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A07789	Nyne songs collected out of the Holy Scriptures of Old and New Testament, drawne foorth of the pure fountaines of Hebreuu and Greeke ; translated, paraphrased in prose, summed, analysed, notted vpon, grounds for vse and doctrine observed in every one of them, and finally paraphrased in English meeter, by Mr. William Moray ...	Morray, William.	1634 (1634)	STC 18166; ESTC S1306	47,991	144

although I would 3. My tabernacle now is rent I flit as sheepheards doe from tent My web like weaver I cut out My like I meane for thou but doubt Will mee cut off O LORD with noy And mee from day to night destroy No rest I get into the night 4. And in the morning by his might Lyke to a lyon hee mee breakes Both day and night so sore hee shakes 5. As Crane or Swallow or lyke Doue I murne I sigh I chatter now I lift my eyes I say this best LORD I am weake giue thou mee rest 6. I hold my peace because that hee Both said and did all this to mee With sorrow humble will I goe Spending my life heereafter so 7. Vpon thy promise wee depend And on thy mercie without end These are the life of this my spirit To make mee heale thou thinks it meete 8. In place of peace I had great paine Thou lov'd my soule brought it againe From pit for all my sinnes past Behind thy backe now thou hast cast 9. Man gone to graue cannot confesse Nor praise thy name there more or lesse Nor can they trust more in thy treuth 10 But such on earth whom thou hast reuth As I this day now living doe Thy trueth their seed will tell vnto 11. The LORD was readie mee to saue The song of the blessed Virgin Marie Luk. chap. 1. MY soule magnifieth the LORD And my spirit leaps for joy in GOD my Saviour Because hee hath looked vnto the humilitie of his hand-maid for behold from this time all nations shall call mee blessed For hee who is mighty hath done vnto me great things and holy is his Name And his mercie to generations of generations to them that feare him Hee hath done a powerfull worke with his arme hee hath scattered the proude with the discourse of their heart Hee hath pulled the mightie out of thrones and hath exalted the humble Hee filled the hungry with good things and hath sent the rich away emptie Hee hath taken vp Israel his child to remember his mercie As hee spake to our fathers Abraham and his seed for ever 1. I Am so ravished with admiration of the mercie goodnesse and power of GOD toward mee that all the powers of my soule concurre with my tounge to praise him 2. And this is the cause of the exceeding great joy of my spirit even to thinke vpon GOD my Saviour 3. Who hath looked vpon mee his handmaid of low degree and hath honored me so that now in al tims to come all people shall proclaime mee a blessed woman the mother of that blessed seed 4 For the strong and holie GOD hath done great and wonderfull things by me 5. And he is not onely good to me but also to all that loue him and serue him in all ages 6. By his mightie power he hath wroght a great work he hath dissipat the proud and all their devyces 7. God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble exalting them which will be seene shortly vpon my Sonne me and Herod 8. Such as were poore and in hard estate as my husband and I he hath made aboundantly content And vpō rich men as Herod he is bringing great miserie and male-contentment 9. With his owne hand hee hath lifted vp Israel his servant and exalted him who before was despised remembring his covenant of grace made with Abraham Isaac and Iacob our fathers 10 Even that everlasting covenant concerning the seed of Abraham The argument and analysis of this song MARIE having harkned to the message of the Angell Gabriel hasted to Hebron a towne of the trybe of Iudah pertaining to the Levits situat among the mountaines where Zachariah Elisabeth her coosin dwelt to show her this mervelous worke of God with her that she a virgin not knowing man had conceived by the holy Ghost that child who should bee the Messias promised to the fathers Now so soone as Mary came to Elisabeth and saluted her At the voyce of Maries salutation Iohn the Baptist who was to bee the forerunner of CHRIST leapt within the wombe of Elisabeth And Elisabeth beeing filled with the holy Ghost told Marie the tydings she came to tell her before Marie vttered a word more then the salutation and shee proclaimed Marie to bee a blessed woman the mother of her LORD the fruite of her wombe blessed and shew her that so soone as shee heard the voyce of her salutation her owne child leapt for joy within her bellie Even Iohn sayeth Augustine moving saluteth Christ whom as yet hee could not salute with words And Elisabeth assured Marie that that should come to passe which was told her from the Lord by his Angell Then Marie moved by the holie Spirit vttered the words of this song containing the praise of GOD for his great mercie and goodnesse towards her and towards all his servants in all ages and for his wise just powerfull providence for his Church and against the enemies thereof according to his covenant with Abraham and his seed for ever The parts of the song are 2. the 1. containeth a proposition of her praising of GOD and rejoycing in him verse 1.2 The 2. containeth reasons of the proposition which are 7. in number The 1. is taken from GODS goodnesse towards her and the consequent thereof that hence foorth all ages shall call her blessed verse 3. The 2 is taken from GODS wonderfull power in working with her and his holinesse verse 4. The 3. is taken from the continuing of Gods mercie to his servants their posteritie verse 5. The 4. is taken from Gods power over the enemies of his Church verse 6. The 5. is taken from GODS power and justice over wicked men bee they never so mightie and his power goodnesse grace to such as in humilitie serue him verse 7. The 6. is taken from Gods compassion vpon poore ones his dispysing of the rich who trust in their riches The 7. is taken from Gods goodnesse to his people Israell and the efficient cause thereof to wit his covenant with their fathers verse 9.10 Annotations vpon this Song Verse 1. MAgnifieth that is inlarges it self to think of his greatnesse and goodnesse for no creature can comprehend GOD fully farre lesse adde to his perfection Verse 2. In or for and this sheweth the efficient cause and verie object of her joy My Saviour The Syriak interpretation is quickning mee Verse 3. Looked that is favourablie accepted Gen. 4. chap. v. 4.5 Humilitie The word imports a low and despysed estate not the merite of vertue in her as they alledge who mantaine that divine worship is due to Marie in a hy degree But Theophylactus exponing these words sayeth better I shall bee called blessed not for my vertue but because GOD hath done great things for me Verse 5. To generations according to the promise Exod. 20.6 Psal 103.17 Feare him feare in holy Scripture oft signifyeth all duety wee owe to GOD and

by CHRIST which Simeon looked for and saw more clearely and nearelie then his forbeares Vers 2. None holy no rocke This most true for holinesse and power are in GOD essentially and perfyte in the creature by communication onely and in part being compared with GOD. Iob. 4.18 Verse 5. Hath ceased To wit to bee hungrie and are filled Seven that is many Ruth 4.11 Set out themself to wit for hyred servants for want of food Verse 8. The pillars See Iob. 48. v. 4. Psal 124. v. 8. Psal 112.26 and 104. verse 5. Verse 10. To his KING that is to say to CHRIST IE SUS to whom hee was to giue all power in Heaven and earth as his appointed King Psal 2. Observations of grounds for vse and doctrine Obs 1. THis song is called a prayer because it is spoken to GOD and in end hath a prayer but the purpose of it is a thanksgiving and so these well joyned according to the precept of the Apostle Phi. 4.6 Obs 2. It is easie to GOD when hee will to make a heavie heart light and joyfull a dispysed person honorable one silenced to speake boldly These things and other benefites are obtained by humiliation prayer Obs 3. verse 1. Whatsoever benefite GOD bestows vpon vs wee should not so much thinke of it or vse it as looke to GOD the giver of it and praise him not being as the swyoe who feed vpon fallen fruit but looke not vp to the tree Obs 4. We should labour to know Gods attributes by his word and workes wee should meditate therevpon that wee may loue feare trust him and obey his will alwayes Obs 5. verse 2. It is easier to tell what God is not or to deny any creature to bee like him then to tell what hee is for God beeing alwayes infinit cannot be defyned affirmatiuelie so well as negatiuelie Obs 6. Pryde is a hereditarie sicknesse in men and women yet GOD resisteth the proude and giveth grace to the humble Iam. 4.6 Obs 7. verse 3. to the 8. The providence of GOD rules all things maks all mutations among men Ps 107. Obs 8. Wee should not look vpon things and judge of them by present apperance for the earth is as a stage wee are players there vpon everie one is not that hee seemeth to bee in the play for a beggar there may represent a King a wise man a foole a wicked man a good but wee should abide patiently the catastrophe of the play staying till the morning when everie man putteth on his owne coat that is the morning of the resurrection Psal 49.14 1. Iohn 3.1 Obs 9. verse 9.10 The godly of old tooke their deliverances particular and of the Kirk in generall as types of their great salvation by Christ which they looked for 1. Pet. 1.10 This song paraphrased in English meeter to the tune of the 103. Psalme Verse 1. MY heart rejoyceth in the Lord in him my horne is hie My mouth is open wyde and large against my enemie In thy salvation I joye 2. none holy like to thee For there is none but thou O Lord a God a rocke to mee 3. Speake thou no more words arrogant as thou was wont before For God knowes all things very well and doth both lesse and more 4. The strong mans Bow is broken quyte the weake hath put on strength 5. The full beginne to begge their bread the hungrie eate at length The barren hath her seven borne the mother of sonnes is weake 6. The Lord hee kills and giveth life casts downe and vp doth take 7. Hee makes men poore and hee makes rich hee humbles and raiseth hie 8. Ev'n poore men from the dung and dust Princes equalls to bee For to the Lord the pillars of the earth doe appertaine And therevpon hath hee set fast the world and all therein 9. The feete hee will keepe of his Saints that they may never swerve The wicked shall in darknesse dwell as they do well deserve No man shall by his owne strength stand 10. O Lord stoppe all their strife The Lord will shoot his thunderbolts at him from heaven right rife The ends of earth the Lord shal judge his King hee shall make strong And hee shall his Anoynteds horne lift vp ere it bee long The Song of Hezechiah King of Iudah Esay 38. Text. I Said in the cutting of my dayes I shall goe to the ports of the grave I am deprived of the rest of my yeares I said I shall not see IAH Iah in the land of the living I shall not behold man more with the inhabitants of the world My habitation is gone and flitted from me as a sheep-heards tent I haue cut off as a weaver my lyfe he wil cut me off from the thrum from the daye to the night thou will destroy mee I resolved vnto the morning as a Lyon hee so bruised all my bones from the daye to the night thou consumes me As a crane a swallow I chettered I sighed like a dove myne eyes were lifted vp to the hight IEHOVAH I am weake give me rest What shall I saye both hee said to mee and he himself hath done it I shall goe on all my yeeres with the bitternesse of my soule Lord vpon these they shall live in all wherein the lyfe of my spirit is and thou wilt heale me and give me life Behold for peace I had bitternesse and thou hast loved my soule from the pit of rottennesse because thou hast cast all my sinnes behind thy back For the graue shal not confesse vnto thee death praise thee neither shall they hope who goe downe to the pit to thy trueth The living the living hee shall confesse vnto thee as I this day the father to the sonnes shall make knowne thy trueth IEHOVAH to saue mee Therefore my songs shall we play all the dayes of our lyfe in the House of IEHOVAH Paraphrase 1. VVHen I thought God was cutting the threed of my life by deaths knife I thought and said within my selfe I shall now die young and child-lesse 2. Then my greatest griefe was that my bodily eyes should not see God for a long time and presentlie to be deprived of the sight of him in the mirrour of his workes word and Sacraments 3. My dwelling place leaves mee and I it as a sheep-herd leaveth his tent the web of my life is cut out as the weaver cutteth out a web out of his loome for I made it short by sins God hath made it short in his justice and gives to mee no rest daye or night 4. After the nights vnrest I looked for no better in the morning but that hee cruelly wold destroy mee 5. The cranes and swallows cannot speak in their pain yet they chatter and the dove cheeps so vnder so great griefe and paine I could doe nothing but mourne sigh lift vp my eyes and heart to God 6. It is the Lord I can neither say good nor euill he hath spoken to mee by his servant

is to bee vnderstood of the filial not servile feare Rom. 5.15 Verse 6. A powerfull thing the Syriak interprets this victorie Scattered as the whirle winde doth chaffe Psal 1. Verse 8. Hungrie she alluds to the words of Channa in her song Taken vp with his hand to deliver which the Greeke word properly signifieth as Galen witnesses and so is to bee exponed Heb. 3.16 and the consideration heereof giveth another meaning to that Scripture then commonly interpreters doe Child Syriak his servant as Esay 41 8.9 Observations of grounds for vse and doctrine Obs 1. THis the first song in the new Testament sung by the blessed Virgin Marie as the first song in the old Testament was sung by Marie Moses sister both about one time of the yeare both by women both by Maries and in many things the purposes of both agrees Obs 2. verse I. 2. The spirit of GOD in lightneth the eyes of the minds of his servants to see clearely his benefites and their greatnesse he fils their hearts with spirituall joy opens their mouth to praise while as the wicked are like to swyne who eat fruit falling from the tree but never looke where from it came Obs 3. vers 3. God is said in holy Scripture to respect or looke vpon men or women when he showes any token of his favour to them and by the contrare not to respect or looke vpon them when hee is angry the similitude is borrowed from parents or masters to their children or servants Obs 4 Marie heere in the verses following seemes to allude to the 98. Psalme teaching vs to bee well acquaint with holy Scripture that wee may make vse thereof in due time Obs 5. vers 4. 5. Gods promises to the godly import everlasting good things And therefore the per formance of his promise by temporall benefites should bee to vs pledges of his eternall loue Obs 6. Compare the verses following with Psal 1. Psal 63. Esay 29. Obs 7. GOD takes the wicked in their owne crafts making evill counsell worse to the giuer Obs 8. When God will put forth his hand to helpe he comforts his Church confounds his enemies Es 41.10 Obs 9. verse 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. God is faithfull and fails not his servants Ios 1.5 Heb. 13.6 This song paraphrased in English meeter to the tune of the 19. Psalme Verse 1. MY soule the Lord doth magnifie 2. and sprit in him rejoyce Hee is my GOD and Saviour To him I sing with noyse 3. For hee the poore estate of mee his hand-maid did respect And now from hence no people shall to call mee blest neglect 4. The mightie LORD to mee hath done things marvelous and great 5. His Name is holy and his grace sits in eternall seate To such as feare his holy Name and worship him in treuth 6. A mightie worke his arme hath wrought the Proude destroy'd but reuth 7. The mightie men out of their thrones hee pulled hath with strength And such as were of low degree exalted at the length 8. With good things hee the hungrie fils the rich sends poore away 9 His servant Israel hath hee tane for to protect alway For why hee hath remembered his covenant of grace 10. Which with our fathers hee did make and seed to come in place Of Abraham I chiefely meane and his posteritie That they should finde to them and theirs The Song of ZACHARIE Luke 1. Text. BLessed be the LORD the God of Israell because hee hath visited and made redemption to his people And hath raised vp the horne of salvation to vs in the house of David his child As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets which haue beene since the world beganne Salvation from our enemies from the hand of al that hate vs. To make mercie with our fathers and to remember his holy testament The oath which he swore to Abraham our father To giue vnto vs delivered from the hand of our enemies to serue him without feare In holynesse and righteousnesse before him all the dayes of our lyfe And thou babe shall bee called the Prophet of the most High for thou shall goe before before the face of the LORD to prepare his wayes To giue the knowledge of salvation to his people in the remission of their sinnes By the bowels of mercie of our GOD by the which he hath visited vs who comes from aboue To shine to them that sit in darknesse in the shaddow of death to direct our feete in the way of peace Paraphrase 1. Let God bee praised and preached most worthie of praise because that now hee hath declared that he was mindefull of his people in sending his Sonne to visit and redeeme them 2. And now while as the strength of Israel seemed to bee gone and the promise made to David to haue failed he hath raised vp his CHRIST who by his strength shall overthrow our enemies and establish the kingdome in the house of David 3. According to his promises by his servants continued in all ages since the beginning 4. Who prophecied that we should bee delivered from our enemies and from the power of all who hate vs. 5. And to performe his mercie promised to our fathers and shew hee did remember his covenant made seald to Abraham 6. By oath vision and circumcision 7. That wee beeing delivered from the power of our enemies might serue him willingly boldly 8. In holynesse and true righteousnesse in his sight continually who searches the hearts and raines so long as wee liue 9. But now thou my younge sonne though thou seeme litle worth yet thou shall be a great one even furriour of the great King and his forerunner to prepare his peoples hearts to receaue him 10. Opning to them the way of salvation in repentance and faith in the blood of Christ the Lambe of God who takes away the sins of the world 12. Which is the greatest mercie given vs by GOD manifesting his Sonne in the flesh who commeth from Heaven 13. Who also shall be a light to the Gentiles who now sit in darknesse and deadly ignorance lead both vs and them to true happinesse The argument and analysis of this song ZACHARIE the father of Iohn the Baptist a priest of the order of Abiah when hee was doing his office according to the order of his course in the temple of the LORD Gabriel the Angell appeared vnto him and told him that his wife Elisabeth should beare him a sonne commanded him to call his name Iohn Also hee shew him that hee should bee that Elias of whom Malachi prophecied chap 4. v. 5. Which message Zacharie doubted of considering that both hee and Elisabeth were old and she had beene all her dayes till then barren Therefore he was striken with dumbnesse vntill the day Iohn was borne so that vpon the eight day after when they were about the circumcision of the child they speared at him how the childe should be called