had soon destroy'd the weak Defence that I could make verse 18 Their subtil Rage had near prevail'd when I distrest and friendless lay But still when other Succours fail'd God was my firm Support and Stay verse 19 From Dangers that enclos'd me round he brought me forth and set me free For some just Cause his Goodness found that mov'd him to delight in me verse 20 Because in me no Guilt remains God does his gracious Help extend My Hands are free from bloody Stains therefore the Lord is still my Friend verse 21 22 For I his Judgments kept in sight in his just Paths I always trod I never did his Statutes slight nor loosly wander'd from my God verse 23 24 But still my Soul sincere and pure did ev'n from darling Sins refrain His Favours therefore yet endure because my Heart and Hands are clean PART IV. verse 25 26 Thou suit'st O Lord thy righteous ways to various Paths of Human-kind They who for Mercy merit Praise with thee shall wond'rous Mercy find Thou to the Just shall Justice shew the Pure thy Purity shall see Such as perversely chuse to go shall meet with due Returns from thee verse 27 28 That he the humble Soul will save and crush the Haughty's boasted Might In me the Lord an Instance gave whose Darkness he has turn'd to Light verse 29 On his firm Succour I rely'd and did o'er num'rous Foes prevail Nor fear'd whilst he was on my side the best defended Walls to scaie verse 30 For God's Designs shall still succeed his Word will bear the utmost Test He 's a strong Shield to all that need and on his sure Protection rest verse 31 Who then deserves to be ador'd but God on whom my Hopes depend Or who except the mighty Lord can with resistless Pow'r defend PART V. verse 32 33 'T is God that girds my Armour on and all my just Designs fulfils Through him my Feet can swiftly run and nimbly climb the steepst Hills verse 34 Lessons of War from him I take and manly Weapons learn to wield Strong Bows of Steel with ease I break forc'd by my stronger Arms to yield verse 35 The Buckler of his Saving Health protects me from assaulting Foes His Hand sustains me still my Wealth and Greatness from his Bounty flows verse 36 My Goings he enlarg'd abroad till then to narrow Paths confin'd And when in slipp'ry ways I trod the Method of my Steps design'd verse 37 Through him I num'rons Hosts defeat and flying Squadrons captive take Nor from my fierce pursuit retreat till I a final Conquest make verse 38 Cover'd with Wounds in vain they try their vanquish'd Heads again to rear Spight of their boasted Strength they lie beneath my Feet and grovel there verse 39 God when fresh Armies take the Field recruits my Strength my Courage warms He makes my strong Opposers yield subdu'd by my prevailing Arms. verse 40 Through him the Neck of prostrate Foes my conqu'ring Feet in Triumph press Aided by him I root out those who hate and envy my Success verse 41 With loud complaints all Friends they try'd but none was able to defend At length to God for Help they cry'd but God would no assistance lend verse 42 Like flying Dust which Winds pursue their broken Troops I scatter'd round Their slaughter'd Bodies forth I threw like loathsome Dirt that clogs the Ground PART VI verse 43 Our factious Tribes at Strife till now by God's Appointment me obey The Heathen to my Scepter bow and foreign Nations own my sway verse 44 Remotest Realms their Homage send when my successful Name they hear Strangers for my Commands attend charm'd with Respect or aw'd by Fear verse 45 All to my Summons tamely yield or soon in Battel are dismay'd For stronger Holds they quit the Field and still in strongest Holds afraid verse 46 Let the eternal Lord be prais'd the Rock on whose Defence I rest O'er highest Heav'ns his Name be rais'd who me with his Salvation bless'd verse 47 'T is God that still supports my Right his just Revenge my Foes pursues 'T is he that with resistless Might fierce Nations to my Yoke subdues verse 48 My universal Safeguard He from whom my lasting Honours flow He made me great and set me free from my remorseless bloody Foe verse 49 Therefore to celebrate his Fame my grateful Voice to Heav'n I 'll raise And Nations Strangers to his Name shall thus be taught to sing his Praise verse 50 God to his King Deliv'rance sends shews his Anointed signal Grace His Mercy evermore extends to David and his promis'd Race PSALM XIX verse 1 THE Heav'ns declare thy Glory Lord which that alone can fill The Firmament and Stars express their great Creator's Skill verse 2 The Dawn of each returning Day fresh Beams of Knowledge brings And from the dark Returns of Night divine Instruction springs verse 3 Their pow'rful Language to no Realm or Region is confin'd 'T is Nature's Voice and understood alike by all Mankind verse 4 Their Doctrine does its sacred sense through Earth's extent display Whose bright Contents the circling Sun does round the World convey verse 5 No Bridegroom on his Nuptial-day has such a chearful Face No Giant does like him rejoice to run his glorious Race verse 6 From East to West from West to East his restless Course he goes And through his Progress chearful Light and vital Warmth bestows PART II. verse 7 God's perfect Law converts the Soul reclaims from false Desires With sacred Wisdom his sure Word the Ignorant inspires verse 8 The Statutes of the Lord are just and bring sincere Delight His pure Commands in search of Truth assist the feebleft Sight verse 9 His perfect Worship here is fix'd on sure Foundations laid His equal Laws are in the Scales of Truth and Justice weigh'd verse 10 Of more esteem than golden Mines or Gold resin'd with Skill More sweet than Honey or the drops that from the Comb distil verse 11 My trusty Counsellers they are and friendly Warnings give Divine Rewards attend on those who by thy Precepts live verse 12 But what frail Man observes how ost he does from Vertue fall O cleanse me from my secret Faults thou God that know'st them all verse 13 Let no presumptuous Sin O Lord dominion have o'er me That by thy Grace preserv'd I may the great Transgression slee verse 14 So shall my Pray'r and Praises be with thy Acceptance blest And I secure on thy Defence my Strength and Saviour rest PSALM XX. verse 1 THE Lord to thy Request attend and hear thee in Distress The Name of ' Jacob's God defend and grant thy Arms success verse 2 To aid thee from on high repair and strength from Sion give verse 3 Remember all thy Off'rings there thy Sacrifice receive verse 4 To compass thy own Heart's Desire thy Counsels still direct Make kindly all Events conspire to bring them to effect verse 5 To thy Salvation Lord for Aid we chearfully repair With Banners
free By making still their Course of Life with thy Commands agree verse 10 With hearty Zeal for thee I seek to thee for Succour pray O suffer not my carcless Steps from thy right Paths to stray verse 11 Safe in my Heart and closely hid thy Word my Treasure liew To succour me with timely Aid when sinful Thoughts arise verse 12 Secur'd by that my grateful Soul shall ever bless thy Name O teach me then by thy just Laws my future Life to frame verse 13 My Lips unlock'd by pious Zeal to others have declar'd How well the Judgments of thy Mouth deserve our best Regard verse 14 Whilst in the way of thy Commands more folid Joy I found Than had I been with vast Increase of envy'd Riches crown'd verse 15 Therefore thy just and upright Laws shall always fill my mind And those sound Rules which thou prescrib'st all due resped shall find verse 16 To keep thy Statutes undesac'd shall be my constant Joy The strict Remembrance of thy Word shall all my Thoughts employ GIMEL verse 17 Be gracious to thy Servant Lord do thou my Life defend That I according to thy Word my future time may spend verse 18 Enlighten both my Eyes and Mind that so I may discern The wond'rous things which they behold who thy just Precepts learn verse 19 Tho' like a Stranger in the Land from place to place I stray Thy righteous Judgments from my sight remove not thou away verse 20 My fainting Soul is almost pin'd with earnest longing spent Whilst always on the eager Search of thy just Will intent verse 21 Thy sharp Rebuke shall crush the Proud whom still thy curse pursues Since they to walk in thy right ways presumptuously refuse verse 22 But far from me do thou O Lord Contempt and Shame remove For I thy sacred Laws affect with undissemble'd Love verse 23 Tho'Princes ost in counsel met against thy Servant spake Yet I thy Statutes to obsrve my constant Bus'ness make verse 24 For thy Commands have always been my Comfort and Delight By them I learn with prudent Care to guide my Steps aright DALETH verse 25 My Soul opprest with deadly Care close to the Earth does cleave Revive me Lord and let me now thy promis'd Aid receive verse 26 To thee I still declared my Ways who didst incline thine Ear O teach me then my future Life by thy just Laws to steer verse 27 If thou wilt makc me know thy Laws and by their Guidance walk The wond'rous works which tho hadst done shall be my constant Taik verse 28 But see my Soul within me sinks press'd down with weighty Care Do thou according to thy Word my wasted Strength repair verse 29 Far far from me be all false Ways and lying Arts remov'd But kindly grant I still may keep the Path by thee approv'd verse 30 Thy faithful Ways thou God of Truth my happy Choice I made Thy Judgments as my Rule of Life before me always laid verse 31 My Care has been to make my Life with thy Commands agree O then preserve thy Servant Lord from Shame and Ruine free verse 32 So in the way of thy Commands shall I with Pleasure run And with a Heart enlarg'd with Joy successfully go on HE verse 33 Instruct me in thy Statutes Lord thy righteous Paths display And I from them through all my Life will never go astray verse 34 If thou true Wisdom from above wilt graciously impart To keep thy perfect Laws I will devote my zealous Heart verse 35 Direct me in the sacrcd Ways to which thy Precepts lead Because my chief Delight has been thy righteous Paths to tread verse 36 Do thou to thy most just Commands inditie my willing Heart Let no defire of worldly Wealth from thee my Thoughts divert verse 37 From those vain Objects turn my Eyes which this false World displays But give me lively Pow'r and Strength to keep thy righteous Ways verse 38 Confirm the Promise which thou mad'st and give thy Servant Aid Who to transgress thy sacred Laws is awfully afraid verse 39 The foul Disgrace I justly fear in mercy Lord remove For all the Judgments thou ordain'st are full of Grace and Love verse 40 Thou know'ft how after thy Commands my longing Heart does pant O then make haste to raise me up and promis'd Succour grant VAU verse 41 Thy constant Blessing Lord bestow to cheer my drooping Heart To me according to thy Word thy saving Health impart verse 42 So shall 1 when my Foes upbraid this ready Answer make In God I trust who never will his faithful Promise break verse 43 Then let not quite the Word of Truth be from my Mouth remov'd Since still my ground of stedfast Hope thy just Decrees have prov'd verse 44 So I to keep thy righteous Laws will ail my Study bend From Age to Age my time to come in their Qbservance spend verse 45 E'er long I trust to walk at large from all incumbrance free Since I resolv'd to make my Life with thy Commands agree verse 46 Thy Laws shall be my constant talk and Princes shall attend Whilst I the Justice of thy Ways with Confidence defend verse 47 My longing Heart and ravish'd Soul shall both o'erflow with Joy When in thy lov'd Commandments I my happy hours employ verse 48 Then will I to thy just Decrees lift up my willing Hands My Care and Bus'ness then shall be to study thy Commands ZAIN verse 49 According to thy promis'd Grace thy Favour Lord extend Make good to me the Word on which thy Servant's Hopes depend verse 50 That only Comfort in distress did all my Griefs controul Thy Word when troubles hem'd me round reviv'd my fainting Soul verse 51 Insulting Foes did proudly mock and all my Hopes deride Yet from thy Law not all their Scoffs could make me turn aside verse 52 Thy Judgments then of antient date I quickly call'd to mind 'Till ravish'd with such Thoughts my Soul did speedy Comfort find verse 53 Sometimes I stand amaz'd like one with deadly Horror strook To think how all my sinful Foes have thy just Laws forsook verse 54 But I thy Statutes and Decrees my cheerful Anthems made Whilst thro' strange Lands and desart Wilds I like a Pilgrim stray'd verse 55 Thy Name that cheer'd my Heart by day has fill'd my Thoughts by Night I then resolv'd by thy just Laws to guide my Steps aright verse 56 That Peace of Mind which has my Soul in deep distress sustain'd By strict Obedience to thy Will I happily obtain'd CHETH verse 57 O Lord my God ray Portion thou and sure Poffession art Thy Words I stedfastly resolve to treasure in my Heart verse 58 With all the strength of warm desires I did thy Grace implore Disclose according to thy Word thy Mercy 's boundless Store verse 59 With due Reflection and strift Care on all my Ways 1 thought And so reclaim'd to thy just Paths my wand'ring Steps I brought verse 60 I lost no
Therefore O Lord make plain the way wherein I ought to go verse 9 Their Mouth vents nothing but Deceit their Heart is set on Wrong Their Throat is a devouring Grave they flatter with their Tongue verse 10 By their own Counsels let them fall oppress'd with loads of Sin For they against thy righteous Laws have harden'd Rebels been verse 11 But let all those who trust in thee with Shouts their Joy proclaim Let them rejoice whom thou preserv'st and all that love thy Name verse 12 To righteous Men the righteous Lord his Blessing will extend And with his Favour all his Saints as with a Shield defend PSALM VI. verse 1 THy dreadful Anger Lord restrain and spare a Wretch forlorn Correct me not in thy fierce Wrath too heavy to be born verse 2 Have Mercy Lord for I grow faint unable to endure The Anguish of my aking Bones which thou alone canst cure verse 3 My tortur'd Flesh distracts my Mind and fills my Soul with Grief But Lord how long wilt thou delay to grant me thy Relief verse 4 Thy wonted Goodness Lord repeat and ease my troubled Soul Lord for thy wond'rous Mercy 's sake vouchsafe to make me whole verse 5 For after Death no more can I thy glorious Acts proclaim No Pris'ner of the silent Grave can magnifie thy Name verse 6 Quite tir'd with Pain with Groaning faint no hope of Ease I see The Night that quiets common Griefs is spent in Tears by me verse 7 My Beauty fades my Sight grows dim my Eyes with weakness close Old Age o'ertakes me whilst I think on my insulting Foes verse 8 Depart ye Wicked in my wrongs ye shall no more rejoice For God I find accepts my Tears and listens to my Voice verse 9 10 He hears and grants my humble Pray'r and they that wish my Fall Shall blush and rage to see that God protects me from them all PSALM VII verse 1 O Lord my God since I have plac'd my Trust alone in thee From all my Persecutors Rage do thou deliver me verse 2 To save me from my threatning Foe Lord interpose thy Pow'r Lest like a salvage Lion he my helpless Soul devour verse 3 4 If I am guilty or did e'er against his Peace combine Nay if I have not spar'd his Life who sought unjustly mine verse 5 Let then to persecuting Foes my Soul become a Prey Let them to Earth tread down my Life in Dust my Honour lay verse 6 Arise and let thine Anger Lord in my Defence engage Exalt thy self above my Foes and their insulting Rage Awake awake in my behalf the Judgment to dispense Which thou hast righteously ordain'd for injur'd Innocence verse 7 So to thy Throne adoring Crouds shall still for Justice fly O! therefore for their sakes resume thy Judgment-seat on high verse 8 Impartial Judge of all the World I trust my Cause to thee According to my just Deserts so let thy Sentence be verse 9 Let wicked Arts and wicked Men together be o'erthrown But guard the Just thou God to whom the Hearts of both are known verse 10 11 God me protects nor only me but all of upright Heart And daily lays up Wrath for those who from his Laws depart verse 12 If they persist he whets his Sword his Bow stands ready bent verse 13 Ev'n now with swift Destruction wing'd his pointed Shafts are sent verse 14 The Plots are fruitless which my Foe unjustly did conceive verse 15 The Pit he digg'd for me has prov'd his own untimely Grave verse 16 On his own Head his Spite returns whilst I from Harm am free On him the Violence is fall'n which he design'd for me verse 17 Therefore will I the righteous ways of Providence proclaim I 'll sing the Praise of God most High and celebrate his Name PSALM VIII verse 1 O Thou to whom all Creatures bow within this earthly Frame Thro' all the World how great art Thou how glorious is thy Name In Heav'n thy wond'rous Acts are sung nor fully reckon'd there verse 2 And yet thou mak'st the Infant-Tongue thy boundless Praise declare Thro' thee the Weak confound the Strong and crush their haughty Foes And so thou quell'st the wicked Throng that thee and thine oppose verse 3 When Heav'n thy beauteous work on high employs my wond'ring Sight The Moon that nightly rules the Sky with Stars of feebler Light verse 4 What 's Man say I that Lord thou lov'st to keep him in thy mind Or what his Off-spring that thou prov'st to them so wond'rous kind verse 5 Him next in Pow'r thou didst create to thy Celestial Train verse 6 Ordain'd with Dignity and State o'er all thy Works to reign verse 7 They jointly own his pow'rful sway the Beasts that prey or graze verse 8 The Bird that wings its airy way the Fish that cuts the Seas verse 9 O Thou to whom all Creatures bow within this earthly Frame Thro' all the World how great art Thou how glorious is thy Name PSALM IX verse 1 TO celebrate thy Praise O Lord I will my Heart prepare To all the list'ning World thy Works thy wond'rous Works declare verse 2 The Thought of them shall to my Soul exalted Pleasure bring Whilst to thy Name O thou most High triumphant Praise I sing verse 3 Thou mad'st my haughty Foes to turn their backs in shameful flight Struck with thy Presence down they fell they perish'd at thy sight verse 4 Against insulting Foes advanc'd thou didst my Cause maintain My Right asserting from thy Throne where Truth and Justice reign verse 5 The Insolence of Heathen Pride thou hast reduc'd to Shame Their wicked Offspring quite destroy'd and blotted out their Name verse 6 Mistaken Foes your haughty Threats are to a period come Our City stands which you design'd to make our common Tomb. verse 7 8 The Lord for ever lives who has his righteous Throne prepar'd Impartial Justice to dispense to punish or reward verse 9 God is a constant sure Defence against oppressing Rage As Troubles rise his needful Aids in our behalf engage verse 10 All those who have his Goodness prov'd will in his Truth confide Whose Mercy ne'er forsook the Man that on his Help rely'd verse 11 Sing Praises therefore to the Lord from Sion his Abode Proclaim his Deeds till all the World confess no other God PART II. verse 12 When he enquiry makes for Blood he calls the Poor to mind The injur'd humble Man's Complaint relief from him shall find verse 13 Take pity on my Troubles Lord which spiteful Foes create Thou that hast rescu'd me so oft from Death's devouring Gate verse 14 In Sion then I 'll sing thy Praise to all that love thy Name And with loud Shouts of grateful Joy thy saving Pow'r proclaim verse 15 Deep in the Pit they digg'd for me the Heathen Pride is laid Their guilty Feet to their own Snare are heedlesly betray'd verse 16 Thus by the just Returns he makes the mighty Lord is known While wicked
of universal Joy should loudly eccho through the Land PSALM XV. verse 1 LOrd who 's the happy Man that may to thy blest Courts repair Not Stranger-like to visit them but to inhabit there verse 2 'T is he whose ev'ry Thought and Deed by rules of Virtue moves Whose gen'rous Tongue disdains to speak the thing his Heart disproves verse 3 Who never did a Slander forge his Neighbour's Fame to wound Nor hearken to a false Report by Malice whisper'd round verse 4 Who Vice in all its Pomp and Pow'r can treat with just Neglect And Piety tho' cloath'd in Rags religiously respect Who to his plighted Vows and Trust has ever firmly stood And tho' he promise to his Loss he makes his Promise good verse 5 Whose Soul in Usury disdains his Treasure to employ Whom no Rewards can ever bribe the Guiltless to destroy The Man who by this steady Course has Happiness ensur'd When Earth's foundation shakes shall stand by Providence secur'd PSALM XVI verse 1 PRotect me from my cruel Foes and shield me Lord from Harm Because my Trust I still repose on thy Almighty Arm. verse 2 My Soul all Help but thine does slight all Gods but thee disown Yet can no Deeds of mine require the Goodness thou hast shown verse 3 But those that strictly virtuous are and love the thing that 's right To favour always and prefer shall be my chief Delight verse 4 How shall their Sorrows be increas'd who other Gods adore Their bloody Offerings I detest their very Names abhor verse 5 My Lot is fall'n in that blest Land where God is truly known He fills my Cup with lib'ral hand 't is he supports my Throne verse 6 In Nature's most delightful Scene my happy Portion lies The place of my appointed Reign all other Lands outvies verse 7 Therefore my Soul shall bless the Lord whose Precepts give me Light And private Counsel still afford in Sorrow's dismal Night verse 8 I strive each Action to approve to his all-seeing Eye No danger shall my Hopes remove because he still is nigh verse 9 Therefore my Heart all Grief defies my Glory does rejoice My Flesh shall rest in hope to rise wak'd by his pow'rful Voice verse 10 Thou Lord when I resign my Breath my Soul from Hell shall free Nor let thy Holy One in death the least Corruption see verse 11 Thou shalt the Paths of Life display that to thy Presence lead Where Pleasures dwell without allay and Joys that never fade PSALM XVII verse 1 TO my just Plea and sad Complaint attend O righteous Lord And to my Pray'r as 't is unfeign'd a gracious Ear afford verse 2 As in thy sight I am approv'd so let my Sentence be And with impartial Eyes O Lord my upright Dealing see verse 3 For thou hast search'd my Heart by day and visited by Night And on the strictest Trial found its secret Motions right Nor shall thy Justice Lord alone my Heart's Designs acquit For I have purpos'd that my Tongue shall no Offence commit verse 4 I know what wicked Men would do their Safety to maintain But me thy just and mild Commands from bloody Paths restrain verse 5 That I may still in spight of Wrongs my Innocence secure O! guide me in thy righteous Ways and make my Footsteps sure verse 6 Since heretofore I ne'er in vain to thee my Pray'r address'd O! now my God incline thine Ear to this my just Request verse 7 The Wonders of thy Truth and Love in my Defence engage Thou whose Right-hand preserves thy Saints from their Oppressors Rage PART II. verse 8 9 O! keep me in thy tend'rest Care thy sheltring Wing stretch out To guard me safe from salvage Foes that compass me about verse 10 O'ergrown with Luxury enclos'd in their own Fat they lie And with a proud blaspheming Mouth both God and Man defie verse 11 Well may they boast for they have now my Paths encompass'd round With Eyes at watch and Bodies bow'd and couching on the Ground verse 12 In posture of a Lion set when greedy of his Prey Or a young Lion when he lurks within a covert way verse 13 Arise O Lord defeat their Plots their swelling Rage controul From wicked Men who are thy Sword deliver thou my Soul verse 14 From worldly Men thy sharpest Scourge whose Portion 's here below Who fill'd with earthly Stores desire no other Bliss to know verse 15 Their Race is num'rous that partake their Substance while they live Their Heirs survive to whom they may the vast Remainder give verse 16 But I in Uprightness thy Face shall view without controul And waking shall its Image find reflected in my Soul PSALM XVIII verse 1 2 NO change of Times shall ever shock my firm Affection Lord to thee For thou hast always been my Rock a Fortress and Defence to me Thou mv Deliv'rer art my God my Trust is in thy mighty Pow'r Thou art my Shield from Foes abroad at home my Safeguard and my Tow'r verse 3 To thee I will address my Pray'r to whom all Praise we justly owe So shall I by thy watchful Care be guarded from my treach'rous Foe verse 4 5 By Floods of wicked Men distress'd with Seas of Sorrow compass'd round With dire infernal Pangs oppress'd in Death's unweildy Fetters bound verse 6 To Heaven I made my mournful Pray'r to God address'd my humble Moan Who graciously inclin'd his Ear and heard me from his lofty Throne PART II. verse 7 When God arose my part to take the conscious Earth was struck with fear The Hills did at his Presence shake nor could his dreadful Fury bear verse 8 Thick Clouds of Smoak disperst abroad ensigns of Wrath before him came Devouring Fire around him glow'd that Coals were kindled at his Flame verse 9 He left the beauteous Realms of Light whilst Heav'n bow'd down its awful head Beneath his Feet substantial Night was like a sable Carpet spread verse 10 The Chariot of the King of Kings which active Troops of Angels drew On a strong Tempest s rapid Wings with most amazing swiftness flew verse 11 12 Black watry Mists and Clouds conspir'd with thickest Shades his Face to veil But at his Brightness soon retir'd and fell in show'rs of Fire and Hail verse 13 Thro' Heav'ns wide Arch a thundring Peal God's angry Voice did loudly roar While Earth's sad Face with heaps of Hail and flakes of Fire was cover'd o'er verse 14 His sharpen'd Arrows round he threw which made his scatter'd Foes retreat Like Darts his nimble Light'nings flew and quickly finish'd their Defeat verse 15 The Deep its secret Stores disclos'd the World's Foundations naked lay By his avenging Wrath expos'd which fiercely rag'd that dreadful Day PART III. verse 16 The Lord did on my side engage from Heav'n his Throne my Cause upheld And snatch'd me from the furious Rage of threat'ning Waves that proudly swell'd verse 17 God his resistless Pow'r employ'd my strongest Foes attempts to break Who else with ease
and Staff defend and comfort me verse 5 In presence of my spiteful Foes he does my Table spread He crowns my Cup with chearful Wine with Oil anoints my Head verse 6 Since God does thus his wond'rous Love through all my Life extend That Life to him I will devote and in his Temple spend PSALM XXIV verse 1 THis spacious Earth is all the Lord's the Lord 's her fulness is The World and they that dwell therein by sov'reign Right are his verse 2 He fram'd and fix'd it on the Seas and his Almighty Hand Upon inconstant Floods has made the stable Fabrick stand verse 3 But for himself this Lord of All one chosen Seat design'd O who shall to that Sacred Hill defir'd Admittance find verse 4 The Man whose Hands and Heart are pure whose Thoughts from Pride are free Who honest Poverty prefers to gainful Perjury verse 5 This this is he on whom the Lord shall show'r his Blessings down Whom God his Saviour shall vouchsafe with Righteousness to crown verse 6 Such is the Race of Saints by whom the sacred Courts are trod And such the Proselytes that seek the Face of Jacob's God verse 7 Erect your Heads eternal Gates unsold to entertain The King of Glory fee he comes with his celestial Train verse 8 Who is this King of Glory who the Lord for Strength renown'd In Battel mighty o'er his Foes eternal Victor crown'd verse 9 Erect your Heads ye Gates unsold in state to entertain The King of Glory see he comes with all his shining Train verse 10 Who is this King of Glory who the Lord of Hosts renown'd Of Glory he alone is King who is with Glory crown'd PSALM XXV verse 1 2 To God in whom I trust I list my Heart and Voice O let me not be put to shame nor let my Foes rejoice verse 3 Those who on Thee rely let no disgrace attend Be that the shameful Lot of such as wilfully offend verse 4 5 To me thy Truth impart and lead me in thy way For thou art he that brings me Help on thee I wait all day verse 6 Thy Mercies and thy Love O Lord recall to mind And graciously continue still as thou wert ever kind verse 7 Let all my youthful Crimes be blotted out by-thee And for thy wond'rous Goodness sake in Mercy think on me verse 8 His Mercy and his Truth the righteous Lord displays In bringing wand'ring Sinners home and teaching them his ways verse 9 He those in Justice guides who his Direction seek And in his sacred Paths shall lead the humble and the meek verse 10 Through all the ways of God both Truth and Mercy shine To such as with religiously Hearts to his blest Will incline PART II. verse 11 Since Mercy is the Grace that most exalts thy Fame Forgive my heinous Sin O Lord and so advance thy Name verse 12 Whoe'er with Humble Fear to God his Duty pays Shall find the Lord a faithful Guide in all his righteous Ways verse 13 His quiet Soul with Peace shall be for ever blest And by his num'rous Race the Land successively possest verse 14 For God to all his Saints his secret Will imparts And does his gracious Cov'nant write in their obedient Hearts verse 15 To him I list my Eyes and wait his timely Aid Who breaks the strong and treach'rous Snare which for my Feet was laid verse 16 O turn and all my Griefs in Mercy Lord redrefs For I am compass'd round with Woes and plung'd in deep Distress verse 17 The Sorrows of my Heart to mighty Sums increase O from this dark and dismal state my troubled Soul release verse 18 Do thou with tender Eyes my sad Afflictions see Acquit me Lord and from my Guilt intirely set me free verse 19 Consider Lord my Foes how vast their numbers grow What lawless Farce and Rage they use what boundless Hate they show verse 20 Protect and set my Soul from their fierce Malice free Nor let me be asham'd who place my stedfast Trust in thee verse 21 Let all my righteous Acts to full Persection rise Because my firm and constant Hope on thee alone relies verse 22 To Israel's chosen Race continue ever kind And in the midst of all their Wants let them thy Succour sind PSALM XXVI verse 1 JUdge me O Lord for I the Paths of Righteousness have trod I cannot fail who all my Trust repose on thee my God verse 2 3 Search thou my Heart whose Innocence will shine the more 't is try'd For I have kept thy Grace in view and made thy Truth my Guide verse 4 I never for Companions took the Idle or Prophane No Hypocrite with all his Arts could e'er my Friendship gain verse 5 I hate the busie Plotting Crew who make distracted Times And shun their wicked Company as I avoid their Crimes verse 6 I 'll wash my hands in Innocence and bring a Heart so pure That when thy Altar I approach my welcome shall secure verse 7 8 My thanks I 'll publish there and tell how thy Renown excels That Seat affords me most delight in which thy Honour dwells verse 9 Pass not on me the Sinners doom who Murder makes their Trade verse 10 Who others Rights by fecret Bribes or open Force invade verse 11 But I will walk in paths of Truth and Innocence pursue Protect me therefore and to me thy Mercies Lord renew verse 12 In spight of all assaulting Foes I still maintain my ground And shall survive amongst thy Saints thy Praises to resound PSALM XXVII verse 1 WHom should I fear since God to me is saying-Health and Light Since strongly he my Life supports what can my Soul assright verse 2 With fierce intent my Flesh to tear when Foes beset me round They stumbled and their losty Crests were made to strike the Ground verse 3 Through him my Heart undaunted dares with mighty Hosts to cope Through him in doubtful Straits of War for good Success I hope verse 4 Henceforth within his House to dwell I earnestly desire His wond'rous Beauty there to view and of his Will enquire verse 5 For there may I with Comfort rest in times of deep Distress And safe as on a Rock abide in that secure Recess verse 6 Whilst God o'er all my haughty Foes my lofty Head shall raise And I my joyful Tribute bring with grateful Songs of Praise PART II. verse 7 Continue Lord to hear my Voice whene'er to thee I cry In Mercy my Complaints receive nor my Request deny verse 8 When us to seek thy glorious Face thou kindly dost advise Thy glorious Face I 'll always seek my grateful Heart replies verse 9 Then hide not thou thy Face O Lord nor me in Wrath reject My God and Saviour leave not him thou didst so ost protect verse 10 Tho' all my Friends and Kindred too their helpless Charge forsake Yet thou whose Love excels them all wilt Care and Pity take verse 11 Instruct me in thy Paths O Lord my Ways
God who will employ His Aid for thee and change these Sighs to thankful Hymns of Joy verse 6 My Soul 's cast down O God but thinks on thee and Sion still From fordan's Bank from Hermon's Heights and Missar's humbler Hill verse 7 One Trouble calls another on and gath'ring o'er my Head Fall spouting down till round my Soul a roaring Sea is spread verse 8 But when thy Presence Lord of Life has once dispell'd this Storm To thee I'II midnight-Anthems sing and all my Vows porform verse 9 God of my Strength how long shall I like one forgotten mourn Forlorn forsaken and expos'd to my oppressor's Scorn verse 10 My Heart is pierc'd as with a Sword whilst thus my Foes upbraid Vain Boaster where is now thy God and where his promis'd Aid verse 11 Why reftless why cast down my Soul hope still and thou shalt sing The Praise of him who is thy God thy Health 's Eternal Spring PSALM XLIII JUST Judge of Heav'n against ' my Foes do thou affert my injur'd Right O set me free my God from those that in Deceit and Wrong delight verse 2 Since thou art still my only Stay Why leav'st thou me in deep Distress Why go I mourning all the Day whilst me insulting Foes oppress verse 3 Let me with Light and Truth be blest be these my Guides to lead the way Till on thy holy Hill I rest and in thy sacred Temple pray verse 4 Then will I there fresh Altars raise to God who is my only joy And well-tun'd Harps witn Songs of Praise shall all my grateful Hours employ verse 5 Why then cast down my'Soul and why so much opprest with arixious Care On God thy God for Aid rely who will thy ruin'd State repair PSALM XLIV O Lord our Fathers oft have told in our attentive Ears Thy Wonders in their days'perform'd and elder Times than theirs verse 2 How Thou to plant them here didst drive the Heathen from this Land Dispeopled by repeated Strokes of thy avenging Hand verse 3 For not their Courage nor their Sword to them possession gave Nor strength that from unequal Force their fainting Troops could save But thy Right-hand and pow'rful Arm whose Succour they implor'd Thy Presence with the chosen Race who thy great Name ador'd verse 4 As Thee their God our Fathers own'd thou art our Sov'reign King O therefore as thou didst to them to us Deliv'rance bring verse 5 Thro' thy victorious Name our Arms the proudest Foe shall quell And crush 'em with repeated Strokes as oft as they rebel verse 6 I 'll neither trust my Bow nor Sword when I in Fight ingage verse 7 But Thee who hast our Foes subdu'd and sham'd their spiteful Rage verse 8 To Thee the Triumph we ascribe from whom the Conquest came In God we will rejoyce all Day and ever bless his Name PART II. verse 9 But thou hast cast us off and now most shamefully we yield for thou no more vouchsaf'st to lead our Armies to the Field verse 10 Since when to every upstart Foe we turn our Backs in Fight And with our Spoil their Malice feast who bear us ancient Spite verse 11 To Slaughter doom'd we fall like Sheep into their butch'ring Hands Or what 's more wretched yet survive disperst thro' Heathen Lands verse 12 Thy People thou hast sold for Slaves and set their Price so low That not thy Treasure by the Sale but their Disgrace may grow verse 13 14 Reproach'd by all the Nations round the Heathea's By-word grown Whose Scorn of us is both in Speech and mocking Gestures shown verse 14 Confusion strikes me blind my Face in conscioiis shame I hide verse 16 While we are seoff'd and God blasphem'd by their licentious pride PART III. verse 17 On us this Heap of Woes is fall'n all this we have endur'd Yet have not Lord renoune'd thy Name or Faith to thee abjur'd verse 18 But in thy righteous Paths have kept our Hearts ana Steps with Care verse 19 Tho'thou hast broken all bur Strength and we almost despair verse 20 Could we forgetting thy great Name on other Gods rely verse 21 And not the Searcher of all Hearts the treach'rous Crime descry verse 22 Thou seest what Suff'rings for thy sake we ev'ry day sustain All slaughter'd or reserv'd like Sheep appointed to be slain verse 23 Awake arise let seeming Sleep no longer thee detain Nor let us Lord who sue to thee for ever sue in vain verse 24 O wherefore hidest thou thy Face from our afflicted state verse 25 Whose Soul 's and Bodies sink to Earth with Griefs oppressive Weight verse 26 Arise O Lord and timely Haste to our Deliv'rance make Redeem us Lord if not for our's yet for thy Mercy 's sake PSALM XLV WHile I the King 's loud Praise rehearse endited by my Heart My Tongue is like the Pen of him that writes with ready Art verse 2 How matchless is thy Form O King thy Mouth with Grace o'erflows Because fresh Blessings God on thee eternally bestows verse 3 Gird on thy Sword most mighty Prince and clad in rich Array With glorious Ornaments of Pow'r Majestick Pomp display verse 4 Ride on in state and still protect the Meek the Just and True Whilst thy Right-hand with swift Revenge does all thy Foes pursue verse 5 How sharp thy Weapons are to them that dare thy Pow'r despise Down down they fall while through their Heart the feather'd Arrow flies verse 6 But thy firm Throne O God is fix'd for ever to endure Thy Scepter 's Sway shall always last by righteous Laws secure verse 7 Because thy Heart by Justice led did upright Ways approve And hated still the crooked Paths where wand'ring Sinners rove Therefore did God thy God oh thee the Oyl of Gladness shed And has above thy Fellows round advanc'd thy losty Head verse 8 With Cassia Aloes and Myrrh thy Royal Robes abound Which from the stately Wardrobe bronght spread grateful Odours round verse 9 Among the honourable Train did Princely Virgins wait The Queen was plac'd at thy Right-hand in Golden Robes of State PART II. verse 10 But thou O Royal Bride give ear and to my Words attend Forget thy Native Country now and ev'ry former Friend verse 11 So shall thy Beauty charm the King nor shall his Love decay For he is now become thy Lord to him due Rev'rence pay verse 12 The Tyrian Matrons rich and proud shall humble Presents make And all the wealthy Nations sue thy Favour to partake verse 13 The King 's fair Daughter 's fairer Soul all inward Graces fill Her Raiment is of purest Gold adorn'd with costly Skill verse 14 She in her nuptial Garment dress'd with needles richly wrought Attended by her Virgin Train shall to the King be brought verse 15 With all the State of solemn Joy the Triumph moves along Till with wide Gates the Royal Court receives the pompous Throng verse 16 Thou in thy Royal Father's room must princely Sons expect Whom thou
their Guilt defac'd Thou hast not let thy Wrath flame on nor thy fierce Anger last verse 4 O God our Saviour all our Hearts to thy Obedience turn That quencht with our repenting Tears thy Wrath no more may burn verse 5 6 For why shouldst thou be angry still and Wrath so long retain Revive us Lord and let thy Saints thy wonted Comfort gain verse 7 Thy gracious Favour Lord display which we have long implor'd And for thy wond'rous Mercie 's sake thy wonted Aid afford verse 8 God's Anfwer patiently I 'll wait for he with glad Success If they no more to solly turn his mourning Saints will bless verse 9 To all that fear his holy Name his sure Salvation's near And in its former happy state our Nation shali appear verse 10 For Mercy now with Truth is join'd and Righteousness with Peace like kind Companions absent long with friendly Arms embrace verse 11 12 Truth from the Eirth shall spring whilst Heav'n shall Streams of Justice pour And God from whom all Goodness flows shall endless Plenty show'r verse 13 Before him Righteousnefs shall march and his Just Paths prepare Whilst we his holy steps pursue with constant Zeal and Care Psalm LXXXVI verse 1 To my Complaint O Lord my God thy gracious Ear incline Hear me distrest and destitute of all Relies but thine verse 2 Do thou O God preserve my Soul that does thy Name adore Thy Servant keep and him whose Trust relies on Thee restore verse 3 To me who daily Thee invoke thy Mercy Lord extend verse 4 Refresh thy Servant's Soul whose Hopes on Thee alone depend verse 5 Thou Lord art good nor only good but prompt to pardon too Of plenteous Mercy to all those who for thy Mercy sue verse 6 To my repeated humble Pray'r O Lord attentive be verse 7 When Troubled I on Thee will call for thou wilt answer me verse 8 Among the God there 's none like Thee O Lord alone divine To Thee as much inferiour they as are their Works to thine verse 9 Therefore their great Creator Thee the Nations shall adore Their long misguided Pray'rs and Praise to thy blest Name restore verse 10 All shall confess Thee great ahd great the Wonders thou hast done Confess thee God the God supreme confess thee God alone PART II verse 11 Teach me thy way O Lord and I from Truth shall ne'er depart In rev'rence to thy sacred Name devoutly fix my heart verse 12 Thee will I praise O Lord my God praise thee with Heart sincere And to thy everlasting Name Eternal Trophies rear verse 13 Thy boundless Mercy shewn to me transcends my Pow'r to tell For thou hast ost redeem'd my Soul from lowest Depths of Hell verse 14 O God the Sons of Pride and Strife have my Destruction sought Regardless of thy Pow'r that oft has my Deliv'rance wrought verse 15 But thou thy constant Goodness didst to my Assistance brings Of Patience Mercy and of Truth thou everlasting Spring verse 16 O bounteous Lord thy Grace and Strenght to me thy Servant s how Thy kind Protection Lord on me thine Handmaid's Son bestow verse 17 Some Signal give which my proud Foes may see with shame and Rage When thou O Lord for my Relies and Comfort dost engage Psalm LXXXVII verse 1 GOD's Temple crowns the Holy Mount the Lords their condescends to dwell verse 2 His Sion's Gates in his account our Israel's fairest Tents excel verse 3 Fame glorious things of Thee shall sing O City of th' Almighty King verse 4 I 'll mention Rabab with due Praise in Babylon's Applauses join The Frame of Athiopia raise with that of Tyre and Palastine And grant that some amongst them born their Age and Country did adorn verse 5 But still of Sion averr that many such from her proceed Th' Almighty shall establish her verse 6 his gen'ral List shall shew when read That such a Person there was born their Age and Country did adorn verse 7 He 'll Sion find with Numbers fill'd of such as merit high Renown For Hand and Voice Musicians skill'd and her transcending Fame to crown Of such she shall Successions bring like Waters from a living Spring Psam LXXXVIII verse 1 To thee my God and Saviour I By Day and Night address my Cry verse 2 Vouchsase my mournful Voice to hear to my Distress incline thine Ear. verse 3 For Seas of Trouble mel invade My Soul draws nigh to Death's cold shade verse 4 Like one whose Strength and hopes are fled They number me among the Dead verse 5 Like those who shrouded in the Grave From thee no more Remembrance have Cast off from thy sustaining Care verse 6 Down to the Consines of Despair verse 7 Thy Wrath has hard upon me lain Assicting me with restless Pain Me all thy Mountain Waves have prest Too weak alass to bear the least verse 8 Remov'd from Friends I sigh alone In a loath'd Dungeon laid where none A Visit will vouchsase to me Consin'd past Hopes of liberty verse 9 My Eyes from weeping never cease They waste but still my Griess increase Yet daily Lord to thee I pray'd With out-stretch Hands invok'd thy Aid verse 10 Wilt thou by Miracle revive The Dead whom thou forsook'st Alive From Death restore thy Praise to sing Whom thou from Prison would'st not bring verse 11 Shall the mute Grave thy Love consess A mold'ring Tomb thy Faithfulness verse 12 Thy Truth and Pow'r Renown obtain Where Darkness and Oblivion reign verse 13 To thee O Lord I cry forlorn My Pray r prevents the early Morn verse 14 Why hast thou Lord my Soul forsook Nor once vouchsas'd a gracious Look verse 15 Prevailing Sorrows bear me down Which from my Youth with me have grown Thy Terrors past distract my Mind And Fears of blacker Days behind verse 16 Thy Wrath hath burst upon my Head Thy Terrors fill my Soul with Dread verse 17 Environ'd as with Waves combin'd And for a gen'ral Deluge join'd verse 18 My Lovers Friends Familiars all Remov'd from Sight and out of call To dark Oblivion all retir'd Dead or at least to me expir'd Psalni LXXXIX verse 1 THY Mercies Lord shall be my song My Song on them shall ever dwell To Ages yet unborn my Tongue Thy never failing Truth shall tell verse 2 I have assirm'd and still maintain Thy Mercy shall for ever last Thy Truth that does the Heav'ns sustain Like them shall stand for ever fasat verse 3 Thus spak'st thou by the Prophet's Voice With David I a League have made To him my Servant and my Choice By Solemn Oath this Grant convey'd While Earth and Seas and Skies endure Thy Seed shall in my Sight remain To them thy Throne I will ensure They shall to endless Ages reign verse 5 For such stupendious Truth and Love Both Heav'n and Earth just Praises owe By Choirs of Angels sung above And by Assembled Saints below verse 6 What Seraph of Celestial Birth To vie with Isr'el's God shall dare
this little Spot of Clay So much his boundless Love transcends The small Respects that we can pay verse 12 13 As far as 't is from East to West So far has he our sins remov'd Who with a Father's tender Breast Has such as fear him always lov'd verse 14 15 For God who all our Frame surveys Considers that we are but Clay How fresh so'er we seem our Days Like Grass or Flowers ' must fade away verse 16 17 Whilst they are nipt with sudden Blasts Nor can we find their former place God's faithful Mercy ever lasts To those that fear him and their Race verse 18 This shall attend on such as still Proceed in his appointed way And who not only knows his Will But to it just Obedience pay verse 19 20 The Lord the universal King In Heav'n has fixt his lofty Throne To him ye Angels praises sing In whose great strength his Pow'r is shown Ye that his just commands obey And hear and do his sacred Will verse 21 Ye hosts of his this Tribute pay Who still what he ordains fulfil verse 22 Let ev'ry Creature jointly bless The mighty Lord and thou my heart With grateful Joy thy thanks express And in this Consort bear thy part Psalm CIV verse 1 BLess God my Soul thou Lord alone Possessest Empire without Bounds With honour thou art crown'd thy Throne Eternal Majesty surrounds verse 2 With Light thou dost thy self enrobe And Glory for a Garment take Heaven's Curtains stretch beyond the Globe Thy Canopy of State to make verse 3 God builds on liquid Air and forms His Palace-chambers in the Skies The Clouds his Chariot are and Storms The swift-wing'd Steeds with which he flies verse 4 As bright as flame and swift as wind His Ministers heav'ns palace fill To have their sundry Tasks assign'd All proud to serve their Sov'reigns Will. verse 5 6 Earth on her Center fixt he set Her Face with Waters overspread Nor proudest mountains dar'd as yet To list above the waves their head verse 7 But when thy awful Face appear'd Th' insulting waves dispers'd they fled When once thy thunder's Voice they heard And by their haste confest their dread verse 8 Thence up by secret tracts they creep And gushing from the Mountain's side Thro' Valleys travel to the Deep Appointed to receive their Tide verse 9 There hast thou fixt the Ocean's bounds The threatning Surges to repel That they no more o'er-pass their mounds Nor to a second Deluge swell PART II. verse 10 Yet thence in smaller parties drawn The Sea recovers her lost hills And starting Springs from eve'ry Lawn Surprize the Vales with plenteous Rills verse 11 The Feild's tame Beasts are thither led Weary with Labour faint with Drought And Asses on wild mountains bred Have sense to find these Currents out verse 12 Their shady Trees from scorching Beams Yield shelter to the feather'd Throng They drink and to the Bounteous Streams Return the Tribute of their Song verse 13 His Rains from Heav'n parcht hills recruit That soon transmit the liquid Store Till Earth is burthen'd with her Fruit And Nature's Lap can hold no more verse 14 Grass for our Cattel to devour He makes the growth of every Field Herbs for Man's use of various pow'r That either Food or Physick yield verse 15 With cluster'd Grapes he crowns the Vine To chear Man's heart opprest with Cares Gives Oyl that makes his Face to shine And Corn that wasted Strength repairs PART III. verse 16 The Trees of God without the Care Or Art of Man with Sap are fed The Mountain-Cedar looks as fair As those in Royal Gardens bred verse 17 Safe in the lofty Cedar's Arms The Wand'rers of the Air may rest The Hospitable Pine from Harms Protects the Stork her pious Guest verse 18 Wild Goats the craggy Rock ascend It 's tow'ring heights their Fortress make Whose Cells in Labyrinths extend Where feebler Creatures refuge take verse 19 The Moon 's inconstant Aspect shows Th' appointed Seasons of the Year Th' instructed Sun his Duty Knows His hours to rise and disappear verse 20 21 Darkness he makes the Earth to shrou'd When Forest-Beasts securely stray Young Lions roar their Wants aloud To providence that sends'em Prey verse 22 They range all Night on slaughter bent Till summon'd by the rising Morn To skulck in Dens with one consent The conscious Ravagers return verse 23 Forth to the Tillage of his soil The Husbandman securely goes Commencing with the Sun his Toil With him returns to his Repose verse 24 How various Lord thy Works are found For which thy Wisdom we adore The Earth is with thy Treasure crown'd Till Nature's hand can grasp no more PART IV. verse 25 But still the vast unfathom'd Main Of Wonders a new Scene supplies Whose Depths Inhabitants contain Of every Form and every Size verse 26 Full-freighted Ships from ev'ry Port There cut their unmolested way Leviathan whom there to sport Thou mad'st has compass there to play verse 27 These various Troops of Sea and Land In sense of common Want agree All wait on thy dispensing Hand And have their daily Alms from thee verse 28 They gather what thy Stores disperse Without their trouble to provide Thou op'st thy hand the Universe The craving World is all supply'd verse 29 Thou for a Moment hid'st thy Face The numerous Ranks of Creatures mourn Thou tak'st their Breath all Nature's Race Forthwith to Mother-Earth return verse 30 Again thou send'st thy Spirit forth T' inspire the Mass with vital Seed Nature's restor'd and Parent Earth Smiles on her new created Breed verse 31 Thus through successive Ages stands Firm fixt thy Providential Care Pleas'd with the Work of thy own hands Thou dost the wastes of Time repair verse 32 One Look of thine one wrathful Look Earth's panting Breast with Terror fills One touch from thee with Clouds of Smoak In darkness shrouds the proudest hills verse 33 In praising God while he prolongs My Breath I will that Breath imploy verse 34 And joyn Devotion to my Songs Sincere as is in him my Joy verse 35 While Sinners from Earth's Face are hurl'd My Soul praise thou his holy Name Till with my Song the listning World Joyn consort and his praise proclaim Psalm CV verse 1 O Render Thanks and bless the Lord invoke his sacred Name Acquaint the Nations with his Deeds his matchless Deeds proclaim verse 2 Sing to his praise in lofty Hymns his wondrous works rehearse Make them the Theme of your Discourse and Subject of your Verse verse 3 Rejoyce in his Almighty Name alone to be ador'd And let their heart o'erflow with Joy that humbly seek the Lord. verse 4 Seek ye the Lord his saving strength devoutly still implore And where he 's ever present seek his Face for evermore verse 5 The wonders that his hands have wrought keep thankfully in mind The righteous Statutes of his Mouth and laws to us assign'd verse 6 Know ye his Servant Abraham's Seed and Jacob's chosen
On you and on your Heirs he will increase of Blessings bring verse 15 Thrice happy you who Fav'rites are of this Almighty King verse 16 Heav'ns highest Orb of Glory he hiS Empire 's Seat design'd And gave this lower Globe of Earth a Portion td Mankind verse 17 They who in Death and Silence sleep to him no Praise afford verse 18 But we will bless for evermore our ever-living Lord. Psalm CXVI verse 1 MY Soul with grateful Thoughts of Love intirely is poslest Because the Lord vouchsasd to hear the Voice of my Request verse 2 Since he has now his Ear inclin'd I never will despair But still in all the straits of Life to him address my Prayer verse 3 With deadly Sorrows compass'd round with pains of Hell opprest When Troubles seiz'd my aking Heart and Anguish rack'd my Breast verse 4 On God's Almighty Name I call'd and thus to him I pray'd Lord I beseech thee save my Soul with Sorrows quite dismay'd verse 5 6 How just and merciful is God how gracious is the Lord Who saves the harmless and to me does timely help afford verse 7 Then free from pensive Cares my Soul resume thy wonted Rest For God has wond'rously to thee his bounteous Love exprest verse 8 When Death alarm'd me he remov'd my dangers and my Fears My Feet from falling he secur'd and dry'd my Eyes from Tears verse 9 Therefore my Life 's remaining years which God to me shall lend Will I in praises to his Name and in his Service spend verse 10 11 In God I trusted and of him in greatest Straits did boast For in my Flight all hopes of Aid from faithless Men were lost verse 12 13 Then what Return to him shall I for all his goodness make I 'll praise his Name and with glad Zeal the Cup of Blessing take verse 14 15 I 'll pay my Vows amongst his Saints whose Blood howe'er despis'd By Wicked Men in God's account is always highly priz'd verse 16 By various Ties O Lord must I to thy Dominion bow Thy humble Handmaid's Son before thy ransom'd Captive now verse 17 18 To thee I 'll Off rings bring of praise and whilst I bless thy Name The just performance of my Vows to all thy Saints proclaim verse 19 They in Jerusalem shall meet and in thy House shall joyn To bless thy Name consent and mix their Songs with mine Psalm CXVII verse 1 WIth cheerful Notes let all the Earth to Heav'n their Voices raise Let all inspir'd with godly Mirth sing solemn Hymns of Praise verse 2 God's tender Mercy knows no bound his Truth shall ne'er decay Then let the willing Nations round their grateful Tribute pay Psalm CXVIII verse 1 2 OPraise the Lord for he is good his Mercies ne'er decay That his kind Favours ever last let thankful Isr'el say verse 3 4 Their Sense of his eternal Love let Aaron's House express And that it never fails let all that fear the Lord confess verse 5 To God I made my humble moan with troubles quite opprest And he releas'd me from my Straits and granted my Request verse 6 Since therefore God does on my fide so graciously appear Why should the vain Attempts of Men possess my Soul with fear verse 7 Since God with those that aid my Cause vouchsases my part to take To all my Foes I need not doubt a just Return to make verse 8 9 For better 't is to trust in God and have the Lord our Friend Than on the greatest humane Pow'r for Safety to depend verse 10 11 Tho' many Nations closely leagu'd did ost beset me round Yet by his boundless Pow'r sustain'd I did their Strength confound verse 12 They swarm'd like Bees and yet their Rage was but a short-liv'd Blaze For whilst on God I still rely'd I vanquish'd them with ease verse 13 When all united press'd me hard in hopes to make me fall The Lord vouchsaf'd to take my part and fav'd me from them all verse 14 The Honour of my strange Escape to him alone belongs He is my Saviour and my Strength he only claims my Songs verse 15 Joy fills the Dwelling of the just whom God has fav'd from Harm For wond'rous things are brought to pass by his Almighty Arm. verse 16 He by his own resistless Pow'r has endless Honour won The saving Strength of his Right-hand amazing Works has done verse 17 God will not susser me to fall but still prolongs my Days That by declaring all his Works I may advance his Praise verse 18 When God had sorely me chastiz'd till quite of Hopes bereav'd His Mercy from the Gates of Death my fainting Life repriev'd verse 19 Then open wide the Temple-Gates to which the Just repair That I may enter in and praise my great Deliv'rer there verse 20 21 Within those Gates of God's Abgde to which the righteous press Since thou hast heard and set me safe thy holy Name I 'll bless verse 22 23 That which the Builders once refus'd is now the Corner-stone This is the wond'rous Work of God the Work of God alone verse 24 25 This Day is God's let all the Land exalt their cheerful Voice Lord we be seech thee fave us now and make us still rejoyce verse 26 Him that approaches in God's Name let all th' Assembly bless We that belong to God's own House have wish'd you good Success verse 27 God is the Lord thro' whom we all both Light and Comfort find Fast to the Altar's Horn with Cords the chosen Victim bind verse 28 Thou art my Lord O God and still I 'll praise thy holy Name Because thou only art my God I 'll celebrate thy Fame verse 29 O then with me give thanks to God who still does gracious prove And let the Tribute of our Praise be endless as his Love Psalm CXIX ALEPH. verse 1 HOW blest are they who always keep the pure and perfect way Who never from the sacred Paths of God's Commandments stray verse 2 How blest who to his righteous Laws have still obedient been And have with servent humble Zeal his Favour fought to win verse 3 Such Men their utmost caution use to shun each wicked Deed But in the path which he directs with constant Care proceed verse 4 Thou strictly hast enjoyn'd us Lord to learn thy sacred Will And all our Diligence employ thy Statutes to fulfil verse 5 O then that thy most holy Will might o'er my ways preside And I the course of all my Life by thy Direction guide verse 6 Then with Assurance should I walk from all Confusion free Convinc'd with Joy that all my Ways with thy Commands agree verse 7 My upright Heart shall my glad Mouth with cheerful Praises fill When by thy righteous Judgments taught I shall have learnt thy Will verse 8 So to thy sacred Laws shall I all due Observance pay O then forsakc me not my God nor cast me quite away BETH verse 9 How shall the Young preserve their Ways from all Pollution
time but made great haste resolv'd without delay To watch that I might never more From thy Commandments stray verse 61 Tho' num'rous Troops of sinful Men to rob me have combin'd Yet I thy pure and righteous Laws have ever kept in mind verse 62 In dead of Night I will arise to sing thy solemn praise Convinc'd how much I always ought to love thy righteous Ways verse 63 To such as fear thy holy Name my self I closely joyn To all who their obedient Wills to thy Commands resign verse 64 O'er all the Earth thy Mercy Lord abundantly is shed O make me then exactly learn thy facred Paths to tread TETH verse 65 With me thy Servant thou hail dealt most graciously O Lord Repeated Benefits bestow'd according to thy Word verse 66 Teach me the sacred Skill by which right Judgment is attain'd Who in belief of thy Commands have stedfastly remain'd verse 67 Before Affliction stopt my Course my Footsteps went astray But I have since been disciplin'd thy Precepts to obey verse 68 Thou art O Lord supremely good and all thou dost is so On me thy Statutes to discern the saving Skill bestow verse 69 The proud have forg'd malicious Lyes my spotless Fame to stain But my fix'd Heart without Reserve thy Precepts shall retain verse 70 While pamper'd they with prosp'rous Ills in sensual pleasures live My Soul can relish no Delight but what thy Precepts give verse 71 'T is good for me that I have felt Affliction 's chast'ning Rod That I might duly learn and keep the Statutes of my God verse 72 The Law that from thy Mouth proceeds of more esteem I hold Than untouch'd Mines than thousand Mines of Silver and of Gold JOD verse 73 To me who am the Workmanship of thy Almighty Hands The heav'nly Understanding give to learn thy just Commands verse 74 My preservation to thy Saints strong Comfort will afford To see Success attend my Hopes who trusted in thy Word verse 75 That right thy Judgments are I now by sure Experience see And that in Faithfulness O Lord thou hast afflicted me verse 76 O let thy tender Mercy now afford me needful Aid According to thy Promise Lord to me thy Servant made verse 77 To me thy saving Grace restore that I again may live Whose Soul can relish no Delight but what thy Precepts give verse 78 Defeat the Proud who unprovok'd to ruine me have sought Who only on thy sacred Laws employ my harmless Thought verse 79 Let those that fear thy Name espouse my Cause and those alone Who have by strict and pious search thy sacred precepts known verse 80 In thy blest Statutes let my Heart continue always found That Guilt and Shame the Sinners Lot may never me confound CAPH verse 81 My Soul with long Expectance faints to see thy saving Grace Yet still on thy unerring Word my Confidence I place verse 82 My very Eyes consume and fail with waiting for thy Word O! when wilt thou thy kind Relief and promis'd Aid afford verse 83 My Skin like shrivel'd Parchment shows that long in Smoke is set Yet no Afftistion me can force thy Statutes to forget verse 84 How many days must I endure of Sorrow and Distress When wilt thou Judgment execute on them who me oppress verse 85 The Proud have digg'd a Pit for me that have no other Foes But such as are averse to thee and thy just Laws oppose verse 86 With sacred Truth 's eternal Laws all thy Commands agree Men persecute me without Cause thou Lord my Helper be verse 87 With close Designs against my Life they had almost prevail'd But in Obedience to thy Will my Duty never fail'd verse 88 Thy wonted kindness Lord restore my drooping Heart to cheer That by thy righteous Statutes I my Life 's whole Course may steer LAMED verse 89 Forever and for ever Lord unchang'd thou dost remain Thy Word establish'd in the Heav'ns does all their Orbs sustain verse 90 Thro' circling Ages Lord thy Truth immoveable shall stand As doth the Earth which thou uphold'st by thy Almighty Hand verse 91 All things the Course by thee ordain'd ev'n to this day fulfil They are the faithful Subjects all and Servants of thy Will verse 92 Unless thy sacred Law had been my Comfort and Delight I must have fainted and expir'd in dark Affliction 's Night verse 93 Thy Precepts therefore from my Thoughts shall never Lord depart For thou by them hast to new Life restor'd my dying Heart verse 94 As I am thine intirely thine protect me Lord from Harm Who have thy Precepts sought to know and carefully perform verse 95 The Wicked have their Ambush laid my guiltless Life to take But in the midst of danger I thy Word my Study make verse 96 I've seen an end of what we call Perfection here below But thy Commandments like thy felt no Change or Period know MEM. verse 97 The Love that to thy Laws I bear no Language can display They with fresh Wonders entertain my ravish'd Thoughts all day verse 98 Thro' thy Commands I wiser grow than all my subtil Foes For thy sure Word does me direct and all my Ways dispose verse 99 From me my former Teachers now may abler Counsel take Because thy sacred Precepts I my constant Study make verse 100 In Understanding I excel the Sages of our days Because by thy unerring Rules I order all my Ways verse 101 My Feet with Care I have resrain'd from every sinful Way That to thy sacred Word 1 might intire Obedience pay verse 102 I have not from thy Judgments stray'd by vain desircs misled For Lord thou hast instructed me thy righteous paths to tread verse 103 How sweet are all thy Words to me O what divine Repast How much more grateful to my Soul than Honey to my Taste verse 104 Taught by thy sacred precepts I with heav'nly Skill am blest Thro' which the treach'rous Ways of Sin I utterly detest NVN. verse 105 Thy Word is to my Feet a Lamp the way of Truth to show A Watch-light to point out the path in which I ought to go verse 106 I sware and from my solemn Oath will never start aside That in thy righteous Judgments I will stedfastly abide verse 107 Since I with Griefs am so opprest that I can bear no more According to thy Word do thou my fainting Soul restore verse 108 Let still my Sacrifice of praise with thee Acceptance find And in thy righteous Judgments Lord instruct my willing Mind verse 109 Tho' ghastly dangers me surround my Soul they cannot aw Nor with continual Terrors keep from thinking on thy Law verse 110 My wicked and invet'rate Foes for me their Snares have laid Yet I have kept the upright path nor from thy precepts stray'd verse 111 Thy Testimonies I have made my Heritage and Choice For they when other comforts fail my drooping Heart rejoyce verse 112 My Heart with early Zeal began thy Statutes to obey And 'till my course
Sheaves and bring the joyful Harvest home Psalm CXXVII verse 1 WE build with fruitless Cost unless the Lord the Pile sustain Unless the Lord the City keep the Watchman wakes in vain verse 2 In vain we rise before the day and late to rest repair Allow no respite to our Toil and eat the Bread of Care Supplies of Life with Ease to them he on his Saints bestows He crowns their Labour with Success thier Nights with sound Repose verse 3 Children those Comfort of our Life are Presents from the Lord He gives a num'rous Race of Heirs As Piety's Reward verse 4 As Arrows in a Giant 's Hand when marching forth to War Ev'n so the Sons of sprightly youth their Parents Safeguard are verse 5 Happy the man whose Quiver's fill'd with these prevailing Arms He needs not fear to meet his Foe at Law or War's Alarms Psalm CXXVIII verse 1 THE Man is blest who fears the Lord nor only Worship pays But keeps his steps confin'd with Care to his appointed ways verse 2 He shall upon the sweet Returns of his own Labour seed Without dependanc live and see his Wishes all succeed verse 3 His Wise like a fair fertile Vine Her lovely Fruit shall bring His Children like young Olive-plant about his Table spring verse 4 Who fears the Lord shall prosper thus verse 5 him Sion's God shall bless And grant him all his days to see jweusalem's Success verse 6 He shall live on till Heirs from him descend with vast Increase Much blest in his own prosp'rous State and more in Isr'el's Peace Psalm CXXXIX verse 1 FRom my Youth up may Isr'el say they oft have me affail'd verse 2 Reduc'd me oft to heavy Straits but never quite prevail'd verse 3 They oft have plow'd my patient Back with Furrows deep and long verse 4 But our just God has broke their Chains and rescu'd us from Wrong verse 5 Defeat Confusion shameful Rout be still the Doom of those Their righteous Doom who Sion hate And Sion s God oppose verse 6 Like Corn upon our House's Tops untimely let them sade Which too much Heat and want of Root has blasted in the Blade verse 7 Which in his Arms no Reaper takes but unregarded leaves Nor Binder thinks ir worth his Pains to sold it into Sheaves verse 8 No Traveller that passes by vouchsafes a Minute's Stop To give it one kind Look or crave Heav'ns Blessing on the Crop Psalm CXXX verse 1 FRom lowest Depths of Woe to God I sent my Cry verse 2 Lord hear my supplicating voice and graciously reply verse 3 Should'st thou feverely judge who can the Tryal bear verse 4 But thou forgiv'st left we despond and quite renounce thy Fear verse 5 My Soul with patience waits for thee the living Lord My Hopes are on thy Promise built thy never-filing Word verse 6 My longing Eyes look out for thy enliv'ning Ray More duly than the Morning-Watch to spy the dawning Day verse 7 Let Isr'el trust in God no bounds his Mercy knows The plenteous Source and Spring from whence Eternal Succour flows verse 8 Whose friendly Streams to us Supplies in Want convey A healing Spring a Spring to cleans and wash our Guilt away Psalm CXXXI verse 1 O Lord I am not proud of Heart nor cast a scornful Eye Nor my aspiring Thoughts employ in things for me too high verse 2 With Insant-Innocence thou know'st I have my self demean'd Compos'd to Quiet like a Babe that from the Breast is wean'd verse 3 Like me let Isrel hope in God his Aid alone implore Both now and ever trust in him who lives for evermore Psalm CXXXII verse 1 LET David Lord A constant place in thy Remembrance find Let all the Sorrows he endur'd be ever in thy Mind verse 2 Remember what a solemn Oath to thee his Lord he swore How to the mighty God He vow'd whom Jacob's Sons adore verse 3 4 I will not go into mind House nor to my Bed ascend No soft Repose shall close my Eyes nor Sleep my Eye-lids bends verse 5 Till for the Lord 's design'd Abode I mark'd the destin'd Ground Till I a decent place of Rest for Jacob's God have found verse 6 Th' appointed place with Shouts of joy at Epbrata we found And made the Woods and neighb'ring fields our glad Applause resound verse 7 O! with due Rev'rence let us then to his Abode repair And prostrate at his Footstool fall'n pour out our humble Pray'r verse 8 Arise O Lord and now Posseess thy constant place of Rest Be that not only with thy Ark but with thy Presence blest verse 9 10 Clothe thou thy Priests with Righteousness make thou thy Saints rejoyce And for thy Servant David's sake hear thy Anointed's Voice verse 11 God sware to David in his Truth nor shall his Oath be vain One of thy Off-spring after thee upon thy Throne shall reign verse 12 And if thy Seed my Cov'nant keep and to my Laws submit Their Children too upon thy Throne for evermore shall fit verse 13 14 For sion does in God's esteem all other Seats excel His place of everlasting Rest where he desires to dwell verse 15 16 Her Store says he I will increase her Poor with Plenty bless Her Saints shall shout for Joy her Priests my saving-health confess verse 17 There David's Pow'r shall long remain in his successive Line And my anointed Servant there shall with fresh Lustre shine verse 18 The Faces of his vanquisht Foes confusion shall o'er-spread Whilst with confirm'd Success his Crown shall flourish on his Head Psalm CXXXIII verse 1 How vast must their Advantage be how great their Pleasure prove Who live like Brethren and consent in Offices of Love verse 2 True Love is like that precious Oyl which Pour'd on Aaron's Head Ran down his Beard and o'er his Robes its costly Moisture shed verse 3 'T is like refreshing Dew which does on Hermons Top distill Or like the early Drops that fall on Sion's fruitful Hill For Sion is the chosen Seat where the Almighty King The promis'd Blessing has ordain'd And Life's eternal Spring Paslm CXXXIV verse 1 B Less God ye Servants that attend upon his solemn State That in his Temple Night by Night with humble Rev'rence wait verse 2 3 Within his House lift up your Hands and blese his holy Name From Sion bless thy Isr'el Lord who Earth and Heav'n didst frame Psalm CXXXV verse 1 O Praise the Lord with one Consent and magnifie his Names Let all the Servants of the Lord his worthy praise proclaim verse 2 Praise him all ye that in his House attend with constant care With those that to his outmost Courts with humble Zeal repair verse 3 For this our truest Int'rest is glad Hymns of praise to snig And with loud Songs to bless his Name a most delightful thing verse 4 For Gad his own peculiar choice the Sons of Jacob makes And Isr'el's Off-spring for his own most valu'd Treasure takes verse 5 That God is
me hear whose Trust on thee depends Teach me the Way where I should go my Soul to thee ascends verse 9 Do thou O Lord from all my Foes preferve and set me free A safe Retreat against their Rage my Soul implores from thee verse 10 Thou art my God thy righteous Will instruct me to obey Let thy good Spirit condust and keep my Soul in thy right way verse 11 0 for the sake of thy great Name revive my drooping heart For thy Truth's'sake to me distress'd thy promis'd Aid impart verse 12 In pity to my Suff'rings Lord reduce my Foes to shame Slay tham that persecute a Soul devoted to thy Name Psalm CXLIV verse 1 FOR ever blest be God the Lord Who does his needful Aid impart At once both Strength and Skill assord To weild my Arms with warlike Art verse 2 His Goodness is my Fort and Tow'r My strong Deliv'rance and my Shield In him I trust whose matchless Pow'r Makes to my sway fierce Nations yield verse 3 Lord what'sin Man that thou shouldst lov'e Of him such tender Care to take What in his Off-spring cou'd thee move Such great Account of him to make verse 4 The Life of Man does quickly sade His Thoughts but empty are and vain His Days are like a slying Shade Of whose short stay no Signs remain verse 5 In solemn State O God descend Whilst Heav'n its losty Head inclines The smoking Hills asounder rend Of thy Approach the awful Signs verse 6 Discarge thy dreadful Lightnings round And make my scatter'd Foes retreat Them with thy pointed Arrows wound And their Destruction soon complete verse 7 8 Do thou O Lord from Heav'n engage Thy boundless Pow'r my Foes to quell And snatch me from the stormy Rage Of threatning Waves that proudly swell Fight thou against my foreign Foes Who utter Speeches false and vain Who tho' in solemn Leagues they close Their sworn Engagement ne'er maintain verse 9 So I to thee O King of kings In new-made Hymns my Voice shall raise And Instruments of various Strings Shall help me thus to sing thy praise verse 10 God does to Kings his Aid afford to them his sure Salvation sends T is he that from the murd'ring Sword His Servant David still desends verse 11 Fight thou against my foreign Foes Who utter Speeches false and vain Who tho' in solemn Leagues they close Their sworn Engagement ne'er maintain verse 12 Then our young Sons like Trees shall grow Well planted in some fruitful place Our Daughters shall like Pillars show Design'd some royal Court to grace verse 13 Our Garners fill'd with various Store Shall us and ours with Plenty feed Our Sheep increasing more and more Shall thousands and ten thousands breed verse 14 Strong shall our lab'ring Oxen grow Nor in their constant Labour faint Whilst we no War nor Slav'ry know and in our Streets hear no Complaint verse 15 Thrice happy is that people's Case Whose various Blessings thus abound Who God's true Worship stili embrace And are with his Protection crown'd Psalm CXLV verse 1 2 THEE I will bless my God and King thy endless praise proclaim This Tribute daily I will bring and ever bless thy name verse 3 Thou Lord beyond compare art great and highly to be prais'd Thy Majesty with boundless Height above our Knowledge rais'd verse 4 Renown'd for mighty Acts thy Fame to future times extends From Age to Age thy glorious Name successively descendss verse 5 6 Whilst I thy Glory and Renown and wond'rous Works express The World with me thy Might shall own and thy great Pow'r confese verse 7 The praise that to thy Love belongs they shall with Joy proclaim Thy Truth of all their grateful Songs shall be the constant Theme verse 8 The Lord is good fresh Acts of Grace his Pity still supplies His Anger moves with slowest pace his willing mercy flies verse 9 10 Thy Love thro' Earth extends its Fame to all thy Works express These shew thy Praise whilst thy great Name is by thy Servants blest verse 11 They with the glorious Prospect fir'd shall of thy Kingdom speak And thy great Pow'r by all admir'd their losty Subject make verse 12 God's glorious Works of ancient date shall thus to all be known And thus his Kingdom 's Royal State with publick Splendor shown verse 13 His stedfast Throne from Changes free shall stand for ever fast His boundless Sway no end shall see but Time it self out-last PART II. verse 14 15 The Lord does them support that fall and makes the prostrate rise For his kind Aid all Creatures call who timely food supplies verse 16 Whate'er their various Wants require with open Hand he gives And so fulfills the just Desire of every thing that lives verse 17 18 How holy is the Lord how just how righteous all his ways How nigh to him who with firm Trast for his Assistance prays verse 19 He grants the full Desires of those who him with fear adore And will their Troubles soon compose when they his Aid implore verse 20 The Lord preserves all those with Care whom grateful Love employs But Sinners who his Vengeance dare with surious Rage destroys verse 21 My time to come in praises spent shall still advance his Fame And all Mankind with one Consent for ever bless his Name Psalm CXLVI verse 1 2 O Praise the Lord and thou my Soul for ever bless his Name His wond'rous Love while Life shall last my constant Praise shall claim verse 3 On Kings the greatest Sons of Men let none for Aid rely They cannot save in dang'rous times nor timely help apply verse 4 Depriv'd of Breath to Dust they turn and there neglected lie And all their Thoughts and vain Designs together with them die verse 5 Then happy he who Jacob's God for his Protector takes Who still with well-plac'd Hope the Lord his constant Refuge makes verse 6 The Lord Who made both Heav'nand Earth and all that they contain Will never quit his stedfast Truth nor make his Promise vain verse 7 The poor opprest from all their Wrongs are eas'd by his Decree He gives the Hungry needful Food and sets the Pris'ners free verse 8 By him the Blind receive their sight the weak and fall'n he rears With kind regard and tender Love he for the righteous cares verse 9 The Strangers he preserves from Harm the Qrphan kindly treats Desends the Widow and the wiles of wicked Men deseats verse 10 The God that does in Sion dwell is our eternal King From Age to Age his Reign endures let all his Praises sing Psalm CXLVII verse 1 O Praise the Lord with Hymns of Joy and celebrate his Fame For pleasant good and comely 't is to praise his holy Name verse 2 His holy City God will build tho' levell'd with the Ground Bring back his People tho' dispers'd thro' all the Nations round verse 3 4 He kindly heals the broken Hearts and all their wounds does close He tells the number of
in thy Name display'd the Lord accept ' thy Pray'r verse 6 Our Hopes are fix'd that now the Lord our Sov'reign will defend From Heav'n resistless Aid afford and to his Pray'r attend verse 7 Some trust in Steeds for War design'd on Chariots some rely Against them all we call to mind the Pow'r of God most High verse 8 But from their Steeds and Chariots thrown behold them through the Plain Disorder'd broke and trampled down whilst firm our Troops remain verse 9 Still save us Lord and still proceed our rightful Cause to bless Hear King of Heav'n in times of need the Pray'is that we address PSALM XXI verse 1 THE King O Lord with Songs of Praise shall in thy Strength rejoice With thy Salvation crown'd shall raise to Heav'n his chearful Voice verse 2 For thou whate'er his Lips request not only dost impart But hast with thy Acceptance blest the Wishes of his Heart verse 3 Thy Goodness and thy tender Care have all his Hopes out-gone A Crown of Gold thou mad'st him wear and fet'st it firmly on verse 4 He pray'd for Life and thoa O Lord didst to his Pray'r attend And graciously to him afford a Life that ne'er shall end verse 5 Thy sure Defence through Nations round has spread his glorious Name And his successful Actions crown'd with Majesty and Fame verse 6 Eternal Blessings thou bestow'st and mak'st his Joys increase Whilst thou to him unclouded show'st the brightness of thy Face PART II. verse 7 Because the King on God alone for timely Aid relies His Mercy still supports his Throne and all his Wants supplies verse 8 But righteous Lord thy stubborn Foes shall feel thy dreadful Hand Thy vengeful Arm shall find out those that hate thy mild Command verse 9 When thou against them dost engage thy just but dreadful Doom Shall like a glowing Oven's Rage their Hopes and them consume verse 10 Nor shall thy furious Anger cease or with their Ruine end But root out all their guilty Race and to their Seed extend verse 11 For all their Thoughts were set on Ill their Hearts on Malice bent But thou with watchful Care didst still the ill Effects prevent verse 12 While they their swist Retreat shall make to ' scape thy dreadful Might Thy swifter Arrows shall o'ertake and gaul them in their flight verse 13 Thus Lord thy wond'rous strength disclose and thus exalt thy Fame Whilst we glad Songs of Praise compose to thy Almighry Name PSALM XXII verse 1 MY God my God why leav'st thou me when I with Anguish faint O why so far from me remov'd and from my loud Complaint verse 2 All day but all the day unheard to thee do I complain With Cries implore Relief all Night but cry all Night in vain verse 3 Yet thou art still the righteous Judge of Innocence oppress'd And therefore Israel's Praises are of right to thee address'd verse 4 5 On thee our Ancestors rely'd and thy Deliv'rance found With pious Confidence they pray'd and with Success were crown'd verse 6 But I am treated like a Worm like none of human Birth Not only by the Great revil'd but made the Rabble's Mirth verse 7 With Laughter all the gazing Crowd my Agonies survey They shoot the Lip they shake the Head and thus deriding say verse 8 In God he trusted boasting ost that he was Heaven's Delight Let God come down to save him now and own his Favourite PART II. verse 9 Thou mad'st my teeming Mother's Womb a living Offspring bear When but a Suckling at the Breast I was thy early Care verse 10 Thou Guardian-like didst shield from wrongs my helpless Infant days And since hast been my God and Guide through Life's bewilder'd ways verse 11 Withdraw not then so far from me when Trouble is so nigh O send me Help thy Help on which I only can rely verse 12 High pamper'd Bulls a frowning Herd from Basans Forest met With Strength proportion'd to their Rage have me around beset verse 13 They gape on me and every Mouth a yawning Grave appears The desart Lions savage Roar less dreadful is than theirs PART III. verse 14 My Blood like Water 's spill'd my Joints are rack'd and out of frame My Heart dissolves within my Breast like Wax before the Flame verse 15 My Strength like Potter's Earth is parch'd my Tongue cleaves to my Jaws And to the silent Shades of Death my fainting Soul withdraws verse 16 Like Blood-hounds to surround me they in pack't Assemblies meet They pierc'd my inoffensive Hands they pierc'd my harmless Feet verse 17 My Body 's rack'd till all my Bones distinctly may be told Yet such a Spectacle of Woe as Pastime they behold verse 18 As Spoil my Garments they divide Lots for my Vesture cast verse 19 Therefore approach O Lord my strength and to my Succour haste verse 20 From their sharp Sword protect thou me of all but Life bereft Nor let my Darling in the pow'r of cruel Dogs be left verse 21 To save me from the Lion's Jaws thy present Succour send As once from goring Unicorns thou didst my Life desend verse 22 Then to my Brethren I 'll declare the Triumphs of thy Name In presence of assembled Saints thy Glory thus proclaim verse 23 Ye Worshippers of Jacob's God all you of Israel's Line O praise the Lord and to your Praise sincere Obedience join verse 24 He ne'er disdain'd on low Distress to cast a gracious Eye Nor turn'd from Poverty his Face but hears its humble Cry PART IV. verse 25 Thus in thy sacred Courts will I my chearful Thanks express In presence of thy Saints perform the Vows of my Distress verse 26 The meek Companions of my Grief shall find my Table spread And all that seek the Lord shall be with Joys immortal fed verse 27 Then shall the glad converted World to God their Homage pay And scatter'd Nations of the Earth one Sov'reign Lord obey verse 28 T is his supreme Prerogative o'er Subject-Kings to reign 'T is just that he should rule the World who does the World sustain verse 29 The Rich who are with Plenty fed his Bounty must confess The Sons of Want by him reliev'd their gen'rois Patron bless With humble Worship to his Throne they all for aid resort That Pow'r which first their Beings gave can only them support verse 30 31 Then shall a chosen spotless Race devoted to his Name To their admiring Heirs his Truth and glorious Acts proclaim PSALM XXIII verse 1 THE Lord himself the mighty Lord vouchsases to be my Guide The Shepherd by whose constant Care my Wants are all supply'd verse 2 In tender Grass he makes me feed and gently there repose Then leads me to cool Shades and where refreshing Water flows verse 3 He does my wandring Soul reclaim and to his endless Praise Instruct with humble Zeal to walk in his most righteous Ways verse 4 I pass the gloomy Vale of Death from Fear and Danger free For there his aiding Rod
against the Righteous vent verse 19 How great thy Mercies are to such as fear thy Name Which thou for those that trust thy care dost to the World proclaim verse 20 Thou keep'st them in thy fight from proud Oppressors free From Tongues that do in Strife delight they are preserv'd by Thee verse 21 With Glory and Renown God's Name be ever bless'd Whose Love in Keilah's well-fenc'd Town was wond'rously express'd verse 22 I said in hasty Flight I 'm banish'd from thine Eyes Yet still thou kept'st me in thy sight and heard'st my earnest Cries verse 23 O all ye Saints the Lord with eager Love pursue Who to the Just will Help afford and give the proud their due verse 24 Ye that on God rely couragiously proceed For he will still your hearts supply with Strength in time of need PSALM XXXII verse 1 HE 's blest whose Sins have Pardon gain'd no more in Judgment to appear verse 2 Whose Guilt Remission has obtain'd and whose Repentance is sincere verse 3 While I conceal'd the fretting Sore my Bones consum'd without Relief All Day did I with Anguish roar but no Complaints asswag'd my Grief verse 4 Heavy on me thy Hand remain'd by Day and Night alike distrest Till quite of vital Moisture drain'd like Land with Summer's drought opprest verse 5 No sooner I my Wound disclos'd the Guilt that tortur'd me within But thy Forgiveness interpos'd and Mercy 's healing Balm pour'd in verse 6 True Penitents shall thus succeed who seek thee whilst thou mayst be found They from the common Deluge freed shall fee remorsless Sinners drown'd verse 7 Thy Favour Lord in all distrest my Tow'r of Refuge I mus t own Thou shalt my haughty Foes suppress and me with Songs of Triumph crown verse 8 In my Instruction then confide you that would Truth 's safe Path descry Your Progress I 'll securely guide and keep you in my-watchful Eye verse 9 Submit your selves to Wisdom's Rule like Men that Reason have attan'd Not like th' ungovern'd Horse and Mule whose Fury must be curb'd and rein'd verse 10 Sorrows on Sorrows multiply'd the harden'd Sinner shall confound But them who in his Truth confide blessings of Mercy shall surround verse 11 His Saints that have perform'd his Laws their Life in Triumphs shall employ Let them as they alone have cause in grateful Raptures shout for Joy PSALM XXXIII verse 1 LET all the Just to God with Joys their chearful Voices raise For well the Righteous it becomes to sing glad Songs of Praise verse 2 3 Let Harps and Psalteries and Lute in joyful consort meet And new made Songs of loud Applause the Harmony compleat verse 4 5 For faithful is the Word of God his Works with Truth abound He Justice loves and all the Earth is with his Goodness crown'd verse 6 By his almighty Word at first the heavenly Arch was rear'd And all the beauteous Hosts of Light at his Command appeare'd verse 7 The swelling Floods together roll'd he makes in heaps to lye And lays as in a Store-house safe the wat'ry Treasures by verse 8 9 Let Earth and all that dwell therein before him trembling stand For when he spake the Word t was made t was fix'd at his Command verse 10 He when the Heathen closely plot their Counsels undermines His Wisdom inessectual makes the People's rash Designs verse 11 Whate'er the mighty Lord decrees shall stand for ever sure The settled purpose of his Heart to Ages shall endure PART II. verse 12 How happy then are they to whom the Lord for God is known Whom he from all the World besides has chosen for his own verse 13 14 15 He all the Nations of the Earth from Heav'n his Throne survey'd He saw their works and view'd their thoughts by him their Hearts were made verse 16 17 No King is safe by mighty Hosts their Strength the Strong deceives No manag'd Horse by Force or Speed his Warlike Rider saves verse 18 19 T is God who those that trust in him beholds with gracious Eyes He frees their Soul from Death their Want in time of Dearth supplies verse 20 21 Our Soul on God with Patience waits our Help and Shield is He Then Lord let still our Hearts rejoyce because we trust in thee verse 22 The Riches of thy Mercy Lord do Thou to us extend Since we for all we want or wish on Thee alone depend PSALM XXXIV verse 1 THro' all the changing Scenes of Life in Trouble and in Joy The praises of my God shall still my Heart and Tongue employ verse 2 Of his Deliv'rance I will boast till all that are distrest From my Example Comfort take and charm their Griefs to rest verse 3 O magnifie the Lord with me with me exalt his Name verse 4 When in Distress to him I call'd He to my rescue came verse 5 Their drooping Hearts were soon refresh'd who look'd to him for Aid Desir'd Success in ev'ry Face a chearful Air displaid verse 6 Behold say they behold the Man whom Providence reliev'd The Man so dang'rously beset so wond'rously retriev'd verse 7 The Hosts of God encamp around the Dwellings of the Just Deliv'rance he affords to all who on his Succour trust verse 8 O make but Tryal of his Love experience will decide How bless'd they are and only they who in his Truth confide verse 9 Fear him ye Saints and you will then having nothing else to fear Make you his Service your Delight your Wants shall be his Care verse 10 While hungry Lions lack their Prey the Lord will Food provide For such as put their Trust in him and see their Needs supply'd PART II. verse 11 Approach ye piously dispos'd and my Instruction hear I 'll teach you the true Discipline of his religious Fear verse 12 Let him who length of Life desires and prosp'rous Days would see verse 13 From sland'ring Language keep his Tongue his Lips from Falshood free verse 14 The crooked Paths of Vice decline and Virtue 's Ways pursue Establish Peace where 't is begun and where 't is lost renew verse 15 The Lord from Heav'n beholds the Just with favourable Eyes And when distress'd his gracious Ear is open to their Cries verse 16 But turns his wrathful Look on those whom Mercy can'n reclaim To cut them off and from the Earth blot out their hated Name verse 17 Deliv'rance to his Saints he gives when his Relies they crave verse 18 He 's nigh to heal the broken Heart and contrite Spirit save verse 19 The Wicked oft but still in vain against the Just conspire verse 20 For under their Affliction 's weight he keeps their Bones entire verse 21 The Wicked from their wicked Arts their Ruine shall derive Whilst righteous Men whom they detest shall them and theirs survive verse 22 For God preserves the Souls of those who on his Truth depend To them and their Posterity his Blessings shall descend PSALM XXXV verse 1 A Gainst all those that strive with me O
Lord assert my Right With such as War unjustly wage do thou my Battels fight verse 2 Thy Buckler take and bind thy Shield upon thy warlike Arm Stand up my God in my Defence and keep me safe from Harm verse 3 Bring forth thy Spear and stop their course that haste my Blood to spill Say to my Soul I am thy Health and will preserve thee still verse 4 Let them with Shame be cover'd o'er who my Destruction sought And such as did my Harm devise be to Confusion brought verse 5 Then shall they fly dispers'd like Chaff before the driving Wind God's vengeful Minister of Wrath shall follow close behind verse 6 And when thro' dark and slipp'ry ways they strive his Rage to shun His vengeful Ministers of Wrath shall goad them as they run verse 7 Since unprovok'd by any Wrong they hid their treach'rous Snare And for my harmless Soul a Pit did causlessly prepare verse 8 Surpriz'd by Mischiefs unforeseen by their own Arts betray'd Their Feet shall fall into the Net which they for me had laid verse 9 Whilst my glad Soul shall God's great Name for this Deliv'rance bless And by his saving Health secur'd a grateful Joy express verse 10 My very Bones shall say O Lord who can compare with Thee Who sett'st the poor and helpless Man from strong Oppressrs free PART II. verse 11 False Witnesses with forg'd Complaints against my Truth combin'd And to my charge such things they laid as I had ne'er design'd verse 12 The Good which I to them had done with Evil they repaid And did by Malice undeserv'd my harmless Life invade verse 13 But as for me when they were sick I still in Sackcloath mourn'd I pray'd and fasted and my Pray'r to my own Breast return'd verse 14 Had they my Friends or Brethren been I could have done no more Nor with more decent signs of Grief a Mother's Loss deplore verse 15 How diff'rent did their Carriage prove in times of my distress When they in Crowds together met did savage Joy express The Rabble too in mighty Throngs by their Example came And ceas'd not with reviling Words to wound my spotless Fame verse 16 Scoffers that noble Tables haunt and earn their Bread with Lies Did gnash their Teeth and sland'ring Jests maliciously devise verse 17 But Lord how long wilt thou look on on my Behalf appear And save my guiltless Soul which they like rav'ning Beasts would tear PART III. verse 18 So I before the list'ning World shall grateful Thanks express And where the great Assembly meets thy Name with Praises bless verse 19 Lord suffer not my causeless Foes who me unjustly hate With open Joy or secret Signs to mock my sad Estate verse 20 For they with Hearts averse from Peace industriously devise Against the Men of quiet Minds to forge malicious Lies verse 21 Nor with these private Arts content aloud they vent their Spite And say At last we found him out he did it in our sight verse 22 But thou who dost both them and me with righteous Eyes survey Assert my Innocence O Lord and keep not far away verse 23 Stir up thy self in my behalf to Judgment Lord awake Thy righteous Servant's Cause O God to thy Decision take verse 24 Lord as my Heart has upright been let me thy Justice find Nor let my cruel Foes obtain the Triumph they design'd verse 25 O let them not amongst themselves in boasting Language say At length our Wishes are compleat at last he is made our Prey verse 26 Let such as in my Harm rejoyc'd for shame their Faces hide And foul Dishonour wait on those that proudly me defy'd verse 27 Whilst they with chearful Voices shout who my just Cause befriend And bless the Lord who loves to make Success his Saints attend verse 28 So shall my Tongue thy Judgments sing inspir'd with grateful Joy And chearful Hymns in praise of thee shall all my Days employ PSALM XXXVI verse 1 My crafty Foe with flatt'ring Art his wicked purpose would disguise But Reason whispers to my Heart he ne'er sets God before his Eyes verse 2 He sooths himself retir'd from sight secure he thinks his treach'rous Game Till his dark Plots expos'd to Light Their false Contriver brand with Shame verse 3 In Deeds he is my Foe consest whilst with his Tongue he speaks me fair True Wisdom's banish'd from his Breast and Vice has sole Dominion there verse 4 His wakeful Malice spends the Night in forging his accurst Designs His obstinate unregen'rate Spite no execrable means declines verse 5 But Lord thy Mercy my sure Hope above the heav'nly Orb ascends Thy sacred Truth 's unmeasur'd scope beyond the spreading Skie extends verse 6 Thy justice like the Hills remains unfathom'd Depths thy Judgments are Thy Providence the World sustains the whole Creation is thy Care verse 7 Since of thy Goodness All partake with what Assurance should the Just Thy sheltring Wings their Refuge make and Saints to thy Protection trust verse 8 Such Guests shall to thy Courts be led to banquet on thy Love's Repast And drink as from a Fountain's head of Joys that shall for ever last verse 9 With Thee the Springs of Life remain thy Presence is eternal Day verse 10 O! let thy Saints thy Favour gain to upright Hearts thy Truth display verse 11 Whilst Pride's insulting Foot would spurn and wicked Hand my Life surprize verse 12 Their mischiefs on themselves return down down they 'r fall'n no more to rise PSALM XXXVII verse 1 THo' wicked Men grow Rich or Great Yet let not their successful State thy Anger or thy Envy raise verse 2 For they cut down like tender Grass Or like young Flow'rs away shall pass whose blooming Beauty soon decays verse 3 Depend on God and him obey So thou within the Land shalt stay secure from Danger and from Want verse 4 Make his Commands thy chief Delight And He thy Duty to requite shall all thy earnest Wishes grant verse 5 In all thy ways trust thou the Lord And he will needful Help afford to perfect ev'ry just Design verse 6 And make like Light serene and clear Thy clouded Innocence appear and as a mid-day Sun to shine verse 7 With quiet mind on God depend And patiently for him attend nor let thy Anger sondly rise Tho' wicked Men with Wealth abound And with Success the Plots are crown'd which they maliciously devise verse 8 From Anger cease and Wrath forsake Let no ungovern'd Passion make thy wav'ring Heart espouse their Crime verse 9 For God shall sinful Men destroy Whilst only they the Land enjoy who trust on him and wait his time verse 10 How soon shall wicked Men decay Their Place shall vanish quite away nor by the strictest search be found verse 11 Whilst humble Souls possess the Earth Rejoycing still with godly Mirth with Peace and Plenty always crown'd PART II. verse 12 While sinful Crowds with false Design Against the righteous few combine and gnash
their teeth and threatning stand verse 13 God shall their empty Plots deride And laugh at their defeated Pride he sees their Ruin near at hand verse 14 They draw the Sword and bend the Bow The Poor and Needy to o'erthrow and Men of Upright Lives to slay verse 15 But their strong Bows shall soon be broke Their sharpen'd Weapon's mortal Stroke thro' their own Hearts shall force its way verse 16 A little with God's Favour bles And by one Righteous Man possest the Wealth of many Bad excels verse 17 For God supports the just Man's Cause But as for those that break his Laws their unsuccessful Pow'r he quells verse 18 His constant Care the Upright guides And over all their Life presides their Portion shall for ever last verse 19 They when Distress o'rewhelms the Earth And with Success the Plots are crown'd which they maliciously devise verse 8 From Anger cease and Wrath forsake Let no ungovern'd Passion make thy wav'ring Heart espouse their Crime verse 9 For God shall sinful Men destroy Whilst only they the Land enjoy who trust on him and wait his time verse 10 How soon shall wicked Men decay Their Place shall vanish quite away nor by the strictest search be found verse 11 Whilst humble Souls possess the Earth Rejoycing still with godly Mirth with Peace and Plenty always crown'd PART II. verse 12 While sinful Crowds with false Design Against the righteous few combine and gnash their teeth and threatning stand verse 13 God shall their empty Plots deride And laugh at their defeated Pride he sees their Ruin near at hand verse 14 They draw the Sword and bend the Bow The Poor and Needy to o'erthrow and Men of Upright Lives to slay verse 15 But their strong Bows shall soon be broke Their sharpen'd Weapon's mortal Stroke thro' their own Hearts shall force its way verse 16 A little with God's Favour bles And by one Righteous Man possest the Wealth of many Bad excels verse 17 For God supports the just Man's Cause But as for those that break his Laws their unsuccessful Pow'r he quells verse 18 His constant Care the Upright guides And over all their Life presides their Portion shall for ever last verse 19 They when Distress o'rewhelms the Earth Shall be unmov'd and ev'n in Dearth The happy Fruits of Plenty taste verse 20 Not so the wicked Men and those Who proudly dare God's Will oppose destruction is their hapless share Like Fat of Lambs their Hopes and they Shall in an instant melt away and vanish into Smoak and Air. PART III. verse 21 Whilst Sinners brought to sad Decay Still borrow on and never pay The Just have Will and Pow'r to give verse 22 For such as God vouchsafes to bless Shall peaceably the Earth possess And those he curses shall not live verse 23 The good Man's way is God's Delight He orders all the Steps aright of him that moves by his Command verse 24 Though he sometimes may be distress'd Yet shall he ne'er be quite oppress'd for God upholds him with his Hand verse 25 From my first Youth till Age prevail'd I never saw the Righteous fail'd or Want o'ertake his numerous Race verse 26 Because Compassion fill'd his Heart And he did chearfully impart God made his Offspring's Wealth increase verse 27 With Caution shun each wicked Deed In Virtue 's ways with Zeal proceed and so prolong your happy Days verse 28 For God who Judgment loves does still Preserve his Saints secure from Ill while soon the wicked Race decays verse 29 30 31 The Upright shall possess the Land His Portion shall for Ages stand his Mouth with Wisdom is suppli'd His Tongue by Rules of Judgment moves His Heart the Law of God approves therefore his Footsteps never slide PART IV. verse 32 In wait the watchful Sinner lies In vain the Righteous to surprise in vain his Ruin does decree verse 33 God will not him defenceless leave To his Revenge expos'd but save and when he 's sentenc'd set him free verse 34 Wait still on God keep his Command And thou Exalted in the Land thy blest Possession ne'er shall quit The Wicked soon destroy'd shall be And at his dismal Tragedy thou shalt a safe Speator sit verse 35 The Wicked I in Pow'r heve seen And like a Bay-tree fresh and green that spreads its pleasant Branches round verse 36 But he was gone as swift as Thought And though in ev'ry place I sought no sign or track of him I found verse 37 Observe the Perfect Man with Care And mark all such as Upright are their roughest days in Peace mail end verse 38 While on the latter end of those Who dare God's sacred Will oppose a common Ruin shall attend verse 39 God to the Just will'Aid afford Their only Safeguard is the Lord their Strength in times of Need is He verse 40 Because on him they still depend The Lord will timely Succour send and from the Wicked set them free PSALM XXXVIII verse 1 THY chast'ning Wrath O Lord restrain though I deserve it all Nor let at once on me the storm of the Displeasure sall verse 2 In ev'ry wretched Part of me thy Arrows deep remain Thy heavy Hand 's afflicting weight I can no more sustain verse 3 My Flesh is one continued Wound thy Wrath so fiercely glows Betwixt my Punishment and Guilt my Bones have no repose verse 4 My Sins that to a Deluge swell my sinking Head o'erslow And for my feeble Strength to bear too vast a Burthen grow verse 5 Stench and Corruption fill my Wounds my Folly 's just Return verse 6 With Trouble I am warp'd and bow'd and all day long I mourn verse 7 A loath'd Disease afflicts my Loins infecting ev'ry part verse 8 With Sickness-worn I groan and roar thro' Anguish of my Heart PART II. verse 9 But Lord before thy searching Eyes all my Desires appear And sure my Groans have been too loud not to have reach'd thine Ear. verse 10 My Heart 's opprest my Strength decay'd my Eyes depriv'd of Light verse 11 Friends Lovers Kinsmen gaze aloof on such a dismal Sight verse 12 Mean while the Foes that seek my Life their Snares to take me set Vent Slanders and contrive all Day to sorge some new Deceit verse 13 But I as if both Deaf and Dumb nor heard nor once reply'd verse 14 Quite deaf and dumb like one whose tongue with conscious Guilt is ty'd verse 15 For Lord to thee I do appeal my Innocence to clear Assr'd that thou the righteous God my injur'd Cause wilt hear verse 16 Hear me said I left my proud Foes a spiteful Joy display Insulting if they see my Foot but once to go astcray verse 17 And With Continual Grief opprest to sink I now begin verse 18 To thee O Lord I will confess to thee bewail my Sin verse 19 But whilst I languish my proud Foes their Strength and Vigour boast And they that hate me without Cause are grown a dreadful
Host verse 20 Ev'n they whom I oblig'd return my Kindness with Despight And are my Enemies because I chuse the Path that 's right verse 21 Forsake me not O Lord my God nor far from me depart verse 22 Make haste to my relief O Thou who my Salvation art PSALM XXXIX verse 1 REsolv'd to watch o'er all my Ways I kept my Tongue in aw I curb'd my hasty words when I the Wicked prosp'rous saw verse 2 Like one thai's Dumb I silent stood and did my Tongue refrain From good Discourse but that restraint incres'd my inward Pain verse 3 My Heart did glow With working thoughts and Repose cou'd take Till strong Reflecion fann'd the Fire and thus at length I spake verse 4 Lord let me'know my term of Days how soon my Life will end The num'rous Train of Ills disclose which this frail State attend verse 5 My Life thou know'st is but a Span a Cypher sums my Years And ev'ry Man in best Estate but Vanity appears verse 6 Man like a Shadow vainly walks with fruitless Cares oppress'd He heaps up Wealth but cannot tell by whom 't will be possess'd verse 7 Why then S hould I on worthless Toys with anxious Care attend On thee alone my stedfast Hope shall ever Lord depend verse 8 9 Forgive my Sins nor let me scorn'd by foolish Sinners be For I was Dumb and murmur'd not because 't was done by Thee verse 10 The dreadful Burthen of thy Wrath in Mercy soon remove Lest my frail Flesh too weak to bear the heavy Load s hould prove verse 11 For when thou chast'nest Man for Sin thou mak'st his Beauty fade So vain a thing is he like Cloth by fretting Moths decay'd verse 12 Lord hear my Cry accept my Tears and listen to my Pray'r Who sojourn like a Stranger here as all my Fathers were verse 13 O spare me yet a litle time my wasted Strength restore Before I vanish quite from hence and shall be seen no more PSALM XL verse 1 I Waited meekly for the Lord till he vouchsas'd a kind reply Who did his gracious Ear afford and heard from Heav'n my humble Cry verse 2 He took me from the dismal Pit when founder'd deep in miry Clay On solid Ground he plac'd my Feet and suffer'd not my Steps to stray verse 3 The Wonders he for me has wrought shall fill my mouth with Songs of Praise And others to his Worship brought to hopes of like Deliv'rance raise verse 4 For Blessings shall that Man reward who on th' Almighty Lord relies Who treats the Proud with Disregard and hates the Hypocite's Disguise verse 5 Who can the wond'rous Works recount which thou O God for us hast wrought The Treasures of thy Love surmount the Pow'r of numbers speech and thought verse 6 I've learn'd that Thou hast not desir'd Off'rings and Sacrifice alone Nor Blood of guiltless Beasts requir'd for Man's Transgression to atone verse 7 I therefore come come to fulfil the Oracles thy Books impart verse 8 'T is my delight to do thy Will thy Law is written in my Heart PART II. verse 9 In full Assemblies I have told thy Truth and Rightcousncss at large Nor did thou know'st my Lips with-hold from utt'ring what thou gav'st in charge verse 10 Nor kept within my Breast confin'd thy faithtulness and saving Grace But Preach thy Love for All design'd that all might that and Truth embrace verse 11 Then let those Mercies I decar'd to others Lord extend to me Thy loving Kindne s s my Reward thy Truth my safe Protecion be verse 12 For I with troubles am distrest too numberless for me to bear Nor less with loads of Guilt opprest that plunge and sink me to Despair As soonr alas may I recount the Hairs on this afflicted Head My vanquisht Courage they surmount and fill my drooping Soul with Dread PART III. verse 13 But Lord to my Relief draw near for never was more pressing Need In my Deliv'rance Lord appear and add to that Deliv'rance Speed verse 14 Confusion on their Heads return who to destroy my Soul combine Let them defeated blush and mourn ensnar'd in their own vile design verse 15 Their Doom let Desolation be with Shame their Malice be repaid Who mock'd my Confidence in Thee and sport of my Assction made verse 16 While those who humbly seek thy Face to joyful Triumphs shll be rais'd And all who prize thy Saying Grace with me resound The Lord be prais'd verse 17 Thus wretched tho' I am and poor of me th' Almighty Lord takes care Thou God who only canst restore to my relief with Speed repair PSALM XLI HAppy the Man whose tender Care relieves the poor distrest When Troubles compass him around the Lord shall give him Rest verse 2 The Lord his Life with Blessings crown'd in Safety shall prolong And disappoint the Will of those that seek to do him wrong verse 3 If he in languishing estate opprest with Sickness lye The Lord will easy make his Bed and inward Strength supply verse 4 Secure of This to thee my God I thus my Pray'r address'd Lord for thy Mercy heal my Soul tho' I have much transgress'd verse 5 My cruel Foes with sland'rous words attempt to wound my Fame When shall he die say they and Men forget his very Name verse 6 Suppose they formal Visits make t is all but empty show They gather Mischief in their Hearts and vent it where they go verse 7 8 With private Whispers such as these to hurt me they devise A sore Disease afflicts him now he 's fall'n no more to rise verse 9 My own familiar Bosom-Friend on whom I most rely'd Has me whose daily Guest he was with open Scorn defy'd verse 10 But thou my sad and wretched State in Mercy Lord regard And raise me up that all their Crimes may meet their just Reward verse 11 By this I know thy gracious Ear is open when I call Because thou suff'rest not my foes to triumph in my Fall verse 12 Thy tender care secures my life from Danger and Disgrace And thou vouchsaf'st to set me still before thy glorious Face verse 13 Let therefore Is'els Lord and God from age to age be bless'd And all the People's glad Applause with loud Amens express'd PSALM XLII AS pants the Hart for cooling Streams when heated in the chace So longs my Soul O God for thee and thy refreshing Grace verse 2 For thee my God the living God my thirsty Soul doth pine O when shall I behold thy Face thou Majesty Divine verse 3 Tears are my constant Food while thus insulting Foes upbraid Deluded Wretch where 's now thy God and where his promis'd Aid verse 4 I sigh when-e'er my musing Thoughts those happy Days present When I with Troops of pious Friends thy Temple did frequent When I advanc'd with Songs of Praise my solemn Vows to pay And led the joyful sacred Throng that kept the Festal Day verse 5 Why restless why cast down my Soul truft
live And Off'rings bring with constant Care The Heavens his Justice shall declare For God himself shall Sentence give verse 7 Attend my People Isr'l hear Thy strong Accuser I 'll appear Thy God thy only God am I verse 8 'T is not of Off'rings I complain Which daily in my Temple slain My sacred Altai did supply verse 9 Will this alone Atonement make No Bullock from thy Stall I 'll take Nor He-goat from thy Fold accept verse 10 The Forest Beasts that range alone The Cattel too are all my own That on a thousand Hills are kept verse 11 I know the Fowls that build their Nests In craggy Rocks and salvage Beasts That loosely haunt the open Fields verse 12 If seiz'd with Hunger I could be I need not seek Relief from Thee Since the World 's mine and all it yields verse 13 Think'st thou that I have any need On slaughter'd Bulls and Goats to feed To eat their Flesh and drink their Blood verse 14 The Sacrifices I require Are Hearts which Love and Zeal inspire And Vows with strictest Care made good verse 15 In time of Trouble call on me And I will set thee safe and free And thou returns of Praise shalt make verse 16 But to the Wicked thus faith God How dar'st thou teach my Laws abroad Or in thy Mouth my Cov'nant take verse 17 For stubborn thou confirtn'd in Sin Hast proof against Instrucion been And of my Word didst lightly speak verse 18 When thou a subtle Thief didst see Thou gladly didst with him agree And with Adult'rers didst partake verse 19 Vile Slander is thy chief Delight Thy Tongue by Envy mov'd and Spight Deceitful Tales does hourly spread verse 20 Thou dost with hateful Scandals wound Thy Brother and with Lies confound The Offspring of thy Mother's Bed verse 21 These things didst thou whom still I strove To gain with Silence and with Love Till thou didst wickedly surmise That I was such a one as thou But I 'll reprove and shame thee now And set thy Sins before thine Eyes verse 22 Mark this ye wicked Fools left I Let all my Bolts of Vengeance fly Whilst none shall dare your cause to own verse 23 Who praises me due Honour gives And to the Man that justly lives My strong Salvation shall be shown PSALM LI. HAve Mercy Lord on me as thou wert ever kind Let me opprest with Loads of Guilt thy wonted Mercy find verse 2 3 Wash off my soul Offence and cleanse me from my Sin For I confess my Crime and see how great my Guilt has been verse 4 Against Thee Lord alone and only in thy fight Have I transgress'd and tho' Condemn'd must own thy Judgment right verse 5 In Guilt each part was form'd of all this sinful Frame In Guilt I was conceiv'd and born the Heir of Sin and Shame verse 6 Yet thou whose searching Eye does inward Truth require In secret didst with Wisdom's Laws my tender Soul inspire verse 7 With Hyssop purge me Lord and so I clean shall be I shall with show in whiteness vie when purifi'd by thee verse 8 Make me to hear with Joy thy kind forgiving Voice That so the Bones which thou hast broke may with fresh strength rejoice verse 9 10 Blot out my crying Sin nor me in Anger view Create in me a Heart that 's clean and upright mind renew PART II. verse 11 Withdraw not thou thy Help nor cast me from thy sight Nor let thy Holy Spirit take its everlasting Flight verse 12 The Joy thy Favour gives let me again obtain And thy free Spirit 's firm support my fainting Soul sustain verse 13 So I thy righteous Ways to Sinners will impart Whilst my Advice shall wicked Men to thy just Laws convert verse 14 My Guilt of Blood remove my Saviour and my God And my glad Tongue shall loudly tell thy righteous Acts abroad verse 15 Do thou unlock my Lips with Sorrow clos'd and shame So shall my Mouth thy wondrous Praise to all the World proclaim verse 16 Could Sacrifice atone whole Flocks and Herds should die But on such Off'rings thou disdain'st to cast a gracious Eye verse 17 A broken Spirit is by God most highly priz'd By him a broken contrite Heart shall never be despis'd verse 18 Let Sion Favour find of thy Good Will assur'd And thy own City flourish long by losty Walls secur'd verse 19 The Just shall then attend and pleasing Tribute pay And Sacrifice of choicest kind upon thy Altar lay PSALM LII IN vain O Man of lawless Might thou boast'st thy self in Ill Since God the God in whom I trust vouchsafes his Favour still verse 2 Thy wicked Tongue does sland'ring Tales maliciously devise And sharper than a Razor set it wounds with treach'rous Lies verse 3 4 Thy Thoughs are more on Ill than Good on Lies than Truth employ'd Thy Tongue delights in Words by which the Guiltless are destroy'd verse 5 God shall for ever blast thy Hopes and snatch thee soon away Nor in thy dwelling-place permit nor in the World to stay verse 6 The Just with pious Fear shall see the downfal of thy Pride And at thy sudden Ruin laugh and thus thy fall deride verse 7 See there the' haughty Man that was who proudly God desy'd Who trusted in his Wealth and still on wicked Arts rely'd verse 8 But I am like those Olive-Plants that shade God's Temple round And hope with his indulgent Grace to be for ever crown'd verse 9 So shall my Soul with Praise O God extol thy wondrous Love And on thy Name with Patience wait for this thy Saints approve PSALM LIII THE wicked Fools must sure suppose that God is but a Name This gross Mistake their Practice shows since Virtue all disclaim verse 2 The Lord look'd down from Heav'n's high Tow'r the Sons of Men to view To see if any own'd his Pow'r or Truth or Justice knew verse 3 But all he faw were backwards gone degen'rate grown and base None for Religion car'd not One of all the sinful Race verse 4 But are those Workers of Deceit s0 dull and sensless grown That they like Bread my People eat and God's just Pow'r disown verse 5 Their causless Fears shall strangely grow and they despis'd of God Shall soon be foil'd his hand shall throw their shatter'd Bones abroad verse 6 Would he his siving Pow'r employ to break our servile Band Loud shouts of universal Joy should eccho through the Land PSALM LIV. verse 1 2 LOrd save me for thy Glorious Name and in thy Strength appear To judge my Cause accept my Pray'r and to my Words give Ear. verse 3 Mere Strangers whom I never wrong'd to ruin me design'd And cruel Men that fear no God against my Soul combin'd verse 4 5 But God takes part with all my Friends and he 's the surest Guard The God of Truth shall give my Foes their Falshoods due reward verse 6 While I my grateful OfF'ring bring and Sacrifice with Joy And in his Praise
my time to come delightfully employ verse 7 From dreadful Danger and Distress the Lord has set me free Through him shall I of all my Foes the just Destruction see PSALM LV. GIve ear thou Judge of all the Earth and listen when I pray Nor from thy humble Suppliant turn thy glorious Face away verse 2 Attend to this my sad complaint and hear my grievous Moans Whilst I my mournful Case declare with artless Sighs and Groans verse 3 Hark! how the Foe insults aloud how fierce Oppressors rage Whose sland'ring Tongues with wrathful hate against my Fame engage verse 4 5 My Heart is rack'd with Pain my Soul with deadly Frights distrest With Fear and Trembling compass'd round with Horror quite opprest verse 6 How often wish'd I then that I the Dove 's swift Wings could get That I might take my speedy Flight and seek a safe Retreat verse 7 8 Then would I wander far from hence and in wild Desarts stray Till all this surious Storm were spent this tempest past away PART II. verse 9 Destroy O Lord their ill Designs their counsels soon divide For through the City my griev'd Eyes have Strise and Rapine spy'd verse 10 By Day and Night on ev'ry Wall they walk their constant Round And in the midst of all her Strength are Grief and Mischief found verse 11 Whoe're through ev'ry Part shall roam with fresh Disorders meet Deceit and Guile their constant posts maintain in ev'ry Street verse 12 For'twas not any open Foe that false Reflections made For then I could with ease have born the bitter things he said 'T was none who hatred had profest that did against me ris For then I had withdrawn my self Friend from his malicious Eyes verse 13 14 But'twas ev'n thou my Guide my whom tend'rest Love did join Whose sweet Advice I valu'd most whose Pray'rs were mixt with mine verse 15 Sure Vengeance equal to their Crimes such-Tray tors must surprize And sudden Death requite those Ills they wickedly devise verse 16 17 But I will call on God who still shall in my Aid appear At Morn and Noon and Night I 'll pray and he my voice shall hear PART III. verse 18 God has releas'd my Soul from those that did winh me contend And made a numerous Host of Friends my righteous Cause defend verse 19 For he who was my Help of old shall now his suppliant hear And punish them whose prosp'rous State makes them no God to fear verse 20 Whom can I trust if faithless Men perfidiously devise To ruin me their peaceful Friend and break the strongest Ties verse 21 Tho soft and melting are their Words their Hearts with War abound Their Speeches are more smooth than Oyl and yet like Swords they wound verse 22 Do thou my Soul on God depend and He shall thee sustain He aids the Just whom to supplant the Wicked strive in vain verse 23 My Foes that trade in Lies and Blood shall all untimely die Whilst I for Health and Length of Days on Thee my God rely PSALM LVI DO Thou O God in Mercy help for Man my Life pursues To crush me with repeated Wrongs he daily Strife renews verse 2 Continually my spiteful Foes to ruin me combine Thou seest who sit'st enthron'd on high what mighty Numbers join verse 3 But tho' sometimes surpriz'd by Fear on Danger 's first Alarm Yet still for Succour I depend on thy Almighty Arm. verse 4 God's faithful Promise I shall praise on which I now rely In God I trust and trusting him the Arm of Flesh defy verse 5 They wrest my Words and make 'em speak a Sense they never meant Their Thoughts are all with restless Spite on ray Destrucion bent verse 6 In close Assemblies they combine and wicked Projects lay They watch my Steps and lie in wait to make my Soul their Prey verse 7 Shall such Injustice still escape O Righteous God arise Let thy just Wrath too long provok'd this impious Race chastise verse 8 Thou numbrest all my Steps lince first I was compell'd to flee My very Tears are treasur'd up and regist'red by Thee verse 9 When therefore I invoke thy Aid my Foes shall be o'erthrown For I am well assr'd that God my righteous cause will own verse 10 11 I 'll trust God's Word and so despise the Force that Man can raise verse 12 To thee O God my Vows are due to Thee I 'll render Praise verse 13 Thou haft retriev'd my Soul from Death and Thou wilt still secure The Life thou hast so oft preserv'd and make my Footsteps sure That thus protected by thy Pow'r I may this Light enjoy And in the Service of my God my length'ned Days employ PSALM LVII THY Mercy Lord to me extend on thy Protection I depend And to thy wing for shelter haste Till this outragious Storm is past verse 2 To thy Tribunal Lord I fly Thou Sov'reign Judge and God most high Who Wonders hast for me begun And wilt not leave thy Work undone verse 3 From Heav'n protect me by thine Arm And shame all those who seek my Harm To my Relief thy Mercy send And Truth on which my Hopes depend verse 4 For I with salvage Men converse Like hungry Lions wild and fierce With men whose teeth are spears their words Invenom'd Darts and two-edgM Swords verse 5 Be thou O God exalted high And as thy Glory fills the Sky So let it be on Earth displaid Till thou art here as there obey'd verse 6 To take me they'their Net prepar'd And had almost my Soul ensnar'd But fell themselves by just Decree Into the Pit they made for me verse 7 O God my Heart is fix'd 't is bent Its thankful Tribute to present And with my Heart my Voice I 'll raise To thee my God in Songs of Praise verse 8 Awake my Glory Harp and Lute No longer let your Strings be mute And I my tuneful Part to take Will with the early Dawn awake verse 9 Thy Praises Lord I will resound To all the list'ning Nations round verse 10 Thy Mercy highest Heav'n transcends Thy Truth beyond the Clouds extends verse 11 Be Thou O God exalted High And as thy Glory fills the Sky So let it be on Earth displaid Till thou art here as there obey'd PSALM LVIII SPeak O ye Judges of the Earth if just your Sentence be Or most not Innocence appeal to Heav'n from your Decree verse 2 Your wicked Hearts and Judgments are alike by Malice fway'd Your griping Hands by weighty Bribes to Violence betray'd verse 3 To Virtue Strangers from the Womb their Insant-steps went wrong They prattled Slander and in Lies employ'd their lisping Tongue verse 4 No Serpent of parch'd Asrick's breed does ranker Poyson bear The drowsy Adder will as soon unlock his fullen Ear. verse 5 Unmov'd by good Advice and deaf as Adders they remain From whom the skilful Charmer's Voice can no Attention gain verse 6 Deseat O God their threat'ning Rage and timely break their Pow'r Disarm
Or who smong the God's of Earth With our Almighty Lord compare verse 7 With Rev'rence and religious Dread His Saints should to his Temple pres His Fear thro' all their Hearts should spread Who his Almighty Name consess verse 8 Lord God of Armies who can boast Of Strength or Pow'r like thine renown'd Of such a num'rous faithful Host As that which does thy Throns surround verse 9 Thou dost the lawless Sea controul And change the Prospect of the Deep Thou mak'st the sping Billows rowl Thou mak'st the rowling Billows sleep verse 10 Thoubrak'st in pieces Rahab's Pride And didst oppressing Pow'r disarm Thy scatter'd Foes have dearly try'd The Force of thy resistless Arm. verse 11 In thee the sov'reign Right remains Of Earth and Heav'n thee Lord alone The World and all that it contains Their Maker and Preserver own verse 12 The Poles on which the Globe does rest Were fdrm'd by thy creating Voice Tabor and Hertnon East and West In thy sustaining Pow'r rejoyce verse 13 Thy Arm h mighty ' strong thy Hand Yet Lord thou dbst with Justice reign verse 14 Possest of absolute Command Thou Truth and Mercy dost maintain verse 15 Happy thrice happy they who hear Thy sacred Trumpet 's joyful Sound Who may at Festivals appear With thy most glorious Presence crown'd verse 16 Thy Saints shall always be o'erjoy'd who on thy sacred Name rely And in thy Righteousness employ'd Above theirr Foes be rais'd on high verse 17 For in thy Strength they shall advance Whose Conquests from thy Favour spring verse 18 The Lord of Hosts is our Defence And Israel's God our Israel's King verse 19 Thus spak'st thou by the Prophet's Voice A mighty Champion I will send From Judah's Tribe have I made choice Of one who shall the rest defend verse 20 O My Servant David I have found With holy OH anointed him verse 21 Him shall the Hand support that crown'd And guard that gave the Diadem verse 22 No Prince from him shall Tribute forces No Son of Strise shall him annoy verse 23 His spiteful Foes I will disperse And them before his Face destroy verse 24 My Truth and Grace shall him sustain His Armies in well-order'd Ranks verse 25 Shall conquer from the Tyrian Main To Tigris and Euphrates Banks verse 26 Me for his Father he shall take His God and Rock of Safety call verse 27 Him I my First-born Son will make And Earthly Kings his Subjects all verse 28 To him my Mercy I 'll secure My Cov'nant make for ever fast verse 29 His Seed for ever shall endure His Throne till Heav'n dissolves shall last PART III verse 30 But if his Heirs my Law forsake And from my sacred Precepts stray verse 31 If they my righteous Statutes break Nor strictly my commands obey verse 32 Their Sins I 'll visit with a Rod And for their Folly make them smart verse 33 Yet will not cease to be their God Nor from my Truth like them depart verse 34 My Cov'nant I will ne'er revoke But in remembrance fast retain The thing that once my Lips have spoke Shall in eternal Force remain verse 35 Once have I sworn but once for all And made my holiness the Tie That I my Grant will ne'er recall Nor to my Servant David lie verse 36 Whose Throne and Race the constant Sun Shall like his Course establisht see verse 37 Of this my Oath thou conscious Moon In Heav'n my faithful Witness be verse 38 Such was thy gracious Promise Lord But thou hast now our Tribes forsook Thy own Anointed hast abhorr'd And turn'd on him thy wrathful Look verse 39 Thou seemest to have render'd void The Cov'nant with thy Servant made Thou hast his Dignity destroy'd And in the Dust his Honour laid verse 40 Of Strong-holds thou hast him berest And brought his Bulwarks to decay verse 41 His Frontier-Coasts defenceless lest A publiek Scorn and common Prey verse 42 His Ruine does glad Triumphs yield To Foes advanc'd by thee to Might verse 43 Thou hast his conqu'ring Sword unsteel'd His Valour turn'd to shameful Flight verse 44 His Glory is to darkness sled is Throne is levell'd with the Ground verse 45 His Youth to wretched Bondage led With Shame o're-whelm'd Sorrow dron'd verse 46 How long shall we thy Absence mourn Wilt thou for ever Lord retire Shall thy consuming Anger burn Till that and we at once expire verse 47 Consider Lord how short a space Thou dost for mortal Life ordain No Method to prolong the Race But loading it with Grief and Pain verse 48 What man is he that can controul Death's strict unalterable Doom Or rescue from the Grave his Soul The Grave that must Mankind entomb verse 49 Lord where 's thy Love thy boundless Grace The Oath to which thy Truth did feal Consign'd to David and his Race The grant which Time should ne're repeal verse 50 See how thy Servants treated are With Infamy Reproach and Spite Which in my silent Breast I bear From Nations of licentious Might verse 51 How they reproaching thy great Name Have made thy Servant's Hope their Jest verse 52 Yet thy just Praises we 'll proclaim And ever sing The Lord be hlest Amen Amen Psalm XC verse 1 O Lord the Saviour and Defence of us thy chosen Race From Age to Age thou still hast been our sure abiding-place verse 2 Before thou brought'st the Mountains forth or th' Earth and World didst frame Thou always wert the mighty God and ever art the same verse 3 Thou turnest Man O Lord to Dust of which he first was made And when thou speak'st the word Raturn 't is instantly obey'd verse 4 For in thy fight a thousand Years are like a Day that 's past Or like a watch in dead of Night whose hours unminded waste verse 5 Thou sweep'ft us off as with a Flood we vanish hence like Dreams At first we grow like Grass tnat feels the Sun's reviving Beams verse 6 But howfoever fresh and fair its Morning Beauty shows T is all cut down and withered quite before the Ev'ning close verse 7 8 We by thine Anger are consum'd and by thy Wrath dismay'd Our publick Crimes and secret Sins before thy sight are laid verse 9 Beneath thy Anger 's sad Effects our drooping Days we spend Our unregarded Years break off like Tales that quickly end verse 10 Qur Term of Time is seventy years an Age that few survive But if with more than common strength to eighty we arrive Yet then our boasted Strength decays to Sorrow turn'd and and Pain So soon the slender Thread is cut and we no more remain PART II verse 11 But who thy Anger 's dread Effects does as he ought revere And yet thy Wrath does fall or rise as more or less we fear verse 12 So teach us Lord th' uncertain Sum of our short Days to mind That to true Wisdom all our Hearts may ever be inclin'd verse 13 O to thy Servants Lord return and speedily relent As we
of our Misdeeds do thou of our just Doom repent verse 14 To satisfie and chear our Souls thy early mercy send That we may all our Days to come in Joy and Comfort spend verse 15 Let happy Times with large Amends dry up our former Tears Or equal at the least the Term of our-afflicted Years verse 16 To all thy Servants Lord let this thy wond rouswork be known And to our Offspring yet unborn thy glorious pow'r be shown verse 17 Let thy bright Rays upon us shine give thou our work success The glorious Work we have in hand do thou vouchsase to bless Psalm XCI verse 1 HE that has God his Guardian made Shall under the Almighty's Shade Secure and undisturb'd abide verse 2 Thus to my Soul of him I 'll say He is my Fortress and my Stay My God in whom I will conside verse 3 His tender Love and watchful Care Shall free thee from the Fowler 's Snare And from the noisom Pestilence verse 4 He over thee his wings shall spread And cover thy unguarded head His Truth shall be thy strong Defence verse 5 No Terrours that surprise by Night Shall thy undaunted Courage fright Nor deadly Shafts that fly by Day verse 6 Nor Plague of unknown Rise that kills In Darkness nor infections Ills That in the hottest season slay verse 7 A thousand at thy side shall die At thy Right-hand ten thousand lie While thy firm health untouch'd remains verse 8 Thou only shalt look on and see The Wicked's dtsmal Tragedy And count the Sinner's mournful Gains verse 9 Because with well-plac'd Confidence Thou mak'st the Lord thy sure Defence And on the Highest dost rely verse 10 Therefore no Ill shall thee besall Nor to thy healthful Dwelling shall Any infectious Plague draw nigh verse 11 For he thro-out thy happy days To keep thee safe in all thy ways Shall give his Angel strict Commands verse 12 And they left thou shouldst chance to meet With some rough Stone to wound thy Feet Shall bear thee safely in their hands verse 13 Dragons and Asps that thirst for Blood And Lions roaring for their Food Beneath his conqu'ring Feet shall lie verse 14 Because he lov'd and honour'd me Therefore says God I 'll set him free And fix his glorious Throne on high verse 15 He 'll call I 'll answer when he calls And rescue him when Ill befalls Increase his Honour and his Wealth verse 16 And when with undisturb'd Content His long and happy Life is spent His End I 'll crown with saving Health Psalm XCII verse 1 HOw good and pleasant must it be to thank the Lord most high And with repeated Hymns of praise his Name to magnifie verse 2 With ev'ry Morning 's early Dawn his goodness to relate And of his constant Truth each Night the glad Effects repeat verse 3 To ten-string'd Instruments we 'll sing with tuneful Psalt'ries joyn'd And to the Harp with solemn sounds for sacred use design'd verse 4 For thro thy wondrous works O Lord thou mak'st my Heart rejoyce The thoughts of them shall make me glad and shout with chearful Voice verse 5 6 How wondrous are thy Works O Lord how deep are thy Decrees Whose winding Tracts in secret laid no stupid Sinner sees verse 7 He little thinks when wicked Men like Grass look fresh and gay How soon their short-liv'd Splendor must for ever pass away verse 8 9 But thou my God art still most High and all thy lofty Foes Who thought they might securely sin shall be o'erwhelm'd with Woes verse 10 Whilst thou exalt'st my sov'reign Pow'r and mak'st it largely spread And with refreshing Oil anoint'st my consecrated Head verse 11 I soon shall see my stubborn Foes to utter Ruine brought And hear the dismal End of those who have against me fought verse 12 But righteous Men like fruitful Palms shall make a glorious show As Cedars that in Lebanon in stately order grow verse 13 14 These planted in the House of God within his Courts shall thrive Their Vigour and their Lustre both shall in old Age revive verse 15 Thus will the Lord his Justice shew and God my strong Defence Shall due Rewards to all the World impartially dispense Psalm XCIII verse 1 WIth Glory clad with Strength array'd The Lord that o'er all Nature reigns The World's Foundations strongly laid And the vast Fabrick still sustains verse 2 How surely stablisht is thy Throne Which shall no Change or Period see For thou O Lord and thou alone Art God from all Eternity verse 3 4 The Floods O Lord lift up their Voice And toss the troubled Waves on high But God above can still their Noise And make the angry Sea comply verse 5 Thy promise Lord is ever sure And they that in thy House would dwell That happy station to secure Must still in Holiness excell Psalm XCIV verse 1 2 O God to whom Revenge belongs thy Vengeance now disclose Arise thou Judge of all the Earth and Crush thy haughty Foes verse 3 4 How long O Lord shall sinful Men their solemn Triumphs make How long their wicked Actions boast And insolently speak verse 5 6 Not only they thy Saints oppress but uprovok'd they spill The Widow's and the Stranger 's Blood and helpless Orphans kill verse 7 And yet the Lord shall ne'er perceive profanely thus they speak Nor any Notice of our Deeds The God of Jacob take verse 8 At length ye stupid Fools your Wants endeavour to discern In folly will you still proceed and Wisdom never learn verse 9 10 Can he be deaf who form'd the Ear or blind who fram'd the Eye Shall Earth's great Judge not punish those who his khown Will defie verse 11 He fathoms all the Thoughts of Men to him their Hearts lie bare His Eye surveys them all and sees how vain their Counsels are PART II. verse 12 Blest is the Man whom thou O Lord in kindness dost chastise And by thy sacred Rules to walk dost lovingly advise verse 13 This Man shall Rest and Safety find in Seasons of Distress Whilst God prepares a Pit for those that stubbornly transgress verse 14 For God will never from his Saints his Favour wholly take His own Possession and his Lot he will not quite forsake verse 15 The World shall then confess thee just in all that thou hast done And those that chuse thy upright ways shall in those Paths go on verse 16 Who will appear in my behalf when wicked Men invade Or who when sinners would oppress my righteous Cause shall plead verse 17 18 19 Long since had I in silence slept but that the Lord was near To stay me when I slipâ— when sad my troubled heart to chear verse 20 Wilt thou who art a God most just their sinful Throne sustain Who make the Law a fair pretence their wicked Ends to gain verse 21 Against the Lives of righteous Men they form their close Design And Blood of Innocents to spill in solemn League combine verse 22
Nor did th' Almighty's Voice obey But when God said Go up would stay verse 26 This seal'd their Doom without Redress To perish in the Wilderness Or else to be by Heathen hands O'erthrown and scatter'd thro the Lands PART III. verse 28 Yet unreclaim'd this slubborn Race Baal-peor's Worship did embrace Became his impious Guests and fed On Sacrifices to the Dead verse 29 Thus they perisisted to provoke God's Vengeance to the final Stroke 'T is come the deadly Pest is come To execute their gen'ral Doom verse 30 But Phinehas fir'd with holy Rage Th' Almighty Vengeance to asswage Did by two bold Offender's Fall The Atonement make that ransom'd All. verse 31 As him a heav'nly Zeal had mov'd So Heav'n the zealous Act approv'd To him confirming and his Race The Priesthood he so well did grace verse 32 At Meribath God's Wrath they mov'd Who Moses for their sakes reprov'd verse 33 Whose patient Soul they did provoke Till rashly the meek Prophet spoke verse 34 Nor when possest of Canaan's Land Did they perform their Lord's Command Nor his commission'd Sword employ The guilty Nations to destroy verse 35 Nor only spar'd the Pagan Crew But mingling learnt their Vices too verse 36 And Worship to those Idols paid Which them to fatal Snares betray'd verse 37 38 To Devils they did sacrifice Their Children with relentless Eyes Approach'd their Altars thro' a Flood Of their own Son's and Daughters Blood No cheaper victims wou'd appease Canaan's remorseless Deities No Blood her Idols reconcile But that which did the Land defile PART IV. verse 39 Nor did these savage Cruelties The harden'd Reprobates suffice For after their Heart's Lust they went And daily did new Crimes invent verse 40 But Sins of such infernal Hue God's Wrath against his people drew Till he their once indulgent Lord His own Inheritance abhorr'd verse 41 He them defenceless did expose To their insulting Heathen Foes And made them on the Triumphs wait Of those who bore them greatest Hate verse 42 Nor thus his Indignation ceas'd Their List of Tyrants he increas'd Till they who God's mild Sway declin'd Were made the Vassals of Mankind verse 43 Yet when distrest they did repent His Anger did as oft relent But freed they did his Wrath provoke Renew'd their Sins and he their Yoke verse 44 Nor yet implacable he prov'd Nor heard their wretched Cries unmov'd verse 45 But did to mind his promise bring And Mercy 's inexhausted Spring verse 46 Compassion too he did impart Ev'n to their Foe 's obdurate Heart And pity for their Suff'rings bred In those who them to Bondage led verse 47 Still save us Lord and Israel's Bands Together bring from Heathen Lands So to thy Name our thanks we 'll raise And ever triumph in thy Praise verse 48 Let Isael's God be ever blest His Name eternally confest Let all his Saints with full Accord Sing loud Amens Praise ye the Lord Psalm CVII verse 1 TO God your grateful Voices raise Who does your daily Patron prove And let your never-ceasing praise Attend on his eternal Love verse 2 3 Let those give thanks whom he from Bands Of proud oppressing Foes released And brought them back from distant Lands From North and South and West and East verse 4 5 Thro' lonely desart ways they went Nor could a peopl'd City find Till quite with Thirst and Hunger spent Their fainting Soul within them pin'd verse 6 Then soon to God's indulgent Ear Did they their mournful Cry address Who graciously youchsasd to hear And free'd them from their deep Disiress verse 7 From crooked paths he led them forth And in the certain way did guide To wealthy Towns of great resort Where all their Wants were well supply'd verse 8 O then that all the Earth with me Would God for this his Goodness praisc And for the mighty works which he Thro-out the wond'ring world displays verse 9 For he from Heav'n the fad estate Of longing Souls with Pity views To hungry Souls that pant for Meat His Goodness daily Food renews PART II. verse 10 Some lie with Darkness compass'd round In deaths uncomfortable Shade And with unweildy Fetters bound By pressing Cares more heavy made verse 11 12 Because God's Counsel they desi'd And lightly priz'd his holy Word With these Afflictions they were try'd They fell and none could Help afford verse 13 Then soon to God's indulgent Ear Did they their mournful Cry address Who graciously vouchs'd to hear And free'd them from their deep Distress verse 14 From dismal Dungeons dark as Night And Shades as black as Death 's Abode He brought them forth to chearful Light And welcome Liberty bestow'd verse 15 O then that all the Earth with me Would God for this his Goodness praise And for the mighty Works which he Thro out the wond'ring World displays verse 16 For he with his Almighty Hand The Gates of Brass in pieces broke Nor could the massy Brass withstand Or tempered Steel resist his Stroke PART III. verse 17 Remorseless Wretches void of Sense With bold Ttansgressions God defie And for their multiply'd Offence Opprett with fore Diseases lie verse 18 Their Soul a Prey to Pain and Fear Abhors to taste the choicest Meats And they by faint Degrees draw near To Death's inhospitable Gates verse 19 Then strait to God's indulgent Ear Do they their mournful Cry address Who gracioufly vouchsases to hear And frees them from their deep Distress verse 20 He all their sad Distempers heals His Word both Health and Safety gives And when all human Succour fails From near Destruction them retrieves verse 21 O then that all the Earth with me Would God for this his Goodness praise And for the mighty Works which he Thro' out the wondring World display verse 22 With Off rings let his Altar flame Whilst they their grateful Thanks express And with loud Joy his holy Name For all his Acts of wonder bless PART IV. verse 23 24 They that in Ships with Courage bold O'er sweliing Waves their Trade pursue Do God's amazing Works behold And in the Deep his Wonders view verse 25 No sooner his command is past But forth a dreadful Tempest flies Which sweeps the Sea with rapid Haste And makes the stormy Billows rise verse 26 Sometimes the Ships toss'd up to Heav'n On tops of mounting Waves appear Then down the sleep Abysa are driv'n Whilst ev'ry Soul disslves with fear verse 27 They reel and stagger to and fro Like Men with Fumes of Wine opprest Nor do the skilful Seamen know Which way to sleer whatCourse is best verse 28 Then strait to God's indulgent Ear They do their mournful Cry address Who gracioufly vouchsases to hear And frees them from their deep Distress verse 29 30 He does the raging Storm appease And makes the Billows calm and still With Joy they see their fury cease And their intended course fulfil verse 31 O then that all the Earth with me Would God for this his Goodness praise And for the mighty
of Life is done shall keep thy upright Way SAMECH verse 113 Deceitful Thoughts and Practices I utterly detest But to thy Law Affection bear too great to be exprest verse 114 My Hidihg-place my Refuge-Tow'r and Shield art thou O Lord I firmly anohor all my Hopes on thy unerring Word verse 115 Hence ye that trade in Wickedness approach not my Abode For firmly I resolve to keep the Precepts of my God verse 116 According to thy gracious Word from Danger set me free Nor make me of those Hope 's asham'd that I repose on thee verse 117 Uphold me so shall I be safe and rescu'd from Distress To thy Decrees continually my just Respect address verse 118 The wicked thou hast trod to earth who from thy statutes stray'd Their vile Deceit the just Reward of their own Falshood made verse 119 The wicked from thy holy Land thou dost like Dross remove I therefore with such Justice charm'd thy Testimonies love verse 120 Yet with that love they make me dread left I should offend When on Transgreffors I behold Thy Judgments thus descend AIN verse 121 Judgment and Justice I have lov'd O therefore Lord engage In my Defence nor give me up to my Oppressors Rage verse 122 Do thou be Surety Lord for me and so shall this Distress Prove good for me nor shall the Proud my guiltles Soul oppress verse 123 My Eyes alas begin to fail in long expectance held 'Till thy Salvation they behold and righteous Word fulfill'd verse 124 To me thy Servant in distress thy wonted Grace display And discipline my willing Heart thy Statutes to obey verse 125 On me devoted to thy Fear thy sacred Skill bestow That of thy Testimonies I the full extent may know verse 126 'T is time high time for thee O Lord thy Vengeance to employ When Men with open Violence thy sacred Law destroy verse 127 Yet their Contempt of thy Commands but makes their Value rise In my esteem who purest Gold compar'd with them despise verse 128 Thy Precepts therefore I account in all respects diving They teach me to discern the right and all false Ways decline PE. verse 129 The Wonders which thy Laws contain no Words can represent Therefore to learn and practise them my zealous Heart is bend verse 130 The very entrance to thy Word celestial Light displays And Knowledge of true Happiness to simplest Minds conveys verse 131 With eager Hopes I waiting stood and fainted with Desire That of thy wise Commands I might the sacred Skill acquire verse 132 With Favour Lord look down on me who thy Relief implore As thou art wont to visit those who thy blest Name adore verse 133 Directed by thy heav'nly Word let all my Footsteps be Nor Wickedness of any kind Dominion have o'er me verse 134 Release intirely set me free from persecuting Hands That unmolested I may learn and practise thy Commands verse 135 On me devoted to thy Fear Lord make thy Face to shiine Thy Statutes both to know and keep my Heart with Zeal incline verse 136 My Eyes to Weeping Fountains turn whence briny Rivers flow To see Mankind against thy Laws in bold defiance go TSADHI verse 137 Thou art the righteous Judge in whom wrong'd Innocence may trust And like thy self thy Judgments Lord in all respects are just verse 138 Most just and true those Statutes were which thou didst first decree And all with Faithfulness perform'd succeeding times shall see verse 139 With Zeal my Flest consumes away my Soul with Anguish frets To see my Foes contemn at once thy promises and Threats verse 140 Yet each neglected Word of thine howe'er by them despis'd Is pure and for eternal Truth by me thy Servant priz'd verse 141 Brought for thy sake to low Estate Contempt from All I find Yet no Affronts or Wrongs can drive thy Precepts from my Mind verse 142 Thy Righteousness shall then endure when Time it self is past Thy Law is Truth it self that Truth which shall for ever last verse 143 Tho' Trouble Anguish Doubts and Dread to compass me unite Beset with Danger still I make thy Precepts my Delight verse 144 Eternal and unerring Rules thy Testimonies give Teach me the Wisdom that will make my Soul for ever live KOPH verse 145 with my whole Heart to God I Call'd Lord hear my earnest Cry And I thy Statues to perform will all my Care apply verse 146 Again more servently I pray'd O save me that I may Thy Testimonies throughly know and stedfastly obey verse 147 My earlier Pray'r the dawning Day prevented while I cry'd To him on whose engaging Word my Hope alone rely'd verse 148 With Zeal have I awak'd before the midnight-Watch was set That I of thy mysterious Word might perfect Knowledge get verse 149 Lord hear my supplicating Voice and wonted Favour shew O quicken me and so approve thy Judgments ever true verse 150 My persecuting Foes advance and hourly nearet draw What Treatment can I hope from them who violate thy Law verse 151 Tho' they draw nigh my comfort is thou Lord art yet more near Thou whose Commands are righteous all thy promises sincere verse 152 Concerning thy Divine Decrees my Soul has known of old That they were true and shall their Truth to endless Ages hold RESCH. verse 153 Cosider my Affiction Lord and me from Bondage draw Think on try Servant in Distress who ne'er Forgets thy Law verse 154 Plead thou my cause to that and me thy timely Aid afford With Beams of mercy quicken me according to thy Word verse 155 From hard'ned Sinners thou remov'st Salvatien far away 'T is just should'st withdraw from them who from thy Statutes stray verse 156 Since great thy tender mercies are to all who thee adore According to thy Judgments Lord my fainting Hopes restore verse 157 A num'rous Host of spiteful Foes against my life combine But all too few to force my Soul thy Statutes to decline verse 158 Those bold Transgressors I beheld and was with grief opprss'd To see with what audacious Pride thy Cov'nant they transgress'd verse 159 Yet while they slight consider Lord how I thy Precepts love O therefore quicken me with Beams of mercy from above verse 160 As from the Birth of Time thy Truth has held through Ages past So shall thy righteous Judgments firm to endless Ages last SCHIN verse 161 Tho' mighty Tyrants without cause conspire my Blood to shed Thy sacred Word Has Pow'r alone to fill my Heart with dread verse 162 And yet that Word my joyful Breast with heav'nly Raptur warms Nor Conquest nor the Spoils of War have such transporting Charms verse 163 Perfidious Practises and Lies I utterly detest But to thy Laws affection bear too vast to be exprest verse 164 Sev'n times a day with grateful voice thy Praises I resound Because I find thy Judgments all with Truth and Justice crown'd verse 165 Secure substantial Peace have they who truly love thy Law No smiling Mischief them can tempt
nor frowning Danger aw verse 166 For thy Salvation I have hop'd and tho' so long delay'd With cheerful Zeal and strictest Care all thy Commands obey'd verse 167 Thy Testimonies I have kept and constantly obey'd Because the love I bore to them the Service easie made verse 168 From strict Observance of thy Laws I never yet withdrew Convinc'd that my most secret ways are open to thy View TAU verse 169 To my Request and earnest Cry attend O gracious Lord Inspire my Heart with heav'nly Skill according to thy Word verse 170 let my repeated Pray'r at last before thy Throne appear According to thy plighted Word For my Relief draw near verse 171 Then shall my grateful Lips return the Tribute of their praise When thou thy Counsels hast reveal'd and taught me thy just ways verse 172 My Tongue the praises of thy Word shall thankfully resound Because thy Promises are all with Truth and Justice crown'd verse 173 Let thy Almighty Arm appear and bring me timely Aid For I the Laws thou hast ordain'd my Heart 's free choice have made verse 174 My Soul has waited long to see thy saving Grace restor'd Nor Comfort knew but what thy Laws thy heav'nly Laws afford verse 175 Prolong my life that I may sing my great restorer's Praise Whose Justice from the depth of Woes my fainting Soul shall raise verse 176 Like some lost Sheep I 've stray'd till I despair my way to find Thou therefore Lord thy Servent seek who keeps thy Laws in mind Psalm CXX verse 1 IN deep Distress I ost have cry'd To God who neyer yet deny'd To rescue me opprest with Wrongs verse 2 Once more O Lord Deliv'rance send From lying Lips my Soul desend And from the Rage of stand'ring Tongues verse 3 What little Profit can accrue And yet what heavy Wrath is due O thou perfidious Tongue to thee verse 4 Thy Sting upon thy self shall turn Of lasting Flames that fiercely burn The constant Fuel thou shalt be verse 5 But O! how ' wretched is my Doom Who am a Sojourner become In barren Mesecb's desart Soil With Kedar's wicked Tents inclos'd to lawless Savages expos'd Who live on nought but Tehstand Spoll verse 6 My hapless Dwelling is with those Who Peace and Amity oppose and Pleasure take in others Harms verse 7 Sweet Peace is all I court and seek But when to them of Peace I speak they strait cry out To Arms to Arms. Psalm CXXI verse 1 To Sion's Hill I lift my Eyes From thence expecting Aid verse 2 From Sion's Hill and Sion's God who Heaven and Earth has made verse 3 Then thou my Soul in sefety rest thy Guardian will not sleep verse 4 His watchful Care that Isr'el guards will Isr'el's Monarch keep verse 5 Shelter'd beneath th' Almighty's Wings thou shalt securely rest verse 6 where neither Sun nor Moon shall thee by Day or Night molest verse 7 From common Accidents of Life his care shall guard thee still verse 8 From the blind strokes of Chance and Foes that lie in wait to kill verse 9 At home abroad in Peace in War thy God shall thee desend Conduct thee thro' Life's Pilgrimage safe to thy Journey 's end Psalm CXXII verse 1 O' T was a joyful Sound to hear our tribes devoutly say Up Isr'el to the Temple haste and keep your Festal Day verse 2 AT Salem's Courts we must appear with our assembl'd Pow'rs verse 3 In strong and beauteous Order rang'd like her united Tow'rs verse 4 T is thirher by Divine Command the Tribes of God repair Before his Ark to celebrate his Name with praise and Pray'r verse 5 Tribunals stand erected there where Equity takes place There stand the Courts and Palaces of Royal David's Race verse 6 O pray we then for Salem's Peace for they shall prosp'rous be Thou holy City of our God! who bear true Love to thee verse 7 May Peace within thy'sacred Walls a constant Guest be found With Plenty and Prosperity thy Palaces be crown'd verse 8 For my dear Brethren's sake and Friends no less than Brethre dear I 'll --- pray May Peace in Salem's Tow'rs a constant Guest appear verse 9 But most of all I 'll seek thy Good and ever wish thee well For Sion and the Temple's sake where God vouchsases to dwell Psalm CXXIII verse 1 2 ON thee who dwell'st above the Skies For mercy wait my longing Eyes As Servants watch their Master's Hands And Maids their Mistress's Commands verse 3 4 O then have Mercy on us Lord Thy gracious Aid to us afford To us whom cruel Fops oppress Grown rich and proud by our Distress Psalm CXXIV verse 1 HAD not the Lord may Isr'el say been pleas'd to interpose verse 2 Had he not then espous'd our Cause when Men against us rose verse 3 4 5 Their wrath had swallow'd is alive and rag'd wlthout Coutroul Their Spite and Pride's united Floods had quite o'erwhelm'd our Soul verse 6 But prais'd be our eternal Lord who rescu'd us that Day Nor to their savage Jaws gave up our threat'ned Lives a prey verse 7 Our Soul is like Bird escap'd from out the Fowler 's Net The Snare is broke their Hopes are cross'd and we at freedom set verse 8 Secure in his Almighty Name our Confidence remains Who as he made both Heay'n and Earth of both sole Monarch reighs Psalm CXXV verse 1 WHO place on Sion's God their Trust like Sion's Rock shall stand Like her immoveably by fixt by his Almighty Hand verse 2 Look how the Hills on ev'ry side jerusalem inclose So stands the Lord around his Saints to guard 'em from their Foes verse 3 The wicked may affict the Just but ne'er too long oppress Nor force him by Despair to seek base means for his Redress verse 4 Be good O righteous God to those who righteous Deeds affect The Heart that innocence retains let innocence protect verse 5 All those who walk in crooked Paths the Lord shall soon dostroy Cut off th'Unjust but crown the Saints with lasting Peace and Joy Psalm CXXVI verse 1 WHen Sion's God her Sons recall'd from long Captivity It seem'd at first a Pleasing Dream of what we wish'd to see verse 2 But soon in an accustom'd Mirth we did our Voice employ And sung our great Restorer's Praise in thankful Hymns of Joy Our Heathen Foes repining stood yet were compell'd to own That great and wondrous was the Work our God for us had done verse 3 'T was great say they t was wond'rous great much more should we confess The Lord has done great things where of we reap the glad Success verse 4 To us bring back the Remnant Lord of Isrel's captive Bands More welcome than refreshing Showr's to parch'd and thirsty Lands verse 5 That we whose Work commenc'd in Tears may see our Labours thrive Till finish'd with success to make our drooping Hearts revive verse 6 Tho' he despond that sows his Grain yet doubtless he shall come To bind his full ear'd
7 O could I so perfidious be To think of once deserting thee Where Lord cou'd I thy Influence shun Or whither from thy presence run verse 8 If up to Heav'n I take my slight 'T is there thou dwellst enthron'd in light Or dive to Hell's insernal Plains 'T is there Almighty Vengeance reigns verse 9 If I the Morning's Wings cou'd gain And fly beyond the Western Main verse 10 Thy swister Hand wou'd first arrive And there arrest thy Fugitive verse 11 Or shou'd I try to shun thy sight Beneath the sable Wings of night One glance from thee one piercing Ray Would kindle Darkness into Day verse 12 The Veil of Night is no disguise No Screen from thy all-searching Eyes Thro' midnight-Shades thou find'st thy way As in the plazing Noon of Day Thou know'st the Texture of my Heart verse 13 My Reins and ev'ry vital Part Each single Thread in Natute's Loom By thee was cover'd in the womb verse 14 I 'll praise thee from whose Hands I came A Work of such a curious Frame The Wonders thou in me hast shown My Soul with grateful Joy must own verse 15 Thine Eyes my Substance did survey While yet a lifeless mass it lay In secret how exactly wrought E'er from its dark Enclosure brought verse 16 Thou didst shapeless Embrio see Its parts were registred by thee Thou saw'st the daily growth they took Form'd by the Model of thy Book verse 17 Let me acknowledge too O God That since this Maze of life I trod Thy thoughts of Love to me furmount The pow'r of Numbers to recount verse 18 Far sooner could I reckon o'er The Sands upon the Ocean's Shore Each Morn revising what I 've done I find the account but new begun verse 19 The wicked thou shalt slay O God Depart from me ye men of Blood verse 20 Whose Tongues Heav'ns Majesty profane And take th' Almighty's Name in vain verse 21 Lord hate not I their impious Crew Who thee with Enmity pursue And does not Grief my Heart oppress When Repobates thy Laws transgress verse 22 Who practise Enmity to thee Shall utmost Hatred have from me Such men I utterly detest As if they were my Foes prosest verse 23 24 Search try O God my Thoughts and Heart If mischief lurks in any part Correct me where I go astray And guide me in thy perfect way Psalm CXL verse 1 PReserve me Lord from crasty Foes of teacherous intent verse 2 And from the Sons of Violence on open Mischief bent verse 3 Their sland ' ring Tongue the Serpent's Sting in sharpness do's exceed Between their Lips the Gall of Asps and Adders Venom breed verse 4 Preserve me Lord from wicked Hands nor leave my Soul forlorn A Prey to Sons of Violence who have my Ruine sworn verse 5 The proud for me have laid their Snare and spread their wily Net With Traps and Gins where e'er I move I sind my Steps beset verse 6 But thus environ'd with Distress thou art my God I said Lord hear my supplicating Voice that calls to thee for Aid verse 7 O Lord the God whose saving Strength kind Succour did convey And cover'd my advent'rous Head in Battel 's doubtful day verse 8 Permit not their unjust Designs to answer their Desire Lest they encourag'd by Success to bolder Crimes aspire verse 9 Let first their Chiess the sad Effects of their Injustice mourn The blast of their envenom'd Breath upon themselves return verse 10 Let them who kindl'd first the flame its Sacrifice become The Pit they digg'd for me be made their own untimely Tomb. verse 11 Tho' Slanders Breath may raise a Sorm it quickly will decay Their Rage does but the Torrent swell that bears themselves away verse 12 God will assert the poor Man's Cause and speedy Succour give The Just shall celebrate his praise and in his Presence live Psalm CXLI verse 1 TO thee O Lord my Cries ascend O haste to my Relief And with accustom'd Pity hear the Accents of my Grief verse 2 Instead off'rings let my Pray'r like Morning-Incense rise My listed Hands supply the place of Evening Sacrifice verse 3 From hasty Language curb my Tongue and let a constant Guard Still keep the Portal of my Lips with wary Silence barr'd verse 4 From wicked Men's Designs and Deeds my Heart and Hands restrain Nor let me in the Booty share of their unrighteous Gain verse 5 Let upright Men reprove my Faults and I shall think 'em kind Like Balm that heals a wounded Head I their Reproof shall find And in return my servent pray'r I shall for them address When they are tempted and reduc'd like me fo sore Distress verse 6 When sculking in Engeddh's Rock I to their Chiess appeal If one reproachful Word I spoke when I had pow'r to kill verse 7 Yet us they persecute to Death our scatter'd Ruins lie As thick as from the Hewer's Ax the sever'd Splinters slie verse 8 But Lord to thee I still direct my supplicating Eye O leave not destitute my Soul whose Trust on thee relies verse 9 Do thou preserve me fcam the Snares that wicked Hands have laid Let them in their own Nets be caught while my Escape is made Psalm CXLII verse 1 TO God with mournful Voice in deep Distress I pray'd verse 2 Made him the Umpire of my Cause my Wrongs before him laid verse 3 Thou didst my Steps direct when my griev'd Soul despair'd For where I thought to walk secure they had their Traps prepar'd verse 4 I look'd but sound no Friend to own me in Distress All Refuge fail'd no man vouchsifd his Pity or Redress verse 5 To God at last I pray'd thou Lord my Refuge art My portion in the Land of Life till Life it sels depart verse 6 Reduc'd to greatest Straits to thee I make my moan O! save me from oppressing Foes for me too pow'rful grown verse 7 That I may praise thy name my Soul from Prison bring Whilst of thy kind Regard to me assembled Saints shall sing Psalm CXLIII verse 1 LORD hear my Pray'r and to my Cry thy wonted Audience lend In thy accustom'd Faith and Truth a gracious Answer send verse 2 Nor at thy strct Tribunal bring thy servant to betry'd For in thy sight no living Man can e'er be justify'd verse 3 The spightful Foe pursues my life whose Comforts all are sled He drives me into Caves as dark as Mansions of the dead verse 4 My spirit therefore is o'erwhelm'd and sinks within ray Breast My mournful Heart grows desolate with heavy Woes opprest verse 5 I call to mind the Days of old and Wonders thou hast wrought My former Dangers and Escapes employ my musing Thought verse 6 To thee my Hands in humble Prayer I fervently stretch out My Soul for thy resreshment thirsts like Land oppress'd with Drought verse 7 Hear me with speed my Spirit fails thy Face no longer hide Left I become forlorn like them that in the Grave reside verse 8 Thy kindness early let