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A51398
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Some collections of scripture, with private mediations as an help in prayer, with some hymns and psalms of David. Cum humilitatis reverentia. By G. M.
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G. M., fl. 1695.
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1695
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Wing M27B; ESTC R219297
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From time to time hast been Hymn 5. O Let thy Glory Lord From day to day increase Within our Land and give to us A firm and lasting peace And still maintain to us Thy Gospel pure and bright O let not Antichrist prevail For to obscure our light Bring down their Pride O Lord That are so high and strong And make them know that unto thee Issues of War belong In their own Snares O Lord Let them be taken fast Who labour to subvert thy Truth And work to lay it waste In deep designs they plot Against thy sacred Name To bring on them that honour thee Utter Repâ—oach and Shame Arise O Lord and help By thine Almighty Power Defend and keep us by thy strength from such as would devour Lord save our gracious King And grant him long to Reign Make him an Instrument on Earth True Justice to maintain Hymn 6. O Lord thou lovest Righteousness O help us to endeavour For the Effects of Quietness And assurance for ever Still trusting on thy Word for thou Wilt be our sure defence Therefore will we humbly depend On thee with confidence For thou O Lord hast always been To us in all our need Ready when we upon thee call To answer us with speed Lord let that Promise be made good To us before we call That thou wilt answer us in peace And give us Grace withal Resolvedly on thee to trust So long as we have hreath For thou hast said I 'le be your God And Guide even unto Death O Lord now let our Joy in thee For evermore increase And in the end do thou Crown us With everlasting Peace In holy Triumphs then shall we Thy Hallelujahs sing Who by thy gracious Favour hast Kept us from perishing Hymn 7. O Seek the Lord and seek his strength Seek him continually Let 's joyn our selves in covenant With him perpetually Thy Face O Lord still I will seek And praise thee with my Voice Let all those that seek thee in heart For evermore rejoice Thou lovest them that do love thee And are sincere in mind Who early after thee do seek They shall thy Favour find And joyfully in thee Repose Our fainting Souls alway For on thy Providence are we Resolvedly to stay O come and let us seek the Lord In humbleness and fear While he is to be found let us Call on him while he 's near For it is time to seek the Lord Arise therefore and seek The living God to be our Guide And us in safety Keep Let all that love the Lord rejoice And Hallelujahs sing Unto the God of our Mercies Which doth salvation bring Hymn 8. BE pleas'd oh Lord to look upon our Sion And send thy Lamb to chase away the Lyon Oh how unblest is that declining Nation Where Faith 's quite lost Religion out of fashion When Faction thrives Religion starves at nurse Who sins with Egypt must have Egypts curse But let 's consider e're our time be spent How soon we sin and yet how late repent He that delays Repentance makes great haste To his own ruin and commits a waste Upon his Soul for every hour we spend And not repent we wilfully befriend Our Adversary Hell whose Gins are set He lies and watches when to draw his Net The Net being drawn well may we run about And make our selves more fast attempting out Then our betrayed Souls may sadly say Had we repented when 't was said to day This Net had not ensnared us but we must cry We that did ever sin must ever dye Hymn 9. GRace is a vertue by which we may attain The lasting joy that doth above remain Where Souls above for ever live to sing The Halleluia's of their Glorious King Who in great triumph did ascend on high Freeing poor Souls from their captivity And bringing us into his perfect Bliss For by his purchase surely we are his For by his Blood our Souls have free access Into the place of perfect happiness There to enjoy the true Felicity That is prepar'd to all Eternity For those that Love and in him do delight Shall never cease to see his Glory bright Lord fit us for our latter end Then Death will be to us a friend To let us free from all distress Aud bring os into Happiness For to enjoy thy dearest Love Which is prepared for us above Where we for ever shall delight There to behold thy Glory bright Hymn 10. LOrd save me for thy Mercies sake And hear when I do Pray For thou alone art my defence My Rock my Hope my stay O hearken Lord to my desire And then be pleas'd to hear Prepare my Heart humbly to Pray And then incline thy Ear To the requests which I do make My wants thou well dost see O give an Ear when I do Pray With longing after thee O give relief to my poor Soul Which languishing doth lye Support me by thy mighty Power Until I come to die So that at last I may attain To that Felicity VVhich is prepared in Heaven above To all Eternity For such as in thy Law delight And therein spend their time They shall enjoy that lasting Light That in the Heavens doth shine On Isaiah 12. O Lord I will praise thee and say In the same day thou angry wâ—it Yet still thou comforts me alway For now thy Anger 's gone and Past Behold God is my Salvation On him I 'le trust all times for aid The Lord Jehovah is my strength Then why should I once be afraid He is become my Song my Joy For my Salvation in him lies Therefore shall we draw from those wells Those riches we so highly prise And in that day then shall we say Praise ye the Lord call on his Name Declare his doings all abroad And still exalt his mighty fame Sing to the Lord for he hath done Things excellent 't is known full well Rejoyce and shout all you that shall Within his Holy City dwell Hymn 11. DIrect me Lord in this thy day Which I have lived to see O guide me by the Saving Grace Never to swerve from thee So that the Thoughts and eke the words Which from my Mouth proceed May be according to thy word Upright in truth and deed O help me faithfully to spend The time thou dost afford In seeking still to do thy will According to thy word O let thy word be my delight My chiefest time to spend To know thy ttuths declar'd therein And understand the end Of thy great kindness shew'd to us By thy mercy so sweet When we were lost thou didst provide For us a Saviour meet Who for our sins laid down his Life And shed his blood so dear For to Redeem our wretched Souls And free us from that fear Which we upon our selves had brought By departing from thee O cleanse us by that blood of his And therewith set us free From Satan's Bonds wherein we lie In thraldom bound in Chains Release our captive Souls for thou Only can