Will His Thunder makes them fear And those who get most off yet think they are too near VIII From the bright East Thou mak'st Thy Sun to go Before him creeps in Chains the Captive night And in the West when he from us draws low 'T is but to spread his Conquests with his Light And till he comes again Bids the Moon fill his place and in his stead to raign IX Thou visitest the Earth and giv'st it rain Of Thy rich blessing it do's freely spend The Earth returns its thanks to Heav'n again In flowers which thither their sweet Odours send As Customs which they pay To Thy dread Throne who dost their Mothers heat allay X. The Flood of God whose Spring-head's in the clouds When on the weary ground it showers distills The softned ridge unto its furrow crowds And all it's clots the quick'ning moysture fills Thou by degrees dost bring The Tillage on and Harvest to succeed the Spring XI Plenty with every shower from Heav'n pours down The Earth do's by thy constant bounty grow Thy goodness do's the year with blessings crown And all Thy steps drop fatness where they go They on the Deserts drop Whose parched Sands drink deep of Thy o'reflowing Cup. XII The little Hills drink deep and look more fair The Valleys pledge till they can drink no more The Shepheards and their flocks both merry are And all the Plains with Corn are cover'd o're With peace and fruits abound And make the distant Mountains with their Songs resound Psalm LXVI Jubilate Deo omnis terra c. I. REjoyce O World and to Thy God sing praise Let Seas and Isles and Lands His Name resound Together with His Sun your voices raise And in Eternal Jubilees go round For if that rise His mighty Power to show Much more should you on whom it shines do so II. Say to the Lord How mighty is Thy Power Which even Thy Enemies must unforc't confess To th' Earth they bow themselves and would fall lower But that instead Thou tak'st this poor address Th' Earth shall worship Thee and their loud same Shall fill her Trumpet only with Thy Name III. See what He did to raise it how His hand At once declar'd Him Terrible and Good When raging Seas were turn'd to firm dry land And Israel past through th' admiring Flood Then 't was we view'd and troad His secret Wayes And roaring Deeps stood lift'ning to His Praise IV. He rules o're all Him Heav'n and Earth obey The Universall and Eternall King His eyes the Wicked and the Good survey And under chains His Hand the Proud do's bring Raise not Thy self too high proud dust for fear The Wind which fills thy sayles should overbear V. Rejoyce ye Nations and to God sing praise Let Seas and Isles and Lands his Name resound Together with His Sun your voices raise And in Eternal Jubilees go round For He from falls our sliding feet do's save And with new Life returns us from the grave VI. Like Silver in the Furnace we were try'd And felt unusual flames rage all about But thence as Silver throughly purify'd We only left our dross when we came out The purer metall had no base alloy And all our griefs made way for greater joy VII Low were we brought the net upon us cast And on our loyns prodigious weights were laid Through Water tryal and through fire we past And a derision to our foes were made But He who there upheld us by His hand Brought us Himself at last to'th' Promis'd Land VIII With praises to Thy House my King I 'le go And make my thanks in clouds of Incense rise There solemnly I 'le pay the willing Vow Which my lips off'red in my Miseries Bullocks and Ramms I 'le on Thy Altar lay And thence with Flames renew the Wasted day IX You who have known th' Almighty Love draw near And to my Speech your ready minds incline Attend to that just witness which I bear And to your own experiences take Mine When I in sighs to God my voyce did raise And pray'd in groans He turn'd them into praise X. Had I kept some reserve within my Heart In hope to hide it He had stop't His Ear But I unbowel'd my most secret part And then He did not only see but hear Praise Him who thus His glory did display Nor turn'd His own Face nor my Prayers away Psalm LXVII Deus misereatur nostri c. I. SAve us O God and Thy poor Servants bless Thy Goodness and Thy Pow'r declare In Mercy help us in Our great distress And We no more will doubt Thy Love or Care Let through the World Thy Mighty Name be known And what We praise may the whole Earth with Rev'rence own II. Rejoyce ye Nations for your God is here Who by His Wisdom rules o're all The Kings and Kingdoms governs and that fear They strike in you He makes on them to fall Let through the World His Mighty Name be known And what we praise may the whole Earth with Rev'rence own III. Then shall the Lord our Land both save and bless His Goodness and His Power declare And then Our fields shall give their full increase And with His blessing look more gay and faire The Lord shall bless us and His Name make known And what We praise the whole Earth shall with Rev'rence own Psalm LXVIII Exurgat Deus dissipentur c. I. GRreat Leader of the Sacred Hosts arise And scatt'ring Thy Proud Enemies Encrease Our Triumphs with Thy Victories Let those who hate Thy Name before it flye Like Clouds of Smoke chas'd by the Wind Which vanish as they mount on high And undistinguish't from the Common Skie No more in strange Fantastick figures lye But without mark to know them by Leave not the smallest stain behind That in the air one may their empty traces find Let their destruction suddain be Sooner than Wax do's melt When once the flames are felt And in Thine eye may they the fire which burns them see But let the Righteous in Thy Pow'r rejoyce With Flutes and Trumpets make a cheerful noise And the whole Consort joyn and perfect with their voice II. Make God your Song Ye Just and from His Wayes Which are in Heav'n take theam your Verse to raise In Heav'n where He in glory rides And with His rein the Winds which bear them guides And by His Name Jehovah celebrate His Praise Above He rules but His great Pow'r extends To what soe're is done below The Cares of all His Creatures He do's know And visits the wide Earth's extremest ends Is a kind Father to the Fatherless The Widdows Counsel and do's bless Desparing Nuptials with a large increase Making dead Wombs His voice to hear And her that barren was a numerous seed to bear And when to Him poor Captives cry Their tears move pitty in His eye And with His Arm He gives them Liberty Again returns them
by th' Waters side Whose root receives the Tribute of the tyde The tender plant do's into vigor grow Is alwayes green has alwayes fruit Extends into the streams its root And spreads in top as that do's spread below IV. So shall the Righteous flourish and that hand Which planted him at first shall make him stand No storm or drought against him shall prevail But bending to the streams his root He shall be green he shall have fruit Which till they cease to flow shall never fail V. But the unjust by every billow tost Shall in the storms himself has rais'd be lost Shall be like Chaffe with which the Wind do's play That now flies here and now falls there Now on the ground now in the air Till that which rais'd it blow it clean away VI. And when th' Eternal Judge to th' Bar shall bring Each secret thought and every hidden thing The difference then much greater shall appear For when the Just to glory go The Wicked shall begin their woe More unlike in another World than here Psalm II. Quare fremuerunt gentes I. WHat makes this stir Why do the People rage And all their little Kings engage Their ancient strifes they mind no more Forget they once were Enemies And though they ne're agreed before Now all conspire against their God to rise II. Their God's become their Common Enemy And his Anoynted they defy Off with his yoak let 's break His bands Away with all his Chains they say Our necks we know let 's try our hands If they can rule as well as those obey III. But He who reigns above sees all their pride And do's their boasts and threats deride If they go on He 'll to them speak And if God speaks sure man shall hear For when His voyce do's Cedars break Proud Libanus which bears them quakes for fear IV. Yet let them rise and do their worst my Throne Stands fixt as th'Hill 't is set upon Sion which cannot be remov'd And that no further doubt may be Whether God has my choice approv'd I 'll shew His Seal and publish His Decree V. Thou art my Son This day I Thee begot He spoke the Word who changes not Ask of me and the World is Thyne The utmost skirts of all the Earth Nations unknown beyond the Line Whose Countreys yet have neither Name nor Birth VI. Thou shalt their Soveraign be and to Thee all Who will not stoop shall lower fall Their potsheards shall Thy Scepter feel For since its rule they 'l have no more From gold it shall be turn'd to steel And make them dust who were but earth before VII Be wise O Kings and you who others give Their Laws hear Mine that you may Live Great as you are look not too high For one above you stills your noise Yet since your Office calls you nigh Serve Him with trembling and with fear rejoice VIII Least He be angry kiss the Eternal Son Happy are they who thus have done And there have plac'd their Chief desire Unto your selves and Him return For if His anger once take fire Those Flames which should but only warm will burn Psalm III. Domine quid multiplicati c. I. LOrd how are they increast who trouble me How many Lord against me rise For Thy sake are my Enemies Yet would perswade me I am so to Thee God has no help for him they say As if they knew Thy Will or Power But when thou Plagues on them dost shower O're me Thou shalt Thy Love display And raise my head when theirs Thou in the dust shalt lay II. To God Almighty my defence I cry'd Who heard me from His Holy Hill With praise my heart and mouth did fill And me from trouble in His hand did hide I layd me down and rose again Nothing shall make me now afraid Though thousand Enemies me invade For God who did their rage restrain Whilst I securely slept awake will me sustain III. Arise my God see where my God do's rise And how His foes before Him fall Already He has smote them all Already has struck out their teeth and eyes Thus by unknown and secret wayes The Lord do's help and save His own Salvation comes from Him alone Who thus delights His Name to raise O since He sends the help let Him have all the Praise Psalm IV. Cum invocarem exaudavit c. I. THou who hast heard me heretofore And help beyond my Prayers didst send Gav'st me my Right and do'st that Right defend Thy wonted aides I now implore To my sad miseries incline Thine ear And them my God and with them Thine own Mercies hear II. Fond Men how long will you in vain God and my Glory thus despise Him you reject when against me you rise For I but as His Vice-Roy reign By Him I rule and He you ought to know First judg'd me fit to be your King then made me so III. To Him I call He hears my Cry If you are wise in time forbear Be still least He your murmurings also hear For though you see not He stands by Behold His Face but if that Sun 's too bright Consult your own black thoughts and treasons when 't is night IV. Your feign'd submission and false Vows How basely with your God you deal When under them you falser hearts conceal He who 's their Judge and searcher knows A pure heart and clean hand 's the Sacrifice Which carry their acceptance with them as they rise V. Wealth since it is so hard to get Must be the chiefest Good most say And call them wise who thither find the way Though strayd from Thee in seeking it From Thee my Portion Lord who canst bestow More with one look than all their pains can find below VI. Let them to hundred fields increase And their redoubled wishes have Till they no longer know what more to crave Harvests of Plenty years of Peace Their fields with fruit with oyl their faces shine Their jollity's but madness if compar'd with mine VII Olive and Vine Thou art to mee Those blessings and a thousand more Which thou hast layd up in thy boundless store Unknown to all who know not Thee Therefore in peace secure I 'll sleep Thy Grace Which gives me rest will also guard my Resting place Psalm V. Verb a mea auribus percipe c. I. LOrd to my earnest Prayers incline Thyne ear And those desires which Thou first gav'st me hear Attend my King my God unto my cry For to Thy Name alone I fly If thou art longer silent what that meant I 'll ask no more but still will pray And hasten with my calls the day And silence then shall witness Thy assent II. To Heaven I 'll look and pray with confidence For I am sure of help and pitty thence I know Thou canst not wickedness indure Nor shall the wicked be secure Hated by Thee as Thee he ne're did mind His own day dazles his weak sight And how then can
to their Land Made fruitful by His plenteous rain When on the Proud He throws the Chain And turns their Pastures to a dry and barren Sand. III. Lord when Thou through the Wilderness did'st go And their great Journeis to thy Israel show And though Thou fill'dst the Heav'ns confind'st Thy self to'a Cloud below Sinai did at Thy Presence quake The Rocks bow'd down and the whole Earth did shake And stubborn Israel in their horrors did partake Thou thundred'st and to own Thy Power The Heav'ns let fall a mighty shower With whose cool drops Thou did'st restore The fully'd beauties of the shriv'led Earth Giving its fruits and flowers new birth And made'st it fairer than it was before The desert with Thy blessing did abound New streams refresh't the weary ground And Jacob there a safe retreat from bondage found There He securely dwelt And all th' effects of mighty goodness fâ—lt There for His poor Thou did'st prepare And of His Armies took'st the care Still guiding them by Thine own hand Till by safe Conduct Thou hadst brought them to th' Promis'd Land IV. Before the Camp God march't and Victory Follow'd Him close in view of all Our Wives who saw the Enemy fall To meet our triumphs laid their distaffs by And took the Cymbal and the Lute And sang to them that praise we shouted to the Flute They sang of Armies and of Kings How soon their troops were put to flight E're they had well resolv'd to fight With all the Mirth which certain conquest brings Now God abroad did overcome And they divided the rich spoil at home And though amongst the Pots they long had lain Condemn'd to Brickilns and the Mine How all the flames did but their Oar refine And made them with more Lustre shine When all their former beauties it had first restor'd again Like spotless Doves in their most glorious flight Reflecting from their wings the tremb'ling light In thousand colours which the eye both dazle and invite V. And so look'd Palestine when th' Heathen fell And spoils of Kings were scat'red there The Land which was before as dark as Hell Receiv'd fresh verdure and became with Trophies fair On high its head did bear As if with snowy Salmon 't would compare Basan's high Hill God did with blessings crown And on it show'rd such plenty down One would have thought that God had chose it for His own But hold O Hill raise not Thy self too high For Sion yet shall o're Thee reign With Her compar'd Thou must fall down again And flat as Thine own Vallies lye For God in Sion to reside intends There must His House and Altar be His dwelling place to all Eternity And the whole World to Her shall bow And yield their necks as well as Thou To Sion whose Vast sway all bounds transcends Beyond the boundless space wherefurthest Nature ends VI. On Herth ' Eternal will erect His Throne God whom the Powers of Heav'n and Earth obey At whose dread Presence Sinai fled away When thither He to Israel all in fire came down Smoke and thick Light'ning did the mountain bound With twenty thousand flaming Chariots girt around The Guard Divine whose wheels in Thunder did resound And when He thence arose and up on high Ascended with His glorious trains He lead Captivity in Chains And gifts on men bestow'd as well as liberty To Traytors pardon granted and a Land Which was the purchase of His Own right hand And if no more they would rebell With promise there to make His Court and ever dwell To Him alone be all the Praise Who thus His Name and Us can raise And with ten thousand Blessings crowns Our dayes VII 'T is He who saves Us and to Him belong The keyes of th ' Adamantine Gates of Death He opens and none shuts gives and recalls Our breath Whose Name is Our Salvation Great and Strong Who will the Wicked tumble to the ground And make His Soul a passage through His Wound But to His People sayes I will again Repeat the Wonders which I heretofore have shown And greater do than e're I yet have done On Basan get my self a Name Bow down His neck and raise in Mounts the liquid Plain The Sea once more divide to make you way Now truly Red with purple streams which flow From your fierce En'mies veins and my great blow That Sea as well as Aegypt's trembling shall obey And there you shall securely pass And there your feet and garments wash Your very dogs shall drink the blood And gorg'd with humane flesh shall sport alone the scarlet Flood VIII And so they did and then Thy paths O God were seen And all Thy goings nothing came between How Thou didst both their way and Armies lead Before the Singers went and then the Flutes The Maidens follow'd with their Lutes And fearful Women heard shrill Trumpets without dread Bless ye said they the Mighty God! Ye streams which from Old Jacob's spring procced The Faithfull Jacob's happy seed And with you stablish His Divine Aboad Let little Benjamin be there and there The Governours of Judah fam'd for War Whil'st Learned Napthali and Zabulon For the great day and solemn pomp compose a Song And with their Numbers all the Tribes conduct along Let God Himself new strength command And since He ha's such wonders done Perfect what is so well begun And as we all before His Temple stand Those heads which he ha's sav'd exalt with His own hand IX There Lord Our spoils to Thee We 'll consecrate And Princes thither shall their Tribute bring And swear Alleg'ance to Thee as their King Thy Peace and Friendship supplicate And on their knees receive new Titles to their State Those who refuse and think their Pow'r so great That it or can resist or vye with Thine And Heav'n with open blasphemies dare threat Against their Spears Lord make Thy Light'ning shine And or o'rethrow or force them to a base retreat And to those roaring Bulls presumptuous noise And bleating of their Calves oppose the Thunder of Thy voice Till they for pardon sue and all submit And as Thou on Thy Throne do'st sit Their necks and gifts lay humbly at Thy Feet Till Aegypt and the Lybian Nations come And leaving all the Gods they had at home In Sion only seek the True and Holy One X. Praise Him all Kingdoms and all Lands That God who ha's in Heav'n set fast His Throne And all its Armies with His voice commands And makes them trembling His Dominion own His Mighty Voice abroad He sends That Voice which tallest Cedars rends And makes His Thunder heard to th'Worlds utmost ends Wisdom and Strength and Majesty To Israels Strength and Wisdom give Honour and Praise to the Most High And endless Rule to Him who doth for ever Live To Thee O God most Worthy to be prais'd And in Thy Temple to be fear'd of all Who Jacob from the dust hast rais'd And so uphold'st that He shall never fall Whose Sacred and
look o're their bounding sands And see what 's done at Land though they cannot come there V. Let them see how the Mountains glad as they Look from their tops when God will come away He comes But who His Presence can abide That the Great Judge of all shall be Yet who would not His entrance see When He with equall Justice shall each cause decide Psalm XCIX Dominus regnavit irascantur c. I. THE Lord do's reign let the Earth fear And tremble till its old Foundations shake For though Mount Sion He His Court do's make His Empire reaches every where Let the whole World before His Name fall low For it is Holy and most rais'd when they do so II. He Righteousness and Truth do's love Is the Kings strength as they His glory are Jacob His Judgements had and was His Care Exalt our God who reigns above The Holy God and at His Footstool bow For then you raise Him most when there you fall most low III. Moses and Aaron and the Quire Of Priests which alwayes in His Court attend Samuel with those whose praises there ascend And from His Altar have their fire In their distress when they did to Him fly He who their troubles saw as freely heard their cry IV. He heard them and that very Flame Which to His Presence did their Prayers conveigh No less for His return prepar'd the way Which through the Cloudy Pillar came He answer'd them and as He heard forgave And though reveng'd the sin yet did the sinner save V. Thus He of old their Faith did prove And unseen by them through the darkness saw How they observ'd His Word and kept His Law Exalt our God who reigns above The Holy God and in His Temple bow For then you raise Him most when there you fall most low Psalm C. Jubilate Deo omnis terra I. YOU who thrâ—ughout the World that Power adore Which first made it and then made you Give to the Lord what is His due And what Man ha's usurpt His Praise restore II. 'T is God alone who by His Word made All And by His Word that All sustains And Nothing by the Wonder gains Except to save and hear us when we call III. We are His People He Our Maker is Our Shepheard He and we His sheep Whom He secure do's ever keep And praise is all that He expects for this IV. Approach His Courts and enter them with praise And of His Mighty Power rehearse Make that the subject of your Verse And up to Heav'n with it His Goodness raise V. Who most shalt bless Him let 's together strive His Mercies have been ever sure His Truth for ever shall endure What can we less when He so much do's give Psalm CI. Misericordiam Justitiam c. I. I Will of Judgement and of mercy sing The greatest Praises of the greatest King And since mine 's nothing worth His own unto Him bring II. 'T was He discover'd to me first the Way I 'll follow where He shew'd the passage lay O come and lead me Lord that I may never stray III. With my integrity I 'll never part But be my Seed's as Thou my Pattern art And as Thy Way is perfect so shall be my Heart IV. No wicked thing will I with pleasure see My Innocent eyes no more shall guilty be Or look so low since they have once been rais'd to Thee V. I 'll hate the work of him who turns aside His way from life and happiness lyes wide And as he shuns me from him I my face will hide VI. The Privy slanderer I will ore'throw Reject the Proud nor with the froward go Their great heights when they fall shall make them sink more low VII But he in mine shall be as in Thy sight Whose heart and wayes Thy Laws have made upright To Thee a Servant but my Friend and chief delight VIII He in my house shall dwell but never there Shall the deceitful or false Man appear Destruction cannot be far of when they are near IX Early I will destroy them and my hand Shall cut them off and guiltless make the Land And on their spoils Gods City shall triumphing stand Psalm CII Domine exaudi orationem c. I. MY dearest God let my Pray'r come to Thee Nor at my sighes and cry offended be Dart through these pitchy clouds one ray Divine And make Thy glorious Face appear If Thou art pleas'd again to shine I will no longer fear But hope that He who sees my Pain will bend His ear II. But hear me then and answer speedily ' Ere 't is too late and I no more can cry For as dry wood do's in the fornace burn And vanishes in smoak away So all my strength to smoak do's turn And feels its own decay Whil'st on my bones and heart a fire unseen do's prey III. So fierce it rages that I quite forget Through pain and grief my very bread to eat The tears I shed do but the flame encrease My bones and flesh become more dry And all the while I held my peace Less burnt then now I cry And grass the Sun ha's toucht is not so scorch't as I. IV. And as the solitary Pelican And widdow'd Turtle for their mates complain Just like the Owle which do's in desarts dwell Hating and hated of the light That to the Rocks her moans do's tell So shun I every sight By day and weary with my mournfull cryes the night V. Both night and day I 'm made the common scorn And those who hate me are against me sworn Ashes and Tears have been my meat and drink Whil'st I continually did grieve Of Thy Just wrath and hand to think What mortal wounds they give Lifting me up a greater fall but to receive VI. And as the shaddow with the Sun declines And disappears when that no longer shines As with the Summer heat flowers pine away So pass my years e're well begun But an Eternal Now do's tay On Thyne ne're to be done When thousand Ages shall their several Race have run VII The mis'ries of Thy Sion Thou hast seen How great Her Sorrows what her Cares have been To save Thy Sion Lord at length arise Her mighty Jubilee is come And now her very dust we prize Her rubbish and Her lome And humbly begg Thou would'st return her captives home VIII So shall the heathen fear Thy Holy Name And all their Kings Thy Kingdomes rule proclaim When thus again Thou Sion shalt rebuild And in Thy glory there appear When all Her Courts with Vowes are fill'd And Thou inclin'st Thine Ear The Prayer of the Forsaken and their groans to hear IX For the next age this story we 'll record That they as well as We may praise the Lord Who from the height of Heav'n His Throne look'd down And did from thence the Earth behold Thence heard the dying Pris'ners grone Saw Justice chain'd with gold And sav'd both Her and them for
bribes unjustly sold. X. He sav'd them that they might His Power declare And tell in Sion what his Praises are When all the Nations there shall gath'red be And to the Sacred Mount ascend When the whole World His Power shall see And all its Kings contend Who shall the lowest stoop or richest presents send XI O might I live to see that happy day And not be cut off in the middle way My God what are my years to Thee said I Or what my age compar'd with Thine If e're my Noon is reach't I dye For Thee no Times confine Nor ages measure out Thy Dayes as hours do mine XII Of old Thou hast the Earth's Foundations laid Andon Thy Word the Heav'ns all times have staid Thy Word shall make them both fall down again Be like a Garment thrown aside A Vest with some great rent or stain And all their Ancient pride Or shall destroy or under Formes more glorious hide XIII But Thou the same which Thou hast alwayes been Shalt never end as Thou did'st ne're begin When Time itself shall dye and be no more And as Thou art O God like Thee Excepting what Thou wert before Thy Servants Seed shall be And have for them and their a Post-Eternity Psalm CIII Benedic anima mea Domino c. I. ARise my Soul and to th' Almighty King Sprightly and cheerful Hallelujahs sing Call all thy Forces up thy Love thy Fear And every part compleatly fill Be sure no Idle Passion Soul be there But to them joyn thy Judgement Fancy and thy Will With every sence and every power rejoice And add to all a well tun'd voice Thus rise my Soul and to th' Almighty King Sprightly and cheerfull Hallelujahs sing II. Let thy Song be of what thy self ha's known And to the Worlds experience bring Thine own Sing of His Name who cast thy sins away And made them all forgotten be And though His hand awhile upon thee lay 'T was only that restor'd thou might'st His Bounty see Who beyond Hope thy life from death did save When all had doom'd it to the grave And for those thorny cares which girt it round Thy head with love and tender mercies crown'd III. He Thy Old Age do's with new favours bless And as thy years His kindnesses increase Thy years have not the Symptome of decay For all the Eagle still grows young And moulting her old plumes again looks gay As youthfull as she ever was and full as strong After her prey as lustily can fly As e're shee did and soar as high He like the Eagles do's Thy youth renew And gives Thee both its strength and beauty too IV. Those whom the Wicked with oppression grieve The Lord do's or avenge or else relieve Thus unto Moses He His Way made known And helpless Israel this did see When from the cruel chains which kept them down But farr more cruel Masters He first set them free 'T is not a little thing His wrath will move Inflame His rage or quench His love Nor for Our Sins will He for ever chide But seeks them rather than his Face to hide V. Such are His Mercies when we must confess Our Sins might justly make their number less And him a sharper sentence to have past But when to be put farr from Thee Behind Thy back we fear'd Lord to be cast Our Sins were only set where we deserv'd to be And this alone for Thy dear Mercies sake Without the least claim we could make To which Our good no more proportion beares Than the small point of Earth to Heaven's vast Sphears VI. How could it else be that they durst appear Whose guilt had added horror to their fear Love made Him break the knott and set Our Sins As far from us but from Him more Than the bright East where the young Sun begins To take his Journy is from the West where he gives o're The most indulgent Fathers tender Love Is hate compar'd to His above For none so well as He who made can spare Who both knows whence we came and what we are VII From Earth Our mean Original we have A part of what must be e're long Our grave Frail Mortal Man whose dayes are like the grass A Short-liv'd flower which stands a while But like those blustering storms that o're it pass Flies with them and is gon e're it began to smile But to Eternity Gods Love extends And all the blessings which He sends To Childrens Children and their Seed endure To them who keep it like His Cov'nant sure VIII Above the Heav'n God has prepar'd His Throne Heav'n's but the Cloth of State He treads upon There do's He rule and Sovereign Laws dispence And Kingdoms where He please bestow Scepters and Crowns are all receiv'd from thence And Kings to Him their Thrones as well as Beings ow The Angels are his Ministers of State And to observe His Pleasure wayt Bless Him ye Angels who in strength excell And what His Will is you who do it tell IX You hear the Words which from His Mouth do flow And having hear'd strait to perform them go As swift as you are ready at His call Praise Him who made your place so high And let weak Mortals who did lower fall To whom you oft are sent on your wings upward fly Praise Him His Works 't is all that you can do For Him who did so much for you Praise Him my Soul and to th' Almighty King Sprightly and cheerfull Hallelujahs sing Psalm CIV Benedic anima mea Domino c. I. ARise My Soul and to th' Almighty King Sprightly and cheerful Hallelujahs sing To God who o're all gods renown'd With Majesty and Glory crown'd Le ts Thee His prayse resound And though Thy flame can never equal rise Unto His height accepts Thy Sacrifice 'T is He who with Eternal Light Obscures Himself as we are hid in night Who in the clearest beams do's cover A more sublime and piercing ray Making Our Heav'n and Common day But like a Curtain to be shifted over Who as He is to Blessed Souls is seen In glories farr above the Sky Without the help of sight or ey The only meanes we see Him by Who alwayes see Him with the Veil of Heav'n between II. The Waters are to God as ground Who in their floods has His foundations lay'd Has all their Ebbs and Flowings stay'd And in their depth a bottom found Waters are solid when He layes the Beams Of'His Chambers in their swiftest streames He makes the Clouds His Chariots Cloads which are Envy'd by Angels wayting there That when they go before the Clouds their God should bea Th' ambitious Winds aside their blust'ring lay And strew their downy Feathers in His way The Heav'nly Host before Him run Swift as the Air they tread upon Flames of fire His way prepare So bright and yet so terrible His Servants are III. Below the Center of the Mighty Deep Where undisturb'd the Aged Waters