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mercy_n	faith_n	grace_n	repentance_n	2,335	5	7.5639	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15976	The Psalmes of David translated into lyrick-verse, according to the scope, of the original. And illustrated, with a short argument, and a briefe prayer, or meditation; before, & after, every Psalme. By George Wither; Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1632 (1632)	STC 2735; ESTC S102335	151,742	322

Ev'n of his people to be King And he a joyfull mother made Of her that erst no children had Vnto the Lord oh therefor sing To God the Father To the Sonn And holy-Ghost those three in one And that eternall One in three All glory bee for ever more All powre praise as heretofore Ascribed now ever be Psa 114. By alluding to the deliverance from Egipt to the driving back of Iordan the Redsea to the trembling of Sinay forcing waters from hard rocks our spirituall deliverances Reformations are typified Therfore our Church vseth this Psalme as proper for Easterday WHen Isr'el brought from Egipt was And Iacob from a forraigne tongue In Iudah was his holy place To him did Isre'ls rule belong The Sea saw that fledd away Ev'n Iordan also backward slipt The mountaines then like Rams did play Like Lambes the lesser hillocks tript 2 Thou sea what made thee so to fly Why didst thou Iordan backward goe Why daunc't like Rams the mountaines hye Yee hills like Lambs why tript yee so Shake earth at presence of the Lord When Iacob's God is present shake For he from Rocks a standing Ford And fountaines in the flints doth make Almighty God the deliverer of all pore destressed Captives wee are hy Nature the slaves of Sinn Death the Devill who do labour to hold us in eternall bondage But wee praise thee thou hast made a miraculous passage for our escape Oh! grant therfor that thy presēce may so startle us out of our securitie soe mollifie our flintie nature that the teares of true penitence may flowe plentifully from vs that we thanckfully walking in that way which thou hast prepared for our entrance into the Land of the living may be quite freed from our servitude enioy peace rest in thy Kingdome for ever ever Amen Psal 115. The Faithfull desire that al honor may be ascribed to God alone that their foes may not blaspheamously question his powre Then in the name of heathen Idolls their worshippers reprooves the vanity of all those assistances whereon carnall men rely c. It is vsefull when false worshippers blaspheame God by reason of our affliction c. NOt ours the glory make Lord give not vs the fame But for thy Truth Mercy sake Ascribe it to thy Name 2 To say where is their God! Why should the Gentiles dare Since he in heav'n hath his abode And works his pleasure there 3 Men's hands their Idolls make They gold silver be Possessing mouthes that cannot speake And eyes that cannot see 4 Their eares are senseles to Their nostril smelleth not Their hands feet nor feel nor goe No breath is in their throte 5 All they whoe those adore Or forme them like them be In God let Isr'el trust therefore For their defence is he 6 On God preserving them Let Aron's house depend Let those who feare him trust in him For he will such defend 7 God will remember vs And on vs Mercy showe On Isr'el on Aron's house He blessings will bestowe 8 He prospers great small That fear of him professe You your seed likewise he shall Still more more encrease 9 Of God you blessed be Who made both earth heav'n The heav'n of heav'ns inhabits he And earth to men hath given 10 Lord none cann thee adore Who dead silenc't are But I both now evermore Thy praises will declare Not for our owne deservings cann wee claime any thing oh Lord God neither for our owne sakes or our owne glorie ought wee to desire any deliverances or benifits from thy Maiestie As much therfor as our self-love will permit wee desire meerly for thine owne honour sake that publike Idolaters carnall minded men who serve Gods of their owne making may not scandalize thee or thy Truth by Occasion of such Miseries or Disgraces as fall on vs who professe the same But make vs oh God to love thee thy glory so farr above our owne lives reputations That whether wee be delivered or no wee may submit our selves to thy pleasure be truly comforted hartely pleased reioyce vnfainedly that wee are counted worthie to suffer for thy glory Amen Psa 116. The Faithfull professe affection to Christ Acknowledg their condition both by Nature Grace encourage others to trust in Gods favour resolve the same in them selves We may sing it when after some great Affliction or temptation wee are comforted sensible of our present passed estate c. I love the Lord for hee an eare To my complaints doth give And since he pleaseth me to hear I 'le seek him whil'st I live The feares of death enclosd me round Hell torments mee enthrald But still when paind my self I found On God's great Name I cal'd 2 Preserve my soul oh Lord I sayd For thou art full of grace Iust kinde ev'ry pore man's ayde My healp when greev'd I was My soul to this thy refuge fly For God is thy larg meed From death my soul from teares mine eye From falls my feet he freed 3 I shall with God enioy my life Where livinge men abide This I professe with firme beleif Though I was terrifide Yea though in rashnes I did say That all men liers were What for thy guifts I should repay Now Lord my questions are 4 Thy Cupp of saving-health I 'le take Vpon thy name I 'le call And of my vowes I 'le payment make Before thy servants all Thy saints their deaths suffrings be Right pretious in thine eye Oh Lord thy servant serving thee Thy handmayds Childe am I. 5 My fetters all thou brak'st away And I oh Lord therfore The sacrifize of thancks will pay And thy great Name adore To thee oh Lord I 'le pay my vowes Where thy Assemblies be Ev'n in the Courts of Gods owne house Ierusalem in thee Haleluiah Hear our prayers oh Lord God deliver our soules from the Death of Sinn For we are compassed with many perills fearfull Temptations Insomuch that wee are sometime almost ready to despaire distrust that there is noe Truth in any of our hopes Oh keep us by thy speciall grace from falling into those whirlpooles out of which there is no returning VVhen the guilt of Sinn the fears of Death the torments of hell the sugestions of the Devill conspiring with our frailties have once enclosed vs. UUee have then no powre of resistance in our selves it is thy great Mercy if the litle spark of our faith be not wholy quenched Help vs therfore in our extremityes Break the chaines of our Sinns vnlose the snares of Sathan give us grace to praise thee in thy Ierusalem to magnify thy Mercy in the Land of the living world without end Amen Psa 117. This is the least Psalme but it hath respect vnto the greatest Mysterie For it provokes all Nations to praise God for extending his grace to the whole

no whit ashamed be Full dearly I have loved thy commands And they my most affected pleasures prove I 'le in thy precepte exercise my hands And muse vpon thy Lawes for them I love UUrite thy Lawes in our harts oh Lord engrave them in our minds wee humbly beseech thee Soe regenerate us that wee may become a Lawe vnto our selves have no desires in us but those which are agreable to thy Will. So wee shall neither slavishly fear the powre of any Authority nor be made ashamed by any bitter Censurers or scornfull reproovers but may take confidently vse conscionably our liberty in Christ Iesus Amen Zain 7. THat promise keep which thou hast made Thy servant's hope to be From thence in greefs I comforts had Thy word revived mee Though my disgrace the proud have sought Vnto thy Lawe I clave Vpon thy Iudgments past I thought And ear to them I gave 2 Of sinners who thy Lawe forsake I am in greevous feare Yet where my Pilgrim-Inn I take My songs thy Precepts are I kept thy Lawe on thy Name I mus'd when many slept And thus to passe oh Lord it came Because thy Lawe I kept Another of the same GIve heed vnto that UUord which thou hast sayd That UUord which thou didst make my hope to be For thence in my Afflictions I have ayde It is thy UUord that still reviveth mee Growne quite despis'd I was in proudmens eyes And yet I from thy Lawe declined not Thy Iudgments past did in my thought arise And Lord from them I consolation got Great horrors have surprized me because The wicked from thy precepts have gone wrong And in my house of Pilgrimage thy Lawes And thy Commandements have beene my song Good Lord I mention of thy Name have made Ev'n in the night I thy Lawe have kept And ev'ry profitable thing I had Because I from thy Precepts have not stept Oh Lord there is no better comforter in trouble then a faithfull remembrance of thy gratious promises nor any meanes to prevent the feare the disgraces or the mischeevous practises of the proud oppressor then by the Meditation practise of thy Lawes Grant therfore wee may soe minde the One so performe the other That wee may reioice in this house of our Pilgrimage all our life long Amen Chith 8. I Vow'd oh Lord to keep thy UUord For thou my portion art Thy promis'd Mercies now afford I begg them with my hart I turned to thy Testaments When I had scann'd my waies In keeping thy Commandements I vsed no delaies 2 By troups of sinners robd I was Thy Lawes yet minde I still And that thy Iustice I may praise At midnight rise I will Whoe e're dreads thee keeps thy word Shall my Compainon be Thy Mercy fills the world oh Lord Oh! teach thy Lawes to mee Another of the same HOw that thou art my portion Lord I sayd And I to keep thy Lawe have made a vowe With all my hart I for thy grace have prayd According to thy VVord have mercy now Here I have called vnto minde thy waies And turn'd my feet vnto thy Testaments Yea I have ready bene without delayes In executing thy Commandements Huge Troupes of wicked men have robbed mee Yet still thy Precepts in my hart I bear At midnight I will rise sing to thee Because thy Iudgments true righteous are Here I have gain'd the fellowship of those Who stand in fear of thee keep thy VVord Throughout the world thy tender-tender-Mercy flowes Let me be train'd in all thy Statutes Lord. Grant us Grace oh God! soe to examine the Course of our life past what waies wee intend to walk hereafter that wee'may returne to thee with speedy repētance so resolve to keep thy commandements during the tyme to come that wee may enioye thee for our Portion both in the Night of our afflictions among the troups of our persecutors be comforted in the remembrance of thy abundant Mercyes through Iesus Christ Amen Teth. 9. THy servant Favour hath receiv'd According to thy word And thy Commands I have beleev'd Therfore instruct me Lord. Though till my troubles I mis-trod Thy VVord I follow now Thy Precepts teach to mee oh God For Good Kinde art thou 2 Thy Lawe with all my hart I seek Though mee the proud belye Their harts are fatt ev'n Brawner-like But lov'd thy Lawes have I. Now I have learn'd thy Statute's Truth My Cares I blessings deem And I the Precepts of thy Mouth Above all wealth esteem Another of the same IN all things to thy Servant thou art just According as thy UUord oh Lord hath showne Since therefor to thy Covenant I trust Thy Iudgmēts thy Truth to mee make knowe If that I had not bene by sorrowes crost I still had err'd But now I keep thy VVord Most Good thou art all is well thou dost Therefore thy Statutes teach to mee oh Lord. I by the proud have greatly bene belide Yet still I keep thy Lawe within my brest Their hart with fat like brawne is stupifide But with delight thy Lawe hath mee possest It is my weal that I afflicted was For by that meanes thy Statutes now I heed That Lawe of thine which from thy mouth did Great sums of gold silver doth exceed passe Sanctifie vnto us oh Lord all our Afflictions that being by them purified from our Corruptions wee may become vpright in all our wayes Suffer us not to be so fatted in our prosterities as to become insensible of thy Mercies or Iudgments Let our experience in thy word teach us to see acknowledge that our Afflictions are blessings And what soever Scandalls do arise let us continue in Obedience to thy Lawe thanckfully esteeme the same as wee ought for ever ever Amen Iod. 10. TO learne thy Lawe instruct mee Lord For mee thy hands have made So when they see mee trust thy word Thy servants will be glad I knowe thy Iudgments righteous are And all thy Stripes are Love Now let thy grace thy servant chear And true thy UUord approve 2 I love thy Lawe grant mee therfore Thy grace that live I may Defame the proud who wrong mee sore For I thy VVord obay Who knowes thy VVill feareth thee All such to mee convart And in thy Lawes lest sham'd I bee Lord rectify my hart Another of the same KIndle the knowledge of thy Lawe in mee For by thy hands I fashion'd was oh Lord. Thy servants will reioice my face to see Because I have relied on thy word Knowne well thy Iudgments are to be vpright And Lord on mee thy stripes in love thou laydst Oh make thy Tender-mercies my delight And comfort mee as in thy VVord thou saydst Kinde let mee finde thee Lord that I may live Because contentement in thy Lawe I finde Defame the Proud who me vniustly greeve For on thy Precepts I employ my minde Keepe those who thee do feare know thy