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mercy_n	father_n	lord_n	redeemer_n	2,002	5	9.8210	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15659	The songs of the Old Testament translated into English measures, preseruing the naturall phrase and genuine sense of the holy text: and with as little circumlocution as in most prose translations. To euery song is added a new and easie tune, and a short prologue also, deliuering the effect and vse thereof, for this profit of vnlearned readers. By George Wither. Cum priuilegio permissu superiorum.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1621 (1621)	STC 25923; ESTC S120880	31,876	85

Isra'l through those Countries all In which they far or nigh dispersed be Because of that transgression wherewithall They haue transgressed and offended thee To vs our Kings our Dukes and Fathers doth Disgrace pertaine oh LORD for angring thee Yet mercy LORD our God and pardon both To thee belongs though we rebellious be For as for vs we sore haue disobey'd The Lord our God his voyce and would not heare To keepe his lawes which he before vs laid By those his seruants which his Prophetâ— were Yea all that of the race of Isra'l be Against thy law extreamely haue misdone And that they might not â—isten vnto thee They from thy voice oh LORD are backward gone Which makes both Curse and Oth on them descend That in the Law of Moses written was The seruant of that God whom we offend And now his speeches he hath brought to passe On vs and on our Iudges he doth bring That plague wherewith he threatned vs and them For vnder heau'n was neuer such a thing As now is acted on Ierusalem As Moses written Law doth beare record Now all this mischiefe is vpon vs brought And yet we prayed not before the LORD That leauing sinne we might his Truth be taught For this respect the LORD in wait hath laid That he inflict on vs this mischiefe might And seeing we his voyce haue disobay'd In all his workes the LORD our God's vpright But now oh LORD our God who from the land Of cruell Aegypt brought thy people hast And by the power of thine almighty hand Atchieu'd a name which to this day doth last Though we haue sinned and committed ill Yet LORD by all that righteousnesse in thee From thy Ierusalem thy holy hill Oh let thy wrath and anger turned be For by those wicked things which we haue don And through our fathers sinnes Ierusalem Yea thine owne people haue the hatred won And the reproach of all that neighbour them Now therefore to thy Seruant's suite encline His prayer heare our God and let thy face Eu'n for the LORDS deare sake vouchsafe to shine Vpon thy now forsaken holy place Thine eares encline thou oh my God and heare Lift vp thine eyes and vs oh looke vpon Vs who forsaken with thy Citty are The Citty where thy name is called on For we vpon our selues presume not thus Before thy presence our request to make For any righteousnesse that is in vs But for thy great and tender Mercies sake LORD heare forgiue oh LORD and weigh the same Oh LORD performe it and no more deferre For thine owne sake my God for by thy name Thy Citty and thy people called are THE Prayer of IONAH Ionah 2. The Argument and Vse AS Ionah fled from the presence of the LORD he was followed by a tempest whose furie would not be allayed vntil the offender was cast into the Sea where God had mercie on him and sent a Fish to preserue him Which in humane reason seemed a more terrible danger then that he was deliuered from But the safetie which at his first entrance hee found in so vnsafe a place made him sensible of Gods fauour and begat in him a firme beliefe that he should be totally deliuered And thereupon being yet in the Fishes belly made this Prayer to praise God for deliuering him in so great an extremity And he did it as speaking of a thing already done the better to shew vs the soundnesse of his faith The things remarkeable are these The place where he prayed the terrible and vnauiodable danger that compassed him the dispaire he was nigh falling into the timely application of Gods mercy the comfort it infused into him the occasions which draw men into these perils the vowe made vpon this deliuerance and lastly the reason of that vowe Now this buriall of Ionas in the fishes belly and his deliuery from thence was a signe of the buriall and resurrection of our blessed Sauiour Mat. 12.40 And therefore we must not thinke he made this Prayer onely in his owne person but in the misticall body of Iesus Christ also For by contemplating the circumstances of his danger and deliuerance and hauing the spirit of prophecie he apprehended the misteries of our Redemption By the ship ready to be sunke through that tempest in which he was cast away he conceiued the wrath of God against the world for sinne and that it would not be appeased without satisfaction By his owne offence he foresaw hâ—w Christ hauing taken our sinne vpon him should to bring peace vnto the world be deliuered ouer vnto the rage of Pilate and the Iewes By his being receiued into the fishes belly and there preserued aliue he foresaw how Christ should be swallowed vp of the graue and yet remaine vncorrupted And by the fore-sight he had of his owne comming safe to the shore againe he apprehended that ioyful resurrection of our Redeemer whose misticall body the Church lay all that while as it were in the very Jawes of death and hell These things Ionah apprehended through the spirit of prophecie and by the obiects aforesaid composed this Prayer to set forth the mercies of God and to expresse in what a fearefull estate mankinde was vntill Christ was risen againe in victory And therefore J thinke as it will become vs Christians often to sing it in memory thereof so especially vpon that day which we celebrate in memoriall of our Sauiours Resurrection The Song IN my distresse I cry'd to thee oh Lord And thou wert pleased my complaint to heare Out from the bowels of the grauâ— I roar'â— and to my voyce thou didst encline thine eare For I amid the Sea was cast And to the bottome there thou plung'd me hast The flouds about me rowling circles made Thy waues and billowes ouer-flow'd me quite Wherewith alas vnto my selfe I said I am for euer-more depriu'd thy sight Yet once againe aduance shall I Vnto thy holy Temple-ward mine eye Eu'n to my soule the waters clos'd me had Or'e-swallow'd by the deepes I there was pent About my head the weedes a wreath had made Vnto the hils foundation downe I went And so that forth I could not get The earth an euer-lasting barre had set Then thou oh LORD my God oh thou wert he That from corruption didst my life defend For when my soule was like to faint in me Thou didst oh LORD into my thoughts descend My prayer vnto thee I sent And to thy holy Temple vp it went Those who giue trust to vaine and foolish lies Despisers of their owne good safetie be But I will offer vp a sacrifice Of singing praises with my voice to thee And will performe what vow'd I haue For it belongs to thee oh LORD to saue THE Song of HABAKKVK Habak 3. The Argument and Vse BEfore the following Song is vsually this TITLE A Prayer of the PROPHET Habakkuk vpon Sigionoth or as most Translations haue it For the ignorances that is for the comfort and better information of the people

downe into the Maine Did with his Charr'ots and his Horsemen goe The LORD the waues did then recall And brought the sea vpon them all Whil'st through the place where deepest waters lye The seed of Israel passed ouer drye THE Second Song of MOSES Deut. 32. The Argument and Vse THis Song is found in the 32. chap. of Deut. and was written by the commandement of God to be kept in the Arke of Couenant for a testimony against the people of Israel when they should forget Gods benefits and rebell against him As it is there fore-told and as appeares in the 31. Chap. of the foresaid booke Now the holy Prophet hauing after his Exordium wherein hee calleth heauen and earth to witnesse made a Narration of the Jewes peruersenesse Hee prophecieth of three principall things in this Hymne First of their future Idolatry with their punishment for it Secondly of their hatred to Christ with their finall Abiection And lastly of the grace which should be vouchsafed vnto the Gentiles And in this triple-prophecie there are also many particularities laid downe as considerable First how perfect how wise how faithfull and how iust God is in his owne nature Secondly how vnreasonably peruerse his people were Thirdly how neuerthelesse God was louing and heaped vpon them innumerable benefits some of which are here reckoned vp Fourthly how ingratefully and deuellishly they still requited him Fiftly how he punished them with grieuous plagues but forbare a while their finall ouerthrow to await their repentance Sixtly how respectlesse they should be of all this fauour and what horrible inhumanities they should be guiltie of Seauenthly how mindefull the LORD would be of their obstinacy how suddainely hee would ruine them how safe they should be who professed the true God when his enemies were visited how vnable those should be to helpe them in whom they had trusted how seuere and irrecouerable the iudgement should be how certaine in regard the LORD had sworne it and how all this should turne to the aduantage of his Elect. The Vse which we are to make of this Song is to repeate it often in remembrance of Gods Iustice and Mercy and to put our selues in minde by the Iewes example how seuerely God will punish such as continue obstinate in their sinnes For euery man if he would consider it shall finde that he in his owne particular hath receiued as much fauour from his Redeemer and as vnthankefully requited it This Song ought also to stirre vs vp to a better consideration of our owne estate and as St. Paul counselleth If God hath not spared the naturall branches take wee heed lest he spare not vs. Rom. 11.21 Yea when we shall reade or sing this Hymne which is left as well for our vse as for the Iewes let vs as St. Paul aduiseth in the fore-named Chapter Meditate the goodnesse and seueritie of God on them which fell seuerity but towards vs goodnesse if we continue in his goodnesse and that otherwise wee shall be cut off The Song And Moses spake in the eares of all the Congregation of Jsrael the words of this Song vntill they were ended c. TO what I speake an eare O hea-uens lend And heare oh earth what words I vtter will Like drops of raine my speaches shall descend And as the dew my doctrine shall distill As doth the raine that showreth small on tender flow'rs And as vpon the grasse doe fall the greater show'rs For I the LORD' 's greâ—t name will publish now Vnto our God the glory render you He is that Rock whose Workes perfection are For all his waies with Iudgement guided be A God of truth from all wrong-doing cleare A truly iust and righteous-One is He. Yet they with spots themselues defilde Vnlike his Sonnes And are a race of crooked wilde And froward ones Vnwise and foolish nation dost thou so Thy selfe vnto the LORD vngratefull show Thy Father and Redeemer is not he Hath he not made and now confirm'd thee fast Oh call to minde the dayes that older be And weigh the yeeres of many Ages past Thy Father will if thou desire Informe thee well Thy elders when thou shalt enquire Can also tell How the most high did Adams Sonnes diuide And shares for euery Kindred did prouide How he the Nations Limits did prepare In number with the Sonnes of Israel The LORD had in his people then his share And Iacob for his part allotted fell Them in a desert rude he found Possest of none A place of terrour and a ground Vast and vnknowne He taught them there he led them farre and nigh And kept them as the apple of his eye Eu'n as an Eagle to prouoke her young About her neast doth houer here and there Spread forth her wings to traine her birds along And sometime on her backe her younglings beare Right so the LORD conducted them Himselfe alone And for assistant there with him Strange God was none Them on the High-lands of the earth he set Where they the plenties of the fields might eate For them he made the Rocke with hony flowe They suckt out oyle from flints and they did feed On milke of sheepe on butter of the Cowe Fat lambs and goates and rammes of Bashan breed Of wheat he gaue them for their food The fullest feede And they did drinke the purest blood The grape did bleed But here-withall vnthankefull Israel Soone fat became and spurned with his heele They waxed fat and grosse and couer'd o're And then their God and Maker did forsake Their Rocke of health regarded was no more But with strange Gods him Iealous did they make Yea they with what was most abhor'd His wrath entisâ— To deuils not vnto the LORD They sacrifice To gods vnknowne that new inuented were And such as their fore-fathers did not feare They minded not the Rocke which them begat But haue forgot the God that form'd them hath Which when the LORD perceiu'd it made him hate His sonnes and daughters mouing him to wrath I will to marke their end saith he Obscure my face For they vnfaithfull Children be Of froward race My wrath with what was not a God they mou'd And haue mine anger with their follies prou'd But by a people without being yet Their Iealous wrath will I prouoke for this And by a foolish nation make them fret For in my wrath a fire enflamed is And to the depth of hell it shall Deuouring goe Earth with her fruits and mountaines all Consuming to In heapes I mischiefes will vpon them throw And shoot mine arrowes till I haue no moe With hunger parched and consum'd with heat I will enforce them to a bitter end The teeth of beasts vpon them I will set And the invenom'd dust-fed Serpent send The sword without and terrour grimme Within shall slay Young men and maides the babe and him Whose haire is gray Yea I had vow'd to spread them here and there Vntill that men forget they euer were But this the Foe compel'd me

that are most bound to celebrate Gods praises and voweth this Deliuerance to euerlasting memorie By our priuate Meditations we may vse this for a Song of thankesgiuing after our deliuerances from temporall sicknesses which is one and the first sence wherein Hezekiah vsed it But in the second and most principall sense he sung it in the person of the Misticall body who was by Christ cured of the deadly sicknesse of sinne and death for Hezekiah which signifieth helped or strengthned of the LORD was a type of the Church healed by God and Isaiah who brought the medicine that cured the disease and is interpreted The saluation of the LORD figured our Redeemer Iesus Christ And indeede it is not likâ—ly that so good a Prince as Hezekiah would haue been so extreamely deiected if he had apprehended nothing more fearefull then his present sicknesse with the naturall separation of the soule and body or that it was his neuer seeing againe of Gods temporall house that made him so passionate For if that had beene a matter worthy such griefe it should haue beene alwayes so and then neither he nor any man could haue departed this life willingly But there was a greater mistery in it yea if you well consider that this Deliuerance herein memorized was confirmed by one of the greatest miracles to wit the Sunne going backe ten degrees I thinke you will then beleeue that it had respect to some greater thing then the particular recouery of Hezekiah For that the Sunne went really backe and did not appeare onely so to doe is manifested in these places 2 King 20.12 2 Chron. 32.31 Js 39.1 for thence J gather that it was obserued in Asiria and that Messengers were sent from thence to Hâ—zekiah to know the reason of that wonder which if we should affirme to be for a signe of Hezâ—kiahs recouery onely we must confesse the signe greater then that which it was sent to signifie whereas if we will vnderstand Hezekiah to be a type of the Church and that God gaue this for a token to assure him that as he should be healed so he would also send his Sonne to heale the generall infirmity of Mankinde we shall then make the thing figured proportionable to the figure For the redemption of Man being a worke much greater then the Sunnes retrogradation it was well worthy of so admirable a Type But I shall make this prologue ouer-large or else J would so plainly declare vnto you how Hezekiah was a Type of the Church how in euery circumstance of his sicknesse he pattern'd out the infirmity of mankinde laboring vnder sinne and how naturally that miracle of the Sunnes retrogradation represented the sending of Christ to be our deliuerer that you should confesse this Song was made for vs and the Church to sing throughout all Ages for a memoriall of her former vnspeakeable misery and to set forth the praise of God for that vnequal'd benefit of her Redemption The Song WHen I suppos'd my dayes were at an end Thus speaking to my selfe I made my moane Now to the gates of Hell I must descend And all the remnant of my yeares be gone The Lord ah mee the Lord I cry'd Where now the liuing be Nor man that doth on earth abide Shall I for euer see As the remouing of a Shepherds tent Or as a Weauer cuts his webbe away My dwelling so yea so my age was spent And so my sicknesse did my life decay Each day ere night should end the same My death expected I And euery night ere morning came I did suppose to dye For he so Lyon-like my bones did breake That I my life accounted scarce a day A noyse I did like Cranes or Swallowes make And at the Turtle I lamenting lay My fainting eyes I vpward cast And thus my moane did make Oh I extreamely am opprest For me LORD vndertake What shall I say his word to me he gaue And as he promis'd he performed it For which I will not whil'st that life I haue Those bitter passions of my soule forget But all that after me suruiue Yea all that liue shall know How thou my spirit didst reuiue And health on me bestow Vpon my peace did bitter sorrowes come But in the loue which to my soule thou hast The all-consuming graue thou keptst me from And my offences all behind thee cast For neither can the graue nor death Or praise or honour thee Nor are they hopefull of thy truth That once entombed be Oh he that liues that liues as I doe now Eu'n he it is that shall thy praise declare Thy Truth the father to his seede shall show And how oh LORD thou me hast dain'd to spare And in thy house for this will we Oh LORD throughout our dayes On instruments that stringed be Sing songs vnto thy praise THE Prayer of DANIEL Dan. 9.4 The Argument and Vse THis Prayer is written in the ninth Chapter of Daniels Prophecy and herein the Prophet very earnestly beseecheth God to be mercifull vnto his people The principall points considerable are these First he confesseth God to be powerfull iust and mercifull and that neuerthelesse from the highest to the lowest they had broken his lawes and rebelled against him for which they worthily deserued confusion Secondly he aggrauateth their offences by diuers circumstances acknowledging that as it is the same they haue deserued so it is the destruction they were forewarned of that is come vpon them Thirdly hauing acknowledged thus much he humbly entreates that God would be neuerthelesse mercifull vnto them First in regard he had heretofore gotten glory by deliuering them Secondly for that they were his owne elected people Thirdly seeing they were already become a reproach vnto their neighbours Lastly euen for his owne and the Messiahs sake And all this he earnestly entreats not for their owne worthinesse but for the tender mercies sake of God This Song may be properly sung whensoeuer any of those particular iudgements are powred out which the Prophets haue foretold should be inflicted on these latter times and it may be said or sung by the Church or any member thereof in her person during any other affliction befallen her or if we please euen vpon our priuate occasions prouided we formerly well apply it by our Meditations The Song LOrd God almighty great and full of feare Who alwayes art from breâ—ch of promise free And neuer fayling to haue mercy where They doe obserue thy lawes and honour thee We haue transgrest oh we haue euill done We disobedient and rebellious were For from thy precepts we astray are gone And from thy iudgements we departed are We did thy seruants prophesies withstand Who to our Dukes our Kings and Fathers came And vnto all the people of the land Proclaimed forth their message in thy name In thee oh LORD all righteousnesse hast thou But open shame to vs doth appertaine As fares it with the men of Iudah now And those that in Ierusalem remaine And to all

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