their Guilt defac'd Thou hast not let thy Wrath flame on nor thy fierce Anger last verse 4 O God our Saviour all our Hearts to thy Obedience turn That quencht with our repenting Tears thy Wrath no more may burn verse 5 6 For why shouldst thou be angry still and Wrath so long retain Revive us Lord and let thy Saints thy wonted Comfort gain verse 7 Thy gracious Favour Lord display which we have long implor'd And for thy wond'rous Mercie 's sake thy wonted Aid afford verse 8 God's Anfwer patiently I 'll wait for he with glad Success If they no more to solly turn his mourning Saints will bless verse 9 To all that fear his holy Name his sure Salvation's near And in its former happy state our Nation shali appear verse 10 For Mercy now with Truth is join'd and Righteousness with Peace like kind Companions absent long with friendly Arms embrace verse 11 12 Truth from the Eirth shall spring whilst Heav'n shall Streams of Justice pour And God from whom all Goodness flows shall endless Plenty show'r verse 13 Before him Righteousnefs shall march and his Just Paths prepare Whilst we his holy steps pursue with constant Zeal and Care Psalm LXXXVI verse 1 To my Complaint O Lord my God thy gracious Ear incline Hear me distrest and destitute of all Relies but thine verse 2 Do thou O God preserve my Soul that does thy Name adore Thy Servant keep and him whose Trust relies on Thee restore verse 3 To me who daily Thee invoke thy Mercy Lord extend verse 4 Refresh thy Servant's Soul whose Hopes on Thee alone depend verse 5 Thou Lord art good nor only good but prompt to pardon too Of plenteous Mercy to all those who for thy Mercy sue verse 6 To my repeated humble Pray'r O Lord attentive be verse 7 When Troubled I on Thee will call for thou wilt answer me verse 8 Among the God there 's none like Thee O Lord alone divine To Thee as much inferiour they as are their Works to thine verse 9 Therefore their great Creator Thee the Nations shall adore Their long misguided Pray'rs and Praise to thy blest Name restore verse 10 All shall confess Thee great ahd great the Wonders thou hast done Confess thee God the God supreme confess thee God alone PART II verse 11 Teach me thy way O Lord and I from Truth shall ne'er depart In rev'rence to thy sacred Name devoutly fix my heart verse 12 Thee will I praise O Lord my God praise thee with Heart sincere And to thy everlasting Name Eternal Trophies rear verse 13 Thy boundless Mercy shewn to me transcends my Pow'r to tell For thou hast ost redeem'd my Soul from lowest Depths of Hell verse 14 O God the Sons of Pride and Strife have my Destruction sought Regardless of thy Pow'r that oft has my Deliv'rance wrought verse 15 But thou thy constant Goodness didst to my Assistance brings Of Patience Mercy and of Truth thou everlasting Spring verse 16 O bounteous Lord thy Grace and Strenght to me thy Servant s how Thy kind Protection Lord on me thine Handmaid's Son bestow verse 17 Some Signal give which my proud Foes may see with shame and Rage When thou O Lord for my Relies and Comfort dost engage Psalm LXXXVII verse 1 GOD's Temple crowns the Holy Mount the Lords their condescends to dwell verse 2 His Sion's Gates in his account our Israel's fairest Tents excel verse 3 Fame glorious things of Thee shall sing O City of th' Almighty King verse 4 I 'll mention Rabab with due Praise in Babylon's Applauses join The Frame of Athiopia raise with that of Tyre and Palastine And grant that some amongst them born their Age and Country did adorn verse 5 But still of Sion averr that many such from her proceed Th' Almighty shall establish her verse 6 his gen'ral List shall shew when read That such a Person there was born their Age and Country did adorn verse 7 He 'll Sion find with Numbers fill'd of such as merit high Renown For Hand and Voice Musicians skill'd and her transcending Fame to crown Of such she shall Successions bring like Waters from a living Spring Psam LXXXVIII verse 1 To thee my God and Saviour I By Day and Night address my Cry verse 2 Vouchsase my mournful Voice to hear to my Distress incline thine Ear. verse 3 For Seas of Trouble mel invade My Soul draws nigh to Death's cold shade verse 4 Like one whose Strength and hopes are fled They number me among the Dead verse 5 Like those who shrouded in the Grave From thee no more Remembrance have Cast off from thy sustaining Care verse 6 Down to the Consines of Despair verse 7 Thy Wrath has hard upon me lain Assicting me with restless Pain Me all thy Mountain Waves have prest Too weak alass to bear the least verse 8 Remov'd from Friends I sigh alone In a loath'd Dungeon laid where none A Visit will vouchsase to me Consin'd past Hopes of liberty verse 9 My Eyes from weeping never cease They waste but still my Griess increase Yet daily Lord to thee I pray'd With out-stretch Hands invok'd thy Aid verse 10 Wilt thou by Miracle revive The Dead whom thou forsook'st Alive From Death restore thy Praise to sing Whom thou from Prison would'st not bring verse 11 Shall the mute Grave thy Love consess A mold'ring Tomb thy Faithfulness verse 12 Thy Truth and Pow'r Renown obtain Where Darkness and Oblivion reign verse 13 To thee O Lord I cry forlorn My Pray r prevents the early Morn verse 14 Why hast thou Lord my Soul forsook Nor once vouchsas'd a gracious Look verse 15 Prevailing Sorrows bear me down Which from my Youth with me have grown Thy Terrors past distract my Mind And Fears of blacker Days behind verse 16 Thy Wrath hath burst upon my Head Thy Terrors fill my Soul with Dread verse 17 Environ'd as with Waves combin'd And for a gen'ral Deluge join'd verse 18 My Lovers Friends Familiars all Remov'd from Sight and out of call To dark Oblivion all retir'd Dead or at least to me expir'd Psalni LXXXIX verse 1 THY Mercies Lord shall be my song My Song on them shall ever dwell To Ages yet unborn my Tongue Thy never failing Truth shall tell verse 2 I have assirm'd and still maintain Thy Mercy shall for ever last Thy Truth that does the Heav'ns sustain Like them shall stand for ever fasat verse 3 Thus spak'st thou by the Prophet's Voice With David I a League have made To him my Servant and my Choice By Solemn Oath this Grant convey'd While Earth and Seas and Skies endure Thy Seed shall in my Sight remain To them thy Throne I will ensure They shall to endless Ages reign verse 5 For such stupendious Truth and Love Both Heav'n and Earth just Praises owe By Choirs of Angels sung above And by Assembled Saints below verse 6 What Seraph of Celestial Birth To vie with Isr'el's God shall dare
my time to come delightfully employ verse 7 From dreadful Danger and Distress the Lord has set me free Through him shall I of all my Foes the just Destruction see PSALM LV. GIve ear thou Judge of all the Earth and listen when I pray Nor from thy humble Suppliant turn thy glorious Face away verse 2 Attend to this my sad complaint and hear my grievous Moans Whilst I my mournful Case declare with artless Sighs and Groans verse 3 Hark! how the Foe insults aloud how fierce Oppressors rage Whose sland'ring Tongues with wrathful hate against my Fame engage verse 4 5 My Heart is rack'd with Pain my Soul with deadly Frights distrest With Fear and Trembling compass'd round with Horror quite opprest verse 6 How often wish'd I then that I the Dove 's swift Wings could get That I might take my speedy Flight and seek a safe Retreat verse 7 8 Then would I wander far from hence and in wild Desarts stray Till all this surious Storm were spent this tempest past away PART II. verse 9 Destroy O Lord their ill Designs their counsels soon divide For through the City my griev'd Eyes have Strise and Rapine spy'd verse 10 By Day and Night on ev'ry Wall they walk their constant Round And in the midst of all her Strength are Grief and Mischief found verse 11 Whoe're through ev'ry Part shall roam with fresh Disorders meet Deceit and Guile their constant posts maintain in ev'ry Street verse 12 For'twas not any open Foe that false Reflections made For then I could with ease have born the bitter things he said 'T was none who hatred had profest that did against me ris For then I had withdrawn my self Friend from his malicious Eyes verse 13 14 But'twas ev'n thou my Guide my whom tend'rest Love did join Whose sweet Advice I valu'd most whose Pray'rs were mixt with mine verse 15 Sure Vengeance equal to their Crimes such-Tray tors must surprize And sudden Death requite those Ills they wickedly devise verse 16 17 But I will call on God who still shall in my Aid appear At Morn and Noon and Night I 'll pray and he my voice shall hear PART III. verse 18 God has releas'd my Soul from those that did winh me contend And made a numerous Host of Friends my righteous Cause defend verse 19 For he who was my Help of old shall now his suppliant hear And punish them whose prosp'rous State makes them no God to fear verse 20 Whom can I trust if faithless Men perfidiously devise To ruin me their peaceful Friend and break the strongest Ties verse 21 Tho soft and melting are their Words their Hearts with War abound Their Speeches are more smooth than Oyl and yet like Swords they wound verse 22 Do thou my Soul on God depend and He shall thee sustain He aids the Just whom to supplant the Wicked strive in vain verse 23 My Foes that trade in Lies and Blood shall all untimely die Whilst I for Health and Length of Days on Thee my God rely PSALM LVI DO Thou O God in Mercy help for Man my Life pursues To crush me with repeated Wrongs he daily Strife renews verse 2 Continually my spiteful Foes to ruin me combine Thou seest who sit'st enthron'd on high what mighty Numbers join verse 3 But tho' sometimes surpriz'd by Fear on Danger 's first Alarm Yet still for Succour I depend on thy Almighty Arm. verse 4 God's faithful Promise I shall praise on which I now rely In God I trust and trusting him the Arm of Flesh defy verse 5 They wrest my Words and make 'em speak a Sense they never meant Their Thoughts are all with restless Spite on ray Destrucion bent verse 6 In close Assemblies they combine and wicked Projects lay They watch my Steps and lie in wait to make my Soul their Prey verse 7 Shall such Injustice still escape O Righteous God arise Let thy just Wrath too long provok'd this impious Race chastise verse 8 Thou numbrest all my Steps lince first I was compell'd to flee My very Tears are treasur'd up and regist'red by Thee verse 9 When therefore I invoke thy Aid my Foes shall be o'erthrown For I am well assr'd that God my righteous cause will own verse 10 11 I 'll trust God's Word and so despise the Force that Man can raise verse 12 To thee O God my Vows are due to Thee I 'll render Praise verse 13 Thou haft retriev'd my Soul from Death and Thou wilt still secure The Life thou hast so oft preserv'd and make my Footsteps sure That thus protected by thy Pow'r I may this Light enjoy And in the Service of my God my length'ned Days employ PSALM LVII THY Mercy Lord to me extend on thy Protection I depend And to thy wing for shelter haste Till this outragious Storm is past verse 2 To thy Tribunal Lord I fly Thou Sov'reign Judge and God most high Who Wonders hast for me begun And wilt not leave thy Work undone verse 3 From Heav'n protect me by thine Arm And shame all those who seek my Harm To my Relief thy Mercy send And Truth on which my Hopes depend verse 4 For I with salvage Men converse Like hungry Lions wild and fierce With men whose teeth are spears their words Invenom'd Darts and two-edgM Swords verse 5 Be thou O God exalted high And as thy Glory fills the Sky So let it be on Earth displaid Till thou art here as there obey'd verse 6 To take me they'their Net prepar'd And had almost my Soul ensnar'd But fell themselves by just Decree Into the Pit they made for me verse 7 O God my Heart is fix'd 't is bent Its thankful Tribute to present And with my Heart my Voice I 'll raise To thee my God in Songs of Praise verse 8 Awake my Glory Harp and Lute No longer let your Strings be mute And I my tuneful Part to take Will with the early Dawn awake verse 9 Thy Praises Lord I will resound To all the list'ning Nations round verse 10 Thy Mercy highest Heav'n transcends Thy Truth beyond the Clouds extends verse 11 Be Thou O God exalted High And as thy Glory fills the Sky So let it be on Earth displaid Till thou art here as there obey'd PSALM LVIII SPeak O ye Judges of the Earth if just your Sentence be Or most not Innocence appeal to Heav'n from your Decree verse 2 Your wicked Hearts and Judgments are alike by Malice fway'd Your griping Hands by weighty Bribes to Violence betray'd verse 3 To Virtue Strangers from the Womb their Insant-steps went wrong They prattled Slander and in Lies employ'd their lisping Tongue verse 4 No Serpent of parch'd Asrick's breed does ranker Poyson bear The drowsy Adder will as soon unlock his fullen Ear. verse 5 Unmov'd by good Advice and deaf as Adders they remain From whom the skilful Charmer's Voice can no Attention gain verse 6 Deseat O God their threat'ning Rage and timely break their Pow'r Disarm
was mine verse 5 Thou Lord my Innocence dost see Nor are my Sins conceal'd from Thee verse 6 Lord God of Hosts take timely care Lest for my sake thy Saints despair verse 7 Since I have suffer'd for thy Name Reproach and hid my Face in shame verse 8 A Stranger to my Country grown Nor to my nearest Kindred known A Foreigner expos'd to Scorn By Brethren of my Mother born verse 9 For Zeal to thy lov'd House and Name Consumes me like devouring Flame Concerned at their Affronts to Thee More than at Slanders cast on me verse 10 My very Tears and Abstinence They construe in a spiteful Sense verse 11 When cloath'd with sackcloth for their sake They me their eommon Proverb make verse 12 Their Judges at my Wrongs do Jest Those Wrongs they ought to have redrest How should I then expect to be From Libels of lewd Drunkards free verse 13 But Lord to thee I will repair For Help with humble timely Pray'r Relieve me from thy Mercies store Display thy Truth 's preserving Pow'r verse 14 From threatning Dangers me relieve And from the Mire my Feet retrieve From spiteful Foes in safety keep And snatch me from the raging Deep verse 15 Controul the Deluge e'er it spread And roul its Waves above my Head Nor deep Destruction's open Pit To close her Jaws on me permit verse 16 Lord hear the humble Pray'r I make For thy transcending Goodness sake Relieve thy Supplicant once more From thy abounding Mercy 's store verse 17 Nor from thy Servant hide thy Face Make haste for desp'rate is my Case verse 18 Thy timely Succour interpose And shield me from remorseless Foes verse 19 Thou knowst what Infamy and Scorn I from my Enemies have born Nor can their close dissembled Spite Or darkest Plots escape thy Sight verse 20 Reproach and Grief have broke my Heart I look'd for some to take my part To Pity or relieve my Pain But look'd alas for both in vain verse 21 With Hunger pin'd for Food I call Instead of Food they give me Gall And when with Thirst my Spirits sink They give me Vinegar to drink verse 22 Their Table therefore to their Health Shall prove a Snare a Trap their Wealth verse 23 Perpetual Darkness seize their Eyes And sudden Blasts their Hopes surprize verse 24 On them thou shalt thy Fury pour Till thy fierce Wrath their Race devour verse 25 And make their House a dismal Cell Where none will e'er vouchsase to dwell verse 26 For new Afflicstions they procur'd For him who had thy Stripes endur'd And made the Wounds thy Scourge had torn To bleed afresh with sharper Scorn verse 27 Sin shall to Sin their Steps betray Till they to Truth have lost the Way verse 28 From Life thou shalt exclude their Soul Nor with the Just their Names enroll verse 29 But me howe'er distrest and poor Thy strong Salvation shall restore verse 30 Thy Pow'r with Songs I 'll then proclaim And celebrate with Thanks thy Name verse 31 Our God shall this more highly prize Than Herds or Flocks in Sacrifice verse 32 Which humble Saints with Joy shall see And hope for like redress with me verse 33 For God regards the Poor's Complaint Sets Pris'ners free from close Restraint verse 34 Let Heav'n Earth Sea their Voices raise And all the World resound his Praise verse 35 For God will Sions Walls erect And Judah's Cities still protect Till all her scatter'd Sons repair To undisturb'd possession there verse 36 This Blessing they shall at their Death To their Religious Heirs bequeath And they to enless Ages more Of such as his blest Name adore PSALM LXX O Lord to my Relief draw near For never was more pressing Need For my Deliv'rance Lord appear And add to that Deliv'rance Speed verse 2 Confusion on their Heads return Who to destroy my Soul combine Let them defeated blush and mourn Insnar'd in their own vile Design verse 3 Their Doom let Desolation be With shame their Malice be repaid Who mock'd my Confidence in Thee And Sport of my Affliction made verse 4 While those who humbly seek thy Face To joyful Triumphs shall be rais'd And all who prize thy saving-Grace With me shall sing The Lord be prais'd verse 5 Thus wretched tho' I am and poor The mighty Lord of me takes care Thou God who only can'st restore To my relief with speed repair LPSALM LXXI IN Thee I put my stedfast Trust defend me Lord from Shame Incline thine Ear and save my Soul for righteous is thy Name verse 3 Be thou my strong abiding place to which I may resort 'T is thy Decree that keeps me safe thou art my Rock and Fort. verse 4 5 From cruel and ungodly Men protect and set me free For from my earliest Youth till now my hope has been in Thee verse 6 Thy constant Care did safely guard my tender Infant-Days Thou took'st me from my Mother's Womb to sing thy constant Praise verse 7 8 While some on me with wonders gaze thy Hand supports me still Thy Honour therefore and thy Praise my Mouth shall always fill verse 9 Reject not then thy Servant Lord when I with Age decay Forsake me not when worn with years my Vigour fades away verse 10 My Foes against my Fame and me with crasty Malice speak Against my Soul they lay their Snares and mutual Counsel take verse 11 His God say they forsakes him now on whom he did rely Pursue and take him whilst no Hope of timely Aid is nigh verse 12 But thou my God withdraw not far for speedy Help I call verse 13 To Shame and Ruin bring my Foes that seek to work my Fall verse 14 But as for me my stedfast Hope shall on thy Pow'r depend And I in grateful Songs of Praise my time to come will spend PART II verse 15 Thy righteous Acts and saving Health my Mouth shall still declare Unable yet to count them all tho summ'd with utmost Care verse 16 While God vouchsases me his Support I 'll in his Strength go on All other Righteousness disclaim and mention his alone verse 17 Thou Lord hast taught me from my Youth to praise thy glorious Name And ever fince thy wond'rous Works have been my constant Theme verse 18 Then now forsake me not when I am grey and seeble grown Till I to these and future times thy Strength and Pow'r have shown verse 19 How high thy Justice foars O God! how great and wond'rous are The mighty Works which thou hast done who may with Thee compare verse 20 Me whom thy Hand has forely press'd thy Grace shall yet relieve And from the lowest depth of Woe with tender Care retrieve verse 21 Thro' Thee my time to come shall be With Pow'r and Greatness crown'd And me who dismal Years have past thy Comforts shall surround verse 22 That I with Psaltery and Harp thy Truth O Lord will praise To Thee the God of Jacob's Race my voice in Anthems raise verse 23
of our Misdeeds do thou of our just Doom repent verse 14 To satisfie and chear our Souls thy early mercy send That we may all our Days to come in Joy and Comfort spend verse 15 Let happy Times with large Amends dry up our former Tears Or equal at the least the Term of our-afflicted Years verse 16 To all thy Servants Lord let this thy wond rouswork be known And to our Offspring yet unborn thy glorious pow'r be shown verse 17 Let thy bright Rays upon us shine give thou our work success The glorious Work we have in hand do thou vouchsase to bless Psalm XCI verse 1 HE that has God his Guardian made Shall under the Almighty's Shade Secure and undisturb'd abide verse 2 Thus to my Soul of him I 'll say He is my Fortress and my Stay My God in whom I will conside verse 3 His tender Love and watchful Care Shall free thee from the Fowler 's Snare And from the noisom Pestilence verse 4 He over thee his wings shall spread And cover thy unguarded head His Truth shall be thy strong Defence verse 5 No Terrours that surprise by Night Shall thy undaunted Courage fright Nor deadly Shafts that fly by Day verse 6 Nor Plague of unknown Rise that kills In Darkness nor infections Ills That in the hottest season slay verse 7 A thousand at thy side shall die At thy Right-hand ten thousand lie While thy firm health untouch'd remains verse 8 Thou only shalt look on and see The Wicked's dtsmal Tragedy And count the Sinner's mournful Gains verse 9 Because with well-plac'd Confidence Thou mak'st the Lord thy sure Defence And on the Highest dost rely verse 10 Therefore no Ill shall thee besall Nor to thy healthful Dwelling shall Any infectious Plague draw nigh verse 11 For he thro-out thy happy days To keep thee safe in all thy ways Shall give his Angel strict Commands verse 12 And they left thou shouldst chance to meet With some rough Stone to wound thy Feet Shall bear thee safely in their hands verse 13 Dragons and Asps that thirst for Blood And Lions roaring for their Food Beneath his conqu'ring Feet shall lie verse 14 Because he lov'd and honour'd me Therefore says God I 'll set him free And fix his glorious Throne on high verse 15 He 'll call I 'll answer when he calls And rescue him when Ill befalls Increase his Honour and his Wealth verse 16 And when with undisturb'd Content His long and happy Life is spent His End I 'll crown with saving Health Psalm XCII verse 1 HOw good and pleasant must it be to thank the Lord most high And with repeated Hymns of praise his Name to magnifie verse 2 With ev'ry Morning 's early Dawn his goodness to relate And of his constant Truth each Night the glad Effects repeat verse 3 To ten-string'd Instruments we 'll sing with tuneful Psalt'ries joyn'd And to the Harp with solemn sounds for sacred use design'd verse 4 For thro thy wondrous works O Lord thou mak'st my Heart rejoyce The thoughts of them shall make me glad and shout with chearful Voice verse 5 6 How wondrous are thy Works O Lord how deep are thy Decrees Whose winding Tracts in secret laid no stupid Sinner sees verse 7 He little thinks when wicked Men like Grass look fresh and gay How soon their short-liv'd Splendor must for ever pass away verse 8 9 But thou my God art still most High and all thy lofty Foes Who thought they might securely sin shall be o'erwhelm'd with Woes verse 10 Whilst thou exalt'st my sov'reign Pow'r and mak'st it largely spread And with refreshing Oil anoint'st my consecrated Head verse 11 I soon shall see my stubborn Foes to utter Ruine brought And hear the dismal End of those who have against me fought verse 12 But righteous Men like fruitful Palms shall make a glorious show As Cedars that in Lebanon in stately order grow verse 13 14 These planted in the House of God within his Courts shall thrive Their Vigour and their Lustre both shall in old Age revive verse 15 Thus will the Lord his Justice shew and God my strong Defence Shall due Rewards to all the World impartially dispense Psalm XCIII verse 1 WIth Glory clad with Strength array'd The Lord that o'er all Nature reigns The World's Foundations strongly laid And the vast Fabrick still sustains verse 2 How surely stablisht is thy Throne Which shall no Change or Period see For thou O Lord and thou alone Art God from all Eternity verse 3 4 The Floods O Lord lift up their Voice And toss the troubled Waves on high But God above can still their Noise And make the angry Sea comply verse 5 Thy promise Lord is ever sure And they that in thy House would dwell That happy station to secure Must still in Holiness excell Psalm XCIV verse 1 2 O God to whom Revenge belongs thy Vengeance now disclose Arise thou Judge of all the Earth and Crush thy haughty Foes verse 3 4 How long O Lord shall sinful Men their solemn Triumphs make How long their wicked Actions boast And insolently speak verse 5 6 Not only they thy Saints oppress but uprovok'd they spill The Widow's and the Stranger 's Blood and helpless Orphans kill verse 7 And yet the Lord shall ne'er perceive profanely thus they speak Nor any Notice of our Deeds The God of Jacob take verse 8 At length ye stupid Fools your Wants endeavour to discern In folly will you still proceed and Wisdom never learn verse 9 10 Can he be deaf who form'd the Ear or blind who fram'd the Eye Shall Earth's great Judge not punish those who his khown Will defie verse 11 He fathoms all the Thoughts of Men to him their Hearts lie bare His Eye surveys them all and sees how vain their Counsels are PART II. verse 12 Blest is the Man whom thou O Lord in kindness dost chastise And by thy sacred Rules to walk dost lovingly advise verse 13 This Man shall Rest and Safety find in Seasons of Distress Whilst God prepares a Pit for those that stubbornly transgress verse 14 For God will never from his Saints his Favour wholly take His own Possession and his Lot he will not quite forsake verse 15 The World shall then confess thee just in all that thou hast done And those that chuse thy upright ways shall in those Paths go on verse 16 Who will appear in my behalf when wicked Men invade Or who when sinners would oppress my righteous Cause shall plead verse 17 18 19 Long since had I in silence slept but that the Lord was near To stay me when I slipâ— when sad my troubled heart to chear verse 20 Wilt thou who art a God most just their sinful Throne sustain Who make the Law a fair pretence their wicked Ends to gain verse 21 Against the Lives of righteous Men they form their close Design And Blood of Innocents to spill in solemn League combine verse 22
unresisted Might his Holiness extol verse 6 Moses and Aron thus of old among his Priests ador'd Amongst his Prophets Samuel thus his sacred Name implor'd Distrest upon the Lord they call'd who ne'er their Suit deny'd But as with Rev'rence they implor'd he graciously reply'd verse 7 For with their Camp to guide their March the cloudy Pillar mov'd They kept his Laws and to his Will obedient Servants prov'd verse 8 He answer'd them forgiving oft his People for their sake And those who rashly them oppos'd did sad Examples make verse 9 With Worship at his sâ—cred Courts exalt our God and Lord For he who only holy is alone should be ador'd Psalm C. verse 1 2 WIth one consent let all the Earth To God their chearful Voices raise Glad Homage pay with awful Mirth And sing before him Songs of praise verse 3 Convinced that he is God alone From whom both we and all proceed We whom he chuses for his own The Flock that he vouchsafes to feed verse 4 O enter then his Temple Gate Thence to his Courts devoutly press And still your grateful Hymns repeat And still his Name with praises bless verse 5 For he 's the Lord supremely good His Mercy is for ever sure His Truth which always firmly stood To endless Ages shall endure Psalm CI. verse 1 OF Mercy 's never-failing Spring And stedfast Judgment I will sing And since they both to thee belong To thee O Lord adrress my Song verse 2 When Lord thou shalt with me reside Wife discipline my Reign shall guide With blameless Life my self I 'll make A Pattern for my Court to take verse 3 No ill Design will I pursue Nor those my Fav'rites make that do verse 4 Who to Reproof bears no regard Him will I totally discard verse 5 The private Slanderer shall be In publick Justice doom'd by me From haughty looks I 'll turn aside And mortifie the Heart of Pride verse 6 But Honesty call'd from her Cell In splendour at my Court shall dwell Who Virtue 's practice make their Care Shall have the first Preferments there verse 7 No Politicks shall recommend His-Countrey's Foe to be my Friend None e'er shall to my Favour rise By flatt'ring or malicious-Lyes verse 8 All those who wicked Courses take An early Sacrifice I 'll make Cut off destroy till none remain God's holy City to profane Psalm CII verse 1 WHen I pour out my Soul in Pray'r do thou O Lord attend To thy eternal Throne of Grace let my sad Cry ascend verse 2 O hide not thou thy glorious Face in times of deep Distress Incline thine Ear and when I call my Sorrows soon redress verse 3 Each cloudy Portion of my Life like scatter'd Smoke expires My shiriv'led Bones are like a Hearth parch'd with continual Fires verse 4 My Heart like Grass that feels the Blast of some infectious Wind Does languish so with Grief that scarce my needful Food I mind verse 5 By reason of my sad estate I spend my Breath in Groans My Flesh is worn away my Skin scarce hides my starting Bones verse 6 I'm like a Pelican become that does in Desarts mourn Or like an Owl that sits all day in hollow Trees forlorn verse 7 In Watchings or in restless Dreams the Night by me is spent As by those solitary Birds that loansom roofs frequent verse 8 All day by railing Foes I 'm made the Subject of their Scorn Who all possest with furious Rage have my Destruction sworn verse 9 When grov'ling on the Ground I lie opprest with Grief and Fears My Bread is strew'd with Ashes o'er my Drink is mixt with Tears verse 10 Because on me with double weight thy heavy Wrath does lie For thou to make my Fall more great didst lift me up on high verse 11 My days just hast'ning to their end are like an Ev'ning-shade My Beauty does like wither'd Grass with waning Lustre fade verse 12 But thy eternal state O Lord no length of time shall waste The mem'ry of thy wondrous Works from Age to Age shall last verse 13 Thou shalt arise and Sion view with an unclouded Face For now her time is come thy own appointed day of Grace verse 14 Her scatter'd Ruines by thy Saints with pity are survey'd They grieve to see her lofty Spires in Dust and Rubbish laid verse 15 16 The Name and Glory of the Lord all heathen Kings shall fear When he shall Sion build again and in full state appear verse 17 18 When he regards the Poor's Request nor slights their earnest Pray'r Our Sons for this recorded Grace shall his just praise declare verse 19 For God from his abode on high his gracious Beams display'd The Lord from Heav'n his lofty Throne has all the Earth survey'd verse 20 He list'ned to the Captives moans he heard their mournful Cry And freed by his resistless pow'r the Wretches doom'd to die verse 21 That they in Sion where he dwells might celebrate his Fame And thro the holy City sing loud praises to his Name verse 22 When all the Tribes assembling there their solemn vows address And neighb'ring Lands with glad Consent the Lord their God confess verse 23 But e'er my Race is run my strength through his fierce Wrath decays He has when all my wishes bloom'd cut short my hopeful days verse 24 Lord end not thou my Life said I when half is scarcely past Thy years from worldly Changes free to endless Ages last verse 25 The strong Foundations of the Earth of old by thee were laid Thy Hands the beauteous Arch of Heav'n with wondrous Skill have made verse 26 27 Whilst thou for ever shalt endure they soon shall pass away And like a Garment often worn shall tarnish and decay Like that when thou ordain'st their change to thy Command they bend But thou continu'st still the same nor have thy Years an End verse 28 Thou to the Children of thy Saints shall lasting Quiet give Whose happy Race securely fixt shall in thy presence live Psalm CIII verse 1 2 MY Soul inspir'd with sacred Love God's holy Name for ever bless Of all his Favours mindful prove And still thy grateful Thanks express verse 3 4 'T is he that all thy Sins forgives And after Sickness makes thee sound From Danger he thy life retrieves By him with Grace and Mercy crown'd verse 5 6 He with good things my Mouth supplies My Vigour Eagle-like renews He when the guiltless Suff'rer cries His Foe with just Revenge pursues verse 7 God made of old his righteous Ways To Moses and our Fathers known His Works to his Eternal praise Were to the Sons of Jacob shown verse 8 The Lord abounds with tender Love And unexampl'd Acts of Grace His waken'd Wrath does slowly move His willing Mercy flows apace verse 9 10 God will not always harshly chide But with his Anger quickly part And loves his Punishments to guide More by his Love than our Desert verse 11 As high as Heav'n its Arch extends Above
Works which he Thro'out the wond'ring World dispalys verse 32 Let them where all the Tribes resort Advance to Heav'n his glorious Name And in the Elder 's ' Sov'reign Court With one consent his praise proclaim PART V. verse 33 34 A fruitful Land where Streams abound God's just Revenge if People sin Will turn to dry and barren Ground To punish those that dwell therein verse 35 36 The parcht and ' desart Heath he makes To flow with Streams and springing Wells Which for his Lot the Hungry takes And in strong Cities fasely dwells verse 37 38 He fows the Field the Vineyard plants Which gratefully his Toil repay Nor can whiist God his Blessing grants His fruitful Seed or Stock decay verse 39 But when his Sins Heav'ns wrath provoke His Health and Substance fade away He feels th' Oppressor's gauling Yoke And is of Gries the wretched Prey verse 40 The Prince who slights what God commands Expos'd to scorn must quit his Throne And over wild and desart Lands Where no Path offers stray alone verse 41 Whilst God from all afflicting Cares Sets up the humble Man on high And makes in time his num'rous Heirs With his encreasing Flocks to vie verse 42 43 Then Sinners shall have nought to say The just a decent Joy shall show The wise these strange Events shall weigh And thence God's Goodness fully know Psalm CVIII verse 1 O God my Heart is fully bent to magnifie thy Name My Tongue with cheerful Songs of Praise shall celebrate thy Fame verse 2 Awake my Lute nor thou my Harp thy warbling Notes delay Whiist I with early Hymns of Joy prevent the dawning Day verse 3 To all the list'ning Tribes O Lord thy wonders I will tell And to those Nations sing thy praise that round about us dwell verse 4 Because thy Mercy 's boundless height the higliest Heaven transcends And far beyond th' aspiring Clouds thy faithful Truth extends verse 5 Be thou O God exalted high above the starry Frame And let the World with one consent confess thy glorious Name verse 6 That all thy chosen People Thee their Saviour may declare Let thy Right-hand protect me still and answer thou my Pray'r verse 7 Since God himself hath said the word whose Promise cannot fail With Joy I Schechem shall divide and measure Succoth's Vale verse 8 Gilead is mine Manasseh too and Ephraim owns my cause Their Strength my Regal Pow'r supports and Judah gives my Laws verse 9 Moab I 'll make my servile Drudge on vanquisht Edom tread And through the proud Philistine Lands my conqu'ring Banners spread verse 10 By whose Support and Aid shall I their well-fenc'd City gain Who will my Troops securely lead thro' Edom's guarded Plain verse 11 Lord wilt not thou assist our Arms which late thou didst forsake And wilt not thou of these our Hosls once more the Guidance take verse 12 O to thy Servants in Distress thy speedy Succour send For vain it is on human Aid for Safety to depend verse 13 Then valiant Acts shall we perform if thou thy pow'r disclose For God it is and God alone that treads down all our Foes Psalm CIX verse 1 O God whose former Mercies make my constant Praise thy due Hold not thy peace but my sad state with wonted Favour view verse 2 For sinful Men with lying Lips deceitful Speeches frame And with their spotless Slanders seek to wound my spotless Fame verse 3 Their restless Hatred prompts them still malicious Lyes to spread And all aganst my Life combine by causeless Fury led verse 4 Those whom with tend'rest Love I us'd my chief Opposers are Whiiist 1 of other Friends berest refort to thee by Pray'r verse 5 Since Mischief for the Good did their strange Reward dbes prove And Hatred's the Return they maka for undissmbl'd Lqve verse 6 Their guilty Leader shall be made to some ill Man a'Slave And when he 's try'd his mortal Foe for his Accuser have verse 7 His Gift When Sentence is pronounc'd shall meet a dreadful Fate Whilst his rejected Pray'r but serves his Crimes to aggravate verse 8 He snatch'd by some untitmely Fate sha'n't live out half his days Another by Divine Decree shall on his Office seize verse 9 10 His Seed shall Orphans be his Wife a Widow plung'd in Grief His vagrant Children beg their Bread where none can give Relief verse 11 His ill-got Riches shall be made to Usurers a Prey The Fruit of all his Toil shall be by Strangers born away verse 12 None shall be found that to his Wants their Mercy will extend Or to his helpless Orphan Seed the least Affistance lend verse 13 A swift Destruction soon shall seize on his unhappy Race And the next Age his hated Name shall utterly deface verse 14 The Vengeance of his Father's Sins upon his Head shall fall God on his Mother's Crimes shall think and punish him for all verse 15 All these in horrid Order rank'd before the Lord shall stand Till his fierce Anger quite cuts off their Mem'ry from the land PART II. verse 16 Because he never Mercy sheew'd but still the Poor oppress'd And sought to slay the helpless Man with heavy Woes distress'd verse 17 Therefore the Curse he lov'd to vent shall his own Portion prove And Blessing which he still abhorr'd shall far from him remove verse 18 Since he in cursing took such Pride like water it shall spread Thro all hs Veins and stick like Oil with which his Bones are fed verse 19 This like a poyson'd Robe shall still his constant cov'ring be Or an envenom'd Belt from which he never shall be free verse 20 Thus shall the Lord reward all those that 111 to me design That with malicious false Reports against my Life combine verse 21 But for thy glorious Name O God do thou deliver me And for thy gracious Mercy 's sake preserve and set me free verse 22 For I to utmost Straits reduc'd am void of all Relief My heart is wounded with Distress and quite pierc'd thro' with Grief verse 23 I like an Ev'ning Shade decline which vanishes apace Like Locusts up and down I 'm toss'd and have no certain place verse 24 25 My Knees with Fasting are grown weak my Body lank and lean All that behold me shake their Heads and treat me with Disdain verse 26 27 But for thy Mercy 's fake O Lord do thou my Foes withstand That all may see 't is thy own Act the Work of thy Right-hand verse 28 Then let them curse so thou but bless let Shame the Portion be Of all that my Destruction seek while I rejoyce in Thee verse 29 My Foe shall with Disgrace be cloath'd and spite of all his Pride His own Confusion like a Cloak the guilty Wretch shall hide verse 30 But I to God in grateful Thanks my chearstil Voice will raise And where the great Assembly meets set forth his noble praise verse 31 For him the Poor shall always find their sure and constant
DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE AT THE Court at KENSINGTON December 3. 1696. PRESENT The King 's Most Excellent Majesty in Council UPon the Humble Petition of Nicholas Brady and Nahum Tate this Day read at the Board setting forth that the Petitioners have with their utmost Care and Industry compleated A New Version of the Psalms of David in English Metre fitted for Publick Use and humbly praying His Majesty's Royal Allowance that the said Version may be used in such Congregations as shall think fit to receive it His Majesty taking the same into His Royal Consideration is pleased to Order in Council That the said New Version of the Psalms in English Metre be and the same is hereby Allowed and Permitted to be used in all Churches Chappels and Congregations as shall think fit to receive the same W. Bridgeman New Version OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID Fitted to the TUNES Used in CHURCHES By N. TATE and N. BRADY LONDON Printed by T. Hodgkin for the Company of Stationers 1698. And are to be Sold at Stationer's-Hall near Ludgate and by most Booksellers TO HIS Most Excellent Majesty WILLIAM III. OF Great-Britain France and Ireland KING Defender of the FAITH c. THIS New Version OF THE PSALMS of DAVID Is most humbly DEDICATED BY His MAJESTY'S most Obedient Subjects and Servants N. Brady N. Tate A New VERSION OF THE PSALMS c. PSALM I. verse 1 HOW blest is he who ne'r consents by ill Advice to walk Nor stands in Sinners ways nor sits where Men profanely talk verse 2 But makes the perfect Law of God his Business and Delight Devoutly reads therein by Day and meditates by Night verse 3 Like some fair Tree which fed by Streams with timely Fruit does bend He still shall flourish and Success all his Designs attend verse 4 Ungodly Men and their Attempts no lasting Root shall find ' Untimely blasted and dispers'd like Chaff before the Wind. verse 5 Their Guilt shall strike the Wicked dumb before their Judge's Face No formal Hypocrite shall then amongst the Saints have place verse 6 For God approves the Just Man's Ways to Happiness they tend But Sinners and the Paths they tread shall both in Ruin end PSALM II. verse 1 WIth restless and ungovern'd Rage why do the Heathen storm Why in such rash Attempts engage as they can ne'er perform verse 2 The Great in Counsel and in Might their various Forces bring Against the Lord they all unite and his anointed King verse 3 Must we submit to their Commands Presumptuously they say No let us break their slavish Bands and cast their Chains away verse 4 But God who sits enthron'd on high and sees how they combine Does their conspiring Strength defie and mocks their vain Design verse 5 Thick Clouds of Wrath divine shall break on his Rebellious Foes And thus will he in Thunder speak to all that dare oppose verse 6 Tho' madly you dispute my Will the King that I ordain Whose Throne is fix'd on Sion's Hill shall there securely reign verse 7 Attend O Earth whilst I declare God's uncontroul'd Decree Thou art my Son this day my Heir have I begotten thee verse 8 Ask and receive thy full Demands thine shall the Heathen be The utmost Limits of the Lands shall be possess'd by thee verse 9 Thy threatning Scepter thou shalt shake and crush them ev'ry where As massy Bars of Iron break the Potters brittle Ware verse 10 Learn then ye Princes and give ear ye Judges of the Earth verse 11 Worship the Lord with holy Fear rejoice with awful Mirth verse 12 Appease the Son with due Respect your timely Homage pay Left he revenge the bold Neglect incens'd by your Delay verse 13 If but in part his Anger rise who can endure the Flame Then bless'd are they whose Hope relies on his most holy Name PSALM III. verse 1 HOw many Lord of late are grown the Troublers of my Peace And as their Numbers hourly rise so does their Rage increase verse 2 Insulting they my Soul upbraid and him whom I adore The God in whom he trusts say they shall rescue him no more verse 3 But thou O Lord art my Defence on thee my Hopes rely Thou art my Glory and shalt yet lift up my Head on high verse 4 Since whensoe'er in like Distress to God I made my Pray'r He heard me from his holy Hill why should I now despair verse 5 Guarded by him I laid me down my sweet Repose to take For I through him securely sleep through him in safety wake verse 6 No Force nor Fury of my Foes my Courage shall confound Were they as many Hosts as Men that have beset me round verse 7 Arise and save me O my God who oft hast own'd my Cause And scatter'd oft these Foes to me and to thy righteous Laws verse 8 Salvation to the Lord belongs he only can defend His Blessing he extends to all that on his Pow'r depend PSALM IV. verse 1 O Lord that art my righteous Judge to my Complaint give ear Thou still redeem'st me from Distress have Mercy Lord and hear verse 2 How long will ye O Sons of Men to blot my Fame devise How long your vain Designs pursue and spread malicious Lies verse 3 Consider that the righteous Man is God's peculiar Choice And when to him I make my Pray'r he always hears my Voice verse 4 Then stand in aw of his Commands flee ev'ry thing that 's ill Commune in private with your Hearts and bend them to his Will verse 5 The place of other Sacrifice let Righteousness supply And let your Hope securely fixt on God alone rely verse 6 While worldly Minds impatient grow more prosp'rous Times to see Still let the Glories of thy Face shine brightly Lord on me verse 7 So shall my Heart o'erflow with Joy more lasting and more true Than theirs who stores of Corn and Wine successively renew verse 8 Then down in Peace I'II lay my Head and take my needful Rest No other Guard O Lord I crave of thy Defence possest PSALM V. verse 1 LOrd hear the Voice of my Complaint accept my secret Pray'r verse 2 To thee alone my King my God will I for help repair verse 3 Thou in the morn my Voice shalt hear and with the dawning Day To thee devoutly I'II look up to thee devoutly pray verse 4 For thou the Wrongs that I sustain canst never Lord approve Who from thy sacred Dwelling-place all Evil dost remove verse 5 Not long shall stubborn Fools remain unpunish'd in thy view All such as act unrighteous things thy Vengeance shall pursue verse 6 The sland'ring Tongue O God of Truth by thee shall be destroy'd Who hat'st alike the Man in Blood and in Deceit employ'd verse 7 But when thy boundless Grace shall me to thy lov'd Courts restore On thee I'II fix my longing Eyes and humbly there adore verse 8 Conduct me by thy righteous Laws for watchful is my Foe
Therefore O Lord make plain the way wherein I ought to go verse 9 Their Mouth vents nothing but Deceit their Heart is set on Wrong Their Throat is a devouring Grave they flatter with their Tongue verse 10 By their own Counsels let them fall oppress'd with loads of Sin For they against thy righteous Laws have harden'd Rebels been verse 11 But let all those who trust in thee with Shouts their Joy proclaim Let them rejoice whom thou preserv'st and all that love thy Name verse 12 To righteous Men the righteous Lord his Blessing will extend And with his Favour all his Saints as with a Shield defend PSALM VI. verse 1 THy dreadful Anger Lord restrain and spare a Wretch forlorn Correct me not in thy fierce Wrath too heavy to be born verse 2 Have Mercy Lord for I grow faint unable to endure The Anguish of my aking Bones which thou alone canst cure verse 3 My tortur'd Flesh distracts my Mind and fills my Soul with Grief But Lord how long wilt thou delay to grant me thy Relief verse 4 Thy wonted Goodness Lord repeat and ease my troubled Soul Lord for thy wond'rous Mercy 's sake vouchsafe to make me whole verse 5 For after Death no more can I thy glorious Acts proclaim No Pris'ner of the silent Grave can magnifie thy Name verse 6 Quite tir'd with Pain with Groaning faint no hope of Ease I see The Night that quiets common Griefs is spent in Tears by me verse 7 My Beauty fades my Sight grows dim my Eyes with weakness close Old Age o'ertakes me whilst I think on my insulting Foes verse 8 Depart ye Wicked in my wrongs ye shall no more rejoice For God I find accepts my Tears and listens to my Voice verse 9 10 He hears and grants my humble Pray'r and they that wish my Fall Shall blush and rage to see that God protects me from them all PSALM VII verse 1 O Lord my God since I have plac'd my Trust alone in thee From all my Persecutors Rage do thou deliver me verse 2 To save me from my threatning Foe Lord interpose thy Pow'r Lest like a salvage Lion he my helpless Soul devour verse 3 4 If I am guilty or did e'er against his Peace combine Nay if I have not spar'd his Life who sought unjustly mine verse 5 Let then to persecuting Foes my Soul become a Prey Let them to Earth tread down my Life in Dust my Honour lay verse 6 Arise and let thine Anger Lord in my Defence engage Exalt thy self above my Foes and their insulting Rage Awake awake in my behalf the Judgment to dispense Which thou hast righteously ordain'd for injur'd Innocence verse 7 So to thy Throne adoring Crouds shall still for Justice fly O! therefore for their sakes resume thy Judgment-seat on high verse 8 Impartial Judge of all the World I trust my Cause to thee According to my just Deserts so let thy Sentence be verse 9 Let wicked Arts and wicked Men together be o'erthrown But guard the Just thou God to whom the Hearts of both are known verse 10 11 God me protects nor only me but all of upright Heart And daily lays up Wrath for those who from his Laws depart verse 12 If they persist he whets his Sword his Bow stands ready bent verse 13 Ev'n now with swift Destruction wing'd his pointed Shafts are sent verse 14 The Plots are fruitless which my Foe unjustly did conceive verse 15 The Pit he digg'd for me has prov'd his own untimely Grave verse 16 On his own Head his Spite returns whilst I from Harm am free On him the Violence is fall'n which he design'd for me verse 17 Therefore will I the righteous ways of Providence proclaim I 'll sing the Praise of God most High and celebrate his Name PSALM VIII verse 1 O Thou to whom all Creatures bow within this earthly Frame Thro' all the World how great art Thou how glorious is thy Name In Heav'n thy wond'rous Acts are sung nor fully reckon'd there verse 2 And yet thou mak'st the Infant-Tongue thy boundless Praise declare Thro' thee the Weak confound the Strong and crush their haughty Foes And so thou quell'st the wicked Throng that thee and thine oppose verse 3 When Heav'n thy beauteous work on high employs my wond'ring Sight The Moon that nightly rules the Sky with Stars of feebler Light verse 4 What 's Man say I that Lord thou lov'st to keep him in thy mind Or what his Off-spring that thou prov'st to them so wond'rous kind verse 5 Him next in Pow'r thou didst create to thy Celestial Train verse 6 Ordain'd with Dignity and State o'er all thy Works to reign verse 7 They jointly own his pow'rful sway the Beasts that prey or graze verse 8 The Bird that wings its airy way the Fish that cuts the Seas verse 9 O Thou to whom all Creatures bow within this earthly Frame Thro' all the World how great art Thou how glorious is thy Name PSALM IX verse 1 TO celebrate thy Praise O Lord I will my Heart prepare To all the list'ning World thy Works thy wond'rous Works declare verse 2 The Thought of them shall to my Soul exalted Pleasure bring Whilst to thy Name O thou most High triumphant Praise I sing verse 3 Thou mad'st my haughty Foes to turn their backs in shameful flight Struck with thy Presence down they fell they perish'd at thy sight verse 4 Against insulting Foes advanc'd thou didst my Cause maintain My Right asserting from thy Throne where Truth and Justice reign verse 5 The Insolence of Heathen Pride thou hast reduc'd to Shame Their wicked Offspring quite destroy'd and blotted out their Name verse 6 Mistaken Foes your haughty Threats are to a period come Our City stands which you design'd to make our common Tomb. verse 7 8 The Lord for ever lives who has his righteous Throne prepar'd Impartial Justice to dispense to punish or reward verse 9 God is a constant sure Defence against oppressing Rage As Troubles rise his needful Aids in our behalf engage verse 10 All those who have his Goodness prov'd will in his Truth confide Whose Mercy ne'er forsook the Man that on his Help rely'd verse 11 Sing Praises therefore to the Lord from Sion his Abode Proclaim his Deeds till all the World confess no other God PART II. verse 12 When he enquiry makes for Blood he calls the Poor to mind The injur'd humble Man's Complaint relief from him shall find verse 13 Take pity on my Troubles Lord which spiteful Foes create Thou that hast rescu'd me so oft from Death's devouring Gate verse 14 In Sion then I 'll sing thy Praise to all that love thy Name And with loud Shouts of grateful Joy thy saving Pow'r proclaim verse 15 Deep in the Pit they digg'd for me the Heathen Pride is laid Their guilty Feet to their own Snare are heedlesly betray'd verse 16 Thus by the just Returns he makes the mighty Lord is known While wicked
Men by their own Plots are shamefully o'erthrown verse 17 No single Sinner shall escape by Privacy obscur'd Nor Nation from his just Revenge by Numbers be secur'd verse 18 His suff'ring Saints when most distrest he ne'er forgets to aid Their Expectation shall be crown'd tho' for a time delay'd verse 19 Arise O Lord assert thy Pow'r and let not Man o'ercome Descend to Judgment and pronounce the guilty Heathens doom verse 20 Strike Terror through the Nations round till by consenting Fear They to each other and themselves but mortal Men appear PSALM X. verse 1 THy Presence why withdraw'st thou Lord why hid'st thou now thy Face When dismal Times of deep Distress call for thy wonted Grace verse 2 The Wicked swell'd with lawless Pride have made the Poor their prey O let them fall by those Designs which they for others lay verse 3 For strait they triumph if Success their thriving Crimes attend And sordid Wretches whom God hates perversly they commend verse 4 To own a Pow'r above themselves their haughty Pride disdains And therefore in their stubborn Mind no thought of God remains verse 5 Oppressive Methods they pursue and all their Foes they slight Because thy Judgments unobserv'd are far above their sight verse 6 They fondly think their prosp'rous State shall unmolested be They think their vain Designs shall thrive from all Misfortune free verse 7 Vain and deceitful is their Speech with Curses fill'd and Lies By which the Mischief of their Heart they study to disguise verse 8 Near publick Roads they lie conceal'd and all their Art employ The Innocent and Poor at once to rifle and destroy verse 9 Not Lions couching in their Dens surprise their heedless Prey With greater Cunning or express more salvage Rage than they verse 10 Sometimes they act the harmless Man and modest Looks they wear That so deceiv'd the Poor may less their sudden Onset fear PART II. verse 11 For God they think no notice takes of their unrighteous Deeds He never minds the suff'ring Poor nor their Oppression heeds verse 12 But thou O Lord at length arise stretch forth thy mighty Arm And by the Greatness of thy Pow'r defend the Poor from harm verse 13 No longer let the Wicked vaunt and proudly boasting say Tush God regards not what we do he never will repay verse 14 But sure thou seest and all their Deeds impartially dost try The Orphan therefore and the Poor on Thee for Aid rely verse 15 Defenceless let the Wicked fall of all their Strength bereft Confound O God their dark Designs till no Remains are left verse 16 Assert thy just Dominion Lord which shall for ever stand Thou who the Heathen didst expel from this thy chosen Land verse 17 Thou dost the humble Suppliants hear that to thy Throne repair Thou first prepar'st their Hearts to pray and then accept'st their Pray'r verse 18 Thou in thy righteous Judgment weigh'st the Fatherless and Poor That so the Tyrants of the Earth may persecute no more PSALM XI verse 1 SInce I have plac'd my Trust in God a Refuge always nigh Why should I like a tim'rous Bird to distant Mountains fly verse 2 Behold the wicked bend their Bow and ready fix their Dart Lurking in ambush to destroy the Man of upright Heart verse 3 When once the firm Assurance fails which publick Faith imparts 'T is time for Innocence to fly from such deceitful Arts. verse 4 The Lord hath both a Temple here and righteous Throne above Whence he surveys the Sons of Men and how their Counsels move verse 5 If God the Righteous whom he loves for Trial does correct What must the Sons of Violence whom he abhors expect verse 6 Snares Fire and Brimstone on their Heads shall in one Tempest show'r This dreadful mixture his Revenge into their Cup shall pour verse 7 The righteous Lord will righteous Deeds with signal Favour grace And to the upright Man disclose the brightness of his Face PSALM XII verse 1 SInce godly Men decay O Lord do thou my Cause defend For scarce these wretched Times afford one just and faithful Friend verse 2 One Neighbour now can scarce believe what t'other does impart With flatt'ring Lips they all deceive and with a double Heart verse 3 But Lips that with Deceit abound can never prosper long God's righteous Vengeance will confound the proud blaspheming Tongue verse 4 In vain those foolish Boasters say our Tongues are sure our own With doubtful Words we will betray and be controul'd by none verse 5 For God who hears the suff'ring Poor and their Oppression knows Will soon arise and give them rest in spight of all their Foes verse 6 The Word of God shall still abide and void of Falshood be As is the Silver seven times try'd from drossy Mixture free verse 7 The Promise of his aiding Grace shall reach the purpos'd End His Servants from this faithless Race he ever shall defend verse 8 Then shall the Wicked be perplex'd nor know which way to fly When those whom they despis'd and vex'd shall be advanc'd on high PSALM XIII verse 1 HOW long wilt thou forget me Lord must I for ever mourn How long wilt thou withdraw from me Oh! never to return verse 2 How long shall anxious Thoughts my Soul and Grief my Heart oppress How long my Enemies insult and I have no Redress verse 3 O hear and to my longing Eyes restore thy wonted Light And suddenly or I shall sleep in everlasting Night verse 4 Restore me left they proudly boast 't was their own Strength o'ercame Permit not them that vex my Soul to triumph in my Shame verse 5 Since I have always plac'd my Trust beneath thy Mercy 's Wing Thy saving Health will come and then my Heart with Joy shall spring verse 6 Then shall my Song with Praise inspir'd to thee my God ascend Who to thy Servant in Distress such Bounty didst extend PSALM XIV verse 1 SUre wicked Fools must needs suppose that God is nothing but a Name Corrupt and lewd their Practice grows no Breast is warm'd with holy Flame verse 2 The Lord look'd down from Heaven's high Tow'r and all the Sons of Men did view To see if any own'd his Pow'r if any Truth or Justice knew verse 3 But all he saw were gone aside all were degen'rate grown and base None took Religion for their Guide not one of all the sinful Race verse 4 But can these workers of Deceit be all so dull and sensless grown That they like Bread my People eat and God's Almighty Pow'r disown verse 5 How will they tremble then for fear when his just Wrath shall them o'ertake For to the Righteous God is near and never will their Cause forsake verse 6 Ill Men in vain with Scorn expose those Methods which the good pursue Since God a Refuge is for those whom his just Eyes with favour view verse 7 Would he his saving Pow'r employ to break his People's servile Band Then Shouts
had soon destroy'd the weak Defence that I could make verse 18 Their subtil Rage had near prevail'd when I distrest and friendless lay But still when other Succours fail'd God was my firm Support and Stay verse 19 From Dangers that enclos'd me round he brought me forth and set me free For some just Cause his Goodness found that mov'd him to delight in me verse 20 Because in me no Guilt remains God does his gracious Help extend My Hands are free from bloody Stains therefore the Lord is still my Friend verse 21 22 For I his Judgments kept in sight in his just Paths I always trod I never did his Statutes slight nor loosly wander'd from my God verse 23 24 But still my Soul sincere and pure did ev'n from darling Sins refrain His Favours therefore yet endure because my Heart and Hands are clean PART IV. verse 25 26 Thou suit'st O Lord thy righteous ways to various Paths of Human-kind They who for Mercy merit Praise with thee shall wond'rous Mercy find Thou to the Just shall Justice shew the Pure thy Purity shall see Such as perversely chuse to go shall meet with due Returns from thee verse 27 28 That he the humble Soul will save and crush the Haughty's boasted Might In me the Lord an Instance gave whose Darkness he has turn'd to Light verse 29 On his firm Succour I rely'd and did o'er num'rous Foes prevail Nor fear'd whilst he was on my side the best defended Walls to scaie verse 30 For God's Designs shall still succeed his Word will bear the utmost Test He 's a strong Shield to all that need and on his sure Protection rest verse 31 Who then deserves to be ador'd but God on whom my Hopes depend Or who except the mighty Lord can with resistless Pow'r defend PART V. verse 32 33 'T is God that girds my Armour on and all my just Designs fulfils Through him my Feet can swiftly run and nimbly climb the steepst Hills verse 34 Lessons of War from him I take and manly Weapons learn to wield Strong Bows of Steel with ease I break forc'd by my stronger Arms to yield verse 35 The Buckler of his Saving Health protects me from assaulting Foes His Hand sustains me still my Wealth and Greatness from his Bounty flows verse 36 My Goings he enlarg'd abroad till then to narrow Paths confin'd And when in slipp'ry ways I trod the Method of my Steps design'd verse 37 Through him I num'rons Hosts defeat and flying Squadrons captive take Nor from my fierce pursuit retreat till I a final Conquest make verse 38 Cover'd with Wounds in vain they try their vanquish'd Heads again to rear Spight of their boasted Strength they lie beneath my Feet and grovel there verse 39 God when fresh Armies take the Field recruits my Strength my Courage warms He makes my strong Opposers yield subdu'd by my prevailing Arms. verse 40 Through him the Neck of prostrate Foes my conqu'ring Feet in Triumph press Aided by him I root out those who hate and envy my Success verse 41 With loud complaints all Friends they try'd but none was able to defend At length to God for Help they cry'd but God would no assistance lend verse 42 Like flying Dust which Winds pursue their broken Troops I scatter'd round Their slaughter'd Bodies forth I threw like loathsome Dirt that clogs the Ground PART VI verse 43 Our factious Tribes at Strife till now by God's Appointment me obey The Heathen to my Scepter bow and foreign Nations own my sway verse 44 Remotest Realms their Homage send when my successful Name they hear Strangers for my Commands attend charm'd with Respect or aw'd by Fear verse 45 All to my Summons tamely yield or soon in Battel are dismay'd For stronger Holds they quit the Field and still in strongest Holds afraid verse 46 Let the eternal Lord be prais'd the Rock on whose Defence I rest O'er highest Heav'ns his Name be rais'd who me with his Salvation bless'd verse 47 'T is God that still supports my Right his just Revenge my Foes pursues 'T is he that with resistless Might fierce Nations to my Yoke subdues verse 48 My universal Safeguard He from whom my lasting Honours flow He made me great and set me free from my remorseless bloody Foe verse 49 Therefore to celebrate his Fame my grateful Voice to Heav'n I 'll raise And Nations Strangers to his Name shall thus be taught to sing his Praise verse 50 God to his King Deliv'rance sends shews his Anointed signal Grace His Mercy evermore extends to David and his promis'd Race PSALM XIX verse 1 THE Heav'ns declare thy Glory Lord which that alone can fill The Firmament and Stars express their great Creator's Skill verse 2 The Dawn of each returning Day fresh Beams of Knowledge brings And from the dark Returns of Night divine Instruction springs verse 3 Their pow'rful Language to no Realm or Region is confin'd 'T is Nature's Voice and understood alike by all Mankind verse 4 Their Doctrine does its sacred sense through Earth's extent display Whose bright Contents the circling Sun does round the World convey verse 5 No Bridegroom on his Nuptial-day has such a chearful Face No Giant does like him rejoice to run his glorious Race verse 6 From East to West from West to East his restless Course he goes And through his Progress chearful Light and vital Warmth bestows PART II. verse 7 God's perfect Law converts the Soul reclaims from false Desires With sacred Wisdom his sure Word the Ignorant inspires verse 8 The Statutes of the Lord are just and bring sincere Delight His pure Commands in search of Truth assist the feebleft Sight verse 9 His perfect Worship here is fix'd on sure Foundations laid His equal Laws are in the Scales of Truth and Justice weigh'd verse 10 Of more esteem than golden Mines or Gold resin'd with Skill More sweet than Honey or the drops that from the Comb distil verse 11 My trusty Counsellers they are and friendly Warnings give Divine Rewards attend on those who by thy Precepts live verse 12 But what frail Man observes how ost he does from Vertue fall O cleanse me from my secret Faults thou God that know'st them all verse 13 Let no presumptuous Sin O Lord dominion have o'er me That by thy Grace preserv'd I may the great Transgression slee verse 14 So shall my Pray'r and Praises be with thy Acceptance blest And I secure on thy Defence my Strength and Saviour rest PSALM XX. verse 1 THE Lord to thy Request attend and hear thee in Distress The Name of ' Jacob's God defend and grant thy Arms success verse 2 To aid thee from on high repair and strength from Sion give verse 3 Remember all thy Off'rings there thy Sacrifice receive verse 4 To compass thy own Heart's Desire thy Counsels still direct Make kindly all Events conspire to bring them to effect verse 5 To thy Salvation Lord for Aid we chearfully repair With Banners
and Staff defend and comfort me verse 5 In presence of my spiteful Foes he does my Table spread He crowns my Cup with chearful Wine with Oil anoints my Head verse 6 Since God does thus his wond'rous Love through all my Life extend That Life to him I will devote and in his Temple spend PSALM XXIV verse 1 THis spacious Earth is all the Lord's the Lord 's her fulness is The World and they that dwell therein by sov'reign Right are his verse 2 He fram'd and fix'd it on the Seas and his Almighty Hand Upon inconstant Floods has made the stable Fabrick stand verse 3 But for himself this Lord of All one chosen Seat design'd O who shall to that Sacred Hill defir'd Admittance find verse 4 The Man whose Hands and Heart are pure whose Thoughts from Pride are free Who honest Poverty prefers to gainful Perjury verse 5 This this is he on whom the Lord shall show'r his Blessings down Whom God his Saviour shall vouchsafe with Righteousness to crown verse 6 Such is the Race of Saints by whom the sacred Courts are trod And such the Proselytes that seek the Face of Jacob's God verse 7 Erect your Heads eternal Gates unsold to entertain The King of Glory fee he comes with his celestial Train verse 8 Who is this King of Glory who the Lord for Strength renown'd In Battel mighty o'er his Foes eternal Victor crown'd verse 9 Erect your Heads ye Gates unsold in state to entertain The King of Glory see he comes with all his shining Train verse 10 Who is this King of Glory who the Lord of Hosts renown'd Of Glory he alone is King who is with Glory crown'd PSALM XXV verse 1 2 To God in whom I trust I list my Heart and Voice O let me not be put to shame nor let my Foes rejoice verse 3 Those who on Thee rely let no disgrace attend Be that the shameful Lot of such as wilfully offend verse 4 5 To me thy Truth impart and lead me in thy way For thou art he that brings me Help on thee I wait all day verse 6 Thy Mercies and thy Love O Lord recall to mind And graciously continue still as thou wert ever kind verse 7 Let all my youthful Crimes be blotted out by-thee And for thy wond'rous Goodness sake in Mercy think on me verse 8 His Mercy and his Truth the righteous Lord displays In bringing wand'ring Sinners home and teaching them his ways verse 9 He those in Justice guides who his Direction seek And in his sacred Paths shall lead the humble and the meek verse 10 Through all the ways of God both Truth and Mercy shine To such as with religiously Hearts to his blest Will incline PART II. verse 11 Since Mercy is the Grace that most exalts thy Fame Forgive my heinous Sin O Lord and so advance thy Name verse 12 Whoe'er with Humble Fear to God his Duty pays Shall find the Lord a faithful Guide in all his righteous Ways verse 13 His quiet Soul with Peace shall be for ever blest And by his num'rous Race the Land successively possest verse 14 For God to all his Saints his secret Will imparts And does his gracious Cov'nant write in their obedient Hearts verse 15 To him I list my Eyes and wait his timely Aid Who breaks the strong and treach'rous Snare which for my Feet was laid verse 16 O turn and all my Griefs in Mercy Lord redrefs For I am compass'd round with Woes and plung'd in deep Distress verse 17 The Sorrows of my Heart to mighty Sums increase O from this dark and dismal state my troubled Soul release verse 18 Do thou with tender Eyes my sad Afflictions see Acquit me Lord and from my Guilt intirely set me free verse 19 Consider Lord my Foes how vast their numbers grow What lawless Farce and Rage they use what boundless Hate they show verse 20 Protect and set my Soul from their fierce Malice free Nor let me be asham'd who place my stedfast Trust in thee verse 21 Let all my righteous Acts to full Persection rise Because my firm and constant Hope on thee alone relies verse 22 To Israel's chosen Race continue ever kind And in the midst of all their Wants let them thy Succour sind PSALM XXVI verse 1 JUdge me O Lord for I the Paths of Righteousness have trod I cannot fail who all my Trust repose on thee my God verse 2 3 Search thou my Heart whose Innocence will shine the more 't is try'd For I have kept thy Grace in view and made thy Truth my Guide verse 4 I never for Companions took the Idle or Prophane No Hypocrite with all his Arts could e'er my Friendship gain verse 5 I hate the busie Plotting Crew who make distracted Times And shun their wicked Company as I avoid their Crimes verse 6 I 'll wash my hands in Innocence and bring a Heart so pure That when thy Altar I approach my welcome shall secure verse 7 8 My thanks I 'll publish there and tell how thy Renown excels That Seat affords me most delight in which thy Honour dwells verse 9 Pass not on me the Sinners doom who Murder makes their Trade verse 10 Who others Rights by fecret Bribes or open Force invade verse 11 But I will walk in paths of Truth and Innocence pursue Protect me therefore and to me thy Mercies Lord renew verse 12 In spight of all assaulting Foes I still maintain my ground And shall survive amongst thy Saints thy Praises to resound PSALM XXVII verse 1 WHom should I fear since God to me is saying-Health and Light Since strongly he my Life supports what can my Soul assright verse 2 With fierce intent my Flesh to tear when Foes beset me round They stumbled and their losty Crests were made to strike the Ground verse 3 Through him my Heart undaunted dares with mighty Hosts to cope Through him in doubtful Straits of War for good Success I hope verse 4 Henceforth within his House to dwell I earnestly desire His wond'rous Beauty there to view and of his Will enquire verse 5 For there may I with Comfort rest in times of deep Distress And safe as on a Rock abide in that secure Recess verse 6 Whilst God o'er all my haughty Foes my lofty Head shall raise And I my joyful Tribute bring with grateful Songs of Praise PART II. verse 7 Continue Lord to hear my Voice whene'er to thee I cry In Mercy my Complaints receive nor my Request deny verse 8 When us to seek thy glorious Face thou kindly dost advise Thy glorious Face I 'll always seek my grateful Heart replies verse 9 Then hide not thou thy Face O Lord nor me in Wrath reject My God and Saviour leave not him thou didst so ost protect verse 10 Tho' all my Friends and Kindred too their helpless Charge forsake Yet thou whose Love excels them all wilt Care and Pity take verse 11 Instruct me in thy Paths O Lord my Ways
against the Righteous vent verse 19 How great thy Mercies are to such as fear thy Name Which thou for those that trust thy care dost to the World proclaim verse 20 Thou keep'st them in thy fight from proud Oppressors free From Tongues that do in Strife delight they are preserv'd by Thee verse 21 With Glory and Renown God's Name be ever bless'd Whose Love in Keilah's well-fenc'd Town was wond'rously express'd verse 22 I said in hasty Flight I 'm banish'd from thine Eyes Yet still thou kept'st me in thy sight and heard'st my earnest Cries verse 23 O all ye Saints the Lord with eager Love pursue Who to the Just will Help afford and give the proud their due verse 24 Ye that on God rely couragiously proceed For he will still your hearts supply with Strength in time of need PSALM XXXII verse 1 HE 's blest whose Sins have Pardon gain'd no more in Judgment to appear verse 2 Whose Guilt Remission has obtain'd and whose Repentance is sincere verse 3 While I conceal'd the fretting Sore my Bones consum'd without Relief All Day did I with Anguish roar but no Complaints asswag'd my Grief verse 4 Heavy on me thy Hand remain'd by Day and Night alike distrest Till quite of vital Moisture drain'd like Land with Summer's drought opprest verse 5 No sooner I my Wound disclos'd the Guilt that tortur'd me within But thy Forgiveness interpos'd and Mercy 's healing Balm pour'd in verse 6 True Penitents shall thus succeed who seek thee whilst thou mayst be found They from the common Deluge freed shall fee remorsless Sinners drown'd verse 7 Thy Favour Lord in all distrest my Tow'r of Refuge I mus t own Thou shalt my haughty Foes suppress and me with Songs of Triumph crown verse 8 In my Instruction then confide you that would Truth 's safe Path descry Your Progress I 'll securely guide and keep you in my-watchful Eye verse 9 Submit your selves to Wisdom's Rule like Men that Reason have attan'd Not like th' ungovern'd Horse and Mule whose Fury must be curb'd and rein'd verse 10 Sorrows on Sorrows multiply'd the harden'd Sinner shall confound But them who in his Truth confide blessings of Mercy shall surround verse 11 His Saints that have perform'd his Laws their Life in Triumphs shall employ Let them as they alone have cause in grateful Raptures shout for Joy PSALM XXXIII verse 1 LET all the Just to God with Joys their chearful Voices raise For well the Righteous it becomes to sing glad Songs of Praise verse 2 3 Let Harps and Psalteries and Lute in joyful consort meet And new made Songs of loud Applause the Harmony compleat verse 4 5 For faithful is the Word of God his Works with Truth abound He Justice loves and all the Earth is with his Goodness crown'd verse 6 By his almighty Word at first the heavenly Arch was rear'd And all the beauteous Hosts of Light at his Command appeare'd verse 7 The swelling Floods together roll'd he makes in heaps to lye And lays as in a Store-house safe the wat'ry Treasures by verse 8 9 Let Earth and all that dwell therein before him trembling stand For when he spake the Word t was made t was fix'd at his Command verse 10 He when the Heathen closely plot their Counsels undermines His Wisdom inessectual makes the People's rash Designs verse 11 Whate'er the mighty Lord decrees shall stand for ever sure The settled purpose of his Heart to Ages shall endure PART II. verse 12 How happy then are they to whom the Lord for God is known Whom he from all the World besides has chosen for his own verse 13 14 15 He all the Nations of the Earth from Heav'n his Throne survey'd He saw their works and view'd their thoughts by him their Hearts were made verse 16 17 No King is safe by mighty Hosts their Strength the Strong deceives No manag'd Horse by Force or Speed his Warlike Rider saves verse 18 19 T is God who those that trust in him beholds with gracious Eyes He frees their Soul from Death their Want in time of Dearth supplies verse 20 21 Our Soul on God with Patience waits our Help and Shield is He Then Lord let still our Hearts rejoyce because we trust in thee verse 22 The Riches of thy Mercy Lord do Thou to us extend Since we for all we want or wish on Thee alone depend PSALM XXXIV verse 1 THro' all the changing Scenes of Life in Trouble and in Joy The praises of my God shall still my Heart and Tongue employ verse 2 Of his Deliv'rance I will boast till all that are distrest From my Example Comfort take and charm their Griefs to rest verse 3 O magnifie the Lord with me with me exalt his Name verse 4 When in Distress to him I call'd He to my rescue came verse 5 Their drooping Hearts were soon refresh'd who look'd to him for Aid Desir'd Success in ev'ry Face a chearful Air displaid verse 6 Behold say they behold the Man whom Providence reliev'd The Man so dang'rously beset so wond'rously retriev'd verse 7 The Hosts of God encamp around the Dwellings of the Just Deliv'rance he affords to all who on his Succour trust verse 8 O make but Tryal of his Love experience will decide How bless'd they are and only they who in his Truth confide verse 9 Fear him ye Saints and you will then having nothing else to fear Make you his Service your Delight your Wants shall be his Care verse 10 While hungry Lions lack their Prey the Lord will Food provide For such as put their Trust in him and see their Needs supply'd PART II. verse 11 Approach ye piously dispos'd and my Instruction hear I 'll teach you the true Discipline of his religious Fear verse 12 Let him who length of Life desires and prosp'rous Days would see verse 13 From sland'ring Language keep his Tongue his Lips from Falshood free verse 14 The crooked Paths of Vice decline and Virtue 's Ways pursue Establish Peace where 't is begun and where 't is lost renew verse 15 The Lord from Heav'n beholds the Just with favourable Eyes And when distress'd his gracious Ear is open to their Cries verse 16 But turns his wrathful Look on those whom Mercy can'n reclaim To cut them off and from the Earth blot out their hated Name verse 17 Deliv'rance to his Saints he gives when his Relies they crave verse 18 He 's nigh to heal the broken Heart and contrite Spirit save verse 19 The Wicked oft but still in vain against the Just conspire verse 20 For under their Affliction 's weight he keeps their Bones entire verse 21 The Wicked from their wicked Arts their Ruine shall derive Whilst righteous Men whom they detest shall them and theirs survive verse 22 For God preserves the Souls of those who on his Truth depend To them and their Posterity his Blessings shall descend PSALM XXXV verse 1 A Gainst all those that strive with me O
Lord assert my Right With such as War unjustly wage do thou my Battels fight verse 2 Thy Buckler take and bind thy Shield upon thy warlike Arm Stand up my God in my Defence and keep me safe from Harm verse 3 Bring forth thy Spear and stop their course that haste my Blood to spill Say to my Soul I am thy Health and will preserve thee still verse 4 Let them with Shame be cover'd o'er who my Destruction sought And such as did my Harm devise be to Confusion brought verse 5 Then shall they fly dispers'd like Chaff before the driving Wind God's vengeful Minister of Wrath shall follow close behind verse 6 And when thro' dark and slipp'ry ways they strive his Rage to shun His vengeful Ministers of Wrath shall goad them as they run verse 7 Since unprovok'd by any Wrong they hid their treach'rous Snare And for my harmless Soul a Pit did causlessly prepare verse 8 Surpriz'd by Mischiefs unforeseen by their own Arts betray'd Their Feet shall fall into the Net which they for me had laid verse 9 Whilst my glad Soul shall God's great Name for this Deliv'rance bless And by his saving Health secur'd a grateful Joy express verse 10 My very Bones shall say O Lord who can compare with Thee Who sett'st the poor and helpless Man from strong Oppressrs free PART II. verse 11 False Witnesses with forg'd Complaints against my Truth combin'd And to my charge such things they laid as I had ne'er design'd verse 12 The Good which I to them had done with Evil they repaid And did by Malice undeserv'd my harmless Life invade verse 13 But as for me when they were sick I still in Sackcloath mourn'd I pray'd and fasted and my Pray'r to my own Breast return'd verse 14 Had they my Friends or Brethren been I could have done no more Nor with more decent signs of Grief a Mother's Loss deplore verse 15 How diff'rent did their Carriage prove in times of my distress When they in Crowds together met did savage Joy express The Rabble too in mighty Throngs by their Example came And ceas'd not with reviling Words to wound my spotless Fame verse 16 Scoffers that noble Tables haunt and earn their Bread with Lies Did gnash their Teeth and sland'ring Jests maliciously devise verse 17 But Lord how long wilt thou look on on my Behalf appear And save my guiltless Soul which they like rav'ning Beasts would tear PART III. verse 18 So I before the list'ning World shall grateful Thanks express And where the great Assembly meets thy Name with Praises bless verse 19 Lord suffer not my causeless Foes who me unjustly hate With open Joy or secret Signs to mock my sad Estate verse 20 For they with Hearts averse from Peace industriously devise Against the Men of quiet Minds to forge malicious Lies verse 21 Nor with these private Arts content aloud they vent their Spite And say At last we found him out he did it in our sight verse 22 But thou who dost both them and me with righteous Eyes survey Assert my Innocence O Lord and keep not far away verse 23 Stir up thy self in my behalf to Judgment Lord awake Thy righteous Servant's Cause O God to thy Decision take verse 24 Lord as my Heart has upright been let me thy Justice find Nor let my cruel Foes obtain the Triumph they design'd verse 25 O let them not amongst themselves in boasting Language say At length our Wishes are compleat at last he is made our Prey verse 26 Let such as in my Harm rejoyc'd for shame their Faces hide And foul Dishonour wait on those that proudly me defy'd verse 27 Whilst they with chearful Voices shout who my just Cause befriend And bless the Lord who loves to make Success his Saints attend verse 28 So shall my Tongue thy Judgments sing inspir'd with grateful Joy And chearful Hymns in praise of thee shall all my Days employ PSALM XXXVI verse 1 My crafty Foe with flatt'ring Art his wicked purpose would disguise But Reason whispers to my Heart he ne'er sets God before his Eyes verse 2 He sooths himself retir'd from sight secure he thinks his treach'rous Game Till his dark Plots expos'd to Light Their false Contriver brand with Shame verse 3 In Deeds he is my Foe consest whilst with his Tongue he speaks me fair True Wisdom's banish'd from his Breast and Vice has sole Dominion there verse 4 His wakeful Malice spends the Night in forging his accurst Designs His obstinate unregen'rate Spite no execrable means declines verse 5 But Lord thy Mercy my sure Hope above the heav'nly Orb ascends Thy sacred Truth 's unmeasur'd scope beyond the spreading Skie extends verse 6 Thy justice like the Hills remains unfathom'd Depths thy Judgments are Thy Providence the World sustains the whole Creation is thy Care verse 7 Since of thy Goodness All partake with what Assurance should the Just Thy sheltring Wings their Refuge make and Saints to thy Protection trust verse 8 Such Guests shall to thy Courts be led to banquet on thy Love's Repast And drink as from a Fountain's head of Joys that shall for ever last verse 9 With Thee the Springs of Life remain thy Presence is eternal Day verse 10 O! let thy Saints thy Favour gain to upright Hearts thy Truth display verse 11 Whilst Pride's insulting Foot would spurn and wicked Hand my Life surprize verse 12 Their mischiefs on themselves return down down they 'r fall'n no more to rise PSALM XXXVII verse 1 THo' wicked Men grow Rich or Great Yet let not their successful State thy Anger or thy Envy raise verse 2 For they cut down like tender Grass Or like young Flow'rs away shall pass whose blooming Beauty soon decays verse 3 Depend on God and him obey So thou within the Land shalt stay secure from Danger and from Want verse 4 Make his Commands thy chief Delight And He thy Duty to requite shall all thy earnest Wishes grant verse 5 In all thy ways trust thou the Lord And he will needful Help afford to perfect ev'ry just Design verse 6 And make like Light serene and clear Thy clouded Innocence appear and as a mid-day Sun to shine verse 7 With quiet mind on God depend And patiently for him attend nor let thy Anger sondly rise Tho' wicked Men with Wealth abound And with Success the Plots are crown'd which they maliciously devise verse 8 From Anger cease and Wrath forsake Let no ungovern'd Passion make thy wav'ring Heart espouse their Crime verse 9 For God shall sinful Men destroy Whilst only they the Land enjoy who trust on him and wait his time verse 10 How soon shall wicked Men decay Their Place shall vanish quite away nor by the strictest search be found verse 11 Whilst humble Souls possess the Earth Rejoycing still with godly Mirth with Peace and Plenty always crown'd PART II. verse 12 While sinful Crowds with false Design Against the righteous few combine and gnash
live And Off'rings bring with constant Care The Heavens his Justice shall declare For God himself shall Sentence give verse 7 Attend my People Isr'l hear Thy strong Accuser I 'll appear Thy God thy only God am I verse 8 'T is not of Off'rings I complain Which daily in my Temple slain My sacred Altai did supply verse 9 Will this alone Atonement make No Bullock from thy Stall I 'll take Nor He-goat from thy Fold accept verse 10 The Forest Beasts that range alone The Cattel too are all my own That on a thousand Hills are kept verse 11 I know the Fowls that build their Nests In craggy Rocks and salvage Beasts That loosely haunt the open Fields verse 12 If seiz'd with Hunger I could be I need not seek Relief from Thee Since the World 's mine and all it yields verse 13 Think'st thou that I have any need On slaughter'd Bulls and Goats to feed To eat their Flesh and drink their Blood verse 14 The Sacrifices I require Are Hearts which Love and Zeal inspire And Vows with strictest Care made good verse 15 In time of Trouble call on me And I will set thee safe and free And thou returns of Praise shalt make verse 16 But to the Wicked thus faith God How dar'st thou teach my Laws abroad Or in thy Mouth my Cov'nant take verse 17 For stubborn thou confirtn'd in Sin Hast proof against Instrucion been And of my Word didst lightly speak verse 18 When thou a subtle Thief didst see Thou gladly didst with him agree And with Adult'rers didst partake verse 19 Vile Slander is thy chief Delight Thy Tongue by Envy mov'd and Spight Deceitful Tales does hourly spread verse 20 Thou dost with hateful Scandals wound Thy Brother and with Lies confound The Offspring of thy Mother's Bed verse 21 These things didst thou whom still I strove To gain with Silence and with Love Till thou didst wickedly surmise That I was such a one as thou But I 'll reprove and shame thee now And set thy Sins before thine Eyes verse 22 Mark this ye wicked Fools left I Let all my Bolts of Vengeance fly Whilst none shall dare your cause to own verse 23 Who praises me due Honour gives And to the Man that justly lives My strong Salvation shall be shown PSALM LI. HAve Mercy Lord on me as thou wert ever kind Let me opprest with Loads of Guilt thy wonted Mercy find verse 2 3 Wash off my soul Offence and cleanse me from my Sin For I confess my Crime and see how great my Guilt has been verse 4 Against Thee Lord alone and only in thy fight Have I transgress'd and tho' Condemn'd must own thy Judgment right verse 5 In Guilt each part was form'd of all this sinful Frame In Guilt I was conceiv'd and born the Heir of Sin and Shame verse 6 Yet thou whose searching Eye does inward Truth require In secret didst with Wisdom's Laws my tender Soul inspire verse 7 With Hyssop purge me Lord and so I clean shall be I shall with show in whiteness vie when purifi'd by thee verse 8 Make me to hear with Joy thy kind forgiving Voice That so the Bones which thou hast broke may with fresh strength rejoice verse 9 10 Blot out my crying Sin nor me in Anger view Create in me a Heart that 's clean and upright mind renew PART II. verse 11 Withdraw not thou thy Help nor cast me from thy sight Nor let thy Holy Spirit take its everlasting Flight verse 12 The Joy thy Favour gives let me again obtain And thy free Spirit 's firm support my fainting Soul sustain verse 13 So I thy righteous Ways to Sinners will impart Whilst my Advice shall wicked Men to thy just Laws convert verse 14 My Guilt of Blood remove my Saviour and my God And my glad Tongue shall loudly tell thy righteous Acts abroad verse 15 Do thou unlock my Lips with Sorrow clos'd and shame So shall my Mouth thy wondrous Praise to all the World proclaim verse 16 Could Sacrifice atone whole Flocks and Herds should die But on such Off'rings thou disdain'st to cast a gracious Eye verse 17 A broken Spirit is by God most highly priz'd By him a broken contrite Heart shall never be despis'd verse 18 Let Sion Favour find of thy Good Will assur'd And thy own City flourish long by losty Walls secur'd verse 19 The Just shall then attend and pleasing Tribute pay And Sacrifice of choicest kind upon thy Altar lay PSALM LII IN vain O Man of lawless Might thou boast'st thy self in Ill Since God the God in whom I trust vouchsafes his Favour still verse 2 Thy wicked Tongue does sland'ring Tales maliciously devise And sharper than a Razor set it wounds with treach'rous Lies verse 3 4 Thy Thoughs are more on Ill than Good on Lies than Truth employ'd Thy Tongue delights in Words by which the Guiltless are destroy'd verse 5 God shall for ever blast thy Hopes and snatch thee soon away Nor in thy dwelling-place permit nor in the World to stay verse 6 The Just with pious Fear shall see the downfal of thy Pride And at thy sudden Ruin laugh and thus thy fall deride verse 7 See there the' haughty Man that was who proudly God desy'd Who trusted in his Wealth and still on wicked Arts rely'd verse 8 But I am like those Olive-Plants that shade God's Temple round And hope with his indulgent Grace to be for ever crown'd verse 9 So shall my Soul with Praise O God extol thy wondrous Love And on thy Name with Patience wait for this thy Saints approve PSALM LIII THE wicked Fools must sure suppose that God is but a Name This gross Mistake their Practice shows since Virtue all disclaim verse 2 The Lord look'd down from Heav'n's high Tow'r the Sons of Men to view To see if any own'd his Pow'r or Truth or Justice knew verse 3 But all he faw were backwards gone degen'rate grown and base None for Religion car'd not One of all the sinful Race verse 4 But are those Workers of Deceit s0 dull and sensless grown That they like Bread my People eat and God's just Pow'r disown verse 5 Their causless Fears shall strangely grow and they despis'd of God Shall soon be foil'd his hand shall throw their shatter'd Bones abroad verse 6 Would he his siving Pow'r employ to break our servile Band Loud shouts of universal Joy should eccho through the Land PSALM LIV. verse 1 2 LOrd save me for thy Glorious Name and in thy Strength appear To judge my Cause accept my Pray'r and to my Words give Ear. verse 3 Mere Strangers whom I never wrong'd to ruin me design'd And cruel Men that fear no God against my Soul combin'd verse 4 5 But God takes part with all my Friends and he 's the surest Guard The God of Truth shall give my Foes their Falshoods due reward verse 6 While I my grateful OfF'ring bring and Sacrifice with Joy And in his Praise
Or who smong the God's of Earth With our Almighty Lord compare verse 7 With Rev'rence and religious Dread His Saints should to his Temple pres His Fear thro' all their Hearts should spread Who his Almighty Name consess verse 8 Lord God of Armies who can boast Of Strength or Pow'r like thine renown'd Of such a num'rous faithful Host As that which does thy Throns surround verse 9 Thou dost the lawless Sea controul And change the Prospect of the Deep Thou mak'st the sping Billows rowl Thou mak'st the rowling Billows sleep verse 10 Thoubrak'st in pieces Rahab's Pride And didst oppressing Pow'r disarm Thy scatter'd Foes have dearly try'd The Force of thy resistless Arm. verse 11 In thee the sov'reign Right remains Of Earth and Heav'n thee Lord alone The World and all that it contains Their Maker and Preserver own verse 12 The Poles on which the Globe does rest Were fdrm'd by thy creating Voice Tabor and Hertnon East and West In thy sustaining Pow'r rejoyce verse 13 Thy Arm h mighty ' strong thy Hand Yet Lord thou dbst with Justice reign verse 14 Possest of absolute Command Thou Truth and Mercy dost maintain verse 15 Happy thrice happy they who hear Thy sacred Trumpet 's joyful Sound Who may at Festivals appear With thy most glorious Presence crown'd verse 16 Thy Saints shall always be o'erjoy'd who on thy sacred Name rely And in thy Righteousness employ'd Above theirr Foes be rais'd on high verse 17 For in thy Strength they shall advance Whose Conquests from thy Favour spring verse 18 The Lord of Hosts is our Defence And Israel's God our Israel's King verse 19 Thus spak'st thou by the Prophet's Voice A mighty Champion I will send From Judah's Tribe have I made choice Of one who shall the rest defend verse 20 O My Servant David I have found With holy OH anointed him verse 21 Him shall the Hand support that crown'd And guard that gave the Diadem verse 22 No Prince from him shall Tribute forces No Son of Strise shall him annoy verse 23 His spiteful Foes I will disperse And them before his Face destroy verse 24 My Truth and Grace shall him sustain His Armies in well-order'd Ranks verse 25 Shall conquer from the Tyrian Main To Tigris and Euphrates Banks verse 26 Me for his Father he shall take His God and Rock of Safety call verse 27 Him I my First-born Son will make And Earthly Kings his Subjects all verse 28 To him my Mercy I 'll secure My Cov'nant make for ever fast verse 29 His Seed for ever shall endure His Throne till Heav'n dissolves shall last PART III verse 30 But if his Heirs my Law forsake And from my sacred Precepts stray verse 31 If they my righteous Statutes break Nor strictly my commands obey verse 32 Their Sins I 'll visit with a Rod And for their Folly make them smart verse 33 Yet will not cease to be their God Nor from my Truth like them depart verse 34 My Cov'nant I will ne'er revoke But in remembrance fast retain The thing that once my Lips have spoke Shall in eternal Force remain verse 35 Once have I sworn but once for all And made my holiness the Tie That I my Grant will ne'er recall Nor to my Servant David lie verse 36 Whose Throne and Race the constant Sun Shall like his Course establisht see verse 37 Of this my Oath thou conscious Moon In Heav'n my faithful Witness be verse 38 Such was thy gracious Promise Lord But thou hast now our Tribes forsook Thy own Anointed hast abhorr'd And turn'd on him thy wrathful Look verse 39 Thou seemest to have render'd void The Cov'nant with thy Servant made Thou hast his Dignity destroy'd And in the Dust his Honour laid verse 40 Of Strong-holds thou hast him berest And brought his Bulwarks to decay verse 41 His Frontier-Coasts defenceless lest A publiek Scorn and common Prey verse 42 His Ruine does glad Triumphs yield To Foes advanc'd by thee to Might verse 43 Thou hast his conqu'ring Sword unsteel'd His Valour turn'd to shameful Flight verse 44 His Glory is to darkness sled is Throne is levell'd with the Ground verse 45 His Youth to wretched Bondage led With Shame o're-whelm'd Sorrow dron'd verse 46 How long shall we thy Absence mourn Wilt thou for ever Lord retire Shall thy consuming Anger burn Till that and we at once expire verse 47 Consider Lord how short a space Thou dost for mortal Life ordain No Method to prolong the Race But loading it with Grief and Pain verse 48 What man is he that can controul Death's strict unalterable Doom Or rescue from the Grave his Soul The Grave that must Mankind entomb verse 49 Lord where 's thy Love thy boundless Grace The Oath to which thy Truth did feal Consign'd to David and his Race The grant which Time should ne're repeal verse 50 See how thy Servants treated are With Infamy Reproach and Spite Which in my silent Breast I bear From Nations of licentious Might verse 51 How they reproaching thy great Name Have made thy Servant's Hope their Jest verse 52 Yet thy just Praises we 'll proclaim And ever sing The Lord be hlest Amen Amen Psalm XC verse 1 O Lord the Saviour and Defence of us thy chosen Race From Age to Age thou still hast been our sure abiding-place verse 2 Before thou brought'st the Mountains forth or th' Earth and World didst frame Thou always wert the mighty God and ever art the same verse 3 Thou turnest Man O Lord to Dust of which he first was made And when thou speak'st the word Raturn 't is instantly obey'd verse 4 For in thy fight a thousand Years are like a Day that 's past Or like a watch in dead of Night whose hours unminded waste verse 5 Thou sweep'ft us off as with a Flood we vanish hence like Dreams At first we grow like Grass tnat feels the Sun's reviving Beams verse 6 But howfoever fresh and fair its Morning Beauty shows T is all cut down and withered quite before the Ev'ning close verse 7 8 We by thine Anger are consum'd and by thy Wrath dismay'd Our publick Crimes and secret Sins before thy sight are laid verse 9 Beneath thy Anger 's sad Effects our drooping Days we spend Our unregarded Years break off like Tales that quickly end verse 10 Qur Term of Time is seventy years an Age that few survive But if with more than common strength to eighty we arrive Yet then our boasted Strength decays to Sorrow turn'd and and Pain So soon the slender Thread is cut and we no more remain PART II verse 11 But who thy Anger 's dread Effects does as he ought revere And yet thy Wrath does fall or rise as more or less we fear verse 12 So teach us Lord th' uncertain Sum of our short Days to mind That to true Wisdom all our Hearts may ever be inclin'd verse 13 O to thy Servants Lord return and speedily relent As we
But my Defence is firmly plac'd in God the Lord most high He is my Rock to which I may for Refuge always fly verse 23 The Lord shall cause their Ill Designs on their own heads to fall He in their sins shall cut them off our God shall slay them all Psalm XCV verse 1 Come loud Anthems let us sing Loud thanks to our Almighty King For we our Voices high should raise When our Salvation's Rock we praise verse 2 Into his presence let us haste To thank him for his Favours past To him address in joyful Songs The praise that to his Name belongs verse 3 For God the Lord enthron'd in state Is with unrivall'd Glory great A King superiour far to all Whom Gods the Heathen slasly call verse 4 The Depths of Earth are in his hand Her secret Wealth at his command The strength of hills that threat the skies Subjected to his Empire lies verse 5 The rouling Ocean's vast Abyss By the same sov'reign right is his T is mov'd by his Almighty hand That form'd and fix'd the solid Land verse 6 O let us to his Courts repair And bow with adoration there Down on our knees devoutly all Before the Lord our Maker fall verse 7 For he 's our God our Shepherd he His Flock and Pasture-sheep are we If then you 'll like his Flock draw near To day if you his Voice will hear verse 8 Let not your hard'ned hearts renew Your Father's Crimes and Judgments too Nor here provoke my Wrath as they In Desart Plains of Meribab verse 9 When through the Wilderness they mov'd And me with fresh Temptations prov'd They still through Unbelief rebell'd While they my wond'rous Works beheld verse 10 11 They forty Years my Patience griev'd Tho' daily I their Wants reliev'd Then 'T is a faithless Race I said Whose Heart from me has always stray'd They ne'er will tread my righteous path Therefore to them in setled Wrath Since they despis'd my Rest I sware That they should never enter there Psalm XCVI verse 1 SIng to the Lord a new-made Song Let Earth in one assembl'd Throng Her common Patron 's praise resound verse 2 Sing to the Lord and bless his Name From day to day his Praise proclaim Who us has with Salvation crown'd verse 3 To Heathen Lands his Fame rehearse His Wonders to the Universe verse 4 He 's great and greatly to be prais'd In Majesty and glory rais'd Above all other Deities verse 5 For Pageantry and Idols all Are they whom Gods the Heathen call He only rules who made the Skies verse 6 With Majesty and Honour'd crown'd Beauty and Strength his Throne surround verse 7 Be therefore both to him restor'd By you who have false Gods ador'd Ascribe due Honour to his Name verse 8 Peace-off'rings on his Altar lay Before his Throne your Homage pay Which he and he alone can claim verse 9 To worship at his sacred Court Let all the trembling World resort verse 10 Proclaim aloud Jehovah reigns Whose pow'r the Uhiverse sustains And banisht Justice will restore verse 11 Let therefore Heav'n new Joys confess And heav'nly Mirth Let Earth express It s loud Applause the Ocean roar It s mute Inhabitants rejoyce And for this Triumph finda Voice verse 12 For Joy let fertile Valleys sing The chearful Groves their Tribute bring The tuneful Quire of Birds awake verse 13 The Lord's Approach to celebrate Who How sets out with awful State His Circuit through the Earth to take From Heav'n to judge the World he 's come With Justice to reward and doom Psalm XCVII verse 1 JEhovah reigns let all the Earth In his just Government rejoyce Let all the Isles with sacred Mirth In his Applause unite their Voice verse 2 Darkness and Clouds of awful shade His dazling Glory shroud in state Justice and Truth his Guards are made And fixt by his Pavillion wait verse 3 Devouring Fire before his Face His Foes around with Vengeance strook verse 4 His Lightnings set the World on blaze Earth saw it and with Terror shook verse 5 The proudest Hills his Presence felt Their height nor strength could help afford The proudest hills like Wax did melt In presence of th' Almighty Lord. verse 6 The Heav'ns his Righteousness to show With Storms of Fire our Foes pursu'd And all the trembling World below Have his descending Glory view'd verse 7 Confounded be their impious host Who make the Gods to whom they pray All who of Pageant-Idols boast To him ye Gods your worship-pay verse 8 Glad Sion of thy Triumph heard And Judah's Daughter 's were o'er-joy'd Because thy righteous Judgments Lord Have Pagan-Pride and Pow'r destroy'd verse 9 For thou O God art seated high Above Earth's Potentates enthron'd Thou Lord unrivall'd in the Skie Supreme by all the God's art own'd verse 10 You who to serve this Lord aspire Abhor what 's ill and Truth esteem He 'll keep his Servants Souls entire And them from wicked Hands redeem verse 11 For Seeds are sown of glorious Light A future Harvest for the Just And Gladness for the Heart that 's right To recompence its pious Trust verse 12 Rejoyce ye Righteous in the Lord Memorials of his Holiness Deep in your faithful Breasts record And with your thankful Tongues confess Psalm XCVIII verse 1 SIng to the Lord a new-made Song who wondrous things has done With his Right-hand and holy Arm the Conquest he has won verse 2 The Lord has through th' astonisht World display'd his saving Might And made his righteous Acts appear in all the Heathens fight verse 3 Of Israel's House his Love and Truth have ever mindful been Wide Earth's remotest Parts the Pow'r of Israel's God have seen verse 4 Let therefore Earth's Inhabitants their chearful Voices raise And all with universal Joy resound their maker's praise verse 5 With Harp and Hymns soft Melody into the Consort bring verse 6 The Trumpet and shrill Cornet's sound before th' Almighty King verse 7 Let the loud Ocean roar her Joy with all that Seas contain The Earth and her Inhabitants join consort with the Main verse 8 With Joy let Riv'lets swell to Streams to spreading Torrents they And echoing Vales from Hill to Hill redoubled Shouts convey verse 9 To welcome down the World 's great Judge who does with Justice come And with impartial Equity both to reward and doom Psalm XCIX verse 1 JEhovah reigns let therefore all the guilty Nations quake On Cherub's Wings he sits enthron'd let Earth's Foundations shake verse 2 On Sion's Hill he keeps his Court his palace makes her Tow'rs Yet thence his Sov'reignty extends supreme o'er earthly Pow'rs verse 3 Let therefore All with praise address his great and dreadful Name And with his unresisted Might his Holiness proclaim verse 4 For Truth and Justice in his Reign of Strength and Pow'r take place His judgments are with Righteousness dispens'd to Jacob's Race verse 5 Therefore exalt the Lord our God before his Footstool fall And with his
Race verse 7 He 's still our God his Judgments stil thro-out the Earth take place verse 8 His Cov'nant he hath kept in mind for numerous Ages past Which yet for thousand Ages more in equal force shall last verse 9 First sign'd to Abr'am next by Oath to Isaac made secure verse 10 To Jacob and his Heirs a Law for ever to endure verse 11 That Canaan's Land should be their Lot when yet but few they were verse 12 But few in number and those few all friendless Strangers there verse 13 In Pilgrimage from Realm to Realm securely they remov'd verse 14 Whilst proudest Monarchs for their sakes severely he reprov'd verse 15 These mine anointed are said he let none my Servants wrong Nor treat the poorest Prophet ill that does to me belong verse 16 A Dearth at last by his Command did thro the Land prevail Till Corn the chief support of Life sustaining Corn did fail verse 17 But his indulgent Providence had pious Joseph sent Sold into Egypt but their Death who sold him to prevent verse 18 His Feet with heavy Chains were crush'd with Calumny his Fame verse 19 Till God's appointed Time and Word to his Deliv'rance came verse 20 The King his sov'reign Orders sent and rescu'd him with speed Whom private Malice had confin'd the People's Ruler freed verse 21 His Court Revenues Realm were all subjected to his Will verse 22 His greatest Princes to controul and teach his Statesmen Skill PART II. verse 23 To Egypt'then invited Guests half-famish'd Israel came And Jacob held by Royal Grant the fertile Soil of Ham. verse 24 Th' Almighty there with such Increase his People multiply'd Till with their proud Oppressors they in Strength and Number vy'd verse 25 Their vast increase th' Egyptians Hearts with jealous Anger fir'd Till they his Servants to destroy by treach'rous Arts conspir'd verse 26 His Servant Moses then he sent his chosen Aaron too verse 27 Empower'd with Signs and Miracles to prove their Mission true verse 28 He call'd for Darkness Darkness came Nature his Summons knew verse 29 Each Stream and Lake transform'd to Blood the wondring Fishes flew verse 30 In putrid Floods throughout the Land the Pest of Frogs was bred From noisom Fens sent up to croack at Pharaoh's Board and Bed verse 31 He gave the Sign and Swarms of Flies came down in cloudy Hosts Whilst Earth's enliv'ned Dust below bred Lice thro all their Coasts verse 32 He sent 'em batt'ring Hail for Rain and Fire for cooling Dew verse 33 He smote their Vines and Forest Plants and Garden 's Pride o'erthrew verse 34 He spake the Word and Locusts came with Caterpillars joyn'd They prey'd upon the poor Remains the Storm had left behind verse 35 From Trees to Herbage they descend no verdant thing they spare But like the naked Fallow-Field leave all the Pastures bare verse 36 From Field to Villages and Towns commission'd Vengeance flew One fatal stroke their eldest Hopes and Strength of Egypt flew verse 37 He brought his Servants forth enrich'd with Egypt's borrow'd Wealth And what transcends all Treasures else enrich'd with vig'rous Health verse 38 Egypt rejoyc'd in hopes to find her Plagues with them remov'd Taught dearly now to fear worse Ills by those already prov'd verse 39 Their shrouding Canopy by day a journeying Cloud was spread A fiery Pillar all the Night their Desart-Marches led verse 40 They long'd for Flesh with Ev'ning Quails he furnish'd ev'ry Tent From Heav'ns own Granary each Morn the Bread of Angels sent verse 41 He smote the Rock whose flinty Breast pour'd forth a gushing Tide Whose following Stream where-e'er the march'd the-Desart's Drought supply'd verse 42 For still he did on Abr'am's Faith and ancient League reflect verse 43 He brought his People forth with Joy with Triumph his Elect. verse 44 Quite-rooting out their Heathen Foes from Canaan's fertile Soil To them in cheap Possession gave the Fruit of other's Toil. verse 45 That they his Statutes might observe his sacred Laws obey For Benefits so vast let us our Songs of Praise repay Psalm CVI. verse 1 O Render thanks to God above The Fountain of eternal Love Whose Mercy firm thro' Ages past Has stood and shall for ever last verse 2 Who can his mighty Deeds express Not only vast but numberless What Mortal Eloquence can raise His Tribute of immortal Praise verse 3 Happy are they and only they Who from thy Judgments never stray Who know what 's right nor only so But always practice what they know verse 4 Extend to me that Favour Lord Thou to thy chosen dost afford When tbou return'st to set them free Let thy Salvation visit me verse 5 O! may I worthy prove to see Thy Saints in full prosperity That I the joyful Choir may joyn And count thy People's Triumph mine verse 6 But ah can we expect such Grace Of Parents vile the viler Race Who their Misdeeds haved acted o'er And with new Crimes increas'd the Score verse 7 Ingrateful they no longer thought On all his Works in Egypt wrought The Red-Sea they no sooner view'd But they their base distrust renew'd verse 8 Yet he to vindicate his Name Once more to their Deliv'rance came To make his Sov'reign Pow'r be known That he is God and he alone verse 9 To right and left at his Command The parting Deep disclos'd her sand Where firm and dry the Passage lay As thro' some parcht and desart way verse 10 Thus rescu'd from their Foes they were Who closely press'd upon their Rear verse 11 Whose Rage pursu'd'em to those Waves That prov'd the rash Pursuer's Graves verse 12 The watry Mountains sudden Fall O'erwhelms proud Pharaoh Host and all This Proof did stupid Israel move To own God's Truth and praise his Love PART II. verse 13 But soon these Wonders they forgot And for his Counsel waited not verse 14 But lusting in the Wilderness Did him with fresh Temptations press verse 15 Strong Food at their Request he sent But made their Sin their Punishment verse 16 Yet still his Saints they did oppose The Priest and Prophet whom he chose verse 17 But Earth the Quarrel to decide Her Vengeful Jaws extending wide Rash Datban to her Centre drew With proud Abiram's factious Crew verse 18 The rest of those who did conspire To kindle wild Sedition's Fire With all their impious Train became A Prey to Heaven's devouring Flame verse 19 Near Horeb's Mount a Calf they made And to the molten Image pray'd verse 20 Adoring what their Hands did frame They chang'd their Glory to their Shame verse 21 Their God and Saviour they forgot And all his works in Egypt wrought verse 22 His Signs in Ham's astonisht Coast And where proud Pharoah's Troops were lost verse 23 Thus urg'd his vengeful hand he rear'd But Moses in the Breach appeared The Saint did for the Rebels pray And turn'd Heaven 's kindled wrath away verse 24 Yet they his pleasant Land despis'd Nor his repeated Promise priz'd verse 25
Friend And he shall from unrighteous Dooms their guiltless Souls defend Psalm CX verse 1 THE Lord unto my Lord thus spake Till I thy Foes thy Footstool make sit thou in state at my Right-hand verse 2 Supreme in Sion thou shall be and all thy proud Opposers see subjected to thy just Command verse 3 Thee in thy Pow'rs triumphant Day the willing Nations shall obey and when thy rising Beams they view shall all redeem'd from Error 's Night appear as numberless and bright as Chrystal Drops of Morning Dew verse 4 The Lord hath sworn nor sworn in vain that like Melchizedech's thy Reign and Priesthood shall no Period know verse 5 No proud Competitor to fit at thy Right-hand will he permit but in his wrath crown'd Heads o'erthrow verse 6 The sentenc'd Heathen he shall flay and fill with Carcasses his way till he hath struck Earth's Tyrants dead verse 7 But in the high-way Brooks shall first like a poor Pilgrim slake his Thirst and then in Triumph raise his Head Psalm CXI verse 1 PRise ye the Lord our God to praise My Soul her utmost Pow'r raise With private Friends and in the Throng Of Saints his Praise shall be my Song verse 2 His Works for Greatness tho' renown'd His wond'rous Works with ease are found By those who seek for them aright And in the pious Search delight verse 3 His Works are all of matchless Fame And universal Glory claim His truth confirm'd thro'Ages past Shall to eternal Ages last verse 4 By precept he has us enjoyn'd To keep his wondrous Works in mind And to posterity record That good and gracious is our Lord. verse 5 His Bounty like a flowing Tide Has all his Servants Wants supply'd And he will ever keep in mind His Cov'nant with our Fathers sign'd verse 6 At once astonish'd and o'erjoy'd They saw his matchless Pow'r employ'd Whereby the Heathen were suppress'd And we their Heritage possess'd verse 7 Just are the Dealings of his Hands Immutable are his Commands verse 8 By Truth and Equity sustain'd And for eternal Rules ordain'd verse 9 He set is Saints from Bondage free And then establish'd his Decree For ever to remain the fame Holy and Rev'rend is his Name verse 10 Who Wisdom's sacred Prize would win Must with the Fear of God begin Immortal praise and heav'nly Skill Have they who know and do his Will Psalm CXII HALLELUJAH verse 1 THat Man is blest who stands in aw Of God and loves his sacred Law verse 2 His seed on Earth shall be renown'd And with successive Honours crown'd verse 1 His House the Seat of Wealth shall be An inexhausted Treasury His Justice free from all Decay Shall Blessings to his Heirs convey verse 4 The Soul that 's fill'd with Vertue 's Light Shine's brightest in Assliction's Night To pity the Distrest inclin'd As well as just to all Mankind verse 5 His lib'ral Favours he extends To some he gives to others lends Yet what his Charity impairs He saves by Prudence in Affairs verse 6 Beset with threatning Dangers round Unmov'd shall he maintain his Ground The sweet Remembrance of the Just Shall flourish when he sleeps in Dust verse 7 III Tidings never can surprize His Heart that still on God relies verse 8 On Safety 's Rock he sits and sees The Shipwreck of his Enemies verse 9 His Hands while they his Alms bestow'd His Glory 's future Harvest sow'd Whence he shall reap Wealth Fame Renown A temp'ral and eternal Crown verse 10 The Wicked shall his Trinmph see And gnash their Teeth in Agony While their unrighteous Hopes decay And vanish with themselves away Psalm CXIII verse 1 YE Saints and Servants of the Lord the Triumphs of his Name record verse 2 His sacred Name for ever bless verse 3 Where e'er the circling Sun displays his rising Beams or setting Rays due praise to his great Name address verse 4 God thro' the World extends his Sway the Regions of eternal Day but Shadows of his Glory are verse 5 To him whose Majesty excels who made the Heav'n in which he dwells let no created Pow'r compare verse 6 Tho' t is beneath his State to view in highest Heav'n what Angels do yet he to Earth vouchsafes his Care He takes the Needy from his Cell advancing him in Courts to dwell Companion to the greatest there verse 7 When childless Families despair He sends the Blessing of an Heir to rescue their expiring Name Makes her that barren was to bear and joyfully her fruit to rear O then extol his matcless Fame Psalm CXIV verse 1 WHen ' ISr'el by th' Almighty led Enrich'd with their Oppressors spoil From Egypt march'd and Jacob's Seed From Bondage in a foreign Soil Jehovab for his Residence Chose out imperial Judah's Tent His Mansion Royal and from thence Thro' Israel's Camp his Orders sent verse 3 The distant Sea with Terrors saw And from th' Almighty's presence fled Old Jordan's Streams surpriz'd with Awe Retreated to their Fountain's Head verse 4 The taller Mountains skipp'd like Rams When danger near the Fold they hear The Hills skipp'd after them like Lambs affrighted by their Leader's Fear verse 5 O Sea what made your Tide withdraw And naked leave your oozy Bed Why Jordan against Natur 's Law Recoild'st thou to thy Fountain's Head verse 6 Why Mountains did ye skip like Rams When Danger does approach the Fold Why after you the Hills like Lambs When they their Leader's Flight behold verse 7 Earth tremble on well may'st thou fear Thy Lord and Maker's Face to fee When Jacob's awful God draws near 'T is time for Earth and Seas to flee verse 8 To flee from God who Natures Law Confirms and cancels at his Will Who Springs from flinty Rocks can draw And thirsty Vales with Water fill Psalm CXV verse 1 LOrd not to us we claim no Share but to thy sacred Name Give Glory for thy Mercy 's fake and Truth 's eternal Fame verse 2 Why should the Heathen cry Where'snow the God whom we adore verse 3 Convince'em that in Heav'n thou art and uncontroul'd thy Pow'r verse 4 Their God's but Gold and Silver are the Works of Mortal Hands verse 5 With speechless Mouth and fightless Eyes the molten Idol stands verse 6 The Pageant has both Ears and Nose but neigher hears nor smells verse 7 Its Hands and Feet nor feel nor move no Life within it dwells verse 8 Such senseless Stocks they are that we can nothing like 'em find But those who on their Help rely and them for Gods design'd verse 9 O Ifr el make the Lord your Trust who is your Help and Shield verse 10 Priests Levites trust in him alone who only Help can yield verse 11 Let all who truely fear the Lord on him they fear rely Who them in Danger can defend and all their Wants supply verse 12 13 Of us he oft has mindful been and Israel's House will bless Priests Levites Proselytes ev'n All who his great Name confess verse 14
free By making still their Course of Life with thy Commands agree verse 10 With hearty Zeal for thee I seek to thee for Succour pray O suffer not my carcless Steps from thy right Paths to stray verse 11 Safe in my Heart and closely hid thy Word my Treasure liew To succour me with timely Aid when sinful Thoughts arise verse 12 Secur'd by that my grateful Soul shall ever bless thy Name O teach me then by thy just Laws my future Life to frame verse 13 My Lips unlock'd by pious Zeal to others have declar'd How well the Judgments of thy Mouth deserve our best Regard verse 14 Whilst in the way of thy Commands more folid Joy I found Than had I been with vast Increase of envy'd Riches crown'd verse 15 Therefore thy just and upright Laws shall always fill my mind And those sound Rules which thou prescrib'st all due resped shall find verse 16 To keep thy Statutes undesac'd shall be my constant Joy The strict Remembrance of thy Word shall all my Thoughts employ GIMEL verse 17 Be gracious to thy Servant Lord do thou my Life defend That I according to thy Word my future time may spend verse 18 Enlighten both my Eyes and Mind that so I may discern The wond'rous things which they behold who thy just Precepts learn verse 19 Tho' like a Stranger in the Land from place to place I stray Thy righteous Judgments from my sight remove not thou away verse 20 My fainting Soul is almost pin'd with earnest longing spent Whilst always on the eager Search of thy just Will intent verse 21 Thy sharp Rebuke shall crush the Proud whom still thy curse pursues Since they to walk in thy right ways presumptuously refuse verse 22 But far from me do thou O Lord Contempt and Shame remove For I thy sacred Laws affect with undissemble'd Love verse 23 Tho'Princes ost in counsel met against thy Servant spake Yet I thy Statutes to obsrve my constant Bus'ness make verse 24 For thy Commands have always been my Comfort and Delight By them I learn with prudent Care to guide my Steps aright DALETH verse 25 My Soul opprest with deadly Care close to the Earth does cleave Revive me Lord and let me now thy promis'd Aid receive verse 26 To thee I still declared my Ways who didst incline thine Ear O teach me then my future Life by thy just Laws to steer verse 27 If thou wilt makc me know thy Laws and by their Guidance walk The wond'rous works which tho hadst done shall be my constant Taik verse 28 But see my Soul within me sinks press'd down with weighty Care Do thou according to thy Word my wasted Strength repair verse 29 Far far from me be all false Ways and lying Arts remov'd But kindly grant I still may keep the Path by thee approv'd verse 30 Thy faithful Ways thou God of Truth my happy Choice I made Thy Judgments as my Rule of Life before me always laid verse 31 My Care has been to make my Life with thy Commands agree O then preserve thy Servant Lord from Shame and Ruine free verse 32 So in the way of thy Commands shall I with Pleasure run And with a Heart enlarg'd with Joy successfully go on HE verse 33 Instruct me in thy Statutes Lord thy righteous Paths display And I from them through all my Life will never go astray verse 34 If thou true Wisdom from above wilt graciously impart To keep thy perfect Laws I will devote my zealous Heart verse 35 Direct me in the sacrcd Ways to which thy Precepts lead Because my chief Delight has been thy righteous Paths to tread verse 36 Do thou to thy most just Commands inditie my willing Heart Let no defire of worldly Wealth from thee my Thoughts divert verse 37 From those vain Objects turn my Eyes which this false World displays But give me lively Pow'r and Strength to keep thy righteous Ways verse 38 Confirm the Promise which thou mad'st and give thy Servant Aid Who to transgress thy sacred Laws is awfully afraid verse 39 The foul Disgrace I justly fear in mercy Lord remove For all the Judgments thou ordain'st are full of Grace and Love verse 40 Thou know'ft how after thy Commands my longing Heart does pant O then make haste to raise me up and promis'd Succour grant VAU verse 41 Thy constant Blessing Lord bestow to cheer my drooping Heart To me according to thy Word thy saving Health impart verse 42 So shall 1 when my Foes upbraid this ready Answer make In God I trust who never will his faithful Promise break verse 43 Then let not quite the Word of Truth be from my Mouth remov'd Since still my ground of stedfast Hope thy just Decrees have prov'd verse 44 So I to keep thy righteous Laws will ail my Study bend From Age to Age my time to come in their Qbservance spend verse 45 E'er long I trust to walk at large from all incumbrance free Since I resolv'd to make my Life with thy Commands agree verse 46 Thy Laws shall be my constant talk and Princes shall attend Whilst I the Justice of thy Ways with Confidence defend verse 47 My longing Heart and ravish'd Soul shall both o'erflow with Joy When in thy lov'd Commandments I my happy hours employ verse 48 Then will I to thy just Decrees lift up my willing Hands My Care and Bus'ness then shall be to study thy Commands ZAIN verse 49 According to thy promis'd Grace thy Favour Lord extend Make good to me the Word on which thy Servant's Hopes depend verse 50 That only Comfort in distress did all my Griefs controul Thy Word when troubles hem'd me round reviv'd my fainting Soul verse 51 Insulting Foes did proudly mock and all my Hopes deride Yet from thy Law not all their Scoffs could make me turn aside verse 52 Thy Judgments then of antient date I quickly call'd to mind 'Till ravish'd with such Thoughts my Soul did speedy Comfort find verse 53 Sometimes I stand amaz'd like one with deadly Horror strook To think how all my sinful Foes have thy just Laws forsook verse 54 But I thy Statutes and Decrees my cheerful Anthems made Whilst thro' strange Lands and desart Wilds I like a Pilgrim stray'd verse 55 Thy Name that cheer'd my Heart by day has fill'd my Thoughts by Night I then resolv'd by thy just Laws to guide my Steps aright verse 56 That Peace of Mind which has my Soul in deep distress sustain'd By strict Obedience to thy Will I happily obtain'd CHETH verse 57 O Lord my God ray Portion thou and sure Poffession art Thy Words I stedfastly resolve to treasure in my Heart verse 58 With all the strength of warm desires I did thy Grace implore Disclose according to thy Word thy Mercy 's boundless Store verse 59 With due Reflection and strift Care on all my Ways 1 thought And so reclaim'd to thy just Paths my wand'ring Steps I brought verse 60 I lost no
time but made great haste resolv'd without delay To watch that I might never more From thy Commandments stray verse 61 Tho' num'rous Troops of sinful Men to rob me have combin'd Yet I thy pure and righteous Laws have ever kept in mind verse 62 In dead of Night I will arise to sing thy solemn praise Convinc'd how much I always ought to love thy righteous Ways verse 63 To such as fear thy holy Name my self I closely joyn To all who their obedient Wills to thy Commands resign verse 64 O'er all the Earth thy Mercy Lord abundantly is shed O make me then exactly learn thy facred Paths to tread TETH verse 65 With me thy Servant thou hail dealt most graciously O Lord Repeated Benefits bestow'd according to thy Word verse 66 Teach me the sacred Skill by which right Judgment is attain'd Who in belief of thy Commands have stedfastly remain'd verse 67 Before Affliction stopt my Course my Footsteps went astray But I have since been disciplin'd thy Precepts to obey verse 68 Thou art O Lord supremely good and all thou dost is so On me thy Statutes to discern the saving Skill bestow verse 69 The proud have forg'd malicious Lyes my spotless Fame to stain But my fix'd Heart without Reserve thy Precepts shall retain verse 70 While pamper'd they with prosp'rous Ills in sensual pleasures live My Soul can relish no Delight but what thy Precepts give verse 71 'T is good for me that I have felt Affliction 's chast'ning Rod That I might duly learn and keep the Statutes of my God verse 72 The Law that from thy Mouth proceeds of more esteem I hold Than untouch'd Mines than thousand Mines of Silver and of Gold JOD verse 73 To me who am the Workmanship of thy Almighty Hands The heav'nly Understanding give to learn thy just Commands verse 74 My preservation to thy Saints strong Comfort will afford To see Success attend my Hopes who trusted in thy Word verse 75 That right thy Judgments are I now by sure Experience see And that in Faithfulness O Lord thou hast afflicted me verse 76 O let thy tender Mercy now afford me needful Aid According to thy Promise Lord to me thy Servant made verse 77 To me thy saving Grace restore that I again may live Whose Soul can relish no Delight but what thy Precepts give verse 78 Defeat the Proud who unprovok'd to ruine me have sought Who only on thy sacred Laws employ my harmless Thought verse 79 Let those that fear thy Name espouse my Cause and those alone Who have by strict and pious search thy sacred precepts known verse 80 In thy blest Statutes let my Heart continue always found That Guilt and Shame the Sinners Lot may never me confound CAPH verse 81 My Soul with long Expectance faints to see thy saving Grace Yet still on thy unerring Word my Confidence I place verse 82 My very Eyes consume and fail with waiting for thy Word O! when wilt thou thy kind Relief and promis'd Aid afford verse 83 My Skin like shrivel'd Parchment shows that long in Smoke is set Yet no Afftistion me can force thy Statutes to forget verse 84 How many days must I endure of Sorrow and Distress When wilt thou Judgment execute on them who me oppress verse 85 The Proud have digg'd a Pit for me that have no other Foes But such as are averse to thee and thy just Laws oppose verse 86 With sacred Truth 's eternal Laws all thy Commands agree Men persecute me without Cause thou Lord my Helper be verse 87 With close Designs against my Life they had almost prevail'd But in Obedience to thy Will my Duty never fail'd verse 88 Thy wonted kindness Lord restore my drooping Heart to cheer That by thy righteous Statutes I my Life 's whole Course may steer LAMED verse 89 Forever and for ever Lord unchang'd thou dost remain Thy Word establish'd in the Heav'ns does all their Orbs sustain verse 90 Thro' circling Ages Lord thy Truth immoveable shall stand As doth the Earth which thou uphold'st by thy Almighty Hand verse 91 All things the Course by thee ordain'd ev'n to this day fulfil They are the faithful Subjects all and Servants of thy Will verse 92 Unless thy sacred Law had been my Comfort and Delight I must have fainted and expir'd in dark Affliction 's Night verse 93 Thy Precepts therefore from my Thoughts shall never Lord depart For thou by them hast to new Life restor'd my dying Heart verse 94 As I am thine intirely thine protect me Lord from Harm Who have thy Precepts sought to know and carefully perform verse 95 The Wicked have their Ambush laid my guiltless Life to take But in the midst of danger I thy Word my Study make verse 96 I've seen an end of what we call Perfection here below But thy Commandments like thy felt no Change or Period know MEM. verse 97 The Love that to thy Laws I bear no Language can display They with fresh Wonders entertain my ravish'd Thoughts all day verse 98 Thro' thy Commands I wiser grow than all my subtil Foes For thy sure Word does me direct and all my Ways dispose verse 99 From me my former Teachers now may abler Counsel take Because thy sacred Precepts I my constant Study make verse 100 In Understanding I excel the Sages of our days Because by thy unerring Rules I order all my Ways verse 101 My Feet with Care I have resrain'd from every sinful Way That to thy sacred Word 1 might intire Obedience pay verse 102 I have not from thy Judgments stray'd by vain desircs misled For Lord thou hast instructed me thy righteous paths to tread verse 103 How sweet are all thy Words to me O what divine Repast How much more grateful to my Soul than Honey to my Taste verse 104 Taught by thy sacred precepts I with heav'nly Skill am blest Thro' which the treach'rous Ways of Sin I utterly detest NVN. verse 105 Thy Word is to my Feet a Lamp the way of Truth to show A Watch-light to point out the path in which I ought to go verse 106 I sware and from my solemn Oath will never start aside That in thy righteous Judgments I will stedfastly abide verse 107 Since I with Griefs am so opprest that I can bear no more According to thy Word do thou my fainting Soul restore verse 108 Let still my Sacrifice of praise with thee Acceptance find And in thy righteous Judgments Lord instruct my willing Mind verse 109 Tho' ghastly dangers me surround my Soul they cannot aw Nor with continual Terrors keep from thinking on thy Law verse 110 My wicked and invet'rate Foes for me their Snares have laid Yet I have kept the upright path nor from thy precepts stray'd verse 111 Thy Testimonies I have made my Heritage and Choice For they when other comforts fail my drooping Heart rejoyce verse 112 My Heart with early Zeal began thy Statutes to obey And 'till my course
of Life is done shall keep thy upright Way SAMECH verse 113 Deceitful Thoughts and Practices I utterly detest But to thy Law Affection bear too great to be exprest verse 114 My Hidihg-place my Refuge-Tow'r and Shield art thou O Lord I firmly anohor all my Hopes on thy unerring Word verse 115 Hence ye that trade in Wickedness approach not my Abode For firmly I resolve to keep the Precepts of my God verse 116 According to thy gracious Word from Danger set me free Nor make me of those Hope 's asham'd that I repose on thee verse 117 Uphold me so shall I be safe and rescu'd from Distress To thy Decrees continually my just Respect address verse 118 The wicked thou hast trod to earth who from thy statutes stray'd Their vile Deceit the just Reward of their own Falshood made verse 119 The wicked from thy holy Land thou dost like Dross remove I therefore with such Justice charm'd thy Testimonies love verse 120 Yet with that love they make me dread left I should offend When on Transgreffors I behold Thy Judgments thus descend AIN verse 121 Judgment and Justice I have lov'd O therefore Lord engage In my Defence nor give me up to my Oppressors Rage verse 122 Do thou be Surety Lord for me and so shall this Distress Prove good for me nor shall the Proud my guiltles Soul oppress verse 123 My Eyes alas begin to fail in long expectance held 'Till thy Salvation they behold and righteous Word fulfill'd verse 124 To me thy Servant in distress thy wonted Grace display And discipline my willing Heart thy Statutes to obey verse 125 On me devoted to thy Fear thy sacred Skill bestow That of thy Testimonies I the full extent may know verse 126 'T is time high time for thee O Lord thy Vengeance to employ When Men with open Violence thy sacred Law destroy verse 127 Yet their Contempt of thy Commands but makes their Value rise In my esteem who purest Gold compar'd with them despise verse 128 Thy Precepts therefore I account in all respects diving They teach me to discern the right and all false Ways decline PE. verse 129 The Wonders which thy Laws contain no Words can represent Therefore to learn and practise them my zealous Heart is bend verse 130 The very entrance to thy Word celestial Light displays And Knowledge of true Happiness to simplest Minds conveys verse 131 With eager Hopes I waiting stood and fainted with Desire That of thy wise Commands I might the sacred Skill acquire verse 132 With Favour Lord look down on me who thy Relief implore As thou art wont to visit those who thy blest Name adore verse 133 Directed by thy heav'nly Word let all my Footsteps be Nor Wickedness of any kind Dominion have o'er me verse 134 Release intirely set me free from persecuting Hands That unmolested I may learn and practise thy Commands verse 135 On me devoted to thy Fear Lord make thy Face to shiine Thy Statutes both to know and keep my Heart with Zeal incline verse 136 My Eyes to Weeping Fountains turn whence briny Rivers flow To see Mankind against thy Laws in bold defiance go TSADHI verse 137 Thou art the righteous Judge in whom wrong'd Innocence may trust And like thy self thy Judgments Lord in all respects are just verse 138 Most just and true those Statutes were which thou didst first decree And all with Faithfulness perform'd succeeding times shall see verse 139 With Zeal my Flest consumes away my Soul with Anguish frets To see my Foes contemn at once thy promises and Threats verse 140 Yet each neglected Word of thine howe'er by them despis'd Is pure and for eternal Truth by me thy Servant priz'd verse 141 Brought for thy sake to low Estate Contempt from All I find Yet no Affronts or Wrongs can drive thy Precepts from my Mind verse 142 Thy Righteousness shall then endure when Time it self is past Thy Law is Truth it self that Truth which shall for ever last verse 143 Tho' Trouble Anguish Doubts and Dread to compass me unite Beset with Danger still I make thy Precepts my Delight verse 144 Eternal and unerring Rules thy Testimonies give Teach me the Wisdom that will make my Soul for ever live KOPH verse 145 with my whole Heart to God I Call'd Lord hear my earnest Cry And I thy Statues to perform will all my Care apply verse 146 Again more servently I pray'd O save me that I may Thy Testimonies throughly know and stedfastly obey verse 147 My earlier Pray'r the dawning Day prevented while I cry'd To him on whose engaging Word my Hope alone rely'd verse 148 With Zeal have I awak'd before the midnight-Watch was set That I of thy mysterious Word might perfect Knowledge get verse 149 Lord hear my supplicating Voice and wonted Favour shew O quicken me and so approve thy Judgments ever true verse 150 My persecuting Foes advance and hourly nearet draw What Treatment can I hope from them who violate thy Law verse 151 Tho' they draw nigh my comfort is thou Lord art yet more near Thou whose Commands are righteous all thy promises sincere verse 152 Concerning thy Divine Decrees my Soul has known of old That they were true and shall their Truth to endless Ages hold RESCH. verse 153 Cosider my Affiction Lord and me from Bondage draw Think on try Servant in Distress who ne'er Forgets thy Law verse 154 Plead thou my cause to that and me thy timely Aid afford With Beams of mercy quicken me according to thy Word verse 155 From hard'ned Sinners thou remov'st Salvatien far away 'T is just should'st withdraw from them who from thy Statutes stray verse 156 Since great thy tender mercies are to all who thee adore According to thy Judgments Lord my fainting Hopes restore verse 157 A num'rous Host of spiteful Foes against my life combine But all too few to force my Soul thy Statutes to decline verse 158 Those bold Transgressors I beheld and was with grief opprss'd To see with what audacious Pride thy Cov'nant they transgress'd verse 159 Yet while they slight consider Lord how I thy Precepts love O therefore quicken me with Beams of mercy from above verse 160 As from the Birth of Time thy Truth has held through Ages past So shall thy righteous Judgments firm to endless Ages last SCHIN verse 161 Tho' mighty Tyrants without cause conspire my Blood to shed Thy sacred Word Has Pow'r alone to fill my Heart with dread verse 162 And yet that Word my joyful Breast with heav'nly Raptur warms Nor Conquest nor the Spoils of War have such transporting Charms verse 163 Perfidious Practises and Lies I utterly detest But to thy Laws affection bear too vast to be exprest verse 164 Sev'n times a day with grateful voice thy Praises I resound Because I find thy Judgments all with Truth and Justice crown'd verse 165 Secure substantial Peace have they who truly love thy Law No smiling Mischief them can tempt
7 O could I so perfidious be To think of once deserting thee Where Lord cou'd I thy Influence shun Or whither from thy presence run verse 8 If up to Heav'n I take my slight 'T is there thou dwellst enthron'd in light Or dive to Hell's insernal Plains 'T is there Almighty Vengeance reigns verse 9 If I the Morning's Wings cou'd gain And fly beyond the Western Main verse 10 Thy swister Hand wou'd first arrive And there arrest thy Fugitive verse 11 Or shou'd I try to shun thy sight Beneath the sable Wings of night One glance from thee one piercing Ray Would kindle Darkness into Day verse 12 The Veil of Night is no disguise No Screen from thy all-searching Eyes Thro' midnight-Shades thou find'st thy way As in the plazing Noon of Day Thou know'st the Texture of my Heart verse 13 My Reins and ev'ry vital Part Each single Thread in Natute's Loom By thee was cover'd in the womb verse 14 I 'll praise thee from whose Hands I came A Work of such a curious Frame The Wonders thou in me hast shown My Soul with grateful Joy must own verse 15 Thine Eyes my Substance did survey While yet a lifeless mass it lay In secret how exactly wrought E'er from its dark Enclosure brought verse 16 Thou didst shapeless Embrio see Its parts were registred by thee Thou saw'st the daily growth they took Form'd by the Model of thy Book verse 17 Let me acknowledge too O God That since this Maze of life I trod Thy thoughts of Love to me furmount The pow'r of Numbers to recount verse 18 Far sooner could I reckon o'er The Sands upon the Ocean's Shore Each Morn revising what I 've done I find the account but new begun verse 19 The wicked thou shalt slay O God Depart from me ye men of Blood verse 20 Whose Tongues Heav'ns Majesty profane And take th' Almighty's Name in vain verse 21 Lord hate not I their impious Crew Who thee with Enmity pursue And does not Grief my Heart oppress When Repobates thy Laws transgress verse 22 Who practise Enmity to thee Shall utmost Hatred have from me Such men I utterly detest As if they were my Foes prosest verse 23 24 Search try O God my Thoughts and Heart If mischief lurks in any part Correct me where I go astray And guide me in thy perfect way Psalm CXL verse 1 PReserve me Lord from crasty Foes of teacherous intent verse 2 And from the Sons of Violence on open Mischief bent verse 3 Their sland ' ring Tongue the Serpent's Sting in sharpness do's exceed Between their Lips the Gall of Asps and Adders Venom breed verse 4 Preserve me Lord from wicked Hands nor leave my Soul forlorn A Prey to Sons of Violence who have my Ruine sworn verse 5 The proud for me have laid their Snare and spread their wily Net With Traps and Gins where e'er I move I sind my Steps beset verse 6 But thus environ'd with Distress thou art my God I said Lord hear my supplicating Voice that calls to thee for Aid verse 7 O Lord the God whose saving Strength kind Succour did convey And cover'd my advent'rous Head in Battel 's doubtful day verse 8 Permit not their unjust Designs to answer their Desire Lest they encourag'd by Success to bolder Crimes aspire verse 9 Let first their Chiess the sad Effects of their Injustice mourn The blast of their envenom'd Breath upon themselves return verse 10 Let them who kindl'd first the flame its Sacrifice become The Pit they digg'd for me be made their own untimely Tomb. verse 11 Tho' Slanders Breath may raise a Sorm it quickly will decay Their Rage does but the Torrent swell that bears themselves away verse 12 God will assert the poor Man's Cause and speedy Succour give The Just shall celebrate his praise and in his Presence live Psalm CXLI verse 1 TO thee O Lord my Cries ascend O haste to my Relief And with accustom'd Pity hear the Accents of my Grief verse 2 Instead off'rings let my Pray'r like Morning-Incense rise My listed Hands supply the place of Evening Sacrifice verse 3 From hasty Language curb my Tongue and let a constant Guard Still keep the Portal of my Lips with wary Silence barr'd verse 4 From wicked Men's Designs and Deeds my Heart and Hands restrain Nor let me in the Booty share of their unrighteous Gain verse 5 Let upright Men reprove my Faults and I shall think 'em kind Like Balm that heals a wounded Head I their Reproof shall find And in return my servent pray'r I shall for them address When they are tempted and reduc'd like me fo sore Distress verse 6 When sculking in Engeddh's Rock I to their Chiess appeal If one reproachful Word I spoke when I had pow'r to kill verse 7 Yet us they persecute to Death our scatter'd Ruins lie As thick as from the Hewer's Ax the sever'd Splinters slie verse 8 But Lord to thee I still direct my supplicating Eye O leave not destitute my Soul whose Trust on thee relies verse 9 Do thou preserve me fcam the Snares that wicked Hands have laid Let them in their own Nets be caught while my Escape is made Psalm CXLII verse 1 TO God with mournful Voice in deep Distress I pray'd verse 2 Made him the Umpire of my Cause my Wrongs before him laid verse 3 Thou didst my Steps direct when my griev'd Soul despair'd For where I thought to walk secure they had their Traps prepar'd verse 4 I look'd but sound no Friend to own me in Distress All Refuge fail'd no man vouchsifd his Pity or Redress verse 5 To God at last I pray'd thou Lord my Refuge art My portion in the Land of Life till Life it sels depart verse 6 Reduc'd to greatest Straits to thee I make my moan O! save me from oppressing Foes for me too pow'rful grown verse 7 That I may praise thy name my Soul from Prison bring Whilst of thy kind Regard to me assembled Saints shall sing Psalm CXLIII verse 1 LORD hear my Pray'r and to my Cry thy wonted Audience lend In thy accustom'd Faith and Truth a gracious Answer send verse 2 Nor at thy strct Tribunal bring thy servant to betry'd For in thy sight no living Man can e'er be justify'd verse 3 The spightful Foe pursues my life whose Comforts all are sled He drives me into Caves as dark as Mansions of the dead verse 4 My spirit therefore is o'erwhelm'd and sinks within ray Breast My mournful Heart grows desolate with heavy Woes opprest verse 5 I call to mind the Days of old and Wonders thou hast wrought My former Dangers and Escapes employ my musing Thought verse 6 To thee my Hands in humble Prayer I fervently stretch out My Soul for thy resreshment thirsts like Land oppress'd with Drought verse 7 Hear me with speed my Spirit fails thy Face no longer hide Left I become forlorn like them that in the Grave reside verse 8 Thy kindness early let
me hear whose Trust on thee depends Teach me the Way where I should go my Soul to thee ascends verse 9 Do thou O Lord from all my Foes preferve and set me free A safe Retreat against their Rage my Soul implores from thee verse 10 Thou art my God thy righteous Will instruct me to obey Let thy good Spirit condust and keep my Soul in thy right way verse 11 0 for the sake of thy great Name revive my drooping heart For thy Truth's'sake to me distress'd thy promis'd Aid impart verse 12 In pity to my Suff'rings Lord reduce my Foes to shame Slay tham that persecute a Soul devoted to thy Name Psalm CXLIV verse 1 FOR ever blest be God the Lord Who does his needful Aid impart At once both Strength and Skill assord To weild my Arms with warlike Art verse 2 His Goodness is my Fort and Tow'r My strong Deliv'rance and my Shield In him I trust whose matchless Pow'r Makes to my sway fierce Nations yield verse 3 Lord what'sin Man that thou shouldst lov'e Of him such tender Care to take What in his Off-spring cou'd thee move Such great Account of him to make verse 4 The Life of Man does quickly sade His Thoughts but empty are and vain His Days are like a slying Shade Of whose short stay no Signs remain verse 5 In solemn State O God descend Whilst Heav'n its losty Head inclines The smoking Hills asounder rend Of thy Approach the awful Signs verse 6 Discarge thy dreadful Lightnings round And make my scatter'd Foes retreat Them with thy pointed Arrows wound And their Destruction soon complete verse 7 8 Do thou O Lord from Heav'n engage Thy boundless Pow'r my Foes to quell And snatch me from the stormy Rage Of threatning Waves that proudly swell Fight thou against my foreign Foes Who utter Speeches false and vain Who tho' in solemn Leagues they close Their sworn Engagement ne'er maintain verse 9 So I to thee O King of kings In new-made Hymns my Voice shall raise And Instruments of various Strings Shall help me thus to sing thy praise verse 10 God does to Kings his Aid afford to them his sure Salvation sends T is he that from the murd'ring Sword His Servant David still desends verse 11 Fight thou against my foreign Foes Who utter Speeches false and vain Who tho' in solemn Leagues they close Their sworn Engagement ne'er maintain verse 12 Then our young Sons like Trees shall grow Well planted in some fruitful place Our Daughters shall like Pillars show Design'd some royal Court to grace verse 13 Our Garners fill'd with various Store Shall us and ours with Plenty feed Our Sheep increasing more and more Shall thousands and ten thousands breed verse 14 Strong shall our lab'ring Oxen grow Nor in their constant Labour faint Whilst we no War nor Slav'ry know and in our Streets hear no Complaint verse 15 Thrice happy is that people's Case Whose various Blessings thus abound Who God's true Worship stili embrace And are with his Protection crown'd Psalm CXLV verse 1 2 THEE I will bless my God and King thy endless praise proclaim This Tribute daily I will bring and ever bless thy name verse 3 Thou Lord beyond compare art great and highly to be prais'd Thy Majesty with boundless Height above our Knowledge rais'd verse 4 Renown'd for mighty Acts thy Fame to future times extends From Age to Age thy glorious Name successively descendss verse 5 6 Whilst I thy Glory and Renown and wond'rous Works express The World with me thy Might shall own and thy great Pow'r confese verse 7 The praise that to thy Love belongs they shall with Joy proclaim Thy Truth of all their grateful Songs shall be the constant Theme verse 8 The Lord is good fresh Acts of Grace his Pity still supplies His Anger moves with slowest pace his willing mercy flies verse 9 10 Thy Love thro' Earth extends its Fame to all thy Works express These shew thy Praise whilst thy great Name is by thy Servants blest verse 11 They with the glorious Prospect fir'd shall of thy Kingdom speak And thy great Pow'r by all admir'd their losty Subject make verse 12 God's glorious Works of ancient date shall thus to all be known And thus his Kingdom 's Royal State with publick Splendor shown verse 13 His stedfast Throne from Changes free shall stand for ever fast His boundless Sway no end shall see but Time it self out-last PART II. verse 14 15 The Lord does them support that fall and makes the prostrate rise For his kind Aid all Creatures call who timely food supplies verse 16 Whate'er their various Wants require with open Hand he gives And so fulfills the just Desire of every thing that lives verse 17 18 How holy is the Lord how just how righteous all his ways How nigh to him who with firm Trast for his Assistance prays verse 19 He grants the full Desires of those who him with fear adore And will their Troubles soon compose when they his Aid implore verse 20 The Lord preserves all those with Care whom grateful Love employs But Sinners who his Vengeance dare with surious Rage destroys verse 21 My time to come in praises spent shall still advance his Fame And all Mankind with one Consent for ever bless his Name Psalm CXLVI verse 1 2 O Praise the Lord and thou my Soul for ever bless his Name His wond'rous Love while Life shall last my constant Praise shall claim verse 3 On Kings the greatest Sons of Men let none for Aid rely They cannot save in dang'rous times nor timely help apply verse 4 Depriv'd of Breath to Dust they turn and there neglected lie And all their Thoughts and vain Designs together with them die verse 5 Then happy he who Jacob's God for his Protector takes Who still with well-plac'd Hope the Lord his constant Refuge makes verse 6 The Lord Who made both Heav'nand Earth and all that they contain Will never quit his stedfast Truth nor make his Promise vain verse 7 The poor opprest from all their Wrongs are eas'd by his Decree He gives the Hungry needful Food and sets the Pris'ners free verse 8 By him the Blind receive their sight the weak and fall'n he rears With kind regard and tender Love he for the righteous cares verse 9 The Strangers he preserves from Harm the Qrphan kindly treats Desends the Widow and the wiles of wicked Men deseats verse 10 The God that does in Sion dwell is our eternal King From Age to Age his Reign endures let all his Praises sing Psalm CXLVII verse 1 O Praise the Lord with Hymns of Joy and celebrate his Fame For pleasant good and comely 't is to praise his holy Name verse 2 His holy City God will build tho' levell'd with the Ground Bring back his People tho' dispers'd thro' all the Nations round verse 3 4 He kindly heals the broken Hearts and all their wounds does close He tells the number of