exhortaciō to prayse god for the gouernment of the world and the election of his church An admonishion not to folow the rebellion of the olde fathers that tempted God in the wildernes For the which they might not enter into the land of promise O Come let vs lyfte vp oure voyce and synge vnto the Lorde in him our rock of health reioyce let vs with one accorde yea let vs come before his face to geue him thanks and prayse in singing Psalmes vnto his grace let vs be glad all wayes verse 3 For why the Lorde he is no doubte a greate and myghty God A kynge aboue all Gods throughout in all the worlde abrode verse 4 4 The secretes of the yearth so depe and corners of the land The toppes of hilles that are so stepe he hath them in his hand verse 5 The sea and waters all are his for he the same hath wrought The earth and all that therin is his hande hath made of nought verse 6 Come let vs bow and prayse the Lorde before him let vs fall And knele to him with one acorde the whiche hathe made vs all verse 7 For why he is the Lorde our God for vs he doth prouide We are his folke he doth vs fede his shepe and he our guide verse 8 Today if ye his voice will heare then harden not your hart As ye with grudging many a yeare prouoked me in deserte verse 9 Wher as your fathers tempted me my power for to proue My wondrous works whē they did see yet still they woulde me moue verse 10 Twise twenty yeare they did me greue and I to them did saye They erre in heart and not beleue they haue not knowne my waye verse 11 Wherfore I sware when that my wrath was kindled in my brest That they should neuer treade the pathe to enter to my rest Cantate domino Psalme lxxxxvi I. H An exhortacyon bothe to the Iewes and gentiles to prayse God for hys mercye And this specyallye ought to be referred to the kingdom of Chryste Syng ye with prayse vnto the Lorde Sing this as the. lxxvii psalme New songs of ioy and mirthe Sing vnto him with one accorde all people on the yearthe verse 2 yea sing vnto the Lorde I saye prayse ye his holy name Declare and shew from day to daye saluation by the same verse 3 Amonge the Heathen eke declare hys honor round about To shew his wonders doo not spare in all the worlde throughout verse 4 For why the Lord is much of might and worthy prayse alway And he is to be dred of ryght aboue all Gods I saye verse 5 For all the Gods of Heathen folke are idoles that will fade But yet our God he is the Lord that hath the heauens made verse 6 All prayse and honor eke doo dwell for aye before his face Both power and might likewise excell within his holly place verse 7 Ascribe vnto the Lorde alway ye people of the worlde All might and worship eke I say ascribe vnto the Lorde verse 8 Ascribe vnto the Lorde also the glory of his name And eke into his courtes doo goe with giftes vnto the same verse 9 Fall down and worship ye the lorde with in his temple bright Let all the people of the worlde be fearefull at his sight verse 10 Tell all the world be not agaste the Lorde doth raigne aboue Yea he hath set the yerth so fast that it did neuer moue verse 11 And that it is the Lorde alone that ruleth with princely might To iudge the nations euery one with equity and right verse 12 The heauens shall great ioy begin the earth shall eke reioyce The sea with all that is theirin shall shoute and make a noice verse 13 The field shall ioye and euery thing that spryngeth of the earth The wod and euery tree shall sing with gladnes and with mirth verse 14 Before the presence of the Lorde and comming of his might when he shall iustly iudge the worlde and rule his folke with right Dominus regnauit Psalme lxxxxvii I. H The prophet exhorteth all to reioyce for the coming of the kingdome of Christ dreadfull to the rebels and Idolaters and ioyfull to the iust whom he exhorteth to innocency to reioysing and thanks geuing THe lord doth raigne where all y e earth Sing this as the. lxxxxv may ioy with pleasaunt voyce And eke the yles with ioyfull mirth may triumphe and reioyce verse 2 Bothe cloudes darknes eke doo swell and rounde aboute him beate Yea right and iustice euer dwell and byde aboute his seate verse 3 Yea fier and heate at once doth runne and go before his face Which shall his foes and ennemies burn abrode in euery place verse 4 His lightnes eke full bright did blase and to the world appere Wherat the yearthe did loke and gase with dreade and deadly feare verse 5 The hilles like war did melt in sight and presence of the Lorde They fled before that rulers might which gideth all the worlde verse 6 The heauens eke declare and shew his iustice forth abrode That all the world may see and knowe the glory of our god verse 7 Confusion sure shall come to suche as worship Idols vayne And eke to those that glory muche dome pictures to maintayne verse 8 For all the Idouls of the worlde whiche they as Gods doo call Shall feele the power of the Lorde and downe to hym shall fall verse 9 With ioy shall Sion here this thyng and Iuda shall reioyce For at thy iudgements they shall sing and make a pleasaunt noyce verse 10 That thou O Lorde art set on hie in all the earth abrode And arte exalted wonderously aboue eche other God verse 11 All ye that loue the Lorde doo thys hate all thinges that is ill For he doth kepe the soules of his from suche as would them spill verse 12 And light doth spring vp to the iust with pleasure for his part Greate ioye with gladnes mirth lust to them of vpright hart verse 13 Ye rigteous in the Lord reioyce his hollines proclayme Be thankfull eke with hart and voyce and mindefull of the same Cantate domino Psal lxxxxviii I. H An Earnest exhortacyō to all cratures to prayse the Lorde for his power mercy and fydelitie in his promyse by Christ by whō he hath communicated his saluation to all natiōes OSyng ye now vnto the Lorde a new and pleasaunt songe Sing this as the. lxxxxv For he hath wrought throughout the world His wōders great strong With his rigt hand full worthely he doth his foes deuoure And get him sealf the victory with his owne arme and power verse 3 The Lord doth make the people know his sauing health and might The Lorde doth eke his iustice shew in all the Heathens sight verse 4 His grace and truth to Israell in minde he doth recorde That al the yearth hath sene right wel the goodnes of the Lorde verse 5 Be glad in him with ioyfull voyce all
people of the earth Geue thankes to God sing and reioyce to him with ioy and mirth verse 6 Upon the harp vnto him sing geue thankes to him with psalmes Reioyce before the Lord our king with trumpets and with shalmes verse 7 Yea let the sea with all therin with ioy bothe rore and swell The earth likewise let it begin with all that therin dwell verse 8 And let the flouddes reioyse theyr filles and clap theyr handes apace And eke the mountaynes and the hilles before the Lorde his face verse 9 For he shall come to iudge and try the world and euery wighte And rule the people mightely with iustice and with right Dominus regnauit psalme lxxxxix I. H. He cōmendeth the power equitie and excellency of the kingdome of God by Chryst ouer the Iew and Gentils and prouoketh them to magnyfye the same to serue the Lord folowing the example of the auncyent fathers Mosies Aaron Samuel who calling vpon God wer harde in theyr prayers THe Lord doeth raygne although at it The people rage full fore Sing this as the. lxxxxv p yea he on Cherubin doth sit though all the world woulde rore verse 2 The Lorde that doth in Sion dwell is high and wonders great Aboue all folke he doth excell and he aloft is set verse 3 Let all men prayse thy mightye name for it is featfull sure And let them magnifye the same that holy is and pure verse 4 The princely power of our king doth loue iudgement and ryght Thou rightly rulest euery thing in Iacob through thy might verse 5 To prayse the Lorde our God deuise all honour to him doo His fote stole worship ye likewise for he is holy too verse 6 Moses Aron and Samuell as priestes on him did call When they did pray he herd them well and gaue them aunswer all verse 7 Within the cloude to them he spake then did they labour still To keepe suche lawes as he did make and pointed them vntill verse 8 O Lord our god thou diddest them here and aunswerst them againe Thy mercy did on them appere theyr deedes diddest not maintayne verse 9 O laude and prayse our God and Lord within this holy hill For why our God throughoute the world is holy euer styll 2 Iubilate deo omnis terra Psalme C. He exhorteth all to serue the Lorde who hath made vs and to enter into his courts and assemblies to prayse his name IN God the Lorde be glad and lyght prayse him throughout the yearthe Sing this as the. lxvii Serue him and come before his sight with singing and with mirth verse 12 Know that the Lorde our God he is he did vs make and kepe Not we our sealues for we are his owne folke and pasture shepe verse 13 O go into his gates alwayes geue thankes within the same within his courts set forth his prayse and laud his holy name verse 14 For why the goodnes of the Lorde for euermore doth raygne From age to age throughout the world his truthe doth still remayne Miserecordiam et iudicium Psalm Ci. N. Dauid describeth what gouernment he will obserue in his house and kingdome He will punish and correct by roting out the wicked and cheryshing the godly persones I Mercye will and iudgement sing O Lorde God vnto thee Sing this as the. lxxxi Ps. And wisely doo in perfect way vntill thou come to me And in the middest of my house walke in purenes of my sprite And I no kind of wicked thing will set before my sight I hate their worke that fall away it shall not cleaue to me From me shall part the froward hart none euell will I see Him will I stroy that sclaundereth his neyghbour priuely The lofty hart I can not beare nor him that loketh hie Mine eyes shall be on them within the land that faithfull be In perfect way who worketh shall be seruant vnto me I will no guilefull person haue within my house to dwell And in my presence he shal not remaine that lies doth tell Betymes I will destroy euen all the wicked of the lande That I may from Gods citie cut the wicked workers band Domine exaudi orationem Psalm C. ii I. H. It semeth that this prayer was apointed to the faithful to pray in the captiuitie of Babilon A consolation for the buyldyng of the churche wherof foloweth the prayse of god to be published vnto al posterities The conuersion of the Gentels And the stabilytie of the churche O Heare my prayer Lorde and let my crye come vnto thee In tyme of troble doo not hide thy face away from me Inclyne thyne eares to me make haste Sing this as the. lxvii to heare me when I call For as the smoke doth fade so doo my dayes consume and fall And as a herth my bones are burnt my hart is smitten dead And withers as the grasse that I forget to eate my bread By reason of my groning voyce my bones cleaue to my skinne As pellicane of wildernes suche case now am I in And as an oule in desert is loe I am suche a one I watch and as a sparow on the house top am alone Loe dayly in reprochefull wise mine enmies doo me scorne And they that doo against me rage against me they haue sworne Surely with ashes as with breade my hunger I haue filld And mingled haue my drink with teares that fro mine eyes haue stild Because of thy displeasure Lord thy wrath and thy disdayne For thou hast lifted me aloft and cast me downe agayne The dayes wherin I pas my lyfe are like the fleting shade And I am withered like the gras that sone away doth fade But thou O Lord for euer doest remaine in stedy place And thy remembrance euer doth abide from race to race The second parte Thou wilt aryse and mercy thou to Sion wilt extend The time of mercy now the time foreset is come to end For euen in the stones therof thy seruants do delighte And on the dust therof they haue compassion in theyr sprite Then shall the Heathen peoples feare the Lordes most holy name And all the kinges on earth shall drede thy glory and thy fame Then when the Lord the mighty God againe shall Syon rere And then when he most nobly in his glory shall appeare To prayer of the desolate when he himself shall bend when he shall not disdayne vnto theyr prayer to attend This shalbe written for the age that after shall succede the people yet vncreated the Lordes renome shall sprede For he from his hie sanctuarye hath loked downe belowe and out of Heauen hath the Lord beheld the earth also That of the mourning captiue he might heare the woefull crye And that he might deliuer those that damned are to dye That they in Sion may declare the Lordes most holy name and in Ierusalem set fourth the prayses of the same Then when the people of the land and kingdomes with accorde Shalbe assembled for to do theyr seruice to
forgot and helpe of idols sought verse 21 Would not god then haue tried this out for he doth know our thought verse 22 Nay nay for thy names sake O Lorde alwayes are we slaine thus Aa shepe vnto the shambles sent right so they deale with vs. verse 23 Up Lorde why slepest thou awake and leaue vs not for all verse 24 Why hidest thou thy countenaunce and dost forget our thrall verse 25 For downe to dust our soule is brought and we now at last cast Our belly lyke as it were glude vnto the ground cleaueth fast verse 26 Rise vp therfore for our defence and helpe vs Lorde at nede We thee bese the for thy goodnes to rescue vs with spede Eructauit Psalme xlv I. H. The maiestie of Salomon hys honour strengthe beauty riches and power are praysed and also hys maryage with the Egiptian being an Heathen woman to blessed if that she can renounce her people and theÌ„ loue other contrey and geue her selfe wholy to her husbande Under the whyche â—yguâ—e the wonderfull maiestie â–ª and the increase of the kingdome of Christe and the Churche hys spouse now taken of the genuies is described MY hart doth now take in hande Sing this as the. xxv psa Some godly songe to singe Thy prayse I shall shew therin perteyneth to the kynge verse 2 My tounge shalbe as quicke his honor to endite As is the pen of any scribe that vseth faste to wryte verse 3 O fayrest of all men thy speache is pleasaunt pure For God hathe blessed thee with giftes for euer to endure verse 4 Aboute thee girde thy sworde O prince of might elect With honour glory and renoume thy person pure is dect verse 5 Go forth with godly speede in mekenes truth and ryght And thy ryght hand shall thee instruct in workes of dredfull might verse 6 Thyne arrowes sharpe and kene theyr harts so sore shall stinge That folke shall fall and knele to thee yea all thy foes O kynge verse 7 Thy royall seate O Lorde for euer shall remayne Because the scepter of thy realme doth righteousnes maintaine verse 8 Because thou louest the ryghte and dost the ill detest God euen thy God hath pointed thee with ioy aboue the rest verse 9 With mirth and sauours swete thy clothes ar all be spreade when thou dost from thy palace pas wherin to make thee glad verse 10 Kinges doughters doo attend in fine and riche araye At thy right hand the queene doth stand in goulde and garments gaye The second parte verse 11 O doughter take good heede enclyne and geue good eare Thou must forget thy kindred all and fathers house most dere verse 12 Then shall the king desire Thy beuty fayer and trim For why he is the Lorde thy God and thou must worship hym verse 13 The doughters then of Tire with giftes full riche to see And all the welthy of the lande shall make theyr sute to thee verse 14 The daughter of the king is glorious to beholde within his closet she doth sitte all dect in beaten goulde verse 15 In robes well wrought with needle with many a pleasaunt thyng With virgins faier on her to waighte she cometh to the king verse 16 16 Thus are they brought with Ioy and mirth on euery side Into the palace of the king and there doo they abide verse 17 In stede of parents lefte O quene the chaunge so standes Thou shalt haue soÌ„nes whoÌ„ thou maist set as princes in all landes verse 18 Wherfore thy holy name all ages shall recorde The people shall geue thankes to thee for euer more O Lorde Deus noster refugium Psalm xlvi I. H. A songe of thankes geuyng for the delyueraunce of Ierusalem after Senacherib with hys army was driuen awaye or some otherlyke so dayne and maruelous delyueraunce by the myghtye hande of God Whereby the Prophet commendyng thys greate benefyte dothe exhorte the faythfull to geue them selues wholy into the hande of God doubtyng nothyng but that vnder hys protection they shalbe safe agaynste all the assaultes of theyr enemyes THe Lorde is oure defence and ayde the strength wherby we stand when we with wo are muche dismaide he is our helpe at hand Though thearth remoue we will not feare though hilles so high stepe be thrust and hurled heare and there within the sea so depe verse 3 No though the waues doo rage so sore that all the bankes it spilles And though it ouer flow the shore and beate downe mightye hilles verse 4 For one fayer floud doth send abrode his pleasaunt streames a pace To fresh the citie of our God and wash his holy place verse 5 In middest of her the Lord doth dwel she can no whit decaye All thinges against her that rebel the Lord will truly staye verse 6 The heathen flocke the kingdoms feare the people make a noyse The earth doth melte and not appeare when God puttes forth his voyce verse 7 The Lord of hostes doth take our part to vs he hath an eye Our hope of health with all our hart on Iacobes God doeth lye verse 8 Come here see with mind thought the working of our God what wonders he him self hath wrought through out the earth abrod verse 9 By him all warres are husht and gone which countres did conspire Their bowes he brake speares echone theyr Charets brent with fier verse 10 Leaue of therfore saith he and know I am a God most stoute Among the heathen high and low and all the earth throughoute verse 11 The Lorde of hostes doeth vs defend he is our strength and tower On Iacobs God doo we depend and on his mighty power Omnes gentes Psalme xlvii I. H. The prophet exorteth all people to the worship of the true and euerliuing God commending the mercyes of God towarde the posteritie of Jacob and after prophecieth of the kingdome of Christ in this tune of the Gospell YE people all in one accorde clappe handes and eke reioyce Sing this as the. xlvi Psa Be glad and sing vnto the Lorde with swete and pleasaunt voyce verse 2 2 For hie the Lorde and dredfull is with wonders manifolde A mighty kynge he is truly in all the earthe extolde verse 3 The people shall he make to be vnto our bondage thrall And vnderneth our fete he shall the nations make to fall verse 4 For vs the heritage he chose whiche we possesse alone The flouring worship of Iacob hys welbeloued one verse 5 Our God ascended vp on hye with ioy and pleasaunt noyce The Lorde goeth vp aboue the skye with trompets royall voyce verse 6 Sing prayse to God sing prayse sing prayses to our kynge For God is king of all the earth all skilfull prayses syng verse 7 God on the heathen reignes and sittes vpon his holy throne The princes of the people haue them ioyned euery one verse 8 To Abrams people for our God whiche is exalted hye Us with a buckler doth defende the earth continually Magnus dominus Psal. xlviii
comfort of thy sauing help geue me againe I pray With thy free sprite establish me And I will teache therfore Sinners thy wayes and wicked shall be turnde vnto thy lore O God that art God of my health from blood deliuer me That prayses of thy righteousnes my tonge may syng to thee My lippes that yet fast closed be doo thou O Lorde vnlose The prayses of thy maiestie my mouth shall so disclose I would haue offred sacrifice if that had pleased thee But pleased with burnt offringes I knowe thou wilt not be A trobled sprite is sacrifice delytefull in Gods eyes A broken and an humbled hart God thou wilt not despise In thy good will deale gently Lorde to Sion and with all Graunt that of thy Ierusalem vpreard may be the wall Burnt offrings giftes and sacrifice of iustice in that day Thou shalt accept and calues they shal vpon thyne altar lay Quid gloriaris Psalme lii I. H Dauid describeth the arrogante tyrannye of hys aduersarye Doeg Saules chief shepherde who by false surmyses caused Achimelech with the rest of the priestes to be slain Dauid prophecieth his destruction and encourageth the faithfull to put theyr confidence in God whose iudgements are most sharpe against his aduersaryes And fynally he rendreth thankes to God for his deliueraunce In thys Psalme is lyuely set forthe the kingdome of Antichrist WHy dost thou tyrāt boast abrode thy wicked works to prayse dost thou not knowe there is a God whose mercies last alwayes Why doth thy mind yet still deuise suche wicked wiles to warpe Thy tong vntrue in forging lies is like a rasour sharpe verse 3 On mischief why settest thou thy minde and wilt not walke vpryght Thou hast more lust false tales to fynde then bryng the truth to lyght verse 4 Thou doest delyte in fraude and guile in mischief blud and wrong Thy lyppes haue learnde the flateryng style O false deceitfull tonge verse 5 Therfore shall God for euer confounde and pluck thee from thy place Thy sede rote out from of the grounde and so shall thee deface verse 6 The iust when they beholde thy fall with feare will praise the Lorde And in reproche of thee withall cry out with one accorde verse 7 Behold the man which would not take the Lorde for his defence But of his goods his God did make and trust his corrupt sence verse 8 But I an Oliue fresh and grene shall spring and sprede abrode For why my trust all times hathe bene vpon the lyuing Ood verse 9 For this therfore will I geue prayse to thee with hart and voyce I will set forth thy name always wherin thy sainctes reioyce Dixit in sipiens Psalme Liii T. N The Prophet describeth the croked nature the crueltye and punishment of the wicked when they loke not for it and desireth the deliueraunce of the godlie that they may reioyce together THe foolish man in that whyche he within his hart hath sayde Sing this as the. xiv psalme That there is any God at all hathe vtterly denyde They are corrupt and they also a haynous worke haue wrought Amonge them all there is not one of good that worketh ought The Lorde loked downe on sons of men from Heuen all abrode To see if any were that would be wise and seke for God They are gone all out of the way they are corrupted all There is not one doth any good there is not one at all Do not all wicked workers know that they do fede vpon My people as they fede on breade the Lorde they call not on Euen there they were afrayde and stode with trembling all dismayde Where as there was no cause at all why they should be afrayde For God his bones that thee beseged hath scattered all abrode Thou hast confounded them for they reiected are of God O Lorde geue thou thy people health and thou O Lord fulfill thy promise made to Israell from out of Syon hill When God his people shall restore that erst was captiue lad Thou Iacob shall therin reioyse and Israel shalbe glad Deus in nomine Psalm Liiii I. H Dauid brought into Great daunger by reasō of Ziphius calleth vpō the name of God to destroy e his enemies promysing sacrifice and froe offerings for their delyueraunce GOd saue me for thy holy name and for thy goodnes sake Sing this as the. xlvi Psa Unto the strength Lorde of the same I doo my cause betake verse 2 Regarde O Lorde and geue an eare to thee when I doo praye Bow downe thy sealfe to me and heare the wordes that I doo saye verse 3 For straungers vp against me ryse and tirauntes vex me still Whiche haue not God before theyr eies they seke my soule to spill verse 4 But loe my God doeth geue me ayde the Lorde is strayght at hand with them by whom my soule is stayed the Lorde doth euer stande verse 5 With plages repay agayne all those for me that lye in wayte And with thy truth destroy my foes with theyr owne snare and bayte verse 6 An offering of free hart and will that I to thee shall make And prayse thy name for therin still greate comfort I doo take verse 7 O Lorde at length doo set me free from them that craft conspire And now mine eye with ioye doeth see on them my hartes desire Exaudi deus Psalme Lv. I. H. Dauid being in greate heauines and distres complayneth of the crueltye of Saule and of the falshod of his familyar acquaintaunce vtteryng most ardent affections to moue the Lord to pitie hym After being assured of deliueraūce he setteth forth the grace of god as though he had all ready obtayned his request O God geue eare and do apply To heare me when I praye Sing this as the. xxxv psalme And when to thee I call and crye hide not thy selfe awaye verse 2 Take hede to me graunt my request and aunswer me agayne with playntes I pray full sore opprest greate grief doeth me constrayne verse 3 Because my foes with threates and cries oppres me through despighte And so the wicked sorte lykewise to vex me haue delighte verse 4 For they in counsell doo conspire to charge me with some ill So in their hasty wrath and ire they doo pursue me styll verse 5 My hart doth faynte for want of breathe it panteth in my breste The terroures and the dread of deathe doo work me muche vnrest verse 6 feare on me doth fall with doo quake Suche 〈◊〉 whelmeth me with all that I can make verse 7 But I will geue me ▪ Of some fayer doue that I may flee and rest me from these thinges verse 8 Lo then I woulde go farre awaye to flye I woulde not cease And I woulde hide my selfe and staye in some greate wildernes verse 9 I would be gon in all the hast and not abide behinde That I weare quite and ouer past these blasts of boisteous winde verse 10 Deuide them Lord and from them pul their diuilish double tounge
peruerse with grief shall stop theyr voyce verse 43 But who is wise that now full well he may these thinges recorde For certeinly suche shall perceyue the kindnes of the Lorde Paratum cor meum Psalme Cviii. N. This psalme is composed of two other psalmes before the seuen and fyftye and the sixtie The matter here conteyned is That Dauid geueth himselfe with harte and voyce to prayse the Lorde and assureth him selfe of the promes of God concerning his kingdome ouer Israell and his power against other nations who though he seme for to forsake vs for a time yet he alone in the ende will caste downe our enemies O God my harte prepared is Sing this as the. lxxxxv and eke my tong is so I will aduaunce my voyce in song and geuyug prayse also Awake my viole and my harp swete melody to make And in the morning I my selfe right early will awake By me among the people Lorde still praysed shalt thou be And I among the Heathen folke will sing O Lorde to thee Because thy mercie Lorde is great aboue the heauens hie And eke thy truth doth reche the clouds within the lofty skye Aboue the sterry heauens heighth exalt thy selfe O God And Lorde display vpon the earth thy glory all abrode That thy derely beloued may be set at libertie Helpe O my God with thy righte hand and harken vnto me God in his holines hath spoke wherfore my ioyes abound Sychem I shall diuide and mete the vale of Sucoth ground And Gilead shall be myne owne Manasses mine shall be My hed strength Ephraim and Law shall Iuda geue for me Moab my washpot and my shoe on Edom will I throwe Upon the land of Palestine in triumph will I goo Who shall into the citie strong be guide to conduict me Or who by whom to Edom land conueyed shall I be Is it not thou O God which late hadst vs forsaken quyte And thou O Lorde which with our host didst not goe fourth to fyght Geue vs O Lorde thy sauing ayde when trouble doth assayle For all the helpe of man is vayne and can no whit auayle Through God we shal do valiant acts and worthy of renowne He shall subdue our enemies ye he shall treade them downe Deus laudem meam Psalme Cix N. Dauid being falslye accused by flatterers vnto Sawl prayeth God to helpe him and to destroye his enemyes And vnder them he speaketh of Iudas the traitour vnto Iesus Christ and of all the like enemyes of the children of God And desireth so to be deliuered that his enemies may know the work of God Then doth he promise to geue prayses vnto God IN specheles silence doo not holde O God thy tong alwayes Sing this as the. lxxxxv O God euen thou I say that art the God of all my prayse The wicked mouth and gilefull mouth on me disclosed be And they with false and lying tong haue spoken vnto me Euen so doo I departe away as doth declynyng shade And as the grashopper so I am shaken of and fade With fastyng longe from nedefull fode enfebled are my knees And all her fatnes hath my flesh enforced ben to lese And I also a vyle reproche to them was made to be And they that did vpon me loke did shake theyr heds at me But thou O Lorde that art my God myne ayde and succour be Accordyng to thy merycy Lorde saue and delyuer me And they shall know thereby that thys Lord is thy myghty hand And that thou thou hast done it Lorde so shall they vnderstande Although they curse with spite yet thou shalt bles with louyng voyce They shall aryse and come to shame thy seruant shall reioyse Let them be clothed all with shame that enmies are to me â–ª And with confusyon as a cloke eke couerd let them be But greatly I will with mg mouthe geue thankes vnto the Lorde And I among the multitude hys prayses will recorde For he with help at hys ryght hand will stande the pooreman by To saue hym from the men that wold condemne his soule to dye Dixit dominus domino Plalm Cx. N Dauid prophecyeth of the power and euerlastyng kyngdome geuen to Chryste and of hys Pristhod whyche shoulde put an ende to the Pristode of Leuy Sing this as the. lxviii Psalm THe Lorde did say vnto my Lorde Sit thou at my right hande Till I haue made thy foes a stoule wheron thy fete shall stande The Lorde shall out of Syon send the scepture of thy myght A midde thy mortall foes be thou the ruler in theyr syght And in the day on which they reigne and power they shall see Then hearby frewill offringes shall thy people offer thee Yea with a holy worshiping then shall they offer all Thy birthes dew is the dew that doth from wombe of morning fall The Lorde hath sworne and neuer will repent what he doth say By thorder of Melchisedech thou art a priest for ay The Lord thy God on thy righthand that standeth for thy stay Shal wound for thee the stately kings vpon his wrathfull day The Heathen he shall iudge and fill the place with bodies dead And ouer diuerse contreyes shall in sonder smite the head And he shall drink out of the broke that runneth in the way Therfore he shall lift vp on hye his ryall hed that day Confitebor tibi domine Psalm Cxi N He geueth thanks to the Lord for his mercifull works towards his church declareth wherin true wisdom right knowledg coÌ„sisteth WIth hart I doo accord To praise laud the Lord Inpresence of the iuste For great his workes are founde To search them suche are bounde as doo hym loue and trust Hys workes are glorious Also his rightousnes It doeth indure for euer His wondrous works he wolde we still remembre shoulde his mercye fayleth neuer verse 5 Suche as doo loue him beare a portion full faire He hath vp for them laid For this they shall well finde He will them haue in minde and kepe them as he sayd verse 6 For he did not disdayne his workes to shew them playne By lightnings and by thunders when he the Heathens land Did geue into their hand verse 7 Of all his workes insueth bothe iudgement right and truth Wherto his statutes tend they are decreed sure verse 8 For euer to endure whiche equitie doth end Redemption he gaue his people for to saue verse 9 And hath also required his promes not to fayle But alwayes to preuayle his holy name be feared verse 10 Whoso with hart full layne true wisdom wolde attayne The Lorde feare and obey suche as his Lawes doo kepe Shall knowledge haue full depe his prayse shall last for aye Beatus vir Psalme Cxii VV. K. He prayseth the felicitie of them that feare God and condemneth the â—â—rsed state of the contemners of God THe man is blest that god doth feare And that his lawes doth loue in dede His sede on earth God will vpreare And bles such as from him
hathe accomplished his promes and placed his Arke in Sion for the whiche he geueth thankes and prayeth for the prosperitie of the Church I did in hart reioyce to heare y e peples voyce in offering so willingly For let vs vp say they and in the Lordes house pray thus spake the folke full louingly Oure fete that wandred wide shal in thy gates abide O thou Jerusalem full fayre Which arte so semely set muche lyke a Citie net the like wherof is not els where The trybes with one accorde The tribes of God the Lorde Are thither bent theyr way to take So God before did â—ell That there his israell Their prayers shoulde together make For there are thrones erect And that for this respect To set forth iustice orderly Which thrones right to mainteine To dauids house perteine His folke to iudge accordingly To pray let vs not cease For Ierusalems peace Thy friendes God prosper mightely Peace be thy walles about And prosper the throughout Thy places eke continually I wish thy prosperous state For my poore brethrens sake That comfort haue by meanes of the. Gods house both me allure Thy welth for to procure So much allwayes as lieth in me Adte leuaui oculos Psalm Cxxiii Th. Stern A praier of the faithfull which are afflicted by the wicked worldelinges and contemners of God O Lord that heuen doest possesse Singe this as the. xxiii psal I lift mine eies to the Euen as the seruant lifteth his his maisters handes to see verse 2 As handmaides watch there maistres handes some grace for to atchiue So we beholde the Lord our God til he do vs forgeue verse 3 Lorde graunt vs thy compassion and mercy in thy sight For we be filled and ouer comen with hatred and despight verse 4 Our mindes be stuffed with great rebuke the rich and worldly wise To make af vs their mocking stock the proude do vs despice Nisi quia dominus Psalm Cxxiiii VV. The people of God beyng delyuered out of a great danger acknowledg not to haue escaped by their owne power but throughe the fauour of God and shew in how greate perill they were NO we Israell may say that truly If that the Lord had not our cause mainteind If that the lord had not our right susteind WheÌ„ all the worlde against vs furiously made their vprors and said we should all die verse 3 Now long a go they had deuoure vs all And swalowed quick for ought y t we could deme Suche was their rage as we might well esteme verse 4 And as the flouddes with mightye force do fall So had they now our life euen brought to thrall verse 5 The raging stremes most proud in roring noice Had long a go ouer whelmde vs in the depe verse 6 But loued by God whiche doth vs safely kepe From bloudy teeth and theyr most cruell voyce Which as a pray to eate vs woulde reioyce verse 7 Euen as the birde out of the foulers grenne Escapth away right so it fareth vs Broke are theyr nets and we haue scaped thus verse 8 God that made heauen earth is our help theÌ„ His name hath saued vs from these wicked men Qui confidunt Psalm cxxv VV. K. He describeth the assurance of the faithfull in their aflictions and desireth their welth and the destruction of the wicked SUche as in God the lord do trust as Mount Sion shall firmely stande and be remoued at no hand the Lorde will count them right and iust So that they shall be sure For euer to indure verse 2 As mightye mountains huge and greate Jerusalem about to close So will the Lorde be vnto those who on his godly will doo wayte Suche are to hym so deare they neuer nede to feare verse 3 For though the rightous trye doeth he by making wicked men his rodde Lest they through grief for sake their God it shall not as their lot still be verse 4 Geue Lorde to those thy lyght whose hartes are true and ryght verse 5 But as for such as turne a syde by croked wayes which they out sought The Lorde will surely bryng to nought with workes vile they shall abide But peace with Israell for euermore shall dwel In conuertendo Psalm cxxvi VV. K This Psalme was made after the returne of the people from Babylon and sheweth that the meane of their deliuerance was wonderful after the seuentie yeres of captiuitie forespoken by Ieremie 25. 12. and. 29. 10. WHen that the Lorde again his SioÌ„ had forth brought from bondage great also seruitude extreme his work was suche as did surmount mans hart thought so that we were muche like to them that vse to dreame our mouthes were with laughter filled then and eke our tongues did shew vs ioyfull men The Heathen folke were forced then this to confes How that the Lord for them also great things had don verse 3 But muche more we and therfore can confes no les Wherfore to ioye we haue good cause as we begonne verse 4 O Lorde go forthe thou canst our bondage end As to desertes thy flowing riuers send verse 5 Full true it is that they whiche sow with teares in dede A time will come when they shal reape in mirth ioye verse 6 They went and wept in bearing of their precious sede For that theyr foes full often times did them anoye But their returne with ioye they shall sure see Their sheaues home bryng and not impered be Nisi dominus Palme Cxxvii VV. It is not mannes wit power or labor but the free goodnes of God that geueth ryches preserueth townes and countrepes graunteth noryshment and chyldren EXcept the Lorde the house doo make And therunto doo set hys hande Sing this as the lords praâ—â— What men doo build it can not stand Likewise in vayne men vndertake Cities and holdes to watch and ward Except the Lord be their safegard Though ye ryse early in the morne And so at night go late to bed Feding full hardly with browne breade yet were your labor lost and worne But they whom God doth loue and kepe Receyue all thinges with quiet slepe Therfore marke well when euer ye see That men haue heires to enioy their laÌ„d It is the gift of Gods owne hand For God him selfe doth multiplye Of his great liberalitie The blessing of posteritie And when the children come to age They grow in strength and actiuenes In person and comelines So that a shaft shot with courage Of one that hath a most strong arme Flyeth not so swyft nor doth lyke harme Oh well is him that hath his quiuer Fournished with such altilerye For when in perill he shalbe Suche one shall neuer shake nor shiuer When that he pleadeth before the iudge Against his foes which beare him grudg Beati omnes qui timent Psalm cxxviii T. T He describeth the prosperous estate of them that be maryed in the feare of God ioyning with all the promises of Gods blessinges to all them that lyue in thys honorable estate
haue regard ye seruants of the Lorde Which in his house by night do watch prayse him with one accorde Lyft vp your hands on high vnto his holy place And geue the Lorde his prayses due his benefites embrace For why the Lord who did both earth and heauen frame Doeth Sion bles and will conserue for euer more the same Laudate nomen Psalme Cxxxv. M. He exhorteth all the faithful of what estate so euer they be to praise God for his merueylous worcks specially for his graces towards his people wherein he hath declared his maiestie To the confession of all Idolaters and theyr Idolls O Praise y e lord praise him praise him praise him with one accord o praise him stil al ye that be the seruaunts of y e lord o praise him ye that stand be in the house of the Lord ye of his court and of his house praise hym with one accord Prayse ye the Lord for he is good syng prayses to his name It is a comly and good thing alwayes to doo the same For why the Lorde hath chose Iacob his very owne you see So hath he chosen Israell his treasure for to be For this I know and am right sure the Lorde is very greate He is in dede aboue all Goddes most easy to intreate For what so euer pleased him all that fulwell he wrought In heauen in earthe and in the sea whiche he hath framde of nought He lifteth vp cloudes euen from the earthe he makth the lightnings and rayne He bringkth forth the windes also He made nothing in vayne He smote the first borne of eche thing in Egipt that toke rest He spared there no lyuing thyng the man nor yet the beast He hathe in thee shewde wonders great O Egipt voyde of vauntes On Pharao thy cursed kyng and his seuere seruauntes He smote then many nacyons and did great actes and thynges He slew the great and mightyest and chefest of theyr kynges Syhon king of Ammorites and Og kyng of Basan He slew also the kingdomes all that were of Canaan And gaue their lande to Israell an herytage we see To Israell his owne people an heritage to be Thy name O Lorde shall still endure and thy memoriall Throughout all generations that are or euer shall The Lorde will surely auenge his people all in dede And to his seruauntes he will shewe fauour in tyme of nede The Idols of the Heathen are made in all theyr coste and landes Of syluer and of golde be they the workes euen of mens handes They haue mouthes and cannot speake and eyes to at haue no sight They haue eares that heare nothyng Theyr mouthes be breatheles quite Wherfore all they are lyke to them that so doth set them forth And lyke wyse those that trust in them or thinke they be ought worth O all ye house of Israell see that ye prayse the Lorde And ye that be of Aarons house prayse him with one accord And ye that be of Leuis house prayse ye lykewise the Lorde And all that stand in awe of hym prayse him with one accord And out of Syon sound his prayse the great prayse of the Lorde Whiche dwelleth in Ierusalem praise him with one accord Confitemini Psalme Cxxxvi. N. ☞ A most earnest exhortaciō to geue thanks vnto God for the creation and gouernaunce of all thinges which standeth in confessing that he geueth vs all of his mere liberalitie PRaise ye y e lord for he is good for hys mercy endureth for euer Geue prayse vnto the God of Gods for his mercy endureth for euer Geue prayse vnto the Lorde of Lordes for his mercy endureth for euer which only doth great wōders work for his mercy endureth for euer verse 5 Which by his wisdome made the heauens for his mercy endureth for euer verse 6 Which on the waters stretcht the earth for his mercy endureth for euer verse 7 Which made great light to shine abrode for his mercy endureth for euer verse 8 As sonne to rule the lightsome day for his merry endureth for euer verse 9 The mone and sterres to guide the night for his mercy endureth for euer verse 10 Whiche smote Egipt with their first-borne for his mercy endureth for euer verse 11 And Israell brought out from them for his mercy endureth for euer verse 12 With mighty hand and stretched arme for his mercy endureth for euer verse 13 Whiche cut the red sea in two partes for his mercy endureth for euer verse 14 And Israell made passe there through for his mercy endureth for euer verse 15 And drouned Pharao and his host for his mercy endureth for euer verse 16 Through wildernes hys people led for his mercy endureth for euer verse 17 He whiche did smite greate noble kinges for his mercy endureth for euer verse 18 And whiche hath slayne the mighty kynges for his mercy endureth for euer verse 19 As Sihon king of Amorites for his mercy endureth for euer verse 20 And Og the king of Basan land for his mercy endureth for euer verse 21 And gaue their land for heritage for his mercy endureth for euer verse 22 Euen to his seruant Israell for his mercy endureth for euer verse 23 Remembred vs in base estate for his mercy endureth for euer verse 24 And from oppressors rescued vs. for his mercy endureth for euer verse 25 Which geueth fode vnto all flesh for his mercy endureth for euer verse 26 Praise ye the God of heauen aboue for his mercy endureth for euer verse 27 Geue thankes vnto the Lorde of Lordes for his mercy endureth for euer Super flumina Babilonis Psal. cxxxvii VV. VV ☞ The people of God in their banishment seing Gods true religion decaye lyued in greate anguish and sorow of harte the whiche grief the Eaideons did so litle pitie that they rather increased the same dayly with tauntes reproches and blasphemies againste God wherfore the Israelites desire God to punish the Edomites who prouoked the Babilonians againste them and moued by the spirite of God prophery the destruction of Babilon where they were handeled so tirannously WHen as we sat in Babylon y e riuers rounde about and in remēbraunce of Sion the teares for grief burst out We hāgd out harps instruments the willow trees vpon for in that placemen for their vse had planted many one verse 3 Then they to whom we prisoners were sayde to vs tauntingly Now let vs heare your Ebrue songes and pleasant melody verse 4 Alas sayd we who can once frame his sorowfull hart to syng The prayses of our louing God thus vnder a straunge kyng {punctel} verse 5 But yet if I Ierusalem out of my hart let flyde Then let my fingers quyte forget the warblyng harp to guyde verse 6 And let my tong within my mouth be tyde for euer fast If that I ioy before I see thy full deliueraunce past verse 7 Therfore O Lorde remember now the cursed noyse and cry That Edoms sonnes againste vs made when they razed our citie Remember
yong men and maides Olde men and babes Doo ye the same For his name shall we proue To be most excellent Whose prayse is farre aboue The earth and firmament For sure he shall Exalt with blisse The horne of his And helpe them all His sainctes all shall forthtell His prayse and worthines The children of Israell Eche one both more and les And also they That with good will His wordes fulfyll And him obey Cantate dominum Psalme exlix N. ☞ An exhortation to the churche to prayse the Lorde for hys victorye and conquest that he geueth his fainctes against all mans power SIng ye vnto the Lorde our God a new reioysing song And let the prayse of him be heard his holy sainctes among Let Israell reioyse in him that made him of nothing And let the sede of Sion eke be ioyfull in their king Let them sound prayse with voyce of flut vnto his holy name And with the timbrell and the harpe sing prayses of the same For why the Lorde his pleasure all hath in his peoyle set And by deliuerance he will rayse the meke to glory great With glory and with honor now let all the sainctes reioyse And now aloude vpon their beds aduaunce their singing voyce And in their mouthes let be the actes of God the mighty Lorde And in their handes eke let them beare a dooble edged sworde To plage the Heathen and correct the people with theyr handes To bind their stately kinges in chaines their lordes in iron bandes To execute on them the dome that written is before This honor all his sainctes shall haue prayse ye the lorde therfore Laudate dominum Psalme CL. N. ☞ An exhortacion to prayse the Lorde without sease by all maner of wayes for all hys mightye and wonderfull workes YElde vnto God the mightye Lorde prayse in his sanctuarye And prayse him in the firmament that shewes his power on hie Aduaunce hys name and prayse hym in his mightye actes alwayes According to his excellencye of greatnes geue him praise His prayses with the princely noyse of sounding tropet blowe Praise him vpon the viole and vpon the harp also Praise him with timbrell and with flute orgaines and virginalles With sounding cimbals praise ye him praise him with loud cimballs What euer hath the benefite of breathing praise the lorde To praise the name of God the lorde agree with one accord ☞ The ende of the Psalmes of Dauid in meter The. x. Commaundements of almightie God Exodus xx VV. VV. AT tend my people geue eare of ferly things I wil thee tel {punctel} Se that my words in mind thou bear And to my precepts listen wel I am thy Souerayne Lorde and God Whiche haue thee brought from carefull thrall And eke reclaymed from Pharos rod. Make thee no Gods on them to call Nor facyoned forme of any thyng In heauen or earth to worship it For I thy God by reuengyng With greuous plages this syn will smite Take not in vayne his holy name Abuse it not after thy will For so thou might soone purchase blame And in his wrath he would thee spill The Lorde from worke the seuenth day cest And brought all thinges to perfect end So thou and thyne that day take rest That to Gods hests ye may attend Unto thy parents honor geue As Gods commaundements doo pretende That thou long dayes and good maies liue In earth where God a place doth lende Beware of muder and cruell hate All fylthy fornication feare Se thou steale not in any rate False witnes against no man beare Thy neyghbors house with not to haue His wyfe or ought that he caleth mine His field his oxe his asse his sclaue Or any thing whiche is not thine A prayer The sprit of grace graunt vs O Lord To kepe these lawes our harts restore And cause vs all with one accorde To magnifie thy name therfore For of our selues no strength we haue To kepe these lawes after thy will Thy might therfore O Christ we craue That we in thee may them fulfyll Lorde for thy names sake graunt vs thys Thou art our strength oh Sauior Christ Of thee to spede how should we mis In whom our treasure doth consist To thee for euermore be prayse With thy father in eche respect And with thy holy sprite alwayes The comforter of thine elect The Lordes Prayer D. Coxe OUr father which in heauen art And makst vs all one brotherhod to call vpon thee with one harte Our heauenly Father our God graunt we pray not with lips alone but with the harts depe sigh and grone Thy blessed name be sanctifyed Thy holy worde mought vs inflame In holy lyfe for to abyde To magnifye thy holy name From all errours defend and keye the litle flock of thy poore shepe Thy kyngdom come euen at this houre And henceforth euerlastyngly thine holy ghost into vs poure With all his gifts most plenteously From Sathans rage and filthy band Defend vs with thy mighty hande Thy will be donne with diligence like as in heauen in earth also In trouble graunt vs pacience thee to obey in wealth and wo let not flesh bloud or any ill Preueile againste thy holy wyll Geue vs this day our dayly bread And all other good giftes of thyne kepe vs from warre and from bloudshed Also from sicknes derth and Pine that we may liue in quietnes Without all gredy carefulnes Forgeue vs our offences all Releue oure carefull conscience As we forgeue bothe great and small which vnto vs haue done offence Prepare vs lorde for to serue thee In perfect loue and vnitie O lorde into temptacion Leade vs not when the find doth rage to with stande his inuasion Geue power and strength to euery age Arme and make strong thy feble host with fayth and with thy holy ghost O Lorde from euill delyuer vs The dayes and times are daungerous From euerlastyng deathe saue vs And in our last nede comfort vs A blessed ende to vs bequeath Into thy hands our soules receyue For thou O Lorde art king of kinges And thou hast power ouerall Thy glory shineth in all thinges In the wide world vniuersall Amen Let it bedone O Lord That we haue prayd with one accord The. xii Articles of the christian Faythe ALl my belief and confidedce Is in the Lord of might the father which al things hath made the day eke the night the heauēs the firmament and also many a star the earth and all that is therin which passe mās reason far And in lyke maner I beleue In Chryste oure Lorde hys sonne Coequall with the deitie And man in flesh and bone Conceyued by the holy Ghost His word doth me assure And of his mother Mary borne yet she a Uirgin pure Because mankind to Sathan was For sinne in bonde and thrall He came and offred vp him selfe To death to saue vs all And suffering most greuous paine Then Pilate beyng iudge Was crucifyed on the cros And therat did not grudge And so
and also proued by manifolde experience howe ready God was at hande in all hys troubles he beyng now likewise in daunger of new enemies desireth God to help hym accordyng to hys wont and distroye the malicious arrogancie of his aduersaryes WIth hart and mouthe vnto the Lorde will I syng laude and prayse Sing this as the. iii. ps And speake of all thy wondrous workes and them declare alwayes verse 2 I will be glad and muche reioyce in thee O God moste hie And make my songes extoll thy name aboue the sterry skie verse 3 For that my foes are driuen backe and turned vnto flyght They fall downe flat and are destroyd by thy great force and might Thou hast reuenged all my wrong God only defēdeth the iuste cause my grief and all my grudge verse 4 Thou dost with iustice heare my cause most like a righteous iudge verse 5 Thou doest rebuke the Heathen folke and wicked so confounde That afterwarde the memory of them cannot be founde verse 6 My foe thou hast made good dispatche and all our townes destroyed Thou hast theyr fame with thē defaced through all the world so wyde verse 7 Know thou that he whiche is aboue for euermore shall raygne And in the seate of equitie true iudgement wil mainteyne verse 8 With iustice he wyll kepe and guyde the worlde and euery weight And so will yelde with equitie to euery man his right verse 9 He is protector of the poore what tyme they be opprest He is in all aduersitie their refuge and theyr rest verse 10 All they that know thy holy name therfore shall trust in thee For thou forsakest not theyr sute in their necessitie verse 11 Sing Psalmes therfore vnto the Lorde We seke God there by prayer or by vpright godly lyfe that dwelleth in Sion hill Publishe amonge all nations his noble artes and will verse 12 For he is mindfull of the bloud of those that be opprest For getting not the afflicted hart that seketh to him for rest The second parte verse 13 Haue mercy Lorde on me poore wretche whose enemies still remayne Which from the gates of death are wonte to rayse me vp agayne verse 14 In Sion that I might set forth thy prayse with hart and voyce And that in thy saluation Lorde my soule might still reioyce verse 15 The heathen sticke fast in the pit that they them selues preparde And in the net that they did set their owne fete fast are snarde verse 16 God sheweth his iudgement which wer good The hebr willeth men to meditate dilygently on thys thynge for euery man to marke When as ye see the wicked man lye trapt in his owne warke verse 17 The wicked and the sinfull men go downe to hell for euer And all the people of the worlde that will not god remember verse 18 18 But sure the Lorde will not forget the poore mans grief and payne The pacient folke neuer loke for helpe of God in dayne verse 19 O Lorde arise lest men preuayle that be of worldly might And let the Heathen folke receyue their iudgement in thy sight verse 20 Lord stryke such terror feare and dread into the harts of them That they may know assuredly they be but mortall men Vt quid domine Psalme x. T. S. He complaineth of the fraude rapine tiranny and of all kindes of wrong which worldly men vse assigninge the cause thereof whiche was that wicked men beinge as it were dronken with worldly prosperitie and therfore setting aparte all feare and reuerence towardes God thinke they may doe all thinges without controwlinge Therfore he calleth vppon God to sende some remeady agaynst these desperate enyls And at length comforteth him selfe with hope of deliuerance WHat is the cause that thou O Lorde art now so sarre from thine Sing this as the thirde Psalme And kepest close thy countenaunce from vs this troublous time verse 1 The poore doth pearysh by the proude and wicked mens desire Let them be taken in the craft that they themselues conspire verse 3 For in the lust of his owne hart the vngodly doth delite So doth the wicked praise hym selfe and doeth the Lorde despite verse 4 4 He is so proude that right and wrong he setteth all apart Nay nay there is no God sayeth he for thus he thinketh in hart verse 5 Because his wayes do prosper still he doth thy lawes neglect And with a blast doth puffe against suche as would him correct verse 6 Tush tush saieth he I haue no dread lest mine estate should chaunge And why for all aduersitie to him is very straunge verse 7 His mouth is full of cursednes He meaneth that wickednes is so far ouergrowē that God must nedes nowe helpe or neuer of fraud deceyt and guyle Under his tong doeth mischiefsyt and trauell all the whyle verse 8 He lyeth hid in wayes and holes to slay the innocent Against the poore that passe him by hys cruell eyes are bent verse 9 And like a Lyon priuely lieth lurking in his den If he may snare them in his net to spoyle poore simple men verse 10 And for the nonce full craftely he croucheth downe I say verse 11 So are greate heapes of poore men made by his strong power his pray verse 12 Tush God forgetteth this sayeth he therfore may I be bolde His countenance is cast aside he doth it not beholde verse 13 Arise O Lorde G God in wome the poore mans hope doth rest Lift vp thy hand forget not Lorde the poore that be opprest verse 14 What blasphemy is thys to thee Lorde dost thou not abhorre it To heare the wicked in theyr hartes say tushe thou carest not for it verse 15 But thou seest all thys wickednes and well doest vnderstande verse 16 That frendles and poore fatherles are left into thy hande verse 17 Of wicked and malicions men By the Heathen he meaneth the Hypocrites whyche gloryed as yf they had bene of the churche then breake the power for euer That they with theyr iniquytie may pearish altogether verse 18 The Lorde shall raine for euermore as king and God alone And he will chase the Heathen folke out of hys lande eche one verse 19 Thou hearest O Lord the poore mans plaint vntyll theyr praiers request Their harts thou wilt confirme thine eares to heare be prest verse 20 To iudge the poore and fatherles and helpe them to their right That they may be no more opprest with men of worldly might In Domino confido Psalm xi T. S. This Psalme conteyneth two partes In the firste Dauid shewed how hard assaultes of temtations he susteyned and in howe great anguish of mind he was when Saul did persecute hym Then nexte he reioyseth that God sent hym succor in his necessitie declaryng his iustice as wel in gouernyng the good and the wicked men as the whole worlde I Trust in God how dare ye then say thus my soule vntill Sing this as the third Psalme Flee hence as fast as any foule
the hony combe are not so swete as they verse 11 By them thy seruaunt is forewarnde to haue God in regarde And in performance of the same there shalbe greatrewarde verse 12 But lord what earthly man doth know the errours of hys lyfe Then clense my soule from secreat sinnes whyche are in me most ryfe verse 13 And kepe me that presumptuous sinnes prenayle not ouer me And then shall I be innocent and great offences flee verse 14 Accept my mouth and eke my hart my wordes and thoughts echone For my redemer and my strength O Lorde thou art alone Exaudiat te dominus Psal. xx T. S. A prayer of the people vnto God that it woulde please hym to heare theyr king and receyue his sacrifice whyche he offred before he went to battell against the ammonites declaryng howe that the Heathen put theyr trust in horses chariotes but they trust only in the name of the Lorde theyr God Wherfore the other shall fall but the Lorde will saue the kinge and hys people IN trouble and aduersitie Sing this as the. xiiii psal the Lorde God heare thee styll The maiestye of Iacobs God defende thee from all ill verse 2 And send thee from his holy place hys helpe at euery nede And so in Sion stablish thee and make thee strong in dede verse 3 Remembring well the sacrifice that now to him is done And so receyue right thankfully thy burnt offringes echeone verse 4 Accordyng to thy hartes desire the Lorde graunt vnto thee And all thy counsell and deuyse full well performe may he verse 5 We shall reioyse when thou vs sauest and our banners displaye Unto the Lorde whyche thy requestes fulfilled hathe alwaye verse 6 The Lorde will his annoynted saue I know well by hys grace And send him health by his right hand out of his holy place verse 7 In charets some put confidence and some in horses trust But we remember God our Lorde that kepeth promise iust verse 8 They fall downe flat but we doo ryse and stand vp stedfastly verse 9 Now saue and helpe vs Lorde king on thee when we doo cry Domine in virture Psalme xxi T. S. Dauid in the parson of the people prayseth God for the victory which he gaue them against the Siriās and Ammonites i. Sam. x. xi wherin he had the riche crowne of the king of Ammon set vpon his head ii Sam. xii and was indued with the manifolde blessinges of God and contrarywise his enemies destroyed O Lord how ioyfull is the king in thy strēgth thy power how vemently doeth he reioyce in thee hys sauior For thou haste geuen vnto him his godly harts desire to hym nothing hast thou denide of that he did require verse 3 Thou didst preuent hym with thy gyftes and blessynges manifold Dauid did not onely obtayne◠lyfe but also assurance that his posteritie shold raigue for euer And thou hast set vpon hys head a crowne of perfect golde verse 4 And when he asked life of thee therof thou madst hym sure To haue longe lyfe yea suche a lyfe as euer should indure verse 5 Greate is hys glory by thy helpe thy benefyte and ayde Greate worship and greate honor bothe thou hast vpon hym layde verse 6 Thou wylte geue hym felycytie that neuer shall decay And with thy chearefull countenaunce wylt comforte hym alway verse 7 For why the kinge doeth strongly trust in God for to preuayle Hereof he describeth the strength of christes kingdome against thenemies thereof Therfore hys goodnes and his grace will not that he shall quayle verse 8 But let thyne enemies fele thy force and those that thee withstande Finde out chy foes and let them fele the power of thy right hande verse 9 And like an ouen burne them Lorde in firie flame and fume Thine angre shall destroy them all and fyre shall them consume verse 10 And thou wilt roote out of the earth their frute that should increase And from the number of thy folke theyr seede shall ende and cease verse 11 For why muche mischief did they muse against thyne holy name Yet did they fayle and had no power for to performe the same verse 12 But as a marke thou shalt them set in a most open place And charge thy bowstringes readily against thyne enemies face verse 13 Be thou exalted Lorde therfore in thy strength euery houre So shall we sing right solempnely praisyng thy might and power Deus deus meus respice Psalm xxii T. S Dauid complayneth hymselfe to be broughte into suche extremities that he is like a man desperate past al hope after declareth wherof he recouereth himself from the botomles pit of temptations And vnder his owne parson he setteth forth the figure of Christ whō he dyd forsee in the spirite of prophecye So this Psalme after two sortes doth declare that prophecye of Esay he was taken forth of yrison and iudgemente O God my God wherfore doest thou forsake me vtterly Sing this as the. xxi psalme And helpest not when I doo make my greate complaynte and cry verse 2 To thee my God euen all day longe I doo bothe crye and call I cease not all the night and yet thou hearest not at all verse 3 Euen thou that in thy sanctuary and holy place dost dwell Thou art the comfort and the ioye and glory of Israell verse 4 And he in whom our fathers olde had all theyr hope for euer And when they put their trust in thee So diddest thou them deliuer verse 5 They were delyuered for euer when they called on thy name And for the fayth they had in thee they were not put to shame verse 6 But I am nowe become a worme more like then any man And outcast whom the people scorne with all the spite they can verse 7 And me despise as they beholde me walking on the waye They gren they mowe they nod theyr heads and in this wyse they faye verse 8 8 Thys man did glory in the Lorde his fauore and his loue Let him redeme and helpe hym nowe his power if he will proue verse 9 But Lorde out of my mothers wombe I came by thy request Thou didst preserue me styll in hope while I did sucke her brest verse 10 I was committed from my birth with thee to haue abod Since I was in my mothers wombe thou hast ben euer my God The seconde parte verse 11 Then Lorde depart not now from me in thys my present gryef Since I haue none to be my helpe my succor and relyef verse 12 So many bulles doo compasse me that be full strong of head Yea hulles so fat as though they had in Basan field be fed verse 13 They gape vpon me gredely as though they would me slay Muche like a Lion roring out and ramping for his praye verse 14 But I drop downe lyke water shed my ioyntes in sunder breake My hart doeth in my body melt lyke waxe against the heate verse 15 And like a potshard drithe my
whyche I craue Neglect me not lest I be lyke to them that go to graue verse 2 The voyce of thy suppliant heare that vnto thee doeth crye When I lift vp my handes vnto thy holy arke moste hye verse 3 Repute not me among the sort of wicked and peruert That speake ryght fayre vnto theyr freÌ„ds and thinke full ill in hart verse 4 According to theyr handy worke as they deserue in dede And after their inuencions let them receyue theyr mede verse 5 For they regarde nothing Godes workes his lawe ne yet his lore Therfore will he them and theyr seede destroy for euermore verse 6 To render thankes vnto the Lorde how great a cause haue I My voyce my prayer and my complaynt that heard so willingly verse 7 He is my shield and fortitude my buckeler in destresse My hope my helpe my hartes relyef my songe shall him confesse verse 8 He is our strength and oure defence our enmies to resist The health and the saluacion of his electe by Chryste verse 9 Thy people and thine heritage Lorde blesse guide and preserue Increase them Lorde and rule theyr harts that they may neuer swerue Afferte domino Psalme xxix T. S. An excellent Psalme wherin the Prophet exhorteth the verye Princes and rulers of the world whiche otherwise for the most parte thinke there is no God at the leaste to feare hym for the thunders and tempestes for feare wherat all creatures tremble And though thereby God threatneth sinners yet is he alwayes mercyfull to hys and moueth them therby to prayse his name GIue to the Lorde ye potentates ye rulers of the worlde Sing this as the. xxi Psa. Geue ye all prayse honor and strength vnto the liuing Lorde verse 2 2 Geue honor to his holy name and honor him alone Worship hym in his maiestie within his holy throne verse 3 His voyce doth rule the waters all euen as him selfe doth please He doth prepare the thunder clappes and gouerneth all the sease verse 4 He meaneth the thunderinges tempestes The voyce of God is of great force and wonderous excellent It is most mightye in effect and muche magnificent verse 5 The voyce of God doeth rent and break the Cedre trees so long The Cedre tres of Libanus whiche are most hie and strong verse 6 And makth them leape like as a call or els the Unicorne Not only trees but mountaines great wheron the tres are borne verse 7 His voice deuideth flames of fyre and shakth the wildernes verse 8 It makth the desert quake for feare that called is Cades verse 9 It makth the Hindes for feare to calue and makth the couerte playne Then in his temple euery man his glory doth proclaime verse 10 The Lorde was set aboue the floudes ruling the raging sea So shall he raygne as Lord and king for euer and for aye verse 11 The Lorde will geue his people power in vertue to increase The Lord wyll blesse hys chosen folke with euerlastyng peace Exaltabo te domine Psal. xxx I. Hop When Dauid should haue dedicated hys house to the Lorde he fel so extreme sick that he was without all hope of lyfe therfore after hys recouery he rendreth thankes to God exhortyng others to the lyke learn by his example that God is rather mercyfull then seuere and rigorous towardes his childreÌ„ and also that the fall from prosperitie is sodeine This done he retourneth to prayer promisyng to prayse God for euer ALl laud praise with hart voice O Lorde I geue to thee whiche didst not make my foes reioyse but hast exalted me O lord my god to thee I cryde in all my paine grief thou gauest an eare and didst prouide to ease me with relief verse 3 Of thy good will thou hast calde backe My soule from hell to saue Thou didst reuine when strength did lacke and kept me from the graue verse 4 Sing prayse ye sainctes that proue and see the goodnes of the Lord In memorye of his maiestie Reioyse with one accord verse 5 For why his anger but a space doeth last and slake agayne But in his fauour and hys grace alwayes doeth lyfe remayne Though gripes of grief and panges full sore shall lodge with vs all night The Lorde to ioy shall vs restore before the day be light verse 6 When I enioyde the worlde at will thus would I boast and say Tushe I am sure to feele none ill this wealth shall not decay verse 7 For thou O Lorde of thy good grace hadst sent me strength and ayde But when thou turnd away thy face my mynde was sore dismaide verse 8 Wherfore agayne yet did I cry to thee O Lorde of might My God with plaintes I did apply and prayde both day and night verse 9 What gayne is in my bloud saide I if death destroy my dayes Doth dust declare thy maiestie or yet thy trueth doth prayse verse 10 Wherfore my God some pitie take O Lorde I thee desyre Do not this simple soule forsake of helpe I thee requyre verse 11 Then didst thou turne my grief and wo vnto a chearfull voyce The mournyng weede thou tokste me fro and madst me to reioyse verse 12 Wherfore my soule vncessauntly shall syng vnto thy prayse My Lorde my God to thee will I Geue laude and thankes alwayes Inte domine speraui Psal. xxxi Io. Hop Dauid deliuered from some great daunger in the desert of Maâ—â— or els wher first reherseth what meditation he had by the power of sayth when death was before his eyes his enemy beyng ready to take him then he adioyneth the fauor of God alwaies to be ready to those that feare him Finally he exhorteth al the faithful to trust in God to loue him because he preserueth and strengthneth them as they may se by his example O Lorde I put my trust in thee Let nothyng worke me shame Sing this as the. xviii psalme As thou art iust deliuer me and set me quyte from blame verse 2 Geue me O Lorde and that anone to helpe me make good spead Be thou my rocke and house of stone my fence in time of nede verse 3 For why as stones thy strength is tride thou art my fort and towre For thy names sake be thou my guyde and leade me in thy power verse 4 Plucke forth my feete break the snare which they for me haue layde Thou art my strength and all my care is for thy might and ayde verse 5 In to thy handes Lorde I commit my spirite whyche is thy dew For why thou hast redemed it O Lorde thou God most trewe verse 6 I hate suche folke as wyll not part from thynges to be abhorde When they on trifles set theyr harte my truste is in the Lorde verse 7 For I will in thy mercy ioy I see it doeth excell Thou seest when ought would me annoy and knowest my soule full well verse 8 Thou hast not left me in their hande that would me ouercharge But thou hast set me out of bande
to walke abrode at large The seconde parte verse 9 Great grief O Lord doeth me assaile some pitye on me take Mine eyes waxe dimme my might doth my wombe for wo doth ake verse 10 My lyfe is worne with grief and paine faile my yeares in wo are past My strength is gone through disdaine my bones corrupt and wast verse 11 Amonge my foes I am a scorne my frendes are all dismaide My neighbours and my kinsmen borne to see me are afrayde verse 12 As men once dead are out of minde so am I now forgot As small effect in me they finde as in a broken pot verse 13 I heard the bragges of all the route theyr threates my minde did fraye How they conspirde and went about to take my lyfe awaye verse 14 But Lorde I trust in thee for ayde not to be ouer trod For I confesse and still haue saide thou art my Lorde and God verse 15 The length of all my lyfe and age O Lorde is in thy hand Defend me from the wrathes and rage of them that me withstand verse 16 16 To me thy seruaunt Lord expresse and shew thy ioifull face And saue me Lorde for thy goodnes thy mercy and thy grace The thirde parte verse 17 Lorde let me not be put to blame for that on thee I call But let the wicked beare their shame and in the graue to fall verse 18 Oh how great good hast thou in store layde vp full safe for them That feare and trust in thee therfore before the sonnes of men verse 19 Thy presence shall thē fence and guide from al proud bragges and wrongs Within thy place thou shalt them hyde from all the stryfe of tonges verse 20 Thankes to the lord that hath declard on me his grace so farre Me to defend with watche and ward as in a towne of warre verse 21 Thus did I say both day and night when I was sore opprest Loe I was cleane cast out of sight yet heardst thou my request verse 22 Ye sainctes loue ye the Lord I say the faithfull he doth guide And to the proude he will repay according to their pride verse 23 Be strong and God shall stay your hart be bolde and haue a lust For sure the Lorde wyll take your part sith ye on him doo trust Beati quorum remissi sunt Psal. xxxii T. S. Dauid punished with greuous sicknes for his sinnes counteth them happy to whom God doeth not impute theyr transgressions And after that he had confessed his sinnes and obteyned pardon he exhorteth the wicked men to lyue godly and the good to reioyse THe man is blest whose wickednes the Lorde hath cleane remitted Sing this as the. xxx psal And he whose sin and wretchednes is hid and also couered verse 2 And blest is he to whom the Lorde imputeth not hys sinne Whyche in hys hart hath hid no guile nor fraude is founde therin verse 3 For whilst that I kept close my sinne in silence and constraynt My bones did weare and wast away with dayly mone and playnt verse 4 For night and day thy hand on me so greuous was and smert That all my bloud and humours moist to drines did conuert verse 5 I did therfore confes my fault and all my sinnes discouer Then thou O Lord diddest me forgeue and all my sinnes passe ouer verse 6 The humble man shall pray therfore and seke thee in due time So that the floudes of waters great shall haue no power on hym verse 7 When trouble and aduersitie doo compasse me about Thou art my refuge and my ioye and thou doest rid me out verse 8 Come hither and I shall thee teache howe thou shalt walke a right And will thee guide as I my self haue learnd by profe and sight verse 9 Be not so rude and ignoraunt as is the horse and mule Whose mouth without a raine or bit from harme thou canst not rule verse 10 The wicked man shall manifolde sorowes and grief sustayne But vnto him that trusteth in God his goodnes shall remayne verse 11 Be mery therfore in the Lorde ye iust lyft vp your voyce And ye of pure and perfect hart be glad and eke reioyce Exultate iusti in domino Psalm xxxiii I. H. He exhorteth good men to prayse God for that he hath not only created all thynges and by his prouidence gouerneth the same but also is faythful in his promises He vnderstandeth mans hart and soattereth the counsell of the wicked So that no man can be preserued by any creature or mans strength but they that put their confidence in hys mercy shalbe preserued from all aduersitie YE rightuous in the Lorde reioyse it is a semely sight Sing this as the. xxx psalme That vpright men with thankfull voyce should prayse the God of might verse 2 Prayse ye the Lorde with harp and songe in Psalmes and pleasant thinges With lute and instrument among that soundeth with ten stringes verse 3 Sing to the Lord a song most new with courage geue him prayes verse 4 For why his word is euer true his workes and all his wayes verse 5 To iudgement equitie and right he hath a great good will And with his gifts he doth delight the earth through out to fill verse 6 For by the worde of God alone the heauens all were wrought Theyr hostes and powers euery chone his breath to passe hathe brought verse 7 The waters great gathered hath he on heapes within the shore And hid them in the depth to be as in an house of store verse 8 All men on earth both least and most feare God and kepe hys lawe Be that inhabite in eche cost dreade hym and stande in awe verse 9 what he cōmaunded wrought it was at once with present spede what he doth will is brought to passe with full effect in dede verse 10 The counsels of the nacions rude the Lorde doth drine to nought No counsell cā preuaile against God but shall haue ill succes He doth defeate the multitude of their deuise and thought verse 11 11 But his decres continue still they neuer slake or swage The motions of his mind and will take place in euery age The secōd parte verse 12 And blest are they to whom the Lorde as God and guide is knowen Whom he doth chose of mere accorde to take them as his owne verse 13 The Lorde from heauen cast his sight on men mortall by birth verse 14 Considering from his seate of might the dwellers of the earth verse 15 Te lord I say whose hād hath wrought mans hart and doth it frame For he alone doth know the thought and working of the same verse 16 A king that trusteth in his host God only deliuereth and preserueth his people shall nought preuayle at length The man that of his might doth boast shall fall for all his strength verse 17 The troupes of horsemen eke shall faile their sturdie stedes shall sterue The strength of horse shall not preuaile the rider to
preserue verse 18 But lo the eyes of God intend and watche to ayde the iust With such as feare him to offende and on his goodnes trust verse 19 That he of death and all distres may set theyr soule from dread And if that death the land oppresse in houger them to fead verse 20 Wherfore our soule doeth still depende on God our strength and stay He is the shield vs to defende and driue all dartes away verse 21 Oure soule in God hath ioy and game reioysing in his might For why in his most holy name we hope and muche delight verse 22 Therfore let thy goodnes O Lorde still present with vs be As we alwayes with one accorde doo onely trust in thee Benedicam domino Psal. xxxiiii T. Stern After Dauid had escaped Achis according as is writtē in the 1. Sa. xxi whome in this title he calleth Abimelech whiche was a general name to al the kings of the Philistenes he prayseth God for his deliueraunce prouoking all others by his example to trust in God to feare and serue him who defendeth the godly with his angels and vtterly destroieth the wicked in theyr sinnes I Will geue laud and honor both Unto the Lorde alwayes Sing this as the. xxx psal And eke my mouth for euermore shall speake vnto his prayes verse 2 I doo delite to laude the Lorde in soule and eke in voyce That humble men and mortified may heare and so reioyce verse 3 Therfore see that ye magnifye with me the liuyng Lorde And let vs now exalt hys name together with one accorde verse 4 For I my selfe besought the Lorde he answered me agayne And me deliuered incontinent from all my feare and paine verse 5 who so they be that him beholde shall see his light most cleare Their countenaunce shall not be dashed they nede it not to feare verse 6 This sely wretch for some relyef vnto the Lorde did call who did him heare without delay and rid him out of thrall Gen 19. 31. 32. 4. Reg. 6. Heb. 1 verse 7 The angell of the Lorde doth pitche his tentes in euery place To saue all suche as feare the Lorde that nothing them deface verse 8 Tast and consider well therfore that God is good and iust O happy man that maketh hym his onely stay and trust verse 9 Feare ye the Lorde his holy ones aboue all earthly thing For they that feare the liuing Lorde are sure to lack nothyng verse 10 The Lions shall be hongerbit and pinde with famine muche But as for them that feare the Lorde no lacke shalbe to suche The seconde parte verse 11 Come neare therfore my children deare and to my wordes geue eare I shall you teache the perfite way how you the Lorde should feare verse 12 who is that man that would liue long 1. Pete 5. b. and leade a blessed lyfe verse 13 Se thou refrayne thy tong and lippes from all disceipt and stryfe verse 14 Turne backe thy face from doing ill Heb. iiii c. Eccle. xv d. and doo the godly dede Inquire for peace and quyetnes and folow it with spede verse 15 For why the eyes of God aboue vpon the iust are bent His eares likewise do heare the plaint of the pore innocent verse 16 But he doth frowne bend his browes vpon the wicked trayne And cutt away the memory that should of them remayne verse 17 But when the iust doo call and cry the Lorde doo heare them so That out of paine and misery for the with he letth them go verse 18 The Lord is kind and straight at hand to suche as be contrite He sauthe also the sorowfull the meke and poore in spirite verse 19 Full many be the miseries that righteous men doo suffer But out of all aduersities the Lorde doth them deliuer verse 20 The Lorde doeth so preserue and kepe his very bones alway That not so muche as one of them doth pearish or decay verse 21 The sinne shall slea the wicked man whiche he him self hathe wrought And suche as hate the righteous man shall soone be brought to nought verse 22 But they that serue the liuyng Lorde the Lorde doth saue them sounde And who that put their trust in hym nothing shall them consounde Iudica domine Psalm xxxv I. Hop So long as Saull was enemie to Dauid all that had ani auctoritie vnver him to flater their king did also most Cruellie persecute David against whome he prayeth God to plead to aueng his cause that thei maie be taken in their netts snares wich they laid for him his inocencie maie be declared And that the inocent which taketh part with him maie reioice praise the name of the lord that thus deliuereth his seruaunt And so he promyseth to speake furth the iustice of the lord to mangnisie his name all the dayes of his lyfe LOrde pleade my cause against my foes confounde their force and myght Fyght on my part against all those that seke with me to fight Lay hand vpon thy speare shild thy selfe in armour dres stād vp for me fight the feld to help me from distres verse 3 Gird on thy sworde and stoppe the waye my enemies to withstande That thow vnto my soule doo saye lo I thy helpe at hande verse 4 Confounde them with rebuke and blame that seke my soule to spill Let them turne backe and flie with shame that thinke to worke me ill verse 5 Let them disperse and flie abrode as winde doth driue the duste And that the aungell of our God their might away may thrust verse 6 Let all theyr wayes be voide of light and slipprie lyke to fall And send thine aungell with thy might to persecute them all verse 7 For why without my faulte they haue in secret set their grinne And for no cause haue digd a caue to take my soule therin verse 8 when they think least and haue no care O Lorde destroy them all Let them be trapt in their owne snare and in theyr mischief fall verse 9 And let my soule my harte and voyce in God haue ioye and welthe That in the Lorde I may reioyce and in his sauing health verse 10 And then my bones shall speake saye my partes shall all agree O lorde though they doo seme full gaie what man is lyke to thee The seconde parte verse 11 Thou doest defend the weake from thē that are bothe stout and stronge And ridde the poore from wicked men that spoyle and doo them wronge verse 12 My cruell foes against me ryse to witnes thinges vntrue And to acuse me they deuise of that I neuer knew verse 13 where I to them did owe good will they quite me with disdayne That they should pay my good with ill my soule doth sore complayne verse 14 14 When they wer sicke I mornd therfore and clad my selfe in sack With fasting I did faint full sore to pray I was not slacke verse 15 As they had ben my brethern dere I did my selfe behaue As one that maketh wofull chere
I. H A notable deliueraunce of Hierusalem frō the handes of many kings is mentioned for the which thankes are giuen to God and the estate of that citie is praysed that hathe God so presently at all tymes redye to defende them this Psalme semeth to be made in the tyme of Ahaz Iosaphat Asa or Ezechia for in their times chiefly was the citie by forayne Prynces assaulted GReat is the Lorde and with greate prayse Sing this as the. xlvi psalme to be aduaunced styll Within the citie of our Lorde vpon hys holy hyll Mount Sion is a plesant place it gladdeth all the lande The cytie of the myghty kynge on her northside doth stande Within the pallaces therof God is a refuge knowen For loe the kings were gathered and together eke were gone But when they did beholde it so they wondred and they weare Astonyed muche and sodenly were driuen backe with feare Great terrour there on them did falle for euery wo they crye As doth a woman when she shall go trauayle by and by As thou with esterne winde the shippes vpon the sea doest breake So they were stayd and euen as we harde oure fathers speake So in the citie of the Lorde we saw as it was tolde yea in the citie which oure Lorde for euer will vpholde O Lorde we wayte and doo attende on thy good helpe and grace For whiche we doo all times attende within thy holly place O Lorde according to thy name for euer is thy prayse And thy ryght hand O Lord is full of rightuousnes alwayes Let for thy iudgements Sion mounte full filled be with ioyes And eke of Iuda graunt O Lorde the daunger to reioyse Goe walke about all Syon hyll yea rounde about her go And tell the towres that theruppon are bilded in a rowe And marke ye well her bulwarks all beholde her towres there That ye may tell therof to them that after shalbe here For this God is our God our God for euermore is he yea and vnto the death also our guider shall he be Audite haec omnes Psal. xlix T. S. The holy Ghost calleth all mē to the consideration of mans lyft shewing them not to be most happye that are most wealthy and therefore not to be feared but contrariwyse he lifteth vp our mindes to consider how al thinges are ruled by gods prouidence who as he iudgeth these worldly miseryes to euerlastyng torments so doeth he preserue his will rewarde them in the day of the resurrection i. Thes. i. ALl people herken and geue eare Sing this as the. xlv psalme To that that I shall tell Both high and low both riche and poore that in the worlde doo dwell verse 3 For why my mouth shall make discourse of many thynges right wise In vnderstanding shall my hart his study exercise verse 4 I will inclyne myne eare to knowe the parables so darke And open all my doubtfull speache in metre on my harpe verse 5 why should I feare afflictions or any carefull toyle Or els my foes whiche at my heles are prest my life to spoyle verse 6 For as for suche as ryches haue wherin their trust is most And they which of their treasures greate them selues doo bragge and boast verse 7 There is not one of them that can his brothers death redeme Or that can geue a price to God sufficient for hym verse 8 It is to great a pryce to pay none can therto attayne verse 9 Or that he might his lyfe prolong or not in graue remayne verse 10 They see wise men as well as foles subiect vnto deathes handes And beyng dead straungers possesse theyr goods theyr rentes their lāds verse 11 Theyr care is to builde houses fayre and so determine sure To make their name right great in earth for euer to endure verse 12 Yet shall no man alwayes enioy high honor wealth and rest But shall at length tast of deathes cup as well as the brute beast The seconde parte verse 13 And though they try these folish thoughts to be most leud and vayne Theyr children yet approue theyr talke and in like sinne remayne verse 14 As shepe into the folde are brought so shall they into graue Death shall them eate and in that day the iust shall Lordship haue Their image and theyr royall port shall fade and quite decay When as from house to pit they passe with wo and weale away verse 15 But God will surely preserue me from death and endles payne Because he will of his good grace my soule receyue agayne verse 16 If any man waxe wonderous riche feare not I say therfore Although the glory of his house increaseth more and more verse 17 17 For when he dieth of all these thinges nothing shall he receyue His glory will not folow hym his pompe will take her leaue verse 18 Yet in this lyfe he takth him selfe the happiest vnder sunne And others likewise flatter him saying all is well done verse 19 And presuppose he liue as long as did his fathers olde Yet must he nedes at length geue place and be brought to deathes fold verse 20 Thus man to honor God hath calde yet doth he not consider But like brute beastes so dothe he lyue whiche turne to dust and pouder Deus deorum Psalme L. I. H. He prophecieth how God will call all nations by the Gospell and require no other sacrifices of his people but confession of his benefites and thankes geuyng and how he detesteth all such as seme zelous of Ceremonies and not of the pure worde of God onely THe god of Gods the lord hath calde the earth by name from where the sonne doth rise vnto the setting of the same Frō Syon hys faire place hys glory bryght and cleare The perfect beutye of his grace from thence it did appeare verse 3 Our God shall come in haste to speake he shall not doubte Before him shall the fire waste and tempest rounde aboute verse 4 The heauens from on hye the earth below lykewise He will call forth to iudge and try his folke he doeth deuise verse 5 Bring forth my sainctes sayth he my faithfull flocke so dere Which are in band and league with me my lawe to loue and feare verse 6 And when these thinges are tried the heauens shall recorde That God is iust and all must byde the iudgment of the Lorde verse 7 My people O geue heede Israell to thee I crye I am thy God thy healpe at neede thou canst it not denye verse 8 I doo not say to thee thy sacrifice is slacke Thou offrest dayly vnto me muche more then I doo lacke verse 9 Thinkest thou that I doo nede thy cattell yonge or olde Or ells so muche desire to feede on goates out of thy foulde verse 10 Naye all the beastes are mine in woodes that eate their filles And thousands more of nete and kine that runne wilde in the hilles verse 11 The birdes that builde on hie In hilles and oute of sight And the beastes that in the
filds do lye are subiect to my might verse 12 Then though I houngred sore what neede I ought of thyne Sith that the earth with her great store and all therin is myne verse 13 To bullockes fleash haue I suche mind to eate it doest thou thinke Or such a sweetnes doo I finde the bloude of goates to drinke verse 14 Geue to the Lorde his prayse with thankes doo him apply And see thou pay thy vowes alwaies vnto the God most hie verse 15 Then seke and call to me when ought would work thee blame And I will sure deliuer thee that thou maiest prayse my name verse 16 But to the wicked traine whiche talke of God eche daye And yet theyr works are foule and vain to them the Lorde will saye verse 17 With what a face darest thou my worde once speake or name why doth thy taulke my lawe alowe thy dedes denie the same verse 18 Where as for to amend thy lyfe thou art so slacke My word the which thou doest pretend is cast behind thy backe verse 19 When thou a thefe doest see by theft to lyue in welthe with him thou runnest and dost agree lykewyse to thryne by stealthe verse 20 When thou doest them beholde that wiues and maides defile Thou likest it well and waxest boulde to vse that lyfe most vile verse 21 Thy lippes thou doest applye to slaunder and defame ▪ Thy tonge is taught to crafte and lye and still doth vse the same verse 22 Thon studiest to reuile thy frendes to thee so nere With sclaunder thou woldst nedes defile thy mothers sonne moste deare verse 23 Hereat while I doo winke as though I did not see Thou goest on still and so dost thinke that I am lyke to thee verse 24 But sure I will not let to stryke when I beginne Thy faultes in order I will set and open all thy sinne verse 25 Matke this I you require that haue not God in minde Least when I plage you in myneire your helpe be far to fynde verse 26 He that doth geue to me the sacrifice of prayse Doth please me well and he shall see to walke in Godly wayse 1. Miserere mei deus Psalm li. w. w When Dauid was rebuked by the Prophet Nathan for his greate offences he did not onely acknowledge the same to God with protestation of his naturall corruption and iniquitie but also left a memoriall therof to his posteritie Therfore firste he desireth God to forgeue his sinnes and renew in him his holye spirite with promise that he will not be vnmindfull of those great graces Finally fearyng lest god would punish the whole churche for hys faute He requireth that he woulde rather increase his graces towardes the same O Lord consider my distres And now with spede some pitie take My sinnes deface my fautes redresse good Lorde for thy great mercies sake Wash me O Lord and make me cleane Frō this vniust sinfull act purifie yet once againe my hainous crime blody fact verse 2 Remorse and sorow doo constrayne Me to acknowledge myne exces verse 3 My sinne alas doth still remayne Before my face without reles verse 4 4 For thee alone I haue offended committing euyl in thy sight And if I were therfore condemned yet were thy iudgement iust right verse 5 It is to manifest alas that firste I was conceiued in sinne Yea of my mother so borne was and yet vile wretche remaine therin verse 6 Also beholde Lord thou doest loue the inward truthe of a pure hart Therfore thy wisdome from aboue thou hast reueld me to conuert verse 7 If thou with Hissope purge this blot I shalbe cleaner then the glasse And if thou wash away my spot the snow in whitenes shall I passe verse 8 Therfore O Lorde suche ioy me send that inwardly I may synd grace And that my strength may now amend which thou hast swagd for my trespace verse 9 Turne back thy face and frowning ire for I haue felt inoughe thy hande And purge my sinnes I thee desire which doo in number passe the sand verse 10 Make new my hart within my brest and frame it to thy holy will Thy constant spirite in me let rest which may these raging enemies kil The secōd parte verse 11 Cast me not Lorde out from thy face but spedely my tormentes ende Take not from me thy spirite and grace which may from daungers me defend verse 12 Restore me to those ioyes agayne which I was wont in thee to fynde And let me thy free spirite retayne which vnto thee may stirre my mind verse 13 Thus when I shall thy mercyes know I shall instruct others therin And men that are likewise brought low by mine ensample shall flee sinne verse 14 O God that of my health art Lorde forgeue me thys my bloudy vice My harte and toung shall then accorde to sing thy mercies and iustice verse 15 Touch thou my lippes my tonge vntye O Lord which art the only kay And then my mouth shall testifye thy wondrous works praise alway verse 16 And as for outward sacrifice I would haue offred many one But thou estemest them of no pryce and therin pleasure takst thou none verse 17 The heauy hart the mind opprest O Lorde thou neuer dost reiect And to speake truth it is the best and of all sacrifice the effect verse 18 Lorde vnto Sion turne thy face poure out thy mercyes on thy hyll And on Jerusalem thy grace buyld vp the walles and loue it still verse 19 Thou shalt accept then oure offrynges of peace and righteousnes I say Yea calues and many other thynges vpon thyne altare will we lay Another of the same by T. N. HAue mercy on me God after Sing this as the Lamentation thy great abounding grace After thy mercies multitude doo thou my sinnes deface Yet wash me more from mine offence and clense me from my sin For I be know my fautes and still my sinne is in mine eyen Against thee thee alone I haue offended in thys case And euell haue I done before the presence of thy face That in the thynges that thou dost say vpryght thou mayst be tryed And eke in iudging that the dome may passe vpon thy syde Beholde in wickednes my kinde and shape I did receyue And loe my sinfull mother eke in sinne did me conceiue But Loe the truthe in inward partes is pleasant vnto thee And secretes of thy wisdome thou reueled hast to me With hysope Lorde be sprincle me I shalbe clensed so Yea wash thou me and so I shall be whiter than the snow Of ioy and gladnes make thou me to heare the pleasing voyce That so the broosed bones which thou hast broken may reioyce From the beholding of my sinnes Lorde turne away thy face And all my dedes of wickednes doo vtterly deface O God creat in me a hart vnspotted in thy sight And eke within my bowels Lorde renew a stable sprite Ne cast me from thy sight nor take thy holy sprite away The
For I haue spied their citie full of rapyne stryfe and wronge verse 11 Which things bothe night day throghoute doo close her as a wall In middes of her is mischif stoute and sorow eke with all verse 12 Her priuie partes are wicked playne her dedes are muche to vyle And in her stretes there doth remayne all crafty fraude and guile verse 13 If that my foes did seke my shame I might it well abide From open enmies checke and blame some where I coulde me hide verse 14 But thou it was my fellow dere which frendship didest pretend And diddest my secrete counsell here as my famillier frende verse 15 With whom I had delight to taulke in secret and abrode And we to gether oft did walke within the house of God verse 16 Let death in hast vpon them fall and send them quicke to hell For mischief rayneth in theyr hall and parloure where they dwell verse 17 But I vnto my God doo crye to him for healpe I flee Ohe Lorde doth heare me by and by and he doeth succour me verse 18 At morning noone and euening tide vnto the Lorde I praye When I so instantly haue tryed he doth not say me naye verse 19 To peace he shall restore me yet though warre be now at hande All though the number be full greate that would against me stande verse 20 The Lord that first last doth raigne bothe now and euermore will heare when I to him complayne and punish them full sore verse 21 For sure there is no hope that they to tourne will once accorde For why they will not God obey nor doo not feare the Lorde verse 22 Upon their frends they laid theyr hands whiche weare in couenaunt knitte ▪ Of frendship to neglect the bandes they passe or care no whyt verse 23 while they haue war within their hart as butter are theyr wordes Although his words wer smothe as oyle they cut as sharp as swordes verse 24 Cast thou thy care vpon the Lorde and he shall nourish thee For in no wise wyll he accorde the iust in thrall to see verse 25 But God shall cast them deepe in pit that thirst for bloud alwayes He will no guilefull man permit to lyue oute halfe hys dayes verse 29 Thoughe such be quite destroyde gon in the O Lorde I trust I shall depende thy grace vpon with all my hart and luste Miserere Psalme Lvi I. H Dauid being broughte to Achis the kinge of Gath Saum complayneth of hys enemyes demaundeth succoure putteth hys trust in God and hys promisses and promiseth to performe hys vowes whyche he had taken vpon hym Wherof thys was the effecte to prayse God in hys Churche HAue mercy Lorde on me I pray for man woulde me deuoure Sing this as the. li. Psa. He fyghteth with me day by daye and troubleth me eche houre verse 2 Myne enmies dayly enterprise to swalowe me outeryghte To fyght agaynst me many ryse O thou moste hygh of myghte verse 3 When they would make me most afraid with boast and bragges of pryde I trust in thee alone for ayde by thee will I abyde verse 4 Gods promise I doo minde and prayse O Lorde I sticke to thee I doo not care at all assayes what flesh can doo to me verse 5 What thinges I eyther did or spake they wrast them at theyr will And all the counsell that they take is how to worke me ill verse 6 They all consent them sealues to hyde close watche for me to laye They spie my pathes snares haue tred to take my lyfe awaye verse 7 Shall they thus scape on mischef set thow God on them will frowne For in his wrath he doth not let to throwe whole kingdomes downe verse 8 Thou seest how oft they make meflee and on my teares doest looke Reserue them in a glas by thee and wryte them in thy booke verse 9 When I doo call vpon thy name my foes awaye doo starte I well perceaue it by that same that God doeth take my parte verse 10 I glory in the worde of God to prayse it I accorde with Ioye will I declare abrode the promise of the Lore verse 11 I trust in God and yet I saye as I afore beganne The Lorde he is my healpe and stay I doo not care for man verse 12 I will performe with hart so free to God my vowes alwayes And I O Lorde all times to thee will offer thankes and prayse verse 13 My soule frō death thou dost me defēd and keepe my feete vpright That I before thee may ascend with suche as lyue in lyght Miserere Psalme lvii I. H Dauid being in the deserte of Ziph where the in habitauntes did betraye hym and at length in the same Caue with Sauil. Calleth most earnestly vnto God with full confidence that he will perform his promis and take his cause in hand Also that he wil shew his glory in the Heauens and the earthe agaynst hys cruell enemyes Therfore doth he render laude and prayse TAke pitie for thy promise sake haue mercy Lorde on me For why my soule doth her betake Sing this as the. ill psal vnto the helpe of thee verse 2 Within the shadow of thy winges I set my selfe full fast Till mischief malice and lyke thyngs be gon and ouer paste verse 3 I call vpon the God moste hye to whom I sticke and stand I meane the God that will stand by the cause I haue in hand verse 4 From heauen he hath sent hys ayde to saue me from theyr spighte That to deuoure me haue assayed his mercy truth and myght verse 5 I leade my lyfe with Lyons fell all set on wrath and ire And with such wicked men I dwell that freate lyke flambes offyre verse 6 Theyr teeth are speares arrowes lōg as sharpe as I haue seene They wound cut with theyr quick toūg like swerdes and weapons kene verse 7 Set vp and shew thy selfe O God aboue the heauens bryght Exalt thy prayse on earth abrode thy maiestie and myghte verse 8 They lay theyr net and doo prepare a priuie caue and pitte Wherin they thinke my soule to snare but they are fallen in it verse 9 My harte is set to laude the Lorde in hym to ioye alwayes My hart I say doth well accorde to syng hys laude and prayse verse 10 Awake my ioy awake I saye my lute my harpe and strynge For I my sealf before the daye will rise reioyre and syng verse 11 Amonge the people I will tell the goodnes of my God And shew hys prayse that doeth excell in Heathen landes abrode verse 12 His mercy doeth extend as farre as heauens all are hie His truthe is highe as any starre that standeth in the skye verse 13 Set fourth and shew thy self O God aboue the heauens bryghte Extoll thy prase on earthe abrode thy maiestie and might Siuere vtique Psalme lviii I. H He describeth the malyce of hys enemyes the flatterers of Saule who bothe secretiye and openly sought hys dystruction
confirmed in his kingdom He promiseth perpetuall prayses REgarde O Lorde for I complayne and make my sute to thee let not my wordes returne in vayne but geue an eare to me from of the costes and vtmost partes of all the earth abrode in griefe and anguish of my harte I cry to thee O God verse 3 Upon the rocke of thy greate power my woefull mynde repose Thou arte my hope my forte and tower my fence against my foes verse 4 within thy tent I lust to dwell foreuer to endure vnder thy winges I know right well I shalbe safe and sure verse 5 The Lorde dueth my desire regarde and doth fulfill the same with goodly giftes will he rewarde all them that feare his name verse 6 The king shall he inhealth maintayne and so prolong his dayes That he from age to age shall raygne for euer more alwayse verse 7 That he may haue a dwelling place before the Lorde for aye O let thy mercy truth and grace defend him from decaye verse 8 Then shall I singe for euer still with prayse vnto thy name That all my voues I may fulfill and dayly pay the same Nonne deo subiecta Psalm lxii I. H. Dauid declareth by hys example and by the nature of God that he must truste in God alone and thereunto exhorteth people seyng that all is vanytie and withoute God all goeth to nought and we are allwayes taught that God only is of power to saue and that he rewardeth man according to hys workes MY soule to God shall geue good hede Sing this as the. lxi psalme and him alone entende For why my health hope to spede doth whole on him depende verse 2 For he alone is my defence my rocke my health my ayde He is my stay that no pretence shall make me much dismaide verse 3 O wicked folke how long will ye vse crafts sure ye must fall For as a rotten hedge ye be and like a tuttering wall verse 4 4 whom God doth loue ye seke alwayes to put hym to the worse Ye loue to lye with mouth ye prayse and yet your hart doth curse verse 5 Yet still my soule doth whole depend on God my chief desire From all false feates me to defend none but him I require verse 6 He is my rocke my strength my towre my health is of his grace He doth support me that no powre can moue me out of place verse 7 God is my glory and my health my soules desire and lust My fort my strength my stay my wealth God is mine onely trust verse 8 Oh haue your hope in him alway ye folke with one accorde Poure out your harts to hym and saye our trust is in the Lorde verse 9 The sonnes of men deceitptfull are on balaunce but a sleyght with thinges most vayne doo them cōpare for they can kepe no weyght verse 13 Trust not in wrong robbry or stealth let vayne delytes be gon Though goods wel got flow in with welth set not your hartes theron verse 11 The Lorde long sith one thing doth tell whiche here to minde I call He spake it oft I hard it well that God alone doeth all verse 12 And that thou Lorde art good and kynd thy mercy doth excede So that all sortes whiche thee shall finde according to theyr dede Deus deus meus Psalme lxiii T. S Dauid after he had bene in greate daunger by Saule in the deserte Ziph made this psalme wherein he geueth thankes to God for hys wonderfull deliuerance in whose mercyes he trusted euen in the middist of hys miseryes prophecying the destruction of Gods enemies contrarywyse happynes to all them that trust in the Lorde i. Sa. iu. O God my God I watche betyme to come to thee in hast Sing this as the. xliiii ps For why my soule and body bothe doth thirst of thee to tast And in this baren wildernes where waters there are none My flesh is partched for thought of thee for thee I wish alone verse 2 That I might see yet once agayne thy glory strength and myght As I was wont it to beholde within thy temple bryght verse 3 For why thy mercyes farre surmount thys lyfe and wretched dayes My lyppes therfore shall geue to thee due honor laude and prayes verse 4 And whylst I lyue I wyll not fayle to worship thee alwaye And in thy name I shall lyft vp my hands when I doo praye verse 5 My soule is filled as with marow whiche is bothe fat and swete My mouth therfore shall sing such songs as are for thee most mete verse 6 When as in bed I think on thee and eke all the night tide For vnder couert of thy winges thou art my ioyfull guyde verse 7 My soule doeth surely stick to thee thy ryghthande is my power verse 9 And those that seke my soule to stroy them death shall sone deuoure verse 10 The sword shall them deuoure echone theyr carcases shall fede The hungry foxes which doo ronne theyr pray to seke at nede verse 11 The king and all men shall reioyse that doo profes Gods worde For liers mouthes shall then be stopt which haue the trueth disturbde Exaudi deus vocem meam Psal. lxiiii I. H. Dauid praieth against the false reportes and sklaunderers he declareth theyr punishment and destruction to the comfort of the iust and the glory of God O Lord vnto my voyce geue eare with plaint when I doo pray Sing this as the. xviii Ps And rid my lyfe and soule from feare of foes that threat to slay verse 2 Defend me from that sort of men whiche in deceipts do lurke And from the frownyng face of them that all ill feates doo worke verse 3 Who whet theyr tongs as we haue sene men whet and sharp theyr swordes They shote abrode theyr arrowes kene I meane most bitter wordes verse 4 With priuie sleyght shote they theyr shaft the vpright man to hit The iust vnware to strike by craft they care or feare no whit verse 5 A wicked worke haue they decreed in counsell thus they crye To vse deceit let vs not dread what who can it espie verse 6 What wayes to hurt they talke and muse all times within theyr hart They all consulte what feates to vse eche doth inuent his part verse 7 But yet all this shall not auayle when they thinke least vpon God with hys dart shall sure assayle and wound them euery one verse 8 Theyr crafts and their ill toungs withall shall worke them selues suche blame That they whiche then beholde theyr fall shall wonder at the same verse 9 Then all that see shall know ryght well that God the thing hath wrought Shall prayse his wittie workes and tell what he to pas hath brought verse 10 Yet shall the iust in God reioyse Stil trusting in his might So shall they ioy with minde and voyce whose hart is pure and ryght Te decet hymnus Psalm lxv I H. A prapse and thankesgeuing vnto God by the faithfull who are
signyfied by Sion and Ierusalem for the chosing preseruation and gouernaunce of them and for the plentyfull blessings powred forth vpon all the earthe THy prayse alone O Lorde doth reigne in Sion thine owne hill Theyr vowes to thee they doo maintaine Sing this as the. xxx psalme and their behestes fullfill verse 2 For that thou doest theyr prayer heare and dost therfo agree Thy people al bothe far and neare with trust shall come to thee verse 3 Our wicked lyfe so farre excedes that we should fall therin But Lorde forgeue our great misdeedes and purge vs from out synne verse 4 The man is blest whom thou doest chuse within thy courte to dwell Thy house and temple be shall vse with pleasures that excell verse 5 Of thy great iustice heare vs God our health of thee doth ryse The hope of all the earth abrode and the sea coasts likewise verse 6 With strength thou art beset about and compasd with thy power Thou makst the mountayns strong stout to stand in euery shower verse 7 The swelling seas thou dost asswage and make their streames full styll Thou dost restrayne the peoples rage and rule them at thy will verse 8 The folke that dwell full farre on earth shall dread thy signes to see Whiche morne and euen in great mirth doo passe with prayse to thee verse 9 When that the earth is chopt and drye and thirsteth more and more Then with thy dropes thou dost applye and muche encrease her store verse 10 The floud of God doth ouerflow and so doth cause to sprynge The seede and corne which men doo sow for he doth guide the thing verse 11 With wete thou dost her forowes fill wherby her cloddes doo fall Thy drops to her thou dost distill and bles her frute withall verse 12 Thou deckst the earth of thy good grace with fayre and pleasaunt crop Thy cloudes distill theyr deaw a pace great plenty they doo drop verse 13 wherby the desert shall begin full great encrease to bryng The litle hilles shall ioy therin muche frute in them shall spryng verse 14 In places playne the flocke shall fede and couer all the earth The valies with corne shall so excede that men shall sing for mirth Iubilate deo omnis terra Psal. lxvl. T. S. He prouoketh all men to prayse the Lorde to considre his workes rehersing two thinges most wonderful He setteth forth the power of God to affray the rebels and sheweth how God hath delyuered Israell from great bondage and afflictions ▪ he promiseth to geue sacryfyce and prouoke all men to heare what God hath done for hym and to prayse hys name YE men on earth in God reioyce Sing this as the. xviii Ps with prayse set forth his name Extoll his might with hart and voyce geue glory to the same verse 2 How wonderfull O Lorde say ye in all thy workes thou art Thy foes for feare doo seke to thee full sore agaynst theyr hart verse 3 All men that dwell the earth throughout doo prayse the name of God The laude therof the worlde about is shewd and set abrode verse 4 All folke come forth beholde and see what things the Lord hath wrought Mark wel the wōdrous works that he for man to passe hath brought verse 5 He laid the sea like heapes on hye therin away they had On fote to pas both fair and drye wherof theyr harts were glad verse 6 His might doth rule the world alwaye his eyes all thynges be hold All suche as would him disobey by hym shalbe controld verse 7 ye people geue vnto our God due laude and thankes alwayes With ioyfull voyce declare abrode and syng vnto hys prayse verse 8 Whiche doth endue our soule with life and it preserue with all He stayeth our fete so that no stryfe can make vs slippe or fall verse 9 The Lord doth proue our dedes with fire if that they will abyde As workmen doo when they desyre to haue theyr metals tryde verse 10 Although thou suffer vs so long in prison to be cast And there with chaines fetters strong to lye in bondage fast The secōde part verse 11 Although I say thou suffer men on vs to ryde and raygne Though we through fyre and water ren of very grief and payne verse 12 yet sure thou dost of thy good grace dispose it to the best And bring vs out into a place to liue in wealth and rest verse 13 Unto thy house resort will I to offer and to pray And there I will my selfe applye my vowes to thee to pay verse 14 The vowes that with my mouth I spake in all my grief and smart The vowes I say whiche I did make in dolor of my hart verse 15 Burnt offringe I will geue to thee of Oxen fat and Rammes No other sacrifice shalbe of bullockes goates and lamkes verse 16 Come forth and harken here full sone all ye that feare the Lorde what he for my poore soule hath done to you I will record verse 17 Full oft I call vpon hys grace thys mouth to him doth crye And thou my tonge make spede apace to prayse hym by and by verse 18 But if I fele my hart within in wicked workes reioyce Or if I haue delyte to syn God will not heare my voyce verse 19 But surely God my voice hath heard and what I doo require My prayer he doth well regarde and graunteth my desire verse 20 All prayse to him that hath not put nor cast me out of mynde Nor yet his mercy from me shut which I doo euer fynde Deus misereatur nostri Psalme lxvii I. H. A swete prayer for all the faythfull to obteyne the fauor of God and to be lyghtened with hys countenaunce to thende that hys way and iudgements may be knowne throughout the earth A reioysing that God is the gouernor of all nations HAue mercy on vs Lorde Sing this as the. xxx psalme and graunte to ps thy grace To shew to vs doo thou accorde the bryghtnes of thy face verse 2 That all the earth may knowe thy way to godly wealth And all the nations on a row may see thy sauyng health verse 3 Let all the worlde O God geue prayse vnto thy name O let the people all abrode Extoll and laude the same verse 4 Thoroughout the worlde so wyde let all reioyce with mirth For thou with truth right dost guide the nations of the earth verse 5 Let all the worlde O God geue prayse vnto thy name Oh let the people all abrode extoll and laude the same verse 6 Then shall the earth encrease Great store of frute shall fall And then our God the God of peace Shall bles vs eke with all God shall vs bles I say and then bothe farre and neare The folke throughout the earth alway of him shall stande in feare Exurgat deus Psal. lxviii T. S. In this Psalm Dauid setteth forth as in a glas the wonderfull mee mercyes of God towardes his people who by all meanes and moste
straunge sorts declareth him self to them And therfore Gods church by reason of his promises graces and victoryes doth excell without comparyson alworldly thyngs he exhorteth therfore all men to praise God for euer LEt God aryse and then his foes wil turn them selues to flyght His enmies then will runne abrode and scatter out of syght as the fire doth melt y e wax wind blow smoke awaye so in the presence of y e lord the wicked shal decay verse 3 But righteous men before the Lorde shall hartely reioyce They shalbe glad and mery all and chearefull in their voice verse 4 Sing prayse sing prayse vnto the Lord who rideth on the skie Extoll this name of Iah our God and him do magnifie verse 5 That same is he that is aboue within his holy place That father is of fatherles and iudge of widowes case verse 6 Houses he geuth and issue bothe vnto the comfortles He bringeth bondmen out of thrall and rebelles to distres verse 7 When thou diddest march before thy folk the Egiptians from among And brought theÌ„ through the wildernes whiche was both wide and long verse 8 Thearth did quake y e rain powred downe heard were great claps of thunder The mount Sinai shoke in such sort as it would cleaue a sunder verse 9 Thine heritage with drops of rayne aboundantly was washt And if so be it baren waxt by thee it was refresht verse 10 Thy chosen flock doth there remayne thou hast preparde that place And for the pore thou dost prouide of thine especiall grace The second parte verse 11 God will geue women causes iust to magnifye his name When as his people triumphes make and purchase brut and fame verse 12 For puissant kinges for all their power shall flee and take the foyle And women whiche remayne at home shall helpe to part the spoyle verse 13 And though you were as black as pots your hew should pas the doue whose winges and fethers seme to haue Or triuets siluer and gold aboue verse 14 when in this land God shall triunphe ouer kynges bothe hyge and lowe Then shall it be lyke Salmon hyll as whyte as any snowe verse 15 Though Basan be a frutefull hyll The church of God doth excel all worldly thinges not in outward pomp but by the grace of God whyche there remaynth because of his promise and in heyght others pas Yet Sion Gods most holy hyll doth farre excell in grace verse 16 why brag ye thus ye hils most high and leape for pride together This hill of Sion God doth loue and there will dwell for euer verse 17 Gods army is two millions of warriours good and strong The Lorde also in Sinai is present them among verse 18 Thou didst O Lord ascend on high and captiues led them all whiche in times past thy chosen flock in prison kept and thrall Thou madst them tribute for to paye God toke not taxes to enriche himselfe but to bestow them on his churche and therfore in the nu to theâ—he S. Paule saith he gaue gifts folowing the grek translatioÌ„ Seâ—â—th and suche as did repine Thou didst subdue that they might dwell in thy temple deuine verse 19 Now praysed be the Lord for that he powreth on vs suche grace From day to day he is the God of our health and solace The thirde parte verse 20 He is the God from whom alone saluation commeth playne He is the God by whom we scape all daungers death and payne verse 21 Thus god wil wound his enemies head and breake the heary scalpe Of those that in theyr wickednes continually doo walke verse 22 From Basan will I brynge sayd he my people and my shepe He meanth the victory whiche Dauid had of Og. king of Basan And all mine owne as I haue done from daunger of the depe verse 23 And make them dip theyr fete in bloud of those that hate my name And dogs shal haue theyr tongs embrude with licking of the same verse 24 All men may see how thou O God thyne enemies dost deface And how thou goest as God and kyng into thy holy place verse 25 The singers goo befrre with ioy the minstrels folow after And in the midst the damsels play with timbrell and with taber verse 26 Now in thy congregations O Israell prayse the Lord And Iacobs whole posteritie geue thankes with one accorde verse 27 27 Their chief was little Beniamin Because he was the yoÌ„gest of the Patriarches Iacobs sonnes he callech hym lytell Beniamin but Iuda made theyr host with Zabulon and Neptalim whiche dweld about theyr cost verse 28 As God hathe geuen powre to thee so Lorde make firme and sure The thing that thou hast wrought in vs for euer to indure verse 29 And in thy temple giftes will we geue vnto thee O Lorde For thyne vnto Ierusalem sure promise made by word The for the parte Yea and straunge kings to vs subdued shall doo lyke in those dayes I meane to thee they shall present theyr gifts of laude and prayes verse 30 He shall destroy the spear mens rancks these calues and bulles of myght And cause them tribute pay and daunt all suche as loue to fyght verse 31 Then shall the Lordes of Egipt come and presents with them bryng The mores most black shall stretch their haÌ„ds vnto their lord and king verse 32 Therfore ye kingdomes of the earth geue prayse vnto the Lorde Sing Psalmes to God with one coÌ„sent therto let all accorde verse 33 who though he ryde and euer hath aboue the heauens bryght Yet by the fearfull thunder claps men may well know hys myght verse 34 Therfore the strength of Israell ascribe to God on hie whose mighte and power doth far exteÌ„d aboue the cloudy skye verse 35 O God thy holines and power is dread for euermore The God of Israell geueth vs strength praysed be God therfore Saluum me fac domine Psalm lxix I. H The complayntes prayers feruent zele and great anguish of Dauid is set forth as a figure of Chryst and all hys membres the malicious crucitye of thenemies and theyr punishment also where Iudas and suche traytours are accursed Then gathered he courage in hys affliction and offereth prayses vnto God whych are more acceptable then all sacrifyces wherof all the afflicted may take comforte Finallye he doth prouoke all creatures to prayses prophecying of the kyngdome of Chryst and the buildyng of Iuda where all the faythful and their sede shall dwell for euer SAue me O God that with spede the waters flowe full fast So nie my soule doo they procede that I am sore agast I sticke full depe in filthe and clay wheras I fele no ground I fall into suche flouds I say that I am like be drounde verse 3 With crying oft I faynt and quayle my throte is horse and drye With loking vp my sight doth fayle for helpe to God on hye verse 4 My foes that giltles doo oppres my soule with hate are led In number sure they
are no les then heares are on my hed verse 5 Though for no cause they vexe me sore they prosper and are glad They doo compell me to restore the thynges I neuer had verse 6 What I haue done for want of wit thou Lorde all times canst tell And all the same that I commit to thee is knowne ful well verse 7 O God of hostes defend and staye al those that trust in thee Let no man doubt or shrink awaye for ought that chaunceth me verse 8 It is for thee and for thy sake that I doo beare this blame In spite of thee they would me make to hyde my face for shame verse 9 My mothers sonnes my brethern all forsake me on a rowe And as a straunger they me call my face they will not knowe verse 10 vnto thy house suche zeale I beare that it doth pine me muche Theyr checks taunts at thee to heare my very hart doth grutch The second parte verse 11 Though I doo fast my flesh to chaste yea if I wepe and mone Yet in my teath this geare is cast they passe not thereupon verse 12 If I for grief and payne of hart in sackcloth vse to walke Then they anone will it peruert therof they iest and talke verse 13 Both hie and lowe and all the throng that sit within the gate They haue me euer in theyr tong of me they talke and prate verse 14 The dronkards whiche in wine delyte it is their cheif pastime To seke whiche way to worke me spite of me they sing and rime verse 15 But thee the whyle O Lorde I pray that when it pleaseth thee For thy great truth thou wilt alwaye sende downe thyne ayde to me verse 16 Pluck thou my feete out of the myre from dro wning doo me kepe From suche as owe me wrath and ire and from the waters depe verse 17 Lest with y e waues I should be drownd and depth my soule deuouer And that the pit should me confound and shut me in her power verse 18 O Lorde of hostes to me geue eare as thou arte good and kynde And as thy mercy is most deare Lorde haue me in thy mynde verse 19 And doo not from thy seruaunt hyde nor turne thy face awaye I am opprest on euery syde in hast geue eare I say verse 20 O Lorde vnto my soule draw nye the same with ayde repose Because of theyr great tyrannye acquite me fro my foes The thirde parte verse 21 That I abide rebuke and shame thou knowest and thou canst tell For those that seke and worke the same thou seest them all full well verse 22 When they with brags doo breake my hart I seke for helpe anone But finde no frendes to ease my smarte to comfort me not one verse 23 But in my meate they gaue me gall to cruell for to thynke And gaue me in my thirst withall stronge vineger to dryncke verse 24 Lorde turne their table to a snare to take them selues therin And when they thinke full well to fare then trap them in the gin verse 25 And let theyr eyes be darke and blynde that they may nothyng see Bow downe their back doo thē binde in thraldome for to be verse 26 Powre out thy wrath as hoate as fyer that it on them may fal Let thy displeasure in thyne yre take holde vpon them all As desert drye theyr house disgrace their offring eke expell verse 27 That none therof posses their place nor in their tents doo dwell If thou dost strike the man to tame on him they lay full sore verse 28 And if that thou do wounde the same they seke to hurt him more Then let them heape vp mischief still sith they are all peruert verse 29 That of thy fauor and good will they neuer haue no part And dash them cleane out of the boke of life of hope of trust That for their names they neuer loke in number of the iust The forth parte verse 31 Though I O Lorde with wo grief haue bene full sore opprest Thy helpe shall geue me suche relief that all shall be redrest verse 32 That I may geue thy name the prayse and shew it with a song I will extoll the same alwayes with harty thankes among verse 33 Which is more pleasant vnto thee Such minde thy grace hath borne Then either Oxe or Calfe can be that hath bothe hoofe and horne verse 34 When simple folke doo this beholde it shall reioyce them sure All ye that seke the Lorde beholde your lyfe for aye shall dure verse 35 For why the Lord of hosts doth heare the poore when they complayne His prisoners are to him full deare he doth them not disdayne verse 36 Wherfore the skie and earth belowe The sea with floud and stream His prayse they shall declare and showe with all that liue in them verse 37 For sure our God will Sion saue and Iudaes cities builde verse 38 38 Much folke possession there shall haue her streate shall all be filde Her seruaunts sede shall kepe the same all ages out of minde verse 39 And there all they that loue hys name adwellyng place shall fynde Deus in adiutorium Psalme lxx I. H. He prayeth to be ryght spedely delyuered as in the. ix Psalm Then he desireth the shame of hys enemyes and the ioy full comforte of all those that seke the Lorde O God to me take hede of helpe I thee require Sing this as the. lxxii ps O Lorde of hosts with hast and spede helpe helpe I thee desire verse 2 With shame confound them all that seke my soule to spill Rebuke them backe with blame to fall that thinke and wish me ill verse 3 Confounde them that applye and seke to worke me shame And at my harme do laugh and crye so so there goth the game verse 4 But let them ioyfull be in thee with ioy and wealth Which only trust and seke to thee and to thy sauing health verse 5 That they may say alwayes in mirth and one accorde All glory honor laude and prayse be geuen to thee O Lorde verse 6 But I am weake and poore come Lorde thine ayde I lacke Thou art my stay and helpe therfore make spede and be not slack In te domine speraui Psalm lxxi I H. He prayeth in sayth establyshed by the worde of the promise and confirmed by the worke of God from his youth he desireth now to be deliuered from the wicked and cruell man meanyng his sonne Absolō and his confederacy and he promiseth to be mindefull and thankefull for the same MY Lorde my God in all distres my hope is whole in thee Sing this as the. lxix psa Then let no shame my soule oppres nor once take holde on me verse 2 As thou art iust defend me Lorde and rid me out of drede Geue eare and to my suite accorde and send me helpe at nede verse 3 Be thou my rock to whom I may for ayde all times resort Thy promise is to helpe alwaye
pure and well verse 2 Yet lyke a foole I almost slypt my feete began to slide And or I wist euen at a pinch my steps a wrye gan glyde verse 3 For when I saw suche folysh men I grudge and did disdayne That wicked men all thinges should haue without turmoyle or payne verse 4 They neuer suffer panges nor grief as if death shoulde them smite Theyr bodyes are bothe stoute and strong and euer in good plyte verse 5 And free from all aduersitie when other men be shent And with the rest they take no parte of plague or punishment verse 6 Therfore presumption doth embrace theyr necks as doth a chayne And are euen wrapt as in a robe with rapine and disdaine verse 7 They are so fed that euen for fat their eyes oft times out start And as for worldly goodes they haue more then can wish theyr hart verse 8 Theyr lyfe is moste licentious boastyng muche of the wrong Which they haue done to simple men and euer pryde among verse 9 The heauens and the lyuing Lorde they spare not to blaspheme And prate they doo on worldly thynges no wight they doo esteme verse 10 The people of God oft times turne backe to see theyr prosprous state And almost drynke the selfe same cup and folow the same rate The second parte verse 11 How can it be that God say they should know and vnderstand These worldly thinges since wicked men be Lordes of sea and land verse 12 For we may see how wicked men in riches still increase Rewarded well with worldly goodes and lyue in rest and peace verse 13 Then why doo I from wickednes my fantasy refrayne And wash my handes with innocentes and clense my hart in vayne verse 14 And suffer scourges euery day as subiect to all blame And euery mornyng from my youth susteyne rebuke and shame verse 15 And I had almost sayd as they misliking mine estate But that I should thy children iudge as folke vnfortunate verse 16 Then I bethought me how I might thys matter vnderstande But yet the labor was to great for me to take in hand verse 17 Untill the tyme I went into thy holy place and then I vnderstode right perfectly the ende of all these men verse 18 And namely how thou settest them vpon a slippery place And at thy pleasure and thy wyll thou dost them all deface verse 19 Then all men muse at that straung sight to see how sodenly They are destroid dispatche consumde and dead so horribly verse 20 Much like a dreame when one awakth so shall theyr wealth decay Theyr famous names in all mens sight shall ebbe and pas a way The thirde parte verse 21 Yet thus my hart was greued then my minde was much opprest verse 23 So fond was I and ignorant and in this point abeast verse 23 23 Yet neuertheles by my right hand thou holdest me alwayes fast verse 24 And with my counsell dost me guyde to glory at the last verse 25 What thyng is there that I can wishe but thee in heauen aboue And in the earth there is nothyng lyke thee that I can loue verse 26 My flesh and eke my hart do fayle but God doth fayle me neuer For of my hart God is the strength my portion eke for euer verse 27 And lo all suche as thee forsake thou shalt destroy echeone And those that trust in any thyng sauing in thee alone verse 28 Therfore will I draw nere to God and euer with him dwell In God alone I put my trust thy wonders will I tell Vt quid deus Psalme lxxiiii I. H. The faythfull complayne of the destruction of the church and true relygyon vnder the name of Sion and the aultars destroyed And trustyng in the myght and free mercyes of God by hys couenaunt they require help and succor for the glory of Gods holy name the saluatyon of his pore afflicted seruaunts the cōfusion of his proud enemies WHy art thou Lorde so longe from vs in all this daunger depe Sing this as the. lxxii ps why doth thine anger kindle thus at thyne owne pasture shepe verse 2 Lorde call the people to thy thought which haue ben thine so long The which thou hast redemd brought from bondage sore and strong verse 3 Haue minde and thinke vpon remember it full well Thy pleasant place thy mount Sion where thou wast wont to dwell verse 4 Lift vp thy fote and come in hast and all thy foes deface Whiche now at pleasure rob and wast within thy holy place verse 5 A mid thy congregations all thine enemies roare O God They set as signes on euery wall theyr banners splayde abrod verse 6 As men with axes hew the trees that on the hils do grow So shine the bils and swords of these within thy temples now verse 7 The selings sawde the carued bordes the godly grauen stones with axces hammers billes swordes they beate them downe at ones verse 8 Thy places they consume with flame and eke in all this toile The house appointed to thy name they race downe to the soyle verse 9 And thus they sayde within theyr hart dispatche them out of hand Then burnt they vp in euery part Gods houses through the land verse 10 10 Yet thou no sigue of helpe dost sende our Prophets all are gone To tell when this our plage shuld ende among vs there is none verse 11 Whē wilt thou lord once end this shame and cease thyne enemies strong Shall they alway blaspheme thy name and rayle on thee so long verse 12 Why dost with draw thy hand a backe and hide it in thy lappe O pluck it out and be not slack to geue thy foes a rappe The second part verse 13 O God thou art my kyng and Lorde and euermore hast ben yeathy good grace throughout the world for our good helpe hathe seen verse 14 The seas that are so depe and dead thy might did make them drye And then didst breake the serpents head that he therin did dye verse 15 yea thou didst breake the heads so great of whales that are so fell And gauest them to the folkes to eate that in the desertes dwell verse 16 Thou madest a spring with streames to rise from rock both hard and hye And eke thy hand hath made lykewyse depe riuers to be drye verse 17 Bothe day and eke the night are thyne by thee they were begonne Thou settest to serue vs with theyr shine the light and eke the sunne verse 18 Thou doest appoint the endes and costs of all the earth about Both sommer heates and winter frosts thy hand hath founde them out verse 19 Thinke on O Lorde no time forget thy foes that thee defame And how the folish folke are set to rayle vpon thy name verse 20 O let no cruell beast deuoure thy Turtle that is true Forget not alwayes in thy powre the poore that much doo rue verse 21 Regarde thy couenaunt and beholde thy foes posses the lande All sad and darke
enquire For thine elect to lye in wayte theyr councell doth conspire verse 4 4 Come on sayd they let vs expell and plucke these folke awaye So that the name of Israell may vtterly decay verse 5 They all conspire within theyr hart how they may thee withstand Agaynst the Lorde to take a parte they are in league and bande verse 6 The tentes of all the Edomites the Ismalites also The Hagarenes and Moabites with diuers other more verse 7 Geball with Ammon and likewise dothe Amalece conspire The Phillistines against thee ryse with them that dwell at Cyre verse 8 And Assur eke is well apaide with them in league to be And doeth become afence and ayde to Lots posteritie verse 9 As thou diddest to the Madianites so serue them Lorde echeone As to Cicer and to Iabin beside the broke kison verse 10 Whom thou in Endor diddest descry and wast them through thy might That they like doung on earth did lye and not in open sighte verse 11 Make them now theyr Lords appere like Zeb and Oreb then As Zebah and Zalmana we are the kynges of Madian verse 12 Whiche said let vs throughout the land in all the costes abrode Posses and take into our hand the fayer houses of God verse 13 Tourn them O God with storms as fast as wheeles that haue no staye Or lyke as chaffe whiche men doo cast with windes to flee awaye verse 14 Lyke as the fire with rage and fume the mightye forest spilles And as the flame doth quyte consume the mountaynes and the hilles verse 15 So let the tempest of thy wrath vpon theyr neckes be layde And of thy stormy wynde and shower Lorde make them all afrayed verse 16 Lorde brynge them all I thee desire to suche rebuke and shame That it may cause them to enquire and learne to seke thy name verse 17 And let them euermore dayly to shame and sclaunder fall And in rebuke and oblique to perish eke with all verse 18 That they may know fele full well that thou art called Lord And that alone thou doest excell and raygne throughout the worlde Quam dilecta tabernacula Psal. lxxxiiii I. H. Dauid driuen forth of his countrey desireth most ardently to come a gayne to the Tabernacle of the Lord and the assembly of the saincts to prayse God pronouncing them blessed that may so doo Then he prayseth the courage of the people that passe thorow the wildernes to assemble them selues in Sion Finally with prayse of this matter confidence of Gods goodnes he endeth the Psalme HOwe pleasaunt is the dwelling place Sing this as the. lxvii psalme O Lorde of hostes to mee The Tabernacles of thy grace how pleasaunte Lorde they bee verse 2 My soule doth longe full sore to go into thy courtes abrode My hart doth lust my flesh also in thee the liuing God verse 3 The sparrowes finde a rome to rest and saue them selues from wrong And eke the swalow hath a neste wherin to kepe her yong verse 4 These birdes full nigh thine aulter maye haue place to sitte and synge O Lorde of hostes thou art I say my God and eke my kynge verse 5 Oh they be blessed that may dwell within thy house alwayse For they all tymes thy factes doo tell and euer geue thee prayse verse 6 yea happy sure lykewise arthey whose staye and strength thou art Which to thy house doo minde the way and seke it in theyr hart verse 7 As they go through the vale of teares they digge vp fountaynes still That as a spring it all appeeres and thou theyr pittes doest fill verse 8 From strength to strength they walke full fast no fayntnes there shalbe And so the God of Gods at laste in Sion they doo see verse 9 O Lorde of hostes to me geue heede and heare when I doo praye And let it through thine eares procede O Iacobes God I saye verse 10 O Lorde our shilde of thy good grace regarde and so draw nere Regarde I say beholde the face of thyne anoynted deere verse 11 For why within thy courtes one daye is better to abyde Then other where to keepe or staye a thousand dayes beside verse 12 Muche rather would I kepe a dore within the house of God Then in the tents of wickednes to settle mine abode verse 13 For God the Lorde light and defence will grace and worship geue And no good thing shall he witholde from them that purely lyue verse 14 O Lorde of hostes that man is blest and happy sure is he That is perswaded in his brest to trust all times in thee Benedixisti domine Psalme lxxxv I. H Because God with drewe not his roddes from his churche after the retorne from Babilon first they put him in mind of theyr delyueraūce to the entent that he should not leue the worcke of his grace vnperfite next they complaine of theyr long affliction And thirdlye the reioyce in hope of felicytie promised for their deliueraunce was a figure of Christes kingdome vnder which should be perfit felycitie THou hast ben mercyfull in dede Sing this as the. lxxxi Ps. O Lorde vnto thy land For thou restoredst Iacobs sede from thraldom oute of bande verse 2 The wicked wayes that they were in thou didst them cleane remitte And thou didst hide thy peoples sinne full close thou coueredst it verse 3 Thine anger eke thou didst asswage that all thy wrath was gon And so didst tourne the from thy rage with them to be at one verse 4 O God our health doo now conuert thy people vnto thee Put all thy wrath from vs aparte and anger cese to be verse 5 Why shall thyne anger neuer ende but still procede on vs And shall thy wrath it selfe extend vpon all ages thus verse 6 Wilt thou not rather tourne therfore and quicken vs that we And all thy folke may euermore be glad and ioy in thee verse 7 O Lorde on vs doo thou declare thy goodnes to our welth Shew forth to vs and doo not spare thine ayde and sauing health verse 8 I will hark what God saith for he speaketh to his people peace And to his sainctes that neuer they returne to folishnes verse 9 For why his health is still at hand to suche as him doo feare Wherby great glory in our lande shall dwell and florish there verse 10 For truth and mercy there shall mete in one to take their place And peace also iustice greete with kis and there they shall imbrace verse 11 As truth from earth shall spring a pace and florish pleasauntly So righteousnes shall shew her face and loke from heauen hye verse 12 Yea-God him selfe shall take in hand to geue vs eche good thinge And through the costes of all our land the earth her frutes shall bringe verse 13 Before his face shall iustice goe muche lyke a guide or stay He shall direct his steppes also and kepe them in the way Inclina domine aurem Psalm lxxxvi I. H. Dauid sore afflicted and forsaken
florishing shall most spedely peryshe In the end is discribed the felicitie of the iust planted in the house of god to prayse the Lorde IT is a thing bothe good and meete to praise the highest Lorde And to thine name O thou most hye to sing in one accorde verse 2 To shew the kindnes of the Lorde betime ere day be light And eke declare his truth abrode when it doth draw to nyght verse 3 Upon ten strynged instrument on lute and harpe so swete With all the mirth you can inuent of instruments most meete verse 4 For thou hast made me to reioyse in thinges so wrought by thee And I haue ioy in harte and voyce thy handy workes to see verse 5 O Lorde how glorious and how great are all thy workes so stoute So deeply are thy counsels set that none can try them out verse 6 The man vnwise hath not the wit this geare to pas to bring And all such fooles are nothing fit to vnderstand this thyng verse 7 When so the wicked at their will as gras doo spring ful fast They when they florish in their ill for euer shalbe wast verse 8 But thou art mighty Lord most hye yea thou dost raygne therfore In euery time eternally both now euermore verse 9 For why O Lorde beholde and see beholde thy foes I say How all that worke iniquitie shall perish and decay verse 10 But thou like as an Unicorne shall lift my horne on hie With freshe and new prepard oyle thine ointed king am I. verse 11 And of my foes before mine eyes shall see the fall and shame Of all that vp against me rise myne eare shall heare the same verse 12 The iust shall florish vp on hie as date trees bud and blowe And as the ceders multiplye in Lybanus that growe verse 13 For they are planted in the place and dwelling of our God within his courtes they spring apace and florish all abrode verse 14 And in their age more frute shall bryng bothe fat and well besene And pleasauntly both bud and spryng with boughes and braunches grene verse 15 To shew that God is good and iust and vpright is his will He is my rocke my hope and trust in him there is none ill Dominus regnauit Psalm lxxxxiii I. H He prayseth the power of God in the creation of the world beateth downe all people whiche lifte them vp against his maiestye and prouoketh to consider his promises THe Lorde as king a loft doth raygne Sing this as the. lxxvii psalme in glory goodly dighte And he to shew his strength mayne hath girt him self with might verse 2 The Lord likewise the earth hath made and shaped it so sure No might can make it moue or sad at stay it doeth endure verse 3 Eare that y e world was made or wrought thy seate was set before Beyond all time that can be thought thou hast ben euermore verse 4 The flouds O Lord the floudes do rise they rore and make a noyse The flouddes I say did enterpryse and lyfted vp theyr voyce verse 5 Yea though the stormes before in sight though seas do rage and swell The Lord is strong and more of might for he on hye doth dwell verse 6 And loke what promise he doth make his houshoulde to defend For iust and true they shall it take all times withouten ende Deus vltionum Psalm lxxxxiiii I. H. He praieth vnto God against the violence arrogancie of tyrauntes Then doth he comfort the afflicted by the good issue of their affectyons as he felte in him selfe and did see in others and by the ruine of the wicked whom the Lorde will destroye O Lorde thou doest reueng all wronge Sing this as the. psalme that office longes to thee Sith vengaunce doth to thee belonge declare that all may see Set forth thy sealfe for thou of ryght the earth dost iudge and give Reward the proud and men of might according to theyr pride verse 3 How long shal wicked men beare sway with lifting vp theyr voyce How long shall wicked men I say thus trihumph and reioyce verse 4 How long shall they with brags brust out and proudly prate theyr fill Shall they reioyce whiche be so stoute whose works are euer ill verse 5 Thy flocke O Lorde thine heritage they spoyle and vex full sore Against thy people they doo rage still dayly more and more verse 6 The widdowes whiche are comfortles and straungers they destroy They slea the children fatherles and none doth put them by verse 7 And when they take these things in hād this talke they haue of thee Can Iacobs God this vnderstand tush no he can not see verse 8 O folke vnwise a people rude some knowledg now discearne ye fooles amonge the multitude at length begin to learn verse 9 The lord which made the eare of man he needes of right must heare He made the eyne all things must then before his sight appeare verse 10 10 The Lorde doth all the world correct and make men vnderstand shall he not then your deedes detect how can ye scape his hand verse 11 The lord doth know the thoughts of mā his hart he setteth full playne The lord I say mens thoughts doth frame and findeth them but vayne verse 12 But Lorde that Man is happy sure whom thou doest kepe in awe And through correction doest procure to teache him in thy law verse 13 Wherby he shall in quyet rest in time of trouble sitte When wicked men shalbe supprest and fall into the pit verse 14 For sure the Lorde will not refuse his people for to take His heritage whom he did chuse he will no time forsake verse 15 Untill that iudgement be decrede to iustice to conuert That all may follow her with spede that are of vpright hart verse 16 But who vpon my part shall stande against the cursed trayne Or who shall rid me from their hand that wicked workes maintayne verse 17 Except the Lorde had ben myn ayde mine enmies to repell My soule and lyfe had now ben layde almost as low as hell verse 18 When I did saye my foote doth slide and now am lyke to fall Thy goodnes Lorde did so prouide to stay me vp with all verse 19 When with my selfe I mused muche and could no comfort finde Then Lorde thy goodnes did me touch and that did ease my minde verse 20 Wilt thou enhaunte thy selfe and draw with wicked men to sit Which with pretence in stede of lawe muche mischief doo commit verse 21 For they consoult against the lyfe of righteous men and good And in theyr councells they are ryfe to sheade the giltles bloud verse 22 But yet the Lorde he is to me a strong defence or locke He is my God to him I flee he is my strength and rock And he shall cause their mischefe all them sealues for to annoye And in their malice they shall fall our God shall them destroye Venite exultemus Psalme lxxxxv I. H An earnest
The hie hilles are succours for wilde goates to rest And eke the rocks stonye for conyes to hyde verse 19 The moone then is set her seasons to runne The dayes from the nightes therby to discearne And by thee descending also of the sunne The colde from heate alway therby we do learne verse 20 When darkenes doth come by Gods will and power Then crepe forth doo all the beastes of the wood verse 21 21 The lions range roaring their pray to deuoure But yet it is thou Lord which giuest them foode verse 22 Assone as the sunne is vp they retyre To touche in theyr dennes then are they full fayne verse 23 That man doo his worke may as right doth require Till night come and call him to take rest agayne The thirde parte verse 24 How sondry O Lorde are all thy workes founde With wisdom full great they are in dede wrought So that the whole worlde of thy prayse doth sounde And as for thy ryches they passe all mens thought verse 25 So is the great sea which large is and broade Where thinges that crepe swarme and beastes of eche sorte verse 26 There both mightie shippes saile and some lye at roade The whale huge and monstrous there also doth sporte verse 27 All thinges on thee wayte thou doest them relieue And thou in due tyme full well doest them fede verse 28 28 Now when it doth please thee the same so to geue They gather full gladly those thinges which they nede Thou openest thyne hand and they finde suche grace That they with good thinges are filled we see verse 29 But sore are they troubled if thou turne thy face For if thou their breath take vile dust then they be verse 30 Againe when thy sprite from thee doth procede All things to appoint and what shall insue Then are they created as thou hast decreed And doest by thy goodnes the drye earth renew verse 31 The prayse of the Lorde for euer shall last Who may in his workes by right well reioyce verse 32 His loke can the earth make to tremble full fast And likewise the mountains to smoke at his voyce verse 33 To thys Lorde and God sing will I alwayes So longe as I liue my God prayse wyll I verse 34 Then am I most certayne my wordes shall him please I will reioyce in him to him will I cry verse 35 The sinners O Lorde consume in thine ire And eke the peruerse them roote out with shame But as for my soule now let it still desire And say with the faithful prayse ye the Lordes Name Confitemini domino Psalm Cv. N. He prayseth the singuler goodnes of God who hathe of all the people of the worlde chosen a peculier people to him selfe and hauyng chosen them neuer ceaseth to doo them good euen for his promes sake GEue prayses vnto God the Lorde and call vpon his name Among the people eke declare his workes to spred his fame Sing this as the. lxxxxv Singye vnto the Lorde I say and sing vnto him prayse And talke of all the wondrous workes that he hath wrought alwayes In honor of his holy name reioyse with one accorde And let the hart also reioyse of them that seke the Lorde Seke ye the Lord and seke the strength of his eternall might And seke his face continually And presence of his sight The wondrous works that he hath don kepe still in mindfull hart Ne let the iugements of his mouth out of your minde depart Ye that of faithfull Abraham his seruant are the sede ye his elect the children that of Iacob doo procede For he he only is I say the myghty Lord our God And his most rightfull iugements are through all the earth abrode His promise and his couenant whiche he hath made to his He hath remembred euermore to thousandes of degrees The. ii parte The couenant which he hath made with Abraham long agoe And faithfull othe which he hath sworne to Isaac also And did confirme the same for law that Iacob should obey And for eternall couenant to Israell foray when thus he said loe I to you all Canaan land will geue The lot of your inheritance wherin your sede shall lyue Although their number at that tyme did very small appeare yea very small and in the land they then but strangers were Whyle yet they walkt from land to lande without a sure abode And while fro sondry kingdomes they did wander all abrode And wrong at none oppressers hand he suffred them to take But euen the great and mighty kinges reproued for their sake And thus he sayd touche ye not those that mine anoynted be Ne doo the prophets any harme that doo pertayne to me He calld a dearth vpon the land of death he stroyed the store But he against their time of nede had sent a man before The third parte Euen Ioseph which had once ben solde to liue a slaue in woe Whose feete they hurt in stocks whose soule the iron pearst also Untill the tyme came when his cause was knowne apparantly The mighty word of God the Lord his faultles truth did trye The king sent and deliuerd him from prison where he was The ruler of the people then did freely let hym pas And ouer all hys house he made him Lorde to beare the swey and of his substance made him haue the rule and all the stay That he might to his will instruct the princes of his land And wisdomes lore his auncyent men might teache to vnderstand Then into the Egiptian land came Israell also And Iacob in the land of Ham did liue a straunger thoo His people he excedingly in number made to flowe And ouer all their enemies in strength he made them growe whose hart he turnd that they with hate his people did entreate And did his seruantes wrongfully Abuse with false deceite His faithfull seruant Moses then and Aaron whom he chose He did commaund to goe to them his message to disclose The wondrous message of his signes among them they did shewe And wonders in the land of Ham then did they worke also Darknes he sent and made it darke in dede of brighter day And vnto his commission they did not disobey He turnd theyr waters into bloud he did their fishes slay Their land brought frogs euē in y t place where their king Pharao lay He spake and at his voyce there came great swarmes of noysome flyes And all the quarters of theyr land were filld with crauling lyse He gaue them colde and stony hayle in stede of milder rayne And firy flames within theyr land he sent vnto theyr payne He smote their vines and al theyr trees wheron their figges did growe And all the trees within their coastes downe did he ouerthrowe He spake then caterpillers did and greshoppers abound Which eate the grasse in all their land and frute of all their ground The. v. parte The first begotten in their land eke deadly did he smite yea the beginning and first
procede His house with good he will fulfill His rightousnes endure shall still verse 4 Unto the righteous doth aryse In trouble ioy in darkenes light Compassion in his eyes and mercy alwayes in hys syght verse 5 yea pitie moueth suche to lend he doeth by iudgement things expend verse 6 And surely suche shall neuer fayle for in remembrance had is he verse 7 7 No tidings ill can make him quayle who in the Lorde sure hope doeth se. verse 8 His hart is firme hys feare is past for he shall se his foes downe cast verse 9 He did well for the poore prouide his rightousnes shall still remayne And his estate with prayse abyde though that the wicked man disdaine verse 10 yea gnash his teeth thereat shall he and so consume his state to see Laudate pueri Psalme Cxiii VV. K. An exhortation to prayse the Lorde for his prouidence in that that contrarye to the course of nature he worketh in hys Churche YE childrē which do serue y e lord prayse ye his name with one accord yea blessed be alwayes his name who from the rising of the sunne til it returne where it begonne is to be praysed with great fame The Lord all peoples doth surmount As for his glory we may counte aboue the heauens hygh to be With God the Lorde who may compare whose dwellyngs in the heauens are of such great power and force is he verse 6 He doeth abase him self we knowe thinges to beholde bothe here belowe And also in heauen aboue verse 7 7 The nedie out of dust to drawe And eke the poore whiche helpe none saw verse 8 His onlye mercy did him moue And so him set in high degre with princes of great dignitie That rule his people with great fame verse 9 The barren he doth make to beare And with great ioye her frute to reare therfore prayse ye his holy name In exitu Israel C. xiiii VV. VVhit Howe the Israelites were delyuered out of Egipt and of the wonderfull miracles that God shewed at that tyme whiche put vs in remembraunce of Goddes great mercyes towardes his children and of oure vnthankfullnes for the same WHen Israell by Gods addres from Pharos land was bent Sing this as the. ixxviii psa And Iacobs house the straungers left and in the same trayne went verse 2 In Iuda God his glory shewde his holynes most bryght So did the Israelites declare his kingdom power and myght verse 3 The sea it saw and sodenly as all amased did flee The roring streaimes of Iordans floud reculed backwardly verse 4 As rammes afrayde the mountaines skipt theyr strength did them forsake And as the sely tremblyng lambes theyr toppes did beate and shake verse 5 What ayled the sea as all amased so sodenly to flee Ye rowlyng waues of Iordans floud why ran ye backwardly verse 6 Why shoke ye hils as Rammes afrayd why did your strength so shake Why did your tops as trembling lambs for feare quiuer and quake verse 7 O earth confesse thy soueraygne Lord and dread hys myghty hand Before the face of Iacobs God feare ye both sea and land verse 8 I meane the God which frō hard rocks doth cause many flouds appeare And from the stony flint doth make gush out the fountaynes cleare Non nobis domine Psalme Cxv. N. A prayer of the faythful oppressed by idolatrous tirants against whō they desire that God woulde succor them for asmuche as there is no comparyson betwene him and theyr false God or Idoles trustyng most constantly that God will preserue them in this theyr nede seeyng that he hath adopted and receaued them to hys fauoure promising finally that they will not be vnmindfull of so greate a benefyte if it would please God to heare theyr prayer and delyuer them by his omnipotent power NOt vnto vs Lord not to vs but to thy name geue prayse bothe for the mercy and the truthe that are in thee alwayes Why shall the Heathen scorners say where is theyr God become Our God in heauen is and what he will that hath he done Their idols siluer are and gold worke of mens handes they be They haue a mouth and do not speake and eyes and doo not see And they haue eares ioynd to their heds and doo not heare at all And noses eke they formed haue and doo not smell withall And handes they haue and handle not ▪ and feete and doo not goo A throte they haue yet through the same they make no sounde to blowe Those that make them be like to them and those whose trust they be O Israell trust in the Lorde their help and shield is he O Aarons house trust in the Lorde their helpe and shield is he Trust ye the Lorde that feare the Lord ▪ their help and sheld is he The Lord hath mindefull ben of vs and will vs bles also On Israels and Aarons house his blissing he will shew They did beset me round about with wordes of hatefull spite Without all cause of my desert against me did they fight For my good will they were my foes but then gan I to pray my good with ill my frendlynes with hate they did repay The second parte Set thou the wicked ouer him to haue the vpper hand At his right hand eke suffer thou his hatefull foe to stand When he is iudged let him then condemned be therin And let the prayer that he makes be turned into sinne Few be his dayes his charge also let thou an other take His children let be fatherles his wyfe a wydow make Let his ofspring be vagabundes to begge and seke theyr bread wandring out of the wasted place where erst they haue ben fed Let couetous extorcionet catch all his goods and store And let the straungers spoyle the frutes of all his toyle before Let there be none to pitie him let there be none at all That on his children fatherles will let their mercye fall And so let his posteritie for euer be destroyed Their name out blotted in the age that after shall succed Let not his fathers wickednes from Gods remembrance fall And let thou not his mothers sinne be done away at all But in the presence of the Lorde let them remayne foray That from the earth their memorye he may cut cleane away Sith mercye he forgat to shew but did pursue with spite The troubled man and sought to slay the woefull harted wight The third parte As he did cursing loue it shall betide vnto him so And as he did not blessing loue it shalbe far him froe As he with cursing clad himself so it like water shall Into his bowels and like oyle into his bones befall As garment let it be to him to couer him for ay And as a girdle wherwith he shall girded be alwaye Lo let this same be from the Lord the guerdon of my foe Yea and of those that euell speake against my soule also But thou O Lorde that art my God deale thou I say with me After thy
name delyuer me for good thy mercies be Because in depth of great distres I nedy am and pore And eke within my payned brest my hart is wounded sore Them that be fearers of the Lord the lorde will blesse them all Euen he will blesse them euery one the great and eke the small To you I say the louing Lord will multiplie his grace To you and to the children that shall follow of your race Ye are the blessed of the Lorde euen of the lorde I say Which both the heauen and the earth hath made and set in stay The heauens yea the heauens hye belong vnto the Lord The earth vnto the sonnes of men he gaue of free accorde They that be dead doo not with prayse setfourth the Lordes renoume Nor any that into the place of silence doo goe downe But we will prayse the Lorde our god from hencefourth and foray Sound ye the prayses of the Lorde prayse ye the Lorde I say Dilexi quoniam Psalme Cxvi N Dauid being in great daunger of Saull in the desert of Mammon perceiuing the great and inestimable loue of God toward him mangnyfyeth suche great mercyes and protesteth that he will be thankful for the same I Loue the Lord because my voyce and prayer hearde hath he Sing this as the. lxxxxv When in my dayes I cald on him he bowed his eare to me Euen when the snares of cruell death about beset me round When paynes of hell me caught when I wo and sorow found vpon the name of God my Lorde then did I call and say Deliuer thou my soule O Lorde I doo thee humbly pray The Lorde is very mercyfull and iust he is also And in our God compassion doth plentifully flowe The Lorde in safetie doth preserue all those that simple be I was in wofull miserye and he releued me And now my soule sith thou art safe returne vnto thy rest For largely loe the Lorde to thee his bountie hath exprest Because thou hast delyuered my soule from deadly thrall My Moisted eien from mournful teares my slidyng fete from fall Before the Lorde I in the land of life will walke therfore I did beleue therfore I spake for I was trobled sore I sayd in my distres and feare that all men lyers bee What shall I pay the Lorde for all his benefites to me The holsome cup of sauing health I thankefully will take And on the Lordes name I will call when I my prayer make I to the Lorde will pay the vowes that I haue him behight Yea euen at this present time in all his peoples sight Right deare and precious in his sight the Lorde doth ay esteme The death of all his holy ones what euer men do deme Thy seruant Lorde thy seruant loe I doo my selfe confes Son of thy handmayd thou hast broke the bonds of my distres And I will offer vp to thee a sacryfyce of prayse And I will call vpon the name of God the Lorde alwayes I to the Lorde will pay the voues that I haue him behight Yea euen at this present tyme in all his peoples sight yea in the courtes of Gods owne house and in the middes of thee O thou Ierusalem I say wherfore the Lorde prayse ye Laudate dominum Psalme Cxvii N. He exhorteth the Gentels to prayse God because he hath accomplished as well to them as to the Iewes the promys of lyfe euerlastyng by Iesus Chryst. O All the natyons of the worlde Prayse ye the Lorde alwayes Sing this as the. ixxxxv And all ye people euery where set fourth hys noble prayse For great his kindnes is to vs his truthe endures for ay Wherfore prayse ye the Lorde our God prayse ye the Lorde I say Confitemini domino Psalme CXviii M. Dauid reiectid of Saule and of the people at the tyme apoynted obtained the kingdome for the whiche he biddeth all them that seare the Lord tobe thankefull and vnder hys person in all thys was Christ lyuely setforthe who should be of hys people reiected O Geue ye thankes vnto the Lorde Sing this as a 115. Psalme for gratious is he Because his mercy doth endure â–ª for euer towardes thee Let Israell confes and say hys mercy dures for ay Now let the house of Aaron say hys mercye dures for aye Let all that feare the Lorde our God euen now confesse and say The mercye of the Lorde our God endureth still for aye In trouble and in heuines vnto the Lorde I cride Whiche louingly hard me at large my sute was not denyde The Lorde hym selfe is on my syde I will not stande in dout Nor feare what man can doo to me when God standth me about The lord doth take my parte with them that helpe to succour me Therfore I shall see my desire apon myne enemye Better it is to trust in God then in mans mortall sede Or to put confidence in kynges or princes in our nede All nations haue in closed me and compassed me rounde But in the name of God shall I myne enemies confounde They kept me on euery side they kept me in I say But through the lords most mightie name I shall worke theyr decay They came about me all like bees but yet in the lordes name I quencht their thornes that wer on fire and will destroy the same Thou hast with force thrust fore at me that I in dede might fall But through the lord I found suche help that they wer vanquist all The lorde is my defence and strengthe my ioy my mirth and song He is become for me in dede a sauiour most strong The right hand of the lord our God doth bring to pas great thinges He causeth voyce of ioy and health in rightous mennes dwellynges The right hand of the lorde doth bring most mighty thinges to pas his hand hath the preeminens his force is as it was I will not dye but euer lyue to vtter and declare The lord his might wondrous power his workes and what they are The lorde himselfe hath chastened and hath corrected me But hath not geuen me ouer yet to death as ye may see Set open vnto me the gates of truth and righteousnes That I may enter into them the lordes prayse to confes This is the gate euen of the lorde whiche shall not so he shut But good and righteous men alway shall enter into it I will geue thankes to thee O Lorde because thou hast heard me And art become most louingly a sauiour vnto me The stone whiche ere this time among the builders was refused is now become the corner stone and chefely to be vsed Thys was the myghty work of God this was the Lordes owne fact And it is maruelous to be holde with eyes that noble act This is the ioyfull day in dede which God himself hath wrought Let vs be glad and ioy therin in hart in mind and thought Now helpe me Lorde and prosper vs we wishe with one accorde Blessed be he that comes to vs in the name
accordyng to his commaundementes BLessed art thou that fearest God Sing thys as the. cxxxvii and walkest in his way For of thy labor thou shalt eate happye arte thou I say Like frutefull vynes on thy house sydes so doth thy wyfe spryng out Thy children stande lyke Oliue plantes thy table round about Thus art thou blest that fearest God and he shall let thee see The promised Ierusalem and hys felicitye Thou shalt thy childrens children see to thy great ioyes increase And likewyse grace on Israell prosperitie and peace Sepe expugnauerunt Psal. cxxix VV. VV ☞ He admonisheth the churche to reioyce though it haue ben afflicted in all ages for God will delyuer it and the enemies for all their glorious shew shall sodenly be destroyed OF Israell thys may now be the song euē frō my youth my foes haue oft me noted Athousand euils since I was tēdre yonge They haue wrought yet was I not destroyed As yet I beare the marks in bone and skyn that one wold think y t the plow mē w t their plowes Upon my back haue made their balkes far in for like plowd groūd euē so haue I lōg forowes But yet the Lorde which doth all things iustly Hath cut the ropes so stayd the wicked rage Euen so shall all suche perish shamefully Whiche hate Sion or wish it any damage 5 Al such men shalbe lyke the gras that groweth Upon the wales or tops of houses most hye Whiche sodenly or one bewar widereth So that no frute on such herbes can gathered be Neuer man saw that any mower mowed Suche grasse as that or therof his hand did fill Much les that he which glaineth of y t is sowed Under his arme bare some thing his house vntill Nor yet that he that passeth by that way Sayth to the repers God saue you or God spede No no man doth wishe them good lucke I saye Or pray y t God would for their work graunt thēmede Deprofundis clamaui Psalme cxxx VV. VV. An effectuous prayer of hym that for his sinnes had susteyned great afflictions and not withstanding he fully trusteth and assureth him selfe to obteyne mercy and forgeuenes of his synnes and at length deliuereth from all euilles LOrd to the I make my mone whē daūgers me oppres I call I sigh plain and grone Trusting to finde reles Heare now O Lord my request For it is full due tyme And let thyne eares aye be prest vnto thys prayer myne O Lorde our God if thou way our sinnes and them peruse Who shall then escape and say I can my selfe excuse But Lord thou art mercifull and turnest to vs thy grace That we with harts most carefull should feare before thy face In God I put my whole trust my soule wayteth on his wyll For his promise is most iust and I hope therin styll My soule to God hath regarde wishing for him alway More then they that watch and ward to see the dauning day Let Israell then boldly in the Lorde put his trust He is that God of mercy that his deliuer must For he it is that must saue Israell from his sinne And all suche as surely haue their cōfidence in him Domine non est Psalme Cxxxi M. ☞ Dauid charged with ambytion and gredyc desire to raygne protesteth his humilitie and modestye before God and teacheth all men what they should doo O Lorde I am not puft in minde Sing this as the lamentatiō I haue no skornfull eye I doo not exercyse my selfe in thynges that be to hye But as a childe that wayned is euen from his mothers brest So haue I Lorde behaued my selfe in sylence and in rest O Israell trust in the Lorde let hym be all thy stay From this tyme forth for euermore from age to age I say Memento domine Psalme Cxxxii. M. ☞ The faythfull groundyng on Gods promise made vnto Dauid desireth that he would establysh the same bothe as touchyng hys posterytic and the buylding of the temple to praye there as was fore spoken REmēber dauids trobles lord how to the Lord he sware voud a vow to Iacobs god to kepe for euermore I wil not com within my house nor clyme vp to my bed nor let my temples take their rest or the eyes in my hed Till I haue found out for the Lorde a place to set theron An house for Iacobs God to be an habitacyon We harde of it at Ephrata there did we heare this sounde And in the fildes and forrestes there these voyces fyrst were found We will assay and go in nowe his tabernarle there Before his for stole to fall doune apon out knees in feare Artic O Lorde aryse I say into thy restyng place Both thou and the like of thy strengthe the presence of thy grace Let all thy prestes be clothed Lorde with truthe and righteousnes Let all thy sayntes and holy men sing all with ioyfulnes And for thy seruaunt Dauids sake refuse not Lorde I say The face of thyne annoynted Lorde or turn thy face away The Lorde to Dauid swore in truth and will not shrink from it Saying the frute of thy body apon thy seate shall syt And if thy sonnes my couenant kepe that I shall learne eche one Then shall theyr sonnes for euer syt apon thy princely throne The Lorde himselfe hath chose Syon and loue therein to dwell Saying thys is my restyng place I loue and like it well And I will blesse with great increase her vittales euery where And I will satisfye with bread the nedy that be there Yea I will decke and cloth her pristes with my saluation And all her sainctes shall sing for ioye of my protection There will I surely make the horne of Dauid for to bud ▪ For I haue there ordaynde for myne alanthorne bright and good As for his enmyes I will clothe with shame for euermore But I will cause his crowne to shine more fresh then here to fore Ecce quam bonum Psalm cxxxiii VV. VV. ☞ This psalme conteyneth the commendation of godly and brother therly amitie which for thexcellencye therof is compared to the most pretious oyle wherwith the Priestes only and instruments of the tabernacle wer annoynted Exodus xxx O How happye a thyng it is Sing thys as the. cxxxvii and ioyfull for to see Brethern together fast to holde the bande of amitie verse 2 It callth to minde that swete perfume and that costly oyntment Which on the sacrifisers head by Gods precept was spent It wet not Aarons head alone but drencht his beard throughout And finally it did runne down his ritche attire about verse 3 And as the lower ground doth drynke the dew of Hermon hill And Sion with his siluer droppes the fields with fruite doth fill verse 4 Euen so the Lorde doth poure on them his blessings manifold Whose hartes and myndes without all guile this knot doo kepe and hold Ecce nunc Psalme Cxxxiiii VV. K ☞ He exhorteth the Leuites that watch in the temple to prayse the Lorde BEhold
Lorde theyr cruell wordes when as with one accorde They cryed on sack and raze their wals in despite of theyr Lorde verse 8 Euen so shalt thou O Babilon at length to dust be brought And happy shall that man be calld that our reuenge hath wrought verse 9 Yea blessed shall that man be calld that taketh thy children yonge To dash theyr bones against hard stones whiche lye the streates amonge Confitebor tibi Psalme Cxxxviii N. ☞ Dauid with greate courage prayseth the goodnes of God toward hym whiche is so greate that it is knowne to forren prynces who shall prayse the Lord together with hym And he is assured to haue lyke comforte of God in the time folowyng as he hathe had here to fore THee will I prayse with my whole hart my Lorde my God alwayes Sing thys as the. cxivii Ps. Euen in the presence of the Gods I will aduaunce thy prayse Towarde thy holy temple I will looke and worship thee And praysed in my thankfull mouth thy holy name shall be Euen for thy louing kindnes sake and for thy truth withall For thou thy name hast by thy worde auaunced ouer all When I did call thou heardest me and thou hast made also The power of encreasced strength within my soule to grow Yea all the kynges on earth they shall geue prayse to thee O Lorde For they of thy most holy mouth haue hard the mightye word They of the wayes of God the Lord in singing shall entreate Because the glory of the Lorde it is exceding great The Lorde is hye and yet he doth beholde the lowly spirite But he contemning knowes a farre the proud and lofty wight Although in middes of trouble I doo walke yet shall I stand Renued by thee O my Lord thou wilt stretch out thy hand vpon the wrath of all my foes and saued shall I be By thy right hand The Lord God wil performe his worke to me Thy mercy Lorde endures for ay Lorde doo me not forsake Forsake me not that am the work whiche thine owne hand did make Domine probasti Psalme cxxxix N. ☞ Dauid to clense his harte from all hipocrisie sheweth that there is nothing so hye whiche God seyth not whiche he confirmeth by the creation of man After declaryng his zeale and feare of God he protesteth to be enemy to all them that contem God O Lorde thou hast me tryed and knowne my sitting doste thou knew And tysing eke my thoughts a farre thou vnderstandst also My pathes yea and my lying downe thou compassest alwayes And by familiar custome art acquaynted with my wayes No word is in my tong O lorde but knowne it is to thee Thou me behinde holdst and before thou layst thy hand on me To wonderfull aboue my reache Lorde is thy cunning skill it is so hie that I the same can not atteyne vntill From sight of thy all seeyng sprite Lorde whether shall I goo Or whether shall I flee away thy presence to scape froe To heauen if I mount aloft loe thou art present there In hell if I lye downe by lowe euen there thou dost appeare Yea let me take the mornings winges and let me goo and hide Euen there where ar the farthest partes where flowing sea doth slide Yea euen thether also shall thy reaching hand me guide And thy ryght hand shall holde me fast and make me to abide yea if I say the darknes shall yet shrowde me from thy sight Loe euen also the darkest night about me shalbe light yea darknes hideth not from thee but night doth shine as day To thee the darknes and the light are bothe alike alway For thou possessed hast my reynes and thou hast couerd me When I within my mothers wombe enclosed was by thee Thee will I prayse made fearfully and wondrously I am Thy works are maruellous right well my soule doth knowe the same My bones they are not hid from thee although in secret place I haue ben made and in the earth beneth I shapen was When I was formeles then thyne eye saw me far in thy boke Were written all nought was before that after fashion toke The thoughtes therfore of thee O God bow dere are they to me And of them all how passing great the endles nombers be If I should compt them loe their summe more then the sand I see And whensoeuer I awake yet am I still with thee The wicked and the blody men of that thou woldest slaye Euen those O God to whom depart depart from me I say Euen those of thee O lord my God that speake full wickedlye These that are lifted vp in vayne beyng enemies to thee Hate I not them that hate thee Lord and not in earnest wise Contende I Lorde against them all against thee that arise I hate them with vnfayned hate euen as my vtter foes Trye me O God and know my hart my thoughtes proue and disclose Consider Lorde if wickednes in me there any be And in the way O God my guide for euer leade thou me Eripeme Psalme Cxl. N. ☞ Dauid complayneth of the crueltye falshed and iniuryes of his enemies against whiche he prayeth vnto the Lorde and assureth him selfe of hys helpe and succoure Wherfore he prouoketh the iuste to prayse thee and to assure them selues of hys tuicion LOrde saue me from the euill man and from the cruell wight Deliuer me whiche euell doo imagine in their sprite Whiche make on me continuall warre their tonges loe they haue whet Like serpents vnderneth their lyppes is adders poyson set Kepe me O Lorde from wicked handes preserue me to a bide Free from the cruell man that meanes to cause my steppes to slide The proud haue laid a snare for me and they haue spred a net With cordes in my path way and ginnes for me eke haue they set Therfore I said vnto the Lord thou art my God alone Here me O Lorde oh heare the voyce wherwith I pray and mone O Lord my God thou only art the strength that saueth me My head in day of battell hath ben couerd still by thee Let not O lorde the wicked haue the end of his desire Perform not his wicked thought lest they with pride be set on fyre Of them that compas me about the chefest of them all Lord let the mischef of their lippes vpon them selues befall Let coales fall on them let him cast them in consuming flame And in depe pittes so as they may not rise out of the same For no backbiter shall on earth beset in stable plight And euill to destruction still shall hunt the cruel wight I know the lorde thafflicted will reuenge and iudge the poore The iust shall prayse thy name iust shall dwell with thee euermore Domine clamaui Psalme Cxli. N. ☞ Dauid being greuouslye persecuted vnder Saull onely flicth vnto God to haue succour despring him to bridle his affections that he may paciently abyde 〈◊〉 God take vengeaunce of his enemies O Lord vpon thee doo I cal Lord
praise his greatnes not cāreach frō race to race they shal thy works praise and thy power preache I Of thy gloryous maiestye the beauty will recorde And meditate vppon thy workes most wonderfull O Lorde And they shal of thy power and of thy fearfull actes declare And I to publish all abrode thy greatnes will not spare And they into the mention shall breake of thy goodnes great And I aloud thy righteousnes in singing shall repete The Lorde our God is gratious and mercifull also Of great abounding mercy and to angre he is slowe yea good to all and all his workes his mercy doth excede Loe all thy workes doo praise thee lord and doo their honor sprede Thy sainctes doo bles thee and they doo thy kingdomes glorye shewe And blase thy power to cause the sonnes of men his power to know And of his mighty kingdome eke to sprede the glorious prayse Thy kingdome Lorde a kingdom is that doth endure alwayes And thy dominion through eche age endures without decay The Lorde vpholdeth them that fall the sliding he doth stay The eyes of all doo wayte on thee thou doest them all releue And thou to eche sufficing foode in season due dost geue Thou openest thy plentuous hand and bounteously doest fill All thinges what euer liue with giftes of thy good will The Lorde is iust in all his wayes his workes are holy all Nere all he is that call on him in truthe that on him cal He the desires whiche they require that feare him will fulfill And he will heare them when they crye and saue them all he will The Lorde preserues all those to him that beare a louing hart But he them all that wicked are will vtterly subuert My thankfull mouth shall gladly speake the prayses of the Lorde All flesh to prayse hys holy name for euer shall accorde Lauda anima mea Psalm cxlvi I. H Dauid shewing the great desire he had to prayse God teacheth that none should put theyr trust in men but in God alone who is almightye and deliuereth thafflicted nourisheth the poore setteth prisoners at lybertie comforteth the fatherles widowes and the straungers and raygneth kinge for euer My soule prayse thou the Lord alwayes My God I will confes Sing thys as the. cxxxvii Whyle death and lyfe prolong my dayes my tonge no tyme shall cease verse 3 Trust not in worldly princes then though they abound in wealth Nor in the sonnes of mortall men in whom there is no health verse 4 For why theyr breath doth sone depart to earth anone they fall And then the counsels of their hart decay and pearysh all verse 5 O happy is that man I say whom Iacobs God doth ayde And he whose hope doth not decay but on the lorde is stayd verse 6 Whiche made the earth waters depe the heauens hie with all Which doth his word and promise kepe In truth and euer shall verse 7 With right alwayes doth he procede for suche as suffer wrong The poore and hungry he doth fede and lose the fetters strong verse 8 The lord doth send the blind their sight the lame to limmes restore The lorde I saye doth loue the ryght and iust man euermore verse 9 He doth defend the fatherles the strangers sad in hart And quite the wydow from distres and ill mens wayes subuert verse 10 Thy lorde and God eternally O Syon still shall rayne In tyme of all posteritie for euer to remayne Laudate dominum Psalme cxlvii N. ☞ The Prophet prayseth the bountye wisdom power iustice prouidence of God vpō all his creatures But specially vpō his church whiche he gathereth together after theyr dispersion Declaring hys word and iudgmēts so vnto them as he hath don to no other people PRaise ye the Lord for it is good vnto our God to synge For it is pleasante and to prayse it is a comely thyng the Lord his owne Ierusalem he buildeth vp alone and the disperst of Israell doth gather into one He heales the broken in their hart theyr sore vp doth he bynde He countes the number of the starres and names them in theyr kynde Great is our Lord great is his power his wisdome infinite The Lord releues the meke throwes to ground the wicked wight Sing vnto God the Lord with prayse vnto the Lord reioyse And to our God vpon the harp aduaunce your singing voyce He couers heauen with cloudes and for the earth prepareth rayne And on the mountaines he doth make the grasse to grow agayne He geues to beastes their fode and to yong rauens when they crye His pleasure not in strength of horse nor in mans legges doth lye But all in those that feare the Lorde the Lord hath his delight And suche as doo attend vpon his mercies shining light O prayse thy Lorde Ierusalem thy God O Syon prayse For he the barres hath forged strong where with thy gaie he stayes Thy children he hath blest in thee and in thy borders he Doth settle peace and with the floure of wheat he filleth thee And his commaundement vpon the earth he sendeth out And eke his word with spedy course doth swiftly runne about He geueth snow like woll hore frost like ashes doth he spreade Like morsells castes his ise therof the colde whoe can abide He sendeth fourth his mightye worde and melteth them agayne His winde he makes to blow and then the waters flow amayne The doctrine of his holy worde to Iacob doth he shewe His statutes and his iudgements he geues Israell to knowe With euery nation hath he not so dealt nor they haue knowne His secrete iudgementes ye therfore prayse ye the Lord alone Laudate dominum Psalme cxlviii I. P. ☞ He prouoketh all creatures to prayse the Lode in heauen in earth and in all places specially for the power that he hathe geuen to his people Israell whom he hathe taken so nere vnto hym GEue laude vnto the Lord frō heauen that is so hie Praise him in dede and worde Aboue the starry skie 2. And also ye his angels all armies royall prayse him with glee Praise him both mone and Sunne Whiche are so cleare and bryght The same in you be done Ye glistring starres of lyght And eke no les De Heauens faire And cloudes of the ayre His laud expresse For at his worde they were All formed as we see At his voyce did appeare All thinges in their degree Whiche he set fast To them he made A law and trade For aye to laste Extoll and prayse Gods name In earth ye Dragons fell All depe doo ye the same For it becommeth you well Him magnyfye Fyre Hayle Ise Snowe And stormes that blow At his decree The hilles and mountaines all And trees that frutfull are The Cedres great and tall His worthy prayie declare Beastes and cattell yea birdes fliyng And wormes crepyng That on earth dwell All kinges both more and les With all their pompons trayne Princes and all iudges That in the worlde remayne Exalte his name
he dyed in the fleshe But quickned in the sprite His body then was buryed As is our vse and ryte His sprit did after this descend Into the lower partes To them that long in darknes were The true lyght of theyr hartes And in the third day of his death He rose to lyfe agayne To thende he might be gloryfyed Out of oll grief and payne Ascending to the heauens hie To sit in glory styll On Gods right hand his Father dere According to his will Untill the day of iudgement come When he shall come againe With Angels power yet of that day We all be vncertayne To iude all people rightuously Whom he hath dearly bought The lyuing and the dead also Which he hath made of nought And in the holy spirit of God My fayth to satisfye The third parson in Trinitie Beleue I sted fastlye The holy and catholick Churche That Gods worde doth maintayne And holy Scripture doth alowe Which Sathan doth disdayne And also I doo trust to haue By Iesu Christ his death Release and pardon of my sinnes And that only by fayth What time all flesh shall ryse agayne Before the Lorde of might And se vim with theyr bodely eyes Whiche now doo geue them light And then shall Christe our sauior The shepe and Goates deuide And geue lyfe euerlastyngly to those whom he hath tride Whiche is the realme celestiall In glory for to rest With all the holy company Of Saincts and Angels blest Whiche serue the Lorde omnipotent Obediently eche houre To whom be all dominion and prayse for euermore A Prayer vnto the holy ghost to be song before the Sermon COme holy sprite the god of might Comforter of vs all Teach vs to knowe thy word a right Sing thys as the. cxix Psal. that we doo neuer fall O holy Ghost visit our coast defend vs with thy shild Against all sinne and wickednes Lorde helpe vs win the field Lorde kepe our Quene and her counsell and geue them will and might To perseuer in thy Gospell which can put sinne to flyght O Lorde that geuest thy holy worde send preachers plenteouslye That in the same we may accorde and therin lyue and dye O holy Sprite direct a ryght the Preachers of thy worde Thot thou by them maist cut downe syn As it were with a sworde Depart not from those pastors pure but ayde them at all nede Whiche breake to vs the breade of lyfe wheron our soules doo feede O blessed spirit of truthe kepe vs In peace and vnitie Kepe vs from sectes and errours all And from all papistrie Conuert all those that are oure foes and bryng them to thy lyght That they and we may well agree and prayse thee day and nyght O Lorde increase our fayth in vs and loue so to abounde That man and wyfe be voyde of strife and neyghbours about vs rounde In oure tyme geue thy peace O Lorde to nations farre and nye And teache them all thy holy worde that we may syng to thee All glory to the Trinitie that is of mightes most The lyuing Father and the Sonne and eke the holy Ghost As it hath bene in all the time that hathe been here to fore As it is now and so shalbe henceforth for euermore Dapacem domine Geue peace in these our daies o lord great daungers are now at hand thine enemies with one accorde Christ name in euery lande seke to deface route out and race thy trew right worship in dede be thou the stay lord we the pray thou helpest alone in all nede Geue vs that peace ▪ whiche we doo lack Through misbelief and ill lyfe Thy word to offer thou dost not slack Whiche we vnkindly gainstriue with fire and sword This healthfull word Some persecute and opprisse Some with the mouth Confes the truth Without sincere godlines Geue peace and vs thy spirite downe send With grief and repentaunce true Do pearce our harts our liues to amend And by fayth Chryst renue That feare and dread Warre and bloudshed Through thy swete mercy and grace May from vs slyde Thy truth may byde And shine in euery place The complaint of a Sinner who craueth of Christ to be kept vnder hys mercye WHere rightuousnes doth say lord for my sinfull part in wrath y ◠shouldst me pay vēgaunce for 〈◊〉 desart I can it not deny but nedes I must confes how y t continually thy lawes I doo transgres Thy lawes I do transgresse But if it be thy will With sinners to contend Then all thy flock shall spill And be lost without end For who liueth here so right That rightly he can say He sinneth not in thy sight Full oft and euery day Thy scripture plaine telth me The righteous man offendeth Seuen times a day to thee Wheron thy wrath dependth So that the rightwise man Doth walke in no such path but he falth now or than In daunger of thy wrath Then since the case so standes That euen the man rightwise Falth oft in sinfull bandes Wherby thy wrath may ryse Lorde I that am vniust And rightwisenes none haue Wherto then shall I trust My synfull soule to saue But truly to that post Wherto I cleaue and shall Whiche is thy mercy most Lorde let thy mercy fall And mitigate thy mode Or els we perish all The pryce of this thy bloud Wherin mercy I call Thy scripture doth declare No drop of bloud in thee But that thou didst not spare To shed eche drop for me Now let those drops most swet So moyst my hart so dry That I with sinne replete May liue and sinne may die That being mortifyed Thys synne of myne in me I may be sanctifyed By grace of thine in thee So that I neuer fall Into suche mortall sinne That my foes infernall Reioyse my death therin But vouchesafe me to keep From those infernall foes And from that lake so depe Wheras no mercy growes And I shall sing the songes Confirmed with the iust That vnto thee belonges Whiche art mine only trust ☞ Through perfecte repentaunce the sinner hath a sure trust in God that his sinne s shalbe washed away in Christes ēloud O Lord in thee is al my trust geue eare vnto my wofull cry Refuse me not that am vniust but bowing downe thy heauēly eye behold how I doo still lament my sinnes wherin I do offende O Lord for them shall I be shent Sith thee to playse I doo intend No no not so thy will is bent To deale with sinners in thine ire But when in hart they shall repent Thou grauntst with sped their iust desire To thee therfore still shall I cry to wash away my sinfull cryme Thy bloud O Lorde is not yet drye but that it may help me in time Hast thee O Lorde hast thee I say To power on me the giftes of grace That when this life must flit away In heauen with thee I may haue place Where thou dost reigne eternally with God which once did downe the sēd Where angels sing
the Lorde The third parte My former force of strength he hath abated in the way And shorter he did cut my dayes thus I therfore did say My God in middes of all my dayes now take me not away Thy yeres endure eternally from age to age for ay Thou the foundations of the earth before all time hast layde And Lorde the heauens are the work which thine owne hands haue made Yea they shall perish and decay but thou shalt tary still And they shall all in tyme waxe olde euen as a garment will Thou as a garment shalt then chaunge and changed shall they be But thou doest still abide the same thy yeares doo neuer flee The children of thy seruantes shall continually endure And in thy sight their happy sede for euer shall stand sure 1 Benedic anima mea Psalm Ciii T. S. This is a Psalme most excellent wherin the Prophet doth prouoke men and angels and all creatures to prayse the Lorde for his fatherly mercyes and deliuerance of his people from all euils for his prouivence ouer all thinges and the preseruation of the faithfull My soule geue laud vnto the lord my sprite shall doo the same and all the secrets of my hart praise ye his holy name Geue thanks to god for all his gifts shew not thy self vnkind suffer not his benefites to slip out of thy mind verse 3 That gaue thee pardon for thy faults and thee restored agayne For all thy weake and frayle disease and healde thee of thy payne verse 4 4 That did redeme thy life from death from whiche thou couldest not flee His mercy and compassion bothe he did extend to thee verse 5 That filled with goodnes thy desyre and did prolong thy youth Like as the Egle casteth her bill wherby her age renueth verse 6 The Lorde with iustice doth repaye all suche as be opprest So that their suffrings their wrongs are turned to the best verse 7 his wayes and his commaundements to Moyses he did shew His counsels and his valiant actes the Israelites did know verse 8 The Lorde is kinde and mercyfull when sinners doo him greue The slowest to conceyue a wrath and rediest to forgeue verse 9 He chideth not vs contiuually though we be full of stryfe Nor kepeth our faultes in memory for all our sinfull lyfe verse 10 Nor yet according to our sinnes the Lorde doth vs regarde Nor after our iniquities he doth not vs rewarde verse 11 But as the space is wondrous great twixt heauen and earth aboue So is his goodnes muche more large to them that do him loue verse 12 God doth remoue our sinnes from vs and our offences all As farre as is the sunne rising full distant from his fall The second part verse 13 And loke what pitte parents deare vnto their children beare Like pitie beareth the Lorde to suche as worship him in feare verse 14 The lord y t made vs knoweth our shape our mould and fashion iust Howe weake and frayle our nature is and how we be but dust verse 15 And how the tyme of mortall men is lyke the withering hay Or like the floure right fayre in field that fadth full sone away verse 16 Whose glosse beautie stormy windes doo vtterly disgrace And make that after theyr assaults suche blossomes haue no place verse 17 But yet the goodnes of the Lorde with his shall euer stand Theyr childrens children do receyue his righteousnes at hand verse 18 I incane which kepe his couenant with all theyr whole desire And not forget to doo the thing that he doth them require verse 19 The heauens hie are made the seate and fotestole of the Lorde And by his power imperiall he gouerneth all the world verse 20 ye angels whiche are great in power prayse ye and bles the Lorde Which to obey and doo his wyll immediatly accorde verse 21 Ye noble hostes and ministers cease not to laude hym styll Which ready are to execute hys pleasure and his wyll verse 22 ye all his workes in euery place prayse ye his holy name My hart my mynde and eke my soule prayse ye also the same Benedic anima mea Psalm Ciiii w. K An excellent psalme to prayse God for the creation of the worlde and the gouernance of the same by his maruelous prouidence where in the Prophet prayeth againste the wicked who are occasions that God diminisheth his blessings My soule praise the lord speake good of his name O lord our great god how dost theâ— appeare So passing in glory that great is thy same honour and maiestie in thee shine most cleare with light as a robe thou hast thee beclad wherby all the earth thy greatnes may see the heauens in such sort thou also hast spread that it to a curtaine compared may be verse 3 His chamber beames lye in the cloudes full sure Which as his charet are made him to beare And there with much swiftnes his course dothindure Upon the winges riding of winde in the ayre He maketh his sprites as herauldes to go And lightnings to serue we see also prest His will to accomplish they runne to and fro To saue or consume thinges as semeth him best verse 5 He groundeth the earth so firmely and fast That it once to moue none haue shall sucke power verse 6 The depe afaire couering for it made thon hast Which by his owne nature the hilles wolde deuoure verse 7 But at thy rebuke the waters doo flee And so geue due place thy worde to obaye At thy voyce of thunder so fearfull they be That in theyr great raging they hast sone away The mountaynes full hygh they then vp ascend If thou doo but speake So likewise the valleis moste quickely descend Where thou them appointest remayne they doo still verse 9 Their bondes hast thou set how farre they shall runne So as in their rage not that pas they can For God hathe appointed they shall not returne The earth to destroy more whiche made was for man verse 10 He sendeth the springs to strong streames or lakes Which runne doo full swyft amonge the huge hilles verse 11 Where both the wilde asses their thirst oft times slakes And beastes of the mountaynes therof drink their filles verse 12 By these pleasant springs or fouutaynes full fayre The foules of the ayre abide shall and dwell Who moued by nature to hoppe here and there Among the grene branches their songs shall excell verse 13 The mountaines to moist the cloudes he doth vse The earth with his workes are wholy repleat verse 14 14 So as the brute cattell he dooeth not refuse But grasse doth prouyde them and herbe for mans meate verse 15 Yea breade wine and oyle he made for mans sake His face to refresh and hart to make strong verse 16 The ceders of Liban this greate Lorde dyd make Whiche trees he doeth nourish that grow vp so long verse 17 In these may birdes buylde and make there theyr nest In firre trees the storckes remayne and abyde verse 18
of the Lorde God is the Lorde that sheweth vs lyght bynde ye therfore with corde Your sacrifice to the alter and geue thankes to the Lorde Thou art my God I will confes and render thankes to thee Thou art my God and I will prayse thy mercy towardes me O geue ye thankes vnto the Lorde for gratious is he Because his mercy dothe endure for euer towardes thee Beati immaculati Psalm Cxix VV. VV. In thys psalme is contayned an exquisit art and a wonderfull vehemencye in settyng forth the prayses of gods law wherin the Prophet cannot satisfye hymselfe nor sufficyently expres the affection whiche he beareth thereunto adding moreouer manye notable complaynts consolatyons wherefore it is mete that all the faythfull haue it alway bothe in harte and mouthe and in the Ebrue euery vii verses begyn with one lerter of the Alphabet BLessed are they that perfect are and pure in mind hart whose liues and conuersation frō Gods lawes neuer start 2. Blessed are they that geue them selues hys statutes to obserue Sekyng the Lorde with all theyr hart and neuer from him swerue verse 3 Doubtles such men go not astraye nor doo no wicked thing Whiche stedfastly walke in his pathes without any wandring verse 4 It is thy wyll and commaundement that with attentiue hede Thy noble and deuyne precepts we learne and kepe in dede verse 5 Oh would to God it might thee please my wayes so to adres That I myght bothe in hart and voyce thy lawes kepe and confes verse 6 So should no shame my lyfe atteyne whylst I thus set myne eyes And bende my mynde alwayes to muse on thy sacred decrees verse 7 Then will I prayse with vpright hart and magnifye thy name When I shall learne thy iudgements iust and lykewyse proue the same verse 8 And wholy will I geue my selfe to kepe thy lawes most ryght For sake me not for euer Lorde but shew thy grace and myght The. ii parte MTH verse 9 By what meanes may a yong man best his lyfe learne to amend If that he marke and kepe thy word and therin his tyme spend verse 10 Unfaynedly I haue thee sought and thusse kyng abyde Oh neuer suffer me O Lorde from thy precepts to slyde verse 11 Within my hart and secret thoughtes thy wordes I haue hyd styll That I might not at any tyme offende thy godly wyll verse 12 We magnifye thy name O Lorde and prayse thee euermore Thy statutes of most worthy fame O Lorde teache me therfore verse 13 My lippes haue neuer ceast to preache and publysh day and nyght The iudgments all whiche did procede from thy mouth full of might verse 24 Thy testymonies and thy wayes please me noles in dede Then all the treasures of the earth which worldlings make theyr mede verse 15 Of thy precepts I will still muse and therfore frame my talke As at a marke so will I aime thy wayes how I may walke verse 16 My only ioy shalbe so fixed and on thy lawes so set That nothyng can me so far blynde that I thy wordes for get The thyrd parte MMEL Graunt to thy seruaunt now such grace as may my lyfe prolong Thy holy worde then will I kepe bothe in my hart and tong verse 18 18 Mine eies whiche were dim shut vp so open and make bryght That of thy law and merueilous works I may haue the cleare syght verse 19 I am a straunger in this earth wandring now here now there Thy worde therfore to me disclose my fotesteppes for to cleare verse 20 My soule is rauished with desyre and neuer is at rest But seketh to know thy iudgments hie and what may please thee best verse 21 The proud men and malitious thou hast destroyd echone And cursed are suche as doo not thy hests attend vpon verse 22 Lord turne me from rebuke and shame whiche wicked men conspire For I haue kept thy couenaunts with zele as hote as fyre verse 23 The princes great in counsel sat and did against me speake But then thy seruaunt thought how he thy statutes myght not breake verse 24 For why thy couenants are my ioy and my great harts solace They serue in stede of counsellers my matters for to pas The. iiii parte DALETH verse 25 I am alas as brought to graue and almost turnd to dust Restore therfore my lyfe agayne as thy promise is iust verse 26 My wayes when I acknowledged with mercy thou didst heare Here now eftsones and me instruct thy lawes to loue and feare verse 27 Teache me once throughly for to know thy precepts and thy lore Thy workes then will Imeditate and lay them vp in store verse 28 My soule I fele so sore opprest that it melteth for grief According to thy word therfore hast Lorde to sende relyef verse 29 From lying and deceitfull lyppes let thy grace me defend And that I may learue thee to loue thy holy law me send verse 30 The way of truth both straight sure I haue chosen and founde I set thy iudgement me before whiche kepe me safe and sound verse 33 Since then O Lord I forced my selfe thy couenants to embrase Let me therfore haue no rebuke nor check in any case verse 32 Then will I runne with ioyfull cheare where thy worde doth me call When thou hast set my hart at large and rid me out of thrall The. v. parte H E verse 33 Instruct me Lord in the right trade of thy statutes deuyne And it to kepe euen to the end my hart will I inclyne verse 34 Graunt me the knowledge of thy law and I shall it obey With hart and mind and all my might I will it kepe I say verse 35 In the right path of thy precepts guide me Lorde I require None other pleasure doo I wishe nor greater thing desire verse 36 Inclyne my hart thy lawes to kepe and couenants to embrace And from all filthy auarice and shield me with thy grace verse 37 From vaine desire and worldly lustes turne backe myne eyes and syght Geue me the sprite of lyfe and power to walke thy wayes a ryght verse 38 Confirme thy gratious promise Lorde whiche thou hast made to me Which am thy seruaunt and doo loue and feare nothyng but thee verse 39 Reproche and shame whiche I so feare from me O Lord expell For thou dost iudge with equitie and therin dost excell verse 40 Beholde my harts desire is bent thy lawes to kepe for aye Lorde strēgthen me so with thy grace that it performe I may The. vi parte VAV verse 41 Thy mercyes great and manifolde let me obteyne O Lorde The sauing health let me enioy accordyng to thy word verse 42 So shall I stop y e slaundrous mouths of leud men and vniust For in thy faithfull promises stand the my comfort and trust verse 43 The word of truth with in my mouth let euer still be prest For in thy iudgements wonderfull my hope doth stand and rest verse 44 And while that breath