Lord Amen Psa 47. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme for the Sonns of Chorah It provoketh to reioicinge for the Ascention of Christ praiseth him for subiecting the world to his spiritual dominion for vniting Iewes Gentiles c. Wee should vse it to those purposes TO God all people ioyfullie Clapp hands with exultation For dreadfull is the Lord most high Great king of ev'ry Nation He vnto vs by his great powre Much people hath subjected And made our heritage the flowre Of Iacob his elected Selah 2 With trumpets with merry noise Is God the Lord ascended Oh! let him be with joyfull voice In songs of praise commended Of God our kinge the praise now sing Sing praise honour do him The Lord of all the world is king Sing praise with knowledge to him 3 God sitts vpon his holy throne Or'e all the Gentiles raigninge And calleth ev'ry willing-one To Iacobs God pertaininge For vnto God whome ev'rie tongue With high applause commendeth The worlds protection doth belonge And he the same defendeth Eternal Sonn God great in powre terrible in Iudgment King of Kings Lord of Lords who sitting on the right-hand of thy Father hast subiected the world to thy Dominion elected vnto thy selfe out of all Nations those willing-ones who are obedient to thy Call Oh grant that wee may not hide thy Talent or belie thy bountie by their perswasions who tell vs that thou expectest to reap where thou sowedst not but let vs thanckfully acknowledge thy Common grace VVhen we are perticulerly called let vs runn vnto thee by thy assisting Spirit obtain that speciall Favour which makes a sure Election and from which there is no falling So we shall see that Truth at which so many slumble with cheerfull harts triumphant voices ascribe our salvation wholy to thee all honor powre glory to thy maiesty now for ever more Amen Psa 48. A Psalm songe for the Sonns of Chorah It extolls the Lord the place of his dwelling confesseth his mercy his Bounty exhorts others to consider publish he same Wee above many other Nations should vse this to praise God for our Syon c. THe Lord is great great his Fame Should in his holy mountaine be For Syon is a goodly Frame The praise of all the world is shee Shee north-ward stands shee doth hight The Cittie of the King of might 2 The Lord is knowne to be her garde For when great kings against her came They much admir'd admiring feard And fearing fledd away with shame Ev'n with such pangs suchlike feare As women that in travaile are 3 For thou didst raise an Easterne winde Which all the shipps of Tarsus brake And Lord of Hoasts now true we finde What others of thy Cittie spake Yea wee have heard now wee see That God will still her keeper be Selah 4 Within thy Temple wee oh God Vpon thy loving-kindnes thought Thy Name is published abrode With Justice thy Right-hand is fraught And in thy Iudgments Syon shall Reioice with Iudah's daughters all Through Syon goe about her walke Her Bullworks marke her Turrets heed That of her beauties you may talke And tell her glories to your seed For God in life will be our guide And in our death our God abide Thou art worthy oh Lord God to receive honor praise powre for thou hast beautified soe fortified thy Cittie the Catholick Church thy auncient promises concerning her are so gratiouslie fulfilled that many famous Nations Kingdomes potentates who despised opposed her small beginning having since vewed her with reverence terror admiration are driven back from their Idolatries ashamed of their malitious Intentions Make vs oh God! faithfull Citizens of this thy Citty delighted so to observe publish the beauties priveledges thereof that the number of her inhabitans may be increased that wee they may there live vnder they protection for ever ever Amen Psa 49. To the cheef Musitian a Psalm for the Sonns of Chorah It declares the common vanity the solly of men in honor c. It is vsefull to comfort the weak Christian against the scandalls of the Crosse strengthens him that is offendeth at the prosperities of the wicked c. YEe dwellers all on earth give eare Both rich pore high lowe For musings deep I will declare And wisdome from my tongue shall flowe Dark Problems I will harken out A Ridle to my harpe I 'le sing For of that day what should I doubt Which all my faults will round me bring 2 They who their trust in Riches have And glorie in their wealths encrease Their brothers life shall neither save Nor with his God procure him peace For soules redemptions are so deare That no man cann sufficient have To purchase life for ever here Or scape the Dungeon of the grave 3 Men see both fooles wisemen die And that their gettings others wast Yet to their Names their lands they tie And thinck their house will ever last But man's vaine honor soone decaies Ev'n as the bruitish creature dies And though their seed their course do praise Their waies are neither safe nor wise Selah 4 Like sheep they food for death are made Who shall a cov'ring on them laie Their glories in the grave shall fade And Iust-men rise more blest then they Selah Despaire not then though some thou see Surpassing thee in place or pelfe Since God thy soul from hell will free And home receive thee to him self 5 For though their life more blest they thought And others did their path commend They to their grave shall carry nought Nor shall their pompe to them descend No to their Fathers they must passe And lie in darknes quite forgott For foolish men in honor'd place Are like the beast which dies to rott It is a Riddle oh Father of Wisdome that happines should be attained without wealth honours and such transitorie things Therfor worldings magnify them selves applaud others according to their temporal Acheivments But when Sinn followes at the heels to Iudgment when the grave shall devour our beauties when the price of Soules is required then their vanity will be apparant Grant therfor oh Lord that neither the worlds esteem of such things make vs to overvalue them nor our want of them to be discouraged but â—â—t vs be fully contented in our salvation by thee So when they perish like beasts are consumed forgotten in the grave who were honorable rich without understanding wee whome they iudged vnhappie shal at the Resurrection arise blessed and glorified through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 50. A Psalm for Asaph It prophecies of the last Iudgement summons Iewes Gentiles there vnto It declares by what lawe they shall be iudged Reprehends Hypocrites exhorts to repentance c. It is vseful to warne that wee be not hypocriticall in regard
only art the Catholick king it is no lesse then blasphemy for any other to assume that Title Rule thou therfor in thine owne Kingdome cast all Vsurpers out of thy Throne Publish thy glories to the world Let thy Truth Iustice terrify thy Foes consume all Ungodlines out of the land Root out all Idolatries that Iacob Syon thy Church her Children may reioice Enthrone thy self also in our harts let thy presence consume thence the Mountaines of our presumption with every thing which there exalts it self against thee that the hatred of Sinn the Love of thy presence the light of thy Truth the Ioye of the holy-ghost may be there established for ever ever Amen Psa 98. A Psalm The whole world is exhorted to sing the new songs of the Gospell the great powre Victories of Christ It showes also how we ought to praise him To these ends we should vse it c. NEw songs vnto the Lord indite For mighty marvailes he hath done His Right-hand hath prevaild in fight His holy Arme the conquest wonn The Gentiles have in publike vew'd Howiust healpfull he hath beene To Isr'el Truth Love he shew'd His Mercies all the world hath seene 2 Then through the world his glory sing Sing praises with triumphant voice To praise the Lord the Psalt'rie bringe And on the Harp with Psalmes reioice The Lord the King with mirth adore With Trump Flute this Ioye beginn Yee seas with all your fullnes roare Thou earth be glad all therein 3 Before the Lord your ioyes expresse Yee Flouds hills for lo he comes To judge the world with equalnes And give the people righteous doomes Almighty Sonn of God wee blesse praise thee for the manifestation of thy Mercy to the whole world in the miraculous work of our Redemption Thou didst come to us in despised weaknes Yet hast thou therein showne such vnresistable powre that it prevailed against the wisdome of the worldly-wise magnified thy derided Crosse above all the most renowned Deities of the Gentiles This thou didst by appearing in a contemptible estate Oh! how glorious how powrfull wilt thou be in thy second comming It now draweth nigh Oh! let it not come vpon vs as a theef in the night but as the Travaile vpon a womam who keepeth a iust reconing ioyeth in the hopes of her Birth more then shee feares the paines of her Travaile So according to the counsell of thy holy spirit wee may expect receive thee with praises Triumphs reioicings Amen Psa 99. It magnifieth the royall dignity of Christ exhorts to feare serve praise him according to the example of Moses Aron Samuel UUe may vse this to informe vs that wee the Patriarks have but one the same Christ our saviour THe Lord is King he doth make Betwixt the Cherubins his throne Yee people fear yee Kingdomes quake For great in Syon he is growne Or'e Nations all himself he rais'd His Name is fear'd holy to Oh! let this powrfull king be prais'd For he vprightly loves to do 2 His powre delights in righteous waies With Iacob he will justly deal The Lord our God oh therfore praise And at his holy footstool kneel His Preist with Moses A'ron was And Samuel did invoke his Name These humbly sought the Lord for grace And they from him obtaind the same 3 Hee from the Cloudie-piller spake And on his words those men relide They of his lawes did conscience make And God therfore to them replide Yea though their errors he did blame To them he did his grace afford Oh serve our God praise his Name For sacred is our God the Lord. Oh Christ who sittest betweene the Cherubims rulest both in heaven earth wee thy subiects do humbly tender our homage to thy royall Maiestie magnifieng thy Iustice thy Mercy thy powre Thou art the same yesterday to day for ever VVee beseech thee therfor to make vs both followers of the Patriarks thy servants in their faithfull obedience partakers also of those mercies which thou hast vouchsafed them Though iustly thou correc test our errors yet in pitty regard our infirmities accept our penitence hear our prayers even for the sake of thy bitter passion sweet Iesus Amen Psa 100. A Psalme of praise It commemorates two great Benifits our Creation which is common to all that Free Election which is peculier to the Chosen Flock of Christ whereby they have the Freedom of his pasturage and of his protection It is therfore vsefull to praise God for the same REioyce in God yee Nations In chearfulnes adore him With ioyfull acclamations Present your Selves before him For God the Lord did make vs No hand therein had wee He for his flock doth take vs His Pasture-sheep wee be 2 His Gates Courts possesse yee To thanck him goe yee thither His Name with gladnes blesse yee And sing his praise togither For God is kinde for ever His grace he freely daignes His Truth will faile vs never For endles it remaines Thy hands oh Lord did make vs therfor we praise thee for our Creation for all the naturall Faculties where with it pleased thee to endowe our soules bodies Thou hast also redeemed us wee therfor likwise praise thee for our Election Vocation Iustification Sanctification Illumination Preservation hope of Glorification for all the pretious Lincks of that golden Chaine wherein are ioyned together the meanes of our Salvation Thou hast wee confesse done already so much for vs that we have almost nothing to pray for but thanckfulnes the cōtinuatiō of thy free Mercies hitherto vouchsafed for which wee humbly beseech thee that wee may truly praise thee for thē for ever ever Amen Another of the same OH all yee Kingdomes praise the Lord Before him let your Ioy be showne With singing let him be ador'd And for your God let him be knowne 2 He made vs his owne wee be His Flock pasture-sheep wee are His Gates Courts then enter yee And give him thancks praises there 3 Yea praise him his Name confesse For in the Lord all good resides His Mercies his Faithfulnes Throughout all Ages firme abides Psa 101. A Psalme of David It personates Christ proposing the divine morrall political Oeconomical dutie of good Princes promising the execution there of in his Kingdome Famely This is indeed the right singing of Mercy Iudgmēt this Psalme is vsefull at the Coronatiō of Kings or when Magistrates are admitted into their places OF Iudgment of Love to thee Now Lord a song I will indite Oh come vnite thy selfe to me And I will keep my waies vpright With perfect hart my house I 'le guide No wicked thinge shall please mine eyes I 'le those detest who turne aside And all their deeds I will despise 2 No froward hart with me shall
ending Psa 17. A prayer of David It personates Christs members in persecution desiring succour comforting thē selves in hope of the blessed vision of God after their Resurrection c. It is vsefull when we have cōsidered the quality of our foes by faith applyed vnto our selves the innocency of Christ with an affection therevnto LOrd hear my cause my suites my cries Which from vnfained lipps do flowe To rightfull things decline thine eyes And from thy self let sentence goe My secret thoughts are in thy sight Thou vew'st them in the darkest night 2 Thou trid'st my fault foundst it none For from offence I kept my tongue And as for things by others done My words preserved me from wrong Oh! be thou pleasd my course to guide And stay my feet lest els they slide 3 On thee I call for thou wilt hear Lord hear my complaint attend Let thy great love to me appeare And thy right-hand my life defend Ev'n that right-hand which from their foes Gards them who trust in thee repose 4 From Tiraunts me beseiging-round From Sinners who my harme assay Lord as thine eye-ball keep me sound And over me thy wings display For they with fatt quite round are clad And haughtie braggs their mouths have made 5 Me in my waies they have withstood And sought about with downe-cast eyes Like lions when they hunt for food Or lions whelp which lurking lies But rise resist foile them Lord From Sinners gard me by thy sword 6 Lord from those world-lings gard thou me Who in this life their lot receive Who full of wealth children be And for their babes large portions leave To wake from sinn looke on thee In thine owne forme cententeth mee Accept oh Lord our weak endeavours so teach us to moderate our thoughts to govern our tongues to order our conversations that no temporal or spirituall adversarie may iustly accuse or harm vs. Take vs into thy speciall protection because our foes are powrfull crue deligent in seeking our destruction but above all keep vs from the poluted conversations affections of those whose belly is their God and whose portion of happines is in this life that when we shal awake out of our graves we may appear in thy righteousnes reioice in our happy lot be fully satified in the fruition of thee who livest raignest world without end Amen Psa 18. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord who sung vnto the Lord the words of this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of al his foes from the hand of Saul It mysticallie declareth Gods maiestical proceeding in the work of our redēption And it may be vsed to praise God for our deliverances by the Incarnation resurrection exaltation of Christ for the benifits which we receive thereby I Love the Lord for my support My horne of health is he My Rock my trust my Sheild my fort And oft hath helped me He merrits praise for when I cry Me from all foes he saves Though wrapt in pangs of death I lie And plungd in sorrowes waves 2 Yea when by death hell en-snar'd I sought the Lord in fear My God within his Temple heard And my complaints did hear Earths ground-work shook to feel his yre The trembling hills did quake His nostrills fum'de his mouth breath'd fire Which burning coales did make 3 Then downe he came heavu he bow'd His feet thick darknes hid A flieng Cherube he bestrode The winged windes he ridd A duskie fogg his Cov'ring was Dark waters were his tent Before the brightnes of his face Clouds fire hayle he sent 4 The Lord from heav'n did also make His thunders to be heard Yea when that great Almighty Spake Both fire haile appear'd His darts on ev'ry side he threwe Till they dispersed were His burning Lightninghs flashing flewe And caused them to fear 5 When he did frown a dreadfull blast He from his nostrills blow'd Which vp the seas lowe Depths did cast And Earths foundation show'd Then down he sent from among Great flouds advanced me And from those foes that were too strong He likewise garded me 6 They in my Cares did me prevent But still God was my hope He for his love-sake succour sent And gave me larger scope The Lord my Righteousnes observ'd His favour he bestow'd And as mine innocence deserv'd So he his mercy show'd 7 For in Gods wayes my walkings were From him I have not stept Still in my sight his iudgments are And I his lawes haue kept In him I instifide became For I did leave my sinn And as I iust righteous am Rewarded I haue binn 8 As he my hands did guiltles finde He so did me require For to the meek the Lord is kinde To righteous men vpright Among the pure he will be pure And on the froward frowne The poreman he will make secure And pluck the proud-man downe 9 My Darknes God shall brightnes make My Lampe enlight he shall By him I through an Army brake And overleap'd a wall Gods way is right pure is his word He saves if sought he be For who is God except the Lord Or who cann save but he 10 About my Loines he strength did binde He sett my path-way streight He made my feet out runn the Hinde And rais'd me to this height My hands to fight my Armes to bend A bowe of steel he taught His Buckler he to me did lend And saving-health it brought 11 His right-hand hath supported me His love hath made me great My stepps by him enlarged be And safe my feet are sett I did persue yea tooke my Foes And slewe til all were slaine They fell downe wounded by my blowes And could not rise againe 12 For he to fitt me for the war With powre did me indue And those who my opposers are Beneath my feet he threwe To conquer them who mee envide Me strong enough he made They cride and though to God they cride Replies nor helps they had 13 Then as the dust which whirl-windes tosse So small I them did beat And threw them forth as my rie-drosse Which lies about the streat Thus from the peoples vp-roares freed I through his grace became And now to be the Gentiles Head By him advanc'd I am 14 A nation shall my Servants be which knowes me not as yet Assoone as they have heard of me Themselves they shall submit The stranger shall stand out no more But in his Bullworks feare Oh praise the living Lord therfore Aloud Gods praise declare 15 Let God my saving-health be praisd By whome to passe it came That I above the people raisd And thus avenged am Above all them that me oppose He doth exalt my throne And saveth me from all my foes Ev'n from the Cruel-one 16 Among the gentiles now therefore I 'le thanck him for the same My song shall be for evermore In honor of his Name His king his anointed-one
I. I will no other aide emplore Then what thou shalt afford To bring me succours now therfore Thy healp defer not Lord. Healp vs oh Lord for thou only art our healper wee have no other hopes but in thee Make us not the spoile or scorne of those who desire practise the destruction of our soules But grant rather oh God! that all they who fear thee may be comforted in our speedy deliverances Reioice in thy Mercies relie on thee in their necessities ascribe all thancks honour glorie to thy blessed Name for ever more Amen Psa 71. The Church acknowledgeth God's preservation of her in her severall Ages from her manyfold Oppressers desiring to be preserved also in her last worst age c. wee on whome the worst Age is come should vse it as a prayer to be delivered from the same KEep me from shame for Lord in thee I trust Incline thine ear to healp set mee free Yea save thou mee oh Lord as thou art iust My Rock my Fort my Refuge daigne to be For Lord my strēgth thou help dost promise me 2 Mee from the powre of sinnful men defend And from their hands oh Lord that cruel are My soul on thee did in the wombe depend And since my birth thou hast of mee had care For which my tongue shal stil thy praise declare 3 Thou art my hope though wondred at I be And I will fing thy praises all the day When I am weake old Lord leave not mee For with despight my haters mee gainsay And for my soul they plotts engines lay 4 God leaves him quite say these persue take He now hath none to rescue him from thral But come oh God! speed to healp me make Oh come smite my soules Oppressors all Bring scorn shame on those who seek my fal 5 Thē still I 'le hope thy love I 'le still commend Yea still relate what favours thou hast done And of thy grace since I perceave no end Thy strength Lord God I will depend vpon And magnifie thy Righteousnes alone 6 Till now oh God! thy Marvailes I have told As from my youth I have bin taught by thee Oh leave me not when I am gray olde Till Ages all thy powre have learn'd of mee And then extold thy Iustice Lord shall be 7 None ever did such works as thou hast wrought And though my soul thou keptst awhile in paine At last as one who from the grave was brought Me to my ioyes thou didst restore againe For which my harpe to praise thy Name I strain 8 My tongue likewise in setting out thy prais Oh thou cheef saint of Isr'el part shal bear So shal my soul whose price thy bountie paies And ev'rie day thy Iustice I 'le declare Because my foes defam'd ruin'de are Oh Lord in the wombe wee had extraordinarie nourishmēt breathing for our bodies no doubt our seules had there a due nourishment by thy Spirit Being borne wee are brought into thy visible Church by Baptisine long time after sustained by thee both in soul body without having any outward work required at our hands when we are capable of the outward Covenant al thou requirest is but to give thee that hart which thou hast prepared so to doe Yet helps vs oh God in this dutie never leave us in our own hands And as thou hast in all her former ages preserved thy Church both from the rage of Iewes Gentiles Heriticks so in this her old worst age preserve her from those Hypocrites lukewarme professors who have added seacret mischeeves to publike oppressions Yea preserve her us oh God from those all other Adversaries that thy Truth may be continued to all ages the ioye of her Children restored thy blessed Name glorified for ever end ever Amen Psa 72. A Psalm for Solomon It setts forth the maiestie of Christ his kingdome for only of that Salomon are many passages of this Psalme verified it declares his Universal iudicature The Churches happines therein His marvailous Incarnation The extent Riches peaceablenes of his Kingdome c. Wee should sing it to glorify God for those things c. THe King oh God! with judgment blesse And give thy Iustice to his Sonn That to thy people in destresse With judgment Iustice may be done Then Truth Iustice florish will On ev'rie great litle hill 2 Then poorest men shall be secure For he will all Oppressors tear And whilst the sunn Moone endure From age to age they him shall fear On Earth like dropps descend he shall Like those which on the Fleece did fall 3 The Iust shall whilst he rules have peace So long as doth the moone remaine He from the River to the seas And quite throughout the world shal raigne The salvages adore him shall And all his foes before him fall 4 Arabia's prince Saba's Kinge The Lords of Seas Ilands to Shal guifts to him with homage bring So shall all Kings people doe For when they crie he setteth free The pore meek that helples be 5 The pore humble he respects He saves their soules that healples are From fraud force he them protects For in his eye their bloud is dear To him they Sheba's gold shall give And he shall prais'd prayd for live 6 His Corne shall from a handfull growe To cover all the mountaines topps Like Libanon his fruit shall showe And fill the Citties with his cropps His Fame through Ages all shall runn As everlasting as thee sunn 7 In him the Nations all abrode Shall blessed be praise him to Oh praise the Lord ev'n Isr'els God For he alone cann wonders do Still blessed be his glorious Name And earth still filled with his Flame Amē Amē Sweet Iesu who being invisible in thy Deitie didst become visible in thy humanitie by descending miraculously into the Virgines wombe like raine into Gideons fleece Grant wee beseech thee thy divine spirit may so infuse it selfe into our harts that Iustice Peace Charitie encreasing continueng vpon the earth all thy afllicted Children may be comforted secured the barbarous Nations converted thy Kingdome enlarged thyne enimies be brought into subiection thy feilds become abundantly fruitfull heaven earth be filled with thy glorie world without end Amen Psa 73. A Psalm for Asaph It expresseth how the faithfull are sometime discouraged by the prosperities of the wicked is an excellent description of such conflicts as are between the Flesh the spirit in everie Christian c. We may vse it to comfort vs in such tēptations to remember vs whither to repaire in such conflicts NO doubt God counts his Isr'el dear And loves the righteous man Yet was my foot quite gone wel-near And I to fall begann For when I fooles did honor'd vewe And Sinners lifted high And that nor sick nor weak they grewe Their weal I
hast cut short his youthful daies And him with shame thou dost confound Good Lord in thy enflamed rage Shall still thy face obscur'd remaine Oh minde the shortnes of mine age Why shouldst thy make mankind in vanie 14 Who lives whome Death shal not remove Or who from Death is ever free Selah Oh Lord where now is all that Love To David vow'd of old by thee Thy servants great reproach record And in my breast what scornes I bear Among those mightie Nations Lord Who likewise thy blaspheamers are 15 Oh God! ev'n thy Anointed-one They have derided in his waies But Lord what ever they have done To thee for evermore be praise Most gratious God thou hast not only promised thy mercifull assistance to all true beleevers but with an Oath also confirmed the same for the better strengthning of our weak faith Grant we pray thee that we neither become distrustfull of so gratious an Assurance neither discouraged by those Afflictions persecutions where withal thou shalt please to purg our corruptions nor be overcome by those tēptatiōs whereby our faith is exercised in the day of triall but cause us to depend on thy promise to be couragious victorious in all our battailes Give us wisdome likewise so to descern who are the true seed of David to whom the performāce of thy Covenant doth cheefly appertaine that wee deceave not our selves by a false application of thy spiritual promises nor delude our soules with temporarie hopes or fears But make vs ever constant both in that which wee ought to beleeve on thy part in that which is to be performed on our parts through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 90. The prayer of Moses the man of God In this Psalme the humane Nature which as the word Moses signifieth was Drawne out ev'n from the waters of perdition praiseth God for his eternal decree of her Restauration confesseth her vanity mortality c. To the same purpose wee should vse it LOrd thou art alwaies our abode Before the world beginning had Thou wer't eternally our God Yea long e're heav'n earth were made Thou say'st yee sonns of men returne And streight return'd to dust they be As one nights watch or day outworne So are a thousand yeares to thee 2 Thou like a Floud as in a dream Shalt sweep them suddenly away For like the flowring grasse they seem That springs fadeth in a day One frowne of thine consumes vs quite Thy wrath our troubles doth renewe Thou set'st our sinns before thy sight And bring'st our secret faults to vewe 3 Our tyme through thy displeasure wears And like a Tale that 's told are wee Our life is done at seaventie years Or eighty when wee strongest be For all the rest wee spend in woe And vanish e're wee be aware Thine Anger 's force Lord who doth knowe As is thy wrath such is thy fear 4 Instruct vs how to count our dayes That so our harts may wisdome learne And make thou Lord no long delaies But pleased now to me returne To vs betimes thy favour daigne That wee may all our life be glad And dayes years of joye obtaine For those of greef which wee have had 5 Thy workings let thy servants vewe Thy glories let their Children see Oh Lord our God! thy Beautie shewe Still shining on vs let it bee And all our works oh God we pray Establish thou so direct That well our labours prosper may And blessed be with good effect Instruct vs oh blessed God so to consider our vanities our errors the vncertainty of our short lives that wee may redeem the time by true Faith ioind with Christian prudence so order our Conversations that thy wrath may be appeased our sinns blotted away all our sorrowes turned into Ioyes Moreover during our short abiding here vouchsafe vs thy favour so assist our weak endeavours that wee may to thy glory finish the worke for which thou hast placed vs in this world And though our works be vnprofitable or such as like stuble will not abide the Fiery-triall yet let that which we shall build vp be at least grounded on the right Foundation that wee our selves may be safe through the free mercies of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 91. This Psalme shewes that such as abide beleeve in Christ shal be secured from publike private calamities by an especiall protection of what nature soever their perills be at least the mischeef of them shall be prevented life eternal vouchsafed c. It is vsefull to strengthen Faith in great plagues general dangers WHo in the Closet the shade Of God almighty still resides Is by his Highnes fearles made And alway safe with him abides For I confesse the Lord hath binn A Fortresse a Rock to mee My God alone I trusted in And he my trust shall all waies be 2 He will no doubt secure thee from The Fowlers traps noysome Pest His wings thy shelter shall become Thou shalt beneath his feathers rest Thou for thy Sheild his Truth shalt bear And nothing then shall thee dismay Not that which wee at Midnight fear Nor any shaft that flies by day 3 No secret plague offend thee shall Nor what in publike wasts the Land Though at thy side a thousand fall And tenn tymes more at thy right-hand But thou shalt live to mark see The due reward of men vniust For God most high will favour thee Because in him thou putst thy trust 4 No mischeef shall to thee betide Nor any plague thy house infect For he doth Angell-gards provide Which in thy waies will thee protect Their hands will thee vprightly lead And from thy Paths all harmes expell Thou shalt on Aspes Lions tread On Lions younge on Dragons fell 5 For seeing his delight I am I will saith God be still his garde And since he knowes my holy Name To honours high he shall be rear'd When he doth call an ear I 'le give In troubles I with him will be On earth he longe shall honor'd live And he my saving-health shall see Blessed God giue us such assured confidence in thee that wee may be secured in those publike calamities for which our publike sinns have deserved thy scourge be delivered also from the mischeef of those perticuler punishments which our personal offences may iustly bring vpon vs. But how soever thou dealest with our bodies in this life let our soules be saved from the plauge of everlasting Death Let thy holy Angells keep vs in all our waies give vs thy grace to keep the waies in which thou hast appointed vs to walk VVhatsoever perills or terrors affront vs give courage to passe through them in the execution of our lawfull Callings without dismay or distrust And though they bring some smart let them not hinder but rather further the accomplishment of our eternal safety through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Another of the same
WHo resteth in the shade of God most high Within his privy-Chambers is reposed And therfor in my selfe thus mused I Thee as a Fort thy God hath round enclosed And is that Rock on which thou shalt rely 2 For he no doubt wil thy defender be From fowlers netts pestilent infection He with his wings will overshaddowe thee His Feathers wil become thy safe protection And for thy Sheild his Truth provideth he 3 No fear that lurks in darknes thee shal fright No arrow that abrode by day-time flieth No secret plague that walks about by night Nor that which in the street at noon-day slayeth Shal make thee fear how nigh soe're it light 4 A thousand faint sinck beside thee shall At thy right-hand ten thousand breathles lieng And yet thou shalt receive no harme at all But only see God's Iustice by espieng The due reward of sinners in their fall 5 For thou dost hope in him therfore hee Ev'n God that is most hye most excelling Wil neither let thee wrong'd nor harmed be Nor suffer any plague to touch thy dwelling But place his gard of Angells over thee 6 They in thy waies will thee conduct along And in their hands vphold thee as thy leaders That not a stone shal do thy footing wrong Yea thou vnhurt shalt sett thy foot on adders On dragons on lions old yong 7 For him that mee doth love th' Almighty sayes I will secure from sorrowes oppression That man likewise to honour I wil raise Who knowes my Name lives in that profession And I will give an answere when he prayes 8 In troublous times to him I will be nigh And out of all his cares I will repreeve him Him I will blesse greatlie dignify His fill of dayes I will moreover give him And granr him grace to live eternally Psa 92. A Psalm or song for the Sabbath It seems not vnproper for that great Sabbath in which wee commemorate our Saviours resurrection for it magnifieth God for the exaltation of the Righteous for the blessednes of his later end c. RIght good it is oh Lord most hye Thy praises to recite Thy Truth Love to magnifie At morning at night With tenn-string'd Instruments to sing The praises of thy Name And that wee harpes Psalt'ries bring To solemnize the same 2 For Lord thy works reioice my hart Thy Deeds my soul do chear How wonderfull in them thou are How deep thy muzings are The Foole Wordling nether knowe Nor heed such things at all And though like flowrs the wicked showe Their prospring proves their fall 3 But Lord thou allwaies art most hye Mark therfor Mark I pray How sinnfull men despersed flye And how thy foes decay My horne the Vnicorne's o're-topps Sweet-oyle is pourd on me And on my Foes my wished hopes I shall both hear see 4 The Iust shall flourish as the boughs Of Palmes Cedars do Or as the trees which round God's house Within his Courts do growe Yea they when age on them doth light Growe fruitfull fatt greene To prove the Lord my Rock vpright And blameles to have beene VVonderfull art thou oh Lord in all thy workings though thy purposes are deeper then our imaginations Yet by that which thou hast manifested wee behold in them great cause of much reioicing wee desire to praise thee for them with all our harts VVee have heretofore repined at the flourishings of the wicked at our owne suffrings But make vs hereafter to vnderstand that their prosperities are permitted to encrease their shame our humiliations vouchsafed that they may the more dignify our exaltations as it befell our blessed Saviour whose infamous Death occasioned that glorious resurrection which we commemorate in our Christian Sabbath Oh! make vs in due time partakers of his Rest grant that our olde age our last howres may be found fruitfull to thy glory our salvation through Iesus Christ Amen Psa 93. This Psalme prophecied the powre maiesty of Christ the perpetuity of his Kingdome in despight of all their fury who should rage against it c. Wee may sing it to comfort vs against the rage of the Devill his members THe Lord is King weareth A Robe of Glory bright He cloth'd with strength appeareth And girt with powrfull might The Earth he so hath grounded That moov'd it cannot be His Throne long since was founded More old then Time is he 2 The waters highly flowed And raisd their voice oh Lord The seas their furie showed And loud their Billowes roar'd But God in strength excelleth Strong seas powrfull deeps With him still purenes dwelleth And firm his Truth he keeps Oh Lord God Kings of Kings incomprehensible in Maiestie and in powre infinite give vs grace so to meditate thy vnspeakable Attributes that neither the frailties within vs nor the terrers without make vs distrustfull of our safety in thee For thou art our King our Lord our God Thou hast Wisdome enough to know what is best for vs Powre enough to effect it Love enough to grant it Perpetuitie enough to continue it Oh! give vs but grace faith enough to beleeve apply it though the Waters rage never so horribly we shall vndoubtedly be safe for ever and ever Amen Psa 94. The Church invokes Christ to come to Iudgment in regard of the cruelty of her Oppressors shewes the cause of their folly presumption c. It serves to informe how ignorant carnall men are of the powre waies of God may help to keep vs vndiscouraged during their Insultings c. LOrd God whose claime avengments are Thy selfe the Iust Avenger showe Thou judge of all arise draw near And on the proud their meed bestowe For Lord how long alas how long Shall sinners Ioye in doeng wrong 2 Despightfull words their tongues have spoke Great braggs the wicked have exprest Yea Lord thy people they have strook And thine Inheritance opprest They widdowes the stranger slay They Orphanes vnto death betray 3 For God say those will never knowe This Iacob's God shall never see Oh learne yee fooles more wise to growe Yee people fond more prudent be Cann hee or deaf or blinde be made From whome both ears eyes you had 4 He to the Nations ev'ry where Corrections Instructions gives To scourg you then will hee forbear Who all mens fruitles thoughts perceives They blessed are whome Lord thou chid'st And they whome in thy Lawe thou guid'st 5 Thou giv'st them rest when mischeevs rage Till pitts prepar'd for Sinners be And Lord thy Flock Heritage Shall never quite be left of thee In Iudgment Iustice shall be shewed And of all faithfull harts persued 6 Who will with mee lew'd men resist Or take my part against the badd Sure God himself doth mee assist My soul had els bene silent made But when I sayd that fall I should Mee Lord
assembled are For they God's works to minde will bring Who love to them doe bear Most famous deeds the Lord hath done His Iustice hath no ends His works are worthy to be knowne His bounty farr extends 2 All them that feare his Name he feeds His League he thinks vpon And for his folke by wondrous deeds The Gentiles Realmes he wonn His hands have Truth Iustice wrought His precepts all are sure With Truth Iudgment fully fraught For ever to endure 3 God sent and hath his Flock redeemd His Leagues eternall are His Name is rev'rently esteem'd And full of holy-feare The feare of God is Wisdome's gate And therefore wise is he Who seekes to enter in thereat His praises endles be Most mercifull Father wōderfull in thy workings dreadfull in thy iudgments vnfallable in thy Truth vnspeakable in thy Mercies fill us we pray thee with that sanctified Feare which is the beginning of true UUisdome So manifest vnto us thy eternall Truth so remember us of thy Covenant so feede us with spirituall nourishments that we may be strengthned to walk in thy wayes at the last enter the Gates of eternall blessednes through the mediation of Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Another of the same AL praise to God my hart now render shall Before the Iust of him I 'le mention make Confessing that his wond'rous Actions all Deserve that wee should pleasure in them take Exceeding great his glorious deeds appear From age to Age his Iustice doth extend Growne famous all his glorious workings are His Bounties his Mercies have no end In feeding such as feare him he is free Kept firme his promise is from age to age Long since that so his Folk his powr might see Made were the Gentiles lands their heritage Nor Truth nor Iustice passe but from his hand Of all his lawes the firme fullfillings be Provided soe that they shall ever stand Quit from all wrongs from all falshoods free Redeemer of his people he became So firme a League likewise he did ordaine That he hath fixt fortifide the same Vnchangably for ever to remaine With holines feare he clothes his Name Yea Wisdome's first foundation is his fear Right wise are they that well observe the same And such from Age to age commended are Psa 112. Halelujah It mentions many priveledges properties of the Elect shewes that the wicked for their greater vexation shall behold their happines c. It is a consolatory Hymne and serves to keep vndiscouraged those whoe are exercised by the skoffs prosperities of worldlings WHo on Gods lawe his love doth place And feareth him right blest is hee God will on earth advance his race And blest his faithfull seed shall be His house with plenty shall be dight His Iustice shall not be confinde In darknes he shall still have light For he is meek just kinde 2 The righteous lends helps the pore His dealings he discreetly weighes His fame abides for evermore And in a state vnchangd he staies He starts not evill Newes to heare On God his hopes muzings be His hart is fixt will not fear Till on his foes his wish he see 3 He on the pore doth Almes bestowe And alway just he doth abide For which his horne shall powrfull growe And with renowne be dignifide Which when vngodly men perceave They shall through envy despight Growe furious gnash their teeth greeve And loose thir hopes longings quite VVe humbly beseech thee oh mercifull God to infuse into our harts such a filial fear of thee Such a firme trust in thy Mercies Such a prudent regard to all things which are necessarily pertinent to our selves So charitable a respect vnto the necessities of our pore brethren soe constant a willingnes to performe all the duties in which we are obliged to any of thy Creatures That being without slavish terrors we may be couragious what rumors soever we hear enioy the commodities of this life to the vexation of our spiritual foes eternall Blessednes hereafter to thy glory Amen Another of the same ALl they that fear the Lord attaine to blisse Because that such delight God's will to doe Conferd on them shall honors be for this Deriving to their seed great blessings to Encreasing wealth their houses full shall fill For aye the Iustman's righteousnes remaines Great light on him in darknes beameth still He righteous is kinde Mercy daignes If need require he lends gives besides Kept streight are all his waies by prudent care Layd fast his groundworke are firme he bides Made endles his memorialls likewise are No fears he feels though evill Newes there be On God with fixed hart he doth relie Puts trust in him not shrincking till that hee Quite overthrowne doth all his foes espie Releef among the pore bestoweth he So keeping still his dealings all vpright That him advanc'd Vngodly men shall see Vex gnash their teeth loose their lōgings quite Psa 113. Halelujah It magnifieth God for his great love to mankinde both in generall perticuler But cheefly for extending his Church so vniversally for raising us from the dunghills of corrupted Nature to the thrones of Grace for taking away our spiritual sterrillity c. The vse appears YEe servants of the Lord With praise Gods Name adore The Name of God the Lord Blesse now evermore Oh sing his praise Through ev'ry place which in his race The Sunn survaies 2 All nations fear his powres His glory mounts the sky There is no God like ours No other Lord so high Yet he doth bowe All things to see that in heavn be Or Earth belowe 3 The pore from ground he fetts From dyrt the meek he brings And them with kings he setts Ev'n with his peoples kings And her that had A barren wombe he made become A mother glad Glorious Lord God! who to the confusion of the proud hauty hast made choise of the vile despised things of this world thereby to magnify thy Name Raise us we pray thee from the Dunghill of our Corrupted Nature that by thy Grace wee may become Rulers over our owne Affections And make us also who have bene heretofore barren in all Goodnes so fruitfull hereafter in Faith good-works that our soules may be saved thy Name glorified through out the whole world for ever ever Amen Another of the same PRaise yee the Lord blesse his Name Yea now ever blesse the same Yee servants of the Lord our God For from the Sunns ascending place Ev'n to the vtmost of his race His Name 's due praise is fam'd abrode Or'e Nations all yea or'e the Sphears The Lord our God his glory rears And never was his equall found For though his dwelling he on high He doth beholde with humbled eye All things in heav'n on the ground 2 The pore from dust mire he brings To sit with Princes with Kings
world as appeares Rom. 15. We should sing it to praise God for his Universal Grace GOd's praise yee Nations all declare The Lord yee people all adore For large to vs his Mercies are His Truth endures for evermore Haleluiah VVee praise thee oh Father of Mercy for that Vniversall Grace which thou hast vouchsafed in offring thy salvation without respect of persons vnto all mankinde forsaking none vntill they have first forsaken thee Make effectuall vnto vs wee beseech thee this generall favour That wee embracing the same by the Will which thou first makest capable of what thou presentest therevnto and that co-operating with thy Spirit according to the powre which thou shalt give vs we may be pertakers of that speciall grace which makes vs the Obiects of thy eternall Election from which there is no falling away Grant this even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Psa 118. This Psalme Christ applied vnto himself Math 24. For he is that Corner-stone here mentioned Here also are mistically touched vpon his Passion Resurrection sonne other Evangelicall Uerities It is therefore vsed by our Church as proper for Easterday THe Lord is good him therfor blesse And for his Grace that faileth never Let Isr'el also now confesse His Mercy doth abide for ever Yea let the house of Aron say His Mercies have no ending day 2 Let all who fear him publish out His Mercies that eternal be For when at need his healp I sought Hee heard my plaint sett me free And since the Lord is thus mine Aide Of man I cannot be afraid 3 My helpers God's assistance have And I perceave it on my Foes More safe it is God's help to crave Then on man's healping to repose Yea faith in God more safety brings Then to rely on mighty kings 4 All nations seige to mee did lay But in Gods Name I them destroyd They me beleaguer'd ev'ry way But in Gods Name I them destroy'd As Bees they compast me about Like fire in thornes soone in soone out 5 I soone destroy'd them in Gods Name For when they sought to do me wrong The Lord my gratious ayde became My strength my health my ioyfull song And in his house the Iust may sing What God's right-hand to passe did bring 6 For God's right-hand is lifted high Greats things the Lords right-hand hath wrought And from the Grave escap'd am I To tell what God to passe hath brought For though he sore afflicted me Yet he from death did sett me free 7 Of Righteousnes vnclose the gate That I God's praises may expresse This Gate is God's yea this is that By which the Righteous have accesse And him I 'le praise for it is hee That heares healps saveth me 8 That 's now the cheefest Corner-stone Which once the builders did despise It was the work of God alone And seemeth wondrous in our eyes This is the day the Lord hath made Come let vs all therein be glad 9 Save Lord oh save vs Lord wee pray Blesse him that commeth in thy Name That from his house God blesse vs may We pray much desire the same For God's the Lord by whome our fight Obtaines the Vision of his Light 13 With Cords the Sacrifices binde Them to the Aulters Corners tye Thou art my God whose praise I 'le minde My God whome I will glorify Oh! praise the Lord. for great is he And without end his Mercies be Oh Lord Christ our saviour Thou art that pretious corner-stone which vnites nor Iewes Gentiles only but even the Godhead the Manhood into one spirituall Buildinge Thou art he by whome all our Enimies are destroyed Thou art hee by whome wee escape the grave of sinn the terrors of everlasting Death Thou only art that Gate of Righteousnes by which wee enter into life eternal And thou only art that Light in whose blessed Vision our happines doth consist Oh give vs part in all that which thy Incarnation Passion Death Buriall Resurrection Ascention hath merrited conquered for vs if it please thee let this be the Day which thou hast made to fill vs with such a gladnes as shall make vs ioyfull for ever more Amen Psa 119. This Psalme consisteth of many exhortations promises prayers complaints consolations directions Resolutions thancksgivings varciously intermixt according to the Churches various Occasions principally informes that God's word is the Rule of Life c. Alaph 1. HEe 's blest that in the perfect way Of God's pure Lawe hath trod Who doth his Testaments obay And wholy seeketh God For such will take no ill in hand Nor from his Pathway swarve But Lord as thou dost give command Thy Precepts they observe 2 Would God! my waies were so direct That keep thy Lawes I might For whilst I thy Commandes respect On mee no shame cann light With vpright hart thee praise I will When learn'd thy Iudgments be And then I will thy Lawes fullfill Therefore forsake not mee Another of the same ALl those are blest that in a blameles way Have by the Lawe of God their feet confinde As blest are those that his Decrees obay With all their harts desiring him to finde An evill act they never take in hand Nor frō Gods Pathway shall their footing swarve Wee likewise are inioyn'd by thy Command That wee thy Precepts duely should observe Ah! therefor would my wayes were guided so That all thy Statutes well observe I might For if thy Lawes I have regard vnto No shame at all on mee shall then alight And when thy righteous Iudgments I have learn'd With hart sincere I 'le sing thy praise therefore To keep thy Lawes I will moreover learne Oh! then forsake me not for ever more Give us oh Lord such perfect knowledge of thy Lawe such regard of thy Testimonies such practise in thy Waies such obedience to thy Precepts such love to thy Statutes Such diligence in thy commands such awe of thy Iudgments that our vnderstanding may be freed from error our Conversations from polution our Affections from vanity that thou mayst ever be glorified by us wee never be forsaken of thee Even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Beth. 2. HOw cann youth's pathway cleansed be But by thy word oh Lord With all my hart I seek to thee Oh! guide mee by thy word I 'le keep thy Lawe with all my hart That I displease not thee Oh Lord that alway blessed art Thy Statutes teach to mee 2 To preach the Iudgments of thy Mouth My lipps I will employ For in thy Testimonies truth As in great wealth I ioye Vpon thy Lawes VVaies alone My thoughts Love are sett Thy Statutes my delight is on Thy UUord I 'le not forget Another of the same BY what may yongmēs wayes made blameles be But by their taking heed vnto thy UUord With all my hart I have desired thee From thy Commands let me not wander Lord. By layeng vp thy VVord within my hart To keep
Yet now disgrac'd thou throw'st vs by Our Hoast thou dost forsake Before our foes thou mak'st vs fly And spoiles from vs they take 4 Thou makest vs the Gentiles meat And vs like sheep they slaie We scattred for sale are sett To those who nothing paie At vs our neighbours laugh ieer Of vs they proverbs make The people round vs mock fleer At vs their heads they shake 5 Disgrace is alwaies in my sight And redd with shame I grow To hear the scornfull words of spight And railings of my foe Yet wee O Lord forget not thee Nor from thy cov'nant stray Nor changed in our harts are we Nor gone out of thy way 6 Nay though opprest in death's black shade Wee lodg'd with Dragons lie Thy Name wee nor forgotten had Nor to strang Gods did crie Yea Lord thou know'st who know'st each thought That daylie for thy sake We fare like sheep to slaughter brought And so our deaths wee take 7 Lord wake rise why sleepst thou so Reiect vs no for aye Why shouldst thou disrespect our woe And hide thy face away Behold ev'n to the dust wee make Our soules bodies bend Redeem vs for thy mercie sake Arise vs defend Deliver vs oh Lord from all our adversaries make vs to be still mindfull what wee have aunciently heard concerning thee from others what experience we our selves have had of thy iudgments and Mercies from time to time that neither our prosperities make vs arrogate any thing to our selves nor our Afflictions or persecutions cause vs to blaspheame or forget thee Yea though we should become the scorne laughing-stock of our Neighbours a prey to our foes be alwaies as the sheep appointed for slaugher yet keep vs vnchanged in the true Religeon in our love to thee That thou to whome both our outward Trialls our inward sinceritie is ever knowne mayst in due time help save vs whome thou hast redeemed through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 45. To the Cheef Musitian vpon Shosannim for the Sonns of Chorah Maschil It is as it were Christ's marriage-song and setts forth the glorie of that bridegroome of his Spouze It is vsefull to stir vp our spirituall affection to Christs c. MY tongue shall prompt the writers penn My thoughts of thee oh King to tell For thou excellst the Sonns of men And on thy lipps all graces dwell God wil thee blesse for evermore Great Conquerour vnto thy side With honor gird thy sword therefore And forward in thy Triumphs ride 2 Thy Righthand shall by deeds vpright By Truth Meeknes wonders doe Thy shafts thy foes to death shall smite And make the people serve thee to Eternal is thy Throne of state Thy Scepter from all wrong is free Thou Iustice lov'st thou Sinn dost hate And therfor God anointed thee 3 Yea thine owne God thy head anoints Ev'n with his oyle of Ioyfulnes And thee above thy Mates appoints The place of Sov'raigne to possesse The pretious Robes which thou put'st on Of Aloes Cassia of Mirrh Smell round about thine yv'rie throne When they thy hart have cheared there 4 Kings daughters have at all times bene Among thy Maides of honour found And at thy righthand stands the Queene In Ophir gold arayd crown'd Hear daughter my words respect Forget thy fathers kindred now And that the king may thee affect Him for thy Lord acknowledg thou 5 Then shall the Daughters come from Tyre And bring rich presents vnto thee The wealthy shall thy grace desire And Suitors for thy favours be The Daughter of the King doth wear An vpper garment wrought with gold But if her in-side should appear You all perfections would behold 6 Her to the kinge present they shall In Robes which are by needels wrought Ev'n with her fellowe Virgines all Attending her shee shall be brought They shall into his pallace come With ioyfull hart merry chear And shee shall in her fathers Roome To be her comforts Children bear 7 Great kings on earth shee them shall make And cause that men in future daies Such notice of her Name shall take That nations all shall sing her praise Most amiable Bridegroome of our seules whose excellencies ravish with spirituall affections all those who cann apprehend the beamings of thy maiesty with true faith Proceed on in the manifestation of thy powre Enflame our hart by the vision of thy perfections make our persons acceptable by the reflection of thy beauties enrich vs outwardly with the goldē embroideries of goodworks adorne vs inwardly with the Iewells of Divine graces and let thy holie-Spirit brings vs vnto thee acompanied with so many vnpoluted Affections that thou maiest take pleasure in our comelines and that we forgetting our carnall desires and wholie renouncing our selves may have our full contentation in thy dear embraces and enioy all the priveledges belonging to thy Spouze for ever and ever Amen Psa 46. To the cheef Musitian for the sonns of Chorah a song vpon Alamoth It expresseth on Assurance of God's protection the reasons thereof with an exhortation also to take notise of God's powre It is vsefull to vs for those purposes c. God is my strength when dangers are A ready healp approoved Therfore wee would not stand in feare Though all the world were mooved No though the Flouds had flowed-o're The highest earthlie dwellings And Seas did make the hillie shore To tremble at their swellings Selah 2 There is a River which doth glad The place where God resideth And happie is that Cittie made Because he there abideth Her vn-remoov'd firme to sett He timelie vndertaketh And though Realmes rave heathens frett Earth melts when he but speaketh 3 The Lord of hoasts our part will take Vs Iacobs God protecteth Selah Oh come therefore notise take What wonders God effecteth What wa st spoiles when he shall please Among mankinde he sendeth And how he makes both warr peace As far as land extendeth 4 He cutts the spear he breakes the bowe And he the Charret fireth Be still saith hee also know Your God the samer equireth I will divulge my fame abrode To ev'ry ethnick Nation The Lord of Hoasts ev'n Iacobs God With vs is our Salvation Selah No distrust have our soules oh Lord of thy loving protection yet when the contract betwixt thee vs was first published the whole world of our enimies raged at our preferment all the Corruptions of our Nature did furiously oppose our vnion And but that wee were strengthned by thy continuall presence refreshed by the ever-flowing River of thy grace they had shaken perhaps overthrown our Constancie Oh! continue thy assistance to our comfort their further vexation Protect vs from every evill confirm vs in all goodnes so break the weapons engines of vngodlines that all the world may extoll thy works wee continue for ever in thy Salvation through Iesus Christ our
thy holy name beseeching thee so to moisten the clodds of our harts with dewes from above that wee whome thou hast planted in thy visible Garden may not be lesse fruitfull then those to whome thou hast not yet vouchsafed the same priveledges But grant that both wee they according to what we have received may bring forth fruites acceptable vnto thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 66. A song a Psalme It praiseth God both for temporall spirituall blessings especially for the great benifit of our vniversall Redēption which is typically expressed by allusion to the Iewes deliverance from the Egiptian bondage c. It may be sung to praise God for our deliverances from sinn the Devil c. YEe kingdomes all God's praise expresse In songs exalt land his Name To him his dreadfull Acts confesse And how his Arme his foes doth tame Let all the world before him bowe With singing to his Name him Selah And let all men more heedfull growe What dreadfull things he did for them 2 The sea he dri'de through the Maine Wee walk'd on foote him praising there He hath obtain'd a boundles raigne And of all Nations he hath care He will not let the Rebells thrive Selah Oh! blesse our God sing his praise For he preserves our soul alive And he from slipps our footing staies 3 By thee oh God! wee prooved were Like silver tried refin'de Thou didst entrap vs in a snare And round our loines affllictions binde Above our heads thou mad'st men ride And through both Flouds fires we came But thou didst rest at last provide And I will praise thee for the same 4 Ev'n in thy house those vowes I 'le pay Which in destresse were sworne by mee Fatt Rams Bullocks I will slay And burne sweet incense vnto thee Selah Come hither yee that fear the Lord And hear what for my soule he wrought When his assistance I emplor'd And him with praise-full voice besought 5 If any sinn my hart affects The Lord will then withdraw his eare But surelie God my suite affects For he my vocall moane did hear Oh! let him ever praised be For not reiecting my request And for his Mercie shew'd to me Oh! let him be for ever blest Blessed be thy Name oh gratious God for all thy benifitts especially for our many spiritual deliverances which are everie day as wonderfull now as when the Redd-sea was dried up For through Seas of terrors Deserts of tribulations wee passe many Dangers many trialls many enterchanges of Adversitie prosperitie in this life to refine prepare us for a blessed habitation that without impeachment to thy Iustice wee may be made capable of thy free-Mercie Oh! root out of our harts that affection to sinn which interrupts thy hearing of our prayers and grant that by sacrifizinge our brutish affections offring vp the sweet Incense of a Faith fruitfull in Good works wee may declare our selves thanckfull vnto thee and that wee our Oblation may be made acceptable through the Merrits of Iesus Christ Amen Psa 67. To the cheef Musitian vpon Neginoth a Psalme a song It expresseth a longing for the vniversall spreading of that saving grace which is offred to Iewes Gentiles shewes the blessednes which will succeed the same It is daylie sung in our Liturgie for the enlargment of the Catholick Faith THy blessing Lord bestowe Shewe vs thy glorious Face Selah That all the world thy waies may knowe And see thy saving-grace 2 Let all men give thee praise Let all sing praise to thee Let nations all sing out thy praise For thou their Iudge must be 3 God is the Nations kinge Selah Let Nations all therefore Let Nations all vnto him sing And praise him ever more 4 Then earth shall give encrease And God whose Folke wee are That God shall vs vouchsafe to blesse And him the world shall fear Allmighty God vouchsafe that wee whome thou hast alreadie enlightned with a gratious measure of thy Saving-knowledge may so evidently enioy also thy protection the continuall brightnes of thy Favour that all the Nations of the world beholding the benifit of thy Service may be allured to ioyne with us in magnifienge of thee Let also a due consideration that thou art Vniversall king makes vs beleeve that thou hast provided means of salvation for all thy Subiects and let the remembrance that thou art vniversall Iudge make vs all so fruitfull that thou maist be vniversally feared glorified wee blessed world without end Amen Psa 68. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme or song of David It is a Prophecie of Christ Heb. 4. 8. Herein by allusion to some passages in the olde Testament many Evangelical mysteries are shaddowed out to witt the Resurrection Ascention sending of the holy-ghost Callinge of the Gentiles c. It is vsefull to commemorate those mysteries c. LEt God arise all his Foes affright Let those that hate him be despers'd flie Let Sinners passe like smoke out of his sight And melt like wax which in the fire doth lie But from the Iust let him expel their sadnes And make them glad in him with perfect gladnes 2 Oh! prais Gods name who rides above the sphear His Name Eternal in your Songs commend For in his holy-place he still appeares The Orphanes Father the widdowes freind He captives frees he strangers entertaineth And for the proud a fruitles land ordaineth 3 Whē thou didst Lord thy peoples passage make And waies for thē through deserts vast prepare At sight of thee both heav'n earth did shake Yea Sinai shook when Isr'els God was there Thou gav'st thy flock sweet raines as need required And mad'st thē strōg whē they were weak tired 4 There dwelleth now thy Congregation Lord Where for the pore thy goodnes roō had made Whē thou thy self hadst first proclaim'd the word Great Armies thē of Preachers there they had Kings troupes did flie shee the spoile divided Who came not forth but in her tent resided 5 Ye shal be made tho lodg'd with pots ye were As fair as doves with gold silver wings As white as snowe in Salmon did appeare When there the Lord dispersed mighty Kings Like Bashan hill God's holy mountaine sheweth And Bashan-like all other hills or'e veweth 6 This hill is God's hee inhabits here Then why insult yee soe yee meaner hills God's charrets twice ten thousand Augells are And he by them in holy Sinai dwells Ascending high ev'n thraldome he enthralled And bought vs guifts whē we his foes were called 7 Thus God hath done that he might dwel in vs. Oh! let this God our saviour blessed be Selah For with good things he dailie lodeth vs And God of Life Lord of death is hee He breaks the heads of those that him receive not And wounds the crown of him that sinning leavs 8 From Bashan the Deeps I wil saith God Bring
Selah Thine anger thou hast quite appeas'd And thy just wrath for borne Oh Lord of Hoasts now thou art pleas'd Let vs to thee returne 2 For why shouldst thou still wroth remaine And vexed rather be Then chear thy people's harts againe That they may joy in thee To save vs Lord thy favour showe And let vs hear in peace Thy word among vs preached soe That wee from sinn may cease 3 Then shall thy saving-health abide Near those who fear thy Name And in our Land shall still reside Thy glories thy fame Then Truth Love shall meet kisse And Iustice Peace embrace Yea Truth on earth Righteousnes From heav'n shal shew her face 4 The Lord with ev'rie needfull store Shall make our Kingdome flowe And send his Righteousnes before That wee his way may know Oh Lord wee acknowledge that from tyme to tyme thou hast bene exceeding gratious to thy whole Church to this parte thereof in perticuler For when thy Blessings made us wanton thou didst alwaies humble us by thy fatherly corrections when thou hadst worthilie afflicted us according as thy wisdome sawe cōvenient thou didst ever mercifully comfort restore us againe to thy favour Continue oh God wee pray thee this thy gratious respect vnto our infirmities grant wee may so repent of our sinns so vnfainedly professe thy Truth so diligently practise the works of righteousnes that Honestie Religeon Faith Good-works may inseperably be vnited in every one of vs that the abundance of thy temporal spiritual blessings may be powred forth on this Kingdome on thy whole Church for ever ever Amen Psa 86. A prayer of David It personates Christ in his humiliation prayeng in the behalfe of his mystical body for several necessities thereof intermixing some vowes of praise acknowledgments of Gods Attributes c. It is an vsefull forme of prayer in many temptations afflictions LOrd hear me for great wants I have My soules defender be My God! thy Saint servant save Who puts his trust in thee That thou thy grace to me afford My daylie crie requires Thy servants hart revive oh Lord Which vp to thee aspires 2 For thou good Lord soone pard'nest all Who seek thy grace to finde Oh! hear me now to thee I call And bear my suite in minde My dangers I to thee will show That thou mayst healp assigne For there is no such God as thou Nor any works like thine 3 All nations whome thou dist creat Shall praise worship thee For thou alone oh God art great And great thy wonders be Teach me thy waies in thy fear My soul to thee vnite So never shall my hart forbear Thy praises to indight 4 I scap'd the grave by thy large grace When proud cruel foes Who set not thee before their face To take my soul arose Oh God! thou art a gratious Lord Long-suffring kinde free With Truth Love most largly stor'd Now therefore pitty mee 5 Return oh Lord mee revive Let mee thy favour have Thy strength to me thy servant give Thy Handmaids of-spring save Yea for my good vouchsafe some signe That all my foes may know I am a Favorite of thine And blush they wrong'd me soe Almighty most mercifull Father have pitty vpon us according to thine infinite goodnes compassion Let vs not alwayes wander after our owne imaginations nor be continually exercised with such Afflictions as may make vs the scorne of all that hate vs but according to thy infinite mercy vnparaleld goodnes Have mercy vpon vs And not on vs only but on all those people whome thou hast created that according to thy promise they may all serve praise thee Setle them vs in thy Truth guide vs in thy waies so restore confirme vs in thy favour by some apparant signes of thy love speciall grace that our adversaries may be ashamed of their hatred we thanckfull for al thy Mercies through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 87. A Psalm or song for the sonns of Chorah It describes the scituation glorie of the Church typified by Syon prophetically declareth that all Kingdomes shall be incorporated into that Citty of God that all Nations shall there obtaine their New-birth c. It serves among other vses to informe that God's Church excludeth no Nation c. THe Lord hath his Foundations plac'd Above the heighest mountaines crownes Yea Syons ports he more hath grac't Then all the rest of Iacob's Townes And glorious things are fam'd abrode Of thee oh Cittie lov'd of God Selah 2 For God accounts as borne in thee Egiptians if they him desire Nay though from Babell sprung they be From Chush Philistia or from Tyre For he hath sayd that all on earth In Syon may renew their Birth 3 The God most high will strengthen her And shall record each faithful soul As having had first-beeing there Selah When hee his people doth enrowl For there are all that play or sing And thence proceeds each blessed thing Thou oh Lord art no accepter of persons but every one that feares thee worketh righteousnes of what place soever he be or from whom soever he were descended hath promise of admission into thy Church to be regestred as a free-borne Citizen of thy spiritual Syon Make vs thanckfull Oh God for this large priveledge And seeing none are exempted but such as willfully exclude themselves seing also it is manifest to thee only who they are let us hope charitably of all men whilst there is time of grace and repentance endeavoureng by our prayers instructions freindly reproofs good examples as much as wee are able to bring them to become the Members of this Corporation to enioy a Christian fellowship with vs in Christ Iesu our Lord. Amen Psal 88. A song or Psalm for the Sonns of Chorah to the cheef Musitian vpon Mahalath Leanoth Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite It personates Christ his members complaining of his their sorrowes contempts suffrings c. And it is full of passionate petitions expostulations We may vse it in private or Publike afflicctions LOrd of whose assisting might I was never yet denied All the day all the night I to thee have call'd cried Now regard my wofull plight 2 Let thine Ear thy Minde thine Eyes To the dropping pleading eryeng Of my Teares my Cause my Cries Grant me hearing weighing eyeng For my soul afflicted lies 3 I to Death am drawing nigh And am priz'd as one interred Like a strengthles man I lye As algeady slaine and buried Free among the dead am I. 4 Yea as one forgot of thee Or as from thy hand Abiected Darksome pitts my lodging be And in Dungeons deep afflicted Thy strict hand oppresseth mee 5 All thy wayes I doe sustaine Thou dost make my Lovers flee mee Selah And my freinds fro me restarine Shutt I am where none cann free me Then
thy grace did then vphold 7 When many thoughts opprest me much Thy comforts did my soul delight For thou partakest not with such Whoe sentence give against the right Or such as have the Iust withstood To death condemning guiltles blood 8 But thou oh Lord shalt me defend Thou art my God my Rock my Fort And all the harmes my Foes intend Thou shalt vpon themselves retort Yea for the guilt of their offence Thou Lord our God shalt root them hence Oh thou supream Iudge of the world severe Avenger of all wrongs Behold the fury the despight insolent Cruelties of our Adversaries and deliver the pore the widdowe the Fatherles all thy Oppressed Children out of their wicked hands Thy forbearance hath made the perverters of Iustice seeme to conceive that thou either see'st not or els regardest not their impieties Yea those oppressers are growne so powrfull so many that wee scarce finde any to take part with vs against their Iniuries but that wee have assurance of thy Assistance wee should be vtterly without hope Oh! continue our hopes in thee Sett thou in order all that is amisse destroy all the Favourers of Iniustice keep vs alway harmles both in soul body through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 95. This Psalme exhorts to praise God and warnes to harken to his voice whilst wee have tyme lest like our fore-Fathers wee be deprived of his Rest for our obstinacie It should be often sung to remember vs that wee embrace God's free grace whilst it is offred TO God our Saviour lett 's renewe Our songs with chearfull voice Our thanckfulnes before him shewe With Psalmes in him rejoice For God the Lord most powrfull is The King of Gods is hee The earth's obscurest vales are his And his high mountaines be 2 The seas he made they are his owne Drie land his Creature was Come serve him then fall wee downe Before our Makers face He is our God his flock wee are His pasture-sheep are wee That you his voice may therfor heare More tender-harted be 3 Not like your Fathers when that in The Desert proov'd they were And tempted him though they had seene His works of wonder there Full forty years they moov'd his wrath And therfor thus sayd hee A wandring hart this people hath My waies they will see 4 And I to them in my iust rage Did by mine Oath protest That none of all that froward age Should come within my rest Oh God! the Creator preserver governour of all things UUee give thee thancks for making vs after thine owne Image for sending thy Eternal-word to regenerate vs when wee were made worse then nothing So far wee ought to be from arrogating the powre either of our Beeing or Well-beeing that wee must confesse to vndoe our selves is all which wee are able of our selves do Like our fore Fathers our harts are wandring from thy waies all our life long wee do more mere harden them by custome in sinn Yet oh Lord seeing wee are the sheep of thy pasture bring us home to thy Fo de seeing we are thy People soften our harts givs us grace so to harken to thy voice in this Day of our Trial that in the Day of thy Iudgment wee may enter into thy Rest through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 96. UUee are herein exhorted to sing preach the New-songs of the Gospell to the praise of Christ our King And in regard other Gods are but vanities all nations are provoked to ioyne in praising him c. We should sing it to glorify Christ for his powre his Truth c. COme now in some New-indighting Blesse God the world's Almightie King His Name 's due praise in songs reciting Of his Salvation daylie sing His Fame works of admiration Yee people heed yee Nations hear His powre deserves high exaltation For all the Gods lesse dreadfull are 2 The Gentiles Gods are foolish fictions But our great God did heav'n creat Powr glory praise all perfections Attend him in his holy-seat To him due praise yee kindreds render Extoll his powre his glory sing To God's great Name fitt honours tender Approach his Courts offrings bring 3 Within his house with praise professe him And let him be adored there Let all the world their God confesse him And serve him with a holy feare Yea to the Gentiles let them publish The Lord their King that his might The wav'ring earth shall fast establish And do the wronged people right 4 Let heav'n earth with joy-excelling Reioice before him ever more The seas all things in them dwelling The feilds the woods all their store For lo the Lord approcheth nearlie Behold to judge the world he comes The wicked he will judge serverely And give the people righteous doomes Honour wisdome powre praise be ascribed vnto thee oh king of the world by all thy Creatures according to the severall faculties which thou hast bestowed vpon them Be thou glorified in thy selfe also according to that which thy In comprehensiblenes deserveth beyond what thy creatures are able to ascribe Let all heathenish deities all those Idolls which carnall men have set vp in their harts appear such vanities as they are let thy Soveraignty be acknow ledged thy worship truely celebrated by Iewes Gentiles all Nations throughout the world Let vs especially who are of thy visible Church performe this duty let our harts be so established so filled with Holines filial awe that wee may expect thy comming to Iudgment with comefort wellcome thy opproach with shouts of tryvmphs songs of exvltation Amen Psa 97. The soveraignty of Christ with his comming to Iudgment the Ioy which the faithfull shall conceive thereby the confusion which will fall on the wicked is here foretold c. It may be mystically applied also to our Saviours first coramling And may be sung to stir vp our spirituall reioicing in both his Advents THe Lord is king be therfor glad Yee Lands Iles now this is known With Clouds darknes he is cladd And Truth Iustice gard his throne A burning flame before him goes Wherewith he shall consume his foes 2 He to the world his Glory shew'd And earth beheld the same with fear Like waxe hills melted when they vew'd The Lord the world's great Lord appear His Righteousnes the heav'ns have showne His glories are to all men knowne 3 All Idoll servers he destroies And of all Gods will honor'd be It Syon gladds Iacob ioyes His righteous doomes to hear see Above the highest hills he dwells And all the Gods he farr excells 4 Hate sinn yee Lovers of the Lord For he his holie-ones will save And light Truth to those afford That harts vpright faithfull have Yee saints therefore record confesse And praise with Ioy God's holines Oh Christ the everlasting sonn of the Father Thou
thou hast alured vs vnto thy love by many extraordinario blessings Oh God! let us no longer abuse thy patience but make us now soe to mind our part of the covenant which is betwixt us that wee may be seperated from our heathenish conversations be remembrend among thy people behold the good of thy Chosen reioice in the gladnes of thy Nation be pertakers in the glory of thine Inheritance for ever ever Amen Psa 107. Halelujah It exhorts to praise God for his vniversall Grace Acknowledgeth him the deliverer of all men in all places and in all troubles Confesseth him the Corrector Orderer and disposer of kingdomes persons famelies c. It is vsefull both for temporall spirituall belssings for by bodiey suffrings spirituall miseries are mystically signified COme praise the Lord thanckfully confesse That he is good gratious without end Let those whome God redeem'd his praise expers Ev'n those whome he did from their foes defend Collecting them from East westerne Nations From Northern Clymes southern habitations 2 In deserts wilde where no dwellings were They wandred on with drought hunger faint And them he freed from all destresses there When they to him had vttred their complaint He ledd them on in paths directly guiding To Citties faire whear they had safe abiding 3 Oh! let men praise the goodnes of the Lord And publish out his wonders to their seed For he to hungry men doth meat afford And with good things the longing soul doth feed He those vnbinds that are in fetters chained And in the bands shades of death detained 4 The word of God most high they did reject And small account of his advise they made With heat toile he therfor did afflict And cast them downe when they no helper had But in their need when they againe complained He tooke away the greef which they sustained 5 Frō deaths black shades he shew'd thē light some And all their bands did quite asunder break wais Let all mankinde therfore his wonders praise And of his works among their Children speake The brazen Gates he crakt open sett them Their yron barrs he broke forth he fett them 6 He plaugeth fooles because they have transgrest And for their sinns they much afflicted are Their fainting soules doe pleasant meats detest They to the gates of death approached near But seeking God when they were so oppressed From all their paines feares he them released 7 He sent his word which did their greevāce heal Preventing so their fall which hastned on Oh let all men God's goodnes therfore tell And shewe their seed what wonders he hath done Let them declare his works with joyfull singing The sacrifize of thanckfull praises bringing 8 They that in shipps at sea employed are And for their gaine to crosse the waves are bold May vewe the works of God-almighty there And in the deepes his wondrous deeds behold For he but breaths streight a storm appeareth Which vp aloft the rowling billowes beareth 9 Now mounts to heav'n anon descēds the keel And they grow faint with labour with fear As druncken men they stagger they reel And of their skill they quite deprived are Then to the Lord they cry who them releases From all their feares their dangers destresses 10 For he the stormes to gentle calmes cōvarts And quiet then the raging sea becomes Then they are joy'd Then eased are their harts And them he brings to their desired homes Of these his works let all men make relations And shewe his deeds to future generations 11 Oh sing his praise where great Assemblies are And him among your elders glorify He deserts makes where once great waters were He draines the springs of mighty Rivers drie And from rich Lands their fatnes oft he taketh When by their sinn her dwellers him forsaketh 12 The Deserts vast he turnes to standing Lakes And springs convaies to lands which barren were For hungry soules a dwelling there he makes Who for themselues do build a Citty there They sowe plant reap the hoped blessing Both of their seed of their Vines encreasing 13 He prospers them lo they are encreast Their flocks heards do fatt fruitfull grow Yet otherwhile he letts them be opprest low And with great plagues he sometime brings thē He takes from kings their princely estimation And makes them stray in pathles desolation 14 But frō all greefs the meek he still doth raise And makes like flocks his housholds to appear At sight thereof the Iust will sing his praise And they shall dumbe be strook that wicked are All this they mark that have true wisdom learned And God's great love by them is well descerned Most mercifull God! what Affliction is there from which wee are not howrely delivered or preserved by thee Nay what necessarie benifitts are there which wee have not in the best season receaved from thee in what place soever or of what Nation or condition soever wee are In our wandrings in our poverty in our sicknesses in our imprisonments in our Iournyes at sea land in our labours in our goods in our children in our sorrowes in our prosperities in our persons in our famelies in life in death yea in everie thing wee have continuall experience of thy Mercies insomuch that we may confesse thou delightest in nothing but in shewing Mercy vnles our sinns compel thy Iustice to afflict us that thy Mercies may not be despised and there is great Mercy even in that also Oh good God! make us ever mindful hereof give us wisdome so to mark consider these things that both wee our posteritie may magnifie thy vnspeakable bounty declare thy wonderful workings for ever ever Amen Psa 108. A song or Psalme of David This is composed of the later parts of the 57. 60 Psalmes yet differs from both for those beginn with lamentations end with reioieings but this is wholy triumphant personates the Church praising God for her enlargment c. Wee may sing it when the Church is released from some persecution or her limitts extended farther c. MY hart is sixt I oh Lord Will in my songs thy fame record And with my tongue sing praise to thee My Harp Psaltry are awake And I my selfe will readie make To praise thee where Assemblies be 2 For through the heav'ns thy Truth doth stretch Above the Sphears thy mercies reach Oh God! be still exalted high Thy praise through heav'n earth extend Let thy righthand thy Dear defend And still vouchsafe me thy replie 3 For as thy holy Voice declard With trivmphs Shechem I have sharde And I have measur'd Succoth Vale. Mine Gilead Manasseth are My head mount Ephraim high doth bear In Iudah stands my judgment Stall 4 Proud Moab is my drugding slave My foot in Edom fixt I have And Palestine doth ioye in me For who to Edom was my guide Or to the
Ev'n of his people to be King And he a joyfull mother made Of her that erst no children had Vnto the Lord oh therefor sing To God the Father To the Sonn And holy-Ghost those three in one And that eternall One in three All glory bee for ever more All powre praise as heretofore Ascribed now ever be Psa 114. By alluding to the deliverance from Egipt to the driving back of Iordan the Redsea to the trembling of Sinay forcing waters from hard rocks our spirituall deliverances Reformations are typified Therfore our Church vseth this Psalme as proper for Easterday WHen Isr'el brought from Egipt was And Iacob from a forraigne tongue In Iudah was his holy place To him did Isre'ls rule belong The Sea saw that fledd away Ev'n Iordan also backward slipt The mountaines then like Rams did play Like Lambes the lesser hillocks tript 2 Thou sea what made thee so to fly Why didst thou Iordan backward goe Why daunc't like Rams the mountaines hye Yee hills like Lambs why tript yee so Shake earth at presence of the Lord When Iacob's God is present shake For he from Rocks a standing Ford And fountaines in the flints doth make Almighty God the deliverer of all pore destressed Captives wee are hy Nature the slaves of Sinn Death the Devill who do labour to hold us in eternall bondage But wee praise thee thou hast made a miraculous passage for our escape Oh! grant therfor that thy presēce may so startle us out of our securitie soe mollifie our flintie nature that the teares of true penitence may flowe plentifully from vs that we thanckfully walking in that way which thou hast prepared for our entrance into the Land of the living may be quite freed from our servitude enioy peace rest in thy Kingdome for ever ever Amen Psal 115. The Faithfull desire that al honor may be ascribed to God alone that their foes may not blaspheamously question his powre Then in the name of heathen Idolls their worshippers reprooves the vanity of all those assistances whereon carnall men rely c. It is vsefull when false worshippers blaspheame God by reason of our affliction c. NOt ours the glory make Lord give not vs the fame But for thy Truth Mercy sake Ascribe it to thy Name 2 To say where is their God! Why should the Gentiles dare Since he in heav'n hath his abode And works his pleasure there 3 Men's hands their Idolls make They gold silver be Possessing mouthes that cannot speake And eyes that cannot see 4 Their eares are senseles to Their nostril smelleth not Their hands feet nor feel nor goe No breath is in their throte 5 All they whoe those adore Or forme them like them be In God let Isr'el trust therefore For their defence is he 6 On God preserving them Let Aron's house depend Let those who feare him trust in him For he will such defend 7 God will remember vs And on vs Mercy showe On Isr'el on Aron's house He blessings will bestowe 8 He prospers great small That fear of him professe You your seed likewise he shall Still more more encrease 9 Of God you blessed be Who made both earth heav'n The heav'n of heav'ns inhabits he And earth to men hath given 10 Lord none cann thee adore Who dead silenc't are But I both now evermore Thy praises will declare Not for our owne deservings cann wee claime any thing oh Lord God neither for our owne sakes or our owne glorie ought wee to desire any deliverances or benifits from thy Maiestie As much therfor as our self-love will permit wee desire meerly for thine owne honour sake that publike Idolaters carnall minded men who serve Gods of their owne making may not scandalize thee or thy Truth by Occasion of such Miseries or Disgraces as fall on vs who professe the same But make vs oh God to love thee thy glory so farr above our owne lives reputations That whether wee be delivered or no wee may submit our selves to thy pleasure be truly comforted hartely pleased reioyce vnfainedly that wee are counted worthie to suffer for thy glory Amen Psa 116. The Faithfull professe affection to Christ Acknowledg their condition both by Nature Grace encourage others to trust in Gods favour resolve the same in them selves We may sing it when after some great Affliction or temptation wee are comforted sensible of our present passed estate c. I love the Lord for hee an eare To my complaints doth give And since he pleaseth me to hear I 'le seek him whil'st I live The feares of death enclosd me round Hell torments mee enthrald But still when paind my self I found On God's great Name I cal'd 2 Preserve my soul oh Lord I sayd For thou art full of grace Iust kinde ev'ry pore man's ayde My healp when greev'd I was My soul to this thy refuge fly For God is thy larg meed From death my soul from teares mine eye From falls my feet he freed 3 I shall with God enioy my life Where livinge men abide This I professe with firme beleif Though I was terrifide Yea though in rashnes I did say That all men liers were What for thy guifts I should repay Now Lord my questions are 4 Thy Cupp of saving-health I 'le take Vpon thy name I 'le call And of my vowes I 'le payment make Before thy servants all Thy saints their deaths suffrings be Right pretious in thine eye Oh Lord thy servant serving thee Thy handmayds Childe am I. 5 My fetters all thou brak'st away And I oh Lord therfore The sacrifize of thancks will pay And thy great Name adore To thee oh Lord I 'le pay my vowes Where thy Assemblies be Ev'n in the Courts of Gods owne house Ierusalem in thee Haleluiah Hear our prayers oh Lord God deliver our soules from the Death of Sinn For we are compassed with many perills fearfull Temptations Insomuch that wee are sometime almost ready to despaire distrust that there is noe Truth in any of our hopes Oh keep us by thy speciall grace from falling into those whirlpooles out of which there is no returning VVhen the guilt of Sinn the fears of Death the torments of hell the sugestions of the Devill conspiring with our frailties have once enclosed vs. UUee have then no powre of resistance in our selves it is thy great Mercy if the litle spark of our faith be not wholy quenched Help vs therfore in our extremityes Break the chaines of our Sinns vnlose the snares of Sathan give us grace to praise thee in thy Ierusalem to magnify thy Mercy in the Land of the living world without end Amen Psa 117. This is the least Psalme but it hath respect vnto the greatest Mysterie For it provokes all Nations to praise God for extending his grace to the whole