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A15659	The songs of the Old Testament translated into English measures, preseruing the naturall phrase and genuine sense of the holy text: and with as little circumlocution as in most prose translations. To euery song is added a new and easie tune, and a short prologue also, deliuering the effect and vse thereof, for this profit of vnlearned readers. By George Wither. Cum priuilegio permissu superiorum.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1621 (1621)	STC 25923; ESTC S120880	31,876	85

that are most bound to celebrate Gods praises and voweth this Deliuerance to euerlasting memorie By our priuate Meditations we may vse this for a Song of thankesgiuing after our deliuerances from temporall sicknesses which is one and the first sence wherein Hezekiah vsed it But in the second and most principall sense he sung it in the person of the Misticall body who was by Christ cured of the deadly sicknesse of sinne and death for Hezekiah which signifieth helped or strengthned of the LORD was a type of the Church healed by God and Isaiah who brought the medicine that cured the disease and is interpreted The saluation of the LORD figured our Redeemer Iesus Christ And indeede it is not lik●ly that so good a Prince as Hezekiah would haue been so extreamely deiected if he had apprehended nothing more fearefull then his present sicknesse with the naturall separation of the soule and body or that it was his neuer seeing againe of Gods temporall house that made him so passionate For if that had beene a matter worthy such griefe it should haue beene alwayes so and then neither he nor any man could haue departed this life willingly But there was a greater mistery in it yea if you well consider that this Deliuerance herein memorized was confirmed by one of the greatest miracles to wit the Sunne going backe ten degrees I thinke you will then beleeue that it had respect to some greater thing then the particular recouery of Hezekiah For that the Sunne went really backe and did not appeare onely so to doe is manifested in these places 2 King 20.12 2 Chron. 32.31 Js 39.1 for thence J gather that it was obserued in Asiria and that Messengers were sent from thence to H●zekiah to know the reason of that wonder which if we should affirme to be for a signe of Hez●kiahs recouery onely we must confesse the signe greater then that which it was sent to signifie whereas if we will vnderstand Hezekiah to be a type of the Church and that God gaue this for a token to assure him that as he should be healed so he would also send his Sonne to heale the generall infirmity of Mankinde we shall then make the thing figured proportionable to the figure For the redemption of Man being a worke much greater then the Sunnes retrogradation it was well worthy of so admirable a Type But I shall make this prologue ouer-large or else J would so plainly declare vnto you how Hezekiah was a Type of the Church how in euery circumstance of his sicknesse he pattern'd out the infirmity of mankinde laboring vnder sinne and how naturally that miracle of the Sunnes retrogradation represented the sending of Christ to be our deliuerer that you should confesse this Song was made for vs and the Church to sing throughout all Ages for a memoriall of her former vnspeakeable misery and to set forth the praise of God for that vnequal'd benefit of her Redemption The Song WHen I suppos'd my dayes were at an end Thus speaking to my selfe I made my moane Now to the gates of Hell I must descend And all the remnant of my yeares be gone The Lord ah mee the Lord I cry'd Where now the liuing be Nor man that doth on earth abide Shall I for euer see As the remouing of a Shepherds tent Or as a Weauer cuts his webbe away My dwelling so yea so my age was spent And so my sicknesse did my life decay Each day ere night should end the same My death expected I And euery night ere morning came I did suppose to dye For he so Lyon-like my bones did breake That I my life accounted scarce a day A noyse I did like Cranes or Swallowes make And at the Turtle I lamenting lay My fainting eyes I vpward cast And thus my moane did make Oh I extreamely am opprest For me LORD vndertake What shall I say his word to me he gaue And as he promis'd he performed it For which I will not whil'st that life I haue Those bitter passions of my soule forget But all that after me suruiue Yea all that liue shall know How thou my spirit didst reuiue And health on me bestow Vpon my peace did bitter sorrowes come But in the loue which to my soule thou hast The all-consuming graue thou keptst me from And my offences all behind thee cast For neither can the graue nor death Or praise or honour thee Nor are they hopefull of thy truth That once entombed be Oh he that liues that liues as I doe now Eu'n he it is that shall thy praise declare Thy Truth the father to his seede shall show And how oh LORD thou me hast dain'd to spare And in thy house for this will we Oh LORD throughout our dayes On instruments that stringed be Sing songs vnto thy praise THE Prayer of DANIEL Dan. 9.4 The Argument and Vse THis Prayer is written in the ninth Chapter of Daniels Prophecy and herein the Prophet very earnestly beseecheth God to be mercifull vnto his people The principall points considerable are these First he confesseth God to be powerfull iust and mercifull and that neuerthelesse from the highest to the lowest they had broken his lawes and rebelled against him for which they worthily deserued confusion Secondly he aggrauateth their offences by diuers circumstances acknowledging that as it is the same they haue deserued so it is the destruction they were forewarned of that is come vpon them Thirdly hauing acknowledged thus much he humbly entreates that God would be neuerthelesse mercifull vnto them First in regard he had heretofore gotten glory by deliuering them Secondly for that they were his owne elected people Thirdly seeing they were already become a reproach vnto their neighbours Lastly euen for his owne and the Messiahs sake And all this he earnestly entreats not for their owne worthinesse but for the tender mercies sake of God This Song may be properly sung whensoeuer any of those particular iudgements are powred out which the Prophets haue foretold should be inflicted on these latter times and it may be said or sung by the Church or any member thereof in her person during any other affliction befallen her or if we please euen vpon our priuate occasions prouided we formerly well apply it by our Meditations The Song LOrd God almighty great and full of feare Who alwayes art from bre●ch of promise free And neuer fayling to haue mercy where They doe obserue thy lawes and honour thee We haue transgrest oh we haue euill done We disobedient and rebellious were For from thy precepts we astray are gone And from thy iudgements we departed are We did thy seruants prophesies withstand Who to our Dukes our Kings and Fathers came And vnto all the people of the land Proclaimed forth their message in thy name In thee oh LORD all righteousnesse hast thou But open shame to vs doth appertaine As fares it with the men of Iudah now And those that in Ierusalem remaine And to all