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

continued in the Land Support those whome thou hast raised to be as it were pillers in thy Church or Commonwealth keep them from being so impudent or vaine glorious in their preferment as if it came either causuallie or by their owne Industrie or deservings But so cause thē us to perceive thy purpose thy providence both in our severall advancements humiliations that we may the better discharge our perticuler duties And when thou shalt fill out the redwine of thy wrath to all obstinate malefactors let us be refreshed by taking the Cupp of Salvation which thou hast prepared for all them who shall be iustified through the merrits of Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 76. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme or song for Asaph It is a Triumph-song to praise God for that knowledge of him which he hath vouchsafed vnto his Church typified by Iudah Ierusalem Syon It glorifieth Christ also for his conquests over sinn Death the Devill The vse is manyfest IN Iurie God is knowne full well His Name 's in Isr'el great He in Ierusalem doth dwell And Syon is his seat Shaft sword sheild he battred there Yea there he wonn the Feild Selah And more his powrs and honors are Then spoilers Burroughts yeald 2 The strong are foilde their dream is flowne Their strength hath not prevaild For at the God of Iacob's frowne Both horse Charret faild Thou dreadfull art none oh Lord Thine angry looks cann bear For when thy voice from heav'n is heard The Earth is dumbe with fear 3 The meek on earth when thou to save And judge them Lord shalt please Selah Thou by man's wrath shalt honour have And his hot rage appease To God make vowes presents give All yee that round him are For he doth kings of breath deprive And makes great princes fear Glorify thy self oh Lord God! in thy holy Catholick Church by the final overthrowe of all her enimies Let thy powre break all their Instruments of mischeef Let the preaching of thy Gospell the thundring of thy Iudgments which have already destroyed the powre made frustrate the Dreames of the old heathnish Idolaters their false Philosophie vtterly overthrowe the strength of that carnal wisdome which at this day standeth in opposition to thy Truth Let our furious dissentions be appeased let the frowardnes rage blind zeal of all men become a meanes of encreasing thy glory to the confusion of thy stoutest opposers to the Salvation of the meekeharted through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psal 77. To the cheef Musitian to Iduthun a Psalm for Asaph It expresseth those interchanges of Doubts Hopes Feares Comforts Assurances through which wee work out salvation with fear trembling It serves to minde vs of our fraile condition shewes how to order our throughts in spiritual combats TO God ev'n to the Lord I prayd And hee did hear my moanes Both day night I sought his aide With never-ceasing groanes My hart no comforts entertain'd But fixt on him her thought Selah And so I greev'd so complain'd That lowe my soul was brought 2 Mine eyes from sleep hee did with holde With paine I lost my tongue I mus'd on daies yeares of olde And what was once my song Yea all alone at night I lay Thus musing in my minde Lord wilt thou cast mee quite away And never more bee kinde 3 Is thy compassion lost out right Shall thy sirme promise faile Hast thou for got thy Mercie quite O're Love shall hate prevaile No this my frailtie is quoth I And these but changes are Wrought by the powre of God most high Which I in minde will bear 4 Thy works wonders past oh Lord I 'le therfor muse vpon Thy former Acts I will record And shewe what thou hast done Thy walkings in thy house declare That there 's no God like thee And what thy powre marvailes are Thou mak'st all people see 5 For Iacob's for Ioseph's race Thine arme did purchase aide Selah And seas Flouds to vewe thy face Were troubled afraide The Clouds did melt the Vapours crasht Thine Arrowes forth were shott Thy thunders roar'd the lightnings flasht And Earth a trembling got 6 Thou wentst through seas with steps vn-eide Thy paths were in the Deep And Moses did with Aron guide Thy people there like sheep Father of mercy God of all consolation who hast often tymes gloriously miraculously hertofore delivered thy Children made safe passage for them through horrible Feares troubles perills temptations be mercifull vnto us wee beseech thee in all our inward outward offlictions especially when our sinns cause thee to exercise us with such chaunges as may make us fearfull wee have lost thy favour UUee deserve to be deprived of thy compassion of all those comforts protections which wee have long enioyed by thy free grace Nevertheles grant that wee never fall quite away from thy regard but may so returne alwaies vnto thee that our frailties may be pitied our peni tence accepted our petitions entertained wee continued in a full fruition of all thy mercies gratious promises in Christ Iesus Amen Psa 78. Maschil for Asaph It commemorates the Iewes obstinate increduli●itie with God's plagues Mercies interchangeably sent among them vntill the tyme of David Wee should vse it to warne vs of God's long-suffring toward the whole humane Nature whose perversenes is here mistically set forth as also the sending of the true David Iesus Christ NOw to my Law my people give thine eare wel observ what weighty things are tolde For lo my lipps a problem shal declare And plainely sing grave sayengs dark old That nether what our Fathers have revealed Nor what we know be from our babes concealed 2 God's powr praisfull wonders I wil blaze His Testaments to Iacob I will showe How he likwise in Isr'el setled lawes Which they were bound to let their childrē know That so they might to their next ages teach them And Age to age for ever after preach them 3 That they in God a faithful hope might place And not forget his works or his command As heretofore their Fathers head strong race Whose hart with God vprightly did not stand Like Ephr'ims brood who bows weapōs bearing Forsook the Feild the day of hattell fearing 4 Gods law they brak his cov'nant they did slite And on his works or marvailes never thought Yet many signes wonders in their sight In Zoan feildes Egipt-land he wrought To make their way the sea in twaine he cleaved And high on heaps the rowling waters heaved 5 A pillerd-Cloud by day he made their guide A Column-fir'd to clear the night he sent More over he the Rocks did then divide And streams like seas along the Desert went From craggy flints sweet waters forth he brused And springs from thēce like Rivers were diffused 6 But they went on to move his anger

Namesake Lord revive me Let thy Iustice be my gard Yea destroy of thy compassion Those that seek my soules vexation For I am thy servant Lord. Oh Lord God if thou shouldst iudg us according to our deservings wee all flesh should everlastingly perish VVee appeall therefore to thy Mercie with a thirsty longing desire speedy assistance according to thy accustomed Loving-kindnes lest wee be swallowed vp by Despaire or devoured by our Foes For thine owne sake even for thy Iustice for thy Mercy for thy Name sake direct us in thy waies Instruct us in thy VVill protect us from all evills bring vs into the Land of the Living through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Another of the same LOrd mark my suite my sad complaining hear And in thy Truth Justice answear give Iudg not thy servant with a doome severe For in thy sight not one doth blameles live The foe hath chas'd my soul of life nigh reft mee And in the dark as one long dead hath left mee 2 In mee therfore my spirits downe are cast My hart is fill'd with many a heavie thought I muse vpon the dayes that now are past And on thy works ev'n al thy hāds have wrought With stretchtout hands with soul-thirsty pāting I thirst for thee as Land when raine is wanting 3 My spirit faints oh God with speed give ear If longer thou thy face obscure I dye Oh let thy Love to mee betimes appear For I on thee on thee alone relye Yea let me Lord within thy Paths be trained For vnto thee I lift a soul vnfained 4 Protect mee Lord in thee is my abode Keep off my foes teach thy will to mee Let thy good sp'rite because thou art my God My guide vnto the Land of Iustice be Yea mee oh Lord for thy Namesake revive thou My soul ev'n for thy Iustice sake reprive thou And of thy grace all those that mee oppressed Destroy thou Lord for I am thine professed Psa 144. A Psalme of David It blesseth God for his regard of the humane Nature Desires Christ's approch to Iudgment And requesteth to be delivered from worldlings c. It is vsefull to these purposes to inform vs that to be God's chose-ones is the greatest happines c. OH praise the Lord for he is all my Powre My hands Armes in warlike feats directing My grace my gard my sheild my healp my Towre My trusty freind my foes to mee subiecting Lord what is mā that thou art pleasd to know him Or what his child that thou sholdst favor show him 2 Mā is as nought his ioys like shades forsake him The heav'ns oh Lord decline down descēd thou But touch the Hils thou to smoke shalt mak thē To scatter them thy dreadfull lighting send thou Shoot out thy shafts vntill they be destroyed Let thy strong hand to healp mee be employed 3 Oh save mee from the water's over-swelling Let mee from forraigne Children be secured Whose mouthes are alwaies lies folly telling And whose righthands to falshood are envred Then to thy praise new songs I will be singing On harp Psalt'ry of a tennfold stringing 4 Let him who doth on kings bestow salvation And from the sword his servant David saveth Protect me frō that forraine generation Whose mouth speakes lies whose right-hand deceaveth Who beg for sonns daughters in their prayer Like plants pretious stones welshap'd faire 5 Who pray for Granards fully stored ever Who 's floks yong breed evn in their streets aboundeth Whose wellfed Oxe in labour faileth never in whose Townes nor cry nor tumult soundeth For tho such men a blessing have possessed Yet they whose God 's the Lord are much more blessed Father of Mercy God of all Consolation thou art alwaies our powrefull deliverer becommest every thing vnto vs which our harts cann desire Oh make vs thanckfull vnto thee for thy great regard of soe vnworthy Creatures And though meer worldlings Carnall Professors seeke thee for temporall Blessings Let vs love serve praise thee meerly for thine owne sake Keep vs from their falshood Hypocrisie selfelove with all their other wicked Conditions And though they boast of thy transitorie Blessings which wee enioy not Let us be contented that thou art our God Let that be our portion of happines let vs enioye it oh Lord for ever ever Amen Psa 145. Davids Psalme of Praise It may be vsed as a Patterne wherby to glorify God according to his principal Attributes such as his Infinitenes Omnipotencie Majesty Justice Mercie Goodnes Providence c. UUhich are mentioned in this Psalme I 'Le honour thee oh God my king And laud thy Name for aye Ev'n to thy Name I 'le alway sing And praise thee ev'rie day For thou art great beyond all bounds And great thy praises are Through Ages all thy glory sounds Thy wonders they declare 2 I 'le also shew thy royall state And thy rare works vnfolde That men thy wonders may relate When I thy powre have tolde That they thy Righteousnes may show And much thy glorie minde For thou to anger Lord art slowe Right gratious meek kinde 3 Thy goodnes thy mercies be In all thy works exprest Ev'n all thy works Lord honour thee And thee thy Saints have blest Thy kingdomes glory they will showe And sing thy greatnes forth That all mankinde thy powre may knowe And see thy Kingdoms worth 4 For thou for evermore shalt raigne And rule through Ages all The weak oh Lord thou wilt sustaine And lift vp those that fall On God all creatures sixe their eyes And fedd in season be For all things living to suffice An open hand hath hee 5 The Lord is just in all his waies His works are sacred all Nigh them who call on him he staies Nigh those who truly call Their hopes who fear him he effects And 's hears saves all those Ev'n those who love him God protects But sinners overthrowes 6 Oh let my mouth due praise therefore Vnto the Lord expresse And let all flesh for evermore His holy Name confesse Great oh Lord is thy Kingdome thy Powre thy Glory great are thy VVorks thy UUonders thy Praises Great also is thy VVisdome thy Goodnes thy Iustice thy Mercy Yea so infinite art thou in these all other excellencies That no attributes are sufficient to expresse thee Nevertheles wee thy Creatures being partakers of thy Abundance witnesses of thy Bounty towards all whome thou hast made Do according to the measure of our Capacities blesse thee for the same And desire to praise and magnify thy Name for ever ever Amen Another of the same ADvance I will thy Name oh God my king For evermore I will extoll the same Blesse thee I will oh Lord alway sing A davlie song of praises to thy Name Consid'ring that thy Greatnesse bound hath none And how thine honor should as boundles be Declare