To euery thing he taketh in hande he sendeth good addresse verse 24 Though that he fall yet is he sure not vtterly to quayle Because the Lord stretche out his hand at nede and doth not fayle verse 25 I haue ben yong and now am olde yet did I neuer see The iust man left or els his sede to begge for miserye verse 26 But geueth alwayes most liberally and lendthe wheras is nede His children and posteritie receiue of God their mede verse 27 Flee vice therfore and wickednes and vertue doo embrace So God shall graunt thee long to haue in earth a dwellyng place verse 28 For God so loueth equitie and she wth to his such grace That he preserueth them euermore but destroyth the wicked race verse 29 Where as the good and godly men inherite shall the land Hauing as Lordes all thing therin in their owne power and hand verse 30 30 The iust mans mouth doth euer speake of maters wise and hye His tong doth talke to edifie with truth and equitie verse 31 For in his hart the law of God his Lorde doth still abide So that where he goeth or walketh his foote can neuer slide verse 32 The wicked like a rauening wolfe the iust man doth beset By all meanes seking him to kill if he fall in his net The forthe parte verse 33 Though he should fall into his hands yet God would succor send Though men against him sentence geue God would him yet defend verse 34 Wayt thou on God and kepe his way he shall preserue thee then The earth to rule and thou shalt see destroyde these wicked men verse 35 The wicked haue I sene most strong and placed in high degree Florishing in all wealth and store as doth the Laurell tree verse 36 But sodenly he passed away and lo he was quite gone Then I him sought but could scarse finde the place where dwelt such one verse 37 Marke and behold the perfite man how God doth him increase for the iust man shall haue at length great ioy with rest and peace verse 38 As for transgressours wo to them destroyde they shall all be God will cut of theyr budding race and ryche posteritie verse 19 But the saluation of the iust doth come from God aboue Who in their trouble sendth them aide of mercy grace and loue verse 40 God doth them helpe saue and deliuer from leud men and vniust And still will saue them whilst that they in him do put theyr trust Domine ne in furore Psalm 38. I. H. Dauid lying sicke of some greuous disease acknowlegeth him selfe to be chastysed of the Lorde for his sinnes and therfore prayeth God to tourne away his wrath he vttereth the greatnes of his grief by many wordes and circumstances as wounded with the arrowes of gods Ire forsaken of his frends euell entreated of his enemies but in the ende with firme confidence he cōmendeth his cause to God hopeth for spedie helpe at hys hande PUt me not to rebuke O Lorde in thy prouoked ire Sing this as the xxxv psa Ne in thy heauy wrath O Lorde Correct me I desire Thine arowes doo sticke fast in me thy hand doth presse me sore And in my flesh no health at all appeareth any more And all thys is by reason of thy wrath that I am in Nor any rest is in my bones by reason of my synne For loe my wicked doinges Lorde aboue my hed are gone As greater lode then I can beare they lye me sore vpon My woundes stinck and are festred so as lothesome is to see Which all through mine owne folishnes betideth vnto me And I in carefull wise am brought in trouble and distres That I go wayling all the day my dulfull heauines My loynes are fild with sore disease my flesh hath no whole parte I feble am and broken sore I rore for grefe of hart Thou knowst Lord my desire my grones are open in thy syght My hart doth pant my strēgth hath faild mine eyes haue lost theyr lyght My louers and my wonted frendes stand lokyng in my woe And eke my kinesmen far away are me departed froe They that did seke my life layd snares and they that sought the way To doo me hurt spake lyes and thought on treason all the day The secōd parte But as a deefe man I became that cannot heare at all And as one dumme that opens not his mouth to speake withall For all my confidence O Lorde is wholly set in thee O Lord thou Lorde that art my God thou shalt geue eare to me This I did craue that they my foes triumphe not ouer me For when my foote did slip then they did ioy my fall to see And truly I poore wretch am set in plage a wofull wight And eke my grefefull heauines is euer in my sight For whyle that In my wickednes in humble wise confesse And while I for my sinfull dedes my sorow doo expresse My fooes doo still remayne alyue and mighty are also And they that hate me wrongfully in number hugely growe They stande agaynste me that my God with euell doo repay Because that good and honest thynges I doo ensue alway Forsake me not O Lolde my God be thou not far away Hast me to help my Lord my God my safety and my stay Dixi custodiam xxxix Iohn Hop Dauid vttereth with what great gref and bitternes of mind he was driuen to these outragious complaynts of his infirmities for he canfesseth that when he had determined sylence that he brast forth yet in to words that he woulde not through the greatnes of his greef Thē be reherseth certayne requests which tast of infirmitie of man mixeth with them many prayers but all to shew a mind wōderfully troubled that it may plainly appeare how he did stryue myghtiye agaynste deathe and desperatyon I Sayde I will loke to my wayes For feare I should go wronge Sing this as the. xxxv psalme I will take heede all tymes that I Offend not in my tounge verse 2 As with a bit
I will kepe fast my mouth with force and might Not once to whisper all the whyle the wicked are in sighte verse 3 I held my tonge and spake no word but kept me close and still Yea from good tallke I did refrayne but sore against my will verse 4 My hart waxt whote within my brest with musing thought and doubte Whiche did encrease and stire the fire at last these words brast oute verse 5 Lorde number oute my lyfe and dayes whiche yet I haue not past So that I may be certifyed how long my lyfe shall laste verse 6 6 Lorde thou hast poynted oute my lyfe in length muche like a spanne Mine age is nothing vnto thee so vayne is euery man verse 7 Man walketh lyke a shade and doth in vayne him self annoye In getting goods and cannot tell who shall the same enioye verse 8 Now lord sith things this wise do frame what helpe doo I desire Of truth my helpe doth hange on thee I nothing elles require The secōd parte verse 9 From all the sinnes that I haue done Lorde quyteme out of hand And make me not a scorne to fooles that nothing vnderstand verse 10 I was as dumme and to complayne no trouble might me moue Because I know it was thy worke my patience for to proue verse 11 Lord take from me thy scourg plage I can them not withstande I faynt and pine away for feare of thy most heuy hand verse 12 when thou for sinne dost man rebuke he waxeth wo and wanne As doth a clothe that mothes haue fret so vayne a thyng is man verse 13 Lord heare my sute and geue good hede regarde my teares that fall Soiourne like a straunger here as did my fathers all verse 14 Oh spare a litle geue me space my strength for to restore Before I go away from hence and shall be seene no more Expectans expectaui Psalm lx I. H Dauid deliuered from great daunger doth magnifye and prayse the grace of God for his deliueraunce and commendith his prouidence towardes all mankynd Then doth he promyse to geue hym self wholy to Gods seruice and so declareth how God is truly worshipped Afterward he geueth thanckes and prayseth God and hauing complained of his enemies w t good courage he calleth for aide cuccour I wayted longe and sought the Lorde and patiently did beare At length to me he did accorde Sing this as the. xxxv psalme my voyce and cry to heare verse 2 He pluckt me from the lake so deepe out of the mire and clay And on a rocke he set my feete and he did gide my waye verse 3 To me he taught a psalme of prayse whiche I must shew abrode And sing new songes of thankes alwayse vnto the Lorde our God verse 4 When all the folke these thinges shall see as people muche afrayde Then they vnto the Lorde will flee and trust vpon his ayde verse 5 O blest is he whose hope and hart doth in the Lorde remayne That with the proude doth take no part nor suche as lye and faine verse 6 For Lorde my God thy wondrous dedes in greatnes far doo passe Thy fauour towards vs excedes all things that euer was verse 7 When I entend and doo deuise thy workes abrode to shew To suche a reckning they doo ryse therof no ende I know verse 8 Burnt offringes thou delightste not in I know thy whole desire With sacrifice to purge their sinne thou doest no man require verse 9 Meate offering and sacrifice thou woldst not haue at all But thou O Lorde hast open made mine eares to heare withall verse 10 But then said I behold and loke I come a meane to be For in the volume of the booke thus it is sayd of me The second parte verse 11 That I O God should doo thy minde whiche thyng doth like me well For in my hart thy lawe I fynde fast placed there to dwell verse 12 Thy Iustice and thy righteousnes in great resorts I tell Beholde my toung no time doth cease O Lord thou knowest full well verse 13 I haue not hid within my brest thy goodnes as by stelth But I declare and haue exprest thy truth and sauing health verse 14 I kept not close thy louyng minde that no man shoulde it knowe The trust that in thy truth I finde to all the churche I shewe verse 14 For I with mischefes many one am sore beset aboute My sinnes encrease and so com on I can not spy them out verse 15 For why in number they excede the heares vpon my head My hart doth faynt for very drede that I almost am deade verse 16 With speed send help and set me free O Lorde I thee require Make hast with ayde to succour me O Lorde at my desire verse 17 Let them sustayne rebuke and shame that seeke my soule to spille Driue back my foes and them defame that wish and would me ill verse 18 For their ill feates doo them discrie that wolde deface my name Alwayse at me they rayle and cry fie on him fie for shame verse 19 Let them in thee haue ioye and welth that seeke to thee alwayse That those that loue thy sauing health may say to God be prayse verse 20 But as for me I am but poore opprest and brought full lowe Yet thou O Lorde wilt me restore to health full well I know verse 21 For why thou art my hope and trust my refuge helpe and stay wherfore my God as thou art iust with me no time delaye Beatus qui in telligit Psalm xli T. S Dauid being greuously afflicted blessed them that pitie his case and complayneth of the treason of his owne frendes familiars as came to passe in Iudas Ioh. xv After he felyng the great mercyes of god gently chastisyng him and not suffring his ennemies to triumphe against him geueth most hartye thankes vnto God THe mā is blest y e careful is the nedie to cōsider For in the season perilous the lorde will him delyuer The lord wil make him safe and sound happy in the land And he will not deliuer him into his enemies hand verse 3 And in his bed when he lieth sicke the Lord will him restore And thou O lord will tourn to health his sicknes and his sore verse 4 Then in my sicknes thus say I haue mercy Lord on me And heale my soule whiche is full wo that I offended thee verse 5 Mine enemies wished me ill in hart and thus of me did say When shall he die that all his name may vanish quite away verse 6 And when they come to visite me they aske if I doo well But in theyr harts mischief they hatche and to their mates it tell verse 7 They bite theyr lippes and whisper so as though they woulde me charme And cast theyr fetches how to trappe me with some mortall harme verse 8 Some greuous sin hath brought him to this sicknes say they playne He is so low that without doubt rise can he not agayne verse
forgot and helpe of idols sought verse 21 Would not god then haue tried this out for he doth know our thought verse 22 Nay nay for thy names sake O Lorde alwayes are we slaine thus Aa shepe vnto the shambles sent right so they deale with vs. verse 23 Up Lorde why slepest thou awake and leaue vs not for all verse 24 Why hidest thou thy countenaunce and dost forget our thrall verse 25 For downe to dust our soule is brought and we now at last cast Our belly lyke as it were glude vnto the ground cleaueth fast verse 26 Rise vp therfore for our defence and helpe vs Lorde at nede We thee bese the for thy goodnes to rescue vs with spede Eructauit Psalme xlv I. H. The maiestie of Salomon hys honour strengthe beauty riches and power are praysed and also hys maryage with the Egiptian being an Heathen woman to blessed if that she can renounce her people and theÌ„ loue other contrey and geue her selfe wholy to her husbande Under the whyche â—yguâ—e the wonderfull maiestie â–ª and the increase of the kingdome of Christe and the Churche hys spouse now taken of the genuies is described MY hart doth now take in hande Sing this as the. xxv psa Some godly songe to singe Thy prayse I shall shew therin perteyneth to the kynge verse 2 My tounge shalbe as quicke his honor to endite As is the pen of any scribe that vseth faste to wryte verse 3 O fayrest of all men thy speache is pleasaunt pure For God hathe blessed thee with giftes for euer to endure verse 4 Aboute thee girde thy sworde O prince of might elect With honour glory and renoume thy person pure is dect verse 5 Go forth with godly speede in mekenes truth and ryght And thy ryght hand shall thee instruct in workes of dredfull might verse 6 Thyne arrowes sharpe and kene theyr harts so sore shall stinge That folke shall fall and knele to thee yea all thy foes O kynge verse 7 Thy royall seate O Lorde for euer shall remayne Because the scepter of thy realme doth righteousnes maintaine verse 8 Because thou louest the ryghte and dost the ill detest God euen thy God hath pointed thee with ioy aboue the rest verse 9 With mirth and sauours swete thy clothes ar all be spreade when thou dost from thy palace pas wherin to make thee glad verse 10 Kinges doughters doo attend in fine and riche araye At thy right hand the queene doth stand in goulde and garments gaye The second parte verse 11 O doughter take good heede enclyne and geue good eare Thou must forget thy kindred all and fathers house most dere verse 12 Then shall the king desire Thy beuty fayer and trim For why he is the Lorde thy God and thou must worship hym verse 13 The doughters then of Tire with giftes full riche to see And all the welthy of the lande shall make theyr sute to thee verse 14 The daughter of the king is glorious to beholde within his closet she doth sitte all dect in beaten goulde verse 15 In robes well wrought with needle with many a pleasaunt thyng With virgins faier on her to waighte she cometh to the king verse 16 16 Thus are they brought with Ioy and mirth on euery side Into the palace of the king and there doo they abide verse 17 In stede of parents lefte O quene the chaunge so standes Thou shalt haue soÌ„nes whoÌ„ thou maist set as princes in all landes verse 18 Wherfore thy holy name all ages shall recorde The people shall geue thankes to thee for euer more O Lorde Deus noster refugium Psalm xlvi I. H. A songe of thankes geuyng for the delyueraunce of Ierusalem after Senacherib with hys army was driuen awaye or some otherlyke so dayne and maruelous delyueraunce by the myghtye hande of God Whereby the Prophet commendyng thys greate benefyte dothe exhorte the faythfull to geue them selues wholy into the hande of God doubtyng nothyng but that vnder hys protection they shalbe safe agaynste all the assaultes of theyr enemyes THe Lorde is oure defence and ayde the strength wherby we stand when we with wo are muche dismaide he is our helpe at hand Though thearth remoue we will not feare though hilles so high stepe be thrust and hurled heare and there within the sea so depe verse 3 No though the waues doo rage so sore that all the bankes it spilles And though it ouer flow the shore and beate downe mightye hilles verse 4 For one fayer floud doth send abrode his pleasaunt streames a pace To fresh the citie of our God and wash his holy place verse 5 In middest of her the Lord doth dwel she can no whit decaye All thinges against her that rebel the Lord will truly staye verse 6 The heathen flocke the kingdoms feare the people make a noyse The earth doth melte and not appeare when God puttes forth his voyce verse 7 The Lord of hostes doth take our part to vs he hath an eye Our hope of health with all our hart on Iacobes God doeth lye verse 8 Come here see with mind thought the working of our God what wonders he him self hath wrought through out the earth abrod verse 9 By him all warres are husht and gone which countres did conspire Their bowes he brake speares echone theyr Charets brent with fier verse 10 Leaue of therfore saith he and know I am a God most stoute Among the heathen high and low and all the earth throughoute verse 11 The Lorde of hostes doeth vs defend he is our strength and tower On Iacobs God doo we depend and on his mighty power Omnes gentes Psalme xlvii I. 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The prophet exorteth all people to the worship of the true and euerliuing God commending the mercyes of God towarde the posteritie of Jacob and after prophecieth of the kingdome of Christ in this tune of the Gospell YE people all in one accorde clappe handes and eke reioyce Sing this as the. xlvi Psa Be glad and sing vnto the Lorde with swete and pleasaunt voyce verse 2 2 For hie the Lorde and dredfull is with wonders manifolde A mighty kynge he is truly in all the earthe extolde verse 3 The people shall he make to be vnto our bondage thrall And vnderneth our fete he shall the nations make to fall verse 4 For vs the heritage he chose whiche we possesse alone The flouring worship of Iacob hys welbeloued one verse 5 Our God ascended vp on hye with ioy and pleasaunt noyce The Lorde goeth vp aboue the skye with trompets royall voyce verse 6 Sing prayse to God sing prayse sing prayses to our kynge For God is king of all the earth all skilfull prayses syng verse 7 God on the heathen reignes and sittes vpon his holy throne The princes of the people haue them ioyned euery one verse 8 To Abrams people for our God whiche is exalted hye Us with a buckler doth defende the earth continually Magnus dominus Psal. xlviii
filds do lye are subiect to my might verse 12 Then though I houngred sore what neede I ought of thyne Sith that the earth with her great store and all therin is myne verse 13 To bullockes fleash haue I suche mind to eate it doest thou thinke Or such a sweetnes doo I finde the bloude of goates to drinke verse 14 Geue to the Lorde his prayse with thankes doo him apply And see thou pay thy vowes alwaies vnto the God most hie verse 15 Then seke and call to me when ought would work thee blame And I will sure deliuer thee that thou maiest prayse my name verse 16 But to the wicked traine whiche talke of God eche daye And yet theyr works are foule and vain to them the Lorde will saye verse 17 With what a face darest thou my worde once speake or name why doth thy taulke my lawe alowe thy dedes denie the same verse 18 Where as for to amend thy lyfe thou art so slacke My word the which thou doest pretend is cast behind thy backe verse 19 When thou a thefe doest see by theft to lyue in welthe with him thou runnest and dost agree lykewyse to thryne by stealthe verse 20 When thou doest them beholde that wiues and maides defile Thou likest it well and waxest boulde to vse that lyfe most vile verse 21 Thy lippes thou doest applye to slaunder and defame ▪ Thy tonge is taught to crafte and lye and still doth vse the same verse 22 Thon studiest to reuile thy frendes to thee so nere With sclaunder thou woldst nedes defile thy mothers sonne moste deare verse 23 Hereat while I doo winke as though I did not see Thou goest on still and so dost thinke that I am lyke to thee verse 24 But sure I will not let to stryke when I beginne Thy faultes in order I will set and open all thy sinne verse 25 Matke this I you require that haue not God in minde Least when I plage you in myneire your helpe be far to fynde verse 26 He that doth geue to me the sacrifice of prayse Doth please me well and he shall see to walke in Godly wayse 1. Miserere mei deus Psalm li. w. w When Dauid was rebuked by the Prophet Nathan for his greate offences he did not onely acknowledge the same to God with protestation of his naturall corruption and iniquitie but also left a memoriall therof to his posteritie Therfore firste he desireth God to forgeue his sinnes and renew in him his holye spirite with promise that he will not be vnmindfull of those great graces Finally fearyng lest god would punish the whole churche for hys faute He requireth that he woulde rather increase his graces towardes the same O Lord consider my distres And now with spede some pitie take My sinnes deface my fautes redresse good Lorde for thy great mercies sake Wash me O Lord and make me cleane Frō this vniust sinfull act purifie yet once againe my hainous crime blody fact verse 2 Remorse and sorow doo constrayne Me to acknowledge myne exces verse 3 My sinne alas doth still remayne Before my face without reles verse 4 4 For thee alone I haue offended committing euyl in thy sight And if I were therfore condemned yet were thy iudgement iust right verse 5 It is to manifest alas that firste I was conceiued in sinne Yea of my mother so borne was and yet vile wretche remaine therin verse 6 Also beholde Lord thou doest loue the inward truthe of a pure hart Therfore thy wisdome from aboue thou hast reueld me to conuert verse 7 If thou with Hissope purge this blot I shalbe cleaner then the glasse And if thou wash away my spot the snow in whitenes shall I passe verse 8 Therfore O Lorde suche ioy me send that inwardly I may synd grace And that my strength may now amend which thou hast swagd for my trespace verse 9 Turne back thy face and frowning ire for I haue felt inoughe thy hande And purge my sinnes I thee desire which doo in number passe the sand verse 10 Make new my hart within my brest and frame it to thy holy will Thy constant spirite in me let rest which may these raging enemies kil The secōd parte verse 11 Cast me not Lorde out from thy face but spedely my tormentes ende Take not from me thy spirite and grace which may from daungers me defend verse 12 Restore me to those ioyes agayne which I was wont in thee to fynde And let me thy free spirite retayne which vnto thee may stirre my mind verse 13 Thus when I shall thy mercyes know I shall instruct others therin And men that are likewise brought low by mine ensample shall flee sinne verse 14 O God that of my health art Lorde forgeue me thys my bloudy vice My harte and toung shall then accorde to sing thy mercies and iustice verse 15 Touch thou my lippes my tonge vntye O Lord which art the only kay And then my mouth shall testifye thy wondrous works praise alway verse 16 And as for outward sacrifice I would haue offred many one But thou estemest them of no pryce and therin pleasure takst thou none verse 17 The heauy hart the mind opprest O Lorde thou neuer dost reiect And to speake truth it is the best and of all sacrifice the effect verse 18 Lorde vnto Sion turne thy face poure out thy mercyes on thy hyll And on Jerusalem thy grace buyld vp the walles and loue it still verse 19 Thou shalt accept then oure offrynges of peace and righteousnes I say Yea calues and many other thynges vpon thyne altare will we lay Another of the same by T. N. HAue mercy on me God after Sing this as the Lamentation thy great abounding grace After thy mercies multitude doo thou my sinnes deface Yet wash me more from mine offence and clense me from my sin For I be know my fautes and still my sinne is in mine eyen Against thee thee alone I haue offended in thys case And euell haue I done before the presence of thy face That in the thynges that thou dost say vpryght thou mayst be tryed And eke in iudging that the dome may passe vpon thy syde Beholde in wickednes my kinde and shape I did receyue And loe my sinfull mother eke in sinne did me conceiue But Loe the truthe in inward partes is pleasant vnto thee And secretes of thy wisdome thou reueled hast to me With hysope Lorde be sprincle me I shalbe clensed so Yea wash thou me and so I shall be whiter than the snow Of ioy and gladnes make thou me to heare the pleasing voyce That so the broosed bones which thou hast broken may reioyce From the beholding of my sinnes Lorde turne away thy face And all my dedes of wickednes doo vtterly deface O God creat in me a hart vnspotted in thy sight And eke within my bowels Lorde renew a stable sprite Ne cast me from thy sight nor take thy holy sprite away The
comfort of thy sauing help geue me againe I pray With thy free sprite establish me And I will teache therfore Sinners thy wayes and wicked shall be turnde vnto thy lore O God that art God of my health from blood deliuer me That prayses of thy righteousnes my tonge may syng to thee My lippes that yet fast closed be doo thou O Lorde vnlose The prayses of thy maiestie my mouth shall so disclose I would haue offred sacrifice if that had pleased thee But pleased with burnt offringes I knowe thou wilt not be A trobled sprite is sacrifice delytefull in Gods eyes A broken and an humbled hart God thou wilt not despise In thy good will deale gently Lorde to Sion and with all Graunt that of thy Ierusalem vpreard may be the wall Burnt offrings giftes and sacrifice of iustice in that day Thou shalt accept and calues they shal vpon thyne altar lay Quid gloriaris Psalme lii I. H Dauid describeth the arrogante tyrannye of hys aduersarye Doeg Saules chief shepherde who by false surmyses caused Achimelech with the rest of the priestes to be slain Dauid prophecieth his destruction and encourageth the faithfull to put theyr confidence in God whose iudgements are most sharpe against his aduersaryes And fynally he rendreth thankes to God for his deliueraunce In thys Psalme is lyuely set forthe the kingdome of Antichrist WHy dost thou tyrāt boast abrode thy wicked works to prayse dost thou not knowe there is a God whose mercies last alwayes Why doth thy mind yet still deuise suche wicked wiles to warpe Thy tong vntrue in forging lies is like a rasour sharpe verse 3 On mischief why settest thou thy minde and wilt not walke vpryght Thou hast more lust false tales to fynde then bryng the truth to lyght verse 4 Thou doest delyte in fraude and guile in mischief blud and wrong Thy lyppes haue learnde the flateryng style O false deceitfull tonge verse 5 Therfore shall God for euer confounde and pluck thee from thy place Thy sede rote out from of the grounde and so shall thee deface verse 6 The iust when they beholde thy fall with feare will praise the Lorde And in reproche of thee withall cry out with one accorde verse 7 Behold the man which would not take the Lorde for his defence But of his goods his God did make and trust his corrupt sence verse 8 But I an Oliue fresh and grene shall spring and sprede abrode For why my trust all times hathe bene vpon the lyuing Ood verse 9 For this therfore will I geue prayse to thee with hart and voyce I will set forth thy name always wherin thy sainctes reioyce Dixit in sipiens Psalme Liii T. N The Prophet describeth the croked nature the crueltye and punishment of the wicked when they loke not for it and desireth the deliueraunce of the godlie that they may reioyce together THe foolish man in that whyche he within his hart hath sayde Sing this as the. xiv psalme That there is any God at all hathe vtterly denyde They are corrupt and they also a haynous worke haue wrought Amonge them all there is not one of good that worketh ought The Lorde loked downe on sons of men from Heuen all abrode To see if any were that would be wise and seke for God They are gone all out of the way they are corrupted all There is not one doth any good there is not one at all Do not all wicked workers know that they do fede vpon My people as they fede on breade the Lorde they call not on Euen there they were afrayde and stode with trembling all dismayde Where as there was no cause at all why they should be afrayde For God his bones that thee beseged hath scattered all abrode Thou hast confounded them for they reiected are of God O Lorde geue thou thy people health and thou O Lord fulfill thy promise made to Israell from out of Syon hill When God his people shall restore that erst was captiue lad Thou Iacob shall therin reioyse and Israel shalbe glad Deus in nomine Psalm Liiii I. H Dauid brought into Great daunger by reasō of Ziphius calleth vpō the name of God to destroy e his enemies promysing sacrifice and froe offerings for their delyueraunce GOd saue me for thy holy name and for thy goodnes sake Sing this as the. xlvi Psa Unto the strength Lorde of the same I doo my cause betake verse 2 Regarde O Lorde and geue an eare to thee when I doo praye Bow downe thy sealfe to me and heare the wordes that I doo saye verse 3 For straungers vp against me ryse and tirauntes vex me still Whiche haue not God before theyr eies they seke my soule to spill verse 4 But loe my God doeth geue me ayde the Lorde is strayght at hand with them by whom my soule is stayed the Lorde doth euer stande verse 5 With plages repay agayne all those for me that lye in wayte And with thy truth destroy my foes with theyr owne snare and bayte verse 6 An offering of free hart and will that I to thee shall make And prayse thy name for therin still greate comfort I doo take verse 7 O Lorde at length doo set me free from them that craft conspire And now mine eye with ioye doeth see on them my hartes desire Exaudi deus Psalme Lv. I. H. Dauid being in greate heauines and distres complayneth of the crueltye of Saule and of the falshod of his familyar acquaintaunce vtteryng most ardent affections to moue the Lord to pitie hym After being assured of deliueraūce he setteth forth the grace of god as though he had all ready obtayned his request O God geue eare and do apply To heare me when I praye Sing this as the. xxxv psalme And when to thee I call and crye hide not thy selfe awaye verse 2 Take hede to me graunt my request and aunswer me agayne with playntes I pray full sore opprest greate grief doeth me constrayne verse 3 Because my foes with threates and cries oppres me through despighte And so the wicked sorte lykewise to vex me haue delighte verse 4 For they in counsell doo conspire to charge me with some ill So in their hasty wrath and ire they doo pursue me styll verse 5 My hart doth faynte for want of breathe it panteth in my breste The terroures and the dread of deathe doo work me muche vnrest verse 6 feare on me doth fall with doo quake Suche 〈◊〉 whelmeth me with all that I can make verse 7 But I will geue me ▪ Of some fayer doue that I may flee and rest me from these thinges verse 8 Lo then I woulde go farre awaye to flye I woulde not cease And I woulde hide my selfe and staye in some greate wildernes verse 9 I would be gon in all the hast and not abide behinde That I weare quite and ouer past these blasts of boisteous winde verse 10 Deuide them Lord and from them pul their diuilish double tounge
confirmed in his kingdom He promiseth perpetuall prayses REgarde O Lorde for I complayne and make my sute to thee let not my wordes returne in vayne but geue an eare to me from of the costes and vtmost partes of all the earth abrode in griefe and anguish of my harte I cry to thee O God verse 3 Upon the rocke of thy greate power my woefull mynde repose Thou arte my hope my forte and tower my fence against my foes verse 4 within thy tent I lust to dwell foreuer to endure vnder thy winges I know right well I shalbe safe and sure verse 5 The Lorde dueth my desire regarde and doth fulfill the same with goodly giftes will he rewarde all them that feare his name verse 6 The king shall he inhealth maintayne and so prolong his dayes That he from age to age shall raygne for euer more alwayse verse 7 That he may haue a dwelling place before the Lorde for aye O let thy mercy truth and grace defend him from decaye verse 8 Then shall I singe for euer still with prayse vnto thy name That all my voues I may fulfill and dayly pay the same Nonne deo subiecta Psalm lxii I. H. Dauid declareth by hys example and by the nature of God that he must truste in God alone and thereunto exhorteth people seyng that all is vanytie and withoute God all goeth to nought and we are allwayes taught that God only is of power to saue and that he rewardeth man according to hys workes MY soule to God shall geue good hede Sing this as the. lxi psalme and him alone entende For why my health hope to spede doth whole on him depende verse 2 For he alone is my defence my rocke my health my ayde He is my stay that no pretence shall make me much dismaide verse 3 O wicked folke how long will ye vse crafts sure ye must fall For as a rotten hedge ye be and like a tuttering wall verse 4 4 whom God doth loue ye seke alwayes to put hym to the worse Ye loue to lye with mouth ye prayse and yet your hart doth curse verse 5 Yet still my soule doth whole depend on God my chief desire From all false feates me to defend none but him I require verse 6 He is my rocke my strength my towre my health is of his grace He doth support me that no powre can moue me out of place verse 7 God is my glory and my health my soules desire and lust My fort my strength my stay my wealth God is mine onely trust verse 8 Oh haue your hope in him alway ye folke with one accorde Poure out your harts to hym and saye our trust is in the Lorde verse 9 The sonnes of men deceitptfull are on balaunce but a sleyght with thinges most vayne doo them cōpare for they can kepe no weyght verse 13 Trust not in wrong robbry or stealth let vayne delytes be gon Though goods wel got flow in with welth set not your hartes theron verse 11 The Lorde long sith one thing doth tell whiche here to minde I call He spake it oft I hard it well that God alone doeth all verse 12 And that thou Lorde art good and kynd thy mercy doth excede So that all sortes whiche thee shall finde according to theyr dede Deus deus meus Psalme lxiii T. S Dauid after he had bene in greate daunger by Saule in the deserte Ziph made this psalme wherein he geueth thankes to God for hys wonderfull deliuerance in whose mercyes he trusted euen in the middist of hys miseryes prophecying the destruction of Gods enemies contrarywyse happynes to all them that trust in the Lorde i. Sa. iu. O God my God I watche betyme to come to thee in hast Sing this as the. xliiii ps For why my soule and body bothe doth thirst of thee to tast And in this baren wildernes where waters there are none My flesh is partched for thought of thee for thee I wish alone verse 2 That I might see yet once agayne thy glory strength and myght As I was wont it to beholde within thy temple bryght verse 3 For why thy mercyes farre surmount thys lyfe and wretched dayes My lyppes therfore shall geue to thee due honor laude and prayes verse 4 And whylst I lyue I wyll not fayle to worship thee alwaye And in thy name I shall lyft vp my hands when I doo praye verse 5 My soule is filled as with marow whiche is bothe fat and swete My mouth therfore shall sing such songs as are for thee most mete verse 6 When as in bed I think on thee and eke all the night tide For vnder couert of thy winges thou art my ioyfull guyde verse 7 My soule doeth surely stick to thee thy ryghthande is my power verse 9 And those that seke my soule to stroy them death shall sone deuoure verse 10 The sword shall them deuoure echone theyr carcases shall fede The hungry foxes which doo ronne theyr pray to seke at nede verse 11 The king and all men shall reioyse that doo profes Gods worde For liers mouthes shall then be stopt which haue the trueth disturbde Exaudi deus vocem meam Psal. lxiiii I. H. Dauid praieth against the false reportes and sklaunderers he declareth theyr punishment and destruction to the comfort of the iust and the glory of God O Lord vnto my voyce geue eare with plaint when I doo pray Sing this as the. xviii Ps And rid my lyfe and soule from feare of foes that threat to slay verse 2 Defend me from that sort of men whiche in deceipts do lurke And from the frownyng face of them that all ill feates doo worke verse 3 Who whet theyr tongs as we haue sene men whet and sharp theyr swordes They shote abrode theyr arrowes kene I meane most bitter wordes verse 4 With priuie sleyght shote they theyr shaft the vpright man to hit The iust vnware to strike by craft they care or feare no whit verse 5 A wicked worke haue they decreed in counsell thus they crye To vse deceit let vs not dread what who can it espie verse 6 What wayes to hurt they talke and muse all times within theyr hart They all consulte what feates to vse eche doth inuent his part verse 7 But yet all this shall not auayle when they thinke least vpon God with hys dart shall sure assayle and wound them euery one verse 8 Theyr crafts and their ill toungs withall shall worke them selues suche blame That they whiche then beholde theyr fall shall wonder at the same verse 9 Then all that see shall know ryght well that God the thing hath wrought Shall prayse his wittie workes and tell what he to pas hath brought verse 10 Yet shall the iust in God reioyse Stil trusting in his might So shall they ioy with minde and voyce whose hart is pure and ryght Te decet hymnus Psalm lxv I H. A prapse and thankesgeuing vnto God by the faithfull who are
signyfied by Sion and Ierusalem for the chosing preseruation and gouernaunce of them and for the plentyfull blessings powred forth vpon all the earthe THy prayse alone O Lorde doth reigne in Sion thine owne hill Theyr vowes to thee they doo maintaine Sing this as the. xxx psalme and their behestes fullfill verse 2 For that thou doest theyr prayer heare and dost therfo agree Thy people al bothe far and neare with trust shall come to thee verse 3 Our wicked lyfe so farre excedes that we should fall therin But Lorde forgeue our great misdeedes and purge vs from out synne verse 4 The man is blest whom thou doest chuse within thy courte to dwell Thy house and temple be shall vse with pleasures that excell verse 5 Of thy great iustice heare vs God our health of thee doth ryse The hope of all the earth abrode and the sea coasts likewise verse 6 With strength thou art beset about and compasd with thy power Thou makst the mountayns strong stout to stand in euery shower verse 7 The swelling seas thou dost asswage and make their streames full styll Thou dost restrayne the peoples rage and rule them at thy will verse 8 The folke that dwell full farre on earth shall dread thy signes to see Whiche morne and euen in great mirth doo passe with prayse to thee verse 9 When that the earth is chopt and drye and thirsteth more and more Then with thy dropes thou dost applye and muche encrease her store verse 10 The floud of God doth ouerflow and so doth cause to sprynge The seede and corne which men doo sow for he doth guide the thing verse 11 With wete thou dost her forowes fill wherby her cloddes doo fall Thy drops to her thou dost distill and bles her frute withall verse 12 Thou deckst the earth of thy good grace with fayre and pleasaunt crop Thy cloudes distill theyr deaw a pace great plenty they doo drop verse 13 wherby the desert shall begin full great encrease to bryng The litle hilles shall ioy therin muche frute in them shall spryng verse 14 In places playne the flocke shall fede and couer all the earth The valies with corne shall so excede that men shall sing for mirth Iubilate deo omnis terra Psal. lxvl. T. S. He prouoketh all men to prayse the Lorde to considre his workes rehersing two thinges most wonderful He setteth forth the power of God to affray the rebels and sheweth how God hath delyuered Israell from great bondage and afflictions ▪ he promiseth to geue sacryfyce and prouoke all men to heare what God hath done for hym and to prayse hys name YE men on earth in God reioyce Sing this as the. xviii Ps with prayse set forth his name Extoll his might with hart and voyce geue glory to the same verse 2 How wonderfull O Lorde say ye in all thy workes thou art Thy foes for feare doo seke to thee full sore agaynst theyr hart verse 3 All men that dwell the earth throughout doo prayse the name of God The laude therof the worlde about is shewd and set abrode verse 4 All folke come forth beholde and see what things the Lord hath wrought Mark wel the wōdrous works that he for man to passe hath brought verse 5 He laid the sea like heapes on hye therin away they had On fote to pas both fair and drye wherof theyr harts were glad verse 6 His might doth rule the world alwaye his eyes all thynges be hold All suche as would him disobey by hym shalbe controld verse 7 ye people geue vnto our God due laude and thankes alwayes With ioyfull voyce declare abrode and syng vnto hys prayse verse 8 Whiche doth endue our soule with life and it preserue with all He stayeth our fete so that no stryfe can make vs slippe or fall verse 9 The Lord doth proue our dedes with fire if that they will abyde As workmen doo when they desyre to haue theyr metals tryde verse 10 Although thou suffer vs so long in prison to be cast And there with chaines fetters strong to lye in bondage fast The secōde part verse 11 Although I say thou suffer men on vs to ryde and raygne Though we through fyre and water ren of very grief and payne verse 12 yet sure thou dost of thy good grace dispose it to the best And bring vs out into a place to liue in wealth and rest verse 13 Unto thy house resort will I to offer and to pray And there I will my selfe applye my vowes to thee to pay verse 14 The vowes that with my mouth I spake in all my grief and smart The vowes I say whiche I did make in dolor of my hart verse 15 Burnt offringe I will geue to thee of Oxen fat and Rammes No other sacrifice shalbe of bullockes goates and lamkes verse 16 Come forth and harken here full sone all ye that feare the Lorde what he for my poore soule hath done to you I will record verse 17 Full oft I call vpon hys grace thys mouth to him doth crye And thou my tonge make spede apace to prayse hym by and by verse 18 But if I fele my hart within in wicked workes reioyce Or if I haue delyte to syn God will not heare my voyce verse 19 But surely God my voice hath heard and what I doo require My prayer he doth well regarde and graunteth my desire verse 20 All prayse to him that hath not put nor cast me out of mynde Nor yet his mercy from me shut which I doo euer fynde Deus misereatur nostri Psalme lxvii I. H. A swete prayer for all the faythfull to obteyne the fauor of God and to be lyghtened with hys countenaunce to thende that hys way and iudgements may be knowne throughout the earth A reioysing that God is the gouernor of all nations HAue mercy on vs Lorde Sing this as the. xxx psalme and graunte to ps thy grace To shew to vs doo thou accorde the bryghtnes of thy face verse 2 That all the earth may knowe thy way to godly wealth And all the nations on a row may see thy sauyng health verse 3 Let all the worlde O God geue prayse vnto thy name O let the people all abrode Extoll and laude the same verse 4 Thoroughout the worlde so wyde let all reioyce with mirth For thou with truth right dost guide the nations of the earth verse 5 Let all the worlde O God geue prayse vnto thy name Oh let the people all abrode extoll and laude the same verse 6 Then shall the earth encrease Great store of frute shall fall And then our God the God of peace Shall bles vs eke with all God shall vs bles I say and then bothe farre and neare The folke throughout the earth alway of him shall stande in feare Exurgat deus Psal. lxviii T. S. In this Psalm Dauid setteth forth as in a glas the wonderfull mee mercyes of God towardes his people who by all meanes and moste
are no les then heares are on my hed verse 5 Though for no cause they vexe me sore they prosper and are glad They doo compell me to restore the thynges I neuer had verse 6 What I haue done for want of wit thou Lorde all times canst tell And all the same that I commit to thee is knowne ful well verse 7 O God of hostes defend and staye al those that trust in thee Let no man doubt or shrink awaye for ought that chaunceth me verse 8 It is for thee and for thy sake that I doo beare this blame In spite of thee they would me make to hyde my face for shame verse 9 My mothers sonnes my brethern all forsake me on a rowe And as a straunger they me call my face they will not knowe verse 10 vnto thy house suche zeale I beare that it doth pine me muche Theyr checks taunts at thee to heare my very hart doth grutch The second parte verse 11 Though I doo fast my flesh to chaste yea if I wepe and mone Yet in my teath this geare is cast they passe not thereupon verse 12 If I for grief and payne of hart in sackcloth vse to walke Then they anone will it peruert therof they iest and talke verse 13 Both hie and lowe and all the throng that sit within the gate They haue me euer in theyr tong of me they talke and prate verse 14 The dronkards whiche in wine delyte it is their cheif pastime To seke whiche way to worke me spite of me they sing and rime verse 15 But thee the whyle O Lorde I pray that when it pleaseth thee For thy great truth thou wilt alwaye sende downe thyne ayde to me verse 16 Pluck thou my feete out of the myre from dro wning doo me kepe From suche as owe me wrath and ire and from the waters depe verse 17 Lest with y e waues I should be drownd and depth my soule deuouer And that the pit should me confound and shut me in her power verse 18 O Lorde of hostes to me geue eare as thou arte good and kynde And as thy mercy is most deare Lorde haue me in thy mynde verse 19 And doo not from thy seruaunt hyde nor turne thy face awaye I am opprest on euery syde in hast geue eare I say verse 20 O Lorde vnto my soule draw nye the same with ayde repose Because of theyr great tyrannye acquite me fro my foes The thirde parte verse 21 That I abide rebuke and shame thou knowest and thou canst tell For those that seke and worke the same thou seest them all full well verse 22 When they with brags doo breake my hart I seke for helpe anone But finde no frendes to ease my smarte to comfort me not one verse 23 But in my meate they gaue me gall to cruell for to thynke And gaue me in my thirst withall stronge vineger to dryncke verse 24 Lorde turne their table to a snare to take them selues therin And when they thinke full well to fare then trap them in the gin verse 25 And let theyr eyes be darke and blynde that they may nothyng see Bow downe their back doo thē binde in thraldome for to be verse 26 Powre out thy wrath as hoate as fyer that it on them may fal Let thy displeasure in thyne yre take holde vpon them all As desert drye theyr house disgrace their offring eke expell verse 27 That none therof posses their place nor in their tents doo dwell If thou dost strike the man to tame on him they lay full sore verse 28 And if that thou do wounde the same they seke to hurt him more Then let them heape vp mischief still sith they are all peruert verse 29 That of thy fauor and good will they neuer haue no part And dash them cleane out of the boke of life of hope of trust That for their names they neuer loke in number of the iust The forth parte verse 31 Though I O Lorde with wo grief haue bene full sore opprest Thy helpe shall geue me suche relief that all shall be redrest verse 32 That I may geue thy name the prayse and shew it with a song I will extoll the same alwayes with harty thankes among verse 33 Which is more pleasant vnto thee Such minde thy grace hath borne Then either Oxe or Calfe can be that hath bothe hoofe and horne verse 34 When simple folke doo this beholde it shall reioyce them sure All ye that seke the Lorde beholde your lyfe for aye shall dure verse 35 For why the Lord of hosts doth heare the poore when they complayne His prisoners are to him full deare he doth them not disdayne verse 36 Wherfore the skie and earth belowe The sea with floud and stream His prayse they shall declare and showe with all that liue in them verse 37 For sure our God will Sion saue and Iudaes cities builde verse 38 38 Much folke possession there shall haue her streate shall all be filde Her seruaunts sede shall kepe the same all ages out of minde verse 39 And there all they that loue hys name adwellyng place shall fynde Deus in adiutorium Psalme lxx I. H. He prayeth to be ryght spedely delyuered as in the. ix Psalm Then he desireth the shame of hys enemyes and the ioy full comforte of all those that seke the Lorde O God to me take hede of helpe I thee require Sing this as the. lxxii ps O Lorde of hosts with hast and spede helpe helpe I thee desire verse 2 With shame confound them all that seke my soule to spill Rebuke them backe with blame to fall that thinke and wish me ill verse 3 Confounde them that applye and seke to worke me shame And at my harme do laugh and crye so so there goth the game verse 4 But let them ioyfull be in thee with ioy and wealth Which only trust and seke to thee and to thy sauing health verse 5 That they may say alwayes in mirth and one accorde All glory honor laude and prayse be geuen to thee O Lorde verse 6 But I am weake and poore come Lorde thine ayde I lacke Thou art my stay and helpe therfore make spede and be not slack In te domine speraui Psalm lxxi I H. He prayeth in sayth establyshed by the worde of the promise and confirmed by the worke of God from his youth he desireth now to be deliuered from the wicked and cruell man meanyng his sonne Absolō and his confederacy and he promiseth to be mindefull and thankefull for the same MY Lorde my God in all distres my hope is whole in thee Sing this as the. lxix psa Then let no shame my soule oppres nor once take holde on me verse 2 As thou art iust defend me Lorde and rid me out of drede Geue eare and to my suite accorde and send me helpe at nede verse 3 Be thou my rock to whom I may for ayde all times resort Thy promise is to helpe alwaye
for worne and old our realine as now doth stand verse 22 Let not the simple go away with disapointed shame But let the poore and nedye aye geue prayse vnto thy name verse 23 Ryse Lord let be by thee mainteined the cause that is thyne owne Remember how that thou blasphemde art by the folysh one verse 24 The voyce forget not of thy foes for they presumyng hie Is more and more encreast of those that hate thee spitefully Confitebimur tibi deus Psalm lxxv N. The faythfull doo prayse the name of the Lord whiche shall come to iudge at the time appoynted when the wicked shal be put to confusion and drynke of the cup of his wrath theyr prayer shall be abated the righteous shall be exaited to honor VNto the God we will geue thankes Sing this as the. rliiii psalme we will geue thankes to thee Sith thy name is so nere declare thy wondrous workes will we verse 2 I will vprightly iudge when get conuenient tyme I may The earth is weake and all therin but I her pillers stay verse 3 I did to thee mad people say deale not furiouslye And vnto the vngodliones set not your hornes so hie verse 4 I sayd vnto them set not vp your taysed hornes on hye And see that you doo with stiffe neck not speake presumptuously verse 5 For neyther from the eastern part nor from the westernside Nor from forsaken wildernes protection doth procede verse 6 For why the Lorde our God he is the righteous iudge alone He putteth downe the one and sets another in the throne verse 7 For why a cup of myghtye wyne is in the hand of God And all the myghtye wyne therin himself doth poure abrode verse 8 As for the lees and filthy dregges that doo remayne of it The wicked of the earth shall drinke and suck them euery whyt verse 9 But I will talke of God I say of Iacobs God therfore And will not cease to celebrate his prayse for euermore verse 10 In sunder breake the hornes of all vngodly men will I But then the hornes of righteous men shalbe exalted hye Gloria patri To father sonne and holy ghost all glory be therfore As in beginning was is now and shalbe euermore In Iudea Psalme Lxxvi I. H. This Psalme◠setteth for the the power of God and care for the defence of hys people in Jerusalem in the destruction of the armie Senacherib And exhorteth the faythfull to be thankefull for the same TO all that now in Jury dwell Sing this as the lxix psa the Lorde is clerly knowen His name is great in Israell a people of his owne verse 2 At Salem he his tents hath pighte to tary there a space In sion eke he hathe delyghte to make his dwellyng place verse 3 And there he brake bothe shaft and bow the sworde the speare and shilde And brake the ray to ouerthrowe in battell on the fielde verse 4 Thou arte more worthy honour Lord more mighte in thee dothe lye Then in the strongest of the worlde that rob on mountayes hye verse 5 But now y e proud are spoyled through the and they are fallen on sleepe Through men of warre no helpe can be them selues they coulde not kepe verse 6 At thy rebuke O Iacobs God when thou doost them reproue As halfe in slepe theyr charets stoode no horsman once doth moue verse 7 For thou arte fearfull Lorde in dede what man the corage hathe To bide thy sight and doth not dreede when thou art in thy wrath verse 8 Whē thou dost make thy iudgmēts hard from heauen through the grounde Then al the earth full sore afearde in silence shalbe founde verse 9 And that when thou O God dost stand in iudgement for to speake To saue thafflicted of the lande on earth that are full weake verse 10 The fury that in man doth raygne shall tourne vnto thy prayse Hereafter Lorde doo thou restrayne theyr wrath and threates alwayes verse 11 Make voues paye them to your God ye folke that nigh him bee Bring giftes all ye that dwell abrode for dreedfull sure is he verse 12 For he doth take bothe lyfe and might from Princes great of birth And full of terroure is hys sighte to all the kinges on earth Voce mea ad dominum Psalm lxxvii IH The Prophet in the name of the churche rehearseth the greatnes of his affliction and his greuous temptation wherby he was driuen to thys end to consider his formore conuersacion the continuall cours of Gods worckes in the preseruation of his seruauntes and so he confirmeth his sayth agaynst these temptacyons I With my voyce to God do cry with harte and harty cheare my voyce to God I lyfte on hyghe and he my sute doth heare in tyme of grief I sought to God by nyght no rest I toke But stretcht my hands to him abrode my soule comfort forsoke verse 3 When I to thinke one God entend my troble then is more I spake but could not make an ende my breath was stopt so sore verse 4 Thou houldst myne eys alwayse from rest that I alwayes awake With feare am I so sore opprest my speche doeth me forsake verse 5 The dayes of olde in minde I cast and oft did thinke vpon The times and ages that are past full many yeares agon verse 6 By night my songes I call to mynde once made thy prayse to shew And with my hart much taulke I finde my spirites doth searche to knowe verse 7 Will God sayd I at once for all cast of his people thus So that hence for the no time he shall be frendly vnto vs. verse 8 What is hys goodnes cleane decayed for euer and aday Or is hys promise now delayde and doeth his truthe decaye verse 9 And will the Lorde our God forget his mercyes manifolde Or shall his wrath encrease so whot his mercy to with holde verse 10 At last I sayde my weakenes is the cause of this mistrust Gods mighty hand can healpe all thys and chaunge it when he lust verse 11 I will regarde and thinke vpon the workyng of the Lorde Of all his wonders past and gone I gladly will recorde verse 12 yea all his workes I will declare and what he did deuise To tell his factes I will not spare and eke his counsell wyse verse 13 Thy workes O Lorde are all vprghit and holy all abrod What one hath strēgth to match y e mighte of thee O Lorde our God verse 14 Thou art a God that oft dost show thy wonders euery hower And so doest make the people knowe thy vertue and thy power verse 15 And thine owne folke thou diddest defēd with strength and stretched arme The sonnes of Jacob that discend and Josephes seede from harme verse 16 16 The waters Lorde perceued thee the waters saw thee well And they for feare a side did flee the depthes on trembling fell verse 17 The clouds that were both thick black did rayne full plenteously The thonder in
enquire For thine elect to lye in wayte theyr councell doth conspire verse 4 4 Come on sayd they let vs expell and plucke these folke awaye So that the name of Israell may vtterly decay verse 5 They all conspire within theyr hart how they may thee withstand Agaynst the Lorde to take a parte they are in league and bande verse 6 The tentes of all the Edomites the Ismalites also The Hagarenes and Moabites with diuers other more verse 7 Geball with Ammon and likewise dothe Amalece conspire The Phillistines against thee ryse with them that dwell at Cyre verse 8 And Assur eke is well apaide with them in league to be And doeth become afence and ayde to Lots posteritie verse 9 As thou diddest to the Madianites so serue them Lorde echeone As to Cicer and to Iabin beside the broke kison verse 10 Whom thou in Endor diddest descry and wast them through thy might That they like doung on earth did lye and not in open sighte verse 11 Make them now theyr Lords appere like Zeb and Oreb then As Zebah and Zalmana we are the kynges of Madian verse 12 Whiche said let vs throughout the land in all the costes abrode Posses and take into our hand the fayer houses of God verse 13 Tourn them O God with storms as fast as wheeles that haue no staye Or lyke as chaffe whiche men doo cast with windes to flee awaye verse 14 Lyke as the fire with rage and fume the mightye forest spilles And as the flame doth quyte consume the mountaynes and the hilles verse 15 So let the tempest of thy wrath vpon theyr neckes be layde And of thy stormy wynde and shower Lorde make them all afrayed verse 16 Lorde brynge them all I thee desire to suche rebuke and shame That it may cause them to enquire and learne to seke thy name verse 17 And let them euermore dayly to shame and sclaunder fall And in rebuke and oblique to perish eke with all verse 18 That they may know fele full well that thou art called Lord And that alone thou doest excell and raygne throughout the worlde Quam dilecta tabernacula Psal. lxxxiiii I. H. Dauid driuen forth of his countrey desireth most ardently to come a gayne to the Tabernacle of the Lord and the assembly of the saincts to prayse God pronouncing them blessed that may so doo Then he prayseth the courage of the people that passe thorow the wildernes to assemble them selues in Sion Finally with prayse of this matter confidence of Gods goodnes he endeth the Psalme HOwe pleasaunt is the dwelling place Sing this as the. lxvii psalme O Lorde of hostes to mee The Tabernacles of thy grace how pleasaunte Lorde they bee verse 2 My soule doth longe full sore to go into thy courtes abrode My hart doth lust my flesh also in thee the liuing God verse 3 The sparrowes finde a rome to rest and saue them selues from wrong And eke the swalow hath a neste wherin to kepe her yong verse 4 These birdes full nigh thine aulter maye haue place to sitte and synge O Lorde of hostes thou art I say my God and eke my kynge verse 5 Oh they be blessed that may dwell within thy house alwayse For they all tymes thy factes doo tell and euer geue thee prayse verse 6 yea happy sure lykewise arthey whose staye and strength thou art Which to thy house doo minde the way and seke it in theyr hart verse 7 As they go through the vale of teares they digge vp fountaynes still That as a spring it all appeeres and thou theyr pittes doest fill verse 8 From strength to strength they walke full fast no fayntnes there shalbe And so the God of Gods at laste in Sion they doo see verse 9 O Lorde of hostes to me geue heede and heare when I doo praye And let it through thine eares procede O Iacobes God I saye verse 10 O Lorde our shilde of thy good grace regarde and so draw nere Regarde I say beholde the face of thyne anoynted deere verse 11 For why within thy courtes one daye is better to abyde Then other where to keepe or staye a thousand dayes beside verse 12 Muche rather would I kepe a dore within the house of God Then in the tents of wickednes to settle mine abode verse 13 For God the Lorde light and defence will grace and worship geue And no good thing shall he witholde from them that purely lyue verse 14 O Lorde of hostes that man is blest and happy sure is he That is perswaded in his brest to trust all times in thee Benedixisti domine Psalme lxxxv I. H Because God with drewe not his roddes from his churche after the retorne from Babilon first they put him in mind of theyr delyueraūce to the entent that he should not leue the worcke of his grace vnperfite next they complaine of theyr long affliction And thirdlye the reioyce in hope of felicytie promised for their deliueraunce was a figure of Christes kingdome vnder which should be perfit felycitie THou hast ben mercyfull in dede Sing this as the. lxxxi Ps. O Lorde vnto thy land For thou restoredst Iacobs sede from thraldom oute of bande verse 2 The wicked wayes that they were in thou didst them cleane remitte And thou didst hide thy peoples sinne full close thou coueredst it verse 3 Thine anger eke thou didst asswage that all thy wrath was gon And so didst tourne the from thy rage with them to be at one verse 4 O God our health doo now conuert thy people vnto thee Put all thy wrath from vs aparte and anger cese to be verse 5 Why shall thyne anger neuer ende but still procede on vs And shall thy wrath it selfe extend vpon all ages thus verse 6 Wilt thou not rather tourne therfore and quicken vs that we And all thy folke may euermore be glad and ioy in thee verse 7 O Lorde on vs doo thou declare thy goodnes to our welth Shew forth to vs and doo not spare thine ayde and sauing health verse 8 I will hark what God saith for he speaketh to his people peace And to his sainctes that neuer they returne to folishnes verse 9 For why his health is still at hand to suche as him doo feare Wherby great glory in our lande shall dwell and florish there verse 10 For truth and mercy there shall mete in one to take their place And peace also iustice greete with kis and there they shall imbrace verse 11 As truth from earth shall spring a pace and florish pleasauntly So righteousnes shall shew her face and loke from heauen hye verse 12 Yea-God him selfe shall take in hand to geue vs eche good thinge And through the costes of all our land the earth her frutes shall bringe verse 13 Before his face shall iustice goe muche lyke a guide or stay He shall direct his steppes also and kepe them in the way Inclina domine aurem Psalm lxxxvi I. H. Dauid sore afflicted and forsaken
of all prayeth feruently for delyueraunce Somtimes rehearsing his miseryes somtymes the mercyes receyued desiring also to be enstructed of the Lord that he may feare hym also and gloryfye his name He complayneth also of his aduersaryes and requyreth to be delyuered from them LOrde bow thine eare to my request Sing this as the. lxxxi Ps. and heare me by and by With greuous payn and gref opprest full poore and weake am I. verse 2 Preserue my soule because my waye and doinges holly bee And saue thy seruaunte O my Lorde that puttes his trust in thee verse 3 Thy mercy Lord on me expresse defend me eke with all For through the day I doo not cease on thee to crye and call verse 4 Comfort O Lorde thy seruaunts soule that nowe with payne is pinde For vnto thee Lorde I extoll and lift my soule and minde verse 5 For thou arte good and bountifull thy giftes of grace are free And eke thy mercy plentifull to all that call on thee verse 6 O Lorde lyke wise when I doo pray regarde and geue an eare Mark well the words that I doo say and all my prayers heare verse 7 In time when troble doth me moue to thee I doo complayne For why I know and well doo proue thou answerest me agayne verse 8 Among the Gods O Lorde is none with thee to be comparde And none can doo as thou alone the lyke hath not ben harde verse 9 The Gentils and the peoples all whiche thou didst make and frame Before thy face on knees will fall and gloryfye thy name verse 10 For why thou art so muche of might all power is thine owne Thou workest wonders still in sight for thou art God alone verse 11 O teache me Lorde thy way and I shall in thy truth procede O ioyne my hart to thee so nye that it thy name may dreade verse 12 To thee my God wil I geue praise with all my hart O Lord And gloryfie thy name alwayse for euer through the worlde verse 13 For why thy mercy shewed to me is great and doth excell Thou settest my soule at libertie out from the lower hell verse 14 O Lorde the proude against me ryse and heapes of men of might They seeke my soule and in no wise will haue thee in theyr sight verse 15 Thou Lorde art mercyfull and meeke full slacke and slow to wrath Thy goodnes is full greate and eke thy truth no measure hathe verse 16 16 O turne me and mercy graunt thy strength to me apply O help and saue thine owne seruaunte thy handmaides sonne am I. verse 17 On me some signe of fauour shew that all my foes may see And be ashamed because Lorde thou doest helpe and comfort me Fundamenta eius Psalm lxxxvii I. H The holy Ghost promiseth that the condicion of the Church whiche was in miserye after the captiuitie of Babilon shoulde be restored to great excelency so that there should be nothing more comfortable thē to be nombred among the membres therof THat city shall full well endure Sing this as the. lxxxi Ps. her ground worke still doth staye vpon the holy hilles full sure it can no time decaye verse 2 God loues the gates of Sion best hys grace doth there abyde He loued them more then all the rest of Iacobs tents beside verse 3 Full glorious thinges reported be in Sion and abrod Great thinges I say are sayd of thee thou citie of our God verse 4 On Rahab I will cast an eye and beare in minde the same And Babilon shall eke applye and learne to know my name verse 5 Loe Palestine and Tire also with Ethiope likewise A people oulde full longe agoe were borne and there did rise verse 6 Of Sion they shall say abrod that diuers men of fame Haue there sprong vp and the hie God hath founded fast the same verse 7 In their recordes to them it shall through Gods deuise appere Of Sion that the chefe of all had his beginning there verse 8 The trumpetters with such as syng therin great plenty be My fountayns my pleasant springs are compast all in thee Domine deus salutis Psalme lxxxviii I. H Agrieuous complaynt of the faythfull sore afflicted by sicknes persecution and abuersitie being as it were left of God without any consolation yet he calleth on God by fayth and striueth against desperation complayning him selfe to be forsaken of all yearthly healpe LOrde God of health y e hope staye thou art alone to me I call cry throughoute the daye and all the nighte to thee O let my prayers sone ascende vnto thy sight on hyghe enclyne thyne eare O Lorde entend and herken to my cry verse 3 For why my soule with wo is filled and doth in trouble dwell My lyfe and breath almost doth yelde and draweth nye to hell verse 4 I am estemd as one of them that in the pit doo fall And made as one among those men that haue no strength at all verse 5 As one amonge the dead and free from things that heare remayne It weare more easy for me to be with them the whiche are slayne verse 6 As those that lye in graue I saye whom thou hast cleane forgot The whiche thy hand hath cut away and thou regardst them not Yea like to one shut vp full sure within the lower pit In places darke and all obscure and in the depth of it verse 8 Thyne anger and thy wrathe like wise full sore on me doth lye And all thy stormes agaynst me ryse my soule to vex and trye verse 9 Thou puttest my frends far of frō me and makst them hate me sore I am shut vp in prison fast and can come forth no more verse 10 My sight doth faile through grefe wo I call to thee O God Throughout the day my handes also to thee I stretche abrode verse 11 Doest thou vnto the dead declare thy wondrous workes of fame Shall dead to lyfe agayne repayre and prayse thee for the same verse 12 Or shall thy louing kindnes Lorde be preached in the graue Or shall with them that are destroyd thy truth her honor haue verse 13 Shall they that lye in darke full lowe of all thy wonders wotte Or there shall they thy iustice knowe where all thinges are forgot verse 14 But I O Lorde to thee alwaye doo crye and call apace My prayer eare it be daye shall come before thy face verse 15 Why dost thou Lorde abhorre my soule in grefe that seeketh thee And now O Lorde why dost thou hide thy face awaye from me verse 16 I am afflicte as dying still from youthe this many a yere Thy terrours whiche doo vexe me ill with troubled minde I beare verse 17 The furies of thy wrathfull rage full sore vpon me fall Thy terrours eke doo not asswage but me oppres with all verse 18 All day they compas me aboute as water at the tide And all at once with streames ful stoute beset me on eche side verse 19 Thou
settest far from me my frendes and louers euery one Yea and mine oulde acquaintance all out of my sight are gone Miserecordias domini Psalme lxxxix IH With many words doth the prophet prayse the goodnes of God for his testament and couenaunt that he had made betwene him and his elect by Iesu Christ the sonne of Dauid Then dothe he complayne of the greate ruine and desolation of the kingdome of Dauid so that to the outward aperaunce the promis was broken Finally he prayeth to be delyuered from his aflictions making mention of the shortnes of mans lyfe and confirming him selfe by Gods promises TO syng the mercyes of the Lorde Sing this as the. lxvii my tounge shall neuer spare And with my mouth from age to age thy truthe I will declare verse 2 2 For I haue sayd that mercye shall for euermore remayne In that thou dost the heauens stay thy truth appeareth playne verse 3 To myne elect sayth God I made a couenant and be hest My seruaunt Dauid to perswade I swore and did protest verse 4 Thy seede for euer I will stay and stablish it full fast And still vphoulde thy throne alway from age to age to last verse 5 The heauens shew with ioy and mirth thy wondrous workes O Lorde Thy saincts within thy church on earth thy faith and truth recorde verse 6 Who with the Lorde is equall then in all the cloudes abrode Amonge the sonnes of all the Gods what one is like our God God in assemble of the sainctes is greatly to be drad And ouer all that dwell about in terror to be had verse 8 Lorde God of hostes in all the worlde what one is lyke to thee On euery side most mighty Lorde ▪ thy truthe is sene to be verse 9 The raging sea by thine aduice thou rulest at thy wyll And when the waues therof aryse thou makst them calme and still verse 10 And Egipt thou Lord hast subdued and thou hast it destroyed Yea thou thy foes with mighty arme hast scattred all abrode verse 11 The heauens thine and still haue ben lykewyse the earth and laude The worlde with all that is therin thou foundest with thy hand verse 12 Both north and south with est and west thy selfe didst make and frame Both Tabor mount and Hermon reioyse and prayse thy name verse 13 Thyne arme is strong and ful of power all might therin doth lye The strength of thy right hand eche houre thou liftest vp on hie verse 14 In righteousnes and equitie thou hast thy seate and place Mercy and truthe are still with thee and go before thy face verse 15 That folke is blest that knoweth a right thy present power O God For in the fauoure of thy sight they walke full safe abrode verse 16 For in thy name throughout the daye they ioy and muche reioyce ▪ And through thy rightousnes haue they a pleasaunt fame and noyse verse 17 For why theyr glory strength and ayde in thee alone doth lye Thy goodnes eke that hath vs stayed shall lyfte our horne on hye verse 18 Our strength that doth defend vs well the Lorde to vs doth brynge The holly one of Israell he is oure gide and kyng verse 19 Somtime thy will vnto thy sainctes in visions thou didst show And thus then didst thou say to them thy mind to make them know verse 20 A man of might haue I erect your king and gyde to be And set vp him whom I elect amonge the folke to me verse 21 My seruaunt dauid I appoynte whom I haue searched oute And with my holy oyle anoynte him king of all the route verse 22 For why my hand is redy still with him for to remayne And with mine arme also I will him strengthen and sustayne verse 23 The ennemies shall not him oppres they shall him not deuoure Ne yet the sonnes of wickednes of him shall haue no power verse 24 His foes likewyse will I destroy before his face in sighte And those that hate him I will plage and stryke them with my mighte verse 25 My truth and mercy eke with all shall still vpon him lye And in my name his horne eke shall be lifted vp on hye verse 26 His kingdome I will set to be vpon the sea and sand And eke the running flouds shall he embrace with his right hand verse 27 He shall depend with all hys hart on me and thus shall saye My father and my God thou arte my rocke of health and staye verse 27 As one first borne I will him take of all on earth that sprynges His might and honour I shall make aboue all worldly kynges verse 29 My mercy shalbe with him styll as I my sealfe haue toulde My faythfull couenaunt to fullfill my mercy I will houlde verse 30 And eke his seede will I sustayne for euer strong and sure So that his seate shall still remayne whyle heauen doth endure verse 31 If that his sonnes forsake my lawe and so begin to swerue And of my iudgements haue none awe nor will not them obserue verse 32 32 Or if they doo not vse aryght my statutes to them made And set all my commaundments light and will not keepe my trade verse 33 Then with the rod will I begin theyr doinges to amend And so with scourging for theyr sin when that they doo offend verse 34 My mercy yet and my goodnes I will not take him froe Nor handle him with craftines and so my truthe forgoe verse 35 But sure my couenaunte I will hould with all that I haue spoke No word the which my lippes haue told shall alter or be broke verse 36 Once swore I by myne holynes and that performe will I With Dauid I shall kepe promise to him I will not lye verse 37 His seede for euermore shall rayne and eke his throne of might As doeth the sonne it shall remayne for euer in my sight verse 38 And as the mone within the skye for euer standeth fast A faythfull witnes from on hie so shall his kingdom laste verse 39 But now O Lorde thou dost reiect and now thou chaungest chere Yea thou art wrothe with thine elect thine owne anoynted dere verse 40 The couenant which thy seruaūt made Lorde thou hast quite vndone And downe vpon the ground also hast cast his royall crowne verse 41 Thou pluckst his hedges vp with might his walles doest thou confounde Thou beatest eke his bulworkes downe and breakst them to the ground verse 42 That he is sore destroyed and forne of commers by throughoute And so is made a mocke and scorne to all that dwell aboute verse 43 Thou their right hand hast lifted vp that him so sore annoy And all his foes that him deuoure loe thou hast made to ioy verse 44 His swerds edg thou doest take away that should his foes withstand To him in warre no victorye thou geuest nor vpperhand verse 45 His glory thou dost also waste his throne his ioy and mirth By thee is ouerthrowne add cast full
low vpon the earthe verse 46 Thou hast cut of and made full short his youth and lusty dayes And raysed of him an ill reporte with shame and great disprayse verse 47 How long away from me O Lord for euer wilt thou turne And shall thine anger still alwaye as fire consume and bourne verse 48 O call to minde remembre then my time consumeth fast Why hast thou the sonnes of men as thinges in vayne to wast verse 49 What man is he that liueth here and death shall neuer see Or from the hand of hell his soule shall he deliuer free verse 50 Where is O lord thine oulde goodnes so oft declared beforne Whiche by thy truth and vprightnes to Dauid thou hast sworne verse 51 The great rebukes to minde doo call that on thy seruauntes lye The rayling of the people all borne in my brest haue I. verse 52 Wherwith O Lorde thyne enemies blasphemed haue thy name The steppes of thine anoynted one they cease not to defame verse 53 All prayse to thee O Lorde of hostes bothe now and eke for aye Through skie and earth in all the costes Amen amen I saye Domine refugium Psal. lxxxx I. H Moyses in his prayer setteth before vs the eternal fauour of God towardes his who are nether admonished by the breuitie of theyr lyfe nor by his plages to be thanckefull Therfore Moyses prayeth God to tourne their hartes and continew his mercies towardes them and theyr posteritie for euer THou Lorde hast ben our suer defence Sing this as the. lxxviii Ps. Our place of ease and rest In all times past yea so longe sence as cannot be exprest verse 2 Or there was made mountaine or hill the earth or worlde abrod From age to age and alwayse still for euer thou art God verse 3 Thou grindest man through gref paine to dust or clay and then And then thou sayst agayne returne againe ye sonnes of men verse 4 The lastyng of a thousand yeare what is it in thy sighte As yester day it doth appere or as a watche one nighte verse 5 So sone as thou doest scattre them then is their life and trade All as a slepe and like the grasse whose bewty soone doth fade verse 6 Which in the morning shines full bright but fadeth by and by And is cut downe ere it be night all withered dead and drye verse 7 For through thine anger we consume our might is muche decayed And of thy seruent wrath and sume we are full sore afrayed verse 8 The wicked works y t we haue wrought thou setst before thine eye Our priuie faultes yea eke our thought thy countenaunce doth espye verse 9 For through thy wrath our daies do wast therof doth nought remayne Our yeres consume as wordes or blast and are not called agayne verse 10 Our time is threscore yeare and ten that we doo liue on molde If one see fourescore surely then we count him wonders oulde verse 11 Yet of this tune the strength and chief the whiche we counte vpon Is nothing els but painfull grief and we as blastes are gone verse 12 Who once doth know what strength is there what might thine anger hath Or in his hart who doeth the feare according to thy wrath verse 13 Instruct vs Lorde to know and try how longe our dayes remayne That then we may our hartes apply true wisdom to attayne verse 14 Retourn O Lord how long wilt thou fourth on in wrath procede Shew fauour to thy seruauntes now and healp them at their nede verse 15 Refresh vs with thy mercy soone and then our ioie shalbe All times so long as lyfe doth last in harte reioyce shall we verse 16 As thou hast plaged vs before nowe also make vs glad And for the yeres wherin full sore affliction we haue had verse 17 O let thy worke and power appere and on thy seruauntes lyght And shew vnto their children dere thy glory and thy might verse 18 Lord let thy grace and glory stand on vs thy seruauntes thus Confirme the workes we take in hand Lorde prosper them to vs. Qui habitat Psalme lxxxxi I. H Here is described in what assurance he lyueth that putteth his whole trust in God and committeth him selfe whollye to his protection in all temptacyons A promise of God to those that loue hym know him and trust in him to deliuer them and geue them immortall glory HE that within the secret place of God most hie doth dwell In shadodw of the mightiest grace at rest shall kepe him well verse 2 Thou art my hope and my strong hold I to the Lorde will say My God on hye in him will I my whole affiance stay verse 3 He shall defend thee from the snare the whiche the hunter layde And from that deadly plage and care wherof thou art afrayed verse 4 And with his winges shall couer thee and keepe thee safely there His fayth and truth thy fence shalbe as sure as sheld and speare verse 5 So that thou shalt not neede I saye to feare or be afflighte Of all the shafts that flye by daye nor terrours of the night verse 6 Nor of the plage that priutlye doth walke in darke so fast Nor yet of that whiche doth destroye and at none dayes doth wast verse 7 Yea at thy syde as thou doest stand a thousand dead shalbe Ten thousand eke at thy right hande and yet shalt thou be free verse 8 But thou shalte see it for thy parte thyne eyse shall well regarde That euen lyk to theyr desert the wicked haue reward verse 9 For why O Lorde I only lust to stay my hope on thee And in the hiest I put my trust my sure defence is he verse 10 Thou shalt not nede none ill to feare with thee it shall not mell Nor yet the plage shall once come nere thy house where thou dost dwell verse 11 For why vnto his aungels all with charge commaundeth hee That still in all thy wayes they shall preserue and prosper thee verse 12 And in thy handes shall the beare vp still wayting thee vpon So that thy foote shall neuer chaunce to spurne at any stone verse 13 Upon the Lyon thou shalt go the adderfell and longe And treade vpon the Liones yong with dragons stoute and stronge verse 14 For that he trusteth vnto me I will dispatch him quite And him defend because that he dothe know my name a right verse 15 When he for health on me doth crye an aunswer I will geue And from his grefe take him will I in glory for to lyue verse 16 2With length of yeres dayes of welth I will fulfill his time The goodnes of my sauing health I will declare to him Bonum est confiteri Psalm lxxxxii I. H This Psalme was made to be soung on the sabaoth to stir vp the people to acknowledge God and to prayse him in his workes The Prophet reioyseth therin But the wicked is not able to cōsidre that the vngodlye when he his most
exhortaciō to prayse god for the gouernment of the world and the election of his church An admonishion not to folow the rebellion of the olde fathers that tempted God in the wildernes For the which they might not enter into the land of promise O Come let vs lyfte vp oure voyce and synge vnto the Lorde in him our rock of health reioyce let vs with one accorde yea let vs come before his face to geue him thanks and prayse in singing Psalmes vnto his grace let vs be glad all wayes verse 3 For why the Lorde he is no doubte a greate and myghty God A kynge aboue all Gods throughout in all the worlde abrode verse 4 4 The secretes of the yearth so depe and corners of the land The toppes of hilles that are so stepe he hath them in his hand verse 5 The sea and waters all are his for he the same hath wrought The earth and all that therin is his hande hath made of nought verse 6 Come let vs bow and prayse the Lorde before him let vs fall And knele to him with one acorde the whiche hathe made vs all verse 7 For why he is the Lorde our God for vs he doth prouide We are his folke he doth vs fede his shepe and he our guide verse 8 Today if ye his voice will heare then harden not your hart As ye with grudging many a yeare prouoked me in deserte verse 9 Wher as your fathers tempted me my power for to proue My wondrous works whē they did see yet still they woulde me moue verse 10 Twise twenty yeare they did me greue and I to them did saye They erre in heart and not beleue they haue not knowne my waye verse 11 Wherfore I sware when that my wrath was kindled in my brest That they should neuer treade the pathe to enter to my rest Cantate domino Psalme lxxxxvi I. H An exhortacyon bothe to the Iewes and gentiles to prayse God for hys mercye And this specyallye ought to be referred to the kingdom of Chryste Syng ye with prayse vnto the Lorde Sing this as the. lxxvii psalme New songs of ioy and mirthe Sing vnto him with one accorde all people on the yearthe verse 2 yea sing vnto the Lorde I saye prayse ye his holy name Declare and shew from day to daye saluation by the same verse 3 Amonge the Heathen eke declare hys honor round about To shew his wonders doo not spare in all the worlde throughout verse 4 For why the Lord is much of might and worthy prayse alway And he is to be dred of ryght aboue all Gods I saye verse 5 For all the Gods of Heathen folke are idoles that will fade But yet our God he is the Lord that hath the heauens made verse 6 All prayse and honor eke doo dwell for aye before his face Both power and might likewise excell within his holly place verse 7 Ascribe vnto the Lorde alway ye people of the worlde All might and worship eke I say ascribe vnto the Lorde verse 8 Ascribe vnto the Lorde also the glory of his name And eke into his courtes doo goe with giftes vnto the same verse 9 Fall down and worship ye the lorde with in his temple bright Let all the people of the worlde be fearefull at his sight verse 10 Tell all the world be not agaste the Lorde doth raigne aboue Yea he hath set the yerth so fast that it did neuer moue verse 11 And that it is the Lorde alone that ruleth with princely might To iudge the nations euery one with equity and right verse 12 The heauens shall great ioy begin the earth shall eke reioyce The sea with all that is theirin shall shoute and make a noice verse 13 The field shall ioye and euery thing that spryngeth of the earth The wod and euery tree shall sing with gladnes and with mirth verse 14 Before the presence of the Lorde and comming of his might when he shall iustly iudge the worlde and rule his folke with right Dominus regnauit Psalme lxxxxvii I. H The prophet exhorteth all to reioyce for the coming of the kingdome of Christ dreadfull to the rebels and Idolaters and ioyfull to the iust whom he exhorteth to innocency to reioysing and thanks geuing THe lord doth raigne where all y e earth Sing this as the. lxxxxv may ioy with pleasaunt voyce And eke the yles with ioyfull mirth may triumphe and reioyce verse 2 Bothe cloudes darknes eke doo swell and rounde aboute him beate Yea right and iustice euer dwell and byde aboute his seate verse 3 Yea fier and heate at once doth runne and go before his face Which shall his foes and ennemies burn abrode in euery place verse 4 His lightnes eke full bright did blase and to the world appere Wherat the yearthe did loke and gase with dreade and deadly feare verse 5 The hilles like war did melt in sight and presence of the Lorde They fled before that rulers might which gideth all the worlde verse 6 The heauens eke declare and shew his iustice forth abrode That all the world may see and knowe the glory of our god verse 7 Confusion sure shall come to suche as worship Idols vayne And eke to those that glory muche dome pictures to maintayne verse 8 For all the Idouls of the worlde whiche they as Gods doo call Shall feele the power of the Lorde and downe to hym shall fall verse 9 With ioy shall Sion here this thyng and Iuda shall reioyce For at thy iudgements they shall sing and make a pleasaunt noyce verse 10 That thou O Lorde art set on hie in all the earth abrode And arte exalted wonderously aboue eche other God verse 11 All ye that loue the Lorde doo thys hate all thinges that is ill For he doth kepe the soules of his from suche as would them spill verse 12 And light doth spring vp to the iust with pleasure for his part Greate ioye with gladnes mirth lust to them of vpright hart verse 13 Ye rigteous in the Lord reioyce his hollines proclayme Be thankfull eke with hart and voyce and mindefull of the same Cantate domino Psal lxxxxviii I. H An Earnest exhortacyō to all cratures to prayse the Lorde for his power mercy and fydelitie in his promyse by Christ by whō he hath communicated his saluation to all natiōes OSyng ye now vnto the Lorde a new and pleasaunt songe Sing this as the. lxxxxv For he hath wrought throughout the world His wōders great strong With his rigt hand full worthely he doth his foes deuoure And get him sealf the victory with his owne arme and power verse 3 The Lord doth make the people know his sauing health and might The Lorde doth eke his iustice shew in all the Heathens sight verse 4 His grace and truth to Israell in minde he doth recorde That al the yearth hath sene right wel the goodnes of the Lorde verse 5 Be glad in him with ioyfull voyce all
people of the earth Geue thankes to God sing and reioyce to him with ioy and mirth verse 6 Upon the harp vnto him sing geue thankes to him with psalmes Reioyce before the Lord our king with trumpets and with shalmes verse 7 Yea let the sea with all therin with ioy bothe rore and swell The earth likewise let it begin with all that therin dwell verse 8 And let the flouddes reioyse theyr filles and clap theyr handes apace And eke the mountaynes and the hilles before the Lorde his face verse 9 For he shall come to iudge and try the world and euery wighte And rule the people mightely with iustice and with right Dominus regnauit psalme lxxxxix I. H. He cōmendeth the power equitie and excellency of the kingdome of God by Chryst ouer the Iew and Gentils and prouoketh them to magnyfye the same to serue the Lord folowing the example of the auncyent fathers Mosies Aaron Samuel who calling vpon God wer harde in theyr prayers THe Lord doeth raygne although at it The people rage full fore Sing this as the. lxxxxv p yea he on Cherubin doth sit though all the world woulde rore verse 2 The Lorde that doth in Sion dwell is high and wonders great Aboue all folke he doth excell and he aloft is set verse 3 Let all men prayse thy mightye name for it is featfull sure And let them magnifye the same that holy is and pure verse 4 The princely power of our king doth loue iudgement and ryght Thou rightly rulest euery thing in Iacob through thy might verse 5 To prayse the Lorde our God deuise all honour to him doo His fote stole worship ye likewise for he is holy too verse 6 Moses Aron and Samuell as priestes on him did call When they did pray he herd them well and gaue them aunswer all verse 7 Within the cloude to them he spake then did they labour still To keepe suche lawes as he did make and pointed them vntill verse 8 O Lord our god thou diddest them here and aunswerst them againe Thy mercy did on them appere theyr deedes diddest not maintayne verse 9 O laude and prayse our God and Lord within this holy hill For why our God throughoute the world is holy euer styll 2 Iubilate deo omnis terra Psalme C. He exhorteth all to serue the Lorde who hath made vs and to enter into his courts and assemblies to prayse his name IN God the Lorde be glad and lyght prayse him throughout the yearthe Sing this as the. lxvii Serue him and come before his sight with singing and with mirth verse 12 Know that the Lorde our God he is he did vs make and kepe Not we our sealues for we are his owne folke and pasture shepe verse 13 O go into his gates alwayes geue thankes within the same within his courts set forth his prayse and laud his holy name verse 14 For why the goodnes of the Lorde for euermore doth raygne From age to age throughout the world his truthe doth still remayne Miserecordiam et iudicium Psalm Ci. N. Dauid describeth what gouernment he will obserue in his house and kingdome He will punish and correct by roting out the wicked and cheryshing the godly persones I Mercye will and iudgement sing O Lorde God vnto thee Sing this as the. lxxxi Ps. And wisely doo in perfect way vntill thou come to me And in the middest of my house walke in purenes of my sprite And I no kind of wicked thing will set before my sight I hate their worke that fall away it shall not cleaue to me From me shall part the froward hart none euell will I see Him will I stroy that sclaundereth his neyghbour priuely The lofty hart I can not beare nor him that loketh hie Mine eyes shall be on them within the land that faithfull be In perfect way who worketh shall be seruant vnto me I will no guilefull person haue within my house to dwell And in my presence he shal not remaine that lies doth tell Betymes I will destroy euen all the wicked of the lande That I may from Gods citie cut the wicked workers band Domine exaudi orationem Psalm C. ii I. H. It semeth that this prayer was apointed to the faithful to pray in the captiuitie of Babilon A consolation for the buyldyng of the churche wherof foloweth the prayse of god to be published vnto al posterities The conuersion of the Gentels And the stabilytie of the churche O Heare my prayer Lorde and let my crye come vnto thee In tyme of troble doo not hide thy face away from me Inclyne thyne eares to me make haste Sing this as the. lxvii to heare me when I call For as the smoke doth fade so doo my dayes consume and fall And as a herth my bones are burnt my hart is smitten dead And withers as the grasse that I forget to eate my bread By reason of my groning voyce my bones cleaue to my skinne As pellicane of wildernes suche case now am I in And as an oule in desert is loe I am suche a one I watch and as a sparow on the house top am alone Loe dayly in reprochefull wise mine enmies doo me scorne And they that doo against me rage against me they haue sworne Surely with ashes as with breade my hunger I haue filld And mingled haue my drink with teares that fro mine eyes haue stild Because of thy displeasure Lord thy wrath and thy disdayne For thou hast lifted me aloft and cast me downe agayne The dayes wherin I pas my lyfe are like the fleting shade And I am withered like the gras that sone away doth fade But thou O Lord for euer doest remaine in stedy place And thy remembrance euer doth abide from race to race The second parte Thou wilt aryse and mercy thou to Sion wilt extend The time of mercy now the time foreset is come to end For euen in the stones therof thy seruants do delighte And on the dust therof they haue compassion in theyr sprite Then shall the Heathen peoples feare the Lordes most holy name And all the kinges on earth shall drede thy glory and thy fame Then when the Lord the mighty God againe shall Syon rere And then when he most nobly in his glory shall appeare To prayer of the desolate when he himself shall bend when he shall not disdayne vnto theyr prayer to attend This shalbe written for the age that after shall succede the people yet vncreated the Lordes renome shall sprede For he from his hie sanctuarye hath loked downe belowe and out of Heauen hath the Lord beheld the earth also That of the mourning captiue he might heare the woefull crye And that he might deliuer those that damned are to dye That they in Sion may declare the Lordes most holy name and in Ierusalem set fourth the prayses of the same Then when the people of the land and kingdomes with accorde Shalbe assembled for to do theyr seruice to
mind his couenant which he to them had swore And by his mercies multitude repented him therfore And fauour he them made to finde before the sight of those That led them captiue from their land when erst they were their foes Saue vs O Lorde that art our God saue vs O Lord we pray And from among the Heathen folke Lorde gather vs away That we may spred the noble prayse of thy most holy name That we may glory in thy prayse and sounding of thy fame The Lorde the God of Israell be blest for euermore Let all the people say Amen prayse ye the Lord therfore Confitemini domino Psalme Cvii VV. K. The Prophet exhorteth all those that are redemed by the Lord and gathered vnto hym to geue thankes for this mercyfull prouidence of God gouerning all thynges at his good pleasure sending good and euill prosperitie and aduersitie to bryng men vnto him Therfore as the righteous thereat reioyce so shall the wicked haue their mouthes stopped GEue thankes vnto the Lorde our God Sing this as the. xxix Psal. for gratious is he And that his mercy hath none ende all mortall men may se. verse 2 Suthe as the Lorde redemed hathe with thanks should prayse his name And shew how they from foes wet fred and yow he wrought the same verse 3 He gathered them forth of the landes that lay so farre about From East to west from north to south his hand did finde them out verse 4 They wandred in the wildernes and strayed from the way And founde no citie where to dwell that serue might for theyr stay verse 5 Whose thirst and honger was so great in these desertes so voyde That faintnes did them sore assalt and eke their soules anoyde verse 6 Then did they crye in their distres vnto the Lorde for ayde Who did remoue their troublous state according as they prayde verse 7 And by that way which was most right be led them like a guide That they might to a citie go and there also abide verse 8 Let men therfore before the Lorde confes his goodnes then And shew the wonders that he doth before the sonnes of men verse 9 For he the emptie soule sustaynde whom thirst had made to faynte The hungrie soule with goodnes fed and did them eke acquainte verse 10 Suche as doo dwell in darkenes depe where they of death do wayte Fast bound to tast such troublous storms as yron chains doo threate The second parte verse 11 For that against the lords owne words they sought so to rebell Esteming light his counsels high which doo so farre excell verse 12 But when he humbled them full lowe they then fell downe with grief And none was found so muche to helpe wherby to get relief verse 13 Then did they crye in their distres vnto the Lorde for ayde Who did remoue their troublous state according as they prayde verse 14 For he from darknes out them brought and from deaths dredfull shade Bursting with force the yron bandes which did before them lade verse 15 Let men therfore before the Lord confes his kindnes then And shew the wonders that he doth before the sonnes of men verse 16 For he threw downe their gates of bras and brake them with strong hand Theyron barres he smote in two nothing could him withstand verse 17 The foolish folke great plagues do fele and cannot from them wend But hepe on me to those they haue because they doo offend verse 18 Their soule so much did lothe all meat that none they coulde abyde Wherby death had them almost caught as they full truly tryde verse 19 Then did they crye in theyr distres vnto the Lorde for ayde Who did remoue their troublous state according as they prayde verse 20 For he then sent to them his worde whiche health did sone restore And brought them frō those dangers depe wherin they were before The thyrde parte verse 21 Let men therfore before the Lorde confes his kindnes then And shew the wonders that he doeth before the sonnes of men verse 22 And let them offer sacrifice with thankes and also feare And speake of all his wondrous works with glad and ioyfull cheare verse 23 Suche as in shippes or brittell barkes into the seas descend Their marchandise through fearful flods to compas and to ende verse 24 Those men are forced to beholde the Lordes workes what they be And in the dangerous depe the same most marueilous they see verse 25 For at his worde the stormie winde ariseth in a rage And stirreth vp the surges so as nought can them asswage verse 26 Then are they lifted by so hygh the clouds they seme to gayne And plunging downe the depth vntill theyr soules consume with payne verse 27 And like a drunkard to and fro now here now there they reele As men with teare of wit bereft or had of sense no feele verse 28 Then did they cry in theyr distresse vnto the Lorde for ayde Who did remoue their troublous state according as they prayde verse 29 For with his word the Lord doth make the sturdie storme to cease So that the gret waues frō their rage are brought to rest and peace verse 30 Then are men glad when rest is come which they so muche doo craue And are by him in hauen brought which they so fayne woulde haue The forth parte verse 31 Let men therfore before the Lorde confes his kindenes then And shew the wonders that he doth before the sounes of men verse 32 32 Let them in presence of the folke with prayse extoll his name And where the elders doo conuent let them there doo the same verse 33 For running floods to dry desertes he doeth oft change and turne And dryeth vp as it were dust the springing well and burne verse 34 A frutefull land with pleasures deckt full barren doeth he make When on their sinnes which dwell therin he doeth iust vengeance take verse 35 Againe the wildernes full rude he maketh frute to beare With pleasant springs of water cleare though none before were there verse 36 Wherin suche hungrye soules are set as he doeth freely chuse That they a citie may them buylde to dwell in for theyr vse verse 37 That they may sow theyr pleasant lād and vineyardes also plant To yelde them frutes of suche increase as none may seme to want verse 38 They multiplye exceadingly the Lord doeth bles them so Who doeth also their brut beastes make by numbers great to growe verse 39 But whē the faithfull are low brought by the oppressors stoute And minish do through many plagues that compas them about verse 40 Then doeth he princes bring to shame which did them so oppres And likewise caused them to erre within the wildernes verse 41 But yet the poore he rayseth vp out of his troubles depe And oft times doeth his trayne augmēt muche like a flocke of shepe verse 42 The righteous shall beholde this sight and also muche reioyce whereas the wicked and
name delyuer me for good thy mercies be Because in depth of great distres I nedy am and pore And eke within my payned brest my hart is wounded sore Them that be fearers of the Lord the lorde will blesse them all Euen he will blesse them euery one the great and eke the small To you I say the louing Lord will multiplie his grace To you and to the children that shall follow of your race Ye are the blessed of the Lorde euen of the lorde I say Which both the heauen and the earth hath made and set in stay The heauens yea the heauens hye belong vnto the Lord The earth vnto the sonnes of men he gaue of free accorde They that be dead doo not with prayse setfourth the Lordes renoume Nor any that into the place of silence doo goe downe But we will prayse the Lorde our god from hencefourth and foray Sound ye the prayses of the Lorde prayse ye the Lorde I say Dilexi quoniam Psalme Cxvi N Dauid being in great daunger of Saull in the desert of Mammon perceiuing the great and inestimable loue of God toward him mangnyfyeth suche great mercyes and protesteth that he will be thankful for the same I Loue the Lord because my voyce and prayer hearde hath he Sing this as the. lxxxxv When in my dayes I cald on him he bowed his eare to me Euen when the snares of cruell death about beset me round When paynes of hell me caught when I wo and sorow found vpon the name of God my Lorde then did I call and say Deliuer thou my soule O Lorde I doo thee humbly pray The Lorde is very mercyfull and iust he is also And in our God compassion doth plentifully flowe The Lorde in safetie doth preserue all those that simple be I was in wofull miserye and he releued me And now my soule sith thou art safe returne vnto thy rest For largely loe the Lorde to thee his bountie hath exprest Because thou hast delyuered my soule from deadly thrall My Moisted eien from mournful teares my slidyng fete from fall Before the Lorde I in the land of life will walke therfore I did beleue therfore I spake for I was trobled sore I sayd in my distres and feare that all men lyers bee What shall I pay the Lorde for all his benefites to me The holsome cup of sauing health I thankefully will take And on the Lordes name I will call when I my prayer make I to the Lorde will pay the vowes that I haue him behight Yea euen at this present time in all his peoples sight Right deare and precious in his sight the Lorde doth ay esteme The death of all his holy ones what euer men do deme Thy seruant Lorde thy seruant loe I doo my selfe confes Son of thy handmayd thou hast broke the bonds of my distres And I will offer vp to thee a sacryfyce of prayse And I will call vpon the name of God the Lorde alwayes I to the Lorde will pay the voues that I haue him behight Yea euen at this present tyme in all his peoples sight yea in the courtes of Gods owne house and in the middes of thee O thou Ierusalem I say wherfore the Lorde prayse ye Laudate dominum Psalme Cxvii N. He exhorteth the Gentels to prayse God because he hath accomplished as well to them as to the Iewes the promys of lyfe euerlastyng by Iesus Chryst. O All the natyons of the worlde Prayse ye the Lorde alwayes Sing this as the. ixxxxv And all ye people euery where set fourth hys noble prayse For great his kindnes is to vs his truthe endures for ay Wherfore prayse ye the Lorde our God prayse ye the Lorde I say Confitemini domino Psalme CXviii M. Dauid reiectid of Saule and of the people at the tyme apoynted obtained the kingdome for the whiche he biddeth all them that seare the Lord tobe thankefull and vnder hys person in all thys was Christ lyuely setforthe who should be of hys people reiected O Geue ye thankes vnto the Lorde Sing this as a 115. Psalme for gratious is he Because his mercy doth endure â–ª for euer towardes thee Let Israell confes and say hys mercy dures for ay Now let the house of Aaron say hys mercye dures for aye Let all that feare the Lorde our God euen now confesse and say The mercye of the Lorde our God endureth still for aye In trouble and in heuines vnto the Lorde I cride Whiche louingly hard me at large my sute was not denyde The Lorde hym selfe is on my syde I will not stande in dout Nor feare what man can doo to me when God standth me about The lord doth take my parte with them that helpe to succour me Therfore I shall see my desire apon myne enemye Better it is to trust in God then in mans mortall sede Or to put confidence in kynges or princes in our nede All nations haue in closed me and compassed me rounde But in the name of God shall I myne enemies confounde They kept me on euery side they kept me in I say But through the lords most mightie name I shall worke theyr decay They came about me all like bees but yet in the lordes name I quencht their thornes that wer on fire and will destroy the same Thou hast with force thrust fore at me that I in dede might fall But through the lord I found suche help that they wer vanquist all The lorde is my defence and strengthe my ioy my mirth and song He is become for me in dede a sauiour most strong The right hand of the lord our God doth bring to pas great thinges He causeth voyce of ioy and health in rightous mennes dwellynges The right hand of the lorde doth bring most mighty thinges to pas his hand hath the preeminens his force is as it was I will not dye but euer lyue to vtter and declare The lord his might wondrous power his workes and what they are The lorde himselfe hath chastened and hath corrected me But hath not geuen me ouer yet to death as ye may see Set open vnto me the gates of truth and righteousnes That I may enter into them the lordes prayse to confes This is the gate euen of the lorde whiche shall not so he shut But good and righteous men alway shall enter into it I will geue thankes to thee O Lorde because thou hast heard me And art become most louingly a sauiour vnto me The stone whiche ere this time among the builders was refused is now become the corner stone and chefely to be vsed Thys was the myghty work of God this was the Lordes owne fact And it is maruelous to be holde with eyes that noble act This is the ioyfull day in dede which God himself hath wrought Let vs be glad and ioy therin in hart in mind and thought Now helpe me Lorde and prosper vs we wishe with one accorde Blessed be he that comes to vs in the name
of the Lorde God is the Lorde that sheweth vs lyght bynde ye therfore with corde Your sacrifice to the alter and geue thankes to the Lorde Thou art my God I will confes and render thankes to thee Thou art my God and I will prayse thy mercy towardes me O geue ye thankes vnto the Lorde for gratious is he Because his mercy dothe endure for euer towardes thee Beati immaculati Psalm Cxix VV. VV. In thys psalme is contayned an exquisit art and a wonderfull vehemencye in settyng forth the prayses of gods law wherin the Prophet cannot satisfye hymselfe nor sufficyently expres the affection whiche he beareth thereunto adding moreouer manye notable complaynts consolatyons wherefore it is mete that all the faythfull haue it alway bothe in harte and mouthe and in the Ebrue euery vii verses begyn with one lerter of the Alphabet BLessed are they that perfect are and pure in mind hart whose liues and conuersation frō Gods lawes neuer start 2. Blessed are they that geue them selues hys statutes to obserue Sekyng the Lorde with all theyr hart and neuer from him swerue verse 3 Doubtles such men go not astraye nor doo no wicked thing Whiche stedfastly walke in his pathes without any wandring verse 4 It is thy wyll and commaundement that with attentiue hede Thy noble and deuyne precepts we learne and kepe in dede verse 5 Oh would to God it might thee please my wayes so to adres That I myght bothe in hart and voyce thy lawes kepe and confes verse 6 So should no shame my lyfe atteyne whylst I thus set myne eyes And bende my mynde alwayes to muse on thy sacred decrees verse 7 Then will I prayse with vpright hart and magnifye thy name When I shall learne thy iudgements iust and lykewyse proue the same verse 8 And wholy will I geue my selfe to kepe thy lawes most ryght For sake me not for euer Lorde but shew thy grace and myght The. ii parte MTH verse 9 By what meanes may a yong man best his lyfe learne to amend If that he marke and kepe thy word and therin his tyme spend verse 10 Unfaynedly I haue thee sought and thusse kyng abyde Oh neuer suffer me O Lorde from thy precepts to slyde verse 11 Within my hart and secret thoughtes thy wordes I haue hyd styll That I might not at any tyme offende thy godly wyll verse 12 We magnifye thy name O Lorde and prayse thee euermore Thy statutes of most worthy fame O Lorde teache me therfore verse 13 My lippes haue neuer ceast to preache and publysh day and nyght The iudgments all whiche did procede from thy mouth full of might verse 24 Thy testymonies and thy wayes please me noles in dede Then all the treasures of the earth which worldlings make theyr mede verse 15 Of thy precepts I will still muse and therfore frame my talke As at a marke so will I aime thy wayes how I may walke verse 16 My only ioy shalbe so fixed and on thy lawes so set That nothyng can me so far blynde that I thy wordes for get The thyrd parte MMEL Graunt to thy seruaunt now such grace as may my lyfe prolong Thy holy worde then will I kepe bothe in my hart and tong verse 18 18 Mine eies whiche were dim shut vp so open and make bryght That of thy law and merueilous works I may haue the cleare syght verse 19 I am a straunger in this earth wandring now here now there Thy worde therfore to me disclose my fotesteppes for to cleare verse 20 My soule is rauished with desyre and neuer is at rest But seketh to know thy iudgments hie and what may please thee best verse 21 The proud men and malitious thou hast destroyd echone And cursed are suche as doo not thy hests attend vpon verse 22 Lord turne me from rebuke and shame whiche wicked men conspire For I haue kept thy couenaunts with zele as hote as fyre verse 23 The princes great in counsel sat and did against me speake But then thy seruaunt thought how he thy statutes myght not breake verse 24 For why thy couenants are my ioy and my great harts solace They serue in stede of counsellers my matters for to pas The. iiii parte DALETH verse 25 I am alas as brought to graue and almost turnd to dust Restore therfore my lyfe agayne as thy promise is iust verse 26 My wayes when I acknowledged with mercy thou didst heare Here now eftsones and me instruct thy lawes to loue and feare verse 27 Teache me once throughly for to know thy precepts and thy lore Thy workes then will Imeditate and lay them vp in store verse 28 My soule I fele so sore opprest that it melteth for grief According to thy word therfore hast Lorde to sende relyef verse 29 From lying and deceitfull lyppes let thy grace me defend And that I may learue thee to loue thy holy law me send verse 30 The way of truth both straight sure I haue chosen and founde I set thy iudgement me before whiche kepe me safe and sound verse 33 Since then O Lord I forced my selfe thy couenants to embrase Let me therfore haue no rebuke nor check in any case verse 32 Then will I runne with ioyfull cheare where thy worde doth me call When thou hast set my hart at large and rid me out of thrall The. v. parte H E verse 33 Instruct me Lord in the right trade of thy statutes deuyne And it to kepe euen to the end my hart will I inclyne verse 34 Graunt me the knowledge of thy law and I shall it obey With hart and mind and all my might I will it kepe I say verse 35 In the right path of thy precepts guide me Lorde I require None other pleasure doo I wishe nor greater thing desire verse 36 Inclyne my hart thy lawes to kepe and couenants to embrace And from all filthy auarice and shield me with thy grace verse 37 From vaine desire and worldly lustes turne backe myne eyes and syght Geue me the sprite of lyfe and power to walke thy wayes a ryght verse 38 Confirme thy gratious promise Lorde whiche thou hast made to me Which am thy seruaunt and doo loue and feare nothyng but thee verse 39 Reproche and shame whiche I so feare from me O Lord expell For thou dost iudge with equitie and therin dost excell verse 40 Beholde my harts desire is bent thy lawes to kepe for aye Lorde strēgthen me so with thy grace that it performe I may The. vi parte VAV verse 41 Thy mercyes great and manifolde let me obteyne O Lorde The sauing health let me enioy accordyng to thy word verse 42 So shall I stop y e slaundrous mouths of leud men and vniust For in thy faithfull promises stand the my comfort and trust verse 43 The word of truth with in my mouth let euer still be prest For in thy iudgements wonderfull my hope doth stand and rest verse 44 And while that breath
within my brest doth naturall lyfe preserue yea till this world shalbe dissolued thy law will I obserue verse 45 So walke will I as set at large and made free from all drede Because I sought how for to kepe thy precepts and thy rede verse 46 Thy noble actes I will describe as thinges of most great fame Euen before kings I will them blase and shrink no whit for shame verse 47 I will reioyse them to obey thy worthy hests and will Which euermore I haue loued best and so will loue them still verse 48 48 My handes will I lyft to thy lawes whiche I haue dearely sought And practise thy commaundementes in will in dede and thought The. vii parte ZAIN verse 49 Thy promise whiche thou madst to me thy seruaunt Lorde remember For therin haue I put my trust and confidence for euer verse 50 It is my comfort and my ioy when troubles me assayle For were my lyfe not by thy worde my lyfe would sone me fayle verse 51 The proude and suche as God contemn still made of me a skorne yet would I not thy law forsake as he that were forlorne verse 52 But cald to mind lord thy great works shewde to our fathers olde Wherby I felt the ioy surmount my grief an hundred folde verse 53 But yet alas for feare I quoke seing how wicked men Thy law forsoke and did procure thy iudgment who knoweth when verse 54 And as for me I framed my songs thy statutes to exalt When I among the straungers dweld and thoughtes gan me assalt verse 55 I thought vpon thy name O Lorde by nyght when others slepe As for thy law also I kept and euer will it kepe verse 56 This grace I did obteyne because thy couenants swete and deate I did embrace and also kepe with reuerence and with feare The. viii parte HETH verse 57 O God which art my part and lot My comfort and my stay I haue decreed and promised thy lawe to kepe alway verse 58 Mine earnest hart did humbly sue in presence of thy face As thou therfore hast promised Lorde graunt me of thy grace verse 59 My lyfe I haue examined and tryde my secrete hart Whiche to thy statutes caused me my fete strayght to conuert verse 60 I did not stay nor linger long as they that slouthfull are But hastely thy lawes to kepe I did my selfe beware verse 61 The cruell bandes of wicked men haue made of me theyr pray Yet would I not thy law forget nor from thee go astray verse 62 Thy rightous iudgment shewd toward me so great is and so hie That euen at midnight will I ryse thy name to magnifye verse 63 Companion am I to all them whiche feare thee in theyr hart And neyther will for loue nor dread ▪ from thy commaundements start verse 64 Thy mercies Lorde most plentuously doo all the worlde fulfyll Oh teache me how I may obey thy statutes and thy will The ix parte TETH verse 65 According to thy promise Lorde so hast thou with me delt For of thy grace in sundry sorts haue I thy seruaunt felt verse 66 Teache me to iudge alwayes a ryght and geue me knowledge sure For certenly beleue I doo that thy precepts are pure verse 67 Yer thou didst touche me with thy rod I erred and went astray But now I kepe thy holy word and make it all my stay verse 68 Thou art both good and gratious and geuest most liberally Thy ordinaunces how to kepe therfore O Lord teache me verse 69 The proud and wicked mē haue forged against me many a lye yet thy commaundements still obserue with all my hart will I. verse 70 Their harts are swolne with worldly welth as gras so are they fat But in thy law doo I delyte and nothyng seke but that verse 71 Oh happy tyme may I well say when thou didst me correct For as a guide to learne thy lawes thy rods did me direct verse 72 So that to me thy worde and law is dearer manifold Then thousands great of siluer golde or ought that can be tolde The. x. parte IOD verse 73 Seing thy hands haue made me Lord to be thy creature Graunt knowledg like wise how to learne to put thy lawes in vre verse 74 So they that feare thee shall reioyce when euer they me see Because I haue learned by thy worde to put my trust in thee verse 75 When with thy rods y e world is plagd I know the cause is iust So when thou didst correct me Lorde the cause iust nedes be must verse 76 Now of thy goodnes I thee pray some comforte to me send As thou to me thy seruaunt hetest so from all ill me shend verse 77 Thy tender mercies power on me and I shall surely lyue For ioy and consolation bathe thy lawes to me doth geue verse 78 78 Confound the proud whose false pretēce is me for to destroy But as for me thy hestes to know I will myself employ verse 79 Who so with reuerence doo thee feare to me let them retire And suche as doo thy couenants knowe and them alone desire verse 80 My hart without all waueryng let on thy lawes be bent That no confusion come to me wherby I should be shent The xi parte GAPH verse 81 My soule doth faynt and ceaseth not thy sauing health to craue And for thy wordes sake still I trust my hartes desyre to haue verse 82 Mine eyes doo fayle with loking for thy word and thus I say Oh when wilte thou me comfort Lorde why dost thou thus delay verse 83 As a skin bottell in the smoke so am I partcht and dryed yet will I not out of my hart let thy commaundement slide verse 84 Alas how long shall I yet lyue before I see the houre That on my foes whyche me torment thy vengeaunce thou wilt power verse 85 Presūptuons men haue digged pittes thinking to make me sure Thus contrary agaynst thy law my hurte they doo procure verse 86 But thy commaundements are al true and causeles they me greue To thee therfore I doo complayne that thou mightest me relieue verse 87 Almost they had me cleane destroide and brought me quite to grounde yet by thy statutes I abode and therin succor founde verse 88 Restore me Lorde agayne to lyfe for thy mercyes excell And so shall I thy couenants kepe till death my lyfe expell The. xii parte LAMID verse 89 In heauens lord where thou dost dwel thy word is stablished sure And shall for all eternitie fast grauen there indure verse 90 From age to age thy truth abideth as doth the earth witnes Whose ground work thou hast layd so sure as no tounge can expres verse 91 Euen to thys day we may well see how all thynges perseuer Accordyng to thy ordinance for all thinges thee reuere verse 92 Had it not ben that in thy lawe my soule had comfort sought Long time yere now in my distres I had ben brought to nought verse 93 Therfore will I thy
precepts aye in memory kepe fast By them thou hast my lyfe restorde when I was at last cast verse 94 No wight to me can title make for I am onely thyne Saue me therfore for to thy lawes myne eares and hart inclyne verse 95 The wicked men doo seke my bane and therto lye in wayte But I the while considered thy notable actes and great verse 96 I see nothyng in this wide world at length which hath not ende But thy commaundement and thy word beyond all end extende The. xiii parte MEM verse 97 What great desire and feruent loue doo I beare to thy lawe All the day long my whole deuyse is only on thy lawe verse 98 Thy worde hath taught me far to pas my foes in polycye For still I kepe it as a thyng of most excellencye verse 99 My teachers whiche did me instruct in knowledge I excell Because I doo thy couenauntes kepe and them to others tell verse 100 In wisdome I doo pas also the auncient men in dede And all because to kepe thy lawes I helde it aye best rede verse 101 My fete I haue refrayned eke from euery euyll way Because that I continually thy worde might kepe I say verse 102 I haue not swarued from thy iudgmēts nor yet shronk any dell For why thou hast taught me therby to lyue godly and well verse 103 Oh Lorde howe swete vnto my tast fynde I thy wordes alwaye Doubtles no hony in my mouth fele ought so swete I may verse 104 Thy lawes haue me such wisdō learnd that vtterly I hate All wicked and vngodly wayes in euery kinde or rate The. xiiii parte NVN verse 105 Euen as a lanterne to my fete so doth thy word shine bryght And to my pathes where euer I go it is a flamyng lyght verse 106 I haue both sworne and will perform most certenly doubtles That I will kepe thy iudgments iust and them in lyfe expres verse 107 Affliction hath me sore oppressed and brought me to deathes dore O Lorde as thou hast promised so me to lyfe restore verse 108 The offrings which with hart voyce most frankly I thee geue Accept and teache me how I may after thy iudgements lyue verse 109 My soule is aye so in my hande that daungers it assayle yet doo I not thy law forget nor it to kepe will fayle verse 110 Although the wicked layd their nets to catche me at a bray yet did I not from thy precepts once swerue or go astray verse 111 Thy lawe I haue so claymed alway as mine owne heritage And why for therin I delyte and set my whole courage verse 112 For euermore I haue ben bent thy statutes to fullfill Euen so lyke wyse vnto the ende I will continue styll The. xv parte SAMECH verse 113 The crafty thoughts and double hart I doo alwayes detest But as for thy law and precepts I loued them euer best verse 114 Thou art my hid and secret place my shield of strong defence Therfore haue I thy promises loked for with pacience verse 115 Go to therfore ye wicked men depart from me anone For the commaundments will I kepe of God my Lorde alone verse 116 As thou hast promisd so performe that death me not assayle Nor let my hope abuse me so that through distrust I quayle verse 117 Uphold me and I shalbe safe for ought they doo or say And in thy statutes pleasure take will I bothe night and day verse 118 Thou hast trod suche vnder thy fete as do thy statutes breake For nought auayleth theyr subtiltie theyr counsell is but weake verse 119 Like drosse thou castes the wicked oute where euer they go ordwell Therfore can I as thy statutes loue nothyng halfe so well verse 20 My fleshe alas is taken with feare as though it were benomde For when I see thy iudgmentses strayt I am as one astounde The. xvi parte AIN verse 121 I doo the thyng that lawfull is and geue to all men right Resigne me not to them that would oppresse me with their might verse 122 But for thy seruaunt surty be in that thing that is good That proudmen geue me not the foyle which rage as they were wood verse 123 Mine eies with waiting are now blind thy health so muche I craue And eke thy righteous promise Lorde wherby thou wilt me saue verse 124 Intreate thy seruaunt louingly and fauour to him shew Thy statutes of most excellence teache me also to knowe verse 125 Thy humble seruaunt Lorde I am oh graunt me to vnderstand Howe by thy statutes I may know best what to take in hand verse 126 It is now time Lorde to begin for truthe is quyte decayd Thy law lyk wyse they haue transgrest and none against them sayd verse 127 Thys is the cause wherfore I loue thy lawes better then gold Or iewels fine which are estemd most costly to be sold verse 128 I thought thy precepts all most iust and so them layd in store All crafty and malicious wayes I doo abhorre therfore The. xvii parte PE verse 129 Thy couenaunts are most wonderfull and full of thynges profound My soule therfore doth kepe them sure when they are tride and found verse 130 when men first enter into thy wordes they finde alyght most cleare And very idiots vnderstand when they it reade or heare verse 131 For ioie I haue both gaped breathed to know thy commaundement That I might guide my lyfe therby I sought what thyng it ment verse 132 With mercy and compassion Lord beholde me from aboue As thou art wont to behold suche as thy name feare and loue verse 133 Direct my fote steppes by thy worde that I thy will may know And neuer let iniquitie thy seruaunt ouerthrow verse 134 From slaunderous tonges and deadly harms preserue kepe me sure Thy precepts then I will obserue and put them eke in vre verse 135 Thy countenaūce which doth surmoūt the sunne in his bright hew Let shine on me and by thy lawe teache me what to eschew verse 136 Out of mine eyes great flods gush out of drery teares and fell When I beholde how wicked men thy law kepe neuer a dell The. xviii parte ZADE verse 137 In euery point Lord thou art iust the wicked though they grudge And when thou dost sentēce pronunce thou art a righteous iudge verse 138 To render right and flie from guile are two chief pointes most hye And suche as thou hast in thy law commaunded vs streightly verse 139 With zele and wrath I am consumde and euen pyned awaye To see my foes thy wordes forget for ought that I doo may verse 140 So pure and perfect is thy word as any hart can deme And I thy seruaunt nothing more doo loue or yet esteme verse 141 And though I be nothing set by as one of base degree Yet doo I not thy hestes forget nor shrinke awaye from thee verse 142 Thy righteousnes Lorde is most iust for euer to endure Also thy law is truth
it selfe most constant and most pure verse 143 Trouble and grief haue seased on me and brought me wondrous lowe yet doo I still of thy precepts delyght to heare and know verse 144 The righteous of thy iudgements doo last for euermore Then teache them me for euen in them my lyfe lyeth vp in store The. xix parte â—OPH verse 145 With feruent heart I callde and crid now answere me O Lord That thy commaundement to obserue I may fully accord verse 146 To thee my God I make my sute with most humble request Saue me therfore and I will kepe thy precept and thy hest verse 147 To thee I crye euen in the morne before the day waxe lyght Because that I haue in thy word my confidence whole plyght verse 148 Mine eyes preuent the watch by night and yere they call I wake That by deuisyng of thy word I might some comfort take verse 149 Incline thyne eares to heare my voice and pitie on me take As thou wast wont so iudge me Lorde lest lyfe me should forsake verse 150 My foes draw nere and doo procure my deathe malitiously Which from thy law are far gone back and straid from it leudly verse 151 Therfore O Lorde approche thou nere for nede doth so require And all thy precepts true they are then helpe I thee desyre verse 152 By thy coÌ„maundements I haue learnd not now but longe ago That they remayne for euermore thou hast them grounded so The. xx parte RES verse 153 My trouble and affliction consider and beholde Delyuer me for of thy lawe I euer take fast holde verse 154 Defend my good and righteous cause with spede me succor send From death as thou hast promised Lorde kepe me and defend verse 155 As for the wicked farre they are from hauing health and grace Wherby they might thy statutes know they enter not the trace verse 156 Great are thy mercyes Lord I graunt what tong can them atteyne And as thou haste me iudged yer now so let me lyfe obteyne verse 157 Though many men did trouble me and persecute most sore Yet from thy lawes I neuer shronk nor went awry therfore verse 158 And truth it is for grief I dye when I these traitors see Because they kepe no whit thy worde nor yet seke to know thee verse 159 Beholde for I doo loue thy lawes with hart most glad and fayne As thou art good and gratious Lorde restore my lyfe agayne verse 160 What thy word doth decree must be and so it hath bene euer Thy rightuous iudgements are also most true and decay neuer The. xxi parte SCHIN verse 161 Princes haue sought by crueltye causeles to make me crouche But all in vayne for of thy word the feare did my hart touche verse 162 And certenly euen of thy word I was more mery and glad Then he that of ryche spoyles and pray great store and plentye had verse 163 As for all lyes and falsitie I hate most and detect For why thy holy law doo I aboue all thinges loue best verse 164 Seuen times aday I prayse the Lord singing with hart and voyce Thy rightuous actes and wonderfull so cause me to reioyse verse 165 Great peace and rest shall all such haue whiche doo thy statutes loue Nor danger shall theyr quiet state impere or once remoue verse 166 My only health and comfort Lorde I loke for at thy hand And therfore haue I done those things whiche thou didst me commaunde verse 167 Thy lawes haue ben my exercise whiche my soule most desired So muche my loue to them was bent that nought els I required verse 168 Thy statutes and commaundements I kept thou knowest a ryght For all the things that I haue done are present in thy syght The. xxii parte TAV verse 169 O Lorde let my complaynt and crye before thy face appeare And as thou hast me promise made so teache me thee to feare verse 170 Mine humble supplication toward thee let find acces And graunt me Lord deliueraunce for so is thy promes verse 171 Then all my lippes thy prayses speake after most ample sort When thou thy statutes hast me taught wherin standeth all comfort verse 172 My tong shall sing and preache thy word and on this wise say shall Gods famous actes and noble lawes are iust and perfect all verse 173 Stretch out thy hand I thee beseche and spedely me saue For thy commaundments to obserue chosen O Lorde I haue verse 174 Of thee alone Lorde I craue health for other I know none And in thy law and nothyng els I doo delyte alone verse 175 Graunt me therfore long dayes to lyue thy name to magnifye And of thy iudgements mercifull let me thy fauor trye verse 176 For I was lost and went astraye muche lyke a waydryng shepe Oh seke me for I haue not fayled thy commaundmentes to kepe Dd dominum cum tribularer Psal. cxx T. S. The praier of Dauid beyng now banished among the barbarious people of Arabia by the fasle reports of enuious flatterers And therefore he lamenteth his long abode amonge those infidels who were geuen to all kind of wickednes and contetion IN trouble and in thrall vnto the Lord I call he doth me coÌ„fort deliuer me I say froÌ„ liers lips alway And tong of false reyort verse 4 What vantage or what thyng Getst thou thus for to sting Thou false and flattering lyer verse 5 Thy tongue doth hurt I wene No les then arrowes kene Of whote consuming fire verse 6 Alas to longe I slake Within these tentes so blake Whiche kedars are by name By whom the flocke elect And of Isaackes sect Are put to open shame verse 7 With them that peace did hate I came a peace to make And set a quyet lyfe verse 8 But when my worde was tolde Causeles I was controld By them that would haue stryfe Leuaui oculos meos Cxxi VV. VV. The Prophet shewed by his owne example that the faythful ought to loke for all their succor of God alone who will gouerne and giue good successe to all theyr godly enterpryses I Lyfte mine eies to Sion hill froÌ„ whence I doo attend that succor God me send The mighty God me succor will which heaueÌ„ and earth framed all things therin named 3 Thy fote from slip he will preserue And will thee safely kepe For he will neuer slepe Lo he that doth Israll conserue No slepe at all can him catche But his eyes shall euer watche The Lorde is thy warrant alway The Lorde eke doth thee couer As at thy ryght hand euer The sunne shall not thee parche by day Nor the mone not halfe so bryght Shall with could thee hurt by night The Lorde will kepe thee from distres And wyll thy lyfe sure saue And thou also shalt haue In all thy busines good successe Where euer thou goest in or out God will thy thinges bring about Letatus sum Psalme Cxxii VV. K. Dauid reioyceth in the name of the faythfull that God
hathe accomplished his promes and placed his Arke in Sion for the whiche he geueth thankes and prayeth for the prosperitie of the Church I did in hart reioyce to heare y e peples voyce in offering so willingly For let vs vp say they and in the Lordes house pray thus spake the folke full louingly Oure fete that wandred wide shal in thy gates abide O thou Jerusalem full fayre Which arte so semely set muche lyke a Citie net the like wherof is not els where The trybes with one accorde The tribes of God the Lorde Are thither bent theyr way to take So God before did â—ell That there his israell Their prayers shoulde together make For there are thrones erect And that for this respect To set forth iustice orderly Which thrones right to mainteine To dauids house perteine His folke to iudge accordingly To pray let vs not cease For Ierusalems peace Thy friendes God prosper mightely Peace be thy walles about And prosper the throughout Thy places eke continually I wish thy prosperous state For my poore brethrens sake That comfort haue by meanes of the. Gods house both me allure Thy welth for to procure So much allwayes as lieth in me Adte leuaui oculos Psalm Cxxiii Th. Stern A praier of the faithfull which are afflicted by the wicked worldelinges and contemners of God O Lord that heuen doest possesse Singe this as the. xxiii psal I lift mine eies to the Euen as the seruant lifteth his his maisters handes to see verse 2 As handmaides watch there maistres handes some grace for to atchiue So we beholde the Lord our God til he do vs forgeue verse 3 Lorde graunt vs thy compassion and mercy in thy sight For we be filled and ouer comen with hatred and despight verse 4 Our mindes be stuffed with great rebuke the rich and worldly wise To make af vs their mocking stock the proude do vs despice Nisi quia dominus Psalm Cxxiiii VV. The people of God beyng delyuered out of a great danger acknowledg not to haue escaped by their owne power but throughe the fauour of God and shew in how greate perill they were NO we Israell may say that truly If that the Lord had not our cause mainteind If that the lord had not our right susteind WheÌ„ all the worlde against vs furiously made their vprors and said we should all die verse 3 Now long a go they had deuoure vs all And swalowed quick for ought y t we could deme Suche was their rage as we might well esteme verse 4 And as the flouddes with mightye force do fall So had they now our life euen brought to thrall verse 5 The raging stremes most proud in roring noice Had long a go ouer whelmde vs in the depe verse 6 But loued by God whiche doth vs safely kepe From bloudy teeth and theyr most cruell voyce Which as a pray to eate vs woulde reioyce verse 7 Euen as the birde out of the foulers grenne Escapth away right so it fareth vs Broke are theyr nets and we haue scaped thus verse 8 God that made heauen earth is our help theÌ„ His name hath saued vs from these wicked men Qui confidunt Psalm cxxv VV. K. He describeth the assurance of the faithfull in their aflictions and desireth their welth and the destruction of the wicked SUche as in God the lord do trust as Mount Sion shall firmely stande and be remoued at no hand the Lorde will count them right and iust So that they shall be sure For euer to indure verse 2 As mightye mountains huge and greate Jerusalem about to close So will the Lorde be vnto those who on his godly will doo wayte Suche are to hym so deare they neuer nede to feare verse 3 For though the rightous trye doeth he by making wicked men his rodde Lest they through grief for sake their God it shall not as their lot still be verse 4 Geue Lorde to those thy lyght whose hartes are true and ryght verse 5 But as for such as turne a syde by croked wayes which they out sought The Lorde will surely bryng to nought with workes vile they shall abide But peace with Israell for euermore shall dwel In conuertendo Psalm cxxvi VV. K This Psalme was made after the returne of the people from Babylon and sheweth that the meane of their deliuerance was wonderful after the seuentie yeres of captiuitie forespoken by Ieremie 25. 12. and. 29. 10. WHen that the Lorde again his SioÌ„ had forth brought from bondage great also seruitude extreme his work was suche as did surmount mans hart thought so that we were muche like to them that vse to dreame our mouthes were with laughter filled then and eke our tongues did shew vs ioyfull men The Heathen folke were forced then this to confes How that the Lord for them also great things had don verse 3 But muche more we and therfore can confes no les Wherfore to ioye we haue good cause as we begonne verse 4 O Lorde go forthe thou canst our bondage end As to desertes thy flowing riuers send verse 5 Full true it is that they whiche sow with teares in dede A time will come when they shal reape in mirth ioye verse 6 They went and wept in bearing of their precious sede For that theyr foes full often times did them anoye But their returne with ioye they shall sure see Their sheaues home bryng and not impered be Nisi dominus Palme Cxxvii VV. It is not mannes wit power or labor but the free goodnes of God that geueth ryches preserueth townes and countrepes graunteth noryshment and chyldren EXcept the Lorde the house doo make And therunto doo set hys hande Sing this as the lords praâ—â— What men doo build it can not stand Likewise in vayne men vndertake Cities and holdes to watch and ward Except the Lord be their safegard Though ye ryse early in the morne And so at night go late to bed Feding full hardly with browne breade yet were your labor lost and worne But they whom God doth loue and kepe Receyue all thinges with quiet slepe Therfore marke well when euer ye see That men haue heires to enioy their laÌ„d It is the gift of Gods owne hand For God him selfe doth multiplye Of his great liberalitie The blessing of posteritie And when the children come to age They grow in strength and actiuenes In person and comelines So that a shaft shot with courage Of one that hath a most strong arme Flyeth not so swyft nor doth lyke harme Oh well is him that hath his quiuer Fournished with such altilerye For when in perill he shalbe Suche one shall neuer shake nor shiuer When that he pleadeth before the iudge Against his foes which beare him grudg Beati omnes qui timent Psalm cxxviii T. T He describeth the prosperous estate of them that be maryed in the feare of God ioyning with all the promises of Gods blessinges to all them that lyue in thys honorable estate