SACRED HYMNS. CONSISTING OF FIFTI SELECT PSALMS OF DAVID and others, Paraphrastically turned into English Verse. And by ROBERT TAILOUR, set to be sung in Five parts, as also to the Viol, and Lute or Orph-arion. Published for the use of such as delight in the exercise of MUSIC in her original honour.  
LONDON: Printed by Thomas Snodham, by the assignment of the Company of Stationers. 1615.   

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IN thee, we live; move, Lord, by thee:  
From thee pure minds thee-knoweing light derive.  
How then, save through thy grace, may we  
That honour high to sing thy bliss achieve?  
Then thou draw up my low desire:  
And love of thee let noble thoughts inspire.   

ETernal God whose boundless time, not led by circling sky,  
Then former day, now later leves; whence we some prime descry,  
Whence first, time 'gan his course; thus parts which may arrange:  
But thy blessed time unmooving stands, ay perfect, void of change,  
With thee eternal, present all, unknoweing first or last,  
Deziring nothing yet to come, regretting nothing past.  
Thou infinite, (great Selfbeĕing Lord,) first, highest, pure, unmixed:  
Unbounded sole, to all thy works wel-mezured bounds hast fixed.  
That glorious Sun, fair Moon, and Stars, finite since we do know;  
Nor Gods themselves, and made by thee, more glorious Light, may show.  
And dread we yet, who serve this Lord, have proved his helpful might,  
Man's, Fiends assaults? May earth with powĕr above-celestiăl fight?  
But He, though world contains and fills, comprended though of none;  
Yet gracious, to his chosen train, his vieu in supreme throne  
(Their eyes with light of glori' encleerd,) pure blessedness, prezents.  
abyss of joy! that thought exceeds; yet words fresh thought prevents.  
For thou, Perfection o entire, perfections all containst:  
No good, not in thee; ' above thee, none; whole Good, pure Bliss remainest.  
What Beauties ay, what mind delight; what Sweetness drawth desire;  
What Majesties we high revere; what Glorious states admire;  
What Wisdom richly vests the mind, and makes it All possess,  
Redoubling all by right-drawn shapes; what Goodness things doth bless,  
Diffuzing round itself; from thence what Virtues noble spring  
By woorthi acts to cheer the world, and better age to bring;  
What Happi life our thoughts conceive; (for ah how small a mite  
Of happis life we here enjoy?) what joy, what dear delight,  
What flagrant Pleasures, full, and mere, in blessed state are found;  
In thee, great Fountain of them all, united all abound.  
From thee, as beams from beautĕous Sun, what euĕr is goodli seen  
In heauĕn or earth; what rich, what fair, what euĕr we lovely deem,  
And pleazed will allures; from thee, high Cause of All, deriuĕd;  
By thine aspect is all maintained; yea dead, by thee reviuĕd.  
That all thy creatures, supreme Lord, thou Goodness high define:  
Themselves from thee agnize; to thee their praises all resign.  
And dote we still on creatures mean; in their perfections dwell:  
Nor raze our loves towărd Him, who them must thousand folds excel?  
For as the matchless Sun, though one, imbuĕd with vertu high  
From richness thine, in glorious walk brought round the broadspred sky,  
And lustring earth; (how poor a clod?) with beams and inflŭence sweet  
Of spĭrit sublime, doth various lives (each gracĕd with beauties meet)  
Through land and sea disperse; hence beasts, hence fish, each crawling thing,  
Birds, trees, herbs, flowers, fruits, spices rare, yea metals deep respring:  
All whose perfections, great and mean, in thousand kinds renuëd  
Whom thousand graces deck, and yet with virtues more enduëd,  
In Sun himself, thy master-woork, 'Cause whence they all proceed,  
Must needs excel; not beĕing as here, (not so hast thou decreed,)  
By matter course, embas●…d; empaird, by distance great; by site  
Obliqne, alaiĕd; diversifiëd, (repugnant that they fight,)  
By mixtures of ten thousand forms; but there they all refine;  
Unite in one; one uniform, high, rich perfection shine:  
So (glorious Cause of all,) in thee; what lifeful Light in Sun;  
What Greatness fair in Heauĕns doth shine; through Orbs what Beauties run;  
What Powĕrs, what Virtues nobly rich, Intelligence what clear,  
What Wisdom, Freedom, Goodness sweet, in Angels blest appear;  
What flagrant Loves, what glorious joys, celestial Coorts embless;  
In thee unite; dost all in one eternally possess,  
In infinite perfection more, so sort in more sublime.  
O pureness high, whereto not man's, nor Angels thoughts can climb!  
For thou, who Being art itself; dost Beings all contain:  
Perfections all, thence o deriuĕd, more perfect there remain.  
Then Lord, from thee sith all proceed; to thee in just desire  
They bend: at thee, whence first they came, Content they last require.  
For thou, First Cause; Great End of all. What euĕr true rest affects,  
Perfection his what e'er doth seek, what happis state expects;  
Thee, Lord, o thee it still pursŭeth: some beam of bliss divine,  
As due from bounti thine it craves. Euĕn senseless creatures thine,  
Through nature's force inclined by thee, work out their Being best,  
And place preserving seek. But man, with understanding blest,  
And Spĭrits celestiăl, strive to know thee: ' who known, dost Love allure.  
(Grow Knowledge; Love will grow.) True love, doth woorthi hearts procure  
Thy will to work, thy Laws to keep: which kept, thou dost requite  
With high Reward, with God himself. Here blest with glorious sight,  
They thee enjoy; to thee with love (Eternal Bliss) adhere.  
O source of joys! Towărd which our hope (unwoorthi though) we rear;  
And thee, ah thee pursue. Thou Lord, in mortal life below,  
(Where hundred snares our souls beset, where sin doth all oreflowe,)  
Conduct us with thy grace; and safe to life immortal bring:  
With Angels, where triumphant we shall ay thy praises sing.    
SACRED HYMNS.  

PSALM 1.  
A description of the Righteous, and their Feliciti: also of the Ungodli, and their Ruin, in the day of judgement.  

OBLESSED wight! whose pure desires to stain  
Th'ungodly crew in vain their counseils bend;  
In vain do sinners ways his absence plain;  
And scorners chairs in vain their poison spend:  
Th'eternal's law hath rapt his whole delight;  
Th'eternal law he muzeth day and night.   

AS precious plant; whom iviceful veins do fat,  
Due fruits enrich, unfading leaves do grace;  
(The Master's joy, fair honour of the plat:)  
So righteous man; whom blessings round embrace.  
While wicked imps, as rootles fruitless chaff;  
Which whirled round, the wind seems cauze to laugh.   

THEREFORE when souĕrain judge of heăvens and land  
By final doom shall destin to'each his place:  
The just shall shine, and glorious senate stand;  
When damned rout shall fly his dreadful face.  
For righteous path th'alrighteous Lord advows:  
But tract perverse towărd dire destruction bows.    

PSALM 2.  
The Prophet King DAVID (though not here in the title, yet elsewhere in holy scripture, named author of this Psalm,) foreshoweth the vain conspiraci of the Princes of the world, against Christ and his Kingdom, proclaimed by God, and establisbed over all the world: And advizeth them therefore, for their own everlasting good, to assubiect themselves to him, and it.  

WHAT graceless fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright,  
Infuriate so; 'gainst God with mad attempts to fight?  
'Gainst God, and 'gainst his Christ, earth's Kings and Peers shall band,  
To force join fraud, (ah fools!) Heăvens' kingdom to withstand.  
Fond, earthi minds! ye hate your bliss: Gods gracious hests,  
Free laws, as thrauling 'tis, your lawless life detests.   

BUT He in heăvens that sits, whose eye their thoughts divides;  
Their wicked mind abhors; their vain attempts derides.  
He then in wrath shall speak; in wrath which sore shall vex,  
And with distracted thoughts their troubled minds perplex,  
And then shall glorious voice from heăvenli throne proceed;  
Lo here my Son, a King to sacred Siŏn decreed.   

THAN this decree I'll show: God spoke it first to Me;  
My Son thou art: this day have I begotten thee,  
Thy kingdom shall increase: Ask me; and Gentile lands;  
Yea utmost ends of earth, I'll render to thy hands.  
Whom thou, obdured in sin, with rod of irŏn shalt bruise:  
As earthen pot shalt crash, while they thy laws refuse.   

THAN o, advise ye kings; and ye instruction take  
Who judges are of earth, your judgements right to make.  
Serve God with fear: (with fear best wisdom is begun:)  
With dread your joys asseaz̆on. Then homage to his Son  
With kiss prezent: So so his kindling ire prevent,  
Which them and all their ways, 'gainst whom least spark is bend,  
With horror dire consumes. But blessed ay the wight  
Who trusts in him; to him who sacred faith hath plight.    

PSALM 8.  
The Prophet DAVID admireth God's graciousness toward Man: particularly in the future humiliation of Christ; and in the exaltation of Man's nature, in him, and by him, ensuing. Where together with the supernatural dominion of Manintimated, the restoration also of the natural is expressed. By the way the children's acclamation to our Saviour, at his solemn entri into the Temple, and the powerful effect thereof, are pointedat.  

ETERNAL Lord; th'illustrious fame  
That sounds through world thy glorious name!  
Whose greatness fair transcends the skies;  
Whose goodness earth doth not despize.  
Euĕn tender lips of infants young  
Thy grace inspires with praiseful song:  
Whose force thy foes revengeful rage  
All daunted strangely doth assuage.   

WHEN up my wondering eyes I raze  
Towărd higher coorts which preach thypraise;  
The heăvens so huge, the stars so bright,  
That Prince of day, this Queen of night;  
All which do thee their maker know,  
Of peerless hand the matchless show:  
Lord, what is man, poor clot of mould,  
That him in mind thou still shouldst hold;  
Or son of man, defiled worm,  
Thy gracious thoughts towărd him to turn!   

A LITTLE thou wilt man abbase,  
Beneath thy blissful Angel's place:  
Then ay shall man remain renowned,  
With prime of glori princely crowned.  
To him as King thy creatures bow,  
And duty priest shall joyful vow:  
What e'er against his sceptre swell,  
His powerful foot thou down makĕst quell.   

THE cattle mild his service bear:  
Yea beasts most wild his frounds do fear:  
What flying wing the air divides,  
What swimming fin through water glides,  
What creeping thing in sea or land,  
Hast all subjecteth to his hand.  
O Lord, our Lord; what glorious fame  
Resounds through world thy gracious name!   

TRIPLE.  
Eternal Lord; th'illustrious fame, Thatsounds through world thy glorious name! Whose greatness fair transcends the skies; Whose goodness earth doth not de- spize. Euĕn tender lips of infant's young Thy grace inspires with praiseful song: Whose force thy foes revengeful rage All daunted strangely doth as- suage.   

BASE.  
  

MEAN.  
  

COUNTERTENOR.  
  

TENOR.  
  

LUTE.  
   

PSALM 15.  
The moral furniture of a true member of God's Church, set out by King DAVID.  

LORD: who shall in thy royal tent reside?  
Whom shall thy sacred mount his dweller claim?  
The man whose feet in paths direct abide;  
Whose lips at truth, whose hands at justice aim.   

NO wronging tale his tongue hath twynd; no deed  
Of his hath neighbour harmed; yea slander vile  
'Gainst neighbour razed, which itching ears doth feed,  
With stern rebuke his righteous ears exile.   

THE godless wretch, from heăvenli coort rejected,  
As foe, he shuns; as outcast base, despizeth:  
The godly wight, by grace divine elected,  
As friend, he loves; as precious, highly prizeth.   

HIS word as oath, his oath as sacred vow,  
He firm observes; though harm he thence endure:  
Usurious trade, the idles biting plough,  
Ne gain nor ease can him to hold allure.   

THE upright cause, sole object of his sight,  
No bribe can hurt, no present needs to mend:  
So he the man, whom nought shall shake or fright;  
Whom sacred place, and blissful joys attend.  
 
   

PSALM 16.  
The Prophet DAVID in this Psalm, noted with a mark of excellenci, declareth that (being first prepared in soul, by betaking himself wholly to the service and protection of God,) he had received supernatural infusion, of Divine Wisdom: By virtue whereof with much joy and exultation he foreprophecieth the speedi Resurrection of our Holi Saviour from death, (the ground of man's hope and comfort;) and the happiness of the Life to come in the vision of God.  

THAN thou preserve me, Lord, thou anchor of my mind;  
My wandering thoughts no rest save in thy favour find.  
Thee, thou my soul hath chŏzen, thee vowed her Lord to be:  
Though service mine I know can nothing add to thee.  
Yet to thy servants may; in whom thy gifts excel;  
Terrestrial Saints; midst whom my high delights do dwell.   

BUT sorroes them befall, yea heaped plaugs oppress;  
Who gifts from thee to dumb or damned gods address.  
Their murdering sacrifice shall never soil my face:  
Their God's accursed names my lips shall never grace.  
  

THOU art my God, my Lord; the portion I love best;  
My health, and wealth; my joy; my bliss, and glorious rest.  
And thou my earthli lot, in place both rich and pure,  
A goodly seat, shalt long to me and mine secure.  
  

THE Lord with thankful praise my humble mind adores,  
Who me with counsel deep in nightli musing stores.  
For him before me ay my faithful eyes engrave:  
He at my right hand stands, from falling me to save.  
  

WHEREFORE my heart with joy, my spir̆it exults in praise:  
And soul her dying flesh in hopeful rest doun-lays.  
For not my soul beneath exiled thou'lt leave from thee:  
Ne let thine HOLI ONE impure corruption see.  
But paths of life wilt show, which to thy presence bring;  
Where fullest joys for ay, and purest pleasures spring.   

TRIPLE.  
THen thou preserve me Lord, thou anchor of my mind: My wandering thoughts no rest, save in thy favour find. Thee, thou my soul hath chozĕn, thee vowed her Lord to be: Though service mine I know can nothing add to thee: Yet to thy servants may, in whom thy gifts excel; Terrestrial Saints, midst whom my high delights do dwell.   

BASE.  
  

MEAN.  
  

COUNTERTENOR.  
  

TENOR.  
  

LUTE.  
   

PSALM 17.  
DAVID grounding upon the innocenci of his own life and conscience, appealeth to God for relief against the oppression and cruelti of his unjust enemies: who men of the world, place their happiness wholly in the corporal pleasures of this life. whereas his Feliciti consisteth in enjoying God's favour in his righteous life here, and in the glorious vision of God in the life after the Resurrection. This Psalm seemeth to have been made, upon occasion of the second expedition which Saul made against David, at the first instigation of the Ziphites: at which time David flying from the Desert of Ziph to that of Maon, was in a plain there between the mountains enclosed by Saul. But by reason of a sudden message that the Philistims did invade the land, Saul left foloing of David; who so escaped.  

HIGH judge of world, cast down thy rightĕous eyes;  
Attentive hear, while right for justice humbly cries.  
Not causeless fear, nor sleight of feigning lips,  
Or needles doubts prezents, or plot disguisĕd uprips:  
Just grief appeals; and sentence from thy face,  
Of thee craves due redress: thou then just plea embrace.  
  

THOU oft my soul, yea oft in night didst vieu;  
When thoughts in silent rest prezent appearance true:  
And oft my heart with firi storms hast seen  
Dissolved; and trial made what dross therein hath been.  
Nought counterfeit, no palliate thing hast found:  
What secret mind doth think, that mouth doth truly sound.  
All as my words, so deeds towărd men do frame:  
Thy sacred word my rule: the viŏlent wronger's blame,  
I see, and shun. O still my feet contain  
In rightĕous paths; still hands from acts not just restrain.   

THEE Lord I call: for sure thou wilt me hear:  
Ah then receive the plaint which faithful soul doth rear.  
Divide thy acts: display thy mercies free,  
(Thou Saviour of thy Saints from those who them and thee  
With wicked hate attempt): as light of ay  
Me fenced, under, Lord, thy shadŏing wing let fly.  
There let me rest; there safe from impious crew,  
My deadli foes, protect: who circling rage renew,  
My strength to waste, my life to earth to bring;  
Engrosd with fat; and proud, out thundering threats do ring.   

AS Lion fierce, with ireful hunger whet,  
Flings out his prey to seek; which joyous having met,  
Stands foaming rage: or else as Lion's whelp,  
Who coucheth close in cave, his strength with sleight to help,  
Nor bold, nor yet afraid: so Lord my foes,  
Now round with ramping troops our ways and walks enclose,  
Prezenting death: and now with spiteful eye,  
Doun-cast, dissembling leer, advantage to espy.   

THAN Lord arise, and with encounter swift  
Affront their savage looks: and blood since is their drift,  
Midst wicked troops, that blood may blood repay,  
To save us by thy hand, with sword mow down thy way.  
 
  

SO Lord from men, my grieving soul enfree,  
From men of base world: who here we beastlike see  
In fading life their portion all possess;  
And paunches vile, their God, from thy rich storehouse bless.  
Like sire, like son: same course their offspring runs;  
Full gorge themselves; what's left, that to their infants comes.   

BUT I, by faith, in rightĕous life, shall vieu  
Thy gracious face. And when thy powĕr shall death subdue;  
Awakened, Lord, eternal glorious sight  
Of semblance thine, me like, shall fill with pure delight.    

PSALM 19  
The Almightis Lord being made known to the World by his glorious works, (amongst which the Sun for beauti and power is eminent;) and moreover being attained to by means of his Law and gracious Word, the virtues and happis effects whereof are many and memorable: DAVID prayeth as well for remission of secret, as for preservation from presumptuous transgressions of that divine Law; that so, secured from final defection, himself and his devotions may be accepted of God his Redeemer.  

THE heăvens declare the glori ' of God; that world's great arch foorth-tels,  
" His handi work we are himself who thousand heăvens excels.  
Both day to day resounds these words, and night to night enures  
This knowledge high; which vieving eye to musing mind assures.  
No speech, no language under sky, which hath not heard their voice:  
Their words through earth to ends of world run rulĕd with glorious noise.   

HE here the Sun in bour hath placĕd: the Sun, like bridegroom brave  
Who coming forth, like Giant stout to run his race doth crave.  
His course from utmost end of heăven he takes, and round amain  
By mightis compass to ' utmost end of heăven returns again.  
His glistĕring rays all gild the world: no less his quicning heat,  
What earth, what air, what sea containth, cheers up with comfort great.   

GOD'S law is perfect; souls to him restoring it betakes:  
His testimoni' is sure in work; and wise euĕn children makes.  
God's iustifyĭngs are sound and strait; to raze the heart with joy:  
His mandates clear; from clouded eyes to chase their dark annoy.  
The fear of God is pure; and keeps from dire corruption free:  
His judgements all as true and just, of heăvens adored be:  
More worth desire than treasures huge of pearl and finest gold;  
More sweet than sweetest food which Bee in curious cells doth hold.   

THAN Lord, behold, thy servant warned, to keep thy law dezires:  
Dezires thy law to keep; which kept, to high reward aspires.  
Then thou inspire thy grace: and Lord, (for who his faults can know?)  
To clenze my stains through sins unknown thy gracious merci show.  
But strange presumptŭous sins keep off, that those may never reign:  
So from the great defecting sin I clear shall ay remain.  
And so my words from humble lips, my thoughts from thankful heart,  
Thou shalt accept; O Lord, my strength, redeemer mine that art.   

TRIPLE.  
THe heăvens' de-clare the glori of God, that world's greatarch forth- tells, His handi work we are him- self, who thousand heăvens ex- cells. Both day to day re- sounds these words, and night to night in- ures This knowledge high; which vieving ey to musing mind as-sures. No speech, no language under sky, which hath not heard their voice: Their words through earth to ends of world run rulĕd with glorious noise.   

BASE.  
  

MEAN.  
  

COUNTERTENOR.  
  

TENOR.  
  

LUTE.  
   

PSALM 20.  
The prayer of the faithful people of God, for the safetis and victori of their King going forth unto war; recorded by King DAVID himself.  

IN day of troŭble, o woorthi king;  
God cheer thee; thence high valour spring:  
And mightis name of jacobs' Lord,  
Protect from stroke of hostile sword.  
That day from sacred throne to thee  
On Angels wings aid heăvenli flee:  
And strength, by prostrate Church implor̆ed,  
From Sĭon●… great Ark be fresh restorĕd.   

THY praiĕr still pierce his gracious ears,  
As pious soul it humbly rears:  
Thy gifts his eyes benign receive;  
And offerings burned all cinders leave.  
His light illustrate so thy face;  
So favour his thy ways entrace;  
That wish of heart, that work of brain,  
Successful end still blest attain.   

THUS we, enfreed from feared annoy,  
For s●…feti thine, our dearest joy,  
All thankful shall God's praises sing;  
And glorious name to heavens upring.  
Yea when thy praiĕrs his powĕr performs,  
And thee victorious (o) returns:  
We banners, ensigns of his praise,  
And trophies to ' his great name will raze.   

O FAITH assurĕd; inspired from high!  
Now know I, God, euĕn God drawth nigh:  
Our King, the Lords anointed deer,  
Celestial sanctuări doth hear.  
There see I, aid divine decreed,  
To save his persŏn in hours of need:  
There Victori, by God's right hand,  
By powĕr 'gainst which no powĕr can stand:   

SOME charets make their strength and grace:  
In horses some proud glori place.  
Fond joy, false strength! at thundering call,  
Horse, charets, men, to ground do fall.  
We then to heăvens address our eye,  
Where surer trust faiths eyes descry:  
A trust, which, whilĕst they down are brought,  
Our standing strength and triŭmph hath wrought.  
Then hear us, Lord: let heauĕns great king.  
Our king on earth home safely bring.    

●…ALM. 21.  
King DAVID yieldeth solemn Thanks unto God, at his return with Uictori over God's enemies: and farther foreshoweth their utter extermination.  

THE King, (Lord,) towărd thy glorious face  
Victorious eyes doth joyful rear:  
His strength, thy spir̆it; his health, thy grace;  
With doubled triŭmphs his soul doth cheer.  
What heart could wish, what lips did crave;  
Thy bountĕous hand him strangely gave.   

YEA whĕther his thoughts had nĕver aspired,  
Thy blessing royal him prevents:  
Of purest gold crown undesired  
To humble head rich hand prezents.  
Then lyre he asked: thou long to live  
Yea life eternal didst him give.   

WHAT maiesti on earth can shine;  
What worship mortal man may grace;  
What glori, only not divine;  
Thy goodness all on him doth place.  
That him all ages, pattern rare  
Of matchless bliss, shall ay declare.   

THAN joy his thankful heart hath fraught;  
Which from thy face serene derives:  
Which firm affiănce hath likewise wrought:  
Which joy again still fresh revives.  
For sith the King in th'highest doth trust;  
thou'rt safe; o King; o Highĕst, thou'rt just.   

FOR as on thine thy love is signed:  
So powerful hand those monsters dire,  
Which hate the souĕrain good, shall find;  
And found, confound in day of ire.  
As firi furnace they shall fume;  
Which kindled once doth self consume.   

WITH cursed sires, corrupted seed,  
From face of earth thou shalt destroy.  
For spite 'gainst thee their brains do breed:  
Vain spite, which works but self-annoy.  
As mark, their faces thou shalt lay;  
On which thy winged shafts may play.   

OTHOW, who everlasting reins  
Of world almightis Guide dost sway;  
Advance thy strength; and proud disdains  
Of miscrĕants vild great Lord repay.  
So we thy powĕr shall sing and praise;  
Which foes doth quell, thy servants raze.   

TRIPLE.  
THe King (Lord) towărd thy glorious face Victorious eyes doth joyful rear; His strength, thy spĭrit; his health, thy grace; With doubled triumphs his soul doth cheer. What heart could wish, what lips did crave, Thy bountĕous hand him strangely gave.   

MEAN.  
  

COUNTERTENOR.  
  

TENOR.  
  

BASE.  
  

LUTE.  
   

PSALM 22.  
Our Saviour's complaint upon the Cross, thanks giving for deliverance, and propheci touching the great increase and perpetuiti of his Church, foretold by DAVID.  

MY God, my God: why dost thou me forsake?  
Why to my plaints thine ear a stranger make?  
By day I cry, but thou far off art gone:  
By night, dear Lord; but audience find I none.  
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YET Holi Lord, thou same dost still endure;  
Thine Israel's joy; their song of praises pure.  
Our Fathers, Lord, in thee did faithful trust;  
On thee they hopĕd: Thou to their hopes wert just.  
They cried; and tears did not shower down in vain:  
Their cries thou heard'st; and freedst them from their pain.   

BUTI, a worm; not man; but man's reproach:  
Where abjects vild their basest scorn broach.  
What ay me vieuth, same eye doth me deride:  
They wag proud heads; false lips they writhe aside;  
He trusts in God; Let God from heăven above  
Make good this trust, and now declare his love.   

TRVETH, Lord; my hope from mother's breast thou wast:  
Then hopes sure ground, thy gracious promise passed.  
From mother's womb I rest bequeathed to thee:  
Thence me receiv'dst; my Saviour (Lord) to be.  
  

THAN saving Lord, sith troŭble doth press so near,  
(Ah troŭble untryd,) and no where help appear:  
Be thou not far: See Lord, what bulls are met;  
Huge bulls of Basan round have me beset:  
With gaping jaws, much lion-like they play,  
Which ramps to seize, and roars to rend his prey.   

SEE, vital juice to watri stream distilled:  
My bones disjoint: my heart, with anguish filled,  
Like melting wax consumes: as fire-burnt clay  
My spir̆its being dried, life's vigours all decay.  
Yea withĕring tongue to parched chaps doth cleve:  
Thus me, my Lord, in dust of death dost leve.   

FOR dogs have me▪ besiegĕd: A savage rout  
Of vild malfactors; me envir̆on about.  
Hands, Feet, they've pierced: my bones may all be told:  
Which gazing ey●… from flinted hearts behold.  
My rob unripped amongst them they divide:  
And seamles cote by chancing lot decide.   

BUT thou, my Lord, in weakest state my strength,  
My hope in death; look down, release at length  
From heaven's award: my life from sword discharge;  
From powĕr of dog my desolate soul enlarge.  
From lion's mouth; from unĭcorns horns, with speed,  
Now hearĕst, o save, in soul's extremest need.   

THY glorious name I'll preach to brethren dear:  
And faithful Church, in midst, thy praise shall hear  
From thankful voice resound. Ye sons of grace,  
Who fear your Lord; and thou great Israĕls race,  
Louĕd jacobs' seed; your reuĕrend joys enhance:  
His praise through earth, his name to heauĕns advance.   

FOR not with scorning mind, or loathing eye,  
Th'afflicted wight he careless passed by:  
Ne helpful face from rueful sight did hide:  
But gracious ear to just complaint applied.  
Then vows I'll pay before them which thee fear:  
And sacred praise assembli great shall hear.   

THE spirits mild, whom dews celestial bless,  
Shall fruits of earth in plentĕous rest possess.  
Their gracious zeal God's glorious praise shall sing:  
Your ended life shall life unending bring.  
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YEA, natiŏns all which earths great globe do fill,  
Euĕn kindreds which her bounds extremest till,  
At length themselves remember shall, and mourn,  
Till whom they left, to him again they turn.  
To mightis king, whose word whole world doth wield,  
Thus worship due shall world united yield.   

FOR him all states shall serve: On earth's great store  
The rich shall feed, and heauĕns great Lord adore:  
And poorest wretch, who down in dust doth lie,  
To him shall bow; and dying, death defy;  
This course great ages run: Their poster̆ous race  
In world's clear vieu his service shall embrace:  
And so transmit, that children's children ay  
His justice learn, his sacred will obey.    

PSALM 25.  
DAVID (as it seemeth) upon his last farewell and flight from the Coort of Saul, understanding perhaps of the great levi of forces to pursue him; and entering in that distress of state, as well into a revieu of sins of his coortli life past, as into a forevieu of troubles which in this banishment he must endure: wholly casteth himself upon the merci and favour of God. Whom he prayeth for Protection from his wrongful enemies, for Remission of his sins, and for Direction in the best course of life. Withal he celebrateth God's graciousness toward his faithful servants; and concludeth with a petition in behalf also of the people.  

TO THEE his faithful soul thy servant, Lord, doth rear:  
My God, my trust: o deign her humblest suits to hear.  
And let not black disgrace my life's pure light obscure;  
And frustrate hope proud foes insulting joys allure.  
Let none who thee attend, abasing shame depress:  
Depress it those, thy law who causeless ah transgress.   

enlighten Lord my soul so with thy guiding grace,  
That I thy truth may find, and found may firm embrace,  
Revele thy paths divine: o thou my Saviŏur deer:  
To thee perennal hope, eternal love adhere.  
  

THOSE gracioŭs mercies, Lord, which from thy goodness spring▪  
And ay thy works o'erspread, to mindful presence bring.  
And from thy sight remove, the wildness of my youth,  
The sins age more mature with sad remorse presŭeth.  
O thou who goodness art! euĕn for that goodness sake,  
With merci me behold, so souls just grief asslake.   

MOST righteŏus gracious Lord! He sinners showeth his way;  
To humble minds, mild spir̆its, his justice will display.  
All truth, yea merci all, his paths to them remain,  
His witnessed will who seek, and couĕnant great maintain.  
Then for thy gracious name, propitiŏus me behold:  
My sin (ah Lord, how great?) in merci great upfold.   

THRICE happis man, whose heart Gods sacred fear endues:  
For him shall grace direct, to bliss right way to choose.  
And here his soul at ease midst blessings rich shall sit:  
And goods well got, secure, to children's seed transmit.  
These heauĕnli leaug partake: yea mysteries high, concealed  
From worldly wits, to them from heauĕn shall be revealed.   

O THAN my waiting eyes, on God still fixed be:  
For he from snaring net my feet will rightĕous free.  
Turn then at length thy face, in bliss who sit'st on high;  
Since poor abandoned wretch to onli thee doth fly.  
Ah Lord; as wave doth wave, so woe doth woe pursue:  
As day doth day, fresh griefs so griefs forepast renew.  
But thou, my straights, my pain, my labours, Lord, respect:  
And on my sins, their cause, ah merci, Lord, reflect.   

BEHOLD my raging foes; how thick their musters grow,  
Whose poisĕned galls, uncausd, with bittĕrest hate oreflowe.  
But thou, Preserver great, my soul from force unjust,  
My face from shame protect: who liuĕst my only trust!  
My only trust, and hope! on safeguard none I build,  
Save what mine upright cause, and goodness thine shall yield.  
These than my gardiăns stand. And thou, benign, with me,  
Thine Israĕl deer, great Lord, from pressures all enfree.    

PSALM 32.  
DAVID here, out of the sense of his own experience, teacheth that he is happis, to whom God in merci imputeth not his sins: which merci is obtained, by seazonable confessing them; must be continued, by thankfully reforming our lives; which shall be accompanied with true joy of spirit.  

THE blessed man; whom spring of boundless grace  
With mercies ey a Father-iudge doth vieu;  
Whose crimes and guilt with pardon free efface;  
Foul stains orehele; so pristin shape renew.  
Yea thrice he blest; whom, who Creator kind  
All perfect framĕd, declined doth not forsake:  
Doth not his sins impute; and darkened mind,  
Dischargĕd of guile, to justice doth awake.   

I WHILST my sin in silent breast concealed,  
Benumbed, ashamed; at length with sickness scurgĕd,  
My bones consumed; and roars sharp grief revealed,  
Which tiring pain, my strength now tired, urgĕd.  
Thy grievous hand still presd me day and night;  
Nor Sun could cheer, nor darkness rest prezent:  
On faded face deaths name seemed paleness write;  
So native juice unnative heat had spent.   

ADVISED, I then to thee my sins confesd,  
In vain concealed; bade idle vail adieu:  
I said, Be now to God my faults expressed;  
Who guilt from soul, straight plague from corpse withdrew.   

OGRACIOUS Lord, therefore our hopes abound:  
And godly men, excited by these fruits,  
In time accepted, when thou mayst be found,  
With faithful hearts shall bring their needful suits.  
And thou benign, from world's tempestŭous seas  
Will't them remove: and me, (my hiding place,)  
Preseruĕd from wrack, dischargĕd of straight unease,  
Withioious cries of freedom round embrace.   

THAN I, who e'er God's service dost profess,  
Will make thee sciĕnt, what paths thou must ascend;  
What dounfals shun; how errors to redress:  
And guiding eye thy carriage shall attend.   

BUT men by kind, transform not into guise  
Of sturdi horse, or more unthankful mule;  
Whose brutish breasts no mutŭal duties prise;  
Sole sharpest bits their mouths from mischief rule.   

THE wicked heart, whole swarms of woes shall seize;  
Of help without, within of rest depriuĕd;  
While faithful soul, who gracious Lord shall please,  
With mercy's fencĕd, with joys shall be reviuĕd.   

THAN rightĕous minds, divorce your careful fear;  
God's word who trust, shout out with sounds of joy;  
His ways who walk, your hopeful heads uprear:  
Your light appears, sad darkness to destroy.    

PSALM 34.  
The Prophet DAVID, to escape the cruel hands of King Saul, being forced to fly to a neighbour King of the Philistims; where the qualiti and worth of his person being to his great danger discovered, he counterfeited himself distract; and so was driven from thence, and closely returned to the confines of his countri; whether his friends and other distressed persons assembled to him: here he yieldeth to God solemn thanks for this strange deliveris; encouraging withal and instructing his associates to serve God; who never faileth to protect his Righteous servants from mischief, neither yet to destroy their persecutors. By the way is interlaced a proph●…ci of the not breaking of any one Bone of our saviours: who was the veri pattern and perfection of Righteousness.  

THE Lord forever with humblest joy my thankfulst thoughts shall bless;  
In him my soul triumph; my mouth his glorious praise express.  
Let mild & righteŏus minds, earth's Saints, with gladness hear this praise:  
Yea all unite, hearts, spir̆its, and sounds, to heăvens his name to raze.   

When chasĕd from home, in stranger's land, midst heathen crew, I mourned,  
And sought my God; my sighs he heard, and safely me returned.  
That me his Saint's example great shall cheerful ay recite;  
This poor man cried, the Lord him heard, and freed from hostile spite.   

O THOUGHT-surmounting grace! to earth from heăvenli host descends  
God's Angel great, and servant's his as rampire round defends.  
Then taste, and see, how good the Lord; how sweet his merci flows;  
How blest the man who trusts in him, on him vowed love bestows.  
And ye, Gods Saints, his fear maintain: when liŏns through hunger waste;  
Yet scarceness none, of no thing good sour want, his servants taste.   

O COM dear children; listen well, while Gods true fear I teach;  
How life to win; how length of days in happiĕst state to reach.  
Thy tongue from venŏmed words refrain; thy lips let shun deceit:  
Decline from euĭl; do good: seek peace; this this be thy retreat.   

The eyes of God with pleazing vieu the rightĕous race behold;  
Their suits his gracious ears attend; full deer their lives are sold:  
But countĕnance stern the mightis Lord 'gainst proud malfactors bends;  
And cursed names, corrupted seed, from earth's fair bosom rends.   

TRUE servants plaints ●…ust Lord doth hear; their tears and fears dicharge;  
Their contrite hearts, enanguisht spi●…its, from pressures straight enlarge.  
Afflictions great, it's true, full oft most righteŏus Man endures:  
God rids them all: and in their midst his bones from brack assures.   

No bone of His shall broken be. But those who hate the just,  
Shall perish all: the wicked hearts own malice grynds to dust.  
Their own desires them plague. But God shall rightĕous souls redeem;  
And none shall quail, to him that trust, who him their life esteem.    

PSALM 36.  
DAVID here entitled the servant of God, having described first the reprobate sense of the wicked; breaketh out into admiration of the divine infiniteness in all perfections; in the participation and fruition of which consisteth the final beatitude of God's true Servants; when the rebellious shall lie under everlasting destruction.  

THE bestiăl mind, forsaking God, resolved to joy in sin;  
To shun remorse, first natures light t'extinguish doth begin:  
Then cheers himself in blindest ways; no vild desire refrains;  
Till, in my heart, no dread of God before his eyes remains.  
At length even gloriĕth in his shame: and ioith (ah wretched state!)  
Inventing ill; which well advised his trembling soul would hate.   

DEFYLD, distuned soul! His lips, which ought Gods praises sound,  
And world with truth assist; in lewd, and lying words abound.  
His mind, of understanding pure, good thoughts, itself deprives,  
And nought but mischief, fraud, and wrong, on silent bed contrives.  
In sum, estrangĕd from goodness all, enthralled to ill; he bends  
His steps towărd death: where vengeance due rebelliŏus souls attends.   

O LORD, what height, what depth, what breadth, thy greatness may profess?  
What heart can goodness thine conceive? what tongue thy praise express?  
Thy bounteŏus grace from heauĕns to earth thy creatures all comprends:  
Thy justice mountains huge surmounts: thy truth yond clouds extends:  
A deep abyss thy judgements rest: O thou dost all protect;  
Thou man dost save; ne simplest beast in needful things neglect.   

BUT o, how precious towărd mankind thy mercy's Lord redound?  
Whence servants thine thy shadŏing wings their sure retreat have found.  
And when at last, through ended toils, they at thine House arrive;  
There pleasantst food, there sweetest streams, ay pure delights revive.  
For thou, o fountain great of life, their life dost still refresh:  
And beams from thee derived, their eyes with sight al-gloriŏus bless.   

THAN Lord, hold on thy kindness deer, towărd those that know thy name:  
And justice thine array the souls, whom sacred loves inflame.  
And let not proud oppressing foot my gracious ways deface:  
Nor sinning hand misdraw my soul thoughts sinful to embrace.  
Lo, sinners proud, defecting souls, thrown down in dreadful guise,  
In dead destruction ay involved, to life shall never rise.    

PSALM. 37.  
King DAVID, now full of years and experience, removeth here those great and difficult scandals of wicked men's prosperiti, and good men's afflictions. He showeth that the godly, who delight in the law of God, and exercise themselves in heavenli wisdom; live always in the favour of God, and under divine protection: that God maketh them partakers even of the temporal blessings of this life; though not always in the largest, yet in a sufficient and conten●…ful proportion, and such as is for their greatest good: which blessings are to them also more constant and permanent: and that God's holy hand, both delivereth them from the malignant practices of the wicked; and preserveth them in times of public plagues and calamities; furnishing them with abiliti to be helpful also to others: yea, that though they fall, he raizeth them up again; and what troubles soever they pass through in this life, that their end yet is assured peace. Wherein they have also this pleazing comfort, that God will continue his blessings even to their seed and posteriti. Contrarily he intermixeth a discoveris of the truly calamitous state of the wicked: who being the enemies of God, and deprived of his protection; though they flourish for a while, ye●… have no stabiliti, but are suddenly cut off: yea in the midst of their wealth and pomp, they are not only uncontent and restless, but endure also much want through inordinate desires and misgovernment: As for their attempts against the good, they return upon themselves, beaten back upon them to their own confusion: And lastly, their end is assured destruction, involving with it often the ruin of their unblessed posteriti. Upon these grounds and reasons, he exhorteth the good, not to fret at the wickeds so false and fading prosperiti: but to be careful to avoid sin; to delight in God; and to employ themselves wholly in doing that which is good. So trusting in God, and waiting patiently upon him, committing also their ways unto him; they shall be both safe under his protection, and happis by his blessing.  

LET not unpleazing vieu of bad men's flowering state,  
Through indignation sour, thy joyous thoughts abate.  
For down, like withering grass, they quickly shall be mown:  
As bloom of tenderest herb, their flower away be blown.   

BUT thou God's servant true, on him thy Lord rely;  
In him delight: and thoughts to rightĕous works apply.  
Inhabit then the land: thou by thy land shalt live:  
Yea God thy godly heart his full desires shall give.   

IF troubles thee assail; to God thy ways commit;  
And trust to him; who them to happiĕst end shall fit.  
No shame shall thee attaint: thy justness, fair as light;  
And clear as shining noon, he shall produce thy right.   

THAN rest on God: his will with patiented hope attend.  
And let not worthless man, who brings lewd thoughts to end,  
And prospers in his course, thy discontent imbreed.  
Eat wrath, fierce choler rain: great sins from rage proceed.  
For proud misdoŏer shall rot: while root they lasting take  
Who humbly wait on God; his law their mirror make.   

BUT yet a while; and lo, the wicked shall not be:  
His stateli seat, no place for him or his shall see.  
When as the mild with joy shall pleasant land possess:  
Where length of plentĕous peace shall thankful joy rebless.  
  

It's true, the rightĕous man, whose life ill lives reproves;  
His sight alone ill minds to deep distemper moves.  
That him as public foe, the godless crews beset:  
And practise vild apply, to wrap in snaring net:  
Yea teeth through felnes gnash. But God shall them deride:  
Who seethe their day approach, black night to all their pride.  
Let swords be drawn, bend bows, the poor and just to kill:  
Bend bows shall break; drawn swords the drawĕrs best blood shall spill.   

AND though some just be poor, th'unjust with plenti swell:  
Yet in that one poor house more true content doth dwell,  
Then all their pomps can yield. For God shall him maintain:  
When pride and powĕr unjust with shiuĕred arms remain.  
  

OUR gracious Lord fit times for all his servants knows:  
And now he more, now less, but still their best bestows.  
Continŭance is their bliss: In perilous time, from wrack;  
In plague, them shields from death; in famine bare, from lack.  
Whilĕ even as tenderest fa●… mere force of smoke consumes:  
So impious wretch, God's foe, soon spent to vapour fumes.   

FOR though th'unjust, by fraud, by force, have much purloined;  
Yet nothing thrives: (lewd gain, hath vain expense adjoined:)  
That still a borroĕr bare, on neighbour's goods he feeds;  
And none repays. The just, still rich in vertuŏus deeds,  
From less, but better store, with pitying helpful hand,  
His wanting neighbour frames God's goodness t'understand.  
For where God's blessing rests, possessions long shall last:  
As curse divine, at once, bud, branch, and root, doth waste.   

WHERE God man's way doth please, man's steps he stable makes:  
Yea fallĕn, with succŏring hand from ground unbruzed takes.  
I have been young, am old; yet never knew the just  
Forsaken quite; ne'er saw his seed in loathed dust  
Sat craving food: but still his courteŏus nature lends;  
And God his blessing deer to children all extends.   

THAN thus thy thoughts conclude: thine heart see first be pure;  
Fly sin; good deeds apply: so so dwell ay secure.  
For righteŏus Lord loves right: he free from wauĕring change,  
From Saints belouĕd doth ne'er his eyes serene estrange.  
But safe through his defence; while impious houses fall;  
They ancient land possess, there dwell for ever shall.   

THE righteŏus man, whose mind, called up from earthli thought,  
Erect on high, with love of heavenli law is fraught;  
From heart's abundance speaks: His mouth with wisdom floweth;  
In talk of judgement grave glad time his tongue bestoweth.  
He neuĕr shall slip. For though th'unjust maligner watch  
Both words and ways, his life in deadli snare to catch:  
Yet shall not rightĕous Lord him leve in wicked hand;  
Ne when his judgement comes, condemned let him stand.   

SO thou, o vertuŏus soul, thy patiented mind retain;  
And heauĕnli ways insist: in heauĕn thy hopes remain.  
Thy God shall thee exalt: the land shall rest thine own;  
When undermining wretch thine eye shall see o'erthrown.   

THESE eyes of mine have seen, th'unjust, like self-sprung tree;  
With arms all gay disspred, in floŭrishing beauti glee.  
But see the end: he past; and lo, away was gone:  
The vanished man I sought; but news returned none.  
Now view the upright man, observe his sweet increase:  
His small in more, his war still ends in endless peace.  
Not so defectours proud; who marks of heauĕnli ire,  
At once destroyed, shall neuĕr to end dezirĕd aspire.   

BUT from the righteŏus Lord still saving grace descends,  
Which servants his from wrack in needful hours defends.  
For God shall them protect, protect from hate unjust;  
He save them, since in him they chooze to place their trust.  
   

PSALM 40.  
The Prophet DAVID, an ancestor and Type of Christ, in his thankful meditations of Gods former merci toward him; passeth from thence into a profound admiration of the divine grace; whereby the imperfection of the legal sacrifices being abolished, Christ their perfection was to succeed, a true accomplisher and teacher of righteousness. So returneth to crave the continuance of God's merci in his present miseri: drawn on or renewed by means of saul's persecution, (as it seemeth,) not yet determined.  

LONG patiented hope God's pleasure did attend:  
At length he ear to grieuŏus cry did bend;  
And wretch forlorn, who help now no where knew,  
From miri clay of yelling hole updrew.  
  

UPDRAWN, my feet on stateli rock he placĕd;  
My steps made firm: so now with nue song gracĕd,  
Praise, praise t'our God my thankful glori sounds;  
Which echŏing voice with thundering joy rebounds.  
For thousands, who revieu my late distress,  
Which reuĕrent trust, towărd God cheered hearts address.   

THAN blessed he, the Lord who makes his trust:  
Nor glorious pride, (whom self-love's charming lust  
Misdraws from God,) which fawning eye respects;  
Nor thoughts on liĕrs fond failing hopes reflects.  
  

O LORD, my God; thy gracious thoughts towărd man,  
Are wondrous deep: I would, but no way can,  
Or thankful them to thee in ray prezent,  
Or count to men their store and vast extent.  
  

WISDOMS abyss! thine own ordained rites,  
Now sacrifice, now offering, no delights  
To thee can yield: mine ears hath nüer law  
So piercĕd that thoughts towărd nobler object draw.  
Not sinless beast, nor mene-esteemed life  
In flames consumed, may ere compose the strife  
Wherein man's sin justice divine persuĕth;  
Not so thy grace, not so man's bliss renuĕth.   

WEAK shades give place. Then said I, Lo I come:  
Here Lord: On me thy blessed will be done;  
Sith sacred roll of everlasting book,  
For me hath taught world's waiting eyes to look.  
  

THY blessed will, sole scope of prudent thought,  
Just actions rule, my pleazing cares have sought  
To know, and do: thy law in faithful heart  
Entresŭred liĕth; thence never shall departed.  
  

NOT silent lips, nor yet unthankful breast,  
Thy goodness, Lord, thou knowĕst, have e'er suppressed.  
Thy truth, my talk; thy saving grace, my song:  
Thy bounties rich, my not concealing tongue  
Hath loud proclaimed: thy justice, mercy's deer,  
Assemblies great from faithful teacher hear.   

THAN, Lord, o then thy kindness not withhold:  
(Thy truth my stay:) in merci still enfold  
Distressed soul; whose eyes lift up on high,  
thou, only thee their comfort can descry.  
Thrung numberless of euĭls me wretch embrace:  
My sins and pains so grasp my frighted face;  
That failing heart their vieu can not endure:  
Who thick as hair, ten thousand griefs procure.   

PLEASE Lord at length my thralled life to free:  
Relieve the soul, who secure sole from thee  
Awaits: make speed: And blushing shame confound  
All those, whose hate me seeks with mortal wound  
On earth to lay: yea, put to shameful flight,  
Them in my ill who place their dear delight;  
Who laugh my tears, take pleasure in my pain.  
Ah, dire decay their shames reward remain.   

BUT comfort sweet, and sacred joy refill  
Them all, whose minds, conformed to heăvenli will,  
Thy mercies seek, salvation thine dezire:  
High spir̆it them ay t'extol thy name inspire.   

NOW I a poor, throwne-doun, afflicted wight;  
Yet hope on God, protector of my right:  
And know on me my Lord will one day think.  
Ah, cease delay; lest heart in sorroes sink.    

PSALM 42.  
The Psalmist (it seemeth David under saul's persecution) bewaileth with much passion his constrained absence from God's presence in his Ark and Tabernacle: and after a sharp combat of soul with many dejecting afflictions, in fine getteth above them by the strength of his faith and hope in God.  

AS chased Hart, with drought enraged first,  
Then ioid with hope, towărd watri streams doth bray:  
So Lord, my soul, my panting soul doth thirst,  
At life's high spring her restless love to stay.   

AH life of life's! when shall that joying sight  
Of presence thine rejoice my joyless eye?  
Whom now salt tears are food to day and night,  
" While chase foes, Where's now thy God? still cry.   

SWEET-sour revieu my heart through eyes distills,  
How erst high joys midst marching troop I broached:  
And sacred House, whom beauteŏus presence fils,  
With songs and praise in festiuĕst guise approached.   

WHY then, o why, my sad dejected mind,  
Should troubled thought thee restless now torment?  
Ah thankful wait: still gracious Lord shalt find,  
In bands of woes release who altimes sent.   

YET Lord my soul behold still dampt with grief:  
While Iordans reeds, while Hermons rocs she haunts;  
While juri mounts afford their poor relief:  
Remembrance thine where melting heart redants.   

SEE gulf of woes, nue gulf still duly calls:  
Thy thunders roar; thy fires come streaming down:  
And raging storm, from cloudi spouts which falls  
With shouring floods my pining soul doth droun.   

YET gracious Lord still succŏring hand doth reach.  
His face serene returned joy shall bring:  
And gladsome day shall thankful euĕning teach,  
With praiseful hymn th'alglorious name to sing.   

MENE while to God thy chased life betake;  
And doleful tune exiled wretch renew:  
My God, my strength; why dost thou me forsake?  
Why morning soul doth murderous foe pursue?   

O THOU who sole sustein'st my wear̆ied life,  
My wear̆ied life, whom powĕr of right bereves;  
Yet judge that cry, 'mongst braiding foes so rife,  
" Where's now thy God? My bones it swoord-like cleves.   

BUT why, o why, my sad dejected mind,  
Should troubled thought thee restless still torment?  
Come grateful hope. My gracious God, I find  
In throng of woes still swift relief hath sent.   

TRIPLE.  
A  
S cha- said Hart, with drought enra- ged  
first, Then ioid with hope towărd wa-tri stream doth bray: So Lord my  
soul, my panting soul doth thirst: At life's high spring her  
restless love to stay. Ah life of lives, when shall that ioy-ing  
sight of presence thine, re- juice my joy- les ey? Whom  
now salted tears are food to day and night, While cha- sing  
foes, where's now thy God? still cry.   

BASE.  
  

MEAN.  
  

COUNTERTENOR.  
  

TENOR.  
  

LUTE.  
   

PSALM 44.  
The faithful people of Israĕl, vanquished now and dispersed by their heathen enemies, (it seems the Philistims,) in their thraldom also persecuted and martyred for God's true religion; in complaining sort prezent to the high throne of grace their present condition, being oppressed by the enemies of God, and yet persisting in Gods true worship; and with great vehemenci implore his favour and succour, who to their Ancestors had showed himself so miraculously benign and helpful.  

OUR pleazed ears, renowned Lord, have heard  
The joyous tongues of reverend elders tell;  
What acts of thine their state of old had reared;  
Did cursed seed from chosen soil expel.  
Thy powerful hand, them reached up, ours did plant:  
Made them nor woe, nor blessing ours to want.   

NOT mortal arm, extermind Giants race;  
Nor sword terrene, dezired land possesd.  
Thy arm divine, thy right hand, lightsome face,  
In favour deer, from heauĕn their armies blessed.  
Thou self same God, my King dost still remain:  
Command great King thy jacobs' strength again.   

SOLE thou command; revived strength our foes  
With horn should push, with feet shall trample down.  
Not sword, not bow; hopes failing: thou disclose  
That aid, which foes in hates own shame did droun.  
Thy lovely name much joy did then confess:  
Much joy same name in praise shall ay express.   

THUS once we liuĕd: but now in life we die;  
Cast off, debasĕd; no more our army's head:  
Hearts grief to speak; vile foes us force to fly;  
And preying troops in dust our glories tread.  
Thus scattĕred lo midst heathen lands we live:  
Where food to foes flock loved once dost give.   

AH once beloved! now sold, and not for gain.  
Thy wealth had yet our thralled lives increased,  
Less grief had been: but scorn we now remain  
To neighbours round; whose hate our shames appeased.  
Derided heard haste made a proverb grow;  
Which scoffing Hethĕn with wagging heads outcrowe.   

WEAK comforts fade: strong woes still fresh renew.  
My grief within, without my shame torments.  
Confusions, ah, confusions round accrue:  
And soul disgrace still loathed face prezents.  
Reproaching voice, blasphemous mouth, and ire  
Of hostile eyes, dire anguish still enfire.   

ALL this on us is come: yet have not we  
Forgot thee Lord, or false thy leaug prophanĕd.  
Nor hearts repining writhe their loves from thee:  
Nor feet decline from sacred ways ashamĕd.  
Yea though us ruĭnd in Dragon's wastes dost place:  
And shade of death make weari lives embrace.   

IF blessed name, unbleft we have forgot;  
Disloial hands if stretched, in stranger's guise,  
To Gods, no Gods: and should our Lord it not  
Search out, whose eye heart's secretest thoughts espys?  
Ah love of thee lo tyrant's hate procures:  
For thee we die; as knife fat sheep endures.   

AH daily slain! At length yet look; arise;  
Why sleeps our Lord? awake; and not bereve  
Thine of thy face; nor pressures their despize,  
Whose souls to dust, dead breasts to ground do cleve.  
Stand up, great Lord; and for thy mercy's sake,  
Oh servants thine to thy redemption take.    

PSALM 45.  
A song of honour to the spiritual Marriage of Christ with his Church, for●…described under the shadow of the marriage (as it seemeth) of King Solomon with the Daughter of Pharaoh: yet so, that some circumstances are verified only in the figure, and some other things only in the divine mystery figured.  

A NOBLE act, of King's dezirĕd;  
Makes gladsome heart, with high conceits inspirĕd,  
Boil o'er; and tongue stream lovely sound;  
Which echŏing pen through world shall ay rebound.  
Of peerless King my song I frame.  
And to that King, give, consecrate, the same.   

NOT mortal beauti decks thy face;  
Ne human sounds those princeli lips engrace:  
That hieu divine, those heauĕnli words,  
Nor race of man, nor bliss of earth affords.  
Sure heauĕns, fair wight, thee God hath blest:  
So blest, in bliss eternal shalt thou rest.   

THAN on; but first gird sword to thigh,  
Thou pŭisant Prince; advance with glori high;  
Ride stately forth, in comli sight:  
Still prosper, still prevail, brave Lord, in fight.  
So word of truth through world disspred;  
Give laws; fierce minds in love to justice wed:  
With justice mildness still reside;  
And striking arm, let heart of merci guide.   

BUT foes, whom goodness none can win,  
Shall lightning hand with terrors dire begin  
To fright; then shafts, as thundered darts,  
Sharp shafts shall pierce their blunt venison hearts.  
Thus to our King shall Nations bend:  
And arm victorious wide his rule extend.   

THY throne, o God, forever endures:  
Thy sceptre, right through all thy state procures:  
Thou justice louĕst; hatĕst lawless ways:  
Therefore doth God, thy God, thy glori raze  
Yond all thy troop; whose faithful love,  
Thee serves, by thee partakes same grace above.   

BUT thou 'bove all, with sacred oil,  
With oils of joy, (that earth's unpleazing toil  
Allay,) imbuĕd; drawst odour sweet:  
Mirabel, alöĕ, cassia, in thy garments meet.  
Thus dost from ivor̆ie rooms proceed;  
Whose pleasures deer still joying thoughts refeed.   

STRAIT bevi fair prezents sweet vieu;  
Kings daughters chief, and lead the noble crew:  
'Bove all the Queen; whom lovely bride  
Thou joyous setst on right hand by thy side.  
With gold her breasts, with gold her head  
Embellished, best rich Ophir which had bred.   

FAIR daughter, now a while attend  
To sage advice; thou happis ear shalt lend:  
Thy countries rites, thy people's guise,  
Yea father's house forget: fix sole thine eyes  
On him, who then that beautĕous sight  
Shall dearly love, possess with pure delight.  
He now thy Lord: with pleazing grace  
Bow, fair, to him: so love sweet love embrace.   

LO neighbour tire, great Queen of seas,  
With curious gift ay finest strives to please:  
With homebred purple, far-fet gold,  
Will studious seek thy fauŏring grace to hold.  
Yea nobles rich, with prezents great,  
Shall pleased aspect of countĕnance thine entreat.   

NOW view this Princess, branch of Kings:  
See noble birth what genĕrose presence brings:  
All gorgeŏus, all with grace performed;  
While wealth hath art, and art hath wealth adorned.  
Yet beautĕous robes fair face exceeds:  
But fairest mind within chief glori breeds.   

THUS happis King, thy spouse to thee,  
Dezired spouse is led: and Virgin she,  
With virgin troop, her sociates dear,  
Attended, all to pleazed eyes appear.  
With signs, with sounds of joy they come;  
Where royal palace yields them grateful room.   

AND thou, great King, in father's place  
Shalt children raze, endŭed with father's grace:  
Whom zealous justice to maintain,  
Shalt Princes high through all thy Lands ordain.   

AND I thy name shall make renowned,  
While heauĕn leads time, where euĕr fair earth her ground  
Extends; yea whilĕst both worlds endure,  
My verse thy praise from peoples shall allure.    

PSALM 49.  
The Psalmist taking vieu of his old age and death approaching; entereth into consideration of the vaniti of worldli minds, who plot for a perpetuiti of greatness here, where death and time devour and consume all things: and contrariwise comforteth himself by faith in God; who in the morning of the renüed world, wherein righteous men shall bear dominion, shall redeem him from the power of the grave and death; and translate him to his own everlasting habitation: when as worldly men shall be removed from their graves to hell, to be consumed, as beasts, with death everlasting.  

YE sons of men, where-euĕr o'er earth's great globe dispersed;  
Both ye of noble race, and ye, whom fathers unrehearst  
In menenes have obscurĕd; ye rich, and poor, attend:  
My mouth shall wisdom stream; which heart from musings deep doth send.  
My thoughts on sentence grave, on parable profound  
Defixt, at length my matter dark to harp shall clearly sound.   

WHY should unpleazing fears my sadded mind torment,  
When evil days approach, sweet years of pleasure when are spent;  
When sin with death at heels my wasting life pursues?  
See mightis man, whose eye his wealth with gloryĭng trust revieus:  
No one ere brother deer from thralling death redeems;  
Can God the ransom pay: who price too high of souls esteems  
For mortal powĕr to reach: that cease may vain attempt,  
Man's life in line still on to draw, from jaws of grave exempt.   

HE seethe great sages die; even so the brutish fool:  
And leave their wealth th'untimely thirst of thankless heirs to cool.  
In inward thoughts than count, their houses yet secure;  
Their stateli seats shall undevourd through ages all endure;  
And lands shall bear their names. But man in honour placĕd,  
Like beasts falls down; his house, his seat, his name, from earth effacĕd.   

LO ways of fool-wise men: which yet their worldly race,  
As projects high of wisdom deep with much applause embrace.  
But they in grave do lie, like sheep in narrŏed holds:  
Where death, as wolf, devoured flesh in gnawing paunch enfolds.  
There dead, they die. And when world's morning fair renews,  
Their yelling cries shall judging Saints with lordli doom refuse.  
From grave then hell shall seize, and seized their shapes consume.  
When God, my soul, me, shall from both to him redeemed resume.   

THAN fear not, grieve not thou, when godless person thrives;  
His house when gloriŏus mounts. For not when death of life deprives,  
He all shall hence transport; ne glori train to grave:  
Though foolish mouth oft cursed soul in life fair blessings gave:  
And though men praise thy mind still folŏing world's delight.  
He hence to father's race shall pack, ay shut from heauĕnli light  
O man, great work of price! of wisdom if bereft,  
If beastlike lives, like beast he dies, in dark destruction left.    

PSALM 50.  
This Psalm, being made by ASAPH, that Master of Music, (who was also a Composer of sacred hymns, and a Prophet;) introduceth God revealing himself to the world, by his Creatures, by his Oracles, and by his judgements. Then falling to debate matters with his chosen people, God showeth that it is not their sacrifices wherein he taketh pleasure; being a service to him, neither proper of itself, and which in fine should cease: but in the spiritual sacrifices of praise, thankful vows, and invocation. And he reproveth those hypocrites, that durst talk of the word of God, denying him and it in their lives and manners: whose end, unless they repent, should be helpless destruction.  

THE mightis God, our Lord, from heauĕns first glorious voice hath sent,  
To call earth's whole from rising sun to sun declined extent.  
And then from Siŏn, (a complete world of beauties all refined,)  
By oracle, by sacred word, more clear to his hath shined.  
To judgement rests our God proceed. In judgements he doth come,  
To teach, reprove; afflict, raze up: then then comĕth final doom.  
Before the judge a purging fire corruption shall devour:  
And hidĕous tempest round about from gloomis clouds shall shower.   

BUT now with his peculiar folk to sweet debate he falls:  
And heauĕns fair eyes, and earth's rich womb, as conscious witness calls.  
" Assemble me my chosen race, takĕn up from world forlorn:  
" Who law; who sacred leaug with me through sacrifice have sworn.  
(O righteous judge! thy justice bright the heauĕns great host proclaims:  
Thou fountain whence all justice flows, thyself more just remains.)   

" HEAR, o my people; I will speak: thou Isrăel; for with thee  
I will contest: Thou knowĕst me God, yea thy true God to be.  
That sacrifices rare to me thy scanti hands have brought,  
And sacred fire on altar oft in vain burnt-hosts hath sought;  
Nor charge I thee: nor bull from stall, or goats from fold, will take.  
Who world of wealth enjoys, thinkest he penurious stores should rake?   

NOT so: for midst the spacious woods what beast untamed doth breed,  
What cattle spersed through thousand mounts on budding shrubs do feed,  
What bird the hills, what savage fierce the desert plains doth ply;  
Are all mine own; and in my vieu; at will, serve; live, and die.  
If hunger frail (unwoorthi thought) could me assail, would I  
Who world and world's rich store possess, to thee forfood apply?  
Or when thy sacrifice thou kill'st, canst thou so fond think,  
Base flesh of bulls that I should eat, or goats foul blood should drink?   

NAY: if thine humble thankful heart with sacrifice dezire  
The powĕr divine to please, and give what God doth most require:  
Pure sacrifice of praises bring; the sacred tribute due  
From creature blest to King of bliss: and of thy vows be true.  
Then in thy troubled state, toward heauĕn thy soul perplexed raze:  
Crave help of me: thy suit I'll hear: thou me eftsoon shalt praise.   

BUT unto th'impious, thus saith God: How darest thou, wretch, presume  
To teach my Law; my gracious leaug in graceless lips t'assume?  
Thy life for thereunto to frame, through hate thou stand'st aghast:  
And word divine, thy speech promotes, thy facts behind thee cast.  
A thief thy greedi eye hath seen; thy hand with him conspires:  
Adulterous crew; with them lewd heart combines in foul desires.  
Malicious mouth addict'st to rail: sly tongue to forge deceit:  
And envious lips own mother's son to closely slander wait.   

THUS slave to passions vild thou liuĕst: and I have silent been:  
Whence, yet more impious, like thyself euĕn me thou didst esteem.  
But I, not like to thee, at length thy just reproof have sent:  
And ougli sins to fearful eyes will all array prezent.  
Consider this, o ye who God, and Gods pure law neglect:  
Lest unrepenting hearts I rend; when none can them protect.  
Who incense sweet of thankful praise sends up, me right adores:  
And rightĕous life who leads, from fall to bliss my grace restores.    

PSALM 51.  
King DAVID, reproved from God by the Prophet Nathan for his grievous sin with Bathsheba, leaveth in this Psalm an excellent pattern of an heart truly repentant; returning to the service of God, and care of his people.  

MY sinful soul, arraigned of twofold gilt;  
Of Spouse-bed wronged, of blood ah foully spilled;  
With saddest grief in tears imbrynd reputes:  
And wailed crimes at mercies feet prezents.  
O source of grace, whence seas of mercies flow,  
Release my gilt; and love returning show.   

MY gilt released, then clenze my soul from stain;  
From stain, which sin behind still makes remain,  
And nue sin breeds. But since my pensive sight,  
Sin, gilded, and slain, still wound, by day, by night;  
With sour remorse since them I, Lord, deplore;  
Ah cure them, Lord, and rightĕous grace restore.   

NO mortal law doth me transgressor make:  
Thy law divine, whose justice heăvens doth shake;  
thou supreme judge, sole thee, my sin offends;  
Whose piercing vieu to secretest thoughts extends▪  
Ah euĭl I, Lord, in thy pure eyes have done:  
So just reproof, so judgement right is come.   

WHAT shall I plead, of sin defiled mass;  
From sin who come, through sin to death must pass?  
From mould deformed lo form I first received:  
And mother frail in sin warm life conceived.  
But thou in souls thine own true form dezirĕst:  
And wisdom deep it to restore inspirĕst.   

AND thus I stood: but now o'erthrown by sin,  
Deformed, defyld; ah Lord, let grace begin  
Recure to work: with spring, with hyssop thine;  
So scour this soul, more white than snow to shin:  
And comfort, Lord; o joy now make me hear:  
That bruz̆ed bones returning strength may cheer.   

REMOVE my sins from thy offended eye:  
And cancel all my faults. Hear once my cry:  
Clean heart crëate; right spir̆it in me renew:  
Then wauĕring mind with heăvenlis stay endue.  
Ah cast not off grieved breaker of thy law:  
Nor HOLI SPIRĭT souls souĕrain life withdraw.  
Restore the joy of thy sweet saving grace:  
And sins bond power with thy free spir̆it displace.   

THAN erring souls my thankful zeal shall burn  
Thy ways to teach: who glad to thee shall turn.  
And then my song, (but blood keep, Lord, away,  
My saving Lord,) thy justice shall display.  
Sole thou my lips once open, Lord, again:  
And joyful mouth shall sacred praise proclaim.   

IF sacrifice thy powĕr divine might please,  
If offerings burned thy burning wrath appease;  
What would I spare? but nought in heăven obtains  
Beast's life, in man while beastlike mind remains.  
Mans own grieved spir̆it, is God's best sacrifice:  
His sighs, his tears, dost ne'er, just Lord, despize.   

THAN o return: o bless still Zion deer:  
jerusalems' still lingering walls uprear.  
With cleared hearts than we, in legal rites,  
Just sacrifice, wherein great God delights,  
Shall bring: young bulls at altars side shall bleed:  
And offerings burned th'undying flames refeed.    

PSALM 67.  
A prayer of the Church unto God, to be gracious unto mankind, and to enlarge his blessed Kingdom over all the world; whence happiness both earthli and celestial shall ensue: as hath been fulfilled by the coming of Christ.  

BE gracious Lord: Let clearly shine  
The beauties of thy blissful face:  
That earth may see thy ways divine,  
And nations all thy saving grace.  
Let people bless thy sacred name:  
Let people all renown the same.   

ALL woe exiled, let joy return:  
For thou who right dost still protect,  
Shalt judge them who for justice moorn;  
And erring nations here direct.  
Let people praise thy glorious name:  
Let people all adore the same.   

THAN shall the earth, as filled with love,  
Her gifts in great abundance pour:  
And God, our God, from heauĕn above  
His choicest blessings richly shower.  
God shall us bless: and utmost lands  
Shall all submit them to his hands.    

PSALM 68  
King DAVID, having assembled the flower of all Israel to conduct the Ark of God with solemniti to mount Zion, the chosen place of rest; (which was the occasion, and is the argument of this Psalm;) beginneth his march with those sacred words, uzed by Moses always at the removing of the Ark in the wilderness. Then with great exultation, celebrateth both the Maiesti, and the Goodness of God, as toward mankind in general, so especially toward his peculiarly elected race, drawn from servitude, and placed in great prosperiti. Afterward prosecuting the occasion, he setteth forth the great honour of Zion, thus chosen to be the onli seat of God's aspectable presence amongst his people: And upon the consideration of this triumphant ascending of God's Ark, being his Sanctuari upon earth; he breaketh out into a prophetical description of the Ascension of our Saviour, the Lord of that Ark, into the celestial Sanctuari, whereof that terrestrial was a shadow and figure; from thence to pour blessings of deliveris from death and of salvation upon mankind, to subdue all his enemies, and once again to reduce that selected people from dispersion and miseri. Lastly (touching by the way the manner of the marching of the Ark,) he concludeth with a prayer to God for the preserving of his people, and repressing of their enemies; that so foreign lands may assubiect also themselves to God: whom finally he exhorteth all the kingdoms of the world to worship.  

LET please our God to ărize, that enĭmies his disband,  
And hating foes in hated flight be chased by mightis hand.  
As smoke strong winds do drive; as fire doth wax consume,  
So shalt thou sweep them from thy face; so wast them all to fume.  
Then shall the rightĕous minds, whose hopes on God depend  
Rejoice in him; and thankful shouts to heauĕns high coort upsend.   

SING, o sing praise to God; advance that glorious name,  
Th'Eternal, Selfbeĕing, Lord; who mounts on heauĕns high arched frame.  
Prepare, make plain his way; who o'er alpestrious place  
Comes marching toward his seat elect: triumph before his face.  
Not he, neglecting man, despizing mortal care,  
In sacred throne resides; not so: but child of parents bare,  
Him Father finds; him wido, judge: he prison̆er, frees;  
To sole, an house; to rebel race, dry parched soil decrees.   

WHEN Captain thou, o God, thy troops from Pharaŏs' thrall  
Victorious ledst; through deserts wild when march'dst before them all▪  
The moving sea stood still; th'unmoving earth it shakĕd;  
The heauĕns at presence thine dropped sweat; fore thee mount Sinai quakĕd.  
All Israĕls God did dread. Thou then with bountĕous rain,  
Didst chosen land enrich, didst strength exhaust repair again.   

HERE thou a seat for thine, thy poor despized bands,  
A seat preparĕdst; where joyous dwell, and rule should neighbour lands.  
Thus did thy goodness shine: thy goodness, which their foes  
With conquĕrous arm subduing round, large matter did discloze  
For damŏsels at return with joying note to sound;  
Kings armies fly, they fly; and spoils we home-left souls have found.   

FOR though in servile state, like scullions, 'mongst the pots,  
With soot ye long have lain begrymd: yet now your happiĕr lots  
As dove shall make you shine; who with her lustring wings,  
Now silver̆i hieu, now golden light, to ey delighted brings.  
For when th'almighty Lord those Kinglets strew on ground;  
Like snow on Salmon black, dark woes bright joy so then had crowned.   

NOW Zion draws mine eyes: whom bashan's peer account:  
Nor bashan's soil, nor stateli cliffs, fair Zions praise surmount.  
For why should worldly hills, the earth's huge towĕrs so rise  
And vaunt their might; why hill of God with surli brows despize?  
Here God's dezired rest; thus aye shall it excel:  
Celestiăl squadrons here attend; here Sinais glories dwell.  
Twice thousands ten, and more, brave host of heauĕnli Knights,  
Gods will observe; received, perform: he midst, their love requites.   

BUT thou, victorious Lord, ascended art on high,  
In triumph great; leadest thraldom thralled: and there, great gest of sky,  
Hast gifts of grace received; 'mongst men which dost divide;  
Yea race rebellious so dost win with thine to thine abide.  
Be blest then Lord, our God. With saving graces he  
Us daily loads. For God's the God that brings salvation free,  
Hath issuĭng ways from death: but enĭmies' head shall smite,  
Yea hairi scalp of him in sin who still shall take delight.   

BUT to his people saith; I th●…m will bring again,  
From tyrant's yoke, from stranger's coasts, from land, and Sea, amain:  
As once from Egypt's rod, from depth of sea, and pride  
Of bashan's Giănt, I them reducèed made ancient fields divide.  
That thou thy foot mayst dip, thy dog his tongue imbrue.  
In smoking streams of fomis blood, which enĭmies breasts out-spue.   

AND now God's march proceeds; thy march, o God my King,  
Who in thy Sanctuări residĕst; there blessings man do●…st bring.  
A ●…ight of joy: Before, the singers hold their way;  
Them instruments ensue; in midst young maids on timbrels play.  
All cry with joy, Bless God; Praise in assembli high,  
Ye Isrăels stream, the Lord. Here first small Benjamin stands nigh,  
Late Prince; here judah's Lords, their troops; and here appear  
Naphthaliăn Lords from far; with Lords who Zebŭlons honour rear.   

AND now since gracious Lord commanded hath our strength;  
Maintain from sacred house, placĕd o'er jerusalem at length,  
What thou great God for us, what hast for fathers wrought:  
So from subjecteth Kings to thee shall prezents due be brought.  
  

RATE down the reed-shafts beast; the bulls and herds so bold;  
With people's calf-like Lords, who vain in silver plates have rolled.  
So work thy people's peace, securĕd from heathen spite:  
O thou who scattrest them on war who set their fierce delight.  
And then Aegyptiăn peers, then Aethiopiăn lands,  
Soon humbly shall with gifts to thee stretch forth their suppliănt hands.   

YE kings, and kingdoms all, o'er earth's fair face disspred;  
With songs and sounds of joy adore, your God, and supreme head,  
Whence all your powĕrs derive. He then on th'heavĕns rides,  
On heauĕns of heauĕns of old, and rocks with thundering voice divides.  
Ascribe all might to God, whose glorious beauti shines,  
On Isrăels' head; whose peerless strength, the matchless sky designs.  
O God, thine Israel's strength! what venerable fear  
Thy sanctuaries strike? Be blest. Our souls to thee we rear.    

PSALM 69.  
The Prophet King DAVID, in the time of Absaloms' rebellion (for then it should seem this Psalm was made,) by injurious persecution of his enemies, being reduced to extreme distress and miseri; though happis that he was therein a type of our Saviour, who was then also in him, as a Son in his ancestor; together with the historical narration of his own wrongs and griefs; prophetically also describeth, and that more fully and properly, the passions of Christ, through the envi and malice of the jews; who cruelly constrained him to pay at a dear ransom the price of that whereof himself in his own person was not gilti. Thus oppressed reproached and scorned by his enemies, and by his nearest friends abandoned, for no other crime then for his zeal toward the service and glori of God; he flieth by a most fervent and argumentative prayer to God for succour; devoteth his enemies, (amongst whom first Achitophel, than judas had their parts,) to utter destruction; and lastly in his deliveris, showeth his own particular thankfulness; the great comfort of God's people; and a general propension of all the creatures of God, to praise him for his goodness toward his chosen Church, consisting of all his loving and faithful servants.  

HELP Lord, and save, a poor distressed wight;  
Not tossed with waves, (though seas against me fight,  
And beat my soul;) but sinking in the mud,  
Where bottom none; and where the surging flood  
With furious stream bears down and whelms my life.  
Ah save me, Lord, and end my bootless strife.  
I strive, though spent; I cry, when voice is quailĕd;  
For God I look, when eyes have looking failĕd.   

th'injurious spir̆its, my not-deserved foes,  
Who hunt my life; with numbers me encloze  
That pass mine hair; and rising still in strength,  
Press on, till me (o wrong!) they force at length  
What neuĕr I took, as taken, to restore.  
Ah thee my faults, my follies lie before.   

BUT not for me, Eternal Lord of hosts,  
Great Israèls God, let those, whose humble boasts  
Of thee have been, confounded rest in mind;  
Nor shame in face, when him forlorn they find,  
Who thee with them in patiented hope hath sought.  
For thy sake, Lord, to this I lo am brought:  
For thee, I scorns, and sour rebuke endure.  
May service thine, great Lord, such shame procure?   

WHAT should I speak of friends unfrendli face?  
My brethren dear, same mother's home-born race,  
A stranger me, an alien mere esteem.  
And why? The zeal, of which I worthy deem,  
Thy sacred hests, thy House, and glorious name;  
(Which godless crues, still grieving me, profane;)  
Hath eăten me up: Reproaches thrown at thee  
From mouths infernal, light have all on me.   

IN grief, I wept; and fasting, fed on care;  
My joyless limbs, rough sacweb clothĕd on bare:  
My weed, they proverb; mocks, on fasting pour;  
And laugh the tears, which vexed heart doth shower.  
In judgement place, 'gainst me the ancients spoke.  
Yea ballads base, vild drunkards of me make.   

AND I, my Lord, to thee now praying bend;  
In needfulst time: Let o my cries ascend,  
And time accepted find. O God, my trust;  
If right thou seest; and if my plaints be just;  
In plentĕous merci, ' and for thy saving truth,  
Send o that help, which life in death renuĕth.   

OH free me, Lord, from sinking in this mire,  
This groundless mire; and from their fierce desire,  
Whose hate my life persuĕth. Draw from these waves  
Th' o'erwhelmed soul, thy hand who drowning craves,  
And prays; Forbidden this gulf my life t' inglut;  
Devouring pit on me her mouth to shut.   

HEAR Lord, with speed; and tender eye reflect,  
Thou Goodness pure: thy servants not neglect,  
In case extreme who mercies hand implore.  
O spring of grace, I mercies those adore.  
Then, Lord, be near: yea for my ' insulting foes,  
To free my soul once heauĕnli aid discloze.   

AH see, and judge: thou knowĕst my sad reproach;  
Fore thee my foes, my shames who shameless broach,  
Stand all in sight. Their wrongs have worn my heart.  
Full chargĕd with grief; I looked if yet some part  
My friends would bear; no friend condoling found:  
If comfort speak; but none lest comfort sound.  
For strengthening meat, yea poizŏning gall they sent:  
And vinĕger tart, my thirst to quench prezent.   

THEREFORE just Lord, their own them home repay:  
Their pleazing board, where joys before them play,  
Let turn a snare, to catch them in their words:  
And (that which foli' as lot to fools affords,)  
Their wishes, hurt; good fortunes, be their bane:  
Minds sight obscure; their loins rough valour lame.   

AND as in furi, man laith load of blows:  
So let revenge, which from thine anger flows,  
Ad stripe to stripe; and seize with raging ire  
Their hated heads which mischief sole dezire.  
Void stand their castles: dweller none be found  
To grace the tents where graceless facts abound.   

FOR thou whom, Lord, with hand severe hast smit,  
They fierce pursue; and inhumanly sit,  
With grievous words t' increase thy woundeds' pain.  
Let sin, so sin; so plague, to plague enchain:  
Thy righteŏusnes that still they wretched miss;  
Nor way ere find that leads to heauĕnli bliss.  
Devowd to death, from book of life efface:  
Ne writ their names, where just men's names have place.   

NOW I still poor, sole rich in griefs remain.  
Help, saving Lord, and raze me once again:  
That razed, thy grace my song may thankful praise;  
And blissful name to heauĕns fair arches raze.  
This sacrifice more pleazing God shall be,  
Then cleft-hooved steer at Altars horns to see.   

THE mild of mind, great comfort hence shall take;  
This sight shall joy them. O let hearts awake,  
To seek the Lord; and so your hearts shall live.  
Nor winds, nor seas, can from his anchor drive.  
For ay of care who towărd man's wants reflects,  
His prisŏners cries sure neuĕr at need neglects.   

THAN heauĕns, and earth, than seas, and all your gests  
Which spatiate there, conform to supreme hests,  
Ay laud our King: who Zion fair will save;  
And judah's touns repair. There shall they have  
A seat, and lasting state. Thus God shall bless  
His folks true seed, who love towărd him address.    

PSALM 79.  
This Psalm, (which seemeth to have been compozed in the time of Antiochus the persecutor, by some descendant of the famous ASAPH, and who bore also his name, which in that Tribe was frequent,) containeth a most lamentable complaint unto God, of the ruins of jerusalem, the defilements of the Temple, and massacre of God's faithful servants. Then praying first for propitiation for the sins of the people, (the true cause of that calamiti;) he presseth on with most fervent suit, for speedi deliverance, and large revenge upon their heathen enemies.  

THE Hethĕn, o God, who fear not, no nor know  
Thy glorious name; into thy land are come:  
And in thine House, whence blessings pure did flow,  
With hands impure polluting facts have done.   

DEFYLD thy sacred seat; thy rites profanĕd;  
Thy treasures robbed; thy Citti set on fire.  
jerusalem, earth's joy which erst was namĕd,  
Thrown down on heaps, sits now in loathed mire.   

THY servants slain for loyal love to thee:  
Their bodies dead heăvens fouls cast out to feed:  
And flesh of Saints, whose faith thine eyes did see,  
To earth's wild beasts ingluvious throats decreed.   

THEIR blood, as torrent, streams about the walls  
Of sad jerusalem: no burriĕr found.  
Opprobrious scorn, us grievous lot befalls;  
And laughings proud in neighbour's mouths abound;   

HOW long, o Lord? shall ever flame thine ire?  
Can no distress once move to pittis take?  
Thy jealous wrath, and shall it rage's, like fire  
Which water none, no tears, may e'er asslake?   

AH turn it first, 'gainst those, who nor invoke  
Thy name, great Lord; nor know, or seek thy face:  
'Gainst heathen kingdoms; who with mortal stroke  
Thy jacob wound; lay waist h s resting place.   

REDUCE not, Lord, to thine offended eyes,  
Those faults forepast, which, still unthankful, we,  
And fathers our, have done: let grace arise,  
Our souls from gilt of sorroed sins to free.   

AND thou arise; and with thy mercy's deer,  
Prevent our instant deaths. Ah, case extreme  
Denys delay. Help, source of goodness mere;  
And save us thou, whence safeties all do stream.   

RESPECT, great Lord, the glori of thy name;  
Which we revere; our enemies proud despize,  
Insulting Hethĕn: to say they do not shame,  
" Where's now the God on whom their hope relys?   

BUT let our God make noble, in our sight,  
To heathen eyes, his high revenging hand;  
That guiltless blood, poured out, and not in fight,  
Of servants thine, may full revenged stand.   

AND let the sighs and moornings of thy Saints,  
Who groan in chains, to thee access obtain:  
And mightis arm, excited by their plaints,  
Them rescue ' who now to death consignd remain.   

THUS neighbours scorns, wherewith they thee reproach,  
Seuĕnfold to them in bosom, Lord, restore.  
We then thy folk, and flock, thine acts shall broach;  
With thanks and praise will euĕr our God adore.    

PSALM 73.  
The Prophet ASAPH, by the sense of his own afflictions, and by contrari vieu of the exulting prosperiti of godless persons, who pass on a pleasant time, blaspheming God, and oppressing his servants; having endured (like as other of the people of God,) a sore temptation of calling into question the veri Omniscience of God, and his government over this loweër world: at length getting the victori by Gods especial assistance, he showeth that out of the Sanctuari of God, where his Oracles were delivered, he had learned that it was not the condition of this transitori life, but the end itself, whereby the state of the good and bad was to be esteemed. Seeing then the end of the wicked to be utter destruction, and everlasting happiness to attend the righteous; he betaketh himself wholly to the conduct of divine direction; with great assurance to be guided by God counsel in this life, and afterward to be received by God into eternal glori. In expectance whereof his soul repozeth.  

YET surely God benign to Israĕl stands;  
To pure in heart. But I was sore declined.  
Grieved vieu of fools, of wicked prospering hands,  
Had well-nigh sapped my weak unwari mind.   

FROM bands of death, by sickness, force, or snare,  
They free pass on: live lusti; puffed with joy:  
With human toils and cares untroubled are:  
Yea public plagues them least and last annoy.   

THIS makes with pride, their outstretched necks, like chein;  
With violence fierce, as rob, they limbs attire.  
Their plentĕous fare red strutting eyes proclaim:  
While heaping wealth surmounts euĕn hearts desire.   

FROM poizŏning filth their loathsome talk they change  
Oppressions proud with lofti style to sound.  
Their tongues through earth in wronging men do range:  
And hellish mouths 'gainst heauĕn dead curse upbound.   

THESE sights Gods folk to grievous thoughts reduce:  
(To whom full cups of mingled bitter gear  
" Are wringd:) Doth Heauĕn, say they, know earth's abuse?  
" Or mortals course doth power immortal steer?  
" But view these men; the heavenly leaug who shun,  
" Earth's shame, man's wrong: see how in calmest peace,  
" Devoid of storm, here lengthened race they run:  
" They health still keep; still wealth and powĕr increase.   

IN vain than I, ah all in vain have sought,  
With careful thoughts my heart from stain to clear:  
In vain my hands, in worthiĕst actions wrought,  
Themselves to God in pureness washed do rear.  
For as stern sires their sons of sweet of life  
With sour reproofs, and bitter strokes bereve:  
With me so griefs, so blows are daily rife;  
Ne joy sharp fits of mornli chastment leve.   

BUT o my God, should I these thoughts embrace;  
Should mazed soul illusions these entrance:  
Lo, impious wrong, 'gainst thee, 'gainst happiĕst race  
Of children thine, I faithless should advance.   

PERPLEXED I, then sought this doubt t'untwine:  
But ah in vain; still tangled stood my wit.  
At length I piercĕd the Sanctuări divine:  
There learned men's ends: then than the knot unknit.   

SURE wicked men aloft on slippĕri brows  
Thy hand doth place, with greater noise to fall.  
Down headlong rush they: vain fly faithless vows.  
How soon, how sore, thy frights their joys appall?   

MUCH like as dream unguided fanci fills  
With shapes untrue; which wakened all are gone:  
So when thou stir'st, their image Lord it spills;  
Their pompous shows despized from world are flown.   

THUS whilĕst my soul on bitter grief did bite;  
While thorni thoughts my fuming heart did wound:  
As brutified, my mind had lost her light;  
Yea grovelling beast I in thine eyes was found.   

YET still was thine: and thine shall ay abide:  
By right hand takĕn thou staidst me with thy grace:  
Thy counsel me in beautĕous way shall guide:  
And lastly safe in happiĕst glori place.   

FOR whom can heauĕn, whom earth save thee display,  
In whom or joy, or rest, my soul might find?  
O spring of life! when flesh, when heart decay,  
Towĕr, partage thou eternal stand'st assigned.   

LO Creatures strangĕd, to thee, Crëatour great,  
Allegiance due who faithless souls deny,  
Shall fail; who thee of spouzed love defeat,  
Adultring hearts, in ireful vengeance die.   

THAT good for me, estrangĕd from pleazing sin,  
With God sole spring of pure delights to dwell;  
There fixed to rest. My trust then joy in him:  
His gracious works my thankful heart foorth-tell.    

PSALM 82.  
ASAPH vieving the corruption and insufficienci of judges in his time, admonisheth them that God is present in their assemblies, whose office they execute; counseleth, reproveth, and putteth them in mind of their ends. And seeing the Land by their fault was now all out of frame, he prayeth God to exercise his right of judging the whole world himself.  

THE Souĕrain Lord, whence justice all derives;  
Who mesur̆ed powĕr to earthli Lords divides;  
His Senate of his presence neuĕr deprives:  
Th'immortal judge 'mongst mortal Gods resides.  
Sith judgement's his; how dare ye justice wind,  
To scourge the good, while miscreănts favour find?   

THE poor ye should, the weak, the orphan free,  
From wicked strength still bending to oppress:  
But ignorance, (ah, not for high degree,)  
And vainest thoughts your darkened minds possess.  
Thus ruled course of all things turned awry,  
Makes trembling earth to heauĕns for justice cry.   

ISTYLED you Gods, who Gods earth-ruling place  
As glorious sons of supreme Lord do hold:  
But die ye shall, as men of menest race,  
As foregone Princes now resolved to mould.  
And rise, great Lord; thy judging right resume  
O'er nations all, whom tyrants wrongs consume.    

PSALM 84.  
King David, (who in great likelihood was author of this Psalm, and at such time as he was either driven from Zion by Absalon, or withheld by the necessiti of some war far off;) displaieth here his great longing love, toward the Temple, and solemn service of God there performed; accounteth them happiest, who always reside in God's house to praise him; them happis also, who at the state times, according to the law, held their voyages thither, through what difficulties of way so ever. So, earnestly praying God to be returned to that place of joy; he joineth with them in spirit, who profess their true life, safeti, and happiness, to be placed in God.  

THE fair aspect of Tabernacles thine,  
Great Lord of hosts, how lovely to'absent eye  
Itself prezents? my longing soul doth pine,  
And pining faint, till she thy Coorts descry.  
Nor earth, nor heauĕn; sole thou life's glorious spring,  
To heart, to flesh, reviving joy dost bring.   

AH, absent I: when yet poor sparro may,  
When swalo wild, her house, her nestlet cling  
Near Altars thine, and there her younglings lay:  
Yet absent I, from thee, my God, and King.  
Twice blest be they, who in thy house reside:  
Thy praise with them, their loves with thee abide.   

AND blessed he, far off who, cheered in thee,  
On causeys thinks which to thy mountain guide.  
Dry vales they pass: sweet springs by art yet see:  
And gracious rain fore-drouth of pools doth hide.  
From wasting strength, by strength they walk renŭed;  
To Zion fair, where God of Gods is vieŭed.   

THAN Lord of hosts, than jacobs' God, our shield;  
Ah, ay the face, with favours thine enduĕd,  
With sacred oil perfuzĕd. Hear Lord, and yield  
Those longed Coorts; where one sole day accrŭed,  
Whole thousand stains. With me Gods doors excel  
The stateliĕst tents, with impious pride that swell.   

OUR sun, our shield; whence life, whence light derives;  
Whence sure defence, whence strength proud foes to quell:  
He rightĕous minds of nothing good deprives;  
They here in grace, in glori'above shall dwell.  
That earth, that heauĕn, Lord God of hosts may cry;  
Thrice blest the man, whose hopes on thee rely.   

TRIPLE.  
T  
He fair as- pect of Ta- berna- cles thine,  
Great Lord of hosts; how lovely t'absent eye itself pray-  
zents? My long-ing soul doth pine, And pining faint,  
till she thy coorts des- cry. Nor earth, nor heăven; sole thou life's glorious  
spring, To heart, to flesh, re- viving joy dost  
bring.   

BASE.  
  

MEAN.  
  

COUNTERTENOR.  
  

TENOR.  
  

LUTE.  
   

PSALM 90.  
MOSES here entitled the man of God, being in his charge of conducting the Israelites in the wilderness; where for their increduliti and murmuring, the divine indignation broke oftentimes out upon them, till in fine an irrevocable sentence of death was pronounced against that whole generation, from twenti years old upward, which had seen God's miracles in Egypt, (too only excepted,) to be executed in that wilderness before their entrance into the dezired land: in this Psalm discovereth his extreme grief of heart for that miserable estate; the People's sins provoking God. and Gods punishments consuming them; unto whom God in all former ages had been a stay and protection. Therefore prezenting unto God the remembrance of his former graciousness; the consideration of his own Eterniti, and of human mortaliti in general (whose life groweing shorter by sundris degrees, was now at length reduced to a period of about seventi or fourscore years ordinarily:) he beseecheth God to have particular compassion upon this his chosen people, sore wasted with the punishments which their sins had called down upon them; to make them wise by his grace; to comfort them with his returning favour; and lastly so to frame the course of their labours, that his promise continuing clear and hopeful to them, might at length yet in their children have a glorious accomplishment.  

IN pilgrim life, our rest; in thralled estate, our stay;  
From age to age thou Lord hast been, and sauĕd us from decay.  
Thyself, ere birth to hills, to earth ere form didst give,  
Ere world hadst framĕd; from ay to ay alglorious God dost live.  
But man thy creature fallĕn, thy justice doth pursue  
" To dust: and saith, Ye Adam's sons, return whence first ye grew.   

WHEN thousand years we liuĕd, those thousand in thy sight  
Not more appeared then one day past, then watch in shortest night.  
Yet soon increasing sin those years much shorter makes;  
While vengeance due defiled world to drowning flood betakes.  
Since when, our dreamlike life, as weakest herb, soon dies;  
Which morn makes flower, hot noon bids fade, sad eeuĕn mows down and dries.   

AH men unblessed! thy wrath our weariĕd life consumes:  
Thy terrors great our souls affright: so sore thine anger fumes.  
Our sins, our foul revolts, before thy face hast set:  
And secretest faults to clearest light or eyes displeazĕd are fet.  
What have our toils achieved? through anger thine, our day  
Black night devours: our fruitless years as thought fly vain away.   

MAN'S shortened life, as now, sole seuĕnti year doth bide:  
Great strength to fourscore may attain. Of these euĕn flower, and pride,  
What is't but toil, and grief; but vain pursuits, and sin?  
Which spent, we hence to dusti home away to post begin.  
  

OH who doth duly weigh the powĕr of heauĕnli ire?  
As terrors thine, so is thy wrath; o thou consuming fire!  
Then teach us so our days, our wasting years to count;  
That wisdom true our thoughts towărd thee our endless end may mount.  
Return, o Lord: (how long?) at length appeazd, forgive  
Thy folk: let favour shower in time, that dying hearts may live.   

AND comfort, cheer us, Lord: as chastised long by thee  
Much euĭl our woeful eyes have seen; like joy so cauze us see.  
This joy with life shall last. Then let thy work grow clear  
Towărd servants thine: on children their thy glori make appear.  
And let Gods pleazed face us with his beauties bless:  
And form our works; o thou, our works to happiĕst end address.   

TRIPLE.  
I  
N pilgrim life our rest, in thralled e- state  
our stay, From age to age thou Lord hast been, and sauĕd us from decay.  
Thyself ere birth to hills, to earth ere form didst give, Ere world  
hadst framĕd; from ay to ay all- glorious God dost live. But  
man thy creaturefallen, thy justice doth pursue To dust, and saith,  
Ye Adam's sons, re- turn whence first ye grew.   

BASE.  
  

MEAN.  
  

COUNTERTENOR.  
  

TENOR.  
  

LUTE.  
   

PSALM 92.  
This Psalm (consecrated to the Sabbath, as fit for an holy assembli;) exhorteth to praise by voice and musical instruments, God's goodness and justice; apparent in the final destruction of the wicked, now miserably flourishing; and in his constant favour to the faithful inhabiters of his Church; prosecuted even in old age with comli grace, and fruitfulness.  

A GOOD, a gracious act it is,  
To praise the Lord, to celebrate his bliss:  
Thy name, o Highest, to renown,  
With hymns, which earth with heauĕns high honour crown.  
Thy bountĕous grace, let springing day;  
Let silent night, thy faithful truth display.  
Let ten-stringd lute, with viol sweet,  
Melodious harp in sacred consort meet.  
Since joy to me thy work doth bring;  
Thy works, great Lord, my thankful joy shall sing.   

O LORD, thy works how glorious great;  
How deep thy thoughts, thoughts shalo to defeat?  
The floating brain of brutish man,  
Not once observes, not once it fathom can;  
That when as grass the wicked grow;  
When sinners proud, do sprout, do bud, and blow;  
In flowering state they shall be mown;  
And all for ay to sad destruction thrown.  
While thou, o Lord, most high, most just,  
Ay happis liuĕst, whole worlds sole endless trust.   

FOR lo, thine impious foes, o Lord,  
Thine impious foes, of heauĕns and earth abhorred,  
From earth and heauĕns lo chasĕd away,  
In darkness dire their damned heads shall lay.  
My strength but thou, like stateli horn  
Of Unĭcorn stout, with dread and beauti born,  
Wilt long advance: Oil fresh renŭed  
On me shall stream with gladness sweet imbŭed.  
And eye shall see, ioid ear shall hear,  
Chance wicked foes, what gilti heart's did fear.   

THE just mean while, as fenced palm,  
Shall flourish fair, (no storms shall him uncalm:)  
As cedar tall, mount Libans praise,  
His lofti top towărd heauĕns high vault shall raze.  
Men planted midst God's sacred place,  
In sacred coorts shall spring: yea through his grace,  
In age extreme still fruit shall give;  
Still iviceful, still with greeni boughs shall live.  
To show that God, my strength, and light,  
Ay just persists, ay pure from all unright.    

PSALM 94.  
The Author of this Psalm, living in time of ungodli tyranni, under which himself did also greatly suffer; prezenteth the state of the Land unto the vieu of Almighti God; whom he calleth on to be an Avenger against those Tyrants, who oppressing God's people, atheistically scorned his future judgements; the veriti of which he establisheth by invincible argument. Then he comforteth the better sort, by assuring them that this chastisement should turn finally to their good; and judgement should once again return to true justice: and encourageth them to make a stand of defence against the wicked: who in wrong-dooing and oppression might execute their own powër, but could not derive such authority from God: unto whose gracious protection he in fin●… betakes himself; with assurance of his own safeti, and of his enemies destruction. This Psalm is conjectured to have been made by David, at what time he was persecuted by King Saul and his Coortiers: and then, seemeth most fitly to fall into the time, when after that most cruel massacre of God's Priests, their wives, children, servants, and veri cattle, in hate of David, he began to think of standing upon his own defence (being anointed by God for successor in the Kingdom;) yet without any purpose of attempt against Saul, in his person, peace, authoriti, or digniti.  

A VENGER great; who man's presumptuŏus sin,  
Earth righteŏus judge, with plagues to chastise dost not lin:  
At length shine out, o spring of purest light;  
Rise up; pay home the proud in world's apparent sight.  
How long, great Lord, how long shall godless sect,  
Shall wicked crew triumph, who heauĕnli laws neglect?  
Shall tyrants fierce, impunely foam their shames;  
And grievous wrongs contrive; then vaunt their hateful names?   

THY servants, Lord, with iron teeth they grind;  
Th'elected race oppress: no plea to barbărous mind,  
Nor widoes eyes, nor orphans palms can make,  
Nor humbled strangers knees, their murdĕring rage to slake:  
That done, thus say; Can this to God be told?  
Or jacobs' Lord will he from heauĕn our facts behold?  
O blinded souls! 'gainst God ye close your eyes:  
Look up: why natures light do brutish minds despize?   

CAN sovereign cause, whence all perfections flow,  
Himself not know; on man yet knowing powĕrs bestow?  
Who plants the ear; shall he unhearing be?  
Who eye with sight endues; himself (ye fools) not see?  
Round world who rules; who nations all doth rain;  
To check, to scourge lewd lives, may careless he remain?  
Yea God doth see; th'eternal light doth know:  
Yea knowĕth in heart of man how vain conceits do grow,   

O BLESSED that man, whom thou dost Lord correct;  
And by correcting teach towărd sacred laws respect.  
Midst days of euĭl in rest he safe abides;  
For wicked wretch dead pit while vengeance due provides.  
For sure our Lord his folk will not forsake:  
Will not peculiar flock t▪ abandon e●…re betake.  
For judgement shall to justice pure return:  
And draw all upright hearts, which now for justice moorn.   

AH who for me dare 'gainst malfactors rise;  
What courage take my part? If thou thy gracious eyes,  
If succŏring hand, dear Lord, didst not extend;  
My life towărd death, my soul towărd silent place did bend.  
But when I cried; My foot, ah Lord, doth shake:  
Thy pityĭng grace did me to stayed protection take.  
In swarms of cares, midst sad perplexed thought,  
Yet comforts thine delight in troubled soul have wrought.   

MAY viŏlent throne, from thee, Lord, powĕrs derive,  
That lusts for laws ordain, and griefs for ease contrive?  
By troops they range, the rightĕous soul to kill:  
Yea judgement seats abuze, ungilti blood to spill.  
But God my towĕr, my high retreat hath been;  
My Lord, my rock assurĕd in world's fair vieu was seen.  
He he their wrongs, their spite shall them restore:  
Yea God our Lord their pride hue down for evermore.   

TRIPLE.  
A  
Venger great, who man's presumptuŏus sin,  
Earth's rightĕous judge, with plagues to chastise dost not lin; At  
length shine out, o spring of pu-rest light; Rise  
up; pay home the proud, in world's apparent sight. How long,  
great Lord, how long shall godless sect, shall wicked crew  
triumph, who heauĕnli laws neglect? Shall Tyrants fierce impuneli foam their  
shames; And grievous wrongs contrive, then vaunt their hateful names?   

BASE.  
  

MEAN.  
  

COUNTERTENOR.  
  

TENOR.  
  

LUTE.  
   

PSALM 100  
An Invitation to all Nations, to prezent themselves cheerfully in the Coorts of God, with exclaiming thanks and praises, for his constant goodness and merci toward mankind; whom he hath made and framed peculiarly to be his.  

WITH razed voice, and cheerful grace,  
Approach, ye Nations all, our king:  
On bended knees prezent his face  
With hymn of bliss, which Angels sing.  
For know, He formed us, (God, not we,)  
His flock, his folk, yea sons to be.   

O THANKFUL enter then his gate;  
His coorts high praises make exclaim:  
Resound his acts, and glorious state;  
And prostrate bless his sacred name.  
Whose goodness, great; and favour, sure;  
Whose truth, like heauĕns unchanged doth dure.    

PSALM 101.  
DAVID'S vow unto God, touching the well governing of Himself, his Coort, and Kingdom: made it seemeth a little before his actual coming to the crown.  

OF judgements, Lord, to thee I'll sing;  
Where justice Merci shall embrace.  
Such thoughts shall righteous use make spring,  
Towărd me 'gainst pleazĕst to bend thy face.   

MINE house an upright heart shall guide;  
Which vice shall check, which goodness grace.  
No pleazing sin shall train aside  
Those eyes, which thee before them place.   

WHO thee forsake, from me I'll shake;  
Their works and them I'll ay detest.  
Nor perverse imp there root shall take,  
Where evil all shall be suppressed.   

THAT sly deceit, the slandĕrous tongue,  
Which just men heedless may beguile;  
That secret seed of neighbours wrong,  
Severe reproof shall straight exile.   

THOSE hauti looks of swelling mind,  
Which Thee neglect, and equals scorn;  
That self-love, hatred mine shall find;  
I'll soon pull down their lofti horn.   

WHAT woorthi person through the Land  
Mine eye can view, what faithful wight:  
He graced in my Coort shall stand;  
His upright service my delight.   

BUT false, dissembling, flattĕring mates,  
With lying tricks that plot their own;  
No harbour get within my gates;  
Their tricks and They shall out be thrown.   

MY kingdom than I will begin  
From foul corruptiŏns clean to pair:  
To hunt the wicked to their gin,  
Shall be my daily earliĕst care.   

SO shall God's City brightly shine;  
So shall his people flourish ay:  
When damned crews exiled pine;  
And lawless folk are swept away.    

PSALM 103.  
King DAVID with great thankfulness, and high joy of spirit, celebrateth here the excelling graciousness of God, toward himself in particular; the race of Israel in especial; and in general toward all men who fear him and keep his covenant. Where at large he expresseth the goodness of our heavenli Father, full of compassion and merci; prone to reclaim and forgivo mankind offending; and contrariwise slow in punishing. In fine he exciteth the happis Angels of God, with all his loyal hosts and ereatures, to bless their great King, who hath placed his throne in the heavens, embracing them all with his supreme dominion. And himself lastly conjoineth with them in lauding God.  

PURE light of soul, thou highbred mind,  
Derived from God, and God to praise assigned;  
Adore thy Lord; his beauties bless;  
And glorious acts in praiseful hymns express.  
Bless still my soul with all thy powĕrs,  
That sacred name whence bliss so richly showers.  
No tract of time o e'er efface,  
From thankful heart sweet vieu of bountĕous grace.   

OF GRACE., which all thy sins remits;  
And all thy griefs, sins pay, with cures befits:  
Thy life from grave which doth redeem;  
Redeemed doth round with dear compassions steem:  
With healthiĕst food thy mouth which fills;  
That egle-like youth's strength through age distills.   

HE supreme judge, whence justice springs,  
To wronged on earth from heauĕn just judgement brings.  
He ways divine to Moses shown,  
By Moses made to Isrăels' offspring known.  
Same Israel's race with joy hath seen  
Those Acts, to foes which terror dire have been.   

TH' algracious Lord with pitti'is fraught;  
(How slow to wrath, how soon to merci wrought?)  
Nor strive, nor chide will always he;  
Ne let his ire, though just, unending be.  
Not like our flats, his strokes were found:  
Sin wrath provoked; grace merci made abound.   

FOR look how high earth heauĕn transcends;  
How far from East to West huge space extends:  
So great his grace towărd servants proves;  
So far our sins dear Lord from soul's remooves.  
As father tendereth feeble son:  
With sonli fear like kindness his is won.   

FOR well he knowĕth our brittle state:  
Remembering whom of clay he did crëate.  
As earth-sprung grass, as flower of field;  
So flowering man; to earth whose days must yield:  
When wind sweeps o'er, fair flower is gone;  
The place erst brave, inglorious stands alone.   

BUT ay benign, still God the same,  
Towărd them persists, who fear, who love his name:  
Yea rightĕous truth, to fathers sworn,  
With race observes of children's children born:  
Sole that his couĕnant they attend;  
And loyal heart's towărd sacred mandates bend.   

THE Lord in heauĕn his throne hath placĕd:  
With kingli rule, heauĕns, earth, and seas, embracĕd.  
Ye Angels then, heauĕns happis gests,  
Excelling strengths, obsequious to his hests;  
Ay bless the Lord, adore our King;  
Whose word ye serve, whose will to men ye bring.   

YEA all his hosts, through world arrangĕd,  
Industrious troops, servants of faith unchangĕd,  
Bless ay his name; whose glorious will,  
Your seuĕred ways, united works, fulfil.  
In sum his creatures great and small,  
Where euĕr dispersed throughout his empire all;  
Bless, bless our Lord: bless thankful mind,  
Thy blessed Lord, whom thou so good dost find.   

TRIPLE.  
P  
Ure light of soul, thou high- bred mind, Derived  
from God, and God to praise assigned; Adore thy Lord; his beauties  
bless; And gloriŏus acts in prais- full hymns ex- press.  
Bless still my soul with all thy powĕrs, That sacred name whence  
No tract of time o e'er of- face, From thankful heart sweet  
bliss so rich- lie showers.  
vieu of boun- tĕous grace.   

BASE.  
  

MEAN.  
  

COUNTERTENOR.  
  

TENOR.  
  

LUTE.  
   

PSALM 104.  
A Psalm of Bliss and Glori, prezented unto God, as well in contemplation of his glorious estate, as also of the round world, and all the furniture and gests thereof; being crëated, governed, and constantly preserved, by the magnificent powër, wisdom, and goodness of God. A petition is annexed, to consume utterly the wicked and sweep them out of the world, being the cause of all the dishonour and calamities thereof.  

MAgnănimous, mightis, glorious Lord; my soul shall sing thy praise:  
Whose Greatness greatest heauĕns surmounts; whose Beauti dims their rays.  
Thee, King, imperiăl Glories crown; thee Maiĕsties dread attire:  
Magnĭficence thine whole world refils; high Bliss transcends desire.  
Great Lord, my God; eternal Life; Perfection; purest Light;  
Unbounded Goodness; robĕst thyself with beams of glorious sight.   

CREATOR high, first cause of all: He beeĭng to all things gave:  
He Heauĕns like courtains fair disspreds, with stars bespangled brave:  
Grand Lights as lamps illuster all. Those lighter Waters, see,  
As chambers how midst air he rears: thick Clouds his chariots be:  
On wings of winds he swiftly walks: Oft winds as Angels makes;  
And service dire to flying flames of highbred Fire betakes.   

THE Earth midst air hath rarely hanged: yet hanged by rule so sure,  
As never to move, while light in sun, while stars in skies endure.  
It first with crystal rob had helĕd: all Sea, no land was seen;  
Deep floods surrounding highest mounts: no seat for man had been.  
But straight at thy rebuke they fly; them thundering voice doth chase,  
Up hill, down vale, by shortest course, to their commanded place:  
Vast deep their foaming streams receives. Here bounds their surges find,  
Proud waves to break; here laws from thee their roaring rage to bind.   

THUS land from sea ay free remains. Then Springs to land doth send,  
'Tween hills which run; fair vales enrich; increased to seas descend.  
Hence moisture sweet draw flouri medes: hence drink mild cattle take:  
Here beasts of field do quench their thirst; wild ass dry heat asslake.  
By these winged birds, sweet gests of air, on native arbours mount;  
And pleazing notes 'mongst greeni leaves in cooling shade recount.   

THE mountains from his razed lofts with sweet concocted Rain  
He watereth so, that rich in fruits all parts of earth remain.  
Pure fatness drops: straight pregnant earth in various rob arrayed,  
Sees Grass for beasts, sees Herbs for man, as tribute duly paid.  
Man thus sustained, assisted thus; by art derivĕd from high,  
By gift of thine, the earth's rich womb t'improove doth soon apply.  
Here Corn, here Vines, there Olives plants; with bread his heart to cheer;  
With wine his drooping spir̆its to glad; with oil his face to clear.   

THE Trees of God like blessing draw: the Cedars, which his hand,  
Not care of man, on Liban plants; there ages long do stand.  
Here Birds their curious nests do build: the Storks midst lofti boughs  
Of stateli Fir with parted love themselves half strangers houze.  
Nought useless stands: to Mountains steep, the Chamois make retreat;  
The craggis Rocks, weak Coney's shield; thick Woods, give Dear receipt.   

LOOK up eftsoons; see changing Moon made changing seazŏns to show:  
The Sun his certain race doth run; his nightli settings know.  
Straight darkness black bids light withdraw: withdrawn, the forest moves:  
wild beasts in woods that lurk, creep forth; seek food what each behoves,  
Young Lion's rage and roar for prey; from God their meat require:  
And fed, at suns return to dens their cooching limbs retire.  
Then forth goĕth Man, their Lord by thee: he at his daily toil,  
Deserving so, till eeuĕning bides; and earth in earth doth moil.   

O LORD, how manĭfold are thy works? high wisdom all did frame:  
Thy goods, which earth, which sea do store, no tongue, no thought can name.  
The Sea, a place of vast extent, where crawling things abound;  
Where swimming beasts both great and small past number all are found:  
Here walk the Ships; which worlds whole wealth dispersed by trade unite:  
Stands wondering Whale, there made to play; himself more wondrous sight.   

THESE creatures all thy care attend, meet food in seazŏn to have.  
Thou scattering, they it sparsed colect; larged hand, giveth all they crave.  
If gracious face thou once avert; they troubled all do moorn:  
Their spir̆it withdraw; they breathe gasp out, and to their dust return.  
If spir̆it of life thy grace send forth, which world with beĕing endues;  
Thou recrëatst his wasted store; so face of earth renews.   

BE then, o glori'ay be to God: Thou praized from thankful voice,  
Receive due tribute, gracious Lord: So in thy works rejoice.  
Repair at length world's great defects; o thou whose ires consume:  
Whose stern aspect shakes trembling earth; whose touch makes mountains fume.  
I whilĕst my life, while beĕing doth last, shall still thy praises sing:  
Sweet joy shall thoughts of thee imbue; o thou my blissful King.  
Let sinners foul, who earth defile, defilĕd have made abhorred;  
Consumĕd from earth pay vengeance due. Soul mine, praise thou the Lord. Allelu-ia.    

PSALM 107.  
A Celebration of the gracious providence of God, and of his merci toward mankind, in relieving them who in any extreme distress wholly cast themselves upon him in prayer. Which is particularized in the examples of the Israelites in those times, (being times of exile and great calamiti:) whereof some in their return, lost their way in wild deserts: other in not foloing the advice of God, became prisoners in chains and dungeons: A third sort by their wicked and lascivious life, fell into the usual punishment of grievous diseases: And a fourth, endured sore tempests at sea. All whom having had unexpected deliverance by God, he exhorteth to be therefore grateful, and in solemn assembli of God's people before the senators to profess their thankfulness. An advise foloed by the jews even at this day in those four cases. Lastly he showeth that the calamities which fall generally upon Nations, be it by barrenness of the earth; by oppression of Tyrants; by contempt grown upon a land in their Nobles and Governors, (whence much mischief ensueth;) or by any other evil or sorro whatsoever; are all brought upon them by their sins and that odious unthankfulness to God: who yet even in public miseries preserveth and prospereth his humble servants: and when Nations apply themselves faithfully to his service, poureth upon them all blessings opposite to those former punishments. Which things wise men will consider and make use of; especially so as to know and acknowledge the Crëatours' goodness.  

YE woorthi minds, in whom God's gifts excel;  
Whose persons walk on earth, high thoughts in heauĕns do dwell;  
Renoum our Lord, ring forth his glorious name;  
Whose goodness no time fails, sweet mercies still the same.  
 
  

OBLAZE his acts, ye now at rest that stand,  
From hostile powĕr redeemed, redeemed from stranger's land:  
Ye late dispersed, now gathered by his grace;  
From East, from West, from North, yea from great ocean's place.  
In deserts wild, through uncouth envious ways,  
All tired, all forlorn, they wandered nights and days,  
With fainting spir̆its, through thirst and hunger pined;  
And no relief, no steps towărd cultiuĕd place could find.   

IN need extreme when lo to God they cry:  
He gracious hears their moan: and help from heauĕn makes fly.  
So strength renews; so straying feet directs  
To peopled walls; and safe from perils all protects.  
O thankful then to God his grace confess:  
His meruĕilous work to men with joyous tongues express.  
Who thirsting soul with waters sweet refreshd;  
The empti filled; and pace towărd longed home addresd.   

IN darkness sad, in shade of grisli death,  
With irŏn and anguish bound, who sighed their servile breath;  
(Il-ruled minds, that this and more deserved,  
That Highests word despysd, from Gods advise that swerved:)  
When hart-burst clean, they grouĕling rolled in pain;  
Ne hope of better saw, nor place for worse remain:  
  

IN need extreme to God their suit they bend;  
Who pityĭng rueful plight, from heauĕn sweet comfort sent.  
He darkness dire, grim shade of death dispels:  
he cords from hands, from feet he fetters burst repels.  
O thankful then to God his grace confess:  
His wondrous act to men with joyous tongues express.  
Who brazen gates made all to fragments flee:  
Broke bars of irŏn, strong Lord, and prison̆ers did enfree.   

UNGOVERND fools, transported by their lust  
From vertuŏus ways to vice; when God severely just,  
Their wicked joys afflicts, such sicnes sends,  
That soul abhorring meat, at deaths pale door attends:  
  

IN hour extreme to God then lo they cry;  
Who gracious hears their groans, and ease from heauĕn bids hy.  
Down comĕth his word, the per̆ishing soul to save;  
And hasting life retracts from near approached grave.  
O thankful then to God his grace confess:  
His mercies great to men with joyous tongues express.  
And cleansed in heart, just sacrifice of praise  
Let grateful hands yield up; renown him all your days.   

TO Seas in ships, who (Arts chief work) descend,  
Adventurous hearts, by trade penurious state to mend;  
Or spacious lakes who pass; what wondrous sight,  
Strange works of God in deep, their staring looks affright?  
Lo straight his word tempestuŏus wind doth rear;  
And roughest frouns on seas late smiling face appear:  
Anon towărd heauĕns on back of arched wave  
They mount; dismount in trice towărd hells unloveli cave.  
As drunk they reel; then melting hearts gi'en fail;  
Nought toil, nought careful course of Master's skill avail.   

IN case extreme when lo to God they cry:  
Who gracious hears grieved voice, and help from heauĕn bids hy.  
Straight winds repose; smooth hieu calmed seas regain:  
Hearts joy; works cheer; till safe they long longed hauĕn attain.  
Then thankful o to God his grace confess:  
His merveils great to men with joyous tongues express.  
And let God's Church, let faithful people hear  
Vowed praise: in senate grave his mercies rare endeer.   

HE bubbling springs chokes up with thirsti sand:  
Yea rivers rich, accursed, dry desert makes to stand.  
And fertile soil, in plague of owner's sin,  
To saltness damns; whence fruit nor skill nor toil can win.   

AGAIN his grace dry desert stores with pools:  
Sends springs, and bore burnt earth with fruitful moisture cools.  
There hungri souls their cittis sets to place:  
Who sow their grains; plant vines; years sweet return embrace.  
Abounding food then blest with restful peace;  
To numbers huge themselves, their flocks and herds increase.   

BUT hearts puffed up, soon spurning heauĕnli law,  
(Ah fools,) in chains of sin enchained tortures draw.  
Oppression foul, sad days, unthriving care;  
Their joyless minds abase; their branching numbers bare.  
He vild contempt on worthless Nobles pours;  
And wails wastes makes walk, chasĕd out from lordli towĕrs.  
Yet godly poor, raised up from pressing need,  
As tree makes branch, as flock his branched race to breed.   

THESE things the just with reverend joy shall see:  
And wicked minds and mouths paid and stopped shall be.  
Who then is wise, these sights to heart to lay?  
God's goodness they shall learn; God's praises they display.    

PSALM 110.  
The Prophet DAVID foreshoweth the everlasting Kingdom and Priesthood of Christ: who after his Ascension, sitting at the Right hand of God, should send out his forces from Zion and jerusalem, to reduce the world unto him. Which spiritual warfare should take so wonderful effect, that not only at the veri beginning infinite multitudes should adjoin themselves to the Church: but in short time also the Empire of Rome itself, (than Head of many Nations,) with other great kingdoms, should be conquered and subdued unto the obedience of Christ and his law. The proof whereof to the later ages did manifestly appear.  

THE Lord said to my Lord; Thou at my right-hand sit;  
While foes their necks I to thy feet as footstool make submit.  
From Zion, seat of Grace, the Lord thy sceptres might  
Through world shall send: midst all thy foes bear rule thou Prince of light.  
What day thy warli ranks shall high exploit begin;  
The people priest, with cheerful strife, to serve thee shall come in.  
Anon, as prime of morn with siluĕri perls of dew  
Al-spreds the world; like troops thy youth in sacred house shall show.   

THE Lord, who will not change, hath sworn fair Prince to thee;  
A Priest thou art, Melchĭsedek like, and ay that Priest shall be.  
This Prince, who ' on thy right hand, great King of heauĕn, thus shines;  
Each earthli King in ire shall crush, that 'gainst his rule repines.  
He Hĕthen with sword shall judge; fields, streets with corpse shall straw;  
Imperiăl Head whom Nations serve, assubiect to his law.  
As lightning, swift shall run; in way of torrent drink:  
Thus gloriŏus head triumphant raze; while daunted foes do shrink.    

PSALM III.  
The Psalmist here sings the praises of God, both for his glorious works, and for his gracious acts toward the Israelites, in mercifully conducting them from the serviliti of Egypt, to the happis land of Canaan; and therein chief for establishing to their everlasting good his sacred Law and Covenant. In observance whereof true wisdom consisteth.  
ALLELU-IA.  

MY heart doth heauĕnli heat inflame,  
To sound high praise to glorious name:  
Th'alglorious Lord, midst rightĕous press,  
In sacred senate shall I bless.  
Great are God's works; and bless their sight  
Whose minds in knowledge high delight:  
His gracious hand all good hath formed,  
All beautĕous, all with grace adorned.  
Ouĕr all God's justice glorious reigns:  
Which rightĕous ay, unswaid remains.   

HIS acts which wondering Fathers saw,  
So live, enrolled, as guiding law;  
That ages all with joy recount  
Those graces, thoughts which all surmount.  
He gracious Lord, with merci fraught,  
His race elect, from thraldom brought,  
In desert bare, in hungers reign,  
With food celestial did sustain.  
He, who his covenant still reminds,  
Where righteŏus fear, true faith he finds;  
To Israĕl deer his powĕr expressed,  
Which them of heathens land possesd.   

THUS all his works are truth and right;  
Prints of his hand, sparks of his light:  
His sacred precepts faithful all;  
And dying man to life recall:  
Unchanging rule; unerring guide:  
So Lord and Law still same abide.  
For when he first redemption sent,  
And feet late thralled at freedom went:  
He law, he leaug with them ordained,  
Eternal both from heăven proclaimed.  
That man should awful thereto frame:  
Sith holi' and dreadful lives his name,   

PRIME entrance unto wisdom true,  
God's greatness is to fear. O you,  
Sole you right understandings bless,  
Who tremble ' his mandates to transgress.  
Adore him then; whose praises pure,  
As sun, illustrious ay endure.  
   

PSALM 112.  
A mixed description, aswell of the virtuous, as also of the prosperous life of a good man: being an hart-grief to the wicked; whose desires all perish.  
ALLELU-IA.  

O HAPPI man; with humblest fears,  
And purest loves towărd God who bends:  
With sweet delight God's law he hears;  
And heard, through actions all extends.   

O HAPPI man! thy joys are true:  
Thy house with plenteŏus wealth abounds:  
Thy justice yields, and reaps, her due;  
Her fruit to thee still blest redounds.   

HIS offspring, noble in their race,  
By noblest virtues so endure:  
Long hold on earth great powĕrful place:  
And world of blessings round allure.   

YEA euĕn in time of darkest woe,  
To him doth cheerful light arise:  
To righteŏus man; who no ma●… fo,  
Still merciful, still merci tries.   

HE helpful, bounteŏus, lends, and gives;  
Reward from God's sole grace expects:  
In choicest thoughts still blessed lives;  
Which prudence rightly still directs.   

THEREFORE he stable ay shall stand;  
Nor storm, nor engine, throw him down.  
Yea gracious works of vertŭous hand,  
With fame immortal shall him crown.   

HIS settled mind on God relys;  
No troublous news can him affright:  
Firm stands his heart, and fears defies;  
Which on his enemies pates shall light.   

THUS spends the just, thus ends his hours:  
Dispersing hand the needi feeds:  
Down glorious blessing on him showers:  
Reaps endless prize of ended deeds.   

THE wicked this shall see, and vex;  
Shall grind their teeth, and pine to nought:  
Sad fears shall duly them perplex;  
Their dear desires to nothing brought.   

ALlelu-ia, ij. ij. ij.  
ij. ij. ij. ij. ij. ij.  
ij. O happis man; with humblest fears, And pu- rest  
loves toward God who bends: With sweet de- light Gods law he  
hears; And heard, through actions all ex- tends.  
O happis man; thy joys are true; Thy house with plentĕous wealth  
abounds: Thy justice yields, and reaps her due; Her fruit to  
thee still blest re- dounds.   

2. TRIPLE.  
Allelu-ia, ij. ij. ij. ij.  
ij. ij. ij. ij. ij. ij.   

MEAN.  
  

COUNTERTENOR.  
Allelu-ia, ij. ij. ij. ij.  
ij. ij. ij. ij. ij.   

TENOR.  
Allelu-ia, ij. ij. ij. ij.  
ij. ij. ij. ij. ij. ij. ij.   

BASE.  
 
Allelu-ia, ij. ij. ij. ij.  
ij. ij.   

LUTE.  
 
Allelu-ia,  
   

PSALM 118.  
This Psalm is with great reason conjectured to have been made by King David, and at his first coming to the possession of the kingdom of juda. It containeth first his inward great thankfulness to God for deliveris by divine hand from so many strong attempts against him: admonishing no assurance to be like unto trust in God. Secondly it reciteth the verse which the People had taken up to magnifis God with, for this victori as it were achieved in advancing David above his enemies. And lastly it setteth forth the duty of a truly noble and religious King, in the example of this King David; who besides his private thankfulness, maketh here a solemn entri into the Coorts of God; there prostrateth himself publicly in thanks and prayer to the Almightis: which done, he is blest of the Priests of God, and received as being sent to them from God to be their Governor. In fine, legal sacrifices are slain and offered up, with sound of triumphing praises, to the eternal Lord and King. In the person of King David, his Son our Saviour is here prefigured: who being refused by the Archbuilders, the Prelates and Potentates of his time; yet became by God's grace the headstone of the corner, whereupon the spiritual Church is builded, and wherein the jews and Gentiles were united: being received of the true Israel, as sent unto them from God.  

SING, o, sound out God's woorthi praise,  
Who goodness pure, still grace displays.  
Let Israĕls' race agnize the same:  
And thankful now renown his name.  
Great Aărons' house, thou blessed to bless,  
Same goodness, same sweet grace confess.  
Yea, all who fear our glorious King,  
His rich, his endless merci sing.   

IN straight distress the Lord I sought;  
Who gracious, fair enlargement brought.  
That sith my God doth me assist;  
Sith aiders mine his aid hath blessed:  
Nor fear I man, do man his worst;  
Nor faun on foe, with rancour burst.  
Much better o in God to trust,  
Then ground on man, whose ground is dust:  
On God yea better to rely,  
Then Princes; lo, euĕn Princes die.   

ME nations all enclozed, as toil;  
But God's great help all put to foil:  
As circle, they did me surround;  
But God's great help bare all to ground.  
Yea euĕn as cloud of Bees they swarmed,  
With ireful stings against me armed▪   

As cracling fire of thorns soon spent,  
By God's great help to smoke they went.   

THOU sore at me, my foe, hast thrust;  
My wrongful fo: but God, God just,  
With succŏring hand me stayed from fall;  
Thy plots, thine hopes defeated all.  
He, he my strength, my verse of praise;  
Sole health, sole joy for ending days.  
  

HARK: voice of joy, triumphing sound,  
Fills rightĕous tents, with safeti crowned:  
Sing, God, our God, this fight hath wrought;  
Whose right-hand valiant acts hath sought:  
Advanced stands that powerful hand;  
And powers terrene makes all disband.   

IT'S true, God me did sore correct:  
Yet still from death my soul protect.  
Then live I shall; (where's death thy sting?)  
O God, thy works, thy praise to sing.   

NOW towărd th'Eternals glorious place,  
With reuĕrence bend we joyful pace.  
Ye sacred Priests, to heauĕns great King,  
Who vows, who praiĕrs, sweet praises sing;  
Uncloze your gates: give praise access,  
At gates which praises all possess.  
Hence crew profane: Gods gates are pure;  
Sole rightĕous minds, clean thoughts endure.   

" O KING of Kings; who ear didst bend  
" To just requests; and safeti send:  
" Lo prostrate here thy servant true,  
" Yields thanks, brings praise, great Lord thy due.  
" What stone th' Archbuilders did reject;  
" Their folŏers' scorn; the world neglect;  
" Same stone now angel's fronted head,  
" Thy people's strength and rest hath bred.   

" O GRACIOUS Lord, thine act it is;  
" Great act of merci, act of bliss:  
" Our ravished thoughts, our wondering eyes,  
" Thy work makes mortal works despize.  
" This day thy grace hath made us see:  
" Which ay to joy shall sacred be.  
" Then still, great King, thy goodness reign:  
" Still safeti, still this joy maintain.   

O blessed thou, whom God hath sent;  
And here doth King in grace prezent.  
We Priests of God, God's merci seat  
Who ay attend, ay God entreat  
Appeased his people dear to bless;  
We bless you: Long God's bliss possess.  
  

He th' only God, this light hath razed,  
This joying light: He sole be praized.  
To altars horns beasts festive bind:  
Let sacred blood seal faithful mind.   

THOU art my God; I'll bless thy name:  
Our Lord; to heauĕns we'll raze thy fame.  
Sing then, sound out God's glorious praise:  
Who goodness pure, still grace displays.    

PSALM 119.  
This Psalm, conceived to be David's, and after a long time of persecution under King Saul, for that God had declared David for his successor; is a treasuri of many excellent parts of devotion, many choice things for instruction: each Section being not incoherent within itself for matter, though not so in form of speech, by reason of tying the verse to an alphabetical order; (uzed also in some other Psalm●…, but in differing manner;) either in assistance of memori, or to make the matter more remarkable. David then first layeth here the ground of true blessedness to consist in converting our hearts to God, by seeking to know him in his word, and by bending to serve him in observing his commandments: which infer an aversion from their contraries, namely lying ways and sin. He showeth (and often by his own example) the excellenci, and blessed effects of God's Law and Word. God's word is a light of heavenlitrueth: It illuminateth the understanding: and bringeth life unto man; conducting him thereunto, as a lamp or star, through the pilgrimage of this cloudi world, wherein we are strangers. The Law also of God comprised in this word, is a law everlasting; a law of perfect righteousness, continuing when all worldly perfections shall perish. Wonderful are the treasures of Wisdom, Virtue, and joy, wrapped up in this word and law of God: and which being unfolded, bring understanding to the simple: and are directions even for the young. They advance man in wisdom, above the wit of his enemies, the science of the learned, the experience of the aged. In cases doubtful, they are counsellors; in dangers, they are hopes; in disgraces, countenancers; in afflicted estate, comforters; in calm meditations, most pure delights and joys, far exceeding the joys of wealth and worldli prosperiti. Lastly they place their foloers in so great repose of soul, that no offence from the world can subvert or interrupt it. Contrariwise we being all the work of God's hands, who hath made the whole world and all parts thereof to serve him, even as at this day they continue; and seeing also our waysly open to the sight of God: what can the proud despisers of God's Law expect, but the curse of divine vengeance pursuing them by diverse judgements to everlasting d●…struction, till as dross they be consumed from off God's earth? For although it be true that the mercies of God are great, yea and that the whole earth is replenished with them; yet far is salvation from the obduredly wicked. The horror of whose ends reprezented to prudent minds, breedeth in them a fear of the judgements of God; and maketh them more resolvedly to hate the vain inventions of godless persons, whose trics and falsehoods are but deceive of themselves; as also more carefully to consider their own coorses, and choosing the way of truth, to make haste to serve God, refraining from everi evil and unapprooved way which might to his divine Maiesti be displeasing. But David now applying these generals to his own particular, discovereth an extraordinari spirit and admirable desire, toward God, his word, his law, and judgements: professing they were his studi, meditation, delight, yea and matter of his speech: that he dezired nothing so much, as to have his heart, and ways so addressed toward God, as to know him, and keep his laws. Seven times a day, did he praise God for his justice: His prayers to God for assisting grace and protection, were earlier than the dawning of the toilsome day: his meditation on the word of God and heavenli mysteries, prevented the nightli watches: yea all the day long, his loving and longing thoughts, ran wholly upon the law of God: And at midnight also, when other men were at their natural rest, and slept; he wakening roze up to give thanks unto God in contemplation of his righteous judgements. These were his trust, hope, comfort, and joy. Love of these bred an hatred in him of all lying and false ways: a care to refrain from transgressing their rules in any thing: a loathing of the veri company of ungodli persons: an endeavour to make his companions of them who feared God and kept his precepts: a zeal that even consumed him with bitterness of grief, to see his enemies not forget only and viclate the law of God, but with wicked desires and the pride of an high hand attempt utterly to displace it; which called on God himself to take his quarrel in hand. Lastly this love of God's word and law, cauzed him to speak boldly thereof before Kings. And though Princes traduced him in unprinceli manner; yea and persecuted him without a cause: though the pride of his enemies sought maliciously and wrongfully, to bereave and deprive him, of his goods, by robbing him; of his good name and reputation, by forging lys and dispersing reproaches against him; and lastly of life itself, by lying in ambush to surprise him: yet his heart being held in awe by the word of God, he forbore to repay wrong with wrong, sin with sin: but in silent sorro, even with streams of tears, bewailed their offences, and ensuing punishment. And for himself he confesseth this affliction was for his good; that God sent it him in veri faithfulness, to reform his straying coorses; which effect it had wrought: and that his delight in the law of God, and hope in his word, did both preserve and comfort him in all those troubles. This being David's estate and disposition of soul, his prayers are suitable. He prayeth God, that looking upon him, and considering he was his, and a lover of his law; he would vouchsafe to teach him it, by enlightening his understanding, and by enduing him with good sense and judgement: that he would give him a sound heart; and so enlarge and quicken it with heavenli joy and cheerfulness, as readily to run the way of God's commandments: That having inclined him to the way of righteousness, he would disturn his eyes, from regarding vaniti; his heart, from being caught with covetousness: that he would deliver him from lying ways; and preserve him in such strength of virtue, that no iniquiti might get any dominion over him. And where it had pleazed God, by private message, to cauze David to be anointed King over Israel; and on that promise to rely; for which his proud enemies did deride and pursue him: he prayeth God to be mindful and confirm that word; that having how to answer the reproaching him with that trust; the shame might redound upon his scorning adversaries. From whose oppression also he prayeth now at length to be delivered: that walking at liberti, he might freely apply and exercise the law of God: and good men might freely also associate themselves unto him. And for observance of the divine law for the time to come, he maketh here a solemn vow unto God: whom he humbly withal prayeth to accept that and other free offerings of his mouth, vows, prayers, and praises, being all he could offer. Finally he concludeth with the sum of his suit, the gift of understanding, and freedom from his enemies: that his life being continued, he might praise the goodness of God: who now being chased out by Saul, and wandering up and down like a sheep that had strayed, yet did not, ne could forget God's commandments; whose favour he again imploreth, to give end to that extremiti. This Psalm (for the worthiness thus largely abridged) remaineth a clear mirror of the godly heart of David: which cauzed him to be a man after the heart of God, and to wear the honour of that incomparable title.  

ALEPH.  

O BLESSED they; who men upright in mind and way,  
In God's pure law delight, his sacred will obey.  
Yea blessed, who embrace his word that witness true:  
And God their souĕrain good with flaming hearts pursue.  
Such men sure sin decline; in paths divine proceed:  
Them careful hold: which held, have high reward decreed.   

O THAN, sith thou so straight thy hests to keep hast chargĕd;  
My ways were so addresd, my feet so, Lord, enlargĕd,  
As free thy steps to trace: no blot shall me distain,  
No shame confound; on thee while fixed mine eyes remain.  
Right heart thy praise shall sound, for law of justice taught:  
Which learned, I'll keep: at length reduce me o to thought.    

BETH.  

WHEREWITH may careless youth his falti paths amend?  
If heedful by thy word he them to guide attend.  
Ah Lord, with heart entire I thee have truly sought:  
O let not straying soul with trains of vice be caught.  
Long I thy precious laws have treasŭred in my heart,  
To purge out sin: Blessed Lord, still teach that sacred art.   

REMEMBER Lord, my lips, and not unthankful tongue,  
How free thy word have taught, how glad thy praise have song:  
How dear delight I take in way from heauĕn declarĕd:  
Vain joys breeds world of wealth, with these true joys comparĕd.  
With musing mind I view, and still thy law admire:  
Nor sight gives end to search; nor search to sweet desire.    

GIMEL.  

THIS gift, this favour, Lord, on servant thine bestow;  
That live I may; and live, thy saving grace to know,  
Yea sacred word to keep. Then thou mine eyes unsele;  
And wonders of thy law to groping mind revel.  
I stranger room on earth; my seat with thee abides:  
O hide not heauĕnli way which to thy presence guides.   

DESIRE my soul consumes, still musing on that path:  
Which pride derides; dead pride, devowd to firi wrath.  
But thou repel their scorns. Ah zeal to sacred law,  
From Prince's seats did grieved unprinceli censures draw.  
Yet still, I still thy word in studious thoughts renew:  
Sole solace in my griefs, in doubts adviser true.    

dale.  

MY humbled soul to dust, prostrate on earth, doth cleve;  
Remynd thy word; and up revived servant have.  
My heart, my state, and ways, to thee I did unfold:  
Thou heard'st with grace: then still me precepts thine, enrolled  
In faithful breast, direct. Discloze thy beauteŏus way:  
And morning soul recheerd thy merveils let display:   

REMOVE bypaths of lys: thy truth hath been my choice;  
Thy law my mirror. O, make clear thy gracious voice:  
And foloĕr of thy words grant through that favour high,  
Be nor ashamed to live, nor Lord afraid to die.  
Yea when my narroĕd heart shall noble grace enlarge;  
Base lets despized, I'll run what race thy mandates charge.    

HERALD  

GREAT Guide of men, my feet address in righteŏus way:  
My feet; by thee addressed, which ne'er from thee shall stray.  
Recleer my dimmed mind, sweet beauti of thy laws  
To view: which viewed, from heart like love abundant draws.  
Thus heart deject erect, thy rising paths to climb;  
Thy word, my high delight, in razed thoughts to shrine.   

BUT from unwoorthi gain; from vain aspects, which fire  
Unwari breasts; disturn mine eyes and frail desire.  
And quickĕn me in thy way. Ah to thy servant true,  
Devoted to thy fear, thy royal word renew.  
So feared reproach discharge: with judgements just recheer  
The fainting soul which longs thy statutes to endeer.    

VAV.  

LET then thy mercy's deer, saluătion, favours high,  
Foretold by gracious word, at length great Lord draw nigh.  
That those who me reproach depending thus on thee;  
Confounded quite, their scorns my glori high may see.  
Mene while let word so true towărd him not wholly sleep,  
Who trusts in thy decree, still still thy law will keep.   

AND keeping thus thy law, abroad I'll boldly walk:  
And of thy word fore kings undaunted freely talk.  
O King of kings, thou thou my love and sole delight:  
Thy hests my joy; on them I still defix my sight;  
Towărd them my hands I'll raze, to act what they require;  
Who sole possess my thoughts, command my chief desire.    

ZAIIN.  

THAN mindful of thy speech, thou Lord still true and just,  
Shine forth; sith in that word hast caused thy servant trust.  
Sole this to grieved mind sweet comfort still derives;  
This pressed state supports; this dulled spirits revives.  
The proud both it and me with scorns profane deride:  
Nor pride, nor scorns profane, from thee can me divide.   

FOR judgements thine of old my musing thoughts revieu:  
Which me secure: but ah still horror then renew,  
When ends of lawless men my pityĭng mind foresees.  
But I, in pilgrim life, still singing thy decrees;  
In silent night, with joy revolving Lord thy name;  
Thy statutes keep; which kept, these joys in me enframe.    

ch.  

MY portion, Lord, art thou: my thankful mind, resolved  
Thy words to keep, her cares on thee hath all devolved.  
And heart with fervent suit thy gracious face hath sought:  
Let then those mercies shine which gracious word hath taught.  
For straight my earthli ways, with view unpartial eyed,  
Delay cut off, I glad to heauĕnli course applied.   

THIS worldlings hate procures; whose troops make me their prey.  
Nor hate of world, nor wrongs, me from thy paths can fray.  
Thou witness, Night; whose midst with thanks me rise doth hear  
God's judgements just to bless: thou Day; which God who fear,  
His laws who love, my dear companions all dost see.  
Thou then, whose grace earth fills, thou, Lord, my leader be.    

TET.  

I MUST confess, my Lord, that graciously with me,  
As was thy word, hast dealt: o grant, from passions free,  
With sense and science right, thy servant still esteem.  
For euĕn afflictions all I now thy favours deem:  
Which straying soul reducĕd; who since believes thy law.  
Thou good, and good who dost; still me to goodness draw,   

THE proud with conscious gilt have lys 'gainst me devizĕd:  
I careful kept thy word; that kept, their lys despizĕd.  
Their hearts hath tallo ' obdurĕd: thy hests are my delight.  
And since thy chastening hand my humbled soul aright  
In wisdom's school hath framĕd; more dear thy laws I hold,  
Then streams of silver fine, than hills of purest gold.    

IOD.  

THY hands me made, and formed: reform thy servant, Lord;  
And understanding give, which sin may make abhorred.  
Thy judgements all are just: I know, in faithful truth,  
And for my good, thy love, thus scourged hath my youth.  
But now let promised grace, with comfort shine: that they  
Who fear thee, knowĕing my case, thy praise may glad display.   

YEA let thy mercy's shower, and weariĕd soul refresh:  
That withĕring heart reviuĕd may life from thee confess.  
Let pride ashamĕd remain to seek my causeless bane:  
Whose harmless thoughts thy law their sole delight do frame.  
Let zelers' of thy hests to me themselves adjoin:  
And clenze my heart; that shames sad scandal none eloin.    

CAPH.  

MY long erected soul, still looking for thy grace,  
Thy word still trusting, now bends down her fainting face.  
Consumed are my spir̆its; consumĕd my waiting eyes:  
Like bottle parched with smoke, myself now self despize.  
Yet still believe thy word; thy precepts still apply.  
How many rest my days? when draw thy comforts nigh?   

AND when shall I my Lord see sword of justice draw,  
'Gainst proud pursuing foes; who pits, (not so thy law,)  
For righteŏus steps have deluĕd? Ah hate the most unjust!  
Thou than whose hests are truth, my life near trod to dust,  
If still thy law I love, if mercies thine attend,  
In merci keep; which kept, I'll in thy service spend.    

LAMED.  

THY word foreuĕr, great Lord, in heavens enthronĕd remains:  
Thy word, which all did make, and all things made sustains.  
Thy truths through age to age with steadfast course proceed.  
Stands peized earth, ne moves, by thee so Lord decreed.  
Thus lo, as thou ordainĕdst, they all this day persist;  
Thy servants all, to act what e'er thy judgements list.   

MY woes had me consumĕd, had solace in thy law  
Not cheered that heart, which nought can e'er from thence withdraw.  
For thine I am: o thine preserve from wicked sword,  
Which dog's my life; who live in studyĭng Lord thy word,  
In tracing Lord thy ways. O ways of widening joys!  
When else perfections all see fretting time destroys.    

MEM.  

WHAT, Lord, what heat my soul with sacred love inspires  
Of law divine? what powĕr thus rapts my strong desires?  
All day to quicned cares, to pozed thoughts at night,  
Itself prezents: still shines high minds admired light.  
A light, whose rays infuzĕd, more sciĕnt me make and sage;  
Then teachers, books; wit, foes; or grey experience, age.   

O LAW, my thoughts delight! desire those mandates pure,  
Lawgiver great, to please, doth wari feet enure,  
All sinful ways to shun, thy words high paths to hold;  
Makes judgements thine observe, which sacred rolls have told.  
Yea sweetest juice my taste not so with sweetness feeds:  
As word, which wisdom true, vild falsehoods hate, imbreeds.    

NUN.  

THY word, a lamp divine, fair star that leads the day,  
To paths obscure doth shine; and guides to heauĕnli way.  
And I by sacred vow, a vow in heauĕns enrolled,  
Stand bound, and rest resolved that words just rules to hold.  
Afflictions me extreme bear down: let promised grace,  
Revive me: ' o then, I pray, poor lips frank gifts embrace.   

MY soul see still in hand stands priest away to fly;  
Such snares my life beset: yet still thy hests I ay;  
Can not thy Law forget. O teach me Lord thy ways:  
Thy word since all my state, sole joy my heart to raze;  
And thou my souĕrain good; since soul entire I bend  
Thy will to do, in this life's breath extreme to spend.    

SAMECH.  

THY Law I dearly love; man's vain conceits despize;  
Thou refuge mine, and shield; whose word my waiting eyes  
Still holds in hope. Avaunt, avaunt then crew profane;  
God's mandates just I'll keep: sole thou my hope from shame,  
(The hope thy speech hath razed,) with life persuĕd, defend.  
Sauĕd lives so whole delight I'll in thy statutes spend.   

AND lo transgressors proud, whose fraud shall self deceive,  
Thine earth's inutil load, of grace whom dost bereave;  
As basest mire down trod, as dross with purging fire  
Consumĕd, shall sole remain sad marks of heauĕnli ire.  
Therefore thy word I love: in love, yet quake with fear,  
When judgements thine I view; yea hair dire horrors rear.    

HAIIN.  

IRIGHT and just have wrought; thy law hath been my guide.  
Abandon then me not t'uniust oppressing pride.  
But intercede with help, my sureti' and witness true:  
And failing eyes with strength of rightĕous speech renew.  
Thy servant, I: dear Lord, thy servant not forsake:  
Give sciĕnce, thy hests me teach; and to thy favour take.   

THUS I thy will shall know. But time for thee, great Lord,  
For thee to work: whose laws, of lawless minds abhorred,  
Quite now they would displace. I, Lord, so much the more  
'Bove finest gold them prize; thee fountain just adore;  
Their virtues high admire, in all things always right:  
And falsehoods ways perverse all spurn with just despite.    

PE.  

SO meruĕilous shines thy word, in powĕr, in wisdom high,  
In goodness; that my soul with winged desire doth fly,  
And pant, it to attain. Lo than thy sacred light  
I follow Lord with joy: since understanding bright  
Disclozĕd even simple minds it gives. Thou me with grace  
Aspect, as those who thee in height of loves do place.   

AND first my steps so guide in path of heauĕnli word,  
That sins dark powĕr decay. Then me with justice sword  
From man's oppression free: free man thy ways I'll trace:  
O thou thy servant teach. And with thy gracious face  
Cheer up my grieved eyes: whence streaming tears do thrill,  
To see unthankful man neglect thy saving will.    

TZADE.  

HIGH judge of worlds, from whom pure justice down doth flow;  
Whose law, world's perfect rule; whose word, hid truth makes know;  
And judgements all are right: thou these with charge severe  
Hast man enjoind to keep: that me grieved zeal doth wear,  
To see my foes forget thy speech proclaimed above;  
Thy speech, which pure as heauĕns, drawth up thy servants love.   

I SMALL, and am despizĕd: thy precepts yet apply:  
Which mirror true of thee; which rule derivĕd from high  
Of justice firmly pitched, of never changing right;  
In toils, in grasping griefs, still yield me sweet delight.  
Sole thou my dazzling mind, (pure lights eternal spring,)  
Illuminate: which light shalt life eternal bring.    

KOPH.  

PROSTRATE with ardent heart, with tear-distilling eyes,  
I call, I cry: o thou who just complaints despize  
Nor dost, nor canst, thou hear; and save him, who thy hests,  
And witnessed will will keep: if undefilĕd requests  
Morn's dawning oft; if oft my waking thoughts prevent  
Night's watches, towărd thy word, their hope, in musing bend.   

LO, fainting voice to thee my still unfainting heart  
Sends up: send down thy strength: and Prince of grace who art,  
Revive me ' as is thy wont. See, near towărd me they draw,  
Who mischief dire pursue; far they from (Lord) thy law.  
But thou art near: whose hests for never-changing truth  
Long since thy teaching word assurĕd my learning youth.    

RESCH.  

AT length let pityĭng ey respect afflicted wight.  
And thou, man's heart who seest, art conscious of my right,  
And pressing foe obseruĕst; plead thou my cause; and free  
Soul cheered through thy word, addicted whole to thee.  
Thy mercy's Lord are wide: yet far from godless crew;  
Who seek not thee, nor way to bliss that leads pursue.   

BUT me thy doom revive: whom now pursuing foes,  
Not faithless to thy word, with swarming troops encloze.  
O grief! mine ey to see men break thy rightĕous law;  
despise celestiăl bliss: in lines of love which draw  
Thy servants soul: see Lord; and quickĕn them with thy grace,  
Who just, eternal word, truths sum, with joy embrace    

SCHIN.  

WITH causeless hate, o Lord, and not unwronging sword,  
Have Princes me persuĕd: yet awe of heauĕnli word  
My heart restrained from sin. O word, whose joys more draw,  
My ly-detesting mind, and mind that loves thy law,  
Then joy which Princes gifts, or foes rich spoils can bring!  
Seuĕn times yea daily I thy righteŏus judgements sing.   

IN throng of worldly waves, which sweet of life devour,  
Their minds still calm abide, no scandal there hath powĕr,  
Where love of thee directs. Lo than thy saving grace  
My hoping eyes attend: sole thou his love embrace,  
Whose pure affection seeks thy pleasure to fulfil.  
I fain not, Lord: my ways, yea heart, thou vieust at will.    

THAV.  

THAN let at length approach, o Lord, my fainting cry;  
Vouchsafe my suit access: sole understanding I,  
And riddance from my foes, (which promized haste,) require.  
Thus taught thy will, and free; towărd thee my quick desire  
Shall spring; my lips thy praise, glad tongue thy word shall sound,  
Where truth, where wisdom pure, where statutes just abound.   

LET then thy hand now help; if not with cold pursuit  
Salvation thine I seek. Vouchsafe me Lord this fruit  
Of making thee my hope, thy law my choice delight;  
O let my soul yet live, preserved from tyrant's might;  
And it shall praise thy name. Seek then thy straying sheep,  
Who wandering now, as lost, yet strives thy law to keep.     

PSALM 122.  
King DAVID having reduced the three parts of jerusalem, that of juda, that of Benjamin, and the Mount held by the jebusites, into one entire Citi; and there in Zion seated the Ark of God: having also according to the Law, established there supreme Coorts juridical, for administration of justice to all God's people: taking a vieu of this work performed by divine grace; and of the people's alacriti in frequenting God's service: he expresseth in this Psalm his religious joy for the same: and blessing jerusalem, and all them that bless her; concludeth with a promise on his own behalf, both for the people's sake, (his brethren in race and religion,) and espeally for the Temple's sake of God, to procure studiously the good of that chosen Citi.  

MY longing heart dear joy assayed,  
As gracious sound struck grateful ear:  
Religious minds! Each neighbour prayed,  
In God's fair house let's all appear.  
jerusalem, our peaceful feet  
Now frequent in thy gates shall meet.   

JERUSALEM, the earth's delight;  
A City, three compact in one:  
To thee the Tribes, in legal rite,  
God's chosen Tribes ascend alone.  
Sole here shines out heauĕns glorious King:  
Here Israel all his praises ring.   

RELIGION justice doth embrace;  
Who doubled bliss through land derive:  
For judgement thrones here hold their place;  
And wronged right with aid revive.  
judicial thrones, the Kingdom's powĕr;  
Of David's crown most glorious flower.   

O THAN jerusalem respect;  
Her peace with vows to heauĕn commend.  
jerusalem! who thee affect,  
Them joy, them bliss, still priest attend.  
O peace ay in thy towĕrs reside:  
In houses plenti ay abide.   

I FOR my friends, my brethren's sake,  
Whom race, whom rites, in love combine;  
Shall always pray; Earth's peace partake;  
And heauĕns rich light upon thee shine.  
For God's fair house, my joy, I'll sure  
Still studious, still thy good procure.    

PSALM 128.  
The prosperous and happis estate, both public and private, of the man, who fearing God, leadeth a life full of integriti.  

OBLESSED they, whose humble hearts  
True fear of powĕr divine endues:  
Religious soul, that ne'er departs  
From way which blissful life renews.   

O BLESSED man! thy joys abound:  
Thine house thy cheerful hands shall rear:  
And labours just, with blessing crowned,  
Shall feeding fruit still plenteŏus bear.   

THY wife, a vine on wall disspred,  
In fruitful love hast joyous met:  
Thy children sweet, in virtue bred,  
Fair olive plants, thy board beset.   

LO thus Gods fear thus gracĕd shall be:  
From Zion deer thee God shall bless:  
And quiet home shall plenti see;  
And life contented long possess.   

THAT all thy days delighted eye  
jerusalems' great weal may view:  
And wasting life itself espy  
In children's children to renew.   

O THANKFUL then Gods love allure;  
Still rightĕous life with care maintain:  
So happis long mayst thou endure;  
So peace with Isrăel long remain.    

PSALM 130.  
The Psalmist in the continuance of some great public calamiti, wherein he had his part, (not unlikeli in the wearisome captiviti of Babylon) sendeth up his humble cry●… unto almightis God, not to call their faults to a strict account, which the frailti of human nature is not able to endure; but to express now at length that merci of his, which draweth men to fear and serve him with comfort. So professing his hope in God; and exercising his patience in that hope; yet continuing still his fervent desire in this patience: he exhorteth all Israel to persevere in like attending trust, assuring them that God would redeem them from all their sins and afflictions.  

OUT from the deep, to thee o Lord I cry:  
From place far off; yet thou good Lord be nigh.  
Lord hear my voice, and with attentive ear  
Receive the plaints which humbled soul doth rear.   

IF strictly Lord transgressions thou shalt ey;  
Lord who shall stand? in sad despair we die.  
But justice thine still mercy's thoughts displays:  
That Greatness, fear; and Goodness love may raze.   

WITH patiĕnce then on God my soul attend:  
(His word, my trust:) he'll give thee joyful end.  
As morning rays rear sentinal desires:  
So so, and more, towărd thee my soul aspires.  
And patiĕnt o await him Isrăel deer:  
His great redemption now will soon appear.  
He merci is: His merci from their thrall,  
Yea from their sins, shall ransom Isrăel all.   

TRIPLE.  
O  
Ut from the deep, to thee, o Lord, I  
cry: From place far off; yet thou good Lord be nigh.  
Lord hear my voice, and with attentive ear Re-ceive the  
plaints, which humbled soul doth rear. If strictly Lord transgress-  
But justice thine still mere-  
sions thou shalt ey; Lord, who shall stand? in sad  
eyes thoughts dis- plays: That great- nes, fear; and goods  
pair we die.  
nes, love may raze.   

BASE.  
  

MEAN.  
  

COUNTERTENOR.  
  

TENOR.  
  

LUTE.  
   

PSALM 137.  
The people of juda, and especially the sacred Quires of the House of God, after that great overthrow of jerusalem and the Temple by the Chaldeans, being now in captiviti within the dominions of Babylon; and having carried their instruments of Music with them: are required in scorn by their insolent conquerors, to make them merry with some song of Zion. Which they refuzing to profane in that sort: make a vow, with execration against themselves, if ought before jerusalem, and hope of her restoration, ascend at any time to any height of joy in their now most woeful minds. And conclude with betaking unto divine revenge, the insulting malice of the unnatural Edomites, and the cruelti of the Babylonians, in that heavi day of jerusalem.  

BY Babel streams, exiled from Contri deer,  
As down we sat, a sad dismayed crew;  
Ah, Zions wrongs to pensive minds appear,  
Zions, whom now our eyes no more should view.  
We wept: and trees that saw our tears abound,  
Hanged up those harps which want our joys resound.   

THAN scornful Lords, who Zions towers had fired,  
God's Temple razed, and us to thraldom seized;  
In anguish, mirth; in tears, a song required;  
And with some Hymn of Zion must be pleased.  
Should hymns divine to ears profane be song?  
Can Zions Psalms to Babel's coasts belong?   

O ZION fair! and God's elected seat,  
(Where envi erst, but piti now may ground;)  
jerusalem! If thee I e'er forget,  
If in my joys thou chiefest be not found:  
Let parched tongue to withĕring palate grow;  
And skilful hand no more his science know.   

BUT thou, o Lord, whose right-esteeming eye  
jerusalems' last traveils did behold;  
Let Edom's malice never couĕred lie,  
Which cruel mouths did strangely then unfold.  
Their cursed cry record in heauĕnli ear;  
Raze, raze her clean; till loweëst stone appear.   

AND Babel, thou, who Zions bane hast wrought;  
Ne sacred Temple spar'dst with fire to burn;  
Shalt see thyself to same destructiŏn brought;  
And blessed they, who thee the like return.  
Yea blessed they, who take thy cursed seed,  
With dasht-out brains the crying stones to feed.   

TRIPLE.  
B  
Y Babel streams, exiled from  
contri dear, As down we sat, a sad dismai-ed crew; Ah  
Zions wrongs to pensive minds ap-pear; Zions, whom now our eyes no  
more should view. We wept: and trees that saw our tears a-  
bound, Hanged up those harps which want our joys re- sound.   

BASE.  
  

MEAN.  
  

COUNTERTENOR.  
  

TENOR.  
  

LUTE.  
   

PSALM 139.  
DAVID in this divine meditation, addressed to God, acknowledgeth at large Gods knowledge of all things, even before they have being; and in particular of all the thoughts and ways of man: rendereth a reason of this Omniscience, from the creation of all, and particularly from the merveilous fabric of man: which ravisheth his mind into such admiration, that breaking into most affectionate praises of the manifold works and ways of God; he professeth also that his thoughts are no sooner after sleep awakened but they first are seasoned with this sweet contemplation. Contrarily falling into extreme detestation yea and imprecation against those wicked ones, who blasphemous toward God, vainly extol God's enemies: he concludeth with fervent prayer, that himself may be purified by the grace of God, & so conducted through the ways of this world, as to attain finally his everlasting rest.  

ETERNAL Light; 'gainst whose all-seeing eye,  
Man's thoughts, his cares, and ways, do all transparent lie:  
Lo here my soul; which thou with piercing vieu,  
Hast searched, and dost know; so liuĕst her witness true.  
Great judge of hearts; who secret plights unfold'st;  
Who passed with future things all present ay beholdest:  
Thou knowĕst my course, when down I sit, when rize;  
Yea thoughts unborn far off thy foresight strange descries.   

BY day my walks, at night my silent rest  
Thou dost enuĭron, with skill to all my paths addressed.  
Obseruĕst my tongue: no word unwaighed dost leave:  
Yea, lips ere words produce, or thoughts hid speech conceve.  
And grasp'st me so with thy al-guiding hand,  
Behind, before, as priest at pleasure thine to stand.  
Science profound; of strange transcending law!  
That man nor it can sound, nor self from it withdraw.   

FOR whether go, how should I bend my flight,  
Thy spirit Lord to balk, or cloud me from thy sight?  
If sore towărd heauĕns; in heauĕn thy throne resides:  
If flag longest earth; lo earth thy footstool low abides:  
If stoop to hell, and jaws which ghastly gape;  
Nor hell thy vieu, nor fiends thy thundering stroke escape.  
If Eastern steeds, and Mornings crimson wings  
I timely mount, which round to utmost Ocĕan brings;  
Thou east's great course, and Morn's fair wings dost guide;  
Nor utmost Ocĕans' gulfs from thine aspect can hide.   

PERHAPS might say, yet darkness me may hele;  
She with her sable rob from searchingst ey conceal.  
And canst once think, weak shade which Sun dispels,  
Should Light of lights eclipse, who thousand Suns excels?  
Fond, base conceit! To thee, o Light divine,  
Both dark and bright are like; grim night as day doth shine.  
  

FOR just and right, that thou Creator high,  
Who all hast framĕd, thy frame shouldst naked all descry:  
And who my heart, my reins in womb didst form;  
With limbs support; attire with skin, with sense adorn;  
Shouldst heart and thoughts, shouldst sense and ways possess.  
Stupendious work! which ay great Architect shall bless.  
A little world; yet world of wonders great:  
Which well my mind conceits, and tongue of it shall treat.   

MY bones in weak, in place obscure my sight,  
In earth beneath my mind, fair spark of heauĕnli light,  
Thou didst produce: embroidĕring euĕrie part  
With work so rare, that use with beauti strives in art.  
And doubt we yet if thou thy work didst know?  
Or can our tongues forbear thy glorious praise to show?  
Yea, tender mass, while formles it remained,  
And day by day nue shape through vertu thine aggaind:  
Thine eye saw all, enrolled in book divine;  
Where all thy works to come, as present, clearly shine.   

BE blest, great Lord: thy wisdoms beautĕous ways  
How precious, dearly sweet, to thee my soul do raze?  
In skill, man's wit; in count, they pass the sands:  
That still my wakened mind, with thee first present stands;  
Admiring all thy works. O righteous King;  
At length then please thy world ●…o first estate to bring.  
Extermin race defiled. Ye men of blood,  
Whose base flagitious minds despise th'eternal Good;  
Who grace his foes; of him profanely prate;  
Avaunt from me; yourselves, and damned ways I hate.   

AH souĕrain judge, to thee my soul appeals,  
My witness true; whose spir̆it man's secretest thoughts reveals.  
That love of thee, 'gainst them grieved hatred breeds,  
Whose venŏmous hate 'gainst thee breaks out in hostile deeds.  
Thy foes are mine: with them I leaug forsake:  
And firm in perfect hate to vengeance just betake.  
  

THAN thou, my Lord, to whom I stand, or fall;  
Who rightĕous minds approov'st, yet none canst perfect call:  
Revieu my heart, explore my thoughts again;  
And weigh what grieving course doth in my life remain.  
Refine my soul: purge out corrupted use:  
And safe through worldly waves to thy sweet rest conduce.  
   

PSALM 141.  
This Psalm of DAVID seemeth by the matter thereof to have been made, upon some occasion of an accident happened out in saul's third expedition against David: when pursuing him with three thousand of his choicest men up in the rocks of Engedi: and having there withdrawn himself a side into a cave, he had a skirt of his rob secretly cut off by David, without offer of any violence to his person. At which time Saul in show reconciling himself to righteous David, yet afterward renewed sharp pursuit against him: hoping (how vainly, and from how blind desire?) at some time or other to effect his destruction, whom God had declared successor in the kingdom. David therefore in this Psalm, prezenting his humble prayers as a sacrifice to Almighti God, beseecheth him to preserve him in word thought and deed from sin: preferring the severe reproofs of a just man, before the delicacies and pleasures of the wicked. Then closely intimating how kindly he had dealt with Saul; and how cruelly he was requited: he prayeth God to continue still his gracious protector; and that the snares laid by his enemies, might entrap their own gilti selves, whilst he with his innocenci did happily escape them.  

TO thee, o Lord, to thee my humbled mind,  
Her humblest voice prezents: o let me favour find:  
And hast my God; let ear benign be lent,  
To piteous cry, to suit, from grieffull heart upsent.  
O let my praiĕr, perfumĕd with heauĕnli grace,  
So stand, and sweetly smoke, before thy pleazed face;  
As incense pure midst holiĕst altars fire;  
And hands let stretched, to thee like eeuĕnings' gift aspire.   

MY speech so, Lord, my thoughts, and deeds compoze,  
That nothing thee offend. A watch assign, to close  
My mouth on words unmeet; the gate to heed,  
That two-leafd gate of lips, whence life and death proceed.  
Retire my heart from poizŏned baits of sin:  
Renforce my mind, that no provokements me may win,  
Untrue to thee, with men that mischief breed  
To join; their course to run; on dainties their to feed.   

LET just man's zeal me yea severely beat;  
I kindness shall it deem: let his religious heat  
reprove my life; as precious balm, my head,  
Not break, it shall perfume: And thankful heart imbred,  
When change of times with sorroes him may press,  
For comfort his to thee shall fervent suit address.  
  

NOW these men's judges, who with chosen bands  
My harmless life pursue; withdrawn, were left in hands  
Of horrent rock: where terror none from me,  
But pleazing words they heard, from doubt their souls to free.   

BUT not they so requite. When we again  
Into their claws are light, nought cruel they refrain.  
But as in woods, when stateli trees to ground  
Are hewĕd; the chips, and stics lie spersed on all sides round:  
So bones of men, devoured by their ire,  
At graves sad mouth lie strew, and earth's first womb dezire.   

NOW then, o Lord, mine eyes since look to thee;  
In thee I trust alone; and secure none else see;  
My God, my Lord; o not my suit reject;  
Nor bore my soul of shield that sole can it protect.  
My chased life from snaring net withdraw;  
Which men who love their lusts, not love thy sacred law,  
For it have pitched: destroy deceitful grin,  
Which men compact of fraud have set t'entrap me in.   

AND thou just judge, whose eye our mortal ways  
With right esteem beholds; and snare with snare repays;  
Let impious heads own tangling nets enfold:  
While I with mine break through, of thee who safeti hold.    

PSALM 145.  
King DAVID now flourishing as it seemeth with prosperiti, apply most worthily his thankful soul to sound out the high praises of the Author thereof. He celebrateth therefore most excellently in this Psalm, the incomprehensible Greatness, and glorious Maiesti of the Eternal King. Then he singeth God's Goodness, his justice, and Merci, embracing all his works with all favourable benigniti. All which therefore he exciteth to return praise to their Lord and Maker: And chief the true servants and Saints of God, that by their means the glori of the kingdom of God, may be made known over all the world. Himself then in example, describeth the boundless extent and amplitude of God's everlasting kingdom: his assistance where need is: his fatherls providence, ministering food duly to all things whose lives are thereby sustained: his justice, and holiness, in all his ways and actions; especially in his gracious attentivenes to the just petitions of his servants, ever saving all those that love him; as contrarily in his provoked severity toward the wicked, retributing to them their just and deserved destruction. For which he inviteth all men to join with him in ever praizing God.  

GREAT Lord, my God, and glorious King;  
My soul triumphs thy bliss to sing:  
While heauĕns shall last, with grateful praise  
'Bove heauĕn of heauĕns thy name I'll raze.  
When Sun with Eastern rays up-springs;  
And when down West his flames he brings;  
In toils of day, at nightli rest,  
Ay praized, and ay shalt thou be blest.   

THY Greatness first my mind admires;  
(Whose right like praises great requires;)  
Thy boundless beĕing: which gulf to thought,  
In bounds each creature fit hath wrought.  
Thy works each age with praise recounts;  
And power, which puĭsance all surmounts:  
And I, with wondrous acts, that light  
Of glorious state will glad indite.  
They prowĕs and valure's strange confess:  
I beautĕous Maiĕsti would express.   

THY Goodness next prezents sweet view:  
Where bounties rich still gifts renew.  
Glad hands receive: and thankful tongues  
Shall sound what praise such grace belongs.  
Here who thy justice can forget;  
Where hymns, where joys are sweetly met:  
Thy justice fair, with merci crowned;  
Of glorious bliss th'all-gracious ground?   

O LORD benign, of best desires,  
To piti▪ ay prone, unprone to ires,  
Towărd all, thou good, thou full of grace;  
Thy Mercies all thy works embrace.   

THEREFORE Great Sire, shall all thy works,  
In heauĕn what shines, midst earth what lurks,  
What e'er dispersed through world's great frame,  
Ay blaze, ay bless thy gracious name.   

THEY chief, who deer of thee esteemed,  
Live Saints on earth, from earth redeemed:  
Thy kingdoms glories they shall teach;  
Thy peerless strength they fearless preach.  
That power magnĭficent, bliss divine,  
And beauties there which glorious shine,  
May sons of men, to all made known,  
All win to love and serve thy throne.   

THY Kingdom, Lord, nought Kingles leves;  
Nor mĕsure of things, nor times receives:  
Dominĭon boundless; euĕri place,  
Each time, all things, doth round embrace.  
Here reigns our Lord, our bliss to breed;  
Still true of word, still just of deed:  
Who gracious, fallen man erects;  
The sliding stays, the stayed protects.   

HERE eyes of all thy care attend;  
Thy care, due food which still doth send:  
Thou plentĕous hand o'er world dost spread;  
Whence each thing liuĭng rests largely fed.  
Thus all thy pleasure, Lord, partake;  
Thy pleasure, still to good awake:  
In righteŏus ways thus aye dost reign;  
Ay kind in all thy works remain.   

AND lastly, Lord, thou dwellĕst on high;  
Yet still to just requests art nigh:  
Thy servants suits find gracious ear;  
Their safeti showeth thy aid is near.  
For impious race wilt all destroy:  
And all who love thee seat in joy.  
Wherefore my mouth incessant praise  
To thee shall pour: and all my days  
My tongue excite all human flesh  
Ay ay that sacred name to bless.    

PSALM 146.  
The Psalmist ●…owing perpetual praises to God, advizeth not to fix our trusts or hopes on perishing Princes; but upon the unchanging truth and fideliti of God, the Creator of all things: who is the Protector and reliever of all that are in distress; the overthrower of the wicked with all their ways and counseils; and the King of his Church for ever.  
ALLELU-IA.  

MY soul, with joy thyself address,  
The mightis Lord, thy God to praise:  
My tongue his sacred name shall bless;  
My heart towărd him I'll always raze.  
While life doth last, the glorious King,  
Yea whilĕst I am, his praise I'll sing.   

NO Towĕrs of hopes on Princes raze.  
What aid can mortal man perform?  
Whose breath departs; and ended days  
From dust derivĕd to dust return.  
His thoughts and projects die withal:  
Your towering hopes to ground do fall.   

BUT blessed they who choose his name,  
Whose hopes and helps with him abide,  
Who heauĕns and earth and seas did frame,  
And world of gests which there reside.  
His thoughts no wauĕring can assail:  
His words are deeds, and never fail.   

THAN thee our Lord and God we sing;  
Thou jacobs God still blessed be:  
Who justice to the wronged dost bring;  
The hungri feed, the prisoner free.  
Who blind with joyous fight dost cheer;  
And kerbed limbs dost upright rear.   

THE just he loves; the stranger guards;  
He wido shields, and orphan guides:  
But mischief dire just wrath awards  
To wretch who rightĕous way derides.  
The Lord eternal King shall reign;  
And Zions God ay so remain.  
Allelu-ia.   
FINIS.   

THE TABLE.  
PSALM. 1. O Blessed wight! 
To the 12. tune. or to the 6.  PSALM. 2. What graceless fears, 
To the 2. tune.  PSALM. 8. Eternal Lord, 
The FIRST tune.  PSALM. 15. Lord: who shall 
To the 5. tune.  PSALM. 16. Then thou preserve me, 
The SECOND tune.  PSALM. 17. High judge of world, 
To the 8. tune.  PSALM. 19 The Heauĕns declare 
The THIRD tune.  PSALM. 20. In day of troŭble, 
To the 1. tune.  PSALM. 21. The King (Lord) 
The FOURTH tune.  PSALM. 22. My God, my God; 
To the 11. tune.  PSALM. 25. To thee his faithful soul 
To the 2. tune.  PSALM. 32. The blessed man! 
To the 5. tune.  PSALM. 34. The Lord forever 
To the 3. tune:  PSALM. 36. The bestial mind, 
To the 3. tune.  PSALM. 37. Let not unpleazing vieu 
To the 2. tune.  PSALM. 40. Long patiĕnt hope 
To the 11. tune.  PSALM. 42. As chased Hart, 
The FIFT tune.  PSALM. 44. Our pleazed ears, 
To the 12. tune.  PSALM. 45. A noble act, 
To the 9 tune.  PSALM. 49. Ye sons of men, 
To the 7. tune.  PSALM. 50. The mightis God, 
To the 3. tune.  PSALM. 51. My sinful soul, 
To the 11. tune.  PSALM. 67. Be gracious, Lord, 
To the 4. tune.  PSALM. 68 Let please our God 
To the 7. tune.  PSALM. 69. Help Lord, and save, 
To the 11, tune.  PSALM. 73. Yet surely God 
To the 5. tune.  PSALM. 79. The Hĕthen, o God, 
To the 5. tune.  PSALM. 82. The sovereign Lord, 
To the 12. tune.  PSALM. 84. The fair aspect 
The sixth tune.  PSALM. 90. In pilgrim life, 
The SEVENTH tune.  PSALM. 92. A good, a gracious act 
To the 9 tune.  PSALM. 94. Avenger great, 
The EIGHT tune.  PSALM. 100 With razed voice, 
To the 4. tune.  PSALM. 101. Of judgements, Lord, 
To the 10. tune.  PSALM. 103. Pure light of soul, 
The NINTH tune▪  PSALM. 104. Magnănimous, 
To the 3. tune,  PSALM. 107. Ye woorthi minds, 
To the 8. tune.  PSALM. 110. The Lord said 
To the 7. tune.  PSALM. 111. My heart doth 
To the 1. tune.  PSALM. 112. O happis man; 
The TENTH tune.  PSALM. 118. Sing, o, sound out 
To the 1. tune.  PSALM. 119. O blessed they; who men 
To the 2. tune.  PSALM. 122. My longing heart. 
To the 4. tune.  PSALM. 128. O blessed they, whose 
To the 10. tune.  PSALM. 130. Out from the deep 
The ELEVENTH tune.  PSALM. 137. By Babel streams, 
The TWELFTH tune.  PSALM. 139. Eternal light, 
To the 8. tune.  PSALM. 141. To thee, o Lord, 
To the 8. tune.  PSALM. 145. Great Lord, my God, 
To the 1. tune.  PSALM. 146. My soul, with joy 
To the 4. tune.    

THE Music being applied (as was sit) to serve the matter; and the matter being divided into his several parts by beginning with a word in Capital Letters: it followeth that in the same place the Music doth also begin again. Howbeit where the length of Music did conveniently extend itself to two branches of matter, by reason of their breviti: it is signified in the margin by this mark. Where a branch of matter continueth on beyond the length of the Music, whereby some strains of the Music are to be repeated: the verses on which that repetition doth fall, are noted by a mark of the same fashion, but larger size. And lastly, where the matter ends before the Music, it is expressed by these pricked lines at which the Music is to break off: and beginneth (as from the head) at the verse ensuing. And it hath been so provided in composing the Music, that the same may be done without disgrace unto it. Some other small varieties are not difficult to be perceived.   

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FINIS.