have trod For if we do our sinnes confesse faithful and just is he From sin and all unrighteousnesse to cleanse and set us free Prov. 28. 13. Joel 2. 13. Neh. 9. 17. Ez. 18. 32. For he that hides his sins shall fall they prosper but a space But to confesse and leave them all shall with the Lord finde grace For he is unto anger slow and ready to forgive And doth abundant kindnesse shew wherefore return and live Exod. 34. 7. For he reserves compassion for thousands that come in Remitting all transgression iniquity and sinne 3. PART Isa. 55. 6 7 Seek ye the Lord unfainedly now while he may be found Oh call on him while he is nigh with mercies that abound Oh let the wicked leave his lusts the way that sinners take And let the man unrighteous his sinful thoughts forsake ch. 1. 18. And turn again unto the Lord while mercy now takes place And to our God so richly stor'd with gifts of pardoning grace For though your sins were crimson-like as red as scarlet full I saith the Lord will make them white as white as snow or wool Rev. 1. 5 6. To him that thus hath loved us and cancell'd all our score In that pure flood of his own blood be praise for evermore HYMN LXXIV REPROACH for CHRIST 1 Pet. 4. 14 16. IF that ye be reproacht for Christ happy are ye and blest The Spirit of God and glory great upon your souls shall rest On their parts he 's ill spoken off but glorifi'd on yours Therefore let no man be asham'd that Christianly endures Mat 5. 11 â—2 Blessed are you when men revile and speak each evil word Against you falsely for the sake of Christ your Soveraign Lord Rejoyce and be exceeding glad considering the reward How great it is in heaven above for suffering Saints prepar'd 2. PART Phil. 2. 5 7. Let that good minde be in you all that was in Christ our Lord Who being in the form of God the true eternal Word Yet made himself of no repute to death did condescend And came not to be tended on but to observe and tend Phil. 2. 9 10. Heb. 9. 28. Therefore God gave to him a Name above all names most high That every knee should bow to him and every tongue comply Who came to take our sins away once by his own oblation And shall appear the second time without sin to salvation HYMN LXXV RESURRECTION All people or O Lord Consider c. 1 Cor. 15. 20 21 22. NOw Christ is risen from the dead as whom no bands of death could keep And is to be acknowledged as the first fruits of those that sleep For as by man came death to raign so by a man to rise again And as by Adam all men die by Christ came immortality Col. 3. 1 2 3 4. If ye be risen then with Christ set all your heart on things above And be not any way intic'd on earthly things to set your love For ye are dead to things abroad and your life hid with Christ in God When Christ who is our life appears ye must shine with him in the spheres HYMN LXXVI Against REVENGE Rom. 12. 19. Luke 6. 27. Mat. 5. 44 DEare Saints avenge not your own selves nor let fierce wrath incense For vengeance saith the Lord is mine and I will recompence Love ye your very enemies and them that curse you bless Do good to them that use you ill with hate and spitefulnesse 45. And people persecuting you curse not but blesse them rather That ye may be children true of your celestial father For he doth cause his rain to â—all and lets his Sun to rise On good and bad in general just and unjust likewise HYMN LXXVII The SABBATH Isa. 58. 13 IF from my holy Sabbath-day thou turn away thy foot And do not by thy pleasures stray my Sabbath to pollute But call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord And thine own carnal pleasure slight in thought in deed in word 14. Then shalt thou joy in God alone with sweet and sacred mirth And he shall make thee ride upon high places of the earth With father Jacobs heritage the Lord shall feed thee fat For thus doth Gods own mouth engage and thou mayst trust to that HYMN LXXVIII SAGRAMENT of the SUPPER Cant. 1. 1 2. c. 2. 5. LEt those life-breathing lips of thine be joyn'd O Christ to me Because thy love excelleth wine and all the Saints love thee With flagons of refreshing joy and comforts from above Stay me O stay me powerfully for I am sick of love 2. 4 3. Into the house of Banqueting he brought me to be fed Love was his banner flourishing with honour ore my head Beneath his shadow I was plac'd with very great content His fruit was sweet unto my taste his Word and Sacrament 5. 1. O friends said he preferr'd on high eat well of my good chear And drink yea drink abundantly my guests to me most dear 2. PART Cant. 5. 16. 2 Cor. 5. 20. My Saviour my beloved one is mine and I am his Chief of ten thousand he alone pure red and white he is Made sin for us that knew no sin that so we might be made The righteousnesse of God in him by whom the price was paid Cant. 8. 7. ch. 1. 4 Stronger then death his love is found not to be bought with goods Nor quench'd with waters nor be drown'd with whatsoever floods O draw me my dear Saviour with those strong cords of love And then will we go after thee as fast as we can move We will record thy love O Lord above the joy of wine The Virgins fair that spotlesse are do love thy name Divine 3. PART 1 Cor. 5. 7 11. Lo Christ is sacrific'd for us our Passeover from heaven Now therefore let us keep the feast not with old lumps of leaven Not with the leav'n of wickednesse or leaven of malice led But keep it with sincerity and truths unleavened bread ch. 11. 29 28. Who eat and drink unworthily their own damnation earn Because they want a spiritual eye his body to discern Our hearts with care examined let us be stâ—rred up To eat of this coelestial bread and drink this sacred cup 26. To eat this bread and drink this cup holds forth a Saviour slain So often as we celebrate until he come again 4. PART 1 Cor. 10. 16. The cup of blessing which we blesse is it not understood The sweet communion to expresse of Christ our Saviours blood The bread we break the holy loas do we not all accord To call it the communion of the body of our Lord 17 For we though many are one bread and in one body joyne For all of us are joyntly fed with that one bread divine The living bread is he on high that down from heaven came And he shall live and never die that eateth of the same Mat. 26. 28. The blood of the new Testament we sweetly taste herein
A CENTURY OF SELECT HYMNS Collected out of Scripture All to be sung in five or six Tunes commonly known and practized By W. B. Minister of the Gospel at Martins in Leicester Col. 3. 16. Teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and Hymns and spiritual Songs ΙΟΥΣΤ ΑΠΟΚΡΙΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞ Ρζ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. V. fol. 2. LONDON Printed by T. R. for Francis Eglesfield and Thomas Underhill in S. Pauls Church-yard and Francis Tyton at the three daggers neer the Temple in Fleetstreet 1659. Justin Martyr of the use and Excellency of spiritual Songs in the Church In his 107. Answer to the Orthodox IT moves the minde and makes affection strong To that which is so taking in the SONG The fleshly motions are by it supprest And vicious thoughts which foes unseen suggest The minde it moystens as a fruitful field Abundance of Divine good things to yeeld It makes Religious men such power it brings Champions for patience in all adverse things It cures the godly man of worldly cares It is the spirits sword as PAUL declares Which acts and arms a Christian souldier so That he may grapple with his Ghostly foe For 't is the Word of God which while revolv'd And sung aloud The Devils are dissolv'd And driven away yea it hath power so great The minde to perfect and to make compleat With Christian virtues while in sacred throngs The Saints set on with these spiritual songs Interprete Camerario To the Right Honourable the Parliament of the Common-Wealth of England c. May it please your Honours IT appeares plainly by Justin Martyr Tertullian many others That the ancient Churches used not onely Davids Psalmes but other portions of Scripture chosen ad libitum to be put in Song for their Edification Yet it doth not appear so plainly that they used Psalms Apocryphal or Unscriptural in Primitive times but rather that such by corruption crept in Eu ebius reporting of Pauluâ— San osetanus the grâ—nd Heretick that he countenanced such Songs in the Church as would make a mans haire stand staring on his head to hear and we find among the Papists sundry Hymns savouring of horrid blasphemy and shameful superstition Neither are our own altogether allowable for that which is called the complaint of a sinner next before the Psalmes is very non-sensical and in that after veni Creator the Author sayes that in the glorifi'd body of our Saviour in heaven the wounds are yet to be seen Now such inconveniences as these would not so easily occur if we kept our selves to Scripture expressions And what other doth the Apostle admit when he saith Col. 3. 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly c. Surely Apocryphal Hymns are not the Word of Christ We see Justin Martyr if that work be his speaking of this saith {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} It is the Word of God Omitting therfore all unscriptural hymns which many great Councels did forbid and condemne I have here composed an hundred Hymns out of express Scriptures not injured I hope in their conjunction but may say with Divine Herbert This verse marks that and both do make a motion Unto a third that ten leaves of doth lie Then as dispersed herbs do watch a potion These three make up a Christians destiny Herberts Church of H. Scriptures These Hymns are plainer then Psalms and more sutable to our condition and more pertinent to Gospel occasions such as wherein Christians may truly say that they do teach and admonish one another Such as inculcate our duties and reprove our vices out of the most piercing pasâ—ages of holy Scriptures such as may answer all Sermons and accommodate all occurrences and may competently serve instead of Psalms till a better translation then the old comes in Finally they are such as do excellently instruct a Christian unto prayer and Minister both hints and helps abundantly To Dedicate these to your Honours is as necessary as well-beseeming both to give you account and crave your countenance in so great a business which is no innovation or induction but a reduction to primitive use and order And humbly prays for this encouragement to be recommended or allowed to be sung in publick and private Congregations Now the God of mercy that hath withdrawn the cloud of interruption Give you the spirit of reformation that your authority may be universally owned honoured and obeyed pray'd for to God by us and God praised for it as a singular blessing to this Nation under which we may lead peaceable and quiet lives in all godlinesse and honesty in perswasion whereof I rest Your Honours most devoted servant for Jesus sake William Barton To the Reverend and Religious Ministers of England especially in and about the City of London Reverend Brethren TO you also do I cheerfully render an account of my labours since at the request and with the good liking of some of you I composed some Hymns published heretofore and sundry others now Wherefore I intend no further Apology then what is tendred in the preceding Epistle to the Parliament and if more be necessary I hope I may reasonably expect it from you in behalf of the Work I have not much medled with the Lamentations though a book Poetical in regard the like subject is so freâ—uent in the Psalmes neither with the Canticles not onely because they are done â—oth in plaine way and paraphrase by other hands but because of the difficulty of the sense I think best to glosse upon that Text of Cant. 5. 10. By the expression of 2 Cor. 5. ult. And of that fruit spoken of Cant. 2. 3. I add this glosse The Word and Sacrament Not that I want occasion to steak of His Odors sweet of scent or some such out of the letter of the Text but for the occasion for which I chose it as being virtually imply'd and apply'd fittingly Indeed I would gladly annex to these Hymns some select places and whole Psalmes touching the most spiritual and concernable matters of praise and publick worship Exhortation and Consolation that thereby I might again bring in those frequent Metres which some of you say I have left out to your losse and mine own in the last Edition and which you do prefer and I think justly to those that are put in To what end therefore should I comply any further with the old which being alter'd no more then needs must would be like an old garment with a new piâ—ce and would put the people to as much cost as a new Translation much neerer to the Text much easier to be sung and got without book The best way as I conceive is to collect a Semicentury of choice Hymns which out of my store I can easily afford and make no other addition to the last translation then you shall think necessary So shall you finde among the Psalms or Hymns all the frequent Metres that are not harsh the 119.
regard nor learn Religion by the same But most unjustly will transgresse Here in the Land of uprightnesse and will not see Gods Majesty But they shall see and see with shame And feel as foes thy fiery flame for envying our felicity 2 PART Isa. 16. 18 12 Lord we have been with child in vain And we have been in grievous pain and as it were brought forth the wind For by our power we have not wrought The least deliverance can be thought in all the earth in any kind Nor have the dwellers on the earth Fal'n by the power that we put forth but by thy strength are undertrod For Lord thou wilt ordain at last True Peace for us because thou hast wrought all our work in us O God 20 21. O come my people enter thou Into thy secret chambers now and shut thy doors about thee fast And hide thy self now as it were But for a little moment there untiâ—â— the wrath be overpast For lo the Lord comes from his place To punish this maâ—ignant race for wickednesse that they maintain The earth shall also now disclose The blood shed of our barbarous foes and shall no more conceal her slain H. 29. EXAMPLE of SAINTS Eph. 5 1 2. Heb. 6. 12. BRethren be followers of the Lord as Children dear and true And walk in love with one accord as Christ hath loved you And be not slack through neglâ—gence but followers of their spirit That thorow Faith and Patience the Promises inherit 13. 7. Mat. 5. 16. Whose Faith likewise do ye pursue considering the end And blessed issue whereunto their conversations tend And let your light so shine to men that your good works discri'd May cause your heavenly Father then to be much glorified H 30. EZEKIELS IN FANT. Ye Children c. Ezek. 16. 3 5 6 THus saith the Lord to Israel Thy birth and birth-place know I well of Canaans cursed land to be And in the day when thou wast born Thou wast cast out to open scorn there was no eye to pity thee And when I saw thee passing by Polluted in thy blood to lye Behold it was the time of love When in thy blood thou didstremain I said to thee and said again Live Infant now born from above 8 11 14. Then over thee my skirt I spread Thy nakednesse I covered I sware to thee and made thee mine With ornaments I did thee deck I put a chain upon thy neck And Bracelets on those hands of thine And thy renown for beauty then Went forth among the heathen men that praised it with one accord For true it was a perfect dresse Through my exceeding comelinesse which I put on thee saith the Lord H. 31. FAITH PRAISED Heb. 11. 1 2 13 FAith is the substance of those things which once we hope to get And the assured evidence of things not seen as yet By it the Elders have obtain'd a good report and fame And died boldly in this Faith before the Promise came 6. Rom. 4. 3. But without Faith and confidence for which the Scriptures call It is a thing impossible to please the Lord at all For he that comes to God must trust that God is God most high And the rewarder of them all that seek him diligently Gal. 3. 7 9. Know then that they that are of Faith are all of Abrahams seed And blest with faithfull Abraham that are of faith indeed H. 32. FAITH PROVED Jam. 2. 14 20 VVHat profit's it my Brethren dear if any person saith That he hath faith and hath not works is that a saving Faith But wilt thou know O thou vain man that faith by works unknown Is not a living faith but dead it being all alone 26. Gal. 5. 6. For as the body is but dead the which no breath supplies So Faith that is not perfected by works is dead likewise And neither circumcision availes with God above Nor yet uncircumcision but Faith that works by love H. 33. GODS Glittering SWORD Deut. 32. 39 to 43. I Kill saith God and make alive I wound and heal alone And there is none with me can strive to rescue any one For I lift up my hand on high to heaven above and say Behold I live eternally and am without decay If once my hand with judgment close and whets my glittering Sword With vengeance on my hatefull foes I 'le execute my Word I 'le make mine arrows drunk with blood my Sword shall flesh devour The slain and captives shall be food from the first on-set hour Rejoyce ye Nations with his land to whom he will be good And while his foes shall feel his hand avenge his servants blood H. 34. GOVERNMENT 2 Sam. 23. 1. Deut. 16. 20. 2 Co. 4. 4. 〈…〉 2 Chr. 19. 6. Ps. 82. 1. THe Prince that ruleth over men must be exceeding just And Goveâ—n in the fear of God that putteth him in trust Because the judgment is not mans but Gods the King of Kings Who sits among these earthly Gods to judge of all these things Rom. 13. 1. 5. 1 Tim. 2. 2. And every soul must needs submit unto the powers supream And not for wrâ—th but conscience sake be subject unto them And pray for Kings and Rulers all that we through their defence â—ay live in Peace and Godlinesse with all good conscience 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 5. 10. For we must every one appear and personally â—ome Before the judgment â—eat of Christ there to receive our doom Accordingly as every man hath in the body done And as the work is good or bad So shall his sentence run 2 PART 1 Th. 5. 12. 13. 1. Pâ— 4. 10. Obey those Rulers over you that warn you in the Lord And for their work sake prize them much that preach to you the word As each man hath receiv'd the gift let him discharge his place As good and faithfull Ministers of Gods abundant grace 1 Th. 5. â—4 2 Th. 3. 6 14. 1 Tim. 5. 22. Warn the â—â—ruly help the weak Support them lest they fall Câ—mfort the feeble minded ones be patient towards all Withdraw from the inordinate to shame them for their sin And no way be partakers of the sins that such live in Heb. 12. 15 16. 1 Cor. 14. 26 33. And let no root of bitternesse no person vain and vilde Spring up among you troubling you and many be defil'd Let all be done to edifie for God's the God of Peace In all the Churches of the Saints to make disorders cease 2 Cor. 13. 11. Rom. 13. 8. And live in Peace and Holinesse whereto ye have your call And then the God of Love and Peace shall still be with you all And owe to no man any thing but one to love another For 't is the Laws accomplishing to be a perfect Lover 2 PART Eph 6. 1 2 4. Obey your Parents in the Lord ye children as 't is fit This is the first Commandement with promise made to it Parents provoke not unto wrath your children in their youth But bring
of your works lest any man should boast To him let all the Church therefore ascribe with one accord All praise and honour evermore through Jesus Christ our Lord HYMN LV MORAL PRECEPTS Prest with Arguments Mic. 6. 8. Psal. 37. 28. Col. 3. 25. THe Lord hath shewed thee O man what God requires as good Do justly love compassion walk humâ—ly with thy God Because the Lord loves equâ—ty his Saâ—nts he will not leave And he that deals injuriously shall sutably receive Mat. 5. 7. Jam. 2. 13. Luk. 14. 11. And mercy to the merciful the Lord will still expresse But judgement shall with rigour â—all upon the mercilesse And God doth still resist the proud but gives the humble grace Self-humbling then shall honour men self-honouring shall abase 2. PART Jam. 5. 12. Eph. 4. 25. Rev. 21. 8. Swear not by heaven nor by earth nor any oath at all Lest into condemnation by such offence ye fall Put lies away and speak the truth for every wilful liar Must sure partake of that broad lake which burns with brimstone-fire Rom. 13. 13. Heb. 12. 14. Shun â—urfeiting and drunkennesse and do not lead your lâ—fe In chambering and wantonness in envy or in strife And ever follow peace with all and holiness together Without which grace there 's no man shall behold Gods face for ever 3. PART Eph. 4. 31 29. Rom. 12. 21. All malice wrath and bitterness and clamor put away And be not overcome with ill but let the good bear sway And let no talk come from your mouths corrupt in any case But such as serves to edifie and teach the hearers gâ—ace Eph. 5. 3 4. But fornication avarice and what pollutes or taints Amongst you let not once be nam'd as it becometh Saints Nor filthiness nor foolish talk noâ— unbeseeming jests Which things are not convenient but rather thankfulnesse 4. PART Rom 12. 10 15. Eph. 2. 4. Gal. 6. 2. By kinde affection mutually the love of brethren keep Rejoyce with them that do rejoyce and weep with them that weep And heed not your own things alone but each for other care And to fulfill the Law of Christ each others burden bear Rom. 12. 16. Mat. 7. 1 2. Mind not high things but condescend to men of low estate And be not wise in your own eyes pufft up with self-conceit And judge not that you be not judg'd for as you mete to men Accordingly shall God reply and deal to you agen 5. PART M. 7. 12. R. 13. 7. ch. 12. 17. T. 3. 2. 1 Th. 4. 7. Do as you would be done unto and give to all their right Of no man ever speak amisse nor ill with ill requite Let none defraud or go beyond his brother any way For God avengeth all such things and will the wrong repay Jam. 5. 9. Joh. 7. 24. Phil. 4. 5. Rom. 14. 4. And brethren let no one of you against another grudge Nor judge ye by appearances but righteous judgement judge And let your moderation be manifest to all The Lord our Master is at hand to whom we stand or fall 6. PART Ecc es. 5. 4 5 Heb. 13. 16. When thou hast vowed a vow to God defer not then to pay For God hath no delight in fools that mock him with delay And to do good and distribute forget ye in no wise For God is pleas'd exceedingly with such like sacrifice Phil. 4. 8. 1 Cor. 4. 5. And all things honest just and true and such as sweetly please For vertue praise and good report think on such things as these Until the secrets of all hearts be publisht all abroad And then shall every one of us have his due praise of God HYMN LVI More spiritual PRECEPTS Prov. 3. 5 6. Mat. 22. 37. 1 Thes. 5. 15 16. TRust in the Lord with all thy heart love him with all thy might In all thy ways acknowledge him and make him thy delight Pursue good things rejoycing still and pray continually Quench not the Spirit any way despise not prophecy Rom. 12. 11. Heb. 12. 28. Joh. 6. 27. With fervent spirit serve the Lord and having grace draw neer To worship God with reverence and godly filial fear And for the food that perisheth be not at any strife But for the food that doth endure to everlasting life Mat 6. 33. And seek Gods Kingdom first of all his righteoâ—snesse pursue And then shall all the other things be added unto you HYMN LVII MORTALITY and IMMORTALITY Isa 40. 6 7 All flesh is grass and soon must yeeld for all the goodly shew Which is but as a flower in field that some short time doth grow The gras doth wither and is gone the flower doth fade and passe Because Gods Spirit blows thereon the people sure is grass 8. 1 Cor. 15. 53 The grasse doth change the flower doth fade at one rebuking blast But lo the word our Lord hath said for ever standeth fast The corruptible must put on a state that cannot die The mortal must be cloath'd upon with immortality 54. 56 57. The saying then fulfill'd shall be recorded of this thing O grave where is thy victory O death where is thy sting The sting of death sin needs must be the Law the strength of sin But thanks to God for vicâ—o y through Christ our Lord herein HYMN LVIII MORTIFICATION Col 3. 5. Rom. 6. 12. c. 8. 13. YOur earthly members mortifie and let no sin bear sway Or in your mortal body reign whâ—le ye the lusts obey For if ye serve the flesh ye die but if that by the Spirit The bodâ—es lasts ye mortisie then shall ye life inherit c. 6. 16. c. 13. 14. For his ye are whom ye obey whether of sin to death Or else of righteousnesse to life after this mortal breath Put on then â—esus Christ the Lord and for the fleshes ease Make no provision nor regard the lusts thereof to please 2. PART Rom. 8. 7. c. 12. 2. The carnal minde is enmity against the living Lord Not subject neither can it be to his revealed word Be chang'd therefore by minds renew'd that ye may understand What pleasing good and perfect things the Lord doth here command ch. 8. 6. ch. 6. 11 8. Because to be of carnal minde is death without release But if spiritually inclin'd it savours life and peace Then count your selves as dead to sin to God in Christ alive Because if we be dead with him we trust we shall revive HYMN LIX MOSES Song All people c. Exod. 15. 1. NOw sing unto the Lord will I for he hath triumpht gloriously The horse and rider both of these his hand hath cast into the Seas 5 6 The depths devour'd them every one They sank to th' bottom as a stone Lord thy right hand with power shines bright thy right hand crusht the enemy quite 7 In thy great excellence O God thou hast those rebels under-trod Thou sentest forth thy wrath whereby they were consum'd as stubble dry 9 The enemy thus