Who when Thou Lord in wrath do'st on him frown His very Soul is with the heavy weight press'd down III. Make his the Portion of my Enemies Who in their cursed rage contrive To slay my Soul when Thou would'st have it live That they may see by this their sad surprise It was not only me but Thee they did despise IV. Let those who wish my hurt and would rejoyce As senseless of my misery Be like to conquer'd troops which scatt'red fly And with confusion tremble at the noise That 's rais'd by their own fear and mighty Enemies voice V. For a reward let such be driven away And quite astonish'd may they find No hopes of comfort to relieve their mind Who at my griefs in sport triumphing say This is as we would have it be Aha! Aha! VI. But on Thy People make Thy Face to shine Let them from fears be alwayes free Except it be fears of offending Thee The sacred Flame their heart shall so refine That now their joy shall only be that they are Thine VII Such as to Thy Salvation burn in love Let them perpetual praises sing And with rejoycing this their Off'ring bring With such Expressions let them forward move Our God be magnify'd on Earth and Heav'n above VIII But I am poor and needy much distress'd Wherefore O Lord make haste to me For all the Springs of Mercy are in Thee And can I want while I upon Thee rest Whose Word alone commands deliv'rance to th' Opprest IX Thou in whom all my confidence do's lye My help and hope in my distress Let not my Misery make Thy Pow'r be less On Thee I wait to Thee O God I fly Make haste and be Thou on the Wing as well as I Psalm LXXI In te Domine speravi non eonfundar c. I. THou art my hope O God in whom I trust Let not my Confidence procure me shame But save me in Thy Truth for Thou art Just And in my great escape consult Thy Name Lest those who know Thee not its care should blame To my Complaints and cryes incline Thine Ear And by Thy Help make me assur'd that Thou dost hear II. Be Thou my Rock where till the Storm is past Above the Floods I may securely stand Thy promis'd aids for me send out at last Who art my Rock at Sea my Fort at Land And by Thine save me from my Enemies hand The bloody hands of fierce and cruel Men And all their shafts on their own heads return again III. For Thou O Lord my ancient hope hast been And from my youth I have Thy Mercies known Thy Power was in my first conception seen When from the Womb Thou did'st Thy Servant own And thence He into Thy great arms was thrown Praise is the least that I can offer Thee For all the care which then and since Thou took'st of me IV. But Lord despis'd I 'me made the scorn of all A greater Wonder Now than heretofore Yet still Thou art my God on whom I call My Magazeen where 's laid up all my store Nor till Thou sav'st me will I give Thee o're And then my Song shall glory in Thy Praise And I 'll both honour and admire Thee all my dayes V. Now that I 'm Old my God and feeble grown And both my eyes and strength together fail Leave me not now by them to be o'rethrown Who with continuall plots my life assail And or to dye resolve or to prevail Who say We 'll fight o'recome pursue and take And him whom God ha's left Our Slave Captive make VI. Thou who all this and more then this dost hear Make haste to help me and no longer stay Let those who thought Thee farr off find Thee near When in consuming flames they melt away And to Eternal Wrath are made a prey Let shame Reproach and Scorn their Portion be And all the snares their malice had design'd for me VII Then to Thy Name I 'll make new Songs of Praise By this experience taught to doubt no more Recount of Thy great Wonders all my dayes And of Thy Righteous Mercies boundless store Which I sufficiently can ne'r adore By Thine own Power I 'll of Thy Power rehearse And make Thy Righteousness the subject of my Verse VIII Thou from my Infancy hast made me see Thy Wond'rous Works which I abroad have shown Now that I 'm Old continue them to me That I may perfect what I have begun And tell Posterity what Thou hast done How great Thy Bounty is How great Thy Love Like whom there 's none below like whom there 's none above IX Great and sore troubles for Thy hand I 've born But know Thou wilt restore my joyes again And when from death Thou shalt my Soul return Thy Comforts shall exceed my present pain And on my Throne I shall be fixt again Shall to my Harp of all Thy Favours sing Who art the Holy God my Hope and Israel's King X. The joy that 's in my heart my mouth shall speak And all my Life be one continu'd Song My Soul whose wringing fetters Thou did'st break Shall find or make its passage by my tongue And think no time for Thy great praise too long For Thou to th' Earth my Enemies hast thrown And in Thy Wrath on them Thy Care of me made known Psalm LXXII Deus Judicium tuum Regi c. I. GReat God Thy Judgements to Our Soveraign give And let His Throne like Thine abide May the Young Prince before Thee live And on His Enemies necks in Triumph ride Put on His head Thy Righteous Crown And to His Fathers glorys add Thy own II. Then shall He judge the People and dispense That Justice which He has receiv'd To Him the Poor shall look and thence Have both their miseries pitty'd and reliev'd The Needys Cause He shall maintain And on their Enemies turn their wrongs again III. So shall the barren Clifts with shouts resound And all the little Hills rejoyce The Valleys from the lower ground Shall thence receive the Image of the Voice Sweet Peace on every Hill shall raign And Justice once more guide the humble Plain IV. Whilst time can measure it His Rule shall last And when even that shall be no more When Time it self expir'd is cast I' th' Urn that had all dust but his before No Ages left to count it by It shall be measur'd by Eternity V. And as soft rains on the mow'd grass come down And give the Meads a second Spring As show'rs are to a Land new sown Which swell the Seed and help it forth to bring Making the Fields all fresh and gay Such shall his Gover'ment do but more than they VI. Peace and Her fruits shall prosper in His dayes And under His Auspicious Raign The Palm shall flourish and the Bayes And Justice to the Earth return'd again To Heav'n no more be forc't to go But with Him keep Her Residence below VII His far stretch'd sway Nature alone can bound
it broken there in peices lay Gods secret path was Israels Great High Way Through which as through the Wilderness they pass Only these sands were wall'd about with glass Thus from their Enemies He set them free Whilst the admiring waves stood up to see But when the sacred Army was gon o're The seas no longer own'd their new made shore But o're it leapt as friends return'd to greet And in their old embraces hast to meet Th' Egyptian Troops which scattred lay between And thought to tell at home what they had seen Swift as that thought were buried in the waves And not one left to shew their empty Graves Then Israel fear'd His Word and sang His Praise But soon forgot that and His Wondrous wayes Did in the Wilderness His Power distrust And for full Tables in the Desert lust He gave it them but therewith leaness sent Into their very Souls the Poyson went Next against Moses they in tumults rise And Aaron the Almightys choyce despise But God Himself from Heaven His Choice approv'd And from His sight the Murmurers remov'd The Sea before the Earth do's now obey And frighted at His presence ran away Loosned its hold and as apart it fell Let Dathan and Abiran quick to Hell And those who to the Priesthood did aspire And off'red Incense were consum'd by Fire At Horeb they had griev'd him long before When there they did their molton god adore At Horeb where they that great Voice did hear Which fill'd the most rebellious breast with fear And strook the Soul as it surpriz'd the Eare. Thus to an Ox their glory they compare And these cry they Thy Gods O Israel are Not because they the true one did not know But their old love to Egypt thus would show Forgetting what in Egypt He had done Both for their Nations honour and His own And all His Wonders in the Mighty Deep Making a Causey there that they their way might keep Wherefore about destroying them He spake And that He Moses a great Name would make Moses who in the breach before Him stood And would have given His Own to save their blood That pass'd the Happy Canaan they contemn But more the God who promis'd it to them To Egypt they again had rather go Than serve new Masters whom they did not know Therefore in wrath He rais'd His vengefull Hand To Strike and swear they should not see the Land And that all those who fell not by His own Should by their En'mies swords be overthrown Sure they will try it and to Peor turn'd Before dumb Idols ate and Incense burn'd Thus were they only constant in their sin And knew no measure till the Plague brake in Had some new solly to enflame His Ire And set the Mine He lay'd so deep a fire Till Phineas stood up and with dextrous skill Three En'mies at one happy blow did kill Zimri and Cosbi and the Plague did stay Which weltring in their gore and breathless lay An Act whose Memory God Himself would save And for reward to His House the Priest-hood gave Another time at Meriba they strove And their meek Guide did with their murmurings prove Full ill it went with Moses for their sake Who unadvis'dly in His Passion spake And with them both in sin and judgement did partake The Nations of which God in charge did give Should be destroy'd they were resolv'd should live And come to Canaan to preserve their seed Were mingled with them and did by them breed Learn'd all their works their Idols did adore Curs'd to Them now though for their sakes before Idols that Devils were yet unto whom All smear'd they in their Childrens blood must come No other Sacrifice but that will please Nor any blood but the Innocent appease Their childrens blood with which their Gods were stain'd They and their Gods and with their own the land Thus justly plagu'd for their impiety That Gods of their own making should so cruel bee This blew the Heav'nly wrath up to a Flame Turn'd love to hatred Mercy rage became Up to the Heathen He His People gave And Israel in His own land was a slave Those who most hated them for Lords did reign And those they conquer'd conquer'd them again When God delivered them they yet sinn'd more Tempting new plagues they never felt before Yet to their cry He gently bow'd His Ear And though they would not Him their grones did hear According to His Cov'nant Mercy sent And taught them by His oft once to Repent Made their proud Lords resent their Miseries And shew less cruel hands and more indulgent eyes Save us O God and bring Thy Captives home That we with prayse may to Thy Temple come To Israels King let thanks be ever pay'd And let Amen by all the World be say'd Hallelujah The end of the Fourth Book of Psalms THE FIFTH BOOK OF PSALMS Psalm CVII Confitemini Domino quoniam c. Chorus Omnium ALL you who on th' Almighty Love depend And by His liberal hand improve Let with your voice your thanks ascend And here begin what you shall do above His Mercy like His Truth is ever sure And so your Praise should be as constant and as pure Versus I. Let His Redeem'd say so that Israel whom Their Enemys Captive led but He brought home Then brought them home when from the farthest East They were dispers'd and scattred to the West When North and South their weary steps did know But they nor where they went nor where to go Now in the Desart an untrodden way Where they could hardly pass yet durst not stay Where they no City found and none to tell Which road to take or in what Place to dwell Hungry and thirsty doubtful in their mind Scarce knowing what they sought or what they 'd wish to find Chorus Minor Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and He did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great Hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd round about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Respondens He led them forth Himself by the right way Their passage made as their great journey lay And City founded for them and did tell Not only where but made them in it dwell Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own For to the longing Soul He grants His Will And with that Goodness which He is do's th' hungry fill Versus II. Those who in darkness and in Horror sit And so near death 't is in the shade of it Bound in Affliction and in heavy chaines In prison where there noyse and silence reignes Feeling their sins in all they suffer there Whose weight more rings â—han th' Irons which they bear Their hearts sink lower than
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
are IX As one past hope they of me speak And think by that to make me fear But all their words nor can my silence break Nor them convince that I so much as hear Without reproofs as dumb patient as without ear X. But Thou O God art my great trust And unto Thee my heart do's pray Hear me My God lest they who so much boast Seeing me fall presumptuously inveigh 'T was caus'd by theirs when Thou but took'st Thy hand away XI I know I have deserv'd to fall And even to Hell to be cast down But let my tears Thy help and pardon call I grieve Thou see'st and my transgressions own Forbear Thine Lord where sentence has already gone XII For this my Enemies encrease My sins I know have made them strong For this all thoughts of former kindness cease And my just deeds they recompense with wrong Yet still I 'll follow Thee though th' way be rough long XIII Forsake me not but be my guide And lead me that I never stray For should'st Thou go too fast before or hide Thy gracious sight I should benighted stay And still the more I sought the more should lose my way Psalm XXXIX Dixi custodiam vias c. I. LEt him go on for me I said And into his rude passions break I'll keep the resolutions I have made And though he urge me to it will not speak Will not of all his injuries complain For though his words are Spears his sight shall be a rein II. This while the wicked was in sight I with my self resolv'd to do My stubborn mouth was silenter than night Grief strook me dumb before his presence now Not one good word did from my lips once fall Least I should speak amiss I would not speak at all III. But as a wild unruly fire The more 't is checkt the more't do's burn My heart inflam'd by vchement desire To answer him did on it self return And there it rag'd and there it burnt so long Till it brake out at last and set on fire my tongue IV. Lord said I then make me to know What bound is set to my few dayes How long from thee I must remain below Strange to my own but stranger to Thy wayes How frail I am how near unto my end That what 's Thine own I may before hand to Thee send V. I know I 'm frail and if with Thyne I my uncertain life compare That age which I may truly say is mine And all my dayes to Thy years nothing are Mans best estate is but an empty strife And if there can be less than nothing found 't is Life VI. The faint resemblance of a shade That scarce can in conception be And yet how great a slave poor Man is made Whom God at first appointed to be free An airy thing that only lives by Fame And whom unweildy passions ruin give and Name VII He loves and hates and hopes and fears And with fresh wounds renews his pain Troubles himself at every thing he hears And scarce recovered slips and falls again Erects vast Piles and endless wealth do's save Yet knows not who the fruit of all his cares shall have VIII What then my God can I expect Truly my hope depends on Thee May'st Thou Thy Servant from all wrongs protect And from my sins worse Foes deliver me Not that they were unheard I dumb did stand But when they spake upon my self I felt Thy hand IX When Thou dost man for sin chastise And with Thy judgments on him fall No beauty in his own less in Thine eyes Is left of that which he did beauty call But like a garment which the Moth has fret Just such a thing is Man though ne're so high and great X. Remove Thy hand for Lord I faint Thy wrath I can no longer bear From Heav'n bow down and hear my sad complaint Speak Lord that I may know I have Thine ear O from my tears turn not Thy face away They on Thee call and be not Thou more dumb than they XI Thou know'st I have no resting place I nor my Fathers here below They 're gone and I must follow them apace Spare me before I that great Journey go Lord spare me who e're long shall be no more Forgot by mine as I have those who went before Psalm XL. Expectans expectavi c. I. IN my great trouble when all hopes did fail I patiently for God did wait And found my Prayer then to prevail When all means else or useless prov'd or came too late II. The Lord unto my voice inclin'd His ear And from the pit deliver'd me A pit whose sight strook me with fear And only as my dungeon could more dreadfull be III. There stuck my feet and thence He brought me out And on a rock to fall no more But to view Him and look about As high He rais'd me as I was cast down before IV. Where as I stood I sang with chearfull Voice His praises who deliver'd me Whil'st those who fear'd before rejoyce A certain Providence in all events to see V. Blest is that man who makes the Lord his trust His firmest stay and confidence Unbyass'd by anothers lust And keeps his own from having any influence VI. Many and fearfull things Thy hand has done And whose can with Thy works compare But could Thy thoughts to us be known Numberless Lord and like Thee infinite they are VII I heard Thee say Thou dost not blood desire No Off'rings or Burnt-Sacrifice That Altars smoak with daily fire And with the clouds they upward send obscure the skies VIII Instead of them my self I bring to Thee And in Thy Roll if Thou but look 'T is written there concerning me Nor is my Name alone but Office in Thy Book IX 'T is entred there what my delights have been And that I more to Thee might draw How I Thy Righteousness have seen And what I knew and kept to others preach'd Thy Law X. Thou know'st O God my tongue has not been still And that Thy Word I ne're conceal'd But as I knew what was Thy Will Its Truth and Faithfulness have in Thy Church reveal'd XI Thy wonted Grace ah do not then withhold But in Thy mercies Lord draw near Those mercies which have been of old And in my help with greater lustre will appear XII For thousand evils have begirt me round And all my sins upon me seise With pensive eyes fixt on the ground I dare not upward look their numbers so encrease XIII If to the sky I in the sky behold Stars which one yet may sooner count My hairs could every hair be told Compar'd with them are lost and to no summ amount XIV Wherefore my God be pleas'd to come away And to my rescue make more haste My troubles call O do not stay Nor let Thy help be slow when they come on so fast XV. Now come and with Thy Presence Lord confound My proud and cruel Enemy Level his greatness
will He give Nothing that 's good will He from His with-hold He only looks they should uprightly live And for returns expect a thousand fold Lord since to Thine All for the Best shall be Not only give but choose what 's fit for me XI Triumphant General of the Sacred Host Whom all the Pow'rs of Heav'n and Earth obey Who hast a Thund'ring Legion in each Coast And Mighty Armies listed and in pay Blest is that Man who on Thy Pow'r do's trust Others may only conquer but he must Psalm LXXXV Benedixisti Domine terram c. I. AT length O God Thy People are return'd And now Thy Land enjoyes her Peace For emptiness before she mourn'd And that her rest produc'd no rich encrease Israel to His inheritance is Come And Jacob from Captivity brought home II. Thou hast their sins forgiven and past by Those sins with which they stain'd Thy Land And having hid them from Thine eye Unless it were to help with-held'st Thy hand Thy wrath whereby they were consum'd before Chang'd all to Love ha's flames but burns no more III. Great God who hast been so propitious And made Thine anger thus to cease As Thou hast turn'd Thy self turn us And let this Truce conclude in Happy Peace A Peace which none may dare to violate And from this very day let it bear date IV. Will God be alwayes angry ever chide With them who daily seek His Face And though a while He turn aside Shall not one look revive us and Our Race Shew us Thy Love and Thy Salvation grant Our fulness shall exceed Our former Want V. Attentively what God shall speak I 'll hear And listen what He 'll please to say 'T is just His Saints incline their Ear To that which none can claim so much as They Peace to His People and His Saints He 'll speak If they by Sin do not their Cov'nants break VI. To such His help is nigh and power 's at hand And those who fear Him He will love His Glory shall o'reflow Our land And Truth and Mercy kiss here as above Mercy and Truth never to part shall meet And Peace Her old friend Equity shall greet VII Truth from the Earth shall spring the best increase Our land e're hop'd for or did yield And as it grows up Righteousness The fruit of Heav'n shall meet that of the Field Justice which has the Earth so long forsook Shall dwell where she of late durst hardly look VIII A thousand Blessings God to these shall joyn And only of All Goods the Best The generous Olive and the Vine And recompence with fruit their former rest Righteousness here shall make her constant stay Nor go to Heav'n till she prepare Our Way Psalm LXXXVI Inclina Domine aurem tu am c. I. O Thou who dost th' Afflicted hear From Heav'n O God bow down Thine Eare Never such need as Now Never was I so low Or Thou though never out of call less near II. Preserve the Soul which Thee adores And out that Soul unto Thee poures Thy Servant trusts in Thee In vain let it not bee But let Thy Son O God break through these showers III. Be Merciful to Me O Lord For I depend upon Thy Word To Thee alone I cry To Thee for help I fly Rejoyce Thy Servants Soul and help afford IV. I know O Lord that Thou art Good Thy Mercy is a plenteous Flood The dead Thou mak'st to live And sinners dost forgive May not Thy Pow'r be by my Sin withstood V. But to that Prayer O God attend Which from unfeigned lips I send When troubles compass mee Then will I call on Thee For Thou wilt to those troubles put an end VI. I knew Lord Thou wilt answer Mee And that none else can do but Thee Amongst the Gods there 's none That one can trust upon Nor can their Works to Thine compared be VII Therefore to Thee all lands shall come And to Thy glorious Name fall down For Thou dost wondrous things And art above their Kings Art God alone and all must waite thy doom VIII Teach me the way where I should go The Way of Truth unto me show To that unite my heart That it may never start From Thee Lord as 't is wont with me to do IX Then will I praises to Thee sing And to Thee all my service bring Thy Word for ever more Shall still supply new store Nor will I ever end when I begin X. Thy Mercy to me Lord is great For me from Hell it free has set That Hell which lies so low Where I did hast to go And didst not Thou restrain me should do yet XI The Proud O God against me rise And I have many Enemies But be not Thou my Foe I fear not what they do Who never have set Thee before their eyes XII For of Compassion Thou art full Though I am heartless Lord and dull Gracious Long-suffering Whose Truth and Mercie Spring And with their Streams o're flow my very Soul XIII Dear God at length unto me turn Look how I for Thy absence mourn Srengthen Thy servant Lord According to Thy Word To Thy Hand-maid and Thy Hand-maids Son return XIV Shew me some token of Thy love That shame may in my En'mies move Make hast to succour me And comfort bring with Thee And of Thy servant thus my God approve Psalm LXXXVII Fundamenta ejus in montibus c. I. T Was God himself the ground survey'd Compass'd the Mountains round about Among the Mountains chose This out In Holy Sion His Foundation lay'd And for His service took the Place His Pleasure made II. Glorious City Sacred Place Where God Himself delights to be Glorious things are told of Thee How much Thou dost all Cities else surpass And how the Worlds Great God Thy Mighty Founder was III. Philistia to the Lord is known He reckons up who was born there But none with Sion may compare Nor Ethiopia Tyre nor Babylon For Sion God above all lov'd and made His Own IV. God has establisht Sion fast Himself is both Her Towers and Wall Such and so strong as ne're shall fall Such and so strong as none shall ever waste Till He who was their Builder throw them down at last And when the Grand Inquest is made And God shall write the Nations down First beginning with His Own This Man was born at Sion 't shall be sai'd And for a Bearing to His other Honours lai'd VI. From Sion springs His Pedigree I both His Name and Office know What place He serv'd me in below But by His Birth place He shall numbred bee Where e're mine was let me O Lord belong to Thee Psalm LXXXVIII Domine Deus salutis meae c. I. GReat God whence my Salvation comes alone And who that Great Salvation art Thou day and night hast heard me groan O let Thine Ears at length affect Thine heart To Thee I pray let my Prayer come to Thee Or if that
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
thâ—ir bodies ly And there 's as little hope as in their eye Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and he did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd all about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He broke their Chains asunder sett them free And made their Irons a new Bearing be From darkness freed them where they once did sit Not from Death only but the shade of it Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own For gates of Bars against Him could not stand But open fell Iron prov'd stubble to His Hand Versus III. Those Foolish sinners who in sottish Love Consume their Age neglecting that above Are justly punish'd for their fond disdain And have for all their love no love again How do they pine away and loath their meat Feeding their passion more the less they eat To sullen rocks lament as if the grones Which tear their breasts would pierce the sensless stones But all in vain those meanes but fruitless prove One Death alone can end their Lives and Love Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and he did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd all about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He sent His Word which did refine their love No more on Earth but plac'd it all above 'T was a disease no longer knew no pain But for the love it gave had love again Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Almighty Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own And let all those who by His Goodness live The hearts He thus has chang'd an Offering to Him give Versus IV. They who into the Sea in Ships go down And seek by Wayes they know not lands unknown Who make the untrac'd Ocean be their Road Which with their keels they tear and burdens load They in the Deep His dreadfull Wonders see Of which themselves as great as any bee How He commands the stormes and do's unbinde The airy fetters of the strugling Winde Out they all tumble and the rough Sea invade Which now their scorn as much as sport is made To Heav'n lift up its floods as if to call Help thence but e're 't is come down let them fall Low as their depth whiles the scar'd passingers Look every wave should drown them and their fears Stagger like drunken Men reel to and fro Their feet less steady than their Vessels go And in their teeth the Winds their sighs do send Making them e're the storms at their Witts end Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and He did hear His Face the Tempest could not hide Nor raging Seas or dull or stop His Eare For when in vain they had look'd round about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He bid the Sea be calm the Winds be still And only with brisk gales their canvass fill Then brought them smooth and calmy as the Sea To the wish'd Haven where they long'd to be Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own And let all those who on the Seas have been Sing in His Church His praise and tell what they have seen Versus When for their sin God do's chastize a land Their springs He turnes into a Parched sand A Wilderness which drinks their Rivers up And not a Rose budd yields to crown the Cup But barren as the salt which is sown there Nor herb for man nor grass for beast do's bear Resp. The Wilderness He turns into a Pool And fills the parched sand with springs brim full There for the hungry Soul provides His meat And for the Colonys He leads a seat With corn they sow their fields new Vineyards plant And neither Citizens nor Cities want He blesses them and makes them so increase Their very Cattle feel the fruits of Peace Versus Again to punish them they are brought low That hand destroys them which first made them grow For He on mighty Kings contempt do's lay And those who His forsake lose their own way Resp. But He the Poor from trouble sets on high Whence He may see His long Posterity Chorus Omnium Let all the Righteous in their God rejoice But the Unjust with envy break Those shew their triumph by their voice While these have neither Will nor power to speak Thrice happy Man who treasuring in his minde These several Mercies some one for his Use canfinde Psalm CVIII Paratum est Cor meum c. I. IT is resolv'd nor will I any more Distrust my God as I have done before No! I will praise Him and my heart Which has so oft betray'd me into fear Its burden in the song shall bear And when my Harp begins shall sing the highest Part. II. Awake my Harp 't is time for thee to'awake Prevent the day and Thy great subject take Put all Thy strings 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 III. We come O God and with us up will raise High as Thy Love and Truth to Heav'n 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 Thy works praise Him whose Name they have not known IV. Then with Thy Mercy to the Clouds we 'll flie And take new wing to mount to the Most High Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy gloryfar above the skies And if so high we cannot rise From Heav'n do Thou descend when we look up to Thee V. Descend and by the way Thy Name make known What Thou wilt do by what Thy hand has done Hear me My God has hear'd my Cry Has past His Word and in it I rejoice Has given me of all lands my Choice And on my Gods Almighty promise I rely VI. 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 ly farthest off or nearer stand Shall yield themselves to my Command Shall serve whilst Judah gives them lawes holds the sway VII Moab's my Wash
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
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
that he To the All-seeing eye conceal'd shall be X. Arise O God to strike lift up Thy hand And on Thy En'mies let it fall That those who daily for Thy mercy call May thence Thy pitty understand That Thou do'st not their miseries forget But that their helps shall like their pains be great XI Why should the Wicked man Thy Power despise Or whilest Thou only dost forbear Think that indeed Thou canst not see or hear Deaf as himself to th' poor mans cryes For Thou hast seen and wilt his rage requite That by Thy hand he shall confess Thy sight XII With Thee the Poor entrusted has his wayes And Thou preserv'st the Fatherless To Thee he makes his suppliant address And on Thy mighty goodness stayes Therefore appear and by one fatall blow The wicked and his wickedness o'rethrow XIII Then as Sole Monarch Thou o're all shalt reign When thus Thou hast secur'd Thy land When thus they fall who slighted Thy command And all their spoils resign again When on the heathen Thou Thy chain shalt lay And make their proud Usurpers to obey XIV For this the humble and opprest do pray With groans that God delights to hear Though not to see the mis'ries which they bear For them He feels as well as they Arise then Lord to help the Fatherless Nor let the Sons of Earth Heav'ns seed oppress Psalm XI In Domino confido c. I. I Know my trust on whom I have believ'd So certain that I cannot be deceiv'd God is my rock and all in vain You like a bird to th' hills would have me fly For he who can this rock but gain His En'mies arrows may defie The bird whose feathers wing them never soar'd so high II. I saw the wicked draw the fatall bow And from the string I saw the arrow go It level'd was at the upright And had assur'dly sunk into his heart His Innocence had been the White Had not th' Almighty took his part And on his head who shot it turn'd the vengeful dart III. Th' Almighty God whose power all things sustains Heav'ns dreadful King who in His Temple reigns And with a look all hearts do's try Sentencing every work and word and thought There as they all unform'd do lye E're they are to perfection brought And into all their several shapes and fashions wrought IV. He sees the Righteous and the Wicked too Without His help what can the Righteous do They are His love but fire and rain And floods of Brimstone on th' unjust He 'l poure Fire which shall ne're be quench'd again But light those rivers with its shower Whose burning gulf at once shall both drown and devour V. Such is the mixture fills the wickeds Cup A brimfull bowle and he shall drink it up Darkness without one gleam of light Torments which have no measure or allay And after all Eternal night Whil'st God from heav'n shall dart a ray Upon the Just man and be both his Sun and day Psalm XII Salvum me fac Domine c. I. A Rise O God and save 't is time to rise And with Thee bring all Thy supplyes Help for the Faithful man no more Has either place reserv'd or power Is not at all and was but only scorn'd before II. There 's not a just man left they flatter all And Prudence what God hates miscall To one another lye and feign And what they least intend maintain And as their tongue is false their daring heart is vain III. But God such tongues shall cut out and such hearts Wound and strike through with their darts 'Gainst Him and Heav'n they up were thrown But on themselves are all hurl'd down And by the wounds they make they find they are their own IV. Who 's Lord o're us with dev'lish mouth they say Or who is He we should obey That 's I says God now I 'll arise And since my Kingdom you despise And subjects scorn to be you shall be Enemies V. I 'll rise now and in safety set the Poor From all the storms you raise secure That word has said it which is try'd Like Silver seven times purifi'd Pure without any dross too great to be deni'd VI. Thou shalt preserve them Lord by Thy Right hand I' th' midst of a rebellious land Where basest men most honour'd are Some on the Throne some in the Chair And they as Criminalls stand sentenc'd at the Bar. Psalm XIII Usque quo Domine c. I. HOw long my God wilt Thou thus hide Thy face And thus withdraw the presence of Thy grace How long shall I forgotten be As if indeed it were in vain Of all my mis'ries to complain And I might sooner mount the rocks than Thee I look and sigh and wait O come away Why should my En'my triumph when Thou dost but stay II. Arise O God and with Thee bring fresh aid Thy very sight will make my Foes afraid By it o'recome they 'll fall asleep Too weak to bear Thy glorious sight Will here begin their endless night Whil'st Thou my eyes shalt ever waking keep Let them not on Thy servants ruine stand Least what Thine only did they challenge to their hand III. Thou art my confidence in Thee I trust And though I am afflicted God is just I in His mercy shall rejoice In that Salvation He has brought In that deliverance He has wrought Something my heart shall do something my voice Both heart and voice in songs of praise shall move And since I am Thy Care Lord Thou shalt be my Love Another Version of the same By M. M. B. I. HOw long O God shall I forgottenly As one cast from Thy memory Wilt Thou from me Thy face for ever hide For so that time which nothing is to Thee Seems an Eternity to mee Who only on Thy favour have rely'd II. Wilt Thou no period to my griefs allow But fresh afflictions on me throw Which I as little as Thy wrath can bear To see my Enemies triumphing stand And my self stoop to their command Who only Thee and Thy command should fear III. In mercy Lord again remember mee And from Oppressors set me free Unto Thy servants prayers attention give Revive his hopes and let Thy glorious light His joys renew that in Thy sight Though now cast out he may for ever live IV. Why should my Enemy encrease his pride With Thee and conquest on his side And those who trouble me in this rejoice That I am exil'd from Thy resting place The sacred presence of Thy grace Who oft have glori'd that I was Thy choice V. But I have trusted in Thy power and love That Thou wilt all my fears remove And this sure hope with joy so fill my mind That I will now Thy mighty praises sing From whom my happiness shall spring Whose bounty like Thy self is unconfin'd Psalm XIV Dixitinsipiens in corde c. I. THere is no God the fool in 's heart do's say And that his life may
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
my Prayer Least if Thou art now Seas are high The Floods away my confidence should bear And I beswallow'd up by the next wave My God be not a Rock to hear though Thou art one to save II. The voyce of my Petitions hear When I for help to Thee shall cry Let my hands feel that Thou art near Though I unable am Thy Face to spy Hear me when tow'rds Thy Oracle I pray And as I thither look be pleas'd to cast one glance this way III. Number me not with the Unjust And those who study to do wrong On whom if any poor man trust Their heart is warr though peace be in their tongue Let equal punishments pursue their sin And may their just rewards be as their base deserts have been IV. They never mind what Thou hast done Nor what Thy mighty hands can do What wonders Thou hast for me shown And for me wilt continue still to show But they shall see them and consum'd with pain Into the lowest pit descend to view it thence more plain V. Blest be that God who bow'd His ear To those requests I to Him made He is my shield my strength my spear And was my help when I unto Him pray'd On Him I trusted and in Him rejoyce My Heart that 's gone before to Heav'n I 'l follow with my Voice VI. He is their Shield His strength their Spear Who on Him for those Arms depend The Lords Anointed need not fear For God who is His King supplies will send O save the People who indeed are Thine Feed them and Lord lift up their head as Thou hast rais'd up mine Psalm XXIX Afferte Domino Filii Dei c. I. YOu whom your birth for Scepters has design'd Whom God has blest with wealth to guard your birth From Sons has made you Lords of th' Earth And on yours stampt the Portraict of His minde Your Scepters to Him yield they are His due Who only to serve Him first gave them You. II. He is your King and though you reign below You are but Vassals to His Throne above Your fear do's your dependance prove And when He speaks before Him you all bow When from above He thunders all your Powers Scatter like Clouds and melt away in showers III. He thunders from above and with the noyse Whether they will or no makes Seas to hear For at His Word they all croud near Exalted up to Heav'n by His great Voyce A voyce which sure is full of Majesty When sluggish Seas are by it rais'd so high IV. Affrighted Libanus begins to heave Like his own Cedars trembles they all quake Their roots as much as branches shake And both look which should first the other leave Like a young heifer Syrian starts away But do's through fear what that is wont at play V. From Heav'n it came a Fire before it went Consuming Fire behinde brought up the rear That all might see as well as hear And by the Message know from whom 't was sent Kades did at the Clap bow down his head And whom all fear'd his frighted Lions fled VI. The fearfull Hinde hearing the thunder roar Cast her untimely Calf with speed to fly And thinking by this shot to dy Forgot the Dogs her only dread before The Lightning made the gloomy Forest bright And what the Sun could not display'd at night VII The whole World is Gods Temple all things bow Before His Footstool and recount His praise All in their place His glory raise And unto man by theirs his duty show Lightning and Thunder to serve Him contend And His great charge proclaim to th' Earths wide end VIII Upon the Floods He sits Floods to Him bring Their gifts and humbly at his feet lay down Their Spoyls as Customs to His Crown And worship Him as their puissant King He stills their noyse and God who raging Seas Stills with a word shall give His people Peace Psalm XXX Exaltabo te Domine c. I. MY God I will to Thee give praise Because Thou hast exalted me Thou from the grave my life did'st raise And now my Song shall honour Thee When against me my foes did come And shar'd the prey and in their minds led home Their Captives Thou appeard'st and would'st not let them overcome II. 'T was then that to my God I cri'd And He who wounded made me whole All other helps which I had try'd Did but afflict not ease my Soul Even then He me did keep alive My ransom'd life did from the grave reprieve And a new Lease when I had forfeited the old did give III. O ye His Saints sing to His Name His Holiness with thanks record Thence take new fewel to your flame Sing Holiness unto the Lord His wrath a moment may remain But love shall make the storm a calm again And give a life as free from danger as it is from pain IV. Trouble and grief may last all night And to its dismal shade add theirs But when the morning brings the light Darkness shall scatter and my fears And as the Sun which guilds the day Out from the briny Ocean makes his way My Sun which breaks through tears shall brighter shine and look more gay V. Fixt on my Throne with mercy crown'd Unmov'd like some huge Rock I stood Me thoughts with pleasure I look'd round And saw my feet kiss'd by the flood Sure now I 'm past all fear I said Thy favour Lord my Rock so strong had made Others may well of me but I of none can be afraid VI. But as I thus express'd my pride Forgetting Him who made me so Thou Lord Thy face didst from me hide And then I came my self to know Trouble and pain no certain ground Which way so e're I look'd new griefs I found And the same floods which kiss'd my feet before my head surround VIII Then to Thee Lord again I cry'd What profit is there in my blood If in the pit I must abide Can Thy praise there be understood Shall the grave praise Thee or declare Thy Truth and Mercy what their glories are The grave which is as senseless as the dust that 's buryed there VIII Hear me O God and mercy show Unto my Help Thy self come down My God has heard me and I know Bv this He will His servant own To laughter He has turn'd my tears With gales of joy has blown away my fears And He who mourn'd now a Triumphant Robe and Laurel wears IX For this I will Thy praises sing And never in them silent be My glory shall its Anthem bring And faint not while 't is praising Thee Thy Mighty Power the ground shall give My noblest skill to manage it shall strive And when I cease my God to praise Thee let me cease to live Psalm XXXI In te Domine sper avi non confundar c. I. THou art my hope O God in whom I trust Let not my confidence procure me shame But save me in Thy Truth for
more II. Make Him your Song and of His Acts reherse Whose Word is like the God who spake it true And every day His constant praise renew Who is the Soveraign of the Universe Who the whole Earth with goodness fills With Flowers the valleys cloaths and crowns the hills Whose care to all His Works extends And the strait bounds of Time as well as Space transcends III. Beyond new Lands which undiscovered lye Beyond the Circuit of the Tractless Air Beyond those Heav'ns which first created were And in the skirts of His vast Empire bee His breath did all the Frame compose The Heav'nly Hosts by it from nothing rose Those sparkling fires we see above In which His power appears declare to us His love IV. He spake the Word and Seas obedient prove Stood up in heaps the Earth to overflow Till He their bounds set out plac'd some below And treasur'd others in His stores above The raging Deep in Prison laid And of its Jaylor bid it be afraid The sand which chains it to the shore With Law to over-look but never to pass o're V. Let the whole World before their Maker fall And of His Power the Nations stand in aw For He whose Spirit from nothing all did draw Has ruin no less ready at His Call His Counsels shall for ever stand Their plots though ne're so deep to countermand Making them know they are but Men And less than so when He His breath shall call again VI. Thrice happy Soul who here has fixt his joyes And on the Lord alone for help depends Such constant happiness His Love attends That even their land is so who are His choyce God who from Heav'n with curious eyes Sees every heart and all their actions tryes To whom all hearts are better known For He first made them than t' each single Man his own VII In vain Fond Kings expect sure Victories From numerous Armies and a mighty Host For Victory on airy wings is tost And only to the side He favours flies The greatest Champion cannot save His own head sentenc'd by Him to the grave And all the speed his horse can make In flying one is a worse ruin to o'retake VIII Those only are secure who have His eye On whom He looks for good who fear His Name And present hopes by ancient love can claim When they in need for help or mercy cry Their lives He from the pit brings back And what was once their fear their Song do's make In famine they by Him are fed Who is at once th' Eternal God and living bread IX On Thee O God we wait Thou art our shield Nor will we to another fortress flie There have we plac'd our trust resolv'd to die If the Almighty will no succour yield But He will help and send new joyes To fill our hearts and to employ our voyce And only as we trust in Thee So let Thy Mercy Lord and our Salvation bee Psalm XXXIIII Benedicam Dominum c. I. LORD I will bless Thee and Thy praise Shall up to Heav'n my Voice and numbers raise Of Thee my Soul all times shall boast Who save'dst me when I gave my self for lost And with us shall the humble joyn Hoping Thou wilt their refuge be as Thou wert mine II. Come ye blest Saints and let us rise Together with our Songs and reach the skies Praise Him who my first groans did hear Yet with His hand seem'd to prevent His ear And when like mine your troubles be But look to Him that hand shall save you which help'd me III. Tell Him the Wonders He has shown What for my sake He did and what for ' His own Say Lord. This poor man to Thee cry'd And Thou heard'st him why then am I deny'd I who no less am Thy great care Since equally round both encamp'd Thy Angels are IV. Trie Him but thus and thou shalt know Thine own as certain as my joyes are now How Good He is how happy they Who make His Power their hope His love their stay Dread Him for if He has Thy fear Thou may'st be confident Thy wants shall have His ear V. Hee 'll be himself Thy mighty store When savage Lions shall for hunger roar Whil'st those who glory in their Gold And in his own Chains would the Prisoner hold Spoylers themselves are Captives made And into suddain want which they least fear'd betray'd IV. But Children yield to me your ear I 'll tell you whom and how you ought to fear Would you have life and happy dayes Keep well your tongue and that will guide your wayes Do good and from all vice abstain No easier road than Peace and no way more plain VII On such God looks and to their cryes His ears are open to their griefs His eyes They for deliv'rance need but pray The hand which saves shall wipe their tears away But to the wicked He 's a flame Which shall consume their very Memories with their Name VIII Himself Hee 'll to the Just reveal The humble save and broken hearts will heal Their pains indeed are sharp and long Yet till deliverance comes He 'll make them strong And all the while they 're on the Rack Will see that those who torture them no bones shall break IX But as the wicked live they die The Just man's but their own worst Enemy Their own designs shall haste their death Kill'd by that poyson which themselves did breath Whil'st God redeems the Souls of His And shews His help more certain than their trouble is Psalm XXXV Judica Domine nocentes c. I. GReat God and Judge to hear my Cause arise And on my part just sentence give Subdue and scatter all my Enemies And only to be conquer'd let them live Go out and in the battell stand Thy Shield in one and glittering Sword in t'other hand II. Let it be drawn and with their blood all stain'd Make a Red Sea around to flow Let it maintain the passage it has gain'd And safely guard the way where I should go Say to my Soul that I am Thine And that for my defence Thou make'st Thy glory shine III. Those who dare still resist too stout to yield And with new heat my Soul pursue Let them with shame and infamy be fill'd And find the battell though they flye renew Upon Thee let them turn their back To be Thy Butt and all Thy poyson'd arrows take IV. Let them like chaff be driv'n before the Winde And by Thy Angels Lord be chas'd Let them i' th dark a way so slippery find That headlong ruin may attend their hast O'rewhelm them in the pits they made And take theirs in the net which for my feet they laid V. Let their destruction hasten unperceiv'd The same which they decreed for me Whil'st I for better dayes am still repriev'd And my deliv'rances ascribe to Thee That Thy Great Name may be my Song Who thus the weak and Poor save'st from the proud and strong VI. False Witnesses
with the ground And when he surely thought to conquer let him fly XVI Let him be backward forc'd and for the scorn His cursed malice threw on me Let on his head that scorn return And be himself as low as he wisht I should be XVII Whil'st those who on the Almighty's Arm do trust In Thee who their Salvation art Always rejoyce that Thou art Just And have their mouths as full of praises as their heart XVIII May I my God one of that number bee For though at present I am low Thou know'st I still belong to Thee And only for my sins till they are purg'd am so XIX Then help me Lord O do not ever stay But to my rescue come at last My troubles call Thee now away Let not Thy help be slow when they come on so fast Psalm XLI Beatus Vir qui intelligit c. I. BLest is that man who do's the poor relieve And feels the miseries which he sees them bear The Lord will sure deliverance to him give And alway to his Prayers incline His ear Will set him from his troubles free And his past griefs with pleasure let him see II. God will preserve him from the rotting grave And here on earth let him behold His face His life from all his Enemies will save And grant him now the presence of His grace His Enemies Wills shall stoop to His And here he shall begin his endless bliss III. When on the bed of sickness he shall ly His bed that God which holds him up will make Will give him strength though able scarce to cry And faithfull hands which Heav'n by force shall take That Mercy then which he has shown And all he gave shall truly be his own IV. Dear God said I on whom all things depend Though I have thus by Thy commandment done I merit nothing Lord for I have sinn'd And what I gave Thee was before Thine own Yet grant it mine Lord heal my Soul For Silver streams cleanse not what Sin makes foul V. My Enemies Thou know'st assault my Fame When will he die say they and leave behinde That which wee 'll look shall not bide long his Name But to it given be quickly turn'd to winde And when one comes to visit me Instead of Comfort he speaks Vanity VI. Notice of every groan he seems to take And weeps and sighs to bear me company But gone a sport of all my grief do's make And laughs to think how he impos'd on me Abroad he tells where he has been And lies invents of what he there has seen VII A base disease sayes he to him cleaves fast Thus Lord Thou know'st they still against me speak This sickness cannot choose but be his last His bodies pain his heart will doubtless break He cannot scape as heretofore But this time fallen he shall rise no more VIII Then to encrease my miseries my Friend Whom I till then more than my self could trust Who of my bread did eat new cares did send And then most fail'd when he was wanted most Against me has lift up his heel And for my love made me his malice feel IX But Thou O God to me be mercifull And raise him up whom Thou hast cast thus low Vengeance may I upon my Enemies pull And up to Heav'n my self more freely grow Hence 't is I know Thy love to mee That from their hands by Thine I am set free X. Thou art my stay and Thou dost me uphold Else my integrity would quickly fail In Thy warm Sun I never shall be cold Nor in Thy sight my darkness Lord prevail To Jacobs God let all sing praise And to His Name Eternall Arches raise Amen and Amen The End of the First Book of Psalms THE SECOND BOOK OF PSALMS Psalm XLII Quemadmodum desiderat c. I. LOok as the Hart by dogs and men pursu'd Seeing his heels betray their flight When he of both had lost the sight Pants for the streams and takes at last the flood With hopes by changing thus the Element To cool his heat and in its streams to drown the scent II. After my God so pants my chased Soul My Soul so thirsts for Thee my King When wilt Thou me to Sion bring Where I may serve Thee Lord without controll Thou know'st my grief how tears have been my food When my insulting Foes have cry'd Now where's your God III. I grieve but when I think the time will come That I shall to Thy Temple go And on my Harp Thy wonders show How I again in triumph shall come home These happy thoughts dispell my darkest fears And what grief did before my joy dissolves in tears 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 V. Down to the Earth my troubled Soul is cast Yet will I Lord remember Thee The whole World is Thy Royalty Missar and Hermon part of Zions Waste Whither from thence my eyes delight to stray And though they cannot see it love to gaze that way VI. Deeps upon Deeps in lowder tempests call The Seas above to them bâ—low Together o're my head they go And on they bid the conquering billows fall In troops they come as to divide the prey And hollow to their fellow waves to haste away VII Fall on proud waves on me spend all your rage I can withstand your roughest shock Fall on and break against this Rock Which dares your pride and for me do's engage My God will still your noyse your fury lay And change this dismal night into a glorious day IX But where 's my God that I to him may sing Let me not ever suffer thus But to me be propitious Break forth O Sun and healing with Thee bring Pierc'd to the Heart Thou know'st I could weep blood When my insulting foes say daily Where 's your God IX 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 XLIII Judica me Deus discerne c. I. THou who art Judge of all the World be mine Be both my Judge and Advocate My Cause both sentence and debate And let the issue prove that I am Thine From the deceitfull Man deliver mee Others he may deceive but ne're impose on Thee II. Thou art my strength and on Thee I rely Why do's my God this distance keep Whil'st I ly buryed in the Deep And only with my sighs can upward fly Pitty my Darkness Lord dispell this night And from Thy sacred Hill send forth Thy Truth and Light III. That gloâ—ious Light which may direct my way And where Thou
them say Return your dead To meet the Souls which from them fled And both be sentenc'd for what both together did Into my great Exchequer bring The Debtors whose accounts are giv'n in And who so many Ages have your Pris'ners been Resign O Earth and Skie and Sea your trust Be sure no guilty Criminall you hide But that all come and all be try'd You long enough have unaccounted for their dust But first bring in my Saints who to my barr appeal To me their several Names are known And in my book their labours are set down How they to my just Law did Seal Or with their Sacrifices blood or with their own V. See how they trembling stand Receive the charge and finish the Command And to the great Tribunall bring the shakled band The Prison-gates are open thrown And not till now to their Eternall home Those who mistook the grave for it are truly come The Grave which like an house forsook it self falls down With their own bodies all arise The active dust begins to heave And ask its fellow if it live Scarce daring to believe its ears or eyes A hollow Voice is heard around Of Souls which to the Bodies call Yet wish that neither might be found And till they come would have the Mountains on them fall The Mountains frighted worst of all Would for themselves find shelter under ground The Sea returns her dead and her 's the Sky Which now again from thence like Lightning fly But down to Hell and in eternal flames to ly The whole World is one mighty Street Where Old acquaintance meet And though against their Wills are forc'd to greet Whilst up on high The Judges equall Sentence to declare The Saints are to the Bench call'd from the Barr And guilty Souls by their own Witness cast Expect to have confirm'd at last That sentence which they long before upon themselves had past VI. Attend O Israel to thy God give ear 'T is He who speaks and Him thou ought'st to hear I charge thee not for Thy unfrequent Sacrifice Thy seldom Off'rings and Thy bloodless Vowes That perfumes do so rarely rise And with their clouds meet and obscure the Skies I 'll take no Bullock from Thine house Nor from Thy fold a rank He-Goat For every Forrest and all beasts of note The great who rule the lesser who obâ—y The beasts of Pleasure Service and of Prey Alike are Mine And all the Hills whereon they feed as well as they When Thou by a false Title fondly call'st them Thine They no subjection to thee owe But what my pleasure gave at first And when unto Thy Yoak they bow 'T is not from any Power of Thine but that I 'll have it so Who them to serve for Thy Sin only curst And make them thus their just dependance show Nay Birds themselves whom I gave wings to fly Mount up to Heav'n to come more nigh And the same Homage beasts below they yield on high VII If I were hungry why should I tell Thee When the Earth's fulness all belongs to Me Or if I eat must Thou needs with 't acquainted be Think'st Thou that such gross meats as these Bulls blood or flesh my taste do please And are fit things my anger to appease No Wretched Mortal to the God most High First pay thy vows then send thy praise In thy distress unto Him cry And where it may be alwayes warm an Altar raise Within thy heart where groans and sighs May be the daily Sacrifice For in such Off ' rings He delights These are His solemn and accepted Rites Flames which to Heav'n will surely come And both thy passage thither clear and for thee then make room VIII But to the Wicked the Almighty sayes What hast thou wretch to do with my just Wayes To take my Word into thy mouth Expound my Statutes or declare my Truth As if an Enemy would Trophies to his Conqueror raise Or I from thee get any Praise Who Counsel which thou dost another give Wilt not thy self receive And what thou teachest dost or slight or not believe Who when thou saw'st a Theif didst with him steal His thest didst or partake in or conceal With base Adulterers wert so Didst never use thy tongue a wound to heal But with it made'st a light one two Most Enemy to them who never did thee any wrong And whom thou ought'st to bless hast murder'd with thy tongue I saw all this and held my peace Expecting when thou would'st repent But silence thou didst falsly judge consent Thoughtst me just like thy self and that such ways as these Since they unpunisht scap'd must please But I 'll reprove thee and they all Shall be my Witnesses when I to Judgement call Then thou too late shalt know This patience from my love did flow And dearly pay both for thy sin and my forbearance too IX Remember this you who the Lord forget And yet at last if you are wise return Tempt not those flames which will break out burn And make your Judgement like my Patience great Return e're yet it be too late See how I call see how I wait There 's no repenting in a future state Deliverance then you shall expect in vain And fruitlesly complain When all your grief shall serve but to encrease your pain Return now whil'st you may and now receive Those Mercies which I freely offer freely give And that you may be ever so Now happy live He honours me who offers praise For he exalts mine and I 'll bless his Wayes Will be his refuge till the storm is past And make him on a Rock stand fast Secure him here and to my self will bring him home at last Psalm LI. Miserere mei Deus secundum c. I. THou who art full of bounty and of love The Just and yet the Gracious God Whose Mercy has nor bound nor Period Let my distress Thy pity move Lord for Thy Mercies sake blot out my sin Whose sum less infinite than that has only been II. To Thee I come O cleanse and purge away That filth which do's Thy sight offend Receive with favour those requests I send And give Thy answer when I pray Wash my foul Soul that 's stain'd all o're with sin Without I should be clean if I were so within III. 'T is great I must confess and wondrous foul So ugly that its shape affrights All day it haunts me with me stays whole nights And with new horrors fills my Soul On me it stares and when I turn aside To shun the Fiend I meet it where I thought to hide IV. Against Thee only have I done this thing And to Thy Just award must stand If now upon me Thou shouldst lay Thy hand 'T will not be heavier than my sin Whate're the sentence be I must confess Though sharp that Lord in Justice Thou could'st do no less V. For I in sin was born in sin conceiv'd Full grown in that when but a Childe My Nature and
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
wast its stones Yet death cannot secure the dead But those that took their lives again expose their bones III. Living or dead one shame attends us all Nor with less rage Our neighbours on us fall Their mirth do's only by our pains increase And such deep wounds their mercies give That death it self we think were ease And our slain friends more happy count than us who live IV. When shall Thy wrath and jealousie expire Quench'd by that blood which now but feeds the fire Lord on the heathen pour the tempest down Whole nations which ne'r pray to Thee Kingdoms where yet Thy Name 's unknown And let not what 's their due Thy servants Portion be V. And when their Sins to Thy remembrance come Let this be added to compleat the Sum That they have wasted Jacob and Thy land But let not Our iniquities Our former Sins new load Thy hand Lest when to rescue us to ruin Thou arise VI. Prevent us Lord for we are very low And let us now Thy strong Salvation know Now save us for the glory of Thy Name And for its sake Our Sins blot out Upon Our foes return the shame That though in scorn they ask none may Thy presence doubt VII Appear O God and let us witness be They know and fear Thy Name as well as we Revenge the guiltless blood which they have shed And hear Our chains how loud they cry Upon the living right the Dead And by Thine Arm save those who sentenc'd are to dy VIII Reproach which they design'd to cast on Thee And its increase their just reward shall be And then Thy People Lord Thy sacred Fold Shall make the Plains with joy to ring The Lambs shall all Thy Acts be told And their Great Shepherds praise both learn and ever sing Psalm LXXX Qui regis Israel intende c. I. GReat Shepherd of the Hebrew Race Whose numerous Flock all Israel was For Thou dist guide them with Thy Hand They knew Thy Voyce and follow'd Thee Th' Invisible between the Cherubins did see And thence receive th' Oraculous command Between the Cherubins again appear And give Our chains Thine eye and prayers Thine ear II. Shew us Thy Glory Lord once more As thou didst Ephraim heretofore When all the Tribes from bondage led Thy Presence chas'd their Enemies For if again Thou make Thy Ark and strength to rise Ours shall flie too as theirs before Thee fled Turn us again and cause Thy Face to shine We shall be sav'd and all the praise be Thine III. How long wilt Thou be angry thus Both with Our Prayers Great God and us Thou know'st how tears have been our food The mixture of Our meat and drink Whilst Our insulting Neighbours laugh in scorn to think That when those streams shall cease the next is blood But turn us Lord and cause Thy Face to shine We shall be sav'd and all the praise be Thine IV. A Vine God into Canaan brought And having thrown the Heathen out A proper soyl did for it find From Aegypt He the plant did bring Where it was bruis'd and torn when it began to spring By men trod down and broken by the Wind But when it could not there securely stand In Canaan it took root and fill'd the Land V. The Sun-burnt Hills it cloath'd around Their heads were with it cool'd and crownd Above the Hills its branch did rise And vy'd with tallest Cedars there As gay it look't and full as high its top did bear And its rich clusters touch'd the neighbouring Skies With one it laid hold of the Western Strand And touch't the River with its other hand VI. But why hast Thou her hedge broke down And her enclosures open thrown So that the stranger who rides by Though nothing there he ha's to do Comes rudely in and tears both fruit and branches too Thither the Wild Bore from the Wood do's fly And after bids his fellow beasts to haste To'a Vineyard which they may more safely waste VII Return O God and on us shine From Heav'n look down and see Thy Vine This Vineyard which Thy right hand made By thus transplanting fair and strong And under which it spred and flourish't ha's thus long For if Thou frown 't will be to th' Common laid 'T is burn't already but may yet bear fruit If though the branch be gone Thou spare the root VIII May Thy right hand preserve Our King And to an end His troubles bring Let Him again be great and strong As by Thy help He was before And then nor He nor we shall ever leave Thee more But freely joyn in one Eternal Song Turn us O Lord and cause Thy Face to shine We shall be sav'd and all the praise be Thine Psalm LXXXI Exultate Deo Adjutori I. TO God our strength let Israel sing Triumphant Songs to Our Victorious King Awake the Harp the Psaltery and Flute And fill the Air with an harmonious noise Call in the Sackbutt Cornet and the Lute And as He rais'd His hand for you t' Him lift your voice II. In the New Moon the Trumpets blow His antient Law makes it your duty Now When He at first ordain'd this solemn day And bid Our Fathers keep the Pompous Feast Israel and Judah did His word obey And thus His praises duly sang who gave them Rest. III. 'T was then when Israel left that Land Whose Language they could never understand A speech as barbarous as its Nations were When from the weights and pots I set them free From cruel tasks sayes God no more to bear Aegyptian burdens but my light ones and serve me IV. I saw their trouble heard their Cry And my quick Hand took Light ' ning from my eye From Heav'n I thund'red made my voice be heard And there I prov'd and there I Israel try'd But whom at thund'ring Sinai Israel fear'd Israel at Meribah with murmurings deny'd V. Yet to my Law again give ear Once more I 'le publish it if Thou wilt hear No other God but Me shalt Thou adore For I alone am God and none beside I broke the Chains which you in Aegypt bore And now can fill your mouths though op'ned ne're so wide VI. But all in vain they would not hear And though I bow'd mine down deny'd their Ear So up I gave them to their loose desires Their brutish Lusts and no destruction sent No flames but what were kind'led by those fires That what they made their choice might be their punishment VII O had they heard Me and been wise Those Wayes to follow which they did despise To Victory their Armies I have led My Hand their Enemies should have o'rethrown And forc't to yield their necks but on their head Had put a never fading and Eternal Crown VIII Plenty and Peace should all Their dayes Have shew'd fresh Palms and Roses in their Wayes And open'd all the Treasures of the Field Even I my self new Miracles would show Not water only the
cannot reach so high stoop Thou to me II. Hear me my God for I am wondrous low And to the grave my life draws nigh Loaded with cares my Soul do's go And in the Pit is readie down to lie Already I am numbred with the Dead And that small strength I had Weakness at best is fled III. Free as the Dead and like one long since slain Who is forgotten in the Grave And never shall return again Or but upon his Tomb Memoriall have Low in the Pit I 'm lai'd down in the Deep And its rough waves my head do under water keep IV. Far from me Thou hast put my Nearest Friends Who as forsaken look on me Because my God no succour sends They think me hated or unknown to Thee As in a Pest-house quite given o're I 'm laid And those who pitty me are of my Sores afraid V. My eyes with teares o'recome yet look to Thee And for Thy help I daily cry When at night I cannot see With stretcht out armes I feel if Thou art nigh Wil t Thou say I to th'Dead Thy wonders show Let me but see them Lord and Thou do'st truly so VI. Shall the Dead rise and praise Thee or Thy love Be in the Land of Darkness seen Shall in the Grave Thy Praise improve Sung there where silence has for ever been Where dark oblivion uncontroll'd do's reign And dismal Horror riots o're the empty Plain VII And then again I new Petitions make And would prevent Thee with my Prayer With Thee the Morning do's partake And with my tears instead of dew looks fair But thou withdraw'st Thy self and out of sight Hid'st in thick Clouds that Face which gives me all my light VIII From my youth up I have Thy Terrors felt Ready with grief and pain to die Thy Wrath like fire my Soul do's melt And quite consumes what it should purifie Or like a troubled Sea do's o're me roll And thus by several Deaths or burns or drowns my Soul IX Far from me Thou hast put my Nearest Friend Whom Thou at first to me didst give Through Death Our Friendship cannot end For in the sad Survivour it shall live My Dear Acquaintance in the grave is laid And Two whom God made One Death again Two has made P.M.O.C. Psalm LXXXIX Misericordias Domini in aeternum c. IN flowing Numbers I resolve to sing The Truth and Mercies of th' Eternal King That late posterity His love may know Both what He did and what He 's sworn to do That Faithfullness which He has said shall stand Like Heav'n first made and stablisht by His hand When thus He spake I have to David past My Word and with an Oath have bound it fast Saying Thy seed I 'll bless upon Thy Throne And make its rule Eternal like my own Angels for this Thy Wonders must declare Such praises too sublime for Mortals are Who only can below admire Thy love Not joyn with but attend the Quire above For who in Heav'n with Thee can be compar'd Whom all adore as Thou by all art fear'd Or who among the mighty Sons of Earth Is like to Thee who gav'st their Mother Birth Before whose Throne Blest Saints and Angels bow And cast those Crowns which to Thy hand they owe. Whose great Commands the Heavenly Host obey And execute the charge which Thou dost lay So Just so True so full of Majesty Lord like Thy self Thou art and none like Thee The Sea when it to Heav'n in storms do's rise At Thy Rebuke in Humble Vallies lies Asunder Thou didst break the threatning Wave And in its bowels mad'st Proud Pharaohs grave The Heav'n with all its glorious Flames are Thine And with reflection from Thine eye they shine The Earth and all the stores the Earth containes Of Thy first fulness are the Mighty Dreins Thou bid'st it stand unmov'd above the Flood And saw'st what er'e Thy hand had done was good The North and South and all its coasts around Thou for Thy Pleasure first did'st make and bound Tabor and Hermon in Thy Name rejoyce And up to Thee the Vallies raise their Voice No Pow'r can Thy All-conqu'ring Arm with-stand So strong is that so high is Thy Right Hand Justice and Faithfulness uphold Thy Throne Mercie and Truth 's the Base it rests upon A thousand Graces round about Thee flie And take new life and vigor from Thine eye Thrice happy land whose Sovereign Lord Thou art Who hear Thy Law and to it yield their heart Who in Thy gracious Presence ever dwell And all the stories of Thy Power can tell Who have Thee for the subject of their Verse And every day can of Thy Truth reherse Thine Lord who art their strength their Fort and Tower And on their heads the Anointing Oyl dost poure Thou art Our God and we Thy Praise will sing Who in Thy stead o're us mad'st David King For thus His Will God to His Prophet told And in a Vision made Him it behold Saying I searcht the People all around And now to my Own Heart a Man have found David on whom the Burden shall be laid Of ruling Israel and their King be made I have anointed him with Him my Hand Shall both to conquer be and to command I from Conspiracies his Crown will guard And all his gates shall be most surely barr'd Before His Face his Enemies shall fall And unto me in vain for succour call For down I 'll tread them but his head will raise And with my Truth and Love make plain His Wayes His Empire to the River shall extend And only where the Earth finds hers have end All Lands and Seas to him shall tribute yield And of his conquests be the fruitful field By Name of Father to Him I 'll be known Of God and Rock and he shall be My Son My First-born higher than the Kings of th' Earth With Rule and Subjects worthy of his Birth My Oath and Covenant shall with him stand fast And I 'll that Promise keep which I have past Nor shall it be confin'd to him alone But his seed too shall have their Fathers Throne ' Which as the dayes of Heav'n shall constant be And know no bounds but vast Eternity If they my Statutes and my Laws forsake And break the Covenant which this day I make Then I their Sins will visit with a Rod But never cease to be their King and God ' My Mercie and my Truth will ne're remove Nor take away though I may hide My love My Promise and my Vow I 'll never break Nor change the Word which once my Mouth did speak For by my self I once to David swore And by My Holiness confirme't once more His seed and Throne like Heav'n shall constant be And know no bounds but Vast Eternity Witness ye Heav'ns which in my sight remain And you bright stars that in your Courses reign Both Sun and Moon against Me Witness be If Time it self endures so long as He This Thou hast
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
bribes unjustly sold. X. He sav'd them that they might His Power declare And tell in Sion what his Praises are When all the Nations there shall gath'red be And to the Sacred Mount ascend When the whole World His Power shall see And all its Kings contend Who shall the lowest stoop or richest presents send XI O might I live to see that happy day And not be cut off in the middle way My God what are my years to Thee said I Or what my age compar'd with Thine If e're my Noon is reach't I dye For Thee no Times confine Nor ages measure out Thy Dayes as hours do mine XII Of old Thou hast the Earth's Foundations laid Andon Thy Word the Heav'ns all times have staid Thy Word shall make them both fall down again Be like a Garment thrown aside A Vest with some great rent or stain And all their Ancient pride Or shall destroy or under Formes more glorious hide XIII But Thou the same which Thou hast alwayes been Shalt never end as Thou did'st ne're begin When Time itself shall dye and be no more And as Thou art O God like Thee Excepting what Thou wert before Thy Servants Seed shall be And have for them and their a Post-Eternity Psalm CIII Benedic anima mea Domino c. I. ARise my Soul and to th' Almighty King Sprightly and cheerful Hallelujahs sing Call all thy Forces up thy Love thy Fear And every part compleatly fill Be sure no Idle Passion Soul be there But to them joyn thy Judgement Fancy and thy Will With every sence and every power rejoice And add to all a well tun'd voice Thus rise my Soul and to th' Almighty King Sprightly and cheerfull Hallelujahs sing II. Let thy Song be of what thy self ha's known And to the Worlds experience bring Thine own Sing of His Name who cast thy sins away And made them all forgotten be And though His hand awhile upon thee lay 'T was only that restor'd thou might'st His Bounty see Who beyond Hope thy life from death did save When all had doom'd it to the grave And for those thorny cares which girt it round Thy head with love and tender mercies crown'd III. He Thy Old Age do's with new favours bless And as thy years His kindnesses increase Thy years have not the Symptome of decay For all the Eagle still grows young And moulting her old plumes again looks gay As youthfull as she ever was and full as strong After her prey as lustily can fly As e're shee did and soar as high He like the Eagles do's Thy youth renew And gives Thee both its strength and beauty too IV. Those whom the Wicked with oppression grieve The Lord do's or avenge or else relieve Thus unto Moses He His Way made known And helpless Israel this did see When from the cruel chains which kept them down But farr more cruel Masters He first set them free 'T is not a little thing His wrath will move Inflame His rage or quench His love Nor for Our Sins will He for ever chide But seeks them rather than his Face to hide V. Such are His Mercies when we must confess Our Sins might justly make their number less And him a sharper sentence to have past But when to be put farr from Thee Behind Thy back we fear'd Lord to be cast Our Sins were only set where we deserv'd to be And this alone for Thy dear Mercies sake Without the least claim we could make To which Our good no more proportion beares Than the small point of Earth to Heaven's vast Sphears VI. How could it else be that they durst appear Whose guilt had added horror to their fear Love made Him break the knott and set Our Sins As far from us but from Him more Than the bright East where the young Sun begins To take his Journy is from the West where he gives o're The most indulgent Fathers tender Love Is hate compar'd to His above For none so well as He who made can spare Who both knows whence we came and what we are VII From Earth Our mean Original we have A part of what must be e're long Our grave Frail Mortal Man whose dayes are like the grass A Short-liv'd flower which stands a while But like those blustering storms that o're it pass Flies with them and is gon e're it began to smile But to Eternity Gods Love extends And all the blessings which He sends To Childrens Children and their Seed endure To them who keep it like His Cov'nant sure VIII Above the Heav'n God has prepar'd His Throne Heav'n's but the Cloth of State He treads upon There do's He rule and Sovereign Laws dispence And Kingdoms where He please bestow Scepters and Crowns are all receiv'd from thence And Kings to Him their Thrones as well as Beings ow The Angels are his Ministers of State And to observe His Pleasure wayt Bless Him ye Angels who in strength excell And what His Will is you who do it tell IX You hear the Words which from His Mouth do flow And having hear'd strait to perform them go As swift as you are ready at His call Praise Him who made your place so high And let weak Mortals who did lower fall To whom you oft are sent on your wings upward fly Praise Him His Works 't is all that you can do For Him who did so much for you Praise Him my Soul and to th' Almighty King Sprightly and cheerfull Hallelujahs sing Psalm CIV Benedic anima mea Domino c. I. ARise My Soul and to th' Almighty King Sprightly and cheerful Hallelujahs sing To God who o're all gods renown'd With Majesty and Glory crown'd Le ts Thee His prayse resound And though Thy flame can never equal rise Unto His height accepts Thy Sacrifice 'T is He who with Eternal Light Obscures Himself as we are hid in night Who in the clearest beams do's cover A more sublime and piercing ray Making Our Heav'n and Common day But like a Curtain to be shifted over Who as He is to Blessed Souls is seen In glories farr above the Sky Without the help of sight or ey The only meanes we see Him by Who alwayes see Him with the Veil of Heav'n between II. The Waters are to God as ground Who in their floods has His foundations lay'd Has all their Ebbs and Flowings stay'd And in their depth a bottom found Waters are solid when He layes the Beams Of'His Chambers in their swiftest streames He makes the Clouds His Chariots Cloads which are Envy'd by Angels wayting there That when they go before the Clouds their God should bea Th' ambitious Winds aside their blust'ring lay And strew their downy Feathers in His way The Heav'nly Host before Him run Swift as the Air they tread upon Flames of fire His way prepare So bright and yet so terrible His Servants are III. Below the Center of the Mighty Deep Where undisturb'd the Aged Waters
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
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
IV. Like a lost sheep from Thee I went astray Nor to the fold again should come But seek me Lord and bring Thy Servant home For He do's yet Thy great Commands obey Around me let Thy Judgements shine And thus from danger sav'd the Praise shall all be Thine Psalm CXX Ad Dominum cum tribularer c. I. IN my distress unto the Lord I cry'd And though my troubles made me fear That God His Face would from me hide Even then my God was pleas'd to hear And then inclin'd His Willing ear And answer'd me when I most lookt to be deny'd II. Thou heardst me and Thy self didst set me free My Enemies saw their swords were vain And with their tongues did strike at me With lyes my Innocence sought to stain Lord on them turn their lyes again And let their tongues weak as their swords to hurt me be III. But what reward false tongue dost Thou desire Or who to give 't Thee dares come nigh Thou woundest when Thou dost retire As Parthians fight most when they fly Thy Words then kill when thou runn'st by Like Juniper Coles are sweet but burn worse than their fire IV. Unhappy Man who thus am forc'd to stay Exil'd from Him I love most dear From Thee my God O Come away Let me not be without Thee here But where Thou art let me appear Any where Lord so Thou wilt but Thy self display V. Than Mesech can a place more savage be Where all to Peace sworn Enemies are And for Her sake are so to me Kedar with Mesech may compare I cry up Peace They call for Warr Yet that were nothing Lord could I but there have Thee Psalm CXXI Levavi oculos meos in Montes c. I. UNto the Hills I rais'd my drooping eyes And look'd if any help were there Loaded with tears I made them rise To watch and give the sign when help drew near I rais'd them up but all in vain I could not keep them so Their own weight press'd them to the Earth again On high they would not be when I was sunk so low II. Up to your tops O Hills I 'll look no more An unexpected help is nigh I overlook'd this help before Look'd when I thought not high enough too high For lo my God my part do's take On my side do's appear God whos 's great word both Heav'n and Earth did make And what need other help when the Almighty's near III. Thy Foot He said it all times fixt shall stand And He shall watch about Thee keep The Lord shall lead Thee by the hand And never though thou slumbrest fall asleep For Israel He is still awake His eyes still open be And He who of an Israel care can take Fear not but He can well enough provide for Thee IV. Twixt Him and Thee no cloud shall interpose But He shall be Himself Thy shade To break the Malice of Thy Foes The Eternall God shall be Thy refuge made The Lord shall be Thy sure defence Thy guard both night and day Shall sweeten every Planets influence And to serve Thee make both the Sun and Moon obey V. God shall defend Thee and Thy life shall be Secur'd from danger by His love And all things which belong to Thee The Care which He has of Thy Soul shall prove Without He shall direct Thy Way Within shall bless Thy store And all the while from Him Thou 'rt forc'd to slay Shall what Thou hast make serve Thy turn or give Thee more Psalm CXXII Laetatus sum in his qua c. I. T Was the best news I wish to hear My very Soul stood ravisht at my ear Let 's go they say'd Come Let 's away Already we have tarried long enough Now let our speed declare Our love Why should we thus from Sion stay And only be unhappy by our Own delay II. Let 's go see at the City gates How God Himself to greet Our coming waits We Come O God nor will we rest Till we the place have in Jerusalem found Till we have trod that Holy ground Which Thou of all the World lov'st best Which Thou of all the World hast with Thy Presence blest III. Jerusalem is strong and fair Glorious above what other Cities are The Seat of the Eternal King Whose lofty Palaces approach the skies And to be near their God to ' Heav'n rise Thither the Tribes their Offerings bring And from their scattred Cities come His Praise to sing IV. There are the Thrones of Judgement set Her Power is large and Her Dominion great The Thrones of David there stand fast The Lord Himself in Sion founded them Has fixt them in Jerusalem Subject to neither change or Wast But such as shall by Him upheld for ever last V. Triumphant City Mayst Thou be Happy like Him who first establisht Thee May He from Warrs Thy gates secure And like Thee Thy well-wishers ever bless Give Thee a long and certain peace Make all His blessings to Thee sure And may Thy Peace as constant as His Power endure VI. For Israels sake Thou hast my love Second to none but His who rules above For Sions sake I 'll happiness On all Thy Palaces and Borders pray Thy Palaces shall ne're decay Within Thy Borders Warr shall cease For He who is Thy Guardian is the God of Peace Psalm CXXIII Ad te Levavi oculos meos c. I. TO Thee O Lord I lift my careful eyes To Heav'n where Thou sitst cloath'd with light And though I hopeless am to reach Thy sight I cannot choose but let them thither rise Tow'rds Heav'n they look and seek Thee every where And though they see Thee not know Thou art there II. As Servants on their Masters sign depend Know what to do what to forbear From thence though they no other language hear And with quick eyes unto their hands attend Wayting on Thee we more dependance show And though Thou art in visible do so III. We wait and waiting never will give o're Till Thou to us Thy Mercy show O on us Now Thy Mercy Lord bestow And what we long have lost again restore Thy Mercy Lord and since Thou 'rt Just and strong Repeal Our miseries and revenge Our wrong IV. Revenge the wrong which we endure from those Who at us scoff because We 're Thine Against us only for Thy sake combine And are Our envious and malicious foes Their sloth and ease make them Our pains deride And all Our grief 's the Triumph of their pride Psalm CXXIV Nisi quia Dominus c. I. HAD not the Lord our Cause maintain'd The Lord Himself may Israel say Had not the Lord the Victory for us gain'd Instead of getting We had lost the day And Captives been to them who now are made Our prey II. On us they came and like a flood Which would within no banks be held They fiercer grew the more they were withstood Increas'd in rage when we their force repell'd And by
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
look'd they like a Mine From thence took fire and ever since are bright His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VII He charg'd the Sun to rule the day Gave him His beams and influence Laws how he should his Flames dispence And when he rules then do's he most obey His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VIII The Moon and stars at night attend And on the guard in turns all wait Some go of sooner some more late And to relieve them God do's others send His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IX Praise Him who for their Fathers sin Smote Cham's first born did none pass o're Sent death to look on every dore Who frighted at no blood without went in His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure X. Who with strong hand and out-stretch'd Arm Deliver'd Israel from the Yoke Who all the Egyptian fetters broke And made His Israels March be their Al-arm His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XI Who all times did His Promise keep The Red-Sea for them did divide And what the Waves before did hide Made them His Wayes see truly in the Deep His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XII The liquid Deep in Walls did stand Of purest Chrystal through whose glass The Floods behind saw Israel pass And there as in themselves admir'd His hand His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XIII But when the army was gon o're God took His rein from of the Wave And Jacobs way was Egypts grave Was Sea again and wash'd its ancient shore His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XIV God did Himself direct their Way A fiery Pillar was their Moon Night follow'd close when they were gon And from their Foes hid where their journies lay His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XV. He potent Kings did overthrow Their Forces scattred scorn'd their rage Himself did for His Flock engage And made them conquer when He bid them go His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XVI Sehon who did their Way deny Found all His Troops to be but vain When God their Battles did maintain Instead of stopping them himself did fly His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XVII Ogg heard his fall but would come out Thinking a double Victory Would raise his glory to the sky But God who Sehon slew against him fought His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XVIII God to the Conquest wav'd His hand Descending in the Sacred Flame Weak Israel by His Power o'recame And they who ask'd but passage shar'd the Land His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XIX Praise Him who in Our low estate Did many Victories for us gain Unseen Our weakness did sustain Redeem'd us when we thought is was too late His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XX. Who for all Creatures do's provide Of His Own fulness gives them food Feeds both the Wicked and the Good Who from His Treasures alwayes are supply'd His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XXI Who to frail Man the Earth has given And made Him King and God below Where all things to His Scepter bow But is Himself Mans King and God of Heav'n His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure Psalm CXXXVII Super flumina Babylonis c. I. AS on the banks of Chebar we state down Lamenting Sions Miseries At Sions Miseries we forgot our own And wisht for her such Rivers in our eyes We envy'd there the rolling tide That at Our feet did gently slide That at our feet more streames than from our eyes did glide II. The Willows to our plaints bow'd down their ear And did in hollow murmurs grone The Willows bow'd as though they long'd to hear Again those griefs which they before had known They bow'd and on their heads we hung Our Harps untun'd Our Harps unstrung Sorrow their strings unloos'd but faster ty'd Our tongue III. 'T was then we suffred double misery When to us Our rude spoilers came And to deride our sad Captivity Imbittred it with Captive Sions Name Our selves we only griev'd before But when Their scorns just Sion bore At Her great suffrings of our own we thought no more IV. One of your songs let 's hear they proudly cry'd And one of Sions Anthems play Your griefs and pensive cares now throw aside Sion is here since we brought you away As if we at their base Commands Could sing forgetfull of our bands Could play when they who stop'd our mouths had ty'd our hands V. No! No! in forreign Lands if we do thus For Sion thus forget to grieve Let Her God too forget to pity us And these foud tongues close to their palats cleave Her Praises first our mouths did fill From Her Our hands first learn't their skill No wonder then if Sion mourns that they lie still VI. Remember Edom Lord who in the day Jerus'lem was a Captive made Joyn'd with Her Enemies and shar'd the prey And made us more than Babylon afraid Rase it they cri'd down with the Wall To the foundations Levell all She that to Babylon will not stoop 't is fit She fall VII Hold Babylon where will thy rage extend God has enough to Sion done Hold and prepare Thee Babylon for Thy end What mayst Thou fear if thus He serves His Own Mayst Thou in Thine Our miseries see And all the wrongs we bore from Thee And know that less than what Thou hast deserv'd they be VIII May Thy own Mercies on Thy head return Those Mercies which are Cruelties Mayst Thou in flames of Thy own kindling burn And send in vain to Heav'n Thy fruitless cries And Happy He who on the stones On Flints shall dash Thy little ones And have than flints less bowels for their dying grones Psalm CXXXVIII Confitebor tibi Domine in toto corde c. I. LOrd I will bless Thee and my cheerful voice Before the gods shall tell my joies Those glorious Powers to whom Thou dost impart Thy Name and Office here below Shall see me pay the praise I ow And as I had Thy ear return my Heart II. Then to Thy Sacred Hill my eyes I 'll raise And fetch new subjects for my Praise My Song shall count of what Thou didst for me Of Mercy and of Truth I 'll sing And when I'have wearied out that string Thy Faithfulness another ground shall be III. Thou hast exalted it and why not I For when to Thee I Loud did cry To Thee my God and mourn'd in my distress My dolefull groanes Thy heart did move Thou didst refresh me from above And answer gav'st of Thine Own Faithfulness IV. The heathen Kings when they Thy Wonders hear Shall both rejoice and serve with fear By My example in Thy Wayes shall sing Ascribe to Thee what is Thine Own Cast
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