unfathom'd Night Thou throw'st my trembling Soul verse 7 On me thy angry Judgments light And all thy Tempests roul verse 8 Thou mak'st my Friends aloof remain And less than Strangers kind Nor can I Liberty obtain By Chains of Hate confind verse 9 Whole Seas of Tears my mournful Eyes Thro' deep afflictions shed To thee I send my daily Cryes My Hands submissely spread Part 2. verse 10 What Shall thy mighty Works be shown Where Death triumphant Reigns The Dead to make thy Wonders known Shake off their Icy Chains verse 11 What shall the Grave the silent Tomb. Advance thy Mercies Fame Or shall Destructions utmost Doom Thy Faithfulness proclaim verse 12 Or shall thy wordrous Works appear Where all thick Darkness hides Thy Righteousness be publish'd where Forgetfulness presides verse 13 To Thee dear Lord I cry to Thee My morning Prayers are made verse 14 O why 's my Soul cast off to me Thy Beams no more displaid verse 15 From my first Youth afflicted I With constant weakness prest Have born thy Terrors constantly In my Distracted Breast verse 16 Like breaking Seas with mighty Force Thy Terrours bear me down verse 17 And with a vast united Course My baffled Comforts drown verse 18 Thou mak'st my Friends who lov'd me too To mighty Distance fly And those I intimately knew In unknown Darkness ly PSAL. lxxxix Metre first as the 113th verse 1 I 'Le ever sing thy Mercy Lord Thy Truth from Age to Age record My Lips shall praise thy glorious Name verse 2 Thy Mercies everlasting are Thy Truths with Heaven it self compare Thy Faithful Promise I 'le proclaim verse 3 A Covenant long since I made And to my Servant David said My chosen King and firmly swore verse 4 Thy seed Eternally shall stand Thy Royal Scepter'd Heirs command Till Sea and Earth and Times no more verse 5 The Heaven's thy Wonders Lord shall praise Thy Holy Congregation raise Thy Faithful Works above the Skys verse 6 For who above 's compar'd with Thee What God-like Man thy Mate can be What Lord to equal Glories rise verse 7 Gods Presence srikes a reverend Fear Where his Assembling Saints appear And his attending Angels aws verse 8 Great God of Hosts whole strenth like Thine Whose Truth so breaks with Beams divine Receiv'd by every Worlds applause Part 2. verse 9 Thy Hands the mighty Ocean sway And make its angry Waves obey Thy Word its stormy Tempest quells verse 10 By that th' Egyptians wounded dy'd Thy dreadful Arm the gathering Pride Of all thy fiercest Foes dispells verse 11 Thy Hands Heaven's vaulted Arches made Thy Hands this Earth's Foundations laid And all the World with Plenty stor'd verse 12 The North and South thy Creatures are Tabor and Hermon both declare Thy Name and Thee their mighty Lord. verse 13 Thy Arm All-mighty strength endues Thy Hand resistless vigor shews Thy glorious Hand 's exalted high verse 14 Justice and Judgment make thy Throne Thy truth and ancient mercy Known Thy Steps to all the World desory verse 15 Thrice happy they whose Souls are warm'd By holy Trumpets sounds alarm'd And live enlightned Lord by Thee verse 16 They'j always in thy Name rejoice With solemn Musicks moving voice Thy Righteousness their strength shall be verse 17 Such happy Men securely stand And with a settled strength Command But God is still their Strength and Pride Thy Goodness and thy boundless Love Has rais'd our happy Strength above Since thou hast own'd out sinking side verse 18 The Lord is our Defensive shield That Holy One can shelter yield Who 's Israel's God and Israel's King verse 19 But that thou might'st our Hearts uphold A smiling Vision rais'd of old Did thus of thy Anointed sing Part 3 Metre 2. As the 100th verse 20 Help on a pow'rful Arm I 've laid A Man above the Vulgar plac'd My King my Servant David made His Head with holy Unction grac'd verse 21 Him shall my strength'ning Hand secure My Arm his strong support shall be verse 22 No En'my shall his Hurt procure No Sinner his Destruction see verse 23 I 'll dash his Foes before his Face And batter those who hate him down verse 24 With him my Truth and Mercy place And in my Name exalt his Crown verse 25 No Rivers Bank no Ocean's Wall Shall his unbounded Reign confine verse 26 He 'll me his God his Father call His Saving Health his Rock Divine verse 27 And him my First-born Son I 'll make Above Earth's Kings exalted high verse 28 With him my Mercy ne'er shall slake Nor my immortal Cov'nant die verse 29 His Seed shall ever last his Throne Out-shine out-wear the Rolling Skies verse 30 But if his Sons my Laws disown Or e'er against my Judgments rise verse 31 If they my stated Laws prophane My Precepts or Injunctions slight verse 32 With Rods their Follies I 'll restrain Their Sins with Strokes deserv'd requite verse 33 Yet not my Mercies quite remove Nor break my faithful Word of old verse 34 Expose my Covenanted Love Nor change what Prophets once foretold verse 35 Once by my Holiness I 've sworn And can't my David's Hopes deceive verse 36 His Seed to Crowns and Scepters born No Time shall of their Rights bereave verse 37 The Sun the Moon which guild the Skies Those faithful Signs to Mortals known May cease to set and cease to rise But nothing shock his glorious Throne Part 4. Metre 3. verse 38 Such was thy Promise Lord of old But at a distance now Terrours thy dear Anointed hold From thy contracted Brow verse 39 Thou 'st thrown thy sacred Cov'nant by Defil'd his trampled Crown verse 40 Let all his Walls in Ruins lie And trod his Fences down verse 41 Him all who pass may spoil and all His neighb'ring Foes despise verse 42 On him their Troops insulting fall And high their Forces rise verse 43 No Wounds his Edgeless Sword bestows He flies the Martial Field verse 44 His Throne 's cast down nor can his Brows Their former Lustre yield verse 45 His youthful Bloom now fades With Woes And he 's o'erw helm'd with Shame verse 46 How long shall We thy Favour lose And seel thy Fury's Flame verse 47 Think Lord how vain is Man How I Have but a While to live verse 48 What Man now breaths but once must die What Art can Lives retrieve verse 49 Where are thy Mercies Lord of old By Oath to David due verse 50 Think how our Lives to Shame are sold What Scorns thy Friends pursue verse 51 Think how thy Foes black Scandals raise On thy Anointed King verse 52 While we to thy immortal Praise Amens devoutly sing PSAL. xc verse 1 THou Lord from Age to Age hast been Our certain Resting-place verse 2 Before the lofty Hills were seen On Earth's extended Face Before this Earth to Shape was grown Before the World was fram'd Thee Lord the mighty God alone Eternity proclaim'd verse 3 When Man fix'd in a glorious State With thriving
They see the Wise and Fools must die And all that Wealth descend To unknown Heirs which foolish'y They thought no Time could spend Part 2. verse 11 They vainly thought their Seats secure From Time's consuming Hands Their Names and Memories endure On all their purchas'd Lands verse 12 Yet Man in Honour can't remain But like the Beast must faâ—l verse 13 And though their Heirs their Wit maintain Their Ways are foolish all verse 14 Death feeds on them as Sheep the just Shall soon their Force subdue Their Graves soon fill'd with crumbling Dust Their fading Natures shew verse 15 But God shall save my Soul from Hell His Hand will mine support verse 16 Then fear not Men whose Wealth may swell Nor Sin exalted court verse 17 For when Death comes they 'll leave behind Their Wealth and Glories too verse 18 Tho' while they liv'd they pleas'd their Minds As common Mortals do verse 19 Men who enrich themselves below A mighty Name may gain But quickly to the Dead they go And Light no more obtain verse 20 Man when to Honours rais'd if he The Ways of Wisdom slight Involv'd like Thoughtless Beasts must be In everlasting Night PSAL. l. verse 1 VAin Hypocrites and Atheists bow To new Alarms your careless Ears The Lord the Great Jehovah now To plead Religions Cause appears From East to West from Shoar to Shoar The dreadful Summons swiftly rolls His Voice in Thunder's dismal Roar At once the frighted World controls verse 2 Our God shines from his chosen place With Majesty and Terrours crown'd verse 3 He comes devouring Flames his Face His Steps impetuous Storms surround verse 4 To hear his Judgment pass'd he calls The Heavens above and Earth below That where his righteous Sentence falls The World all satisfy'd may know verse 5 Go call my Saints together those Who in my Laws delight and o'er Their Sacrifice my Covenant chose And there to me devoutly swore verse 6 The Summons pass'd the Lord alone As Judge the great Tribunal holds Bright Angels make his Justice known While He Eternal Truth unfolds Part 2. verse 7 Hear me my People Israel hear With thee the Case I 'll calmly plead Loe I the Lord of Hosts appear Thy mighty God thy Sov'reign Head verse 8 Did I e'r call for Sacrifice Or of thy sparing Hand complain Or bid that constant Steams should rise From bleeding Bullocks duly slain verse 9 Poor Trifles all Thy solemn Feasts Thy Bullocks and thy Goats I scorn verse 10 The Forest Herds are mine the Beasts Which on a Thousand Hills are born verse 11 The feather'd Host the Fowls are mine And all the Droves which graze the Fields verse 12 If hungry I 'd not ask of thine To me the World its Plenty yields verse 13 Think'st thou the Flesh of Bulls I 'd eat Or Goats or drink their streaming Gore verse 14 No Give me Praise my Praise repeat My Grace with Vows perform'd implore verse 15 Then in the Times of Danger cry To Me to me thy Griefs display And thou when I to save thee fly Just Honours to my Name shalt pay Part 3. verse 16 Then to the Wicked thus And how Dar'st thou to preach my Laws presume With what strange Impudence canst thou My Covenant in thy Lips assume verse 17 Thou hat'st all sacred Discipline Behind thy Back my Words are thrown verse 18 Thy Thoughts with crafty Thieves combinâ— And make th' Adult'rers Lot thy own verse 19 Thy Mouth is all engag'd in Ill Thy Tongue deceitful Lyes contrives verse 20 Thy Brethren thy malicious Skill Thy Mother's Sons of Fame deprives Thus hast thou done while silent I Thy senseless Crimes with Patience view'd And thou with wondrous Policy Couldst me just like thy self conclude But now before thy mournful Eyes I 'll set thy Sins thy Crimes dispose My Wisdom shall thy Soul surprize And all thy foolish Arts disclose Consider this ô ye who dare Forget your mighty God lest He Your Souls with utmost Fury tear And none your fainting Souls can free That Man who offers Praise alone Due Glory to my Name can raise And I 'l my Saving Health make known To him who wisely guides his Ways Another Metre to the old proper Tune WAke drowzy World no more let Sleep surprize The heavy Lids of thy Lethargick Eyes Hark thy Creator calls awake awake He comes See how the Dead their Graves forsake Before his Face the fatal Trumpet sounding And all his Angel-Guards his Throne surrounding â—rom East to West the dreadful Summons roll â—nd shake the Southern and the Northern Pole Nature in cold faint Sweats dissolving lies A sudden Heat melts down the folding Skies And Seasand Earth torn from their old Foundation Are all o'erturn'd in one great Desolation verse 2 That God who long in Sion's Glory reign'd Whose Presence long her happy State maintain'd verse 3 Mov'd by our Crimes no more can Silence hold His Menaces in dismal Flames are roll'd Black Clouds from ev'ry piercing Eye defend him And dreadful Storms with Thunder's Roar attend him verse 4 Hark how he calls Earth Sea and Air and Sky Before his Frowns in empty Vapours fly The new-cloath'd Bones for their old Mates enquire And flutt'ring Souls to their own Homes retire Then God his Silence breaks his Angels hearing With Adorations at his Bar appearing verse 5 Go fly swift Angel-Bands go fetch me thos e Whose Follies durst my just Commands oppose But gently home those holy Souls convey Who would my Laws with upright Thoughts obey Who in bless'd Covenants for their Salvation Depend on me by solemn Dedication verse 6 Hear Me my bright Eternal Throne and you Bless'd Guards my Judgments and my Justice view I 'll no unrighteous Judges Part assume My Lips on none shall pass a private Doom My very Foes this Honour sha'n't deny me And even Souls condemn'd shall justisie me verse 7 Hear Me ô ye of Israel's faithful Race His Sons by Nature and his Sons by Grace I am thy God ô Israel only thine And all thy self thy Strength and Hopes are mine I 'll plead my Cause with thee ô speak sincerely If e'er I dealt wish thee or thine severely verse 8 Tell me Did ever I thy Slackness chide Or bid thee greater Gifts or more provide Did I complain when Incense rarely fum'd And scarce one Lamb my holy Day consum'd Did ever I for Sacrifice reprove thee Or to external costly Wors'hip move thee verse 9 For me thy Bullocks safe their Stalls may hold Of Goats or Kids I 'll never rob thy Fold verse 10 What should I ask of thee The spacious Field Hils Forests Woods to me their Stores must yield verse 11 Mine are the Fowls about woods lakes fountains And all the Cattel on a Thousand Mountains verse 12 If Hunger's Force my Nature could invade Canst thou believe I 'd beg the Creature 's Aid verse 13 That I the Flesh of Bashan's Bulls would eat Or Goats rank Blood would make a Heav'nly Treat Can He
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
thy saving Health rejoice verse 2 Since he bless'd Lord his Wishes had And thou hast heard his humble Voice verse 3 Thy Goodness all his Hopes prevents And crowns his Head with envy'd Gold verse 4 He beg'd for Life thy Love consents He long may live and ne'er be old verse 5 Thy great Salvation set him high With all Majestick Glory crown'd verse 6 On him Eternal Blessings lie Thy Heav'nly Joys his Heart surround verse 7 The King on God above relies And in his Mercy firmly stands verse 8 No Foe beyond his Anger flies Nor scapes his long revenging Hands verse 9 Lord when thy dreadful Fury burns Its Flame their Stock at once consumes verse 10 And all their Race on Earth o'erturns And all their wretched Pride intombs verse 11 Against thee they conspir'd and fram'd Such Plots as no Effect could take verse 12 O let them turn their Backs asham'd Thine Arrows sharp against them make verse 13 Exalt thy Might thy Glory Lord Arise exalt thy lofty Name While we with Songs thy Might record And all thy wondrous Acts proclaim PSAL. xxij verse 1 WHY ô my God my God ô why Hast thou Forsaken me How long so distant from my Cry Shall thy Salvation be verse 2 To thee my God I cry by Day To thee by Night I cry With Tears with restless Tears I pray Yet unregarded die verse 3 Yet Thou art holy Lord and pure With faithful Praise ador'd verse 4 Our Father's Hopes in Thee were sure Thy Heâ—p their Souls restor'd verse 5 On Thee they call'd and hop'd in Thee Yet no Disgrace receiv'd Thy Hand procur'd their Liberty And all their Wants reliev'd verse 6 But I a wretched Worm the Name Of Man in vain have born By Men expos'd to common Shame And all the Vulgar's Scorn verse 7 Their Heads their Lips when I appear With Scoffs disdainful move verse 8 Let 's see they cry if God can hear If God his Cause approve God was his Hope in God his Trust On God the Wretch rey'd God if He 'll have him strongly must Espouse his Darling's Side verse 9 But from my Mother's Breasts and Womb Thou wast my God my Guide verse 10 Thy careful Hand my youthful Bloom My Infant Cries supply'd verse 11 So on thy Grace I still depend O never cast me by For daily Woes my Life attend And no Assistant's nigh Part 2. verse 12 Against me Sinners fierce engage And impious Arms prevail verse 13 And me with Lions rampant Rage And open Mouths assail verse 14 My Life runs off like Winter-Streams My Bones disjointed start As Wax before the Sun 's hot Beams So melts my careful Heart verse 15 My Strength quite dries away my Tongue Cleaves to my parching Jaws And I shall soon to Earth belong By Death's determin'd Laws verse 16 For angry Dogs around me meet And all the Godless Crew They pierce my bleeding Hands and Feet And Wounds on Wounds renew verse 17 Each Passenger may tell my Bones While here I rack'd appear And gaze in Scorn while deathful Groans My wasted Vitals tear verse 18 My Robes my cruel Murd'rers seize And carefully divide And for their Shares their doubtful Pleas Impartial Lots decide verse 19 But leave me not my Strength my Lord O fly to resoue me verse 20 My helpless Soul ô from the Sword And bloody Dogs set free verse 21 From Lions Mouths and Brutish Might O save and hear my Prayer verse 22 So I 'l in all thy Church's Sight Thy Name thy Praise declare Part 3. verse 23 O ye who fear the Lord with Praise His happy Smiles implore Ye faithful Seed his Glories raise His sacred Name adore verse 24 He ne'er despis'd nor cast aside The Poor's afflicted Case Nor hid his Face but when I cry'd Bestow'd his wonted Grace verse 25 To thee my God I 'll lofty Praise In Vast Assemblies sing My humblest Vows on holy Days With just Devotion bring verse 26 The Poor shall eat to Fulness there Thy Saints thy Praises found Their joyful Hearts with Heav'nly Cheer And Life Eternal crown'd verse 27 Earth's farthest Bounds to Thee shall bow The World thy Grace proclaim All Nations Thee their God shall know And bear thy sacred Name verse 28 For God above the Nations reigns And o'er the World presides His Word their quiet State maintains And Truth to all divides verse 29 The Rich shall all his Rights allow And just Obedience pay The Poor to him shall gladly bow And his Commands obey Nay those whose drooping Souls draw near The dark devouring Grave Shall at his Name reviv'd appear And his Protection crave verse 30 Their Seed their gracious God shall serve And in his Family Their happy States and Names preserve And all his Goodness see verse 31 They shall his Righteousness to all Succeeding Ages show That those to come on God nay call And all his Wonders know Another Metre As the 124th WHY ô my God ô why my God dost Thou Desert a Soul oppress'd with mighty Woe Thou whose uhbounded Mercies largely flow And ready Help and kind Supports allow To others who beneath their Suff'rings bow verse 2 Crush'd by thy weighty Wrath my dreadful Cries My flowing Tears consume the chearful Light My restless Groans disturb the silent Night Yet still my absent God his Smiles denies For Tears or Groans has neither Ears nor Eyes verse 3 What! Can thy Wrath against a Godless Race Thy Nature change or to thy Servants make Thy Promise fail Can God himself forsake O no! He 's holy still His wondrous Grace The faithful World with Praise and Thanks embrace verse 4 On him our happy Fathers long believ'd Their Faith in him in him their Hopes were sure Their Considence in him from Shame secure verse 5 His ready Arm their pressing Wants reliev'd Their ancient Freedom and their State retriev'd verse 6 But I 'm beneath a Man's exalted Name A trampled Worm a Wretch forgot forlorn Expos'd to all th' insulting Vulgar's Scorn My heavy Woes their scossing Wits inflame And think I merit greater Pains and Shame verse 7 See how they toss their Heads the barb'rous Crew Shoot out their Tongues with pointed Flouts and Jeers Unkind returns for all my sanguine tears With cruel Joys the Rout my Life pursue And my unutterable Torments view verse 8 God was th' Impostors Patron once they cry God was his Strength his Friend his Father too Let 's see what that Almighty Friend can do Let 's see his God through the dividing Sky On rapid Wings to his Assistance fly verse 2 Yet from my Mother's Breasts and Virgin womb Wast thou my God and I was only thine My Birth Conception Nature all Divine verse 10 On Thee I trusted in my early Bloom Thy Image in my Infant-Soul had Room And can I doubt my God's immortal Love Can Seas or Earth again or can the Sky Dissolv'd in one unshap'd Confusion lie Can groundless Hate pursue the spotless Dove Or can unkind Oblivion reign above
verse 11 Lord be not absent long to thee alone My dropping Soul for sure Assistance flies On Thee for Help my drooping Soul relies My Griefs are nearer now and stronger grown My Foes unnumber'd my Assistants none verse 12 Not angry Bulls with more ungovern'd Rage Curl'd Bulls of lofty Basan's surly Breed verse 13 Not hungry Lions rouz'd with fiercer Speed Against the daring Hunters Spears engage Than against me this blind malicious Age. verse 14 With cruel Spite they vex and wildly tear My mangled Body and my wounded Mind No sinewy Strength my loos'ning Joints can find Woes swell my throbbing Heart and deadly Care And horrid Pangs approaching Death declare verse 15 What Pray'rs what Cries what melting Tears can I To cool Men's Rage or ease my Torments use My Tongue its Cries their Tears my Eyes refuse And that thou Lord may'st cast thy Thunders by I groan I sweat I bleed and faint and die verse 16 To grieve me more they pierce my Hands and Feet My Hands my bleeding Feet are rudely torn My dying Groans suppress'd by noisy Scorn So greedy Dogs about the Carcase meet And Passengers with surly Snarlings greet verse 17 Stretch'd on this Cross my Bones are all descry'd Their Eyes still dry the stupid Vulgar raise And hard as Rocks on all my Sorrows gaze verse 18 My Robes among themselves my Guards divide And with impartial Lots their Claims decide verse 19 But ô with Haste my God with Haste to me Fly on thy own Salvation's Balmy Wings From that alone my Strength and Safety springs To give me Life let thy Assistance be Swift as my own Obedience was to Thee verse 20 And though my Foes with Dog-like Fury rave My wretched Soul deserted Friendless mourn And all their Swords against my Bosom turn Be thou but mine their swords and teeth shall have A Check and all their Malice find a Grave verse 21 Though Men as Rampant Lions fierce would tear Mytrembling heart tho they 'd withforce control With rabid Force distract my peaceful Soul Be thou but mine I 'll live more free from Fear Than Mariners when Halcyon Calms appear verse 22 Then to my faithful Brethren I 'll declare Thy gracious Actions and thy glorious Name And in thy House thy wondrous Love proclaim verse 23 O ye who in th' Almighty's Favour share Now to his Court with grateful Songs repair Ye who of Israel's Privilege partake By Faith united to the chosen Seed To his bless'd Courts with grateful Songs proceed verse 24 He ne'er would yet his praying Saints forsake Nor to th' Oppress'd himself a Stranger make verse 25 Thy Name I 'll in the great Assemblies praise And there in publick pay my Vows to Thee There all thy Saints my Gratitude shall see My Sacrifice their fainting Hope shall raise And turn their Mourning to their Feasting-Day verse 26 Then those who seek their God their God shall see Their Hearts with no uncertain Tumours swell But in Eternal Joys and Pleasures dwell Where chang'd their happy Hymns of Praise shall be To Angels Tunes and Heav'nly Harmony verse 27 Thee shall the bles'd converted Nations know Earth's utmost Borders dearest Lord be thine To Thee the farthest Pagan Tribes incline To Thee shall all th' enlightned Nations flow And holy Rev'rence and Devotion show verse 28 For God's the King and o'er the Nations reigns verse 29 The Rich the Mighty to his Sceptre bow His Government the naked Poor allow Their God to them his Kindness still retains And gives then Life and then their Lives maintains verse 30 From them shall an immortal Race descend To God devoted and from God be nam'd For sacred Rites and holy Virtues fam'd verse 31 Who downward shall the gladsom Tiding send And his great Acts to future Heirs extend To God the Father and to God the Son And God the Holy Ghost Almighty Three One only God one Glorious Trinity As shall be is and was e'er Time begun Be lasting Glories paid and Homage done PSAL. xxiij As the 100th AMidst a Thousand Wants and Woes My Soul on God for Heâ—p relies My Griefs his pitying Wisdom knows My Wants his pitying Love supplies verse 2 He like a Shepheard gently leads My Soul thro' Truths delightful Ways My Foot sure by his Condust treads And ne're from Paths of Wisdom strays verse 3 As grassy Meads and wholesom Streams New Health on sickly Flocks bestow So in thy Favours quickning Beams I sweetly live and kindly grow verse 4 Thro' Death's dark shades I fearless move By Thee dear God secur'd from Harms Thy very Rod demonstrates Love Thy Staff supports my wearied Arms. verse 5 What tho' an envious World should frown On all my chief Delights from Thee Sweet Wine and Oil my Bowl shall crown And boundless Plenty compass me verse 6 In Thee my God I 'me always blest On Thee my Hopes my Joys depend Then in thy House I 'le fix my Rest My Life in lasting Praises spend Another Metre as Mr. Sandys's 10th verse 1 THE Lord 's my Sheepherd I the Sheep Those Soul his Cares in safety keep Through flowery Meads He gently leads Me on where I securely sleep Or by His guidance go Where silent Waters flow verse 3 His Loves his constant Loves refin'd The Errors of my wand'ring Mind For this Name 's sake He brought me back When I from Virtue 's paths declin'd And to his righteous Ways Consines my fleeting Days verse 4 I now no Fears or Danger know Tho' thro' Death's gloomy shades I go Since there with me My God will be From Thee alone my Comforts flow Which to me ever Lord Thy Rod thy Staff afford verse 5 Thou wilt for Me before my Foes A Table nobly stor'd dispose Oils largely shed Around my Head And till the purple Juice o're-flows Thy endless Bounty will My Bowl divinely sill verse 6 Goodness and Mercy both shall be A Portion all my Life for me And then my Rest Supremely blest Within thy sacred House shall be Where to my God and King I 'le endless Praises sing PSAL. xxjv verse 1 THis Earth the World their Hosts and Store To God above belong verse 2 Who rais'd it on the Seas and o're The Waters built it strong verse 3 Yet fix'd in one selected place His own Immortarl Name But ô what Man can find such grace Dear Lord to reach the same What happy Man divinely blest Attend thy Altars there Or of a Seat secure possest Before thy Face appear verse 4 He whose pure Hands are free from Bloody From all Corruptions free Whose honest Heart sincerely good Abliors Hypocrisy Who ne're in Thoughtst or Actions yain His active Soul employ'd Nor falsly swore nor liv'd in pain To make his Promise void verse 5 To such a Man God's goodness will Unfading Blessings give Reward him well and let him still On his Salvation live verse 6 Such with unweary'd Dilligence Seek God's Immortal Name And Israelites by Faith commence And Israeâ—'s portion claim verse
love thy Beauties more And thou his Deity adore And to his Heav'nly Will submit verse 12 Nor shall thy Beauties slighted lie Thy Service in Oblivion die But through the farthest Regions fam'd To thee shall Tyrian Dames resort And wealthy Princes make their Court To thee by thy Renown inflam'd verse 13 Fair are thy Eyes but fairer far Thy Soul a Thousand Beauties there Thy Diamonds and Rubies stain verse 14 When in Embroider'd Robes they bring Thy Majesty to meet thy King Attended with thy Virgin-Train verse 15 Bless'd by the ravish'd Croud they 'll move Bless'd by thy King 's exalted Love Thou 'lt in his Starry Palace reign verse 16 For thy old Stock a lovely Race Of Princely Youths thy Marriage grace And Royal Crowns and Empires gain verse 17 The Name great King I 'll Celebrate Thy Majesty and glorious State I 'll sing in never-dying Verse The World shall thy bright Throne adore The Suppliant World thy Grace implore Thy Spousals bless and praise rehearse PSAL. Xlvj. verse 1 GOD is our Hope our Strength our Aid When greatest Danger 's near verse 2 Whence for those dreadful Changes made On Earth we scorn to fear Though Mountains torn from ev'ry Shoar Into the Seas be hurl'd verse 3 And swelling Waves with threatning Roar Assault the trembling World verse 4 Yet near God's House and those fair Walls Which round his City go Refreshing Springs with gentler Falls And easie Windings flow verse 5 God in his House resides no Force No Strength his Walls can move God guards it Malice can't divorce It from his earliest Love verse 6 When he in dreadful Thunder spoke The frighted Nations heard The Kingdoms felt the fatal Stroke And Earth dissolv'd appear'd verse 7 With us the Lord of Hosts remains To us his Care extends With us the God of Jacob reigns And all our Coast defends verse 8 Come see the mighty Works which He Through all the World has wrought What wondrous Desolations He On ev'ry Land has brought verse 9 He makes the Noise of Battels cease And breaks the Spears and Bows And to the Flames to keep the Peace The ratling Chariot throws verse 10 Be still with humble Silence know I 'm God and only I To me the Nations round shall bow And raise my Glories high verse 11 With us the Lord of Hosts remains His Care to us extends With us the God of Jacob reigns And us from Ills defends PSAL. xlvij verse 1 WIth Hands and Hearts accod All People praise the Lord With Triumph's Voice in him rejoice His wondrous Name record verse 2 For He the Lord most High With dreadful Majesty A Monarch reigns and Earth restrains With his commanding Eye verse 3 He makes the People all Beneath our Empire fall The Nations meet to kiss our Feet And us their Masters call verse 4 But us He chose that we His Heritage might be His Favours grace the faithful Race Whose Wealth He loves to see verse 5 Our Lord 's gone up on high With Trumpets toward the Sky verse 6 Sing Praises sing to our great King With Songs and Praises vye verse 7 With Understanding raise Earth's mighty Monarch's Praise verse 8 Whose sacred Throne the Nations own Whose Will the VVorld obeys verse 9 To God his Servants now VVith neighb'ring Princes bow While He though high continually Defends our Earth below PSAL. xlviij verse 1 GReat is our Lord and greatly prais'd In Sion's sacred Hill On which immortal Buildings rais'd That glorious Mountain fill verse 2 Fair is its Sight the Pleasures vast It gives to distant Lands And on its Northern Quarters plac'd God's holy Temple stands verse 3 God in her Palaces is great A certain Refuge known verse 4 And angry Kings who fiercely met Are off as swiftly gone They saw admir'd and terrify'd From thence distracted flew Fear seiz'd 'em all and o'er their Pride Pangs as of Child-birth drew Though mighty Navies close combin'd For our Destruction meet He breaks them with his stormy VVind And scatters all the Fleet. Oft have we heard and oft have seen In thy bless'd Residence How Thou great God of Hosts hast been Thy City's strong Defence Secur'd by Thee it ne'er decays And in thy Temple we Thy Everlasting Mercies praise And sing dear Lord to Thee Great is thy Name thy Praises great Through all the VVorld resound Thy Name with Righteousness compleat Thy Hand with Justice crown'd verse 1 Let Sion's Mount rejoice and sing And Judah's Daughters dance Such Blessings Lord thy Judgments bring So much their Peace advance verse 2 VValk Sion round quite round her go Her Bulwark's Numbers find Her Battlements and Ramparts know Her stately Buildings mind Then let unborn Posterity Your wondrous Records have For God's our God for ever He Our Souls from Death shall save Another Metre As the 112th verse 1 OUR Lord is great and greatly prais'd From Salem's Walls and Sion's Hills verse 2 That sacred Mount which nobly rais'd Our happy Land with Glory fills That Temple guilds her Northern sides Where God the King of Kings resides verse 3 God in her Palaces is known A strong Defence and Refuge sure verse 4 See how th' assembling Kings are flown Nor could the glorious Sight endure verse 5 They saw and what they saw admir'd But off on Terrour's Wings retir'd verse 6 They felt such horrid Pangs and Throws As Women in their Child-birth feel By Land they met God's angry Blows verse 7 By Sea their shatter'd Navies reel By furious Eastern Tempests toss'd Till all their Strength and Pride are lost verse 8 Within God's holy City we Have seen what oft we'd heard of old The Lord of Hosts her Strength will be His Hand her lasting Walls uphold verse 9 Thy ancient Love and Kindness Lord We in thy holy House record Thy Name Earth's utmost Borders know As far great God thy Praises fly Thy Hands Eternal Justice show Let Sion's Mount then cheerfully Let Judah's Virgin-Daughters sing The Judgments of their glorious King verse 12 Walk Sion's Rounds her Towers describe Observe how strong her Bulwarks are The Palaces of Judah's Tribe Let those to come with theirs compare They 'll read God here and only He So good so sure a Guide could be PSAL. xlix verse 1 ALL People Nations all which o'er The World your Tribes extend verse 2 The High the Low the Rich the Poor My sacred Songs attend verse 3 My Mouth shall Wisdom speak my Heart Of Knowledge meditate verse 4 My Harp mysterious Truths impart And Things of ancient weight verse 5 Why should I fear in dangerous days By sinful Men distress'd verse 6 Who on their Lands and crafty Ways And mighty Treasures rest verse 7 Yet all their Wealth and all their Store Can't one lost Soul redeem Nor God to bate their sinful Score Their largest Gifts esteem verse 8-9 Nay though they live a Thousand Years The Grave 's expected Prey Such Price a Soul's Redemption bears As they can ne'er repay verse 10
From ev'ry threat'ning Storm verse 8 And I his Praise in Songs will spread And daily Vows perform PSAL. lxij verse 1 BUT still on God my Saviour I With humble Silence wait verse 2 My Rock my Health who sets me high And then confirms my State verse 3 How long shall your base Plots assail My Life Your selves shall fall And like old tott'ring Fences fail Or like some batter'd Wall verse 4 They fain would thrust my Glories down And old in Lyes they grow Their Language Oily Blessings crown Their Hearts with Curies flow verse 5 But still on God my Saviour I With humblest Silence wait verse 6 My Rock my Health who sets me high And then secures my State verse 7 God 's my Salvation Glory All My Strength my Hope my Trust verse 8 Pour out your Hearts with Faith ô call On Him ye suff'ring Just Our God's a Guard who ne'er can fail verse 9 But Men are Vanity Nay that against 'em turns the Scale They 're all an empty Lye Those Men by Providence depress'd And those exalted high The Rich the Poor the Worst the Best Are all an empty Lye verse 10 O ne'er in Wrong nor Force confide Nor swe'ling Thoughts disclose Nor on your Treasures multiply'd Your care'ess Hearts repose verse 11 Once God hath spoke and twice have we His Declaration heard That Might belongs to God and He Will for his Might be fear'd verse 12 And Mercy Lord is only thine And thy impartial Hand Will as Men's various Works incline Their due Rewards command PSAL. lxiij us the rooth verse 1 BEfore the Morning-blushes rise To Thee dear God I lift my Eyes For thou alone my God shalt be To Thee my thirsty Soul aspires Thy Smiles my longing Flesh desires Where I no Springs of Comfort see verse 2 As oft within thy holy Place I met of old thy quick'ning Grace I 'd now thy Strength and Glory view verse 3 More swift than Life thy Mercies flow And I with chearful Lips would show Thy Works thy ancient Praise renew verse 4 Thy Works with Blessings I 'll proclaim Whi'e Life shall last and in thy Name My Hands and Heart devoutly raise verse 5 Sweet Marrow 's Juice the Taste invites But more in Thee my Soul delights And Thee my joyful Lips shall praise verse 6 In Bed I think on Thee dear Lord Thy Loves I through the Night record And on thy Goodness meditate verse 7 From Thee my Health and Safety springs And shadow'd by thy glorious Wings I 'll all thy Works with Joy relate verse 8 To Thee my steady Soul adheres Thy Hand my strong Support appears verse 9 But those who would my Life betray Shall sink in Death's Eternal Shade verse 10 Their Lives to cruel Swords be made And Wolves and savage Beasts a Prey verse 11 Then in his God the King shall be Exalted high the World shall see His flowing Joys and all who swear To him shall in their Oaths be bless'd And Lying Lips with Shame suppress'd No more to blast his Crown appear PSAL. lxiv. verse 1 LOrd hear my Voice in Pray'r secure My Life From angry Foes verse 2 From Sinners Plots ô hide me sure And wicked Workers Blows verse 3 Sharp though they whet their temper'd Swords Their Tongues are sharper far And out they shoot their bitter Words Like Shafts prepar'd for War verse 4 In dark Retreats the Plotter lies To wound the perfect Heart And fearlese there with bo'd Surprize He throws his deadly Dart. verse 5 Mischief's their Life to mischief they Encouragements apply And talk of spreading Snares and say Who can our Snares descry verse 6 Deep are their Hearts their Counsels deep And all their Thoughts profound And all a Search for Mischief keep And practise Mischief found verse 7 But God with more surprizing Darts Their wounded Hearts shall reach verse 8 Their Tongues shall soon betray their Hearts Themselves themselves impeach verse 9 Aloof the wond'ring World shall stand And all around with Fear Acknowledge God's revenging Hand And all his Acts revere verse 10 Then shall the Just in God rejoice Their Faith more strongly raise And each good Man exalt his Voice To sing his Maker's Praise PSAL. lxv as the rooth PRaise Lord in Sion waits for Thee To Thee our holy Vows we pay Thou hear'st us whence in Misery verse 2 To Thee the suppliant World shall pray verse 3 My Sins are Lord too strong for me But Thou sha't all my Sins forgive verse 4 O happy 's he whose Eyes may see Thy House and in thy Presence live When him Devotion kindly warms His inward purer Joys abound His Soul with bless'd Re igion's Charms Is in thy sacred Temple crown'd verse 5 What though a Thousand Dangers rise To us our sure Salvation springs From Thee thy Flock for Shelter flies To thy protecting Mercy 's Wings For us thy dreadful Judgments move And scatter all our Fears and Woes Whence all in Thee their Trust improve Where Earth extends or Water flows verse 6 Thy Might the lofty Mountains rais'd And Pow'r thy wondrous Throne surrounds And at thy Voice the Seas amaz'd Laid down their Billows roaring Sounds verse 7 Thy Terrours smooth the Wat'ry Plain And all the murm'ring Nations quell When ruffling Storms disturb the Main And stubborn Hearts with Madness swell Part 2. verse 8 When earth is shock'd and Comets blaze And thy prodigious Signs appear At them the trembling Nations gaze And them at utmost distance fear The blushing Dawn the Morning-Skies Through all the World thy Praise proclaim And when Night 's gloomy Shadows rise They celebrate thy glorious Name verse 9 Thy Eyes the lower World survey Thy Hand their various Need supplies Thy Dews and Rains prepare the Way For Grass and Herbs and Plants to rise What mighty Treasures Lord hast Thou Within thy wat'ry Chambers laid Whence all our vast Provisions now Our Corn and Wine and Oil 's convey'd verse 10 The rising Grounds thy Fountains make Their wealthy Crops and Fatness yield The lower Lands thy Smiles partake Thy Blessing warms the springing Field verse 11 The joyful Year with Goodness crown'd Owes all its Plenty Lord to Thee Thy Clouds with fat'ning Drops abound And we their large Production see verse 12 The barren Wiâ—ds the burning Sands Those cooâ—ing Drops in Season bless The dancing Hillocks join their Hands And Mirth and Gratitude express verse 13 Huge Flocks the fruitful Pastures yield Huge Crops the burthen'd Valleys bring Joys eccho through the chearful Field And all their Maker's Praises sing Another Metre to the old 104th proper Tune verse 1 IN Siou's bless'd Gares Lord Praise waits for Thee To Thee holy Vows Shall justly be paid verse 2 Thy Goodness creates All our Confidence we By 't mov'd in thy House Our Petitions have made verse 3 Man 's impious Art Against me prevails O purge O remove Our Follies away verse 4 How happy 's his Part Whom thy Mercy ne'er fails Thy Choice can approve And thy
Service can stay That Man in thy Sight And Temple may dwell Thy Altars draw near Thy Favours enjoy And in Thee delight And be satisfy'd well With Goodness and there All his Service employ verse 5 By terrible Things In Righteousness shown Thou ' It answer our Cares Our Saviour to be Our Confidence springs From thy Goodness alone Whence Strangers make Pray'rs And rough Sailers to Thee verse 6 The Mountains stand fast Fix'd strongly by Thee Thy powerful Arm Has girt'em secure verse 7 Loud Storms are soon past For thy Fury we see Mad People can charm And their Quiet procure verse 8 Thy Wonders and Signs All Nations afright Where Comets e'er blaze Or Earth-quakes can tear The Morning which shine And the dark gloomy Night Rejoice in thy Praise And thy Glories declare verse 9 Thou visit'st the Earth Its Waters abound Vast Rivers with Wealth The Countries o'erflow Thence Corn has its Birth And the Fie'ds With it crown'd New Vigour and Health On the Nations bestow verse 10 The highest ridg'd Field Thy Water partakes The Furrows Jaid low Are drench'd with the same The Clods quickly yield Earth its Hardness forsakes The Crops which they show Then God's Blessing proclaim verse 11 By Thee the rich Year With Goodness is crown'd And all thy bless'd Ways Pure Fatness distil verse 12 Rich Pastures appear All the Desarts around All ecchoing Praise From each neighbouring Hill verse 13 With Thousands of Sheep The Pastures are clad The Valleys with Corn Are cover'd quite o'r Hence Nature may keep Now its Revels and glad With Praises adorn Both her Lord and her Store PSAL. lxvj as the 113th verse 1 IN God ô all ye Lands rejoice verse 2 Let ev'ry Man's triumphant Voice Advance his Name his Glories sing verse 3 How dreadful Lord thy Works appear Thy Terrours make thy Foes with Fear To Thee their forc'd Submissions bring verse 4 To Thee the Nations round shall bend Thy Name shall in their Songs ascend Above the Clouds above the Skies verse 5 Come see God's Operations here How when his dreadful Works appear Their Terrours Humane Hearts surprize verse 6 When from Egyption Bondage He His Israel's happy Race set free God through the Seas contriv'd a Road Where fenc'd by Watry Walls they went Safe o'er a spacious Continent And all their Hearts with Joys o'erslow'd verse 7 God by his Pow'r Eternal reigns His Look the Rebel-World restrains And beats their swelling Humours down verse 8 O all ye serious People bâ—ess That God whose Name our Tongues confess His Name with losty Praises crown verse 9 The Lord our Souls in Safety keeps He never slumbers never sleeps He ne'er permits our Feet to slide verse 10 Yet as the Silver 's oft refin'd When for the noblest Works design'd Our Sou s as oft his Hands have try'd verse 11 We fell in strong perplexing Snares Our Strength funk down with weighty Cares Our Heads we bow'd to conqu'ring Foes verse 12 But through Affliction 's scorching Heat Through Floods of Tears thy Mercies great Convey'd us to a sweet Repose Part 2. verse 13 My Thanks his Temple now shall see verse 14 I 'll pay my Vows dear Lord to Thee My Vows in Times of Danger sign'd verse 15 My upright Mind my Heart sincere My guiltless Hands shall Favour there More than a Thousand Oxen find verse 16 Come hear me all that fear the Lord O hear while I with Praise record What for my Soul his Hands have wrought verse 17 I cry'd his Name I rais'd on high verse 18 Yet had my Heart been faulty I His Smiles alas had vainly sought God reads the inward Parts and views What Ways the righteous Soul pursues And hears his earnest Pray'rs and Cries But Hypocrites whose various Arts Divide their glosing Tongues and Hearts Are odious to his piercing Eyes verse 19 But God has heard my Pray'rs and He With Favour gently answer'd me His Ears to my Petitions bow'd verse 20 O bless'd be He whose gracious Ear His suppliant Servant's pray'rs would hear And Mercy to his Pray'rs allow'd PSAL. lxvij verse 1 TO us with Mercy free Lord shew thy glorious Face O let thy happy Servants see Thy Blessing and thy Grace verse 2 That all the Earth may know Salvation's certain Way Thy Truth to all the Nations show Thy saving Health display verse 3 Let all the World ô God Exalt thy glorious Name O let the Nations all abroad Thy wondrous Praise proclaim verse 4 To Thee with loud Applause The govern'd World shall sing When Thou shalt all by equal Laws To righteous Judgment bring verse 5 Let all the World ô God Exa't thy glorious Name O let the Nations all abroad Thy wondrous Praise proclaim verse 6 Then shall the fruitful Land It s ancient Burthen show And on our selves from God's free Hand Shall endless Blssings flow verse 7 Then God shall bless us all And at his awful Feet With Fear the farthest Tribes shall fall And to his Laws submit PSAL. lxviij As the 100th verse 1 LET God arise his angry Foes Will quickly turn themselves to Flight Their Malice can't his Wrath oppose Nor bear the Terrours of his Sight verse 2 But as Smoak flies before the Wind As Wax dissolves before the Fire So Impious Men their Weakness find And by his Frowns consum'd expire verse 3 But holy Men with joyful Hearts Before their God shall Praises sing Sing then ye Saints sing all your Parts Exalt the great Celestial King verse 5 See where your God triumphant rides His Name with boundless Glory shines In Him each raptur'd Soul confides And gladly in his Praise combines verse 6 For Widows Tears and Orphans Cries God like a Judge and Father cares Starves Rebels makes the Captives rise And fills the lonesom House with Heirs verse 7 Lord when thou led'st thy People o'er The barren Wilds and Defart-Lands Earth's Bosom strong Convulsions tore And Heav'n dissolv'd at thy Commands verse 8 A Thousand Dewy Sweats distill'd Nay Sinai too supreamly bless'd Great Israel's God with Terrours fill'd With Light 's immoderate Beams Oppress'd verse 9 But cooling Dews and fruitful Rains On thy exhausted Canaan flow'd verse 10 which now thy People entertains Thy Goodness on thy Flock bestow'd Part 2. God gave the Word and out in haste All Nature's ready Armies flew And spoke God's Will and as they pass'd Did all opposing Force subdue God's Houshold then with Spoils grew fair Of routed Hosts and flying Kings As Doves which feem to cut the Air With Silver Plumes and Golden Wings verse 13 On that great Day though back before Among the Brick-Kilns newly laid verse 14 They more than Sal'men's Whiteness bore When in his Snowy Robes array'd verse 15 God's Sion Bashan's Pride our-vies And God in Sion's Hill delights verse 16 Why then should other Hills despise What God 's own Residence invites verse 17 A Thousand Thousand Chariots steer'd By fiery Angels round Him wait As once in Sâ—nai's Mount appear'd When there
enthron'd his Glory fare verse 18 Lord when thou took'st thy Seat on high Both Death and Hell were Captives led Thy Gifts made stubborn Hearts comply And Rebels own their sacred Head verse 19 O bless'd be God from Day to Day Who us with bounteous Goodness loads verse 20 Our Saving Health our Lord our Stay Our Guide from Death's obscure Abodes verse 21 But finful Fools his thoughtless Foes God in their Heads their Vitals wounds verse 22 I too says God will rescue those Whom Bashan or the Sea surrounds My Friends shall live at large and free Ill us'd restrain'd oppress'd no more verse 23 Their Steps o'er bleeding Foes shall be Where Dogs shall lick the streaming Gore Part 3. verse 24 My God my King thy glorious Ways Are oft with awful Wonder view'd When in thy House on Holy Days Thou meet'st the suppliant Multitude verse 25 First all the charming Voices move Then those who touch the tuneful Strings The Damsels next their Fingers prove And loud the merry Timbrel rings verse 26 Praise God in all Assemblies praise Your God ô all of Israel's Race verse 27 Let Benjamin his Anthems raise Whom first the Regal Ensigns grace verse 28 With Him let Judah's Head combine And all the Tribes their Leaders bring Till Mid-land Tribes and Coasters join And All then Maker's Glories sing verse 29 Strength Lord on us thy Hand bestows O let our Graces stronger be While Strength from Salem's Temple flows Great Kings shall offer Gifts to Thee verse 30 Rebuke th' Egyptians Force confound The Brutes in Idol-worship strong Those who in Pride and Wealth abound And who for Wars and Tumults long verse 31 To God then mighty Kings shall fly From Egypt and Arabian Lands And cast their Crowns and Sceptres by And raise to him their suppliant Hands verse 32 Sing sing to God his Praise unfold His Name yee Earthly Kings adore verse 33 He rides above the Skies of old And speaks in Thunders dreadful roar verse 34 Ascribe to God all Strength and Might VVho o're his Israel's Lot presides VVhose Power and whose Majestic light Above the highest Orb resides verse 35 VVhat Terrours in that secred Place Israel's Eternal God surround The Saints his Might and Courage grace His Name be still with Praises crown'd PSAL. lxix verse 1 O Save me Lord Thy Floods prevail The Floods my Strength controul verse 2 The Mud the rugged VVaves assail And sink my fainting Soul verse 3 To Thee till weary'd quite I cry My Throat grows hoarse and dry My very Ey strings Crack while I On Thee for Help rely verse 4 More than my Hairs my Foes increase And they whose causeless Hate Pursue my Soul and break my Peace Are strong and Fortunate To lay their Spite I paid with Care VVhat ne'er was due from me verse 5 Thou Lord my Follies know'st nor are My Faults conceal'd from Thee verse 6 Thro the let none endure Disgrace VVho on thy Love depend None blush thro' me who seek thy Face Or for thy Grace attend verse 7 For thy Name 's sake I suffer scorn To all Reproach confin'd verse 8 My Mother's Sons my Brethren born To me are grown unkind Part 2. verse 9 Lord for thy House with zealous Flame My Soul consumes and dies And those who dare affront thy Name My Heart with grief surprize verse 10 I fast my falling Tears succeed But I 'me reproach'd for all verse 11 I Sack-cloth wear my Sack-cloth weeds Among their Proverbs fall verse 12 Where all the senseless Rabble sit I 'me made their constant Theme Each Drunkard tries his brutish Wit My Glories to blaspheme verse 13 In thy accepted Time dear Lord Receive my Soul's address With Mercy by thy faithful Word My cruel Foes repress verse 14 From miry Deeps Lord raise my Head From mighty Waters save verse 15 And from the stormy Tempests dread And from the gaping Grave Let not the Floods devour me quite Nor Whirlpools swallow me verse 16 But in thy Mercies Lord delight And hear my Prayers to Tnee Part 3. With Pitty view my mournful Case And ease my dismal Woes verse 17 From me ô never hide thy Face When Sorrows round me close verse 18 Draw near redeem my Soul from those Who in my Fall delight verse 19 My shame reproach and all my Foes Are ever in thy sight verse 20 Shame breaks my Heart my panting Soul For Comfort looks in vain No Friends my mournful State condole Nor feel my dreadful Pain verse 21 They gave me bitter Gall to eat Sharp Vinegar to drink verse 22 But let thy Wrath their Joys defeat Their spiteful Pleasures sink O let thy Curse a deadly snare Of all their Plenty make And when their Souls for Mirth prepare All Mirth their Souls forsake verse 23 O let their Eyes be dark their Loins With strange Diseases shake verse 24 Till Wrath with utmost Fury joins And they of both partake Part 4. verse 25 Let all their lofty Palaces Their Tents deserted ly verse 26 For they on thy Afflicted press And Wounds to Wounds apply verse 27 Punish their Sins with Sins nor let Them Righteousness behold verse 28 Their Names i' th' Book of Life unset Nor with the Just enroll'd verse 29 But me oppress'd with mighty Woes Thy Health dear God shall raise verse 30 And Songs I 'll to thy Name compose And ever sing thy Praise verse 31 And these shall Thee my God much more Than Firstling Bul'ocks please verse 32 The Humble who thy Face implore Shall see 't and live at Ease Joys shall their happy Hearts possess At this triumphant Sight Their Souls shall wondrous Mirth express Their Lives supream Delight verse 33 God hears the Poor and Bond-men call And sends Deliverance verse 34 Then let Heav'n Earth and Seas and all Their Hosts his Praise advance verse 35 God saves his own and they in Peace Within their Countries rest verse 36 And there their happy Heirs increase Who love their Maker best PSAL. lxx verse 1 HAst'e Lord ô haste to aid And set thy Servant free verse 2 Asham'd let all those Fools be made Who seek to ruin me With Shame confound them all Who would my Life destroy verse 3 And when they think I 'm like to fall Express unmanly Joy verse 4 But where Men seek thy Face Let constant Joys reside Let those who love thy saying Grace Say God be magnify'd verse 5 But I am weak and poor O haste to help me Lord And as thou oft hast done before Thy speedy Aids afford PSAL. lxxj verse 1 IN Thee dear Lord I only trust From Shame ô keep me free verse 2 And as thy Promises are just Hear help and rescue me verse 3 Be thou my mighty Fortress where I when oppress'd may fly Thou art my Rock my Fort in Fear I on thy Word rely verse 4 Save me my God from impious Hands From Fraud and Violence verse 5 In Thee my Hope my Safety stands My Lord my Youth's Defence verse 6 I
1 IT 's true God to his Israel's kind To those whose Hearts are pure verse 2 Yet all my Confidence declin'd My Faith was scarce secure verse 3 Envy uneasre Envy gain'd An Empire in my Breast To see how impious Mad-men reign'd With Peace and Plenty bless'd verse 4 No racking Pains their Deaths fore-show'd Their Strength no Sickness broke verse 5 They never bore Grief's common Load Nor felt God's angry Stroke verse 6 Hence are they crown'd with haughty Pride And rob'd with Violence verse 7 Their Looks are high their Lusts supply'd Beyond their utmost Sense verse 8 They in excessive Leudness walk And in Oppressions boast And with their thund'ring lofty Talk O'er-awe the neighb ' ring Coast verse 9 Nay Heav'n it self their Words defy And trembling Earth subdue verse 10 And while they make their Treasures fly Allure the hungry Crew verse 11 And yet they cry Can God above Our secret Practice know Can God our gallant Acts reprove Or greater Wisdom show verse 12 Such are the wicked Workers who Can with a prosp'rous Gale And still increasing Riches through The World 's rough Ocean fail Part 2. verse 13 This I observing fondly cry'd I 've cleans'd my Hands in vain In vain my Heart I purify'd And Innocence maintain verse 14 In vain alas my strugling Lust I 've daily mortify'd And grovel'd in Affliction 's Dust By sharp Temptations try'd verse 15 But soon I this Reflection made Should I such Thoughts embrase I must God's Providence upbraid And damn chosen Race verse 16 In vain I trod without a Guide The dark perplexing Maze In vain by Reason's Methods try'd Thy Wisdom's secret Ways verse 17 Till I could to thy Holy Place With humble Thoughts ascend And there their wretched Fortunes trace And read their dismal End verse 18 Oh on what slip'ry Ground they stand How quickly ruin'd all verse 19 And crush'd by thy destroying Hand With Terrours wasted fall verse 23 As Dreams fly off from drowzy Eyes When Sleep the Man forsakes So Thou their Image shalt despise When once thy Fury wakes verse 21 Thus now my Thoughts are satisfy'd Though long perplex'd before Though Grief did then my Heart divide And Pains my Bosom tore Part 3. verse 22 Such Ignorance and Folly then My untaught Soul betray'd And I beneath the Rank of Men With senseless Beasts was laid verse 23 I see I 'm always now with Thee Thy Hand my Life supports verse 24 Thy Counsels Lord my Guide shall be To thy All-glorious Courts verse 25 On whom but Thee dear Lord above Can my Affections be And none on Earth my Soul can love O none compar'd with Thee verse 26 Though here my Flesh my Heart decline Thy Strength my Heart supplies Thou art my God my Part Divine When Time expiring dies verse 27 Loe those whose Vain Affections rove From Thee shall sink and die Those Fools who doat with wanton Love On curs'd Idolatry verse 28 But when I draw to God how nigh His flowing Mercies are On Him I 've fix'd my Trust that I Might all his Works declare PSAL. lxxiv. verse 1 O Why thus absent Lord Shall we No more thy Smiles obtain Shall thy poor Flock eternally Thy Fury's Weight sustain verse 2 O think on those redeem'd of old Those Lands by Thee possess'd With Pity Sion's Mount behold Which once thy Presence bless'd verse 3 O Thou Eternal God to ease Our Desolations haste For cruel Foes thy Temple seize Thy sacred Dwellings waste verse 4 Hark! how their Bands insulting roar Where thy Assemblies met And their triumphant Banners o'er Thy mournful Altars set verse 5 When safe thy glorious Temple stood The curious Carver rais'd Rare Figures on the yielding Wood For Ant and Softness prais'd verse 6 But now those noble Works are all By barb'rous Axes spoil'd verse 7 In Flames those sacred Buildings fall With ruin'd Heaps defil'd verse 8 Nay in their cruel Hearts they say Let 's all at once destroy And on each place of Worship they Devouring Flames employ verse 9 We see our Mystick Signs no more No Prophets speak thy Will And none our Term of Woes explore By Wisdom's sacred Skill Part 2. verse 10 How long Lord shall Reproaches rise From thy insulting Foes How long shall horrid Blasphemies Thy glorious Name expose verse 11 Rouse Lord thy Might make bare thy Arm Stretch out thy dreadful Hand Their bloody Insolence alarm And their Designs withstand verse 12 For Thou' rt our King of old from Thee The World's Salvation flows To Thee its ancient Liberty Poor jacob's Portion owes verse 13 From Thee of old the parting Seas With sudden Haste recoil'd And Israel marching through with Ease The ransack'd Ocean spoil'd verse 14 'T was there the furious Monarch's Heat In mighty Waters dy'd Nor would the rolling Waves retreat From Pharaoh's haughty Pride The King his Lords his Troops were thrown Around the Purp'e Shore A Prey to Wolves and Vultures grown But to be fear'd no more verse 15 Thy Word unseal'd the Springs and made The Rocks their Waters yield And through old Jordan's Bosom laid A spacious Sandy Field verse 16 Thou bid'st the smiling Morning rise And draw'st the gloomy Night And mak'st the Sun adorn the Skies The Moon advance her Light verse 17 Thy Hand has six'd Earth's utmost Bounds With winding Seas embrac'd And Heat and Cold in Yearly Rounds Thy wondrous Wisdom plac'd verse 18 Such were thy wondrous Acts of old O now revive the same Since Foes in Scorn thy Wisdom hold And Fools blaspheme thy Name Part 3. verse 19 Thy mournful Turtle Lord no more To cruel Hands resign Nor pass the poor Afflicted o'er As if they ne'er were thine verse 20 Thy ancient Covenant re-call With our bless'd Fathers made For Rapine now our Quarters all And barb'rous Force invade verse 21 To Thee alone thy Suff'rers cry Dear Lord remove their Shame And though in Woes and Poverty They 'll still exalt thy Name verse 22 Rise Lord thine own great Cause maintain Think how the scoffing Crew How Fools each Day with deep Disdain Thy glorious Name pursue verse 23 Ok ne'er forget th' insulting Voice Of thy triumphant Foes Who Thee with fierce advancing Noise And growing Spice oppose To Eathen Holy Ghost and son One God in Persons Three Be Glory paid and Homage done Through all Eternity PSAL. lxxv verse 1 To Thee great God to thee We offer Thanks and Praise Thy Gpodness We so near us fee In all thy wond'rous Ways verse 2 When I at thy Command The Royal Crown shall wear Through all the Land my righteous Hand With Justice shall appear verse 3 See what Convulsions shake The Tribes and all the Lands And when they shake I only make Its Pillars firmly stand verse 4 I said to Fools of old O cast your Follies by I Sinners told O be n't so bold Nor set your Horns on high verse 5 Ne'er set your Horns so high With such a softy State Nor stubbornly your God defy
Voice In God our Strength our King rejoice verse 4 For this by his supream Commands A Statute firm in Jacob stands A Monument of Love since He From Egypt's Bondage set them free There we when God our Help appear'd An unknown awful Language heard verse 6 Through Me said God thy Burthen ceas'd And I thy Hands from Pots releas'd verse 7 Thou pray'dst in suff'ring Times to me And I in Mercy answer'd thee From the dark Closets of the Sky Where Thunder 's secret Treasures lie At Meribah thy native Pride I with-prodigious Waters try'd verse 8 Hear then my People hear the Law Which I for thy Direction draw Part 2. verse 9 With thee no Foreign God shall be To such thou ne'er shalt bend the Knee To such no guilty Worship pay Nor Off rings on their Altars lay verse 10 For I 'm the Lord thy God my Hand First led thee out from Egypt's Land Let me thy largest Wishes know My Gifts shall still as largely flow verse 11 But they my People disobey'd And Israel no Submissions paid Their Hearts no kindest Acts could gain No Love their wandring Steps restrain verse 12 I then the wilful Fools resign'd To Ways to which their Hearts inclin'd Such Ways as they 'd themselves invent At once their Crime and Punishment verse 13 Oh had my People wisely weigh'd My Laws and my Commands obey'd verse 14 My Hand had quickly humbl'd those Who durst their thriving State oppose verse 15 Those Men who durst affront their Lord Had been as Lyars all abhorr'd Consum'd destroy'd and bury'd quite In dark Oblivion's gloomy Night But Israel of my Love posses'd Had been to endless Ages bless'd verse 16 Their Bellies purest Wheats had fill'd And Honey from the Rocks distill'd To Father Spirit Son bless'd ' Three One only God one Trinity As is as was e'er Time begun Be Praise and endless Homage done Amen Another Metre Proper Tune verse 1 A Loud to God our Strength aloud With chearful Voices sing To Jacob's God through all the Croud Let hearty Praises ring verse 2 A Psalm to merry Notes compose And let the Timbrels sound While pleasant Harps their Sweets disclose And Lutes maintain the Round verse 3 See where the Moon her Horns displays With Infant-Beauty dress'd Your solemn Joys with Trumpets raise At that appointed Feast verse 4 For this your God ordain'd of old To Israel's faithfol Race And we must still the Laws enroll'd By Jacob's God embrace verse 5 This was to them from Bondage clear'd His Pledge of endless Love When they an unknown Language heard From rending Clouds above verse 6 Thy Shoulders I said God releas'd And made from Labours free Through me thy weary'd Fingers ceas'd From Bricks and Slavery verse 7 To Me thou pray'dst and I appear'd And ready Aids apply'd And thee through gloomy Thunders heard At Massab's Waters trv'd verse 8 Hear me my dearest People hear To thee I 'll testifie If Israel's Race my Words can bear And with my Laws comply Thy Seed no other God shall own No Sacrifice allow To Gods by other Nations known Nor to their Idols bow verse 10 I only live thy Lord thy God Who thee from Egypt freed And I 'll my largest Stores afford To serve thy utmost Need. verse 11 But they my People careless all My just Commands refus'd My Israel from their Vows could fall And all my Loves abus'd verse 12 So I their Slight with Slight repay'd And let the Fools pursue Their foolish Ways and as they stray'd Returnrd their Wages due verse 13 Oh had my People's Thoughtless Seed my kind Advice obey'd Nor by their own false Hearts mis-led From Ways of Wisdom stray'd verse 14 I then had quickly crush'd their Foes And turn'd my dreadful Hand Against the wretched Heads of those Who durst against them stand verse 15 God 's Haters soon had sunk betray'd By Lyes themselves had fram'd But Mine had been a Nation made Through endless Ages fam'd verse 16 I had their hungry Souls supply'd With Wheat 's pure Fatness fill'd And them with Honey satisfy'd From flowing Rocks distill'd PSAL. lxxxij verse 1 GOD sits the Judge where mighty Kings Their secret Counsels hold verse 2 How dare ye then unrighteous Things And wicked Laws uphold verse 3 The Weak the Orphans Cause decide Th' afflicted Soul relieve verse 4 The Poor by long Oppressions try'd From Wicked Hands retrieve verse 5 To Fools alas I vainly speak Who on in Darkness reel Through whom Earth's strong Foundations break Apd strange Convulsions feel verse 6 I've said You all are Gods and all The Sons of God most High verse 7 But must like meaner Princes fall Like common Mortals die verse 8 Arise thy Justice Lord declare And o'er the World advance For all the scatter'd Nations are Thy just Inheritance PSAL. lxxxiij verse 1 LOrd unconcern'd no longer prove Nor wrap'd in Silence lie verse 2 Our Foes who hate Thee siercely move And bear their Heads on high verse 3 Against thy People all combin'd Their secret Counsels take And those who thy Protection find Their hated Objects make verse 4 Come on they cry let Israel bear No more a Nation 's Name Let 's from Time's largest Records tear Their long-detested Claim verse 5 In Mischief thus their Hearts agree And horrid Plots design Leagu'd in a strong Conspiracy Against thy self and thine verse 6 See Lord What Tents o'er-spread the Field Where Edom takes his Place What Bands fierce Moab's Countries yield And Agar's slavish Race verse 7 Gebal and Amnon's Companies Curs'd Amalek commands And Palestine's Battalion lies With Tyre's assisting Bands verse 8 With these proud Assur's Forces join And Ammon's Side embrace And Desolations all design On Abraham's faithful Race Part 2. verse 9 Bless'd Lord for us at last appear And let thy daring Foes The Lot of ruin'd Midian bear Who durst the Saints oppose As Sisera's and Jabin's Hosts Near Kishon's Torrents dy'd verse 10 In Endor slain and all the Coasts With Blood for Dung supply'd verse 11 Let all their Valiant Captains slain With Zeeb and O reb dwell Where Zeba's and Zalmunna's Train With all their Princes fell verse 12 For thus the boasting Wrethes said Come let 's at once go seize The Tents their God inhabited His sacred Palaces verse 13 Lord hurl them off as Chaff before The rapid Whirlwind flies verse 14 As Flames through ancient Forests roar Or Mountain-Shrubs surprize verse 15 So them with fiercest Storms pursue With Tempests terrifie verse 16 Till they with Shame their Errours view And to thy Service fly verse 17 Else let them all confounded lie Crush'd with Eternal Shame And know God only rules on high By Great Jehovah's Name PSAL. lxxxiv verse 1 AH how my Soul thy Dwelling-place Great Lord of Hosts admires Ah how thy Courts thy glorious Face My longing Soul desires verse 2 In Thee the God of Life alone My Flesh my Heart rejoice To see thy sacred Earthly Throne And hear thy Heav'nly Voice verse 3 Around each
Off soon the Shadow flies And both with Beams Divine More bright and strongly shine So all the Nations round Have our Salvation found How God about us waits And all our Health creates verse 4 Let all the Nations round Their Maker's Praises sound O let the Earth rejoice And raise its chearful Voice And all the World combine In Thanks and Songs Divine verse 5 Sing to the Lord ô sing To our Eternal King To well-tun'd Harps ô raise Your Notes of Heav'nly Praise verse 6 O let the Trumpets found Let Cornets Notes rebound And with them loudly sing To our Eternal King verse 7 Let the loud Ocean roar Its Joys from Shoar to Shoar Let Angels bless'd on high With Earth in Praises vye verse 8 O let the Waters sound The ecchoing Hills rebound And with a chearful Noise Express their boundless Joys verse 9 Let All their Joy fulness Before the Lord express For loe He comes with Haste And Awful Glories grac'd His dreadful Summons all To his Tribunal call His Judgment then shall bless The World with Righteousness Truth from his Lips shall flow And all the World shall know Their glorious Judge and see His Love and Equity PSAL. xcix verse 1 CHrist reigns Let all the People round Beneath his Empire quake He sits above the Cherubs crown'd Let Earth's Foundations shake verse 2 The Lord in Sion's great and high Above the People rais'd verse 3 O may his dreadful Majesty His holy Name be prais'd verse 4 Judgment our mighty Monarch loves And Equity prepares And Judgment with his Justice moves In Jacob's bless'd Affairs verse 5 O then exalt the Lord our God Before his Foot-stool bow And spread his wond'rous Works abroad His holy Nature show verse 6 So Moses once and Aaron so Among his Priests appear'd And Samue ' with his Prophets who The God of Jacob fear'd These at his Footstool bow'd and there To him devoutly pray'd And always found his Answers near And all their Faith repaid verse 7 They kept his Testimonies sure His Statute-Laws obey'd And He to Them from Clouds obscure His gentle Answers made verse 8 Sometimes indeed his Wrath severe Their Follies would pursue Yet oft their Cries He 'd kindly hear His Mercies oft renew verse 9 O praise our God's exalted Name Before his A'tars bow Our God our holy Lord proclaim With Praise his Glory show PSAL. c. verse 1 YE who enjoy Salvation's Light To God your Voices raise verse 2 Appear with Gladness in His Sight And Sing your Saviour's Praise verse 3 Our Lord is God indeed it 's He Not We our selves have made Our Shepherd He his People we And in his Pastures laid verse 4 O then approach his Courts his Gates With Thanks and hearty Praise For Praise on his Assembly waits On all his holy Days verse 5 O b'ess his Name for God is good And all his Mercies sure His Truth from Age to Age has stood And shall unchang'd endure Another Metre As the old 100th verse 1-2 O Ye enlighten'd Souls with Praise Before our mighty Lord appear To Him your chearful Voices raise Adore his Name with humblest Fear verse 3 He 's our Almighty God not we But He to us our Substance gave He 's ours we His those Sheep which He Di'd by his own pure Blood to save verse 4 O then approach his Gates with praise And in his Courts his Glories sing On all his own appointed Days Your Sacrisice of Praises sing verse 5 He 's always kind and always good His Favour great his Mercy sure His Truth has ever firmly stood And shall from Age to Age endure PSAL. cj. verse 1 MErcy I 'll sing and Judgment praise And sing my God to Thee verse 2 And wisely walk in perfect Ways O come dear Lord to Me Then with an undissembling Heart I'â—l ever justly move And in my Court in every part Thy sacred Rules improve verse 3 No wicked Actions shall mine Eyes With Satisfaction see And those who things perverse devise Shall ne're be great With Me. verse 4 From Me all froward Fools shall part I 'll none that 's wicked own verse 5 But cut off those whose sland'rous Art Against their Neighbour's shown verse 6 The Heart that 's proud the Look that 's high I 'll ne're at Court endure Eut through the Land my searching Eye Shall faithful Friends procure That Man who treads a perfect Path My Favourite shall be verse 7 But Cheats and those who break their Faith Shall never dwell with Me I 'll bear no Liar in my fight The wicked I 'll destroy verse 8 Till Salem freed from Sinners quite Shall perfect Peace enjoy PSAL. cij A Soul with mighty Woes opprest May thus complaining pray And in deep Sorrows Language drest His weighty Griefs display verse 1 Hear Lord O hear my Prayers and Cries To Me thy Face disclose verse 2 My Soul lost in Affliction dies O heart O ease my Woes verse 3 Grief wasts my Days like Smoke and dries My Bones like Hearths with heat verse 4 My Heart like Grass quite wither'd lies And I forget my Meat verse 5 My Bones break through my shriveling Skin Through my unceasing Groans verse 6 I'm like those doleful Birds which in Wild Desents vent their moans verse 7 Like little Birds which spent with Grief Aboat their Nestlings mourn verse 8 While taunting Foes against my Life With bloody Oaths are sworn verse 9 Ashes my Bread my Drink was Tears While I endur'd thy frown verse 10 Thy I ove once rais'd me up from Fears Thy Wrath now hurts me down verse 11 The Shaddow falls my Life 's weak Flame So sinks like Grass it wains verse 12 But still thou ant thy glorious Name From Age to Age remains verse 13 Rise Lord for Sions help return In time her Woes relieve verse 14 Thy Servants o're her Ruins mourn And for her Ashes grieve verse 15 All Nations then thy Name shall fear All Kings thy Glory see verse 16 When Sions Walls new built appear And Glory springs from thee Part 2. verse 17 God hears the silent Mourner's Prayer O write his Goodness down verse 18 So shall Posterity declare Their mighty God's renown verse 19 God from his Holy Throne his Eye Turn'd down on Earth below verse 20 To save the Men condemn'd to die And let the Prisoners go verse 21 That they in Sions Walls might show His Praise his Name record verse 22 When thither Kings and Kingdoms flow To serve their Mighty Lord verse 23 My Strength my shortned Days he broke Then spare me Lord I pray'd verse 24 Suspend dear Lord thy deadly stroke Thy Years can never fade verse 25 Thy Hands this Earth's Foundations cast And stretch'd the lofty Skies verse 26 They perish but thy Nature lasts And Time it self defies They like a worn-out Garment fail And shall be chang'd for new verse 27 Thou' rt still the same Age can't prevail Nor time thy Steps pursue verse 28 Our Lands shall quickly be suppli'd With
thy obedient Race And their well-settled Heirs abide Secure before thy Face PSAL. ciij. As the 100th verse 1 O Praise the Lord with grateful Joy My Tongue my Soul his Praises sing verse 2 O let his Praise thy Powers employ His Loves to kind Remembrance bring verse 3 'T is He forgives thy Sins 't is He Thy Weakness heals thy Plagues removes verse 4 Redeems thy Life from Misery And crowns thee with his tenderest Loves verse 5 With good He fills the Youth and Age Thy Age with vigorous Youth renews verse 6 His Arms for Saints opprest engage His just Revenge their Foes pursues verse 7 He to his Israels Race of old By Moses made his Precepts known He by our Jesus still unfolds His Will and Goodness towards his own verse 8 Our Lord is kind his Mercies great His Vengance not his Mercy slow verse 9 He 'll not too oft his Strokes repeat Nor let his Anger alway glow verse 10 So with our se'ves He dealt our Crimes Though foul with Rods he gently lasht His pittying Eyes a thousand times Our still repeated Follies past verse 11 His Goodness so surrounds his own As Skies enclose our humb'er Earth verse 12 From us our Sins are farther thrown Then Sun-set's from the Mornings Birth Part 2. verse 13 More love to pious Souls he shows Then Fathers to their Darling Heirs verse 14 Our frailer Constitution knows Our mouldring Dust as gently spares verse 15 Weak Man like early Birds may rise Or Grass which shades the cheerful Plains verse 16 But struck with blasting Winds he dies And neither House nor Name remains verse 17 But Gods unfailing Grace pursues The Just and all their faithful Seed verse 18 Who on his Sacred Covenant muse And all his righteous Precepts heed verse 19 On high our God has fixt his Throne And thence his boundless Empire guides And o're the Subject World alone His Arbitrary Will presides verse 20 Praise Him ye Angel-flames whose Might Does in compleat Obedience shine verse 21 O praise Him all ye Sons of Light Bless'd Ministers of Love Divine verse 22 O all his Works your Maker praise Praise through his spacious Empire sing While I with grateful Anthems raise New Honours to my Glorious King PSAL. civ As the 100th verse 1 O Praise the Lord my tuneful Soul How great blest God how wondrous great What Majesty what Glories roll About thy Everlasting Seat verse 2 Light robes Thee with her Radiant Streams Thy Curtains are th' expanded Skies verse 2 Floods bear thy Chambers weighty Beams On humble Clouds thy Chariot flies God walks on groaning Winds in State verse 4 Attended with his Angel-Bands And Scrvant-Flames around him wait And fly to bear his great Commands verse 5 He Earth's Foundations strongly laid A well-pois'd never moving Load verse 6 A wavy Deep its Covering made Which o're the highest Mountains flow'd verse 7 But off the head-long Waters flew When his commanding Thunders roar'd verse 8 They took their place and strait in view Sweet Plains appear'd and Mountains soard verse 9 The Floods their Bounds appointed know Earth fears no more th' encroaching Deep verse 10 Through Valleys Crystal Fountains flow And round the Mountains softly creep verse 11 To Them the Savage Creatures fly And kindly cool their thirsty Flame verse 12 The Birds above them sing on high And there their curious Buildings frame Part 2. verse 13 His Rains refresh the parching Hills And make our Earth with Fruits abound verse 14 Thence Grass the hungry Cattel fills And Herbs for Men are useful found Through Him rich Corn o're-spreads the Fields verse 15 And Wine to chear our ' drooping Hearts Fat shining Juice his Olive yields His Bread a Vital Strength imparts verse 16 Sap feeds the lofty Cedar-Groves verse 17 Where Birds of Prey their Eieries raise verse 18 The Goat on Rocky Mountains roves Through Rocks the Coney breaks her Ways verse 19 The Moon the Sun their Seasons know And when to rise and when to fall verse 20 Nights gloomy clouds our World o'reflow And out the Forrest-Rangers crawl verse 21 The Wolves the Tygers howl for prey And loud the hungry Lions roar God for their Diet finds a way And feeds them with his secret Store verse 22 But when the Sun appears they fly And to their unknown Dens repare verse 23 And Men their business safely ply Till Night again o're-clouds the Air. verse 24 How various Lord how wisely fram'd Great God thy Works of Wonder are Thy Riches are through Earth proiclaim'd verse 25 Thy Wealth th' unfathom'd Seas declare Part 3. There Fishes great and small in strange Unnumber'd Numbers cut their Way verse 26 There Navies float and Monsters range And Whales in boundless Oceans Play verse 27 These All blest God depend on Thee Of Thee they beg their timely Food verse 28 Thy Gifts they catch thy Hands are free And All are fill'd with needful Good verse 29 Thou hid'st thy Face affrighted They Sink down to Dust and Dust remain verse 30 Thy Spirit commands the Dead obey And rise and fill the World again verse 31 God's Glory lasts He pleas'd reviews His Works his Looks his dreadful Stroke verse 32 Convulsions through the World diffuse And make the trembling Mountains smoak verse 33 To God my mighty Lord I 'll sing While Health or Life or Breath remains verse 34 My Heart in Him with Joys shall spring I 'll praise his Name in lofty Strains verse 35 He 'll soon confound the Sinner's Race And impious plotting Fools control And all their Stock on Earth deface O bless Ô praise the Lord my Soul PSAL. CV as the 100th or Mr. Sandys's 8th verse 1 O Praise the Lord invoke his Name His Acts through ev'ry Tribe proclaim verse 2 Sing sing aloud your Anthems raise Through all the World his Wonders praise verse 3 Him and his holy Name adpre His Smiles with chearful Hearts implore verse 4 And seek the Lord his Strength embrace And ever seek his glorious Face verse 5 O ye of Abr'ham's faithful Seed O ye of Jacob's chosen Breed verse 6 His strange his dreadful Acts relate And on his Judgments meditate verse 7 He 's our great God our Lord alone His Judgments through the World are known verse 8 His Covenant his Word of old Shall through a Thousand Ages hold verse 9 What He to Abraham spoke before What He to Isaac firmly swore verse 10 And as law on Israel laid And thus his lasting Cov'nant made verse 11 To you rich Canaan's Land I 'll give Where you its lawfal Heirs shall live verse 12 Though then their Seed were weak and small Add despicable Strangers all verse 13 When they a Thousand Movements made And round the neighb'ring Countries stray'd verse 14 He them against the World maintain'd And Ill-designing Kings restrain'd verse 15 From Wrongs be my Anointed free Let no malicious Injurie My Prophets or my Friends approach Or on my chosen Sons encroach Part 2. verse 16 Sharp
verse 9 With plenteous Doles his lib'ral Hand The needy Poor supp'ies His Righteousness shall ever stand His Strength with Honour rise verse 10 Ill Men enrag'd his Happiness With envious Eyes shall view And gnash and pine and deep Distress Their blasted Hopes pursue PSAL. cxiij Proper Tune verse 1 O Praise the Lord his Praises sing Ye Servants of th' Eternal King verse 2 Bless ever bless his sacred Name verse 3 From the first Bâ—ushes of the Day Till Night her sable Wings display His Name 's immortal Praise proclaim verse 4 The Lord o'er all the Nations reigns The Lord 's illustrious Glory stains The brightest Star the clearest Sky verse 5 What Man what God would we compare With Him whose lofty Dwellings are Above all Heav'ns exalted high verse 6 Yet thence his Providential Eyes Survey the never-resting Skies And all our humble World below verse 7 He helps the Wretched from the Floor And from the Dung-hill lifts the Poor His Goodness and his Strength to show verse 8 Thence He exalts their meaner Fate To Majesty and Princely State And bids'em Crowns and Sceptres claim verse 9 He makes the barren Womb conceive O'er-joy'd a youthful Race to leave O praise ô ever praise his Name Another Metre verse 1 PRaise God! ô praise the Lord Ye Saints with one Accord His hoIy Name with Praise proclaim His holy Acts record verse 2 His Name with Praise attend Till Time it self shall end verse 3 His Fame display from dawning Day Till Night's dark Shades descend verse 4 God's o'er the Nations high His Glories pass the Sky verse 5 What God 's ador'd as our great Lord Or with his Height can vye verse 6 Yet condescending He Through Heav'n and Earth can see verse 7 The Poor to raise who spend their Days In Want and Miserie verse 8 His Smiles with Honour grace Those who the Dust embrace With Kings to vye in Majesty And rule his chosen Race verse 9 At his All-quick'ning Word The barren Womb 's restor'd With Joy t' embrace a lively Race Praise then ô praise the Lord PSAL. cxiv verse 1 WHen Israel's Tribes when Jacob's Race From barb'rous Egypt went verse 2 Then Judab was his holy Place Israel his Government verse 3 The Seas and Jordan saw their God Advancing in their Head The Seas amaz'dly parting stood And Jordan backward fled verse 4 The Mountains at the dreadful Sight Leap'd up like frighted Rams The Hills with the surprizing Fright Skip'd like the trembling Lambs verse 5 What terrify'd the parting Seas That they divided stood What Fears could Jordan's Currents seize Or turn his hasty Flood verse 6 What made the lofty Mountains leap So like the frighted Rams The little Hills on crouded Heaps To run like trembling Lambs verse 7 Ne'er ask the Cause When Jacob's God Appears with Glories crown'd His dreadful Looks his awful Nod The trembling World confound verse 8 And when his thirsty Nation prays He turns the Rocks to Springs And from dry Flints by wond'rous Ways Unceasing Fountains brings Another Metre As the 113th verse 1-2 Isreal of old their Maker chose His Empire and his Name 's Repose And more than all the Nations lov'd And with his own Almighty Hand From cruel Egyst's barb'rous Land Their happy Tribes in Peace remov'd verse 3 The Sea his marching Armies view'd The Sea a while as doubtful stood But soon with wild Amazement fled Old Jordan's Streams with headlong Haste Astonish'd Merom's Waves re-pass'd And backward flew to find their Head verse 4 The Mountains Vast which proudly bore Their Heads above the Clouds before Like Rems from their Foundations leap'd The lesser Hills as frighted Lambs Run trembling to their helpless Dams Beneath their Parent-Mountains crept verse 5 What made the Seas divided fly What made old Jordan's Waters try With backward Streams to find their Spring verse 6 What made the Mountains leap like Rams The lesser Hills like trembling Lambs Close to their Parent Mountains cling verse 7 Slightly alas they mov'd or fear'd At him the World amaz'd appear'd The World before its Maker quakes His look who now in Jacob reigns And there his holy House maintains The settled frame of Nature shakes verse 8 Let then the Seas desert the Shore Let Jordan's Banks be fill'd no more Let barren Sands around us ly Our God can change with wondrous ease The Flints to Springs the Rocks to Seas And all his Peoples Wants supply PSAL. cxv verse 1 To us dear Lord to us no Praise But to thy Name is due For Mercy lays thy gracious Ways And all thy Words are true verse 2 Why should the foolish Gentiles cry Where 's He whom God they call verse 3 Our God's on High above the Sky And acts his Pleasure all verse 4 Their Gods of other Tempers are Fine Silver weighty Gold And Men With care such Gods prepare And then their Gods uphold verse 5 They ne're could speak and ne're could see Tho' made with Mouths and Eyes verse 6 And louder he than Storms must be Who can their Ears surprise The strongest Stench the noblest Sweet Their Nostrils can't invade verse 7 Their Hands can't meet nor feel their Feet Were ne're for walking made With all abusive Scorns appear Before their Deities Yet shan't you there one Murmur hear So still their Anger lies verse 8 Wise as their senseless Gods are those Who first advanc'd the Trade And such are those whose Souls repose On what their Hands have made Part 2. verse 9 O ye of Jacob's wiser Seed On God securely trust He 'll help with speed in times of need And ever shield the just verse 10 O ye of Aaron's sacred Breed On God securely trust He 'll help with speed in times of need And ever shield the Just verse 11 Ye who With Fear your Maker heed In him securely trust He 'll he'p with speed in times of need And still defend the Just verse 12 The Lord has Kept us still in mind His Priests shall all be blest Our Tribes shall find his Blessings kind On all their Dwellings rest verse 13 The Lord will all his Servants bless The Rich Poor Young and old verse 14 And Happiness with vast access Shall you and yours uphold verse 15 You 're by that great Creator blest Who bade theWorld to rise verse 16 And who possest of sacred Rest Lives high above the Skies verse 17 O're Earth and all that Earth contains For mortal Men design'd Man freely reigns and God maintains The Gift to them resign'd verse 18 The Dead nor those can blaze thy Fame Who sink to silence down verse 19 But we thy Name with Praise proclaim And endless Blessings crown PSAL. cxvi verse 1 THe Lord who heard my Voice and Prayer My Lord my Love shall be verse 2 On him I 'll call with constant Care Who bow'd his Ear to me verse 3 The Chains of Death engag'd me round Me hellish Pains surpriz'd And Troubles oft and Anguish found And Sorrows exercis'd verse 4 Then in
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
Counts verse 5 But his great Might and Actions wise All numbring Art surmounts verse 6 The Lord exalts the lowly Heart But casts the Sinner down verse 7 Then Sing to God a grateful part Your Harps with Praises Crown verse 8 With Clouds He covers all the Skies Which Rains as duely bring And makes the buried Plants to rise The Sun burnt Hills to spring verse 9 He feeds the Beasts and at their Cries For Birds of Prey provides verse 10 But strength of Horse and brawny thighs Of mighty Men derides verse 11 But Loves the Men who fear his Name And for his Mercies wait verse 12 O Sion Salem ô proclaim Thy God's Majestic State Part 2. verse 13 He strengthens all thy Gates and Bars And blesses all thy Seeds verse 14 Thro' Him thy Borders freed from Wars On Wheats pure fatness feed verse 15 He sends his Word his Word on Earth With wondrous swiftness flies verse 16 And gives the Snow its Flaky Birth Which all in Fleeces lies His heavy Frosts like Ashes you Spread o're the Fields behold verse 17 His Ice like Morsels lies and who Can stand his pierceing Cold verse 18 He sends his Word again and streight His Ice his Frosts and Snow Before his Warmer gusts abate And all in Waters flow verse 19 The Lord to Jacobs chosen Race His Sacred Writings gave His Laws his Judgments by his Grace His Israel only have verse 20 So well no other Nation far'd Nor of his sacred Word Nor of his Righteous Judgments heard Praise ye ô praise the Lord PSAL. cxlviij verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord ô Praise the Lord On High his Glories raise verse 2 Ye Angel Armys all record His Name with Joyful Praise verse 3 Sun Moon and lightsome Stars consent To praise his glorious Name verse 4 And Heavens high Throne the Firmament Of Waters praise the same verse 5 Let these advance his Name which He Made by his great Command verse 6 And fix'd 'um by a sure Decree Unmov'd unchang'd to stand verse 7 Him all ye Earth born Dragons praise And each unfathom'd Deep verse 8 Fire Hail Snow Winds which Tempests raise Yet still his Orders keep verse 9 Vast Hills small Hillocks Cedars high And every Fruitful Tree verse 10 Wild Beasts and Tame and Birds which fly And Insects each Degree verse 11 Kings Princes Nations Judges those Who rule the World below verse 12 Youths Virgins such as strength disclose And Heads adorn'd with Snow verse 13 Let all advance their Maker's Name Whose Name excells alone Whose Name is o're the Worlds vast frame On Winds of Glory blown verse 14 He only makes his People great His Saints his Praise record His Israel his near Friends repeat Praise ye ô praise the Lord Another Metre Proper Tune verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord Above The Skies his Praises sing Let Heaven the Seat of Love With Heavenly Praises ring Of his great Name Ye Angel Host With Reverence boast His Praise proclaim Bright Sun whose Golden Rays Fill all the World with Light Pale Moon bright Stars which blaze Thro' the dark Fields of Night Heavens outmost Frame Vast Deeps which lie Above the Sky His Praise proclaim Let these their Maker Praise By whose Command Divine The Sky its Wealth displays And all those Beautys shine Fix'd by his Will They all stand fast And Orders past With Joy fulfil Ye Dragons Earth-born Race And all ye Deeps profound With every Natural Grace Your Masters Praises sound In Praise agree Fire Clouds Hail Snow And Storms which blow At His Decree Let Soaring Mountains now And smaller Hills descend Fruit Trees before Him bow And stately Cedars bend verse 10 Beasts Wild and Tame Birds airy wings And creeping Things His Praise proclaim verse 11 His Praise all Kings on Earth And Subject Nations show Great Men of Princely Birth And such as Judgment know verse 12 Each-Youthful Tribe Each Virgin Throng With Old and Young His Praise describe verse 13 Let them with one consent Exalt their Maker's Name And various Ways invent To spread his glorious Fame His Name shall rise With Beams divine Thro Earth to Shine And reach the Skyes verse 14 He makes his Israel great And Praise is comely where Before his Mercy Seat His grateful Tribes appear O all accord Who Worship near His Presence there To praise the Lord PSAL. cxlix verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord with Anthems new The great Jehoviah praise His Praise in his Assemblys shew On all his Holy Days verse 2 With Joy let Israel's Faithful Race Their Maker's Power adore And Sion's Heirs with humble Grace Their Monarchs Smiles implore verse 3 Where Harp and Timbrel tun'd invites Let all his Praises sing To th' Meek in whom the Lord Delights Beauty and Safety spring verse 4 Let then each Pious Soul rejoice With lightsom Glories blest And Praise their God whose happy choice Secur'd their Downy Rest verse 5 To them let God's high Praises yield A Ground for all their Joys Then They a two edg'd Sword shall wield Whose very weight destroys verse 6 A Sword whose Point just Vengeance bears To all the Nations round Whose glittering brandish'd Edge with Fears Will all their Hearts confound verse 7 Till They their daunted Kings shall bind With Ease in Slavish Chains And till their Noblest Youth confin'd Strong Fetters weight restrains verse 8 To execute that Ancient Doom Which Holy Books record Such Honour all his Saints assume Praise ye ô praise the Lord PSAL. cl verse 1 O Praise the mighty Lord His Holyness proclaim His wondrous Acts record And praise his awful Name His dreadful might O celebrate His Power and State In Songs recite verse 3 Praise Him with Trumpets sound With sweet Tun'd Harp and Lute Sing all the Chorus round To cheerful Pipe and Flute verse 4 Your Voices raise The King of Kings With sounding Strings And Organs praise verse 5 Wind up the Cymbals high Till with a Shriller sound Wide as the vaulted Sky Your cheerful Notes rebound verse 6 With Spritely Flame Each living thing His Glories sing And Praise his Name Another Metre verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord ô praise the Lord His strength his Holiness adore verse 2 His Name his Might with praise record His Majesty with praise implore verse 3 Praise him with Trumpets Martial sound With Lute and Harp his praise advance verse 4 With Organs and with Timbrels round And Viols and a cheerful Dance verse 5 With high tun'd Cymbals praise his Name His Name to loudest Cymbals Sing And all whom Vital Spirits enflame O praise the World 's Eternal King To Father Holy Ghost and Son One blest one glorious Trinity As is as was e're Time begun So endless praise and Glory be The End of the PSALMS DOXOLOGIES For the 1st Metre of the 1st Psalm c. TO Father Son and Holy Ghost Immense Eternal Three in One By Us and all the Heavenly Host Be Glory pay'd and Homage done For the 2d Metre and all of 8 and