grow more more But they finde grace who trust in God Let just righteous men therfore With Shouts proclaime theyr joye abrode It is not oh gratious Redeemer our Innocencie or any good which of our selves we can performe that iustifies vs in thy sight but thy free grace thy hiding thy not-imputing our sinns That which thou expect est acceptest from vs toward the procuring of this favour is nothing els but humbled soules contrite spirits vnfaigned harts sincere confessions which thou thy self also must prepare help perfect in vs or we shall never perform them no though all the dangers torments of the world were before our eies Take therfor from vs our brutish ignorance curb our head-strong wilfulnes Rain our vnbridled appetites instruct vs by thy favorable aspect so guide vs by the bridle of reason religeous awe that we being governed according to thy will thou mayst be found of vs in all troubles at all seasons we reioice in thy mercy for ever ever Amen Psa 33. It exhorts to praise God declares who are most obliged therevnto In what manner we should performe this dutie for what principall causes c. We should often vse it to put vs in minde how much we are obliged to praise God c. YE Righteous in the Lord reioice For praise with Godly men doth sute Praise God with Psaltry Harpe Voice And on the twice-five-stringed Lute To him new ditties sing play And tune them to the loudest kay 2 For God is righteous in his word His Actions ful of truth appear His Bounty all the world hath storde His Darlings Truth Iustice are The Heav'ns were form'd when he but spake His breath did all their Armies make 3 The seas huge waves aloft he rear'd The Deeps as vp in store he layd Oh! let him through the world be fear'd And make Earths-dwellers all afraide For his Commandings are fulfill'd And all is done as he hath will'd 4 God makes the Gentiles proiects vaine And brings the Peoples plotts to nought But his decrees for aye remaine And everlasting is his thought Most surely blest therefore are those Whome for his owne the Lord hath chose 5 For God from heav'n doth cast his eye The Sonn 's of men to veiwe knowe Yea from his dwelling-place on high He marketh all on earth belowe Their hearts alike he shapeth to And heeds ev'n ev'ry work they do 6 Great Armies cannot save a kinge No strong-mans powre his life preserves The strength of horse vaine succours bringe But those who fear him God observes And whosoe're on him depends From dearth death he them defends 7 Our soul vpon the Lord shall waite Who hath our sheild shelter binn And he shall be our harts delight Because his Name we trusted in Oh! let vs Lord still succour'd be As we repose our trust in thee Blessed God! at thy word allthings were created by thy providence they are stil governed Thou hast fashioned the harts of all men to be in some measure capable of thy grace observest how they emploie that Talent Thy eternal decree remaines firme therfor theie whome thou chusest shall be blessed for ever Neither their owne strength nor any powre but thine is able to keep them safe Thou therfor on whome their soul waiteth shalt prevent the famine of that which is the meanes of their preservation therby keep them from totall or final-falling Lord make vs to reioice in this vnspeakable mercie Encrease our faith continue vs in the meanes whereby we are to make our Election sure VVe beleeve it is alreadie granted yet we praie for it because it is our dutie because we cannot chuse but praie for that which we beleeve hope to obtaine through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 34. A Psalme of David when he changed his behaviour before Abimeleck who drove him away he departed It seems to typefy Christ who being as it were disguised by taking our nature infirmities became therby contemptible to the great-ones of the world We should sing it to praise God for discovering to vs what is hid from the wordly wise c. NOw shall the Lords eternal praise The subiect of my song be made My Soul shall sing it all her daies The meek shall hear it be glad Let others come ready be To ioine in praising of his Name For when I cti'de he helped me And kept away my feared blame 2 He lightneth such as him observe And no disgrace vpon them falls He heares the pore will preserve From all his troubles when he calls His Angell-gards will them enclose Who of his God head awfull be Therfor his goodnes vnto those Who trust in him come Tast See 3 Yea fear the Lord yee Saints of his For he to such will al things grant The Lions whelps their food may misse But they that serve him nothing want Yee Children come attention give And I will teach th' Almighties feare How yee long time on earth may live And gaine a blessed-being here 4 Your tongues from slandrous words preserve Dissembling let your lipps eschewe Ill deeds avoid good works observe Seek peace after it persue For God beholdeth such as those And heares the Righteous when they pray But wicked men he doth oppose And roots their Name Fame away 5 The Lord will hear the Righteous crie From dangers he will them assure He to the broken hart is nigh And wounded Spirits he will cure Although the Iust hath many greeves The Lord so helps that they are gone In all his troubles him releeves And keeps him sound in ev'rie bone 6 By sinn the sinners death is wrought He shall not thrive that hates the Iust But God his servants lives hath bought And faileth none that in him trust Hear vs oh merciful God in cur present necessities and preserve vs from those future evills which we may iustlie fear Enlighten our vnderstandings rectifie our affections guide our tongues sanctifie our actions cure our deseased bodies heal our wounded soules Let thine Angells gard vs let thine owne eyes watch over vs and let vs be so instructed in thy fear that when our lion-like adversaries are emptie we maie be filled with thy goodnes delighted in thy sweetnes Grant also that when their memorial perisheth we being preserved sound both in soul body may â—nicie the promised blessing os long-life even of life-eternall in thy heavenlie kingdom for ever ever Amen Another of the same AT al tymes with my tongue I 'le blesse the Lord To sing of him I never will forbear But in my Soul his praise with mirth record And publish what the meek shall ioy to hear Come therfor helpe his praises to declare To magnify his Name let vs agree Discharg'd I was by him of all my fear And when his ayde I sought he ayded me Enlightned are their eyes that look
UVill That they may be converted vnto mee And in thy Lawes my hart confirme thou still That from disgrace I may preserved bee Lord wee are the workmanship of thy hands Soe instruct vs therfor in the vnderstanding and performance of thy Lawe that wee may accomplish the end of our Creation Make our knowledge of thy Statutes our Faith in thee our conformity to thy Will soe evident that thy Servants may reioice our foes become ashamed our corrections appear tokens of thy Love our shame be prevented our harts cheared life eternal obtayned Amen Caph. 11. MY soul for succour panting lies Yet is thy word my stay I seek thy Truth with longing eyes Oh Comfort mee they say I like a smoke-dride botle seeme Yet on thy Lawe I thought Summ vp my dayes iudge all them That have my ruine sought 2 For mee the Proud sunck pitts which be Forbidden by thy Lawes Thy VVords are true oh save thou mee Persu'de without a Cause Quite from the Land they drove me nigh Yet to thy Lawes I cleave Oh chear mee by thy grace that I Thy VVord may never leave Another of the same LOrd for thy healp my longing soul doth pant And on thy Promise al my hopes do lye Mynes eies do faile because thy VVord I want Come comfort mee with speaking looks they crie Like botles in the smoke I do appear Yet still thy Statutes minded are of mee How long shall I thy servant suffer hece Thy Iudgments on my foes oh let mee see Lo for my life the proud deep pitts have made Such as thy Lawe forbiddeth to prepare They mee persued though no cause they had Oh helpe for all thy Precepts faithfull are Long since my ruine they had nigh contriv'd I naitheles thy Statutes did not leave Let mee by thy compassion be reviv'd And to thy Testimonies I will cleave Oh Lord wee have Adversaries continually digging pitts for our soules VVee are sensible of great Afflictions our life daylie wears out by vnperceaved infirmities Yet wee feel not that longing to obtaine an incorruptible estate as to continue our present vanities Oh let that experience which wee have of miseries here that Faith which vve ought to have of vvhat thou hast promised hereafter make our harts pant vvith longing after the accomplishment of thy Truth for our full fruition of thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lamed 12. THy VVord in heav'n remaines for aye Thy Truth shall still abide The earth so firmely thou didst lay It cannot swarve aside Thy Lawes keep ev'ry thing vpright For all thy servants be But that thy VVorde was my delight My Cares had ruin'de mee 2 I will not from thy Truth decline For life to mee it brought Oh save thou mee for I am thine And thy Decrees have sought Though sinners do my spoile intend Thy VVord in minde I bear Of all good works I see an end But large thy precepts are Another of the same MAde firme in heav'n thy promise is oh Lord And shall for ever for ever last Thy Faith fullnes all ages will record For as earths globe the same thou fixed hast Most firme to thy Decrees thy works do stand And all things as thy servants wait on thee But that I pleasure take in thy Command My sorrowes long e're this had ruin'd mee My hart shall never from thy Lavves decline For I by them to life againe was brought Vouchsafe to succour mee for I am thine And after thy Commandements have sought Much waiting hath among the wicked bene My fall to see but I thy Statutes minde Of all perfections I an end have seene Save of thy Lawe which cannot be confinde Almighty God by being obedient vnto the Lawe of their Creation thy other Creatures are preserved in order cōtinue thy faithfull servants Man-kinde only is rebellious yet wee have had often experience that a litle delight in thy Lawe is rewarded with great Blessings Soe encrease therfor our beleef of thy Truth our love to thy Lawe that wee may be more more conformable to thy Will at last be saved through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Mem. 13. IN thy Commands I pleasure take My dayly thoughts they bee Mee wiser then my foes they make And still remaine with mee More learne I from thy Statutes then My Teachers vnderstand And wiser am then aged men By keeping thy Command 2 My feet from evill waies I kept That keep thy Lawe I might I from thy Iudgments have not stept For mee thou holdst vpright Though hony to the mouth be sweet Thy VVord more sweetnes hath Through thy Commands I grewe discreet And shun'd the Liers Path. Another of the same NO parte of all the day I cann forbear To minde thy Lawe because I love the same It makes me wiser then my haters are For my companion still thy Lawe became Nay more then all my teachers I conceave Because my Musings are vpon thy VVill. And more then aged men I do perceave Because they Testimonies I fulfill No wicked pase or Path my feet shall vse That so thy UUord the better keep I might And I thy Iudgments never will refuse Because thou hast instructed mee aright Not halfe so sweet is honie to my mouth As are thy VVords for perfect sweet are they Thou hast encreast my knowledge by thy Truth And therfor I abhorr each evill way The wisdome oh Lord of this world is but foolishnes in respect of that which is learned by thy Word For nothing is see profitable or pleasant as that if it be meditated aright Give us grace therfor wee pray thee so to love it so to meditate thereon that wee may crack the shell which hides the sweet kernell thereof from the world by help of thy spirit thereby attaine that wisdome which our Ordinary Teacher the bare Letter hath not powre to discover let it guide us out of all error both in life doctrine though Iesus Christ Amen Nun. 14. THy word is to my feet a light A Lampe my way to showe I vow'd thy Doomes to keep aright And I will keep my Vowe I sore am greev'd Lord me revive According to thy Truth Teach mee thy Iudgments receive The Praises of my mouth 2 Although my soul in danger be Thy Statutes I obay And keep thy Lawes although for mee The wicked snares do lay Thy Cov'nants are mine Heritage They much reioice my minde And thy Decrees from age to age To keep I am inclinde Another of the same OH God thy VVord like Lāps my way doth show And to my feet it is a shining flame To keep thy righteous Iudgments I did vowe And I resolve that I will keep the same Opprest I am Me therefor Lord revive As by thy UUord thy promise is to do Accept that praise which I shall freely give And in thy Iudgments Lord instruct me to On thy Commands my thoughts are alway sett And lo my soul is alwaies in
night like Doggs they Bawling come They round the Cittie goe And slanders ranck threatnings from Their Mouthes lipps do flowe 3 For why say they none hears the same But God shall them detect The Gentiles also to defame His ayde I will expect For God 's my strength God healpeth mee Preventing grace bestowes And what my hart requires to see Inflicts vpon my Foes 4 Oh Lord our help disperse with shame Disperse them by thy powre But lest my Folke forget the same Them doe not quite devoure Vntill their tongue all words of spight And falshood vttred hath And when their pride is at the height Consume them in thy wrath 5 Yea Lord consume them vtterlie Till notise they obtaine That God throughout eternitie Doth over Iacob raigne Selah At night vnto the Cittie wall Like doggs they shall retreat Without it they shal bark bawle And whine for want of meat 6 But in the Morne aloud I 'le sing Both of thy powre grace And speake what succours thou didst bring When sore destrest I was Ev'n vnto thee oh God my powre My praise-full song shall be For thou art my defensive Towre And gratious vnto mee Iust Avenger of all malitious iniuries According to thy promises thou hast subiected the Gentiles to thy Sonns Dominion scattred the Iewes with a Cain like marke preventing their vtter extirpation that so their vagabond life may be a perpetuall memoriall both of their crueltie of our Savious Passion Let all those who shall make themselves partakers of their malitious heresie without repentance be partners in their punishment and let them hunt through the earth in error bawling like doggs without the walls of thy new Ierusalē for an example to all Ages But let so many of them as have bene misseled by ignorance only without willfull malice oh let them returne from their obstinacie in the Evening of their life or of this world let them hunger thirst after the true Messiah that in the Morning of their our Resurrection we may altogether praise glorifie thy holy Name Amen Psa 60. To the cheef Musitian vpon Shushan Eduth Michtam of David to teach when he strove with Aram Naharaym with Aram Zobath when Ioab returned slew of Edom in the salt vallie 12000. It bemoanes the present calamitie mitigates it by remembring God's promises Desires his conduct professeth Assurance in him It is vsefull to encourage those who fight vnder God's banner c. OH God! wee are despis'd of thee And in thy wrath dispersed be But now returne to vs againe Thou smot'st our land Loe it quakes Oh! stopp the breach for still it shakes And many cares thy folk sustaine 2 A giddie wine thou mad'st vs drink Yet they that feare thee do not shrinck They Truths displaied Flagg to beare Selah Oh! that thy Darling safe may be Let thy Right-hand or'e shaddow mee And bowe thou downe to me thine ear 3 Then as God's holy-voice declar'd All Shechem shall by mee be shar'd I 'le Succhoth Dale by Line receive I 'le Gilead Manasseth take Mount Eph'rim I my gard will make In Iudah I my law will give 4 My servile worke shall Moab doe O're Edom I will fling my shoe And Palestine of mee shall boast For who to Edom is my Guide Or to the Cittie fortifide But God that had forsook our Hoast 5 That Lord who did our Hoast forsake Shall of our greefs an ending make For man's vaine help wee do contemn Through God wee valiant Acts have done Our Foes by him shall downe be throwne And Hee shall set his feet on them Notwithstanding our many outward Afflictions make vs appeare as reprobates in the worlds opinion though by reason of our sinns wee our selves are sometime half afraids that thou oh God hast for saken despized vs yet havinge among vs the Ensigne of Truth as a testimonie of thy favour wee beleeve that thy spirituall kingdome shall be continued with vs be established in those places also which are not yet of thy visible Church Fulfill oh Lord our hopes herein that wee may break through the fortifications of the mistical Babilon that thy Spirituall Armies may be victorious through the conduct of our Lord Captaine Iesus Christ Amen Psa 61. To the cheef Musitian a psalme of David It desireth God's assistance confesseth former protections promiseth future trust in him It containes also a prediction of Christs kingdome a petition for Grace and a vowe of thanckefulnes To these ends it may be vsed LOrd let my plaint attention move When greev'd at hart I lie And lead mee to the Rock above When from Earth's ends I crie For as a Cittie fortifide From foes thou gardest mee Within thy Tent still safe I bide Thy Wings my Cov'ring bee Selah 2 Thou hear'dst my vowes gav'st mee shares With such as fear thy Name And spar'dst the king till hee in yeares An aged man became Oh! let thy Truth Mercie Lord Preserve him still by thee That still thy praise I may record And pay my vowes to thee Hear our Prayers oh Lord let our cries come vnto thee So firmlie establish vs on that Rock whereon thy Church is founded that it may be our Bullwork of defense in all dangers Cover vs with the wings of thy Mercie Succour vs in thy Tent be gratious vnto vs from what place or in whatsoever affliction wee call vpon thee That so having an outward portion among those who professe thee performing those vowes which wee made vnto thee in our Baptisme wee may be continued in thy favour vntil we shal be admitted into thy triumphant Church enioy life eternall with Christ Iesus Amen Psa 62. To the Cheef Musitian to Iduthun a Psalm of David It professeth trust in God threatens Characters out Antichrist his Members Exhorts to faith in Christ declares the vanitie of man of all tēporall assistances e. It may be sung to encrease Piety Faith Hope the contempt of temporall Vanities c. STill wait thou oh my Soul on God For he my helpe doth prove My Rock my Garde my Safe-abode Whence none cann mee remove Those therfor who conspire my fall His Blade shall root from hence And shake them like a rotten wall Or like a broken fence 2 They seek my shame They lies commend And hate when faire they speake Selah My Soul therfore on God attend Thy hope him only make For God my strength my healp my sort From harme will succour mee My praise my garde my firme support And my sole trust is hee 3 In God yee people alwaies hope To him your harts declare For he will prove a certaine propp When men deceitfull are Selah Men high lowe are lesse in weight Then things that are most vile Trust not therfore nor take delight In wealth in wrongs or guile 4 For once God said oft I heard That God both strong
only art the Catholick king it is no lesse then blasphemy for any other to assume that Title Rule thou therfor in thine owne Kingdome cast all Vsurpers out of thy Throne Publish thy glories to the world Let thy Truth Iustice terrify thy Foes consume all Ungodlines out of the land Root out all Idolatries that Iacob Syon thy Church her Children may reioice Enthrone thy self also in our harts let thy presence consume thence the Mountaines of our presumption with every thing which there exalts it self against thee that the hatred of Sinn the Love of thy presence the light of thy Truth the Ioye of the holy-ghost may be there established for ever ever Amen Psa 98. A Psalm The whole world is exhorted to sing the new songs of the Gospell the great powre Victories of Christ It showes also how we ought to praise him To these ends we should vse it c. NEw songs vnto the Lord indite For mighty marvailes he hath done His Right-hand hath prevaild in fight His holy Arme the conquest wonn The Gentiles have in publike vew'd Howiust healpfull he hath beene To Isr'el Truth Love he shew'd His Mercies all the world hath seene 2 Then through the world his glory sing Sing praises with triumphant voice To praise the Lord the Psalt'rie bringe And on the Harp with Psalmes reioice The Lord the King with mirth adore With Trump Flute this Ioye beginn Yee seas with all your fullnes roare Thou earth be glad all therein 3 Before the Lord your ioyes expresse Yee Flouds hills for lo he comes To judge the world with equalnes And give the people righteous doomes Almighty Sonn of God wee blesse praise thee for the manifestation of thy Mercy to the whole world in the miraculous work of our Redemption Thou didst come to us in despised weaknes Yet hast thou therein showne such vnresistable powre that it prevailed against the wisdome of the worldly-wise magnified thy derided Crosse above all the most renowned Deities of the Gentiles This thou didst by appearing in a contemptible estate Oh! how glorious how powrfull wilt thou be in thy second comming It now draweth nigh Oh! let it not come vpon vs as a theef in the night but as the Travaile vpon a womam who keepeth a iust reconing ioyeth in the hopes of her Birth more then shee feares the paines of her Travaile So according to the counsell of thy holy spirit wee may expect receive thee with praises Triumphs reioicings Amen Psa 99. It magnifieth the royall dignity of Christ exhorts to feare serve praise him according to the example of Moses Aron Samuel UUe may vse this to informe vs that wee the Patriarks have but one the same Christ our saviour THe Lord is King he doth make Betwixt the Cherubins his throne Yee people fear yee Kingdomes quake For great in Syon he is growne Or'e Nations all himself he rais'd His Name is fear'd holy to Oh! let this powrfull king be prais'd For he vprightly loves to do 2 His powre delights in righteous waies With Iacob he will justly deal The Lord our God oh therfore praise And at his holy footstool kneel His Preist with Moses A'ron was And Samuel did invoke his Name These humbly sought the Lord for grace And they from him obtaind the same 3 Hee from the Cloudie-piller spake And on his words those men relide They of his lawes did conscience make And God therfore to them replide Yea though their errors he did blame To them he did his grace afford Oh serve our God praise his Name For sacred is our God the Lord. Oh Christ who sittest betweene the Cherubims rulest both in heaven earth wee thy subiects do humbly tender our homage to thy royall Maiestie magnifieng thy Iustice thy Mercy thy powre Thou art the same yesterday to day for ever VVee beseech thee therfor to make vs both followers of the Patriarks thy servants in their faithfull obedience partakers also of those mercies which thou hast vouchsafed them Though iustly thou correc test our errors yet in pitty regard our infirmities accept our penitence hear our prayers even for the sake of thy bitter passion sweet Iesus Amen Psa 100. A Psalme of praise It commemorates two great Benifits our Creation which is common to all that Free Election which is peculier to the Chosen Flock of Christ whereby they have the Freedom of his pasturage and of his protection It is therfore vsefull to praise God for the same REioyce in God yee Nations In chearfulnes adore him With ioyfull acclamations Present your Selves before him For God the Lord did make vs No hand therein had wee He for his flock doth take vs His Pasture-sheep wee be 2 His Gates Courts possesse yee To thanck him goe yee thither His Name with gladnes blesse yee And sing his praise togither For God is kinde for ever His grace he freely daignes His Truth will faile vs never For endles it remaines Thy hands oh Lord did make vs therfor we praise thee for our Creation for all the naturall Faculties where with it pleased thee to endowe our soules bodies Thou hast also redeemed us wee therfor likwise praise thee for our Election Vocation Iustification Sanctification Illumination Preservation hope of Glorification for all the pretious Lincks of that golden Chaine wherein are ioyned together the meanes of our Salvation Thou hast wee confesse done already so much for vs that we have almost nothing to pray for but thanckfulnes the cōtinuatiō of thy free Mercies hitherto vouchsafed for which wee humbly beseech thee that wee may truly praise thee for thē for ever ever Amen Another of the same OH all yee Kingdomes praise the Lord Before him let your Ioy be showne With singing let him be ador'd And for your God let him be knowne 2 He made vs his owne wee be His Flock pasture-sheep wee are His Gates Courts then enter yee And give him thancks praises there 3 Yea praise him his Name confesse For in the Lord all good resides His Mercies his Faithfulnes Throughout all Ages firme abides Psa 101. A Psalme of David It personates Christ proposing the divine morrall political Oeconomical dutie of good Princes promising the execution there of in his Kingdome Famely This is indeed the right singing of Mercy Iudgmēt this Psalme is vsefull at the Coronatiō of Kings or when Magistrates are admitted into their places OF Iudgment of Love to thee Now Lord a song I will indite Oh come vnite thy selfe to me And I will keep my waies vpright With perfect hart my house I 'le guide No wicked thinge shall please mine eyes I 'le those detest who turne aside And all their deeds I will despise 2 No froward hart with me shall
world as appeares Rom. 15. We should sing it to praise God for his Universal Grace GOd's praise yee Nations all declare The Lord yee people all adore For large to vs his Mercies are His Truth endures for evermore Haleluiah VVee praise thee oh Father of Mercy for that Vniversall Grace which thou hast vouchsafed in offring thy salvation without respect of persons vnto all mankinde forsaking none vntill they have first forsaken thee Make effectuall vnto vs wee beseech thee this generall favour That wee embracing the same by the Will which thou first makest capable of what thou presentest therevnto and that co-operating with thy Spirit according to the powre which thou shalt give vs we may be pertakers of that speciall grace which makes vs the Obiects of thy eternall Election from which there is no falling away Grant this even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Psa 118. This Psalme Christ applied vnto himself Math 24. For he is that Corner-stone here mentioned Here also are mistically touched vpon his Passion Resurrection sonne other Evangelicall Uerities It is therefore vsed by our Church as proper for Easterday THe Lord is good him therfor blesse And for his Grace that faileth never Let Isr'el also now confesse His Mercy doth abide for ever Yea let the house of Aron say His Mercies have no ending day 2 Let all who fear him publish out His Mercies that eternal be For when at need his healp I sought Hee heard my plaint sett me free And since the Lord is thus mine Aide Of man I cannot be afraid 3 My helpers God's assistance have And I perceave it on my Foes More safe it is God's help to crave Then on man's healping to repose Yea faith in God more safety brings Then to rely on mighty kings 4 All nations seige to mee did lay But in Gods Name I them destroyd They me beleaguer'd ev'ry way But in Gods Name I them destroy'd As Bees they compast me about Like fire in thornes soone in soone out 5 I soone destroy'd them in Gods Name For when they sought to do me wrong The Lord my gratious ayde became My strength my health my ioyfull song And in his house the Iust may sing What God's right-hand to passe did bring 6 For God's right-hand is lifted high Greats things the Lords right-hand hath wrought And from the Grave escap'd am I To tell what God to passe hath brought For though he sore afflicted me Yet he from death did sett me free 7 Of Righteousnes vnclose the gate That I God's praises may expresse This Gate is God's yea this is that By which the Righteous have accesse And him I 'le praise for it is hee That heares healps saveth me 8 That 's now the cheefest Corner-stone Which once the builders did despise It was the work of God alone And seemeth wondrous in our eyes This is the day the Lord hath made Come let vs all therein be glad 9 Save Lord oh save vs Lord wee pray Blesse him that commeth in thy Name That from his house God blesse vs may We pray much desire the same For God's the Lord by whome our fight Obtaines the Vision of his Light 13 With Cords the Sacrifices binde Them to the Aulters Corners tye Thou art my God whose praise I 'le minde My God whome I will glorify Oh! praise the Lord. for great is he And without end his Mercies be Oh Lord Christ our saviour Thou art that pretious corner-stone which vnites nor Iewes Gentiles only but even the Godhead the Manhood into one spirituall Buildinge Thou art he by whome all our Enimies are destroyed Thou art hee by whome wee escape the grave of sinn the terrors of everlasting Death Thou only art that Gate of Righteousnes by which wee enter into life eternal And thou only art that Light in whose blessed Vision our happines doth consist Oh give vs part in all that which thy Incarnation Passion Death Buriall Resurrection Ascention hath merrited conquered for vs if it please thee let this be the Day which thou hast made to fill vs with such a gladnes as shall make vs ioyfull for ever more Amen Psa 119. This Psalme consisteth of many exhortations promises prayers complaints consolations directions Resolutions thancksgivings varciously intermixt according to the Churches various Occasions principally informes that God's word is the Rule of Life c. Alaph 1. HEe 's blest that in the perfect way Of God's pure Lawe hath trod Who doth his Testaments obay And wholy seeketh God For such will take no ill in hand Nor from his Pathway swarve But Lord as thou dost give command Thy Precepts they observe 2 Would God! my waies were so direct That keep thy Lawes I might For whilst I thy Commandes respect On mee no shame cann light With vpright hart thee praise I will When learn'd thy Iudgments be And then I will thy Lawes fullfill Therefore forsake not mee Another of the same ALl those are blest that in a blameles way Have by the Lawe of God their feet confinde As blest are those that his Decrees obay With all their harts desiring him to finde An evill act they never take in hand Nor frō Gods Pathway shall their footing swarve Wee likewise are inioyn'd by thy Command That wee thy Precepts duely should observe Ah! therefor would my wayes were guided so That all thy Statutes well observe I might For if thy Lawes I have regard vnto No shame at all on mee shall then alight And when thy righteous Iudgments I have learn'd With hart sincere I 'le sing thy praise therefore To keep thy Lawes I will moreover learne Oh! then forsake me not for ever more Give us oh Lord such perfect knowledge of thy Lawe such regard of thy Testimonies such practise in thy Waies such obedience to thy Precepts such love to thy Statutes Such diligence in thy commands such awe of thy Iudgments that our vnderstanding may be freed from error our Conversations from polution our Affections from vanity that thou mayst ever be glorified by us wee never be forsaken of thee Even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Beth. 2. HOw cann youth's pathway cleansed be But by thy word oh Lord With all my hart I seek to thee Oh! guide mee by thy word I 'le keep thy Lawe with all my hart That I displease not thee Oh Lord that alway blessed art Thy Statutes teach to mee 2 To preach the Iudgments of thy Mouth My lipps I will employ For in thy Testimonies truth As in great wealth I ioye Vpon thy Lawes VVaies alone My thoughts Love are sett Thy Statutes my delight is on Thy UUord I 'le not forget Another of the same BY what may yongmēs wayes made blameles be But by their taking heed vnto thy UUord With all my hart I have desired thee From thy Commands let me not wander Lord. By layeng vp thy VVord within my hart To keep