thy grace did then vphold 7 When many thoughts opprest me much Thy comforts did my soul delight For thou partakest not with such Whoe sentence give against the right Or such as have the Iust withstood To death condemning guiltles blood 8 But thou oh Lord shalt me defend Thou art my God my Rock my Fort And all the harmes my Foes intend Thou shalt vpon themselves retort Yea for the guilt of their offence Thou Lord our God shalt root them hence Oh thou supream Iudge of the world severe Avenger of all wrongs Behold the fury the despight insolent Cruelties of our Adversaries and deliver the pore the widdowe the Fatherles all thy Oppressed Children out of their wicked hands Thy forbearance hath made the perverters of Iustice seeme to conceive that thou either see'st not or els regardest not their impieties Yea those oppressers are growne so powrfull so many that wee scarce finde any to take part with vs against their Iniuries but that wee have assurance of thy Assistance wee should be vtterly without hope Oh! continue our hopes in thee Sett thou in order all that is amisse destroy all the Favourers of Iniustice keep vs alway harmles both in soul body through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 95. This Psalme exhorts to praise God and warnes to harken to his voice whilst wee have tyme lest like our fore-Fathers wee be deprived of his Rest for our obstinacie It should be often sung to remember vs that wee embrace God's free grace whilst it is offred TO God our Saviour lett 's renewe Our songs with chearfull voice Our thanckfulnes before him shewe With Psalmes in him rejoice For God the Lord most powrfull is The King of Gods is hee The earth's obscurest vales are his And his high mountaines be 2 The seas he made they are his owne Drie land his Creature was Come serve him then fall wee downe Before our Makers face He is our God his flock wee are His pasture-sheep are wee That you his voice may therfor heare More tender-harted be 3 Not like your Fathers when that in The Desert proov'd they were And tempted him though they had seene His works of wonder there Full forty years they moov'd his wrath And therfor thus sayd hee A wandring hart this people hath My waies they will see 4 And I to them in my iust rage Did by mine Oath protest That none of all that froward age Should come within my rest Oh God! the Creator preserver governour of all things UUee give thee thancks for making vs after thine owne Image for sending thy Eternal-word to regenerate vs when wee were made worse then nothing So far wee ought to be from arrogating the powre either of our Beeing or Well-beeing that wee must confesse to vndoe our selves is all which wee are able of our selves do Like our fore Fathers our harts are wandring from thy waies all our life long wee do more mere harden them by custome in sinn Yet oh Lord seeing wee are the sheep of thy pasture bring us home to thy Fo de seeing we are thy People soften our harts givs us grace so to harken to thy voice in this Day of our Trial that in the Day of thy Iudgment wee may enter into thy Rest through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 96. UUee are herein exhorted to sing preach the New-songs of the Gospell to the praise of Christ our King And in regard other Gods are but vanities all nations are provoked to ioyne in praising him c. We should sing it to glorify Christ for his powre his Truth c. COme now in some New-indighting Blesse God the world's Almightie King His Name 's due praise in songs reciting Of his Salvation daylie sing His Fame works of admiration Yee people heed yee Nations hear His powre deserves high exaltation For all the Gods lesse dreadfull are 2 The Gentiles Gods are foolish fictions But our great God did heav'n creat Powr glory praise all perfections Attend him in his holy-seat To him due praise yee kindreds render Extoll his powre his glory sing To God's great Name fitt honours tender Approach his Courts offrings bring 3 Within his house with praise professe him And let him be adored there Let all the world their God confesse him And serve him with a holy feare Yea to the Gentiles let them publish The Lord their King that his might The wav'ring earth shall fast establish And do the wronged people right 4 Let heav'n earth with joy-excelling Reioice before him ever more The seas all things in them dwelling The feilds the woods all their store For lo the Lord approcheth nearlie Behold to judge the world he comes The wicked he will judge serverely And give the people righteous doomes Honour wisdome powre praise be ascribed vnto thee oh king of the world by all thy Creatures according to the severall faculties which thou hast bestowed vpon them Be thou glorified in thy selfe also according to that which thy In comprehensiblenes deserveth beyond what thy creatures are able to ascribe Let all heathenish deities all those Idolls which carnall men have set vp in their harts appear such vanities as they are let thy Soveraignty be acknow ledged thy worship truely celebrated by Iewes Gentiles all Nations throughout the world Let vs especially who are of thy visible Church performe this duty let our harts be so established so filled with Holines filial awe that wee may expect thy comming to Iudgment with comefort wellcome thy opproach with shouts of tryvmphs songs of exvltation Amen Psa 97. The soveraignty of Christ with his comming to Iudgment the Ioy which the faithfull shall conceive thereby the confusion which will fall on the wicked is here foretold c. It may be mystically applied also to our Saviours first coramling And may be sung to stir vp our spirituall reioicing in both his Advents THe Lord is king be therfor glad Yee Lands Iles now this is known With Clouds darknes he is cladd And Truth Iustice gard his throne A burning flame before him goes Wherewith he shall consume his foes 2 He to the world his Glory shew'd And earth beheld the same with fear Like waxe hills melted when they vew'd The Lord the world's great Lord appear His Righteousnes the heav'ns have showne His glories are to all men knowne 3 All Idoll servers he destroies And of all Gods will honor'd be It Syon gladds Iacob ioyes His righteous doomes to hear see Above the highest hills he dwells And all the Gods he farr excells 4 Hate sinn yee Lovers of the Lord For he his holie-ones will save And light Truth to those afford That harts vpright faithfull have Yee saints therefore record confesse And praise with Ioy God's holines Oh Christ the everlasting sonn of the Father Thou
only art the Catholick king it is no lesse then blasphemy for any other to assume that Title Rule thou therfor in thine owne Kingdome cast all Vsurpers out of thy Throne Publish thy glories to the world Let thy Truth Iustice terrify thy Foes consume all Ungodlines out of the land Root out all Idolatries that Iacob Syon thy Church her Children may reioice Enthrone thy self also in our harts let thy presence consume thence the Mountaines of our presumption with every thing which there exalts it self against thee that the hatred of Sinn the Love of thy presence the light of thy Truth the Ioye of the holy-ghost may be there established for ever ever Amen Psa 98. A Psalm The whole world is exhorted to sing the new songs of the Gospell the great powre Victories of Christ It showes also how we ought to praise him To these ends we should vse it c. NEw songs vnto the Lord indite For mighty marvailes he hath done His Right-hand hath prevaild in fight His holy Arme the conquest wonn The Gentiles have in publike vew'd Howiust healpfull he hath beene To Isr'el Truth Love he shew'd His Mercies all the world hath seene 2 Then through the world his glory sing Sing praises with triumphant voice To praise the Lord the Psalt'rie bringe And on the Harp with Psalmes reioice The Lord the King with mirth adore With Trump Flute this Ioye beginn Yee seas with all your fullnes roare Thou earth be glad all therein 3 Before the Lord your ioyes expresse Yee Flouds hills for lo he comes To judge the world with equalnes And give the people righteous doomes Almighty Sonn of God wee blesse praise thee for the manifestation of thy Mercy to the whole world in the miraculous work of our Redemption Thou didst come to us in despised weaknes Yet hast thou therein showne such vnresistable powre that it prevailed against the wisdome of the worldly-wise magnified thy derided Crosse above all the most renowned Deities of the Gentiles This thou didst by appearing in a contemptible estate Oh! how glorious how powrfull wilt thou be in thy second comming It now draweth nigh Oh! let it not come vpon vs as a theef in the night but as the Travaile vpon a womam who keepeth a iust reconing ioyeth in the hopes of her Birth more then shee feares the paines of her Travaile So according to the counsell of thy holy spirit wee may expect receive thee with praises Triumphs reioicings Amen Psa 99. It magnifieth the royall dignity of Christ exhorts to feare serve praise him according to the example of Moses Aron Samuel UUe may vse this to informe vs that wee the Patriarks have but one the same Christ our saviour THe Lord is King he doth make Betwixt the Cherubins his throne Yee people fear yee Kingdomes quake For great in Syon he is growne Or'e Nations all himself he rais'd His Name is fear'd holy to Oh! let this powrfull king be prais'd For he vprightly loves to do 2 His powre delights in righteous waies With Iacob he will justly deal The Lord our God oh therfore praise And at his holy footstool kneel His Preist with Moses A'ron was And Samuel did invoke his Name These humbly sought the Lord for grace And they from him obtaind the same 3 Hee from the Cloudie-piller spake And on his words those men relide They of his lawes did conscience make And God therfore to them replide Yea though their errors he did blame To them he did his grace afford Oh serve our God praise his Name For sacred is our God the Lord. Oh Christ who sittest betweene the Cherubims rulest both in heaven earth wee thy subiects do humbly tender our homage to thy royall Maiestie magnifieng thy Iustice thy Mercy thy powre Thou art the same yesterday to day for ever VVee beseech thee therfor to make vs both followers of the Patriarks thy servants in their faithfull obedience partakers also of those mercies which thou hast vouchsafed them Though iustly thou correc test our errors yet in pitty regard our infirmities accept our penitence hear our prayers even for the sake of thy bitter passion sweet Iesus Amen Psa 100. A Psalme of praise It commemorates two great Benifits our Creation which is common to all that Free Election which is peculier to the Chosen Flock of Christ whereby they have the Freedom of his pasturage and of his protection It is therfore vsefull to praise God for the same REioyce in God yee Nations In chearfulnes adore him With ioyfull acclamations Present your Selves before him For God the Lord did make vs No hand therein had wee He for his flock doth take vs His Pasture-sheep wee be 2 His Gates Courts possesse yee To thanck him goe yee thither His Name with gladnes blesse yee And sing his praise togither For God is kinde for ever His grace he freely daignes His Truth will faile vs never For endles it remaines Thy hands oh Lord did make vs therfor we praise thee for our Creation for all the naturall Faculties where with it pleased thee to endowe our soules bodies Thou hast also redeemed us wee therfor likwise praise thee for our Election Vocation Iustification Sanctification Illumination Preservation hope of Glorification for all the pretious Lincks of that golden Chaine wherein are ioyned together the meanes of our Salvation Thou hast wee confesse done already so much for vs that we have almost nothing to pray for but thanckfulnes the cōtinuatiō of thy free Mercies hitherto vouchsafed for which wee humbly beseech thee that wee may truly praise thee for thē for ever ever Amen Another of the same OH all yee Kingdomes praise the Lord Before him let your Ioy be showne With singing let him be ador'd And for your God let him be knowne 2 He made vs his owne wee be His Flock pasture-sheep wee are His Gates Courts then enter yee And give him thancks praises there 3 Yea praise him his Name confesse For in the Lord all good resides His Mercies his Faithfulnes Throughout all Ages firme abides Psa 101. A Psalme of David It personates Christ proposing the divine morrall political Oeconomical dutie of good Princes promising the execution there of in his Kingdome Famely This is indeed the right singing of Mercy Iudgmēt this Psalme is vsefull at the Coronatiō of Kings or when Magistrates are admitted into their places OF Iudgment of Love to thee Now Lord a song I will indite Oh come vnite thy selfe to me And I will keep my waies vpright With perfect hart my house I 'le guide No wicked thinge shall please mine eyes I 'le those detest who turne aside And all their deeds I will despise 2 No froward hart with me shall
without end Amen Psal 104. The Majestie wisdome powre of God in the Creation preservation of all his Creatures is here described by excellent Metaphors We may sing it to praise him for making preserving all things to his owne glorie for our confortable vse c. The Title is Halelujah NOw shall my soul to praise the Lord assay For Lord my God! vnbounded is thy might With glories beames thy self thou dost aray And as with Robes art cloth'd about with Light Thou curtaine-like the heav'ns abrode displayest And in great flouds thy chābers roofs thou layest 2 The rowling Clouds thy speedy Charrets are And winged windes thy swift-pasd Coursers be Thy Messages the glorious Angells beare And burning fires like servants waite on thee The Globe of Earth so firmly thou hast grounded That none can shake the structur thou hast foūded 3 As with a robe wth flouds thou clothdst the same And then the waves above the hills aspir'd But at thy Check soone downe againe they came And when thy voice did thunder back retir'd From lofty heights by winding Vallies tracinge They thither fel where first they had their placing 4 And strongly there thou boundest them about That they no more the world should overflowe Among the Dales clear springs thou sendest out Which run between the mountaines to fro Thou drink from thence to forrest heards convaiest And there the thirst of Asses wilde alayest 5 Then by the Bancks of all those running Rills Among the boughs the birdes make melodies Thou from above with shewres bedew'st the hills And giv'st enough all Creatures to suffice For Cattell grasse for man thou herbs ordainest And him with food out of the earth sustainest 6 From thence proceeds the hart-reioicing-wine Refreshing oyle from thence doth also flowe That pretious oyle which makes the face to shine bread wherby man's hart more strōg may grow Thy Cedars tall due moysture have not wanted Not they which high on Libanon are planted 7 The feather'd foules their nests on thē do build The lofty Firrs are dwellings for the storke For clyming goats the mountains refuge yeald In craggy Rocks the fearfull connies lurke The changing Moon the tymes apointed showeth The constant Sunn his howr of setting knoweth 8 Thou Darknes cal'st so night shutts vp the day And then abrode the Forresters do roame With roarings loud the Lions hunt theyr prey And vnto thee oh God for meat they come The rising sunn anon returneth hither And in their denns they couch againe togither 9 Then man till night afresh his labour plies How many be thy wondrous works oh Lord In ev'ry thing thou art exceeding wise The spatious Earth by thee is fully stor'd And in the sea are many creatures dwelling Both great small whose number passeth telling 10 There sail the shipps there thou didst creat Leviathan to sport vpon the Floud Thy Creatures all from thee expect their meat And that thou shouldst in season give them food Which thou bestow'st they the same receiving Are filld with Goodnes of thy bounteous giving 11 Thou hid'st thy face loe they troubled are Thou stopt'st their breath lifeles dust they bee Againe thou breath'st they reviv'd appear And all the earth is new arayd by thee Oh! let the Lord with honour still be named And let him joy in that which he hath framed 12 If with his eye the earth he but survay The fearfull earth doth tremble at his look If on the hills he but a singer lay His very touch doth make the hills to smoke And whil'st my Life or beeing is enioyed To praise my God my tongue shall be employed 13 Sweet thoughts of him conceaved are in me And in the Lord my hart shal ever ioye For from his Land the wicked rooted be And he will them perpetually destroy Oh let his praise for ever be confessed Praise God my soul say The Lord be blessed Most glorious Lord God! thy admirable powre wisdome created the world which having once overflowed for Sinn thou didst againe replenish the same continueng the maine Fabrick ever since therein mainetaining a succession of innumerable different Creatures by a wonderfull providenee with a speciall regard vnto mankinde above them all Give us therfore grace wee beseech thee so to meditate thy workmanship thy wisdome thy great mercies herein that our harts beeing regenerated revived by the breathings of thy holy spirit wee may be thanckfull for thy great Favours that when our wickednes is rooted out wee perceaving all to be good which thou hast created or ordained may praise thy wisdome thy goodnes thy bountie for ever ever Amen Psa 105. Halelujah It typically expresseth by God's deliverances of the Iewes his Covenant with them the spiritual League graces vouchsafed to us c. We should therfor sing it not only historically but with a respect also to the Covenant of grace his mercies by Christ Iesus COme praise the Lord invoke his Name To all men make his actions knowne In Psalmes of praise sing forth his fame And speak what wonders he hath done Let them who seek the Lord be glad Let of his Name their boast be made 2 Oh search God's powre seek his face Still minde what wonders he hath done Let all that are of Abraham's race And Iacob's his elected-one God's wondrous works record with heed And minde what he hath fore-decreed 3 He is our God our mighty Lord His Iudgments through the world are spread He beares in minde his promis'd word Vnto a thousand Ages made Ev'n that which he to Abr'ham swore And vow'd to Isa'ck heretofore 4 To Iacob came the same decree In Isr'el to continue still To thee all thy seed sayd hee The Land of Can'an give I will Yea thus he spake when fewe they were And they themselves meer strangers there 5 When forraigners they liv'd among And oft from place to place remoov'd He suffred none to do them wrong But for their sakes ev'n kings reproov'd My prophets harme yee not sayd hee Vntouch'd let my Anointed be 6 Then he by dearth their Land made pore And did the staff of bread withhold But Ioseph he first sent before Eu'n him whome for a Slave they solde With fetters there his feet they pain'd And him in irons they detain'd 7 But when his Triall was decreed God's word his innocence disclos'd The king did send to have him freed And by the prince he was vnlos'd His cheef commander he was made To rule his house all he had 8 Of all his Lords he had command That he his Counsellers might guide Then Isr'el came to Egipt land And Iacob did with Cham reside And so his Children thrived there That stronger then his foes they were 9 Whose hate fraudulent intent When to his Folk he well made knowne His servant Moses then he sent And A'ron his Elected-one Who wrought great marvailes in his Name And
THE PSALMES of DAVID Translated Into LYRICK-VERSE according to the scope of the ORIGINAL And Illustrated with a Short Argument and a breife Prayer or Meditation before after every Psalme By GEORGE WITHER Imprinted In the Neatherlands By Cornelis Gerrits van Breughel M. DC XXXII To the MAIESTIE of the most Virtuous and high-borne Princesse ELIZABETH PRINCESSE of Great Britaine QVEENE of Bohemia COVNTESSE of the Palatinate of the Rhyne c. Most excellent Princesse I May faile in Vulger Titles But in my valuation of your heroïcal Virtues I cannot be deceaved Therfor I am the less curious in common Attributes For those Accōplishments which in my repute are your greatest glorie are well manifest in that which is the greatest temporall honour even in those Virtues which have conquered a Kingdome for you in the harts of many millions of people And procured you thousands of affectionate servants who never sawe your Majestive Not only in your owne Territories and in the Dominions of your Freinds But in the Citties Kingdomes of your Enimies also And they who are vnwilling to confesse this to give you honour have honored you in discovering it by their envy Among those who are in Affection your Ma. ties loyall servants I am one and in my owne Country great multitudes have tooke notise of a speciall Obligation which I had above many others to honor serve you For I do hereby most humbly thanckfully acknowledge that when my over-forward Muse first fiutterd out of her neast Shee obtained the preservation of her endangered Libertie by your gratious favour and perhaps escaped also thereby that Pinioninge which would have marred her flieng forth for ever after Which extraordinary Clemencie in so great a Princesse to a person so vndeservinge did not only much magnify your noblenes in the opinion of others but so chayned my hart also to the love of your princely Goodnes that allthough I was hitherto compelled to smother my vnprofitable thanckfulnes in my breast because I wanted meanes to discover it according to my desires I have eversince bene spiritually present with your Ma. tie with God for you by my Prayers in all your Afflictions Exaltations And faine I would have effected something which might have witnessed that I had a Hart though not a Fortune to be serviceable in the best manner My Muse was the hopefull st meanes I had of this ambition by her I awhile promised myself some healp But after I came to better vnderstanding I preceaved her over-early Flights into the world had in her prime growth so spent those tymes of opportunity whereby she should have enabled her self for brave Attempts that shee could never be strong enough to make wing halfe so high as my Desires Yet by your Ma. ties royall Father of blessed Memorie who a litle before his death was pleased to honour mee with his gratious respect I was commanded to perfect a Translation of the Psalmes which he vnderstood I had begunn by his encouragment I finished the same about the tyme of his Translation to a better Kingdome Wherein God soe enabled mee that many have well approoved thereof and I latelie resolving to make it publike wanting other Testimonie of my thanckfulnes conceived it would be no dishonour to your Ma. tie if before the same I convayed your beloved Name to that Nation who so dearlie affect you But when I had well considered thereon I thought it would be a very pertinent complement so to doe For they were Afflictions or Deliverances from Afflictions which were occasions of every Psalme Therfore none but they who have bene afflicted cann relish the sweetnes or vnderstand the depth of these Raptures And therfore also they who come nearest in their Christian suffrings to those whome they personated shall best feel vnderstand their meaning In which if I be not more a stranger to your Highnesse then I thinck I am you have bene honored aboue all the kings princes of the world in my opinion you have had more occasion to make personall Application of these Hymnes vnto your selfe then any of them And there is no shame most excellent Princesse in the Crosse of Christ For the highest honor cōsisteth not in wearing a crown but in a Crowne that hath many Thornes in it the more Thornes the more honorable Though the sonns of men do skoffingly turne this glory into shame seek after Vanities yet they who shall sitt nearest unto Christ Iesus in his Kingdome must drinck deepest of his Cupp And your Highnes hath in my Observation more largly pledged him then many other For in all these Hymns all which are prophecies of such things as pertaine to Christ his Mysticall body there are fewe passages communicable to his Members but even in my owne knowledge your Ma. may apply them vnto your self as a dependant on him And God let mee not live if I do not thinck that more honours you then to be Empresse of the world And because it is the greatest honour to come so near both to the Type the Prototype of our suffrings as your Ma. hath done to beare so many marks of the Lord Iesus Because also some skoffing Ismaelites have mentioned these Glories to your Dishonour I wil to your Praise repeat some few out of those many which are appliable to your Ma. they shal be such that most will confesse they are the very same Afflictions whereof as a type of Christ king David complained He was exalted by God yet cast downe He was annonited king yet enioyed not the Kingdome He was driven from his owne possessions compelled to soiourne in a forraigne Land Kings Rulers were confederated against him He was remooved from his Kindred his Acquaintance were sett far off His enimies were powrefull too strong for him His adversaries were multiplied Yea they insulted over his calamities many judged his cause so bad that they pronounced him forsaken of God The proud forged lies against him False witnesses layd things to his Charge which he knew not Princes sate spake against him The mighty persecuted him without a Cause They had almost consumed him vpon earth They waited to destroy him The Bands of the wicked robbed him They spake of peace vnto him when they purposd warr Trouble anguish tooke holde vpon him he was persecuted when God had smitten him The Vngodly reioiced in his Adversity cryed There there so wee would have it He was reproched of his Neighbours He was the scorne of fooles The Drunckerds made songs of him They said he was cast downe should never rise againe And many other suchlike passages there are which my memory confusedly retaines In all which together with your Roiall Consort you have heene a partaker in such measure as Christians of inferior Degree cannot communicate in the like Suffrings in the same sense Nor are these things only Appliable vnto your Highnesse in
he timely brings And his leaf shall neuer perish Ev'rie thing shall prosper to Which he vndertakes to do 3 Thus the wicked shall not fare But be like such dustie matter As the whirl-winde here there On the spatious earth doth scatter Nor shall they withstand their doomes When the day of Judgment comes 4 Neither haue they place or stay In the righteous congregation For God knowes the Just-mans waie With a gratious approbation But those paths that Sinners tread To assured ruine lead Psa 2. It is a prophecie of Christ his kingdom Act. 4. declaring the vaine furie of his Opposers the wrath of God against them his eternall Decree concerning that King the powre extent of his kingdom c. It exhorts Kings subiects also to fear serue him It may be sung to encrease Faith amid the Churches persecutions c. WHat mooves the Gentiles to repine What makes the people foolish growe That Earthlie Kings do thus combine And Rulers meet in Counsell so The Lord his beloved Christ Rebelliously they disobay His powre say these let vs resist And break cast their cords away 2 But God who sitts in heav'n aboue Their foolish purpose will deride His anger shall their torment proue And them in wrath he then shall chide Ev'n I' saith God my King did place Vpon my holy Syon hill And by the Lord what vttred was To me saith Christ now sing I will 3 Thou art my Sonn begot by me This day and if thou make demande The gentiles I will give to thee And make thee King of e'vry land An yron scepter thou shalt sway And if thy Lore they followe not Thou shalt compel them to obay Or break them like an earthen pott 4 Then Kings be wise Rulers lerne To serue the Lord with awfull joy Yea kisse the Sonn lest wroth he turne And ouerthrow you in your way For when his wrath inflamed growes Though but a litle moon'd he seem Then blest are all who shall repose Their constant hopes faith in him Blessed Sonn of God begotten before all time and by thy Father appointed to be King over the whole world let thy Kingdom come all the oppositions of thy adversaries be turned to thy glorie let thy grace erable vs to pluck downe that Antichrist which the world the flesh or the Devil shal seek to set vp against thee in the TeÌ„ple of our harts that wee yealding due obedience to thee thy commands may escape thy burning indignation sincerely embrace thy Gospell with awful ioy persevere in the way leading to that felicity which is prepared for those who put their trust in thee Amen Another of the same SUch uproars mad why do the Gentiles make What follies do the people doate upon Earths Kings conspire Rulers counsel take Against the Lord his Anointed-one Oh come let us break their bands they say Come let vs cast from vs their cords away 2 But God in heav'n deriding their designe Shall vexing them his minde in wrath declare Who e're saies he repines this King of mine On Syon fitts 't was I that plac'd him there And what the Lord himself to me hath told Concerning him I purpose to vnfold 3 Thou art my sonn this day begot I thee Demand therfore he said I will giue The Gentiles thine inheritance to be And rule of all the world thou shalt receiue An iron mace thou shalt vpon them lay And break them like a sherd of potters clay 4 Therfore yee Kings Rulers be more wise Come serve the Lord your God with awfull ioy And kisse the Sonn lest if his wrath arise You be destroid perish from the way For when inflam'd his burning anger growes Right blest are all who trust in him repose Psa 3. Apsalm of David when he fled from Absolom his Son It mistically Prophecied the multitude of Christs foes their bitter censures the great love of God the effects of Prayer Christ his Death Resurrection the confusion of his Adversaries the safety of his Elect. c It is vsefull to strengthen faith in our temptations c. MY foes how many Lord are they What swarmes of them there be And of my soul how many say In God no part hath he Yet thou art Lord my praise my gard Thou didst my head vprear And from thy holy-hill hast heard What my entreaties were 2 I lay slept safe arose Because thou brought'st me ayd And though tenn thousands me enclose I will not be afraid Rise Lord my God from all foes Me safe now also make Their Jaw-bone smite let thy blows The teeth of Sinners breake 3 For saving health alone to thee To thee oh Lord pertaines And whosoe're thy people be Thy peace on them remaines Sweet Iesu who being causesly compassed about with all those innumerable emnities persecutions which wee deserued didst nevertheles trusting in the powre of thy God head ly down without fear sleeping as it were in the midst of them by a voluntary Death wake againe the third day by the same powre to the confusion of thy foes Grant we pray thee that the multitude of our corporall spirituall enemies never make vs despaire of thy mercy but that in all troubles temptations we reioicing trusting in thy love may be kept harmles confesse that our salvation is by thee only who livest raignest world without end Amen Psa 4. To the cheef musician on Neginoth a Psalm of David It vpraides those who deride the Truth exhorts to faith Repentance The common with of world-lings the desire also of a faithful-soul is here expressed It serves to confirme vs against the scornes of Atheists meer carnal men c. OH God my Righteousnes give ear Enlargd I was by thee My humble suite now also hear And pitty take on me Vaine Sonns of men how long will yee My glorie thus abuse Though lies you seek assured be That God the just will chuse 2 Yea God will hear me when I cry Fear therfore to offend And on your bedd serch privatly Your thinckings amend Make Righteousnes your sacrifize On God assurance place For worldly Goods the world-ling cries But grant me Lord thy grace 3 For thou my hart hast joyed more Then corne wine's encrease Thou mak'st me safe I therefore In thee will sleep in peace Olthou fountaine of all righteousnes free justifier of thne Elect seeing by thy common grace we are som what enlarged from our natural bondage grant a full delverance from all our corruptions by thy speciall favour Let neither frailties discouragments nor alurements incline vâ—to vanitie But so cause vs to consider whome thou chusest that with a filial fear we may refrain from sinn having our inward man renewed as well as our outward actions reformed we may offer the true sacrifize of righteousnes Encourage vs also through assurance of thy favour that
back my Folk as once frō thēce they came That thou maist wash thy feet in thy foes bloud And that thy dogs may come lick the same For they oh God my king thy goengs heeded They saw how in thy house thou hast proceeded 9 The singers first the minstrells next had place With whom the maids on timbrels plaieng wēt And then the Choire of Isr'els blessed race Did all in one to praise the Lord concent There went young Beniamin's Iudah's Guiders And Zabulon's Nepthalies Providers Oh Lord whoe bid'st that we should courage take Cōfirm thi work which thou for vs hast wrought At Salem then and for thy Temple sake To thee by kings shal guifts of price be brouht Their brutish troupes that armes do love to carrie Rebuke disperse make them tributarie 11 Then Egipts kings will seek vnto the Lord And Chush will then to God advance her hands His praise therfore yee kingdomes all record And sing aloud his praises all yee Lands For whē he rides the sphears his horse he maketh And lo his voice is thunder when he speaketh 12 All powre praise ascribe to God alone For his renowne is through all Isr'ell spread God is in heav'n the great Almighty-one And in his holy-place is full of dread His peoples powre by God is much encreased By Isr'els God let him therefore he blessed Eternal Sonn of God who art ascended vnto the right-hand of thy Father shalt come againe with maiestie to be our Vniversall Iudge Deliver vs from the thraldome of Sinn by the powre of thy Righteousnes And though wee have yet our conversations among Dragons in defiled habitions make us innocent as Doves as vnpoluted as the mountaine snowe Encrease the meanes of publishing thy Gospel and preserve Vnitie order good discipline in thy Church that the comelines thereof may allure all beholders to desire fellowship in thy Congregation that hereticks hirelings contentious persons may be reprooved reformed or cutt of that they who are yet without may be received into the Covenant that wee who are admitted may be confirmed without waveringe that the God head may be feared praised blessed now for ever more Amen Psa 69. To the cheef Musitian Shosannim a Psalme of David It personates Christ taking vpon him our sinns infirmities humbling himself before his Father declaring the Condition of his Adversaries shewing the bitternes of his passion signifieng the iudgments prepared for Sinners prayeng for his Elect c. Christs members may vse it to those purposes HEalp Lord for Flouds enclose my Soul In groundles depths I am bemir'd Above my head great waters rowle My parched throate with cries is tir'de Mine eyes are dim'd in seeking thee Moe then my haires my Foes are growne My spoilers are too strong for me And take as theirs what is mine owne 2 Thou knowest how I am too blame But for my sake let none of those Lord God of Isr'el suffer blame Who do in thee their trust repose For I sustaine reprochfull scorne And am disgraced for thy sake My brethren of my mother borne Of mee likewise a stranger make 3 Zeal to thy house hath worne mee out Thy scorners my reprochers be My Fastings my teares they flout And when I mourne they laugh at mee Of mee the Rulers evill spake The Drunckerds made of mee their songs But Lord my moane I timelie make In Mercie mark therefore my wrongs 4 Mee by thy Truth 's protection keep That miry-depths nor spightfull-foes Devouring-Flouds nor whirl-pooles deep Nor Dungeons Mouth my soul enclose But Lord of thy abounding grace For thy Love-sake returne hear To mee thy servant shew thy face And in my need incline thine ear 5 Drawe nigh save sett thou free My soul from those who bear me spight For all my wrongs are knowne to thee And all my Foes are in thy sight Rebukes scornes my hart nigh broke With greefs opprest I made my mone But where I did for pittie looke They would alas afford me none 6 They for my meat did gall prepare Sharp Vineger to quench my thirst Their Bourd therfore shall them ensnare And Blessings be to them accurst Their eye shall be depriv'd of sight A cure-les greef their back shall shake God's heavie wrath shall on them light His Vengance them shall overtake 7 None shall in their abiding-place Or in their Tent be dwelling found For whome thou smot'st those they did chase And greeved him whome thou didst wound More sinnfull still they shall become And in God's Iustice have no share Nor in that book of life have roome Wherein the Iust enrowled are 8 But I that pore scorned am Shall by thyne ayde oh Lord be raisd For which I 'le magnify thy Name And in my songs thou shalt be praisd And that oh Lord more pleases thee Then horn'd hoofed Oxe to give Which when the Meek thee seeking see It shall with ioye their hart revive 9 God's praise yee heav'ns earth declare Him praise thou sea all in thee For to the pore he lends his ear And hee doth sett the pris'ner free He Syon saves in time of need And Iudah's Townes he will erect To be for those for their seed Who serving him his Name affect Oh Lambe of God! which takest away the sinns of the world have mercie vpon vs. Thou that hast taken on thee our sinns felt our infirmities suffred all which wee deserved have mercie vpon vs. Thou who for our salvation didest bear the vnkindnesses of kindred familiers the reproches of Neighbours the scornes oppressions of strangers the reproofs of Magistrates the contempt of the basest people have mercy vpon vs. Thou who for cursakes hast endured insufferable torments of the bodie the vnspeakable agonies of the soul tasted the gall vineger of everie bitter passion have mercie vpon vs. Deliver us from them who seek to crucifie thee againe in thy members Raise us by thy Resurrection whome thou hast redeemed by thy passiō Glorifie us by thy Ascentiō in life eternall whome thou hast secured frō Damnation by thy Death Buriall And for that which thou hast done prepared for thine Elect let heaven earth praise thee world without end Amen Psa 70. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme of David to bring to Remembrance The Church praies for deliverance from her persecutors prophetically imprecates their confusion desires the prosperitie of the Godlie c. It may be sung when oppressors insult over vs. c. DEferr not Lord thy succours longe But bring my Foes to shame Ev'n those who plott my soul to wronge Bring back with losse blame On them who skoffe flout at mee Bestowe the Scorners hire But make them glad ioye in thee Who after thee enquire 2 Still God be prais'd let all men say Who on his ayde relie And make oh Lord no more delay For in great want am
I. I will no other aide emplore Then what thou shalt afford To bring me succours now therfore Thy healp defer not Lord. Healp vs oh Lord for thou only art our healper wee have no other hopes but in thee Make us not the spoile or scorne of those who desire practise the destruction of our soules But grant rather oh God! that all they who fear thee may be comforted in our speedy deliverances Reioice in thy Mercies relie on thee in their necessities ascribe all thancks honour glorie to thy blessed Name for ever more Amen Psa 71. The Church acknowledgeth God's preservation of her in her severall Ages from her manyfold Oppressers desiring to be preserved also in her last worst age c. wee on whome the worst Age is come should vse it as a prayer to be delivered from the same KEep me from shame for Lord in thee I trust Incline thine ear to healp set mee free Yea save thou mee oh Lord as thou art iust My Rock my Fort my Refuge daigne to be For Lord my strēgth thou help dost promise me 2 Mee from the powre of sinnful men defend And from their hands oh Lord that cruel are My soul on thee did in the wombe depend And since my birth thou hast of mee had care For which my tongue shal stil thy praise declare 3 Thou art my hope though wondred at I be And I will fing thy praises all the day When I am weake old Lord leave not mee For with despight my haters mee gainsay And for my soul they plotts engines lay 4 God leaves him quite say these persue take He now hath none to rescue him from thral But come oh God! speed to healp me make Oh come smite my soules Oppressors all Bring scorn shame on those who seek my fal 5 Thē still I 'le hope thy love I 'le still commend Yea still relate what favours thou hast done And of thy grace since I perceave no end Thy strength Lord God I will depend vpon And magnifie thy Righteousnes alone 6 Till now oh God! thy Marvailes I have told As from my youth I have bin taught by thee Oh leave me not when I am gray olde Till Ages all thy powre have learn'd of mee And then extold thy Iustice Lord shall be 7 None ever did such works as thou hast wrought And though my soul thou keptst awhile in paine At last as one who from the grave was brought Me to my ioyes thou didst restore againe For which my harpe to praise thy Name I strain 8 My tongue likewise in setting out thy prais Oh thou cheef saint of Isr'el part shal bear So shal my soul whose price thy bountie paies And ev'rie day thy Iustice I 'le declare Because my foes defam'd ruin'de are Oh Lord in the wombe wee had extraordinarie nourishmēt breathing for our bodies no doubt our seules had there a due nourishment by thy Spirit Being borne wee are brought into thy visible Church by Baptisine long time after sustained by thee both in soul body without having any outward work required at our hands when we are capable of the outward Covenant al thou requirest is but to give thee that hart which thou hast prepared so to doe Yet helps vs oh God in this dutie never leave us in our own hands And as thou hast in all her former ages preserved thy Church both from the rage of Iewes Gentiles Heriticks so in this her old worst age preserve her from those Hypocrites lukewarme professors who have added seacret mischeeves to publike oppressions Yea preserve her us oh God from those all other Adversaries that thy Truth may be continued to all ages the ioye of her Children restored thy blessed Name glorified for ever end ever Amen Psa 72. A Psalm for Solomon It setts forth the maiestie of Christ his kingdome for only of that Salomon are many passages of this Psalme verified it declares his Universal iudicature The Churches happines therein His marvailous Incarnation The extent Riches peaceablenes of his Kingdome c. Wee should sing it to glorify God for those things c. THe King oh God! with judgment blesse And give thy Iustice to his Sonn That to thy people in destresse With judgment Iustice may be done Then Truth Iustice florish will On ev'rie great litle hill 2 Then poorest men shall be secure For he will all Oppressors tear And whilst the sunn Moone endure From age to age they him shall fear On Earth like dropps descend he shall Like those which on the Fleece did fall 3 The Iust shall whilst he rules have peace So long as doth the moone remaine He from the River to the seas And quite throughout the world shal raigne The salvages adore him shall And all his foes before him fall 4 Arabia's prince Saba's Kinge The Lords of Seas Ilands to Shal guifts to him with homage bring So shall all Kings people doe For when they crie he setteth free The pore meek that helples be 5 The pore humble he respects He saves their soules that healples are From fraud force he them protects For in his eye their bloud is dear To him they Sheba's gold shall give And he shall prais'd prayd for live 6 His Corne shall from a handfull growe To cover all the mountaines topps Like Libanon his fruit shall showe And fill the Citties with his cropps His Fame through Ages all shall runn As everlasting as thee sunn 7 In him the Nations all abrode Shall blessed be praise him to Oh praise the Lord ev'n Isr'els God For he alone cann wonders do Still blessed be his glorious Name And earth still filled with his Flame Amē Amē Sweet Iesu who being invisible in thy Deitie didst become visible in thy humanitie by descending miraculously into the Virgines wombe like raine into Gideons fleece Grant wee beseech thee thy divine spirit may so infuse it selfe into our harts that Iustice Peace Charitie encreasing continueng vpon the earth all thy afllicted Children may be comforted secured the barbarous Nations converted thy Kingdome enlarged thyne enimies be brought into subiection thy feilds become abundantly fruitfull heaven earth be filled with thy glorie world without end Amen Psa 73. A Psalm for Asaph It expresseth how the faithfull are sometime discouraged by the prosperities of the wicked is an excellent description of such conflicts as are between the Flesh the spirit in everie Christian c. We may vse it to comfort vs in such tēptations to remember vs whither to repaire in such conflicts NO doubt God counts his Isr'el dear And loves the righteous man Yet was my foot quite gone wel-near And I to fall begann For when I fooles did honor'd vewe And Sinners lifted high And that nor sick nor weak they grewe Their weal I
did envie 2 From greefs like ours they seemed free Their pride Cruelties To them as clothes or bracelets be And fatt stuffs out their eyes They have their wills are so base To boast of Sinns wrongs And neither earth nor heav'nly place Escapes their evill tongues 3 To such Ful-springs as wel as they God's Children seek to goe For God the God most high they say Regards not what wee do Lo wicked men the world possesse And wealth honors gaine But wee have cleans'd in righteousnes Our harts hands in vaine 4 Yea wee still pininge goe say they Lamenting all day long Yet thus I speak not lest I may Thy weaker Children wrong I sought a reason for the same But I no cause descern'd Till to the house of God I came And there their end I learn'd 5 On slipp'rie seats them sett thou hast From whence with shame feare Ev'n suddainly they downe are cast And never more appeare For as a dream when thou dost wake Thou dost their Forme deface At such therefore offence to take Thou seest how fond I was 6 But still with mee thou dost abide Thou hold'st my Right-hand fast And by thy Counsells mee shalt guide To Glory's throne at last In heav'n or Earth account I make Of nothing but of thee And though my soul Flesh be weake Thou alway strengthnest mee 7 For thou oh God! my portion art And thou shalt them destroy Who runn a whooring in their hart Another to enioy Because right good the same doth seem To God approaching near And placing all my trust in him His works I will declare Direct thou so oh Lord all our works words thoughts that wee neither murmur at any afliction where with wee are exercised nor be discouraged in thy service because the wicked are more flourishing for a time VVee confesse it is oft our frailty to iudg of thy love by outward prosperities that great Adversities have tempted some to call into question thy providence to the shaking endangering of their Faith But grant wee pray thee that by frequenting thy house vsing the meanes of Perseverance wee may be so informed touching the fickle estate of wicked men in prosperitie of that happines which thou preparest for constant professors of thy Truth that wee never commit spiritual fornication against thee But that chusing thee for our portion supporting our weakenes by thy strength wee may continue in thy Fear Favour protection to our lives end Amen Psa 74. A Psalm for Asaph It mysticallie prophecied what havoke should be made in the Church by aluding to the destruction of the material Temple God is desired to vouchsafe his wonted Mercie in regard of the Foes outrage but especially for his owne honour sake It is a prayer for the Church in perseeution OH God! for ever why despis'd are wee Why is in rage thy pasturage laid wast Oh minde thy Flock redeem'd of old by thee That heritage which dearly bought thou hast Ev'n Syon mount whereon thy Name is plac't 2 Come Lord oh come destroy for evermore The Foe that on thy holy-place hath preyd Thy foes that in thy Congregation roare Who there for signes their ensignes have displaid And on the carved works their axes laid 3 For as if they some grove were hewing downe With Axe Maul the costly works they breake They flaming fires into thy house have throwne Thy name 's cheef seat a place prophane they make And in their harts of spoiling all they speake 4 Troughout the Land thy houses burned be Yet to declare the date of this our woe Nor visions now nor Prophets word have wee Lord when shall end these ragings of the Foe Shall he blaspheam thy Name for ever so 5 No more thy hād thy right-hād Lord withhold Within thy brest the same no longer hide For thou oh God! thou art our king of old And here on earth for vs thou didst provide When by thy powre thou didst the Sea divide 6 The Dragons Heads thou woundedst in the floud Leviathan's vast heads thou didst prepare In places wilde to be thy peoples food Yea frō dry rocks thou hewdst out fountains there And ma'dst firm land where mighty waters were 7 Thine is the day the night is also thine Thou ma'dst the light thou did'st form the sunn The world within her Zones thou didst confine shewdst what cours times hot cold should run Lord mind those things what the foe hath don 8 Observe how fools blaspheā thy name oh Lord Thy Turtles life defend from Sinners wrongs Observe our greefs thinck vpon thy word For to the world a darksome denn belongs Which harbors fraud inhumane deeds wrōgs 9 That so the pore vnsham'd may praise thy name To plead thy cause thine owne just cause arise Observe how fooles thee daylie do defame Yea bear in minde thy Foes malitious cries And to what height their shouts against vs rise Oh Lord God dreadful in iudgmēts infinit in mercies the devastation typified in thy Material Temple is fulfilled vpon thy spirituall Sanctuary Thy open Adversaries batter the maine Fabrick without whilst Schysmaticks Hypocrites break downe the Ornaments within betwixt both terrors confusions dissentions are so encreased that thy Church is indangered Have mercie vpon the people whome thou hast bought as heretofore shew thy selfe the King protector of thine Inheritance to the confusion of thy blaspheamers Though not for ours yet for thine honour sake let neither the temporall enimies of thy visible Church make spoile thereof nor our spirituall Destroier deface those Temples of thy holy-spirit which are erected in our harts But keep them alwaies vndefaced vnpoluted fitting receptacles for thee thy Graces through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 75. To the cheef Musitian Altaschith a Psalme or song for Asaph God is praised for his ready healp Christ promiseth to support iudge his Church Oppressors are reprooved the different portion of them of the Godly is declared It is vsefull to comfort against the insolencies of spiritual foes THee Lord wee praise magnifie To thee wee thanckfull are For that thy Name approcheth nigh Thy wondrous works declare When I the people have assum'd I Iustice will maintaine For when Earth's dwellers are consum'd Her pillers I sustaine Selah 2 To Fooles I said more prudent growe To Sinners thus I spake Your horne your horne advance not soe Nor such proud boasting make Nor East nor west advancements come Nor from the Mountaines flowe But God him self preferreth some And some doth overthrowe 3 From his full Cupp within his hand He mixt redd-wine doth poure Which ev'rie Sinner in the land Shall dreggs all devoure But I of Iacob's God will speak And alway sing his praise The hornes of Sinners I will break And high the Righteous raise Oh Christ the Sonn of God! so establish thy Kingdome in our harts that Righteousnes may be
hast cut short his youthful daies And him with shame thou dost confound Good Lord in thy enflamed rage Shall still thy face obscur'd remaine Oh minde the shortnes of mine age Why shouldst thy make mankind in vanie 14 Who lives whome Death shal not remove Or who from Death is ever free Selah Oh Lord where now is all that Love To David vow'd of old by thee Thy servants great reproach record And in my breast what scornes I bear Among those mightie Nations Lord Who likewise thy blaspheamers are 15 Oh God! ev'n thy Anointed-one They have derided in his waies But Lord what ever they have done To thee for evermore be praise Most gratious God thou hast not only promised thy mercifull assistance to all true beleevers but with an Oath also confirmed the same for the better strengthning of our weak faith Grant we pray thee that we neither become distrustfull of so gratious an Assurance neither discouraged by those Afflictions persecutions where withal thou shalt please to purg our corruptions nor be overcome by those tēptatiōs whereby our faith is exercised in the day of triall but cause us to depend on thy promise to be couragious victorious in all our battailes Give us wisdome likewise so to descern who are the true seed of David to whom the performāce of thy Covenant doth cheefly appertaine that wee deceave not our selves by a false application of thy spiritual promises nor delude our soules with temporarie hopes or fears But make vs ever constant both in that which wee ought to beleeve on thy part in that which is to be performed on our parts through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 90. The prayer of Moses the man of God In this Psalme the humane Nature which as the word Moses signifieth was Drawne out ev'n from the waters of perdition praiseth God for his eternal decree of her Restauration confesseth her vanity mortality c. To the same purpose wee should vse it LOrd thou art alwaies our abode Before the world beginning had Thou wer't eternally our God Yea long e're heav'n earth were made Thou say'st yee sonns of men returne And streight return'd to dust they be As one nights watch or day outworne So are a thousand yeares to thee 2 Thou like a Floud as in a dream Shalt sweep them suddenly away For like the flowring grasse they seem That springs fadeth in a day One frowne of thine consumes vs quite Thy wrath our troubles doth renewe Thou set'st our sinns before thy sight And bring'st our secret faults to vewe 3 Our tyme through thy displeasure wears And like a Tale that 's told are wee Our life is done at seaventie years Or eighty when wee strongest be For all the rest wee spend in woe And vanish e're wee be aware Thine Anger 's force Lord who doth knowe As is thy wrath such is thy fear 4 Instruct vs how to count our dayes That so our harts may wisdome learne And make thou Lord no long delaies But pleased now to me returne To vs betimes thy favour daigne That wee may all our life be glad And dayes years of joye obtaine For those of greef which wee have had 5 Thy workings let thy servants vewe Thy glories let their Children see Oh Lord our God! thy Beautie shewe Still shining on vs let it bee And all our works oh God we pray Establish thou so direct That well our labours prosper may And blessed be with good effect Instruct vs oh blessed God so to consider our vanities our errors the vncertainty of our short lives that wee may redeem the time by true Faith ioind with Christian prudence so order our Conversations that thy wrath may be appeased our sinns blotted away all our sorrowes turned into Ioyes Moreover during our short abiding here vouchsafe vs thy favour so assist our weak endeavours that wee may to thy glory finish the worke for which thou hast placed vs in this world And though our works be vnprofitable or such as like stuble will not abide the Fiery-triall yet let that which we shall build vp be at least grounded on the right Foundation that wee our selves may be safe through the free mercies of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 91. This Psalme shewes that such as abide beleeve in Christ shal be secured from publike private calamities by an especiall protection of what nature soever their perills be at least the mischeef of them shall be prevented life eternal vouchsafed c. It is vsefull to strengthen Faith in great plagues general dangers WHo in the Closet the shade Of God almighty still resides Is by his Highnes fearles made And alway safe with him abides For I confesse the Lord hath binn A Fortresse a Rock to mee My God alone I trusted in And he my trust shall all waies be 2 He will no doubt secure thee from The Fowlers traps noysome Pest His wings thy shelter shall become Thou shalt beneath his feathers rest Thou for thy Sheild his Truth shalt bear And nothing then shall thee dismay Not that which wee at Midnight fear Nor any shaft that flies by day 3 No secret plague offend thee shall Nor what in publike wasts the Land Though at thy side a thousand fall And tenn tymes more at thy right-hand But thou shalt live to mark see The due reward of men vniust For God most high will favour thee Because in him thou putst thy trust 4 No mischeef shall to thee betide Nor any plague thy house infect For he doth Angell-gards provide Which in thy waies will thee protect Their hands will thee vprightly lead And from thy Paths all harmes expell Thou shalt on Aspes Lions tread On Lions younge on Dragons fell 5 For seeing his delight I am I will saith God be still his garde And since he knowes my holy Name To honours high he shall be rear'd When he doth call an ear I 'le give In troubles I with him will be On earth he longe shall honor'd live And he my saving-health shall see Blessed God giue us such assured confidence in thee that wee may be secured in those publike calamities for which our publike sinns have deserved thy scourge be delivered also from the mischeef of those perticuler punishments which our personal offences may iustly bring vpon vs. But how soever thou dealest with our bodies in this life let our soules be saved from the plauge of everlasting Death Let thy holy Angells keep vs in all our waies give vs thy grace to keep the waies in which thou hast appointed vs to walk VVhatsoever perills or terrors affront vs give courage to passe through them in the execution of our lawfull Callings without dismay or distrust And though they bring some smart let them not hinder but rather further the accomplishment of our eternal safety through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Another of the same
wonders in the Land of Ham. 10 He darknes cal'd dark it grewe For his commands were not withstood Throughout their Coast their fish he slewe And chang'd their waters into bloud Vpon their land he froggs did bring Which climb'd the chambers of the king 11 He spake flies of divers formes And lice through ev'ry quarter craw'ld Insteed of raine he gave them stormes And hayle lightnings forth he cald Which downe their vines figtrees brake And in their groves great spoile did make 12 The Locust came at his command And Caterpillers did abound The grasse they wasted from the land And ev'ry fruite vpon the ground Then he their Eldest-borne did smite The very prime of all their might 13 His people rich from thence he brought Among his Tribes no weaklings were All Egipt ioy'd when they went out For why of them they stood in feare A Canopy of Clouds they had To give them light a fire he made 14 The people askt quailes he gave With heav'nly bread he filled them The Rocks likewise for them he clave And through dry Lands he sent a Streame Because to minde that promise came Which he had made to Abraham 16 His people his chosen bands He brought away with loyfulnes To them he gave the Gentiles lands And they their labours did possesse That they might mark what he decreed And keep his lawes with carefull heed Preserve us oh Lord from that hardnes of hart for which thou sendest thy dreadfull iudgments into the world withhold alsoe thy plaugues from our Kingdome But especially that spirituall Darknes those Iudgments which are mistically signifiied by Lice froggs Locusts the rest of the Egiptiā plagues And as a meanes of this favour make us mindfull of that Covenant which then hast made vnto vs wee vnto thee in Christ Iesus VVee confesse thou didst gratiously lead our Fore-fathers in the wildernes feeding guiding preserving them by thy miraculous powre Be thou also we pray thee our Assistance protector in this our Pilgrimage feeding us with that heavenly Manna refreshing us out of that spirituall Rock whereof they had the type that wee may followe them who are gone before into the Land of the living there praise thee world without end Amen Psa 106. Halelujah It commemorates the perversenes of the Iewes in whome the humane Nature was typified therefore changing the persons to our selves We may sing it to set forth God's Grace long-suffring toward vs Who have enioyed the same favours are guilty of the same perversenes COme praise the Lord for wondrous good is he And without end his tender mercies are His powrfull Acts by none cann vttred be His praises due none fully cann declare They blessed are that have true judgment heeded And in the paths of righteousnes prooceeded 2 With such respect let me remembred be As that which to thy chosen thou dost bear Thy saving-health vouchsafe thou vnto me And place me there where thyne Elected are That I may tast the pleasures of thy Nation And partner be in all their exvltation 3 Wee have amisse like our fore-fathers done God's wondrous works in Egipt moov'd not thē His mercies great they never thought vpon But at the Sea the red-sea vexed him Who naitheles them for his namesake spared That his great powr might be by them declared 4 The Red-sea then was dride at his command And there as through the desert they do goe He saved them from their oppressors hand And them redeemd from their stronghanded foe For in the sloud he overwhelmd their haters And non of them escaped from the waters 5 Then they beleev'd praisd him in a song But soone his words works forgotten were For flesh ev'n in the Deserts they did long And much provok'd the Lord's displeasure there Their brutish lust with flesh indeed he served But therewithal their lustful souls were sterved 6 Their Campe at Moses grudgd with despight God's holy-one e'vn Aron did persue For which the Earth did Swallow Dathan quite And quick-devour'd Abiram his crewe A sudden flame their Congregation fired And made an end of those that had conspired 7 An Idoll then in Horeb they did raise A molten Calfe as God adored they And gave to God their Glory their Praise An Oxes forme that eateth grasse hay For God their Garde nor for his powre they cared In Egyipt Cham or at the sea declared 8 God therefore sayd he quite had ruin'd them But that his wrath by Moses was alayd The pleasant Land likewise they did contemn Beleeving not the words that he had sayd And in their tents their murmurs were a token They did nor hear nor heed what God had spokē 9 Another tyme his hand advanced was Them in the Desert to have overthrowne To mixe their seed among the gentile-race And scatter them through many lands vnknowne Because vnto Baal-peor they had bowed And fedd on meats to lifeles Idolls vowed 10 Yea then the Plague did fast among thē run Because their fault God's anger had encreast But Iustice was by Phineas timely done And there vpon that mischeef quickly ceast His righteousnes therefore shall be commended Through Ages all till Ages all are ended 11 At Meribath they made him angry to And wroth likewise with Moses for their sake For they provokt his humble spirit soe That he some words without advisement spake They did not slay their foes as God forewarned But mixt with such and their ill customs learned 12 Their Idol-Gods they serv'd which proov'd a snare To Devills they did sacrifize their seed They spilt the bloud of those that guiltles were Ev'n their owne sonns Daughters blood they shed To Canans Gods for offrings thē they killed And all the Land with bloody sinns defiled 13 Thus by their works poluted they became And whorishlie persude what they deviz'd Which did Gods wrath against them so inflame That he therefore his heritage despiz'd For them to serve the Nations he constrained And over them their Adversaries raigned 14 Their Foes opprest brought thē verie lowe And then though him their Courses did provoke He helped them when they did helples growe And when they cride compassion on them tooke His Cov'nant his grace to minde he called And succour'd thē by those who them enthralled 15 Oh Lord our God! still send vs healp frō thee That wee therfore may laud thy holy Name Divided from the Gentiles let vs be To sing thy praise trivmph in the same Let Isre'ls God with praise be still confessed And let al people say The Lord be blessed UUee confesse oh Lord God that wee have sinned according to all the transgressions of our forefathers added many Offences vnto theirs UUee confesse also that as to them thou hast multiplied thy mercies towards us Insomuch that our enimies yea our Afflictions have beene made comfortable And in steed of Plagues whose encrease continuance wee rather deserved
Citty fortifide But God of whome despisd were wee 5 Oh God! who didst our hoasts forsake From vs our greefs thus alwaies take For man's vaine succours wee contemn Through God wee valiant Acts have done Our foes by him are overthrowne And he shall sett his feet on them Oh Lord God of Hoasts true in thy word powrful in thy performances According to thy auncient promises thy Church is wonderfully enlarged thou hast now thy lot of Inheritance in those places where they have bene enimies to thy Truth UUee beseech thâ—â— more more to enlarge thy Kingdome to be continually present with us in all our spiritual conflicts that by thy powre we may tread vnder foot the world the flesh the Devill making servants vnto us in the execution of thy will those affections which have heretofore prevailed against us VVee rely on thee only On thee only our harts are fixed And for thy goodnes we desire with all our faculties to praise magnify thy Name for evermore Amen Psa 109. To the cheef Musition a Psalme of David It is applied vnto Iudas Acts 1. 20. and is it vsefull to terrify Gods Foes all Hypocrites by shewing the Iudgments pronounced by the holy-ghost against all such But let none abuse this or any such like Psalmes by repeating them in their owne quarrells lest the Curses fall on themselves OH God my praise now silence breake For wicked men that guileful be With open Iawes against me speake And with false tongues have slandred mee With hatefull words they mee enclose Without all Cause with mee they warr And for my Love they are my foes Yet for their weal my prayers are 2 For my goodworks ill deeds I gett My love with hate they do requite Or'e them therefore some Tyrant set At his right-hand let Sathan waite Let Iustice them to death persue Account it sinn for them to pray Cutt short their dayes make them fewe Let others take their place away 3 Keep fatherles their Orphane-breed And husbandies their widdow'd wives Yea Cause thou their accursed seed To begg wander all their lives Their vncouth denns let then forsake To begg what must their life sustaine Their labors let oppressors take And Strangers rob them of their gaine 4 Let none regard though they lament Nor pitty take on such a race But quite away in one descent Their of-spring their Name deface Let God still minde the guilt they drewe From both their parents at their birth And keep it allway's in his vewe Till they are nam'd no more on earth 5 For why they no compassion shew'd To him that greev'd pained lay But they the needy soul persu'de The broken hart they sought to slay They Cursings Lov'd let them be made The part therefore of their just lot In Blessings they no pleasures had And therfor they possesse them not 6 With curses they themselves did clothe As with a gowne or with a cloke Therefore as oyle or water doth Through bones bowells let them soke Let Curses them like Belts inclose And as their clothes such men aray Ev'n thus oh Lord require my Foes Who of my soul amisse do say 7 But for thy Name sake save thou mee Deal wel with me mercy daigne For wounded is my hart in mee And I am pore full of paine I vanish like an Evening shade I Locust like am tost about My knees are weake through fasting made My flesh is leane wasted out 8 They mee despise ev'n to my face And scornfull nods at mee they make Oh Lord my God! of thy meer grace To bring me help now vndertake Make them to see then confesse That by thy hand I helped am Lord though they Curse yet do thou blesse And let them rise to see their shame 9 But make oh Lord thy Servants glad Whilst they that my illwillers are With shame ev'n their owne shame are clad As if with Robes arayd they were My tongue shall praise thee then therfore Confessing where Assemblies be That God is Patron of the pore And from false doomes their soules doth free Oh God! terrible art thou in those iudgments which thou dost pronounce against all malitious vnrepeÌ„taÌ„t Sinners UUee beseech thee therfore grant us grace to repent all our transgressions to shewe compassion to all thy pore members in their Afflictions that we may finde Mercy in our sorrowes UUee often see thy iudgments but wee neither know whome thou correctest in love to amendment nor whome in fury to their destruction For thou reservest that secret vnto thy self To keep vs both in our dealings Censures alway charitable to those whome thou smitest Oh teach us therefore true Charity let us never doe or wish evill to any man in our owne Causes But let us apply thy iudgmeÌ„ts to sinn in generall imprecate that they may fall only on the enimies of our Lord and saviour Iesus Christ Amen Psa 110. A Psalme of David It is literally of Christ Math. 22. it mentioneth the Deity Humanity Soveraignety Preisthood Powre Conquests Passion Resurrection of the Messiah We may sing it with respect to those perticulers VNto my Lord the Lord thus spake Sitt downe at my right hand And of thy foes I 'le footstooles make Whereon thy feet shall stand The Lord shall out of Syon bring The scepter of thy might And over them thou shalt be king Who now resist thy right 2 On thy great Day in serving thee Men willing mindes will shewe And from the wombe thy birth shall be As is the morninge dewe The Lord hath sworne will nor check Nor change the word he swore Thou art as was Melchizedek A preist for evermore 3 The Lord shall smite when wroth he growes Great kings at thy righthand The Gentiles judge slay his foes Which are in ev'ry land The heads of kingdomes he shall slay And as he passeth-by Shall drinck the Torrent in the way And raise his head on high Almighty God who hast given thy eternal Sonn with whome thou art the same in Essence to be in an unspeakable manner conceaved in the Virgines wombe To be made an everlasting preist for us after the Order of Melchizedek And in his Passage through this life to drinck the bitter Torrent of his Passion Grant wee beseech thee that by virtue of his blessed Incarnation our nature may be sanctified prepared for Grace that by his Death we may dye to sinn that by the powre of his Resurrection wee may arise to righteousnes by his glorious Ascention be victorious ever all our enimies both spiritual temporall for ever ever Amen Psa 111. Halelujah It praiseth God for his miraculous works his wisdome Mercy Iustice for the Covenant of has Grace c. It may be sung to continue in vs the fear of God to praise him for his benefits especially for our Redemption WIth all my hart God's praise I 'le sing Where saints
earth did frame Lord wee were created for thy Glorie All the time of our Pilgrimage on earth is to fitt vs for thy praise the highest Degree which wee cann attaine to either in this life or the next is to sing Halelujah vnto thy Name Oh grant wee may so honour thee in these Temples of our Bodies here vpon the Way on whome the Nights of affliction the Dayes of consolation doe interchangably succeed that in thy Ierusalem wee may sing praises vnto thee in that spirituall Temple wherein the presence of the Lambe maketh a continuation of Day of Ioy of all happines for ever more Amen Psa 135. Halelujah It exhorts to praise God in regard of his greatnes for our election for his omnipotency Mercy Iustice eternitie because other Gods are but ridiculons fictions c. To this end wee who are mistically the Sonns of Aron Levy should sing it c. OH all yee servants of the Lord His Name with praise confesse Ev'n you that of our God the Lord The house Courts possesse Oh praise God's Name for sweet it is To sing of his renowne For Iacob he hath chose for his And Isr'el for his owne 2 God is I knowe a powrfull-one He doth all Gods excell In heav'n his pleasure he hath done In earth in sea in hell He maketh vapours to arise Ev'n from Earth's farthest ends And he out of his Treasuries Winde raine lighting sends 3 The first-borne through the Egiptian coast Of man beast he slewe And on king Pharoh his hoast Rare wonders hee did shewe Great kings kingdomes downe he brought Ev'n Sehon Heshbon's king And Og of Bashan yea to nought All Can'an's Realmes did bring 4 Then for his Isr'els heritage Their lands he did bestowe For which hee 's fam'd from age to age And still shall famous growe When he to judge them doth appeare His people shall be sav'd But heathen God's man's makings were Of gold silver grav'd 5 Their carved mouthes are speachles found Their eyes no light cann see Though they have eares they heare no sound Their throates quite breathles be Much like to these their Makers are And they that serve them toe The Lord therefore let Isr'el fear And so let Aron doe 6 The Lord let Levie's houshould blesse In Syon let all them Who fear the Lord the Lord confesse That keeps Ierusalem Haleluiah Oh Lord our God wee hartely thanck thee for our creation preservation VVee magnify thy wisdom thy powre thy providence thy Iudgments thy Mercies and we acknowledge that the Deities of heathenish and carnall men yea all other things in which wee trust are but vanities false Gods fashioned by our owne wicked fancies Grant therfore that all of us even preist people who in Word professe thee may in hart fear thee in deed faithfully serve thee now for ever Amen Psa 136. This Psalme exhorts to praise God both for generall and perticuler benifits shewes that all are bestowed for his meer mercy-sake which is eternall It may be sung literally to commemorate what God did for the Patriarks or mistically as a thancksgivinge for the spirituall deliverances which these typified THe Lord is Good him therfore blesse And for his Grace that lasteth ever The God of Gods let vs confesse Because his Mercie faileth never The Lord of Lords with praise extoll For where he loves he alway loveth His Acts alone are wonderfull Because his Favour endles proveth 2 His Wisdome did creat the spheares For to all times his Kindnes lasteth And earth above the seas he rears Because his Pittie never wasteth He did the greater Lights provide For through each Age his Grace extendeth He made the Sunn the day to guide Because his Goodnes never endeth 3 He fram'd the Moone starrs for night For without bound is his Compassion And Egipts eldest-borne did smite Because his grace hath no cessation He brought forth Isr'el from their land For soe his endles grace procured With stretcht-out Arme powrfull hand Because his Mercie still endured 4 Hee did the Red sea then divide For. still his Kindnes he retaineth And Isr'el through the same did guide Because his Favour still remaineth There he did Pharoh's Army drowne For Love hee freely still bestoweth And through the Deserts brought his owne Because eternall Grace he showeth 5 Both huge powrfull kings he slewe For everlasting are his Graces Yea famous kings he overthrewe Because his Love times date surpasses Great Sehon king of th' Amorites For his Affection never faileth And Og that ruld the Bashamites Because his Mercy still prevaileth 6 Their heritage bestow'd hath he For so his endles Love required His Isr'el's heritage to be Because his Grace is vnexpired He did exalt vs from belowe For he to Pittie still enclineth And hee redeem'd vs from our foe Because no time his Grace confineth 7 Hee to all flesh their food hath given For his great Mercy faileth never Oh glorify the God of heav'n Because his Grace abideth ever VVhen wee looke back oh Lord vnto the beginning of thy visible workings pondering the never interrupted succession of thy Mercies vnto this day therewithall observe the performance of all thy promises to thy Church heretofore the continuance of thy abundant Loving-kindnes to us at this present UUee are assured that thy Goodnes Compassion is eternall VVee therfore beseech thee to give vs true thanckfulnes for the same that wee may confesse it aswell in deed as word praise magnify thy Name for ever ever Amen Psa 137. This Elegiacal Hymne mistically expresseth the Zeal love of the Faithfull to the Citty of God And Prophecies the fall of the spirituall Babilon Wee may sing it to comfort vs during the continuance of our Naturall bondage the tirranies of Antichrist AS wee nigh Babel River sate Wee overcharg'd with weepings were To thinck on Syon's pore estate And hung our harpes on willowes there For they to whome wee were inthralled On vs for songs of Syon called 2 Come sing they sayd a Syon-hymne Lord cann wee sing thy songs in thrall Vnles Oh dear Ierusalem Thee in my mirth preferr I shall Or if the thought of thee forgoe mee Let hand tongue prove vseles to me 3 Oh Lord remember Edom's brood And how whilst they Ierusalem Vnsackt vndefaced stood Her spoile was hast'ned on by them For loud thy cryed race it race it And to the groundwork downe deface it 4 Oh daughter of proud Babilon Thou shalt likewise destroyed be And he will prove a blessed-one Who shall avenge our Cause on thee Ev'n hee that payes thee our disgraces And braines thy babes in stony-places Oh Lord many of thy people suffer the scornes insultings of that Babilon which was typified by the Chaldean Citty And the Mysticall Edomites labour the vtter defacing of thy Church But deliver us oh Lord reward them according to their