PSALMS HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS In Two Parts By Mr. WILLIAM VILANT The Author of The Gospel-Call in Meeter Psal 147.1 It is good to sing Praises It is pleasant and comely Matth. 26.30 They sung an Hymn or Psalm Eph. 4.19 Speaking to your selves in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs singing Colos 3.16 Teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs singing EDINBVRGH Printed in the Year 1689. PSALMS HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS PART I. Psal 8.1 HOw excellent in all the Earth Lord our Lord is thy Name Who hast thy glory set above the heavens starry frame Isa 6 â— v. O holy holy holy Lord of hosts the Earth throughout Is of thy Glory full thus all the Seraphims do shout v. 2. Each one hath six wings and with two of these they swiftly fly With two their face with two their feet they cover reverently If these pure Spirits hide themselves O Lord how then should I Who dust am and defil'd with sin abhore my self and cry v. 5. Wo's me I am undone for I 'm a man of lips unclean Thus said Isaiah when he Lord had thy glory seen Purge out my sin and touch my lips with a live-coal of fire Since it doth from the Altar come sinners may it desire In his Name who the Altar is the Sacrifice and Priest Who for transgressours interceeds Lord I make this request That thou would send thy promis'd Sp'rit my spirit to inspire Luk. 3.16 Rom. 5.5 Wash me from filth burn out my dross baptize me Lord with fire And by the holy Ghost thy Love abroad diffuse and shed In my cold heart that with thy Love I may be ravished O lead me to the Fountain pure Psal 36.9 of Life the living spring Of thy strong Love cause me to drink abundantly and sing Ioh. 4.14 Ioh. 7.38 Deut. 32. v. 2.3 That water give which in the Soul a well of water grows Springing up to eternal Life and out in Rivers flows Thy Doctrine drop as rain thy Word distil like dew and as The small rain on the tender Herb as showres upon the grass For I desire IEHOVAH'S Name to publish far abroad O People all do ye ascribe Greatness unto our God. He is the rock His work 's perfect all his ways judgment be A God of truth He 's Iust and Right without iniquity Gen 14.22 I have lift up my hand unto the Lord the God most hy Possessor of the Heav'n and Earth by Soveraign Property Gen. 15.1 After these things the Lord his word in vision to Abram Came saying Do not fear Abram for I IEHOVAH am Thy sheild from all thy enemies thee to protect and guard Fear not for want I am thy great exceeding great reward 〈…〉 1. The Lord said unto Abram I am God the Almighty The Allsufficient before Me walk and perfect be â—m 18 â—5 That the just as the wicked be let that be far from Thee Shall not the judge of all the Earth do judgment righteously â—m 21 13. In Beersheba Abraham sojourning planted wood And thereupon the Lord's Name call'd the Everlasting GOD. Or thus In Beersheba Abraham sojourning planted tree And there call'd on IEHOVAH'S Name God of Eternity â—xod â— 13 And Moses said to God behold when I to Israel His children come and unto them shal this relate and tell He who 's your Fathers God hath sent me unto you and they Shall say to me What is His Name What shall I to them say And God to Moses said I AM THAT I AM and said thou Shalt say this to the Israelites I AM sent me to you And God moreover said unto Moses this say shalt thou To Israel his children that The Lord sent me to you Even IEHOVAH your Fathers God the God of Abraham The God of Isaac and the God of Iacob still the same For ever is my Name and this is and for ever shal Vnto all Generations be my Memorial Exod. 15.2 The Lord 's my strength and song and he become is my salvation He is my God and I 'le prepare for him an habitation He is my fathers God and I 'le exalt on high his Fame Iehovah is a man of war Iehovah is his Name vers 11 Who 's like Thee Lord among the gods who 's like Thee glorious In holiness fearful in praise doing things wonderous Exod. 20.2 I am IEHOVAH thy God which have made thee out to go From Egypt land and from the house of servants Thou shalt no Other gods have before my face Thou shalt not make to thee A graven image or any likeness of things that be Into the heav'n above or that is in the earth below Or in the water under earth thy self thou shalt not bow Down to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God most hy A jealous God am visiting Fathers iniquity Vpon the children to the third and to the fourth degree To threes and fours of these who do hatred bear unto me And magnifying in effect mercy and bountie free To thousands who Me love and keep My precepts carefully Exod. 33.18 And Moses said I Thee beseech Thy glory to me shew And he said I 'le my goodness all make pass by in thy view And I IEHOVAH his Name will proclaim before thy face And will be gracious to whom I will extend my grace And will shew mercy on whom I will mercy show And he Said Thou canst not my face see for none shall live and me see Exod. 34.6 The Lord the Lord God merciful and very Gracious Long suffering and in His truth and goodness plenteous For thousands he doth mercy keep forgives iniquity Transgression and sin but clear the guilty will not he Vpon the children visiting fathers iniquitie And upon childrens children to the third and fourth degree Deut. 4.39 Know this day and bring to thy heart the Lord he 's God alone In Heaven above on earth beneath beside him there is none Deut. 6.4 Hear Israel the Lord our God is one Lord thou shalt love The Lord thy God with all thy heart soul might all things above Deut. 10.17 The Lord our God is God of gods and Lord of lords most hie A great and mighty God He is and Terrible is He. There 's no iniquity with Him 2 Chr. 19.7 He doeth not regard Persons nor taketh He at all a gift nor a reward The judgment of the fatherless and widow executes And stranger loves and food to him and raiment distributes Deut. 28.58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this Law That written are in this book that thou mayest stand in aw And mayest fear this Name which is Glorious and Fearful The LORD thy GOD the Lord will then make thy plagues wonderful Deut. 33.26 There 's none like to Iesuruns God who rides in the heav'n hie In thy help and upon the Skie in his
excellencie Th' Eternal God is thy refuge to which thou may resort And the arms everlasting are underneath to support 1 Sam. 2.1 My heart rejoiceth in the Lord mine horn's exalted hie In IEHOVAH my mouth 's enlarg over mine enemie Because in thy salvation I do rejoice there 's none Holy as is IEHOVAH for besides Thee there 's not one Nor like our God is any rock let not your talk exceed In pride and let not arrogance out of your mouth proceed Because IEHOVAH is a God of knowledge infinite And by him actions weighed are strong mens bows broke are quite And they that stumbled being weak with strength are gift about They who were full now for their bread themselves have hired out And they did cease that hungry were so that the barren bare Sev'n and she waxed weak who had of children greater store The Lord doâ—h kill and makes alive brings down to the graves ditch And bringeth up again The LORD makes poor and maketh rich He bringeth low and lifteth up He raiseth when he will The poor out of the dust and He lifts up from the dunghill The begger to set them among the Princes and to make Them as their own inheritance the throne of glory take Because the pillars of the earth unto the Lord alone Belong and He established the world hath them upon His â—aints feet He will keep and all the wicked silent shall In darkness be for man by strength shall not prevail at all The adversaries of the Lord shall broken be asunder All into pieces out of heav'n He shall upon them thunder The Lord shall judge th' ends of th' earth and to his King appointed He shall give strength and shall exalt the horn of his anointed Sam. 1.22 His people for His great Names sake the Lord will not forsake Because it pleased hath the Lord His People you to make Sam. â— 29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent For He is not a man that He should alter his intent 1 Sam. 16.7 The Lord sees not as man does see for man lookes on the eyes The outward shew the Lord he looks on th' heart * Psal 7.9 1 Sam. 17.45 the reins He tries David said to the Philistine Thou comes to me with Sword With spear with Sheild but I to thee in the Name of the Lord The Lord of Hosts come He who is the God of the armies Of Israel whom with disdain thou haughtily defies The Lord he will deliver thee into my hands this day And I will smite thee and will take thine head from thee away And of the Philistean host the carcases this day To Fowls of th' air to earths wild beasts I will give for a prey That all the earth the people all who in the earth do dwel May certainly know that there is a God in Israel And all this great Assembly shall know clearly that the Lord Saveth not nor delivereth with spear nor yet with sword Because the Battel is the Lords who over all commands And he will you deliver up and give into our hands 2 Sam. 7.18 Then went King David in and sat before the Lord and he Said Who am I O LORD GOD and what is my house that me Thou hast brought hitherto And yet this was a thing but smal Into thy sight O Lord God but Thou spoken hast withall Of the house of Thy servant for a great while to come on And is this O Lord God of man the law and fashion And what can David unto Thee say more for thou dost know O Lord thy servant perfectly for thy words sake hast Thou And after Thine own heart prepar'd all this great dignity That to thy servant Thou might make this greatness knowen be ver 26. Wherefore O Lord God thou art great for like Thee there is none Nor is there any God beside Thee Thou art God alone â— Sam. â—â— 2 And let Thy Name be magnifi'd for ever let them tell Saying the Lord of hosts He is God over Israel He said the Lord He is my Rock and He is my Fortress And He is my Deliverer to free me from distress The God of my rock I will trust Him staying Him upon He is my shield and He 's the horn of my Salvation â— Chro. â— 10 My high tower and my refuge to which I for defence Do flee my Saviour Thou me savest from violence And David said Blessed be Thou IEHOVAH the most Hy God of our Father Israel for all eternity Lord Thine the greatness is and pow'r the glory victory Eternitie and unto Thee belongs the Majestie For all in heav'n and earth is Thine the kingdom 's Thine with all O Lord and Thou art as the head exalted above all Riches and honour come of Thee Thou reigns ov'r all in state In Thine hand 's power and might and thine hand it 's to make great And to give strength to all Therefore now our God we to Thee Give thanks and Thy most glorious Naâ— praising we glorifie But who am I what 's my people that we should able be After this sort so willingly to offer unto Thee For all 's of Thee and of Thy own we given have to Thee For we before Thee strangers are and sojourners are we As all our fathers were Our days on earth as shadows glide And there 's no expectation that here we shall abide O Lord our God all this store which We have prepar'd that we ver 17. For thy most holy Name a house to thee might edifie Cometh of Thine hand and is all Thine owen properly I know also my God that Thou the heart dost search and try And as for me in th'uprightness of my heart willingly ver 18. I offer'd all these things and now with gladness I did see Thy people present here to Thee to offer willingly Lord God of Abraham Isaac and Israel who be Our fathers this for ever keep in the imaginations Of the reiterated thoughts and lasting cogitations â— Chro. â— 14 Of the heart of Thy people and Thy peoples hearts to thee Prepare and their prepared heartâ— establish stedfastlie O Lord the God of Israel there is no God like thee Into the heav'n nor in the earth who keepest constantlie ver 18. The covenant and bountie free and mercy keeps in store Vnto thy servants who with all their hearts walk Thee before But O! will God in very deed on earth dwel and remain With men Behold heav'n and the heav'n of heav'ns cannot contain Thee who Incomprehensible art and from Limits free How much less can this house which I have builded unto Thee Nehem. 1.4 Hearing these words I sat down wept and mourned day by day And fasted and before the God of Heaven I did pray â—ers 5. And said I Thee beseech O Lord God of the heaven hie The great God and the terrible who keeps most faithfully The covenant and as in store
Mercy does still reserve For them who love Him and who His commandements observe â—ehem 15. Stand up and bless the Lord your God for all eternity And blessed be Thy glorious Name which is exalted hie Above all blessing and all praise vers 6. Thou Thou art Lord alone Thou hast made heav'n the heav'n of heav'â— with all their host each one The earth and all that 's there the sea and all that therein be And thou preserves all and the host of heav'n adoreth thee Neh. 13 22.31 Concerning this also my GOD remember me for good And spare me after Thy mercies greatness and multitude Iob. 5.8.9 I would seek God and lay on God my cause and business Who does things great unsearchable marvelous numberless 10. Who rain on earth gives waters sends on fields to set on hie 11. The low that unto safety they who mourn may lifted be 12. He these devices disappoints which crafty men devise So that their hands cannot at all perform their enterprise In their own craftiness the wise He doeth take and that Counsel which froward men take is headlong precipitat They meet with darkness in the day at noon grop as at night But saves the poor from sword and mouth and hand of men of might So that unto the poor who are exhausted there is hope And then her foul blasphemous mouth iniquity doth stop Behold blest is the man whom God correcteth with his rod Despise not then the chastening of the Almighty God Because He maketh sore and He binds up He makes the wound And then His healing hands do make the wounded whole and sound Iob. 9.2 But how should man be just with God If He with him contend One of a thousand he cannot Him answer or defend He 's wise in heart mighty in strength Who hath himself hardned Against this Wise and Mighty God and yet hath prospered Who doth remove the mountains hy and yet they do not know Who them into His anger doth ov'rturn and overthrow Who shakes earth from her place and then its pillars trembling fall Commands the Sun and it doth not rise and stars up doth seal Who spreadeth out the heav'ns alone on the Seas waves doth tread Who Arcturus Orion and the Pleiades hath made And makes the chambers of the south And great things worketh He Past finding out yea wondrous things which without number be Behold He doeth by me go and I Him do not see He also passeth on but He is not perceiv'd by me Behold if He shal take away Who can turn Him away And who is he who unto Him What doest Thou will say Iob 12.13 With God strength wisdom counsel and understanding remain Behold He breaketh down and it cannot be built again He shutteth up a man and then there can no opening be Behold the waters He withholds and they are turned dry And sends them out and they ov'rturn the earth Strength with Him is And Wisdom the deceived and the deceiver are His. He leadeth counsellers away spoiled and He doth make The Iudges fools The bond of Kings unties and loose doth shake And with a girdle girds their loins He Princes as a prey Leadeth He overthrows the strong He doth remove away The speech of those who trusty are that they have nought to say And He the understanding of the aged takes away On Princes pours contempt weakneth the strength of men of might Clears deep things out of darkness brings the shade of death to light He doth increase the nations and them destroys again The nations He extends and doth them straiten and restrain The heart of the chief people of the earth He takes away And makes them in a wilderness wander where there 's no way They in the dark grope without light He causeth them to dot Stagger and wander like a man whom drink doth quite besot Iob 11.7 Canst thou by searching find out God Canst thou th' Almighty to Perfection find It is as high as heav'n what canst thou do Deeper than hell what canst thou know It s boundless measures be Infinitely longer than Earth and broader than the Sea. Who knoweth not in all these that Iob 12.9 the Lords hand wrought hath this In whose hand each living things soul and all mankinds breath is Iob 15.14 What is man that he should be clean and pure and what is he That born is of a woman that he righteous should be Behold He puts not trust into His Saints Angels of light Yea even the very heav'ns are not pure and clean in his sight How much more then abominable and filthy may we think Is man who doth iniquitie like unto water drink Iob 25.2 Fear and Dominion are with Him in His high places He Makes peace Of His vast armies troops can any number be And upon whom doth not arise His clear and shining light How then can man be justify'd with God before His sight How can he that 's of woman born be clean and without blot Behold even to the Moon and it shines not yea stars are not Pure in His sight How much less man that is a worm and be That is the son of man who is a worm clean can he be Iob 26.6 Heâ—l's naked and destruction hath in 's sight no covering He stretcht the north ov'r th' emptie place and hangs earth on notâ—ing He bindeth up the waters which seeks every way a vent In His thick cloud and yet the cloud under them is not rent He holds back and contains the face and aspect of his throne And His cloud as a sable vail extendeth it upon With limits He the waters did compass and comprehend Vntill the light of day with nights darkness come to an end Heav'ns pillars tremble and at His reproof astonish'd be And with His power He divides the waters of the sea And by His understanding He the proud strikes wounds and breaks And by His sp'rit the heav'ns adorns garnisheth comely makes His hand the crooked Serpent form'd Behold these are not all His ways but only parts thereof But O! How very smal A portion of Him is heard as to the thing in hand But O! the thunder of His pow'r who can it understand Iob. 28.23 God Knows the way of Wisdom and He knows its place for He Looks to earths ends and all below the whole heav'n He doth see To make the weight ev'n for the winds and by a measure He Weigheth the waters when He for the rain made a decree And for the thunders lightning made a way then He did see Iâ— and it number'd it prepar'd yea it search out did He. And unto man He said Behold the Lords fear in the heart That 's wisdom and understanding from evil to depart Iob. 33.12 I 'l answer thee that God doth man in greatness far surmount Why strives thou ' gainst Him for of His things He gives no account Iob 36.26 Behold God He is
for ever do'th living waters afford Heal me O Lord and I shall be healed of each disease Save me and I shall saved be because thou art my praise Ier. 23.23 The Lord saith Am I a God at hand and not a God afar Can any hide himself in these places that secret are That I shall not him says the Lord in secret places see Do I not fill sayeth the Lord the heav'n and earth fullie Ier. 31.3 Yea with an everlasting love I freely loved thee Therefore with loving kindness I have drawen thee to Me. Ier. 31.25 For I the wearied Soul have fill'd to satiety And I each soul that 's sorrowfull replenished fully Ier. 32.17 Ah! Lord God Lo Thou made the heav'n and earth by Thy great might And stretcht out arm and there 's nothing that is hid from Thy sight Or is hard for Thee Thou do's show thy loving kindness free To thousands and do's recompence fathers iniquity Into their childrens bosom who continue after them The Great the Mighty God the Lord of hosts this is his Name In counsel great mighty in work for thine eyes look upon All the wayes of the sons of men to give to every one According to his wayes and to the fruit of his doings Which in the land of Egypt hast thy wonders set and signs vers 27 Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh Can there be A doubt that there is any thing that is too hard for Me Lam. 5.19 O Lord Thou evermore remains Thy everlasting throne Endures from generation to generation Ezek. 33 11. The Lord God sayeth as I live I have no pleasure in The wickeds death but that he turn from his own way of sin And so may live Turn ye turn ye from your ill wayes to Me For wherefore will ye willfully O house of Israel die Dan. 2.20 The Name of God for ever and for ever blessed be Because Wisdom and Might are His times seasons changeth He. He Kings removes and Kings setts up He wisdom doth bestow Vnto the Wise knowledge to those who understanding know He deep and secret things reveals he understandeth well What is into the darkness and the light doth with Him dwell vers 47 Truly your God is God of gods and He is Lord of kings And He is a revealer who discovers secret things Dan. 4.37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise extoll and honour hy The King of heaven all whose works are truth and verity And His waves judgment are and those that walk in loftiness And pride He 's able to abase to humble and depress Dan. 9.7 O Lord unto Thee righteousness belongeth as Thy right But unto us confusion of faces in Thy sight vers 9. Mercies unto the Lord our God and forgiv'nesses free Belong though we against Him have rebelled wickedly â—os 11 â— The fierceness of my wrath I 'le not execute upon thee I 'le not return for to destroy Ephraim utterlie For I 'm God not man in the midst of thee the holy One I 'le not the City enter in to make destruction â—os 13 â— O Isra'l thou destroy'd thy self but thine help is in Me I 'le be thy King Where 's one that can in all thy towns save thee â—el 2. â— Therefore now also saith the Lord turn ye ev'n unto Me With all your heart with fasting weep and mourn ye tenderlie And rent your heart and not your clothes and to the Lord turn ye The Lord your God for gracious and mercifull is He And unto anger slow of great kindness and doth repent Him of the ill Who knows if He return will and relent And leave a blessing Him behind ev'n a meat-offering And a drink-off'ring which we to the Lord our God may bring Amos â— 13 For it 's He who the mountains forms and who creats the wind And who declareth unto man what 's the thought of his mind He who the morning darkness makes treads on earths places hie The Lord the God of hosts his Name is and shall ever be â—mos â—8 Seek Him who maketh Pleiades who makes Orion bright And deaths dark shadow doth convert unto the mornings light Darkens the day with night Calls fâ—â—â—â— Seas waters and the same Poures out upon the face of earth IEHOVAH is his Name The spoiled He against the strong recruites and strong doth make So that the spoil'd shal come against the fortress it to take Amos 9.5 The Lord the God of hosts who doth the land touch and it shall Melt and all that dwell therein shall mourn it shall rise up all Wholly ev'n like unto a flood and it shall drowned be As by the flood of Egypt He who builds His stories hie Ev'n the ascending towring Spheres the orbs celestial And founded hath his troup on earth He who doth also call For the abounding waters of the sea and poures the same Abundantly out on the face of earth the Lord 's his Name Mic. 7.18 Who is a Godlike Thee who do'st pardon iniquity And trespass of the remnant of His heritage pass by His anger and His wrath for ay He doeth not retain Because in mercy He delights and He will turn again He will compassion have on us He our inquities Subdue will all their sins Thou wilt cast in the depths of Seas The truth to Iacob thou'lt perform mercy to Abraham Which to our fathers thou of old hast sworn by thy great Name â—eb 6.7 Wherein God willing to shew forth the more abundantly Vnto the heirs of glory the immutability Of His counsel confirmed it by oath most solemnlie That by two things immutable in which God cannot lie We might strong consolation have who taken have our flight For refuge to take hold upon the hope set in our sight Nah. â— 2 The Lord 's a jealous God the Lord revengeth certainly The Lord revengeth and He hath furie the Lord most hy Will surely vengeance take upon all His adversaries And He reserveth as in store wrath for his enemies The Lord 's to anger slow and great in pow'r the obstinate Will not at all acquit the Lord His way in glorious state Hath in the whirlewind and in the storm and clouds of sky Are his feets dust He doth rebuke the sea and makes it dry And drieth all the rivers up Bashan hanging its head And Carmel languish and the flower of Lebanon doth fade The mountains quake at Him and hills melt th' earth at his divine Presence is burned yea the world and all that dwell therein Before His indignation who can stand Who is he That can abide the fierceness of His anger His furie Is poured out like unto fire and rocks He down doth throw The Lord is good a strength in time of trouble and doth know Who trust in Him but will by flood ov'running Ninivies Place bring to utter end darkness shall chase His enemies Hab. 1.12 From everlasting art Thou not