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A97379 The whole book of Psalms collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others ; conferred with the Hebrew ; set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches ... Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549.; Hopkins, John, d. 1570. 1666 (1666) Wing B2490; ESTC R17943 153,185 35

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thou wilt nourish us continually through thy bountiful liberality that we be not so tempted that we fall into distrust but that we may patiently wait till thou fill us not onely with corporal graces and benefits but chiefly with thy heavenly and spiritual treasures to the intent that we may always have more ample occasion to give thee thanks and so wholly to rest upon thy mercies Hear ●s O Lord of mercy through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord and Saviour Amen A prayer for the whole estate of Christs Church ALmighty God and most merciful Father we humbly submit our selves and fall down before thy divine Majesty beseeching thee from the bottom of our hearts that the seed of thy word now sown amongst us may take such deep root that neither the burning heat of persecution cause it to wither neither the thorny cares of this life choke it but that as seed sown in good ground it may bring forth thirty sixty and an hundre●-fold as thy heavenly wisdom hath appointed And because we have need continually to crave many things at thy hands we humbly beseech thee O heavenly Father to grant us thy holy Spirit to direct our petitions that they may proceed from such a fervent minde as may be agreeable to thy most blessed will And seeing that our infirmity is able to do nothing without thy help and that thou art not ignorant with how many and great temptations we poor wretches are on every side inclosed and compassed let thy strength O Lord sustain our weakness that we being defended with the force of thy grace may be safely preserved against all assaults of Satan who goeth about continually like a roaring lion seeking to devour us Increase our faith O merciful Father that we do not swerve at any time from thy heavenly word but augment in us hope and love with a careful keeping of all thy commandments that no hardness of heart no hypocrisie no concupiscence of the eyes nor inticements of the world do draw us away from thy obedience And seeing we live now in these most perilous times let thy fatherly providence defend us against the violence of our enemies which do seek by all means to oppress thy truth Furthermore forasmuch as by thy holy Apostle we be taught to make our prayers and supplications for all men we pray not onely for our selves here present but beseech thee also to reduce all such as be yet ignorant from the miserable captivity of blindness and errour to the pure understanding and knowledge of thy heavenly truth that we all with one consent and unity of minde may worship thee our onely God and Saviour and that all pastours shepherds and ministers to whom thou hast committed the dispensation of thy holy word and charge of thy chosen people may both in their life and doctrine be found faithful setting onely before their eyes thy glory and that by them all poor sheep which wander and go astray may be gathered and brought home to thy fold Moreover because the hearts of all rulers are in thy hands we beseech thee to direct and govern the hearts of all kings princes and magistrates to whom thou hast committed the sword Especially O Lord according to our bounden duty we beseech thee to maintain and increase the honourable estate of the Kings majesty and all his most noble counsellers and magistrates with all the spiritual pastours and ministers and all the whole body of this common-weal Let thy fatherly favour so preserve them and thy holy Spirit so govern their hearts that they may in such sort execute their office that thy religion may be purely maintained manners reformed and sin punished according to the precise rule of thy holy word And for that we be all members of the mystical body of Jesus Christ we make our requests unto thee O heavenly Father for all such as are afflicted with any kinde of cross or tribulation as war plague famine sickness poverty imprisonment persecution banishment or any other kinde of thy rods whether it be calamity of body or vexation of minde that it would please thee to give them patience and constancy till thou send them full deliverance out of all their troubles Root out from hence O Lord all ravening wolves which to fill their bellies seek to destroy thy flock And shew thy great mercies upon those our brethren in other countreys which are persecuted cast into prison and daily condemned for the testimony of thy truth and although they be utterly destitute of all mans aid yet let thy sweet comfort never depart from them but so inflame their hearts with thy holy Spirit that they may boldly and cheerfully abide such trial as thy good wisdom shall appoint so that at length as well by their death as by their life the kingdom of thy dear Son Jesus Christ may increase and shine through all the world In whose name we make our humble petitions unto thee as he hath taught us Our Father which art c. The confession of the Christian Faith I Beleeve and confess my Lord God eternal infinite unmeasurable incomprehensible and invisible one in substance and three in person Father Son and holy Ghost who by his almighty power and wisdom hath not onely of nothing created heaven and earth and all things therein contained and man after his own image that he might in him be glorified but also by his fatherly providence governeth maintaineth and preserveth the same according to the purpose of his will I beleeve also and confess Jesus Christ the onely Saviour and Messias who being equal with God made himself of no reputation but took on him the shape of a servant and became man in all things like unto us except sin to assure us of mercy and forgiveness For when through our father Adams transgression we were become children of perdition there was no means to bring us from the yoke of sin and damnation but onely Jesus Christ our Lord who giving us that by grace which was his by nature made us through faith the children of God Who when the fulness of time was come was conceived by the power of the holy Ghost born of the virgin Mary according to the flesh and preached in earth the Gospel of salvation till at length by tyranny of the priests he was guiltless condemned under Pontius Pilate then President of Jewry and most slanderously hanged on the cross between two theeves as a notorious trespasser where taking upon him the punishment of our sins he delivered us from the curse of the law And forasmuch as he being onely God could not feel death neither being onely man could overcome death he joyned both together and suffered his humanity to be punished with most cruel death feeling in himself the anger and severe judgement of God even as he had been in extreme torments of hell and therefore cried with a loud voice My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Thus of his mercy without compulsion he
The hungry he replenished With all things that were good And through his power he made the rich Oft-times to want their food And calling to rememberance His mercy every deal Hath holpen up assistantly His servant Israel According to his promise made To Abraham before And to his seed successively To stand for evermore The song of Simeon called Nunc dimittis O Lord because my hearts desire Hath wished long to see My onely Lord and Saviour Thy Son before I die The joy and health of all mankinde Desired long before Which now is come into the world Of mercy bringing store Thou sufferest thy servant now In peace for to depart According to thy holy Word Which lighteneth my heart Because mine eyes which thou hast made To give my body light Have now beheld thy saving health Which is the Lord of might Whom thou mercifully hast set Of thine abundant grace In open sight and visible Before all peoples face The Gentiles to illuminate And Satan overquel And eke to be the glory of Thy people Israel The Symbol or Creed of Athanasius called Quicunque vult WHat man soever he be that salvation will attain The Catholick belief he must before all things retain Which faith unless he wholly keep and undefiledly Without all doubt eternally he shall be sure to die The Catholick belles is this that God we worship one In Trinity and Trinity in Unity alone So as we neither do confound the persons of the three Nor yet the substance whole of one in sunder parted be One Person of the father is another of the Son Another Person proper of the holy Ghost alone Of Father Son and holy Ghost but one the Godhead is Like Glory coeternal eke The Majesty likewise Such as the Father is such is the Son in each degree And such also we do beleeve the holy Ghost to be Uncreate is the father and uncreate is the Son The holy Ghost uncreate so uncreate is each one Incomprehensible Father is incomprehensible Son And comprehensible also is the holy Ghost of none The Father is eternal and the Son eternal so And in like sort eternal is the holy Ghost also And yet though we beleeve that each of th●se eternal be Yet there but one Eternal is and not Eternals three As ne incomprehensible we he yet uncreate three But one incomprehensible one uncreate hold to be Almighty so the Father is the Son Almighty so And in like sort Almighty is the holy Ghost also And albeit that every one of these Almighty be Yet there but one Almighty is And not Almighties three The Father God is God the Son God holy Ghost also Yet are there not three Gods in all but one God and no mo So likewise Lord the Father is and Lord also the Son And Lord the holy Ghost yet are there not three Lords but one For as we are compell'd to grant by Christian verity Each of the persons by himself both God and Lord to be So Catholick religion forbiddeth us alway That either Gods be three or that there Lords be three to say Of none the Father is ne made ne create nor begot The Son is of the Father not create ne made but got The holy Ghost is of them both the Father and the Son Ne made ne create nor begot but doth proceed alone So we one Father hold not three one Son also not three One holy Ghost alone and not three holy Ghosts to be None in this Trinity before nor after other is Ne greater any then the rest ne lesser be likewise But every one among themselves of all the Persons three Together coeternal all and all coequal be So Unity in Trinity as said it is before And Trinity in Unity in all things we adore Therefore what man soever that salvation will attain This faith touching the Trinity of force he must retain And needful to eternal life it is that every wight Of the incarnating of Christ our Lord beleeve aright For this the right faith is that we beleeve and eke do know That Christ our Lord the Son of God is God and man also God of his Fathers substance got before the world began And of his Mothers substance born in world a very man Both perfect God and perfect Man in one one Jesus Christ That doth of reasonable soul and humane flesh subsist Touching his Godhead equal with his Father God is he Touching his Manhood lower then his father in degree Who though he be both very God and very man also Yet is he but one Christ alone and is not persons two One not by turning of Godhead into the flesh of man But by taking manhood to God this being one began All one not by confounding of the substance into one But onely by the Unity that is of one Person For as the reasonable soul and flesh but one man is So in one Person God and Man is but one Christ likewise Who suffered for to save us all to hell he did descend The third day rose again from death to heaven he did ascend He sits at the right hand of God th' Almighty Father there From thence to judge the quick and dead again he shall appear At whose return all men shall rise with bodies new restor'd And of their own works they shall give account unto the Lord. And they into eternal life shall go that have done well Who have done ill shall go into eternal fire to dwell This is the Catholick belief who doth not faithfully Beleeve the same without all doubt he saved cannot be To Father Son and holy Ghost all glory be therefore As in beginning was is now and shall be evermore The Lamentation of a sinner O Lord turn not away thy face From him that lies prostrate Lamenting sore his sinful life Before thy mercy gate Which gate thou openest wide to those That do lament their sin Shut not that gate against me Lord But let me enter in And call me not to mine account How I have lived here For then I know right well O Lord How vile I shall appear I need not to confess my life I am sure thou canst tell What I have been and what I am I know thou know'st it well O Lord thou know'st what things be past And eke the things that be Thou know'st also what is to come Nothing is hid from thee Before the heavens and earth were made Thou know'st what things were then As all things else that have been since Among the sons of men And can the things that I have done Be hidden from thee then Nay nay thou know'st them all O Lord Where they were done and when Wherefore with tears I come to thee To beg and to intreat Even as the child that hath done ill And feareth to be beat So come I to thy mercy gate Where mercy doth abound Requiring mercy for my sin To heal my deadly wound O Lord I need not to repeat What I do beg or crave Thou know'st O Lord
14 What blasphemy is this to thee Lord dost thou not abhor it To hear the wicked in their heart say Tush thou car'st not for it verse 15 But thou seest all their wickedness and well dost understand verse 16 That friendless and poor fatherless are left into thy hand verse 17 Of wicked and malicious men then break the power for ever That they with their iniquity may perish altogether verse 18 The Lord shall reign for evermore as King and God alone And he will chase the heathen folk out of the land each one verse 19 Thou hear'st O Lord the poor mens plaint their prayers and request Their hearts thou wilt confirm until thine ears to hear be prest verse 20 To judge the poor and fatherless and help them to their right That they may be no more opprest by men of worldly might In Domino consido Psal xi T. S. I Trust in God how dare ye then say thus my soul until Flie hence as fast as any fowl and hide you in your hill verse 2 Behold the wicked bend their bowes and make their arrows prest To shoot in secret and to hurt the sound and harmless breast verse 3 Of worldly hope all stays were shrunk and clearly brought to nought Alas the just and righteous man what evil hath he wrought verse 4 But he that in his Temple is most holy and most high And in the heavens hath his seat of royal majesty The poor and simple mans estate considereth in his minde And searcheth out full narrowly the manners of mankinde verse 5 And with a cheerful countenance the righteous man will use But in his heart he doth abhor all such as mischief muse verse 6 And on the sinners casteth snares as thick as any rain Fire and brimstone and whirlwinds thick appointed for their pain verse 7 Ye see then how a righteous God doth righteousness embrace And to the just and upright men shews forth his pleasant face Salvum me fas Psal xii T. S. HE●y Lord for good and godly men do perish and decay And saith and truth from worldly men is parted clean away verse 2 Whoso doth with his neighbour talk his talk is all but vain For every man bethinketh how to flatter lie and feign verse 3 But flattering and deceitful lips and tongues that be so stout To speak proud words and make great brags The Lord soon cuts them out verse 4 For they say still We will prevail our tongues shall us extol Our tongues are ours we ought to speak what Lord shall us control verse 5 But for the great complaint and cry of poor and men opprest Arise will I now saith the Lord and them restore to rest verse 6 Gods word is like to silver pure that front the earth is tri●d And hath no le●s thou seven times in fi●e b●●● purifi●d verse 7 Now sith thy promise is to help Lord keep thy promise then And save us now and evermore from this ill kinde of men verse 8 For now the wicked world is full of mischiefs manifold When vanity with worldly men so highly is extoll'd Vsquequo Domine Psal xiii T. S. HOw long wilt thou forget me Lord shall I ne're be remembred How long wilt thou thy visage hide as though thou wert offended verse 2 In heart and minde how long shall I with care tormented be How long eke shall my deadly foes thus triumph over me verse 3 Behold me now my Lord my God and hear me fore opprest Lighten mine eyes left that I sleep as one by death possest verse 4 Lest that mine enemie say to me behold I do prevail Lest they also that hate my soul rejoyce to see me quail verse 5 But from thy mercy and goodness my hope shall never start In thy rele●f and saving health right glad shall be my heart verse 6 I will give thanks unto the Lord and praises to him fing Because he hath heard my request and granted my wishing Dixit insipiens Psal xiiii T. S. THere is no God as foolish men affirm in their mad mood Their drifts are all corrupt and vain not one of them doth good verse 2 The Lord beheld from heaven high the whole race of mankinde And saw not one that sought indeed the living God to finde verse 3 They went all wide and were corrupt and truly there was none That in the world did any good I say there was not one verse 4 Is all their judgement so far lost that all work mischief still Eating my people even as bread not one to seek Gods will verse 5 When they thus rage then suddenly great fear on them shall fall For God doth love the righteous men and will maintain them all verse 6 Ye mock the doings of the poor to their reproach and shame Because they put their trust in God and call upon his name verse 7 But who shall give thy people health and when wilt thou fulfil Thy promise made to Israel from out of Sion hill verse 8 Even when thou shalt restore again such as were captive led Then Jacob shall therein rejoyce and Israel shall be glad Domine quis Psal xv T. S. O Lord within thy tabernacle who shall inhabit still Or whom wilt thou receive to dwell in thy most holy hill verse 2 The man whose life is uncorrupt whose works are just and streight Whose heart doth think the very truth whose tongue speaks no deceit verse 3 Nor to his neighbour doth none ill in body goods or name Nor willingly doth move false tales which might empair the same verse 4 That in his heart regardeth not malicious wicked men But those that love and fear the Lord he maketh much of them verse 5 His oath and all his promises that keepeth faithfully Although he make his covenant so that he doth lose thereby verse 6 That putteth not to usury his money and his coyn Ne for to hu●t the innocent doth bribe or else purloyn verse 7 Whoso doth all things as you see that here is to he done Shall never perish in th●● world nor in the world to com● Conserva me Psal xvi T. S. LOrd keep me for I trust in thee and do confess indeed Thou art my God and of my goods O Lord thou hast no need verse 2 I give my goods unto the saints that in the world do dwell And namely to the faithful flock in vertue that excel verse 3 They shall heap sorrows on their heads which run as they were mad To offer to the idol-gods alas it is too bad verse 4 As for their bloudy sacrifice and offerings of that sort I will not touch nor yet thereof my lips shall make report verse 5 For why the Lord the portion is of mine inheritance And thou art he that dost maintain my rent my lot my chance verse 6 The place wherein my lot did fall in beauty did excel Mine heritage assign'd to me doth please me wondrous well verse 7 I thank the Lord that caused me to understand
all the world and all that therein doth endure verse 2 For he hath fastly founded it above the seas to stand And laid alow the liquid flouds to flow beneath the land verse 3 For who is he O Lord that shall ascend into thy hill Or pass into thy holy place there to continue still verse 4 Whose hands are harmless and whose heart no spot there doth defile His soul not set on vanity who hath not sworn to guile verse 5 Him that is such a one the Lord shall place in blissful plight And God his God and Saviour shall yeeld to him his right verse 6 This is the brood of travellers in seeking of his grace As Jacob did the Israelite in that time of his race verse 7 Ye princes ope your gates stand ope the everlasting gate For there shall enter in thereby the king of glorious state verse 8 Who is the king of glorious state the strong and mighty Lord The mighty Lord in battel stout and trial of the sword verse 9 Ye princes ope your gates stand ope the everlasting gate For there shall enter in thereby the king of glorious state verse 10 Who is the king of glorious state the Lord of hosts it is The kingdom and the royalty of glorious state is his Ad te Domine Psal xxv T. S. I Lift my heart to thee my God and guide most just Now suffer me to take no shame for in thee do I trust verse 2 Let not my foes rejoyce nor make a scorn of me And let them not be overthrown that put their trust in thee verse 3 But shame shall them befal which harm them wrongfully Therefore thy paths and thy right ways unto me Lord descry verse 4 Direct me in thy truth and teach me I thee pray Thou art my God and Saviour on thee I wait alway verse 5 Thy mercies manifold I pray thee Lord remember And eke thy pity plentiful for they have been for ever verse 6 Remember not the faults and frailty of my youth Remember not how ignorant I have been of thy truth Nor after my deserts let me thy mercy finde But of thine own benignity Lord have me in thy minde verse 7 His mercy is full sweet his truth a perfect guide Therefore the Lord will sinners teach and such as go aside verse 8 The humble he will teach his precepts for to keep He will direct in all his ways the lowly and the meek verse 9 For all the ways of God are truth and mercy ●oth To them that keep his testament the witness of his troth The second part verse 10 Now for thy holy name O Lord I thee intreat To grant me pardon for my sin for it is wondrous great verse 11 Whoso doth fear the Lord the Lord will him direct To lead his life in such a way as he doth best accept 12 12 His soul shall evermore in goodness dwell and stand His seed and his posterity inherit shall the land verse 13 All those that fear the Lord know his secret intent And unto them he doth declare his will and testament verse 14 Mine eyes and eke my heart to him I will advance That pluckt my feet out of the snare of sin and ignorance verse 15 With mercy me behold to thee I make my mone For I am poor and desolate and comfortless alone verse 16 The troubles of my heart are multipli'd indeed Bring me out of this misery necessity and need verse 17 Behold my poverty mine anguish and my pain Remit my sin and mine offence and make me clean again verse 18 O Lord behold my foes how they do still increase Pursuing me with deadly hate that lain would live in peace verse 19 Preserve and keep my soul and eke deliver me And let me not be overthrown because I trust in thee verse 20 Let my simple pureness me from mine enemies shend Because I look as one of thine that thou shoudst me defend verse 21 Deliver Lord thy folk and lend them some relief I mean thy chosen Israel from all their pain and grief Judica me Domine Psal xxvi T. S. LOrd be my Judge and thou shalt see my paths be right and plain I trust in God and hope that he will strength me to remain verse 2 Prove me my God I thee desire my ways to search and try As men do prove their gold with fire my reins and heart espy verse 3 Thy goodness said before my face I durst behold always For of thy truth I tread the trace and will do all my days verse 4 I do not lust to haunt or use with men whose deeds are vain To come in house I do refuse with the deceitful train verse 5 I much abhor the wicked sort their deeds I do despise I do not once to them resort that hurtful things devise verse 6 My hands I wash and do proceed in works to walk upright Then to thine altar I make speed to offer there in sight verse 7 That I may speak and preach the pralse that doth belong to thee And so declare how wondrous ways thou hast been good to me verse 8 O God the house I love most dear to me it doth excel I have delight and would be near whereas thy grace doth dwell verse 9 O shut not up my soul with them in fin that take their fill Nor yet my life among those men that seek much bloud to spill verse 10 Whose hands are heapt with craft and guile their lives thereof are full And their right hand with wrench and wile for bribes doth pluck and pull verse 11 But I in righteousness intend my time and days to serve Have mercy Lord and me defend so that I do not swerve verse 12 My foot is stay'd for all assays it standeth well and right Wherefore to God will I give praise in all the peoples sight Dominus illuminatio Psal xxvii J. H. THe Lord is both my health and light shall man make me disma●d Sith God doth give me strength and might why should I be afraid verse 2 While that my foes with all their strength begin with me to brall And think to eat me up at length themselves have caught the fall verse 3 Though they in camp against me lie my heart is not afraid In battel pight if they will try I trust in God for aid verse 4 One thing of God I do require that he will not deny For which I pray and will desire till he to me apply verse 5 That I within his holy place my life throughout may dwell To see the beauty of his face and view his temple well verse 6 In time of dread he shall me hide within his place most pure And keep me secret by his side as on a rock most sure verse 7 At length I know the Lords good grace shall make me strong and stout My foes to foil and clean deface that compass me about verse 8 Therefore within his house will I give sacrifice of praise With
psalms and songs I will apply to laud the Lord always The second part verse 9 Lord hear the voice of my request for which to thee I call Have mercy Lord on me opprest and send me help withall verse 10 My heart doth knowledge unto thee I sue to have thy grace Then seek my face say'st thou to me Lord I will seek thy face verse 11 In wrath turn not thy face away nor suffer me to slide Thou art my help still to this day be still my God and guide verse 12 My parents both their son forsook and cast me off at large And then the Lord himself yet took of me the care and charge verse 13 Teach me O Lord the way to thee and lead me on forth right For fear of such as watch for me to trap me if they might verse 14 Do not betake me to the will of them that be my foes For they surmise against me still false witness to depose verse 15 My heart would faint but that in me this hope is fixed fast The Lord Gods good grace shall I see in life that ay shall last verse 16 Trust still in God whose whole thou ar● his will abide thou must And he shall ease and strength thy heart if thou in him do trust Ad te Dom. ●lamabo Psal xxviii T. S. THou art O Lord my strength and stay the succour which I crave Neglect me not lest I be like to them that go to grave verse 2 The voice of thy suppliant hear that unto thee doth cry When I lift up my hands unto thy holy ark most high verse 3 Repute me not among the sort of wicked and pervert That speak right fair unto their friends and think full ill in heart verse 4 According to their handy-work as they deserve indeed And after their inventions let them receive their meed verse 5 For they regard nothing Gods works his law ne yet his lore Therefore will he them and their seed destroy for evermore verse 6 To render thanks unto the Lord how great a cause have I My voice my prayer and my complaint that heard so willingly verse 7 He is my shield and fortitude my buckler in distress My hope my help my hearts relief my song shall him confess verse 8 He is our strength and our defence our enemies to resist The health and the salvation of his elect by Christ verse 9 Thy people and thine heritage Lord bless guide and preserve Increase them Lord and rule their hearts that they may never swerve Afferte Domino Psal xxix T. S. Give to the Lord ye potentates ye rulers of the world Give ye all praise honour and strength unto the living Lord. verse 2 Give glory to his holy Name and honour him alone Worship him in his majesty within his holy throne verse 3 His voice doth rule the watersall even as himself doth please He doth prepare the thunder-claps and governs all the seas verse 4 The voice of God is of great force and wondrous excellent It is most mighty in effect and most magnificent verse 5 The voice of God doth rend and break The cedar-trees so long The cedar-trees of Lebanon Which are most high and strong verse 6 And makes them leap like as a calf or else the unicorn Not onely trees but mountains great Whereon the trees are born verse 7 His voice divides the flames of fire and shakes the wilderness verse 8 It makes the desert quake for fear that called is Cades verse 9 It makes the hinds for fear to calve and makes the coverts plain Then in his temple every man his glory doth proclaim verse 10 The Lord was set above the flouds ruling the raging sea So shall he reign as Lord and king for ever and for ay verse 11 The Lord will give his people power in vertue to increase The Lord will bless his chosen flock with everlasting peace Exaltabo te Domine Psal xxx J. H. ALl laud and praise with heart and voice O Lord I give to thee Which didst not make my foes rejoyce but hast exalted me verse 2 O Lord my God to thee I cri'd in all my pain and grief Thou gay'st an ear and didst provide to ease me with relief verse 3 Of thy good will thou hast call'd back my soul from hell to save Thou didst revive when strength did lack and kept'st me from the grave verse 4 Sing praise ye saints that prove and see the goodness of the Lord In memory of his majestie rejoyce with one accord verse 5 For why his anger but a space doth last and slack again But in his favour and his grace always doth life remain Though gripes of grief and pangs full sore shall lodge with us all night The Lord to joy shall us restore before the day be light verse 6 When I enjoy'd the world at will thus would I boast and say Tush I am sure to feel none ill this wealth shall not decay verse 7 For thou O Lord of thy good grace hadst sent me strength and aid But when thou turn'dst away thy face my minde was sore dismaid verse 8 Wherefore again yet did I cry to thee O Lord of might My God with plaints I did apply and pray'd both day and night verse 9 What gain is in my bloud said I if death destroy my days Doth dust declare thy majesty or yet thy truth doth praise verse 10 Wherefore my God some pity take O Lord I thee desire Do not this simple soul forsake of help I thee require verse 11 Then didst thou turn my grief and wo into a cheerful voice The mourning-weed thou took'st me fro and mad'st me to rejoyce verse 12 Wherefore my soul uncessantly shall sing unto thy praise My Lord my God to thee will I give laud and thanks always In te Domine Psal xxxi J. H. O Lord I put my trust in thee let nothing work me shame As thou art just deliver me and let me quit from blame verse 2 Hear me O Lord and that anon to help me make good speed Be thou my rock and house of stone my fence in time of need verse 3 For why as stones thy strength is tri'd thou art my sort and tower For thy Names sake be thou my guide and lead me in thy power verse 4 Pluck thou my feet out of the snare which they for me have laid Thou art my strength and all my care is for thy might and aid verse 5 Into thy hands Lord I commit my spirit which is thy due For why thou hast redeemed it O Lord my God most true verse 6 I hate such folk as will not part from things to be abhor'd When they on trifles set their heart my trust is in the Lord. verse 7 For I will in thy mercy joy I see it doth excel Thou seest when ought would me annoy and know'st my soul full well verse 8 Thou hast not left me in their hand that would me overcharge But thou hast set me out of
12 Thy justice and thy righteousness in great resorts I tell Behold my tongue no time doth cease O Lord thou know'st full well The second part verse 13 I have not hid within my brest thy goodness as by stealth But I declare and have exprest thy truth and saving health verse 14 I kept not close thy loving minde that no man should it know The trust that in thy truth I finde to all the Church I show verse 15 Thy tender mercy Lord from me withdraw thou not away But let thy love and veritie preserve me still for ay verse 16 For I with mischiefs many a one am sore beset about My sins increase and so come on I cannot spie them out verse 17 For why in number they exceed the hairs upon my head My heart doth faint for very dread that I am almost dead verse 18 With speed send help and set me free O Lord I thee require Make haste with aid to succour me O Lord at my desire verse 19 Let them sustain rebuke and shame that seek my soul to spill Drive back my foes and them defame that wish and would me ill verse 20 For their ill feats do them descry that would deface my name Always at me they rail and cry Fie on him fie for shame verse 21 Let them in thee have joy and wealth that seek to thee alwaies That those that love thy saving health may say To God be praise verse 22 But as for me I am but poor opprest and brought full low Yet thou O Lord wilt me restore to health full well I know verse 23 For why thou art my hope and trust my refuge help and stay Wherefore my God as thou art just with me no time delay Beatus qui intelligit Psal xli T. S. THe man is blest that careful is the needy to consider For in the season perilous the Lord will him deliver verse 2 The Lord will make him safe and sound and happy in the land And he will not deliver him into his enemies hand verse 3 And in his bed when he lies sick the Lord will him restore And thou O Lord wilt turn to health his sickness and his sore verse 4 Then in my sickness thus said I Have mercy Lord on me And heal my soul which is full wo that I offended thee verse 5 Mine enemies wisht me ill in heart and thus of me did say When shall he die that all his name may vanish quite away verse 6 And when they come to visit me they ask if I do well But in their hearts mischief they hatch and to their mates it tell verse 7 They bite their lips and whisper so as though they would me charm And cast their fetches how to trap me with some mortal harm verse 8 Some grievous sin hath brought him to this sickness say they plain He is so low that without doubt rise can he not again verse 9 The man also that I did trust with me did use deceit Who at my table ate my bread the same for me laid wait verse 10 Have mercy Lord on me therefore and let me be preserv'd That I may render unto them the things they have deserv'd verse 11 By this I know assuredly to be belov'd of thee When that mine enemies have no cause to triumph over me verse 12 But in my right thou hast me kept and maintained alway And in thy presence place assign'd where I shall dwell for ay verse 13 The Lord the God of Israel he praised evermore Even so be it Lord will I say even so be it therefore Quomadmodum Psal xlii J. H. LIke as the hart doth breathe and bray the well-springs to obtain So doth my soul desire alway with thee Lord to remain verse 2 My soul doth thirst and would draw near the living God of might Oh when shall I come and appear in presence of his sight verse 3 The tears all times are my repast which from mine eyes do slide When wicked men cry out so fast Where now is God thy guide verse 4 Alas what grief is it to think what freedom once I had Therefore my soul as at pits brink most heavy is and fad When I did march in good aray furnished with my train Unto the temple was our way with songs and hearts most fain verse 5 My soul why art thou sad alwaies and fret'st thus in my brest Trust still in God for him to praise I hold it ever best By him I have succour at need against all pain and grief He is my God which with all speed will haste to send relief verse 6 And thus my soul within me Lord doth faint to think upon The land of Jordan and record the little hill Hermon The second part verse 7 One grief another in doth call as clouds burst out their voice The flouds of evil that do fall run over me with noise verse 8 Yet I by day felt his goodness and help at all assayes Likewise by night I did not cease the living God to praise verse 9 I am perswaded thus to say to him with pure pretence O Lord thou art my guide and stay my rock and sure defence Why do I then in pensiveness hanging the head thus walk While that mine enemies me oppress and vex me with their talk verse 10 For why they pierce my inward parts with pangs to be abhor'd When they cry out with stubborn hearts where is thy God thy Lord verse 11 So soon why dost thou faint and quail my soul with pain opprest With thoughts why dost thy self assail so sore within my brest verse 12 Trust in the Lord thy God always and thou the time shalt see To give him thanks with laud and praise for health restor'd to thee Judica me Domine Psal xliii T. S. JUdge and revenge my cause O Lord from them that evil be From wicked and deceitful men O Lord deliver me verse 2 For of my strength thou art the God why put'st thou me thee fro And why walk I so heavily oppressed with my foe verse 3 Send out thy light and eke thy truth and lead me with thy grace Which may conduct me to thy hill and to thy dwelling-place verse 4 Then shall I to the altar go of God my joy and chear And on my harp give thanks to thee O God my God most dear verse 5 Why art thou then so sad my soul and fret'st thus in my brest Still trust in God for him to praise I hold it always best verse 6 By him I have deliverance against all pain and grief He is my God which doth alway at need send me relief Deus auribus Psal xliv T. S. OUr ears have heard our fathers tell and reverently record The wondrous works that thou hast done in older time O Lord. verse 2 How thou didst cast the Gentiles out and stroyd'st them with strong hand Planting our fathers in their place and gav'st to them their land verse 3 They conquered not by sword not
and thou shalt honour me verse 16 To the wicked thus saith th' eternal God Why dost thou preach my laws and hests abroad verse 17 Seeing thou hast them with thy mouth abused And hat'st to be by discipline reformed My words I say thou dost reject and hate verse 18 If that thou see a thief as with thy mate Thou runn'st with him and so your prey do seek And art all one with bauds and ruffians eke verse 19 Thou giv'st thy self to backbite and to slander And how thy tongue deceives it is a wonder verse 20 Thou sitt'st musing thy brother how to blame And how to put thy mothers son to shame verse 21 These things thou didst and whil'st I held my tongue Thou didst me judge because I staid so long Like to thy self yet though I keep long silence Once shalt thou feel of thy wrongs just recompence verse 22 Consider this ye that forget the Lord And fear not when he threatneth with his word Lest without help I spoil you as a prey verse 23 But he that thanks offereth praiseth me ay ●●ith the Lord God and he that walks this trace I will him teach Gods saving healtht ' embrace Another of the same by J.H. THe God of gods the Lord hath call'd the earth by name From whence the sun doth rise unto the setting of the same 〈◊〉 From Sion his fair place his glory bright and clear The perfect beauty of his grace from thence it did appear 〈◊〉 Our God shall come in haste to speak he shall not doubt Before him shall the fire waste and tempest round about 〈◊〉 The heavens from on high the earth below likewise He will call forth to judge and try his folk he doth devise verse 5 Bring forth my saints saith he my faithful flock so dear Which are in band and league with me my law to love and fear 〈◊〉 And when these things are tri'd the heavens shall record That God is just and all must bide the judgement of the Lord. verse 7 My people O give heed Israel to thee I cry I am thy God thy help at need thou canst it not deny verse 8 I do not say to thee thy sacrifice is slack Thou offerest daily unto me much more then I do lack verse 9 Think'st thou that I do need thy cattel young or old Or else so much desire to feed on goats out of thy fold verse 10 Nay all the beasts are mine in woods that eat their fills And thousands more of neat and kine that run-wilde on the hills The second part verse 11 The birds that build on high in hills and out of sight And beasts that in the fields do lie are subject to my might verse 12 Then though I hungred sore what need I ought of thine Sith that the earth with her great store and all therein is mine verse 13 To bulls flesh have I minde to eat it dost thou think Or such a sweetness do I finde the bloud of goats to drink verse 14 Give to the Lord his praise with thanks to him apply And see thou pay thy vows always unto the God mòst high verse 15 Then seek and call to me when ought would work thee blame And I will sure deliver thee that thou mayst praise my Name verse 16 But to the wicked train which talk of God each day And yet their works are foul and vain to them the Lord will say verse 17 With what a face dar'st thou my word once speak or name Why doth thy talk my law allow thy deeds deny the same verse 18 Whereas for to amend thy life thou art so slack My word the which thou dost pretend is cast behinde thy back The third part verse 19 When thou a thief dost see by theft to live in wealth With him thou runn'st and dost agree likewise to thrive by stealth verse 20 When thou dost them behold that wives and maids defile Thou lik'st it well and waxest bold to use that life most vise verse 21 Thy lips thou dost apply to slander and defame Thy tongue is taught to craft and lie and still doth use the same verse 22 Thou studiest to revile thy friends to thee so near With slander thou wouldst needs defile thy mothers son most dear verse 23 Hereat while I do wink as though I did not see Thou goest on still and so dost think that I am like to thee verse 24 But sure I will not let to strike when I begin Thy faults in order I will set and open all thy sin verse 25 Mark this I you require that have not God in minde Lest when I plague you in mine ire your help be far to finde verse 26 He that doth give to me the sacrifice of praise Doth please me well and he shall see to walk in godly ways Miserere mei Psal li. W. W. O Lord consider my distress and now with speed some pity take My sins deface my faults redress good Lord for thy great mercies sake verse 2 Wash me O Lord and make me clean from this unjust and sinful act And purifie yet once again my hainous crime and bloudy fact verse 3 Remorse and sorrow do constrain me to acknowledge mine excess My sin alas doth still remain before my face without release verse 4 For thee alone I have offended committing evil in thy sight And if I were therefore condemned yet were thy judgements just and right verse 5 It is too manifest alas that first I was conceiv'd in sin Yea of my mother so born was and yet vile wretch remain therein verse 6 Also behold Lord thou dost love the inward truth of a pure heart Therefore thy wisdom from above thou hast reveal'd me to convert verse 7 If thou with hyssop purge this blot I shall be cleaner then the glass And if thou wash away my spot the snow in whiteness shall I pass verse 8 Therefore O Lord such joy me send that inwardly I may finde grace And that my strength may now amend which thou hast swag'd for my trespass verse 9 Turn back thy face and frowning ire for I have felt enough thy hand And purge my sins I thee desire which do in number pass the sand verse 10 Make new my heart within my brest and frame it to thy holy will Thy constant Spirit in me let rest which may these raging enemies kill The second part verse 11 Cast me not Lord out from thy face but speedily my torments end Take not from me thy Spirit of grace which may from dangers me defend verse 12 Restore me to those joys again which I was wont in thee to finde And let me thy free Spirit retain which unto thee may stir my minde verse 13 Thus when I shall thy mercies know I shall instruct others therein And men that are likewise brought low by mine example shall flee sin verse 14 O God that of my health art Lord forgive me this my bloudy vice My heart and tongue shall then accord to sing thy
mercies and justice verse 15 Touch thou my lips my tongue untie O Lord which art the onely key And then my mouth shall testifie thy wondrous works and praise alway verse 16 And as for outward sacrifice I would have offered many a one But thou esteem'st them of no price and therein pleasure tak'st thou none verse 17 The heavy heart the minde opprest O Lord thou never dost reject And to speak truth it is the best and of all sacrifice th' effect verse 18 Lord unto Sion turn thy face pour out thy mercies on thy hill And on Jerusalem thy grace build up the walls and love it still verse 19 Thou shalt accept then our offrings of peace and righteousness I say Yea calves and many other things upon thine altar will we lay Another of the same by J.H. HAve mercy on me Lord after thy great abounding grace After thy mercies multitude do thou my sins deface verse 2 Yea wash me more from mine offence and cleanse me from my sin For I do know my faults and still my sin is in mine eyn verse 3 Against thee thee alone I have offended in this case And evil have I done before the presence of thy sace verse 4 That in the things that thou hast done upright thou mayst be tri'd And eke in judging that the doom may pass upon thy side verse 5 Behold in wickedness my kinde and shape I did receive And lo my sinful mother eke in sin did me conceive verse 6 But lo the truth in inward parts is pleasant unto thee And secrets of thy wisdom thou revealed hast to me verse 7 With hyssop Lord besprinkle me I shall be cleansed so Yea wash thou me and so I shall be whiter then the snow verse 8 Of joy and gladness make thou me to hear the pleasant voice That so the bruised bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce verse 9 From the beholding of my sins Lord turn away thy face And all my deeds of wickedness do utterly deface verse 10 O God create in me a heart unspotted in thy sight And eke within my bowels Lord renew a stable sprite verse 11 Ne cast me from thy sight nor take thy holy Spirit away The comfort of thy saving health give me again I pray verse 12 With thy free Spirit establish me and I will teach therefore Sinners thy ways and wicked shall be turned to thy lore The second part verse 13 O God that art God of my health from bloud deliver me That praises of thy righteousness my tongue may sing to thee verse 14 My lips that yet fast closed be do thou O Lord unloose The praises of thy majestie my mouth shall so disclose verse 15 I would have offred sacrifice it that had pleased thee But pleased with burnt-offerings I know thou wilt not be verse 16 A troubled spirit is sacrifice delightful in Gods eyes A broken and an humble heart God thou wilt not despise verse 17 In thy good will deal gently Lord to Sion and withal Grant that of thy Jerusalem uprear'd may be the wall verse 18 Burnt-offrings gifts and sacrifice of justice in that day Thou shalt accept and calves they shall upon thine altar lay Quid gloriaris Psal lii J. H. WHy dost thou tyrant boast abroad thy wicked works to praise Dost thou not know there is a God whose merties last always verse 2 Why doth thy minde yet still devise such wicked wiles to warp Thy tongue untrue in forging lies is like a rafour sharp verse 3 On mischief why set'st thou thy minde and wilt not walk upright Thou hast more lust false tales to finde then bring the truth to light verse 4 Thou dost delight in fraud and guile in mischief bloud and wrong Thy lips have learn'd the flattering style O false deceitful tongue verse 5 Therefore shall God for ay confound and pluck thee from thy place Thy seed root out from off the ground and so shall thee deface verse 6 The just when they behold thy fall with fear will praise the Lord And in reproach of thee withall cry out with one accord verse 7 Behold the man that would not take the Lord for his defence But of his goods his god did make and trust his corrupt sense verse 8 But I as olive fresh and green shall spring and spread abroad For why my trust all times hath been upon the living God verse 9 For this therefore will I give praise to thee with heart and voice I will set forth thy Name always wherein thy faints rejoyce Dixit insipiens Psal liii T. S. THe foolish man in that which he within his heart hath said That there is any God at all hath utterly denaid verse 2 They are corrupt and they also a hainous work have wrought Among them all there is not one of good that worketh ought verse 3 The Lord look'd down on sons of men from heaven all abroad To see if any were that would be wise and seek for God verse 4 They are all gone out of the way they are corrupted all There is not one doth any good there is not one at all verse 5 Do not all wicked workers know that they do feed upon My people as they feed on bread the Lord they call not on verse 6 Even there they were afraid and stood with trembling all dismaid Whereas there was no cause at all why they should be afraid verse 7 For God his bones that thee besieg'd hath scaured all abroad Thou hast confounded them for they rejected are of God verse 8 O Lord give thou thy people health and thou O Lord fulfill Thy promise made to Israel from out of Sion hill verse 9 When God his people shall restore that erst was captive led Then Jacob shall therein rejoyce and Israel shall be glad Deus in nomine Psal liv J. H. GOd save me for thy holy Name and for thy goodness sake Unto the strength Lord of the same I do my cause betake verse 2 Regard O Lord and give an ear to me when I do pray Bow down thy self to me and hear the words that I do say verse 3 For strangers up against me rise and tyrants vex me still Which have not God before their eyes they seek my soul to spill verse 4 But so my God doth give me aid the Lord is straight at hand With them by whom my soul is staid The Lord doth ever stand verse 5 With plagues repay again all those for me that lie in wait And in thy truth destroy my foes with their own snare and bait verse 6 An offering of free heart and will then I to thee shall make And praise thy Name for therein still great comfort I do take verse 7 O Lord at length do set me free from them that craft conspire And now mine eye with joy doth see on them my hearts desire Exaudi Deus Psal lv J. H. O God give ear and do apply to hear me when I pray And when to thee I
fulfil the same With godly gifts will he reward all those that fear his Name verse 6 The king shall he in health maintain and so prolong his days That he from age to age shall reign for evermore always verse 7 That he may have a dwelling-place before the Lord for ay O ●et thy mercy truth and grace defend him from decay verse 8 Then shall I sing for ever still with praise unto thy Name 〈◊〉 all my vows I may fulfil and daily pay the same Nonne Deo Psal lxii J. H. MY soul to God shall give good heed and him alone attend 〈◊〉 why my health and hope to speed doth whole on him depend For he alone is my defence my rock my health and aid 〈◊〉 is my stay that no pretence ●●all make me much dismaid O wicked folk how long will ye ●●e craft sure ye must fall ●as a rotten hedge ye be and like a tottring wall Whom God doth love ye seek always to put him to the worse 〈◊〉 ●ove to lie with mouth ye praise and yet your heart doth curse Yet still mysoul doth whole depend on God my chief desire 〈◊〉 all ill feats me to defend none but him I require He is my rock my fort and tower my health is of his grace 〈◊〉 doth support me that no power can move me out of place God is my glory and my health my souls desire and lust ●●f●rt my strength my stay my wealth God is my onely trust Oh have your trust in him alway 〈◊〉 folk with one accord 〈◊〉 out your hearts to him and say our trust is in the Lord. The sons of men deceitful are on balance but a sleight 〈◊〉 things most vain do them compare ●●r they can keep no weight Trust not in wrong robb'ry nor stealth let vain delights be gone ●●ough goods well got flow in with wealth let not your hearts thereon The Lord long since one thing did tell which here to minde I call 〈◊〉 spake it oft I heard it well That God alone doth all And that thou Lord art good and kinde thy mercy doth exceed that all sorts with thee shall finde according to their deed Deus Deus meus Psal lxiii T. S. O God my God I watch betime to come to thee in haste 〈◊〉 why my soul and body both do thirst of thee to taste 〈◊〉 in this barren wilderness where waters there are none 〈◊〉 flesh is parcht for thought of thee ●or thee I wish alone That I might see yet once again 〈◊〉 glory strength and might 〈◊〉 ●as wont it to behold a thin thy temple bright F●r why thy mercies fa● surmount t●●s life and wretched days 〈◊〉 ●ips therefore shall give to thee ●●e honour laud and praise And whil'st I live I will not fail 〈◊〉 worship thee alway And in thy name I shall lift up my hands when I do pray verse 5 My soul is fill'd as with marrow which is both fat and sweet My mouth therefore shall sing such songs as are for thee most meet verse 6 When as in bed I think on thee and eke all the night-tide verse 7 For under covert of thy wings thou art my joyful guide verse 8 My soul doth surely stick to thee thy right hand is my power verse 9 And those that seek my soul to stroy them death shall soon devour verse 10 The sword shall them devour each one their carcases shall feed The hungry foxes which do run their prey to seek at need verse 11 The king and all men shall rejoyce that do profess Gods word For liars mouths shall then be stopt which have the truth disturb'd Exaudi Deus Psal lxiv. J. H. O Lord unto my voice give ear with plaint when I do pray And rid my life and soul from fear of foes that threat to slay verse 2 Defend me from that sort of men which in deceit do lurk And from the frowning face of them that all ill seats do work verse 3 Who whet their tongues as we have seen men whet and sharp their swords They shoot abroad their arrows keen I mean most bitter words verse 4 With privy sleights shoot they their shaft the upright man to hit The just unwares to strike by craft they care or fear no whit verse 5 A wicked work they have decreed in counsel thus they cry To use deceit let us not dread what who can it espy verse 6 What way to hurt they talk and muse all times within their heart They all consult what feats to use each doth invent his part verse 7 But yet all this shall not prevail when they think least upon God with his dart shall sure assail and wound them every one verse 8 Their crafts and their ill tongues withall shall work themselves such blame That they which then behold their fall shall wonder at the same verse 9 Then all that see shall know right well that God the thing hath wrought And praise his witty works and tell what he to pa●s hath brought verse 10 Yet shall the just in God rejoyce still trusting in his might So shall they joy with minde and voice whose hearts are pure and right Te decet hymnus Psal lxv J. H. THy praise alone O Lord doth reign in Sion thine own hill Their vows to thee they do maintain and their behests fulfil verse 2 For that thou dost their prayers hear and dost thereto agree The people all both far and near with trust shall come to thee verse 3 Our wicked life so far exceeds that we shall fall therein But Lord forgive our great misdeeds and purge us from our sin verse 4 The man is blest whom thou dost choose within thy courts to dwell Thy house and temple he shall use with pleasures that excel verse 5 Of thy great justice hear us God our health of thee doth rise The hope of all the earth abroad and the sea coasts likewise verse 6 With strength thou art beset about and compast with thy power Thou mak'st the mountains strong and stout to stand in every shower verse 7 The swelling seas thou dost asswage and make their streams full still Thou dost restrain the peoples rage and rule them at thy will verse 8 The folk that dwell full far on earth shall dread thy signs to see Which morn and even in great mirth do pass with praise to thee verse 9 When that the earth is chapt and dry and thirsteth more and more Then with thy drops thou dost apply and much increase her store verse 10 The floud of God doth overflow and so doth cause to spring The seed and corn which men do sow for he doth guide the thing verse 11 With wet thou dost her furrows fill whereby her clods do fall Thy drops on her thou dost distill and bless her fruit withall verse 12 Thou deck'st the earth of thy good grace with fair and pleasant crop Thy clouds distil their dew apace great plenty they do drop verse 13 Whereby the desert shall begin
laid And of thy stormy wind and showre Lord make them all afraid verse 16 Lord bring them all I thee desire to such rebuke and shame That it may cause them to enquire and learn to seek thy Name verse 17 And let them evermore daily to shame and slander fall And in rebuke and obloquie to perish eke withall verse 18 That they may know and feel full well that thou art called Lord And that alone thou dost excell and reign throughout the world Quam dilecta Psal lxxxiv J. H. HOw pleasant is thy dwelling-place O Lord of hosts to me The tabernacles of thy grace how pleasant Lord they be verse 2 My soul doth long full sore to go into thy courts abroad My heart doth lust my flesh also in thee the living God verse 3 The sparrows finde a room to rest and save themselves from wrong And eke the swallow hath a nest wherein to keep her young verse 4 These birds full nigh thine altar may have place to fit and fing O Lord of hosts thou art I say my God and eke my King verse 5 O they be blessed that may dwell within thy house always For they all times thy facts do tell and ever give thee praise verse 6 Yea happy sure likewise are they whose stay and strength thou art Which to thy house do minde the way and seek it in their heart As they go through the vale of tears they dig up fountains still That as a spring it all appears and thou their pits dost fill verse 7 From strength to strength they walk full fast no faintness there shall be And so the God of gods at last in Sion they do see verse 8 O Lord of hosts to me give heed and hear when I do pray And let it through thine ears proceed O Jacobs God I say verse 9 O Lord our shield of thy good grace regard and so draw near Regard I say behold the face of thine anointed dear verse 10 For why within thy courts one day is better to abide Then other-where to keep or stay a thousand days beside Much rather would I keep a door within the house of God Then in the tents of wickedness to settle mine abode verse 11 For God the Lord light and defence will grace and worship give And no good thing will he withhold from them that purely live verse 12 O Lord of hosts that man is blest and happy sure is he That is perswaded in his brest to trust all times in thee Benedixisti Psal lxxxv J. H. THou hast been merciful indeed O Lord unto thy land For thou restoredst Jacobs seed from thraldom out of band verse 2 The wicked ways that they were in thou didst them clean remit And thou didst hide thy peoples sin full close thou coveredst it verse 3 Thine anger eke thou didst asswage that all thy wrath was gone And so didst turn thee from thy rage with them to be at one verse 4 O God our health do now convert thy people unto thee Put all thy wrath from us apart and angry cease to be verse 5 Why shall thine anger never and but still proceed on us And shall thy wrath it self extend upon all ages thus verse 6 Wilt thou not rather turn therefore and quicken us that we And all thy folk may evermore be glad and joy in thee verse 7 O Lord on us do thou declare thy goodness to our wealth Shew forth to us and do not spare thine aid and saving health verse 8 I will heark what God faith for he speaks to his people peace And to his saints that never they return to foolishness verse 9 For why his help is still at hand to such as do him fear Whereby great glory in our land shall dwell and flourish there verse 10 For truth and mercy there shall meet in one to take their place And peace shall justice with kiss greet and there they shall embrace verse 11 As truth from earth shall spring apace and flourish pleasantly So righteousness shall shew her face and look from heaven high verse 12 Yea God himself doth take in hand to give us each good thing And through the coasts of all the land the earth her fruit shall bring verse 13 Before his face shall justice go much like a guide or stay He shall direct his steps also and keep them in the way Inclina Domine Psal lxxxvi J. H. LOrd bow thine ear to my request and hear me by and by With grievous pain and grief opprest full poor and weak am I. verse 2 Preserve my soul because my ways and doings holy be And save thy servant O my Lord that puts his trust in thee verse 3 Thy mercy Lord on me express defend me eke withall For through the day I do not cease on thee to cry and call verse 4 Comfort O Lord thy servants soul that now with pain is pin'd For unto thee Lord I extol and lift my soul and minde verse 5 For thou art good and bountiful thy gifts of grace are free And eke thy mercy plentiful to all that call on thee verse 6 O Lord likewise when I do pray regard and give an ear Mark well the words that I do say and all my prayers hear verse 7 In time when trouble doth me move to thee I do complain For why I know and well do prove thou answerest me again verse 8 Among the gods O Lord is none with thee to be compar'd And none can do as thou a lone the like hath not been heard The second part verse 9 The Gentiles and the people all which thou didst make and frame Before thy face on knees shall fall and glorify my Name verse 10 For why thou art so much of might all power is thine own Thou workest wonders still in sight for thou art God a lone verse 11 O teach me Lord thy way and I shall in thy truth proceed O joyn my heart to thee so nigh that I thy Name may dread verse 12 To thee my God will I give praise with all my heart O Lord And glorify thy Name always for ever through the world verse 13 For why thy mercy shew'd to me is great and doth excell Thou se●t'st my soul at liberty out from the lower hell verse 14 O Lord the proud against me rise and heaps of men of might They seek my soul and in no wise will have thee in their sight verse 15 Thou Lord art merciful and meek full slack and slow to wrath Thy goodness is full great and eke thy truth no measure hath verse 16 O turn to me and mercy grant thy strength to me apply O help and save thine own servant thy hand-maids son am I. verse 17 On me some signe of favour show that all my soes may see And be asham'd because Lord thou dost help and comfort me Fundamenta Psal lxxxvii J. H. THat city shall full well endure her ground-work still doth stay Upon the holy hills full sure it can no
holiness proclaim 〈◊〉 thankful eke with heart and voice and mindful of the same Cantate Domino Psal xcviii J. H. 〈◊〉 Sing ye now unto the Lord a new and pleasant long 〈◊〉 he hath wrought throughout the world his wonders great and strong With his right hand full worthily he doth his foes devour ●●d get himself the victory with his own arm and power The Lord doth make the people know his saving health and might ●e Lord doth eke his justice show in all the heathens sight His grace and truth to Israel in minde he doth record ●at all the earth hath seen right well the goodness of the Lord. ●e glad in him with joyful voice all people of the earth ●ethanks to God sing and rejoyce to him with joy and mirth Upon the harp unto him sing give thanks to him with psalms Rejoyce before the Lord our King with trumpets and with shalms verse 7 Yea let the sea with all therein for joy both roar and swell The earth likewise let it begin with all that therein dwell verse 8 And let the flouds rejoyce their fills and clap their hands apace And eke the mountains and the hills before the Lord his face verse 9 For he shall come to judge and try the world and every wight And rule the people mightily with justice and with right Dominus regnavit Psal xcix J. H. THe Lord doth reign although at it the people rage full sore Yea he on cherubims doth sit though all the world do roar verse 2 The Lord that doth in Sion dwell is high and wondrous great Above all folk he doth excell and he aloft is set verse 3 Let all men praise thy mighty Name for it is fearful sure And let them magnifie the same that holy is and pure verse 4 The princely power of our King doth love judgement and right Thou rightly rulest everything in Jacob through thy might verse 5 To praise the Lord our God devise all honour to him do Before his footstool worship him for he is holy too verse 6 Moses Aaron and Samuel as priests on him did call When they did pray he heard them well and gave them answer all verse 7 Within the cloud to them he spake then did they labour still To keep such saws as he did make and pointed them untill verse 8 O Lord our God thou didst them hear and answeredst them again Thy mercy did on them appear their deeds didst not maintain verse 9 O laud and praise our God and Lord within his holy hill For why our God throughout the world is holy ever still Jubilate Deo Psal c. J. H. ALl people that on earth do dwell sing to the Lord with chearful voice verse 2 Him serve with fear his praise forth tell come ye before him and rejoyce verse 3 The Lord ye know is God indeed without our aid he did us make We are his flock he doth us feed and for his sheep he doth us take verse 4 O enter then his gates with praise approach with joy his courts unto Praise laud and bless his Name always for it is seemly so to do verse 5 For why the Lord our God is good his mercy is for ever sure His truth at all times firmly stood and shall from age to age endure Another of the same by J. H. IN God the Lord be glad and light praise him throughout the earth verse 2 Serve him and come before his sight with singing and with mirth verse 3 Know that the Lord our God he is he did us make and keep Not we our selves for we are his own flock and pasture-sheep verse 4 O go into his gates always give thanks within the same Within his courts set forth his praise and laud his holy Name verse 5 For why the goodness of the Lord for evermore doth reign From age to age throughout the world his truth doth still remain Misericordiam Psal ci N. I Mercy will and judgement sing O Lord God unto thee verse 2 And wisely do in perfect way until thou come to me And in the midst of my house walk in pureness of my sprite verse 3 And I no kinde of wicked thing will set before my sight I hate their works that fall away it shall not cleave to me verse 4 From me shall part the froward heart none evil will I see verse 5 Him will I stroy that slandereth his neighbour privily The lofty heart I cannot hear nor him that looketh high verse 6 Mine eyes shall be on them within the land that faithful be In perfect way who walketh shall be servant unto me verse 7 I will no guileful person have within my house to dwell And in my presence he shall not remain that lies doth tell verse 8 Betimes I will destroy even all the wicked of the land That I may from Gods city cut the wicked workers hand Domine exaudi Psal cii N. O Hear my prayer Lord and let my cry come unto thee verse 2 In time of trouble do not hide thy face away from me verse 3 Incline thine ear to me make haste to hear me when I call For as the smoke doth fade so do my days consume and fall verse 4 And as an hearth my bones are burnt my heart is smitten dead And withers like the grass that I forget to eat my bread verse 5 By reason of my groaning voice my bones cleave to my skin verse 6 As pelicane in wilderness such case now am I in And as an owl in desert is so I am such an one verse 7 I watch and as a sparrow on the house-top am alone verse 8 Lo daily in reproachful wise mine enemies do me scorn And they that do against me rage against me they have sworn verse 9 Surely with ashes as with bread my hunger I have fill'd And mingled have my drink with tears that from mine eyes have still'd verse 10 Because of thy displeasure Lord thy wrath and thy disdain For thou hast listed me aloft and cast me down again verse 11 The days wherein I pass my life are like the fleeting shade And I am with'red like the grass that soon away doth fade verse 12 But thou O Lord for ever dost remain in steady place And thy remembrance ever doth abide from race to race The second part verse 13 Thou wilt arise and mercy thou to Sion wilt extend The time of mercy now the time foreset is come to end verse 14 For even in the stones thereof thy servants do delight And on the dust thereof they have compassion in their sprite verse 15 Then shall the heathen people fear the Lords most holy Name And all the kings on earth shall dread thy glory and thy fame verse 16 Then when the Lord the mighty God again shall Sion rear And then when he most nobly in his glory shall appear verse 17 To prayer of the desolate when he himself shall bend When he shall not disdain unto their prayers to attend verse 18
down sin as it were with a sword Depart not from thy pastours pure but aid them at their need Which break to us the bread of life whereon our souls do feed O blessed Spirit of truth keep us in peace and unity Keep us from sects and errours all and from all papistry Convert all those that are our foes and bring them to thy light That they and we may well agree and praise thee day and night O Lord increase our saith in us and love so to abound That man and wife be void of strife and neighbours about us round In our time give thy peace O Lord to nations far and nigh And teach them all thy holy word that we may sing to thee All glory to the Trinity that is of mighties most The living Father and the Son and eke the holy Ghost As it hath been in all the time that hath been heretofore As it is now and so shall be henceforth for evermore Da pacem Domine GIve peace in these our days O Lord Great dangers are now at hand Thine enemies with one accord Christs Name in every land Seek to deface Root out and rase Thy true right worship indeed Be thou the stay Lord we thee pray Thou help'st alone in all need Give us that peace that we do lack Through misbelief and ill life Thy word to offer thou dost not slack Which we unkindly gain-strive With fire and sword This healthful word Some persecute and oppress Some with the mouth Confess the truth Without sincere godliness Give peace and us thy Spirit down send With grief and repentance true Do pierce our hearts our lives to amend And by faith in Christ renew That fear and dread War and bloudshed Through thy sweet mercy and grace May from us slide Thy truth may bide And shine in every place The Lamentation O Lord in thee is all my trust give ear unto my woful cry Refuse me not that am unjust but bowing down thy heavenly eye Behold how I do still lament my ●ins wherein I do offend O Lord for them shall I be shent sith thee to please I do intend No no not so thy will is bent to deal with sinners in thine ire But when in heart they shall repent thou grant'st with speed their just desire To thee therefore still shall I cry to wash away my sinful crime Thy bloud O Lord is not yet dry but that it may help me in time Haste thee O Lord haste thee I say to pour on me thy gifts of grace That when this life shall flit away in heaven with thee I may have place Where thou dost reign eternally with God which once did down thee send Where angels sing continually to thee be praise world without end A Thanksgiving after the receiving of the Lords Supper THe Lord be thanked for his gifts and mercies evermore That he doth shew unto his saints to him be laud therefore Our tongues cannot so praise the Lord as he doth right deserve Our hearts cannot of him so think as he doth us preserve His benefits they be so great to us that be but sin That at our hands for recompence there is no hope to win O sinful flesh that thou shouldst have such mercies of the Lord Thou dost deserve most worthily of him to be abhorr'd Nought else but sin and wretchedness doth rest within our ●earts And stubbornly against the Lord we daily play our parts The sun above in firmament that is to us a light Doth shew it self more clear and pure then we be in his sight The heavens above and all therein more holy are then we They serve the Lord in their estate each one in his degree They do not strive for mastership nor slack their office set But serve the Lord and do his will hate is to them no let Also the earth and all therein of God it is in aw It doth observe the formers will by skilful natures law The sea and all that is therein doth bend when God doth beck The spirits beneath do tremble all and fear his wrathful check But we alas ●o● whom all these were made them for to rule Do not so know or love the Lord as doth the ox or mule A law he gave for us to know what was his holy will He would us good but we would not avoid the thing is ill Not one of us that seeketh out the Lord of life to please Nor doth the thing that might us lead to Christ and quiet ease Thus are we all his enemies we can it not deny And he again of his good will would not that we should dy Therefore when remedy was none to bring us unto life The Son of God our flesh he took to end our mortal strife And all the law of God the Lord he did it full obey And for our sins upon the cross his bloud our debts did pay And that we should not yet forget what good he to us wrought A signe he left our eyes to tell that he our bodies bought In bread and wine here visible unto thine eyes and taste His mercies great thou mayst record if that his Spirit thou hast As once the corn did live and grow and was cut down with lithe And threshed out with many stripes out from his husk to drive And as the mill with violence did tear it out so small And made it like to earthly dust not sparing it at all And as the oven with fire hot did close it up with heat And all this done that I have said that it should be our meat So was the Lord in his ripe age cut down by cruel death His soul he gave in torments great and yeelded up his breath Because that he to us might be an everlasting bread With much reproach and troubles great on earth his life he led And as the grapes in pleasant time are pressed very sore And plucked down when they be ripe and let to grow no more Because the juyce that in them is as comfortable drink We might receive and joyful be when sorrows make us shrink So Christ his bloud out pressed was with nails and eke with spear The juyce thereof doth save all those that rightly do him fear And as the corns by unity into one loaf are knit So is the Lord and his whole Church though he in heaven sit As many grapes make but one wine so should we be but one In faith and love in Christ above and unto Christ alone Leading a life without all strife in quiet rest and peace From envy and from malice both our hearts and tongues to cease Which if we do then shall we shew that we his chosen be By faith in him to lead a life as always willed he And that we may so do indeed God send us all his grace Then after death we shall be sure with him to have a place R. W. PReserve us Lord by thy dear word From Turk and Pope defend us Lord Which both would thrust
out of his throne Our Lord Jesus Christ thy dear Son Lord Jesus Christ shew forth thy might That thou art Lord of lords by right Thy poor afflicted flock defend That we may praise thee without end God holy Ghost our Comforter Be our patron help and succour Give us one minde and perfect peace All gifts of grace in us increase Thou living God in persons three Thy name be prais'd in unitie In all our need so us defend That we may praise thee without end FINIS PRAYERS A form of prayer to be used in private houses every morning and evening Morning prayer ALmighty God and most merciful Father we do not present our selves here before thy Majesty trusting in our own merits or worthiness but in thy manifold mercies which hast promised to hear our prayers and grant our requests which we shall make to thee in the name of thy beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord who also hath commanded us to assemble ourselves together in his name with full assurance that he will not onely be amongst us but also be our Mediatour and Advocate towards thy Majesty that we may obtain all things which shall seem expedient to thy blessed will for our necessities Therefore we beseech thee most merciful Father to turn thy loving countenance towards us and impute not unto us our manifold sins and offences whereby we justly deserve thy wrath and sharp punishment but rather receive us to thy mercy for Jesus Christs sake accepting his death and passion as a just recompence for all our offences in whom thou art well pleased and through whom thou canst not be offended with us And seeing that of thy great mercies we have quietly passed this night grant O heavenly Father that we may bestow this day wholly in thy service so that all our thoughts words and deeds may redound to the glory of thy great name and good example to all men who seeing our good works may glorify thee our heavenly Father And forasmuch as of thy mere favour and love thou hast not onely created us to thine own similitude and likeness but also hast chosen us to be heirs with thy dear Son Jesus Christ of that immortal kingdom which thou preparedst for us from the beginning of the world we beseech thee to increase our faith and knowledge and to lighten our hearts with thy holy Spirit that we may in the mean time live in godly conversation and integrity of life knowing that idolaters adulterers covetous men contentious persons drunkards gluttons and such like shall not inherit the kingdom of God And because thou hast commanded us to pray one for another we do not onely make request O Lord for our selves and for them that thou hast already called to the true understanding of thy heavenly will but for all people and nations of the world who as they know by thy wonderful works that thou art God over all 〈◊〉 they may be instructed by thy holy Spirit to beleeve in thee their onely Saviour and Redeemer But forasmuch as they cannot beleeve except they hear nor cannot hear but by preaching and none can preach except they be sent therefore O Lord raise up faithful distributers of thy mysteries who setting apart all worldly respects may both in their life and doctrine onely seek thy glory Contrarily confound Satan and Antichrist with all hirelings whom thou hast already cast off into a reprobate sense that they may not by sects schisms heresies and errours disquiet thy little flock And because O Lord we be fallen into the latter days and dangerous times wherein ignorance hath gotten the upper hand and Satan by his ministers seeketh by all means to quench the light of thy gospel we beseech thee to maintain thy cause against those ravening wolves and strengthen all thy servants whom they keep in prison and bondage Let not thy long-suffering be an occasion either to increase their tyranny or to discourage thy children neither yet let our sins and wickedness be an hinderance to thy mercies but with speed O Lord consider these great miseries For thy people Israel many times by their sins provoked thine anger and thou punishedst them by thy just judgement yet though their sins were never so grievous if they once returned from their iniquity thou receivedst them to mercy We therefore most wretched sinners bewail our manifold sins and earnestly repent us of our former wickedness and ungodly behaviour towards thee and whereas we cannot of our selves purchase thy pardon yet we humbly beseech thee for Jesus Christs sake to shew thy mercies upon us receive us again to thy favour Grant us dear Father these our requests and all other things necessary for us and thy whole Church according to thy promise in Jesus Christ our Lord In whose name we beseech thee as he hath taught us saying Our Father which art c. Evening prayer O Lord God Father everlasting and full of pity we acknowledge and confess that we be not worthy to lift up our eyes to heaven much less to present our selves before thy Majesty with confidence that thou wilt hear our prayers and grant our requests if we consider our own deservings for our consciences do accuse us and our sins do witness against us and we know that thou art an upright Judge which dost not justify the sinners and wicked men but punishest the faults of all such as transgress thy commandments yet most merciful Father since it hath pleased thee to command us to call on thee in all our troubles and adversities promising even then to help us when we feel our selves as it were swallowed up of death and desperation we utterly renounce all worldly confidence and the to thy sovereign bounty as our onely stay and refuge beseeching thee not to call to remembrance our manifold sins and wickedness whereby we continually provoke thy wrath and indignation against us neither our negligence and unkindness which have neither worthily esteemed nor in our lives sufficiently expressed the sweet comfort of thy gospel revealed unto us but rather to accept the obedience and death of thy Son Jesus Christ who by offering up his body in sacrifice once for all hath made a sufficient recompence for all our sins Have mercy therefore upon us O Lord and forgive us our offences Teach us by thy holy Spirit that we may rightly weigh them and earnestly repent us for the same And so much the rather O Lord because that the reprobate and such as thou hast forsaken cannot praise thee nor call upon thy name but the repenting heart the sorrowful minde the conscience oppressed hungring and thirsting for thy grace shall ever set forth thy praise and glory And albeit we be but worms and dust yet thou art our Creatour and we be the work of thy hands yea thou art our Father and we thy children thou art our Shepherd and we thy flock thou art our Redeemer and we thy people whom thou hast bought thou art our God and
before I ask The thing that I would have Mercy good Lord mercy I ask This is the total sum For mercy Lord is all my suit Lord let thy mercy come The Lords Prayer or Pater noster OUr father which in heaven art Lord. Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth even as the same In heaven is Give us O Lord our daily bread this day As we forgive our debters so forgive our debts we pray Into temptation lead us not from evil make us free For kingdom power and glory thine both now and ever be The X Commandments Audi Israel Exod. 20. HEark Israel and what I say give heed to understand I am the Lord thy God that brought thee out of Egypt land Even from the house wherein thou didst in thraldom live a slave None other gods at all before my presence shalt thou have No manner graven image shalt thou make at all to thee Nor any figure like by thee shall counterfeited be Of any thing in heaven above nor in the earth below Nor in the waters beneath the earth to them thou shalt no bow Nor shalt them serve the Lord thy God a jealous God am I That punish parents faults unto the third and fourth degree Upon their children that me hate and mercy do display To thousands of such as me love and my precepts obey The Name thou of the Lord thy God in vain shalt never use For him that takes his Name in vain the Lord will not excuse Remember that thou holy keep the sacred sabbath day Six days thou labour shalt and do Thy needful works alway The seventh day is set by the Lord thy God to rest upon No work then shalt thou do in it ne thou nor yet thy son Thy daughter servant nor thy maid thine ox nor yet thine ass Nor stranger that within thy gates hath his abiding-place For in six dayes God heaven and earth and all therein did make And after those his rest he did upon the seventh day take Wherefore he blest the day that he for resting did ordain And sacred to himself alone appointed to remain Yeeld honour to thy Parents that prolong'd thy days may be Upon the land the which the Lord thy God hath given thee Thou shalt not murder Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not steal Nor witness false against thy neighbour be Thou shalt not covet house that to thy neighbour doth belong Ne covet shalt in having of his wife to do him wrong Nor his man-servant nor his maid nor ox nor ass of his Nor any other thing that to thy neighbour proper is The complaint of a Sinner WHere righteousness doth say Lord for my sinful part In wrath thou shouldst me pay Vengeance for my desert I can it not deny But needs I must confess How that continually Thy laws I do transgress But if it be thy will With sinners to contend Then all thy flock shall spill And be lost without end For who lives here so right That rightly he can say He sins not in thy sight Full oft and every day Full oft c. The Scripture plain tells me The righteous man offendeth Seven times a day to thee Whereon thy wrath dependeth So that the righteous man Doth walk in no such path But he falls now and then In danger of thy wrath In danger c. Then sith the case so stands That even the man right wife Falls oft in sinful hands Whereby thy wrath mayrise Lord I that am unjust And righteousness none have Whereto then shall I trust My sinful soul to save My sinful c. But truly to that post Whereto I cleave and shall Which is thy mercy most Lord let thy mercy fall And mitigate thy mood Or else we perish all The price of this thy bloud Wherein mercy I call Wherein c. The Scripture doth declare No drop of bloud in thee But that thou didst not spare To shed each drop for me Now let those drops most sweet So moist my heart so dry That I with sin replete May live and sin may die May live c. That being mortified This sin of mine in me I may be sanctified By grace of thine in thee So that I never fall Into such mortal sin That my so●s infernal Rejoyce my death therein Rejoyce my c. But vouchsafe me to keep From those infernal foes And from that lake so deep Whereas no mercy grows And I shall sing the songs Consirm●d with the just That unto thee belongs Which art my onely trust Which art c. The PSALMS of DAVID in metre Beatus vir Psal i. T. S. THe man is blest that hath not bent to wicked reade his ear Nor led his life as sinners do nor sat in scorners chair verse 2 But in the law of God the Lord doth set his whole delight And in that law doth exercise himself both day and night verse 3 He shall be like the tree that grows fast by the rivers side Which bringeth forth most pleasant fruit in her due time and tide Whose leaf shall never fade nor fall but flourish still and stand Even so all things shall prosper well that this man takes in hand verse 4 So shall not the ungodly men they shall be nothing so But as the dust which from the earth the wind drives to and fro verse 5 Therefore shall not the wicked men in judgement stand upright Nor yet the sinners with the just shall come in place or sight verse 6 For why the way of godly men unto the Lord is known And eke the way of wicked men shall quite be overthrown Quare fremuerunt Psal ii T. S. WHy did the Gentiles tumults raise what rage was in their brain Why did the Jewisn people muse feeing all is but vain verse 2 The kings and rulers of the earth conspire and are all bent Against the Lord and Christ his Son which he among us sent verse 3 Shall we be bound to them say they let all their bonds be broke And of their doctrine and their law let us reject the yoke verse 4 But he that in the heaven dwells their doings will deride And make them all as mocking-stocks throughout the world so wide verse 5 For in his wrath the Lord will say to them upon a day And in his fury trouble them and then the Lord will say verse 6 I have anointed him my King upon my holy hill I will therefore Lord preach thy law and eke declare thy will verse 7 For in this wise the Lord himself did say to me I wot Thou art my dear and onely Son to day I thee begot verse 8 All people I will give to thee as heirs at thy request The ends and coasts of all the earth by thee shall be possest verse 9 Thou shalt them bruise even with a mace as men under foot trod And as the potters sherds shalt break them with an iron rod. verse 10 Now ye O kings and
full great increase to bring The little hills shall joy therein much fruit in them shall spring verse 14 In places plain the flocks shall feed and cover all the earth The vails with corn shall so exceed that men shall sing for mirth Jubilate Deo Psal lxvi T. S. YE men on earth in God rejoyce with praise set forth his Name Extol his might with heart and voice give glory to the same verse 2 How wonderful O Lord say ye in all thy works thou art Thy foes for sear shall seek to thee full sore against their heart verse 3 All men that dwell the earth throughout shall praise the Name of God The laud thereof the world about is shew'd and set abroad verse 4 All folk come forth behold and see what things the Lord hath wrought Mark well the wondrous works that he for man to pass hath brought verse 5 He laid the sea like heaps on high therein a way they had On scot to pass both fair and dry whereof their hearts were glad verse 6 His might doth rule the world alway his eyes all things behold All such as would him disobey by him shall be controll'd verse 7 Ye people give unto our God due laud and thanks always With joyful voice declare abroad and sing unto his praise verse 8 Which doth endue our soul with life and it preserve withall He stays our feet so that no strife can make us slip or fall verse 9 The Lord doth prove our deeds with fire if that they will abide As workmen do when they desire to have their metals tri'd verse 10 Although thou suffer us so long in prison to be cast And there with chains and fetters strong to lie in bondage fast The second part verse 11 Although I say thou suffer men on us to ride and reign Though we through fire and water run of very grief and pain verse 12 Yet sure thou dost of thy good grace dispose it to the best And bring us out into a place to live in wealth and rest verse 13 Unto thy house resort will I to offer and to pray And there I will my self apply my vows to thee to pay verse 14 The vows that with my mouth I pake in all my grief and smart The vows I say which I did make in dolour of my heart verse 15 Burnt-offrings I will give to thee of oxen sat and rams Yea this my sacrifice shall be of bullocks goats and lambs verse 16 Come forth and hearken here full soon all ye that fear the Lord What he for my poor soul hath done to you I will record verse 17 Full oft I call to minde his grace this mouth to him doth cry And thou my tongue make speed apace to praise him by and by verse 18 But if I feel my heart within in wicked works rejoyce Or if I have delight to sin God will not hear my voice verse 19 But surely God my voice hath heard and what I do require My prayer he doth well regard and granteth my desire verse 20 All praise to him that hath not put nor cast me out of minde Nor yet his mercy from me shut which I do ever finde Deus miscreatur Psal lxvii J. H. HAve mercy on us Lord and grant to us thy grace To shew to us do thou accord the brightness of thy face verse 2 That all the earth may know the way to godly wealth And all the nations on a row may see thy saving health verse 3 Let all the world O God give praise unto thy Name O let the people all abroad extoll and laud the same verse 4 Throughout the world so wide let all rejoyce with mirth For thou with truth and right dost guide the nations of the earth verse 5 Let all the world O God give praise unto thy Name O let the people all abroad extoll and laud the same verse 6 Then shall the earth increase great store of fruit shall fall And then our God the God of p●ace shall bless us eke withal verse 7 God shall us bless I say and then both far and near The folk throughout the earth alway of him shall stand in fear Exurgat Deus Psal lxviii T. S. LEt God arise and then his foes will turn themselves to flight His enemies then will run abroad and scatter out of sight verse 2 And as the fire doth melt the wa● and wind blows smoke away So in the presence of the Lord the wicked shall decay verse 3 But righteous men before the Lord shall heartily rejoyce They shall be glad and merry all and cheerful in their voice verse 4 Sing praise sing praise unto the Lord who rideth on the sky Extol the Name of Jah our God and him do magnify verse 5 The same is he that is above within his holy place That Father is of fatherless and Judge of widows case verse 6 Houses he gives and issue both unto the comfortless He bringeth bondmen out of thrall and rebels to distress verse 7 When thou didst march before thy folk th' Egyptians from among And brought'st them through the wilderness which was both wide and long verse 8 The earth did quake the rain pour'd down heard were great claps of thunder The mount Sinai shook in such sort as it would break in sunder verse 9 Thine heritage with drop of rain abundantly was washt And if so be it barren waxt by thee it was refresht verse 10 Thy chosen flock doth there remain Thou hast prepar'd that place And for the poor thou dost provide of thine especial grace The second part verse 11 God will give women causes just to magnify his Name When as his people triumphs make and purchase bruit and same verse 12 For puissant kings for all their power shall flee and take the soil And women which remain at home shall help to part the spoil verse 13 And though ye were as black as pots your hue shall pass the dove Whose wings and feathers seem to have silver and gold above verse 14 When in this land God shall triumph o're kings both high and low Then shall it be like Salmon hill as white as any snow verse 15 Though Basan be a fruitful hill and in height others pass Yet Sion Gods most holy hill doth far excel in grace verse 16 Why brag ye thus ye hills most high and leap for pride together The hill of Sion God doth love and there will dwell for ever verse 17 Gods army is two millions of warriours good and strong The Lord also in Sinai is present them among verse 18 Thou didst O Lord ascend on high and captives led'st them all Which in times past thy chosen flock in bondage kept and thrall Thou mad'st them tribute for to pay and such as did repine Thou didst subdue that they might dwell in thy temple divine verse 19 Now praised be the Lord for that he pours on us such grace From day to day he is the God of our health and solace
Whereas the wicked and perverse with grief shall stop their voice verse 43 But who is wise that now full well he may these things record For certainly such shall perceive the kindness of the Lord. Paratum cor Psal cviii J. H. O God my heart prepared is and eke my tongue is so I will advance my voice in long and giving praise also verse 2 Awake my viol and my harp sweet melody to make And in the morning I my self right early will awake verse 3 By me among the people Lord still praised shalt thou be And I among the heathen folk will sing O Lord to thee verse 4 Because thy mercy Lord is great above the heavens high And eke thy truth doth reach the clouds within the Josty skie verse 5 Above the starry heavens high exalt thy felt O God And Lord display upon the earth thy glory all abroad verse 6 That thy dearly beloved may he set at libertie Help O my God with thy right hand and hearken unto me verse 7 God in his holiness hath spoke wherefore my joys abound Sichem I will divide and mere the vale of Succoth-ground verse 8 And Gilead shall be mine own Manasses mine shall be My head-strength Ephraim and law shall Judah give for me verse 9 Moab my washpot and my shoe on Edom will I throw Upon the land of Palestine in triumph will I go verse 10 Who shall into the city strong be guide to conduct me Or how by whom to Edom land conveyed shall I be verse 11 Is it not thou O Lord which late hadst us forsaken quite And thou O Lord which with our hosts didst not go forth to fight verse 12 Give us O Lord thy saving aid when troubles do assail For all the help of man is vain and can no whit avail verse 13 Through God we shall do valiant acts and worthy of renown He shall suodue our enemies yea he shall tread them down Deus laudem tuam Psal cix N. IN speechless silence do nor hold O God thy tongue always O God even thou I say that art the God of all my praise verse 1 The wicked and the guileful mouth on me disclosed be And they with false and lying tongues have spoken unto me 〈◊〉 They did beset me round about with words of hateful spight Without all cause of my desert against me they did light 〈◊〉 For my good will they were my foes but then 'gan I to pray My good with ill my friendliness with hate they did repay 〈◊〉 Set thou the wicked over him to have the upper hand It his right hand eke suffer thou his hateful foe to stand When he is judged let him then condemned be therein And let the prayer that he makes be turned into sin 〈◊〉 Few be his days his charge also let thou another take His children let be fatherless his wife a widow make verse 10 Let his off-spring be vagabonds to beg and seek their bread Wandring out of the wasted place where erst they have been fed verse 11 Let covetous extortioners catch all his goods and store And let the stranger spoil the fruit of all his toil before verse 12 Let there be none to pity him let there be none at all That on his children fatherless will let their mercy fall The second part verse 13 And so let his posterity for ever be destroy'd Their name out blotted in the age that after shall succeed verse 14 Let not his fathers wickedness from Gods remembrance fall And let not thou his mothers sin be done away at all verse 15 But in the presence of the Lord let them remain for ay That from the earth their memory he may cut clean away verse 16 Sith mercy he forgot to shew but did pursue with spight The troubled man and sought to slay the woful-hearted wight verse 17 Ash-did cursing love it shall betide unto him so And as he did not blessing love it shall be far him fro verse 18 As he with cursing clad himself so it like water shall Into his bowels and like oyl into his bones befal verse 19 As garment let it be to him to cover him foray And as a girdle wherewith he shall girded be alway verse 20 Lo let the same be from the Lord the guerdon of my foe Yea and of those that evil speak against my soul also verse 21 But thou O Lord that art my God deal thou I say with me After thy Name deliver me for good thy mercies he verse 22 Because in depth of great distress I needy am and poor And eke within my pained breast my heart is wounded sore The third part verse 23 Even so do I depart away as doth declining shade And as the grashop●er so I am shaken off and sade verse 24 With falling long from needful food enfeebled are my knees And all her fatness hath my flesh enforced been to leese verse 25 And I also a vile reproach to th●u am made to be And they that did upon me look did shake their heads at me verse 26 But thou O Lord th●t art my God none aid and succour be According to thy mercy Lord save and deliver me verse 27 And they shall know thereby that this Lord is thy mighty hand And that thou thou hast done it Lord so shall they understand verse 28 Although they curse with spite yet thou shalt bless with loving voice They shall aris and come to shame thy servant shall rejoyce verse 29 Let them be clothed all with shame that enemies are to me And with confusion as a cloke eke covered let them be verse 30 But greatly I will with my mouth give thanks unto the Lord And I among the multitude his praises will record verse 31 For he with help at his right hand will stand the poor man by To save him from the man that would condemn his soul to die Dixit Dominus Psal cx N. THe Lord did say unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand Till I have made thy foes a stool whereon thy feet shall stand verse 2 The Lord shall out of Sion send the sceptre of thy might Amid thy mortal foes be thou the Ruler in their sight verse 3 And in the day on which thy reign and power they shall see Then hereby free-will-offerings shall the peep●● offer thee Yea with an holy worshipping then shall they offer all Thy births dew is the dew that doth from womb of morning fall verse 4 The Lord hath sworn and never will repent what he doth say By th' order of Melchisedech thou art a Priest for ay verse 5 The Lord thy God on thy right hand that standeth for thy stay Shall wound for thee the stately kings upon his wrathful day verse 6 The heathen he shall judge and fill the place with bodies dead And over divers countreys shall in sunder smite the head verse 7 And he shall drink out of the brook t●at r●nn●th in the way Wherefore he shall lift up on high
may after thy judgements live verse 109 My soul is ay so in my hand that dangers me assail Yet do I not thy law forget nor it to keep will fail verse 110 Although the wicked laid their nets to catch me at a bay Yet did I not from thy precepts once swerve or go astray verse 111 Thy law I have so claim'd alway as mine own heritage And why for therein I delight and set my whole courage verse 112 For ever more I have been bent thy statutes to fulfil Even so likewise unto the end I will continue still SAMECH The fifteenth part verse 113 The crafty thoughts and double hearts I do always detest But as for thy law and precepts I love them ever best verse 114 Thou art my did and secret place my shield of strong defence Therefore have I thy promises look● for with patience verse 115 Go to therefore ye wicked men depart from me anon For the commandments will I keep of God my Lord alone verse 116 As thou hast promis'd so perform that death me not assail Nor let my hope abuse me so that through distrust I quail verse 117 Uphold me and I shall be safe for ought they do or say And in thy statutes pleasure take will I both night and day verse 118 Thou hast trod such under thy feet as do thy statutes break For nought avails their subtilty their counsel is but weak verse 119 Like dross thou casts the wicked out where-ere they go or dwell Therefore can I as thy statutes love nothing half so well verse 120 My flesh alas is taken with fear as though it were benumm'd For when I see thy judgements straight I am as one aston'd AIN The sixteenth part verse 121 I do the thing that lawful is and give to all men right Resigne me not to them that would oppress me with their might verse 122 But for thy servant surety be in that thing that is good That proud men give me not the foil which rage as they were wood verse 123 Mine eyes with waiting are now blinde thy health so much I crave And eke thy righteous promise Lord whereby thou wilt me save verse 124 Entreat thy servant lovingly and favour to him show Thy statutes of most excellency teach me also to know verse 125 Thy humble servant Lord I am grant me to understand How by thy statutes I may know best what to take in hand verse 126 It is now time Lord to begin for truth is quite decai'd Thy law likewise they have transgrest and none aga●nst them said verse 127 This is the cause wherefore I love thy laws better then gold Or jewels fine which are esteem'd most costly to be sold verse 128 I thought thy precepts all most just and so them laid in store All crafty and malicious ways I do abhor therefore PE. The seventeenth part verse 129 Thy covenants are most wonderful and full ofthings profound My soul therefore doth keep them sure when they are tri'd and sound verse 130 When men first enter into thy word they finde a light most clear And very idiots understand when they it read or hear verse 131 For joy I have both gap'd and breath'd to know thy commandment That I might guide my self thereby I sought what thing it meant verse 132 With mercy and compassion Lord behold me from above As thou art wont to behold such as thy Name fear and love verse 133 Direct my footsteps by thy word that I thy will may know And never let iniquity thy servant overthrow verse 134 From slandrous tongues and deadly harms preserve and keep me sure Thy precepts then will I observe and put them eke inure verse 135 Thy countenance which doth surmount the sun in his bright hue Let shine on me and by thy law teach me what to eschew verse 136 Out of mine eyes great flouds gush out of dreary tears and fell When I behold how wicked men thy laws keep never a dell ZADE. The eighteenth part verse 137 In every point Lord thou art just the wicked though they grudge And when thou dost sentence pronounce thou art a righteous Judge verse 138 To render right and flee from guile are two chief points most high And such as thou hast in thy law commanded us straitly verse 139 With zeal and wrath I am consum'd and even pin'd away Too see my foes thy word forget for ought that I do may verse 140 So pure and perfect is thy word as any heart can deem And I thy servant nothing more do love or yet esteem verse 141 And though I be nothing set by as one of base degree Yet do I not thy laws forget nor shrink away from thee verse 142 Thy righteousness Lord is most just for ever to endure Also thy law is truth it self most constant and most pure verse 143 Trouble and grief have seis'd on me and brought me wondrous low Yet do I still of thy precepts delight to hear and know verse 144 The righteousness of thy judgements doth last for evermore Then teach them me for even in them my life lies up in store KOPH The nineteenth part verse 145 With fervent heart I call'd and cri'd nowan swer me O Lord That thy commandments to observe I may fully accord verse 146 To thee my God I make my suit with most humble request Save me therefore and I will keep thy precepts and thy hests verse 147 To thee I cry even in the morn before the day wax light Because that I have in thy word my confidence whole plight verse 148 Mine eyes prevent the watch by night and ere they call I wake That by devising on thy word I might some comfort take verse 149 Incline thine ears to hear my voice and pity on me take As thou wa●t wont so judge me Lord lest life should me forsake verse 150 My foes draw near and do procure my death maliciously Which from thy law are far gone back and stray'd from it lewdly verse 151 Therefore O Lord approach thou near for need doth so require For all thy precepts true they are then help I thee desire verse 152 But thy commandments have I learn'd not now but long ago That they remain for evermore thou hast them grounded so RESH The twentieth part verse 153 My trouble and affliction consider and behold Deliver me for of thy law I ever take fast hold verse 154 Defend my good and righteous cause with speed some succour send From death as thou hast promised Lord keep me and defend verse 155 As for the wicked far they are from having health and grace Whereby they might thy statutes know they enter not the trace verse 156 Great are thy mercies Lord I grant what tongue can them attain And as thou hast me judg'd ere now so let me life obtain verse 157 Though many men did trouble me and persecute me sore Yet from thy laws I never shrunk nor went wry therefore verse 158 And truth it is for
must verse 8 For he it is that must save Israel from his sin And all such as surely have their confidence in him Domine non est Psal cxxxi M. O Lord I am not puft in minde I have no scornful eye I do not exercise myself in things that be too high verse 2 But as the childe that weaned is even from his mothers brest So have I Lord behav'd my self in silence and in rest verse 3 O Israel trust in the Lord let him be all thy stay From this time forth for evermore from age to age I say Memento Dom. Psal cxxxii M. REmember Davids troubles Lord how to the Lord he swore verse 2 And vow'd a vow to Jacobs God to keep for evermore verse 3 I will not come within my house nor climb up to my bed verse 4 Nor let my temples take their rest nor the eyes in my head verse 5 Till I have found out for the Lord a place to sit thereon An house for Jacobs God to be an habitation verse 6 We heard of it at Ephrata there did we hear this sound And in the fields and forests there these voices first were found verse 7 We will assay and go in now his tabernacle there Before his footstool to fall down and worship him in fear verse 8 Arise O Lord arise I say into thy resting-place Both thou and the ark of thy strength the presence of thy grace verse 9 Let all thy priests be clothed Lord with truth and righ●eousness Let all thy saints and holy men sing all with joyfulness verse 10 And for thy servant Davids sake refuse not Lord I say The face of thine anointed Lord nor turn thy face away The second part verse 11 The Lord to David swore in truth and will not shrink from it Saying The fruit of thy body upon thy seat shall sit verse 12 And if thy sons my covenant keep that I shall learn each one Then shall their sons for ever sit upon thy princely throne verse 13 The Lord himself hath chose Sion and loves therein to dwell verse 14 Saying This is my resting-place I love and like it well verse 15 And I will bless with great increase her victuals every where And I will satisfie with bread the needy that be there verse 16 Yea I will deck and clothe her priests with my salvation And all her saints shall sing for joy of my protection verse 17 There will I surely make the horn of David for to bud For there I have ordain'd for mine a lantern bright and good verse 18 As for his enemies I will clothe with shame for evermore But I will cause his crown to shine more fresh then heretofore Ecce quam Psal cxxxiii W. W. O How happy a thing it is and joyful for to see Brethren together fast to hold the band of amity verse 2 It calls to minde that sweet perfume and that costly ointment Which on the sacrificers head by Gods precept was spent It wet not Aarons head alone but drencht his beard throughout And finally it did run down his rich attire about verse 3 And as the lower ground doth drink the dew of Hermon hill And Sion with his silver drops the fields with fruit doth fill Even so the Lord doth pour on them his blessings manifold Whose hearts and minds without all guile this knot do keep and hold Ecce nunc Psal cxxxiv. W. W. BEhold and have regard ye servants of the Lord Which in his house by night do watch praise him with one accord verse 2 Lift up your hands on high unto his holy place And give the Lord his praises due his benefits embrace verse 3 For why the Lord who did both earth and heaven frame Doth Sion bless and will conserve for evermore the same Laudate nomen Psal cxxxv N. O Praise the Lord praise him praise him praise him with one accord O praise him still all ye that be the servants of the Lord verse 2 O praise him ye that stand and be in the house of the Lord Ye of his court and of his house praise him with one accord verse 3 Praise ye the Lord for he is good sing praises to his Name It is a comely and good thing always to do the same verse 4 For why the Lord hath chose Jacob his very own ye see So hath he chosen Israel his treasure for to he verse 5 For this I know and am right sure the Lord is very great He is indeed above all gods most easie to intreat verse 6 For whatsoever pleased him all that full well he wrought In heaven in earth and in the sea which he hath made of nought verse 7 He lifts up clouds even from the earth he makes lightnings and rain He bringeth forth the winds also he made nothing in vain verse 8 He smote the first-born of each thing in Egypt that took rest He spared there no living thing the man nor yet the beast verse 9 He hath in thee shew'd wonders great O Egypt void of vaunts On Pharaoh thy cursed king and his severe servants verse 10 He smote then many nations and did great acts and things He slew the great and mightiest and chiefest of their kings verse 11 Sehon king of the Amorites and Og king of Basan He slew also the kingdoms all that were of Canaan verse 12 And gave their land to Israel an heritage we see To Israel his own people an heritage to be The second part verse 13 Thy Name O Lord shall still endure and thy memorial Throughout all generations that are or ever shall verse 14 The Lord will surely now avenge his people all indeed And to his servants he will shew favour in time of need verse 15 The idols of the heathen are made in all the coasts and lands Of silver and of gold they be the work even of mens hands verse 16 They have their mouthes and cannot speak and eyes that have no sight verse 17 They have eke ears and hear nothing their mouthes be breathless quite verse 18 Wherefore all they are like to them that so do set them forth And likewise those that trust in them or think they be ought worth verse 19 O all ye house of Israel see that ye praise the Lord And ye that be of Aarons house praise him with one accord verse 20 And ye that be of Levi's house praise ye likewise the Lord And ye that stand in aw of him praise him with one accord verse 21 And out of Sion sound his praise the great praise of the Lord Which dwelleth in Jerusalem praise him with one accord Confitemini Dom. Psal cxxxvi N. PRraise ye the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever verse 2 Give praise unto the God of gods for his mercy endureth for ever verse 3 Give praise unto the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for ever verse 4 Which onely doth great wondrous works for his mercy endureth for ever verse 5 Which by
we thine inheritance Correct us not therefore in thine anger O Lord neither according to our deserts punish us but mercifully chastise us with a fatherly affection that all the world may know that at what time so ever a sinner doth repent him of his sins from the bottom of his heart thou wilt put away all his wickedness out of thy remembrance as thou hast promised by thy holy prophet Finally forasmuch as it hath pleased thee to make the night for man to rest in as thou hast ordained him the day to travail in grant O dear Father that we may so take our bodily rest that our souls may continually watch for the time that our Lord Jesus Christ shall appear for our deliverance out of this mortal life and in the mean season that we not overcome by any fantasies dreams or other temptations may fully set our minds upon thee love thee fear thee and rest in thee furthermore that our sleep be not excessive or overmuch after the insatiable desires of the flesh but onely sufficient to content our weak nature that we may be the better disposed to live in all godly conversation to the glory of thy most holy name and the profit of our brethren So be it A godly prayer to be said at all times HOnour and praise be given to thee O Lord God almighty most dear Father of heaven for all thy mercies and loving kindness shewed unto us in that it hath pleased thy gracious goodness freely and of thine own accord to elect and choose us to salvation before the beginning of the world and even like continual thanks be given to thee for creating us after thine own image for redeeming us with the precious bloud of thy dear Son when we were utterly lost for sanctifying us with thy holy Spirit in the revelation and knowledge of thy holy word for helping and succouring us in all our needs and necessities for saving us from all dangers of body and soul for comforting us so fatherly in all our tribulations and persecutions for sparing us so long and giving us so large a time of repentance These benefits O most merciful Father like as we acknowledge to have received them of thy onely goodness even so we beseech thee for thy dear Son Jesus Christs sake grant us always thy holy Spirit that we may continually grow in thankfulness towards thee to be led in all truth and comforted in all our adversities O Lord strengthen our faith kindle it more in ferventness and love towards thee and our neighbours for thy sake Suffer us not most dear Father to receive thy word any more in vain but grant us always the assistance of thy grace and holy Spirit that in heart word and deed we may sanctify and do worship to thy name help to amplify and increase thy kingdom and whatsoever thou sendest we may be heartily well content with thy good pleasure and will Let us not lack the thing O Father without the which we cannot serve thee but bless thou so all the works of our hands that we may have sufficient and not be chargeable but rather helpful to others Be merciful O Lord to our offences and seeing our debt is great which thou hast forgiven us in Jesus Christ make us to love thee and our neighbours so much the more Be thou our Father our captain and defender in all temptations hold thou us by thy merciful hand that we may be delivered from all inconveniences and end our lives in the sanctifying and honouring of thy holy name through Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour So be it Let thy mighty hand and out-stretched arm O Lord be still our defence thy mercy and loving kindness in Jesus Christ thy dear Son our salvation thy true and holy word our instruction thy grace and holy Spirit our comfort and consolation unto the end and in the end So be it O Lord increase our faith A confession for all estates and times O Eternal God and most merciful Father we confess and acknowledge here before thy divine Majesty that we are miserable sinners conceived and born in sin and iniquity so that in us there is no goodness For the flesh evermore rebelleth against the spirit whereby we continually transgress thy holy precepts and commandments and so purchase to our selves through thy just judgement death and damnation Notwithstanding O heavenly Father forasmuch as we are displeased with our selves for the sins the we have committed against thee and do unfeignedly repent us of the same we most humbly beseech thee for Jesus Christs sake to shew thy mercy upon us to forgive us all our sins and increase thy holy Spirit in us that we acknowledging from the bottom of our hearts our own unrighteousness may from henceforth not onely mortifie our sinful lusts and affections but also bring forth such fruits as may be agreeable to thy most blessed will not for the worthiness thereof but for the merits of thy dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our onely Saviour whom thou hast already given an oblation and offering for our sins and for whose sake we are certainly perswaded that thou wilt deny us nothing that we shall ask in his name according to thy will for thy Spirit doth assure our consciences that thou art our merciful Father and so lovest us thy children through him that nothing is able to remove thy heavenly grace and favour from us To thee therefore O Father with thy Son and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen A prayer to be said before a man begin his work O Lord God most merciful Father and Saviour seeing it hath pleased thee to command us to travail that we may relieve our need we beseech thee of thy grace so to bless our labours that thy blessing may extend unto us without the which we are not able to continue and that this great favour may be a witness unto us of thy bountifulness and assistance so that thereby we may know the fatherly care that thou hast over us Moreover O Lord we beseech thee that thou wouldst strengthen us with thy holy Spirit that we may faithfully travail in our estate and vocation without fraud or deceit and that we may endeavour our selves to follow thy holy ordinance rather then to seek to satisfie our greedy affections or desire to gain And if it please thee O Lord to prosper our labour give us a minde also to help them that have need according to that ability that thou of thy mercy shalt give us And knowing that all good things come of thee grant that we may humble our selves to our neighbours and not by any means lift up our selves above them which have not received so liberal a portion as thou of thy mercy hast given unto us And if it please thee to try and exercise us by greater poverty and need then our flesh would desire that thou wouldst yet O Lord grant us grace to know that
fares with us Broke are their nets and we have scaped thus verse 8 God that made heaven and earth is our help then His Name hath sav'd us from these wicked men Qui confidunt Psal cxxv W. K. SUch as in God the Lord do trust As mount Sion shall firmly stand And be removed at no hand The Lord will count them right and just So that they shall be sure For ever to endure verse 2 As mighty mountains huge and great Jerusalem about do close So will the Lord do unto those Who on his godly will do wait Such are to him so dear They never need to fear verse 3 For though the righteous try doth he By making wicked men his rod Lest they through grief forsake their God It shall not as their lot still be verse 4 Give Lord to us thy light Whose hearts are true and right verse 5 But as for such as turn aside By crooked ways which they out sought The Lord will surely bring to nought With workers vile they shall abide But peace with Israel For evermore shall dwell Another of the same by R. W. THose that do put their confidence Upon the Lord our God onely And flee to him for their defence In all their need and misery Their faith is sure still to endure Grounded on Christ the corner-stone Mov'd with none ill but standeth full Stedfast like to the mount Sion And as about Jerusalem The mighty hills do it compass So that no enemies come to them To hurt that town in any case So God indeed in every need His faithful people doth defend Standing them by assuredly From this time forth world without end Right wise and good is our Lord God And will not suffer certainly The sinners and ungodlies rod To tarry upon his family Lest they also from God should go Falling to sin and wickedness O Lord defend world without end Thy Christian flock through thy goodness O Lord do good to Christians all That stedfast in thy word abide Such as willingly from God fall And to false doctrine daily slide Such will the Lord scatter abroad With hypocrites thrown down to hell God will them send pains without end But Lord grant peace to Israel Glory to God the Father of might And to the Son our Saviour And to the holy Ghost whose light Shine in our hearts and us succour That the right way from day to day We may walk and him glorifie With heates desire all that are here Worship the Lord and say Amen In convertendo Psal cxxvi W. W. WHen that the Lord again his Sion had forth brought From bondage great and also servitude extreme His work was such as did surmount mans heart thought So that we were much like to them that use to dream verse 2 Our mouths were with laughter filled then And eke our tongues did shew us joyful men The heathen folk were forced then this to confess How that the Lord for them also great things had done verse 3 But much more we and therefore can confess no less Wherefore to joy we have good cause as we begun verse 4 O Lord go forth thou canst our bondage end As to deserts the flowing rivers send verse 5 Full true it is that they which sow in tears indeed A time will come when they shall reap in mirth and joy verse 6 They went and wept in bearing of their precious seed For that their foes full often times did them annoy But their return with joy they shall sure see Their sheaves home bring and not empaired be Nisi Dom. Psal cxxvii W. W. EXcept the Lord the house doth make And thereunto doth set his hand What men do build it cannot stand Likewise in vain men undertake Cities and holds to watch and ward Except the Lord be their safeguard verse 2 Though ye rise early in the morn And so at night go late to bed Feeding full hardly with brown bread Yet were your labour lost and worn But they whom God doth love and keep Receive all things with quiet sleep verse 3 Therefore mark well when-ever you see That men have heirs t' enjoy their land It is the gift of Gods own hand For God himself doth multiply Of his great liberality The blessing of posterity verse 4 And when the children come to age They grow in strength and activeness In person and in comeliness So that a shaft shot with courage Of one that hath a most strong arm Flies not so swift nor doth like harm verse 5 Oh well is he that hath his quiver Furnisht with such artillerie For when in peril he shall be Such one shall never shake nor shiver When that he pleads before the judge Against his foes that bear him grudge Beati omnes Psal cxxviii T. S. BLessed art thou that fearest God and walkest in his way verse 2 For of thy labour thou shalt eat happy art thou I say verse 3 Like fruitful vines on thy house side so doth thy wife spring out Thy children stand like olive-plants thy table round about verse 4 Thus art thou blest that fearest God and he shall let thee see verse 5 The promised Jerusalem and her felicitie verse 6 Thou shalt thy childrens children see to thy great joys increase And likewise grace on Israel prosperity and peace Sape expugnaverunt Psal cxxix N. OFt they now Israel may say me from my youth assail'd verse 2 Oft they assail'd me from my youth yet never they prevail'd verse 3 Upon my back the plowers plow'd and furrows long did cast verse 4 The righteous Lord hath cut the cords of wicked foes at last verse 5 They that hate me shall be asham'd and turned back also verse 6 And made as grass upon the house which with reth ere it grow verse 7 Whereof the mower cannot finde enough to fill his hand Nor can he fill his lap that goeth to glean upon the land verse 8 Nor passers by pray God on them to let his blessing fall Nor say We bless you in the Name of God the Lord at all De profundis Psal cxxx W. W. LOrd to thee I make my moan when dangers me oppress I call I sigh plain and groan trusting to fi●de release verse 2 Hear now O Lord my request for it is full due time And let thine ears ay be prest unto this prayer mine verse 3 O Lord our God if thou weigh our sins and them peruse Who shall then escape and say I can my self excuse verse 4 But Lord thou art merciful and turn'st to us thy grace That we with hearts most careful should fear before thy face verse 5 In God I put my whole trust my soul waits on his will For his promise is most just and I hope therein still verse 6 My soul to God hath regard wishing for him alway More then they that watch and ward to see the dawning day verse 7 Let Israel then boldly in the Lord put his trust He is that God of mercy that his deliver
offered up himself as the onely sacrifice to purge the sins of all the world So that all other sacrifices for sin are blasphemous and derogate from the sufficiency hereof Which death albeit it did sufficiently reconcile us to God yet the Scriptures commonly do attribute our regeneration to his resurrection For as by rising again from the grave the third day he conquered death even so the victory of our faith standeth in his resurrection and therefore without the one we cannot feel the benefits of the other For as by his death sin was taken away so our righteousness was restored by his resurrection And because he would accomplish all things and take possession for us in his kingdom he ascended into heaven to enlarge the same kingdom by the abundant power of his Spirit by whom we are most assured of his continual intercession towards God the Father for us And although he be in heaven as touching his corporal presence where the Father hath now set him at his right hand committing unto him the administration of all things as well in heaven above as in the earth beneath yet is he present with us his members even to the end of the world in preserving and governing us with his effectual power and grace Who when all things are fulfilled which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his prophets since the world began will come in the same visible form in the which he ascended with an unspeakable majesty power and company to separate the lambs from the goats the elect from the reprobate so that none whether he be alive then or dead before shall escape his judgement Moreover I beleeve and confess the holy Ghost God equal with the Father and the Son who regenerateth and sanctifieth us ruleth and guideth us unto all truth perswading most assuredly in our consciences that we be the children of God brethren to Jesus Christ and fellow heirs with him of life everlasting Yet notwithstanding it is not sufficient to beleeve that God is omnipotent and merciful that Christ hath made satisfaction or that the holy Ghost hath his power and effect except we do apply the same benefits to us which are Gods elect I beleeve therefore and confess one holy Church which as members of Jesus Christ the onely Head thereof consent in faith hope and charity using the gifts of God whether they be temporal or spiritual to the profit and furtherance of the same Which Church is not seen to mans eye but onely known to God who of the lost sons of Adam hath ordained some as vessels of wrath to damnation and hath chosen others as vessels of his mercy to be saved the which in due time he calleth to integrity of life and godly conversation to make them a glorious Church in himself But that Church which is visible and seen to the eye hath three tokens and marks whereby it may be known First the word of God contained in the old and new Testament Which as it is above the authority of the same Church and onely sufficient to instruct us in all things concerning salvation so is it left for all degrees of men to read and understand For without this word neither Church Council nor Decree can establish any point touching salvation The second is the holy Sacraments to wit of Baptism and the Lords Supper Which Sacraments Christ hath left unto us as holy signs and leals of his promises For as by Baptism once received is signified that we as well infants as others of age and discretion being strangers from God by original sin are received into his family and congregation with full assurance that although this root of sin lie hid in us yet to the elect it shall not be imputed so the Supper declareth that God as a most provident Father doth not onely feed our bodies but also spiritually nourisheth our souls with the graces and benefits of Jesus Christ which the Scripture calleth eating of his flesh and drinking of his bloud Neither must we in the administration of these Sacraments follow mans fantasie but as Christ himself hath ordained so must they be ministred and by such as by ordinary vocation are thereunto called Therefore whosoever reserveth and worshippeth these Sacraments or contrariwise contemneth them in time and place procureth to himself damnation The third mark of this Church is Ecclesiastical Discipline which standeth in admonition and correction of faults The final end whereof is excommunication by the consent of the Church determined if the offender be obstinate And besides this Ecclesiastical Discipline I acknowledge to belong to this Church a politick magistrate who ministreth to every man justice defending the good and punishing the evil to whom we must render honour and obedience in all things which are not contrary to the word of God And as Moses Ezechias Josias and other good rulers purged the Church of God from superstition and idolatry so the defence of Christs Church appertaineth to Christian magistrates against all idolaters and hereticks as Papists Anabaptists with such like limbs of Antichrist to root out all doctrine of devils and men as the mass purgatory limbus patrum prayers to saints and for the dead free-will distinction of meats apparel and days vows of single life presence at idol-service mans merits with such like which draw us from the society of Christs Church wherein standeth onely remission of sins purchased by Christs bloud to all them that beleeve whether they be Jews or Gentiles and lead us to a vain confidence in creatures and trust in our own imaginations The punishment whereof although God oftentimes deferreth in this life yet after the general resurrection when our souls and bodies shall rise again to immortality they shall be damned to unquenchable fire and then we which have forsaken all mens wisdom to cleave unto Christ shall hear the joyful voice Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world and so shall go triumphing with him in body and soul to remain everlastingly in glory where we shall see God face to face and shall no more need to instruct one another we shall all know him from the highest to the lowest To whom with the Son and the holy Ghost be all praise honour and glory now and ever So be it FINIS A Table for the whole Number of Psalms and also in what leaf you may finde every of them Psalm A Folio 30 ALl laud and praise 7 49 All people 10 78 Attend my people 16 82 Amid the preass 17 100 All people that 20   B   81 BE light and glad 17 119 Blessed are they 24 128 Blessed art thou 27 134 Behold and have 27 142 Before the Lord 28 144 Blest be the Lord 28   D   83 DO not O God 17   E   127 EXcept the Lord 26   G   29 GIve to the Lord 7 37 Grudge not to see 8 48 Great is the Lord 10 54 God