each other made One Hill is of another Hill afrai'd And melted in the All-consuming Flame expire Where are they Just so shall the Sinner dy Just so consum'd ever consumingly XII I the meanwhile will to my God sing praise Unsearchable in all His Wayes My Meditation of Him shall be sweet And with my Praise I will His Wonders meet His who can Phoenexes from Our cold Ashes raise 'T is God alone whose Mighty Power Shall when the Wicked be no more Refine His Chosen by these flames Give then new and better Names And make them farr more glorious than they were before Arise my Soul and to th' Almighty King Sprightly and Cheerful Hallelujahs sing Psalm CV Confitemini Domino invocate c. GIve thanks unto Our God and let your Verse Both of His wondrous Acts and praise reherse Let them give life and Numbers to your Song And count the Glorys which to Him belong All you who fear His Name in it rejoice And shew your heart is cheerful by your voice Seek ye the Lord and seek His Mighty Power And never till you see His Face give o're Remember all the Wonders He has done The Words He spake the Signes His hand has shone You who of Abraham the Almighties Friend And of His chosen Jacobs Seed descend He is the Lord His Judgements are abroad And all the World by them shall fear Our God The Word He past is ever in His mind To thousand Ages which are yet behind The Faithful Cov'nant He with Abraham made And unto Isaac with an Oath conveigh'd Confirm'd it then to Jacob for a Law From when now Israel their best Title draw Saying To thee I 'll Canaan give that Happy land And where Thou sojourn'st now Thou shalt command He said it when they were in number few Hardly a Number were but only two Two who were one and strangers forc'd to flee Those Kingdoms which their own should after bee Yet then He suffered none to do them wrong Reprov'd Kings for them as they pass'd along No hurt to my Annoynted said He do Nor vex my Prophets least it fall on you Then on the Land He for a dearth did call To break that staff whose prop before was small The staff of bread that they again might hold He that must sell them bread was by them sold. Sold for a Slave and that in Prison cast Where his bruis'd feet in fetters were kept fast But that He bore the smart t' his Soul did pass When he remembred by whose means it was Till the Word came Joseph good Word for Thee Which prov'd Thee guiltless and which made Thee free The King in haste to loose the Pris'ner sent And though the Messengers too slowly went Made Him high Steward of his house with Power Greater than ever subject had before His Realms submitted to his ruling hand And that his will for Sovereign Law should stand Whether his Princes he in Chains would lay Or teach her wise Men how they should obey Pull down set up controll things as he please Be King in all except the Name and Ease 'T was then that Israel into Egypt came And Jacob sojourn'd in the Land of Ham Where He increas'd and did a Nation grow More numerous than the slaves which kept them so And by Gods blessing did so propagate That whom their Enemies could not hurt they hate New taskes impose and harder bonds contrive And plott their death whom He had say'd should live Hence as Embassadors before He went Moses and Aaron He to Egypt sent To make His wonders in their land be known Who were and had so many of their own He to thick darkness turn'd their Noon day Light And made them feel as well as see their night The Rivers did with Purple Streams abound And the true dye in every Fish was found The Land did princely Frogs unnumbred breed Which lay with Nobles and with Kings did feed He spake the Word and there came Hosts of Flyes Lice reign'd below and they usurpt the skyes He gave them hail for rain and fire for dew Both to o'rethrow and to consume them too Smote all their vines and with the Fatal Stroke What hail and Lightning spar'd the Thunder broke Then came up armed Locusts and their train In such great bands ne're to be seen again And what was left by all the plagues before Swept clean away and the whole Land run o're At last th' Almighty when this would not do Came down Himself and Egypts First-born slew And for the Time that Israel there did stay They pay'd themselves before they went away Took with them Egypts Silver and its Gold By great as it was Lent them and untold A way they went more Lusty and more Strong Than when at first they came Thousands for One. And when they went Egypt rejoyc'd to hear Their parting whom She always saw with fear Thus freed a Cloud did their great journy show And in the Cloud which lead their way they go A Cloud by day when all Heav'n else was bright But that obscur'd a dancing Flame by night And as they pass'd and murmur'd there for meat He gave them Quayles and Angels bread to eat Open'd the Rock which kept the Waters in And turn'd its flinty bowels to a spring A spring whose streams in Rivers did run o're And follow'd close the Camp which marcht before His servant Abraham to His Minde did come His Cov'nant what it was and made with whom So He their Hosts did out of Bondage bring Whilst by the Way they did His Praises sing Brought them to Labours which were not their own And Loaded Harvests that they had not sown To Canaan thence to be remov'd no more But hold of Him who was their Lord before Keeping such Lawes such services to do As by His Covenants He had bound them to Hallelujah Psalm CVI. Confitemini Domino quoniam c. SIng to the Lord for He alone is Good His mercies sure for ever so have stood But who their Verse can to His Glory raise Or as His Acts deserve shew forth His Praise Thrice happy they who His Commandments Love And by their Constancy their service prove On me unworthy wretch O God look down And grant those favours which Thou shewst Thine Own That I may tast how good 't is to be Thine And in the Undersong to bless Thee join Lord we have sinn'd we and Our Fathers too And what they vilely did as vilely do In Egypt they could not Thy Wonders see As if its night had drawn a veile o're Thee They minded not the signes Thou there didst show And thence but to provoke Thee more did go Provoke Thee at the sea the Red sea where Thou brought'st them down to make Thy hand appear Yet then God sav'd them for His own Names sake That like their sins His Power He known might make He stroke the Sea the Sea asunder broke Its Christall could not bear th' Almighty stroke And as
pot and shall sue to be A vassal to my basest drudgery Philistia shall my Chariot meet Honourd enough if she may bear the yoke Proud Edom has so often broke And Edom shall submit her neck and take my Feet VIII But who to Edom will direct my course And entrance for Me into Bozra force God shall direct me to the Town God who of late has seem'd to disappear And when He comes viewing Him there The Walls to make Him Way shall open or fall down IX Help usO God for we in vain implore A forreign aid which wants Our succour more Thou art my help through Thee my head With Laurel shall be crown'd and in my Wayes Some Enemies necks the ground shall raise So that my feet shall triumph too and on them tread Psalm CIX Deus laudem meam ne tacueris c. I. Guard of my Life and God of all my Praise Who see'st the Outrage off'red me Thy self and Power for my just sentence raise Nor let the wrongs I bear reflect on Thee Thou hear'st what cruel Words the wicked speak Let not them only and not Thou Thy Silence break II. With words of hatred I am girt around And from all parts they with me fight So hard that I am all but one great wound And the whole cause I give them is my Right With prayers for them their malice would reprove But those with Scorn with hatred they reward my Love III. Let him some Tyrant serve be made a Slave And Satan place at his right hand No other pitty find than what he gave And at his Enemies tribunal stand Let him be judg'd condemn'd and all his prayers Be made in vain to deaf or else to stubborn eares IV. Let suddain death his wretched life attend His office to another give Let on his wife and seed the curse descend They Fatherless and she a Widdow live Let them be vagabonds and begg their bread And have have no certain place to hide or rest their head V. Let the Extortioner catch all he has And strangers to his labours come Let him find none who will resent his case But with new miseries encrease the summ None who will to him any Mercy show Or on his Fatherless one friendly look bestow VI. Let them be all cut off and their curst Name In the next age be quite forgot Or if they be remembred let their shame On their Atchievments be a constant blot Let his fore-Fathers Sins be in Thine ey And all his Mothers lusts afresh for vengeance cry VII Let silence or reproach upon him rest And as it ne're was in his minde Either to favour or relieve th' opprest Neither reliefe nor favour let him find But as the Needy he with wrongs persu'd On his own head Let them be all again renew'd VIII As he Lov'd cursing let him still be curst And hated blessing seek in vain With envy which first swel'd him let him burst And then like water on him turn ' it again Like Oyle let it to ' his very marrow pierce And like those flames which boyle it be but far more fierce IX Give him no other garment for his pride Than this with which he was array'd Close with his girdle let his loines be ty'd To all a terror of himself afraid And executed by the hand Divine Let this his ruine be who only plotted mine X. But Lord my God for thine own great Names sake And for I hy Mercy rescue me Thou who the poor mans cause do'st undertake As ready to assist the helpless be Look how I stooping go and bow'd to th' ground But there no herb can find to ease or heal my wound XI My dayes and age are like a shaddow gon That when the Sun withdraws is lost And as the locust driven up and down From field to field from land to land I 'm tost My knees and flesh of strength through fasting fayl And those who wounded me with scornes my life assail XII But Lord my God for Thine Own great Names sake And for Thy Mercy rescue me That all may know the care Thou ' art pleas'd to take And in my sure deliverance honour Thee Bless Thou and let them curse confound their noise And make them all asham'd whilst I in Thee rejoyce XIII Shame and confusion to my Enemies Let it their Vest and Portion be Whilst I to Heaven in tuneful Numbers rise And tell abroad what God has done for me How from Oppession he the Poor did save And what his judges had deny'd just sentence gave Psalm CX Dixit Dominus Domino meo c. I. THE Lord said to my Lord The Mighty God to the Eternal Word Sit Thou at my Right hand Till I Thine Enemies command To be the Foot-stool to Thy Throne And freely yield their necks for Thee to tread upon II. Sion's that glorious Throne Whence with disdain Thy foes Thou look'st upon Thence Thou around shalt reign And by Thy Power new subjects gain Thy Enemies shall They obey And once return'd none shall more Loyall be than they III. And as the Summer Sun When Winters past and all its rage is done Do's every Morning view His way all strew'd with pearly dew Whose Numbers cannot reck'ned be T is a faint Emblem of Thy long Posterity IV. His Oath God will not break But King and Priest Thou ' art like Melchisedoc The Lord at Thy Right hand Shall let no Proud Usurper stand But Kings shall bow and in Thy Train Be captive led whilst there 's made Trophies of the slain V. He the Great Head shall wound When it shall Queeen of all the World be crown'd Drink of the brook i' th' way And follow till He gives the day But when His Cross shall death strike Dead Th' Eternal God Himself shall raise and crown His head Psalm CXI Confitebor tibi Domine c. I. WIth my whole heart I 'll praise the Lord Word And where He chose to honour it exalt His In the Assemblies of the just There will I all His noble Works disclose His Famous Acts sought out of those Who them their pleasure make and Him their Trust. II. His glorious Works are great and high No more to be conceiv'd than seen by mortal eye And shall for ever so remain Eternity it self is scarce enough To praise His Mercy and His Love And what we now unknown admire make plain III. He for His People did provide And never broke His Word or Covenant deni'd They saw His Signes beheld His hand How for their sake He made His power appear Prepar'd them conquests by the fear Which He sent first into their Enemies land IV. Justice and Truth are all His Wayes And on Eternal Faithfulness His Promise staies Beyond all ages they shall last And when Old Time it self away shall flee Remain as firm as now they bee And on their own great Basis fixt stand fast V. Deliverance He for Israel wrought And to save them His greatest plagues on
Prayers may make amends for the defects of my Numbers To my dear Friend Mr. Samuel Woodford upon his Paraphrase of the Psalms I. HAppy the first and harmless dayes When the young World like Children bred at home Though froward still and troublesome Was by its careful Parent taught the ways Of easy Duty and of natural Praise When every cheap Delight and every pleasant Art And all that Wit and Fancy could impart Like the first Issues of each vital thing Of all the stock the Pledge and King Which the glad Owners either did redeem or bring Were freely given up and Consecrate The great Creator's Praise to Celebrate When the chast Numbers of the Pipe and Voice And all the Instruments that Art could show The very Musick of the Feet and Body too And whatsoever could delight And feast the various Appetite Were us'd as well to Worship as Rejoyce And every Mask and ev'ry Ball And ev'ry solemn Festival The publick Triumphs and the Holy days The very Pastimes and the Plays Were legal Rites of Honour and of Praise Of ev'ry clean and spotless Beast The most delicious and the best That Nature for man's use or Pleasure did afford Was at God's board One part was Sacrifice and all the rest a Feast II. So uncorrupted then so chaste and White Were all the Daughters of Delight But none of all the Family So innocent and so divinely bright As the fair Virgin Poesy The earliest and the strictest Votary Dwelt at the first in holy ground In sacred Groves and Temples only could be found Still at the Altar did appear Brought her First-fruits and Perfumes there Of all Gods Priests and without blame Her Office will allow the Name Though scarce her Sex 't was she alone That offered up to God Devotion Did the pure Incense of the Fathers praise And holy Vows to Heaven raise And like a faithful Vestal kept the Fire That did nor Day nor Night expire Whoever a true Worshipper would be Was taught his Duty first by Poesy Of Heman and of Asaph learnt the wayes Of Penitence and Praise By which Gods anger to appease and Glory raise III. This was her first Choice and Desire In Gods House to retire In which she took her Vow and solemnly Profest And happy had she been and blest If she had kept the rest As well as the least needful of the Three Unhappy Poverty But in the compass of this Privacy She was not alwaies at her Beads and Book But did her bended Thoughts with various Arts release Whether in Shepheards Guise with Reed and Hook The Nuptial Song she do's express Of mighty Solomon and by his side The comely black Egyptian Bride A wondrous Song but said to be Not for their fakes alone but holy Mysterie Or else with bold and skilfull hand Works the known Story of the promis'd Land How God the People went before And brought them from th' Egyptian shore By the two Brothers brought them thence That is by Power and by Eloquence Two things which seldom fail Over the mightiest Adversary to prevail Or when she pleases Nature draws and Wars Pens the Heroick Acts of famous Conquerers And Sayings of Philosophers Rich are the Works of Nuns but none so rich as Hers. IV. So grave and hopeful was her youth So dear a Friend she was to Piety and Truth That God himself who did bestow Number and Measure to each Thing And in whole Nature living Poetry did show Of Her took care from whom she first did spring And for her Guardians did assign The mighty Men of Valour and Renown Whom he had trusted first with Conquest and a Crown Or did in peaceful Arts and Wisedom shine All full of Vertue and of Power divine He would not such a ripe and vertuous Wit As Jacob would not Benjamin commit To any hand that was unfit Only to Judah did the Trust ascribe Judah the Royal and the Valiant Tribe To you saies God whom by my spirit I raise To fight my Battailes and my Works to praise Wonders to perform and see And publish Laws and Mysterie And find out Nature and Philosophy Princes and Prophets and the Sons of War To you this Charge I give and to your Care Commit this bright and beauteous Heire Bright and beauteous is she now And by your Guidance may improve If the vain show And Breeding of her Sex you not allow And keep her but from idleness and wanton Love V. So wise a Care one would have thought Might serve however to prevent the worst In one so well inclin'd at first Though by the powerfull'st Charms and Courtship sought But Oh the treacherous Arts of Wit Arts which upon the Sex too often gain To which even Poesy herself do's still submit And bear the pleasant Tyrannies of it Although sometimes in bitter language She complaine Wit was her Friend and her Companion still Did chalenge and imploy her skill But was so wanton and so wild With every painted Thing and every Shew beguil'd Did such pleasant Sports devise And such fantastick Resveries Bewitch't th' unwary Lovers Eyes Out of her Cell the Votaress then would go And loosly wandred into every Show Would needs herself resign Unto the Female Government of Nine And the mad Inspirations of the God of Wines To whose wild Revels She was born And did his Triumphs and his Groves adorn Did nor the Stage nor the Piazza scorn But like a wandring River flow That visits every Land and every City views But with the Travel do's th' impurer grow And the bright Nymph still more abuse She did no filthy Lust refuse Nor whatsoe're could come Or from th' Excess of Greece or Wantoness of Rome VI. But all along the time of this Apostacy Some mighty Men arose Whom God in mercy chose These wandring Follies to oppose And to redeem her Fame and native Liberty That fertil Land of all the rest With Pleasure and with Poets blest Where Wit and Nature still are fresh and green And Tiber's golden streams are seen Has to the world in every Age set forth Some Phoenix of immortal worth Whose Monuments of noble Verse Posterity shall still disperse Which the bold Fame of wanton Wit asswage And expiate the Follies of the looser Stage Nor is the Brittish glory less The Brittish Poets with a ripe success The weightest Arguments express Like a deep Chrystal stream Spread a pure spirit through the manly Theam One of each Sex this fruitful Age has shown And fruitful had she been if none But that immortal Paire were known Though she has many more to boast Cowley and bright Orinda do adorn it most VII Cowley and bright Orinda shall for ever live And you my Friend who with them strive Of best and greatest Things to write And the rich Monuments of Eastern wit revive Wit that does like the Sun there first in sight Serve the Worlds profit and delight And like the Sun too with the World shalllast Your Memory shall with theirs
to their Land Made fruitful by His plenteous rain When on the Proud He throws the Chain And turns their Pastures to a dry and barren Sand. III. Lord when Thou through the Wilderness did'st go And their great Journeis to thy Israel show And though Thou fill'dst the Heav'ns confind'st Thy self to'a Cloud below Sinai did at Thy Presence quake The Rocks bow'd down and the whole Earth did shake And stubborn Israel in their horrors did partake Thou thundred'st and to own Thy Power The Heav'ns let fall a mighty shower With whose cool drops Thou did'st restore The fully'd beauties of the shriv'led Earth Giving its fruits and flowers new birth And made'st it fairer than it was before The desert with Thy blessing did abound New streams refresh't the weary ground And Jacob there a safe retreat from bondage found There He securely dwelt And all th' effects of mighty goodness fâ—lt There for His poor Thou did'st prepare And of His Armies took'st the care Still guiding them by Thine own hand Till by safe Conduct Thou hadst brought them to th' Promis'd Land IV. Before the Camp God march't and Victory Follow'd Him close in view of all Our Wives who saw the Enemy fall To meet our triumphs laid their distaffs by And took the Cymbal and the Lute And sang to them that praise we shouted to the Flute They sang of Armies and of Kings How soon their troops were put to flight E're they had well resolv'd to fight With all the Mirth which certain conquest brings Now God abroad did overcome And they divided the rich spoil at home And though amongst the Pots they long had lain Condemn'd to Brickilns and the Mine How all the flames did but their Oar refine And made them with more Lustre shine When all their former beauties it had first restor'd again Like spotless Doves in their most glorious flight Reflecting from their wings the tremb'ling light In thousand colours which the eye both dazle and invite V. And so look'd Palestine when th' Heathen fell And spoils of Kings were scat'red there The Land which was before as dark as Hell Receiv'd fresh verdure and became with Trophies fair On high its head did bear As if with snowy Salmon 't would compare Basan's high Hill God did with blessings crown And on it show'rd such plenty down One would have thought that God had chose it for His own But hold O Hill raise not Thy self too high For Sion yet shall o're Thee reign With Her compar'd Thou must fall down again And flat as Thine own Vallies lye For God in Sion to reside intends There must His House and Altar be His dwelling place to all Eternity And the whole World to Her shall bow And yield their necks as well as Thou To Sion whose Vast sway all bounds transcends Beyond the boundless space wherefurthest Nature ends VI. On Herth ' Eternal will erect His Throne God whom the Powers of Heav'n and Earth obey At whose dread Presence Sinai fled away When thither He to Israel all in fire came down Smoke and thick Light'ning did the mountain bound With twenty thousand flaming Chariots girt around The Guard Divine whose wheels in Thunder did resound And when He thence arose and up on high Ascended with His glorious trains He lead Captivity in Chains And gifts on men bestow'd as well as liberty To Traytors pardon granted and a Land Which was the purchase of His Own right hand And if no more they would rebell With promise there to make His Court and ever dwell To Him alone be all the Praise Who thus His Name and Us can raise And with ten thousand Blessings crowns Our dayes VII 'T is He who saves Us and to Him belong The keyes of th ' Adamantine Gates of Death He opens and none shuts gives and recalls Our breath Whose Name is Our Salvation Great and Strong Who will the Wicked tumble to the ground And make His Soul a passage through His Wound But to His People sayes I will again Repeat the Wonders which I heretofore have shown And greater do than e're I yet have done On Basan get my self a Name Bow down His neck and raise in Mounts the liquid Plain The Sea once more divide to make you way Now truly Red with purple streams which flow From your fierce En'mies veins and my great blow That Sea as well as Aegypt's trembling shall obey And there you shall securely pass And there your feet and garments wash Your very dogs shall drink the blood And gorg'd with humane flesh shall sport alone the scarlet Flood VIII And so they did and then Thy paths O God were seen And all Thy goings nothing came between How Thou didst both their way and Armies lead Before the Singers went and then the Flutes The Maidens follow'd with their Lutes And fearful Women heard shrill Trumpets without dread Bless ye said they the Mighty God! Ye streams which from Old Jacob's spring procced The Faithfull Jacob's happy seed And with you stablish His Divine Aboad Let little Benjamin be there and there The Governours of Judah fam'd for War Whil'st Learned Napthali and Zabulon For the great day and solemn pomp compose a Song And with their Numbers all the Tribes conduct along Let God Himself new strength command And since He ha's such wonders done Perfect what is so well begun And as we all before His Temple stand Those heads which he ha's sav'd exalt with His own hand IX There Lord Our spoils to Thee We 'll consecrate And Princes thither shall their Tribute bring And swear Alleg'ance to Thee as their King Thy Peace and Friendship supplicate And on their knees receive new Titles to their State Those who refuse and think their Pow'r so great That it or can resist or vye with Thine And Heav'n with open blasphemies dare threat Against their Spears Lord make Thy Light'ning shine And or o'rethrow or force them to a base retreat And to those roaring Bulls presumptuous noise And bleating of their Calves oppose the Thunder of Thy voice Till they for pardon sue and all submit And as Thou on Thy Throne do'st sit Their necks and gifts lay humbly at Thy Feet Till Aegypt and the Lybian Nations come And leaving all the Gods they had at home In Sion only seek the True and Holy One X. Praise Him all Kingdoms and all Lands That God who ha's in Heav'n set fast His Throne And all its Armies with His voice commands And makes them trembling His Dominion own His Mighty Voice abroad He sends That Voice which tallest Cedars rends And makes His Thunder heard to th'Worlds utmost ends Wisdom and Strength and Majesty To Israels Strength and Wisdom give Honour and Praise to the Most High And endless Rule to Him who doth for ever Live To Thee O God most Worthy to be prais'd And in Thy Temple to be fear'd of all Who Jacob from the dust hast rais'd And so uphold'st that He shall never fall Whose Sacred and
His Rod Let Him now strike more Rocks and make them Bread That we may hope Our Armies shall be fed Nothing but Manna Can He flesh provide Here in the desert let His Power be tri'd And if He do's this we 'll distrust no more But all Our murm'rings as we ought give o're God heard them from above and in a flame To see and be reveng'd upon them came Down came the fire and like that Mighty Power Which gave Commission did uncheckt devour The trembling Camp could not but say 't was just And that no other flame could purge their lust Thus were they punish'd for their unbelief Who only in a plague knew Fear or Grief They would not trust Him though they all had seen How constant to His Word and them He ' had been Though from the Clouds He did their bread command And Heav'n did th' Office of a fruitful land Whole fourty years once a day open stood And at their dores they gath'red Angels food Made by an Angels hand for them to eat But still they discontented would have meat And so they shall A strong East Wind did blow And o're the East th' Allmighty Word did go They heard it rustle but without all fear And never dreamt another plague was near It blew all night and at morning along with the day Brought shoales of Quales which round the Army lay The Murmurers saw them but yet scarce believ'd The Miracle and wisht they were deceiv'd They saw them lie in heaps the Camp around So thick they seem'd a burthen to the ground Enough a greater Host than theirs to feed Would but th' event like the beginning speed But while the flesh was in their Mouths that God Who can of every Blessing make a Rod Scourg'd them with this and though they saw it not In dressing Death was truly in the Pot. And down their stomachs with the Quales it went And thence unto the Heart its poysons sent So swift they found it was in vain to flie And still eat on that they might sooner die The Rebel Princes in that plague did fall And God was Gracious not to ruin all Yet still they sinn'd and would not yet believe And only when He slew them thus would grieve Wherefore in vanity their years He spent Waiting to see if thence they would repent For when He slew them they ador'd His Wayes And unto God their Rock gave all the praise Only to flatter Him for still their heart Was only constant from Him to depart Yet He sorgave them and destroy'd them not And both His anger and their Sins forgot He knew they were but flesh a suddain Wind Which passes by and leaves no trace behind How did they tempt Him in the Wilderness Many their plagues their Sins were Numberless When in straight bounds they would that God confine Whose boundless Power beyond all bounds do's shine And measuring by themselves the Holy One Because they saw no help thought there was none How little did they mind His Mighty Hand Then conquering when He only bid them stand What signs in Pharaohs coast He for them wrought And gave deliverance e're He scarce was sought When with deep gore He stain'd the Chrystal flood And Egypt could not drink though thirst for blood Infinite swarms of flies did fill the air Through whose thick clouds the Sun could scarce appear Armies of Frogs did the whole land invade And active lice of nimble dust were made Then martial Locusts came and bore away What the Hayl left untoucht for their rich prey For th' Hayl before had torne the sturdie Oak And what scap'd that fell by the Thunders stroak Cattle and Flocks smote down together lay And scattered limbs of Men strew'd every way No Common Thunder 't was the Prince of th' Air With all the powers of Hell were ralli'd there God let them loose and bid them nothing spare Murrain on beasts Ulcers on men did rage An hand unseen against them did engage Darkness upon their Palaces did rest A too faint Emblem of that in their breast They would not see though God from Heav'n came down And killing their First-born chose Israels for His Own Then like a Flock they were through Kadesh led By Moses hand but God himself their Head Through Seas He lead them which more scar'd then they Rose up in hast and open'd them a way But when gone o're they look'd upon the Main Pharaoh lay drown'd their way was Sea again Through thousand dangers thousand Enemies past To th' Promis'd Canaan they were brought at last The Heathen conquer'd He gave them their Land Houses and Towns stood ready built to hand The Sacred lot did for each Tribe divide And what God gave was not by Man deny'd Yet here they sinn'd and did their God provoke And all His laws and their Own Cov'nants broke So hard it is to fix a Crooked bow And make that strait which Nature made not so High places now they seek and shadie Groves And to foul Idols prostitute their loves This when God heard and saw His laws abus'd By them whom He so tenderly had us'd He Israel hated Shilo did forsake And left that Ark which made His Foes to quake Who with Triumphant layes did bring it home After it had so often overcome 'T is taken and the Captive People fall And one small fire gives troops a Funerall No Marriage Songs are heard in all the Coast But Amorous Harps are in shrill Trumpets lost And every Virgin may before she die Unsworn bewayl her sad Virginitie Wives hear their husbands death without a groan And Preists unmourn'd for die now th' Ark is gone 'T was then God like a Gyant rous'd from sleep Whom Wine beyond His hour did Pris'ner keep That shouts and fights fell on and made them flie And on their backs reveng'd their curious eye The Ark returns but Shilo now no more Shall be its Residence as it was before Ephraim to Judah Shilo to Sion yields And to the Sacred Mount their fruitful fields So God would have 't who chose Himself the Place Sion the Habitation of His Grace 'T is there He 's known there He His Temple made Whose ground work stable as the Worlds was laid Davids design when from the Ewes with young By Him he was anointed to the Throne His Fathers flocks he carefully did keep And therefore made Chief Heardsman of Gods sheep Where all his time he fed them with such Care They never were so strong nor ever lookt so fair Psalm LXXIX Deus venerunt gentes in c. I. LOrd see the Miseries which we undergo And how with us Thy Temple suffers too Thither at length the Enemy is come And Solyma on heaps has layed Sion is but one Mighty Tomb And the Worlds glory now the scorne of all is made II Thy murd'red Saints in th' feilds unburied lie A prey to beasts and fowl which vengeance crie Their blood before was round Jerus'lem shed Increast its brooks and
wast its stones Yet death cannot secure the dead But those that took their lives again expose their bones III. Living or dead one shame attends us all Nor with less rage Our neighbours on us fall Their mirth do's only by our pains increase And such deep wounds their mercies give That death it self we think were ease And our slain friends more happy count than us who live IV. When shall Thy wrath and jealousie expire Quench'd by that blood which now but feeds the fire Lord on the heathen pour the tempest down Whole nations which ne'r pray to Thee Kingdoms where yet Thy Name 's unknown And let not what 's their due Thy servants Portion be V. And when their Sins to Thy remembrance come Let this be added to compleat the Sum That they have wasted Jacob and Thy land But let not Our iniquities Our former Sins new load Thy hand Lest when to rescue us to ruin Thou arise VI. Prevent us Lord for we are very low And let us now Thy strong Salvation know Now save us for the glory of Thy Name And for its sake Our Sins blot out Upon Our foes return the shame That though in scorn they ask none may Thy presence doubt VII Appear O God and let us witness be They know and fear Thy Name as well as we Revenge the guiltless blood which they have shed And hear Our chains how loud they cry Upon the living right the Dead And by Thine Arm save those who sentenc'd are to dy VIII Reproach which they design'd to cast on Thee And its increase their just reward shall be And then Thy People Lord Thy sacred Fold Shall make the Plains with joy to ring The Lambs shall all Thy Acts be told And their Great Shepherds praise both learn and ever sing Psalm LXXX Qui regis Israel intende c. I. GReat Shepherd of the Hebrew Race Whose numerous Flock all Israel was For Thou dist guide them with Thy Hand They knew Thy Voyce and follow'd Thee Th' Invisible between the Cherubins did see And thence receive th' Oraculous command Between the Cherubins again appear And give Our chains Thine eye and prayers Thine ear II. Shew us Thy Glory Lord once more As thou didst Ephraim heretofore When all the Tribes from bondage led Thy Presence chas'd their Enemies For if again Thou make Thy Ark and strength to rise Ours shall flie too as theirs before Thee fled Turn us again and cause Thy Face to shine We shall be sav'd and all the praise be Thine III. How long wilt Thou be angry thus Both with Our Prayers Great God and us Thou know'st how tears have been our food The mixture of Our meat and drink Whilst Our insulting Neighbours laugh in scorn to think That when those streams shall cease the next is blood But turn us Lord and cause Thy Face to shine We shall be sav'd and all the praise be Thine IV. A Vine God into Canaan brought And having thrown the Heathen out A proper soyl did for it find From Aegypt He the plant did bring Where it was bruis'd and torn when it began to spring By men trod down and broken by the Wind But when it could not there securely stand In Canaan it took root and fill'd the Land V. The Sun-burnt Hills it cloath'd around Their heads were with it cool'd and crownd Above the Hills its branch did rise And vy'd with tallest Cedars there As gay it look't and full as high its top did bear And its rich clusters touch'd the neighbouring Skies With one it laid hold of the Western Strand And touch't the River with its other hand VI. But why hast Thou her hedge broke down And her enclosures open thrown So that the stranger who rides by Though nothing there he ha's to do Comes rudely in and tears both fruit and branches too Thither the Wild Bore from the Wood do's fly And after bids his fellow beasts to haste To'a Vineyard which they may more safely waste VII Return O God and on us shine From Heav'n look down and see Thy Vine This Vineyard which Thy right hand made By thus transplanting fair and strong And under which it spred and flourish't ha's thus long For if Thou frown 't will be to th' Common laid 'T is burn't already but may yet bear fruit If though the branch be gone Thou spare the root VIII May Thy right hand preserve Our King And to an end His troubles bring Let Him again be great and strong As by Thy help He was before And then nor He nor we shall ever leave Thee more But freely joyn in one Eternal Song Turn us O Lord and cause Thy Face to shine We shall be sav'd and all the praise be Thine Psalm LXXXI Exultate Deo Adjutori I. TO God our strength let Israel sing Triumphant Songs to Our Victorious King Awake the Harp the Psaltery and Flute And fill the Air with an harmonious noise Call in the Sackbutt Cornet and the Lute And as He rais'd His hand for you t' Him lift your voice II. In the New Moon the Trumpets blow His antient Law makes it your duty Now When He at first ordain'd this solemn day And bid Our Fathers keep the Pompous Feast Israel and Judah did His word obey And thus His praises duly sang who gave them Rest. III. 'T was then when Israel left that Land Whose Language they could never understand A speech as barbarous as its Nations were When from the weights and pots I set them free From cruel tasks sayes God no more to bear Aegyptian burdens but my light ones and serve me IV. I saw their trouble heard their Cry And my quick Hand took Light ' ning from my eye From Heav'n I thund'red made my voice be heard And there I prov'd and there I Israel try'd But whom at thund'ring Sinai Israel fear'd Israel at Meribah with murmurings deny'd V. Yet to my Law again give ear Once more I 'le publish it if Thou wilt hear No other God but Me shalt Thou adore For I alone am God and none beside I broke the Chains which you in Aegypt bore And now can fill your mouths though op'ned ne're so wide VI. But all in vain they would not hear And though I bow'd mine down deny'd their Ear So up I gave them to their loose desires Their brutish Lusts and no destruction sent No flames but what were kind'led by those fires That what they made their choice might be their punishment VII O had they heard Me and been wise Those Wayes to follow which they did despise To Victory their Armies I have led My Hand their Enemies should have o'rethrown And forc't to yield their necks but on their head Had put a never fading and Eternal Crown VIII Plenty and Peace should all Their dayes Have shew'd fresh Palms and Roses in their Wayes And open'd all the Treasures of the Field Even I my self new Miracles would show Not water only the
it broken there in peices lay Gods secret path was Israels Great High Way Through which as through the Wilderness they pass Only these sands were wall'd about with glass Thus from their Enemies He set them free Whilst the admiring waves stood up to see But when the sacred Army was gon o're The seas no longer own'd their new made shore But o're it leapt as friends return'd to greet And in their old embraces hast to meet Th' Egyptian Troops which scattred lay between And thought to tell at home what they had seen Swift as that thought were buried in the waves And not one left to shew their empty Graves Then Israel fear'd His Word and sang His Praise But soon forgot that and His Wondrous wayes Did in the Wilderness His Power distrust And for full Tables in the Desert lust He gave it them but therewith leaness sent Into their very Souls the Poyson went Next against Moses they in tumults rise And Aaron the Almightys choyce despise But God Himself from Heaven His Choice approv'd And from His sight the Murmurers remov'd The Sea before the Earth do's now obey And frighted at His presence ran away Loosned its hold and as apart it fell Let Dathan and Abiran quick to Hell And those who to the Priesthood did aspire And off'red Incense were consum'd by Fire At Horeb they had griev'd him long before When there they did their molton god adore At Horeb where they that great Voice did hear Which fill'd the most rebellious breast with fear And strook the Soul as it surpriz'd the Eare. Thus to an Ox their glory they compare And these cry they Thy Gods O Israel are Not because they the true one did not know But their old love to Egypt thus would show Forgetting what in Egypt He had done Both for their Nations honour and His own And all His Wonders in the Mighty Deep Making a Causey there that they their way might keep Wherefore about destroying them He spake And that He Moses a great Name would make Moses who in the breach before Him stood And would have given His Own to save their blood That pass'd the Happy Canaan they contemn But more the God who promis'd it to them To Egypt they again had rather go Than serve new Masters whom they did not know Therefore in wrath He rais'd His vengefull Hand To Strike and swear they should not see the Land And that all those who fell not by His own Should by their En'mies swords be overthrown Sure they will try it and to Peor turn'd Before dumb Idols ate and Incense burn'd Thus were they only constant in their sin And knew no measure till the Plague brake in Had some new solly to enflame His Ire And set the Mine He lay'd so deep a fire Till Phineas stood up and with dextrous skill Three En'mies at one happy blow did kill Zimri and Cosbi and the Plague did stay Which weltring in their gore and breathless lay An Act whose Memory God Himself would save And for reward to His House the Priest-hood gave Another time at Meriba they strove And their meek Guide did with their murmurings prove Full ill it went with Moses for their sake Who unadvis'dly in His Passion spake And with them both in sin and judgement did partake The Nations of which God in charge did give Should be destroy'd they were resolv'd should live And come to Canaan to preserve their seed Were mingled with them and did by them breed Learn'd all their works their Idols did adore Curs'd to Them now though for their sakes before Idols that Devils were yet unto whom All smear'd they in their Childrens blood must come No other Sacrifice but that will please Nor any blood but the Innocent appease Their childrens blood with which their Gods were stain'd They and their Gods and with their own the land Thus justly plagu'd for their impiety That Gods of their own making should so cruel bee This blew the Heav'nly wrath up to a Flame Turn'd love to hatred Mercy rage became Up to the Heathen He His People gave And Israel in His own land was a slave Those who most hated them for Lords did reign And those they conquer'd conquer'd them again When God delivered them they yet sinn'd more Tempting new plagues they never felt before Yet to their cry He gently bow'd His Ear And though they would not Him their grones did hear According to His Cov'nant Mercy sent And taught them by His oft once to Repent Made their proud Lords resent their Miseries And shew less cruel hands and more indulgent eyes Save us O God and bring Thy Captives home That we with prayse may to Thy Temple come To Israels King let thanks be ever pay'd And let Amen by all the World be say'd Hallelujah The end of the Fourth Book of Psalms THE FIFTH BOOK OF PSALMS Psalm CVII Confitemini Domino quoniam c. Chorus Omnium ALL you who on th' Almighty Love depend And by His liberal hand improve Let with your voice your thanks ascend And here begin what you shall do above His Mercy like His Truth is ever sure And so your Praise should be as constant and as pure Versus I. Let His Redeem'd say so that Israel whom Their Enemys Captive led but He brought home Then brought them home when from the farthest East They were dispers'd and scattred to the West When North and South their weary steps did know But they nor where they went nor where to go Now in the Desart an untrodden way Where they could hardly pass yet durst not stay Where they no City found and none to tell Which road to take or in what Place to dwell Hungry and thirsty doubtful in their mind Scarce knowing what they sought or what they 'd wish to find Chorus Minor Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and He did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great Hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd round about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Respondens He led them forth Himself by the right way Their passage made as their great journey lay And City founded for them and did tell Not only where but made them in it dwell Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own For to the longing Soul He grants His Will And with that Goodness which He is do's th' hungry fill Versus II. Those who in darkness and in Horror sit And so near death 't is in the shade of it Bound in Affliction and in heavy chaines In prison where there noyse and silence reignes Feeling their sins in all they suffer there Whose weight more rings â—han th' Irons which they bear Their hearts sink lower than