from my Mother's Womb at first By Thee was brought to light And by thy Providence was nurs'd And in thy Praise delight verse 7 Though I a Monster seem to most In Thee my Hopes are strong verse 8 O let thy Honour be my Boast Thy Praise my daily Song verse 9 Cast me not off when elder Days When Age comes creeping on O leave me not when Strength decays And youthful Years are gone verse 10 My Foes Who watch my Soul declare Where they in private meet verse 11 See now how God withdraws his Care And leaves his Favourite Up let us seize him now pursue Where-e'er the Dastard flies He has alas no Help in view None to his Aid will rife Part 2. verse 12 Haste then my God to help me fly No more thy Helps delay verse 13 But let my Foes confounded lie Their Spite with Shame repay verse 14 On Thee I 'll still with Patience wait And praise Thee more and more verse 15 And all thy righteous Acts relate And thy Salvation's Store These all Accounts so far transcend That none their Numbers know verse 16 But Lord I 'll on thy Strength depend Thy Justice only show verse 17 As taught by Thee from Childhood I Thy wond'rous Works have showns verse 18 O let me not deserted lie When weak and ancient grown Lord leave me not when hoary Hairs Invest my aged Head Till to this Age and future Heirs I 'Ve all thy Wonders read verse 19 On high thy righteous Actions shine And great thy Judgments are What Being Lord though cali'd Divine Can e'er with Thee compare verse 20 Thou show'st me mighty Grie'fs and Woes Yet shall thy Smiles revive And from Earth's hollow Deeps below Present my Soul alive verse 21 My Head thy Loves shall greatly raise Thy Comforts guard my round verse 22 And I thy Truth with Songs shall raise And Harp's melodious Sound O Israel's holy God to Thee My Lips will gladly sing My Soul redeem'd from Misery Its Tribute Praises bring verse 24 Thy Righteousness my Tongue shall trace And daily talk of thee Since they are crush'd with dark Disgrace Who sought to ruin me Psal 72. As the 100th or Mr. Sundays's 1â—… verse 1 LOrd to the King thy Judgments give Thy Justice on his Son bestow verse 2 Then shall the Wor'd his Judgments know The Humble by his Justice live verse 3 Then those advanc'd to noblest State Shall all for publick Peace declare The meanest Officers with Care Their Princes Goodness imitate verse 4 He 'll judge the Poor their Off-spring save And break the bold Oppressor's Force verse 5 While Sun and Moon maintain their Caurse His Fear shall ev'ry Heart enslave verse 6 His Goodness like soft Rains and Dews Which on the new-mown Grass descend Shall to the Moon 's last Age extend And Peace abundant Peace diff'use The Righteous in his happy Reign Shall thrive his mighty Empire stretch As far as Lands or Waters reach Or farthest Springs their Streams maintain To Him th' Arabian Troops shall bow His Enemies the Dust embrace And Saba's Kings to court his Grace Their noblest Gifts and Off'rings vow The Isles the Continent shall send Their Kings to kiss his sacred Feet All kings shall in his Worship meet And Nations to his Service bend For He 'll the praying Poor discharge Th' Oppress'd who no Assistance find He 'll to the needy Soul be kind And He 'll the humble Heart enlarge From Violence He 'll set them free From shameless Fraud and base Deceit And in his Sight jn Value great The Blood of all his Saints shall be Long shall He live pure Gold as long To Him th' Arabian Bands shall pay To Him th' obedient World shall pray And Him with daily Blessings throng And though his Truth at first may seem Of meanest Worth and smallest Force 'T will soon with a resistless Course Command the wiser World's Esteem It s Fruit to nobler Heighths shall grow Than Lebanon's immortal Heads More thick than Grass the Valleys spreads Vast Crouds shall to his Doctrine flow verse 17 His Name Eternity possess'd God's Son before reflecting Streams Threw back the Sun 's first Infant-Beams And in Him ev'ry Nation 's bless'd verse 18 All Lands shall bless his sacred Name O bless'd be God the mighty Lord Whose Name old Jacob's Tribes record Whose Name his wondrous Works proclaim verse 19 With Blessings let his Name be crown'd Till Time 's run out and ev'ry Day His Glories through the World display And loud Amens Amens resound Another Metre as Mr. Sandys's 5th verse 1 LOrd let the King thy Judgments find Enrich the Prince's Royal Mind Fer Crowns and Governments design'd verse 2 Then shall He Sentence wisely give And safe in his Prerogative Shall all the Poor Afflicted live verse 3 Then Righteousness and Peace shall reign The mighty Men shall Peace maintain And Justice all the Vulgar gain verse 4 He 'll vindicate and save the Poor And all their Race from Harms secure But Tyrants must his Wrath endure verse 5 Him all from Age to Age shall fear As long as Mid-day's Suns appear Or Moons the gloomy Mid-night chear verse 6 Sweet be his Rule and soft his Reign As gentle Dews which cool the Plain Or Show'rs which Grass and Herbs maintain verse 7 The Just shall flourish in his Days Abundant Peace her Head shall raise While Moons shall shine or Stars shall blaze verse 8 His Empire shall be vast and wide As far as Seas Can feel the Tide Or Rivers flow or Winds can ride verse 9 In him th' Arabians wild shall trust His Foes beneath his Foot-stool thrust Shall sall and humbly lick the Dust verse 10 Him shall the Island-Kings obey To Him Black AEthiopians pray And Off'rings on his Altars lay verse 11 Their Kings by Truth convinc'd shall be His Servants and his Slaves and He All Nations at his Feet shall see verse 12 For He the poor Man's Cries shall hear The Suff'rers and Afflicted chear When neither Help nor Friends appear verse 13 He 'll to the Weak in Want be kind The humble and submissive Mind Shall always his Assistance find verse 14 Where Fraud and Wrong triumphant seem He 'l all their fainting Souls redeem And dear their precious Lives esteem verse 15 Long may He live and long may they To Him their Golden Tributes pay And daily praise and daily pray verse 16 Where little Hope or Seed was found May mighty Crops adorn the Ground Like Libanus with Cedars crown'd Their Towns before with Widows fill'd A new and num'rous Off-spring yield Thick as the Grass which shades the Field verse 17 To Him may all the Nations haste His Name with endless Blessings grac'd Beyond the Sun Eternal last verse 18 Bless'd be the Lord our God! May He Whose wond'rous Works we daily see Prais'd by his grateful Churches be verse 19 Bless'd ever bless'd his glorious Name May all the World advance his Fame While we Amen Amen proclaim PSAL. lxxiij verse
for me verse 7 Lord set my Soul from Prison free To praise thy sacred Name And when the Righteous compass me Thy Bounties I 'le proclaim PSAL. clxiij verse 1 LOrd hear my Prayers accept my Cries In Truth and Righteousness verse 2 And let not Judgments sharp surprize Thy Servant's Soul oppress For when thy searching Eyes begin To try our fading Years Lord in thy sight o'rewhelm'd with Sin The purest Saint appears verse 3 My Soul pursu'd by cruel Foes My Life quite overthrown I ly in Darkness lost like those Who to their Graves are gone verse 4 For this my Spirit faints in me My Heart deserted mourns verse 5 And to my labouring Memory My happier Age returns On all thy Acts I daily muse Thy Works run daily o're verse 6 And as the parching Earth soft Dews So Thee my Hands implore verse 7 I faint ô quickly quickly hear Thy smiles dear Lord I crave Least I like dying Men appear Who just approach the Grave verse 8 Let me thy Mercies early gain For Lord I trust in Thee To Thee I lift my Soul make plain The way of Life to me verse 9 Save me from all my Foes who still To Thee for shelter fly verse 10 Teach me to do thy sacred Will My Lord my God most High O let thy Spirit lead me to The Land of Righteosness verse 11 My Soul with active Life renew And for thy Glory bless Just Lord from Troubles set me free And all my Foes destroy Thy Mercy and thy Help let me Thy Servant Lord enjoy PSAL. clxjv verse 1 BLest be the Lord my strength whose Care And whose victorious Might Instructs my ready Hands for War My Fingers for the Fight verse 2 My Goodness Fort my Raiser He My Saviour and my Shield In Him I trust thro' Him to Me My willing People yield verse 3 Lord what is Man what Man 's weak Race Own'd by the favouring Ey verse 4 Meer Vanity His Age his Grace Like Shadows swiftly fly verse 5 Lord bow thy Heavens come down divide The Hills the Hills shall smoke verse 6 Shoot Lightnings break destroy their Pride With one confounding stroke verse 7 Lord from above thy Arms extend And save and rescue Me From Headstrong Crouds my Crown defend And Forreign Tyranny verse 8 From such whose Lips and Hands in Lyes In Deed and Word agree verse 9 So I 'll new Songs new Tunes devise On Lute and Harp to Thee Part 2 verse 10 The Lord his strong Salvation's Guards On Royal Head bestows And from his Servant David wards The plotting Traitors blows verse 11 Save Me my God! ô rescue Me From Forreign Enemies Whose Words Actions all agree In Treachery And Lies verse 12 So shall our Sons like Plants alive In Water'd Gardens show And with a kindly vigour thrive And daily stronger grow Our Daughters like fair Marble Coines Smooth'd by some Currious hand On which the building sweetly joyns The Roofs securely stand verse 13 All kind of Grain shall largely flow And run our Garners o're Till none by Numbers force can know Our never ending store Our Flocks their Young by thousands near Our very Gates shall lay Ten thousands in the rolling Year About out Pastures play verse 14 Our Cattel to their Work be strong We no Invasions fear No Captives know no Cries among Our peaceful Dwellings hear verse 15 Happy the Tribes must needs become On whom such Favour flows But ô more happy those on whom Their God himself bestows PSAL. cxlv verse 1 THy Name my God my King I 'll raise Above the lofty Skyes verse 2 Each Day thy Holy Name I 'll praise And Psalms of thanks devise verse 3 Great is our Lord his Glory 's great No Bounds his Greatness knows verse 4 And Race to race his Acts repeat His wondrous Works disclose verse 5 I 'll all my serious Thoughts address To search thy wondrous ways verse 6 The World thy Terrors shall confess While I thy Greatness praise verse 7 Thy Righteous Truth the World adores To mind thy Goodness brings And all thy Loves unfailing Stores In grateful Anthems Sings verse 8 Our Lord 's Compassionate and kind To vengeance only slow verse 9 His Goodness all his Creatures find O're all his Mercies flow verse 10 Thee all thy Works ô God shall Praise And celebrate thy Name Thy Saints as gladly all their Days Thy glorious Might proclaim Part 2. verse 11 Thy Might thy Kingdom 's glorious State Thy Servants Talk shall show verse 12 Till all thy valiant Acts relate Thy awful Glories know verse 13 Beyond Times bounds thy Kingdom stands Thy Government endures verse 14 Thy Help supports the weak thy Hand Their timely Ease procures verse 15 To Thee all raise their longing Eyes From Thee they beg their Food verse 16 Thy Bounteous Hand their Wants supplies And satisfies with Good verse 17 How Just blest God how gentle all Thy Ways and Works appear verse 11 Kind to those Souls which on Thee call To those who seek Thee near verse 19 Thou grantst the pious Suppliants Prayers Thou seest thy Servants Tears Thy Hand relieves their Various Cares And Ends their Doubts and Fears verse 20 But all the wicked World shall find Thy Judgments dreadful weight To thy revenging Wrath resign'd And unrelenting Hate verse 21 Thy Name blest God my Songs shall raise Above the lofty Skyes And all to Thee shall pay their Praise Till Times last Moment dyes PSAL. cxlvj. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord with praise my Soul Thy Maker's Glories raise verse 2 While Breath and Life are in me whole I 'll sing thy lofty Praise verse 3 On Kings on Men of mortal Birth For safety ne'r rely verse 4 Whose Breath goes out who turn to Earth And all whose Counsels dy verse 5 But happy 's He whose Hopes whose Aid On God his Lord depends verse 6 Who Seas Earth Heaven and all things made Whose Promise never ends verse 7 He for the Poor his Judgment shows When prest by Violence Does Prisoners free and Food to those Of Hungry Souls dispence verse 8 God to the Blind gives Sense and Eyes And with his healing Art Sets up the sinking Soul supplies With Love the faithful Heart verse 9 The Widows Orphans Stranger 's cause The Lord himself maintains But o're the Stubborn Sinner draws Destructions fatal Chains verse 10 Thy King thy Lord ô Sion reigns His Actions all record His Throne from Age to Age remains Praise ye ô Praise the Lord PSAL. cxlvij. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord its good to Sing Our Mighty Maker's praise It s pleasant and a comely thing His Glorious Acts to blaze verse 2 The Lord poor Salem's Walls repairs Her wretched Dust removes And home her wandring Outcasts bears Fenced with his tenderest Loves verse 3 The Lord finds out with pittying Art What Man from Man conceals And gently binds the bleeding Heart Its wounds as gently Heals verse 4 He names the Stars which fill the Skies And all their Number
THE PSALMS OF DAVID IN English Metre Translated from the ORIGINAL And Suited to all the TUNES now Sung in CHURCHES With the Additions of several NEW By LUKE MILBOURNE A Presbyter of the Church of England 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adag Arab. Thus by the Streams the Spring is clearly shown And the Translation makes the Author known Lord Falkland None can condemn the Wish or Labour spent Good Matter in good Words to represent Bishop King to Mr. Sandys London Printed for W. Rogers at the Sun R. Clavill at the Peacock and B. Tooke at the Middle Temple Gate all in Fleet street J. Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultry and J. Tayler at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard 1698. TO His Highness THE DUKE OF GLOCESTER May it please Your Highness THis little Book wants a Protector And where could it find a Better than in Our other Hope Your Highness has here the greatest King and the best of Poets to excite Your Courage and enliven Your Devotion You have the Wit and Spirit of a Court without the Follies of the present Age Fineness of Thought without Loosness of Fancy Rapture without Extravagance and Piety without the Extreams of Superstition or Idolatry These Hymns contain nothing but what may adorn the Innocence of Youth and the Vigour of a Manly Age. The Masters of Musick may try their Skill here and sing God's Praises in as charming Notes as common and despicable Amours and advance the Love of their Redeemer above all the Atchievments of a fancied Hero From Your Highness's Hand this Work may be acceptable to His most Excellent Majesty and find Admission into the Closet of Your Royal Mother If read by Your Self it will be a Divine Monitor in Your Diversions a Companion in Your Privacy a Support under Uneasiness and a Security to Your Religion Those Holy Truths convey'd through the Channels smooth and easie Verse will with God's Blessing make You wiser than Your Enemies more knowing than any Earthly Teachers and more apprehensive than those of Elder Years May the God of Heaven bless Your Highness's Pregnant Youth with advancing Vertues and unfading Years May He crown You with Love and Honour here and with Love and Happiness hereafter Which is the most earnest Prayer of Your Highness's Most Humble and Most Obedient Servant Luke Milbourne To the Most Reverend Fathers in God the Archbishops the Right Reverend the Bishops and the Reverend Clergy of Great Britain and Ireland especially such as now do or hereafter may represent that whole Body in Convocation The Preface of Luke Milbourne Presbyter and Author of this Translation of the Psalms of David Most Reverend Right Reverend and Reverend Fathers and Brethren THat Psalmody was amongst the Jews a considerable Part of Divine Worship that Book of which this calls it self a Translation is a sufficient Evidence That it was used among Christians of old is unquestionable And perhaps it is no Disparagement either to the Jewish or the Christian Church that a great part of the old Heathen Worship consisted in Singing Hymns and Praises to their Gods There is somewhat so truly Divine and Charming in Well-set Notes and Vocal and Instrumental Harmony they are so apt to chear and revive languid and drooping Spirits so likely to make strong Impressions on the Memory and so extreamly affecting to the devout Soul that as the Agreeableness of their Numbers made Poets of old the sittest Treasures of Divine Knowledge so the Softness and Sweetness of their Notes may make the Masters of Sacred Musick among our selves were but their Lives as Heavenly as their Art the fittest Companions for happy Souls and Blissful Angels With respect to whom our excellent Waller says All that we know of those above Is that they sing and that they love What Thoughts our first Reformers in this Nation had of this part of Divine Worship is not easie to conjecture But whether they judged Singing of Psalms by the whole Congregation no necessary part of a Publick Liturgy or supposed that the Reading Psalms chaunted in Recitative or sung as at present in Cathedrals which seems favour'd by that Title they carry in our Common-Prayer-Book The Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be Said or Sung in Churches was enough to answer that part of Worship 't is certain they took no Care for any Metrical Translation of those sacred Hymns for publick Use And though some pious and learned Men had taken pains to put them into Verse the setled Liturgy took no notice of the Matter Nor could I ever find any Authentick Allowance for singing them in publick However the Practice of Singing prvail'd here every Day in Imitation the Reformed abroad and certainly tened very much towards the advancing the Reformation it self but after all was only connived at or tolerated And after the Restauration of our Religion and our Government neve◠Authorised or so much as mentioned a◠a Part of our Publick Service And the present and constant Practice of our Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches and our Colleges not to mention the Chape◠Royal and other Places where Choir◠are fixed intimates that such Psalms were never design'd to be setled by Authority Prose-Anthems being there generally sung taken out of the Reading Psalms some short Parts of other Scriptural Hymns some of private Composure and by chance sometimes a Verse or two out of Sternhold and Hopkins as particularly out of the 68th Psalm Let God arise c. Set I think by Mr. Laws Now the Cathedrals being patterns to our Parochial Assemblies at least in the main parts of solemn Worship they having no Example of such a Nature from them could pretend to no Right of Singing Psalms in Verse by the entire Congregation Hence though the great Sir Philip Sidney translated the whole Book of Psalms into Rhyme and the pious Bishop Hall and the renouned Lord Bacon and it may be some others turn'd several particular Psalms into Verse more correct doubtless than the former yet there never was any Motion towards introducing them into Churches And since our Convocations to whom that Work properly belongs never took any such Cognizance of these or of the Ancient Version as to recommend them with the Liturgy to the Parliament our Common Psalmody remains a Matter of Liberty And it never yet was made an Article of Enquiry at any Episcopal Visitation Whether any Psalms were sung or what Versions of them were used in Parochial Churches On this Account it was that whereas no Man better understood his own Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Affairs than Charles the First of blessed Memory yet though he designed the utmost Honour to the Memory of his Father when the new Translation of King James the First was made publick he only allow'd and recommended it to common Use which as Experience shew'd was not enough to break in upon Inveterate Custom or to exclude that which had for so many Years gotten Possession of our Bibles and Common-Prayer-Books
Lord with all That 's good or sweet are stor'd verse 11 Come then ye Children hear my Call And learn to fear the Lord Part 2. verse 12 Who 's he who loves long Life and fain Would see delightful Days verse 13 Thy Lips from all that 's ill refrain Thy Tongue from guileful Ways verse 14 Ill Works of ev'ry kind decline What 's good and vertuous do And Love and Peace with Flames Divine And constant Care pursue verse 15 God on the Just hath fix'd his Eyes His Ears their Pray'rs attend verse 16 His Frowns against the Wicked rise Their Lives from Earth to rend verse 17 To good Men's Pray'rs He Favour shows And sets them safe from Harms verse 18 But loves the broken Heart and those Whose Souls Repentance warms verse 19 A Thousand Ills the Good surround But God their Force dispels verse 20 And keeps their Bones and Entrails sound And all their Bruises heals verse 21 Ill Men their in-born Malice kills And those who hate the Just verse 22 While God his own with Goodness fills Who on his Mercy trust PSAL XXXV verse 1 LOrd plead my Cause my Battels fight With such as strive with me verse 2 Rise take the Shield defend my Right My mighty Guardian be verse 3 Put on thy dreadful Arms oppose My Persecutors Rage To me thy Saving Health disclose And for my Soul engage verse 4 Let such as hunt my Soul with Shame Their own Confusion see verse 5 With Scorn their Dastard Flight proclaim Who Mischief brew for me verse 6 Like flying Chaff let Angels Force Disporse their angry Crew Their slipp'ry Ways be dark their Course Angelick Arms pursue verse 7 For unprovok'd their Pits they made For me they laid their Snare O let such Woes their Hearts invade As unsuspected are verse 8 O let the Nets for mine design'd Their own Destruction prove While flowing Joys my raptur'd Mind With kind Salvation move Part 2. verse 9 O let my Bones his Praise dec'are Who gives the Poor distress'd verse 10 From savage Foes and deadly Care And bloody Tyrants Rest verse 11 False Witnesses against me rise And unknown Crimes object verse 12 With Ill for Good my Death devise And on my Soul reflect verse 13 Yet when on sickly Beds they groan'd I fasted mourn'd and pray'd Their Pains with kind Concernment own'd To Heart their Sorrows lay'd verse 14 If Mother Brother or my Friend My dearer Self had dy'd No farther could my Griefs extend My Love no more be try'd verse 15 But when I fail'd the Croud my Woes With barb'rous Joy survey'd The Rabble grew my sawcy Foes And us'd the flouting Trade verse 16 With Men of double Hearts combin'd The witty scornful Crew And at my Life with Hate resin'd And gnashing Fury flew verse 17 And canst thou this with Patience see O save my helpless Soul My Darling from their Jaws to free Their Lion-Force control verse 18 So where the great Assemblies are I 'll celebrate thy Name And where the valiant Bands repair Thy lofty Praise proclaim Part 3. verse 19 Let not my Foes rejoice uncheck'd My Causeless Haters smile verse 20 Who Wars with peaceful Men project Whose study'd Words beguile verse 21 They gap'd and cry'd Aha Aha! Our Eyes his Downfall see verse 22 Thou seest ô don 't in Silence stay O stay not long from me verse 23 Awake arise to judge my Cause My God my Lord descend verse 24 O clear me by thy righteous Laws And from Reproach desend verse 25 O lct not scornful Sinners say We have our Heart's Delight Nor let them proudly boast Aha! We have ' devour'd him quite verse 26 Let Shame and Blushes those pursue Who at my Harms rejoice And Horrour and Disgrace subdue The proud insulting Voice verse 27 But those who love my righteous Ways With chearful Spirits sing God loves his Servants Peace ô praise O praise our mighty King verse 28 So shall my Tongue with chearful Air Thy righteous Acts proclaim Thy Justice ev'ry Day declare And praise thy glorious Name PSAL. xxxvj verse 1 WHen th' horrid Acts of impious Fools My sober Censures try My Heart concludes by Reason's Rules Such Brutes a God deny verse 2 Their Consciences no Terrours wound But Sin 's their who'e De'ight Till all their dark Intendments found A gen'ral Hate excite verse 3 Their Taks deceitful all in vain And off their Vertue 's thrown verse 4 Vile Thoughts their very Beds contain In viler Actions shown verse 5 Thy Mercy Lord in Heav'n commands Thy Truth surmounts the Skies verse 6 Thy Righteousness Mountains stands Thy Judgments dark and wise Like some unfathomable Deeps Unbounded Wealth inclose And Man and Beast thy Favour keeps And Health on all bestows verse 7 What Worth thy Mercies Lord contain Beneath thy sacred Wings How safe the Sons of Men remain At Lov 's immortal Springs verse 8 They 're with o'erflowing Mercies fill'd And drink delightful Streams From those Eternal Springs distill'd And feel thy gracious Beams verse 9 From thee Life's lasting Fountains slow Thy Light affords us Light verse 10 O Goodness then and Justice show To those whose Hearts are right verse 11 From wicked Pride Lord set me free My tott'ring State restore verse 12 Till such as work Iniquity Sink fall and rise no more PSAL. xxxvij verse 1 FRet not nor for great wicked Men Thy self of Peace deprive Nor swell with secret Envy when The wicked Workers thrive verse 2 See how green Grass and Herbage dies And painted Flow'rs decay More swift the Sinner's Glory flies And sooner fades than they verse 3 Do good and trust in God and live And Faith and Truth defend verse 4 Delight in him he 'll largely give And all thy Pray'rs attend 5 Walk upright on his Grace recline For his Performance stay verse 6 He 'll make thy righteous Counsels shine Bright as the Cloudless Day verse 7 On God with faithful Silence wait But ne'er for Sinners grieve Nor wicked Men in all their State Secure or fix'd believe verse 8 But Wrath and wrathful Hate refrain Lest Sin on thee prevail verse 9 For Godly Men the World shall gain But Sinners sink and fail verse 10 Wait but a while the Sinner's Race Destroy'd no more shall be Yea thou shalt search to find his Place And not his Dwelling see verse 11 The lowly Hearts shall seize the Earth For their Inheritance There live and with delightful Mirth Abundant Peace advance verse 12 Sinners with gnashing Teeth and Rage Against the Just combine verse 13 God's scornful Smiles their Falls presage He sees their Days decline verse 14 Against the Poor and Righteous fierce Their Bows and Swords they try verse 15 But their own Hearts their Swords shall pierce Their Bows in Splinters fly Part 2. verse 16 On pious Men their humbler State More true Content bestows Than Sinners find when all their State With Pride and Plenty flows verse 17 For God's Almighty Arm sustains And strongly guards his own
die And in the Pit's Destruction fall But I 'll on God rely PSAL. lvj verse 1 TO me thy Mercy Lord extend For Men wouâ—d me devour Against me all their Forces bend And press me ev'ry Hour verse 2 Each Day my cruel greedy Foes Design'd to swallow me And Armies which my Soul oppose Would my Destruction see verse 3 When-e'er I fear I 'll trust in Thee verse 4 Thy faithful Word I 'll praise Nor will I fear what Hurt to me Poor mortal Man can raise verse 5 Each Day they wrest my Words to work My Fall their Thoughts are bent verse 6 They meet they trace my Steps they lurk Against my Life intent verse 7 But shall they always scape in Sin In Wrath destroy them all verse 8 Thou know'st my dang'rous Flight hast seen My Tears which daily fall O let them ever in thy Sight In Books recorded lie verse 9 But all my Foes shall turn to Flight When I to God shall cry I know 't for God's my Patron dear verse 10 Through Him his Truth I 'll shew verse 11 I 'll trust in God and nothing fear Which mortal Men can do verse 12 To Thee dear God my Vows are made To Thee my Praise I 'll pay verse 13 Who sav'd'st me from Death's gloomy Shade When I in Danger lay And still I hope through God my Feet Shall ever firmly stand My Steps thy saving Favours meet And I possess the Land PSAL. lvij verse 1 MErcy to me Lord Mercy show My Soul depends on Thee Thy Wings till off this Danger blow Shall my Protection be verse 2 To God I 'll cry to God most High Who all my Wishes sends verse 3 Who me from his superior Sky From barbarous Men defends verse 4 His Truth and Mercy God applies To save my drooping Soul Which now with raging Lions lies Who would devour it whole I ly with fiery Men whose Words Like Spears and Darts appear Whose piercing Tongues than sharpest Swords A greater sharpness bear verse 5 Lord raise thy self exalt thy Name Above the lofty Skies And o're this Earths enlightned Frame Lord lift thy glorious Eyes verse 6 My Soul with sorrow sunk dismaid At fatal Nets prepar'd But now my Foes in Pit-falls made For me themselves are snar'd verse 7 My Heart dear Lord 's prepar'd my Heart Is fix'd thy Praise to sing verse 8 Awake my Pride my charming Art To praise thy gracious King verse 9 Awake my Lute my Harp awake And I 'le prevent the Day To God's great Name new Anthems make And to his Glory play verse 10 His Name his wondrous Works will I Among the Nations praise verse 11 And in my Songs above the Sky His Truth and Mercy raise verse 12 Lord raise thy self exalt thy Name Above the lofty Skies And o're this Earth's enlightned Frame O lift thy glorious Eyes PASL. lviij Psalm Iviij As the 100 or as Mr. Sandys's 14. verse 1 WHen you in private Council sit Are all your Consultations just May others your Decisions trust Their Lives to your pure Hands submit verse 2 No wretched Men your tainted Hearts Iniquities alone pursue Earth groans so long opprest by you Your bloody Hands and faithless Arts. verse 3 I long the wicked Race have known All Lyers from the Breasts and Womb. Lyes in then Infant-Souls have room In Lyes their Elder years are grown verse 4 Poor harmless things compar'd with these Black poisonous Toads and Serpents are Nor can the deafest Asp compare With their hard-hearted Policies verse 5 Asps scorn the curious Charmer's Arts And all his Magic Cant defy These won't admit the Sufferer's cry No Tears can move their stubborn Hearts Part 2. verse 6 Lord break their Teeth their dreadful Jaws Who with a brutish Force enrag'd Against weak Innocence engag'd Confound the Poor and Righteous Cause verse 7 As sliding Waters sink and fail So let their Malice quickly dy And when they let their Arrows fly Let neither Bows nor Shafts prevail verse 8 Let them like Snails when melting waste Or like untimely Births decay verse 9 And to thy stormy Wrath give way As Thorns before a fiery blast verse 10 The Righteous then shall droop no more But God's all-righteous Vengeanee view And all the Paths of Joy pursue And wash their Feet in impious gore verse 11 Then all the World convinc'd shall say The Just are Well rewarded now A God at last we must allow A God the lower World to sway Or thus verse 1 WHen you in private Councils sit Are all your Counsels just May Men to you their lives commit Or your Decisions trust verse 2 No wretched Men your tainted Hearts Iniquity pursue Your bloody Hands and faithless Arts Make Earth her Groans renew verse 3 I long their impious Race have known How from the Womb they ly'd Their Infant Years to Falshood prone Their Elder Age supply'd verse 4 Poor harmless things compar'd with these Black poisonous Serpents are With their hard-hearted Policies Deaf Adders can't compare verse 5 Adders defy the Charmer's Arts And all his Cant defy And these with unrelenting Hearts Throw off the Sufferer's cry verse 6 Lord break their Teeth their dreadful Jaws With brutish force enrag'd Against the Poor's afflicted Cause And Innocence engag'd verse 7 As sliding Waters sink and fall So let their Malice dy Nor Jet their shiver'd Bows prevail Or broken Arrow fly verse 8 Let them like Snails when melting waste Or hasty Births decay verse 9 Or as Thorns to a fiery Blast To thy fierce Wrath give way verse 10 The Righteous then shall droop no more But God's just Vengeance view And wash their Feet in impious Gore And joyful ways pursue verse 11 Then all Mankind convinc'd shall see The Just are well repaid A God to Rule the World must be And his Commands obey'd Another Metre As the old 126. proper Tune verse 1 THE Place was dark And far remov'd from fearching Eyes No chearful Light Could break th'impenetrable gloom No starry Spark Could there the dark Cabal surprize But sullen Night At once possess'd the dismal room These sate Sam 's Council there their Plots they said Their Souls more black than Nights prevailing shade Vile Men could you There in a righteous Ballance weigh The Sufferer's Cause And neither Love nor Pride nor Hate Nor Malice shew Did all impartial Justice sway Your equal Laws No Bribes an unknown Right create Did you in that obscure retreat conclude God's piercing Eye your Thoughts and Actions view'd verse 2 Alas 't was vain To look for facred Justice where Triumphant Sin With all its curs'd Attendance reign'd Where Hopes of Gain Could barbarous Violence endear And all had been By secret Wickedness maintain'd Yet such you all great Counsellers have been The Slaves of Tyrants and the Tools of Sin verse 3 When born at first To entertain the World you ly'd And Fraud and Lyes Your Thoughts and Words and Actious fill'd With Poisons nurst Your Looks the Basilisk out-vy'd Your baleful Eyes
House the Sparrows find The Swallows build their Nests Where with their yet unfeather'd Kind The Dam in Safety rests But ah thine Altars wretched I Near them no more can sing While banish'd from thy House I sly Dear Lord my God my King verse 4 Ah happy Souls who in thy House Can live and praise thy Name verse 5 Whose Arms thy Heav'nly strength endows Whose Hearts thy Ways can frame verse 6 Though through the Vail of Tears they go Their Eyes with Sorrows drown'd Yet Blessings on their Teachers slow With Fruit their Pains are crown'd verse 7 From Strength to Strength from Grace to Grace Th' improving Learners go Till them the God of Gods embrace And Rest on them bestow Part 2. verse 8 My Pray'r great God of Hosts receive And kind Affistance bring verse 9 Consider O our Shie'd relieve Thy once anointed King verse 10 For in thy Courts one Day appears More bless'd more swoet to me Than could a Thousand Thousand Years At any Distance be I 'd rather keep thy Temple's Door And fiod thy Presence there Than in a Palace reign secure Where Sins uncheck'd appear verse 11 For God their Sun their Shield to those Will Grace and Glory give Who with his Laws sincerely close And on Obedience live verse 12 Happy ô happy that good Man Great Lord of Hosts must be Who through all Worldly Changes can Unmov'dly trust in Thee To Father Holy Ghost and Son Ono God in persons Three Be Glory paid and Homage done Through all Eternity PSAL. lxxxv verse 1 THY Favours Lord have kind at last To Israel's Captives been verse 2 And all thy People's Follies past And cover'd all their Sin verse 3 Thy gentler Thoughts with tender Love Thy Jealous Furies eas'd And He who pleads for us above Has all thy Wrath appeas'd verse 4 To us ô God our Saviour now From Anger kindly turn Some Limits to thy Wrath allow Which else would always burn verse 5 On us dear God new Life bestow To us new Vigour give verse 6 That we our Joys in Thee may show And in thy Favour live verse 7 To us thy Mercy Lord extend And thy Salvation show verse 8 What God shall answer I 'll attend Who will his Peace bestow On all his own His Saints shall find The Sweets of Heav'nly Peace When they from Sin 's foul Dross refin'd From careless Follies cease God's kind Salvation's always nigh The Wise who fear his Name That Glory o'er our Land may fly And raise our ancient Fame Kind Peace and Righteousness embrace And Truth and Mercy close Truth springs from Earth from Heav'n her Face Impartial Justice shows All Good on us shall God bestow Our Land shall fruitful prove And Justice with a wondrous Flow Before his Face shall move While we who err'd so oft before Bless'd with so sure a Guide From God shall never wander more But in his Paths abide Another Metre As the old 125th proper Tune BLess'd Lord thy kinder Thoughts at last Did Jacob's Captive-Tribes restore And all the People's Follies past Their Sins with Mercies cover'd o'er Thy Jealous Furies eas'd And all thy Wrath appeas'd To us ô God our Saviour now From thy tempestuous Anger turn Shall thy fierce Wrath no Bounders know But through Eternal Ages burn Us Lord again revive And in thy Joys we live To us thy Mercy Lord extend To us thy bless'd Salvation show To God's kind Answer I 'll attend For Peace he 'll on his Saints bestow His Servants shall have Peace When they from Follies cease verse 9 To pious Men Salvation's near That Glory may possess the Land verse 10 Mercy and Truth conjoin'd appear And Peace and Justice Hand in Hand verse 11 From Earth Truth from the Sky Fair Justice casts her Eye verse 12 Our God on us shall Good bestow Our happy Land shall fruitful prove verse 13 And Justice with a wondrous Flow Before his glorious Presence move And we with such a Guide Shall in his Paths abide PSAL. lxxxvj verse 8 LOrd to my Pray'r thine Ears incline For I 'm distress'd and poor verse 2 I'm wholly Lord and only thine Bless'd God my Soul secure verse 3 My God thy faithful Servant save Who hopes thy Grace to see Mercy thy Mercy Lord I crave And daily cry to Thee verse 4 To Thee alone my Heart I raise O make my Soul rejoice verse 5 Love Pardon Mercy are thy Ways Thou hearst my humble Voice verse 6 Lord hear my Pray'rs receive my Cry verse 7 In Woes address'd to Thee verse 8 Thy Might thy wondrous Works out-vye The Gods of Vanity All Nations whom thy Hands have made Shall fall before thy Face And with pure Worship duly pay'd Thy glorious Name embrace For Thou art God thy Works are great Thy self art God alone To me bless'd God thy Ways repeat And make thy Doctrines known I 'll walk in Truth then Lord unite My Heart to fear thy Name My Heart shall then thy Praise recite And all thy Praise proclaim Thy Mercy 's great to me from Hell Thou brought'st my sinking Soul Though Tyrants at me proudly swell And would my Life control No Sence of Thee the Rebels show But Pity Lord we see Grace Patience Mercy Truth we know In plenty dwells with Thee To me dear God with Mercy turn Thy Strength on me bestow To him who 's of thy Hand-maid born Thy kind Salvation show With me some Mark of Favour leave And shame my spiteful Foes When they thy Aid to me perceive And all thy Love disclose PSAL. lxxxvij as the 113 th WHen God in his All-searching Mind To fix his Church on Earth design'd Deep he her strong Foundations laid verse 2 But Sions Mount that sacred Place Tho' well He lov'd all Jacob's Race He his peculiar Darling made verse 3 How vastly wide how wondrous high Shall thy Immortal Glories fly Blest City of th' Eternal King verse 4 When AEgypt Assur Palestine And all th' Arabia's shall be thine And Vows to thy Protector bring Envy in Them no more shall reign But Saints to fill thy blissful Train Shall come from each converted Land verse 5 In Sion yet those Sons of Peace Shall more than other Lands encrease And in her God securely stand verse 6 When God shall all his Saints enrol The Gentiles Tribes shall fill the Scroul From Thee blest God! our Joy shall spirit verse 7 And all the Sons of Harmony Shall tune their chearful Strings to Thee And thy Eternal Praises sing PSAL. lxxxviij verse 1 BLest God of my Salvation I Call Day and Night to Thee verse 2 O hear my Prayer accept my Cry And kindly answer me verse 3 My Soul alas is fill'd with Woes The Grave attends my Fate verse 4 I 'me left by Life and Sense like those Just in a dying state verse 5 Among the slaughter'd dead I ly i th' Grave from Sorrows free Where Men thrust out from Memory Are cut from Earth by Thee verse 6 Down in the Pits
9 Before his Seat of Holiness Let all devoutly bow And Fear before his Face express And to his service vow verse 10 Among the Nations round proclaim The great Jehovah reigns Through Him the World's establish'd frame Unmov'd and Firm remains Hee 'l Judge the People righteously verse 11 Then let the Skys rejoice Let Earth be glad the Ocean high Exalt its roaring Voice verse 12 Let all the Flocks and Fields their Joys Express in various ways And Forrests with a murmuring Noise Their great Creator praise verse 13 He flys to judge the Earth He slies To make the World confess All Justice in His Bosom lies And Truth and Righteosness PSAL xcvij. As the 100th verse 1 THE Lord the Great Messiah reigns No more to Jewish Bounds confin'd Since all the World the Blessing gains Let all express a grateful Mind O let that spacious Continent Which Adam's num'rous Heirs possess And all the Isles with sweet Consent Their Saviour's wond'rous Love consess verse 2 Thick Clouds and gloomy Darkness hide The God from Faithless curious Eyes On Judgment too by Justice try'd His Throne 's Eternal Pillars rise verse 3 Bright Flames before his Prefence fly And melt the Hearts of angry Foes verse 4 His Beams the World with Light supply And trembling Earch its Master knows verse 5 Vain Men blown up with lofty Pride Like Wax before his Flames appear And those whose Thoughts their God defy'd The mighty God of Nature fear verse 6 His Righteousness the bending Skies Aloud with wond'rous Signs declare His glorious Works before the Eyes Of all th' astonish'd Nations are verse 7 Shame be their Lot who Images Adore and in their Idols boast Our God with humblest Worship please Bow to Him all ye Heav'nly Host verse 8 Ziou's and Judah's Daughters true With Joys thy Judgment Lord embrac'd verse 9 The Earth her mighty Maker knew With more than Angel-Glorys grac'd verse 10 O ye who love our Saviour hate All Sin for Him in each Degree He 'll Safety for his Saints create And from the Wicked set them free verse 11 Light 's largely for the Righteous sown And Joys for upright Hearts prepar'd In Him ô let our Joys be shown His Holiness with Thanks declar'd Another Metre verse 1 THE Lord the great Jehovah reigns Let all the Earth rejoice Let all those Isles the Sea contains Exalt a chearful Voice verse 2 Thick Clouds and heavy Darkness hide Our God from Humane Eyes On Righteousness by Justice try'd His Throne 's Supporters rise verse 3 Fierce Flames before his dreadful Face Consume his angry Foes verse 4 His Lightnings fright the World His Place The Earth with trembling shows verse 5 The Hills before Earth's mighty Lord Like Wax dissolving flow verse 6 The Heav'ns declare his righteous Word And All his Glory know verse 7 Shame be their Lot who Gods can make And in their Idols boast But for your God our Saviour take Ye bright Angelick Host verse 8 Zion's and Judah's Daughters heard Thy Judgments Lord with Joy verse 9 For Thou above the Gods art fear'd O'er Earth exalted high verse 10 O ye who love the Lord with Hate All wicked Works pursue For He 'll secure his Servants State From all the sinful Crew verse 11 For upright Hearts true Joys and Light Are sown Ye Righteous all Rejoice and God's All-sacred Might With grateful Thoughts re-call Another Metre to the Notes of the 114 th as translated by Mr. Cowley verse 1 THE Lord a King triumphant reigns Let all the Earth around The Isles with Joys resound God alone a King remains verse 2 Thick Clouds and heavy Darkness round him fly Justice severe and Judgment waiting by His glorious Throne prepare verse 3 Bright Flames before his Face With dreadful Flashes rake the Air And all his Foes malignant Race With all their impious Works one burning Pile embrace verse 4 See how the pointed Lightnings roll With what a dismal Glare They fill the glowing Air Soaring tow'rd the frighted Pole Shock'd with the Vision trembling Nature quakes The shatter'd Earth a strong Convulsion shakes verse 5 The lofty Mountains melt Like Wax before the Fires Whate'er his scorching Fury felt Before the World's great Lord retires And by his awful Frown dissolv'd at once expires verse 6 The Heav'ns his Righteousness declare And all the People see His glorious Majesty How it fills the Purpled Air. verse 7 May Shame deserv'd and dark Confusion seize Those Fools whose Thoughts their empty Idols Fools who absurdly boast In Gods themselves can frame please But ô ye bright Angelick Hosts Adore our Great jehovah's Name And on your bended Knees the God of Gods proclaim verse 8 His Condescensions Sion heard And judah's Daughters too And at the wondrous Shew Extasy'd with Joys appear'd Thy Goodness then before the Nations shone Thy sacred Judgments through the World were known verse 9 But though so lowly now Thy glorious Godhead still Makes all the World submisly bow Bless'd Angels thy Commands fulfil And All Subjection yield to thy Immortal Will verse 10 Ye who the Great Jehovah love With God-like Hatred due All wicked Works pursue Fix your happy Souls above He like a Father guards his faithful Souls And all their Foes and all their Force controls verse 11 But Mirth and Light to all The Just and Good shall shine verse 12 O then your ancient Joys re-call In your Jehovah's Praise combine And all his holy Acts record in Songs Divine PSAL. xcviij verse 1 THE Lord who wondrous Works hath wrought With Anthems new proclaim His Hand his holy Arm hath brought Himself the Conqu'ror's Name verse 2 He makes his great Salvation known To give the Nations Light His Righteousness the Lord hath shown In all the People's Sight verse 3 His Mercies he hath call'd to mind His Truth to Israel's Race And all those Bounds which Earth consin'd His Saving Health embrace verse 4 Sing to the Lord ô Earth aloud Sing chearful Notes around The Lord among the grateful Croud The Lord 's just Praise resound verse 5-6 To God with Harps your Voices raise And Trumpets Martial Sound With ecchoing Cornets let the Praise Of God the King be crown'd verse 7 Let Seas with all their Fulness roar The World and all its Host verse 8 In Him each River's sounding Shoar And lofty Mountain boast verse 9 For now the Lord to Judgment 's near And Earth its Doom shall know His Righteousness the World shall hear His Truth and Justice show Another Metres as Mr. Sandys's 13th verse 1 O Sing to God the Lord His wond'rous Works record Sing sing an Anthem new Return his Praises due Whose Hand whose holy Arm Dissolv'd Hell's fatal Charm Whom we triumphant see And crown'd with Victorie verse 2 The Lord's Salvation Is now more clearly known His Truth and Justice He Makes all the Nations see verse 3 But with his Israel His Mercies ever dwell And though a while a Cloud His Truth and Mercy shroud From their expecting Eyes
me With humble Tribute gladly meet verse 10 Whoe'l me thro' Cities fortify'd Or Edom's rocky Frontiers lead verse 11 Lord let thy Help so long deny'd At last our fainting Armies head verse 12 Up Lord in times of Danger aid For Humane Helps are only shows verse 13 And valiant thro'thy Influence made Wee 'l trample o're our vanquish'd Foes PSAL. cix verse 1 O Thou dear God of all my Praise No longer silent go verse 2 For sinful Men in sinful Ways And Traitors bolder grow Against me-they their Rage excite Their Tongues with Falshood whet verse 3 And me with Words of deadly spite And causeless Hate beset verse 4 They for my kindness prove my Foes But I in silence pray verse 5 Malice to Goodness they oppose And Love with Hate repay verse 6 Make Him some wicked Tyrant's slave Let Satan bind his hands verse 7 And Sins severest Sentence have When He in judgment stands verse 8 Nay let his very Prayers be Sin verse 9 His Days be dark and few That Office fix another in Which to himself was due No Father let his Children see His widow'd Wife go mourn verse 10 His Off-spring common Vagrants be Expos'd to Want and Scorn Their Bread from cruel Hands intreaty verse 11 The Griping-Usurers trade Seize all his Wea'th and every Cheat His Pains and Gains invade verse 12 No Mercy let his Cries engage Nor all his Orphan race verse 13 But sink'um all in one short Age Their very Names deface Part 2. verse 14 In God's revenging Presence let Their Father's Crimes remain No length of Time or Years forget Their Mother's viler stain verse 15 Let them God's sleeping Vengeance move Their Memory to destroy verse 16 Since Grace could ne'er his Soul improve Not Love his Thoughts employ But the dear Man to Sorrows born With humblest Thoughts inclu'd The broken Heart with Anguish torn His bloody Hate pursu'd verse 17 Cursing and hellish Words he lov'd His Lot may Curses be His Heart no Blessings e'er approv'd Let him no Blessing see verse 18 He Curses for a Garment us'd And with their poisonous draught His Bowels washt like Oil diffus'd Quite thro' his Bones they wrought verse 19 May He no other Garments wear But Curses closely bound And Curses for a Girdle bear To gird him duely round verse 20 Be this the Just reward of those From God's revenging Hand Whose spiteful Words my Life oppose And who against me stand verse 21 But Lord for thy Names sake appear My Party kindly own Thy Mercy 's Goo'd ô let it here To vescue Me be shown Part 3. verse 22 For wretched and afflicted I With inward Wounds decay verse 23 And like an Evening Shadow fly Or Locusts hurld away verse 24 My Knees with tedious Fastings fail And all my Leanness see verse 25 My Foes with brutish scorn assail And shake their Heads at me verse 26 Help ô My God! ô save Me show Thy farmer Mercies now verse 27 That all thy Love to me may know Thy Helps dear Lord allow verse 28 Then let them Curse me stil on me Thy Blessings Lord bestow Let Them their own Confusion see But me thy gladness know verse 29 When great they seem like some large Cloke Let Shame be round them roul'd verse 30 And I 'le thy Name in Crouds invoke Thy Praise at large unfold verse 31 For God still by the Poor Mans side With sure assistance stands His Soul with saving Wings to hide From partial Judges Hands PSAL. CX verse 1 SIT here on my Right Hand the Lord Thus to my Lord has said Till thou shalt see thy Foes abhor'd Beneath thy Footstool lay'd verse 2 From Sions Hill thy regal claime Thy Scepter first shall rise Thence Reign and with thy awful Name Command thy Enemies verse 3 When thy Prodigious Might appears Thy ready Armies move And Preach those happy gladsome years The Reign of boundless Love Tho' at a mighty distance now The careless People stand To Thee they'I then as swiftly flow And own thy ruling Hand Wash'd from their Crimes and snowy white Their Tempers undefild And cloth'd with Innocence and Light And like their Matter mild These Conquests first belong'd to Thee E're dewy Mornings rose Or Time cou'd thro' Eternity Thy sacred Birth disclose verse 4 Then by himself thy Father swore And shook his awful Throne And when swift Time shall be no more He'el that Engagement own Thou' rt an Eternal Priest to Thee There 's no succeeding Heir And like Melchisedes shalt be And Crown and Miter wear verse 5 The Lord shall in his angry Day Rebellious Kings destroy verse 6 Among the Gentiles fierce'y sway And fill his own with Joy But where bo'd Opposition reigns The slughter'd Corpses round And dying Kings shall spread the Plains And stain the purple Ground verse 7 But he before the Conquest gain'd The Rage of Thirst shall know With Sorrow's streams be entertain'd And drink of deadly Woe Till all those Difficulties past His Glory 's largely spread And all shall see the Crown at last On his victorious Head PSAL. cxj. O Praise the Lord my Heart prepare To praise the mighty Lord Where-e'er his bless'd Assemblies me Will I his Name record verse 2 Great are his Works and earnestly By Men of Wisdom sought verse 3 His Works are all with Majesty And comely Beauty wrought His Righteousness eternally Shall with his Works endure verse 4 In grateful Minds his Clemency And his Compassions sure verse 5 For those who fear his sacred Name The Lord at large provides His ancient Covenant the same Still in his Thoughts abides verse 6 The Might where with his Works are wrought He to his People shows And Portions from the Gentiles brought On them at large bestows verse 7 His Works in Truth and Judgment done His Precepts just and sure verse 8 As first in Righteousness begun Through ev'ry Age endure verse 9 The Lord his People once redeem'd And gave them lasting Laws And still his holy Name esteem'd Our Veneration draws verse 10 True Wisdom springs from Godly Fear An Understanding pure Will in Obedience best appear And its just Praise endure PSAL. cxij. O Praise the Lord All Blessings wait On him who fears his Name In whom his just Commands create Pure Love's immortal Flame verse 2 Mighty on Earth his Seed shall be His Generation bless'd verse 3 His Righteousness shall last and he In Wealth and Plenty rest verse 4 To Men of upright Hearts the Light Through gloomy Darkness shines Mercy 's the righteous Man's Delight To Love his Soul inclines verse 5 He 's pitiful to Men distress'd And lends to those in Need In Judgment from his milder Breast No cruel Words proceed verse 6 He ne'er shall move his Memory Shall ever sweetly last verse 7 From Fear through heavy Tidings free His Heart in God be fast verse 8 His Heart from cold Despair secur'd Can on his God repose Till of the Down-fall he 's assur'd Of all his angry Foes
Soul divide verse 21 Thy Judgments break the cursed Proud Who from thy Precepts stray verse 22 Me Lord from flouting Scorners shroud For I thy Words obey verse 23 Great Kings in Council curst my Name But I thy Statutes chose verse 24 Thy Statutes all my Joys enflame My Counsels all compose verse 25 My Soul Lord for thy Promise spare In Dust which prostrate lies verse 26 Thou hear'st how I thy Ways declare O teach and make me wise verse 27 O Make me know thy Precepts so I 'le spread thy Works the more verse 28 My Heart with melting Cares brought low Lord by thy Word restore verse 29 From me all lying Ways remove To me thy Laws impart verse 30 For all the Paths of Truth I love Thy Judgments fill my Heart verse 31 I to thy Laws adhere dear God From Shame my Life discharge verse 32 I 'le run the Ways thy Saints have trod If thou my Heart enlarge He 5. Vau 6. verse 33 Lord teach me thy commanded way And I 'le observe it still verse 34 My Heart let Understanding sway Thy Laws my Heart shall fill verse 35 By thy Commands ô make me tread For them I dearly love verse 36 Let no false Lusts my Heart mislead While by thy Rules I move verse 37 From Vanity ô turn my Eyes And make me live to Thee verse 38 Thy Word on which my Soul relies And fears make good to me verse 39 Reproach from me and Scandal take But Lord thy Judgments give verse 40 I for thy Precepts long ô make Me by thy Justice live verse 41 Thy Mercy thy Salvation too As promis'd Lord bestow verse 42 So shall I hush the scornful Crew And yet more faithful grow verse 43 Never ô never Lord withdraw Thy Word and Truth from me verse 44 So thy just Judgments and thy Law My constant Guides shall be verse 45 My happy Course at last I 'le steer In thy Commands secure verse 46 Thy Testimonies Kings sha'l hear Yet I no shame endure verse 47 I 'le in thy lov'd Commands delight For them my Hands I 'le raise verse 48 Thy Statutes study Day and Night And thy Commandments praise Zain 7. Cheth 8. verse 49 Thy Word once pass'd remember Lord In which thou mad'st me trust verse 50 Thy Word my dropping Soul restor'd verse 51 The scoffing Proud my Soul deride Yet I thy Laws pursue verse 52 With me thy Judgments pass'd abide And all my Joys renew verse 53 I trembled at their dreadful Fate Who from thy Precepts stray'd verse 54 But them I in my banish'd State My daily Musick made verse 55 Lord on thy Name I muse by Night And keep thy Righteous Laws verse 56 Such Blessings from thy favouring Sight A just Obedience draws verse 57 Thou' rt all my Portion Lord I said I 'de keep thy sacred Word verse 58 And for thy Grace devoutly pray'd Thy Grace Dear Lord afford verse 59 I weigh'd my Works and so thy Ways My careful Footstop trac'd verse 60 And that I might thy Laws obey I flew with winged haste verse 61 Tho' impious Bunds my Wealth surprize I can't forget thy Ways verse 62 But I when I at Midnight rise Thy rightéous Judgments praise verse 63 I love their Company who fear Thy Name and keep thy Word verse 64 Thy Mercies round the World appear Thy Statutes teach me Lord Teth 9. Jod 10. verse 65 Lord from thy Hands I Good receive For all thy Words are true verse 66 Teach me since I thy Laws believe Good Sense and Knowledge too verse 67 I sinn'd till by Affliction taught Thy sacred Words to know verse 68 For me all Good thy Hands have wrought To me thy Statutes show verse 69 The Proud assau't my Soul with lies But I sincerely move verse 70 And while their Hearts with Fatness rise Thy Laws entirely love verse 71 Lash'd by thy Rod my Heart enclines To keep thy Laws with Care verse 72 Those Laws which richer far than Mines Of Gold and Silver are verse 73 Thy Hands have made and fashion'd me Thy Judgments make me know verse 74 So thy pleas'd Saints my Care shall see While in thy Paths I go verse 75 I know thy Judgments Lord are just Thy Love afflicted me verse 76 Make good thy Word my Comfort must Alone descend from Thee verse 77 Lord send thy Mercys quickned so I 'le in the Laws delight verse 78 Let shame thy treacherous Proud o're-throw But I 'le thy Laws recite verse 79 O let thy Saints who know thy Will With me as Friends appear verse 80 When my sound Heart thy Statutes fill I no Disgrace can fear Caph 11. Lamed 12. verse 81 Thy Health my longing Soul desires And on thy Promise waits verse 82 And while thy Comforts it requires My Sight with Woes abates verse 83 Dry'd up with Grief my strength appears Yet I thy Laws retain verse 84 How many are thy Servant's days O now my Foes restrain verse 85 The Proud for me their Pitts have made Against thy righeous Law verse 86 Me from their Wrongs by thy kind Aid And Faithful Precepts draw verse 87 Lord They'd consum'd me quite but I Ne're from thy Precepts went verse 88 In Goodness raise my Soul I 'le try To keep thy Testament verse 89 Firm Lord as Heaven thy Promise stands verse 90 Thy Truth from Age to Age The Earth form'd by thy mighty Hands Stands by thy Patronage verse 91 All by thine Ordinance ensur'd To Thee their Service pay verse 92 But Woes rny Ruine had procur'd But that I kept thy Way verse 93 I 'le ne're forget thy Precepts kind Since oft by them reviv'd verse 94 I'm thine ô save me for my Mind Has on thy Precepts liv'd verse 95 The Wicked watch'd to ruine me But I thy Statutes read verse 96 And th' end of all Perfection see But those all Bounds exceed Mem 13 Nun 14. verse 97 Lord how I love thy Laws by those My serious Studies move verse 98 By them I far above my Foes In Wisdom's Rules improve verse 99 Thy Testimonies teach me more Than all my Teachers know verse 100 I by thy Statutes wise before My reverend Elders grow verse 101 My Feet all wicked Ways declin'd To keep thy sacred Word verse 102 Thy Judgments duly uâ—'d my Mind With Heavenly Wisdom stor'd verse 103 Honey to those pure Sweets must yield With which thy Words are blest verse 104 So I with thy wise Precepts fill'd All lying Ways detest verse 105 Thy glorious Words my Footsteps guide And fill my Paths with Light verse 106 I've sworn and as by Oath I 'm tied I 'le keep thy Judgments right verse 107 I 'me much distrest ô by thy Word My fainting Soul revive verse 108 Accept my willing Praises Lord To me thy Judgments give verse 109 Tho' in my Hands my Life I bear I can't forget thy Law verse 110 Nor can the Sinners crafty Snare From that my Soul withdraw verse 111 Thy Will 's th' Inheritance