Aloud the voice of his high praise 9 Who puts and holds our soul in life Our feet from hurtful sliding stays 10 For thou didst prove and try us Lord As men by fire do silver try 11 Brought'st us into the net and layd'st Bonds of grief on our loyns to lye 12 Over our heads thou mad'st men ride Through fire and water floods to pass But thou through all hast brought us out Into a water'd wealthy place 13 I 'le bring burnt-offerings to thy house And all my vows to thee I 'le pay 14 Which my lips uttered and mouth spake When I in grievous trouble lay 15 Burnt sacrifices of fat Rams With Incense I to thee will bring Of Bullocks and of Goats I will Present to thee an offering 16 Come now and hearken to my words All you that have God's holy fear And what he for my soul hath done To you I will forthwith declare 17 In my distress my mouth to him Sent forth my humble earnest cry And his great name I with my tongue With praise extolled fervently 18 I know if I do in my heart Iniquity love and regard When I to him my prayer make I shall not then by him be heard 19 But God did hear me readily And he did graciously attend Unto my praying voice and cry Which I to him did humbly send 20 And blessed be the Lord my God Who hath not from me turn'd away His mercy not deny'd my suit When I to him did seek and pray PSALM LXVII The old Metre Corrected by W. Barton 1 HAve mercy on us Lord And grant to us thy grace And unto us do thou afford The brightness of thy face 2 That all the earth may know The way to godly wealth And all the people here below May see thy saving health 3 Let all the world O God Give praise unto thy name O let the people all abroad Extoll and laud the same 4 Throughout the world so wide Let all rejoyce with mirth For thou shalt justly judge and guide The nations of the earth 5 Let all the world O God Give praise unto thy name And let the people all abroad Extoll and laud the same 6 Then shall the earth increase Great store of fruit shall fall And God our God shall grant us peace And greatly bless us all 7 Yea God shall bless us all And earth both far and near And people all in general Of him shall stand in fear The same by the Scots 1 LOrd unto us be merciful Do thou us also bless And graciously make shine on us The brightness of thy face 2 That so thy way upon the earth To all men may be known Also among the nations all Thy saving health be known 3 O Let the people praise thee Lord Let people all thee praise 4 And let the nations all be glad And sing for joy always For rightly thou shalt people judge And nations rule on earth 5 Let people praise thee Lord let all The folk praise thee with mirth 6 Then shall the earth yield her increase God our God bless us shall 7 God shall us bless and of the earth The ends shall fear him all PSALM LXVIII 1 LEt God arise and scattered Let all his daring enemies be And let all those that do him hate From his just face and presence flee 2 Drive them away as smoak is driven As wax melts at the burning fire Let wicked men before God's face So perish by his righteous ire 3 But let the righteous all be glad Greatly rejoycing in God's sight Let them addict themselves to joy And this express with all their might 4 Sing unto God his praises sing Extol him with your chearful voice That rides on Heav'n By his name JAH Before his gracious face rejoyce 5 A father of the fatherless And judge of helpless widows case Is God whom we adore and praise Even in his holy dwelling place 6 The barren God in families Doth set I he from iron bands The bound sets free while Rebels dwell In want in dry and barren lands 7 O God of old when thou went'st forth Before thy ransom'd peoples face And through the barren wilderness Thou didst as their Conductor pass 8 At God's presence the earth did shake From heav'n the dropping showers fell Sinai was at God's presence mov'd Before the God of Israel 9 O God thou healed'st the desart's drought Sending to it a plenteous rain Whereby thy weary heritage Thou didst confirm and own again 10 Thy Congregation then did make Their setled habitation there And of thy goodness for the poor O God thou didst relief prepare 11 The publick word of joy to us Was given out by thee O God Great was the company of them That quickly publisht it abroad 12 Kings of great armies terrify'd Were forc'd apare to flee away And she that tarryed at home Did share and distribute the prey 13 Though you have lien among the pots Like beauteous doves you shall appear Whose wings with silver and with gold Their yellow feathers cover'd are 14 When the Almighty scatter'd Kings As Salmon snow 't was over white 15 The hill of God's as Bashan hill As Bashan hill it is for height 16 Why leap ye you high hills This is The holy mount chosen by God Where he delights to dwell on which He 'll ever settle his abode 17 God's Chariots twenty thousand are His Angels many thousands be Among them as in Sinai mount So in his holy Temple 's he 18 Thou hast triumphing gloriously Ascended up to dwell on high And conquering in triumph led Captive even our Captivity Thou hast received gifts in Man And that for them that did rebel That as their reconciled God Among them thou in love might'st dwell 19 Blest be the Lord who with his gifts Of mercy doth us daily load Even he who ever was and is Of our defence and help the God 20 Our God is he that is the God Of all health and salvation The issues and defence from death Belong to none but him alone 21 But God shall surely wound the head Of all his harden'd enemies Their hairy scalp who shall go on In their belov'd iniquities 22 God said I 'le bring them back as I From Bashan did for them before And as from the depths of the sea I brought them safely to the shore 23 That thy feet may be dipt in blood Of these thy stain and bleeding foes And even thy dogs may dip their tongue In blood which from the wounded flows 24 Thy goings they have seen O God In all thy glorious majesty The goings of my God and King In his sublime Sanctuary 25 First went the fingers next to them Musicians follow'd in array Among them all the damsels were That do on sounding Timbrels play 26 Bless God in your Assemblies all Unto him joyful praises sing All you that of the blessed race From Israel's ancient fountain spring 27 Benjamin and his Ruler's there And Juda's Ruling Companies And with his
to come and speak with so great concernedness about Prosperity and Adversity here and especially that he saith so much through almost all the Book against his Enemies and the Oppression and Cruelties of wicked men and his great danger of them and sufferings by them even cursing them and their Posterity Answ As to this it must be considered 1. That it is most certain that not only David but the Jews generally except the Sadducees believed the Immortality of the Soul and the Rewards and Punishments of the other Life And many passages in the Psalms prove it And so do the Histories of Enoch and Elias and Saul's seeking to dead Samuel and the raising of divers dead men and Herod thought that John was risen and others that Christ was one of the old Prophets All which had been impossible had not the soul survived He that ask'd Christ what he should do to inherit eternal Life spake but on the Principle of the Jews Faith 2. But the future state of souls being not near so fully revealed under the Law as it was after by Christ who brought life and immortality more to light by the Gospel God saw it meet to give men under the Law more motives to Obedience and against Sin both by his word and works from outward Mercies and Punishments than under the Gospel which much more teacheth us the Doctrine of the Cross. 3. And David was a King whose concerns therefore were publick even the Churches and Kingdoms as well as his own And all Christians must be greatly affected with publick Church concerns And as he was a Type of Christ his Enemies are cursed as Christ's Enemies which yet he seemeth oft to do but Prophetically 4. And it must be noted that it is not their damnation that is his usual curse and wish though he foretel it of the impenitent but their destruction on earth for the Churches deliverance by the utter extirpation of them and their Posterity 5. And though Christ teach us to love our enemies and bless them that curse us and pray for them that hate and persecute us yet he forbids us not to desire deliverance from them nor to hate their Diabolical Lying Malignity and Cruelty and Enmity to the Gospel and to Obedience to God It 's a great Duty to note the universal War in all Lands and Ages between the Serpent's and the Woman's seed and to know that Brutishness first and Cainism and Diabolism next are the Serpent's Progency as naturally prospering in corrupted graceless men as Maggots in a Carkass And they that live in an Age and Land where these prevail and are in power will have a sensible Commentary of David's Psalms And in Prisons and in Wars and Fields of Blood and Torments many have confessed that now they understood the Psalms of David which they never soundly understood before 6. Lastly Though David say not so much of the Life to come as we could wish he saith very much of the way to it and the necessary means He knew that Heaven is ready for us if we be but ready for it And all that must be done for it by us is in this short hasty life And as a Traveller doth not all the way talk and think so much of his Journeys end as of all passages in his way and yet doth all this for the end so a good Christian that layeth out his care and labour in obeying God's Word and avoiding sin and doing all the good he can in the World and this in faith and hope of Heavenly Felicity doth better than be that neglecteth present means on pretence of only contemplating the end We are all in our Baptism listed in Christ's Army as Cross-bearers against the Devil World and Flesh And he that lamenteth not the successes of Satan and the greatness of his Kingdom the vastness of the Dominions of Heathens and Infidels the fewness of Christians the greater paucity of those that are Christians indeed sincere and serious that are more for Heaven than for Earth and mortifie the Lusts of the Flesh by the Spirit and how wofully Satan hath prevailed to make Hypocritical Nominal Christians more false malignant and blood-thirsty than many Turks and Heathens and how lamentably in many Christian Nations he hath so far got Power and Ministry on his side as to be the most effectual hinderers of the serious Practice of that Christian Religion which themselves profess I say he that is not sensible of this is not a genuine Disciple of Christ and a skilful Souldier in his Army And he that is will understand David's Psalms but yet Christ will teach him that it is by Faith and Patience that Christians must be more than Conquerours while they are killed all the day long and counted as sheep to the slaughter while nothing can seperate them from the love of God § 5. Quest But are not the Psalms sufficiently by Translation and Metre already fitted to the Churches use What need any more help of yours Answ I am not so vain as to expect that my Version should be of publick Church-use Others have done well in several respects I delight to read them and love and honour all the Authors I wrote for my own use not intending any Publication and that in my Restraint when my soul 's great Concerns made it my chief and necessary Employment When it was my interest and daily work to speak to God And I found the Psalms so fitted to my use as if they had been purposely made for me When I used not to sleep one minute is many Nights through pain and disturbance these Psalms were my recreation And when Meditations of the same things still grow customary and dull Psalms especially of Praise revived and exhilerated my Soul both Night and Day And we are bound while we we have time to do good to all men and Grace as well as Nature is communicative And Charity to Souls is more excellent than to Bodies I have no hope of reaching the Seraphick strain of Mr. George Sandys especially on Job But he hath not fitted his Metres to the usual Tunes so that to the Vulgar they are almost useless Bishop King's are very good but the unusual-way of making the Rythme of the next Verse meet maketh it by disuse unpleasant to the most Mr. White 's the Scots and Mr. Row's his Second are an excellent Translation of the Hebrew Text But the ear desireth greater melody than their strict Versions will allow Mr. William Barton hath done excellently of whom I have made much use But his great labour for Rythmes hath made it though more excellent to some yet less grave and less taking to many others Mr. Woodford's and Sandy's and Patrick's and Davision's and some others that have taken a larger Paraphrastical liberty than I have done are much more pleasant and useful to many But when I perused all these and others for my own daily devotion and delight I found none of them that
In our sight Now let his God deliver him If he in him delight 9 Thou took'st me from the womb Thou wast my hope and rest When I a seeble Infant hang'd Upon my mother's breast 10 I was cast on thy care Even from my birth till now And from the womb that did me bear My God and Guide art thou 11 Be not far off for grief Is near and no help found 12 Many Bulls compass me fat Bulls Of Bashan me surround 13 Their mouth they open'd wide Upon me gaped they Like to a Lion's ravening And roaring for his prey 14 My bones are out of joynt Like water I am spilt Among my pained Intestines My heart like wax doth melt 15 Like a potsherd my strength Is dry'd My tongue cleaveth Unto my jaws and thou hast brought Me to the dust of death 16 For dogs have compass'd me And the assembled bands Of wicked men enclosed me They pierc'd my feet and hands 17 I may count all my bones On me they look and stare 18 Upon my Vesture they cast lots My Cloaths among them share 19 Be not far from me Lord My strength to help me hast 20 My soul deliver from the sword Do not to Dogs me cast 21 Save me from lying mouths For thou hast oft heard me Even from the horns of Unicorns I have been sav'd by thee 22 Unto my brethren I Will yet declare thy name And with the Congregation great I 'le joyn to praise the same 23 Ye that fear God praise him His great name glorifie All Jacob's seed and fear ye him Israel's posterity 24 For he hath not despis'd Th' afflicted's misery Nor hid his face from him but heard When he to him did cry 25 In the Assemblies great My praise shall be of thee And before them that do thee fear My Vows perform'd shall be 26 The meek shall be suffic'd With food All praise shall give To God who him do truly seek Your hearts shall ever live 27 All lands remember shall And turn unto the Lord And by all kindreds of the earth Our God shall be ador'd 28 The Kingdom is the Lord's He governs Nations all All that on earth by him are fed Before him down shall fall 29 All shall before him bow That down to dust descend None can of all the sons of men His life from death defend 30 But still a holy seed The Lord shall truly serve And God will them his chosen flock Account and still preserve 31 They shall come and his work Of righteousness make known Unto a people yet unborn That this the Lord hath done PSALM XXIII 1 THe Lord himself my shepherd is Who doth me feed and safely keep What can I want that 's truly good While I am one of his own sheep 2 He makes me to lie down and rest In pleasant pastures tender grass He keeps and gently leadeth me Near the sweet streams of quietness 3 My failing soul he doth restore And lead in safe and righteous ways And all this freely that his grace And holy Name may have the praise 4 And though my daily walk do lie Through death's dark vale yet thou art there All being managed by thee Therefore no evil will I fear For in my lowest darkest state The Lord of Love is with me still Thy Rod and Staff shall comfort me And keep me from all deadly ill 5 Thy bounty doth my Table spread In presence of my envious foes My head refreshing Oyl anoints My plenteous cup still overflows 6 Goodness and mercy all my days Shall surely keep and follow me And in the house of God always My joyful dwelling-place shall be The same by Mr. George Herbert 1 THe God of Love my Shepherd is And he that doth me feed While he is mine and I am his What can I want or need 2 He leads me to the tender grass Where I both feed and rest Then to the streams that gently pass In both I have the best 3 And if I stray he doth convert And bring my mind in frame And all this not for my desert But for his holy name 4 And in death's shady black abode Well may I walk not fear For thou art with me and thy rod To guide thy staff to bear 5 Thou makest me to sit and dine Even in mine enemies fight My head with Oyl my cup with Wine Flows over day and night 6 Surely thy sweet and wondrous love Shall measure all my days And as it never shall remove So neither shall my praise PSALM XXIV 1 THe earth is all the Lord's Its fulness all is his The world with all that are therein His own creation is 2 For he the liquid Seas Hath its foundation made And it upon the water-floods Hath stablished and staid 3 Into God's sacred mount Who 's he that shall ascend And in his place of holiness Who shall accepted stand 4 Whose heart 's pure and hands clean And unto vanity He who hath not lift up his soul Nor sworn deceitfully 5 This man a blessing great From God shall surely have Righteous and gracious usage from The God that will him save 6 Of them that seek the Lord This is the holy race Such are the men of Jacob's God Who seek thy pleased face 7 Lift up your heads ye gates You lasting doors make way That so the great desired King Of Glory enter may 8 Who is this Glorious King Who may this Monarch be The strong and mighty God the Lord Mighty in war is he 9 Lift up your heads ye gates You lasting doors make way That so the great and mighty King Of Glory enter may 10 Who is he that is King Of Glory Who is this The Lord of Hosts and he alone The King of Glory is PSALM XXV 1 I Lift my heart to thee My God and guide most just 2 O let me never be asham'd For in thee do I trust Let not my foes rejoyce And triumph over me 3 And let not any be asham'd That trust and wait on thee But let them shamed be Who causelesly transgress 4 Shew me thy ways Lord teach thou me Thy paths of Righteousness 5 Direct me in thy truth And teach me I thee pray Thou art my God and Saviour On thee I wait alway 6 Remember O my God Thy mercies manifold And thy great loving kindnesses For they have been of old 7 My sins and faults of youth O keep not on record In mercy for thy goodness sake Remember me O Lord. 8 Perfectly good is God A sure and upright guide Therefore he 'll teach sinners his way That they go not aside 9 The humble he will guide Who do his Counsels seek And he will teach his way unto The lowly and the meek 10 For all the paths of God Are truth and mercy sure To them that do his Covenant keep And Testimonies pure 11 For thy names-sake O Lord I humbly thee intreat To pardon my iniquity For it is very great 12 Whoso doth fear the Lord The Lord
freely shew to thine 17 Let me not be asham'd O Lord For I did trust and call on thee Let wicked men be sham'd cut off In their graves silent let them be 18 To silence put the lying lips Which grievous things and false do say And hard reports in pride and scorn On righteous men do falsly lay 19 O how great is the goodness which Thou hast laid up and wrought for the◠Who fear thee and who trust in thee Even here before the sons of men 20 Thou in thy secret presence dost Hide them from cruel pride and wrongs Kept in thy close Pavilion From all the strife of lying tongues 21 All thanks and praise be to the Lord For he hath shewn and magnify'd His wondrous love to me within A City strong and fortify'd 22 I said in hast I am cut off And put even from before thine eyes Yet didst thou hear my praying voice And didst regard my mournful cries 23 O love the Lord all ye his Saints For still the Lord the faithful guards And proud Oppressors thô secure In time he plenteously rewards 24 Be of good courage and more strength He to your fainting hearts will send All ye whose hope and confidence Doth truly on the Lord depend PSALM XXXII 1 HE though a sinner blessed is Whose guilt and loath'd transgression God freely doth to him forgive Covering what he hath been and done 2 He 's blest to whom the Lord doth not Impute and charge iniquity And in whose spirit reigneth not Guile Falshood or Hypocrisie 3 While I in silence hid my sin And had not duly it confest My bones wax'd old and roaring pains All day allowed me no rest 4 Through painful weary days and nights I bare thy just and heavy hand My strength and moisture are consum'd Like Summers drought on scorched land 5 My sin I then acknowleding With humbling grief my self did blame I did confess it all to thee And did bewail my guilt and shame When my repenting soul resolv'd All to confess with grief to God Thou mercifully didst forgive And oft lay by thy chastening rod. 6 Such mercy shall encourage all The godly still in hope to pray And seek to thee in their distress In an accepted finding day Surely when waters great do swell And threatning floods cause me to fear Him that thus seeks and trusts in thee They shall not hurt or once come near 7 Thou art my help and hiding place Against all trouble fears and wrongs And thy deliverances shall cause Mine and thy peoples thankful songs 8 Saith God I 'le thee instruct and teach The righteous way where thou shalt go Mine eye shall always on thee be My guiding Counsels I 'le thee show 9 Be not like brutish Horse and Mule Which ruling understanding want But must be rul'd by bridling force And kept from hurt by mans restraint 10 To all self-flattering wicked men Their self-made sorrows do abound But him that trusteth in the Lord Mercy shall save and compass round 11 Ye righteous in the Lord be glad With thankful hearts in him rejoyce All ye that are of upright hearts Aloud sing praise with joyful voice PSALM XXXIII 1 YE righteous in the Lord rejoyce For chearful praise becometh Saints 2 Praise God with Psaltery Harp and Voice And with sweet ten-string'd Instruments 3 Play skilfully with a loud noise And sing to him a song that 's new 4 For all the Word of God is right And all his works are sure and true 5 God greatly loveth righteousness And judgment well ad ministred And with the goodness of the Lord The earth's richly replenished 6 By the Almighty Word of God The vast and glorious Heav'ns were made And by the spirit of his mouth Their whole host all their being had 7 The waters of the Sea he keeps On heaps confined by the shore He layeth up the liquid deeps As Treasures in a house of store 8 Let all the people of the earth The Lord Almighty serve with fear And all the world's inhabitants To him due awe and reverence bear 9 He spake but the creating word And it was done and all things made He did but potently command And it stood faft as firmly stay'd 10 The Counsels of the Nations rude The Ruling Lord doth bring to nought He doth defeat the multitude Of their device and wicked thought 11 But all the counsels of the Lord Do stand unchang'd for ever sure And all the purposes of God Beyond all ages do endure 12 That Nation blessed is to whom The Lord as their own God is known And those whom as an heritage He loves and chooseth for his own 13 The Lord looks down from Heav'n and sees All done by men of humane birth 14 And from his habitation views Even all the dwellers of the earth 15 He fashioneth their hearts alike And all their doings he observes 16 No King is saved by an Host Much strength no Mighty man preserves 17 A horse of war is a valn thing To save a man in time of fight Nor shall deliver any man Either by swiftness or by might 18 But upon those that do him fear The Lord doth set his gracious eye On those that on his mercy do With hope and confidence rely 19 To save them from a pining death In Famine food and life to yield 20 Our soul still waiteth for the Lord He is our help and only shield 21 Because his holy name we trust Our hearts in him shall joyful be 22 Lord let thy mercy be on us As we do place our hope in thee PSALM XXXIV 1 AT all times I will magnifie And bless the Lord with tongue and heart His joyful praises never shall Out of my thankful mouth depart 2 My soul in her preserving Lord Her boasting boldly shall express And humble men shall hear thereof And joyn therein with joyfulness 3 O magnifie the Lord with me We 'll joyntly all exalt his name 4 In all my fears I sought the Lord He heard and sav'd me from the same 5 They that to him did look for help Of light and comfort did partake Their confidence in him did not Their face at all ashamed make 6 This poor man cryed in distress The Lord to him a hearing gave And him from all his troubles did Effectually help and save 7 About all them that fear the Lord Encamped Angels always lye To save and to deliver them From every hurtful enemy 8 O taste and see that God is good Blest are all they that in him trust 9 Fear God ye Saints no hurtful want Befalls the upright walking just 10 Even Lion's young ones hungry are And often want desired food But they that seek the Lord shall not Want any thing that 's truly good 11 Teachable Children come to me My sure and tryed Counsel hear And I will teach you faithfully The true way of God's holy fear 12 What man desireth length of life And his own good doth wisely seek 13 From evil keep thy
my God alone My trust and hope do all depend Even from my raw and feeble youth It 's thou that didst me still defend 6 Thou hast sustain'd me from the womb It 's thou that safely didst take me From mother's bowels All my thanks And praise shall always be to thee 7 A wonder I to many am But thou art still my refuge strong 8 With thy praise let my mouth be fill'd And with thy honour all day long 9 Cast me not off now when old age And feebleness on me is come O do not me forsake at last When failing strength is almost gone 10 For those that are mine enemies Against me speak with bitter hate And they together counsel take Who for my life lay daily wait 11 They say His God in whom he trusts Doth wholly now this man forsake There 's none to save him now let us Him persecute and boldly take 12 O God in time of my distress Be not thou far from me away My God who art my only help Now help thou me without delay 13 Confound consume them all that are To my soul causeless enemies Let them be cloathed all with shame Who do my hurt seek and devise 14 But I will wholly trust in thee And hope in thee continually And yet with praises more and more Thy great name I will magnifie 15 Thy righteousness and saving help My mouth abroad shall daily show For I of all thy mercies great The numbers do not cannot know 16 In all my duty I 'le go on In thy strength only O my Lord And only thy own righteousness To men I 'le mention and record 17 Even from my tender youth O God By thee it is I have been taught And hitherto I have declar'd The wonders all which thou hast wrought 18 Now Lord forsake me not when I Old feeble and grey-headed grow Till to this age and all to come I shall thy strength and power show 19 High is thy righteousness O God And very great things thou hast done Lord who may be compar'd with thee Surely there is not any one 20 Thou Lord who troubles great and sore Didst bring on me and make me know Shalt quicken and bring me again Even from the depth of earth below 21 Yea thou my greatness shalt increase Thy blessings on me shall abound And with thy comforts and sweet peace Thou safely wilt enclose me round 22 I 'le use the pleasant Psaltery To make thy praises further known And with the Harp I 'le sing to thee O Israel's most Holy One. 23 My lips shall my great joy express When singing I thy praises sound My soul which thou redeemed hast Shall with her holy joy abound 24 And of thy righteousness my tongue Shall talk with joy all the day long For they confounded are with shame Who sought my hurt and-death with wrong PSALM LXXII 1 LOrd give thy judgments to the King And to his son thy righteousness 2 With right he shall thy people judge Thy poor with truth and uprightness 3 Then shall the mountains great and firm Bring to the neighbour people peace So also shall the little hills By pleasant fruits of righteousness 4 The poorest people he shall judge And he shall save the poor and weak And those that their oppressors are Cast down he shall in pieces break 5 And even from age to age shall they Reverence thy name and fear thy might As long as Sun doth shine by day Or as the Moon doth shine by night 6 He shall come down like fruitful rain Upon the grounds of late mown grass And as for watering the dry earth Refreshing showers from heav'n do pass 7 Just men shall flourish in his days And all shall have abundant peace And this continued shall be Until the Moon to shine doth cease 8 His great and blest dominion shall Widely from Sea to Sea extend And from the River it shall reach To the earth's remote utmost end 9 Those that dwell in the wilderness Humbly bow down before him must And they that are his enemies Must crowch and lick the very dust 10 The Kings of Tarshish and the Isles To him shall costly Presents bring The King of Sheba and Seba Shall send their gifts and offering 11 Yea all the greatest Kings on earth Shall prostrate down before him fall The many nations of the world Shall also humbly serve him all 12 The weak and needy he will save When they for help to him do call Also the poor and forlorn man That hath no humane help at all 13 Those that are low and indigent He shall in tender mercy spare And not oppress but save the souls Of them that weak and needy are 14 Their souls from fraud and violence His pow'r and mercy shall redeem Their blood he shall not vilifie But it as precious shall esteem 15 He shall live and to him shall be Presented Sheba's finest gold He shall be pray'd for constantly And daily be his praise extoll'd 16 The corn that grows on mountain tops Prosp'ring the reaper's hand shall fill The fruit thereof shall wave and shake Like trees on woody Lebanon hill His City shall be flourishing With store of Citizens abound Even as the green and plenteous grass Doth flourish on the fertile ground 17 His name shall last His father's name By him his son continue shall And men in him shall blessed be All nations him shall blessed call 18 And blessed be his holy name For ever by all living men 19 And with his glory let the earth Be wholly fill'd Amen Amen PSALM LXXIII 1 YEt surely God is ever good To all his Israel and to them Whose hearts are purify'd and clean And that are upright hearted men 2 But yet my weakness was so great In my time of temptation That my foot-steps had well-nigh slipt My stumbling feet were almost gone 3 For at the fools who flourished I grudg'd and looked enviously When as I saw how wicked men Do live in great prosperity 4 For there are no bands in their death Their strength shews they are fully fed 5 Other mens troubles they escape And are not like them chastened 6 Therefore with pride as with a chain About they all encompass'd are And covered with violence It as a garment they do wear 7 Their eyes stand out with fat they have More than their very hearts can wish 8 They are corrupt their wicked speech Oppressing lofty and pâ—oud is 9 They set their mouth against the Heav'ns In their prophane blaspheming talk And their reviling lavish tongue At large throughout the earth doth walk 10 And hereupon his people do Hither themselves return agen And waters of a vessel full Are drawn and wrung out unto them 11 And thus they say How can it be That God all this doth note and know And that there is in the most high Knowledge of things done here below 12 Behold these the ungodly are Who live in health and fleshly ease Who prosper in the present
themselves At us do daily laugh and flout 7 Turn us again O Lord of Hosts And upon us do thou vouchsafe To make thy pleased face to shine And then we shall again be safe 8 Thou hast a Vine from Egypt brought By thy out-stretched mighty hand And thou the heathen didst cast out And plant it in their promis'd land 9 Before it thou prepared'st room And mad'st it therein take deep root Till it did spread and multiply And so did fill the land throughout 10 Through its increase the hills about Were cloath'd and covered with its shade And like the lofty Cedar trees Her spreading branches were display'd 11 And she as far as to the sea Her prosperous fruitful boughs did send And to the bounding river's side Her out-spread branches did extend 12 Why hast thou then her fencing hedge Thus greatly broken and cast down So that all passengers her fruit Do pluck and take even as their own 13 It rooted up and wasted is By the unclean boar of the wood And all the wild beasts of the field Devour it as their proper food 14 O God of Hosts we thee beseech With help return yet unto thine With mercy look from heav'n behold And visit this thy wasted Vine 15 The Vineyard which inclosed by thee Thy right hand set and planted young And that chief branch which for thy self In it thou mad'st so high and strong 16 It is as fuel now cut down And burnt up by the raging fire They perish when thy countenance Rebuketh them with burning ire 17 Let thy defending hand be on The chosen man of thy right hand The son of man whom for thy self Thou madest strong to Rule and stand 18 So will we not go back from thee Nor from our promis'd duty fall Quicken and raise us up and we Upon thy Name will trust and call 19 Turn us again Lord God of Hosts And upon us do thou vouchsafe To make thy pleased face to shine And then we shall be ever safe PSALM LXXXI 1 UNto the glorious God our strength Sing all aloud with raised voice And unto Jacob's mighty God In praise make all a joyful noise 2 Take ye a Psalm the Timbrel bring To help our joyful melody The pleasant Harp and every string We 'll use with the sweet Psaltery 3 In the new Moon the Trumpet blow The time which God whom we obey Appointed us this use to keep Even on our solemn feast ing day 4 A statute this for Israel was A Law which Jacob's God had sent 5 To Joseph made a testimony When he from Egypt saved went He heard a speech not understood 6 The heavy burdens he did bear I from his shoulders took his hands From making pots delivered were 7 Thou call'dst in fear I saved thee And from the secret thundring sky I answer'd and at Meribah Thy wavering trust in me did try 8 Hear O my people and my mind I 'le shew and testifie to thee O Israel if thou wilt obey And truly hearken unto me 9 Then know that no strange God at all In thee I ever will allow Nor shalt thou to any strange God By way of worship kneel and bow 10 For I the Lord thy God am he Who thee from Egypt's bondage led Open thy mouth wide and thou shall By me be plentifully fed 11 But this my people would not hear This statute which to them I spake And Israel would have none of me But this my great Commandment brake 12 So to their hardened hearts and lusts I left them and so far forsook And in their own wrong way they walkt And their own foolish counsel took 13 O that my people had receiv'd My Word and Law which I thus made And Israel had walked in My righteous Laws and me obey'd 14 I should then quickly have subdu'd To them their feared enemies And turn'd my hand against all those That did as foes against them rise 15 The haters of the Lord to him Should have submission made or feign'd But as for them their prosp'rous time Should surely ever have remain'd 16 He should have fed them with the fat And finest flower of the Wheat And made the Rock with honey flow That thou thereof thy fill might'st eat PSALM LXXXII 1 IN the Assembly of the great'st The Lord o're all himself doth stand As Judge among those called Gods The mortal Rulers of the land 2 How long will ye unjustly judge And favour unjust wicked men Accepting their persons to shew That you your selves are like to them 3 Defend the poor and fatherless To all the poor oppress'd do right 4 The poor and needy ones set free Rid them from bad mens hand and might 5 They know not nor will understand In wilful darkness they walk on All the foundations of the earth Are mov'd and almost overthrown 6 I call'd you Gods for ruling power Honour'd sons of the Highest all 7 But you shall die like men and like To other mortal Princes fall 8 Arise O Lord and judge the earth And bring unjust oppressors down For thou all nations shall possess And rule them justly as thine own PSALM LXXXIII 1 LOrd do not silence keep Nor longer hold thy peace Seem not these doings to neglect And bear with wickedness 2 For now thine enemies Do rage tumultuously And they that hate thee are set up And lift their heads on high 3 They crafty Counsel take Against thy people all And against thine own hidden ones They plot and seek their fall 4 They say Let 's cut them off That they no Nation be And that the name of Israel come No more in memory 5 Together they consult With one consenting hate Even against thee thy peoples strength They are confederate 6 Edom and Ishmaelites Moab and Hagarens 7 Gebal Ammon and Amalek Tyre and the Philistines 8 Assur is with them joyn'd Lot's Children to assist 9 Do them as the Midianites And as to Sisera's host And as at Kison brook To Jabin who did fall 10 At Endor who became as dung To soil the earth withal 11 Make thou their Nobles all Like Oreb and Zeeb Let their Princes as Zeba be And as Zalmunna dead 12 Who said Let 's to our selves The houses of God take 13 My God like rowling wheels or chaff Before the wind them make 14 As fire burns wood and flame The mountains sets on fire 15 Chase and affright them with the storms And tempests of thine ire 16 With shame their faces fill That they may seek thy name 17 Let them confounded be and vext And perish in their shame 18 That men may know that thou Whom we Jehovah call In all the earth art supream Lord And highest over all PSALM LXXXIV 1 HOw lovely is thy dwelling-place O Lord of Hosts to me The tabernacles of thy grace How pleasant Lord they be 2 My thirsty soul doth long and faint The Courts of God to see My heart and even my flesh cry out O living God for thee 3 The sparrow
labour he pursues Till the approach of resting night 24 How manifold and numberless Are thy great wondrous works O Lord In wisdom thou hast made them all Earth's with thy plenteous riches stor'd 25 So is this great and spacious sea Numberless things there swim or creep Some small some of vast magnitude Made by thee to dwell in the deep 26 The Ships by man for Commerce made Go there and make the deep their way There is the great Leviathan Which thou hast made therein to play 27 On thee the bounteous Lord of life All things do daily wait that live That thou sufficing sustenance In season due to them may'st give 28 They gladly gather and receive That which thou giv'st to them for food Thou openest thy liberal hand And they are fill'd by thee with good 29 Thou hid'st thy lightsome quickening face Then sick or troubled they decay They die and to their dust return When as thou tak'st their breath away 30 Thou sendest forth thy vital spirit And they are as it were new made With beauteous verdure thou renew'st The face of earth which seem'd decay'd 31 But God's own Glory endless is It never fades or waxeth old The Lord with joy and pleasure doth His own great perfect works behold 32 His very looks do make the earth As a thing frightened to quake His touch doth make the steadfast hills Forthwith as mov'd to smoak and shake 33 I will sing praise unto the Lord The longest day I have to live And while I any being have To God I 'le joyful praises give 34 My meditation of him shall Sweeten my thoughts when they are sad And in the way to endless joy In God alone I will be glad 35 Let sinners be consum'd from earth And let the wicked no more be My soul bless thou the blessed God All Saints the glorious Lord praise ye PSALM CV 1 O Give ye thanks unto the Lord Trust ye and call upon his name And that all people may them know His deeds do you to them proclaim 2 Sing unto him to him sing Psalms Of all his wondrous works talk ye And let his great and holy name Your joyful glorying still be 3 Let all their hearts that seek the Lord Be ever joyful in his grace 4 Seek ye the Lord and his great strength Evermore seek his pleased face 5 Keep ye in constant memory The strange and great works he hath done His wonders and the judgments which His mouth to us hath truly shewn 6 O ye his servant Abraham's seed His chosen Israel's Off-spring 7 His judgments are in all the earth He is the Lord our God and King 8 He keeps in faithful memory His Covenant it shall ever stand To thousand generations His word to keep he did command 9 Which Covenant he with Abraham made And he to Isaac gave his oath 10 This Law and endless Covenant He un to Israel sealed hath 11 Saying I 'le give thee Canaan's Land Your lot of heritage is there 12 When they but few yea very few In it and utter strangers were 13 When they from land to land did go Through divers Kingdoms oft remov'd 14 He suffer'd none to do them wrong But mighty Kings for them reprov'd 15 Saying to those that sit on Thrones Let no proud or presumptuous arm Touch my anointed holy Ones Nor do my sacred Prophets harm 16 He call'd for Famine on the land And brake their vital staff of bread 17 But did before them send a man By whom they after should be fed 18 Joseph was for a servant sold His feet with hurtful fetters bound 19 In Irons laid till God's Word came And tryed he was blameless found 20 The King then sent and loosed him The People's Ruler set him free 21 He made him Lord of all his house And Ruler of his Land to be 22 To bind his Princes at his will Wisdom his Senators to teach 23 Then Israel into-Egypt came And Jacob to Ham's Land did reach 24 His people he did much increase Made stronger than their enemies 25 Whose hearts he turn'd to hate his flock By craft they did their hurt devise 26 He sent his servant Moses then And Aaron chosen did command 27 Among them they his signs did shew And many wonders in Ham's land 28 He darkness sent and made it dark And all things did his word obey 29 He turn'd their waters into blood And he thereby their fish did slay 30 Their land in swarms did bring forth frogs Even in the Chambers of their Kings 31 His word all sorts of flies and lice In all their Country quickly brings 32 For rain he gave them hurtful hail And flaming fire was in their land 33 Their Vines and their Fig-trees he smote Their other trees brake by his hand 34 He spake the word the Locusts came And Caterpillars did abound 35 Herbs of the land they eat up all Devour'd the fruits of all the ground 36 He smote the first-born of the land Till all their chiefest strength was gone 37 With gold and silver brought them forth And weak in all their Tribes were none 38 Egypt was glad when they were gone For their great fear did on them light 39 For covering he did spread a cloud And fire to lead them all by night 40 The people askt and he brought Quails With bread of heav'n he filled them 41 Waters gusht from the opened Rocks And ran in desarts like a stream 42 For on his holy promise he And on his servant Abraham thought 43 With joy his people his Elect With singing gladness forth he brought 44 And he the Lord of all them gave The wicked heathens fruitful lands And they thenceforth inherited The labour of their neighbours hands 45 That hating heathen wickedness They might observe his holy Word And his just statutes might obey All men give praise unto the Lord. PSALM CVI. 1 PRaise ye the Lord to him give thanks He 's good his mercy is endless 2 Who can describe his mighty acts Who can all his due praise express 3 Blessed are they that judgment keep Who justice practice constantly 4 Lord mind me as thou dost thine own With thy salvation visit me 5 That I may see thy chosen's good And in thy nation's joy rejoyce And with thy blest inheritance May praise thee with a glorying voice 6 We with our sinful ancestors By sin from thy just Laws have gone Iniquity we did commit And very wickedly have done 7 Our fathers did not understand Thy wondrous plagues which Egypt struck Thy many mercies they forgot At the Red-Sea did thee provoke 8 Nevertheless he saved them Even for his own supream Names-sake And that his own Almighty power He known and manifest might make 9 The Red-Sea also he rebuk'd And it was dryed up and fled And he them through the dryed depths As after through the desart led 10 From the pursuing hand of him That hated them he did them save And he did from the enemies hand Redeem
Comforter Christ's Advocate with Man 8 O Christ thou art of Glory King And thee we all confess The Father's everlasting Son His Image most express 9 When to save lost and sinful man Man's Nature thou wouldst choose To take flesh in a Virgin 's womb Thy love did not refuse 10 When thou for sinners suffered'st death Conquered'st and rose agen Heaven's Kingdom thou didst open set To all true faithful men 11 Into the heaven's ascended now Thou sit'st at God's right hand And in the Father's Glory dost Both Heaven and Earth command 12 With all the faithful we believe Thou wilt in Glory come To be our Judge and on all men To pass the final doom 13 Now therefore help thy servants Lord Whom thou redeemed hast So dearly with thy precious blood And let them not be lost 14 O let us with the blessed Saints In Glory numbred be And with them everlastingly Sing praises unto thee 15 Save thou thy chosen people Lord Bless thine inheritance Rule and preserve them and with thee In glory them advance 16 It is our daily sacred work Thy Name to glorifie World without end we would thee praise And ever magnifie 17 Vouchsafe us Lord thy grace this day Our souls from sin to save Have mercy on us sinners Lord It 's mercy which we crave 18 Lord let thy mercy fall on us In it confide we must Lord let not me confounded be For in thee do I trust The Doxologie TO Father Son and Holy Ghost One God in Trinity As ever was and as now is All Glory ever be Or To Father Son and Holy Ghost One God in Persons three Or One undivided three Or One consubstantial three Or One coeternal three All humble thanks and joyful praise Or All highest praise and humble thanks Now and for ever be Or For ever rendred be Or All Glory to the Blessed Three One ever-living Lord As at the first still shall he be Belov'd Obey'd Ador'd Or All Glory Honour Power and Praise To God that 's One in Three As it in the beginning was Is now and still shall be Or All Glory to the Blessed Three All Honour Power and Praise As at the first shall ever be Beyond the end of days Or To Father Son and Holy Ghost All Praise and Glory be therefore As in beginning was is now And shall be henceforth evermore Or Glory to thee O Lord One God in Persons Three To Father Son and Holy Ghost One equal Glory be Directions for the Vse and Tuning of the Psalms c. I. THese Psalms are set to the commonest Measures and Tunes of the Old Metre of the Psalms Psal 84.117.119 Te Deum II. To The Tune of the Old 100 Psalm or the Old 51 are 1.18.78.89.100.106.107.109.114.135.150.57.69.88 Note That the Tune of the Old 51st best agreeeth with the sadder sort of Psalms and the Tune of the Old 100. with the laudatory Psalms III. To the Tune of the Old 25 are set Psal 3.15.20 21 22.24 25.28.43.50.56.59.61.65.67.70.83.85 86 87.100.110.123.136.141 IV. To the Tune of the Old 148 are set these laudatory Psalms 47.98.136.146.148 149. and the Benedicite c. V. All the rest are set to the longer and shorter Measures and Tunes indifferently That is If you leave out the words written in a different Character they are fitted to any of the commonest shorter Tunes which are very many But if you take in the words of different Character they are fitted to the longer Tunes of the Old 51st or 100th As for instance Psalm 2. Why do the Rebel-Nations rage And People hatch a vain design The Kings of earth do set themselves And wicked Rulers do combine But if you leave out the words of a different Character in Crotchets thus then you may use any of the Common Tunes As for Instance of the same Psalm Why do the rebel-Rebel-Nations rage And hatch a vain design The Kings of earth do set themselves And Rulers do combine The reason why I so-ordered them is 1. Because Nature weary of the same is recreated with variety of Tunes And some are more for one and some for another 2. Because when brevity causeth obscurity the additional words are seen by them that use the Books as explicatory of the rest when they be not spoken And the great difference of the Letters makes it no stop to the Readers Though this was never done by any other that I know of and though it sometime make the Verse more rough I hope the benefit will compensate all this Note That some few select Psalms most fitted to mens ordinary state Humbling Deprecatory Supplicatory or Gratulatory and Laudatory should by most be learnt without Book to be ready night and day as various Occasions make them useful And times of Calamity Danger Oppression and Persecution will render men capable of a sensible understanding of the greatest part of the Psalms otherwise hardly understood which aggravate the furious Rage Malignity Violence Bloodiness and Diabolical Nature Designs and Attempts of the wicked enemies of Truth Piety and Holy Peace and teach us to fly to God only for help from these wicked and unreasonable men And it will thereby confute our offence at David's so much aggravating his and the Churches Enemies wickedness and bloody cruelty If we consider that it is not their eternal damnation that he prayeth for but publick Justice by God the universal Soveraign who hath made Justice a necessary part of Government Divine and Humane and the ordinary means of repressing Wickedness encouraging Obedience and protecting and delivering the Church and State FINIS