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A15647	The hymnes and songs of the Church diuided into two parts. The first part comprehends the canonicall hymnes, and such parcels of Holy Scripture as may properly be sung, with some other ancient songs and creeds. The second part consists of spirituall songs, appropriated to the seuerall times and occasions obserueable in the Church of England. Translated and composed, by G.W.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Songs of the Old Testament.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Cantica sacra.; Gibbons, Orlando, 1583-1625.	1623 (1623)	STC 25910A; ESTC S120233	90,046	236

the LORD him praise adore And magnifie him euermore 4 Oh praise him both you Ice and Snow You Nights and Dayes doe you the same With what or Darke or Light doth show You Cloudes and eu'ry shining Flame Blesse ye the LORD him praise adore And magnifie him euermore 5 Thou Earth you Mountaines and you Hills And whatsoeuer thereon growes You Fountaines Riuers Springs and Rills You Seas and all that ebbes or flowes Blesse ye the LORD him praise adore And magnifie him euermore 6 You Whales and all the Water yeelds You of the Feather'd airy-breed You Beasts and Cattell of the fields And you that are of humane seed Blesse ye the LORD him praise adore And magnifie him euermore 7 Let Israel the LORD confesse So let his Priests that in him trust Him let his Seruants also blesse Yea Soules and Spirits of the Iust Blesse ye the LORD him praise adore And magnifie him euermore 8 You blessed Saints his praises tell And you that are of humble heart With Ananias Misael And Azarias bearing part Blesse you the LORD him praise adore And magnifie him euermore The Song of S. Ambrose or Te Deum THis Song commonly called Te Deum or the Song of S. Ambrose was repeated at the baptizing of S. Augustine And as it is recorded was composed at that very time by those two Reuerend Fathers answering one another as it were by immediate inspiration It is one of the most auncient Hymnes of the Christian Church excellently praising and confessing the blessed Trinitie and there●ore is daily and worthily made vse of in our Liturgie and reckoned among the Sacred Hymnes Song 42. Sing this as the 44. Song WE praise Thee GOD we knowledge Thee To be the LORD for euermore And the eternall Father we Throughout the earth doe thee adore All Angels with all powers within The compasse of the heauens high Both Cherubin and Seraphin To Thee perpetually do cry 2 Oh holy holy holy-one Thou LORD and GOD of Sabbath art Whose praise and Maiesty alone Fils heauen and earth in eu'ry part The glorious Troupe Apostolike The Prophets worthy Company The Ma●tyrs army-royall eke Are those whom thou art praised by 3 Thou through the holy Chur●h art knowne The Father of vnbounded powre Thy worthy true and only Sonne The Holy Ghost the Comfortour Of Glory thou oh Christ art King The Father's Sonne for euermore Who men from endlesse Death to bring The Virgins wombe didst not abhorre 4 When Conquerour of Death thou wert Heau'n to the Faithfull openedst thou And in the Fathers glory art At Gods right-hand enthroned now Whence we beleeue that thou shalt come To iudge vs in the day of wrath Oh therefore helpe thy Seruants whom Thy precious blood Redeemed hath 5 Them with those Saints doe Thou record That gaine eternall glory may Thine Heritage and People LORD Saue blesse guide and advance for aye By vs thou dayly prais'd hast beene And we will praise Thee without end Oh keepe vs LORD this day from sinne And let thy mercy vs defend 6 Thy mercy LORD let vs receiue As we our trust repose in thee Oh LORD in thee I trusted haue Confounded neuer let me be Athanasius Creede or Quicunque vult THis Creed was composed by Athanasius after the wicked heresie of Arrius had spread it selfe through the world that so the faith of the Catholicke Church concerning the Mystery of the blessed Trinity might be the better vnderstood and professed to the ouerthrow and preuenting of Arrianisme or the like heresies And to the same purpose it is appointed to be said or sung vpon certaine dayes of the yeare in the Church of England Song 43. Sing this as the 3. Song THose that will saued be must hold The true Catholike Faith And keepe it wholly if they would Escape eternall death Which Faith a Trinity adores In One and One in Three So as the Substance being one Distinct the Persons be 2 One Person of the Father is Another of the Sonne Another of the Holy-Ghost And yet their Godhead one Alike in glory and in their Eternity as much For as the Father both the Sonne And Holy-Ghost is such 3 The Father vncreate and so The Sonne and Spirit be The Father he is Infinite The other two as He. The Father an Eternall is Eternall is the Sonne So is the Holy-Ghost yet these Eternally but One. 4 Nor say we there are Infinites Or vncreated Three For there can but one Infinite Or vncreated be So Father Sonne and Holy-Ghost All three Almighties are And yet not three Almighties tho But onely One is there 5 The Father likewise GOD and LORD And GOD and LORD the Sonne And GOD and LORD the Holy Ghost Yet GOD and LORD but One. For though each Person by himselfe We GOD and LORD confesse Yet Christian Faith forbids that we Three GODS or LORDS professe 6 The Father nor begot nor made Begot not made the Sonne Made nor begot the Holy-Ghost But a Proceeding-One One Father not three Fathers then One onely Sonne not three One Holy-Ghost we doe confesse And that no moe they be 7 And lesse or greater then the rest This Trinity hath none But they both Coeternall be And equall eu'ry one He therefore that will saued be As we haue said before Must One in Three and Three in One Beleeue and still adore 8 That Iesus Christ incarnate was He must beleeue with this And how that both the Sonne of GOD And GOD and Man 〈◊〉 is GOD of his Fathers substance pure Begot ere Time was made Man of his Mothers substance borne When Time his fulnesse had 9 Both perfect God and perfect Man In Soule and flesh as we The ●athers equall being God Is Man beneath is ●e Though God Man yet but one Christ And ●o dispose it so The Godhead was not turn●d to flesh But Manhood tooke thereto 10 The Substance vn-confus●d He one In Person doth subsist As Soule and Body make one Man So God and Man is Christ Who suffred and went downe to Hell That we might saued be The third day he arose againe And Heau●n ascended he 11 At God the Fathers right-hand there He 〈◊〉 and at the Doome He to adiudge both quicke and dead From thence againe shall come Then all men with their flesh shall rise And he account require Well-doers into blisse shall goe The Bad to endlesse F●re Veni Creator TH●s is a very a●ci●nt Hymne composed in Latine 〈◊〉 and c●mmo●ly called Veni Cr●ator because those are the first words of it By the Cannons of our Church it is commanded to be said or sung at the Consecration of Bishops and at the Ordination of Ministers c. It is therefore here translated sill●●le for sillable in the same kind of measure which it hath in the Latine Song 44. COme Holy-Ghost the Maker come Take in the soules of thine thy place Thou whom our hearts had being from Oh fill them with thy heauenly grace Thou art that Comfort

THE HYMNES AND SONGS OF THE CHVRCH Diuided into two parts The first part comprehends the Canonicall Hymnes and such parcels of Holy Scripture as may properly be sung with some other ancient Songs and Creeds The second part consists of Spirituall Songs appropriated to the seuerall Times and Occasions obserueable in the Church of England Translated and Composed BY G. W. LONDON Printed by the Assignes of GEORGE WITHER Cum Priuilegio Regis Regali TO THE HIGH AND Mighty Prince IAMES by the Grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c Grace Mercy and Peace through Iesus Christ our Lord. THese Hymnes Dread Soueraign hauing diuers waies receiued life from your MAIESTIE as well as that approbation which the Church alloweth are now imprinted according to your Royall Priuiledge to come abroad vnder your Gracious Protection And what I deliuered vnto your Princely view at seuerall times I here present again incorporated into one Volume The first Part wherof comprehends those Canonicall Hymnes which were written and left for our instruction by the Holy Ghost And those are not onely plainely and briefly expressed in Lyrick verse but by their short Prefaces properly applied also to the Churches particular occasions in these times Insomuch that howeuer some neglect them as impertinent it is thereby apparant that they appertaine no lesse to vs then vnto those in whose times they were first composed And if the coniecture of many good and learned men deceiue them not the later Part containing Spirituall Songs appropriated to the seuerall times and occasions obseruable in the Church of England together with briefe Arguments declaring the purpose of those Obseruations shall become a meanes both of encreasing Knowledge and Christian Conformitie within your Dominions Which no doubt your MAIESTIE wisely foresawe when you pleased to graunt and command that these Hymnes should be annexed to all Psalme-bookes in English Meeter And I hope you shall thereby encrease both the honour of God and of your MAIESTIE For these Hymnes and the knowledge which they offer could no other way with such certainety and so little inconuenience be conueied to the common people as by that meanes which your MAIESTIE hath graciously prouided And now maugre their malice who labour to disparage suppresse these Helps to Deuotion they shall I trust haue free scope to worke that effect which is desired and to which end I was encouraged to translate and compose them For how meanly soeuer some men may thinke of this Endeauour I trust the successe shall make it appeare that the Spirit of God was the first moouer of the worke Wherin as I haue endeuored to make my Expressions such as may not bee contemptible to men of best vnderstandings So I haue also labored to sute them to the nature of the Subiect and the common Peoples capacities without regard of catching the vaine blasts of Opinion The same also hath beene the ayme of Master Orlando Gibbons your MAIESTIES seruant and one of the Gentlemen of your Honourable Chappell in fitting them with tunes For he hath chosen to make his musicke agreeable to the matter and what the common apprehension can best admit rather then to the curious Fancies of the Time Which path both of vs could more easily haue troden Not caring therfore what any of those shall censure who are more apt to controule then to consider I commit this to Gods blessing and Your fauourable Protection Humbly beseeching your MAIESTIE to accept of these our Endeuours and praying God to sanctifie both vs and this Worke to his glory Wishing also most vnfainedly euerlasting consolations to your MAIESTIE for those temporall Comforts you haue vouchsafed me and that felicity here which may aduance your happinesse in the life to come Amen Your MAIESTIES most Loyall Subiect GEORGE WITHER THE FIRST PART OF The HYMNES and SONGS of the CHVRCH containing those which are translated out of the Canonicall Scripture together with such other Hymnes and Creeds as haue anciently beene sung in the Church of ENGLAND The Preface PLainely false is their Supposition who conc●iue that the Hymnes Songs and Elegies of the Old Testament are impert●ment to these later Ages of the Church For neither the Actions nor writings of the Auncient Israelites which are recorded by the Holy Spirit were permitted to be done or written for their owne sakes so much as that they might be profitable to warne and instruct vs of the latter Times according to Saint Paul 1. Cor. 10. And indeed so much is not onely testified by that Apostle in the place afore recited and throughout the Epistle to the Hebrewes but the very names of those Persons and Places mentioned in these Hymnes and Songs doe manifest it and farre better expresse the nature of that which they mystically point out then of what they are litterally applied vnto as those who will looke into their proper significations shall apparently discouer That therefore these parcels of Holy-Scripture which are for the most part Me●ter in their Original tongue may be the better remembred to the glory of God and the oftner repeated to those ends for which they were written They are here disposed into Lyrick-Verse and doe make the First part of this Booke Which Booke is called The Hymnes and Songs of the Church not for that I would haue it thought part of the Churches Liturgie but because they are made in the person of all the Faithfull and do for the most part treat of those things which concerne the whole Catholike Church The first Song of Moses Exod. 13. THis Song was composed and sung to prayse the LORD for the Israelites miraculous pas●age through the Red-Sea for their deliuery from those Egyptians who were there drowned It may and should also be sung in the Christian Congregations or by their particular members both with respect to the Historicall and Mysticall sences thereof Historically in commemoration of that particular Deliuerance which God had so long agoe and so wondrously vouchsafed to his persecuted and afflicted Church Mystically in acknowledgement of our own powerfull Deliuerance from the bondage of those spiri●uall Aduersaries whereof those were the Types For Pharaoh signifying vengeance typified Our great Enemie who with his host of Temptations A●flictions c. pursueth vs in our passage to the spirituall Canaan The Red-Sea represented our Baptisme 1 Cor. 10.2 By the Dukes and Princes of E●om mentioned in this Song are prefigured those Powers and Friends of the kingdome of Dark●nesse which are or shall be molested at the newes of our Regeneration And therefore this Hymne may very properly be vsed after the Administration of Baptisme The first Song NOw shall the praises of the LORD be sung For hee a most renowned Triumph wonne Both Horse and Man into the Sea he flung And them together there hath ouerthrowne The LORD is He whose strength doth make me strong And he is my saluation and my Song My GOD for whom I will

obedience to thy Law Her purifying-Rites were done That we might learne to stand in awe How from thine ordinance we runne For if we disobedient be Unpuri●●ed Soules haue we 3 Oh keepe vs LORD from thinking vaine What by thy word thou shalt command Let vs be sparing to complaine On what we doe not vnderstand And guide thy Church that she may still Command according to thy will 4 Uouchsafe that with one ioynt-consent We may thy praises euer sing Preserue thy seamelesse-Robe vnrent For which so many Lots doe fling And grant that being purifide From sinne we may in loue abide 5 Moreouer as thy Mother went That holy and thrice-blessed Mayd Thee in thy Temple to present With perfect humane flesh arrayd So let vs offerd vp to Thee Replenisht with thy spirit be 6 Yea let thy Church our Mother deare Within whose wombe new-borne we be Before thee at her time appeare To giue her Children vp to Thee And take for purified things Her and that offring which she brings The first day of Lent THe obseruation of Lent is a profitable institution of the Church not abridging the Christian liberty of meats but intended for a means to helpe to set the spirit at liberty from the flesh And therefore this Fast consisteth not altogether in a formall forbearance of this or that food but in a true mortification of the body For abstinence from flesh onely wherein also we ought to be obedient to the higher Powers more tendeth to the encrease of plenty and well-ordering things in the Common-wealth then to a spirituall Discipline Because it is apparant wee may ouer-pamper our selues as well with what is permitted as with what is forbidden this commendable obseruation which euery man ought to obserue so farre forth as he shall be able and his spirituall necessity requires was appointed partly to commemorate our Sauiours miraculous f●sting whereby he satisfied for the gluttony of our first Parents and at this season partly to coole our wanton bloud which at this time of the yeare is aptest to be e●flamed with euill concupiscences and partly also to prepare vs the better both to meditate the passion of our Sauiour which is alwaies commemorated about the end of Lent and to fit vs to receiue the blessed Sacrament of his Last Supper to our greater comfort Song 51. Sing this as the .44 Song THy wondrous Fastin● to record And our rebellious flesh to tame A holy Fast to thee oh LORD We haue intended in thy Name Oh sanctifie it we thee pray That we may thereby honour Thee And so dispose vs that it may To our aduantage al●o be 2 Let vs not grudgingly abstaine Nor secretly the gluttons play Nor openly for glory vaine Thy Churches ordinance obay But let vs fast as thou hast taught Thy Rule obseruing in each part With such intentions as we ought And with true singlenesse of heart 3 So thou shalt our Deuotions blesse And make this holy Discipline A meanes that longing to suppresse Which keeps our Will so crosse to thine And though our stricktest fastings faile To purchase of themselues thy grace Yet they to make for our auaile By thy deseruings shall haue place 4 True Fasting helpfull oft hath beene The wanton flesh to mortifie But takes not off the guilt of sinne Nor can we merit ought thereby It is thine Abstinence or none Which merit fauour for vs must For when our glorioust workes are done We perish if in them we trust The Annuntiation of Marie THe Church hath dedicated this Day to memorize the Annuntiation of the blessed Virgine S. Marie who was about this time of the yeare saluted by the Angell Gabriel and we ought to sanctifie it with praising God for that vnexpressable Mysterie of our Sauiours Conception which was the happy newes the holy Angell brought vnto his Mother Nothing in the world is more worthy to be spoken of then this Fauor and yet nothing more vnspeakeable Song 52. Sing this as the 44. Song OUr hearts oh blessed GOD encline Thy true affection to embrace And that humility of thi●● Which for our sakes vouchsafed was Thy Goodnesse teach vs to put on As with our Nature thou wert clad And so to minde what thou hast done That we may praise thee and be glad 2 For thou not only held'st it meet To send an Angell from aboue An humble Mayd on earth to greet And bring the Message of thy Loue But laying as it were aside Those Glories none can comprehend Nor any mortall eyes abide Into her wombe thou didst descend 3 Bestow thou also thy respect On our despis'de and lowe degree And LORD oh doe not vs neglect Though worthy of contempt we be But through thy Messengers prepare And hallow so our hearts we pray That thou conceaued being there The fruits of faith bring forth we may Palme-Sunday PAlme-Sunday is so called by reason it was vpon that day in which Iesus riding to Ierusalem according to the Prophets the people strewed the way for him with their Garments and the branches of the Palme-tree And indeed it was in a manner the day of proclaiming him King as the Friday following was the day of his Coronation Worthily therefore is it commemorated And many excellent mysteries are thereby brought to remembrance which but for this Anniuersary most would forget and many perhaps neuer come to know Song 53. Sing this as the 3. Song WHen Iesus to Ierusalem And there to suffer rode The people all the way for him With Palme and Garments strowde And though he did f●●l meekely ●ide And poorely on an Asse Hosanna to the King they cride As he along did passe 2 His glory and his royall right Eu'n by a powre diuine As if in wordly pompes despight Through pouerty did shine And though the greater sort did frowne He exerciz●d his powre Till he himselfe did lay it downe At his appointed howre 3 Possession of his House he got The Marchants thence expel'd And though the Priests were madde thereat His Lectures there he held Oh! how should any be so dull To doubt who this might bee When they did things so wonderfull And workes so mighty see 4 LORD when to vs thou drawest nigh Instruct vs thee to know And to receiue thee ioyfully How meane so ere in show Yea though the rich and worldly-wise When we thy praises sing Both Thee and vs therefore despise Be thou approu'd our King Thursday before Easter AS vpon this Day our blessed Sauiour eating the Passeouer with his Disciples instituted the blessed Sacrament of his Last Supper Afterward he washed their feet prayed for them and for the faithfull generation instructed them confuted them warned them of what should come to passe both concerning themselues and his owne death and resurrection promised to send them a Comforter and expressed many other excellent things for the confirmation of their faith Then departing to a Garden he praying fell into his most bitter Agony which hauing ouercome hee was that night

bewitching Wine And on our loynes so loose that are The Leather-belt of Temp'rance weare 6 Thus from thy Cryer let vs learne For thee sweet Iesus to prepare And others of their sinnes to warne How-euer for the same we fare So thou to Vs and we to Thee Shall when thou commest welcome be S. Peters day WE obserue this Day to the honor of God and to the pious memory of his blessed Apostle S. Peter that we may be thereby put in minde to be thankfull for those continuing fauours receiued by his ministry That Pastors also may make him their patterne in discharging the charge Christ committeth vnto them That by considering his weaknesse wee may all learne not to presume on our owne strength And that by his christian example we may be taught to bewaile our escapes with bitter teares of true Repentance Song 72. Sing this as the 3. Song HOw watchfull neede we to become And how deuoutly pray That thee oh LORD we fall not from Upon our Tryall-day For if thy great Apostle said He would not thee denie Whom he that very Night denayd On what shall we relie 2 For of our selues we cannot leaue One pleasure for thy sake No not one vertuous thought conceiue Till vs thou able make Nay we not onely Thee denie When persecutions be But or forget or from Thee ●lie When peace attends on Thee 3 Oh! let those Prayers vs auaile Thou didst for Peter daigne That when our Foe shall vs assaile His labour may be vaine Yea cast on vs those powerfull eyes That mou'd him to lament We may bemoane with bitter cries Our Follies and repent 4 And grant that such as Him succeed For Pastors of thy fold Thy Sheepe and Lambes may guide and feede As thou appoint'st they should By his example speaking what They ought in truth to say And in their liues confirming that They teach them to obay S. Iames his day THis Day we praise God for his blessed Apostle Saint Iames the sonne of Zebedeus who was one of those two that desired of Christ they might sit at his right-hand and at his left in his kingdome as the Gospell for the D●y declareth And by occasion of that ignorant petition proceeding from their carnall weakenes●e Christ taught both them and the rest of the Apostles and all other Christians also what Greatnesse best becommeth his Followers and that we are to taste the Cup of his Passion befo●e we can be glorified with him So this holy Apostle did For he was slaine by Herod as it is declared in the Epistle appointed for the Day Song 73. Sing this as the 44. Song HE that his Father had forsooke And followed Christ at his commands By humane frailty ouertooke For Place and vaine preferment stands Till by his Master he was taught Of what he rather should haue care How vndiscreetly he had sought And what his Seruants honours are 2 Whereby we finde how much adoe The best men haue this world to leaue How when they wealth Friends forgoe Ambitious a●mes to them will cleaue And sure this Angell-sinne aspires In such men chiefly to reside That haue exilde those bruite desires Which in the vulgar sort abide 3 To thee oh GOD we therefore pray Th● humbl● minde in vs may dwell A●d cha●me that Fiend of Pride away Which would thy Graces quite expell But of all other th●se men keepe From this delusion of the ●oe Who are the Shepheards of thy sheepe And should each good example show 4 For such as still pursuing be That Grea●nesse which the world respects Their seruile basenesse neither see Nor feele thy Spirits rare effects And doubtlesse they who most of all Descend to serue both Thee and thine Are those who in thy Kingdome shall In Seat● of greatest glory shine S. Bartholomew THis Day is consecrated to the honour of God and the pious memorie of his blessed Apostle S. Bartholomew that as appeareth in the Epistle appoynted for the Day we might take occasion to praise our Redeemer for those many wonders which were wrought by his Apostles to the great encrease of the Christian Faith and open confusion of the Churches Aduersaries Song 74. Sing this as the 9. Song EXceeding gracious fauours LORD To thy Apostles hast thou ●howne And many wonders by thy Word And in thy Name by them were done The Blind did see the Dumbe could talke The Deafe did heare the Lame did walke 2 They all diseases tooke away The dead to life they did restore Foule Spirits dispossessed they And Preach'd the Gospell to the poore The Church grew strong thy Faith grew plaine Their Foes grew madde and madde in vaine 3 Oh! let their workes for euer be An honour to thy glorious Name And by thy powre vouchsafe that we Whom sinne makes deafe blinde dumbe lame May heare thy word and see thy Light And speake thy Truth and walke aright 4 Each deadly sicknesse of the soule Let thy Apostles doctrines cure Let them expell those Spirits foule Which makes vs loathsome and impure That we the life of Faith may gaine Who long time dead in sinne haue laine S. Mathew S. Mathew otherwise called Leui was a Publican that is a Custome-Gatherer From which cou●se of life being hatefull in those Countries he was called to the Apostleship and became also one of the foure Euangelists To his religious memorie therefore and to honou● God for the fauour vouchsafed both to him and vs by his Ministrie this Day is obserued by the Churches Authoritie Song 75. Sing this as the 44. Song WHy should vnchristian censures passe On men or that which they professe A Publican Saint Mathew was Yet GODS beloued ne're-the-lesse And was elected one of Christs Apostles and Euangelists 2 For GOD doth not a whit respect Profession Person or degree But maketh choice of his elect From euery sort of men that be That none might of his loue despaire But all men vnto him repaire 3 For those oh let vs therefore pray Who seeme vncalled to remaine Not shunning them as cast away GODS fauour neuer to obtaine For some a while neglected are To stirre in vs more louing care 4 And for our selues let vs desire That we our Auarice may shunne When GOD our seruice shall require As this Euangelist hath done And spend the remnant of our dayes In setting forth our Makers praise S. Michael and all Angels THis Day we glo●ifie God for the victory S. Michael ●nd his Angels obtained ouer the Dragon and his Angels Whereby the Church is freed from being preuailed against by the furious attempts or malitious accusations of the Deuill This Commemoration is appointed also to minde vs thankfully to acknowledge Gods mercy towards vs in the daily ministry of his Angels who are said to pitch their Tents about his Children and to defend them from the tem●tations and mischieuous practises of euill Spirits watching euery moment for aduantage to destroy them Which if wee oftner considered and how there be armies