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
6 Syllables To Father Spirit Son Blest Three In whom we move and Live One undivided Trinity Unceasing Glories give For the 2d Metre of the 8th Psal and all of Ten Syllables To God the Father and to God the Son And God the Holy Ghost blest Trinity As is as was before the World begun Eternal praise Eternal Glory be For the 2d Metre of the 11th Psalm To Father Holy Ghost and Son One God as was e're Time begun As now We see So ever be All Humblest Homage done For the 2d Metre of the 15th Psalm To Father Holy Ghost and Son Blest Three in One Eternal Praise and Glory pay His Word obey As was of Old as still we see And shall when Times extinguish'd be For the 17th Psal and all Two Sixes and Eight and Six To Father Spirit Son One God in Persons three Be Glory paid and Homage done Thro' all Eternity For the 20th and 122d Psalm 1st Metre and proper Tune To that great Lord above The God of Peace and Love In Essence One in Persons Three To Father Spirit Son Each God immense alone One Undivided Trinity To him your Anthems raise And Holy Songs of Praise And Glories pay and Reverence shew So God of old was bless'd Of these he 's still possest And these will when Time 's done be due For the 22d and 124th Psal 2d Metre 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're Time begun Be lasting Glories paid and Homage done For the 23d Psalm 2d Metre To Father Holy Ghost and Son Eternal glorious Three and One Be Glory paid His Word obey'd As was before Times Birth begun As is and still shall be Thro' all Eternity For the 24th Psalm 2d Metre To one great God one mighty Lord One Eternal Trinity The Father the Eternal Word And the Spirits Majesty Wee 'l gladly raise Unceasing praise And his endless Glories sound So Saints of old His Name extold So we 'll keep th' Eternal round For the 29th Psalm or 127th 2d Metre or 48th 2d Metre To Father Holy Ghost and Son One blest one glorious Trinity Who fram'd this Universe alone All Honour Praise and Glories be So 't was of Old at Present too And shall when Time 's run out be due For the 33d Psal 2 Metre To Father Son and Holy Ghost By us and all the Heavenly Host Be equal Glories paid Great Three in One thus blest of old They still their ancient Honours hold And must be still obey'd For the 43d Psal 2d Metre To the Father Spirit Son One glorious Trinity Persons Three in Essence One Eternal Glory be Thus e're Time begun its race The Godhead was obey'd This when Time resigns its place Must to our Lord be paid For the 3d. Metre os the same Psalm To Father Son and Holy Ghost One blest Eternal Trinity By us and all the Heavenly Host Be Praise ascrib'd and Majesty So 't was at first and still shall be When Time expires and Nature 's lost For Psal 45th Metre 3d. c. To that great Lord who rules above The God of Might of Peace and Love In Essence One in Persons Three To Father Holy Ghost and Son Each God Himself immense alone One undivided Trinity To Him with Hearts exalted raise Your Holy Hyms and Songs of Praise And Glories pay and Reverence shew So He before Time's Birth was bless'd Of these He 's now by Right possest And they 'l when Time 's no more be due For the 50th Psal 2d Metre To God the Father and to God the Son And God the Holy Ghost coaequal Three Three Holy Persons but ador'd in One All equal Honours equal Glories be His Glory shone e're Time's first Springs could move it And vast Eternity shall more improve it For the 51st Psal and 137th Psal 2d Metre All Glory to that Mighty Lord Who made the World and all its Host The Father the Begotten Word And the proceeding Holy Ghost As was e're Time's first Race begun As was when Time commenc'd his Score As is and ever shall be done When Nature sinks and Time 's no more For the 53d Rsal 2d Metre To one Almighty Lord One glorious Trinity The Father Spirit Word Eternal Glories be So happy Angels Sung Before the World begun So ever Lord among Thy Servants shall be done For the 58th Psal 3d. Metre To God alone The Mighty Father Mighty Son And Holy Ghost Blest Trinity great Three in One Be Homage done As was before the World begun When th' Angel Host O're Rebel Mates the Conquest wonne So we at present Sing his glorious Praise So All shall Sing when Time it self decays For Psalm 60 and 121st Metre 2d To Father Holy Ghost and Son One God in Persons Three All Praise and Glory be As was before Time's race begun As is now and shall be paid When swift Time its self is laid For Psal 69 2d Metre To Father and Son And Pure Holy Ghost One blest Trinity All Glory be paid As e're Ttime begun By the Heavenly Host And by All must be When Time's motions are laid for Plal. 72 2d Metre To Father Holy Ghost and Son Blest Trinity Great Three in One Be Glory paid and Homage done So 't was before this All was made Nor shall God's Honours ever fade But shall when All 's consum'd be paid For Psalm 76 or 148th Proper Tune To Father Spirit Son The glorious Trinity In Sacred Essence One All Praise and Glory be As now We see As was Time past And shall outlast Eternity For Psalm 85 2d Metre Proper Tune To Father Son and Holy Ghost One blest one glorious Trinity From all the World 's Created Host Eternal Praise and Glories be So 't was e're Time begun And ever shall be done For Psalm 93 2d Metre To Father Spirit Son Eternal Three in One All praise and Glory be As 't was in Times of old And we shall still behold And thro' Eternity For the 95th Psal 2d Metre To the Father Spirit Son God Eternal Three in One Be all Praise and Glory paid When the World in Dust is lay'd For Psal 97. 2d Metre To God the Father God the Son And God the Spirit Three A glorious Trinity In Eternal Essence One. By all the bright Angelic Host above By us the Sons of Grace and Heirs of Love Be Praise and Glory paid As was in days of old As is where God's Command's obey'd And shall as long as Nature Hold And when the World 's consum'd and all its ruins cold For the 98. 2d Metre To Father Spirit Son Eternal Three in One One glorious Trinity Unceasing Glory be As was e're time begun And ever shall be done For the 119th Psal Proper Tune To God the Father God the Son And God the Holy Ghost Be Glory paid and Homage done By all the Heavenly Host By us and all Mankind as was Before Time'e Course begun As is and undecay'd shall pass When Time 's last Moment's run For Psal 127 Metre 2d To Father Holy Ghost and Son One glorious God in persons Three One Undivided Trinity Be glory paid and Homage done 'T was so e're Time's first race begun And shall be when his last is run Si male quid Cecini me Culpa redarguet Ipsum Si bene quid redeat Gloria Sola Deo FINIS
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
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
72. 2 d Metre LOrd let the king thy Judgments find Enrich the Prince's Royal Mind For Crowns and Governments design'd Then shall He sentence wisely give And safe in his Pre╌ro╌ga╌tive Shall all the poor af╌flict╌ed live Psalm 76. 1 st Metre GOD 's Name in Judah's known It 's great in Is╌ra╌el His House in Salem's shown His Smiles on Sion dwell For there his Stroke Swords Bows and Shields For Martial Fields and Arrows broke Psalm 81. 1st Metre To God our Strength your Voices raise Aloud the God of Ja╌cob praise A Psalm toth ' mer╌ry Timbrel suit The pleasant Harp or charming Lute Psalm 95. 2d Metre COme O come and let us sing To our Lord and to our King Let us make a joyful Noise To that God whose Love employs Psalm 98. 2d Metre O sing to God the Lord His wond'rous Works record Sing sing an Anthem new Return his Praises due Whose Hand whose ho╌ly Arm Dissolv'd Hell's fa╌tal Charm Psalm 132. REmember Da╌vid's Troubles Lord How in Af╌fli╌ction He With faithful Vows engag'd his Word O Ja╌cob's God to Thee High tho' my lof╌ty Pa╌lace rise With Ce╌dars no╌bly ceil'd And Beds with Golden Ca╌no╌pyes Would downy Slumbers yield ERRATA PAge 7. line 20. for Too read As. p. 12. 1. 6. f. the 〈◊〉 thy p. 35. 1. 4. f. gain r. claim p. 46. 1. 23. f. These r. Whose p. 51. 1. r. after Truth and Mercy dele s. p. 64. 1. 2. r. the voice P. 89 1. 1. r. out-shine 1. 17. f. the r. thy P. 90. 1. 31. f. the r. thy p. 103. 1. 21. r. thou 'dst p. 104 1. 27. r. sacrifice p. 108. 1. 18. f. the r. thy p. 142. 1. 13 f. thy r. the. p. 183. 1. 28. f. the r. thy p. 185. 1. 22. 〈◊〉 sweet 1. ult f. on r. in p. 209. 1. 5. r. skies p. 218. 1. 23 r. bring p. 222. 1. 20. f. the r. thy p. 231. 1. ult r. Wrath d. p. 232. 1. 23. r. betray'd p. 234. 1. 12. f. the' 〈◊〉 tho' P. 238. r. Part 5 th Metre 5th P. 240. 1. 1. r. quickly p. 265. 1. 4. r. And me with p. 266. 1. 7. r. Thy Law 's th◠Truth p. 267. 1. 11. d. p. 292. 1. 7. r. cheer p. 295. 1. 20. d. the. p. 296. 1. 29. r. Thoughts p. 297. 1. 17. f. my r. thy P. 298. 1. 1. f. them r. them p. 309. 1. 6. r. Seed DAVID's PSALMS PARAPHRAS'D IN ENGLISH METRE Agreeably to the TUNES commonly Sung in CHURCHES c. Psal 1. as the 100th or Mr. Sandys's 3d. verse 1 A Thousand Blessings crown his Head Whose Heart all impious Counsel flies And hates those Paths where Sinners tread Who God and all that 's good despise verse 2 But in his great Creator's Laws He spends his happy Days and Nights And thence by Meditation draws Both what instructs and what delights verse 3 All his Designs are just and bless'd His Hopes and ev'ry Action thrives And when his mould'ring Clay 's at rest His fragrant Memory survives So fruitful Trees near gentle Streams Their Burthens to Perfection bring Unhurt by Summer's scorching Beams And flourish with a constant Spring verse 4 But the lost Sinner toils in vain With faithless Joys to please his Mind His Roots his Fruits his cursed Gain All fly like Chaff before the Wind. verse 5-6 Let the last dreadful Trumpet sound The Just his Head undaunted rears While Woes the sinful Soul confound With Terrours rack'd and torn with Fears His Own their mighty Master knows And loves and keeps and wisely guides But Man who sins through various Woes To Hell's dark Pains unminded slides Another Metre Psal 1. verse 1 HAppy thrice happy 's he whose Feet Ne'er took that cursed Way Where Atheists and Blasphemers meet And God and Truth betray Who ne'er stood by to countenance What bold Transgressors dare Nor that he might in Guilt advance Assum'd the Scorner's Chair verse 2 He spends his happy Days and Nights To search his Maker's Laws And thence Instructions and Delights By Meditation draws verse 3 Calmly he looks his Actions o'er Their Justice calmly tries And then on Mercy 's boundless Store For good Success relies So Trees near gentle Rivers plac'd Their Fruits in Season bear With Leaves unfading always grac'd And flourish all the Year verse 4 But off like Chaff God's angry Wind The Godless Croud shall bear verse 5 No Place shall they in Judgment find Nor with the Just appear verse 6 For God with Favour kindly knows The Just and all their Ways But Ruin where the Sinner goes And sure Destrucion sways PSAL. ij verse 1 GOD's wise Decrees are fix'd and strong As his Eternal Throne Why then should Heathen Fools so long His sacred Power disown Vain are their Hopes vain ev'ry Thought And all their Words are vain For what God's mighty Hands have wrought God's mighty Hands maintain verse 2 Weak Kings with flatt'ring Slaves combine And fret with groundless Rage Against their God their Counsels join Against his Christ engage verse 3 Come let us break their Bonds they say Throw off their slavish Yoke Why should we unknown Lords obey Or unknown Pow'rs invoke verse 4 But God who crown'd with Bliss resides Above the lofty Skies Laughs at their Madness and their Pride And scorns their Policies verse 5 From thundring Clouds his dreadful Voice Distracts their trembling Souls And in his Wrath their Plots destroys And thus their Rage controls verse 6 Rave on unhappy Fools confound Your envious Thoughts in vain My King sits high on Sion crown'd And I 'll his Crown maintain Part 2. verse 7 The Son with Love all Heavenly mild His Awful Silence breaks And thus to Pity reconcil'd With gentle Language speaks Hear me ah stupid World declare Th' unchangeable Decree Thus my Eternal Father sware Before Time's Birth to Me. Thou art my Son begot by Me On this Eternal Day verse 8 Ask it and I 'll invest in Thee The whole Creation's Sway. verse 9 To Thee the World when made shall bow Thee all its Host adore All Nations shall thy Rights allow Thy Goodness all implore Thy Rod the Rebel Tribes shall feel Thy Sceptre forc'd obey Crush'd by thy Hand as harden'd Steel Would dash the mould'ring Clay verse 10 Be wise ye Heav'n-born Kings be wise All who on Earth command Adore your Lord with humble Eyes With Awe before Him stand verse 11 Joys but with Fears alloy'd express And early Homage pay Lest in Rebellion's wild Excess You lose the perfect Way verse 12 Bow bow your Necks for if his Wrath In angry Tempests rise Happy ô happy 's he whose Faith On Him secur'd relies PSAL. iij. verse 1 HOW are my Foes dear Lord increase'd What Crouds against me rise verse 2 And to disturb my mournful Breast A thousand Ways devise God is his only Help they cry On God his Hopes depend Yet see that God can Help deny And leave his sinking Friend verse 3 Yet Thou Lord art my Shield my
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
you More Courage still shall send Whose Hearts are to his Service true And on his Truth depend PSAL. xxxij verse 1 THrice happy 's he whose Sin 's past o'er Whose Errours Mercies hide verse 2 Whose Crimes his God imputes no more Whose Soul 's sincere and try'd verse 3 But I unpardon'd speechless lay My aking Bones decay'd And through long Night and tedious Day One dismal Roaring made verse 4 Me thy severe asslicting Hand All Day all Night chastis'd My fainting Spirits were at a stand Like Brooks by Drought surpriz'd At last I all my Crimes display'd My wretched Sins confess'd To God I 'll own my Guilt I said And God my Guilt releas'd verse 6 Now Saints to thee when thou 'lt be found shall in their Pray'rs complain And though Woes deluge all around Themselves untouch'd remain verse 7 By thee I 'm hid from mighty Woes From pressing Ills secur'd And all my chearful Musick flows From Liberty assur'd verse 8 Come to me all who 'd sain be bless'd And I 'll your Souls instruct And in the blissful Ways of Rest With careful Eyes conduct verse 9 O don't like Mules or Horses move Whose Brutish Furies will Unreign'd uncurb'd unruly prove And balk their Riders Skill verse 10 Great Sorrows on the Wicked fall The Just with Mercy 's crown'd verse 11 Ye Just in God rejoice and all Whose Hearts are right and sound PSAL. xxxiij As the 100th verse 1 YE Righteous in the Lord rejoice From you how comely Praise appears verse 2 With Lute and Harp's melodious Voice O reach the Great Jehovah's Ears verse 3 Sing to his Praise a Song that 's new His Praise with Art and Courage sing verse 4 For all his sacred Words are true His Faith approv'd in ev'ry thing verse 5 Judgment and Jistice gain his Love O'er Earth his wondrous Mercies slow verse 6 The Skies and all the Hosts above His Active Word and Spirit show verse 7 He makes the Seas like Mountains swell And sinks unfathom'd Deeps below verse 8 Let Earth it self and all who dwell On Earth their mighty Maker know verse 9 He spoke and streight this mighty All Broke from vast Nothing 's fruitful Womb And did at his commanding Call Shape Order Beauty Strength assume verse 10 God makes the Gentiles Counsels vain And breaks the Nations fond Designs verse 11 But firm his own Resolves remain And pass all Time 's extended Lines Part 2. verse 12 O bless'd thrice bless'd that happy Land Where God has Fix'd his glorious Name Where He affumes the chief Command And lays his own peculiar Claim verse 13 God from his holy Heav'n look'd down And Man's weak Race and Actions view'd verse 14 His Eyes from his Imperial Throne Survey'd the careless Multitude verse 15 He forms their Hearts their Tempers guides And all their various Actions weighs verse 16 No prudent Prince in Crouds confides Or mighty Hosts or empty Praise verse 17 In vain for Courage Strength or Flight He on his foaming Steed relies verse 18 The Good a'one God's guarding Sight With Help and Mercy both supplies verse 19 From Death's strong Arms He sets them free In Famine He their Wants relieves verse 20 On Him our Souls attend and He To us his Shield's Assistance gives verse 21 His Name 's our Confidence and Fear By which We all our Hopes excite verse 22 O as our Faith 's in Thee sincere On us Lord let thy Mercy light Another Metre As Mr. Sandys's 34th verse 1 Ye Righteous in the Lord rejoice It s sweet when with a chearful Voice The Just his Praises sing verse 2 O let no Tongue or Hand be mute But with Voice and Harp and Lute Praise our Immortal King verse 3 With skilful Notes advance his Praise With loudest Joys his Glory raise Let all your Songs be new verse 4 For all God's Promises are right Performance is his whole Delight And all his Works are true verse 5 He Righteousness and Judgment loves With spreading Wings his Mercy moves O'er all the spacious Earth verse 6 God by his Word stretch'd out the Skies And bade their num'rous Armies rise That Word was all their Birth verse 7 At his Command those Waters rose Which now the rolling Seas compose And Heaps on Heaps were thrown Unfathom'd Whirl-pools dang'rous Deeps His Subterraneous Treasure keeps In hollow Vaults unknown verse 8 His Name let all the Nations fear With Awe let all the World appear Before its Maker's Face verse 9 He spoke the solid Earth was made He gave the Word it fix'd and stay'd In its appointed Place verse 10 God baffles all the deep Designs The subtile Plots and crafty Mines Which Heathens closely frame verse 11 But all his own Designs are sure His Thoughts and all his Ways endure From Age to Age the same part 2. verse 12 Happy 's the Nation happy sure Which God will to himself secure His own Inheritance verse 13 He sits above the lofty Skies From thence o'er all Mankind his Eyes His piercing Eyes advance verse 14 All Men He from his Throne surveys verse 15 He frames their Hearts and all their Ways His Thoughts severely try verse 16 No prudent Kings on Crouds depend The Men who mighty Strength pretend On Strength in vain rely verse 17 A Horse though sleeter than the Wind And by his Make for War design'd His Rider can't secure verse 18 God views his Saints with gentler Eyes And all his Mercy 's kind Supplies Are to the Faithful sure verse 19 From Death the fainting Souls he saves In Famine what their Hunger craves His careful Hands provide verse 20 Our Souls on Him with Patience wait He as a Shield secures our State And is our Help and Guide verse 21 In Him shall all our Hearts rejoice His holy Name 's our happy Choice On which our Hopes may rest verse 22 O Father as we trust in Thee So let thy faithful Servants be With thy Compassion bless'd PSAL. xxxiv verse 1 I 'LL ever bless God's mighty Name My Mouth shall sound his Praise verse 2 In God my Soul its Boast proclaim His Love in Anthems raise The meek and humble Souls shall hear Of my exalted State Thy Loves which so immense appear Shall all their Joys create verse 3 O hear my Lot rejoice with me My Saviour magnifie Let 's to exalt his Name agree And raise his Glories high verse 4 I sought the Lord He heard my Case And all my Fears redress'd verse 5 And others too without Disgrace With Love and Life were bless'd verse 6 I in my deep Affliction pray'd And God receiv'd my Pray'r And free from all Afflictions made And all perplexing Care verse 7 Bright Angels happy Saints surround And threat'ning Ills divert verse 8 See taste how good the Lord how crown'd With Bliss the faithful Heart verse 9 O fear ô fear the Lord ye Saints For such no Wants surprize verse 10 The Lion's Whelp with Hunger faints And spent with fasting dies But those who seek the
While broke the Sinner's Force remains His cruel Hopes o'erthrown verse 18 God knows the good Man's Ways and makes His Heritage endure verse 19 In spiteful Days from Scandal takes In Famine feeds them sure verse 20 His sinful Foes fly like the Fat Of Lambs in Fumes away verse 21 Those faithless Brutes who borrow that They ne'er design to pay verse 22 The just compassionately give And all their Race is bless'd And when the dinners fall they live Of all the World posses'd verse 23 God's mighty Hand their Steps directs Their Ways their Maker please verse 24 They stumble but their God protects And holds them up with Ease verse 25 Young have I been and now am old But never yet could see The righteous Man to Ruin sold Or his Posterity I ne'er God's holy Saints have known Deserted quite complain Nor off their wretched Chi dren thrown Nor beg their Eread in vain Part 3. verse 26 Good Men are pitiful and kind And all their Seed are bless'd verse 27 Cease then from Sin and bend thy Mind To Good and live at Rest verse 28 The Just the Merciful the Free God's sacred Arms embrace And such in Safety keep but he Cuts off the Sinner's Race verse 29 This Earth to pious Men belongs Where many Years they live verse 30 Their Lips in Wisdom speak their Tongues A righteous Sentence give verse 31 God's Statutes in their Hearts you 'll find Their Steps are firm and sure verse 32 Though wicked Men their Fall design'd Or would their Deaths procure verse 33 Yet God in cruel Hands will ne'er His faithful Friends forsake Nor Goodness like a Judge severe His Anger 's Object make verse 34 Wait then on God observe his Ways And so exa'ted high On Earth thou 't see delightful Days And impious Wretches die verse 35 I've seen a Sinner Great and spread His Boughs like Laurels round verse 36 Yet soon he vanish'd quickly fled Nor could his Place be found verse 37 Observe the good the perfect Man How down in Peace he lies verse 38 While the vile Wretch beneath the Ban Of weighty Curses dies verse 39 God who Salvation to the Just And Might in Danger sends verse 40 From Sinners such as in him trust Sets free assists defends PSAL. xxxviij verse 1 In Fury Lord rebuke me not verse 2 Thy Arrows through my Sides are short On me thy Terrour lies verse 3 Thy Anger makes my Flesh decay Sins make my Bones to waste verse 4 On me a damning Weight they lay And o'er my Head are pass'd verse 5 My Sins make e'ery gaping Wound With foul-Corruption slow verse 6 My Vigour-cutting Pains confound And I all mourning go verse 7 My Loins with horrid Pains are torn My Carcase mortify'd verse 8 My throbbing Heart with Sighs o'er-born My roaring Cries divide verse 9 Yet Lord to Thee are all my Pray'rs To Thee my Sighs are known verse 10 My Strength decays my Heart dcspairs My Sight and Eyes are gone verse 11 My Friends my dear Companions once My Wounds at distance view My Kindred all my Doom pronounce And cruel Strangeness shew Part 2. verse 12 My Foes who seek my Hurt for me Their subtile Snare have set Their Tongues are all to Mischief free Their Studies all Deceit verse 13 But I was deaf and dumb nor could Their cruel Words deny 15 But hop'd my God my Saviour would On my Behalf reply verse 16 I said My God would soon rebuke My Foes insulting Pride Who Pleasure in my Stumbling took And all my Hopes defy'd verse 17 Too near indeed my Fall appear'd My Woes before my Face verse 18 I knew my Trespasses and fear'd My wretched guilty case But now my Sins and guilty Fears I 'll in thy Presence lay Till Sorrows and repenting Tears Shall wash my Guilt away verse 19 My causeless Foes in Might increase And in their Multitude verse 20 Ungrateful who disturb'd my Peace Because I Good pursu'd verse 21 Then leave me not my God my Lord Nor stay too long from me verse 22 But haste thy ready Aids afford And my Salvation be PSAL. xxxix verse 1 I Said When wicked Men were by I 'd watch my sinful Ways For oft my Words at random fly My Tongue unguarded strays verse 2 So I a while in Silence stood And curb'd my hasty Tongue Nay I forbore to ta k of Good Till Sorrow grew too strong verse 3 My Heart within my Bosom glow'd Sad Thoughts inslam'd my Breast At last my Words in Torrents flow'd And thus my Thoughts express'd verse 4 My final Doom Lord let me know How far my Days extend That I may all my Time bestow To weigh my latest End verse 5 Loe Thou hast made my Days a Span A Point compar'd with Thee And all the wretched Race of Man Is empty Vanity verse 6 Man as a Shadow vainly moves And spends himself in vain In vain that useless Wealth improves Which unknown Heirs may gain Part 2. verse 7 On whom then Lord should I rely My Hopes are all in Thee verse 8 Save me from all my Sins that I No Scorn to Fools may be verse 9 The Strokes on me thy Hands had laid I humbly silent bear verse 10 O cure the Wounds thy Strokes have made And ease my wasting Fear verse 11 When us for Sin thy Hands correct Our broken Beauties lie Like Cloth which fretting Moths affect And prove we 're Vanity verse 12 O view my Tears attend my Cry My Supplications hear For like a Stranger here am I As all my Fathers were verse 13 O spare a while my Suff'rings ease My failing Faith restore E'er Death my fainting Spirits seize And I appear no more To Father Holy Ghost and Son One sacred Trinity Who fram'd this Universe alone Eternal Glories be PSAL. xl verse 1 WIth longing Expectation I For God's Compassion stay'd Who bow'd his Ear and heard my Cry When I submissly pray'd verse 2 He rais'd me from the dismal Pit And from the miry Clay And on a Rock secur'd my Feet And then prepar'd my Way verse 3 Then to my Mouth new Songs her gave New Songs of sacred Praise This all shall see and fear and have Just Grounds their Faith to raise verse 4 His Head a Thousand Blessings crown Whose Trust on God relies Who scorns the Sinner's haughty Frown And Men inur'd to Lyes verse 5 Would I my Lord my God pretend Thy wondrous Acts to show Thy Thoughts for us thy Acts transcend Whate'er I think or know verse 6 When Off'rings fail'd thy Wisdom fram'd A Body fit for me By Thee were no Burnt-Off'rings claim'd To purge Iniquity verse 7 Then said I Loe I come Thy Book My Name and Work describes verse 8 To do thy Will my God I took My Flesh from Jacob's Tribes Thy Laws which I in Heart embrace Flow from my grateful Tongue verse 9 Thou know'st Lord how I preach thy Grace To all the list'ning Throng Part 2. verse 10 My Tongue thy Righteousness reveals
all my Pleasures owe On whom my Soul reviving waits My Lord my God in whose bless'd Gates His Praise my tuneful Harp shall show verse 5 Why then cast down my Soul ô why Thus vex'd in my uneasie Breast To God for Help and Safety fly On his Divine Assistance rest For with my God's Salvation bless'd I yet shall sound his Praises high verse 1 LOrd oft we 've heard our Fathers tell Thy wondrous Works of Old verse 2 How by thy Hand the Gentiles fell And we their Countries hold verse 3 Them their own Swords could ne'er advance Nor Native Valour save Thy Arm thy Love thy Countenance Their Lands and Safety gave verse 4 Thou art my King Salvation Lord For Jacob's Seed command verse 5 We 'll crush our Foes if thou afford Thy kind assisting Hand Their Heads in thy Almighty Name We 'll quickly trample o'er verse 6 And I 'll my Bow 's Defence disclaim And trust my Sword no more verse 7 Thou only sav'st us from our Foes And break'st their Hearts with Shame verse 8 Each Day we 'll with thy Glory close And ever praise thy Name verse 9 But thou hast cast us off and we A strange Disgrace endure Thy Aids no more our Armies see Nor can thy Help procure verse 10 Before their Foes the Dastards fly And we are spoil'd with Ease verse 11 Like scatter'd Sheep dispers'd we lie Where-e'er the Gentiles please verse 12 Thou hast thy wretched People sold Yet not advanc'd thy Gain verse 13 And us in Scorn our Neighbours hold And treat with proud Disdain Part 2. verse 14 We are the Gentiles By-word now At us each shakes his Head verse 15 And while we suffer Shame my Brow A Thousand Blushes spread verse 16 My Shame from Men's soul Blasphemies And black Reproaches grows The Barb'rous Acts and shameless Lyes Of our revengeful Foes verse 17 Yet though we 're this with Woes oppress'd We can't our God forget But in thy Covenant we rest Thy Truth before us set verse 18 Our Hearts have ne'er declin'd from Thee But to thy Judgments true verse 19 Though we the Dragon's Fury see And Death our Steps pursue verse 20 Had we forgot God's glorious Name Or Idol-Gods ador'd verse 21 Wou'd not our God have found the same Our secret Thoughts explor'd verse 22 For Thee we'ere kill'd all Day like Sheep To Slaughter deem'd for Thee verse 23 Wake Lord ô rise no longer sleep No distant Stranger be verse 24 Why Lord are all our Woes despis'd Why hid thy lightsom Face verse 25 While we with Sorrow's Dust disguis'd The Earth forlorn embrace verse 26 O rise With thy Almighty Aid Our sinking State retrieve Our Souls to Sorrow Captives made With Mercy Lord relieve PSAL. xlv verse 1 WArm'd by a Beam of sacred Light I 'll sing a lofty Song The Streins my busie Thoughts indite To our bless'd King belong And though the Pen-man's nimble Hand Flies swiftly o'er his Scrowl More swiftly and with more Command My Tongue attends my Soul verse 2 Fair be the Sons of Humane Race Thou Lord art fairer found Thy Lips distil Celestial Grace With God's due Blessings crown'd verse 3 Ride on thou Prince of wondrous Might Gird on thy dreadful Sword With Majesty and glorious Light And Truth 's All-conqu'ring Word verse 4 May Love and Righteousness attend Thee with assur'd Success Thy dreadful Arms all Fame transcend And all thy Foes depress verse 5 Before thy Pointed Arrows all Thy Foes shall spread the Field And at thy Foot-steps wounded fall And to their Conqu'ror yield Part 2. verse 6 Thy Throne ô God Eternal stands And Right thy Sceptre crowns Bright Justice filâ—s thy righteous Hands Sin dies beneath thy Frowns Mov'd with thy Gifts and Acts Divine Thy God anoints thy Head Thy Joys thy Fellows Joys out-shines On Thee in plenty shed verse 8 Myrrh Aloes and Cassia sweet From all thy Garments flow And round thy Iv'ry Palace meet And all thy Motions show verse 9 Kings Royal Daughters richly dress'd Among thy Maidens stand The Queen with Golden Crowns oppress'd Waits at her Sov'reign's Hand verse 10 Hear me great Queen my Words receive With humbly prudent Care Thy Fondness of thy Fathers leave And of thy Country's Air. verse 11 So shall the King his boundless Love To thy bright Charms allow For He 's the Lord He reigns above To Him ô humbly bow Part 3 verse 12 Then shall the Tyrian Dames resort With Gifts fair Queen to thee The wealthy Men shall make their Court To awful Majesty verse 13 Rich Robes the Royal Princess wears But richer far her Mind An inward Heav'nly Treasure bears By Love and Grace refin'd verse 14 Her they to see her King adorn With all th' Embroid'rer's Art Her Train's by Royal Virgins born Who share her Joys and Heart verse 15 Pleasures around their Bosoms play Their Eyes soft Loves create When to attend their Monarch they On their great Mistress wait verse 16 For Fathers Sons thy Court adorn A gallant sprightly Train Brave Youths to Crowns and Sceptres born And o'er the Nations reign verse 17 Thy Praise ô thou Immortal King I 'll ever thus proclaim And all the joyful World shall sing Thy Godlike Acts and Name Another Metre As the 113th verse 1 TOuch'd with a Beam of Love Divine My Heart my Head my Tongue combine To bless the World's Incarnate King No nimble Pen-man's flying Hand More swiftly can his Quill command Than I my Saviour's Glory sing verse 2 How wondrous bright how Heav'nly fair Dear Lord thy Godlike Beauties are Thy Lips Eternal Sweets distil Hence by thy mighty Father bless'd Thy humble but capacious Breast All Heav'n's immense Endowments fill verse 3 Gird on thy Thigh most mighty Lord Gird on thy dreadful glitt'ring Sword And with Majestick Honours crown'd verse 4 In prosp'rous State triumphant ride Truth Meekness Justice guard thy Side Thy Arm with Terrours brac'd around verse 5 Each Bow then drawn each Arrow loos'd By the Right Hand to Conquest us'd Shall pierce thy stubborn-hearted Foes And all the trembling World shall meet To cast themselves beneath thy Feet O'er-aw'd by thy resistless Blows verse 6 Thy Throne bless'd God for ever stands A righteous Sceptre fills thy Hands To Thee the suppliant Nations bow verse 7 The vertuous Soul thy Favour gains Thy Frown the wicked World restrains And Sinners fly thy threathing Brow Hence God thy God with Joys around Above thy Mates thy Heart has crown'd His Balmy Joys thy Passions warm verse 8 Thy Robes with noblest Odours flow Which from thy lofty palace blow And Sweets thy pleas'd Attendants charm Part 2. verse 9 Among thy Maids of Honour wait Fair Virgins all of Royal State Like bigger Stars i' th' Galaxy And at thy Hand enthron'd is seen Thy charmingly victorious Queen Her Crown pure Gold but purer she verse 10 Hear me illustrious Queen forget Thy native Land's and Father's Seat And for thy King thy Kindred quit verse 11 So shall he
who owns the World and all its Plenty Or He who fills this All himself be empty verse 14 But if th' should'st bring a grateful Sacrifice Let humble Praise with holy Incense rise verse 15 Thy Vows made in Affliction justly pay verse 16 And to thy God in deep Afflictions pray And I 'll soon change thy melancholick Story And thy Deliv'rance shall advance my Glory verse 17 But to the Wicked God in Anger turns And thus at him his jealous Fury burns verse 18 Thou whose black Soul Divine Instruction hates In whom my Word no Reverence creates Know thou my Laws are Life to thofe who chuse them But ô how dare thy wretched Lips abuse them PSAL. lj How dar'st thou th' Office of a Priest assume Or in my Cov'nant read thy dismal Doom No Thieves commended in my Laws appear Nor canst thou find Adult'rers pardon'd there Yet with Adulterers and Thieves thy Sentence Thy Words thy Life agree without Repentance verse 19 All Hellish Arts thy Lips thy Tongue pollute Lyes are their Product Falshood all their Fruit. Thy Talk thy Neighbor and thy Friend blasphemes verse 20 Thy Mother's Sons are all thy scornful Themes It s thy whole Study thy affected Fashion To spread vile Scandals with Deliberation verse 21 Thus hast thou done and I in Silence still Ne'er broke thy Rest and never cross'd thy Will So my Existence was at last deny'd Or mine at least by thy vile Nature try'd Like some mean Idol to the World presented And against me all bold Affrents invented But now my Anger 's rouz'd thy Actions all Before my Sight in horrid Order fall See how they stand before thy trembling Eyes And in thy Face thy guilty Conscience flies No Sleep no Rest nor Quiet now befriend thee But Hellish never-ceasing Woes attend thee verse 22 O ye who God forget my Speeches weigh Lest you become my uncheck'd Fury's Prey verse 23 Praise to your Maker's Glory sai fice Be your Words holy and your Actions wise So may your Bliss obtain a long Duration And all be crown'd with my Divine Salvation verse 1 MErcy ô Mercy Lord to me Extend thy Mercy 's Store Let me thy pard'ning Mercy see To clear my sinful Score verse 2 Wash me from my Iniquity And purge me Lord from Sin verse 3 For I my Folly throughly see It racks my Breast within I see I see my Crimes when Sleeps Should seal my weary'd Eyes Me sill awake my Conscience keeps Or frightful Dreams surprize If I with noisie Pleasures try To ease my tortur'd Soul Black Lust and Blood are ever by And all my Joys control verse 4 To thee alone I 've sin'd to thee And trespass'd in thy Sight That justify'd thy Words might be And all thy Dealings right verse 5 Loe I at first was shap'd in Sin In Sin at first conceiv'd To that I 've since a Gaptive been By Hellish Arts deceiv'd verse 6 Thou look'st for inward Truth to me Thy secret Wisdom show verse 7 Purge thou my Soul my Soul shall be More white than Northern Snow verse 8 O let me once again the Voice Of Joy and Gladness hear And let these broken Bones rejoice Which now thy Vengeance bear Part 2. verse 9 From all my sinful Actions past O turn thy angry Face verse 10 Make me a Heart that 's clean at last A Mind renew'd by Grace verse 11 Cast me not wholly off nor take Thy sacred Gifts from me verse 12 Restore thy Saving Health and make My Spirit large and free verse 13 Then I the sinning World shall teach To tread thy perfect Way Conversion and Repentance preach To such as loosely stray verse 14 Save me from Guilt of Blood to me Thy kind Salvation bring And then my Tongue from Fetters free Thy righteous Acts shall sing verse 15 Unseal my Lips and then my Tongue Shall celebrate thy Praise Thy Praise shall be my constant Song As in my fairer Days verse 16 God wo'n't for costly Off'rings call Nor ask for Sacrifice Else should a Thousand Oxen fall And Incense daily rise verse 17 No God demands a nobler Part The Heart 's his Sacrifice A wounded Soul a bleeding Heart His Mercy can't despise verse 18 O now at last thy Favour show To thy selected Place Thy Church now despicably low With lofty Walls embrace verse 19 Then shall a righteous Sacrifice With thee Acceptance gain And humble Hearts and lifted Eyes Thy Altars Flames maintain Another Metre to the old proper Tune verse 1 ROus'd from a deadly sinful Dream With guilty Pangs of Conscience torn I prostrate here without one Beam Of Comfort lie a Wretch forlorn Mercy to me ô Mercy shew A Wretch thy Mercy Lord implores On me ô let thy Mercies flow And wash out all my guilty Scores O wash ô cleanse my Conscience Lord From Falshood Lust and Cruelty verse 3 For now I all my Guilt record And only dismal Objects see Lord how it racks my Soul how strong Guilt 's terrible Convulsion moves What Chains of Woes it drags along How bitter Sin 's Remembrance proves verse 4 Against Thee Thee alone I 've sin'd And boldly trespass'd in thy sight That I thy righteous Truth might find Thy Judgment pure thy Sentence right verse 5 Shap'd in Iniquity at first At first in Sin and Guilt conceiv'd I was originally curs'd My Soul of Innocence bereav'd Hence sprung the fatal Fruit and Hell With Ease my native Proneness won My careless Pride unguarded fell With shameless actual Guilt undone verse 6 If inward Truth Lord pleases Thee O let my Heart thy Wisdom know verse 7 Wash purge me through and l shall be More white more pure than Northern Snow verse 8 So shall I feel thy Beams again Thy Loves shall fill my pardon'd Soul My Bones long justly rack'd with Pain With Balmy Joys be sound and whole To Father Holy Ghost and Son One bless'd one glorious Trinity On whom our Hopes Hepend alone Eternal Praise and Glory bt Part 2. verse 9 From all my Crimes Lord turn thy Face No more my cancell'd Errours view O change my Heart and by thy Grace My Mind with Heav'nly Thoughts renew verse 22 Cast me not off nor from my Breast Thy sacred Influence remove verse 12 But with the saving Pleasures bless'd In Good my forward Soul improve verse 13 Then Sinners I 'll bring home to thee Transgressors shall thy Laws esteem verse 14 From Blood dear Saviour rescue me My Soul from Crimson Guilt redeem verse 15 If thou bless'd Lord my Lips unseal My Tongue thy sacred Name shall raise Thy Love my slowing Songs reveal My Mouth thy righteous Judgments praise verse 16 No bloody Sacrifice with thee No Fumes from steaming Altars rais'd Prevail else num'rous Herds for me Had on a Thousand Altars blaz'd verse 17 A Soul with Sense of Sin depress'd Is Lord thy noblest Sacrifice A broken Heart a contrite Breast Thy tender Mercies ne'er despise verse 18 Lord in thy Love thy Church defend Its ruin'd
Hopes and Walls repair verse 19 So shall our favaur'd Vows ascend With righteous and accepted Pray'r To Father Holy Ghost and Son One bless'd one glorious Trinity On whom our Hopes depend alone Eternal Praise and Glory be PSAL. lij verse 1 AND canst thou yilest Wretch of thy Prevailing Malice boast Think'st thou God's Mercies e'er can die His boundless love be lost verse 2 We know thy Tongue the Razor 's Edge Out-cuts with sharpest Lyes We know thy Heart Hell 's certain Pledge Can only Frauds devise verse 3 Mischief thy every Soul approves But honest Actions hates Thy Tongue no Truth or Justice loves But Lyes on Lyes creates Thy Tongue base Wretch such Language speaks As may the Just devour verse 4 But God thy cruel Pride shall break By his resistless Pow'r He 'll tear thee out and from thy place Root out thy hated Name verse 5 The Just shall see thy strange Disgrace And thus expose thy Shame Loe here 's the Man who lofty grown His God regarded not But Could his favouring Hand disown And God himself forgot 5 But of his mighty Wealth he 'd boast With vast Possessions bless'd In impious Arts he trusted most In Malice fix'd his Rest See where he lies forgot forlorn By all the World despis'd His Name his shatter'd Fortunes torn His Life by Hell surpriz'd verse 7 But like a thriving Olive I In God's bless'd House shall stand And on the Mercies sure relie Of his unchanging Hand verse 8 Through thee I scap'd th' intended Blow And I 'll adore thy Name And with thy Saints thy Mercies show Thy gracious Acts proclaim PSAL. liij verse 1 GOD in his Heart the Fool denies Such Fools the wretched World are grown Corrupt desil'd 7s educ'd with Lyes Not one for sober Practice known verse 2 God from his lofty Seat survey'd The World and all their Actions view'd To see if any duly pray'd Or Wisdom's Lectures understood verse 3 But all were now Apostates aâ—l Corrupt at once and filthy grown Not one would on his Maker call Not one to practice Good was known verse 4 Is all their Sense so lost in Sin That they like Bread my Saints devour In all their Talk God ne'er comes in They ne'er invoke nor own his Pow'r verse 5 Yet now with groundless Fears they fly Their Strength God's weighty Anger breakes With Shame thy fierce Besiegers die God's angry Scorn their Downfall speaks verse 6 O whence may Israel's Safety spring If God his banish'd Tribes restore Then Israel shall triumphant sing And Jacob's Race despond no more Another Metre As the Complaint of a Sinner verse 1 THE Fool the sensless Fool Thus in his Heart hath said God's but an awful Tool By crafty Preachers Made Thus all corrupted are And all in Sins delight But none for Truth declare None ever practice Right verse 2 God from the lofty Sky Look'd down on Earth below To see what Man would try His God to seek or know verse 3 But all Apostates there They 're vile and filthy all None good on Earth appear Nor on their Maker call verse 4 But have the Wretches lost Their Apprehensions quite Against my Saints to boast And with their God to fight Dare they my Israel's Seed Like common Bread devour And on my People feed And scorn my saving Pow'r verse 5 Fear shall their Hearts surprize A senseless groundless Fear And all thy Enemies Who durst in Arms appear Shall crush'd and scatter'd lie By God's revenging Hand And all confounded die Despis'd by God's Command verse 6 Oh when shall Israel's Wealth From Sion's Mount proceed When shall their Saviour's Health Redeem his Captive Seed When that bless'd Time appears Poor Israel shall rejoice And Jacob freed from Fears Exalt his chearful Voice PSAL. liv verse 1 ME Lord with wondrous Might By thy great Name relieve verse 2 O in my Pray'rs dear Lord delight My flowing Words receive verse 3 For cruel Stranger here Against me fiercely rise They hunt my Life who have no Fear Of God before their Eyes verse 4 But see my God for me Among my Friends appears verse 5 He 'll crush my Foes His Truth shall be The End of all my Fears verse 6 To Thee with Sacrifice I 'll then devoutly pray Thy Name shall in my Praises be It 's good thy Praise to pay verse 7 God has my Saviour been From all my Griefs and Woes Through him my longing Eyes have seen My Wish on all my Foes PSAL. lv verse 1 LOrd hear my Pray'rs ô never turn From him Who prays to Thee verse 2 When I in Words distracted mourn O hear ô answer me verse 3 Free me from cruel Foes frorm those Who would oppress me quite Who me with impious Lyes oppose And prosecute with Spite verse 4 My Heart bleeds with its inward Wounds Death's Terrours round me fall verse 5 Fear Trembling Horrour Woe confounds My Thoughts and Actions all verse 6 I cry'd Oh who swift Wings will give Swift as the Doves to me Then would I fly away and live Where I some Rest might see verse 7 I 'd wander far and in my Flight Some lonesom Desart find verse 8 Where I might soon in Safety light From ev'ry stormy Wind verse 9 Lord to confound their pâ—otting Brains Their Tongues and Hearts divide for Strife within the City reigns And cruel Thieves reside Part 2. Such Day and Night their Walls surround Within are Sins and Woes verse 11 All Mischief in their Streets are found And Fraud and Falshood grows verse 12 Had Foes profess'd procur'd my Shame I then had Patience held Had Enemies despis'd my Name I h'd soon my self conceal'd verse 13 But it was he my trusted Guide My Bosom's Partner made In closest Bonds of Friendship ty'd My private Thoughts betray'd verse 14 Oft with a charming sweet Consent Each other 's Souls we read Oft to the Temple jointly went By like Devotions led O let the treach'rous Brute alive To Hell's dark Womb descend Who could with Hellish Art contrive To kill his kindest Friend verse 16 For me to God the Lord I'â—l cry My God shall rescue me verse 17 Each Night each Noon each Morning I His suppliant Slave will be Part 3. verse 18 He 'll hear my Pray'rs my Life redeem From Wars on me design'd For though too strong my Foes might seem My God was always kind verse 19 That God who ever lives shall hear And humble all their Pride Who ne'er were shock'd on Earth with Fear And therefore God defy'd verse 20 They Wars with Men of Peace began And all Agreements broke And Spite through all their Counsels ran Howe'er they softly spoke verse 21 Not Oil nor Butter smoother flow'd Than their deceitful Words Yet Villains ne'er more Malice show'd Nor fought with sharper Swords verse 22 Thy Cares then on thy Master cast His Hand shall set thee free He'â—l always hold the Righteous fast No Time their Change shall see verse 23 The Bloody and Deceitful shall Untimely sink and
verse 10 God's Covenant they quite forgot And from his Laws began their flight verse 11 They soon forgot his tender Care And all his mighty Wonders shown verse 12 Which AEgpt's Ruines still declare And Zoan's sields have dearly known Part 2 verse 13 He led them thro' the parted Seas While all the crouding Waters gaz'd verse 14 His Cloud by Day contriv'd their ease By Night bright Flames before them blaz'd verse 15 He burst the desert Rocks and thence Sweet Waters as from Fountains drew verse 16 Made Springs from stubborn Flints commence Which soon to spacious Rivers grew verse 17 Yet they who saw it trespass'd still And in a Desart hungry Land verse 18 Ask'd Meat aloud to eat their fill Yet question'd God's Almighty Hand verse 19 To urge his Wrath the faithless Crew Thus with a taunting boldness said Can God his Wonders here renew Full Tables in a Desert spread verse 20 He smote the stony Rocks indeed And out the wholesom Waters broke But can his Magick Rod proceed Will Bread and Flesh attend the stroke verse 21 With Anger God their murmurings heard And at them soon his Fury smok'd verse 22 When Israel's feed so false appear'd And faithless Fools their God provok'd Part 3. verse 23 To try them more He bade the Skies From their unbounded Treasures rain verse 24 Streight heavenly Wheat before them lyes And tastful Manna fills the Plain verse 25 The Bread of Angels there they find To glut their hungry Appetite verse 26 Then God commands the Eastern Wind And Southern fruitsul Gales excites verse 27 Less Dust in rapid Whirlwinds flies verse 28 Then Flesh within their Trenches rain'd Less Sand around the Ocean lies Then Fowls about their Tents remain'd verse 29 They fdd and fill'd themselves and He On them their utmost wish bestow'd verse 30 But they no inward Guilt could see Nor feel their Lusts confounding load verse 31 Hence e'er their Meat was down their Pride God with a dismal blast surpriz'd Their noblest Youth and Princes dy'd All to his Anger sacrific'd verse 32 Yet unreclaim'd from sinful Ways They'd still his wondrous VVorks oppose verse 33 And He confum'd their Years and Days In sading Joys and Jasting VVoes verse 34 If Death among their Armies flew For God they 'd seek to God they 'd fly verse 35 Then God was all their Strength they knew Their great Redeemer God most high verse 36 Their God with fawning Tongues they prov'd VVith lying lips to Him they pray'd verse 37 But still their Hearts perversly mov'd Their Hearts their faithless VVorks betray'd verse 38 Yet He forgave their Sins and spar'd Their Tribes and laid his Anger by verse 39 He knew they common Frailties shiar'd VVould quickly change and quickly dy Part 4. verse 40 How oft in desert Lands they mov'd And urg'd and vex'd his Heav'nly mind verse 41 How oft relaps'd his Patience prov'd And Israel's Holy God confin'd verse 42 They quite forgot that powerful Hand VVinch them from slavish Bonds redeem'd verse 43 VVhen Zoan's Field and AEgypt's Land VVith dreadful Signs and VVonders teem'd verse 44 How He their p'easant VVaters chang'd To nauseous Blood and mystick Gore verse 45 Mix'd Swarms in all their Quarters rang'd And Frogs their Royal Chambers bore verse 46 Their Fruit-trees blasting VVhirlwinds peel'd And Locusts all their Toils enjoy'd verse 47 Their Vines Figs Cattel and the Field verse 48 Hot storms of fiery Hail destroy'd verse 49 Since still the stubborn Land rebel'd VVith fiercer flames his Fury glow'd And as his burning Fury fwell'd The Coals malignant Angels blow'd Thick thro' the solid Dark they flew With horrid shrieks and dismal Cries And laid Hell's end ess Pains in view Before their Intellectual Eyes No Torch no Star no Middays Beams No peaceful Thought no comforts Light But Ghosts with frightful Howls and Screams Could pierce th' unfathomable Night No sleep could feal their labouring Eyes But dreadful Dreams of following Woes And roaring Storms and rattling Skies And trembling Earths convulsive throws Part 5. verse 50 While thus with weighty Gloom o're thrown Lost AEgypt lay God's dreadful Hand Heavy with ripening Vengeance grown Does newer Wounds and Plagues command Now a thick pestilential Air Is rais'd from late corrupted Gore And sullen Stars malignant glare And Locusts rotting round the shore From Fens and Bogs and poisonous Lakes And what rank venemous Weeds produce From Scorpions Basilisks and Snakes And Toads and Hemlocks baleful Juice All these in One with deadly skill Infernal Spirits temper sure That every Atomes force may kill And neither Art nor Nature cure Out streight commanded Michael flies A thousand Spirits round him wait And on his Spear the mixture tries And loads it with resistless Fate verse 51 No wretched Shed nor homely Stall Where Men repos'd or Beasts were laid But Death at once attack'd 'em all And one continued Slaughter made The first-born Prince the first-born Slave Of Flocks and Herds the Firstlings dy'd Each Floor assign'd its Heir a Grave Each Roof entomb'd its Owner's pride With dying Shrieks and Groans and Cries The frighted Hills and Walls resound All AEgypt now in mourning lies In Sorrows boundless Ocean drown'd Part 6. verse 52 But while Heaven 's warlike Prince at large Thus ravag'd all the sinful Land God of his Israel took the Charge And led them with a gentler Hand verse 53 He was their Shepherd He their Guide His Flock his own Peculiars they His Care their growing Wants supply'd And led them safely all the Day Those Foes who with a furious Will Pursu'd beneath the Seas He drown'd verse 54 And brought them to his Holy Hill With his protecting Presence crown'd verse 55 He all the Nations round expel'd And gave their Lands to Jacob's Race Who then their Towns fecurely held And in their Cities took their place verse 56 Yet still they tempted God and still To Anger mov'd their mighty Lord Nor would their holy Vows fulfil But his Commands and Laws abhorr'd verse 57 They sinn'd as all their Fathers us'd And like an ill-set Bow they broke verse 58 Their Lord with graven Gods abus'd Which might his jealous Rage provoke Each lofty Hill each shady Grove They with their gaudy Idols fill'd Against their Maker boldly strove And there their Sacrifices kill'd verse 59 God heard of all his Anger slam'd And off th' ingrateful Nation threw verse 60 And Shilo's Holy Place disclaim'd That Ark which once his Glories knew Part 7. verse 61 Now God their Strength and all their Pride Resign'd to their insulting Foes verse 62 Who with their Blood their Jave'ins dy'd And fil'd his Heritage with Woes verse 63 Hot feverish flames their Youth consum'd Their mateless Virgins Virgins dy'd verse 64 Altars their mangled Priests entomb'd Their own sad Widow's Tears deny'd verse 65 Thus Justice rang'd the Field at last On Golden Wings bright Mercy rose And God his hotter Fury past Made Love her ancient Smiles disclose Like some fierce Giant rous'd from
House the Sparrows find The Swallows build their Nests Where with their yet unfeather'd Kind The Dam in Safety rests But ah thine Altars wretched I Near them no more can sing While banish'd from thy House I sly Dear Lord my God my King verse 4 Ah happy Souls who in thy House Can live and praise thy Name verse 5 Whose Arms thy Heav'nly strength endows Whose Hearts thy Ways can frame verse 6 Though through the Vail of Tears they go Their Eyes with Sorrows drown'd Yet Blessings on their Teachers slow With Fruit their Pains are crown'd verse 7 From Strength to Strength from Grace to Grace Th' improving Learners go Till them the God of Gods embrace And Rest on them bestow Part 2. verse 8 My Pray'r great God of Hosts receive And kind Affistance bring verse 9 Consider O our Shie'd relieve Thy once anointed King verse 10 For in thy Courts one Day appears More bless'd more swoet to me Than could a Thousand Thousand Years At any Distance be I 'd rather keep thy Temple's Door And fiod thy Presence there Than in a Palace reign secure Where Sins uncheck'd appear verse 11 For God their Sun their Shield to those Will Grace and Glory give Who with his Laws sincerely close And on Obedience live verse 12 Happy ô happy that good Man Great Lord of Hosts must be Who through all Worldly Changes can Unmov'dly trust in Thee To Father Holy Ghost and Son Ono God in persons Three Be Glory paid and Homage done Through all Eternity PSAL. lxxxv verse 1 THY Favours Lord have kind at last To Israel's Captives been verse 2 And all thy People's Follies past And cover'd all their Sin verse 3 Thy gentler Thoughts with tender Love Thy Jealous Furies eas'd And He who pleads for us above Has all thy Wrath appeas'd verse 4 To us ô God our Saviour now From Anger kindly turn Some Limits to thy Wrath allow Which else would always burn verse 5 On us dear God new Life bestow To us new Vigour give verse 6 That we our Joys in Thee may show And in thy Favour live verse 7 To us thy Mercy Lord extend And thy Salvation show verse 8 What God shall answer I 'll attend Who will his Peace bestow On all his own His Saints shall find The Sweets of Heav'nly Peace When they from Sin 's foul Dross refin'd From careless Follies cease God's kind Salvation's always nigh The Wise who fear his Name That Glory o'er our Land may fly And raise our ancient Fame Kind Peace and Righteousness embrace And Truth and Mercy close Truth springs from Earth from Heav'n her Face Impartial Justice shows All Good on us shall God bestow Our Land shall fruitful prove And Justice with a wondrous Flow Before his Face shall move While we who err'd so oft before Bless'd with so sure a Guide From God shall never wander more But in his Paths abide Another Metre As the old 125th proper Tune BLess'd Lord thy kinder Thoughts at last Did Jacob's Captive-Tribes restore And all the People's Follies past Their Sins with Mercies cover'd o'er Thy Jealous Furies eas'd And all thy Wrath appeas'd To us ô God our Saviour now From thy tempestuous Anger turn Shall thy fierce Wrath no Bounders know But through Eternal Ages burn Us Lord again revive And in thy Joys we live To us thy Mercy Lord extend To us thy bless'd Salvation show To God's kind Answer I 'll attend For Peace he 'll on his Saints bestow His Servants shall have Peace When they from Follies cease verse 9 To pious Men Salvation's near That Glory may possess the Land verse 10 Mercy and Truth conjoin'd appear And Peace and Justice Hand in Hand verse 11 From Earth Truth from the Sky Fair Justice casts her Eye verse 12 Our God on us shall Good bestow Our happy Land shall fruitful prove verse 13 And Justice with a wondrous Flow Before his glorious Presence move And we with such a Guide Shall in his Paths abide PSAL. lxxxvj verse 8 LOrd to my Pray'r thine Ears incline For I 'm distress'd and poor verse 2 I'm wholly Lord and only thine Bless'd God my Soul secure verse 3 My God thy faithful Servant save Who hopes thy Grace to see Mercy thy Mercy Lord I crave And daily cry to Thee verse 4 To Thee alone my Heart I raise O make my Soul rejoice verse 5 Love Pardon Mercy are thy Ways Thou hearst my humble Voice verse 6 Lord hear my Pray'rs receive my Cry verse 7 In Woes address'd to Thee verse 8 Thy Might thy wondrous Works out-vye The Gods of Vanity All Nations whom thy Hands have made Shall fall before thy Face And with pure Worship duly pay'd Thy glorious Name embrace For Thou art God thy Works are great Thy self art God alone To me bless'd God thy Ways repeat And make thy Doctrines known I 'll walk in Truth then Lord unite My Heart to fear thy Name My Heart shall then thy Praise recite And all thy Praise proclaim Thy Mercy 's great to me from Hell Thou brought'st my sinking Soul Though Tyrants at me proudly swell And would my Life control No Sence of Thee the Rebels show But Pity Lord we see Grace Patience Mercy Truth we know In plenty dwells with Thee To me dear God with Mercy turn Thy Strength on me bestow To him who 's of thy Hand-maid born Thy kind Salvation show With me some Mark of Favour leave And shame my spiteful Foes When they thy Aid to me perceive And all thy Love disclose PSAL. lxxxvij as the 113 th WHen God in his All-searching Mind To fix his Church on Earth design'd Deep he her strong Foundations laid verse 2 But Sions Mount that sacred Place Tho' well He lov'd all Jacob's Race He his peculiar Darling made verse 3 How vastly wide how wondrous high Shall thy Immortal Glories fly Blest City of th' Eternal King verse 4 When AEgypt Assur Palestine And all th' Arabia's shall be thine And Vows to thy Protector bring Envy in Them no more shall reign But Saints to fill thy blissful Train Shall come from each converted Land verse 5 In Sion yet those Sons of Peace Shall more than other Lands encrease And in her God securely stand verse 6 When God shall all his Saints enrol The Gentiles Tribes shall fill the Scroul From Thee blest God! our Joy shall spirit verse 7 And all the Sons of Harmony Shall tune their chearful Strings to Thee And thy Eternal Praises sing PSAL. lxxxviij verse 1 BLest God of my Salvation I Call Day and Night to Thee verse 2 O hear my Prayer accept my Cry And kindly answer me verse 3 My Soul alas is fill'd with Woes The Grave attends my Fate verse 4 I 'me left by Life and Sense like those Just in a dying state verse 5 Among the slaughter'd dead I ly i th' Grave from Sorrows free Where Men thrust out from Memory Are cut from Earth by Thee verse 6 Down in the Pits
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
rules above the Sky verse 5 Thy Promises dear Lord are true And all thy Testimonies sure Thy Flocks pure Holiness pursue And ever like thy Self endure Another Metre As the 111th proper Tune verse 1 THE Lord a King remains The great Jehovah reigns With Awful Glories crown'd As with a Robe of Light The Lord with wondrous Might And Strength is girt around By his Divine Commands The World securely stands From Alterations free verse 2 Thy Throne was fix'd of old Thy Deity extoll'd From all Eternity verse 3 Great God th' uncertain Croud Against thy Kingdom loud Like mighty Waters roar And with a surly Spite As breaking Billows fight And shock the neighb'ring Shoar verse 4 But let tempestuous Rage Their furious Hearts engage And Heav'n it self defy His stern Command alone Can beat their Madness down Who ever rules on high verse 5 Thy Testimonies true Thy Promises renew Both faithful both secure Thy Saints with Holiness Shall tow'rds thine A'tars press And ever bless'd endure PSAL. xciv verse 1 GReat God to whom Revenge belongs Great God of Vengeance rise verse 2 The Proud thou mighty Judge of Wrongs With just Rewards surprize verse 3 How long shall wicked Workers Lord Uncheck'd triumphant reign verse 4 Their impious Words and Pride abhorr'd With haughty Boasts maintain verse 5 Lord shall they crush thy People still Afflict thine Heritage verse 6 Their Widows and their Strangers kill Nor spare their Orphans Age verse 7 Yet thus they do and thus they cry Can God our Actions see We Jacob's unknown God defy From his Observance free verse 8 But think ye stupid Fools a while Think well ye senseless Crew verse 9 Can you his sacred Ears beguile Who Ears bestow'd on you What can't he see whose Hands the Eyes Those Orbs of Wonders made verse 10 He whose Hand the World chastise From Your Correction stay'd Can't He who Sense on Man bestows Their secret Thoughts descry verse 11 Men's Hearts alas He throughly knows And knows their Vanity verse 12 Lord happy 's he who taught by Thee Has all thy Laws obey'd verse 13 He in ill Times at Rest shall see The Pit for Sinners made Part 2. verse 14 Our God his Servants can't desert Nor his Inheritance verse 15 But Judgment will to Right convert And upright Souls advance verse 16 who 'll me from wicked Workers save Or my Assistant be verse 17 God only help'd me or the Grave Had quickly silenc'd me verse 18 My Foot ô Lord which seem'd to slide Thy Mercy 's He'p ensur'd verse 19 In Cares and Fears thy Comforts try'd My Soul's Delight procur'd verse 20 Wilt thou support the Tyrant-Crew Who settle Sin by Law verse 21 Whose Armies righteous Souls pursue And Blood of Martyrs draw verse 22 Though such their cruel Practice be My God will raise my State My solid Rock my Refuge He Whose Loves my Faith create verse 23 Our God observes their Wickedness Their Malice He 'll repay With sudden Strokes their Pride repress And cut their Hopes away PSAL. XCV verse 1 O Come your chearful Voices raise To our Eternal King The Lord our strong Salvation praise His Goodness loudly sing verse 2 With Thanks approach his awful sight And pleasant Anthems sing verse 3 The Lord's a God of boundless Might O're all the Gods a King verse 4 Earth's secret Deeps and Mountains high His powerful Hand commands verse 5 The Seas were made by Him and dry He laid the rising Lands verse 6 O come let us our Lord adore And at his Foot-stool low Our humbly bending Knees before Our great Creator show verse 7 For he 's our God his People we And in his Pastures feed Those wandring sheep which kindly He From Death and Darkness freed To day ô hear his Voice to day verse 8 For thus th' Almighty spoke No more your own false Thoughts obey My Wrath no more provoke No more with hardned Hearts refuse My necessary Grace Nor as in former times abuse My Word or Holy Place verse 9 Such Arts your Fathers us'd of old Who all my Wonders saw And many Years perversly bold Despis'd my righteous Law verse 10 At last thus by my self I swore With just Displeasure mov'd This wretched Nation sin the more The more by Goodness prov'd They neither know my self nor know Those Rules to them addrest Nor will I e're their Souls bestow In my Eternal Rest Another Metre As Mr. Sandys's 15th verse 1 COme ô come and let us sing To our Lord and to our King Let us make a joyful Noise To that God whose Love employs All his saving Health and Grace To protect his faithful Race verse 2 Let us all with Thanks and Praise Come before his Glorious Face And our Psalms and cheerful Airs Join with Vows and humble Prayers verse 3 For the Lord our God is great Lofty his Eternal Seat Every God to Him submits He a King above them sits verse 4 All the Earths Foundations deep Solid Rocks and Mountains steep All their strength 's by Him possest And by his Protection blest verse 5 Him the rolling Seas regard By his mighty Hands prepar'd Earth to Him submissly bows And his forming Power avows verse 6 Come ô come let 's all adore And his Footstool kneel before Let us kneel and prostrate all To our Lord and Maker fall verse 7 Hee 's our God our Lord alone We are all his People known Us His Hands securely keep Hee 's the Sheepheard we the Sheep Hear ô hear his voice to Day And that sacred Voice obey verse 8 Humble let your Hearts appear Let no Hardness center there As of o'd your Father's pride All my kindest Cares defy'd When their wandring Armies past Tho' the Deserts sandy waste verse 9 Oft they tempted oft they try'd me Often to Believe deny'd me Tho' my Wonders all they saw Knew my Power and heard my Law verse 10 All their Follies large Arrears Forty tedious rolling Years I with wondrous patience bore But at last in Fury swore 11 These a wretched People are All involv'd in Error 's snare Soon they have my Laws forgot Seen my Works but know them not By my Self my Self alone That 's the greatest Oath that 's known These shall never never blest Enter my Eternal Rest PSAL. xcvj verse 1 NEw Songs to great Jehovah sing Sing all the Earths around Your Blessings to his Altars bring His saving Health resound verse 2 Each Day your active Tongues employ To spread his glorious Name verse 3 Thro' all the Nations round with Joy His wondrous Acts proclaim verse 4 Our Lord is great and greatly prais'd More to be feard then those verse 5-6 Who by Vain Men to Godhead rais'd On Vainer Fools impose Our God stretch'd out the lofty Syes How glorious Majesty How strength with lovely Beauty vyes We in his Temple see verse 7 O give to God ye Nations all Give strength and Glorys due verse 8 On his great Name with Honour call To him with Offering's fue verse