House the Sparrows find The Swallows build their Nests Where with their yet unfeather'd Kind The Dam in Safety rests But ah thine Altars wretched I Near them no more can sing While banish'd from thy House I sly Dear Lord my God my King verse 4 Ah happy Souls who in thy House Can live and praise thy Name verse 5 Whose Arms thy Heav'nly strength endows Whose Hearts thy Ways can frame verse 6 Though through the Vail of Tears they go Their Eyes with Sorrows drown'd Yet Blessings on their Teachers slow With Fruit their Pains are crown'd verse 7 From Strength to Strength from Grace to Grace Th' improving Learners go Till them the God of Gods embrace And Rest on them bestow Part 2. verse 8 My Pray'r great God of Hosts receive And kind Affistance bring verse 9 Consider O our Shie'd relieve Thy once anointed King verse 10 For in thy Courts one Day appears More bless'd more swoet to me Than could a Thousand Thousand Years At any Distance be I 'd rather keep thy Temple's Door And fiod thy Presence there Than in a Palace reign secure Where Sins uncheck'd appear verse 11 For God their Sun their Shield to those Will Grace and Glory give Who with his Laws sincerely close And on Obedience live verse 12 Happy ô happy that good Man Great Lord of Hosts must be Who through all Worldly Changes can Unmov'dly trust in Thee To Father Holy Ghost and Son Ono God in persons Three Be Glory paid and Homage done Through all Eternity PSAL. lxxxv verse 1 THY Favours Lord have kind at last To Israel's Captives been verse 2 And all thy People's Follies past And cover'd all their Sin verse 3 Thy gentler Thoughts with tender Love Thy Jealous Furies eas'd And He who pleads for us above Has all thy Wrath appeas'd verse 4 To us ô God our Saviour now From Anger kindly turn Some Limits to thy Wrath allow Which else would always burn verse 5 On us dear God new Life bestow To us new Vigour give verse 6 That we our Joys in Thee may show And in thy Favour live verse 7 To us thy Mercy Lord extend And thy Salvation show verse 8 What God shall answer I 'll attend Who will his Peace bestow On all his own His Saints shall find The Sweets of Heav'nly Peace When they from Sin 's foul Dross refin'd From careless Follies cease God's kind Salvation's always nigh The Wise who fear his Name That Glory o'er our Land may fly And raise our ancient Fame Kind Peace and Righteousness embrace And Truth and Mercy close Truth springs from Earth from Heav'n her Face Impartial Justice shows All Good on us shall God bestow Our Land shall fruitful prove And Justice with a wondrous Flow Before his Face shall move While we who err'd so oft before Bless'd with so sure a Guide From God shall never wander more But in his Paths abide Another Metre As the old 125th proper Tune BLess'd Lord thy kinder Thoughts at last Did Jacob's Captive-Tribes restore And all the People's Follies past Their Sins with Mercies cover'd o'er Thy Jealous Furies eas'd And all thy Wrath appeas'd To us ô God our Saviour now From thy tempestuous Anger turn Shall thy fierce Wrath no Bounders know But through Eternal Ages burn Us Lord again revive And in thy Joys we live To us thy Mercy Lord extend To us thy bless'd Salvation show To God's kind Answer I 'll attend For Peace he 'll on his Saints bestow His Servants shall have Peace When they from Follies cease verse 9 To pious Men Salvation's near That Glory may possess the Land verse 10 Mercy and Truth conjoin'd appear And Peace and Justice Hand in Hand verse 11 From Earth Truth from the Sky Fair Justice casts her Eye verse 12 Our God on us shall Good bestow Our happy Land shall fruitful prove verse 13 And Justice with a wondrous Flow Before his glorious Presence move And we with such a Guide Shall in his Paths abide PSAL. lxxxvj verse 8 LOrd to my Pray'r thine Ears incline For I 'm distress'd and poor verse 2 I'm wholly Lord and only thine Bless'd God my Soul secure verse 3 My God thy faithful Servant save Who hopes thy Grace to see Mercy thy Mercy Lord I crave And daily cry to Thee verse 4 To Thee alone my Heart I raise O make my Soul rejoice verse 5 Love Pardon Mercy are thy Ways Thou hearst my humble Voice verse 6 Lord hear my Pray'rs receive my Cry verse 7 In Woes address'd to Thee verse 8 Thy Might thy wondrous Works out-vye The Gods of Vanity All Nations whom thy Hands have made Shall fall before thy Face And with pure Worship duly pay'd Thy glorious Name embrace For Thou art God thy Works are great Thy self art God alone To me bless'd God thy Ways repeat And make thy Doctrines known I 'll walk in Truth then Lord unite My Heart to fear thy Name My Heart shall then thy Praise recite And all thy Praise proclaim Thy Mercy 's great to me from Hell Thou brought'st my sinking Soul Though Tyrants at me proudly swell And would my Life control No Sence of Thee the Rebels show But Pity Lord we see Grace Patience Mercy Truth we know In plenty dwells with Thee To me dear God with Mercy turn Thy Strength on me bestow To him who 's of thy Hand-maid born Thy kind Salvation show With me some Mark of Favour leave And shame my spiteful Foes When they thy Aid to me perceive And all thy Love disclose PSAL. lxxxvij as the 113 th WHen God in his All-searching Mind To fix his Church on Earth design'd Deep he her strong Foundations laid verse 2 But Sions Mount that sacred Place Tho' well He lov'd all Jacob's Race He his peculiar Darling made verse 3 How vastly wide how wondrous high Shall thy Immortal Glories fly Blest City of th' Eternal King verse 4 When AEgypt Assur Palestine And all th' Arabia's shall be thine And Vows to thy Protector bring Envy in Them no more shall reign But Saints to fill thy blissful Train Shall come from each converted Land verse 5 In Sion yet those Sons of Peace Shall more than other Lands encrease And in her God securely stand verse 6 When God shall all his Saints enrol The Gentiles Tribes shall fill the Scroul From Thee blest God! our Joy shall spirit verse 7 And all the Sons of Harmony Shall tune their chearful Strings to Thee And thy Eternal Praises sing PSAL. lxxxviij verse 1 BLest God of my Salvation I Call Day and Night to Thee verse 2 O hear my Prayer accept my Cry And kindly answer me verse 3 My Soul alas is fill'd with Woes The Grave attends my Fate verse 4 I 'me left by Life and Sense like those Just in a dying state verse 5 Among the slaughter'd dead I ly i th' Grave from Sorrows free Where Men thrust out from Memory Are cut from Earth by Thee verse 6 Down in the Pits
That we may sing thy Praise and fall With Thanks before thy Glorious Face verse 48 The God of Israel's Name record His Piaise from Age to Age refound And let the joyful Tribes around Sing out Amen ô praise Lord PSAL. cvij. Part 1. Metre 1. verse 1 O Praise the Lord Exa't his Name His Goodness celebrate Let Age to Age resound his Fame His bounteous Acts relate verse 2 Sing to His Name ye whom from Chains His peaceful Arm redeem'd O be his Praise in grateful Streins His glorious Works esteem'd verse 3 He from Earth's utmost Quarters drew His lsrael's scatter'd Race verse 4 And the wild Desarts wandring thro' They found no Resting-place verse 5 Tho'pinch'd with Hunger scorch'd with Thirst Their wasting Spirits fail'd Yet with their pittying God at first Their humble Cries prevail'd verse 6 Thro'all their Streights his careful Hand Was their unfailing Guide verse 7 And smooth'd their Ways and made their Bands In well-built Towns reside verse 8 O praise his Goodness Praise his Name His wond'rous Mercies praise Thro' all the World his Acts proclaim His boundless Glories raise Part 2. Metre 2. verse 9 Praise God! His Springs we see Relieve the thirsty Soul The hungry Wretch revives when He Bestows his plenteous Dole verse 10 But when they foolish all his gracious Laws abus'd Despis'd their Maker's gentlest Call And Love's soft Voice refus'd verse 11 Then he the stubborn Crew In weighty Fetters chain'd Death's Chains around the Rebels flew And Woes their Souls restrain'd verse 12 Yet when oppress'd they bow'd Beneath the dismal Weight And when in vain they begg'd aloud For Men to ease their State verse 13 When to their God they cry'd And at his-Footstool laid Their pressing Griefs and mortify'd The softhing Rebe's pray'd verse 14 He cleared the Skies above And every Slave unchain'd And with warm Beams of gentlest Love The Sufferers entertained verse 15 O praise O praise his Name His bounteous Acts declare Let all Mankind with Thanks proclaim How great his Mercies are Part 3. Metre 3. As the 100th verse 16 Praise God! At his Command the Gates Of massive Brass their Leaves unfold No Bars of Steel nor sturdy Grates Against his powerful Words can hold verse 17 When Fools ' for Sins afflicted griev'd And with their Sins their Judge provok'd verse 18 No Meats their Appetites reliev'd Nor cas'd their Hungers stickly Stroke Their Stomachs loath'd bless'd Angels Food Sweet Manna dropping from the Skies And Quails disturb'd their curdling Blood Till Nature sunk without Supplies verse 19 Yet when the fainting Sinners pray'd He heard and heard them when they cry'd God's Word their dying Swoons allay'd And Appetites and Food supply'd verse 20 New Life new Spirits he bestow'd Where fading Nature's Force declin'd To them his healthful Favours show'd And their distemper'd Blood refin'd verse 21 O praise our God! Exalt his Name Above the Skies exalt his Name verse 22 Your Thanks with Sacrifice proclaim And Trophies to his Goodness raise Part 4. Metre 4. as the 148th verse 23 Such whose bold Courage o're The restless Ocean flies And fail from Shore to Shore For wealthy Merchandise verse 24 Such Men may fee How wondrous there God's Works appear How powerful He. verse 25 For if in Storms he speak The swelling Tempest roars And foaming Billows break And lash the bounding Shores While Wind and Tide On rolling Seas Where-e'er they please Triumphant ride verse 26 Now high the towring Fleet On Watry Mountains rise As if the Clouds they 'd meet Or brave the threatning Skies Now down they come Steep tumbling all With dreadful Fall To meet their Doom verse 27 Strait every shatter'd Sail. Reels here and staggers there While horrid Storms prevail And Courage yields to fear All Hopes are lost And in Black Night Ships guideless quite At random toss'd verse 28 But when on God they call He hears their mournful Cries verse 29 Loud Storms in Silence fall And Light remounts the Skies Rough Billows slake And gentle Gales Swell all their Sails Their Port to make verse 30 There with Delights unseign'd The wearied Sailers rest New Life and Safety gain'd Warms every fainting Breast Joys sweeter tast And the dear Shore Is va'u'd more For Dangers past verse 31 O praise O praise the Lord His Bounteous Actions praise Let all the World record His Mercy 's wond'rous Ways verse 32 In thickest Throngs Where Princes are His Loves declare With grateful Songs Part 4. Metre 4 As the 113th verse 33 O praise the Lord At his Commands Fair Streams desert the hirsty Lands And Springs no more their Waters yield verse 34 His Curse for Humane Crimes destroys Their blooming Hopes and ripening Joys And sows with barren Salt the Field verse 35 Yet for his own dear Servant's sakes He turns vast Lands to standing Lakes And makes the Sands with Waters flow verse 36 And then their hungry Troops he guides And thro' the new-rais'd Fields divides And makes new Towns and Cities grow verse 37 With noblest Grains they sow their Fields Rich Wines the grateful Vineyard yields Their Crops are full profound their Peace verse 38 God's Blessing on their Labours waits Their crowding Offspring throng their Gates And all their pregnant Flocks encrease verse 39 But when his ancient Love 's abus'd His Counsels his Commands refus'd A suddain Change o'returns their State Down falls their haughty Pride their Race Incessant Wars And Plagues desace Expos'd to every Neighbour's Hare verse 40 Their Princes with Contempt he treats Confounds them in their proud Conceits And lets their Hopes bewildred fall verse 41 Then to the Poor despis'd before Transfers his favouring Mercies store And feeds and multiplies them all verse 42 Admire ye living Saints with Joy While silent impious Atheists ly Admire his Providential Ways verse 43 Let wise Men all their Thoughts confine To meditare on Works Divine And sing their great Protector 's praise PSAL. cviij As the 110th verse 1 MY Heart is fix'd ô God my Heart Is fix'd thy losty Praise to sing I 'me ready with my noblest part To praise my everlasting King verse 2 Awake my Harp awake my Lute While I prevent the Morning's light verse 3 And thy dear Praises prosecute In all the wondring Nations fight verse 4 Swist are the Clouds and high the Skies Above our Thoughts and Measures far But higher Lord thy Mercies rise More swift thy Truths vast Conguests are verse 5 Lord o're the Skies thy Brightness show Let all the Earth thy Glories see verse 6 O hear ô save thy Servant so I 'le rescue those belov'd by Theo. verse 7 God swore once by his Holiness And by his Oath my Joy maintains I 'le quick Shichcm's Fields possess And measure Succoth's fruitful Plains verse 8 Fair Gileads mine Manasses too My Head on Ephraim's strength relies The Scepter 's Royal Indah's due My Kingdom He with Laws supplies verse 9 Moab my meanest Slave shall be And Edom prostrate at my Feet And conquere'd Palestina
7 Yee Doors yee Gates Eternal high Your glorious Arches raise Then shall the King of Majesty Come in with lofty praise verse 8 O who'es that great that glorious King It 's God the mighty Lord And wondrous Wars record verse 9 Yee Doors yes Gates Eternal high Your glorious Arches raise Then shall the king of Majesty Come in with lofty praise verse 10 O who 's that great that glorious King It 's God the mighty Lord Of Hosts whose Praise his Subjects sing Whose Honours all record Another Metre As Da Pacem Domine verse 1 THE Earth is God's her Fulness too Earth and all of Earth possess'd verse 2 For on the Seas he pois'd it true On the Floods secur'd its Rest verse 3 But who ô who Can Lord pursue Paths to reach thy sacrecd Hill Or see thy Face In that bless'd Place There unmov'd abiding still verse 4 He only he whose Hands are clean He who purifies his Heart Whose Soul is neither proud nor vain Nor can from his Oaths depart verse 5 All Blessings he From God shall see And his Saviour's Righteousness verse 6 Such such are they Who ev'ry Way After Jacob's Maker press verse 7 List up your Heads ye sacred Gates Doors Eternal open wide Then shall the King of glorious State Through your Ports triumphant ride verse 8 O who is He Whose Majestie Your Angelick Anthems sing The Lord of Might Supream in Fight He 's our Great our Glorious King verse 9 Lift up your Heads ye sacted Gates Doors Eternal open wide Then shall the King of glorious State Through your Ports triumphant ride verse 10 O who is He Whose Majestie Your Angelick Anthems sing The Lord whose Sway All Hosts obey He 's our Great our Glorious king PSAL. xxv verse 1 I Lord to thee my Heart dispose verse 2 My God I trust in thee O save me from insulting Foes And Shame and Infamy verse 3 Let wilful Sinners sink with Shame But keep thy Servants free verse 4 And let thy Faith my Heart inflame Reveal thy Paths to me verse 5 O let thy Truth direct my Ways To me Salvation give To me dear Lord who all my Days In scred Longings live verse 6 Thy never-ending Mercies Lord Thy Bowels Lord re-call verse 7 My youthful Crimes my Sins abhorr'd Forgive forget them all O for thy tender Mercy 's sake With Favour think on me verse 8 The blindest Sinners God will make His righteous Paths to see verse 9 He makes the Meek with Prudence move The Humble kindly draws verse 10 His Ways all Truths and Mercies prove To those who keep his Laws Part 2. verse 11 For thy Name sake a Sinner spare With weighty Guilt oppress'd verse 12 To him who fears thee Lord declare Thy Paths with Safety bles'd verse 13 His Hand on happy Ground shall build His Race the Land shall hold verse 13 T' his Soul with holy Secrets fill'd Will God his Grace uhfold verse 15 To Thee I look dear Lord my Feet From subtile Snares retrieve verse 16 My Sorrows Lord with Mercy meet With Love my Woes relieve verse 17 Increasing Woes distress my Soul O kindly rescue it verse 18 My Sorrows and my Pains controul And all my Sins remit verse 19 Help from my num'rous Foes I crave Who hate me wrongfullie verse 20 My Soul from all Confusion save Because I trust in Thee verse 21 Truth Justice I 'll as Guards esteem And on thy Favours wait verse 22 But Lord thy holy Church redeem From its afflicted State PSAL. xxvj verse 1 JUdge Lord assert my Cause for I Have trod the perfect Way trust in Thee no Dangers nigh Can make my Hopes decay Prove me my God examine well My Reins and search my Heart verse 3 My Eyes on all thy Mercies dwel From Truth I 'll ne'er depart verse 4 The Lyer's Seat my Thoughts abhor My Soul hates Hypocrites verse 5 Ne'er joins with wicked Councils nor In impious Ways delights verse 6 I 'll wash my Hands in Innocence And grateful Off'rings bring verse 7 Of Thee declare my humble Sense And all thy Wonders sing verse 8 Lord I have lov'd thy Temples while In them thy Glories dwell verse 9 O don't my Life to Sinners vile Nor bloody Murth'rers fell verse 10 Whose Hands to any Mischief move Who love large Bribes to see verse 11 So I 'll in all that 's good improve O save ô pity me verse 12 I 'll to the Paths of Righteousness My ready Steps consine And stand where thy great Name to bless Assembling Saints combine PSAL. XXVij verse 1 THE Lord 's my Light my Health Can Poor changing Mortals fear His Smiles my Life and Strength supply And can I saint appear verse 2 When wicked Men my spiteful Foes To eat me up design'd They trip'd and fell but never rose With Ma'ice deadly blind verse 3 What though huge Hosts beset me round My Heart no Fear can know Though War's Alarms about me found My Faith shall stronger grow verse 4 One Grant to keep his House Divine From God I long to hear To see his sacred Beauties shine And serve his Altars there verse 5 He me in dang'rous Times shall hide Within his secret Place A Rest a Rock for me provide verse 6 My Head with Honours grace Above my Foes which press me round While mighty Off'rings I Shall bring with Joys triumphant sound And praise my God most High Part 2. verse 7 Thy Ears Lord to my Cries afford And hear and pity me verse 8 To seek Thee thou command'st me Lord I 'll seek dear Lord to Thee verse 9 O never never hide thy Face In Anger Lord from me My Help of old ô let thy Grace My Guard my Safety be verse 10 Though off by cruel Parents thrown My God will own me still verse 11 To save me from my Foes make known To me thy righteous Will verse 12 O give me not dear Lord a Prey To barb'rous Enemies Who Snares for me by Falshood lay And hunt my Soul with Lyes verse 13 Lord of thy wond'rous Goodness sure My sainting Soul reviv'd Of thy refreshing Love secure While here on Earth I liv'd verse 14 Wait then on God with Courage bold And he 'll exalt thy State Thy Heart with Strength renew'd uphold On him ô humbly wait PSAL. xxviij verse 1 TO Thee my Rock my Lord I cry Thy Answer Lord I crave Left by thy Silence ruin'd I Too soon approach the Grave verse 2 Hear his Petitions when to Thee Thy lowly Servant prays When toward thy Seat of Mercy he His Hands shall humbly raise verse 3 O leave me not with impious Men With wicked Workers who Speak friendliest to their Neighbours when They plot their Overthrow verse 4 On their own wicked Heads at last Their black Designs return And let 'em all beneath the Blast Of self-sown Mischief mourn verse 5 Since they God's mighty Works despise And what his Hands have wrought Let Ruin all their Works surprize To swift Destruction
who owns the World and all its Plenty Or He who fills this All himself be empty verse 14 But if th' should'st bring a grateful Sacrifice Let humble Praise with holy Incense rise verse 15 Thy Vows made in Affliction justly pay verse 16 And to thy God in deep Afflictions pray And I 'll soon change thy melancholick Story And thy Deliv'rance shall advance my Glory verse 17 But to the Wicked God in Anger turns And thus at him his jealous Fury burns verse 18 Thou whose black Soul Divine Instruction hates In whom my Word no Reverence creates Know thou my Laws are Life to thofe who chuse them But ô how dare thy wretched Lips abuse them PSAL. lj How dar'st thou th' Office of a Priest assume Or in my Cov'nant read thy dismal Doom No Thieves commended in my Laws appear Nor canst thou find Adult'rers pardon'd there Yet with Adulterers and Thieves thy Sentence Thy Words thy Life agree without Repentance verse 19 All Hellish Arts thy Lips thy Tongue pollute Lyes are their Product Falshood all their Fruit. Thy Talk thy Neighbor and thy Friend blasphemes verse 20 Thy Mother's Sons are all thy scornful Themes It s thy whole Study thy affected Fashion To spread vile Scandals with Deliberation verse 21 Thus hast thou done and I in Silence still Ne'er broke thy Rest and never cross'd thy Will So my Existence was at last deny'd Or mine at least by thy vile Nature try'd Like some mean Idol to the World presented And against me all bold Affrents invented But now my Anger 's rouz'd thy Actions all Before my Sight in horrid Order fall See how they stand before thy trembling Eyes And in thy Face thy guilty Conscience flies No Sleep no Rest nor Quiet now befriend thee But Hellish never-ceasing Woes attend thee verse 22 O ye who God forget my Speeches weigh Lest you become my uncheck'd Fury's Prey verse 23 Praise to your Maker's Glory sai fice Be your Words holy and your Actions wise So may your Bliss obtain a long Duration And all be crown'd with my Divine Salvation verse 1 MErcy ô Mercy Lord to me Extend thy Mercy 's Store Let me thy pard'ning Mercy see To clear my sinful Score verse 2 Wash me from my Iniquity And purge me Lord from Sin verse 3 For I my Folly throughly see It racks my Breast within I see I see my Crimes when Sleeps Should seal my weary'd Eyes Me sill awake my Conscience keeps Or frightful Dreams surprize If I with noisie Pleasures try To ease my tortur'd Soul Black Lust and Blood are ever by And all my Joys control verse 4 To thee alone I 've sin'd to thee And trespass'd in thy Sight That justify'd thy Words might be And all thy Dealings right verse 5 Loe I at first was shap'd in Sin In Sin at first conceiv'd To that I 've since a Gaptive been By Hellish Arts deceiv'd verse 6 Thou look'st for inward Truth to me Thy secret Wisdom show verse 7 Purge thou my Soul my Soul shall be More white than Northern Snow verse 8 O let me once again the Voice Of Joy and Gladness hear And let these broken Bones rejoice Which now thy Vengeance bear Part 2. verse 9 From all my sinful Actions past O turn thy angry Face verse 10 Make me a Heart that 's clean at last A Mind renew'd by Grace verse 11 Cast me not wholly off nor take Thy sacred Gifts from me verse 12 Restore thy Saving Health and make My Spirit large and free verse 13 Then I the sinning World shall teach To tread thy perfect Way Conversion and Repentance preach To such as loosely stray verse 14 Save me from Guilt of Blood to me Thy kind Salvation bring And then my Tongue from Fetters free Thy righteous Acts shall sing verse 15 Unseal my Lips and then my Tongue Shall celebrate thy Praise Thy Praise shall be my constant Song As in my fairer Days verse 16 God wo'n't for costly Off'rings call Nor ask for Sacrifice Else should a Thousand Oxen fall And Incense daily rise verse 17 No God demands a nobler Part The Heart 's his Sacrifice A wounded Soul a bleeding Heart His Mercy can't despise verse 18 O now at last thy Favour show To thy selected Place Thy Church now despicably low With lofty Walls embrace verse 19 Then shall a righteous Sacrifice With thee Acceptance gain And humble Hearts and lifted Eyes Thy Altars Flames maintain Another Metre to the old proper Tune verse 1 ROus'd from a deadly sinful Dream With guilty Pangs of Conscience torn I prostrate here without one Beam Of Comfort lie a Wretch forlorn Mercy to me ô Mercy shew A Wretch thy Mercy Lord implores On me ô let thy Mercies flow And wash out all my guilty Scores O wash ô cleanse my Conscience Lord From Falshood Lust and Cruelty verse 3 For now I all my Guilt record And only dismal Objects see Lord how it racks my Soul how strong Guilt 's terrible Convulsion moves What Chains of Woes it drags along How bitter Sin 's Remembrance proves verse 4 Against Thee Thee alone I 've sin'd And boldly trespass'd in thy sight That I thy righteous Truth might find Thy Judgment pure thy Sentence right verse 5 Shap'd in Iniquity at first At first in Sin and Guilt conceiv'd I was originally curs'd My Soul of Innocence bereav'd Hence sprung the fatal Fruit and Hell With Ease my native Proneness won My careless Pride unguarded fell With shameless actual Guilt undone verse 6 If inward Truth Lord pleases Thee O let my Heart thy Wisdom know verse 7 Wash purge me through and l shall be More white more pure than Northern Snow verse 8 So shall I feel thy Beams again Thy Loves shall fill my pardon'd Soul My Bones long justly rack'd with Pain With Balmy Joys be sound and whole To Father Holy Ghost and Son One bless'd one glorious Trinity On whom our Hopes Hepend alone Eternal Praise and Glory bt Part 2. verse 9 From all my Crimes Lord turn thy Face No more my cancell'd Errours view O change my Heart and by thy Grace My Mind with Heav'nly Thoughts renew verse 22 Cast me not off nor from my Breast Thy sacred Influence remove verse 12 But with the saving Pleasures bless'd In Good my forward Soul improve verse 13 Then Sinners I 'll bring home to thee Transgressors shall thy Laws esteem verse 14 From Blood dear Saviour rescue me My Soul from Crimson Guilt redeem verse 15 If thou bless'd Lord my Lips unseal My Tongue thy sacred Name shall raise Thy Love my slowing Songs reveal My Mouth thy righteous Judgments praise verse 16 No bloody Sacrifice with thee No Fumes from steaming Altars rais'd Prevail else num'rous Herds for me Had on a Thousand Altars blaz'd verse 17 A Soul with Sense of Sin depress'd Is Lord thy noblest Sacrifice A broken Heart a contrite Breast Thy tender Mercies ne'er despise verse 18 Lord in thy Love thy Church defend Its ruin'd
The Serpent at a distance kill'd verse 4-5 Deaf Adders sooner hear the Charmer's Art Then youâ—'d support the poor Afflicted Heart verse 6 How shall I pray What Judgments on the Miscreants call Whose Lion rage Would all the trembling World devour Thy Wrath display Great God and make their Furies fall At once asswage Their Spite and desolating Power Let all their Strength like hasty Torrents fly Which now o'reflow now sink in Sands and dâ—e verse 7-8 Snails melt away Consum'd in their own unctuous slime When Mid-day's Sun On them shoots down his pointed Heat Those Births decay Which Women loose before their Time Shapes just begun And not by Nature's Hand compleat verse 9 So let them waste all strength their Members leave Their broken Bows and Shafts their Hands deceive Rise mighty God Let thy impetuous Fury break On their curs'd Heads While yet they firmly stand and thrive O let thy Rod Thy Wrath with dreadful Lashes speak As Ruines spread When fiery Tempests fiercely drive And thorny Woods with crackling Flames embrac'd Are laid at once in one short Moment waste verse 10 This Vengeance pass'd The Sons of Heaven shall droop no more But every Mind With Joys surprizing Raptures swell Their Feet be wash'd In flowing Streams of sinful gore verse 11 Till Men resign'd To powerful Truth with Praise shall tell God doubtless reigns his care his Servants guard And all their Faith with endless Love rewards PSAL. lix verse 1 FRom all my Foes dear Lord and those Who fierce against me stand verse 2 From Men of Blood who hate the Good My Safety Lord command verse 3 For those who hate my Soul lay wait The mighty Men combine And all agree to murder me For no Deserts of mine verse 4 For no base Facts no lawless Acts Their Bands my Life pursue For me thy Might then Lord excite And all my Dangers view verse 5 Thou God of Hosts who guard'st their Coasts For Israel's Land declare The Gentiles round in Wrath confound No Sins of Malice spare verse 6 Return'd at Night like Dogs they fight And round the City go And for the Prey they miss'd by Day Their snarling Temper show verse 7 Their very Words are piercing Swords For who can hear They cry verse 8 Let Scorn on all those Heathens fall With Smiles their Rage defy verse 9 Since Force and Might against me fight And God is kind and just My Confidence in his Defence Shall ever firmly trust verse 10 To me afford thy Mercies Lord With them prevent my Woes And ô let me thy Vengeance see On my insulting Foes Part 2 verse 11 Lord kill them not lest soon forgot My People sin the more But ô disperse with Anger fierce Their Substance and their Store verse 12 For all those Lyes their Hearts devise And what their Tongues have told Let all their Pride be mortify'd Their perjur'd Minds controll'd verse 13 Those Brutes abhorr'd in Anger Lord Consume consume them so That they thy Grace to Israel's Race And all the World may know verse 14 Return'd at Night like Dogs they 'll fight And round the City prowl verse 15 And long to eat and get no Meat But murmur loud and howl verse 16 Thy Strength I 'll sing my God my King Thy Mercies early praise For in my Grief their kind Relief My drooping Fancies raise verse 17 I 'll spread dear God thy Strength abroad Thy Mercies store disclose Till all have known from whence alone My kind Assistance flows PSAL. lx verse 1 O Why so distant Lord so far From Israel's chosen Line When in a sad destructive War So mighty Kings combine See how our trembling Armies move When not reviv'd by Thee O let us now thy ancient Love Thy former Mercies see verse 2 The Land beneath thy Furies shook Nor could its Fears conceal Oh with thy kind restoring Look Its dismal Breaches heal verse 3 Hard Things thy People Lord have try'd To deadly Fears betray'd verse 4 But now thy Banners on their Side Are for the Truth display'd verse 5 That thy Belov'd at large may live From Chains and Bondage free Let thy Right Hand Salvation give And hear and answer me verse 6 God spoke and in his Holiness My Heart with Joys supply'd And now I 'll Sichem's Lands possess And Succoth's Plains divide verse 7 Gilead is mine Manasseh's mine My Head on Ephraim rests But Judah's Tribe by Right Divine The Royal Crown invests verse 8 Moab my meanest Slave shall be And Edom kiss my Feet And Palestine subdu'd shall me With humblest Tributes meet verse 9 who 'll me through Cities fortify'd And Edom's Barriers lead verse 10 Lord sha ' n't thy Help so long deny'd Our marching Armies head verse 11 Man's Help in Troub e's vain for me Then Lord thy Aids dispose verse 12 Through God we 'll bravely Act for He Shall crush our angry Foes Another Metre As Psal 121. proper Tune verse 1 WHY Lord are we rejected why Thus off in Anger thrown And wretched Dastards grown O turn and with a gentler Eye All our late Disasters view And thy ancient Loves renew verse 2 Thy Anger shook the trembling Land And made its Pillars bow O heal its Breaches now verse 3 On Thine dear Lord thy weighty Hand Has a Thousand Hardships brought And impos'd a deadly Draught verse 4 But on thy Servants side at last Thy sacred Banner stands Thy Truth has arm'd their Bands And all their pressing Fears are past verse 5 Free that thy Belov'd may be O support and-answer me verse 6 God's Oracle of Holiness My Heart with Joy supp'y'd I 'll Sichem soon divide And Succoth's fertile Plains possess verse 7 Gileaa's mime Manasseh too And what Ephraim's Strength can do Judah the Royal Crown must wear verse 8 The meanest Slaves to me Shall Moab's Off-spring be And Edom's Youth my Shooes shall bear Palestine my conqu'ring Feet With triumphant Garlandls meet verse 9 Who through strong Forts to Edom's Head Our trembling Bands will guide Or in our Camps preside verse 10 Thou Lord of Hosts our Armies lead Though of old we off were thrown Now our Cause and Armies own In all our Streights assist us Lord For Man's poor Helps are vain verse 12 Through God we 'll Honour gain God's Strength to us shall Strength afford And his unresisted Blows Batter down our angry Foes PSAL. lxj verse 1 LOrd hear my Cries my Pray'rs attend verse 2 From Earth's last Quarters I On Thee though languishing depend To Thee for Comfort fly verse 3 O Thou my Help of old my Strength Against fierce Enemies Fix me on that high Rock at length Which all their Force defies verse 4 Within thy holy House my Rest Beneath thy Wings shall be verse 5 For all my Vows to Heav'n address'd Were kindly heard by Thee To those who fear thy Name thy Grace Shall large Possessions give verse 6 The King shall still before thy Face A Thousand Ages live verse 7 Let Truth and Mercy guard his Head
unfathom'd Night Thou throw'st my trembling Soul verse 7 On me thy angry Judgments light And all thy Tempests roul verse 8 Thou mak'st my Friends aloof remain And less than Strangers kind Nor can I Liberty obtain By Chains of Hate confind verse 9 Whole Seas of Tears my mournful Eyes Thro' deep afflictions shed To thee I send my daily Cryes My Hands submissely spread Part 2. verse 10 What Shall thy mighty Works be shown Where Death triumphant Reigns The Dead to make thy Wonders known Shake off their Icy Chains verse 11 What shall the Grave the silent Tomb. Advance thy Mercies Fame Or shall Destructions utmost Doom Thy Faithfulness proclaim verse 12 Or shall thy wordrous Works appear Where all thick Darkness hides Thy Righteousness be publish'd where Forgetfulness presides verse 13 To Thee dear Lord I cry to Thee My morning Prayers are made verse 14 O why 's my Soul cast off to me Thy Beams no more displaid verse 15 From my first Youth afflicted I With constant weakness prest Have born thy Terrors constantly In my Distracted Breast verse 16 Like breaking Seas with mighty Force Thy Terrours bear me down verse 17 And with a vast united Course My baffled Comforts drown verse 18 Thou mak'st my Friends who lov'd me too To mighty Distance fly And those I intimately knew In unknown Darkness ly PSAL. lxxxix Metre first as the 113th verse 1 I 'Le ever sing thy Mercy Lord Thy Truth from Age to Age record My Lips shall praise thy glorious Name verse 2 Thy Mercies everlasting are Thy Truths with Heaven it self compare Thy Faithful Promise I 'le proclaim verse 3 A Covenant long since I made And to my Servant David said My chosen King and firmly swore verse 4 Thy seed Eternally shall stand Thy Royal Scepter'd Heirs command Till Sea and Earth and Times no more verse 5 The Heaven's thy Wonders Lord shall praise Thy Holy Congregation raise Thy Faithful Works above the Skys verse 6 For who above 's compar'd with Thee What God-like Man thy Mate can be What Lord to equal Glories rise verse 7 Gods Presence srikes a reverend Fear Where his Assembling Saints appear And his attending Angels aws verse 8 Great God of Hosts whole strenth like Thine Whose Truth so breaks with Beams divine Receiv'd by every Worlds applause Part 2. verse 9 Thy Hands the mighty Ocean sway And make its angry Waves obey Thy Word its stormy Tempest quells verse 10 By that th' Egyptians wounded dy'd Thy dreadful Arm the gathering Pride Of all thy fiercest Foes dispells verse 11 Thy Hands Heaven's vaulted Arches made Thy Hands this Earth's Foundations laid And all the World with Plenty stor'd verse 12 The North and South thy Creatures are Tabor and Hermon both declare Thy Name and Thee their mighty Lord. verse 13 Thy Arm All-mighty strength endues Thy Hand resistless vigor shews Thy glorious Hand 's exalted high verse 14 Justice and Judgment make thy Throne Thy truth and ancient mercy Known Thy Steps to all the World desory verse 15 Thrice happy they whose Souls are warm'd By holy Trumpets sounds alarm'd And live enlightned Lord by Thee verse 16 They'j always in thy Name rejoice With solemn Musicks moving voice Thy Righteousness their strength shall be verse 17 Such happy Men securely stand And with a settled strength Command But God is still their Strength and Pride Thy Goodness and thy boundless Love Has rais'd our happy Strength above Since thou hast own'd out sinking side verse 18 The Lord is our Defensive shield That Holy One can shelter yield Who 's Israel's God and Israel's King verse 19 But that thou might'st our Hearts uphold A smiling Vision rais'd of old Did thus of thy Anointed sing Part 3 Metre 2. As the 100th verse 20 Help on a pow'rful Arm I 've laid A Man above the Vulgar plac'd My King my Servant David made His Head with holy Unction grac'd verse 21 Him shall my strength'ning Hand secure My Arm his strong support shall be verse 22 No En'my shall his Hurt procure No Sinner his Destruction see verse 23 I 'll dash his Foes before his Face And batter those who hate him down verse 24 With him my Truth and Mercy place And in my Name exalt his Crown verse 25 No Rivers Bank no Ocean's Wall Shall his unbounded Reign confine verse 26 He 'll me his God his Father call His Saving Health his Rock Divine verse 27 And him my First-born Son I 'll make Above Earth's Kings exalted high verse 28 With him my Mercy ne'er shall slake Nor my immortal Cov'nant die verse 29 His Seed shall ever last his Throne Out-shine out-wear the Rolling Skies verse 30 But if his Sons my Laws disown Or e'er against my Judgments rise verse 31 If they my stated Laws prophane My Precepts or Injunctions slight verse 32 With Rods their Follies I 'll restrain Their Sins with Strokes deserv'd requite verse 33 Yet not my Mercies quite remove Nor break my faithful Word of old verse 34 Expose my Covenanted Love Nor change what Prophets once foretold verse 35 Once by my Holiness I 've sworn And can't my David's Hopes deceive verse 36 His Seed to Crowns and Scepters born No Time shall of their Rights bereave verse 37 The Sun the Moon which guild the Skies Those faithful Signs to Mortals known May cease to set and cease to rise But nothing shock his glorious Throne Part 4. Metre 3. verse 38 Such was thy Promise Lord of old But at a distance now Terrours thy dear Anointed hold From thy contracted Brow verse 39 Thou 'st thrown thy sacred Cov'nant by Defil'd his trampled Crown verse 40 Let all his Walls in Ruins lie And trod his Fences down verse 41 Him all who pass may spoil and all His neighb'ring Foes despise verse 42 On him their Troops insulting fall And high their Forces rise verse 43 No Wounds his Edgeless Sword bestows He flies the Martial Field verse 44 His Throne 's cast down nor can his Brows Their former Lustre yield verse 45 His youthful Bloom now fades With Woes And he 's o'erw helm'd with Shame verse 46 How long shall We thy Favour lose And seel thy Fury's Flame verse 47 Think Lord how vain is Man How I Have but a While to live verse 48 What Man now breaths but once must die What Art can Lives retrieve verse 49 Where are thy Mercies Lord of old By Oath to David due verse 50 Think how our Lives to Shame are sold What Scorns thy Friends pursue verse 51 Think how thy Foes black Scandals raise On thy Anointed King verse 52 While we to thy immortal Praise Amens devoutly sing PSAL. xc verse 1 THou Lord from Age to Age hast been Our certain Resting-place verse 2 Before the lofty Hills were seen On Earth's extended Face Before this Earth to Shape was grown Before the World was fram'd Thee Lord the mighty God alone Eternity proclaim'd verse 3 When Man fix'd in a glorious State With thriving
me With humble Tribute gladly meet verse 10 Whoe'l me thro' Cities fortify'd Or Edom's rocky Frontiers lead verse 11 Lord let thy Help so long deny'd At last our fainting Armies head verse 12 Up Lord in times of Danger aid For Humane Helps are only shows verse 13 And valiant thro'thy Influence made Wee 'l trample o're our vanquish'd Foes PSAL. cix verse 1 O Thou dear God of all my Praise No longer silent go verse 2 For sinful Men in sinful Ways And Traitors bolder grow Against me-they their Rage excite Their Tongues with Falshood whet verse 3 And me with Words of deadly spite And causeless Hate beset verse 4 They for my kindness prove my Foes But I in silence pray verse 5 Malice to Goodness they oppose And Love with Hate repay verse 6 Make Him some wicked Tyrant's slave Let Satan bind his hands verse 7 And Sins severest Sentence have When He in judgment stands verse 8 Nay let his very Prayers be Sin verse 9 His Days be dark and few That Office fix another in Which to himself was due No Father let his Children see His widow'd Wife go mourn verse 10 His Off-spring common Vagrants be Expos'd to Want and Scorn Their Bread from cruel Hands intreaty verse 11 The Griping-Usurers trade Seize all his Wea'th and every Cheat His Pains and Gains invade verse 12 No Mercy let his Cries engage Nor all his Orphan race verse 13 But sink'um all in one short Age Their very Names deface Part 2. verse 14 In God's revenging Presence let Their Father's Crimes remain No length of Time or Years forget Their Mother's viler stain verse 15 Let them God's sleeping Vengeance move Their Memory to destroy verse 16 Since Grace could ne'er his Soul improve Not Love his Thoughts employ But the dear Man to Sorrows born With humblest Thoughts inclu'd The broken Heart with Anguish torn His bloody Hate pursu'd verse 17 Cursing and hellish Words he lov'd His Lot may Curses be His Heart no Blessings e'er approv'd Let him no Blessing see verse 18 He Curses for a Garment us'd And with their poisonous draught His Bowels washt like Oil diffus'd Quite thro' his Bones they wrought verse 19 May He no other Garments wear But Curses closely bound And Curses for a Girdle bear To gird him duely round verse 20 Be this the Just reward of those From God's revenging Hand Whose spiteful Words my Life oppose And who against me stand verse 21 But Lord for thy Names sake appear My Party kindly own Thy Mercy 's Goo'd ô let it here To vescue Me be shown Part 3. verse 22 For wretched and afflicted I With inward Wounds decay verse 23 And like an Evening Shadow fly Or Locusts hurld away verse 24 My Knees with tedious Fastings fail And all my Leanness see verse 25 My Foes with brutish scorn assail And shake their Heads at me verse 26 Help ô My God! ô save Me show Thy farmer Mercies now verse 27 That all thy Love to me may know Thy Helps dear Lord allow verse 28 Then let them Curse me stil on me Thy Blessings Lord bestow Let Them their own Confusion see But me thy gladness know verse 29 When great they seem like some large Cloke Let Shame be round them roul'd verse 30 And I 'le thy Name in Crouds invoke Thy Praise at large unfold verse 31 For God still by the Poor Mans side With sure assistance stands His Soul with saving Wings to hide From partial Judges Hands PSAL. CX verse 1 SIT here on my Right Hand the Lord Thus to my Lord has said Till thou shalt see thy Foes abhor'd Beneath thy Footstool lay'd verse 2 From Sions Hill thy regal claime Thy Scepter first shall rise Thence Reign and with thy awful Name Command thy Enemies verse 3 When thy Prodigious Might appears Thy ready Armies move And Preach those happy gladsome years The Reign of boundless Love Tho' at a mighty distance now The careless People stand To Thee they'I then as swiftly flow And own thy ruling Hand Wash'd from their Crimes and snowy white Their Tempers undefild And cloth'd with Innocence and Light And like their Matter mild These Conquests first belong'd to Thee E're dewy Mornings rose Or Time cou'd thro' Eternity Thy sacred Birth disclose verse 4 Then by himself thy Father swore And shook his awful Throne And when swift Time shall be no more He'el that Engagement own Thou' rt an Eternal Priest to Thee There 's no succeeding Heir And like Melchisedes shalt be And Crown and Miter wear verse 5 The Lord shall in his angry Day Rebellious Kings destroy verse 6 Among the Gentiles fierce'y sway And fill his own with Joy But where bo'd Opposition reigns The slughter'd Corpses round And dying Kings shall spread the Plains And stain the purple Ground verse 7 But he before the Conquest gain'd The Rage of Thirst shall know With Sorrow's streams be entertain'd And drink of deadly Woe Till all those Difficulties past His Glory 's largely spread And all shall see the Crown at last On his victorious Head PSAL. cxj. O Praise the Lord my Heart prepare To praise the mighty Lord Where-e'er his bless'd Assemblies me Will I his Name record verse 2 Great are his Works and earnestly By Men of Wisdom sought verse 3 His Works are all with Majesty And comely Beauty wrought His Righteousness eternally Shall with his Works endure verse 4 In grateful Minds his Clemency And his Compassions sure verse 5 For those who fear his sacred Name The Lord at large provides His ancient Covenant the same Still in his Thoughts abides verse 6 The Might where with his Works are wrought He to his People shows And Portions from the Gentiles brought On them at large bestows verse 7 His Works in Truth and Judgment done His Precepts just and sure verse 8 As first in Righteousness begun Through ev'ry Age endure verse 9 The Lord his People once redeem'd And gave them lasting Laws And still his holy Name esteem'd Our Veneration draws verse 10 True Wisdom springs from Godly Fear An Understanding pure Will in Obedience best appear And its just Praise endure PSAL. cxij. O Praise the Lord All Blessings wait On him who fears his Name In whom his just Commands create Pure Love's immortal Flame verse 2 Mighty on Earth his Seed shall be His Generation bless'd verse 3 His Righteousness shall last and he In Wealth and Plenty rest verse 4 To Men of upright Hearts the Light Through gloomy Darkness shines Mercy 's the righteous Man's Delight To Love his Soul inclines verse 5 He 's pitiful to Men distress'd And lends to those in Need In Judgment from his milder Breast No cruel Words proceed verse 6 He ne'er shall move his Memory Shall ever sweetly last verse 7 From Fear through heavy Tidings free His Heart in God be fast verse 8 His Heart from cold Despair secur'd Can on his God repose Till of the Down-fall he 's assur'd Of all his angry Foes
5 Thus Men may sow in Tears but hope To reap their Fields in Joy Their precious Seed may give them Scope For Faith's Divine Employ verse 6 Long may they wait and long may fear Their Seed was vainly sown Yet home their Sheaves triumphant bring At last a Burden grown Another Metre Proper Tune verse 1 WHen God at last Return'd his happy Captives home We all appear'd Like those who in their Slumbers dream verse 2 Mirth from our Lips Praise from our chearful Tongues would come Mirth daily was Our Food and Praise our daily Theam The very Heathens round us wondring cry'd See how God's Love to them is magnifi'd verse 3 God's Love to us Indeed is highly magnify'd Our present Joys Are more than former Sorrows great verse 4 Thou Lord who dost Ful◠Streams for Southern Lands provide O let our Restitution be at last compleat verse 5 So Judah's Lands shall more Refreshment know Than Sands thro' which thy cooling Rivers flow Thus tho' swell'd Grief Rou's in with an impetuous Tide Yet sliding off It soon its Place to Joy resigns verse 6 And he who pretious Seed on barren Mountains try'd And thro' a fond Mistake to cold Despair inclines Comes home at last with Joys triumphant Sound With weighty Sheves his fruitful Harvest crown'd PSAL. cxxvij. verse 1 IF God to build the House denies The Workmen build in vain And Towns without Gods wakeful Eyes A needless Watch maintain verse 2 Before the Mornings Blushes rise Your daily Works renew And till the Stars remount the Skies Your daily Works pursue Fare ne're so hard it 's all in vain If yet by God unblest Do all and but his Smiles obtain You 'll safely sweetly rest verse 3 Lo Children from the pregnant Womb By Gods blest Influence grow verse 4 Like Arrows in their youthful Bloom Shot from some Gyant 's Bow verse 5 O happy 's he whose Quiver's sill'd With such bright Shafts resound He 'll ne're to Force nor Malice yield While these his Foes confound Another Metre Proper Tune verse 1 IF God to build the House denies The Workmen build but build in vain And Cities useless Guards maintain If God withdraws his watchful Eyes Gods Help out-does the Builders Art And He performs the Watchman's Part. verse 2 Before the Morning-Blushes rise Your daily painful Works renew Your daily painful Works pursue Till Night again obscures the Skies Support your selves with meanest Fare The Drink of Tears the Bread of Care In vain you toil and build in vain If God still at a Distance stands And neither bless your Heads nor Hands But if his Love you once obtain Then rise or watch or fast or weep You 'll safely live and sweetly sleep verse 3 Lo Children from the pregnant Womb By God's immediate Blessing grow verse 4 Like Shafts sent from some Giants Bow They seem in all their youthful Bloom They too can hurl their deadly Darts With steady Hands and daring Hearts verse 5 O happy 's he whose Quiver sounds With such important Shafts as these The Man his Foes undaunted sees No Fear his Head or Heart confounds Nor will he quit the Martial Field While these Support and Comfort yield PSAL. cxxviij verse 1 HAppy thrice happy Thou Who in his own best way Dost to thy Great Creator bow And his Commands obey verse 2 His Blessings round thee wait And on thy Labours rest Thy meaner but contented State With Peace and Safety blest verse 3 Like some fair spreading Vine With purple Grapes o're-born So thy kind Mates chast Beauties shine Her Fruits thy Walls adorn The lovely Mother she With hopeful Issue crown'd Her Sons like Olive Plants shall be Thy Tables planted round verse 4 Thus sha'l the Lord his Grace On thee his Friend bestow verse 5 To thee from Sion's sacred Place A thousand Favours show Blest with a firm old Age Thy happy Eyes shall see Thy lively fruitful Heirs presage A long Posterity verse 6 Thy happy Eyes shall see The Churches blest encrease Secur'd by long Felicity And universal Peace PSAL. cxxix verse 1 ME from my Youth may Israel say My Foes have oft opprest verse 2 In vain from Youthful Years have they Distur'd my Peaceful Rest verse 3 Deep o're my Back the Wicked plow'd And long their furrows drew And would of short successes proud Their spiteful ways pursue verse 4 But God the Righteous Judge with ease Their Cords in Pieces tore verse 5 May Shame and Fear these Wretches seize Who hate to Sion bore verse 6 Let them like Corn on Houses dy Which Springs but quickly dyes verse 7 Which Mowers pass regardless by And Reapers all despise verse 8 No Passengers would kindly call To such as labour'd there Gods Blessing on Your Labours fall His Name your Harvest cheer PSAL. cxxx verse 1 FRom gloomy Deeps Dear Lord to Thee From gloomy Deeps I cry'd verse 2 O hear me let thy Mercy be No more to me deny'd verse 3 Shouldst thou our Sinns severely weigh Who Lord thy Wrath could bear verse 4 But Pardon is thy gentler Way The Spring of Godly Fear verse 5 My Soul Lord waits it waits for Thee And on thy Word depends E're I the dawning Morning see My Soul the Lord attends To him ô raise your Humble Eles Poor Israels scatter'd Race With him kind Mercy treasur'd lies And never failing Grace From Him Redemption freely flows And Hee 'l redeem Thee too From all thy Sinns and all those Woes Which justly Sinn pursue PSAL. cxxxj NO Prides aspiring Rage No swelling Thoughts engage Dear God my Heart to beat a part With this corrupted Age. I ne'r at Empire aim'd Nor Crowns nor Scepters claim'd Nor soar'd above with wanton Love Of Mysteries enflam'd But as some Babe at Rest Wean'd from its Mothers Breast Close Silence keeps with gentle sleeps Or Smiling Slumbers blest So Lord my Soul set free From careful Vanity From Earths delights and unknown Flights In Silence waits on Thee O Ye of Israels race O seek his glorious Face On Him besure your Faith secure And his Commands embrace PSAL. cxij. verse 1 REmember Davids Troubles Lord How in Affliction He verse 2 With faithful Vows engag'd his Word O Jacobs God to Thee verse 3 High tho my lofty Palace rise With Cedar nobly ciel'd And Beds with Golden Canopyes Would downy Slumbers yield verse 4 I 'll ne'r my Rooms of State approach Nor stretch my self at ease No sleep shall on my Brows encroach My Lids no Slumbers please verse 5 Till I that happy Place have found By Heavenly Favour blest Where Jacobs God on Holy ground Will fix his glorious Rest It 's done and as our Meaner Race Of old their Maker chose So rough and mean's that wondrous Place Where hee 'l at last repose verse 6 Ephrata's Fields and Shilohs Plains Are all alas destroy'd And Sions Mount unsmooth'd remains And rough obscure and void Yet there his Arke is fix'd and there His sacred Altars stand Till there his Temples roofs
appear And all the Mount command verse 7 Come let 's approach the place before His holy Altars bow And at his glorious Feet adore And due Submission show Part 2. verse 8 Rise Lord thy Arke of Glory raise Assume thy chosen Seat And on thy flock which humbly prays Thy Blessings Lord repeat verse 9 Thy Priests with Righteousness invest Thy Saints for Joy shall sing verse 10 For Davids sake his Offspring blest To Crowns and Scepters bring verse 11 The Lord to David sware of old His Oath in Truth was made Thy Seed shall still the Kingdom hold From Heirs to Heirs convey'd verse 12 And if thy Sons with prudent Care My Covenant observe And from those Rules my Laws declare Shall never vainly swerve I too will them as Kings support And thy continued Line On Salems Throne in Judae's Court From Age to Age shall shine verse 13 Sion is Gods Election where Hee 'l hold his Residence verse 14 Here will I always dwell and here My long'd for Rest Commence verse 15 I 'le their Provisions largely bless Their Poor with plenty cloy verse 16 Their Priests with my Salvation dress And fill their Saints with Joy verse 17 There Davids Branches ever strong Shall fill the Regal Line The Lamp of my Anointed long With settled Lustre shine verse 18 Shame shall his envious Foes surround But his iâ—lustrous Head With starry Beams of Glory crown'd Fresh Honours round him shed PSAL. cxxxiij verse 1 HOw sweet how charming is the Sight Where prudent Christians move In peaceful Ways and all delight To wear the Chains of Love Then Kindness fills their tender Hearts And shoots thro all their Eyes Each Tongue a Love unfeign'd imparts And Love's their Exercise verse 2 So when those fragrant Oils of old The Head of Aaron crown'd And down his Head the Ba som roll'd And drench'd his Garments round From him the pleasant Odours thro' The Tabernacle flow'd And on the sacrificing Crew A thousand Sweets bestow'd verse 3 And as soft Rains and pearly Dews On Sion's Mount distill And Clouds their Silver Drops diffuse On Hâ—moâ—'s fruitful Hill So God where Men his Peace maintain His Blessing largely sends And Love to all that heavenly Train From Age to Age extends Another Metre as the 148. SWeet Peace blest Charity How soft thy heavenly Charms When that uniting Tye The Souls of Brethren arms And soars above Rough Nature's Jars And sinful Wars On Wings of Love More sweet than Balsams shed By Gods divine Command On Aaron's sacred Head Which all his Garments stain'd And thence distill'd Gods holy Place With heavenly Grace And Odours fill'd verse 3 More sweet than those soft Dews Which ancient Hermon crown'd Or Drops which Clouds diffuse Gods holy Mount around And all below Kind warmth prevails And pleasant Dales With Plenty flow verse 3 Where such sweet Concord reigns The God of Peace descends The Church and State maintains And every Tribe defends His Blessings fall And Life and Ease And lasting Peace Extends to all PSAL. cxxxiv. verse 1 YE who before the Lord In nightly turns adore With Praise his wondrous Acts record His gracious Smiles implore verse 2 Up toward his holy Place Your Hands devoutly raise And all those happy Hours embrace To sing his glorious Praise verse 3 For he at whose Command The World from Nothing rose Great Blessings with a liberal Hand On all his Church bestows PSAL. cxxxv verse 1 O Praise the Lord ye Saints his Name With grateful Anthems raise verse 2 Who in his House your Stations claim And fill his Courts with Praise verse 3 Praise ye the Lord the gracious Lord For 't is a pleasant Thing When Men with Thanks his Name record With Thanks his Praises sing verse 4 For God himself his Israel chose His own peculiar Care verse 5 Vain Gods in vain his Strength oppose With him in vain compare verse 6 Thro' the vast Deeps Seas Earth and Skies God acts his pleasure all verse 7 He bids the cloudy Vapours rise And he commands their Fall Fierce Lighthings on his pouring Rains At his Commands attend Rough Winds he from his Treasures dreins VVhich thence in Storms ascend God the First-born from Man to Beast Thro trembling Egypt slew Him by his dreadful Plagues opprest Distracted Egypt knew Pharaoh and all his Armies dy'd Beneath his weighty Hand verse 10 He many mighty Kings destroy'd And many a fruitful Land verse 11 Sihon and Og and all who reign'd Of Canaan's Reaâ—ms possest verse 12 Till Israel's Race their Kingdoms gain'd And there secur'd their Rest Part 2. verse 13 Thy Name and thy Memorial Lord From Age to Age endures verse 14 Thy Justice all thy Saints record VVhile that their Peace procures For God for all their Sufferings griev'd And their afflicted Case VVill them from cruel Foes reliev'd VVith tend ' rest Loves embrace verse 15 Idols for Gods the Gentiles blind Of Gold and Silver use VVhose Mouths were ne're for Speech design'd VVhose Eyes the Light refuse verse 16 No sound could over-reach their Ears No Breath their Lives declare verse 17 Dull as their Gods their Slaves appear And such their Makers are verse 19 The Lord ô ye of Israel's Race O Aaron's House proclaim verse 20 Ye Levites ye who seek his Grace O Praise his sacred Name verse 21 With Blessings from his holy Hill His Name and Acts record Whose Glories all his Churches fill Praise ye ô praise the Lord PSAL. cxxxvj verse 1 O Praise th' Eternal Lord verse 2 The God of Gods adore His Mercies sure unchang'd endure A never-failing Store verse 3 O praise the Lord of Lords verse 4 Who Wonders works alone His Mercies sure unchang'd endure To endâ—ess Ages known verse 5 Praise Him whose curious Hand Stretch'd out the lofty Skies His Mercies sure unchang'd endure When all expiring lies verse 6 He made firm Land above The mighty Waters rise His Mercies sure unchang'd endure When Time and Nature dies verse 7 Praise Him whose Wisdom first Set up the glorious Light His Mercies sure unchang'd endure As that immensely bright verse 8 The Sun to rule the Day verse 9 The Moon and Stars the Night His Mercies sure unchang'd endure In all the Nations sight verse 10 He all their eldest Hopes Thro' Egypt's Land destroy'd His Mercies sure unchang'd endure O're all his Works employ'd verse 11 Thence with an out-stretch'd Arm verse 12 He lead his Israel's Race His Mercies sure unchang'd endure When Time resigns his Place Part 2. verse 13 Praise Him whose powerful Hand Made mighty Seas divide His Mercies sure unchang'd endure Thro' endless Ages try'd verse 14 VVho thro' the sandy Deeps All Israel's Armies lead His Mercies sure Unchang'd endure In all his Actions read verse 15 But o're proud Pharaoh's Host Returning VVaves prevail'd His Mercies sure unchang'd endure On all his own Entail'd verse 16 VVho thro' the Desert wilde His People march'd secure His Mercies sure unchang'd endure And as his Nature pure verse
for me verse 7 Lord set my Soul from Prison free To praise thy sacred Name And when the Righteous compass me Thy Bounties I 'le proclaim PSAL. clxiij verse 1 LOrd hear my Prayers accept my Cries In Truth and Righteousness verse 2 And let not Judgments sharp surprize Thy Servant's Soul oppress For when thy searching Eyes begin To try our fading Years Lord in thy sight o'rewhelm'd with Sin The purest Saint appears verse 3 My Soul pursu'd by cruel Foes My Life quite overthrown I ly in Darkness lost like those Who to their Graves are gone verse 4 For this my Spirit faints in me My Heart deserted mourns verse 5 And to my labouring Memory My happier Age returns On all thy Acts I daily muse Thy Works run daily o're verse 6 And as the parching Earth soft Dews So Thee my Hands implore verse 7 I faint ô quickly quickly hear Thy smiles dear Lord I crave Least I like dying Men appear Who just approach the Grave verse 8 Let me thy Mercies early gain For Lord I trust in Thee To Thee I lift my Soul make plain The way of Life to me verse 9 Save me from all my Foes who still To Thee for shelter fly verse 10 Teach me to do thy sacred Will My Lord my God most High O let thy Spirit lead me to The Land of Righteosness verse 11 My Soul with active Life renew And for thy Glory bless Just Lord from Troubles set me free And all my Foes destroy Thy Mercy and thy Help let me Thy Servant Lord enjoy PSAL. clxjv verse 1 BLest be the Lord my strength whose Care And whose victorious Might Instructs my ready Hands for War My Fingers for the Fight verse 2 My Goodness Fort my Raiser He My Saviour and my Shield In Him I trust thro' Him to Me My willing People yield verse 3 Lord what is Man what Man 's weak Race Own'd by the favouring Ey verse 4 Meer Vanity His Age his Grace Like Shadows swiftly fly verse 5 Lord bow thy Heavens come down divide The Hills the Hills shall smoke verse 6 Shoot Lightnings break destroy their Pride With one confounding stroke verse 7 Lord from above thy Arms extend And save and rescue Me From Headstrong Crouds my Crown defend And Forreign Tyranny verse 8 From such whose Lips and Hands in Lyes In Deed and Word agree verse 9 So I 'll new Songs new Tunes devise On Lute and Harp to Thee Part 2 verse 10 The Lord his strong Salvation's Guards On Royal Head bestows And from his Servant David wards The plotting Traitors blows verse 11 Save Me my God! ô rescue Me From Forreign Enemies Whose Words Actions all agree In Treachery And Lies verse 12 So shall our Sons like Plants alive In Water'd Gardens show And with a kindly vigour thrive And daily stronger grow Our Daughters like fair Marble Coines Smooth'd by some Currious hand On which the building sweetly joyns The Roofs securely stand verse 13 All kind of Grain shall largely flow And run our Garners o're Till none by Numbers force can know Our never ending store Our Flocks their Young by thousands near Our very Gates shall lay Ten thousands in the rolling Year About out Pastures play verse 14 Our Cattel to their Work be strong We no Invasions fear No Captives know no Cries among Our peaceful Dwellings hear verse 15 Happy the Tribes must needs become On whom such Favour flows But ô more happy those on whom Their God himself bestows PSAL. cxlv verse 1 THy Name my God my King I 'll raise Above the lofty Skyes verse 2 Each Day thy Holy Name I 'll praise And Psalms of thanks devise verse 3 Great is our Lord his Glory 's great No Bounds his Greatness knows verse 4 And Race to race his Acts repeat His wondrous Works disclose verse 5 I 'll all my serious Thoughts address To search thy wondrous ways verse 6 The World thy Terrors shall confess While I thy Greatness praise verse 7 Thy Righteous Truth the World adores To mind thy Goodness brings And all thy Loves unfailing Stores In grateful Anthems Sings verse 8 Our Lord 's Compassionate and kind To vengeance only slow verse 9 His Goodness all his Creatures find O're all his Mercies flow verse 10 Thee all thy Works ô God shall Praise And celebrate thy Name Thy Saints as gladly all their Days Thy glorious Might proclaim Part 2. verse 11 Thy Might thy Kingdom 's glorious State Thy Servants Talk shall show verse 12 Till all thy valiant Acts relate Thy awful Glories know verse 13 Beyond Times bounds thy Kingdom stands Thy Government endures verse 14 Thy Help supports the weak thy Hand Their timely Ease procures verse 15 To Thee all raise their longing Eyes From Thee they beg their Food verse 16 Thy Bounteous Hand their Wants supplies And satisfies with Good verse 17 How Just blest God how gentle all Thy Ways and Works appear verse 11 Kind to those Souls which on Thee call To those who seek Thee near verse 19 Thou grantst the pious Suppliants Prayers Thou seest thy Servants Tears Thy Hand relieves their Various Cares And Ends their Doubts and Fears verse 20 But all the wicked World shall find Thy Judgments dreadful weight To thy revenging Wrath resign'd And unrelenting Hate verse 21 Thy Name blest God my Songs shall raise Above the lofty Skyes And all to Thee shall pay their Praise Till Times last Moment dyes PSAL. cxlvj. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord with praise my Soul Thy Maker's Glories raise verse 2 While Breath and Life are in me whole I 'll sing thy lofty Praise verse 3 On Kings on Men of mortal Birth For safety ne'r rely verse 4 Whose Breath goes out who turn to Earth And all whose Counsels dy verse 5 But happy 's He whose Hopes whose Aid On God his Lord depends verse 6 Who Seas Earth Heaven and all things made Whose Promise never ends verse 7 He for the Poor his Judgment shows When prest by Violence Does Prisoners free and Food to those Of Hungry Souls dispence verse 8 God to the Blind gives Sense and Eyes And with his healing Art Sets up the sinking Soul supplies With Love the faithful Heart verse 9 The Widows Orphans Stranger 's cause The Lord himself maintains But o're the Stubborn Sinner draws Destructions fatal Chains verse 10 Thy King thy Lord ô Sion reigns His Actions all record His Throne from Age to Age remains Praise ye ô Praise the Lord PSAL. cxlvij. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord its good to Sing Our Mighty Maker's praise It s pleasant and a comely thing His Glorious Acts to blaze verse 2 The Lord poor Salem's Walls repairs Her wretched Dust removes And home her wandring Outcasts bears Fenced with his tenderest Loves verse 3 The Lord finds out with pittying Art What Man from Man conceals And gently binds the bleeding Heart Its wounds as gently Heals verse 4 He names the Stars which fill the Skies And all their Number
thy saving Health rejoice verse 2 Since he bless'd Lord his Wishes had And thou hast heard his humble Voice verse 3 Thy Goodness all his Hopes prevents And crowns his Head with envy'd Gold verse 4 He beg'd for Life thy Love consents He long may live and ne'er be old verse 5 Thy great Salvation set him high With all Majestick Glory crown'd verse 6 On him Eternal Blessings lie Thy Heav'nly Joys his Heart surround verse 7 The King on God above relies And in his Mercy firmly stands verse 8 No Foe beyond his Anger flies Nor scapes his long revenging Hands verse 9 Lord when thy dreadful Fury burns Its Flame their Stock at once consumes verse 10 And all their Race on Earth o'erturns And all their wretched Pride intombs verse 11 Against thee they conspir'd and fram'd Such Plots as no Effect could take verse 12 O let them turn their Backs asham'd Thine Arrows sharp against them make verse 13 Exalt thy Might thy Glory Lord Arise exalt thy lofty Name While we with Songs thy Might record And all thy wondrous Acts proclaim PSAL. xxij verse 1 WHY ô my God my God ô why Hast thou Forsaken me How long so distant from my Cry Shall thy Salvation be verse 2 To thee my God I cry by Day To thee by Night I cry With Tears with restless Tears I pray Yet unregarded die verse 3 Yet Thou art holy Lord and pure With faithful Praise ador'd verse 4 Our Father's Hopes in Thee were sure Thy Heâ—p their Souls restor'd verse 5 On Thee they call'd and hop'd in Thee Yet no Disgrace receiv'd Thy Hand procur'd their Liberty And all their Wants reliev'd verse 6 But I a wretched Worm the Name Of Man in vain have born By Men expos'd to common Shame And all the Vulgar's Scorn verse 7 Their Heads their Lips when I appear With Scoffs disdainful move verse 8 Let 's see they cry if God can hear If God his Cause approve God was his Hope in God his Trust On God the Wretch rey'd God if He 'll have him strongly must Espouse his Darling's Side verse 9 But from my Mother's Breasts and Womb Thou wast my God my Guide verse 10 Thy careful Hand my youthful Bloom My Infant Cries supply'd verse 11 So on thy Grace I still depend O never cast me by For daily Woes my Life attend And no Assistant's nigh Part 2. verse 12 Against me Sinners fierce engage And impious Arms prevail verse 13 And me with Lions rampant Rage And open Mouths assail verse 14 My Life runs off like Winter-Streams My Bones disjointed start As Wax before the Sun 's hot Beams So melts my careful Heart verse 15 My Strength quite dries away my Tongue Cleaves to my parching Jaws And I shall soon to Earth belong By Death's determin'd Laws verse 16 For angry Dogs around me meet And all the Godless Crew They pierce my bleeding Hands and Feet And Wounds on Wounds renew verse 17 Each Passenger may tell my Bones While here I rack'd appear And gaze in Scorn while deathful Groans My wasted Vitals tear verse 18 My Robes my cruel Murd'rers seize And carefully divide And for their Shares their doubtful Pleas Impartial Lots decide verse 19 But leave me not my Strength my Lord O fly to resoue me verse 20 My helpless Soul ô from the Sword And bloody Dogs set free verse 21 From Lions Mouths and Brutish Might O save and hear my Prayer verse 22 So I 'l in all thy Church's Sight Thy Name thy Praise declare Part 3. verse 23 O ye who fear the Lord with Praise His happy Smiles implore Ye faithful Seed his Glories raise His sacred Name adore verse 24 He ne'er despis'd nor cast aside The Poor's afflicted Case Nor hid his Face but when I cry'd Bestow'd his wonted Grace verse 25 To thee my God I 'll lofty Praise In Vast Assemblies sing My humblest Vows on holy Days With just Devotion bring verse 26 The Poor shall eat to Fulness there Thy Saints thy Praises found Their joyful Hearts with Heav'nly Cheer And Life Eternal crown'd verse 27 Earth's farthest Bounds to Thee shall bow The World thy Grace proclaim All Nations Thee their God shall know And bear thy sacred Name verse 28 For God above the Nations reigns And o'er the World presides His Word their quiet State maintains And Truth to all divides verse 29 The Rich shall all his Rights allow And just Obedience pay The Poor to him shall gladly bow And his Commands obey Nay those whose drooping Souls draw near The dark devouring Grave Shall at his Name reviv'd appear And his Protection crave verse 30 Their Seed their gracious God shall serve And in his Family Their happy States and Names preserve And all his Goodness see verse 31 They shall his Righteousness to all Succeeding Ages show That those to come on God nay call And all his Wonders know Another Metre As the 124th WHY ô my God ô why my God dost Thou Desert a Soul oppress'd with mighty Woe Thou whose uhbounded Mercies largely flow And ready Help and kind Supports allow To others who beneath their Suff'rings bow verse 2 Crush'd by thy weighty Wrath my dreadful Cries My flowing Tears consume the chearful Light My restless Groans disturb the silent Night Yet still my absent God his Smiles denies For Tears or Groans has neither Ears nor Eyes verse 3 What! Can thy Wrath against a Godless Race Thy Nature change or to thy Servants make Thy Promise fail Can God himself forsake O no! He 's holy still His wondrous Grace The faithful World with Praise and Thanks embrace verse 4 On him our happy Fathers long believ'd Their Faith in him in him their Hopes were sure Their Considence in him from Shame secure verse 5 His ready Arm their pressing Wants reliev'd Their ancient Freedom and their State retriev'd verse 6 But I 'm beneath a Man's exalted Name A trampled Worm a Wretch forgot forlorn Expos'd to all th' insulting Vulgar's Scorn My heavy Woes their scossing Wits inflame And think I merit greater Pains and Shame verse 7 See how they toss their Heads the barb'rous Crew Shoot out their Tongues with pointed Flouts and Jeers Unkind returns for all my sanguine tears With cruel Joys the Rout my Life pursue And my unutterable Torments view verse 8 God was th' Impostors Patron once they cry God was his Strength his Friend his Father too Let 's see what that Almighty Friend can do Let 's see his God through the dividing Sky On rapid Wings to his Assistance fly verse 2 Yet from my Mother's Breasts and Virgin womb Wast thou my God and I was only thine My Birth Conception Nature all Divine verse 10 On Thee I trusted in my early Bloom Thy Image in my Infant-Soul had Room And can I doubt my God's immortal Love Can Seas or Earth again or can the Sky Dissolv'd in one unshap'd Confusion lie Can groundless Hate pursue the spotless Dove Or can unkind Oblivion reign above
brought verse 6 O bless'd ô bless'd be God who hears His praying Servant's Voice verse 7 My Might my Shield from all my Fears In whom my Thoughts rejoice To Him whose Help my Faith requites I 'll joyful Praises sing verse 8 Whose Strength and whose Salvation sights For his Anointed King verse 9 O save ô bless thy People Lord Thy old Inheritance And their Salvation by thy Word From Age to Age advance PSAL. xxix verse 1 BRing to the Lord ye Sons of Mighty A grateful Sacrifice In his unbounded Strength delight And to his Glories rise verse 2 Rise to his Glory praise his Name His sacred Name alone Bow bow to Him his Praise proclaim Before his Awful Throne verse 3 See how his dreadful Lightnings break Heark how his Thunder rolls The Lord from o'er the Water speaks And all the Deep controls verse 4 Vast is the Force the Brightness great Which on his Voice attend verse 5 Flames shot from his Imperial Seat The lofty Cedars rend verse 6 He makes the frighted Mountains trip Like Heifers o'er the Field Old Libanus and Hermon skip When Clouds their Thunder yield verse 7 Wrap'd in a Thousand Flames it roars verse 8 And makes the Desart shake The barren Sands and distant Shoars Before his Thunder quake verse 9 His Terrours make the trembling Deer Their Young unperfect cast And Forests bare and stripp'd appear As with a Winter's Blast verse 10 The Lord on Clouds enthron'd on high Reigns an Eternal King And all his glorious Majesty In Heav'ns bright Temples sing verse 11 The Lord with unresisted Might Will guard his Churches round His Blessings on their Heads shall light With Peace and Plenty crown'd Another Metre As the 112th verse 1 COme to the Lord a Sacrifice Of fattest Rams from Bashan bring To Him let mighty Princes rise verse 2 His Might his wondrous Glories sing Just Honours to their Lord allow And in his sacred Temple bow verse 3 Heark how the Lord from Clouds above In Cracks of dreadful Thunder speaks verse 4 With horrid Force his Thunders move His Voice with dismal Glory breaks verse 5 Down fall the lofty Cedars torn With its tempestuous Force o'er-born verse 6 The Hills their strong Foundations leave The rooted Hills before him shake Before his Voice the Mountains cleave And Libanus and Hermon shake And Earth as sudden Motion yields As Heifers tripping o'er the Fields verse 7 His Voice shoots out with pointed Flames verse 8 And shocks the Desarts all around Its Force the trembling Wild proclaims verse 9 And at his Thunders awful found The Forest-Herds and trembling Deer Cast out their Young unform'd for Fear His Lightnings strip the Forests round verse 10 His Might the swelling Floods restrains All in his House his Praises sound And He a King Eternal reigns verse 11 That God who His with Strength endues And all the Sweets of Peace pursues PSAL. xxx verse 1 TO Thee my God with Heart and Voice I 'll Praises sing to Thee Who hast not made my Foes rejoice But hast exalted me verse 2 I cry'd my Lord my God to Thee And Health thy Mercy gave verse 3 My Life from Death's sharp Pains set free And from the loathsom Grave verse 4 Sing to the Lord ye Meek with Praise His sacred Name adore verse 5 His Wrath but one short Moment stays His Favours Life restore One Night may pass in Griefs and Tears One melancholy Night But Joy with Golden Wings appears Before the dawning Light verse 6 Once bless'd with Peace I boasting said I ne'er should fall nor move verse 7 Thou Lord my Hill so strong hadst made By thy surrounding Love Thy Face withdrawn a Thousand Cares Disturb'd my tortur'd Breast verse 8 Then I to God with hearty Prayers And servent Cries address'd verse 9 What Honours can my Blood to Thee My Death what Trophies raise Can mould'ring Dust thy Glories see Thy Truth or Goodness praise verse 10 Hear Lord and pity him who mourns To my Assistance fly verse 11 Thy Love my Tears to dancing turns My sable Weeds to Joy verse 12 To Thee my Lord my God I 'll sing My Tongue shall praise thy Name My Harp on ev'ry tuneful String Thy Deathless Praise proclaim PSAL. xxxj verse 1 IN Thee dear Lord I trust my Soul From all Confusion free With Justice all my Foes control And still deliver me verse 2 To me thy gracious Ears incline And to my Rescue fly Be thou my Guard with Strength Divine My Rock and Fortress high verse 3 Thou art my Rock my Fortress Thou O for thy Mercy 's sake For thy great Name direct me now The safest Ways to take verse 4 From secret Nets withdraw my Feet O Thou my Strength esteem'd verse 5 I to thy Hands my Soul commit Lord by thy Truth redeem'd verse 6 I hate vain lying Men but in God's Mercy sure rejoice verse 7 Who has my deep Affliction seen And heard my mournful Voice verse 8 Me to my Foes he ne're betray'd But set my Feet at large verse 9 O with thy Mercies undelay'd My present Woes discharge Part 2. My Eyes my Mind my Bowels all Beneath thy Anger waste verse 10 My Spirits with my Sufferings fall My Years in Sighs are past My strength with Sins huge weight opprest My putrid Bones decay verse 11 Foes Neighbours such as know me best With my Disasters play To them a Laughing-stock a Scorn A Bug bear I appear And those who meet a Wretch forlorn Draw back-their Heads for fear verse 12 Me they like Men long dead forgot Or threw like Potsherds by verse 13 While cruel Censures were my Lot And barbarous Emnity Fear sinks my Soul while mighty Men Against my Life combine verse 14 Yet said I to my Saviour then Thou still dear Lord art mine verse 15 My Times are Thine ô rescue me From persceuting Foes verse 16 And that I may thy Mecies see Thy saving Smiles disclose verse 17 Preserve me Lord from Shame who call And thy Assistance crave But let confounded Sinners fall Down to the silent Grave verse 18 So shall those wretched Fools be hush'd Whose proud Contempt and Scorn That good Men might be throughly crush'd Could lying Lips suborn Part 3. verse 19 Oh what vast Good 's reserv'd for those Who fear thy sacred Name What Good for them thy Loves dispose Thy mighty Works proclaim verse 20 Thou from the Proud thy Saints shalt hide Within thy secret Place And in thy House Rest provide From brawling Tongues Disgrace verse 21 O bless'd be God whose Mercies wrought Such wondrous Things for me Who from a well senc'd City brought Me out and set me free verse 22 I said in hasle No more shall I Before my God appear Yet Lord thou heard'st my Pray'r my Cry Obtain'd thy gracious Ear. verse 23 O love the Lord ye Saints the Lord His faithful Servants keeps But off at once the Proud abhor'd His equal Vengeance sweeps verse 24 Take Courage then and God to
Hopes and Walls repair verse 19 So shall our favaur'd Vows ascend With righteous and accepted Pray'r To Father Holy Ghost and Son One bless'd one glorious Trinity On whom our Hopes depend alone Eternal Praise and Glory be PSAL. lij verse 1 AND canst thou yilest Wretch of thy Prevailing Malice boast Think'st thou God's Mercies e'er can die His boundless love be lost verse 2 We know thy Tongue the Razor 's Edge Out-cuts with sharpest Lyes We know thy Heart Hell 's certain Pledge Can only Frauds devise verse 3 Mischief thy every Soul approves But honest Actions hates Thy Tongue no Truth or Justice loves But Lyes on Lyes creates Thy Tongue base Wretch such Language speaks As may the Just devour verse 4 But God thy cruel Pride shall break By his resistless Pow'r He 'll tear thee out and from thy place Root out thy hated Name verse 5 The Just shall see thy strange Disgrace And thus expose thy Shame Loe here 's the Man who lofty grown His God regarded not But Could his favouring Hand disown And God himself forgot 5 But of his mighty Wealth he 'd boast With vast Possessions bless'd In impious Arts he trusted most In Malice fix'd his Rest See where he lies forgot forlorn By all the World despis'd His Name his shatter'd Fortunes torn His Life by Hell surpriz'd verse 7 But like a thriving Olive I In God's bless'd House shall stand And on the Mercies sure relie Of his unchanging Hand verse 8 Through thee I scap'd th' intended Blow And I 'll adore thy Name And with thy Saints thy Mercies show Thy gracious Acts proclaim PSAL. liij verse 1 GOD in his Heart the Fool denies Such Fools the wretched World are grown Corrupt desil'd 7s educ'd with Lyes Not one for sober Practice known verse 2 God from his lofty Seat survey'd The World and all their Actions view'd To see if any duly pray'd Or Wisdom's Lectures understood verse 3 But all were now Apostates aâ—l Corrupt at once and filthy grown Not one would on his Maker call Not one to practice Good was known verse 4 Is all their Sense so lost in Sin That they like Bread my Saints devour In all their Talk God ne'er comes in They ne'er invoke nor own his Pow'r verse 5 Yet now with groundless Fears they fly Their Strength God's weighty Anger breakes With Shame thy fierce Besiegers die God's angry Scorn their Downfall speaks verse 6 O whence may Israel's Safety spring If God his banish'd Tribes restore Then Israel shall triumphant sing And Jacob's Race despond no more Another Metre As the Complaint of a Sinner verse 1 THE Fool the sensless Fool Thus in his Heart hath said God's but an awful Tool By crafty Preachers Made Thus all corrupted are And all in Sins delight But none for Truth declare None ever practice Right verse 2 God from the lofty Sky Look'd down on Earth below To see what Man would try His God to seek or know verse 3 But all Apostates there They 're vile and filthy all None good on Earth appear Nor on their Maker call verse 4 But have the Wretches lost Their Apprehensions quite Against my Saints to boast And with their God to fight Dare they my Israel's Seed Like common Bread devour And on my People feed And scorn my saving Pow'r verse 5 Fear shall their Hearts surprize A senseless groundless Fear And all thy Enemies Who durst in Arms appear Shall crush'd and scatter'd lie By God's revenging Hand And all confounded die Despis'd by God's Command verse 6 Oh when shall Israel's Wealth From Sion's Mount proceed When shall their Saviour's Health Redeem his Captive Seed When that bless'd Time appears Poor Israel shall rejoice And Jacob freed from Fears Exalt his chearful Voice PSAL. liv verse 1 ME Lord with wondrous Might By thy great Name relieve verse 2 O in my Pray'rs dear Lord delight My flowing Words receive verse 3 For cruel Stranger here Against me fiercely rise They hunt my Life who have no Fear Of God before their Eyes verse 4 But see my God for me Among my Friends appears verse 5 He 'll crush my Foes His Truth shall be The End of all my Fears verse 6 To Thee with Sacrifice I 'll then devoutly pray Thy Name shall in my Praises be It 's good thy Praise to pay verse 7 God has my Saviour been From all my Griefs and Woes Through him my longing Eyes have seen My Wish on all my Foes PSAL. lv verse 1 LOrd hear my Pray'rs ô never turn From him Who prays to Thee verse 2 When I in Words distracted mourn O hear ô answer me verse 3 Free me from cruel Foes frorm those Who would oppress me quite Who me with impious Lyes oppose And prosecute with Spite verse 4 My Heart bleeds with its inward Wounds Death's Terrours round me fall verse 5 Fear Trembling Horrour Woe confounds My Thoughts and Actions all verse 6 I cry'd Oh who swift Wings will give Swift as the Doves to me Then would I fly away and live Where I some Rest might see verse 7 I 'd wander far and in my Flight Some lonesom Desart find verse 8 Where I might soon in Safety light From ev'ry stormy Wind verse 9 Lord to confound their pâ—otting Brains Their Tongues and Hearts divide for Strife within the City reigns And cruel Thieves reside Part 2. Such Day and Night their Walls surround Within are Sins and Woes verse 11 All Mischief in their Streets are found And Fraud and Falshood grows verse 12 Had Foes profess'd procur'd my Shame I then had Patience held Had Enemies despis'd my Name I h'd soon my self conceal'd verse 13 But it was he my trusted Guide My Bosom's Partner made In closest Bonds of Friendship ty'd My private Thoughts betray'd verse 14 Oft with a charming sweet Consent Each other 's Souls we read Oft to the Temple jointly went By like Devotions led O let the treach'rous Brute alive To Hell's dark Womb descend Who could with Hellish Art contrive To kill his kindest Friend verse 16 For me to God the Lord I'â—l cry My God shall rescue me verse 17 Each Night each Noon each Morning I His suppliant Slave will be Part 3. verse 18 He 'll hear my Pray'rs my Life redeem From Wars on me design'd For though too strong my Foes might seem My God was always kind verse 19 That God who ever lives shall hear And humble all their Pride Who ne'er were shock'd on Earth with Fear And therefore God defy'd verse 20 They Wars with Men of Peace began And all Agreements broke And Spite through all their Counsels ran Howe'er they softly spoke verse 21 Not Oil nor Butter smoother flow'd Than their deceitful Words Yet Villains ne'er more Malice show'd Nor fought with sharper Swords verse 22 Thy Cares then on thy Master cast His Hand shall set thee free He'â—l always hold the Righteous fast No Time their Change shall see verse 23 The Bloody and Deceitful shall Untimely sink and
From ev'ry threat'ning Storm verse 8 And I his Praise in Songs will spread And daily Vows perform PSAL. lxij verse 1 BUT still on God my Saviour I With humble Silence wait verse 2 My Rock my Health who sets me high And then confirms my State verse 3 How long shall your base Plots assail My Life Your selves shall fall And like old tott'ring Fences fail Or like some batter'd Wall verse 4 They fain would thrust my Glories down And old in Lyes they grow Their Language Oily Blessings crown Their Hearts with Curies flow verse 5 But still on God my Saviour I With humblest Silence wait verse 6 My Rock my Health who sets me high And then secures my State verse 7 God 's my Salvation Glory All My Strength my Hope my Trust verse 8 Pour out your Hearts with Faith ô call On Him ye suff'ring Just Our God's a Guard who ne'er can fail verse 9 But Men are Vanity Nay that against 'em turns the Scale They 're all an empty Lye Those Men by Providence depress'd And those exalted high The Rich the Poor the Worst the Best Are all an empty Lye verse 10 O ne'er in Wrong nor Force confide Nor swe'ling Thoughts disclose Nor on your Treasures multiply'd Your care'ess Hearts repose verse 11 Once God hath spoke and twice have we His Declaration heard That Might belongs to God and He Will for his Might be fear'd verse 12 And Mercy Lord is only thine And thy impartial Hand Will as Men's various Works incline Their due Rewards command PSAL. lxiij us the rooth verse 1 BEfore the Morning-blushes rise To Thee dear God I lift my Eyes For thou alone my God shalt be To Thee my thirsty Soul aspires Thy Smiles my longing Flesh desires Where I no Springs of Comfort see verse 2 As oft within thy holy Place I met of old thy quick'ning Grace I 'd now thy Strength and Glory view verse 3 More swift than Life thy Mercies flow And I with chearful Lips would show Thy Works thy ancient Praise renew verse 4 Thy Works with Blessings I 'll proclaim Whi'e Life shall last and in thy Name My Hands and Heart devoutly raise verse 5 Sweet Marrow 's Juice the Taste invites But more in Thee my Soul delights And Thee my joyful Lips shall praise verse 6 In Bed I think on Thee dear Lord Thy Loves I through the Night record And on thy Goodness meditate verse 7 From Thee my Health and Safety springs And shadow'd by thy glorious Wings I 'll all thy Works with Joy relate verse 8 To Thee my steady Soul adheres Thy Hand my strong Support appears verse 9 But those who would my Life betray Shall sink in Death's Eternal Shade verse 10 Their Lives to cruel Swords be made And Wolves and savage Beasts a Prey verse 11 Then in his God the King shall be Exalted high the World shall see His flowing Joys and all who swear To him shall in their Oaths be bless'd And Lying Lips with Shame suppress'd No more to blast his Crown appear PSAL. lxiv. verse 1 LOrd hear my Voice in Pray'r secure My Life From angry Foes verse 2 From Sinners Plots ô hide me sure And wicked Workers Blows verse 3 Sharp though they whet their temper'd Swords Their Tongues are sharper far And out they shoot their bitter Words Like Shafts prepar'd for War verse 4 In dark Retreats the Plotter lies To wound the perfect Heart And fearlese there with bo'd Surprize He throws his deadly Dart. verse 5 Mischief's their Life to mischief they Encouragements apply And talk of spreading Snares and say Who can our Snares descry verse 6 Deep are their Hearts their Counsels deep And all their Thoughts profound And all a Search for Mischief keep And practise Mischief found verse 7 But God with more surprizing Darts Their wounded Hearts shall reach verse 8 Their Tongues shall soon betray their Hearts Themselves themselves impeach verse 9 Aloof the wond'ring World shall stand And all around with Fear Acknowledge God's revenging Hand And all his Acts revere verse 10 Then shall the Just in God rejoice Their Faith more strongly raise And each good Man exalt his Voice To sing his Maker's Praise PSAL. lxv as the rooth PRaise Lord in Sion waits for Thee To Thee our holy Vows we pay Thou hear'st us whence in Misery verse 2 To Thee the suppliant World shall pray verse 3 My Sins are Lord too strong for me But Thou sha't all my Sins forgive verse 4 O happy 's he whose Eyes may see Thy House and in thy Presence live When him Devotion kindly warms His inward purer Joys abound His Soul with bless'd Re igion's Charms Is in thy sacred Temple crown'd verse 5 What though a Thousand Dangers rise To us our sure Salvation springs From Thee thy Flock for Shelter flies To thy protecting Mercy 's Wings For us thy dreadful Judgments move And scatter all our Fears and Woes Whence all in Thee their Trust improve Where Earth extends or Water flows verse 6 Thy Might the lofty Mountains rais'd And Pow'r thy wondrous Throne surrounds And at thy Voice the Seas amaz'd Laid down their Billows roaring Sounds verse 7 Thy Terrours smooth the Wat'ry Plain And all the murm'ring Nations quell When ruffling Storms disturb the Main And stubborn Hearts with Madness swell Part 2. verse 8 When earth is shock'd and Comets blaze And thy prodigious Signs appear At them the trembling Nations gaze And them at utmost distance fear The blushing Dawn the Morning-Skies Through all the World thy Praise proclaim And when Night 's gloomy Shadows rise They celebrate thy glorious Name verse 9 Thy Eyes the lower World survey Thy Hand their various Need supplies Thy Dews and Rains prepare the Way For Grass and Herbs and Plants to rise What mighty Treasures Lord hast Thou Within thy wat'ry Chambers laid Whence all our vast Provisions now Our Corn and Wine and Oil 's convey'd verse 10 The rising Grounds thy Fountains make Their wealthy Crops and Fatness yield The lower Lands thy Smiles partake Thy Blessing warms the springing Field verse 11 The joyful Year with Goodness crown'd Owes all its Plenty Lord to Thee Thy Clouds with fat'ning Drops abound And we their large Production see verse 12 The barren Wiâ—ds the burning Sands Those cooâ—ing Drops in Season bless The dancing Hillocks join their Hands And Mirth and Gratitude express verse 13 Huge Flocks the fruitful Pastures yield Huge Crops the burthen'd Valleys bring Joys eccho through the chearful Field And all their Maker's Praises sing Another Metre to the old 104th proper Tune verse 1 IN Siou's bless'd Gares Lord Praise waits for Thee To Thee holy Vows Shall justly be paid verse 2 Thy Goodness creates All our Confidence we By 't mov'd in thy House Our Petitions have made verse 3 Man 's impious Art Against me prevails O purge O remove Our Follies away verse 4 How happy 's his Part Whom thy Mercy ne'er fails Thy Choice can approve And thy
rules above the Sky verse 5 Thy Promises dear Lord are true And all thy Testimonies sure Thy Flocks pure Holiness pursue And ever like thy Self endure Another Metre As the 111th proper Tune verse 1 THE Lord a King remains The great Jehovah reigns With Awful Glories crown'd As with a Robe of Light The Lord with wondrous Might And Strength is girt around By his Divine Commands The World securely stands From Alterations free verse 2 Thy Throne was fix'd of old Thy Deity extoll'd From all Eternity verse 3 Great God th' uncertain Croud Against thy Kingdom loud Like mighty Waters roar And with a surly Spite As breaking Billows fight And shock the neighb'ring Shoar verse 4 But let tempestuous Rage Their furious Hearts engage And Heav'n it self defy His stern Command alone Can beat their Madness down Who ever rules on high verse 5 Thy Testimonies true Thy Promises renew Both faithful both secure Thy Saints with Holiness Shall tow'rds thine A'tars press And ever bless'd endure PSAL. xciv verse 1 GReat God to whom Revenge belongs Great God of Vengeance rise verse 2 The Proud thou mighty Judge of Wrongs With just Rewards surprize verse 3 How long shall wicked Workers Lord Uncheck'd triumphant reign verse 4 Their impious Words and Pride abhorr'd With haughty Boasts maintain verse 5 Lord shall they crush thy People still Afflict thine Heritage verse 6 Their Widows and their Strangers kill Nor spare their Orphans Age verse 7 Yet thus they do and thus they cry Can God our Actions see We Jacob's unknown God defy From his Observance free verse 8 But think ye stupid Fools a while Think well ye senseless Crew verse 9 Can you his sacred Ears beguile Who Ears bestow'd on you What can't he see whose Hands the Eyes Those Orbs of Wonders made verse 10 He whose Hand the World chastise From Your Correction stay'd Can't He who Sense on Man bestows Their secret Thoughts descry verse 11 Men's Hearts alas He throughly knows And knows their Vanity verse 12 Lord happy 's he who taught by Thee Has all thy Laws obey'd verse 13 He in ill Times at Rest shall see The Pit for Sinners made Part 2. verse 14 Our God his Servants can't desert Nor his Inheritance verse 15 But Judgment will to Right convert And upright Souls advance verse 16 who 'll me from wicked Workers save Or my Assistant be verse 17 God only help'd me or the Grave Had quickly silenc'd me verse 18 My Foot ô Lord which seem'd to slide Thy Mercy 's He'p ensur'd verse 19 In Cares and Fears thy Comforts try'd My Soul's Delight procur'd verse 20 Wilt thou support the Tyrant-Crew Who settle Sin by Law verse 21 Whose Armies righteous Souls pursue And Blood of Martyrs draw verse 22 Though such their cruel Practice be My God will raise my State My solid Rock my Refuge He Whose Loves my Faith create verse 23 Our God observes their Wickedness Their Malice He 'll repay With sudden Strokes their Pride repress And cut their Hopes away PSAL. XCV verse 1 O Come your chearful Voices raise To our Eternal King The Lord our strong Salvation praise His Goodness loudly sing verse 2 With Thanks approach his awful sight And pleasant Anthems sing verse 3 The Lord's a God of boundless Might O're all the Gods a King verse 4 Earth's secret Deeps and Mountains high His powerful Hand commands verse 5 The Seas were made by Him and dry He laid the rising Lands verse 6 O come let us our Lord adore And at his Foot-stool low Our humbly bending Knees before Our great Creator show verse 7 For he 's our God his People we And in his Pastures feed Those wandring sheep which kindly He From Death and Darkness freed To day ô hear his Voice to day verse 8 For thus th' Almighty spoke No more your own false Thoughts obey My Wrath no more provoke No more with hardned Hearts refuse My necessary Grace Nor as in former times abuse My Word or Holy Place verse 9 Such Arts your Fathers us'd of old Who all my Wonders saw And many Years perversly bold Despis'd my righteous Law verse 10 At last thus by my self I swore With just Displeasure mov'd This wretched Nation sin the more The more by Goodness prov'd They neither know my self nor know Those Rules to them addrest Nor will I e're their Souls bestow In my Eternal Rest Another Metre As Mr. Sandys's 15th verse 1 COme ô come and let us sing To our Lord and to our King Let us make a joyful Noise To that God whose Love employs All his saving Health and Grace To protect his faithful Race verse 2 Let us all with Thanks and Praise Come before his Glorious Face And our Psalms and cheerful Airs Join with Vows and humble Prayers verse 3 For the Lord our God is great Lofty his Eternal Seat Every God to Him submits He a King above them sits verse 4 All the Earths Foundations deep Solid Rocks and Mountains steep All their strength 's by Him possest And by his Protection blest verse 5 Him the rolling Seas regard By his mighty Hands prepar'd Earth to Him submissly bows And his forming Power avows verse 6 Come ô come let 's all adore And his Footstool kneel before Let us kneel and prostrate all To our Lord and Maker fall verse 7 Hee 's our God our Lord alone We are all his People known Us His Hands securely keep Hee 's the Sheepheard we the Sheep Hear ô hear his voice to Day And that sacred Voice obey verse 8 Humble let your Hearts appear Let no Hardness center there As of o'd your Father's pride All my kindest Cares defy'd When their wandring Armies past Tho' the Deserts sandy waste verse 9 Oft they tempted oft they try'd me Often to Believe deny'd me Tho' my Wonders all they saw Knew my Power and heard my Law verse 10 All their Follies large Arrears Forty tedious rolling Years I with wondrous patience bore But at last in Fury swore 11 These a wretched People are All involv'd in Error 's snare Soon they have my Laws forgot Seen my Works but know them not By my Self my Self alone That 's the greatest Oath that 's known These shall never never blest Enter my Eternal Rest PSAL. xcvj verse 1 NEw Songs to great Jehovah sing Sing all the Earths around Your Blessings to his Altars bring His saving Health resound verse 2 Each Day your active Tongues employ To spread his glorious Name verse 3 Thro' all the Nations round with Joy His wondrous Acts proclaim verse 4 Our Lord is great and greatly prais'd More to be feard then those verse 5-6 Who by Vain Men to Godhead rais'd On Vainer Fools impose Our God stretch'd out the lofty Syes How glorious Majesty How strength with lovely Beauty vyes We in his Temple see verse 7 O give to God ye Nations all Give strength and Glorys due verse 8 On his great Name with Honour call To him with Offering's fue verse
the Lord's prevailing Name To God I humbly pray'd Thy Help thy Favour Lord I claim My soul dear Saviour aid verse 5 The Lord is kind and righteous too And Mercy freely shows verse 6 He helps the weak and swiftly flew To save my soul from Woes verse 7 Turn then my Soul return to Rest The Lord was kind to thee verse 8 Thro' him I ' scap'd Death's cold Arrest My Eyes from Tears are free He Keeps my Feet from Falls and I My Woes by him survive verse 9 And in return I 'll gratefully As in his Presence live Part 2. verse 10 So I believ'd and so I spoke But sore afflicted I verse 11 Thus out in hasty Passion broke Men sure are sold to lye verse 12 But what Returns Lord shall I make For all thy Loves to me verse 13 Thy Blessed Cup with Praise I 'll take And duly call on Thee verse 14 My Vows to God I 'le offer here Abroad in open Light verse 15 The Death of all his Saints is dear In their Redeemer's Sight verse 16 Lord I 'm thy Servant humbly I My self thy Servant own Thy Handmaid's Son from Slavery By Thee discharg'd alone verse 17 To Thee the Sacrifice of Praise My Sacrifice shall be And in the Lords great Name I 'le raise My suppliant Hands to Thee verse 18 Here Lord to Thee I 'le pay my Vows In all the People Sight verse 19 In Salem in thy holy House O praise the Lord of Might PSAL. cxvij verse 1 O Praise th' Eternal Lord Ye Nations all around His Goodness thro' the World record His glorious Acts resound verse 2 On us and all our Race His Mercy largely flows His Truth no Time can e're deface Nor Force his Power oppose Or thus verse 1 PRaise God! ô praise our mighty Lord Ye Nations all around His Goodness thro' the W'or'd record His wondrous Acts resound verse 1 For on our selves and all our Race His Mercy largely flows His Truth no Time can e're deface Nor Force his Arm oppose PSAL. cxviij verse 1 THe Lord the great Jehovah praise He 's good in all his Ways His Mercies sure unchang'd endure His Goodness ne're decays verse 2 Let Jacob's long protected Race Adore his wondrous Grace His Mercies sure unchang'd endure When Time resigns his Place verse 3 Let Aaron's sacred Helts proclaim The Lords exalted Name His Mercies sure unchang'd endure His Goodness still the same verse 4 O ye who God's Commands obey With grateful Praises say His Mercies sure unchanged endure His Mercies ne're decay verse 5 In Straights I call'd on Him and He From Streights soon set me free verse 6 To God I 'm Dear and ne're can fear What Man can do to me verse 7 The Lord among my kindest Friends His own Assistance sends My longing Eye shall soon descry My Foes expected Ends. verse 8 In God the Lord it 's better far To trust our Hopes and Care Then to repose our Hopes in those Who wretched Mortals are verse 9 In God the Lord it 's better far To fix our Hopes and Care Then to repose our Trust in those Who mighty Princes are Part 2. verse 10 I When the Nations round me ply'd In God their Strength defy'd verse 11 They compassed me but easily I so their Force out-vy'd verse 12 Tho' me like Bees they closely ply'd Like blazing Thorns they dy'd In Gods great Name I quench'd their Flame And all their Strength defy'd verse 13 Oft hast thou push'd unmanly Foe To work my overthrow But thro' Gods-Aid tho' oft afraid I still in Safety go verse 14 God by his Might has made me strong My God 's my daily Song Salvation He ordain'd for me Who to himself belong verse 15 Sweet Tunes of Joy and Health abide Where righteous Men reside Gods Hand is grown renown'd alone For Deeds of Valour-try'd verse 17 His Hand 's alone deserv'dly nam'd His Hand on high proclaim'd His Hand is grown renown'd alone For valiant Actions fam'd verse 17 I still shall live and still declare How great his Actions are verse 18 I felt his Rod but still my God My Life wou'd kindly spare verse 19 Let the wide Gates of Righteousness Now grant me free access I 'le gladly there with Thanks appear And God my Saviour bless Part 3. verse 20 Gods House his holy Gates are near The Righteous enter there verse 21 I 'le praise the Lord his Help record Who would his Suppliant hear verse 22 That Solid Rock that Noble Stone Off by the Builders thrown Now all the Coines securely joyns And makes the Building One. verse 23 The Lords great Work it was and we Amaz'd the Wonder see verse 24 God made this Day now Joys shall sway And Mirth triumphant be verse 25 Hear Lord ô save at last and make Our favour'd Actions take Our Business bless with kind Success Lord for thy Mercy 's sake verse 26 O blest be He who kindly came In Gods Almighty Name You who before his House adore To you we wish same verse 27 Us God the Lord with Light supplies O bind the Sacrifice With Cords it nigh his Altars tie Till there it bleeds and dies verse 38 Thou Lord art God alone to me I 'le Praises sing to Thee By me thy Name thy glorious Fame Shall still exalted be verse 29 The Lord our great Jehovah praise He 's good in all his Ways His Mercies sure unchang'd endure His Mercy ne're decays PSAL. cxix Aleph 1. Beth 2. verse 1 BLest are the Men whose perfect Ways Gods purer Laws confine verse 2 Who keep his Word and all their Days To Him in Heart incline verse 3 No Sins to such can pleasing be As by his Orders move verse 4 And thou commandedst Lord that we Thy Rules should keep and love verse 5 Oh that my Footsteps guided sure Could by thy Statutes tread verse 6 Then should I live from Shame secure When thy Commands I read verse 7 I 'le praise thee with an upright Heart When I thy Judgments know verse 8 I 'le keep thy Laws ô ne're depart To me no Stranger grow verse 9 How may a Youth his Ways improve If he thy Word obey verse 10 To Thee with all my Soul I move O never let me stray verse 11 I in my Bosom hide thy Word From Sin to guard my Heart verse 12 To me b'est God thy Grace afford And all thy Laws impart verse 13 Thy Judgments Lord my Soul esteems My ready Lips declare verse 14 To me thy Word more pleasing seems Then noblest Treasures are verse 15 I on thy Precepts meditate Thy Laws before me set verse 16 Thy Statutes all my Joys create Thy Words I ne're forget Gimel 3. Daleth 4. verse 17 Oh let me live my God be kind So I thy Words shall keep verse 18 Unclose my Eyes by Nature blind To view thy Wonders deep verse 19 O don't from me a Stranger Lord Thy Testimonies hide verse 20 For constant Cares to get thy Word My longing
verse 10 God's Covenant they quite forgot And from his Laws began their flight verse 11 They soon forgot his tender Care And all his mighty Wonders shown verse 12 Which AEgpt's Ruines still declare And Zoan's sields have dearly known Part 2 verse 13 He led them thro' the parted Seas While all the crouding Waters gaz'd verse 14 His Cloud by Day contriv'd their ease By Night bright Flames before them blaz'd verse 15 He burst the desert Rocks and thence Sweet Waters as from Fountains drew verse 16 Made Springs from stubborn Flints commence Which soon to spacious Rivers grew verse 17 Yet they who saw it trespass'd still And in a Desart hungry Land verse 18 Ask'd Meat aloud to eat their fill Yet question'd God's Almighty Hand verse 19 To urge his Wrath the faithless Crew Thus with a taunting boldness said Can God his Wonders here renew Full Tables in a Desert spread verse 20 He smote the stony Rocks indeed And out the wholesom Waters broke But can his Magick Rod proceed Will Bread and Flesh attend the stroke verse 21 With Anger God their murmurings heard And at them soon his Fury smok'd verse 22 When Israel's feed so false appear'd And faithless Fools their God provok'd Part 3. verse 23 To try them more He bade the Skies From their unbounded Treasures rain verse 24 Streight heavenly Wheat before them lyes And tastful Manna fills the Plain verse 25 The Bread of Angels there they find To glut their hungry Appetite verse 26 Then God commands the Eastern Wind And Southern fruitsul Gales excites verse 27 Less Dust in rapid Whirlwinds flies verse 28 Then Flesh within their Trenches rain'd Less Sand around the Ocean lies Then Fowls about their Tents remain'd verse 29 They fdd and fill'd themselves and He On them their utmost wish bestow'd verse 30 But they no inward Guilt could see Nor feel their Lusts confounding load verse 31 Hence e'er their Meat was down their Pride God with a dismal blast surpriz'd Their noblest Youth and Princes dy'd All to his Anger sacrific'd verse 32 Yet unreclaim'd from sinful Ways They'd still his wondrous VVorks oppose verse 33 And He confum'd their Years and Days In sading Joys and Jasting VVoes verse 34 If Death among their Armies flew For God they 'd seek to God they 'd fly verse 35 Then God was all their Strength they knew Their great Redeemer God most high verse 36 Their God with fawning Tongues they prov'd VVith lying lips to Him they pray'd verse 37 But still their Hearts perversly mov'd Their Hearts their faithless VVorks betray'd verse 38 Yet He forgave their Sins and spar'd Their Tribes and laid his Anger by verse 39 He knew they common Frailties shiar'd VVould quickly change and quickly dy Part 4. verse 40 How oft in desert Lands they mov'd And urg'd and vex'd his Heav'nly mind verse 41 How oft relaps'd his Patience prov'd And Israel's Holy God confin'd verse 42 They quite forgot that powerful Hand VVinch them from slavish Bonds redeem'd verse 43 VVhen Zoan's Field and AEgypt's Land VVith dreadful Signs and VVonders teem'd verse 44 How He their p'easant VVaters chang'd To nauseous Blood and mystick Gore verse 45 Mix'd Swarms in all their Quarters rang'd And Frogs their Royal Chambers bore verse 46 Their Fruit-trees blasting VVhirlwinds peel'd And Locusts all their Toils enjoy'd verse 47 Their Vines Figs Cattel and the Field verse 48 Hot storms of fiery Hail destroy'd verse 49 Since still the stubborn Land rebel'd VVith fiercer flames his Fury glow'd And as his burning Fury fwell'd The Coals malignant Angels blow'd Thick thro' the solid Dark they flew With horrid shrieks and dismal Cries And laid Hell's end ess Pains in view Before their Intellectual Eyes No Torch no Star no Middays Beams No peaceful Thought no comforts Light But Ghosts with frightful Howls and Screams Could pierce th' unfathomable Night No sleep could feal their labouring Eyes But dreadful Dreams of following Woes And roaring Storms and rattling Skies And trembling Earths convulsive throws Part 5. verse 50 While thus with weighty Gloom o're thrown Lost AEgypt lay God's dreadful Hand Heavy with ripening Vengeance grown Does newer Wounds and Plagues command Now a thick pestilential Air Is rais'd from late corrupted Gore And sullen Stars malignant glare And Locusts rotting round the shore From Fens and Bogs and poisonous Lakes And what rank venemous Weeds produce From Scorpions Basilisks and Snakes And Toads and Hemlocks baleful Juice All these in One with deadly skill Infernal Spirits temper sure That every Atomes force may kill And neither Art nor Nature cure Out streight commanded Michael flies A thousand Spirits round him wait And on his Spear the mixture tries And loads it with resistless Fate verse 51 No wretched Shed nor homely Stall Where Men repos'd or Beasts were laid But Death at once attack'd 'em all And one continued Slaughter made The first-born Prince the first-born Slave Of Flocks and Herds the Firstlings dy'd Each Floor assign'd its Heir a Grave Each Roof entomb'd its Owner's pride With dying Shrieks and Groans and Cries The frighted Hills and Walls resound All AEgypt now in mourning lies In Sorrows boundless Ocean drown'd Part 6. verse 52 But while Heaven 's warlike Prince at large Thus ravag'd all the sinful Land God of his Israel took the Charge And led them with a gentler Hand verse 53 He was their Shepherd He their Guide His Flock his own Peculiars they His Care their growing Wants supply'd And led them safely all the Day Those Foes who with a furious Will Pursu'd beneath the Seas He drown'd verse 54 And brought them to his Holy Hill With his protecting Presence crown'd verse 55 He all the Nations round expel'd And gave their Lands to Jacob's Race Who then their Towns fecurely held And in their Cities took their place verse 56 Yet still they tempted God and still To Anger mov'd their mighty Lord Nor would their holy Vows fulfil But his Commands and Laws abhorr'd verse 57 They sinn'd as all their Fathers us'd And like an ill-set Bow they broke verse 58 Their Lord with graven Gods abus'd Which might his jealous Rage provoke Each lofty Hill each shady Grove They with their gaudy Idols fill'd Against their Maker boldly strove And there their Sacrifices kill'd verse 59 God heard of all his Anger slam'd And off th' ingrateful Nation threw verse 60 And Shilo's Holy Place disclaim'd That Ark which once his Glories knew Part 7. verse 61 Now God their Strength and all their Pride Resign'd to their insulting Foes verse 62 Who with their Blood their Jave'ins dy'd And fil'd his Heritage with Woes verse 63 Hot feverish flames their Youth consum'd Their mateless Virgins Virgins dy'd verse 64 Altars their mangled Priests entomb'd Their own sad Widow's Tears deny'd verse 65 Thus Justice rang'd the Field at last On Golden Wings bright Mercy rose And God his hotter Fury past Made Love her ancient Smiles disclose Like some fierce Giant rous'd from
Sleep Or high with sprightly Wines inflam'd verse 66 God struck his Foes their Wounds were deep And their Eternal Shame proclaim'd verse 67 Yet for their Sins He Joseph's Fields And Ephrain's Tribe though fruitful scorns verse 68 His Rest more happy Judah yields His House lov'd Sion's Mount adorns verse 69 There high his lofty Turrets rise And all the Town beneath command And deep the vast Foundaticm lies As Rocks the solid Buildings stand verse 70 Then from his Sheep and meaner Cares verse 71 Our God his Servant David takes And him his Israel's King declares His holy Nation 's Pastor makes verse 72 That nobler Flock with faithful Art He watches feeds and safely folds And with an upright prudent Heart Our happy Church and State upholds PSAL. lxxix As the 130th verse 1 LOrd the Heathen-Troops have spoil'd Thy bless'd lnheritance And thy holy House desil'd And still their Arms advance Salem's Walls on Heaps are laid verse 2 Thy murther'd Servants lie Preys to Wolves and Vultures made Beneath the open Sky verse 3 See a spacious Crimson Flood By dying Martyrs shed Salem's Streets with flowing Blood And mangled Corpses spread verse 4 Jacob's Tribes alas are grown Their nearest Neighbour's Scorn Out to vile Derision thrown By cruel Scoffs o'er born verse 5 Ah how long dear Lord how long Shall thy fierce Fury burn verse 6 O on all the Godless Throng Thy weighty Vengeance turn Let the Gentile-Nations all Who ne'er acknowledge Thee Underneath thy Judgments fall And just Severitie verse 7 They with cruel Teeth devour Poor Jacob's wretched Race And Destruction's Tempest pour On Israel's Dwelling-place verse 8 All our Sins bless'd God forgive And speedy Mercy show For by Thee alone we live Though now reduc'd so low Part 2. verse 9 Lord to our Assistance fly From Thee our Safety springs Honour to thy Name Most High Such Saving Mercy brings verse 10 Why Ô why should Heathens cry Now where's their mighty God Let them now the Lashes try Of thy revenging Rod Grant that Lord our longing Eyes Thy just Revenge may see While the Blood of Martyrs cries So loud great God to Thee verse 11 Let the Pris'ners Sighs ascend Before thy Majesty And with mighty Pow'r defend The Souls condemn'd to die verse 12 To our Neighbours Lord repay Their base reproachful Spite Such who in the Scorners Way And Blasphemies delight verse 13 So shall we thy Flock thy Sheep For ever praise thy Name And through endless Ages keep Thy everlasting Fame Or thus verse 1 DEar Lord the Heathen Bands have spoil'd Thy bless'd Inheritance And have thy holy House defil'd And still their Arms advance Poor Salem's Walls in Heaps are laid Thy murther'd Servants lie As Preys to Wolves and Vultures made Beneath the open Sky verse 3 See Lord a spacious Crimson Flood By dying Martyrs shed And Salem's Street's with flowing Blood And mangled Corpses spread verse 4 Sad Jacob's Tribes alas are grown Their barb'rous Neighbours Scorn And to Derision vilely thrown By cruel Scoffs o'er-born verse 5 But ah how long dear Lord how long Shall thy fierce Furies burn verse 6 At last on all the Godless Throng Thy weighty Vengeance turn O let the Gentile Nations all Who ne'er acknowledge Thee Beneath thy heavy Judgments fall And just Severity verse 7 For they with cruel Teeth devour Poor Jacob's wretched Race And total Desolation pour On Israel's Dwelling-place verse 8 O all our Sins bless'd Lord forgive And speedy Mercy show For by thy Mercy Lord we live Though now reduc'd so low Part 2. verse 9 Now Lord to our Assistance fly From Thee our Safety springs For G'ory to thy Name Most High Such saving Mercy brings verse 10 And why Ô why should Heathens cry Now where's their boasted God Let them too all the Scourges try Of thy revenging Rod Permit bless'd Lord our longing Eyes Thy just Revenge to see While yet the Blood oiF Martyrs cries So loud great God to Thee verse 11 O let the Pris'ners Sighs ascend Before thy Majesty And with Almighty Pow'r defend The Souls condemn'd to die verse 12 And to our Neighbours Lord repay Their base reproachful Spite To such as in the Scorners Way And Blasphemies delight verse 13 And so shall we thy Flock thy Sheep For ever praise thy Name And through Eternal Ages keep Alive thy glorious Fame PSAL. lxxx verse 1 HEar gracious Shepherd Thou whose Love Like Flocks thy Israel guides Shine forth Ô Thou whose Strength above The Cherubs Wings resides verse 2 Before our drooping Nation rouze Great God thy wondrous Might And with thy saving Strength espouse Thy ancient People's Right verse 3 Change Lord Ô change our mournful State And let thy Beams Divine Our Health and Safety to create With doubled Lustre shine verse 4 How long great God of Hosts shall we Thy Fury's Heat sustain How long thy People Lord to Thee Address their Pray'rs in vain verse 5 Tears are our Meat our Drink is Tears verse 6 When they our Spoils divide Our Neighbours quarrel and our Fears Malicious Foes deride verse 7 Change Lord Ô change our mournful State And let thy Beams Divine Our Health and Safety to create With doubled Lustre shine Part 2. verse 8 Of old from Egypt's fruitful Soil Thy Hands a Vine remov'd And made the Ganaanites recoil And here the Plant improv'd verse 9 Large was its Room and large its Root Through all the Country spread And with the weighty Purple Fruit It bow'd its noble Head verse 10 Its Shade the Mountains cover'd o'er Its Arms like Cedars stood verse 11 Down to the Seas its Branches bore And reach'd Euphrates Flood verse 12 Oh why are all her Fences gone Her Fruits by all destroy'd verse 13 Her Roots by Forest-Boars o'erthrown And savage Beasts annoy'd verse 14 Turn Lord of Hosts Ô turn at last And from thy lofty Skies On thy poor Vineyard void and waste O cast thy gentler Eyes verse 15 The Vineyard which thy mighty Hand In Canaan planted first And made its Branches strongly stand By Peace and Favour nurs'd verse 16 But now the Boughs are scorch'd the Trunk By cruel Hands cut down Thy People's Hopes and Vigour sunk Beneath thy angry Frown verse 17 Smile Lord Ô turn thy gracious Eyes On him that 's rais'd by Thee With Strength to ease our Miseries And set the Bond-men free verse 18 So we 'll no more from Thee decline Nor thy Commands transgress Our Hopes our Lives shall all be thine Thy Name we 'll daily bless verse 19 Change Lord Ô change our mournful State And let thy Beams Divine Our Health and Safety to create With doubled Lustre shine Psal 1xxxj As the 100th or Mr. Sandys's 8th verse 1 TO God our Strength your Voices raise Aloud the God of Jacob praise verse 2 A Psalm to th' merry Timbrel suit The pleasant Harp or charming Lute verse 3 The Moon her Infant-Horns displays Let 's feast on these appointed Days And with the shriller Trumpet 's