who thee attend abasing shame depress Depress it those thy law who causeles ah transgress INLIGHTEN Lord my soule so with thy guiding grace That I thy trueth may fynd and found may firm embrace Revele thy paths divine ô thow my SaviÅur deer To thee perennal hope eternal love adhere THOSE gracioÅs mercies Lord which from thy goodnes spring And ay thy woorks orespred to myndful presence bring And from thy sight remoove the wyldnes of my youth The sins age more mature with sad remorse presÅeth O thow who goodnes art evÄ•n for that goodnes sake With merci mee behold so soules iust grief asslake MOST righteÅus gracious Lord He sinners shew'th his way To humble mynds myld spir̆its his iustice will display All trueth yea merci all his paths to them remain His witnest will who seek and covÄ•nant great maintain Then for thy gracious name propitiÅus mee behold My sin ah Lord how great in merci great upfold THRISE happi man whose hart Gods sacred fear endues For him shal grace direct to bliss right way to chooze And here his soule at ease midst blessings rich shal sit And goods wel got secure to childrens seed transmit These heavÄ•nli leaug partake yea misteries high conceald From worldli wits to them from heavÄ•n shal be reveald O THEN my waiting eys on God stil fixed bee For hee from snaring net my feet wil rightÄ•ous free Turn then at length thy face in bliss who sitst on high Since poor abandond wretch to onli thee dooth fly Ah Lord as wave dooth wave so wo dooth wo pursue As day dooth day fresh griefs so griefs forepast renue But thow my streits my pain my labours Lord respect And on my sins their cause ah merci Lord reflect BEHOLD my raging foes how thick their musters growe Whose poisÄ•ned gals uncausd with bittÄ•rest hate oreflowe But thow Preserver great my soule from force uniust My face from shame protect who livÄ•st my onli trust My onli trust and hope on safegard none I build Save what myn upright cause and goodnes thyn shal yield These then my gardiăns stand And thow benign with mee Thyn IsraÄ•l deer great Lord from pressures all enfree PSALM 32. DAVID here out of the sence of his owne experience teacheth that he is happi to whom God in merci imputeth not his sins which merci is obteined by seazonable confessing them must be continued by thankfully reforming our lifes which shall be accompanied with true ioy of spirit THE blessed man whom spring of boundles grace With mercies ey a Father-iudge dooth vieu Whose crimes and guilt with pardon free efface Foul stains orehele so pristin shape renue Yea thrice he blest whom who Creatour kynd All perfect framÄ•d declynd dooth not forsake Dooth not his sins impute and darkned mynd DischargÄ•d of guile to iustice dooth awake I WHILST my sin in silent brest conceald Benumbd asham'd at length with sicnes scurgÄ•d My bones consum'd and roars sharp grief reveald Which tiring pain my strength now tired urgÄ•d Thy grievous hand stil presd me day and night Nor Sun could cheer nor darknes rest prezent On faded face deaths name seemd palenes write So native iuice unnative heat had spent ADVIS'D I then to thee my sins confesd In vain conceald bade idle vail adieu I said Be now to God my falts expresd Who guilt from soule strait plague from corps withdrew OGRACIOVS Lord therfore our hopes abound And godli men excited by these fruits In time accepted when thou maist be found With faithful harts shal bring their needful suits And thow benign from worlds tempestÅous seas Wilt them remoove and mee my hiding place PreservÄ•d from wrack dischargÄ•d of streit unease Withioious crys of freedom round embrace THEN I who e're Gods service doost profess Wil make thee sciÄ•nt what paths thou must ascend What dounfals shun how errors to redress And guiding ey thy cariage shall attend BVT men by kynd transform not into guise Of sturdi horse or more unthankful mule Whose brutish brests no mutÅal duties prize Sole sharpest bits their mouths from mischief rule THE wicked hart whole swarms of woes shal seaze Of help without within of rest deprivÄ•d While faithful soule who gracious Lord shal pleaze With mercies fencÄ•d with ioys shal be revivÄ•d THEN rightÄ•ous mynds divorce your careful fear Gods woord who trust shout out with sounds of ioy His ways who walk your hopeful heads vprear Your light appears sad darknes to destroy PSALM 34. The Prophet DAVID to escape the cruel hands of King Saul beeing forced to fly to a neighbour King of the Philistims where the qualiti and woorth of his person beeing to his great danger discovered he counterfeited himself distract and so was driven from thence and closely returned to the confines of his countri whether his frends and other distressed persons assembled to him here he yieldeth to God solemn thanks for this strange deliveri encouraging withal and instructing his associats to serve God who never faileth to protect his Righteous servants from mischief neither yet to destroy their persecutours By the way is interlaced a prophâ—…ci of the not breaking of ani one Bone of our Sauiours who was the veri pattern and perfection of Righteousnes THE Lord for evÄ•r with humblest ioy my thankfulst thoughts shalbless In him my soule triumph my mouth his glorious praise express Let myld righteÅus mynds earths Saints with gladnes hear this praise Yea all vnite harts spir̆its and sounds to heăvens his name to raize When chasÄ•d from home in strangers land midst Hethen crue I moornd And sought my God my sighs he heard and safely mee returnd That mee his Saints example great shal cheerful ay recite This poore man cryd the Lord him heard and freed from hostile spite O THOUGHT-surmounting grace to earth from heăvenli host descends Gods Angel great and servants his as rampire round defends Then tast and see how good the Lord how sweet his merci flowes How blest the man who trusts in him on him vow'd love bestowes And ye Gods Saints his fear maintain when liÅns through hunger wast Yet scarsenes none of no thing good sour want his servants tast O COM deer children listen well while Gods true fear I teach How life to win how length of days in happiÄ•st state to reach Thy tong from venÅmed woords refrain thy lips let shun deceipt Decline from evÄl doo good seek peace this this be thy retreit The eys of God with pleazing vieu the rightÄ•ous race behold Their suits his gracious ears attend ful deer their lifes are sold But countÄ•nance stern the mighti Lord gainst proud malfactors bends And cursed names corrupted seed from earths fair bosom rends TRUE servants plaints â—…ust Lord dooth hear their tears and fears dicharge Their contrite harts enanguisht spiâ—…its from pressures streit enlarge Afflictions great it 's true ful oft most righteÅus Man endures God rids them all and in their midst his bones from brack assures No bone of His shal broken be
their hope in muzing bent LO fainting voice to thee my still unfainting hart Sends up send doun thy strength and Prince of grace who art Revive me ' as is thy wont See neer towărd me they draw Who mischief dire pursue far they from Lord thy law But thou art neer whose hests for never-changing trueth Long since thy teaching woord assurÄ•d my learning youth RESCH. AT length let pityÄng ey respect afflicted wight And thow mans hart who seest art conscious of my right And pressing fo observÄ•st plead thow my cause and free Soule cheered through thy woord addicted whole to thee Thy mercies Lord are wide yet far from godles crue Who seek not thee nor way to bliss that leads pursue BUT mee thy doom revive whom now persuing foes Not faithles to thy woord with swarming troops encloze O grief myn ey to see men break thy rightÄ•ous law Despize celestiăl bliss in lines of love which draw Thy servants soule see Lord and quickÄ•n them with thy grace Who iust eternal woord trueths sum with ioy embrace SCHIN VVITH causeles hate ô Lord and not unwronging swoord Have Princes mee persuÄ•d yet aw of heavÄ•nli woord My hart restraind from sin O woord whose ioys more draw My ly-detesting mynd and mynd that loves thy law Then ioy which Princes gifts or foes rich spoils can bring SevÄ•n times yea daily I thy righteÅus iudgements sing IN throng of worldli waves which sweet of life devour Their mynds stil calm abide no scandal there hath powÄ•r Where love of thee directs Lo then thy saving grace My hoping eys attend sole thow his love embrace Whose pure affection seeks thy pleasure to fulfill I fain not Lord my ways yea hart thou vieust at will THAV THEN let at length approach ô Lord my fainting cry Vouchsafe my suit access sole understanding I And riddance from my foes which promized hast require Thus taught thy will and free towărd thee my quick desire Shal spring my lips thy praise glad tong thy woord shal sound Where trueth where wisdom pure where statutes iust abound LET then thy hand now help if not with cold pursuit Salvation thyn I seek Vouchsafe me Lord this fruit Of making thee my hope thy law my choise delight O let my soule yet live preserv'd from tyrants might And it shal praize thy name Seek then thy straying sheep Who wandring now as lost yet strives thy law to keep PSALM 122. King DAVID having reduced the three parts of Ierusalem that of Iuda that of Beniamin and the Mount held by the Iebusites into one entire Citi and there in Sion seated the Ark of God having also according to the Law established there supreme Coorts iuridical for administration of Iustice to all Gods people taking a vieu of this woork performed by divine grace and of the peoples alacriti in frequenting Gods service he expresseth in this Psalm his religious ioy for the same and blessing Ierusalem and all them that bless hir concludeth with a promise on his owne behalf both for the peoples sake his brethren in race and religion and espeally for the Temples sake of God to procure studiously the good of that chozen Citi. MY longing hart deer ioy assaid As gracious sound strook grateful ear Religious mynds Each neighbour praid In Gods fair house let 's all appear Ierusalem our peaceful feet Now frequent in thy gates shal meet IERVSALEM the earths delight A Citie three compact in one To thee the Tribes in legal rite Gods chozen Tribes ascend alone Sole here shines out heavÄ•ns glorious King Here Israel all his praises ring RELIGION Iustice dooth embrace Who doubled bliss through land derive For iudgement thrones here hold their place And wronged right with aid revive Iudicial thrones the Kingdoms powÄ•r Of Davids croun most glorious flour O THEN Ierusalem respect Hir peace with vows to heavÄ•n commend Ierusalem who thee affect Them ioy them bliss stil prest attend O peace ay in thy towÄ•rs reside In houses plenti ay abide I FOR my frends my brethrens sake Whom race whom rites in love combine Shal alwaies pray Earths peace partake And heavÄ•ns rich light upon thee shine For Gods fair house my ioy I 'le sure Stil studious still thy good procure PSALM 128. The prosperous and happi estate both publick and private of the man who fearing God leadeth a life full of integriti OBLESSED they whose humble harts True fear of powÄ•r divine endues Religious soule that ne're departs From way which blisful life renues O BLESSED man thy ioys abound Thyn house thy cheerful hands shal rear And labours iust with blessing cround Shal feeding fruit stil plenteÅus bear THY wife a vine on wall disspred In fruitful love hast ioious met Thy children sweet in vertu bred Fair olive plants thy boord beset LO thus Gods fear thus gracÄ•d shal bee From Sion deer thee God shal bless And quiet home shal plenti see And life contented long possess THAT all thy days delighted ey Ierusalems great weal may vieu And wasting life it self espy In childrens children to renue O THANKFUL then Gods love alure Stil rightÄ•ous life with care maintain So happi long maist thou endure So peace with Isrăel long remain PSALM 130. The Psalmist in the continuance of som great publick calamiti wherein he had his part not unlikeli in the wearisom captiviti of Babilon sendeth up his humble cryâ—… unto almighti God not to call their falts to a strict account which the frailti of humane nature is not able to endure but to express now at length that merci of his which draweth men to fear and serve him with comfort So professing his hope in God and exercizing his patience in that hope yet continuing still his fervent desire in this patience he exhorteth all Israel to persevere in like attending trust assuring them that God would redeem them from all their sins and afflictions OUT from the deep to thee ô Lord I cry From place far off yet thow good Lord be nigh Lord hear my voice and with attentive ear Receive the plaints which humbled soule dooth rear IF strictly Lord transgressions thou shalt ey Lord who shal stand in sad despair we dy But Iustice thyn stil mercies thoughts displays That Greatnes fear and Goodnes love may raize WITH patiÄ•nce then on God my soule attend His woord my trust Hee 'le give thee ioyful end As morning rays rere sentinal desires So so and more towărd thee my soule aspires And patiÄ•nt ô await him Isrăel deer His great redemption now wil soon appear He merci is His merci from their thrall Yea from their sins shal ransom Isrăel all TREBLE O Ut from the deep to thee ô Lord I cry From place far off yet thow good Lord be nigh Lord hear my voice and with attentive ear Re-ceiue the plaints which humbled soule dooth rear If strictly Lord transgres But iustice thyn stil mer sions thou shalt ey Lord who shall stand in sad cies thoughts dis plays That great
to haue been made upon occasion of the second expedition which Saul made against David at the first instigation of the Ziphites at which time Dauid flying from the Desert of Ziph to that of Maon was in a plain there between the mountains enclosed by Saul But by reason of a sodain message that the Philistims did invade the land Saul left foloing of Dauid who so escaped HIGH Iudge of world cast doun thy rightÄ•ous eys Attentive hear while right for iustice humbly crys Not causeles fear nor sleight of faining lips Or needles douts prezents or plot disguisÄ•d uprips Iust grief appeals and sentence from thy face Of thee craves due redress thou then iust plea embrace THOU oft my soule yea oft in night didst vieu When thoughts in silent rest prezent appearance true And oft my hart with firi storms hast seen Dissolv'd and trial made what dross therein hath been Nought counterfeit no palliate thing hast found What secret mynd dooth think that mouth dooth truly sound All as my woords so deeds towărd men doo frame Thy sacred woord my rule the viÅlent wrongers blame I see and shun O still my feet contain In rightÄ•ous paths stil hands from acts not iust restrain THEE Lord I call for sure thou wilt me hear Ah then receive the plaint which faithful soule dooth rear Divide thy acts display thy mercies free Thou Saviour of thy Saints from those who them and thee With wicked hate attempt as light of ey Me fenced under Lord thy shadÅing wing let fly There let me rest there safe from impious crue My deadli foes protect who circling rage renue My strength to wast my life to earth to bring Engrosd with fat and proud out thundring threats doo ring AS Lion fierce with ireful hunger whet Flings out his prey to seek which ioious having met Stands foming rage or else as Lions whelp Who coucheth close in cave his strength with sleight to help Nor bold nor yet afraid so Lord my foes Now round with ramping troops our ways and walks enclose Prezenting death and now with spiteful ey Doun-cast dissembling leer advantage to espy THEN Lord arize and with encounter swift Affront their savage looks and bloud since is their drift Midst wicked troops that bloud may bloud repay To save us by thy hand with swoord mowe doun thy way SO Lord from men my grieving soule enfree From men of baser world who here we beast-like see In fading life their portion all possess And panches vile their God from thy rich storehouse bless Like sire like son same coorse their ofspring runs Ful gorge themselues what 's left that to their infants comes BVT I by faith in rightÄ•ous life shal vieu Thy gracious face And when thy powÄ•r shal death subdue Awakened Lord eternal glorious sight Of semblance thyn me like shal fill with pure delight PSALM 19. The Almighti Lord beeing made knowne to the World by his glorious woorks amongst which the Sun for beauti and power is eminent and moreover beeing attained to by menes of his Law and gracious Woord the vertues and happi effects whereof are mani and memorable DAVID praieth as wel for remission of secret as for preseruation from presumptuous transgressions of that diuine Law that so secured from final defection himself and his deuotions may be accepted of God his Redeemer THE heăvens declare the glori ' of God that worlds great arch foorth-tels His handi woork we are himself who thousand heăvens excels Both day to day resounds these woords and night to night inures This knowelege high which vieuing ey to muzing mynd assures No speach no language under sky which hath not heard their voice Their woords through earth to ends of world run rulÄ•d with glorious noise HE here the Sun in bour hath placÄ•d the Sun like bridegrome brave Who coming foorth like Giant stout to run his race dooth crave His course from utmost end of heăven he takes and round amain By mighti compas to ' utmost end of heăven returns again His glistÄ•ring rays all guild the world no less his quicning heat What earth what air what sea containth cheers up with comfort great GODS law is perfect soules to him restoring it betakes His testimoni ' is sure in woork and wise evÄ•n children makes Gods iustifyÄngs are sound and straight to raize the hart with ioy His mandates cleer from clouded eys to chase their dark annoy The fear of God is pure and keeps from dire corruption free His iudgements all as true and iust of heăvens adored bee More woorth desire then treasures huge of pearl and finest gold More sweet then sweetest food which Bee in curious cels dooth hold THEN Lord behold thy servant warn'd to keep thy law dezires Dezires thy law to keep which kept to high reward aspires Then thow inspire thy grace and Lord for who his falts can knowe To clenze my stains through sins unknowne thy gracious merci showe But strange presumptÅous sins keep off that those may never raign So from the great defecting sin I cleer shall ay remain And so my woords from humble lips my thoughts from thankful hart Thou shalt accept O Lord my strength redeemer myn that art TREBLE THe heăvens de clare the glori of God that worlds greatarch foorth tels His handi woork we are him self who thousand heăvens ex cels Both day to day re sounds these woords and night to night in ures This knowelege high which vieuing ey to muzing mynd as sures No speach no language under sky which hath not heard their voice Their woords through earth to ends of world run rulÄ•d with glorious noise BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 20. The praier of the faithful people of God for the safeti and victori of their King going foorth vnto war recorded by King DAVID himself IN day of troÅble ô woorthi king God cheer thee thence high valure spring And mighti name of Iacobs Lord Protect from stroke of hostile swoord That day from sacred throne to thee On Angels wings aid heăvenli flee And strength by prostrate Church implor̆ed From SÄonâ—… great Ark be fresh restorÄ•d THY praiÄ•r stil pierce his gracious ears As pious soule it humbly rears Thy gifts his eys benign receave And offrings burnt all cinders leave His light illustrate so thy face So favour his thy ways entrace That wish of hart that woork of brain Succesful end stil blest attain THVS wee enfreed from feard annoy For sâ—…feti thyn our deerest ioy All thankful shall Gods praises sing And glorious name to heavÄ•ns upring Yea when thy praiÄ•rs his powÄ•r performs And thee victorious ô returns We banners ensigns of his praise And trophes to ' his great name wil raize O FAITH assurÄ•d inspyrd from high Now knowe I God evÄ•n God drawth nigh Our King the Lords anointed deer Celestial sanctuări dooth hear There see I aid diuine decreed To save his persÅn in hours of need There Victori by Gods right hand By powÄ•r gainst which
from cloudi spouts which fals With shouring fluds my pining soule dooth droun YET gracious Lord stil succÅring hand dooth reach His face serene returned ioy shal bring And gladsom day shal thankful euÄ•ning teach With praiseful hymn th'alglorious name to sing MENE while to God thy chased life betake And doleful tune exiled wretch renue My God my strength why doost thou me forsake Why moorning soule dooth murdrous foe persue O THOW who sole sustein'st my wear̆ied life My wear̆ied life whom powÄ•r of right bereves Yet iudge that cry mongst braiding foes so rife Where 's now thy God My bones it swoord-like cleves BVT why ô why my sad deiected mynd Should troubled thoughts thee restles still torment Com grateful hope My gracious God I fynd In throng of woes still swift relief hath sent TREBLE A S cha sed Hart with drouth enra ged first Then ioid with hope towărd wa tri stream dooth bray So Lord my soule my panting soule dooth thrist At lifes high spring hir restles love to stay Ah life of lifes when shal that ioy ing sight of presence thyn re ioice my ioy les ey Whom now salt tears are food to day and night While cha sing foes Wher 's now thy God stil cry BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 44. The faithful people of IsraÄ•l vanquished now and dispersed by their Hethen enimies it seems the Philistims in their thraldom also persecuted and martired for Gods true religion in complaining sort prezent to the high throne of grace their present condition beeing oppressed by the enimies of God and yet persisting in Gods true woorship and with great vehemenci implore his favour and succour who to their Ancesters had shewed himself so miraculously benign and helpful OUR pleazed ears renoumed Lord haue heard The ioious tongs of reverend elders tell What acts of thyn their state of old had reard Did cursed seed from chozen soil expell Thy powrful hand them racâ—…h'd vp ours did plant Made them nor wo nor blessing ours to want NOT mortal arm extermind Giants race Nor swoord terrene dezired land possesd Thy arm divine thy right hand lightsom face In favour deer from heavÄ•n their armies blesd Thou self same God my King doost still remain Command great King thy Iacobs strength again SOLE thou command revived strength our foes With horn should push with feet shal trample doun Not swoord not bowe hopes failing thou disclose That aid which foes in hates owne shame did droun Thy loveli name much ioy did then confess Much ioy same name in praise shal ay express THUS once we livÄ•d but now in life we dy Cast off debasÄ•d no more our armies head Harts grief to speak vile foes us force to fly And preying troops in dust our glories tread Thus scattÄ•red lo midst Hethen lands we live Where food to foes flock loved once doost give AH once beloved now sold and not for gain Thy wealth had yet our thralled lifes encreasd Less grief had been but scorn we now remain To neighbours round whose hate our shames appeasd Derided heard hast made a proverb growe Which scoffing HethÄ•n with wagging heads outcrowe WEAK comforts fade strong woes stil fresh renue My grief within without my shame torments Confusions ah confusions round accrue And soul disgrace stil lothed face prezents Reproaching voice blasphemous mouth and ire Of hostile eys dire anguish still enfire ALL this on us is com yet have not wee Forgot thee Lord or false thy leaug prophanÄ•d Nor harts repining writhe their loves from thee Nor feet decline from sacred ways ashamÄ•d Yea though us ruÄnd in Dragons wasts doost place And shade of death make weari lifes embrace IF blessed name unbleft we have forgot Disloial hands if stretcht in strangers guise To Gods no Gods and should our Lord it not Search out whose ey harts secretst thoughts espys Ah love of thee lo tyrants hate procures For thee we dy as knife fat sheep endures AH daily slain At length yet look arize Why sleeps our Lord awake and not bereve Thyn of thy face nor pressures their despize Whose soules to dust dead brests to ground doo cleve Stand up great Lord and for thy mercies sake Oh servants thyn to thy redemption take PSALM 45. A song of honour to the spiritual Marriage of Christ with his Church forâ—…described under the shado of the marriage as it seemeth of King Salomon with the Daughter of Pharao yet so that som circumstances are verified only in the figure and som other things only in the divine mysteri figured A NOBLE act of Kings dezirÄ•d Makes gladsom hart with high conceipts inspirÄ•d Boil o're and tong stream loveli sound Which echÅing pen through world shal ay rebound Of peerles King my song I frame And to that King give consecrate the same NOT mortal beauti decks thy face Ne humane sounds those princeli lips engrace That hieu divine those heavÄ•nli woords Nor race of man nor bliss of earth affoords Sure heavÄ•ns fair wight thee God hath blest So blest in bliss eternal shalt thou rest THEN on but first gird swoord to thigh Thow pÅisant Prince advance with glori high Ride stately foorth in comli sight Stil prosper still prevail brave Lord in fight So woord of trueth through world disspred Give laws fierce mynds in love to iustice wed With iustice myldnes still reside And striking arm let hart of merci guid BUT foes whom goodnes none can win Shal lightning hand with terrours dire begin To fright then shafts as thundred darts Sharp shafts shal pierce their blunt unpliant harts Thus to our King shal Nations bend And arm victorious wide his rule extend THY throne ô God for evÄ•r endures Thy scepter right through all thy state procures Thow iustice lovÄ•st hatÄ•st lawles ways Therfore dooth God thy God thy glori raize Yond all thy troop whose faithful love Thee serves by thee partakes same grace above BUT thow bove all with sacred oil With oils of ioy that earths unpleazing toil Alay imbuÄ•d drawst odour sweet Mir alöĕ cassia in thy garments meet Thus doost from ivor̆ie rooms proceed Whose pleasures deer stil ioying thoughts refeed STRAIT bevi fair prezents sweet vieu Kings daughters chief and lead the noble crue Bove all the Queen whom loveli bride Thou ioious setst on right hand by thy side With gold hir brests with gold hir head Embellisht best rich Ophir which had bred FAIR daughter now a while attend To sage advise thou happi ear shalt lend Thy contries rites thy peoples guise Yea fathers house forget fix sole thyn eys On him who then that beautÄ•ous sight Shal deerly love possess with pure delight He now thy Lord with pleazing grace Bow fair to him so love sweet love embrace LO neighbour Tyre great Queen of seas With curious gift ey finest strives to pleaze With home-bred purple far-fet gold Wil studious seek thy favÅring grace to hold Yea nobles rich with prezents great Shal pleazd aspect of countÄ•nance thyn entreat
with speed and tender ey reflect Thou Goodnes pure thy servants not neglect In case extreme who mercies hand implore O spring of grace I mercies those adore Then Lord be neer yea for my ' insulting foes To free my soule once heavÄ•nli aid discloze AH see and iudge thou knowÄ•st my sad reproach Fore thee my foes my shames who shameles broach Stand all in sight Their wrongs have worn my hart Full chargÄ•d with grief I lookt if yet som part My frends would bere no frend condoling found If comfort speak but none least comfort sound For strengthning meat yea poizÅning gall they sent And vinÄ•ger tart my thirst to quench prezent THERFORE iust Lord their owne them home repay Their pleazing boord where ioys before them play Let turn a snare to catch them in their woords And that which foli ' as lot to fools affoords Their wishes hurt good fortunes bee their bane Mynds sight obscure their loins rough valure lame AND as in furi man laith lode of blowes So let revenge which from thyn anger flowes Ad stripe to stripe and seaze with raging ire Their hated heads which mischief sole dezire Void stand their castles dweller none be found To grace the tents where graceles facts abound FOR thow whom Lord with hand severe hast smit They fierce persue and inhumanely sit With grievous woords t' encrease thy woundeds pain Let sin so sin so plague to plague enchain Thy righteÅusnes that still they wretched miss Nor way e're fynd that leads to heavÄ•nli bliss Devowd to death from book of life efface Ne write their names where iust mens names have place NOW I stil poor sole rich in griefs remain Help saving Lord and raize me once again That raiz'd thy grace my song may thankful praize And blisful name to heavÄ•ns fair arches raize This sacrifice more pleazing God shal bee Then cleft-hoov'd steer at Altars horns to see THE myld of mynd great comfort hence shal take This sight shal ioy them O let harts awake To seek the Lord and so your harts shal live Nor wynds nor seas can from his anchor drive For ey of care who towărd mans wants reflects His prisÅners crys sure nevÄ•r at need neglects THEN heavÄ•ns and earth then seas and all your gests Which spatiate there conform to supreme hests Ay laud our King who Sion fair wil save And Iudahs touns repair There shall they have A seat and lasting state Thus God shal bless His folks true seed who love towărd him address PSALM 79. This Psalm which seemeth to have been compozed in the time of Antiochus the persecutour by som descendant of the famous ASAPH and who bare also his name which in that Tribe was frequent conteineth a most lamentable complaint unto God of the ruins of Ierusalem the defilements of the Temple and massacre of Gods faithful servants Then praying first for propitiation for the sins of the people the true cause of that calamiti he presseth on with most fervent suit for speedi deliverance and large revenge upon their Hethen enimies THE HethÄ•n ô God who fear not no nor knowe Thy glorious name into thy land are com And in thyn House whence blessings pure did flowe With hands impure polluting facts haue doon DEFYLD thy sacred seat thy rites profanÄ•d Thy treasures robd thy Citti set on fire Ierusalem earths ioy which earst was namÄ•d Throwne doun on heaps sits now in lothed mire THY servants slain for loial love to thee Their bodies dead heăvens fouls cast out to feed And flesh of Saints whose faith thyn eys did see To earths wyld beasts ingluvious throats decreed THEIR bloud as torrent streams about the wals Of sad Ierusalem no burriÄ•r found Opprobrious scorn us grievous lot befals And laughings proud in neighbours mouths abound HOW long ô Lord shal ever flame thyn ire Can no distress once moove to pitti take Thy iealous wrath and shal it rage like fire Which water none no tears may e're asslake AH turn it first gainst those who nor invoke Thy name great Lord nor knowe or seeke thy face Gainst Hethen kingdoms who with mortal stroke Thy Iacob wound lay wast h s resting place REDUCE not Lord to thyn offended eys Those falts forepast which still unthankful wee And fathers our have doon let grace arize Our soules from gilt of sorroed sins to free AND thou arize and with thy mercies deer Prevent our instant deaths Ah case extreme Denys delay Help source of goodnes meer And save vs thow whence safeties all doo stream RESPECT great Lord the glori of thy name Which wee revere our enimies proud despize Insulting HethÄ•n to say they doo not shame Where 's now the God on whom their hope relys BVT let our God make noble in our sight To Hethen eys his high revenging hand That giltles bloud pourd out and not in fight Of servants thyn may full revenged stand AND let the sighs and moornings of thy Saints Who grone in chains to thee access obtain And mighti arm excited by their plaints Them rescue ' who now to death consignd remain THUS neighbours scorns wherewith they thee reproach SevÄ•nfold to them in bosom Lord restore We then thy folk and flock thyn acts shal broach With thanks and praise will evÄ•r our God adore PSALM 73. The Prophet ASAPH by the sence of his owne afflictions and by contrari vieu of the exulting prosperiti of godles persons who pass on a pleasant time blaspheming God and oppressing his servants having endured like as other of the people of God a sore temptation of calling into question the veri Omniscience of God and his government over this loweër world at length getting the victori by Gods especial assistance he sheweth that out of the Sanctuari of God where his Oracles were delivered he had learned that it was not the condition of this transitori life but the end it self whereby the state of the good and bad was to be esteemed Seeing then the end of the wicked to be utter destruction and everlasting happines to attend the righteous he betaketh himself wholy to the conduct of divine direction with great assurance to be guided by Gods counseil in this life and afterward to be received by God into eternal glori In expectance whereof his soule repozeth YET surely God benign to IsraÄ•l stands To pure in hart But I was sore declynd Griev'd vieu of fools of wicked prospering hands Had welnigh sapt my weak unwari mynd FROM bands of death by sicnes force or snare They free pass on live lusti puft with ioy With humane toils and cares untroubled are Yea publick plagues them least and last annoy THIS makes with pride their out-stretcht necks like chein With violence fierce as robe they lims attire Their plentÄ•ous fare red strouting eys proclaim While heaping wealth surmounts evÄ•n harts desire FROM poizÅning filth their lothsom talk they change Oppressions proud with lofti stile to sound Their tongs through earth in wronging men doo range And hellish
From less but better store with pitying helpful hand His wanting neighbour frames Gods goodnes t' understand For where Gods blessing rests possessions long shal last As curse divine at once bud branch and root dooth wast WHERE God mans way dooth pleaze mans steps he stable makes Yea fallÄ•n with succÅring hand from ground unbruzed takes I have been yong am old yet never knew the iust Forsaken quite ne're saw his seed in lothed dust Sit craving food but still his courteÅus nature lends And God his blessing deer to children all extends THEN thus thy thoughts conclude thyn hart see first be pure Fly sin good deeds apply so so dwel ay secure For righteÅus Lord loves right he free from wavÄ•ring change From Saints belovÄ•d dooth ne're his eys serene estrange But safe through his defence while impious houses fall They ancient land possess there dwell for ever shall THE righteÅus man whose mynd cald up from earthli thought Erect on high with love of heavenli law is fraught From harts abundance speaks His mouth with wisdom floweth In talk of iudgement grave glad time his tong bestoweth He nevÄ•r shall slip For though th'uniust maligner watch Both woords and ways his life in deadli snare to catch Yet shall not rightÄ•ous Lord him leve in wicked hand Ne when his iudgement coms condemned let him stand SO thow ô vertuÅus soule thy patient mynd retain And heavÄ•nli ways insist in heavÄ•n thy hopes remain Thy God shal thee exalt the land shal rest thyn owne When vndermining wretch thyn ey shal see orethrowne THESE eys of myn have seen th'uniust like self-sprung tree With arms all gay disspred in floÅrishing beauti glee But see the end he past and lo away was gone The vanisht man I sought but nues returned none Now vieu the upright man observe his sweet encrease His small in more his war stil ends in endles peace Not so defectours proud who marks of heavÄ•nli ire At once destroyd shal nevÄ•r to end dezirÄ•d aspire BVT from the righteÅus Lord stil saving grace descends Which servants his from wrack in needful hours defends For God shal them protect protect from hate uniust Hee save them since in him they chooze to place their trust PSALM 40. The Prophet DAVID an Ancester and Type of Christ in his thankful meditations of Gods former merci toward him passeth from thence into a profound admiration of the divine grace whereby the imperfection of the legal sacrifices beeing abolished Christ their perfection was to succeed a true accomplisher and teacher of righteousnes So returneth to crave the continuance of Gods merci in his present miseri drawn on or renued by menes of Sauls persecution as it seemeth not yet determined LONG patient hope Gods pleasure did attend At length he ear to grievÅus cry did bend And wretch forlorn who help now no where knew From miri clay of yelling hole updrew UPDRAWN my feet on stateli rock he placÄ•d My steps made firm so now with nue song gracÄ•d Praise praise t' our God my thankful glori sounds Which echÅing voice with thundring ioy rebounds For thousands who revieu my late distress Which revÄ•rent trust towărd God cheerd harts address THEN blessed hee the Lord who makes his trust Nor glorious pride whom self-loves charming lust Misdraws from God which fauning ey respects Nor thoughts on liÄ•rs fond failing hopes reflects O LORD my God thy gracious thoughts towărd man Are wondrous deep I would but no way can Or thankful them to thee in ray prezent Or count to men their store and vast extent WISDOMS abiss thyn owne ordeined rites Now sacrifice now offring no delights To thee can yield myn ears hath nüer law So piercÄ•d that thoughts towărd nobler obiect draw Not sinles beast nor mene-esteemed life In flames consum'd may ere compose the strife Wherein mans sin Iustice divine persuÄ•th Not so thy grace not so mans bliss renuÄ•th WEAK shades give place Then said I Lo I com Here Lord On mee thy blessed will be doon Sith sacred roll of everlasting book For mee hath taught worlds waiting eys to look THY blessed will sole scope of prudent thought Iust actions rule my pleazing cares haue sought To knowe and doo thy law in faithful hart EntresÅred liÄ•th thence never shall depart NOT silent lips nor yet vnthankful brest Thy goodnes Lord thou knowÄ•st have e're supprest Thy trueth my talk thy saving grace my song Thy bounties rich my not conceling tong Hath loud proclaim'd thy iustice mercies deer Assemblies great from faithful teacher hear THEN Lord ô then thy kyndnes not withhold Thy trueth my stay in merci still infold Distressed soule whose eys lift up on high Thee only thee their comfort can descry Thrung numberles of evÄls me wretch embrace My sins and pains so grasp my frighted face That failing hart their vieu can not endure Who thick as hair ten thousand griefs procure PLEAZE Lord at length my thralled life to free Relieve the soule who succour sole from thee Awaits make speed And blushing shame confound All those whose hate me seeks with mortal wound On earth to lay yea put to shameful flight Them in my ill who place their deer delight Who laugh my tears take pleasure in my pain Ah dire decay their shames reward remain BVT comfort sweet and sacred ioy refill Them all whose mynds conformd to heăvenli will Thy mercies seek saluation thyn dezire High spir̆it them ay t' extol thy name inspire NOW I a poor throwne-doun afflicted wight Yet hope on God protectour of my right And knowe on me my Lord wil one day think Ah cease delay least hart in sorroes sink PSALM 42. The Psalmist it seemeth David vnder Sauls persecution bewaileth with much passion his constrained absence from Gods presence in his Ark and Tabernacle and after a sharp combate of soule with mani deiecting afflictions in fine getteth above them by the strength of his faith and hope in God AS chased Hart with drouth enraged first Then ioid with hope towărd watri streams dooth bray So Lord my soule my panting soule dooth thirst At lifes high spring hir restles love to stay AH life of lifes when shall that ioying sight Of presence thyn reioice my ioyles ey Whom now salt teares are food to day and night While chasing foes Where 's now thy God stil cry SWEET-sour revieu my hart through eys distils How earst high ioys midst marching troop I broacht And sacred House whom beauteÅus presence fils With songs and praise in festivÄ•st guise approacht WHY then ô why my sad deiected mynd Should troubled thoughts thee restles now torment Ah thankful wait stil gracious Lord shalt fynd In bands of woes release who al-times sent YET Lord my soule behold stil dampt with grief While Iordans reeds while Hermons rocs she hants While Iuri mounts affoord their poor relief Remembrance thyn where melting hart redants SEE gulf of woes nue gulf stil duely cals Thy thunders roar thy fires com streaming doun And raging storm
Thus did thy goodnes shine thy goodnes which their foes With conquÄ•rous arm subduing round large matter did discloze For damÅsels at return with ioying note to sound Kings armies fly they fly and spoils wee home-left soules haue found FOR though in servile state like scullions mongst the pots With soot ye long have lain begrymd yet now your happiÄ•r lots As dove shal make you shine who with hir lustring wings Now silver̆i hieu now golden light to ey delighted brings For when th'Almighti Lord those Kinglets strawd on ground Like snowe on Salmon black dark woes bright ioy so then had cround NOW Sion draws myn eys whom Bashans peer account Nor Bashans soil nor stateli clifts fair Sions praise surmount For why should worldli hils the earths huge towÄ•rs so rize And vant their might why hill of God with surli brows despize Here Gods dezired rest thus ay shal it excell Celestiăl squadrons here attend here Sinais glories dwell Twise thousands ten and more brave host of heavÄ•nli Knights Gods will observe receiv'd perform hee midst their love requites BUT thow victorious Lord ascended art on high In triumph great lead'st thraldom thrald and there great gest of sky Hast gifts of grace receiv'd mongst men which doost divide Yea race rebellious so doost win with thyn to thyn abide Be blest then Lord our God With saving graces hee Us daily loads For God's the God that brings salvation free Hath issuÄng ways from death but enÄmies head shal smite Yea hairi scalp of him in sin who still shal take delight BUT to his people saith I thâ—…m wil bring again From tyrants yoke from strangers coasts from land and Sea amain As once from Aegypts rod from deapth of sea and pride Of Bashans Giănt I them reducè'd made ancient fields divide That thow thy foot maist dip thy dog his tong embrue In smoking streams of fomi bloud which enÄmies brests out-spue AND now Gods march proceeds thy march ô God my King Who in thy Sanctuări residÄ•st there blessings man doâ—…st bring A â—…ight of ioy Before the singers hold their way Them instruments ensue in midst yong maids on timbrels play All cry with ioy Bless God Praize in assembli high Ye Isrăels stream the Lord. Here first smal Beniamin stands nigh Late Prince here Iudahs Lords their troops and here appear Naphthaliăn Lords from far with Lords who ZebÅlons honour rear AND now since gracious Lord commanded hath our strength Maintain from sacred house placÄ•d o're Ierusalem at length What thow great God for us what hast for fathers wrought So from subiected Kings to thee shal prezents due be brought RATE doun the reed-shafts beast the buls and heards so bold With peoples calf-like Lords who vain in silver plates have rold So woork thy peoples peace securÄ•d from Hethen spite O thow who scattrest them on war who set their fierce delight And then Aegyptiăn peers then Aethiopiăn lands Soon humbly shall with gifts to thee stretch foorth their suppliănt hands YE kings and kingdoms all o're earths fair face disspred With songs and sounds of ioy adore your God and supreme head Whence all your powÄ•rs derive Hee then on th'heavÄ•ns rides On heavÄ•ns of heavÄ•ns of old and rocks with thundring voice divides Ascribe all might to God whose glorious beauti shines On Isrăels head whose peerles strength the matchles sky designs O God thyn Israels strength what venerable fear Thy sanctuaries strike Be blest Our soules to thee we rear PSALM 69. The Prophet King DAVID in the time of Absaloms rebellion for then it should seem this Psalm was made by iniurious persecution of his enimies beeing reduced to extreme distress and miseri though happi that he was therein a type of our Saviour who was then also in him as a Son in his Ancester together with the historical narration of his owne wrongs and griefs prophetically also describeth and that more fully and properly the passions of Christ through the envi and malice of the Iues who cruelly constrained him to pay at a deer ransom the price of that whereof himself in his owne person was not gilti Thus oppressed reproached and scorned by his enimies and by his neerest frends abandoned for no other crime then for his zele toward the service and glori of God he flieth by a most fervent and argumentative praier to God for succour devoteth his enimies amongst whom first Achitophel then Iudas had their parts to utter destruction and lastly in his deliveri sheweth his owne particular thankfulnes the great comfort of Gods people and a general propension of all the creatures of God to praise him for his goodnes toward his chozen Church consisting of all his loving and faithful servants HELP Lord and save a poor distressed wight Not tost with waves though seas against me fight And beat my soule but sinking in the mud Where bottom none and where the surging flud With furious stream beres doun and whelms my life Ah save me Lord and end my bootles strife I strive though spent I cry when voice is quailÄ•d For God I look when eys have looking failÄ•d TH'iniurious spir̆its my not-deserved foes Who hunt my life with numbers me encloze That pass myn hair and rizing still in strength Press on til mee ô wrong they force at length What nevÄ•r I took as taken to restore Ah thee my falts my folies ly before BUT not for mee Eternal Lord of hosts Great Israèls God let those whose humble boasts Of thee have been confounded rest in mynd Nor shame in face when him forlorn they fynd Who thee with them in patient hope hath sought For thy sake Lord to this I lo am brought For thee I scorns and sour rebuke endure May service thyn great Lord such shame procure WHAT should I speak of frends unfrendli face My brethren deer same mothers home-born race A stranger mee an alien mere esteem And why The zele of which I worthi deem Thy sacred hests thy House and glorious name Which godles crues stil grieving mee prophane Hath eăten me up Reproaches throwne at thee From mouths infernal light have all on mee IN grief I wept and fasting fed on care My ioyles lims rough sacweb clothÄ•d on bare My weed they proverb mocks on fasting pour And laugh the tears which vexed hart dooth shour In iudgement place gainst mee the ancients spake Yea balads base vyld drunkards of me make AND I my Lord to thee now praying bend In needfulst time Let ô my crys ascend And time accepted fynd O God my trust If right thou seest and if my plaints be iust In plentÄ•ous merci ' and for thy saving trueth Send ô that help which life in death renuÄ•th OH free me Lord from sinking in this mire This groundles mire and from their fierce desire Whose hate my life persuÄ•th Draw from these waves Th' orewhelmed soule thy hand who drouning craves And prays Forbid this gulf my life t' inglut Devouring pit on me hir mouth to shut HEAR Lord
Governours whence much mischief ensueth or by ani other evil or sorro whatsoever are all brought upon them by their sins and that odious unthankfulnes to God who yet even in publick miseries preserveth and prospereth his humble servants and when Nations apply themselfs faithfully to his service poureth upon them all blessings opposite to those former punishments Which things wise men will consider and make use of especially so as to knowe and acknowlege the Crëatours goodnes YE woorthi mynds in whom Gods gifts excell Whose persons walk on earth high thoughts in heavÄ•ns doo dwell Renoum our Lord ring foorth his glorious name Whose goodnes no time fails sweet mercies still the same OBLAZE his acts ye now at rest that stand From hostile powÄ•r redeemd redeemd from strangers land Ye late dispersd now gathered by his grace From East from West from North yea from great Oceăns place In deserts wyld through uncouth invious ways All tired all forlorn they wandred nights and days With fainting spir̆its through thirst and hunger pin'd And no relief no steps towărd cultivÄ•d place could fynd IN need extreme when lo to God they cry He gracious hears their mone and help from heavÄ•n makes fly So strength renues so straying feet directs To peopled wals and safe from perils all protects O thankful then to God his grace confess His mervÄ•ilous woork to men with ioious tongs express Who thirsting soule with waters sweet refreshd The empti fild and pace towărd longed home addresd IN darknes sad in shade of grisli death With irÅn and anguish bound who sighd their servile breath Il-ruled mynds that this and more deserv'd That Highests woord despysd from Gods advise that swarv'd When hart-burst clean they grovÄ•ling rold in pain Ne hope of better saw nor place for worse remain IN need extreme to God their suit they bent Who pityÄng rueful plight from heavÄ•n sweet comfort sent He darknes dire grim shade of death dispels he cords from hands from feet he fetters burst repels O thankful then to God his grace confess His wondrous act to men with ioious tongs express Who brazen gates made all to fragments flee Brake bars of irÅn strong Lord and prison̆ers did enfree UNGOVERND fools transported by their lust From vertuÅus ways to vice when God severely iust Their wicked ioys afflicts such sicnes sends That soule abhorring meat at deaths pale door attends IN hour extreme to God then lo they cry Who gracious hears their grones and ease from heavÄ•n bids hy Doun comÄ•th his woord the per̆ishing soule to save And hasting life retracts from neer approached grave O thankful then to God his grace confess His mercies great to men with ioious tongs express And clensd in hart iust sacrifice of praise Let grateful hands yield vp renoum him all your days TO Seas in ships who Arts chief woork descend Adventrous harts by trade penurious state to mend Or spatious lakes who pass what wondrous sight Strange woorks of God in deep their staring looks affright Lo strait his woord tempestuÅus wynd dooth rear And roughest frouns on seas late smiling face appear Anon towărd heavÄ•ns on back of arched wave They mount dismount in trise towărd hels unloveli cave As drunk they reel then melting harts gin fail Nought toil nought careful coorse of Masters skil avail IN case extreme when lo to God they cry Who gracious hears griev'd voice and help from heavÄ•n bids hy Strait wynds repose smooth hieu calmd seas regain Harts ioy woorks cheer til safe they long longd havÄ•n attain Then thankful ô to God his grace confess His merveils great to men with ioious tongs express And let Gods Church let faithful people hear Vowd praise in senat grave his mercies rare endeer HEE bubling springs chokes up with thirsti sand Yea rivers rich accursd dry desert makes to stand And fertile soil in plague of owners sin To saltnes damns whence fruit nor skil nor toil can win AGAIN his grace dry desert stores with pools Sends springs and bare burnt earth with fruitful moisture cools There hungri soules their citti sets to place Who sowe their grains plant vines years sweet return embrace Abounding food then blest with restful peace To numbers huge themselves their flocks and heards encrease BUT harts puft up soon spurning heavÄ•nli law Ah fools in chains of sin enchained tortures draw Oppression foul sad days unthriving care Their ioyles mynds abase their branching numbers bare He vyld contempt on woorthles Nobles pours And wayles wasts makes walk chasÄ•d out from lordli towÄ•rs Yet godli poor raizd up from pressing need As tree makes branch as flock his branched race to breed THESE things the iust with reverend ioy shal see And wicked mynds and mouths appald and stopt shal bee Who then is wise these sights to hart to lay Gods goodnes they shal learn Gods praises they display PSALM 110. The Prophet DAVID foresheweth the everlasting Kingdom and Priesthood of Christ who after his Ascension sitting at the Right hand of God should send out his forces from Sion and Ierusalem to reduce the world unto him Which spiritual warfare should take so wonderful effect that not onli at the veri beginning infinite multitudes should adioin themselfs to the Church but in short time also the Empire of Rome it self then Head of mani Nations with other great kingdoms should be conquered and subdued unto the obedience of Christ and his law The proof whereof to the later ages did manifestly appear THE Lord said to my Lord Thow at my right-hand sit While foes their necks I to thy feet as foot-stool make submit From Sion seat of Grace the Lord thy scepters might Through world shal send midst all thy foes bear rule thou Prince of light What day thy warli ranks shal high exploit begin The people prest with cheerful strife to serve thee shal com in Anon as prime of morn with silvÄ•ri perls of dew Al-spreds the world like troops thy youth in sacred house shal shew THE Lord who will not change hath sworn fair Prince to thee A Priest thou art MelchÄsedek like and ay that Priest shal bee This Prince who ' on thy right hand great King of heavÄ•n thus shines Each earthli King in ire shal crush that gainst his rule repines He HÄ•then with swoord shall iudge fields streets with corps shal straw Imperiăl Head whom Nations serve assubiect to his law As lightning swift shal run in way of torrent drink Thus gloriÅus head triumphant raize while danted foes doo shrink PSALM III. The Psalmist here sings the praises of God both for his glorious woorks and for his gracious acts toward the Israelites in mercifully conducting them from the serviliti of Aegypt to the happi land of Canaan and therein chiefly for establishing to their everlasting good his sacred Law and Covenant In observance whereof true wisdom consisteth ALLELV-IA MY hart dooth heavÄ•nli heat enflame To sound high praise to glorious name Th'alglorious Lord midst rightÄ•ous press In sacred senate
might get ani dominion over him And where it had pleazed God by private message to cauze David to be anointed King over Israel and on that promise to rely for which his proud enimies did deride and persue him he praieth God to be myndful and confirm that woord that having how to answer the reproaching him with that trust the shame might redound upon his scorning adversaries From whose oppression also he praieth now at length to be delivered that walking at liberti he might freely apply and exercise the law of God and good men might freely also associate themselves unto him And for observance of the divine law for the time to com he maketh here a solemn vow unto God whom he humbly withall praieth to accept that and other free offrings of his mouth vows praiers and praises beeing all he could offer Finally he concludeth with the sum of his suit the gift of understanding and freedom from his enimies that his life beeing continued he might praize the goodnes of God who now beeing chased out by Saul and wandring up and doun like a sheep that had straied yet did not ne could forget Gods commandments whose favour he again imploreth to give end to that extremiti This Psalm for the woorthines thus largely abridged remaineth a cleer mirrour of the godli hart of David which cauzed him to be a man after the hart of God and to wear the honour of that incomparable title ALEPH. O BLESSED they who men upright in mynd and way In Gods pure law delight his sacred will obey Yea blessed who embrace his woord that witnes true And God their sovÄ•rain good with flaming harts pursue Such men sure sin decline in paths divine proceed Them careful hold which held have high reward decreed O THEN fith thow so strait thy hests to keep hast chargÄ•d My ways were so addresd my feet so Lord enlargÄ•d As free thy steps to trace no blot shal mee distain No shame confound on thee while fixt myn eys remain Right hart thy praise shal sound for law of iustice taught Which learnd I le keep at length reduce me ô to thought BETH VVHEREWITH may careles youth his falti paths amend If heedful by thy woord he them to guid attend Ah Lord with hart entire I thee have truly sought O let not straying soule with trains of vice be caught Long I thy precious laws have treasÅred in my hart To purge out sin Blest Lord stil teach that sacred art REMEMBER Lord my lips and not unthankful tong How free thy woord have taught how glad thy praise have song How deer delight I take in way from heavÄ•n declarÄ•d Vain ioys breeds world of wealth with these true ioys comparÄ•d With muzing mynd I vieu and still thy law admire Nor sight gives end to search nor search to sweet desire GIMEL THIS gift this favour Lord on servant thyn bestowe That live I may and live thy saving grace to knowe Yea sacred woord to keep Then thow myn eys unsele And wonders of thy law to groping mynd revele I stranger rome on earth my seat with thee abides O hide not heavÄ•nli way which to thy presence guids DESIRE my soule consumes stil muzing on that path Which pride derides dead pride devowd to firi wrath But thou repell their scorns Ah zele to sacred law From Princes seats did griev'd unprinceli censures draw Yet still I still thy woord in studious thoughts renue Sole solace in my griefs in douts adviser true DALETH MY humbled soule to dust prostrate on earth dooth cleve Remynd thy woord and up revived servant heve My hart my state and ways to thee I did unfold Thou heard'st with grace then still me precepts thyn enrold In faithful brest direct Discloze thy beauteÅus way And moorning soule recheerd thy merveils let display REMOOVE by-paths of lys thy trueth hath been my choise Thy law my mirrour O make cleer thy gracious voice And foloÄ•r of thy woords grant through that favour high Be nor asham'd to live nor Lord afraid to dy Yea when my narroÄ•d hart shal noble grace enlarge Base lets despiz'd I 'le run what race thy mandates charge HE. GREAT Guid of men my feet address in righteÅus way My feet by thee addrest which ne're from thee shal stray Recleer my dimmed mynd sweet beauti of thy laws To vieu which vieud from hart like love abundant draws Thus hart deiect erect thy rizing paths to clime Thy woord my high delight in raized thoughts to shrine BUT from unwoorthi gain from vain aspects which fire Unwari brests disturn myn eys and frail desire And quickÄ•n me in thy way Ah to thy servant true Devoted to thy fear thy roial woord renue So feard reproach discharge with iudgements iust recheer The fainting soule which longs thy statutes to endeer VAV LET then thy mercies deer salvătion favours high Foretold by gracious woord at length great Lord draw nigh That those who mee reproach depending thus on thee Confounded quite their scorns my glori high may see Mene while let woord so true towărd him not wholy sleep Who trusts in thy decree still still thy law wil keep AND keeping thus thy law abroad I 'le boldly walk And of thy woord fore kings undanted freely talk O King of kings thou thow my love and sole delight Thy hests my ioy on them I still defix my sight Towărd them my hands I 'le raize to act what they require Who sole possess my thoughts command my chief desire ZAIIN THEN myndful of thy speach thou Lord stil true and iust Shine foorth sith in that woord hast causd thy servant trust Sole this to grieved mynd sweet comfort still derives This pressed state supports this dulled sprites revives The proud both it and mee with scorns profane deride Nor pride nor scorns profane from thee can mee divide FOR iudgements thyn of old my muzing thoughts revieu Which mee secure but ah stil horror then renue When ends of lawles men my pityÄng mynd foresees But I in pilgrim life stil singing thy decrees In silent night with ioy revolving Lord thy name Thy statutes keep which kept these ioys in mee enframe CHETH MY portion Lord art thow my thankful mynd resolv'd Thy woords to keep hir cares on thee hath all devolv'd And hart with fervent suit thy gracious face hath sought Let then those mercies shine which gracious woord hath taught For strait my earthli ways with vieu unpartial eyd Delay cut off I glad to heavÄ•nli coorse applyd THIS worldlings hate procures whose troops make me their prey Nor hate of world nor wrongs me from thy paths can fray Thou witness Night whose midst with thanks me rize dooth hear Gods iudgements iust to bless thou Day which God who fear His laws who love my deer companions all doost see Thow then whose grace earth fils thow Lord my leader bee TET I MUST confess my Lord that graciously with mee As was thy woord hast dealt ô grant from passions free With sence and science
right thy servant still esteem For evÄ•n afflictions all I now thy favours deem Which straying soule reducÄ•d who since beleeves thy law Thow good and good who doost still me to goodnes draw THE proud with conscious gilt have lys gainst mee devizÄ•d I careful kept thy woord that kept their lys despizÄ•d Their harts hath tallo ' obdurÄ•d thy hests are my delight And since thy chastning hand my humbled soule aright In wisdoms school hath framÄ•d more deer thy laws I hold Then streams of silver fine then hils of purest gold IOD THY hands me made and formd reform thy servant Lord And understanding give which sin may make abhor'd Thy iudgements all are iust I knowe in faithful trueth And for my good thy love thus scurged hath my youth But now let promis'd grace with comfort shine that they Who fear thee knowÄ•ing my case thy praise may glad display YEA let thy mercies shour and weariÄ•d soule refresh That withÄ•ring hart revivÄ•d may life from thee confess Let pride ashamÄ•d remain to seek my causeles bane Whose harmles thoughts thy law their sole delight doo frame Let zelers of thy hests to mee themselves adioin And clenze my hart that shames sad scandal none eloin CAPH MY long erected soule stil looking for thy grace Thy woord stil trusting now bends doun hir fainting face Consumed are my spir̆its consumÄ•d my waiting eys Like bottle parch'd with smoke my self now self despize Yet still beleeve thy woord thy precepts still apply How mani rest my days when draw thy comforts nigh AND when shal I my Lord see swoord of iustice draw Gainst proud persuing foes who pits not so thy law For righteÅus steps have delvÄ•d Ah hate the most uniust Thow then whose hests are trueth my life neer trod to dust If still thy law I love if mercies thyn attend In merci keep which kept I 'le in thy service spend LAMED THY woord forevÄ•r great Lord in heavÄ•ns enthronÄ•d remains Thy woord which all did make and all things made sustains Thy trueths through age to age with stedfast coorse proceed Stands peized earth ne mooves by thee so Lord decreed Thus lo as thow ordainÄ•dst they all this day persist Thy servants all to act what e're thy iudgements list MY woes had mee consumÄ•d had solace in thy law Not cheerd that hart which nought can e're from thence withdraw For thyn I am ô thyn preserve from wicked swoord Which dogs my life who live in studyÄng Lord thy woord In tracing Lord thy ways O ways of widening ioys When else perfections all see fretting time destroys MEM. VVHAT Lord what heat my soule with sacred love inspires Of law divine what powÄ•r thus rapts my strong desires All day to quicned cares to pozed thoughts at night It self prezents stil shines high mynds admired light A light whose rays infuzÄ•d more sciÄ•nt me make and sage Then teachers books wit foes or gray experience age O LAW my thoughts delight desire those mandates pure Lawgiver great to pleaze dooth wari feet inure All sinful ways to shun thy woords high paths to hold Makes iudgements thyn observe which sacred rols have told Yea sweetest iuice my tast not so with sweetnes feeds As woord which wisdom true vyld falshoods hate imbreeds NVN. THY woord a lamp divine fair star that leads the day To paths obscure dooth shine and guids to heavÄ•nli way And I by sacred vow a vow in heavÄ•ns enrold Stand bound and rest resolv'd that woords iust rules to hold Afflictions mee extreme bere doun let promis'd grace Revive me ' ô then I pray poor lips frank gifts embrace MY soule see still in hand stands prest away to fly Such snares my life beset yet still thy hests I ey Can not thy Law forget O teach me Lord thy ways Thy woord since all my state sole ioy my hart to raize And thow my sovÄ•rain good since soule entire I bend Thy will to doo in this lifes breth extreme to spend SAMECH THY Law I deerly love mans vain conceipts despize Thow refuge myn and shield whose woord my waiting eys Stil holds in hope Avant avant then crue profane Gods mandates iust I 'le keep sole thow my hope from shame The hope thy speach hath raiz'd with life persuÄ•d defend SavÄ•d lifes so whole delight I 'le in thy statutes spend AND lo transgressours proud whose fraud shal self deceive Thyn earths inutil load of grace whom doost bereave As basest mire doun trod as dross with purging fire ConsumÄ•d shal sole remain sad marks of heavÄ•nli ire Therfore thy woord I love in love yet quake with fear When iudgements thyn I vieu yea hair dire horrours rear HAIIN IRIGHT and iust have wrought thy law hath been my guid Abandon then me not t'uniust oppressing pride But intercede with help my sureti ' and witnes true And failing eys with strength of rightÄ•ous speach renue Thy servant I deer Lord thy servant not forsake Give sciÄ•nce thy hests me teach and to thy favour take THUS I thy will shal knowe But time for thee great Lord For thee to woork whose laws of lawles mynds abhord Quite now they would displace I Lord so much the more Bove finest gold them prize thee fountain iust adore Their vertues high admire in all things alwaies right And falshoods ways perverse all spurn with iust despite PE. SO mervÄ•ilous shines thy woord in powÄ•r in wisdom high In goodnes that my soule with wingd desire dooth fly And pant it to attain Lo then thy sacred light I folo Lord with ioy since understanding bright DisclozÄ•d evÄ•n simple mynds it gives Thow mee with grace Aspect as those who thee in highth of loves doe place AND first my steps so guid in path of heavÄ•nli woord That sins dark powÄ•r decay Then mee with Iustice swoord From mans oppression free free man thy ways I 'le trace O thow thy servant teach And with thy gracious face Cheer up my grieved eys whence streaming tears doo thrill To see unthankful man neglect thy saving will TZADE HIGH Iudge of worlds from whom pure Iustice doun dooth flowe Whose law worlds perfect rule whose woord hid trueth makes knowe And iudgements all are right thou these with charge severe Hast man enioind to keep that mee griev'd zele dooth wear To see my foes forget thy speach proclaim'd above Thy speach which pure as heavÄ•ns drawth up thy servants love I SMALL and am despizÄ•d thy precepts yet apply Which mirrour true of thee which rule derivÄ•d from high Of iustice firmly pitcht of never changing right In toils in grasping griefs stil yield me sweet delight Sole thow my dazeling mynd pure lights eternal spring Illuminate which light shalt life eternal bring KOPH PROSTRATE with ardent hart with tear-distilling eys I call I cry ô thow who iust complaints despize Nor doost nor canst thou hear and save him who thy hests And witnest will wil keep if undefilÄ•d requests Morns dawning oft if oft my waking thoughts prevent Nights watches towărd thy woord
soule purge out corrupted vse And safe through worldli waves to thy sweet rest conduce PSALM 141. This Psalm of DAVID seemeth by the matter thereof to have been made upon som occasion of an accident hapned out in Sauls third expedition against David when persuing him with three thousand of his choisest men up in the rocks of Engedi and having there withdrawn himself a side into a cave he had a skirt of his robe secretly cut off by David without offer of ani violence to his person At which time Saul in shew reconciling himself to righteous David yet afterward renued sharp persuit against him hoping how vainly and from how blynd desire at som time or other to effect his destruction whom God had declared successour in the kingdom David therfore in this Psalm prezenting his humble praiers as a sacrifice to Almighti God beseecheth him to preserve him in woord thought and deed from sin preferring the severe reproofs of a iust man before the delicacies and pleasures of the wicked Then closely intimating how kyndly he had dealt with Saul and how cruelly he was requited he praieth God to continue still his gracious protectour and that the snares laid by his enimies might entrap their owne gilti selfs whilest he with his innocenci did happily escape them TO thee ô Lord to thee my humbled mynd Hir humblest voice prezents ô let me favour fynd And hast my God let ear benign be lent To pitious cry to suit from grieffull hart upsent O let my praiÄ•r perfumÄ•d with heavÄ•nli grace So stand and sweetly smoke before thy pleazed face As incense pure midst holiÄ•st altars fire And hands let stretcht to thee like eevÄ•nings gift aspire MY speach so Lord my thoughts and deeds compoze That nothing thee offend A watch assign to cloze My mouth on woords unmeet the gate to heed That two-leafd gate of lips whence life and death proceed Retire my hart from poizÅned baits of sin Renforce my mynd that no provokements mee may win Untrue to thee with men that mischief breed To ioin their coorse to run on dainties their to feed LET iust mans zele me yea severely beat I kyndnes shall it deem let his religious heat Reproove my life as precious balm my head Not break it shall perfume And thankful hart imbred When change of times with sorroes him may press For comfort his to thee shal fervent suit address NOW these mens Iudges who with chozen bands My harmles life persue withdrawn were left in hands Of horrent rock where terrour none from mee But pleazing woords they heard from dout their soules to free BUT not they so requite When wee again Into their claws are light nought cruel they refrain But as in woods when stateli trees to ground Are hewÄ•d the chips and stics ly sparst on all sides round So bones of men devoured by their ire At graves sad mouth ly strawd and earths first womb dezire NOW then ô Lord myn eys since look to thee In thee I trust alone and succour none else see My God my Lord ô not my suit reiect Nor bare my soule of shield that sole can it protect My chased life from snaring net withdraw Which men who love their lusts not love thy sacred law For it have pitcht destroy deceiptful grin Which men compact of fraud have set t' entrap me in AND thow iust Iudge whose ey our mortal ways With right esteem beholds and snare with snare repays Let impious heads owne tangling nets infold While I with myn break through of thee who safeti hold PSALM 145. King DAVID now flourishing as it seemeth with prosperiti applieth most woorthily his thankful soule to sound out the high praises of the Author thereof He celebrateth therfore most excellently in this Psalm the incomprehensible Greatnes and glorious Maiesti of the Eternal King Then he singeth Gods Goodnes his Iustice and Merci embracing all his woorks with all favorable benigniti All which therfore he exciteth to return praise to their Lord and Maker And chiefly the true servants and Saints of God that by their menes the glori of the kingdom of God may be made knowne over all the world Himself then in example describeth the boundles extent and amplitude of Gods everlasting kingdom his assistance where need is his fatherls providence ministring food duely to all things whose lifes are therby susteined his iustice and holines in all his ways and actions especially in his gracious attentivenes to the iust petitions of his servants ever saving all those that love him as contrarily in his provoked severitie toward the wicked retributing to them their iust and deserved destruction For which he inviteth all men to ioin with him in ever praizing God GREAT Lord my God and glorious King My soule triumphs thy bliss to sing While heavÄ•ns shal last with grateful praise Bove heavÄ•n of heavÄ•ns thy name I 'le raize When Sun with Eastern rays up-springs And when doun West his flames he brings In toils of day at nightli rest Ay praiz'd and ay shalt thow be blest THY Greatnes first my mynd admires Whose right like praises great requires Thy boundles beÄ•ing which gulf to thought In bounds each creature fit hath wrought Thy woorks each age with praise recounts And powÄ•r which puÄsance all surmounts And I with wondrous acts that light Of glorious state will glad indite They prowÄ•s and valures strange confess I beautÄ•ous MaiÄ•sti would express THY Goodnes next prezents sweet vieu Where bounties rich stil gifts renue Glad hands receive and thankful tongs Shal sound what praise such grace belongs Here who thy Iustice can forget Where hymns where ioys are sweetly met Thy iustice fair with merci cround Of glorious bliss th'al-gracious ground O LORD benign of best desires To piti ay prone unprone to ires Towărd all thou good thou full of grace Thy Mercies all thy woorks embrace THERFORE Great Sire shal all thy woorks In heavÄ•n what shines midst earth what lurks What e're disperst through worlds great frame Ay blaze ay bless thy gracious name THEY chief who deer of thee esteemd Live Saints on earth from earth redeemd Thy kingdoms glories they shal teach Thy peerles strength they fearles preach That powÄ•r magnÄficent bliss divine And beauties there which glorious shine May sons of men to all made knowne All win to love and serve thy throne THY Kingdom Lord nought Kingles leves Nor mÄ•sure of things nor times receives DominÄon boundles evÄ•ri place Each time all things dooth round embrace Here reigns our Lord our bliss to breed Stil true of woord stil iust of deed Who gracious fallen man erects The sliding stays the staid protects HERE eys of all thy care attend Thy care due food which still dooth send Thou plentÄ•ous hand o're world doost spred Whence each thing livÄng rests largely fed Thus all thy pleasure Lord partake Thy pleasure still to good awake In righteÅus ways thus ay doost raign Ay kynd in all thy woorks remain AND lastly Lord