THE BOOK OF PSALMS IN METRE. CLOSE AND PROPER TO THE HEBREW: SMOOTH AND PLEASANT FOR THE METRE: Plain and easy for the Tunes. With Musical Notes, ARGUMENTS, ANNOTATIONS, AND INDEX. Fitted for the ready use, and understanding of all good Christians. PSAL. 47. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 GOD IS KING All lands Commanding: PRAISES SING With Understanding. Hezekiah commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD, with the words of DAVID and of ASAPH the Seer, etc. 2 Chron. 29. 30. LONDON, Printed by Matthew Simmons, for the Company of STATIONERS. 1644. At the Committee of the House of COMMONS in Parliament concerning Printing, April 2. 1644. IT is this day ordered by the said Committee, that the Poëticall Translation of the PSALMS by W. B. etc.— be entered into the Register-book of the Company of Stationers, and Printed. JOHN WHITE. Tunes for PSALMS of pure Eights, i. e. Eight syllables in a line. I. The first French Tune is the tune of the old 100 Psalms, used every where, and may serve for all the Psalms in Eights. O come sing we with joyful noise, To our Sal- vations surest rock: With Psalms of praise and shouts of joys, To our God's presence let us flock. II. The second French tune, is the old tune of the 10. Commandments, used oft in London. A God a King of great Command, Above all King's and Gods he is: The earth's deep places in his hand, The strength of hills is also his. III. Sweet tune is the tune of the old 51. Psalm. used in most places, proper for the 77. Ps. 1 p. 119. Ps. 11. p. 142. Ps. and for the 25. observing sembrief pauses ●n the four-lined metres. Dry land and seas, even both of these, His holy ●ands did form and frame: O come adore, with bended knees, The Lord our maker's blessed Name. For he's our God, and none but he: we are his pasture-people choice: The sheep of his own hand are we, If ye this day will hear his voice. IV. Choice tune is an easy extract out of the old 113. Ps & serveth properly for the 20. 76. & 99 Psalms. Then harden not your stubborn heart, As, in the Provocation, they, In that extreme temp- tation day, Provoked me in the desert part. When as your fathers tempted me, They proved me and my work did see; I forty years was grieved, and said, This tempting age hath wholly strayed. V. 1. Strain tune, i. e. a strain (viz. the first and third line) of the old 113. Ps. instantly learned, and is proper for all Psalms in the form of the 15th. VI 2. Strain tune, viz. a strain of the old 148. Ps. And also ye, etc. instantly learned, and is proper for the 70. and 135. Psalms. Moreover, these two strains put together, make a most complete and proper tune for the 23. 26. and 146. Psalm. This people have in heart digressed: And have not known my path most blest. To whom therefore, In wroth I swore, They should not enter in my rest. Single tunes of Eights and Six. VII. Martyr's tune (proper for sweet and sad ditties) used commonly in all places. Sing to the LORD a new-made song, For he hath marvails done: His holy hand▪ and arm most strong, The victory hath won. VIII. Coventry tune (proper for sweet and solemn ditties, mixed with fours like the 8. Ps.) used in private families in London. The Lord almighty hath made known, His sa-ving health and might: His truth he openly hath shown, In all the Heathens sight. IX. York tune (proper for joyful ditties) used every where, and may best serve for both the Coventry tunes, to those that cannot sing them. Towards Israel's honoured house hath he, Re- membered truth and grace: The earth did his salvation see, Declared in every place. X. David's tune (most proper for joyful ditties) used now frequently in London. Make joyful noise unto the LORD, All dwell- lers' in the earth: Make noises loud, his praise record, ●n songs of joy and mirth. XI. Cambridge old tune (proper for sad and solemn ditties, mixed with four, like the 40. and 41.) used in most places. With Harp, and Psalms melodious voice, And Trumpets to him sing: With sound of Cornet eke rejoice, Before the LORD the King. XII. Pause tune, used in Coventry, most proper for the 49. 52. and 111. Psalms. Let seas and shores rejoice their fills, And both roar out with noise: Let waving floods, and towering hills, Clap hands and join in joys. XIII. London long tune, proper for solemn ditties, and used every where. Before the LORD, whose coming shall, The earth with judgement try: Judging the world, and people all, With truth and equity. XIV. Oxford tune, proper for sad ditties, (such as the 6. and 7. Psalms) used commonly in all places. Behold, how much it doth excel, And what great joy to see: When Brethren do together dwell, In perfect unity. XV. Dutch bass tune, used commonly in Cambridge, and of late in Aldermanburic, it agrees in consort with the tune following, so that it is all one whether you take, for they may be sung both together. It's like the precious ointment, which was poured on Aaron's crown: Which to his beard and gar- ments rich, Even to the skirts, ran down. XVI. Dutch tune (proper for mixed ditties) is the most excellent and ordinary tune in all England. Like pearly dew of Hermon hill, Or Zions silver showers: Blessings of life for ever still, The LORD upon them powers. Double tunes of Eights and Six. XVII. Sinners tune (proper for the saddest ditties in the form of the 38. 51. 88) as the tune of that which was called, The humble suit of a sinner; A most excellent tune, mnch used of old. Hard by the brooks of Babylon, We sat down weeping there: When Zion hill we thought up- on, Each thought enforced a tear. Amidst it there green willows were, Whereon our harps we hung: For they that led us captive there, Required of us a song. XVIII. Old England tune, is the tune of the old 119. Psalms, fi● for mixed ditties, and may be used for any staff tune of eights and six, being best known, but when it is put to any of them with four-lined metres, as the 143, 145. 148. it must be observed with sembrief pauses, which the very metres will point at. And they that wasted us that day, Did ask and urge us thus: Sing one of Zions songs, said they, And make some mirth for us. What tongue can tune or utter them? In foreign land what heart? If I forget Jerusalem, My right hand lose its art. XIX. New tune or New staff tune (proper for Psalms of mixed forms, viz. the 12. 59 94. 101. 109. 120.) is the old tune of Te Deum, only paused and altered in a line or two to fit the metres. If I do not remember thee, My tongue be speech- less quite: If thou be not preferred of me, Above my chief delight. And now O Lord, full well re- cord, The sons of Edom's cry: Thus did they say, In Salems' day, Raze, raze it utterly. XX. Magnificat tune, a most delicate joyful tune, used frequently of old, and not fit to be forgotten. O daughter Babel, thou whose fall, And ruin is designed: O happy is the man that shall, Reward thee in thy kind. He shall be blessed for his pains, That takes thy little ones, And dasheth our their infant's brains, Against the pavement stones. Tunes of Six and Fours. XXI. Short Staff tune, is the same with, Where righteousness doth say, only perfected in the 3. and 7. line: It is proper for mixed ditties, like the 36. Psalm. O praise the LORD all lands: All people praise his Name, Whose marvelous kind love to us, Deserves eternal fame. His truth eternal stands, On firm and sure record; For evermore, Do ye therefore, Give praises to the LORD. XXII. London short tune, is the tune of the old 67. Psalms, used in all places; And may serve for all the tunes of six and fours. Thy Church Lord bless and keep, So that it perish never: Nor only keep, but feed thy sheep, And lift them up for ever. XXIII. Southwell tune, proper for sad ditties, as the 13. Psalm. Lord God of Hosts incline, And cause thy fa●● to shine; Turn us to thee, And then shall we, For ever saved be. XXIV. New verse tune, a most sweet tune, fit for doleful ditties, as the 57 Psalm. So we whom thou dost call, Thy flock and peo- ple shall Bless thee always, and spread thy praise, To generations all. XXV. Tune of the old 113. Psalms, is proper for the 98. Psalms, and for the 9 and 19 parts of the 119. Psalm▪ but they that cannot sing it at large, may use only three first metres. Unto the Lord a new song sing: For many a great and wondrous thing, His mighty power to pass doth br●ng. His holy arm of sovereignty, And his right hand exalted high, Hath gotten him the victory. He hath made known his sa-ving might, And brought his truth to open light, Even in the very heathens sighed He graciously hath called to mind: His perfect truth and mer- eyes kind: As all the house of Israel find. An Apologetical Preface To the READER. Courteous and Christian Reader, MAy it please thee to understand, that I have collected the most choice and exquisite tunes that are or have been used in all England; I have only added or altered a little in some, to make them adequate and suitable to several forms of metre, and to bring some choice strains and ditties into more frequent use, leaving multitudes of tunes (in Ravenscroft) as unnecessary & burdensome. The Tenor-part of these tunes I have here pricked out, both for readiness to hit, sureness to hold, suitableness to the subject, pleasantness of variety, and easiness of distinction: For to tie ourselves to the tunes prescribed, will be a better distinction, then to print them in staves, because they are not all staffe-tunes. The want of such an help as this causeth the Clerks to stumble so much upon the same tune, and to sing joyful & doleful ditties all alike, and makes the Congregation often to mistake, and fall sometimes into several tunes at once, which disturbs the spirits and dulleth the devotion. And (Reader) were it but believed what an easy thing it is to understand the use and meaning of the Music notes, thousands (that have good voices) would observe, inquire, and exercise so much, as to be able to sing all these Preface-psalms in that variety of tunes wh●ch are here described, and so chained on purpose as that one may easily fall out of one tune into another all along. And whensoever thou wouldst learn a tune by itself, repeat those words that bear the burden of it; for instance, if thou wouldst learn David's tune, use those words, Make joyful noise unto, etc. for by harping still on the same words, a tune is more easily learned. Company and custom, the use of an instrument, or observation of a chime, are excellent and speedy means to learn tunes, which I leave to them that list, and to them that listen. Nevertheless, for such as care not, or cannot learn, and till such learning be attained, know that * Viz. Dutch tune, old England tune, French tune, and London long tune. three or four of these tunes (every where known and heard of) with two or three lines of the old 113. psalm, will serve handsomely to sing all the Psalms in the book. Now lest any man (in this stumbling age) should scruple at the lawfulness of singing David's psalms (as unsuitable to our occasions) let him consider that express Scripture, 2 Chron. 29. 30. which fully shows their lawfulness and worthiness, and the Arguments, Annotations, and the very Index will convince thee of their suitableness and excellence, for surely had people known those types and examples that are written for our learning in the book of psalms, Ignorance of the sense of Psalms, the cause why people doubt whether they should use them. they would have acknowledged our state and story contained in them, and as fit for our times as for our text. Why may not a Christian sing & say now with David, I will divide Sichem and meet out the valley of Succoth, etc. Are not these types of Christ his conquests, and hath not every Christian a share in his Saviour's Victories? 1 Cor. 3. 21. All things are yours, etc. He conquers for us, and we in him. And if such a passage as this, be currant, what can be excepted? And what an acceptable service the singing of these psalms is, we have evidence in the holy Scripture, 2 Chron. 20. 21. 22. When they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set Ambushments against the children of Ammon, etc. Lastly, touching the translation itself, since Hebrew must be made English, English must be made Verse, and Verse rhyme, we must of necessity admit some alteration and amplification of words, although without extravagant excursions of unnecessary paraphrase or frothy flourishes of undivine Poetry. But since Poetry is a gift of God too, and very notable to kindle, quicken, and inflame affection. Since this gift (in the greatest measure) is most necessary for such a work as this, wherein much majesty and gracefulness, together with plainness, sweetness, cleernes (suitable to the capacities of vulgar people, (and even of so many women) is required; Me thinks none should be of that mind to tie us so strictly to the prose and text, as must constrain us to render it in such rugged ingrateful and misshapen verse, as many judicious men have already much misliked, and such as multitudes of plain people would deem to have neither rhyme nor reason. One translation I find little better compacted throughout then this verse: And will deliver them: He shall Them all deliver from The wicked, and shall save them all, Because they trust in him. Another translation is full of uncouth Hebraisms. My heart a good word boileth servently, Psal. 45. I to the King do say mine actions: My tongue the pen of writer speedily, Much fairer art thou then be Adam's sons. Others are full of extravagancies and incongruities: He hath in thee showed wonders great, Psal. 135. Quid hoc ad rhombu●? Psal. 5. O Egypt (void of vaunts) For thou art God, in wickedness That takest no delight, etc. Doubtless therefore it will please the most, and most judicious, to make it smooth, clear, and easy, yea, so that every line may contain distinct sense in itself, or else convey it so methodically to the next, that no disordered ruptures (which darken, dissipate, and adulterate the sense) might be found therein, which as it is the most dainty, so it is the most difficult piece of service of all other, and is only found fault withal by many, because it is is so hard to hit: and for my liberty, and thy liking thereof, I pr●y thee give me leave to plead these ensuing Considerations. 1. The ●oly Scripture useth as much difference & indifference in * Following the Sentuagint 〈…〉 most common (but yet the most corrupt) translation. recitations of Scripture, as I desire to be allowed me in this translation. Psal. 68 18. Thou hast received gifts for men, is rendered Eph. 4. 8. And gave gifts to men. Psal. 40. 6. Mine ears hast thou opened. Heb. 10. 5. A body hast thou ordained me. Yea, in the Old Testament, even in the tenor of the Commandments. Exod. 20. 8. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Deut. 5. 12. Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Ver. 14. That thy manservant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence, through a mighty hand, and by a stretched-out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day. And in the New Testament, Mat. 6. 12. Forgive us our Debts. Luk. 11. 4. Forgive us our sins. Yea, in the Psalms themselves, Psal. 14. 5. There were they in great fear, for God is in etc. Psal. 53. There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones, etc. 2. Tho I change a word of the translation, yet possibly it may be as proper, pertinent, and significant, as that which is taken in the prose translation. Psal. 1. 3. I have translated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fade. Psal. 2. 1. I render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 think. Buxtorf. Psal. 3. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Succour any way (the word signifying all manner of Salvation, etc.) In divers other places though I change the word, yet (I hope) I have not trespassed upon the text. And I trust I may affirm that notwithstanding any alteration of the prose, I have neither omitted any material word, nor inserted any thing besides the scope and meaning of the text, but whatsoever I have expressed, is included, intended, and intimated in that Scripture which I render, Ellipsis and Pleonasmus (so frequent in the Hebrew) making much for paraphrase; yet have I not gone so wide with all my metres, but that others, with very scant metres, have been forced to paraphrase far wider; Neither are those Psalms which metre most frequently, more remote from the words then the rest, for I always took the matter in that form that it would most easily admit of metre, and thought it impossible to translate some Psalms neatly, had I not given way to let them fall into those forms, wherein thou now findest them. Lastly, I affirm constantly, Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere, etc. Hor. that it is the duty of a translator in such a work as this, to follow the idiom of his own language, otherwise he doth not keep to his text, but corrupt it rather: It is true, some words and phrases are so peculiar to a language, that no other may be found to render it genuinely: I know not in what language to render this phrase without an Hebraism. Psal. 56. 12. Thy vows are upon me O God. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And some phrases are best understood by metaphrase of other language. I cannot but suppose that phrase, Psal. 129. ult. The blessing of the Lord be upon you, to be most properly rendered in our, God speed you Sirs. And th●● phrase, Psal. 125. 3. Should put forth their hand to iniquity, in most complete sense thus, Should d● they care not what. As for many Hebrew phrases, (Men of bloods, i. e. bloody men, an heart and an heart, i. e. a double heart. Speak thee into wickedness, i. e. speak against thee wickedly) if I should keep to such like, I should fill the translation with absurdities and solecisms, and from Hebraisms should run into barbarismes: And, I pray tell me, in what other language learned men have done so: who would translate, Auri sacra fames, O holy hunger of gold: but o cursed thirst of gold, etc. Wherefore having been overruled to alter the first verse of the book, into that beginning, which seems to ●ear itself so ●old upon the Hebrew (though partly sharing with the English phrase) yet being suspicious (by what I hear from good critics) I here reca●t, and lay down my first version in the other balance (which is according to the Manuscript-Copie presented to the reverend. Assembly.) Take which you will. THat man hath God pronounced blest, That doth not walk astray; By counsels which lewd men suggest, Nor stands in sinner's way. TRIN●-UNI DEO SOLA GLORIA. TO The High and Honourable Court OF PARLIAMENT. An Epigram. GReat Senators, I owe devoutest prayers, For both the Houses honourable chairs, Their Orders furthering these Psalm-affairs. I know not yet, what friendship got between Hath set me down so far behind the screen, That scarce enough I may be heard or seen. But if I can appear, I may appeal, And venture something for the Church's weal, In some case it is capital to conceal. I dare not parley, but I dare protest, I aim God should be served with the best; The judgement is referred to your breast. Your beams are bright, and day light doth appear, The text and the translation both are here; Judge by the clock of your judicious ear. Then cherish virtue with a gracious face. If either do excel, give that the place; If both have done alike, give both their grace. So shall great Academies crown our brows, With learned laurel: And they shall allows To voice your votes, & say y'have paid your vows. Great Chronicles shall also blaze your Name, And set it burning in a lamp of fame, Guilding your just acts with its shining flame. TO THE RIGHT-HONORABLE EDWARD Earl of Manchester, Speaker (pro tempore) of the Hou●● of Peers in Parliament. A double Epigram. NOw I see that malice fli●s As a Meteor from the skies, Never caring where it light, So it show sufficient spite, Here, a pattern of the meek ●ears aspersion on his check, Native pureness clears again, As a spring his muddy stain. Lo, his countenance confutes All these vile and vulgar bruits, Scattering mists where he doth bow That bright splendour of his brow, Fret Errinnys, break thy gall, Till it drown thee, spleen and all: I must tell his trust abroad, In this well deserved Ode, For his country h●th not seen One more true than he hath been. My Lord and loadstone of my heart and more, I felt none mortal pull so strong before, Oh let me still find favour in those eyes That scatter clouds; and where bright Sunbeams rise. To the tribunal of so mild a look I will adventure this Oracular book, The which elsewhere I have presented twice, And at the third time shall not bate the price. I care not, I, although I hear men say, Your Psalms are censured for Apocrypha: I ask no more, but when you next consult, You please to let them sing Quicunque vult. My last ambition is but to present Great gratulation to the Parliament; And till this promised panegyrics come, I leave this begg'ring poetry struck dumb. Reader vouchsafe to see, and look, and taste a sup of Hymns, and creamy aftering, made up in the last sheet of all the book, with directions given to make all even, if the Reader also please to see the titles and the prefaces. THE BOOK OF PSALMS IN METRE. PSAL. I. To Dutch tune. Argument. David shows the felicity and fruitfulness of the godly; the defection and destruction of the wicked. THat man is blest and blest again That doth not walk astray, Heb. Blessednesses. By counsels of ungodly men, Nor stands in sinner's way, Much less practices and perseveres. Nor sits in seat of scornful mates: verse 2 But in God's law delights, And thereupon he meditates Continual days and nights. verse 3 Like planted tree by water-springs, Palm tree ever green. Therefore perfect in kind and measure Work for good. Such one shall he be made, Which in his season fruit forth-brings, Whose leaf shall never fade. All shall succeed by him designed; verse 4 Th' ungodly are not so, But like the chaff which boisterous wind Drives easily to and fro. verse 5 Therefore th' ungodly never must, Not boldly as guiltless. Any judgement, specially the last. Nor any sinner may In Congregation of the Just, Stand up at Judgement day. verse 6 For lo the way of men upright, The Lord with favour knows: Whereas the way shall perish quite Wherein the sinner goes. PSAL. II. To Dutch bass tune. 1. Part. Argument. David prophecies of Christ his kingdom, how opposed by Jews and Gentiles: The derision, and destruction of implacable adversaries. WHy do the heathen rage, and fret, And people think vain things? verse 2 They rise, Act. 4. 25. and are in counsel set, Both governor's and King's: GOD and his Christ oppose they do, And thus presume to say; verse 3 Come, Laws. let us break their bonds in two, And cast their Cords away. Luk. 19 14. verse 4 The Lord that doth in heaven dwell, Their doings shall deride; And laugh to scorn his foes that swell with such presumptuous pride. verse 5 Then, When he sees fit time. in his wrath, the most supreme Shall all his foes control: And in displeasure most extreme Torment their guilty soul. II. Part. Argument. Christ his Dignity, Deity, and Dominion; Kings and great ones (for examples sake) are exhorted to embrace his Gospel for their own safety. verse 6 Upon my Zions holy hill, Over the Church. Yet have I placed my King; verse 7 Thou hast decreed, and wilt fulfil, And I declare the thing. The Lord hath spoken thus to me, Thou art my only Son, This day have I begotten thee: verse 8 Ask but to have it done, Day of Eternity. All heathen kingdoms I will make The privilege of thy birth: To convert or confound And thou shalt in possession take, The utmost parts on earth. verse 9 To crush thy foes shalt thou lift up, Thy weighty iron rod: And dash them, like a potter's cup, In pieces small, o God. verse 10 Now therefore, o ye Kings, take care That ye may understand: Be well instructed ye that are The Judges of the Land. verse 11 See that the LORD have service done With reverence and respect: verse 12 Rejoice with trembling: Love, honour, obey Christ. kiss the Son, Lest ye in wrath be checked. So should ye perish from the way, If his least anger flame; Wa● of salvation. O blessed, blessed then are they That trust upon his Name. PSAL. III. To Oxford tune. Argument David complains of Absolom, and his adherents, conspiring against him; his confidence in God, that defends the faithful, and destroys the wicked. LOrd, how their number multiplies, That vex and grieve me sore! Yea, they that do against me rise, Wax hourly more and more. verse 2 There's many of my soul do say, His God no help shall yield, Nor bring him succour any way: verse 3 But Lord, thou art my shield. Thou art th' uplifter of my Head, My glory and my pride: My voice to God I uttered, verse 4 Unto the Lord I cried, He heard me from his holy Hill: verse 5 I laid me down and slept, From heaven typed by Zion. And waked again in safety still, By him sustained and kept. verse 6 Although ten thousand of my foes Beset me round about, I will not be afraid of those, Nor of my safety doubt. verse 7 O Lord my God awake, arise, Defend my righteous Cause; For thou hast smote mine enemies Upon the very jaws. As sure as done already. Break thou the teeth of all the throng That work ungodliness: verse 8 Salvation doth to God belong; Thou dost thy people bless. PSAL. IU. To London long tune. Argument. David appeals & prays to God, blames Saul's Courtiers for discrediting his Election of God to the Kingdom; Admonisheth them to repent: preferreth spiritual desires to carnal, and reposeth himself in God's safe protection. O God that art my righteousness, Witness Judge, Protector, and rewarder of it. Hear when I call to thee: In woeful time of my distress, Thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy and attentive be, Unto the prayer I frame: verse 2 O sons of men, Speak basely of my anointing. So do the wicked of Christ and his Saints. how long will ye My glory turn to shame? How long will ye vain things affect, And follow after lies? verse 3 Know that the Saint is God's select, And he will hear my cries. verse 4 All sinful courses set apart, And stand in awful dread; In silence commune with your heart, Upon your secret bed. verse 5 For incense offer innocence, And righteousness present: And wholly put your confidence In God omnipotent▪ verse 6 What way they may themselves advance Great multitudes inquire: But Lord thy shining Countenance Is all that we desire. verse 7 For thou hast made my heart to feast With sacred comforts more, Then worldlings when they were increased With Corn and Wine good store. verse 8 I'll both lie down sweet rest to take, And also sleep secure: For only thou, o Lord, dost make My dwelling safe and sure. PSAL. V. To Cambridge old tune. 1. Part. Argument. David prays for audience with confidence of success: because, though Gods pure Nature hates odious and obstinate sinners, yet the Saints have free access to the throne of grace. O Lord unto my words give ear, My meditation weigh: verse 2 My King my God my crying hear, For I to thee will pray. verse 3 I'th' morning thou shalt hear my Cry, I'th' morning I'll direct My prayer to thee, and from on high Thine answer I'll expect. verse 4 For thou art not a God that will With sin delighted be, No wickedness nor any ill Shall ever dwell with thee. verse 5 Within the view of thy pure Eye, The foolish shall not rest: All workers of iniquity Thy Nature doth detest. verse 6 Thou shalt destroy them that are prone To utter tales and lies: God will abhor the bloody one, And such as fraud devise. verse 7 But to thy house will I draw near, In thine abundant grace: And worship in thy sacred fear, For they looked towards the Temple, when absent 1 Kin. 8. 38. Dan. 6. 10. Towards thy holy place. 2. Part. Argument. He prays for God's safe protection, and sure direction, lest he should fall into the power or practise of the wicked here described; the sweet and safe condition of the godly. verse 8 LOrd in thy justice be my guide, Because of all my foes: Thy paths (lest I should go aside) Before my face disclose. verse 9 For in their mouths no faithfulness, Nor truth have any room: Their inward parts mere wickedness, They gape for good men's destruction. Their throat an open tomb. They flatter with dissembling tongue, verse 10 O God destroy them all, By their own counsels going wrong, Let them be sure to fall: Cast out in their iniquity, And multitudes of sin; For lo they have rebelliously Offended thee therein. verse 11 But let them all that trust in thee, And love thy holy Name; Since they by thee defended be, Be joyful in the same. For gladness let them ever shout, verse 12 For thou wilt blessings yield, And guard the Righteous round about With favour as a Shield▪ PSAL. VI. To David's tune. David complains of his sickness, the impossibility to serve God in the state of Death, the extremity of his sorrows, malignity of his adversaries; he getteth victory over his temptations. O Lord my God rebuke me not, When thou shalt angry be; When thy displeasure waxeth hot, O do not chasten me. verse 2 O Lord have mercy on my soul, For I am wondrous weak: Lord I beseech thee make me whole, My bones with anguish break. verse 3 My soul is also vexed sore, But Lord how long a space? verse 4 Return o Lord, my soul restore, O save me of thy grace; verse 5 For after death can no man have Remembrance Lord, of thee; Who hopes to thank thee in the grave? verse 6 My groaning wearieth me, And I am near to death with grief and misery. All night I make my bed to swim, My Couch with tears o'erflows: verse 7 Mine eye, consumed with grief, grows dim, Because of all my foes. verse 8 From me ye sinners go away, For lo my voice that wept, The Lord hath heard, the Lord, I say, verse 9 My prayer will accept. God heard my suit at my desire, verse 10 Let shame my foes confound; With sudden shame let them retire, And sore vexations wound. PSAL. VII. To Coventry tune. 1. Part. Argument. David being forced out of Jerusalem by Absoloms' Conspiracy, and railed upon by Shimei, pleads his own innocency. O Lord my God, I do repose My confidence in thee; From all my persecuting foes, Save and deliver me. verse 2 Jest, like a Lion, cruelly, My soul he piece-meal rend, And tear it, while no Saviour's by To succour and defend. verse 3 O Lord my God, Of seeking Saul's life. 2 Sam. 26. 9 if I have done, This treasonable act; Or if my hands have ere begun So treacherous a fact. verse 4 If I to him rewarded ill, That was with me at peace; (Yea, I did still, by my good will, My causeless foe release) verse 5 Then let my foe pursue my soul, And take, and tread it down; Trampling my life with proud control, And bury my renown. II. Part. Argument. David prays for restauration to his Kingdom, to minister just judgement to the people, after the example of almighty God. verse 6 RIse Lord in wrath, lift up thy hand, Because my foes so storm; The Judgement which thou didst command, Settle my Kingdom promised. Awaking now perform. verse 7 Then shall th' Assembly generally Themselves to me betake; Return therefore, As a Judge on the Bench. and sit on high, Even for this people's sake. verse 8 His people's cause the Lord will try, O let my Judgement be According to th' integrity And righteousness in me. verse 9 O put a final period To lewd men's wickedness: As for the righteous men, o God, Establish them no less. The righteous God tries heart & reins, And every secret part: verse 10 And my defence is by his means, Who saves the upright heart. 3. Part. Argument. God tries the righteous with wise and just corrections; plagues the wicked with dire and dreadful punishments, confounding them in their own cursed Counsels. verse 11 WIth Judgement will the Lord be sure The righteous to repay: And with the lewd and wicked doer, God's angry every day. verse 12 Unless he speedily repent, His glittering sword is whet: His angry bow the Lord hath bend, And hath it ready set. verse 13 He hath prepared deadly darts, Determining to shoot Choice arrows at the viprous hearts▪ Of those that persecute. verse 14 Behold how with iniquity He travails in his thought, Conceiving mischief craftily, Fails of his wicked purpose. And falsehood forth hath brought. verse 15 He made a pit, in digging which Great pains himself did take; And now is fallen into the ditch Which he himself did make. verse 16 Upon his own head shall rebound His mischief, spite, and hate; His violent dealing shall come down, And light upon his pate. verse 17 Unto the Lord give thanks will I, For all his righteous ways; And to the Name of God most high, Sing cheerful songs of praise. PSAL. VIII. To Coventry tune. David admires God glory, most glorious in weak instruments; his goodness to mankind, giving him dignity and dominion over the inferior world, which Christ (taking our nature) subdues and sanctifies to us. O Lord our Lord how excellent In all the earth's thy Name? Behold thou hast They glory placed Above the heaven's frame. verse 2 Weak babes and sucklings thou hast sent To preach thy power and skill; Mat. 21. 16 That thou mightst so Th' avengefull foe▪ And adversary still. verse 3 When I behold attentively The heavens thy fingers frame; The Moon on high, And starry sky, Which by thine ordinance came: verse 4 What's man, or man's posterity! Think I, what wondrous love, He should of thee Remembered be, Or visited from above! verse 5 For thou hast made him little lower, Heb. 2. 9 Then Angels in degree; And didst him crown With great renown, And glorious dignity. verse 6 Thou mad'st him have dominion o'er The works which thou hast wrought, Beneath his feet Subjection meet Thou hast all creatures taught. verse 7 All oxen, sheep, and fowl with these, And cattle him obey, What e'er the field verse 8 Or air can yield, And fishes of the Sea. What ever's in the paths of Seas. Or passeth through the same, O Lord our Lord All lands record The splendour of thy Name. PSAL. IX. To David's tune. Argument. David praiseth God for defence of the Church, and destruction of the enemies: God the supreme King, and righteous Judge of the world, in whom the faithful happily conside. O Lord I'll praise thy holy Name, With true and hearty zeal: Thy wondrous works will I proclaim, And none of them conceal, verse 2 In thee be glad, in thee rejoice, And to thy Name will I In songs of praise lift up my voice, O thou that art most high. verse 3 When as mine adversaries shall Be turned back with shame: For in thy presence they shall fall, And perish by the same. verse 4 For thou, o Lord, thou hast alone Maintained my righteous Cause: Thou fatest in thy righteous Throne, To judge by righteous Laws. verse 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen rude, And made for ever void Their hateful name, so that the lewd Are utterly destroyed. verse 6 Destructions are accomplished, O Enemy, The foe can destroy no more. Thou thou didst destroy others. so it frames: Thou hast destroyed, and ruined Great Cities, and their names. verse 7 But God, the true Eternal one, For ever shall abide: 2 King. 19 25. He hath prepared his kingly throne, Just Judgement to decide. verse 8 From Judgement he will not decline, Exactly just and true, To judge the world, and will assign To every man his due. verse 9 The Lord moreover will become A refuge for th' oppressed: In times extremely troublesome, Securest place of rest. verse 10 In thee will all men trust repose, That know thy faithful Name: For thou hast not forsaken those That duly seek the same. 2. Part. Argument. God is glorified in delivering the Church, and taking the wicked in their own craftiness. verse 11 UNto the Lord our God sing praise, That dwells in Zion mount: And all his wondrous works, and ways Unto the Church recount. verse 12 When he for blood inquiry makes, When he sets upon judgement. Those he forgets not then: But into his remembrance takes The cries of humble men. verse 13 From gates of death thou dost me rear, Have mercy on my state: Think on the troubles that I bear, Of those that do me hate. verse 14 That I in Zions' daughters gates, The chief places of assembly. May all thy praise record: For thy salvation consolates My thankful heart, o Lord. verse 15 Sunk down the wicked Heathen are Into the pit they made: Heathen in life. Their foot is taken in the snare, Which they themselves have laid: verse 16 By doing Judgement God is known, The wicked man is snared By that destruction which his own Mischievous hands prepared. verse 17 The wicked shall be turned to Hell, These God-forgetting men: verse 18 For poor men shall not always dwell In dark oblivions den. The needies long expecting eyes For ever shall not fail: verse 19 Up Lord, against the Heathen rise, And let not man prevail. Let them be judged in thy sight, verse 20 And all the Nations then With fear and dread be daunted quite, And know themselves but men. PSAL. X. York tune. The presumption and cruelty of the wicked. WHy dost thou Lord stand off so far, And seem'st thyself to hide: And see'st what troublous times here are, And what oppressing pride: verse 2 Wherewith the wicked hunt the poor, O let them be surprised, Caught in the snare they thought so sure, And which themselves devised. verse 3 He boasteth of his hearts desire, And doth the covetous bliss; Coveting to do mischief. Whom (while the wicked doth admire) The Lord abhors no less. verse 4 Not seeking after God a jot, Such is his staring pride; In all his thoughts God cometh not, verse 5 His ways none can abide. Thy Judgements Lord are far enough Above his purblind sight: At's enemy he makes a puff, And by them all sets light. verse 6 His heart hath said, I know that I Shall never be displaced: Nor of the least adversity At any time shall taste. verse 7 His mouth is full of blasphemy, Of fraud, deceit, and wrong: Mischievousness and vanity Sat underneath his tongue. verse 8 In lurking dens and odd byways Of Villages he sits: The innocent he takes and slays In secret holes and pits. 2. Part. Argument. The craft and cruelty of the wicked; prayer prevails against their power. verse 9 MOst privily against poor men He bends his murderous eyes: And, like a Lion in his den, In wait he closely lies. That he the simple man may get, He lies in secret wait: When once he draws him to his net, Then doth he catch him straight. verse 10 He doth crouch down and lowly bend, Humbling himself withal: That so the poor man (that's his end) By his strong Ones may fall. Strong clutches or confederates. verse 11 His heart hath said, God hath forgot, He hides away his eyes, On purpose he beholds it not: verse 12 O Lord o God arise, Forget not, but thy hand forth-stretch For poor men undertrod: verse 13 O wherefore should a wicked wretch Contemn almighty God? It shall not be required at all, Thus hath he said in heart: verse 14 But of their mischief, spite, and gall, Thou Lord a witness art. And wilt requite it with thy hand, The poor man doth commend Himself to thee, for thou dost stand The fatherless his friend. 3. Part. Argument as before. verse 15 THe arm of Tyrant's merciless, Lord break in sunder quite: Search out his secret wickedness, Till all be come to light. verse 16 God reigneth an eternal King, By whose revenging hand, Uncircumcised in heart rooted out. The heathen people perishing Are banished the land. verse 17 Lord the desire of humble men Hath pierced thine easy ear: An heart thou wilt prepare us then And cause thine Ear to hear. Zach. 12. 10. verse 18 To judge the poor and fatherless, That are oppressed so sore, That earthly men may not oppress Nor vex them any more. A sorry lump of earth. PSAL. XI. French. 1. Tune. Argument. The Saints impregnable safety so long as God is in heaven; his different dealing with the good and bad. IN God I put my Confidence, Ye O my friends. Why do ye utter such a word? Why say you to my soul, fly hence Unto your mountain, as a bird? verse 2 For lo, the wicked bend their bows, Their arrows on their strings prepare, In secret for to shoot at those That upright-hearted persons are. verse 3 If the foundations be destroyed, If outward props fail. What can the Righteous do? they say; verse 4 Heavens holy temple stands not void, For God is present there for ay. The Lord within the heavens high, Hath established his royal throne: His Eyes behold, Behold narrowly. his Eyelids try The sons of mortal men each one. verse 5 The Lord the righteous throughly tries, But he the wicked greatly hates, And him that loveth cruelties His righteous soul abominates. verse 6 Brimstone and fire, Which they cannot evade. and tangling snares Upon the wicked rain shall he; An horrible tempest he prepares The portion of their cup to be. verse 7 For God that is a righteous one, Doth righteousness as much affect: The upright man he looks upon With very singular respect. PSAL. XII. To new tune. Argument. The great corruption of the wicked world; their profane and presumptuous speeches; The preservation of the Church. O Lord put to thy helping hand, For now the godly cease: The faithful people of the land Exceedingly decrease. verse 2 Men generally Speak vanity Unto their friends apart: Their conference slips From flattering lips, And from a double heart. verse 3 The lips that utter flatter The Lord will cut away: And tongues that speak presumptuous things; verse 4 For thus they boast and say; We shall not fail But to prevail With tongue and lips most free, With our bold words. They are in our Peculiar power, For who are Lords but we? verse 5 Now for th' oppression of the poor, And sighs of needy souls, I'll rise, saith God, and him secure From scornful foes controls. verse 6 And we are sure Gods words are pure, Promises infallible. As silver from the mines, In furnace tried, And purified No less than seven times. verse 7 Thy people Lord shall be assured, Preferved by thy grace; They shall for ever be secured From this ungodly race. verse 8 But all the while The base and vile Are set in place of power: On all sides than Do wicked men Seek whom they may devour. PSAL. XIII. To London short tune. Argument. He complains of desertion and distress; prays for seasonable relief and release; apprebendeth confidence and comfort. HOw long, o Lord, of thee Forgotten shall I be? How long a space Wilt hide thy face For evermore from me? verse 2 How long in heart condole, Take counsel in my soul, With daily care: O how long bear Exalted foes control? verse 3 Consider, hear my cries, Clear, Lord my God, mine eyes, Lest I perish. Lest sleep of death My last-drawn breath Perpetually surprise. verse 4 And lest mine enemy say, Lo, I have got the day, And glad they be That trouble me, When put beside my stay. verse 5 But I thy mercy made The rock whereon I stayed, My heart in me Shall joyful be In thy salvations aid. verse 6 Unto the Lord will I Sing praises cheerfully, Because I felt How he hath dealt With me most bounteously. PSAL. XIV. London long tune. Argument. The corruption of mankind; hatred of the godly; deliverance prayed for and expected in all distressed times. THere is no God the fool hath thought, Corrupt is all the brood: Abominations have they wrought, And none of them doth good. verse 2 The sons of men the Lord did view From Heaven, to discern If there were any one that knew, Or sought Gods will to learn. verse 3 But they are all corrupt and nought; They all aside are gone: Not one that any good hath wrought, No verily not one. verse 4 Are workers of iniquity So brutishly misled; To eat my people greedily, With delight and without scruple. Devouring them like bread? Upon the Lord they do not call: verse 5 There were they in great fear; For God will surely be with all The righteous every where. Psal. 53. 5. verse 6 Ye shamed the counsel of the poor, Despised his weapons of faith and prayer. Whose faith on God was stayed: verse 7 But oh that Israel might procure From Zion saving aid. When God his people's bondage turns, That freedom once is had, Then Jacob shall rejoice, that mourns, And Israel shall be glad. PSAL. XV. 1. Strain tune. Argument. The description of a true Israelite. LOrd who shall have a dwelling place, Congregation. In Tabernacles of thy grace? Thy holy hill who shall possess? Heaven. verse 2 Sure he that worketh righteousness. That walks upright, and speaks the truth; Word and deed. And this even from his heart he doth. verse 3 He that backbites not with his tongue, Nor doth his neighbour any wrong▪ Nor taketh up (though others broach) Against his Neighbour a reproach. By his good will. verse 4 Vile men are in his eyes abhorred; But honoured they that fear the Lord. That changeth not what once he swears, Hates perfidiousness. Tho he the loss and damage bears. verse 5 That puts not out his coin, whereby To gain by biting usury. Nor takes reward to circumvent, Covetousness and all injustice. Or prejudice the innocent, He that doth these things is approved, And never shall that man be moved. PSAL. XVI. Oxford tune. Argument. David professeth and praiseth his interest in God, A Type of Christ in all. and charity to the Church; he disclaimeth merit and idolatry. LOrd save me, for I trust in thee, verse 2 Sincerely from my heart; I have acknowledged thee to be My Lord, and so thou art. My goodness unto thee, I know, Can never have extent; verse 3 But to the Saints that live below, The truly excellent. In whom my sole delight is placed, verse 4 But questionless all those That after other Gods make haste, Shall multiply their woes. The blood of their drink-offering, Gentiles offered humane blood to Idols. I'll not present the same: Nor move my lips in mentioning Of their detested name. verse 5 The Lord is mine inheritance, And portion of my cup: Of mine allotted maintenance Thou art the holder up. verse 6 To me successfully the lines In pleasant places fell: Measured with lines. The heritage which God assigns To me, doth much excel. 2. Part. Argument. He praiseth God for his Spirit and providence; professeth his hope of resurrection and life everlasting. verse 7 I Bless the Lord, Prophesying of Christ's resurrection. by whose good means I was advised aright; Yea, by his counsel have my reins Instructed me by night. verse 8 I set, As my Protector. and still conceived to stand The Lord before my face: Because he is at my right hand Shall nothing me displace. verse 9 With joys and consolations fresh, This therefore fills my breast: Glad is my glory, and my flesh In certain hope shall rest. verse 10 My soul in hell thou wilt not leave, My person. Act. 2. 31. Nor ever wilt permit Thy Saints dead body to receive corruption in the pit. verse 11 The path of life thou show'st to me, And joys abundant store At thy right hand there are with thee, And pleasures evermore. PSAL. XVII. York Tune. Argument. He prays for audience, professing his sincerity. LOrd hear the right, attend my cry, Unto my prayer give heed; That doth not, in hypocrisy, From feigned lips proceed. verse 2 My sentence let come forth from thee, And let thine eyes be moved, Things equal to behold and see: For thou my heart hast proved. By night thou triest me, Of affliction but shalt find In me no wickedness: For I am purposed in my mind My mouth shall not transgress. verse 4 Concerning works of men profane, By murmuring. Thy lips did guide me so, Thy counsels. That from the paths I do refrain Wherein destroyers go. verse 5 Uphold my goings, Lord my guide, In those thy paths divine, So that my footsteps may not slide Out of those paths of thine. verse 6 For I have duly called on thee, Sure thou o God wilt hear: Lord hear my words, incline to me, And lend a gracious ear. verse 7 Thy wonderful kind love disclose, Oh thou whose strong right arm Saves all that trust in thee from those That rise to do them harm. 2. Part. Argument. He prays to be delivered from the wicked, the scourge of the godly, their temporal prosperity, and eternal destruction. verse 8 Preserve me Lord from hurtful things, As th' apple of thine eye: Oh hide me underneath thy wings, verse 9 From lewd men's tyranny. From deadly foes that have entrapped My soul on every side: verse 10 In their own fat they are enwrapped, Their mouths are fraught with pride. verse 11 They have encompassed us round In our own footsteps now: We may always say now. And down unto the very ground They bend their lowering brow. verse 12 Like th'eager Lion that doth long To take his prey in chase: And as it were a Lion young That lurks in secret place. verse 13 Lord rise and disappoint him then, And cast him to the ground: Defend my soul from wicked men, Which are thy sword to wound. verse 14 From men, o Lord, which are thy hand, From worldlings filled and crammed With temporal blessings at command, And afterward are damned. Thy treasures hid their bellies fill, With store of children blest: They spend their substance at their will, And leave their babes the rest. verse 15 But I in righteousness abide, A glimpse thereof now. Beholding of thy face: Waking from affliction, and in the resurrection. And waking shall be satisfied With th'image of thy grace. PSAL. XVIII. To London long tune. Argument. David delivered from Saul, etc. gives thanks, and sweetens these thoughts with forepast dangers. O Lord my strength, I will love thee, verse 2 The Lord's my rock and fort, And my DELIVERER is he, My God, and my support: My strength and station most secure, In whom my trust shall be: The horn of my salvation sure, And my high tower is he. verse 3 Upon the Lords Name I will call, Who is most worthy praise: So shall I scape mine enemies all, With safety all my days. verse 4 Sorrows of death did me enclose, Wherewith I was dismayed, The floods of wicked men arose, And made me much afraid. verse 5 Sorrows of hell than did I see Set round on every ●ide: The snares of death prevented me, verse 6 Then to my God I cried. I called upon the Lord most high, In my distress and fear: He from his Temple heard my cry, My words came to his ear. 2. Part. Argument. David describeth Gods wrathful judgements under the similitude of those prodigious tempests, which he sometimes really executed on his adversaries. verse 7 THe earth did tremble then and shake, Earthquakes A trembling on it seized: The mighty hills did also quake, Because thou wast displeased. verse 8 Out of his nostrils went a smoke, God described as a warrior. And from his mouth there came Devouring fire, which did provoke Sulphurous coals to flame. verse 9 Th'almighty Lord the heavens bowed, And downward did descend: Yet invisible. Beneath his feet a sable cloud Of darkness did extend. verse 10 A Cherub Chariot did him bear, Angels. Whose plumes he made his sail: The winds his winged coursers were, And darkness was his vail. verse 11 Dark his pavilion, Vapour and Clouds. dark the sky, Dark waters dusky clouds Compose a very Canopy, Wherein himself he shrowds▪ verse 12 And at the brightness which did flame Before him in his ire, Lightnings. His thick clouds past, and with the same Hailstones and coals of fire. verse 13 The Lord in heaven thundered loud, His voice the Lord most high In hailstones gave, and in a cloud Of fire, poured from the sky. verse 14 He sent out arrows from the sky, And scattered them by those: He shot out lightnings dreadfully, Discomfiting his foes. verse 15 Then were the water-chanels seen, Sea-tempests. And world's foundations vast, Disclosed at thy rebuke so keen, Even at thy nostrils blast. 3. Part. Argument. God's great goodness to his people, planting grace in them, and then rewarding it. verse 16 GOd sent from heaven & took me our, And drew me from the deep: Of affliction verse 17 From hateful foes both strong & stout He did me safely keep. verse 18 My stronger foes prevented me, In that so dangerous day, That threatened my calamity, But God was then my stay. verse 19 Into a place secure and free My soul he quickly brought: Because he took delight in me, He my deliverance wrought. verse 20 According to mine innocence, Was my reward made sure: The Lord did give in recompense, Because my hands were pure. verse 21 For in the ways of God have I Continually trod: And have not ever wickedly Departed from my God. verse 22 His judgements all before me were, His statutes unremoved: verse 23 Before him was my heart sincere, Wherein no guile was proved. From stains of mine iniquity I kept my Conscience free. verse 24 Therefore the Lord abundantly Hath recompensed me. According to th' integrity, And cleanness of my hands: Which he, beholding with his eye, Exactly understands. 4. Part. Argument. God's different dealing with good and bad. Seen in David's example. The military virtue of the Saints. verse 25 THe merciful thou wilt requite, With mercy, in their kind, And they that are themselves upright, The like in thee shall find. verse 26 Unto the pure thy purity, Thou wilt O Lord declare: And thou wilt deal as frowardly With those that froward are. verse 27 For, Lord, thou wilt those people save, whom sharp afflictions tried: And wilt bring down all those that have The lofty looks of pride. verse 28 My candle thou shalt surely light, This darksome night of mine, The Lord my God will make as bright As lightsome day to shine. verse 29 I ran through armed troops by thee, And safely scaped them all: And by my God (assisting me) Have I leapt o'er a wall. Scaled the walk of a City and taken it. verse 30 As for the LORD his word is tried, His way is perfect pure: To all that have on him relied, He is buckler sure. verse 31 For who, except the LORD alone, A God esteemed may be: And who a mighty rock but one, And our JEHOVAH he? verse 32 It is the LORD which girds & binds My soul with power so great: verse 33 He makes my feet like feet of Hinds, My enterprise to be achieved. Castles and Forts. And makes my way complete. He sets me on the places high, By conquest mine they are: verse 34 He taught my hands the faculty Of exercising war. So that a bow completely steeled Is broken by mine arms: verse 35 Thou gav'st me thy salvations shield, Thy right hand holds from harms. Thy gentleness did me advance, verse 36 My stepping-place made wide: That by no danger of mischance My foot should slip aside. 5. Part. Argument. David triumphs in his Victories, A precedent of ours, a type of Christ's for us. and prophecies of the access of the Gentiles to the Church. verse 37 I Have pursued my foes that fled, And also overta'n: And, till they were extinguished, I did not turn again. verse 38 They had not strength enough to rise, I wounded them so sore; Beneath my feet, mine enemies Are fallen in bloody gore. verse 39 Thou girdedst me with fortitude To battle with my foes: And under me hast them subdued That up against me rose. verse 40 Mine enemies necks into my hand Were given me by thee: That I might root out of the land All them that hated me. verse 41 Loud shrieks and cries they multiplied, But there was none to save: Yea, even to the LORD they cried, But he no answer gave. verse 42 As small as dust that's blown about When boisterous winds do meet: I beat my foes, and cast them out As dirt into the street. verse 43 Thou hast me Lord delivered From all seditious hands: And thou hast made me to be head Of all the heathen lands. A people shall my servants be Whose face I never saw: verse 44 As soon as they do hear of me They shall obey my law. verse 45 The strangers shall be all dismayed, Heb. Lie feignedly, as hypocrites for fear. The strangers shall submit, And fade away, and be afraid Where they in secret sit. Exo. 15. 14 6. Part. Argument. God is glorified for the victories of Christ, and the Church the true seed of David. verse 46 O Blessed be my rock of power, That ever doth abide: And let the Lord my Saviour Be highly magnified. verse 47 'Tis God that hath avenged me, My people he subjects: And my Deliverer is he That me from foes protects. verse 48 Above them hast thou raised my head That did my hurt conspire: And me from him delivered Whom fury set on fire. verse 49 Among the heathen for this thing, Thy praises I'll proclaim: And cheerful songs of triumph sing To thy victorious Name. verse 50 Full great deliverance he doth bring, And mercy keeps in store, For David his anointed King, After the Spirit. And HIS seed evermore. PSAL. XIX. To David's tune. 1. Part. Argument. The creatures show God's glory; the Scriptures his grace and saving knowledge. THe heavens give to understand The glory of the Lord: The operations of his hand The firmaments record. verse 2 Night unto night hath knowledge shown, The motions of the spheres day and night, teach the Creator to all Nations. Their course & compass. Specially the Sphere of the Sun. And day with day conferred: verse 3 And speech or language there is none Where their voice is not heard. verse 4 Their line doth close and comprehend The vast earth round about: Unto the world's remotest end Their words are passed out. The Lord a TABERNACLE there Did for the Sun compose: verse 5 Which as a Bridegroom doth appear, That from his chamber goes, Rejoicing for to run a race Like to a champion stout: verse 6 At heavens farthest distant place Begins his going out. And he to heavens utmost end His circuit makes complete: And there is nothing can defend Or hide it from his heart. With God's blessing. 2 Cor. 10. 4. verse 7 The law of God is perfect pure, The soul it purifies: His testimonies are most sure And make the simple wise. PSAL. XIX. 2. Part. Argument. The names and properties of the Scriptures; the benefit of obeying them, which makes the godly sue for grace. verse 8 THe statues of the Lord are right, And consolate the mind: His precepts pure, affording light To eyes by nature blind. verse 9 Gods fear is clean from all defects, The rule that guides us in God's fear. And always doth endure: His Judgements just in all respects, And truth itself no truer. verse 10 Far more than many treasured sums Of gold to be embraced: Far sweeter than the honeycombs, Or honey to the taste. verse 11 They are thy servants monitors How he his life should frame: A great reward's provided for's If we observe the same. verse 12 But who can all his errors see? O cleanse my heart within verse 13 From secret faults, Heb. Prouds, headstrong temptations▪ o keep thou me From all presumptuous sin.. O let it have no Regiment In me at any time: And then shall I be innocent, And clear from greatest crime. verse 14 The meditations of my heart, As apostasy, desperation, & such like. And every word I say Take in good part, o Lord that art My Saviour, strength and stay▪ PSAL. XX. To choice tune. Argument. David going forth to battle, offers sacrifice; A type of Christ, and pattern for us. the Church prays confidently for acceptation and success. LORD hear thee in this troublous day, The name of jacob's God defend; verse 2 From Zion be thy strength and stay, From heaven typed by Zion. Help from the Sanctuary send. verse 3 Thine offerings all in mind be kept, He thy burnt Sacrifice accept: verse 4 Thy hearts desire he grant thee still, And all thy counsels LORD fulfil. verse 5 We will rejoice in thy defence, And spread our banners in the name Of thee our God and confidence, LORD hear thy prayers, and grant the same. verse 6 Now know I God will save from harm, Now having prayed. With saving strength of his right arm, And heareth his anointed one, From heaven his high and holy throne. verse 7 Some hope in Charets' help to find, And some in horses hope the same, But we will ever bear in mind, The Lord our Gods all-helpfull name. verse 8 They are brought down & fallen quite, But we are risen and stand upright: Are victorious. verse 9 Save LORD, let the King give ear Now when we pray, our prayers to hear. PSAL. XXI. To Dutch tune. Argument. David gives thanks for victory, A type of the blessings of the Gospel▪ and the rich blessings of God. O LORD, in thy salvation The King shall much delight With joy and exultation In thy great strength and might. verse 2 For what his heart desired to have Thou granted'st every thing: And what his lips of thee did crave Was not denied the King. verse 3 With thy good blessings poured down, Thou hast him richly sped: And thou hast set a royal crown Of pure gold on his head. verse 4 He asked thee life, and thou didst give To him that blessing prime: Even length of days, He in his person, Christ of his loins, we of his faith live for ever▪ that he might live An everlasting time. verse 5 He glorieth most exceedingly In thy salvations aid: For honour and great majesty Thou hast upon him laid. verse 6 Of blessings everflowing streams Thou didst to him impart: And with thy countenances beams Rejoiced his joyful heart. verse 7 For LORD the King unfeignedly, Doth put his trust in thee: And through thy mercy, o most High, Removed he shall not be▪ 2. Part. Argument. The consuming wrath of Christ against all implacable adversaries. verse 8 THy right-hand shall thy foes disclose, Thy omnipotent power. Thy hand thy haters all: verse 9 And fiery ovens shall burn thy foes, What time thy wrath shall fall. The Lord shall swallow them in fume, Fire shall devour them then. verse 10 Their fruit shalt thou from earth consume, Their seeds from sons of men. verse 11 For they against thee did intend A most mischievous thing: The utter extirpation of thy Church. But cannot bring to pass the end Of their imagining. verse 12 Lord, thou shalt make them for these things, To turn their backs apace, Charging thine arrows on thy strings, Against their stubborn face. verse 13 In thy peculiar strength, O Lord, Thy matchless glory raise: So shall due cheerful songs record Thy powers deferved praise. PSAL. XXII. To Oxford tune. 1. Part. Argument. David complains of desertion and disdainfulness of his enemies, remembers (to his comfort) Gods ancient dealing with the Saints. MY God, my God, wherefore hast thou Forsook me? O wherefore! Why art so far from helping now, When I do cry and roar? verse 2 My God, I cry even all day long, Yet hearest thou not my moan: All night I cannot hold my tongue, verse 3 But thou 'rt an only one. Thou that inhabit'st Israel's praise! The place thine in type, and the service thine own for ever. verse 4 Our fathers hoped in thee, In thee they trusted all their days, And thou didst set them free. verse 5 They cried to thee, and by the same, A blessed deliverance got: And, trusting in thy holy Name, Confounded were they not. verse 6 But I'm not reckoned for a man, Meditate of Christ's humiliation. A despicable worm: A mere reproach of men I am, Whom all the people spurn. verse 7 All they that see me laugh, O God, Shoot out the lip do they: And shake their heads with scornful nod, And thus they speak, and say: verse 8 He trusted that the Lord would be A Saviour for his sake; Let him deliver him since he In him delight did take. 2. Part. Argument. God's original providence to his Saints; a Representing Christ's sufferings. complaint of savage adversaries and extreme afflictions. verse 9 EVen from the womb which me possessed, O Lord, thou took'st me thence: When I was on my mother's breast, Thou wast my confidence. verse 10 I from the naked womb was cast Upon thy care alone: Thou from my mother's belly waste, The God my soul doth own. verse 11 Be not far from me, trouble's near, And none to help me out: verse 12 So many bulls have every where Encompassed me about. Strong Bashan bulls encompassing Prevent me all escape; verse 13 Their wide mouths like a ravening And roaring Lion gape. verse 14 Like water I am shed and sunk, Spirits la●●guishing. My bones disjointed all: My heart, within my bowels shrunk, Like molten wax doth fall. verse 15 My strength is, like a potsherd, dried, My tongue cleaves to my jaws: Seeming as helpless and hopeless as the dead. In dust of death to be and bide, Thou dost thy servant cause. verse 16 For dogs have me environed, Assembled wicked bands Have me enclosed and compassed; Meditate of Christ's passion. They pierce my feet and hands. verse 17 Yea, I may reckon every bone, Leanness. On me they gaze and stare: verse 18 Upon my vesture lots are thrown, Luke 23. 39 And they my garments share. verse 19 But Lord my strength make haste to help, And be not far from me: verse 20 My darling soul from cruel whelp And bloody sword set free. verse 21 Lest I by Lion's mouths be torn, Savage adversaries. Experience. Save and deliver me: For from the horns of Unicorns Thou heard'st me pray to thee. 3. Part. Argument. The relief of the afflicted, the dainties of the Gospel, conversion of the Gentiles, and successions of the Church. verse 22 O Lord, I David, as a type of Christ, Heb. 2. 11. I will declare thy Name Among my brethren dear, And I will spread thy praise and fame In congregations here. verse 23 O ye his Saints that fear the Lord, Praise him in word and deed: Glorify him with one accord, O all ye jacob's seed. Ye seed of Israel do no less, But always fear the Lord: verse 24 Because th'afflicted souls distress He never hath abhorred. He did not such a soul despise, Nor unaffected hide From him his favourable eyes, But heard him when he cried. verse 25 In great resort I'll spread thy fame, And pay my vows I will Before them all that fear thy Name. verse 26 The meek shall eat their fill: Feed on the sweet promises. They shall, that seek him, praise the Lord, Your hearts shall live for ay. verse 27 The worlds vast ends shall all record, Remember the truths of the Gospel. And turn to God shall they: All kindred nations shall to thee In humble worship fall: verse 28 The kingdoms gods, and he shall be Supreme of nations all. verse 29 All sat ones on the earth shall eat, Rich & poor seek & submit to Christ And worship him they must: And they must bow before his seat That stoop, and lick the dust. His own soul none can keep alive. Procure or prevent his own salvation. verse 30 A seed shall serve the Lord, A Generation shall survive Which we for his record. verse 31 They shall come forth, One generation o●●●lievers to another. and there declare His righteousness to those That born in after ages are, That God did thus dispose. PSAL. XXIII. To the 2. French tune. Argument. The sure supply of the Saints. THe Lord's my Shepherd to provide, No woeful want shall I abide: Spiritual pastures. verse 2 In pastures best He makes me rest, He leads me by still waters side. verse 3 Restores my soul, as guide thereto, From sin and error. For his name's sake, in paths most true: verse 4 Though I invade Death's horrid shade, Saddest afflictions. That darksome valley walking through, Yet I will fear no kind of ill: For thou art ever present still With me, Thy power, providence and spirit. O God, They staff, thy rod, My heart with heavenly comforts fill. verse 5 My table thou hast furnished so, Corporal blessings. Even in the presence of my foe, Thine ointment spread Upon my head: Making my cup to overflow. Yea, all my life's continued space, verse 6 Surely thy goodness and thy grace Shall follow me: The Church on earth & in heaven. Thy house shall be My ever constant dwelling place. PSAL. XXIV. Dutch Bass tune. Argument. He exhorts to receive Christ the King of the world: describes the Citizens of his spiritual Kingdom. THe earth's the Lords with all her goods, Made one globe of earth and water, bu● quere, if water be not the centre and basis. 2 Pet. 3. 5. Zion hill a type of heaven. And all the worlds contain: verse 2 He established it upon the floods, And fixed it on the main. verse 3 Who in God's holy place may stand? His hill ascend unto? verse 4 The pure in heart and clean in hand, Whose oaths are just and true. Who suffers not his soul to cleave To Idols most abhorred: verse 5 He shall undoubtedly receive The blessing from the Lord. From God his Saviour he shall speed With gifts of saving grace: verse 6 O Jacob, this thy seekers' seed, Even theirs that seek thy face. verse 7 Ye everlasting doors stand open, Ye gates lift up the head: Doors of your hearts in all generations. And give the King of glory scope Within your courts to tread: verse 8 Who is this glory-crowned King? His royal name record; In battle always conquering, The Strong and mighty Lord. verse 9 Ye everlasting doors stand open, Ye gates lift up your head: And give the King of glory scope Within your courts to tread. verse 10 Who may this Kingly person be, And all the glory his? The Lord of hosts, and none but he, The King of glory is. PSAL. XXV. To Sweet tune. Argument. David sueth for God's protection, and pardon of his sins, specially those of his youth. LOrd, Raise my affection's. I lift up my soul to thee, verse 2 In thee my God, I trust repose: O Let not me Ashamed be, Nor overtopped by envious foes. verse 3 Put none to shame whom goodness draws To wait upon thy holy name: Who break thy laws Without a cause, Persecute without provocation. Let them be rather put to shame. verse 4 Show me thy paths, teach me thy way, verse 5 Led, in thy truth, and teach my heart. On thee all day I wait and stay, For thou my God and Saviour art. verse 6 Thy tender loving kindnesses, And thy sweet mercies manifold, O Lord now please To think on these, For they have ever been of old. verse 7 My great transgressions what they be, Nor yet my sins of youth record: In mercy free Remember me, Even for thy goodness sake O Lord. verse 8 The Lord's a good and upright one, To them therefore that go aside, Will he, alone, His ways make known, verse 9 The meek will he in judgement guide. He to the meek will teach his way, verse 10 Lo, all his paths are truth and grace: To such are they As do obey His covenant, and his laws embrace. verse 11 Lord, I beseech thee earnestly, For thy name's sake I thee entreat To pardon my Iniquity. For it is most exceeding great. 2. Part. Argument. He prays for help in affliction, and the like for the Church. verse 12 WHat man is he whom God endues With grace and care the Lord to please, To him God shows To do all for the best. In quiet & contentation. What way to choose verse 13 His soul shall also dwell at ease. His seed shall have inheritance here, verse 14 His secret will the Lord disclose To them most clear, That do him fear: And he to them his covenant shows. verse 15 Mine eyes on God are ever set, In hope and prayer. By whose great help I make no doubt My feet to get Out of the net, Net of affliction For he shall surely pluck them out. verse 16 Turn thee to me compassionate, Affliction hath me overcharged, Behold, my state Is desolate, verse 17 And troubles of my heart enlarged. O bring me out of my distress, verse 18 Behold th' affliction I am in, What painfulness Doth me oppress, And Lord forgive me all my sin. verse 19 Consider my malicious foes, For very many such there be, Rank hatred shows Itself in those, And cruelly they hated me. verse 20 O keep my soul from them that plot, And unto me deliverance send: O let me not Be shamed a jot, For on thy name do I depend. verse 21 Let innocence and uprightness Preserve me, for I trust in thee; Lord grant redress Of all distress, verse 22 That Israel so redeemed may be. PS AL. XXVI. To the 2. French tune. Argument. David's integrity, and love to the ordinances: he avoideth the ungodly way, and unhappy end of the wicked. MY righteous judgement, Lord decide, For I in innocence abide, Still walking just, In God I trust, And therefore sure I shall not slide. verse 2 My heart examine, prove, and try, My secret reins, O Lord descry: verse 3 Thy kind love lies Before mine eyes, And walked in thy truth have I. verse 4 I have not with vain persons sat, For hypocrites I am no mate: verse 5 The multitude Of sinners lewd I verily detest and hate. I do not sit with wicked bands, verse 6 In innocence I wash my hands: Not worshipping thee with a wicked heart as they do. So I no doubt, Will press about The place, whereon thine Altar stands. verse 7 With thankful voice there to declare, And publish all thy wonders rare: Such love did I Continually Unto thy habitation bear. verse 8 O Lord, I love that dwelling place, The house of thy frequented grace. verse 9 My soul join not With sinner's lot, Nor yet my life with bloody race. verse 10 Within whose hand is villainy, Their right hand full of bribery. verse 11 But, as for me, I'll constant be, Walking in my integrity. Redeem me, grant me, Lord, thy grace, verse 12 My foot is in an even place, My affection and conversation is upright. I will record, Thy praise, O Lord, Before the congregations face. PSAL. XXVII. To Martyr's tune. 1. part. Argument. David's care to serve God is his crown and comfort against all adversaries and afflictions. THe Lord's my saving health, and light, Why should I be dismayed? He of my life's the strength and might, Why should I be afraid? verse 2 When as mine enemies and my foes, Most wicked persons all, To eat my flesh, against me rose, They, stumbling, down did fall. verse 3 Tho hosts against me pitch their tents Should fear my heart surprise? No, I will be thus confident Tho wars against me rise. verse 4 One thing of GOD I have desired, Which I will seek for still: That I, till life be quite expired, May dwell in Zions hill. That there, within his house, I may The Lords fair beauty view: Enquiring for the blessed way, Within his Temple true. verse 5 In tabernacles of his grace, He shall securely lock, And hide me in their secret place, And set me on a rock. In his pavilion shall he me In troublous times enclose: His temple's a protection. verse 6 And now my head shall lift up be, Now that God hath put an end to my temptations under Saul, etc. Above my neighbouring foes. I therefore to his tents profess My offerings for to bring: A sacrifice of joyfulness Will I present and sing. Yea, to the LORD sing praise will I, verse 7 Lord hear me, when to thee With earnest voice I call and cry, Have mercy answering me. 2. Part. Argument. The sweet echoes of a gracious heart; the providence of God to the Saints in want of worldly friends. verse 8 WHen as thou saidst, seek ye my face, My heart said unto thee, I'll seek thy face, Lord grant thy grace, verse 9 And hide thee not from me. In anger cast me not away, Nor leave thy servant quite, Forsake me not, thou wast my stay, O God my saving might. verse 10 When parents leave, will God provide: verse 11 To me thy ways disclose, And in a plain path be my guide, Because of all my foes. verse 12 Deliver not to enemies To have their will on me: False witnesses against me rise, That breath out cruelty. verse 13 And surely I had fainted then, But that I hoped to see, Here in the land of living men, GOD'S goodness showed to me. verse 14 Wait on the LORDS assistant Name, Thy heart with courage stay; And he shall fortify the same, Wait on the LORD, I say. PSAL. XXVIII. To York tune. Argument. He prayeth for the Church, and curseth the wicked hypocrites and atheists. O LORD my rock, The Sanctum Sanctorum, where Oracles were delivered. I cry to thee, To me o be not dumb: Lest if to me thou silent be, I like dead men become. verse 2 My supplications audible Hear, A type of heaven, and the Church of God. when I call to thee: When towered thy holy Oracle My hands up-lifted be. verse 3 With wicked doers devoid of grace, O draw me not away: Draw me not to their sin, nor drag me to their judgement. Which speak their neighbours fair to face, But secretly betray. verse 4 Repay their deeds, and handiworks, Endeavours, and deserts: With all their wickedness that lurks In their malicious hearts. verse 5 Since they Gods works did not regard, H●ed not his providence, nor means of grace. Unrecoverable. Nor what his hands fulfilled, Destruction sure is their reward, God shall them never build. verse 6 Blessed be God, because he heard My supplications voice: My hearts repose, and help conferred Which make it much rejoice. verse 7 The LORD'S my strength, my shield, my tower, I'll sing his praise alone: verse 8 The LORD'S their strength, Of all the faithful as well as mine & Saviour Of his anointed one. verse 9 Thine heritage LORD bless and keep, So that it perish never, Nor only keep, but feed thy sheep, And lift them up for ever. PSAL. XXIX. To David's tune. Argument. Potentates exhorted to praise the supreme King, For example of others, etc. for the wonders of nature; and the people of God, for their perpetual protection. YE mighty to the LORD give you Deserved strength and fame▪ verse 2 O give the LORD the glory due To his most facred Name. In beauteous place of holiness, Worship the Lord most high; verse 3 Who doth his powerful voice express In waters of the sky. Thunder in the Clouds. Lord God of glory's thunders fly From elements watery tower: verse 4 Gods voice is full of Majesty, Thunde. 5. God's voice is full of power. verse 5 God thundering voice let fall thereon, Breaks down the Cedars tall: The Lord in thee, o Lebanon, Makes Cedar trees to fall. verse 6 He makes them skip as young calves do, (With tottering earthquakes torn) Mount Lebanon, and Syrion too, Like youngling Unicorn. verse 7 Gods voice doth flames of fire divide, Flashes of lightning. verse 8 The Lord's voice deserts shakes: Yea Kedesh desert, terrified With his dread thunder, quakes. verse 9 God's voice doth through the forests pierce, And hinds to calve compels: To cast calf. And all his house his praise rehearse, Each tongue his glory tells. verse 10 The Lord upon the floods sits King, Ruling the Seas and tempests. Metaph. tyrants. His kingdom shall not cease: verse 11 The Lord will strength to Israel bring, And bless his Church with peace. PSAL. XXX. Dutch tune. Argument. David magnifies Gods everlasting mercies, by his happy recoveries from momentany miseries. LOrd I'll extol thee with my voice, For I'm advanced by thee: Thou hast not made my foes rejoice, Nor triumph over me. verse 2 To thee my God complained I have, Thou Lord hast made me whole: verse 3 And from the all-devouring grave, Grave of destruction. Brought back my gasping ●oul. That I to pit should not go down, Thou savedst my life, O Lord: verse 4 Sing, o ye Saints, the Lords renown, Which is such an argument of his faithfulness and goodness. His holiness record. verse 5 His anger in a moment's past, Life from his favour springs: Tho weeping for a night may last, The morning comfort brings. verse 6 In my prosperity I said, I shall not moved be: verse 7 So strongly was my mountain laid, My kingdom. And favoured so by thee. Thou didst thy face obscure and hide, And trouble did invade: verse 8 Then LORD to thee, to thee I cried, And supplication made. verse 9 What profit is there in my blood, When I to pit go down? Shall from the dust thy praises bud, Shall dust thy truth renown? verse 10 LORD I beseech thee hear me now In that which I have prayed: Have mercy on me, and be thou My all-sufficient aid. verse 11 To joyful dancing thou hast turned My sorrows doleful noise: My sackcloth loosed, wherein I mourned, And girt me round with joys. verse 12 To th' end my tongue may sing thy praise, And never silent be: O Lord my God, through all my days Will I give thanks to thee. PSAL. XXXI. To Oxford tune. Argument. David resigns himself too God. IN thee, o LORD, I put my trust, O put me not to shame: Deliver me, as thou art just, By that most righteous Name. verse 2 O down to me thy quick ear bow, With speed deliverance send: A rock of strength, an house be thou Thy Servant to defend. verse 3 For LORD thou art the rock & tower Whereto I me betake: Then lead and guide me by thy power, O GOD for thy Names sake. verse 4 Pull me from close nets laid for me, In thee my strength doth stand: verse 5 My Spirit I commit to thee, And to no other hand. Lord God of truth, I'm thy redeemed, verse 6 All them have I abhorred, That lying vanities esteemed, Worldlings and Idolaters. But I trust in the LORD. verse 7 I in thy mercies will be glad, Yea, much rejoice in those: For thou hast weighed what cares I had, And known my soul in woes. verse 8 Thou hast not in mine enemy's hand Enclosed me by thy doom: But made my steadfast feet to stand, In large and spacious room. 2. Part. Argument. New persecutions renew his supplications. See 1 Sam. 23. 26, 27. & 24. 1, 2. verse 9 IN mercy send me Lord relief Whom troubles great befall: My mournful eye's consumed with grief, My belly, soul and all. verse 10 My life, my years, my strength, my bones Have all together failed: Consumed and spent with sighs & groans, Of wickedness bewailed. verse 11 I was a scorn to all my foes, And to my friends a fear: And specially reproached by those That were my neighbours near. When seen without, In the desert for fear of incurring Saul's displeasure. they from me fled, verse 12 And I am quite forgot; As men are out of mind when dead, I'm like a broken pot. verse 13 For many slanders have I heard, On every side was fear, While they together have conferred, And all against me were. They thought to take my life away; verse 14 In thee my trust did stand, Thou art my God (I used to say) verse 15 My times are in thy hand. M● lot and affairs. From persecuting foes of mine, And enemies hands me take: verse 16 Thy face let on thy servant shine, Save me for mercy's sake. verse 17 Since LORD, I called upon thy name, From shame thy servant save: Let wicked men be put to shame And silence in the grave. verse 18 These lying lips silence and choke, That with contempt and pride Such grievous things have lewdly spoke, And righteous men belied. 3. Part. Argument. The great happiness of the Saints in this life. verse 19 HOw great thy treasured mercies be For them that fear thy name! How much more in another world. And wrought for them that trust in thee Where men behold the same. verse 20 Thy secret presence from man's pride Shall keep them safe and sure: Thy close pavilion shall them hide From strife of tongues secure. Thy protection. Calumnies and curses. verse 21 The Lord his kindness hath dispensed, To me in wondrous sort; As in a City strongly fenced, His name be blessed for't. verse 22 I said in haste, thou hast cast me Off from before thine eyes: Yet heardst thou when I cried to thee My supplications cries. verse 23 O all ye precious Saints of his, The LORD sincerely love: For every true believer is Preserved from above. He plenteously rewards proud doers: verse 24 Take courage and he shall Confirm that valiant heart of yours, O ye believers all. PSAL. XXXII. To Cambr. old tune. Argument. The free forgiving grace of God, and benefit of penitent confession. O Blessed man is he, Whose sins God passeth by; verse 2 And (covering them) reputes him free From all iniquity. Whose spirit entertains no guile; But confessed, Sees all. verse 3 For while I held my tongue My weary bones waxed old the while, Perplexed, as if my bones were full of ache, as in old age. Through roaring all day long. verse 4 Thine hand on me was burdensome, Each day and night throughout: My natural moisture is become As summer's parching drought. Prov. 17. 22. verse 5 Confessing humbly, than did I My sins to thee reveal; And did not mine iniquity In any point conceal. I said, I will to God confess What all my sins have been: And thou forgav'st the wickedness And guilt of all my sin. verse 6 Hence all good men thy grace shall crave What time thou mayst be found: By my example, 2 Co. 6. ●. Nor rising flood, nor roaring wave, No temptation overcome them. Them ever shall surround. verse 7 And hiding place I have of thee, Thou shalt preserve from wrongs: And round about encompass me With sweet salvations songs. 2. Part. Argument. He proffers to direct Saints and sinners: unhappy they that brutishly reject his counsel. verse 8 I Will direct thee faithfully The way that thou shalt go: And guide thee with my watchful eye That I may teach thee so. Watching if thou take the way as I directed. verse 9 O be not like the horse and mule, By reason nothing led, Whose mouth the bit and bridle rule, Lest they too near thee tread. verse 10 For certainly to men unjust Shall miseries abound. But him that in the Lord doth trust, Shall mercy compass round. verse 11 O all ye righteous men rejoice And in the Lord delight; With joyful shouts lift up your voice All ye whose hearts are right. PSAL. XXXIII. York tune. 1. Part. Argument. The admirable stability of God's works and counsels, in the Trinity of persons. Ye righteous in the LORD rejoice, For praise becomes the Saints. verse 2 Praise God with psaltry, Harp & voice And ten-stringed instruments. verse 3 A new song to the Lord indite, Sing loud and play with skill: verse 4 For lo, the word of God is right, His works all truth fulfil. Accomplish all perfection. verse 5 Justice and Judgement he doth love, His goodness fills all coasts; verse 6 The word of God made heaven above, His Son, joh. 1. 3. And holy Ghost. Gen. 1. 2. From overflowing the earth, job 38. 11. His Spirit all their hosts. verse 7 He watery seas collected keeps, And heaps the billows curled: In storehouses he lays the deeps, O fear him all the world. verse 8 In awe of him let all men stand That dwell from sun to sun: verse 9 For it stood fast at his command, The creation. He spoke, and it was done. verse 10 The counsels which the heathen take, The Lord doth bring to nought: And their device doth fruitless make, What ere the people thought. verse 11 The counsel of the Lord stands sure, And so for ever shall: Th' intentions of his heart endure To generations all. 2. Part. Argument. God's special and common providence, the creatures vanity, and God's All-sufficiency to help in hardest times. verse 12 THat nation's blessed, whose God's the Lord, That people's blessed whom he Hath chosen of his own accord, His heritage to be. verse 13 The Lord looks down from heaven high, Beholding all abroad All mortal man's posterity verse 14 From place of his abode. In all the earth, and all the parts The dwellers he surveys: verse 15 Alike he fashioneth their hearts, Made the soul of one as well as another. And all their works he weighs. verse 16 No numerous host can save a King, Their corporal strength saves none: verse 17 A horse of save's a mere vain thing, His great strength saves not one; verse 18 Behold God's eye towards them set open That him in reverence have. And them that in his mercy's hope, verse 19 Their souls from death to save. To keep alive when death's destroy, verse 20 Our soul waits for the Lord: He is our help, our shield, our joy, verse 21 In whom our hearts accord. Because we have put confidence, In his most holy name: verse 22 The mercy Lord to us dispense, As we hope in the same. PSAL. XXXIV. To Martyr's tune. Argument. David by his own practice and experience, inciteth to praise and trust in God. AT all times I will bless the Lord, Thy praise o Lord of host verse 2 My busy mouth shall still record, My soul in him shall boast. The humble wondrous glad shall be, In hearing of the same: verse 3 O magnify the LORD with me, Let's all exalt his Name. verse 4 I sought the Lord, he gave good ear, And all my terrors dashed: verse 5 They looked to him, inlight'ned were, Nor was their face abashed. verse 6 This poor man cried, Remembers how poor David did and sped. the Lord did hear, And all his troubles end: verse 7 Gods Angels tents are pitched near God's children to defend. verse 8 O taste and see how good God is, Who trusts in him is blest. verse 9 O fear the Lord ye Saints of his, Such shall not be distressed. verse 10 Young Lions shall be hunger-pined, Their food shall be so scant: But they that seek the Lord to find, Not one good thing shall want. 2. Part. Argument. The way to true happiness; with the privileges of the godly, and wickeds misery. verse 11 COme children hearken unto me, Gods fear I teach to you: verse 12 Who longs for life, good things to see, And days desires not few. verse 13 The lying lips where falsehood breeds, And wicked words refrain: verse 14 Depart from evil, do good deeds, Seek peace, and peace maintain. verse 15 Upon the righteous every where, God casts intentive eyes: And opens his attentive ear To their uncessant cries. verse 16 Against workers of iniquity, An angry brow he frames, To cut from earth the memory Of their detested names. verse 17 The righteous cry, the Lord doth hear, And all their troubles ends. verse 18 To broken hearts the Lord is near, And contrite souls defends. verse 19 Great are th' afflictions, which befall The LORDS most holy ones: But God shall help them out of all, verse 20 And keepeth all his bones: Every part and piece of him. Mat. 10. 30. So that not one of them is burst. verse 21 But mischief slays the lewd: Who hate the righteous shall be cursed, And utterly subdued. verse 22 The Lord redeems from captive state His servants souls each one: From hell, sin, and misery. And there shall none be desolate That trust in him alone. PSAL. XXXV. To Oxford tune. Argument. An earnest prayer against Persecutors. LORD plead my righteous cause with those That are with me at strife: O fight against my mortal foes That fight against my life. verse 2 Lay hold of buckler, and of shield, My help stand up unto: verse 3 Draw out the Spear and keep the field Against them that pursue. Say to my soul, I'm thy defence, Let shame their hopes control. verse 4 Confusion be their recompense, That seek to hurt my soul. Let thy fierce hand them backward strike, Confusion may they find verse 5 Who seek my hurt, let them be like The chaff before the wind. Let Gods swift Angel make pursuit, The messenger of vengeance. Close at their heels I say: verse 6 Them let God's Angel persecute In dark and slippery way. verse 7 For causelessly within a pit, A net for me they hid: Even for my soul they digged it, And this they causeless did. verse 8 O let destruction unawares Upon this monster fall: And let him, having hidden snares, Be taken therewithal. Even that destruction LORD decree, That he fall in the same: verse 9 And then my soul shall joyful be In God's almighty Name. And joy in his salvation much, verse 10 And all my threatened bones Shall say, Every vein in my heart, etc. What other God is such Who saves the needy ones? Thou helpest him that stands in need, From foes that are too strong: The poor from spoilers thou hast freed, And wretched men from wrong. 2. Part. Argument. The perfidiousness and ingratitude of the wicked. verse 11 MOst wicked men against me rise, To witness things untrue: And charge me with iniquities, Whereof I nothing knew. verse 12 They did reward my good with ill, My love with hate requite: And sought my souls destruction still, Sought my life. With utmost of their might. verse 13 But I their sickness did condole, In sackcloth fasted, mourned: The prayer of mine afflicted soul. Did me good though not them Some understand zeal & constancy in his prayer. Into my bosom turned. verse 14 I for my foe behaved me, As for my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as he That mourneth for his mother. verse 15 But they rejoiced in my woe, And were together got: Base abjects, when I did not know, They tore me ceasing not. Tore my good name. verse 16 With mocking hypocrites at feasts, They gnashed their teeth at me: verse 17 O Lord how long shall these vile beasts Both seen and suffered be? Destroying Lions o defeat, My darling soul defend: verse 18 I'll praise thee in assemblies great, Where multitudes attend. 3. Part. Argument. He prays against the spitefulness of the wicked here described. verse 19 LEt not my wrongful enemies Lift up their horn on high: Nor let them wink with scornful eyes that hate me causelessly. Wink mockingly. verse 20 Deceitful things they take in hand, Against such men they plot As are most quiet in the land, For peace they utter not. verse 21 Yea they their mouths have oped wide Against me spitefully: Aha, Aha, mine enemies cried, The mischief we wished. We saw it with our eye. verse 22 This thou hast seen, no silence keep, Lord from me be not far: verse 23 Stir up thyself, awake from sleep, And come to Judgement-bar. My Lord my God, move to my cause, verse 24 Judge me o Lord my God, According to thy righteous laws, Nor suff'r it undertrod. verse 25 Nor suffer them in heart to say, Ah, we would have it thus: Nor let them say, he's made a prey, He's swallowed up by us. verse 26 With shame confound them generally, With self-confusion clad: Themselves who'gainst me magnify, And at my hurt are glad. verse 27 Let them be glad, and shout for joy, With my just cause that side: Yea, let them say continually The LORD be magnified. Who joys in's servant's prosperous state; verse 28 And then my grateful tongue Thy righteousness shall celebrate With praises all day long. PSAL. XXXVI. To London short tune. Argument. The vileness of the wicked; the greatness of God's mercies, and the interest of the righteous in him and them together. LEwd men's transgressions great, Unto my heart descries, And makes it clear, That there's no fear Of God before his eyes. verse 2 He to his own conceit Gross flatteries doth propound: Of prosperity and impunity. Cursed of God and man. Until the sin He liveth in An hateful thing be found. verse 3 The words his mouth hath said Are wickedness and theft Good things to do And wisdom too He hath for ever left. verse 4 He mischief on his bed Deviseth to fulfil: He doth delight In ways not right, And he abhors no ill. verse 5 Thy mercy heaven (at least) Thy truth the clouds doth touch: verse 6 As mountains steep, Or swallowing deep, Thy truth and judgement's such. Thou, Lord, sav'st man and beast, verse 7 O God, how excellent things Thy love, thy grace Make mortals place Their trust in thy spread wings. verse 8 Full feasted they shall be With thy sweet houses fat: With the sweet of spiritual comforts, much more with eternal, as full as a river, & thou art the fountain itself. Thy river which Yield pleasures rich, They all shall drink of that. verse 9 The spring of life's with thee: We shall see light in thine. verse 10 Never remove From them thy love That know thy name divine. Thy love and clemency Let th'upright hearted prove: verse 11 No foot of pride Let make me slide, Nor wiekcd hand remove. verse 12 Works of iniquity, Destruction shall surprise: There where we may see it. Lo there they fall, And never shall Be able more to rise. PSAL. XXXVII. To Martyr's tune. Argument. The many and happy privileges of the Saints controlling envy and ingratitude. THy mind for sinners nor disturb, Nor evil doers envy: verse 2 For they like grass and tender herb Are soon cut down and die. verse 3 Trust in the LORD, and put thy hand To actions that are good; Sure supply. So shalt thou dwell within the land, And be assured of food. verse 4 Delight in God abundantly, And he shall condesend Thy hearts desire to satisfy; verse 5 Thy way to God commend. Trust in him, and it shall be done, verse 6 Thy truth shall burnish bright; Sunshine name cleared from scandal in Gods due time. Thy judgement as the noon-tide Sun, Thy righteousness as light. verse 7 Rest in the LORD, with patience stay, Fret not thyself a jot At him that prospers in his way, And speeds his wicked plot. verse 8 Let not rash anger in thee rise, Distemp'ring wrath forsake: Fret not thyself in any wise, In evil to partake verse 9 For evil doers shall be destroyed But earth shall sure afford An heritage by them enjoyed, A standing house and memorial. That wait upon the Lord. verse 10 For lo, the wicked shall be gone Within a little space: Scarce leave a fly blown chronicle. Yea, thou shalt study thereupon, Yet shalt not find his place. verse 11 The lowly shall the earth possess, After the last day, some think. And there they shall delight: And bathe themselves in blissfulness Of peace most infinite. 2. Part. Argument. The impotent malice of the wicked, and precious privileges of the godly. verse 12 THe wicked plots against th'upright, And at him grates his teeth: verse 13 But God shall laugh at all his spite Whose day he coming seeth. verse 14 The wicked have their sword and bow Drawn out and ready bend: The poor and needies overthrow Their mischievous intent. And them that uprightly converse, To slay with cruel stroke: verse 15 But their own hearts their swords shall pierce, Their bows shall all be broke. verse 16 A portion put in godly hands, Though it be small and poor, Is better far than house or lands, Of many a wicked doer. verse 17 The wickeds arms shall all be broke, Their great power crushed. But God's the just man's stay: verse 18 He knows the days of upright folk, Their heritage lasts for ay. At least in the world to come. verse 19 They shall not once ashamed be When evil times betid: And in the day of scarcity, They shall be satisfied. verse 20 But lo, the wicked shall decay, As fat of Lambs consume: Gods enemies shall fade away, And vanish into fume. verse 21 The wicked man on borrowing goes, But cares not to repay: But still the righteous mercy shows, And frankly gives away. verse 22 By such as he pronounceth blest, The earth shall be enjoyed: And such as he doth curse suppressed, And utterly destroyed. 3. Part. Argument. Many remarkable providences towards the godly. verse 23 A Good man's steps the Lord doth guide, Delighting in his way: verse 24 He shall not sink, although he slide, For him God's hand doth stay. verse 25 I have been young, and now am old, Yet to my hoary head, The just forsaken did ne'er behold, Nor HIS seed begging bread. verse 26 He kindly lends to him that needs, His seed is surely blest: verse 27 Depart from evil, do good deeds, And ever dwell in rest. verse 28 The Lord his Saints will not reject, For he in Judgement joys: He will for ever them protect, But wicked seed destroys. verse 29 The righteous shall the earth enjoy, And therein ever dwell: Hereafter, See Rom. 8. 19 verse 30 Because he doth his mouth employ With oracles to tell. His tongue deep judgement doth impart, verse 31 And he doth careful hide His God's commandment in his heart, None of his steps shall slide. verse 32 The wicked wait the just to slay, But to the hand of them verse 33 God will not leave him as a prey, Nor him (when judged) condemn '. 4. Part. Argument. Holiness tends to happiness, wickedness to destruction. verse 34 WAit on the Lord, and keep his ways, And thou (raised by his hand) Shalt see when he the wicked slays, And shalt enjoy the land. verse 35 The wicked I have seen bear sway, And spread like Laurel green: verse 36 Yet suddenly he passed away, And could no more be seen. I sought, but him could no where find, But he of upright ways verse 37 The perfect (if ye mark and mind) In peace he ends his days. verse 38 But them that wilfully offend Together God shall slay: And this shall be the wickeds end To be cut off for ay. verse 39 But righteous men's salvation Of God Almighty is: In times of tribulation He is a rock to his. verse 40 And sure the Lord will help command To aid and keep the just: And save them from the wickeds hand, Because in him they trust. PSAL. XXXVIII. To Oxford tune. Argument. David laments his sickness, sin and sorrow, his bitter enemies and falsehearted friends. ME Lord in wrath do not control Nor scourge in fury fierce: verse 2 Thy heavy hand sinks down my soul, Thine arrows deeply pierce. verse 3 My flesh no soundness hath within, Because thou art displeased: My bones, by reason of my sin, By no means can be eased. verse 4 The load of mine iniquities Which o'er my head doth roll, Even as a heavy burden lies, Too heavy for my soul. verse 5 Because my foolishness was such My wounds corrupted stink: To provoke thee by my sins. verse 6 I am bowed down exceeding much And under troubles sink. I all the day lament afresh, verse 7 Filled with a loathed disease, That leaves no soundness in my flesh, And on my loins doth seize. verse 8 Feeble I am, and broken sore, Disquietness doth grind My woeful heart, and makes me roar, verse 9 LORD, thou knowst all my mind; How penitent, patient, prayerful. My groaning is not hid from thee, verse 10 My grieved heart doth pant: My strength and eyesight faileth me, My eyes their light do want. verse 11 My lovers, friends, and all my kin, Far from my sore retire: verse 12 And they lay snares to take me in, Who against my life conspire. And they that seek to do me wrong Do speak mischievous things: And base deceits, even all day long, Are their imagine. 2. Part. Argument. David's patience and prayer in affliction. verse 13 AS deaf I heard not, and as dumb My lips I never stirred: I seemed not to hear the reproaches of the enemy. verse 14 Thus like a man did I become That doth not hear a word. And in whose mouth is no reproof No answer to my reproehers. verse 15 But LORD in thee I trust: Thou hearest me to my souls behoof, O Lord my God most just. verse 16 For hear me o my Lord, said I, Lest their insulting pride Should them against me magnify, My foot being slipped aside. verse 17 Before me still my sorrows are, Ready I am to halt: Almost lamed wit mischief. verse 18 For my transgressions I'll declare, with sorrow for my fault. Gen. 32. 31. verse 19 But still how lively foes have I? And they are strong beside: But I will try what repentance will do. And they that hate me wrongfully Are greatly multiplied. verse 20 They are mine adversaries too That good with ill repay: Because I carefully pursue A good and godly way. verse 21 O Lord my God forsake me not, Far from me never be: verse 22 My Saviour o defer no jot, But haste to succour me. PSAL. XXXIX. To Cambr. old tune. Argument. David troubled at wicked men's prosperity, answers it with consideration of the vanity and brevity of life. I Will look to my ways, I said Lest with my tongue I fin: My mouth, as with a bridle stayed, Lest I murmur. I'll carefully hold in. While wicked men before me stood, verse 2 As dumb I spoke no word: I held my peace, yea even from good, Then was my sorrow stirred. verse 3 My heart within me waxed hot, Beholding their prosperity, I would rather say nothing, 〈◊〉 good thoughts came in. The passion continued. While musing hereabout: The fire fierce burning ceased not, At last these words burst out. verse 4 Lord make me understand mine end, And days most certain date: That I may fully apprehend The frailty of my state. verse 5 Lo, In comparison of thy Eternity. thou hast made my days a span, Mine age as nothing deemed: Mere vanity is every man, At best estate esteemed. verse 6 Sure each man walks in vainest show, In vain are mortals vexed: He heaps up wealth, and doth not know What gath'rer shall come next. 2. Part. Argument. David exposed to contempt by consuming afflictions, is patient, and prays for respite to improve his short life to the best advantage. verse 7 ANd now o Lord my hope's in thee, All other hopes forborn: verse 8 Forgive my sins, and save thou me From fools reproach and scorn. Murmured not at the affliction which I know came from thee. Leu. 10. 3. verse 9 Lo I was dumb, and nothing spoke, Because the deed was thine: verse 10 O Lord revoke from me thy stroke, Which while I feel I pine. verse 11 When thy rebukes man undergo'th Of sin-chastising pain, It wastes his beauty like a moth, job 13. 28. Sure every man is vain. verse 12 Lord hear my prayer, my cries attend, Not silent at my tears: A sojourner my days I spend, Heb. 11. 13. As all my fathers theirs. Mine is a stranger's residence, verse 13 O spare me Lord, therefore, Restore my strength, ere I go hence, And shall be seen no more. PSAL. XL. To Cambridge old tune. David magnifies God's mercies to himself, and admires the greatness of them to his Church. FOr God I waited patiently, Plunged in a dreadful pit, My cry he heard And did regard, And plucked me out of it. verse 2 He brought me out of miry clay, From the deep dungeon of misery, to azure rock of safety. And to a rock me led, My feet to stay In safer way My steps he established. verse 3 New songs put in my mouth did he, Godly men at least shall learn to fear and trust in God by my example. His praises to record: Many shall see, And fear, by me, And trust upon the Lord. verse 4 Blessed man whose faith and whole repose In God doth firm abide, Regards not the example of Idolaters and unbelievers. And no whit knows The proud, nor those To lies that turn aside. verse 5 O Lord my God how marvellous The works which thou hast wrought? How numerous Are, towards us, The thoughts which thou hast thought? No man can reckon what they are In order unto thee: Would I compare And them declare, They cannot numbered be. PSAL. XL. 2. Part. Argument. The circumcised heart and ear of the Saints: the perfect obedience of Christ, and publication of the Gospel. verse 6 NO sacrifice dost thou desire, Not in comparison of Spirit, or Christ. Nor offering brought thee in: None made by fire Dost thou require, jer. 7. 22. Nor offering brought for sin. Alluding to that, Exod. 21. 6. But thou hast opened mine ear, verse 7 Then said I, lo I come: joh. 5. 39 Thy volumes bear Me witness there, Thy book contains the sum. verse 8 My God, I joy to do thy will, Thy law is in my heart: Where throngs do fill Thy Zions hill, Thy truth will I impart. verse 9 Lo I my lips have not refrained, O Lord thou knowst no less: verse 10 With heart restrained Have not retained Or hid thy righteousness. Act. 20. 27. verse 10 And thy salvation have not I Concealed in any sort: Thy truth nor thy Benignity From all the great resort. verse 11 Withhold not thou o Lord from me Thy tender love therefore: Thy favour free And truth let be My keepers evermore. 3. Part. Argument. David shows the grievous persecution, Herein a type of Christ, and a pattern to us. and gracious preservation of the Saints. verse 12 INnumerable woes enfold, And mine iniquities On me take hold, So uncontrolled, I cannot lift mine eyes. More miseries do my soul assail Then hairs are on my head: They so prevail My heart doth fail, By them discouraged. verse 13 O Lord defend me, Lord so please, My help make haste unto: verse 14 Confusion seize And shame on these That my souls hurt pursue. Who wish me ill, o cause that they With shame repulsed be; verse 15 Destruction pay Their shame, that say, Aha, Aha, to me. verse 16 Let them that seek thee in thee joy, Who thy salvation love Let them reply Continually Extolled be God above. verse 17 A poor and needy wretch am I, Yet not of God forgot: My help and my Assured supply, My God o tarry not. PSAL. XLI. To Camb. old tune. Argument. God's goodness to the poor, and to such as pity them: the hypocrisy and maliciousness of our adversaries. THe man is blest by whom the poor Is duly thought upon: The afflicted and persecuted. The Lord will sure His peace procure. When troublous times come on. verse 2 The Lord will his preserver be, And him alive will save: Great blessings he, Both he that suffers and he that pities him. O Lord, from thee, On earth is sure to have. He shall not be delivered Unto his enemies will: verse 3 But on his bed Be strengthened, When he is weak and ill. God will give him ease, a couch of conten●ment. His bed all made, when sick and sore, verse 4 Be gracious LORD to me, I said therefore, My soul restore, I am a poor sinner needing mercy. For I offended thee. verse 5 Mine enemies speak ill of me, When comes his dying day: And when shall we Survive to see His perished name, say they? verse 6 If visit me, he compliments, His heart itself doth load With vile intents, All which he vents When ere he goes abroad. 2. Part. Argument. The mal●ce of persecutors, and mercies of God. verse 7 MY haters all lie whispering Against my soul combined: Some hurtful thing On me to bring Devise they in their mind. verse 8 An ill disease doth him surprise, And cleaves to him so fast, That now he lies He shall not rise, But breath's, say they, his last. verse 9 Mine own entire, fed, trusted friend, A figure of judas. Disdainful heels did he Against me bend, verse 10 But Lord extend Thy mercy soon to me. And raise me to requite the blow, By justice in a lawful ●. y. verse 11 I have thy favour got, By this I know, Because my foe o'er me triumpheth not. A pledge of my deliverance, and their destruction. verse 12 I am upholden by thy grace In mine integrity: Thou dost me place Before thy face And that perpetually. verse 13 The Lord the God of Israel's name, For ever day by day, And all his fame Let us proclaim, Amen, Amen, I say. PSAL. XLII. To London short tune. David expresses his great desire to the public Ordinances, and delight in the remembrance of them. EVen as the Hart when he For brooks of water pants: So, after thee, My soul in me, When Lord thy presence wants. verse 2 My soul doth thirst for thee, The living GOD most dear: O when shall I Approaching nigh Before the Lord appear? verse 3 My tears my meat have been, Wherewith I sup and dine, Both night and day, While still they say, Where is that God of thine? verse 4 My soul dissolves within, Melts in grief. While I these thoughts renewed, Because that I Had formerly Gone with the multitude. We to God's Temple went With voice of joy and praise, Where there ensued A multitude Observing holy days. Such seasts & Sabbaths as God appointed. verse 5 Why art thou discontent, My soul why dost thou grieve? Why shouldst thou be So moved in me? O still in God believe. Still shall I give him praise For his sweet favours aid: verse 6 But o my God I'm undertrod, My soul in me's dismayed. Wherhfore, in these sad days, Remember thee I will From Hermon and Swift Jordan's land, To think of them in these places of banishment, will comfort me. And Missars little hill. 2. Part. Argument. David in deep affliction encourageth his soul in God. verse 7 THy water-spouts and deeps Each other do invite: Thy waves and all Thy billows fall, And overwhelm me quite. verse 8 He loving kindness keeps, Songs of his experienced power and goodness. Remembered still by day: His song shall be By night with me, To God my life I'll pray. verse 9 I'll say to God, My rock, Why hast forgot me so? And why go I So heavily Oppressed by my foe? verse 10 My foes reproachful mock Doth pierce my heart like swords: While, where is thy Good God, they cry, And daily use such words. verse 11 O why dost thou permit These sorrows to depress, O why, my soul, Dost thou condole With such unquietness? Hope thou in God, even yet His praise shall I record, Who doth advance My countenance, And is my gracious Lord. PSAL. XLIII. To Oxford tune. David longeth after the Ordinances, and encourageth his soul in God. Judge me o Lord, and plead my cause, Against th'ungodly train: From subtle tyrants greedy jaws My righteous soul sustain. verse 2 For of my strength thou art the God, Why do I mourning go: Cast off by thee, and undertrod By my imperious foe? verse 3 O send out light and truth divine, To lead and bring me near Unto that holy hill of thine, And tabernacles there. verse 4 Then to thine Altar I will press Of God my wondrous joy: O God my God, thy Name to bless My harp I will employ. verse 5 Why art thou then disquieted Within me o my soul? Why art thou thus discouraged? Let faith thy fears control. And hope in God thy help to be, Whom I shall still applaud: My countenances health is he, Makes me hold up my head with comfort. And my most gracious God. PSAL. XLIV. Old England tune. He sets out God's ancient mercies to the Church, renouncing all confidence in themselves. O God our fathers have us told, We heard it with our ears: What works thou didst in times of old, In those rare days of theirs. verse 2 How heathen people by thy hand, Quite dispossessed were: Afflicted and expelled the land, To plant our fathers there. verse 3 With their own sword they never got Possession of the land: Their own puissance saved them not, But thy right arm and hand. This from thy lightsome countenance, Much favouring them, did spring: verse 4 To Jacob grant deliverance, O God that art my King. verse 5 We will push down our enemies, Through thy great Name O God: And all that up against us rise, Shall thus be undertrod. verse 6 For sure my trust shall not be placed In sword's defence nor bows: verse 7 But thou our haters hast disgraced, And saved us from our foes. 2. Part. Argument. Former mercies aggravate present miseries. verse 8 IN God we all day long will boast, And daily praise thy Name: verse 9 But now thou goest not with our host, But casts us off with shame. verse 10 Thou mak'st us from the slaughtering foe Faint-hearted to retire: And they that hate us spoil us so Even as themselves desire. verse 11 Thou gavest us into their hands, As sheep ordained for food: And scattered us in all the lands, Among a heathenish brood. verse 12 Thy people thou dost sell for nought, 'tis but a vile price they are sold for. And lo, thou didst not add Nor yet increase thy substance ought By price for Israel had. verse 13 Our neighbours with reproachful mocks And scornful taunt flout: We are become as laughingstocks To dwellers round about. verse 14 Thou makest us a byword here Among the heathen spread: Among the people everywhere A shaking of the head. verse 15 Lo my confusion through disgrace Before me still I see: The shame of my abashed face Hath also covered me. Makes me blush and hang down my head. verse 16 For his voice sake that doth rehearse Such blasphemies and taunts: By reason of th' avenger fierce And adversaries vaunts. 3. Part. Argument. The constancy and integrity of the Church in persecution. verse 17 THis storm of trouble have we felt, Yet have not thee forgot: Nor in thy Covenant falsely dealt, verse 18 Our hearts diverting not: Nor from thy ways our steps have strayed, verse 19 Though thou hast broke us sore In Dragon's dens, and deaths dark shade, Where we are covered o'er. verse 20 If our Gods Name we have forgot, To strange gods reared our hands, verse 21 God shall discov'r it, shall he not? Our thoughts that understands. verse 22 We all day long are killed and slain, Even for thy dear Names sake: As sheep for slaughter we are ta'en, verse 23 Why sleepest thou? Lord awake. Cast us not off for evermore, verse 24 Arise, why hidest thy face? Forgetting our afflictions sore, And our distressed case. verse 25 For down to dust our soul is trod, On earth as worms we craul: verse 26 For thy sweet mercy's sake, o God, Rise, help, redeem us all. PSAL. XLV. To Coventry tune. The perfections and prerogatives of Christ Jesus, set forth in a type of Solomon. MY studious heart contemplating, Good matter doth indite: I of the King Composed a thing Which here I will recite. A Poem, a bride-song. My tongue is as a Writers pen, Forward to utter thy praises. Spiritual beauty. To frequent writing used: verse 2 O fairer than The sons of men, Thy lips have grace infused. joh. 7. 46. God therefore hath thee ever blest, Exercise O Christ, thy martial and princely power, convince, convert, etc. Magnanimity mixed with meekness. verse 3 Thy sword gird on thy thigh: And be thou dressed O mightiest With state and majesty. verse 4 Ride on in this thy majesty With prosperous success: Because of thy Humility, Thy truth and righteousness. And thy right hand shall teach thee things, Thy success shall be glorious. Even rare and dreadful arts: verse 5 Thy shafts keen stings Shall wound the King's Proud adversaries hearts. Whereby thy foes are undertrod. verse 6 For ever lasts thy throne: Thy ruling rod Even thine o God, It is a righteous one. verse 7 Thy soul loves truth, and lewdness hates, Oil of the Spirit making joyful in God. And God thy God therefore Thee consecrates Above thy mates With oil of gladness store. Above Moses Melchisede●, etc. and the best Saints. Thy adorning sweet smelling gifts and graces come from heaven, typed by Solomon's ivory palace. verse 8 Out of the Ivory palaces With fragrant garments clad: Myrrh, Alôes, And Cassia please, Whereby they make thee glad. verse 9 Among the noble female band, King's daughters were enrolled: At thy right hand The Queen did stand In purest Ophir gold. Kingdoms and Provinces added to the Jewish Church. 2. Part. Argument. The happy calling, and manifold privileges of the Church in type of Solomon's Queen. verse 10 Harken o daughter, bow thine ear, Consider and incline: Forget what were Thy people there, Forget carnal affections. And father's house of thine. verse 11 Then shall the King's affections stream, Desire thy beauty trim: The Church's obedience is her beauty. For he must reign Thy Lord supreme, And thou must worship him. verse 12 With gifts among them shall resort, Gentiles be Proselytes. Thy daughter there, o Tyre; The richer sort, There craying for't, Thy favour shall desire. verse 13 The daughter of this royal line Within for to behold, Spiritual beauty. Doth with divine Resplendence shine, 1 Pet. 3. 4. Her clothing all wrought gold. verse 14 Be brought unto the King shall she In needlework arrayed: At last day in robes of righteousness Ephes. 5. 27. Additionall Churches. And unto thee Her train shall be, And virgin-mates conveyed. verse 15 With nuptial joys and festival, They shall these Ladies bring: Where met, they shall Have entrance all To th' Palace of the King. Mat. 25. 10. verse 16 Thy fathers, for succession sake, Succession of the Church, and some famous instruments. Shall leave a fruitful birth; Whom thou may'st take And Princes make In all the Christian earth. verse 17 To ages all I'll keep in store, Remembrance of thy Name: This Psalm shall ever honour Christ. Thy praise therefore For evermore Shall all the earth proclaim. PSAL. XLVI. To Dutch tune. The siege of Jerusalem is raised; the Church triumpheth in God. It's thought that of Senacherib. GOD is our strength and present aid, 2. Chr. 32. 21. Our refuge in our need: verse 2 Therefore we will not be afraid, Nor tottering earthquakes heed. verse 3 Tho midst of Seas huge hills be hurled, Tho troubled waters roar: And swellings of the billows curled, Make mountains tremble sore. verse 4 A river there with crystal stream, Siloh runs still for all their threats and brags. Shall glad that City of his: The sacred tents of God supreme: verse 5 The Lord amidst her is; 2. King. 18. 27. 19 24. Right early God shall help her there, She shall not once be moved: Much more the spiritual springs. verse 6 The heathen Kingdoms moved were, And most outrageous proved. He uttering then that voice of his, 2 King. 19 35 Made th'earth to melt away: verse 7 The Lord of hosts with Israel is, And jacob's God our stay. verse 8 Come, see God's works, whose powerful hand The earth hath desolate made: verse 9 He ceaseth wars in every Land, He breaks the desperate blade. He fires the Chariot, breaks the bow; verse 10 Be still and know, saith he, That I am God on earth below, And there extolled will be: Among the heathens magnified Shall be my glorious power. verse 11 The Lord of hosts is on our side, And jacob's God our Tower. PSAL. XLVII. To Martyr's tune. The happy calling of the Jews and Gentiles; Figuring Christ's ascension, and the glorious state of the Church. the triumphant carrying up of the Ark. 1 King. 8. 4. CLap hands ye people generally, With voice of triumph glad: verse 2 Shout to the Lord, that is most high, And greatly to be dread. o'er all the earth a mighty King: verse 3 He shall subdue the lands: Subject the Gentiles to our faith. And people in subjection bring, To Israel's commands. As he chose us and provided for us, so he shall bring in the rest with us. verse 4 Our heritage shall God select, The portion fair set out Of Jacob whom he did affect: verse 5 The Lord's gone up with shout. joh. 10. 16. The Lord's gone up with trumpets sound, To God due praises sing: verse 6 Sing praises, o sing praises round, Sing praises to our King. verse 7 Of all the earth God's King alone, Sing praise with knowledge then: verse 8 God sits upon his holy throne, Reigns o'er the heathen men. verse 9 The people's Princes hither throng, The Governors owe duty to God. People of abraham's God: The shields of th'earth to God belong, Exalted all abroad. PSAL. XLVIII. To old England tune. To siege of Jerusalem is raised; In token of the spiritual beauty of the Church. He praiseth the beautiful structure thereof. GReat is the LORD, his praise no less: For so must we record, In mountain of his holiness, And City of our Lord. verse 2 Mount Zion is a beauteous thing, Zion where the Temple was built, was on the Southside Jerusalem. And on her Northern side The City of the mighty King, The whole earth's joy and pride. verse 3 The LORD within her palace there, Is known a refuge nigh: verse 4 For lo, the Kings assembled were, The Princes of Senacherib and others. Together they past-by. verse 5 They saw it, and they marvailed, And troubled sore they were: 2 Kin. 19 36. verse 6 They hasted thence, for fear and dread, 2 Chr. 20. 2. Which seized upon them there. As child bed-pains take womankind, So sorely pained were they: verse 7 Thou breakest with an Eastern wind The Tarsean ships at Sea. It was a shipwreck like defeat, full of fear and confusion. verse 8 I'th' City of this King of powers, We saw as we were told: The City of this God of ours, Tarshish a City famous fo● shipping. We have seen proved what we heard promised, and prayed for in the Temple. God ever shall uphold. verse 9 We thought on thy compassions (Lord) Amidst thy Temples frame: verse 10 All ends of earth thy praise record, According to thy Name. Thy right hand's full of righteousness, Lord, let thy Judgements voice Make Judah's daughters joy express, And Zion hill rejoice. verse 12 Walk round about and Zion view, Her stately turrets tell: verse 13 Her palaces consider you, And mark her bulwarks well. That so to all posterity, It may be testified, verse 14 This God, our God perpetually, Till death will be our guide. PSAL. XLIX. To pause tune. The vanity of worldling's prosperity, though a riddle to the world itself. ALL people hear With careful ear The thing which I shall tell: Ye great and small, Rich, poor, and all verse 2 Throughout the earth that dwell. verse 3 My mouth (behold) Shall now unfold The wisdom of the wise: My studious heart In sacred art Itself shall exercise. verse 4 Yea I will mine Own ears incline This parable to mark: With sweet harp sing, While opening My parable so dark. verse 5 Why should the day Of grief dismay: When as my conscience feels Itself hemmed in With all the sin Of mine offending neels? Of my misdeeds and evil ways; or of my close persecutors. verse 6 Concerning those That trust repose In wealth-replenished bags: And, having more Abundant store, Of riches make their brags. verse 7 There's not a man Of them that can His brother's life redeem: Much less his soul. Nor for him may A ransom pay Sufficient in esteem. verse 8 For that's of too Great price to do, And so much cease for ever: verse 9 That always he Alive should be, And see corruption never. verse 10 He doth perceive All die and leave To others their estate: The fool, the wise, And brutish dies; For death's the common gate. 2. Part. Argument. The misery of worldlings in death and judgement, wherein the godly have pre-eminence. verse 11 THey think that all Their houses shall Be set for ever fast: Their dwelling place From race to race As they believe shall last. Their mansions all These worldlings call By their appropriate name: verse 12 Yet man set high In dignity Abides not in the same. Like beasts, a thing Soon perishing, verse 13 This is their foolish way, Yet are they by Posterity Approved in all they say. verse 14 Like sheep in fold The grave doth hold, Pale death shall them devour: And upright men Shall surely then Have over them the power. At the resurrection when the night of death is past. When mornings light Concludes this night: And all their beauty brave, Shall death expel From whence they dwell, To perish in the grave. verse 15 But God will sure My soul secure, When I this earth shall leave: Which shall recompense my lying in the grave. On me the grave No power shall have, For he shall me receive. verse 16 When riches shall To worldlings fall, Be not discouraged then: When flattering fame Exalts the name And house of worldly men. verse 17 Who, once by death Deprived of breath, Shall no possession have: His pomp shall end, And not descend With him into the grave. verse 18 Tho till he died He magnified His soul for worldly pelf: And worldly men Will praise thee then When thou befriends thyself. verse 19 Well, he shall go To th'place below, The grave and hell. To which his father's old, When they were dead, Were gathered, And never light behold. verse 20 Man being high In dignity Yet understanding not, In his decease Is like the beasts Which quickly die and rot. PSAL. L. To Martyr's tune. God (as at the great Judgement) condemns mere formal service, wherewith hypocrites please themselves. THe mighty God the LORD spoke out, And gave the earth a call: From Sun's uprising, round about To his far-distant fall. verse 2 From beautiful perfections rare, Gloriously, as coming from that holy & glorious place. 1 King. 8. 11. From Zion God hath shined: verse 3 Our God shall come, and shall not spare To utter all his mind. A flame of fire devouring quick Shall go before his face: Tempestuous storms shall gather thick Before his Judgement place. verse 4 To heaven he from above shall call His people's Judge to be: Heaven and earth shall be witness. verse 5 Thus summoning the earth withal, Gather my Saints to me; Those that with me in Covenant are, Professors by all the seals of my Covenant. By sacrifice each one: verse 6 And heaven his justice shall declare, For God is Judge alone: verse 7 Hear me o people called mine, To Israel speak will I, I that am God, For thinking the outward Ceremony enough. that God of thine, Against thee testify. verse 8 Burnt-offrings or for sacrifice I will not Israel blame: To have them still before mine eyes, I do not mind the same. verse 9 I'll take ne he-goats from thy folds, Nor bullocks from thy stall: verse 10 For every beast the Forest holds, Mine own I justly call. A thousand hills my cattle feed, All mine, I say, not thine: verse 11 I know all fowls the mountains breed, The fields wild beasts are mine. verse 12 If any hunger I sustained, I would not tell it thee: The world and all therein contained, Pertains alone to me. 2. Part. Argument. God promiseth to hear and help the truly grateful and godly, but rejecteth and threateneth wicked professors. verse 13 WIll I eat flesh of Bulls or Cows, Or drink goats blood will I? verse 14 Give God his praise, and pay thy vows To him that is most high. verse 15 Then in thy trouble call on me, And promise of me claim: And I will sure deliver thee, And thou shalt praise my Name. verse 16 But as for them that wicked are, Them God will say unto: My Statutes why dost thou declare, What hast thou there to do? My Covenant should thy mouth relate? verse 17 Since thee I always find Instruction to detest and hate, And cast my words behind. verse 18 Thou saw'st a thief, and didst consent To th'practise of his sin: And with the loose incontinent, Thou hast partaker been. verse 19 Thou from no ill thy mouth refrain'st, Thy tongue doth mischief frame: verse 20 Thou sittest secure and speakest against Thy brother's honest name. Thou dost reproach with slanders vile, Even thine own mother's son: verse 21 And I kept silence all the while, That thou these things hast done. Just like thyself didst thou suppose Me also to have been: But I'll reprove thee, and disclose In order, all thy sin. verse 22 Consider this all ye that have Th'avengeful God forgot: That I (when there is none to save) In pieces tear you not. verse 23 He that presents me with due praise, Shall glorify me so: To him that orders well his ways, Will God salvation show. PSAL. LI. To sinner's tune. David bitterly laments his sin, His adultery & murder 2 Sam. 11. and sues for pardon and peace of conscience. HAve mercy LORD, and pity take, On me in my distress: For thine abundant mercy sake, Blot out my wickedness. verse 2 O wash me clean from filthiness, And separate sin from me: verse 3 For my transgressions I confess, My sin I always see. As a ghost in my sight. As the only punisher or pardoner, Oh what a majesty have I offended? verse 4 Against thee LORD, and only thee, Did I my sins commit: That, when thou speakest and judgest me, Thou mightst be clear and quit. I did this evil in thy sight: Whereby o Lord thou shalt Be said to pass thy judgement right, And I in all the fault. verse 5 My shape is sin LORD thou dost see, Original corruption aggravates, and so doth grace received. For I am formed therein: My mother hath conceived me, Even in the heat of sin. verse 6 Lo, thou requirest truth sincere, In every inward part: Thou mad'st me to know wisdom there, In secret of my heart. verse 7 Purge me with hyssop, With the blood of Christ, signified by it. and I know, I shall be clean and free: And whiter than the driven snow, If also washed by thee. Exod. 12. 22. verse 8 Oh then let joy and gladness speak, And make me hear their voice: That so the bones which thou didst break, May feelingly rejoice. 2. Part. Argument. David prays for renewing grace, As unable to recover of himself. and for the Church which he had scandalised. verse 9 LOrd hide thine eyes from all my sin, And my misdeeds deface: verse 10 O God make clean my heart within, Renew my mind with grace. verse 11 O cast me not away from thee, (Thy presence shunning mine) Nor ever take away from me, That holy Spirit of thine. verse 12 The joys of thy salvation LORD, Restore to me again: And thy free Spirit to me afford, My soul for to sustain. verse 13 And to transgressors I will teach, Thy ways to penitent men: By publishing this Psalm of my fall, and thy favour. And sinners (unto whom I preach) Shall be converted then. verse 14 From guilt of bloodshed quit me Lord, Thou God and Saviour mine: Then shall my song aloud record Thy righteousness divine. verse 15 Unlock my lips, and then my task. Shall be thy praise to show: verse 16 For sacrifice thou dost not ask, Which else I would bestow. Burnt-offring is not thy delight, But other sacrifice: verse 17 A broken heart, a soul contrite, Thou wilt not Lord despise. verse 18 Of thy good pleasure Zion bless, Build up Jerus'lems' wall: verse 19 Pure sacrifice of righteousness, Thou shalt be pleased withal. Burnt offerings then, and those entire, In sacrifice shall they: With Bullocks (fit for holy fire) Upon thine Altars lay. PSAL. LII. To pause tune. David condemns all treacherous time-servers and malicious persecutors of the godly, By occasion of Saul and Doeg. 1 Sam. 21. who shall surely flourish, while these perish utterly. WHy dost thou boast Of mischief most, O man of mighty power? God's goodness will Continue still, Even every day and hour. verse 2 Thou dost incline That tongue of thine To practise mischiefs great: Yea it hath been A razor keen In working of deceit. verse 3 Thou far above Good things dost love Ill ways to entertain: And righteousness Thou lovest less Then for to lie and fain. verse 4 Deceitful tongue Thou lov'st all wrong And words that do devour. verse 5 God shall therefore For evermore Destroy thee by his power. He shall, I say, Take thee away From place where thou dost dwell: With vengeful hand Thee from the land Of living souls expel. verse 6 The righteous there Shall see and fear, And, laughing at him, say, verse 7 Lo this is he That could not see To make the Lord his stay. But, for defence, Put confidence In heaps of worldly pelf: In getting wealth and preferment by wickedness. And in the sin He lived in Encouraged himself. verse 8 Like th'Olive green Shall I be seen To have a flourishing place, I shall flourish specially in my soul. In God's house still, And ever will Betrust me to his grace. verse 9 For ever I Will magnify, And on thy Name attend: Since thou didst bring To pass the thing, Their destruction and my deliverance. And Saints thy Name commend. PSAL. LIII. London long tune. The corruption of mankind, full of persecution and profaneness; a prayer for deliverance. THere is no God, the fool doth say, At least his heart saith so: Corrupt are they, and vile their way, And all good works forgo. verse 2 The sons of men th'almighty viewed, From heaven to descry: If any of them understood, Or sought God faithfully. verse 3 But quite corrupt and far declined, Is every mother's son: None, no not one doth virtue mind, Nor one good action's done. verse 4 Are all so brutishly misled, That wicked ways have trod: To eat my people like to bread, And have not called on God. verse 5 They feared where was no cause of dread, Prov. 28. 1. No marvel, for sometimes God hath torn them in pieces that sought the ruin of the Church. To fright those guilty ones: For God hath piece-meal scattered, Thy strong befiegers bones. Because the LORD did them despise, Thou putst them to disgrace: verse 6 O that to Israel might arise From Zion, saving grace. The Lord from thraldoms cruel yoke, His people setting free: Shall jacob's heart to joy provoke, And Israel glad shall be. PSAL. LIV. Cambridge old tune. A complaint of treacherous adversaries. LOrd save me by thy mighty Name, Me by thy strength defend: verse 2 O hear the humble prayer I frame, And these my suits attend. verse 3 For strangers do against me rise, As barbarous as heathen. Oppressors seek my soul: They set not God before their eyes, Their actions to control. verse 4 Lo, Take their part that take mine. God's my help, the Lord's with those That do my soul maintain: verse 5 Their evil to mine envious foes, He shall repay again. Destroy them in thy righteousness, verse 6 And freely I'll accord, With sacrifice thy Name to bless, For it is good o Lord. verse 7 For he hath me delivered, From all perplexing woes: Mine eye hath seen accomplished His will upon my foes. PSAL. LV. Oxford tune. David dangerously beset, Being in Keilah. and in grievous perplexity, wishes opportunity of flight. O God unto my prayer give ear, Hide not thy face from me: verse 2 My supplications deign to hear, Attending what they be. In my complaint I cry aloud, A mournful noise I make: verse 3 Because the adversary proud So insolently spoke. Because of lewd men's tyranny, Wherewith I am oppressed: Threap it upon me tho guiltless. Who charge me with iniquity, And me in wrath detest. verse 4 Sore pained is my heart in me, Death's terrors on me fall: verse 5 Trembling and fear accompany, They come upon me all. And horror hath overwhelmed me quite: verse 6 Oh that I had Doves wings, That I might take to sudden flight, And rest from these sad things. verse 7 Then would I wander wide and stay Ith' Wilderness behind: verse 8 I'd hasten my escape away, From tempest, storm, and wind. 2. Part. Argument. The base perfidiousness of the wicked. verse 9 DEstroy o Lord, Set them at odds, to their destruction in Keilah, & let them not agree about betraying me. divide their tongues, For I have seen how rife, And how the bloody City throngs With violence and strife. verse 10 Both night and day they do surround The very walls of it: Mischief and sorrow there are found, Amidst the same to sit. verse 11 In midst thereof is lewdness vile, That with the mischief meets: Most base deceit and crafty guile, Depart not from her streets. verse 12 For had a foe these taunts began, I could the same have born: Or had my hater been the man, Who against me lift his horn, Then I from him my head would hide: verse 13 But it was thou a man; Yea mine acquaintance, equal guide, This tragedy began. verse 14 We did consult with sweet content, In most familiar kind: And to the house of God we went In unity combined. 3. Part. Argument. Prayer prevails against persecutors; provision and protection promised to the godly. verse 15 LEt death seize on them speedily, And send them quick to hell: For there is all iniquity, Among them where they dwell. verse 16 But as for me on God I'll call, Defended by his might: verse 17 I'll pray, and cry aloud withal, At morning, noon, and night. The LORD shall hear me when I pray, verse 18 For he preserved me whole, From battle marshaled in array, And bend against my soul. For there was many a one with me, Angels, or companions with me delivered. verse 19 The LORD will surely hear: He that abides of old, even he, And it shall cost them dear. Since they no sudden changes see, No bad success. Saul did so. They fear not the most high: verse 20 He hath laid hands on such as be With him at unity. He broke the Covenant on his part. 1 Sam. 19 6. verse 21 His words did fairly sooth: While cruel war possessed his heart, No butter was so smooth: His speeches were more soft than oil, Yet pierced like swords drawn out: verse 22 O cast on God thy careful toil, He shall provide, no doubt. The righteous to be undertrod, He never will permit: verse 23 But thou wilt bring them down, o God, Into destruction's pit. To bloody and deceitful ways, Who ere addicted be, Shall not continue half their days: But I will trust in thee. PSAL. LVI. London short tune. David maketh God his refuge, showing the cruelty and subtlety of his adversaries. HAve mercy LORD on me, Whom man would make a prey, Behold how he Oppresseth me, Contending every day. verse 2 They that mine enemies be, Would daily me devour: For infinite Against me fight, O thou of highest power. verse 3 What time I am afraid, Lo, I will trust in thee: verse 4 His word will I Still magnify In God enabling me. Commend the faithfulness of his promises. In God's assured aid I have reposed my trust: I fear not you What ye can do That are but mortal dust. verse 5 My words they utter wrong, And every day they wrest: Their thoughts are still To work me ill, What ever they suggest. verse 6 Lo, they together throng, Themselves they closely hide, When as they watch My soul to catch, They mark me every stride. 2. Part. Argument. The sins of the wicked, and sufferings of the Saints, are for our comfort, and their confusion. verse 7 SCape they by sins of theirs? Persecutions causing me to flee and flit from place to place. Nay, rather let them fall: In angry frown By thee cast down. verse 8 Thou tell'st my wander all. Yea, thou keepest a Register of them. Be repulsed by my prayers. O bottle up my tears, These in thy book are plain: verse 9 I know, when I To thee shall cry, My foes shall turn again. For God is on my side: verse 10 In Gods most holy Name; By God's grace I will praise the certainty of his promises. His word will I Still magnify In God I'll praise the same. verse 11 On God have I relied, I will not fear for aught That ever can By mortal man Against my soul be wrought. verse 12 Thy vows are on me LORD, I'll render praise to thee: verse 13 Since thou didst save My soul from grave, Deadly dangers. When death arrested me. O wilt not thou accord To keep my feet upright? From falling into sin or sorrow. To walk with grace Before thy face With them that live in light. PSAL. LVII. To Dutch bass tune. David makes God his refuge in great dangers. O Lord vouchsafe, vouchsafe thy grace, Be merciful to me: For my distressed soul doth place Her confidence in thee. Yea to the shadow of thy wings, I will for refuge fly: Until these lamentable things Be passed quietly. verse 2 I'll cry to God with earnest breath, Even unto God most high, Who faithfully accomplisheth My competent supply. verse 3 From heaven shall Jehovah send, And, by his mighty power, From their reproach my soul defend, That would the same devour. God shall send forth his truth and grace, verse 4 I lodge in Lion's den; My soul is prisoner in a place Among enraged men. Setting Saul on, 1 Sam. 24. 9 I lodge with men whose teeth are spears, And arrows are their words; And those envenomed tongues of theirs, Are like to sharpened swords. 2. Part. Argument. David extends his thanksgivings for deliverance to the coasts of the Gentiles. So prophesying of the Gospel to be heard there. verse 5 O God let thy exalted Name, Above the heavens stand: Advance thy glory, raise thy fame Above both sea and land. verse 6 They laid a net, they digged a ditch, My soul to take and drown: Within the very midst of which, Themselves are fallen down. verse 7 My heart is fixed, o God my heart Is fixed upon the thing: I'll praise thy Name with all my art. verse 8 My glory wake and sing. Awake my Harp and Psaltery, My tongue. Myself will early wake: verse 9 Among the people LORD will I Thy praises undertake. And by my song shalt thou be praised Among the heathenish crowds: verse 10 Thy mercy is to heaven raised, Thy truth doth reach the clouds. verse 11 O God let thy exalted Name, More high than heaven stand: Advance thy glory, rear thy fame Above the sea and land. PSAL. LVIII. Martyr's tune. He inveigheth against ungodly Governors and great ones; showing their corruption, obstinacy, and utter destruction. DO ye O Congregation Speak righteousness indeed? O humane generation Do ye with truth proceed? verse 2 Yea, Isa. 48. 8. Enchanters ticed the adder out of her hole by a voice or tune to kill them, but some were so crafty, as to stop one ear with the tail, and the other with the ground, lest the enchantment should 'tice her out. ye in heart work wickedness, Ye tyrannize on earth: verse 3 Prove are the wicked to digress, Estranged even from their birth. As soon as they be born they err, By lies they go astray: verse 4 Such as a Serpent hath in her, Such poisonous breath have they. Deaf Adder-like, that as she lies, Stops close her wilful ear, verse 5 That charm the charmer ne'er so wise, His voice she will not hear. verse 6 O let the eager tusk, that hangs Each side their mouth, be burst: Break out o God the cruel fangs, Of these young Lions cursed. verse 7 Melt them, as running waters flow, Make them as weak as water. And when the tyrant heeds, To shoot his shafts from bended bow, Be they as broken reeds. verse 8 So let them pass away on earth, As snails to slime do run: A snail out ●f her shell. Or like a woman's timeless birth, And never see the Sun. verse 9 Before they feel your thorns to prick, Heb. Before they (i. e. the godly) feel your thorns pricky, he (i. e. God) shall blast both the quick and burned (i. e. dead thorn.) The Lord shall them disperse: The dead and dry, the keen and quick, As with a whirlwind fierce. verse 10 The just shall see the vengeance then, Rejoicing much to see't: And in the blood of wicked men, Victorious wash his feet. verse 11 Sure righteous men reap virtues fruits, Men shall acknowledge so: Sure he is God that executes Just judgement here below. PSAL. LIX. To new staff tune. A prayer against persecutors, describing their villainous and ravenous dispositions. FRom all my cruel enemies, My God deliver me: From them that do against me rise, My strong defender be. verse 2 Me from the lewd Vain multitude, And bloody men defend: verse 3 For lo they lie In secrecy My soul to apprehend. The mighty men, with one accord, Against me do combine: Yet not for my transgression LORD, Nor any sin of mine. verse 4 They have begun, Prepared, to run In haste, without my fault: Awake, and see, And succour me Against their fierce assault. verse 5 Thou therefore Israel's righteous God, The sovereign LORD of hosts, Awake and visit with thy rod, Even all the heathen coasts. Such as are implacable, and incorrigible. Transgressor's lewd Do thou exclude From pardon and from pity: verse 6 Returned in dark, Like dogs they bark, And go about the City. verse 7 Lo, in their lips are sharpened swords, Their mouths belch out their pride: For who, say they, shall hear our words? verse 8 But thou shalt them deride. The heathen born Thou LORD shalt scorn. verse 9 On thee will I attend, Because of thine Own strength divine, For God shall me defend. 2. Part. Argument. Prayers and praises returned for deliverance from persecution. verse 10 MY gracious God shall me prevent, With his compassions free: Upon my foes my hearts content, The LORD shall let me see. verse 11 Suppress them quite, And by thy might Disperse, but slay them not: Some think it a prophecy of the dispersed unbelieving Jews. O LORD our shield Some sign to yield That may not be forgot. verse 12 For sinful words which mouths profane, And cursing lips let slide, And for their lies let them be ta'en, Yea, even in their pride. verse 13 In angry fume My foes consume, That none of them remain: None remain in honour or happiness. That every land May understand Great jacob's God to reign. verse 14 Let them return at evening tide, Since they raven like dogs, let them speed no better, let them be empty, etc. As howling dogs are wont: And round about on every side, In every corner hunt. verse 15 Where wand'ring wide Unsatisfied For meat let them repine: verse 16 But lo my tongue Shall sing a song To praise thy power divine. Yea, in the morning I'll begin, Of thine affection deer, To sing aloud, for thou hast been My sole Protector here. Thou wast my stay In dangerous day, verse 17 To thee my strength I'll sing: God's my defence And rock from when My mercy hath her spring. PSAL. LX. To Old England tune. David remembers the sad desertions of the Church, Meditate of the advanced kingdom of Christ thus typed. prays for better success, and for the advancement and enlargement of his Kingdom. O God thou didst thy people leave, And then were we dispersed: Displeasure great thou didst conceive, The land feels the sad effects of war to this day. Thy wrath let be reversed. verse 2 The earth by thy fierce handling quakes, Yea, thou the same hast broke: O heal her breaches, A more bitter cup of affliction, but of late appear great tokens o● thy love to witness the truth of thy promises; proceed Lord to prosper David, to conquer the remotest places. for it shakes, By such thy dreadful stroke. verse 3 Things which most bitter we did think, Thou on thy folk didst bring: And mad'st thy woeful people drink, A wine astonishing. verse 4 Thou on thy people fearing thee, A banner hast bestowed, Because of truth and verity, To be displayed abroad. verse 5 Now Lord that thy beloved King, Delivered may be: Let thy right hand assistance bring, And kindly answer me. verse 6 In holiness Jehovah spoke, I therefore make no doubt, But Shechem to divide and take, And Succoth-vale meet out. verse 7 Manasseh, Gilead must subscribe To me in duteous awe: My heads chief strength is Ephraim's tribe, Ephraim for Soldiers, judah for Counsellors, servile Moab etc. yet glad that Christ overcomes them. And Judah gives my law. verse 8 On Edom I will set my foot, My wash-pot Mo'b shall be: Philistia shall triumph and shout, And that because of me. verse 9 Who will to Edom me direct, Unto the City strong: verse 10 Not thou that didst our hosts reject, Nor with us wentest along? verse 11 The help of man is vanity, O help us in distress: verse 12 Through God we shall do valiantly, He shall our foes suppress. PSAL. LXI. Old England tune. David forced from Jerusalem, prays for restauration, By Absol●ms conspiracy. with confidence and thankfulness. LOrd hear my cry, my prayer attend: verse 2 From earth's remotest part, From the deserts, whither I am fled. persuade me to rest on thy power and promises. Mine earnest cries to thee I send, When overwhelmed in heart. Conduct me to the rock of power, That higher is than I: verse 3 For thou hast been my fort and tower, Against the enemy. verse 4 Within thy sacred cover, I desire to frequent thy Tabernacle. Thy mercies represented by the Cherubims. Exo. 37. 9 I will for ever house: And trust in covert of thy wings; verse 5 For thou hast heard my vows. Thou gav'st the King the heritage Of them that fear thy Name: verse 6 His life and years to many an age, The best heritage. Acts 26. 18. Thou wilt prolong the same. verse 7 Before the Lord he shall abide, In his seed according to faith. For ever to endure: Thy truth and mercy o provide, Which may preserve him sure. verse 8 So will I sing from day to day, The praises of thy Name: That, having vowed, I daily may To thee perform the same. PSAL. LXII. Dutch tune. The confidence of Saints, vileness of persecutors, vanity of men and worldly means, and impartial judgement of God. verse 1 MY soul indeed on God is stayed, verse 2 He is my Saviour proved: My only rock, defence, and aid, I shall not much be moved. verse 3 How long will ye have lewd pretence? Ye shall be slaughtered all: Ye shall be like a tottering fence, And like a bowing wall. verse 4 'Tis all your aim, and all your art, To disparage the righteous. His excellence to despise: Ye bless with mouth, ye curse in heart, And take delight in lies. verse 5 My soul wait thou on God alone, My expectation's thence: verse 6 He only is my rock of stone, Salvation and defence. I shall not therefore much be moved, verse 7 My God's my health and praise: My rock of strength and refuge proved, On whom my spirit stays. verse 8 At all times trust in him alone, Ye Saints with one accord: Pour out your heart before his throne, Our refuge is the Lord. verse 9 All sorts of men are vanity, They whose condition's base, And they no better than a lie, That are of higher place. In balance laid are found more light, Then vanity itself: verse 10 O trust not in oppressing might, Become not vain in stealth. Though wealth increase not got amiss, Set not your heart on gains: verse 11 God spoke it once, twice heard I this, Once and again, many a time and oft. That power to God pertains. verse 12 And unto thee o LORD alone, Compassion doth belong: Thou renderest to every one Reward of right or wrong. PSAL. LXIII. To new verse tune. David longs for the public Ordinances; feeds his soul with meditations thereupon. The joy of the godly, and utter destruction of Christ's and our enemies. O God thou God to me, I'll early seek for thee: My soul, my flesh With longings fresh Desires there to be. In thirsty land and dry, Where is no water nigh: No ordinances. verse 2 To see thy might And glory bright As in the Sanctu'ry. verse 3 Thy kindness and thy love, Are life itself above: My lips shall frame To praise thy name, And that doth make them move. verse 4 Thus will I bless and praise Thy Name, even all my days: And unto thine Own Name divine. My hands devoutly raise. verse 5 With fat and marrow fed, My soul shall sure be sped: My mouth and lips (Sweet fellowships) Thy praise shall speak and spread. verse 6 When I sweet thoughts recite, Upon my bed at night, And meditate Upon thee late Before the dawning light. verse 7 Since thou the fountain whence Proceedeth my defence, Thy wings safe shade Shall now be made My joyful residence. verse 8 My soul pursues thee hard, Thy right hand is my guard: verse 9 But who assay My soul to slay Shall death and hell reward. verse 10 They by the sword shall fall, Slain in batt●ll and left a prey to the beasts. And for every good Christian. Rev. 1. 6. The fox's portion all: verse 11 But for the King Fresh joys shall spring, While he on God doth call. All swearing by his Name, Shall glory in the same. Their mouth likewise That utter lies, All that worship the true God aright. Gen. 31. 53. but God will discover hypocrite-professors. The Lord shall stop with shame. PSAL. LXIV. York tune. He shows the destruction of crafty and cruel persecutors, and how God's judgement shall be reverenced of others. VOuchsafe o Lord to hear my cry, And to my prayers give ear: Preserve my life from th'enemy Of whom I stand in fear. verse 2 Lord hide me from the secret snare, That wicked men devise: From them that wicked workers are, And up against me rise. verse 3 For they have made their tongues acute, As sharpest edge of swords: That they might deadly arrows shoot, Most cruel bitter words. verse 4 That they may shoot in secrecy, The perfect man to hit: They do shoot at him suddenly, And do not fear a whit. verse 5 With courage they in ill proceed, And commune how to lay Their privy snares, in hope to speed, For who shall see, say they? verse 6 They to accomplish wickedness, Have diligently sought: Their hearts are deep and bottomless, Cunning to conceive, close to conceal mischief. With every secret thought. verse 7 A sudden arrow shall them wound, Shot from the Lord to slay: verse 8 So shall their tongues themselves confound, Beholders flee away. Their threats and curses fall on themselves. verse 9 This shall a fear on all men bring, They shall Gods work declare: Most prudently considering, What these his doings are. verse 10 The righteous shall in God delight, Trust in his holy Name: And all that are in heart upright, Shall glory in the same. PSAL. LXV. New verse tune. The promptness of the Church to serve God; The assurance of pardon of sin, access to his presence, and success in our prayers with the great and terrible God. PRaise waiteth for thee still, O God, in Zions hill: And unto thee The vow shall be Performed with good will. verse 2 O thou that hearest prayers, To thee all flesh repairs: verse 3 My sins assail And so prevail, They fill me with despairs. But Lord no sins are they, But what thou dost away: verse 4 O blessed are those Whom thou hast chose, ●n and thorough Christ That near approach thee may: Within thy Courts to abide, Published, pressed, and experienced by the ordinances there. Where we are full supplied With grace, of which Thy house is rich, Thy Temple sanctified. verse 5 Thou wilt, by dreadful things, Judgements against our adversaries. Which thy sure justice brings; An answer frame, O thou great name, Whence our salvation springs. Who art the confidence Of earth's concumference: And also theirs Whom th'Ocean bears, Remote so far from hence. verse 6 Whose strength sets fast the hills, And, girt with power, he stills verse 7 The Sea that raves With boisterous waves, And men's rebellious wills: Eclipses, Comets, and strange accidents. verse 8 Thy signs affright the stout, Who all parts dwell about: The morning's voice Thou mak'st rejoice, Every day hath some remarkable providence rejoicing the creatures. And th'evenings goings out. 2. Part. Argument. The rich blessings of God upon the earth. verse 9 THou visitest the land, And wat'rest with thy hand: Rain is God river. God's river which Makes earth so rich, Powers down at thy command. It doeth with water flow, And corn thou dost bestow, When as thou hast, By thy forecast, Provided for it so. verse 10 Her ridges that are dry, Thou wat'rest plenteously: Her furrows cast Thou settlest fast, And softening showers apply. Thy blessings make the crop, To spring upon its top: verse 11 Thou crownest th'year With goodness mere, Thy paths do fatness drop. verse 12 The pastures are supplied, And deserts far and wide, While rain distils The little hills Rejoice on every side. verse 13 The covered valleys spring With corn which they forth-bring: The pastures glad With flocks are clad, They shout for joy and sing. PSAL. LXVI. To Coventry tune. He praiseth God for miraculous deliverances. SIng to the Lord o all ye lands, And make a joyful sound: verse 2 Sing forth his fame, And glorious Name, And make his praise renowned. verse 3 How dreadful works come from thy Thy power (say) Lord, how great! (hands! Foes bow before, verse 4 Vast earth adore At his most sacred seat. Yea sing unto thy Name shall they, In songs thine honour spread: verse 5 Gods works come see, Whose actions be To mortals full of dread. verse 6 To firm dry land he turned the Sea, The red Sea. And all the waters moist: There went they through And dryshod too: There we in him rejoiced. verse 7 He ever rules by sovereign powers, His eyes all lands descry: O let not then Rebellious men Exalt themselves on high. verse 8 All people praise this God of ours, With earnest voices strive, His praise renowned To make resound. verse 9 Who holds our soul alive. And suffereth not on any side, Our feet to be removed: verse 10 For thou o God, With smarting rod, Hast us thy servants proved. As silver in a furnace tried, So throughly tried were we: verse 11 Our feet were set Within the net, And therein brought by thee. Afflictions sore and violent, Thou mad'st our loins abide: verse 12 Yea thou didst then Cause furious men Over our heads to ride. Through flames of fire we also went, And through the watery floods: But surely thou Hast brought us now To places stored with goods. As from Egypt into Canaan. 2. Part. Argument. He gives us an example of true gratitude, by performance of vows, sacrifices, exhortations, abstaining from sin, and cheerful praises. verse 13 BUrnt-offrings to thy house I'll bear, There those sworn vows to pay, verse 14 With lips of mine, And mouth made thine, In my distressful day: verse 15 Burnt sacrifice of fatlings there, My soul to thee devotes: With incense too, Of Rams enough, With Bullocks offering Goats. verse 16 Come hearken ye that fear God's Name, To you declare will I; What favour he Hath done for me, verse 17 My mouth to him did cry, I with my tongue extolled his fame: verse 18 But if I should regard, And purpose in My heart to sin, My prayer should not be heard. verse 19 But God hath heard me verily, And hath been well content; With willing ear The voice to hear And prayer I did present: verse 20 The Lord I bless and magnify Who turned not away, Nor grace hath he Withheld from me, When I to him did pray. PSAL. LXVII. A prayer for the publication of the Gospel, and the blessings that do accompany it. O God be merciful to thine, And bless us every one: Command thy face on us to shine: verse 2 Thy way on earth make known. Thy saving health to Nations all: verse 3 Let people praise thy Name: O let them all in general Give praises to the same. verse 4 Let all the people far and wide, Sing out with joy and mirth: For thou shalt justly judge and guide The Nations of the earth. verse 5 Let all that are of humane birth, Praise thee, and not surcease: verse 6 Then shall the fat and fruitful earth, yield plentiful increase. Yea God our God shall bless us then, verse 7 Great blessings God shall send: He shall be feared of mortal men, To earth's remotest end. PSAL. LXVIII. To Dutch tune. David (at the remove of the Ark) celebrates the greatness and goodness of God. See Numb. 10. 35. 1 Chr. 15. 16. 26. LEt God omnipotent arise, His scattered foes to chase: And let his hateful enemies, Flee from his angry face. verse 2 As driven smoke drive them away, As fire makes wax to fry; So in God's presence perish they That work iniquity. verse 3 But let the just be glad with joy, Before Jehovahs' face: Let them rejoice exceedingly, And sing unto his grace. verse 4 Sing praise to God with cheerful voice, Extolled by JAH his Name; And in his presence much rejoice, That rides on heaven's frame. verse 5 A father of the fatherless, A Judge of widow's case, Is God in place of holiness, From that his dwelling place. verse 6 He sets th'alone in families, Calleth to marriage & blesseth it; releaseth prisoners & bondslaves. And bringeth out the bound; But le's rebellious enemies, Inhabit barren ground. 2. Part. Argument. A memorial of God's miraculous works in the Wilderness, and the land of Canaan. verse 7 WHen thou to be thy people's guide, O God didst undertake: And marchedst through the deserts wide, verse 8 Affrighted earth did quake. Then also did the heaven's drop, Exod. 19 18. 'Cause Israel's God was there: Yea at thy presence Sinai's top Did move and quake for fear. verse 9 Thou Lord didst send a gracious rain, jer. 5. 24. All manner of blessings. 〈◊〉 34. 26. Thine heritage thereby Was strengthened and confirmed again, When it was faint and dry. verse 10 Thy Congregation dwelled therein, Thy chosen people, and for their sake the land was blest. Presently in all men's mouths. O God thou art the doer: Thou of thy goodness brought'st us in Provision for the poor. verse 11 God gave the word of victory, Immediately there came Innumerable company That published the same. verse 12 Stout Kings of potent Armies fled, For they were put to foil: Women had spoil brought home. And she at home that tarried, Helped to divide the spoil. verse 13 Tho ye have lain among the pots, As scullions. Ye shall be like a Dove: With checkquerd wings of silver spots, And yellow gold above. verse 14 When God almighty scattered here Proud Kings, that came to kill's: Victorious Israel shined as clear As snow on Salmon hills. 3. Part. Argument. The happiness of Zion, excelling Sinai, Intimating the happiness of the church above all other people. and all other hills, because the Temple was there built. The glorious acts of Christ for the Church thereby typed. verse 15 THe hill wherein Jehovah dwells, As Bashan hill we count: A lofty hill, that parallels The height of Bashan mount. verse 16 Why leap ye, ye aspiring hills? This is that famous hill: Wherein the Lord precisely wills. To have his dwelling still. Yea here to dwell for evermore. verse 17 Gods Chariots are not small, But thousands, yea a thousand score Of powers Angelical. The Lord's with them, as formerly, As Angels waited on God on Sinai. Exo. 19 So on the Church. Heb. 1. 14. Christ (after his passion) ascended, conquering our captivers and received power to send down the Holy Ghost, even for the Elect Gentiles that were yet rebellious. Escaps from death corporal, spiritual, temporal & eternal. In Sinai's holy ground: verse 18 Thou hast ascended up on high, And led captiv'tie bound. Thou hast received gifts for men, Yea those men that rebel: That God the Lord might also then Among the Gentiles dwell. verse 19 Blessed the God that every day With ben'fits doth us load: Even our salvations God, I say, Who hath them so bestowed. verse 20 He is the God of saving health, Even God on whom we call: And unto God the Lord himself Belong deaths issues all. verse 21 But God shall wound his enemies' head, Their hairy scalp and skin; That having lewdly trespassed, Dare still persist therein. verse 22 I will bring back, the Lord did say, From Bashan come shall these: Tho another Og of Bashan or red Sea were in their way. My people I will bring away From bottoms of the Seas. verse 23 That thou may'st dip thy foot in blood, Of adversaries slain: And where thy slaughtered enemies stood, Thy dogs their tongues may slain. 4. Part. Argument. The pompous carriage of the A●k to the Tabernacle, Meditate of Christ's glorification & appearance at the last judgement. the resort of great men thereto. verse 24 THy goings in thy Sanctuary, Thy goings Lord my King, The people saw apparently: verse 25 Before went those that sing: The skilful players on instrument, Close following at their feet: Amidst them there the damsels went, That tuned the timbrels sweet. verse 26 In great resorts Gods praise ascribe, From the first Israelite to the last, or from the gifts of God himself. The Lord from Israel's spring: verse 27 There's Benjamin that little tribe, Together with their King. There's Judah's Princess generally, And Counsellors of theirs: From Zebulon and Nepthali, Each famous Prince appears. verse 28 They God by his supreme command, Outward magnificence of that kingdom, a type of the Church. Thy strength hath founded thus: Strengthen O God with thy good hand, What thou hast wrought for us. 5. Part. Argument. The conversion of the Gentiles, and confusion of implacable adversaries. verse 29 THy Temple at Jerusalem, Shall foreign Kings allure: To come and bring their gifts with them, Thy favour to procure. verse 30 Rebuke the spearmen's company, Wanton and brutish adversaries. And that unruly crew Of Bulls and calves, till generally They pay their tributes due. Till each man silver-plate presents, 2 King. 8. 2. Mat. 2. 11. Disperse and scatter far All these tumultuous male contents, That take delight in war. verse 31 Aethiop to God shall stretch her hands, And Egypt send her King: verse 32 Sing praise to God, ye foreign lands, To great Jehovah sing. verse 33 That rides upon the highest sphere, Of heavens framed of old: And sendeth out his thunders there, A mighty voice, behold. verse 34 Ascribe to God omnipotence, His strength in clouds in shown: O'er Isr'el is his excellence, verse 35 Lord thou'rt a dreadful one; Yet in thy house we learn thy magnificence best. The same thy Sanctuary shows: Yea Israel's God's the same; That strength and power on his bestows, And blessed be his Name. PSAL. LXIX. Oxford tune. David in deep affliction, prays that no good man might be discouraged by his sufferings, which were for the cause of God. SAve me O God, for to my soul swift waters flow apace: verse 2 I sink within a miry hole, Where is no standing place. In deepest waters I am come, Suppressed with floods main force: verse 3 My crying is most wearisome, My throat is dry and hoarse. Mine eyes do fail while (hard bestead) I for my God do wait: verse 4 More foes than hairs upon my head, Do bear me causeless hate: My wrongful foes are mighty men, That seek my soul to slay: The things have I restored then, Which I took not away. verse 5 O God my sin's not hid from thee, My exceeding innocence. My foolishness thou knowst: verse 6 Let no man be ashamed through me, O Lord O God of host. Let none that wait on thee have shame, None to confusion sell: For my sake, none that seek thy Name, O God of Israel. verse 7 Since for thy sake I suffered scorn, My face was filled with shame: verse 8 To those that were my brethren born, A stranger I became. My mother's children do with me, Consumed with care to maintain thy pure service. job. 2. 22. As with an alien deal: verse 9 And I am eaten up for thee, And with thy houses zeal. I bore thy scorners blasphemies, verse 10 And when I wept and mourned, My soul with fasting to chastise, That to my shame they turned. verse 11 I put on sackcloth, and became A byword to the throng: verse 12 Of Magistrates I bore the blame, I was the drunkard's song. 2. Part. Argument. David in danger to be swallowed of affliction, makes his earnest prayer to God. verse 13 BUt as for me I'll pray to thee, In acceptable hour: In thy great mercy hear thou me, And truth of saving power. verse 14 O from the mire deliverance send, And me from sinking keep: From such as hate me o defend, And from the waters deep. verse 15 No swallowing depth nor flood permit, Whose water overflows, To ' overtop my head, nor let the pit Her mouth upon me close. verse 16 Good is thy loving kindness LORD, O hear thou me therefore: Turn to me LORD, as may accord With thy compassions store. verse 17 Nor from thy servant hide thy face, For I'm bereft of peace: verse 18 Hear me with speed, draw nigh apace Unto my souls release: For my foe's sake deliver me: verse 19 Thou my reproach hast known; My shame and scorn and enemies be, Before thee every one. 3. Part. Argument. The extreme malice of the wicked, adding affliction to the afflicted. Reprobates are bitterly and eternally cursed. verse 20 REproach my heart hath overcome, Meditate of Christ's sufferings. And sorrow filled my soul: I looked for pity showed by some, But no man did condole. I looked, but found no comforter. verse 21 For meat they gave me gall: For drink they gave me Vinegar To quench my thirst withal. verse 22 O let their table prove a snare, And whatsoe'er might hap For to have made them well to far, Smite them with the worst diseases, as blindness, palsy, etc. Let it become a trap. verse 23 Upon their eyes let darkness fall Their loins let always shake: verse 24 Yea, let them Lord, yea let them all Of thy fierce wrath partake. Take hold of his ungodly race, With wrath that ne'er relents: verse 25 Make desolate their dwelling place, Let none dwell in their tents, verse 26 For where men bear thy heavy blows They persecute the more: And talk unto the grief of those Whom thou hast wounded sore. verse 27 Bring all their sins into a sum, Let them increase sin, but never get pardon. Heaped up in great excess: And let them never never come Into thy righteousness. verse 28 Out of the book of life, O blot Their most detested name: And with the righteous let them not Be written in the same. 2. Part. Argument. David prays in affliction, Both of jews and Gentiles. commends true gratitude, and prophesies good to the Church. verse 29 BUt sorrowful and poor am I, O God do thou me raise: Let thy salvation set me high. verse 30 My song shall give God praise, And with thanksgiving him extol: verse 31 No bullock horned and hooved, Or stalled ox presented whole Can be so well approved. verse 32 This sight shall joy thy humble Saints: Hearts seeking God shall live; verse 33 For lo, the Lord to poor men's plaint▪ A gracious ear doth give: His prisoners he doth not contem', Held under the bondage of affliction. verse 34 Let heaven, earth and seas Give God due praises all of them, And all that moves in these. verse 35 For God will Zion mountain save, The true Church. Also he promiseth the conversion of the jews. In the true Church typed by the land of judah. And Judah's Cities rear: Which men may in possession have For constant dwelling there. verse 36 And all thy servants faithful race Inheriting the same: There they shall have a dwelling place That dearly love his name. PSAL. LXX. To 2. strain tune, or to both. A prayer against persecutors, and for the speedy succour of all the godly. MAke haste, O LORD, And help afford: Make haste to help me, O my Lord. verse 2 Let shames control Confound them whole That seek to hurt my harmless soul. Confusion's hire Cause them retire, That do my hurt and harm desire. verse 3 And them that say, Aha, Aha, Repulse and shame their shame repay. verse 4 All that seek thee Let joyful be, And also very glad in thee: Still let them frame, To praise thy Name, That love salvation from the same. verse 5 But I (poor weed) Still stand in need, Do thou o God to me make speed: Thou art my tower, And saving power, Lord tarry not, but come this hour. PSAL. LXXI. To Cambr. old tune. A prayer for preservation, alleging Gods promises and providence. O Lord, I put my trust in thee, O put me not to shame: verse 2 Cause me to escape, delivering me By thy most righteous Name. To me be thy salvation showed; Give ear unto my prayer: verse 3 Be thou my place of sure abode, Where I may still repair. For thou to save me gav'st command, Gavest command to thy Angels. Psal. 91. 11. Thou art my rock and fort: verse 4 Save me o God out of the hand Of all the wicked sort. Out of the hand of the unjust, And of the cruel man: verse 5 Lord God in thee I hope and trust, Even since my youth began. verse 6 Thou hast upheld me from the womb, And thou alone art he, That took'st me from that narrow room, My praise still waits on thee. verse 7 I am a wonder to the Town, But thou my refuge strong: verse 8 O fill my mouth with thy renown, And honour all day long. 2. part. Argument. David prays for preservation in his old age, In which time Absolom rebelled. considering the malice of his adversaries, and mercies of God, which he praiseth. verse 9 CAst me not off in these my days, When old age makes me break: Forsake me not when strength decays, verse 10 For foes against me speak: They have together counsel took, Who for my soul lay wait: verse 11 Now God, say they, hath him forsaken, Pursue and take him straight. For there is no deliverer: O be not far from me: verse 12 O God my God do not defer, Make haste my help to be: All adversaries to my soul, That seek to hurt the same; verse 13 Confound them, and consume them whole, And cover them with shame. With ignominious infamy, Let them be covered o'er: verse 14 But I will hope continually Still praise thee more and more. verse 15 My mouth thy righteousness shall show And saving health all day: More than can be told. For I thereof no numbers know, So infinite are they. 3. Part. Argument. David's confidence in God's experienced protection, he desires to publish it to all the generations. verse 16 WIth God the Lord's assistant might I will courageous walk: Thy righteousness will I recite, And thereof only talk. verse 17 Even from my youth and infancy, O God thou hast me taught, And hitherto declared have I The wonders thou hast wrought. verse 18 Now also Lord, when I am old, And when my head is grey, O do not slack, or leave thy hold, O cast me not away, Until thy strength I have made known Unto the present age: To after comers every one Till I thy power presage, verse 19 Thy righteousness, O God, exceeds, In wonderful degree: Thou hast performed wondrous deeds O God who's like to thee? verse 20 Thou showd'st me troubles great & sore, Thy power shall me revive; From deepest & darkest dungeon of adversity. And from the depths of earth restore, And bring me up alive. verse 21 On all sides thou shalt comfort me, My greatness thou shalt raise: verse 22 With Psaltery I'll give thanks to thee With cheerful songs of praise: Yea, even thy truth and verity O God my God alone, And sing to thee with harp will I, O israels holy One. verse 23 Full greatly shall my lips be joyed When I shall sing to thee: Thus my glad soul shall be employed, For thou redeemest me: verse 24 My tongue thy justice shall proclaim Continuing all day long: For they are quelled and brought to shame That seek to do me wrong. PSAL. LXXII. Martyr's tune. David prays for Solomon, praiseth his just and happy government and large extent of his Dominion a type of Christ's. LOrd give the king thy judgements wise, His son thy righteousness: 1 Chr. 23. 1. verse 2 To judge the people with these eyes The poor and succourless. verse 3 Then mountains shall bring peace to men And little hills by right: Then barren places will be fruitful when justice abounds. verse 4 For he shall judge the people then, And crush oppressors might. The needies children he shall save, verse 5 And fear him all men shall; Meditate of Christ's government. While Sun and Moon their course shall have, Through generations all. verse 6 He shall descend as soaking rain, Upon the mown grass: After one crop to produce another. As showers that water hill and plain, What ever way they pass. verse 7 The righteous shall be flourishing, And most abundant peace; In days of this most happy King, Until the Moon surcease. verse 8 And his dominions shall extend, From the red Sea to the Syrian, from Euphrates to the great desert, in token of Christ's dominion all over the world. And spread from sea to sea: From river's side to earth's far end, All lands shall him obey. verse 9 All those that in the deserts dwell, Before him bow they must: His enemies he will compel, To stoop and lick the dust. verse 10 The Tarshian Kings shall gifts present, Shebah and Sabahs' King, And all the Lands adjacent, Their gifts to him shall bring. verse 11 All Kings before him down shall fall, All nations shall him serve: verse 12 And when the needy cry and call, He shall their life preserve. 2. Part. Argument. The graciousness and happiness of Christ his government, and the great applause thereof. verse 13 THe poor and needy he shall spare, The poor and succourless: The souls of them that needy are, delivering from distress. verse 14 From violence and fraud shall he Their abject souls redeem: And in his sight their blood shall be Of singular esteem. verse 15 They Shebahs' gold to him shall give, And daily for him pray: And honourably he shall live, Applauded every day. verse 16 Handfuls of Corn shall grow upon The pregnant mountains top: Some fruitfulness in the barrenest places, yea, a plentiful crop to rustle as the boughs. The subjects of Christ's Kingdom shall flourish. Whose fruit shall shake like Lebanon, So plentiful the crop. The Citizens shall spring and spread, As grass most fresh and fine: verse 17 His Name shall be continued, As long as Sun shall shine. His Name shall be retained in mind, For ever to remain: And in the same shall all mankind, Great blessedness obtain. Gal. 3. 8. All lands shall call him blessed one. verse 18 O let the LORD be praised: The God of Israel who alone Hath mighty wonders raised. verse 19 And blessed be his glorious Name, To all eternity: The world be filled with his fame, Amen, Amen, say I. PSAL. LXXIII. To Oxford tune. Asaph sets forth the great prosperity of the wicked, and what a temptation it is to the godly. TO Isr'el truly God is good, To each truehearted one: verse 2 But as for me I scarcely stood, my feet were almost gone. Well-nigh my steps had slipped aside, verse 3 For I did envious grow At wicked men, whom I descried To speed and prosper so. verse 4 For in their death no bands there are. Their strength is firm and sure: verse 5 They have no plagues, no grief, no care, They die of age or easy diseases, without pangs of body or conscience. job 21. 13. Which other men endure. verse 6 As therefore with a chain are those Encompassed round with pride: And violence doth them enclose And (like a garment) hide. verse 7 Their eyes with fatness swell and stare, No heart can wish such hoards: verse 8 Exceedingly corrupt they are, And speak great swelling words. They lewdly speak concerning wrong, They meddle, censure, curse, how and whom they list. God's people seek their favour, that have so much, and that makes them more carnal and profane. verse 9 Against the heavens they talk; And their unbridled lavish tongue Throughout the earth doth walk. verse 10 Therefore his people hither stray, And brimful waters flow, verse 11 Wrung out to them, and thus they say, How doth God come to know? Is knowledge sure in God most high? verse 12 Behold there are the lewd; Who have the world's prosperity And riches multitude. 2. Part. Argument. Asaph seeming to question the good condition of the godly, learns from God's Word the unhappiness of the wicked, and overcomes the temptation. verse 13 NOw surely I, on poor pretence, Have cleansed my heart in vain: And washed my hands in innocence With labour for my pain. verse 14 For I was dieted all day With plagues for my repast: And every morning was my pay With blows to break my fast. verse 15 Yet if I utter these complaints, I should (said I) offend The generation of thy Saints, And rashly read their end. verse 16 Then thought I how to clear this doubt And see the full extent: But found it hard to find it out verse 17 Till I to Zion went. Till I consulted with that word which I had heard there. I saw their end made recompense, verse 18 On slippery seats they sit; Thou setst them there to cast them thence Into destruction's pit. verse 19 A moment brings their misery, O great and wondrous change! They are consumed utterly With thoughts of terror strange. verse 20 Even as a dream in fancy's brow, from walking senses flies; So Lord when thou awak'st shalt thou Their image quite despise. When thou awakest to judgement thou shalt make their vain pomp, which is but an Idea, a fancy. 3. Part. Argument. Asaph confesseth his folly to be so much troubled at wicked men's prosperity; he placeth temporal and eternal happiness in near communion with God. verse 21 THis pricked my reins and grieved my heart, verse 22 Such folly didst thou see And brutish error on my part, verse 23 Yet I am still with thee: Yet thou didst not suffer the temptation to overcome me. Thy right hand's all my stay and guard, verse 24 Thy counsel all my guide, And shall receive me afterward To heaven glorified. verse 25 In heaven I have none but thee, Nor is there any one That lives on earth desired of me, Except thyself alone. verse 26 My flesh and heart now fail in me, But God doth fail me never: The strengthner of my heart is he And heritage for ever. verse 27 For they that are estranged from thee Shall perish every one: Thou hast destroyed all them that be From thee a whoring gone. verse 28 But unto God draw near I must For that's my wisest care: In God the Lord I put my trust All thy works to declare. Hoping to set out thy works so as that none may stumble at prosperity or adversity of good or bad. PSAL. LXXIV. He complains of grievous desolations by fire and sword, and lingering calamities. WHy hast thou, Lord, rejected us, And dost thine anger keep: And keep'st it ever smoking thus Against thy pasture-sheep? The land of Canaan and people of Israel, Deut. 32. 9 verse 2 Thy congregation bought of old Mount Zions purchased rod Of thine inheritance behold, Where thou hast dwelled, O God. verse 3 Perpetual ruins here begin, Live to be perpetual. Come succour Lord betime: Which in the sanctuarie's done By th'enemies' wilful crime. verse 4 Thine adversaries roar and rave Here where thy people joins. For signs of victory. And in their congregations have Set Ensigns up for signs. verse 5 By lifting axes on thick trees, 'twas once a credit to build, now to break down. Men once obtained renown: verse 6 With axe and hammer now do these The carved work break down. verse 7 Thy Sanctuary they have burned, The place where dwelled thy name; These furious foes have overturned, And so defiled the same. verse 8 Let us destroy them out of hand, Thus did their hearts conspire: Gods Synagogues throughout the land They have burnt up with fire. verse 9 No Prophet speaks, no sign's descried, No sign of mending or ending our misery. None of us knows how long: verse 10 How long o Lord, shall we abide The foes reproachful wrong? Shall th'enemy still blaspheme thy name? verse 11 Why drawest thy right hand back? Out of thy bosom pluck the same, And be no longer slack. verse 12 For God is sure my King of old, And by his powerful hand He wrought salvation uncontrolled In sight of all the land. We can witness many former deliverances. 2. Part. Argument. God's ancient deliverances, omnipotent works and faithful covenant encourageth their prayers. verse 13 THou didst divide the seas by might, Pharaohs hosts and officers, that great Leviathan. Exod. 15. The Dragon's heads in these, verse 14 Leviathans heads thou brokest quite, Thou brok'st them in the seas. The same thy people did receive I'th' wilderness for meat. verse 15 The flood & fountain thou didst cleave, 'twas meat and drink to thy people to see his destruction. The red sea and river Jordan. And dri'dst up rivers great. verse 16 The day is thine, likewise the night, Peculiarly is thine: O Lord, thou hast prepared the light, And caused the Sun to shine. verse 17 The borders of the land and seas Thou hast ordained the same: Summer and Winter, both of these By thine appointment came. verse 18 The enemies do thee scandalise, O keep it in record: The foolish men speak blasphemies Against thy name, O Lord. Thy dearly beloved Church into the hand of, etc. verse 19 Thy Turtles soul deliver not To many a wicked doer: For ever let not be forgot Th'assemblies of the poor. verse 20 O have, o have respect unto Thine ancient covenant still: For cruel habitations do The earth's dark places fill. Ignorant heathenish places abound wi●h tyrants. verse 21 O let not them that are oppressed Return with cause of shame: O let the poor and men distressed Have cause to praise thy Name. verse 22 Rise Lord, and plead thine own just cause, Think on the fools reproach: Thy name into contempt it draws, With slanders which they broach. verse 23 Forget not thou the furious cries Of thy tumultuous foes: Their tumult that against thee rise continually grows. PSAL. LXXV. David's tune. David (newly come to the Crown) promiseth justice, inveighs against the base corruption of Saul's officers, minding them of God's supreme power and terrible vengeance. O God we render praise to thee, To thee we give the same: For by thy wondrous works we see The nearness of thy name. We see by what is done who is the doer that David so much opposed reigns King, but medicate more of Christ. verse 2 When I the congregations call, An upright Judge I'll be: verse 3 The earth's dissolved, the men and all, Her pillars hold by me. verse 4 But I admonished them the while, Ye wicked fools, said ●, Be not so vain, The kingdom is in a tottering condition under Saul for want of Justice, but David put it in frame. The cup of God's wrath is a bloody one, like their sins. be not so vile, Nor lift your horn so high: verse 5 Presumptuous horns do not advance, Nor speak with haughty mouth: verse 6 Promotion doth not come by chance From East, or West, or South. verse 7 But God is Judge, some sets he up, Some others down doth pull: verse 8 For in God's hand there is a cup Of crimson wine mixed full. He pours it out, and he will make The wicked of the land Wring out the very dregs, and take And drink them at his hand. verse 9 To jacob's God I will each day Declare fresh songs of praise: verse 10 The wickeds horns I'll cut away, Their power But righteous men's I'll raise. PSAL. LXXVI. Choice tune. A memorial of Senacheribs miraculous defeat. IN Judah God is known to his, For a faithful and powerful protector. His name is great in Israel: verse 2 His Sanctu'ry at SALEM is, He doth in Sion-mountain dwell: verse 3 The bows and arrows broke he there, Arabian robbers are not so strong as God, not the kingdoms of the world. The battle, shield, & sword, & spear: verse 4 Thou art more glorious every way, And excellent then mounts of prey. verse 5 The stout of heart are overthrown, And they have slept their sleeps last night: And of the mighty men not one Hath found his hands wherewith to fight. See 2 Chr. 22▪ 21. verse 6 O God of Jacob thy reproof Spoilt rattling wheel & thundering hoof: Chariot and horse at thy fierce blast Into a sleep of death are cast. verse 7 Thou, thou alone art worthy fear, For who may stand before thine eyes? Who dares approach, who dares appear, When once thy burning wrath doth rise? verse 8 From heaven thou mak'st judgement heard, The silent earth was sore afeard: Thy judgement terrified the world which was wrought for poor distressed Israel. Thou gettest glory by permitting & stopping tyrant's rage. verse 9 When God arose to judgement then To save on earth all humble men. verse 10 Man's wrath shall surely praise thy name, Henceforth held in by thy restraints: verse 11 O make your vows and pay the same Unto the Lord your God ye Saints. Let all about him presents bring To him that daunts the proudest King: verse 12 To him, I say, whose fear compels, And Prince's spirits curbs and quells. PSAL. LXXVII. To sweet tune. Asaph strives against desperation. I With my voice to God did cry, Even with my voice expressed aloud, I cried to God most fervently, And unto me his ear he bowed. verse 2 What time I was with mis'ry stung, I sought the Lord in that my grief: My ceasless sore ran all night long, My soul refused all relief. verse 3 I to my grief called God to mind, And my complaint while I do make; My spirit overwhelmed I find, verse 4 For thou dost hold mine eyes awake; I cannot speak I'm troubled so: I seriously considered verse 5 The days and years past long ago, That were of old determined. verse 6 I called to mind my song by night, What comfort I had heretofore. I common with my private heart, My spirit was most exquifite, Yea even in this examining art. verse 7 Will God cast off, To find out what the cause, or what the end might be. eternally, And is his favour clean removed? verse 8 Is mercy quite and clean set by, His promise past but never proved? verse 9 Hath God forgotten to be kind, And wholly left compassions path? His tender mercies all confined, And hath he shut them up in wrath? verse 10 But this, said I, full well appears, To be mine own infirmity: But I will call to mind the years Of his right hand that is most high. Such times wherein God displayed his greatest favours. 2. Part. Argument. He overcomes temptations to desperation, by consideration of God's ancient and miraculous mercies to his Church. verse 11 I Will remember in my thought, The mighty works of God the Lord: The wonders which of old he wrought, Surely (said I) I will record. verse 12 Of all thy doings I will talk, And meditate of all thy powers: verse 13 The Sanctuary is thy walk, Thou hast appeared most unto thy people in such great works. Who is so great a God as ours? verse 14 Thy strength is to thy people shown, A wonder-working God indeed: verse 15 Thy stretcht-out arm redeemed thine own Jacob and joseph's fruitful seed. verse 16 The waters LORD had sight of thee, The red Sea seemed to be sensible of God's presence. Tempests there. The waters saw, and were afraid; Because they did the visage see, The depths were also sore dismayed. verse 17 The clouds poured down their watery load, The skies a thundering sound forth sent: Thine arrows were dispersed abroad, Shot from the flaming Element. verse 18 In heaven was thy thunder heard, Thy lightnings did the world surround: Earth shook and trembled sore afeard▪ verse 19 Thy way is in the seas profound. Thy paths are in the waters deep, Thy footsteps none can understand: None knows now where that passage was. verse 20 Thou ledst thy folk like flocks of sheep, By Moses and by Aaron's hand. PSAL. LXXVIII. York tune. He exhorts to hear the story of God's ancient works, and to relate it to our generations. MY people to my Law give ear, Unto my speech incline: verse 2 For lo my mouth shall open here A parable divine. As excellent things as Proverbs & Apothegms. Dark sayings treasured up of old, I'll utter now to you: verse 3 Things which our fathers have us told, And what we heard and knew. We will not from their seed conceal, But with a joint accord, Unto the future age reveal The praises of the LORD. And all his wonders excellent, Performed by powerful hand: verse 5 For he ordained a Testament, He appointed us to rehearse these things. In Jacob firm to stand. For Isr'el he a law decreed, And gave our father's charge, That they to their ensuing seed Should make them known at large. verse 6 That th'age to come and following race, His Testaments might know: Who should arise in father's place, And them to theirs might show. verse 7 That they on God their hope might s●●, Not from his laws remove: Nor God's almighty works forget, verse 8 Not like their fathers prove. A stubborn and rebellious brood, Whose hearts were wrong inclined: Whose soul with God unsteadfast stood, Still wavering in their mind. 2. Part. Argument. The shameful repulse of Israel going up without God, of whose works they had so wonderful experience. See Numb. 14. 40. verse 9 THe sons of Ephraim carrying bows, The tribe of Ephraim carries the name of all Israel. Nor did they armour lack, In day of battle with their foes, Faint-hearted turned back. verse 10 God covenant they regarded not, Nor for his precepts cared: verse 11 But all his wondrous works forgot, Which he to them declared. verse 12 Most wondrous works by his right hand, Had their forefathers known, Accomplished in Egypt land, And in the fields of Zoan. verse 13 The Sea he did in parts divide, Zoan the chief Court of Pharaoh, where greatest wonders were done. Red Sea. Exod. 14. 29. 19 And made them passage there: With clattering heaps on either side, He made moist waters rear. verse 14 He also in the time of day, A cloud their guide assigned: And all night long he made them way, With lights of fire that shined. verse 15 The stony rocks he also clavae, Within the desert ground: And store of drink to them he gave, As out of deeps profound. verse 16 Fresh streams did he from Horeb bring, Meditate of Christ the fountain of grace. And made fresh waters thence Run down like Rivers from a spring: verse 17 Yet gave they more offence, Grieved God most high in desert ground, By provocations great: verse 18 And tempted God with heart unsound, Numb. 11. 4. By lustful ask meat. verse 19 Yea thus they said, controlling God, Can God spread tables here? verse 20 Lo, though the rock obeyed his rod, Can deserts yield good cheer? The waters gushed from rocks hard side, And streams did overflow: But for his people flesh provide, And can he bread bestow? 3. Part. Argument. The great displeasure of God for the monstrous infidelity and ingratitude of Israel. verse 21 GOd heard therefore, and was incensed, Against Jacob fire did flame: And anger also came against All Isr'el for the same. verse 22 'Cause they on God did not rely, Nor in this Saviour hope: verse 23 Though he had charged the lofty sky, And heaven's door set open. verse 24 And reigned down Manna for their meat, And gave them for their fare verse 25 The corn of heaven: Grew not on earth, but distilled from heaven, as if Angels had sed-on it. Man did eat The food of Angels rare. He fed them full with food good store: verse 26 He sent an Eastern wind: His power set open the Southern door, Both execute his mind. verse 27 He reigned upon his people flesh, Quails. Like Summer's dust for store: And feathered fowl he brought them fresh As sands upon the shore. verse 28 In midst of all the camp throughout He let it gently fall: And there dispersed it round about Their habitations all. verse 29 So they did plentifully eat; And were suffi●'d and filled: For he did give them, look what meat Themselves desired and willed. verse 30 Estranged they were not from their lust, But while they chewed their meat, verse 31 The wrath of God assaults them just Before they could it eat. The fattest of them, there he slew, The chiefest and greatest. And, smiting down, did kill The chosen men, all Israel through: verse 32 And yet they sinned still. For all his wonders was their crime Most shameful unbelief: So that 600000. were consumed in 40. years in the wilderness. verse 33 He therefore made them spend their time In vanity and grief. 4. Part. Argument. The Hypocritical humiliation of Israel, God's favour and their unfaithfulness. verse 34 WHen he destruction on them brought, And many of them were slain, Then they for God enquired and sought, And turned to him again. With early care to him they flock, verse 35 And then they call to mind That God the high God was their rock, And their Redeemer kind. verse 36 But yet for all this goodly show, While their fair words entreat, They did but lie, and flatter tho, With teeth and tongues deceit. verse 37 For neither was their heart upright, Nor to his covenant clavae: verse 38 Yet he in mercy infinite Their wickedness for gave. And would not overthrow them quite, But did his wrath assuage Full many a time: nor would excite The utmost of his rage. verse 39 For graciously he called to mind, How that they were but flesh: A temporary fading wind, That doth not come afresh. verse 40 How oft did they provoke his rod, When they in deserts were? verse 41 Revolting, grieving, tempting God While they continued there. And Israel's only one confined, Limited his power to possibilities and likelihoods. verse 42 His hand that saved them so; Nor yet that day they called to mind That quit them from the ●o. 5. Part. Argument. Israel's ungrateful neglect of God's Judgements on their behalf against Egypt. verse 43 THey did not keep in memory What signs in Egypt land Were brought to pass before their eye By God's almighty hand. verse 44 In Zoan field his wonders strange When every ford and flood, In Phar●ohs Court, and all the land over. And every river he did change Into a lake of blood. That they to drink thereof abhorred, verse 54 Devouring flies annoyed Of divers sort sent from the LORD, And croaking frogs destroyed. verse 46 He let the Caterpillars eat The fruit of all their soil: And gave their labours hopeful sweat, To be the Locusts spoil. verse 47 The hail destroyed their tender vines, And wealth of their quick stock: verse 48 The frost destroyed the sycamines, Hot thunderbolt their flocks▪ verse 49 Upon them did his wrath severe, And indignation fall: God sending evil Angels there, To vex and plague them all. Messengers of vengeance. verse 50 He for his anger made a lane, Nor spared their soul from death: But gave their lives unto the b●ne Of pestilential breath. verse 51 Firstborn of all the creatures there In Egypt he did smite; Within the land of Ham that were The chief of all their might. 6. Part. Argument. God's safe conduct of Israel: their Apostasy and Idolatry, and the bitter fruits thereof. GOD for his people did provide, That they went out like sheep, Whom safe through deserts he did guide, As flocks which shepherds keep. verse 53 He led them safe and free from fear, But in the briny waves Their enemies overwhelmed were, The seas became their graves. verse 54 To borders of the holy land The Lord his people led, ●he mountain which his own right hand With power had purchased. verse 55 The heathen too he did expel, And did their lands assign And heritage to Israel, Dividing it by line. He made his tribes dwell in their tents verse 56 Yet tempt they God most high, And kept not his commandments; Provoking God thereby. verse 57 Unfaithfully they backward slide, And all false dealing show; And like their fathers turned aside, Like a deceitful bow. On mountains where they set up Images. Ezech. 20. 28, 29. verse 58 With places which they built on high They did the Lords displease; And moved him to jealousy With graven Images. verse 59 God heard it, Their Idolatry cried loud in God's ear, jer. 7. 14. and was angry then Abhorring Israel sore: verse 60 The tents at Shiloh placed with men He would come at no more. His ark a monument of his mighty Name. verse 61 To bondage in another land, His strength he (careless) gave, And from his foes prevailing hand 1 Sam. 5. 1. His glory would not save. Fire of God's wrath. verse 62 To cruel swords devouring rage, He gave his people o'er: Against his chosen heritage His wrath was kindled sore. verse 63 * Because the men were killed up. Consumed with fire their young men were, The wives (as Phinehas wife) died also. Their virgin's nuptials failed: verse 64 Their Priests were slain with sword and spear, No widows them bewailed. Also 'twas a fashion for widows to mourn, 7. Part. Argument. God's merciful returning to his people; his free election of place and person. jer. 9 17. verse 65 THen to awake the Lord began, As one from sleep doth start; And shouting like a mighty man, When wine hath cheered his heart. With the piles. verse 66 In hinder parts prodigiously, He smote his bedrid foes: 1. Sam. 5. 12. Whom to perpetual infamy He thereby did expose. verse 67 Joseph likewise and Ephraim He did their tents refuse: To build his Temple, and call a king a type of Christ and his Church. verse 68 But Zion mount beloved of him, And Judah's tribe did choose. verse 69 There raised his sanctuary's head, Like high reared palace sure: Like earth which he established For ever to endure. verse 70 His servant David he did choose, And him from sheep folds bring: Build the Temple, in the Antitype the Church. verse 71 From following the great bellied Ewes, A type of Christ our Shepherd. And brought him to be king. To regal throne did him advance, That he might daily feed All Isr'el his inheritance, His people jacob's seed. verse 72 After his heart's integrity, So he all Israel fed; And disciplined with policy His people safely led. PSAL. LXXIX. To Oxford tune. The grievous calamities of invasive war: In the Babylonian invasion, or that, 2 Marc. 5. 15. He prays that the storm may recoil on the adversaries. O Lord, our God, thine heritage Rude heathen now invade, jerusalem, through their barbarous rage, A ruinous heap is made. Thy holy Temple they defiled, verse 2 And thy Saints bodies given, Some to the beasts, some to the wild And ravenous fowls of heaven. verse 3 Their blood about Jerusalem, Like water have they shed: And none was left to bury them, When they were slain and dead. verse 4 Our neighbours with reproachful mocks And scornful taunt flout: We are become as laughingstocks, To them that dwell about. verse 5 How long, O Lord, continually, Shall thy fierce wrath persever? Shall thine outrageous jealousy Burn out like fire for ever? verse 6 Against heathen men that know thee not Power out, power out the same: And let it be the Kingdom's lot, That calls not on thy Name. Worship thee not aright. verse 7 For they have eat up jacob's seed, And laid his dwelling waist; verse 8 O let not any past misdeed, Against us now be placed. 2. Part. Argument. He prays for rescue of the Church, and revenge against the wicked. PRevent us soon with tender grace, For we are much brought down: verse 9 O God our Saviour help our case, To get thy Name renown. Save us and purge our ●●ns away, For thy Names sake that bears: verse 10 O wherefore should the heathen say, Where is that God of theirs? O let him be acknowledged, By heathens in our sight: The servants blood which they have shed, Let just revenge requite. verse 11 To sighs of prisoners give access, And LORD preserve thou them: Even of thy powers almightiness, Whom they to death condemn. verse 12 Into their bosoms sevenfold, O recompense the shame; Wherewith our neighbours have been bold, To vilify thy Name. verse 13 So we thy flock and heritage, Will ever bless thy Name; And spread thy praise from age to age, And never cease the same. PSAL. LXXX. Asaph humbly sues for succour in the bitter calamities of war. 2 King. 17. 5. O Israel's Shepherd lend thine ear, joseph put for Israel. Who joseph's flock leadest out: Who dwellest between the Cherubs there, Amos 6. 6. Shine clearly round about. 2 Chr. 5. 13. verse 2 In Ephraim's and Manassehs sight, Shine forth in favour to us all. O let thy strength appear: In Benjamins' sight, stir up thy might, To save us Lord draw near. verse 3 O God convert us by thy grace, And turn our hearts to thee: Shine on us with thy cheerful face, And we shall saved be. verse 4 Lord God of hosts the most supreme, While we to thee repair; How long shall burn thy wrath extreme, Against thy people's prayer? verse 5 With store of brinish tears for meat, Thou mak'st them to be fed: And giv'st them tears in measure great, For drink as well as bread. verse 6 Thou mak'st us in our neighbour's eyes, An argument of strife: They strive who shall have us their slaves. Amongst themselves our enemies Deride our woeful life. verse 7 Turn us again Lord God of hosts, And cause (as we have craved)▪ Thy face to shine on Israel's coasts, And then shall we be saved. 2. Part. Argument. A complaint of Israel's desolation, Under parable of a vineyard. and prayer for restauration, promising faithfulness. verse 8 A Noble Vine of Israel, Thou didst from Egypt bring: Psal. 44. 2. The heathen folk thou didst expel, To plant it here to spring. verse 9 Sufficient room for it to shoot, Preparing by thy hand: And when it once had taken root, It filled all the Land. The great increase of Israel, peopling the land of Canaan. verse 10 Her boughs like goodly Cedars sprout, Her shade the hills did hide: verse 11 Her boughs & branches were sent out, From Sea to Rivers side. verse 12 Why hast thou then broke down of hers The quickset hedges so, Psal. 72. 8. That all the transient passengers Do pluck her as they go? Subject to the weakest adversary. verse 13 All wasted by the woodland Bore, Cruel tyrants. Wild beasts from neighbouring coasts verse 14 Devour thy Vine. Return therefore We pray thee Lord of hosts. Look down from heaven, and behold, And visit this thy Vine, verse 15 And Vineyard planted here of old, By that right hand of thine. The branch which was made strong for thee, verse 16 See it is all cut down, Alas, it was but a little branch, a little people. And burnt with fire thy branches be, They perish at thy frown. verse 17 Uphold the man of thy right hand, The poor people whom thou didst fence and favour. The son of man sustain: Made strong by thee, for thee to stand, O make him strong again. verse 18 So will not we go back from thee, O quick'n us for the same, And we shall faithful suppliants be, To call upon thy Name. verse 19 Lord God of hosts our souls incline, And turn us now again: Command thy cheerful face to shine, And safe shall we remain. PSAL. LXXXI. London short tune. An exhortation to praise God with music. Signifying the melody of our hearts Signifying our spiritual deliverance. A celebration of the deliverance from Egypt. O Sing aloud this day, To God our strength and stay: O make a noise, Feast of Tabernacles. Exciting joys To jacob's God, Leu. 23. 43. I say. verse 2 O take a Psalm and sing, The timbrel hither bring: The Psalt'rie too And harp take you, The harp that pleasant thing: verse 3 The trumpet sound withal, Leu. 23. 24. 31. 41. This new Moon's festival: The time hath thus Appointed us, Solemnity doth call. verse 4 A statute this must be, O Israel kept by thee: Th'almighty drew, This law for you, 'Twas jacob's God's decree. verse 5 This was the Lords command, In Joseph firm to stand: In Israel. In memorial of Israel's going from Egypt and God with him. A Testament When as he went Throughout all Egypt land. I heard a language there, All unknown words they were. Leu. 23. 48. verse 6 The Lord there broke, The burdenous yoke Which Israel's neck did bear. Psal. 114. 1. His hand from pots were freed, From making earthen vessels. And in the time of need, verse 7 Thou called'st on me, Exod. 1. 14. I set thee free, Deliverance did succeed. I answered thee with grace, With favour when I might on a sudden have destroyed thee. In thunders secret place, I proved thy way At Meribah, Where waters ran apace. Exod. 17. 7. 2. part. Argument. The blessedness of obedience, the baseness of Idolatry, ingratitude, and disobedience. verse 8 HEar o my people free, I'll testify to thee; O Israel mine, If thou incline, And hearken unto me. verse 9 In thee, I say, there shall, Be no strange God at all; And never more Shalt thou adore, Or on a strange God call. verse 10 The Lord thy God am I, Who brought thee graciously, With powerful hand From Egypt land, And servile tyranny. Thy mouth then open wide, In prayer to be supplied, And sure I will Thy prayers fulfil; verse 11 But Israel denied▪ They to my voice so free, Obedient would not be, And (grief to tell Of Israel) He would have none of me. verse 12 So I, in judgement just, Even left them to their lust, And they fulfil Their way and will, In their own counsels trust. verse 13 My people, o that ye Had hark'ned unto me: That Israel Had walked so well, As after my decree. verse 14 I should have soon subdued Their adversaries rude: And turned my hand Against the band Of all their enemies lewd. verse 15 They that the Lord do hate, Had bowed down at his gate: Established in a prosperous condition. But Israel's time Had been in prime, And born eternal date. verse 16 He should have made them eat, The finest of the wheat: And made the rock An honey stock, In plenty very great. PSAL. LXXXII. To Cambridge old tune. God the supreme Judge, convinceth and condemneth wicked Governors. AMong the Gods, God takes a room To judge among the great. verse 2 How long will ye unjustly doom, While sitting in his seat? The wicked ye are partial to, verse 3 But should defend the poor: Unto the needy justice do And fatherless secure. verse 4 Save, rid them from the wickeds hand, These poor and succourless: verse 5 They know not, nor will understand, Tyrant's will not know their duty. All runs to ruin for want of justice. But walk in darksomness. The earth's foundation quite decayed, All out of order runs: verse 6 I styled you Gods, all you I said Are high Jehovahs' sons. verse 7 But die like men of mortal birth, As jezabel, Athalia, Herod, etc. Like Prince's fall shall you: verse 8 Arise, O God, and judge the earth, All Nations are thy due. PSAL. LXXXIII. Martyr's tune. Confederate enemies conspire against the Church, and are cursed. LOrd be not still, hold not thy tongue, Behold, how furiously verse 2 Thy hateful foes, in tumults throng, And lift their heads on high. verse 3 Most crafty counsel they have ta'en, Against us all at once: Consulting how to work the bane Of all thy hidden ones. verse 4 Come let us cut them off, said they, And leave no root behind: So that the name of ISRAEL may No more remembrance find. In hot countries they dwelled in tents. The Saracens were indeed Hagarens of Hagar the bondmaid. verse 5 Against thee have they all combined, Advised with joint consents: verse 6 The Hagarens with Ishmael joined, And those at Edom's tents. verse 7 With Moabites and Ammonites, And Gebal do conspire, The Philistims, Amalakites, With them that dwell at Tyre. verse 8 These Ashur is adjoined unto, The Turks succeed these pagans. To help the sons of Lot: verse 9 To them as unto Midian do, Gen. 19 37. Gain they what Sis'ra got. 2. Part. Argument. God is glorified in the destruction of persecutors, according to the ancient examples of his judgement. SPeed they as Jabin, Canaan's King, Overthrown at Kishon brook: verse 10 Which there at Endor perishing, judges 4. 15. 7. 25. 8. 11. Became as scattered muck. verse 11 Like Zeeb and Oreb, o compel Their noble Peers to fall: As Zeba and Zalmunna fell, So let their Princes all. verse 12 Those namely that have spoken thus, Come on, and let us take The houses of the LORD to us, The dwellings of God's people. And them our houses make. verse 13 Make them (my God) like to a wheel, Restless, ever falling into evil, as a wheel dragged i'th' dirt. Or stubble tossed with wind: verse 14 As burning woods fires fury feel, Let them this fury find. As kindling flames at mountains foot, With fury all deform. verse 15 Them with thy tempest persecute, And fright them with thy storm. verse 16 That they o Lord may seek thy Name, If not for love, for fear. With shame their faces fill: verse 17 Yea let them perish, put to shame, Confounded, troubled still. verse 18 That men may know that thou alone, Whom we Jehovah call, In all the earth the only one Art highest over all. PSAL. LXXXIV. Old England tune. The great zeal of the Saints to God's public Ordinances, and blessedness of such desires. O Lord of hosts how lovely fair, Thy Tabernacles be! verse 2 My longing soul is nigh despair, I even envy the sparrows. And emulate the Levites constant attendance upon the public service, Psal. 134. Thy sacred courts to see. O living God, my flesh, my heart For thee cry out amain: verse 3 Behold the sparrow, for her part, Blessed houseroom doth obtain. The swallow builds her nests full close, Where she her young may bring: Even to thine Altars, This Bac● was a dry plain where they were fain to dig for water, or use rain-water as they journeyed to the Temple, Exod. 32. 17. Lord of hosts, My God and glorious King. verse 4 Thy household servants happy be, They still will give thee praise: verse 5 The man is blest whose strength's in thee, Who minds thy servants ways. verse 6 Which make a Well of Baca-plain, In passing to and fro: The Pools are also filled with rain; verse 7 From strength to strength they go, To Zion hill they all repair, Their going from stage to stage was a type of our progress in grace, and holding out to the end. Remember thy covenant in Christ, for we rejoice in thy service. Before Jehovah there: verse 8 Lord God of hosts, o hear my prayer, O jacob's God give ear. verse 9 O look on thine anointeds face, O Lord our shield behold: verse 10 For in thy Courts a days short space Excels a thousand-fold. In thy fair Temple, I profess, I'd rather keep a door, Then in the tents of wickedness Have dwelling evermore. verse 11 For God the Lord to Israel is A constant Sun and Shield: He will vouchsafe his grace to his, And glory freely yield. From them that walk in upright way, No good thing hold will he: verse 12 Lord God of hosts how blest are they, If he have faith, though perhaps he cannot always come: Meditate of ours from the Romish Babylon, and pray for a full reformation. That put their trust in thee? PSAL. LXXXV. Martyr's tune. He praiseth God for deliverance from the Babylonian captivity, praying God to make it complete. LOrd thou hast dealt most favourably, With thy beloved land: And jacob's hard captivity, Brought back with powerful hand. verse 2 Thou to thy people Lord didst please To seal a pardon free: Their grievous sins and trespasses, Are covered all by thee. verse 3 Thy vehement wrath thou hast allayed, Fierce anger turned to peace: verse 4 Turn us o God our saving aid, Perfect the good work. Thine anger towards us cease. verse 5 Will't thou be angry evermore, And not thy wrath recall? Wilt thou draw out thy wrath so sore, Some of thy people are in Babylon still. To generations all? verse 6 Lord shall not we by power divine, Again revived be: That so the people that are thine, May much rejoice in thee. verse 7 Lord grant us thy salvations aid, Thy mercy let appear: verse 8 Of God the Lord what shall be said, I am persuaded God will grant our prayers. That will I gladly hear. He to his Saints and people deer, Will utter words of peace: But let them take a warning here, And former follies cease. 2. Part. Argument. He prophecies honour and happiness to the Church, in token of the good things of the Gospel. verse 9 SAlvation sure is near at hand, Wait for God's good time. To them that do him fear: That glory may invest the Land, And be a dweller here. verse 10 Now truth and mercy both do meet, The performance joined to the promise. And both in one consist: Now righteousness and peace do greet, And mutually have kissed. verse 11 Justice from heaven shall look down, Christ from heaven in his divine nature, from earth in his humane nature, shall come, teach, and give example. While truth from earth shall spring: verse 12 Yea, and the Lord shall Israel crown, With gifts of each good thing. Our land shall yield her fruits (no doubt) verse 13 The righteousness of God Shall go before, and point us out The way that he hath trod. PSAL. LXXXVI. London long tune. The transcendent goodness and greatness of God encouraging prayers. LOrd bow thy ear, and hear my plaint, A needy wretch and poor: verse 2 Since thou hast made me for a Saint, My troubled soul secure. O thou my God, thy servant save, verse 3 Be merciful to me: Who trust in thee, and daily crave, And call and cry to thee. verse 4 Rejoice, O Lord, thy servants heart, I lift my soul to thee: verse 5 For good and gracious Lord thou art, And to forgiveness free, To all that call upon thy Name, Most rich in mercies fruits. verse 6 O Lord attend the prayers I frame, Mark well my voice and suits. verse 7 I'll call, for thou wilt answer me, In my most troublesome time. verse 8 Among the gods is none like thee, Nor any works like thine. verse 9 All nations which thy hands did frame, Thee Lord shall come before: And there to glorify thy name, Submissively adore. verse 10 For thou art God, yea God alone, Thy power great wonders doth: verse 11 O Lord to me thy way make known, I'll walk in all thy truth. 2. Part. Argument. As before. UNite my heart to fear thy name, verse 12 Then (Lord my God) will I Applaud and magnify the same To all eternity. verse 13 For towards my soul in every deed Thy mercy doth excel; Which thy peculiar power hath freed Even from the lowest hell. verse 14 The proud are risen for my fall, My souls destruction sought By violent men assembling all, On thee they have not thought. verse 15 But Lord thou art a God most kind, Suffling no little space: Compassions store in thee we find, Born in the Church, deny baptism of Infants, and none can be called thy handmaids son. He asketh a providential sign, and not a miracle. And plenteous truth and grace. verse 16 O turn to me that I may live, Thy grace to me extend: Thy strength unto thy servant give, Thy handmaid's son defend. verse 17 Some good apparent sign afford That hateful foes may see, And be ashamed, because thou Lord Didst help and comfort me. PSAL. LXXXVII. Coventry tune. The happy privileges of the Church typed by Zion. Specially in the later days. Zions' foundations edifice In holy mountains lies: As God chose Zion & made it holy, so his people▪ Psal. 78. 68 verse 2 Whose gates God's love Doth far above All jacob's dwelling prize. Hast glorious privileges. verse 3 O city of God, thy structures frame Obtains a glorious name. Egypt and other heathen shall be converted. I'll tell the faithful that believe it, and pray for it. Such and such a man was new born, regenerate in the Church. verse 4 Rahab for one And Babylon I to my friends will name. Philistia, Ethiop, Tyre lo there verse 5 This man was made an heir; And Zion (they Shall point and say) Did this and that man bear. The highest himself shall establish her, verse 6 And this man's birth refer To Zion mount, God himself ●hall number them among his elect. Store of Preachers and Confessors. So make his count When he shall register. verse 7 As well the voice of him that sings, As him that tunes the strings Of music sweet, Therein shall meet, In thee are all my springs. All springs of grace and comfort in the true Church, PSAL. LXXXVIII. To sinner's tune. Heman in the deep dungeon of affliction, destitute of all outward comforts, maketh lamentable complaint. I Cried before thee day and night, Lord God my saving aid: verse 2 O let my cries come in thy sight, And all the prayers I prayed; Incline thin ear unto my cry. verse 3 My soul is filled with woes: My life unto the grave draws nigh Because oppressed with those. verse 4 Numbered with them that pass downright, The path to pit they tread: I'm like a man that hath no might, verse 5 And free among the dead. As a man discommoned from the world, free from any affairs of the world. Even like slain men's my present state, Which in the grave do rot; Which from thy hand are separate, And utterly forgot. verse 6 Thou hast me laid in lowest caves, Beneath deep darkness barred: verse 7 Afflicting me with all thy waves, Thy wrath doth press me hard. verse 8 My 'quaintance far removed thou hast, And made them me abhor: As one whom, now shut up so fast, There's no redemption for. 2. Part. Argument. He humbly sues for redress of his grievous afflictions, Knowing that after death there was no hope. while there was yet hope. MIne eye laments a burdenous load, Of sorrows multiplied: Lord I have stretched my hands abroad, To thee I daily cried; verse 10 Intendest thou, Lord, said I, to show Thy wonders to the dead: Shall dead men rise again, that so Thy praises may be spread? verse 11 Shall we thy loving kindness, Lord, Within the grave express: Shall in destruction men record Thy truth and faithfulness? verse 12 Shall we in darkness understand Thy wonders manifold: All these are descriptions of the state of death. And in oblivions cloudy land Thy righteousness behold? verse 13 I'th' morning I to thee will pray, Yea, Lord I cried to thee: verse 14 Why dost thou cast my soul away, Why hide thy face from me? verse 15 I am afflicted like to die, Suffering from youth to age; I am distracted, while that I Endure such wrath and rage: verse 16 Thy fierce displeasure o'er me goes Thy terrors cut me down; verse 17 And every day they me enclose, As streams that threat to drown: They all together me invade. verse 18 Thou sep'rat'st friend and lover: And darkness with its misty shade Doth my acquaintance cover. PSAL. LXXXIX. Dutch tune. Ethan magnifies God's love and faithfulness to the house of David. A type of his favour to the church in Christ. verse 1 MY song for ever shall express The mercies of the Lord: My mouth shall all his faithfulness From age to age record. Thy promises (as engraven in heaven) are as sure as the heavens themselves. verse 2 For mercy shall (said I) be built, For ever to endure: Thou in the very heavens will't Thy truth establish sure. verse 3 I with my chosen have agreed To faithful David swore; verse 4 My servant, I will fix thy seed, To stand for evermore. To ages all thy throne I'll raise, Saints and Angels there Mat. 2. verse 5 And heaven shall find a tongue Thy wondrous faithfulness to praise Thy gathered Saints among. verse 6 In heaven who may any way With our Lord God compare: Who of the glorious Angels may So bold compar'son dare? verse 7 The Saints assemblies that are his Must greatly fear his Name, And all that round about him is Must reverence the same. 2. Part. Argument. God's goodness to the Church in creation and government of the world. verse 8 O Lord of hosts, what god excels Like thee, with great power crowned? Thy faithfulness who parallels In all thy circuits round? verse 9 The restless raging of the seas, Thou rulest at thy will: Her swelling waves thou dost appease, And mak'st it calm and still. verse 10 Thou brok'st in pieces Egypt's land, Like one that slaughtered lies: Thou hast with thine almighty hand Dispersed thine enemies. Made Egypt ● dead corpse by the ten plague's. verse 11 The heavens and the earth are thine, The world and all enclosed, Thou foundest by that power divine, All coasts & corners of the world praise thee, (Tabor and Hermon are put for East & West, because they stood so) who hast enriched them with thy blessings. The sound of the Gopel, and that which calls thereto. verse 12 Which North and South composed. Tabor and Hermon wondrously, Shall in thy Name delight: verse 13 Thy hand is strong, thy right hand high, Thy arm is full of might. verse 14 Justice and Judgement on thy thro●. Retain a dwelling place: Pure truth and mercy joined in one, Shall go before thy face. verse 15 That people blessed we record, That knows the joyful sound: Thy countenances light o Lord, Shall safely them surround. verse 16 Even them thy righteousness shall raise, And they shall take delight verse 17 In thy great Name, that is their praise, And glory of their might. Thy favour such, that shall there spring, Our horns advancement thence: verse 18 For Israel's holy one's our King, The Lord is our defence. 3. Part. Argument. Prophecies and promises to David's house recorded. Fulfilled to the Church in Christ. In prophecy or by Prophets thou didst promise to promote David, a type of Christ. verse 19 IN vision to thy Saint was said, For than thou mad'st it known: Lo, ay my helping hand have laid, Upon a mighty one. verse 20 A chosen Israelite I crowned, With holy Oil have I: My servant David, whom I found Anointed purposely. verse 21 Mine hand shall establish his success, Mine arm shall make him strong: verse 22 No foe, No wicked tyrant. no son of wickedness, Shall crush or do him wrong. verse 23 I'll crush his foes before his face, Plague them that do him hate: verse 24 But will my faithfulness and grace With him perpetuate. ●is horn shall be exalted high, His power and dominion. By my great Names command: verse 25 I'll stretch to th'Seas his sovereignty, See Ps. 72. 8. His seed shall cry Abba father. To th'river his right hand. verse 26 Thou art my Father, he shall cry, So invocate my Name: My God, my rock, my sure supply, Whence my salvation came. verse 27 Him my firstborn will I advance, David was the first King that God chose. Meditate of Christ. All earthly Kings above: verse 28 And ever grant continuance, Unto him of my love. My covenant shall with him stand fast, verse 29 His seed shall still endure: And I will make his throne to last, As days of heaven sure. 4. Part. Argument. He shows that God corrects his people, but never casts them off. verse 30 IF david's seed forsake my Law, Much more Christ's seed. Not execute my will: verse 31 If from my precepts they withdraw, Not my commands fulfil: verse 32 They shall be sure that I their God, Their wickedness and sin, With scourges of a smarting rod, To visit will begin. verse 33 But of my loving kindness yet, I will not him bereave: Nor will my faithfulness permit To take a final leave. Then how sure in Christ. verse 34 My covenant with my chosen King, By me shall ne'er be broke: Nor will I alter any thing, Which once my lips have spoke. verse 35 Once by my holiness I swore, To David I'll not lie: verse 36 His seed shall last for evermore, His throne before mine eye. verse 37 Like Sun and Moon it shall be fixed, I'll never fail them while the world stands. For ever they shall be Heavens faithful witnesses betwixt My chosen King and me. 5. Part. Argument. He complains of great distress besall'n the house of David, Afflictions may object that God hath cast us off, but never prove it. The glory of his kingdom (which was a type of so sacred a kingdom) is much abased, by desolation of war. seeming to disprove God's promises. verse 38 BUt thine anointed now abhorred, Thou hast cast off in wroth: verse 39 Made void thy servants covenant Lord, The covenant of thy troth. By casting down to ground thou hast Profaned his sacred crown: verse 40 Of his strong holds made woeful waste, His hedges all broke down. verse 41 All passengers do him destroy, He is in enemies' scorn: verse 42 And all his foes thou mad'st to joy. And liftest up their horn. verse 43 Yea thou hast turned and blunted quite His swords puissant edge: And for to stand it out in fight, Thou hast not been his pledge. verse 44 His glory thou hast caused to cease, And cast his throne to ground: In the very beginning his kingdom is decayed, and seems to be brought to a decrepit state. verse 45 His youthful days thou didst decrease, And him with shame confound. 6. Part. Argument. He prays for restauration of David's kingdom, considering Gods faithful promises, and the greatness of the adversaries. verse 46 How long Lord wilt thou hide thy face, Shall thy continual rage Flame out as fire so long a space? verse 47 O think of my short age. The Church in a dying state. Why hast thou made all men in vain? verse 48 What man draws vital breath, As thou wouldst pity short breathed man, ●o much more thy Church. That shall his soul from grave detain, And not at all see death? verse 49 Thy former loving kindnesses, Which thou didst swear and vow To David in thy righteousness, O Lord where are they now? verse 50 Remember, Lord, thy Saint's reproach, What taunts my bosom bears: Which all the mighty people broach, Thine enemies' taunts are theirs. verse 51 Wherewith they have reproached the ways Of thine anointed King: As the wicked do Christ. verse 52 To God be everlasting praise, Amen, Lord grant the thing. PSAL. XC. London long tune. Moses prays God (the eternal stay of the Church) to sanctify the many mortalities of Israel in the Wilderness for their sins. LOrd thou hast been our dwelling place, In generations all: Thou wast ere there was form or face Of creature great or small. verse 2 Before the mountains had their birth, The world or smallest clod Of all this vast and spacious earth, Thou art eternal God. verse 3 But as for man that's made of clay, He's soon unmade again: And falls to dust when thou dost say, Return ye sons of men. verse 4 Whereas again a thousand years So seemeth in thy fight, As yesterday when past appears, A fourth part of the night. Or as a watch by night. verse 5 Like to a swift and hasty stream, Mat. 24. 43. Thou mak'st man's life-time pass: Mat. 13. 35. Or like a transitory dream, Or like the springing grass. verse 6 Which in the morning flourisheth, Most pleasantly up-grown: And in the evening withereth, Soon after it is mown. verse 7 For by thine anger's power o God, Are we consumed and spent: And troubled with thy stinging rod, Of wrathful punishment. verse 8 Thou settest in sight th'iniquities Wherein we lewdly run: And thy clear countenance descries Our sins in secret done. verse 9 For all our days are passed away, Thine anger taking hold: We spend our years from day to day, As when a tale is told. A pleasant tale delights us, and steals our thoughts from us, and is done ere we are aware or willing, so, etc. 2. Part. Argument. Moses prayer for grace to make good use of our frail life, and a happy change of their sad condition. verse 10 THe time's but threescore years & ten, That we continue here: And if some stronger sort of men Do live to fourscore year: Their life is labour, strength is none, But sorrowful decay: So soon is it cut off and gone, We post, we fly away. verse 11 Who understands among us here, What power thine anger hath? Thy wrath is as dreadful as we do or can imagine. For answerable to thy fear, So great appears thy wrath. verse 12 Lord teach us this religious art, Of numbering out our days: To consider the shortness and uncertainty thereof. That so we may apply our heart To sacred wisdoms ways. verse 13 How long shall thy fierce anger burn? O leave thy discontent: And for thy servants sake return, Concerning them repent. verse 14 O satisfy with mercy then And that without delays: That we may be most joyful men And glad even all our days. verse 15 According to our days of tears, And miseries making sad, And also for the evil years, Comfort and make us glad. verse 16 O let thy work appear to those That are thy servants true: Thy work of mercy, for Judgement is called his strange work Isa. 28. 21. but mercy his own work, Isa. 26. 12. Thy glorious shining rays disclose Unto their children's view. verse 17 O let the Lord our God command His face on us to shine: Confirm the actions of our hand Confirm them Lord by thine. PSAL. XCI. David's tune. The admirable safety of the Saints in most perilous times. WHo dwelleth in the secret place Where God most high doth hide; Under the wing of God's protection is all safety. In shadow of th'almighty's grace Full safely shall abide: verse 2 The Lord's my God, I will report, Even he, and none but he, He is my refuge, and my fort In whom my trust shall be. verse 3 He surely shall be thy defence, Both from the fowler's snare; From the Executioner of Judgement. And from infectious pestilence Which poisoneth the air. verse 4 His feathers shall thee overspread His wings thy confidence: This Psalm is thought to be made on occasion of that plague, 2 Sam. 24. His truth a shield to save thy head And buckler for defence: verse 5 Thou shalt not need to be afraid For terrors of the night: Nor for the arrow be dismayed That flies in open light. The sickness is most infectious (some write) in the night and at noon. verse 6 Nor shalt thou fear the pestilence That walks in darksome way; Nor that destuctions' violence, That wastes at height of day. Object. Why doth the sickness take us away promiscuously? verse 7 A thousand at thy side shall fall, Millions at thy right hand; Yet shall it not come near at all The place where thou dost stand. Answ. I doubt we want that goodness they had of old. verse 8 Only with thy peculiar eyes Shalt thou behold and see How wicked men's iniquities Shall recompensed be. Thou shalt see how it a● lights on the wicked. 2. Part. Argument. God keepeth his Saints by his providence and Angels from all savage enemies, and deadly dangers. Tyrants, robbers, heretics and hypocrites meant by these beasts. verse 9 BEcause thou hast the Lord alone, Who is my rock and shade, Even the Lord the highest One Thy habitation made: verse 10 No plague nor evil shall befall Nor come thy dwelling near: verse 11 For he shall charge his Angels all To keep thee every where: verse 12 They shall uphold thee in their hand From stumbling at a stone: On Lion's neck thy foot shall stand, And th'Adder tread upon. verse 13 The Dragon and the Lion's Whelp, Trod under foot by thee: verse 14 I, saith the Lord, will send him help Because he loved me. I'll set him up in high degree, Because he knew my name: verse 15 With prayers he shall call on me, I answering the same. I will preserve, to honour raise, Be with him in temptation: verse 16 Suffice him with the length of days, And show him my salvation. PSAL. XCII. Short staff tune. God is highly magnified for his work of creation & providence, the depth of his judgements, Entitled a Psalm for the Sabbath day. especially to the wicked. TO give thanks to the Lord, It is an excellent thing: To magnify Thy name most high In praises when we sing. Therefore should we keep the Sabbath (for such memorial) from morning to night. verse 2 Thy kindness to record So soon as morning springs: At night express Thy faithfulness. verse 3 On instruments ten strings, On harp and psaltery With sweet and solemn sound: verse 4 O Lord through thine Own works divine Thou mad'st my joys abound. Music of affections now. In them triumph will I, The works which thou hast wrought, verse 5 How great and rare O Lord they are, How deep is every thought? Rom. 11. 33. verse 6 A brutish man knows not, No fool perceives this thing: verse 7 All flour'shing when Lewd wicked men As morning grass do spring. Then is the final lot Of their destruction nigh: verse 8 But thou dost reign The most supreme To all eternity. 2. Part. Argument. The certain downfall of the wicked, and exaltation of the righteous, and their perpetual fruitfulness. verse 9 FOr lo, O Lord, thy foes For lo thy foes shall fall: Thy truth assures That wicked doers, Though multitudes. Maintain my dignity: They write that the Unicorn is never taken ●ive. They shall be scattered all. verse 10 But like the horn that grows Upon the Un'corns head: So Lord thou shalt My horn exalt, And fresh oil on me spread. Renew thy gifts and graces on me. verse 11 Mine eye his wish shall see On wicked enemies: The same mine ear Of them shall hear That up against me rise. verse 12 Even like the Cedar tree That Lebanon forth brings The just shall grow And flourish so, As laden palmtree springs. verse 13 Gods Temple plants shall spring In our Gods Courts each one: The true members of the Church. verse 14 And still produce Their fruitful juice, When they are ancient grown. Still fat and flourishing, verse 15 Gods Justice to express, How ever the godly are tried, or the wicked suffered. My rock is he Most pure and free From all unrighteousness. PSAL. XCIII. Coventry tune. The Majesty of God, stability of his works, and of his Church and Ordina●●es against all the waves of wickedness. The Lord our God doth reign on high, And doth himself invest With Majesty And potency, With both is girt and dressed. verse 2 The world he fixed for ay to last, Thou hast prepared thy throne: Of old thou hast Confirmed it fast, Thou art th'eternal One. verse 3 The floods O Lord, the floods arise, The floods lift up their waves, Up to the skies Their uproar flies Their voice rumultuous raves. verse 4 Yet is the Lord on high far more, Far more of might than these: Though numerous store Of waters roar, And mighty waves of seas. verse 5 Thy testimonies questionless Are sure, and alter never: Pure holiness Doth seemly dress Thy house, Holy promises, ordinances, exercises. O Lord, for ever. PSAL. LXXXXIV. New staff tune. The insolence and cruelty of tyrants; the Allseeing eye, and All-judging power of God. O Lord to whom it doth belong Just vengeance to repay: O God the punisher of wrong, Do thou thyself display. verse 2 Thou Judge of all In general Thyself no longer hide: Arise, dispense A recompense To all the sons of pride. verse 3 How long shall wicked men, how long Triumph as Lords and Kings? verse 4 How long shall they with spiteful tongue Pronounce and speak hard things? The multitude Of sinners lewd How long shall boasting use? verse 5 Thy folk in rage Thine heritage How they afflict and bruise? verse 6 Poor widows, strangers, orphan's they With murderous hands have smote: verse 7 The Lord yet shall not see, they say, Nor jacob's God shall note. The God of the puritans. verse 8 Ye rude among The brutish throng, O understand, discern: Ye foolish men, Why when, why when Will ye be wise and learn? verse 9 Shall he that formed both ears and eyes, Not he both see and hear? verse 10 Not he correct that doth chastise The heathen every where? Not he discern That makes man learn? That gives man the faculty of reason. verse 11 The Lord discovers plain The thoughts of man, Which he doth skan, To think they are unseen, or shall scape unpunished. And finds them merely vain. 2. Part. Argument. The blessing of sanctified affliction; The destruction of the wicked in their sins. verse 12 THe man whom thou dost, Lord, chastise, Is infinitely blest: Whom by thy Law thou makest wise, Not every man afflicted, but he that learns by it. That thou mayst give him rest. verse 13 Even when there come Times troublesome, Till dangerous days be passed: And till the ditch Be digged, Esa. 26. 20. in which The wicked shall be cast. verse 14 For sure the Lord will not reject The people whom he took: Tho God try the righteous, and suffer the wicked for a time, it will change. The heritage to him select Shall never be forsaken. verse 15 But sure regress To righteousness Shall judgement have again: And jointly then Truehearted men Shall wait upon her train. verse 16 But who against lewd men shall rise, Yet I was ready to distrust for my own part, Then God came in, etc. Or who for me's at hand, Against workers of iniquities, In my behalf to stand? verse 17 But that the Lord Did help afford, My soul had very nigh In silence dwelled, I had been in my grave ere now. verse 18 But when I felt My foot to slip awry. Thy mercies, Lord, did me uphold. verse 19 In various thoughts which roll Within my breast so manifold, Thy comforts glad my soul. Comforts of thy Word and Spirit. Shall they that make laws for traps plead thy authority: you must obey the King, si●, i● all things. verse 20 Lord shall the thrones Of wicked ones Have fellowship with thee? When as the same Lewd mischief frame By purposed decree. verse 21 Against the righteous souls they flock, They guiltless blood condemn ': verse 22 But of my refuge God's the rock, And my defence from them. verse 23 he'll recompense Their bold offence, And take them in their sin: The Lord, I say, Our God shall slay, And cut them off therein. PSAL. XCV. To short staff tune. An exhortation to praise God the maker and governor of the world, the Shepherd and Saviour of the Church. A dehortation from rebellion, and hardness of heart, like our unbelieving forefathers that were debarred entrance into Canaan. O Come, sing we a song, A joyful noise be made: With joint accord, Before the LORD, Our rock of saving aid: verse 2 Into his presence throng, Hearts truly thankful bring: And make a noise Exciting joys, Sweet Psalms unto him sing. verse 3 Great King, great God he is, Whose power all Gods transcends: The spacious lands Are in his hands, verse 4 The deeps he comprehends. The strength of hills is his. The Sea in his command: He made the same, His hands did frame The dry and solid land. verse 6 O come bow down all we, Before him let us fall: Let us adore And kneel before The Lord that made us all. verse 7 Our God and Shepherd's he, His folk and flock are we: This day give ear His voice to hear, When ever ye hear his word or spirit moving you. If ye obedient be. verse 8 And harden not your heart, As once at Meribah Ye did transgress In Wilderness, In forty year's space (a long day) specially that notorious temptation, Exod. 17. 6. In that temptation day. As in the desert part verse 9 Your fathers tempted me, And proved my might Each Israelite, My wonders they did see. verse 10 I forty years was grieved With this lewd race, and said, They are indeed An erring seed In heart and judgement strayed. Nor known nor have believed, verse 11 Wherefore I swore in wrath, And did protest Into Canaan a type of heaven. That to my rest They should not tread the path. PSAL. XCVI. Coventry tune. The incomparable majesty of the true God. COmpose new songs, and sing the same To God, o all the earth: verse 2 Sing forth his fame And glorious Name All men of mortal birth. From day to day, o do not spare His saving health to show: verse 3 His wonders rare, And fame declare, That Nations all may know. verse 4 For God a great God doth appear, And greatly praised must be: And every where Be had in fear Above all Gods must he. verse 5 For all the Gods that Nations name, Are Idols every one: The Lord this same Most glorious frame Of heaven made alone. verse 6 Before him honour stands in sight, With majesty divine: Adored might, And beauty bright, Greatest tokens of his glory are in his Church. In's Sanctuary shine. verse 7 Ye people give unto the Lord; Let every stock and tribe, Unto the LORD With joint accord, Glory and strength ascribe. 2. Part. Argument. He magnifies God for the hopeful revelation of the Gospel, For by Christ they shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption. Rom. 8. 19, 20, 21, 22. the joy of all creatures. verse 8 GIve God the glory, as the thing Due to his Name most high: Devoutly bring An offering And to his courts draw nigh. verse 9 Adore the LORD in beauty clear, Of his most holy place: Gentiles come in. Earth far and near, O stand in fear Before his awful face. verse 10 Let heathen know Jehovah reigns, Be bold to say the word, He Earth sustains That it remains, The Church militant in unity, verity, safety. And never shall be stirred. He righteously shall judge the Earth, verse 11 Let heavens rejoice therefore, Let all the Earth Be filled with mirth, And seas swift billows roar. verse 12 Let fields and fruits show high degrees Of mirth with one accord: And then shall these The woodland trees verse 13 Rejoice before the LORD. For lo, he doth himself address, And judgement he pursueth, His coming is nigh at hand, to teach, judge, justify, sanctify. Mediate of his coming to judgement. To judge all flesh With righteousness, And people with his truth. PSAL. XCVII. David's tune. The majesty of Christ's kingdom, the confusion of Idolaters, and great harvest of joys, promised to the godly. LEt earth rejoice God reigns alone, Lands aswell as continent, rejoice for the Kingdom of Christ, dreadful only to his adversaries. Let numerous Isles be glad: verse 2 In truth & judgement dwells his throne, With clouds and darkness clad. verse 3 A fire his foes consuming quite, There goes before his feet: verse 4 His lightnings gave the world their light, The earth did quake to see't. verse 5 The hills like wax did melt and thaw Before the earth's great Lord: Kingdoms of Tyrants tremble at his Judgements. verse 6 And all the world his glory saw, The heavens his truth record. verse 7 Who worship graven Images, Angels and men. Confusion on them fall, That boast of Idols such as these: Let all false gods fall as Dagon, etc. & their disciples worship the true God. Ye Gods adore him all. verse 8 Mount Zion heard, and was hereat With joy affected much: And Judah's Daughters joyed for that Thy judgement's Lord were such. verse 9 All Gods thou art extolled above, o'er all the earth most high: verse 10 Ye Saints that do Jehovah love, Hate all iniquity; His servants souls he saves each one, And adverse power controls: verse 11 And for the righteous light is sown, And joy for upright souls. Light of comfort, which if it spring not up in▪ this world, will be plentiful hereafter. verse 12 Ye righteous servants of the Lord, Great joy in him express: And give him thanks when ye record His perfect holiness. PSAL. XCVIII. To the three first lines of choice tune. The victorious salvation of Christ, Such a holy nature cannot fail of his promises. the revelation of his gracious Gospel, to the great joy of all creatures. UNto the LORD a new song sing, For many a great and wondrous thing, His mighty power to pass doth bring. His holy arm of sovereignty, Luk. 1. 69. And his right hand exalted high, Have gotten him the victory. verse 2 He hath made known his saving might, And brought his truth to open light: Even in the very heathens sight. verse 3 He hath remembered in his mind, Published to the Gentiles. His perfect truth and mercy's kind; As all the house of Israel find. The ends of all the earth abroad Have seen declared and plainly showed The saving health our God bestowed. verse 4 Make to the Lord a joyful noise, Let all the earth express their joys, And sing his praise with loudest noise. verse 5 Sing to the Lord, with harp rejoice, With instruments of music choice; With harp and psalms melodious voice. verse 6 With trumpet and with cornet sound Before this Lord and King renowned; Let sweet and sacred joys abound. verse 7 Let all the earth and numerous store, Even all that dwells on seas or shore; The world and all its fullness roar. verse 8 Let floods clap hands, and every ford, And let the hills with one accord, Rejoice with joy before the Lord. verse 9 For lo he comes to judge and try The world and people generally With righteousness and equity. PSAL. XCIX. To choice tune. The majesty and equity of Christ and his kingdom; The prayers, answers, errors, corrections, mercies, miracles, recorded of the ancient Saints for our example. THe Lord doth reign, Heb. 12. 28. Christ's government delights in righteousness. King's thrones are adorned with Purple, Arras, etc. let people quake, 'Twixt Cherubims he sets his seat: O let the earth be moved and shake. verse 2 The Lord in Zion is so great. Above all people he is high, verse 3 Thy greatness let them magnify; O let them praise the dreadful Name, For high and holy is the same. verse 4 The Kings firm strength doth judgement love, Thou dost establish equity: Christ's with righteousness▪ Thou execut'st them from above, And rul'st in Jacob righteously. verse 5 The Lord our God exalt therefore, And reverently his name adore At footstool of his holy throne, At, or before the Ark, a Type of Christ. For he's a high and holy one. verse 6 Moses and Aaron also were Among his Priests and men of fame: The word for a Priest is sometimes put for a great person Num. 16. 46. 1. Sam. 7. 9 Exod. 13. 21. Ancient miracles belong to us. Pardon and chastisement may stand together. And Samuel among them there That called upon his holy name. They called, and answer he did make verse 7 In cloudy, pill'r to them he spoke They to his his testimonies clavae, And kept the ordinance that he gave. verse 8 Thou answ'redst them, O Lord our God, Thou wast a pard'ning God likewise: Though thou tookst vengeance with thy rod, And their inventions didst chastise. verse 9 The Lord our God exalt ye still, And worship at his holy hill: For the things they did besides and against the word. For sure the Lord our God alone He is a high and holy one. PSAL. C. Southwell tune. He exhorts to praise God for our happy calling in Christ Jesus. ALL men of mortal birth That dwell in all the earth O make a noise To God with joys, verse 2 And serve the Lord with mirth. O come before his throne With singing every one: verse 3 For certainly The Lord most high Even he is God alone. He made us, He made us his people, joh. 15. 16. and not we, Not we ourselves, but he His folk and flock And pasture stock He made us for to be. verse 4 With praise come to his gate And in his Courts relate His laud and fame, And bless his name, His honour celebrate. verse 5 For God is good for ever, His mercy faileth never: His truth doth last All ages past, And constant doth persever. How much more doth Christ in his Church? PSAL. CI. To new staff tune. † In this song publicly profess it. David vows to rule his house and Kingdom with discreet * Comprehending all the virtues of a governor. Doing all for thy glory. When wilt thou settle me in my kingdom, mean while I will do so in my house▪ justice, to curb and cut off the wicked, and countenance the godly. LOrd, I will sing of mercy sweet And judgement, to thy praise: verse 2 And wisely guide my wary feet In all thy perfect ways. When wilt thou Lord To me accord Thy justice to impart: At home will I, Walk righteously And with a perfect heart▪ verse 3 I will no wicked thing abide, I●● do no wrong to my subjects, nor suffer any one to counsel me so, I hate such doings, etc. Before mine eyes to be: I hate their works that turn aside, It shall not cleave to me, verse 4 The froward heart From me shall part, An● have no more access: And I will no Such persons know As practise wickedness. verse 5 That man that sland'reth privily I will cut off, be sure: The stout in heart, whose looks are high, I will not once endure. verse 6 I'll look out then The faithful men, The servants both of my Court and Crown shall be the best deser●ing. That dwell with me they may; And then shall he My servant be That walks in perfect way. verse 7 I in my house will entertain No guileful man to dwell: Nor in my sight shall he remain That lies invents to tell. verse 8 I soon cut short The wicked sort And wickd works condemn ' That so I may Them take away From God's Jerusalem. Typing our bondage to Satan, and the Romish Babylon. PSAL. CII. Sinners tune. The lamentations of the whole Church, as one man, in the captivity of Babylon. LOrd hear my prayer, and let my cry Come speedily to thee: verse 2 In day of my calamity Hide not thy face from me. Incline thine ear invoked to day, Thine answer quick return; verse 3 My days as smoke consume away, My bones hearth-like do burn. verse 4 My heart like grass is withered, With deep and doleful groans; verse 5 While I forget to eat my bread, My skin cleaves to my bones. verse 6 The Pelican of wilderness And deserts Owl I match: verse 7 And Sparrow-like companionless, On houses top I watch. verse 8 I all day long am made a scorn To my malicious foes; The mad men are against me sworn, Against me that arose: verse 9 For bread I do the ashes eat, My drink with weeping mixed: verse 10 Because thine indignation great And anger comes betwixt. For down thou hast thy servant cast, Therefore my adversity is the greater. First having raised me high: verse 11 Like fleeting shade my days are past, Like withering grass am I. verse 12 But thou, O Lord, dost still endure From all mutation free: To every generation sure Shall thy remembrance be. 2. Part. To martyrs tune. The Church's restauration from Babylon, and happy reformation in the days of the Gospel: he desires to see it, but contents himself with consideration of God's eternity and perpetuity of his Church. verse 13 THou shalt arise and mercy yet To Zion mount extend: Seventy years, jer. 25. 12. Of the ruins of the material temple, how much more of the living temple of the holy Ghost? Prayer shall bring thee deliverance. Though in after ages. Her time for favour which was set Is now come to an end. verse 14 Thy Saints take pleasure in her stones, Her dust to them is dear; verse 15 All heathen lands and kingly thrones Thy names renown shall fear. verse 16 Gods shining glory shall appear, When Zion he repairs: verse 17 He shall regard and lend his ear Unto the needies prayers. Their humble prayer he will not scorn, verse 18 This thing we will record; For future ages yet unborn, That they may praise the Lord. verse 19 He looked from height of's holy throne The earth viewed from the sky: verse 20 To hear the prisoners doleful groan, Captives in Babylon. And save the doomed to die. verse 21 B Zion and Jerusalem His name and praise record: Gentiles conversion. verse 22 When lands and people all of them Meet there to praise the Lord. verse 23 My strength he weakened in the way, Oh that this generation might see these days, but we are broken with affliction, and wearing away. My lingering days decayed: verse 24 My God, O take me not away Amidst my days, I said. Thy years throughout all ages last, verse 25 Of old time thou hast laid The earth's foundation firm and fast, Thy hands the heavens have made. verse 26 They perish as old garment wears, But thou shalt still endure: As vestures thou shalt change their spheres, And changed they shall be sure. verse 27 Thou art the same of endless years: verse 28 Thy servants sons survive Their seed before thy face appears, Established still alive. PSAL. CIII. York tune. An exhortation to praise God for his incomparable mercies to his Church and children. MY soul I charge thee to express The Lord's renown and fame: Let all within me praise and bless His great and sacred name. verse 2 Forget not all his benefits, But bless the Lord my soul: verse 3 Who thine offences all remits And makes thee sound and whole. verse 4 Who hath redeemed thee from the dead, Destruction threatening sore: With loving kindness crowned thy head, And tender mercy's store. verse 5 Who with his gifts large multitude, Thy mouth sufficing, fills: So that thy youth is now renewed, As Eagles casting bills. Her bill in old age grows so crooked, she cannot eat till it fall off and then she revives. Psal. 147. 29. verse 6 The Lord doth judgement execute, And righteousness conclude: For persons that are destitute, Oppressed by tyrant's rude. verse 7 His ways to Moses he made known, His acts to israels seed: verse 8 The Lord's a very gracious one, And merciful indeed. To anger slow, aboundless deep Of mercies multiplied: verse 9 He will not always anger keep, Nor everlasting chide. verse 10 He hath not dealt as our offence, And wickedness hath been: Nor given us due recompense, According to our sin. verse 11 For as the heavenly Orbs appear The earth so far above: So great to them that do him fear, Is Gods surpassing love. verse 12 The sins whereby we have transgressed, Removing, by his grace, As far from us, as East and West Are separate in space. 2. Part. Argument. He magnifies the sweet compassion of God, exhorts all creatures to praise him for his greatness also. verse 13 AS fathers are compassionate Unto their children dear: So God doth them commiserate That truly do him fear. verse 14 For he remembers we are dust, Our crazy frame he knows: verse 15 The days of man resemble just The grass which short time grows. He prospers as a flower in field, verse 16 Which, when the winds pass o'er, Is perished, and the place can yield No knowledge of it more. verse 17 But lo, the Lords abundant grace, Eternity doth fill: His constant righteousness takes place To children's children still. verse 18 To every person that consents To keep his covenant true: And thinks on his commandments, For observation due. verse 19 In heaven, as a glorious King, The Lord hath set his throne: And over every kind of thing, His kingdom rules alone. verse 20 Ye Angels that in strength excel, And God's commandments do: That know his voice and word so well, Still harkening thereunto. verse 21 Bless ye the Lord, o bless him still, Ye glorious hosts of his: Ye Ministers that do fulfil What ere his pleasure is. Numerous Angels. verse 22 Yea all his works both far and near, Bless ye the Lords great Name: Through his Dominions every where, My soul bless thou the same. PSAL. CIV. David's tune. The admirable power and providence of God in the creation & government of the world▪ MY soul the great God magnify, My God thou dost thee cloth, With honour and with majesty, ●xceeding great in both. verse 2 With light thou cover'st thee about, As with a Princely robe: The father of lights, for thou mad'st light the first day. Like curtains drawn thou stretchest out The bright celestial globe. verse 3 * Second day Gen. 1. 6. As nimble as a flame to execute his will. Upon the wat'ry element there, His chamber-beams he binds: He makes the clouds his Chariot bear, Gen. 1. 3. Some think he treats of the five days Creation. And walks on winged winds. verse 4 His Ministers a fiery flame, His Angel's spirits he makes: verse 5 He laid the earth's foundation frame, So sure, it never shakes. verse 6 † Third day. Gen. 1. 9 At first water leapt about the earth, but God bounded the water, to make the earth habitable. Which thou didst cover with the flood, Like garments overspread: The waters o'er the mountains stood, Quere, if Angels were not made the second day. verse 7 At thy a Thy word, Gen. 1. 7. was soon obeyed. rebuke they fled. Thy thundering voice compelled them all, To haste away apace: verse 8 The b Heb. The mountains ascend, the valleys descend. mountains rise, the valleys fall, Each to his founded place. verse 9 Their passage thou dost now restrain, By setting them their bound: That they may c As naturally (being a lighter element) they would. never turn again, To cover all the ground. verse 10 Into the vales fresh springs he sends, Yet Rivers accommodate us, though the Seas cover not the earth. Which run among the hills: verse 11 Each beast the Forest comprehends, Here take and drink their fills. Wild asses here their thirst do slake; verse 12 Here feathered fowl do house; And nests for habitations make, And sing among the boughs. 2. part. Argument. The works of creation intermixed; the use of them for man. verse 13 HE from his chambers of the sky, The earth with rain hath stored: Thy works the whole earth satisfy, With fruits that they afford. verse 14 For cattle he makes grass to spring, And herbs for man's own use: Convenient food for every thing, He makes the earth produce. verse 15 To glad man's heart he makes fat soil Bring forth the grape for wine: Heart-strengthning bread, & suppling oil, To make the countenance shine. verse 16 No juicefull sap God's trees do want, Those goodly Cedar trees Which he in Lebanon did plant: verse 17 The birds make nests in these. The stork in stately firre-trees dwells, verse 18 High hills the goats befit: The Coneys in the hollow cells Of stony rocks do sit. verse 19 The moon a certain course doth run, Gen. 1. 14. And he ordained it so: And when to set none tells the Sun, For he the time doth know. verse 20 Thou makest darkness, darkness night, The forests beasts do then, (Whom glittering daylight did affright) Creep all out of their den. verse 21 Young Lions roaring for their prey, Of God do seek their meat: verse 22 The Sun ariseth▪ then do they Together make retreat. verse 23 In secret dens they closely lurk, And then doth man begin To set upon and ply his work, Till evening calls him in. 3. Part. Argument. The admirable works of God both by Sea and Land; the dependence of the creatures upon him; the wicked are cursed for contempt of his works. verse 24 HOw many are thy works? O Lord, In wisdom all composed: The earth by thee is richly stored With treasures there-inclosed. verse 25 So is this great and spacious deep, Replenished therewithal: Where things innumerable creep, And beasts both great and small. verse 26 The ships go also here away, Leviathan here keeps, Whom thou hast made to sport and play Within the tumbling deeps. verse 27 These on thy bounty all depend. For seasonable food: verse 28 Thy liberal hand thou dost extend, And they are filled with good. They gather what thou dost supply, verse 29 Thou hidest thy face, they mourn: Thou tak'st away their breath, they die, And to their dust return. verse 30 Thy Spirits power thou sendest forth, Tho individuums (i. e. particular creatures, men, beasts, plants) die, yet the species (the kinds of each) continue still. Which them anew creates: And all the surface of the earth, Thy Spirit renovates. verse 31 For ever lasts the Lords renown, His works his joy provokes: verse 32 * As at Sina. Exod. 19 I will not neglect to praise God for his work, as profane men do. Earth made to tremble at his frown, Hills at his touch to smoke. verse 33 I'll praise the Lord with cheerful song, While I remain alive: While I have being, shall my tongue In his choice praises strive. verse 34 My thoughts of him most sweet shall be, In God will I be joyed: verse 35 Let workers of iniquity Be from the earth destroyed. And let the wicked be no more: Take him away in his sins. O thou my soul record The praises of the Lord therefore, Praise ye, praise ye the Lord. PSAL. CV. Old England tune. An exhortation to seek God's favour, help, and succour, upon consideration of his wonderful works, expressed all the world ●ver. GIve thanks to God, call on his Name, To men his deeds make known: verse 2 Sing, sing his praise, his works proclaim, And wonders every one. verse 3 Joy fill their hearts that seek his grace: Boast in ●is holy Name: verse 4 S●ek, seek the Lord, his strength & face, For ever seek the same. verse 5 His marvelous works to mind recall, And every wondrous deed: His miracles and judgements all, Which from his mouth proceed. verse 6 O ye his servants, Abraham's seed, His chosen jacob's sons: verse 7 He is the Lord our God indeed, Through th'earth his judgement runs. 2. Part. Argument. The fidelity and confirmation of God; Which signifies our safe conduct to the kingdom of glory. promises to the faithful, instanced in Israel's conduct to Canaan. verse 8 HE hath remembered still to do, His covenants contents: The word which he commanded to A thousand of descents. verse 9 Which covenant he with Abraham drew, And next to Isaac swore: verse 10 And for a law confirmed anew To Jacob, as before. An everlasting Covenant With Israel firm to stand: verse 11 Saying, To you I freely grant All Canaan's fertile land: An heritage allotted you, verse 12 When few the people were: Their number was exceeding few, And also strangers there. verse 13 From under on King's government, When, travelling along, They to another people went: verse 14 He let none do them wrong: But for their sakes he Kings controlled, Let no presumptuous arm verse 15 Touch mine anointed, nor be bold To do my Prophet's harm. My people taught and anointed with my Spirit. 3. Part. Argument. God's preventing providence to his Church, Typing our provision & preservation in the world. instanced in Israel's coming into Egypt, and preservation there. verse 16 MOreover then th'Almighty spoke, That famine should be spread o'er all the Land, Ou● of evils God intends good for his children. and wholly broke The succouring staff of bread. verse 17 But Joseph he had sent before, Whom for a slave they sold: verse 18 Whose feet with fetters they made sore, He lodged in irons cold. verse 19 Until his words accomplishment, Till the time came that God had said with himself (i. e. decreed) to deliver him; his word of permission tried joseph's patience. By God's word tried was he: verse 20 The King (the people's Ruler) sent To lose and set him free. verse 21 He made him Lord of's family, And ruler of his treasure: verse 22 To teach his Senate policy, And bind his Peers at pleasure. verse 23 Then Israel into Egypt came, And Jacob there found place To sojourn in the land of Ham, verse 24 Where they increased apace. He made them stronger than their foes, verse 25 And of their foes abhorred: God guides wicked men's malice to our good. And subtly made them deal with those The servants of the Lord. 4. Part. Argument. A memorial of God's miracles in Egypt; They are forced to let Israel go with honour and riches. verse 26 HIs chosen servants had command, Moses and Aaron too, verse 27 In Egypt, Hams accursed land, Wonders and signs to do. verse 28 A darkness he among them sent, A cloud of darkness fell: Against his flat commandment, They no way did rebel. No creatures disobedient to God, but Devils and men. verse 29 To blood he turned their streams and springs, And all their fishes killed: verse 30 With frogs the chambers of their Kings Abundantly were filled. verse 31 Strange flies and lice by his command In all their coasts remain: verse 32 He gave them hail in all the land, And flaming fire for rain. verse 33 Figtrees and Vines in all their coasts, He smote, and broke the same: verse 34 He spoke, and locusts, countless hosts, And Caterpillars came: verse 35 Upon their lands green herbs they fed, And all their fruits devour: verse 36 all Egypt's firstborn smote he dead, The chief of all their power. verse 37 He brought them out, Exod. 12. 35. hired thereunto With gold and silver bribes: And not a feeble soul quite through The Israelitish Tribes. verse 38 Full glad was Egypt when they went, Exod. 33. 12. Their terror did affright: verse 39 He spread a cloud, a sheltering tent, Exod. 13. 22. And fire by night gave light. 5. Part. Argument. A touch of God's miraculous mercies to Israel in the Wilderness and Canaan, These were types of heavenly food. Meditate of the continual care of God for our bodies and souls. And of Christ, signified by the rock of water. 1 Cor. 10. 4. and the end for which they were bestowed. verse 40 THe Lord with Quails his people fed, Such as they asked to have: And satisfied them with the bread Which he from heaven gave. verse 41 He opened stony rocks, whereout Fresh waters gushed amain: And like a river ran about The dry and desert plain. verse 42 He on his servant Abraham thought, His holy Word and all: verse 43 His chosen people thence he brought With joy and festival. From Wilderness to Canaan, and us from earth to heaven. verse 44 The heathens labours, and their lands, on Israel he bestowed: verse 45 To keep his laws and his commands, O spread his praise abroad. PSAL. CVI To short staff tune. The great goodness of God to his chosen people, which godly men desire to partake of. GIve thanks unto the Lord, Who is with goodness stored: His mercies sure Do still endure, His praise do ye record. verse 2 Who can the acts recite Performed by his might: Who can forth-show, That men may know His praises infinite? verse 3 O blessed blessed they That walk in judgement's way: And he that doth The works of truth, Wilfully transgressing. And never goes astray. verse 4 O Lord remember me, Even with thy favour free: Which to thine own Is born alone To them vouchsafed by thee. To visit me draw near With thy salvation dear: verse 5 Thy chosen good Well understood Let unto me appear. Let me experimentally feel thy favour, as thy elect Saints shall do. In that deliverance Which doth thy land advance Let me rejoice, With glorying voice, With thine inheritance. 2. Part. Argument. Our disobedience and ingratitudo, instanced and exemplified by Israel, and humbly confessed. verse 6 WE into sins have run, The father and the son: Transgressing by INIQUITY, We wickedly have done. verse 7 The wonders which thy hand Performed in Egypt land, Our father's old, Who did behold, Did not edible by them. Yet did not understand. Thy mercies many a one They did not think upon: But at the Sea, Provoke did they, The red Sea scored it on. verse 8 Yet letting them alone, He saved them every one, For his Name sake, That he might make His mighty power known: verse 9 The red Sea on each side, At his rebuke was dried: Through depths profound As desert ground He did his people guide. verse 10 Their Saviour he did stand Against their haters hand: Redeeming those From hand of foes, That ruled them at command. verse 11 The waters drowned their foes, Not one was left of those: verse 12 His words the men Believed then, His praise their songs compose. verse 13 His works they soon forgot, For's counsels waited not: verse 14 In Wilderness Their lust's excess Restraining not a jot. 3. part. Argument. The judgements of God upon Corah, and shameful Idolatry of Israel. IN deserts God they tempt: verse 15 At their requests content Quails to bestow, As divers died suddenly by surfeit, Psal. 78. 31. So some by consumptions, going to the heart of them. With leanness tho, Into their soul 'twas sent. verse 16 As they in camp abide, Good Moses they envied: On Aaron too They envy drew, Whom God had sanctified. verse 17 The earth asunder clavae, Became a swallowing grave: Where Dathan and Abiram stand, And unto all they have. verse 18 And in their company Fire kindled suddenly: The flame caught then Those wicked men, Which were burnt up thereby. verse 19 In Horeb were they bold, To make a calf of gold, And worshipped An image dead Which they did melt and mould. verse 20 Thus they their glory pass Into a molten mass Of Ox's rude Similitude, A beast that eateth grass. 4. Part. Argument. God's vehement wrath against Israel, pacified by Moses intercession: But that intercession was through Christ, on whom we must meditate. their incredulity and contempt of the promised land. verse 21 OF God their Saviour's might, They were forgetful quite, Whose power and dread Accomplished Great things in Egypt's sight. Egypt was peopled by the posterity of cursed Cham. verse 22 He wrought with wondrous hand In Hams accursed land, Dread things were they At that red Sea Performed by his command. verse 23 Therefore he said that he Would their destruction be: Had not, alone, His chosen one Good Moses been so free: He stood, to save them each, Before him in the breach: To turn away His wrath that day, Lest them destruction reach. verse 24 Yea they in careless wise That pleasant land despise, And entertain His words as vain, And deeming them but lies. As unbelievers do the heavenly Canaan. verse 25 But murmured in their tents, And gave not their consents, With willing ear, The voice to hear Of his commandments. verse 26 He lifted up his hand, Swore. See Ezek. 20. That he would them withstand, To overthrow That people so Within the desert land. verse 27 Their seed to overthrow▪ And scatter them also In foreign lands And tyrants hands To serve a heathen to. 5. Part. Argument. The corporal and spiritual adultery of Israel; The zeal of Phinehas, their provoking of Moses to passion, and lenity to the Canaanites. verse 28 TO Baal the God of Peor, Some write this God was Priapus a filthy God, worshipped pudendis pa●●facti●. Themselves adjoined were: They are likewise The sacrifice Of those dead Idols there. verse 29 Thus did they him provoke To fiercest angers stroke: So hateful their Inventions were, The plague upon them broke. verse 30 Then Phinehas rose to aid, Num. 25. With justice he repaid Their foulest facts, This part he acts, And so the plague was stayed. verse 31 'Twas deemed righteousness, An approved act, how ever men might censure it. Which that act did express: And ages all For ever shall Esteem it for no less. verse 32 At Meribah they spoke, And him they angry make: So discontent That ill it went With Moses for their sake. Num. 20. 10, 11, 12. verse 33 His Spirit they provoke, Rash speeches from him broke: Such error slips From hasty lips, So unadvised he spoke. verse 34 They were advertised, And charged to smite them dead, Yet did not they Those Nations slay, verse 35 But were among them spread, The works which heath'nish are To learn they did not spare: verse 36 And there they served Their Idols carved, Which were to them a snare. 6. Part. Argument. The horrid Idolatries of Israel: Meditate how prone our nature is to sin. the dreadful judgement of God for the same. verse 37 YEa, they did sacrifice Their little girls and boys, (Daughters nor Sons Their blind zeal shuns) To Devill-Deities. verse 38 And innocent blood they shed, Which sons and daughters bled: Whom they likewise In sacrifice To Canaan Idols led. verse 39 With blood they stained the land, With works of their own hand, Which they invent A whoring went, Defiled with that foul brand. verse 40 The wrath of God therefore Against them kindled sore: So that the Lord His own abhorred, Such blame his her'tage bore. verse 41 He left them in the hands, And under the commands Of heathen men, Whose hatred then They felt in foreign lands. verse 42 Their enemies also Oppressed and brought them low: His people were Subjected there Under a foreign fo. 7. Part. Argument. God's merciful compassions to his distressed people: 'Tis thought to be made in the Babylonian captivity. he taketh heart to pray for desperance from present calamities. verse 43 HE saved them many times, Yet their unjust designs Provoked him so, They were brought low For their abhorred crimes. verse 44 But never a whit the less Their pitiful distress, He did regard, When as he h'ard Their cry in bitterness. And he to mind did call, His covenant for them all: verse 45 His mercies showed Their multitude, For he reputes their thrall. verse 46 He made them pitied there Of all whose slaves they were. verse 47 Lord God our stay Now save we pray Thy people every where. Gather thy flock that strays, 'Mong heathen now adays: That we may fame Thy holy Name, And triumph in thy praise. verse 48 Bless Israel's God most high To all eternity: And people then Say all, Amen, The Lord to magnify. PSAL. CVII. To Dutch tune. That God is magnified for his admirable providence over captives and planters. No sort of men undergo harder things. O Give ye thanks unto the Lord, Who doth with goodness flow: With everlasting mercies stored, verse 2 Let Gods redeemed say so. How much more than for our spiritual deliverance. Whom he redeemed from enemy's hand, verse 3 And gathered them to rest, From North and South, in every Land, And from the East and West. verse 4 No City they for dwelling found, Planters of a new country; It was a common trade in ancient times. They wandered in the ways Of solitary desert ground, verse 5 Where thirst and hunger slays. Their weary souls did in them faint, verse 6 When trouble on them seized; Unto the Lord they made complaint, Who their distresses eased. verse 7 He led them forth by straitest ways To Cities of abode: verse 8 O than that men would give God praise, For all his mercies showed. And for his works and wondrous deeds, To men of mortal kind: verse 9 Who longing souls with goodness feeds, And fills the hunger-pined. 2. Part. Argument. God's providence towards poor prisoners & sick persons, though incurring their miseries by their sins. verse 10 SUch as in darkness have abode, With shade of death o'ercast, Whom irons and afflictions load, Which fetters bind them fast. verse 11 Because God's word was scornfully Rebelled against by them: The counsel of the Lord most high, Because they did contem'. verse 12 With labour sore he tamed their pride, They fell quite succourless: verse 13 In trouble then to God they cried, He saved them from distress. verse 14 From shade of death & darksome night, Out of a dungeon. Which they were subject under: He brought them out to life and light, And broke their bonds asunder. verse 15 O that the Lord might reap due praise, For every wondrous deed: And goodness showed in all his ways, To man's unworthy seed. verse 16 The gates of brass he broke in two, Prison-gates And iron bars divide: verse 17 Fools, for offences which they do, Great miseries abide. verse 18 Their soul abhors all kind of meat, To gates of death draws near: verse 19 They cry to God in troubles great, He saves them from their fear. verse 20 He sent his word and healed them then From ruins were they raised: verse 21 O that the Lord so good to men, Were for his goodness praised. And for his wondrous works likewise, To us that mortal are: verse 22 And bring him thanks for sacrifice, His works with joy declare. 3. Part. Argument. God's rare providence over Seamen. verse 23 THey that in ships go down to Seas, And have affairs to do verse 24 In waters great, such men as these God's wonders see into. His works in deeps discern do they: verse 25 For he commandeth oft The storming wind to stir the Sea, Which lifts her waves aloft. verse 26 They mount to heaven, and back again Down to the deeps they roll▪ The dangerous trouble they sustain, Dissolves their very soul. verse 27 They stagger like to drunken men, And reeling to and fro, verse 28 Almost besides their senses then, They cry to God in wo. He them from their distresses saves, verse 29 And doth proud storms assuage: Becalms the Seas tumultuous waves, And stills their boisterous rage. verse 30 Then have they rest, the tempest past, And are most joyful for't: And so he brings them, at the last, To their desired Port. verse 31 O that the Lord were duly praised, For all his goodness then: And for his mighty wonders raised To all the sons of men. 4. Part. Argument. All sorts exhorted to praise God, that raiseth the poor, and depresseth the proud; the blessedness of such as observe God's providence. verse 32 AMong the people gathered, Let them exalt his Name: Among assembled Elders spread, His most renowned fame. verse 33 He springs of waters waterless, And rivers deserts makes: verse 34 A fruitful land all barrenness, For wicked dwellers sakes. verse 35 Dry wilderness again he brings Into a standing Well: Dry desert ground to water-springs, verse 36 Wherein the hungry dwell. Inhabited Cities to prepare, verse 37 To sow each neighbouring field: Plant vineyards with industrious care, Increasing fruits to yield. verse 38 Such blessings are on them conferred, That they are much increased: Not suffering them of all the herd To lose a sorry beast. verse 39 Again they are diminished, And brought to low estate: Through great affliction suffered, Distressed, disconsolate. verse 40 He on their Prince's powers disgrace, And causeth them to stray In solitary desert place, Where is no beaten way. verse 41 Yet saves the poor from misery, sets him on safety's rock: And makes him up a family, Like to a numerous flock. verse 42 This thing the righteous shall behold, Rejoicing in the same: To convince Atheists, that heed not providence. And all iniquity controlled, Shall stop her mouth with shame. verse 43 Who so hath wisdom from above, These matters to record; Even they shall understand the love And kindness of the Lord. PSAL. CVIII. London short tune. David praises God, and prays for the enlargement of his kingdom a type of Christ's. O God I fix my heart, My glory bears a part: And (as my tongue) So shall my song Praise thee with music's art. verse 2 Wake harp and psaltery, Right early wake will I: I will divulge thy Gospel in these psalms to the Gentiles. verse 3 Thy praises Lord Will I record, The people standing by. I'll praise thee with my song, The nations all among: verse 4 To heavens high, For the Angels both receive thy mercy, and report it, and it is infinite mercy. To clouds of sky, His truth and mercy's throng. verse 5 Exalted be thy Name, Above the heaven's frame: Let earth below The Trumpet blow Of thy renowned fame. Command deliverances for thy Church, and to David in token thereof verse 6 That thy belov'd of thee Delivered may be: Thy help command, With thy right hand, And kindly answer me. 2. Part. Argument. David hoping to enlarge his kingdom according to God's promises, * So must we for the enlarging Christ's kingdom. depends wholly on God's power. Remote parts, as Shechem are my heritage. And all the tribes and coasts of Israel. verse 7 IN holiness God spoke, Which doth me joyful make: Shechem my share And Succoth are To measure out and take. verse 8 Manasseh ahab's mine, And Ephraim I'll assign, Yea and the Gentiles also, be tokening Christ's rule over all. But (as Moab a wash-pot to wash the feet) some are but slaves, submitting to Christ out of necessity. While Judah's tribe My laws prescribe, To keep this head of mine. verse 9 My washpot Moab shall be, Edom I'll tread on thee: Philistia do Thou triumph too, And that because of me. verse 10 But who will be my guide, To conquer the City as well as the field, in token that Christ overcomes the most obstinate. To Edom fortified? verse 11 Lord, wilt not thou Assist us now That hast before denied? O Lord wilt thou refrain 〈◊〉 Armies to maintain? verse 12 Thy help afford In trouble Lord, For mortal succour's vain. verse 13 With God's assistance crowned, We shall do acts renowned: For he it is, The power is his That shall our foes confound. PSAL. CIX. To new staff tune. David fearfully cursing Judas with a prophetical spirit, leaves a dreadful example to deter all false hypocrites and furious persecutors. O God my praise, my just cause plead: verse 2 The lewd deceitful throng Their mouths have opened, and inveighed Against me with false tongue. verse 3 With words of spite And causeless fight They compass me about: verse 4 Even for my love My foes they prove, But I ply prayers devout▪ verse 5 Much hate for love to me they show, Let the Devil be ready to tempt him to sin. And ill for good reward: verse 6 Some wicked man set o'er my so To be a Master hard. Some understand, Let all his actions be cross as hindered by Satan, i. e. an adversary. Let Satan stand At his right hand, verse 7 When judgement shall begin, Appoint that he Condemned be, And turn his prayer to sin. verse 8 His office let another take, Turn his apology and plea at judgement against himself. Cut short his treacherous life: verse 9 His children wretched orphans make, With widowhood vex his wife. verse 10 Let's children fly Continually Abroad, as vagrants base. And begging fed Seek out their bread In every desolate place. verse 11 Let merciless extortioners Catch all he hath away: And let some greedy foreiners, Of's labours make a prey. verse 12 Stir up no friend That may extend Relief in his distress: And let there no Man favour show Unto his fatherless. 2. Part. Argument, as before. verse 13 CUt off the race that from him breeds, With everlasting shame: And in the age that next succeeds, Extinguish quite his Name. verse 14 Let's father's faued To mind be brought, Before the Lord for ever. His mother's crime By length of time Let be extinguished never. verse 15 Let them be had continually Before the Lord in mind: To cut from earth the memory That's left of them behind. verse 16 Who mercy so Forgot to show, The poor and needy still With fresh pursuits He persecutes The broken heart to kill. verse 17 As he loved cursing him requite, Loved to be in an unregenerate state, subject to the curse, and cared not for the blessings of the Gospel. Let it come to him so: As blessing did not him delight, So let it from him go. verse 18 Him cursing had As garments clad, His cursing let recoil: Let it like drink In's bowels sink, And soak his bones like oil. verse 19 Let it be to him as the skirt That covers him always: And like the girdle that is girt About him every day: verse 20 Let God dispense This recompense Mine enemies to control: That are incensed To speak against Mine inoffensive soul. 3. Part. Argument. Complaints and prayers of the poor and persecuted. verse 21 O God the Lord do thou for me, Even for thy Names dear sake: Because right good thy mercies be, My freedom undertake. verse 22 For I indeed Do stand in need, With mis'ry sore distressed: My grieved heart With wounds doth smart, And bleeds within my breast. verse 23 I'm gone like Sun's declining shade, Like wand'ring locust tossed: verse 24 My knees through fasting weak are made, My flesh her fat hath lost. verse 25 Yea I became To them a shame, On me they gaze and stare: Their heads they nod, verse 26 Help Lord my God, Me by thy mercies spare. verse 27 That they may know this is thy hand, That thou hast done the deed: verse 28 And when they curse, do thou command A blessing to succeed. Them when they rise, Rise to attempt any wicked act. Let shame surprise, But make thy servant glad: verse 29 With shame be those That are my foes, And self-confusion clad. O let their mantle be of shame: verse 30 But greatly shall my tongue Give God due praise, and sing his fame The multitude among. verse 31 For he shall stand At his right hand, Stand up a near helper to the poor and persecuted. And for his sake control The doom of them, That would condemn The poor man's harmless soul. PSAL. CX. To Magnificat tune. The Kingly, Priestly, and Prophetical offices of Christ Jesus. THe Lord unto my Lord thus spoke, To Christ my Lord. Sat thou at my right hand: Till I thy foes a stool shall make, Whereon thy feet may stand. verse 2 The Lord shall out of Zion send Thy powers prevailing rod: Gospel first preached at Jerusalem▪ Thy rule shall in the midst extend Of all thy foes o God. verse 3 Thy people, when thy Gospel calls, Shall yield unto thy power: From morning's womb thy first dew falls Conversion at the first preaching, as plentiful as the morning dew. * In the Church a beautiful creature. In sacred beauty's bower. verse 4 The Lord hath sworn nor will repent, Thou art for ever called A Priest with priesthood permanent, † Heb. 7. 3. Destroying the adversaries by heaps pursuing the victory as a warrior, wetting his lips only for haste. Some understand it of Christ's passion and resurrection. Melchis'dek-like installed. verse 5 In day of his fierce anger then, The Lord at thy right hand verse 6 Shall strike through Kings: and wound chief men In many a heathen land. Filling the places where he struck With bodies of the dead: verse 7 And in the way drink of the brook, And so lift up the head. PSAL. CXI. To pause tune. The Church exhorted to praise God for his marvellous works, which are here in part described. PRaise ye the Lord, I will record His praise with heart sincere: Where men upright Themselves unite Ith' Congregation there. verse 2 Gods works are rare, Viz. Creation, preservation, etc. Sought out they are Of all that so delight: verse 3 His work's renowned With glory crowned His justice infinite. His wonders he Hath made to be Retained in thankful mind: verse 4 The Lord is known A gracious one, Compassionate and kind. verse 5 Providing meat For them to eat Th●t fear his holy Name: Provision for soul and body, typed by Manna of old. He will fulfil His Covenant still, Still mindful of the same. verse 6 In Israel's fight He showed his might, And did his works advance: That he might so On them bestow The heathens heritance. verse 7 Works of his hands And his commands Are truth and judgement sure: verse 8 They stand full fast And ever last Accomplished true and pure. verse 9 Redemption is Sent down to his, Redemption His Covenant still the same: As he commands It firmly stands; O holy reverend Name! verse 10 Gods fear's the thing Doth wisdom bring, Sanctification, without which we have no true knowledge of his great works. Good knowledge have all they, That do fulfil His holy will, His praise endures for ay. PSAL. CXII. Magnificat tune. The great piety, justice, and charity of the Saints: the blessing upon them and theirs, to the great grief of the wicked. PRaise ye the Lord: Blessed are such As serve the Lord in fear: In his commands delighting much: verse 2 His seed shall prosper here. The uprights offspring God shall bless, verse 3 And fill his house with store: His memorable righteousness Endures for evermore. verse 4 Unto the man immaculate, Good out of evil. In darkness riseth light: he's gracious and compassionate, In justice exquisite▪ verse 5 A good man shows much kind respect, And lends to him that needs: And with discretion will direct His thoughts, his words, his deeds. verse 6 Surely to all eternity, He shall not moved be; But had in lasting memory, For evermore shall he. verse 7 For any evil tidings told He shall not be afraid: His faithful heart which makes him bold, On God is firmly stayed. verse 8 His heart is so established Afraid he shall not be: Till his desire accomplished Upon his foes he see. verse 9 He hath dispersed his charity, And given to the poor: He shall to perpetuity Be styled a righteous doer. His horn shall high exalted be With honour so atcheiv'd: verse 10 The wicked man this thing shall see, And be extremely grieved. Yea he shall gnash his teeth for spite, And pining melt away: And his desire shall perish quite, The wicked man's, I say. PSAL. CXIII. To Coventry tune. God's gracious respects to the creatures; His marvellous advancing of mean persons. PRaise ye the Lord, praise him, I say, All ye his Saints professed: verse 2 Even from this day For ever may His glorious Name be blest. verse 3 From Sun to Sun is God's great Name, Of all men to be praised: verse 4 Surmounts his fame The heaven's frame, Above all Nations raised. verse 5 With God the Lord who may compare, 'tis his mere grace that he should respect any Saint in heaven, much more the poor on earth. Who dwells in heaven high: verse 6 Yet stoops to care For things that are Both in the earth and sky. verse 7 The poor and needy he doth grace, verse 8 Whom from the dust he brings: And dunghill base To Prince's place, To sit enthroned with Kings. verse 9 The barren to keep house makes he, As barrenness was of old a great grief and children a great blessing, so much more, spiritually understood. So that of children store, A mother she Full glad may be, Praise ye the Lord therefore. PSAL. CXIV. David's tune. The rare providence of God to Israel, in remove from Egypt towards Canaan. WHen Israel Egypt's bounds forsook, Meditate of our coming out of the world into the Church, & travelling towards heaven. Israel was a holy and obedient people. Red sea▪ Sinai. Their dwelling to exchange: And jacob's house their journey took From folk of language strange: verse 2 His Sanctu'ry was Judah there, He ruled in Israel: verse 3 The sea saw that and fled for fear, And Jordan backward fell. verse 4 Th' affrighted mountains skipped like rams, Low hillocks like young sheep: verse 5 What (JORDAN) rea●●d thy water-dams, Why fled the liquid deep? verse 6 What made ye, o ye mountains dance, Like timorous flocks of rams? Ye little hills, how chance, how chance, Ye skipped like frighted lambs? verse 7 O earth in great God's presence quake, Even jacob's God, that brings verse 8 The stony rock to standing lake, The flint to water-springs. PSAL. CXV. London long tune. Great glory appropriated to God; the derision of Idols and Idolaters. LOrd not to us, Lord not to us, But give thy Name renown: And let thy works miraculous, Thy truth and mercy's crown. verse 2 O wherefore should the heathen cry, Now where's their God become? verse 3 Our God he is in heaven high, And all he pleased hath done. verse 4 Their Idols gold and silver be, The handiwork of man: verse 5 Have eyes and mouths, but do not see, Nor speak at all they can. verse 6 Have ears, but do not hear a jot, Have noses, but no scent: verse 7 Proportioned hands, but handle not, And feet, but never went. Their hollow throats no breath goes through, verse 8 Their makers like them are: And so are all that trust thereto, The work●man like the ware. 2. Part. Argument. The Church exhorted to praise God, as most interessed in his mercies. verse 9 O Isr'el trust in God, that must Thy shield and helper be: verse 10 In him o house of Aaron trust, Their help and shield is he. verse 11 Trust in the Lord, your help and shield, All ye that do him fear: verse 12 His blessing to us he will yield, Still mindful of us here. In Isr'els' house he'll bless them all, And Aaron's house no less: verse 13 His fearers all both great and small, The Lord will surely bless. verse 14 Of you, and of your children too, Will God increase the birth: verse 15 The blessed of the Lord are you, That form heaven and earth. verse 16 The highest heavens are the Lords, Even all the heavens are so: But he the spacious earth affords To sons of men below. verse 17 The dead to silence that go down, The Church shall survive in its generation to praise God. Do never praise the Lord: verse 18 But we will still his Name renown, Do ye his praise record. PSAL. CXVI. To 2. French tune. David gives humble thanks for great deliverance from extreme temptations. I Love the Lord, who heard my cry, And to my suits good ear did give: verse 2 Which since to me he did apply, I'll call upon him while I live. verse 3 Sorrows of death did me enfold, Afflictions seeming as bitter as death. Trouble and anguish on me came: The pains of hell on me got hold, verse 4 Then called I on Jehovahs' Name. O Lord I pray to thee alone, From sorrows pit my soul to pull. verse 5 The Lord's a gracious righteous one, Yea, and our God is merciful. verse 6 He saves the simple when oppressed, I was brought low he helped me: verse 7 My soul return unto thy rest, God hath dealt bounteously with thee. verse 8 My soul from death thou didst preserve, Mine eyes from tears, my feet from falls: verse 9 † Led my life as in thy sight, with a particular trust that thou lookest to me. 2 Cor. 4. 13. I'll walk before thee, thee to serve, Here where the living on thee calls. verse 10 I have believed, therefore I spoke, Tho scorched in afflictions fire: verse 11 I said (for passion did provoke) Tush, every man is found a * A vanity, a thing of nought, which who would think God should regard. They were public mercies in respect of the person representing Christ. liar. 2. Part. Argument. David studies true gratitude, and celebrates his deliverances in public. verse 12 LOrd what requital shall I make, For all thy benefits to me: verse 13 Salvations * A custom of the jews at feasts to lift up a cup at singing a Psalm, which they called the cup of salvation, to which Christ alluded, Luk. 22. 17. Born in the Church of believing progenitors, and therefore interessed in the Covenant. cup lo I will take, And therewithal will call on thee. verse 14 My vows to God I'll render there, Yea, now in all his people's eyes: verse 15 * He recals what he said, man's a liar n●, a Saint is a precious thing to God, who prevents th●ir death, or rewards it. The death of all his Saints sincere, The Lord doth very highly prize. verse 16 I am thy servant certainly, I am a servant of the Lords: Thy handmaid's son O Lord, am I, And thou hast lost thy servants cords. verse 17 I'll give thee thanks for sacrifice, And on the Lords Name I will call: verse 18 I'll pay my vows to God likewise, In sight of these his people all. verse 19 In Zions Courts I'll render them, In Gods own house in midst of thee, Of thee o great Jerusalem, O therefore praise the Lord with me. PSAL. CXVII. 1. Strain tune. The Gospel, truth, and grace of God, joyful to all Nations. O All ye Nations praise the Lord, Ye people all his praise record: verse 2 For very great and marvellous His loving kindness is to us. His truth endures for evermore, O praise his holy Name therefore. PSAL. CXVIII. York tune. An exhortation to praise God as most worthy, and to trust in him as most safe. THe Lord, the Lord is good and kind, O give him thanks therefore: Because we do his mercies find Continued evermore. verse 2 Let Israel say this very day, Day of David's settling in the kingdom, a type of Christ's. His mercies still prevail: verse 3 Now let the house of Aaron say, His mercies never fail. verse 4 Let them that fear the Lord confess, His mercies still remain: verse 5 I called upon him in distress, He answered me again. verse 6 A spacious place he brought me to, The Lord doth take my part; For all that man to me can do, No fear shall seize my heart. verse 7 God, with my helpers, takes my part, And I fulfilled shall see What I desired in my heart, On enemies hating me. verse 8 It's better for a man's defence, To trust in God alone; Then for to put our confidence In any mortal one. verse 9 Yea, it is better to repose Our confidence in thee; Then for to put our trust in those That powerful Princes be. 2. Part. Argument. The triumphant and typical victories of David, to the great joy of the Church. verse 10 ALL Nations compassed me about, Meditate of Christ, conquering the sons of B●lial. Whom yet I overcame: For I shall surely root them out In God's assistant Name. verse 11 They compassed me about, I say, They compassed me about: But in the Name of God shall they Be all destroyed, no doubt. verse 12 Like to a swarm of angry bees, They compassed me about: But like a fire of bramble trees, Are soon again put out. Yea I shall soon destroy them all, In God's assistant Name. verse 13 Thou thrustedst sore to make me fall, Saul or Ishbibenob, 2 Sam. 21. 16. But God my help became. verse 14 The Lord's become my strength and song, And my salvation sweet: verse 15 Salvations voice & joys sweet tongue, David's deliverance a joy to all the Church. In just men's dwellings meet. verse 16 The Lords right hand doth valiantly, The Lords right hand's renowned: The Lords right hand's exalted high, With valiant actions crowned. verse 17 I shall not die, but still draw breath, Not be slain by Saul, or any adversary. God's works to testify: verse 18 Thou didst not give me o'er to death, Though sore chastised was I. 3. Part. Argument. David magnifies God for choosing him (a contemptible person) to the Crown, Meditate of Christ, of whom he was a type. Gate of the Sanctuary▪ where righteous men, righteous ordinances. etc. praying for the preservation of his kingdom. verse 19 OPen to me the righteous gate, Then shall thy Courts be trod; Where I thy praise may celebrate, verse 20 This Temple-gate of God. Here shall the righteous entrance have. verse 21 Thy praises I'll declare: For thou becamest my rock to save, And thou hast heard my prayer. verse 22 The stone the builders have refused, David by Courtiers, Christ by Cavillers, Mat. 21. 42. Is now become the stone Which for the corners-head is used, verse 23 This is God's art alone; This in our eyes is marvellous, verse 24 This day which God did make Shall be a day of joy to us, Day of David's inauguration, and of Christ's incarnation, etc. Therein delight to take. verse 25 Now save O Lord, I crave the same, O send us good success: verse 26 O blessed comers in his Name, Blessed Ministers that preach these glad tidings. It seems this Psalm was used at some solemn feast. You from his house we bless. verse 27 God is the Lord that light affords▪ Which this high day adorns: Then bind the sacrifice with cords Unto the Altars horns. verse 28 Thou art my God, I'll spread thy fame, My God I'll spread thy praise: verse 29 The Lord is good, o praise his Name, His mercies last always. PSAL. CXIX. 2. French tune. The blessedness of true Religion; The Saints great desire thereto, and prayer against desertion. O Blessed blessed are the pure, That never from God's laws depart: verse 2 That keep his testimonies sure, And seek him with a perfect heart. verse 3 They also do no wickedness, Walk in his ways, and never swerve: verse 4 Thou dost a strict commandment press, That we with care thy laws observe. verse 5 O that my ways were made direct, And to thy statutes rightly framed: verse 6 When t' all thy laws I have respect, Then sure I shall not be ashamed. verse 7 With upright heart I'll give thee praise, When I have learned thy judgments right: verse 8 And I will surely keep thy ways, O do not Lord forsake me quite. 2. Part. Dutch tune. The power of the word to curb the lusts of youth: The earnest affections of the faithful to that Word. verse 9 HOw may the ways of man be freed From error in his youth? If thereunto he take good heed, According to thy truth. verse 10 Lord I have sought thee (I am sure) Even with a perfect heart: From paths of thy commandments pure, O let me not depart. verse 11 I hid thy Word within my heart, From sin to keep me free: verse 12 A blessed God O Lord thou art, Thy statutes teach to me. verse 13 Thy mouths decrees my lips declared: verse 14 I count no worldly treasure With thy commandments ways compared, To yield so sweet a pleasure. verse 15 Upon thy precepts I will muse, Much by thy judgements set: verse 16 Thy statutes with contentment use, And not thy words forget. 3. Part. 2. French tune. The word of God a good guide, and a strengthening comfort against reproach and persecution. verse 17 BE moved towards thy servant Lord, To deal with me in bounteous wise, That I may live and keep thy word, verse 18 Yea, open thou, O Lord, mine eyes. That I the wondrous things may see, Which from thy testimonies flow: verse 19 Thy statutes do not hide from me, That am a stranger here below. verse 20 My soul even breaks with fervent thirst, Thy judgements having still preferred: verse 21 The proud thou hast rebuked and cursed, Which from thy precepts greatly erred. verse 22 Remove from me contempt and shame, For I have kept thy just decrees: verse 23 While Princes in their counsels blame Thy servant (Lord) for keeping these. But in thy Statutes exquisite, Thy servant meditation plied▪ verse 24 Thy Testaments are my delight, They are my counsel and my guide. 4. Part. To 1. Strain tune. David's deep affliction and great affection to the Word, but the grace is of God. verse 25 MY spirit cleaves unto the dust, My soul faints. O quick'n me for thy promise just. verse 26 I have declared my ways to thee, Opened my heart in confession and petition. And thou hast heard and noted me. verse 27 Teach me thy Statutes I thee pray, And let me know thy precepts way. So my discourse shall wholly tend, Thy works and wonders to commend. verse 28 My heart doth melt for very grief, Lord for thy promise send relief. verse 29 The way of lies from me withdraw, Heresy and error. And grant me graciously thy law. verse 30 I chose the way of truth most right, I laid thy judgements in my sight. verse 31 Thy testaments I stuck unto, Lord shame me not for what I do. verse 32 I'll run the way thou giv'st in charge, When as thou shalt my heart enlarge. 5. Part. 2. French tune. David's desire of grace, and to avoid temptations. verse 33 LOrd teach me in thy Statutes way, And I shall keep it to the end: verse 34 O give me knowledge that I may With my whole heart thy laws attend. Yea, I to keep them shall be sure, verse 35 Make me therefore to go aright; In paths of thy Commandments pure, For therein only I delight. verse 36 Incline mine heart unto thy Law, And not to cov'tousnes (I pray) verse 37 From objects vain mine eyes withdraw, Greediness of any lust, restrains all my senses. And quicken me in thy good way. verse 38 Thy promise to thy servant prove, Who is devoted to fear thee: verse 39 My feared reproach from me remove, Therefore I would have nothing else to fear. For very good thy Judgements be. verse 40 Lord I have longed with earnestness, Thy blessed laws to know and do; Vouchsafe then in thy righteousness, To move and quicken me thereto. 6. Part. Southwell tune. A prayer for courage in our profession: God's service is perfect freedom. verse 41 LORD let thy mercies free Come also unto me, As well as to other good Christians. According to Thy promise do, And my salvation be. verse 42 So shall my answer just Reprove his envious lust; Who ever he be That taunteth me, For in thy Word I trust. verse 43 Let not the word of light, My mouth abandon quite; For lo the scope Of all my hope Is in thy judgements right. verse 44 So keep thy laws shall I For ever constantly; verse 45 And I, because I keep thy laws, Will walk at liberty. verse 46 Thy Testaments to name To Kings, I will not shame; verse 47 Delighting still To do thy will For I have loved the same. verse 48 I'll also lift my hands, To thy belov'd commands, And on them pitch My thoughts, to which My strong affection stands. 7. Part. London long tune. David's great affection to God's Word, even in his greatest adversity: His night-devotion is commended. verse 49 THy promise to thy servant mind, Whereon thou mad'st me rest: verse 50 This comfort in distress I find, Thy word revives my breast. verse 51 Tho proud men have me greatly scoffed, Thy ways I ne'er declined: verse 52 Thy judgements old I thought on oft, Thy judgement on the wicked. And comforted my mind. verse 53 I'm seized with horror for this age, Which doth thy laws forsake: verse 54 And in my house of pilgrimage, In time of my flitting and fleeing from Saul's persecution. My grace was rewarded with more grace. Thy laws my songs did make. verse 55 Thy Name I have in mind retained, When night her curtain draws: verse 56 I kept thy word, this grace I gained, Because I kept thy laws. 8. Part. 2. French tune. David's contentment in God, and in all the godly. verse 57 THou Lord my only portion art, I said that I will keep thy Word: verse 58 I sought thy favour from my heart, Thy promised grace to me afford. verse 59 I have considered of my ways, And to thy laws my feet ● bend: verse 60 I made good haste and shunned delays, To keep thy just commandment. verse 61 The wicked bands have robbed me, As at Ziglag, 1 Sam. 30. 3. judgements of thy mouth, and thy hand. Yet have I not forgot thy laws: verse 62 I'll rise at midnight praising thee, For thy just judgements give me cause. verse 63 Who fear thy Name and do thy will, Such men I am companion to: verse 64 Thy mercies do the whole earth fill, Teach me thy laws to know and do. 9 Part to 3. first lines of choice tune. The special goodness of God to his servants, and the great benefit of sanctified affliction. verse 65 ACcording to thy promise free, Lord thou hast dealt full well with me, That am thy servant fearing thee. verse 66 Teach me good judgement Lord, I pray, And knowledge of thy word and way, I grounded my faith on thy Word. For I believe what thou dost say. verse 67 While unchastised with thy rod, I went astray from thee, O God; But in thy paths I since have trod. verse 68 Lord thou art good, thy nature's so, And thou dost good, thy works do show, O teach me Lord thy laws to know. verse 69 The proud against me forged a lie, Doth at good for me. But my whole heart will I apply, To keep thy precepts faithfully. verse 70 As fat as grease their heart is grown, Proud and fottish with prosperity. But, Lord, the law which thou dost own, Is my delight, and that alone. verse 71 'Twas good for me to undergo Th' afflicting hand of God, I know, That I might learn thy Statutes so. verse 72 The law of thy dear mouth I hold, Better to me a thousand fold, Then heaps of silver and of gold. 10. Part. Dutch tune. The godly desires and mutual love of the faithful. verse 73 THy hands have made and fashioned me, Give me thy laws to learn: And thy Commandments what they Give knowledge to discern. verse 74 All they that see me will be glad, When they shall me behold: Because I have assurance had In what thy word foretold. verse 75 How right o Lord, thy judgements be, I understand no less: I know thou hast afflicted me Of very faithfulness. verse 76 I pray thee let thy mercy's kind●, Come to thy servant Lord: For comfort to my troubled mind, According to thy word. verse 77 With tender mercy me prevent, That I may live thereby▪ For lo in thy Commandment, Full great delight have I. verse 78 Ashamed let all proud persons be, For they without a cause Have most perversely dealt with me, But I will mind thy laws. verse 79 Turn they to me whose fear thou art, And that have known my Name: verse 80 In all thy laws make sound my heart, That I be free from shame. 11th Part. To sweet tune. David's assurance, notwithstanding delay: His faithfulness, notwithstanding persecution. verse 81 MY soul for thy salvation faints, But in thy word is all my stay: verse 82 My failing eyes urge sad complaints, When wilt thou comfort me, they ●ay. verse 83 A wrinkled bottle set in smoke, I am rightly compared unto: Prov. 17. 22. But lo the word which thou hast spoke, I have not yet forgot to do. verse 84 How many are thy servants days? The days of my affliction. When wilt thou judgement execute? On them that persecutions raise Against my soul with close pursuit? verse 85 The proud have digged pits for me, Which with thy law do not accord: verse 86 All thy commandments faithful be, They persecute me, help me Lord. verse 87 Here upon earth's malignants coast, Their cruel and injurious hands, Had even consumed me almost: But I forsook not thy commands. verse 88 O give thy loving kindness vent, To quicken up my fainting mind: So shall I keep the Testament Which thy most holy mouth assigned. 12th Part. 1. French tune. The stability of God's Word and works: The comfort of the Word in trouble, and perfection of it above all things else. verse 89 O Lord thy Word is settled sure, As sure as heaven from whence it came: verse 90 Thy faithfulness doth still endure, From age to age it is the same. The earth, by thee confirmed, abides verse 91 Unto this day continuing still, No decay in nature. Gen. 8. 22. Just as thine ordinance provides, For all things do obey thy will. verse 92 Had not thy Word been my delight, And inward comfort ministered: Affliction had destroyed me quite, And I therein had perished. verse 93 Of thy commandments therefore, I never will forgetful be: But think upon them evermore, For thou with them hast quickened me. verse 94 LORD save me, I belong to thee, And I do seek thy precepts still: verse 95 The wicked lie in wait for me, Intending to destroy and kill. But still thy laws I entertain, And thereon are my thoughts bestowed: verse 96 I see the world's perfections vain, Of a latitude to give full content. Only thy laws are wondrous broad. The 13th Part. 1. French tune. God's Word the best Schoolmaster, and practise the best proof of divine knowledge. verse 97 HOw much O Lord, I love thy laws! All day I meditate on those: verse 98 And thy commandments are the cause That make me wiser than my foes. For they are evermore with me. verse 99 And make my understanding more Than even my Teacher's skill can be, Such teachers as were not godly. For they my meditation store. verse 100 I kept thy precepts carefully, And so more skill than th' ancients gained: verse 101 To keep thy holy word have I From all lewd ways my feet refraind. verse 102 I from thy precepts have not erred, For thou hast taught me wondrous well. verse 103 O how have I thy word preferred, Counting its sweetness to excel. No honey to my mouth so sweet, verse 104 It is thy precept only praise; That I am made so wise, discreet. Detesting all erroneous ways. The 14th Part. 1. Strain tune. The cleverness of God's Word, Saints desire to keep it, praying for assistance and acceptance. verse 105 THy word's a lamp unto my feet, A light to guide my paths most meet. verse 106 I've sworn, and will perform it too, Thy righteous judgements I will do. verse 107 I am afflicted very sore, Lord keep thy word, and me restore. verse 108 The freewill offerings that I vowed Let I beseech thee be allowed. Lord from my mouth accept them each, And unto me thy judgements teach. verse 109 My soul is ever in my hand, My life in continual danger. judg. 12. 3. Yet I forget not thy command. verse 110 The wicked laid a snare for me, Yet erred I not from thy decree. verse 111 Thy Testaments to me I chose A constant heritage of those. For they are all and every part, The dear rejoicing of my heart. verse 112 I evermore my heart did bend, To keep thy statutes to the end. The 15th Part. To sweet tune. David's dislike of the wicked, and dread of God's judgements. verse 113 I Hate vain thoughts, but love thy laws. Heb. Boughs metaph. thoughts that wind crookedly. jer. 4. 14. Some read, I hate the ●nstable. verse 114 Thou art my hiding place, o Lord: My shield (when danger near me draws) And I have hoped in thy word. verse 115 Ye evil doers from me depart, Your fellowship must needs withstand: For I am purposed in my heart To keep my righteous God's command. verse 116 My soul in life good Lord uphold, As thou hast promised the same: That for my expectation bold, I never may be put to shame. verse 117 O Lord uphold me by thy power, And I shall very safely stand: And I will have respect each hour To all thy Statutes shall command. verse 118 Thou all the lewd haste undertrood, Which from thy Statutes go astray; verse 119 Whose fraud is falsehood, them o God, For all their policy they deceive themselves. As basest dross thou putst away. Therefore I love thy holy laws. verse 120 My flesh even quakes for fear of thee: And all thy dreadful judgement's cause A trembling fear to rise in me. The 16th Part. 1. Strain tune. David professing integrity, prays against Tyrants, and the iniquity of the times. verse 121 I Do what truth & right commands, O leave me not to tyrant's hands. verse 122 For good thy servant's surety be, Engage thyself for my defence. To proud oppressors leave not me. verse 123 Mine eyes for thy salvation fail, And till thy righteous word prevail. verse 124 In mercy with thy servant deal, And unto me thy laws reveal. verse 125 I am thy servant, give me skill, That I may know thy blessed will. verse 126 It's time for thee to work O God, To work a reformation. For they thy laws have undertrod. verse 127 Therefore I thy commandments love, Being confident that thou wilt maintain the truth. Yea gold and finest gold above. verse 128 Therefore thy laws I estimate In all things right: All false ways hate. 17th Part. To 1. French tune. The cleverness and sweetness of God's Word, His great desire thereto, and extreme sorrow for the general contempt thereof. verse 129 THy testaments are wonderful, Therefore my soul doth keep them right: verse 130 The entrance of thy Word gives light, And understanding to the dull. verse 131 I longed, gasped, panted for thy laws; verse 132 Look thou upon me and be kind, As those thy usual dealing find, Whom pure affection towered thee draws. verse 133 Order my steps by thy good Word, From sins dominion set me free: verse 134 From man's oppression save thou me, So shall I keep thy word o Lord. verse 135 Thy face let on thy servant shine, And in thy statutes make me wise▪ verse 136 Rivers of tears run down my eyes, Because they keep no laws of thine. The 18th Part. To 1. Strain tune. The singular excellencies of God's Word, and ardent zeal of the Saints thereunto. verse 137 LOrd thou art a righteous God indeed, And righteous judgments hast decreed. verse 138 Thy words, which each commandment mings, Are very righteous faithful things. verse 139 My zeal consumed me, 'twas so hot, Because my foes thy words forgot. verse 140 The pureness of thy word is such, That I thy servant love it much. verse 141 By me they littl' or nothing set, Yet do not I thy laws forget. verse 142 Eternal righteousness is thine, Thy law is truth, the truth divine. verse 143 Trouble and anguish on me seized, Yet thy commandments sweetly pleased. verse 144 To me this understanding give, And I eternally shall live. 19 Part. To the 3. first lines of choice tune. David prays early and earnestly for audience and deliverance; comforts himself in the stability of God's grace and truth. verse 145 WIth all my heart I cry and call, Lord hear the words which I let fall: For I will keep thy Statutes all. verse 146 O save me Lord, I cried to thee, Thy testimonies then shall be Most faithfully observed by me. verse 147 I did prevent the dawning day, Ith' morning did I cry and pray: I made thy Word my hope and stay. verse 148 Mine eyes prevent the watches late, That I might sweetly contemplate, And on thy Word might meditate. verse 149 According as thy judgements be, And after thy compassions free, Lord hear my voice, and quicken me. verse 150 Lo they draw nigh, and near me press, That follow after wickedness: But from thy law they far digress. verse 151 But thou O Lord, art very nigh, And thy commandments generally Are perfect truth and equity. verse 152 Thy testimonies alter never, I know of old they must persever: For thou hast founded them for ever. 20 th'. Part. To London long tune. David solicits for mercy, shows the wretchedness of the wicked, and stability of the Word. verse 153 WEigh mine affliction, set me free, For I do mind thy laws: verse 154 Make good thy word by quickening me, Defend me, plead my cause. verse 155 Salvation from the wicked flies, Who never seek thy ways: verse 156 But rich are thy benignities, Me by thy judgements raise. verse 157 Full many be those foes of mine, Which persecute me sore: Yet did not I thy laws decline, Nor go aside therefore. verse 158 Transgressors I with sorrow saw, Who kept not thy decree: verse 159 Consider how I love thy law, In kind love quicken me. verse 160 Even from the first thy word is known To be a bulwark sure: Thy righteous judgements every one Perpetually endure. 21. Part. 2. French tune. David professes his constancy in a persecuted condition, the comforts of the Word, and allseeing eye of God. verse 161 PRinces have persecuted me Maliciously without a cause: Yet stands my heart in fear of thee, So much thy Word my conscience awes. verse 162 As one that finds the richest prize, So do I in thy law delight: verse 163 I hate and loathe the way of lies, Errors and Heresies. Nothing needs disquiet or discourage them what ever falls out. But love thy laws, for they are right. verse 164 seven times a day I give thee praise, Even for thy righteous judgement's sake: verse 165 Great peace have they that love thy ways, And no offence they need to take. verse 166 Lord I have hoped to partake Of thy salvations welcome aid: And thy commandments for thy sake, To execute have not delayed. verse 167 My soul hath kept thy laws contents, Which great affections in me raise: verse 168 I kept thy laws and testaments, For thou beholdest all my ways. 22. Part. To 2. French tune. David solicits for mercy, confessing his back-slidings. verse 169 BEfore thee let my cry come near, Thy faithful promises to prove: O give me understanding clear, verse 170 Admit the humble suits I move. For me a sure deliverance raise, According as thy promise stands: verse 171 My lips shall utter thankful praise, When thou hast taught me thy commands. verse 172 All thy commands are righteousness, I'll speak of them with cheerful voice: verse 173 O let thy hands my wrongs redress, For of thy precepts I made choice. verse 174 I longed for thy salvation LORD, And have delighted in thy laws: My soul thy praises shall record, verse 175 O let it live for that same cause. Though his back-slidings were not total, yet could he not recover of himself. O let thy judgements give me aid, verse 176 Thy poor lost servant seek to find, Who like a wand'ring sheep have strayed, For I thy precepts bear in mind. PSAL. CXX. To new staff tune. The wickedness and barbarousness of slanderers and incendiaries of mischief. I Cried in my distresses great, To God who did attend: verse 2 From lying lips and tongues deceit, My soul O Lord defend. verse 3 What given shall be Or done to thee False tongue thus used to err; verse 4 Sharp shafts of his That mighty is, Some interpret this of the sin, others of the punishment, as keen and fierce as etc. Juniper coals will keep fire a twelvemonth, if some may be believed. Moll. in loc. As barbarous as Moors & Arabians. With coals of Juniper. verse 5 O woe is me, that I am fain In Mesech to reside: And must in Kedars tents remain, And therein still abide. verse 6 My soul hath much Conversed with such As unto peace are foes: verse 7 I peace would make, But, when I spoke, They strait to wars arose. PSAL. CXXI. David's tune. The perpetual vigilancy of God over his Church. I To the hills will lif● mine eyes, To heaven, typed by Sion-hill. My help comes from the same: verse 2 Even from the Lord my help doth rise, That heaven and earth did frame. verse 3 He will not slumber thee that keeps, Nor thy foot moved permit: verse 4 Lo Israel's keeper neither sleeps, Nor slumbers any whit. verse 5 The Lord at thy right hand's thy stay, The Lord's thy shady bower: verse 6 Nor Moon by night, When they lie in camp the hurtful influences of heaven shall be restrained. nor Sun by day, To smite thee have the power. verse 7 From evil God shall keep thee sure, And guard thy soul about: verse 8 Henceforth for ever to secure Thy going in and out. PSAL. CXXII. London short tune. The religious devotion and mutual affection of the Saints; the honour and privileges of the Church, typed by Jerusalem. I Joy when they exhort To God's house let's resort; Made at their Arks remove. 2 Sam. 6. 2. verse 2 Behold our feet Shall early meet, jerusalem, in thy port. signifying unity and uniformity of the Church. The males came thrice a year to worship before the Ark of the testimony (representing Christ) Exod. 34. 23. & 25. 21. verse 3 Jerus'lems buildings are Like to a City fair; For form exact, And close compact; verse 4 Whereto the tribes repair: The Lords tribes are the same, To Israel's Ark they came; Each several tribe, There to ascribe Thanksgiving to his Name. verse 5 There's * Typing Christ's government & discipline. thrones of David's stem, There's Judgment-thrones for them; verse 6 O pray that peace May never cease From fair Jerusalem. Thy lover's peace befalls, verse 7 Peace be within thy walls, In all the Cities and famous places, typing Christ's Congregations. Which Temple typed the Church, and Christ's body that died for us. joh. 2. 21. Prosperity Dwell constantly Within thy stately halls. verse 8 My prayer thy peace betakes, For friends and brethren's sakes; verse 9 I'll seek thy good For neighbourhood, Which our God's Temple makes. PSAL. CXXIII. Oxford tune. The patient waiting of Saints, and opprobrious contempt of adversaries. O Thou that dwellest above the skies, I lift mine eyes to thee: verse 2 Even as a servant bends his eyes, His Master's hands to see. As handmaids watch their Mistress hands, Our eye of faith even thus, Upon our God fast fixed stands, Till he commis'rate us. verse 3 Have mercy on us, o most high, Have mercy on our woes: For we are filled exceedingly, With foul contempt of foes. verse 4 Our soul is filled exceeding much, With foul contempt, and scorn Of those that are at ease, and such As have lift up the horn. PSAL. CXXIV. 2. French tune. God is glorified in the salvation of his, from the fury and fraud of our adversaries. BUt that the LORD (may Israel say) verse 2 But that the LORD to us did stick: When enemies rose to hunt their prey, verse 3 They had devoured Israel quick: Whose kindling fury nothing stopped. verse 4 The floods did rise, the waves did roll, Our soul had then been overtopped, verse 5 The waters proud had drowned our soul. verse 6 Blessed be God that gave us not Into their cruel teeth a prey: verse 7 Like bird from snare of fowler got, So is our soul escaped away. The snare is broke that held the game, By that good means do we evade: verse 8 Our help is in Jehovahs' Name, Who hath both earth and heaven made. PSAL. CXXV. David's tune. The perpetual protection of the Church. ALL they that on the LORD rely, As Zion Mount shall prove: Abiding firm perpetually, That nothing can remove. verse 2 As mountains bound Jerusalem, So God is altogether About his people, guarding them, From this time forth for ever. Their rod & rule may be upon the back of the godly, but notabide over long, to make God's people desperate. verse 3 The rod of sinners shall not rest Upon the just men's lot: Lest righteous men (too much oppressed) Should do they care not what. verse 4 To all good men do good o Lord, To men of upright heart: verse 5 But such as of their own accord, To crooked ways depart. With workers of iniquity, The Lord shall lead them out: As malefactors to execution▪ But Israel shall, undoubtedly, With peace be hedged about. PSAL. CXXVI. York tune. The Church celebrates her happy return from the captivity of Babylon, Typing our deliverance from Romish Babylon. praying for the completing of their deliverance. WHen as the Lord brought back again, We thought it but a dream. The bondage most extreme, Wherein poor Zion did remain, We were like them that dream. Act. 12. 9 verse 2 Our mouth was filled with laughter then, And singing filled our tongue: Among amazed heathen men, These speeches passed along. Great things for them and marvellous, The Lord hath done indeed: verse 3 Yea God hath done great things for us, Which doth our gladness breed. verse 4 O Lord our thraldom turn again, As streams in Southern parts: As comfortable as rivers in dry places. verse 5 For they that sow with tears obtain To reap with joyful hearts. verse 6 Who weeping precious seed bears out, They that sow seed when the dearth is so great, they weep to spare so much. A pledge behind him leaves To come again with joy, no doubt, And with him bring his sheaves. PSAL. CXXVII. Dutch tune. The unprofitableness of worldly care; The sweet blessings of posterity. EXcept the LORD the house do build, Vain pains the builders take: Except the LORD the City shield, In vain the watchmen wake. verse 2 Vain's early rising, watching late, And eating careful bread: While Gods beloved in their estate, Sleep quietly in bed. verse 3 A fruitful womb God only grafts, And children can bestow: verse 4 Young children are like piercing shafts, Shot from a Giant's bow. verse 5 Whose quiver is with them replete, Enjoys a happy state: Such shall not be ashamed to treat With th'enemy in the gate. In the gates of war, or Courts of justice, which were built in the gates. PSAL. CXXVIII. To David's tune. The blessings of the godly in provision and posterity. BLessed are all that fear the LORD, And walk as God commands: verse 2 For thou shalt eat the plenty stored By labours of thy hands. All welfare shall to thee betid, And happy be thy life: verse 3 Like fruitful Vine on thy house-side, Lo such shall be thy wife. Thy children round about thy board, Like plants of Olive tree: verse 4 Behold the man that fears the Lord, Thus blessed shall he be. From heaven what was promised in Zion. verse 5 The Lord from Zion unto thee, Rich blessings shall convey: And thou Jerus'lems good shalt see, Unto thy dying day. verse 6 Yea with great joy shalt thou behold A plentiful increase Of children's children, being old, And Israel's established peace. PSAL. CXXIX. The often assaults sustained by the Church: he curseth the implacable adversaries. THey from my youth may Israel say, From the very beginning of the Church. verse 2 They from my youth assailed; And sorely grieved me many a day, But never have prevailed. verse 3 The plowers on my back did plow, And made their furrows long: All the means & instruments of destruction. verse 4 The righteous Lord hath cut in two, The wickeds cords so strong. verse 5 All Zions hateful enemies stop, Confound, and overthrow: verse 6 Make them like grass on houses top, Such ears of corn as grow on the house top, never have the honour of a harvest, so let the wicked never come to good. Which withereth ere it grow. verse 7 Whereof the mower ne'er receives, So much as hands can gripe: Nor he that bindeth up the sheaves, A bosom full grown ripe. verse 8 Which never invites the passengers, At gathering of the same, To say thus much, God speed you Sirs, We bless you in his Name. PSAL. CXXX. Oxford tune. The depths of sorrow and sin; he seeketh succour in God's mercies, and exhorts all thereto. OUt of the depths I cried to thee, verse 2 Lord let my cries be heard: And let thine ears attentive be Unto my suits preferred. verse 3 Such are our sins, that none could stand, If thou shouldst mark the same: verse 4 But there's forgiveness at thy hand, That men may fear thy Name: verse 5 I wait for God, my soul doth stay, I on his Word depend: verse 6 My soul waits for him, more than they For morning that attend. I say, more earnestly than those That watch for morning's light: verse 7 Let Israel in the Lord repose, Whose mercy's infinite. Redemption in most plenteous wise, With him is found to be: verse 8 From all his scored iniquities, Shall he set Israel free. PSAL. CXXXI. Dutch tune. David's meek and quiet spirit, waiting upon God by faith, exhorteth the Church to follow his example. O LORD, I have no lofty eyes, Nor haughty heart have I: My soul I do not exercise, In things too great and high. verse 2 Sure I have showed myself as mild, And have myself contained In silent meekness, like a child From his fond mother weaned. Like to a weaned infant just, My soul is pacified: verse 3 Let Israel in JEHOVAH trust, And trusting so abide. PSAL. CXXXII. York tune. David's zeal to turn the Tabernacle into a Temple: Meditate how zealous we should be to promote Religion. Never quiet in his mind till he could resolve where to build a Temple. Which also betokened the temple of our hearts 1 Cor. 6. 19 He foretells the joy of the people therein, and prays for God's favour. KIng David's case o LORD record, And all his torturing care: verse 2 To jacob's mighty God the LORD, Who thus did vow and swore. verse 3 Up to my bed I will not climb, Nor come my house amids: verse 4 Nor give mine eyes a sleeping time, Nor slumber to my lids: verse 5 Till for the LORD I find a place, A place wherein may dwell The mighty God of jacob's race, The God of Israel. verse 6 * David born at Bethlem-Ephrata, told us where the temple should be built, namely, in Jerusalem, which was once a wood land place. Lo, Ephrata this news did yield, There heard we of it so: We found it in the woodland field; verse 7 * When these Tents are turned into a Temple (figuring the settled state of the Church) & the Ark (representing the strong God) placed in the Propitiatory (a type of Christ, 1 joh. 2. 2.) then shall we go to worship joyfully. We to his Tents will go. And at the footstool of his grace, With reverend worship bow: verse 8 Rise LORD into thy resting place, Thy ARK of strength and thou verse 9 With righteousness thy Priest's array, Thy Saints let shout apace: verse 10 For DAVID'S sake turn not away Thy King's anointed face. For thy Covenant sake with David through Christ, of whom he is a type. 2. Part. Argument. David's good will is taken for the deed, his son Solomon (another type of Christ) builds the Temple; a blessing is promised to David's seed reigning in Jerusalem. A type of Christ's reigning in the Church. verse 11 THe LORD hath unto DAVID sworn, Which shall not be recalled: With children of thy body born, Thy throne shall be installed. verse 12 If taught my Law and Covenant, Thy seed therein persever: Their children's children shall not want To hold the throne for ever. verse 13 Because the LORD hath Zion chose, The Temple was built on Mount Moriah, David's house on Zion, which being more famous, carries the name, & types Christ's Kingly office as well as Prophetical and Priestly. His habitation willed: verse 14 This is for ever my repose, My dwelling here I'll build. For so have I desired to do, verse 15 And in abundant wise, Will bless provision thereunto, Her poor with bread suffice. verse 16 I'll clothe her Priests with saving grace, And make her Saints to shout verse 17 Aloud for joy; And in that place Make DAVID'S horn to sprout. I have for mine anointed there Ordained a shining flame: A type of the light & glory of the Church. verse 18 A flourishing crown I'll make him wear, But cloth his foes with shame. PSAL. CXXXIII. 1. Strain tune. The commendation and blessing of unity. BEhold how good and full of bliss, And what a pleasant thing it is: When Brethren do most lovingly Together dwell in unity. verse 2 It's like the precious ointment shed Upon the top of Aaron's head, which drenched his beard, & from his crown Even to his garment skirts ran down: verse 3 Like pearlie dew on Hermon hills, Or which on Zion Mount distils: Where GOD powers down his blessings store, Blessings of life for evermore. PSAL. CXXXIV. Old England tune. An exhortation to the Levites to praise God, Typing the duty of Ministers. And ours too, who are Gods (Clergy, 1 Pet. 5. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and) Priesthood. and their blessing and praying for the people. BEhold, bless ye the LORD of might, Ye servants of the Lord: Which in his house do stand by night, All ye his praise record. verse 2 Lift up your hands, and bless his Name, In his most holy hill: verse 3 The Lord that heaven & earth did frame, 1 Pet. 2. 9 From Zion bless thee still. PSAL. CXXXV. To 2. Strain tune. The happy election, vocation, and preservation of the Church, by the creator and governor of all things, who executed his judgements on our behalf. PRaise ye God's Name: His praise proclaim, O ye his servants spread his fame. verse 2 Whose feet have trod The Courts of God, The Temple Courts of our great God. verse 3 His Name praise ye: For good is he, And praises very comely be. verse 4 His Jacob is; And Isr'el his Peculiar and choice treasure is. verse 5 The LORD also Is great, I know, All Gods they are our LORD below, verse 6 In heaven, and these Earth, deeps, and Seas, He did what ever did him please. verse 7 He vapours sends From earth's far ends, And rain with lightning makes & blends. The winds swift wings From treas'ries brings, verse 8 And smote all Egypt's firstborn things. The first increased Of man and beast, Even from the greatest to the least. verse 9 O Egypt, he In midst of thee Sent tokens that most wondrous be. In general Those judgement's fall, On Pharaoh and his servants all. verse 10 Who smote, and slew, And overthrew Great Kings, and mighty Nations too. verse 11 The Amorite, And Bashanite, Sihon and OG his hands did smite. By him alone Were overthrown The Kings of Canaan every one: verse 12 He gave their land To Isr'els' hand, An heritage at their command. verse 13 Thy memory sure And Name endure, Not any age shall them obscure. 2. Part. Argument. God's gracious reconciliation to his Church; the definition of Idols, and praise of God. verse 14 GOD will repent Our punishment: To judge his people he is bend. verse 15 Their Gods, behold, Are formed of gold And silver, which men's hands did mould. verse 16 Both mouth and eyes They have likewise: But blind and speechless Deities. Each side an ear, But cannot hear: No breath doth in their mouths appear. verse 18 Their makers must Be like them just: And so are all that in them trust. verse 19 The Lords Name bless: His praise express, Israel's and Aaron's house no less. verse 20 Let Levi frame To do the same: And all that fear his holy Name. verse 21 From Zion hill Him bless we will That dwells at Salem, By some special tokens of his presence at Jerusalem, i.e. peace. bless him still. PSAL. CXXXVI. London short tune. A thankful commemoration of God's mercies, testified in so many miraculous works. UNto the LORD, Typing the Church, whence God gives peace of the Gospel. o ye Give thanks, for good is he: His mercies sure Do still endure: For they eternal be. verse 2 The God of Gods proclaim, With praises to his Name: His mercies sure Do still endure Eternally the same. verse 3 The Lord of Lords most high, With praises magnify: His mercies sure Do still endure, To all eternity. verse 4 To him that wrought, alone, Great wonders many a one: His mercies sure Do still endure, To ages all made known. verse 5 To him that form by His wisdom all the sky: His mercies sure Do still endure, To perpetuity. verse 6 That did the earth extend The seas to comprehend: Caused the shore to stint and bond the Sea, which naturally would cover all the earth. His mercies sure Do still endure, And never have an end. verse 7 To him whose power divine, Did make great lights to shine, His mercies sure Do still endure, Not subject to decline. verse 8 The Sun to rule and sway The motions of the day: His mercies sure Do still endure, And never fall away. verse 9 The Moon and stars of light, He made to rule by night: His mercies sure Do still endure; For they are infinite. 2. Part. Argument. A memorial of God's mercies to his Church, Instanced in Egypt, which is a typical deliverance. and judgement on our adversaries. verse 10 TO him your thanks devote, Who Egypt's firstborn smote: His mercies sure Do still endure, Of everlasting note. verse 11 And from among them all, Brought Isr'el out of thrall: His mercies sure Do still endure: And so for ever shall. verse 12 With arm out stretched and With his Almighty hand: His mercies sure Do still endure: For they eternal stand. verse 13 To him that did divide The Sea on either side: His mercies sure Do still endure, And evermore abide. verse 14 And israels passage made Amidst it to evade: His mercies sure Do still endure, And never fail nor fade. verse 15 But Pharaoh did confound, His host in red Sea drowned: His mercies sure Do still endure, And ever shall abound. verse 16 To him that led his own Through deserts all unknown: His mercies sure Do still endure: As permanent alone. verse 17 To him that smote and slew verse 18 Great Kings and famous too: His mercies sure Do still endure, And so shall ever do. verse 19 King Sihon he did smite, That Giant Amorite: His mercies sure Do still endure, Continuing day and night. verse 20 And OG of Bashan King, He did to ruin bring: His mercies sure Do still endure, An unexhausted spring. verse 21 And did their land engage To be an heritage: His mercies sure Do still endure, Out-wearing time and age. verse 22 That heritage befell His servant Israel: His mercies sure Do still endure; Times constant parallel. verse 23 Who thought on our estate, When low and desolate: His mercies sure Do still endure, And bear eternal date. verse 24 Redeeming us from those That were our mortal foes: His mercies sure Do still endure, A spring that ever flows. verse 25 For he provideth meat, Whereof all flesh may eat: His mercies sure Do still endure, For ever most complete. verse 26 The God of heaven therefore With thankful thoughts adore: His mercies sure Do still endure, Henceforth for evermore. PSAL. CXXXVII. Southwell tune. Israel's excessive lamentation in the Babylonian captivity: the cruelty of the enemies, and Gods dreadful curse upon them. BY Babel's Rivers deep, By pleasant Rivers side, which seemed to 'tice us to mirth and music. There sat we down to weep: And thinking still On Zion hill, Our tunes in tears we steep. verse 2 Our harps, untuned, unstrung, On willow-trees we hung: The trees grew so pleasantly too, but we had no heart to music. verse 3 Where they of us, Required thus, Sing us a Sion-song. And even there, did they That carried us away In captive state, We counted it cruelty for our enemies to urge us. And desolate, Urge us to sing and play. They mirth of us demand, Tho wasted by their hand: verse 4 How shall our tongues Tune Zions Songs, Here in a foreign land? verse 5 jerusalem if thou be Forgotten here of me In foreign land, Let my right hand Forget her faculty. If I forget thee ever, Then let me prosper never: But let it cause My tongue and jaws, To cleave and cling together. verse 6 If for Jerusalem I do not quite contem ' All joys that be, And count not thee Above the chief of them. verse 7 Remember LORD the spite Showed by the Edomite: Thus did they say In Salems' day, At the sacking of Jerusalem. Down with it, raze it quite. verse 8 O daughter Babylon, Whose ruin now comes on: Oh happy he That does to thee As thou to us hast done. verse 9 And blessed be his pains That dasheth out the brains Of little ones, How much less should we favour the Idols of Romish Babylon? Against the stones, When Babel's judgement reigns. PSAL. CXXXVIII. David's tune. David praises God for outward and inward mercies, proclaiming the comforts of the Gospel, and his hope of further favours. BEfore the Gods thy praise I'll sing, Before great men (& perhaps Angels there) in the Congregation, looking toward the Propitiatory, a type of Christ. My heart shall have regard verse 2 Thy praise to utter, worshipping Thy holy Temple-ward. Thy praise, for thy compassions tried, And truth, will I proclaim. For thou thy Word hast magnified, Yea more than all thy Name. Made known thy goodness in fulfilling thy Word more than thou hast set forth thy justice, or other attributes. King's need thy help for their temporal, more for a spiritual kingdom. verse 3 That day whereon I cried to thee, Thou answeredst me again: With inward strength thou strength'nedst me, My soul for to sustain. verse 4 All Kings on earth shall give thee praise, * When they understand how thou wast good to me, and to all in Christ. When they shall hear thy words: verse 5 Yea singing walk along thy ways, Such great fame is our LORDS. verse 6 Though God be high, he hath respect To such as lowly be: † But then they must be meek & seek thee in humility. But all proud persons doth neglect, Sure thou wilt quicken me. verse 7 Yea, though I walk in midst of woes, Thy hand shalt thou extend Against the wrath of all my foes, Thy right hand shall defend. verse 8 What me concerns will God fulfil, Most firm thy mercy stands: Forsake not Lord, but secure still The work of thine own hands. PSAL. CXXXIX. The allseeing eye of God, and admirable workmanship of man's creation. O Lord thou hast me searched and known, verse 2 My sitting down thou knowst: My rising up, my thoughts each one, Thou see'st, when distant most. verse 3 Thou compassest my path, my bed, And all my ways dost note: verse 4 There's not a word my tongue hath said, But thou dost fully know't. verse 5 Behind, before, thou hast beset, And on me laid thy hand: Thou art ever all about me, doing what thou wilt with me, I cannot know how great thy knowledge of me is. verse 6 Such knowledge is too great to get, Too high to understand. verse 7 Where from thy Spirit shall I go, Or from thy presence fly? verse 8 Make I my bed in hell below, Or climb to heaven high: Behold, thou art in each of these. verse 9 If mornings wings me bear, If I had wings as swift as the Sun (that goes from east to west) I could get no further from thee; thou shouldst hold me still as thy prisoner. To dwell in parts of utmost seas: verse 10 Thy hand shall lead me there. There thy right hand shall hold me fast. verse 11 And if I say dark night Shall cover me with skies o'ercast; All shall surround with light. verse 12 Yea, darkness hides not from thy sight, But night as day shines clear: To thee the darkness and the light, Do both alike appear. verse 13 For thou hast powerfully possessed My reins most secret room: Yea thou knewest me an embryo in the womb, & every vein and part of me in my mother's belly. And covered in the secretest, My mother's narrow womb. verse 14 I'll praise thee, that hast made me thus, Of rare and fearful frame: Thy handiworks are marvellous, Well knows my soul the same. He names the reins being the most inward; for the bowels being plucked out the kidneys stay behind, and have the obscurest passages. verse 15 My substance was not hid from thee, When secretly composed; Most curiously thou formedst me, † In the womb as dark as any cranny of the earth. In earth's dark caves enclosed. verse 16 Thine eye saw my rude substance there, * Thy decree ordained every part of me & formed me by degrees. Thy book my members named: Which in continuance fashioned were, Whiles yet they were not framed. 2. Part. Argument. David acknowledges Gods exceeding goodness, shows his dislike of the wicked, and approves his heart to God. verse 17 HOw precious I thy † Thy purposes of good to thy children. thoughts account, O God how great's their sum! verse 18 The sands in number they surmount, If they to reckoning come. And whensoever I * Awaking from sin, sleep, or sorrow, I feel fresh tokens of thy power & presence. awake, Lord I am still with thee: verse 19 And know that thou revenge wilt take, On them that wicked be. Surely O God thou wilt them slay, Therefore say I to them, Depart from me, depart, I say, O all ye bloody men. verse 20 For lo thy foes against thee spoke With blasphemous disdain: Thine enemies are bold to take Thy sacred Name in vain. verse 21 Do not I hate thine enemies, Hate their vices, & familiarity with their persons, seeking to bring them to shame & punishment. And that for hating thee? And them that do against thee rise, Am not I grieved to see? verse 22 I hate them with a perfect hate, I count them foes of mine: verse 23 Search me O God, and know my state, My heart and thoughts untwine. verse 24 And see if I do go astray In any course of sin: Set open the everlasting way, The path of thy commandments that leads to everlasting life. And lead me LORD therein. PSAL. CXL. Cambridge old tune. A prayer against persecutors, expressing their malice, and experience of God's deliverance. LORD save me from the violent, Preserve me from the lewd: verse 2 Whose heart, (so bend) A vile intent Against me have pursued. Continually for wars they throng, Serpentine-Adder-like: verse 3 With sharpened tongue, And poison strong Between their lips, they strike. verse 4 Preserve me from ungodly hands, And from my furious foe: Hells fier-brands, Whose purpose stands My steps to overthrow. verse 5 The proud that they my soul might get, Close snares, and cords did hide: They spread a net, They grins have set Hard by the highway side. verse 6 I said to God, it doth appear Thou art my God alone: LORD bow thine ear, That thou may'st hear My supplications groan. verse 7 O God the Lord thou didst me stead, My soul with saving might: And thou my head Hast covered In day of bloody fight. 2. Part. Argu. As before. verse 8 O Do not, do not grant a jot The wicked man's desire: O further not His wicked plot, Lest that should lift him higher. verse 9 As for the head of all the throng, Saul etc. representing grand adversaries. That do me round enclose: With mischief sprung From their own tongue The LORD shall cover those. Psal. 64. 8. verse 10 Let fall upon them burning coals, And cast them in the fire: In deepest holes Whence (damned souls) They never may retire. Into the most intricate and inextricable judgement, such as hell itself. verse 11 Let no blasphemer impudent, Be established here below: Mischief shall sent The violent, And hunt to overthrow. verse 12 Their cause will he maintain, I know, That is the most of might, That undergo Such storms of woe, And poor men's lawful right. verse 13 Surely the righteous every where, Thanks to thy Name shall give: And all that bear A mind sincere, In thy safe presence live. PSAL. CXLI. Martyr's tune. David sues for acceptation of his person and prayers, for direction of his words and works; to avoid the enticings of the wicked, and to obtain the reproof of the righteous; He prays for them against the wiles of the wicked. To thee, O Lord, I call and cry, Make haste, make haste to me: Give ear unto my voice, when I Cry earnestly to thee. verse 2 O let my prayer be now set out, As incense in thine eyes: And lifting up of hands devout, An evening sacrifice. verse 3 Lord set a watch to guard my lips, And keep my mouth from sin: verse 4 That wicked works and fellowships, My soul partake not in. Incline my heart to no misdeed, With them that wicked are: Let me not swallow their doctrines of carnal liberty. Nor let me ever dare to feed Of their delicious fare. verse 5 Suffer the righteous smiting me, Which I shall kindness deem: And his reproof an oil shall be Of singular esteem. I will requite their reproofs with prayers in the saddest times of their adversity, to show the truth of my love. Such smiting shall not break my head: For still I'll pray to thee, When as they shall be hard bestead, With great calamity. verse 6 * The ringleaders of wickedness (Saul's courtiers now in authority) being fearfully overthrown, will cause the vulgar to hearken to good counsel. Their Judges being overthrown In dangerous stony ground, Shall make them hear my words each one, For they full sweetly sound. verse 7 † Tho while these tyrant's reign they chop the righteous as flesh to the pot. The graves devouring mouth is found, With our dead bones bestrewed: As chips belitt'ring all the ground, When wood is cleft and hewed. verse 8 Lord God mine eyes are fixed on thee, Leave not my soul deprived: I trust in thee, O save thou me, verse 9 From their close snare contrived. From wicked workers setting grins: verse 10 O let the wicked fall, Even in their own devised gins, While I escape withal. PSAL. CXLII. To sweet tune. David in the cave of Adullam, 1 Sam. 24. prays to God in that desperate condition, expecting deliverance, to God's glory, and comfort of the faithful. WIth voice, with voice, & cries devout, To God the Lord I made request: verse 2 Before him my complaint poured out, I showed the Lord my case distressed. verse 3 My spirit overwhelmed and spent, In the deserts of Engedi, where Saul sought to take me. 1 Sam. 24. My private path was known to thee: Even in the way wherein I went, They laid a secret snare for me. verse 4 On my right hand I looked and stared, But there was no man would me know: For my poor soul no creature cared, All refuge failed of things below. verse 5 I cried to thee, o Lord, I said, Among the living in the land, Thou art my portion, and my aid, And all the help I have at hand. verse 6 Attend unto my earnest suit, For I am brought exceeding low: Save me from them that persecute, Too hard for me, too strong a foe. verse 7 My soul from prison Lord bring out, That I may render praise to thee: The just shall compass me about, When thou dealest bounteously with me. PSAL. CXLIII. To old England tune, the latter part twice. An humble confession of sin, and complaint of suffering; a prayer for pardon, deliverance, and the Spirit of grace. LOrd hear my prayer and humble suit, Thy willing ear address: Yea answer me By thy decree Of truth and faithfulness. verse 2 Against thy servant no dispute, Nor action let be tried: Before thee can No mortal man Be ever justified. verse 3 The foe my soul doth persecute, It seems to relate to David's condition in the deserts. My life quite undertrod: My dwelling made In darksome shade, As men long dead O God. verse 4 O'erwhelmed therefore my spirits sink, My heart is desolate: verse 5 Thy ancient days, Psal. 77. 11. Thy works and ways, I mind and meditate. Of all thy handiworks I think, verse 6 To thee I stretch my hands: Lift up my hands in prayer. My soul doth burst, With fervent thirst, For thee, like thirsty lands. verse 7 Lord hear me soon, my spirits shrink, Hide not thy face from me: Like them that go To pit below Lest I should quickly be. verse 8 Cause me to hear of thy kind love, To gather comfort by thy Word which I have heard. When morning doth begin: Cause me to know What way to go, For thee my trust is in. verse 9 I lift my soul to thee above, Me from mine enemies save: I fly to thee To shelter me, No other God I have. verse 10 Thy spirit is good, let that sweet dove Thy servants soul instruct: In thy command, Let me lead my life among godly persons, in a godly way. And to the land Of uprightness conduct. verse 11 Lord for thy Names-sake quicken me, And that this very thing May well express Thy righteousness, My soul from trouble bring. verse 12 And of thine own compassions free, My foes destroy and damn ': Destroy them whole That vex my soul, For I thy servant am. Thine heritage Lord bless and keep. So that etc. Ps. 28. ult. PSAL. CXLIV. York tune. God's wonderful protection on his people in war and battle; Instanced in David a precedent unto us. his gracious respects to mankind: the quickened desires of the faithful to praise God. O Blessed be the LORD my might, Who, in the warlike field, My hands and fingers taught to fight: verse 2 My goodness, Saviour, Shield. My fort, high tower, in whom I trust, My people that subdues: verse 3 Oh what is man that LORD thou dost Such poor acquaintance choose! Or what is man's posterity, Whereof such reckoning's made? verse 4 Sure man is like to vanity, His days as fleeting shade. verse 5 LORD bow the heavens, & come down, Thou canst be as dreadful as thou wast on Sinai Exod. 19 and canst destroy my adversaries with lightning & thunder. Touched mountains make to smoke: verse 6 Destroy thy foes with angry frown, By dreadful lightnings stroke. Destroy them with thy bended bow: verse 7 Send help my soul to save: Send thy high hand, rid, save me so From swallowing waters grave. Even from the hands of children strange, From hypocrites, aliens from true grace, of strange untoward dispositions. verse 8 Whose mouths of folly treat: And their right hand's a mere exchange Of falsehood and deceit. verse 9 My songs on Psaltery I'll present To thee composed anew: And on a ten-stringed instrument, Will sing thy praises due. verse 10 'tis he that unto Kings extends Salvations welcome pledge: His servant David he defends, From swords offensive edge. 2. Part. Argument. A prayer for the flourishing estate of the Common-weal. Felicity is placed in God alone. verse 11 RElease and rid me speedily From hand of sinners vile: Whose subtle mouth speaks vanity, Their right hand full of guile. verse 12 Our sons as plants in youth up grown, And daughters, to us born, Let be as some carved cornerstone, Fair palace to adorn. verse 13 Our garners full as they can hold, With every kind of thing: Our sheep a thousand thousand fold, Within our streets may bring. verse 14 Our Oxen not in labour faint, No enemy to invade: No leading captive, no complaint Within our streets be made. verse 15 O blessed people would we say, With such like blessings stored: O rather blessed people they Whose God is God the Lord. PSAL. CXLV. Old England tune. David in a well composed song of praise, In the Name of all Saints. extols God's majesty, might, and mercy. I Will extol thee Lord my King, And ever bless thy Name: verse 2 I, all my days, Will bless and praise, And never cease the same. verse 3 Great God, great praises meriting, Whose greatness none can reach: verse 4 One age shall praise Thy works and ways, To thy succeeding Church. Thy mighty acts shall they recite, verse 5 And I will here discuss The fame of thy Great Majesty: And works miraculous. verse 6 Thy actions of such wondrous might, Men shall speak of the same: They dreadful are; And I'll declare The greatness of thy Name. verse 7 The memory of thy goodness great, They fully shall make known: In songs express Thy righteousness. verse 8 The Lord's a gracious one. The LORD is easy to entreat, verse 9 Kind, patient, good to all: His mercies do Extend unto His works in general. verse 10 Thy works shall praise thee every one, Thy Saints thy Name shall bless: verse 11 They shall proclaim Thy Kingdom's fame, And powers Almightiness. verse 12 To make thy mighty actions known To man's posterity: And celebrate The glorious state Of thy supremacy. 2. Part. Arg. As before. verse 13 THy kingdom wears eternal crown, And thy dominion shall Endure and last All ages past, verse 14 God holds up all that fall. Crush under tyrants. And raiseth all the bowed down, verse 15 * Ps. 104 27. All eyes do wait on thee: Thou givest meat For them to eat, When fittest seasons be. verse 16 Thine opened hand doth satisfy Each living things desire: verse 17 Gods Justie sways In all his ways, His holiness entire. verse 18 To all his suppliants God is nigh, Even all that call sincere: verse 19 He also will Their prayers fulfil, Who ever do him fear. he'll hear their cry, and help afford, verse 20 And all his lovers true, Will God secure, But he will, sure, Destroy the wicked crew. verse 21 My mouth shall magnify the Lord, And universal flesh, His holy Name And glorious fame Shall ever sound afresh. PSAL. CXLVI. To both Strain tunes. The vain trust in men, and happy confidence is God's salvation, who made all things, & is most gracious to us in his providence. THe Lords deserved praise proclaim, My soul do thou extol the same: verse 2 I, while I live, Will praises give Unto the Lords Almighty Name. Unto my God will I sing praise, While breath prolongs my life and days: verse 3 Trust in no King, Nor mortal thing, They can no help nor succour bring. verse 4 For lo, there passeth out his breath, And he returns to dust of death; That very day His thoughts decay, And each of them then perisheth. verse 5 O happy happy happy one, Who ever jacob's God hath known To be his aid: Whose hope is stayed Upon the Lord his God alone. verse 6 That made the heavens, seas, and shore, The earth and all the numerous store In liquid seas: He made all these, And keepeth truth for evermore. verse 7 In-judgment he for us proceeds, For to avenge oppressors deeds; From bondage He Set prisoners free; The Lord likewise the hungry feeds. verse 8 The righteous doth the Lord affect, The bowed down he doth erect; Psal. 45. 14. Opening likewise The blind man's eyes, Both spiritual and corporal. verse 9 The strangers doth the Lord protect. The Lord relieves the fatherless, And helps the widow in distress: But in his wrath, The sinner's path, The Lord doth utterly suppress. verse 10 The Lord shall reign eternally, Thy God O Zion rules on high; And so he shall To ages all: His Name do ye still magnify. PSAL. CXLVII. To 1. French tune. God is glorified for the works of his admirable providence, and specially for favours to his Church in his Word and Ordinances. PRaise ye the Lord, for it is meet The praises of our God to sing: For it is an employment sweet, The captives and exiles, it is thought that this Psalm celebrates the deliverance from Babylon. And praise a very comely thing. verse 2 The Lord doth build Jerusalem, The outcasts gleans of Israel's bounds: verse 3 The broke in heart he healeth them, And bindeth up their bleeding wounds. verse 4 * Much more doth he know his elect. The number of the stars he tells, And all their names he doth recite: verse 5 Great is the Lord, his power excels: His understanding infinite. verse 6 Poor humble souls the Lord doth raise, But treads the wicked to the ground verse 7 Sing to the Lord with thanks & praise, And with the harps harmonious sound. verse 8 Who with thick clouds orespreads the sky, Prepared rain on earth distils: God's work indeed, that grass should grow on the barren mountains. And makes the earth to fructify With store of grass on highest hills. verse 9 Who to the beast doth food allot, And feeds young ravens when they call: verse 10 The strength of horse delights him not, Nor yet the legs of champion tall. verse 11 Who fear him he delights in them, And such as on his grace rely: verse 12 Praise, praise thy God Jerusalem, Thy God o Zion magnify. verse 13 Thy children in thee he hath blest, Strengthened the bars which bar thy gates: verse 14 Of wheat he fills thee with the best, And in thy borders peace creates. verse 15 He sends out his commandment full: His word through th'air most swiftly posts: verse 16 He gives us snow like gentle wool, He spreads like ashes hoary frosts. verse 17 His ice like morsels casts about, How much less his eternal burning wrath. His pinching cold who can sustain? verse 18 His powerful Word he sendeth out, And makes the waters melt again. His power doth cause the winds to blow, The ice to thaw, so can he our hard hearts to melt. Whereby the rugged waters flows: verse 19 His Word to Jacob he doth show, His laws and judgements Israel knows. verse 20 He dealt not so with other lands, As for the Judgements of the Lord, No heathen people understands; Do ye therefore his praise record. PSAL. CXLVIII. Old England tune. The creatures (in their kind) praise God, how much more his people, obliged by his benefits? PRaise ye the LORD, praise ye the Lord, All celestial creatures. From heavens lofty frame: Him, from on high, O magnify; verse 2 All Angels praise his Name. O all his hosts his praise record: verse 3 O praise him Moon and Sun: Ye stars of light, That shine so bright, The like of you be done. verse 4 Ye heavens of heavens that are so high, Praise him with full consent; And waters, ye On high that be, Above the firmament. verse 5 O let them praise and magnify The LORDS almighty Name: For lo they were Created there, When his commandment came. verse 6 He hath established them also For ever and for ever: Till the end, and then a renovation of all things. Psal. 102. 26. So firm decree Ordained he, That they shall pass it never. verse 7 Praise ye the Lord from earth below, Terrestrialls. Dragons and every deep: verse 8 Fire, vapour, snow, Serve in your kind according to his ordinance. Psal. 119. 91. which condemns our disobedience. Hail-storms that blow, His word that firmly keep. verse 9 All mountains high, and fruitful trees, All hills and Cedars tall; verse 10 Ye fowl with wings, And creeping things, Ye beasts and cattle all. verse 11 Kings, Princes, people, all degrees, Ye Judges of the earth: verse 12 Young men and maids, Children and babes, And men of elder birth. verse 13 The Lords great Name still praised be, For that alone excels: And far more high Than earth or sky, His glittering glory dwells. verse 14 The praise of all his Saints is he, He is both the object of their praise, and the author of their dignity by Christ Jesus, whose kindred they are spiritually. Mat. 12. 50. Taken from occasion of the Babylonick bondage. jer. 25. 11. His people near allied; From Israel born, He exalts their horn: The Lord be magnified. PSAL. CXLIX. Magnificat tune. The triumphs of the Church, in memorial of great deliverances, and the subjection of the adversaries. PRaise ye the Lord, sing to the Lord A new composed song: His memorable praise record, His gathered Saints among. Meditate of Christ our King and spiritual mercies. Melody of hearts. verse 2 Let joyful Israel shout and sing In their Creator's Name: Let Zions children in their King, Triumphant joys proclaim. verse 3 In dances let them praise his Name, The harp before him bring: And join the timbrel to the same, With these his praises sing. verse 4 For lo the Lord exceedingly In Israel doth delight: The meek he'll richly beautify With robes of saving might verse 5 In glory let the Saints be joyed, Sing loud upon their bed: verse 6 And their religious mouths employed The Lords high praise to spread. Fulfilled in the happy days of reformation. Rev. 11. 15, 17, 18. and finally at the last judgement. And let a double edged sword, Be put into their hands: verse 7 T'inflict the vengeance of the Lord Upon the heathen lands. T'impose the people's punishments, verse 8 Their Kings in chains to bind: Their noble Peers and Precedents In iron links confined. verse 9 To execute upon them all, The judgement on record: Such honour to the Saints doth fall, Praise ye, praise ye the Lord. PSAL. CL. To London short tune. An exhortation to praise God with instruments of music; typing the melody of Christians affections. PRaise, praise the Lord most high, The Sanctuary was a type of the hearts of the faithful, the temples of the holy Ghost. 2 Cor. 6. 16. Within his Sanctu'rie: In topmost tower Of his great power, With praise him magnify. verse 2 Praise him for acts renowned, With excellency crowned: According to His greatness do: verse 3 Praise him with trumpets sound. O praise him cheerfully, With harp and psaltery: verse 4 And let the dance His praise advance, And timbrels melody. Praise him with joint consents Of stringed instruments: The organs bring, verse 5 Loud cimbals ring, Each one his praise presents. High-sounding cymbals ring, verse 6 Let every * Not only instruments that are blown, but all men, Jews & Gentiles: some understand it a description of all creatures, because the most have this property. breathing thing, The praise record Of this great Lord: And HALLELUJAH sing. FINIS. THE TABLE. Affliction MOderated, Psal. 30, Ps. 118 ver▪ 18. Sanctified, Ps. 94. ver. 12. Ps. 119. ver. 67. Consisting with God's love, Ps. 89. 4 part. Ps. 99 ver. 8. Angels Serving God, Ps. 103. 2. p. Ps. 104. 1. p. For the godly, Ps. 34. 1. p. Ps. 91. 2. p. Age. Prayer for succour in old age, Ps. 71. 2. & 3. p. Atheism Described, Ps. 14. & 53. Cursed, Ps. 28. ver. 5. Ps. 104. v. 35. Ps. 107. ult. Blessings On the ground, Ps. 65. 2. p. Ps. 67. upon the godly, Ps. 112. Babylonian Bondage, Ps. 102. 1. p. Ps. 106 last. p. Recovered, Ps. 85. 1. p. Ps. 126. Backsliding. Ps. 119. 22. p. Church Selected, Ps. 95. & 135. 1. p. Called, Ps. 100 Corrupted, 106. 2. p. etc. Afflicted, Ps. 74. 79. 80. Restored, Ps. 85. 1. p. Ps. 102. 2. p. Preserved, Ps. 124. 129. Privileges thereof, Ps. 65. 1. p. ps. 87. Christ. His kingdom opposed, Ps. 2. Raised, ibidem. His perfection, Ps. 45. His offices, Ps. 110. His Gospel government, Ps. 72. 97. 98. 99 Complaints Of miseries personal, Ps. 38. 88 69. 1● p. Ps. 25. 2. p. Of miseries national, Ps. 74. 79. 80. Conscience. Ps. 18. ver. 21. Creation and Creatures. All of God, Ps. 33. 1. And governed, Ibidem. Ps. 103. 2. p. Ps. 119. ver. 91. Subjected to man, Ps. 8. Their dread of the Creator. Ps. 77. & 115. ult. Their dependency on God. Ps. 104. 2. p. etc. & 145. 2. p. They must be renewed, Ps. 102. 2. p. Deliverance Prayed for, Ps. 14. 53. 74. 2. p. 79. 2. p. 80. 2. p. Experienced, Ps. 134. 1. p. 40. 1. p. 61. 66. Desertion. Ps. 77. 1. p. 88 2. p. Prayed against, Ps. 70. & 40. ult. 119. 1. p. Exhortation. To seek God, Ps. 105. 1. p. To serve God, Ps. 95. & 100 To praise God, Ps. 115. 2. p. & 103. 118. 148. 150. Example Of good men, Ps. 34. 1. p. Ps. 99 Of bad men, Ps. 78. 1. p. Ps. 95. ver. 8. God. His goodness to the Saints, Ps. 31. 2. p. 34. 86. 106. 1. p. 119. 9 p. 145. His majesty and greatness, Ps. 96. 89. 2. p 104. 1. p. His praises, Ps. 89. 3. p. Ps. 66. 107. His works, Ps. 19 1. 104. Gospel Foretold. Ps. 96. 2. p. 97. 98. 102. 2. p. Good things thereof, Ps. 85. 2. p. Prayed for. Ps. 67. Praised, Ps. 117. Grace. The gift of God, Ps. 119. ver. 32. & 22. p. Increased, Ps. 119. v. 56. Rewarded, Ps. 18. 3. p. Freeness of it, ps. 78. 7. p. And fullness also, ps. 86. Grief. For God's dishonour, Ps. 119. ver. 158. 139. v. 21. For personal affliction, Ps. 6. & 13. & 25. For public. ps. 79. 80. God's Spirit grieved, Ps. 78. ver. 40. Ps. 95. 10. ver. Heaven. Saints shall go thither, ps. 73. ver. 24. Our passage typed, ps. 114. Heart. Hardness thereof, Ps. 95. ver. 8. Search of it, ps. 4. 4. v. 77. 6. ver. God searching it, Ps. 17. 3. ver. 44. 21. ver. Sincerity of it, Ps. 17. 1. p. 26. 119. 1. p. Subtilty, ps. 64. Hope. Ps. 71. 3. p. From old experience, Ps. 74. 2. p. Humility. Psal. 131. Hypocrisy. Ps. 78. 4. p. & ps. 28. 41. 1. p. 50. 2. p. Idols Derided, Ps. 115. 1. p. Ps. 135. 2. p. Destructive, Ps. 78. 6. p. 97. & ps. 106. v. 36. Baseness of Idolatry, ps. 106. 5. p. Horrid Idolatry, ps. 106. 6. p. Idolising the creature, ps. 73. Ingratitude, Ps. 41. 2. p. ps. 81. 2. p. ps. 78. 4. & 5. p. Ps. 109. 1. p. Judgements. Against the wicked, ps. 7. 3. p. 9 2. p. 69. 3. p. 94. 2. p. 83. 2. p. Depth of God's judgements, ps. 92. 1. part. Reverence of them, Ps. 40. 1. p. ps. 64. Life. The end of it, ps. 119. 3. p. Maintaining of it, Ps. 66. 9 v. 103. 4. ver. Way to long life, Ps. 34. 2 p. 91. 2 p. Frailty of it, Ps. 39 1 p. 90. 1 p. How improved, Ibidem. Eternal life, Ps. 16. 2 p. 21. 1 p. 36. 9 ver. Magistrates. Doing worthily. Ps. 75. 78. last ver. 106. 5. p. 101. unworthily, Ps. 75. 58. 82. 106. ver. 34. Ministers. Ps. 134. Night. Devotion, Ps. 119. v. 55. Affliction, Ps. 16. 2 p. 77. 1 p. Consolation, ps. 42. 2 p. Obedience. Best sacrifice, ps. 40. 2 p. Best sign, Ps 119. 13 p. Ordinances. Saints love them, ps. 26. 27. 1 p. 41. 1 p. 43. 84. 119. Saint's privilege in them. ps. 1●3. 1 p. 147. 2 p. Patience. Ps. 39 2 p. 40. 1 p. Peace. Who love it, Ps. 120. Who hate it, Ps. 35. v. 20. Who gives it, Ps. 85. ver. 8, 10. Who receive it, Ps. 119. v. 165. ps. 125. & 127. ver. 14. How good, Ps. 34. 2 p. Persecution. How vehement and vile, Ps. 10. 14. 35. 109. 140. How resolutely sustained, Ps. 17. 1 p. 27. 1 p. 119. 21 p. Poor. How provided for, Ps. 132. ver. 15. ps. 107. last p. How raised, ps. 113. Posterity. Ps. 113. 127. & 128. Prayer. Saint's exercise, Ps. 5. 1 p. 55. ver. 17. Accepted thereto, Ps. 65. 1 p. 66. v. 20. ps. 102. v. 17. 141. v. 2. Preaching. Ps. 40. 2 p. 51. 2 p. Presence. God's omnipresence, ps. 139. 1 p. 119. 168. v. Prosper. Saints prosper, Ps. 1. No prospering without God, Ps. 78. 1 p. 127. Prosperity how vain, ps. 30. Righteous. Their dignity, ps. 8. & 92. 2 p. Their fidelity, ps. 44. 2. p. Their graces, ps. 45. 2 p. 27. 2 p. Their innocency, ps. 7. 1 p. 109. 1 p. Their protection, Ps. 5. 2 p. ps. 12. & 140. latter end. Their description, Ps. 1. 15. & 24. Their birth privilege, ps. 86. & 116. 16. verses. Their sure supply, ps. 23. 27. 2 p. 33. 2. 34. 1. p. ps. 55. 3 p. Their selection of God, ps. 4. And happiness therein, ps. 65. 1 p. Their privileges, ps. 37. 149. God's special favour to them, ps. 11. & 31. 3 p. Repentance Should be present, ps. 95. ver. 8. Dangerous to delay, ps. 7. 2 p. Is God's gift, ps. 80. ps. 51. 2 p. 119. 22. p. Restauration. Ps. 30. ps. 80. 2 p. 90. 2 p. Saints, see righteous. Sin. It's sinfulness, ps. 51. 1 p. 99 v. 8. ps. 19 2 p. It's hurtfulness, ps. 81. 2 p. 107. v. 34. Hindering prayer, ps. 66. v. 18. Embittering affliction, ps. 38. 1 p. Confessed, ps. 32. 1 p. 106. 1 p. 130. Sinfulness of the wicked, ps. 5. 1 p. ps. 14. & 53. Sea and Seamen. Ps. 104. 3 p. 107. 3 p. Temptation. Ps. 37. & 73. To desperation, ps. 42. 2 p. 77. 1 p. 88 Tempting God, ps. 78. 3 p. Thanksgiving. Ps. 81. 1 p. 103. 145. In public. ps. 116. 2 p. Times. Sinful, ps. 12. & 119. ver. 53. & 126. Distressful times, ps. 10. 1. p. 74. 79. 80. Tongue. Wickedness of it, ps. 5●. 140. 109. Glory of it, ps. 108. 1 p. Treachery. Ps. 41. 2 p. 55. 2, 3 p. Trinity. Ps. 33. 1 p. Trust in God. Ps. 4. & 22. 1 p. 55. 3. p. Trouble. Ps. 3. 10. 13. 31. 2 p. Help in it, Ps. 31. 1 p. 46. 138. Vanity Of the creature, Ps. 33. 2 p. 146. 1 p. Victory Of Christ, Ps. 18. 21. 45. 108. 110. 118. Unbelief. How shameful, Ps. 78. v. 22, 32. 106. v. 24. Vows. Ps. 56. v. 12. 61. v. 8. 65. 1 p. 50. 1. p. 76. 132. 1 p. Unity. Psal. 133. Wars. God's works then, ps. 46. 48. 76. 144. Saint's exploits, ps. 18. 4 p. etc. 60. 2 p. Wicked. Their insolency, ps. 10. 12. 94. 1 p. 140. Their ruin, ps. 36. 2 p. Confederacy in evil, ps. 83. 1 p. The scourge of the godly, ps. 17. 2 p. Word. How sure, ps. 12. & 18. ver. 30. How powerful, ps. 19 & 119. Works Of God, ps. 29. 96. 104. 148. World. Degenerate, ps. 12. & 14. Worship. How due to God, ps. 29. 95. 99 100 122. Zeal. Ps. 69. 1 p. ps. 132. 1 p. Errata in Textu. Psal. 32. 1. read, O Blessed blessed man, This is in some copies only. etc. Ver. 6. for roaring read rolling. Psal. 83. ver. 6. for at read of Edom's, &c. Errata in Margin. Psal. 9 6. Thou o enemy mayst destroy no more, though thou hast destroyed whole Kingdoms, Isa. 37. 26. 29. Psal. 32. 2. But confesses all without dissimulation, In some copies. Psal. 24. 1. Made the earth (one globe with water) habitable, though naturally the water would cover it, being the centre and basis. FINIS.