their hope in muzing bent LO fainting voice to thee my still unfainting hart Sends up send doun thy strength and Prince of grace who art Revive me ' as is thy wont See neer towărd me they draw Who mischief dire pursue far they from Lord thy law But thou art neer whose hests for never-changing trueth Long since thy teaching woord assurÄ•d my learning youth RESCH. AT length let pityÄng ey respect afflicted wight And thow mans hart who seest art conscious of my right And pressing fo observÄ•st plead thow my cause and free Soule cheered through thy woord addicted whole to thee Thy mercies Lord are wide yet far from godles crue Who seek not thee nor way to bliss that leads pursue BUT mee thy doom revive whom now persuing foes Not faithles to thy woord with swarming troops encloze O grief myn ey to see men break thy rightÄ•ous law Despize celestiăl bliss in lines of love which draw Thy servants soule see Lord and quickÄ•n them with thy grace Who iust eternal woord trueths sum with ioy embrace SCHIN VVITH causeles hate ô Lord and not unwronging swoord Have Princes mee persuÄ•d yet aw of heavÄ•nli woord My hart restraind from sin O woord whose ioys more draw My ly-detesting mynd and mynd that loves thy law Then ioy which Princes gifts or foes rich spoils can bring SevÄ•n times yea daily I thy righteÅus iudgements sing IN throng of worldli waves which sweet of life devour Their mynds stil calm abide no scandal there hath powÄ•r Where love of thee directs Lo then thy saving grace My hoping eys attend sole thow his love embrace Whose pure affection seeks thy pleasure to fulfill I fain not Lord my ways yea hart thou vieust at will THAV THEN let at length approach ô Lord my fainting cry Vouchsafe my suit access sole understanding I And riddance from my foes which promized hast require Thus taught thy will and free towărd thee my quick desire Shal spring my lips thy praise glad tong thy woord shal sound Where trueth where wisdom pure where statutes iust abound LET then thy hand now help if not with cold pursuit Salvation thyn I seek Vouchsafe me Lord this fruit Of making thee my hope thy law my choise delight O let my soule yet live preserv'd from tyrants might And it shal praize thy name Seek then thy straying sheep Who wandring now as lost yet strives thy law to keep PSALM 122. King DAVID having reduced the three parts of Ierusalem that of Iuda that of Beniamin and the Mount held by the Iebusites into one entire Citi and there in Sion seated the Ark of God having also according to the Law established there supreme Coorts iuridical for administration of Iustice to all Gods people taking a vieu of this woork performed by divine grace and of the peoples alacriti in frequenting Gods service he expresseth in this Psalm his religious ioy for the same and blessing Ierusalem and all them that bless hir concludeth with a promise on his owne behalf both for the peoples sake his brethren in race and religion and espeally for the Temples sake of God to procure studiously the good of that chozen Citi. MY longing hart deer ioy assaid As gracious sound strook grateful ear Religious mynds Each neighbour praid In Gods fair house let 's all appear Ierusalem our peaceful feet Now frequent in thy gates shal meet IERVSALEM the earths delight A Citie three compact in one To thee the Tribes in legal rite Gods chozen Tribes ascend alone Sole here shines out heavÄ•ns glorious King Here Israel all his praises ring RELIGION Iustice dooth embrace Who doubled bliss through land derive For iudgement thrones here hold their place And wronged right with aid revive Iudicial thrones the Kingdoms powÄ•r Of Davids croun most glorious flour O THEN Ierusalem respect Hir peace with vows to heavÄ•n commend Ierusalem who thee affect Them ioy them bliss stil prest attend O peace ay in thy towÄ•rs reside In houses plenti ay abide I FOR my frends my brethrens sake Whom race whom rites in love combine Shal alwaies pray Earths peace partake And heavÄ•ns rich light upon thee shine For Gods fair house my ioy I 'le sure Stil studious still thy good procure PSALM 128. The prosperous and happi estate both publick and private of the man who fearing God leadeth a life full of integriti OBLESSED they whose humble harts True fear of powÄ•r divine endues Religious soule that ne're departs From way which blisful life renues O BLESSED man thy ioys abound Thyn house thy cheerful hands shal rear And labours iust with blessing cround Shal feeding fruit stil plenteÅus bear THY wife a vine on wall disspred In fruitful love hast ioious met Thy children sweet in vertu bred Fair olive plants thy boord beset LO thus Gods fear thus gracÄ•d shal bee From Sion deer thee God shal bless And quiet home shal plenti see And life contented long possess THAT all thy days delighted ey Ierusalems great weal may vieu And wasting life it self espy In childrens children to renue O THANKFUL then Gods love alure Stil rightÄ•ous life with care maintain So happi long maist thou endure So peace with Isrăel long remain PSALM 130. The Psalmist in the continuance of som great publick calamiti wherein he had his part not unlikeli in the wearisom captiviti of Babilon sendeth up his humble cryâ—… unto almighti God not to call their falts to a strict account which the frailti of humane nature is not able to endure but to express now at length that merci of his which draweth men to fear and serve him with comfort So professing his hope in God and exercizing his patience in that hope yet continuing still his fervent desire in this patience he exhorteth all Israel to persevere in like attending trust assuring them that God would redeem them from all their sins and afflictions OUT from the deep to thee ô Lord I cry From place far off yet thow good Lord be nigh Lord hear my voice and with attentive ear Receive the plaints which humbled soule dooth rear IF strictly Lord transgressions thou shalt ey Lord who shal stand in sad despair we dy But Iustice thyn stil mercies thoughts displays That Greatnes fear and Goodnes love may raize WITH patiÄ•nce then on God my soule attend His woord my trust Hee 'le give thee ioyful end As morning rays rere sentinal desires So so and more towărd thee my soule aspires And patiÄ•nt ô await him Isrăel deer His great redemption now wil soon appear He merci is His merci from their thrall Yea from their sins shal ransom Isrăel all TREBLE O Ut from the deep to thee ô Lord I cry From place far off yet thow good Lord be nigh Lord hear my voice and with attentive ear Re-ceiue the plaints which humbled soule dooth rear If strictly Lord transgres But iustice thyn stil mer sions thou shalt ey Lord who shall stand in sad cies thoughts dis plays That great
SACRED HYMNS CONSISTING OF FIFTI SELECT PSALMS OF DAVID and others Paraphrastically turned into English Verse And by ROBERT TAILOVR set to be sung in Five parts as also to the Viole and Lute or Orph-arion Published for the vse of such as delight in the exercise of MVSIC in hir original honour LONDON Printed by Thomas Snodham by the assignment of the Company of Stationers 1615. 〈…〉 IN thee we live moove Lord by thee From thee pure mynds thee-knoweing light derive How then save through thy grace may wee That honour high to sing thy bliss atchieve Then thow draw vp my lowe desire And love of thee let noble thoughts inspire ETernal God! whose boundles time not led by circling sky Then former day now later leves whence wee som prime descry Whence first time gan his coorse thus parts which may arrange But thy blest time unmooving stands ay perfect void of change With thee eternal present all unknoweing first or last Deziring nothing yet to com regretting nothing past Thow infinite great Self-beÄ•ing Lord first highest pure unmixt Vnbounded sole to all thy woorks wel-mezured bounds hast fixt That glorious Sun fair Moon and Stars finite since wee doo knowe Nor Gods themselfs and made by thee more glorious Light may shew And dread we yet who serve this Lord have prov'd his helpful might Mans Feends assalts May earth with powÄ•r above-celestiăl fight But Hee though world conteins and fils comprended though of none Yet gracious to his chozen train his vieu in supreme throne Their eys with light of glori ' encleerd pure blessednes prezents Abiss of ioy that thought exceeds yet woords fresh thought prevents For thow Perfection ô entire perfections all containst No good not in thee ' above thee none whole Good pure Bliss remainst What Beauties ey what mynd delight what Sweetnes drawth desire What Maiesties we high revere what Glorious states admire What Wisdom richly vests the mynd and makes it All possess Redoubling all by right-drawn shapes what Goodnes things dooth bless Diffuzing round it self from thence what Vertues noble spring By woorthi acts to cheer the world and better age to bring What Happi life our thoughts conceive for ah how small a mite Of happi life we here enioy what Ioy what deer delight What flagrant Pleasures full and mere in blessed state are found In thee great Fountain of them all united all abound From thee as beams from beautÄ•ous Sun what evÄ•r is goodli seen In heavÄ•n or earth what rich what fair what evÄ•r we loveli deem And pleazed will alures from thee high Cause of All derivÄ•d By thyn aspect is all maintaind yea dead by thee revivÄ•d That all thy creatures supreme Lord thee Goodnes high define Themselfs from thee agnize to thee their praises all resign And dote we still on creatures mene in their perfections dwell Nor raize our loves towărd Him who them must thousand folds excell For as the matchles Sun though one imbuÄ•d with vertu high From richnes thyn in glorious walk brought round the broad-spred sky And lustring earth how poor a clod with beams and inflÅence sweet Of spÄrit sublime dooth various lifes each gracÄ•d with beauties meet Through land and sea disperse hence beasts hence fish each crauling thing Birds trees herbs flours fruits spices rare yea mettals deep respring All whose perfections great and mene in thousand kynds renuëd Whom thousand graces deck and yet with vertues more enduëd In Sun himself thy master-woork Cause whence they all proceed Must needs excell not beÄ•ing as here not so hast thow decreed By matter course embasâ—…d empaird by distance great by site Oblique alaiÄ•d diversifiëd repugnant that they fight By mixtures of ten thousand forms but there they all refine Vnite in one one uniform high rich perfection shine So glorious Cause of all in thee what lifeful Light in Sun What Greatnes fair in HeavÄ•ns dooth shine through Orbs what Beauties run What PowÄ•rs what Vertues nobly rich Intelligence what cleer What Wisdom Freedom Goodnes sweet in Angels blest appear What flagrant Loves what glorious Ioys Celestiăl Coorts embless In thee unite doost all in one eternally possess In infinite perfection more so sort in more sublime O purenes high whereto not mans nor Angels thoughts can clime For thow who Beeing art it self doost Beeings all contain Perfections all thence ô derivÄ•d more perfect there remain Then Lord from thee sith all proceed to thee in iust desire They bend at thee whence first they came Content they last require For thow First Cause Great End of all What evÄ•r true rest affects Perfection his what e're dooth seek what happi state expects Thee Lord ô thee it still pursÅeth som beam of bliss divine As due from bounti thyn it craves EvÄ•n senseles creatures thyn Through natures force inclin'd by thee woork out their Beeing best And place preserving seek But man with understanding blest And SpÄrits celestiăl strive to knowe thee ' who knowne doost Love alure Growe Knowledge Love wil growe True love dooth woorthi harts procure Thy will to woork thy Laws to keep which kept thow doost requite With high Reward with God himself Here blest with glorious sight They thee enioy to thee with love Eternal Bliss adhere O sourse of ioys Towărd which our hope unwoorthi though we rear And thee ah thee pursue Thow Lord in mortal life belowe Where hundred snares our soules beset where sin dooth all oreflowe Conduct us with thy grace and safe to life immortal bring With Angels where triumphant wee shal ay thy praises sing SACRED HYMNS PSALM 1. A description of the Righteous and their Feliciti also of the Ungodli and their Ruine in the day of Iudgement OBLESSED wight whose pure desires to stain Th'ungodli crue in vain their counseils bend In vain doo sinners ways his absence plain And scorners chairs in vain their poison spend Th'Eternals law hath rapt his whole delight Th' eternal law he muzeth day and night AS precious plant whom iuiceful veins doo fat Due fruits enrich unfading leafs doo grace The Masters ioy fair honour of the plat So righteous man whom blessings round embrace While wicked imps as rootles fruitles chaf Which whirled round the wynd seems cauze to laugh THERFORE when sovÄ•rain Iudge of heăvens and land By final doom shal destin to'each his place The iust shal shine and glorious senat stand When damned rout shal fly his dreadful face For righteous path th'alrighteous Lord advows But track perverse towărd dire destruction bows PSALM 2. The Prophet King DAVID though not here in the title yet elswhere in holi scripture named author of this Psalm foresheweth the vain conspiraci of the Princes of the world against Christ and his Kingdom proclaimed by God and establisbed over all the world And advizeth them therfore for their owne everlasting good to assubiect themselues to him and it WHAT graceles fears strange hates may Nations so affright Infuriate so gainst God with mad attempts to fight Gainst God and
who thee attend abasing shame depress Depress it those thy law who causeles ah transgress INLIGHTEN Lord my soule so with thy guiding grace That I thy trueth may fynd and found may firm embrace Revele thy paths divine ô thow my SaviÅur deer To thee perennal hope eternal love adhere THOSE gracioÅs mercies Lord which from thy goodnes spring And ay thy woorks orespred to myndful presence bring And from thy sight remoove the wyldnes of my youth The sins age more mature with sad remorse presÅeth O thow who goodnes art evÄ•n for that goodnes sake With merci mee behold so soules iust grief asslake MOST righteÅus gracious Lord He sinners shew'th his way To humble mynds myld spir̆its his iustice will display All trueth yea merci all his paths to them remain His witnest will who seek and covÄ•nant great maintain Then for thy gracious name propitiÅus mee behold My sin ah Lord how great in merci great upfold THRISE happi man whose hart Gods sacred fear endues For him shal grace direct to bliss right way to chooze And here his soule at ease midst blessings rich shal sit And goods wel got secure to childrens seed transmit These heavÄ•nli leaug partake yea misteries high conceald From worldli wits to them from heavÄ•n shal be reveald O THEN my waiting eys on God stil fixed bee For hee from snaring net my feet wil rightÄ•ous free Turn then at length thy face in bliss who sitst on high Since poor abandond wretch to onli thee dooth fly Ah Lord as wave dooth wave so wo dooth wo pursue As day dooth day fresh griefs so griefs forepast renue But thow my streits my pain my labours Lord respect And on my sins their cause ah merci Lord reflect BEHOLD my raging foes how thick their musters growe Whose poisÄ•ned gals uncausd with bittÄ•rest hate oreflowe But thow Preserver great my soule from force uniust My face from shame protect who livÄ•st my onli trust My onli trust and hope on safegard none I build Save what myn upright cause and goodnes thyn shal yield These then my gardiăns stand And thow benign with mee Thyn IsraÄ•l deer great Lord from pressures all enfree PSALM 32. DAVID here out of the sence of his owne experience teacheth that he is happi to whom God in merci imputeth not his sins which merci is obteined by seazonable confessing them must be continued by thankfully reforming our lifes which shall be accompanied with true ioy of spirit THE blessed man whom spring of boundles grace With mercies ey a Father-iudge dooth vieu Whose crimes and guilt with pardon free efface Foul stains orehele so pristin shape renue Yea thrice he blest whom who Creatour kynd All perfect framÄ•d declynd dooth not forsake Dooth not his sins impute and darkned mynd DischargÄ•d of guile to iustice dooth awake I WHILST my sin in silent brest conceald Benumbd asham'd at length with sicnes scurgÄ•d My bones consum'd and roars sharp grief reveald Which tiring pain my strength now tired urgÄ•d Thy grievous hand stil presd me day and night Nor Sun could cheer nor darknes rest prezent On faded face deaths name seemd palenes write So native iuice unnative heat had spent ADVIS'D I then to thee my sins confesd In vain conceald bade idle vail adieu I said Be now to God my falts expresd Who guilt from soule strait plague from corps withdrew OGRACIOVS Lord therfore our hopes abound And godli men excited by these fruits In time accepted when thou maist be found With faithful harts shal bring their needful suits And thow benign from worlds tempestÅous seas Wilt them remoove and mee my hiding place PreservÄ•d from wrack dischargÄ•d of streit unease Withioious crys of freedom round embrace THEN I who e're Gods service doost profess Wil make thee sciÄ•nt what paths thou must ascend What dounfals shun how errors to redress And guiding ey thy cariage shall attend BVT men by kynd transform not into guise Of sturdi horse or more unthankful mule Whose brutish brests no mutÅal duties prize Sole sharpest bits their mouths from mischief rule THE wicked hart whole swarms of woes shal seaze Of help without within of rest deprivÄ•d While faithful soule who gracious Lord shal pleaze With mercies fencÄ•d with ioys shal be revivÄ•d THEN rightÄ•ous mynds divorce your careful fear Gods woord who trust shout out with sounds of ioy His ways who walk your hopeful heads vprear Your light appears sad darknes to destroy PSALM 34. The Prophet DAVID to escape the cruel hands of King Saul beeing forced to fly to a neighbour King of the Philistims where the qualiti and woorth of his person beeing to his great danger discovered he counterfeited himself distract and so was driven from thence and closely returned to the confines of his countri whether his frends and other distressed persons assembled to him here he yieldeth to God solemn thanks for this strange deliveri encouraging withal and instructing his associats to serve God who never faileth to protect his Righteous servants from mischief neither yet to destroy their persecutours By the way is interlaced a prophâ—…ci of the not breaking of ani one Bone of our Sauiours who was the veri pattern and perfection of Righteousnes THE Lord for evÄ•r with humblest ioy my thankfulst thoughts shalbless In him my soule triumph my mouth his glorious praise express Let myld righteÅus mynds earths Saints with gladnes hear this praise Yea all vnite harts spir̆its and sounds to heăvens his name to raize When chasÄ•d from home in strangers land midst Hethen crue I moornd And sought my God my sighs he heard and safely mee returnd That mee his Saints example great shal cheerful ay recite This poore man cryd the Lord him heard and freed from hostile spite O THOUGHT-surmounting grace to earth from heăvenli host descends Gods Angel great and servants his as rampire round defends Then tast and see how good the Lord how sweet his merci flowes How blest the man who trusts in him on him vow'd love bestowes And ye Gods Saints his fear maintain when liÅns through hunger wast Yet scarsenes none of no thing good sour want his servants tast O COM deer children listen well while Gods true fear I teach How life to win how length of days in happiÄ•st state to reach Thy tong from venÅmed woords refrain thy lips let shun deceipt Decline from evÄl doo good seek peace this this be thy retreit The eys of God with pleazing vieu the rightÄ•ous race behold Their suits his gracious ears attend ful deer their lifes are sold But countÄ•nance stern the mighti Lord gainst proud malfactors bends And cursed names corrupted seed from earths fair bosom rends TRUE servants plaints â—…ust Lord dooth hear their tears and fears dicharge Their contrite harts enanguisht spiâ—…its from pressures streit enlarge Afflictions great it 's true ful oft most righteÅus Man endures God rids them all and in their midst his bones from brack assures No bone of His shal broken be
From less but better store with pitying helpful hand His wanting neighbour frames Gods goodnes t' understand For where Gods blessing rests possessions long shal last As curse divine at once bud branch and root dooth wast WHERE God mans way dooth pleaze mans steps he stable makes Yea fallÄ•n with succÅring hand from ground unbruzed takes I have been yong am old yet never knew the iust Forsaken quite ne're saw his seed in lothed dust Sit craving food but still his courteÅus nature lends And God his blessing deer to children all extends THEN thus thy thoughts conclude thyn hart see first be pure Fly sin good deeds apply so so dwel ay secure For righteÅus Lord loves right he free from wavÄ•ring change From Saints belovÄ•d dooth ne're his eys serene estrange But safe through his defence while impious houses fall They ancient land possess there dwell for ever shall THE righteÅus man whose mynd cald up from earthli thought Erect on high with love of heavenli law is fraught From harts abundance speaks His mouth with wisdom floweth In talk of iudgement grave glad time his tong bestoweth He nevÄ•r shall slip For though th'uniust maligner watch Both woords and ways his life in deadli snare to catch Yet shall not rightÄ•ous Lord him leve in wicked hand Ne when his iudgement coms condemned let him stand SO thow ô vertuÅus soule thy patient mynd retain And heavÄ•nli ways insist in heavÄ•n thy hopes remain Thy God shal thee exalt the land shal rest thyn owne When vndermining wretch thyn ey shal see orethrowne THESE eys of myn have seen th'uniust like self-sprung tree With arms all gay disspred in floÅrishing beauti glee But see the end he past and lo away was gone The vanisht man I sought but nues returned none Now vieu the upright man observe his sweet encrease His small in more his war stil ends in endles peace Not so defectours proud who marks of heavÄ•nli ire At once destroyd shal nevÄ•r to end dezirÄ•d aspire BVT from the righteÅus Lord stil saving grace descends Which servants his from wrack in needful hours defends For God shal them protect protect from hate uniust Hee save them since in him they chooze to place their trust PSALM 40. The Prophet DAVID an Ancester and Type of Christ in his thankful meditations of Gods former merci toward him passeth from thence into a profound admiration of the divine grace whereby the imperfection of the legal sacrifices beeing abolished Christ their perfection was to succeed a true accomplisher and teacher of righteousnes So returneth to crave the continuance of Gods merci in his present miseri drawn on or renued by menes of Sauls persecution as it seemeth not yet determined LONG patient hope Gods pleasure did attend At length he ear to grievÅus cry did bend And wretch forlorn who help now no where knew From miri clay of yelling hole updrew UPDRAWN my feet on stateli rock he placÄ•d My steps made firm so now with nue song gracÄ•d Praise praise t' our God my thankful glori sounds Which echÅing voice with thundring ioy rebounds For thousands who revieu my late distress Which revÄ•rent trust towărd God cheerd harts address THEN blessed hee the Lord who makes his trust Nor glorious pride whom self-loves charming lust Misdraws from God which fauning ey respects Nor thoughts on liÄ•rs fond failing hopes reflects O LORD my God thy gracious thoughts towărd man Are wondrous deep I would but no way can Or thankful them to thee in ray prezent Or count to men their store and vast extent WISDOMS abiss thyn owne ordeined rites Now sacrifice now offring no delights To thee can yield myn ears hath nüer law So piercÄ•d that thoughts towărd nobler obiect draw Not sinles beast nor mene-esteemed life In flames consum'd may ere compose the strife Wherein mans sin Iustice divine persuÄ•th Not so thy grace not so mans bliss renuÄ•th WEAK shades give place Then said I Lo I com Here Lord On mee thy blessed will be doon Sith sacred roll of everlasting book For mee hath taught worlds waiting eys to look THY blessed will sole scope of prudent thought Iust actions rule my pleazing cares haue sought To knowe and doo thy law in faithful hart EntresÅred liÄ•th thence never shall depart NOT silent lips nor yet vnthankful brest Thy goodnes Lord thou knowÄ•st have e're supprest Thy trueth my talk thy saving grace my song Thy bounties rich my not conceling tong Hath loud proclaim'd thy iustice mercies deer Assemblies great from faithful teacher hear THEN Lord ô then thy kyndnes not withhold Thy trueth my stay in merci still infold Distressed soule whose eys lift up on high Thee only thee their comfort can descry Thrung numberles of evÄls me wretch embrace My sins and pains so grasp my frighted face That failing hart their vieu can not endure Who thick as hair ten thousand griefs procure PLEAZE Lord at length my thralled life to free Relieve the soule who succour sole from thee Awaits make speed And blushing shame confound All those whose hate me seeks with mortal wound On earth to lay yea put to shameful flight Them in my ill who place their deer delight Who laugh my tears take pleasure in my pain Ah dire decay their shames reward remain BVT comfort sweet and sacred ioy refill Them all whose mynds conformd to heăvenli will Thy mercies seek saluation thyn dezire High spir̆it them ay t' extol thy name inspire NOW I a poor throwne-doun afflicted wight Yet hope on God protectour of my right And knowe on me my Lord wil one day think Ah cease delay least hart in sorroes sink PSALM 42. The Psalmist it seemeth David vnder Sauls persecution bewaileth with much passion his constrained absence from Gods presence in his Ark and Tabernacle and after a sharp combate of soule with mani deiecting afflictions in fine getteth above them by the strength of his faith and hope in God AS chased Hart with drouth enraged first Then ioid with hope towărd watri streams dooth bray So Lord my soule my panting soule dooth thirst At lifes high spring hir restles love to stay AH life of lifes when shall that ioying sight Of presence thyn reioice my ioyles ey Whom now salt teares are food to day and night While chasing foes Where 's now thy God stil cry SWEET-sour revieu my hart through eys distils How earst high ioys midst marching troop I broacht And sacred House whom beauteÅus presence fils With songs and praise in festivÄ•st guise approacht WHY then ô why my sad deiected mynd Should troubled thoughts thee restles now torment Ah thankful wait stil gracious Lord shalt fynd In bands of woes release who al-times sent YET Lord my soule behold stil dampt with grief While Iordans reeds while Hermons rocs she hants While Iuri mounts affoord their poor relief Remembrance thyn where melting hart redants SEE gulf of woes nue gulf stil duely cals Thy thunders roar thy fires com streaming doun And raging storm
from cloudi spouts which fals With shouring fluds my pining soule dooth droun YET gracious Lord stil succÅring hand dooth reach His face serene returned ioy shal bring And gladsom day shal thankful euÄ•ning teach With praiseful hymn th'alglorious name to sing MENE while to God thy chased life betake And doleful tune exiled wretch renue My God my strength why doost thou me forsake Why moorning soule dooth murdrous foe persue O THOW who sole sustein'st my wear̆ied life My wear̆ied life whom powÄ•r of right bereves Yet iudge that cry mongst braiding foes so rife Where 's now thy God My bones it swoord-like cleves BVT why ô why my sad deiected mynd Should troubled thoughts thee restles still torment Com grateful hope My gracious God I fynd In throng of woes still swift relief hath sent TREBLE A S cha sed Hart with drouth enra ged first Then ioid with hope towărd wa tri stream dooth bray So Lord my soule my panting soule dooth thrist At lifes high spring hir restles love to stay Ah life of lifes when shal that ioy ing sight of presence thyn re ioice my ioy les ey Whom now salt tears are food to day and night While cha sing foes Wher 's now thy God stil cry BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 44. The faithful people of IsraÄ•l vanquished now and dispersed by their Hethen enimies it seems the Philistims in their thraldom also persecuted and martired for Gods true religion in complaining sort prezent to the high throne of grace their present condition beeing oppressed by the enimies of God and yet persisting in Gods true woorship and with great vehemenci implore his favour and succour who to their Ancesters had shewed himself so miraculously benign and helpful OUR pleazed ears renoumed Lord haue heard The ioious tongs of reverend elders tell What acts of thyn their state of old had reard Did cursed seed from chozen soil expell Thy powrful hand them racâ—…h'd vp ours did plant Made them nor wo nor blessing ours to want NOT mortal arm extermind Giants race Nor swoord terrene dezired land possesd Thy arm divine thy right hand lightsom face In favour deer from heavÄ•n their armies blesd Thou self same God my King doost still remain Command great King thy Iacobs strength again SOLE thou command revived strength our foes With horn should push with feet shal trample doun Not swoord not bowe hopes failing thou disclose That aid which foes in hates owne shame did droun Thy loveli name much ioy did then confess Much ioy same name in praise shal ay express THUS once we livÄ•d but now in life we dy Cast off debasÄ•d no more our armies head Harts grief to speak vile foes us force to fly And preying troops in dust our glories tread Thus scattÄ•red lo midst Hethen lands we live Where food to foes flock loved once doost give AH once beloved now sold and not for gain Thy wealth had yet our thralled lifes encreasd Less grief had been but scorn we now remain To neighbours round whose hate our shames appeasd Derided heard hast made a proverb growe Which scoffing HethÄ•n with wagging heads outcrowe WEAK comforts fade strong woes stil fresh renue My grief within without my shame torments Confusions ah confusions round accrue And soul disgrace stil lothed face prezents Reproaching voice blasphemous mouth and ire Of hostile eys dire anguish still enfire ALL this on us is com yet have not wee Forgot thee Lord or false thy leaug prophanÄ•d Nor harts repining writhe their loves from thee Nor feet decline from sacred ways ashamÄ•d Yea though us ruÄnd in Dragons wasts doost place And shade of death make weari lifes embrace IF blessed name unbleft we have forgot Disloial hands if stretcht in strangers guise To Gods no Gods and should our Lord it not Search out whose ey harts secretst thoughts espys Ah love of thee lo tyrants hate procures For thee we dy as knife fat sheep endures AH daily slain At length yet look arize Why sleeps our Lord awake and not bereve Thyn of thy face nor pressures their despize Whose soules to dust dead brests to ground doo cleve Stand up great Lord and for thy mercies sake Oh servants thyn to thy redemption take PSALM 45. A song of honour to the spiritual Marriage of Christ with his Church forâ—…described under the shado of the marriage as it seemeth of King Salomon with the Daughter of Pharao yet so that som circumstances are verified only in the figure and som other things only in the divine mysteri figured A NOBLE act of Kings dezirÄ•d Makes gladsom hart with high conceipts inspirÄ•d Boil o're and tong stream loveli sound Which echÅing pen through world shal ay rebound Of peerles King my song I frame And to that King give consecrate the same NOT mortal beauti decks thy face Ne humane sounds those princeli lips engrace That hieu divine those heavÄ•nli woords Nor race of man nor bliss of earth affoords Sure heavÄ•ns fair wight thee God hath blest So blest in bliss eternal shalt thou rest THEN on but first gird swoord to thigh Thow pÅisant Prince advance with glori high Ride stately foorth in comli sight Stil prosper still prevail brave Lord in fight So woord of trueth through world disspred Give laws fierce mynds in love to iustice wed With iustice myldnes still reside And striking arm let hart of merci guid BUT foes whom goodnes none can win Shal lightning hand with terrours dire begin To fright then shafts as thundred darts Sharp shafts shal pierce their blunt unpliant harts Thus to our King shal Nations bend And arm victorious wide his rule extend THY throne ô God for evÄ•r endures Thy scepter right through all thy state procures Thow iustice lovÄ•st hatÄ•st lawles ways Therfore dooth God thy God thy glori raize Yond all thy troop whose faithful love Thee serves by thee partakes same grace above BUT thow bove all with sacred oil With oils of ioy that earths unpleazing toil Alay imbuÄ•d drawst odour sweet Mir alöĕ cassia in thy garments meet Thus doost from ivor̆ie rooms proceed Whose pleasures deer stil ioying thoughts refeed STRAIT bevi fair prezents sweet vieu Kings daughters chief and lead the noble crue Bove all the Queen whom loveli bride Thou ioious setst on right hand by thy side With gold hir brests with gold hir head Embellisht best rich Ophir which had bred FAIR daughter now a while attend To sage advise thou happi ear shalt lend Thy contries rites thy peoples guise Yea fathers house forget fix sole thyn eys On him who then that beautÄ•ous sight Shal deerly love possess with pure delight He now thy Lord with pleazing grace Bow fair to him so love sweet love embrace LO neighbour Tyre great Queen of seas With curious gift ey finest strives to pleaze With home-bred purple far-fet gold Wil studious seek thy favÅring grace to hold Yea nobles rich with prezents great Shal pleazd aspect of countÄ•nance thyn entreat
fronted head Thy peoples strength and rest hath bred O GRACIOUS Lord thyn act it is Great act of merci act of bliss Our ravisht thoughts our wondring eys Thy woork makes mortal woorks despize This day thy grace hath made us see Which ay to ioy shal sacred bee Then still great King thy goodnes raign Stil safeti still this ioy maintain O blessed thow whom God hath sent And here dooth King in grace prezent We Priests of God Gods merci seat Who ay atend ay God entreat Appeaz'd his people deer to bless Wee bless you Long Gods bliss possess Hee th' onli God this light hath raiz'd This ioying light He sole be praiz'd To altars horns beasts festive bynd Let sacred bloud seal faithful mynd THOU art my God I 'le bless thy name Our Lord to heavĕns wee 'le raize thy fame Sing then sound out Gods glorious praise Who goodnes pure stil grace displays PSALM 119. This Psalm conceived to be Davids and after a long time of persecution under King Saul for that God had declared David for his successour is a treasuri of mani excellent parts of devotion mani choise things for instruction each Section beeing not incoherent within it self for matter though not so in form of speach by reason of tying the verse to an alphabetical order vzed also in som other Psalm◅ but in differing maner either in assistance of memori or to make the matter more remarkable David then first laieth here the ground of true blessednes to consist in converting our harts to God by seeking to knowe him in his woord and by bending to serve him in observing his commandments which infer an aversion from their contraries namely lying ways and sin He sheweth and often by his owne example the excellenci and blessed effects of Gods Law and Woord Gods woord is a light of heavenlitrueth It illuminateth the understanding and bringeth life unto man conducting him thereunto as a lamp or star through the pilgrimage of this cloudi world wherein we are strangers The Law also of God comprized in this woord is a law everlasting a law of perfect righteousnes continuing when all worldli perfections shall perish Wonderful are the treasures of Wisdom Vertu and Ioy wrapped up in this woord and law of God and which beeing unfolded bring understanding to the simple and are directions even for the yong They advance man in wisdom above the wit of his enimies the science of the learned the experience of the aged In cases doutful they are counselers in dangers they are hopes in disgraces countenancers in afflicted estate comforters in calm meditations most pure delights and ioys far exceeding the ioys of wealth and worldli prosperiti Lastly they place their foloers in so great repose of soule that no offence from the world can subvert or interrupt it Contrariwise we beeing all the woork of Gods hands who hath made the whole world and all parts thereof to serve him even as at this day they continue and seeing also our waysly open to the sight of God what can the proud despizers of Gods Law expect but the curse of divine vengeance persuing them by divers iudgements to everlasting d◅struction til as dross they be consumed from off Gods earth For although it be true that the mercies of God are great yea and that the whole earth is replenished with them yet far is salvation from the obduredly wicked The horrour of whose ends reprezented to prudent mynds breedeth in them a fear of the iudgements of God and maketh them more resolvedly to hate the vain inventions of godles persons whose trics and falshoods are but deceivings of themselves as also more carefully to consider their owne coorses and choozing the way of trueth to make hast to serve God refraining from everi evil and unapprooved way which might to his divine Maiesti be displeasing But David now applying these generals to his owne particular discovereth an extraordinari spirit and admirable desire toward God his woord his law and iudgements professing they were his studi meditation delight yea and matter of his speach that he dezired nothing so much as to have his hart and ways so addressed toward God as to knowe him and keepe his laws Seven times a day did he praize God for his iustice His praiers to God for assisting grace and protection were earlier then the dawning of the toilsom day his meditation on the woord of God and heavenli misteries prevented the nightli watches yea all the day long his loving and longing thoughts ran wholy upon the law of God And at midnight also when other men were at their natural rest and slept he wakening roze up to give thanks unto God in contemplation of his righteous iudgements These were his trust hope comfort and ioy Love of these bred an hatred in him of all lying and false ways a care to refrain from transgressing their rules in ani thing a lothing of the veri compani of ungodli persons an endevour to make his companions of them who feared God and kept his precepts a zele that even consumed him with bitternes of grief to see his enimes not forget only and viclate the law of God but with wicked desires and the pride of an high hand attempt utterly to displace it which called on God himself to take his quarrel in hand Lastly this love of Gods woord and law cauzed him to speak boldly thereof before Kings And though Princes traduced him in unprinceli maner yea and persecuted him without a cause though the pride of his enimies sought maliciously and wrongfully to bereave and deprive him of his goods by robbing him of his good name and reputation by forging lys and dispersing reproaches against him and lastly of life it self by lying in ambush to surprize him yet his hart beeing held in aw by the woord of God he forbare to repay wrong with wrong sin with sin but in silent sorro even with streams of tears bewailed their offences and ensuing punishment And for himself he confesseth this affliction was for his good that God sent it him in veri faithfulnes to reform his straying coorses which effect it had wrought and that his delight in the law of God and hope in his woord did both preserve and comfort him in all those troubles This beeing Davids estate and disposition of soule his praiers are sutable He praieth God that looking upon him and considering he was his and a lover of his law he would vouchsafe to teach him it by inlightning his understanding and by induing him with good sense and iudgement that he would give him a sound hart and so inlarge and quicken it with heavenli ioy and cheerfulnes as redily to run the way of Gods commandments That having inclined him to the way of righteousnes he would disturn his eys from regarding vaniti his hart from beeing caught with covetousnes that he would deliver him from lying ways and preserve him in such strength of vertu that no iniquiti
might get ani dominion over him And where it had pleazed God by private message to cauze David to be anointed King over Israel and on that promise to rely for which his proud enimies did deride and persue him he praieth God to be myndful and confirm that woord that having how to answer the reproaching him with that trust the shame might redound upon his scorning adversaries From whose oppression also he praieth now at length to be delivered that walking at liberti he might freely apply and exercise the law of God and good men might freely also associate themselves unto him And for observance of the divine law for the time to com he maketh here a solemn vow unto God whom he humbly withall praieth to accept that and other free offrings of his mouth vows praiers and praises beeing all he could offer Finally he concludeth with the sum of his suit the gift of understanding and freedom from his enimies that his life beeing continued he might praize the goodnes of God who now beeing chased out by Saul and wandring up and doun like a sheep that had straied yet did not ne could forget Gods commandments whose favour he again imploreth to give end to that extremiti This Psalm for the woorthines thus largely abridged remaineth a cleer mirrour of the godli hart of David which cauzed him to be a man after the hart of God and to wear the honour of that incomparable title ALEPH. O BLESSED they who men upright in mynd and way In Gods pure law delight his sacred will obey Yea blessed who embrace his woord that witnes true And God their sovÄ•rain good with flaming harts pursue Such men sure sin decline in paths divine proceed Them careful hold which held have high reward decreed O THEN fith thow so strait thy hests to keep hast chargÄ•d My ways were so addresd my feet so Lord enlargÄ•d As free thy steps to trace no blot shal mee distain No shame confound on thee while fixt myn eys remain Right hart thy praise shal sound for law of iustice taught Which learnd I le keep at length reduce me ô to thought BETH VVHEREWITH may careles youth his falti paths amend If heedful by thy woord he them to guid attend Ah Lord with hart entire I thee have truly sought O let not straying soule with trains of vice be caught Long I thy precious laws have treasÅred in my hart To purge out sin Blest Lord stil teach that sacred art REMEMBER Lord my lips and not unthankful tong How free thy woord have taught how glad thy praise have song How deer delight I take in way from heavÄ•n declarÄ•d Vain ioys breeds world of wealth with these true ioys comparÄ•d With muzing mynd I vieu and still thy law admire Nor sight gives end to search nor search to sweet desire GIMEL THIS gift this favour Lord on servant thyn bestowe That live I may and live thy saving grace to knowe Yea sacred woord to keep Then thow myn eys unsele And wonders of thy law to groping mynd revele I stranger rome on earth my seat with thee abides O hide not heavÄ•nli way which to thy presence guids DESIRE my soule consumes stil muzing on that path Which pride derides dead pride devowd to firi wrath But thou repell their scorns Ah zele to sacred law From Princes seats did griev'd unprinceli censures draw Yet still I still thy woord in studious thoughts renue Sole solace in my griefs in douts adviser true DALETH MY humbled soule to dust prostrate on earth dooth cleve Remynd thy woord and up revived servant heve My hart my state and ways to thee I did unfold Thou heard'st with grace then still me precepts thyn enrold In faithful brest direct Discloze thy beauteÅus way And moorning soule recheerd thy merveils let display REMOOVE by-paths of lys thy trueth hath been my choise Thy law my mirrour O make cleer thy gracious voice And foloÄ•r of thy woords grant through that favour high Be nor asham'd to live nor Lord afraid to dy Yea when my narroÄ•d hart shal noble grace enlarge Base lets despiz'd I 'le run what race thy mandates charge HE. GREAT Guid of men my feet address in righteÅus way My feet by thee addrest which ne're from thee shal stray Recleer my dimmed mynd sweet beauti of thy laws To vieu which vieud from hart like love abundant draws Thus hart deiect erect thy rizing paths to clime Thy woord my high delight in raized thoughts to shrine BUT from unwoorthi gain from vain aspects which fire Unwari brests disturn myn eys and frail desire And quickÄ•n me in thy way Ah to thy servant true Devoted to thy fear thy roial woord renue So feard reproach discharge with iudgements iust recheer The fainting soule which longs thy statutes to endeer VAV LET then thy mercies deer salvătion favours high Foretold by gracious woord at length great Lord draw nigh That those who mee reproach depending thus on thee Confounded quite their scorns my glori high may see Mene while let woord so true towărd him not wholy sleep Who trusts in thy decree still still thy law wil keep AND keeping thus thy law abroad I 'le boldly walk And of thy woord fore kings undanted freely talk O King of kings thou thow my love and sole delight Thy hests my ioy on them I still defix my sight Towărd them my hands I 'le raize to act what they require Who sole possess my thoughts command my chief desire ZAIIN THEN myndful of thy speach thou Lord stil true and iust Shine foorth sith in that woord hast causd thy servant trust Sole this to grieved mynd sweet comfort still derives This pressed state supports this dulled sprites revives The proud both it and mee with scorns profane deride Nor pride nor scorns profane from thee can mee divide FOR iudgements thyn of old my muzing thoughts revieu Which mee secure but ah stil horror then renue When ends of lawles men my pityÄng mynd foresees But I in pilgrim life stil singing thy decrees In silent night with ioy revolving Lord thy name Thy statutes keep which kept these ioys in mee enframe CHETH MY portion Lord art thow my thankful mynd resolv'd Thy woords to keep hir cares on thee hath all devolv'd And hart with fervent suit thy gracious face hath sought Let then those mercies shine which gracious woord hath taught For strait my earthli ways with vieu unpartial eyd Delay cut off I glad to heavÄ•nli coorse applyd THIS worldlings hate procures whose troops make me their prey Nor hate of world nor wrongs me from thy paths can fray Thou witness Night whose midst with thanks me rize dooth hear Gods iudgements iust to bless thou Day which God who fear His laws who love my deer companions all doost see Thow then whose grace earth fils thow Lord my leader bee TET I MUST confess my Lord that graciously with mee As was thy woord hast dealt ô grant from passions free With sence and science
right thy servant still esteem For evÄ•n afflictions all I now thy favours deem Which straying soule reducÄ•d who since beleeves thy law Thow good and good who doost still me to goodnes draw THE proud with conscious gilt have lys gainst mee devizÄ•d I careful kept thy woord that kept their lys despizÄ•d Their harts hath tallo ' obdurÄ•d thy hests are my delight And since thy chastning hand my humbled soule aright In wisdoms school hath framÄ•d more deer thy laws I hold Then streams of silver fine then hils of purest gold IOD THY hands me made and formd reform thy servant Lord And understanding give which sin may make abhor'd Thy iudgements all are iust I knowe in faithful trueth And for my good thy love thus scurged hath my youth But now let promis'd grace with comfort shine that they Who fear thee knowÄ•ing my case thy praise may glad display YEA let thy mercies shour and weariÄ•d soule refresh That withÄ•ring hart revivÄ•d may life from thee confess Let pride ashamÄ•d remain to seek my causeles bane Whose harmles thoughts thy law their sole delight doo frame Let zelers of thy hests to mee themselves adioin And clenze my hart that shames sad scandal none eloin CAPH MY long erected soule stil looking for thy grace Thy woord stil trusting now bends doun hir fainting face Consumed are my spir̆its consumÄ•d my waiting eys Like bottle parch'd with smoke my self now self despize Yet still beleeve thy woord thy precepts still apply How mani rest my days when draw thy comforts nigh AND when shal I my Lord see swoord of iustice draw Gainst proud persuing foes who pits not so thy law For righteÅus steps have delvÄ•d Ah hate the most uniust Thow then whose hests are trueth my life neer trod to dust If still thy law I love if mercies thyn attend In merci keep which kept I 'le in thy service spend LAMED THY woord forevÄ•r great Lord in heavÄ•ns enthronÄ•d remains Thy woord which all did make and all things made sustains Thy trueths through age to age with stedfast coorse proceed Stands peized earth ne mooves by thee so Lord decreed Thus lo as thow ordainÄ•dst they all this day persist Thy servants all to act what e're thy iudgements list MY woes had mee consumÄ•d had solace in thy law Not cheerd that hart which nought can e're from thence withdraw For thyn I am ô thyn preserve from wicked swoord Which dogs my life who live in studyÄng Lord thy woord In tracing Lord thy ways O ways of widening ioys When else perfections all see fretting time destroys MEM. VVHAT Lord what heat my soule with sacred love inspires Of law divine what powÄ•r thus rapts my strong desires All day to quicned cares to pozed thoughts at night It self prezents stil shines high mynds admired light A light whose rays infuzÄ•d more sciÄ•nt me make and sage Then teachers books wit foes or gray experience age O LAW my thoughts delight desire those mandates pure Lawgiver great to pleaze dooth wari feet inure All sinful ways to shun thy woords high paths to hold Makes iudgements thyn observe which sacred rols have told Yea sweetest iuice my tast not so with sweetnes feeds As woord which wisdom true vyld falshoods hate imbreeds NVN. THY woord a lamp divine fair star that leads the day To paths obscure dooth shine and guids to heavÄ•nli way And I by sacred vow a vow in heavÄ•ns enrold Stand bound and rest resolv'd that woords iust rules to hold Afflictions mee extreme bere doun let promis'd grace Revive me ' ô then I pray poor lips frank gifts embrace MY soule see still in hand stands prest away to fly Such snares my life beset yet still thy hests I ey Can not thy Law forget O teach me Lord thy ways Thy woord since all my state sole ioy my hart to raize And thow my sovÄ•rain good since soule entire I bend Thy will to doo in this lifes breth extreme to spend SAMECH THY Law I deerly love mans vain conceipts despize Thow refuge myn and shield whose woord my waiting eys Stil holds in hope Avant avant then crue profane Gods mandates iust I 'le keep sole thow my hope from shame The hope thy speach hath raiz'd with life persuÄ•d defend SavÄ•d lifes so whole delight I 'le in thy statutes spend AND lo transgressours proud whose fraud shal self deceive Thyn earths inutil load of grace whom doost bereave As basest mire doun trod as dross with purging fire ConsumÄ•d shal sole remain sad marks of heavÄ•nli ire Therfore thy woord I love in love yet quake with fear When iudgements thyn I vieu yea hair dire horrours rear HAIIN IRIGHT and iust have wrought thy law hath been my guid Abandon then me not t'uniust oppressing pride But intercede with help my sureti ' and witnes true And failing eys with strength of rightÄ•ous speach renue Thy servant I deer Lord thy servant not forsake Give sciÄ•nce thy hests me teach and to thy favour take THUS I thy will shal knowe But time for thee great Lord For thee to woork whose laws of lawles mynds abhord Quite now they would displace I Lord so much the more Bove finest gold them prize thee fountain iust adore Their vertues high admire in all things alwaies right And falshoods ways perverse all spurn with iust despite PE. SO mervÄ•ilous shines thy woord in powÄ•r in wisdom high In goodnes that my soule with wingd desire dooth fly And pant it to attain Lo then thy sacred light I folo Lord with ioy since understanding bright DisclozÄ•d evÄ•n simple mynds it gives Thow mee with grace Aspect as those who thee in highth of loves doe place AND first my steps so guid in path of heavÄ•nli woord That sins dark powÄ•r decay Then mee with Iustice swoord From mans oppression free free man thy ways I 'le trace O thow thy servant teach And with thy gracious face Cheer up my grieved eys whence streaming tears doo thrill To see unthankful man neglect thy saving will TZADE HIGH Iudge of worlds from whom pure Iustice doun dooth flowe Whose law worlds perfect rule whose woord hid trueth makes knowe And iudgements all are right thou these with charge severe Hast man enioind to keep that mee griev'd zele dooth wear To see my foes forget thy speach proclaim'd above Thy speach which pure as heavÄ•ns drawth up thy servants love I SMALL and am despizÄ•d thy precepts yet apply Which mirrour true of thee which rule derivÄ•d from high Of iustice firmly pitcht of never changing right In toils in grasping griefs stil yield me sweet delight Sole thow my dazeling mynd pure lights eternal spring Illuminate which light shalt life eternal bring KOPH PROSTRATE with ardent hart with tear-distilling eys I call I cry ô thow who iust complaints despize Nor doost nor canst thou hear and save him who thy hests And witnest will wil keep if undefilÄ•d requests Morns dawning oft if oft my waking thoughts prevent Nights watches towărd thy woord