word on booke 5 Tourn Lord thine eare my voyce to heare thy mercies aske eueÌ„ so Touch thou my hart reuiue me cleare as thou doost vse to do 6 They tread full nye that would on me their malyce execute Twind far they be thy law to fle O Lord be my refute 7 Tread thou as nye O Lord with ayde for God thou art at hand True be thy lawes all iustly layd their wayes be mad and fond 8 Taught am I sure earst long ago of all thy witnesses Through thee were set most groundly so that they wil neuer misse Vide humilitatem 1 Uyse thou my wo and rid my smart thou seest exild I am When yet thy law from inward hart forgotten neuer cam 2 Uphold my cause and me release so free redeamd to ryse Wast not my life but me refresh in thy words warantise 3 Ungodly men from health ren far and health ren far fro them Wyde fle they foul for why they erre thy words they search not theÌ„ 4 Use still thy grace O Lord of might thy mercies great be seene With life and ioy refresh my sprite as earst thy wont hath bene 5 Uaine men there be right many one â–ª which me pursue and presse Ware yet I am to swerue to sone from thy sweete witnesses 6 Uyle men I spied transgresse thy law for grief therof I quoke Which was because at eie I saw thy lawes how they forsooke 7 Uew thou my hart O Lord see how thy precepts I loued Wherefore by grace reuiue thou me not whole froÌ„ thee remoued 8 Uouch this I may thy word in chiefe in some is truth most pure Wast can no time thy lawes relief thy domes aye Iust will dure Principes 1 Xtremly Lord I am pursued of princes vndeserued Xactly yet thy woord I vewd I them with feare preserued 2 Xteme I do â–ª thy word so glad and ioy therof as mich Xceding Ioy as he hath had that spoyles hath found most rich 3 Xcesse of lyes I haue abhorde I haue them aye defied Xtend I haue my loues accord to all thy lawes so tried 4 Xprest I haue thy lawdes most deare seuen times a day no lesse Xpending iust thy domes so cleare full wrought in southfastnes 5 Xcellent peace in conscience haue they which loue thy lawe Xchew they can all light offence no harme to them can draw 6 Xpect I do thy helpe and health O Lord to thee I pleade Xcited so I haue my selfe thy iust preceptes to treade 7 Xquisitly In soule I kept thy testimonies hye Xpert by vse I them accept in loue exceedingly 8 Xalt I haue thy statutes right and eke thy witnesses Xempt from thee to scape thy sight I can no secrecies Appropinquet 1 Yeld Lord assent with eares vnshit to heare these lawds I sing Yt mought please the to graunt me wit as thy word vse to bringe 2 Yet once I pray myne sute euen so admit before thy face Yll mens despites O take me fro thy word so worketh in grace 3 Ymnes Psalms songs my lips shal sound such coÌ„meÌ„datioÌ„s braue Yf thou wilt teach my hart the ground thy lawes in hart to graue 4 Yea sure my tong shall still expresse thy word deseruingly Yokt so with truth and rightwisenesse thy whole precepts I spy 5 Yere after yere me then vpshore with thy good helping hand Yong did I chose thou knowst thy lore to thy decrees to stand 6 Yearnd hath my hart and wished long thy health to féele so meete Yies head and hand haue loued as strong thy law to me so sweete 7 Yeld still I will O life prolonge my soule shall prayse thee then Yane shall I wide for ayde among for thou dost ayde all men 8 Youth made me erre as sheepe but lost seeke vp thy seruant Lord Yes seeke him Lord bestow the cost thy law me not abhord ¶ The Collecte ALmighty God the onely paterne meede of all felicity which by thy wholsom directioÌ„ informst thy faythfull seruauntes to walke vpright in thy law to search thy pactes and promises to obserue thy preceptes and commaundementes graunt vnto vs so to vnderstand thy iustifications and wyth whole hart to searche thy wylles and pleasures and to preache out thy great actes done to our behoofe that when wee were as loste sheepe wandryng in our wayes of ignoraunce we myght be brought home to thy shepefold to be placed on thy ryght hand wyth thy shepe in thy kyngdome through Christ our Lord c. ¶ Obseruations These fiftene Psalmes next followyng Be songs deâ—amd of steps or stayers For that the quiere on them dyd sing The peoples vowes to blisse by prayers For lucky spéede in theyr affayres As néede and tyme â–ª as case dyd bryng In wedlocke warre or house begonne For peace for ayde for fréedome wonne ¶ The Argument Psalme CXX When Dauid felt all spite of man All helpe of God he then optaynd By whome alone reliefe he wan From hard disease that hym constraynd Well trust we than When we be paynd 1. Canticum graduum Ì„Ì„ 1 TO God when I was vext wyth smart By wrongfull meanes of man opprest I cryed in voyce I cryed in hart He aunswerd me at my request In gentle part He gaue me rest 2 For thus I sayd and still will say O Lord my soule deliuer frée From lying lips saue me I pray From crafty tonges that double bée But set all day To vanitie 3 What shalt thou winne what gayne or gift Thou crafty tong with all thy spyte Or what may that increase thy thirst False tong to vse in such delyte What is thy drift What winst in sight 4 Euen this thou wynst sharpe dartes and fell Of Gods strong hand in dreadfull feare Whose strength shall send thy spite to hell As whote as coales of Iuniper And marke it well In mynd it beare 5 O wo is me that myne abode Is still prolongd in hard exile Thus forst to dwell as cast abrode In Ceder tentes both blacke and vyle O helpe me God Me reconcile 6 Ah long to long my soule abydth Wyth such as hate good loue and peace With people rough of hawty pryde Which fierce in hart on me do preace O cast them wyde Their magre cease Whan peace I seeke they cry to warre Whan fayre I speake they threat the more Whan them I sue they driue me farre Thus gall for loue I gaine in store O God be narre Help me therfore ¶ The Collecte O God the onely pacifier of all manner of angwishe and trouble deliuer we pray thee the souls of thy true seruants from slaunderous and lyeng lippes to be neuer ouercome by the malicious assauts of the euill but to stand by the assistence of thy grace wholye in thy protection to the lawd of thy name throughe Christ c. ¶ The Argument Psalme CXXI As Dauid here so other king Nie toward warre ought thus beginne The people than hym following Should wishe hym spede Gods ayde to winn Thus
power 21 O kepe in awe the Lyons iawe saue me from them that byte From all the hornes of Unicornes protect me Lord of myght 22 Thy power and name I shall declame to all my bretherne met Glad wyll I rayse in church thy prayse in congregation set 23 The Lord who fearth with lawds draw nere all Iacobs séede hym prayse Feare ye hym well all Israell hym magnify alwayes 24 He wyll aduise and not despise the poore for low degrée He hydth no face in tyme and place my prayer heard hath hée 25 I purpose mée to speake of thée in church thy prayse to sprede My vowes so plight in iust mens fight I will perfourme in dede 26 The méeke his brede shall eate full fed and prayse the Lord all day For God who séekth hys prayse he kéepth theyr hart shall lyue for aye 27 The world so brode will turne to God whyle thys they call to hart Before hys face all folke in place shall honour hym impart 28 All kyngdomes stand to God as bond theyr trybes and kynredes eke And them in raigne he shall retayne all quarters them to seke 29 The fat shall fede and serue in drede they all shall worshyp ryfe Yea dead men all to hym shall fall who gaue theyr soules no lyfe 30 My séede and bloud thys Lord so good shall serue in worship frée And thus my stocke as God hys flocke shall iust reputed bée 31 They shall procéede to shew in déede to people thence to come Gods iustice great from heauenly seat what he to them hath done ¶ The Collecte O God the heade and fountayne of all grace mercye which for our sake diddest descende into the wombe of the Virgine was fastened to a tree pierced through in thy handes and feete thy garmentes parted by lottes and yet after all this done thou dydst gloriously ryse agayne from death We beseche thee so to beare in mynde this thy humayne conuersation among men that thou mayst be alway to them which put theyr trust in thee a mercifull deliuerer who lyuest and raignest one God wyth the father the holy ghost for euer in perpetuall felicitie Amen ¶ The Argument Psalme XXIII The Christen man how God his lyfe doth guide Confesse he can how God his lyfe doth guide With meat so good from death his soule to hide of heauenly foode from death his soule to hide 1 THe Lord so good who geueth me food my shepeheard is and guide How can I want or suffer scant whan he defendth my side 2 To féede my néede he will me lead in pastures gréene and fat He forth brought me in libertie to waters delicate 3 My soule and hart he did conuert to me he sheweth the path Of rightwisenes in holines his name such vertue hath 4 Yea though I go through death hys wo his vaale and shadow wyde I feare no dart wyth me thou art wyth staffe and rod to guide 5 Thou shalt prouyde a table wyde for me agaynst theyr spite With oyle my head thou hast bespred my cup is fully dight 6 Thy goodnes yet and mercy great will kepe me all my dayes In house to dwell in rest full well wyth God I hope alwayes The Collecte LEade vs O Lorde by the rules of thy comfortable preceptes that when we haue optaynd the habitation of thy euerlasting mansion we may be fully satisfied with the cup of ioyful eternitie through Christ our Lord. c. ¶ The Argument Psalme XXIIII Of Christ to come his raigne this psalme doth preach All whole in summe his raigne this psalme doth preach How God will bee the letter this doth teach In temple free the letter this doth teach 1 THe earth it is the Lordes of blisse wyth all the garnishyng The world so round he hath it found and all that dwell therin 2 This earth he cast on seas so fast as ouer them to stand And floudes he made for corne and blade and eke to part the land 3 Up who shall stye on hill so hye where resteth thys Lord of grace Or who shall ryse in restfull wyse to that his holy place 4 Euen he whose hand and hart doth stand in cleannes innocent Who sought no gayne in fansies vayne nor othe hath falsly ment 5 He shall posses in stablenes the Lordes swéete blessednes Hys God of health from euen hymselfe shall send hym righteousnes 6 And these be they which séeke alway in stocke theyr God in déede Euen truely they who seke I say the God of Iacobs séede 7 Lift vp your gates you heades and states ye lastyng dores aryse In at this house kyng glorious wyll enter princely wyse 8 What is this kyng thus enteryng wyth glory thus beset The Lord is hée full strong to sée a Lord in battayle great 9 Arise I say thou temple gay though I thée cannot builde Yet ioyth my sprite that God of might hys arke shall be thy shield 10 What is thys king desiering wyth glory thus to raigne The Lorde of hostes of glory most the kyng and soueraigne ¶ The Collecte EVerliuyng God the fourmer and maker of the worlde to whome the whole ornament thereof is seruiceable and subiect we praye thee to restore vs to the innocency of lyfe â—hat we may be able to folow thy steppes vp into holy mount where thou raignest for euer almighty God in maiesty through Christ. The Argument Psalme XXV This cry and call as supplication graue Is Generall as supplication graue It doth confesse and pardon craueth to haue Done wickednes and pardon craueth to haue 1 O Lord to thée my soule to flée is set my God thou art I whole referre my lyfe most nare to thée wyth all my hart 2 My God of fence my confidence on thée was alway borne O let no shame confound my name my foes els will me scorne 3 Who trustth in thée ashamd to bée can neuer man it spye Who breake thy lawes without a cause confounded let them lye 4 Shew me thy wayes O Lord alwayes of truth me teach the path Thy word and way is certayne stay for that all vertue hath 5 In truth me lead teach me thy read my God of health thou art My trust doth lay in thée all day to thée is bent my hart 6 Call thou to mynde O Lord full kynde thy louyng mercies olde Thy bounties frée which euer bée as fathers them haue tolde 7 Of youth my faut so great and haut such sinne O Lord forget For mercy sake O Lord awake thy mynd vpon me set 8 Both gratious and righteous the Lord is equall so He teachth wyth rod yet louyng God by giftes he teachth also 9 Who méeke abyde them he will guide in iudgement good and ryght And whome we sée most gentle bée his wayes he teachth them lyght 10 The wayes of God be large and brode both truth and mercy iust Euen still to such as loueth much his hestes and couenauntes trust 11 For thy names
and lore Both hye and low all whole in row the ryche and eke the poore 3 My mouth shall splay all wisdomes way that will man kepe and saue My hart doth muse most godly truthes all vnderstandyng graue 4 I wyll incline these eares of myne to parable full méete Déepe wordes in harpe my mouth wil carpe the sence though shall be swéete 5 Why should I feare euill dayes to beare to set on mucke my hart That euen my héele of lyfe so euill at last myght bryng me smart 6 For some there bée whose hartes agrée in goodes to put theyr trust And boast themselues as carkyng elues of ryches store vniust 7 No brother can redeme a man from death though fayne he would Or God to go to offer to agréement who so should 8 The pryce to great herein is set from death a soule to bye That must he leaue to gods owne leaue for aye in hym to lye 9 That is to say that he should aye byde here in morâ—all state That he no graue â–ª should euer haue but lyue in pleasant raâ—e 10 For he may spy that wyse men dye and peryshe all the fort As well the wyse as mad and nyse to others leaue theyr port 11 And can they thynke that neuer sinke theyr houses shall and fames That they here still shall dwell theyr fill and landes to beare theyr names 12 It will not be that euer he shall last in glory gay But forth must go as beastes they do in britle state and way 13 Lo this theyr way is folishe stray they blunder blyndly thus And yet theyr broode prayse this for good as fooles obliuious 14 They shall lye déepe in hell lyke shéepe and death shall gnaw theyr mawe But clere in lyght of mornyng bryght the iust shall be their awe 15 Theyr beauty gay shall wast away in graue with stinche on swéete Theyr housee clene shal not be sene for them so after méete 16 But as for me my God euen be my soule he iust will saue From hell the power in blessed hower my sprite to hym to haue 17 But feare thou nat ne deare thou that though one be welthy made Though now hys house shyne glorious in honours portly trade 18 For nought he shall of riches all hence cary whan he dyth Nor yet hys pryde hys pompe so wyde in graue wyth hym shall lye 19 Whyle here he dwelt hys soule he delt all ease wyth pleasures wealth Such men will thée prayse wyse to bée if thou so helpst thy selfe 20 That thou also wyth them myghtst go theyr fathers steps to sue Where they no lyght shall sée in syght for theyr excesse vndue 21 Man lyuyng thus all gorgious who vnderstandyng wanth Is lyke to beast wyth them to rest whose fame is short and scant ¶ The Collecte REplenish our mouthes O Lord with thy heauenly wisdom that we may remeÌ„ber the mystery of thy blessed incarnation wherby thou redemest vs froÌ„ the power of hell graunt that we may be found meete to be presented to thy blessed face through c. The Argument Psalme L. Here is reproued the sacrifice of Iewes for foolishe trust And taught here is wyth sad aduise that thankes be yet more iust 1 THe God of Gods the lord of myght one God in persons thrée He bidth and calth the earth in sight from East to West to sée 2 Thys God appeard from Zyon hill as God of beauty most From whence he would should spring his wil and law to euery coast 3 Our God is come in tyme of grace he wyll no silence kéepe Wyth wastyng fire before hys face about hym tempest déepe 4 The heauen aboue the earth below he doth vpon them call Hys people all to iudge and know to helpe them that be thrall 5 Collect ye now my sayntes sayth he in one before my sight Who stand in leage and pact wyth me by sacrifices ryte 6 The heauens shall sprede hys iustice cleare that all the world may spy That God himselfe wyll iudge appeare the good from bad to try 7 My people heare for thus I say thy selfe to wytnesse iust O Israell thy God alway thy God I am to trust 8 For sacrifice or burnt incence I wyll not thée reproue To blame therin thy negligence to send them me aboue 9 From out thy house I wyll not craue Bull Bullocke Oxe or calfe Of thy folde els he goates to haue to ioy of theyr behalfe 10 The beastes that grase the wood so wyde they be all myne at wyll On thousand hyls the beastes that stryde I made them thée to fill 11 On moâ—ataynes foules that vse theyr flyght I know them all and some Wylde beastes of field be nye my sight as made for my renoume 12 If hungers stresse though myght I fele I would not tell it thée The world all whole euen euery dele is myne and all ye sée 13 And thinkst thou thus so grosse in wit that I buls flesh would eate Or bloud of Goates to drynke of it as bloud to spill were swéete 14 Na this it is that I allow to God aye offer thankes And pay to God of lyfe thy vow and séeke none other crankes 15 In all thy wo call thou on mée when troubles thée do thrust I wil no fayle deliuer thée thus shalt thou prayse me iust 16 But God thus chect vngodly man what meanst to preach my lawes My pact in mouth why takest thou than where lyfe hath wycked sawes 17 To be correct by discipline thou hatest to heare the worde So thou doost cast at backe of thyne my law of swéete recorde 18 When theâ—e thou spiest wyth him thou goest to part the spoyle in hast Who wedlocke breake with them thou boast thy lot wyth them is cast 19 To cursed speche thy tonge thou dightst to clout all crafty guile The iust thou wringst the bad thou quytest by lawes pretense and style 20 Thou sitst as iudge thy brothers name by sleit to ouer runne Thou quarell pikst in crafty frame agaynst thy mothers sonne 21 Whyle thus thou doost I sayeng nought thou iudgest me nought lyke thée But yet I shall what thou hast wrought detect before thyne eye 22 O ponder this I do you pray all you that God forget Lest I in hast plucke you away in wo to sée you set 23 Who offer me the sacrifice of thankes he honorth mée And thys the way wherby I vyse Gods helth to let hym sée ¶ The Collecte ALmighty God God of all Gods we humbly pray thee to take and accepte our sacrifice of thankes geuyng in good parte So that after we be discharged of the burden of sinne we maye declare wythout hypocrisie that we walke in the way that leadeth to saluation Through Christ. FINIS ¶ The ende of the first Quinquagene ¶ The Seconde Quinquagene of Dauids Psalter translated into Englishe Metre The Argument Psalme LI. A prayer pure and forme full good for penitentes so meeke Thus Dauids hart
so hard from vs his loues and mercyes great 10 At last I sayd this wauering declareth my frayltye fonde But I entend in mynd to bryng the chaunge of his good hande 11 My Lords great actes I will recount my fayth to hym to bynde His wondrous workes how hye they mount In tymes of olde to fynde 12 In all thy workes so wrought by thée my study whole shall stand My talke shal be most frankly frée to spreade thy dedes of hand 13 Thy way O God I sée is set in holynes all bryght What God is like in glory great as this our God of might 14 Thou God art he which openly workst wonders hye as God To people farre and sonderly thy power thou spredst abroade 15 Thou hast redéemd with might in déede thy people tenderly Olde Iacobs stocke and Iosephes séede escapt by thée they be 16 The waters déepe saw thée O God the waters déepe saw thée They were afrayd to féele thy rod the depthes dyd quake to sée 17 Thy cloudes raynd down so waters fell the heauens for sound dyd ryng The stones of hayle were arrowes fell by them thy foes to wryng 18 Thy thunders noyse dyd rumble stout in ayre the sphere aboue Thy lightnyngs shoone all round about the earth dyd quake and moue 19 Thy way in sea is large and wyde thy pathes in waters great Thy footesteps yet cannot be spied how there thy féete be set 20 Thou ledst thy people pastor like as shéepe in all theyr way By Moses hand thou didst them kéepe whom Aaron helpt to stay ¶ The Collecte O God the wonderfull workesman of deedes incōprehensible most specially in the element of water sometyme by staying the rage of them to the defence of thine elect to the cōsuming of thine enemies sometyme in turnyng to the nature of wyne to the cōfort of thy seruauntes we besech thee so to accept the voyces of our cryes that we may feele thy mercy continually poured vpon vs to preserue and to comforte vs Through c. ¶ The Argument Psalme LXXVIII This hye profound oration A monitorie is To God to turne to trust vpon by workes so great of his 1 MY people kinde heare this my law true lore it full auowth Inclyne your eare in gentle awe to harke my wordes of mouth 2 My lipes sage sawes shall now vnfolde which parables might séeme And prouerbes straunge of yeares of olde how we should God estéeme 3 Which thinges we haue both hard and tride to be most certen true Which fathers olde to vs a lyed vs tolde that should ensue 4 Not we therfore will hyde the same from their posterytye To them to tell Gods lauds and fame his wonders straunge to sée 5 He made a pact with Iacob iust and law set Israell Wherin he chargd our fathers trust these things their seede to tell 6 That so myght all their linage know in ages still to come To ryse and sprede to hye and low Gods actes to hys renome 6 That so myght all theyr linage know in ages still to come To ryse and sprede to hye and low Gods actes to his renome 7 That they therby myght truly set in God affiaunce strong That they should not hys workes forget but kepe his hestes full long 8 Lest they should proue theyr fathers lyke a faythles stubburne kynde A people loth the ryght to seke which fell from God in mynde 9 All lyke the tribe of Ephraym in armes wyth dartes and bowes Yet turnd theyr backes at fightyng tyme and had foule ouerthrowes 10 They kept not lo true tutch wyth God hys pact they oueryed From hys swéete hestes they strayd abrode to walke hys law they fled 11 And soone forgate what done had he to them as beastes vnkynd His wondrous workes that they had séene were cleane cast out of mynd 12 Great meruels wrought his mighty hand in theyr forefathers sight At Zoan field in Egipt land to shew hys power and might 13 He cut the seas ▪ apart to stand as walles erect on hye He led them through to go to land while they like heapes did lygh 14 He led them forth in Iorneys right by clowde as guyde by day By night whole out in firy lyght his angels kept their way 15 He claue the rockes in wildernes how hard so euer growne Where out he slackt theyr thirstines as flouds from depthes had flowne 16 He made the stone to gushe in streams from them did water strike Though flyntes by kynd kepe fiery leames God made them drinke to kepe 17 For all this yet agaynst his will they sinned more and more They hym prouokt in desert still for all his gentle store 18 They tempted God to proue hys power theyr hartes went much astray They would haue meat at present hower theyr lustes they would assay 19 Agaynst theyr God ▪ most euery where they spake lyke rebels thus Can God prouide a table here in wyldernes for vs 20 He strake the rocke the waters spred as streames they flowed in déede But can say they God geue vs bread or flesh hys flocke to féede 21 When God this heard he was full wroth his fyre in Iacob brent Hys heauy plage in anger goeth euen downe on Israell sent 22 Because no hope in God they layde that he could féede theyr want Nor yet put trust in hym for ayde God made theyr hartes to pant 23 He dyd commaund the cloudes aboue which flote the ayre about He bade the heauens theyr gates remoue to poure theyr giftes full out 24 Then rayned downe that Manna swéete therof that they should tast He sent them down about theyr féete from heauen thys vyand cast 25 O wondrous act that man dyd eate such foode of aungels strong He pourd them down theyr fill of meate their pitched tentes among 26 He made the East wynd blow hys blast amid the heauen in length He forst the southwynde blow as fast by hys great power and strength 27 So than he raynd as thicke as dust of flesh aboundant store And fetherd foules to fill theyr lust as thicke as sand on shore 28 Amid theyr tentes it fell as motes not far to séeke therfore Euen round about theyr dwellyng cotes it dyd them serue the more 29 They thus dyd eate and fed they were full vp vnto the chin He graunted them theyr lust so far what they could wishe therin 30 Theyr lust was not abased so for still in lust they quothed And whyle they chowd both to and fro in mouth this meat they lothed 31 Lo wrath from God was kyndled sheu he slew theyr worthies great He feld to ground theyr chosen men in Israell beset 32 For all this yet they sinned still theyr wonted guise they playde To trust to hym they had no will though wonders he displayde 33 Therfore he spoyld theyr lyuyng dayes in vanitie to lygh Theyr yeares he spent in feares and frayes to vere both hart and eye 34 As long as God them strake and slue
voyces eyght Right statutes olde precepts decrees cōmaundemēts word law Known iudgemēts domes witnesses al rightous wais thei draw Enuie no man Gods worde to painte in arte by such deuise Reade Hebrue tonge the tong so sainte and causeles be not nise Upfolde be here Gods truthes discust right sure vs all to teache So lies of man all low be thrust full false in glosing speache ¶ The Argument Psalme CXIX This Psalme dewrayth good mens desire Gods law to know so milde Which Dauid prayth whom men in ire Did curse from home exilde Aleph 1. ̄̄ 1 A Rightvp man of perfect wayes ▪ is blest and blest agayne As blest be they which walke their dayes in gods true law so playne 2 And yet I speake so blest they be who kepe his witnesses All whole in hart which will agrée to search Gods promises 3 Admit they do no sinfulnes who walke his pathes alwayes At wil who worke but wickednes they tread not these his wayes 4 Aduisedly thou gauest in charge thy hests that we should kepe Approued so by thée at large ▪ for vs most due to leke 5 Ah then O lord ▪ where the wilt so would God my wayes were steyd Affected right in hart to go thy statutes iustly leyd 6 Ashamed then I shall not shrinke in hart or visage cold Abacke to stand what tyme I thinke thy lawes and them behold 7 Ascribe will I to thée my thanke in hart most right and clene Assoone as I shall learne so franke thy iudgements iust besene 8 Agayne I vow withall my hart to kepe thy true decrées A far then Lord do not depart from me thy grace to léefe In quo corigit 1 By what or how can yong man clense ▪ or yet reforme his way Best word of thyne if he the sence will warely kepe I saye 2 Betymes where I thy word haue sought with all my harts entent Be guyde lest I might erre in thought from thy commaundemēt ▪ 3 By lowe I hyd thy word in hart thy willes inspird to kepe Blasphemingly lest might I start from thée in sinne to déepe 4 Both blest and praysed thou doost remayne O lord of secrecye Bestryde my hart and teach my brayne thy statutes inwardly 5 Bold haue I bene and euer shall by thée with tong to tell Before all men thy iudgements all which once thou spakst so well ▪ 6 Blith whole my hart did ioye to trace ▪ thy testimonyes wayes Beholding them more glad in face than riches gaynfull prayse 7 Bestowe I will my tyme and talke in thy precepts to muse Beside to note thy wondrous walke no tyme I will refuse 8 Besport me still I purpose me in thy decrées whole set Beleue I haue thy wordes decrée no tyme I shall forget Retribue 1 Confirme O lord thy seruantes will with thy good grace so meke Consist that I in lyfe may still so iust thy wordes to kepe 2 Cleare thou mine eies both darke thral reforme my sprite afresh Consider then thy law I shall what meruels they expresse 3 Cast here on earth as Pilgrimes be I am poore traueler Conceale not Lord thy law from me depart not thou to fer 4 Consume do I afflict in sprite for loue to know thy worde Comprise I would alwayes aright thy iudgements hye O Lorde 5 Correct thou doost the proud therfore which thy precepts despise Curst be they all from thy good lore who wander wyll to nyse 6 Contempt and shame frō me remoue which proud men cast on me Content for that in lyfe I loue thy lawes to testifie 7 Chiefe Princes lo in counsell sate and me they hie controld Chaunge yet my choyce so would I not I vsed thy statutes bold 8 Cause why to me thy witnesses are whole my hartes delites Close counsellers they be no lesse agaynst these cursed wyghtes Adhesit 1 Deare Lord to dust my soule is knit nye dead I ligh for griefe Draw nye my life and quicken it with thy swéete wordes reliefe ▪ 2 Detect I haue my wayes to thée thou aunswerdst me agayne Declare thy will that I may sée in hart thy statutes playne 3 Due sence geue me to vnderstand the wayes of thy preceptes Demure I will then take in hand to talke thy wondrous steppes 4 Distemperd cares dyd melt my hart to note the worldes despite Deale then some ease in gentle part as thy true worde hath hight 5 Deliuer me from lying wayes from suttle glosing sect Delite my hart in all thy layes vouchsaue this good effect 6 Do this for why right path of lyfe I haue now chosen due Deteyne I will myne eyes so rife to vew thy iudgements true 7 Directly Lord where hold I haue thy testimonyes fast Defame me not of thée I craue to fall by shame agast 8 Deliuerly runne shall I light thy lawes the perfect gate Dilated large ▪ when thou in sprite shalt make it ioy in state Legem pone 1 Eternall God teach me the way of thy most iust decrées Euen then I shall kepe them all day in all their full degrées 2 Employ my wits to perfectnes so hold thy law I may Effect therof I shall expresse wyth all my hartes assay 3 Eke lead me strayt to sée the path of thy preceptes most right Elect for why my hart themhath wherin I most delite 4 Egge thou my hart to magnifie thy testimonies all Escape that I may vtterly foule auarice thée gall 5 Erect myne eyes not down to cliue by lustes to things most vayne Encleare my sight and me reuiue thy wayes to loue the trayne 6 Establish Lord thy worde all sure thy seruaunt lo I am Els could not I thy feare procure to reuerence thy name 7 Eftsoones remoue the brute vnswete of shame that I do feare Espy I do thy doomes discrete all mixt with mercy deare 8 Enforst I haue lo all my minde thy statutes iust to sue Encourage me soone them to finde I craue thy iustice true Et veniat 1 First Lord I craue thy grace deuyne thy mercyes swéete to féele Fence thou my soule with health of thyne as thy true word doth deale 2 Fynd thus I maye to answere right and dul blasphemers slent◠Fast that my hope is wholly plight to thyne aduertisments 3 Farre driue not lord thy word most sure frō out my mouth to stray Full still for why I will endure to wayte thy iudgements way 4 Ferme will I kepe thy laye and lore sith thou wilt teach the way Fayth still to beare I wyll the more from age to age for aye 5 Fayre walke and large thus shall I hold in conscience vpright Forth on where I do séeke so bolde thy cleare precepts in light 6 Frée shall my tong thy witnes tell before both Lord and king Foule shame shall not my hart debell to shrinke for manacyng 7 Fro thence I shall my comfort fynd thy lawes shall me delyte Fresh loue I beare to them in mynde no tyme
to slyde to lighte 8 Fold vp my hands I will full hye to thy commaundements For them I loue and muse shall I thy stable testaments Memor esto 1 God call to mynde thy promise graue to me thy seruaunt frayle Good hope therin thou madest me haue to my poore soules auayle 2 Greate comfort this gaue me in thought in payne wheÌ„ I did lye Glad hart for why thy word me wrought as whole reuiued therby 3 Grym stately men though one by one most hye do me deryde Gone yet a backe I haue not done from thy true lawe aside 4 Graue thoughts had I cast in mind thy iudgemeÌ„ts lord froÌ„ first Gat so I did my comfort kynd to stake my wofull thirst 5 Greued sore I am most horribly at wicked mens ententes Glyde fast they do so shamefully from all thy lawes contentes 6 Grate songes in verse I do deuise of thy swéete statutes lore Gest when I am in wandryng wyse abrode afflicted sore 7 Grauen depe in mynd thy name by night O Lord ful oft I had Glue fast to hart that so I myght thy law that I had rad 8 Grace thus dyd grow to me so gréene for that thy law I kepe Graunt then O Lord I may be séene thy wyll alway to seke Portio me 1 Hole portion Lord thou art of myne to thée alone I clyue Hold will I iust thy law deuine though men for lies do striue 2 How déepe in hart thou séest all day I haue thy face be sought Haue mercy then on me I pray such trust thy worde hath taught 3 Here how I liue what wayes I lead I haue discust full nere Home so to turne thy lawes to pleade my féete I did retire 4 Hast made I fast my fault espied no tyme then troyted I Hart hand and tong I straite applied to kepe thy lawes more nye 5 Haâ—t wicked men on heapes they met to robbe from me my trust Hard yet in hart thy law I kept though sore at me they thrust 6 Hye midnight iust my tyde is set to rise thy name to blesse Harke so I shall and spie the bet thy iudgements righteousnesse 7 Hoste me I will with them to dwell which thée do duely feare Hyd who do kepe thy hestes full well in hart to mynd them cleare 8 Hyll dale and vale the earth is full thy mercies Lord to tell Helpe thou therfore my wits so dull teach me thy statutes spell Bonitatem fecisti 1 I Lord confesse thou dealst full kynd with me thy seruaunt frayle In thy good worde such grace I fynde thy promise neuer fayle 2 Inspire right tast of discipline and me sound knowledge teach Iust haue I hold the lawes of thyne most firmly them to seach 3 Inuegeled foule awry I went before I was correct Imprint I now thy testament in hart thus gently checkt 4 Intirely good and liberall thou art who can deny Illumine then my senses all â–ª thy statutes well to spy 5 Ill men and proud theyr traps haue set to spot my truth with lyes Inure my hart I purpose yet all whole thy lawes to vise 6 Inlarded is their hart with pride they swell in fat and grease Inuy I not their ioyes so wide thy lawes can me refresh 7 It wrought me wealth so good it was that troubles me did strayne Indued was so my soule with grace to learne thy statutes playne 8 Ioy more I do the law of thyne which thy swéete lips pronounce Infinitely then siluer fine or gold a thousand ounce Manus tuae 1 King Lord God thou art to me thou madst formdst my shape Kerne depe my hart with knowledge frée thy word in mind to wrap 2 Kynd louyng men that worship thée wyll ioy at me right soone Keyd fast thy word was so to me in hope that I haue done 3 Know well I do in thys thy rod thy iudgements all be iust Know worthy is thy truth O God â–ª which humbled me to dust 4 Kysse thou my soule by louing grace some comfort swéete to féele Knyt iust thy word though I be base thy man yet euery deale 5 Knéele lowe I will to aske full sad thy mercyes all in sight Kéepe than my life I shall full glad for I thy lawe delyte 6 Kil down the proud confound their lies they me wold vayn peruert Koole thou their heate and I will ryse to preach thy lawes apart 7 Kenne they thy lawes as turnde to me who duely thée do feare Known right who haue thy dignitie thy word with me do beare 8 Knocke aske and séeke I will and wéepe in hart thy word to spie Knead els in mire of error déepe I should most shamefully Defecit 1 Longd hath my soule and languished while I thy helth expect Lord yet thy word me comforted for hope dyd me erect 2 Lo both myne eyes did faynt and wast thy promise still to wayte Lowd thus I spake when wilt thou cast thy helpe to ease my strayt 3 Lyke though I was to bottle dryed in smoke so was my skyn Leaue would I not thy statutes tryed I kept yet mynd therin 4 Leafe Lord my dayes how loÌ„g to go thy seruauÌ„t fayn would know Long wilt thou slake erre thou my foe wilt iudge who thrust me lowe 5 Lyme pittes full slye these lurdens proud did digge in crafty sort Lyes lowd they made not well auowed by thy true lawes report 6 Life truth and way thy lawes contayne though words they prate vntrue Lend me thy helpe where men so vayne do falsly me pursue 7 Large sautes they made to make me sinke well nye they had me spent Loth yet I was in hart to shrinke from thy commaundement 8 Let then thy grace and gentlenesse refresh and me reuiue Loue so I shall and wil expresse thy wordes of mouth belyue In eternum domine 1 Meke Lord thy word most stable lieth as heuen is permanent Most strong it is as testefieth the starry fyrmament 2 Man trust may thée thy fayth so standth in truth from age to age Marke wel we do the earth lond how fyrme thou madst the stage 3 Made fast they bide by thy decree vntil this present day Meete seruice all do yeld to thee In all theyr course and sway 4 My chief delyte and ornament onlesse thy law had ben More deepe in wo I had ben shent whole quenched quite cleane 5 Mind stil I will thy lawes precept and neuer it forget Me still in life it dayly kept by thee this grace I get 6 Maineteyn my life for thine so wrought I am most congruent Midst whole in hart for why I sought thy true commaundement 7 Mad men in harte vngodly men awayted me to kill Muse yet I did full oft agayne thy testimonyes wyll 8 Moch noted I things finest tried drue fast to brittle ende Meere infinite thy law I spied whose bredth no time could spende Quam dilexi 1 Nye loue in hart thy law I beare such hope therby I
blame I say No wycked balme to stroke my hed agaynst them still I pray 6 O hedlong be their iudges thrust as down from rockes bethrowne They would haue harde my wordes at first if swete they had be browne 7 Our scattred bones they breake in moode so nye the graue they lay As man which cleanth and shiuerth woode or one that clods doth bray 8 For that myne eyes O Lord to thée O Lord be firmly cast And thée I trust then vtterly spill not my soule in wast 9 O kepe me saufe fro crafty snare which they to me do driue From wicked trappes that men prepare which wickednes contriue 10 But rather let these wicked fall ▪ all whoel into theyr nets Betrapt themself so be they all while I may scape theyr threats ▪ ¶ The Collecte SEt a watch O Lord vnto our mouthes least◠that we apply our speech to vanity to consent wyth the wicked of the world correcte thou vs with thy mercifull rod of chastisement by vertue wherof we may be kept in aw to decline from all vyce through Christ. ¶ The Argument Psalm CXLI◠What Dauid thought and how he prayd whan feare draue bym to caue He here reporth◠on God he stayed who did him strongly saue \ \ 1 VNto the Lord with voyce I crye◠So nye in parell set Unto the Lord my prayer hyed both hart and voyce were met 2 I pourd my sute my sore complaynt before his face in sight My troublouse state I did depaynt before himself in light 4 What tyme my sprite was inly pent my life thou knewest the path Yet layd they snares vext though I went in all my walkes in wrath 5 On hand both right and left I vewed none saw I that me knew No scape was free none so endued that once my soule woulde rue 6 O Lord than thee I cryed vpon and thus I sayd eue◠then ▪ Thou art my hope and portion in land of lyuing men 7 Respect my crye for worne I goe in cares full deepe I wayle Saue me fro them which vext me so on me they sore preuayle 8 O bring my soule from prison bound Thy name to celebrate So iust men wil me glad surround whan thou shalt quite my state ¶ The Collect. WYth humble voyce we sue vnto thy deuine maiesty O Lord that we may haue our hope so strengthed by thee to inherite the like state of thine electe in the land of the liuing through Christ. The Argument Psalm CXLIII Whose hart wyth hate the world resolueth To state all base deicet If he in fayth this psalme reuolueth God sone wyll him erect \ \ 1 NOw heare my sute O Lord in stresse to my request agree For all thy truthes and rightwisenes sone aunswere thou to me 2 But enter not to iudge extreme thy seruant hye by lawe For who himselfe can cleane esteme yet him I neuer saw 3 For loe the foole my soule hath chasd to earth my life hath wrest My state in darke he hath abasde as men of old deceast 4 My pinched sprite in me doth fayle opprest in heuines My hart sore vext-doth morne and wayle astoynd in pensiuenes 5 Old yeares from fyrst I haue recount our fathers how thou ledst Thine actes I marke how hye they mount I muse the woorkes thou didst 6 My hands to thee I held full hye that thou wouldst me vouchsaue My thristy soule as pasture drye thy graces dewe doth craue 7 Then heare me Lord but sone heare thou my sprite doth feble ligh Hyde not thy face from me as now least strayt my graue I spy 8 Thy voyce at morne cause me to heare for thée I trust alone Shew me thy wayes my steps to steare my soule to thée is gone 9 O rid me Lord from all theyr spite that would me causeles trayne For I to thée referre my right in hid defence full fayne 10 Teach me to worke thy will to please thou art my God I say And let thy sprite so neuer cease to leade me straite the way 11 For thy swéete name Lord quicken me from them that me pursue And make my soule from perill frée my hart with ioy endue 12 Thy grace I trust my foes will quell and make their strength but lame Who vexth my soule thou wilt debell for I thy seruant am ¶ The Collecte ALmighty God which hast brought to lyghte the ioyfull mornynge of thy sonnes resurrection which filled the earth with ioye and gladnes we require of thy goodnes that as thou didst cheare the hartes of thyne apostles by that comfortable resurrection so comfort thy holy spouse the church which daily holdth vp her hands crauyng thy mercy to ioy in the holy ghost through the same Christ our sauior ¶ The Argument Psalme CXLIIII That God in warre wyth Dauyd stoode here thankes he dyd apply And prayth to scape all heathen spyte hys reygne to prosper hye 1 THe Lord be blest most worthy prayse who is my God might Who teachth my hands ▪ hys warres to rule my fyngers eke to fighte 2 My louely grace ▪ my hold my fort ▪ my raunsommer is he protector sure ▪ in whome I trust who boweth my flocke to me 3 O Lord benigne what thing is man that thus thou him respectst the sonne of man so weake so vayne that thus thou him erectst 4 For man is made like vanity a thing of nought most frayle his dayes passe fast as shadow fleeth as water bobles fayle 5 O Lord bow downe the heauens come be nye helpe our payne O touch these mounts these heathen Dukes that they may smoke agayne 6 Thy lightnings spout and scater them like men amasde and strau◠Thyne arrowes sharpe shoote out at them disturbe their brags so haut 7 But send thy hand from hye aboue and me deliuer free from waters déepe from childer straunge theyr power make me t◠flee 8 Whose mouth doth speake all vanity and bost all conquests wyde whose right hand will but them deceyue so sweld in lies and pride 9 O God I will thus saued by grace sing newly songs to thee In psaltry sweete of strings full ten my psalmes shall tuned be 10 For thou geust health and victory to kings by stable woorde me Dauid lo thou hast discharged to scape theyr cruel sword 11 O saue me Lord deliuer me from forreine childers spite Whose mouth full vayne doth boast and prate whose right hand false is dighte 12 But graunt that al our childer grow as playnts frō youth vpright our doughters yonge so polished as pallace pillers bright 13 That full may flow our garners wide with kinds of vitaile swete that all our sheepe bring thousands forth yea millions in streete 14 And that well fed our Oxen goe to labour stronge to see that battries none no leadings thrall in streetes no waylings be 15 Oh happy is that people sure who hath these thinges at will Yea blessed is that people best whose God the Lord is
haue put their whole confidence and feede theyr ioyfull soules in hope of thy grace graunt vs to be illumined in sprite euermore to loue thee and to celebrate thy name in pure conscience through Christ. ¶ The Argument Psalme CXLVII Thys psalme exciteth the Iewes to prayse the Lord most chief So good to them who priuatly did worke them all reliefe \ \ 1 PRayse ye the Lord alway for good it is to sing To this our God for sweete he is whom laudes we ought to brin 2 God buildeth Hierusalem he doth her sure protect The poore exiles of Israell he shall agayne collect 3 He heald the brusde in hart who wayle in sprite contrite Theyr plages and sores he bindeth them vp he cureth theÌ„ al ful light 4 No dout God them beholdeth who starres by number tels By proper name he calth them all he knowth theyr rests and cels 5 The Lord of ours is greate and great he is in power His knowledge is all infynite his name as strong as tower 6 The Lord vpholdeth thafflict So gentle is his will He throweth to ground all wicked men So mightye is his skill 7 O sing to God our Lord prayse ye his raygne abroade Confesse his power hys will his skyll In harpe sing ye to God 8 Who clothe the heauen with cloudes and raygne to earth prepares He bringes forth gras on hills to growe to serue mans dayly cares 9 Who geueth to beast theyr foode to all both great and small The rauene her birds he féedth in care whan they forsaken call 10 In barbed horse of strength his pleasure standth not in In legs of men in force of armes it pleaseth not him to wynne 11 They please who feare the Lord by such he fyght with strength who trust all whole his gentlenesse these only please at length Lauda Hierusalem O Thou Ierusalem prayse hye the Lord of thyne Thou Sion mount auaunce thy God in hart therto encline 13 For he makth fast the barres of all thy gates full prest He blissth euen so thy childer al in midst of thée to rest 14 And he doth stablish peace In all thy borders sure He féedth the full deliciously with wheate the flower most pure 15 Who sendth his word on earth and swiftly doth it renne Both rayne and wynd his biddings heare to serue the nede of meâ— 16 And snow he geueth like woll the earth so warme to be The hory frosts the mislyng dewes as ashes scattreth he 17 He casâ—th abroade his yse like morsels so congelde and his great cold who can abyde that he so hard hath seald 18 He sendth his worde will he melt them all agayne He blowth the winde then they anone to waters flow most playne 19 Yea he reuealeth his word to Iacobs seede and stocke His statutes true his iust decrees to Israel his flocke 20 He delt no time as thus with other landes I say He shewed not them his domes so playne O prayse the Lord alwaye ¶ The Collecte STrength fortify the gate of thy church O Lorde and make her to be enlarged in peace and vnity reueale thy word to her vnderstanding that she may be wholy directed by that to please the in truth through Christ. ¶ The Argument Psalme CXLVIII To prayse here all be byd what heauen or earth contayne The Lord so hye and sapyent nothyng he made in vayne 1 PRayse ye the Lord from heauens ye heauenly mynds I call Prayse him on hye as hye he is ye powers celestiall 2 Prayse hym ye Angels all his legats ye that be ye hosts so cald his armies great prayse hym in maiesty Prayse him ye sunne and mooke in course so maruelous Ye starres so bright ye Planets all prayse hym most glorious Ye heauens by heauens-distinct prayse him with all your shyne ye water streames aboue the ayre so stayde by power deuyne They all might prayse and laud the Lordes good name of myght For he the worde but spake at once they straight were made in plight He constituted hath that they should euer dure He set a law which shall not cease by ordinance most sure Ye earthly thinges on earth prayse ye the Lord with them Ye dragons grim ye depes and gulfes shew ye his power supreme Fire lightning thunder hayle both snow and vapours drye ye hurling wyndes tempestuous which worke his word full nye Great mountains hils and clifs low hillockes all and some ye fruitefull trées ye Ceders all prayse ye the Lordes renome Ye beastes and cattell all both sauage wylde and tame ye serpents flye ye fetherd soules prayse ye his godly name So kinges of earth most due with all their people met So princes hie and iudges all on earth as Gods be set So yonger men and maydes in age syncere and pure As older men with childer yong with all their busy cure The Lordes name let them prayse for it alone is hye His glory passth both heauen earth as thyngs here made do cry He hath his flock aduanced so him his saintes shall prayse Euen Iacobs séede who drawth him nie praise ye the lord always The Collecte O Lord the woorthye prayse and ioy of all thy creatures graunt vs thy grace that we worthely magnify thy name through Christ. The Argument Psalme CXLIX Thys Psalme the Iewes doth moue Theyr God to laude wyth loue It sheweth that grace on them shall lyght So glad their foes to quyte 1 O Syng vnto the Lord A song of new accord And let his prayse declared bée In good mens company 2 Let Israell be glad in God hys maker drad Let Syons youth and childer ioy In their most princely roy 3 Let them prayse out in quiere Hys name to them so dere In Tabret loud in harpe so soft Sing they to hym ful oft 4 For why the Lord reioyce And loueth hys flocke in choyce The meke forlorne he will adourne wyth health to serue theyr turne 5 So godly men made frée in ioy and prayse shal bée They shall reioyce vpon their beds That God did rayse their heds 6 Their throtes shall prayses sound to God by duety bound Two edged swordes in both theyr handes to smite all forren landes 7 To be auenged right of all the Paynyms spite To be a rod to chastise smart straunge peoples froward hart 8 To bynde their kinges wyth chaynes to quite their wrongfull meanes Theyr nobles eke to kepe in warde wyth iron fetters hard 9 To bryng on them in spéede theyr iudgement iust decréed Which shall his saintes to honour rayse prayse ye the Lord alwayes Alleluya ¶ The Collecte O God which art a God of all goodnes vertue whiche doost vse to exalte them whiche humble themselues and to deiecte those who aduaunce themselues graunte vs on earthe to ioye in all puritie of lyfe as thy saintes in heauen ioy in thy glorious preseÌ„ce to the prayse of thy name through Christ. ¶ The Argument Psalme CL. Thys psalme is last
¶ The whole Psalter translated into English Metre which contayneth an hundreth and fifty Psalmes The first Quinquagene Quoniam omnis terre Deus Psallite sapienter Psal. 47. Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye dwelling ouer Aldersgate beneath S. Martyns CVM GRATIA ET PRIVILEGIO Regiae Maiestatis per Decennium Ad Lectorem HEc quicunque legis tu flexu acumine vocis In numeros numeros doctis accentibus effer Affectusque impone legens distinctio sensum Auget ignauis dant interualla vigorem To the Reader OF thee good frend thus muche I craue These few requestes I say No browes to bende but first with saue To iudge by like assay And if ye spie as much ye may where strayd amisse I haue To mend where I went out of way with art more sad and graue But reade it round and hacke it not as iumblyng short with long Expresse them sound and racke them not as learners vse among Accent in place your voyce as needth note number poynte and time Both lyfe and grace good reading breedth flat verse it reysth sublime Obserue the trayne the ceasure marke To rest with note in close Rythmedogrell playne as dogs do barke ye make it els to lose Reade oft inough well spell the lyne less iarr to heare by vse If verse be rough no fault is myne if ye the eare abuse ▪ But princepall thing ▪ your lute to tune that hart may sing in corde Your voyce and string so fine to prune to loue and serue the Lorde Paule Ephe. 5. Col. 3. SYng Psalmes and hymnes and songes on hye To God your selues among But sing in hart make melodye To God geue thankes in song Iames. V. IF sad ye be and beare the crosse In faith pray ye contrite If glad ye be and feele no losse Sing Psalmes of thankes aright Dauid Psalme 33.47.68 IN Lute and Harpe reioyce to sing Syng Psalmes in decachorde Of all the earth sith God is Kyng Syng wisely feare the Lorde Iesus Syrach 44. THe fathers olde both sought and found Sweete musikes moodes full fine The Scripture songes they did expound Their hartes were all deuine Iesus Syrach 32. WHo knowledge loueth teach him thy lore No musike hinder thou Where hearyng wanth spare wordes the more And modestie allow Of the vertue of Psalmes WHat man hath hart in heauines With sundry cares opprest And would haue helpe in redines To heale his thoughtfull brest And yet by man in suéertie for Phisike want his cure Thus set in hard perplexitie To God yet trusting sure Let him beholde the melodie of Dauids blissefull harpe In Psalmes there fynde his remedie He may of care so sharpe If forreyne foe or ennemy Hath wasted all thy coastes No helpe thou canst haue suerly more strong to dawnt his boastes If theeues thy goodes haue caught in net And haue made thee ful bare In Psalmes thy mynde if thou do set they will thy losse repayre If wrung thou beest by tyrannie And banishte out of land Thou mayst releaue thy miserie Content by Psalmes to stand If trayne be layd all craftely In spite to trap thy way Take Dauids lore than redily And bid thy foes go play ▪ Thou mournst and sighest in doulefull hart by death thy children gone If Psalmes thou takest in ghostly part They will asswage thy mone In house and land if poore thou lye downe cast on both thy knees Here maist thou haue recouerie for all that thou canst leese If panges and paynes both sharpe and fell with gripes thy body wrynges Sweete Dauids harpe can ease thee well for it good Phisike singes If borne thou be enuiouslie In skorne and great disdayne No patrone thou canst better spie then Dauids life and raigne Thy hie degrée is low deiect by fortunes turnyng blast If Dauids state thou seest reiect thou shalt be lesse agast Thy fieldes lye all in baren sort by burnyng Sunne his heate To Dauids welles if thou resort His dewes thy soyle shal weete Agayne if they be ouerflowne By rage of water streames If Dauids Psalmes thou makest thine owne Thy soyle must feele his beames O foolishe men that marke the skie The Starres and Planets gate By them to searche their destenie and so repose their state And thus what wo or miserie may moue or freat thy hart In Psalmes thou mayst haue remedie to beare all payne and smart Not beare them well I onely saie but them expell ful strong Who like in hart can them defraie as Dauid did among Not thus alone hast thou thine ease of worldly griefe and payne But here thou mayst all soules disease by comfort sweete restrayne So déepe in sinne no wight can bée no conscience so thrall But prest reliefe here may he sée to reyse his deadly fall No wight can be so burdenous mans senses harde to presse But Psalmes that be so vertuous can soone the weight redresse Now go and searche the Discipline of mortall men so vayne Who taught by wit or sort deuine of them these helpes to gayne So foule shalt thou deceiued bée to trust their rules and lawes As dreamers be which thinke to sée all wealth within their clawes Go now to men and beg their art in sicknes thee to saue By meanes vntrue to heale thy smart where God thy hart should haue This Prophet here forbiddeth thee thus once from God to stray Euen he that harpth all melodie of godly wisdomes way For what thou readst Saint Austen holdth in law or stories true In Prouerbs wise or prophets olde the Psalme doth it renue Both what is past and what to come the psalme doth it perfourme It is a law in perfect some to maners them to fourme Though Scripture booke sayth Athanase of vertue rule it bée Yet Psalter booke of soule it hase the state for eche degrée In other bookes where man doth looke but others wordes séeth he As proper hath this onely booke most wordes his owne to be It is a glasse a myrrour bright for soule to sée his state A garden fayre all fully dight with herbes most delicate A treasure house ye may repute this booke of all good lore All wholsome salue to distribute to eche mans griefe and sore For who delyghth them well to sing his mynde shall féele a grace Of sinne both dulde the cursed sting and vertue come in place The Psalmes sayth he in verse be folde and tuned by musike swéete The eare to please of yong and olde so Dauid thought it méete Iosephus sayth and Philo wrighth That Dauid Metres made Quinquemetres some trimetres by musikes tract and trade For that that is commended both with tune and tyme aright It sinkth more swéete and déeper goth in harte of mans delight O wondrous fact of God I saie in his deuise so playne Though we be séene but sing and plaie the soule yet winth his gayne The Psalter booke of Psalterie an instrument so namde For that the Psalmes most commonly to it were tuned and framde And who
conscience described and liuely paynted to his owne sight so that if a man list he might easely gather out thereof certaine considerations of himselfe as out of a bright glasse and playne paterne set before his face so therby to refourme himselfe as he red therin for in other bookes sayth he onely we heare the preceptes of the law what oughte to bee done and what vndone we heare the matter of prophecy to the entent we should not bee ignoraunt of Christes comming vnto vs in the fleshe furthermore we reade the histories wherby the actes of kynges holy fathers might be knowne brought to remēbrance but in the bookes of the Psalmes ouer and aboue that we learne and heare all these foresaid things sufficiently ther◠euery one may see and perceiue the motions and affections of his owne hart and soule both to see whereto he is inclined and where he is streyned and pinched so that he maye haue a very good fourme of prayer therfore not that these motions should lightly fal from his consideration assoone as he haue hard them but to learne how he may heale these his affections and passions by worde and by deede There be in other bookes wordes and sentences which forbid diuers vices and enormities but this booke prescribeth a forme how a man may be cleare of them how to auoyde them As in example we bee bidden to repente vs to do penance told further we be that truly to repent vs is to cease from sinning but in this booke is there a forme set out vnto vs how to do penaunce and what is meete to be said presently at hand in that case and state Furthermore S. Paule teacheth in his doctrine that tribulatiō worketh patience patience bringeth in probation and probation breadeth hope hope is neuer ashamed but in the psalme is set out howe tribulation should be borne and by what waies euery one of vs is tryed and proued and what kind of prayer we may vse to come by this hope in God Also it is commaunded in precept that we shoulde geue thankes in all thinges Nowe doth the Psalme expresse what is meete to be sayd when we do geue thankes Moreouer we heare of other places of Scripture that all such as wil liue godly in Christ shall suffer persecution aduersitie where in the Psalmes we learne how we should be affected when we be exilde and there to flee from tyrannye In them we learne who they be which suffer persecution what thankfull prayers they ought to offer to God whiche be escaped and deliuered from the pursute of their enemies So likewise we be charged to blesse the Lord and to laude him in all thinges but how and in what fourme we should praise god and what words we should pronounce in our laudes singing we haue that instruction in the Psalmes onelye To be short we may there finde in euery case as may ryse most deuine songes and ballets perteinyng as wel to our selfe in person as to our doynges and state whatsoeuer we be in There is also in the Psalmes sayd he one other meruelous thing to be expended For when in other bokes of Scripture beside we reade such thinges as the holy fathers eyther spake in worde or did leaue in writyng we so reade them as though we semed but to recite and rehearse them onely and they which doo heare vs when wee reade such matters straight way they conceiue in their imagination that they be other mens wordes and dedes that they heare and in suche sort are they enflamed to those matters so rehearsed that they bend themselues to be as followers to them to counterfayte the like But whosoeuer take this booke in his hande he reputeth thinketh all the wordes he readeth except the wordes of prophecy to be as his very owne wordes spoken in his owne person yea and whosoeuer do but here them reade he is so affected to them as he were the very man that read them or first spake them and so is disposed to warde the wordes of the verses when they bee vttered as they were properlye his owne onelye wordes first by him conceyued and pronounced So that he shall not esteme thē in a singuler respect referring those wordes to the persons of the Patriarches or of Moyses or of any of the prophets for as much as the psalme without respect of persons do expresse as well the righteous man which obeyeth gods precepts as the sinners which transgresse his preceptes with all their deedes they do So that all maner of men must needes be comprehended in them as of whome the Psalmes make so plaine mention And verely me thinke the psalmes be to him which singeth thē as a glasse where he maye beholde the whole affections of his soule which so vttered to his owne sight he may declare forth to other for who that heareth a man readyng such kynde of poesie vndoubtedly he taketh it so to himself as it were onely of himselfe and so while conscience hathe remorse in the hearyng he is therby compunct and styrred to repentaunce sometyme hearing what grace the psalm doth expresse as done by Christe to his electes and what hope they may haue in him he must needes in the contemplation thereof begin to reioyce in his conscience and geue God his thankes wherupon he which shall sing the third psalme in beholding his owne aduersitie he shall so reporte it as though they were his owne very wordes who that shall rehearse the 10. and 17. psalmes He shall so vtter them as he pronounced his owne hope and trust who shal read the 51. psalme so speaketh he the woordes of a penitent contrite harte as they were his in deede And who that prayeth the 54.56.57.142 he is not so disposed in them as though he should speake of some other which suffreth persecution but as he himselfe felt the same in deede and therfore singeth to God those woordes as his very own wordes and petitions Of the vse and vertue of the Psalmes by Athanasius ALl holye Scripture is certenly the teacher of all vertue and of the true faith but the booke of the Psalmes doth expresse after a certaine manner the verye state and condition of the soule For as he whiche entendeth to present himselfe to a kyng firste will compounde with himselfe to set in good order both his gesture and speache least els he might be reputed rude and ignoraunt Euen so doth this godly booke enforme all suche as be desirous to leade their life in vertue and to knowe the life of our sauiour which he led in his bodely conuersation putting them in mynde in the reading therof First of all their affections and passions wherto their soule is inclined Moreouer the Psalmes forme and teache euery man with diuers instructions whereby he maye not onely espy the affections and state of his soule to winne a good paterne and discipline how he may please God but also with what forme
syng I sayd I will take heede 39. If thou séest many poore men to beg and wilt shew pity to them thou mayst both thy selfe receyue them to mercye and also exhorte other to doo the same saying Blessed is he that considereth the poore 41. If thou hast a desire to Godward and hearest thine enemies to vpbrayde thée bée not troubled but consider what fruite of immortalitie ryseth to thée for this desire comfort thy soule with hope to God and so therein releauyng and asswagyng the heauines of thy lyfe say Like as the hart desireth the water brookes 42. If thou wilt remember of Gods benefites which he dyd to their fathers bothe in theyr out goyng from Egipt as in the deserte and how good God was to them but they vnthankefull to hym Thou hast We haue heard with our eares 44. Heare my law 78. My song shall be alway of the loving kindnes of the Lord. 89. Heare my prayer 102. O geue thankes vnto the Lord. 106. and 107. When Israell came out of Egipt 114. If thou hast made thy refuge to God and hast escaped such trouble as was prepared against thée if thou wylt geue thankes and shew out hys kyndnes to thée syng God is our hope and strength 46. If thou wilt know how to geue thankes to God whē thou doost resort to him wyth vnderstandyng sound sing O clap your handes together 47. Great is the Lore 48. If thou wilt exhort men to put to eir trust in the liuing God who ministreth all things aboundantly to good mēs vse blameth the madnes of the world which sueth theyr God Mammon so inordinately sing O heare this all ye people 49. If thou wouldst call vpon the blynde world for theyr wrong confidence of their brute sacrifices and shew thē what sacrifice God most hath required of them syng The Lord the mighty God 50. If thou hast sinned and art conuerted and moued to do penaunce desirous to haue mercy thou hast woordes of confession in Haue mercy vpon me 51. If thou hast suffred false accusation before the kyng and séest the diuell to triumph therof go aside and say Why boast thou thy selfe 52. If they which persecute thée with accusations woulde betray thée as the Phariseis dyd Iesus and as the alyantes dyd Dauid discomfort not thy selfe therwyth but sing in good hope to God Saue me O God 54.69 Be mercifull vnto me O God 57. If thyne aduersaries which trouble thée do vpbrayde thée and that they which séeme to be thy frendes speake most agaynst thée wherupon if in thy meditation thou art somwhat greued therat thou maist call on God saying Heare my prayer O God 55. If persecution come fierce on thée and vnbewares chance to enter into the caue where thou hydest thy self feare not for in thys strayte thou shalte haue expedient wordes both to comfort thée and to put thée in olde remēbraunce with Be mercifull vnto me O God 57. I cryed vnto the Lord with my voyce 142. If thou wylt confound hypocrites whiche make glorious shewes outwardly speake theyr conuersion Are your myndes set vpon right 58. If thy pursuers commaunde thy house to be watched when thou art escaped geue thankes to God and graue it in the tables of thy harte for perpetuall remembraunce and say Deliuer me from myne enemies 59. If thyne enemies cruelly assault thée and would catch thy lyfe offer the subiection to God agaynst them and be of good comforte for the more they rage the more shall God subdue them and say My soule truely 62. If thou flyest persecution and gettest thée into wildernes feare thou not as though thou were there alone but hauyng God nye vnto thée ryse to hym early in the mornyng sing O God thou art my God earlye will I seeke thee 63. If thyne enemies would put thée in feare and neuer cease to lay traynes for thée and picke all maner quarels agaynst thée though they be very many geue no place to them for the dartes of babes shal be theyr destruction yf thou sayest Heare my cryeng O God 61. Let God aryse 68. Hast thee O God to deliuer me 70. In thee O Lorde 71. If thou wylt laud God wyth a Psalme or hymne sing Thou O God art praysed 65. O be ioyfull 66. If thou askest mercy of God sing God be mercifull 67 If thou wouldest syng to the Lorde thou hast what to say O sing vnto the Lord a new song 96. and 98. If thou hast néede to confesse God wyth thankes sing In thee O Lorde haue I put my trust 71. Vnto thee O God 75. It is a good thing to geue thankes 92. O geue thankes vnto the Lorde 105.118.136 O God my hart 108. I will geue thankes to the Lord with my whole hart 111. and 138. If thou séest wycked men prosper in peace be not offended nor moued there at but say Truelye God is louyng 73. If thyne enemies haue beset the wayes whether thou fléest and art thereby in great anguishe yet in thys trouble dispayre not but pray and if thy prayer be hard geue God thankes and say I will cry to God 77. If they perseuer still and defile the house of God kill hys elects and cast theyr bodies to the foules of the ayre feare not their cruelty but shew pity to them which be in such agany and say O God the Heathen are come 79. If thou wilt enforme anye man with the mysterie of the resurrection sing Heare O thou shepeheard 80. If thou wilt sing to the Lord call together Gods seruauntes on the feastfull day and sing Syng we merely 81. O come let vs sing vnto the Lord. 95. Beholde now prayse the Lord. 134. If the aduersaries flocke together on euery side and threate to destroy the house of God and make their conspiracies against hys religion let not theyr numbers and power trouble thée for thou hast an anker of the wordes of thys Psalme Holde not thy tonge 83. If thou castest an eye to gods house and to his eternal tabernacles and hast a desyre therto as the Apostle had say thou also O how amiable are thy dwellinges 84. If Gods wrathe be ceased and the captiuitie ended thou hast cause how to geue thankes to God wyth Dauid recountyng hys goodnes to thée and others with this Psalme Lord thou art become grations 85. I beleued and therfore will I speake 116. in the ende In Iurye is God knowne 76. If thou wilt rebuke Paynyms and heretikes for that they haue not the knowledge of God in them thou maist haue an vnderstandyng to sing to God Bowe downe thyne eare O Lord. 86. Not to vs O Lord not vnto vs. 115. If thou wilte sée and know the dissent that the catholike churche haue from schismes and wouldest conuert them or to discerne the church concernyng the outward appearaunce and formes therof thou mayst say Her foundations are vpon the holy hils 87. If thou wouldest know how Moyses prayde to God in hys meditation recountyng the
asswage and release them agayne by a soft kinde of harmonie at his will and pleasure Of whom it is writteÌ„ that when he had at a tyme before Alexander sung the Phrigian harmonie he excited him as he was at supper to runne to warre and again by his most gentle and easie harmonie brought hym again to the table among his gestes Such strenght vertue is set in the true vse of musike As Pithagoras once by chance was in coÌ„pany among a sort of wantoÌ„ drunken folke wherupon he bad the mynstrell to change his song to rebuke their dissolute wantonnes with playeng to them the Dorian harmonie by which musike they were cast so in a shame of theÌ„selfe that they threw from theÌ„ their garlands fled home all confused for their lightnes where before by the harmonie he played they raged in fury as men out of their wittes So muche auaileth it to haue our eares filled with vertuous or vitious songes wherefore I would yong men should haue so little a do with such songes of musike as nowe a dayes be moste set by as they would with any thing most monstruous and vicious ye let them ensue that other kinde of musicall songes muche better then the other and stirreth vs to better thinges I meane that was vsed of Dauid the Poete of holye songes by whiche he pacified the mynde of Saule when he was in his raging fury ¶ That the whole multitude of the church sang their Psalmes together testifieth S. Ambrose li. exameron 3. ca. 5. WHat other thing is this consent and congregation of waters but as it were the harmonie singing together of the people wherupon the church is well compared oftentimes to the Seas which churche by the first rushyng in entrie of the people gusheth out as it were waters about all the porches and allies of the temple after that in the prayer of all the billowes meting together make a great noise by the responsaries and answers of the Psalms as when there riseth vp as it were a concorde rebounde of the waters by the singing of men women virgins and children ¶ Nicephorus telleth that the catholike church from the beginning hath receyued the custome of singing Psalmes and hymnes ANd the auntient church euen from the apostles haue receiued the maner of Anthems that is to sing their songes by sides and by course And it is said that diuine Ignatius which was the third Bishop in Antioche churche from Peter the Apostle who liued also a long tyme with the Apostles beyng in a traunse saw a new vision how that the holy aungels did extol in praise the blessed Trinitie with their songs by course one answering an other Wherupon he was the first that did deliuer this forme of singing to the church of Antioch from whoÌ„ as froÌ„ the spring this custome is spred throughout all churches Bernarde in his 312. epistle to Abbate Guido IF song be had at any tyme let it be ful of grauitie that it neither sounde out wantonnes nor rudenes let it be so sweete that it be not light let it so delighte the eares that it moue the hartes in asswaging heauines and tempering ire Let it not depriue the letter of the sence but rather augment it For it is no light losse of spirituall grace to be caried away from the profitablenes of the sence with the lightnes of the notes and to bee more carefull vpon the chanting of the voyce then to geue heede to the matter Lo thus you see what is comely to come into the hearyng of the church what he is that is the author of the same Henrie Haward Earle of Surrie in his Ecclesiastâ—â—es All such as enterprise To put newe thinges in vre Of them that scorne shall their deuise May well themselues assure THis booke is called of the Seuentie Interpretres a Psalter by the name of a Musicall instrument Wherunto as to some others these Psalmes were sunge The Hebrewes name it a booke of laudes or prayses Christ our Lorde calleth it Psalmes and the booke of Psalmes As dothe also Peter the Apostle out of the whiche because our Sauiour Christe taketh hys testimonies he sheweth that they were written by the inspiration of the holy ghost ¶ This first Psalme is as a Preface of the booke to exhorte all men to the studie of Scriptures to get heauenly wisdom and it teacheth that godly men be blessed of God and wycked men be accursed of hym whose endes shall be thereafter The first Psalme ¶ The Argument This Psalme in sence of men both good and bad Shewth difference of men both good and bad It shewth their fruites their endes both glad sad Their hartes pursuites their endes both glad sad 1 MAn blest no doubt who walkth not out in wicked mens affayres And stondth no daie in sinners waie nor sitth in scorners chayres 2 But holdth euen still Gods lawe in will with all his hartes delight And will him vse on it to muse to kéepe it day and night 3 He like shall bée the planted trée nie set the riuers course Which fruth in tyde whose leaues abide all prosperth what he doese 4 Not so not so the wicked do lyke dust or chaffe they bée Uphoyst by winde as light by kynde from face of earth to sée 5 Therfore these men so wicked then in iudgement shall not stand Nor sinners bée in companie of righteous men of hand 6 The Lord doth know and will auow mens wayes that are of God Where shall decaie the beaten waie of wicked men so brode ¶ The Collecte O Blessed father make vs to be as fruitfull trees before thy presence so watered by the dewe of thy grace that we may glorifie thee by the plenteousnes of sweete fruite in our daily conuersation thorough Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ The Argument Psalme II. Of Christ ye see Thus Dauid spake with vs A Prophecie Thus Dauid spake with vs As merueiling Should rage against him thus That earthly king Should rage against him thus 1 WHy fumeth in sight The Gentils spite In fury raging stout Why taketh in hond the people fond Uayne thinges to bring about 2 The kinges arise the lordes deuise in counsayles mett therto Agaynst the Lord with false accord against his Christ they go 3 Let vs they say breake downe their ray of all their bondes and cordes We will renounce that they pronounce their loores as stately lordes 4 But God of might in heauen so bright Shall laugh them all to scorne The Lord on hie shall them defie they shall be once forlorne 5 Then shall his ire speake all in fire to them agayne therfore He shall with threate their malice beate in his displeasure sore 6 Yet am I set a king so great on Sion hill full fast Though me they kill yet will that hill my lawe and worde outcast 7 Gods wordes decréed I Christ wil sprede for God thus sayd
myne heritage to sée 7 The Lord to blisse I wyll not mysse who gaue me counsayle so My reynes by nyght yet shewd me lyght in thought to God to go 8 In face I set my God so great he alwayes was my marke For strong he standth on my ryght hand how can I fall in darke 9 For helpe thus had my harte was glad my glory ioyed his fill My flesh in graue though earth it haueth yet rest in hope it will 10 For why in hell my soule to dwell thou wilt not leaue it there The holy one corruption to sée thou canst not beare 11 Thou shalt shew mée lyues path 〈◊〉 sée and ioy in thy good sight Thy ryght hand hase all ioyfull grace to stand for aye in might â–ª ¶ The Collecte PReserue O mighty Lorde all them whiche trust in thee graue in our hurtes to fulfill 〈◊〉 holy will that whyle we be recomforted with the ioyfull remembraunce of thy resurrection we may attayne to sitte on thy right hande wyth thy blessed sayntes in ioy euerlasting through Christ c. The Argument Psalme XVII That fayth myght stand the iust man praythfull fayne In vpper hand the iust man praythfull fayne And museth in part thus should be vext in payne That iust in hart thus should be vext in payne 1 HEare thou the right O Lord my might consider my complaynt My lippes be streight and hate deceight geue eare to my constraynt 2 Geue thou assent to myne entent in hand my right to take Let thy good eye my cause discrye for thée my iudge I make 3 My hart thou tridst by nyght thou spâ—dst thou scorndst me nye in déed Thou foundst not yet my fault so great my thought to mouth agréed 4 Mens workes ful nought by them so wrought agaynst thy worde and wyll Made me to marke theyr wayes most darke thy lawes who do but spill 5 O stay my féete of lyfe most méete thy worde to holde the path Least wrong I walke thy truth to balke to slip in thy great wrath 6 O God of all on thée I call for thou my sute wyâ—â— heare Enclyne to mée thy face so frée my wordes in hearyng beare 7 Thy mercies great extend thou yet saue them whych trust in thée From such as stand agaynst thy hand and vayne resisters bée 8 As ball of eye O tenderly kepe me my Lord and kyng And shadow me so close to be hyd vnder thy good wyng 9 Defend me quyte from all the spyte of them that me molest My foes I sée round compasse me my soule to haue opprest 10 So fat and fed they iet so redde in wealth they stand full hye Proud spéeche to séeke euen what they léeke they walke disdaynfully 11 In wayes they wayte to note our gate so set on euery side They bend theyr eyes as crafty spies on ground to cast vs wyde 12 Lyke Lyon slye they priuy lye which gréedy séekth his pray As close it were fierce wolfe or beare or Lyons whelpe they lay 13 For thy renowne ryse cast hym downe destroy hys spyte O God My soule O saue from wycked â—laue who is thy sword and rod. 14 From men so fond that be thy hond O Lord from worldly beast Who make good chere thou filst them here they leaue theyr babes the rest 15 And I shall bold thy face beholde in righteousnes so bryght I shall in déede be satisfide thy glory brought to lyght ¶ The Collecte COnuert the eyes of our faith O dere father to beholde the truth of thy iudgement that when wee be tryed by the spirituall fire of probation we maye haue at the last fruition of thy glorious presence to be satisfied wyth the fruite of thy righteousnes Thorough Christ our Lorde Amen The Argument Psalme XVIII Christ here in this geueth thankes to God aright For hym and his geueth thankes to God aright For that they bee from all vngodly spight Deliuered free from all vngodly spight 1 I Will loue thée most inwardly O Lord my strength thou art Thy mercies all both great and small do comfort much my hart 2 My Lord is hence my rocke and fence my sauyng God I say My myght and shield my trust in field my horne of health my stay 3 The Lorde alwayes most worthy prayes on hym I mynde to call So safe shall I most stedfastly escape myne enemies all 4 The greuousnes of deadly stresse dyd compasse me about The streames of sinne so whelmd me in they troubled me full out 5 The paynes of hell that were so fell dyd me inclose full fast The trappes and snares of deadly cares preuented me in hast 6 In troublous wo I cald vnto my Lord my God in feare To heare my case his will it was my cry euen toucht hys eare 7 The earth did shake for feare did quake the hils theyr bases shooke Remoued they were in place most faire at Gods ryght fearefull looke 8 Darke smoke rose so hys face there fro hys mouth as fire consumde That coales at it were kyndled bryght when he in anger fumde 9 The heauens fullow he made to bowe and downe dyd he ensue And darkenes great was vnder set his féete in clowdy hue 10 He rode on hye and dyd so flye vpon the Cherubins He came in sight and made hys flight vpon the wyng of wyndes 11 His place he set In darkenes great as secret there to byde Wyth cloudes about he set it out wyth waters blacke beside 12 At hys great light of present sight the cloudes past ouer quight As stones of hayle do melt and quayle by coales in fire light 13 The Lord from heauen sent down his leauen and thundred thence in ire He thunder cast in wonders blast wyth hayle and coales of fire 14 With arrow dartes he gald theyr hartes and scatterd them about And forth he bringes hys lightnyngs the Lord destroyd theyr rout 15 When he dyd thret the waters set theyr springes to be dewrayed The blastyng breath of hys great wrath the worldes déepe boâ—tome shewd 16 From heauen aboue his grace and loue to fetche me he dyd send From waters déepe he dyd me kéepe he dyd me strong defend 17 He dyd represse I saw no lesse my foes that strongest be And rid me quite of all theyr spite to strong they were for me 18 They dyd preuent with troublement the day of my great stresse Yet Gods good hand dyd them wythstand preuentyng theyr excesse 19 In libertie he placed mée and led me strayght thereto He brought me out of stresse no doubt hys grace dyd loue me so 20 The Lord dyd thus most gracious my dealyng he aloude He dyd me quite as he in sight me innocent approued 21 For Gods true wayes I kept alwayes Hys law I trustd therto Wyth my Lord God I still abode the wycked do not so 22 I haue an eye hys law to spye from mans tradition Nor hys precept dyd I reiect to my destruction 23 And pure I went wyth true
entent before my God also I iust eschude my déede so rude I gaue good héede therto 24 For doyng iust my Lord I trust will frendly me requite My righteous déede as well did spéede in hys approued sight 25 As man is iust so mayst thou trust wyth good so good to bée Wyth perfect man so thou agayne shall perfect be and frée 26 And thus wyth pure thou mayst be sure thou shalt be pure and cleane Euen so wyth euill of froward will euen froward shalt thou meane 27 For thou to saue wilt soone wyth saue the méeke in all theyr wo And shalt deryde mens stately pryde and make them low to go 28 For thou dydst lyght my candell bryght and kéepst my fortune ryght The Lord my God dyd ease my rod and darkenes tournd to lyght 29 For strong to sée I was by thée whole hostes to dyng downe ryght In God no dout I was so stout stone wall to leape it quite 30 Gods way I wis vnspotted is hys worde is tryde in fire He is a shield to man in field who trust to hym intiere 31 What God is there euen any where but this the Lord of hostes What rocke excelth in strength so well as thys our God in coste 32 For God euen he round girdeth me wyth strength and feate of warre He kéepth my way in redy stay lest vyce my lyfe should marre 33 He makth my féete as swyft and méete as féete of hartes to sée In perfect grace he stayd my race and sate me vp on hye 34 My handes aryght he made to fyght both diuell and man to wryng Myne armes in partes did breake their dartes yea bowes of stéele wyth stryng 35 Thy sauyng shield kept me in field thy right hand me sustaynd Thy bounteousnes dyd ease my stresse though greuously it paynd 36 Thou gauest me roume where euer I come to stand to go to ryde Full strong to stand on sea and land my héeles dyd neuer slyde 37 I dyd rechase my foes in face and ouer tooke theyr spyte I dyd not stynt wyth sword the dynt till I had stroyed them quite 38 I dyd them bray in such aray theyr woundes shall neuer heale They could not ryse in any wyse but fall at myne owne héele 39 Strait girdst thou me wyth strength to be to warre euen full inured Thou threwest them round vpon the ground my soule who thus pursude 40 These noughty packes did turne their backes theyr neckes thou madest me smight My haters fell thou didst them quell downe thou dydst beat them right 41 They cryde dismayde and craued ayde but none to helpe was there Whan they did crie to God so hie then God did turne hys eare 42 I dyd as small thus beat them all as dust before the wynde As clay in stréete oft trode wyth féete I dyd them stampe and grynde 43 Thou rydst my lyfe from peoples stryfe thou didst me sure preserue To Gentiles bred thou madest me hed straunge people me dyd serue 44 When me they heare at sound of eare they me now soone obey Wher children strange their frendship change all falshoode they dewray 45 These children strange which strangely range so vp and downe dyd fayle They all afrayd in fearefull brayd in theyr great forts shall wayle 46 The Lord lyue hée most blessedly who was my helper strong God rowsed bée my rocke so frée hym prayse I will full long 47 This God of ours he geueth me powers t' auenge my wycked foes And doth subdue my people true that they like subiectes goes 48 He daunted so my cruell â—o to them he made me head From wicked spite thou dydst me quite theyr wickednes to tread 49 For thys O Lord in hart and word I will geue thankes in song Of thy great name thy power to fame where Gentils dwel among 50 Hys kyng he sought he health hym wrought he shewed true loue in déede To Dauid true annoynted due and aye to his good séede ¶ The Collecte MOst louyng Lord and puissant protectour which art our refuge in all distresse and aduersitie preserue vs from all hostilitie and froÌ„ the snares of death and hell so that after we be drawne vp from the danger of all maner temptations we maye deuoutly syng to thy holy name in all puritie of life Through c. ¶ The Argument Psalme XIX This Psalme deliteth who is to sunne comparde Gods worke to cyte who is to sunne comparde His law it treateth of his Apostles garde And so it speaketh of his Apostles garde 1 THe heauens do tell how God excelth in glory power and might The firmament so excellent his handy worke endight 2 For day to day succéedyng aye doth playne hys power declare As night to nyght ensuyng ryght setteth out hys louyng care 3 No speche or tong to them doth long theyr voyce distinct not hard To magnifie theyr Lord so hie by languages regard 4 But yet theyr sound as wordes rebound on all the earth it strayes To further cost all vttermost their noyse theyr maker prayse 5 In them he set the sunne so net ¶ lyke bridegrome which procéedth His chamber out as Giaunt stout reioyceth hys course to spéede 6 His course goeth out euen round about the heauen and backe retreath From East to West it hath no rest all thyng doth féele hys heate 7 Gods law is iust a law to trust as spotlesse turnyng hartes His wytnes pure record is sure to babe it wyt impartes 8 The Lordes behest is all the best to ioy the hart in ryght His biddinges be so pure to sée blynd syght they turne to lyght 9 The Lord his feare is cleane and cleare which euer shall endure His iudgementes bée the truth most frée and be themselues full sure 10 They be to vs more gracious then gold or precious stone To man more méete then hony swéete they passe the hony combe 11 Yea more then this thy seruant is to kéepe them alway prest And sure shall he rewarded be wyth ioy whych is behest 12 Synnes which be wrought in déed thought wythout thys law who knowth Fro faultes that lye oh secretly thy clensing hand bestow 13 From sinnes of pryde thy seruanthyde that me they do not guide That vndefilde and lesse beguilde the great sinne myght I slyde 14 My wordes thus said my thoughts depe laid God graunt they please thy sight O Lord my power my rocke and â—â—wer and my redemer quite ¶ The Collecte MOst mercifull and louyng Sauiour Christ which once comming forth out of the virginal wombe didst proceede vp to the right hand of thy father we beseche thee that we may be so conuerted by the law illightened by thy preceptes and taught by thy holy testimonies to be deliuered froÌ„ all straunge doctrine and craftye inuasions agaynst our fayth who lyuest and raignest c. ¶ The Argument Psalme XX. This prayth for kinges Good prosperinges theyr realmes to haue defence Where Christ is ment By fore entent of Dauids
agayne So be it aye of men so well wyth twise at ende Amen Amen The Collecte MOst gentle remitter of sinne almighty God who louingly shewest the way to escape all daungers to such as be mercifull to theyr brethren in their neecssities we beseche thee to ease our diseases that where thou doost chastise our carnall offences yet wyth mercy graunt vs health of soule through Christ. ¶ The ende of the first booke Here beginneth the second booke of Psalme ▪ The Argument Psalme XLII As Christ the Lord for hym and hys In trust did pray in paynfull stresse So man euen like as did his head May iust the same in worde expresse 1 EUen lyke in chase the hunted Hynde the water brookes doth glad desire Euen thus my soule that faintie is to thée my God would fayne aspire 2 My wery soule dyd thyrst to God To God the fount of lyfe and grace It sayd euen thus when shall I come To sée at eye Gods liuely face 3 My teares in stede of foode and meate Both day and nyght to me they were Whyle that all day rebukers sayd Where is thy God fro thée so far 4 When this O Lord came soone to hart I yet therin recomfort felt And trust to lead the people forth to go full glad where thou hast dwelt 5 To ioy in hart and voyce of myrth Wyth laudes thankes most due alway Among thy folke when that they kepe So hye in sight theyr holy day 5 Why castes thy selfe than flatly downe My fainty soule I sayd no lesse Why layest in me so painfully In greuous wo and carefulnes Put thou thy trust and hope in God Let earthly thyng not thée amase I wyll hym thanke for all his helpe In sight most sure of hys good grace 6 My God my soule is dayly vext Wyth inward paynes pangs so thrill I mynde thy workes ▪ in Iordan yet so done by thée next Hermon hill 7 As déepe profound to déepe reboundth at dreadfull noyce of thy great showers Thy streames by course so ouerflowes My soule alasse the payne deuoures 8 But God yet will commaund the day To shyne most clere me grace to sée My night of wo shall prayse hym than Who kept yet lyfe to byde in mée 9 Thou art my strength alone O God I myght therby than playne in wo Why hast me thus forgot so quyte So sad to go for mortall fo 10 It pierceth my bones as sharpe as sword To heare my foes in cruell spyte They daily thus at me vpbreyde Where is become thy God of myght 11 Why art thou then I say my soule So vext wyth griefe and prostrate so Why makest in me so much a do Where God is frende in all thy wo. 12 O put thy hope I byd in God I trust therto in tyme and place He is my God whom I wyll thanke My face shall sée hys helpyng grace ¶ The Collecte O Lord which art the onelye chearer of mans conscience and countenance wyth the aspect of thy face which the soules of thy faythfull seruauntes do long to beholde We beseche thee that whyle we seke thy fauour by the manifold teares of our compuncte myndes we may be watred wyth the heauenly showers of thy grace to place thee within the tabernacle of our hartes Through c. The Argument Psalme XLIII For Saule hys wrong among Philistians Prayd Dauid strong among Philistians The poore euen so may thus theyr cry auance To God in wo. may thus theyr cry auance 1 O God eterne as iudge discerne my cause from folkes vncleane And ryd me so from man that go in vyce and guyle doth meane 2 My God of myght thou art of ryght Why hast vs dryuen from thée Whyle thus go I so mournfully at mens hostilitie 3 Send out thy lyght and truth to sight to leade and guyde my way To sée thy place thy hyll of grace where thou doost rest all day 4 That I may go Gods aulters to to thée my God euen tyll To thée my ioye my God and roye wyth harpe thée thanke I wyll 5 My soule so dull why art so full of griefe and heauines Why standst agast as helpe were past such thoughtes why doost impresse Put all thy trust in God most iust I wyll hym thankes extende He shewth me grace euen nye at face as God all health he sendth ¶ The Collecte WE call vpon thee wyth most harty supplication O God which art the eternall fountayne of all light shyne on vs the glorious lyght of thy truth whyle we here trauayle in thys world to be illimited wyth the beames of euerlasting lyght of glory in the worlde to come through c. The Argument Psalme XLIII Poore Dauid prest by tyranny Of wilfull Saule who could not blin For his blacke garde to search hym nye Prayth thus to God his helpe to winne And wysheth that he his cause would try He thus beginneth 1 AH iudge me God O iudge most true Discern my cause by power opprest Unfaintly men do me pursue By lawes vniust my right deprest Which yet thy word allowth full due O geue me rest Rule me to scape that wycked man That sinfull Saule of shameles face Who boasteth himselfe all that he can And doth vsurpe thy godly place Whose power by sleite and sinne began O iudge my case 2 Know this I do my God thou art To thée my strength I whole appeale Why putst me backe why standst apart My state to thée I iust reueale Why turnst from mée thy louyng hart O mercy deale Eternall God why go I thus Ashamd in face and vily checkt My cause but made opprobrious Why doth my fo thus me reiect To beare me downe so rigorous O me respect 3 Returne thy light my hart to cheare Perfourme thy fayth that thou hast hight Thy lyght and truth let it appeare To teache the blynde thy worde so bryght That it may rule as law most deare O kepe thy ryght Make hast O Lord and bring me nye Thy holy hill to sing thy prayse Thy truth and lyght of sanctuarie Will be my guide in all these frayes Expell thys crosse thys misery O cheare my dayes 4 That I may go gods aulters to To offer thankes in sacrifice In hart deuout as due is so Yea nye in sight to God to rise My God of ioy ease thou my wo O glad myne eyes That thou alone hast geuen reliefe I thée wyll laude wyth harpe and lute My God intiere my helpe in chiefe Thou shalt my foes for me confute So me to ayde to ease my griefe O heare my sute 5 Why then my soule art thou so sad Why fretst within why troublest me So foule dismayd in thoughts bestad Knowst not that God thy God is he Call thys to mynde to make thée glad O make me frée Euen trust to God in stablenes No more but trust for sure he is I will hym yet wyth laudes confesse For he wyll cheare my face iwis
God detect That truth was raisde and lyes deiect 1 THe lyuing Lord doth raigne as king The erth therfore full glad may sing The iles may ioy so many sene That he is come to make thē clene 2 Thicke cloudes and darke be him about On wycked men to thunder stout Both iustice right and equitie Of his high throne the bases bée 3 The fyre him goeth before in sight Wyth blasing leames of fearefull lyght By which full wyde he doth enflame Hys foes to burne which scorne his name 4 His lighteninges shyne the world full out On euery side whote sparkes to spout The earth at sight for feare doth quake No puissance can resistence make 5 The mountaynes hye as ware did melte At God his face thus present feit I say at face of Lord so hye The earth dyd feale his maiestye 6 The heauens declare his rightwisnes When he by them strikth wickednes All peoples thus his glory sawe How drad he is whom all should awe 7 A shamde be all which Idols serue Who chose vayne gods from God to swerne Ye angels all which seruauntes be Come worship hym bowe downe your knée 8 So Sion ioyed in hearing this And Iury ioyd in townes of hys O Lord for these thy domes entent That such should haue sharpe punishment 9 For thou O Lord doost all excell That here by low in earth do dwell Exalted far in name thou art Aboue all Gods so new vpstart 10 O ye that loue thys Lord so hye Hate ye all vyce of mawmetrye He kéepth theyr soules who serue hym pure From wycked hand to ryd them sure 11 Now lyght is sprong to ryghteous man That day from darke ▪ discerne he can And ioy is falne to rightfull hart From whence no power can hym depart 12 Then ioy ye iust in thys your Lord Thys lyght hys grace alway record Hys holines well thynke and thanke Hys name confesse therin be franke ¶ The Collecte O Lord the preseruer of all thy faythfull sayntes on whom as on thyne electe portion thou doost perpetually raigne inspire we besech thee into our harts the bright beames of the scriptures of thy prophets and apostles that what soeuer as yet remayne in our hartes as sauoring the olde carnall blyndnes of our originall darknes may be illitened by the heauenly lyght of thy holy sprite to whom c. The Argument Psalme XCVIII Here thankes be done that God in worde most true Sent Christ his sonne mans losse agayne to cure All thinges that bee must laud hym euer due Such peace to see restord in earth so sure 1 SYng ye all new to God a song on hye For he most true hath meruels newly wrought Hys able hand hath wonne hym victory Hys arme so grand this helth to man hath brought 2 The Lord of loue thys health hath open layd So man to moue to serue in hart aryght Hys righteousnes he hath full plainly splayd For theyr redresse to Gentiles eyes and syght 3 He cald to mynde hys gentle mercies frée To Iacob kynde hys truth and fayth to kepe ▪ The earth all whole thys helth dyd fully sée O hym extoll thys God our Lord so meke 4 Thou earth sing out all whole I say full glad In voyce most stout with gentle musikes sound To God thy Lord reioyce for mercy had Thy songes record thou art most duely bound 5 Yea sing in harpe to God and Lord so hye Sing round sharpe wyth all thy tunes and stringes Wyth harpe bid I with note of Psalmodie Your voyce apply to ioy these heauenly thinges 6 With trūpets blow wyth shaulme so swetely sing Both hye and low extende your harty strength Make iubilies before this heauenly king For Lord he is to serue I say at length 7 Let eke the seas rose out in merie chere Thys Lord to please wyth all her fishe in store The world so round and all the dwellers there your voyce rebound to prayse this Lord the more 8 The floudes a like Let them now clap their hands This Lord to seke wyth man in ioyfull hart The mountayns hie so houge aboue the landes Let them be by to daunce wyth man in part 9 To God do this let it in sight be plyed For come he is as lord to iudge the land Hys iustice sword the worlde shall iudge and guide Hys equall word to all shall euenly stande ¶ The Collecte POure into our harts O Lord thy healthfull grace which thou hast reuelde to all Gentiles so spred by the rightwisnes of thy gospel we hūbly besech thee that as thou once camest to be iudged and condemned for vs most misera le sinners so at thy next returne thou would graunt vs mercy to escape thy fearefull iudgement for whom thou tokst vpon thee to be condemned for the raunsome of our sinne to whom with the father c. ¶ The Argument Psalme XCIX Swete Christ his raigne this Psalme compristh As Rabins all can say no lesse God graunt that they with vs would ryse To sing these thankes to hym in fleshe 1 THe Lord to raigne is bent therin All folke ought than his presence dread He sitteth betwixe the Cherubin Let all the earth then quake I reade 2 This Lord is great in Zion séene Where power he sheweth ruleth with loue And hye he is on all the Heathen If they a like their hartes would moue 3 O let them all thy name confesse The bad to beate the good to blisse For greate it is in fearefulnes The power therof most sacred is 4 All Princely power loueth equitye And equitye thou broughtst in sight In Iacobs stocke thou didst applye To iudgement true and iustice right 5 Our Lord this God O magnifye Both Iewes and Gréekes your wayes relēt To his fotestole his sacrarye Bow downe your knées most reuerent 6 As Moses méeke so Aaron graue Were chiefe his priestes so Samuell Among them were his power to craue They cryed to God he hard them well 7 To them in cloud spred pillour like He spake as all the people sawe They did his hests and statutes kepe Which he them gaue in pact for law 8 O Lord our God thou hardst them iust And spardst them Lord for thine owne sake Yea when with plagues thou didst thē thrust For foule attempts which they did make 9 Extoll this God our Lord so frée Fall downe before his holy hill For God our Lord in maiestye Most sacred is and iust in will ¶ The Collecte THou art both Lord and king we most humbly cōfesse it right deare sauiour although the Iewishe phariseyes saye the contrary thou only gouernst the hartes and conscience of men and by thy only grace doost iustifye the same we beseche thee so to rayse vp the piller of thy heauenly light to shyne to our soules that we may be alway defended from all errour and aduersitie to offer vnto thee the sacrifice of prayer in thankes geuing who liuest raignest one god with
winne No day doth passe but that I steare my mind to muse therein 2 Now hast thou made my wit excell my foes by thy precepts No time there is but that I mel with them in my concepts 3 Note this I do I am more wise then all my teachers be No dout for this that I aduise thy testimonies free 4 Not aged men haue knowlege like I them exceede to far No question for that I kepe thy lawes familier 5 Nedes must I stey and so I do my feete from path of vice No witherward aside to go but keepe thy words deuise 6 Nought do I shrinke one ynch awry from thy decrees amisse No prayse to me doth rise therby for thou hast taught me this 7 New fragant tast by thy sweete word O how my pallat felt No hony combe set on my bourd such swetenes euer delt 8 Notorious my wisdome grew by thy commaundements No wicked wayes then will I sue I hate all crafty flents Lucerna 1 O Lord thy word a lanterne is full cleare to guide my féete Ondoubted light that will not misse to rule my pathes most méete 2 Oth once I spake and promise made in hart I full decréed Obserue that I should whole in trade thy iust and righteous réede 3 Opprest I am O Lord to hye in soule in sprite in flesh Of this sore crosse reuiue thou me thy worde pretendth no lesse 4 Oh let my mouthes frée sacrifice please thée O Lord at will Ope thou my wits in ghostly wyse teach me thy iudgementes skill 5 Onsure my lyfe all day I sée my soule lyeth in aye hand Obliuious yet thy law to flée I will not so be bond 6 Onrightfull men and obstinate for me a snare haue layd Offend thy law yet will I not to renne from it astraid 7 Obtaynd I haue thy witnesses in iust fée simple state Oblected so my fansy is with them most delicate 8 One thing in hart inclynde I to to worke thy statutes lore Once this to misse I will not so to ende for euermore Iniquos 1 Presumpteous men which guiles deuise I hate as hypocrites Pure law of thine most hie I prise for that all truth behightes 2 Protectour thou thou art my bower thou art my trusty shield Persist I will in thy good power I trust thy word so mylde 3 Part ye from me malignaunt men your by pathes wrong I hafe Performe I shall more iust and playne my Gods precepts in gate 4 Plucke vp my hart O me sustayne by thy swéete worde to lyue Pinche not my hope with shames disdayn to make my hart to rine 5 Preserue me still in sure defence so safe I shall remayne Promoote thy wordes intelligence I shall alway full fayne 6 Presse downe thou wilt all thē to nought which erre frō thy decrées Playne lies they forge in crafty thought they frame but fallacies 7 Proud men lyke drosse thou wilt remoue which iet in earth so stout Precellently therfore I loue thy witnesses full out 8 Perplext with feares my flesh doth shake when I thy power do marke Profound afrayes my soule haue take thy iudgements be so darke Feci iudicium 1 Quite out my life I delt with that which lawfull was and right To Quarelers vp geue me not my soule with wrong to spite 2 Queynt thou my hart delightfully in things of perfect name In Quire ellys will the proud therby Some cause my life to shame 3 Quicke sight I lost Mine eyes wer wast for wayting long thy helth I Quothd and sight and longed fast thy rightwise worde of wealth 4 Quit me O Lord thy seruaunt poore from sinne and mercy reatch So Quicken me in all thy lore and me thy statutes teach 5 Quire out the truth that right I may O vnderstanding graunt In Quiet mind to thee I pray as seruaunt suppliant 6 Qualms ouerwhelmd my wofull hart for men haue stroyd thy law O Quel them Lord as iudge thou art the time doth aske thine aw 7 Quench not my sprit with these thy foen for I thy lawes do loue No Querry geuyth such gold or stone which I would prise aboue 8 Quake might my hart if all thy lawes I held not all the best No Question I loue thy sawes all false wayes I detest Mirabilia 1 Right wonderfull set hy aloft thy testimonies are Reuolue therfore then will I oft my soule shall kepe them nar 2 Resort who doth thy law the doore winth light as shewth the profe Ripe wisdome riseth therby in store to simple mens behoue 3 Rayse vp my mouth I did apert for wind my breth I drew Refresht for that I wisht my hart with thy sweete statutes vew 4 Respect me Lord not me refuse my strength were els but lame Rue than on me as thou dost vse on them that loue thy name 5 Rule thou my steps thy word to tread forme them to lyue therby Reigne can no pride in all my head to vanity to fly 6 Redeme me Lord from iniury of men in quarels vayne Retayne I may more constantly thy constitutions plaine 7 Reueale to me thy seruant true thy louely face so bright Renue my sprite my soule endue teach me thy statutes right 8 Ran down my cheekes did water streames for that thy law they balke Rough cheare I made to note all realms against thy law to walke Iustus es Domine 1 Séene right thou art full good and iust O Lord in veritie So righteous be thy domes discust all iudged in equitie 2 Strayt hast thou chargd that mē should haunt thy testimonies réede Still fayth to speake still truth to graunt most vehement at néede 3 Sower zeale fret me in gelousie for ire nye spent I was Set whole for that my foes I spy from all thy wordes to passe 4 Skord cleane full out thy word is séene fine tride frō drosse vnpure Sticke fast to it thy seruaunt meanth in hart to loue it sure 5 Smal though I séeme and vile at eye to vaunting insolentes Slide yet shall not my memory from thy commaundements 6 Sound righteousnes thy iustice is and that which still will last Sure truth thy law is so iwiffe I trust therto full fast 7 Smart woes sharpe when they did presse I by spite abused Swéete comfort yet did me refresh thy hestes when I perused 8 Stand euer shall thy witnesses in ryghteousnes to stay Send wisdome then well teach me this that euer lyue I may Clamaui 1 Thy grace to winne cried loud I haue from hart effectuall Then aunswere me O Lord with saue thy statutes kepe I shall 2 To thee I suyd O saue me thou I sued to none beside That iust I may in life avow thy testimonies tried 3 The dawning day ▪ preuentingly I cried most earnest than Trust fast I did thy words for why my hope therby I wan 4 Tyme watch of night mine eyes preuent so rath I then awoke Thus that I might some thing commēt of thy true
euen iust in them of Gods hye house so bright In mydst of thée Hierusalem O prayse this Lord aright ¶ The Collecte GOd the clenser of manes soule froÌ„ the filthynes of sinne which in redines doost coÌ„fort his sprite that call vpon thee faythfully we besech thee to plucke vs from the daunger of death and hell and to place vs in the region of the lyuing where death and sinne be abolished Through Christ. Psalme CXVII ¶ The Argument \ Laudate Dominum This Hymne doth endight Gods glorious might His truth and grace most free That Gentils a farre Were made to be narre With Iewes one flocke to bee \ 1 PRayse duly the lord in myndful accord ye hethen ones all vayne Ye Gentils I bid recount how ye sâ—id prayse this Lord agayne And honour ye right this Lord in his light ye nations all in town All people I say where euer ye lay extoll this Lordes renowne 2 For méerly hys grace and mercifull face confirmd lyeth on vs all â–ª Hys loue doth excell all sinne to debell his grace is generall This lord in his truth most stable ensuth his word promise iust The faith of his way will neuer decay O praise this lord of trust ¶ The Collecte ALmighty and most merciful Lord which wouldest be praysed by the mouthes of all nations thorow out all the world whose grace we the Gentils cald vs to the perticipation of thy sonne Iesus Christ we beseche thee so to confirme this grace in vs that we neuer declyne there fro but continually laud thy mercy through the same Iesus Christ c. ¶ The Argument Psalme CXVIII This Psalme is sung â–ª of prayse and laudes that Dauids rule begonne In sprite it shewth and ioyeth the raigne of Christ Gods onely sonne Ì„Ì„ 1 O Thanke and laud the heauenly lord for he is gracious Because his loue and mercy frée for euer standth to vs. 2 Let Israell nowe glad confesse wyth song melodious Because his loue and mercy frée for euer standeth to vs. 3 Let Aarons house and stocke confesse in thankes most plenteous Because his loue and mercy frée for euer standeth to vs. 4 Yea let them all that feare the Lord this grace in hart discusse Because his loue and mercy frée for euer standeth to vs. 5 In trouble layd to straytes be thrust I cald the Lord from thence He hard at large and set me wyde this Lord of excellence 6 The Lord as thus with me to stand on my nye side to be I can not feare for what can man preuayle in spite at me 7 The Lord takth part with them to ioyne that me do helpe ayds Myne eyes shall sée their full desire my foes reuengd and frayd 8 O good it is the Lord to trust on hym all hope to cast More sure it is then man to trust on hym to leane to fast 9 Yea good it is the Lord to trust to hym all whole to stand More safe it is then Prince to trust with all hys gard and band 10 Though nations all do compasse me and hedge me round about By name I trust of this the Lord I shall cut downe theyr route 11 Let them besege and compasse me â–ª on euery side at wyll The Lordes good name I hope therby theyr pride to quel kill 12 Though they lyke bées swarme me about to sting to hurt to noye They soone shall fade as fyer in thornes in God I shall them stroy 13 By pushing oft they thrust at me to make me full agast But yet the Lord my piller strong was whole my stayful fast 14 The Lord of power â–ª my strength he is of laudes my tenors style For he was made my health and fence to scape all mortall guyle 15 The voyce of ioye â–ª and healthful mirth rebound in iust mens tents For why ful great the Lords right hand hath wrought experimeÌ„ts 16 The Lords ryght hand exalted is hys power is clearly knowen The lords right hand great feates hath done mans strength is not his owne 17 Not dead I am but liue as yet and trust to spend my dayes To tell Gods workes his mighty actes by whom my liuing stayes 18 The Lord although he me correct in chastisment most fyt Yet downe to death he draue me not he would not so permyt 19 Ope me the gates of righteousnes that iust men vse to haunt To enter now â–ª Gods temple so the Lord with prayse to vaunt 20 This gate is wyde the Lord his gate where due his grace is spred All â—ightwise men do passe therin who faythfull life haue led 21 I wyll wyth thankes set out thy prayse for thou hast answerd mâ— Though thou didst strike yet ease thou seÌ„tst for helth I had by thée â–ª 22 The stone it selfe which was reiect by all the buylders choyce Was made the heade and corner stone to all good mens reioyce 23 From god the Lord this act issued his worke it was alone A thing it is most meruelous in all our eyes so done 24 This is the day the ioyfull day which that the Lord hath made Let vs therin reioyce and sing a day that shall not fade 25 Ah Lord helpe now and saue I praye assist vs presently O Lord on hye geue helpe I praye good lucke send spéedely 26 O blest be he that comth as thus in God the Lords good name To you as we gods house that kepe haue wisht good lucke fame 27 God is the Lord and lightned vs all health who luckly sendes Sprede bowes therfore and bynde your hosts with cords at alters endes 28 Thou art my God whom thanke I will whom I shall celebrate Thou art my God to whom my laudes I will whole dedicate 29 O thanke and laude the heauenly Lord for he is gracious Because his loue and mercy frée for euer standeth to vs. ¶ The Collecte MOst mercifull God which art the vndoubted coÌ„forter in all our aduersities and makst the houses of the iust to be filled with ioye gladnes extoll thy churche and congregations by the power of thy ryght hande to bee the eternall gate thorough which all righteousnes may procede so established vpoÌ„ the hed corner stone Iesus Christ in this lyfe that at the resurrection she may be presented glorious in thy fighte thorough the same Iesus Christ c. A Preface to the Psalme 119. MAde is this Psalme by Alphabete in Octonaries folde All letters two and twentie set as Hebrues them haue tolde The verses all an hundred bee threescore and iust sixtene Thus framde and knit for memorie and elegance some wene Here letters all so sortely bound do shew in mysterie Eternall health may sure be found in scripture totallie Uerse yokt by eight Christes rising day doth figure them in some Sweete Saboth rest not here I say I meane of world to come Peruse this psalme so wide and brode eche verse saue one is freight As still in termes of law of God most ofte by