Will His Thunder makes them fear And those who get most off yet think they are too near VIII From the bright East Thou mak'st Thy Sun to go Before him creeps in Chains the Captive night And in the West when he from us draws low 'T is but to spread his Conquests with his Light And till he comes again Bids the Moon fill his place and in his stead to raign IX Thou visitest the Earth and giv'st it rain Of Thy rich blessing it do's freely spend The Earth returns its thanks to Heav'n again In flowers which thither their sweet Odours send As Customs which they pay To Thy dread Throne who dost their Mothers heat allay X. The Flood of God whose Spring-head's in the clouds When on the weary ground it showers distills The softned ridge unto its furrow crowds And all it's clots the quick'ning moysture fills Thou by degrees dost bring The Tillage on and Harvest to succeed the Spring XI Plenty with every shower from Heav'n pours down The Earth do's by thy constant bounty grow Thy goodness do's the year with blessings crown And all Thy steps drop fatness where they go They on the Deserts drop Whose parched Sands drink deep of Thy o'reflowing Cup. XII The little Hills drink deep and look more fair The Valleys pledge till they can drink no more The Shepheards and their flocks both merry are And all the Plains with Corn are cover'd o're With peace and fruits abound And make the distant Mountains with their Songs resound Psalm LXVI Jubilate Deo omnis terra c. I. REjoyce O World and to Thy God sing praise Let Seas and Isles and Lands His Name resound Together with His Sun your voices raise And in Eternal Jubilees go round For if that rise His mighty Power to show Much more should you on whom it shines do so II. Say to the Lord How mighty is Thy Power Which even Thy Enemies must unforc't confess To th' Earth they bow themselves and would fall lower But that instead Thou tak'st this poor address Th' Earth shall worship Thee and their loud same Shall fill her Trumpet only with Thy Name III. See what He did to raise it how His hand At once declar'd Him Terrible and Good When raging Seas were turn'd to firm dry land And Israel past through th' admiring Flood Then 't was we view'd and troad His secret Wayes And roaring Deeps stood lift'ning to His Praise IV. He rules o're all Him Heav'n and Earth obey The Universall and Eternall King His eyes the Wicked and the Good survey And under chains His Hand the Proud do's bring Raise not Thy self too high proud dust for fear The Wind which fills thy sayles should overbear V. Rejoyce ye Nations and to God sing praise Let Seas and Isles and Lands his Name resound Together with His Sun your voices raise And in Eternal Jubilees go round For He from falls our sliding feet do's save And with new Life returns us from the grave VI. Like Silver in the Furnace we were try'd And felt unusual flames rage all about But thence as Silver throughly purify'd We only left our dross when we came out The purer metall had no base alloy And all our griefs made way for greater joy VII Low were we brought the net upon us cast And on our loyns prodigious weights were laid Through Water tryal and through fire we past And a derision to our foes were made But He who there upheld us by His hand Brought us Himself at last to'th' Promis'd Land VIII With praises to Thy House my King I 'le go And make my thanks in clouds of Incense rise There solemnly I 'le pay the willing Vow Which my lips off'red in my Miseries Bullocks and Ramms I 'le on Thy Altar lay And thence with Flames renew the Wasted day IX You who have known th' Almighty Love draw near And to my Speech your ready minds incline Attend to that just witness which I bear And to your own experiences take Mine When I in sighs to God my voyce did raise And pray'd in groans He turn'd them into praise X. Had I kept some reserve within my Heart In hope to hide it He had stop't His Ear But I unbowel'd my most secret part And then He did not only see but hear Praise Him who thus His glory did display Nor turn'd His own Face nor my Prayers away Psalm LXVII Deus misereatur nostri c. I. SAve us O God and Thy poor Servants bless Thy Goodness and Thy Pow'r declare In Mercy help us in Our great distress And We no more will doubt Thy Love or Care Let through the World Thy Mighty Name be known And what We praise may the whole Earth with Rev'rence own II. Rejoyce ye Nations for your God is here Who by His Wisdom rules o're all The Kings and Kingdoms governs and that fear They strike in you He makes on them to fall Let through the World His Mighty Name be known And what we praise may the whole Earth with Rev'rence own III. Then shall the Lord our Land both save and bless His Goodness and His Power declare And then Our fields shall give their full increase And with His blessing look more gay and faire The Lord shall bless us and His Name make known And what We praise the whole Earth shall with Rev'rence own Psalm LXVIII Exurgat Deus dissipentur c. I. GRreat Leader of the Sacred Hosts arise And scatt'ring Thy Proud Enemies Encrease Our Triumphs with Thy Victories Let those who hate Thy Name before it flye Like Clouds of Smoke chas'd by the Wind Which vanish as they mount on high And undistinguish't from the Common Skie No more in strange Fantastick figures lye But without mark to know them by Leave not the smallest stain behind That in the air one may their empty traces find Let their destruction suddain be Sooner than Wax do's melt When once the flames are felt And in Thine eye may they the fire which burns them see But let the Righteous in Thy Pow'r rejoyce With Flutes and Trumpets make a cheerful noise And the whole Consort joyn and perfect with their voice II. Make God your Song Ye Just and from His Wayes Which are in Heav'n take theam your Verse to raise In Heav'n where He in glory rides And with His rein the Winds which bear them guides And by His Name Jehovah celebrate His Praise Above He rules but His great Pow'r extends To what soe're is done below The Cares of all His Creatures He do's know And visits the wide Earth's extremest ends Is a kind Father to the Fatherless The Widdows Counsel and do's bless Desparing Nuptials with a large increase Making dead Wombs His voice to hear And her that barren was a numerous seed to bear And when to Him poor Captives cry Their tears move pitty in His eye And with His Arm He gives them Liberty Again returns them
One Be joyn'd with them who set up mischief by a Law Shall Justice and Oppression share the Throne Or rapine to its party conquer'd virtue draw Against the Just together to conspire And doom the Innocent and guilty to one fire IX But God's my help the Rock whereto I fly My Fortress and high Tower where darts in vain are sent Their feathers cannot bear them up so high But on the Caster they shall turn in punishment And falling thus in wrath be so hurl'd down That wounded every man shall say the Dart's his Own Psalm XCV Venite exultemus Domino c. I. COme let us sing unto the Lord And all His deeds with thankfulness record Unto Our God Come let us sing And to His Courts with shouts Our Presents bring He is Our Rock to Him Our Verse we 'll raise And He who heard Our Prayers shall now attend Our Praise II. Great is Our God and rules o're all Above all gods who at His Footstool fall The Earth is His and all its Deeps His Word the Hills on their Foundation keeps He made the Sea and bounded it with Sand And bid the heavy earth above the waters stand III. Come let us worship and fall down And as we ought Our Great Creator own He is Our God His Flock we are The Sheep of 's hand the People of his Court Look how He calls look how He bends His ear Thus by inclining His to see if Ours will hear IV. To day let 's hear nor be like them Who in the desert did His Power contemn That hardened there did God provoke And though He still kept His their Covenant's broke 'T was then saies God they prov'd and tempted me When all around I had my Wonders made them see V. Forty years long their sins I bore And from destroying them as long forbore Fond People said I thus to stray And when I shew'd it not to know my way Therefore in wrath I did against them swear Since they despis'd my Rest they never should come there Psalm XCVI Cantate Domino Canticum c. I. NEw Songs of Praise to the Almighty sing And to Him let the World their Offerings bring Sing to Our God and bless His Holy Name From day to day His Acts declare How wondrous and how great they are And let the Nations joyn to celebrate His Fame II. Great is the Lord and worthy of all Praise Above the Trophys we can to Him raise No Pow'r like His we can adore or fear For those to whom the Gentiles bow Are Idols and an empty show But He made Heav'n and all the Hosts which serve Him there III. Honour and Majesty attend His Throne Beauty and Strength His Temple 's built upon Therefore to Him alone ye People bow His Praise with daily thanks renew Restore to Him what is His due And at His Altar pay what there you first did vow IV. Let the Earth tremble and its Kingdoms fear And all unto the Mighty Word give ear Among the Heathen say That God do's reign Who made the World and bid it stand Till He shall judge it whose Command To its first Nothing shall return it back again V. Be glad O Heav'ns and Thou O Earth rejoyce And to your Consort take the Seas Deep Voice Let the huge Sea in dancing billows rise And though confin'd within its Shore By Sands which barr the Mighty Door Send up to Heav'n its shouts and force the yielding Skyes VI. Let joyfull Songs be heard in every Plain And Hills reflect the Voices Face again Then let the Trees the Glories of the Wood In mutual Murmurs all conspire And joyn with Birds to fill the Quire As if like Men they Parts and Musick understood VII At their Own Numbers let them come away And where their God shall pass lead on the way He comes But who His Presence can abide That the Great Judge of all shall be Yet who would not His Entrance see When He with equal Justice shall each cause decide Psalm XCVII Dominus regnavit exultet Terra c. THe Lord do's reign let the whole Earth rejoyce The Isles be glad and lift on high their voice Louder than Seas which all around them roar And with their shouts shake Heav'n and rend the Shore In the thick darkness God His Glory shrouds And o're His Brightness throws a veil of clouds Justice and Righteousness uphold His Throne And their firm Basis it do's rest upon In vain for Him their Toils His Enemies lay That Fire consumes them which prepares His Way For on the Nations He His Lightning threw And o're the World the swift-wing'd Terrour flew The Earth beheld it and began to fear The Hills complain'd that Heav'n approach'd too near And melted with the heat like Wax flow'd down Whilst in the Plains ran streams of burning Stone At the Almighty Presence they did flow Whose breath the Fire His eye had made did blow The Heav'ns His Justice and His Power declare And to His Truth the Earth do's witness bear May then all perish who to Idols bow And boast of Gods which they make only so Worship Him all ye Gods Angels fall down And at His Feet cast every One His Crown Sion with joy shall hear Jerusalem Shall send her Daughters to improve the Theam For He above all Gods is rais'd so high To Him we only by Our Praise can fly Praise Him ye Righteous who advanc't above Would have you thus express and send your Love Your Love upon Himself alone bestow And Hatred only to what 's evil show So with deliverance He shall surely come And having here preserv'd you take you home To Heav'n in whose large fields refined Light Sown for the Just looks against Harvest white Harvests which as they reap the Righteous sing And with Eternal shoutings carry in Be glad ye Righteous and in God rejoyce For what His hands have done deserves your Voice Psalm XCVIII Cantate Domino Canticum novum c. I. NEw Songs of Praise to the Almighty sing Triumphall Songs to our Victorious King Whos 's own right Hand ha's got Him Victory And for us mighty Wonders done Has mighty En'mies overthrown And by its Holiness has made the Wicked flye II. The Lord ha's sav'd us and His Power display'd His Righteousness made all the World afraid Th' amazed World stood and admir'd His hand And when poor Israel seem'd to be Hopeless of ever getting free Wondred how He could then such miracles command III. Praise Him O World and fear His Mighty Name From whence all that at which Thou wondrest came Call all Thy forces up the Song to raise With Trumpets and with Harps rejoice The Sackbut Clarion and the voice And with shrill Cornets up to Heav'n send all Thy praise IV. Let the Sea roar and all that dwells therein Joyn in His praise when thus the Shores begin Let the Floods too their parts in answering bear Lift up their heads and clap their hands Rise and
Faithfull be And keep the Laws transmitted here to Thee Their Throne like Thine shall stand and be as Great VII For I have Sion made my Rest The place which I of all the World love best My house for ever where I choose to dwell All Her Provisions I will bless And thence Her poor shall look for their increase And when they see it wonder how it fell VIII There shall her Priests my Praises sing And with Loud Shouts My Saints their Offrings bring The Horn of David there I 'll make to bud An Horn of Plenty full and green Where some New blossoms ever shall be seen Whose fruit's as generous as the root is good IX There for my King I 'll set a light My eye shall make it burn and keep it bright Obscurity shall on His Foes be cast Cover'd with shame they shall ly down But on His head I 'll put a glorious Crown And I who put it on will hold it fast Psalm CXXXIII Ecce quam bonum quam c. I. BLest day wherein I live to see The Tribes like Brethren all agree Like Brethren striving who shall my best Subjects be II. God has by them restor'd my Crown And they secur'd what was their Own For what on me they pour'd upon themselves fell down III. Th' Annointing Oyl they on me spent On them in Acts of Favour went As if for them as much as me the Oyl was meant IV. Like that which on the High-Priest shed At first it only wet His head But then o're beard and cloaths and all was quickly spred V. Or like those mists which from the Main The sun draws up to send again In dews first on the Hills and then the humble Plain VI. With such th' Almighty loves to dwell And Souls agreed His Praise can tell How on them blessings when on others vengeance fell Psalm CXXXIV Ecce nunc benedicite c. I. PRaise Him Ye Servants of th' Eternal King Who alwayes in His Temple stay Till your loud songs the cheerful Morning bring And having chas'd the Night away Call to attend your Sacrifice the rising day II. And as you praise Him let your thankfull hands Their part in all the Service bear They have their language which He understands Though none beside their voice do's hear For them reserves His eye and for your lips His Ear III. The Lord from Sion on Thy Borders reign Showers like that Heav'n which sends them free Return Thy Blessings on Thee back again Let them Thine own and greater be That Gods who Heav'n and Earth did make all for Thee Psalm CXXXV Laudate nomen Domini c. I. YE Servants of th' Immortal King His Masters of request below To whom when We our just Petitions bring Immediately to Heav'n they go And by your means who there attend I' th' flames which burn the Sacrifice ascend To His Great Name which He delights to raise Though far above your reach direct your Praise II. There 's none like Him so full of love On whom you can your praise bestow And if great Goodness can affection move Then praise His Name for that is so For Jacobs seed He gave His voice And plac'd His Treasure where He made His choice So great that none can contradict His will But when they most resist it most fulfill III. His Pleasure Heav'n and Earth obey And Laws which He first gave them keep He chains the Sea and bounding sands do's lay For mighty fetters on the Deep Causes thick vapours to ascend And in one cloud moist Hail and fire do's blend Out of His Treasures brings th' unruly wind And Captive Tempests with strong Cords do's bind IV. In Egypt when He did begin Thus He their First Born would not spare The Beasts were punisht for their Masters sin Under the Curse because they were His Wonders God before Him sent And thither afterwards in Person went Egypt Thou saw'st His hand i' th mid'st of Thee When Pharaoh who did bear it Would not see V. He mighty Kingdoms overthrew Scattred their Forces slew their Kings And Victory which abroad at Pleasure flew Made serve at home without her wings Sehon and Ogg before Him fell In whose Possessions Faithfull Israel dwell That Promised Land which He their Fathers gave Who from that gift their surest Title have VI. Eternal God like Thee Thy Name Endures to all Eternity And as Its Power is constantly the same So shall Its just Memorial be For Thou wilt for Thy People rise Subdue and Scatter all their Enemies That under yoaks they shall no more remain But to Thy House and City be restor'd again VII Dumb Idols shall not Thee withstand Nor thousand Gods fond men adore For all though fashion'd by the Workmans hand Remain the Clay they were before Dull Clay which neither sees nor hears Though Art has given them eyes and made them ears Most Easy Gods to whom when any cry They therefore grant because they can't deny VIII Without or Speech or breath or sense Though they of All the Organs have In vain is help to be expected thence Where 's not enough themselves to save Blind Deities but blinder they Who knowing it to their own Work will pray Ne're thinking that it cannot to them turn And that one fire will god and Incense burn IX But Thou O Israel Bless Thy Lord O House of Aaron bless His Name And you who serve at th' Altar by His Word With coales from thence encrease your Flame Let joy in every Face appear And bless the Lord whom you have made your Fear From Sion bless Him who reigns King above But at Jerusalem is The God of Love Psalm CXXXVI Consitemini Domino Quoniam c. I. OPraise The Lord for He is Good And let the World His love adore For though His Power may aw them more His Love guards those who are by that withstood His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure II. Praise Him who o're all gods do's reign The God of Gods of Kings the King To whom all Thrones this Homage bring What He first gave them to resign again His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure III. All that We see His hand has done Who makes His Mighty Power appear With wonder strikes us and with fear For His own sake He did it and alone His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IV. He made the Heav'ns that glorious space Which has no bound and knows no end Whose greatness man can comprehend As little as that God who made the Place His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure V. The Flood at first hid all the Land Till He rais'd it above the Flood Where it unmov'd e're since has stood He stretcht it out by reaching out His hand His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VI. The Lamps of Heav'n ow all their light To Him who caus'd them first to shine He on them
look'd they like a Mine From thence took fire and ever since are bright His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VII He charg'd the Sun to rule the day Gave him His beams and influence Laws how he should his Flames dispence And when he rules then do's he most obey His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VIII The Moon and stars at night attend And on the guard in turns all wait Some go of sooner some more late And to relieve them God do's others send His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IX Praise Him who for their Fathers sin Smote Cham's first born did none pass o're Sent death to look on every dore Who frighted at no blood without went in His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure X. Who with strong hand and out-stretch'd Arm Deliver'd Israel from the Yoke Who all the Egyptian fetters broke And made His Israels March be their Al-arm His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XI Who all times did His Promise keep The Red-Sea for them did divide And what the Waves before did hide Made them His Wayes see truly in the Deep His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XII The liquid Deep in Walls did stand Of purest Chrystal through whose glass The Floods behind saw Israel pass And there as in themselves admir'd His hand His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XIII But when the army was gon o're God took His rein from of the Wave And Jacobs way was Egypts grave Was Sea again and wash'd its ancient shore His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XIV God did Himself direct their Way A fiery Pillar was their Moon Night follow'd close when they were gon And from their Foes hid where their journies lay His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XV. He potent Kings did overthrow Their Forces scattred scorn'd their rage Himself did for His Flock engage And made them conquer when He bid them go His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XVI Sehon who did their Way deny Found all His Troops to be but vain When God their Battles did maintain Instead of stopping them himself did fly His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XVII Ogg heard his fall but would come out Thinking a double Victory Would raise his glory to the sky But God who Sehon slew against him fought His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XVIII God to the Conquest wav'd His hand Descending in the Sacred Flame Weak Israel by His Power o'recame And they who ask'd but passage shar'd the Land His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XIX Praise Him who in Our low estate Did many Victories for us gain Unseen Our weakness did sustain Redeem'd us when we thought is was too late His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XX. Who for all Creatures do's provide Of His Own fulness gives them food Feeds both the Wicked and the Good Who from His Treasures alwayes are supply'd His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XXI Who to frail Man the Earth has given And made Him King and God below Where all things to His Scepter bow But is Himself Mans King and God of Heav'n His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure Psalm CXXXVII Super flumina Babylonis c. I. AS on the banks of Chebar we state down Lamenting Sions Miseries At Sions Miseries we forgot our own And wisht for her such Rivers in our eyes We envy'd there the rolling tide That at Our feet did gently slide That at our feet more streames than from our eyes did glide II. The Willows to our plaints bow'd down their ear And did in hollow murmurs grone The Willows bow'd as though they long'd to hear Again those griefs which they before had known They bow'd and on their heads we hung Our Harps untun'd Our Harps unstrung Sorrow their strings unloos'd but faster ty'd Our tongue III. 'T was then we suffred double misery When to us Our rude spoilers came And to deride our sad Captivity Imbittred it with Captive Sions Name Our selves we only griev'd before But when Their scorns just Sion bore At Her great suffrings of our own we thought no more IV. One of your songs let 's hear they proudly cry'd And one of Sions Anthems play Your griefs and pensive cares now throw aside Sion is here since we brought you away As if we at their base Commands Could sing forgetfull of our bands Could play when they who stop'd our mouths had ty'd our hands V. No! No! in forreign Lands if we do thus For Sion thus forget to grieve Let Her God too forget to pity us And these foud tongues close to their palats cleave Her Praises first our mouths did fill From Her Our hands first learn't their skill No wonder then if Sion mourns that they lie still VI. Remember Edom Lord who in the day Jerus'lem was a Captive made Joyn'd with Her Enemies and shar'd the prey And made us more than Babylon afraid Rase it they cri'd down with the Wall To the foundations Levell all She that to Babylon will not stoop 't is fit She fall VII Hold Babylon where will thy rage extend God has enough to Sion done Hold and prepare Thee Babylon for Thy end What mayst Thou fear if thus He serves His Own Mayst Thou in Thine Our miseries see And all the wrongs we bore from Thee And know that less than what Thou hast deserv'd they be VIII May Thy own Mercies on Thy head return Those Mercies which are Cruelties Mayst Thou in flames of Thy own kindling burn And send in vain to Heav'n Thy fruitless cries And Happy He who on the stones On Flints shall dash Thy little ones And have than flints less bowels for their dying grones Psalm CXXXVIII Confitebor tibi Domine in toto corde c. I. LOrd I will bless Thee and my cheerful voice Before the gods shall tell my joies Those glorious Powers to whom Thou dost impart Thy Name and Office here below Shall see me pay the praise I ow And as I had Thy ear return my Heart II. Then to Thy Sacred Hill my eyes I 'll raise And fetch new subjects for my Praise My Song shall count of what Thou didst for me Of Mercy and of Truth I 'll sing And when I'have wearied out that string Thy Faithfulness another ground shall be III. Thou hast exalted it and why not I For when to Thee I Loud did cry To Thee my God and mourn'd in my distress My dolefull groanes Thy heart did move Thou didst refresh me from above And answer gav'st of Thine Own Faithfulness IV. The heathen Kings when they Thy Wonders hear Shall both rejoice and serve with fear By My example in Thy Wayes shall sing Ascribe to Thee what is Thine Own Cast
our God of great renown Whose Wisdome's infinite To th' Earth He casts the Wicked down And raises the upright Sing Praises to His Name with thanks rejoice And make the Consort perfect with your Voice VI. The Heav'ns with clouds He covers o're And all their beauty hides Yet thence the Earth has its best store Rain which He there provides Whence Plenty comes but less from what is sown Than from the Faithful seasons He pours down VII Mountains those Pillars of the Air On which Heav'ns Fabrique lies Whose verdant Chapiters are fair And in mixt Orders rise With Frutages He covers and with showers Allaies their heat and crowns them all with flowers VIII To Him all Creatures look and live All at His Table eat He to bruit-beasts their food do's give And to young Ravens meat An horse to Him and all his strength is vain And in his sight as poor as this is Man IX In neither can He Pleasure take But do's in th' Just delight And they who Him their refuge make Shall flourish in His sight Then to Thy God Jerusalem sing praise Sion exalt Him who Thee first did raise X. 'T is He who do's Thy Walls defend And all Thy Gates make strong Who do's Thy Colonies extend And keeps Thee alwaies young Who with a numerous offspring do's Thee bless And gives Thy Land the Happy fruits of Peace XI And this because it is His Will Whose Pleasure all obey Both Heav'n and Earth His Word fulfill And at it haste away On the cold Rocks He His Frost-Mantle throwes And cloaths the naked Hills with woolly snows XII When on the streams He layes His Chain And Captive Floods do's bind What Power can set them free again Till He send out His Wind But when on them He causes it to blow The melted glass in streams begins to flow XIII These Works of His by all are seen But Jacob has His Word No Land beside so blest has been Or favour'd by the Lord For He to Israel has His Judgements shown When His displeasure all Lands else have known Hallelujah Psalm CXLVIII Laudate Dominum de Coelis I. YOu blessed Souls who stand before Th' Eternal King and so long see His glory that you changed bee Into that glory you adore Praise your great Founder and above Admire His Power and bless His Love II. You who when Lucifer did fall Kept your first standing and remain Commanders of that mighty Train Of which the Lord is Generall Angels extoll th' Almighty King And Songs of Triumph to Him sing III. Praise Him from whom Thy light do's flow Thou whom as God the World adore Renounce that honour and no more Usurp a service Thou dost ow Praise Him O Sun when Thou 'rt most bright Whose beams to darkness turn Thy light IV. Thou too who with a borrow'd ray When all the Lamps of Heav'n hang out In the Nights silence walk'st about And with Thy torch restor'st the day Fair Moon and Starrs exalt Gods Name And in your dance His Power proclaim V. Ye Heavens whom none can comprehend Infinite Waters where the sky As if beyond it self 't would fly Exceeds all thought yet findes no end Praise Him who farther do's out go Your height than you what ere 's below VI. He spake the Word and you were made His first Decree has bound you fast Appointed you how long to last Th' Almighty Word your wandrings stay'd Praise Him whose Word so much can do And as it made destroy you too VII Let from the Earth His Praises rise All Creatures whom He plac't below Let them their gratefull praises show And in that service reach the skies Dragons and Whales i' th' consort move A tunefull Bass to th' Quire above VIII Sea praise Him when Thy billows roar And mustring up the force of th' Main The once drown'd World assault again And seek i' th' Heav'ns alone a shoar Praise Him who when He moves His hand Both stills and chains Thy waves with sand IX All Meteors praise the Name of God Vapors and Winds that nothing spare But of His Wrath the Armies are Lightning's His Scepter and His Rod Ice praise Him who makes Thee a rein To curb swift streams and back the Main X. Mountains at His great Name rise up Who so ordain'd by His command All in your ranks and orders stand Like Piles Heav'ns Arch to underprop Praise Him who your rais'd heads did crown And low as Hell not throw you down XI Cedars who one loft higher go And Natures Vanes to Mountains are Knowing no other motion there Than what the amorous Zephyrs blow Plants and Fruit-trees the pride o' th' Field In generous stores your praises yield XII Beast and all Cattell creeping things Insects unminded the great care Of Him by whom you formed were And Birds who with your downy wings Cut the soft air your Presents bring And in wild notes His Praises sing XIII Kings to whom God His Name do's give And as Vice-gods has set on high True Portraicts of the Deity Praise Him in whom your selves do live And who though Homage is your due First made the Right then gave it you XIV Praise Him all People every state And Sex and Age Virgins and Youth With all the beauteous trains of both Or long since born or born of late Praise Him old Men and since agen Age speaks you Children shew y' are Men. XV. Let the whole World His Praise restore And lift above the Firmament That Name He counts so excellent And what none fully know adore For from the Deep it all things fills Up to the Everlasting Hills XVI Israel praise Him Israel for whom He made all these and greater things The Land subdu'd and Potent Kings Bringing them thousand Vict'ries home Such wonders wrought and more than this Whom He redeem'd and so made His. Hallelujah Psalm CXLIX Cantate Domino Canticum c. I. NEw Songs of Praise to Great Jehovah sing And in His Temple let His Name resound This small return his Saints may bring For all those favours wherewith they are crown'd Let Israel in His Makers Love rejoyce And Sion crown again Her Sovereign with Her Voyce II. In the High Dance His great Name let them praise And that it may approach His Throne above The service with shrill Trumpets raise And send up Theirs as He showers down His Love They are His Pleasure and His chiefest Prize And though in others mean yet beauteous in His eyes III. Let the Saints praise Him who their Glory is And on their beds when they no Comfort see Then let them sing for they are His And of salvation confident may bee Hee 'll raise them up and by His Powerfull Word Put in their mouths His Praise and in their hands a Sword IV. Thus shall they fight and conquer throw down all Who dare oppose and to resist them stand The Heathen shall before them fall And in that ruin feel His vengefull Hand Their Captive Kings they shall
God but smile Or He these doubts will reconcile Or make me scorn what Flesh can do the while V. Me and my words to wrest they never cease And make them most offend when meant to please Their thoughts for evil areagainst me set And when they are in Counsel met Contrive how by my fall they may be great VI. Shall they escape unpunish't in their wayes And in Prosperity spend all their dayes Lord in Thine Anger let them be o'rethrown Thou need'st but only on them frown Lower than me that look will cast them down VII Thou all my wand'rings every pace do'st know And not'st how many steps I from Thee go See'st my tears too what they were shed about And in thy bottle they are put Whence with a Sponge what 's in Thy Book blot out VIII When to my God in my distress I cry My very Prayers make all mine Enemies fly My sighs shall backwards turn them in the Rear They shall a greater Enemy fear And in that still voice know that God draws near IX On Gods Almighty Word I will depend On God I 'le trust who certain help will send There I will rest and if my God but smile Either these doubts he 'l reconcile Or make me scorn what Flesh can do the while X. Thy Vows are on me and I 'le give Thee praise The Field is Thine and Thine shall be the Bayes Thou hast preserv'd my Soul wilt Thou not bless My sliding feet with steadiness The greater's done and wilt not do the less Psalm LVII Miserere mei Deus miserere c. I. OThou on whom my Soul for help relyes Let my distress find pitty in Thine eyes Thou art my Trust on Thee I stay Under Thy Wings let me conceal'd abide And till these storms are past me hide Under their shade else on them let me fly away II. To my great Saviour who above do's reign Whose Mighty Power do's me and All sustain To Him I 'le cry who down shall send From Heav'n and save me by His own right hand From those who Him and me withstand His Truth shall slay them and His Mercy me defend III. Among fierce Lions Lord hid in their den With beasts more fierce than Lions Cruel Men Whose teeth be arrows and sharp Spears Their tongue a two edg'd Sword their eyes all fire As if in this they did conspire By several Torments to create me several fears IV. With these I live among these men I lye And hardly for my thoughts gain liberty Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy glory far above the Skies And though so high I cannot rise From Heav'n do Thou descend when I look up to Thee V. I could not scape they had so girt me round My very Soul lay prostrate on the ground But as I look'd I saw them fall And though for me they had prepar'd the net That I might stumble digg'd the pit Into that pit they fell themselves their snare and all VI. I am resolv'd nor will I any more Distrust my God as I have done before No I will praise Him and my heart Which ha's so oft betray'd me into fear Its burden in the Song shall bear And when my Harp begins shall take the highest part VII Awake my Harp 't is time for thee to wake Prevent the day and thy great subject take Put all thy strâ—ngs on shew thy skill God and my Soul are ready be not slow For if we should before thee go Thy strings would never half way reach up Heav'ns High Hill VIII We Come O God and with us up will raise High as Thy Love and Truth to Heaven Thy Praise The World shall hear what Thou hast done How signally Thou hast appear'd for me By Thy great Power hast set me free And for His Works praise Him whose Name they have not known IX Then to the Clouds we will together fly And take new Wing to mount to the Most High Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy glory far above the Skies And if so high We cannot rise Descend Thy self and bear us up along with Thee Psalm LVIII Si vere utique justitiam c. I. ARE you as by your place you ought to be True Judges of the Poor mans wrong Or rather do you not his suit prolong And then bind o're when you should set him free You would be thought both good and just And if not so at least Just though severe But when you personate it most Your mouth condemns that which your heart would spare For when bribes hold the Scale the lightest cause most weight do's bear II. The Wicked from the womb are gone astray Their wand'rings with their life begun And will no sooner than their life be done Nor seek they what they know not the right way Under their tongues conceal'd and close A deadlier poyson than the Serpents lyes Adders less cautiously expose Their ears to Charms than they to hear the Wise As deaf to Counsel as they greedy are of flatteries III. Break out the Lions teeth nor let them more The Innocent so proudly tear Let the young Lions Lord themselves in fear Not o're their prey but torn with famine roar And as the Sand though kind Heav'n poures The like streams there as on the fruitful Plain To Heav'n returns no thanks in flowers But only as it falls drinks up the rain Like rain by Sand drunk up let them be never rais'd again IV. When against me they throw their poyson'd darts And in their rage their bows do bend Or let them be too weak the shafts to send Or turn the Pykes into the Shooters hearts And as a Snail which leaves behind A silver film along the way she pass'd But if you follow it you find Both that and her in slime conclude at last So let them perish and from filthy slime to Nothing wast V. Like an Abortive which ne're saw the Sun But dy'd e're it had any birth Born only that it might be thrown to th' Earth Let their Race end e're it be well begun E're briars with the thorn can close And in their clasping Arms each other take Which grew acquainted as they rose And only forc't by fire their holds forsake Let their ends be as suddain as those their embraces make VI. The Just shall see 't and at the sight rejoyce And in their blood his Garments wash Without fear shall this Red Sea view and pass And with such Acclamations raise his voice Lo for the Just what Crown remains And what Reward God do's for Him provide There is a King who o're all reigns And He with Justice shall each cause decide By whose most Equal Laws judges themselves and Thrones are try'd Psalm LIX Eripe me de inimicis meis Deus c. I. PReserve me Lord and by Thy hand o'rethrown Let them who seek my ruine find their own From envious Men my honour save And to the cruel make me not a prey
thâ—ir bodies ly And there 's as little hope as in their eye Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and he did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd all about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He broke their Chains asunder sett them free And made their Irons a new Bearing be From darkness freed them where they once did sit Not from Death only but the shade of it Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own For gates of Bars against Him could not stand But open fell Iron prov'd stubble to His Hand Versus III. Those Foolish sinners who in sottish Love Consume their Age neglecting that above Are justly punish'd for their fond disdain And have for all their love no love again How do they pine away and loath their meat Feeding their passion more the less they eat To sullen rocks lament as if the grones Which tear their breasts would pierce the sensless stones But all in vain those meanes but fruitless prove One Death alone can end their Lives and Love Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and he did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd all about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He sent His Word which did refine their love No more on Earth but plac'd it all above 'T was a disease no longer knew no pain But for the love it gave had love again Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Almighty Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own And let all those who by His Goodness live The hearts He thus has chang'd an Offering to Him give Versus IV. They who into the Sea in Ships go down And seek by Wayes they know not lands unknown Who make the untrac'd Ocean be their Road Which with their keels they tear and burdens load They in the Deep His dreadfull Wonders see Of which themselves as great as any bee How He commands the stormes and do's unbinde The airy fetters of the strugling Winde Out they all tumble and the rough Sea invade Which now their scorn as much as sport is made To Heav'n lift up its floods as if to call Help thence but e're 't is come down let them fall Low as their depth whiles the scar'd passingers Look every wave should drown them and their fears Stagger like drunken Men reel to and fro Their feet less steady than their Vessels go And in their teeth the Winds their sighs do send Making them e're the storms at their Witts end Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and He did hear His Face the Tempest could not hide Nor raging Seas or dull or stop His Eare For when in vain they had look'd round about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He bid the Sea be calm the Winds be still And only with brisk gales their canvass fill Then brought them smooth and calmy as the Sea To the wish'd Haven where they long'd to be Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own And let all those who on the Seas have been Sing in His Church His praise and tell what they have seen Versus When for their sin God do's chastize a land Their springs He turnes into a Parched sand A Wilderness which drinks their Rivers up And not a Rose budd yields to crown the Cup But barren as the salt which is sown there Nor herb for man nor grass for beast do's bear Resp. The Wilderness He turns into a Pool And fills the parched sand with springs brim full There for the hungry Soul provides His meat And for the Colonys He leads a seat With corn they sow their fields new Vineyards plant And neither Citizens nor Cities want He blesses them and makes them so increase Their very Cattle feel the fruits of Peace Versus Again to punish them they are brought low That hand destroys them which first made them grow For He on mighty Kings contempt do's lay And those who His forsake lose their own way Resp. But He the Poor from trouble sets on high Whence He may see His long Posterity Chorus Omnium Let all the Righteous in their God rejoice But the Unjust with envy break Those shew their triumph by their voice While these have neither Will nor power to speak Thrice happy Man who treasuring in his minde These several Mercies some one for his Use canfinde Psalm CVIII Paratum est Cor meum c. I. IT is resolv'd nor will I any more Distrust my God as I have done before No! I will praise Him and my heart Which has so oft betray'd me into fear Its burden in the song shall bear And when my Harp begins shall sing the highest Part. II. Awake my Harp 't is time for thee to'awake Prevent the day and Thy great subject take Put all Thy strings on shew Thy skill God and my soul are ready be not slow For if we should before Thee go Thy strings would never half way reach up Heav'ns high Hill III. We come O God and with us up will raise High as Thy Love and Truth to Heav'n Thy praise The World shall hear what Thou hast done How signally Thou hast appear'd for me By Thy great Power hast set me free And for Thy works praise Him whose Name they have not known IV. Then with Thy Mercy to the Clouds we 'll flie And take new wing to mount to the Most High Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy gloryfar above the skies And if so high we cannot rise From Heav'n do Thou descend when we look up to Thee V. Descend and by the way Thy Name make known What Thou wilt do by what Thy hand has done Hear me My God has hear'd my Cry Has past His Word and in it I rejoice Has given me of all lands my Choice And on my Gods Almighty promise I rely VI. Sechem is Mine I will divide its Plain And o're the Vale of Succoth throw my Chain The Tribes of Israel shall obey Those which ly farthest off or nearer stand Shall yield themselves to my Command Shall serve whilst Judah gives them lawes holds the sway VII Moab's my Wash
for Thy self to raise Let'st babes and infants speak thy praise And do below what Angels do above Open'st their mouths when Thou wilt check the pride Of such who open theirs but only to deride IV. When I my serious thoughts do entertain With those great works Thy hand has done The Heav'ns and in those heav'ns the Moon Whom Thou hast made o're all the stars to reign More glorious in Attendants though less bright Than he who rules the day and sends her out at night V. Lord what is Man then to my self I say Or what is Mans Posterity That he thus visited should be Be made to rule when such great things obey Be little lower than Blest Angels made And have at last their glory to his honour laid VI. For King of all Thy works with Thine own hand Thou on his head hast set the Crown Enjoyning all his Power to own And his obey as if 't were Thy command Creatures which at his feet the yoak now bear But would have higher risen if not by Thee plac'd there VII They are his slaves and just obedience show All in their offices attend Their lives all in his service spend And count their honour for his use to grow All that the Sea inhabit or the sky And Earth or for his pleasure live or at it dye VIII Sole Monarch of the World Prince of all Powers Fountain of Beings glorious King Who can enough Thy praises sing Who art the Worlds great Lord as well as Ours Fondly by Verse we strive Thy Name to raise When it already is above our highest Praise Psalm IX Confitebor tibi Domine c. I. LOrd I will praise Thee and Thy Works declare Of all Thy glorious Acts reherse My Song their praises shall not spare But with their numbers I will raise my Verse In Thee I will be glad in Thee rejoyce And where Thou art on high send up my voice II. My Enemies by Thee persu'd gave back In vain they strove to shun Thy sight My En'mies Thou didst overtake And those who scap'd the battle fell in flight Thou heard'st my cause and didst my right maintain Take then the Crown who didst the Vict'ry gain III. God on the Throne did sit a finall doom On the Rebellious World to pass Their troops alone were not o'recome But their vile Names He also out did rase So totally by Him they were o'rethrown That only in such songs they shall be known IV. At length O Enemy thy boasts are done And thy destructions have an end The next that comes will be thy own And at the door swift ruine do's attend As of the towns thou sack'dst there is no sign But ev'n their Names have perisht so shall Thyne V. God who for ever reigns has fixt His Throne And to His bar the Earth will call In righteousness He shall come down And by His equall Justice sentence all Under His wings secure the Just shall lye And He 'll their refuge be who to Him fly VI. Lord they who know Thy Name will trust in Thee For power and strength and safety 's there That quiver cannot empty'd bee And those who bear such arms need never fear For never yet thou any man did'st leave Who was Thy help but willing to receive VII Praise to that God who care of Sion takes And all His wonders tell about For when He Inquisition makes The blood which now is silent will cry out Aloud 't will cry nor will God stop His ear To blood who keeps it open for a tear VIII Arise My King to Thee for help I pray Behold the Mis'ries I endure Thou who from death didst guard my way And mad'st me stand from all his shafts secure That in Thy house I may Thy love record And where He has return'd me praise the Lord IX Down in the pitt which for me they had made I' th' pit the heathen are sunk down Are taken in the toyles they laid Whilest by so just a judgement God is known That when the heathen fall by their own snare Thy Just for whom 't was laid in safety are X. To hell they shall be turn'd and with them all Who God or know not or forget But those who for His succour call Shall have it like their expectation great For though at present God seems not to hear His hands are only held and not His ear XI Appear O lord and let not man prevail But judge the Nations in Thy sight The Nations who dare Heav'n assail And overthrow them with Thy glorious light And when Thou hast subdu'd their forces then Let them know Thou art God themselves but men Psalm X. Ut quid Domine recessisti c. I. MY God why dost Thou thus Thy self withdraw And make as if Thou didst not see Those mis'ries which are better known to Thee Than him who bears their sharpest law Why dost Thou thus Thy face in trouble hide T' were hell should I be ever so deny'd II. Look how the wicked in his pride encreast Destroys the poor who flies to Thee May all the plots he layes discover'd be And on himself their vengeance rest May the destruction which he did intend For Thine in his own ruine only end III. He boasts of that which Thou like Him dost hate His loose and uncontroll'd desires And to no greater happiness aspires Than what flows from a great estate Applauds the Covetous and counts him wise And valiant who for earth can Heav'n despise IV. He has a better God than what rules there And need not any further try Alas he has no wings to mount on high Give him a God that will be near That may be handled like his baggs and told And can give solid comfort like his gold V. No other De'ty with the wretch goes down This takes up all his thoughts and mind No matter what report he leaves behind For what shall be to him 's unknown Above in Heav'n he hears Thy Judgements are And is content they should be alwayes there VI. His Enemies he laughs at thinks their plots More worthy of his scorn than rage Fearless against all storms he do's engage His even-spun thred is without knots Perpetual peace constant Prosperity Has been his lot and shall his portion be VII These are his thoughts and thus unmov'd he stands With fraud and curses in his mouth His feet ne're trod the sacred paths of Truth And like them are his cruell hands But in the lonely fields in wait he lies And stains the groves with humane sacrifice VIII For as a Lion in some shady breach Humbles himself and couches down His prey with greater force to set upon If it shall come within his reach Do's all the postures of submission feign Till to resist he knows their strength is vain IX So do's he couch but having caught the poor With his disguise aside do's lay His feign'd humility and tears his prey Nor whil'st ther 's life thinks it secure And all the while flatters himself
my Prayer Least if Thou art now Seas are high The Floods away my confidence should bear And I beswallow'd up by the next wave My God be not a Rock to hear though Thou art one to save II. The voyce of my Petitions hear When I for help to Thee shall cry Let my hands feel that Thou art near Though I unable am Thy Face to spy Hear me when tow'rds Thy Oracle I pray And as I thither look be pleas'd to cast one glance this way III. Number me not with the Unjust And those who study to do wrong On whom if any poor man trust Their heart is warr though peace be in their tongue Let equal punishments pursue their sin And may their just rewards be as their base deserts have been IV. They never mind what Thou hast done Nor what Thy mighty hands can do What wonders Thou hast for me shown And for me wilt continue still to show But they shall see them and consum'd with pain Into the lowest pit descend to view it thence more plain V. Blest be that God who bow'd His ear To those requests I to Him made He is my shield my strength my spear And was my help when I unto Him pray'd On Him I trusted and in Him rejoyce My Heart that 's gone before to Heav'n I 'l follow with my Voice VI. He is their Shield His strength their Spear Who on Him for those Arms depend The Lords Anointed need not fear For God who is His King supplies will send O save the People who indeed are Thine Feed them and Lord lift up their head as Thou hast rais'd up mine Psalm XXIX Afferte Domino Filii Dei c. I. YOu whom your birth for Scepters has design'd Whom God has blest with wealth to guard your birth From Sons has made you Lords of th' Earth And on yours stampt the Portraict of His minde Your Scepters to Him yield they are His due Who only to serve Him first gave them You. II. He is your King and though you reign below You are but Vassals to His Throne above Your fear do's your dependance prove And when He speaks before Him you all bow When from above He thunders all your Powers Scatter like Clouds and melt away in showers III. He thunders from above and with the noyse Whether they will or no makes Seas to hear For at His Word they all croud near Exalted up to Heav'n by His great Voyce A voyce which sure is full of Majesty When sluggish Seas are by it rais'd so high IV. Affrighted Libanus begins to heave Like his own Cedars trembles they all quake Their roots as much as branches shake And both look which should first the other leave Like a young heifer Syrian starts away But do's through fear what that is wont at play V. From Heav'n it came a Fire before it went Consuming Fire behinde brought up the rear That all might see as well as hear And by the Message know from whom 't was sent Kades did at the Clap bow down his head And whom all fear'd his frighted Lions fled VI. The fearfull Hinde hearing the thunder roar Cast her untimely Calf with speed to fly And thinking by this shot to dy Forgot the Dogs her only dread before The Lightning made the gloomy Forest bright And what the Sun could not display'd at night VII The whole World is Gods Temple all things bow Before His Footstool and recount His praise All in their place His glory raise And unto man by theirs his duty show Lightning and Thunder to serve Him contend And His great charge proclaim to th' Earths wide end VIII Upon the Floods He sits Floods to Him bring Their gifts and humbly at his feet lay down Their Spoyls as Customs to His Crown And worship Him as their puissant King He stills their noyse and God who raging Seas Stills with a word shall give His people Peace Psalm XXX Exaltabo te Domine c. I. MY God I will to Thee give praise Because Thou hast exalted me Thou from the grave my life did'st raise And now my Song shall honour Thee When against me my foes did come And shar'd the prey and in their minds led home Their Captives Thou appeard'st and would'st not let them overcome II. 'T was then that to my God I cri'd And He who wounded made me whole All other helps which I had try'd Did but afflict not ease my Soul Even then He me did keep alive My ransom'd life did from the grave reprieve And a new Lease when I had forfeited the old did give III. O ye His Saints sing to His Name His Holiness with thanks record Thence take new fewel to your flame Sing Holiness unto the Lord His wrath a moment may remain But love shall make the storm a calm again And give a life as free from danger as it is from pain IV. Trouble and grief may last all night And to its dismal shade add theirs But when the morning brings the light Darkness shall scatter and my fears And as the Sun which guilds the day Out from the briny Ocean makes his way My Sun which breaks through tears shall brighter shine and look more gay V. Fixt on my Throne with mercy crown'd Unmov'd like some huge Rock I stood Me thoughts with pleasure I look'd round And saw my feet kiss'd by the flood Sure now I 'm past all fear I said Thy favour Lord my Rock so strong had made Others may well of me but I of none can be afraid VI. But as I thus express'd my pride Forgetting Him who made me so Thou Lord Thy face didst from me hide And then I came my self to know Trouble and pain no certain ground Which way so e're I look'd new griefs I found And the same floods which kiss'd my feet before my head surround VIII Then to Thee Lord again I cry'd What profit is there in my blood If in the pit I must abide Can Thy praise there be understood Shall the grave praise Thee or declare Thy Truth and Mercy what their glories are The grave which is as senseless as the dust that 's buryed there VIII Hear me O God and mercy show Unto my Help Thy self come down My God has heard me and I know Bv this He will His servant own To laughter He has turn'd my tears With gales of joy has blown away my fears And He who mourn'd now a Triumphant Robe and Laurel wears IX For this I will Thy praises sing And never in them silent be My glory shall its Anthem bring And faint not while 't is praising Thee Thy Mighty Power the ground shall give My noblest skill to manage it shall strive And when I cease my God to praise Thee let me cease to live Psalm XXXI In te Domine sper avi non confundar c. I. THou art my hope O God in whom I trust Let not my confidence procure me shame But save me in Thy Truth for
Egypt brought 'T was then they saw He was the same Which to their Fathers He was wont to be When He so strangely set them free The Holy God and Reverend is His Name VI. To worship Him true Wisdom is And to observe His Laws the only way to bliss No guide to knowledge like His fear For all beside what e're they may pretend Through a bad way reach a worse end But His Praise ever lasts and every where Psalm CXII Beatus Vir qui timet c. I. THat Man is truly blest who feares the Lord And with delight His Praecepts hears Who therefore loves because He fears Loves and yet trembles at the Sacred Word His seed upon the Earth renown'd shall be And he himselfblest in his seed shall see Riches and Wealth a full encrease No fear of ever being Poor Desires contented and a lasting Peace Alwayes unto his house are sure And ever constant as his Righteousness endure II. Clear day at night do's on the Just arise Some gleames His Spirit to sustain Some cheerful hopes amids his pain And what he gave he finds in others eyes That mercy which inclin'd His heart to lend In all his wants supplies do's ever send His works with Prudence manag'd are Nothing his foot shall ever move Both of his wayes and him God takes the Care And though he may his Servant prove He will reward his Righteousness and Crown his love III. How do the wicked tremble when the Just Secure in all his Fears is made I' th' midst of fears is not afraid But has his heart as fixed as his Trust Fix'd on his God nothing shall make him fear Though all around he should see ruine near For lo even then his just desire Shall be fulfill'd on'his Enemies When in their own wild flames they all expire And he behold the sacrifice To Heav'n in fire and clouds of pitchy smoak arise IV. His armes shall be what he has given away Or lent at any time the poor Whose Memory ever shall endure And with no fretting rust of age decay How he with Honour gain'd the Victory On Heav'ns Arch shall with ' his Name be grav'd on high Whereas it stand in sight of all The Wicked at it shall repine Shall see it fix'd when they must lower fall And those who did before combine Against him from their depth shall see it brighter shine Psalm CXIII Laudate pueri Dominum c. I. PRaise Him ye Servants of the Heav'nly King And to His Name your gratefull Praises sing That Name which is so full of Power And from Eternity was so Let the whole World before it bow And to Eternity that Name adore Praise Him for since at first the World He made T is fit this Chief-Rent to Him should by All be pai'd II. Above the Heav'ns He God o're all do's reign Nor can the Heav'n of Heav'ns His power contain His glory farr above the sky Exceeds the Compass of frail sight Invisible by Mortal light Those too weak means we view his greatness by Our eyes to Him we ne're can hope to raise For they 'll come short but we may reach Him with our praise III. Above He dwels yet sometimes do's He bend And stoop to hear the praise we upward send Humbling Himself sometimes to see Those beauties which in the Heav'ns are And at this distance look so fair Which of his Word the great Creation be Nay lower to the Earth He oft draws near And with His Presence makes it Heav'n when He comes there IV. In Heav'n and Earth all things obey His Will And though to them it be unknown fulfill At pleasure He bestows the Crown Honour and Wealth are in His hand And to the poor He gives Command Exalting him but throws the Mighty down Makes barren wombes with joy their fruit to bear And that which as the grave was deaf His voice to hear Psalm CXIV In exitu Israel de Egypto c. I. WHen Israel had thrown off th' Egyptian yoke And all the Chains of servitude A speech like them who us'd it rude And had their tongues unloos'd and fetters broke Th' Almighty Power who did that Wonder show Conducting by His mighty hand His People to the Promis'd land Did greater Wonders do Not only told them whether but which way to go II. The Sea farr off the Marching Camp beheld Saw how the Sacred Fire made way Yet knew not where their journy lay And to look round in higher billows swel'd But when to ' its shore it saw the Host draw nigh The mighty Sea began to fear And backward bid its floods to bear And those which could not fly Stand up in ranks and let the Israelites pass by III. Jordan fell back and to his Spring did hast Alarum'd at His scare'd Floods retreat The Aged Spring lost all his heat And boil'd no more but fainting swoon'd at last The mountaines saw the flood and they ran too The little Hills for Company Follow'd to see the Mountains flee Like frighted Lambs which go Though unpersu'd those wayes their trembling Mothers show IV. What ail'd the Sea that it should backward start Or what made frighted Jordans Spring Swoone and keep all his waters in Like spirits scarce able to secure the Heart Why ran the Hills Why did the mountains fly Tremble O Earth Thy God is near God who can make deaf Rocks to hear And when Thy Springs are dry From out their flinty Bowels fetch a new supply Psalm CXV Non nobis Domine Non nobis c. I. NOT unto us Lord not to us But to Thy Name give all the praise Thou Worthy art to be exalted thus For Truth and Mercy are Thy Wayes Why should the World deride Our trust And ask Where is the God whereof you boast Our God in Heav'n do's reign and what 's His Will Both Heav'n and Earth obey and Seas fulfill II. The Heathen Idols rule not so Nor by their own power can they stand Themselves do not their mean Original know Not how made Gods nor by what hand And though their Votaries them adore They are the same vile clay they were before Or if of Gold debas'd and more can do I' th' Ingot e're it 's a God then once made so III. 'T has mouth indeed and eyes and eares And the fain'd organs of quick sense But the dull thing nor speakes nor sees nor hears And what good can be look'd for thence 'T has feet 't is true and golden hands That ne're gave bribe but to receive them stands And nose that though the flames to it aspire Cannot the Incense smell nor scent the Fire IV. They and their Framers are alike And neither sense nor reason have But if they ' are gods let 's see them any strike Or from the curse their makers save Blind Deities but blinder they Who knowing it to their own work will pray Or think the stock which do's its titles ow To them can any thing they want bestow V.
IV. Like a lost sheep from Thee I went astray Nor to the fold again should come But seek me Lord and bring Thy Servant home For He do's yet Thy great Commands obey Around me let Thy Judgements shine And thus from danger sav'd the Praise shall all be Thine Psalm CXX Ad Dominum cum tribularer c. I. IN my distress unto the Lord I cry'd And though my troubles made me fear That God His Face would from me hide Even then my God was pleas'd to hear And then inclin'd His Willing ear And answer'd me when I most lookt to be deny'd II. Thou heardst me and Thy self didst set me free My Enemies saw their swords were vain And with their tongues did strike at me With lyes my Innocence sought to stain Lord on them turn their lyes again And let their tongues weak as their swords to hurt me be III. But what reward false tongue dost Thou desire Or who to give 't Thee dares come nigh Thou woundest when Thou dost retire As Parthians fight most when they fly Thy Words then kill when thou runn'st by Like Juniper Coles are sweet but burn worse than their fire IV. Unhappy Man who thus am forc'd to stay Exil'd from Him I love most dear From Thee my God O Come away Let me not be without Thee here But where Thou art let me appear Any where Lord so Thou wilt but Thy self display V. Than Mesech can a place more savage be Where all to Peace sworn Enemies are And for Her sake are so to me Kedar with Mesech may compare I cry up Peace They call for Warr Yet that were nothing Lord could I but there have Thee Psalm CXXI Levavi oculos meos in Montes c. I. UNto the Hills I rais'd my drooping eyes And look'd if any help were there Loaded with tears I made them rise To watch and give the sign when help drew near I rais'd them up but all in vain I could not keep them so Their own weight press'd them to the Earth again On high they would not be when I was sunk so low II. Up to your tops O Hills I 'll look no more An unexpected help is nigh I overlook'd this help before Look'd when I thought not high enough too high For lo my God my part do's take On my side do's appear God whos 's great word both Heav'n and Earth did make And what need other help when the Almighty's near III. Thy Foot He said it all times fixt shall stand And He shall watch about Thee keep The Lord shall lead Thee by the hand And never though thou slumbrest fall asleep For Israel He is still awake His eyes still open be And He who of an Israel care can take Fear not but He can well enough provide for Thee IV. Twixt Him and Thee no cloud shall interpose But He shall be Himself Thy shade To break the Malice of Thy Foes The Eternall God shall be Thy refuge made The Lord shall be Thy sure defence Thy guard both night and day Shall sweeten every Planets influence And to serve Thee make both the Sun and Moon obey V. God shall defend Thee and Thy life shall be Secur'd from danger by His love And all things which belong to Thee The Care which He has of Thy Soul shall prove Without He shall direct Thy Way Within shall bless Thy store And all the while from Him Thou 'rt forc'd to slay Shall what Thou hast make serve Thy turn or give Thee more Psalm CXXII Laetatus sum in his qua c. I. T Was the best news I wish to hear My very Soul stood ravisht at my ear Let 's go they say'd Come Let 's away Already we have tarried long enough Now let our speed declare Our love Why should we thus from Sion stay And only be unhappy by our Own delay II. Let 's go see at the City gates How God Himself to greet Our coming waits We Come O God nor will we rest Till we the place have in Jerusalem found Till we have trod that Holy ground Which Thou of all the World lov'st best Which Thou of all the World hast with Thy Presence blest III. Jerusalem is strong and fair Glorious above what other Cities are The Seat of the Eternal King Whose lofty Palaces approach the skies And to be near their God to ' Heav'n rise Thither the Tribes their Offerings bring And from their scattred Cities come His Praise to sing IV. There are the Thrones of Judgement set Her Power is large and Her Dominion great The Thrones of David there stand fast The Lord Himself in Sion founded them Has fixt them in Jerusalem Subject to neither change or Wast But such as shall by Him upheld for ever last V. Triumphant City Mayst Thou be Happy like Him who first establisht Thee May He from Warrs Thy gates secure And like Thee Thy well-wishers ever bless Give Thee a long and certain peace Make all His blessings to Thee sure And may Thy Peace as constant as His Power endure VI. For Israels sake Thou hast my love Second to none but His who rules above For Sions sake I 'll happiness On all Thy Palaces and Borders pray Thy Palaces shall ne're decay Within Thy Borders Warr shall cease For He who is Thy Guardian is the God of Peace Psalm CXXIII Ad te Levavi oculos meos c. I. TO Thee O Lord I lift my careful eyes To Heav'n where Thou sitst cloath'd with light And though I hopeless am to reach Thy sight I cannot choose but let them thither rise Tow'rds Heav'n they look and seek Thee every where And though they see Thee not know Thou art there II. As Servants on their Masters sign depend Know what to do what to forbear From thence though they no other language hear And with quick eyes unto their hands attend Wayting on Thee we more dependance show And though Thou art in visible do so III. We wait and waiting never will give o're Till Thou to us Thy Mercy show O on us Now Thy Mercy Lord bestow And what we long have lost again restore Thy Mercy Lord and since Thou 'rt Just and strong Repeal Our miseries and revenge Our wrong IV. Revenge the wrong which we endure from those Who at us scoff because We 're Thine Against us only for Thy sake combine And are Our envious and malicious foes Their sloth and ease make them Our pains deride And all Our grief 's the Triumph of their pride Psalm CXXIV Nisi quia Dominus c. I. HAD not the Lord our Cause maintain'd The Lord Himself may Israel say Had not the Lord the Victory for us gain'd Instead of getting We had lost the day And Captives been to them who now are made Our prey II. On us they came and like a flood Which would within no banks be held They fiercer grew the more they were withstood Increas'd in rage when we their force repell'd And by
in fetters bind And make their stoutest Princes walk in Chains behind V. That Wrath which was denounc'd to execute And all the long since written Doom fulfill When their fierce Enemies all struck mute Shall yield their Lives to th' Pleasure of their Will Such Glorious Freedom follows Their Restraints And this great Honour after suffering have the Saints Hallelujah Psalm CL. Laudate Dominum c. I. THe Holy God in His Sanctuary praise There where He loves Himself to show And having sung His Praise below From thence to Heaven that and your voyce together raise II. In Heav'n He makes His Mighty Power be seen Praise Him who makes it there appear For if that Greatness awe us here What would it do came not so vast a space between III. Together strive who shall exalt Him most What Instruments the fittest are Whether of Love whether of Warr Shrill Trumpets or soft Harps to praise the Lord of Host IV. Trumpets and Harps shall in one Consort move The Cornet and the Amorous Lute The Cymbal and the Warlike Flute For He who is the Lord of Host is God of Love V. Let the whole Earth their praises to Him bring Whate're has being life or breath Angels above and Men beneath And all whom He has Voyces given His Praises sing S. Woodford At Albrook Hants 7 Martii 1665 6 Hallelujah FINIS A TABLE OF THE PSALMS Psalm   Page  A.   120 AD Dominum cum tribularer IN my distress unto the Lord 373 28 Ad te Domine clamabo To thee O Lord my Rock 69 25 Ad te Domine levavi To thee O God my 62 123 Ad te levavi oculos meos To thee O Lord I lift 376 29 Afferte Domino Filii Dei You whom your birth for 71 78 Attendite popule Israel Gods own inheritance 216 49 Audite haec omnes gentes Attend O World and bid 129  B.   119 Beati immaculati Thrice happy men who 351 128 Beati omnes qui Blest is the man whose 386 32 Beati quorum remissae He whose iniquities are 79 41 Beatus qui intelligit Blest is that man who 108 1 Beatus vir qui non Thrice happy man who 1 112 Beatus vir qui timet That man is truly blest 334 34 Benedicam Dominum Lord I will bless Thee 84 104 Benedic anima mea Arise my soul and to the 303 103 Benedic anima mea Arise my soul and to the 300 144 Benedictus Dominus Supream Commander of the 419 85 Benedixisti Domine terram At length O God thy People 236 92 Bonum est confiteri Domino What Saints in Heaven and 278  C   149 Cantate Domino New songs of Praise 433 96 Cantate Domino canticum New songs of Praise 285 98 Cantate Domino New songs of Praise 289 19 Caeli enarrant gloriam That boundless space 47 75 Confitebimur tibi Deus Lord we will praise thee 209 9 Confitebor tibi Domine Lord I will praise thee 17 111 Confitebor tibi Domine With my whole heart I 'le 332 138 Confitebor tibi Domine Lord I will bless thee 406 105 Confitemini Domino Give thanks unto our God 310 106 Confitemini Domino quoniam Sing to the Lord for 314 107 Confitemini Domino All you who on th' Almighty 319 118 Confitemini Domino To Gods Almighty Name 346 136 Confitemini Domino O praise the Lord for He 399 16 Conserva me Domine Preserve me Lord for 34 4 Cum invocarem exaudivit Thou who hast heard me 6  D   130 De profundis clamavi Out of the depths unto 389 44 Deus auribus nostris Great God we oft have 115 50 Deus Deorum Dominus 'T is past and by irrevocable 132 63 Deus Deus meus ad te Early my God before 167 22 Deus Deus meus quare My God My God why art 54 70 Deus in adjutorium My God why dos my 189 54 Deus in nomine tuo O Thou who Israels Saviour 148 72 Deus judicium tuum Great God thy judgements 196 109 Deus laudem meam ne Guard of my life and God 327 67 Deus misereatur nostri Save us O God and 178 46 Deus noster refugium To Armys some for 122 83 Deus quis similis erit tibi Enough my God Thou hast 231 60 Deus repulisti nos Lord thou hast smote us 162 82 Deus stetit in Synagoga You judges of the World 229 79 Deus venerunt gentes Lord see the miseries which 222 94 Deus ultionum Dominus Judge of the Universe 281 116 Dilexi quoniam exaudivit I love thee Lord 342 18 Diligam te Domine Lord I will love thee 39 39 Dixi custodiam vias Let him go on for me 101 110 Dixit Dominus Domino The Lord said to my Lord 330 36 Dixi injustus ut delinquat Base hypocrite thinkst 89 14 Dixit insipiens in corde There is no God the 30 53 Dixit insipiens There is no God the Fool 146 141 Domine clamavi ad te My God when in distress 413 7 Domine Deus meus in te Almighty God to thee for 12 88 Domine Deus salutis meae Great God whence my 243 8 Domine Dominus noster Sole Monarch of the World 15 102 Domine exaudi orationem My dearest God let my 296 143 Domine exaudi orationem Great Saviour to my 417 21 Domine in virtute tua Great God who wonders for 51 6 Domine ne in furore tuo Lord in thy wrath rebuke 10 38 Domine ne infurore tuo Lord in thy wrath 98 131 Domine non est exaltatum No Lord thou knowest 391 139 Domine probasti me In vain O God my 408 3 Domine quid multiplic Lord how are they increast 5 15 Domine quis habitabit My God who shall Thy Holy 32 90 Domine refugium factus Lord we have been Thy 251 24 Domini est terra The Earth and all the Earth 60 27 Dominus illuminatio mea When in the silence of the 66 23 Dominus regit me The Mighty God who all 58 93 Dominus regnavit decorem Submit your Crowns O Kings 280 97 Dominus regnavit exultet The Lord dos reign let the 287 99 Dominus regnavit irascantur The Lord dos reign let the 291  E.   134 Ecce num benedicite Praise him ye Servants 395 133 Ecce quam bonum Blest day wherein I live 394 59 Eripe me de inimicis Preserve me Lord and by 160 140 Eripe me Domine Lord from the evil 411 45 Eructavit Cor meum A thousand fancies from 118 145 Exaltabo te Deus My God my King I will 421 30 Exaltabote Domine My God I will to Thee 73 20 Exaudiat te Dominus So may thy God be 49 61 Exaudi Deus deprecationem Hear me my Saviour 164 55 Exaudi Deus orationem Lord to my Prayer 150 64 Exaudi Deus orationem Lord to my