old Prophets besides we may easily beleeve that Christ with a Key of David in his hand is nothing else but Christ fully open'd and manifested to us in the Psalmes in the whole mystery of our Redemption Omnes penè Psalmi Christi personam sustinent saith Tertullian Almost all the Psalmes represent the Person of Christ. Now this Key of David opens not onely the Kingdome of Grace by Revelation of the mysteries of our Religion but the Kingdome of Heaven too it being such a Collection of Prayers Eucharist acts of hope of love of patience and all other Christian vertues that as the everlasting Kingdome is given to the Heire of the House of David so the Honour of opening that Kingdome is given to the first Prince of that Family the Psalmes of his Father David are one of the best inlets into the Kingdome of the Sonne Something to this purpose is that saying of one of the old Doctors Vox psalmodiae si recto corde dirigatur in tantum omnipotenti Deo aditum ad animum aperit ut intentae animae vel Propheâ—iae mysteria vel compunctionis spiritum insundat The saying or singing of Psalmes opens a way so wide for God to enter into the heart that a devout soule does usually from such an imployment receive the grace of compunction and contrition or of understanding Prophecies Upon such premises as these or better the Church of God in all ages hath made Davids Psalter the greatest part of her publike and private devotions sometimes dividing the Psalter into seven parts that every weeks devotion might spend it all Sometimes decreeing that it should be said day and night Otherwhile injoyned the recitation of the whole Psalter before the celebration of the blessed Sacrament and after some time it was made the publike office of the Church It was the generall use of Christendome to say the Psalmes Antiphonatim by way of verse and answer saith Suidas and so ancient that the Religious of S. Mark in Alexandria used it saith Philo the Jew and S Ignatius or else Flavianus and Diodorus brought it first into the Church of Antioch And for the private Devotions that they chiefly consisted of the Psalmes we have great probability from the strict requiring it of the Clergy and particularly from them who came to be ordained great readinesse of saying the Psalter by heart It was S. Hieroms counsell to Rusticus and when S. Gregory was to ordain the Bishop of Ancona his inquiry concerning his Canonicall sufficiency was if he could say Davids Psalmes without book and for a disability of doing it John the Priest was rejected from the Bishoprick of Ravenna But this I conceive more relates to their private then to their publick devotions for I cannot think but that in respect of the publick Liturgy it was enough for Bishops and Priests to read the Psalm the requiring ability to remember them was to ingage them to a frequent use of so admirable devotions in their private offices But the Psalms were not onely of use to the Church as they lay in their own position and form but the devout men of severall ages drew them into Collects Antiphonaries Responsories and all other parts of their devotions Thâ—y made their Prayers out of the Psalms their confâ—ssions their doxologies their ejaculations for the most part were clauses or periods of the Psalter S. Hierome made a collection of choyce versicles and put them together into their severall classes and that was much of his devotion the Collection is still extant under the Name of S. Hierome's Psalter S. Athanasius made an Index of the severall occasions and matters of prayer and Eucharist and fitted Psalms to each particular that was his devotion the Psalms intire as they lay onely he made titles of his own I have seen of latter time a short hymne of some eight verses which are indeed very choyce sentences out of severall Psalms set together to make a compendium of Liturgy of Breviary of our necessity and devotions collected by S. Bernardine it is a very good Copy to be followed But if we look into the old Liturgies of the Eastern and Western Churches and where we will almost into the the private devotions of the old Writers we may say of them in the expression of the Prophet Hauriebant aquas è sontibus Salvatoris they drew their waters from the fountains of our Blessed Saviour but through the limbecks of David But the practice of this devotion I derived from a higher precedent even of Christ and his Apostles for before the passion immediately they sung a Psalm saith the Scripture Hymno dicto saith the vulgar Latine having recited or said a Psalm But however it was part of Davids Psalter that was sung it was the great Allelujah as the Jews called it beginning at the 113. Psalme to the 119. exclusively part of that was sung But this devotion continued with our Blessed Saviour as long as breath was in him for when he was upon the Crosse he recited the 22. Psalme ad verbum saith the Tradition of the Church and that he began it saith the Scripture My God my God why hast thou forsaken me The whole Psalme is rather a history then a prediction of the Passion and what Tertullian saith of the whole Psalter is particularly verified of this Filium ad Patrem id est Christum ad Deum verba facientem repraesentat it represents the Sonnes addresse to his Father that is Câ—rist speaking to God Against the example of Christ if we confront the practice of Antichrist nothing can be said greater in commendâ—tion of this manner of devotion for B. Hippolytus in his Oration of the end of the world saith that in the days of Antichrist Psalmorum decantatio cessabit they shall then no more use the singing or saying of the Psalmes which when I had observed without any further deliberation I fix'd upon the Psalter as the best weapon against him whose comming we have great reason to beleeve is not far off so great preparation is making for him From the example of Christ this grew to be a Practice Apostolicall and their devotion came exactly home to the likenesse of the design of this very Book they turn'd the Psalmes into Prayers Thus it was said of Paul and Silas Act. 16. They prayed a Psalme so it is in the Greek and we have a Copy left us of one of the Prayers or Collects which they made out of the bowels of the second Psalme it is in the fourth Chapter of the Acts beginning at the 24. verse and ends at the 31. And now I have shown the reasons of my choyce and the precedents that I have followed This last comes home to every circumstâ—nce of my Book I onely adde this that since according to the instruction of our blessed Saviour God is to be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth no worshipping can be more true or more spirituâ—ll then the Psalter said with a pure minde and
a hearty devotion For David was Gods instrument to the Church teaching and admonishing us as our duty is to each oâ—her in Psalmes and Hymnes and spirituall Songs anâ— the Spirit of Truth was the Grand Dictator of what David wrote so that we may confidently use this devotion as the Church of God ever did making her addresses to God most frequently by the Psalms so Prudentius reports the guise of Christendome Te mente purâ simplici Te voce te cantu pio Rogare curvato genu Flendo canendo discimus Hymn 2. Cathemer The Prayers which I have collected out of the Psalms are nothing else but the matter of the Psalmes put into â—nother mood and fitted to the necessities of Christendome and of our selves in particular according to the first designation or secondary intention of the blessed Spirit for the use of them could not expire in the person of David though first occasioned many of them by his personall necessities for all Scripture was written for our learning upon whom the ends of the world are come saith the Apostle and Christ and his Apostles and the Church of all ages hath taught us by their example and precepts that the purposes of the holy Ghost were of great extent and the profits universall both for times and occasions so also were the Prayers which the Church made out of the Psalms and sung them in her publick offices S. Austin found great advantages by such devotions as himselfe witnesses Cùm reminiscor lachrymas meas quas fudi ad cantus Ecclesiae in primordiis recuperatae fidei meae magnam instituti hujus utilitatem agnosco When I call to minde the many teares I shed when I heard the Hymnes and Psalms of the Church I cannot but acknowledge the great benefit of this institution And yet besides the spirituall sense of an actuall devotion which is sooner had in this use of the Psalms then of other Prayers I have had a meditation that this manner of devotion might be a good Symbol and instrument of Communion between Christians of a different Perswasion For if we all would communicate in the same private devotions it were a great degree of Peace and Charity The Nicenâ— Fathers in their zeale against Heresie forbad their people to be present at the Prayers of Heretiques and they had great reason so long as they derived their Heresie into their Liturgy into their very formes of Baptisme But I am much scandalized when I see a man refuse to communicate with me in my Prayers even such as are in his own Breviary or Manuall For me thinks it is strange that the Lords Prayer it selfe should be unhallowed in the mouth of a Protestant and yet the whole office from the mouth of one of their Priests though never so wicked though a Necromancer a secret Jew or any thing so of their Communion shall lose no title of its sanctity and value So long as nothing of controversie is brought into our Prayers and certainly we may very well pray to God without disputing and Devotion is not made a party he that refuses to joyn with me in what himself confesses true and holy upon pretence I am a heretick will certainly prove himself a Schismatick For true it is a Heretick is to be avoyded that is in his temptation and in his heresie just as a notorious Fornicator an Adulterer a sentenc'd drunkard and no more the Apostles rule excommunicates all alike with such men no not to eat and this rule cannot with so much ease and certainty bee put to practice in the case of heresie as in the case of drunkennesse because heresie is as much harder to be judg'd as the soule is more invisible then the body especially if wee make heresy to be an error not in the great articles of faith only but to consist in minutes also as all they do who refuse to communicate with Persons disagreeing even in the smallest article But hee that is ready to joyne with all the societies of Christians in the world in those things which are certainly true just and pious gives great probation that he hath at least animum Catholicam no Schismaticall soul because he would actually communicate with all Christendome if bona fides in falso articulo sincere perswasion be it true or false did not disoblige him since he clearly distinguishes persons from things and in all good things communicates with persons bad enough in others This is the Communion of charity and when the Communion of beleef is interrupted by misperswasion on one side and too much confidence and want of charity on the other the erring party hath humane infirmity to excuse him but the uncharitable nothing at all This therefore is the best and surest way because we are all apt to be deceived to be sincere in our disquisitions modest in our determinations charitable in our censures and apt to communicate in things of evident truth and confessed holinesse And such is this devotion the whole matter whereof is the Psalms of David and the prayers Symbolicall and alike in substance and of the same expression throughout where it is not altered by circumstances So that I thought I might not imprudently intend this Book as an instrument of publike charity to Christians of different confessions For I see that all sorts of people sing or say Davids Psalms and by that use if they understand the consequences of their own Religion accept sâ—t forms of prayer for their Liturgy and this form in speciall is one of their own choyces for devotion so that if all Christians that think Davids Psalmes lawfull devotion and shall observe the Collects from them to be just of the same Religion would joyn in this or the like form I am something confident the product would be charity besides other spirituall advantages For my own particular since all Christendome is so much divided and subdivided into innumerable Sects I knew not how to give a better evidence of my own beleef and love of the Communion of Saints and detestation of Schisme then by an act of Religion whose consequence might be if men please the advancement of an universall Communion For in that which is most concerning and is the best preserver of charity I mean practicall devotion and active piety the differences of Christendome are not so great and many to make an eternall dis-union and fracture and if we instance in Prayer there is none at all abroad some indeed wee have commenc'd at home but in the great divisions of Christendome none at all but concerning the object of our prayers and adorations For the Socinian shuts the Holy Ghost from his Letanies and places the Sonne of God in a lower form of addresse But concerning him I must say as S. Paul said of the unbeleevers What have I to doe with them that are without For this very thing that they disbeleeve the article of the holy Trinity they make themselves uncapable of the communion of
with gladnesse so shall we give thanks unto thee for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 31. A prayer for protection against our enemies and all dangers of soule and body and specially at the houre of death IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never bee put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousnesse 2 Bow down thine ear to me make haste to deliver me 3 And be thou my strong rock and the house of defence that thou maist save me 4 For thou art my strong rock and my castle be thou also my guide and lead me for thy names sake 5 Draw me out of the net that they have laid privily for me for thou art my strength 6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord thou God of truth 7 I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities and my trust hath been in the Lord. 8 I will be glad and rejoyce in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble and hast known my soule in adversities 9 Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy but hast set my feet in a large room 10 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am in trouble and mine eye is consumed for very heavinesse yea my soul and my body 11 For my life is waxen old with heavinesse and my yeares with mourning 12 My strength faileth me because of mine iniquity and my bones are consumed 13 I became a reproofe among all mine enemies but specially among my neighbours and they of mine acquaintance were afraid of mee and they that did see me without conveyed themselves from me 14 I am clean forgotten as a dead man out of minde I am become like a broken vessell 15 For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude and feare is on every side while they conspire together against me and take their counsell to take away my life 16 But my hope hath been in thee O Lord I have said Thou art my God 17 My time is in thy hand deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that persecute me 18 Shew thy servant the light of thy countenance and save me for thy mercies sake 19 Let me not be confounded O Lord for I have called upon thee let the ungodly be put to confusion and be put to silence in the grave 20 Let the lying lips be put to silence which cruelly disdainfully and despitefully speak against the righteous 21 O how plentifull is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee even before the sonnes of men 22 Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence from the provoking of all men thou shalt keep them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues 23 Thanks be to the Lord for he hath shewed mee marvellous great kindnesse in a strong city 24 And when I made haste I said I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes 25 Neverthelesse thou heardest the voyce of my prayer when I cried unto thee 26 O love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth them that are faithfull and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer 27 Be strong and he shall stablish your heart all yee that put your trust in the Lord. The Prayer O God our rock the house of our defence let us be glad and rejoyce in thy mercies and salvation Consider O Lord our trouble and in thy pity know our souls beset round about with enemies and adversities Shut us not up into the hands of our enemies nor our lives within the grave Our time O Lord is in thy hand to thee pertain the issues of life and death and though our strength hath failed us because of our iniquity and our bones are vexed by reason of our sins yet our hope is in thee O Lord we have said Thou art our God deliver us from all our enemies bodily and ghostly turn our sadnesse into joy and our mourning into gladnesse lest our bodies and soules be consumed for very heavinesse Let us not be put to confusion nor to silence in the grave but let us see thy marvellous loving kindnesse and partake of thy plentifull goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee even before the sonnes of men O let us never be cast out of the sight of thine eyes but deal with us in mercy and loving kindnesse Into thy hands we commend our spirits resigning our selves up to thy providence and disposition either to life or death as thou in thy infinite wisdome shalt finde most proportionable to thy glory and our eternall good beseeching thee to be our guide to death and to lead us for thy Name sake to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 32. A confession of sins and a prayer for pardon BLessed is he whose unrighteousnesse is forgiven and whose sin is covered 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no sin and in whose spirit there is no guile 3 For while I held my tongue my bones consumed away through my daily complaining 4 For thy hand is heavy upon me day and night and my moisture is like the drought in Summer 5 I will knowledge my sinne unto thee and mine unrighteousnesse have I not hid 6 I said I will confesse my sinnes unto the Lord and so thou forgavest the wickednesse of my sin 7 For this shall every one that is godly make his prayer unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found but in the great water-flouds they shall not come nigh him 8 Thou art a place to hide me in thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliverance 9 I will enform thee and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt goe and I will guide thee with mine eye 10 Be ye not like to Horse and Mule which have no understanding whose mouthes must be holden with bit and bridle left they fall upon thee 11 Great plagues remain for the ungodly but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord mercy embraceth him on every side 12 Be glad O ye righteous and rejoyce in the Lord and be joyfull all ye that are true of heart The Prayer O Lord God eternall Judge of men and Angels whose property is always to have mercy and to forgive have mercy upon us who confesse our sins unto thee to be so great and many that were not thy mercy infinite we might despair of having our unrighteousnesse forgiven or our sins covered O dear God preserve us from the great plagues that remain for the ungodly and let thy mercy imbrace us on every side Impute not unto us the sins we have multiplied against thee and against all the world for we have been like to a Horse and Mule without understanding brutish in our passions sensuall in our affections of unbridled heats and distemperatures But
live a godly life 13 O Lord God of hosts blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee The Prayer O Lord God of â—â—sts who dwellest in the heavens seated in essentiall and eternall felicities fill our hearts with desires and longings to enter into those Courts where thou sittest attended with the beauteous orders of Angels and millions of beatified spirits and that our desires may receive infinite satisfactions give us thy help that we going through the vale of misery the pools may be filled with water our hearts and eyes may run over with tears of repentance and overflow with sorrow and contrition for our sins that we living a godly life going from strength to strength from vertue to vertue at last we may appear in Sion unto the God of gods beholding the face of thine Anointed thy Christ and our Jesus and may dwell one day in thy Courts even all the long day of eternity through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 85. A thanksgiving for Gods free mercy in the pardon of our sinnes and a prayer for the continuance and increase of his mercies to us LOrd thou art become gracious unto thy land thou haâ—t turned away the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people and â—overed all their sins 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure and turâ—ed thy self from thy wrathfull indignation 4 Turn us then O God our Saviour and let thine â—nger cease from us 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another 6 Wilt thou not turn again and quicken us that thy people may rejoyce in thee 7 Shew us thy mercy O Lord and grant us thy salvation 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will say concerning me for he shall speak peace unto his people and to â—is saints that they turn not again 9 For his salvation is nigh them that fear him that glory may dwell in our land 10 Mercy and truth are met together righteousnesse and peace have kissâ—d each other 11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth and righteousnesse hath looked down from heaven 12 Yea the Lord shal shew loving kindnesse and our land shall give her encrease 13 Righteousnesse shall goe before him and he shall direct his going in the way The Prayer O Most gracious God who art reconciled unto us in our Saviour Jesus having for his sake forgiven the offences of thy people covered all their sins with the robe of his most immaculate sanctity and righteousnesse let thy grace convert and quicken us that we may rejoyce in thee and thy salvation in faith of thy promises in the hope of actuall communication of thy mercies to us and in love to thee for so great blessings and redemption and when thou hast spoken peace unto our souls and reconciled us to thy self in the bloud of thy Son give us the grace of perseverance that we may never turn again to folly but may follow mercy and truth all our days and at last be satisfied with thy righteousnesse and peace eternall through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 86. A Prayer for sanctity and preservation BOw down thine ear O Lord and hear me for I am poor and in misery 2 Preserve thou my soule for I am holy my God save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee 3 Be mercifull unto me O Lord for I will call daily upon thee 4 Comfort the soul of thy servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my soul. 5 For thou Lord art good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee 6 Give ear Lord unto my prayer and ponder the voyce of my humble desires 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou hearest me 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee O Lord there is not one that can do as thou doest 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and â—orship thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name 10 For thou art great and doest wondrous things â—â—ou art God alone 11 Teach me thy way O Lord and I will walk in â—hy truth O knit my heart unto thee that I may fear thy Name 12 I will thank thee O Lord my God with all my heart and will praise thy Name for evermore 13 For great is thy mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell 14 O God the proud are risen against me and the congregations of naughty men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before their eyes 15 But thou O Lord God art full of compassion â—nd mercy long-suffering plenteous in goodnesse and truth 16 O turn thee then unto me and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and help the son of thine handmaid 17 Shew some good token upon mee for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me The Prayer O Lord God good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee give ear unto our prayers ponder the voice of our desires when ever we call upon thee in our trouble Let the souls of thy servants be refreshed with thy comforts and defend us from the congregations of proud and naughty men Turn thee unto us with mercy give thy strength unto us teach us thy laws make us to walk in thy truth give us the fear of thy Name and knit our hearts to thee with the indissoluble bands of charity and obedience that our souls being saved from the nethermost hell we may worship thee O Lord and glorifie thy name who art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and plenteous in goodnesse and truth which thou hast manifested to us in our deliverance and redemption through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 87. A contemplation of the excellencies of Sion or the celestiall Jerusalem HEr foundations are upon the holy hils the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellings of Jacob. 2 Very excellent things are spoken of thee thou city of God 3 I will think upon Rahab and Babylon with them that know thee 4 Behold yee the Philistines also and they of Tyre with the Morians lo there was he born 5 And of Sion it shall be reported that he was born in her and the most High shall stablish her 6 The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth up the people that he was born there 7 The singers also and trumpeters shall be rehearse all my fresh springs shall be in thee The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest in Sion and delightest to have thy habitation in the hearts of men thou hast built the Church as a City upon a hill and laid the foundation of it upon the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ being the chief Corner-stone make us to be a spirituall building fit for thy
holy hill in thine everlasting habitation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 100. A Psalm of praise to God for his mercy truth O Be joyfull in the Lord all ye lands serve the Lord with gladnesse and come before him presence with a song 2 Be ye sure that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture 3 O goe your way into his gates with thanskgiving into his courts with praise be thankfull unto him and speak good of his name 4 For the Lord is gracious his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord our God who hast created us out of nothing and hast redeemed us from misery and death when we were thine enemies shewing great expresses of thy loving kindness when we were vessels of wrath and inheritors of perdition revealing thy truth unto us in the Sermons of the Gospel teach us to walk as thou hast commanded us to believe as thou hast taught us that we may inherit what thou hast promised us for thou art the way the truth and the life we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture thou art our guide and our defence let thy grace teach us to serve thee and thy holy Spirit assist and promote our endeavours with the blessings of gladnesse and chearfulnesse of Spirit that we may love to speak good of thy Name and at last may go into the courts of thy Temple with praise and a song in our mouths to thy honour and eternall glory whose mercy and truth is everlasting and revealed unto the Church in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 101. A Prayer for a holy life MY song shall be of mercy and judgement unto thee O Lord will I sing 2 O let me have understanding in the way of godlinesse 3 When wilt thou come unto me I will walk in my house with a perfect heart 4 I will take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sins of unfaithfulnesse there shall no such cleave unto me 5 A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person 6 Who so privily slandereth his neighbour him will I destroy 7 Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomack I will not suffer him 8 Mine eyes look unto such as be faithfull in the land that they may dwell with me 9 Whoso leadeth a godly life he shall be my servant 10 There shall no deceitfull person dwell in my house he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight 11 I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land that I may root out all wicked doers from the City of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall purity who art of pure eyes and canst behold no unrighteousnesse or impurity enlighten our understandings that we may have knowledge in the way of godlinesse make our paths straight and our hearts perfect take from us the sins of unfaithfulnesse correct and mortifie in us all froward and peevish dispositions let us love the society of the Saints and hate the fellowship of the wicked that we may not be destroyed with the ungodly nor be rooted out from the City of the Lord and banished from the sweetnesse of thy presence for with thee is light and health and salvation to thy Name be all honour and glory and praise ascribed world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 102. A Prayer for comfort in sadnesse anxiety of spirit sicknesse or any other affliction HEar my prayer O Lord and let my crying come unto thee 2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble encline thine ears unto me when I call O hear me and that right soon 3 For my days are consumed away like smoak and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand 4 My heart is smitten down and withered like grasse so that I forget to eat my bread 5 For the voyce of my groaning my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh 6 I am become like a pelican in the wildernesse and like an owle that is in the desert 7 I have watched and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the house top 8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long and they that are mad upon me are sworn together against me 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread and mingled my drink with weeping 10 And that because of thine indignation and wrath for thou hast taken me up and cast me down 11 My days are gone like a shadow and I am withered like grasse 12 But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and â—hy remembrance throughout all generations 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Sion for it is time that thou have mercy upon her yea the time is come 14 And why thy servants think upon her stones and it piâ—ieth them to see her in the dust 15 The heathen shall fear thy Name O Lord and all the kings of the earth thy majesty 16 When the Lord shall build up Sion and when his glory shall appear 17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poore dâ—stiâ—ute and despiseth not their desire 18 This shall be written for those that come after and the people which shall be born shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from his sanctuary out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth 20 That he might hear the mournings of such as be in captivity and deliver the children appointed unto death 21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Sion and his worship at Jerusalem 22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdomes also to serve the Lord. 23 He brought down my strength in my journey and shortened my days 24 But I said O my God take me not away in the midst of mine age as for thy years they endure throughout all generations 25 Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands 26 They shall perish but thou shalt endure they all shall wax old as doth a garment 27 And as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy years shall not faile 28 The children of thy servants shall continue and â—heir seed shall stand fast in thy sight The Prayer O Eternall God who endurest for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations have pity upon us according to the infinite treasures of thy loving kindnesse hear the voice of our groaning for thy indignation and thy wrath lieth hard upon us our sins have put an edge upon thy sword and a thorn into our wounded consciences O build up the ruines of our souls repair the breaches of our comforts and our hopes and let thy glory now appear for that shines brightest in the beams of thy mercy and when thou turnest