One Be joyn'd with them who set up mischief by a Law Shall Justice and Oppression share the Throne Or rapine to its party conquer'd virtue draw Against the Just together to conspire And doom the Innocent and guilty to one fire IX But God's my help the Rock whereto I fly My Fortress and high Tower where darts in vain are sent Their feathers cannot bear them up so high But on the Caster they shall turn in punishment And falling thus in wrath be so hurl'd down That wounded every man shall say the Dart's his Own Psalm XCV Venite exultemus Domino c. I. COme let us sing unto the Lord And all His deeds with thankfulness record Unto Our God Come let us sing And to His Courts with shouts Our Presents bring He is Our Rock to Him Our Verse we 'll raise And He who heard Our Prayers shall now attend Our Praise II. Great is Our God and rules o're all Above all gods who at His Footstool fall The Earth is His and all its Deeps His Word the Hills on their Foundation keeps He made the Sea and bounded it with Sand And bid the heavy earth above the waters stand III. Come let us worship and fall down And as we ought Our Great Creator own He is Our God His Flock we are The Sheep of 's hand the People of his Court Look how He calls look how He bends His ear Thus by inclining His to see if Ours will hear IV. To day let 's hear nor be like them Who in the desert did His Power contemn That hardened there did God provoke And though He still kept His their Covenant's broke 'T was then saies God they prov'd and tempted me When all around I had my Wonders made them see V. Forty years long their sins I bore And from destroying them as long forbore Fond People said I thus to stray And when I shew'd it not to know my way Therefore in wrath I did against them swear Since they despis'd my Rest they never should come there Psalm XCVI Cantate Domino Canticum c. I. NEw Songs of Praise to the Almighty sing And to Him let the World their Offerings bring Sing to Our God and bless His Holy Name From day to day His Acts declare How wondrous and how great they are And let the Nations joyn to celebrate His Fame II. Great is the Lord and worthy of all Praise Above the Trophys we can to Him raise No Pow'r like His we can adore or fear For those to whom the Gentiles bow Are Idols and an empty show But He made Heav'n and all the Hosts which serve Him there III. Honour and Majesty attend His Throne Beauty and Strength His Temple 's built upon Therefore to Him alone ye People bow His Praise with daily thanks renew Restore to Him what is His due And at His Altar pay what there you first did vow IV. Let the Earth tremble and its Kingdoms fear And all unto the Mighty Word give ear Among the Heathen say That God do's reign Who made the World and bid it stand Till He shall judge it whose Command To its first Nothing shall return it back again V. Be glad O Heav'ns and Thou O Earth rejoyce And to your Consort take the Seas Deep Voice Let the huge Sea in dancing billows rise And though confin'd within its Shore By Sands which barr the Mighty Door Send up to Heav'n its shouts and force the yielding Skyes VI. Let joyfull Songs be heard in every Plain And Hills reflect the Voices Face again Then let the Trees the Glories of the Wood In mutual Murmurs all conspire And joyn with Birds to fill the Quire As if like Men they Parts and Musick understood VII At their Own Numbers let them come away And where their God shall pass lead on the way He comes But who His Presence can abide That the Great Judge of all shall be Yet who would not His Entrance see When He with equal Justice shall each cause decide Psalm XCVII Dominus regnavit exultet Terra c. THe Lord do's reign let the whole Earth rejoyce The Isles be glad and lift on high their voice Louder than Seas which all around them roar And with their shouts shake Heav'n and rend the Shore In the thick darkness God His Glory shrouds And o're His Brightness throws a veil of clouds Justice and Righteousness uphold His Throne And their firm Basis it do's rest upon In vain for Him their Toils His Enemies lay That Fire consumes them which prepares His Way For on the Nations He His Lightning threw And o're the World the swift-wing'd Terrour flew The Earth beheld it and began to fear The Hills complain'd that Heav'n approach'd too near And melted with the heat like Wax flow'd down Whilst in the Plains ran streams of burning Stone At the Almighty Presence they did flow Whose breath the Fire His eye had made did blow The Heav'ns His Justice and His Power declare And to His Truth the Earth do's witness bear May then all perish who to Idols bow And boast of Gods which they make only so Worship Him all ye Gods Angels fall down And at His Feet cast every One His Crown Sion with joy shall hear Jerusalem Shall send her Daughters to improve the Theam For He above all Gods is rais'd so high To Him we only by Our Praise can fly Praise Him ye Righteous who advanc't above Would have you thus express and send your Love Your Love upon Himself alone bestow And Hatred only to what 's evil show So with deliverance He shall surely come And having here preserv'd you take you home To Heav'n in whose large fields refined Light Sown for the Just looks against Harvest white Harvests which as they reap the Righteous sing And with Eternal shoutings carry in Be glad ye Righteous and in God rejoyce For what His hands have done deserves your Voice Psalm XCVIII Cantate Domino Canticum novum c. I. NEw Songs of Praise to the Almighty sing Triumphall Songs to our Victorious King Whos 's own right Hand ha's got Him Victory And for us mighty Wonders done Has mighty En'mies overthrown And by its Holiness has made the Wicked flye II. The Lord ha's sav'd us and His Power display'd His Righteousness made all the World afraid Th' amazed World stood and admir'd His hand And when poor Israel seem'd to be Hopeless of ever getting free Wondred how He could then such miracles command III. Praise Him O World and fear His Mighty Name From whence all that at which Thou wondrest came Call all Thy forces up the Song to raise With Trumpets and with Harps rejoice The Sackbut Clarion and the voice And with shrill Cornets up to Heav'n send all Thy praise IV. Let the Sea roar and all that dwells therein Joyn in His praise when thus the Shores begin Let the Floods too their parts in answering bear Lift up their heads and clap their hands Rise and
praise And in my Song recount of all Thy Wayes More tunefull Measures will invent new strings put on And raise my Harp with the great Subject to Thy Throne For God Salvation gives to Kings And David out of all His troubles brings From strangers who that love pretend Which He dares never trust their mouths so proudly speak Whose right hands faith they plighted break And swords which they have drawn into their hearts shall send V. He makes Our sons like Fruitful plants to grow And their increase to Him alone we owe Our daughters to be Corner stones polisht and fair Which different Houses joyn and their supporters are From Him alone comes all Our store And that Our presses with new Wine run o're That Our full Barnes no want have known Our stacks no emptiness but with those sheaves are crown'd With which He first did load the ground And now them so that with the mighty weight they groan VI. He to ten thousands multiplies Our sheep More than our folds can pin or pastures keep Our Oxen fat and strong not it as labour know But freely yield their necks to th' Service of the Plow Down at Our Gates no Enemie sits There 's no Al'arm or mourning in our streets Thrice happy lands which thus can say And undisturb'd can thus enjoy the fruits of Peace If there be any lands like these Yet those whose God 's the Lord are happier far than They. Psalm CXLV Exaltabo te Deus meus Rex c. MY God My King I will sing praise to Thee Till like Thy Name my songs Eternal be Every day Lord will I sing praise to Thee Till like Thy Name my songs Eternall be Great is the Lord and worthy of all Praise And as Himself Unsearchable His Wayes One age to count His Works will ne're suffice Their number to so great a sum do's rise The next shall take it and the next from them And in their songs improve the lofty Theam Sing of the Honour of His Majesty How farr He is exalted and How high Speak of His Reverend Acts His greatness show Above how full of Love of dread below Of all His Goodness and what He has done Both for His Peoples Glory and His Own The Lord is gracious do's with Love o'reflow Plenteous in Mercy and to anger slow Kind as a Father o're whose Works there shine Glories of Mercy mixt with rayes Divine All Thy Workes praise Thee and Thy power proclame Thy Kingdoms beauties and Thy Holy Name Thy Saints shall bless Thee and Thy Acts make known And to Posterity continue down How to Eternity Thy Rule extends And that Thy Empire Lord knowes neither bounds nor ends The Lord upholds all those who fall do's raise The Poor on high that they may see His Wayes On Him the eyes of all His Creatures wait To Him they look and He provides them meat Opens His Hand do's their desires fulfill And as He answers theirs performes His Will So Just is He so Righteous in His wayes That were We silent stones would speak His Praise And to ' His afflicted Peoples Prayers so near That their requests e're finisht granted are And when to Him for help they send their cryes His Truth prevents them oftner than denies For the desires of such who Him do fear Shall be fulfil'd and He their groans will hear Will crown their Love and with His Own right hand Destroy their Foes and on their ruins make them stand Let the whole World O God sing praise to Thee And like Mine may their songs Eternall be Psalm CXLVI Lauda anima mea Dominum c. I. ARise my Soul and Thy great subject take The Worlds Creators praises sing That Ground Thy Numbers will more flowing make And fill with spirit the heaviest string He is my song and He my Verse shall raise And only with my life shall end my Praise II. Trust not in Princes for their strength is vain In Kings place not your confidence The greatest King cannot himself maintain But lives himself at Gods expence Is Earth and when He but His breath recalls Into that Earth whence he was taken falls III. Death layes him level with his vilest Slave No more his Acts remembred are Though his Atchievements follow to the Grave And deck his Herse they leave him there With his last breath to air his Counsels go And his high thoughts ly with his Carkass low IV. But happy he who has his trust in store And do's on Jacobs God depend He need no forreign succour to implore But up to Heav'n his wishes send And of his certain aids he ne're shall miss For the true God his mighty keeper is V. He Heav'n and all the glories of it made Those beauteous fires we see above Where greatness makes His Enemies afraid But in His Saints enflames their love Who on the floods commands the Earth to stand And holds them in the hollow of His hand VI. To Him for Justice the Oppres'd do cry Who all their groans and plaints do's hear And to His great Tribunall when they fly He on their Judges turnes their feares With His good things the hungry Soul do's fill And makes deaf chaines hear and obey His Will VII He made the eye and gave it all its light Lifts from the dust the poor mans head Renews each morning both their life and sight Whom sleep had numbred with the dead His Common Providence is over all But His Choice blessings on the Righteous fall VIII The unreguarded stranger is his care And He for th' Orphan do's provide Himself comes down and heares the Widows prayer When her deaf Friends are turn'd aside Th' inexorable Wicked man o'rethrowes And makes him feel the weight of his own blowes IX Such is Thy King O Sion whose Command Being and life gives every thing Exempt from his Dominion is no land Thy God O Sion is Thy King His Powerfull influence do's around extend And as His Rule Thy Praise should know no end Hallelujah Psalm CXLVII Laudate Dominum quoniam c. I. YOU who th' Almighty God adore To His great Name sing praise His Power you cannot honour more Nor more advance your laies This is the Service which to Him you owe And this of all he best accepts below II. Jerusalem the Great the Fair 'T is God who made Her so Her People though they scattred are He like Her stones do's know And both will gather both in ' His hand will take His City One th' Other His Temple make III. The troubled heart with care deprest He up on high do's raise Refreshes weary Souls with rest And sinners shews His Wayes And like a Friend who all their miseries feels Binds up the broken and the wounded heales IV. Those rich Enamels of the sky The Stars which shine above Have several Names He knowes them by And at His Will they move To Him they look and looking only thence Have all their luster Formes and Influence V. Great is
for Thy self to raise Let'st babes and infants speak thy praise And do below what Angels do above Open'st their mouths when Thou wilt check the pride Of such who open theirs but only to deride IV. When I my serious thoughts do entertain With those great works Thy hand has done The Heav'ns and in those heav'ns the Moon Whom Thou hast made o're all the stars to reign More glorious in Attendants though less bright Than he who rules the day and sends her out at night V. Lord what is Man then to my self I say Or what is Mans Posterity That he thus visited should be Be made to rule when such great things obey Be little lower than Blest Angels made And have at last their glory to his honour laid VI. For King of all Thy works with Thine own hand Thou on his head hast set the Crown Enjoyning all his Power to own And his obey as if 't were Thy command Creatures which at his feet the yoak now bear But would have higher risen if not by Thee plac'd there VII They are his slaves and just obedience show All in their offices attend Their lives all in his service spend And count their honour for his use to grow All that the Sea inhabit or the sky And Earth or for his pleasure live or at it dye VIII Sole Monarch of the World Prince of all Powers Fountain of Beings glorious King Who can enough Thy praises sing Who art the Worlds great Lord as well as Ours Fondly by Verse we strive Thy Name to raise When it already is above our highest Praise Psalm IX Confitebor tibi Domine c. I. LOrd I will praise Thee and Thy Works declare Of all Thy glorious Acts reherse My Song their praises shall not spare But with their numbers I will raise my Verse In Thee I will be glad in Thee rejoyce And where Thou art on high send up my voice II. My Enemies by Thee persu'd gave back In vain they strove to shun Thy sight My En'mies Thou didst overtake And those who scap'd the battle fell in flight Thou heard'st my cause and didst my right maintain Take then the Crown who didst the Vict'ry gain III. God on the Throne did sit a finall doom On the Rebellious World to pass Their troops alone were not o'recome But their vile Names He also out did rase So totally by Him they were o'rethrown That only in such songs they shall be known IV. At length O Enemy thy boasts are done And thy destructions have an end The next that comes will be thy own And at the door swift ruine do's attend As of the towns thou sack'dst there is no sign But ev'n their Names have perisht so shall Thyne V. God who for ever reigns has fixt His Throne And to His bar the Earth will call In righteousness He shall come down And by His equall Justice sentence all Under His wings secure the Just shall lye And He 'll their refuge be who to Him fly VI. Lord they who know Thy Name will trust in Thee For power and strength and safety 's there That quiver cannot empty'd bee And those who bear such arms need never fear For never yet thou any man did'st leave Who was Thy help but willing to receive VII Praise to that God who care of Sion takes And all His wonders tell about For when He Inquisition makes The blood which now is silent will cry out Aloud 't will cry nor will God stop His ear To blood who keeps it open for a tear VIII Arise My King to Thee for help I pray Behold the Mis'ries I endure Thou who from death didst guard my way And mad'st me stand from all his shafts secure That in Thy house I may Thy love record And where He has return'd me praise the Lord IX Down in the pitt which for me they had made I' th' pit the heathen are sunk down Are taken in the toyles they laid Whilest by so just a judgement God is known That when the heathen fall by their own snare Thy Just for whom 't was laid in safety are X. To hell they shall be turn'd and with them all Who God or know not or forget But those who for His succour call Shall have it like their expectation great For though at present God seems not to hear His hands are only held and not His ear XI Appear O lord and let not man prevail But judge the Nations in Thy sight The Nations who dare Heav'n assail And overthrow them with Thy glorious light And when Thou hast subdu'd their forces then Let them know Thou art God themselves but men Psalm X. Ut quid Domine recessisti c. I. MY God why dost Thou thus Thy self withdraw And make as if Thou didst not see Those mis'ries which are better known to Thee Than him who bears their sharpest law Why dost Thou thus Thy face in trouble hide T' were hell should I be ever so deny'd II. Look how the wicked in his pride encreast Destroys the poor who flies to Thee May all the plots he layes discover'd be And on himself their vengeance rest May the destruction which he did intend For Thine in his own ruine only end III. He boasts of that which Thou like Him dost hate His loose and uncontroll'd desires And to no greater happiness aspires Than what flows from a great estate Applauds the Covetous and counts him wise And valiant who for earth can Heav'n despise IV. He has a better God than what rules there And need not any further try Alas he has no wings to mount on high Give him a God that will be near That may be handled like his baggs and told And can give solid comfort like his gold V. No other De'ty with the wretch goes down This takes up all his thoughts and mind No matter what report he leaves behind For what shall be to him 's unknown Above in Heav'n he hears Thy Judgements are And is content they should be alwayes there VI. His Enemies he laughs at thinks their plots More worthy of his scorn than rage Fearless against all storms he do's engage His even-spun thred is without knots Perpetual peace constant Prosperity Has been his lot and shall his portion be VII These are his thoughts and thus unmov'd he stands With fraud and curses in his mouth His feet ne're trod the sacred paths of Truth And like them are his cruell hands But in the lonely fields in wait he lies And stains the groves with humane sacrifice VIII For as a Lion in some shady breach Humbles himself and couches down His prey with greater force to set upon If it shall come within his reach Do's all the postures of submission feign Till to resist he knows their strength is vain IX So do's he couch but having caught the poor With his disguise aside do's lay His feign'd humility and tears his prey Nor whil'st ther 's life thinks it secure And all the while flatters himself
ear Forget Thy Father and Thy Countrey too What was theirs once is now a Sovereigns due Who merits all Thy honour love and fear The Kings who shall no less make Thee to reign And to Thy Rule Himself submit To th' Empire of Thy Eyes and Wit Become their slave and take the Chain And what Thy hands presented Him to them resign again IX Tyre with a Present shall her daughters send To seek thy favour and thy love entreat 'T is thy Alliance which shall make them great And not their own wealth though it knows no end Not that their gifts and store can add to Thine The rich embroydery of Thy Vest Where all the Needles art 's exprest To Beauties which are more Divine And all within unseen by mortal eye far brighter shine X. Thus shalt Thou be conducted to the King Whil'st all the Virgins who Thy Pomp attend In shouts to Heav'n their acclamations send And as they follow to the Palace sing Hail Fairest Queen forget Thy Fathers land Nor let His Throne disturb thy mind For Thou instead of them shalt find Children who with the Soveraign Wand More Empires than He Cities govern'd shall the World command XI My Verse shall praise Thee too and Thy great Name Shall in its lasting Monument survive My Verse Eternity to Thee shall give And thus it self perpetuate in Thy Fame For when the Age to come by that shall know These wonders and renew Thy Praise In Altars which their Zeal shall raise Thou then shalt make my Verse to grow And what to Thee it gave Eternity on that bestow Psalm XLVI Deus noster Refugium c. I. TO Armies some for refuge fly Others to Walls which they must first defend But God's our help and when to Him we cry Or He our troubles soon will end Or to a City where they come not us will send II. We will not fear though tempests roar And one storm mingle Sea and Earth and all Though reall Mountains torn from the loose shoar To Heav'n be tost and Heav'n quite fall The God who is our help will then be near our call III. Fly ye swift winds tempests be gone Be still proud Seas there is no need of you We have a stream which though it softly run Can more than all your billows do Both cleanse the Holy City and refresh it too IV. Slow Siloah which so gently glides As if 't were unresolv'd to go away And passing where the Most High God resides To view the place so long do's stay The enamour'd River one would guess forgot its way V. It Sion views where God do's dwell Sion His Throne which like the Earth remains Heav'n is her guard and all the Powers of Hell Shall ne're move her for there He reigns Who is the God o' th' Hills and layes on Vales His Chains VI. The Heathen Kings began to rage And all their strength against her did command But God Himself to save her did engage Utt'red His Voyce and shew'd His hand And though the Earth did melt Sion unmov'd did stand VII The God of Battles fights for us On whom the Hosts of Heav'n and Earth attend Through Him our arms shall be Victorious And when our Prayers to Him ascend He that is Jacobs God His Israel will defend VIII Come and behold what He has done The mighty works which His right hand has wrought How on their Foes He turn'd destruction But to His own deliverance brought And made them Conquerours when He for them fought IX All the World o're He ends all Warrs And in their room brings plenty mirth and ease He hides with Laurel the Triumphers scarrs And all but in their Pomps makes cease The Trumpets noyse and turns the broken arms to Peace X. Be still said He and see my Power Only be still that 's all you need to do For on your Enemies I 'll vengeance shower Exalt your heads but lay their low And they as well as you That I am God shall know XI The God of Battles fights for us On whom the Hosts of Heaven and Earth attend Through Him our Arms shall be Victorious And when our Prayers to Him ascend He that is Jacobs God His Israel will defend Psalm XLVII Omnes gentes plaudite manibus c. I. REjoyce O World and you who dwell therein This Solemn day your mirth commands Rejoyce for the great Show will now begin And lift your voice up with your hands Let them both joyn whiles you His Praises sing Who only is the Universal King II. Mighty and terrible the Lord of all His entrance those who will not meet Too proud to kiss his hands shall lower fall And yield their necks unto His feet So Jacobs seed He will make glorious And what Himself has done ascribe to Us. III. God is gone up ascended with a shout With sound of Trumpets risen on high And having put His enemies to the rout Upon their Trophies up did fly Sing praise to God your Praises to Him sing Who only is the Universall King IV. God only is the Universall King His Name with understanding praise And in the Services you to Him sing Let that inspirit all your layes The World around His just Commands shall own For Holiness is the Throne He sits upon V. See how the Tributary Kings croud in And one united People make Their Crowns to deck His Victories they bring And from His hands all new ones take Each in His Temple Homage to Him yields And there hang up their Consecrated Shields Psalm XLVIII Magnus Dominus c. I. GReat is our God and greatly to be prais'd Upon that Hill which He himself has rais'd Sion which He His City made Beautifull Sion whom the World obey'd And for whose Peace as for their own all Countreys prayd Which on the North Jerusalem do's guard Safer than gates most surely barr'd Which on the North do's on Jerusalem shine So that around it has the Sun or Naturall or Divine II. Within her Palaces the Lord is known For not hers more He counts them than His own The Kings perceiv'd it marching by But thither they no sooner cast their eye But from the conquering sight as soon they strove to fly Away they hasted thence but all in vain Their fears pursu'd them with fresh pain Like Child-bed throes till there is born a Son A greater pang succeeds as soon as e're the present's gone III. In Ships they thought their Spoyls to carry home But Thou at Sea their Navy didst o'recome All this O Lord we heard before And now believe because we see Thy Power But who that had seen half so much would not do more God will establish Sion and command The Sacred Pile unmov'd to stand Thither wee 'll come for help in our distress And where he has bid us bless him expect he us should bless IV. Lord as Thy Name is so shall be Thy Praise And to adorn it wee 'll invent
God but smile Or He these doubts will reconcile Or make me scorn what Flesh can do the while V. Me and my words to wrest they never cease And make them most offend when meant to please Their thoughts for evil areagainst me set And when they are in Counsel met Contrive how by my fall they may be great VI. Shall they escape unpunish't in their wayes And in Prosperity spend all their dayes Lord in Thine Anger let them be o'rethrown Thou need'st but only on them frown Lower than me that look will cast them down VII Thou all my wand'rings every pace do'st know And not'st how many steps I from Thee go See'st my tears too what they were shed about And in thy bottle they are put Whence with a Sponge what 's in Thy Book blot out VIII When to my God in my distress I cry My very Prayers make all mine Enemies fly My sighs shall backwards turn them in the Rear They shall a greater Enemy fear And in that still voice know that God draws near IX On Gods Almighty Word I will depend On God I 'le trust who certain help will send There I will rest and if my God but smile Either these doubts he 'l reconcile Or make me scorn what Flesh can do the while X. Thy Vows are on me and I 'le give Thee praise The Field is Thine and Thine shall be the Bayes Thou hast preserv'd my Soul wilt Thou not bless My sliding feet with steadiness The greater's done and wilt not do the less Psalm LVII Miserere mei Deus miserere c. I. OThou on whom my Soul for help relyes Let my distress find pitty in Thine eyes Thou art my Trust on Thee I stay Under Thy Wings let me conceal'd abide And till these storms are past me hide Under their shade else on them let me fly away II. To my great Saviour who above do's reign Whose Mighty Power do's me and All sustain To Him I 'le cry who down shall send From Heav'n and save me by His own right hand From those who Him and me withstand His Truth shall slay them and His Mercy me defend III. Among fierce Lions Lord hid in their den With beasts more fierce than Lions Cruel Men Whose teeth be arrows and sharp Spears Their tongue a two edg'd Sword their eyes all fire As if in this they did conspire By several Torments to create me several fears IV. With these I live among these men I lye And hardly for my thoughts gain liberty Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy glory far above the Skies And though so high I cannot rise From Heav'n do Thou descend when I look up to Thee V. I could not scape they had so girt me round My very Soul lay prostrate on the ground But as I look'd I saw them fall And though for me they had prepar'd the net That I might stumble digg'd the pit Into that pit they fell themselves their snare and all VI. I am resolv'd nor will I any more Distrust my God as I have done before No I will praise Him and my heart Which ha's so oft betray'd me into fear Its burden in the Song shall bear And when my Harp begins shall take the highest part VII Awake my Harp 't is time for thee to wake Prevent the day and thy great subject take Put all thy strâ—ngs on shew thy skill God and my Soul are ready be not slow For if we should before thee go Thy strings would never half way reach up Heav'ns High Hill VIII We Come O God and with us up will raise High as Thy Love and Truth to Heaven Thy Praise The World shall hear what Thou hast done How signally Thou hast appear'd for me By Thy great Power hast set me free And for His Works praise Him whose Name they have not known IX Then to the Clouds we will together fly And take new Wing to mount to the Most High Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy glory far above the Skies And if so high We cannot rise Descend Thy self and bear us up along with Thee Psalm LVIII Si vere utique justitiam c. I. ARE you as by your place you ought to be True Judges of the Poor mans wrong Or rather do you not his suit prolong And then bind o're when you should set him free You would be thought both good and just And if not so at least Just though severe But when you personate it most Your mouth condemns that which your heart would spare For when bribes hold the Scale the lightest cause most weight do's bear II. The Wicked from the womb are gone astray Their wand'rings with their life begun And will no sooner than their life be done Nor seek they what they know not the right way Under their tongues conceal'd and close A deadlier poyson than the Serpents lyes Adders less cautiously expose Their ears to Charms than they to hear the Wise As deaf to Counsel as they greedy are of flatteries III. Break out the Lions teeth nor let them more The Innocent so proudly tear Let the young Lions Lord themselves in fear Not o're their prey but torn with famine roar And as the Sand though kind Heav'n poures The like streams there as on the fruitful Plain To Heav'n returns no thanks in flowers But only as it falls drinks up the rain Like rain by Sand drunk up let them be never rais'd again IV. When against me they throw their poyson'd darts And in their rage their bows do bend Or let them be too weak the shafts to send Or turn the Pykes into the Shooters hearts And as a Snail which leaves behind A silver film along the way she pass'd But if you follow it you find Both that and her in slime conclude at last So let them perish and from filthy slime to Nothing wast V. Like an Abortive which ne're saw the Sun But dy'd e're it had any birth Born only that it might be thrown to th' Earth Let their Race end e're it be well begun E're briars with the thorn can close And in their clasping Arms each other take Which grew acquainted as they rose And only forc't by fire their holds forsake Let their ends be as suddain as those their embraces make VI. The Just shall see 't and at the sight rejoyce And in their blood his Garments wash Without fear shall this Red Sea view and pass And with such Acclamations raise his voice Lo for the Just what Crown remains And what Reward God do's for Him provide There is a King who o're all reigns And He with Justice shall each cause decide By whose most Equal Laws judges themselves and Thrones are try'd Psalm LIX Eripe me de inimicis meis Deus c. I. PReserve me Lord and by Thy hand o'rethrown Let them who seek my ruine find their own From envious Men my honour save And to the cruel make me not a prey
hope who is my Fear Happy I shall hereafter be contented here Psalm LXXIV Ut quid repulisti in finem c. I. Shall We for ever then be cast off thus And will Our God no more remember Us Shall then His flock no longer be His Care But more His rage than once His love they were Forget not Lord Thy Purchace and Thy Choyce Sion which Thou hast made Thine own The Wonders Thou for Her and Us hast done And let Our Prayers be heard amidst Our Enemies noysel II. Arise and to their great destruction come Who to Thy Temple Gates have brought it home Thy Holy Place and its Divine Recess Instead of stopping do's their rage encrease Thither they break and thence profanely bear The Sacred Treasures of Thy House It 's Vessels set apart from Common Use And on Thy Captive Altars their proud Trophys rear III. Our sad complaints Axes and Hammars drown As if it were some grove they would hew down And all th' Adornments of Thy Dwelling place They or to powder beat or else deface And to compleat Our ruin when no more The Ax or weary hand can do They fire into Thy Sanctuary throw And what Thou so didst consecrate with fire devour IV. Them and their Seed let Us destroy they say And in one ruin with their Temple lay What more accepted Flame to Heaven can rise Than an whole Synagogue for Sacrifice And they shall follow This We see and hear But have no Signes or Prophet more To tell us when this Tempest will be o're Or How long what too long already we must bear V. How long Dear God shall Our Proud Enemy Not us alone but Thy Great Power defy Shall his vile mouth for ever thus defame Thy Sacred and Unutterable Name Or wilt Thou alwayes thus Thy hand recall That Hand where all Our succours lie And only lift it from our sight on high Let it return at length and heavier on them fall VI. Thou heretofore hast made Thy Strength be known And Wonders which none else could do hast done Dividing by th' Almighty Wand the Flood And mad'st it truly a Red Sea with blood When there the Chamian King by Thy Right Hand That great Leviathan of the Main Sunk in the deep which cast Him up again That what its glutted Hosts had left might feast the land VII 'T was Thou who mad'st the Rock in streames to flow And Floods stand still to let Thy Israel go The day and night with all its lamps are Thine Ligh't from that Sun which Thou mad'st first to shine By Thee the bounds of the Round World are cast Both where they shall begin and end Summer and Winter on Thy Word attend All for Thy Pleasure made and during it shall last VIII Thou who hast done all this to raise Thy Name Guard it from those whose lips would blast its Fame Let not Thy mourning Dove become a prey To Vulturs but take wing and fly away Deliver her and minde Thy ancient Care Thy Covenant with Our Fathers made For th' Enemy Our very Graves invade And where we thought to lie retir'd their Counsels are IX Some answer to Our Prayers at length return Least shame confound Us and we ever mourn Arise and Thine Own Cause Thy self defend And let Thy Enemies Malice have an end Forget them not their blasphemies and pride Now that their Sin for vengeance cryes For they their heads have rais'd above the skies And Heav'n with all its Thunders to the Assault defy'd Psalm LXXV Confitebimur Tibi Deus c. I. LOrd We will praise Thee and Our chearful Song Shall of Thy mighty Name reherse For all the Wonders which to it belong Are truly great and so shall make Our verse To it We 'll fly and rest us there Adore its Power and beg its care And make it both the Subject of Our Song and Prayer II. When the Time comes sayes God that I shall call The World to Judgement my Right hand Alike it s Justice shall dispence to all And none it s equal sentence shall withstand It shall reward it shall chastise Some lower cast and make some rise And as my Hand 's impartial so shall be my eyes III. The Earth shall melt and all that in it dwell To their first nothing turn again By its own weight it long o're this had fell But that its mighty Pillars I sustain Fond Man then said I what mean'st Thou No more in vain Just Heav'n pursue Too great to be oppos'd to be gainsaid too true IV. For shame desist and your weak plots give o're They cannot take Heav'n is so High Against your maker vilely speak no more For though His Face you see not He stands by His breath it is whereby you speak He with one frown your pride can check And though you hold it ne'r so stiff bow down your neck V. The Sun which every day the World surrounds Father of all the Mines below And with a careful eye surveys his grounds Cannot the Riches which he makes bestow Though he in purple set and rise And rides in Triumph o're the skies Can give nor wealth nor honour to his Votaries VI. His God at will disposes of his gold And all his honours gives away Whilst his chief Work is only to behold And brightest shine on them who share his prey The Poor he rayses to the Throne And from it throws the Mighty down Is Judge of all and knows no pleasure but His Own VII For in His hand there is a dreadful Cup Whose sparkling Wine is red with gore 'T is large and fill'd with mixture to the top So full the active liquor do's run o're Of it all drink and when 't is done The dreggs are for the Wicked wrung But ne'r shall quench their thirst or ever cool their tongue VIII But I to future ages will declare The praises of th' Eternall King And since so Wonderful His glories are Of none but Jacobs God the Praises sing The Wicked down to Hell Hce'l throw The Righteous up to Heaven shall grow And Heav'n to his exalted head shall seem but low Psalm LXXVI Notus in Judaea Dominus I. The True the Only God in Judah reigns There is His Temple there His Court To Salem all the Tribes resort And learn to sing His Name in lofty strains No place such tokens of His love do's bear His Chariot He has set up there There broke the Arrows and there burnt the shield Spear II. Sion more glorious than the Hills of Bey How excellent dost Thou appear How full of Majesty and Fear When from them the Besiegers steal away Away the valiant ran but knew not why Till a dead sleep said Death was nigh And chaining up their hands scarce left them Heels to fly III. At Thy rebuke O God a sleep they fell The Horse and chariot were o're took The Rider stopt at Thy Rebuke And bow'd adown to the All-conquering spell Thou art indeed
said O God and thus hast sworn How comes it then His Kingdome is all torn That Thou hast cast off and abhor'd Thy King As if he never had anointed been Made voi'd Thy Cov'nant and to th' Earth flung down Snatcht from His Royal Head the Sacred Crown Destroi'd his Pallace and his ramparts broke And on his neck and Sions lai'd the yoak No more that Sion which she was of old Who in her hands the reins of th' Earth did hold Queen of all Cities Glory of the World But in one ruine with her Captives hurl'd Dismantled sack'd with rubbish hid all o're And now their scorn whose fear she was before Our Sov'reign too Himself is forc'd to fly Despoil'd of all the Robes of Majesty Whil'st his strong Enemies by Thee made so Load him with fetters and in Triumphs go In vain He conquest from his Sword expects When God the threat'ned head from harm protects And when it should most execution do Turns it on him whose hand did make thee blow And back he yields and all his Glories cease And with Him fall Prosperity and Peace I' th' mid'st of 's dayes he do's untimely fall By an inglorious Death and Funeral Shall it be ever thus and will Thine eyes Those Mis'ries which they see us bear despise For ever shall Thy Wrath devour like fire And in it's flames Thy ancient Love expire Remember Lord the Number of our dayes How few they are to celebrate Thy Praise Nor let it be in vain Thou life did'st give But whil'st we have it let us truly Live For no man long his ransom'd head can save From death or the inexorable grave Where then are all Thy former Mercies Lord And Oaths whereby Thou did'st confirm Thy Word Behold our wrongs and that reproach we bear For making Thee Our Trust Thy Word Our care And what malignities Men on Thee throw Because Messiah's Coming is so slow But We believe and in His day rejoyce And whom We look for hasten with our voice Amen and Amen The End of the Third Book of Psalms THE FOURTH BOOK OF PSALMS Psalm XC Domine Refugium factus es c. I. LOrd We have been Thy ancient Care And Thy experienc'd helps all times have known Though Time it self to Thee no Age do's bear And in comparison would seem but Young For e're Thy Fertile Word had made the Earth And the World travail'd with the Mountains birth Thy Days Lord with Thy Being first begun With that which no Beginning had And when an end of all things shall be made Only with that which has no end shall they be done II. Such is Thy Care and such Thy Age Whil'st on Thy breath Poor Man hangs all his trust And soon ha's run his last and longest stage If whence He rose Thou sentence him to Dust That fond thing life which he by years do's count Should to a Thousand Suns the summ amount And all to come to Thee as yesterday When it is past and gone appears So looks the numerous train of coming years Or as a Watch which on Sleeps Wings ha's flown away III. In times swift torrent down they roll Whose stream no sluces spend or banks can stay In vain by Art we would its course controll And stop that Flood which shall bear all away Like a fleet aiery dream Our Age do's fly Which springs from Fancy and deludes the eye Like Flowers which in the Morning gay and fine Rise with the Sun and mount their heads But Noon once past look down upon their Beds And tow'rd the Earth their grave with him at night decline IV. Our very pleasures haste our end And with ten thousand snares beset us round But when to these Thou dost Thy Armies send What scarce was felt now gives a Mortal Wound Sickness and pains the dire effects of Sin Which makes their way at the wide breach rush in Our secret sins before Thee open lye And this Just punishment we bear The Tale of Life is done e're we 're aware And those Thy wrath consum'd in Thy displeasure dye V. Our Life to seventy years we count And that he 's Old who thither do's arrive But if through Strength it should to Fourscore mount Age is a Sickness and 't is Death to live The swift wing'd years will soon be numb'red o're And overtake their fellows gone before Which though we see and know and each day hear As unconcern'd we still look on Till in the Common ruine we fall down And find too late Thy Wrath is equal to Our Fear VI. May We at last True Wisdom gain And having seen how much of life is spent And how uncertain's all that do's remain Be on Eternity and Heav'n intent Return O Lord for we have born Thy hand And Now expecting the dread Sentence stand Repent Thee then Lo how Thy Servants bow And to Thee all their sins confess Which more by tears than Words they would express And shall Thy Servants Lord repent and wilt not Thou VII For all that we have undergone Those years of our few dayes in troubles past Now make Thy Mercy and Thy Pow'r be known And let the Joy we wait for come at last Let it proportion to our sorrows bear As constant in its course as e're they were Let us behold the beams of Love and Grace Making our darkness disappear And having made Our Heav'n with glory clear Their kindest Influence Lord bestow upon our Race VIII Let us uninterrupted see On all Our wayes Thy choicest blessings shine Make those our guides to bring us up to Thee And with Thy Holy Flame our dross refine To Thee we look and Heav'n esteem Our Home But only through Thy Strength can thither come Thy Hand alone Our journeys must direct First shew then lead us in the Way Uphold us that we never fall or stray And what Ours cannot let Thy Hand for us effect Psalm XCI Qui habitat in Adjutorio c. I. HE who do's with th' Almighty God reside And in His secret place abide Under those feathers safe shall lye With which he thither first did flye Where trouble dares not come near the Most High II. Thither I 'll fly my God I 'll thither come No other place shall be my Home Thy Pow'r I will my Bulwark call My Fortress and my Brazen Wall Which shall unmov'd remain though Heav'n should fall III. Then fear not Soul for Thou preserv'd shalt be From all the Snares design'd for Thee The Plague that All-consuming ill Which do's the Air with Poysons fill Near Thee shall lose its force and cease to kill IV. For as the Eagles wings protect her young Till they have pinnions of their own Under God's wings shalt Thou abide And either there securely hide Or from Thy Fears away upon them ride V. His Truth shall be Thy Battle-Ax and Shield Both to maintain and get the field Neither the Terrors of the Night Nor dangers of the Mid-day light Unseen shall touch or seen
in fetters bind And make their stoutest Princes walk in Chains behind V. That Wrath which was denounc'd to execute And all the long since written Doom fulfill When their fierce Enemies all struck mute Shall yield their Lives to th' Pleasure of their Will Such Glorious Freedom follows Their Restraints And this great Honour after suffering have the Saints Hallelujah Psalm CL. Laudate Dominum c. I. THe Holy God in His Sanctuary praise There where He loves Himself to show And having sung His Praise below From thence to Heaven that and your voyce together raise II. In Heav'n He makes His Mighty Power be seen Praise Him who makes it there appear For if that Greatness awe us here What would it do came not so vast a space between III. Together strive who shall exalt Him most What Instruments the fittest are Whether of Love whether of Warr Shrill Trumpets or soft Harps to praise the Lord of Host IV. Trumpets and Harps shall in one Consort move The Cornet and the Amorous Lute The Cymbal and the Warlike Flute For He who is the Lord of Host is God of Love V. Let the whole Earth their praises to Him bring Whate're has being life or breath Angels above and Men beneath And all whom He has Voyces given His Praises sing S. Woodford At Albrook Hants 7 Martii 1665 6 Hallelujah FINIS A TABLE OF THE PSALMS Psalm   Page  A.   120 AD Dominum cum tribularer IN my distress unto the Lord 373 28 Ad te Domine clamabo To thee O Lord my Rock 69 25 Ad te Domine levavi To thee O God my 62 123 Ad te levavi oculos meos To thee O Lord I lift 376 29 Afferte Domino Filii Dei You whom your birth for 71 78 Attendite popule Israel Gods own inheritance 216 49 Audite haec omnes gentes Attend O World and bid 129  B.   119 Beati immaculati Thrice happy men who 351 128 Beati omnes qui Blest is the man whose 386 32 Beati quorum remissae He whose iniquities are 79 41 Beatus qui intelligit Blest is that man who 108 1 Beatus vir qui non Thrice happy man who 1 112 Beatus vir qui timet That man is truly blest 334 34 Benedicam Dominum Lord I will bless Thee 84 104 Benedic anima mea Arise my soul and to the 303 103 Benedic anima mea Arise my soul and to the 300 144 Benedictus Dominus Supream Commander of the 419 85 Benedixisti Domine terram At length O God thy People 236 92 Bonum est confiteri Domino What Saints in Heaven and 278  C   149 Cantate Domino New songs of Praise 433 96 Cantate Domino canticum New songs of Praise 285 98 Cantate Domino New songs of Praise 289 19 Caeli enarrant gloriam That boundless space 47 75 Confitebimur tibi Deus Lord we will praise thee 209 9 Confitebor tibi Domine Lord I will praise thee 17 111 Confitebor tibi Domine With my whole heart I 'le 332 138 Confitebor tibi Domine Lord I will bless thee 406 105 Confitemini Domino Give thanks unto our God 310 106 Confitemini Domino quoniam Sing to the Lord for 314 107 Confitemini Domino All you who on th' Almighty 319 118 Confitemini Domino To Gods Almighty Name 346 136 Confitemini Domino O praise the Lord for He 399 16 Conserva me Domine Preserve me Lord for 34 4 Cum invocarem exaudivit Thou who hast heard me 6  D   130 De profundis clamavi Out of the depths unto 389 44 Deus auribus nostris Great God we oft have 115 50 Deus Deorum Dominus 'T is past and by irrevocable 132 63 Deus Deus meus ad te Early my God before 167 22 Deus Deus meus quare My God My God why art 54 70 Deus in adjutorium My God why dos my 189 54 Deus in nomine tuo O Thou who Israels Saviour 148 72 Deus judicium tuum Great God thy judgements 196 109 Deus laudem meam ne Guard of my life and God 327 67 Deus misereatur nostri Save us O God and 178 46 Deus noster refugium To Armys some for 122 83 Deus quis similis erit tibi Enough my God Thou hast 231 60 Deus repulisti nos Lord thou hast smote us 162 82 Deus stetit in Synagoga You judges of the World 229 79 Deus venerunt gentes Lord see the miseries which 222 94 Deus ultionum Dominus Judge of the Universe 281 116 Dilexi quoniam exaudivit I love thee Lord 342 18 Diligam te Domine Lord I will love thee 39 39 Dixi custodiam vias Let him go on for me 101 110 Dixit Dominus Domino The Lord said to my Lord 330 36 Dixi injustus ut delinquat Base hypocrite thinkst 89 14 Dixit insipiens in corde There is no God the 30 53 Dixit insipiens There is no God the Fool 146 141 Domine clamavi ad te My God when in distress 413 7 Domine Deus meus in te Almighty God to thee for 12 88 Domine Deus salutis meae Great God whence my 243 8 Domine Dominus noster Sole Monarch of the World 15 102 Domine exaudi orationem My dearest God let my 296 143 Domine exaudi orationem Great Saviour to my 417 21 Domine in virtute tua Great God who wonders for 51 6 Domine ne in furore tuo Lord in thy wrath rebuke 10 38 Domine ne infurore tuo Lord in thy wrath 98 131 Domine non est exaltatum No Lord thou knowest 391 139 Domine probasti me In vain O God my 408 3 Domine quid multiplic Lord how are they increast 5 15 Domine quis habitabit My God who shall Thy Holy 32 90 Domine refugium factus Lord we have been Thy 251 24 Domini est terra The Earth and all the Earth 60 27 Dominus illuminatio mea When in the silence of the 66 23 Dominus regit me The Mighty God who all 58 93 Dominus regnavit decorem Submit your Crowns O Kings 280 97 Dominus regnavit exultet The Lord dos reign let the 287 99 Dominus regnavit irascantur The Lord dos reign let the 291  E.   134 Ecce num benedicite Praise him ye Servants 395 133 Ecce quam bonum Blest day wherein I live 394 59 Eripe me de inimicis Preserve me Lord and by 160 140 Eripe me Domine Lord from the evil 411 45 Eructavit Cor meum A thousand fancies from 118 145 Exaltabo te Deus My God my King I will 421 30 Exaltabote Domine My God I will to Thee 73 20 Exaudiat te Dominus So may thy God be 49 61 Exaudi Deus deprecationem Hear me my Saviour 164 55 Exaudi Deus orationem Lord to my Prayer 150 64 Exaudi Deus orationem Lord to my
A PARAPHRASE UPON THE PSALMS OF DAVID By SAM WOODFORD LONDON Printed by R. White for Octavian Pullein neer the Pump in Little-Brittain 1667. TO THE Right Reverend FATHER in GOD GEORGE Lord BISHOP of WINTON My Lord THe favourable sentence your Lordship past on the following Paraphrase when it first appeared before you as its judge has encouraged me to make choice of you alone for its Patron and I heartily wish it were as fit an object of your Protection now as it was then of your Clemency There is nothing I confess worthy its Commendation to so Great a Name but the Argument on which it is employ'd and having design'd it to the Service of the Altar I was convinc't there was no hand more proper than your Lordships to offer it up there For beside the perfect understanding which your Lordship has of affairs of this nature being able not only most justly to decree according to the old but to give new and more substantial Laws to all kinds of Poesy the most considerable part of the ensuing Work was done under your Lordships jurisdiction in a place where I had the happiness to enjoy all the contents of a private Retirement and amongst the rest that secessum scribentis otia which the great Master of Verse knew absolutely necessary to such an undertaking So that by the severest form of Dedication your Lordship has an undeniable right to this and it would be a piece of great injustice to make a Present of that to another which to your self only is a true and warrantable debt For such indeed it is as respecting your Lordships Title who over and above all other qualifications are the most obliging Promoter of these studies and on my part so easie to satisfie that it amounts to little more than a bare acknowledgement like the presenting a Rose once a year and doing Fealty for some great Tenure the smallest Chief-rent that can be paid by any Tenant especially him who has an ambition to hold of none rather than your Lordship all those Demesnes of Christian Poesy if he may so call them of which under you alone he desires to be look't upon as the Unworthy Improver and to profess himself with all manner of Devotion Bensted Haunts 1667. My Lord Your Lordships most faithful and obedient Servant SAM WOODFORD The Preface IT is not my intention to spend time in transcribing those several Elogies which Holy men in their writings have given the Book of Psalmes For to do that here were but to make a tedious repetition of the same thing and usurping anothers Province but meanly to pursue that which is no less powerfully than frequently inculcated by the Divine Oratory of the Church I think there is none but will acknowledge that it is a part of Scripture which is and shall for ever be esteemed worthy the care and study both of the greatest Scholars and sublimest Wits of all ages and where as the weakest understandings may finde enough for their satisfaction the severest and most curious Criticks may have scope and opportunity to exercise and improve their richest Talent For what can be more pleasant than to inquire who were the Composers to explain the many obscure Titles and frequent allusions to several customs by us utterly unknown and to let the World understand what it is yet ignorant of wherein consisted the true nature of the Hebrew Poesy But these as above my Capacity I shall purposely omit and make it my business only to give some little account of the design and conduct of the following Work But before I can proceed to that I must here by way of Apology for my undertaking it freely confess that such an argument as this would have appear'd much better in the hands of one who had made Divinity his chiefest study and can only say for myself that as I did it to please some particular friends and for my own diversion next to that great design of the glory of God and service of his Church so having now at length finisht it and by them and several others urg'd to make it more publick I thought my self bound by some such Preface as this to provide for this issue of my brain with the same diligence and care that other Parents are wont for their legitimate Children Not that I have so good an Opinion of these labours as fondly to believe they deserve it but because their natural deformities require the greater Portion to put them off For I am too conscious of their many defects and my own inabilities for so great an affaire as in good earnest to attempt their defence or if I would have no way left to make it but that which to all ingenuous spirits is very disagreeable by throwing the blame on others better able and who have had it may be much fairer opportunities than my felf of performing so worthy an enterprise Had any such excellent person so employ'd his vacant hours it might have prevented the publishing these rude Essays of mine whereas now all that I can expect from them is that after a severe censure they may happily be so fortunate as to give occasion to anothers better thoughts And I heartily wish some One of Our many Reverend and Learned Divines who have a true understanding and gust for Poesy would hereby be provok't to undertake so noble a subject For as there is not any condition of men so fitted for the sublime notions of Poesy as they there is no study whatsoever which either is so truly worthy of or comes neerer their Profession Theology and Poesy have in all ages of the World gone hand in hand nor is there really such a disparity between their Natures as is generally though without any reason imagined For if one has been lookt on as containing the Will and Pleasure the other no less has been reckoned the Stile and Language of Heaven Musick and Numbers the chiefest of the Liberal Arts serve but as Hand-maids to this Great and All-commanding Mistriss 'T is I know not what kind of Divine Science purely singular and only like it self which even in the Opinion of all has more of Divinity in it than words can express and therefore was continually allowed a Stall in the Temple and received into the Devotions of the most Religious and Civilized as well as Barbarous Nations If we look into the Jewish Administration we shall finde that the People of Israel were no sooner delivered from the Aegyptian chains and that the same Sea which parted it self to make them way returned upon their Enemies but immediately Moses their great Law-giver continues the remembrance both of the Miracle and their deliverance in a most excellent and Poetical song which I verily believe is not only the most antient piece of Poetry now extant but written as soon if not before any other part of the Pentateuch Nay God himself we afterwards finde gave him particular charge and inspiration a little before his death
he bear Thy light If his own dazles Thyne will strike him blind III. Thou shalt destroy him and his lying tongue Shall to himself alone do all the wrong That blood of other men which he has shed Shall justly fall on his own head Whilst to Thy Temple I will come with praise And make Thy love the subject bee Whence I 'll take wing to mount to Thee And in my flight tow'rds Heav'n Thy glory raise IV. O bring me thither and make strait my way And let me see the snares my Enemies lay Be Thou my guide that I the path may know And lead me where I ought to go I dare not trust them though they seem to bless For even their flatteries poyson have Their tongue is death their throat the grave Wicked their hands their heart is wickedness V. Destroy them Lord but not by Thy right hand That signal justice from their own command By their own secret counsels let them fall And send those plagues for which they call In their transgressions let them be o'rethrown Burst with that pride with which they sweld For against Thee they have rebell'd And let the Curse they suffer be their own VI. But let all those who trust in Thee rejoyce And where their hearts are lift on high their voice Let them be fearless who adore Thy Name Preserv'd by their own heavenly flame For Thou all times the Righteous wilt defend Thy mighty Power shall be his shield Never o'recome hene're shall yield But certain Conquest shall his arms attend Psalm VI. Domine ne in furore tuo c. I. LOrd in Thy wrath rebuke me not Nor in thy fury chasten me For such weak things that furnace is too hot And by my clay no more endur'd can be Than my injustice and repeated wrongs by Thee II. Uphold me Lord for I am weak Whil'st Thou Thy hand dost on me lay My bones are shaken and my heart will break Heal me with Speed and take Thy hand away Or let me know how long and I 'll with patience stay III. Return and for Thy Mercy sake My Soul from this affliction save O now some pitty on thy servant take For Thou in death canst not Thy praises have But they and I shall be forgotten in the grave IV. I weary out the day with sighes And when that 's done the night with tears So vast a deep comes rolling from my eyes That down its tyde my bed it almost bears Yet though it wash my couch it cannot drown my fears V. My eyes are hollow and decayd And from their windows hardly see Quite buried in the graves my tears have made They only shew where they were wont to be So that what age to others grief has done to me VI. But hold why do I thus complain Like one whom God do's never hear For God has heard me and I 'll pray again Avoid Profane avoid least while yo' are near That wickedness which hardens yours should stop His ear VII The Lord has heard me and my tears Have found acceptance in His eyes My sighes already have blown o're my fears And scatter'd with their breath my Enemies So let them fly with shame all who against me rise Psalm VII Domine Deus meus noster c. I. ALmighty God to Thee for help I cry And on Thy Power alone rely Thou hast preserv'd me and once more Thy ancient favours I implore The same which Thou hast granted heretofore Thy hand has rais'd me when brought low In my distress Thou didst Thy mercy show May that strong hand which rais'd me then defend me now Lord from my Enemy deliver me And let my flight from him be but to Thee II. Shouldst Thou withdraw or not let me come near My Soul he would in pieces tear Just like a Lyon having found His helpless prey who looks around And only with his eyes gives the first wound But when he sees the guards are gone And shepheards scattred he falls boldly on And with his paws do's finish what his eyes begun Such would O Lord my certain ruine be Didst not Thou interpose to rescue me III. Yet Lord if I have done this wicked thing For which they charge me to the King Or if for some unworthy end I did but in my thoughts intend Wretch as I was a mischief to my friend Yea if I have not spar'd my foe Who without any cause of mine was so And when thy hand had given him to me let him go Then let my Enemy take my life away And spurn that honour I so low did lay IV. Lord in Thine anger to my cause arise Against my vengefull Enemies Awake and up in Judgement stand The same which Thou dost me command And take both Scales and Sword into Thy hand Then let the Congregation see That they themselves are blind who fancy Thee Filleted as they feign and make their Justice bee Return Thou therefore for their sakes on high That they may know ther 's in Thy hand an eye V. For Thou indeed art Judge and Lord begin With me when Thou hast purg'd my sin Remember my Integrity And after that Thy servant try Who to Thy Bar do's for just judgement fly That wickedness may have an end When thus to every cause Thou shalt attend And let Thy equall sentence upon all descend I 'm sure to be absolv'd at this debate For He that 's Judge shall be my Advocate VI. God shall the Righteous clear and but delay The Wickeds sentence for a day For every day with him He 's griev'd He is not pardon'd but repriev'd Not into favour but on proof receiv'd And if he turns not to the Lord Out from His mouth shall come the dreadful Word His bow 's already bent and He will whet His sword The instruments of death all furbisht are And for the blow th' Almighty arm 's made bare VII But unconcern'd he travayles with his sin And falshood to the birth do's bring Leaves not till having digg'd a pit He falls himself the first in it A just reward and for the maker fit On his own head his sin returns He feels the weight of his own heavy scorns And in a quenchless fire which he first kindled burns So righteous art Thou Lord so just Thy wayes Thy Name to heav'n do's reach so shall my Praise Psalm VIII Domine dominus noster c. I. SOle Monarch of the World Prince of all Powers Fountain of Beings glorious King Who can enough Thy praises sing Who art the Worlds great Lord as well as Ours Fondly by Verse we strive Thy Name to raise When it already is above our highest praise II. Thou and Thy Name alike are excellent And though we something see below The greatest part we cannot know Glorys which are above the Firmament Heav'ns of heav'ns a mean extent would be And low as hell were they in height compar'd to Thee III. Great as Thou art yet sometimes Thou dost love Some glory
not his heart betray He like one that believes it lives Do's with blasphemous mouth deny The very Being of the Deity And in his works that lye Which he to man dares not to Heav'n profanely gives II. From heav'n th' Almighty God came down to view What He there saw and there could punish too Yet down He came and look'd around He search'd if He might any see Any of His least they should numbred bee To th' Common misery He search'd but not a Just man in the Number found III. Are they all thus O God all gone aside As if from Thee they could their follies hide Are all thus greedy to devour And eat Thy People up like bread Thankless for that and not some judgement dread Like those by quailes once fed Tempting that Heav'n which Manna down before did shower IV. Amids their jollity in fears they were Their meat a trap their table prov'd a snare But God himself defends the Poor Will both their cause and right maintain And though the proud their Innocence would stain The spot shall out again And God who sends them help shall with it that restore V. From Sion Lord may Israels help appear Thence come since all his confidence is there Bring back their long Captivity That Israel may adore Thy wayes And Jacob to Thy Name give all the praise Together strive to raise Thy Honour and admire Thee as thou ought'st to be Psalm XV. Domine quis habitabit c. I. MY God who shall Thy Holy Mount ascend And in Thy House his life and praises spend Blest Soul who always shall be near Nearer than any other can When he his God may see his God may hear And where his God is still be there O tell me who it is or let me see the Man II. 'T is one who from his heart the Truth do's speak Whose company and laws he n'ere do's break His Heart 's the wheel which first do's play And all the other wheels commands Whose motion all the other wheels obey All go when that first leads the way Truth and his heart first move and then his feet and hands III. He dares not his just Neighbour vilifie Nor give his conscience with his mouth the lie Dares not speak fair before his face And once withdrawn retract his fear Sinning to bring another in disgrace But thinks what if 't were his own case And against him less than against himself will hear IV. Whose heart against a wicked man do's rise And shewes true scorn yet pitty by his eyes The good he honours counts them dear Worthy his love and favour too All who in truth my Sacred Name do fear And when he to his Word do's swear What he has sworn though he is sure to lose will do V. He puts not out his Gold to Usury Nor by Extortion into wealth do's flye No bribes will take against the Just Or ballance with those weights his hand Which there inclines where the cause merits most And having thus discharg'd his trust He on my Holy Mount shall dwell and like it stand Psalm XVI Conserva me Domine c. I. PReserve me Lord for unto Thee I flee I who upon thee heretofore have staid And when I saw Thee not have said Thou art my God and though my Good to Thee Can never come yet Thine may reach to mee II. My good like gold to Thee can ne're extend Though it to airy thinness I should beat The distance still would be too great Nor will it's dross let it to Heav'n ascend O may it spread below and know no end III. Spread to the Saints in whom is Thy delight And who as they Thy pleasure be are mine Let others to dumb Idols joyn Their very Idols once shall do them right And though they could not help against them fight IV. I 'l not approach them Lord least for their sake I share the sorrows which on them are laid I of their Offrings am afraid For all who to them sacrifices make Are their own Victims and i' th flames partake V. God is my Portion and maintains my Lot My lines are in a pleasant Country cast My Heritage shall fall at last And in a time when I expect it not God has both given and will secure the Spot VI. His Name I 'l therefore bless who counsel'd me Make Him my meditation every night Till the young Sun brings back the Light As I in His He in my sight shall be Nor shall the Darkness hide His face from me VII Unmov'd I 'l stand His mighty praise to tell My very flesh in certain hope shall rest Of th' Resurrection of the Blest For Lord Thou shalt not leave my Soul in Hell Nor let Thy Holy One with Corruption dwell VIII To the safe paths of Life direct my way Thy Presence where perpetual joyes flow o're Whose Pleasures spring for evermore By those clear streams let me delighted stay And melt away in love as well as they Psalm XVII Exaudi Domine justitiam c. I. GReat God of all th' Earth to Thee I fly And to thy just Tribunals Barr appeal Thou know'st my cause Thou shalt hear my cry And what Thy pleasure on it is reveal Upon Thy sentence I depend Let that my suit and troubles end For Thyne own sake my right maintain Heart did ne're closer joyn with lips nor they less feign II. Lord Thou hast search'd me and my heart hast known Then when conceal'd from all the World but thee The silent Night had left me all alone By Thee examin'd mine own Judge to be In thousand flames I have been try'd But as gold throughly purify'd From thousand flames I came more bright For I before had past Thyne All-discerning sight III. As my heart thought so my lips alwayes spake And with them both my hands did freely joyn With the Destroyer I did ne're partake But alwayes left his paths to follow Thyne Thou wert my rule and Thou my guide When I or slipt or turn'd aside Thus guarded let me ever go For as Thy ways are certain my steps shall be so IV. Lord Thou hast answer'd me when heretofore In my distress I made my Prayers to Thee Incline Thyne ear to my desires once more And as then let me now Thy mercy see Thou whose Almighty hand do's save All those who its protection crave Thy mighty hand for me extend No power but Thyne can to my miseries put an end V. And as the Eye around with guards is sett And safely compass'd in on every side To keep off dangers which may hazard it Display its glory or its beautys hide Under Thy wings so let me lye Secure as under those my Eye For as those guards my eye enclose For safety I am girt for ruin by my foes VI. Riches to them are Shield and Coat of Mayle Whil'st with vile mouth they basely God defie They more than Innocence are their Brazen Wall Which as their own proud thoughts
be Which from the Righteous Judge of all does go His Judgments are from all injustice free Are Just themselves and make us so The finest gold near them looks wan and pale And hony from the Comb do's of its wonted sweetness fail VI. Gain and reward in them are found Sometimes they are my staff sometimes my guide But Lord how often have I fell to ground And in my secret wandrings gone aside Cleanse me O God and through Thy grace Let not presumptuous sins of me take hold But let my Innocence still keep its place And make me in the Judgment bold Hear me O Thou who my Salvation art That when my'heart moves my lips Thy Spirit may move my heart Psalm XX. Exaudiat te Dominus c. I. SO may Thy God be always near Nay Jacobs God all Thy Petitions hear And when Thy Enemies huge Armies send As if they would Thy land devour And with their numbers Thee ore'power Then may His Name be Thy strong Tower To break their rage and Thee from danger to defend II. From Sion may Thy aids appear Invincible as He who governs there With fire from Heav'n may he Thy Offrings crown And as with every Sacrifice Thy prayers and that again do's rise Till they together reach the skies Let thy God meet them and as they ascend come down III. May He Thy just desires fulfill And always fix Thy counsels to His Will 'T is done O King and in it we rejoyce Let the whole World our shoutings hear What we adore let them all fear Honour Him far and dread him near Let the whole World hear Ours God Himself Thy voice IV. Our God shall hear Thee and His hand Mov'd by His ear deliv'rance shall command From Heav'n He shall His mighty arm unbare Brandish His Sword and make it seen Nothing but blood shall come between And He who has Thy Saviour been Shall be Thy praise as once the subject of Thy prayer V. Let others on their Troops rely Chariots and Horse which Vict'ry can out-fly We on the Name of God will only stay That shall Our Horse and Chariots bee Our Armies and Our Victory Let but us Lord be kept by Thee We shall stand Conquerours when they fall or run away VI. Already they are all brought down But on Thy head God has set fast the Crown May He be still to Thee propitious Always incline a willing ear To His Anoynted still be near And Thy petitions ever hear And as He hears Thee Gracious King mayst Thou hear us Psalm XXI Domine in virtute tuâ c. I. GReat God who Wonders for Our land hast done And sav'd Our King whom Thou mad'st so Again hast set Him on the Throne And made His Fathers foes before Him bow Our King shall in Thy strength rejoyce That He was Thine as well as His own peoples choice II. Thou didst not ever His requests deny Nor to His Vows shut up Thine ear In vain He did not always cry Though Heav'n which saw His wrongs seem'd not to hear For the desires He thither sent Thou with unhop'd for blessings didst at last prevent III. He only sue'd for Life Thou gave'st a Crown And on His head hast set it fast The Royall Diadem never shone With so great lustre or so long to last To Kings which from Him shall proceed Not to His head alone secur'd but to His seed IV. Home Thou hast brought Him and so fixt Him here All say His power is most like Thine The Honours Thou hast made Him bear Have rendred Him and Monarchy Divine That for their Kings Our Sons shall wish Like Him they all may be and all their Reigns like His. V. For in the Lord His confidence He plac'd And up to Heav'n for help did fly And having there His anchor cast Our Seas He knew could never rise so high And that the Ocean which was there Was all Pacifique and no seed for storms did bear VI. In vain from Thee O God His foes would fly And having shun'd His hand scape Thyne But their close walks are in Thine eye And all around them do's Thy glory shine His Enemies Thou count'st Thine own And what His hands reach not by Thine shal be o'rethrown VII Thou on them their own Consciences shalt turn Thy wrath shall on their darkness light For like an Oven it shall burn With flames that scorch and even as Hell affright And when it has rag'd all about Upon the guilty standers by it shall break out VIII But if reserv'd for future misery Thy vengeance here they shall survive 'T is but to see before them dye Those children in whose names they hop'd to live Yet though like them their Names shall rot They still shall want the happiness to be forgot IX For Thee O King the mischief they design'd Which on Thy Fathers head did light And with you both the Crown was joyn'd That was the Cause did animate the fight Whil'st Heav'n was all the while defi'd To see the rule establisht there on earth deny'd X. Heav'n saw the Treasons and did arm'd appear Return'd the darts they up had thrown Now less with feathers wing'd than fear And in all wounds the arrows were their own Lord since Thou ' hast thus preserv'd Our King Uphold His Throne that with Him we Thy praise may sing Psalm XXII Deus Deus meus quare dereliquisti c. I. MY God my God why art thou turn'd away And thus forsak'st me in my agony Shall I in vain for ever pray And pour out fruitless words which reach not Thee All day I cry but Thou seem'st not to hear The night do's witness to my roarings bear Yet though they rend my heart they cannot move Thine ear II. But Holy still and Righteous Lord art Thou And worthy of Thy People Israels praise Who on Our Fathers did'st bestow Freedom from Chains and conduct in their ways On Thee they trusted and to Thee they cry'd Who heard'st their groans conquering out did'st ride Their trust met no reproach nor was their prayer deny'd III. But I 'm a Worm my God and not a Man Reproach of Men and shame o' th' multitude Whose mockings with my grief began And ever grew as that encreas'd more rude With all the antick looks that shew disgrace Distorted mouth and head and riv'led face They me the Common butt for all their scorns did place IV. Let 's see said they with jests more sharp than swords And mortaller than all the wounds they gave Let 's see if yet for all His Words The God on whom He trusts His life will save If He so dearly loves him at his call Why comes He not we challenge Him and all For without that this single conquest would be small V. Yet still in Thee I all my trust have plac'd Who art the God who took'st me from the womb On whom I from the breast was cast And to these years through thousand cares have come To Thee
Sacred Waies like Mighty Victors go III. Shew me those paths for Lord to Thee I pray Then lead me in them by the hand Else when they 're rough I shall discourag'd stand And to some easier passage hope to stray But loose my own and never find I fear Thy Way IV. Let not my sins to Thy Remembrance come Nor all those spots which stain'd my youth But wash them out and mindfull of Thy Truth Receive the Prodigal returning home And let Thy Mercy for Thy ancient Love make room V. In this Thou gloriest as Thy chiefest praise Repenting sinners to receive And when unable to come on they grieve The weak Thou lead'st the fallen up dost raise And anew shew'st and guid'st them in Thy pleasant Waies VI. Truth and Thy Mercy make them smooth and plain And though far off they rough appear They are with Roses strew'd when I come near Purge my great sin and lead me there again For that alone and not Thy Waies are full of pain VII Those who th' Almighty fear His Will shall know And to His sacred steps form theirs Blest in their lives and happy in their Heirs To whom the Lord will all His secrets show And what He shall command supply with strength to do VIII My God to Thee I look on Thee depend For Thou my feet caust only guide To shun those snares the wicked for me hide Thou know'st what I and what their plots intend And with one look can'st them and all my troubles end IX Behold their Numbers how they are increast And how like waves new pains succeed Forgive my sins whence all these tempests breed Let me be calm my Enemies opprest And the foul Sea and storm be only in their breast X. Prevent their malice and my Saviour be For Thou hast been and art my Trust Let Thy protection show that I am just Preserve me for I only wait on Thee But chiefly Israel save what e're becomes of me Psalm XXVI Judica me Domine quoniam c. I. Judge me O God for I to Thee appeal Who only knows my innocence Who dost the secrets of my heart reveal And all hypocrisie hast banish't thence Thou heretofore in need hast been my Trust And to Thy Word I 'm sure to find Thee just II. May I be found so Lord O try my waies And prove that heart which Thou dost see Thy mercies have been with me all my daies Still in my eyes as I am viewd by Thee That Truth which is Thy love Lord has been mine And from its paths I never would decline III. In Council with the vain I never sate Nor with dissemblers have I gone Their private conferences did alwaies hate And left the place when once the cause was known Have heart and hand alike kept innocent And from the Laver to Thy Altar went IV. There did I all Thy wondrous acts proclaim And undisturb'd recount my joyes And with my sacrifices holy flame That thence to Heaven went up I sent my voice Thy Temple Lord with us Thou know'st I love But much more that Thy presence makes above V. Number me not with fierce and cruel men Nor make me to possess their fears Our lives Thou know'st have very different been Let Our deaths too and mine not be like theirs I' th' right hand bribes a sword i' th' left do's shine And to Oppression muderous thoughts they joyn VI. But as for me though poor I 'm still upright My Justice do's unshaken stand Preserve me Lord and make my Innocence bright And left I slip uphold me with Thy hand So when my foot shall a sure standing gain Equal to Hills my song shall raise the Plain Psalm XXVII Dominus illuminatio mea c. I. WHen in the silence of the Night That darkness which should hide creates new fears When darkness quickens my dull sight And profound silence fills with noyse my ears Presenting there and to mine eye Horrors which in my fancy from'd do ly God through the darkness darts a ray And He who made the Light becomes Himself my day II. Since God's my trust whom need I fear He who first gave it will my life secure Will make my En'mies disappear When His clear light unable to endure By it struck blind they fall a prey Into those snares which they for me did lay For though to swallow me they came The ruin which has buried theirs shall raise my name III. Though mighty Kings against me rise And with their Armies compass me around Armies and Kings I would despise Themselves not me their numbers should confound On high I 'd look and Legions call From Heav'ns great Hosts triumphant Generall He to my rescue should come down And those who scap'd His hand should perish by their own IV. But neither 's this my chief desire Nor the too hasty glories of a Crown Not to be Great do I aspire Or from on high on others to look down But this is my unfeign'd request And to Thy pleasure Lord I leave the rest That in Thy Temple I may dwell And all Thy beauties there to after Ages tell V. There would I rest and be at ease Counting it both my hiding place and Rock There should I finde perpetual peace And stand unshaken by their rudest shock When windes and waves engag'd shall be And finde themselves that grave they threatned me Louder than them my voice I 'd raise And in dark clouds of Incense thunder out Thy praise VI. Lord to my prayers Thine ear incline Nor let them or my confidence be vain With favour on Thy Servant shine And to Thy Temple bring me back again No Eccho can more ready be To answer the quick call than I to Thee For when Thou sayst Seek ye my Face My Soul returns the word and says I 'l seek Thy Face VII O turn not then that Face away Nor let my sins between Us interpose Thou heretofore hast been my day When darkness did my Enemies enclose Now that my Friends for fear draw back Do not Thou too my God Thy Childe forsake Who Fatherless indeed should be Wert not Thou the Almighty Father One to me VIII Shew me Thy path and make it plain To me Lord plain but to my Enemies Rugged and broken full of pain And unto heights they dare not venture rise Direct them by some other way And make me not unto their teeth a prey On them their perjuries return And let their own breath make the fire they kindled burn IX Under these troubles my support Is only that I hope Thy Power to see My Confidence is my strong Fort Which I 'l maintain whil'st I can look to Thee Then bear up Soul and God attend Expect the succours which He 'll surely send Bear up but till this Storm is o're And wait Soul but a while and Thou shalt wait no more Psalm XXVIII Ad te Domine clamabo Deus c. I. TO Thee O Lord my Rock I cry O be not silent to
're gone already and behind There 's nothing left of all he did The glories of his house ly hid And with his fame are turn'd to wind Whose very ruins though thou seek'st no where canst find VII But those who patiently on God depend He with a numerous family will bless No tempest can their setled calm offend But they in peace their Souls and Land possess No matter though incens'd with rage The wicked curse them in his pride God do's no less his threats deride Sees him in his declining age And the Scene finisht with him will remove the stage VIII Against the Righteous with drawn Sword he stands Has bent his bow and let the arrow fly Would in his blood embrew his cruel hands And his least threatning is that he shall dy But God who do's the Poor sustain By his own Sword shall make him fall Against him his own aids shall call Which he to fly shall seek in vain When in his heart the arrows which he shot remain IX Better 's that little which the Righteous have Than all the stores whereof the Wicked boast God shall disperse what he rak'd up to save And there most scatter where he gath'red most For He the Just mans way do's know What he has suff'red what has done Lending His arm to lean upon Will show him where he ought to go And after a long life Heav'n in reward bestow X. In War he shall be kept in Famine fed In the worst times nor blush nor be afraid God who 's his shield Himself will find him bread And only make his Enemies dismay'd They like the fat of lambs shall waste And only leave a smoke behind To be the triumph of the wind Their goods ill gotten shall not last But like their suddain growth their end shall come as fast XI The wicked borrows but ne're means to pay The Righteous gives and counts for so much more For God returns it him another way That God whose Word makes either rich or poor Directs his passage through the land Upholds him as he goes along By this assistance makes him strong And when he stumbles gives His hand Both leads him when he slips and makes him firmer stand XII Through all my life which has so wondrous been From its first journey Youth to this last stage Where every day I have new wonders seen And been my self the greatest of the age The Liberal man I ne're knew need Himself quite left or Children crave An alms but what he lent they have For thus he did but cast that seed On whose increase they live and plentifully feed XIII Fly Vice and that thou may'st a blessing leave For Childrens Children to Gods ways form Thine Return that justice which thou didst receive So shall thy help be from the hand Divine That on thee shall pour mercies down Below shall give thee many dayes And happy all then after raise Thy head to an immortal Crown Whil'st the whole race of wicked shall to Hell be thrown XIV As his heart thinks the Just man ever speaks From Gods Law there like streams right judgement flows The Statutes he commands his hand ne're breaks And where that points his foot unerring goes In vain the Wicked snares do's lay And spreads in vain for him his nets To take his life the way besets For God shall in the Judgement day When he clears him the privy murderer justly slay XV. Wait on the Lord and see what end Hee 'll make Keep close to His and He shall guard thy way Thy duty 's all the care He 'd have thee take And only to possess the Land obey And when thy Enemies turn to dust And like that vanish from thy sight Thou shalt behold it with delight On His own terms th' Almighty trust For He who promis'd thee and threatned them is just XVI How could that be else which mine eyes have seen The Wicked in great power exceeding high Like some proud Cedar stand and ever green With his leaf age Heav'n with his head defie But yet he pass'd and yet he fell An hand immortall gave the wound No more could root or branch be found I look'd and ask'd but none could tell Where was the place it grew or whence it sunk to hell XVII Unlike the Perfect man whom God defends For if you mark him and observe th' Upright Mercy his life his death-bed peace attends Without all storm or Conscience to affright While that o'rethrow the wicked have Is a light taste of what shall be Their portion to Eternity From which their riches less can save Their guilty souls than their vile bodies from the grave XVIII In God the Poor do's all his trust repose To Him in trouble flyes in straits complains Who in return confounds His bloody foes And leads them captive in eternal Chains For none e're yet his eyes did raise To Heav'n for help and sought it thence With certain hope and confidence But Heav'n did crown his head with bayes And turn'd his Prayers into triumphant Songs of Praise Psalm XXXVIII Domine ne in furore tuo arguas me c. I. LORD in Thy wrath rebuke me not Nor in Thy fury chasten me For such weak things that Fornace is too hot And by my clay no more endur'd can be Than my injustice and repeated wrongs by Thee II. In vain Thy wrath I strive to fly And from my self in vain make haste For lo the dart by which I needs must die At once has pierc'd and in my side sticks fast By no hand to be drawn but His from whence 't was cast III. 'T is Thou alone my life must save For not my least part Lord is sound My bones with rottenness prevent the grave Turn'd to that dust the dead are under ground And my whole body is all o're but one great wound IV. My sins like billows o're me roll The sinner all engag'd to drown And with huge weights so press my helpless Soul That it unable to resist lyes down Under the load that 's yet made heavier by Thy frown V. Uneasie weight which as it lies New galls and bruises me all o're Under whose burden I scarce hope to rise For if I do I shall afresh but roar As long as that remains which caus'd at first my sore VI. My foolishness which like a fire That inward burns takes reins and heart Fed with that blood by which it should expire Seising e're felt the best and noblest part Beyond the cure of herbs or helpless Physicks art VII Thus weak and broken thus cast down To Thee alone my prayers I make Who all my sighs and tears and wounds hast known And the great cure canst only undertake Now all my friends me as a dying man forsake VIII Nor is this all my Enemies Least I should scape new toyls prepare Their tongues speak out the malice of their eyes And what too long they had conceal'd declare Lord what 's their hand if even their words thus cruel
always art bring mee That we may still together bee In Sion where Thy Presence makes it day Then with my Harp I 'll to Thy Altar go And what above shall never cease begin below IV. Why art Thou troubled Soul and restless grown As if forgotten through despair As if Thy God had left His care And lower than indeed Thou art cast down Trust in Him still for Thou His Name shalt praise And whom His absence has depress'd His sight shall raise Psalm XLIV Deus auribus nostris audivimus c. I. GReat God we oft have heard our Fathers tell The Mighty works which Thou of old hast done When to make room for them where they might dwell And in a Land of thine own choice sit down The Natives by Thy hand were overthrown How Egypt at Thy Signs admiring stood And thinking to pursue were drown'd i' th' flood II. 'T was not their Bow or Sword which forc'd their way Nor the weak aids their helpless arms could bring But Thou whose Word the Sacred Hosts obey Made'st certain Victory attend their string And as their arrows flew direct her wing Thy Light and Favour was their Arms and Guide And when they fought to conquer Thou did'st ride III. May'st Thou again do thus who art Our King And new deliv'rance for their Seed command Thou only canst such great Salvation bring As may again return us to Our Land And make us on our Enemies necks to stand And when Thy Power Thou on our side shalt show And beat them down through Thee wee 'll keep them so IV. T was not our Bow or Sword that helpt wee 'll say Northose weak aids our useless Arms did bring But He whose Word the Sacred Hosts obey Made certain Victory attend our string And as our arrows flew direct her wing He put our Enemies to flight and shame And His great Praise for ever wee 'll proclaim V. But we alas not they are forc'd to fly Since Thou who lead'st our Armies out of old Art now become Thy self an Enemy And make'st them more successfull grow and bold That what with wrong they got by force they hold Like one great flock of Sheep we scatt'red are And wolves devour those whom the Shambles spare VI. We openly are sold but 't is for nought Nor do's Thy treasure by our sale encrease By those who hate us we for slaves are bought Nor by our miseries do's their fury cease But wee in Warr less suff'red than in Peace A shame reproach and proverb wee are made In scorn to hands which were of ours afraid VII 'T is not our disappointments and disgrace That are the only causes of our shame Not these alone with blushes fill our face But the sad thoughts that Thou should'st bear our blame And have expos'd with us Thy Sacred Name For what 's our own we could with Patience bear But Blasphemies 'gainst Thee can never hear VIII Yet both Lord we have heard and both have born But in our suff'rings not forgotten Thee Resolv'd our steps from Thy Laws ne're to turn How rough and hard soe're the way may be Or in Thy Oath to deal perfidiously Though for our Masters we fierce Dragons have And all our service is in sight o' th' grave IX Had we forgotten His or to strange Names Of Idol-gods stretch'd out our suppliant hands Should not God know and visit this in flames Who the vast Empire of all hearts commands And thoughts more than we actions understands But for His sake alone all day we ' are slain Like Sheep and where we fed have dy'd the Plain X. Awake why sleep'st Thou Lord awake and rise And turn nor us nor Thy bright face away Let our distress find pity in Thine eyes Which see the weights they on our shoulders lay And how we prostrate for Thy succour pray Ah cause Thy face for Thy loves sake to shine And for our help arise who still are Thine Psalm XLV Eruct avit Cor meum verbum c. I. A Thousand fancies from my heart the Spring Like a swoln stream which banks can ne're control Increasing still as it along do's roll And grown impetuous scorns to be kept in Too great already in my Soul to stay They out will burst and by my tongue Flow in a swift and numerous Song Will there or find or force their way And make my hand which cannot stop to run as fast as they II. Dread Sov'reign when the argument is Thine And Thou art pleas'd to give me leave to sing Of all that grandure which enthrones my King No wonder if my Verse be gay and fine Thy beauty not my skill do's make it so Thou who in beauty dost excell The fairest Soul which best do's dwell From whose soft lips there ever flow That Grace and Blessing Heav'n till now on Man did ne're bestow III. Go on then Valiant Prince and gird Thy Sword Wherewith Thou hast so often Conquerer been Appear more glorious than Thou e're wert seen And let the whole world own Thee for their Lord Then mount Thy Chariot and in triumph ride With Meekness Truth and Equity And all the Virtues running by Whil'st Vict'ry do's Thy journeys guide And flies before new Conquests and fresh Laurels to provide IV. Then shall Thy arm for slaughter be made bare And Thy proud Enemies receive the darts Which Thou shalt throw and bury in their hearts Whil'st those that yield Thou dost as freely spare Nor Time nor place shall Thy Dominion bound The Justice of Thy Righteous sway Shall make all Lands all men obey And wheresoe're Thy Name shall sound Amids Thy foes new Subjects of Thy Kingdom shall be found V. That Righteousness Thou lov'st shall be Thy Crown And at Thy Feet Envy and Hate shall lie The Mighty God who rais'd Thee up so high Above Thy Fellows pour His Unction down With greater lustre make Thy Face to shine When He the Sacred Oyl shall shed Himself upon Thy Royall Head And to express the Love Divine Meekness with Majesty and to Thy Joys Thy Peoples joyn VI. They shall rejoyce when from the Iv'ry Throne Clad in Thy Robes of State Thou shalt appear When all the perfumes which the East do's bear And the bright Sun or makes or looks upon To Thine their Spirits and richest Odours add And breathing out their Souls shall say Thou hast more Sweets more Charms than they Thus near Thee to have come are glad That they may higher scents receive thence than at first they had VII Daughters of Kings make Thy illustrious train To do what e're Thy pleasure shall command And chain our eyes but that at Thy right hand The Queen with hers remands them back again Next Thee she stands Her Pall with Gold all wrought Where curious Art and Nature strive Which greater Ornament shall give Beyond Inventions barren thought Made of the richest Spoyls were e're from Ophirs treasure brought VIII And Thou O Queen incline Thy willing
I never cause of wrath or malice gave That to entrap me thus they snares should lay And what for them I could have spent my life betray II. Awake my help and to my aid come down To visit and destroy Thou need'st but frown Spare none of them my God that they Like hungry Doggs which have no Carkass found At night may disappointed of their prey With howlings only fill the Streets around And see the blood they hunted for in their own wound III. Look how they belch out poyson mortal Words And how one death attends their tongues and swords Yet who say they What God do's hear Even Thou O Lord who wilt their threats deride And having turn'd upon them their own fear In their destruction for my Life provide Who only on Thy strength and bounty have rely'd IV. They shall prevent my wish and let me see It granted e're my Prayers are made to Thee Yet at one blow destroy them not But let them wander and feel how they dye Least by my self the Mercy be forgot And without Monument to touch mine eye A swift Oblivion follow a swift Victory V. Let their own Lips and pride their ruine be And take them in the toiles they laid for me Upon themselves their Curses turn And in Thy Wrath my God consume them all Under them may they see the Furnace burn Whil'st they in vain for help to Thee will call And from their heights into the flames but lower fall VI. Then shall they know how far Thy Rule extends From Thy Throne Sion to th' Earths utmost ends When they to shun the light and day Like hungry Dogs at midnight only found Beat up and down in vain to seise their prey With howlings filling all the streets around And have no blood but what they draw from their own wound VII I the meanwhile will of Thy Power reherse And call the Morning up to hear my Verse Of Thee I 'le sing who heretofore For my defence appear'dst both great and strong And for my safety hast new aids in store Nor shall Eternity it self seem long When all the while My Strength and Saviour is my Song Psalm LX. Deus repulisti nos c. I. LOrd Thou hast smote us turn'd Thy Face aside And all thy Mercies dost in fury hide Like us Our very Mountains quake Return least We and They together fall For if Thou com'st not to Our Call We shall Our Land that its Foundations will forsake II. Low as the Earth press'd down with miseries As little hope is in our heart as eyes And though O God we still are Thine And only of the Cup Thou giv'st us drink We cannot of Thy Cov'nant think Instead of help astonishment is in the Wine III. Low as we were God did His Power display And in a moment chas'd our fears away Under His Banner Israel went The Lord of Hosts did on their side appear And though their Troops encamp'd in fear The God who led them out deliv'rance to them sent IV. God did it that His Glory might be known And with what ease He could defend His Own He bow'd His Ear and heard my Cry His Promise past and in it I rejoyce Gave me of all the World my Choice And on my Gods Almighty Promise I relye V. Sechem is Mine I will divide its Plain And o're the Vale of Succoth throw my Chain The Tribes of Israel shall obey Those which lye furthest of or nearer stand Shall yield themselves to my Command Shall serve while Judah gives them Laws and holds the sway VI. Moab's my Wash-pot and shall sue to be A Vassall to my basest drudgery Philistia shall my Chariot meet Honour'd enough if she may bear that Yoke Proud Edom ha's so often broke And Edom shall submit her neck and take my feet VII But who to Edom will direct my Course And entrance for me into Bozra force God shall direct me to the Town God who of late ha's seem'd to disappear And when He comes knowing He 's there The Walls to make Him way shall open or fall down VIII Help Us O God for we in vain implore A Forraign Aid which wants our succour more Thou art my help through Thee my head With Laurel shall be crown'd and in my wayes Some Enemies neck the ground shall raise So that my feet shall triumph too and on them tread Psalm LXI Exaudi Deus deprecationem c. I. HEar me my Saviour for to Thee I cry And let Thy answer shew that Thou art nigh Banish'd forlorn and under deep suspense Lord lead me to some higher Rock Where I these straits may overlook And though I come not thither see Thy Temple thence II. Thou hast my refuge been Thy Strength my Tower And in my weakness I have seen Thy Power And shall behold it still and yet abide For all this absence on Thy Hill And there my present Vows fulfill Brought on those wings under whose shadow now I hide III. I 'm confident for Thou hast heard my Vows And my experience speaks but what it knows For to the Throne my way Thou first did'st show To rule or'e them who fear Thy Name And since Thou alwayes art the same Thou who hast made Thy Servant King wil't keep him so IV. His Life Thou wilt prolong to many dayes His Seed in th' Age to come Thy name shall praise Preserve him Lord let Truth and Mercy be The chief Supporters of his Throne By all the Graces waited on That He may pay as well as make His Vows to Thee Psalm LXII Nonne Deo subjecta erit c. I. ON God alone my Soul depends From Him do's my salvation come Himself is the salvation which He sends And for my Conquests His great Arm makes room He is my Rock and sure defence And all that I expect is thence There I unmov'd shall stand when tempests roar And Seas which threaten me are dash't against the shore II. How long then will you plots devise Against a Man who is upright Upon yourselves shall fall your sland'rous lyes And your own arms against you turn the fight By your own mischiefs you shall fall Be like a great but bowing wall Whose own weight when too weak to stand 't is grown Do's but with greater violence help to bear it down III. God ha's advanc'd me to the Throne Above the malice of their eye Thence if they could they strive to pull me down And undermine what out of shot do's lye Deceit and gall is in their hearts And there they dip their poyson'd darts Their hearts they think can by no eye be seen If once the Visor of base Flatt'ry come between IV. But Thou my Soul on God depend From Him must Thy Salvation come Himself is the Salvation which He 'l send And for Thy Conquest His great arms make room He is my Rock and sure defence And all that I expect is thence There I unmov'd shall stand when
Which shall from Sea to Sea extend As far as there is any ground And only where the World finds her's have end Then up to Heav'n His Fame shall fly And fill the Mighty Circle of the Sky VIII Black Ethiopia at His Feet shall bow Her neck for Him to tread upon Honour'd enough if thus He show Acceptance of the Footstool for His Throne Down in the dust His Foes shall lye With heads more low than once their thoughts were high IX The Western Continent and farthest Isles And both the Indies gifts shall bring To Him they shall present the spoyles Of Sea and Land as Universal King All Kings before Him shall bow down And do for Theirs Just Homage to His Crown X. Kingdoms Opprest shall His Protection crave And Needy States unto Him sue Th' Opprest He with His Arms shall save And with the Needy His Old League renew Redeem their Slaves defend their Right And shew their blood was precious in His sight XI Thus shall He live and reign and thus receive The Tributes which to Him are paid Some Myrrh some Frankincense shall give And Gold which shall like Stones be Common made And the due Service of each day Shall be to praise that King for whom we pray XII Then shall th' Earth produce her richest store And Mountain tops be safely plough'd Which though they barren were before With Libanus shall vye and shout as loud Nor shall the City flourish less Than Her parch'd Hills but like the fields encrease XIII And when to God he shall resign His breath Yet in His Name He still shall live Above the Pow'r of Grave or Death And to Immortal Verse a Subject give Which of His Happy Reign shall sing And count that Land so which ha's such a King XIV Bless Him whose Word these Miracles obey And who must all these gifts bestow To Israel's God let Israel pray That from His Spring such streams may ever flow For ever bless His Holy Name Nor bound with less than Heav'n His Mighty Fame The Prayers of David the Son of Jesse are ended The end of the Second Book of Psalms THE THIRD BOOK OF PSALMS Psalm LXXIII Quam bonus Israel Deus his c. I. IT is enough nor will I more distrust As I have done the Almighty Love I know Hee 's kind as well as Just And by my self this certain Truth can prove How cross so ' ere His Wayes may go At least seem cross to Us below Nor Him nor Them have Israel or the Just found so II. But e're I learn't this Lesson it was long And many a weary Stage I went My sliding feet were almost gone And I at last could hardly yield assent Whilst with these narrow steps of mine I thought to pace the wayes Divine Slipp'ry as glass they were though they with flowers did shine III. For when I saw the Wicked's Prosperous State And thousand Blessings He enjoyes Maintain'd by that which God do's hate In the Worlds glory and its greatest noyse My heart did at His honours rise And though I did the Beast despise In all his Trappings on him look'd with envyous eyes IV. Lusty and strong he laughs at those weak bands Which death on all the World do's lay And when the rest of Mankind stands With fear appall'd he dares the evil day Troubles which other Mortals fright He boldly challenges to fight And makes devouring plagues before him scape by flight V. Hence springs his pride with which the Violent Adorns his neck as with a Chain More for disgrace than Ornament And suited to his garments bloody stain Plump as the grape his face do's shine With eyes more sparkling than his Wine And to vast Wealth he do's unequal wishes joyne VI. Disdainfully he looks on all below As worthyer of his scorn than fear Him and themselves He 'll make them know And high as his proud minde his head do's bear But not content his mouth to spend Making it heard to the Worlds end He up on high to Heav'n his blasphemies do's send VII This as the Righteous see and thence return Their several Wayes to think upon In bitterness of heart they mourn And the Lords Councels measure by their own How is it possible say they That Justice thus provok'd can stay Her hands and the known Criminal forbear to slay VIII These are the Men yet being so they thrive Grow rich and wealthy dwell at ease Drones of repute it 'h Worlds great hive And feed on the industrous Bees increase Secure thy life from grief and care Calmy and smooth their faces are And could you see their hearts no storm came ever there IX In vain my heart to cleanse Thee have I strove And guiltless hands have wash'd in vain My Innocence nor can remove Nor tell how long I must endure my pain Then Fare well helpless Innocence With such a Friend I can dispence Who makes me suffer only with the greater sence X. But hold Fond Tongue consider who do's hear And whom Thy babling do's offend A seed who are th' Almighties Care And whom in love He do's afflictions send Therefore to search the Point again And how I might the cause maintain A-new to study I resolv'd but all in vain XI In vain I try'd for I ne're found it out Till to Thy Temple Lord I went Though I sought for it round about Till thither come I knew not what I meant There first I understood their end And what was Thyne thus to contend And poyson'd shafts of blessings through their hearts to send XII Surely for ruin they were set on high As men condemn'd in view of all And though the Scaffold touch the sky 'T is but that thence they may bee seen to fall Down they are fallen fled away As Phantasms at the approach of day Like their own dreams but more ridiculous are they XIII What a beast was I then Lord to repine A very fool to grieve my heart When all this while I have been Thine And though unknown secur'd my better part Thy Right hand has upholden me Thy Counsel shall my convoy be Unto that rest which I can only have with Thee XIV Thou art my Portion and from Thee alone My Peace and Happiness do flow In Heav'n besides Thee I have none And Heav'n it self Thy Presence Lord makes so And could I hoard up endless store Of that the World as God adore Without thy fulness I should empty be and Poor XV. Dry up then when you please Ye fayling Springs Or seek some other to deceive Who rest on such unstable things With you can quench their flames and on you live For I am only sick of love Nor can your streams my thirst remove For still my flesh and heart pant for the streams above XVI Confounded be all those whose sottish lust To senseless Idols bowes them down For when they most upon them trust Then they most surely shall be overthrown For my part I 'll to God draw near Make Him my
cannot reach so high stoop Thou to me II. Hear me my God for I am wondrous low And to the grave my life draws nigh Loaded with cares my Soul do's go And in the Pit is readie down to lie Already I am numbred with the Dead And that small strength I had Weakness at best is fled III. Free as the Dead and like one long since slain Who is forgotten in the Grave And never shall return again Or but upon his Tomb Memoriall have Low in the Pit I 'm lai'd down in the Deep And its rough waves my head do under water keep IV. Far from me Thou hast put my Nearest Friends Who as forsaken look on me Because my God no succour sends They think me hated or unknown to Thee As in a Pest-house quite given o're I 'm laid And those who pitty me are of my Sores afraid V. My eyes with teares o'recome yet look to Thee And for Thy help I daily cry When at night I cannot see With stretcht out armes I feel if Thou art nigh Wil t Thou say I to th'Dead Thy wonders show Let me but see them Lord and Thou do'st truly so VI. Shall the Dead rise and praise Thee or Thy love Be in the Land of Darkness seen Shall in the Grave Thy Praise improve Sung there where silence has for ever been Where dark oblivion uncontroll'd do's reign And dismal Horror riots o're the empty Plain VII And then again I new Petitions make And would prevent Thee with my Prayer With Thee the Morning do's partake And with my tears instead of dew looks fair But thou withdraw'st Thy self and out of sight Hid'st in thick Clouds that Face which gives me all my light VIII From my youth up I have Thy Terrors felt Ready with grief and pain to die Thy Wrath like fire my Soul do's melt And quite consumes what it should purifie Or like a troubled Sea do's o're me roll And thus by several Deaths or burns or drowns my Soul IX Far from me Thou hast put my Nearest Friend Whom Thou at first to me didst give Through Death Our Friendship cannot end For in the sad Survivour it shall live My Dear Acquaintance in the grave is laid And Two whom God made One Death again Two has made P.M.O.C. Psalm LXXXIX Misericordias Domini in aeternum c. IN flowing Numbers I resolve to sing The Truth and Mercies of th' Eternal King That late posterity His love may know Both what He did and what He 's sworn to do That Faithfullness which He has said shall stand Like Heav'n first made and stablisht by His hand When thus He spake I have to David past My Word and with an Oath have bound it fast Saying Thy seed I 'll bless upon Thy Throne And make its rule Eternal like my own Angels for this Thy Wonders must declare Such praises too sublime for Mortals are Who only can below admire Thy love Not joyn with but attend the Quire above For who in Heav'n with Thee can be compar'd Whom all adore as Thou by all art fear'd Or who among the mighty Sons of Earth Is like to Thee who gav'st their Mother Birth Before whose Throne Blest Saints and Angels bow And cast those Crowns which to Thy hand they owe. Whose great Commands the Heavenly Host obey And execute the charge which Thou dost lay So Just so True so full of Majesty Lord like Thy self Thou art and none like Thee The Sea when it to Heav'n in storms do's rise At Thy Rebuke in Humble Vallies lies Asunder Thou didst break the threatning Wave And in its bowels mad'st Proud Pharaohs grave The Heav'n with all its glorious Flames are Thine And with reflection from Thine eye they shine The Earth and all the stores the Earth containes Of Thy first fulness are the Mighty Dreins Thou bid'st it stand unmov'd above the Flood And saw'st what er'e Thy hand had done was good The North and South and all its coasts around Thou for Thy Pleasure first did'st make and bound Tabor and Hermon in Thy Name rejoyce And up to Thee the Vallies raise their Voice No Pow'r can Thy All-conqu'ring Arm with-stand So strong is that so high is Thy Right Hand Justice and Faithfulness uphold Thy Throne Mercie and Truth 's the Base it rests upon A thousand Graces round about Thee flie And take new life and vigor from Thine eye Thrice happy land whose Sovereign Lord Thou art Who hear Thy Law and to it yield their heart Who in Thy gracious Presence ever dwell And all the stories of Thy Power can tell Who have Thee for the subject of their Verse And every day can of Thy Truth reherse Thine Lord who art their strength their Fort and Tower And on their heads the Anointing Oyl dost poure Thou art Our God and we Thy Praise will sing Who in Thy stead o're us mad'st David King For thus His Will God to His Prophet told And in a Vision made Him it behold Saying I searcht the People all around And now to my Own Heart a Man have found David on whom the Burden shall be laid Of ruling Israel and their King be made I have anointed him with Him my Hand Shall both to conquer be and to command I from Conspiracies his Crown will guard And all his gates shall be most surely barr'd Before His Face his Enemies shall fall And unto me in vain for succour call For down I 'll tread them but his head will raise And with my Truth and Love make plain His Wayes His Empire to the River shall extend And only where the Earth finds hers have end All Lands and Seas to him shall tribute yield And of his conquests be the fruitful field By Name of Father to Him I 'll be known Of God and Rock and he shall be My Son My First-born higher than the Kings of th' Earth With Rule and Subjects worthy of his Birth My Oath and Covenant shall with him stand fast And I 'll that Promise keep which I have past Nor shall it be confin'd to him alone But his seed too shall have their Fathers Throne ' Which as the dayes of Heav'n shall constant be And know no bounds but vast Eternity If they my Statutes and my Laws forsake And break the Covenant which this day I make Then I their Sins will visit with a Rod But never cease to be their King and God ' My Mercie and my Truth will ne're remove Nor take away though I may hide My love My Promise and my Vow I 'll never break Nor change the Word which once my Mouth did speak For by my self I once to David swore And by My Holiness confirme't once more His seed and Throne like Heav'n shall constant be And know no bounds but Vast Eternity Witness ye Heav'ns which in my sight remain And you bright stars that in your Courses reign Both Sun and Moon against Me Witness be If Time it self endures so long as He This Thou hast
shall thee affright VI. The Pestilence which in thick darkness walks And in the empty City stalks The Sword which on whole Lands do's prey And to bear witness calls the day When Thou appear'st shall turn another way VII On Thy left hand it shall a thousand smite And kill ten thousand on Thy right But nigher shall not come to Thee Only Thine eyes with joy shall see What the Rewards of all the wicked be VIII Because Thou to my Rock for help did'st fly Above Thy fears to the Most High There shall no evil Thee befall Near Thee shall come no Plague at all Who art beyond their reach and lowdest call IX Around in Bands His Angels shall attend And guard Thee to Thy Journeys end To lead Thee some and some to strow Those wayes with flowers which others show And make the paths all smooth where Thou shalt go X. Thou on the Basilisks proud neck shalt tread The Lion shall bow down his head With them shall conquer'd Dragons meet And humbly stooping at Thy Feet Their Captive Chains unto each other greet XI To Me saies God he look'd and therefore I Will where he look'd set him on high I was the Object of his Love For as his Prayers did upward move T was that they sounded in my ears above XII To Me in all his troubles shall he cry I 'le answer him and speedily Will bring him out with songs of praise Give him long life and happy daies And after crown him with Eternal Bayes Psalm XCII Bonum est confiteri Dominum c. I. WHat Saints in Heav'n and Angels do I 'le count my Duty and my Honour too Morning and Night Great God to raise My Song as high as Thou hast set Thy Praise With all the Numbers Musick can invent My Voice and Harp and Ten-string'd Instrument That what from Thee first came may back to Thee be sent II. Thou hast deserv'd it and my Song Shall tell abroad what Thy great hand ha's done And in Thy wondrous Works I will rejoyce And with the lofty subject fill my voice But Lord what Verse can with thy Power compare And shew Thy thoughts or what Thy Counsels are Which Fools despise and none can as they ought declare III. For when like Grass the wicked spring And prosper for a season in their sin 'T is that like Grass they may be mown And dung that Field which they before did crown Thou who on high dost all their malice see And that less mine than they were foes to Thee Hast thus design'd that their eternal fall should be IV. But Thou on high shalt raise my head And on it make the Sacred Oyl be shed And raise it as the Unicorn To guard his Empire lifts his Sovereign Horn And then upon my bloody Enemies My ears shall have their wish and then my eyes Without regret their misery shall see and hear their cryes V. Then like the Palm the Just shall grow And as if under weights more beauteous show Like Cedars shall be ever green The World's renown as they the Woods havebeen His hand which planted them shall make them thrive The Sacred Earth new roots and sap shall give Both in His Courts to flourish and in His House to live VI. There shall they live and have a Spring As constant as the soil they 're planted in Age shall but render them more fair More gay and fruitful than in youth they were That all the World Thy Power O God may know And to Thy Kingdom 's Righteous Scepter bow Who mak'st the Green Tree wither and the Dry to grow Psalm XCIII Dominus regnavit decorem c. I. SUbmit your Crowns O Kings for God do's reign And ha's Himself put on His Crown Throw at His Feet your Scepters down And pardon by your quick submission gain Unto your selves ascribe His Power no more But what He first gave you to him again restore II. Girt round with Majesty the Lord do's reign His Kingdom is the World He made And on such sure Foundations laid That like his Word it shall unmov'd remain 'T is there he rules but Heav'n is fit alone For our best Wishes since He there ha's set His Throne III. There as He sits the Floods would to Him rise Their threatning heads on high they bear But hopeless ever to come near Roar and send up their clamours to the skyes Above He hears and scorns them stills their noise And in their loudest roaring makes them hear His voice IV. All things obey His Will whose Law 's so sure That all things by it firmly stand From Nothing that did first command Their Beings and now makes them to endure Thy Power O God do's reach us every where But in Thy Temple do's Thy Holiness appear Psalm XCIV Deus ultionum Dominus c. I. JUdge of the Universe Great Lord of All Equal Disposer of Rewards and Punishments Arise and to Thy Barr the Nations call Both for their Actions to be judg'd and their intents Arise Great Judge that by Thy Just Decree As are the Proud Man's Merits his Reward may be II. How long my God shall He unpunisht go And then most prosper when he most do's Thee offend Speaking hard things of what he do's not know And make to patient Heav'n his blasphemies ascend To Heav'n he raises his exalted Crown And under-foot Heaven's Holy seed the while treads down III. A Widdow now and then a Stranger slayes And with theirs drinks the blood of th' murd'red Fatherless Ha's several baits to throw for several preys And several snares which he can unsuspected dress So close he saith and from suspition free That Jacob's God though He stood by should never see IV. Canst thou be then so brutish and unwise Fond Man to think He sees not or not hears Who made at first the light and gave Thee eyes And form'd for sounds the subtil windings of thy ears Or can the World 's just Ruler partial be Or God Himself know nothing who at first taught thee V. He knows the Heart and the most secret thought How vain are Our desires Our hatred love and fears And happy Man who ha's the skill been taught To know Himself though he with chastening learn't tears In trouble God will give him rest and peace And by the wicked's fall his glory shall increase VI. For the Wise God will not His choice forsake Nor His inheritance to strangers ever leave Justice and Right again the Chair shall take And injur'd Innocence then clear'd its Crown receive Never to be opprest or suffer more But have rewards above the wrongs it felt before VII But whence said I shall come my present aid Or who against my foes my Title will defend Hadst not Thou Lord my help and shield been made The grave e're this had put to that and me an end But when I slipt Thy Mercies me sustain'd And in the tumults of my thoughts Thy Comforts reign'd VIII For can God said I or the Holy
look o're their bounding sands And see what 's done at Land though they cannot come there V. Let them see how the Mountains glad as they Look from their tops when God will come away He comes But who His Presence can abide That the Great Judge of all shall be Yet who would not His entrance see When He with equall Justice shall each cause decide Psalm XCIX Dominus regnavit irascantur c. I. THE Lord do's reign let the Earth fear And tremble till its old Foundations shake For though Mount Sion He His Court do's make His Empire reaches every where Let the whole World before His Name fall low For it is Holy and most rais'd when they do so II. He Righteousness and Truth do's love Is the Kings strength as they His glory are Jacob His Judgements had and was His Care Exalt our God who reigns above The Holy God and at His Footstool bow For then you raise Him most when there you fall most low III. Moses and Aaron and the Quire Of Priests which alwayes in His Court attend Samuel with those whose praises there ascend And from His Altar have their fire In their distress when they did to Him fly He who their troubles saw as freely heard their cry IV. He heard them and that very Flame Which to His Presence did their Prayers conveigh No less for His return prepar'd the way Which through the Cloudy Pillar came He answer'd them and as He heard forgave And though reveng'd the sin yet did the sinner save V. Thus He of old their Faith did prove And unseen by them through the darkness saw How they observ'd His Word and kept His Law Exalt our God who reigns above The Holy God and in His Temple bow For then you raise Him most when there you fall most low Psalm C. Jubilate Deo omnis terra I. YOU who thrâ—ughout the World that Power adore Which first made it and then made you Give to the Lord what is His due And what Man ha's usurpt His Praise restore II. 'T is God alone who by His Word made All And by His Word that All sustains And Nothing by the Wonder gains Except to save and hear us when we call III. We are His People He Our Maker is Our Shepheard He and we His sheep Whom He secure do's ever keep And praise is all that He expects for this IV. Approach His Courts and enter them with praise And of His Mighty Power rehearse Make that the subject of your Verse And up to Heav'n with it His Goodness raise V. Who most shalt bless Him let 's together strive His Mercies have been ever sure His Truth for ever shall endure What can we less when He so much do's give Psalm CI. Misericordiam Justitiam c. I. I Will of Judgement and of mercy sing The greatest Praises of the greatest King And since mine 's nothing worth His own unto Him bring II. 'T was He discover'd to me first the Way I 'll follow where He shew'd the passage lay O come and lead me Lord that I may never stray III. With my integrity I 'll never part But be my Seed's as Thou my Pattern art And as Thy Way is perfect so shall be my Heart IV. No wicked thing will I with pleasure see My Innocent eyes no more shall guilty be Or look so low since they have once been rais'd to Thee V. I 'll hate the work of him who turns aside His way from life and happiness lyes wide And as he shuns me from him I my face will hide VI. The Privy slanderer I will ore'throw Reject the Proud nor with the froward go Their great heights when they fall shall make them sink more low VII But he in mine shall be as in Thy sight Whose heart and wayes Thy Laws have made upright To Thee a Servant but my Friend and chief delight VIII He in my house shall dwell but never there Shall the deceitful or false Man appear Destruction cannot be far of when they are near IX Early I will destroy them and my hand Shall cut them off and guiltless make the Land And on their spoils Gods City shall triumphing stand Psalm CII Domine exaudi orationem c. I. MY dearest God let my Pray'r come to Thee Nor at my sighes and cry offended be Dart through these pitchy clouds one ray Divine And make Thy glorious Face appear If Thou art pleas'd again to shine I will no longer fear But hope that He who sees my Pain will bend His ear II. But hear me then and answer speedily ' Ere 't is too late and I no more can cry For as dry wood do's in the fornace burn And vanishes in smoak away So all my strength to smoak do's turn And feels its own decay Whil'st on my bones and heart a fire unseen do's prey III. So fierce it rages that I quite forget Through pain and grief my very bread to eat The tears I shed do but the flame encrease My bones and flesh become more dry And all the while I held my peace Less burnt then now I cry And grass the Sun ha's toucht is not so scorch't as I. IV. And as the solitary Pelican And widdow'd Turtle for their mates complain Just like the Owle which do's in desarts dwell Hating and hated of the light That to the Rocks her moans do's tell So shun I every sight By day and weary with my mournfull cryes the night V. Both night and day I 'm made the common scorn And those who hate me are against me sworn Ashes and Tears have been my meat and drink Whil'st I continually did grieve Of Thy Just wrath and hand to think What mortal wounds they give Lifting me up a greater fall but to receive VI. And as the shaddow with the Sun declines And disappears when that no longer shines As with the Summer heat flowers pine away So pass my years e're well begun But an Eternal Now do's tay On Thyne ne're to be done When thousand Ages shall their several Race have run VII The mis'ries of Thy Sion Thou hast seen How great Her Sorrows what her Cares have been To save Thy Sion Lord at length arise Her mighty Jubilee is come And now her very dust we prize Her rubbish and Her lome And humbly begg Thou would'st return her captives home VIII So shall the heathen fear Thy Holy Name And all their Kings Thy Kingdomes rule proclaim When thus again Thou Sion shalt rebuild And in Thy glory there appear When all Her Courts with Vowes are fill'd And Thou inclin'st Thine Ear The Prayer of the Forsaken and their groans to hear IX For the next age this story we 'll record That they as well as We may praise the Lord Who from the height of Heav'n His Throne look'd down And did from thence the Earth behold Thence heard the dying Pris'ners grone Saw Justice chain'd with gold And sav'd both Her and them for
pot and shall sue to be A vassal to my basest drudgery Philistia shall my Chariot meet Honourd enough if she may bear the yoke Proud Edom has so often broke And Edom shall submit her neck and take my Feet VIII But who to Edom will direct my course And entrance for Me into Bozra force God shall direct me to the Town God who of late has seem'd to disappear And when He comes viewing Him there The Walls to make Him Way shall open or fall down IX Help usO God for we in vain implore A forreign aid which wants Our succour more Thou art my help through Thee my head With Laurel shall be crown'd and in my Wayes Some Enemies necks the ground shall raise So that my feet shall triumph too and on them tread Psalm CIX Deus laudem meam ne tacueris c. I. Guard of my Life and God of all my Praise Who see'st the Outrage off'red me Thy self and Power for my just sentence raise Nor let the wrongs I bear reflect on Thee Thou hear'st what cruel Words the wicked speak Let not them only and not Thou Thy Silence break II. With words of hatred I am girt around And from all parts they with me fight So hard that I am all but one great wound And the whole cause I give them is my Right With prayers for them their malice would reprove But those with Scorn with hatred they reward my Love III. Let him some Tyrant serve be made a Slave And Satan place at his right hand No other pitty find than what he gave And at his Enemies tribunal stand Let him be judg'd condemn'd and all his prayers Be made in vain to deaf or else to stubborn eares IV. Let suddain death his wretched life attend His office to another give Let on his wife and seed the curse descend They Fatherless and she a Widdow live Let them be vagabonds and begg their bread And have have no certain place to hide or rest their head V. Let the Extortioner catch all he has And strangers to his labours come Let him find none who will resent his case But with new miseries encrease the summ None who will to him any Mercy show Or on his Fatherless one friendly look bestow VI. Let them be all cut off and their curst Name In the next age be quite forgot Or if they be remembred let their shame On their Atchievments be a constant blot Let his fore-Fathers Sins be in Thine ey And all his Mothers lusts afresh for vengeance cry VII Let silence or reproach upon him rest And as it ne're was in his minde Either to favour or relieve th' opprest Neither reliefe nor favour let him find But as the Needy he with wrongs persu'd On his own head Let them be all again renew'd VIII As he Lov'd cursing let him still be curst And hated blessing seek in vain With envy which first swel'd him let him burst And then like water on him turn ' it again Like Oyle let it to ' his very marrow pierce And like those flames which boyle it be but far more fierce IX Give him no other garment for his pride Than this with which he was array'd Close with his girdle let his loines be ty'd To all a terror of himself afraid And executed by the hand Divine Let this his ruine be who only plotted mine X. But Lord my God for thine own great Names sake And for I hy Mercy rescue me Thou who the poor mans cause do'st undertake As ready to assist the helpless be Look how I stooping go and bow'd to th' ground But there no herb can find to ease or heal my wound XI My dayes and age are like a shaddow gon That when the Sun withdraws is lost And as the locust driven up and down From field to field from land to land I 'm tost My knees and flesh of strength through fasting fayl And those who wounded me with scornes my life assail XII But Lord my God for Thine Own great Names sake And for Thy Mercy rescue me That all may know the care Thou ' art pleas'd to take And in my sure deliverance honour Thee Bless Thou and let them curse confound their noise And make them all asham'd whilst I in Thee rejoyce XIII Shame and confusion to my Enemies Let it their Vest and Portion be Whilst I to Heaven in tuneful Numbers rise And tell abroad what God has done for me How from Oppession he the Poor did save And what his judges had deny'd just sentence gave Psalm CX Dixit Dominus Domino meo c. I. THE Lord said to my Lord The Mighty God to the Eternal Word Sit Thou at my Right hand Till I Thine Enemies command To be the Foot-stool to Thy Throne And freely yield their necks for Thee to tread upon II. Sion's that glorious Throne Whence with disdain Thy foes Thou look'st upon Thence Thou around shalt reign And by Thy Power new subjects gain Thy Enemies shall They obey And once return'd none shall more Loyall be than they III. And as the Summer Sun When Winters past and all its rage is done Do's every Morning view His way all strew'd with pearly dew Whose Numbers cannot reck'ned be T is a faint Emblem of Thy long Posterity IV. His Oath God will not break But King and Priest Thou ' art like Melchisedoc The Lord at Thy Right hand Shall let no Proud Usurper stand But Kings shall bow and in Thy Train Be captive led whilst there 's made Trophies of the slain V. He the Great Head shall wound When it shall Queeen of all the World be crown'd Drink of the brook i' th' way And follow till He gives the day But when His Cross shall death strike Dead Th' Eternal God Himself shall raise and crown His head Psalm CXI Confitebor tibi Domine c. I. WIth my whole heart I 'll praise the Lord Word And where He chose to honour it exalt His In the Assemblies of the just There will I all His noble Works disclose His Famous Acts sought out of those Who them their pleasure make and Him their Trust. II. His glorious Works are great and high No more to be conceiv'd than seen by mortal eye And shall for ever so remain Eternity it self is scarce enough To praise His Mercy and His Love And what we now unknown admire make plain III. He for His People did provide And never broke His Word or Covenant deni'd They saw His Signes beheld His hand How for their sake He made His power appear Prepar'd them conquests by the fear Which He sent first into their Enemies land IV. Justice and Truth are all His Wayes And on Eternal Faithfulness His Promise staies Beyond all ages they shall last And when Old Time it self away shall flee Remain as firm as now they bee And on their own great Basis fixt stand fast V. Deliverance He for Israel wrought And to save them His greatest plagues on
But on Thy God O Israel trust He only is Thy help and shield O house of Aaron flee to Him that 's Just For He is Thine and help will yield All you who fear th' Almighty Lord Upon Him trust and flee unto His Word For He 's your help and He will be your shield And though you flee it is to gain the field VI. The Lord has mindful of us been And He will all Our joyes restore The house of Israel have His blessing seen And He will bless them more and more The house of Aaron He will bless And all who fear Him shall by ' His love encrease 'Twixt rich and poor He do's no difference know But by His blessing both in numbers grow VII Bless'd of that God who all things made Both Earth and Sea and glorious Heaven High Heav'n's His seat and of Him is afraid But He to Man the Earth has given 'T is there that we admire His Wayes Before the grave shut us up and His Praise There will we bless the God in whom we live And as He life to us Him praises give Hallelujah Psalm CXVI Delexi quoniam exaudivit c. I. I Love Thee Lord with my whole heart For Thou dost my petitions hear Because Thou to me hast inclin'd Thine ear And thus propitious to Thy servant art With new requests I 'll ever prove Thee And shew by that I love Thee II. The pains of death enclos'd me round Grief held my heart and teares my eyes My grave stood open and death thence did rise Trouble and Horror on all sides I found Death it self waited underneath Above the pains of Death III. Yet to the Lord I cry'd and said My God Thy help I now implore Deliver me as Thou hast done before When in my trouble I unto Thee pray'd Though I deserv'd to be deni'd Yet to the Lord I cry'd IV. To wrath He 's slow abounds in love Our sins most ready to forgive The Innocent upon His bounty live In Him they live who reigns their God above He help'd me when I was brought low For He to wrath is slow V. Then to Thy rest my Soul return For God has kindly dealt with Thee Thy feet from sliding life from death set free Nor shall Thy failing eyes in sorrow mourn Thy dayes to praise Him are increas'd Return Soul to Thy rest VI. Lord I believe and therefore speak I knew I should Thy Mercy praise Though when afflicted and in rugged wayes One sorrow did my heart and silence break Then I all flesh the ly did give And yet Lord I believe VII What shall I bring and yield the Lord For all His Favours shown to me A thankful heart my sacrifice shall be I 'll praise Him and rely upon His Word New songs of thanks I 'll to Him sing And this at least will bring VIII My Vowes which in distress I made Before His People will I pay His People shall rejoice that solemn day Whilst those who are His En'mies be afraid When He His plagues upon them throws And do's accept My Vowes IX Dear in His sight His servants are He will Himself repay their wrong Though in forbearing He may seem too long It is more deep to strike and not to spare Nor is the death of the upright Less pretious in His sight X. Lord I am Thine and thine will be Thy Handmaids Son whom Thou did'st save My God Himself a ransome for me gave And to a nobler service set me free Thou brake'st my bonds and made'st me mine And now Lord I am Thine XI This will I bring and yield the Lord For all His Favours shown to me A thankful heart my sacrifice shall be I 'll praise Him and rely upon His Word New songs of thanks I 'll to Him sing And this at least will bring XII My Vowes which in distress I made Before His People will I pay His People shall rejoice that solemn day And where I made them there shall see them pai'd Within the Courts of the Lord's House There will I pay my Vowes Hallelujah Psalm CXVII Laudate Dominum Omnes c. I. ALL you who to the Lord your Beings ow All Nations with His blessings crown'd All people through the World renown'd Sing praises to that God who made you so II. To God whose Mercy do's to all extend Is great to us and good to you And with His Truth do's still renew But like Himself knowes neither bound nor end Hallelujah Psalm CXVIII Confitemini Domino quoniam c. I. TO God's Almighty Name sing praise And you who know how good He is Resign to Him what 's truely His And Arches of His own great Mercies raise For like His Word they have been sure And to Eternity endure II. Israel the great Jehova's choice Who all His fearful Works have seen Who His great Care have alwayes been Let Israel now confess with thankful voice His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure III. Let those who by their place attend And at His Altar daily wait Their own experiences relate Sing as they see the sacred flame ascend His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IV. And to advance the Blessed King Let all the Righteous with them join And in a service thus Divine Bear their part too and in the Chorus sing His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure V. To God on high for help I cri'd Who from His Temple answer'd me Both heard my prayers and set me free The Lord of Host Himself was on my side I will not fear what man can do Since I 've a God to flee unto VI. With those who help'd me He was seen His Presence brought my greatest aid Nothing shall make me now afraid He 'll be my sword who has my Buckler been And when my Foes shall be o'rethrowne I 'll boast of what His hand has done VII Those who their Care on God do cast And know no other will but His Of sure recruits shall never miss But as a Rock i' th' midst of stormes stand fast On God 't is more secure to trust Than man who must return to dust VIII He never yet did any fail Most sure when most reli'd upon And though His Power subscribes to none He lets weak prayers o're Heav'n and Him prevail On God 't is more secure to trust Than Princes who must turn to dust IX Let Barbarous Nations girt me round And for my ruine all engage My trust is plac'd above their rage And stands unshaken on the higher ground For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all X. Round let them compass me and round And for my ruine all engage My Trust is plac'd above their rage And stands unshaken on the higher ground For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all XI Let them
like Bees about me swarm And all to be my death engage Like fire in Thornes or stubble rage My head shall be defended by this Charm For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all XII The bloody Man thrust at me hard And hop'd at length to see me fall But when I on the Lord did call That sword brought death to him which me had spar'd God who 's my strength shall be my song And whom I call'd I 'll stay upon XIII The voice of Triumph and of praise The just mans mouth do's ever fill His voice is like his trumpet shrill When up to Heav'n Thy Vict'ries he do's raise 'T was thou the Conquest did obtain And Thy Right hand the day did gain XIV The Lords right hand did mighty things No power before His power could stand For when He made bare His Right hand Armies before Him fled and Potent Kings 'T was That the Conquest did obtain And His Right hand the day did gain XV. Empty Thy Quiver Death else where Be gon and pierce some softer heart For I defie Thy sharpest dart Am both above Thy malice and Thy fear I know I shall not dy but live And praise Him who my Life did give XVI Low as the dust I was brought down To the dark Suburbs of the grave But He was pleas'd my life to save And what He up had rais'd my Head did crown Open the Gates of Righteousness For lo I am return'd in Peace XVII Blest gates of the Divine aboad Which to the Holy Place let in Where all the just their Offrings bring And haste into the Presence of their God There Lord I 'll praises sing to Thee For Thou hast bow'd Thine eare to mee XVIII The stone the Builders did refuse Had often tri'd oft thrown away Is now the Mighty Fabricks stay God chose it for the Noblest place and use This is His doing and when thus God builds His Work is marvellous XIX This is the day which He has made Hosannas now befit our voice Come let us in Our God rejoice And in the day which He has made be glad That He Prosperity may send And to Our troubles put an end XX. Sacred Embassador of God Who hither in His Name do's come We in His Temple make Thee room And bless Our King from His Divine aboade He is Our Saviour Come away The Victims at the Altar stay XXI Bind them with cords and tye them fast To th' Altars horns and make them bleed Then let the Flame upon them feed And in thick clouds to Heav'n ascend at last My God I will sing praise to Thee Who art my God and song shalt be XXII To God's Almightie Name sing praise And you who know how Good He is Resign to Him what 's truly His And Arches of His Own great Mercies raise For like His Word they have been sure And to Eternity endure Psalm CXIX I. Part. Beati immaculati in via c. Aleph I. THrice happy Men who pure and undefil'd By the great Rule direct their Way Walk where that points and never go astray But to Gods Law sincere obedience yield Who search for that with their whole heart And keep His Testimonies as their better part II. To no iniquity they turn aside So plain His Wayes before them ly And if through ignorance they step awry His spirit which guides will hold them when they slide That I Thy Praecepts Lord fulfill Is Thy desire and Mine but first to know Thy Will III. Teach me Thy Will the Way where I should go How I Thy Statutes may observe Order my paths that I may never swerve And what 's Thy Righteous Pleasure to me show That shame may blush to follow me Who Thy Commands persue and follow none but Thee IV. And when Thy Judgements I shall thus be taught With upright heart I 'll sing Thy Praise The dull thing I as yet can hardly raise So low with former griefs it has been brought Then all Thy Statutes I 'll obey And Thou with me for ever shalt delight to stay II. Part. Beth. In quo corriget c. I. BUT how shall Youth this Wisdom Lord attain Unbridled Youth to choose His Way Youth that persues new follies every day Will in Thy Word find both a bit and rein With all my heart I have sought Thee That I ne're stray make Thy Commandments known to me II. Within my Heart Thy sacred Word I lay'd I lay'd it up and hid it there And to its counsel gave my willing eare And thence took heart of Sin to be afraid Lord Thou art worthy of all praise Teach me Thy Statutes that I may Thy glory raise III. This my desire has been and still shall be Of all Thy Judgements to recount The summ to which Thy Testimonies mount Is infinite and only like to Thee Riches of which the World do's dream Are piercing cares and emptiness compar'd with Them IV. Of all Thy Praecepts will I meditate And have respect to all Thy Wayes Thy Statutes my delight and love shall raise And at Thy Oracle I 'll ever waite Within my heart Thy love shall gain Such conquests that the Trophies shall like Heav'n remain III. Part. Gimel Retribue Servo tuo c. I. O' May Thy Servant of Thy love partake And what Thou ' hast sworn of old fulfill That He may keep Thy Word and do Thy Will And pay the vowes He heretofore did make Yet nearer Lord unto Him draw And clear his sight to view the wonders of Thy Law II. I am a stranger and the rule I have O're Nations only comes from Thee I give them Lawes but Thou must give them me From Thy Commandments I assistance crave My Soul is wasted with desire And with the Love Thy Judgements kindled all a fire III. The proud who from Thy just Commandments err Are curs'd because from Thee they go Curse great enough if it were only so But all their wayes are girt around with fear Reproach which they for me have lay'd Send them for I Thy Testaments my guard have made IV. Kings too as they in judgement on me sat Derided me for that great Love I bore Thee Lord invisible above But on Thy Statutes I did meditate Thy Testimonies in my need Were my best Counsellors and taught me how to plead IV. Part Daleth Adhaesit pavimento c. I. DOwn to the Earth my humbled soul is cast Raise me according to Thy Word No power but Thine can any help afford For where 't is thrown it to the Earth cleaves fast My wayes I have declar'd to Thee Teach me Thy Statutes and shew Thine to me II. Make me Thy Wayes and Praecepts understand So shall I all Thy Works relate How Thou in me a new heart didst create And help'dst me do what Thou didst first command My Soul for grief do's melt away Strengthen me with Thy Word and bid the stream to stay III.
Lying and every false desire remove And freely to me grant Thy law Thus my Affections Thou wilt to Thee draw And keep them in that Way of Truth I love Thy Judgements I before me lay'd And what 's Thy Pleasure the just rule of mine have made IV. Close to Thy Testimonies have I cleav'd And there to rest resolv'd I am O let me never Lord be put to shame Or when to Thee I fly not be receiv'd Thus when Thy Will is on me done The Wayes of Thy Commandments I 'll delight to run V. Part. He. Legem pone mihi c. I. TEach me my God and shew me how I may Up to Thy Sacred height ascend How all Thy Statutes I may keep to th' end Direct me with Thy Spirit and point the Way Let me Thy Lawes but understand My heart as firmly shall obey them as my hand II. I' th' paths of Thy Commandments make me go For there is plac'd my chief delight Since 't will conduct me to Thy glorious sight Where constant joyes and lasting pleasures flow And to Thy Testaments incline My heart which covets nothing more than to be Thine III. From Vanity and Folly turn my eyes Let them be only fix'd on Thee And in Thy wayes such beauteous objects see That I my race may quicken by the prize Perform Thy Word which Thou hast past And let it like Thine Own Love and my fear stand fast IV. My fear of Thee for which I 'll ever pray Though I by it reproach should gain Thy Righteous Judgements shall its rage restrain Or turn the Fatall pile some other way Look how Thy Praecepts I desire O let the Righteousness which made it stirr the Fire VI. Part. Vau. Ut veniat super me c. I. LOrd Let Thy Mercies on my Soul shower down And as Thy Word my hope has fed May Thy Salvation rest upon my head And be the fairest Jewell in my crown So when I shall derided be That Word I trust shall with an Answer furnish me II. Then take not Lord the Word of Truth away But let Thy Promise rest secure Firm and unshaken like the World endure For I have made Thy Judgements all my stay And when the graving is thus deep Thy Lawes which are so plain I shall for ever keep III. Then will I feareless walk at liberty And for Thy Praecepts Waves enquire Follow them hard and i' th' persuit expire When by their Conduct I am brought to Thee Thy Testaments I will proclaime Send them for I Thy Testaments my guard have made IV. Then in Thy great Commandments I 'll delight For they have been my dearest Love By keeping them my fear of I hee I 'll prove And thus before Thee walk and be upright Will of Thy Statutes meditate And Them the more I love the deadlier Sin will hate VII Part. Zain Memor esto Verbi tui c. I. REmember Lord Thy Word of old to me Which hitherto has been my Trust Wherein I hope though humbled to the dust And in my griefs let it my comfort be On that alone my Soul relies And fetches thence in all its troubles fresh supplies II. A By-word to the Proud and scorn I 'm made Yet I 'll nor break nor leave Thy Law But from Thy Judgements will new arg'ments draw To make me more of Thy great hand afraid Nor shall this interrupt my joyes But make them greater since that fear has been my Choice III. For them I 'll tremble who Thy Lawes despise And leave the pleasant roads of Peace Their surer condemnation to encrease Nor thither will be guided by their eyes But Lord Thy Statutes are my song And make that journy short which else would seem too long IV. And when the night do's the whole Earth enfold And all but I enjoy their rest At thought of Thee new day springs in my breast And up I rise of Thy Law to take hold Which may direct my Way to Thee For whilst I keep Thy Precepts 't is still day with me Part. VIII Cheth Portio mea Domine c. I. LET who 's will take the World for me I say'd Thou only art my Portion Lord Above all riches let me keep Thy Word Who that before all wealth my love have made 'T is for Thy Favour that I sue And hastning of that Promise which Thy Word makes due II. On my past wandrings I with horror thought And for their stains in secret mourn'd But into joy my tears were quickly turn'd And by Thy Testaments I home was brought Then did I grieve my former waste Of Time and Thy Commandments to observe made hast III. Thy Wayes scarce entred bands of theives I met And to their rage became a prey Yet spoil'd of all I still would keep my way Thy Lawes made me account the loss not great Thy Judgments it to mind did bring And of Thy Mercies I at midnight rose to sing IV. Those who love Thee my God are my delight And more my boasting than my Crown For to Thy Praecepts we subjection own And seek a greater Kingdom in Thy sight Thou who the Earth with good dost fill Teach me Thy Statutes that I may perform Thy Will Part. IX Teth. Bonitatem fecisti cum c. I. THou for Thy Servant wondrous things hast done And all the effects of love I' have felt To my sins just desert Thou hast not dealt But after Thine own Word to me made known Sound Judgement to these blessings give Those just Commands to keep which now Lord I believe II. In my Prosperity I went astray And to By-paths was turn'd aside But when Affliction came to be my guide I kept Thy Word and found again Thy Way With goodness Thou dost ever flow That I may do so too Thy Statutes to me show III. The proud against my fame have forg'd base lyes But I Thy Praecepts will obey A plenteous state has made them lose their way As it did me and all Thy Lawes despise 'Gainst them and Heav'n they boldly fight Whilst I reclaim'd have treasur'd there my best delight IV. I am the Man who have afflictions seen And happy me who thus was taught Thy Statutes and from all my wandrings brought Mercy to me not judgements have they been Thy Lawes they taught me to esteem And think that gold no luster has compar'd with Them X. Part. Jod Manus tuae fecerunt c. I. THY hands O God first made and fashion'd me And by Thy Power it is I live Good Understanding to Thy Servant give That by Him Thy Commands observ'd may be That those who fear Thee may rejoice To see Thy Word perform'd and add to mine their voice II. I know my God Thy Judgements all are right And that my felf I must condemn E're I Unfaithfulness can charge on them My sorrows with my sins compar'd are light But as Thou thus hast wounded me According to Thy Word let me Thy Comforts see III. Upon me let Thy Grace and love descend That
Time for Thee Lord now to rise For those who should obey Thy Law its rule despise IV. But I disvalue gold with it compar'd And Thy Commandments more than gold And all its chains me in Obedience hold For much above ' it Thou know'st I Them prefer'd Thy Praecepts above All I love And this bless'd Passion by my flight from sin will prove Part. XVII Pe. Mirabilia Testimonla c. I. THY Testimonies Lord are wonderfull Therefore I make Them all my Care The very entrance of Thy Word is fair And with its beams inlightens my dark Soul If such the Porch and Entrance be What Wonders may we in Thy Sanctuary see II. I long'd for Thy Commandments and the air Breath'd thence into my Soul I drew Me thoughts it did my Spirit again renew And clear'd the stoppages which press'd me there Look down and to me be the same As Thou art us'd to be to them who love Thy Name III. According to Thy Word my steps direct Nor let me be by Sin o'rethrown Who just Allegiance to Thy Praecepts own And from sure ruine the Oppres'd protect Let me no more a Captive be To lust since Thou hast broke my Chains and set me free IV. Lord on Thy Servant make Thy Face to shine And me Thy Righteous Statutes teach That I to others may Thy Goodness preach And how like me they too may be made Thine For floods of teares run down my eyes And for Thy Broken Lawes Seas from those Fountains rise XVIII Part. Tsaddi Iustus es Domine c. I. AS Thou art such my God Thy Judgments are Thou Righteous and They all upright Thy Testimonies govern less by Might Than Justice wherewith Thou hast made Them fair And those who to Thy Scepter bow Which is so right and faithfull are themselves made so II. My Zeal has burnt me up and all on fire I faint to see Thy Word forgot Thy Word that 's try'd and from the Fornace hot In sacred flames of love makes me expire And wonder who through cold can dy Who has so hot and pure a fire to warm him by III. Thou know'st I 'm poor despis'd and wondrous low Yet will I not Thy Praecepts leave But even thence hope new vigor to receive How poor and low so e're I may be now Thy Laws and Truth so certain be That what Thou once has promis'd from all change stands free IV. This only was my Comfort in my grief When anguish fast hold of me took That I Thy just Commandments ne're forsook And they which were my love brought me relief That I may ever with Thee live Sound knowledge of Thy Testimonies to me give XIX Part. Coph Clamavi in toto corde c. I. WIth my whole heart in my distress I cry'd Aloud I cry'd but more for fear To break Thy Statutes than my Pains to bear O let me never say'd I be deny'd But rise my God to rescue me And I 'll Thy Testimonies kcep and honour Thee II. The Morning with my Prayer I did prevent For in Thy Word my hope I plac'd The Morning with my cry I bid make haste But e're it came my Vowes I up had sent 'T was then a pleasure not to sleep For all the while Thy word with me the watch did keep III. Lord for Thy Mercy sake to me give eare And in Thy Justice visit me May they agreed my Mighty Saviours be And as I Thine make Thâ—e my Voice to hear O be not farr off from my cry When those who hate Thy Law and Me are come so nigh IV. But chear up Soul see where Thy God do's stand Thy God whose just Commands are True Who with a Word can all Thy Foes subdue And publish His great Victories in all lands Whose Testimonies Thou hast found Eternity alone in its vast Space can bound Part. XX. Resh Vide humilitatem c. I. COnsider my affliction and my Pain And save Me for I keep Thy law Defend my cause and from my Weakness draw Such arguments as may Thy Power maintain For Thy Words sake deliver me The safety like redemption from the grave shall be II. Salvation from the proud is farr away So much they on themselves dâ—pend But never to Thy Statutes Voice attend Which only are my Prop and mighty stay Thy Mercies great and wondrous be Yet Lord according to Thy Judgements quicken me III. Many my Foes against me thousands rise Yet I Thy Testaments obey And others would perswade to take Thy Way Who only are for that my Enemies For them I 'm sure I truely grieve Because they Thy Almighty Word will not believe IV. For my own part like Thee I nothing love Thy Praecepâ—s are my chief delight That I may alwayes think them so let light And an Eternal day break from above Thy Word for ever True has been Nor have Thy Righteous Judgements any variance seen Part. XXI Schin Principes persecuti c. I. PRinces without cause are my Enemies But of Thy Word I stand in aw Lying I hate but have observ'd Thy Law And so their threats and malice can despise And if for them I have a fear Into my heart I look and see a greater there II. Thy Word which is at once my fear and trust Makes me in mighty shouts rejoice As one that finds great spoil or has His Choice For it will make me Lord as Thou art Just For that seven times a day I 'll praise And with Thy righteous Judgements my small Numbers raise III. Great peace to them who love Thy Laws belongs And nothing shall their rest offâ—nd But all their lives they shall in pleasure spend And thence take lofty Subjects for their songs In Thee my God I trust alone And those Commands Thou gav'st me to observe have done IV. My Soul has all Thy Testimonies kept And they have been my purest love I by their conduct did my journies move Nor from the Way which they first shew'd me stept They and Thy Praecepts were my guide Nor did I strive my paths from thy bright face to hide XXII Part. Tau Appropinquet deprecatio c. I. LOrd let my cry at length approach Thine ear And Understanding to me give To know Thy Word and by its rule to live And all the prayers which here I ' have made Thee hear Lord for Thy Word to save me rise And then I may be confident Thou hear'st my cries II. Then shall my song of all Thy Power reherse And of the Change Thy Statutes wrought How by Thy Word I home to Thee was brought And by those steps to Heav'n I 'll raise my Verse For Thy Commandments righteous are And those who make them theirs shall be themselves Thy Care III. May I be so for they have been my Choice And in Thy Praecepts I delight Thy Law 's my Meditation day and night And all times do's my heart employ or voice For Thy Salvation Lord I wait Make hast and come away before it be too late
begin Bear date from the same place and day Together came together stay Scarce any joy appears between Yet through that God who helps me I have Conqueror been II. My Enemies came and with their plough My tender back did cruelly run o're My tender back with cruel furrows tore They plow'd but nothing hop'd would grow But then God did the furrows sow From my fresh wounds new armes I bore And o're them brought the wheel who plow'd o're me before III. The Righteous God has strook in two And broke those snares which for Our feet they made Has all their plots and mischiefs open lai'd And though they thought He did not know Discover'd what they thought to do Made them of their own snares afraid May Sions foes with their own wrongs thus be repai'd IV. May God upon their glory blow And like the grass which on some aged Wall Looks fresh and gay and almost out of call With scorn beholds the fields below So may they flourish wither so So may they stand so may they fall Till in one ruine perish grass and mound and all V. The Reaper cannot fill his hand In vain the husband man do's give it rest In vain expects with sheaves to fill his breast It thrives not like his other land That growes but this is at a stand That by each passenger is blest But none for this do's ever put up one request VI. There stirrs not as you pass a prayer But all struck silent as they there go by First look up if their prayers will reach so high And think them better us'd else where Nor like these shall you wishes hear Th' Almighty grant prosperity And what Our blessings want may His to Thee supply Psalm CXXX De profundis clamavi c. I. OUT of the depths unto the Lord I cry'd Deep Seas of Miserie Where I lay But o're my soul the waves did ride And louder roar'd when I began to pray Ah! still their noise and be not Lord as deaf as they II. I know I have deserv'd these miseries And greater plagues might justly fear And if Thou should'st to judgement rise Indeed despair of ever coming near For those great sins which harden mine may stop Thy ear III. But Lord there is forgiveness still with Thee Thou wait'st Thy Favours to bestow I wait when Thou wilt gracious be My hope alone do's from Thy Mercie flow And since Thou wait'st Lord to be gracious Ah be so IV. For as the Watchman who has stood all night Upon the guard do's long for day Looks when the Sun will make it light Just so attending on the Lord We stay Till the bright Sun of Righteousness His beames display V. Hope in Thy God O Israel and Thy trust All times upon His Mercie place He who has promis'd Thee is just And if with confidence Thou seek His Face Thy sins He 'l take away and freely give His Grace I. PLung'd in the depths of sin and misery Where I could nothing see but Death Ready to stifle my complaining breath With which to Thee my God I sent my Cry Hoping at length to reach Thine ear And by my often calls get Thee to hear Hear me I said let not my Cries be vain Lest I no strength should have to Cry again II. Eternall God should Thy all-seeing eye Severely marke Our often strayes Our wandrings i' th' forbidden dangerous wayes Of basest sin and fond Iniquity Who then could in Thy presence stand Or bear the weight of Thy enraged hand But Thou art mighty in Thy Pardoning love O let us fear that we may grateful prove III. Wherefore I 'll wait for Thee my gracious Lord Till Thou Thy Favours shalt dispence And make me feel their powerful influence My Soul for this shall hope in Thy sure word For Thee I 'll wait with more desire Than they who for the Morning light enquire That from their weary watch they may be freed Yea more than they wherefore my God make speed IV. Let Israel on the Lord repose His trust With whom both Mercie is and love The constant streames that flow from Him above Like whom there 's none so good yet none so just For though He did a ransom find 'T was such as through't His Justice brighter shin'd From Him Redemption shall to Israel come Which to their land and Him shall bring them home Psalm CXXXI Domine not est exaltatum c. I. NO Lord Thou knowst I am not so And yet Thou all my soul dost know Alike before Thee open ly My Innocent heart and humble eye Which have no pride but from the malice of my Foe II. I do not to the Crown aspire Nor what 's my Sovereigns Lord desire Such thoughts beyond m' ambition go Too high for me who am so low And yet my humble Soul beneath the Crown looks higher III. To Thee I look on Thee attend Hoping Thou wilt my Right defend The Crown is but an empty thing And what it has not cannot bring Not after that but Thee O God my prayers I send IV. For I restrain my self in this Just like a child that new wean'd is From ' his Mothers breast who though he cry And grieves at first those streames are dry Forgets it and streight loaths what he was wont to kiss V. As I have done may Israel do And wean'd from all things here below Unto their God alone attend And only on His help depend On God who greater things than Kingdoms can bestow Psalm CXXXII Memento Domine David I. LORD REmember David and His vow And all the troubles He did undergo Whilst for Thy Ark He sought a Resting place Abroad He suffred and at home But when He thought the worst was overcome This still remain'd and His great trouble was II. Remember Lord the Oath He made And how solicitous to see it pai'd Within my house said He I 'll come no more Nor on soft couches wait for sleep My very Bed shall watch against it keep Girt round with Pious Cares and arm'd all o're III. I 'll search till I the place shall find Which God Himself has for His Rest design'd We know it Lord and to it each remove How first at Shilo Thou didst reign Then in a grove and unfrequented plain Places still innocent because once Thy love IV. Look how Thy Courts we reach with praise And as We bow Our knees Our voices raise Arise O God and Thy great journy take Thou and Thy Ark together rise Before Thee scatter all Thine Enemies And Sion Thy delight Thy Residence make V. Let all Thy Priests Their praises sing And with loud shouts Thy Saints their Offrings bring Let Thy Annointed in the Roll be one And for Thy Servant Davids sake To whom Thou freely didst Thy Promise make This Happiness confirm unto His Son VI. In Truth Thou didst to David swear Witness Thy self Thou shalt not want an heir But of Thy seed I on Thy Throne will set And if Thy Children
Faithfull be And keep the Laws transmitted here to Thee Their Throne like Thine shall stand and be as Great VII For I have Sion made my Rest The place which I of all the World love best My house for ever where I choose to dwell All Her Provisions I will bless And thence Her poor shall look for their increase And when they see it wonder how it fell VIII There shall her Priests my Praises sing And with Loud Shouts My Saints their Offrings bring The Horn of David there I 'll make to bud An Horn of Plenty full and green Where some New blossoms ever shall be seen Whose fruit's as generous as the root is good IX There for my King I 'll set a light My eye shall make it burn and keep it bright Obscurity shall on His Foes be cast Cover'd with shame they shall ly down But on His head I 'll put a glorious Crown And I who put it on will hold it fast Psalm CXXXIII Ecce quam bonum quam c. I. BLest day wherein I live to see The Tribes like Brethren all agree Like Brethren striving who shall my best Subjects be II. God has by them restor'd my Crown And they secur'd what was their Own For what on me they pour'd upon themselves fell down III. Th' Annointing Oyl they on me spent On them in Acts of Favour went As if for them as much as me the Oyl was meant IV. Like that which on the High-Priest shed At first it only wet His head But then o're beard and cloaths and all was quickly spred V. Or like those mists which from the Main The sun draws up to send again In dews first on the Hills and then the humble Plain VI. With such th' Almighty loves to dwell And Souls agreed His Praise can tell How on them blessings when on others vengeance fell Psalm CXXXIV Ecce nunc benedicite c. I. PRaise Him Ye Servants of th' Eternal King Who alwayes in His Temple stay Till your loud songs the cheerful Morning bring And having chas'd the Night away Call to attend your Sacrifice the rising day II. And as you praise Him let your thankfull hands Their part in all the Service bear They have their language which He understands Though none beside their voice do's hear For them reserves His eye and for your lips His Ear III. The Lord from Sion on Thy Borders reign Showers like that Heav'n which sends them free Return Thy Blessings on Thee back again Let them Thine own and greater be That Gods who Heav'n and Earth did make all for Thee Psalm CXXXV Laudate nomen Domini c. I. YE Servants of th' Immortal King His Masters of request below To whom when We our just Petitions bring Immediately to Heav'n they go And by your means who there attend I' th' flames which burn the Sacrifice ascend To His Great Name which He delights to raise Though far above your reach direct your Praise II. There 's none like Him so full of love On whom you can your praise bestow And if great Goodness can affection move Then praise His Name for that is so For Jacobs seed He gave His voice And plac'd His Treasure where He made His choice So great that none can contradict His will But when they most resist it most fulfill III. His Pleasure Heav'n and Earth obey And Laws which He first gave them keep He chains the Sea and bounding sands do's lay For mighty fetters on the Deep Causes thick vapours to ascend And in one cloud moist Hail and fire do's blend Out of His Treasures brings th' unruly wind And Captive Tempests with strong Cords do's bind IV. In Egypt when He did begin Thus He their First Born would not spare The Beasts were punisht for their Masters sin Under the Curse because they were His Wonders God before Him sent And thither afterwards in Person went Egypt Thou saw'st His hand i' th mid'st of Thee When Pharaoh who did bear it Would not see V. He mighty Kingdoms overthrew Scattred their Forces slew their Kings And Victory which abroad at Pleasure flew Made serve at home without her wings Sehon and Ogg before Him fell In whose Possessions Faithfull Israel dwell That Promised Land which He their Fathers gave Who from that gift their surest Title have VI. Eternal God like Thee Thy Name Endures to all Eternity And as Its Power is constantly the same So shall Its just Memorial be For Thou wilt for Thy People rise Subdue and Scatter all their Enemies That under yoaks they shall no more remain But to Thy House and City be restor'd again VII Dumb Idols shall not Thee withstand Nor thousand Gods fond men adore For all though fashion'd by the Workmans hand Remain the Clay they were before Dull Clay which neither sees nor hears Though Art has given them eyes and made them ears Most Easy Gods to whom when any cry They therefore grant because they can't deny VIII Without or Speech or breath or sense Though they of All the Organs have In vain is help to be expected thence Where 's not enough themselves to save Blind Deities but blinder they Who knowing it to their own Work will pray Ne're thinking that it cannot to them turn And that one fire will god and Incense burn IX But Thou O Israel Bless Thy Lord O House of Aaron bless His Name And you who serve at th' Altar by His Word With coales from thence encrease your Flame Let joy in every Face appear And bless the Lord whom you have made your Fear From Sion bless Him who reigns King above But at Jerusalem is The God of Love Psalm CXXXVI Consitemini Domino Quoniam c. I. OPraise The Lord for He is Good And let the World His love adore For though His Power may aw them more His Love guards those who are by that withstood His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure II. Praise Him who o're all gods do's reign The God of Gods of Kings the King To whom all Thrones this Homage bring What He first gave them to resign again His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure III. All that We see His hand has done Who makes His Mighty Power appear With wonder strikes us and with fear For His own sake He did it and alone His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IV. He made the Heav'ns that glorious space Which has no bound and knows no end Whose greatness man can comprehend As little as that God who made the Place His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure V. The Flood at first hid all the Land Till He rais'd it above the Flood Where it unmov'd e're since has stood He stretcht it out by reaching out His hand His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VI. The Lamps of Heav'n ow all their light To Him who caus'd them first to shine He on them
at Thy Feet their Scepters down And do their homage to Thee as their King V. God over all whose Throne is set on high Above the Circle of the sky The humble and their proud Oppressors knowes The difference only lies in this Though well known to Him either is When He delivers those He these o'rethrows VI. No! I 'll ne're fear though trouble me surround Most fixt when I shall feel no ground Thou wilt revive me and with Thy Right hand Thy poor afflicted Creature save My Enemies wrath an end shall have And on his ruin I shall firmer stand VII The Lord will perfect what He has begun And finish what is yet undone Thou whose Compassions all Thy Works transcend Care of the Issue also take Nor me Thy handy-Work forsake But with eternal Triumphs crown the end Psalm CXXXIX Domine probasti me c. I. IN vain O God my folly and my pride Make me in vain persume to be By all my shifts conceal'd from Thee When from my self my self I cannot hide Thy day still breaks into my night Still gives me of my self the sight For Thee to see me by shall it not be more bright II. Thou ' hast search'd me Lord and all my life hast known Know'st every Action of my life When with my self or Thee at strife Thou know'st my rising up and lying down My thoughts and heart to Thee are clear Thou art their Judge and alwayes near Do'st see and sentence both before I know what 's there III. Where e're I go in what place e're I stay Whether I wake whether I sleep Thy Spirit by me watch do's keep Is my Companion in the closest way If I but whisper that stands by And though unseen by Mortall eye Takes from my Lips the word and to Thine ear do's fly IV. There 's no avoiding Thee behind before On all sides Thou hast girt me round My God Thy Wisdom's too profound Too deep to fathom higher than I can soar Thy hand first made and fashion'd me Thy Will commands me now to be Being or life I cannot have unless in Thee V. Then whither shall I from Thy Presence fly If up to Heav'n my Way I take Thou Heav'n Thy Residence dost make And to get further off I come more nigh If down to Hell the Devils there Tell me Thou 'rt present by their fear They tell me what I merit by the pains they bear VI. Quick as my thought could I remove me hence And in the furthest East remain Below the Sea some covert gain Thy Sun would shew me as he rises thence If I say darkness and the night Which shut out all shall barr Thy sight That Darkness which is so to me to Thee is light VII Thou art within me too close as my heart Within my heart unknown to me For when that first was made by Thee Thy breath Lord was my best and chiefest part Thou threw'st Thy self in and in vain To fly from Thee my self I pain For ever since Thou dost within my heart remain VIII I know I am Thy Master-piece and all I in the greater World admire Find in my self and something higher Am Heav'n in Perspective and Earth in small By Thee was wonderfully made Nor is Thine Image so decay'd But when I view my self I am of Thee afraid IX Nothing of me not my least part 's unknown Then when I first was wrought below Thy eyes and hands dispos'd me so My Members in Thy book were entred down Entred before all time they were When none of them did yet appear And what Thou then design'dst them now in time they are X. This as I thinkof and what Thou hast done The wondrous pledges of Thy love By whom I live in whom I move My heart is struck as silent as my tongue They pass the Sands upon the Shore And had I told their Number o're Those would more numerous seem than they appear'd before XI But as Thou 'rt gracious Thou art also just And wilt the Wicked Man o'rethrow Teaching him by Thy Power to know How great that God is which he would not trust Down with them Lord destroy them all Let their own Curses on them fall Who on Thy Name but in their Oaths did never call XII Do not I hate them Lord those who hate Thee And are not they my Enemies Who in their rage against Thee rise Thou know'st I hate them and they 're so to me Search me and try me sound my heart It s most retir'd and deepest part And lead me to that life whose Way and Guide Thou art Psalm CXL Eripe me Domine ab c. I. LOrd from the evil man my life defend Nor let his Treasons or his violence His open force or close pretence Work ill to him who do's on Thee depend His thoughts Thou know'st are ever set on Warr And now to give me battle ralli'd are II. Instead of sword he sharpens a false tongue More venemous than that which serpents bear The poyson from an Adders spear Wounds not so mortally nor kills so long O by Thy Power may I his plots withstand For if his tongue 's thus cruel what 's his hand III. The ginns are lai'd and all the toiles are set They are resolv'd my Footsteps to o'rethrow And where they guess I needs must go In the mid-way the proud have spread their net Most Holy Lord Thou art my God I said And now 's Thy time to help since I have pray'd IV. When thousand dangers had begirt me round And all my Foes were ready in the field Thou wer 't my helmet and my shield And sav'dst that head which Thou before hadst crown'd May the desires of all the Wicked fail Lest when I slip they think their hand prevail V. Let them not by my ruin higher rise And judge by the success their cause is good But stain their swords with their own blood And be aveng'd on Thy false Enemies Let burning coals fall on them in Thine Ire And let their own lips help to blow the Fire VI. Then throw them down into the Flame nor more Unless it be to Judgement may they rise And after bear fresh miseries Sharper than all which they endur'd before Let vengeance hunt the violent man to ' his grave And so much earth may he for ' his portion have VII I know the Lord will to the poor do right And plead Himself as well as judge their cause Trying them by such equal laws That their clear'd Innocence shall look more bright So that the Righteous on their God shall stay And in His sight enjoy Eternal Day Psalm CXLI Domine clamavi ad te c. I. MY God when in distress I cry And on my long-wing'd sighes unto Thee fly Make haste to meet me Come away Ah do no longer from me stay But by Thy Presence shew Thou hearst me when I pray II. Let my requests like incense rise Not to o're-cloud but to perfume the skies And when the
day resigns to night Let it again receive new light And by my Sacrifices Flames become more bright III. Before my mouth Lord set a guard And let its double gates be alwayes barr'd Keep my heart too and be its guide That to no ill it turn aside And lest I for them long sins flattring pleasures hide IV. The just mans check I can endure His stroke wounds not but do's advance the cure Let him smite me 't shall be instead Of Ointment to refresh my head Ointment which cheares the living and preserves the Dead V. For him I 'll pray as he for me His blowes were balm and so my Words shall be When his curs'd judges overthrown From their great heights shall be cast down And in the plagues they bear see all the wrongs they ' have done VI. Our scatted bones no buriall have Nor know the kind Corruption of the Grave Like th' armes of some great tree they ly Which while its head was rais'd on high Stood the woods glory now the scorn of all pass by VII But still my eyes are up to Thee Thou art my Trust and shal't my refuge be Let not my Soul of succour fail And though the Wicked me assail Let not his open force or hidden plots prevail VIII Break all the snares which he has made Or let them only for himself be lai'd Down in his own pits Let him fall In vain for help or succour call Whilst I for whom he made them have no hurt at all Psalm CXLII Voce mea ad Dominum c. I. MY heart just broke and only strength enough Left to discharge my debt of grief and love Aloud I to th' Almighty cri'd My Lips perform'd the chiefest part For I before had sent my heart And where this first was gon thither I those did guide II. Before my God I empti'd out my prayer And dropt for every word I spake a tear My griefs I did before Him lay And when I knew not what to do Which way I went or where to go He knew my Actions then and did direct my Way III. Better than I He knew what plots were lai'd And all the snares which for my feet they made On my right hand I look'd but there No man my just desires would own On me they look'd as one unknown So far from lending me an hand they stop'd their ear IV. Then to the Lord to Thee again I prai'd And in the dolour of my spirit said Thou my Salvation art below Even here Thou dost my cause defend Even here Thy aids my prayers transcend And Lord though none else will Thou dost my trouble know V. Hear me my God and from my Enemies hand Deliv'rance which Thou only giv'st command Thou see'st they are too strong for me How daily they encrease in power But I Thy wonted helps implore For yet my God they cannot be too strong for Thee VI. From prison bring me that I may declare How ready for Thine Own Thy Mercies are God will deliver me and I Who now unjustly suffer wrong Shall make His praises be my song And all the Just shall triumph in my Victory Psalm CXLIII Domine exaudi orationem meam c. I. GReat Saviour to my mournfull Prayer give ear And of Thy Mercy pittie me O Thou who see'st my troubles hear And as they need so let Thy answer be I know Thou canst do this and more For Thou hast done it heretofore II. Behold my troubles Lord but not my Sins For if Thou once shouldst be severe What heart quakes not when God begins To judge and sets up His Tribunal there What Flesh can in His sight be just Or to His breath expose its dust III. See how the Enemy my Soul persues And how no safety can be found Whilst he his daily wrongs renewes Unless I with the dead dwell under ground Unless a wretched life to save I enter quick into the grave IV. This grieves my heart nor would it longer hold But that on Thee I meditate Remembring what Thou didst of old How Nothing was too hard no time too late I think of what Thy hand has done And take Thy Arm to lean upon V. The thirsty earth with drought consum'd and heat Do's not more gape and long for rain Than I whose thirst is full as great Am restless grown till I see Thee again Hear me my God hear speedily The Earth Thou hear'st and why not me VI. No longer turn Thy glorious Face away Or if I must in darkness sit Let it be such as brings the day And not eternall like that in the pit At night my God give me Thine ear And in the morning let me hear VII Let me Thy Mercies hear for Lord on Thee Alone for Mercie I rely Thy way be pleas'd to shew to me And give me wings that I to Heav'n may fly There I secure shall be at rest Nor of my Trust be dispossest VIII Teach me to do Thy Will for Thou art Mine And lead me to Thy Sacred land Ah quicken me for I am Thine And by Thy strength alone must firmly stand And would Thy Spirit but guide my Way I should not care Lord where it lay IX Now for Thy Mercies sake my troubles end For only Thou know'st what I bear Let on my Foes Thy wrath descend And Thine eye be like theirs too fierce to spare Let them Thy Indignation know But to Thy Servant favour show Psalm CXLIV Benedictus Dominus Deus c. I. SUpream Commander of the Sacred bands Strength of my heart Instructer of my hands Who first didst for me all the Rules of War lay down And made'st that Victory mine which truly was Thine own My shield my Tower and ever Good The Rock where I secure from danger stood Who up on high my head didst raise And at my feet didst for me Mighty Kings subdue Made'st my Own people serve anew Thou who hast all these Wonders done take all the praise II. Lord what is Man that Thou should'st mindfull be Of one who do's so seldom think of Thee Or what am I Thou on me set'st so great a price But little in my Own and less in others eyes Frail Man whose daies away do fly And like Himself are spent in Vanity Man whom one scarce can give a Name So light the Subt'lest vapour which the Sun exhales A Dream or Shaddow turns the scales Man who yet impudently to the World layes claime III. Lord bow Thy Heav'n in bright Flames come down The smoaking Hills with dreadful thunder crown There take Thy standing and on my Proud Enemies throw Destroying lightnings and make seen Thy bloody bow Extend Thy Arm my Saviour be And from the Mighty floods deliver me From Strangers who that love pretend Which I dare never trust their mouths so proudly speak Whose right hands faith they plighted break And swords which they have drawn into their bowels send IV. Then will I to Thy glorious Name sing
voice incline 170 17 Exaudi Domine justitiam Great God of all the 36 40 Expectans expectavi In my great trouble 104 81 Exultate Deo adjutori To God our strength let 227 33 Exultate justi in Domino Rejoyce ye Righteous and to 81 68 Exurgat Deus dissip Great leader of the 179  F.   87 Fundamenta ejus in 'T was God himself the 241  I.   86 Inclina Domine aurem O Thou who dost the 238 126 In convertendo Dominus When God a Miracle for 382 11 In Domino confido I know my trust on whom 23 114 In exitu Israel de When Israel had thrown 338 31 In te Domine speravi Thou art my hope O God 76 71 In te Domine speravi Thou art my hope O God 193 66 Jubilate Deo omnis terra Rejoyce O World and to 175 100 Jubilate Deo omnis terra You who throughout the 293 35 Judica Domine nocentes Great God and judge to 86 26 Judica me Domine quoniam Judge me O God for I 64 43 Judica me Deus Thou who art judge of all 114  L.   122 Laet atus sum in his quae 'T was the best news I 377 146 Lauda Anima mea Arise my Soul and Thy 423 148 Laudate Dominum de You blessed Souls who 429 150 Laudate Dominum in The Holy God in His 435 117 Laudate Dominum omnes All you who to the Lord 345 147 Laâ—â—â—â—â— Dominum quoniam You who th' Almighty 426 135 Laudate nomen Domini Ye servants of the Eternal 396 113 Laudate pueri Dominum Praise Him ye servants 336 121 Levavi oculos meos in Unto the Hills I rais'd 375  M.   48 Magnus Dominus Great is our God and 127 132 Memento Domine David Remember David and 392 57 Miserere mei Deus miserere O Thou on whom my Soul 155 56 Miserere mei Deus quoniam Mercy my God on me 153 51 Miserere mei Deus secundum Thou who art full of 138 101 Misericordiam justitiam I will of judgement and 294 89 Misericordias Domini in In flowing Numbers I 246  N.   127 Nisi Dominus aedificet Down to the very Centre 384 124 Nisi quia Dominus Had not the Lord Our 380 37 Noli emulari in malignum Fret not Thy self to see 92 62 Nonne Deo subjecta erit On God alone my Soul 165 115 Non nobis Domine non Not unto us Lord not to 340 76 Notus in Judaea Dominus The true the only God 211  O.   47 Omnes gentes plaudite Rejoyce O world and you 125  P.   108 Paratum Cor meum It is resolved nor will I 325  Q.   73 Quam bonus Israel Deus It is enough nor will I 201 84 Quam dilecta tabernacula Triumphant General of 233 2 Quare fremuerunt What makes this stir 3 42 Quemadmodum desiderat Look as the Hart by 111 125 Qui confidunt in Domino All those who on the 381 52 Quid gloriaris in malitia In humane Beast 141 91 Qui habit at in adjutorio He who dos with the Alm. 255 80 Qui regis Israel intende Great Shepheard of 224  S.   129 Saepe expugnaverunt Up from my youth may 387 69 Salvum me fac Deus Save me O God for 185 12 Salvum me fac Domine Arise O God and save 25 58. Si vere utique justitiam Are you as by your place 158 137 Super flumina Babylonis As on the banks of 404  T.   65 Te Decet hymnus Deus Praises for thee in 172  V.   95 Venite exultemus Come let us sing unto 283 5 Verbamea auribus Lord to my earnest prayers 8 77 Voce mea ad Dominum In my great trouble to 213 142 Voce mea ad Dominum My heart just broke and 415 13 Usquequo Domine How long my God wilt Thou 27 74 Ut quid Deus repulisti Shall we for ever then be 206 10 Ut quid Domine recessisti My God why dost thou 20 FINIS A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his Son A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David â— Penitential Psalm A Psalm of David which he sang unto the Lord concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David David God Michtam A Psalm of David A Prayer of David A Psalm of David the Servant of the Lord who spake unto the Lord the words of this Song in the day that the Lord deliver'd him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul And he said A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David Versus Resp Versus Resp. A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David at the Dedication of his House A Psalm of David The II. Penitential Psalm A Psalm of David A Psalm of David when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech who drove him away and he departed A Psalm of David A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord. A Psalm of David The III. Penitential Psalm of David A Psalm of David Versus Versus A Psalm of David A Psalm for the Sons of Korah Versus Versus Versus A Psalm for the Sons of Korah Versus Versus A Song of Loves A Song for the sons of Korah Versus Versus A Psalm for the Sons of Korah Versus Versus A Psalm for the Sons of Korah A Psalm for the Sons of Korah A Psalm of Asaph The IV. Penitential Psalm of David when Nathan the Prophet came to Him after he had gone in to Bathsheba A Psalm of David When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said unto him David is come to the house of Ahimelech A Psalm of David A Psalm of David When the Ziphims came to Saul and said Do's not David hide himself with us A Psalm of David A Psalm of David When the Philistims took him in Gath. Versus Versus A Psalm of David When he fled from Saul in the Cave Versus Versus A Psalm of David A Psalm of David When Saul sent and they watcht the house to kill Him Versus Versus A Psalm of David To teach When he strove with Aram Naharaim and Aram Zobah when Joab returned and smote in the Vally of Salt of Edom. XII M. A Psalm of David A Psalm of David Versus Versus A Psalm of David When he was in the Wilderness of Jadah A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm or Song Versus Versus A Psalm or Song Versiculus Versiculus Versiculus A Psalm of David A Psalm of David Versus Versus A Psalm of David To bring to Remembrance Versus Versus A Psalm for Solomon A Psalm of Asaph A Psalm of Asaph A Psalm of Asaph God The Psalmist A Psalm of Asaph A Psalm of Asaph Versus Antistrophe A Psalm of Asaph A Psalm of Asaph Versiculus Versiculus Versiculus A Psalm of Asaph A Psalm of Asaph A Psalm of Asaph A Song for the Sons of Corah Versus Versus A Psalm for the Sons of Corah A Psalm of David A Psalm for the Sons of Korah A Psalm of Heman the Ezrahite A Psalm of Ethan the Ezrahite A Prayer of Moses the Man of God A Psalm of David Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apud Heb. A Psalm for the sabbath-Sabbath-day A Psalm Versiculus Versus Versus A Psalm of David The V Penitential Psal. A Prayer of the Afflicted when he is overwhelmed and poures out his complaint before the Lord. A Psalm of David Versiculus Versiculus Versiculus Versiculus Versiculus Hallelujah Chorus Omnium Versus I. Chorus Minor Versus Respondens Chorus O. Versus II. Chorus M Versus R. Chorus O. Versus III. Chorus M. Versus R. Chorus O. Versus IV. Chorus M. Versus R. Chorus O. Versus Resp. Resp Versus Resp. Chorus O. A Psalm of David A Psalm of David A Psalm of David Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Versus Versus The People Versus Versiculus Versiculus Versiculus The King Versiculus Versiculus Versiculus Vers. Vers. Versiculus Versiculus Priests King Versus A song of Degrees A song of Degrees II. A song of Degrees of David III. A song of Degrees IV. A song of Degrees of David V. A song oâ— Degrees VI. A song of Degrees X. A song of Degrees of Solomon VIII A song of Degrees IX A song of Degrees VII VI. 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