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A15976	The Psalmes of David translated into lyrick-verse, according to the scope, of the original. And illustrated, with a short argument, and a briefe prayer, or meditation; before, & after, every Psalme. By George Wither; Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1632 (1632)	STC 2735; ESTC S102335	151,742	322

Citty fortifide But God of whome despisd were wee 5 Oh God! who didst our hoasts forsake From vs our greefs thus alwaies take For man's vaine succours wee contemn Through God wee valiant Acts have done Our foes by him are overthrowne And he shall sett his feet on them Oh Lord God of Hoasts true in thy word powrful in thy performances According to thy auncient promises thy Church is wonderfully enlarged thou hast now thy lot of Inheritance in those places where they have bene enimies to thy Truth UUee beseech th●● more more to enlarge thy Kingdome to be continually present with us in all our spiritual conflicts that by thy powre we may tread vnder foot the world the flesh the Devill making servants vnto us in the execution of thy will those affections which have heretofore prevailed against us VVee rely on thee only On thee only our harts are fixed And for thy goodnes we desire with all our faculties to praise magnify thy Name for evermore Amen Psa 109. To the cheef Musition a Psalme of David It is applied vnto Iudas Acts 1. 20. and is it vsefull to terrify Gods Foes all Hypocrites by shewing the Iudgments pronounced by the holy-ghost against all such But let none abuse this or any such like Psalmes by repeating them in their owne quarrells lest the Curses fall on themselves OH God my praise now silence breake For wicked men that guileful be With open Iawes against me speake And with false tongues have slandred mee With hatefull words they mee enclose Without all Cause with mee they warr And for my Love they are my foes Yet for their weal my prayers are 2 For my goodworks ill deeds I gett My love with hate they do requite Or'e them therefore some Tyrant set At his right-hand let Sathan waite Let Iustice them to death persue Account it sinn for them to pray Cutt short their dayes make them fewe Let others take their place away 3 Keep fatherles their Orphane-breed And husbandies their widdow'd wives Yea Cause thou their accursed seed To begg wander all their lives Their vncouth denns let then forsake To begg what must their life sustaine Their labors let oppressors take And Strangers rob them of their gaine 4 Let none regard though they lament Nor pitty take on such a race But quite away in one descent Their of-spring their Name deface Let God still minde the guilt they drewe From both their parents at their birth And keep it allway's in his vewe Till they are nam'd no more on earth 5 For why they no compassion shew'd To him that greev'd pained lay But they the needy soul persu'de The broken hart they sought to slay They Cursings Lov'd let them be made The part therefore of their just lot In Blessings they no pleasures had And therfor they possesse them not 6 With curses they themselves did clothe As with a gowne or with a cloke Therefore as oyle or water doth Through bones bowells let them soke Let Curses them like Belts inclose And as their clothes such men aray Ev'n thus oh Lord require my Foes Who of my soul amisse do say 7 But for thy Name sake save thou mee Deal wel with me mercy daigne For wounded is my hart in mee And I am pore full of paine I vanish like an Evening shade I Locust like am tost about My knees are weake through fasting made My flesh is leane wasted out 8 They mee despise ev'n to my face And scornfull nods at mee they make Oh Lord my God! of thy meer grace To bring me help now vndertake Make them to see then confesse That by thy hand I helped am Lord though they Curse yet do thou blesse And let them rise to see their shame 9 But make oh Lord thy Servants glad Whilst they that my illwillers are With shame ev'n their owne shame are clad As if with Robes arayd they were My tongue shall praise thee then therfore Confessing where Assemblies be That God is Patron of the pore And from false doomes their soules doth free Oh God! terrible art thou in those iudgments which thou dost pronounce against all malitious vnrepētāt Sinners UUee beseech thee therfore grant us grace to repent all our transgressions to shewe compassion to all thy pore members in their Afflictions that we may finde Mercy in our sorrowes UUee often see thy iudgments but wee neither know whome thou correctest in love to amendment nor whome in fury to their destruction For thou reservest that secret vnto thy self To keep vs both in our dealings Censures alway charitable to those whome thou smitest Oh teach us therefore true Charity let us never doe or wish evill to any man in our owne Causes But let us apply thy iudgmēts to sinn in generall imprecate that they may fall only on the enimies of our Lord and saviour Iesus Christ Amen Psa 110. A Psalme of David It is literally of Christ Math. 22. it mentioneth the Deity Humanity Soveraignety Preisthood Powre Conquests Passion Resurrection of the Messiah We may sing it with respect to those perticulers VNto my Lord the Lord thus spake Sitt downe at my right hand And of thy foes I 'le footstooles make Whereon thy feet shall stand The Lord shall out of Syon bring The scepter of thy might And over them thou shalt be king Who now resist thy right 2 On thy great Day in serving thee Men willing mindes will shewe And from the wombe thy birth shall be As is the morninge dewe The Lord hath sworne will nor check Nor change the word he swore Thou art as was Melchizedek A preist for evermore 3 The Lord shall smite when wroth he growes Great kings at thy righthand The Gentiles judge slay his foes Which are in ev'ry land The heads of kingdomes he shall slay And as he passeth-by Shall drinck the Torrent in the way And raise his head on high Almighty God who hast given thy eternal Sonn with whome thou art the same in Essence to be in an unspeakable manner conceaved in the Virgines wombe To be made an everlasting preist for us after the Order of Melchizedek And in his Passage through this life to drinck the bitter Torrent of his Passion Grant wee beseech thee that by virtue of his blessed Incarnation our nature may be sanctified prepared for Grace that by his Death we may dye to sinn that by the powre of his Resurrection wee may arise to righteousnes by his glorious Ascention be victorious ever all our enimies both spiritual temporall for ever ever Amen Psa 111. Halelujah It praiseth God for his miraculous works his wisdome Mercy Iustice for the Covenant of has Grace c. It may be sung to continue in vs the fear of God to praise him for his benefits especially for our Redemption WIth all my hart God's praise I 'le sing Where saints

THE PSALMES of DAVID Translated Into LYRICK-VERSE according to the scope of the ORIGINAL And Illustrated with a Short Argument and a breife Prayer or Meditation before after every Psalme By GEORGE WITHER Imprinted In the Neatherlands By Cornelis Gerrits van Breughel M. DC XXXII To the MAIESTIE of the most Virtuous and high-borne Princesse ELIZABETH PRINCESSE of Great Britaine QVEENE of Bohemia COVNTESSE of the Palatinate of the Rhyne c. Most excellent Princesse I May faile in Vulger Titles But in my valuation of your heroïcal Virtues I cannot be deceaved Therfor I am the less curious in common Attributes For those Accōplishments which in my repute are your greatest glorie are well manifest in that which is the greatest temporall honour even in those Virtues which have conquered a Kingdome for you in the harts of many millions of people And procured you thousands of affectionate servants who never sawe your Majestive Not only in your owne Territories and in the Dominions of your Freinds But in the Citties Kingdomes of your Enimies also And they who are vnwilling to confesse this to give you honour have honored you in discovering it by their envy Among those who are in Affection your Ma. ties loyall servants I am one and in my owne Country great multitudes have tooke notise of a speciall Obligation which I had above many others to honor serve you For I do hereby most humbly thanckfully acknowledge that when my over-forward Muse first fiutterd out of her neast Shee obtained the preservation of her endangered Libertie by your gratious favour and perhaps escaped also thereby that Pinioninge which would have marred her flieng forth for ever after Which extraordinary Clemencie in so great a Princesse to a person so vndeservinge did not only much magnify your noblenes in the opinion of others but so chayned my hart also to the love of your princely Goodnes that allthough I was hitherto compelled to smother my vnprofitable thanckfulnes in my breast because I wanted meanes to discover it according to my desires I have eversince bene spiritually present with your Ma. tie with God for you by my Prayers in all your Afflictions Exaltations And faine I would have effected something which might have witnessed that I had a Hart though not a Fortune to be serviceable in the best manner My Muse was the hopefull st meanes I had of this ambition by her I awhile promised myself some healp But after I came to better vnderstanding I preceaved her over-early Flights into the world had in her prime growth so spent those tymes of opportunity whereby she should have enabled her self for brave Attempts that shee could never be strong enough to make wing halfe so high as my Desires Yet by your Ma. ties royall Father of blessed Memorie who a litle before his death was pleased to honour mee with his gratious respect I was commanded to perfect a Translation of the Psalmes which he vnderstood I had begunn by his encouragment I finished the same about the tyme of his Translation to a better Kingdome Wherein God soe enabled mee that many have well approoved thereof and I latelie resolving to make it publike wanting other Testimonie of my thanckfulnes conceived it would be no dishonour to your Ma. tie if before the same I convayed your beloved Name to that Nation who so dearlie affect you But when I had well considered thereon I thought it would be a very pertinent complement so to doe For they were Afflictions or Deliverances from Afflictions which were occasions of every Psalme Therfore none but they who have bene afflicted cann relish the sweetnes or vnderstand the depth of these Raptures And therfore also they who come nearest in their Christian suffrings to those whome they personated shall best feel vnderstand their meaning In which if I be not more a stranger to your Highnesse then I thinck I am you have bene honored aboue all the kings princes of the world in my opinion you have had more occasion to make personall Application of these Hymnes vnto your selfe then any of them And there is no shame most excellent Princesse in the Crosse of Christ For the highest honor cōsisteth not in wearing a crown but in a Crowne that hath many Thornes in it the more Thornes the more honorable Though the sonns of men do skoffingly turne this glory into shame seek after Vanities yet they who shall sitt nearest unto Christ Iesus in his Kingdome must drinck deepest of his Cupp And your Highnes hath in my Observation more largly pledged him then many other For in all these Hymns all which are prophecies of such things as pertaine to Christ his Mysticall body there are fewe passages communicable to his Members but even in my owne knowledge your Ma. may apply them vnto your self as a dependant on him And God let mee not live if I do not thinck that more honours you then to be Empresse of the world And because it is the greatest honour to come so near both to the Type the Prototype of our suffrings as your Ma. hath done to beare so many marks of the Lord Iesus Because also some skoffing Ismaelites have mentioned these Glories to your Dishonour I wil to your Praise repeat some few out of those many which are appliable to your Ma. they shal be such that most will confesse they are the very same Afflictions whereof as a type of Christ king David complained He was exalted by God yet cast downe He was annonited king yet enioyed not the Kingdome He was driven from his owne possessions compelled to soiourne in a forraigne Land Kings Rulers were confederated against him He was remooved from his Kindred his Acquaintance were sett far off His enimies were powrefull too strong for him His adversaries were multiplied Yea they insulted over his calamities many judged his cause so bad that they pronounced him forsaken of God The proud forged lies against him False witnesses layd things to his Charge which he knew not Princes sate spake against him The mighty persecuted him without a Cause They had almost consumed him vpon earth They waited to destroy him The Bands of the wicked robbed him They spake of peace vnto him when they purposd warr Trouble anguish tooke holde vpon him he was persecuted when God had smitten him The Vngodly reioiced in his Adversity cryed There there so wee would have it He was reproched of his Neighbours He was the scorne of fooles The Drunckerds made songs of him They said he was cast downe should never rise againe And many other suchlike passages there are which my memory confusedly retaines In all which together with your Roiall Consort you have heene a partaker in such measure as Christians of inferior Degree cannot communicate in the like Suffrings in the same sense Nor are these things only Appliable vnto your Highnesse in