THE Choice and Flower OF THE OLD PSALMS: Collected by John Hopkins and others, and now revised and amended, By WILLIAM BARTON Mr. of Arts, and Minister of John Zachary's, London.  JAMES 5. 13. Is any merry? Let him sing Psalms. 
LONDON, Printed by G. Miller; and are to be sold (alone, or together with the new) by S. Gillibrand, at the B●asen Serp●nt in Paul's churchyard, I. Kirton, next Goldsmiths Hall in Foster-lane, Tho underhill, at the Bible in Wood street, and Stephen Bowtell, at the sign of the Bible in Pope's head Alley, 1645.   

These Psalms are put in whole and amended. 1. 3. 4. 5. 8. 10. 11. 12. 15. 25. 26. 28. 30. 32. 36. 39 43. 45. 46. 51. 52. 63. 64. 67. 79. 93. 94. 100 113. 122. 128. 130. 131. 146. 149.  
Choice parts of these are put in and amended. 7. 9 17. 18. 19 22. 27. 31. 33. 34. 35. 37. 40. 41. 42. 49. 50. 55. 56, 57 60. 61 62. 65. 66. 68 69. 71. 73 74. 80. 81. 84. 85. 86. 88 90. 95. 96. 103. 108. 116. 118. 119. 132. 135. 139. 143.  
All the rest are wholly made new, taking in almost every scrap of the old that is truly good; To which above thirty new ones are now added, viz. 5. 6. 14. 17. 23. 53, 58. 70. 82. 87. 88 89. 92. 95. 97. 98. 110. 111. 112. 113. 117. 119. 121. 124. 131. 133. 134. 136. 147. 145. 146. 147. 148.  
Of which many go in the famous tunes of the 51. 113. and 148. Psalms, and Our Father.  
And there is not one bald phrase or ill-favoured hysteron proteron in all the book but either sense in each line, or the grammatical ● order of words, the most acceptable and 〈◊〉 structure of English poesy.   

TO THE RIGHT worshipful Sr. JOHN WOLLASTON, Knight and Alderman of the Honourable City of London.  
Right worshipful,  
Such are my known engagements to yourself, and your worthy and virtuous Lady, that all men may justly expect (if God put any thing into my hands) I should not defraud you of the honour and acknowledgements which I owe to you both, but rejoice to express my gratitude to God almighty, in raising up to me such special and precious friends, to so great advantage and increase of my long-despaired health, as hath made me of late to omit complaints, and many to wonder at the change.  
Besides, Sir, your own cost and kindness hath been, by God's blessing, the only sunshine to ripen these my labours, & produce them to the public, and that (breaking thorough so may difficulties) I should be able to bring them to this perfection, that at least they are useful while the old ones are in use, for 35. whole ones of these and many parts and pieces of the rest (which call Collects) are (verse for verse) of the sam● quantity with the old, and may be sung in public, while some (wedded to custom) sing the old without any incongruity at all: so that n●ne can possibly point out any considerable psalm, or par● of a psalm, that is well done of the old, but her● it is to be found, and the absurdities removed neither is any thing left out, which is not so poor and imperfect, or far off the words and sense, a● that it is requisite to be made wholly new, or i● not already taken into the new.  
Wherefore I humbly present it as a token of my thankfulness, praising the Lord for you, and praying the Lord to enrich you, and my much Honoured Lady with abundance of heavenly forwardness, faithfulness, and fruitfulness, which may be summed up to the glory of God, and furtherance of our account in the day of Jesus Christ our Lord,  Your worship's fervent and faithful Minister, to his utmost, WILLIAM BARTON.  

Upon Mr. WILLIAM barton's elaborate Translation of the sacred Book of PSALMS.  
GO book, and servethy Master, none so great,  
His gift alone did make thee so complete:  
Polish the fabric of reformed times,  
Fresh, fair and fine, to flourish as thy rhymes.  
Lo, thou hast art, the Learned to content;  
To please the curious thou art eloquent:  
Quickness thou giv'st to them that quickness want,  
And dost interpret to the ignorant.  
The scrupulous thy skill doth satisfy,  
And captious carpers are convinced thereby.  
Thy price is little, but thy worth is such,  
That every leaf deserveth twice as much.  


So approved by  
Ra. Robinson,  
Imm. Bourne,  
Fulk. Bellers,  
Cor. Burges,  
Tim. Dod,  
Simeon Ash,  
Tho. Clandon,  
Ant●ony Burges,  
Sam. Fawcett,  
Christo. Love,  
John Foxcrofte,  
Matt. Newcomen  
Ed. Corbet●,  
Hum. Hardwick,  
John tombs,  
Frank Roberts,  
William lenkin,  
Walter Taylor,  
Sa. Bolton,  
Th. Porter,  
Sa. Fisher,  
Will. Tutty,  
Cum multis aliis.     

Upon the Translation and Approbation.  
foedauêere sacros malè tersa vosabula Psalmos,  
Illustrata metro quae meliore nitent.  
Sublimis doceat Majestas additaerebus  
Mente intellectis conc●nuisse sonis.  
Debita sundentes vigili praeconia curae,  
Ornant conspicuâ Te ●istate Pii.  
Io● LANGLEY.   

The beginnings of G. and P. Tunes now used in London  
1. David's, or Welsh tune.***  
2. York tune, or the Still.***  
3. London long tune.***  
4. Suffolk tune.***  
5. Dutch, or English tune.***  
6. ●●●bridge new tune.*  
7. 〈◊〉 bridge old tune.*  
8. Oxford tune.*  
9 Martyr's tune.*  
3. Cheshire tune.***  
9 Coventry tune.*  
Psal. St. 〈◊〉 light● etc***  
Psail●●. Blessed are.**  
Suit of a sinners, 〈…〉  
Particular tunes. Psal. 50. & Lord consider. ●  
Psal. ●● All people that.  
Ten Command. All people hearben  
Tune of Psal. 67. Have mercy.  
Tune of Psal. ●13. Ye children.  
Tune of Psal. 148. Give 〈◊〉  
Tune of our Father.   


PSAL. 1. The first Metre.  
To any general tune.**  

THat man is blessed and blessed again,  
that doth not walk astray,  
By counsels of ungodly men,  
nor stands in sinners way:   

2  
Much less sits down in scorners seat,  
but here is his delight,  
Upon the Law of God the Lord  
to study day and night.   

3  
He shall be like a tree that grows  
fast by the river's side:  
That brings forth ripe and timely fruit,  
which still is fresh supplied.  
Whose leaf doth never fade nor fall,  
but flourish still and stand:  
Even so shall all things prosper well,  
that this man takes in hand.   

4  
So shall not the ungodly men,  
they shall be nothing so:  
But as the dust, which, from the earth,  
the wind drives to and fro.   

5  
Therefore shall not the wicked men  
in judgement stand upright:  
Nor in th' assembly of the just  
shall sinners come in sight.   

6  
For why, the way of godly men,  
unto the Lord is known:  
Whereas the way of wicked men  
shall quite be overthrown.    

PSAL. 3. The first Metre.  

O Lord how are my foes increased  
that vex me more and more?  
They kill my heart, when as they say,  
God can him not restore.   

2  
But thou, O Lord, art my defence  
when I am hard bestead;   

3  
My worship and my honour both,  
and thou hold'st up my head.   

4  
Then with my voice unto the Lord,  
I did both call and cry:  
And he out of his holy hill,  
did hear me by and by.   

5  
¶ I laid me down most quietly,  
I slept and rose again;  
For why, I knew assuredly  
the Lord did me sustain.   

6  
Although ten thousand hemed me in,  
I would not be afraid:  
For thou art still my Lord and God,  
my Saviour and mine aid.   

7  
Rise up therefore, save me, O Lord,  
for now to thee I call:  
For thou hast broke the cheeks and teeth  
of these transgressors all.   

8  
Salvation only doth belong  
to thee O Lord above:  
Thou dost bestow upon thy folk  
thy blessing and thy love.    

PSAL. 4. The first Metre,*  

O God that art my righteousness,  
Lord hear me when I call:  
Thou hast set me at liberty,  
when I was bound in thrall.   

2  
Have mercy Lord therefore on me,  
and grant me my request:  
For unto thee uncessantly,  
to cry I will not rest.   

3  
O mortal men how long will ye  
my glory thus despise?  
Why wander ye in vanity,  
and follow after lies?   

4  
Know ye that good and godly men,  
the Lord doth take and choose:  
And when to him I make my plaint,  
he doth me not refuse.   

5  
Sin not, but stand in awe therefore,  
examine well your heart:  
And in your chamber quietly,  
see ye yourselves convert.   

6  
Offer to God the sacrifice  
of righteousness, I say:  
And see that in the living Lord  
you put your trust always.   

7  
¶ The greater sort crave worldly goods,  
and riches do embrace:  
But, Lord, grant us thy countenance,  
thy favour and thy grace.   

8  
For thou, O Lord, hast made my heart  
more joyful and more glad,  
Then when they brought in corn and wine,  
and great increase was had.   

9  
In peace therefore lie down will I,  
taking my rest and sleep:  
For only thou alone, O Lord,  
Wilt me in safety keep.    

PSAL. 5. The second Metre.  

O Lord consider my complaint,  
incline thine ear to me;   

2  
And hear my voice, my King, my God,  
I make my prayer to thee.   

3  
Hear me betimes, Lord tarry not,  
for I will have respect,  
My prayer, early in the morn,  
to thee for to direct.   

4  
And I will wait with patience,  
on thee my ●od alone:  
Thou art not pleased with wickedness,  
and ill with thee dwells none.   

5  
And in thy sight shall never stand,  
these wicked fools, O Lord:  
Vain workers of iniquity,  
thou always hast abhorred.   

6  
Thou shalt destroy the flatterers,  
and them that utter lies:  
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men,  
will God abhor likewise;   

7  
Therefore will I come to thy house,  
trusting upon thy grace:  
And reverently will worship thee,  
toward thy holy place.   

8  
¶ Lord, lead me in thy righteousness,  
for to confound my foes;  
And in what way I ought to walk,  
before my face disclose.   

9  
For in their mouth there is no truth,  
their hearts are foul and vain;   

10  
Their throat's an open sepulchre,  
their tongues do fawn and feign.   

11  
Destroy their false conspiracies,  
that they may come to nought:  
Subvert them in their heaps of sin,  
which have rebellion wrought.   

12  
But they that put their trust in thee,  
let them be glad always:  
And render thanks for thy defence,  
and give thy Name the praise.   

13  
For thou wilt bless and magnify  
the righteous man no doubt,  
And with thy grace as with a shield,  
wilt compass him about.    

PSAL. 7. The Collect.*  

O Lord my God I put my trust  
and confidence in thee,  
Save me from them that seek my soul,  
and fully set me free.   

2  
Lest like a lion fierce and fell,  
he tear and rend my soul,  
While there is no deliverer,  
his fury to control.   

3  
¶ O Lord my God, if I have done  
the thing that is not right;  
Or else if I be found in fault,  
or guilty in thy sight:   

4  
And to my friend rewarded ill,  
or left him in distress,  
Which hath pursued me wrongfully,  
and did my soul oppress:   

5  
Then let my so pursue my soul,  
and let him take, and tread  
My life even down unto the ground,  
and lay mine honour dead.   

6  
O thou that art of all men judge,  
now judge my righteous cause;  
According to my righteousness,  
and thy most righteous laws.   

11  
¶ I take my help to come of God,  
in all my pain and grief:  
He doth preserve the pure in heart,  
and sends them sweet relief.   

15  
Behold, the wicked traveleth,  
with mischief in his mind;  
Conceiving sin and wickedness,  
and bringeth forth the wind.   

16  
He digs a ditch and del●es it deep,  
in hope to catch his brother;  
But he shall fall into the pit,  
that he digged up for other.   

17  
Thus wrong returneth to the hurt,  
of him in whom it bred;  
And all the mischief that he wrought,  
shall fall upon his head.   

18  
I will give thanks to God therefore,  
that judgeth righteously:  
And with a song will praise the Name  
of him that is most high.    

PSAL. 8. The first Metre.**  

O Lord our Lord, how wonderful  
is thy Name everywhere?  
Whose fame surmounts in dignity  
above the starry sphere.   

2  
Even by the mouths of sucking babes,  
thou wilt confound thy foes;  
For in these babes thy might is seen,  
thy graces they disclose.   

3  
And when I see the heavens high,  
the works of thine own hand:  
The Sun, and Moon, and all the stars,  
in order as they stand.   

4  
What thing is man, Lord, think I then,  
that he should be in mind?  
Or what is man's posterity,  
to whom thou art so kind?   

5  
For thou hast made him little less,  
Than Angels in degree;  
And thou hast also crowned him,  
with highest dignity.   

6  
Thou hast prefer●'d him to be Lord,  
of all thy works of wonder:  
And hast set all things at his feet,  
that he should keep them under,   

7  
As oxen, sheep, and all beasts else,  
that in the fields do feed,   

8  
Fowls of the air, fish of the sea,  
and all that therein breed.   

9  
Therefore, O Lord, that art out Lord,  
must I repeat the same:  
How excellent in all the earth,  
is thy most glorious Name!    

PSAL. 9 The Collect.***  

With heart and mouth unto the Lord  
will I sing laud and praise:  
And speak of all his wondrous works,  
and them declare always.   

2  
I will be glad and much rejoice,  
in thee O Lord most high:  
And with my songs extol thy Name  
above the starry sky.   

3  
Because my foes are driven back,  
and put to shameful flight:  
They fall down flat, and are destroyed  
by thy great power and might.   

7  
¶ Know then that he which is above  
for evermore shall reign,  
And in the seat of equity  
true judgement will maintain,   

9  
He is protector of the poor,  
what time they be oppressed:  
He is their succour in distress,  
their refuge and their rest.   

11  
¶ Sing Psalms therefore unto the Lord,  
that dwells in Zion hill.  
Publish among the nations all,  
his noble acts and will.   

12  
For he is mindful of the blood  
of poor oppressed 〈◊〉:  
Forgetting not the afflicted heart,  
but hea●s their sighs and groans.   

15  
He lets the heathen fall into  
the pit that they prepared:  
And in the net that they did set,  
are they themselves ensnared.   

18  
But sure the Lord will not forget  
the poor man's grief and pain:  
The patient people never look  
for help of God in vain.   

19  
O Lord arise, lest men prevail,  
that be of worldly might:  
And let the heathen folk receive  
their judgement in thy sight.   

20  
Lord strike such terror, fear and dread  
into the hearts of them:  
That they may know assuredly,  
they be but mortal men.    

PSAL. 10. The first Metre.*  

What is the cause that thou, O Lord,  
art now so far from thine?  
And keepest close thy countenance  
from us this troublous time?   

2  
The poor do perish by the proud  
and wicked men's desire:  
Let them be taken in the craft  
that they themselves conspire.   

3  
For in the lust of his own heart  
the ungodly doth delight:  
And he doth bl●●se the covetous  
abhorred in thy sight:   

4  
He is so proud, that right and Wrong  
he setteth all apart:  
There is not any God, saith he,  
for thus he thinks in heart.   

5  
Because his ways do prosper still,  
he doth thy laws contem':  
He puffs at all his enemies,  
sets light by thee and them.   

6  
Tush, tush, saith he, I have no dread  
that mine estate should change:  
Because that all adversity  
to him is very strange.   

7  
¶ His mouth is full of cursedness,  
of fraud, deceit and guile:  
Under his tongue doth mischief fit,  
and worketh all the while.   

8  
He lieth hid in ways and holes,  
the innocent to slay:  
Against the poor his eyes are ben●,  
that pass along the way.   

9  
And, like a Lion, privily  
lies lurking in his den,  
If he may snare them in his net,  
to spoil poor simple men.   

10  
And for the nonce full craftily  
he croucheth down, I say:  
So are great heaps of poor men made,  
by his strong power, his prey.   

The second part.*  

11  
TUsh, God forgetteth this, saith he,  
therefore I may be bold:  
His countenance is cast aside,  
he doth it not behold.   

12  
¶ Arise, O Lord, O God, in whom  
the poor man's hope doth rest:  
Lift up thy hand, forget not, Lord,  
the poor that be oppressed.   

13  
What blasphemy is this to thee?  
Lord, dost thou not abhor it?  
To hear the wicked in their hearts  
say, tush, thou carest not for it?   

14  
But thou seest all their wickedness,  
and well dost understand,  
That friendless and poor fatherless  
are l●ft unto thy hand.   

15  
Of wicked and malicious men  
Than break the power fo● ever:  
That they with their iniquity  
may perish altogether.   

16  
¶ The Lord shall reign for evermore,  
as King and God alone:  
And he will chase the heathen folk  
out of his land, each one.   

17  
Unto the poors' complaint and cry,  
thou giv'st a gracious ear:  
Thou wilt prepare their patient heart,  
and cause thine ears to hear.   

18  
To judge the poor and fatherless,  
and help them to their right:  
That they may be no more oppressed  
by men of worldly might.     

PSAL. 11. The first Metre.  
Sing this to any general tune.*  

I Put my confidence in God,  
why therefore do you say,  
That as a bird unto her hill,  
my ●●ul should flee away?   

2  
For lo, the wicked bend their bows,  
their arrows they prepare,  
To shoot in secret, and to hurt  
the souls that upright are.   

3  
Of worldly help all stays were shrunk,  
and clearly brought to nought:  
As for the good and righteous man,  
what hath the righteous wrought?   

4  
¶ But he that in his Temple is,  
most holy and most high,  
And in the heavens hath his seat  
of royal Majesty:   

The poor and simple man's estate  
considereth in his mind:  
And searcheth out full narrowly  
the manners of mankind:   

5  
And with a cheerful countenance  
the righteous man will use:  
But in his heart he doth abhor  
all such as mischief muse:   

6  
And on the sinners casteth snares,  
as thick as any rain:  
Brimstone and fire, and whirlwinds thick,  
appointed for their pain.   

7  
Ye see then how a righteous God  
doth righteousness embrace:  
And to the just and upright men  
Shows forth his pleasant face.    

PSAL. 12. The first Metre.*  

HElp Lord, for good and godly men  
do perish and decay:  
And faith and truth from worldly men  
is parted clean away.   

2  
Who so doth with his neighbour talk,  
his talk is all but vain:  
For every man bethinketh how  
to flatter, lie, and fain.   

3  
But flattering and deceitful lips,  
and tongues that be so stout,  
To speak proud words, and make great brags,  
the Lord soon cuts them out.   

4  
For they say still, we will prevail,  
our tongues shall us extol:  
Our tongues are ours, we ought to speak,  
what Lord shall us control?   

4  
But for the great complaint and cry  
of poor, and men oppressed:  
I will arise now, saith the Lord,  
and them restore to rest.   

6  
¶ God's Word is like to silver pure,  
that from the earth is tried:  
And hath no less than seven times  
in fire been purified.   

7  
Now sith thy promise is to help,  
Lord, keep thy promise then:  
And save us now and evermore,  
from this ill kind of men.   

8  
For now the wicked world is full  
of mischiefs manifold:  
When wicked men do bear the sway,  
and vice goes uncontrol'd.   

WIthin thy Tabernacle, Lord,  
who shall continue still?  
And whom wilt thou receive to dwell  
in thy most holy hill?   

2  
The man whose life is uncorrupt,  
whose works are just and straight:  
Whose heart doth think the very truth,  
whose tongue speaks no deceit.   

3  
That to his neighbour doth none ill,  
in body, goods, or name:  
Nor willingly doth move false tales,  
which might empair the same.   

4  
The man in whose impartial eyes,  
vile persons are abhorred;  
But he doth greatly honour those  
that truly fear the Lord.   

5  
His oath and all his promises  
that keepeth faithfully:  
Although he make his conenant so,  
that he doth lose thereby:   

6  
That putteth not to usury  
the money that he lent;  
Nor will he take reward at all  
against the innocent.   

7  
Who so doth all things as you see,  
that here is to be done:  
Shall never perish in this world,  
nor in the world to come.    

PSAL. 17. The first Collect.*  

O Lord give ear to my just cause,  
attend when I complain:  
And hear the prayer that I put forth,  
with lips that do not fain.   

3  
Thou hast well tried me in the night,  
and yet couldst nothing find:  
For, that my mouth should not transgress  
I purposed in my mind.   

4  
As for the works of wicked men,  
and paths perverse and ill,  
For love of thy most holy Name,  
I have refrained still.   

5  
Then in thy paths that be most pure,  
do thou my soul preserve,  
That from the way wherein I walk,  
my st●ps may never swerve.   

6  
For I do call to thee O Lord,  
surely thou wilt me aid:  
Then hear my prayer, and weigh right well  
the words that I have said.   

14  
¶ Lord save me by thy mighty power,  
out of these tyrant's hands:  
Which now so long a time have reigned,  
and kept us in their bands.   

15  
I mean, from worldlings, unto whom  
all worldly goods are rife:  
That have no hope nor part of joy,  
but in this present life.   

16  
Thou giv'st them store of thy hid treasure  
and children to their mind;  
They spend thereof, and leave the rest  
unto their babes behind.   

17  
But I shall see thy blessed face  
with purest conscience viewed:  
And waking shall be satisfied  
with thy similitude.    

PSAL. 18. The Collect.*  

O God my strength and fortitude,  
I love thee vehemently:  
Thou art my castle and defence  
in my necessity.   

2  
My God my rock, in whom I trust,  
the worker of my wealth:  
My refuge, buckler, and my shield,  
and horn of saving health.   

4  
¶ The pangs of death did compass me,  
and held me everywhere:  
The flowing waves of wickedness,  
did put me in great fear.   

5  
The sly and subtle snares of hell  
were round about me set:  
And for my feet there was prepared  
a deadly trapping net.   

6  
I thus beset with pain and grief,  
did pray to God for grace:  
And he forthwith did hear my plaint  
out of his holy place.   

15  
And from above the Lord sent down  
to fetch me from below:  
And plucked me from the waters deep,  
about to overflow.   

20  
Because I walked in his ways,  
and in his paths have trod:  
And have not wandered wickedly,  
departing from my God.   

21  
But evermore I had respect  
to his entire decree:  
His statutes and commandments  
I cast not out from me.   

22  
But pure, and clean, and uncorrupt,  
Appeared before his face:  
And did abstain from wickedness,  
and sin in any case.   

23  
The Lord therefore will me reward,  
as I have done aright:  
As is the cleanness of my hands.  
appearing in his sight.    

PSAL. 19 The Collect.*  

HOw perfect is the Law of God,  
how is his covenant sure?  
Converting souls, and making wise  
the simple and obscure.   

8  
Just are the Lord's commandments,  
and glad both heart and mind:  
His precepts pure, and do give light  
to eyes that be full blind.   

9  
¶ The fear of God is excellent,  
and doth endure for ever:  
The judgements of the Lord are true,  
and righteous altogether:   

10  
And more to be embraced always,  
then fined gold, I say:  
The honey and the honeycomb  
are not so sweet as they.   

11  
By them thy servant is forewarned  
to have God in regard:  
And in performance of the same,  
there shall be great reward.   

12  
¶ But, Lord, what earthly man doth know  
the errors of his life:  
Then cleanse my soul from secret sins  
which are in me most rife:   

13  
And keep me that presumptuous sins  
prevail not over me:  
And so shall I be innocent,  
and great offences flee.   

14  
Accept my mouth, accept my heart,  
my words and thoughts each one:  
For my redeemer and my strength,  
O Lord thou art alone.    

PSAL. XXII. Col.*  

O God my God, wherefore dost thou  
forsake me utterly?  
And dost not hear when I complain,  
nor harken to my cry?   

2  
To thee, my God, even all day long,  
I do both cry and call,  
And all the night I do not cease,  
yet hear'st thou not at all.   

6  
Behold, I am become a worm  
more liker than a man,  
An outcast, whom the people spurn  
with all the spite they can.   

11  
O Lord depart not now from me,  
in all my pain and grief;  
Since I have none my help to be,  
none else to send relief.   

20  
¶ Lord, save me from the cruel sword,  
by thy almighty power;  
And keep my dear and darling soul,  
from dogs that would devour.   

25  
Among the folk that fear the Lord  
will I thy praise proclaim;  
And keep my vow and promise made  
for setting forth thy Name.   

26  
The poor shall eat and be sufficed,  
and you that seek the Lord,  
Your heart shall live for evermore,  
his praises to record.   

28  
The kingdoms of the heathen folk  
shall worship and adore,  
For God shall be their governor,  
and King for evermore.    

PSAL. XXV. 1. M. 1. part.  
Have mercy, &c.  

I Lift my heart to thee,  
My God and guide most just:  
Now suffer me to take no shame,  
for in thee do I trust.   

2  
Let not my foes rejoice,  
nor make a scorn of me:  
And let them not be overthrown,  
that put their trust in thee.   

3  
But shame shall them befall,  
which harm them wrongfully:  
Therefore thy paths and thy right ways  
unto me, Lord, descry:   

4  
Direct me in thy truth,  
and teach me in thy way:  
Thou art my God and Saviour,  
on thee I wait all day.   

5  
¶ I pray thee, Lord, remember,  
thy mercies manifold,  
And thy compassions plentiful,  
for they have been of old.   

6  
Remember not the faults,  
and frailty of my youth:  
Remember not how I have sinned  
against thy blessed truth.   

Nor after my deserts  
let me thy mercy find:  
But of thine own benignity  
Lord, have me in thy mind.   

7  
¶ His mercy is full sweet  
his truth a perfect guide:  
Therefore the Lord will sinners teach,  
and such as go aside.   

8  
The humble he will teach  
his precepts for to keep;  
He will direct in all his ways,  
the lowly and the meek.   

9  
For all the ways of God  
are mercy, truth and grace:  
To them that keep his Covenant,  
and do his laws embrace.   

PSAL. XXV. 2. P. I. M.  

10  
NOw for thy holy Name  
O Lord I thee entreat,  
To grant me pardon for my sin,  
for it is wondrous great.   

11  
Who so doth fear the Lord,  
the Lord will him direct,  
To lead his life in such a way  
as he doth best accept.   

12  
His soul shall evermore  
in goodness dwell and stand:  
His seed and his posterity  
inheriting the land.   

13  
¶ All those that fear the Lord,  
his secret will shall know:  
And unto them the Lord is pleased  
his testaments to show.   

14  
Mine eyes continually  
upon the Lord are set:  
For he hath plucked my fettered feet  
out of the snare and net.   

15  
With mercy me behold,  
to thee I make my moan:  
For I am poor and desolate,  
and comfortless alone.   

16  
The troubles of my heart,  
are multiplied indeed:  
Bring me out of this misery,  
necessity and need.   

17  
¶ Behold my anguish, Lord,  
my poverty, my pain:  
Remit my sin and mine offence,  
and make me clean again.   

18  
¶ O Lord, behold my foes,  
how they do still increase:  
Pursuing me with deadly hate,  
that fain would live in peace.   

19  
Preserve and keep my soul,  
and still deliver me:  
And let me not be overthrown,  
because I trust in thee.   

20  
Let my simplicity,  
defend me from my foes,  
Because I trust in thy defence,  
from enemies that oppose.   

21  
Deliver, Lord, thy folk,  
and send them sweet relief:  
And ease thy chosen Israel,  
of all his pain and grief.     

PSAL. XXVI. I. M.  
To any general tune.**  

LOrd be my judge, and thou shalt see,  
my paths be pure and plain:  
I trust in God to strengthen me,  
that so I may remain.   

2  
Prove me, my God, by any means,  
search out my secret heart;  
Examine me and try my reins,  
and every inward part.   

3  
Thy goodness laid before my face,  
I do behold always:  
For of thy truth I tread the trace,  
and will do all my days.   

4  
¶ I do not hold society,  
with men whose deeds are vile;  
I will not come in company,  
with them that practise guile.   

5  
I much abhor the wicked sort,  
their doing I despise:  
I do not once to them resort,  
that hurtful things devise.   

6  
¶ My hands I wash, and do proceed,  
in works to walk upright,  
Then to thine altar I make speed,  
to offer in thy sight.   

7  
That I may speak and preach the praise  
that doth belong to thee:  
And so declare how wondrous ways  
thou hast been good to me.   

8  
¶ O God, thy house I love most dear,  
to me it doth excel:  
I have delight, and would be near  
where, Lord, thy grace doth dwell.   

9  
¶ O shut not up my soul with them  
in sin that take their fill:  
Nor yet my life among those men  
that seek much blood to spill,   

10  
Whose hands are heaped with craft and guile  
wherewith their lives abound;  
And their right hand do bribes defile,  
and baseness there I found.   

11  
But I in righteousness intend  
my time and days to serve:  
Have mercy Lord, and me defend,  
so that I do not swerve:   

12  
My foot is stayed for all assays,  
it standeth well and right:  
Wherefore to God will I give praise  
in all the people's sight.    

PSAL. XXVII. the C.  

THe Lord is both my life and light,  
shall man make me dismayed?  
Sith God doth give me strength and mig●●  
why should I be afraid?   

4  
¶ One thing of God I do desire,  
that he would not deny:  
For which I ask and do inquire,  
and that continually:   

5  
That I within his holy place  
my life throughout may dwell:  
To see the beauty of his face,  
and view his Temple well.   

7  
¶ Lord, hear the voice of my request,  
for which to thee I call;  
Have mercy, Lord, on me oppressed,  
and send me aid withal.   

10  
My heart doth echo unto thee,  
I sue to have thy grace;  
Then seek my face, saidst thou to me,  
Lord, I will seek thy face.   

11  
In wrath turn not away thy face,  
nor suffer me to slide:  
Thou art my God unto this day,  
be still my God and guide.   

12  
My parents both forsook their son,  
and cast me off together;  
But God took care when they had done,  
a better friend then either.   

Wait on the Lord courageously,  
he is thy strength and stay,  
Thy heart with faith to fortify,  
wait on the Lord, I say.    

PSAL. XXVIII. I. M.*  

THou art O, Lord, my strength and stay,  
the succour which I crave:  
Neglect me not, lest I be like  
to them that go to grave.   

2  
The supplications of my heart,  
O Lord attend and mark;  
When I lift up my humble hands,  
unto thy holy Ark.   

3  
With wicked doers of wickedness  
O give me not my part:  
That speak right fair unto their friends,  
while mischief fills their heart,   

4  
According to their handy work,  
as they deserve indeed;  
And after their inventions vile,  
so let these sinner's speed.   

5  
For nothing they regard God's works,  
nor what his hands have wrought;  
Therefore will he destroy them quite,  
and bring them all to nought.   

6  
¶ To render thanks unto the Lord,  
how great a cause have I:  
My voice, my prayer and my complaint  
that heard so lovingly?   

7  
He is my shield and fortitude,  
my buckler in distress:  
My hope, my help, my hearts desire,  
my song shall so confess.   

8  
He is our strength and our defence,  
our enemies to repel:  
The saving health of his elect,  
the anointed Israel.   

9  
Thy people and thine heritage,  
Lord, bless, guide and preserve:  
Increase them, Lord, and rule their hearts,  
that they may never swerve.    

PSAL. XXX. 1. M.***  

ALl laud and praise with heart and voice,  
O Lord, I give to thee:  
Thou hast not made my foes rejoice,  
but hast exalted me.   

2  
O Lord my God to thee I cried,  
in all my pain and grief:  
Thou gav'st an ear, and didst provide,  
to ease me with relief.   

3  
Of thy good will thou hast called back  
my soul from hell to save:  
Thou didst revive when strength did lack,  
and keptst me from the grave.   

4  
Sing praise, ye Saints, that prove and see  
the goodness of the Lord:  
In memory of his majesty  
Rejoice with one accord.   

5  
His anger lasteth but a space,  
and quickly slakes again:  
But in his favour and his grace  
doth constant life remain.   

Though gripes of grief and pangs of pain  
shall lodge with us all night;  
The Lord shall bring us joy again,  
before the morning light.   

6  
¶ When I enjoyed the world at will,  
thus would I boast and say,  
Tush, I am sure to feel no ill,  
this wealth shall not decay:   

7  
For thou, O Lord, of thy good grace  
hadst sent me strength and aid:  
But when thou turnedst away thy face,  
my mind was sore dismayed.   

8  
Wherefore again yet did I cry  
to thee, O Lord, of might:  
My God with plaints I did apply,  
and prayed both day and night.   

9  
What gain is in my blood (said I)  
if death destroy my days?  
Doth dust declare thy majesty?  
doth dust thy justice praise?   

10  
Wherefore, my God, some pity take,  
O Lord, I pray to thee:  
Do not this simple soul forsake,  
but help and succour me.   

11  
Then didst thou turn my misery  
into a cheerful voice:  
The mourning weed thou took'st from me,  
and mad'st me to rejoice.   

12  
Wherefore my soul uncessantly  
shall sing unto thy praise:  
My Lord my God, to thee will I  
give laud and thanks always.    

PSAL. XXXI. 1. ●*  

O Lord, I put my trust in thee,  
let nothing work me shame;  
As thou art just deliver me,  
and quit me, Lord, from blame.   

2  
Hear me, O Lord, and that anon,  
to help me make good speed:  
Be thou my rock and house of stone,  
my fence in time of need.   

3  
For lo, O Lord, thy strength is tried,  
thou art my fort and tower:  
For thy Names sake be thou my guide,  
and lead me in thy power.   

4  
Pluck thou my feet out of the snare,  
which they for me have laid:  
Thou art my strength, and all my care  
is for thy only aid.   

5  
Into thy hands, Lord, I commit  
my spirit, which is thy due:  
Thou only hast redeemed it,  
O Lord my God most true.   

6  
¶ I hate such folk as will not part  
from things to be abhorred:  
When they on trifles set their heart,  
my trust is in the Lord.   

7  
And in the mercy I will joy,  
I see it doth excel:  
Thou seest when aught would me annoy,  
and knowest my foul full well.   

15  
The length of all my life and age  
O Lord, is in thy hand:  
Defend me from the wrathful rage  
of them that me withstand.   

16  
To me thy servant (Lord) express,  
and show thy joyful face:  
And save me for thy righteousness:  
thy mercy and thy grace.   

PSAL. XXXI. 2. Coll.***  

16  
O Lord, how great felicity  
hast thou laid up for them,  
That fear thy Name, and trust in thee  
before the sons of men?   

20  
Thy presence shall them fence and guide,  
from all proud brags and wrongs:  
Within thy house thou shalt them hide,  
from all the strife of tongues.   

21  
Thanks to the Lord that hath declared  
on me his grace so far,  
Me to defend with watch and ward,  
as in a town of war.   

22  
¶ Thus did I say both day and night,  
when I was sore oppressed:  
Lo, I am clean cast out of sight,  
yet heardst thou my request.   

23  
Ye saints, love ye the Lord, I say,  
the faithful he doth guide:  
And to the proud he doth repay  
according to their pride.   

24  
Be strong, and God shall stay your heart,  
be confident, ye just:  
For sure the Lord will take your part,  
sith ye on him do trust.     

PSAL. XXXII. 2. M.*  

THe man is blessed whose wickedness  
is covered and hid.  
The man is blessed whom God forgives  
what ever sins he did.   

2  
And blessed is he to whom the Lord  
imputeth not offence;  
Which in his heart hath hid no guile,  
nor hardened impudence.   

3  
For whilst that I kept silence still,  
and sought to hide my sin,  
My bones did wear and waste away  
with pain that I was in.   

4  
For night and day thy hand on me,  
did so oppress my heart,  
That all my blood and humours moist  
to dryness did convert.   

5  
I did therefore confess my faults,  
and all my sins discover:  
Then thou, O Lord, didst me forgive,  
and all my sins pass over.   

6  
The humble man shall pray therefore,  
to thee in happiest hour;  
So that the floods of waters great,  
on him shall have no power.   

7  
When trouble and adversity,  
do compass me about;  
Thou art my refuge and my joy,  
and thou dost help me out.   

8  
¶ Come hither, I will teach to thee  
the paths of piety;  
And I will guide thee carefully,  
with mine observant eye.   

9  
Be not so rude and ignorant  
as is the horse and mule,  
Whose mouth without a rain or bit  
from harm thou canst not rule.   

10  
The wicked man shall wail in woe,  
and greatest griefs sustain;  
But unto him that trusts in God,  
much mercy shall remain.   

11  
Be joyful therefore in the Lord,  
ye just lift up your voice;  
And ye of pure and perfect heart,  
be glad and much rejoice.    

PSAL. XXXIII. 1. Col.*  

YE righteous in the Lord rejoice,  
it is a seemly sight;  
That upright men with thankful voice,  
should praise the Lord of might.   

3  
Sing to the Lord, and give him praise  
with joyful songs and new,  
For lo, his word, his works and ways  
are perfect, just and true.   

5  
To judgement, equity and right  
he hath a great good will;  
And with his gifts he doth delight,  
the spacious earth to fill.   

7  
The waters of the seas he keeps,  
Confined within the shore;  
He layeth up the liquid deeps  
as in an house of store.   

10  
¶ The counsels of the nations rude,  
the Lord doth bring to nought:  
He doth defeat the multitude  
of their device and thought.   

11  
But his decrees continue still,  
they never slack nor suage;  
The motions of his mind and will,  
take place from age to age.   

The second Collect.**  

12  
BLessed are they to whom the Lord,  
as God and guide is known;  
Whom he doth choose of mere accord,  
to take them as his own.   

13  
The Lord from heaven cast his eye,  
on men of mortal birth;  
Considering from his seat on high,  
all dwellers on the earth.   

16  
¶ A King that trusteth in his host,  
thereby shall not prevail;  
The mighty man, whose strength is most,  
for all his strength shall fail.   

17  
An horse for safety of a man,  
is to be reckoned vain;  
By strength of horse none ever can  
deliverance obtain.   

18  
But lo, the eyes of God attend,  
to shield and save the just,  
And all that fear for to offend,  
and in his mercy trust.   

20  
Wherefore our souls have confidence  
in God our strength and stay:  
He is our shield and our defence,  
to drive all darts away.   

22  
Now therefore let thy goodness, Lord,  
still present with us be,  
As we do still with one accord  
repose our trust in thee.     

PSAL. XXXIIII. 1. C.***  

I Will give laud and honour both  
unto the Lord always:  
My moving tongue for evermore,  
shall speak unto his praise.   

2  
I do delight to laud the Lord  
in heart, in soul, and voice:  
That mortified and humble men  
may hear, and so rejoice.   

3  
Therefore see that ye magnify,  
with me, the living Lord:  
And let us now exalt his Name,  
and all with one accord.   

4  
For I myself besought the Lord,  
he answered me again:  
And graciously delivered me  
from all my fear and pain.   

5  
Who so they be that him behold,  
shall see his light most clear,  
Their countenance shall not be dashed,  
they never need to fear.   

6  
¶ Poor David cried unto the Lord,  
the Lord did hear his call;  
The Lord did hear and help him too  
out of his troubles all.   

7  
The Angel of the Lord doth pitch  
his tents about them round:  
To save all such as fear the Lord,  
and keep them safe and sound.   

8  
Taste and consider well therefore,  
that God's a gracious one:  
O happy man that trusts in him,  
and even in him alone.   

PSAL. XXXIIII. 2. C.**  

14  
TUrn back thy face from doing ill,  
and do the godly deed:  
Inquire for peace and quietness,  
and follow it with speed.   

15  
For lo, the eyes of God above  
upon the just are bent:  
His ears likewise do hear the plaint  
of all the innocent.   

16  
But he doth frown and bend his brows  
upon the wicked train:  
And cuts from earth their memory,  
that none of them remain.   

17  
But when the just do call and cry,  
the Lord doth hear them so,  
That out of pain and misery  
he lets them timely go.   

18  
¶ The Lord is kind and straight at hand  
to such as are contrite:  
He also saves the sorrowful,  
and humbled in his sight.   

19  
¶ Full many be the miseries  
of just and righteous men:  
But out of all adversities  
the Lord delivereth them.   

21  
But sin shall slay the wicked man,  
which he himself hath wrought;  
And such as hate the righteous man,  
shall soon be brought to nought.   

22  
But them that fear the living Lord,  
he keepeth safe and sound:  
And such as put their trust in him,  
no malice shall confound.     

PSAL. XXXV. the C.**  

LOrd plead my cause against my foes,  
confound their force and might:  
Fight on my part against all those,  
that seek with me to fight.   

2  
Lay hold upon the spear and shield,  
Thyself in armour dress:  
Stand up for me, and fight the field,  
to help me from distress.   

3  
Gird on thy sword, and stop the way,  
mine enemies to withstand:  
Unto my soul be pleased to say,  
I am thy help at hand.   

4  
¶ Confound them with rebuke and blame,  
that seek my soul to kill:  
Let them turn back and flee with shame,  
that seek to work me ill.   

9  
Let all their ways be void of light,  
and slippery like to fall,  
And send thine Angel with thy might,  
to persecute them all.   

7  
And then my bones shall speak and say,  
my parts shall all agree:  
O Lord, what power dost thou display,  
what man is like to thee?    

PSAL. XXXVI. 1. M.***  

THe wicked with his works unjust,  
doth thus persuade my heart.  
He serves not God, he serves his lust,  
and sets God's fear apart.   

2  
Yet doth he joy in his estate,  
to walk as he began:  
So long till he deserves the hate,  
the hate of God and man.   

3  
His words are wicked, vile, and nought,  
his tongue no truth doth tell:  
Yet at no hand will he be taught  
which way he may do well.   

4  
When he should sleep, than doth he muse  
his mischiefs to fulfil:  
No wicked ways doth he refuse,  
nor nothing that is ill,   

5  
¶ But Lord thy goodness doth ascend  
above the heavens high,  
So doth thy truth itself extend  
unto the starry sky.   

6  
Much more than hills so high and steep,  
thy justice is expressed:  
Thy judgements like to seas most deep,  
thou savest both man and beast.   

7  
¶ Thy mercy is above all things,  
O God, it doth excel:  
In trust whereof, as in thy wings,  
the sons of men shall dwell.   

8  
Within thy house they shall be fed  
with plenty at their will:  
Of all delights they shall be sped,  
and take thereof their fill.   

9  
For lo, the well of life so pure  
doth ever flow from thee:  
And in thy light we shall be sure  
the lasting light to see.   

10  
¶ From such as thee desire to know,  
let not thy grace depart:  
Thy righteousness declare and show  
to men of upright heart.   

11  
Let not the proud on me prevail,  
O Lord, of thy good grace:  
Nor let the wicked me assail,  
to throw me out of place.   

12  
But they in their device shall fall,  
that wicked works maintain:  
They shall be overthrown withal,  
and never rise again.    

PSAL. XXXVII. the Coll.**  

34  
Wait thou on God and keep his way,  
he shall preserve thee then  
The earth to rule, and thou shalt see  
destroyed these wicked men.   

35  
The wicked have I seen most strong,  
and placed in high degree:  
Flourishing in all wealth and store,  
as doth the laurel-tree.   

36  
But suddenly he passed away,  
and lo, he was quite gone:  
I sought him then, but could not find  
the place where dwelled such one.   

37  
¶ Mark and behold the perfect man,  
how God doth him increase:  
For righteous men shall have at length  
great joy, with rest and peace.   

38  
As for transgressors, woe to them,  
together they shall fall;  
God will cut off ungodly men,  
and judge them once for all.   

39  
But the salvation of the just  
doth come from God above:  
Who in their trouble sends them aid,  
of his mere grace and love.   

40  
But sure the Lord will bless and keep,  
the righteous and the just,  
From hands of lewd and wicked men,  
because in him they trust.    

PSAL. XXXIX. 1. M. 1. part.*  

Ay Said I will look to my ways,  
for fear I should go wrong:  
I will take thee, lest I offend  
with rashness of my tongue.   

2  
As with a bridle I will keep  
my mouth with all my might:  
Not once to whisper all the while,  
the wicked are in sight.   

3  
I held my tongue, and spoke no word,  
but kept me close and still:  
Yea, from good talk I did refrain,  
but sore against my will.   

4  
My heart waxed hot within my breast,  
with musing, thought, and doubt:  
Which did increase and stir the fire,  
at last these words burst out,   

5  
¶ Lord, number out my life and days  
which yet I have not past:  
So that I may be certified  
how long my life shall last.   

6  
Lord, thou hast pointed out my life,  
in length much like a span:  
Mine age is nothing unto thee,  
so vain is every man.   

7  
Man, surely, walks in vainest show,  
and doth himself annoy  
In getting goods, and cannot tell  
who shall the same enjoy.   

8  
Now, Lord, sith things this wise do frame,  
what help do I desire?  
In truth my help doth hang on thee,  
I nothing else require.   

M. 1. The second part.*  

9  
FRom all the sins that I have done,  
Lord, quit me out of hand:  
And make me not a scorn to fools  
that nothing understand.   

10  
I was as dumb, and to complain  
no trouble might me move:  
Because I knew it was thy work,  
my patience for to prove.   

11  
¶ Lord, take from me thy scourge & plague,  
I can them not withstand:  
I faint and pine away for fear  
of thy most heavy hand.   

12  
When thou for sin dost man rebuke,  
he waxeth pale and wan?  
And like a cloth that moths have fret:  
so vain a thing is man.   

13  
Lord, hear my suit, and give good heed,  
regard my tears that fall:  
I sojourn like a stranger here,  
as did my fathers all.   

14  
O spare a little, give me space  
my strength for to restore:  
Before I go away from hence,  
and shall be seen no more.     

PSAL. XL. 1. Col.***  

I Waited long and sought the Lord,  
and patiently did bear:  
At length to me he did accord,  
my voice and cry to hear.   

2  
He plucked me from the lake so deep,  
out of the mire and clay:  
And on a rock he set my feet,  
and he did guide my way.   

3  
To me he taught a Psalm of praise,  
which I must show abroad:  
And sing new songs of thanks always  
unto the Lord our God.   

4  
When all the folk these things shall see,  
they shall be much afraid:  
And fearing, to the Lord will flee,  
and trust upon his aid.   

5  
O blessed is he, whose hope and heart  
doth in the Lord remain:  
That with the proud doth take no part,  
nor such as lie and fain.   

6  
¶ For Lord my God, thy wondrous deeds  
in greatness far surmount:  
Thy favour towards us exceeds  
all things that we can count.   

7  
¶ When I intend and do devise  
thy works abroad to show:  
To such a reckoning they do rise,  
thereof no end I know.   

8  
Burnt-offerings thou delightest not in,  
it is not thy desire:  
With sacrifice to purge his sin,  
thou dost of none require.   

9  
Offerings likewise and sacrifice  
thou wouldst not have at all:  
But thou hast bored mine ears (O Lord)  
to harken to thy call.   

The second Collect.*  

12  
THy justice and thy righteousness  
in great resorts I tell:  
Behold, my tongue no time doth cease,  
O Lord, thou know'st full well.   

14  
I kept not close thy loving mind,  
that no man should it know:  
The trust that in thy truth I find,  
to all the Church I show.   

15  
¶ Thy tender mercy (Lord) from me  
withdraw thou not away,  
But let thy love and verity  
preserve me day by day.   

16  
For O, with mischiefs many a one  
full sore beset am I:  
My sins increase, and so come on,  
I even droop and die.   

18  
With speed send help and set me free,  
O Lord, to thee I pray:  
Make haste to aid and succour me,  
and do not say me nay.   

19  
Let them sustain rebuke and shame,  
that seek my soul to kill:  
Drive back my foes, and blast their fame,  
whoever wish me ill.   

23  
For, Lord, thou art my hope and trust,  
my refuge, help and stay:  
Wherefore, my God, as thou art just,  
with me no time delay.     

PSAL. XLI. the Col.*  

THe man is blessed that minds the poor  
and is a cheerful giver:  
For in the season perilous  
the Lord will him deliver.   

2  
The Lord will make him safe and sound,  
and happy in the land:  
And he will not deliver him  
into his enemy's hand.   

3  
And, in his bed when he lies sick,  
the Lord will him restore:  
And thou, O Lord, wilt turn to health  
his sickness and his sore.   

4  
Then in my sickness thus say I,  
have mercy, Lord, on me:  
And heal my sick and sinful soul,  
that hath offended thee.    

PSAL. XLII. the Col.*  

LIke as the Hart doth breathe and bray,  
the well-springs to obtain:  
So doth my soul desire, and pray  
to see God's house again.   

2  
My soul doth thirst, and would draw near  
the living God to see:  
O when, my God, shall I appear,  
and in thy presence be?   

5  
The tears all times are my repast,  
which from mine eyes to slide,  
While wicked men cry out so fast,  
where now is God thy guide?   

4  
Alas● what grief is it to think  
what freedom once I had?  
Therefore my soul begins to sink,  
and is exceeding sad.   

When I did march in good array,  
and furnished with my train:  
Unto the Temple was our way,  
With many a pleasant strain.   

5  
Now than my soul; why art thou sad,  
and fre●st so in my breast?  
Hope still for help that may be had,  
and grace from God expressed.   

12  
And trust thou in the Lord always,  
and thou the time shalt● see  
To give him honour, thanks and praise,  
for health restored to thee.    

PSAL. XLIII. 2. M.*  

Judge and revenge my cause, O Lord,  
from them that evil be:  
From wicked and deceitful men,  
O Lord, deliver me.   

2  
For of my strength thou art the God,  
why dost thou leave me so?  
And why walk I so heavily  
oppressed with my so?   

3  
¶ Send out thy light and blessed truth,  
and lead me with thy grace:  
And so conduct me to thy hill,  
and to thy dwelling place.   

4  
Then shall I to the Altar go,  
of God my joy of heart:  
And on my harp give thanks to thee,  
O God, my God that art.   

5  
Why art thou then so sad my soul,  
and fretst thus in my breast?  
Still trust in God, for him to praise,  
I hold it always best.   

6  
By him I have deliverance,  
against all pain and grief:  
He is my God, which doth always  
at need send me relief.    

PSAL. XLV. 1. M. 1. p. Have mercy,  

MY heart doth take in hand,  
a godly song to sing,  
The praise that I shall show therein,  
pertaineth to the King●   

2  
My tongue shall be as quick,  
his honour to indite,  
As is the pen of any scribe,  
that useth fast to write.   

3  
O fairest of all men,  
thy speech is pleasant pure:  
For God hath blessed thee with gifts,  
for ever to endure.   

4  
About thee gird thy sword,  
O prince of might elect:  
With glory, honour, and renown  
thy person pure is decked.   

5  
Go forth with prospr'ous speed,  
with meekness, truth and right:  
And thy right hand shall teach thee things,  
that are of dreadful might.   

6  
T●ine arrows sharp, and keen  
their hearts so sore shall sting:  
That folk shall come and kneel to thee,  
yea, all thy foes, O King.   

6  
¶ Thy royal seat, O Lord,  
for ever shall remain:  
Because the sceptre of thy might  
doth righteousness maintain,   

8  
Because thou lov'st the right,  
and dost the ill detest,  
Hath God thy God anointed thee  
with joy, above the rest.   

9  
With myrrh and savours sweet  
thou art perfumed and clad,  
When thou dost from thy palace pass,  
thereby to make thee glad.   

10  
Kings Daughters are among,  
thy noble concubines:  
At thy right hand the Queen herself,  
in gold of Ophir shines.   

The second part.***  

11  
O Daughter take good heed,  
incline and give good ear:  
Thou must forsake thy kindred all,  
and father's house most dear.   

12  
Then shall the King desire  
thy beauty fair and trim:  
For lo, he is the Lord thy God,  
and thou must worship him.   

13  
The daughters then of Tyre,  
with gifts full rich to see,  
And all the wealthy of the land●  
shall make their suit to thee.   

14  
The daughter of the King●  
is glorious to behold:  
With inward glory glittering,  
and decked in beaten gold.   

15  
In robes of needlework,  
and many a pleasant thing:  
With virgin's fair on her to wait,  
she cometh to the King.   

16  
Thus are they brought with joy,  
and mirth on every side:  
Into the palace of King,  
and there they do abide.   

17  
In stead of parents left,  
(O Queen, the case so stands)  
Thou shalt have sons, whom thou Mayst set  
as Princes in the lands.   

18  
Wherefore thy holy Name,  
all ages shall record:  
The people shall give thanks to thee,  
for evermore, O Lord.     

PSAL. XLVI. 1. M.*  

THe Lord is our defence and aid,  
the strength whereby we stand:  
When we with woe are much dismayed  
he is our help at hand.   

2  
Though th' earth remove we will not fear,  
though hills so high and steep  
Be tumbled headlong here and there,  
within the sea so deep.   

3  
No, though the waves do rage so sore,  
that all the banks it drown:  
And though it overflow the shore,  
and beat the mountains down:   

4  
For Shiloh's river sends abroad  
his pleasant streams apace:  
To glad the City of our God,  
and wash his holy place.   

5  
In midst of her the Lord doth dwell,  
she can no whit decay:  
All things against her that rebel,  
the Lord will take away.   

6  
The heathen folk the kingdoms fear,  
the people make a noise;  
The earth doth melt, and not appear,  
when God puts forth his voice.   

7  
The Lord of hosts doth take our part,  
to us he hath an eye:  
Our hope of health with all our heart  
on Jacob's God doth lie.   

8  
¶ ●●ome see, and let your eyes be taught  
the working of our God:  
What wonders he himself hath wrought  
in all the world abroad.   

9  
By him all wars are hus●●t and gone,  
which countries did conspire:  
Their bows he broke, and spears each one,  
their chariots burnt with fire.   

10  
Leave off therefore (saith he) and know  
that I am God and guide:  
Among the heathen high and low  
will I be magnified.   

11  
The Lord of hosts doth us defend,  
he is our strength and tower:  
On Jacob's God we do depend,  
and on his mighty power.    

PSAL. XLIX. the Coll.**  

ALl people harken and give ear,  
to that, that I shall tell:   

2  
Both high and low, both rich and poor,  
that in the world do dwell.   

5  
Why should I fear affliction,  
or any careful toil:  
Or else my foes that follow me,  
and seek my soul to spoil?   

6  
For as for such as riches have,  
wherein their trust is most;  
And they which of their treasures great,  
themselves do brag and boast:   

7  
There is not one of them that can,  
his brother's soul redeem:  
Or that can give a price to God,  
sufficient in esteem.   

8  
It is too great a price to pay,  
none can thereto attain:  
Or that he might his life prolong,  
or not in grave remain.   

10  
¶ Their care is to build houses fair,  
and so determine sure,  
To make their name right great on earth,  
for ever to endure.   

13  
But tho they speak their foolish thoughts,  
which are most lewd and vain;  
Their children yet approve their talk,  
and in like sin remain.   

14  
As sheep are brought into the fold,  
so shall they go to grave:  
Devoured by death, till day shall dawn,  
and just men lordship have.   

Their image and their royal port  
shall fade and soon decay:  
When as from house to grave they go●  
with mourning all the way.   

15  
But surely God will me preserve  
from death and endless pain;  
Because he will receive my soul,  
and I shall live again.   

17  
¶ If any man wax wondrous rich,  
fear not, I say, therefore;  
Although the glory of his house,  
increaseth more and more.   

18  
For when he dies and sleeps in dust,  
no good shall he receive;  
His glory will not follow him,  
his pomp will take her leave.   

19  
Yet in this life he takes himself  
the happiest under Sun:  
And others flatter him, and say,  
that all was bravely done.   

20  
And presuppose he live as long,  
as did his father's old,  
Yet must he needs at length be brought  
to death's devouring fold.   

Thus man to honour God hath called,  
yet he considers not;  
But is compared to the beasts,  
which quickly die and rot.    

PSAL. L. the Col. Have mercy.**  

14  
GIve to the Lord his praise,  
with thanks to him apply:  
And see thou pay thy vows always  
to God that is most high,   

15  
Then seek and sue to me,  
in any dangerous days,  
And I will sure deliver thee,  
and thou shalt give me praise.   

16  
But to the wicked train,  
which talk of God each day:  
And yet their works are foul and vain,  
to them the Lord will say,   

17  
With what face darest thou  
my word once speak or name?  
Why doth thy talk my law allow?  
thy deeds deny the same.   

18  
Whereas thy life to mend  
thou art so slow and slack:  
My word, the which thou dost pretend,  
is cast behind thy back:   

19  
¶ When thou a thief dost see,  
by theft to live in wealth:  
With him thou runnest, and dost agree  
likewise to thrive by stealth.   

20  
When thou dost them behold,  
that wives and maids defile:  
Thou likest it well, and waxest bold,  
to use that life most vile.   

21  
Thy lips thou dost apply  
to slander and defame:  
Thy tongue is taught, and learns to lie,  
and still doth use the same.   

22  
Thou studiest to revile  
thy friends to thee so near:  
Thy tongue with slander doth defile  
thy mother's son most dear.   

23  
Hereat while I do wink,  
as though I did not see:  
Thou goest on still, and so dost think  
that I am like to thee.   

24  
But sure I will not let  
to strike when I begin:  
Thy faults in order I will set,  
and open all thy sin.   

25  
Mark this I you require,  
that have not God in mind:  
Left when I plague you in mine ire,  
your help be far to find.   

26  
But he that gives me praise,  
he glorifieth me:  
And he that walks in godly ways,  
shall God's salvation see.    

PSAL. LI. 1. M. 1. part.  

O Lord consider my distress,  
And now with speed some pity take,  
My sins remit, my woes redress,  
Good Lord, for thy great mercy's sake.   

2  
Wash me, O Lord, and make me clean  
From this unjust and sinful act:  
And purify yet once again  
My heinous crime and bloody fact.   

3  
Remorse and sorrow do constrain,  
And force me to confess my sin:  
Before my face they still remain  
As fresh as first they did begin.   

4  
For thee alone I have contemned,  
Committing evil in thy sight:  
And if I were therefore condemed,  
Yet were thy judgements just and right.   

5  
¶ Behold, O Lord, for thou dost know,  
That I was bred and born in sin:  
My mother hath conceived me so,  
Yet I vile wretch remain therein,   

6  
Also behold, Lord, thou dost love  
The inward truth of hearts sincere:  
And grace and wisdom from above,  
Thou hast revealed within me there.   

7  
If thou with hyssop purge this blot,  
I shall be clearer than the glass:  
And if thou wash away my spot,  
The snow in whiteness shall I pass.   

8  
Therefore, O Lord, such succour send,  
That I may feel some joy within:  
And that my strength may now amend,  
Which thou hast weakened for my sin.   

9  
Turn back thy face and frowning ire,  
For I have felt enough thy hand:  
And purge my sins, I thee desire,  
Which do in number pass the sand.   

10  
Make new my heart within my breast,  
And frame it to thy holy will:  
And let me have a constant guest,  
Of thy sweet Spirit in me still.   

1. M. The second part.  

11  
CAst me not, Lord, out from thy face,  
But speedily my torments end:  
Take not from me thy Spirit of grace,  
Which may from dangers me defend.   

12  
Restore me to those joys again,  
Which I was wont in thee to find:  
And thy free Spirit let me retain,  
To stablish much my heart and mind.   

13  
Thus when I shall thy mercies know,  
I shall admonish those that sin:  
And men that are likewise brought low,  
By mine example shall come in.   

14  
O God, that of my health art Lord,  
Forgive me this my bloody crime:  
My heart and tongue shall then accord  
To sing thy righteousness divine.   

15  
¶ Touch thou my lips, my tongue untie,  
O Lord, that hast the only key:  
And then my mouth shall testify  
Thy wondrous works and praise always.   

16  
And as for outward sacrifice,  
I would have offered many a one:  
Had they been valued in thine eyes,  
But therein pleasure tak'st thou none.   

17  
The heavy heart, the mind oppressed,  
O Lord, thou never dost despise:  
And verily it is the best,  
The best of all the sacrifice.   

18  
Lord, unto Zion turn thy face,  
Pour down thy mercies on thy hill:  
And on Jerusalem thy grace,  
Build up the walls, and love it still.   

19  
Our offerings then thou shalt accept,  
And whole burnt● offerings shall be paid;  
In righteousness observed and kept,  
And on thy holy altars laid.     

PSAL. LII. 1. M.*  

Why dost thou, tyrant, boast abroad,  
thy wicked works to praise?  
Dost thou not know there is a God,  
whose mercies last always?   

2  
Why doth thy mind yet still devise,  
such wicked wiles to warp?  
Thy tongue untrue in forging lies,  
is like a razour sharp.   

3  
On mischief why setst thou thy mind,  
and wilt not walk upright?  
Thou hast more mind false tales to find,  
then bring the truth to light.   

4  
Thou dost delight in fraud and guile,  
in mischief, blood and wrong:  
Thy lips have learned the flattering stile,  
O false deceitful tongue.   

5  
Therefore shall God for aye confound,  
and pluck thee from thy place:  
Root out thy seed even from the ground,  
and ruin all thy race.   

6  
The just, when they behold thy fall,  
with fear will praise the Lord,  
And in reproach of thee withal,  
cry out with one accord,   

7  
Behold the man that would not take  
the Lord for his defence:  
But of his goods his god did make,  
and sin his confidence.   

8  
But I an Olive fresh and green,  
shall spring and spread abroad:  
Because my trust all times hath been  
upon the living God.   

9  
For this therefore will I give praise  
to thee with heart and voice:  
I will set forth thy Name always,  
wherein thy Saints rejoice.    

PSAL. LV. the Col.*  

O Lord my God, give ear to me,  
and hear when I do pray:  
And when to thee I call and cry,  
hide not thyself away.   

2  
Take heed to me, grant my request,  
and answer me again:  
With plaints I pray full sore oppressed,  
great grief doth me constrain.   

3  
Because my foes with threats and cries,  
Oppress me through despite:  
The workers of iniquities,  
to vex me have delight.   

4  
My heart doth faint for want of breath,  
it panteth in my breast:  
The terrors and the dread of death,  
do take away my rest.   

5  
Divide them, Lord, and from them pull  
their devilish double tongue;  
For I have spied their city full  
of rapine, strife and wrong.   

6  
¶ If that my foes did seek my shame,  
I might it well abide:  
From open enemies check and blame,  
Somewhere I could me hide.   

7  
But thou it wast, my fellow dear,  
which friendship didst pretend,  
And didst my secret counsel hear,  
as my familiar friend.   

8  
But I unto my God will cry,  
to him for help I flee:  
The Lord will help me by and by,  
and he will succour me.   

9  
At morning, noon, and evening tide,  
unto the Lord I pray:  
When I so instantly have cried,  
he doth not say me nay.    

PSAL. LVI. the Col.*  

HAve mercy, Lord, on me I pray,  
for man would me devour:  
He fighteth with me day by day,  
and troubleth me each hour.   

3  
When they would make me most afraid  
with boasts and brags of pride,  
I trust in thee alone for aid,  
therefore I shall not slide.   

4  
God's promise I do mind, and praise,  
O Lord I stick to thee:  
I care not what proud flesh assays,  
what man can do to me.   

6  
What things I either did or spoke,  
they wrested at their will;  
And all the counsel that they take,  
is how to work me ill.   

6  
¶ Shall they escape by mischief still:  
thou, God, upon them frown;  
And, in thine anger terrible,  
Lord, cast their Kingdom down.   

8  
Thou seest how oft they made me flee,  
and on my tears dost look;  
Reserve them in a glass by thee,  
and write them in thy book.   

9  
¶ When I do call upon thy Name  
my foes do faint and fly:  
God takes my part, I know the same,  
I know it, Lord, thereby.   

11  
I trust in God, and therefore say,  
as I before began,  
The Lord is my defence and stay,  
I do not care for man.   

12  
I will perform, with heart so free,  
to God, my vows always:  
And I, O Lord, will offer thee,  
Perpetual thanks and praise.    

PSAL. LVII. the Col.**  

TAke pity for thy promise sake,  
have mercy, Lord, on me:  
Now doth my soul itself betake  
to seek for help from thee.   

2  
I call upon the Lord most high,  
to whom I stick and stand:  
I mean the God that will stand by  
the cause I have in hand.   

4  
¶ I lead my life with lions fell,  
Enraged with rash desire:  
And with such wicked men I dwell,  
that fret like flames of fire.   

6  
They lay their net, and do prepare  
a privy cave and pit,  
Wherein they think my soul to snare,  
but they are fallen in it.   

8  
¶ Awake my joy, awake, I say,  
my harp and every string,  
For I will rise before the day  
God's praises for to sing●   

10  
His mercy●doth extend as far  
as heaven itself is high:  
His truth as high as any Star,  
that standeth in the sky.   

11  
Set forth and show thyself, O God,  
above the heavens bright:  
Extol thy praise on earth abroad,  
thy majesty and might,   

The Collect.*  

O Lord thou didst us clean forsake,  
and scatteredst us abroad:  
Such great displeasure thou didst take,  
return to us, O God.   

2  
Thy might did move the earth so sore,  
that it in sunder broke:  
The hurt thereof, O Lord, restore,  
for it doth bow and quake.   

3  
With heavy wrath thou plaguest thus  
the people that are thine:  
And thou hast given unto us●  
a drink of giddy wine.   

4  
But yet to such as fear thy Name,  
a banner thou didst show,  
That truth may triumph in the same,  
because thy word is so.   

11  
Give aid, O Lord, and help us then  
from wrongs that we sustain;  
For sure the help of mortal men  
is altogether vain.   

12  
But through our God we shall have might  
to take great things in hand:  
He will tread down and put to flight  
our enemies that withstand.    

The Collect.  

REgard O Lord, when I complain,  
and make my moan to thee,  
Let not my prayer ascend in vain:  
but give good ear to me.   

2  
From earth's unknown and utmost part,  
Even where no paths are trod,  
In grief and anguish of my heart,  
I cry to thee, O God.   

3  
Upon the rock of thy great power,  
my woeful mind repose:  
Thou art my hope, my fort and tower,  
my fence against my foes.   

4  
¶ Within thy tents I choose to dwell,  
and (dwelling) to endure,  
Beneath thy wings I know right well,  
I shall be sa●e and sure.   

5  
The vows that do my soul engage  
the Lord was pleased to hear,  
Thou gav'st to me the heritage  
of them that do thee fear.   

8  
So I shall sing for ever still,  
the praises of thy Name,  
That all my vows I may fulfil,  
and daily pay the same.    

The Collect.  

MY soul to God shall give good heed●  
and him ●lone attend:  
For why, my health and hope to speed  
doth whole on him depend.   

6  
He is my rock, my fort and tower,  
my health is of his grace:  
He doth support me, that no power  
can move me out of place.   

8  
O have your hope in him always,  
ye folk with one accord:  
Pour out your hearts to him, and say,  
our trust is in the Lord.   

9  
¶ The sons of men are vanity,  
so found, if they be weighed,  
Mean men a toy, great men a lie,  
if in the balance laid.   

10  
Trust not in robbery, wrong, and steal  
let vain desires be gone:  
Though goods well got flow in with weal  
set not your hearts thereon.   

11  
The Lord long since one thing did tell  
which here to mind I call:  
He spoke it oft, I heard it well,  
that God alone doth all.   

12  
And that thou, Lord, art good and kind,  
thy mercy doth exceed.  
So that all sorts with thee shall find,  
according to their deed.     

PSAL. LXIII. 1. M.*  

O God my God, I wake betime,  
to come to thee in haste:  
For sure, my soul and body both  
do thirst of thee to taste.  
And in this barren wilderness,  
where waters there are none:  
My flesh is parched for want of thee,  
for thee I wish alone.   

2  
That I might see yet once again,  
thy glory, strength and might,  
As I was wont to see the same  
within thy Temple bright.   

3  
For sure, thy mercies far surmount  
this life and wretched days:  
My lips therefore shall give to thee  
due honour, laud and praise.   

4  
I will not fail to worship thee,  
while I may live a day,  
And in thy Name lift up my hands  
devoutly when I pray.   

5  
¶ My soul is filled and satisfied,  
with marrow fat and sweet,  
My mouth shall join with joyful lip,  
in both thy praise shall meet,   

6  
When as in bed I think on thee,  
and meditate all night:   

7  
For under covert of thy wings  
I hide me with delight.   

8  
My soul doth press hard after thee,  
thy right hand is my power.   

9  
And them that seek my soul to slay,  
shall death and hell devour.   

10  
The sword shall slay them every one,  
their carcases shall feed  
The hungry fox●s, which do run  
their prey to seek at need.   

11  
The king and all men shall rejoice,  
that do God's word profess:  
And liars mouths shall then be stop●,  
for their unrighteousness.    

PSAL. lxiiii 1. M.*  

O Lord unto my voice give ear,  
with plaints when I do pray:  
And rid my life and soul from fear  
of foes that threat to slay.   

2  
Defend me from that sort of men,  
which in deceit do lurk;  
And from the frowning face of them  
that all ill things do work.   

3  
Who whet their tongues, as we have seen  
men whet and sharp their swords:  
They shoot abroad their arrows keen,  
I mean most bitter words.   

4  
With secret sleight they shoot their shaft,  
the upright man to hit:  
The just unwares they strike by craft,  
and do not fear a whit.   

5  
By wickedness encouraged,  
in counsel thus they cry,  
To use deceit let us not dread,  
for who can it espy?   

6  
What way to hurt they talk and muse,  
all times within their heart:  
They all consult what wiles to use,  
each doth invent his part.   

7  
But yet all this shall not avail,  
when they think least upon,  
God with his dart shall sure assail,  
and wound them every one.   

8  
Their crafts, and evil tongues and all,  
shall work themselves such shame,  
That they which then behold their fall,  
shall tremble at the same.   

9  
Than all that see, shall weigh right well  
what works the Lord hath wrought,  
And joyfully declare and tell  
what he to pass hath brought.   

10  
Yet shall the just in God rejoice,  
still trusting in his might:  
So shall they joy with mind and voice,  
whose heart is pure and right.    

PSAL. LXV. 1. Col.***  

THy praise alone, O Lord, doth reign,  
in Zion thine own hill:  
Their vows to thee they do maintain,  
and readily fulfil.   

2  
Thou art the God that hearest prayers,  
And there is none but thou:  
Therefore all flesh to thee repairs,  
and every knee doth bow.   

3  
Our wicked life so far exceeds,  
that we should fall therein:  
But, Lord, forgive our great misdeeds,  
and purge us from our sin.   

4  
The man is blessed, whom thou dost choose  
within thy courts to dwell;  
Thy house and temple he shall use,  
with pleasures that excel.   

7  
¶ The swelling seas thou dost assuage,  
and make their streams full still;  
Thou dost restrain the people's rage,  
and rule them at thy will.   

8  
The folk that dwell full far on earth,  
shall dread thy signs to see;  
The day begins and ends with mirth,  
and both with praise to thee.   

The second Collect.***  

WHen that the earth is chapped and dry,  
and thirsteth more and more:  
Then store of rain thou dost apply,  
and much increase her store.   

9  
The flood of God doth overflow,  
and causeth corn to spring,  
The seed, I say, which men do sow,  
for he doth guide the thing.   

10  
With wet thou dost her furrows fill,  
whereby her clod● do fall:  
Thy drops on her thou dost distil,  
and bless her fruit withal.   

11  
¶ Thou deckest the earth, of thy good grace,  
with fair and pleasant crop:  
The clouds distil their dews apace,  
great plenty they do drop:   

12  
Whereby the desert shall begin,  
full great increase to bring:  
The little hills shall joy therein,  
much fruit in them shall spring.   

13  
In places plain the flocks do feed,  
and cover all the earth:  
The vales with corn do so exceed,  
they sing and shout for mirth.     

PSAL. LXVI. 1. Col.***  

YE men on earth in God rejoice,  
set forth his power and same;  
Extol his might with heart and voice,  
and glorify his Name.   

2  
How wonderful, O Lord, say ye,  
in all thy works thou art?  
Thy foes for fear shall seek to thee,  
tho with a feigning heart.   

3  
All folk come forth, behold and see  
what things the Lord hath wrought &  
Mark well the wondrous works that he  
for man to pass hath brought.   

5  
He laid the Seas as heaps on high,  
therein a way they had,  
To pass on foot both fair and dry,  
whereof our hearts were glad.   

6  
His might doth rule the world always,  
his eyes do all behold:  
And all that dare to disobey,  
by him shall be controlled.   

7  
Ye people give unto our God  
due laud and thanks always:  
With joyful voice declare abroad,  
and sing unto his praise.   

PSAL. LXVI. Col. 2.*  

9  
THe Lord doth prove our deeds with fire,  
if that they will abide,  
As workmen do, when they desire  
to have their silver tried.   

10  
Thou brought'st us, Lord, into the snare,  
and in the snare we stick:  
Our loins did great afflictions bear,  
thou layest them on so thick.   

11  
And thou didst also suffer men.  
on us to ride and reign:  
We went through fire and water then  
with danger, dread and pain.   

12  
Yet sure thou dost of thy good grace  
dispose it to the best:  
To bring us out into a place  
to live in wealth and rest.    

PSAL. LXVI. Col. 3.***  

13  
Unto thine house resort will I,  
to offer and to pray:  
And there I will myself apply  
my solemn vows to pay.   

14  
The vows that with my mouth I spoke,  
in all my grief and smart:  
The vows (I say) that I did make  
in dolour of mine heart.   

15  
Burnt-offerings I will give to thee,  
of incense and fat rams:  
Yea, this my sacrifice shall be  
of bullocks, goats and lambs.   

16  
Come forth and harken every one,  
that fears the living Lord:  
What he for my poor soul hath-done,  
to you I will record.   

17  
Full oft I called upon his grace,  
this mouth to him did cry,  
My tongue likewise made speed apace,  
his Name to magnify.   

18  
¶ But if I feel mine heart within,  
in wicked works rejoice;  
Or if I have delight to sin,  
God will not hear my voice.   

19  
But surely God my voice hath heard,  
and what I did require:  
My prayer he did well regard,  
and granted my desire.   

20  
All praise to him, to him, I say,  
that always had regard,  
And never put my prayer away,  
nor sent me home unheard.     

PSAL. LXVII. 2. Meter.***  

HAve mercy on us, Lord,  
and grant to us thy grace:  
And show us of thine own accord,  
the brightness of thy face:   

That all the earth may know  
the way to godly wealth:  
And all that live on earth below,  
may see thy saving health.   

3  
Let all the world, O God,  
give praise unto thy Name:  
O let the people all abroad  
extol and laud the same.   

4  
Throughout the world so wide,  
let all rejoice with mirth:  
For thou dost justly judge and guide,  
the nations of the earth.   

5  
¶ Let all the world, O God,  
give praise unto thy Name:  
O let the people all abroad,  
Extol and laud the same.   

6  
Then shall the earth increase,  
great store of fruit shall fall,  
And then our God, the God of peace,  
shall greatly bless us all.   

7  
Yea God shall bless us all,  
and earth both far and near,  
And people all in general,  
of him shall stand in fear.    

PSAL. LXVIII. the Col.***  

LEt God arise, and let his foes  
betake themselves to flight,  
And let his hateful enemies  
be scattered in his sight.   

2  
And as the fire doth melt the wax,  
and wind blows smoke away:  
So in the presence of the Lord,  
the wicked shall decay.   

3  
But righteous men, before the Lord,  
shall heartily rejoice:  
They shall be most exceeding glad,  
and cheerful in their voice.   

4  
¶ Sing praise, sing praise unto the Lord,  
who rideth on the sky:  
Extol the Name of Jah our God,  
his greatness magnify,   

5  
The same is he that is above,  
within his holy place:  
The father of the fatherless,  
and judge of widow's case.   

6  
He gives both house and family,  
unto the comfortless:  
He bringeth bondmen out of thrall,  
and rebels to distress.    

PSAL. LXIX. the Collect.**  

13  
THey tear me with their slanderous tongues,  
who in the gate did sit:  
On me the drunkards made their songs,  
with wicked scoffing wit.   

20  
Thou know'st all my reproach & shame●  
thou seest my great disgrace:  
Mine enemies, which procure the same,  
are all before thy face.   

28  
Add sin to sin, in all they do,  
Heaped up in great excess:  
And let them never come into  
thy kingdom's righteousness.   

30  
¶ But I am poor, and full of grief,  
Lord, to my soul draw nigh:  
Let thy salvation give relief,  
and set me up on high.   

31  
Then will I sing, and praise, and bless,  
and magnify his Name:  
And with exceeding thankfulness,  
will I extol his fame.   

32  
Which is more pleasing unto thee,  
(such grace thy mind hath born)  
Then either Ox or Bull can be,  
that hath both hoof and horn.   

35  
Therefore let heaven his praises sing,  
let heaven and earth begin:  
Praise him, ye Seas, and every thing,  
that lives and moves therein.   

36  
For God will Zion mountain save,  
and Judah's Cities build,  
Thus men may here possession have,  
and all the streets be filled.    

PSAL. LXXI. the Collect.***  

MY Lord my God, in all distress  
my hope is whole in thee:  
Then let no shame my soul oppress,  
nor once take hold of me.   

3  
Be thou my rock, to whom I may  
for aid all times resort,  
Thy promise is to help always,  
thou art my fence and sort.   

4  
Save me, my God, from wicked men,  
and from their strength and power:  
From folk unrighteous, and from them  
that cruelly devour.   

19  
¶ O Lord, thy justice doth exceed,  
as by thy works we see:  
Thy works are wonderful indeed,  
Lord, who is like to thee?   

20  
Thou mad'st me feel affliction sore,  
and yet thou didst me save:  
Yea, thou didst succour and restore,  
and took'st me from the grave.   

21  
And thou mine honour dost increase,  
my dignity maintain:  
Yea, thou dost make all grief to cease,  
and comfortest me again.   

22  
Therefore thy faithfulness to praise,  
I will with viol sing,  
My harp shall sound thy fame always,  
O Israel's holy King.   

23  
My mouth will joy with pleasant voice,  
when I shall sing to thee:  
My soul shall in thy Name rejoice,  
for thou hast made me free.   

25  
My tongue thy uprightness shall found,  
and speak it daily still:  
For grief and shame do them confound,  
that seek to work me ill.    

PSAL. LXXIII. the Col.*  

HOwever it be yet God is good,  
and kind to Israel:  
To every one that's clean of heart,  
and keeps his conscience well.   

2  
But as for me, I almost slipped,  
my feet began to slide:  
And, through temptation unawares,  
my steps were turned aside.   

12  
For we may see how wicked men,  
in riches still increase,  
Provided well of worldly goods,  
and live in rest and peace.   

13  
Then why do I from wickedness,  
my fantasy refrain:  
And wash my hands in innocence,  
and cleanse my heart in vain?   

16  
Than I bethought me how I might  
this matter understand:  
But lo, the labour was too great,  
for me to take in hand:   

17  
Until I went into thy house,  
and there, O Lord, and then  
I understood the wretched end,  
of these ungodly men:   

18  
And namely how thou settest them,  
upon a slippery seat:  
And at thy pleasure casts them down,  
and mak'st their ruin great.   

19  
Than all men wonder at the sight,  
to see how soon they change:  
They are destroyed and quite consumed,  
with terrors great and strange.   

27  
¶ For lo, all such as thee forsake,  
shall perish every one;  
And all desiring any thing,  
except in thee alone.   

28  
Therefore will I draw nigh to God,  
and in the Lord I trust:  
That I may set forth all his works  
to be both good and just.    

PSAL. LXXIIII. the Col.  

WHy art thou, Lord, so far from us,  
in all this danger deep:  
Why doth thine anger kindle thus,  
against thy pasture sheep?   

2  
Lord, call thy people to thy thought,  
which have been thine so long:  
And which thou hast redeemed and bought,  
and brought from bondage strong.   

3  
Remember, Lord, remember still,  
where thy possessions fell:  
Thy purchased place of zions hill,  
where thou wast wont to dwell,   

4  
Lift up thy feet and come in haste,  
and help our helpless case:  
Confound thy foes, that rob and waste,  
within thy holy place.   

5  
The curious carving of the boards,  
and goodly graven stones:  
With axes, hammers, bills and swords,  
they now break down at once.   

6  
Regard thy Covenant, rid and cleanse  
dark corners of our land,  
So full of cruel robbers dens,  
as now our realm doth stand.   

7  
¶ Arise, O Lord, and still maintain,  
thy cause that is thine own:  
Remember well how fools disdain,  
and daily scorns are thrown.   

8  
Forget not, Lord, how great it grows,  
how insolent, how high:  
The tumults of thy rebel-foes,  
increase continually.    

PSAL. LXXIX. 1. Met. 1. p.*  

O Lord, our God, thine heritage,  
the Heathen now invade:  
Jerus'lem, through their barbarous rage,  
a ruinous heap is made.   

2  
Thy holy Temple they defiled,  
and thy Saints bodies given:  
Some to the beasts, some to the wild  
and ravenous fowls of Heaven.   

3  
Their blood throughout Jerusalem,  
as water spilled they have:  
So that there is not one of them  
to lay their dead in grave.   

4  
Thus are we made a laughing stock,  
almost the world throughout:  
The enemies at us jest and mock,  
which dwell our coasts about.   

5  
¶ Wilt thou (O Lord) thus in thine ire,  
against us ever fume,  
And keep thy wrath as hot as fire,  
thy people to consume?   

6  
Upon those Heathen pour the same,  
which did thee never know:  
All Realms which call not on thy Name,  
consume and overthrow.   

7  
For they have got the upper hand,  
and Jacob's seed destroyed:  
His habitation and his land,  
they have laid waste and void.   

8  
Bear not in mind our former faults,  
with speed some pity show:  
And aid us, Lord, in all assaults,  
for we are weak and low.   

The second part.  

O God that giv'st all health and grace,  
on us declare the same:  
Weigh not our works, our sins deface,  
for honour of thy Name.   

10  
Why shall the Heathen folk always,  
to us, as people dumb,  
In thy reproach insult, and say,  
where is their God become?   

¶ Require (O Lord) as thou seest good,  
before our eyes and sight,  
Of all these folk, thy servant's blood,  
which they have spilled in spite.   

11  
And let thy Name be known thereby,  
and now receive and take  
The heavy sighs, complaint and cry,  
which mournful prisoners make.   

As is the greatness of thy power,  
Do thou accordingly,  
Preserve, and be their Saviour,  
whom they condemned to die.   

12  
Into their bosoms sevenfold,  
O recompense the shame;  
Wherewith our neighbours have been bold,  
to vilify thy Name.   

13  
So we thy flock and pasture sheep  
will praise thee evermore:  
And teach all ages for to keep  
for thee like praise in store.     

PSAL. LXXX. the Col.*  

5  
LOrd God of hosts of Israel,  
how long wilt thou, I say,  
Against thy folk in anger swell,  
Even all the while they pray?   

6  
Thou feedest them with sorrows deep,  
their bread with tears they eat:  
And drink the tears that they do weep,  
in measure full and great.   

7  
Thou hast us made a very strife,  
to those that dwell about:  
And that our foes do love alive,  
they laugh and jest it out.   

8  
O take us, Lord, unto thy grace,  
convert our minds to thee:  
Show forth to us thy joyful face,  
and we full safe shall be.   

18  
And so when thou hast set us free,  
and saved us from shame:  
Then will we never fall from thee,  
but call upon thy Name.   

19  
O Lord of hosts of thy good grace,  
convert us unto thee:  
Behold us with a pleasant face,  
and then full safe are we.    

PSAL. LXXXI. the Col.*  

10  
HEar, O my people Israel,  
and I assure it thee:  
Regard and mark my words full well,  
if thou wilt cleave to me;   

11  
Thou shalt no God in thee reserve,  
of any land abroad,  
Nor in no wise bow to, or serve  
a strange or foreign god.   

12  
I am the Lord thy God, and I  
from Egypt set thee free:  
Then ask of me abundantly,  
and I will give it thee.   

13  
¶ And yet my people would not hear  
my voice, when that I spoke:  
And Israel would not obey,  
but did me quite forsake.   

14  
Then did I leave them to their will,  
in hardness of their heart:  
To walk in their own counsels still,  
themselves for to pervert.   

15  
¶ O that my people would have heard  
the words that I did say:  
And oh that Israel would regard  
to walk within my way.   

16  
How soon would I confound their foes,  
and bring them down full low:  
And turn my hand upon all those  
that seek their overthrow!   

But Israel should have had the crop,  
and finest of the wheat:  
And honey dropping from the rock,  
that they their fill might eat.    

PSAL. LXXXIIII. the Col.**  

HOw pleasant is thy dwelling place,  
O Lord of hosts to me!  
The Tabernacles of thy grace,  
how lovely, Lord, they be?   

5  
Oh happy, happy sure are they,  
whose stay and strength thou art,  
Which to thy house do mind the way,  
and seek it in their heart.   

8  
From strength to strength they walk full fast,  
no faintness there shall be:  
Until the God of gods, at last,  
in Zion they do see.   

9  
O Lord of hosts to me give heed,  
and hear when do pray:  
And let it through thine ears proceed,  
O jacob's God, I say.   

11  
For in thy Courts, thy Name to praise,  
Lord, one days being there,  
Is better than a thousand days,  
a thousand days elsewhere.   

13  
For God the Lord is Sun and shield,  
and grace and glory gives:  
And no good thing shall be withheld  
from him that purely lives.   

14  
O Lord of hosts, that man is blessed,  
and happy sure is he,  
That is persuaded in his breast,  
all times to trust in thee.    

PSAL. LXXXV. the Col.**  

THou hast been merciful indeed,  
O Lord, unto thy land:  
Thou has redeemed Jacob's seed,  
out of their enemy's hand.   

2  
The wicked ways that they were in,  
thou didst them clean remit,  
And thou didst hide thy people's sin,  
full close thou coveredst it.   

3  
Thine anger, Lord, thou didst assuage,  
that all thy wrath was gone:  
And so didst turn thee from thy rage,  
with them to be at one.   

4  
¶ O God our Saviour now convert  
thy people unto thee:  
Put all thy wrath from us apart,  
and angry cease to be.   

5  
Why, shall thine anger never end,  
but still proceed on us?  
And shall thy wrath itself extend,  
upon all ages thus?   

6  
Wilt thou not rather turn therefore,  
and quicken us, that we,  
And all thy people evermore,  
may much rejoice in thee?   

7  
O Lord, on us do thou declare  
thy goodness to our wealth:  
Show forth to us, and do not spare,  
but show thy saving health.    

PSAL. LXXXVI. the Col.  

LOrd how thine ear to my request,  
and hear me by and by:  
With grievous pain and grief oppressed,  
full poor and weak am I.   

2  
Preserve my soul, because my ways  
and doings holy be:  
And save thy servant, O my Lord,  
that puts his trust in thee.   

3  
Thy mercy (Lord) to me express,  
defend me therewithal,  
For through the day I do not cease  
on thee to cry and call.   

4  
¶ Comfort (O Lord) thy servant's soul,  
that now with pain is pined:  
For unto thee (Lord) I extol,  
and lift my soul and mind.   

5  
For thou art good and bountiful,  
thy gifts of grace are free:  
And thy compassions plentiful,  
to all that call to thee.   

6  
O Lord, likewise when I do pray,  
regard and give good ear:  
Mark well the words that I do say,  
and all my prayers hear.   

7  
In time when trouble doth me move,  
to thee I do complain:  
Because I know and well do prove,  
thou answerest me again.   

13  
For, Lord, thy mercy showed to me,  
is great, and doth excel:  
Thou setst my soul at liberty,  
out from the lowest hell.    

PSAL. LXXXVIII. the Coll.*  

LOrd God of health, my hope and stay,  
and all in one to me,  
I call and cry throughout the day,  
and all the night to thee.   

2  
O let my prayer soon ascend,  
unto thy sight on high:  
Incline thine ear, O Lord attend,  
and harken to my cry.   

3  
For why, with woe my heart is filled,  
and doth in trouble dwell:  
My life and breath almost do yield,  
and sink as low as hell.   

4  
I am esteemed as one of them,  
that in the pit do fall:  
And made as one amongst those men  
that have no strength at all.   

5  
Yea, like to one shut up full sure,  
within the lower pit,  
In places dark and all obscure,  
and in the depth of it.   

6  
¶ Dost thou unto the dead declare,  
those wondrous works of thine?  
Shall they again to life repair,  
to preach thy power divine?   

7  
I cry to thee, Lord, I condole  
my miserable case:   

8  
Why dost thou then abhor my soul,  
and hide away thy face?   

9  
I am afflicted like to die,  
from youth still suffering so,  
I am distracted, whilst that I  
thy terrors undergo.    

PSAL. XC. the Collect.  

13  
INstruct us, Lord, to know and try,  
how long our days remain:  
That then we may our hearts apply,  
true wisdom to attain.   

14  
¶ Return, O Lord, how long wilt thou  
forth on in wrath proceed?  
Show favour to thy servants now,  
and help them at their need.   

16  
As thou hast plagued us before,  
now also make us glad:  
And for the years, wherein full sore  
affliction we have had,   

17  
O let thy works and power appear,  
and on thy servant's light:  
And show unto thy children dear,  
thy glory and thy might.   

18  
Lord, let thy grace and glory stand,  
on us thy servants thus:  
Confirm the works we take in hand,  
and prosper them to us.    

PSAL. XCIII. 1. Met.***  

THe Lord as King aloft doth reign,  
with glory shining bright:  
His strength and power appeareth plain,  
for he is girt with might.   

2  
The Lord likewise the earth hath made,  
and settled it so sure:  
No might can make it move or fade,  
it ever doth endure.   

3  
Ere that the world was made or wrought  
thy seat was set on high:  
Beyond all times that can be thought,  
thou art eternally.   

4  
¶ The floods, O Lord, the floods do rise,  
they swell against the shore:  
And raise the waves in such a wise,  
they make the waters roar.   

5  
Yet though the storms appear in sight,  
though seas do rage and swell:  
The Lord is strong and more of might,  
for he on high doth dwell.   

6  
And look what promise he doth make,  
his household to defend,  
For just and true they shall it take,  
all times without an end.   
OR,  

THy testimonies precious,  
are kept on sure record:  
And holiness becomes thy house,  
for evermore, O Lord.    

PSAL. XCIIII. 1. M. 1 p.*  

O Lord, thou dost revenge all wrongs,  
that power belongs to thee:  
Since vengeance then to thee belongs,  
declare that all may see.   

2  
Set up thyself, for thou of right  
the earth dost judge and guide:  
Reward the proud and men of might,  
according to their pride.   

3  
How long shall wicked men bear sway,  
by lifting up their voice?  
How long shall wicked men, I say,  
thus triumph and rejoice?   

4  
How long shall they with brags burst out,  
and proudly prate their fill?  
Shall they rejoice and be so stout,  
whose works are ever ill?   

5  
Thy flock, O Lord, thine heritage  
they spoil, and vex full sore:  
Against thy people they do rage,  
still daily more and more.   

6  
The widows which are comfortless,  
and strangers they destroy:  
They slay the children fatherless,  
and none doth put them by.   

7  
And when they take these things in hand  
this talk they have of thee,  
Can jacob's God this understand?  
tush no, he cannot see.   

8  
¶ O folk unwise, and people rude,  
some knowledge now discern:  
Ye fools among the multitude,  
at length begin to learn.   

9  
Shall not the Lord that made the ear,  
the Lord that made the eye,  
What, shall not he both see and hear  
Even all things perfectly?   

10  
The Lord doth all the world correct,  
and makes them understand:  
Shall he not then your deeds detect?  
how can ye scape his hand?   

The second part. I. M.**  

11  
THe Lord doth know the thoughts of man,  
his heart he seeth plain:  
The Lord (I say) men's thoughts doth scan,  
and findeth them but vain.   

12  
¶ But, Lord, that man is happy sure,  
whom thou dost keep in awe,  
And through correction dost procure,  
to teach him in thy Law.   

13  
Whereby he shall in quiet rest,  
when times of trouble are:  
When wicked men shall be suppressed,  
and fall into the snare.   

14  
¶ For sure the Lord will not refuse,  
his people for to take:  
His heritage, whom he did choose,  
he will no time forsake:   

15  
Until that judgement be decreed,  
and justice play her part:  
That all may follow her with speed,  
that are of upright heart.   

16  
But now on my side who shall stand,  
against the cursed train?  
Or who shall rid me from their hand,  
that wicked works maintain?   

17  
¶ Except the Lord had been mine aid,  
mine enemies to repel:  
My soul and life had now been laid,  
almost as low as hell.   

18  
When I did say, my foot doth slide,  
I now am like to fall:  
Thy goodness, Lord, thou didst provide,  
to stay me up withal.   

19  
When with myself I mused much,  
and could no comfort find:  
Then, Lord, thy goodness did me touch,  
and that did ease my mind:   

20  
¶ Lord, shall the thrones of wickedness  
have fellowship with thee:  
Which make a Law for to oppress,  
and plead, it's thy decree?   

21  
Lo, they consult against the life  
of righteous men and good:  
And in their counsels they are rife,  
to shed the guiltless blood.   

22  
But yet the Lord he is to me  
a place of sure defence:  
He is my God, to him I flee,  
my strength and confidence.   

23  
Their mischiefs on themselves shall fall,  
and (taken in their crimes)  
The Lord our God shall slay them all,  
and cut them off betimes.     

PSAL. XCV. the Col.*  

6  
COme let us bow and praise the Lord,  
before him let us fall,  
And kneel to him with one accord,  
the which hath made us all.   

7  
For why, he is the Lord our God,  
for us he doth provide:  
We are his flock, he doth us feed,  
his sheep, and he our guide.   

8  
To day if ye his voice will hear,  
then harden not your heart:  
As ye provoked him many a year,  
within the desert part.   

9  
Whereas your fathers tempted me,  
my power for to prove:  
My wondrous works when they did see,  
yet still they would me move.   

10  
Twice twenty years they did me grieve,  
and I to them did say:  
They err in heart and not believe,  
they have not known my way.   

11  
Wherefore I swore, when that my wrath  
was kindled in my breast:  
That they should never tread the path,  
to enter in my rest.    

PSAL. XCVI. the Col.***  

SIng ye with praise unto the Lord,  
new songs of joy and mirth:  
Sing unto him with one accord,  
all people on the earth.   

2  
Among the heathen folk declare  
his honour round about:  
To show his wonders do not spare,  
Even all the world throughout.   

3  
Tell all the world, from first to last,  
the Lord doth reign above:  
Yea, he hath set the earth to fast,  
that it can never move:   

4  
And that it is the Lord alone,  
that rules with princely might,  
To judge the nations every one,  
with equity and right.    

PSAL. C. 1. M.  

ALl people that on earth do dwell,  
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice:   

2  
Him serve with fear, his praise forth-tell,  
Come ye before him and rejoice.   

3  
The Lord ye know is God indeed,  
Without our aid he did us make:  
We are his flock, he doth us feed.  
And for his sheep he doth us take.   

4  
O enter then his gates with praise,  
Approach with joy his courts unto:  
Praise, laud, and bless his Name always,  
For it is seemly so to do.   

5  
For why, the Lord our God is good,  
His mercy is for ever sure:  
His truth at all times firmly stood,  
And shall from age to age endure.    

PSAL. CIII. 1. Coll.***  

MY soul doth magnify the Lord,  
my spirit do the same:  
And all the secrets of my heart,  
praise ye his holy Name.   

2  
Give thanks to God for all his gifts,  
Show not thyself unkind,  
And suffer not his benefits,  
to slip out of thy mind.   

3  
Who gave thee pardon for thy fault,  
and thee restored again:  
And healed thy infirmity,  
and eased thee of thy pain.   

4  
That did redeem thy life from death  
from which thou could not flee:  
His mercy and compassion both  
he did extend to thee.   

5  
That filled with goodness thy desire,  
and did prolong thy youth:  
Like as the eagle casts her bill,  
whereby her age renew'th.   

6  
¶ The Lord with justice dothrepay,  
all such as be oppressed:  
So that their sufferings and their wrongs  
are turned to the best.   

7  
His ways and his commandments  
to Moses he did show:  
His counsels and his valiant acts  
the Israelites did know.   

8  
The Lord is kind and merciful,  
when sinners do him grieve:  
The slowest to conceive a wrath,  
and readiest to relieve.   

PSAL. CIII. 2. Coll.***  

THe Lord our God deals not by us  
according to our sin,  
Nor after the iniquities  
that we have lived in.   

11  
But as the space is wondrous great  
twixt earth and heaven above:  
So is his goodness much more large  
to them that do him love.   

12  
God doth remove our sins from us,  
and our offences all:  
As far as is the sunrising  
full distant from his fall.   

13  
And look what pity parents dear,  
unto their children bear:  
Like pity bears the Lord to such  
as worship him fear.   

14  
¶ The Lord that made us knows our shape  
our mould and fashion just,  
How weak and frail our nature is,  
and how we are but dust.   

15  
And how the time of mortal men,  
is like the withering hay:  
Or like the flower right fair in field,  
that fades full soon away.   

16  
But yet the goodness of the Lord  
with his shall ever stand:  
Their children's children do receive  
much goodness at his hand.   

17  
I mean, which keep his covenant,  
with all their whole desire:  
And not forget to do the thing,  
that he doth them require.     

PSAL. CVIII. the Col.**  

O God my heart is now prepared,  
so also is my tongue:  
I will advance my voice, O Lord,  
and praise thee with my song.   

2  
A wake my viol and my harp,  
sweet melody to make:  
And in the morning I myself  
right early will awake.   

3  
Among the people generally,  
thou shalt be praised by me:  
Among the heathen folk, O Lord,  
will I sing praise to thee.   

4  
Because thy mercy, Lord, is great,  
above the heavens high:  
Also thy truth doth pierce the clouds,  
and reacheth to the sky.   

5  
●Above the starry firmament  
Extol thyself, O God:  
And, Lord, display upon the earth  
thy glory all abroad.   

6  
And that thy dear beloved one  
delivered may be,  
Help, O my God, with thy right hand,  
and harken unto me.   

12  
And grant us, Lord, thy saving health,  
when troubles do assail:  
For all the help of man is vain,  
and nothing can avail.   

13  
Through God we shall do valiant acts,  
and worthy of renown;  
He shall subdue our enemies,  
yea, he shall tread them down.    

PSAL. CXIII. 1. M.  

YE children which do serve the Lord,  
Praise ye his Name with one accord:  
2 And ever blessed be his Name.   

3  
Who from the rising of the Sun,  
Till it return where it begun,  
is to be praised with great same.   

4  
The Lord all people doth surmount,  
As for his glory we may count,  
above the heavens high to be.   

5  
With God the Lord who may compare  
Whose dwellings in the heavens are?  
of such great power and force is he.   

6  
He doth abase himself (we know)  
Things to behold both here below,  
and also in the heavens high.   

7  
The poor and needy sort he brings  
Even from the dust to sit with Kings,  
in thrones of princely Majesty.   

8  
Among his people thus doth he,  
As Princes, place in high degree  
even those that from the dunghill came.   

9  
The barren he doth make to bear,  
And with great joy her fruit to rear,  
therefore praise ye his holy Name.    

PSAL. CXVI. the Col.***  

I Love the Lord, because he heard  
my earnest suit and cry:   

2  
And call upon him while I live,  
that heard me formerly.   

3  
Even when the snares of cruel death,  
on every side I found:  
When pains of hell laid hold on me,  
and sorrow did surround:   

4  
Upon the Name of God my Lord  
then did I call, and say,  
Deliver thou my soul, O Lord,  
I do most humbly pray.   

5  
¶ The Lord is very merciful,  
and just he is also:  
And in our God compassion  
doth plentifully flow.   

6  
¶ The Lord in safety doth preserve  
all those that simple be:  
I was in woeful misery,  
and he delivered me.   

7  
And now, my soul, sith thou art safe,  
return unto thy rest:  
For largely, lo, the Lord to thee,  
his bounty hath expressed.   

8  
Because thou hast delivered  
my soul from deadly thrall,  
My moistened eyes from mournful tears,  
my sliding feet from fall.   

9  
Before the Lord in land of life,  
now will I walk therefore:   

10  
I did believe, therefore I spoke,  
for I was troubled sore.    

PSAL. CXVIII. the Coll.***  
THe Lord himself is on my side,  
I will not stand in doubt:  
Nor fear what flesh can do to me,  
for God will help me out.  

2  
The Lord doth take my part with them  
to help me that arise,  
Therefore I shall see my desire  
upon mine enemies.   

3  
¶ Better it is to trust in God,  
then in man's mortal seed,   

4  
Or to put confidence in Kings,  
or Princes in our need.   

5  
All nations have enclosed me,  
and compassed me round:  
But in the Name of God shall I  
mine enemies confound.   

6  
¶ My foe, thou hast thrust sore at me,  
that I indeed might fall:  
But through the Lord I found such help,  
that they were vanquished all.   

7  
Now help us, Lord, and prosper us,  
we humbly crave the same:   

8  
Blessed is he that comes to us  
in God's most holy Name.   

9  
O give ye thanks unto the Lord,  
for very good is he,  
Because his mercies do endure:  
to all eternity.    

PSAL. CXIX. 1. Col.**  

BLessed are they that perfect are,  
and pure in mind and heart:  
That from the Law of God the Lord,  
do not at all depart.   

2  
Blessed are they that give themselves,  
his Statutes to observe:  
Seeking the Lord with all their hearts,  
and never from him swerve.   

4  
It is thy just and strict command,  
that with attentive heed,  
Thy noble and divine precepts,  
we learn and keep indeed.   

5  
O thou that giv'st us this command,  
give grace to do the same:   

6  
Then shall I keep thy statutes all,  
and never shrink for shame.   

8  
And wholly will I give myself,  
to keep thy laws most right:  
Forsake me not for ever, Lord,  
but show thy grace and might.   

The second Collect.**  
Unfeignedly I have thee sought,  
and seeking so abide:  
Let me not wander from thy ways,  
nor ever turn aside.  

11  
Within my heart and secret thoughts  
thy words have I hid still,  
That I might not at any time  
offend thy holy will.   

13  
¶ My lips have never ceased to preach,  
and publish day and night  
The judgements all, which did proceed  
from thy mouth full of might,   

15  
Of thy precepts I will still muse,  
and thereto frame my talk:  
As at a mark so will I aim,  
thy ways how I may walk.   

16  
My only joy shall be so fixed,  
and on thy laws so set:  
That nothing can me so far blind,  
that I thy words forget.    

The third Collect.**  

20  
MY soul is ravished with desire,  
and never is at rest:  
But seeks to know thy judgements, Lord,  
and what may please thee best.   

22  
¶ Lord, turn from me rebuke and shame  
which wicked men conspire:  
For I have kept thy covenants,  
with zeal as hot as fire.   

28  
My soul I feel so sore oppressed,  
that it doth melt for grief:  
According to thy word therefore,  
Lord, haste to send relief.   

35  
¶ In righteous paths of thy precepts,  
Lord, guide me, I require:  
None other pleasure do I wish,  
nor greater thing desire.   

36  
¶ Incline my heart thy laws to keep,  
and covenants to embrace:  
And from all filthy avarice,  
Lord, shield me with thy grace.   

37  
¶ From vain desires and worldly lusts,  
turn back mine eyes and sight:  
Give me the spirit of life and power,  
to walk thy ways aright.   

39  
Reproach and shame which I so fear,  
from me, O Lord, expel:  
For thou dost judge with equity,  
and therein doth excel.   

40  
Behold! my heart's desire is bent,  
thy laws to keep for aye:  
Lord strengthen me so with thy grace,  
that it perform I may.    

The fourth Collect.**  

41  
THy mercies that are manifold,  
let me obtain, O Lord:  
Thy saving health let me enjoy,  
according to thy Word.   

42  
So shall I stop the standrous mouths  
of lewd men and unjust,  
That have so much reproached me:  
for in thy word I trust.   

60  
I did not stay, nor linger long,  
as those that slothful are;  
But hastily thy laws to keep  
I did myself prepare.   

61  
The cruel bands of wicked men,  
have made of me their prey:  
Yet did not I thy laws forget,  
nor from thee go astray.   

62  
Thy righteous judgements are so great,  
so holy, and so high,  
That even at midnight I will rise,  
thy Name to magnify.    

The fifth Collect.**  

ERe thou didst touch me with thy rod,  
I erred and went astray:  
But now I keep thy word, O God,  
and by it guide, my way.   

71  
O happy time, well may I say,  
that thou didst me correct:  
For, like a guide, thy Law to learn,  
thy rod did me direct.   

76  
Thy judgements very righteous are,  
O Lord I do confess:  
I know thou hast afflicted me,  
of very faithfulness.   

107  
¶ I am afflicted very much,  
but quicken me, O Lord:  
And raise me to an holy life,  
according to thy word.   

114  
Thou art my hid and secret place,  
my shield and strong defence:  
And on thy Word I fix my faith,  
my hope and confidence.     

PSAL. CXXII. 1. M. Ye children, &c.  

I Did exceedingly rejoice,  
To hear the loving people's voice,  
in offering of their own accord:  
For in this manner did they say,  
Come, let us up, and take our way,  
unto the temple of the Lord.  
Within thy gates, Jerusalem,  
Our feet shall come, and stand in them,  
to worship, and to offer there.  
Jerusalem is built so neat,  
Compact together and complete,  
the like there is not anywhere.   

2.  
The holy tribes, with one accord,  
The tribes, I say, of God the Lord,  
to Israel's testimony came.  
Thither they went, on solemn days,  
To worship and to offer praise,  
unto the Lord's most holy Name.  
For there are stately thrones erect,  
Erected there, for this respect,  
for justice and for equity:  
Which thrones of right do appertain  
To David's house, which there must reign,  
to judge his folk accordingly.   

3.  
O pray therefore, and do not cease,  
But pray for our Jerus'lems peace.  
lo, they shall prosper that love thee:  
Peace be within thy walls, say I,  
I wish as much prosperity  
within thy palaces to be.  
My brethren and companions dear,  
Make me now say, let peace be here,  
I wish it heartily to thee.  
The temple of our God no less,  
Makes me to seek thy happiness,  
as much as ever lies in me.    

PSAL. CXXVIII. 1. M.***  

BLessed art thou that fearest God,  
and walkest in his way:   

2  
For of thy labour thou shalt eat,  
happy art thou, I say.   

3  
Like fruitful vines on thy house side,  
so doth thy wife spring out.  
Thy children stand like olive plants,  
thy table round about.   

4  
Thus art thou blessed that fearest God,  
and he shall let thee see   

5  
The promised Jerusalem,  
and her felicity.   

6  
Thou shalt thy children's children see,  
to thy great joys increase:  
And likewise grace on Israel,  
prosperity and peace.    

PSAL. CXXX. 1. M.**  

TO thee, O Lord, I make my moan,  
in these my depths of grief:  
I call, I cry, I sigh, I groan,  
trusting to find relief.   

2  
Hear then, O Lord, my just request,  
for it is full due time:  
And let thy ears be now possessed,  
with these desires of mine.   

3  
¶ O Lord our God, if thou should weigh●  
the sins that we have done:  
Who can escape, or who can say,  
I can excuse for one?   

4  
But thou, O Lord, art rather bent  
to tenderness and grace:  
That we, with hearts most penitent,  
should fear before thy face.   

5  
¶ In God I put my confidence,  
my soul waits on his will:  
His promise is a sure defence,  
and I hope therein still.   

6  
My soul to God hath due regard,  
wishing for him always:  
Yea, more than they that watch and ward  
desire the dawning day.   

7  
¶ Let Israel boldly trust upon  
the Lords free grace and love,  
And plentiful redemption  
that comes from God above.   

8  
And he shall now and evermore  
redeem us on this wise,  
Quite blotting out the heavy score  
of our iniquities.    

PSAL. CXXXI. 1. Col.*  

O Lord, I am not puffed in mind,  
I have no scornful eye:  
I do not exercise myself  
in things that be too high.   

2  
But as the child that weaned is,  
even from his mother's breast:  
So have I, Lord, behaved myself  
in silence and in rest.   

3  
O Israel trust in the Lord,  
let him be all thy stay:  
From this time forth for evermore,  
from age to age, for ay.    

PSAL. CXXXII. 1. Col.***  

RRemember David's troubles, Lord,  
how to the Lord he swore,  
And vowed a vow to jacob's God,  
the greatest of his care.   

2  
I will not come within my house.  
nor climb up to my bed:  
Nor let my temples take their rest,  
nor th' eyes within thy head:   

5  
Till I have found out for the Lord  
a Temple for his grace:  
An house for Jacob's mighty God  
to be a dwelling place.   

7  
We will assay, and go into  
his Tabernacle there:  
Before his footstool falling down,  
to worship him in fear.   

9  
O Lord, let all thy Priests be clothed  
with truth and righteousness;  
Let all thy Saints and holy men,  
sing out with joyfulness.   

The second Collect.***  

13  
THe Lord hath chosen Zion hill,  
and loves therein to dwell:  
Saying, this is my resting place,  
I love and like it well.   

14  
And I will bless with great increase  
her victuals everywhere:  
And I will satisfy with bread,  
the needy that be there.   

15  
Yea, I will deck and clothe her Priests,  
with saving health throughout,  
And all the Saints of Zion hill,  
for joy shall sing and shout.   

16  
There will I surely make the horn  
of David for to bud:  
For there I have ordained for mine  
a lantern bright and good.   

17  
As for his enemies, I will clothe  
with shame for evermore:  
But I will cause his crown to shine  
more fresh than heretofore.     

PSAL. CXXXV. the Col.***  

O Praise the Lord, praise him, praise him,  
praise him with one accord:  
O praise him still, all ye that be  
the servants of the Lord.   

2  
O praise him ye that stand within  
the Temple of the Lord:  
Ye of his Court, and of his house,  
praise him with one accord.   

3  
Praise ye the Lord, for he is good,  
sing praises to his Name:  
It is a good and comely thing,  
Always to do the same.   

4  
For God hath chosen Jacob's seed,  
Even of his own good pleasure:  
And he hath chosen Israel,  
for his peculiar treasure.   

5  
For this I know undoubtedly,  
the Lord is very great:  
He is indeed above all gods,  
and hath the highest seat.   

15  
¶ The Idols which the Heathen have  
in all their coasts and lands,  
Of silver and of gold they be,  
the work of workmen's hands.   

16  
They have a mouth, and cannot speak,  
and eyes that have no sight:   

17  
They have an ear, and do not hear,  
their mouths are breathless quite.   

19  
O all ye house of Israel,  
see that ye praise the Lord:  
And ye that be of Aaron's house,  
praise him with one accord.   

20  
And ye that be of Levies house,  
praise ye, likewise, the Lord:  
And ye that stand in awe of him,  
praise him with one accord.    

PSAL. CXXXIX. the Collect.**  

21  
HAte I not them that hate thee, Lord?  
and that in earnest wise,  
Contend I not against them all,  
against thee that arise?   

22  
I hate them with unfeigned hate,  
even as my utter foes:   

23  
Try me (O God) and know my heart,  
my inward thoughts disclose.   

24  
See, Lord, if any secret sin,  
Do in my soul abide:  
And in the everlasting way,  
be thou my God and guide.    

PSAL. CXLIII. the Col.***  

LOrd hear my prayer and complaint,  
which I put forth to thee,  
And in thy truth and righteousness,  
Lord, hear and answer me.   

2  
Against thy servant let not, Lord,  
thy judgement to be tried,  
For in thy sight can none alive  
be ever justified.   

8  
Thy loving kindness in the morn,  
let me both hear and see:  
Teach me the way that I should go,  
for, Lord, I trust in thee.   

12  
And of thy mercy slay my foes,  
that vex my soul so sore:  
For lo, I am thy servant, Lord,  
destroy them all therefore.    

PSAL. CXLVI. 2. Met.***  

MY soul praise thou the Lord always,  
his praise will I declare:   

2  
While breath and life prolong my days,  
my tongue shall never spare.   

3  
Trust not in worldly Princes then,  
though they abound in wealth:  
Nor in the sons of mortal men,  
in whom there is no health.   

4  
For why? their breath doth soon depart,  
they fall to earth anon;  
And then the counsels of their heart,  
Do perish, every one.   

5  
O happy is that man, I say,  
whom Jacob's God doth aid;  
And he, whose hope doth not decay,  
but on the Lord is stayed.   

6  
Which made the earth and waters deep,  
the heavens high withal:  
Which doth his word and promise keep,  
and so for ever shall.   

7  
With right always doth he proceed,  
for such as suffer wrong:  
The poor and hungry he doth feed,  
and lose the fetters strong.   

8  
¶ The Lord doth send the blind their sight,  
the lame to limbs restore:  
The Lord doth in his Saints delight,  
and loves them evermore.   

9  
He helps the widow in distress,  
and stranger sad in heart:  
He doth defend the fatherless,  
and ill men's ways subvert.   

10  
The Lord thy God, O Zion hill,  
shall reign eternally,  
From age to age, for ever still,  
O praise the Lord most high.    

PSAL. CXLIX. 1. M.***  

SIng ye a new song to the Lord,  
his praises to declare:  
And let his Name be magnified,  
where Saints assembled are.   

2  
Let Israel rejoice in God,  
their maker and their King:  
And let the sons of Zion hill  
for joy triumph and sing.   

3  
Let them sound praise with voice of flute  
unto his holy Name:  
And with the timbrel and the harp,  
sing forth his praise and fame.   

4  
For, lo, the Lord, his dear delight  
doth in his people place:  
And he will beautify the meek  
with saving health and grace.   

5  
¶ With glory and with honour now  
let all the Saints rejoice,  
And sing aloud upon their beds,  
with glad and pleasant voice.   

6  
And in their mouths let be the acts  
of God the mighty Lord:  
And let them take into their hands  
a double edged sword.   

7  
To plague the Heathen, and correct  
the people with their hands:   

8  
To bind their stately Kings in chains,  
their Lords in iron bands.   

9  
To execute on them the doom,  
recorded long before:  
This honour all his Saints shall have,  
praise God for evermore.   
FINIS.   

NOte that all the Psalms that are put in whole, m● readily be sung in Churches, while others sing the old, for the verses are neither more nor fewer, then the●● were before.  
So also may the Collects, if the clerk read them, or d● point out and declare the verses beforehand.  
Note also that one single star points a doleful tune two stars a solemn, or middle tune, three stars a joyfu● tune; and they are set only (or for the most part) to Psalms that go in a general tune (i.e.) such as serve for all eights and sixes generally.  
Lastly, note that every new beginning of fresh matter is marked with a Paragraph thus¶ which is placed between the verse and the line, which is devised to make short parts, and to discern suddenly where to begin.  
Note this amendment of Psal. 146. v. 3. 2. Met. if thou thinkest it needs,  

TRust not in worldly Princes then,  
put not your trust in Kings,  
Nor any of the sons of men,  
for they are helpless things.     

Here follow the rest of the new-made Psalms, that are not extant in the first Impression.  

Psalm V. 1. Met. Our Father which, &c.  

LOrd, weigh my thoughts, my voice attend,  
My King, my God, to me give ear:  
To thee my prayers and cries I send,  
My voice i'th' morning thou shalt hear:  
I'th' morning, Lord, will I direct,  
My prayer to thee, and will expect.   

2.  
For thou in sin hast no delight,  
No ill shall dwell with thee, O Lord:  
The fool abides not in thy sight;  
All wicked works thou hast abhorred,  
Falsehood, deceit and cruelty,  
Thou dost detest, and wilt destroy.   

3.  
But I in thy abounding grace,  
Thy house will visit in thy fear;  
And worship in thy holy place,  
O teach me, Lord, thy justice there:  
Make straight thy paths before mine eyes,  
Because of all mine enemies.   

4.  
A wicked heart within they have,  
A faithless mouth, a flattering tongue:  
Their throat is like a gaping grave,  
Let their own counsels lead them wrong:  
Destroy them, cast them out therein,  
And in their multitudes of sin:   

5.  
For thee they have rebelled against:  
But let believers joy in thee,  
And shout for joy in thy defence,  
And all thy lovers joyful be:  
For thou wilt bless the just, O Lord,  
And make thy grace his shield and guard.    

Psal. VI. 1. Met. O Lord consider, &c.  

IN anger, Lord, rebuke me not,  
For I am very weak and low,  
Chastise not when thy wrath is hot,  
But, Lord, to me thy mercy show:  
Lord heal me, for my bones are vexed,  
But thou, O Lord, how long a space?  
My soul is also sore perplexed,  
Return and save me of thy grace.   

My soul, O Lord, preserve and save,  
For none in death remembers thee,  
Nor any thanks thee in the grave;  
Thou seest my groaning wearieth me:  
All night I make my bed to swim,  
Watering my couch with weeping eyes,  
Mine eye with grief grows old and dim,  
Because of all mine enemies.   

Ye workers of iniquity,  
Depart from me, depart ye all;  
For lo the Lord hath heard my cry,  
My weeping voice and tears that fall.  
The Lord will hear the prayer I frame,  
The Lord hath heard, and hath relieved;  
Let all my foes return with shame,  
With sudden shame sore vexed and grieved.    

Psal. XIIII. 1. Met. Give laud unto, &c.  

THe fool hath said in heart  
There is no God at all;  
They are in every part  
Corrupted by the fall:  
There's none doth good,  
But they have wrought things vile & nought, even all the brood.   

2  
The Lord did cast his eye,  
From heaven his holy throne,  
On man's posterity;  
To see if any one  
He might discern,  
That understood the things of God, or sought to learn.   

3  
They all are gone aside,  
They do themselves defile,  
They all are wandered wide,  
Become exceeding vile:  
And there is none  
Of all mankind to good inclined, no sure not one.   

4  
Have wicked workers all,  
No knowledge generally?  
Who have not grace to call,  
Upon the Lord most high:  
Lo they are fed,  
●vouring here my people dear, even like to bread.   

5  
But yet they were in fear,  
And great the fear must be,  
For God doth still appear  
In good men's company;  
And keepeth them,  
● every place, I mean the race of righteous men.   

6  
But ye have put to shame,  
The counsel of the poor,  
Because the Lord became  
His refuge to secure.  
O that there were  
● Israel some salvation come from Zion there.   

7  
When as the Lord brings back  
Our hard captivity,  
And lets not Israel lack  
So great a cause of joy:  
Then surely shall  
Jacob rejoice with heart and voice, and Israel all.    

Psal. XVII. 2. Col. O praise the Lord, &c.  

KEep me as th' apple of thine eye,  
And make thy wings my Canopy,  
From wickedness,  
And deadly foes that me enclose, and much oppress.   

2  
They are enclosed in their own fat,  
And proudly prate they care not what,  
They hem us round  
In our steps now; Their eyes they bow down to the ground.   

3  
Like greedy Lions seeking prey,  
Or lion's whelp in secret way;  
O Lord arise,  
Defeat my foe, and overthrow his enterprise.   

4  
From wicked men that are thy sword,  
From men that are thy hand, O Lord,  
My soul o save,  
From worldlings mere, that only here their portion have.   

5  
Whose bellies filled with thy hid treasure,  
They spend their substance at their pleasure;  
And leave unto  
Their babes the rest, for they are blessed with babes enough.   

6  
But as for me, I have access  
To see thy face in righteousness.  
And waking, shall  
Thy vision see, and I shall be filled therewithal.    

Psal. XXIII. 1. Met.***  

THe living Lord my shepherd is,  
and he that doth me feed;  
Since he is mine, and I am his,  
what comfort can I need?  
● He leads me to the tender grass,  
where I both feed and rest;  
Then to the streams that gently pass,  
in both I have the best.   

Or if I stray, thou dost convert  
and bring my mind in frame;  
And all this not for my desert;  
but for thy holy Name.  
● Yea, tho I walk in shade of death,  
yet I will fear no ill,  
Thy rod, thy staff so comforteth,  
and thou art with me still.   

Yea, thou dost make me sit and dine,  
Even in mine enemy's sight;  
●●y head with oil, my cup with wine,  
runs over day and night.  
Thy grace and mercy certainly,  
shall measure out my days,  
And in the house of God will I  
for ever give thee praise.    

Psal. LIII. 1. Met. Give laud unto, &c.  

THe fool hath said in heart,  
There is not any God:  
Corrupt in every part,  
And none of them doth good,  
Such atheism lurks  
●n every one, that they have done most odious works.   

2  
The Lord from Heaven high,  
Looked down on earth below,  
On man's posterity:  
That he might see and know,  
What paths men trod,  
If any man did understand, and seek for God.   

3  
But all are gone astray,  
Become most base and vild,  
And wandered from the way,  
And filthily defiled:  
So that they can,  
No good thing do, nor move thereto, no, not a man.   

4  
What have they knowledge none,  
That work iniquity?  
They have not called upon:  
The Lord that is most high,  
But they devour  
My folk like bread, & on them fed, with tyrant-power.   

5  
They were in fear and dread,  
Where was no cause of fear,  
For God hath scattered,  
Their quarters here and there,  
That have encamped,  
Against our cause. And hence it was they were so damped.   

6  
Lo, thou hast put to shame,  
Thy hateful enemies,  
In God's Almighty Name,  
That did thy foes despise.  
O that there might,  
Salvation still, from Zion hill, on Israel light.   

7  
When as the Lord shall please,  
To bring our bondage back,  
And gives his folk the eate●  
And gives his folk the ease,  
And liberty they lack:  
Glad news shall we  
In Jacob tell, and Israel full glad shall be.    

Psal. LVIII. 1. Met. Ye children which, &c.  

DO ye speak righteousness indeed,  
O ye that are of mortal seed?  
O Congregation judge ye right?   

2  
Yea, ye in heart work wickedness,  
Your hands with violence oppress,  
the earth can scarcely bear your weight.   

3  
They are estranged from the way,  
And from the womb they go astray;  
no sooner born then speaking lies,   

4  
As serpent's poison, such is theirs;  
Deaf adder-like they stop their ears,  
and will not hear in any wise.   

She will not hear the charmers voice,  
Although his charms be wise and choice,  
she will not harken to a word.   

6  
Lord, break their keen and cruel fangs,  
The eager tooth and tusk that hangs  
in these young lions mouths, O Lord.   

7  
As waters let them melt away,  
Which constant run, and have no stay;  
and let his aimed arrows fail:   

8  
And when he bends his bow to shoot,  
Let them drop broken at his foot,  
and let them melt as doth a snail.   

9  
So let them pass away on earth,  
As woman-kindes untimely birth,  
that they may never see the Sun,   

10  
Before your pots can feel the thorns,  
He'll blast them as with whirlwind storms:  
Alive, in living wrath begun.   

11  
The righteous shall rejoice to see  
Vengeance on them that wicked be,  
and he shall wash his feet in blood:   

12  
So that a man shall sure confess,  
Sure there's reward for righteousness,  
sure there's a just earth-judging God.    

Psal. LXVII, 1. Met. Give laud, &c.  

LOrd bless us of thy grace,  
Be merciful to thine:  
And let thy pleased face  
Upon thy servants shine.  
That all may see,  
The heavenly wealth, and saving health that comes from thee.   

2  
Let all thy praise rehearse  
With one united voice:  
Sing in melodious verse,  
Eternally rejoice;  
Thy power obey:  
Whose justice shall dispose of all, and bear the sway.   

3  
Let all extol thy worth,  
Then store of fruit shall fall:  
The earth shall bring it forth,  
And God shall bless us all:  
God shall us bless,  
Earth far & near his Name shall fear with awfulness.    

Psal. LXX. 1. M. All people.  

MAke haste, O Lord, and set me free,  
Make haste, O God, and succour me:  
Confound them with confounding shame,  
That seek my soul to hurt the same.   

2  
Let them be turned backward still,  
Turned back with shame, that wish me ill:  
Reward their shame, that say, Aha,  
And let confusion be their pay.   

3  
All that seek thee, and all that love  
Salvation coming from above,  
Let them in thee be glad and joyed,  
Still saying, God be magnified.  
But I am needy, weak and poor,  
Make haste, to help me, Lord, therefore:  
My help and my deliverer,  
Thou art, O Lord, do not defer.   
OR,  

THou art my hope, my help and stay,  
Come, Lord, and make no more delay.   

Psal LXX. 2. Meter.*  

DEfer not, Lord, defer not long,  
but bring my foes to shame;   

2  
And them that seek my soul to wrong,  
let them bear all the blame.   

3  
On them that sc●ff and slout at me  
bestow the scorners hire:   

4  
But make them glad, full glad in thee,  
that after thee inquire.   

Still, God be praised, let all men say,  
that on his aid rely:  
And make, O Lord, no more delay,  
for in great want am I.   

5  
O Lord, I am exceeding poor,  
mine only and art thou:  
Make haste to help me, Lord, therefore,  
and make no tarrying now.     

Psal LXXXII. ●. M. O praise the Lord, &c.  

GOD sits upon the throne of Kings,  
And Judges unto judgement brings,  
Why warp you then,  
And, so long space, accept the face of wicked men?   

2  
Defend the poor and fatherless,  
The needies' injuries redress,  
As God commands:  
And vindicate the desolate, from winked hands.   

3  
But neither do, nor will they know,  
In wilful blindness on they go:  
Earths pillars fail,  
All out of course, and worse & worse, no laws prevail.   

4  
I called you gods, all you, said I,  
Are sons of him that is most hi●,  
But ye shall die,  
As vulgar things, or tyrant Kings did formerly.   

5  
A●ise, O God, thy power set forth,  
Judge all the Nations of the earth:  
They are thine own;  
Thine heritage from age to age, and thine alone.    

Psal. LXXXVII. 1. M. Our Father, &c.  

IN holy hills is zions floor,  
Which God with grace and glory crowns:  
God loves the gates of Zion more,  
Than all the rest of Jacob's town●,  
Most glorious things are fimed abroad,  
Of thee, O city loved of God.   

2  
For I will mention born in thee,  
Egyptians, Babylonians, Moors:  
Philistians, Tyrians there shall be,  
Told to my friends among my stores:  
For God hath said, that all on earth,  
In Zion may renew their birth.   

3  
For God most high will st●blish her,  
And shall record each faithful soul:  
When he is pleased to register,  
And zions converts to enroll,  
There's he that plays, there's that sings,  
And there are all spiritual springs.    

Psal. LXXXVIII. 1. M. O Lord consider, &c.  

LOrd God of my salvation dear,  
I cried before thee day and night:   

2  
Unto my cry ●●●line thine ear,  
And let my prayer come in thy sight.   

3  
For, Lord, my soul is filled with woe,  
My life draws ●igh unto the grave.   

4  
Reckoned with them that sink so low,  
And very little strength I have.   

5  
A freeman in this dead estate,  
As slain, and buried and forgot:  
As whom thy hand hath separate,  
And such as thou regardest not.  
Thou layest me in the lowest ward,  
Where darkest, deepest dungeons are:   

5  
Thy wrath upon me lieth hard,  
And all thy bitter storms I bear.   

3  
My friends from me thou hast restrain'●,  
And made me loathed in lovers eyes:   

9  
In prison I am fast detained,  
Mine eye laments my miseries.  
O Lord, I daily called on thee,  
My humble hands I meekly raise:   

10  
Shall dead men, Lord, thy wonders see?  
Shall dead men rise to give thee praise?   

11  
¶ Lord, can the grave thy grace express,  
Thy faithful truth destruction teach?   

12  
Thy wonders and thy righteousness,  
Can dark and dumb oblivion preach?   

13  
Betimes, O Lord, will I direct,  
My humble suits and cries to thee:   

14  
Why dost thou, Lord, my soul reject,  
Why dost thou hide thy face from me?   

15  
My tortured soul is pained to death,  
While from my youth I always bear   

16  
The heavy burdens of thy wrath,  
Thy terrors and distracting fear:   

17  
They closed me round as waters deep,  
They compass me at once, I say:   

18  
From me my lovers thou dost keep,  
And mine acquaintance hid'st away.    

Psal. LXXXIX. The Col. All people.  

NOw in a song of endless praise,  
Thy mercies I will sing, O Lord:  
And unto all succeeding days,  
Thy faithfulness will I record.  
For I have said that thy great love,  
And mercy shall be raised high:  
And that thou shalt in heaven above,  
Confirm thy truth eternally.   

2  
Thou hast both vowed and decreed,  
To David thine elected one,  
To multiply his faithful seed,  
And build him up an endless throne.  
Which heaven shall to thy praise declare  
In works to be admired at:  
And where thy Saints assembled are,  
Shall tell thy truth, and treat of that.   

3  
For whom, like thee doth heaven afford,  
What earthly Kings thy equals be?  
Who art among the Saints adored,  
And feared of all that wait on thee:  
¶ O Lord of hosts, what Lord is found,  
So faithful or so strong as thou?  
Who sets the seas their certain bound,  
And tamest their rage, for thou know'st how.   

4  
Thou didst afflict all Egypt land,  
As one made weak by wounds and woes:  
And, by the pow●r of thy strong hand,  
Thou hast dispersed all thy foes.  
Thine, heaven and earth, and all things be,  
For thou alone didst all things frame:  
The North and South were made by thee,  
And East and West extol thy Name.    

Psal. XCII. The Collect.***  

RIght good it is, O Lord, most high,  
thy praises to recite:   

2  
Thy truth and love to magnify,  
at morning and at night.   

3  
With ten-st●ing'd instruments to sing  
the praises of thy Name:  
And that we harps and psalteries bring  
to solemnize the same.   

4  
For, Lord, thy works rejoice my heart,  
thy doings cheer my mind:   

5  
How wonderful in them thou art,  
thy thoughts how deep we find!   

6  
The fool and worldling neither know,  
nor heed such things at all:   

7  
For, when like flowers the wicked show,  
their prospering proves their fall.    

Psal. XCVII. 1. Met. Give laud unto, &c.  

GOd reigns and rules on high,  
With clouds and darkness clad,  
Let earth be filled with joy,  
And all the isles be glad,  
His truth is known,  
And judgement pure the station sure of his high throne,   

2  
Fire goes before his face,  
And flaming round about  
Burns up his foes apace,  
His lightning glanceth out:  
And these do make  
The world shine bright, and at the sight the earth did quake.   

3  
At presence of the Lord,  
Like wax the mountains thawd:  
At presence of the Lord,  
By whom the earth is awed:  
The Heavens express  
How just is he; and all men see his gloriousnes●   

4  
¶ Confusion on them all,  
Who serve an image carved:  
That to dumb idols fall,  
And boast what gods they served:  
O all ye gods  
See that ye do how down unto the God of gods.   

5  
O Lord, thy judgements voice,  
Made Zion hear and joy,  
And Judah's towns rejoice:  
For, Lord, thou art most high,  
Thou hast the odds  
Of all the earth, and art set forth above all gods.   

6  
Ye lovers of the Lord,  
Hate all that evil is:  
For he the souls doth guard,  
Of all dear Saints of his,  
And saveth them  
From cruel spite and crushing might of wicked men.   

7  
For just men light is sown,  
And gladness is upstored:  
For each true-hearted one;  
Ye just joy in the Lord,  
Him praise and bless,  
At memory of his so high pure holiness.    

Psal. CX. 1. Met. All people, &c.  

THe Lord unto my Lord thus said,  
Sit thou at my right hand, on high:  
Until thine enemies be made,  
A foo●-stool for thy majesty.   

2  
The Lord shall send from Zion hill,  
The sceptre of thy sovereign might:  
Rule thou amidst thine enemies still,  
Thy people yielding to thy right,   

3  
In sacred beauties yielding thee,  
(When first thy powerful Gospel calls)  
As fruitful births, as dews can be,  
That from the womb of morning falls.   

4  
The Lord hath sworn and wist not break,  
Ne● change the word the which he swore,  
By th' order of Melchized●k,  
Thou art a Priest for evermore.   

5  
The Lord that stands at thy right hand,  
In day of wrath shall Kings confound:   

6  
Judging in many a Heathen land,  
And heads of many country's wound,  
And he shall fill in that same day,  
Each place with bodies of the s●ain,   

7  
And drink the torrent in the way,  
And then lift up the head again.    

Psal. CXI. 1. Met.***  

PRaise ye the Lord, whom I will praise,  
with all my heart and might:  
In congregation of the just,  
and in the church's sight.   

2  
Great are the works of our great God,  
and they are sought into,  
Of all that take content therein,  
delighting ●o to do.   

3  
Most honourable is h●s work,  
and shineth gloriously:  
His righteousness doth still endure  
to all eternity.   

4  
And he hath made his wondrous works  
to be retained in mind:  
Full of compassion is the Lord,  
and graciously inclined.   

5  
¶ The Lord hath given meat to them  
that fear before his face:  
He will be ever mindful of  
his covenant of grace.   

6  
The power of his works hath he,  
in Israel's sight ex rest:  
To give to them the heritage.  
which Heathen men possessed.   

7  
¶ Lo, righteousn●●s● and judgement are,  
the works of God's own hands:  
And sure are his cemmandements,  
what ever he commands.   

8  
Yea, they stand fast for evermore,  
and everlastingly:  
And they are done in righteousness,  
in truth and equity.   

9  
He sent redemption to his own,  
to make his people free:  
And did command his covenant,  
for evermore to be.   

10  
Holy and reverend is the Name  
of our almighty king:  
And only from the fear of God,  
doth all true wisdom spring.   

11  
Good understanding have they all,  
that carefully endeavour  
To practise his commandments,  
his praise endure for ever.    

Psal. CXII. 1. M. Our Father, &c. OR, O all ye, &c.  

THe man is blessed that fears the Lord,  
Delighting greatly in his word:  
Mighty on earth his seed shall be,  
And blessed his posterity:  
Riches and wealth his house shall fill,  
His righteousness continuing still.   

2  
Unto the man that is upright,  
In darkness there ariseth light:  
He is a gracious righteous one,  
And full of kind compassion,  
A good man's kind, he ●ends and sparc●●  
Discretion guiding his affairs.   

3  
He shall not sure be moved for ever,  
Nor his name perish now, nor never,  
His established heart on God is stayed,  
Of evil tidings not afraid.  
His faith is fixed, his pain is past,  
Until he see his enemies cast.   

4  
He hath dispersed of his store,  
And given plenty to the poor:  
His righteousness remaineth sure,  
And shall for evermore endure:  
His horn shall be exalted high,  
With honour and with dignity.   

5  
The wicked man this thing shall see,  
And very greatly grieved shall be:  
Yea, he shall g●ash his teeth for spite,  
And pine away, and perish quite.  
Thus wicked men's desires shall die:  
The Lord then praise and magni●ie.    

Psal. CXIII. 2. M. Give laud unto the Lord,  

YE servants of the Lord,  
With praise God's name adore,  
The name of God the Lord  
Bless now and evermore:  
From Sun to Sun,  
Even from the East unto the West let this be done.   

2.  
All nations fear his powers,  
His glory mounts the sky:  
There is no God like ours,  
No other Lord so high:  
Yet stoops, we know,  
All things to see, in heaven that be, or earth below.   

The n●edy poor and base,  
From dust and dung he brings,  
To sit in Prince's place,  
Even with his people's Kings:  
And her, that had  
A barren womb, he made become a mother glad. Hallelujah    

Psal. CXVII. 1. Meter.  
O Praise the Lord all men, all lands,  
Great kindness have we at his hands,  
His praise record,  
His truth is sure still to endure. Praise ye the Lord.   

Psal. CXIX. 4. p. 2. M. Have mercy.  

2.  
MY soul cleaves to the dust,  
now quicken me, O Lord:  
According to the promises  
of thy most faithful word.   

26  
I have declared my ways,  
and thou hast heard me too:  
O teach me thy commandments,  
and them to know and do.   

27  
Make me to understand,  
thy precepts perfect way:  
So shall I have thy wondrous works  
to talk of every day.   

28  
¶ My soul doth even melt,  
for heaviness, O Lord,  
Vouchsafe O Lord; to strengthen me,  
according to thy word.   

29  
Remove the way of lies,  
and gra●t me graciously,   

30  
Thy holy law: for I have chose  
the way of verity.  
〈◊〉 before me still,  
thy judgements for my aim,   

31  
I stuck unto thy testaments,  
Lord, put me not to shame.   

32  
And I will run the way  
of thy commandment,  
When as thou shalt enlarge my heart,  
to yield a full consent.   

The ninth part. 2. Metre,  

65  
Well with thy servant didst thou deal,  
thy promise to fulfil:   

66  
Good judgement, Lord, to me reveal,  
and knowledge of thy will.   

67  
For I believed thy word, O God,  
although I went astray:  
While unchastised with thy rod:  
but since have kept thy way.   

68  
Thy works and nature both are good,  
teach me thy laws thereby:   

69  
The proud, (to hurt me what they could)  
against me forged a lie.  
My whole heart notwithstanding that,  
shall keep thy precepts right.   

70  
Their heart like grease is waxen fat,  
thy law is my delight.   

71  
'Twas good for me to be chastized,  
that I might learn thy pleasure:   

72  
Whose law revealed I more have prized  
then store of earthly treasure.    

Psa● CXIX. 18. p. a, M. Have mercy  

137  
RIghteous art thou, O Lord,  
thy judgements righteous too,   

138  
The testimonies thou hast set,  
are very just and true.   

139  
My zeal hath me consumed,  
because my wicked foes,  
Forgot thy words, which are so pure,  
so very pure are those.   

140  
But therefore on that word,  
thy servant's love is set;   

141  
Small, and despised, yet do not I  
thy testaments forget.   

142  
¶ Thy righteousness remains,  
and so it ever doth,  
An everlasting righteousness,  
thy law is very truth.   

143  
Trouble and anguish great,  
have taken hold on me:  
But yet, Lord, thy commandments,  
my joy and comfort be.   

144  
Thy testimonies truth  
stands to eternity,  
O Give me understanding, Lord,  
and I shall live thereby.    

The 19 part 2. M. All people, etc,  

I cried with hearts unfeigned desire,  
Do thou, O Lord, my prayers attend:  
Thy Statutes I will keep entire,  
I cry to thee, do thou defend:  
And I shall keep thy testament,  
For I have made thy word my stay:  
With earnest cries did I prevent  
The early dawning of the day.   

2  
The watches of the night so late.  
W●th wakeful eyes do I prevent:  
That I might duly meditate  
Upon thy sweet commandment,  
¶ Thy loving kindness now record,  
And hear my voice that calls on thee,  
According to thy judgements Lord,  
Vouchsafe to come, and quicken me.   

3  
Lo, they that follow wickedness  
Draw nigh, but far from thy command:  
All thy commands are righteousness,  
But thou, O Lord, art near at hand.  
Concerning thy approved decrees,  
Lo, I have known the same of old,  
That thou, O Lord, hast founded these,  
Eternally to keep and hold.     

Psal. CXXI, 1. M. Ye children which, &c.  

I Lift mine eyes to Zion hill,  
From whence my help proceedeth still,  
and where I always do attend,  
My help doth come from God most high,  
The Lord that made both earth and sky,  
and he to me shall succour send.  
He will not suffer thee to swerve,  
For God thy keeper will preserve  
and stay thy feet: He slumbers not,  
Behold! the Lord that keeps thee well,  
He never sleeps, O Israel,  
he never slumbers any jot.   

2  
Behold! the Lord thy keeper is,  
And shades thee with that shade of his:  
At thy right hand he's thy defence;  
So that the Sun that burns so bright,  
Nor yet the Moon in sharpest night,  
shall hurt thee with their influence,  
The Lord will save thee sound and whole●  
He shall preserve, and keep thy soul,  
from every hurt and every sore,  
Both going out and coming in,  
The Lord shall keep thee safe herein,  
from this time forth for evermore.   

Psal. CXXI. 2. M. O praise the Lord, &c.  

Up to the hills I lift mine eyes,  
From whence my hope and help doth rise,  
My help comes forth  
●ven from the Lord, whose powerful word  
made heaven and earth.   

2  
Lo, he that keeps thee slumbers not,  
Nor lets thy foot be moved a jot:  
He that doth keep  
His Israel all, he neither shall  
slumber nor sleep.   

3  
The Lord's thy shade on thy right hand,  
The Lord thy keeper there doth stand.  
That neither may  
The moon, by night, his Israel smite,  
nor Sun by day.   

4  
The Lord shall keep thee from all ill,  
And save thy soul, and keep thee still:  
He shall, no doubt,  
Each time and tide, thy goings guide,  
both in and out.     

Psal. CXXIIII. 1. M. Ye children, &c.  

Unless the Lord had been our stay,  
And took our part, this present day,  
now Israel may truly say.  
But that the Lord did thus dispose,  
And took our part against our foes,  
when cruel men against us rose:  
Then had they swallowed us alive,  
When they in bitter wrath let drive,  
and did for our destruction strive.  
The waters then that did abound,  
With swelling streams and deeps profound,  
our souls had overwhelmed and drowned.   

2  
The floods did rise, the waves did roll,  
The swelling streams, without control,  
had overtopped and drowned our soul.  
O Blessed be the Lord always,  
That hath not given us, as a prey  
into their teeth this very day.  
Our souls escaped, very fair,  
As bird from fowler's broken snare,  
'tis broke, and we delivered are.  
Our help is in that blessed name,  
The Lord our God, the very same,  
that did both earth and heaven frame,    

PSAL. CXXXI. The second Metre.  

O Lord, I have no scornful eye,  
nor proud, nor haughty mind:  
I seek not things that are too high,  
but humbly am inclined.   

2  
My soul is like an infant weaned,  
even from his mother's breast:  
And Israel so (to be sustained)  
on God should always rest.    

Psal. CXXXIIII. 1. Meter.  

BEhold ye servants of the Lord,  
Which in his house by night do stand:  
Bless ye his Name with one accord,  
Devoutly listing up your hand.  
Within the Sancturary there,  
Bless ye the Lord with heart sincere:  
The Lord that made both earth and sky,  
From Zion bless thee plenteously,    

Psal. CXXXVI. 1. M. I. p.  

GIve laud unto the Lord,  
For every good he is:  
The God of gods record,  
And praise that name of his.  
For certainly, His mercies do endure unto Eternity.   

3  
Give thanks, O every one,  
Unto the King of Kings,  
For he, and he alone,  
Hath wrought such wondrous things,  
For certainly, &c.   

3  
To him whose skill profound.  
Did make the heavens clear:  
And set the Seas their bound,  
And made dry land appear.  
For certainly, &c.   

4  
To him that made great lights,  
The Sun to rule by day:  
The Moon and stars by nights,  
Whose mercy last for ay.  
For certainly, &c.   

5  
To him whose arm hath smote,  
First-born of Egypt land;  
And thence his Israel brought,  
With strong outstretched hand.  
For certainly, &c.   

6  
To him that did divide,  
The red-sea into parts,  
And there did Israel guide,  
To pass with joyful hearts.  
For certainly, &c.   

7  
Amidst it did they go:  
But Phar●oh and his host,  
The Lord did overthrow,  
Upon the red sea-coast.  
For certainly, &c.   

The 2. part. Give la●d.  

GIve God his praises due,  
And thankful thoughts express,  
Who led his people through  
The desert wilderness.  
For certainly,  
His mercy shall endure to all eternity.   

2  
Great Kings the Lord did smite,  
And famous Kings he slew,  
King Sihon th' Amorite,  
King Og of Bashan too.  
For certainly, &c.   

3  
And then he gave to you,  
The land where they did dwell,  
An heritage unto  
His servant ●srael,  
For certainly, &c.   

4  
Who did remember us,  
When our estate was low,  
And hath redeemed us thus,  
From our oppressing so.  
For certainly, &c.   

To him give praises due,  
Who gives all flesh their food,  
O give ye thanks unto,  
The God of heaven so good.  
For certainly, &c.     

Psal. CXLV. 1. M. I. p. All people &c.  

THee will I ble●se, O God my King,  
And honour to thy Name will give:   

2  
To thee continual praises sing,  
Even while I have a day to live.   

3  
For thou art great beyond all bounds,  
And great thy purchased praises are:   

4  
Through ages all thy glory sounds,  
Thy wonders they do all declare.   

5  
An●● will show thy royal state,  
An●●me rd●●ired works un●old,   

6  
That men thy wonders may relate,  
When I thy mighty power have told:   

7  
That they thy righteousness may show,  
And have thy glory much in mind.   

8  
For, Lord, thou art to ●nger sl●w,  
exceeding merciful and kind.   

9  
Thy goodness and thy mercies be  
On all thy works at large expr●st:   

10  
Even all thy works do honour thee,  
And thee alone thy Saints have blessed.   

11  
Thy kingdom's glory they shall show,  
Their songs shall s●tth, praises forth;   

12  
That all mankind thy power may know,  
And see thy kingdoms glorious worth.   

The second part. All people, &c.  

13  
THou, Lord, for evermore shall reign,  
And ever rule through ages all.   

14  
The bowed down thou wilt sustain,  
And wilt 〈◊〉 up all those that said.   

15  
On thee all creatures fix their eyes,  
In season to be duly fed:   

16  
All living things thou dost suffice,  
Thine open hand is therefore spread.   

17  
¶ The Lord is just in all his ways,  
And holy all the works he doth.   

18  
The Lord is nigh to him that prays,  
I say to all that pray in truth.   

19  
Their hopes who fear him God effects,  
He hears their cry and saves all those:   

20  
All those that love him God protects:  
But all the wicked overthrows.   

21  
O let my mouth give praise therefore,  
And bless the Name of this great Lord:   

22  
And let all flesh for evermore,  
His memorable praise record.     

Psal. CXLVI. 2. M. Give laud unto, &c.  

MY soul praise thou the Lord,  
As long as thou hast breath:  
In 〈◊〉 his praise record,  
And honour him till death:  
No credir place  
In earthly Kings, or such vain things as human race.   

2  
Breath fails, and dust they be,  
One day their pomp des●●cys:  
Right bles● therefore is he  
That Jacobs' God enjoys,  
And hopes in him  
Who made all these, heaven, earth, and seas and all therein.   

3  
For God is faithful still,  
Men wronged he helps to right.  
The hungry he doth fill,  
And gives the blind their sight,  
Sets prisoners free,  
Loves upright men, and raiseth them bowed down that be.   

4  
The Lords almighty hand  
Preserveth evermore,  
The strangers in the land,  
The widows and the poor.  
And doth relieve  
The fatherless, in their distress that mourn and grieve.   

5  
As for the sinner's way,  
He turns it upside down:  
But he shall reign for aye,  
And wear th' eternal crown.  
Thy God thy Lord  
O Zion shall, to ages all, his praise record.    

Psa. CXLVII. 1. Meter.  

GIve laud unto the Lord,  
It is a pleasant thing  
His praises to record,  
And songs thereof to sing,  
Jerusalem  
He will erect, and reco'lect his flock to them.   

2  
The conttire heart he heals,  
He cures their bruises all:  
The stars he also tells,  
And them by name can call.  
This Lord of ours  
Is infinite, in wisdom, might, and sovereign powers.   

3  
The Lord the meek doth raise,  
The proud he brings to ground:  
O therefore sing his praise  
Let harps his praise re●ound:  
He clouds doth bring,  
And showers distils, which on the hills make grass to spring.   

4  
Even beasts and ●avens young,  
He feedeth when they call:  
In horse or footman strong,  
He●oyeth not at all.  
God loves all them,  
Who in his grace, their hopes do place, and honour him.   

5  
Zion and Salem bless,  
The Lord your God in song,  
Who doth your seed increase,  
And makes your gates so strong,  
While peace so great  
Your bounds upheld, and you he filled with sour of wheat.   

6  
Through earth his mandates go.  
His word with swiftness flies,  
Like wool he giveth snow,  
His frost like ashes lies.  
And then, beside,  
He forth doth slice cold flakes of ice, which who can bide!   

7  
He speaks and straight it thaws,  
He breathes and water flows:  
To Israel his Laws,  
And to none else he shows.  
As for his word  
No Heathen land doth understand. Praise ye the Lord.    

Psal. CXLVIII. 1. Meter. Give laud unt●.  

THe Lord of heaven confess,  
On high ●is glory raise,  
Him let all Angels bless,  
And all his Armies praise.  
Him glorify  
Sun, moon and stars, ye higher spheres, and cloudy sky.   

2  
From God your beings are,  
Therefore praise ye the Lord,  
You all created were  
When he but spoke the word.  
And from that place  
Where sixt you be by his decree, you cannot pass.   

3  
Praise God from earth below  
Ye dragons and ye deeps,  
Fire, hail, clouds, wind and snow,  
Whom in command he keeps,  
Praise ye his Name,  
Hills great and small, trees low and tall, beasts wild and tame.   

All fowl and creeping things,  
All people great and small  
All judges, Princes, Kings,  
Young men and maidens all,  
Both young and old,  
Exalt his Name, whose only fame should be extolled.   

Oh let God's Name be prai●d  
Above the earth and sky,  
For he his Saints hath raised,  
And set their horn on high●  
Yea, they that spring  
Of Israel's race, much in his grace, 〈◊〉 praises sing:   
FINIS.    

Here follow certain Hymns, composed out of Scripture, to celebrate some more special and public occasions.  

I. Hymn, Celebrates the spiritual glory of the Church in days of Reformation.  
Tune of, Give laud unto the Lord.  

Hag. 2. 6.  
THus saith the Lord of Hosts,  
But yet a little while,  
And I will shake all coasts,  
Yea, every land and isle;  
Yet once again.  
I'll shake these, heaven, Earth, and Seas,  
And all the main.   

7  
All Nations I will shake,  
The long desired day,  
Which doth all Nations take,  
Even that shall come I say,  
And (for all coasts)  
This house I will with glory fill,  
Saith GOD of Hosts   

9  
The glory of this last  
Far greater shall it grow,  
Then of the Temple past,  
The Lord of Hosts saith so:  
And in this place,  
(It is the Lord of Hosts his word)  
I will give peace.   

Zech 4. 6, 7. & Hagg. 1. 22.  
Yet not by might, nor power,  
But by my Spirit alone,  
Saith God of Hosts, our tower,  
The strength of all in one;  
For who a●t thou  
O mountain great, the empire's seat,  
To hinder now?   

Zech. 4. 7.  
Before Zerubbabel,  
Thou shalt become a plain;  
The stone that doth excel,  
The headstone of the same  
His hand shall fit,  
And bring it out, with general shout,  
Grace, grace to it.   

v. 9 & Hag. 1. 22.  
The hand that first began,  
To lay the groundwork low,  
The hand of that same man  
Shall finish it also,  
In spite of Kings,  
For who I say, despised the day  
Of these small things.    

II. Hymn, Celebrates the same. To any general tune.  

Psalm. 81. 1. & 85. 10, &c.  
BE cheerful and in God rejoice,  
in God our strength and stay;  
Be joyful, and lift up your voice  
to jacob's God, I say.  
Prepare your instruments most meet,  
some joyful Psalm to sing:  
Strike up with harp and lute so sweet,  
on every pleasant string.   

Psalm. 85. 10 ad finem.  
MErcy and truth now meet in one,  
and hands together strike:  
Justice salutes not peace alone,  
but peace performs the like.  
Eternal truth and verity,  
out of the earth shall spring:  
Justice looks down from heaven on high,  
an heaven on earth to bring.  
●ea, and the Lord shall here bestow  
abundant grace and peace,  
And make our land to overflow,  
with plentiful increase.  
Before his face shall justice go,  
and (where the way was dim)  
Shall now direct our footsteps so,  
that we may follow him.    

III. Hymn. Celebrates Nazeby, and other great Victories of the Church.  

Judges 5. v. 2, 3.  
Sing praises 

Israel  
England   to the Lord,  
that hath avenged thee:  
When as the people went to fight,  
Offering themselves so free.  
〈◊〉 Kings give ear, ye Princes hear,  
I, even I will sing:  
And sweetly raise my voice in praise,  
to 

Israel's God and King.  
England's     

ver. 9 10.  
My heart is toward the governors,  
that did their help afford,  
Offering themselves so willingly,  
wherefore bless ye the Lord.  
〈◊〉 travellers and passengers,  
and ye that ride in state,  
And ye that yet in judgement sit,  
now speak it in the gate.   

ver. 11. 7.  
All they that are delivered,  
from 

archers  
Gunner's  
cannons   frightful noise,  
The righteous acts of God the Lord,  
they shall rehearse with joys.  
The passengers were wanderers,  
in by paths up and down,  
And none 

durst dwell in Israel  
could dwell in England well,    
but in a walled town.   

ver. 12, 31.  
Awake awake O 

Parliament,  
Deborah,    
rise 

Barak  
Conqueror's  
Fairfax   sing a song:  
Lead captive 

thy captivity,  
your    
come lead them all along.  
So perish those that are thy foes,  
but Lord let all thy lovers,  
Be like the Sun when day's begun,  
and brightest beams discovers.    

IV. Hymn. Celebrates our Sea-sight Victories, and such like.  

Exo●. 15. 1. to the 12.  
O ●raise the Lord.  
NOw sing unto the Lord will I,  
For he hath triumphed gloriously,  
By power supreme,  
The horse and his proud rider is  
Cast down the stream.   

2.  
Jehovah is my strength and song,  
And is become my Saviour strong,  
My God is he:  
I will prepare a place, with care,  
His house to be.   

3.  
My father's God likewise he is,  
I will exalt this name of his:  
A man of war,  
The Lord the Lord (as I record)  
His titles are.   

4.  
Proud Pharaoh's charets, lo, he downd,  
And all his host in seas profound  
His captains famed,  
Behold even they were drowned i'th' sea,  
The red sea named.   

5.  
The depths devoured them every one,  
They sank toth'bottome as a stone,  
Lord thy right hand.  
Hathgaind the tower and utmost power  
Of high command.   

6.  
Lord thy right hand exalted so,  
Hath dashed in pieces our proud so,  
In greatness great,  
Thy hand o'erthrows thy rebel-foes,  
O rare defeat!   

7.  
Thou sentest forth thy servant fume,  
Which them, as stubble, did con●ume:  
And all together,  
Thy nostril's blast did gather fast  
The waters thither.   

8.  
The floods on heaps stood bolt upright,  
The depths together did unite;  
And all of these,  
Together were congealed there.  
Amid the seas.   

9  
I will pursue them said the foe,  
I'll overtake, I'll overthrow,  
I will divide  
The spoil, said he, my lust shall be  
so satisfied.   

10.  
It shall be satisfied on them,  
My sword shall eat the flesh of men,  
I'll draw it out,  
My hand, then, shall destroy them all,  
I make no doubt.   

11.  
Then did thy wind with blustering force  
Return the sea unto its course,  
And m●de their g●●ves,  
(Whereto 〈◊〉, they sank, 〈◊〉 lead,)  
In mighty waves.   

12.  
Among the Gods who's like to thee,  
Who, like thee, shines in sanctity?  
Fearful in praise;  
Most wondrous rare thy workings are  
In all thy ways.    

V. Hymn. Celebrates national Mercies.  

Psalm. 49. 1, 2.  
ALl people harken, and give ear,  
All ye that in the world do dwell:  
Both high and low, both rich and poor,  
My mouth shall speak a parable.   

Deut. 4. 34.  
A people ●a●ne out of a nation,  
By signs, by wonders, and by war;  
By terrors great, and mu●h temptation,  
And God's high hand extended far.   

Dent 33. 29.  
O happy 

Israel  
England   we record,  
Whom like to thee doth God advance?  
O people saved by the Lord,  
The shield of thy deliverance!   

Ibidem.  
He is thy sword so much renowned,  
●nd all these enemies of ours  
To thee as liars shall be found,  
And thou shalt tread on their high towers.    

VI. Hymn. Celebrates the same. Ye children which.  

Isa 26. 1, 2, 4, 5.  
WE have a City very strong,  
God sets salvation all along,  
For walls and bulwarks everywhere;  
Now open ye the gates for them  
Of righteous Jerusalem,  
Which keep the truth, to enter there.  
And since the Lord Jehovah is  
The eternal rock of strength to his,  
In his great Name for ever trust:  
He gives the proud the overthrow,  
He lays the lofty City low,  
Even to the ground, even to the dust   

8, 10, 11.  
Yea Lord, in thine own judgement's way,  
We waited for thee every day;  
Our souls desire is to thy Name:  
But let thy favour be declared  
To wicked men they'll not regard,  
Nor learn religion by the same.  
But most unjustly will transgress,  
Even in the land of uprightness.  
And will not see God's Majesty,  
But they shall see, and see with shame,  
And feel, as foes, thy fiery flame,  
For envying our felicity.   

ver. 18. & 12.  
Lord we have been with child in vain,  
And we have been in grievous pain,  
And (as it were) brought forth the wind.  
For, by our power we have not wrought  
The least deliverance can be thought,  
In all the earth, in any kind;  
Nor have the inhabitants of the earth,  
Fallen by the power that we put forth;  
But by thy strength are undertrod;  
For Lord thou wilt ordain (at last)  
True peace for us, because thou hast  
Wrought all our works in us, O God.   

ver. 20. & 21.  
O come my people, enter thou  
Into thy secret chambers now,  
And shut the doors about thee fast:  
And hide thyself now, as it were,  
But for a little moment there,  
Until the wrath be over past:  
For lo the Lord comes from his place,  
To punish this malignant race,  
For wickedness that they maintain;  
The earth shall also now disclose,  
The bloodshed of our barbarous foes,  
And shall no more conceal her slain:    

VII. Hymn, Celebrates the same.  
Psal. 105. Coll. from ver. I. to the II. and Iam. 2. 23. To any Gen. T.  

GIve praises unto God the Lord,  
and call upon his Name:  
Declare his works to all the world.  
and spread his praise and fame.  
Sing ye unto the Lord, I say,  
and sing unto his praise●  
And talk of all his wondrous works,  
That he hath wrought always.   

In honour of his holy Name,  
Rejoice with one accord:  
And let the very heart rejoice  
of them that seek the Lord.  
Seek ye the Lord, and seek his strength,  
and his eternal might:  
Oh seek his face continually,  
and 

presence of his sight.  
countenances light.     

The wondrous works that he hath done,  
keep still in thankful heart:  
Let not the judgements of his mouth,  
out of your minds depart.  
Ye seed of faithful Abraham,  
his servant, and his friend,  
Ye children that do lineally  
from Jacob's loins descend.   

For lo he is the Lord our God,  
even he, and he alone.  
And everywhere throughout the earth  
his judgements are made known.  
His promise and his Covenant,  
which he hath made to his,  
Hath been remembered evermore,  
and still remembered is.    

VIII. Hymn, Celebrates our Redemption by Jesus Christ, (which, if you leave out the parenthesis, will be sung in any Gen. Tune, if you put them in, then, to All people.)  

Luk. 1. from ver. 68 to the 76.  
THe Lord the God of Israel,  
(Now do) we praise, with one accord:  
For visiting and redeeming us,  
The (chosen) people of the Lord,  
For he hath raised up for us  
Salvations (strong and) surest horn,  
Which in his servants David's house,  
Is for his people (Israel) born,   

As by his holy Prophets all,  
(Speaking) since first the world began,  
And, by their mouth he hath foretold,  
(That it) should come to pass for man.  
That from our foes we should be freed,  
And (saved from) all our haters hands:  
To snew that he remembreth how,  
(how) his (most) holy Covenant stands.   

To pay the gracious promises,  
Which to our (ancient) fathers came:  
The oath which he had sworn unto,  
Our father Abraham (by Name)  
That he would give and grant to us  
That we (his folk) whom he hath chose,  
Now being thus delivered,  
From (cruel) hand of all our foes,  
Might serve him, free from slavish fear,  
Walking in (all the) perfect ways,  
Of holiness and righteousness,  
Before him (even) all our days.    

Ix.. Hymn, Celebrates the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Ante,***  

i Cor. 5. 7. 8. & 11. 29.  
LO Christ is sacrificed for us,  
our Passeover (from heaven)  
Now therefore let us keep the feast,  
not with old lumps of leaven.  
Who eat and drink unworthily,  
their own damnation earn:  
Because they want a spiritual eye  
his body to discern.   

28. 26.  
Our hearts with care examined,  
let us be stirred up,  
To eat of this celestial bread  
and drink this sacred cup:  
As often as we eat this bread.  
and also drink this wine,  
We show our saviour's death until,  
his second coming shine.  
he come the second time.   
Or  

We show our blessed saviour's death  
Until he come again.    

X. Hymn, Celebrates the fame, Post.***  

mat. 21. 9 & Rev. 5. 9  
HOsanna to King 〈◊〉 David's son,  
hosanna to the Christ:  
That in the father's Name doth come,  
hosanna in the highest  
For thou wast slain and art alive,  
redeeming us to God,  
From every Nation kindred tongue,  
by thy most precious blood,   

1 Pet. 1 18 Rev. 5. 19  
Corruptive things, as silver is,  
and gold redeemed us not:  
But Christ our saviour's precious blood,  
a lamb without a spot.  
To him that sits upon the throne,  
and Christ the lamb therefore,  
Be glory, blessing, strength renown,  
and honour evermore.    

XI. Hymn, Celebrates the Lord's Supper: To the tune of Ye children which, &c.  

Ioh. 6, 32, 33, 34, 35. & 7. 38.  
THe bread of God (so truly called)  
That giveth life unto the World,  
Is he that down from heaven came:  
And with this sweet celestial bread,  
Lord let us be replenished,  
And give us ever of the same.  
For he that (as the scripture saith)  
Lays hold on Christ by lively faith.  
Shall never thirst nor hunger more  
For by that faith, and feeding so,  
Out of his belly there shall flow,  
Of living waters plenteous store.   

Rev. 22, 17, 20. Iam. 5. 9,  
The spirit and the bride do say,  
Come come away without delay:  
And since that they have said it first,  
Let all that hear it, as we do,  
Reply the same and say so too,  
Come every one that is athirst.  
The water of eternal life,  
Take without price, take without strife,  
Take freely, whosoever pleases:  
Behold the Judge at door doth stand,  
His coming is so near at hand,  
Amen, Amen, so come Lord Jesus.    
FINIS.   

Courteous Reader.  
BE pleased to take notice that this book, in bigger Print, differs not greatly from my smaller printed Psalm-book, but only in order, which thou mayst reconcile by observing these rules.  
1. In the first place are bound up my own composed Psalms, and in the little print, they are commonly the second metres.  
2. In the second place are bound up all the old Psalms, by me amended, and in the little print they are commonly the first metre, but whither so or no, they are referred unto, and the title tells what metre they are.  
3. In the last place follow the Psalms composed by myself and others, and they are commonly of choicer tunes, viz. Ye children, &c. O Lord consider, &c. and in the little print are always the first metre, as the title doth also refer.  
4. The Collects must be always looked for after the meters.  
Note also that all the Psalms may be sung in one of these 5 well known tunes. viz. the 119 the 67 the 100 the 113 the 148 but only such as the fift ps. I. m. and the 17. 2 Coll. which go sweetly in a part of the 113. & 148 as the first & second metres of the 117 Ps. in the smaller print do show by music notes, Only remember, in those of my first impression in this book, to read two lines into one. wherever you meet with but 4 syllables in a line, as in the eight Psalm.  
Note also that the old Psalms done by me, are printed in greater letter than the rest, & those for the present I specially commend for the public use, of which, those that are entire Psalms, or entire parts, may be sung without offence, while others keep to their old Mumpsimus; Do you not know, that somewhere, the Dutch, French, and English sing one and the same Psalm in their several languages, because the measures and tunes differ not?  
Lastly, know that there are ready to be added to these impressions, at least 40 more of the old Psalms, (whereof the 119 is one) and in the old tunes, and divers hymns are also ready to be added, when it shall please God to give the author encouragement by the Houses allowance of them in public.  
And here follows a taste of each, to incite thee to desire them. Accept this staff to make up the 10 part of the 119 Psal. & doubt not but all the rest shall be done as well.  

Psal. 119. ver. 79. 80.  
Let all that fear thee turn to me  
And all that understand  
How just and good the precepts be,  
the which thou dost command.  
My heart unto thy Statutes frame,  
Even so sincere and sound,  
That Sin may never bring me shame,  
Nor shame my soul confound,   

Psal. LXXII. 2. Meter.***  

Lord give thy judgements to the King,  
That justice may be done:  
And give the rule of governing  
Unto his princely son.   

2  
Then shall he govern uprightly,  
And do thy people right:  
Then shall he judge, with equity,  
The poor that have no might.   

3  
And then, by means of righteousness,  
There shall be great increase:  
In every corner fruitfulness,  
Prosperity, and peace.   

4  
Then shall he help the poor, & weak,  
And them that suffer wrong;  
And, by his power, in pieces break  
Oppressors great, and strong.   

5  
And then, from age to age, shall they,  
Regard and fear his might,  
So long as Sun doth shine by day,  
Or else the moon by night.   

6  
He shall descend as showers of rain,  
On mown grass do drop,  
Which make the ground to spring again,  
And bear a second crop.   

7  
The just shall flourish in his days,  
And all shall be at peace,  
Until the very Moon decays,  
And all its motions cease.   

8  
He shall be Lord of Sea and Land,  
From shore to shore, throughout:  
From Sea to Sea, on either hand,  
And all the Earth about.  
To 

answer  
suffer for us all.    
A man of sorrows, sure he was,  
And he hath born our grief:  
Mean while, we hid our face from him,  
And gave him no relief.    

Jh. 10. 11, & 15. 13.  
Lo, this is that good shepherd then,  
That Good shepherd indeed,  
That lost his life to save his sheep,  
That they might never bleed.  
or  

That laid his life down for the sheep,  
which he do●h watch and feed.  
Agreater love than this hath none,  
Nor none can comprehend,  
Then that a man should stake his life,  
And lose it for his friend.    

Rom. 5. 7. 8.  
For scarce will any die for him,  
That lives most righteously.  
Yet haply, for a special friend  
Some one might dare to die.  
But God commends his love to us,  
And he commends it thus,  
In that, when we were enemies,  
Christ freely died for us.   

Heb. 13. 15.  
By him therefore let's give to God  
The sacrifice of praise.  
Fruit of our li●s in giving thanks,  
Unto his Name always.  
FINIS.