might get ani dominion over him And where it had pleazed God by private message to cauze David to be anointed King over Israel and on that promise to rely for which his proud enimies did deride and persue him he praieth God to be myndful and confirm that woord that having how to answer the reproaching him with that trust the shame might redound upon his scorning adversaries From whose oppression also he praieth now at length to be delivered that walking at liberti he might freely apply and exercise the law of God and good men might freely also associate themselves unto him And for observance of the divine law for the time to com he maketh here a solemn vow unto God whom he humbly withall praieth to accept that and other free offrings of his mouth vows praiers and praises beeing all he could offer Finally he concludeth with the sum of his suit the gift of understanding and freedom from his enimies that his life beeing continued he might praize the goodnes of God who now beeing chased out by Saul and wandring up and doun like a sheep that had straied yet did not ne could forget Gods commandments whose favour he again imploreth to give end to that extremiti This Psalm for the woorthines thus largely abridged remaineth a cleer mirrour of the godli hart of David which cauzed him to be a man after the hart of God and to wear the honour of that incomparable title ALEPH. O BLESSED they who men upright in mynd and way In Gods pure law delight his sacred will obey Yea blessed who embrace his woord that witnes true And God their sovÄ•rain good with flaming harts pursue Such men sure sin decline in paths divine proceed Them careful hold which held have high reward decreed O THEN fith thow so strait thy hests to keep hast chargÄ•d My ways were so addresd my feet so Lord enlargÄ•d As free thy steps to trace no blot shal mee distain No shame confound on thee while fixt myn eys remain Right hart thy praise shal sound for law of iustice taught Which learnd I le keep at length reduce me ô to thought BETH VVHEREWITH may careles youth his falti paths amend If heedful by thy woord he them to guid attend Ah Lord with hart entire I thee have truly sought O let not straying soule with trains of vice be caught Long I thy precious laws have treasÅred in my hart To purge out sin Blest Lord stil teach that sacred art REMEMBER Lord my lips and not unthankful tong How free thy woord have taught how glad thy praise have song How deer delight I take in way from heavÄ•n declarÄ•d Vain ioys breeds world of wealth with these true ioys comparÄ•d With muzing mynd I vieu and still thy law admire Nor sight gives end to search nor search to sweet desire GIMEL THIS gift this favour Lord on servant thyn bestowe That live I may and live thy saving grace to knowe Yea sacred woord to keep Then thow myn eys unsele And wonders of thy law to groping mynd revele I stranger rome on earth my seat with thee abides O hide not heavÄ•nli way which to thy presence guids DESIRE my soule consumes stil muzing on that path Which pride derides dead pride devowd to firi wrath But thou repell their scorns Ah zele to sacred law From Princes seats did griev'd unprinceli censures draw Yet still I still thy woord in studious thoughts renue Sole solace in my griefs in douts adviser true DALETH MY humbled soule to dust prostrate on earth dooth cleve Remynd thy woord and up revived servant heve My hart my state and ways to thee I did unfold Thou heard'st with grace then still me precepts thyn enrold In faithful brest direct Discloze thy beauteÅus way And moorning soule recheerd thy merveils let display REMOOVE by-paths of lys thy trueth hath been my choise Thy law my mirrour O make cleer thy gracious voice And foloÄ•r of thy woords grant through that favour high Be nor asham'd to live nor Lord afraid to dy Yea when my narroÄ•d hart shal noble grace enlarge Base lets despiz'd I 'le run what race thy mandates charge HE. GREAT Guid of men my feet address in righteÅus way My feet by thee addrest which ne're from thee shal stray Recleer my dimmed mynd sweet beauti of thy laws To vieu which vieud from hart like love abundant draws Thus hart deiect erect thy rizing paths to clime Thy woord my high delight in raized thoughts to shrine BUT from unwoorthi gain from vain aspects which fire Unwari brests disturn myn eys and frail desire And quickÄ•n me in thy way Ah to thy servant true Devoted to thy fear thy roial woord renue So feard reproach discharge with iudgements iust recheer The fainting soule which longs thy statutes to endeer VAV LET then thy mercies deer salvătion favours high Foretold by gracious woord at length great Lord draw nigh That those who mee reproach depending thus on thee Confounded quite their scorns my glori high may see Mene while let woord so true towărd him not wholy sleep Who trusts in thy decree still still thy law wil keep AND keeping thus thy law abroad I 'le boldly walk And of thy woord fore kings undanted freely talk O King of kings thou thow my love and sole delight Thy hests my ioy on them I still defix my sight Towărd them my hands I 'le raize to act what they require Who sole possess my thoughts command my chief desire ZAIIN THEN myndful of thy speach thou Lord stil true and iust Shine foorth sith in that woord hast causd thy servant trust Sole this to grieved mynd sweet comfort still derives This pressed state supports this dulled sprites revives The proud both it and mee with scorns profane deride Nor pride nor scorns profane from thee can mee divide FOR iudgements thyn of old my muzing thoughts revieu Which mee secure but ah stil horror then renue When ends of lawles men my pityÄng mynd foresees But I in pilgrim life stil singing thy decrees In silent night with ioy revolving Lord thy name Thy statutes keep which kept these ioys in mee enframe CHETH MY portion Lord art thow my thankful mynd resolv'd Thy woords to keep hir cares on thee hath all devolv'd And hart with fervent suit thy gracious face hath sought Let then those mercies shine which gracious woord hath taught For strait my earthli ways with vieu unpartial eyd Delay cut off I glad to heavÄ•nli coorse applyd THIS worldlings hate procures whose troops make me their prey Nor hate of world nor wrongs me from thy paths can fray Thou witness Night whose midst with thanks me rize dooth hear Gods iudgements iust to bless thou Day which God who fear His laws who love my deer companions all doost see Thow then whose grace earth fils thow Lord my leader bee TET I MUST confess my Lord that graciously with mee As was thy woord hast dealt ô grant from passions free With sence and science
their hope in muzing bent LO fainting voice to thee my still unfainting hart Sends up send doun thy strength and Prince of grace who art Revive me ' as is thy wont See neer towărd me they draw Who mischief dire pursue far they from Lord thy law But thou art neer whose hests for never-changing trueth Long since thy teaching woord assurÄ•d my learning youth RESCH. AT length let pityÄng ey respect afflicted wight And thow mans hart who seest art conscious of my right And pressing fo observÄ•st plead thow my cause and free Soule cheered through thy woord addicted whole to thee Thy mercies Lord are wide yet far from godles crue Who seek not thee nor way to bliss that leads pursue BUT mee thy doom revive whom now persuing foes Not faithles to thy woord with swarming troops encloze O grief myn ey to see men break thy rightÄ•ous law Despize celestiăl bliss in lines of love which draw Thy servants soule see Lord and quickÄ•n them with thy grace Who iust eternal woord trueths sum with ioy embrace SCHIN VVITH causeles hate ô Lord and not unwronging swoord Have Princes mee persuÄ•d yet aw of heavÄ•nli woord My hart restraind from sin O woord whose ioys more draw My ly-detesting mynd and mynd that loves thy law Then ioy which Princes gifts or foes rich spoils can bring SevÄ•n times yea daily I thy righteÅus iudgements sing IN throng of worldli waves which sweet of life devour Their mynds stil calm abide no scandal there hath powÄ•r Where love of thee directs Lo then thy saving grace My hoping eys attend sole thow his love embrace Whose pure affection seeks thy pleasure to fulfill I fain not Lord my ways yea hart thou vieust at will THAV THEN let at length approach ô Lord my fainting cry Vouchsafe my suit access sole understanding I And riddance from my foes which promized hast require Thus taught thy will and free towărd thee my quick desire Shal spring my lips thy praise glad tong thy woord shal sound Where trueth where wisdom pure where statutes iust abound LET then thy hand now help if not with cold pursuit Salvation thyn I seek Vouchsafe me Lord this fruit Of making thee my hope thy law my choise delight O let my soule yet live preserv'd from tyrants might And it shal praize thy name Seek then thy straying sheep Who wandring now as lost yet strives thy law to keep PSALM 122. King DAVID having reduced the three parts of Ierusalem that of Iuda that of Beniamin and the Mount held by the Iebusites into one entire Citi and there in Sion seated the Ark of God having also according to the Law established there supreme Coorts iuridical for administration of Iustice to all Gods people taking a vieu of this woork performed by divine grace and of the peoples alacriti in frequenting Gods service he expresseth in this Psalm his religious ioy for the same and blessing Ierusalem and all them that bless hir concludeth with a promise on his owne behalf both for the peoples sake his brethren in race and religion and espeally for the Temples sake of God to procure studiously the good of that chozen Citi. MY longing hart deer ioy assaid As gracious sound strook grateful ear Religious mynds Each neighbour praid In Gods fair house let 's all appear Ierusalem our peaceful feet Now frequent in thy gates shal meet IERVSALEM the earths delight A Citie three compact in one To thee the Tribes in legal rite Gods chozen Tribes ascend alone Sole here shines out heavÄ•ns glorious King Here Israel all his praises ring RELIGION Iustice dooth embrace Who doubled bliss through land derive For iudgement thrones here hold their place And wronged right with aid revive Iudicial thrones the Kingdoms powÄ•r Of Davids croun most glorious flour O THEN Ierusalem respect Hir peace with vows to heavÄ•n commend Ierusalem who thee affect Them ioy them bliss stil prest attend O peace ay in thy towÄ•rs reside In houses plenti ay abide I FOR my frends my brethrens sake Whom race whom rites in love combine Shal alwaies pray Earths peace partake And heavÄ•ns rich light upon thee shine For Gods fair house my ioy I 'le sure Stil studious still thy good procure PSALM 128. The prosperous and happi estate both publick and private of the man who fearing God leadeth a life full of integriti OBLESSED they whose humble harts True fear of powÄ•r divine endues Religious soule that ne're departs From way which blisful life renues O BLESSED man thy ioys abound Thyn house thy cheerful hands shal rear And labours iust with blessing cround Shal feeding fruit stil plenteÅus bear THY wife a vine on wall disspred In fruitful love hast ioious met Thy children sweet in vertu bred Fair olive plants thy boord beset LO thus Gods fear thus gracÄ•d shal bee From Sion deer thee God shal bless And quiet home shal plenti see And life contented long possess THAT all thy days delighted ey Ierusalems great weal may vieu And wasting life it self espy In childrens children to renue O THANKFUL then Gods love alure Stil rightÄ•ous life with care maintain So happi long maist thou endure So peace with Isrăel long remain PSALM 130. The Psalmist in the continuance of som great publick calamiti wherein he had his part not unlikeli in the wearisom captiviti of Babilon sendeth up his humble cryâ—… unto almighti God not to call their falts to a strict account which the frailti of humane nature is not able to endure but to express now at length that merci of his which draweth men to fear and serve him with comfort So professing his hope in God and exercizing his patience in that hope yet continuing still his fervent desire in this patience he exhorteth all Israel to persevere in like attending trust assuring them that God would redeem them from all their sins and afflictions OUT from the deep to thee ô Lord I cry From place far off yet thow good Lord be nigh Lord hear my voice and with attentive ear Receive the plaints which humbled soule dooth rear IF strictly Lord transgressions thou shalt ey Lord who shal stand in sad despair we dy But Iustice thyn stil mercies thoughts displays That Greatnes fear and Goodnes love may raize WITH patiÄ•nce then on God my soule attend His woord my trust Hee 'le give thee ioyful end As morning rays rere sentinal desires So so and more towărd thee my soule aspires And patiÄ•nt ô await him Isrăel deer His great redemption now wil soon appear He merci is His merci from their thrall Yea from their sins shal ransom Isrăel all TREBLE O Ut from the deep to thee ô Lord I cry From place far off yet thow good Lord be nigh Lord hear my voice and with attentive ear Re-ceiue the plaints which humbled soule dooth rear If strictly Lord transgres But iustice thyn stil mer sions thou shalt ey Lord who shall stand in sad cies thoughts dis plays That great
with speed and tender ey reflect Thou Goodnes pure thy servants not neglect In case extreme who mercies hand implore O spring of grace I mercies those adore Then Lord be neer yea for my ' insulting foes To free my soule once heavÄ•nli aid discloze AH see and iudge thou knowÄ•st my sad reproach Fore thee my foes my shames who shameles broach Stand all in sight Their wrongs have worn my hart Full chargÄ•d with grief I lookt if yet som part My frends would bere no frend condoling found If comfort speak but none least comfort sound For strengthning meat yea poizÅning gall they sent And vinÄ•ger tart my thirst to quench prezent THERFORE iust Lord their owne them home repay Their pleazing boord where ioys before them play Let turn a snare to catch them in their woords And that which foli ' as lot to fools affoords Their wishes hurt good fortunes bee their bane Mynds sight obscure their loins rough valure lame AND as in furi man laith lode of blowes So let revenge which from thyn anger flowes Ad stripe to stripe and seaze with raging ire Their hated heads which mischief sole dezire Void stand their castles dweller none be found To grace the tents where graceles facts abound FOR thow whom Lord with hand severe hast smit They fierce persue and inhumanely sit With grievous woords t' encrease thy woundeds pain Let sin so sin so plague to plague enchain Thy righteÅusnes that still they wretched miss Nor way e're fynd that leads to heavÄ•nli bliss Devowd to death from book of life efface Ne write their names where iust mens names have place NOW I stil poor sole rich in griefs remain Help saving Lord and raize me once again That raiz'd thy grace my song may thankful praize And blisful name to heavÄ•ns fair arches raize This sacrifice more pleazing God shal bee Then cleft-hoov'd steer at Altars horns to see THE myld of mynd great comfort hence shal take This sight shal ioy them O let harts awake To seek the Lord and so your harts shal live Nor wynds nor seas can from his anchor drive For ey of care who towărd mans wants reflects His prisÅners crys sure nevÄ•r at need neglects THEN heavÄ•ns and earth then seas and all your gests Which spatiate there conform to supreme hests Ay laud our King who Sion fair wil save And Iudahs touns repair There shall they have A seat and lasting state Thus God shal bless His folks true seed who love towărd him address PSALM 79. This Psalm which seemeth to have been compozed in the time of Antiochus the persecutour by som descendant of the famous ASAPH and who bare also his name which in that Tribe was frequent conteineth a most lamentable complaint unto God of the ruins of Ierusalem the defilements of the Temple and massacre of Gods faithful servants Then praying first for propitiation for the sins of the people the true cause of that calamiti he presseth on with most fervent suit for speedi deliverance and large revenge upon their Hethen enimies THE HethÄ•n ô God who fear not no nor knowe Thy glorious name into thy land are com And in thyn House whence blessings pure did flowe With hands impure polluting facts haue doon DEFYLD thy sacred seat thy rites profanÄ•d Thy treasures robd thy Citti set on fire Ierusalem earths ioy which earst was namÄ•d Throwne doun on heaps sits now in lothed mire THY servants slain for loial love to thee Their bodies dead heăvens fouls cast out to feed And flesh of Saints whose faith thyn eys did see To earths wyld beasts ingluvious throats decreed THEIR bloud as torrent streams about the wals Of sad Ierusalem no burriÄ•r found Opprobrious scorn us grievous lot befals And laughings proud in neighbours mouths abound HOW long ô Lord shal ever flame thyn ire Can no distress once moove to pitti take Thy iealous wrath and shal it rage like fire Which water none no tears may e're asslake AH turn it first gainst those who nor invoke Thy name great Lord nor knowe or seeke thy face Gainst Hethen kingdoms who with mortal stroke Thy Iacob wound lay wast h s resting place REDUCE not Lord to thyn offended eys Those falts forepast which still unthankful wee And fathers our have doon let grace arize Our soules from gilt of sorroed sins to free AND thou arize and with thy mercies deer Prevent our instant deaths Ah case extreme Denys delay Help source of goodnes meer And save vs thow whence safeties all doo stream RESPECT great Lord the glori of thy name Which wee revere our enimies proud despize Insulting HethÄ•n to say they doo not shame Where 's now the God on whom their hope relys BVT let our God make noble in our sight To Hethen eys his high revenging hand That giltles bloud pourd out and not in fight Of servants thyn may full revenged stand AND let the sighs and moornings of thy Saints Who grone in chains to thee access obtain And mighti arm excited by their plaints Them rescue ' who now to death consignd remain THUS neighbours scorns wherewith they thee reproach SevÄ•nfold to them in bosom Lord restore We then thy folk and flock thyn acts shal broach With thanks and praise will evÄ•r our God adore PSALM 73. The Prophet ASAPH by the sence of his owne afflictions and by contrari vieu of the exulting prosperiti of godles persons who pass on a pleasant time blaspheming God and oppressing his servants having endured like as other of the people of God a sore temptation of calling into question the veri Omniscience of God and his government over this loweër world at length getting the victori by Gods especial assistance he sheweth that out of the Sanctuari of God where his Oracles were delivered he had learned that it was not the condition of this transitori life but the end it self whereby the state of the good and bad was to be esteemed Seeing then the end of the wicked to be utter destruction and everlasting happines to attend the righteous he betaketh himself wholy to the conduct of divine direction with great assurance to be guided by Gods counseil in this life and afterward to be received by God into eternal glori In expectance whereof his soule repozeth YET surely God benign to IsraÄ•l stands To pure in hart But I was sore declynd Griev'd vieu of fools of wicked prospering hands Had welnigh sapt my weak unwari mynd FROM bands of death by sicnes force or snare They free pass on live lusti puft with ioy With humane toils and cares untroubled are Yea publick plagues them least and last annoy THIS makes with pride their out-stretcht necks like chein With violence fierce as robe they lims attire Their plentÄ•ous fare red strouting eys proclaim While heaping wealth surmounts evÄ•n harts desire FROM poizÅning filth their lothsom talk they change Oppressions proud with lofti stile to sound Their tongs through earth in wronging men doo range And hellish
who thee attend abasing shame depress Depress it those thy law who causeles ah transgress INLIGHTEN Lord my soule so with thy guiding grace That I thy trueth may fynd and found may firm embrace Revele thy paths divine ô thow my SaviÅur deer To thee perennal hope eternal love adhere THOSE gracioÅs mercies Lord which from thy goodnes spring And ay thy woorks orespred to myndful presence bring And from thy sight remoove the wyldnes of my youth The sins age more mature with sad remorse presÅeth O thow who goodnes art evÄ•n for that goodnes sake With merci mee behold so soules iust grief asslake MOST righteÅus gracious Lord He sinners shew'th his way To humble mynds myld spir̆its his iustice will display All trueth yea merci all his paths to them remain His witnest will who seek and covÄ•nant great maintain Then for thy gracious name propitiÅus mee behold My sin ah Lord how great in merci great upfold THRISE happi man whose hart Gods sacred fear endues For him shal grace direct to bliss right way to chooze And here his soule at ease midst blessings rich shal sit And goods wel got secure to childrens seed transmit These heavÄ•nli leaug partake yea misteries high conceald From worldli wits to them from heavÄ•n shal be reveald O THEN my waiting eys on God stil fixed bee For hee from snaring net my feet wil rightÄ•ous free Turn then at length thy face in bliss who sitst on high Since poor abandond wretch to onli thee dooth fly Ah Lord as wave dooth wave so wo dooth wo pursue As day dooth day fresh griefs so griefs forepast renue But thow my streits my pain my labours Lord respect And on my sins their cause ah merci Lord reflect BEHOLD my raging foes how thick their musters growe Whose poisÄ•ned gals uncausd with bittÄ•rest hate oreflowe But thow Preserver great my soule from force uniust My face from shame protect who livÄ•st my onli trust My onli trust and hope on safegard none I build Save what myn upright cause and goodnes thyn shal yield These then my gardiăns stand And thow benign with mee Thyn IsraÄ•l deer great Lord from pressures all enfree PSALM 32. DAVID here out of the sence of his owne experience teacheth that he is happi to whom God in merci imputeth not his sins which merci is obteined by seazonable confessing them must be continued by thankfully reforming our lifes which shall be accompanied with true ioy of spirit THE blessed man whom spring of boundles grace With mercies ey a Father-iudge dooth vieu Whose crimes and guilt with pardon free efface Foul stains orehele so pristin shape renue Yea thrice he blest whom who Creatour kynd All perfect framÄ•d declynd dooth not forsake Dooth not his sins impute and darkned mynd DischargÄ•d of guile to iustice dooth awake I WHILST my sin in silent brest conceald Benumbd asham'd at length with sicnes scurgÄ•d My bones consum'd and roars sharp grief reveald Which tiring pain my strength now tired urgÄ•d Thy grievous hand stil presd me day and night Nor Sun could cheer nor darknes rest prezent On faded face deaths name seemd palenes write So native iuice unnative heat had spent ADVIS'D I then to thee my sins confesd In vain conceald bade idle vail adieu I said Be now to God my falts expresd Who guilt from soule strait plague from corps withdrew OGRACIOVS Lord therfore our hopes abound And godli men excited by these fruits In time accepted when thou maist be found With faithful harts shal bring their needful suits And thow benign from worlds tempestÅous seas Wilt them remoove and mee my hiding place PreservÄ•d from wrack dischargÄ•d of streit unease Withioious crys of freedom round embrace THEN I who e're Gods service doost profess Wil make thee sciÄ•nt what paths thou must ascend What dounfals shun how errors to redress And guiding ey thy cariage shall attend BVT men by kynd transform not into guise Of sturdi horse or more unthankful mule Whose brutish brests no mutÅal duties prize Sole sharpest bits their mouths from mischief rule THE wicked hart whole swarms of woes shal seaze Of help without within of rest deprivÄ•d While faithful soule who gracious Lord shal pleaze With mercies fencÄ•d with ioys shal be revivÄ•d THEN rightÄ•ous mynds divorce your careful fear Gods woord who trust shout out with sounds of ioy His ways who walk your hopeful heads vprear Your light appears sad darknes to destroy PSALM 34. The Prophet DAVID to escape the cruel hands of King Saul beeing forced to fly to a neighbour King of the Philistims where the qualiti and woorth of his person beeing to his great danger discovered he counterfeited himself distract and so was driven from thence and closely returned to the confines of his countri whether his frends and other distressed persons assembled to him here he yieldeth to God solemn thanks for this strange deliveri encouraging withal and instructing his associats to serve God who never faileth to protect his Righteous servants from mischief neither yet to destroy their persecutours By the way is interlaced a prophâ—…ci of the not breaking of ani one Bone of our Sauiours who was the veri pattern and perfection of Righteousnes THE Lord for evÄ•r with humblest ioy my thankfulst thoughts shalbless In him my soule triumph my mouth his glorious praise express Let myld righteÅus mynds earths Saints with gladnes hear this praise Yea all vnite harts spir̆its and sounds to heăvens his name to raize When chasÄ•d from home in strangers land midst Hethen crue I moornd And sought my God my sighs he heard and safely mee returnd That mee his Saints example great shal cheerful ay recite This poore man cryd the Lord him heard and freed from hostile spite O THOUGHT-surmounting grace to earth from heăvenli host descends Gods Angel great and servants his as rampire round defends Then tast and see how good the Lord how sweet his merci flowes How blest the man who trusts in him on him vow'd love bestowes And ye Gods Saints his fear maintain when liÅns through hunger wast Yet scarsenes none of no thing good sour want his servants tast O COM deer children listen well while Gods true fear I teach How life to win how length of days in happiÄ•st state to reach Thy tong from venÅmed woords refrain thy lips let shun deceipt Decline from evÄl doo good seek peace this this be thy retreit The eys of God with pleazing vieu the rightÄ•ous race behold Their suits his gracious ears attend ful deer their lifes are sold But countÄ•nance stern the mighti Lord gainst proud malfactors bends And cursed names corrupted seed from earths fair bosom rends TRUE servants plaints â—…ust Lord dooth hear their tears and fears dicharge Their contrite harts enanguisht spiâ—…its from pressures streit enlarge Afflictions great it 's true ful oft most righteÅus Man endures God rids them all and in their midst his bones from brack assures No bone of His shal broken be
Governours whence much mischief ensueth or by ani other evil or sorro whatsoever are all brought upon them by their sins and that odious unthankfulnes to God who yet even in publick miseries preserveth and prospereth his humble servants and when Nations apply themselfs faithfully to his service poureth upon them all blessings opposite to those former punishments Which things wise men will consider and make use of especially so as to knowe and acknowlege the Crëatours goodnes YE woorthi mynds in whom Gods gifts excell Whose persons walk on earth high thoughts in heavÄ•ns doo dwell Renoum our Lord ring foorth his glorious name Whose goodnes no time fails sweet mercies still the same OBLAZE his acts ye now at rest that stand From hostile powÄ•r redeemd redeemd from strangers land Ye late dispersd now gathered by his grace From East from West from North yea from great Oceăns place In deserts wyld through uncouth invious ways All tired all forlorn they wandred nights and days With fainting spir̆its through thirst and hunger pin'd And no relief no steps towărd cultivÄ•d place could fynd IN need extreme when lo to God they cry He gracious hears their mone and help from heavÄ•n makes fly So strength renues so straying feet directs To peopled wals and safe from perils all protects O thankful then to God his grace confess His mervÄ•ilous woork to men with ioious tongs express Who thirsting soule with waters sweet refreshd The empti fild and pace towărd longed home addresd IN darknes sad in shade of grisli death With irÅn and anguish bound who sighd their servile breath Il-ruled mynds that this and more deserv'd That Highests woord despysd from Gods advise that swarv'd When hart-burst clean they grovÄ•ling rold in pain Ne hope of better saw nor place for worse remain IN need extreme to God their suit they bent Who pityÄng rueful plight from heavÄ•n sweet comfort sent He darknes dire grim shade of death dispels he cords from hands from feet he fetters burst repels O thankful then to God his grace confess His wondrous act to men with ioious tongs express Who brazen gates made all to fragments flee Brake bars of irÅn strong Lord and prison̆ers did enfree UNGOVERND fools transported by their lust From vertuÅus ways to vice when God severely iust Their wicked ioys afflicts such sicnes sends That soule abhorring meat at deaths pale door attends IN hour extreme to God then lo they cry Who gracious hears their grones and ease from heavÄ•n bids hy Doun comÄ•th his woord the per̆ishing soule to save And hasting life retracts from neer approached grave O thankful then to God his grace confess His mercies great to men with ioious tongs express And clensd in hart iust sacrifice of praise Let grateful hands yield vp renoum him all your days TO Seas in ships who Arts chief woork descend Adventrous harts by trade penurious state to mend Or spatious lakes who pass what wondrous sight Strange woorks of God in deep their staring looks affright Lo strait his woord tempestuÅus wynd dooth rear And roughest frouns on seas late smiling face appear Anon towărd heavÄ•ns on back of arched wave They mount dismount in trise towărd hels unloveli cave As drunk they reel then melting harts gin fail Nought toil nought careful coorse of Masters skil avail IN case extreme when lo to God they cry Who gracious hears griev'd voice and help from heavÄ•n bids hy Strait wynds repose smooth hieu calmd seas regain Harts ioy woorks cheer til safe they long longd havÄ•n attain Then thankful ô to God his grace confess His merveils great to men with ioious tongs express And let Gods Church let faithful people hear Vowd praise in senat grave his mercies rare endeer HEE bubling springs chokes up with thirsti sand Yea rivers rich accursd dry desert makes to stand And fertile soil in plague of owners sin To saltnes damns whence fruit nor skil nor toil can win AGAIN his grace dry desert stores with pools Sends springs and bare burnt earth with fruitful moisture cools There hungri soules their citti sets to place Who sowe their grains plant vines years sweet return embrace Abounding food then blest with restful peace To numbers huge themselves their flocks and heards encrease BUT harts puft up soon spurning heavÄ•nli law Ah fools in chains of sin enchained tortures draw Oppression foul sad days unthriving care Their ioyles mynds abase their branching numbers bare He vyld contempt on woorthles Nobles pours And wayles wasts makes walk chasÄ•d out from lordli towÄ•rs Yet godli poor raizd up from pressing need As tree makes branch as flock his branched race to breed THESE things the iust with reverend ioy shal see And wicked mynds and mouths appald and stopt shal bee Who then is wise these sights to hart to lay Gods goodnes they shal learn Gods praises they display PSALM 110. The Prophet DAVID foresheweth the everlasting Kingdom and Priesthood of Christ who after his Ascension sitting at the Right hand of God should send out his forces from Sion and Ierusalem to reduce the world unto him Which spiritual warfare should take so wonderful effect that not onli at the veri beginning infinite multitudes should adioin themselfs to the Church but in short time also the Empire of Rome it self then Head of mani Nations with other great kingdoms should be conquered and subdued unto the obedience of Christ and his law The proof whereof to the later ages did manifestly appear THE Lord said to my Lord Thow at my right-hand sit While foes their necks I to thy feet as foot-stool make submit From Sion seat of Grace the Lord thy scepters might Through world shal send midst all thy foes bear rule thou Prince of light What day thy warli ranks shal high exploit begin The people prest with cheerful strife to serve thee shal com in Anon as prime of morn with silvÄ•ri perls of dew Al-spreds the world like troops thy youth in sacred house shal shew THE Lord who will not change hath sworn fair Prince to thee A Priest thou art MelchÄsedek like and ay that Priest shal bee This Prince who ' on thy right hand great King of heavÄ•n thus shines Each earthli King in ire shal crush that gainst his rule repines He HÄ•then with swoord shall iudge fields streets with corps shal straw Imperiăl Head whom Nations serve assubiect to his law As lightning swift shal run in way of torrent drink Thus gloriÅus head triumphant raize while danted foes doo shrink PSALM III. The Psalmist here sings the praises of God both for his glorious woorks and for his gracious acts toward the Israelites in mercifully conducting them from the serviliti of Aegypt to the happi land of Canaan and therein chiefly for establishing to their everlasting good his sacred Law and Covenant In observance whereof true wisdom consisteth ALLELV-IA MY hart dooth heavÄ•nli heat enflame To sound high praise to glorious name Th'alglorious Lord midst rightÄ•ous press In sacred senate
right thy servant still esteem For evÄ•n afflictions all I now thy favours deem Which straying soule reducÄ•d who since beleeves thy law Thow good and good who doost still me to goodnes draw THE proud with conscious gilt have lys gainst mee devizÄ•d I careful kept thy woord that kept their lys despizÄ•d Their harts hath tallo ' obdurÄ•d thy hests are my delight And since thy chastning hand my humbled soule aright In wisdoms school hath framÄ•d more deer thy laws I hold Then streams of silver fine then hils of purest gold IOD THY hands me made and formd reform thy servant Lord And understanding give which sin may make abhor'd Thy iudgements all are iust I knowe in faithful trueth And for my good thy love thus scurged hath my youth But now let promis'd grace with comfort shine that they Who fear thee knowÄ•ing my case thy praise may glad display YEA let thy mercies shour and weariÄ•d soule refresh That withÄ•ring hart revivÄ•d may life from thee confess Let pride ashamÄ•d remain to seek my causeles bane Whose harmles thoughts thy law their sole delight doo frame Let zelers of thy hests to mee themselves adioin And clenze my hart that shames sad scandal none eloin CAPH MY long erected soule stil looking for thy grace Thy woord stil trusting now bends doun hir fainting face Consumed are my spir̆its consumÄ•d my waiting eys Like bottle parch'd with smoke my self now self despize Yet still beleeve thy woord thy precepts still apply How mani rest my days when draw thy comforts nigh AND when shal I my Lord see swoord of iustice draw Gainst proud persuing foes who pits not so thy law For righteÅus steps have delvÄ•d Ah hate the most uniust Thow then whose hests are trueth my life neer trod to dust If still thy law I love if mercies thyn attend In merci keep which kept I 'le in thy service spend LAMED THY woord forevÄ•r great Lord in heavÄ•ns enthronÄ•d remains Thy woord which all did make and all things made sustains Thy trueths through age to age with stedfast coorse proceed Stands peized earth ne mooves by thee so Lord decreed Thus lo as thow ordainÄ•dst they all this day persist Thy servants all to act what e're thy iudgements list MY woes had mee consumÄ•d had solace in thy law Not cheerd that hart which nought can e're from thence withdraw For thyn I am ô thyn preserve from wicked swoord Which dogs my life who live in studyÄng Lord thy woord In tracing Lord thy ways O ways of widening ioys When else perfections all see fretting time destroys MEM. VVHAT Lord what heat my soule with sacred love inspires Of law divine what powÄ•r thus rapts my strong desires All day to quicned cares to pozed thoughts at night It self prezents stil shines high mynds admired light A light whose rays infuzÄ•d more sciÄ•nt me make and sage Then teachers books wit foes or gray experience age O LAW my thoughts delight desire those mandates pure Lawgiver great to pleaze dooth wari feet inure All sinful ways to shun thy woords high paths to hold Makes iudgements thyn observe which sacred rols have told Yea sweetest iuice my tast not so with sweetnes feeds As woord which wisdom true vyld falshoods hate imbreeds NVN. THY woord a lamp divine fair star that leads the day To paths obscure dooth shine and guids to heavÄ•nli way And I by sacred vow a vow in heavÄ•ns enrold Stand bound and rest resolv'd that woords iust rules to hold Afflictions mee extreme bere doun let promis'd grace Revive me ' ô then I pray poor lips frank gifts embrace MY soule see still in hand stands prest away to fly Such snares my life beset yet still thy hests I ey Can not thy Law forget O teach me Lord thy ways Thy woord since all my state sole ioy my hart to raize And thow my sovÄ•rain good since soule entire I bend Thy will to doo in this lifes breth extreme to spend SAMECH THY Law I deerly love mans vain conceipts despize Thow refuge myn and shield whose woord my waiting eys Stil holds in hope Avant avant then crue profane Gods mandates iust I 'le keep sole thow my hope from shame The hope thy speach hath raiz'd with life persuÄ•d defend SavÄ•d lifes so whole delight I 'le in thy statutes spend AND lo transgressours proud whose fraud shal self deceive Thyn earths inutil load of grace whom doost bereave As basest mire doun trod as dross with purging fire ConsumÄ•d shal sole remain sad marks of heavÄ•nli ire Therfore thy woord I love in love yet quake with fear When iudgements thyn I vieu yea hair dire horrours rear HAIIN IRIGHT and iust have wrought thy law hath been my guid Abandon then me not t'uniust oppressing pride But intercede with help my sureti ' and witnes true And failing eys with strength of rightÄ•ous speach renue Thy servant I deer Lord thy servant not forsake Give sciÄ•nce thy hests me teach and to thy favour take THUS I thy will shal knowe But time for thee great Lord For thee to woork whose laws of lawles mynds abhord Quite now they would displace I Lord so much the more Bove finest gold them prize thee fountain iust adore Their vertues high admire in all things alwaies right And falshoods ways perverse all spurn with iust despite PE. SO mervÄ•ilous shines thy woord in powÄ•r in wisdom high In goodnes that my soule with wingd desire dooth fly And pant it to attain Lo then thy sacred light I folo Lord with ioy since understanding bright DisclozÄ•d evÄ•n simple mynds it gives Thow mee with grace Aspect as those who thee in highth of loves doe place AND first my steps so guid in path of heavÄ•nli woord That sins dark powÄ•r decay Then mee with Iustice swoord From mans oppression free free man thy ways I 'le trace O thow thy servant teach And with thy gracious face Cheer up my grieved eys whence streaming tears doo thrill To see unthankful man neglect thy saving will TZADE HIGH Iudge of worlds from whom pure Iustice doun dooth flowe Whose law worlds perfect rule whose woord hid trueth makes knowe And iudgements all are right thou these with charge severe Hast man enioind to keep that mee griev'd zele dooth wear To see my foes forget thy speach proclaim'd above Thy speach which pure as heavÄ•ns drawth up thy servants love I SMALL and am despizÄ•d thy precepts yet apply Which mirrour true of thee which rule derivÄ•d from high Of iustice firmly pitcht of never changing right In toils in grasping griefs stil yield me sweet delight Sole thow my dazeling mynd pure lights eternal spring Illuminate which light shalt life eternal bring KOPH PROSTRATE with ardent hart with tear-distilling eys I call I cry ô thow who iust complaints despize Nor doost nor canst thou hear and save him who thy hests And witnest will wil keep if undefilÄ•d requests Morns dawning oft if oft my waking thoughts prevent Nights watches towărd thy woord
no powÄ•r can stand SOME charrets make their strength and grace In horses som proud glori place Fond ioy false strength at thundring call Horse charrets men to ground doo fall We then to heăvens address our ey Where surer trust faiths eys descry A trust which whilÄ•st they doun are brought Our standing strength and triÅmph hath wrought Then hear vs Lord let heavÄ•ns great king Our king on earth home safely bring â—…ALM 21. King DAVID yieldeth solemn Thanks unto God at his return with Uictori over Gods enimies and farther foresheweth their utter extermination THE King Lord towărd thy glorious face Victorious eys dooth ioyful rear His strength thy spir̆it his health thy grace With doubled triÅmphs his soule dooth chear What hart could wish what lips did crave Thy bountÄ•ous hand him strangely gave YEA whÄ•ther his thoughts had nÄ•ver aspyr'd Thy blessing roial him prevents Of purest gold croun undesyr'd To humble head rich hand prezents Then lire he ask'd thou long to live Yea life eternal didst him give WHAT maiesti on earth can shine What woorship mortal man may grace What glori only not diuine Thy goodnes all on him dooth place That him all ages pattern rare Of matchles bliss shal ay declare THEN ioy his thankful hart hath fraught Which from thy face serene derives Which firm affiănce hath likewise wrought Which ioy again stil fresh revives For sith the King in th'HighÄ•st dooth trust Thou' rt safe ô King ô HighÄ•st thou' rt iust FOR as on thyn thy love is sign'd So powrful hand those monsters dire Which hate the sovÄ•rain good shal fynd And found confound in day of ire As firi furnace they shal fume Which kindled once dooth self consume WITH cursed sires corrupted seed From face of earth thou shalt destroy For spite gainst thee their brains doo breed Vain spite which woorks but self-annoy As mark their faces thou shalt lay On which thy winged shafts may play OTHOW who euerlasting reins Of world almighti Guid doost sway Advance thy strength and proud disdains Of miscrÄ•ants vyld great Lord repay So we thy powÄ•r shal sing and praize Which foes dooth quell thy servants raize TREBLE THe King Lord towărd thy glorious face Victorious eys dooth ioy-ful rear His strength thy spÄrit his health thy grace With doubled triumphs his soule dooth chear What hart could wish what lips did crave Thy bountÄ•ous hand him strangely gave MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR BASE LUTE PSALM 22. Our Saviours complaint vpon the Cross thanks giuing for deliuerance and propheci touching the great encrease and perpetuiti of his Church foretold by DAVID MY God my God why doost thou me forsake Why to my plaints thyn ear a stranger make By day I cry but thou far off art gone By night deer Lord but audience fynd I none YET Holi Lord thou same doost stil endure Thyn Israels ioy their song of praises pure Our Fathers Lord in thee did faithful trust On thee they hopÄ•d Thou to their hopes wert iust They cry'd and tears did not shour doun in vain Their crys thou heard'st and freedst them from their pain BVTI a worm not man but mans reproach Where abiects vyld their basest scornings broach What ey me vieuth same ey dooth me deride They wag proud heads false lips they wryth aside He trusts in God Let God from heăven above Make good this trust and now declare his love TRVETH Lord my hope from mothers brest thou wast Then hopes sure ground thy gracious promise past From mothers womb I rest bequeathd to thee Thence me receiv'dst my Saviour Lord to bee THEN saving Lord sith troÅble dooth press so neer Ah troÅble vntryd and no where help appear Be thow not far See Lord what buls are met Huge buls of Basan round haue me beset With gaping iaws much lion-like they play Which ramps to seaze and roars to rend his pray SEE vital iuice to watri stream distild My bones disioint my hart with anguish fild Like melting wax consumes as fire-burnt clay My spir̆its being dryd lifes vigours all decay Yea withÄ•ring tong to parched chops dooth cleve Thus me my Lord in dust of death doost leve FOR dogs have mee besiegÄ•d A savage rout Of vyld malfactors mee envir̆on about Hands Feet they 'ue pierc'd my bones may all be told Which gazing eyâ—… from flinted harts behold My robe vnript amongst them they divide And seamles cote by chancing lot decide BVT thow my Lord in weakest state my strength My hope in death look doun release at length From heavÄ•ns award my life from swoord discharge From powÄ•r of dog my desolate soule enlarge From lions mouth from unÄcorns horns with speed Now hearÄ•st ô save in soules extremest need THY glorious name I 'le preach to brethren deer And faithful Church in midst thy praise shal hear From thankful voice resound Ye sons of grace Who fear your Lord and thow great IsraÄ•ls race LovÄ•d Iacobs seed your revÄ•rend ioys enhance His praise through earth his name to heavÄ•ns advance FOR not with scorning mynd or loathing ey Th' afflicted wight he careles passed by Ne helpful face from rueful sight did hide But gracious ear to iust complaint applyd Then vows I 'le pay before them which thee fear And sacred praise assembli great shal hear THE spirits myld whom dews celestial bless Shal fruits of earth in plentÄ•ous rest possess Their gracious zele Gods glorious praise shal sing Your ended life shal life unending bring YEA natiÅns all which earth 's great globe doo fill EvÄ•n kindreds which hir bounds extremest till At length themselves remember shal and mourn Till whom they left to him again they turn To mighti king whose woord whole world dooth wield Thus worship due shal world united yield FOR him all states shal serve On earths great store The rich shal feed and heavÄ•ns great Lord adore And poorest wretch who doun in dust doth ly To him shal bow and dying death defy This course great ages run Their poster̆ous race In worlds cleer vieu his service shal embrace And so transmit that childrens children ay His iustice learn his sacred will obay PSALM 25. DAVID as it seemeth upon his last farewel and flight from the Coort of Saul understanding perhaps of the great levi of forces to persue him and entring in that distress of state as well into a revieu of sins of his coortli life past as into a forevieu of troubles which in this banishment he must endure wholy casteth himself upon the merci and favour of God Whom he praieth for Protection from his wrongful enimies for Remission of his sins and for Direction in the best coorse of life Withall he celebrateth Gods graciousnes toward his faithful servants and concludeth with a petition in behalf also of the people TO THEE his faithful soule thy servant Lord dooth rear My God my trust ô dain hir humblest suits to hear And let not black disgrace my lifes pure light obscure And frustrate hope proud foes insulting ioys alure Let none