Lord God to whom alone Final revenging doth belong Shew men that Justice is thy work And surely God avengeth wrong 2 Lift up thy self thou Judge of all The proud do thou check and reward 3 How long shall wicked men triumph Even they that do not God regard 4 Shall they still speak false and hard things And their tongues utter cruelty How low shall they triumph and boast Who plot and work iniquity 5 Thy people they in pieces break Thy heritage do they afflict 6 Widows strangers and fatherless They murder or by wrong deject 7 Yet say they God doth not this see Nor doth he it regard and know 8 Ye brutish people understand Ye fools when will ye wiser grow 9 Shall he not hear who made the ear Nor all things see that form'd the eye 10 He that the heathen doth chastise Shall judge and correct righteously He that all knowledge teacheth man What can from him concealed be 11 The Lord knows all the thoughts of man He sees that they are vanity 12 O blessed is the man who is In love chastis'd by thee O Lord And thou effectually dost teach Withal out of thy holy Word 13 That thou may'st give him rest from times Of sad and sharp adversity Until the pit be dig'd for them That still do work iniquity 14 God who corrects will not cast off His flock nor his sure Covenant break Nor his belov'd inheritance Will ever utterly forsake 15 Judgment shall Righteousness restore And Truth â—â— earth return again And all shall follâ—w after it Who upright hearted do remain 16 Who will rise up for me against The wicked doer's cruel band The workers of iniquity Who will against them for me stand 17 Unless the Lord had been my help I had dwelt quickly in the grave 18 But whâ—â— I said My foot doth slip O Lord my mercy did me save 19 And in the croud and multitude Of troubling thoughts that in me roul Within me thy sweet comforts dwell And do delight my troubled soul 20 Shall the Throne of iniquity Have any fellowship with thee Which frameth mischief by a Law And pleads its own unjust decree 21 They all conspire against the lives Of the most righteous men and good And by their Law ujustly do Condemn and shed the guiltless blood 22 But God alone against them all Is my secure defence and stay The Lord my God my refuge is My rock of strength and trust alway 23 The Lord our God shall bring on them Their own works of iniquity In their own sin he 'll cut them off The Lord he 'll do it certainly PSALM XCV 1 O Come let us unto the Lord Lift up aloud our singing voice And to our Rock and Saviour Make a triumphant joyful noise 2 Before his presence let us all Appear with joy and thankfulness And with the joyful noise of Psalms The praise of our great God express 3 Great is the Lord a mighty King Above all pow'rs and Gods alone 4 The earth 's great depths are in his hands The mountains strength is all his own 5 The Sea and all therein is his It 's he that did it make and form The dry land also he did make And it replenish and adorn 6 O come and let us worship him And to him let us bow down all And on our knees before the Lord Our maker let us humbly fall 7 He only is our God and we The sheep of his own pasture are The flock which his own hand doth lead Of whom he taketh special care 8 To day if you will hear his voice Then longer harden not your hearts As you did tempt and strive with God When led and try'd in the desart 9 Your fathers did me tempt and prove When they my wondrous works did see 10 Even forty years that sinful race Often provok'd and grieved me 11 I said This peoples hearts do err My will and ways they will not know To whom in wrath I sware that to My promis'd Rest they should not go PSALM XCVI 1 O Sing ye now unto the Lord New framed songs with joy and mirth Sing praises to the Lord our God All people of the spacious earth 2 Sing to the Lord and bless his name And daily his salvation show 3 His Glory to the heathen tell Make all the world his wonders know 4 For great and glorious is our God And greatly to be prais'd is he And he above all Gods and Powers By all must fear'd and praised be 5 The feigned Gods are Idols all Which the blind heathen Nations fear It is our God alone by whom The heav'ns and all created were 6 In honour and in majesty His holy presence doth excel And strength with glorious beauty in His Sanctuary always dwell 7 All nations that on earth do dwell Ye people of each land and tribe Give glory to our glorious Lord Glory and strength to him ascribe 8 Give to God's Name the glory due To 's Courts come and your off'ring bring 9 In splendid beauteous holiness Worship the Lord our supream King Fear ye before him all the earth 10 Tell heathens all the Lord doth reign The world shall be established And shall not be remov'd again He all men righteously shall judge 11 Let earth be glad and heav'n rejoyce The great sea and its fulness all Praise God even with its roaring noise 12 Let the fields prosper and rejoyce And all that 's on and from the earth The woods and all the trees shall sing And flourish as it were with mirth 13 Before the Lord For lo he comes He comes the earth to judge and try The world he 'll judge with righteousness And people all with equity PSALM XCVII 1 GOd reigneth Let the earth be glad And let the Isles rejoyce each one 2 Darkness and clouds encompass him In truth and judgment dwells his throne 3 Fire goes before him and his foes It wasts and burns up round about 4 His Lightnings lightened the world The earth it saw and shook throughout 5 And at the presence of the Lord The mighty hills like wax did melt When of the Lord of all the earth The dreadful presence they had felt 6 The glorious heav'ns his righteousness To all do manifestly show His Glory so resplendent is That all men willing may it know 7 They that serve graven Images Sham'd and confounded all shall be And they that of their Idols boast All called Gods him worship ye 8 Sion heard this and did rejoyce And Judah's daughters all were glad For all thy judgments Lord of which The sight or notice they have had 9 For thou the glorious Lord art high Extoll'd above the earth by far All that are called Gods by men Thy creatures and thy subjects are 10 Hate evil ye that fear the Lord The souls of Saints that do him serve He keepeth out of wicked hands And will them all save and preserve 11 For righteous men though now in grief Future light is prepar'd and
his Jerusalem Where he as God is truly known He the dispers'd of Israel In time doth gather into one 3 The broken-hearted he doth heal Their wounds up he doth gently bind 4 He tells the number of the stars Calls all things by their names and kind 5 Great is our God and of great power His knowledge hath no end or bound 6 The meek he lifteth up but casts The proud and wicked to the ground 7 Sing forth the praises of the Lord With thankful heart and chearful tongue Let Harp and pleasant melody Be joyned with your praising song 8 He covereth the heav'ns with clouds And for the earth prepareth rain The barren mountains doth refresh That grass on them may grow again 9 He gives the beasts their food and feeds Young Ravens which for food do cry 10 His pleasure not in horses strength Nor in the strong man's legs do lye 11 But in all those who do him fear The Lord himself doth pleasure take And those that in his mercy hope His love and grace will not forsake 12 Jerusalem shall praise the Lord Sion thy God with praise confess 13 Thy bars and gates he strengtheneth Thy Children in thee he doth bless 14 Thy borders he with peace doth bless And fills thee with Wheat 's finest flower 15 His word goes forth through all the earth And swiftly prospers by his power 16 Hoar frost like ashes scattereth he On earth like wool he snow doth give 17 Like morsels he casts forth his ice Who in his extream cold can live 18 He sendeth out his word of power And quickly melteth them again He makes his wind to blow and then The waters flow with plenteous rain 19 The Doctrine of his Holy Word To Jacob he doth clearly show His statutes and his judgments he Makes his own Israel to know 20 He with no nation thus hath dealt His judgments and his holy word To none of them are thus made known Ye therefore praise the glorious Lord. PSALM CXLVIII 1 PRaise ye our glorious Lord Who dwells in heav'n on high Let him be still ador'd Above the starry sky 2 Ye Angels bright And all his host Throughout heav'ns coasts In praise delight 3 Praise him both Sun and Moon And every shining Star 4 Ye Heav'ns which are his Throne His glorious praise declare His praise forth show Ye waters high In clouds that fly And fall below 5 Let all these praise the Lord And magnifie his name He did but speak the word And thereby all things frame He plac'd them fast 6 By his decree They fixed be And ever lasts 7 Praise God on earth below Ye Dragons and all deeps 8 Fire hail clouds wind and snow Which in command he keeps 9 Mountain and hill Fruitful trees all And Cedars tall Praise ye him still 10 All beasts both wild and tame And every creeping thing Praise ye God's glorious name And every bird of wing All men on earth 11 Kings and Judges Greatest Princes Of highest birth 12 Young men and maidens all Praise ye the Lord's great name Old men and children small Let all his praise proclaim O're all the world 13 God's Name alone And Glory known Shall be extoll'd 14 His people he will raise And them exalt on high All his Saints shall him praise And bless continually He is ador'd By Israel Who near him dwell Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXLIX 1 PRaise ye the Lord and sing A new rejoycing song Praise ye our glorious King His holy ones among Where they do meet In holy throngs To sing these songs Sacred and sweet 2 Let Israel rejoyce In him that did them make With chearful heart and voice Let Sion's sons partake And to their King Who them directs And still protects This off'ring bring 3 And let them praise his name With dances grave and meet Yea let them praise the same With Harp and Musick sweet For the upright 4 His people true Whom he fore-knew Are his delight With his salvation he The meek will beautifie 5 Let them all joyful be In his and their Glory To their great King Their resting head Shall on their bed His praises sing 6 Let the high praise of God Be ever in their mouth And let them wield abroad The two-edg'd-sword with truth 7 On heathens all And wicked men God's Judgments then Shall surely fall 8 With chains to bind their Kings Their Lords with iron bands 9 To execute the things On them which God commands God by his Word This honour grants To all his Saints Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CL. 1 PRaise God Prise him where faithful men Do in his holy place draw near Praise him in the high firmament Where his great power doth appear 2 Praise him for all his mighty acts Their glory in his praises tell His Greatness and Perfection praise Which doth all creatures reach excel 3 With Trumpets and shrill Cornet's noise Sound forth his glorious praise on high Praise him with the melodious harp And with the pleasant Psaltery 4 Praise him with Timbrel and with Flute With Organs and string'd Harpsicals With joyful and well-tuned hearts 5 Praise him upon the loud Cymbals On the loud Cymbals praise ye him 6 Let every living thing accord That breath enjoys to give God praise All joyn to praise our glorious Lord. Chap. 3. Lamentations 1 I Am the miserable man Selected by my righteous God To see days of calamity And feel his wrath and chastening Rod. 2 He hath me led and brought into The dismal darkness of the night He doth deny my grieved soul The comforts of the pleasant light 3 Surely against me he is turn'd All day his hand wrings out my groans 4 My wasted flesh my skin made old By tiring pain he breaks my bones 5 His batteries he against me built With gall and travel compass'd me 6 In darkness he hath shut me up Like those that dead and buryed be 7 His chastening hand doth hedge me in And my escape by flight restrains My feeble flesh and galled limbs He fetters with his heavy chains 8 And when thus prest with pain and grief To him I daily cry and shout He seems to turn away his ear And shut my fervent prayer out 9 With hewen stone he hath me enclos'd Led me into a crooked way 10 And he hath us'd me in his wrath As Bears and Lions do their prey 11 He turn'd me from the pleasant way Tore me and made me desolate 12 He bends his bow makes me the mark Which piercing arrows level at 13 The shafts which from his quiver come Enter into and pierce my reins 14 I daily am the peoples song Which me with mocks and scorn disdains 15 With bitterness he filled me With wormwood he hath made me drunk 16 With gravel-stones he brake my teeth My flesh's in ashes roll'd and shrunk 17 Thou set'st my soul so far from peace That I almost all good forgat 18 I said My strength and hope in God Hath fail'd and left me desolate
flesh and bones Vexed by sin and by thy wrath 3 My guilty soul doth bear its part With pained flesh in sin and grief Lord do not over-long delay To ease them both with thy relief 4 Return O Lord deliver me Do not this sinful soul forsake Pity and save a humbled wretch For thy own tender mercies sake 5 The lifeless Corps in silent dust Remember not thy holy name In darksome graves who give thee thanks Or do thy glorious praise proclaim 6 My flesh and soul are tired out With painful groans and sinful fears The night I spend in woful moans And wash my bed and Touch with tears 7 My feeble eyes do fail with grief Consumed by my daily woes Untimely dimness closeth them Increased by my cruel foes 8 But workers of iniquity Shall all with shame from me depart For God doth hear my tears and cries And will relieve my grieved heart 9 He hath and will receive my suit Lord tame thy servant's enemies Turn them with humbling grief and shame Who Truth and Righteousness despise PSALM VII 1 O Lord my God in thee I trust Me from my persecutors save 2 Deliver me lest they me tear Like Lions and there 's none to save 3 Lord if this ill deed I have done And guilty be of wickedness 4 If I with hurt did him reward Who liv'd by me in quiet peace Yea Lord thou knowest that I have Vs'd kindly and deliver'd those Who now are causelesly become My cruel persecuting foes 5 Then let me foes me persecute And take my life and let them thrust And tread me down on earth and lay My name and honour in the dust 6 Rise Lord in wrath lift up thy self Because of all mine enemies rage And for that right which thou command'st Do thou thy wakened power engage 7 So shall the peoples lovely crowd About with praise encompass thee For their sakes therefore take thy seat On high to judge and succour me 8 The Lord shall all the people judge Do thou O Righteous Lord judge me According to my righteousness And after mine integrity 9 O let the heinous wickedness Of wicked men come to an end Thou Lord who try'st the hearts and reins The just do thou stay and defend 10 Of God is my defence who saves Men upright in their heart and way 11 As God doth judge the just so he With sin is angry every day 12 If men turn not he 'll whet his sword The bow is vent and ready made The executing instruments Of death he also hath prepar'd 13 Against the Persecutors he His sharpned Arrows doth ordain For such as with iniquity Do travel as it were in pain 14 Mischief in secret they conceived And brought forth fals hood and deceit 15 They made a pit and digg'd a ditch And are themselves fallen into it 16 His mischief upon his own head In time shall be returned home His violent dealing at the last Down up on his own pate shall come 17 I 'le praise the Lord according to His truth and all his righteous ways And to the name of God most high Sing joyful songs of thanks and praise PSALM VIII 1 O Lord our Lord through all the earth How excellent is thy Great name Who hast thy Glory high advanc'd Above the Heavens and starry frame 2 From Infants and from Childrens mouths Thou Wisdomes power didst ordain For thy foes sake that so thou might'st The cruel wrath of them restrain 3 When I consider well the Heav'ns Which thy own hand and power fram'd The Moon and the bright shining Stars All which were by thy word ordain'd 4 Then say I what is man that thou Of him hast daily mindful been And what 's the son of man that thou So much regard'st and visit'st him 5 Thou mad'st him little lower than The blessed Angels in degree And hast with honour crowned him And with some rays of Majesty 6 Thou gavest him dominion O're all these great works of thy hand Thou hast subjected all to him To be at this ruling command 7 The Pasture Flocks the Oxen strong Do all to him obedience yield And thou subjectest unto him The very wild beasts of the field 8 The fowl that flyeth in the air The fish that in the seas do play And whatsoever through the deeps Of the great Ocean makes its way 9 Our Owner and our Governour Art thou the Lord of this great frame How excellent through all the earth Is thy most Holy Glorious name PSALM IX 1 I 'Le praise the Lord with my whole heart Thy wonders I 'le abroad proclaim 2 With gladness I 'le rejoyce in thee Most High and sing unto thy name 3 Mine enemies do turn their back They fall and perish at thy sight 4 Thou sat'st a just Judge on thy Throne And hast maintain'd my Cause and right 5 The Heathen thou rebuked hast The wicked thou hast overthrown Their very names thou hast put out Only to be as odious known 6 O Enemy thy destroying work Is now at last come to an end They ruin'd Cities but to death Their memory did with them descend 7 But God for ever shall endure For Judgment he hath set his Throne 8 He 'll judge the world in righteousness In uprightness he 'll judge each one 9 The Lord will be a high defence For those that are by men opprest In times of trouble he will be A refuge and a secure Rest 10 And they that know thy Name in Thee Their confidence will wholly place For thou didst never them forsake Who truly sought thy saving grace 11 Sing Praises to the Lord most high Who doth in holy Sion dwell The wondrous things which he hath done Among the people daily tell 12 He will at last enquire for blood And then he will remember them And surely he doth not forget The mournful cry of humble men 13 Have mercy Lord think on my grief And wrong which I from them sustain Who hate me Thou that liftest me Vp from the gates of death again 14 That in the gates of Sion's seed I may shew forth thy Glorious praise And in thy great salvation I will trust and rejoyce always 15 The Heathen are sunk in the pit Which they themselves for us had made And in the net which they had hid Justly their own foot is ensnar'd 16 The Lord is by the Judgment known Which he in wisdom justly wrought The wicked's hands did make the snare In which at last themselves are caught 17 To be cast off and turn'd to Hell This is the wicked's final lot And all the Nations of the world That God with fear remember not 18 The needy though a while distrest Shall not by thee be still forgot The expectations of the poor Though long defer'd yet perish not 19 Rise Lord and let not men prevail Who trust in fraud or worldly might Let heathens and ungodly men Be even here judged in thy sight 20 Put senseless ones in fear O Lord That the ungodly
understood And seriously sought after God 3 But they all filthy are become They all from God are backward gone None of them lives in doing good Of all these wicked men not one 4 Have all these men of wicked works No wit or knowledge left at all Who eat my people up as bread On God they never truly call 5 By guilt and God's affrighting hand With fear they were greatly dismaid And fled in terror when no cause Was seen for them to be afraid For God their bones that thee besieg'd Hath justly scatter'd all abroad To shame thou hast put them because Despis'd they were and are of God 6 Let Israel's help from Sion come When God brings back the Captives sad His saved people shall rejoyce And his true Israel be glad PSALM LIV. 1 SAve me O God by thy great name And judge me by thy mighty strength 2 My prayer hear O God give ear Unto my suit and words at length 3 0ppressors seek after my life Strangers against me joyntly rise Because they have not set the Lord At all with fear before their eyes 4 But yet the Lord my helper is Therefore in him my soul is bold And with the just he taketh part Who do my soul help and uphold 5 He shall repay hurt to my foes Who me with hate watch and observe According to thy truth cut off These wicked men as they deserve 6 Then I 'le bring sacrifice to thee O Lord with chearful willingness And praise thy name for it is good Thy holy praises to express 7 When he hath me delivered Out of my great adversities And when my eyes his justice see On all my wicked enemies PSALM LV. 1 LOrd hear my suit hide not thy self From my intreating earnest voice 2 Attend and hear me in my plaint Regard my sad and mournful noise 3 Because of enemies slandrous voice And wicked mens oppression great On me they cast iniquity And me in cruel wrath they hate 4 My heart in me sore pained is Death 's shaking terrors on me fall 5 On me come trembling fear and dread Hath cover'd me o're whelm'd withall 6 O that I had wings like a dove Said I away then would I flee And seek out some retiring place Where I in quiet rest might be 7 Lo then would I wander far off And in the remote desart stay 8 From windy storms and tempests I Would for peace hast to scape away 9 Destroy thou them O Lord and let Their combin'd tongues divided be 10 For violence and hurtful strife I in the envious City see Day and night on the walls thereof They fiercely go about it round Contriv'd mischief and hurtfulness There in the midst of it are found 11 Even in the midst and chiefest part There dwells and reigneth wickedness And from her streets do not depart Guile falshood and deceitfulness 12 It was no foe that me reproach'd For this from such I could endure No known foe did against me rise Else hid from him I 'd me secure 13 But he mine equal and my guide And my familiar neighbour was 14 Together we sweet counsel took And to God's house conjoyn'd did pass 15 Let death seize on them let them go Down quick into the wicked's grave For in their dwellings wickedness They for their chosen business have 16 I 'le call on God he will me save I 'le pray to him aloud I 'le cry 17 Evening and morning and at noon My craving voice he 'll not deny 18 Against me when they raised war He did my soul keep and set free And he preserv'd me as in peace For through him many were with me 19 My God shall hear and them afflict Even God who is the same of old They fear not God because they have No changes but in sin are bold 20 Against them that with him had peace He hath put forth his treacherous hand The Covenant which he hath made By breaking falsly he prophan'd 21 Smoother than butter were his words While in his heart design'd was war His speeches were softer than Oyl But hurtful as drawn swords they are 22 Cast thou thy burden on the Lord And he shall surely thee sustain And by his grace the righteous men Unmoved ever shall remain 23 But thou Lord wilt these wicked men In justice judge and overthrow And in destruction's dismal pit Wilt shortly cast and lay them low The bloody and deceitful men Shall not live out one half their days But upon thee with confidence My God I will rely always PSALM LVI By W. Barton 1 HAve mercy Lord on me Whom man would make a prey Behold how he oppresseth me Contending every day 2 They that mine enemies be Would daily me devour For multitudes against me fight O thou of highest pow'r 3 What time soever Lord I am of such afraid Even then will I trust faithfully On thy assured aid 4 In God I 'le praise his word In God my trust shall be And secure there I will not fear What flesh can do to me 5 My words they utter wrong And wrest them every day Their thoughts are still to work me ill In whatsoe're they say 6 They altogether throng They hide themselves likewise They lie at catch my steps they watch My life for to surprize 7 Thall they escape so well In this their wicked path Upon them frown and Lord cast down This people in thy wrath 8 Thou dost my wandrings tell Let down thy bottle Lord And put in there each briny tear Are they not on record 9 When I shall cry to thee It puts to sudden flight My daunted foe and this I know For God defends my right 10 In God enabling me I will his word proclaim Yea in the Lord will I record His word 's due praise and fame 11 In God alone have I Repos'd my trust for aid Let mortal man do what he can I will not be afraid 12 Thy Vows upon me lye Lord I must pay the same And I always will render praise To thy most holy name 13 For thou my soul hast freed From death so near at had And wilt not thou uphold me now And make my feet to stand That I may still proceed To walk as in thy sight And spend my days unto thy praise With them that live in light PSALM LVII 1 BE merciful to me O God For mercy I in thee do trust Under thy wings I refuge seek Till this distress be over past 2 My cry I will cause to ascend Unto the Lord who is most high To God who doth all things for me Ever perform most faithfully 3 He shall send down from Heav'n and me From his unjust reproach defend That would devour me God his truth And saving mercy sorth shall send 4 My soul among fierce Lions is I burning fire-brands lie among Even men whose teeth are spears and darts A cutting sharp sword is their tongue 5 Above the highest Heav'ns O God Be thou in might exalted high And over all
high Let Peace abound on earth below To men Divine benignity Or Glory be to our glorious God Whose dwelling's in the highest heaven Let Peace come down on earth below Love and good will to men be given Or Glory to the Eternal God In heav'n which is his glorious place Let Peace on earth make her abode Let men receive his love and grace The Hymn called the Benedicte of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego Paraphrased Christian Philosophy 1 LEt this great wondrous frame And all God's works therein On which his glorious name Inscrib'd is clearly seen Jehovah bless To magnifie The Lord most high His praise express 2 Ye holy Angels bright Who see Jehovah's face Where his Life Love and Light Make heav'n a glorious place The Lord still praise His Majesty Still magnifie Bless him always 3 Ye heav'ns so high and great In glory which excel The blessed holy seat Where Christ and Angels dwell His praise shew forth Him magnifie More gloriously Than we on earth 4 Ye unseen Powers above Which mortals little know Who under God do move And rule the things below Praise ye God's name As all his will Ye do fulfil Bless ye the same 5 Let the great glorious Sun Earth's mover life and light And the resplendent Moon Which shines to us by night God's Glory show Praise and declare Him whose ye are To us below 6 Ye numerous Stars of light Great Orbs and glorious all Though here to Mortals sight By distance ye seem small Your wondrous frame So great and high Doth magnifie The Lord's great name 7 Ye clouds and showers of rain And earth-refreshing dew Which do its store maintain And all its fruits renew To all mens sense Of us God's care You do declare And providence 8 Ye unseen winds that blow When and where God commands Moving the air below Both over sea and lands The Lord most high Your unknown course And potent force Do magnifie 9 God's wondrous work call'd FIRE Whose substance near and great We know not but admire Its motion light and heat Doth intimate What spirits are God's praise declare And celebrate 10 Winter 's and Summer's course The year 's revolving times Keep still by Divine force In their prescribed lines Each day and hour Do glorifie The Lord most high And praise his power 11 The sharp congealing cold The Frost the Ice and Snow We feel and do behold But not their secrets know These praise the Lord Who doth command Both Sea and Land And all the World 12 The glorious Heav'n-born light Earth's beauty joy and guide Black darkness silent night When men in rest abide Both nights and days Bless our great Lord Obey his word And speak his praise 13 Lightnings and Tempests fierce Make sinful mortals quake Thunders the mountains pierce God makes the earth to shake All these proclaim And dreadfully Do magnifie The Lord's great name 14 In this great fruitful earth Though small to all the rest Where mortals have their birth God's greatness is exprest It s numerous train Doth bless our God and all abroad His praise proclaim 15 Ye mountains vast and tall Even with the cloudy sky Whence all below seem small Which in the Valleys lye You to man's eye The power of God Shew all abroad And magnifie 16 The fields and fruitful ground Each plant and beauteous flower Where God's sweet gifts abound Which shew his love and power All this rich store High praises gives To him that lives For evermore 17 Fountains and pleasant springs Sweet streams that never rest Food health and pleasure brings Refreshing man and beast These always flow Praising God's love Which from above Feeds all below 18 The Ocean deep and wide Is in God's eye and hand And Rivers all that glide To it from every land God's wonders there Which dreadfully Him magnifie To all appear 19 Great Whales dwell in this deep The fish in wondrous store God there doth feed and keep And brings for man to shore Out of man's sight These glorifie The Lord most high And praise his might The fowls that fly in air And sweetly sing on earth God's chore that praise him are And shew his glory forth To our Great King All these rejoyce With chearful voice And to him sing 21 The beasts of divers sorts The wild servile and tame God makes feeds and supports To glorifie his Name To this design'd The Lord they bless His praise express Each in his kind 22 O man to whom all these Thy God hath servants made This God to LOVE and PRAISE Should be thy life and trade Learn and be wise Will only ye The Rebels be And God despise 23 Return man to thy Lord Follow not vanity Trust and obey his word And trust not to a lye He is thy God Now seek his face Obey his grace Prevent his Rod. 24 O ye his chosen flock Brought near him by his love His Church built on the Rock Redeem'd for Joys above Your God adore Your voices raise And sing his praise For evermore 25 Ye sacred Priests of God Whose worship ye attend Whose house is your abode Your days there sweetly spend Unweariedly Spread ye his fame His holy name There sanctifie 26 All ye that serve the Lord Devoted to his will Rul'd by his holy word Trust and obey him still In him rejoyce And magnifie The Lord most high With heart and voice 27 Ye spirits of the just Advanc'd by saving grace Who here in Christ did trust And now behold his face In heav'n above You joyfully There magnifie The God of Love 28 All Saints in heav'n and earth In whom Love's holy fire Kindled in the new birth Towards God doth still aspire Spend life and days Redeem'd for this The work of bliss The Lord to praise 29 With these Lord number me Let love draw up my soul From all its bonds set free Let nothing it controul That I to please And magnifie The Lord most high May never cease 30 One God in Trinity Let heaven and earth adore From all Eternity The same for evermore All Glory 's his Who needing none Himself his own Perfection is The Hymn of St. Ambrose called Te Deum c. 1 MOst Glorious God we here present Our joyful praise to thee The only God the Lord of all Confessing thee to be 2 Th' eternal Father Lord of all Thy works do thee proclaim For all are made to honour thee And glorifie thy name 3 Thee the blest Angels magnifie The Heav'ns and Powers thee praise Cherubs and all the glorious spirits Do cry to thee always 4 Most Holy Holy Holy God The universal Lord Thy present glorious Majesty Fills heaven and all the world 5 The glorify'd Apostles there Praise thee continually With them the blessed Prophets joyn Thy name to magnifie 6 There are the Martyrs noble hosts Employed in thy praise Thy holy Church in heav'n and earth Acknowledge thee always 7 Father in greatness infinite Thy One True Glorious Son The Holy Ghost the
Comforter Christ's Advocate with Man 8 O Christ thou art of Glory King And thee we all confess The Father's everlasting Son His Image most express 9 When to save lost and sinful man Man's Nature thou wouldst choose To take flesh in a Virgin 's womb Thy love did not refuse 10 When thou for sinners suffered'st death Conquered'st and rose agen Heaven's Kingdom thou didst open set To all true faithful men 11 Into the heaven's ascended now Thou sit'st at God's right hand And in the Father's Glory dost Both Heaven and Earth command 12 With all the faithful we believe Thou wilt in Glory come To be our Judge and on all men To pass the final doom 13 Now therefore help thy servants Lord Whom thou redeemed hast So dearly with thy precious blood And let them not be lost 14 O let us with the blessed Saints In Glory numbred be And with them everlastingly Sing praises unto thee 15 Save thou thy chosen people Lord Bless thine inheritance Rule and preserve them and with thee In glory them advance 16 It is our daily sacred work Thy Name to glorifie World without end we would thee praise And ever magnifie 17 Vouchsafe us Lord thy grace this day Our souls from sin to save Have mercy on us sinners Lord It 's mercy which we crave 18 Lord let thy mercy fall on us In it confide we must Lord let not me confounded be For in thee do I trust The Doxologie TO Father Son and Holy Ghost One God in Trinity As ever was and as now is All Glory ever be Or To Father Son and Holy Ghost One God in Persons three Or One undivided three Or One consubstantial three Or One coeternal three All humble thanks and joyful praise Or All highest praise and humble thanks Now and for ever be Or For ever rendred be Or All Glory to the Blessed Three One ever-living Lord As at the first still shall he be Belov'd Obey'd Ador'd Or All Glory Honour Power and Praise To God that 's One in Three As it in the beginning was Is now and still shall be Or All Glory to the Blessed Three All Honour Power and Praise As at the first shall ever be Beyond the end of days Or To Father Son and Holy Ghost All Praise and Glory be therefore As in beginning was is now And shall be henceforth evermore Or Glory to thee O Lord One God in Persons Three To Father Son and Holy Ghost One equal Glory be Directions for the Vse and Tuning of the Psalms c. I. THese Psalms are set to the commonest Measures and Tunes of the Old Metre of the Psalms Psal 84.117.119 Te Deum II. To The Tune of the Old 100 Psalm or the Old 51 are 1.18.78.89.100.106.107.109.114.135.150.57.69.88 Note That the Tune of the Old 51st best agreeeth with the sadder sort of Psalms and the Tune of the Old 100. with the laudatory Psalms III. To the Tune of the Old 25 are set Psal 3.15.20 21 22.24 25.28.43.50.56.59.61.65.67.70.83.85 86 87.100.110.123.136.141 IV. To the Tune of the Old 148 are set these laudatory Psalms 47.98.136.146.148 149. and the Benedicite c. V. All the rest are set to the longer and shorter Measures and Tunes indifferently That is If you leave out the words written in a different Character they are fitted to any of the commonest shorter Tunes which are very many But if you take in the words of different Character they are fitted to the longer Tunes of the Old 51st or 100th As for instance Psalm 2. Why do the Rebel-Nations rage And People hatch a vain design The Kings of earth do set themselves And wicked Rulers do combine But if you leave out the words of a different Character in Crotchets thus then you may use any of the Common Tunes As for Instance of the same Psalm Why do the Rebel-Nations rage And hatch a vain design The Kings of earth do set themselves And Rulers do combine The reason why I so-ordered them is 1. Because Nature weary of the same is recreated with variety of Tunes And some are more for one and some for another 2. Because when brevity causeth obscurity the additional words are seen by them that use the Books as explicatory of the rest when they be not spoken And the great difference of the Letters makes it no stop to the Readers Though this was never done by any other that I know of and though it sometime make the Verse more rough I hope the benefit will compensate all this Note That some few select Psalms most fitted to mens ordinary state Humbling Deprecatory Supplicatory or Gratulatory and Laudatory should by most be learnt without Book to be ready night and day as various Occasions make them useful And times of Calamity Danger Oppression and Persecution will render men capable of a sensible understanding of the greatest part of the Psalms otherwise hardly understood which aggravate the furious Rage Malignity Violence Bloodiness and Diabolical Nature Designs and Attempts of the wicked enemies of Truth Piety and Holy Peace and teach us to fly to God only for help from these wicked and unreasonable men And it will thereby confute our offence at David's so much aggravating his and the Churches Enemies wickedness and bloody cruelty If we consider that it is not their eternal damnation that he prayeth for but publick Justice by God the universal Soveraign who hath made Justice a necessary part of Government Divine and Humane and the ordinary means of repressing Wickedness encouraging Obedience and protecting and delivering the Church and State FINIS
the earth below Shew forth thy Glorious Majesty 6 They for my steps prepar'd a net My soul by them is bowed down They dig'd a pit for me in which Themselves are fallen and overthrown 7 My heart is fixt my heart is fixt O God I 'le sing thy joyful praise 8 My glory wake Psaltery and Harp My self for this I 'le early raise 9 Among the people I 'le thee praise With publick songs thee magnifie 10 Thy mercies great unto the heav'ns Thy truth unto the cloudy sky 11 Exalted be thy glorious name O God above the heavens high And over all the earth advance Thy glorious pow'r and majesty PSALM LVIII 1 DO you that are in Council met Speak and determine what is just And justly judge ye sons of men Indeed according to your trust 2 Yea in your hearts you wickedness Contrive plot and promote and then Out of the Judgment-seats your hands Weigh violence on earth to men 3 Bad men are from the womb estrang'd From every just and holy way As soon as they are born they are Inclin'd by lies to go astray 4 To serpent's poyson very like Their hurtful poyson doth appear And like the adder deaf they are That fast doth close and stop her ear 5 Lest she should hear the charmer's voice At all although the man should charm Never so wisely to inchant Her that she do no deadly harm 6 Break thou their poysonous teeth O God Yea from their mouth quite break them out Yea break the sharp devouring teeth Of Lions even the young and stout 7 Let them like waters melt away Which downward still do slide and flow In pieces cut his arrows all When he doth bend his unjust bow 8 Like to a snail that melts away Let them all pass and hence be gone That like the womb 's untimely birth They never see the shining sun 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns Away in wrath he shall them drive And with his whirlwind's angry storms Sweep them away from hence alive 10 The righteous shall rejoyce when he This just revenge from God shall see And in the blood of wicked men Even wash his conquering feet shall he 11 Then men shall say Truly there is For righteous men a great reward Surely there is a God that doth The earth judge and mens works regard PSALM LIX 1 DEliver me O God From all mine enemies Set me in safety from all them That do against me rise 2 Deliver me from them That work-iniquity Save me from men of blood who for My life in wait do lie 3 Against me the great men Have joyntly gathered bin But not for my transgression Lord Nor real guilt of sin 4 They run and do prepare Themselves without any crime Behold their course and now awake And help thou me betime 5 Awake to visit such Lord God of Israel And spare not those who against thee Do wickedly rebel 6 At evening they return Like dogs they make a noise And round about the City go With dogged snarling voice 7 Their mouths do belch out rage And in their lips are swords For still they do perswade themselves Thou hearest not their words 8 Thou Lord wilt them despise And all the heathen mock 9 His strength shall make me wait on thee Thou art my help and rock 10 The God of my mercies With help shall me prevent And let me see on these my foes His righteous punishment 11 Lest it should be forgot Scatter them all abroad And bring them down but slay them not O thou our shield and God 12 For the sin of their words Take thou them in their pride And for the curses and the lies Which from their lips do slide 13 In wrath consume them all That so they may not be That Jacob's God rules through the earth Let them all know and see 14 At even let them return And make like dogs a noise And round about the City go With discontented voice Let them wander about As wanting food to eat And pine and grudge through emptiness Not satisfy'd with meat 16 I of thy power will sing Early thy mercy praise Thou my defence and refuge wast In all my troublous days 17 Unto thee I will sing Who art my strength and power The God of all my mercies and My sure defence and tower PSALM LX. 1 LOrd thou of late hast cast us off And thou hast scattered us abroad Thou justly hast displeased been O turn again to us O God 2 Thou mad'st the earth it self to quake Thine heavy anger did it break O heal thou now its grievous breach For it as yet doth sorely shake 3 Unto thy people thou hard things Hast shew'd and sharply on them sent And thou hast caused them to drink The wine of great astonishment 4 And yet a banner thou hast given To them that do thee humbly fear That it by them because of truth Displayed may to all appear 5 That thy dearly beloved flock Sav'd and delivered may be Help O our God with thy right hand In mercy do thou answer me 6 I will rejoyce because the Lord Spake from his high and holy seat Sechem I will divide and will The fruitful Vale of Succoth mete 7 Gilead belongeth unto me Manasseh also mine shall be Ephraim is the strength of my head Judah rules and gives Laws for me 8 Moab my servile wash-pot is On Edom I will freely tread And the Philistine nation all I will in warlike triumph lead 9 Who is he that will bring me in The City strong and fortify'd And who will into Edom's land Me and my conquering armies guide 10 Even he that seem'd to cast us off And wilt not thou again O God Go forth before our warlike hosts When they to fight do march abroad 11 From trouble give us thy sure help For meerly vain is all mens aid 12 Through God we shall do valiantly Our foes God down for us will tread PSALM LXI 1 HEar thou my cries O God Unto my pray'r attend 2 Even from the ends of all the earth My cry to thee I send When my heart 's overwhelm'd With my perplexity Lead me to the defensive Rock That higher is than I. 3 For thou hast been to me A shelter by thy power And from the rage of enemies A strong defensive tower 4 I in thy Tabernacle For ever will abide Under the covert of thy wings With trust will I reside 5 For thou my solemn vows To thee my God didst hear And gavest me the heritage Of those thy name that fear 6 A life by thee prolong'd Thou to the King wilt give As many generations are The life that he shall live 7 For ever before God His dwelling he shall have Prepare thy mercy and thy truth Which him may ever save 8 So will I evermore Sing praises to thy name That having made my vows I may Daily perform the same PSALM LXII 1 MY soul in silence waits on God My only help and rock is he 2
My Saviour and my strong high place I shall not greatly moved be 3 How long will ye mischief devise You by the sword at last shall fall You stand but like a tottering fence And like a crazed bowing wall 4 Their consult is to cast him down That 's set by God in dignity They love to lie with mouth they bless But they hate and curse inwardly 5 My soul wait thou only on God For all my hope 's on him alone 6 He 's all my strength help and defence I shall not be mov'd and o'rethrown 7 All my salvation is in God My glory and my dignity He is the Rock of all my strength God is my refuge always nigh 8 At all times put your trust in him Ye people that indeed are his Pour out your hearts before him still For God our certain refuge is 9 Surely low men are vanity And high and great men are a lie Together in the ballance put They lighter are than vanity 10 Trust ye not in oppression then In theft and wrong become not vain Set not your hearts on wealth and on The increase of your worldly gain 11 This God hath spoken once and twice This certain truth I heard again That all disposing Ruling Power To God alone doth appertain 12 And to distribute Mercy doth Belong to thee O Lord alone For thou according to his work Rendrest in time to every one PSALM LXIII 1 O God thou art my God therefore Early I 'le seek near thee to be In an unwater'd weary land My heart and flesh doth thirst for thee 2 That I thy power may behold And see the glory of thy face As I have seen thee heretofore Within thy house and holy place 3 Because thy loving kindness is Better than life and length of days My joyful soul which thou hast sav'd And lips shall ever give thee praise 4 While thou continuest me in life Thus will I daily speak thy praise In worshipping thy holy name My heart and hands I will up raise 5 With thy fat-sweet delights my soul Shall fed and satisfied be My chearful heart with joyful lips Shall offer daily praise to thee 6 When on my quiet bed I thee Seek and remember with delight And when on thee I meditate In silent watches of the night 7 Because to me in all distress Thy helping hand still succour brings Therefore my soul shall still rejoyce Under thy safe and covering wings 8 My soul encourag'd by thy love Thus closely followeth after thee In all my dangers and distress Thy right hand still upholdeth me 9 But they that seek my life shall go Into earth's dark and lowest room 10 The sword let out their guilty souls And they the foxes prey become 11 But let the King rejoyce in God His faithful servants glory shall Who swear by him But God will stop The mouth of perjur'd lyars all PSALM LXIV 1 THe Prayer which to thee I make O God do thou vouchsafe to hear My life save thou from enemies And from all their perplexing fear 2 Hide me from their secret designs Who do live and plot wickedly From insurrection of those men That still do work iniquity 3 Who do their tongues with malice whet That they may cut like sharpned swords In whose bent bows are arrows set To shoot even false and bitter words 4 That they may at the perfect man In secret aim their cruel shot Suddenly do they shoot at him Harden'd in sin they fear it not 5 In ill encourage they themselves And commune how closely to lay Their snares for to entrap the just For who our plots shall see say they 6 They study for iniquity For it they use their greatest art Deep is their inward plotting thought And unknown is their wicked heart 7 God shall an arrow at them shoot And wound them deep and suddenly 8 Their tongues shall fall upon themselves All that see them away shall fly 9 And seeing this all men shall fear And shall God's dreadful works declare For wisely then they shall perceive That these his righteous doings are 10 The righteous shall rejoyce in God And in him wholly put their trust And all that be of upright heart In him shall boldly make their boast PSALM LXV 1 LOrd praise in Sion waits for thee The Vows made by us we 'll perform O thou that hearest sincere pray'r To thee all flesh for help shall come Injuries and iniquities Against me have had much success â—ut thou wilt purge away the sin And guilt of us who did transgress 4 Blessed is he whom thou dost choose To approach nigh to thee his God That in thy holy pleasant Courts He may have his constant abode Our souls shall satisfied be With the goodness and Divine grace Which in thy blessed house abounds Even in thy chosen holy place 5 Thy Justice will by dreadful things An answer to us waiting give God of our help the trust of all On earth or on the sea that live 6 The God of Power who by strength Set'st fast the great and massy hills 7 Who the great noise of sea and waves And raging people's tumult stills 8 Those that in utmost parts do dwell Are at thy dreadful signs afraid Mornings and evenings out-goings By thee sing and are joyful made 9 The earth thou visit'st watering it Enrich'd by thee with fruit to grow By God's full streams Thou Corn prepar'st Having for it provided so 10 Her ridges thou dost water well Her plowed surrows settlest With showers thou dost make it soft Her springing fruit by thee is blest 11 Thus thou the year from time to time Dost with thy bounteous goodness crown And thy high paths do from above On earth drop plenteous fatness down 12 They drop upon the pasture-grounds That lye even in the desart wide The little hills thereby refresh'd Rejoyce with fruit on every side 13 The pastures cloathed are with Flocks The vallies also covered be With Corn Thy blessing is their joy Their fruits sing praises unto thee PSALM LXVI 1 MAke ye a joyful noise to God All people of the spacious earth 2 Sing to the honour of his name His glorious praise do ye set forth 3 Say unto God How-terrible In all thy mighty works art thou Through thy great pow'r thy foes to thee Shall be constrain'd to crouch and bow 4 All men on earth shall worship thee Thy praise in songs shall they proclaim They shall sing Psalms of praise unto The honour of thy holy name 5 Come and the works which God hath wrought With fear and admiration see His doings towards the sons of men All great and very dreadful be 6 He turn'd the Sea into dry land And they thereby safe passage had All marching through the flood on foot There singing we in him were glad 7 He ever ruleth by his pow'r His eyes do all the Nations see The Rebels that exalt themselves By him full low shall humbled be 8 Ye people sound forth of our God
early after God 35 Then they remembred that the Lord Was their strong Rock that did them save And their Redeemer the high God Who unto them deliverance gave 36 Yet with their mouth they flatter'd him And spake all this deceitfully And they unto the God of truth With their unfaithful tongues did lie 37 For all this while their hearts within Were not found upright and sincere Nor in his holy Covenant Unchangeable and steadfast were 38 But full of pity he forgave Their sin and did not them destroy And did not stir up all his wrath But often turned it away 39 For he remembred that they were But flesh whose time is short and vain And like a wind which passing by Is gone and cometh not again They oft in th' desart him provok'd Displeased with what they had done 41 Yea they turned back and tempted God Limiting Israel's Holy One. 42 And they remembred not his hand Nor yet the former days when he From their oppressing enemy Had saved them and set them free 43 How he in Egypt wrought his signs And wonders great in Zoan field 44 And turn'd their Rivers into blood And floods that they no drink could yield 45 Among them he sent divers sorts Of flyes which did them much annoy And did devour their fruits and frogs He sent to vex them and destroy 46 Their increase by the caterpiller Their labour was by locusts lost 47 Their vines he did destroy with hail And their Sycamore trees with frost 48 He gave their cattle to the hail Their flocks by thunder-bolts were spent 49 Fierce wrath and trouble cast on them By evil Angels to them sent 50 He to his anger did make way And spared not their souls from death But to the wasting Pestilence He did give up their vital breath 51 All Egypt's first-born he smote down And in Ham's land their chiefest strength 52 He made them let his people go Like sheep he led them out at length He in the desart did them guide 53 And like a flock them safely led So that they were secur'd from fear But their foes the sea covered 54 He brought them to the borders where His sanctuary now doth stand Even to the sacred mountain which He purchased with his right hand 55 Before them cast the heathen out Their land to them he did divide And made the tribes of Israel In their tents to dwell and abide 56 Yet did they tempt the most high God Him by their sin provoked they And did not his commandements Unfeignedly keep and obey 57 But like their fathers turned back And dealt with God unfaithfully Like a deceitful warping bow Which turn'd aside doth shoot awry 58 They to displeasure him provok'd With Altars set in places high And with their graven Images They moved him to jealousie 59 When God heard this he was displeas'd And abhor'd Israel greatly then 60 So that he Shilo's place forsook The tent he placed among men 61 His peoples strength he captive gave His glory to the enemies hand 62 He gave his people to the sword And was wroth with his chosen land 63 The fire consumed their young men And their maidens no marriage had 64 Their Priests also fell by the sword Their wives no lamentation made 65 But then the Lord arose like one That doth from silent sleep awake And like a Giant that by wine Exhilerate a shout doth make 66 And on his enemies hinder parts He made his heavy strokes to fall And so upon them all he cast Reproach and shame perpetual 67 Moreover Joseph's Tabernacle And Ephraim's Tribe he did refuse 68 But the Mount Sion which he lov'd And Judah's Ruling Tribe did choose 69 His Sanctuary there he built Like to a Palace fair and high And like the earth which his hand hath Founded for perpetuity 70 His servant David he did choose And him his peoples Ruler make And from the governing of sheep To dignity he did him take 71 From following Ewes great with young He call'd and brought him up to feed Israel his own inheritance His servant Jacob's chosen seed 72 So after the integrity Of his heart they by him were fed And by his hands great skilfulness By him they were well governed PSALM LXXIX 1 O God the heathen do invade Thy heritage and now by them Thy Temple is defil'd On heaps They lay thy dear Jerusalem 2 The bodies of thy servants they Cast forth have given to be meat For ravenous fowls and thy Saints flesh Unto the beasts of th' earth to eat 3 Their blood about Jerusalem Like common water they have shed And there was none to bury them When they by them were cast out dead 4 To all our neighbours that hear this A jeast and meer reproach are we A sâ—orn and mocking-stock to those That dwelling round about us be 5 How long Lord O not evermore Shall this thine anger towards us last Shall thy provoked jealousie Like fire thus always burn and wa st 6 Upon the heathen pour thy wrath That have not known thee and thy fame And on the Kingdoms which have not Ador'd thy great and holy name 7 For these are they that Jacob have Slain and devoured cruelly And made his famous dwelling-place As ruinous and wa st to lye 8 O charge not on us former sins Thy tender pardoning mercies show Let them prevent us speedily For we are now brought very low 9 For thy name's glory help us Lord Who art and hast our Saviour bin For thy names-sake deliver us And purge away our guilt and sin 10 Why say the heathen Where 's their God Let him to them be better known When these that shed thy servants blood Are in our sight judg'd and o'rethrown 11 O let the prisoners sighs ascend Before thy righteous sight on high Preserve those by thy soveraign power That are by men design'd to dye 12 And to our neighbours let seven fold Reward in Judgment rendred be Even that reproach wherewith they have Falsly O God reproached thee 13 So we thy folk and pasture-sheep Will give thee joyful thanks always And to all ages yet to come We will shew forth thy glorious praise PSALM LXXX 1 O Israel's shepherd hear who dost Like a flock Joseph feed and guide Shine forth O thou that dost between The sacred Cherubims abide 2 In Ephraim's and Benjamin's And also in Manasseh's sight For our speedy salvation come Stir up and shew thy saving might 3 Turn us again and bring us home And upon us do thou vouchsafe O God to make thy face to shine And then we shall again be safe 4 Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou Thus in thy burning anger smoak Against thy peoples humble prayer Who do thy sacred Name invoke 5 Instead of bread tears are their food Which now thou givest them to eat And tears thou givest them to drink And that in measure very great 6 Thou makest us a strife unto Our envious neighbours round about Our enemies among
and spent In grief and trouble pass our days Through thy severe just punishment 8 For thou before thy dreadful face Sett'st our guilt and iniquities Our secret sins are opened all In clearest light before thine eyes 9 Thus while thy righteous wrath we bear Our days do pass away and fail The years of this vain life we spend As a short transient thought or tale 10 Our age is threescore years and ten If by strength lengthened to fourscore That strength our labour doth prolong And doth but make our sorrows more 11 It 's soon cut off and we are gone Who knows aright thy powerful wrath Thy anger we fear not in vain All sin some penal sorrow hath 12 Lord teach us this most needful work Aright to number all our days That we to wisdom may apply Our hearts without secure delays 13 How long Lord shall we feel thy wrath Return revive us by thy grace Let it repent thee of our pains And pity thy poor servants case 14 O let thy early mercy us Comfort restore and satisfie That we may serve thee all our days With gladness and with holy joy 15 According to the days wherein Thy sharp affliction we have had As years of sorrow we have seen Let mercy longer make us glad 16 O let thy work and power be shewn Unto thy humbled servants now And let their Children by those works Thy saving grace and glory know 17 Adorn us with the beauty of The shining glory of thy face Let our just works establish'd be Bless and maintain them by thy grace PSALM XCI 1 THe man that in the secret place Of the most High in heart doth dwell He under the Almighty's shade Shall lodge abide and prosper well 2 I of the Lord will boast and say Thou art my Refuge Rock and Tower Whoever threats whatever comes I 'le boldly trust his Love and Power 3 Surely he will deliver thee From the entrapping Fowler 's snare And he will safely thee preserve From noysome Pestilential air 4 His wings of love shall cover thee There thou art safe there boldly trust He will thy shield and buckler be His Word is true and he is just 5 Though the night's darkness be the time Of fears and dangers yet you may Rest quietly without such fears And from your foes assaults by day 6 Though Plagues and many sudden harms Do oft surprize men in the night Trust God and fear them not Nor those Which do destroy in Noon-day light 7 A thousand at thy side shall fall And ten thousands at thy right hand When nigh thee there it shall not come But God shall safely thee defend 8 Only this dreadful spectacle When that day comes thine eyes shall see How those who now live wickedly Shall then by God rewarded be 9 Because the blessed God most high Who is my refuge thou hast made The dwelling where thy faithful soul It s daily conversation had 10 Therefore no great and deadly harm No plotted ill shall thee befall Nor any penal hurtful plague Come nigh thy guarded dwelling shall 11 Of thee he 'll give his Angels charge That whether thou dost wake or sleep In all thy good and righteous ways They shall thee guard and safely keep 12 As tender nurses bear weak babes These lead and bear thee in their arms Lest feeble frailty cause thy fall They keep thee from all deadly harms 13 The Lions fierce the poysnous Asp Thy feet shall safely trample on The Lions whelps the Dragons rage By conquering grace thou shalt tread down 14 Because on me he set his love I 'le save him from all deadly woe I 'le him advance because my name With fear and honour he did know 15 He upon this my name shall call In all his troubles wants and fear His moans and suit I 'le not despise His earnest prayer I will hear Though here of trouble he partake In it I will be with him still I 'le him deliver out of all And truest honour give him will 16 And with sufficient length of days I 'le grant his sober just request And my salvation he shall see Here and in everlasting rest PSALM XCII A Psalm or Song for the Sabbath-day 1 TO render thanks to God it is A good and very pleasant thing And to thy name O thou most high Joyntly thy praises for to sing 2 Thy loving kindness to shew forth Early in the first morning's light And to declare thy faithfulness With evening songs even in the night 3 On a ten-stringed instrument And on the pleasant Psaltery And on the sweet and warbling Harp With solemn sound and melody For thou Lord by thy wondrous works Hast made thy servant's heart most glad And I will triumph in the works Which thy own hand hath done and made 5 How great O Lord are all thy works And very deep thy counsels be 6 Brutish men understand not this Carnal fools cannot these things see 7 That when the wicked spring as grass And a while sinners flourish all It is that they for ever may Into deserv'd destruction fall 8 But thou O Lord who dost them judge In glory dost the same remain And thou on high in Majesty O're all for evermore dost reign 9 For lo thine enemies O Lord Thy wicked enemies perish shall The workers of iniquity By thee shall be dispersed all 10 But like the horns of Unicorns My head and power wilt thou exalt And me thy chosen one anoint With fresh and holy Oyl thou shalt 11 Mine eyes also shall see the fall Of all my wicked enemies Mine ears shall hear of their defeat Who falsly did against me rise 12 As Palm-trees flourish full of fruit The just shall likewise flourish so Like the Cedars of Lebanon They shall increase and prosperous grow 13 Those who in God's most holy house Are firmly planted by his grace Shall flourish in the Courts of God By the beams of his pleased face 14 Their old age shall not fruitless be But good and plenteous fruit shall bring When flesh decays they shall be fat And ever green and flourishing 15 To shew us that our faithful Lord Who my sure rock and hope hath bin Is upright and unrighteousness None is or ever was in him PSALM XCIII 1 THe Lord doth reign in Majesty Cloathed about with glorious light The Lord hath cloath'd and girt himself With strength and unresisted might 2 The world is so established That none but God can it remove From everlasting thou art God Thy Throne is firmly fixt above 3 The floods O Lord have lifted up The raging floods lift up their voice The floods do still lift up their waves And make a great and dreadful noise 4 The Lord on high more mighty is Than all these waters hideous noise He can rebuke and quiet all The Ocean's roaring frightful voice 5 Thy testimonies are most sure And devout holiness always Becomes thy house and all that there Assemble for thy holy praise PSALM XCIV 1 RIghteous
written be left on record They that hereafter shall be made Shall gladly serve and praise the Lord. 19 The Lord lookt down on all below Even from his high and holy place The earth unto the Lord of Heaven Is ever seen before his face 20 To hear the prisoners doleful groans And save men falsly judg'd-to die 21 God's name in Sion to declare Him there to praise and magnifie 22 When many people far and nigh Meet there to pray with one accord And when the Kingdoms shall consent To fear and serve the highest Lord. 23 My strength he weakened in the way As shortning my Life 's short day 24 I said By an untimely death Lord take me not in wrath away Through Ages all thou art the same 25 The solid Earth's Foundations laid Thou hast of old Heavens are the Work Which thy own Power and Hands have made 26 They perish shall but thou shalt stand As garments they shall all wax old Thou shalt them change as Men their Cloaths And as a Vesture them up fold 27 But thou art endlesly the same 28 Thy Servants Off-spring shall survive Their Seed established by thee Shall in thy blessed presence live PSALM CIII 1 MY Soul bless thou the glorious God Praise him and celebrate his Fame Let all my inward Powers concur To praise and bless his holy Name 2 Still bless the living Lord my Soul Never do thou sleight or forget Unthankfully his benefits So many undeserv'd and great 3 Thy many great provoking sins His Mercy freely doth forgive He thy Diseases and thy Pains Doth heal or ease and thee relieve 4 He did redeem thy forfeit Life And it from threatned death did free And with his loving kindness great And tender Mercies crowned thee 5 What hast thou wanted that is good To satisfie thy just desire Thy strength like Eagles he renew'd Reviving nature's languid fire 6 God will just Judgment execute For them by man oppress'd that are 7 To Moses and to Israel's seed His ways and acts he did declare 8 Gracious and merciful is God Great is his mercy high and deep 9 He 's slow to wrath he chides not still Nor doth his anger ever keep 10 He hath not dealt with us in wrath According to our hainous sin Nor strictly us rewarded hath As our guilt and deserts have bin 11 But as the great and glorious heav'ns Than this low earth far higher are God's mercy so transcendent is To all that do him truly fear 12 As far as East is from the West So far from us remov'd hath he Our hated and forsaken sin And our bewail'd iniquity 13 As loving Parents taught of God Pity to their dear Children bear The Lord of Love will pity them That serve him with true child-like fear 14 For he remembers flesh is dust Our frail and mortal frame he knows 15 And that the days of man on earth Are like the grass in field that grows 16 There flowers flourish but sharp winds Blast them and they are quickly gone And to the place which they persum'd And beautify'd they are unknown 17 But unto such as do him fear God's boundless mercy hath no end And his sure love and righteousness To Childrens Children doth extend 18 To such as keep his Covenant And his Commandments keep in mind And them sincerely do obey And therein their chief pleasure find 19 The Lord his Throne prepared hath In heaven where Saints his glory see And all the world his Kingdom is And Ruler over all is he 20 You mighty Angels great in strength Must bless the Lord with highest praise Your holiness fulfils his will And readily his voice obeys 21 All ye his great and glorious Hosts For ever bless and praise the Lord You serve the pleasure of his will And all as one obey his word 22 Let all his works through all the world To praise their glorious Lord accord And O my soul bear thou thy part And ever bless and praise the Lord. PSALM CIV 1 MY soul bless thou the living Lord Thou Lord my God art very great With honour and with majesty Thou cloathed art in glorious state 2 The fulgent light thy covering is Appearing in it as thy robes Thou like a curtain dost stretch out The Heavens with all their splendid globes 3 The beams of his great Chambers he Doth in the liquid waters lay The Clouds he makes his Chariots On winged Winds he takes his way 4 Blest Spirits he his Angels makes His Ministers a flaming fire 5 The Earth's Foundations firm he laid That nothing shall them ever stir 6 Like to a Garment with the deep The Earth by thee was covered The Waters stood above the Hills 7 But soon at thy rebuke they fled Thy thunders voice hasts them away 8 They go up by the mountain ground Down by the Valleys they go to The place which thou for them didst found 9 Thou unto them a bound hast set That over it they may not pass That the Earth again may not be drown'd By them as once for sin it was 10 He sends the Springs into the Vales They sweetly run between the Hills 11 They 're drink for all beasts of the Fields There his great thirst the wild Ass fills 12 By these sweet Streams the Fowls of Heav'n Do use to make their dwelling house For them and theirs They chirp and sing Among the pleasant shady Boughs 13 And from his cloudy Chambers he Doth water even the highest Hills And by his satisfying Works The Earth with plenteous fruit he fills 14 He for the Food of Cattle makes The tender Grass spring and suit forth And for Man's service various Herbs And so he brings food from the Earth 15 And Wine which doth exhilerate And Oil which doth smooth and refresh And Bread which strengtheneth Man's Heart And doth repair his wasting flesh 16 The Trees of God are full of Sap The stately Cedars which do stand In Lebanon and planted were Even by his own Almighty hand 17 The beauteous Birds among these Trees By Nature's skill their Nests do make As for the Stork the Firr-trees she Doth for her lofty dwelling take 18 The Mountains high for the wild Goats A place of secure refuge be The Conies in the craggy Rocks Dwell and for safety thither flee 19 The changing Moon he doth appoint The Seasons change to Man to shew The glorious Sun as taught by God Its time to rise and set doth know 20 The dismal darkness thou dost make And then the day gives place to night And in the Forests then come forth Wild beasts that shun Man and the Light 21 The hungry Lyons with their whelps Do then go roaring all abroad After their prey and fiercely seek Their sustenance assign'd from God 22 But when the shining Sun doth rise They get away together then For fear of Man and lay them down For rest and safety in their den 23 Then Man goes forth unto his work When he enjoys desired light His proper
Word 5 There God hath placed Thrones of Power To judge his flock in righteousness The promis'd Thrones of David's house Which God 's own Government express 6 Pray for Jerusalem's true peace Lord prosper all her faithful friends 7 Her Courts bless with prosperity Let Peace within her walls defend 8 For my dear holy brethrens sake Who have my faithful comforts bin I 'le daily beg of God for thee Safety without and Peace within 9 And for the sake of God's own house Where we his name must praise and bless With all the powers of my soul I 'le seek thy real happiness PSALM CXXIII 1 LOrd in my lowest state To thee I lift mine eye Whose glorious dwelling is above Even in the heavens high 2 As servants eyes do look Unto their Master's hands And as a maiden doth expect Her Mistresses Commands So on the Lord our God Our eyes do still attend Until to our relief and help His mercy condescend 3 Have mercy on us Lord On us thy mercy show For we are filled with contempt From the insulting foe 4 Our souls fill'd with the scorn Of those that are at ease Are overwhelm'd with the contempt Of the proud foes of peace PSALM CXXIV 1 HAd not the Lord been on our side His Israel must now confess 2 Had not the Lord been on our side When men of blood sought our distress 3 Then they had swallow'd us alive When their hot wrath against us flam'd 4 The waters of their furious rage Over our sinking souls had stream'd 5 Then had these proud insulting waves O'rewhelm'd us with their cruel Laws 6 Blest be the Lord who made us not A prey unto their greedy jaws 7 Our soul like an entangled bird Escap'd out of the Fowler 's snare The snare our pow'rful Lord hath broke Our trembling souls escaped are 8 Our only help we find doth stand In the great name of our great Lord Whose power made the glorious heav'ns The earth and all things by his word PSALM CXXV 1 THey that in God put all their trust Shall firmly stand like Sion hill Which by no changes is remov'd But is the same and standeth still 2 And as about Jerusalem Mountains enclose that holy ground So will the Lord for evermore Himself his people compass round 3 For just mens rights and heritage Wicked men shall not still possess Lest righteous men should then put forth Their tempted hand to wickedness 4 Do good Lord to those that are good To men that are of upright heart But as for such as turn aside In crooked ways by sin pervert 5 The Lord shall lead them forth with those Who love and work iniquity But everlasting blessed peace On God 's true Israel shall be PSALM CXXVI 1 WHen God did lay aside his wrath And Captive Sion did redeem The great surprisal of our joy Made us like men that do but dream 2 Our mouth then fill'd with laughter did By singing our great joy express That God hath done great things for us The heathen enemies did confess 3 That God hath done great things for us We speak with glad and thankful mouth 4 Fully restore thy Captives Lord As streams refresh the scorched South 5 They that do sow in mournful tears Their water'd seed's not cast away But they a multiplyed crop Shall shortly reap with endless joy 6 He that in tears doth now go forth And cast his precious seed on earth With great increase in plenteous sheaves Shall come again with endless mirth PSALM CXXVII 1 EXcept the Lord do build house It 's but vain pains the builders take Except the Lord the City keep It 's but in vain the Watchmen wake 2 It 's vain for you betime to rise And late your selves from rest to keep To eat the bread of grief and care While God's beloved rest and sleep 3 Good Children are God's heritage The womb 's blest fruit is his reward 4 Children of youth like arrows are For Parents strength and joy prepar'd 5 Happy therein is he that hath His house his Quiver full of those For he unshamed in the gate Shall boldly speak unto his foes PSALM CXXVIII 1 BLest is each one that fears the Lord And walketh in his holy ways 2 For thou shalt of thy labour eat And happy shalt thou be always 3 As fruitful Vines by thy house-side So shall thy wife with fruit spring out Thy children like to Olive Plants Shall stand thy table round about 4 Behold the man that feareth God Blest visibly by him shall be 5 The Lord shall out of Sion give A plenteous blessing unto thee Jerusalem's good thou shalt see Whilst thou in life on earth dost dwell Thy Children's Children thou shalt see And promis'd peace on Israel PSALM CXXIX 1 MAny a time may Israel say With thankfulness to God in truth Have wicked men afflicted me Even from my prime and early youth 2 Many a time even from my youth Their cruel hands have me assail'd But for my wished overthrow They have not yet by rage prevail'd 3 The plowers plowing on my back Did long and bloody furrows make 4 But God is just and me preserv'd Their strongest cords he always brake 5 Let wicked men who Sion hate And all their plots confounded be Let them with shame be turned back And not their hop'd successes fee. 6 Let them be like the rootless grass Which grows a while on the house-tops And quickly withereth away Before they reach their wicked hopes 7 This grass fills not the mower's hand The binder finds no fruitful sheaves 8 Nor God nor man on such curs'd weeds A blessing either finds or leaves PSALM CXXX 1 OUt of the horrid woful deeps Where sin and wrath had cast me down To thee O Lord I poured forth My earnest suit and daily moan 2 O thou the Prayer-hearing God This humbled sinner's voice now hear To my loud cries and sad complaints Let pity grant a hearing ear 3 If in strict Justice thou should'st mark And charge on man iniquity Lord who shall stand at thy just bar Or who himself can justifie 4 But with thee there forgiveness is Thy word of grace doth this declare That sinful man may worship thee In joyful hope without despair 5 Therefore for thee O Lord I wait My soul doth daily wait on thee And on thy sure and faithful word My constant hope shall placed be 6 My soul more waiteth on the Lord Than they that watch for morning light More than the watchful man doth long To see a pleasant morning bright 7 O Israel still hope in the Lord Though low and broken be thy case For with the Lord still mercy is And we shall see his pleased face 8 Plenteous redemption with him is The Lord his chosen flock will bless He will redeem them from their sins And from their felt and fear'd distress PSALM CXXXI 1 LOrd I disclaim a haughty mind And an ambitious lofty eye I do not exercise my self In things for me
Aloud the voice of his high praise 9 Who puts and holds our soul in life Our feet from hurtful sliding stays 10 For thou didst prove and try us Lord As men by fire do silver try 11 Brought'st us into the net and layd'st Bonds of grief on our loyns to lye 12 Over our heads thou mad'st men ride Through fire and water floods to pass But thou through all hast brought us out Into a water'd wealthy place 13 I 'le bring burnt-offerings to thy house And all my vows to thee I 'le pay 14 Which my lips uttered and mouth spake When I in grievous trouble lay 15 Burnt sacrifices of fat Rams With Incense I to thee will bring Of Bullocks and of Goats I will Present to thee an offering 16 Come now and hearken to my words All you that have God's holy fear And what he for my soul hath done To you I will forthwith declare 17 In my distress my mouth to him Sent forth my humble earnest cry And his great name I with my tongue With praise extolled fervently 18 I know if I do in my heart Iniquity love and regard When I to him my prayer make I shall not then by him be heard 19 But God did hear me readily And he did graciously attend Unto my praying voice and cry Which I to him did humbly send 20 And blessed be the Lord my God Who hath not from me turn'd away His mercy not deny'd my suit When I to him did seek and pray PSALM LXVII The old Metre Corrected by W. Barton 1 HAve mercy on us Lord And grant to us thy grace And unto us do thou afford The brightness of thy face 2 That all the earth may know The way to godly wealth And all the people here below May see thy saving health 3 Let all the world O God Give praise unto thy name O let the people all abroad Extoll and laud the same 4 Throughout the world so wide Let all rejoyce with mirth For thou shalt justly judge and guide The nations of the earth 5 Let all the world O God Give praise unto thy name And let the people all abroad Extoll and laud the same 6 Then shall the earth increase Great store of fruit shall fall And God our God shall grant us peace And greatly bless us all 7 Yea God shall bless us all And earth both far and near And people all in general Of him shall stand in fear The same by the Scots 1 LOrd unto us be merciful Do thou us also bless And graciously make shine on us The brightness of thy face 2 That so thy way upon the earth To all men may be known Also among the nations all Thy saving health be known 3 O Let the people praise thee Lord Let people all thee praise 4 And let the nations all be glad And sing for joy always For rightly thou shalt people judge And nations rule on earth 5 Let people praise thee Lord let all The folk praise thee with mirth 6 Then shall the earth yield her increase God our God bless us shall 7 God shall us bless and of the earth The ends shall fear him all PSALM LXVIII 1 LEt God arise and scattered Let all his daring enemies be And let all those that do him hate From his just face and presence flee 2 Drive them away as smoak is driven As wax melts at the burning fire Let wicked men before God's face So perish by his righteous ire 3 But let the righteous all be glad Greatly rejoycing in God's sight Let them addict themselves to joy And this express with all their might 4 Sing unto God his praises sing Extol him with your chearful voice That rides on Heav'n By his name JAH Before his gracious face rejoyce 5 A father of the fatherless And judge of helpless widows case Is God whom we adore and praise Even in his holy dwelling place 6 The barren God in families Doth set I he from iron bands The bound sets free while Rebels dwell In want in dry and barren lands 7 O God of old when thou went'st forth Before thy ransom'd peoples face And through the barren wilderness Thou didst as their Conductor pass 8 At God's presence the earth did shake From heav'n the dropping showers fell Sinai was at God's presence mov'd Before the God of Israel 9 O God thou healed'st the desart's drought Sending to it a plenteous rain Whereby thy weary heritage Thou didst confirm and own again 10 Thy Congregation then did make Their setled habitation there And of thy goodness for the poor O God thou didst relief prepare 11 The publick word of joy to us Was given out by thee O God Great was the company of them That quickly publisht it abroad 12 Kings of great armies terrify'd Were forc'd apare to flee away And she that tarryed at home Did share and distribute the prey 13 Though you have lien among the pots Like beauteous doves you shall appear Whose wings with silver and with gold Their yellow feathers cover'd are 14 When the Almighty scatter'd Kings As Salmon snow 't was over white 15 The hill of God's as Bashan hill As Bashan hill it is for height 16 Why leap ye you high hills This is The holy mount chosen by God Where he delights to dwell on which He 'll ever settle his abode 17 God's Chariots twenty thousand are His Angels many thousands be Among them as in Sinai mount So in his holy Temple 's he 18 Thou hast triumphing gloriously Ascended up to dwell on high And conquering in triumph led Captive even our Captivity Thou hast received gifts in Man And that for them that did rebel That as their reconciled God Among them thou in love might'st dwell 19 Blest be the Lord who with his gifts Of mercy doth us daily load Even he who ever was and is Of our defence and help the God 20 Our God is he that is the God Of all health and salvation The issues and defence from death Belong to none but him alone 21 But God shall surely wound the head Of all his harden'd enemies Their hairy scalp who shall go on In their belov'd iniquities 22 God said I 'le bring them back as I From Bashan did for them before And as from the depths of the sea I brought them safely to the shore 23 That thy feet may be dipt in blood Of these thy stain and bleeding foes And even thy dogs may dip their tongue In blood which from the wounded flows 24 Thy goings they have seen O God In all thy glorious majesty The goings of my God and King In his sublime Sanctuary 25 First went the fingers next to them Musicians follow'd in array Among them all the damsels were That do on sounding Timbrels play 26 Bless God in your Assemblies all Unto him joyful praises sing All you that of the blessed race From Israel's ancient fountain spring 27 Benjamin and his Ruler's there And Juda's Ruling Companies And with his