Time for Thee Lord now to rise For those who should obey Thy Law its rule despise IV. But I disvalue gold with it compar'd And Thy Commandments more than gold And all its chains me in Obedience hold For much above ' it Thou know'st I Them prefer'd Thy Praecepts above All I love And this bless'd Passion by my flight from sin will prove Part. XVII Pe. Mirabilia Testimonla c. I. THY Testimonies Lord are wonderfull Therefore I make Them all my Care The very entrance of Thy Word is fair And with its beams inlightens my dark Soul If such the Porch and Entrance be What Wonders may we in Thy Sanctuary see II. I long'd for Thy Commandments and the air Breath'd thence into my Soul I drew Me thoughts it did my Spirit again renew And clear'd the stoppages which press'd me there Look down and to me be the same As Thou art us'd to be to them who love Thy Name III. According to Thy Word my steps direct Nor let me be by Sin o'rethrown Who just Allegiance to Thy Praecepts own And from sure ruine the Oppres'd protect Let me no more a Captive be To lust since Thou hast broke my Chains and set me free IV. Lord on Thy Servant make Thy Face to shine And me Thy Righteous Statutes teach That I to others may Thy Goodness preach And how like me they too may be made Thine For floods of teares run down my eyes And for Thy Broken Lawes Seas from those Fountains rise XVIII Part. Tsaddi Iustus es Domine c. I. AS Thou art such my God Thy Judgments are Thou Righteous and They all upright Thy Testimonies govern less by Might Than Justice wherewith Thou hast made Them fair And those who to Thy Scepter bow Which is so right and faithfull are themselves made so II. My Zeal has burnt me up and all on fire I faint to see Thy Word forgot Thy Word that 's try'd and from the Fornace hot In sacred flames of love makes me expire And wonder who through cold can dy Who has so hot and pure a fire to warm him by III. Thou know'st I 'm poor despis'd and wondrous low Yet will I not Thy Praecepts leave But even thence hope new vigor to receive How poor and low so e're I may be now Thy Laws and Truth so certain be That what Thou once has promis'd from all change stands free IV. This only was my Comfort in my grief When anguish fast hold of me took That I Thy just Commandments ne're forsook And they which were my love brought me relief That I may ever with Thee live Sound knowledge of Thy Testimonies to me give XIX Part. Coph Clamavi in toto corde c. I. WIth my whole heart in my distress I cry'd Aloud I cry'd but more for fear To break Thy Statutes than my Pains to bear O let me never say'd I be deny'd But rise my God to rescue me And I 'll Thy Testimonies kcep and honour Thee II. The Morning with my Prayer I did prevent For in Thy Word my hope I plac'd The Morning with my cry I bid make haste But e're it came my Vowes I up had sent 'T was then a pleasure not to sleep For all the while Thy word with me the watch did keep III. Lord for Thy Mercy sake to me give eare And in Thy Justice visit me May they agreed my Mighty Saviours be And as I Thine make Thâ—e my Voice to hear O be not farr off from my cry When those who hate Thy Law and Me are come so nigh IV. But chear up Soul see where Thy God do's stand Thy God whose just Commands are True Who with a Word can all Thy Foes subdue And publish His great Victories in all lands Whose Testimonies Thou hast found Eternity alone in its vast Space can bound Part. XX. Resh Vide humilitatem c. I. COnsider my affliction and my Pain And save Me for I keep Thy law Defend my cause and from my Weakness draw Such arguments as may Thy Power maintain For Thy Words sake deliver me The safety like redemption from the grave shall be II. Salvation from the proud is farr away So much they on themselves dâ—pend But never to Thy Statutes Voice attend Which only are my Prop and mighty stay Thy Mercies great and wondrous be Yet Lord according to Thy Judgements quicken me III. Many my Foes against me thousands rise Yet I Thy Testaments obey And others would perswade to take Thy Way Who only are for that my Enemies For them I 'm sure I truely grieve Because they Thy Almighty Word will not believe IV. For my own part like Thee I nothing love Thy Praecepâ—s are my chief delight That I may alwayes think them so let light And an Eternal day break from above Thy Word for ever True has been Nor have Thy Righteous Judgements any variance seen Part. XXI Schin Principes persecuti c. I. PRinces without cause are my Enemies But of Thy Word I stand in aw Lying I hate but have observ'd Thy Law And so their threats and malice can despise And if for them I have a fear Into my heart I look and see a greater there II. Thy Word which is at once my fear and trust Makes me in mighty shouts rejoice As one that finds great spoil or has His Choice For it will make me Lord as Thou art Just For that seven times a day I 'll praise And with Thy righteous Judgements my small Numbers raise III. Great peace to them who love Thy Laws belongs And nothing shall their rest offâ—nd But all their lives they shall in pleasure spend And thence take lofty Subjects for their songs In Thee my God I trust alone And those Commands Thou gav'st me to observe have done IV. My Soul has all Thy Testimonies kept And they have been my purest love I by their conduct did my journies move Nor from the Way which they first shew'd me stept They and Thy Praecepts were my guide Nor did I strive my paths from thy bright face to hide XXII Part. Tau Appropinquet deprecatio c. I. LOrd let my cry at length approach Thine ear And Understanding to me give To know Thy Word and by its rule to live And all the prayers which here I ' have made Thee hear Lord for Thy Word to save me rise And then I may be confident Thou hear'st my cries II. Then shall my song of all Thy Power reherse And of the Change Thy Statutes wrought How by Thy Word I home to Thee was brought And by those steps to Heav'n I 'll raise my Verse For Thy Commandments righteous are And those who make them theirs shall be themselves Thy Care III. May I be so for they have been my Choice And in Thy Praecepts I delight Thy Law 's my Meditation day and night And all times do's my heart employ or voice For Thy Salvation Lord I wait Make hast and come away before it be too late
are IX As one past hope they of me speak And think by that to make me fear But all their words nor can my silence break Nor them convince that I so much as hear Without reproofs as dumb patient as without ear X. But Thou O God art my great trust And unto Thee my heart do's pray Hear me My God lest they who so much boast Seeing me fall presumptuously inveigh 'T was caus'd by theirs when Thou but took'st Thy hand away XI I know I have deserv'd to fall And even to Hell to be cast down But let my tears Thy help and pardon call I grieve Thou see'st and my transgressions own Forbear Thine Lord where sentence has already gone XII For this my Enemies encrease My sins I know have made them strong For this all thoughts of former kindness cease And my just deeds they recompense with wrong Yet still I 'll follow Thee though th' way be rough long XIII Forsake me not but be my guide And lead me that I never stray For should'st Thou go too fast before or hide Thy gracious sight I should benighted stay And still the more I sought the more should lose my way Psalm XXXIX Dixi custodiam vias c. I. LEt him go on for me I said And into his rude passions break I'll keep the resolutions I have made And though he urge me to it will not speak Will not of all his injuries complain For though his words are Spears his sight shall be a rein II. This while the wicked was in sight I with my self resolv'd to do My stubborn mouth was silenter than night Grief strook me dumb before his presence now Not one good word did from my lips once fall Least I should speak amiss I would not speak at all III. But as a wild unruly fire The more 't is checkt the more't do's burn My heart inflam'd by vchement desire To answer him did on it self return And there it rag'd and there it burnt so long Till it brake out at last and set on fire my tongue IV. Lord said I then make me to know What bound is set to my few dayes How long from thee I must remain below Strange to my own but stranger to Thy wayes How frail I am how near unto my end That what 's Thine own I may before hand to Thee send V. I know I 'm frail and if with Thyne I my uncertain life compare That age which I may truly say is mine And all my dayes to Thy years nothing are Mans best estate is but an empty strife And if there can be less than nothing found 't is Life VI. The faint resemblance of a shade That scarce can in conception be And yet how great a slave poor Man is made Whom God at first appointed to be free An airy thing that only lives by Fame And whom unweildy passions ruin give and Name VII He loves and hates and hopes and fears And with fresh wounds renews his pain Troubles himself at every thing he hears And scarce recovered slips and falls again Erects vast Piles and endless wealth do's save Yet knows not who the fruit of all his cares shall have VIII What then my God can I expect Truly my hope depends on Thee May'st Thou Thy Servant from all wrongs protect And from my sins worse Foes deliver me Not that they were unheard I dumb did stand But when they spake upon my self I felt Thy hand IX When Thou dost man for sin chastise And with Thy judgments on him fall No beauty in his own less in Thine eyes Is left of that which he did beauty call But like a garment which the Moth has fret Just such a thing is Man though ne're so high and great X. Remove Thy hand for Lord I faint Thy wrath I can no longer bear From Heav'n bow down and hear my sad complaint Speak Lord that I may know I have Thine ear O from my tears turn not Thy face away They on Thee call and be not Thou more dumb than they XI Thou know'st I have no resting place I nor my Fathers here below They 're gone and I must follow them apace Spare me before I that great Journey go Lord spare me who e're long shall be no more Forgot by mine as I have those who went before Psalm XL. Expectans expectavi c. I. IN my great trouble when all hopes did fail I patiently for God did wait And found my Prayer then to prevail When all means else or useless prov'd or came too late II. The Lord unto my voice inclin'd His ear And from the pit deliver'd me A pit whose sight strook me with fear And only as my dungeon could more dreadfull be III. There stuck my feet and thence He brought me out And on a rock to fall no more But to view Him and look about As high He rais'd me as I was cast down before IV. Where as I stood I sang with chearfull Voice His praises who deliver'd me Whil'st those who fear'd before rejoyce A certain Providence in all events to see V. Blest is that man who makes the Lord his trust His firmest stay and confidence Unbyass'd by anothers lust And keeps his own from having any influence VI. Many and fearfull things Thy hand has done And whose can with Thy works compare But could Thy thoughts to us be known Numberless Lord and like Thee infinite they are VII I heard Thee say Thou dost not blood desire No Off'rings or Burnt-Sacrifice That Altars smoak with daily fire And with the clouds they upward send obscure the skies VIII Instead of them my self I bring to Thee And in Thy Roll if Thou but look 'T is written there concerning me Nor is my Name alone but Office in Thy Book IX 'T is entred there what my delights have been And that I more to Thee might draw How I Thy Righteousness have seen And what I knew and kept to others preach'd Thy Law X. Thou know'st O God my tongue has not been still And that Thy Word I ne're conceal'd But as I knew what was Thy Will Its Truth and Faithfulness have in Thy Church reveal'd XI Thy wonted Grace ah do not then withhold But in Thy mercies Lord draw near Those mercies which have been of old And in my help with greater lustre will appear XII For thousand evils have begirt me round And all my sins upon me seise With pensive eyes fixt on the ground I dare not upward look their numbers so encrease XIII If to the sky I in the sky behold Stars which one yet may sooner count My hairs could every hair be told Compar'd with them are lost and to no summ amount XIV Wherefore my God be pleas'd to come away And to my rescue make more haste My troubles call O do not stay Nor let Thy help be slow when they come on so fast XV. Now come and with Thy Presence Lord confound My proud and cruel Enemy Level his greatness
always art bring mee That we may still together bee In Sion where Thy Presence makes it day Then with my Harp I 'll to Thy Altar go And what above shall never cease begin below IV. Why art Thou troubled Soul and restless grown As if forgotten through despair As if Thy God had left His care And lower than indeed Thou art cast down Trust in Him still for Thou His Name shalt praise And whom His absence has depress'd His sight shall raise Psalm XLIV Deus auribus nostris audivimus c. I. GReat God we oft have heard our Fathers tell The Mighty works which Thou of old hast done When to make room for them where they might dwell And in a Land of thine own choice sit down The Natives by Thy hand were overthrown How Egypt at Thy Signs admiring stood And thinking to pursue were drown'd i' th' flood II. 'T was not their Bow or Sword which forc'd their way Nor the weak aids their helpless arms could bring But Thou whose Word the Sacred Hosts obey Made'st certain Victory attend their string And as their arrows flew direct her wing Thy Light and Favour was their Arms and Guide And when they fought to conquer Thou did'st ride III. May'st Thou again do thus who art Our King And new deliv'rance for their Seed command Thou only canst such great Salvation bring As may again return us to Our Land And make us on our Enemies necks to stand And when Thy Power Thou on our side shalt show And beat them down through Thee wee 'll keep them so IV. T was not our Bow or Sword that helpt wee 'll say Northose weak aids our useless Arms did bring But He whose Word the Sacred Hosts obey Made certain Victory attend our string And as our arrows flew direct her wing He put our Enemies to flight and shame And His great Praise for ever wee 'll proclaim V. But we alas not they are forc'd to fly Since Thou who lead'st our Armies out of old Art now become Thy self an Enemy And make'st them more successfull grow and bold That what with wrong they got by force they hold Like one great flock of Sheep we scatt'red are And wolves devour those whom the Shambles spare VI. We openly are sold but 't is for nought Nor do's Thy treasure by our sale encrease By those who hate us we for slaves are bought Nor by our miseries do's their fury cease But wee in Warr less suff'red than in Peace A shame reproach and proverb wee are made In scorn to hands which were of ours afraid VII 'T is not our disappointments and disgrace That are the only causes of our shame Not these alone with blushes fill our face But the sad thoughts that Thou should'st bear our blame And have expos'd with us Thy Sacred Name For what 's our own we could with Patience bear But Blasphemies 'gainst Thee can never hear VIII Yet both Lord we have heard and both have born But in our suff'rings not forgotten Thee Resolv'd our steps from Thy Laws ne're to turn How rough and hard soe're the way may be Or in Thy Oath to deal perfidiously Though for our Masters we fierce Dragons have And all our service is in sight o' th' grave IX Had we forgotten His or to strange Names Of Idol-gods stretch'd out our suppliant hands Should not God know and visit this in flames Who the vast Empire of all hearts commands And thoughts more than we actions understands But for His sake alone all day we ' are slain Like Sheep and where we fed have dy'd the Plain X. Awake why sleep'st Thou Lord awake and rise And turn nor us nor Thy bright face away Let our distress find pity in Thine eyes Which see the weights they on our shoulders lay And how we prostrate for Thy succour pray Ah cause Thy face for Thy loves sake to shine And for our help arise who still are Thine Psalm XLV Eruct avit Cor meum verbum c. I. A Thousand fancies from my heart the Spring Like a swoln stream which banks can ne're control Increasing still as it along do's roll And grown impetuous scorns to be kept in Too great already in my Soul to stay They out will burst and by my tongue Flow in a swift and numerous Song Will there or find or force their way And make my hand which cannot stop to run as fast as they II. Dread Sov'reign when the argument is Thine And Thou art pleas'd to give me leave to sing Of all that grandure which enthrones my King No wonder if my Verse be gay and fine Thy beauty not my skill do's make it so Thou who in beauty dost excell The fairest Soul which best do's dwell From whose soft lips there ever flow That Grace and Blessing Heav'n till now on Man did ne're bestow III. Go on then Valiant Prince and gird Thy Sword Wherewith Thou hast so often Conquerer been Appear more glorious than Thou e're wert seen And let the whole world own Thee for their Lord Then mount Thy Chariot and in triumph ride With Meekness Truth and Equity And all the Virtues running by Whil'st Vict'ry do's Thy journeys guide And flies before new Conquests and fresh Laurels to provide IV. Then shall Thy arm for slaughter be made bare And Thy proud Enemies receive the darts Which Thou shalt throw and bury in their hearts Whil'st those that yield Thou dost as freely spare Nor Time nor place shall Thy Dominion bound The Justice of Thy Righteous sway Shall make all Lands all men obey And wheresoe're Thy Name shall sound Amids Thy foes new Subjects of Thy Kingdom shall be found V. That Righteousness Thou lov'st shall be Thy Crown And at Thy Feet Envy and Hate shall lie The Mighty God who rais'd Thee up so high Above Thy Fellows pour His Unction down With greater lustre make Thy Face to shine When He the Sacred Oyl shall shed Himself upon Thy Royall Head And to express the Love Divine Meekness with Majesty and to Thy Joys Thy Peoples joyn VI. They shall rejoyce when from the Iv'ry Throne Clad in Thy Robes of State Thou shalt appear When all the perfumes which the East do's bear And the bright Sun or makes or looks upon To Thine their Spirits and richest Odours add And breathing out their Souls shall say Thou hast more Sweets more Charms than they Thus near Thee to have come are glad That they may higher scents receive thence than at first they had VII Daughters of Kings make Thy illustrious train To do what e're Thy pleasure shall command And chain our eyes but that at Thy right hand The Queen with hers remands them back again Next Thee she stands Her Pall with Gold all wrought Where curious Art and Nature strive Which greater Ornament shall give Beyond Inventions barren thought Made of the richest Spoyls were e're from Ophirs treasure brought VIII And Thou O Queen incline Thy willing
his works That lye Which he to Man dares not to Heaven prophanely gives II. From Heav'n th' Almighty God came down to view What He there saw and there could punish too Yet down He came and look'd around He searcht if He might any see Any of His lest they should numbred be To th' Common Misery He search't but not a Just man in the Number found III. Are they all thus O God all gone aside As if from Thee they could their follies hide Are all thus greedy to devour And eat Thy People up like Bread Thankless for that and not some Judgement dread Like those by Quails once fed Tempting that Heav'n which Manna down before did showre IV. Amidst their jollity in fears they were Though all around appear'd no cause of fear For unawares God smote them all Scat'red them by His Mighty hand And as He there Invisible did stand Their Plots did countermand And made them by their own designs in scorn to fall V. From Zion Lord may Israels help appear Thence come since all His Confidence is there Bring back their long Captivity That Israel may adore Thy Wayes And Jacob to Thy Name give all the praise Together strive to raise Thy Honour and admire Thee as Thou ought'st to be Psalm LIV. Deus in nomine tuo c. I. O Thou who Israels Saviour art be mine Be both my Judge and Advocate Appear e're yet it be too late Now make Thy Name and Glory shine And not preserve me only Lord but make me Thine II. Incline Thine ear to my complaint and cry And since Thou hast commanded me In my distress to cry to Thee Let not me cry and Thou not hear Then farthest of when Thou hast promis'd to be near III. Strangers my God such as Thy Law despise And would both That and me o'rethrow Who nor Thee nor Thy Judgements know Oppressors in great Numbers rise And shall Thy aids be fewer than my Enemies IV. But see how gracious the Eternal is Who not my Life alone defends But to my Helpers succour sends And truly is a God in this Both my swift prayers to answer and prevent my Wish V. Nor shall my Enemies unpunish't be Their own designs shall vengeance call Their mischief fram'd shall on them fall And in their ruine I shall see My eyes delight thy Wrath on them and Love to me VI. My God has scat'red them and heard my cry To Him my chearful praise I 'le sing To Him my Songs and Trophies bring For though I have the Victory 'T was He alone who gain'd it for me and not I. Psalm LV. Exaudi Deus Orationem c. I. LOrd to my Prayer incline Thine ear And turn nor that nor Thy bright Face away Behold the mis'ries which I bear When those who are its guards my Crown betray In my destruction they rejoyce Their wrath on me to Heav'n have sent their noise May mine be heard above the tumults of their voice II. Seis'd by this fright my heart do's quake And all the terrors of the grave appear Hope and my Trust their holds forsake And yield the fortress to usurping Fear Around I look but in mine eye Only despair and grizly horrorly And none but Heav'ns great road is clear if I could fly III. And then I wish that I had wings And like a Dove could 'scape and be at rest Beyond the Cares which trouble Kings And have that ease they find not in my breast How to the Woods then would I fly And as I there secure and hidden ly See unconcern'd the Winds and Thunders marching by IV. Divide their Counsels with their tongues Theirs who Thy City fill with violence And publish on its Walls the wrongs Not which they bear but do just Innocence Both night and day they it surround Murders and Rapes in every street are found And with th' Oppressors mixt cries of the Oppress'd resound V. Had all this by an Enemy Or one who only hated me been done I could have born it and defie The Treason when the Traytor once is known My force to his I would oppose And to decide our right in battle close Or had he been too strong have fled and Umpires chose VI. But it was Thou my Friend my Guide The happy Partner of my Cares and Throne In whose breast I could safely hide Those secrets I scarce trusted in my own Who with me to Gods House would go And Zeal for that which I most honour'd show And like my self but better all my thoughts did know VII But may he now no journey go But what 's to Hell and by no hand be staid Let Sin which fills his dwelling now His bones and heart with thousand plagues invade For God himself shall guide my Way To Him at morning noon and night I 'le pray And He shall hear me when I thus crown every day VIII 'T was He preserv'd my Soul in Peace And gave those Wars which threatned it an end Made the shrill noise of Trumpets cease And unexpected aids was pleas'd to send He still shall hear me and once more Make bare His Arm and shew His mighty Power Who is the same to save now that He was before IX But Him they fear not and miscall Their Treasons when they prosper Loyalty No cross event did ever fall Which might the Justice of their Cause deny And then afresh they Cov'nants make And their Allegiance for new Oaths forsake Which they with caution only during pleasure take X. Murder and Rapes Revenge and War Rebellion and Injustice rage within Though smooth as Oyle their Speeches are And like that us'd to make the Razer keen But Soul on God Thy burden cast Only believe and make not too much hast He who protects Thee Now will Victory give at last XI God will the Righteous Man defend But down to Hell in wrath the Wicked throw Blood and Deceit shall haste his end And clear the way which he to death shall go His dayes shall evil be and few And as they with his crimes to ripeness grew Both shall together fall He said it who is True Psalm LVI Miserere mei Deus quoniam c. I. MErcy my God on me Thy Mercy show And if thy pleasure do's my need sayes Now. Now when my Foe is ready to devour Threatning to do it every hour And grows in malice as he do's in Pow'r II. To swallow up my Soul they ready are And gape to do it but I am Thy Care They needs must many be O Thou Most High When I have no place where to fly But from one to another Enemy III. But when I fear Thou shalt my Refuge be That fear shall give me wings to mount to Thee On Thee I 'le trust until my Titles try'd Resolving ne're to be deny'd Till Thou who gav'st it me my Right decide IV. On Gods Almighty Word will I depend On God I 'le trust who certain help will send There will I rest and if my
wast its stones Yet death cannot secure the dead But those that took their lives again expose their bones III. Living or dead one shame attends us all Nor with less rage Our neighbours on us fall Their mirth do's only by our pains increase And such deep wounds their mercies give That death it self we think were ease And our slain friends more happy count than us who live IV. When shall Thy wrath and jealousie expire Quench'd by that blood which now but feeds the fire Lord on the heathen pour the tempest down Whole nations which ne'r pray to Thee Kingdoms where yet Thy Name 's unknown And let not what 's their due Thy servants Portion be V. And when their Sins to Thy remembrance come Let this be added to compleat the Sum That they have wasted Jacob and Thy land But let not Our iniquities Our former Sins new load Thy hand Lest when to rescue us to ruin Thou arise VI. Prevent us Lord for we are very low And let us now Thy strong Salvation know Now save us for the glory of Thy Name And for its sake Our Sins blot out Upon Our foes return the shame That though in scorn they ask none may Thy presence doubt VII Appear O God and let us witness be They know and fear Thy Name as well as we Revenge the guiltless blood which they have shed And hear Our chains how loud they cry Upon the living right the Dead And by Thine Arm save those who sentenc'd are to dy VIII Reproach which they design'd to cast on Thee And its increase their just reward shall be And then Thy People Lord Thy sacred Fold Shall make the Plains with joy to ring The Lambs shall all Thy Acts be told And their Great Shepherds praise both learn and ever sing Psalm LXXX Qui regis Israel intende c. I. GReat Shepherd of the Hebrew Race Whose numerous Flock all Israel was For Thou dist guide them with Thy Hand They knew Thy Voyce and follow'd Thee Th' Invisible between the Cherubins did see And thence receive th' Oraculous command Between the Cherubins again appear And give Our chains Thine eye and prayers Thine ear II. Shew us Thy Glory Lord once more As thou didst Ephraim heretofore When all the Tribes from bondage led Thy Presence chas'd their Enemies For if again Thou make Thy Ark and strength to rise Ours shall flie too as theirs before Thee fled Turn us again and cause Thy Face to shine We shall be sav'd and all the praise be Thine III. How long wilt Thou be angry thus Both with Our Prayers Great God and us Thou know'st how tears have been our food The mixture of Our meat and drink Whilst Our insulting Neighbours laugh in scorn to think That when those streams shall cease the next is blood But turn us Lord and cause Thy Face to shine We shall be sav'd and all the praise be Thine IV. A Vine God into Canaan brought And having thrown the Heathen out A proper soyl did for it find From Aegypt He the plant did bring Where it was bruis'd and torn when it began to spring By men trod down and broken by the Wind But when it could not there securely stand In Canaan it took root and fill'd the Land V. The Sun-burnt Hills it cloath'd around Their heads were with it cool'd and crownd Above the Hills its branch did rise And vy'd with tallest Cedars there As gay it look't and full as high its top did bear And its rich clusters touch'd the neighbouring Skies With one it laid hold of the Western Strand And touch't the River with its other hand VI. But why hast Thou her hedge broke down And her enclosures open thrown So that the stranger who rides by Though nothing there he ha's to do Comes rudely in and tears both fruit and branches too Thither the Wild Bore from the Wood do's fly And after bids his fellow beasts to haste To'a Vineyard which they may more safely waste VII Return O God and on us shine From Heav'n look down and see Thy Vine This Vineyard which Thy right hand made By thus transplanting fair and strong And under which it spred and flourish't ha's thus long For if Thou frown 't will be to th' Common laid 'T is burn't already but may yet bear fruit If though the branch be gone Thou spare the root VIII May Thy right hand preserve Our King And to an end His troubles bring Let Him again be great and strong As by Thy help He was before And then nor He nor we shall ever leave Thee more But freely joyn in one Eternal Song Turn us O Lord and cause Thy Face to shine We shall be sav'd and all the praise be Thine Psalm LXXXI Exultate Deo Adjutori I. TO God our strength let Israel sing Triumphant Songs to Our Victorious King Awake the Harp the Psaltery and Flute And fill the Air with an harmonious noise Call in the Sackbutt Cornet and the Lute And as He rais'd His hand for you t' Him lift your voice II. In the New Moon the Trumpets blow His antient Law makes it your duty Now When He at first ordain'd this solemn day And bid Our Fathers keep the Pompous Feast Israel and Judah did His word obey And thus His praises duly sang who gave them Rest. III. 'T was then when Israel left that Land Whose Language they could never understand A speech as barbarous as its Nations were When from the weights and pots I set them free From cruel tasks sayes God no more to bear Aegyptian burdens but my light ones and serve me IV. I saw their trouble heard their Cry And my quick Hand took Light ' ning from my eye From Heav'n I thund'red made my voice be heard And there I prov'd and there I Israel try'd But whom at thund'ring Sinai Israel fear'd Israel at Meribah with murmurings deny'd V. Yet to my Law again give ear Once more I 'le publish it if Thou wilt hear No other God but Me shalt Thou adore For I alone am God and none beside I broke the Chains which you in Aegypt bore And now can fill your mouths though op'ned ne're so wide VI. But all in vain they would not hear And though I bow'd mine down deny'd their Ear So up I gave them to their loose desires Their brutish Lusts and no destruction sent No flames but what were kind'led by those fires That what they made their choice might be their punishment VII O had they heard Me and been wise Those Wayes to follow which they did despise To Victory their Armies I have led My Hand their Enemies should have o'rethrown And forc't to yield their necks but on their head Had put a never fading and Eternal Crown VIII Plenty and Peace should all Their dayes Have shew'd fresh Palms and Roses in their Wayes And open'd all the Treasures of the Field Even I my self new Miracles would show Not water only the
cannot reach so high stoop Thou to me II. Hear me my God for I am wondrous low And to the grave my life draws nigh Loaded with cares my Soul do's go And in the Pit is readie down to lie Already I am numbred with the Dead And that small strength I had Weakness at best is fled III. Free as the Dead and like one long since slain Who is forgotten in the Grave And never shall return again Or but upon his Tomb Memoriall have Low in the Pit I 'm lai'd down in the Deep And its rough waves my head do under water keep IV. Far from me Thou hast put my Nearest Friends Who as forsaken look on me Because my God no succour sends They think me hated or unknown to Thee As in a Pest-house quite given o're I 'm laid And those who pitty me are of my Sores afraid V. My eyes with teares o'recome yet look to Thee And for Thy help I daily cry When at night I cannot see With stretcht out armes I feel if Thou art nigh Wil t Thou say I to th'Dead Thy wonders show Let me but see them Lord and Thou do'st truly so VI. Shall the Dead rise and praise Thee or Thy love Be in the Land of Darkness seen Shall in the Grave Thy Praise improve Sung there where silence has for ever been Where dark oblivion uncontroll'd do's reign And dismal Horror riots o're the empty Plain VII And then again I new Petitions make And would prevent Thee with my Prayer With Thee the Morning do's partake And with my tears instead of dew looks fair But thou withdraw'st Thy self and out of sight Hid'st in thick Clouds that Face which gives me all my light VIII From my youth up I have Thy Terrors felt Ready with grief and pain to die Thy Wrath like fire my Soul do's melt And quite consumes what it should purifie Or like a troubled Sea do's o're me roll And thus by several Deaths or burns or drowns my Soul IX Far from me Thou hast put my Nearest Friend Whom Thou at first to me didst give Through Death Our Friendship cannot end For in the sad Survivour it shall live My Dear Acquaintance in the grave is laid And Two whom God made One Death again Two has made P.M.O.C. Psalm LXXXIX Misericordias Domini in aeternum c. IN flowing Numbers I resolve to sing The Truth and Mercies of th' Eternal King That late posterity His love may know Both what He did and what He 's sworn to do That Faithfullness which He has said shall stand Like Heav'n first made and stablisht by His hand When thus He spake I have to David past My Word and with an Oath have bound it fast Saying Thy seed I 'll bless upon Thy Throne And make its rule Eternal like my own Angels for this Thy Wonders must declare Such praises too sublime for Mortals are Who only can below admire Thy love Not joyn with but attend the Quire above For who in Heav'n with Thee can be compar'd Whom all adore as Thou by all art fear'd Or who among the mighty Sons of Earth Is like to Thee who gav'st their Mother Birth Before whose Throne Blest Saints and Angels bow And cast those Crowns which to Thy hand they owe. Whose great Commands the Heavenly Host obey And execute the charge which Thou dost lay So Just so True so full of Majesty Lord like Thy self Thou art and none like Thee The Sea when it to Heav'n in storms do's rise At Thy Rebuke in Humble Vallies lies Asunder Thou didst break the threatning Wave And in its bowels mad'st Proud Pharaohs grave The Heav'n with all its glorious Flames are Thine And with reflection from Thine eye they shine The Earth and all the stores the Earth containes Of Thy first fulness are the Mighty Dreins Thou bid'st it stand unmov'd above the Flood And saw'st what er'e Thy hand had done was good The North and South and all its coasts around Thou for Thy Pleasure first did'st make and bound Tabor and Hermon in Thy Name rejoyce And up to Thee the Vallies raise their Voice No Pow'r can Thy All-conqu'ring Arm with-stand So strong is that so high is Thy Right Hand Justice and Faithfulness uphold Thy Throne Mercie and Truth 's the Base it rests upon A thousand Graces round about Thee flie And take new life and vigor from Thine eye Thrice happy land whose Sovereign Lord Thou art Who hear Thy Law and to it yield their heart Who in Thy gracious Presence ever dwell And all the stories of Thy Power can tell Who have Thee for the subject of their Verse And every day can of Thy Truth reherse Thine Lord who art their strength their Fort and Tower And on their heads the Anointing Oyl dost poure Thou art Our God and we Thy Praise will sing Who in Thy stead o're us mad'st David King For thus His Will God to His Prophet told And in a Vision made Him it behold Saying I searcht the People all around And now to my Own Heart a Man have found David on whom the Burden shall be laid Of ruling Israel and their King be made I have anointed him with Him my Hand Shall both to conquer be and to command I from Conspiracies his Crown will guard And all his gates shall be most surely barr'd Before His Face his Enemies shall fall And unto me in vain for succour call For down I 'll tread them but his head will raise And with my Truth and Love make plain His Wayes His Empire to the River shall extend And only where the Earth finds hers have end All Lands and Seas to him shall tribute yield And of his conquests be the fruitful field By Name of Father to Him I 'll be known Of God and Rock and he shall be My Son My First-born higher than the Kings of th' Earth With Rule and Subjects worthy of his Birth My Oath and Covenant shall with him stand fast And I 'll that Promise keep which I have past Nor shall it be confin'd to him alone But his seed too shall have their Fathers Throne ' Which as the dayes of Heav'n shall constant be And know no bounds but vast Eternity If they my Statutes and my Laws forsake And break the Covenant which this day I make Then I their Sins will visit with a Rod But never cease to be their King and God ' My Mercie and my Truth will ne're remove Nor take away though I may hide My love My Promise and my Vow I 'll never break Nor change the Word which once my Mouth did speak For by my self I once to David swore And by My Holiness confirme't once more His seed and Throne like Heav'n shall constant be And know no bounds but Vast Eternity Witness ye Heav'ns which in my sight remain And you bright stars that in your Courses reign Both Sun and Moon against Me Witness be If Time it self endures so long as He This Thou hast
I may yet before Thee live And to Thy Lawes my lifes Remainder give Whilst constant shame and scorn the proud attend Me without any cause they hate But to Thy Praecepts that shall ne're my love abate IV. Let those who have Thy Testimonies known And all who truly worship Thee Hither turn in and joyn themselves with me To tell abroad what thou for us hast done Nor let me ever be asham'd To keep Thy Statutes or for love to Thee bee blam'd XI Part. Caph. Defecit in salut are tuum anima c. I. MY Soul O God for Thy Salvation faints Yet in Thy Word my hope I place For that I languish shew at length Thy Face Nor let me weary Thee with my Complaints Or say When shall these troubles end And God or give deliverance or some comfort send II. My flesh is shrivel'd and my bones are dry Smoak'd by that fire with which I burn Yet from Thy Statutes will I never turn But its worst rage courageously defy Say Lord how long how many dayes Are yet behind e're Thou Thy self to Judgement raise III. The proud for me deep pitts and snares have lay'd But not according to thy Law From Thy Commands they strange Conclusions draw ' As if to reach me only they were made But they all Faithfull are and right Preserve Thou him whose Justice is oppos'd by Might IV. My life through care is almost brought to th' grave And all as dying on me look Yet I Thy Praecepts never yet forsook From Thee and Them a new life let me have So in Thy sight I still shall live And full Obedience to Thy Testimonies give Part. XII Lamed In aeternum Domine c. I. FOR ever Lord Thy Word in Heav'n remains In that almighty Frame set fast ' Its Faithfulness has reacht all ages past And what at first it made the Earth sustaines And as it has been ever sure Like the great speaker it for ever shall endure II. All things the Order Thou first gav'st obey And on Thy mighty Will depend All are Thy Servants and on Thee attend And shall continue firm as to this day These Works of Thine my Soul affright But with Thy Law consid'red fill me with delight III. That and Thy Praecepts will I ne're forget For by Them Thou hast quickned me Save me my God for I belong to Thee And for Thy sake on Them my love have set To Them that I am Thine I ow May They be alwayes Mine that I be alwayes so IV. The wicked plot how I may be betray'd But I Thy Testimonies love My Care and Hope are surely fix'd above And where nor they nor Time can hurt them lay'd Ther 's no True Happiness below But where the Way to ' it lyes Thy Just Commandments show Part. XIII Mem. Quomodo dilexi Legem tuam c. I. LOrd how I love Thy Law 't is my delight My Meditation all day long By which I 'm wiser made and much more strong Than all those Enemies with whom I fight All Thy Commands with me abide And in my Heart to keep them safe Thy Lawes I hide II. With me compar'd my Teachers all are dull Thy Testimonies my best love Have giv'n me of that Wisdom from above Which with Its floods has fill'd my Soul brim full Age less experience has then I Who alwayes have Thy Praecepts in my heart or eye III. By these to guide my feet I have been brought That I Thy Word might alwayes keep And from Thy Righteous Judgements never slip But firm abide in what I first was taught From them I never did depart But like Thy self they freely did Command my heart IV. So sweet Thy Words are and so full of grace And all so pleasant to my Taste That hony which from flowing Hives makes haste Insipid to them is and yields its place I through Thy Praecepts knowledge get And hate all wayes that may decline or stray from it XV. Part. Nun. Lucerna pedibus c. I. IN all my Wayes Thy Word directs my feet And as a lamp do's give them light What I have sworn since what I swore is right The just performance with my Vowes shall meet To keep Thy Judgements I have sworn That I may keep Them mayst Thou never from me turn II. With sharp Afflictions down to th' Earth I 'm cast But let Thy Word my life restore That in Thy Church I may Thy Power adore And of the Rivers of Thy Pleasure taste Lord by Thy Judgements make me wise And what Thou me hast given accept for sacrifice III. Those dangers which have compass'd me around Where I saw only Care and Fear Ready expos'd my life have made me bear Yet through Thy Law I kept it and my ground Snares and a trap the Wicked lay'd But I shun'd both for I my guide Thy Praecepts made IV. Thy Testimonies are my Heritage And shall my double Portion be My joy for They alone conduct to Thee And to observe Them I 'll my heart engage My heart I 'll to Thy Statutes joyn And make Thy glory which is Their Chief end be mine XV. Part. Samech Iniquos odio habui c. I. VAin thoughts and all their follies I abhor But for Thy Law preserve my Love Thou art my hiding place and from above My help shall come since I Thy Power implore Thou art my shield defend me Lord For I all times have only trusted in Thy Word II. Avoid Profane farr hence Profane depart For I my God's Commands will keep Uphold me Lord that I may never slip And to Thy Word both give my life and heart So farr from shame to call Thee Mine That I will all my glory count it To be thine III. If Thou upholdst me then shall I stand fast And to Thy Statutes homage yield Whose false despisers Thou with shame hast fill'd And of the cup they others gave made taste Deceit and guile are in their wayes And only him they would throw down they load with praise IV. But Thou all such shalt from the Earth destroy Whilst as Refiners purg their dross And by pure metal recompence the loss Thine shall be such without the least alloy My self that Inquisition fear Yet in my Soul it truly by Thy Judgements bear Part. XVI Ain Feci judicium c. I. JUstice my God has been my chiefest care To those who hate me leave me not Let not my ancient service be forgot Nor those who justly suffred be my fear Let not Oppressors trouble me But save Thou Him who oft has the Oppress'd set free II. My eyes expecting Thy Salvation fail And for Thy Righteous Word I waite At last Thy Mercy grant t is ne're too late And let my importunity prevaile Thy Promises to me fullfill And to Thy Statutes both my eare incline and Will III. I am Thy Servant and Thy Handmaids Son That I Thy Testaments may know True Wisdom and good Understanding show And now appear as thou of old hast done 'T is
be plac't Their's who in heav'nly verse Do their own praise in Gods rehearse The sacred Harp which lay unstrung Broken and out of tune as much As when upon the Willows once it hung No English hand could hit the graceful Touch Cowley took up and with an artful stroke One Lesson playd One Lesson did provoke Your tuneful Soul which could no longer stay Till it found out this only skilful way At length the skilful way you found With a true Eare judg'd the melodious sound And with a nimble hand run descant on the Hebrew ground To the Author on his excellent Version of the Psalms A Pindariqu ' Ode I. SEE Worthy Friend what I would do Whom neither Muse nor Art inspire That have no friend in all the sacred Quire To shew my kindness for your Book and you Forc't to disparage what I would admire Boldman that dares attempt Pindariqu ' now Since the great Pindar 's greatest son From the ungrateful Age is gon Cowley ha's bid th' ungrateful Age Adieu Apollo 's rare Columbus He Found out new worlds of Poetrie He like an Eagle tower'd aloft To seize his noble prey Yet as a Dove 's his soul was soft Quiet as night but bright as day To Heaven in fiery Chariot He Ascended by Seraphick Poesie But which of us poor Mortals since can find Any inspiring Mantle that he left behind 2. His pow'rful numbers might ha' done you right He could ha'spar'd you immortality Under that Chieftains banners you might fight Assur'd of Laurels and of Victory Over devouring time sword and fire And Jove 's important ire My humble verse would better sing David the shepheard than the King And yet methinks 't is stately to be one Tho' of the meaner sort Of them that may approach a Prince's Throne If 't were but to be seen at Court Such Sir is my ambition for a name Which I shall rather take of You than give For in Your Book I cannot miss of fame But by contact shall live Thus on your Chariot's wheel shall I Ride safe and look as big as Aesop 's Flie Who from th' Olympian race new come And now triumphantly got home To his neighbours of the Swarm thus proudly said Don't you remember what a Dust I made 3. Where e're the Son of Jesse 's Harp shall sound Or Israels sweetest songs be sung Like Sampson 's Lion sweet and strong You and your happy Muse shall be renown'd To whose kind hand the Son of Jesse owes His last deliverance from all his foes Blood thirsty Saul lâ—ss barbarous than they His person only sought to kill These did his deathless Poems slay And sought immortal blood to spill To sing whose Songs in Babylon would be A new Captivitie Deposed by these Rebels You alone Restore the glorious David to his Throne Long in disguise the Royal Prophet lay Long from his own thoughts banished Ne're since his death till this illustrious day Was Scepter in his hand or Crown set on his head He seem'd as if at Gath he still had been As once before proud Achish he appear'd His face besmear'd And spittle on his beard A laughing stock to the insulting Philistin Drest in their Rimes he lookt as he were Mad In Tissue You and Tyrian Purple have him clad Thomas Flatman M. A. To the Reader Notwithstanding the great care and diligence that has been all along used many faults by reason of the Authors absence the whole time have escaped the Press some whereof disturb the sense very much many the verse The reader therefore is desired with his pen to supply the place of the Corrector and to take the pains to mend the grossest noted in the following list by which he will not only do the Author justice but himself if he means to peruse the book a Courtesie Errata PAge 6. read exaudivit p. 7. verse 6. r. hundred folds p. 19. l. 2. r. The just p. 25. l. 12. r. their own darts p. 27. l. 6. r. move the rocks p. 29. l. 3. r. fills p. 32. l. 5. r. where he his p. 38. l. 2. r. has bowd p. 44. l. 15. r. And break p. 49. l. 2. r. May Jacobs p. 52. l. 14. r. Thy wrath shall make their darkness bright p. 60. l. 6. r. The hands which p. 64. l. 2. r. only know'st p. 71. l. 23. r. Syrion p. 77. l. 15. r. A Fear I 'm to p. 82. l. 21. r. 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THrice happy man who in the beaten wayes Of Careless sinners never blindly strayes In their assemblies nor maintains their part Their scoffs or their debates will hear But leaves the place as well as Chair And keeps his ears as guiltless as his heart II. Who in th' Almighties Law his age do's spend Grows old in that which will his age commend By day he reads it meditates at night Makes it his Guide makes it his Stay His greatest business night and day But less his business makes it than delight III. He shall be like a Tree
not his heart betray He like one that believes it lives Do's with blasphemous mouth deny The very Being of the Deity And in his works that lye Which he to man dares not to Heav'n profanely gives II. From heav'n th' Almighty God came down to view What He there saw and there could punish too Yet down He came and look'd around He search'd if He might any see Any of His least they should numbred bee To th' Common misery He search'd but not a Just man in the Number found III. Are they all thus O God all gone aside As if from Thee they could their follies hide Are all thus greedy to devour And eat Thy People up like bread Thankless for that and not some judgement dread Like those by quailes once fed Tempting that Heav'n which Manna down before did shower IV. Amids their jollity in fears they were Their meat a trap their table prov'd a snare But God himself defends the Poor Will both their cause and right maintain And though the proud their Innocence would stain The spot shall out again And God who sends them help shall with it that restore V. From Sion Lord may Israels help appear Thence come since all his confidence is there Bring back their long Captivity That Israel may adore Thy wayes And Jacob to Thy Name give all the praise Together strive to raise Thy Honour and admire Thee as thou ought'st to be Psalm XV. Domine quis habitabit c. I. MY God who shall Thy Holy Mount ascend And in Thy House his life and praises spend Blest Soul who always shall be near Nearer than any other can When he his God may see his God may hear And where his God is still be there O tell me who it is or let me see the Man II. 'T is one who from his heart the Truth do's speak Whose company and laws he n'ere do's break His Heart 's the wheel which first do's play And all the other wheels commands Whose motion all the other wheels obey All go when that first leads the way Truth and his heart first move and then his feet and hands III. He dares not his just Neighbour vilifie Nor give his conscience with his mouth the lie Dares not speak fair before his face And once withdrawn retract his fear Sinning to bring another in disgrace But thinks what if 't were his own case And against him less than against himself will hear IV. Whose heart against a wicked man do's rise And shewes true scorn yet pitty by his eyes The good he honours counts them dear Worthy his love and favour too All who in truth my Sacred Name do fear And when he to his Word do's swear What he has sworn though he is sure to lose will do V. He puts not out his Gold to Usury Nor by Extortion into wealth do's flye No bribes will take against the Just Or ballance with those weights his hand Which there inclines where the cause merits most And having thus discharg'd his trust He on my Holy Mount shall dwell and like it stand Psalm XVI Conserva me Domine c. I. PReserve me Lord for unto Thee I flee I who upon thee heretofore have staid And when I saw Thee not have said Thou art my God and though my Good to Thee Can never come yet Thine may reach to mee II. My good like gold to Thee can ne're extend Though it to airy thinness I should beat The distance still would be too great Nor will it's dross let it to Heav'n ascend O may it spread below and know no end III. Spread to the Saints in whom is Thy delight And who as they Thy pleasure be are mine Let others to dumb Idols joyn Their very Idols once shall do them right And though they could not help against them fight IV. I 'l not approach them Lord least for their sake I share the sorrows which on them are laid I of their Offrings am afraid For all who to them sacrifices make Are their own Victims and i' th flames partake V. God is my Portion and maintains my Lot My lines are in a pleasant Country cast My Heritage shall fall at last And in a time when I expect it not God has both given and will secure the Spot VI. His Name I 'l therefore bless who counsel'd me Make Him my meditation every night Till the young Sun brings back the Light As I in His He in my sight shall be Nor shall the Darkness hide His face from me VII Unmov'd I 'l stand His mighty praise to tell My very flesh in certain hope shall rest Of th' Resurrection of the Blest For Lord Thou shalt not leave my Soul in Hell Nor let Thy Holy One with Corruption dwell VIII To the safe paths of Life direct my way Thy Presence where perpetual joyes flow o're Whose Pleasures spring for evermore By those clear streams let me delighted stay And melt away in love as well as they Psalm XVII Exaudi Domine justitiam c. I. GReat God of all th' Earth to Thee I fly And to thy just Tribunals Barr appeal Thou know'st my cause Thou shalt hear my cry And what Thy pleasure on it is reveal Upon Thy sentence I depend Let that my suit and troubles end For Thyne own sake my right maintain Heart did ne're closer joyn with lips nor they less feign II. Lord Thou hast search'd me and my heart hast known Then when conceal'd from all the World but thee The silent Night had left me all alone By Thee examin'd mine own Judge to be In thousand flames I have been try'd But as gold throughly purify'd From thousand flames I came more bright For I before had past Thyne All-discerning sight III. As my heart thought so my lips alwayes spake And with them both my hands did freely joyn With the Destroyer I did ne're partake But alwayes left his paths to follow Thyne Thou wert my rule and Thou my guide When I or slipt or turn'd aside Thus guarded let me ever go For as Thy ways are certain my steps shall be so IV. Lord Thou hast answer'd me when heretofore In my distress I made my Prayers to Thee Incline Thyne ear to my desires once more And as then let me now Thy mercy see Thou whose Almighty hand do's save All those who its protection crave Thy mighty hand for me extend No power but Thyne can to my miseries put an end V. And as the Eye around with guards is sett And safely compass'd in on every side To keep off dangers which may hazard it Display its glory or its beautys hide Under Thy wings so let me lye Secure as under those my Eye For as those guards my eye enclose For safety I am girt for ruin by my foes VI. Riches to them are Shield and Coat of Mayle Whil'st with vile mouth they basely God defie They more than Innocence are their Brazen Wall Which as their own proud thoughts
His Rod Let Him now strike more Rocks and make them Bread That we may hope Our Armies shall be fed Nothing but Manna Can He flesh provide Here in the desert let His Power be tri'd And if He do's this we 'll distrust no more But all Our murm'rings as we ought give o're God heard them from above and in a flame To see and be reveng'd upon them came Down came the fire and like that Mighty Power Which gave Commission did uncheckt devour The trembling Camp could not but say 't was just And that no other flame could purge their lust Thus were they punish'd for their unbelief Who only in a plague knew Fear or Grief They would not trust Him though they all had seen How constant to His Word and them He ' had been Though from the Clouds He did their bread command And Heav'n did th' Office of a fruitful land Whole fourty years once a day open stood And at their dores they gath'red Angels food Made by an Angels hand for them to eat But still they discontented would have meat And so they shall A strong East Wind did blow And o're the East th' Allmighty Word did go They heard it rustle but without all fear And never dreamt another plague was near It blew all night and at morning along with the day Brought shoales of Quales which round the Army lay The Murmurers saw them but yet scarce believ'd The Miracle and wisht they were deceiv'd They saw them lie in heaps the Camp around So thick they seem'd a burthen to the ground Enough a greater Host than theirs to feed Would but th' event like the beginning speed But while the flesh was in their Mouths that God Who can of every Blessing make a Rod Scourg'd them with this and though they saw it not In dressing Death was truly in the Pot. And down their stomachs with the Quales it went And thence unto the Heart its poysons sent So swift they found it was in vain to flie And still eat on that they might sooner die The Rebel Princes in that plague did fall And God was Gracious not to ruin all Yet still they sinn'd and would not yet believe And only when He slew them thus would grieve Wherefore in vanity their years He spent Waiting to see if thence they would repent For when He slew them they ador'd His Wayes And unto God their Rock gave all the praise Only to flatter Him for still their heart Was only constant from Him to depart Yet He sorgave them and destroy'd them not And both His anger and their Sins forgot He knew they were but flesh a suddain Wind Which passes by and leaves no trace behind How did they tempt Him in the Wilderness Many their plagues their Sins were Numberless When in straight bounds they would that God confine Whose boundless Power beyond all bounds do's shine And measuring by themselves the Holy One Because they saw no help thought there was none How little did they mind His Mighty Hand Then conquering when He only bid them stand What signs in Pharaohs coast He for them wrought And gave deliverance e're He scarce was sought When with deep gore He stain'd the Chrystal flood And Egypt could not drink though thirst for blood Infinite swarms of flies did fill the air Through whose thick clouds the Sun could scarce appear Armies of Frogs did the whole land invade And active lice of nimble dust were made Then martial Locusts came and bore away What the Hayl left untoucht for their rich prey For th' Hayl before had torne the sturdie Oak And what scap'd that fell by the Thunders stroak Cattle and Flocks smote down together lay And scattered limbs of Men strew'd every way No Common Thunder 't was the Prince of th' Air With all the powers of Hell were ralli'd there God let them loose and bid them nothing spare Murrain on beasts Ulcers on men did rage An hand unseen against them did engage Darkness upon their Palaces did rest A too faint Emblem of that in their breast They would not see though God from Heav'n came down And killing their First-born chose Israels for His Own Then like a Flock they were through Kadesh led By Moses hand but God himself their Head Through Seas He lead them which more scar'd then they Rose up in hast and open'd them a way But when gone o're they look'd upon the Main Pharaoh lay drown'd their way was Sea again Through thousand dangers thousand Enemies past To th' Promis'd Canaan they were brought at last The Heathen conquer'd He gave them their Land Houses and Towns stood ready built to hand The Sacred lot did for each Tribe divide And what God gave was not by Man deny'd Yet here they sinn'd and did their God provoke And all His laws and their Own Cov'nants broke So hard it is to fix a Crooked bow And make that strait which Nature made not so High places now they seek and shadie Groves And to foul Idols prostitute their loves This when God heard and saw His laws abus'd By them whom He so tenderly had us'd He Israel hated Shilo did forsake And left that Ark which made His Foes to quake Who with Triumphant layes did bring it home After it had so often overcome 'T is taken and the Captive People fall And one small fire gives troops a Funerall No Marriage Songs are heard in all the Coast But Amorous Harps are in shrill Trumpets lost And every Virgin may before she die Unsworn bewayl her sad Virginitie Wives hear their husbands death without a groan And Preists unmourn'd for die now th' Ark is gone 'T was then God like a Gyant rous'd from sleep Whom Wine beyond His hour did Pris'ner keep That shouts and fights fell on and made them flie And on their backs reveng'd their curious eye The Ark returns but Shilo now no more Shall be its Residence as it was before Ephraim to Judah Shilo to Sion yields And to the Sacred Mount their fruitful fields So God would have 't who chose Himself the Place Sion the Habitation of His Grace 'T is there He 's known there He His Temple made Whose ground work stable as the Worlds was laid Davids design when from the Ewes with young By Him he was anointed to the Throne His Fathers flocks he carefully did keep And therefore made Chief Heardsman of Gods sheep Where all his time he fed them with such Care They never were so strong nor ever lookt so fair Psalm LXXIX Deus venerunt gentes in c. I. LOrd see the Miseries which we undergo And how with us Thy Temple suffers too Thither at length the Enemy is come And Solyma on heaps has layed Sion is but one Mighty Tomb And the Worlds glory now the scorne of all is made II Thy murd'red Saints in th' feilds unburied lie A prey to beasts and fowl which vengeance crie Their blood before was round Jerus'lem shed Increast its brooks and
shall thee affright VI. The Pestilence which in thick darkness walks And in the empty City stalks The Sword which on whole Lands do's prey And to bear witness calls the day When Thou appear'st shall turn another way VII On Thy left hand it shall a thousand smite And kill ten thousand on Thy right But nigher shall not come to Thee Only Thine eyes with joy shall see What the Rewards of all the wicked be VIII Because Thou to my Rock for help did'st fly Above Thy fears to the Most High There shall no evil Thee befall Near Thee shall come no Plague at all Who art beyond their reach and lowdest call IX Around in Bands His Angels shall attend And guard Thee to Thy Journeys end To lead Thee some and some to strow Those wayes with flowers which others show And make the paths all smooth where Thou shalt go X. Thou on the Basilisks proud neck shalt tread The Lion shall bow down his head With them shall conquer'd Dragons meet And humbly stooping at Thy Feet Their Captive Chains unto each other greet XI To Me saies God he look'd and therefore I Will where he look'd set him on high I was the Object of his Love For as his Prayers did upward move T was that they sounded in my ears above XII To Me in all his troubles shall he cry I 'le answer him and speedily Will bring him out with songs of praise Give him long life and happy daies And after crown him with Eternal Bayes Psalm XCII Bonum est confiteri Dominum c. I. WHat Saints in Heav'n and Angels do I 'le count my Duty and my Honour too Morning and Night Great God to raise My Song as high as Thou hast set Thy Praise With all the Numbers Musick can invent My Voice and Harp and Ten-string'd Instrument That what from Thee first came may back to Thee be sent II. Thou hast deserv'd it and my Song Shall tell abroad what Thy great hand ha's done And in Thy wondrous Works I will rejoyce And with the lofty subject fill my voice But Lord what Verse can with thy Power compare And shew Thy thoughts or what Thy Counsels are Which Fools despise and none can as they ought declare III. For when like Grass the wicked spring And prosper for a season in their sin 'T is that like Grass they may be mown And dung that Field which they before did crown Thou who on high dost all their malice see And that less mine than they were foes to Thee Hast thus design'd that their eternal fall should be IV. But Thou on high shalt raise my head And on it make the Sacred Oyl be shed And raise it as the Unicorn To guard his Empire lifts his Sovereign Horn And then upon my bloody Enemies My ears shall have their wish and then my eyes Without regret their misery shall see and hear their cryes V. Then like the Palm the Just shall grow And as if under weights more beauteous show Like Cedars shall be ever green The World's renown as they the Woods havebeen His hand which planted them shall make them thrive The Sacred Earth new roots and sap shall give Both in His Courts to flourish and in His House to live VI. There shall they live and have a Spring As constant as the soil they 're planted in Age shall but render them more fair More gay and fruitful than in youth they were That all the World Thy Power O God may know And to Thy Kingdom 's Righteous Scepter bow Who mak'st the Green Tree wither and the Dry to grow Psalm XCIII Dominus regnavit decorem c. I. SUbmit your Crowns O Kings for God do's reign And ha's Himself put on His Crown Throw at His Feet your Scepters down And pardon by your quick submission gain Unto your selves ascribe His Power no more But what He first gave you to him again restore II. Girt round with Majesty the Lord do's reign His Kingdom is the World He made And on such sure Foundations laid That like his Word it shall unmov'd remain 'T is there he rules but Heav'n is fit alone For our best Wishes since He there ha's set His Throne III. There as He sits the Floods would to Him rise Their threatning heads on high they bear But hopeless ever to come near Roar and send up their clamours to the skyes Above He hears and scorns them stills their noise And in their loudest roaring makes them hear His voice IV. All things obey His Will whose Law 's so sure That all things by it firmly stand From Nothing that did first command Their Beings and now makes them to endure Thy Power O God do's reach us every where But in Thy Temple do's Thy Holiness appear Psalm XCIV Deus ultionum Dominus c. I. JUdge of the Universe Great Lord of All Equal Disposer of Rewards and Punishments Arise and to Thy Barr the Nations call Both for their Actions to be judg'd and their intents Arise Great Judge that by Thy Just Decree As are the Proud Man's Merits his Reward may be II. How long my God shall He unpunisht go And then most prosper when he most do's Thee offend Speaking hard things of what he do's not know And make to patient Heav'n his blasphemies ascend To Heav'n he raises his exalted Crown And under-foot Heaven's Holy seed the while treads down III. A Widdow now and then a Stranger slayes And with theirs drinks the blood of th' murd'red Fatherless Ha's several baits to throw for several preys And several snares which he can unsuspected dress So close he saith and from suspition free That Jacob's God though He stood by should never see IV. Canst thou be then so brutish and unwise Fond Man to think He sees not or not hears Who made at first the light and gave Thee eyes And form'd for sounds the subtil windings of thy ears Or can the World 's just Ruler partial be Or God Himself know nothing who at first taught thee V. He knows the Heart and the most secret thought How vain are Our desires Our hatred love and fears And happy Man who ha's the skill been taught To know Himself though he with chastening learn't tears In trouble God will give him rest and peace And by the wicked's fall his glory shall increase VI. For the Wise God will not His choice forsake Nor His inheritance to strangers ever leave Justice and Right again the Chair shall take And injur'd Innocence then clear'd its Crown receive Never to be opprest or suffer more But have rewards above the wrongs it felt before VII But whence said I shall come my present aid Or who against my foes my Title will defend Hadst not Thou Lord my help and shield been made The grave e're this had put to that and me an end But when I slipt Thy Mercies me sustain'd And in the tumults of my thoughts Thy Comforts reign'd VIII For can God said I or the Holy
look o're their bounding sands And see what 's done at Land though they cannot come there V. Let them see how the Mountains glad as they Look from their tops when God will come away He comes But who His Presence can abide That the Great Judge of all shall be Yet who would not His entrance see When He with equall Justice shall each cause decide Psalm XCIX Dominus regnavit irascantur c. I. THE Lord do's reign let the Earth fear And tremble till its old Foundations shake For though Mount Sion He His Court do's make His Empire reaches every where Let the whole World before His Name fall low For it is Holy and most rais'd when they do so II. He Righteousness and Truth do's love Is the Kings strength as they His glory are Jacob His Judgements had and was His Care Exalt our God who reigns above The Holy God and at His Footstool bow For then you raise Him most when there you fall most low III. Moses and Aaron and the Quire Of Priests which alwayes in His Court attend Samuel with those whose praises there ascend And from His Altar have their fire In their distress when they did to Him fly He who their troubles saw as freely heard their cry IV. He heard them and that very Flame Which to His Presence did their Prayers conveigh No less for His return prepar'd the way Which through the Cloudy Pillar came He answer'd them and as He heard forgave And though reveng'd the sin yet did the sinner save V. Thus He of old their Faith did prove And unseen by them through the darkness saw How they observ'd His Word and kept His Law Exalt our God who reigns above The Holy God and in His Temple bow For then you raise Him most when there you fall most low Psalm C. Jubilate Deo omnis terra I. YOU who thrâ—ughout the World that Power adore Which first made it and then made you Give to the Lord what is His due And what Man ha's usurpt His Praise restore II. 'T is God alone who by His Word made All And by His Word that All sustains And Nothing by the Wonder gains Except to save and hear us when we call III. We are His People He Our Maker is Our Shepheard He and we His sheep Whom He secure do's ever keep And praise is all that He expects for this IV. Approach His Courts and enter them with praise And of His Mighty Power rehearse Make that the subject of your Verse And up to Heav'n with it His Goodness raise V. Who most shalt bless Him let 's together strive His Mercies have been ever sure His Truth for ever shall endure What can we less when He so much do's give Psalm CI. Misericordiam Justitiam c. I. I Will of Judgement and of mercy sing The greatest Praises of the greatest King And since mine 's nothing worth His own unto Him bring II. 'T was He discover'd to me first the Way I 'll follow where He shew'd the passage lay O come and lead me Lord that I may never stray III. With my integrity I 'll never part But be my Seed's as Thou my Pattern art And as Thy Way is perfect so shall be my Heart IV. No wicked thing will I with pleasure see My Innocent eyes no more shall guilty be Or look so low since they have once been rais'd to Thee V. I 'll hate the work of him who turns aside His way from life and happiness lyes wide And as he shuns me from him I my face will hide VI. The Privy slanderer I will ore'throw Reject the Proud nor with the froward go Their great heights when they fall shall make them sink more low VII But he in mine shall be as in Thy sight Whose heart and wayes Thy Laws have made upright To Thee a Servant but my Friend and chief delight VIII He in my house shall dwell but never there Shall the deceitful or false Man appear Destruction cannot be far of when they are near IX Early I will destroy them and my hand Shall cut them off and guiltless make the Land And on their spoils Gods City shall triumphing stand Psalm CII Domine exaudi orationem c. I. MY dearest God let my Pray'r come to Thee Nor at my sighes and cry offended be Dart through these pitchy clouds one ray Divine And make Thy glorious Face appear If Thou art pleas'd again to shine I will no longer fear But hope that He who sees my Pain will bend His ear II. But hear me then and answer speedily ' Ere 't is too late and I no more can cry For as dry wood do's in the fornace burn And vanishes in smoak away So all my strength to smoak do's turn And feels its own decay Whil'st on my bones and heart a fire unseen do's prey III. So fierce it rages that I quite forget Through pain and grief my very bread to eat The tears I shed do but the flame encrease My bones and flesh become more dry And all the while I held my peace Less burnt then now I cry And grass the Sun ha's toucht is not so scorch't as I. IV. And as the solitary Pelican And widdow'd Turtle for their mates complain Just like the Owle which do's in desarts dwell Hating and hated of the light That to the Rocks her moans do's tell So shun I every sight By day and weary with my mournfull cryes the night V. Both night and day I 'm made the common scorn And those who hate me are against me sworn Ashes and Tears have been my meat and drink Whil'st I continually did grieve Of Thy Just wrath and hand to think What mortal wounds they give Lifting me up a greater fall but to receive VI. And as the shaddow with the Sun declines And disappears when that no longer shines As with the Summer heat flowers pine away So pass my years e're well begun But an Eternal Now do's tay On Thyne ne're to be done When thousand Ages shall their several Race have run VII The mis'ries of Thy Sion Thou hast seen How great Her Sorrows what her Cares have been To save Thy Sion Lord at length arise Her mighty Jubilee is come And now her very dust we prize Her rubbish and Her lome And humbly begg Thou would'st return her captives home VIII So shall the heathen fear Thy Holy Name And all their Kings Thy Kingdomes rule proclaim When thus again Thou Sion shalt rebuild And in Thy glory there appear When all Her Courts with Vowes are fill'd And Thou inclin'st Thine Ear The Prayer of the Forsaken and their groans to hear IX For the next age this story we 'll record That they as well as We may praise the Lord Who from the height of Heav'n His Throne look'd down And did from thence the Earth behold Thence heard the dying Pris'ners grone Saw Justice chain'd with gold And sav'd both Her and them for