glorie give Free passage to ascend Who is the king of glorie say Oh say who might he be The Lord of Armies in aray That glorious king is he Seeing thou hast evidently declared oh Christ the Kinge of glorie who they are whome thou wilt admit into that kingdome whither thou art aseended and who are truly of that spirituall seed to whome thy promises appertaine Grant we beseech thee that we may make our Election sure by the workes of regeneration not be deluded by the false perswasions of a fruitles faith So all thy Creatures shall give both way and assistance to our Ascention after thee to whome with the father holy-spirit be ascribed all praise powre glorie now for evermore Amen Psa 25. A Psalme of David It containeth many petitions of an afflicted penitent Soul declares the excellence of the Lawe of Grace the priveledges of the regenerate c. It may be vsed when we are dejected by the sight of our guiltines are truly penitent c. I Lift my soul to thee My trust in thee is plac'd Oh let me Lord nor scorned be Nor by my foe disgrac'd But keep reproches all From those who thee attend And let on them Confusion fall That without Cause offend 2 Thy waies to me me impart Let me thy Truth be taught For thou oh God my Saviour art Whome I have alway sought Be still to me as kinde As thou of old hast binn And bear thou not those faults in minde which I have erred in 3 But grace to me afford Ev'u for thy goodnes sake As thou art good gratious Lord On me compassion take Direct al those that stray In iudgment guide the meek And them informe thou in thy way That humbly thee de seeke 4 For Truth Mercie Lord Are found in all thy wayes By ev'ry one who keeps thy word And thy Commands obayes Remit though great they are My sinns for thy Name sake And suffer him who thee doth fear His chosen-path to take 5 Then easd his hart shal growe His seed the Land shal fill And he that feares the Lord shall know His Counsells his will Myne eyes attend on thee That thou maist me release In mercie Lord returne to mee Forlorne in destresse 6 My greefs enlarged are Oh come me releeve My sorrowes heed regard my care And all my sinns forgive Observe oh Lord my foes Marke how abus'd I am And since I trust in thee repose Defend my soul from shame 7 Yea keep thou me vpright Because I hope in thee And from all wrongs all despight Let Isr'el saved be Remember not oh Lord our offences but of thy meer Mercie blot out all our transgressions Let neither the follies of our youth nor the greatnes of any other sinns deprive vs of thy wonted compassion Consider our weaknes our suffrings the condition of our adversaries as motives of thy pittie That our sinns beinge remitted our fetters vnlosed and thy secrets even the misteries of Saving-grace revealed wee may in true meeknes follow him who is the way the Truth and the Life be kept by thy speciall Grace from all future sinns dangers vnto our lives end Amen Another of the same A Loft I raise my soul oh Lord to thee And I in thee alone my trust have placed By those therfore that seek to mischeeve me Oh let me not be shamed nor disgraced Confound not those who seek to do thy will But shame those mē that Causeles have offended Direct thou me in thy Truths pathway still For Lord my health on thee I have attended Eternall God in mercie thinck on me As it hath bene of old thy gratious fashion Forgot let all my youthfull errors be For thy love sake Remember thy compassion Great is thy grace great thy Iustice Lord Therfor thy waies to sinful men thou showest Healp to thee meek thou dost likewise afford Whē he is iudgd guid'st him where thō goest In all thy waies both Truth Mercie be For such as have thy league word observed Keep therfor Lord thy grace in store for me For thy namesake though I have ill deserved Let those in whome thy sacred fear is found In their desired pathway Lord persever Make true content in all their soules abound And let their seed poslesse the land for ever No man oh Lord who stands in fear of thee Shall from thy league or Counsels be debarred On thee therfore mine eyes attending be That from the net my feet may be vnsnared Pleasd be in love to visit me againe For lo despis'd I am sore destressed Quit me from all my sorrowes my paine For my hart-greefs oh Lord are much encraesed Regard my wants Behold mark my woes Remitting all wherin I have offended See See oh Lord what numbers are my foes And what despights to me they have intended To help save my soul entreated be Thou art my Garde oh keep me vndisgraced Vpright pure because I trust in thee And from all Cares let Isr'el be released Psal 26. A Psalm of David It setts downe some marks of the true church of her members personates her iustifieing her self against the secret imputations of her foes from whome she desires to be distinguisht c. It is vsefull for those members of Christ whoe are falsly accused c. GIve sentence now oh Lord with me For I have walk'd aright And since I have relide on thee Preserve me still vpright Proue thou my hart Raines oh God Search there what thou canst finde For I the Paths of Truth have trodd And bear thy love in minde 2 With wicked men I have not sate Nor with dissemblers gone Prophane Assemblies I do hate And shunn the sinners throne With hands wash'd clean in simplenes I 'le round thine Altars goe And there in songs of thanckfulnes Thy wondrous works I 'le showe 3 For I that place affect oh God Where thou so much art fam'de Therfor with sinners thirsting blood Oh! let me not be nam'd Their hands their verie righthands be with bribes mischeefs fraught But Lord redeeme pitty me For I truths Paths have sought 4 In stedfast waies with fixed feet Firme standing I possesse For which where great Assemblies meet I will the Lord confesse Give vs grace oh Lord so to avoide the societie practises of wicked men that neither our consciences may accuse vs to be willfully guiltie of their crimes nor thou condemn vs for hypocrites when thou serchest iudgest the secrets of our harts Ioine to the puritie of manners a sincere devotion that honesty Religeon being knit married together in our soules by thee may never be divorced Let our zeal also to thy house our Love to thy Service be such as may distinguish vs from prophane worldlings so linck vs by charity to thy faithfull members that we may continue thine to our lives end Amen Psa 27. A Psalme of
awfull God! dreadfull is thy frown when we beholde thee angrie for Sinn lothsome are our sinns when they appeare to a wounded conscience vnsufferable our afflictions when our consciences accuse vs VVe have sinned oh Lord we have sinned and are therfor tormented both in soul bodie yet we beseech thee deal not with vs according to our sinns but for thy mercie-sake vouchsafe vs a favorable correction those remedies consolations which thou knowest best for our infirmities VVhē thou art offended our foes are not only mischeevous vexations but our kindred also forsake vs our best beloved freinds afflict vs which is yet more we our selves are our owne tormenters VVhatsoever therfor betides vs or whosoever is iniurious wee have nothing to replie nor any to accuse but our selves Oh! pittie our distempers hear vs help vs deliver vs for the bitter passion sake of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 39. To the cheef Musitian to Iduthun a psalme of David The Prophet resolves a patient watchfulnes over the tongue Bemoanes the vanitie miserie of mankinde petitions for God's mercie c. It may serve to instruct comfort vs during the provocations of the wicked in other afflictions IVow'd to keep my waies vpright And that in words I none would wrong While sinners were therfore in sight I shut my lipps stayd my tongue What er'e they sayd I silent stood Refraining words though they were good 2 But greefs did then to stirr beginn Which hot in me my hart did make My thoughts inflam'd a fire within Which loos'd my tongue then I spake Lord of my end informe thou me And what my dayes frailties be 3 For loe my life is but a spann It seems as nothing in thine eyes Ev'n at his best most vaine is man And like the shade away he flies He tires himself with needles paines And knowes not who shall reap his gaines 4 On thee therefore I do attend My trust oh Lord I place on thee From all my sinns my soul defend From flouting-fooles preserve thou mee For I forbare to speak a word Because it was thy doeng Lord. 5 Thy hand with blowes doth me afflict Oh! take thy heavie strokes away When thou for sinn dost man correct Thou Moth-like sretst their Forme awaie Therfore no cause of doubts remaine That ev'ry man is wholie vaine 6 Lord hear my suite my criengs hear Let not my teares vnmention'd goe For as thy Guests my Fathers were And strangers here ev'n I am soe Oh! spare grant me strength I pray Before I passe from hence for aye Give vs Grace oh Lord that our tongues neither offend by vndiscreet or evill speakings nor by continueng silent whē we ought to speake Remember vs how short and vaine our lives are how foolish it is to wearie our selves consume our time for that with we may never enioy loosing in the meane while assured blessings Enable vs to sustaine the crosse which thou shalt lay vpon vs without repininge lay no more on vs then thou shalt make vs able to beare Deliver vs from the scorne of fooles but especiallie from those transgressions by which our beauty is consumed Mark our teares hear our cries and spare vs in this our pilgrimage vntill we have atained the strength by which we may stand firm in thy favour through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 40. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme of David It is applied vnto Christ Hebr. 10. It praiseth God for our Redemption declares the abolishing of the Ceremonial Law the obedience of Christ the preaching of the Gospell c. It is vsefull to commemorate Christs obedience to give praise for former deliverances to pray for future preservation MY constant hopes on God are sett Who when I cride gave eare to me He brought me from the myrie-pitt Ev'n from the denn where horrors be Vpon a Rock my feet he plac't He setled there my standing fast 2 And that his praise I might declare A new-made song to me he taught Which many men shall hear with fear And to depend on God be brought For they who trust in him are blest And they who pride lies detest 3 Those wonders Lord which thou hast wrought Those things my God so many are Which thou concerning vs hast thought That none cann them to thee declare O Lord to order them to thee Is far too great a task for me 4 No offrings thou dost now require But only that thy words I hear No Sacrifize consum'd in fire By thee for sinns desired are Then Loe I sayd I come to be That which thy Book foretold of me 5 I ioy to do thy will oh God! Thy Law is in my hart enrowld And Lord thy Iustice all abrode In great Assemblies I have tolde Thou know'st my lipps thy Truth reveald And. that my hart hath nought conceald 6 I made thy faithful-dealing knowne I did thy saving-health declare I have not kept thy Love vnshowne Nor hidd thy Truth where hearers were Therfor to me thy mercy showe Thy Truth Love Lord make me know 7 For mischeeves more then cann be tolde Have now enclos'd me round about My sinns on me have layd such holde There is no place of looking out Their number doth my haires out goe And therfor faint my hart doth growe 8 Oh Lord vouchsafe my life to save With speed oh God! assist I pray That they with shame a fall may have Who seek to take my Soul away Let those that wish amisse to me With shame scorne repelled be 9 With rooting-out those men require And paie them with deserved shame Whoe in those words of scorne delight Which bring on me disgrace or blame But give him ioy in his desires Who after thee oh Lord enquires 10 Let them who love thy saving-health Confesse thee Lord for evermore For thou art mindfull of my wealth And heedest me though I am pore Lord God my helper make thou speed To help me still at ev'rie need Allmightie God by whose divine powre Iesus Christ was raised out of the myrie pitt of the Grave with tryvmph ascended from the Dungeons of Hell into the highest heavens Grant that by his example we may continually offer vp the sweet ever acceptable Sacrifize of Obedience to thy Will. UUrite thy Lawe in our Harts Let our Tongues publish thy Righteousnes thy Truth to all the world And though our manyfold Sinns make vs vnworthy of thy grace yet deliver vs from that shame punishmēt which they deserve that our Foes may be disappointed of their hope that we together with all thy Saints may ioyfully confesse thy great Mercie through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psal 41. To the cheef Musitian a Psalm of David It declares the reward of Charitie towards the pore members of Christ expresseth the Hypocrisy of his foes Beseecheth God's assistance praiseth him for our exaltation by Christ It is vsefull for these
wee are brought exceeding lowe Healp for thy Mercy 's cause wee pray For thy Name-sake forgive our sinn Lest els of thee the heathen say Where is their God they trusted in 4 But let it bee before our eyes Of all the Gentiles vnderstood By hearing of the pris'ners cries And by revenging of our bloud Them save likewise ev'n through thy might That vnto death appointed be And seaven fold oh God! requite Our neighbours scornful spights to thee 5 So wee thy pasture-sheep oh Lord Will give thee praise thancks therfore Yea we thy praises will record From age to age for ever more Looke downe ' oh Christ vpon the persecutions of thy Church behold the bloud of thy Martirs the prophanation of thy holy Ordinances the scorneful vpraidings the great calamities which are publikely inflicted on many true professors of thy Gospel even among those who are their neighbours in Beleif in the very streets of thine owne Cittie Though our sinns have deserved more yet for thy mercie sake for thine owne honor sake compassionate our humiliation forgive our offences let thy displeasure be rather manifested against those who are enimies to thy Truth So they who have in derision questioned thy regard of us shall be assured thereof by thy avenging our cause wee being secured from our Oppressors shal magnifiy thy holy Name for ever ever Amen Psa 80. To the cheef Musitian vpon Shosannim Eduth a Psalm for Asaph By the allegory of a Vine is expressed God's great care of the Iewish Church typifieng also the Christian Church whose complaints desires in her suffrings are here exprest It may be vsed by any congregations of the faithful when they are delivered vp to their foes c. HEar thou that Flock-like Ioseph guidest And twixt the Cherubims residest Now Isr'els Pastor shine thou clear To Beniamin's Eph'rims vewe Thy strength before Manasseth shewe And to defend vs drawe thou near 2 Returne of thy grace assure vs For that alone will save cure vs. Oh Lord of hoasts wee thee entreat For aye therfor close not thime ears Though long thou mak'st vs drinck our teares And giv'st vs weepings for our meat 3 Our Neighbours are at strife about vs Thou mak'st our foes to scorne flout vs Lord God of Hoasts our sorrow slake To save vs cause thy face to shine For thou from Egipt broughtst this Vine And threw'st out Nations for her sake 4 The place thou hadst before so tilled That rooting well the land shee filled And cov'red mountaines with her shade Her boughs did Cedar-like extend Shee branches to the sea did send And to the River shee did spread 5 Why of her hedge hast thou bereft her Why to the spoile of strangers left her And of the feirce vntamed swine The Forrest herds have her or'ethrowne Oh Lord of Hoasts from heav'n look downe Behold visite this thy Vine 6 That Vine which thy right-hand hath cherisht That branch which for thine owne was nourisht Is burn't spoild while thou dost frowne Oh! send for our defence to stand That Sonn of Man whome thy Right-hand Hath arm'd chosen for thine owne 7 Then we shall never more denie thee But being still revived by thee For ever call vpon thy Name Oh Lord of Hoasts convert vs nowe A gratious look on vs bestowe And thou shalt save vs by the same Notwithstanding oh gratious Father thou dost often water us with our owne teares expose us iustly to the beasts of the Forrest even to our owne brutish appetites though our vnthankfulnes hath worthilie deserved that wee should be chastised with many stormes of Adversitie Yet Remember wee beseech thee that wee are plants of thine owne Vineyeard branches of that goodly Vine which thou hast elected for thy self Behold visite us with a favourable aspect repaire those decayed Fences through which any strang lust or swinish Condition hath broken in vpon us Let our Foes by whome wee are persecuted our neighbours by whome we were mocked or preyed vpon our brethren who were censorious beholders of our afflicctions become witnesses also of thy renewing Favours That we may be comforted in thee continue for ever hereafter constant in thy fear service through the assistance of that man of thy Right-hand Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 81. To the Cheef Musitian on Gittith a Psalm for Asaph It is vsefull to commend vnto us the observation of our Christian Sabaths Solemnities which are piously to be regarded in all Ages because we commemorate in them our Deliverances from our spiritual Bondage typified by the Egiptian-thraldom c. It vpraideth man's in gratitude neglect of God c. IN God our strength let vs reioice To Iacob's God let vs now sing And in our Psalmes to help the voice The tymbrel harpe Psalt'rie bring The Moone renewing trumpets blowe And when the solemne feastings be For Iacobs God long time agoe In Isr'el did this lawe decree 2 This Testimonie he prepar'd When Ioseph came from Egipt-land And liv'd where hee a language heard Whose words he did not vnderstand From Burthens the potters task Thy hands shoulders I did free I help'd when thou for help didst ask And heard thee from the storme said he 3 Ev'n at the waters of debate Selah I sayd that might prove thee there Oh Isr'el mark what I relate And to my words incline thine ear Thou shalt no other God's at all But me the Lord thy God receive For thee I brought from Egipts thrall And will thy largest askings give 4 But Isr'el did my words contemn Of me my people would have none So to their pleasures left I them Who after their owne lusts are gone Oh! had my people mee obayd If Isr'el had my waies persu'de I on their foes my hand had laid Their haters I had soone subdew'd 5 My Foes had then obayd my powre And I had still my Folk vphild I them had fedd with purest flowre And with rock-hony them had fild Make us ever mindfull oh God to magnify thy Name for delivering us from our spiritual Bondage But at those times which thy Church according to the laudable custome of the Patriarks hath set apart to commemorate thy extraordinarie Mercies let us especially performe this dutie neither falsly counting it superstitiō to meet in the publike solemnization of thy praise nor vnthanckfully omit the continuation of so necessarie a service Give us grace also to consider that it is no constraining Decree of thine which hath made any of us vncaple of thy free grace but that it is meerly our owne wilfulnes which compels thy Iustice to leave us to our owne wills if we be cast off So we shall be kept the more obedient to thy commands thou who ren◠west the will before thou exact est obedience from it shalt accept the willingnes for the deed in due time work in us the Deed also to our
thou hast alured vs vnto thy love by many extraordinario blessings Oh God! let us no longer abuse thy patience but make us now soe to mind our part of the covenant which is betwixt us that wee may be seperated from our heathenish conversations be remembrend among thy people behold the good of thy Chosen reioice in the gladnes of thy Nation be pertakers in the glory of thine Inheritance for ever ever Amen Psa 107. Halelujah It exhorts to praise God for his vniversall Grace Acknowledgeth him the deliverer of all men in all places and in all troubles Confesseth him the Corrector Orderer and disposer of kingdomes persons famelies c. It is vsefull both for temporall spirituall belssings for by bodiey suffrings spirituall miseries are mystically signified COme praise the Lord thanckfully confesse That he is good gratious without end Let those whome God redeem'd his praise expers Ev'n those whome he did from their foes defend Collecting them from East westerne Nations From Northern Clymes southern habitations 2 In deserts wilde where no dwellings were They wandred on with drought hunger faint And them he freed from all destresses there When they to him had vttred their complaint He ledd them on in paths directly guiding To Citties faire whear they had safe abiding 3 Oh! let men praise the goodnes of the Lord And publish out his wonders to their seed For he to hungry men doth meat afford And with good things the longing soul doth feed He those vnbinds that are in fetters chained And in the bands shades of death detained 4 The word of God most high they did reject And small account of his advise they made With heat toile he therfor did afflict And cast them downe when they no helper had But in their need when they againe complained He tooke away the greef which they sustained 5 Frō deaths black shades he shew'd thē light some And all their bands did quite asunder break wais Let all mankinde therfore his wonders praise And of his works among their Children speake The brazen Gates he crakt open sett them Their yron barrs he broke forth he fett them 6 He plaugeth fooles because they have transgrest And for their sinns they much afflicted are Their fainting soules doe pleasant meats detest They to the gates of death approached near But seeking God when they were so oppressed From all their paines feares he them released 7 He sent his word which did their greevāce heal Preventing so their fall which hastned on Oh let all men God's goodnes therfore tell And shewe their seed what wonders he hath done Let them declare his works with joyfull singing The sacrifize of thanckfull praises bringing 8 They that in shipps at sea employed are And for their gaine to crosse the waves are bold May vewe the works of God-almighty there And in the deepes his wondrous deeds behold For he but breaths streight a storm appeareth Which vp aloft the rowling billowes beareth 9 Now mounts to heav'n anon descēds the keel And they grow faint with labour with fear As druncken men they stagger they reel And of their skill they quite deprived are Then to the Lord they cry who them releases From all their feares their dangers destresses 10 For he the stormes to gentle calmes cōvarts And quiet then the raging sea becomes Then they are joy'd Then eased are their harts And them he brings to their desired homes Of these his works let all men make relations And shewe his deeds to future generations 11 Oh sing his praise where great Assemblies are And him among your elders glorify He deserts makes where once great waters were He draines the springs of mighty Rivers drie And from rich Lands their fatnes oft he taketh When by their sinn her dwellers him forsaketh 12 The Deserts vast he turnes to standing Lakes And springs convaies to lands which barren were For hungry soules a dwelling there he makes Who for themselues do build a Citty there They sowe plant reap the hoped blessing Both of their seed of their Vines encreasing 13 He prospers them lo they are encreast Their flocks heards do fatt fruitfull grow Yet otherwhile he letts them be opprest low And with great plagues he sometime brings thē He takes from kings their princely estimation And makes them stray in pathles desolation 14 But frō all greefs the meek he still doth raise And makes like flocks his housholds to appear At sight thereof the Iust will sing his praise And they shall dumbe be strook that wicked are All this they mark that have true wisdom learned And God's great love by them is well descerned Most mercifull God! what Affliction is there from which wee are not howrely delivered or preserved by thee Nay what necessarie benifitts are there which wee have not in the best season receaved from thee in what place soever or of what Nation or condition soever wee are In our wandrings in our poverty in our sicknesses in our imprisonments in our Iournyes at sea land in our labours in our goods in our children in our sorrowes in our prosperities in our persons in our famelies in life in death yea in everie thing wee have continuall experience of thy Mercies insomuch that we may confesse thou delightest in nothing but in shewing Mercy vnles our sinns compel thy Iustice to afflict us that thy Mercies may not be despised and there is great Mercy even in that also Oh good God! make us ever mindful hereof give us wisdome so to mark consider these things that both wee our posteritie may magnifie thy vnspeakable bounty declare thy wonderful workings for ever ever Amen Psa 108. A song or Psalme of David This is composed of the later parts of the 57. 60 Psalmes yet differs from both for those beginn with lamentations end with reioieings but this is wholy triumphant personates the Church praising God for her enlargment c. Wee may sing it when the Church is released from some persecution or her limitts extended farther c. MY hart is sixt I oh Lord Will in my songs thy fame record And with my tongue sing praise to thee My Harp Psaltry are awake And I my selfe will readie make To praise thee where Assemblies be 2 For through the heav'ns thy Truth doth stretch Above the Sphears thy mercies reach Oh God! be still exalted high Thy praise through heav'n earth extend Let thy righthand thy Dear defend And still vouchsafe me thy replie 3 For as thy holy Voice declard With trivmphs Shechem I have sharde And I have measur'd Succoth Vale. Mine Gilead Manasseth are My head mount Ephraim high doth bear In Iudah stands my judgment Stall 4 Proud Moab is my drugding slave My foot in Edom fixt I have And Palestine doth ioye in me For who to Edom was my guide Or to the
Ev'n of his people to be King And he a joyfull mother made Of her that erst no children had Vnto the Lord oh therefor sing To God the Father To the Sonn And holy-Ghost those three in one And that eternall One in three All glory bee for ever more All powre praise as heretofore Ascribed now ever be Psa 114. By alluding to the deliverance from Egipt to the driving back of Iordan the Redsea to the trembling of Sinay forcing waters from hard rocks our spirituall deliverances Reformations are typified Therfore our Church vseth this Psalme as proper for Easterday WHen Isr'el brought from Egipt was And Iacob from a forraigne tongue In Iudah was his holy place To him did Isre'ls rule belong The Sea saw that fledd away Ev'n Iordan also backward slipt The mountaines then like Rams did play Like Lambes the lesser hillocks tript 2 Thou sea what made thee so to fly Why didst thou Iordan backward goe Why daunc't like Rams the mountaines hye Yee hills like Lambs why tript yee so Shake earth at presence of the Lord When Iacob's God is present shake For he from Rocks a standing Ford And fountaines in the flints doth make Almighty God the deliverer of all pore destressed Captives wee are hy Nature the slaves of Sinn Death the Devill who do labour to hold us in eternall bondage But wee praise thee thou hast made a miraculous passage for our escape Oh! grant therfor that thy presēce may so startle us out of our securitie soe mollifie our flintie nature that the teares of true penitence may flowe plentifully from vs that we thanckfully walking in that way which thou hast prepared for our entrance into the Land of the living may be quite freed from our servitude enioy peace rest in thy Kingdome for ever ever Amen Psal 115. The Faithfull desire that al honor may be ascribed to God alone that their foes may not blaspheamously question his powre Then in the name of heathen Idolls their worshippers reprooves the vanity of all those assistances whereon carnall men rely c. It is vsefull when false worshippers blaspheame God by reason of our affliction c. NOt ours the glory make Lord give not vs the fame But for thy Truth Mercy sake Ascribe it to thy Name 2 To say where is their God! Why should the Gentiles dare Since he in heav'n hath his abode And works his pleasure there 3 Men's hands their Idolls make They gold silver be Possessing mouthes that cannot speake And eyes that cannot see 4 Their eares are senseles to Their nostril smelleth not Their hands feet nor feel nor goe No breath is in their throte 5 All they whoe those adore Or forme them like them be In God let Isr'el trust therefore For their defence is he 6 On God preserving them Let Aron's house depend Let those who feare him trust in him For he will such defend 7 God will remember vs And on vs Mercy showe On Isr'el on Aron's house He blessings will bestowe 8 He prospers great small That fear of him professe You your seed likewise he shall Still more more encrease 9 Of God you blessed be Who made both earth heav'n The heav'n of heav'ns inhabits he And earth to men hath given 10 Lord none cann thee adore Who dead silenc't are But I both now evermore Thy praises will declare Not for our owne deservings cann wee claime any thing oh Lord God neither for our owne sakes or our owne glorie ought wee to desire any deliverances or benifits from thy Maiestie As much therfor as our self-love will permit wee desire meerly for thine owne honour sake that publike Idolaters carnall minded men who serve Gods of their owne making may not scandalize thee or thy Truth by Occasion of such Miseries or Disgraces as fall on vs who professe the same But make vs oh God to love thee thy glory so farr above our owne lives reputations That whether wee be delivered or no wee may submit our selves to thy pleasure be truly comforted hartely pleased reioyce vnfainedly that wee are counted worthie to suffer for thy glory Amen Psa 116. The Faithfull professe affection to Christ Acknowledg their condition both by Nature Grace encourage others to trust in Gods favour resolve the same in them selves We may sing it when after some great Affliction or temptation wee are comforted sensible of our present passed estate c. I love the Lord for hee an eare To my complaints doth give And since he pleaseth me to hear I 'le seek him whil'st I live The feares of death enclosd me round Hell torments mee enthrald But still when paind my self I found On God's great Name I cal'd 2 Preserve my soul oh Lord I sayd For thou art full of grace Iust kinde ev'ry pore man's ayde My healp when greev'd I was My soul to this thy refuge fly For God is thy larg meed From death my soul from teares mine eye From falls my feet he freed 3 I shall with God enioy my life Where livinge men abide This I professe with firme beleif Though I was terrifide Yea though in rashnes I did say That all men liers were What for thy guifts I should repay Now Lord my questions are 4 Thy Cupp of saving-health I 'le take Vpon thy name I 'le call And of my vowes I 'le payment make Before thy servants all Thy saints their deaths suffrings be Right pretious in thine eye Oh Lord thy servant serving thee Thy handmayds Childe am I. 5 My fetters all thou brak'st away And I oh Lord therfore The sacrifize of thancks will pay And thy great Name adore To thee oh Lord I 'le pay my vowes Where thy Assemblies be Ev'n in the Courts of Gods owne house Ierusalem in thee Haleluiah Hear our prayers oh Lord God deliver our soules from the Death of Sinn For we are compassed with many perills fearfull Temptations Insomuch that wee are sometime almost ready to despaire distrust that there is noe Truth in any of our hopes Oh keep us by thy speciall grace from falling into those whirlpooles out of which there is no returning VVhen the guilt of Sinn the fears of Death the torments of hell the sugestions of the Devill conspiring with our frailties have once enclosed vs. UUee have then no powre of resistance in our selves it is thy great Mercy if the litle spark of our faith be not wholy quenched Help vs therfore in our extremityes Break the chaines of our Sinns vnlose the snares of Sathan give us grace to praise thee in thy Ierusalem to magnify thy Mercy in the Land of the living world without end Amen Psa 117. This is the least Psalme but it hath respect vnto the greatest Mysterie For it provokes all Nations to praise God for extending his grace to the whole
contemning the desire of world-lings reioicing more in thy gratious aspect then in al temporal advantages we may ly downe to sleep our last sleep without horror rest in the firme hope of a glorious Resurrection Amen Psa 5. To the cheef musician on Neginoth a Psalm of David It beseecheth audience of God for sundry respects prayeth that he would subvert his Adversaries be mercifull to his Church It may be vsefull when we are oppressed by the enimies of Christ for his Cause c. LOrd weigh my thoughts my words attend My King my God encline thine ear My suites I will to thee commend And thou my voice betime shalt hear I will oh Lord betimes arise And pray wait for thy supplies 2 For thou in sinn hast no delight No evills in thy dwellings be The foole abides not in thy sight The wicked are abhord of thee Thou root'st out all who falshoods prate And bloud guile in man dost hate 3 But I in thy abounding grace Thy house will visite in thy fear And worship in thy holy-place Oh teach me Lord thy Justice there Unto my vewe thy way disclose Because of them that are my foes 4 Their words thoughts are false naught Their throte is like a gaping graue Therfore oh God let them be caught And fall by what they plotted haue Yea seeing they thy foes haue binn Expose them to their swarmes of sinn 5 But chear vp those who trust in thee That such as well thy name affect May still therin triumphant be And joy that thou dost them protect For Lord the just thou shalt reward And sheild-like make thy grace their gard Oh soveraigne Lord God make vs both timely diligent seekers of thy grace Let the due consideration of thy perfections of our natural unworthines cause vs humbly to attend on thee vnfainedly frequenting thy Congregation there truly serving thee according to thine owne ordinance Instruct vs fully in thy way left our spiritual adversaries drawe vs into error Let our experience of their malice subtilety keep vs the more cautious Let them be taken in their owne snares to thy glorie let the faithfull alwaies reioice in thy protection through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 6. To the cheef musitian on Neginoth vpon Sheminith a Psalm of David It bewailes the miseries corruptions of the humane nature with penitential expressions emplores Gods mercy c. It may be sung when oppressed by our sinns infirmities we haue invoked God received comforts LOrd in thy rage correct me not To me oh do not roughly speake Nor chide me when thy wrath is hott But pitty me for I am weake Oh Lord vouchsafe to cure my paines For through my bones the torments goe My hart is vext much complaines Good God! hów long shal this be soe 2 Returne help my soul oh Lord Mee let thy meer compassion saue For who in death shall thee record Or give thee praises in the grave With groanes I tire in the nights My bedd in flouds of teares doth swim Through in-ward greefs foes despights Mine cies decay my sight growes dimm 3 But Sinners now depart fro mee God heares my suite my plaint my crie Which let my foes with blushing see And vext greeu'd my presence fly Most awfull God speake favourably to vs in this day of thy offered grace lest in the day of thy wrathfull indignation we be cast into hell sire Behol'd our frailties our torments our horrible distempers Observe into how great perills our desperation may cast vs have mercy oh lord have mercy vpon us miserable offenders Turify our poluted flesh enlighten our bleared eyes cure our wounded harts chear our afflicted spirits revive our fainting soules chase away all our malitious accusers that we escaping the dungeon in which thy praise is forgotten may magnify thy mercies in the land of the living to the vexation of malignant spirits to the honor of thy name for euer euer Amen Psa 7. Shiggaijon of David which he sung to the Lord concerninge the wòrds of Chush the Benjamite It is the Complaint of an innocent vniustly accused referring himself to be iudged according to his inno-cency It may be vsed when the true Church or any members thereof are slandred by their foes c. LOrd God on thee I do depend Me from the spoiler save Lest Lion-like my soul he rend When I no helper have For if oh Lord my God in this My hands found guiltie be If I rewarded him amisse That was at peace with me 2 Nay I to him did mercy shewe Who sought my causeles blame Els let my foe my soul persue And ouertake the same Yea let hlm tread when down I fall My life into the clay And in a dust-heap there-withall Mine honor let him lay 3 Oh Lord thy selfe in wrath advance For wroth my spoilers be According to thine ordinance Arise judge thou me That multitudes to thee may come For their sakes great appear Yea judge them Lord giue me doome As just ag I am clear 4 Confounde the sinners wickednes But still the just maintaine For thou oh God of righteousnes Canst serch both Hart Reine God is my sheild he protects The Godly from decay His doomes are just he corrects The wicked ev'ry day 5 Except they turne his blade he whetts A bowe still bent he hath He shafts for persecutors getts And instruments of death For lo with mischeeues being bigg They first conceive a sinn Next bring forth lies then pitt-falls digg Where they themselues fal in 6 Thus on their heads their mischeeus all Do justly tumble downe And wicked mens devises fall On their devizers crowne For which the justice of the Lord I 'le strive to glorify And will in songs of praise record The name of God most high Eternal God defend vs from slanderous accusations from that roaring Lion who is alway ready to devour vs And though our accusers are often so malitious that in respect of them we may have some appearance of innoceny yet cause vs so to acknowledg our selves guiltie in thy sight that we may be Iustifed by the righteousnes which we have by imputation from thy dear sonn for we have no Innocency but his No Saviour but he nor dare we in our greatest puritie appeare any where but at the Throne of thy mercy which let us who seek the same alwaies obtain let the severity of thy iustice fall only on our Adversaries who despise thy grace that both in mercy iustice thou maist be magnifyed for euer euer Amen Psa 8. To the cheef Musitian vpon Gittith a Psalm of David It sings the glory powre dominion of Christ magnifies the love of God in the admirable exaltation of the humane nature by the incarnation of his Sonn c. It may be vsed to praise God for the great priveledges which we haue
kingdome become partakers of that Life-eternal to which he ascended So escaping those terrible Iudgments which thou inflictest on thy malitious foes we shall behold their confusion to the exaltation of the powre to whome he all honor glorie now for evermore Amen Psa 22. To the cheef Musitian vpon Aijleth Shaha◠A Psalm of David It is a prophecie of Christ his passion vnfolding divers passages thereof mētioning also the calling of the Gentiles c. It may be sung to commemorate the Passion some other misteries of our Redemption c. WHy hast thou oh my God my God Why hast thou me forgone Why nearer is not thy abode To hear help my mone Vnheard of thee I cry whole daies Whole nights the same I doe Yet thou art Isr'els cheefest praise And thou art holy to 2 Our fathers did on thee depend And. thou didst them secure They cride thou didst them defend Their faith did them assure But I pore worme an Abiect am No man but one forlorne The people make of me their game Their proverb their scorne 3 When me they vewe their heads they nod Make mouths jeering say God was his hope now then if God Him loves him save he may But thou didst gard me in the wombe Thou didst convay me thence At nurse my hope thou didst become And keptst me eversince 4 Er'e-since my birth my God thou art My trust is all in thee Oh! do not far fro me depart For perills compasse mee Strong Bulls ev'n herds of Bashan race Beset me round about They stand wide-gaping in my face Like Lions roaring-out 5 Like water I am pour'de aside My bones are strain'd apart E'vn potsherd-like my strength is dride Like wax dissolues my hart Vnto my Iawes my tongue is glew'd For thou didst me confound With cruel doggs I am persu'de By Sinners closed round 6 My hands feet they nailed fast My bones apparant were Vpon my vesture lots they cast My garments they did share Thine ayde therfore no more delay But Lord my strength draw near Cause not the sword my soul to slay Nor doggs to rend my dear 7 Me from the mouthes of Lions garde As I in former daies From hornes of vnicornes was heard So I will sing thy praise Thy fame I 'le in thy church record My brethren being there Oh! praise him yee that fear the Lord And Jacobs ofspring are 8 Him oh yee seed of Isr'el fear For he doth nor despize Afflicted soules nor stop his eare Nor turne from them his eyes But when thy crie their cries are heard For which his praise I sing And in great throngs where God is feard My vowes to him I 'le bring 9 The meek shal feed till they are full And praise the Lord therfore All yee who seek him in your soul Shal live for evermore The worlds far ends to minde shall call Their dutie to the Lord And he of heathen kingdomes all Shall see him self ador'de 10 For his the kingdome is indeed All nations ruleth he Earths fatlings on his bread shal feed And thanckful they shal be Yea they shall all before him bowe Whose lodging is the grave For none but he hath powre enough The soul from death to save 11 A seed whome he shall count his owne Shal then to God returne And make his Acts of Justice known To people yet vnborn Oh! thou glorie of Israel the hope of all who trust in thee seeing by a voluntarie humiliation thou hast in thine own person felt the bitternes of reproches the crueltie of persecuters the sharpnes of povertie the extream torments of the flesh the strongest Agonies of the soul and every horror which may affright vs when in our greatest tryalls temptations we seem as it were vtterly for saken both of God man remember oh remember thine owne passion have mercie vpon vs. Hear vs when we crie help vs when we can crie no longer And when all our strength faileth let thy powre plnck vs out of our tormenters Iawes that we they whom thou hast promised to collect from al places Ages of the world may meet in thy heavenly kingdome to glorify thee for ever ever Amen Psa 23. A Psalm of David The Christian soul acknowledgeth Christ her pastor enritching feedinge retoicinge reforming beautifieng her providing for her an eternall habitation in this owne presence c. It may be sung to praise God for the benifits herein mentioned c. THe Lord my Pastor daignes to be I nothing now shall need To drinck sweet springs he bringeth mee And on green Meads to feed For his Name-sake my hart he glads He makes my wayes vpright And I the vase of deaths black shades Cann passe without affright 2 Thy staffe thy presence thy rodd My joyfull comforts are And thou before my foes oh God My Table shalt prepare Oyle on my head pour'd out thou hast My Cupp doth over-flowe And thou on me whilst life doth last Thy favours wilt bestowe 3 Yea Lord thy goodnes thy grace Shall alwayes follow me And in thy house my dwelling place For evermore shall be Keep vs oh thou faithfull Sheapherd of our soules that the Devil take vs not out of thy folde nor entise vs from thy pastures by faire alurements Setle vs in thy Church Refresh vs by thy Spirit Instruct vs by thy Sacraments Guide vs by thy example reforme vs by thy father'y correction so comfort vs by thy presence that we may acknowledge there is no need of those beggerly assistances whereon worldlings depend and that we may walke without repininge through the aflictions of this life without fear through the shaddowes of Death to those mansions which thou hast appointed for thy chosen flock in the kingdome of heaven Amen Psa 24. A psalme of David It describes the largnes of Christs inheritance shewes who are members of his Church Then by a poetical prosopopeia the everlasting Gates are summoned to give passage for the Ascention of that glorious King It is vsed in commemoration of the Ascention THe Earth's the Lords with her encrease The world all her goods He founded it vpon the seas And layd it on the Flouds What man is he that shal have grace To climbe the hill of God Or Who shall in his holy-place Obtaine their free abode 2 Sure they whose hands are innocent Whose meanings are vpright Whose harts to folly are not bent Who swear without deceit Such gaine from God a blessed meed And from their faviour grace And such oh Iacob are their seed Who truly seek thy face 3 Yee Gates lift vp your heades on high Yee dores which last for aye The king of glory passeth-by Vnclose give him way Who is the king of glorie tell Oh tell who might he be The Lord who doth in strength excell That glorious king is he 4 Yee Gates aloft your Arches heave Yee dores that have no ende Vnto the king of
life oh Lord Let all thy saints remembring it With praise thy holines recorde 2 Thy wrath abides not long in thee But in thy favour life appears And joy shall in the morning be Though over-night there may be teares In my advancement once I sayd That nothing should my foot remove Because my mountaine thou hadst laid So firmelie Lord by thy meer love 3 Yet when thy face thou didst but hide I quickly was opprest againe And then to thee againe I cride And in my crie did thus complaine What profit will my bloud afford When I shal to the grave descend Oh! cann it sing thy praises Lord Or cann the dust thy truth comend 4 Lord hear pittie take on me To succour me thy help employ That chang'd to songs my sighes may be My mourning-weeds to robes of ioy So I for ever with my tongue Will praise the oh my God my Lord And in a never-ending song Thy mercies thanckfully record Sweet Iesu so great are thy Mercies that in a night thou convertest into trivmphs the most desperate Afflictions yea in the very moment of greatest horrors thou strangly infusest vnexpressible ioyes yet such is our corruption that vpon thy favours we often build those false assurances which beget more pride then thanckfulnes so we are iustly shakeÌ„ againe froÌ„ our confidence tha 〈…〉 akinge the foundation thereof more firme by true humiliation grounded meerly on thy mercies we way stand immoveable for-ever Oh! grant that by meditating thy voluntarie-humiliation we may descend to the true Annihilation renouncing of our selves that by virtue of thy Burial Resurrection we wâ—â— escape the Dungeons of the Grave Hell Change the mourning-garmeÌ„t of our flesh into the robes of immortalitie praise thee for thy mercies world without end Amen Psa 31. To the cheef Musitian a Psalm of David It personates Christ his Church in persecution containes a large intermixture of many petitions complaints c admirably fets forth the varietie of affections incident to a soul working out salvation with star trembling It is vsefull in great agonies afflictions of minde c. BEcause I do on thee depend That sham'd I may not be Lord in thy Iustice me defend And quickly hear thou me Be still my rock my walled-bowre And me vouchsafe to save For thou art my defensive towre And all the strength I have 2 Be pleas'd for thy namesake to come And be my hopeful stay Direct thou me pluck me from Those netts my foes do lay Thou art my strength vnto thee My spirit I commit For thou Lord God of Truth art he Who hast redeemed it 3 I them abhorr who lies approve But Lord I trust in thee And of thy grace in thy love My whole reioicings be For me thou didst from cares discharge Thou knew'st my soul in woe My fettred feet thou didst enlarge And keptst me from my foe 4 Have mercie Lord for I am vext Mine eies with greef decay In soul flesh I am perplext Greef wasts my life away My yeares with sigheng shortned are My sight to faile beginns My bones consume my strength doth wear And al is for my sinns 5 My scornefull foes do me vpraid My neighbours more then they My freinds to see me are afrayd And far they fly away As one long dead vnthought vpon Ev'n pot-sherd like I fare I flander'd am of many a one And round me terrors are 6 Yet when to take my life fro me They plotts against me layd Relieng still oh Lord on thee Thou art my God I sayd Thou know'st the times when me to take From my persueng soes Therfor to me for mercie sake Thy cheerfull face disclose 7 Lord let me not be made asham'd Because thy help I crave But let the wicked be defam'd And silenc'd in the grave Their lieng lips for ever close Who murmur in despight Disdainfull words in scorne of those Whose courses are vpright 8 Oh! what great favours wilt thou shew To such as honor thee And bring to passe in publike vewe For them that faithfull be Thy secret presence shal prevent The Tyrants hautie wrongs And they shall in thy privie-tent Avoyd the strife of tongues 9 Praise God for when I rash lie thought That I quite lost had binn Me to a warlike Towne he brought And honord me therein My suites cries he likewise heard Yee saints of his therfore The Lord your God with good regard Love honor adore 10 The faithfull he doth keep from harme And their proud foes contemn Be bolde he your harts will arme Who put your trust in him Our sinns oh Lord bring on vs many great afflictions They consume our flesh blinde our eyes rott our bones fright our harts afflict our consciences They cause vs to be vprayded scorned betrayed persecuted by our foes They make vs to be envyed contemned reproched abused among our neighbours They occasion that we are miscensured for sakeÌ„ yea forgotten of our best affected freinds and which is worst of all they bring on vs thy displeasure make vs almost desperatly to forsake thee Deliver vs oh deliver vs from these evills but especially from the sinns which occasion them Thou art our sole refuge the God into whose hands we have committed our spirits So embolden vs therfor in thy grace that we the rest of thy Saints seeing how great favours thou bestowest on all them that fear thee may praise thy Name for ever ever Amen Psa 32. A Psalm of David Maschil It shewes the free forgivenes of sinn by grace Rom 4. 6. The danger of hidinge the benifit of confessing our sinns and the powre of timely prayer It exhorts also that we do not brutishly abuse the grace of God c It should be sung to remember vs of Gods mercies of these duties c. A Blest estate that man is in Whose crimes the Lord forgives hides Ev'n he to whome God laies no sinn And in whose hart no fraud abides Till I my faults did open lay My bones with paine were tired out Thy hand opprest me night and day And I became like Summers drought 2 My Trespas I reveald therfore I shewd my secret faults to thee And vowd to hide my sinns no more So thou their guilt forgavest me For this the Iust on thee shall call At seasons when thou maist be found And he shall have no harme at all Though mighty Flouds enclose him round 3 Thou art oh Lord my hiding-place Wherein when peril greatest growes From dangers thou shalt me release And me with songs of health enclose Selah Thus thou dost also seem to say I will instruct thee with mine eye And so inform thee in the way That thou shalt never walk awrie 4 Then be not like the Horse or Mule That void of vnderstanding be Which thou with Bitt Raines must rule Lest els they fling or fall on thee The Sinners plagues
on him And no disgrace or shame or those cann fall For he in all their troubles helpeth them And hears the pore when he on him doth call God's Angell-gards round those that fear him be Encamped still to keep them from their Foes His greatnes and his goodnes tast see For all are blest who trust in him repose In him let all his Saints confine their fear For povertie from such resttained is Kept hungry oft the whelps of Lions are But they who fear the Lord no goodnes misse Let me from you yee babes attention gaine That I the fear of God to you may showe Mark also this all yee that would attaine Long life on earth happie daies to knowe No sland'rous tales envre your tongues to tell And let your lipps dissembling speach eschewe Of wicked words beware Vprightly deal Enquire our Peace after it persue Plac'd are Gods eyes vpon the Righteous race He to their cries an open ear doth lay Quite opposite to sinners is his face And from the land he rootes their name away Right willingly the Lord inclines his ear To hear save the righteous when they cry Sinn-wounded soules harts that broken are He never shunns but vnto such is nigh Though many greefs vpon the Godly fall The Lord will ev'ry one of them remove Vnbroke ev'n all his bones preserve he shall But sinn the death of sinful men shal prove Whoe so doth hate the Iust shall hated be For God his faithful servants wil redeem Yea all their soules from thral he setteth free And leaveth none that put their trust in him Psa 35. A Psalm of David It containes divers petitions prophetical Imprecations concerning the Adversaries of Christ of his members perticulerly mentioneth some of those misusages which he suffred by the Iewes c. We may properly sing it when we commemorate the Passion c. WIth such oh Lord as me oppose Vouchsafe to plead my right And pleased be to warr on those Who now against me fight Both sheild Buckler take in hand Rise for my help I pray Bring out the spear for me stand In my Persuers way 2 Say to my soul Thy health I am And bring to shameful wrack All those who seek my death or shame Yea sham'd repell them back Let them before God's Angel fly As chaff before the winde Let them before God's Angel fly Through paths vnsafe blinde 3 Since pitts they digg'd therein snares For me vniustly laid Let them be slaine at vn-awares In their owne trapps betraide Then Lord in thee my soul shal ioy Thy help my mirth shall be And all my bones oh Lord shal say That none cann equall thee 4 Thou sav'st thee pore men opprest From those that are too strong Thou free'st the pore who are destrest From such as do them wrong False witnesse rose charged me With words I never sayd And that my soul might spoiled be They Good with Ill repaide 5 Yet when great sicknes them opprest In sack-cloth cladd I mourn'd I fasted into my brest My prayers back return'd I greev'd for them as men bemone A Brother or a freind And sadly walk'd as when that one Bewailes his Mothers end 6 But when my greefs did me besett Their Merry-meetings were The baser sort in private mett And none did scofs forbear Yea at their Feasts in mock of me The Scorners gnash'd their teeth No longer Lord spectator be But save my soul from death 7 My Darling from the Lion save So thy great love oh Lord Where many folk their meetings have I 'le to thy praise record Oh! let not those who me despize Deride my pore estate Or lear on me with scornful eyes Whome they vniustly hate 8 They seek not Peace but Projects lay For them that peaceful be With gaping mouthes AH HA say they Our wish we now do see Thou saw'st it Therfor make no pawse Nor absent long abide But wake arise let my cause By thee Lord God be tri'de 9 Lord judge me in thy righteousnes That they deride not me And say in hart this Fall of his Is that which wee would see Oh! never give them cause to say We have devour'd him quite But shame root them out for aye That in my harme delight 10 Let them with shame scorne be cladd That have my soul deseas'd And let them trivmph be gladd Who in my cause are pleasd The Lord be prais'd let all men say That wish thy Servants Peace And with my tongue I 'le all the day Extol thy Righteousnes Oh blessed Redeemer let thy gratious assistance be alwaies readie to garde vs from the furious malice of our Foes And seeing their condition is not hidd from thee let thy iudgments be executed vpon all those who shall continue vnrepentant in their wickednes that thy Justice may be glorified as wel as thy Mercie Make vs also mindful oh Christ from what height of glorie thou didst voluntarilie humble thy self to what extream contempt thou wort abased how vnkindiie yea how despightfully handled even by those for whose Redemption thou wert pleased to descend And by thy example teach vs to be humble patient charitable in our suffrings that bearing thy crosse imitating thy virtues we may be pertakers of thy exaltation who livest raignest world without end Amen Psa 36. To the cheef Musitian a Psalm of David the servant of the Lord. It mentions the impiety corruptions of the wicked It declareth also the infinite Love mercie sweetnes Iustice of God c. It may be sung to bring to consideration God's goodnes whē the over-flowings of vngodlines circumvent vs MY hart within me sayes That Sinners fear not God And their self-pleasing course displaies Their hatefull guilt abrode Their words are wicked wiles Nor wise nor just are they Vpon their bedds they study Guiles And cursed is their way 2 The heav'ns thy Mercy fills Thy Truth doth reach the skye Thy justice Lord or'e-topps the hills And deep thy judgments lie Thou sav'st both man beast For Lord thy grace excells And vnderneath thy wings in rest Man-kinde securely dwells 3 With daineties of thy house They shall replenish'd be And streames of blisse they shall carowse For Life doth flowe from thee Thy light is Lord our light Therfore where thou art knowne Prolong thy grace that men vpright May make thy works their owne 4 Let not the foot of pride Oppose or hinder me Nor let me be remoov'd aside By hands that wicked be For thence the overthrowe Of Sinners first begann And when they fell they fell so lowe That rise they never cann UUee confesse oh Lord that by the corruption still remaining in our owne harts we are plainlie informed how Sinn being first conceived in thought will at last break forth into publike Act if thy great Mercie prevent not Uouch safe vs therfor not onlie thy common grace which thou spreadest over all but be pleased also
Foes acknowledging Gods regard of her suffrings professing assurance in him promising to be thanckfull c. It is vsefull to those ends c. HAve Mercie Lord for man hath sought To swallowe vp mischeeve mee My Foes with mee have daylie fought And Lord most high they many bee Thou art my hope when doubts arise Thy word hath brought me comforts to On thee alone my hart relies And fearles is what Flesh cann do 2 They wrest my words Lord ev'rie day To worke me harme they still devise They meet vnseene they mark my way And how they might my Soul surprise Therfore in thy just wrath oh God! Correct them for this Crime of theirs And as thou dost my Faults record Recorde botle vp my teares 3 For thou wilt save me Lord I knowe When thee I seek my Foes flie back Thy promise makes mee joyfull growe And of thy word my songs I make My trust oh God! is all in thee And of man's powre I fearles am Thy vowes are all perform'd on mee And I will praise thee for the same 4 For thou hast freed my Soul from death From falls thou dost my footing stay To walke by thee within that Path Which leads to Life a lightsome way Oh thou faithfull preserver of all who put their trust in thee Our visible invisible Adversaries do continually seek the destruction of our soules bodies by many secret mischeevous devises But our trust being placed vpon thee wee need not fear the malice of any Adversarie Grant vs grace therfore so to depend on thy promises so to lament our errors with teares of true Repentance that as our enimies mark our wayes to entrap vs wee our selves may mark them to prevent ensnarings that thou observing their hatred our penitence mayst cause vs to walke ioyfully in the way of eternal life through Iesus Christ Amen Psal 57. To the cheef Musitian Altaschith A Psalm of David when he fledd from Saul in the Cave It mystically expressed the Iewes persecutinge Christ even vnto his Grave wee that are his members partake in his suffrings may sing it to declare our iniuries to pray praise God for deliverances c. LOrd grant oh grant me thy compassion For I in thee my trust have placed Display thy wings for my Salvation Vntill my greefs are over-passed To thee I sue oh God most high To thee that canst all want supplie 2 From their despights who seek to rend mee Let help oh Lord from heav'n be daigned And let thy Truth Love defend me For I with Lions am detained With men inflam'd whose biting words Are shafts spears naked swords 3 Let over heav'n God's praise be reared And through the world his glorie showed For they who netts for mee prepared They who my soul to ground had bowed Ev'n they with in those trapps are caught Which for my fall their hāds had wrought Selah 4 Oh God! my hart now ready maketh My hart is for thy praise preparing My Tongue my Harpe my Lute awaketh And I my selfe betimes vprearing Will speake sing in praise of thee Where greatest throngs of people be 5 For Lord thy Mercies forth are stretched As farr as are the Sphears extended Thy Truth vnto the Clouds hath reached And thou thy self art high ascended Let still thy Fame praise oh God! Through heav'n earth be spread abrode Oh Lord to whome Mercy belongeth have mercy vpon vs let the Wings of thy protection be gratiously spread over vs vntill the Stormes of this life be overpast For so great so manyfold are those dangers those Miseries wherewith wee are alwaies enclosed by spirituall temporal foes that they have brought our bodies to the Grave our seules near vnto Hell Oh! let thy Truth Love defend vs from our Lion-like persecuters that our Harts being timely cheared our Thoughts Words Actions may harmoniously agree in manifesting thy praises And seeing thy holy Spirit hath plainely declared the Vniversality of thy proffered Grace let not vs presume to sett Limmits there vnto but publish thy glorie as vniversaly as thou hast extended thy Mercies through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 58. To the cheef Musitian Altaschith Michtam of David It reprehends characters that Serpentine generation whoe are obstinate enimies to the Gospell of Christ prophecies illustrates their destruction c. It is vsefull to encourage vs against their malice c. YEe congregation said yee right Yee Mortalls are your Doomes vpright No for you muse on works of Sinn Your hands with mischeevs filled are You from your Births vntoward were And from the wombe have liers binn 1 Your poyson like the serpents flowes Deaf-Adder-like your eares you close Though powrfull Charmes are wisely sung Oh God! their mouthes of teeth disarme And that their Fangs may do no harme Make tootheles Lord the Lion's young 3 Like sudden Flouds their furie slale When they would shoot their arrowes breake Yea make them quite consume away Like snailes consume them from the earth Or els like some vntimely birth Destroy them er'e they see the day 4 Before wee feel them prick or burne Them whirle-winde-like Lord overturne And sweep them hence in wrath alive Which Vengance when the Righteous vewe And vewing Sinn receive her due They joyfull thancks to thee shall give 5 Yea they shall trample on their bloud Who have bene Foes to doeng good And ev'rie man shall say see That Righteous men shall have their meed And that there is a God indeed By whome the world shall iudged be Keep vs oh Lord from having fellowship in the Congregations of those who are perverted in their Iudgment mischeevous in their Conversation Draf to good Instructions Obstinate in their heresies willfull continuers in all their natural Corruptions Deliver us from their malice Breake their Instruments of mischeef and let their deserved confusion fall suddenly vpon them That the Faithfull Congregation may vewe it that all men may see confesse thee to be the Righteous Iudge of the world the rewarder of all those who put their trust in thee Amen Psa 59. To the cheef Musitian Altaschith Michtam a Psalm of David when Saul sent they watched the house to kill him It cheefly prophecied the Iewes dogged crueltie to Christ that they should be preserved to wander in a vagabond Condition as wee see at this day for an example to others c. It serves to warne vs that wee resist not God's grace once offred c. MY God protect mee from my Foes From them who strive with mee From Sinners gard mee from those That bloodie-minded be For loe the mightie do combine They waite my soul to teare And without cause or fault of mine With speed there to prepare 2 Lord God of Hoasts Isr'el wake To heed succour mee The Gentiles Curbe vengance take Where sinns malitious be Selah At
kinde On all men will bestowe reward As he desert shall finde Grant oh Lord that wee may alway so patientlie attend on thee that persecutors falseteachers and all they who seek our fall or dishonour may be quite subverted or converted Make vs ever mindfull how strong a supporter thou art vnto all those who put their trust in thee how iust a rewarder of every one according to his deserving Seeing also wee cann have no safe assurance in the best men nor in the best outward meanes without thy speciall Assistance let vs never depend vpon them much lesse seek to be secured or to profit our selves by fraudulent or wicked practises But endeavoring rather to fulfill all righteousnes for thy sake and making our petitions to thee only at vs depend wholie on thy protection for ever and ever Amen Psa 63. A Psalm of David when he was in the wildernes of Iudah It may be sung by those who are afflicted in the wildernes of this life hungring thirsting after righteousnes It expresseth their longing to be pertakers of the publike worship who are debarred from the same may be vsed also by them c. OH God! my God thou allwaies art For thee betimes I seeking pant With longing soul thirsting hart Ev'n as the land which raine doth want Yea Lord my soul doth long full sore Thy powre glorie to behold As I have seene them heretofore Ev'n in thy holie-place of olde 2 For why thy love doth life surpasse And I therfore will sing thy praise Thy Name I 'le all my lifetime blesse And vnto thee my hands I 'le raise For when I minde thee on my bed And muze upon thee in the Night It fills me as with marrowe fedd And I with ioye thy praise recite 3 Since me thou healp'st in my destresse Beneath thy wings I gladd remaine My Soul to thee doth closelie presse And thy Righthand shall mee sustaine But they shal to their grave descend Whose purpose is my soul to slay The Sword shall bring them to their end And they shall be the foxes prey 4 The king they who swear in truth By God's great Name in God shall ioy But he shall stop the liers mouth And ev'rie perjur'd soul destroy Cause vs to seeke thee timely oh Lord our God and when wee are wandring in the deserts of this life let vs hunger and thyrst after thee and thy righteousnes that wee may be satisfied according to thy promise Let our muzings be vpon thee both in the night of our Afflictions and vpon the bedd of our prosperities Let the contemplation of thy powre and glorie fill vs as with marrowe and fatnes Let thy Love be pretious vnto vs yea more pretious vnto vs then our lives Let the wings of thy Mercy and the powre of thine Arme so shaddowe and protect vs that both our Lionlike foxlike Adversaries being destroied and the mouth of all vnrighteousnes being stopped VVee and thy whole Church may reioice in thy Salvatoon for ever and ever Amen Psa 64. To the Cheef Musitian a Psalme of David It prophecies the Iewish malice against the Messiah at his passon and that accordinge to their owne imprecation the avengment of his bloud should be vpon them and their children c. It serves to minde vs what manner of foes wee have and for what assistance wee may hope c. LOrd hear my voice me acquite From terrors of the foe And from their plotts feirce despight That mischeefe seek to doe For they like swords their tongues prepare With words like arrowes keen They shoote the righteous without fear With quicknes vnseene 2 Themselves in Mischeefe strong they make Their plotts they thinck vnspide And search how that effect may take Which in their harts they hide But God shall wound them with a shaft Before they be aware So they shall fall by their owne craft And their owne sentence beare 3 Thereat beholders all shall flie And ev'rie man with feare The works of God shall magnifie And ponder what they are The righteous also with delight On God their hope shall build And they that are in hart vpright Shall with true joie be filld Oh Lord wee have so manie visible and invissble Adversaries secretly and continually plotting our destruction that our Soules are afflicted with great terror Some by whispering of slanders or by privie conspiracies seek to endanger our bodies Others by hidinge false Doctrines vnder appearances of Truth or masks of pietie or els by insinuating carnall or spirituall wickednesses before wee be aware deeplie wound our Consciences and very dangerously peirce our Soules with venemous arrowes Oh God! break and quench these fierie darts of Sathan Deliver vs from their cunninge Proiects shoot back their arrowes into their owne bosomes and let their predictions be fulfilled on themselves But grant that wee may still depend on thee that being delivered from all our terrors wee may serve thee in holines righteousnes all the daies of our life Amen Psa 65. To the Cheef Musitian a Psalme song of David It acknowledgeth God's manifold benifits First those which are peculier to the Elect then his Universall providence over all his Creatures c. Wee should sing it to those ends c. IN Syon Lord thine honor lies There vowes to thee are brought Ev'n there thou answer'st all mens cries And of all Flesh art sought Though many sinns do me oppresse From them thou purgest mee For thou thy Chosen-one dost blesse And bringst him near to thee 2 Within thy courts holie-place His dwelling he doth gaine Ev'n there where wee shall of thy grace Our wished fill obtaine Thou in thy Iustice dreadfull art Yet in thy grace wee stand And thou the hope of all men art That live on sea or land 3 Girt round with powre thy Vigor laies A ground-work for the hills The noise of seas Flouds it staies The peoples rage it stills Thy signes remotest Clymates feare Thee daye night they praise Their Lands to visite thou hast care And rich encrease it paies 4 To water all their furrowes there Thy River overflowes To feed them corne thou dost prepare And blessest that which growes Thou Crown'st the year with plentiousnes And fat thy paths are made It dropps vpon the wildernes And makes the mountaines glad 5 Faire flocks their fruitfull meads adorne Their vallies freshlie springe And are so filld with cropps of Corne That they do laugh sing In thy visible Church oh Father of Mercie thine honour thy Grace are most evident Nevertheles thy Mercie is not so confined but that thy Church invisibly extends it self into everie corner of the earth yea thy overflowing River makes vp thy harvest even in those deserts where wee behold no fertilitie there thou havinge regard as well to the soul as the bodic visitest them not only with temporal but with spiritual Blessings For which thy great providence mercie wee blesse
how cann I tears refraine 6 Lord my greefs to thee I showe With my hands to thee vp-raised Cann the dead thy wonders knowe Or thy Love or truth be praised By the Sonns of Death belowe Selah 7 Cann thy Marvailes they vnfold Who in darknes quite are blinded Or thy Ius tice there be tolde Where is nothing said or minded Which was done in times of olde 8 Vnto thee oh Lord I crie And my suites prevent the Morninge Oh! why dost thou cast me by Still fro mee thy presence turninge Who am greev'd like to dy 9 Fro my youth oh Lord till now Mee thy terror hath destressed Nigh distract it makes me grow For thy wrath hath mee oppressed And thy feares have brought me lowe 10 They besett me ev'rie day Floud-like flowing alltogether And no freinds to help me stay Lovers nor Familiers neither For thou driv'st them all away Help us oh gratious Redeemer so to bear the manifold infirmities afflictions of our flesh so to endure the contempts neglects iniuries of the world so constantly to sustaine all the Assaults of our spiritual Adversaries that though we be deprived of all outward Freindships consolations wee may be inwardly satisfied comforted against every terror in every temptation Let us seek soe earnestly so early for thy assistance that escaping the spiritual blindnes which makes vncapable of thy praise that dungeon of vtter Darknes in which thy Righteousnes is obscured that everlasting Death from which there is no Resurrection we may enioy thy blessed presence where we shall magnify thy Mercies for ever ever Amen Another of the same LOrd God my healper day night To thee my moanings are Admit my suites vnto thy sight And my complainings hear For in my soul great sorrowes be My life drawes nigh the grave As one inter'd they count of mee And litle strength I have 2 As hee that 's dead buried long Death's free-man I became As one out of thy presence flung I quite forgotten am Thou laidst mee in the lowest ward Where darksome Dungeons are On mee thine Anger presseth hard And all thy stormes I bear Selah 3 Thou hast my freinds fro me restraind My Lovers mee despize I fast in prison am detain'd And sorrow dimms mine eyes Oh Lord all day to thee I sue My hands I meekly raise Thy wonders cann men buried shewe Or wake to sing thy praise Selah 4 Lord cann the grave thy Love expresse Thy Faith cann ruines teach Thy wonders or thy righteousnes Cann dumb Oblivion preach Betimes oh Lord I will erect My suites cries to thee Why shouldst thou then my soul reject And hide thy face fro mee 5 My soul is pain'd ev'n to the death And all my life I bear The heavy burthens of thy wrath Thy terrors thy fear They clos'd mee round like waters deep Where whilst begirt I lay Fro me my Lovers thou didst keep And hidst my freinds away Psa 89. Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite It celebrates the mercy Goodnes Iustice power of God c. Mentioneth his League with David mystically declares that those covenants belong to his spiritual seed in the cheef place c. It instructs vs who are the right heyres of the promises c. NOw in a song of endles praise Thy Mercies I will sing oh Lord And vnto all succeeding dayes Thy faithfulnes I will record For I have sayd that thy great Love And Mercy shal be raised high And that thou shalt in heav'n above Thy Faith confirm magnify 2 Thou hast both vowed decreed To David thine Elected-one To multiply his faithful seed And build him vp an endles throne Selah Which heav'n shall to thy praise declare In works to be admired at And where thy Saints assembled are Thy Faithfulnes they shall relate 3 For whome like thee doth heav'n afford What earthly Kings thy equalls be Who art among they Saints ador'd And fear'd of all that wait on thee Oh Lord of Hoasts what Lord is found So faithful or so strong as thou Who setts the raging seas their bound And calm'st them when thy furious grow 4 Thou didst afflict all Egipt-land As one made weake by wounds blowes And by the powre of thy strong hand Thou hast dispersed all thy foes Thine heav'n earth all things be For thou alone didst all things frame The North South were made by thee And East West extoll thy Name 5 Strong armes thou hast with powrful hands And where thou dost thy Throne prepare With Iudgment Iustice alway stands And Truth Love thy Vshers are Oh! blest are they who know thy voice Thy look shall chear them in their waies They in thy Name shall still reioice And them thy Iustice high shal raise 6 For thou art Lord our strengths renowne Our horne shall by thy favour spring Thou art our strong defensive Towne The Saint of Isr'el our King By vision thou didst once declare And to thy Holy-one disclose That thou a healper wouldst prepare Among thy people to be chose 7 I have saidst thou my David found My holy oyle on shall flowe By mine owne Arme he shall be crown'd My hand shal strength on him bestowe His Foe shall do him no disgrace The Sonn of sinn he shall not fear For I will smite before his face All them that his Opposers are 8 My faith love on him shal stay My Name his honour shall mainetaine His hand shall make the seas obay His right-hand shall the flouds restraine His Father he shall knowledg me His God his Rock his defence For he my eldest borne shal be And King of ev'ry earthly Prince 9 To him I still will mercy grant He shall enioy my promise given Successors he shall never want His Throne shall stand as firme as heav'n And if my Lawes his Children break If they shall fro my precepts flye My statutes if they shall forsake Or from my Iudgments walk awry 10 Their sinns with stripes I wil correct And scourg them when amisse they do But those whome I do well-affect My Love will never quite forgoe For once ev'n by my self I swore I would no lye to David make My League I will not break therfore Nor change a word of that I spake 11 Lord thus thou saydst that a Throne Vnto his yssue should be given As lasting as the Sunn Moone Or as the witnesses of heav'n Selah But now as if he were abhor'd Thou dost on thyne Anointed frowne Thou makest voyd thy league oh Lord And on the ground hast hurld his crowne 12 His Fences thou didst rend away His warlike forts thou downe dost race All passers-by on him do prey His Neighbours flout at his disgrace His foes thou hast Victorious made Whereat his haters ioyfull be Thou dull'st the sharpnes of his blade And in the fight made faint was he 13 Thou hast obscur'd his glories raies His Throne thou castest on the ground Selah Thou
without end Amen Psal 104. The Majestie wisdome powre of God in the Creation preservation of all his Creatures is here described by excellent Metaphors We may sing it to praise him for making preserving all things to his owne glorie for our confortable vse c. The Title is Halelujah NOw shall my soul to praise the Lord assay For Lord my God! vnbounded is thy might With glories beames thy self thou dost aray And as with Robes art cloth'd about with Light Thou curtaine-like the heav'ns abrode displayest And in great flouds thy chābers roofs thou layest 2 The rowling Clouds thy speedy Charrets are And winged windes thy swift-pasd Coursers be Thy Messages the glorious Angells beare And burning fires like servants waite on thee The Globe of Earth so firmly thou hast grounded That none can shake the structur thou hast foūded 3 As with a robe wth flouds thou clothdst the same And then the waves above the hills aspir'd But at thy Check soone downe againe they came And when thy voice did thunder back retir'd From lofty heights by winding Vallies tracinge They thither fel where first they had their placing 4 And strongly there thou boundest them about That they no more the world should overflowe Among the Dales clear springs thou sendest out Which run between the mountaines to fro Thou drink from thence to forrest heards convaiest And there the thirst of Asses wilde alayest 5 Then by the Bancks of all those running Rills Among the boughs the birdes make melodies Thou from above with shewres bedew'st the hills And giv'st enough all Creatures to suffice For Cattell grasse for man thou herbs ordainest And him with food out of the earth sustainest 6 From thence proceeds the hart-reioicing-wine Refreshing oyle from thence doth also flowe That pretious oyle which makes the face to shine bread wherby man's hart more strōg may grow Thy Cedars tall due moysture have not wanted Not they which high on Libanon are planted 7 The feather'd foules their nests on thē do build The lofty Firrs are dwellings for the storke For clyming goats the mountains refuge yeald In craggy Rocks the fearfull connies lurke The changing Moon the tymes apointed showeth The constant Sunn his howr of setting knoweth 8 Thou Darknes cal'st so night shutts vp the day And then abrode the Forresters do roame With roarings loud the Lions hunt theyr prey And vnto thee oh God for meat they come The rising sunn anon returneth hither And in their denns they couch againe togither 9 Then man till night afresh his labour plies How many be thy wondrous works oh Lord In ev'ry thing thou art exceeding wise The spatious Earth by thee is fully stor'd And in the sea are many creatures dwelling Both great small whose number passeth telling 10 There sail the shipps there thou didst creat Leviathan to sport vpon the Floud Thy Creatures all from thee expect their meat And that thou shouldst in season give them food Which thou bestow'st they the same receiving Are filld with Goodnes of thy bounteous giving 11 Thou hid'st thy face loe they troubled are Thou stopt'st their breath lifeles dust they bee Againe thou breath'st they reviv'd appear And all the earth is new arayd by thee Oh! let the Lord with honour still be named And let him joy in that which he hath framed 12 If with his eye the earth he but survay The fearfull earth doth tremble at his look If on the hills he but a singer lay His very touch doth make the hills to smoke And whil'st my Life or beeing is enioyed To praise my God my tongue shall be employed 13 Sweet thoughts of him conceaved are in me And in the Lord my hart shal ever ioye For from his Land the wicked rooted be And he will them perpetually destroy Oh let his praise for ever be confessed Praise God my soul say The Lord be blessed Most glorious Lord God! thy admirable powre wisdome created the world which having once overflowed for Sinn thou didst againe replenish the same continueng the maine Fabrick ever since therein mainetaining a succession of innumerable different Creatures by a wonderfull providenee with a speciall regard vnto mankinde above them all Give us therfore grace wee beseech thee so to meditate thy workmanship thy wisdome thy great mercies herein that our harts beeing regenerated revived by the breathings of thy holy spirit wee may be thanckfull for thy great Favours that when our wickednes is rooted out wee perceaving all to be good which thou hast created or ordained may praise thy wisdome thy goodnes thy bountie for ever ever Amen Psa 105. Halelujah It typically expresseth by God's deliverances of the Iewes his Covenant with them the spiritual League graces vouchsafed to us c. We should therfor sing it not only historically but with a respect also to the Covenant of grace his mercies by Christ Iesus COme praise the Lord invoke his Name To all men make his actions knowne In Psalmes of praise sing forth his fame And speak what wonders he hath done Let them who seek the Lord be glad Let of his Name their boast be made 2 Oh search God's powre seek his face Still minde what wonders he hath done Let all that are of Abraham's race And Iacob's his elected-one God's wondrous works record with heed And minde what he hath fore-decreed 3 He is our God our mighty Lord His Iudgments through the world are spread He beares in minde his promis'd word Vnto a thousand Ages made Ev'n that which he to Abr'ham swore And vow'd to Isa'ck heretofore 4 To Iacob came the same decree In Isr'el to continue still To thee all thy seed sayd hee The Land of Can'an give I will Yea thus he spake when fewe they were And they themselves meer strangers there 5 When forraigners they liv'd among And oft from place to place remoov'd He suffred none to do them wrong But for their sakes ev'n kings reproov'd My prophets harme yee not sayd hee Vntouch'd let my Anointed be 6 Then he by dearth their Land made pore And did the staff of bread withhold But Ioseph he first sent before Eu'n him whome for a Slave they solde With fetters there his feet they pain'd And him in irons they detain'd 7 But when his Triall was decreed God's word his innocence disclos'd The king did send to have him freed And by the prince he was vnlos'd His cheef commander he was made To rule his house all he had 8 Of all his Lords he had command That he his Counsellers might guide Then Isr'el came to Egipt land And Iacob did with Cham reside And so his Children thrived there That stronger then his foes they were 9 Whose hate fraudulent intent When to his Folk he well made knowne His servant Moses then he sent And A'ron his Elected-one Who wrought great marvailes in his Name And
assembled are For they God's works to minde will bring Who love to them doe bear Most famous deeds the Lord hath done His Iustice hath no ends His works are worthy to be knowne His bounty farr extends 2 All them that feare his Name he feeds His League he thinks vpon And for his folke by wondrous deeds The Gentiles Realmes he wonn His hands have Truth Iustice wrought His precepts all are sure With Truth Iudgment fully fraught For ever to endure 3 God sent and hath his Flock redeemd His Leagues eternall are His Name is rev'rently esteem'd And full of holy-feare The feare of God is Wisdome's gate And therefore wise is he Who seekes to enter in thereat His praises endles be Most mercifull Father wōderfull in thy workings dreadfull in thy iudgments vnfallable in thy Truth vnspeakable in thy Mercies fill us we pray thee with that sanctified Feare which is the beginning of true UUisdome So manifest vnto us thy eternall Truth so remember us of thy Covenant so feede us with spirituall nourishments that we may be strengthned to walk in thy wayes at the last enter the Gates of eternall blessednes through the mediation of Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Another of the same AL praise to God my hart now render shall Before the Iust of him I 'le mention make Confessing that his wond'rous Actions all Deserve that wee should pleasure in them take Exceeding great his glorious deeds appear From age to Age his Iustice doth extend Growne famous all his glorious workings are His Bounties his Mercies have no end In feeding such as feare him he is free Kept firme his promise is from age to age Long since that so his Folk his powr might see Made were the Gentiles lands their heritage Nor Truth nor Iustice passe but from his hand Of all his lawes the firme fullfillings be Provided soe that they shall ever stand Quit from all wrongs from all falshoods free Redeemer of his people he became So firme a League likewise he did ordaine That he hath fixt fortifide the same Vnchangably for ever to remaine With holines feare he clothes his Name Yea Wisdome's first foundation is his fear Right wise are they that well observe the same And such from Age to age commended are Psa 112. Halelujah It mentions many priveledges properties of the Elect shewes that the wicked for their greater vexation shall behold their happines c. It is a consolatory Hymne and serves to keep vndiscouraged those whoe are exercised by the skoffs prosperities of worldlings WHo on Gods lawe his love doth place And feareth him right blest is hee God will on earth advance his race And blest his faithfull seed shall be His house with plenty shall be dight His Iustice shall not be confinde In darknes he shall still have light For he is meek just kinde 2 The righteous lends helps the pore His dealings he discreetly weighes His fame abides for evermore And in a state vnchangd he staies He starts not evill Newes to heare On God his hopes muzings be His hart is fixt will not fear Till on his foes his wish he see 3 He on the pore doth Almes bestowe And alway just he doth abide For which his horne shall powrfull growe And with renowne be dignifide Which when vngodly men perceave They shall through envy despight Growe furious gnash their teeth greeve And loose thir hopes longings quite VVe humbly beseech thee oh mercifull God to infuse into our harts such a filial fear of thee Such a firme trust in thy Mercies Such a prudent regard to all things which are necessarily pertinent to our selves So charitable a respect vnto the necessities of our pore brethren soe constant a willingnes to performe all the duties in which we are obliged to any of thy Creatures That being without slavish terrors we may be couragious what rumors soever we hear enioy the commodities of this life to the vexation of our spiritual foes eternall Blessednes hereafter to thy glory Amen Another of the same ALl they that fear the Lord attaine to blisse Because that such delight God's will to doe Conferd on them shall honors be for this Deriving to their seed great blessings to Encreasing wealth their houses full shall fill For aye the Iustman's righteousnes remaines Great light on him in darknes beameth still He righteous is kinde Mercy daignes If need require he lends gives besides Kept streight are all his waies by prudent care Layd fast his groundworke are firme he bides Made endles his memorialls likewise are No fears he feels though evill Newes there be On God with fixed hart he doth relie Puts trust in him not shrincking till that hee Quite overthrowne doth all his foes espie Releef among the pore bestoweth he So keeping still his dealings all vpright That him advanc'd Vngodly men shall see Vex gnash their teeth loose their lōgings quite Psa 113. Halelujah It magnifieth God for his great love to mankinde both in generall perticuler But cheefly for extending his Church so vniversally for raising us from the dunghills of corrupted Nature to the thrones of Grace for taking away our spiritual sterrillity c. The vse appears YEe servants of the Lord With praise Gods Name adore The Name of God the Lord Blesse now evermore Oh sing his praise Through ev'ry place which in his race The Sunn survaies 2 All nations fear his powres His glory mounts the sky There is no God like ours No other Lord so high Yet he doth bowe All things to see that in heavn be Or Earth belowe 3 The pore from ground he fetts From dyrt the meek he brings And them with kings he setts Ev'n with his peoples kings And her that had A barren wombe he made become A mother glad Glorious Lord God! who to the confusion of the proud hauty hast made choise of the vile despised things of this world thereby to magnify thy Name Raise us we pray thee from the Dunghill of our Corrupted Nature that by thy Grace wee may become Rulers over our owne Affections And make us also who have bene heretofore barren in all Goodnes so fruitfull hereafter in Faith good-works that our soules may be saved thy Name glorified through out the whole world for ever ever Amen Another of the same PRaise yee the Lord blesse his Name Yea now ever blesse the same Yee servants of the Lord our God For from the Sunns ascending place Ev'n to the vtmost of his race His Name 's due praise is fam'd abrode Or'e Nations all yea or'e the Sphears The Lord our God his glory rears And never was his equall found For though his dwelling he on high He doth beholde with humbled eye All things in heav'n on the ground 2 The pore from dust mire he brings To sit with Princes with Kings
world as appeares Rom. 15. We should sing it to praise God for his Universal Grace GOd's praise yee Nations all declare The Lord yee people all adore For large to vs his Mercies are His Truth endures for evermore Haleluiah VVee praise thee oh Father of Mercy for that Vniversall Grace which thou hast vouchsafed in offring thy salvation without respect of persons vnto all mankinde forsaking none vntill they have first forsaken thee Make effectuall vnto vs wee beseech thee this generall favour That wee embracing the same by the Will which thou first makest capable of what thou presentest therevnto and that co-operating with thy Spirit according to the powre which thou shalt give vs we may be pertakers of that speciall grace which makes vs the Obiects of thy eternall Election from which there is no falling away Grant this even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Psa 118. This Psalme Christ applied vnto himself Math 24. For he is that Corner-stone here mentioned Here also are mistically touched vpon his Passion Resurrection sonne other Evangelicall Uerities It is therefore vsed by our Church as proper for Easterday THe Lord is good him therfor blesse And for his Grace that faileth never Let Isr'el also now confesse His Mercy doth abide for ever Yea let the house of Aron say His Mercies have no ending day 2 Let all who fear him publish out His Mercies that eternal be For when at need his healp I sought Hee heard my plaint sett me free And since the Lord is thus mine Aide Of man I cannot be afraid 3 My helpers God's assistance have And I perceave it on my Foes More safe it is God's help to crave Then on man's healping to repose Yea faith in God more safety brings Then to rely on mighty kings 4 All nations seige to mee did lay But in Gods Name I them destroyd They me beleaguer'd ev'ry way But in Gods Name I them destroy'd As Bees they compast me about Like fire in thornes soone in soone out 5 I soone destroy'd them in Gods Name For when they sought to do me wrong The Lord my gratious ayde became My strength my health my ioyfull song And in his house the Iust may sing What God's right-hand to passe did bring 6 For God's right-hand is lifted high Greats things the Lords right-hand hath wrought And from the Grave escap'd am I To tell what God to passe hath brought For though he sore afflicted me Yet he from death did sett me free 7 Of Righteousnes vnclose the gate That I God's praises may expresse This Gate is God's yea this is that By which the Righteous have accesse And him I 'le praise for it is hee That heares healps saveth me 8 That 's now the cheefest Corner-stone Which once the builders did despise It was the work of God alone And seemeth wondrous in our eyes This is the day the Lord hath made Come let vs all therein be glad 9 Save Lord oh save vs Lord wee pray Blesse him that commeth in thy Name That from his house God blesse vs may We pray much desire the same For God's the Lord by whome our fight Obtaines the Vision of his Light 13 With Cords the Sacrifices binde Them to the Aulters Corners tye Thou art my God whose praise I 'le minde My God whome I will glorify Oh! praise the Lord. for great is he And without end his Mercies be Oh Lord Christ our saviour Thou art that pretious corner-stone which vnites nor Iewes Gentiles only but even the Godhead the Manhood into one spirituall Buildinge Thou art he by whome all our Enimies are destroyed Thou art hee by whome wee escape the grave of sinn the terrors of everlasting Death Thou only art that Gate of Righteousnes by which wee enter into life eternal And thou only art that Light in whose blessed Vision our happines doth consist Oh give vs part in all that which thy Incarnation Passion Death Buriall Resurrection Ascention hath merrited conquered for vs if it please thee let this be the Day which thou hast made to fill vs with such a gladnes as shall make vs ioyfull for ever more Amen Psa 119. This Psalme consisteth of many exhortations promises prayers complaints consolations directions Resolutions thancksgivings varciously intermixt according to the Churches various Occasions principally informes that God's word is the Rule of Life c. Alaph 1. HEe 's blest that in the perfect way Of God's pure Lawe hath trod Who doth his Testaments obay And wholy seeketh God For such will take no ill in hand Nor from his Pathway swarve But Lord as thou dost give command Thy Precepts they observe 2 Would God! my waies were so direct That keep thy Lawes I might For whilst I thy Commandes respect On mee no shame cann light With vpright hart thee praise I will When learn'd thy Iudgments be And then I will thy Lawes fullfill Therefore forsake not mee Another of the same ALl those are blest that in a blameles way Have by the Lawe of God their feet confinde As blest are those that his Decrees obay With all their harts desiring him to finde An evill act they never take in hand Nor frō Gods Pathway shall their footing swarve Wee likewise are inioyn'd by thy Command That wee thy Precepts duely should observe Ah! therefor would my wayes were guided so That all thy Statutes well observe I might For if thy Lawes I have regard vnto No shame at all on mee shall then alight And when thy righteous Iudgments I have learn'd With hart sincere I 'le sing thy praise therefore To keep thy Lawes I will moreover learne Oh! then forsake me not for ever more Give us oh Lord such perfect knowledge of thy Lawe such regard of thy Testimonies such practise in thy Waies such obedience to thy Precepts such love to thy Statutes Such diligence in thy commands such awe of thy Iudgments that our vnderstanding may be freed from error our Conversations from polution our Affections from vanity that thou mayst ever be glorified by us wee never be forsaken of thee Even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Beth. 2. HOw cann youth's pathway cleansed be But by thy word oh Lord With all my hart I seek to thee Oh! guide mee by thy word I 'le keep thy Lawe with all my hart That I displease not thee Oh Lord that alway blessed art Thy Statutes teach to mee 2 To preach the Iudgments of thy Mouth My lipps I will employ For in thy Testimonies truth As in great wealth I ioye Vpon thy Lawes VVaies alone My thoughts Love are sett Thy Statutes my delight is on Thy UUord I 'le not forget Another of the same BY what may yongmēs wayes made blameles be But by their taking heed vnto thy UUord With all my hart I have desired thee From thy Commands let me not wander Lord. By layeng vp thy VVord within my hart To keep
no whit ashamed be Full dearly I have loved thy commands And they my most affected pleasures prove I 'le in thy precepte exercise my hands And muse vpon thy Lawes for them I love UUrite thy Lawes in our harts oh Lord engrave them in our minds wee humbly beseech thee Soe regenerate us that wee may become a Lawe vnto our selves have no desires in us but those which are agreable to thy Will. So wee shall neither slavishly fear the powre of any Authority nor be made ashamed by any bitter Censurers or scornfull reproovers but may take confidently vse conscionably our liberty in Christ Iesus Amen Zain 7. THat promise keep which thou hast made Thy servant's hope to be From thence in greefs I comforts had Thy word revived mee Though my disgrace the proud have sought Vnto thy Lawe I clave Vpon thy Iudgments past I thought And ear to them I gave 2 Of sinners who thy Lawe forsake I am in greevous feare Yet where my Pilgrim-Inn I take My songs thy Precepts are I kept thy Lawe on thy Name I mus'd when many slept And thus to passe oh Lord it came Because thy Lawe I kept Another of the same GIve heed vnto that UUord which thou hast sayd That UUord which thou didst make my hope to be For thence in my Afflictions I have ayde It is thy UUord that still reviveth mee Growne quite despis'd I was in proudmens eyes And yet I from thy Lawe declined not Thy Iudgments past did in my thought arise And Lord from them I consolation got Great horrors have surprized me because The wicked from thy precepts have gone wrong And in my house of Pilgrimage thy Lawes And thy Commandements have beene my song Good Lord I mention of thy Name have made Ev'n in the night I thy Lawe have kept And ev'ry profitable thing I had Because I from thy Precepts have not stept Oh Lord there is no better comforter in trouble then a faithfull remembrance of thy gratious promises nor any meanes to prevent the feare the disgraces or the mischeevous practises of the proud oppressor then by the Meditation practise of thy Lawes Grant therfore wee may soe minde the One so performe the other That wee may reioice in this house of our Pilgrimage all our life long Amen Chith 8. I Vow'd oh Lord to keep thy UUord For thou my portion art Thy promis'd Mercies now afford I begg them with my hart I turned to thy Testaments When I had scann'd my waies In keeping thy Commandements I vsed no delaies 2 By troups of sinners robd I was Thy Lawes yet minde I still And that thy Iustice I may praise At midnight rise I will Whoe e're dreads thee keeps thy word Shall my Compainon be Thy Mercy fills the world oh Lord Oh! teach thy Lawes to mee Another of the same HOw that thou art my portion Lord I sayd And I to keep thy Lawe have made a vowe With all my hart I for thy grace have prayd According to thy VVord have mercy now Here I have called vnto minde thy waies And turn'd my feet vnto thy Testaments Yea I have ready bene without delayes In executing thy Commandements Huge Troupes of wicked men have robbed mee Yet still thy Precepts in my hart I bear At midnight I will rise sing to thee Because thy Iudgments true righteous are Here I have gain'd the fellowship of those Who stand in fear of thee keep thy VVord Throughout the world thy tender-Mercy flowes Let me be train'd in all thy Statutes Lord. Grant us Grace oh God! soe to examine the Course of our life past what waies wee intend to walk hereafter that wee'may returne to thee with speedy repētance so resolve to keep thy commandements during the tyme to come that wee may enioye thee for our Portion both in the Night of our afflictions among the troups of our persecutors be comforted in the remembrance of thy abundant Mercyes through Iesus Christ Amen Teth. 9. THy servant Favour hath receiv'd According to thy word And thy Commands I have beleev'd Therfore instruct me Lord. Though till my troubles I mis-trod Thy VVord I follow now Thy Precepts teach to mee oh God For Good Kinde art thou 2 Thy Lawe with all my hart I seek Though mee the proud belye Their harts are fatt ev'n Brawner-like But lov'd thy Lawes have I. Now I have learn'd thy Statute's Truth My Cares I blessings deem And I the Precepts of thy Mouth Above all wealth esteem Another of the same IN all things to thy Servant thou art just According as thy UUord oh Lord hath showne Since therefor to thy Covenant I trust Thy Iudgmēts thy Truth to mee make knowe If that I had not bene by sorrowes crost I still had err'd But now I keep thy VVord Most Good thou art all is well thou dost Therefore thy Statutes teach to mee oh Lord. I by the proud have greatly bene belide Yet still I keep thy Lawe within my brest Their hart with fat like brawne is stupifide But with delight thy Lawe hath mee possest It is my weal that I afflicted was For by that meanes thy Statutes now I heed That Lawe of thine which from thy mouth did Great sums of gold silver doth exceed passe Sanctifie vnto us oh Lord all our Afflictions that being by them purified from our Corruptions wee may become vpright in all our wayes Suffer us not to be so fatted in our prosterities as to become insensible of thy Mercies or Iudgments Let our experience in thy word teach us to see acknowledge that our Afflictions are blessings And what soever Scandalls do arise let us continue in Obedience to thy Lawe thanckfully esteeme the same as wee ought for ever ever Amen Iod. 10. TO learne thy Lawe instruct mee Lord For mee thy hands have made So when they see mee trust thy word Thy servants will be glad I knowe thy Iudgments righteous are And all thy Stripes are Love Now let thy grace thy servant chear And true thy UUord approve 2 I love thy Lawe grant mee therfore Thy grace that live I may Defame the proud who wrong mee sore For I thy VVord obay Who knowes thy VVill feareth thee All such to mee convart And in thy Lawes lest sham'd I bee Lord rectify my hart Another of the same KIndle the knowledge of thy Lawe in mee For by thy hands I fashion'd was oh Lord. Thy servants will reioice my face to see Because I have relied on thy word Knowne well thy Iudgments are to be vpright And Lord on mee thy stripes in love thou laydst Oh make thy Tender-mercies my delight And comfort mee as in thy VVord thou saydst Kinde let mee finde thee Lord that I may live Because contentement in thy Lawe I finde Defame the Proud who me vniustly greeve For on thy Precepts I employ my minde Keepe those who thee do feare know thy
thoughts from thy Commandements withdrawe Thy Iustice an eternall Iustice is And Truth it self thou givest for thy Lavve Sore paines sorrowes have layd hold on mee Yet I from thy Commands content receive Thy righteous Testimonies endles be Oh let me know them Lord that I may live It is true oh Lord that vvhat ever thou willest is Just needs no other reason thereof but that thou Willest it because thy Will is Truth Justice it self Keep us therfor from questioning the Justice of any thing vvhich thou hast Willed or Decreed preserue us also from their madnes vvho fancie Decrees vvhich thou never mad'st such as doe not make thee iustifiable by humane Reason Teach us to knovve that though thy Justice is incomprehensible yet so much as thy vvord hath expressed of it is such a Justice as makes thee even in our capacities Justifiable when thou art iudged such as may encourage us to endeavour to be just as thou art just holie as thou art holy by thy example This grant for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Coph 19. LOrd hear for in my hart I crie And I thy VVord obay To hear my call thine ear apply That keep thy Lavves I may Relieng on thy VVord I call'd Before the Morning-light To mark thy VVords mine eyes forestald The Watches of the night 2 As iust loving Lord thou art So hear quicken mee Lo such as from thy Lavve depart For mischeefe comming be Oh Lord to mee now nearer drawe Thy VVord all truth containes And long agoe I knewe thy Lavve Eternally remaines Another of the same THey healp oh Lord with all my hart I crave Thy just Commands resolving to obay To thee I call aloud mee daigne to save That so thy Testimonies keep I may To thee before the break of day I call And for my certaine ayde thy VVord I take The watches of the night mine eyes forestall That on thy Lavve my muzings I may make Thine ear vnto my voice in mercy bowe That mee thy Iudgments may revive oh Lord. They fast approach who seek my overthrowe Ev'n they who strangers are vnto thy VVord To mee oh Lord at all tymes be thou nigh Thy Statutes all perfection do containe And many daies agoe informed was I That thy Commands for ever shall remaine VVee rise early oh Lord cann sit vp late at night to prosecute our common affaires or to prevent the mischeevous purposes of any temporall Adversary Cause us vvee tray thee to be as vigilant in seeking thee in Meditating the deep Misteries of thy Lawe in foreseeing vvhat spirituall enimies are approching to endanger our soules Vouchsafe this oh Lord in all our endeavours assist us in all our prayers hear us in all our necessities be present vvith us in Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Resh 20. REgard my greef save me Lord For I obaie thy Lavves Hear me according to thy VVord Oh save plead my Cause Because thy VVord they muse not on From health are sinners far Revive mee Lord as thou hast done For great thy Mercies are 2 My foes spoilers many be Yet I thy VVord professe And greeve when I the wicked see Thy Statutes to transgresse Thy Lawe I love oh quicken mee As thou hast promis'd Lord. For endles thy just Iudgments be And ever true thy UUord Another of the same VEwe Lord what sorrowes have oppressed mee For to observe Lawe My minde I give Let mee adiudged deliver'd be And mee according to thy vvord revive Vngodly men from saving health are far Because they do not seek thy Statutes Lord Exceding great thy tender-Tender-mercies are Reviue thou mee according to thy vvord Vext persude by many I have beene And yet I from thy Precepts have not straid I greeved was when sinners I had seene Because thy holy vvord they disobayd Vnto thy Lawe observe what love I shew And of thy tender mercie quicken mee Thy vvord through all eternitie is true And everlasting thy just Iudgments be Oh Christ the Mediatour in our minds wee are lovers observers of thy Lawe but in our mēbers wee are captivated vnto the Lawe of Sinn for which our greeved spirits do complaine with sighes groanes that are neither vtterable by the voice nor sensible to the flesh Oh deliver us from this bondage Plead thou our cause to thy Father Comfort our deiected soules let our love practise of thy Lawe quicken us in the way of Righteousnes make us partakers of thy Tender-Mercies for ever more Amen Schin 21. THough Princes causeles wrong'd mee much Thy Lawe I sleighted not But in thy word my ioies were such As his that Spoiles hath got The lienge lipps I do abhorr But I affect thy vvord Seav'n times a day I praise thee for Thy righteous Doomes oh Lord. 2 The Lovers of thy Lawe have peace And harme they shall have none Lord on thine aide my hopes I place And thy Commands have done My soul thy Testimonie kept In love therewith I grewe I from thy Precepts have not stept For thou my waies dost veiwe Another of the same WHē cause was none ev'n Princes wronged mee But of thy word alone my hart had feare And in that word my Ioies moreover be As great as their's that sharing booties are With much dislike all falshood I detest And I thy Lawe vnfainedlie affect Sev'n times a day thy praise I have exprest Because thy righteous Iudgments I respect What perfect peace have they that love thy word Ev'n such that nothing cann their quiet marr For thy salvation I have hoped Lord And thy Commands by mee performed are Well pleas'd with exceeding much delight My soul thy Testimonies keepeth still Thou know'st for all my waies are in thy sight That I thy Precepts thy Lawes fulfill Oh blessed Redeemer who wert persecuted by Princes for my sake without a Cause Thy many Prayers daylie offred to thy Father thy true delight in his Word thy detestation of falshood thy perfect fulfilling of the Lawe have obtained that thy righteousnes may be ascribed vnto us Oh grant that by performing what thou hast enabled us to do wee may retaine encrease the Talent freely given enioy thy Peace which passeth all vnderstanding for ever ever Amen Tau 22. REceive my cry guide thou mee As thou hast promisd Lord. Give ear saved let mee be According to thy vvord When thou to me hast showne thy vvaies My lipps thy praise will shewe My tongue thy blessed vvord shall praise For all thy Lawes are true 2 Mee let thy powrfull hand protect For I thy Lawe approove Thy Saving-health I do affect Thy Precepts I do love Oh let mee live to sing thy praise In Iudgment mee preserve Thy servant seek who sheep-like straies For I thy Lawe observe Another of the same YEald my Complaint oh Lord thy graitious ear And knowledge of thy Lawe to me afford My humble suite vouchsafe I pray to
soul escaped from the ginn The nett is broke wee deliver'd are And God whose work the heav'ns earth have binn Is hee whose Name our healp consisteth in Many times oh Lord wee are delivered by thy Mercy from evident vnavoidable perills But there is no moment in which wee are not compassed about with invisible foes vnthought of Dangers far more fearfull more impossible to be avoyded vnles thou didst gratiously defēd us Grāt therfor that a filiall awe of thy Iudgmēts a true esteeme of thy Mercies may make us hartily thanckfull vnto thee for them now for ever Amen Psa 125. A song of Degrees Another Ascent is firme Beleef in God The safetie of such is here alluded to the impregnability of Mount-Syon Ierusalem the punishment of wavering Apostates is threatned c. It is vsefull to raise vs to this Degree c. MOunt-Syon like for ever fixt are those Whose hopefull trust vpon the Lord is founded For he his faithfull People will enclose Ev'n as with hills Ierusalem is rounded As long as Time's perpetuall motion goes 2 The Rod of wicked men shall not alight Where God the Lot of righteousnes bestoweth Lest righteous men pertake in evill might For to the Good the Lord his mercy showeth And favours all that are in hart vpright 3 But Sliders-back such as wander wide In their owne crooked paths waies vneven Shall by the Lord be thither ledd aside Where portions due to hypocrites are given But Isr'el shall in endles peace abide Oh God many ignorances errors both in Iudgment Manners wee are naturally subiect vnto Teach us therfore what wee ought to Beleeve or practise then preserve vs vnwavering in our Faith so sincerely constant in a holy Life That wee may not have our portion with Apostates or Hypocrites but be pertakers in the true Peace of Isr'el through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 126. A song of Degrees another Degree is a reioicing in our Electiō spirituall freedome which is here typically expressed with a prophetical prayer for that ioye promised by Christ vnto the true Mourners Ioh. 16. 20. Wee may sing it as a thancksgiving for our Redemption to comfort in spirituall mournings WHen God made Syon free And her from thrall did bring It seemed as a Dreame to be And wee did laugh sing 2 The Lord the heathen sedd Great Marvailes wrought for vs. Great marvailes he hath wrought indeed And therfor sing wee thus 3 Lord back our Captives bringe As Flouds to sea-ward flowe So they shall then reioice sing Who did in sorrowe sowe 4 Who outward-bound doth mourne If he good seed employ Shall doubtles back againe returne And bring home sheaves with ioy Let our greatest reioicings oh Lord be in thy redeeming us from the Bondage of Sinn that our Names are in the Book of life for marvailous was this deliverance Let our greatest sorrowes be for our Offences and for the losse of thy favour which are indeed Causes of the greatest Lamentation soe our short sorrowe shall be turned in to everlasting Ioyes glorious Trivmphs world without end Amen Psa 127. A song of Degrees for Solomon Another Staire is to ascribe our beeing well-being to the Mercie providence of God It may be sung to acknowledge the same in all our works endeavours c. IF God the Pallace build not The workmen loose their paine If God the Cittie sheild not The watchman wakes in vaine In vaine is early stirring In vaine late watch wee keep Or eat the bread of caringe But those God loves may sleep 2 A fruithfull wombes possessing At God's disposing stands And Children are a blessing Like shafts in Giants hands Right blest is he that beareth His Quiver ful of those For in the Gate he dareth To meet smite his foes Grant almighty God that whether wee endeavour for our soules or bodies we never glory or trust in our owne workings For thou must blesse the beginning proceeding conlusion of every endeavour or all our industry is lost Nay wee have not so much as powre over our bodie or the fruite therof Let us therfor neither forget thee in the vse of the meanes nor neglect the meanes which thou hast appointed That what ever the events be our vndertakings may bring profit to us glory to thy holy Name So be it Psa 128. A song of Degrees Another Stepp is filiall feare of God to which many temporall blessings are here promised It is vsed at the solemnization of mariages serves to encrease in vs the feare of God IF God thou feare keep his way He blessings will bestowe Thy labour shall thy food purvay And happie thou shalt growe Like fruit-full vines vpon thy house Thy wife shall proove to thee Thy Children like faire olive-boughes Shall round thy Table be 2 Thus thon that fearest God shalt thrive From Syon he shall blesse And thou shalt see whilst thou dost live Ierusalem in peace He shall prolong thy life till thou Thy Childrens Children see And that thy ioye may greater growe In Isr'ell rest shall bee Oh Lord of thy abundant Mercy thou hast promised not only the blessings of the next life But alsoe all those which are most comfortable in this world so far forth as shall conduce to their happines who truly serve seare thee Oh teach us that filiall fear that obedience for which thou hast made those promises that wee may performe what thou requirest Yet not for the outward blessing sake but meerly for the love of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 129. A song of Degrees Another Step is a patient susstaining of the Crosse VVhich patience of the saints is here mentioned both the tiranny condition of their oppressors breefly illustrated Wee may vse it to increase continue Christian Patience FUll often since my youth may Isr'el say Full often since my youth they mee assailed And still without successe they went away trailed Yea on my back their ploughs the ploughers And on the same long furrowes ploughed they 2 The Lord who is a perfect Righteous-one The Cords of wicked men in peeces breaketh And Syons foes shall quite be overthrowne Ev'n like that grasse which root on houses taketh And fades away before it ripe is growne 3 For nor his Armefull nor his handful there Remaines for him that bindes or him that moweth Nor is there any high-way Passenger Who there is blessing in God's Name bestoweth Or doth so much as bidd them well to fare Sweet Iesu who wert persecuted even from thy cradle to thy grave on whose back the sharpe stripes ploughed long furrowes for our Sinns worthelie have wee deserved to be whipped with reproches to our face to be furrowed with slanders behinde our backs and to suffer all other indignities Nevertheles since by thy suffrings thou hast as well prevailed for us as for thy self make voyd the
earth did frame Lord wee were created for thy Glorie All the time of our Pilgrimage on earth is to fitt vs for thy praise the highest Degree which wee cann attaine to either in this life or the next is to sing Halelujah vnto thy Name Oh grant wee may so honour thee in these Temples of our Bodies here vpon the Way on whome the Nights of affliction the Dayes of consolation doe interchangably succeed that in thy Ierusalem wee may sing praises vnto thee in that spirituall Temple wherein the presence of the Lambe maketh a continuation of Day of Ioy of all happines for ever more Amen Psa 135. Halelujah It exhorts to praise God in regard of his greatnes for our election for his omnipotency Mercy Iustice eternitie because other Gods are but ridiculons fictions c. To this end wee who are mistically the Sonns of Aron Levy should sing it c. OH all yee servants of the Lord His Name with praise confesse Ev'n you that of our God the Lord The house Courts possesse Oh praise God's Name for sweet it is To sing of his renowne For Iacob he hath chose for his And Isr'el for his owne 2 God is I knowe a powrfull-one He doth all Gods excell In heav'n his pleasure he hath done In earth in sea in hell He maketh vapours to arise Ev'n from Earth's farthest ends And he out of his Treasuries Winde raine lighting sends 3 The first-borne through the Egiptian coast Of man beast he slewe And on king Pharoh his hoast Rare wonders hee did shewe Great kings kingdomes downe he brought Ev'n Sehon Heshbon's king And Og of Bashan yea to nought All Can'an's Realmes did bring 4 Then for his Isr'els heritage Their lands he did bestowe For which hee 's fam'd from age to age And still shall famous growe When he to judge them doth appeare His people shall be sav'd But heathen God's man's makings were Of gold silver grav'd 5 Their carved mouthes are speachles found Their eyes no light cann see Though they have eares they heare no sound Their throates quite breathles be Much like to these their Makers are And they that serve them toe The Lord therefore let Isr'el fear And so let Aron doe 6 The Lord let Levie's houshould blesse In Syon let all them Who fear the Lord the Lord confesse That keeps Ierusalem Haleluiah Oh Lord our God wee hartely thanck thee for our creation preservation VVee magnify thy wisdom thy powre thy providence thy Iudgments thy Mercies and we acknowledge that the Deities of heathenish and carnall men yea all other things in which wee trust are but vanities false Gods fashioned by our owne wicked fancies Grant therfore that all of us even preist people who in Word professe thee may in hart fear thee in deed faithfully serve thee now for ever Amen Psa 136. This Psalme exhorts to praise God both for generall and perticuler benifits shewes that all are bestowed for his meer mercy-sake which is eternall It may be sung literally to commemorate what God did for the Patriarks or mistically as a thancksgivinge for the spirituall deliverances which these typified THe Lord is Good him therfore blesse And for his Grace that lasteth ever The God of Gods let vs confesse Because his Mercie faileth never The Lord of Lords with praise extoll For where he loves he alway loveth His Acts alone are wonderfull Because his Favour endles proveth 2 His Wisdome did creat the spheares For to all times his Kindnes lasteth And earth above the seas he rears Because his Pittie never wasteth He did the greater Lights provide For through each Age his Grace extendeth He made the Sunn the day to guide Because his Goodnes never endeth 3 He fram'd the Moone starrs for night For without bound is his Compassion And Egipts eldest-borne did smite Because his grace hath no cessation He brought forth Isr'el from their land For soe his endles grace procured With stretcht-out Arme powrfull hand Because his Mercie still endured 4 Hee did the Red sea then divide For. still his Kindnes he retaineth And Isr'el through the same did guide Because his Favour still remaineth There he did Pharoh's Army drowne For Love hee freely still bestoweth And through the Deserts brought his owne Because eternall Grace he showeth 5 Both huge powrfull kings he slewe For everlasting are his Graces Yea famous kings he overthrewe Because his Love times date surpasses Great Sehon king of th' Amorites For his Affection never faileth And Og that ruld the Bashamites Because his Mercy still prevaileth 6 Their heritage bestow'd hath he For so his endles Love required His Isr'el's heritage to be Because his Grace is vnexpired He did exalt vs from belowe For he to Pittie still enclineth And hee redeem'd vs from our foe Because no time his Grace confineth 7 Hee to all flesh their food hath given For his great Mercy faileth never Oh glorify the God of heav'n Because his Grace abideth ever VVhen wee looke back oh Lord vnto the beginning of thy visible workings pondering the never interrupted succession of thy Mercies vnto this day therewithall observe the performance of all thy promises to thy Church heretofore the continuance of thy abundant Loving-kindnes to us at this present UUee are assured that thy Goodnes Compassion is eternall VVee therfore beseech thee to give vs true thanckfulnes for the same that wee may confesse it aswell in deed as word praise magnify thy Name for ever ever Amen Psa 137. This Elegiacal Hymne mistically expresseth the Zeal love of the Faithfull to the Citty of God And Prophecies the fall of the spirituall Babilon Wee may sing it to comfort vs during the continuance of our Naturall bondage the tirranies of Antichrist AS wee nigh Babel River sate Wee overcharg'd with weepings were To thinck on Syon's pore estate And hung our harpes on willowes there For they to whome wee were inthralled On vs for songs of Syon called 2 Come sing they sayd a Syon-hymne Lord cann wee sing thy songs in thrall Vnles Oh dear Ierusalem Thee in my mirth preferr I shall Or if the thought of thee forgoe mee Let hand tongue prove vseles to me 3 Oh Lord remember Edom's brood And how whilst they Ierusalem Vnsackt vndefaced stood Her spoile was hast'ned on by them For loud thy cryed race it race it And to the groundwork downe deface it 4 Oh daughter of proud Babilon Thou shalt likewise destroyed be And he will prove a blessed-one Who shall avenge our Cause on thee Ev'n hee that payes thee our disgraces And braines thy babes in stony-places Oh Lord many of thy people suffer the scornes insultings of that Babilon which was typified by the Chaldean Citty And the Mysticall Edomites labour the vtter defacing of thy Church But deliver us oh Lord reward them according to their
intentions against us Let us take no pleasure in any temporall thing till wee have prevailed against the fury of our spiritual destroyers give vs grace so to crush all sinns heresies in their first birth that we may be made eternally safe happy through Iesus Christ cur Lord. Amen Another of the same AS nigh Babel streames wee fate Full of greefs vnbefreinded Minding Syon's pore estate From our eyes the teares descended And our Harps wee hanged by On the willowes growing nigh 2 For insulting on our woe They that vs had there inthralled Their imperious powre to showe For a song of Syon called Come yee Captives come said they Sing vs now an Hebrewe Lay. 3 But oh Lord what hart had wee In a forraigne habitation To repeat our songs of thee For our spoiler's recreation Ah alas wee cannot yet Thee Ierusalem forget 4 Oh Ierusalem if I Do not mourne all pleasure shunninge Whilst thy walls defaced lie Let my righthand loose his cunninge And for ever let my tounge To my Pallet fast be Clung 5 Oh remember blessed Lord E're Ierusalem was wasted How the sonns of Edom roar'd And her totall ruine hasted Till they levell all had laid Rase it rase it quite they said 6 But thou shalt be spoiled thus And be vs'd oh Babels daughter Iust as thou hast vsed vs. And that man who in thy slaughter On the stones thy Child'ren braines Shall be blessed for his paines Psa 138. A Psalme of David God is here praised for the truth of his Word for glorifieng his Sonn Christ for confirming his Elect for the Common grace vouchsafed to all c. It may be sung for any Deliverance But especially for our Redemption WIth all my hart I 'le sing abrode thy fame And praise thee where the Gods assēbled are Ev'n in thy house I 'le magnifie thy Name And for thy Truth Love thy praise declare For thou thy Name word o're all dost rear 2 When I did call thou mad'st replie to mee And strength vnto my soul thou didst afford All Kings of earth shall therfor honour thee As soone oh God as they have heard thy word And sing thy praise in thine own Paths oh Lord. 3 For thou art great thou oh Lord art high Yet hast regard of humble men belowe Thou vew'st the proude but with a sleighting eye Therefore altho through many greefs I goe I certaine am thou comforts wilt bestowe 4 Thy righthand Lord shall my salvation bee My foes feirce rage thy stretcht-out hād shal stay Thou shalt performe all things concerning mee Thy mercies Lord abide the same for aye Reiect not then thy handy-work I pray Oh Lord our Creator thou causlesly reiect est none whome thou hast made neither art thou such an accepter of Persōs as too many fancie thee bee But impartially acceptest in every Person that which is the Obiect of thy eternall Election where soever thou findest the same lovest that vnto the end Therefore thou extendest thy Truth and Mercy to all vouchsafing also thy Assisting powre to perfect that work which thy free-grace hath begunn yea thou effectually perfectest that worke in soe many as do humbly submit them selves to thy will resist not proudly the motions of thy spirit And though they passe through many temptations hazards thy hand still reacheth vnto thē comforts meanes of safe perseverance vnto the end Oh give us wisdome to perceave grace humbly to acknowledge this great Mercie which who soever denies Denies thy greatest glory make thou our endeavours answereable to the grace powre which wee have receaved through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 139. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme of David It confesseth the all-seeing providence powre wisdome and Mercy of God And expresseth a desire of the Faithfull to be serched rectified by him c. It warnes vs not to live Hypocriticallie in regard God beholds vs at all times in all places c. OH Lord thy all-beholdinge eies Have serch'd well observed mee Thou see'st mee sitt thou see'st mee rise Thou know'st my thoughts e're thought they be Thou vew'st my wayes walkings Lord Thou see'st what in my bedd I doe And I do never speak a word But lo thyne ears do hear it to 2 Thou standst before me behinde Thy hand on mee doth alwaies lie Thy wisdome cannot be confinde And for my reach it is too high Then from thy spirit from thee Oh whither cann I fly or goe If heav'n I clime thou there wilt be If hell I dive there art thou to 3 If on the Mornings wings I ride And thinck to fly beyond the seas Thy hand ev'n there cann be my guide They right-hand there on mee cann ceaze Or if I say the Duskie night Shall hide mee Night will me bewray For darknes is to thee as light The day like night the night like day 4 My Reines to thee apparant are For in the wombe thou closedst mee I strangely was composed there And therefore I will honour thee Thy wondrous works my soul doth knowe And that my substance thou didst marke Ev'n when as in the earth belowe I was composed in the darke 5 Before I perfect Beeing tooke Or Forme or Matter for this frame My Members all were in thy booke And thou foresaw'st what now I am Therefore thy thoughts of vs how dear And Lord how infinite they bee As num'rous as the Sands they are And wake mee still to muze on thee 6 Vngodly men men of blood Destroy cause them to be gone For they speak ill of thee oh God And vainely proude thy foes are growne Thy haters I have hated Lord And greev'd at such as thee oppose With perfect hate I them abhord And those accounted as my foes 7 Oh God! a strict enquiry make My hart ev'ry thought survay Search if an evill Course I take And showe mee thy eternall way There is nothing oh Lord in the structure of our bodies or in the disposition of our mindes but it is knowne to thee with every Cause effect thereof Neither darknes nor distance of place cann so hide us from thee but that thou seest our Actions hearest our words perceavest our thoughts Yea what they are enclinable vnto before wee thinck them Give us grace therefor to behave our selves alwaies as in thy sight Let our secret intentions be vpright cause us to love and hate as thou dost Turge away all that which is evill in us infuse into our harts all those graces which may make us acceptable to thee in Christ Iesus Amen Psa 140. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme of David It personates Christ's mysticall body desiring deliverance from Oppressors And describing their malice pride Trechery c. It is vsefull when any Congregation is greeved by the bitter scandalls lieng doctrines or mischeevous insinuations of Atheists false brethren e. LEt me oh God from sinners
be defended From those that are to violence inclined For in their harts they mischeef have intended And in malitious Leagues are fast combined Their stinging tōgs the vipers teeth have matched Between their lipps is Adders poyson hatched 2 Lord frō the hands of wicked men release mee From Cruel-men vouchafe secure to make me For to supplant my goengs they oppresse me And lo the proud prepareth snares to take mee Yea they have netts ginns trapps prepared In al my waies that I might be insnared 3 Lord hear I pray mark my supplication Thee for my God oh Lord I have professed And thou Lord God the strength of my Salvation Did'st gard mee when in Fight I was oppressed Oh grant not what the wicked man desireth But crosse his plotts lest hee too high aspireth 4 The Mischeef of their lipps will fal vpon them Ev'n on their heads that mee have circumvented Coales burning-hot shall downe be hurled on thē They shal with flames in dung'ons be tormented And in those Pitts infernall be detained From whence Redemption never cann be gained 5 On earth hee shall not thrive that 's evill tōgued For wicked men Reveng to death persueth But God I knowe doth patronize the wronged And in the pore man's cause his judgmet sheweth For which the just within his presence living Shall glorify his name with praises-giving Deliver us oh Mercifull God from the cruel purposes stinging slanders mischeevous practises of our wicked proud Adversaries who seek the ruine of our soules Arme us against them as hither to thou hast bene pleased Frustrate their devises bring on them their owne wickednes inflict on them that vengance which is prepared for impenitent Persecutors That wee being saved by thee thou mayst be glorified by us for ever ever Amen Psa 141. A Psalme of David It personates Christ the lifting vp of whose hands on the Crosse is accepted insteed of the legall sacrifice prayeng in the behalse of his Members And it is vsefull for vs to desire God's acceptation of our Prayers to give us the Goverment of our tongues to rectify our thoughts c. LOrd hear with speed my voices lamentation Vouchsafe to give my mournfull clamors hearing As incense or an Afternoones Oblation Accept my Prayers my hands vprearing Lord let my mouth as with a watch be warded And let the Portalls of my lipps be garded 2 Lest I to sinn with sinners may be trained Preserve my hart oh Lord from sinns infection Who rather then their pleasures to have gained Desire in Love the righteous man's correction As curing balme the same should be received And I would pray for thē whē they were greeved 3 Whē frō the Roks their judges down are heved The rest wil hear for I sweet words have spoken As on the Land where blocks are hew'd cleaved Our bones before the grave lie strow'd brokē Yet still mine eye on thee oh Lord attendeth And still my soul on thee alone dependeth 4 Then suffer not my soul to be reiected And that I be not by their wiles ensnared Let me from those close engines be directed Which for my soul the wicked have prepared Let their own snares which they have layd intrap thē And let me Lord for evermore escape them Accept oh Lord our petitions in the mediation of Christ Iesus Make us watchfull over our tongues so purify our harts from all evil affections that the pleasant baites of the wicked alure vs not to be partners in their sinns To that end teach us to bear patiently accept thanckfully the reproofs Corrections of thy Children yea let us pray for them who shall charitably reforme us And though by persecution wee should be scattred like bones among graves or chipps vpon the face of the earth yet let us alway trust in thee at last be gathered vp revive be made blessed everlastingly through Iesus Christ Amen Psa 142. Maschil of David when he was in the Cave It seemeth mistically to personate Iesus Christ expressing the agony of his soul in the Garden Or his being for saken at his Passion It may be sung when wee are left comfortles of the world MY voice to thee Oh God I reare To thee oh Lord I sue To thee my troubles I declare My greefs to thee I shew For when o're whelm'd my spirit was My Path was knowne to thee Ev'n when they hidd where I should passe A seacret snare for mee 2 I looked on my right-hand side But noe man knew mee there All succours faild not one I spide That of my soul had care Then Lord thou art my hope said I My Lot whilst life I have In my destresse observe my crye From spoile thy servant save 3 Yea since for mee they are too strong To praise thee sett mee free So righteous men to mee shall throng When thy great Love they see Sweet Iesu in thy bitter Agony thou hadst not any one no not among thyne owne desciples so sensible thereof as to watch with thee one howre A secret snare was layd for thee in that Garden whither thou went'st to pray for consolation And when they ledd thee to thy Passion None would knowe thee None assist thee Neither had any one care of thy soul Oh Dearest Redeemer this is often the Case of us thy Members in some Degree And when our Spirits are most overwhelmed with sorrowes it so happens That no man pitties it No eye beholds it but thyne For thy Passion sake do thou behold us with commiseration in these extremities that wee may be comforted that wee others may magnify thy great mercie for ever ever Amen Psa 143. A psalme of David It expresseth with much forvencie many conflicts of the spirit emploreth God's free Mercy in regard of our vniversall impurity of the malice of our foes disability of our nature c. The vse is manifest LOrd my humble supplication Heed heare with acceptation In thy Doomes of Truth Right Iudge but judge thou not severely For if thou observe vs nearly None are blameles in thy sight 2 By the foe my soul is chased Wounded in darknes placed As one buried long agoe I am inwardly perplexed Yea my spirit sore is vexed And my hart is full of woe 3 On the times now past I ponder And on all the works of wonder Which were framed by thy hands Thee I seek with due submission And my soul for thy fruition Longeth as the thirstie Lands Selah 4 Lord with speed give ear vnto me And thy face divart not fro me For my spirits feeble growe Since on thee I have depended Let mee timely be defended Lest into the grave I goe 5 Guide my feet by thy direction For thou hast my hart 's affection Me from all my foes release Lord my God my safe abidinge Bring mee by thy spirits guiding To the Land of Righteousnes 6 Grace to do thy pleasure give mee For thy
Namesake Lord revive me Let thy Iustice be my gard Yea destroy of thy compassion Those that seek my soules vexation For I am thy servant Lord. Oh Lord God if thou shouldst iudg us according to our deservings wee all flesh should everlastingly perish VVee appeall therefore to thy Mercie with a thirsty longing desire speedy assistance according to thy accustomed Loving-kindnes lest wee be swallowed vp by Despaire or devoured by our Foes For thine owne sake even for thy Iustice for thy Mercy for thy Name sake direct us in thy waies Instruct us in thy VVill protect us from all evills bring vs into the Land of the Living through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Another of the same LOrd mark my suite my sad complaining hear And in thy Truth Justice answear give Iudg not thy servant with a doome severe For in thy sight not one doth blameles live The foe hath chas'd my soul of life nigh reft mee And in the dark as one long dead hath left mee 2 In mee therfore my spirits downe are cast My hart is fill'd with many a heavie thought I muse vpon the dayes that now are past And on thy works ev'n al thy hāds have wrought With stretchtout hands with soul-thirsty pāting I thirst for thee as Land when raine is wanting 3 My spirit faints oh God with speed give ear If longer thou thy face obscure I dye Oh let thy Love to mee betimes appear For I on thee on thee alone relye Yea let me Lord within thy Paths be trained For vnto thee I lift a soul vnfained 4 Protect mee Lord in thee is my abode Keep off my foes teach thy will to mee Let thy good sp'rite because thou art my God My guide vnto the Land of Iustice be Yea mee oh Lord for thy Namesake revive thou My soul ev'n for thy Iustice sake reprive thou And of thy grace all those that mee oppressed Destroy thou Lord for I am thine professed Psa 144. A Psalme of David It blesseth God for his regard of the humane Nature Desires Christ's approch to Iudgment And requesteth to be delivered from worldlings c. It is vsefull to these purposes to inform vs that to be God's chose-ones is the greatest happines c. OH praise the Lord for he is all my Powre My hands Armes in warlike feats directing My grace my gard my sheild my healp my Towre My trusty freind my foes to mee subiecting Lord what is mā that thou art pleasd to know him Or what his child that thou sholdst favor show him 2 Mā is as nought his ioys like shades forsake him The heav'ns oh Lord decline down descēd thou But touch the Hils thou to smoke shalt mak thē To scatter them thy dreadfull lighting send thou Shoot out thy shafts vntill they be destroyed Let thy strong hand to healp mee be employed 3 Oh save mee from the water's over-swelling Let mee from forraigne Children be secured Whose mouthes are alwaies lies folly telling And whose righthands to falshood are envred Then to thy praise new songs I will be singing On harp Psalt'ry of a tennfold stringing 4 Let him who doth on kings bestow salvation And from the sword his servant David saveth Protect me frō that forraine generation Whose mouth speakes lies whose right-hand deceaveth Who beg for sonns daughters in their prayer Like plants pretious stones welshap'd faire 5 Who pray for Granards fully stored ever Who 's floks yong breed evn in their streets aboundeth Whose wellfed Oxe in labour faileth never in whose Townes nor cry nor tumult soundeth For tho such men a blessing have possessed Yet they whose God 's the Lord are much more blessed Father of Mercy God of all Consolation thou art alwaies our powrefull deliverer becommest every thing vnto vs which our harts cann desire Oh make vs thanckfull vnto thee for thy great regard of soe vnworthy Creatures And though meer worldlings Carnall Professors seeke thee for temporall Blessings Let vs love serve praise thee meerly for thine owne sake Keep vs from their falshood Hypocrisie selfelove with all their other wicked Conditions And though they boast of thy transitorie Blessings which wee enioy not Let us be contented that thou art our God Let that be our portion of happines let vs enioye it oh Lord for ever ever Amen Psa 145. Davids Psalme of Praise It may be vsed as a Patterne wherby to glorify God according to his principal Attributes such as his Infinitenes Omnipotencie Majesty Justice Mercie Goodnes Providence c. UUhich are mentioned in this Psalme I 'Le honour thee oh God my king And laud thy Name for aye Ev'n to thy Name I 'le alway sing And praise thee ev'rie day For thou art great beyond all bounds And great thy praises are Through Ages all thy glory sounds Thy wonders they declare 2 I 'le also shew thy royall state And thy rare works vnfolde That men thy wonders may relate When I thy powre have tolde That they thy Righteousnes may show And much thy glorie minde For thou to anger Lord art slowe Right gratious meek kinde 3 Thy goodnes thy mercies be In all thy works exprest Ev'n all thy works Lord honour thee And thee thy Saints have blest Thy kingdomes glory they will showe And sing thy greatnes forth That all mankinde thy powre may knowe And see thy Kingdoms worth 4 For thou for evermore shalt raigne And rule through Ages all The weak oh Lord thou wilt sustaine And lift vp those that fall On God all creatures sixe their eyes And fedd in season be For all things living to suffice An open hand hath hee 5 The Lord is just in all his waies His works are sacred all Nigh them who call on him he staies Nigh those who truly call Their hopes who fear him he effects And 's hears saves all those Ev'n those who love him God protects But sinners overthrowes 6 Oh let my mouth due praise therefore Vnto the Lord expresse And let all flesh for evermore His holy Name confesse Great oh Lord is thy Kingdome thy Powre thy Glory great are thy VVorks thy UUonders thy Praises Great also is thy VVisdome thy Goodnes thy Iustice thy Mercy Yea so infinite art thou in these all other excellencies That no attributes are sufficient to expresse thee Nevertheles wee thy Creatures being partakers of thy Abundance witnesses of thy Bounty towards all whome thou hast made Do according to the measure of our Capacities blesse thee for the same And desire to praise and magnify thy Name for ever ever Amen Another of the same ADvance I will thy Name oh God my king For evermore I will extoll the same Blesse thee I will oh Lord alway sing A davlie song of praises to thy Name Consid'ring that thy Greatnesse bound hath none And how thine honor should as boundles be Declare
I will those wonders thou hast done That men from age to age may speak of thee Ev'n of thy Fame glories I will treat And shewe how rare thy wondrous workings are For when thy dreadfull Acts I shall repeat Then other men their largnes will declare Great speach of thy great goodnes they shal make And singing of thy Iustice they shalt showe How apt thou art compassion still to take How prone to pitty to wrath how slowe In doeng good to all thou Lord art free Thy Mercies are vpon thy Creatures all Kept glorious by thy deeds thy praises bee And therfor all thy Saints confesse thee shall Lord of thy kingdome 's glorie they shall tell And shewing ev'ry where what powre thou hast Make knowne how much thy mighty Acts excell And with what state thy royall Throne is plac't Not as a king that 's only temporall For endles eternall is thy throne On thee who e're depends though he should fall Thou Lord wilt lift him vp when he is down Plac'd are on thee all creatures eyes oh God! And thou dost give them food in season still Quite open thou dost reach thy hand abrode Each living Creatures longing to fulfill Right just thou art oh Lord in all thy wayes And as in all thy works thou holy art So thou art near to ev'ry one that praies To all that seek to thee with honest hart To thē that fear thy Name their wish thou giv'st And such as call vpon thee thou wilt save Vngodly men of safety thou depriv'st But all thy Lovers thy protection have Wherefore oh Lord to publish out thy fame In praisefull wise my mouth shall still endeaver Yea all flesh shall blesse thy holy Name And praise the same for ever for ever Oh Lord thy spirit hath said thou art good to all that thy Mercie is over all thy Works Stop the mouthes therfore of all those perverters of thy Truth and blaspheamers of thy most glorious Attribute who dare affirme that thou hast eternally Dereed purpossely Created irrevocably necessitated that the greatest number of soules should be vessells of wrath condemnation without any respect vnto Sinn Good God let this damnable blasphemy spread no further Give all men grace to perceave that they who pretend to honour thee by this doctrine do consequently vnavoydably impute vnto thy sacred Majestie all the wickednes both of men Devills contrary to all piety contrarie to thy expresse Word which is perverted to maintaine this heresy contrarie to that which naturall Reason hath written in our harts Lord these are they which have made thousands hide their Talent by sayeng that thou expectest to reap where thou sowedst not they have soe corrupted their owne iudgments most of their hearers that there is no meanes to prevent this pestilence of the soul but by prayer Vnto thee therfor wee pray Oh hear us even for thine owne honor sake for thy Mercie sake in Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 146. Haleluiah It stirreth vp the soul to perpetuall thanksgiving to depēdance vpon God alone giving reasons for the same c. Wee may sing it to minde vs of those duties MY soul praise thou the Lord As long as thou hast breath In song his praise record And honour him till death No credit place In earthlie kings or such vaine things As humane race 2 Breath failes dust they be One day their pompe destroies Right blest therefore is hee That Iacob's God enioyes And hopes in him Who framed these heav'n earth seas And all in them 3 For God is faithfull still Men wrong'd assist will hee The hungry he doth fill And setts the pris'ner free He Sight bestowes Loves men vpright maketh streight What crooked growes 4 The stranger he receives To Orphanes help imparts The widdowe he releives And Sinners paths subvarts The Lord therefore Oh Syon shall be king of all For evermore Haleluiah Almightie God Creator of heav'n earth the sure healper of all who trust in thee pitty our oppressions satisfy our spirituall hunger free vs from the bondage of sinn cure the blindnes of our Understandings be mercifull to vs in all the rest of our necessities infirmities Grant also that renouncinge all other Confidence depending only on thy favour wee may praise thee for these all thy Mercies in Christ Iesus Amen Psalme 147. It exhorts to praise God for encreasing building his Church typyfied by Ierusalem for many particuler mercies to his people for overthrowing the proud c. The vse is apparant OH glorifie the Lord For of God's praise to sing With justice doth accord Yea 't is a pleasant thing Ierusalem Hee will erect and recollect His Flock to him 2 The Contrite hart hee heales Hee cures their bruises all The Starrs he also tells And them by Name cann call This Lord of our In wise foresight is infinite And great in powre 3 The Lord the Meek doth raise The proud he brings to ground Oh therfor sing his praise Let Harps his praise resound He Clouds doth bring And shewres distills which on the hills Makes grasse to spring 4 Ev'n Beasts Ravens yonge He feedeth when they call In horse or footmen strong He ioyeth nought at all God loves all them Who in his grace their hopes doe place And honor him 5 Syon Salem blesse The Lord your God in song Who doth your seed encrease And hath your Gates made strong His Peace hath yet Your bounds vphild you he fild With flowre of wheat 6 Through earth his Mandates goe His word with swiftnes flies Like wooll he giveth snowe His frost like Ashes lies And then beside He forth doth slice cold flakes of Ice Which who cann bide 7 He speakes streight it thawes He breaths water flowes His statutes his Lawes He to his people showes No nation els His Iudgments know therfore soe With none he deals Haleluiah Most mercifull God who buildest vp thy heavenly Ierusalem by the gathering together of all the faithfull Not only taking notise of them who have starr-like perfections but even of vs also whoe are of those Blind and Lame whome thou hast caused to be called to thy banquet Nay though wee are as brute Beasts or vncleane Birds thou art ready to extend thy Mercy whensoever wee seek thee Oh make vs thanckfull for thy great Bounty Send out thy word to compell us by Stormes or to allure by Calmes according as it shal finde vs disposed let the graces of thy Spirit so thawe our congealed harts that the teares of true penitence may flow from vs produce all such other effects as may cause vs to know thy Iudgments to be of those people whome thou lovest in Iesus Christ Amen Psa 148. Halelujah All Creatures are here in a Poetical manner exhorted to glorify their Creator Wee should vse it to remember vs that God requireth all his Creatures