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A15647	The hymnes and songs of the Church diuided into two parts. The first part comprehends the canonicall hymnes, and such parcels of Holy Scripture as may properly be sung, with some other ancient songs and creeds. The second part consists of spirituall songs, appropriated to the seuerall times and occasions obserueable in the Church of England. Translated and composed, by G.W.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Songs of the Old Testament.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Cantica sacra.; Gibbons, Orlando, 1583-1625.	1623 (1623)	STC 25910A; ESTC S120233	90,046	236

of Angels and Deuils night and day fighting for vs and round about vs we would become more carefull how wee grieued those good Spirits who attend vs for our safety to the reioycing of them that seeke our destruction By S. Michael who was Prince of the good Angels and termed by S Iude an Arch-Angell some vnderstand Iesus Christ For hee is indeed the principall Messenger or Angell of our saluation and the chiefe of the Princes as holy Daniel called him yea to him alone this Name Michael which signifieth who is like God doth most properly appertaine seeing he onely is the perfect image of his Father Song 76. Sing this as the 44. Song TO praise oh GOD and honour thee For all thy glorious Triumphs wonne Assembled here this Day are we And to declare thy Fauours done Thou took'st that great Arch-Angels part With whom in Heau'n the Dragon fought And that good Armies Friend thou wert That cast Him and his Angels out 2 Whereby we now in safety are Our dangers all secured from For to encrease thy glory here Thy Kingdome with great power is come And we need stand in dread no more Of that enraged Fiends despight Who in thy presence heretofore Accused vs both day and night 3 In honour of thy blessed Name This Hymne of thanks wee therefore sing And to thine euerlasting fame Through Heau●n thine endlesse praise shall ring We praise thee for thy proper might And LORD for all those Angels to Who in thy Battels came to fight Or haue beene sent thy will to do 4 For many of that glorious Troope To bring vs Messages from Thee From Heau'n vouchsafed haue to stoope And clad in humane shape to be Yea we beleeue they watch and ward About our persons euermore From euill Spirit● vs to guard And we returne thee praise therefore S. Luke THis Day we memorize the benefit the Church receiued by the blessed Euangelist S. Luke a Physitian both for soule and body and the first Ecclesiasticall Historiographer For he was Authour not onely of that Gospell which beareth his Name but also of that Booke called the Acts of the Apostles and an Eye-witnesse of most part of that which hee hath written remaining a constant companion of S. Paul in his tribulations Worthily therefore ought we to honour him with a Christian memoriall and praise God for the grace vouchsafed vs by his meanes Song 77. Sing this as the 44. Song IF those Physitians honour'd be That doe the bodies health procure Then worthy double praise is He Who can both soule and body cure In life time both wayes Luke exceld And those Receipts hath also left Which many soule-sicke Patients heald Since from the world he was bereft 2 And to his honour this beside A blessed Witnesse hath declar'd That constant he did still abide When others from the Truth were scar'd For which the glory LORD be thine For of thy grace those gifts had he And thou his Actions did'st encline Our profit and his good to be 3 By his example therefore LORD Uphold vs that we fall not from The true profession of thy Word Nor by this world be ouercome And let his wholesome doctrine heale That leprous sicknesse of the soule Which more and more would on her steale And make her languish and growe foule Simon and Iude Apostles THis Day is dedicated to the praise of God and the pious memory of the two blessed Apostles of Iesus Christ Simon called Zelotes or the Cananite and Iude the brother of Iames. And in this solemnity we are among other things principally put in mind of that loue which Christ commandeth to be continued among vs and of that heed we ought to haue vnto our abiding in that state of grace whereunto God hath called vs as appeareth in the Epistle and Gospell appointed for the day Song 78. Sing this as the 3. Song NO outward marke we haue to know Who thine oh Christ may be Untill a Christian Loue doth show Who appertaines to Thee For knowledge may be reach'd vnto And formall Iustice gain'd But till each other loue we do Both Faith and Workes are faign'd 2 Lou● is the summe of those commands Which thou with thine dost leaue And for a marke on them it stands Which neuer can deceaue For when our knowledge Folly turnes When Showes no show retaine And Zeale it selfe to nothing burnes Then Loue shall still remaine 3 By this were thy Apostles knit And ioyned so in one Their True-loue-knot could neuer yet Be broken nor vndone Oh let vs L●RD receiued be Into that sacred knot And One become with them and thee That sinne vndoe vs not 4 Yea lest when we thy grace possesse We fall againe away Or turne it into wantonnesse Assist thou vs we pray And that we may the better finde What heed there should be learn'd Let vs the fall of Angels minde As blessed Iude hath warn'd All-Saints day THis Day the Church hath appointed that to the praise of God and our comfort we should commemorate that excellent Mystery of the Communion of Saints which is one of the twelue Articles of Christian beleefe And that considering how admirably the diuine wisedome hath knit all his elect into one body for their more perfect enioying both of his loue and the loue of one another wee might he●e receiue a taste of the pleasure we shall haue in the full fruition of that felicity and be stirred vp also to such mutuall loue and vnity as ought to be betwixt vs in this life This is the last Saints day in the Ecclesiast●ck Circuite of the yeare generally obseruable by the auncient ordinance of the Church And it seemeth to haue a mystery in it shewing that when the Circle of tyme is come about we shall in one euerlasting holy-day honor that blessed Communion and mysticall Body which shall be made perfect when all those whom we haue memorized apart are vnited into One that is when the Father the Sonne the Holy Ghost the Angels and all the holy Elect of God shall be incorporated together into a ioyfull vnspeakable and inseparable Vnion in the Kingdome of Heauen which the Almighty hasten Amen Song 79. Sing this as the 9. Song NO Blisse can so contenting proue As vniuersall Loue to gaine Could we with full requiting Loue All mens affections entertaine But such a Loue the heart of man Nor well-containe nor merit can 2 For though to all we might be deare Which cannot in this life befall We discontented should appeare Because we had not hearts for all That we might all men loue as we Beloued would of all men be 3 For Loue in louing ioyes as much As Lo●e for louing to obtaine Yea ●oue vnfaign'd is likewise such It cannot part it selfe in twaine The Riuals friendship soone is gone And Loue diuided loueth none 4 Which causeth that with Passions pain'd So many men on earth we see And had not GOD a meanes ordain'd This discontent in Heau●n would be For all

humble thoughts shall mount vs hie Eu'n to eternall blisse 7 Oh pardon all those hainous crimes Whereof we guilty are To serue thee more in future times Our hearts doe thou prepare And make thou gracious in thy sight Both vs and this we do That thou therein mayst take delight And we haue loue thereto 8 No new Oblation we deuise For sinnes prefer'd to be Propitiatory sacrifice Was made at full by Thee The Sacrifice of Thankes is that And all that thou dost craue And we our s●lues are part of what We sacrificed haue 9 We doe no grosse Realities Of Flesh in this conceaue Or that their proper qualities The ●read or Wine doe leaue Yet in this holy Eucharist We by a meanes diuine Know we are fed with thee oh Christ Receiuing Bread and Wine 10 And though the outward Elements For signes acknowledg'd be We cannot say thy Sacraments Things onely signall be Because who e're thereof partakes In those this powre it hath It either them thy Members makes Or slaues of Sinne and Death 11 Nor vnto those doe we encline But from them are estrang'd Who yeeld the forme of Bread and Wine Yet thinke the Substance chang'd For we beleeue each Element Is what it seemes indeed Although that in thy Sacrament Therewith on thee we feed 12 Thy Real-presence we auowe And know it so diuine That carnall Reason knowes not how That presence to define For when thy Flesh we feed on thus Though strange it doe appeare Both we in thee and thou in vs Eu'n at one instant are 13 No maruaile many troubled were This Secret to vnfold For Mysteries Faiths obects are Not things at pleasure told And he that would by Reason sound What Faith 's deepe reach conceaues May both himselfe and them confound To whom his Rules he leaues 14 Let vs therefore our Faith erect On what thy Word doth say And hold their knowledge in suspect That new Foundations lay For such full many a grieuous Rend Within thy Church haue left And by thy peacefull Sacrament The world of Peace bereft 15 Yea what thy pledge and seale of Loue Was first ordain'd to be Doth great and hateful Quarrels moue Where wrangling spirits be And many men haue lost their blood Who did thy Name professe Because they hardly vnderstood What others would expresse 16 Oh let vs not hereafter so About meere words contend The while our crafty common Foe Procures on vs his end But if in Essence we agree Let all with Loue assay A helpe vnto he weake to bee And for each other pray 17 Loue is that blessed Cymment LORD Which must vs re-vnite In bitter speeches f●re and sword It neuer tooke delight The Weapons those of Malice are And they themselu●s beguile Who dreame that such ordained were Thy Church to reconcile 18 Loue brought vs hither and that Loue Pers●●ad●s vs to implore That thou all Christians hearts would'st moue To seeke it more and more And that Selfe will no more bewitch Our minds with foule debate Nor fill vs with that malice which Disturbes a quiet state 19 But this especially we craue That perfect Peace may be Mong those that disagreed haue In show of loue to thee That they with vs and we with them May Christian Peace retaine And both in new Ierusalem With thee for euer raigne 20 No longer let ambit●ous Ends Blinde Zeale or cankred Spight Those Churche● keep from being friends Whom Loue should fast vnite But let thy glory shine among Those Candlestickes we pray We may behold what hath so long Exil●d thy Peace away 21 That those who heeding not thy word Expect an earthly Powre And vainly thinke some temp'rall Sword Shall Antichrist deuoure That those may know thy weapons are No such as they doe faigne And that it is no carnall warre Which we must entertaine 22 Confessors Martyrs Preachers strike The Blowes that gaine this Field Thanks Prayre Instructions and the like Those weapons are they weild Long-suffering Patience Prudent-care Must be the Court-of-Guard And Faith and Innocencie are Instead of Walles prepard 23 For these no question may as well Great Babel ouerthrow As Ierichoes large Bulwarkes fell When men did Rams-hornes blowe Which could wee credit wee should cease All bloody plots to lay And to suppose Gods holy peace Should come the Deuils way 24 LORD let that flesh and bloud of thine Which fed vs hath to day Our hearts to thy true-True-loue encline And driue ill thoughts away Let vs remember what thou hast For our meere loue endur●de Eu'n when of vs despis'de thou wast And we thy death procur'de 25 And with each other for thy sake So truely let vs beare Our patience may vs dearer make When reconcil'd we are So when our courses finisht be We shall ascend aboue Sunne Moone and Starres to liue with Thee That art the God of Loue. Ember weeke THe Ember weekes are foure Fasts anciently solemnized at the foure principall Seasons of the yeare and by an Institu●ion appointed to bee obserued for diuers good purposes First to humble our selues by Fasting and Prayer that God might vpon our humiliation be mooued to grant vs the blessings belonging to those seasons Secondly that it might please God to strengthen our Constitutions against the distemperatures occasioned by the seuerall humors predominate at those Times to the endangering of our bodily healths Thirdly that we might be remembred to dedicate a part of euery season to Gods glory And lastly that there might be a publike Fasting and Prayers made for those according to the Apost●es vse who by the laying on of hands were to bee confirmed in the Ministery of the Gospell For the Sunday next after ●hese Fasts is the time ordinarily appointed for the ordination of such as are called to those Offices Song 84. Sing this as the 9. Song THou dost from eu'ry season LORD To profit vs aduantage take And at their fittest Times afford Thy Blessings for thy mercy sake At Winter Summer Fall or Spring We furnish'd are of eu'ry thing 2 A part therefore from each of these With one consent reseru'd haue we In Prayer and Fasting to appease That wrath our sinnes haue moou'd in thee And that thou mayst not for our crimes Destroy the blessings of the Times 3 Oh grant that our Deuotions may With true sincerenesse be perform'd And that our liues not for a day But may for euer be reform'd Lest we remaine as fast in sinne As if we neu'r had fasting byn 4 Our Constitution● temper so Those Humors which this season raine May not haue powre to ouerthrowe That health which yet we doe retaine Else through that weaknesse which it brings LORD make vs strong in better things 5 And since thy holy Church appoints These times thy Workemen forth to send And those for Pastors now anoynts Who on thy ●olde are to attend Blesse thou where they who should ordaine With Pray●e and Fasting hands haue laine 6 Oh blesse them euer-blessed LORD Whom for thy worke

in prouiding for disposing of her temporall affaires Moreouer continuall loue to her Husband liberality to the poore gouernment of her tongue and heedfulnesse to those courses her houshold takes Her reward is this Her Husband is confident in her she shall haue comfort of her labours her posterity shall blesse her her Husband shall praise her aboue other women she shall be honoured in life and haue ioy at her death It is indeed an excellent Marriage-Song fit to be vsed at the solemnizing of those Rites For it ministreth instruction becomming that occasion Yea perhaps the Musicke of it would stirre vp good affections also where vnpleasing discords are now heard if it were often sung in priuate Families Song VIII Sing this as the sixt Song WHo findes a Woman good and wise A gemme more worth then Pearls hath got Her Husbands heart on her relies To liue by spoyle he needeth not His comfort all his life is she No wrong she willingly will doe For Wooll and Flax her searches be And cheerefull hands she puts thereto 2 The Merchant-ship resembling right Her food she from a farre doth fet E're day she wakes that giue she might Her maids their taske her houshold meat A field she viewes and that she buyes Her hand doth plant a vineyard there Her loynes with courage vp she tyes Her Armes with vigor strengthned are 3 If in her worke she profit feele By night her Candle goes not out She puts her finger to the wheele Her hand the spindle twirles about To such as poore and needy are Her hand yea both hands reacheth she The Winter none of hers doth feare For double cloath d her houshold be 4 She Mantles maketh wrought by hand And silke and purple clothing gets Among the Rulers of the Land Knowne in the Gate her Husband sits For sale fine Linnen weaueth she And ●irdles to th● Marchant se●ds Renowne and strength her clothings be And ioy her later time attends 5 She speakes discreetly when she talkes The law of Grace her tongue hath learn●d She heeds the way her houshold walkes And feedeth not on bread vn-eatn●d Her Children ris● and blest her call Her Husband thus applaudeth her Oh! thou hast farre surpast them all Though many Daughters thriuing are 6 Deceitfull Fauour quickly weares And Beauty suddenly decayes But if the LORD she truly fear●s That Woman well deserueth praise The fruit her handy worke obtaines Without repining grant her that And yeeld her what her labour gaines To doe her honour in the Gate THE SONG OF SONGS The Preface SVch is the mercy of God that hee taketh aduantage euen of our naturall affections to beget in our soules an apprehension of his loue and of the mysteries which tend to our true happinesse so fitting his diuine expressions to the seuerall inclinations of men that meanes might be prouided to winne some of all For otherwhile hee doth it by comparing the same to the glories of a temporall Kingdome to winne such as are most desirous of honours Sometime hee illustrates it by Treasures Gold and pretious Stones c. the better to allure such as are tempted with things of that nature And diuers other wayes also as appeares throughout the Booke of God But in this Song of Salomon wherein is mystically expressed the mutuall aff●ction betwixt Christ and his Church with the chiefe passages therof throughout all Ages from Abel to the last Iudgement at which time their blessed marriage shall be fully consūmated he doth most mouing●y impart vnto vs the rau●shing contentments of the diuine-Loue by comparing it to that delight which is conceaued in the strongest the commonest the most pleasing the most naturall and the most commendable of our Affections And doubtles it powerfully preuaileth to the enflaming of their spirituall Loue who seeke rightly to vnderstand and apply the mysteries expressions herein contained Let no man therefore presume to sing or repeat in a carnall sense what is here spiritually intended vpon paine of Gods heauie indignation Nor let the wisedome of flesh and bloud vainely neglect Gods fauour in offring this for the comfort of such as will rightly apply the same because some Atheists and Sensuall men shall perhaps turne this grace of God into wa●to●nesse to their owne condemnation The first Canticle IN this Canticle is first expressed that longing which the whole Catholicke Church had for the embraces of her Redeemer from the time of Abel till his first comming with her acknowledgement of his rauishing Excellencies her desire to be drawne after him and her confession of that ioyful happinesse which will arise from his fauours Secondly the particular Church of the Gentiles is brought in intreating an vndespised vn●on with the Synagogue of the Iewes both confessing and excusing her blemishes Thirdly the whole Catholike-Church is againe introduced as desiring to be fed and guided by her beloued Shepheard Fourthly her Petition is most graciously answered and she directed to follow the steps of the holy Patriarkes and Prophets Finally Christ setteth forth the power and rich graces of his Spouse with what other ornaments hee will prepare for her This Canticle w● may sing to the stirring vp of our spirituall Loue hauing first seriously meditated th●se things to wit That desire we ought to haue in our soules to be ioyned to Christ the excellencie of his perfections the backwardnesse of our humane Nature to entertaine his loue the deformity and dammage we sustaine till wee be receiued into the communion of Saints the readinesse of Christ to receiue and direct vs the pleasure he will take in our loue and the prouision he will make for the further beautifying of our soules Song 9. COme kisse me with those lips of thine For better are thy Loues then wine And as the powred Oyntments be Such is the sauour of thy Name And for the sweetnesse of the same The Virgins are in loue with thee 2 Begin but thou to draw me on And th●n we after Thee will run Oh King thy Chambers bring me to So we in thee delight shall finde And more then ●ine thy Loue will minde And loue thee as the Righteous doe 3 And Daughters of Ierusalem I pray you doe not me contemne Because that blacke I now appeare For I as louely am I know As Kedar Tents appeare in show Or Solomon his Curtaines are 4 Though blacke I am regard it not It is but Sunne-burne I haue got Whereof my Mothers Sonnes were cause Their Uineyard keeper me they made Through enuy which to me they had So mine owne Uine neglected was 5 Thou whom my soule doth best affect U●●o thy pastures me direct Where thou at Noone art stretcht along For why should I be stragling spide Like her that loues to turne aside Thy fellow●shepheards flockes among 6 Oh fairest of all Woman kinde If him thou know not where to finde Goe where the paths of Cattell are Their tract of foot-steps stray not from Till to the Shepheard Tents thou come

betrayed and forsaken of all his Disciples In commemoration of which passages the Church holds this yearely Assembly that our pious affections towards our Redeemer may be stirred vp to his glory and our comfort Song 54. Sing this as the 9. Song A Holy Sacrament this Day To vs thou didst oh LORD bequeath That by the same preserue we may A blest memoriall of thy Death Whereof oh let vs so partake We may with Thee one body make 2 Thy Holy-Supper being done The last which thou vouchsafedst here By Thee the feet of eu'ry one Of thy Disciples washed were To which Humility of thine Our hauty mindes doe thou encline 3 The rest of that Day thou didst vse To pray to comfort and aduise None might when thou wert gone abuse Thy Friends or make of them a prize Yet when thy pleasure thou hadst said By one of thine thou wert betrayd 4 And loe that night they all did flye Who sate so kindely by thy side Eu'n he that for thy loue would dye With oathes and curses thee denide Which to thy soule more nigh did goe Then all the wrongs thy Foes could doe 5 Sweet Iesus teach vs to conceiue How neere vnto thy heart it strooke When thy Beloued thee did leaue And thou didst backe vpon him looke We may hereafter nigh thee keepe And for our past denials weepe 6 Yea let each passage of this Day Within our hearts be grauen so That minde them we for euer may And still thy promise trust vnto So our affections shall to thee In life and death vnchanged be Friday before Easter THis Day we commemorate the vnsufferable Passion of Iesus Christ our blessed Redeemer who was at this season of the yeare despightfully crucified by Pilate and the Iewes Euery day we ought seriously to thinke vpon it by our selues But this day we ought to meet about it in the publike Assemblies that wee might prouoke each other to compunction of heart to renue the memorie of it and to moue those that haue not yet taken notice thereof to come along with vs to heare the story of his vnmatchlesse sorrow who for the loue of vs tooke vpon himselfe those punishments which our wickednesse deserned Song 55. Sing this as the 24 Song YOu that like heedlesse Strangers passe along As if nought here concerned you to day Draw nigh and heare the saddest Passion song That euer you did meet with in your way So sad a Storie ne're was told before Nor shall there be she like for euermore 2 The greatest King that euer wore a Crowne More then the basest Vassaile was abus'de The truest Louer that was euer knowne By them he lou'd was most vnkindly vs'de And ●e that liu'd from all transgressions cleare Was plagu'd for all the sinnes that euer were 3 Eu'n They in pitty of whose fall he wept W●ought for his ruine whilst he sought their good And watchet for him when they should haue slept That they might quench their malice in his blood Yet whē their bonds frō him he could haue thrown To saue their liues he daign●d to lose his owne 4 Those in whose harts compassion should haue been Insulted o●re his poore afflicted soule And those that nothing ill in him had seen As guilty him accus d of treason soule Nay him that neuer had one idle thought They for blaspheming vnto Iudgement brought 5 Where some to aske him vaine demands begin And some to make a sport with him deuise Some at his answeres and behauiour grin And some doe spit their filth into his eyes Some giue him blowes some mocke some reuile And he good heart sits quiet all the while 6 Oh that where such a throng of men should be No heart was found so gentle to relent And that so good and meeke a Lambe as He Should be so vs●de and yet no teare be spent Sure when once malice ●●ls the heart of man Nor stone nor steele can be so hardned than 7 For after this his clothes from him they stript And then as if some Slaue this LORD had beene With cruell rods and scourges him they whipt Till wounds were ouer all his body seene In purple clad and crowned too with thorne They set him forth and honor'd him in scorne 8 And when they saw him in so sad a plight As might haue made a flintie heart to bleed They not a whit recanted at the sight But in their hellish fury did proceede Away with him Away with him they said And Crucifie him Crucifie him Cryde 9 A Crosse of wood that huge and heauy was Upon his bloudy shoulders next they lay Which onward to his Execution-place He carryd till he fainted in the way And when he thither weake and tyred came To giue him rest they nayld him to the same 10 Oh! could we but the thousand part relate Of those Afflictions which they made him beare Our hearts with passion would dissolue thereat And we should sit and weepe for euer here Nor should we glad againe hereafter be But that we hope in glory him to see 11 For while vpon the Crosse he payned hung And was with soule tormentings also greeu'd Farre more then can be told by any tongue Or in the hearts of mortals be conceau'd Those for whose sake he vnderwent such paine Reioyc'd thereat and held him in disdaine 12 One offerd to him vineger and gall A second did his pious workes deride To dicing for his Robes did others fall And many mockt him when to GOD he cry'd Yet he as they his paine still more procur'd Still lou'd and for their good the more endur'd 13 But though his matchlesse Loue immortall were It was a mortall Body he had on That could no more then mortall Bodies beare Their malice therefore did preuaile thereon And loe their vtmost furie hauing tri'de This Lambe of God gaue vp the ghost dy'de 14 Whose Death though cruell vnrelenting Man Could view without bewailing or affright The Sunne grew darke the Earth to quake began The Temple-vaile did rend asunder quite Yea hardest Rockes there wi●h in peeces brake And graues did open and the Dead awake 15 Oh therefore let vs all that present be This Innocent with moued soules embrace For this was our Redeemer this was he Who thus for our vnkindnesse vsed was Eu'n He the cursed Iewes and Pilate slew Is he alone of whom all this is true 16 Our sinnes of spight were part of those that day Whose cruell whips thornes did make him smart Our Lusts were those that tyr'de him in the way Our want of loue was that which pierc't his heart And still when we forget or sleight his paine We crucifie and torture him againe Easter day THis Day is solemnized in memoriall of our Sauiours blessed Resurrection frō the dead vpon which as the mēbers with their head the Church began her triumph ouer Sinne Death and the Diuell And hath therefore appointed that to record this mysterie and to stirre vp thankfull reioycings in our