portrait of King David of Israel 
KING DAVID Blessed be the Kingdom of our Father David that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosannah in the highest. Mar. 11.10.    

THE PSALTER or PSALMS OF DAVID paraphrased in Verse.  
Set to new Tunes. And so designed that by Two Tunes only, the whole Number of Psalms (Four only excepted) may be Sung; One of which Tunes is already known (being the usual Tune of the C. Psalms) the other Tunes only are new. But any one of them being learned, all the other Psalms may be sung by that one only Tune: As on the contrary any one Psalms may be Sung by all the new Tunes. So that a greater facility for those who are lesle able to Sing; or a greater variety for those who are more able, cannot reasonably be desired or afforded.  
The Second Edition, wherein the whole Number is Completed.  
By RICHARD GOODRIDGE.  
Te decet Hymnus.  Psalm 65. 
Praise is comely.  Psalm 147. 
Hallelujah.  
OXFORD Printed by L. Lichfield Printer to the University, for Jo. Crosley. 1684.   

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY EARL of ARLINGTON, Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household, One of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council, and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, etc.  
My Lord,  
WERE not the Subject of these Papers, and the End they aim at, of the greatest Moment, I durst not have adventured them to your Lordship: For, as for what ever I may have performed in them, I know it to be far more beneath the Heights of the Original, than David, when he counterfeited the Madman before Acish, was unlike that David, who returning with the Spoils of the Philistin, was met in triumph by the Daughters of Israel; and his Conquest over that One Monster, was sung above the thousands of Saul. My aim than is not Praise, which I thus unfeignedly acknowledge, not to be due: and therefore am not so vain, as to think they will ever be received into the place of those now used; which have the same fortunate, and ill luck with us, as the Mathematicians of Old had at Rome; still to be retained, yet still condemned. All I shall hope for, is, that having first obtained His Pardon, who, not requiring our exact, but our utmost possible performances, will accept the faithful Endeavours, and pardon the failings of the Weak and Impotent: I may have the like Measures from Your Lordship; and from all such as Your Lordship; who endeavouring to express in themselves the Image of their Maker, will, as himself does, remit to those who have no other end but to edeavour to celebrated his Praise, and promote the Good of others, the infelicities of their Success. Which I cannot but hope from Your Lordship, not only from Your Lordship's Noble inclinations to such in general; but from Your Lordship's particular Favour to your Servant; which, begun so many years past, in that Society, to which Your Lordship is so confessed an Honour, Your Lordship has been pleased to continued hitherto; and to look back upon, and know him yet, at that distance of Fortune, in which Your Lordship so eminently, and so deservedly stands. The God of Heaven multiply his Graces on Your Lordship here; and assign You your Portion hereafter among the Pious and the Just.  
My Lord, Your Lordship's most humble and, most affectionately devoted Servant, Ric. Goodridge.   

PREFACE.  
§. 1. WHAT Offence is generally taken, and how justly, at our English Version of David's Psalms into Meeter, is sufficiently known. Dr. Donne, upon that of Sr. Philip Sidney, and the Countess of Pembroke, commending theirs, censures the other of Sternhold, and Hopkins, and our Church's Toleration of it, thus.  

When I behold that these Psalms are become  
So well attired abroad, so Ill at Home;  
So well in Chambers; in the Church, so Ill;  
I scarcely can call That reformed, until  
This be reformed. Would the State present  
A lesser Gift, than some One Man hath sent?  
And shall our Church, unto her Spouse, and King,  
Moore hoarse, more harsh, than any other sing?   
§. 2. Some have endeavoured to make it more tolerable, by expunging those many low, and indecent Expressions; and putting others in their Places: but the Attempt is fruitless. For, if what they substitute be like the remainder, 'twill be all flat: If it be raised somewhat above that level, the whole will be unlike it self; and by the Addition of new Pieces, 
— cum unus & alter  
Assuitur Pannus,—  the Rents will be made worse. Wherhfore, a New Version is doubtless the only Expedient; for, if to imitate the best Originals be mean and servile; what is it to draw after the worst Copies?  
§. 3. There are many excellent Versions extant; out of all which, if the choicest in Each were taken, and put together; such a Collection would not only exceed that which is now in use; but any one particular Version, of any of those Persons, who have laboured in them.  
§. 4. For doubtless, as there is no Man but is much more himself at some one time, than another: (Ego nunquam (says Scaliger) ad scribendum accingor, nisi ab ipso Genio invitatus) so there is no Man, who may not be much more concerned in the Subject of some one Psalms than another: as expressing, possibly, his particular Wants or Enjoyments; or having more affinity, either with the constant innate Temper, and Genius of his Mind; or With the accidental Emotions and Sallies of it, from some emergent Occasion: So that what he shall than perform in that Fervour, that Ecstasy, that Indignation or Agony, shall not only exceed what others, lesle concerned, shall have done on it; but what himself could have performed, at any other cooler time: And all this, in a Natural way; not to say, what greater Assistances may be lent, upon an humble Addressto Him, who will undoubtedly open those Lips which beg it of Him, for no other end, but that they may show forth his Praise.  
§. 5. Besides, they who have indifferently undertaken all the Psalms, have set themselves a kind of Task; and probably would not have adventured on some few particular ones, had they not been found among the number which they had obliged themselves to complete. So that though they may have gone through them all with great Diligence, yet the Effects of Care and Diligence, can never equal the Efforts of Love, Joy, Zeal, or other mighty Passion; which possessing the Soul, and being further raised and excited by the Hymn, composed by the same, (for kind) but by a far higher (in Degree) and more inspired an ardour, the mutual Fire kindles; And as the Hymn awakes a fervour in the Soul, so the exalted Soul impresse●s that fervour in its Transcript of the Hymn; into which, itself thus excited, passing forth, copies out, and arrests in it, it's own Transports and Emanations; and joining, as in Consort, with the Divine Raptures there, fixes in it the lasting Character, and Image of both; which Character, that Transcript bears, and is; remaining an Eternal Mean, Guide, and Conduct, by which, the penitent, the distressed, the ravished, or the any other way divinely-affected Soul, uniting with it, it's own cognate Fires, may ascend together, to his Throne who will accept those Sacrifices of Prayer, and Praise, which himself has inspired, and kindled as with a Coal from his own Altar.  
§. 6. Wherhfore, as it will not seem unagreeable to the honour of the sacred Poem, that all, as out of Duty, should humbly present the utmost they are able to contribute towards the copying out the Beauty of the Divine Original: So that Copy, doubtless, will be the lest reproach to it, which shall be drawn from out the choicest of all the Offerings.  
§. 7. The Reader, I hope, will have the Charity to believe, that 〈…〉 seeing I have taken them all indifferently as they lie, I do not pretend to have done them otherwise, than as imposed upon myself; and to present them out of Duty only, and as to be refused; being satisfied in the attempt only, of rescuing that Divine Poem from dishonour; and to excite those of greater Abilities, to pursue it by a joint Endeavour; and to that end, to have cast into the Common Treasury, this mean and unprofitable Labour.  
§. 8. Having thus let the Reader know, how much I am concerned for vindicating the Honour of the Divine Poem; and how unconcerned for what ever I may have offered towards it, I shall acquaint him what I have obliged myself to in the Prosecution.  
§. 9 First, therefore, I have endeavoured to avoid all obscurity; which though it be a Rock, that all who speak or writ, are bound to eat; and therefore it may seem impertinent to take notice of it here, as of a new care: Yet, when it shall be remembered, how Universal the number is, of those who are invited, and bound to join in celebrating the Honour of their Maker; Young Men and Maidens; Old Men and Children; and all the different Ranks and Conditions of all those Ages and Sexes; it cannot but be acknowledged, that a very particular care aught to be had, that what is thus to be performed by all, should be rendered intelligible to all; to the High and the Low; to the Rich and the Poor; to the One with the Other.  
§. 10. In order to which, I have not rendered it literally, but (as possibly all Translations aught to be) by way of Paraphrase; since not only Proverbial, and Parabolical Speeches, and the whole Train of Verbal Allusions, etc. but the very disposition, and coordination of Words, being different in differing Languages, what was Natural to one, will not only be indecent, and, possibly, ridiculous in another; but, a● varying from its known accustomed Forms, obscure too. For Idioms and the peculiar Characters of the Language of one People, literally rendered into another, are notwithstanding such traduction, strange, and foreign still: And, (as Coins) bearing on them the Impresses proper to the Places whence they came, are not current elsewhere: the stamping of Money and Words, and the Minting of Dialects and Modes of Expressions, being the peculiar Royalties of each Place and People. That which is fixed in any Writing, is its intrinsique worth; which, as the Rich Metal, reteyns its value still, whose soever the Image and Superscription be; and is that alone, which being designed to be transferred to others, aught therefore to be impressed with those Significant Characters which those People know, and allow of; and not rendered dark, either by retaining any of its former perplexed Original Characters; or by the close Order of a Verbal exchange.  
§. 11. I shall not give the Reader the trouble to show him, how very particularly a literal Translation of the Hebrew would be concerned in this Case; but leave him to think how differing their Modes are like to be from ours, who Writ without Vowels, and read backward.  
§. 12. As I have chosen to tender it by way of Paraphrase, so I have put that Paraphrase into Verse; for such are the Psalms in the Original, (though we cannot yet found out the measures; but we abundantly found the footsteps of a Poem in the admirable Heights, and Divine Raptures every where;) and how great a disadvantage it must be for Verse to be unravelled into Prose, any one may judge, who knows the bounds of either; and that there are words and expressions peculiar to Verse, which Prose dares not assume; as on the other side, there are infinite Prose-words, which Poesic disdains: being adapted, and proportioned to the expressing the different heights of thoughts and conceptions, peculiar to Verse, and peculiar to Prose. So that to dissolve a Poem, and melt it down into Prose, were to destroy both the Verse, and the Prose too. For, as the Verse would be not more such, when the Words had lost their numbers, and their order; so those disordered, Poetial Words and Expressions appearing eminenly, and unseasonably here and there above the level of Prose; — rarinantes in gurgite vasto— the Prose would cant: You would found every where — disjecti Membra Poetoe— the unfortunate Spoils of a Poem, which gathered up, and disposed in no other Order than as they fell, would look like the barbarousBuildings of the Turks, raised out of the Noble Ruins of the Groecian Cities and Temples; where the fragment of some mighty Column sustains a Shed; and the Walls of a poor Cottage, are indifferently made up of ill-ranged Marbles, and inverted Statues, laid in Beds of Mud and Clay: which being thus unworthily placed, appear more rude and deformed, in the wild Order, than in the Ruin; for 'twas a Spectacle of Pity to the Beholder, to see them in the heap; but of Scorn and Indignation, in the unhappy structure.  
§. 13. I desire not to be misunderstood here; for it must be truly, and with all submission acknowledged, that the literal Prose Versions of the Psalms, as they are in Vulgar Translations (Latin or English, etc.) conform to the Original, are absolutely necessary so to stand, as the Rule and Canon of Scripture; by which, the truth of any Pharaphrase may be judged Notwithstanding which, since in the Text itself, there are many things hard to be understood, therefore, as the unfolding it in other words, by way of Paraphrase, or short Exposition, is expedient for the better informing our Understanding; so it seems as expedient, that (as the Original itself has given the Example) that Paraphrase should be in Verse; for the better raising and exciting our Wills and Affections in the zealous performance of those Duties and Services, of which those Divine Hymns are given us as the Forms.  
§. 14. In the choice of words and expressions, I have taken care to use such, as may be both intelligible to the meanest, and yet (as far as we were able) not unbeseeming the Dignity of the Subject: remembering at the same time, both, who some are among the many who are to speak the Praises; and whose Praises they are, which we all celebrated. Wherhfore, though I have endeavoured that the expressions be plain; yet understanding by plainness only Perspicuity, as 'tis oppossed to what is perplexed or obscure; I endeavour to avoid that meanness of expression, which is made up out of the Language of the People; and which, some by descending to take up, have lost the Poem in the too great a plainness and condescension of the Style; for — mediocribus esse Poetis, Non Homines, non Dii, non concessere Columnoe. there being in a Poem, as in a Natural Body, a minimum quod non (as 'tis called) within which Size and Stature, when either of them are shrunk, they quite degenerate and loose themselves; that Poem being no longer One, which is so indifferent and languishing, as to be also Prose, if the Measures and the Rhimewere away.  
§. 15. I should not here have reflected upon the Translation now used with us, were it not even necessary, that some few of the many Indecencies being laid open, we should be convinced of the unworthiness of such Addresses; and not henceforth dare to offer up unto God, a Praise which is not comely; and to speak in his Temple unbeseeming his Honour.  
§. 16. We shall not all accuse the Translators for any of those Words or Forms of expression which having been in use in the Age they lived in, are now discontinued; that were unjust; since every Age has absolute Power of repealing, continuing, or new making those words which do than obtain; 'Tis a sufficient Plea to say— volutt Vsus— (Custom gave the Sanction.) Quam penes arbitrium est, & jus & Norma loquendi. Which words, and much of the Style, are so expressly the Characters of their own Age, that 'tis no unusual or difficult thing, to discover the Age of a Writing by its Language; as is oftentimes successfully performed, in detecting Spurious Authors. And therefore, we shall not blame them for that, or any other the like expression, Psalm 1. v. 1. The Man is blessed that hath not bend to wicked Read his Ear. the word Read, signifying only Lecture, or Instruction; frequent in Chawcer, and continued down to that Age, but left of in Ours; and therefore though justly to be rejected now, as not intelligible, yet with no reproach to those who spoke intelligibly to their own Times.  
§. 17. That which is the fundamental perpetual Law of expression, is, That things be naturally represented; which they than are, when as in Picture, the Original, or first Transcript, is as the Life: the first Requisite of which, is Verity; and the next, Decency. Now, though in every thing Natural, there is an innate Decency; and therefore what is truly and properly delivered, is also, as being conform to the thing itself, Decent; yet there is a farther Measure of Decency; which, though it have its Foundation in the things themselves, yet the taking it out thence, is much owing to us.  
§. 18. For we being seated as amidst a world of Being's, do behold them, not only as they are Simple in themselves, but as they have divers Respects, and Habitudes to each other, according as they are differently placed, and ordered; which divers ordering them, makes them appear to us (as Objects placed in differing Lights) full of admirable, and indefinite Varieties: Each Mode of considering the Subject, (as 'tis called) varying it; and by changing its Situation, giving it a new Colour, and new Relations and Alliances to other things. And hence, as we observe how things are proportioned to, and do bear to each other, so we speak them, borrowing the Names proper to some things, and their Accidents, etc. and transferring them to others; yet not rudely, and abusively enforcing them, but as complying with their own inclinations, we wed together the Beautiful, and proportioned Varieties. And this is the great and inexhausted Promptuary of those words, and expressions, which are called Tropical, in the decent managery, and cultivating of which, consists the greater part of the so much controverted Dominion, and Province of Wit.  
§. 19 As single Words are thus regulated, so are they when they are woven together into Propositions and Sentences; which are to move within the same Bounds, as of Truth, so of Decency; the measure of which, (chief) is the adapting the Style and Character of those Enuntiations to the Subject treated of, and according to the Mode after which 'tis treated; with respect also to those Circumstances of Time, and Place, of the Persons speaking, and of those to whom the Address is made, etc. So as (to instance only in what we shall have occasion here to note) those Vulgar Forms of Expression, as the Common Say, and bywords of the People, be not applied to Subjects grand, and far above that level; For though possibly there may be Truth in such expressions, yet there will certainly want Decency; and by default of observing a fit and proportioned distance, the Address will appear altogether Rude and Vulgar.  
§. 20. The same Laws of Proportion are to pass through the whole Discourse; which being informed as by a Soul of Truth and Decency, becomes one thing; true, and proportioned to the Subject it treats of, (and to all, both its usual Train of Circumstances, and those often new and surprising Ones, which emerge upon occasion; and are (as some particular Airs of a Countenance, or glances of an Eye, are by Painters) heedfully to be watched, caught up and arrested as they sly) and throughout to itself  
And by these Laws, if we examine the Version, we shall not injure it.  
§. 21. We are to remember than, that the Psalms are Forms of our Addresses of Prayer and Praise to God: Of whom, and to whom, nothing aught to be spoken, but with the highest Veneration; what is common here, is also (as) unclean; and in Offering up these Sacrifices of Prayer, and Praise, we are to observe what the Universal Laws of Sacrifice require, to choose them (at lest as far as we are able) without blemish.  
§. 22. Not to distinguish betwixt Persons and Things, but to speak of them alike, were untrue, and indecent in any writing, whether Verse or Prose. As,  
Psalm. 72.1.— with his Son that Princely Thing. So Psalm 135.11. He slew also the Kingdoms all. How monstrous, and beyond all Truth, is that Similitude?  
Psalm 58.6. The Tusks which in their great Jawbones like Lion's Whelps hung out. How false and ridiculous is that expression!  
Psalm 35.14. When they were sick, I mourned therefore, and clad myself in Sack.  
And how too abundantly true, is this other? Psalm 115.6. And they have Ears joined to their Heads.  
Psalm 127.2. How is that excellent borrowed expression— eating the Bread of Sorrows, lost, in being made (as) true and proper. Feeding full hardly with Brownbread.  
How rude are the following Ones? and taken out from amidst the Manners and the Language of the Street! Psalm 33.21. Our Soul in God hath Joy and Game— Psalm 35.26. There! There! this Gear goeth trim. Psalm 49.14. When as from House to Pit they pass with woe and wellaway. Psalm 55.16. For mifchief reigneth in their Hall, and Parlour where they devil.  
With the same folly and rudeness, they speak of God Himself. Psalm 60.6. The Lord did speak from his own Place, that was his joyful Tale. Psalm 64.9. And praise his witty Works. Psalm 77.8. What is his goodness clean decayed for ever and a day? Psalm 78.38. Yea many a time he turned his Wrath, and did himself advice.  
In their immediate Addresses to him, they use the same boldness, and irreverence; as in the following Petirions. Psalm 31.9.— My Womb for woe doth ache. Psalm 74.12. 
Why dost thou draw thy Hand aback, and hid it in thy Lap?  
O pluck it forth, and be not slack to give thy foes a rap.  Psalm 35.23. 
But Lord thou seest what ways they take, cease not this gear to mend,  
Be not far of, nor me forsake, as Men that fail their friend.   
And their Praises are as indecent as their Prayers. Psalm 139.6. Too wondered above my reach, Lord! is thy cunning Skill. Psalm 18.13. Lord! at thy wrath and threatening, and at thy thiding There. Psalm 35.10. O Lord! though they do seem full gay, what man is like to Thee!  
But what follows, being neither Prayer, nor Praise, I shall leave the Reader to name. Psalm 20.3. And so receive right thankfully thy  Offerings each one. Psalm 22.9. But Lord! out of my Mother's Womb, I came by thy request.  
§. 22. However we may in Charity believe, that these Men meant not so falsely, and unworthily as they spoke; yet whosoever shall think to repeat after them, may do well to consider, that God is in Heaven, and himself on Earth; and therefore to take care that such Expressions as these, be not any of those few words he utters; but that he first well weigh the Gift he brings, before he lay it on the Altar; that so he be not hasty to offer up the Sacrifice of Fools.  
§. 23. For, can any sober, devout Soul imagine, that being to celebrated (for instance) the Power of the Almighty, in rendering Vengeance upon his Enermes, he does worthily express the Indignation of an offended God, by calling it— his chiding Cheer?— To say, he made bore his Holy Arm— and gave his Foes a rap? And than to give him thanks in the Blasphemy of a Ballad, for vindicating, not the Right, but the malice of the informer?— Psalm 9.4. 
Thou hast revenged all my wrong, my grief, and all my grudge;  
Thou dost with Justice hear my Cause, most like a righteous Judge.  Which is somewhat like that expression, To Justice, Equity, and Right, he hath a great goodwill. Can that, or any other Soul imagine, that such Expresstions as these bear any proportion to the Majesty of the Judge, the Glory of the Vengeance, or the fearful Praise!  
§. 24. I have forborn to make any such Reflections on them, as they are too very much obnoxious to; since it cannot be done without too great a Levity, and a raillery unfit to be affixed to those Expressions, which, how indecent soever they be, are yet interwoven with things sacred. Nor had I took notice of so many (though an inconsiderable number in respect of what are left behind) had it not been even necessary, that by giving the most ordinary Reader some particular view of the deformities he dotes on, he might not longer oblige those Persons, who have so often, and so highly resented them, to indulge the use of them to his ignorance and humour; that so at length, as the Buyers and the Sellers were scourged out of the Temple; so the Language which they trade in, and which so much abounds here, may be driven out too. Which may the more easily be effected, since those Exchangers, and their Wares, did not more unlawfully intrude themselves into the Temple, than these have done; And though these seem more excusable, as having (which we will most readily, and charitably grant them) far different, and most contrary intentions, yet we cannot possibly justify them, or any other, who shall speak dishonourably of God, and mean well.  
§. 25. It has been said, that such Psalms as these, are not usually Sung; but the Clerk refusing them, taketh others. If this excuse were admitted, and that there were really any considerable number of Psalms remaining, after such were excluded, which without Scandal to a Pious Soul it might cheerfully offer up to its God; yet (without taking notice of the acknowledged dishonour done to these Hymns, by reducing them to so condemned a state, that they must unavoidably fall to the Judgement of a poor Parish-Clark, when ever the great work of refusing shall be submitted to his Arbitrement) how can we patiently bear the injuries and losses we ourselves sustain, when so confessed a number of Psalms shall be ravished from us; and be retained amongst the rest, only to fill up a useless number?  
§ 26. Having thus avoided that low and vicious plainness which destroys the very Being of Verse; and cast out those impious indecencies which profane the Honour of the Hymn (in farther abhorrence of which latter, we have refused such words, which having once born an innocent Sense, our Manners have debauched) we have in order to our design for Perspicuity, forborn to make use of any words which may be above the capacity of the Meanest; having therefore coined no new ones, nor taken in any which have not for a sufficient time been naturalised. Nor can I imagine that such a plainness of words which aims at Perspicuity, the end of all Speech, can depress a Style; or that unusual words, with difficulty, and perhaps obscurity, can advance it; greatness of Expression, being like greatness of Mind, free, generous, and condescending; that swelling and Tumour of words, of a dark and reserved Sense, is as Pride; vainly great, and unprofitable; the Language of Pedants, and Critics; and of those Sons of Art, who speak on purpose not to be understood.  
§. 27: As care has been taken to avoid obscurity in Words; so the like care has been, to clear that obscurity which seems to be in the Sense, from the great and unexpected Transitions; which seem to us, who are unaoquainted with such admirable sallies, abrupt, and incoherent; but are in themselves extremely Noble; and the Evidences and Remains of those powerful Emotions, which proceed from Rapture, and Ecstasy: When the same Spirit animated both the Prophet and the Poet; who thus doubly inspired— velox ment nova— despised the safeties of our low timorous flights; taking new pathless ways of his own; through, beyond, and above which, how abrupt and dangerous soever they seemed, and how lessening their heights were, and disappearing to us that Spirit securely bore him. Which Transitions, though they seem closed, and viewless, have yet really signed, and described their way; and the Connexion's which seem to have been made, flow naturally out of the Text; and are not Additions, but Emanations.  
§. 28. And such liberty of Connexion, is no more than what is usually taken in the literal Prose version of the Psalms; where (to instance only in our English Version) those additional words, with which the Interpreters found it necessary to conjoin the words of the Text, which otherwise would have seemed lose, and incoherent, are printed in a different Character; yet werè before such their actual emergency, always in Power, and understood in the Text: Which Additions, being most justifiable in the very Text, and Canon of Scripture, cannot be condemned in a Paraphrase, or Comment; which has the same design of manifesting the Syntax, and coordination of the Sense, as the literal Version has of the Words.  
§. 29. The same care has been taken to keep close to the Text, that it's sown proper vigour be not lost in too wide a Paraphrase; as when Spirits are too much diluted; Or, as when the Beams of the Sun, which have been so united and contracted as to Burn, being too far released, loose their Fires, and are again dissolved into Light. Wherefore, we have made the Paraphrase to wait on the particular Verses of the Psalms, as they are distinguished in the new Translation of our Church-Bible; guiding it by them, as by the designing Lines in Originals; and as those Originals are themselves guided by the natural Lineaments, and exact Proportions of the Life; that so at any time, the Truth of the Paraphrase may be justified by the Text; as the Text, explained by the Paraphrase; when from each to other, there may be a mutual Recourse.  
§. 30. Nor can I suspect, the Paraphrase should go lesle from such an Imitation as this; for, though it be true, that whoever takes his Measures wholly from another Pattern, forfeits his Liberty; and under that restraint, (as under a state of Captivity) becomes mean, and servile; not daring to exert his own Powers beyond the bounds prescribed him; and therefore, while he thus continues true and faithful to the Copy, can never aspire to any thing of his own, great, and exceeding; in consideration of which, some have nobly, and successfully adventured to make Translations better things than they have usually been, and to set them above their Originals: Yet this bravery cannot be admitted in all Cases: Since, as it would be too rash and daring; so it would be unsucessful, when the attempt shall be made upon the Psalms; or other Hymns, penned by immediate Divine Inspiration: Where doubtless, 'tis not lawful for any one, to take, leave out, or add what they please; but adhering firmly to the Original (as they would do, in copying out Records, or the Deeds, and Evidences of their Lands) to transcribe the whole Truth; to raze out nothing but the Veil, which (as to us) was drawn before it; nor to add any thing, but what the necessary Circumstances of the transferring them to other Places, and Persons, will require, and decently admit; remembering always, that our business is only to copy out, and not to Design; and that the Copy, being taken from an Original that's Divine, (whose Heights are not like our Heights) the aims we take, can never be beneath us; but that perfectly to imitate, is to exceed ourselves; and that that Fancy, and those Powers cannot but move with the greatest freedom, which are limited by no other Bounds, but such as are transcendent.  
§. 31. What measures the Hebrews had for their Verse, is unknown to us; and possibly were they known, our words might as ill comply with them, as with the Hexameters and Pentameters of the Greeks and Latins. Wherhfore, in putting the Psalms into Verse, we are obliged only to make choice of such Modes as are most conducing to the End we design, and beseeming the Dignity of the Subject we treat of. I have therefore rejected the Verse of seven Feet, (so frequent in our common Version) not only as being worn out of use, and therefore as being indecent to us, who have exploded it; but also as being so, really in itself. For if the whole length of seven Feet be accounted as one Verse, the Verse is than too long; but if that Verse be divided into two unequal Parts, of four, and three Feet, (as is usual) those pieces will be too short; and (as that eminent Person, the late Reverend Bishop of Chichester acknowledged) of all other Measures, the least graceful: Who yet, to his extreme disadvantage, took that very Measure; who, otherwise, had he given himself the liberty of choosing such as his own Judgement could have better directed him to, there had been no need of any other Version but his.  
§. 32. As that form of Verse is indecent for its Measure, whether whole or divided: So others, both for the Measures of their Verse, and the Time of their Feet; which makes their motions more light and trifling than the former. Thus that heavenly, and most seraphic Psalm the Hundred and fourth, is made to beaten the Time of a Northern Jig; a Time, so indecent for the Majesty of that Hymn, that though the Language were most decent, (as it is most otherwise) the Measure only would condemn it.  
§. 33. I have made choice of the Verses of four or of five Feet (One only Psalms excepted) each following Verse giving the Rhyme to the preceding; as seeming to me, more indifferent to be either Read or Sung, (as the Psalms are left to the choice, or abilities of the Performer) than those of shorter, and unequal lengths; or where the Rhyme is alternate, or of greater distance. Divers of which Modes (as the short alternate) seem too light and airy to be Read; being (as all Lyriques' are)— socianda chordis— designed only to be Sung; Nor can I think that any Person, how well-affected soever to that Version, did ever make his Addresses to God (or would believe so falsely as to imagine that it were decent to do so) in those Forms (otherwise than when he allowed himself to sing them) which are left by Sternhold, and Hopkins. Whereas the Verse of five Feet, or that of four, may be solemny repeated by speaking; as we might instance, not only in our English Epic, from whence Tragedy borrows its Mode, speaking in no other than in such measured Language, (the Verse of five Feet:) But also in one of our Churches most solemn Offices; where the Hymn Veni Creator, is Verse; and that not sung, but spoken; and altered from that of seven Feet to that of four: And we cannot doubt, but the taking such Measures as are fittest to be spoken, may be useful, not only for those Persons who are naturally unapt for singing, but for all (whatever the Subject of the Address be) and that 〈◊〉 the Poenitentials, and others of like nature, may be as fervently poured forth in the Closet, in the voice of weeping, as they may be Sung;— cum versa est in luctum Cythara, & Organum in vocem flentium.  
§. 34. But this is not to prefer the repeating them by speaking, before that of singing; nor (generally) to equal it; for, our affections being heavy and dull, the utmost assistances are requisite to be called in, to excite them; and to help our infirmities. Wherhfore, the Psalms were not only composed in Verse, (the most exalted Language) but a farther height was added to them in the Address; and the grand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the dark Parable, and the deep Saying being opened upon the Harp, was thence inspired anew; and raised yet higher on another Wing.  
§. 35. And 'twas from the aforesaid Consideration, viz. the dulness of our Affections, and the weakness of our Nature, (too apt to be tired, by any long intention) which induced our Church to give so great a Variety to our Service: making the particular Prayers, short, like Ejaculations; intermingling Responds, Readins, Psalms, and Hymns: whose excellent design, if it were prosecuted; and that those Psalms, and Hymns, were performed in that natural way, which is most proper for them, by singing; (which our Church recommends, though she permits them to be said as well as sung) and that after some better manner than is usual; as the designed Variety would be greater; so would our intentions be more unbent, and consequently our Devotions more quickened. For, as any Member, labouring in that posture which they call Tonique, (as an Arm working at its full extent over the Head) will not be able, long, with any strength to continue so working, but being released from that posture, it will presently be eased, and refreshed for a new labour: So the Soul being served by the Organs of the Body, (whose weight presses down the Spirit) if those Organs be too long intent upon any one Operation, they, as being corporeal, will certainly tyre; and the Strengths of the Soul will seem to be abated and enfeebled as those of its Organs are: But if the Soul vary its thought, the Organs will receive a new Schematism; and be disposed and conceived into another Form, according to the Idea and Impress of that new thought: and the Souls vigour, which seemed tired by the weariness of the Organs, will return; and be quickened by that acceptable Variety which refreshes the Organs, by which itself necessarily operates.  
§. 36. In order to this Mode of performing them by singing, I have refused such words as are improper for Song; for as there are some words proper for Verse which are not for Prose, and contrary: So there are others, though proper enough for Verse, or Prose, yet are not so for Song; such are the finals in (n) where the (e) is quiescent; as darken, fasten, golden; and sometimes in the middle of a word, as oftentimes, Evensong, etc. where, if the (e) be not sounded (as it aught not to be) the stress of the Syllable resting upon the (n,) whose sound passes through the Nose, the Tone so held, will be very indecent; but if, to avoid that indecency, the (e) be sounded, as when the Syllable ten in fasten shall be pronounced as in the word tender; and the Syllable ken in darken, as in the word ken (to discover) and that of den, in golden, as in the word Den (antrum) such a Pronunciation being different from the common one, will be ridiculous  
§. 37. As the Verses of four, or five Feet seemed fit to be read than those other of shorter and unequal lengths, etc. as being not so light and airy; so, for the same reason, they are more proper to be set for Church-music; since the Measures which are Originally in the Verse, have an influence on the Measures of the Air.  
§. 38. For, as when a firm Body is compassed with a soft fluid One, that firm Body is as a Mould to that other; and impresses its own Form and Signature in the Bounds it gives it: So the Ditty, appearing as in a Vest of Air, gives that Air its own Measures and Proportions: So that not only the length of each Verse is set forth in an equal length and Measure of Air; determined by some longer Note, or Rest, or Portion of a Strain; which ends, where the Rhyme ends; or, as in the present Case, where the divided parts of four and three Feet do end; whether with, or without Rhyme, (which are always closed with a Sembrief or whole Time); But also the Time of the Feet of the Verse, does very often necessitate the Time of the Air, and appear in it. As to instance in the 104 Psalms; the Measure of whose Feet is Triple; and will oblige any one, who shall give it an Air, to make the Time of that Air Triple. But that Triple, being not so solemn as that of the jambique (the Measure of our English Verse) when at the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (or depressing of the Hand, or Foot, in keeping Time) One only Syllable is repeated, of a double quantity to that Syllable repeated at the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Elevation: But that of the Tribrach, (where two Syllables pass at the (〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉) and the jambique, alternately; the Verse composed of that dancing Measure, will be too moving; and the Air set to it, too light for any Subject which is in Dignity, equal to, or above the Heroic.  
§. 39 Wherhfore, since the Measures of the Verses, and of their Feet, have an influence on the Airs set to those Verses; and contrariwise, that the Tunes so set, will impress their own received Measures on any other words which shall be formed by them: we have rather chosen, in stead of conforming our Verses to those obsolete Measures, for the Tune's sake; to take other Measures on purpose to avoid them; jest they should betray the Words to the Old levity: and to take such others, as were not like to introduce any new one; not excepting against many other Forms which divers have happily taken, as the excellent Pindaric (though unfit for a Parochial Congregation, because every Verse is particularly to be set) nor any other which moving more temperately, are more commensurate to the Subject which they express; and more inservient to the End for which they were designed.  
§. 40. And the due respect to these, is the equal concern both of Verse, and Music; being grounded upon that great and Universal Law of proportioned Decency; which, like the Platonic Soul of the World, being dissused through the whole Body of Nature (magno se Corpore miscens) is thence copied out by all our Modes of Imitation; and particularly by that of Verse and Music. Which conforms itself to the Nature of those Subjects, which the Verses or the Airs describe; and the End they tend to. For Motion, which is as the Soul both of Verse and Music, represents, by the different proportion it bears to the different Subjects, which the Verse or the Music express, the difference which those Subjects bear to each other: the Motion being as the Movent; as the Port, and Min of Persons, aught to be as their Worth and Dignity; and therefore to be expressed after the Rate themselves move. Thus the step of the Hero, was not equalled by those of the Child Ascanius; who followed him— non passibus oequis— and the grand and flow recurses of the deeper Tones, are impossible to be adjusted, by the swift narrow Purl, and Undulations of the higher. And this great Law of Decency is, as to Verse, the ground of that Rule (whose converse also holds, and regulates all, both true, and Poetic Subjects, and their Measures.)  Versibus exponi tragicis, res Comica non vult. 
And, as to Song, it obliges the Musician, to make the Air and Time of the Music, proportioned to the Nature and Air of the Subject; which is what they call humouring it. So that what's given to a Comic Subject, must be a brisk Comic Air; and what sings the Heroic, must be high and Heroic. And therefore, since the Subject of Church-Musique is the highest, and most transcendent, its excellency cannot consist in being light and airy; but in being Solemn, Grave, and Majestic. The Music, as the Verse, being to be proportioned, as to the great Subject and the End, so to the sublime Affections which aught to be excited, and carried up towards it. So that as far as Earth, and the Affections to Earth, are distant from Heaven, and the Affections tending thither: So far aught we to sever those Airs, which tend to Gaiety, and to Rapture.  
§. 41. It would be too far a Digression to show, how Music in general excites such Motions in our Spirits as it excites in Air; how they both tremble, and vibrate alike; and how, as the Vibrations of particular Chords do particularly vary, and modify the Air, and the modified Air trembles on, as a continued Body, and conveys the Impress to the proportioned distant Chord, and moves it, as it self was first moved, by the impulse of the Elater: So particular Airs in Music, impress their particular Sallies, and the various Movements, and Contextures of those Sallies, upon the Common Air; which, being so impressed, strikes our Sense, as it self is struck; and either finding the same cognate Motions in our Spirits (such is the one Harmony of floating Spirits and Tones) cherishes, and advances them; or strongly beating on them, impresses them. It will be enough, here, to say, that particular Airs, excite particular Affections; and (without digressing so largely, as were requisite to show the Reason) to confirm it with that one known Old Example, of those Young Men, quieted by the Doric Harmony, whom the Phrygian had enraged: (as if those Passions had been first in the Music, and afterwards in the Men) and thence, farther, to infer, that since particular Airs excite particular Affections, we aught to take care, that the Church-Musique be such as the Church-Affection aught to be: such, as by which the Mind may be composed, and withdrawn within it self, from attending the Objects here below, to be fixed on Heaven only, and the things above; That the Music be not composed, nor at any time performed, for itself; (as when (possibly) the Air, or the Composition being graceful, One only Verse of a Psalm or Hymn is usually Sung, by those, who pretend to be lovers of Music; limiting their Devotions by the length of the Tune; airy alike, and alike passing into nothing) but in order only to those Ends for which it serves; that so, the Mind following only after those, and being abstracted from things sensible to those unseen, it may be ravished above 'em, and found another Harmony within its self, beyond that of Music; when, (as Preluding to its Separation) she quits all her Interest in the Affections here, and their miquiet tumultuary Joys, and gins to taste some earnest of her future State, in the first Heaven of an inward Peace and Tranquillity.  
§. 42, And it were to be wished, that all they who truly mind their own Peace, and the Peace of Jerusalem too, would join the Choir: That all, who profess, and call themselves Christians, would renounce all those Lusts and Affections, from whence, all, both our inward and outward Enmities, our Wars, Strifes, and Contentions come; and Sacrificing them to the private Peace of each Man's Bosom, and the General Peace and Honour of the Christian Name, would unite, as One, in Offering up their joint Praises to their Common Father, and the God of their Common Salvation; That each would invite his Brother, (there's no Schism in Praise) in our Prophets own Words, O Praise the Lord with Me! and let us magifie his Name together.  
§. 43. And doubtless the Psalms may be looked upon, not only in those Forms of Thanksgiving, but in all other the numerous Modes of Address, as a Universal Character of Devotion; in which, all the Pious of all the differing Persuasions, and Languages in Religion, may consent; and speaking all in that one known Tongue, may both rightly understand each other, and be understood themselves, and (which 'tis probable some are not) even by themselves. It were utterly needless, to show, how the Psalms, throughout all the Ages of Christianity, have been an express part of the Forms of their Devotion; the Great Author himself, and Finisher of our Faith, repeated on the Cross the 22. Psalms, if not entirely (as the Tradition holds) yet the first Verse of it word for word: His Disciples often Sung them with Him; and his Apostles after; and the same has been the undoubted Practice of the Christians throughout all Ages.  
§. 44. From these, and the like Considerations, some Peaceably-minded, and well-disposed Modern Ones, have laboured, by extracting particular Collects, out of every Psalm, to compose such Forms of Devotion, as all the Societies of Christians may join in without dissenting, or giving, or taking Offence: Which Endeavour, as it can never be sufficiently commended; so it may seem as possible, that the same end may be prosecuted, and as happily attained, by rendering the entire Psalms themselves plain and intelligible to the meanest Capacities, after the like Forms in which they were first Written, and according to the ancient Modes of their performance, as by any Collect that may be taken from them.  
§. 45. And how happy might the Consequence be of either! When, as the wild Confusions of our differing Opinions, have withdrawn us into barbarous misunderstandings, and into Actions, which would dishonour a very Heathen: So a Union in our Devotions might beget a Union of Hearts, and Affections; and make us all speak the same Language of Charity; contrary to whose Gospel, whatever fair, and speciously adorned, but miserably adulterated Truth, the Tongue of Men or Angels shall utter, will discover its falsehood by that very Doctrine; that Religion which obliges us to dissolve the Bond of Charity, the End of Religion, and to dispense with all, or any the known Practic Duties, and Obligations to God and Man, by Perjuries, Rebellions, Murders; by all the close holy Cheats, and Conspiracies against the Life or Fame of others; and by all the open Violences and Ravages whatever, in order to the propagating our vain Imaginations, and the setting up the Idols of our own Opinions, being certainly, for those very Practices, false, and diabolical; and to be countenaced only, and professed, by those unhappily misguided Wretches, and their 〈…〉 tique Leaders, who, under the pretended Ensigns of the Lord of Hosts, do fight the Battles of the Ambitious.  
§. 46. And when by these, or by what other blessed means, we shall have broken down all the narrow envious Enclosures which have hedged us out from each other, within the Churches of our own Interests, the Fold will not only be One, but 'twill be Universal too: For, when we shall be at leisure from disputing, and fight with each other, to convince those who are without; and when, by beholding our true Gospel-temper, the honest Conversation; the Brotherly love; the like-mindedness; the forbearing and forgiving one another for Christ's sake; the Infidel shall be able to understand what we mean by Christanity: When, he shall be not more perplexed which Party, undoubtedly, to be saved with; and with which, inevitably to perish; which now (out of the seeming insuperable difficulties of taking the right, and the numerous odds against him, that he takes the wrong; since he fees each dissenting Party condemning, and being condemned, by all the other Churches, Militant against it) makes him fearful to choose any; and rather quietly to take his Lot among the Heathen, than amidst so much Rage, and Zeal, and Malice, of Parties, and Opinions, to run the desperate hazard, and adventure of Christianity: We may hope, that the promised fullness of the Gentiles (which delay, ourselves are in so vast a Measure guilty of) may be mercifully completed; when, in our Prophets own Language, All the Ends of the Earth shall remember themselves, and be turned, unto the Lord; and All the Kindred's of the Nations shall Worship before Him. When they, who already offer at the Songs of Zion in that strange Land, without the Pale of the Church, (for the Jew, and the Mahometan practise them in their Synagogues, and Mosques, 〈◊〉 as admitted by this Key of David, enter into his Gates with (these) Thanksgivings, and into his Courts with (these) Praises. When all the World shall Worship Thee, O God sing of Thee, and praise thy Power: And, as thou shalt have made thy ways known upon Earth, thy saving Health among all Nations; shalt have brought them out of Darkness, into thy Marvellous Light; and filled all the Earth with thy Glory: So all Nations shall flow in unto Thee; All the Earth shall be filled with thy Praise; and shall make the Returns of thy Glory, as Universal as the Influence.  Laudate Dominum Omnes Gentes! Laudate eum Omnes Populi! Quoniam confirmata est super Nos Miserecordia Ejus; & veritas Domini manet in Aeternum. 
Hallelujah!   

A Collection of sundry of the Contents of the Psalms, disposed under several Heads: Whence, as from a Promptuary, we may readily draw forth such Instructions, Comforts, and Assistances, as may be proper to Our particular Concerns, in the manifold Emergencies of Life; as also Patterns and Forms of Address, in our Devotions of Prayer and Praise.  

PSALMS, Showing,  

That All Our Happiness is in God; the only Hope of the Pious and the Just. Ps. 4. v. 6. Ps. 39 v. 7. Ps. 62. v. 9 Ps. 73. v. 25. Ps. 84. v. 11.  
Who are the Godly, and the Righteous. Their Actions. Their present, and their future State of Bliss. Ps. 1. Ps. 15. Ps. 18. v. 20. Ps. 24. v. 3. Ps. 25. v. 9 Ps. 26. Ps. 31. v. 19 Ps. 32. Ps. 41. Ps. 92. v. 12. See more of their Happiness as they are under God's Protection, and are the Care of his Providence.  
The Hope of the Godly of a Resurrection to Eternal Life. Ps. 16. v. 9 Ps. 17. v. 15. Ps. 27. v. 13 Ps. 49. v. 14.  
Their Happiness in Praising God, Ps. 92. in his Temple. Ps. 26. v. 8. Ps. 27. v. 4. Ps. 31. v. 19 Ps. 36. v. 7. Ps. 65. v. 4. Ps. 84. Ps. 89. v. 15.  
Their longing desire to Praise God in his Temple. Ps. 42. Ps. 43. Ps. 63. Ps. 84.  
Their Honour, as they belong to the Church. Ps. 87.  
The Glory, Strength, and Safety of the Church under God's Protection. Ps. 46. Ps. 48. v. 13, 14. Ps. 87.  
The Beauty of the Church, inward Holiness. Ps. 45. v. 13.  
The Glory of Christ's Kingdom. Ps. 72. v. 3.  
How prepared They aught to be, who present themselves before God, and approach his Altar. Ps. 4. v. 3. Ps. 5. Ps. 26. v. 6. Ps. 66. v. 17.  
That the Offerings of Prayer and Praise; The Vow performed; and the Pure Heart, are the most acceptable Sacrifice. Ps. 4. v. 4. Ps. 40. v. 6. Ps. 50. v. 8. Ps. 51. v. 16. Ps. 69. v. 30. Ps. 96. v. 8.  
Divers Precepts, and Instructions, to frame our Lives by, Ps. 1. v. 1. Ps. 4. v. 3. Ps. 15. Ps. 32. v. 8. Ps. 34. v. 11. Ps. 37.  
Wherein True Glory and Honour consists. Ps. 45. v. 3. Ps. 76. v. 4. Ps. 87.  
Wherein it does not consist. Ps. 9 v. 6. Ps. 52. Ps. 76. v. 4.  
That true Worth, and a just Fame, is not in external, and circumstantial Glories, but in Our Own proper Virtue. Ps. 49. v. 18.  
That we are obliged to Acts of Charity, frm God's Benefits to us: On whom to be bestowed. Ps. 16. v. 2. The Reward of it. Ps. 41.  
The Brevity and Vanity of Life; And of all the Pompous Trifles here below. Ps. 39 v. 4. Ps. 49. Ps. 90.  
That God beholds Human Affairs; protects the Pious, and the Poor Oppressed, appealing to him; and guards them from the Wicked, against whom He appears in vengeance, Ps. 9 v. 7. Ps. 11. Ps. 12. v. 5. Ps. 46. Ps. 37. Ps. 55. v. 22. Ps. 73. Ps. 75. Ps. 92. v. 5. Ps. 94.  
The Happiness of the Pious, in their acquiescence under God's Protection of them, and Provision for them. ps. 3. v. 5. ps. 31. v. 6. ps. 22. v. 23. ps. 23. ps. 27. ps. 33. v. 12. ps. 34. v. 6. ps. 37. ps. 42. v. 5. ps. 46. ps. 62. ps. 73. v. 23. ps. 85. v. 9 ps. 91. ps. 93. ps. 94. v. 12.  
The wretched State of the ungodly and the unjust, here and hereafter. ps. 1. v. 4. ps. 5. v. 6. ps. 11. v. 5. ps. 58. ps. 52. ps. 82. ps. 92. v. 5. expressed as Execrations; but may be understood as real Declarations of the Vengeance that justly follows them; or Prophetic Denunciations of it. ps. 35. v. 4. ps. 69. v. 22.  
That God will judge the World. ps. 50. ps. 75. ps. 96. v. 10. ps. 97.  
That the Prosperity of the Wicked is not to be envied. ps. 37. ps. 49. v. 16. ps. 73. v. 16.  
That the Sinner is an Atheist. ps. 10. v. 4. & v. 11. ps. 36.  
The folly and the cursed consequences of Atheism. ps. 14. ps. 36.  
That the visible Works of God may convince the Atheist. ps. 8. ps. 19  
That his Judgements on the Wicked may also convince him. ps. 58. v. 10.    

PSALMS, Invocating God for deliverance and protection  

From his Enemies. ps. 3. ps. 7. ps. 10. ps. 13. ps. 22. ps. 25. v. 19 ps. 38. v. 12. ps. 59 ps. 70. ps. 71. ps. 86. v. 14. enforcing his Petition from his Own Innocence, and the Justice of his Cause. ps. 17. ps. 7. v. 4. ps. 26. ps. 43.  
Against Liars, and Dissemblers; false and subtle Accusers; Hypocrites, and the treacherous Friend. ps. 5. v. 8. ps. 10. ps. 12. ps. 28. v. 3. ps. 31. v. 11. ps. 35. ps. 38 v. 11. ps. 41. v. 5 ps. 55. ps. 56. ps. 57 ps. 69.  
Against declared Enemies, and open Hostilities ps. 44. ps. 60. ps. 68 ps. 74. ps. 79. ps. 83. ps 89. v. 38. ps. 94  
As going forth against their Enemies. ps. 20. ps. 80  
Against Oppressors, and  Judges. ps. 10. ps. 56 ps. 58. ps. 69. ps. 82. ps. 94. ps. 63. v. 4.  
Against Detractors, and Slanderers. ps. 57 ps. 64 ps. 69. v. 19 ps. 70.  
Being persecuted and reviled for God's Cause. ps. 42 ps. 44. v. 13. ps. 22. v. 7. ps. 69. v. 6.  
In time of Sickness. ps. 38. ps. 39 v. 8.  
In time of Affliction. ps. 25. ps. 31. ps. 40. v. 11 ps. 61. ps. 77. ps. 86.  
Being under a sense of God's Displeasure. ps. 77 ps. 88  
In his Old Age. ps. 71.  
From Sin. ps. 19 v. 13. ps. 25. v. 6. ps. 85. ps. 90 v. 13.  
From Sin, and its punishment (in the Penitentials.) ps. 6. ps. 32. ps. 38. ps. 51.  
Through the whole Course of his Life. ps. 25. v. 4 ps. 90. v. 12.    

PSALMS, Invocating God  

To assist the king going forth against his Enemies. ps. 20.  
To secure him in Distress. ps. 89. v. 38. ps. 80 v. 14  
To give him a long Life here, and Eternity hereafter. ps. 61. v. 6.  
To Crown Him with Justice and Righteonsness; that those Grandeurs which exalt the just Throne, an extended Dominion, and an extended Name, may follow his Virtues; and that Peace and Plenty may bless his People. ps. 72.  
For the Church's Deliverance, and Restauration. ps. 14. v. 7. ps. 51. v. 18. ps. 74. ps. 79. ps. 80. ps. 83.  
That the Light of Truth may shine on all the World. ps. 67.    

PSALMS, Giving Thanks to God  

For his Blessings on the King. ps. 21.  
For the Assurance the Church hath of the continuance of his Favour towards it. ps. 69. v. 34.  
For deliverance from Enemies. ps. 10. v. 16. ps. 54. v. 4. ps. 57 v. 7. ps. 59 v. 16, 17.  
For Victory, and Deliverance from open Hostilities. ps. 9 ps. 18. ps. 21. ps. 31. ps. 46. ps. 48. ps. 66. ps. 76. ps. 98.  
In a Song of Victory, encouraging the Host, and sung by the Daughters of Jerusalem. ps. 68 v. 12.  
For deliverance from Enemies and Sickness. ps. 30. ps. 56. v. 12. ps. 66. v. 8.  
For deliverance from Misery and Affliction. ps. 22. v. 22. ps. 34. ps. 40. ps. 71. v. 19  
That he is seated where the True God is worshipped. ps. 16 v. 5.  
In the Feast of 〈◊〉 ps. 81.    

PSALMS, Magnifying  

God's Works and Power. ps. 8. ps. 19 ps. 24. v. 1, 2. ps. 29. ps. 33. ps. 65. v. 5. ps. 66. ps. 89. ps. 92. v. 4. ps. 95. ps. 96. ps. 97.  
His Justice, Goodness, Mercy, and Truth. ps. 33. ps. 36. v. 5. ps. 42. v. 8. ps. 45. v. 6. ps. 65. ps. 68 v. 4. ps. 71. v. 19 ps. 94. v. 12. ps. 98. ps. 99  
His Righteous Laws. ps. 19 v. 7.    

PSALMS, Exhorting  

PSALMS,  
To join in magnifying and praising God. ps. 34. ps. 66. ps. 95. ps. 96. ps. 98. ps. 100  
To instrust the Gentiles. ps. 96. v. 10  
The Gentiles to embrace Christ. ps. 2. v. 10.  
Inveighing against the Enemies of the Church. ps. 2.  
Prophesying the Conversion of the Gentiles. ps. 22. v. 27. ps. 47. v. 6. ps. 86. v. 8.  
Prophesying of our Saviour's Passion. ps. 22.     

ERRATA  

In the Preface.  
PAge 3. l. 25. for impressess, r. impresses. p. 8. l. ult. for Affection, r. Affections. p. 10. l. 9 for not all, r. not at all. ibid. l. 17. for Quam, r. Quem. p. 17. l. 23. for those, r. these. p. 19 l. 13. for of r. in. p. 20. l. 25. for dilated, r. diluted, p. 24. l. 15. for would, r. could.   

In the Psalms.  
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Advice to the READER For the more easy singing of these Psalms.  
OUT of a due Regard to those, who though they think not so ill of this Version of the Psalms, as they do of that of Sternhold and Hopkins: yet because of the difficulty they apprehended to be in singing them by reason of the difference of the measures, and consequently of the Tunes set to them, make use of the Other, not out of Choice, but as out of Necessity: I think myself obliged to represent to them how easily that imaginary difficulty may be removed; and that All the Psalms, four only excepted (the VIII, the XI the XLVI and the CXXXVI) may be sung to Two Tunes only; of which, One of them is already known, and usually sung in Churches; the Other only is new; which comprehending only four Verses, any Person who has but an ordinary Ear, and has heard it some few times sung, may as easily learn so short an Air, as those old Tunes now used were at first learned, by the greater Number of People, when they also were new.  
All that is requisite to this, is only taste the Verse of the Psalms into One kind of Stanza; and the Stanza of four Verses being the shortest to take That. This 〈◊〉 so easy to be apprehended that 'tis needless to tell any One that those Psalms whose Stanza is already of four Verses must continued so: Those of eight must be divided into two Stanzas: And where the Stanza is six, the Verses of that must be divided into Couples, two of which make a Stanza.  
This being done, All the Psalms whose Verses are four Feet will be sung to the known Tune of the 〈◊〉 Psalm; and All the Psalms whose Verses are five Feet, to the Tune of the XXIV, XXXII, XLIX, LXVI, LXVII XCI XCVI, or CXXXIII Psalms: so great a variety of Tunes of that Measure being given, that any One may take what he shall best fancy, or can most easily learn.  
As by this means all they who are able to sing but 〈◊〉 One new Tune, may by that One only Tune sing any Psalm whose Verses are five Feet, (which is the only Measure which is new.) So they who are able to sing All the Tunes may receive a greater Benefit, For having regard to the Subject of the Psalm and to the Affections to be raised in themselves in making the Address; They may choose what Tune they found most proper for that Performance: since (having respect only to the length of the Verse) any Tune will sing any Psalm.  
If it hap that at the End of any Psalm some Verses are wanting to complete the Stanza, a Gloria of the Number of Verses required, will supply that defect. So likewise if any Portion of a Psalms be chosen out (as is usual before or after Sermons, and in the Private Devotions of Families) If it hap that by reason of some transition in the Psalm to another Subject, the Portion of the Psalm so chosen be ended before the Stanza be finished, a Gloria will likeWise complete it. So that by this means we may begin and end in any Part of any Psalm we shall think convenient and proper for the Occasion we choose it for.  
Another Benefit may be this: If we shall at any time select any particular Verses out of divers Psalms proper for our Concerns in our Private Devotions, after that Mode which the Church has observed in those Hymns which are used in stead of the Venite upon the Thirtieth of January, and the Twenty Ninth of May; and in those Forms of Thanksgiving appointed to be used at Sea after a dangerous Tempest, or for victory or deliverance from the Enemy (of which kind the Author of the Whole Duty of Man has collected divers under the Title of Pious Ejaculations taken out of the Book Psalms) If, having made such a Collection, we shall transcribe those Verses out of the Paraphrase, we shall have formed a Hymn proper for our own Occasions, which may easily be sung to one only, or to any of the Tunes, after the manner we have directed.  
Wherever a Word is thus noted (▪) as Israël, that Syllable upon whieh the two Points, are is to be divided, and sung two Notes, as being to be accounted two Syllables,   


The FIRST BOOK of the PSALMS, paraphrased in Verse.  

Psalm I  
[Beatus vir qui non abiit.]  

verse 1 BLessings Crown his fair Soul, who does not stray,  
Led by false Counsels, in the Sinners way:  
Who has not sat in the Proud Scorners Seat,  
Who mock at Piety, and God forger.  
verse 2 But in God's Law hath placed his whole delight,  
And makes that Law his study Day and Night.  
verse 3 He's like the fruitful Tree, whose spreading Root  
Fed by the flowing Stream, yields timely Fruit.   

His Leaves are crowned with an Eternal Spring,  
And God his Deeds to a Blessed end shall bring.  
verse 4 But (O) How different is the Sinners Let!  
Like Chaff, the scorn o'th' Winds, waved and forgot.  
verse 5 Wherhfore in Judgement Sinners shall not stand,  
From the Just banished, and their promised Land  
verse 6 For God the ways does of the Righteous know,  
But Sinners Paths lead to Eternal Wo.    

Psalm II.  
[Quare fremuerunt Gentes?]  

verse 1 WHy do confederate Nations rise,  
Designing mighty Vanities?  
verse 2 ' 'Gainst God, and 'gainst his Christ conspire,  
And 'gainst his Thunder, throw vain Fire?  
verse 3 Let's gain our Liberties, say they,  
And cast their Cords of Law away.   

verse 4 He sees in Heaven, He sees their Pride,  
And does their feeble Threats deride;  
verse 5 And with the Terror of his Frown,  
And Potent Anger, hurls them down.  
verse 6 Despite of these, my King have I  
On Zion placed, secure, and High.   

verse 7 I now will publish the Decree  
Which thou thyself reveal'dst to Me;  
Thou art my Son! This day begot;  
verse 8 Ask of Me, and thy boundless Lot  
Shall be th' Extents of Earth, and Sea;  
All Nations shall thy Subjects be.   

verse 9 Broke like a Potter's Vessel, all  
Shall to thy Powerful Sceptre fall.  
verse 10 Now therefore, O ye Kings! Be wise,  
And Judges! Learn what Prudence is:  
verse 11 Serve ye this Lord with awful Fear,  
With Joy and Reverence draw near.   

verse 12 Embrace the Son, and embrace Bliss;  
And pay your Homage with a Kiss.  
Eat not his Rule, jest He in Wrath  
Permit you stray from the right Path;  
For if his Wrath on 〈◊〉 he pour,  
O where's another Saviour!    

Psalm III.  
[Domine quam multiplicati!]  

verse 1 HOw, O my God do they increase,  
Who seek to rob me of my Peace!  
verse 2 They say, my Soul's forsaken by Thee,  
And that Thou hast no help for me.  
verse 3 But Thou my Shield art, Thou my Praise,  
Thou my dejected Head dost raise;  
verse 4 When troubled, unto thee I cry,  
Thou hearest, and help descends from High.   

verse 5 In Peace I'll lay me down and sleep,  
And rise: Who hurts whom thou dost keep?  
verse 6 Thus guarded, though Ten thousand were  
About me set, I would not fear;  
verse 7 Rise Lord! and Shield me from their Power,  
And break the Jaw that would devour.  
verse 8 O bless thy People, who alone  
Canst bless us with Salvation.    

Psalm IU.  
[Cum invocarem exaudivit.]  

verse 1 O Thou! who dost the Prayers attend,  
Which from the Pure in Heart ascend;  
Who me enclosed with misery,  
Didst from its Straitss and Pressures free;  
As thou art want an Ear to give,  
Now hear! And when thou hearest, relieve!   

verse 2 How long, vain Men! will ye defame  
Mine Honour, and blaspheme my Name?  
How long will you delight in Lies,  
And cheat yourselves with Vanities?  
verse 3 Know, the Lord Those, and only Those,  
Who love and fear his Name, hath chose.   

When I (Lord, I thee love and fear!)  
Make my Petition, thou dost hear.  
verse 4 Stand than in awe, and fear to Sin,  
Examine what does devil within;  
Yourselves unto yourselves impart,  
And search the Closet of your Heart.   

verse 5 Trust not in outward Sacrifice,  
Nor Cleansings which from Offerings rise;  
Bring other Fires, more Pure, more Blessed,  
 thoughts, and th' Incense of the Breast:  
And than in God put your whole trust;  
For such He will accept as just.   

verse 6 The busy men o'th' World inquire  
For Good, who'll show it us? And where?  
O let our Souls enjoy thy sight,  
The endless Treasures of thy Light.  
verse 7 Let Souls forgetful of their Birth,  
Fix their low hopes on Joys of Earth,   

Upon their Corn, and Oil, and Wine;  
Our Wealth's Immortal, all-Divine.  
verse 8 Soul take thine ease, lie down and rest,  
Thou hast enough, of God possessed:  
Under the shade of the most High  
Enjoy a safe Tranquillity.    

Psalm V  
[Verba mea auribus percipe.]  

verse 1 REgard my Words, my God and King!  
verse 2 Behold the servant thoughts I bring.  
Hear, O my God either Address,  
Both what I can, and can't express.  
verse 3 To thee before the day is born  
My Prayers ascend, chaste as the Morn;  
verse 4 Chaste as the Morn they rise, for thou  
Wilt no Impurity allow.   

Sin can not more devil in thy sight,  
Than Darkness in the face of Light;  
verse 5 Nor in thy Presence shall remain  
The Foolish Person, or the Vain.  
verse 6 Who thirst for Blood, the Men of Prey,  
And they who kill the guileful way;  
The smooth Acceiver too shall fall,  
And from thy Presence perish all.   

verse 7 But I with humble confidence  
That thou with frailty's wilt dispense,  
In reverence and holy fear,  
Will to thy Sacred House draw near.  
verse 8 Lord, lead me in thy Righteousness,  
Because of these mine Enemies;  
Guard and make plain thy Servants way  
From the close Ambushes they lay.   

verse 9 For in their Mouth no truth's contained,  
With Guile their very Souls are stained;  
Their Throat, like Monstors that devour,  
Is as a gaping Sepulchre;  
Whilst their fair, smooth, dissembling Tongue  
Speaks kindly, and does no Man wrong.  
verse 10 Destroy them, Lord! and let them all  
By their own faithless Counsels fall.   

I'th' midst of their Impiety  
Cast out these Rebels against thee.  
verse 11 But let all those who trust in thee,  
verse 12 Rejoice and sing incessantly;  
For those who love thee, thou wilt bless,  
And 'gainst their powerful Enemies,  
Thy mighty favour, as a shield,  
Will cover them, and safety yield.    

Psalm VI.  
[Domine ne in furore.]  

verse 1 SPare, Lord! nor while thy Wrath does burn,  
Punish my Guilty Soul; O turn!  
verse 2 Have Mercy, Lord! In Mercy speak!  
verse 3 Pity the frailties of the weak.  
O heal me! for my Bones are vexed,  
But my grieved Soul far more perplexed.  
How long, my God my God How long  
Wilt thou my kill griefs prolong?   

verse 4 O turn! and me to favour take,  
And save me, for thy Mercies sake.  
verse 5 For none of thee remembrance have  
In the Oblivion of the Grave;  
Or who with Praise will honour thee  
I'th' Land where all things covered lie?  
verse 6 Lord, I am weary of my Groans,  
My languishing extended Moans:   

Night yields no rest, my floating Bed  
With springs of Tears is watered.  
verse 7 Sorrow has thrown a veil on me,  
And hide me in deformity;  
My Eyes grow dim, griefs early Age  
Hastes through my pains, and my Foes rage.  
verse 8 Away, Servants of Sin, away!  
He hears! God hear me now I Pray.   

verse 9 My humble plaints, my fervent moan,  
Admitted are before his Throne;  
verse 10 My Foes shall perish, they shall all  
Flee back, and in confusion fall.    

Psalm VII.  
[Domine Deus Meus!]  

verse 1 MY God I put my trust in thee,  
O save me from mine Enemy;  
verse 2 Jest he my Soul in pieces tear,  
As a Wild Beast, when no help's near.  
verse 3 To thee (just Judge!) I do appeal,  
verse 4 If I for Good have rendered Ill;  
If, 'bove revenge, I did not free  
My base and causeless Enemy;   

verse 5 Than let mine Enemy pursue,  
O'ertake, and my false Soul subdue;  
My hated Life seize as his Prey,  
And in the Dust mine Honour lay.  
verse 6 Rise, Lord! in thy just Wrath arise  
Against my raging Enemies;  
Rise for me in my Righteous Cause,  
And Judge them by thy established Laws.   

verse 7 So shall the poor Oppressed to thee,  
The God of their known refuge, flee;  
When they th' Examples thou shalt make  
Of Vengeance see; rise for their sake.  
verse 8 And let thy Sentence passed on me,  
Regard my Soul's Integrity;  
verse 9 Thus, ever let the Sinner Bleed,  
And ever be the Righteous freed.   

For thou beholdest the inward Parts,  
The Candour, or the Stains of Hearts;  
verse 10 My help from thee alone is sent,  
Who dost preserve the Innocent.  
verse 11 God is a Righteous Judge, most strong,  
But Patient, and from vengeance, long;  
And God, (How does his vengeance stay!)  
God is provoked every day.   

verse 12 But if Man will not turn, than know,  
verse 13 He takes his Sword, He bends his Bow,  
His Shafts against their Face presents,  
And all Death's dreadful Instruments.  
verse 14 Th' ungodly's wicked to no end,  
He's big with Sin, but brings forth Wind;  
verse 15 Contrives, and digs a subtle Pit,  
And falls into the midst of it,   

verse 16 His Engines do recoil, and all  
Their fury on himself does fall;  
The mischief which himself has bred,  
Shall crush his own condemned Head.  
verse 17 And now, thus freed, My God I'll bless,  
According to his Righteousness;  
And my just Praises shall advance  
The God of my Deliverance.    

Psalm VIII.  
[Domine Deus noster.]  

verse 1 HOw, through the World is thy loud Name proclaimed  
And 'bove the heavens thy boundless Glory famed,  
O our Great Maker! Our Great Governor!  
verse 2 Thy Glorious Name Sucklings and Infants praise,  
Who from their silence dost Convictions raise,  
To Charm Blasphemers, and assert thy Power.   

verse 3 When th' heavens I view, and those fair Orbs of Light,  
The Moon, and Stars distinguishing the Night;  
Which by thy Power and Wisdom established are;  
I than reflect on Man; Lord! what is He?  
verse 4 What is the Son of Man, that He should be  
So great a part of the Almighty's Care?   

verse 5 Thou next those Winged Ministers of Light,  
This Second Order, Man, lesle High, lesle Bright,  
In Glory and in Magnitude dost Crown,  
verse 6 And over all thy Works Him Prince hast set;  
And having all things put beneath his Feet,  
Hast given to him the sole Dominion.   

verse 7 All  of the Pastures and the Fields,  
verse 8 Fishes and Birds, those floating Regions yield,  
Of Sea and Air, are Subjects of his Power.  
verse 9 Through all the World be thy loud Name proclaimed,  
And 'bove the heavens thy boundless Glory famed,  
O our Great Maker! Our Great Governor!    

Psalm IX.  
[Confitebor tibi Domine.]  

verse 1 WIth my whole Heart, O Lord! I thee  
And thy Great Deeds will magnify.  
verse 2 Thy Name I'll bless, O thou most High!  
And all my Song shall be of thee.  
verse 3 My fearful Enemy Retreats,  
Thy Presence only him defeats:  
verse 4 Thou dost my Right, and just Cause own,  
For Justice waits upon thy Throne.   

verse 5 Thou hast subdued mine Enemies,  
And blotted out their memories:  
verse 6 O thou great Troubler of the World,  
Who round it hast Destruction hurled;  
Both thou and thy Destruction's gone,  
As the razed Cities thou hast won;  
Buried alike, to after Times,  
Are they, and thy Victorious Crimes.   

verse 7 But God lives ever; at whose Seat  
Stand the Oppressed, and the Great:  
verse 8 And He shall judge the World's great Cause  
According to his Righteous Laws:  
verse 9 For He th' Oppressed will relieve,  
And flying to his Arms, receive.  
verse 10 Who know thee, Lord, will trust in thee,  
Thou ne'er failest those who to thee slay.   

verse 11 Wherhfore, the God of Sion's Name  
To all the suffering World proclaim;  
verse 12 For He the Poor's Complaint will hear,  
When th' price of Blood he does require.  
verse 13 Save me, O Lord! and hear my cry,  
verse 14 Oppressed by mine Enemy;  
Who from the Gates of Death canst raise,  
Raise me, that I may sing thy Praise.   

I joy in thy Salvation;  
verse 15 For lo! Mine Enemies are sunk down;  
Into the Pit themselves have made,  
Their own deceitful Foot's betrayed;  
They fettered and entangled lie  
In their own Nets of Polity  
verse 16 How manifest God's Judgements are!  
The Sinner's caught in his own Snare.   

verse 17 And now, in endless Chains of Night,  
Th' Oppressor's lie, who God forget;  
verse 18 And Peace is the meek Sufferers lot,  
Whose Patience is not still forgot.  
verse 19 Rise, Lord! in Judgement rise! Shall frail  
Proud Mortals over thee prevail?  
verse 20 Compafsed with Terrors, rise, and than  
They'll know themselves to be but Men.    

Psalm X.  
[ quid Domine recessisti?]  

verse 1 WHy, O my helP! art tnou so far? and why  
Dost thou withdraw thyself, when Peril's nigh?  
verse 2 The Poor's exposed to th' Lust of Tyranny,  
O let all Guile by its own Malice dye.   

verse 3 Th' Oppressor his own will sets up, does bless  
What God abhors, Rapine and Avarice.  
verse 4 Swollen big with Pride, he does his God contemn,  
And from his Thoughts and Counsels banish him.   

verse 5 His ways are always grievous; high, and far,  
verse 6 The distant Prospect of thy Judgements are:  
Wherhfore he scorns his Enemies, Tush! says he,  
What Arm can hurt? What Power ruin me?   

verse 7 His false dissembling Lips are full of Lies,  
And his lewd Tongue  with Vanities;  
verse 8 He lies in wait, on Spoil and Murder bend,  
And drinks the Blood o'th' beguiled Innocent.   

verse 9 Close like a Lion in his Den he lies,  
That he the Poor and Simple may surprise;  
His subtle Nets, contrived to catch the Poor,  
He closely spreads; and caught, he does devour.   

verse 10 T' entice the Poor, he humbly does fall down,  
Taught th' Arts of Holiness and Ambition;  
verse 11 God does not see, (says he) he takes no care  
How the Affairs of Mortals hurried are.   

verse 12 Just God, arise Behold the Oppressed's state,  
The poor, and thine own Honour, vindicate;  
verse 13 How long shall the successful thee blaspheme,  
And say, thou seest not the Oppressed, nor him?   

verse 14 Lord! Thou dost see it, thy just wakeful Eye  
Sees, that it may reward Impiety.  
Wherhfore the Poor commits himself to thee;  
Who else the Father of Relics can be?   

verse 15 Break the malicious, and the ungodly's Power,  
Break it, till there be none jest to devour.  
verse 16 For ever (Righteous King!) abides thy Throne,  
The mighty-cruel, and th' Oppressor's gone.   

verse 17 Thou hearest the Cries of the poor destitute,  
Thou dost prepare, and thou dost grant their Suit:  
verse 18 To help th' Oppressed and the Fatherless.  
That them the Man of Earth not more oppress.    

Psalm XI.  
[In Domino confido.]  

verse 1 ANd cannot God defend?  
The God on whose Protection I rely,  
Cannot he secure lend?  
But, like a Bird, to th' Hills for safety I must fly?   

verse 2 His Bow th' ungodly bends,  
And his keen deadly Arrows does prepare,  
And secretly intends  
To pierce th' exposed Heart of those who Righteousare.   

verse 3 Say not! He'll overthrew  
All the Foundations, the Defences all,  
What now can th' Righteous do;  
The Righteous now must fly, or must defenceless fall.   

For know, in Heaven God is,  
And in his Temple is his Second Seat;  
Thence his still wakeful Eyes  
Look down, and try the Poor; look down, and try the Great.   

verse 5 The Actions of the Just  
He sees, and does their gui●●less ways approve;  
But who obey their Lust,  
His Soul abhors, and from his Presence does remove.   

verse 6 And now, behold their Doom!  
Upon the Sinner Snares and Storms fall down,  
Brimstone and Fire shall come,  
This is their just, their Everlasting Portion:   

verse 7 But God loves Righteousness,  
He is its spring, and therefore loves th' upright;  
He the pure Soul will bless,  
He them beholds; and they, his everlasting Light.    

Psalm XII.  
[Salvum me fac Domine.]  

verse 1 HElp Lorld! How great's the Solitude  
Of Virtue, when not One Man's good?  
Truth has forsaken the Race of Men,  
Thrust out, and made an Ahen.  
verse 2 Each with his Neighbour deals in Lies,  
The Pest of all Societies;  
Their Lips speak fair, but their  Hearts  
Dissemble, and know other Arts.   

verse 3 The treacherous Lip, that thrives by wrong,  
God shall root out, and the false Tongue;  
verse 4 That Tongue which, wanting other Powers,  
Prevails by Lies, and so devours:  
Than boasts its Conquest; Who is he  
Binds me to truth? Lord over me?  
verse 5 And now, for the Oppressed's Moans,  
Their languishing, despairing Groans,   

I will arise, (says God) and free  
The Poor, ensnared by subtlety;  
verse 6 Thy Words (O God) are true, more tried  
Than Silver, seven times Purified;  
verse 7 Rise than, and blast the lying Tongue,  
And save thine from dissembled wrong;  
verse 8 Whilst falsehood walks on every side,  
Where safely can Truth's Servants ' bide?    

Psalm XIII.  
[Vsque quo Domine?]  

verse 1 HOw long, O Lord! Lord! canst thou yet,  
And wilt thou ever me forget?  
How long withdraw thy Face away,  
Whose Splendour lets in all my day?  
verse 2 How long shall be my Counses vexed,  
What to embrace; or eat, perplexed?   

How long shall my glad Enemy  
Insult, and triumph over me?  
verse 3 O Lord, consider! My God, hear!  
O let thy Dawn of Light appear!   

Let thy Soul-quick'ning Beams of Light  
Wake my dead Soul, heavy with Night.  
verse 4 Jest my Foes boast, if I'm cast down,  
I by their power am overthrown.  
verse 5 But to thy Mercies, Lord! I fly,  
And cheerfully on them rely.  
verse 6 Be glad, my Soul! God's help is nigh;  
O bless the Name of the most High.    

Psalm XIV.  
[Dixit Insipiens.]  

verse 1 THe Fool, in's Heart, doth God deny;  
Hence, his secure Impiety  
Levels the bounds of wrong and right,  
And owns no Power above Might;  
Thus none of these does Good, not One;  
What Lust alone directs, is done.   

verse 2 From Heaven, the God of Heaven looked down,  
And thence surveyed Earth's Region;  
To see if any understood,  
Sought God, and their own endless good;  
verse 3 But all were lost, all went astray,  
All had forsaken Life's blesled way.   

verse 4 Have they no knowledge? is that Light,  
The God eclipsed in Man, lost quite?  
Have Men of Prey their Nature fled?  
Eating up Men, as they eat Bread?  
verse 5 A sudden fear shall pierce their Heart,  
A Honour from an unseen Dart;   

verse 6 When they, who thus mock and devour,  
Shall found a God among the Poor.  
verse 7 And O! that thy Salvation  
Were from thy Holy Mount sent down;  
That all thy Israel might rejoice,  
Joined in One Freedom, and One Voice.    

Psalm XV.  
[Domine quis habitabit?]  

verse 1 LOrd! who among the Blessed shall devil?  
Or, who rest on thy Holy Hill?  
verse 2 He who a guileless Life does lead,  
verse 3 And in the Paths of Justice tread;  
In whose firm Soul Truth sets her Throne;  
Whose Lip's above detraction.   

Who to his Neighbour does no wrong  
In Act, nor wounds him with his Tongue;  
verse 4 Counts those Men vile, where vice he finds;  
But pays due Honour to Great Minds.  
Steadfast his promise is; and He,  
All lost, keeps his Fidelity.   

verse 5 Who the distressed, and the Poor,  
Does not by Usury devour;  
Knows the high price of Innocence,  
And, spite of Bribes, gives it defence  
His great Soul, here, finds early rest,  
And shall be added to the Blessed.    

Psalm XVI.  
[Conserva me Domine!]  

verse 1 O My sole refuge! unto thee I flee,  
Preserve me, Lord! for all my trust's in thee;  
verse 2 But, O my Soul! what Tribute shall we raise?  
What can we tender God, but barren Praise?  
O Living! O Eternal Spring of Good!  
Whate'er we have, flows from thy boundless Flood;  
Nor can, as a supply, return to thee,  
Consummate in thine own Felicity.   

verse 3 To Those alone our Good extends, who be  
Great in their Virtue, and their Poverty:  
All my delight is on thy Saints on Earth,  
Who, in their Actions, do confess their Birth.  
verse 4 But who trust other Gods, are not preserved,  
Their hopes are false; false as the God they served.  
Their piercing sorrows shall be multiplied,  
By their all-powerless God, not to be freed.   

Their guilty Sacrifice I'll not offer up,  
Nor the Drirnk-Offerings of th' inhuman Cup,  
Their hated Gods shall not my Lips profane;  
Nor will I swear by their accursed Name:  
verse 5 Thou, Lord! My Worship art, and Portion;  
verse 6 My Lot is fallen where thy Great Name is known;  
Where, I, the Cup of Blessing take; and where,  
Maintained by thee, all fertile Pleasures are.   

verse 7 But, jest I grow remiss through happiness,  
I bless thee, Lord! Afflictions me chastise;  
verse 8 But so chastise, as that I firmly stand,  
Sustained by thee, still set at my Right Hand.  
verse 9 Wherhfore, my Soul exults; and my glad Tongue  
My Glory boasts, in its triumphant Song.  
And full of hope, my flesh put of, shall rest;  
verse 10 Hell can't de 〈…〉 the Soul, thou hast released.   

Nor wilt thou  forsake thy Holy One,  
Or suffer him to see Corruption.  
verse 11 The Path, thou'lt show me, which to Life does lead,  
And thither thou my happy steps wilt guide;  
Where, in thy glorious presence, Joys shall flow,  
Joys boundless, which nor term, nor measure know.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XVII.  
[Exaudi Domine Justitiam.]  

verse 1 O Righteous Judge! to my just plaints attend,  
And cries, which from no feigned Lips ascend  
verse 2 From thine own Presence let my Sentence come,  
Who canst not but pronounce an equal Doom.  
verse 3 Thou try'dst my Heart, concealed not from thy sight  
By darkness, or its own dissembling Night.  
And thou knowst, Lord! my steadfast purpose is,  
Nor in my Thoughts, or Words, e'er to transgress.   

verse 4 My Actions I have guided by thy Laws,  
Not by th' example o'th' destroyer's ways;  
verse 5 O hold thou up my go in thy way!  
That my foot slip not, that I never stray.  
verse 6 When e'er I called to thee, O present, Lord!  
Thou heard'st; that wont favour now afford;  
verse 7 O Saviour of all Them who trust in thee,  
The wonders of thy Love now show to me!   

verse 8 Preserve me as the Apple of thine Eye,  
And let thy Wings vast Shadow cover me!  
verse 9 Cover me safely, from their threatening Power,  
Who compass me as ready to devour.  
verse 10 Mighty in Power, their Tongue does proudly threat;  
Not petty wrongs, but what are dared by th' Great.  
verse 11 've watched my steps, intently fixed their Eyes,  
And closely couch, as ready to surprise.   

verse 12 As the fierce Lion lurks to seize his Prey,  
Low, and obscured and quiet to betray.  
verse 13 Rise! disappoint them, Lord! and cast them down!  
verse 14 No other Power can save me, but thine own.  
From thine own Sword, by thine Almighty Hand,  
Save! and the fury of these Men withstand;  
These Men o'th' World, who have the Portion here,  
Whose full enjoyments equal their desire.   

Their Issue's numerous, and when they die  
They leave their Wealth to their Posterity.  
verse 15 But I'll behold the Glories of thy Face  
In Righteousness, and when 've run my Race,  
And, in the Morn of my Eternal Day,  
Ascending, dropped the Mantle of my Clay,  
Shall wake up with thy likeness, I shall rest  
For ever satisfied, for ever blessed.    

Psalm XVIII.  
[Diligam te Domine!]  

verse 1 O My dear God How can I but love thee  
verse 2 My certain help in all Adversity?  
Thou art my Rock; Thou my munited Tower;  
Thou art my God, and thou my Saviour;  
Thou art my shield; my hope on thee is laid,  
Thou art my only, Thou my numerous aid.  
verse 3 O thou most worthy Praise! I Honour thee;  
For thou wilt guard me from mine Enemy.   

verse 4 Death's dreadful terrors did encompass me,  
And Floods of Cruel Men did terrify,  
verse 5 Hell and the Grave seemed , unthought of Death  
Watched, to have canght my faint departing Breath  
verse 6 Amidst the horror of this Agony  
To God, my last and only hope, I cry,  
He hears from Heaven, and my unfeigned Moon  
Ascends, and finds access unto his Throne.   

verse 7 His Wrath against my Foes waxed hot; Earth shook  
The Mountains from their firm Foundations broke;  
verse 8 He Floods of Smoke from his dread Presence sends,  
verse 9 And rolling Flames; Heaven bows, and God descend  
verse 10 He road upon the Winged Cherubin;  
Their, and the Winds swift Wings did carry Him;  
verse 11 Darkness sat round about, a Night of Clouds  
Enclosed Him, and impenetrable Floods.   

verse 12 But his bright Presence rends the heavy veil,  
Shoots flames of Lightning, and revengeful Hail,  
verse 13 Heaven gives upon its Foes; Thunder and Hail  
Fall thick, and loud; and the great Arms prevail.  
verse 14 They fly; part are beaten down by th' Hails cold wound,  
And those that scape, the raging Flames confounded.  
verse 15 The secret Springs o'th' Floods, at thy great War,  
And th' World's low Foundations, oped are.   

verse 16 Midst all this horror, God remembered me;  
Sent down; and sunk I'th' Floods, saved me from high;  
verse 17 Saved me himself from my strong Enemy,  
For their great Powers too mighty were for me:  
verse 18 But, nor their Powers prevail, nor close surprise,  
He, as their Power, so broke their subtleties;  
verse 19 Than led me to a place of liberty.  
Because He had a favour unto me.   

verse 20 For He my Righteous dealing did regard,  
And cleanness of my guileless Hands reward,  
verse 21 Because God's ways I never did forsake,  
Nor wicked Men my foul Examples make;  
verse 22 The measure of my Deeds, his Laws I made;  
And my Religion to them ne'er betrayed.  
verse 32 By them I formed my Soul; new Nature took;  
Was uncorrupt; and all myself forsaken.   

verse 24 Wherhfore, thy recompense, O God to me  
As my just dealing was, and Purity;  
verse 25 For th' Holy, crowned by thee, Blessed Saints shall shine,  
The perfect shall be Godlike, All-Divine;  
verse 26 The Pure shall see the Glories of thy Face,  
But the perverse, thy Frowns, to Death shall chase:  
verse 27 For thou, the Proud, shalt bring down from on High,  
And raise thy People in Adversity.   

verse 28 And me thou shalt exalt; a Beam of Light  
Shot through my Soul, shall chase away its Night.  
verse 30 By thee, I shall an Army break, and scale  
Their City's proud defence, and leap its Wall.  
Thy way, O God is a just, perfect way;  
Thy Word is tried, as by Fire's last Assay:  
Those, who rely on thee, thou dost sustain,  
For none, who trust in God, trust Him in vain.   

verse 31 Tell, O ye Gods! Or ye who serve them, tell!  
Is any God, like th' God of Israel?  
Confess your vain weak Powers! And yield, at length,  
Th' are, as yourselves, but Images of strength.  
verse 32 By Him, I'm armed, and girded unto War,  
And owned by Him my Erterprises are,  
verse 33 Swift as a Hearts, He makes my Feet, and I  
Beyond, and above Danger, mount on High.   

verse 34 He strength does give, and to that strength adds A●  
Does force, and skill to govern it, impart.  
verse 35 Arms me with safety; with Salvation, Shields;  
His Hand, sustains; Protection, Courage yields.  
verse 36 Makes plain my way, and from false Ambush clears;  
Secures me both from Dangers, and from Fears.  
verse 37 Thus guarded, I mine Enemies pursue;  
O'ertake, assail, and their faint Troops subdue.   

verse 38 Wounded, and Slain they fall; fall, not to rise;  
But at my Feet, the calm Insulter lies.  
verse 39 But this I do, armed by thy Power Divine,  
'Tis not my Arm has vanquished 'em, but thine;  
verse 04 Thy fear astonished 'em when amazed, they fled;  
When I destroyed, and gave 'em to the Dead.  
verse 41 Lost to all help, from their own Gods they fly,  
And cry to thee, but thou reject'st their cry.   

verse 42 Small, as the Dust, I scattered them; and they  
Mixed with the Earth, made but one Bed of Clay.  
verse 43 Thou charmest th' unquiet People's Murmuring,  
And dost the Gentiles to my Sceptre bring;  
verse 44 Nations unknown, me serve; brought in by Fame,  
verse 45 And without Arms, fall only to my Name.  
They quit their strongest Holds, and to me fly;  
Fly humbly, fear turns into Flattery.   

verse 46 God lives! My powerful Avenger lives!  
verse 47 Blessed ever! who me Strength and Conquest gives;  
verse 48 From all my Foes sends me deliverance,  
And 'bove them and their Malice does advance.  
verse 49 High, 'mongst the Gentiles, thy great Name I'll raise;  
And sing abroad, my Triumph, and thy Praise;  
verse 50 Of thine abundant favour, sure, and long.  
To David, and his Seed, shall be my Song.    

Psalm XIX.  
[Coeli enarrant gloriam.]  

verse 1 THe heavens declare a God, th' extended Sky  
Tell, that their Maker was not lesle than He;  
verse 2 Day, without voice, tells day; and Night tells Night;  
Twisting Time's winding Chain, of Shade and Light.  
verse 3 What Land's unknown to Night? or shuts out Day?  
Which part the World, and run divided way?   

verse 4 Who hears not th' springing voice of cheerful Light?  
Or the soft whispers of the charming Night?  
In them the guilded Tent o'th' glorious Sun  
Is placed, the Fountain of Light's motion.  
verse 5 He, like a joyful Bridegroom, bright and gay,  
Does open his Chamber, and let's forth the Day.   

And, as a Champion, with known vigorous force,  
Advances to run o'er his wont Course;  
verse 6 Whole Heavens' th' extent of his vast motion,  
Gives East and West to us, Himself takes none,  
His brooding heat inspires cold Clay with Breath,  
His Ebbs and Floods of Light, give Life and Death.   

verse 7 Such are thy Laws to him; but nobler far  
Thou giv'st to Man; by those Souls guided are;  
Souls, taught by thy most perfect Law, to thee  
Convert, and wed rejected Purity.  
Thy Promises, to th' Simple, Wisdom give;  
verse 8 Thy Statutes, faint, oppressed Hearts relieve.   

Thy pure Commands give light unto our Eyes;  
verse 9 Thy awful fear our stained Souls purifies;  
It lasts for ever, as thy Judgements do,  
Thy Judgements, mighty Lord! Righteous and True.  
verse 10 Can Gold, much Gold, can much refined Gold  
Any proportion, with these Treasures, hold?   

Can Honey, dropping from the Virgin-Comb,  
With these transcendent Gusts in trial come?  
verse 11 By these high Tastes, our ravished Souls are fed,  
Taught Heaven; and for reward, are thither led.  
verse 12 But O, Man's frailty! O false Error's Guile!  
verse 13 How often he does offend thee, who can tell?   

From secret faults, and from Presumptuous Sin,  
O cleanse my stained Soul, and make me clean!  
And so shall I be clad in Innocence,  
And be preserved from the Great Offence.  
verse 14 The thoughts, my Heart; the Words my Lips do pour;  
Accept, my God my Strength! my Saviour.    

Psalm XX.  
[Exaudiat te Dominns.]  

verse 1 IN thy great day of trouble, God thee hear!  
The Name of Jacob's God for thee appear!  
verse 2 Sand thee strong succours from the Sanctuary,  
And Zion be thy great Auxiliary.   

verse 3 Remember, and accept, thy Sacrifice;  
verse 4 And the loud Incense from thy Prayers does rise.  
verse 5 We'll, in the Name of God, our Ensigns rear;  
And triumph in thy safety: God thee hear!   

verse 6 And thou wilt hear; wilt thine Anointed Shield;  
And strength from Heaven, and thy Right Hand, wilt yield.  
verse 7 Their many Chariots, some, and Horses boast,  
Our Number, only is the Lord of Hosts.   

verse 8 Our Foes are fallen, brought down, and put to slight;  
By the same Power we rise, and stand upright.  
verse 9 Save Lord! O King of Heaven hear us, and save!  
And grant the mighty succour that we crave.    

Psalm XXI.  
[Domine in virtute tua.]  

verse 1 LOst to all help, in thine, O God alone  
The King shall joy, and thy Salvation;  
verse 2 Thou gav'st all he could wish; and th' easy task  
Performed by him, only was to ask.  
verse 3 Thy Goodness did his utmost hopes prevent,  
Vnlook'd-for Blessings, and a Crown it sent.   

verse 4 He begged the Guist, the Measure was from thee  
He asked Life, thou gav'st Eternity.  
verse 5 Though Great in Glory; Great in's honoured Crown,  
His Greatest Honour's thy Salvation.  
verse 6 All Human Grandeur, ends; beholding thee  
He shall enjoy termless Felicity.   

verse 7 O Great Reward of his great Trust in thee!  
It gives his Throne, and him, stability.  
verse 8 Thine Enemies shall feel thy mighty Power,  
verse 9 Whom, as a Fire, thine Anger shall devour.  
verse 10 God shall consume them; their abandoned Place  
No more shall them remember, nor their Race.   

verse 11 For they close treacherous designs have lain  
Against thy Peace, but they have laid in vain.  
verse 12 Wherhfore, their Troops, thou shalt victorious chase  
And shalt direct thine Arrows 'gainst their Face.  
verse 13 In thine own strength, Great God exalted be;  
Thy Power we'll praise in Songs of Victory.    

Psalm XXII.  
[Deus, Deus Meus! quam dereliquisti?]  

verse 1 MY God My God why hast thou me forsaken?  
Why, of my woeful Moans, no knowledge took?  
verse 2 I, Day by Day; and Night by Night, do cry;  
Nor Day, nor Night release my misery.  
verse 3 O Holy God O Praise of Israel!  
verse 4 Our Fathers of thy mighty Deeds do tell;  
How they did cry to thee, and thou didst hear  
verse 5 How they did trust, and they delivered were:   

verse 6 But I'm a Worm, trod down, and overborne  
By all; and made their Fable and their Scorn.  
verse 7 With all the gestures of Indignity  
They prosecute, and advance my misery.  
verse 8 This is One of God's Holy Ones, say they,  
One who a mighty trust in God did lay;  
If God do love him, God perhaps may save him,  
And if he will deliver him, shall have him.   

verse 9 O my dear God O my experienced Hope!  
verse 10 Who didst to me the Gate of Life set ;  
To whom, when hanging on my Mother's Breast,  
My helpless Soul its Infant-vows addressed;  
My first, and (now) last refuge! thou, on whom  
I have been wholly cast on from the Womb,  
verse 11 O be not far! my God my God draw nigh;  
For all Help's fled, and leaves the Danger by.   

verse 12 Monsters surround me, Herds of ravenous Men;  
Fat Bulls from Basan, Lions from their Den,  
verse 13 They gape, and roar, as ready to devour,  
Fearful to me, to their changed selves, much more.  
verse 14 I'm poured like Water forth, my pains relax  
My feeble joints, my Heart's like melted Wax.  
verse 15 My strength's breathed forth, my parched Tongue stark and dry  
Cleaves to my Mouth, and the cold Grave draws nigh.   

verse 16 And yet they cease not, but like Dogs surround  
The anguished Prey, and with fresh Counsels wound;  
verse 17 They pierce my Hands and Feet; my fleshless Bones  
Exposed to view, may be told every One.  
And now, unsatisfied with Cruelties,  
They stare, and gaze, and glut their greedy Eyes,  
And view, in me, what hate and rage can do;  
In me, the source and spectacle of Wo.   

verse 18 They part my Garments, which as spoils they got;  
My Vesture's Owner is designed by Lot.  
verse 19 In this last Agony, draw nigh, O Lord!  
Thy help, who alone canst help, my God afford!  
verse 20 O save my Soul from Death! My Darling save!  
Nor Lions Mouth, nor Dogs be made its Grave.  
verse 21 O save me, Lord! Thou, who amidst the Horns  
Hast heard me of the numerous Unicorns.   

verse 22 Than, freed from Death, I shall, triumphant, tell  
Thy glorious Name to all thy Israel.  
verse 23 O ye who fear the Lord, the Lord's Name bless!  
verse 24 For he does not forsake Souls in distress;  
Nor hides, as unconcerned, his Face away,  
But hears, and turns, and rescues when they pray.  
verse 25 In sight of all I'll pay my Vows; we'll raise  
One common Cloud of Incense to thy Praise.   

verse 26 O Praise the Lord! the Poor shall eat and live,  
Live ever, He shall Bread Eternal give.  
verse 27 Man shall remember whence he fell, and all  
The World return, and to their Maker fall:  
verse 28 And God alone shall Monarch be, for his  
Kingdom, the Universal World is.  
verse 29 All from the Throne unto the Dust, shall fall  
Before his Presence, for th' are equal all;   

All from their Maker took one common Breath,  
To Life none raised himself, nor can from Death.  
verse 30 Posterity shall serve him, and their Race,  
verse 31 For ever serve him, beyond Time and Place.   
Gloria of Four Verses.   

Psalm XXIII.  
Dominus regit.  

verse 1 HOw can I want whose Shepherd is my God?  
His mighty Sceptre deigns to be a Rod;  
verse 2 Calm Streams, cool Shades, my high Refreshments be,  
My Soul has, heavens own rest, Tranquillity.   

verse 3 How can I wander? He, when e'er I stray,  
Seeks his lost Sheep, and turns me into th' way,  
verse 4 How can I fear? Death's dark veil cannot fright,  
His glorious Presence does dispel the Night.   

verse 5 My Table thou shall spread spite of my Foe;  
Balm shall anoint my Head, my Cup shall flow,  
verse 6 All my time here, thy favour rests on me,  
And shall, O my dear God Eternally.    

Psalm XXIV.  
[Domini est Terra.]  

verse 1 THe Earth is Gods, and all that is therein;  
All things, all Creatures, and the Sons of Men;  
verse 2 He its Foundations on the floating Bed  
O'th' Floods has set, and firm established.   

verse 3 Who shall ascend into the Holy Hill  
Of God, and in his sacred Presence devil?  
verse 4 Whose Hands and Heart are clean; who hates what vain  
Whom nor Deceit nor Perjury does slain.   

verse 5 He shall receive the Blessing from above,  
And th' Righteous God his do will approve;  
verse 6 He's of the Race o'th' Blessed; such as He  
Shall constitute Heaven's Glorious Colony.   

verse 7 Lift up your Heads ye Gates! and oped be  
Ye everlasting Doors! to the most High!  
verse 8 Who's the most High? thus Great in Majesty?  
The God of Battle is the Lord most High.   

verse 9 Lift up your Heads ye Gates! and oped be  
Ye everlasting Doors, to the most High!  
verse 10 Who's the most High? thus Great in Majesty?  
The Lord of Hosts, he is the Lord most High.    

Psalm XXV.  
[Ad te Domine levavi.]  

verse 1 TO thee, in whom I all my trust repose,  
verse 2 I list my Soul; O guard me from my Foes!  
verse 3 And let not me, let none be put to shame  
Who flee unto the refuge of thy Name.  
But put to shame my causeless Enemies,  
And blast their cruel, hateful purposes.   

verse 4 Show me thy Paths, O thou unerring Guide!  
verse 5 And in those Paths my straying footsteps lead.  
For thou art God of my Salvation,  
On thee all day I wait, on thee alone.  
verse 6 Remember, Lord! thy ancient, tender Love;  
Which has been ever, as thy years above.   

verse 7 But of my Sins, blot out the memory,  
Think on thy Mercies, Lord! than think on me.  
verse 8 Our God is good; full of compassion;  
And will to Sinners his blessed ways make known.  
verse 9 He will instruct the lowly and the meek,  
And they shall learn his ways, who his ways seek.   

verse 10 To those who keep his Covenant, his Paths be  
All Mercies, all Eternal Verity.  
verse 11 Exalt thy Name, for mercy infinite;  
By pardoning, Lord! my sin, because 'tis great.  
verse 12 The Pious Man, who does his God revere,  
God will direct; and guide him jest he err.   

verse 13 His high contented Soul shall devil at ease;  
And his Posterity the Land possess.  
verse 14 God will reveal to him his mysteries,  
Those Heavenly secrets which make truly wise;  
Will show him his Eternal Covenant,  
And seal unto his Soul heavens mighty Grant.   

verse 15 Mine Eyes, O Lord! do wait, still wait on thee,  
For thou alone my entangled Feet canst free.  
verse 16 O turn unto me, Lord! pity my state!  
For I'm in misery, and desolate.  
verse 17 The troubles of my Heart are still enlarged,  
With growing Burdens more and more o'ercharged.   

verse 18 Lord help! Lord bring me out of my distress,  
And all my pain, and all my sins release.  
verse 19 Behold, O Lord! who are mine Enemies;  
And how their Numbers, Malice, Rage, increase.  
verse 20 O keep my Soul! and do not me expose,  
Who trust in thee, to th' triumph of my Foes.  
verse 21 I wait on thee, O let my Soul's defence  
Be still, Integrity and Innocence.  
verse 22 O give thine Israel rest! and set it free  
From all its troubles! owned, and redeemed, by thee   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XXVI.  
[Judica me Domine.]  

verse 1 TO thy Tribunal, Righteous God I fly,  
For I have walked in my Integrity;  
And wholly do on thy Protection trust,  
Who, from the Sinner, dost discern the Just.   

verse 2 All the Recesses of my Soul, to thee  
Are fully ; try, and examine me!  
verse 3 Goodness, and Truth, to me the measures be  
Of Action, measures which I take from thee.   

verse 4 The false Dissemblers, who Truth's Candour stain,  
I flee; and the Contagion of the vain.  
verse 5 I eat th' Assemblies, and the black Consults  
Of the unjust, nor mix with their Results;   

verse 6 And having washed my Hands in Innocence,  
Thine Altar I'll approach with reverence.  
verse 7 There, I, in Songs, thy great Deeds will proclaim,  
And celebrated the Triumphs of thy Name.   

verse 8 What transports in my Soul thy House does raise!  
The House where thou Inhabitest, our praise.  
verse 9 Judge not, nor rank my Soul with that lost Cense  
Of Men, who trade in Blood and Violence.   

verse 10 Who all the Laws of Equity proscribe;  
Prise Gold; and cell their Virtue for a Bribe.  
verse 11 My Soul abhors their ways, blessed Innocence  
Be thou my choice! and thou, Lord! my Defence.   

verse 12 My Paths are Right; thine Honour I'll proclaim,  
Great God and in thy House will praise thy Name.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XXVII.  
[Dominus illuminatio mea.]  

verse 1 SInce God's my safety; God my strength and might;  
What Man, what Powers of Darkness can me fright?  
verse 2 My Foes drew nigh as if they would devour,  
With great assurance, and United Power;  
But, as by chance, (th' unseen Path who can tell?)  
Approaching me, they all stumbled and fell.  
verse 3 Should an Host charge me, in his Strength, I dare  
Oppose my single Breast against a War.   

verse 4 One only thing I would of God desire,  
One only thing, may I still This require!  
That in his House I may spend all my Days,  
T' admire his Beauty, and to sing his Praise.  
verse 5 There, to the World's vain fears and hopes unknown  
He'll hid, and set me on a Rock of Stone:  
verse 6 Whence my advanced Head, secure, looks down  
Upon my Foes; great, and above their Frown.   

There, O my God to thee I'll offer Praise,  
The service of thy Temple, and my Days;  
verse 7 Hear and have mercy, mercy Lord! on me,  
And do not my unfeigned Requests deny.  
verse 8 My Soul, O God as in an Ecstasy,  
Received these Words— Seek thou my Face! from the  
Thy Face, O God I seek; what other Bliss  
Can I pursue? This the transcendent is.   

verse 9 Reveal thy Glories! What can I more desire?  
Grant thy Command! Give, what thou dost require!  
Hid not thy Face! Turn, Lord! and grant my suit,  
And help, as thou art want, the destitute.  
verse 10 Lost to my Parent's care, and left alone  
I was God's care; He was my Portion.  
verse 11 Lord! lead me in thy just, thine upright way,  
For my Foes wait t' entrap me if I stray.   

verse 12 O leave me not to them! They Witnesses  
Suborn, and slain my Innocence with lies.  
verse 13 I should have sunk, and fainted utterly,  
But that I steadfastly expect to see  
Thy Goodness, Lord! in Life's Eternal Land,  
Where all shall have their Portions from thy Hand.  
verse 14 With fortitude, and patience, wait that time!  
Dare to be virtuous! and leave all to him.    

Psalm XXVIII.  
[Ad te Domine clamabo.]  

verse 1 O Thou my strength! to thee I cry,  
Hear, Lord! for if thou dost deny,  
They, who descend into the Grave,  
Cannot more Night, and Darkness have.  
verse 2 Towards thy House my Hands I rear,  
And to thy Mercy's Seat, O hear!   

verse 3 O Number not my Soul with those  
Deceitful Ones, who Truth oppose;  
Who, seeming Friends, their Neighbour wrong  
By the fair treach'ry of their Tongue:  
verse 4 Pay them according to their guile  
And malice of their borrowed smile.   

Let them be carried smoothly on,  
And flattered to destruction.  
verse 5 For they thy works regarded not,  
Nor th' Righteous Judgements thou hast wrought!  
Therefore they shall be overthrown,  
And, not to be rebuilt, cast down.   

verse 6 Blessed be the Lord, who hath me heard;  
And doth my humble suit regard.  
verse 7 God is my Strength, God is my Shield,  
I trust, and he does succour yield.  
Wherhfore my Soul new heat inspires;  
Filled with Divine and Heavenly fires.   

His praises shall inform my Tongue,  
And God alone shall be my Song.  
verse 8 He his Anointed will defend,  
And his effectual Powers lend;  
verse 9 Lord! save thine own Inheritance;  
Here, and for ever them advance.    

Psalm XXIX:  
[Afferte Domino filii Dei.]  

verse 1 BRing, O ye mighty! Bring your Sacrifice!  
Bring Rams; and let the cheerful Incense rise  
Confess God's Power; yield, and confess your own,  
The honour of all Power give him alone.   

verse 2 His Honour in his Sanctuary confess;  
And him, I'th' Beauty praise of Holiness.  
verse 3 His voice breaks open the Fountains of the Clouds,  
He Thunders, and pours forth descending Floods,   

verse 4 With his voice Power dwells and Majesty;  
verse 5 Rent by his voice, low the proud Cedars lie;  
verse 6 Like trembling Calves, they shake when they are blown  
And the 〈◊〉 too, Sirion and Lebanon.   

verse 7 His Glorious voice, the Breath of Flames express,  
verse 8 Shakes th' Wilderness; shakes Kadesh Wilderness;  
verse 9 Makes Hinds bring forth their young, and through the Night  
Of the thick Bushes, darts its trembling Light.   

verse 10 His Temple speaks his praise; He, on his Throne  
High, o'er the Floods, Rules ever, Rules alone.  
verse 11 He shall protect, He shall his People bless,  
Bless with a present, and Eternal Peace.    

Psalm XXX.  
[Exaltabo te Domine!]  

verse 1 GReat God Thou hast exalted me  
In triumph 'bove mine Enemy;  
verse 2 And me, with pain and sickness grieved,  
Thy Goodness has with Health relieved;  
verse 3 Brought down to th' Grave, and low as Death  
Thou caugh'st back my descending Breath.   

verse 4 Sing, O ye Saints! to His Name raise  
Eternal Monuments of Praise.  
verse 5 For in a Moment his Wrath's past,  
But his Joys live, and Favours last;  
If heaviness endure a Night,  
Joy wakes, and springs up with the Light.   

verse 6 In my Prosperity I said,  
verse 7 (By weak Prosperity betrayed)  
I am so strong, so great, so high,  
No chance can ever ruin me:  
Thou saw'st the folly of my Pride,  
And didst thy blesled Presence hid.   

How soon did than my Glories fade!  
Drop down, and sink into a shade!  
verse 8 I than sought my neglected Lord,  
And humbly my Petition poured.  
verse 9 What profit, O my only Good!  
Is there in thy poor Creatures Blood?   

Can Dust praise thee? Can Thanks return  
From the dark silence of the Urn?  
verse 10 Hear, Lord! Lord help! Have mercy, Lord!  
verse 11 He hears, He helps, mercy affords;  
Thou hast to joy my sorrow tnrned,  
And comforted the Soul that mourned.   

My Sackcloth thou hast torn away,  
And me, with gladness, dost array;  
verse 12 All Saintas shall in thy Praise conspire,  
And fill one Universal Choir:  
And I, Great God will sing to thee  
Eternal praise, Eternally.    

Psalm XXXI.  
[In te Domine speravi.]  

verse 1 IN thee, my God I trust alone,  
Put me not to Confusion!  
But, Lord! as is my trust in thee,  
So thy Protection be to me.  
verse 2 Bow down thine Ear unto my cry,  
And make haste to deliver me.   

Be thou my Rock! Be thou my Fort!  
To whom I ever may refort.  
verse 3 For, Lord! as my sole Rock and Fort,  
To thee alone I do resort.  
O guide my wand'ring steps! And lead  
Me in the Paths that I should tread.   

verse 4 Free my unwary Soul, betrayed  
Into the Net which they have laid;  
verse 5 O may the Captive, loosed from th' snare,  
Be made its great Redeemer's care!  
Receive, into thine Arms now thrown,  
My Spirit! and protect thine own.   

verse 6 Vain, lying helps, I have abhorred,  
My only trust has been the Lord;  
verse 7 And I'th' success I joy; for he  
verse 8 Considered mine Adversity:  
And hid in sorrows, knew my Soul;  
Raised it, and wounded, made it whole.   

He took me from mine Enemy,  
And gave me to my Liberty.  
verse 9 Thy wont mercies, Lord! extend;  
And give my present troubles end;  
Grief, a deep shade casts o'er mine Eyes,  
And clouds my Soul with heaviness.   

verse 10 Age hastes, and takes in other years,  
verse 11 And into Time computes my Cares;  
My strength ' does fail, and Vigour dies;  
My Neighbours too are Enemies,  
O're-powered by mine Enemies,  
And false to my Adversities.   

Eat, as a Pest, my misery;  
And me, and my Sick Fortunes flee.  
verse 12 I'm clean forgot, as one that's dead;  
All my deserts are buried.  
As a broke Vessel, I'm refused,  
They took me, only to be used.   

verse 13 Yet still I'm living to their hate,  
That treads upon my lowest state;  
That to new Counsels does them bring,  
How to remove the useless thing.  
verse 14 But, O my God Thou art my aid!  
On thee I all my hope have laid.   

verse 15 My time is in thy Hand, O save!  
O save me from th' untimely Grave!  
And from my cruel Enemy,  
And bitter Persecutors free.  
verse 16 O let One Beam, One Ray, from thee  
Break through my Clouds of misery!   

verse 17 Lord! Let me not be put to shame,  
For I have called upon thy Name.  
Put Sinners to Confusion,  
Into Eternal silence thrown.  
verse 18 Let the false Lip its Portion have,  
Shut up for ever in the Grave.   

Which does maliciously traduce  
The Innocence o'th' Righteous.  
verse 19 O the vast Treasures of thy Love  
For those who fear thee stored above!  
Thy present Bounties too, given here,  
Do to the Sons of Men appear.   

verse 20 Them, by thy Presence, thou shalt hid,  
And they shall in thy House abide;  
Where, in a Blessed, long recess,  
Far from the World, they'll rest in peace;  
In Peace, under th' Eternal Shade  
Which thy vast powerful Wing has made.   

No malice there; no strife of Tongue;  
No entrance for condemned wrong;  
None, who insultingly deride,  
The Proud are banished thence, and Pride.  
verse 21 And now, I, of thy glorious Name,  
The present Honour must proclaim.   

And the great mercy to me shown  
In a strong, well-munited Town:  
verse 22 Where, chased, I was even nigh despair,  
Rash, in my uncollected fear;  
But, though astonished. and dismayed,  
Thou heard'st me, when to thee I prayed.   

verse 23 O Love the Lord, all ye his Saints!  
He saves the faithful, hears their plaints;  
But gives the Proud, who Right contemn,  
A vengeance, worthy him, and them.  
verse 24 Be strong! Trust Him! His strength is thine;  
He'll guard thee with an Arm Divine.    

Psalm XXXII.  
[Beati quorum remissa.]  

verse 1 HOw Blessed! how happy is that Man, whose Sin  
God covers; and his stained Soul makes clean!  
verse 2 Thrice happy he, whose Sins are all forgot,  
And in whose 〈◊〉 Soul is found no spot.   

verse 3 Whilst I, the loathsome Poison of my Sin  
Concealed within my Breast, and held it in,  
It festered, and consumed my raging Bones,  
My tedious hours were counted by my Groans.   

verse 4 Thy Hand lay heavy on me, Night and Day;  
My strength, like Summer's moisture, breathed away  
verse 5 Than I returned to God, than I confessed,  
Than I made known to him how I transgressed.   

And he, O miracle of Love! He heard;  
Pardon, as my Confession, swift appeared.  
verse 6 For this, the Pious unto thee shall pray  
In a due time; Pray, while 'tis called to Day;   

'Twill be too late, when Life, or Time, shall be  
Swallowed I'th' Ocean of Eternity.  
verse 7 Thus reconciled to God, I boldly flee  
To him; he hides me, and he sets me free;   

My Sighs are fled, Joys only now advance;  
With Songs I'm compassed of Deliverance.  
verse 8 I will (says He) direct thy future way,  
My careful Eye shall watch thee left thou stray.   

verse 9 Know thy self than! Be not like Horse and Mule,  
Reason must thee; them Bitten and Bridle rule.  
Set up the Man! Dethrone the Beast within,  
Th' Usurping Beast; Remember ye are Men!   

verse 10 Remember too, the wages that attend  
Virtue, and Vice; the blessed or dreadful End,  
What raging Flames shall round th' unjust be thrown,  
What lambent Glories shall the Righteous Crown.   

verse 11 Rejoice ye Righteous! lift up your cheerful voice;  
Be Righteous still! And ye shall still rejoice.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XXXIII.  
[Exultate Justi in Domino.]  

verse 1 TO God, ye ' just Ones! your glad voices raise;  
The Just becomes the decency of praise.  
verse 2 With Harp, and Lute, and Ten-stringed Instrument,  
Let th' Voice, and Harmony of Souls consent.  
verse 3 Sing a new Song! apt Words, and Notes prepare;  
To the great Ditty, join the equal Air.   

verse 4 Gods Word is true; his Works established be;  
verse 5 He Justice loves; Judgement, and Equity;  
His Goodness, through the World diffused, does know  
No Ebb; no other motion, but to flow.  
verse 6 His Word, the Heaven's, out of the empty shade  
Of Nothing, called forth; and the Heaven's were made   

Their noble Host marched up in bright array  
Of differing Glories, leading in Night and Day.  
verse 7 The Floods, together gathered on a heap,  
Rolled down into the Treasures of the Deep.  
verse 8 O Earth, thy Maker honour! O let all  
Thy People, with due fear, before him fall.   

verse 9 He spoke, and it was done; by his Command  
Nature's great Laws firm and unmoved do stand;  
verse 10 Princes Decrees, and what the People speak  
He blasts, and than their giddy selves do break;  
verse 11 But God's Decrees, His Counsels, and His Laws,  
Stand ever; Stand Eternal as their Cause.   

verse 12 O happy People! O their unknown Bliss  
Who call him, God; and he does call them, His;  
verse 13 For he, upon the Sons of Men looks down,  
verse 14 And to him, all their hopes and fears are known.  
verse 15 He all the close Intriqus does understand  
O'th' Heart he made, that Heart's still in his Hand.   

verse 16 In vain a King trusts in his numerous Host;  
In vain the strong Man in his strength doth boast,  
In vain is safety sought from Human force,  
verse 17 Or from the strength, or swiftness of a Horse;  
verse 18 But they who trust in him, trust not in vain,  
He sees their wants; sees that he may sustain.   

verse 19 Whom Hosts, nor Strength, nor any power of Earth  
Can save, God saves; and feeds in time of Dearth.  
verse 20 To him alone in all distress we fly,  
verse 21 And, full of joy, on our great Choice rely;  
verse 22 O Thou! on whom we trust, and trust alone,  
With mercy, our long hopes, and patience Crown.    

Psalm XXXIV.  
[Benedicam Dominum.]  

O Thou! whose mercies do me ever bless,  
Shall they still flow, and shall my Praises cease?  
verse 2 Th' afflicted Soul shall hear, and join with me,  
verse 3 And we, together, will him magnify.  
verse 4 I humbly sought the Lord, and he did hear;  
And he delivered me from all my fear.  
verse 5 Th' afflicted turned to him their mournful Eyes,  
And on their Face a dawn of Joy did rise.   

verse 6 See how the Poor, who fear him, cry! and see  
How God does pity! How he sets them free!  
verse 7 He who fears God, God does protect that Man,  
Gives him an Angel for his Guardian.  
verse 8 O taste and see how gracious the Lord is!  
Who trust in him, with him, have all of Bliss.  
verse 9 O fear the Lord, ye Holy Ones! for he  
Will all your fit desires and wants supply.   

verse 10 Lions their Prey may want, and bloody food,  
But who fear God, shall nothing want that's Good.  
verse 11 Attend ye Children, and to me draw near!  
I will instruct you in th' Almighty's fear.  
verse 12 With Blessings crowned, wouldst thou thy Life prolong,  
verse 13 Seal the false Lip; charm the deceitful Tongue;  
verse 14 Eat Ill; do good; seek calm beloved Peace;  
Peace the way to, Peace the glad end of Bliss.   

verse 15 Such God will bless; their steps his careful Eyes  
Will watch, and guard; his Ears receive their Cries.  
verse 16 Butler 'gainst th' unrighteous Soul he sets his Face;  
Blasts their fallen Glories, and plucks up their Race.  
verse 17 The Righteous cry, and God their Prayer hears,  
He sends relief, and wipes away their Tears.  
verse 18 The Sighs of contrite Hearts ascend on high,  
Mercy descends, and God himself draws nigh.   

verse 19 Though great the troubles of the Righteous are,  
Their God delivers them, for they're his care;  
verse 20 He, as entrusted, safely keeps each Bone,  
And firm, and whole, restores them every One.  
verse 21 But Vengeance shall the Guilty Wretch o'ertake,  
Who, th' Object of his hate th' upright does make.  
verse 22 All those, who trust in God, their God relieves,  
And to their captived Souls Redemption gives.    

Psalm XXXV.  
[Judica Domine Nocentes.]  

verse 1 LOrd! aid thy Servant in distress; and those  
Who my weak strength o'repow'r, thyself oppose.  
verse 2 Thy mighty Arms put on; thy Spear and Shield  
verse 3 Bring forth, and stop the Torrent of the Field.  
Turn the Pursuer back! Tell! who alone  
Canst tell, my Soul, I'm thy Salvation.  
verse 4 Let those who chase my Soul be overthrown,  
Turned back, and fall into Confusion.   

verse 5 Let them, like Chaff, lose and disordered be;  
And 'fore a wrathful Angel's fury flee.  
verse 6 Let their Retreat be dark, and slippery,  
And a commanded Angel, Enemy.  
verse 7 For they, without a cause, have laid a Net  
For my too credulous Soul, and digged a Pit.  
Let a swift Vengeance seize him unaware,  
Caught in his own malicious, wanton Snare.   

verse 9 My Soul's and Body's Powers, God shall bless;  
Both, freed; both his Salvation shall confess.  
verse 10 Who, Lord! is like to thee, who sav'st the Poor,  
The helpless Poor, from him that does devour?  
verse 11 False Witness rise, and slain my Innocence;  
Slain without Crime; blot with their true Offence.  
verse 12 And, to my Souls yet further wounding, they  
For Good, I did to them; me, Ill repay.   

verse 13 I dealt not so with them; for I, when they  
Were Sick, with Sackcloth clothed, did fast and pray;  
And, since my Prayer cast of, in vain did mourn,  
My Dove into my Bosom shall return.  
verse 14 For, Brother, Friend, or dearest Mother, none  
Than I for them, more tender Grief have shown.  
verse 15 But they, in mine Adversity were glad;  
Not singly, but a Public Triumph made.   

All flow together, the very Abjects flout,  
One Joy th' unworthy Great, mixed with the Rout.  
verse 16 Their scorns, my Soul afresh wound, and destroy,  
The tenderest of my Sufferings was their joy.  
verse 17 How long shall they afflict? How long thou see?  
Lord! wilt thou but look, on my misery?  
O from the cruel pains which me invade  
Save! and more cruel Men; Men Lions made.   

verse 18 So, in the great Assembly, thy great Name  
I'll praise, and my deliverance loud proclaim.  
verse 19 Let not my treacherous causeless Enemy  
Insult, O Lord! and triumph over me:  
verse 20 Whose fair Discourse, and Treaties, are a snare,  
Made smooth, to take the Souls that guileless are,  
verse 21 And having gained their end, they falsely cry  
Out on the Wretch! we saw it with our Eye.   

verse 22 This thou hast seen, O Lord! O God, draw near!  
verse 23 'Gainst them, and for my Soul, Just God, appear!  
verse 24 Wake, Lord! while thou look'st on, O Truth's Defence!  
Shall Malice triumph over Innocence?  
verse 25 Shall they, great in success, cry, He's devoured?  
There! There! the Holy Man is overpowr'd.  
verse 26 Shame and Confusion cover them! Let all  
Who me oppress, with foul dishonour fall.   

verse 27 Than shall all they who favour the upright,  
When thou regard'st the Righteous, take delight:  
All shall thee bless, call happy, who thee trust,  
Who pleased art i'th' Prosperity o'th' Just.  
verse 28 Thy Justice, Righteous God my ravished Tongue,  
And Truth, shall celebrated all my Day long.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XXXVI.  
[Dixit Injustus ut delinquat.]  

verse 1 MY Heart's convinced, that he who follows sin  
Dethrones his God, and Atheist is within.  
verse 2 Yet the smooth Hypocrite walks fairly on,  
And cheats his Soul, till his dark Crimes be known.  
verse 3 His words are feigned; all subtle, all pretence;  
The Serpent in him kills the Innocence.   

verse 4 He plots his sins, when lesser Cares are fled;  
Results o'th' Night, and Counsels of the Bed.  
He starts at naught; but, to attain his will,  
Unravels all the Bounds of Good and Ill  
verse 5 High, as the heavens; and 'bove the heavens High,  
Thy mercy is, O Lord! and Verity.   

verse 6 Thy Justice does as the firm Mountains rise;  
And thy great Judgements deep are as th' Abyss;  
On all thy Works thy boundless Mercies flow,  
The Beasts, them, with thy Creature Man do know;  
verse 7 But Man, whom, after those, thy last Hand made,  
Under thy Wing does found another Shade.   

verse 8 He, in thy House received, its fullness tastes,  
Drinks Joys, and Pleasures that for ever last.  
verse 9 The Joys with them Immortal Life do bring;  
For there's both Joys and Life's Eternal Spring.  
Where Souls with a new flame, more high, more bright,  
Shall quickened be, struck from thy Font of Light.   

verse 10 O let those Bounties ever, ever flow,  
To th' Pure in Heart, who still thirst thee to know;  
verse 11 Let not the foot of Pride tread my Life down;  
Nor let me be by wicked Hands overthrown.  
verse 12 See how themselves are ruin'd! ruin'd, all!  
All wicked doers, ne'er to rise, shall fall.    

Psalm XXXVII.  
[Noli aemulari.]  

verse 1 LEt not th' Opinion of th' ungodly's State  
Move thy firm Soul; nor envy thou his Fate.  
verse 2 For, like the Grass cut down, or gathered Flower,  
Vengeance shall him, and his vain Pride devour.  
verse 3 Do good, and trust in God; devil in the Land,  
And thou shalt feed o'th' Bounties of his Hand.   

verse 4 Delight in God; thou shalt in him possess  
Thy whole desire; true, and all Happiness.  
verse 5 Commit thy ways to him, and the success  
Shall show, how all succeeds, where God does bless.  
verse 6 He shall clear up thy wronged Integrity,  
It shall acquit, and it shall honour thee.   

verse 7 Wait still on God; on him thy hope repose:  
verse 8 Vex not to see the wicked prosperous.  
With Patience armed, bear thine own Lot, and theirs,  
Immoved, or by their hopes, or thine own fears.  
verse 9 God shall th' unjust cut of, and dispossess,  
The Just shall live; live the great Heirs of Bliss.   

verse 10 Wait! Thou shalt see th' unjust soon run the Race  
Of his swift Glories, and forsake his Place.  
verse 11 But the Meek Spirit shall the Earth possess,  
Refreshed among the blessed Shades of Peace.  
verse 12 The Sinner plots, and threats the Just to slay,  
verse 13 God laughs, he cannot hurt beyond his Day.   

verse 14 The Sword, which 'gainst the Poor, th' unjust have drawn,  
verse 15 And the bend Bow, are bend and drawn in vain.  
Through his own Heart, shall pierce the fatal stroke,  
And his prepared, and threatening Bow be broke,  
verse 16 A little, the contented Poor Man has  
Does the vast Treasures of th' unjust surpass.   

verse 17 Th' ungodly's strength of Wealth shall weakened be,  
But God sustains th' upright in Poverty.  
verse 18 God has accounted the upright Man's Age,  
And makes perpetual his Heritage.  
verse 19 In Perilous times he shall be safely led  
Through Dangers, and in time of Dearth, be fed.   

verse 20 The Sinner, like the Fat of Lambs, consumes,  
And vanishes like the ascending Fumes.  
verse 21 Th' unjust pays not again what he does own,  
The Good Man lends, is great, and can bestow.  
verse 22 The Good shall devil i'th' Land, and shall be Blessed,  
The Sinner shall be cursed, and dispossessed.   

verse 23 God does direct a Good Man in his way,  
Himself shall be his Conduct, can he stray?  
verse 24 Though he should fall, yet he shall rise again;  
For though he's weak, God's strong, who does sustain.  
verse 25 Through my whole Life, to Age from Childhood led,  
I ne'er saw th' upright left, or his, beg Bread.   

verse 26 The Just is ever merciful and lends,  
And the great Recompense to his Seed descends.  
verse 27 Choose the beloved Good, and Evil flee,  
And thou, unmoved, shalt devil Eternally.  
verse 28 For Goodness is th' Almighty's Love, and he  
Keeps that fair Soul that weds Integrity.   

The Sinners Branch, cut of, shall withered lie,  
verse 29 The Just shall flourish, flourish ne'er to dye.  
verse 30 The great Souls of the Just great thoughts comprise,  
Wisdom and Judgement are their exercise.  
verse 31 The Law of God does in their Heart abide,  
Guided by that, their sure steps ne'er can slide.   

verse 32 The Impious Man still Persecutes the good;  
Nothing can satiate but the Precious Blood.  
verse 33 God from his cruel Arms takes him away,  
And himself rescues the condemned Prey.  
verse 34 Hope still in God still keep his Righteous way;  
And thou shalt see the wicked snatched away.   

verse 35 I've seen th' Oppressor great, and flourishing,  
Fresh as the Laurel clad in its own Spring,  
verse 36 And I went by, and lo! the Scene was gone,  
And all his Glories withered into none.  
verse 37 But the upright, the pure, the innocent Breast,  
Wrapped in the blessed Shades of Peace shall rest.   

verse 38 The Sinners shall together Perish, all;  
For th' End of the Transgressor is to fall.  
verse 39 God does the Righteous keep; from him alone  
Comes strength in trouble, comes Salvation.  
verse 40 He shall stand by them; He, protect and save;  
Such rescue, all who trust in God, shall have.    

Psalm XXXVIII.  
[Domine ne in furore.]  

verse 1 O Do not in thine Anger me reprove,  
Nor punish in thy Wrath, great God of Love!  
verse 2 Thy dreadful Arrows in me fixed stand,  
And I am sorely pressed by thy Hand.   

verse 3 My Body finds no rest; my Soul within  
Is pierced with deeper Arrows of my sin.  
verse 4 My sins, like raging Seas, high, and o'ergrown,  
Swell o'er my Head, and their weight sinks me down.   

verse 5 My Sores corrupted are, fowl, and unsound;  
And I abhor the folly of my wound.  
verse 6 I am so much bowed down, so overborne  
By misery, that all the Day I mourn.   

verse 7 My Loins diseased are, no Part is sound;  
And all my tortured Body's but one Wound:  
verse 8 My strength is gone; vanquished, and overpowered  
With pains, not to be told, but groaned and roared.   

verse 9 I am unable to express my Moans,  
But Lord! Thou know'st the Language of these Groans.  
verse 10 What begs this panting Heart? these gasping Cries?  
Cast up to thee, these longing, dying Eyes?   

verse 11 All, but thou ' Lord! forsake me; Friends are gone;  
They, or desert, or unconcerned look on.  
verse 12 But my Foes leave me not; they seek yet more  
T' afflict, and add their Malice to my Sore.   

verse 13 But I, with Patience armed, immoved do lie,  
verse 14 As Deaf, and Dumb; nor hear, nor make reply.  
verse 15 For I my Cause wholly refer to thee,  
O thou my trust! Thou answer shalt for me.   

verse 16 O let me not the triumph be of those  
Who watch my steps, and each small lapse expose.  
verse 17 I'm prove to slide; but as my Error is,  
So is my sorrow, and my heaviness.   

verse 18 For I to thee my wandrngs will confess,  
And my changed Soul, from Gild shall found release;  
verse 19 But my Foes malice is inveterate,  
No change of mine altars their lasting hate.   

verse 20 Their unjust Souls, do Good, with III, requited;  
And hate me, cause in Good I take delight.  
verse 21 Thou, Lord! my Refuge art; and I thy Care;  
Forsake me not, O God nor be thou far.   

verse 22 In thee 've all my help and safety placed,  
Help, O my God and let that help make haste.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XXXIX.  
[Dixi custodiam vias.]  

verse 1 WHile tne ungodly were in sight, though they  
Provoked me, I took heed unto my way:  
verse 2 And jest I should offend, I silence kept;  
Bridled my Tongue; and all my Passions slept.  
verse 3 I heard; but it was pain and grief to me  
To hear, and not what's Just, and Good, reply.  
My Passions calmed, a nobler fire did burn;  
Slighting the World, and them, to God I turn.   

verse 4 O thou! to whom our space of Life's defined,  
Number my Days, and let me know mine End!  
That I may learn how long I chained must be  
To Life, and Care, and when I shall be free.  
verse 5 How, like a Span, to th' Heaven's unbounded space,  
verse 6 Is unto thee, the moment of my Days!  
How vain's th' Affair of Life! the Scenick Stage  
Of Greatness! and the Nothing of our Age!   

Man, like a Shadow hastes; while passing, fled;  
Busy in vain; in vain disquieted.  
He gathers Wealth, his fruitless heaps still rise;  
Leaves all, unknown to whom, leaves all, and dies.  
verse 7 And now, Lord! what's my hope? what can it be?  
What can I still enjoy, but only thee?  
verse 8 Free me from sin, which separates from thee,  
And let me not to Fools a Triumph be.   

verse 9 I bore their follies, and made no excuse;  
For I had sinned, and tthou hadst let them lose;  
verse 10 Take them, and all thy other Plagues away,  
Too heavy thy consuming Hand does lay.  
verse 11 How vain is Man! when thou dost Man chastise  
His Beauty fades; fades, and before him dies;  
So, Garments by consuming Moths are gnawn;  
And Man's unravelled, So: How vain is Man!   

verse 12 Lord, hear my Prayer! Let thy gracious Ears  
Admit my servant Sighs, and grant my Tears.  
My Soul's already on its Wing, for here  
I'm but a Stranger, as my Fathers were.  
verse 13 I beg not Life; some little strength, before  
I go from hence, and shall be seen not more.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XL.  
[Expectans Expectavi.]  

verse 1 MY Soul with patience did on God attend,  
He heard, and to my steadfast Prayer inclined.  
verse 2 Sunk in a dreadful Pit, far from the Day,  
He drew me forth; struggling i'th' Mire and Clay:   

And on a safe high Rock advanced my Head,  
Safe, for himself my go ordered.  
verse 3 Sing, O my ravished Soul! warmed with new fire,  
For God himself does his own praise inspire.   

Behold, ye long afflicted ones! Draw near!  
Trust in my God; see me, and learn his fear.  
verse 4 Trust not th' false strength, nor falser promises  
O'th' great, he's blessed alone wh' on God relies.   

verse 5 Great God Great are the wonders thou hast done;  
And thy great Thoughts to us, comprised by none.  
Our Praise is dumb, and cannot them express;  
For who can Number what is Nnmberless?   

verse 6 Thou art not, Lord! appeased with Sacrifice,  
In vain the Guiltess, for the Guilty dies;  
verse 7 Behold, than, O my God said I, I come  
To do thy will, myself, and bear thy Doom.   

I'th' Volumn of thy Book 'tis writ of me,  
I must thy Law and Justice satisfy.  
verse 8 My Heart's the Transcript of thy Law; thy Will,  
O Righteous God I'm ready to fulfil.   

verse 9 I have not, Lord! thy Righteousness concealed,  
But thy great Goodness, and thy Truth revealed.  
verse 10 Thy Mercies have not in my thankless Breast  
Been hid, but loudly unto all confessed.   

verse 11 O let those mercies ever follow me!  
Thy Truth, and Love, still my Safeconduct be.  
verse 12 For Cares do sink me down, Cares numberless,  
Which only than my Sins vast heap, are lesle.   

verse 13 Lord, save me! for th' united force prevails;  
Haste, Lord! my fainting Heart, o're-numbred, fails.  
verse 14 Shame and Confusion cover them, who join  
Together, for my Soul's Destruction.   

verse 15 Let them be desolate, and clothed with shame,  
Who do, insultingly, traduce my Name;  
verse 16 But who seek thee, let them be glad in thee;  
Still freed, still their Redeemer magnify.   

verse 17 Lord, I am Poor, Poor and in misery;  
But thou, O powerful God, hast care of me.  
Thou art my Saviour, I thy rescued Prey;  
O my Redeemer, make no long delay.    

Psalm XLl.  
[Beatus vir qai intelligit]  

verse 1 WHo helps the Poor, the woeful, and distressed,  
God will help him, and free him when oppress 〈…〉  
verse 2 Death shall not snatch him from the Earth, till he  
Be satisfied with Life, and would be free;  
No force, nor malice of his Enemies  
Him, from his mighty Guardian shall surprise.   

verse 3 When languishing upon his Bed he lies,  
God will sustain him, comfort, and give ease.  
Himself will in his Sickness make his Bed,  
Compose his Mind, raise his declining Head.  
verse 4 Lord! I have sinned, sin has transfixed my Soul,  
O wash the Wound, bind it, and make it whole.   

verse 5 My Foes speak out; when, say they, shall he die?  
Dye, all? He and his blasted Memory?  
verse 6 If any Visit me, 'tis to ensnare,  
verse 7 And, as a Spy, betray me unaware,  
His talk is vain, his free demeanours, lose  
And airy, but his dark intents are close.   

For whate'er of my innocent concerns  
Perversely and maliciously he learns,  
When he comes forth, he tells; and than, they all  
Together whisper to traduce my fall.  
verse 8 A foul Disease sticks close to him, say they;  
And will the loathed Wretch bear loathed away.   

verse 9 These were not Enemies Professed; alone,  
But mine own near familiar Friend made One.  
He, whom I fed, whom I did trust, did prove  
False to his Faith, and Traitor to my Love.  
verse 10 Lord! raise again thy Servant, that I may  
Their Guile, and smooth Hypocrisy repay.   

verse 11 And, Lord! thou wilt me raise; thy love I know  
By this, that I'm not triumphed by my Foe.  
For, the Integrity they would disgrace  
Thou hast upheld, and set me 'fore thy Face.  
verse 13 Thy Name be blessed by all the Sons of Men  
Throughout all Ages, and beyond. Amen.   
FINIS.    

The SECOND BOOK of the PSALMS, paraphrased.  

Psalm XLII.  
[Quemadmodum desiderat Cervus.]  

verse 1 NOT the chased Hart more longs for the cool Flood,  
Than my faint Soul for thee, my only good!  
verse 2 My Soul's athirst for God, the living God,  
Who 'twixt the Cherubims makes his abode:   

When shall my longing Soul be satisfied?  
My famished Eyes, when with thy Presence fed!  
verse 3 Tears feed, and Tears consume me; while my Foes  
Deride my Miseries, and upbraid my Woes.   

They will not me a quiet grief allow;  
But cry, where's God? where's thy dear Refuge now!  
verse 4 How bitter is my solitary moan!  
Condemned to grieve, condemned to grieve alone.   

How am I altered! Ah! How changed from me,  
Who to thy House led the glad company:  
When the triumphant and exulting Throng  
Sung on the glorious Day, the glorious Song?   

verse 5 Why, O niy Soul! dost thou thus grieve? And why  
Desert thyself, and unlearn Constancy?  
O trust in God He will again thee raise,  
Who holds thee now, and is th' afflicted's Praise.   

verse 6 But, O my God How can I but lament,  
Forced beyond Jordan, and to Hermon's Tent?  
Yet, there I'll think on thee, and Hermon's Hill  
Shall learn the Praises which thy Zion fill.   

verse 7 As Wave to Wave, and Deep to Deep does call,  
By th' roaring Cataracts impetuous fall;  
So Woe to Woe, and Grief to Grief succeeds:  
Each fruitful Ill a second greater breeds:   

All have gone o'er my Head; on me alone,  
Thou the whole Tempest of thy Wrath pouredst down;  
verse 8 Yet in the midst of Wrath his mercy shone,  
And all his loving kindness was not gone;   

Each day discovered it, it sprang as Light;  
Lesle certain the Morn risen, and rose lesle bright.  
Night blessed him for the Day, and praise returned;  
My Song gave Praise; whilst thus my Prayer mourned.   

verse 9 God of my Strength! God of my Life! O why  
Hast thou forgot me? why thus heavily,  
As of my God deserted, do I go?  
Oppressed and derided by my Foe.   

verse 10 Swords can lesle wound; and Spears lesle pierce my Heart,  
Than do the quick and kill words they dart:  
Whilst my insulting Foes continually  
Where's thy dear God? where's thy sure refuge? cry.   

verse 11 Why, O my Soul! dost thou thus grieve? And why  
Desert thyself, and unlearn Constancy?  
O trust in God He will again thee raise,  
Who holds thee now; and is th' afficted's Praise.    

Psalm XLIII.  
[Judica me Deus!]  

verse 1 MY God appear for me, and my just Cause,  
Against the Men who violate thy Laws;  
Those who the plain and simple circumvent,  
Th' unjust, the treacherous, and the fraudulent.   

verse 2 For I from none can have redress, but thee;  
From none but thee, who now hast banished me;  
O why am I cast out; Why, Lord! am I  
Thrown to the Mercies of mine Enemy?   

verse 3 Sand from above, and save! O sand thy Light  
And thy Truth forth, and chase away my Night;  
That they may lead me to thy Holy Hill,  
And to the House where thou my God dost devil.   

verse 4 That to thine Altar I may come; and bring  
Unto my God, my banished Offering;  
Take up my Harp age, and, new inspired,  
May mix Thanksgivings with the Altars Fire.   

verse 5 Why, O my Soul! dost thou thus grieve? And why  
Desert thyself, and unlearn Constancy?  
O trust in God He will again thee raise;  
Who holds thee now, and is th' afflicted's Praise.    

Psalm XLIV.  
[Deus auribus nostris.]  

verse 1 WHat wonders, mighty God have we been told  
Thou didst; and none but thou couldst do, of Old?  
verse 2 How thou didst plant our Fathers in this Land;  
And it's own People cast out, by thy Hand;  
verse 3 For 'twas thy Hand; thy Pow'erful Arm alone,  
Not their own Sword, got them Possession;   

But thy Almighty Favour, and the bright  
Beams of thy countenance, and their conquering Light,  
verse 4 O our same God Our same Almighty King!  
To thine oppressed Jacob secure, bring;  
verse 5 For, by thee aided, we shall soon put down  
Our Foes, and tread them to Confusion.   

verse 6 For I'll not trust my Bow; 'tis not my Sword  
Can help, or my weak Arm relief afford;  
verse 7 But it is thou, O Lord of Hosts! alone  
Who savest us, and throw'st our Enemies down:  
verse 8 Thus, Lord, we boast of thee, all the day long,  
And still as Victors, triumph in our Song.   

verse 9 But now thou dost not with our Armies go;  
But hast abandoned us unto the Foe;  
verse 10 The strength of Israel is departed; we  
verse 11 Flee from a once despised Enemy.  
They spoil us, and like Sheep, we scattered fly,  
'Midst our Foes scattered, and like Sheep we die.   

verse 12 As cheap and useless Souls weare given away;  
And thou takest nothing for the worthless Prey.  
verse 13 weare scorned by those about us; who all tell,  
verse 14 Scoffing, the Fable of thy Israel.  
verse 15 I'm amazed quite; covered with shame and scorn,  
By Miseries and vile Reproaches torn.   

verse 16 Pursued by th' fury of th' Avengers' Sword,  
And foul Blasphemers deeper piercing words;  
verse 17 And though all this be come upon us, yet,  
Yet, O our God we do not thee forget;  
Nor have we the Eternal Covenant broke  
Which thee our God, thy People, us, did make.   

verse 18 Our Heart's not turned back, nor do we stray  
In Paths forbidden, from thy commanded way,  
verse 19 Not though weare chased into the fearful Den  
Of Dragons, Places yet untrod by Men:  
Though, languishing, we draw our gasping Breath  
Within the Region of the Shade of Death.   

verse 20 Had we for other Gods deserted thee,  
verse 21 And to a strange Name bowed, shouldst not thou see?  
To whose clear sight, plain and distinct are brought  
The subtlest Webs, and nicest Chains of thought.  
verse 22 But 'tis for thee our God, weare put to shame;  
We bear th' Offence and Scandal of thy Name:   

For thy sake weare oppressed; for thee we flee;  
For thee weare hated, and for thee we die:  
verse 23 Rise, Lord! O rise! why dost thou, as asleep,  
Forget us? Wilt thou not more thy Israel keep?  
verse 24 Why dost thou hid thy Face? O turn! look down!  
See, Lord! thy People's last Oppression.   

verse 25 Grovelling, we creep upon the Earth; bowed down  
Low as the Dust, and levelled with the Ground.  
verse 26 Lord, rise! Lord, help! and pity on us take,  
Great God of Mercy! for thy Mercy's sake.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XLV.  
[Eructavit cor meum.]  

verse 1 FUll of the mighty Subject that I sing,  
My Heart breathes forth the Glories of my King,  
My flowing thoughts move swifter than my Pen,  
verse 2 O Blessed! O fairest of the Sons of Men!   

Grace's sit on thy Lips, from Heaven showered down,  
Round thy fair Soul, by Beauty's Author thrown;  
verse 3 Gird on thy conquering Sword, O mighty One!  
Bright, as thine Honour; Brave, as thy Renown.   

verse 4 Tell the false World where true Honour is,  
verse 5 It dwells with Truth, Meekness, and Righteousness.  
Be ever prosperous in pursuit of these,  
Ride on! and may just Heaven it's own Arms bless.   

A glorious terror from about thee hurled  
Shall scatter, shall confounded th' Apostate World.  
verse 6 How firms thy Throne! firm as thy Righteousness,  
O King! O God whose Sceptre Justice is.   

verse 7 Justice has been thy Love, and Wrong thy hate;  
Wherhfore 'bove others, God has raised thy state;  
God is made thine; and on thy conquering Head  
He has the Oil of his own gladness shed.   

verse 8 Tears of rich Gums refresh thee with their smells,  
Poured on thy Garments from their Ivory Cells;  
verse 9 Daughters of Kings thy fair Attendants be,  
And Princesses adorn thy Family.   

But more adorned, more fair than these, did stand  
Thy Queen; on thine and Beauties own right Hand;  
Clad in a Vest of Gold, with Colours wrought,  
The Tribute to her Beauty Ophir brought.   

verse 10 Hear, Daughter! Hear, O Fairest! now remove  
Thy old affections, and new plant thy Love;  
verse 11 So shall the King rejoice; call thee, his own;  
For he's thy Lord, he is thy God alone.   

verse 12 To thee the Tyrians shall their Purple bring;  
And all the Rich present their Offering;  
verse 13 Daughter of Heaven! O Beauty, All-Divine!  
Thou art all fair; all Glorious, within:   

And though th' art clad with all we precious hold,  
Art gives thy Garments Texture; Nature, Gold;  
Yet, than thy Soul, that Gold is lesle refined,  
Even thine own Beauties yield unto thy Mind.   

verse 14 Thou thus adorned, shalt to the King be given  
The Royal Consort, and the Spouse of Heaven:  
A glorious train of Virgins wait on thee;  
And the Chaste, Fair, with thee presented be.   

verse 15 With Joy, presented; and received with thee,  
They the most Beaut●●●● Palace Beautify,  
verse 16 Thou, stead of Parents, shalt be blessed with Son's;  
A Race of Princes for all Regions.   

verse 17 Throughout all Ages I'll extend thy Fame;  
And, beyond Time fix thy Eternal Name.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XLVI.  
[Deus noster Refugium.]  

verse 1 O Present still! O still protecting Lord!  
Who help to thy distressed dost afford,  
verse 2 What can us fright? should the fixed Laws o'th' world  
Be broke, and Mountains into Seas be hurled;  
verse 3 Though Hills, through Tempest's rock, Seas overgrow;  
O'er Immense Cliffs the vaster Billows flow;  
verse 4 ' Midst its own Calm, Zion the Storm derides,  
Zion, the Holy Place, where God resides.  
verse 5 God's in the midst of her, How can she move,  
Sustained by the Powerful Arm above?  
The Lord of Hosts, his Zions strength shall be;  
Himself shall help, shall help her speedily.  
verse 6 The Heathen move; and mighty Kingdoms threat,  
Earth's shakes by the wild Tempests of the Great.  
But God appears, utters his Voice, and they,  
And their tempestuous greatness, melt away.   

verse 7 Fear not any mortal Powers,  
Who can hurt, when God is ours?   

verse 8 See now, what wonders this our God hath wrought,  
What desolations on the Mighty brought.  
verse 9 He through the bleeding Earth makes Wars to cease,  
And sheds the soft, the dewy Balm of Peace.  
He breaks the Bow; confounds the mortal Spear,  
And drives the furious Chariot to the fire:  
verse 10 Know than that I am God know and be still;  
Great 'mongst the Heathen, and my Israel.   

verse 11 Fear not any mortal Powers,  
Who can hurt, when God is ours?    

Psalm XLVII.  
[Omnes Gentes Plaudite.]  

verse 1 Rejoice, O thou redeemed World! Sing  
Triumphant Praise to thy Triumphant King;  
verse 2 For God is King, He bears Dominion  
O'er all the Kings and Gods of Earth, alone.  
verse 3 He hath subdued the Nations under us,  
verse 4 Us, whom for his loved Heritage he chose.   

verse 5 God, with the Trumpets sound, ascends on high;  
With joyful noise, and Songs of Victory.  
verse 6 To our ascended God, O Praises sing!  
O Praises sing to our Triumphant King:  
verse 7 For God o'er all the rescued Earth is King,  
Praises with Skill and Understanding sing.   

verse 8 God rules the Nations, God, upon his Seat  
Exalted, ever sits; Holy and Great;  
verse 9 Princes submit their Sceptres to his Rod,  
All made One Israel, under Abraham's God:  
Who else can save? what new Almighty Power?  
And who can hurt, when God's our Saviour?    

Psalm XLVIII.  
[Magnus Dominus.]  

verse 1 GReat God thou'rt greatly to be praised still  
In thine own Temple, on thine Holy Hill.  
verse 2 Zion Earth's joy, which, to th' North side is seen  
verse 3 O' th' Great King's City, and whose God's within;  
Sion's known God, who guardsher Palaces;  
Still known to her, now to her Enemies:   

verse 4 For lo! the Kings of Earth's Confederate Power,  
Together came Assembled to devour;  
verse 5 But their bold Troops soon met confusion;  
Together gathered, and together gone.  
Amazement seized 'em at thy Terrors sent,  
Disarmed by a Divine astonishment.   

verse 6 Fear, like a Woman's fear in Travel, came  
And they fell, as the fearful fall, with shame;  
verse 7 Fallen, broke, as Ships, dashed by the furious shocks  
O ' th' Eastern Wind, in pieces 'gainst the Rocks.  
verse 8 Such, Mighty God thy marvels were of Old  
By our delivered, wondering Fathers told;   

Which now thou hast renewed, and, what they tell,  
To our slow Faiths confirm'st the Miracle:  
And this great Truth confirm'st, That thou wilt still,  
O God of Hosts! Protect thy holy Hill.  
verse 9 Our Souls, thus full o'th' Mercies thou hast wrought,  
Within thy House thus speak the flowing Thought.   

verse 10 Be thou for ever praised! and be thy Fame  
To th' end of Earth extended as thy Name.  
And justly, Lord! all Honour's due to thee,  
Whose Hand divides Justice and Equity;  
verse 11 Let Zion praise thy Judgements, shown for them,  
And all the Daughters of Jerusalem.   

verse 12 Walk about Zion; view the Glorious Mount;  
verse 13 It's Towers, Palaces, and Bulworks count:  
And tell from whom all her firm Glories rise,  
To our Sons Sons, and their Posterities.  
For, Lord! thou'rt God of us, and of our Seed,  
Our present, now, and our Eternal Guide.    

Psalm XLIX.  
[Audite haec omnes.]  

verse 1 HEar, O ye Sons of Men! whoe're you are;  
verse 2 High, Low, Rich, Poor, secure or full of care,  
One with another; for all equal be  
In the great Doom passed on Mortality.   

verse 3 To understanding I'll incline my Heart,  
And the great Depths of Wisdom will impart.  
verse 4 My Harp, inspired, to the loud Song shall rise;  
And strike an Air, high as the Mysteries.   

verse 5 Why should I, anxious, fear Adversity?  
verse 6 Or quit my strength, when Death itself draws nigh?  
verse 7 All dye; nor can those Mighty Ones, who boast  
verse 8 Their Power, or Wealth, Redeem a Brother, lost;   

Unseal th' Eternal Grave; or, unto Death  
Pay down th' unknown, th' unvalued price of Breath;  
verse 9 Prolong life's Race, that it extended be,  
Beyond the Confines of Mortality.   

verse 10 The Wise man dies too, as the Fool, and leaves  
His painful Wealth to Strangers; leaves, not gives:  
verse 11 And yet they think, though their own House of Clay  
Dissolve, their Dwelling-place shall ever stay;   

And to preserve the Shadow of a Fame,  
Give to their Lands their own departed Name.  
verse 12 But worthless Man with his vain Honour dies;  
Dies, as the ignoble Beast that perishes.   

verse 13 This yet's their folly still; this their lost way,  
And their Posterity praise All they say.  
verse 14 Like slaughtered Sheep, thrown in the Grave, they lie,  
And Death devours Them and their Memory.   

How far shall the bright Glories of th' Upright,  
In the Great Morn of Life's Eternal Light,  
Outshine these Meteors! whose wan, sickly Ray,  
Shall set in Night, and vanish at their Day.   

verse 15 But God shall raise my Soul from the dark Night  
O'th' Grave into the Regions of Light.  
verse 16 Be not thou moved at th' Rich and Glorious,  
Who does advance the Grandeur of his House:   

verse 17 For Man, as naked born, so naked dies;  
And in the Dust, cold and inglorious lies;  
Pomp mixes not with Clay, he's rest of All,  
And his stripped Glories have their Funeral.   

verse 18 Yet while he lived, he dreamt he happy was;  
But with his breath the guilded Dream did pass:  
Do well unto thy self, and cultivate  
Thy Mind; such Good's thine Own, and above Fate;   

For Men, who see it, will record thy Fame;  
And with thy proper Worth adorn thy Name:  
verse 19 But worthless Souls pass on to endless Night,  
With their Forefathers, and shall ne'er see Light.   

verse 20 The Honoured without Understanding dies;  
And dies, as the dull Beast that perishes.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm L.  
[Deus Deorum Dominus.]  

verse 1 THE Lord, the God of Men and Gods, is come,  
verse 2 And summons all the World to their Doom;  
He on his Glorious Mount appears, and calls  
The Earth, from the Sun's rise, to where it falls.   

verse 3 Our God will come, and his great Day of Doom;  
With Storms and Glories circled, God will come.  
verse 4 He calls the Earth to witness and admire  
His Judgement; calls Heaven, and its conscious Fires.   

verse 5 Gather my Saints together to me, those  
With whom, to make a Covenant, I have chose:  
verse 6 And now, Hear, O ye Heavens! Hear, and confess  
(For God is Judge himself) his Righteousness.   

verse 7 Hear, Israel! Hear, my People! thyself be  
The Witness, how thy God shall deal with thee:  
verse 8 I'll not reprove thee for the Offerings  
Thou didst lesle frequent to mine Altar bring.   

verse 9 I will not take a Goat out of thy Fold;  
Or other Creature which thy Pastures hold:  
verse 10 All Beasts are mine which the wild Forest fills;  
And  on a thousand thousand Hills:   

verse 11 Each Wing I know, o'er the steep Mountain flies;  
Each Beast, which in his closest Covert lies.  
verse 12 If I could hunger, I'd not tell it Thee;  
The World, and all it holds, belongs to Me.   

verse 13 Thinkest thou I eat Bull's Flesh? That for me dies  
The Offering? And I live by Sacrifice?  
verse 14 Bring to mine Altar Thanks and Praise, make good  
Thy Vows, and thou may'st Offer without Blood:   

verse 15 And call upon me in the perilous days  
Of trouble; I will hear, and Thou shalt praise.  
verse 16 To th' wicked than God said, How darest thou Preach  
verse 17 My Laws, and live, false to the Truths they teach.   

Why dost thou vainly boast my Covenant,  
Who having naught performed, cancell'st my Grant?  
verse 18 When thou hast seen a Thief thou didst consent,  
And follow'dst when the close Adulterer went.   

verse 19 Thou hast accustomed thy opprobrious Tongue  
To Falsehood, Treachery, black Reproach and Wrong: Name.  
verse 20 Thou violat'st the spotless tender Fame  
O'th' virtuous, and wound'st thine own Brother's   

verse 21 And whilst my kind long-suffering slept for thee,  
Thy Blasphemy risen higher and aimed at Me.  
But I'll thy sins order before thine Eyes,  
Beyond th' Evasions of thine own Replies.   

verse 22 O ye who God forget, consider this!  
Before I pluck you hence, and none release.  
verse 23 Who offers Thanks, does offer Sacrifice,  
Praise ascends higher, and above Incense flies:   

And that cleansed, grateful Soul, which lives upright,  
I'll free from death, and place in endless Light.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm LIVELY  
[Miserere mei Deus secundum, etc.  

verse 1 O Thou whose boundless Mercies ever flow,  
And, as thyself, nor Term, nor Measure know,  
Let my transfixed, anguished soul, now prove  
The inexhausted Bounties of thy Love.   

verse 2  me in that pure Spring flows for th' unsound;  
Whose virtuous Streams can cleanse & heal my Wound;  
verse 3 My loathsome Wound; which (Lord) I here expose,  
And my abominated Crimes disclose.   

The horror of their Gild me terrifies  
In ghastly Forms, still waking to mine Eyes.  
verse 4 Against thee (holy God) 'gainst thee alone  
've sinned, and in thy sight this Evil done:   

And, if thou shouldst condemn me, must confess  
My Doom were just, and just thy Righteousness.  
verse 5 I'th' Dawn of life, before I saw the Sun,  
The Seeds of Ill stained my Conception.   

verse 6 And though in my lapsed Soul, immersed, does shine  
Thy Wisdom, and a Ray of Light Divine;  
Yet my frail Soul, false to that Heavenly Fire,  
Weds the base Lusts and Follies of Desire.   

With thy Blood  
verse 7 With Hyssop cleanse my stains, and I shall grow  
Moore Pure, more White, than is the falling Snow.  
verse 8 Make me to hear the long-departed Voice  
Of Gladness, that the broke bones may rejoice.   

verse 9 From mine Offences turn away thy Face,  
And all the deep and leprous Prints erase.  
verse 10 Renew my mind, estranged to false desires,  
And kindle in it its fallen primitive Fires.   

verse 11 From thy blessed Presence, cast me not away;  
But guide me with thy Spirit jest I stray;  
verse 12 The Joys of thy Salvation restore,  
And establish me, that I may fall not more.   

verse 13 than the Transgressor's, who, like me did stray,  
Like me, shall turn again into the way;  
verse 14 From the deep stains and the loud Cries of Blood,  
Wash me i'th' living Font's Immortal Flood.   

Than shall my ravished Tongue aloud confess  
Thy Mercies and amazing Righteousness.  
verse 15 Than shall my Lips an higher Anthem raise  
When thou thy self inspir'st the mighty Praise.   

verse 16 Could Sacrifice appease thee, I had soon  
The certain Price of all my sins paid down;  
But Pardon comes not at so vile a rate;  
Now Blood, nor Incense, can sins Expiate.   

verse 17 A Bleeding Heart; Souls changed to new desires  
Which put out Earthly; kindle Heavenly Fires;  
Are th' only Pure accepted Sacrifice;  
A contrite Heart, O God thou'lt not despise.   

verse 19 Look on thy Zion, Lord! Build up the Wall  
Of thy Jerusalem, broke down by all;  
We'll than, with Blood and common Sacrifice,  
Bring the true Sacrifice of Righteousness.    

Psalm LII.  
[Quid gloriaris in Malitia?]  

verse 1 WHy, Potent Wretch! boasts thou a wicked Power?  
As if 'twere great and glorious to devour?  
Know, Goodness the Almighty's Honour is,  
Which shall blast thee, and thine Oppressed release.   

verse 2 Thy false Tongue mischief only does device,  
Sharpened with Lies and kill Treacheries:  
verse 3 Art professed Enemy to Truth and Right,  
And dost in Ill alone place thy delight.   

verse 4 False Tongue! who dost prevail by thine own power,  
And lov'st the words are mighty to devour;  
verse 5 Shall found th' avenging God, the God of Might,  
Will vindicate Oppressed Truth and Right;   

Will pluck thee out from thy close winding Den  
Of Guile, and banish thee the Race of Men;  
verse 6 The Just shall see and fear, and shall deride  
The ruin'd heights and confusions of Pride.   

verse 7 This was the Man (say they) sought other strength  
Than God; And where's the powerful Wretch at length?  
His Trophies, got by Force, or Fraud and Stealth,  
Where are they sunk? where's his Almighty Wealth?   

verse 8 But I? who ever on my God rely,  
On his sure Mercies long Benignity,  
Like a green Olive Tree in Peace shall stand,  
In Gods own Courts, planted by Gods own Hand.   

verse 9 For these great Judgements thou hast shown for me,  
O just Avenger! I thee magnify.  
thou'rt all my hope; with me join in thy Love  
The Just on Earth and all the Blessed above.   
The 53 Psalms being the same with the 14th is omitted.   

Psalm LIV.  
[Deus in Nomine tuo.]  

verse 1 SAve me, O Lord! save by and for thy Name,  
And the wild rage of the Oppressor tame;  
verse 2 Hear, Lord! for they who o'er me Tyrannize  
verse 3 Are Strangers to thy Name, and thee despise:   

verse 4 But lo! from Heaven my God appears for me;  
Sets me, and those who do assist me, free:  
verse 5 Renders Confusion to my Foes; who all  
To his unconquered Truth just Triumphs fall.   

verse 6 Accept, O God, who still my Succour art,  
The Offering of a voluntary Heart:  
I will thy holy Name for ever bless,  
So Great, so Good, so all my happiness:   

verse 7 For I from all my Miseries am free,  
And see thy Glory on mine Enemy.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalms, LV.  
[Exaudi Dens orationem.]  

verse 1 LOrd, hear my Prayer! Hear my servant Cry!  
Look on me, Lord! oppressed with Misery.  
verse 2 Mingled with sighs, hear my Petition,  
And hear those sighs, and the deep frequent Groan;  
verse 3 With Malice armed, and Rage, my Enemy  
Pursues me, and with Violent Cries draws nigh.   

verse 4 My Heart within me is disquieted,  
And Death's black Cloud stoops hovering o'er my Head  
verse 5 Horror and dreadful Fears astonish me,  
My melted strength's dissolved i'th' Agony:  
verse 6 O had I Wings, as has a Dove, how than  
Would I soon fly from the fallen Race of Men!   

verse 7 And to some quiet Wilderness fly hence,  
Born with the Doves Wing, and Doves Innocence:  
verse 8 There would I rest, far from the Cries of wrong,  
In its vast Calm lost to th' spent Storms o'th' Tongue:  
verse 9 Cleave the Malicious Tongues, and cut them out;  
For strife and wrong the City dwells throughout:   

verse 10 I'th' midst of which, whilst these their Walls surround  
Th' Oppressor's wrongs, th' Oppressed's Tears abound;  
verse 11 Falshood dwells in their Streets, and in their Heart's  
Deceit bears Rule, and all its Curious Arts.  
verse 12 'Twas not known Enemy dishonoured me,  
I could have born th' expected Injury;   

And from a Foe, who had himself declared,  
I had withdrawn myself, if unprepared  
verse 13 But thou, my Friend! Can I from thee fear harms?  
Embracing me, hast crushed me in thine Arms.  
verse 14 One Counsel steered us, our Souls were knit as One,  
In Friendship's, and our God's Religion.   

verse 15 Let them be snatched away by sudden Death!  
And the Grave seize their unexpired Breath.  
For they themselves abandon to all Ill,  
Mischiefs, and they as in one Household devil  
verse 16 But as for me, I to my God will flee  
For Refuge, and my God will rescue me.   

verse 17 At Evening, Morn, and Noon, I'll seek to thee,  
Who wilt not shut out my continual Cry;  
verse 18 'Tis He, who when i'th' Field a numerous Power  
Beset me, or subdued, or brought them o'er;  
verse 19 Th' Eternal Rightful Judge heard my Appeal,  
And Vengeance 'gainst th' obdurate did reveal.   

Who being never wakened by distress,  
Feared not the Lord; undone by happiness.  
verse 20 Who, faithless, his most Sacred Covenant broke;  
And a feigned Peace, did Wars chief Engine make:  
verse 21 His Lips dropp'dBalm, whilst his Heart Poison meant,  
With healing Dews the kill Venom went.   

Smother than Oil, flowed out his Charming Words,  
But when believed, they were very Swords.  
verse 22 O cast thy Burden on the Lord! remit  
All unto him, and he shall care for it.  
He shall himself sustain the Righteous,  
Whom, resting on his Power, no Power o'erthrows   

But his Just Arm shall hurl th' Oppressor down,  
Down into the Pit of Destruction,  
The false and Bloody Man his Days shall never  
Fulfil; But I, trusting in God, live ever.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm LVI.  
[Miserere mei Deus quoniam.]  

verse 1 LOrd, snatch me from the greedy Jaws of those  
verse 2 Who are devouring me, the Contentious;  
From their beloved strife who never cease,  
But with new Quarrels daily rend my Peace.   

Mine Enemies combine to swallow me,  
Pressing with Number and Sedulity,  
verse 3 This frights me, but when my Fears present are,  
I view my hopes, and the two strengths compare   

verse 4 My hopes on thy help rest, of which thy Word,  
O thou my Praise! th' assurance does afford.  
And what can any Arm of Flesh do now?  
My Trust's above; Injustice is below.   

verse 5 They falsely wrist my Words, and represent  
Another Sense, from what my clear thoughts meant;  
All their contrivances for mischiefs be,  
And their whole business is to ruin me.   

verse 6 For this they meet, wove curious Plots and dark,  
And my unwary Soul's plain footsteps mark.  
verse 7 O Righteous Judge! shall safe Oppression thrive?  
Thou shalt it down precipitately drive.   

verse 8 Record my Sufferings, and when wronged I mourn,  
Pour mine appealing Tears into thine Urn:  
verse 9 Thou art my Refuge, when on thee I call,  
O my known Aid! mine Enemies must fall.   

verse 10 Thy Wor'ds my Trust; thy promised Word, my Joy;  
verse 11 When thou wilt save, what Power can destroy?  
verse 12 My rescued Soul shall pay its Vows to thee,  
And thee, its Great Redeemer, magnify.   

verse 13 For, from the Grave thou didst me back recall,  
Heldst my prove steps, put forth and ready to fall;  
That I, thus rescued, might enjoy thy sight  
I'th' Land of th' Living, 'mongst the Sons of Light,    

Psalm LVII.  
[Miserere mei Deus Miserere.]  

verse 1 I Have no other Refuge, Lord! but thee:  
Have mercy, Lord! Have mercy, Lord! on me.  
To the known safety of thy Wing I sly,  
Until the Fury of these Storms pass by.   

verse 2 On thee alone I all my hope have laid,  
O never-failing! O sufficient Aid!  
verse 3 Thou, from the black reproachful Calumny  
Devours my Fame, shalt save me from on High.   

Truth shall descend, and vindicate my Cause;  
And mercy save me from those Lion's Jaws,  
verse 4 ' Mongst whom I devil; those Men whom Rage unmans,  
Rage, that lets lose the Beast, and the Man Chains;   

Whose quick Reproaches pierce like sharpest Swords;  
And Spears and Arrows are their kill Words.  
verse 5 Exalt thyself 'bove th' heavens, O thou most High!  
And through all th' Earth diffuse thy Majesty.   

verse 6 They have pressed down my Soul, and digged a Pit;  
And hid in my plain Path a treacherous Net:  
The Net has caught themselves, and the false Pit  
Beguiled its own Contrivers wary Feet.   

verse 7 My Soul's possessed, O God and full of thee,  
Breaks into Praise, not to be ' held in by me.  
verse 8 Glory, awake! wake Harp! and Lute! and tell,  
Tell, if you can, what is Ineffable!   

And thou, my Soul, wake first! wake all my Powe'rs!  
Prevent the Morn, and give the Day more Hours!  
verse 9 Sing his loud Praise among the Nations!  
Extend it wide as his Dominions!   

verse 10 Extend it 'bove the Clouds, 'bove th' heavens extend;  
Mercy and Truth reach thither, where's no End.  
verse 11 Exalt thyself 'bove th' heavens, O thou most High!  
And through all th' Earth, diffuse thy Majesty.    

Psalm LVIII.  
[Si vere utique Judicium.]  

verse 1 DOes Justice on your Judgement Seats reside?  
verse 2 And Righteousness your awful Senate's guide,  
O Sons of Men? O Sons of Men, alone!  
From your great Parents Image lapsed and gone.   

Your false Heart's favour Violence and Might;  
verse 3 Contemn bore Truth, and poor and friendless Right  
Born Truth's deserters and Right's Enemy's,  
Ye wove a Life full of deceit and Lies.   

verse 4 Poison from you, does as from Serpents flow,  
verse 5 Like Poison subtle, and destroying too.  
As the deaf Adder, so you stop your Ear,  
Kill on, and will not any Charmer hear.   

verse 6 Break, Lord! the Teeth of this degenerate Race  
Of Men, young Lions; and curse them from their Place.  
verse 7 Like Water poured out, be they still melting down,  
Be emptied quite, and drank up by the Ground.   

When they their cruel Arrows shall prepare,  
Cut the vain Shafts, and break 'em in the Air.  
verse 8 Let them consume like Snails, and turn to slime,  
And like Abortives, fall before their time.   

verse 9 Swifter than Flames, can Heat, or Tempests fly,  
Rapt by thy Anger's Whirlwind, let them dye:  
Be they with sense of Gild and Wrath perplexed;  
As a raw Wound by a rough Hand is vexed   

verse 10 The Just in Triumph shall the Vengeance see,  
And all the World convinced acknowledge thee:  
Doubtless (they'll say) there is a God above,  
Condemns th' Unjust, and does the Just approve.    

Psalm LIX.  
[Eripe me de Inimicis.]  

verse 1 SAve me O God from those who 'gainst me rise,  
verse 2 From my Bloodthirsty, Cruel Enemies.  
verse 3 They lie in wait to take my life; set on,  
Not by my sins, O Lord! but by their Own:   

verse 4 Their Malice arms them, without mine Offence;  
Behold, O Lord! and guard mine Innocence.  
verse 5 Lord of all Earthly, and all Heavenly Powers,  
Visit the Heathen! Judge their Cause and Ours:   

And punish those who causelessly transgress,  
And sin out of malicious Wickedness.  
verse 6 As hating Light, and Enemies of Day,  
They rouse at Even; Creatures of Night and Prey:   

Snarling like Dogs, the City they invest,  
When sleep Chains all, and all, but Malice, rest:  
verse 7 Sharp as their Weapons, are their cursing Words;  
They strike with both, and kill with either Sword:   

And who shall hear? who shall revenge? they cry;  
Moore high than us is Israel's most High?  
verse 8 But thou, O Lord! dost their vain boasts deride;  
And shalt, contemning, crush the Insulter's Pride.   

verse 9 Thou art my strength; I wait, O God on thee,  
My known Defence against mine Enemy.  
verse 10 Thou shalt prevent me, Lord! and let me see  
Thy Vengeance, swifter than my wishes, flee.   

verse 11 Slay them not utterly, O God left we  
Forget th' Almighty's signal Victory:  
But be they through the World, th' Examples known  
Of Divine Vengeance, and Protection.   

verse 12 Let their own Curses blast them! and the Lies  
Entangle them, which their own Lips device;  
verse 13 Consume, consume them, that they may not Be;  
That Jacob, and the World may confess thee.   

verse 14 And now let them return at night, and grin,  
And again compass despised Zion in:  
verse 15 Lost Wretches! let them wand'ring seek for Bread,  
And grudge and pine, because unsatisfied.   

verse 16 My ravished Tongue shall sing aloud thy Power;  
verse 17 Rise e'er the Morning, and awake the Hours:  
O my sole Refuge! who hast set me free  
In the great Day of my Calamity.    

Psalm LX.  
[Deus repulisti nos.]  

verse 1 O Just, O most offended God whose Hand  
verse 2 Has scattered us abroad, and moved the Land:  
O turn! O heal us! and again make One  
Thy wasted and divided Region.   

verse 3 Thou to thy People heavy things hast shown,  
Made us drink of a deadly Potion:  
verse 4 But for thy Truth's sake thou hast now displayed  
Thy Banner, and sent those who fear thee, Aid.   

verse 5 That thy Beloved, who thy help do crave,  
May be delivered; O hear, and save!  
verse 6 And thou wilt save, will't the torn Remnant bless;  
For thou hast sworn, sworn in thy Holiness,   

I will in Triumph Sichem's Land divide,  
And give to mine Succoth's rich Valley's Pride:  
verse 7 Mine is Manasses; mine fair ahab's Fields;  
Ephraim's my Guard; Judah my Sceptre wields.   

verse 8 Moab shall serve, Edom I down will tread,  
And the bold Philistims in Triumph lead.  
verse 9 Who into Edom's Forts secures my way?  
And its proud Towers shall in Ruins lay?   

verse 10 Who, Lord! but thou? who thine Inheritance  
Deserting ruind'st, returning shalt advance.  
verse 11 O turn to thy distressed Ones again,  
Be thou our help, for all Man's help is vain.   

verse 12 Trod down by thee, our Enemies shall flee,  
And we shall rise; Great God we follow thee.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm LXI.  
[Exaudi Deus deprecationem.]  

verse 1 FRom out the utmost Coasts of Earth, to none  
verse 2 But Nature and my straying footsteps known,  
O'erwhelmed with grief, I sand up unto thee,  
Who fill'st each place, my no-where-distant cry.  
O set me on the Rock higher than I!  
High above Earth, Man's Land of Misery:   

verse 3 That Rock in whom alone I trust; whose Power  
Has still my shelter been, and still my Tower;  
verse 4 Safe in thy House my covered Days I'll lead,  
And trust that Wing whose shade obscures my Head,  
verse 5 For thou hast heard my Prayer, and for those  
Who fear thy Name, an Heritage hast chose.   

verse 6 Thou to the King a termless Life shalt lend,  
Throughout all Ages, and when Ages end.  
verse 7 He shall still devil with thee, let his Guard be  
Thy Goodness, and Eternal Verity.  
verse 8 So shall I always bless thee, and each Day  
Renewed Thanksgivings humbly vow and pay.    

Psalm LXII.  
[Nun Deo subjecta erit.]  

verse 1 WHat e'er the Terror or the Danger be,  
verse 2 My Soul still waits, still truly waits on thee.  
For since my God is my Salvation,  
My Guard, my Rock, I ne'er can be o'erthrown.   

verse 3 How long will you 'gainst him God does sustain  
Mischiefs device, and wicked be, in vain?  
Prove unto ruin, ye shall perish all,  
Like a broke Hedge, or undermined Wall.   

verse 4 Whom God exalts, their aim is to put down,  
And levelly his advanced Station.  
Spreading ill Fames and bold Infectious Lies,  
Curse with good words, and with false Hearts they bless;   

verse 5 What e'er their known or close Designs may be,  
O thou my Soul! still on thy God rely.  
verse 6 For since my God is my Salvation,  
My Guard, my Rock, I ne'er can be o'erthrown.   

verse 7 God is my Refuge, God my Strength alone,  
My Glory, and my sole Protection.  
verse 8 O all ye Sons of Men! pour forth your Heart  
In all Distress to him, He'll help impart.   

verse 9 Trust not the Poor, the Poor no help can give;  
Nor trust the Great, the Great will it deceive:  
Put in the Balance them and Vanity,  
And Vanity itself will over-weigh.   

verse 10 Trust not the Spoils of the Oppressed's Field,  
Nor the vast Gains safe Robberies do yield;  
In none of Earth's deceitful Treasures trust,  
Nor the false Bounties of the Gilded Dust.   

verse 11 But trust in God. Thine Oracles Divine  
Have often to Mortals told, All Power is mine;  
Proclaimed thy Goodness too, who will dispense  
To all our Actions their just Recompense.    

Psalm LXIII.  
[Deus Deus meus ad te.]  

verse 1 O Lord my God early I seek to thee,  
 the Day mount, and the chased Shadows flee.  
My Soul, so thirsts, so, dying, languishies,  
As here, my Body, where no Water is;  
verse 2 That I thy Glories may behold again  
Within thy Temple, as I erst have seen.   

verse 3 For Life's lesle sweet than th' Joys thy Love does give;  
Immortal Joys, which Souls but taste and live.  
verse 4 My Soul thus filled, shall Number o'er its Days,  
In Offering Thanks; and live a Life of Praise.  
O the high tastes of Souls thy Love inspires!  
When they, in Praise, reflect th' emitted Fires.   

verse 6 Ravished upon my Bed I Thee have sought,  
When Night and Silence fed the mighty thought.  
verse 7 My Soul lies down i'th' Covert thou hast made,  
Made by that Wing, where safety is the Shade.  
verse 8 O only Power! whose Arm still rescues me,  
My Soul does still enjoy, still thirst for thee.   

verse 9 They who pursue my Soul, shall be thrown down,  
verse 10 Be made the Sword's, and th' wild Beast's Portion.  
verse 11 The King shall in his God rejoice; and they  
With Praise rewarded be, who him obey;  
For their black Mouths who do Untruths device,  
Shall be for ever closed; they, and their Lies.    

Psalm LXIV.  
[Exaudi Deus Orationem!]  

verse 1 LOrd! save my life from those who 'gainst me rise,  
verse 2 My treacherous, conspiring Enemies;  
verse 3 Who whet their Tongues, and Words, as Darts, prepare;  
The Weapons of malicious, private War.   

verse 4 In secret hid, they warily take aim,  
verse 5 And 'gainst th' upright, levelly a guilty Fame.  
Close, as their Snare, their selves in secret lie,  
And, who shall see? who shall reward? they Cry.   

verse 6 They search for Crimes; what, without Fault, was done,  
By wresting, they interpret into One.  
Their thoughts are subtle, curious, and profound;  
Pierce deep, as their malicious Hearts do wound.   

verse 7 But from th' Almighty's Arm, a sudden Dart,  
Unseen, inevitable, strikes through their Heart.  
verse 8 Their faltering Tongue shall its own lies oppose,  
‛ Maze the confederates, and the Truth disclose.   

verse 9 All Men shall see and fear; and understand,  
Vengeance came down, dispensed by Gods own Hand.  
verse 10 And all the Just shall magnify that Power  
Appeared for them, and trust that Saviour.    

Psalm LXV.  
[Te decet Hymnus Deus!]  

verse 1 PRaise waits thee, Lord! and Silence above Praise;  
When Souls, no voice, equal to Thought, can raise:  
To thine own Courts, in Zion, we will bring  
Our humble Vows, and promised Offering.   

verse 2 O thou who hearest Prayer! and grantest the cry  
Of the distressed! All Flesh shall come to thee.  
verse 3 Our sins had covered us; Their vast account  
O'erwhelmed us, but thy Mercies did surmount.   

verse 4 O Blessed the Man! O happy! thou hast chose,  
Whose ravished Soul shall in thy Courts repose;  
Who, with th' abundant Pleasures shall be filled  
Thy House affords, and only it can yield.   

verse 5 How terrible thy Judgements, Lord! appear,  
When thou sav'st us, and learnest the World thy fear!  
Hope of all th' Earth! All th' Earth on thee depend;  
And who to th' Terrors of the Deep descend.   

verse 6 Girded with Power, who settest the Mountains fast;  
And their sunk Roots, steep, as their Heights hast placed.  
verse 7 Who charmest the Winds; makest the wild seas obey,  
And the Tumultuous People, wild as they.   

verse 8 Whose Power in signs and wonders far is shown,  
As Nature's Coast, or that of Being's known.  
Whom setting and returning Light does praise,  
And the full Circles of the Nights and Days.   

verse 9 Upon the teeming Bosom of the Ground,  
Blessings from thee descend, and Fruits abound.  
Thy Bounties waste not; but their River flows,  
Still full, still pouring forth, and no Ebb knows.   

Thus for the Earth thou Blessings dost command;  
And all Flesh waits the Bounties of thy Hand.  
verse 10 Thy Rains make soft the Earth's relenting Bed,  
Melt down the Mass, and wake the Life o'th' Seed.   

verse 11 Thou dost the happy Year with blessings crown,  
And thine abundant Clouds drop Plenty down.  
verse 12 Drop on the Pastures of the Wilderness,  
And all the little Hills the Donor bless.   

Pastures with Flocks abound; with Corn the Field,  
All, blessed by thee, all, to thee Praises yield.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm LXVI.  
[Jubilate Deo omnis terra.]  

verse 1 LEt all the World their  Voices raise!  
And the one only Language speak, of Praise!  
verse 2 Sing forth his Honour, all! Each his Part bear,  
And in his Glory join the distant Choir.   

verse 3 Say all! How terrible, Great God art thou,  
To whose acknowledged Power thine Enemy's bow!  
verse 4 For all the World shall fall down to thee,  
Confess thee, and adore thy Majesty.   

verse 5 Behold the works of God his wonders, done  
For Man; his terrible Salvation.  
verse 6 He stopped the Seas, and the commanded Heap  
Stood fast, while the safe Host marched through the Deep.   

verse 7 His Power fixes the Eternal Laws  
Of Nature, firm and potent in their Cause.  
He wakes for Man; th' Obedient does sustain;  
But makes th' attempts of the Rebellious, vain.   

verse 8 O praise the Lord! the God alone that's feared,  
Praise him aloud; make his just Praise be heard.  
verse 9 Who keeps our Soul; holds back the Fugitive;  
And gently winds it i'th' soft Bonds of Life.   

Confirms our strength, sustains it from above;  
And gives to our tried footsteps not to move:  
verse 10 For thou, O God hast us thy People tried  
As Silver, when i'th' Fire 'tis purified.   

verse 11 Thou brought'st our erring steps into the Snare,  
And chain'dst us fast to Miseries and Care.  
verse 12 Our Enemies prevailed, and trod us down;  
Subjected to a scorned Oppression.   

We, through the midst of Fire, and Water, went;  
And all the inhuman Arts of Punishment.  
'Midst Fire and Water, and the extremes of Pain,  
Thou brought'st us of, and safe restor'dst again.   

verse 13 Draw now, (my Soul) the withdrawn guilty Scene!  
verse 14 Present thy Sufferings; Woes; Despairs, again!  
And what, amidst those Tortures, thou didst Vow;  
Be Just, and in God's House, pay th' Offering, now.   

verse 15 Prepare the Altar! kill the Sacrifice!  
And in one Cloud, let th' invovled Incense rise.  
verse 16 O all who fear the Lord, draw nigh! and see  
What his Almighty Goodness wrought for me.   

verse 17 In my distress, I to, my God did call;  
And did his help, above all help, extol;  
verse 18 I cleansed my Soul; should I to him address  
Polluted Vows, who abhors Wickedness?   

And, O my God Thou heard'st me; didst attend,  
And from thy Heaven a mighty Succour lend.  
Blessed ever be my God who heard my suit,  
Drew nigh, raised up, and saved the Destitute    

Psalm LXVII.  
[Deus Misereatur Nostri!]  

verse 1 BE merciful, O God Chace away Night!  
And bless us with the Vision of thy Light;  
verse 2 That unto all the Earth thy way be known,  
Thy Universal, glad Salvation.   

verse 3 O let thy Name and Praise resounded be  
Through all dark Coasts of fallen Humanity!  
verse 4 How will the Nations joy, when God does reign!  
When Justice comes, and Mercy dawns again?   

verse 5 O let thy Name and Praise resounded be  
Through all dark Coasts of fallen Humanity!  
verse 6 Earth, as renewed, shall than yield her increase,  
And God, his own Mankind, all People, bless.   

verse 7 O bless us! and make thine, All Nations!  
Be thy Redeemed Ones, All! and All thy Sons!   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm LXVIII.  
[Exurgat deus.]  

verse 1 O Just, O only Powerful God, arise!  
And scatter those, dare be thine Enemies.  
verse 2 As Smoke, dispersing still, ascends and dies,  
Or melted Wax, floating and formless lies;  
verse 3 So perish the Unjust! Let the Just live!  
Live ever, and Immortal Praises give.   

verse 4 O sing Jehovah's Praise! sing it aloud,  
Who rides upon the Chariot of a Cloud.  
verse 5 The Orphan's Father; Judge o'th' Widow's Cause;  
Which he regards from out his holy Place.  
verse 6 Who gives an home to th' out-cast Family,  
Leads forth the Prisoner from Captivity:   

But the Rebellious, false to his Command,  
Condemns to th' Labours of a thirsty Land.  
verse 7 O God when thou thy self didst Israel lead,  
And of our Host thou Lord of Hosts wert Head,  
verse 8 Earth trembled; and the melting heavens dropped down,  
Sinai was loosed from its Foundation.   

verse 9 When Drought had parched the Land, thou gav'st it rain,  
Renew'dst it's spent, and wearied strength again.  
verse 10 For thou, thy People's want supply'st; thy store,  
O Lord of Bounty! furni'shes the Poor.  
verse 11 Thou gav'st us Victory, and inspir'dst the Song;  
Thus chanted, by the numerous, feeble Throng.   

verse 12" Kings with their Potent Armies fled, and they  
" Who sate at home, the weak, possessed the Prey.  
verse 13" Resume your hopes! for though ye yet have lain  
" In Beds of Clay, ye shall be bright again;  
" As the fair glittering Plume o'th' Dove is bright;  
" Guilded with Beams, and the rich strokes of Light.   

verse 14" Thus were ye bright, when God did overthrew  
" Kings for your sakes, bright as is Salmon's Snow.  
verse 15" Let conquered Basan boast no more; God's Hill  
" Exalted Basan's Height does far excel.  
verse 16" Nor boast yourselves, ye other Hills! what Hill  
" Can equal that where God himself does devil?   

verse 17 Devil with the Host and all the Strength of Heaven,  
In thousand thousand winged Chariots, driven?  
I'th' midst of whom, as in his Sanctuary,  
God rests; praised with Eternal Harmony.  
verse 18 To this great Choir Thou art gone up on high;  
And with thee, Captive leadest, Captivity.   

And hast received the Donatives of Heaven,  
Which thou to men; to men, thy Foes, hast given.  
That the Rebellious Souls, thou didst redeem,  
Might devil with God; & God might devil with them.  
verse 19 O praise the Lord! whose Bounties ever flow,  
Whose Love no Current has, but to bestow.   

verse 20 He gives Salvation; He redeems our Breath:  
Frees from, or gives us Victory in Death.  
verse 21 But God shall wound his professed Enemies,  
Who wilfully persist in wickedness.  
verse 22 But I'll mine own, says God, in Triumph bring,  
As led through th' Sea; or leading Basan's King.   

verse 23 That thou thy steps may'st wash, i'th' blood o'th' slain;  
And Dogs, i'th' purple flood, their dipped tongues slain.  
verse 24 We thy accustomed Praises than shall see  
In the Processions of thy Sanctu'ry:  
verse 25 Where Voices led; closed up, by th' Instruments,  
Virgins i'th' midst, with waving Timbrels went.   

verse 26 O bless the Lord! each Israelite bear his part!  
And, loudest in the Consort, bring his Heart.  
verse 27 How great's th' appearance! There is Benjamin,  
Who with their little Tribe, their Ruler bring;  
Judah their strength, who sits upon the Throne;  
Their Counsel, Nepthali and Zabulon.   

verse 28 What e'er our Numbers be, our strength alone  
Is God; O finish what thou hast begun!  
verse 29 For thine own Temple's sake, that Kings may bring  
Their Gold; and more, themselves, a Offering.  
verse 30 Confounded those Men, who do themselves deface!  
The Bulls and Calves; the Brutes of human Race.   

Bring back the Man! Bring him again from far;  
But scatter those who do delight in War.  
verse 31 Than shall their Princes come from Aegypt's Land;  
And unto God, the Aethiop stretch his Hand.  
verse 32 O all ye Kingdoms of the Earth! sing Praise  
To him, who was,  the Beginning was:   

verse 33 Who road above the Heaven of heavens of old;  
Whose mighty Voice is in loud Thunder told.  
verse 34 Sing the Great Power of God known in his Love  
To Israel, and in the Clouds above.  
verse 35 O Lord our God Great in thy holy Place!  
Thou, with thy Power, us bless; we, Thee, with Praise!    

Psalm LXIX.  
[Salvum me fac Deus!]  

verse 1 SAve, Lord! I'm perishing; the Waves o'erflow  
My Soul, are working still, and mightier grow.  
verse 2 I stick in the deep Mire's deceitful Bed,  
Still sinking, while the Stream runs o'er my Head:  
verse 3 I'm spent and tired, with my continual cry,  
My Voice is gone, and my hoarse Throat is dry.   

Waiting for God, my longing Eyes grow dim;  
Yet still they wait; languish and dye towered him.  
verse 4 They who me falsely prosecute, exceed  
The Number of the Hairs upon my Head:  
Great, and unjust, my Right they overthrew;  
Compelled to pay them what I did not owe.   

verse 5 O God thou seest my plain simplicity;  
And my wronged Innocence is known to thee:  
verse 6 O let not those, dear Lord! who wait on thee,  
Grow faint, and be discouraged for me:  
Hid my Example! that, who seek thy Name  
Be not reproached and covered with my shame.   

verse 7 Because for thee, I'm fallen into disgrace;  
And thy dishonour's drawn upon my Face.  
verse 8 Cast out, I am my Brethren's stranger, grown  
An Alien unto my Mother's Son.  
verse 9 Zeal of thy House consumes me, they who thee  
Dishonour most, fall heaviest on me.   

verse 10 if I afflict my Soul, and fast and mourn,  
I, and those Services, am made their scorn.  
verse 11 If clad i'th' Habit of my mind, they jest,  
Deride my sackcloth, and the lowly Vest;  
verse 12 I am the Drunkard's Song, those mean Souls hate  
Who live in vain, and theirs who sit i'th' Gate.   

verse 13 Hated and scorned by all, to thee I flee  
In thine own time, th' extremes of Misery.  
O God of Love! O God of Verity!  
That Love, and that thy Truth deliver me.  
verse 14 Draw me out of the Mire; raise my fallen State;  
Sunk i'th' deep Floods, and my Foes deeper Hate.   

verse 15 Let not the Deep devour me! the deaf Wave  
Swallow me up, nor close me in the Grave.  
verse 16 Lord, hear! Lord, save! O my sole help, draw nigh!  
verse 17 I'm perishing; Lord hear me speedily!  
verse 18 Thyself my Witness art; knowst my just Cries,  
verse 19 knowst my reproach; and knowst my Enemies.   

verse 20 Reproach has broke my Heart, o'refilled with Grief;  
None pitied me; I looked, but no relief!  
verse 21 Dying for thirst, for One, last drop I called,  
They gave me Vinegar mingled with Gall:  
verse 22 Let th' Altar prove a Snare! All Good  
Turn Ill! and as their Malice, be their Food.   

verse 23 Shut from their Eyes the Day; and with their night,  
Horror devil on them and a lasting Fright:  
verse 24 Let Vengeance overtake them; let them stand  
The fury of a Just, Almighty Hand.  
From out their hated Dwellings, pluck their Race,  
verse 25 And none Succeed to the condemned Place:   

verse 26 Because whom thou casts down, they more pursue,  
Upbraid Afflictions; and thy stroke renew.  
verse 27 Let them add sin to sin; fill up the sum  
Of their Injustice, and complete their Doom.  
verse 28 Blot them out of that Book, where thou enrol'st  
The Living Names of Just and Virtuous Souls.   

verse 29 But me, poor, and oppressed with Misery,  
Raise, O my God and set me safe on High:  
verse 30 I than will Praise and loud Thanksgivings bring,  
Thy most accepted, grateful Offering.  
verse 31 For thou with Smoke and Blood, lesle pleased art,  
Than Praise, the Incense of a flaming Heart.   

verse 32 Thus let your Hearts, ye Poor! seek God and live;  
Live, as Immortal as the Praise ye give.  
verse 33 God hears the Poor; and him, who here beneath  
Has nothing but Captivity and Breath,  
When into Praise, he does that Breath convert,  
And gives it from th' free Altar of his Heart.   

verse 34 The heavens and Heavenly Powers! your Maker bless!  
Earth! Sea! and all therein, his Name confess!  
verse 35 For God will Zion save; and Judah Build,  
And to his People its Possession yield;  
To us and to our Seed, and to all them  
Who love his Name, and praise and honour him.    

Psalm LXX.  
[Deus in adjutorium.]  

verse 1 HAste, Lord! make haste my burdened Soul to free;  
Pressed down by Malice and Calamity.  
verse 2 Defeat their Counsels and their Powers confounded,  
verse 3 Who chase my Soul and its blessed quiet wound:  
Turn the Reviler back oppressed with shame,  
Whose falsehood does my Innocence defame.   

verse 4 But the Just Soul that hopes in thee alone,  
That trusts his God, and his Salvation,  
Fill with thy Joy; and dry up every Tear;  
Let it begin its Hallelujahs here:  
verse 5 But I am Poor, Poor and in Misery,  
O my Redeemer! O my God draw nigh!   

Thou art my Saviour; Thou my only stay,  
Lord help! and do not, Lord! that help delay.   
[Gloria of four Verses.]   

Psalm LXXI.  
[In te Domine speravi.]  

verse 1 O Thou in whom alone my Soul does trust,  
verse 2 Let me not perish ever! thou art Just:  
verse 3 O be thy promised Arm stretched out to save  
When lost and helpless, I thy help do crave.   

verse 4 O save me from th' inhuman Cruelties  
Of Men unmanned; th' unjust and merciless!  
verse 5 For thou hast been my early hope; and thou  
My only Refuge, from my Youth, till now.   

verse 6 Thou took'st me from the Womb, to life didst raise,  
And to this Hour sustainest; O still my Praise!  
verse 7 My Sufferings are become a Prodigy,  
Strange and unheard, yet still I trust in thee.   

verse 8 Save me, O Lord! and fill my Mouth with Praise;  
Thine Honour be the Song of all my Days.  
When strength forsakes me, do not thou forsake!  
verse 9 But mine Old Age to thy Protection take:   

verse 10 For, from the Prospect of my feeble State,  
My Foes hope more Success unto their hate.  
verse 11 Take him, say they, he cannot scape unharmed,  
Enfeebled quite, and of his God disarmed.   

verse 12 But, O my help! draw nigh and secure me!  
verse 13 And let my Foes shamed and dishonoured dye!  
verse 14 When thus my hopes shall crowned be with success,  
I shall untyred, still hope, untyred, still bless.   

verse 15 I shall each Day thy great Salvation bless;  
And bless those Mercies I can ne'er express.  
verse 16 Hope in thy strength, and in my Songs make known  
Thy Righteousness, thy Righteousness alone.   

verse 17 Thus from my Youth, I'm taught to sing thy Glory;  
And of thy Goodness my whole Life's the story.  
verse 18 My God strength of my Youth; hope of mine Age,  
Leave not my Grey Hairs now, in Life's last Stage;   

Till to the present times I have made known  
Thy Power, and to all Succession.  
verse 19 How high is thy transcendent Justice! High  
Above all Praise; who, Lord! is like to thee?   

And how immense, thy Acts of Goodness are,  
O God of Love, who may with thee compare?  
verse 20 How hast thou me into the deep cast down,  
Raised up again, sunk lower than the Ground!   

And how divided haste, 'twixt hopes and praise,  
The Showers, and the Sunshines of my Days!  
verse 21 Hast raised to honour my dejected Head!  
And hast on every side me comforted!   

verse 22 Wherhfore, for ever, Lord of Verity!  
I'll sing the Honours of thy Truth and thee;  
And on the Harp, loudly thy Praises tell,  
O thou the Holy One of Israel.   

verse 23 My Lips shall sing thy Praise; my Soul shall sing,  
verse 24 And all my Powers present the Offering.  
For thou, my Soul didst with Redemption crown;  
And trodst my Foes into Confusion.    

Psalm LXXII.  
[Deus Judicium tuum.]  

verse 1 FOuntain of Justice! Right's Eternal Spring!  
verse 2 Impress those Powers Divine upon the King:  
And on his Son! Than shall He Right dispense  
To all, and shield the Poor from Violence.  
verse 3 Mountains and Hills shall yield the Fruits of Peace;  
And Peace shall be the Fruit of Righteousness.   

verse 4 He shall the simple save, whom Fraud devours;  
And the weak friendless poor, whom Might o'repow'rs  
But the Oppressor shall in pieces break,  
And on his guilty head just Vengeance wreak.  
verse 5 With Sun and Moon, he runs a Race of Power;  
Still glorious, still increasing as their Hours.   

verse 6 He shall descend, as into Grass new mown,  
Of its own Shade bereft, the Showers drop down:  
verse 7 In his blessed Reign the Just shall be the Great;  
And Peace shall wait on his established Seat;  
Still wait, till with the course of Sun and Moon  
Time shall set too; when their spent Lights are done   

verse 8 No Bounds shall measure his Dominion  
Vast spreading, as the Seas vast Arms are thrown,  
Beneath those shady Coasts, where to our Eye  
The swelling Flood meets the descending Sky.  
verse 9 The Savage Nations shall, reclaimed, him bless;  
He them shall cultivate, and their Wilderness.   

His Enemies, such are the wild Unjust,  
〈◊〉 at his Feet, shall pining, lick the Dust.  
verse 10 The Isles shall serve thee and the utmost Sea,  
And Saba Gums and Spices bear for Thee:  
verse 11 All Nations shall present their Offerings,  
And all their joyful Tributary Kings.   

verse 12 For when his Aid the poor and helpless crave,  
He rescues them, as only Great, to save.  
verse 13 His Goodness does the poor and needy spare;  
And takes them, from themselves, to his own care:  
verse 14 Exerts his Power than 'gainst deceit and might;  
For dear their precious Blood is in his sight.   

verse 15 Live, O great King, for ever! And to Thee  
Present its Gold, now, Happy Araby.  
Successive Vows of Prayers, mixed with Praise,  
As Wreaths of Glories, circled all thy Days.  
verse 16 Dry Hills shall yield, from few seeds, vast increase;  
And Cities, flourish as the Field, with Peace.   

verse 17 Thy Name be Great to all Posterities;  
Blessed by all th' Earth, and who all th' Earth dost bless.  
verse 18 Be all the World filled with the Majesty  
Of Israel's God, from whom all Wonders be:  
And be thy Name, by all the Sons of Men,  
For ever and for ever blessed! Amen.   
Hallelujah.    

The THIRD BOOK of the PSALMS, paraphrased.  

Psalm LXXIII.  
[Quam bonus Israel.]  

verse 1 IT cannot be, but the true Israelite,  
The pure in Heart, must be his God's Delight.  
verse 2 Yet my foot slipped, and I was almost lost,  
verse 3 When I beheld the Fool and the .  
verse 4 How free's their State! How full of Happiness!  
Flowing still on in Vanity, and Peace?   

Their strength continues to Life's utmost Stage;  
And Years alone, not weakness, brings on Age.  
verse 5 From th' Common Lot of Man, condemned to Cares,  
These are exempt; as heavens Peculiars.  
verse 6 Hence, Pride invests 'em, and bold Insolence;  
Spoiling the Weak, th' are clothed with Violence.   

verse 7 With Riot filled, they, theyrswoln Eyes inflame;  
Yet their excess, can't their abundance tame.  
verse 8 Oppress the Virtuous, and th' abandoned Poor;  
Speak high; and justify their Wrongs by Power.  
verse 9 And having gone through Earth, 'gainst Heaven they fly;  
And raise their Blasphemy 'gainst the most High.   

verse 10 Wherhfore, the People, judging such Men blessed;  
And Virtue unregarded, 'cause distressed;  
Fall in unto them; who, their wants relieve;  
And from their flowing Cups, give them to live.  
verse 11 For thus they say; God knows not our Affairs;  
Nor, from above, respects mean human Cares.   

verse 12 For lo! th'  is great; th' Oppressor thrives;  
The World is made; and Mankind, for them lives;  
verse 13 How have I cleansed my Heart in vain! in vain,  
In spotless Innocence, washed out my stain!  
verse 14 Have unregarded Sufferings, long sustained!  
And each Morn languished, in unheeded Pain!   

verse 15 Are than the Impious blessed? is woe, our Lot?  
Our Patience, and Fidelity forgot?  
Shall that high Race of Souls, which mind their Birth;  
Be for their Virtue, still, condemned on Earth?  
verse 16 This cannot be; nor can that other be:  
Reason's short sight can't pierce the Mystery.   

verse 17 Into thy Sanctuary than I went,  
And my dark Veil of Ignorance was rend.  
There, I beheld their future, dreadful End;  
The Pit, to which, their fatal Glories tend.  
verse 18 How on a slippery Precipice, they stand;  
Raised thither, and thence thrown down, by thy Hand.   

verse 19 How dreadful is their fall! how sure! how soon!  
Struck, by the Lightning of thy Vengeance, down.  
verse 20 And than, as waking, a Dream's Shadow flies,  
Fancy's vain Creature, and th' dread Vision dies:  
So vanish, when Thou hurlest them from their Seat,  
The dreadful, but imaginary Great.   

verse 21 False Cares thus vexed my Soul; and with true pains  
Wrought on my Body; and went through my Reinss.  
verse 22 So foolish was I, ignorant, and dull,  
As if turned Brute; and acted by His Soul.  
verse 23 But Thou art always with me! By thy Hand  
Of Providence, I Lord! am still sustained.   

verse 24 Thy Counsel, and thy Wisdom from above,  
Guide me to Glory; and immortal Love.  
verse 25 Whom have I in the Heavens, dear Lord! but Thee?  
Or what Good, on this Earth, can satisfy?  
verse 26 All fleshly, mortal Objects, die away;  
And Hearts, that court those Objects, die as they:   

But the pure heart, fixing its Love on Thee,  
Thou strengthnest; and it loves Eternally.  
And Thou, whose love kindles th' Immortal Fire,  
Wilt satisfy the infinite desire.  
verse 27 And now, behold! such as do stray from Thee,  
And seek false Loves, shall perish utterly.   

verse 28 But I, who Thee parsue, O my sole Good!  
My only Hope! my whole Beatitude!  
Shall ever live; shall ever live with Thee;  
And praise Thee, and thy Works, Eternally.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm LXXIV.  
[ quid Deus?]  

verse 1 HAst thou, for ever, us rejected, Lord?  
O why, are thy deserted Sheep abhorred?  
verse 2 Think on thy Flock! the Price thou didst advance!  
Thy Purchased; thy dear Inheritance;  
Remember Zion, where thyself hast sat!  
Behold the Mount!— See, Lord! 'tis desolate.   

verse 3 Lift up thy Feet, and tread the Spoiler down!  
Revenge our endless Desolation!  
verse 4 The Foes Blaspheme thee in thy House of Praise;  
And, as defying thee, their Ensigns raise.  
verse 5 The softer Forms, carved by the sweetening stroke  
verse 6 O'th' Artist's tender Hand, lie rude, and broke;   

And the rough Axe, and Hammer, have beaten down  
What Art could yield, or th' Pride of Lebanon.  
For, what to th' Builder, erst, did give renown,  
They count it now, more glory to pull down.  
verse 7 Thy Sanctu'ry, the Dwelling of thy Name,  
Burnt, and Unhallowed is by other Flame:   

And th' Axe, forbidden to raise the peaceful Pile,  
Does to the Ground, both ruin't, and defile.  
verse 8 Their Malice rages, as their Flames do burn;  
And all our Synagogues to Ashes turn.  
verse 9 And, as our God had quite forsaken us, we  
Nor Sign, nor Prophet see, nor Prophecy.   

There's none can tell, how long their Cruelty  
'Gainst us shall last, and Blasphemy 'gainst thee.  
verse 10 O Lord! How long? How long this Misery?  
Shall it for ever, thus? for ever, be?  
verse 11 Where's thy Almighty Hand? thy jealous Arm?  
O pluck it forth! Guard us, and them disarm.   

verse 12 For thou canst help; thou, Lord! canst help alone;  
verse 13 Earth's Refuge; and the World's Salvation:  
O God my King of Old! who didst divide  
The Sea; and in it, brok'st the Dragon's Head;  
verse 14 Pharaoh's Proud Host, the bold Leviathan;  
Levell'dst his Pride; and shrunk'st him to a Man:   

Didst, with a Wonder armed, his Power defeat;  
And threw'st him to the Vulture for his Meat.  
verse 15 Rocks, cleft by thee, were thawed into a Flood;  
And Floods, at thy Command, as firm Rocks stood.  
verse 16 Thine, is the Day; Thy, the Repose of Night;  
And the advancing Sun, shines with thy Light.   

verse 17 Thou, hast the Borders of the Earth, defined;  
Which stated Limits it shall ne'er transcend.  
Giv'st Laws to Time, boundest its floating Tide  
'Twixt Winter's Ebb; and Summer's flowing Pride.  
verse 18 Remember, Lord! and let the Fool not more,  
Nor the Proud Foe, Blaspheme thy obvious Power.   

verse 19 Give not thy faithful Turtle's Soul, away,  
Which to thy Bosom flies, the Vultur's Prey!  
Forget not ever the unremembered Poor;  
Nor leave him in their Jaws, who thus devour!  
verse 20 Think on the Oath! All Dens, and Coverts, be  
Filled with the Darkness of their Cruelty.   

verse 21 Let not the Simple, still be shamed! but raise  
The Poor, and turn his anguished sighs to praise.  
verse 22 Rise, Lord! and thou thyself thine own Cause pled!  
The Fool, his daily Blasphemies does spread,  
verse 23 Forget him not! Nor, Lord! forget the Poor:  
For his successful Rage grows more and more.    

Psalm LXXV.  
[Confitebimur tibi Deus!]  

verse 1 THy Powerful Name, still nigh to the distressed,  
O God of Wonders, and of Love! we bless.  
verse 2 When the Great Day of Recompense shall come,  
That Mortals must receive their final Doom,  
I, than, will judge according to the Laws  
Of Right; and vindicate th' Oppressed's Cause.   

verse 3 Vain Man is weak; and the weak Earth is vain;  
But I, Earth's Pillars bear; and Man sustain.  
verse 4 I bade the Fool, be lesle so; bad the Great,  
Th' Oppressing Great, to Power Limits set;  
verse 5 Lift not your Horn on high! and do not speak,  
Hurried by wilful Power with a stiff Neck.   

verse 6 I gave you the command ye have; nor East,  
Nor West, nor South, makes potent, or distressed;  
verse 7 But I am Judge; I am, who pull down One,  
And set Another on his empty Throne.  
verse 8 For in my Hand's a cup, and the Wine's read;  
Full mixed; and through the World distributed:   

But all the Dregss thereof, and fatal Lee,  
Shall the Ungodly's deadly Potion be.  
verse 9" O Righteous God thy Name we'll magnify  
" For ever; we'll for ever sing to thee.  
verse 10 I'll break their Power who in themselves do trust;  
And crown with Joys, the patience of the Just.    

Psalm LXXVI.  
[Notus in Judaea Dominus.]  

verse 1 IN Judah, and in Israel, God is known;  
His Name's there great, and his Salvation.  
verse 2 In Peaceful Salem He hath pitched his Tent;  
And in Mount Zion God is resident.  
verse 3 There he the Battle broke; the Shield, and Spear;  
The safeties, and the furies of the War.   

verse 4 True Honour, thy Victorious Arms does crown;  
Which flies th' ambitious Robber's false Renown.  
verse 5 The Spoiler's spoiled; and the triumphant Proud,  
Rest of his Glories, sleeps within a Cloud.  
Not fruits, from his cursed Ravages abound;  
His empty, guilty Hands, have nothing found,   

verse 6 At thy rebuke, the Chariot, and the Horse,  
O God of Jacob! fall and loose their Force.  
verse 7 Who, Lord! is to be feared, but thou, alone?  
And who can stand the Power of thy Frown?  
verse 8 When thou, the heavens, didst with thy Terrors fill  
Of Judgement, the Earth trembled, and was still.   

verse 9 And when thou didst appear for the distressed,  
To save the Meek, and helpless Man, oppressed;  
verse 10 The fierceness which thou tam'dst, turned to thy Praise;  
And th' Ravages restrained, thine Honour raise.  
verse 11 To your Redeemer, ye redeemed Ones! Vow;  
Vow, and perform; and with your Presents bow.   

verse 12 Princes unbounded Spirits he'll refrain;  
And o'er the Kings of Earth with Terror Reign.   
Gloria of four Verses.   

Psalm LXXVII.  
Voce mea ad Dominum.]  

verse 1 UNto my God, aloud I cried; and He  
verse 2 Herd me i'th' day of my Calamity.  
Wasted with pains, when I found no relief;  
And Night's slow Hours, told, heavily, my grief.   

verse 3 Than I remembered God; and 'midst my Pains,  
My anguished Spirit thus to him complains.  
verse 4 Thou hold'st mine Eyes, heavy to sleep, awake;  
Whilst overwhelmed with Grief, I nothing spoke:   

verse 5 But in my anxious thought, I drew the Scene  
O'th' Day, of Old, and th' Mercies, erst had been:  
verse 6 How, in the midst of Night, my joyful Tongue  
Gave thanks to thee; and thy great Praises sung.   

And than, my Soul into itself withdrawn,  
Viewing its present state, did thus complain.  
verse 7 Will God for ever cast me of? and be  
Not more, not more inclined to pity me?   

verse 8 Is Mercy, clean, for ever gone? and shall  
the Promise of the God of Truth, now fail?  
verse 9 Has God, his tender pity quite forgot?  
His Love's Eternal Spring, and Fountain shut?   

verse 10 Vain thought! look back my Soul! and see  
The Years of the Right Hand of the most High:  
verse 11 Present Times passed again, and there behold  
His works of Love, and wonder, done of Old.   

verse 12 Fix these great Thoughts within thee; and proclaim  
His Works to All; and th' Honour of his Name.  
verse 13 Thy ways, O God though hide to our faint sight,  
Alike in Goodness, and in Power are Great.   

verse 14 By thee, O God alone, are Wonders done;  
Who hast thy strength, 'midst all the People shown.  
verse 15 Thy Israelites, Jacob's, and Joseph's Seed,  
In Bondage held, thy Powerful Arm has freed.   

verse 16 The Waters saw thee, and the frighted Flood  
Shrunk back; while th' naked Depths amazed stood.  
verse 17 Thine Arrows flew abroad; dreadful, and loud;  
And new Floods poured down from the breaking Cloud.   

verse 18 From out the breaking Cloud, shot flames of light;  
And Thunder roared; Earth trembled with the fright.  
verse 19 In the Deep Waters lies thine unknown way;  
Whose viewless Path the closed Waves ne'er betray.   

verse 20 Thy People's Shepherds, Moses, and Aron, led  
Safely thy Flock; by thee from Bondage freed.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm LXXVIII.  
[Attendite Popule.]  

verse 1 HEar, O my People! Hear, O Israel!  
verse 2 Incline your Ears unto my Parable!  
verse 3 I will unfold dark Sentences of Old;  
Which both our selves have known, and Fathers told.   

verse 4 That we the same, should to our Children tell,  
And to Succession God's great Acts reveal.  
verse 5 For to our Fathers be gave Laws; to be  
verse 6 Observed by them and their Posterity.   

verse 7 That, taught his Mercies, and his Judgements, they  
Might always hope in him and him obey:  
verse 8 And not be like their Fathers; who, forsook  
His Laws, and their own froward Counsels took.   

verse 9 Like Ephraim's, Children, soon discomfited,  
Who 'gainst the Battle armed themselves, and fled.  
verse 10 They soon forgot the Laws he gave; and soon  
verse 11 Forget the Wonders his great Power had done.   

verse 12 The mighty Wonders which their Fathers saw;  
Wonders, which did the Proud Egyptian awe.  
verse 13 'Twixt the divided Sea he made a way;  
Whilst firm, as their own Banks, the steep Waves lay.   

verse 14 By Day a Cloud conducted them; by Night  
From out a flaming Pillar issued Light.  
verse 15 Full streams gushed forth, from out the Rocks he clavae,  
verse 16 Which, to their thirst, supplies like Rivers gave.   

verse 17 Yet still they sinned; and by a new desire  
verse 18 Tempt him again; their Lust does Meat require.  
verse 19 He cloven the Rocks (said they) and Streams did flow;  
verse 20 But can he here prepare a Table too?   

Can He, within this barren Wilderness,  
With Bread, and Flesh, his wandering People bless?  
verse 21 God heard this, and was Wroth; and his just Frown,  
Wrapped in consuming Flames, sent Vengeance down.   

verse 22 Because they, faithless, his great Conduct feared;  
verse 23 Though new Salvations every Day appeared:  
verse 24 For he had Manna reigned; and from the Cloud  
verse 25 Another Plenty dropped, even Angel's Food.   

And unto Man, Rebellious Man, had given  
verse 26 To eat, who eat and loathed, the Food of Heaven.  
verse 27 And now, he gives Command to th' Winds, and they  
verse 28 Do the desired Flesh, to th' Host convey.   

Clouds, fraught with Quails, a choice Provision bring;  
verse 29 Which flew to th' Camp, not born on their own Wing.  
verse 30 So they did eat, and were well filled; for he  
verse 31 Gave what their murmuring Lust did satisfy.   

But 'midst their wanton Food Vengeance drew nigh;  
And overtook the cursed Satiety.  
He slew the choicest of them; and his just  
Incensed Wrath revenged the prosperous Lust.   

verse 32 Yet still the Remnant sinned; and though, before  
Their Eyes, Judgement marched on, sinned the same sins o'er.  
verse 33 Wherhfore their Years did he condemn to pain;  
And they, Life's Treasure wasting, lived in vain.   

verse 34 When Death devoured them, they seemed, than, t' inquire  
verse 35 For God; who still was God, during, their fear.  
verse 36 But th' Hypocrites belied their Hearts; for they  
verse 37 Were not upright, and steadfast in his way.   

verse 38 Yet he, still Merciful, still inclined to save,  
Full of Compassion, still, their sins forgave:  
Checked his fierce Anger; made his Vengeance stay;  
And through his Wrath, for Mercy, forced a way.   

verse 39 For he well knew frail Flesh was as a blast;  
A Wind that ne'er returns, when once 'tis past.  
verse 40 How often i'th' Wilderness did they rebel?  
verse 41 Requiring such and such a Miracle?   

verse 42 They soon forgot his Works; that glorious Hand  
Whose Wonders did Deliverance command.  
verse 43 The powerful Signs 'mongst the Egyptians shown;  
And th' dreadful Miracles to Zoan known.   

verse 44 How he had turned their Waters into Blood;  
So that they could not drink th' infected Flood.  
verse 45 Had sent against them, the most Powerless  
Of all his Creatures, Armies of Frogs and Lice.   

verse 46 Their Labours, to themselves, no Fruit did yield;  
Commanded Locusts ravaged the Field.  
verse 47 Beaten down by Hailstones, their rich Grapes were lost;  
And all their other Fruits destroyed by th' Frost.   

verse 48 Storms of great Hailstones on their  flew;  
And fiery Thunderbolts the Remnant slew.  
verse 49 His fiercest Anger was against them sent;  
Their anguished Souls were their own Punishment.   

Horror, and Conscious Gild, and black Despair,  
verse 50 To those, he sent, their own Ill Angels were.  
verse 51 Than Death was loosed; 'gainst the Firstborn, empowered;  
All whom, the swift Plague, in one Night devoured.   

verse 52 But for his own, He other measures took;  
And led them in the Desert, like a Flock.  
verse 53 Led them through Seas, when the stupendious Wave  
To their Foes Death; to them, safe passage gave.   

verse 54 Brought them to th' Border of his Sanctuary;  
The Purchase of the Arm of the Most High.  
verse 55 Cast out the Heathen; and assigned by Lot  
To Israel's Tribes, the Conquests he had got.   

verse 56 Yet still they tempted him; still went astray;  
Taking their own, they soon forgot his way.  
verse 57 False, like their Fathers, they forsake their Guide;  
Like a deceitful Bow, starting aside.   

verse 58 For, the Desertors, carved God's adored,  
Dull Gods of Wood; forsook the Living Lord.  
verse 59 Who therefore loathing them, from Shiloh went;  
verse 60 The place where God, with Men, had pitched his Tent.   

verse 61 His captived Ark, gave to the Enemy;  
verse 62 And them to Death, and to Captivity.  
verse 63 Their Young Men Fire consumed; their Priests the Sword;  
verse 64 No Marriages were made; nor Deaths deplored.   

verse 65 Than God, as Men refreshed by sleep, arose;  
Or strong ones filled with Wine; and on his Foes  
verse 66 Revenged his captived Glory; whom he smote  
With Plagues, which pame, and which dishonour brought.   

verse 67 The Ark returned, He Joseph's Tribe refused  
To be its Seat; nor Ephraim did choose;  
verse 68 But choose the Tribe of Judah; and the Hill  
Zion, where he, alone, delights to devil.   

verse 69 And there he, built his Sanctu'ry on High;  
Fixed, like the Earth's firm Roots, perpetually.  
verse 70 Than, from the Fold, his Servant David took;  
verse 71 To be the Shepherd of his own Great Flock.   

verse 72 Who, faithfully, the happy People fed;  
And, with a prudent Conduct, safely led.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm LXXIX.  
[Deus, venerunt Gentes.]  

verse 1 O God into thine own Inheritance  
The Heathen are broke in; who do advance  
Their Ensigns on thy sacred Mount; defile  
Thy Temple, and the place where thou dost devil.  
verse 2 Jerusalem's a Heap. The Slaughtered they  
Cast out to be th' wild Beasts arid Vultur's Prey.   

verse 3 Their Blood, like Water, round about is shed;  
And none are left to see them Buried.  
verse 4 Our Neighbours, now, express their utmost Hate,  
All scorn, reproach, and wound the Unfortunate.  
verse 5 How long? O Lord! Lord! wilt thou ever, thus  
Forsake? thus, ever, wilt thou punish us?   

verse 6 O turn! and pour thine Indignation  
Upon the Heathen, where thy Name's unknown.  
verse 7 Who thee Blaspheme; devour thy Israel;  
And who lay waste the place where thou dost devil.  
verse 8 O Lord! Remember not our former sin!  
verse 9 Forget, how most Rebllious we have been!   

Call back thy Mercies! call them speedily;  
For we are fallen to th' lowest Misery:  
God of Salvation, help! Help, for thy Name!  
Thy Glory is reproached in our shame.  
verse 10 Why should the Heathen say, Where is their God?  
Revenge thy Glory, and thy Servents Blood!   

verse 11 O hear the Captives sighs! their trembling Breath!  
And save those helpless Souls, are chained for Death.  
verse 12 To those, who durst reproach thine honoured Name,  
Give back a manifold return of shame.  
verse 13 So we thy Flock, shall to thee praises sand;  
All, shall continued them; but none, shall End.    

Psalm LXXX.  
[Qui regis Israel, intend!]  

verse 1 GReat Shepherd of thy People Israel,  
Who 'midst the winged Cherubin dost devil;  
Regard! and from the Glories of thy Throne,  
Upon thy Flock, thy Beams of Light shower down.   

verse 2 Led thou our Armies! Before Benjamin  
Advance! Manassehs Tribe, and Ephraim.  
verse 3 Turn us, O God dispel our heavy Night!  
Salvation waits on thy Victorious Light.   

verse 4 How long, O Lord! wilt thou displeased appear  
With those, who lowly offer up th' Address of Prayer?  
verse 5 Tears are our Drink; and we with Tears are fed;  
Which thou hast plenteously measured.   

verse 6 To those about us weare become a Snare;  
Whilst they contest, how they may Israel share.  
verse 7 Turn us, O Lord! dispel our heavy Night!  
Salvation waits on thy Victorious Light.   

verse 8 Thou, out of Egypt, didst transplant a Vine;  
Didst root the Heathen out, and set that, in;  
verse 9 It, over all the Land, did prosperous grow;  
Dropped on the under shrubs, and kept them low.   

verse 10 Rose 'bove the Hills, and blessed them with its shade,  
Which vast was, as is that by Cedars made;  
verse 11 Threw its fair Arms, down to the River's side;  
Whence to the Sea, th' extended Branches spread   

verse 12 Why hast thou all its Fences rooted out?  
So that whoe're pass by, pluck of her Fruit?  
verse 13 Why is it given a spoil, to the wild Boar,  
And other Beasts o'th' Forest, to devour?   

verse 14 Return, O God of Hosts! Visit the Vine!  
And the exposed Vineyard, which is thine:  
verse 15 And that selected Branch, chose out among  
The rest, which, for thyself, thou mad'st so strong.   

verse 16 It undergoes a numerous Fate; cut down;  
And burnt with Fire; and blasted with thy Frown.  
verse 17 Support the Man of thy Right Hand! Arise,  
Great God Raise him, confounded his Enemies.   

verse 18 So, O our strength! we'll not go back from thee;  
Help us, that we thy Name may glorify.  
verse 19 Turn us, O Lord! dispel our heavy Night!  
Salvation waits on thy Victorious Light.    

Psalm LXXXI.  
[Exultate Deo adjutori!]  

verse 1 TO God, our strength, let us our Voices raise  
verse 2 In Psalms, on all the Instruments of Praise!  
verse 3 In the appointed Feast, when the New Moon  
Varies her Light, be the loud Trumpets blown.   

verse 4 For Israel, of Old, commanded was  
To keep this Statute, and this Law of Praise.  
verse 5 When the tired Captive was from Egypt led,  
From their strange Tongue, and from their thraldom freed.   

verse 6 'Twas I (says God) broke the Egyptian Chain;  
Loosed him; and gave him to Himself again.  
Threw down the Burdens on his Shoulders lay;  
And his spent Arms released, from moulding Clay.   

verse 7 Hand thy afflicted Cry, and answered thee  
By Thunder, that my Powerful Aid was nigh.  
Tried thee at Massah, when thou murmur'dst there,  
Sated thy Thirst, and did even Murmurs hear.   

verse 8 Than gave thee Laws; hear, Israel! Bow thy Knee  
verse 9 Unto no Other God; no God but Me.  
verse 10 'Twas I, from Pharaoh's Power rescued thee;  
And who, alone, can all thy Wants supply.   

verse 11 But Israel would none of Me; forsook  
verse 12 His God; and his Own wand'ring Counsels, took.  
verse 13 O had my People Me obeyed, how soon  
verse 14 Had I, beneath them, trod their Enemies, down!   

verse 15 My Foes had soon submitted; but their Day  
No Night had closed; nor shall, who me obey.  
verse 16 With finest Flower of Wheat, I had them filled;  
And flowing Honey, from the Rock distilled.    

Psalm LXXXII.  
[Deus stetit in Synagoga.]  

verse 1 GOD in th' Assembly of the Princes, stands;  
Judge of those Earthly Gods, and their Commad.  
verse 2 How dare ye in his sight, wrong Judgement give?  
The great , or guilty Friend receive?   

verse 3 You are entrusted with the Fatherless,  
verse 4 Who want a Bribe; and whom no favours bless;  
Yours are the Poor, who flying to the Laws,  
Bring nothing, but a barren Righteous Cause.   

Th' Oppressed, and the Outcasts are your care;  
Who, what th' Oppressor left, beg you would spare.  
verse 5 But you'll not hear; you will not understand;  
Your Souls are Slaves, and at your Lust's Command;   

You walk in Darkness, in despite of Light;  
Move the Foundations, and the Bounds of Right.  
verse 6 I've said you're Gods, the Sons of the Most High;  
And such are those Great Souls who Earth defy.   

verse 7 But ye Unrighteous Souls! yourselves degrade:  
Dye Men, than! Dye, what ye yourselves have made.  
verse 8 Judge of the Earth, arise! sand Justice down  
From Heaven, on th' injured World, which is thine own.    

Psalm LXXXIII.  
[Deus quis similis.]  

verse 1 RIse, Lord! thine Enemies beaten thick Alarms,  
verse 2 And round about us join consed'rate Arms  
verse 3 To root us out; that we be but a Name;  
verse 4 And live but in a long dishonoured Fame.  
verse 5 Incestuous Moab, and the Ismaelites,  
verse 6 Join with the Hagarens, and Edomites.  
verse 7 Gebal, and the Amalekites conspire  
With Ammon, th' Philistines, and them of Tyre.   

verse 8 The Powerful Assyrians too, combine,  
And join in League with Lot's detested Line.  
verse 9 But, as thy Vengeance Midian overtook,  
Jabin, and Sisera, at Kison's Brook,  
verse 10 Whose Slaughtered Carcases at Endor, fling  
To Birds, and Beasts of Prey, became as Dung;  
verse 11 So perish these: And may their Rulers all  
Like Zeb, and Oreb, and Zalmunna, fall.   

verse 12 Who said, God's Houses, all the Land throughout,  
Our selves will enter, and the God cast out.  
verse 13 Tender their giddy Counsels like a Wheel;  
Let them, like Chaff, by Whirlwinds hurried, reel.  
verse 14 As raging Flames consume a growing Wood,  
Born down, as by a swift impetuous Flood,  
Whence their bright Waves o'er the steep Mountains born,  
All their fair crowns of Trees, to Ashes turn:   

verse 15 So blast them with the Tempest of thy Frown;  
And with thy dreadful Vengeance, hurl them down.  
verse 16 Confusion cover them, and lasting Shame,  
verse 17 That, perishing, they may confess thy Name.  
verse 18 That thou, O our Jehovah! mayst be known  
To be the Highest, to be God alone.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm LXXXIV.  
[Quam dilecta.]  

verse 1 HOw highly ravishing, Great God of War!  
Where thou hast chose thy Seat, thy dwellings are?  
verse 2 My longing Soul faints for thy Courts, and thee;  
Naught else, the thirst of Souls, can satisfy.  
verse 3 The Sparrow, Lord! may nigh thine Altars rest;  
And Swallow, undisturbed, build her Nest.   

verse 4 But happy they, who in thy House of Praise,  
honouring thy Name, number their joyful Days.  
verse 5 And happy they, who do thy Laws fulfil,  
And in thy strength approach thy Holy Hill.  
Who think on nothing more, than on those ways  
Which to thy Temple lead, and House of Praise.   

verse 6 Wither, though they through thirsty Deserts go,  
Yet, for their use, commanded Springs do flow;  
O r filled with Floods, descending from the Sky,  
The swelling Pools do all their wants supply.  
verse 7 These happy Troops, i'th' Stated Feasts o'th' Year,  
Before their God in Zion do appear.   

verse 8 Lord! hear; and grant my Heart's unfeigned Address  
verse 9 And with thy Presence thine Anointed bless.  
verse 10 For in thy House one day is better far  
Than in another place, a thousand are;  
I would despise the Courts, and glorious State  
O'th' Wicked, for the Threshold of thy Gate.   

verse 11 For what's more glorious than the Soul that's thine?  
Who Grace bestowest, and Glories All-Divine?  
Who dost to those who do uprightly live,  
O Sun! O Shield! O God all good things give.  
verse 12 O Lord of Hosts! how surely blessed is he  
Who quits all other strength, and trusts in thee.    

Psalm LXXXV.  
[Benedixisti Domine.]  

verse 1 LOrd! Thou hast owned thy People; set them free;  
And broke the Chain of their Captivity.  
verse 2 Turned back thy Wrath, and all the Plagues it sent;  
verse 3 Released our sins, and their due Punishment.   

verse 4 Turn us now, Lord! as thou thy Wrath didst turn;  
That neither we may sin, nor thy Wrath burn.  
Check our renewing Evils; and oppose  
The still-advancing Powers of our Foes.   

verse 5 Will't thou for ever, Lord! displeased be?  
Extend thy Wrath to all Posterity?  
verse 6 Shall Mercy be no more? Not more revive  
Our Souls, which only, joying in thee, live?   

verse 7 God of Salvation, save! and manifest  
Thy Mercies, which alone can make us blessed.  
verse 8 Speak Lord! for thou'lt speak Peace to those who mourn  
Their Sins; if they not more to folly turn.   

verse 9 Salvation keeps those who keep God's Command;  
And brightest Glories overspread their Land.  
verse 10 Mercy there joins with Truth; and Righteousness  
Meeting with blessed Peace, each other kiss.   

verse 11 Truth shall from th' Earth, a new increase be given;  
And banished Righteousness look down from Heaven.  
verse 12 Yea, God will such with all his good things bless;  
verse 13 And th' Earth shall pour forth her full Increase.   

The Just shall reap, what Heaven and Earth can yield;  
Graces of Heaven, and Bounties of the Field.  
Thus God appears for those who him obey;  
Whom Justice goes before, and signs his Way.    

Psalm LXXXVI.  
[Inclina Domine.]  

verse 1 BOw down thine Ear, O Lord! and hear my Cry;  
For I am Poor; Poor, and in Misery.  
verse 2 Preserve my Soul; for I thy Laws obey;  
verse 3 Do trust in thee, and serve thee Day by Day.   

verse 4 Hear, Lord! and my afflicted Soul relieve;  
verse 5 For thou art Good, and ready to forgive.  
verse 6 Give ear, O Lord! for thou wilt hear my Cry,  
verse 7 Poured forth i'th' Day of my Calamity.   

verse 8 Among the Gods, O Lord! like thee is none;  
And who can do the Works that thou hast done?  
verse 9 Man is thy Work, and his dissenting Race,  
Those scattered Limbs shall join, and thus thee Praise.   

verse 10 " Thou, Lord, art Great! Thou art our God alone!  
" By Wonders, by Man's self, the Noblest, known;  
verse 12" Show us thy Truth! and our seduced Heart,  
verse 12 " From thee betrayed, unto thee convert!   

" Our Souls shall than for ever Praise thy Name;  
" Enlightened by their first Original Flame;  
verse 13" And bless that Mighty Love, which, when they fell  
" From thee, redeem'dst them from the lowest Hell.   

verse 14 O God the Mighty Ones against me rise;  
Forces and Counsels join, and thee despise:  
verse 15 God of all pity! O long-Suffering God  
Fountain of Truth! Mercy's unwasted Flood;   

verse 16 Behold the threatened Storm! and from thy Throne  
Thy Forces, thy resistless Aids, sand down.  
Own thy weak Servant! and by some blessed Sign,  
Tell my amazed Foes, that I am thine.    

Psalm LXXXVII.  
[Fundamenta ejus.]  

verse 1 UPon the sacred Mount the Building's raised;  
verse 2 Zion there stands, and the loved House of Praise.  
'Bove Jacob's other Dwellings loved; for God  
Has made thee glorious, with his own abode.   

verse 4 Talk not of Rahab, or of Babylon,  
To those to whom the greater Sion's known!  
Let no Man boast, he's born a Tyrian,  
A Philistin, or Aethiopian.   

verse 5 For God a firmer Honour gives to them  
verse 6 Who are the Natives of Jerusalem:  
For when he lists the World, it shall be told  
From thence, are Men; from hence, are Saints enroled.   

verse 7 And in that honoured Cense, all who Praise him,  
Are Sons of Zion, and Jerusalem.  
Who, those blessed Springs, which his abundant Grace  
Sheds on their Souls, return again in Praise.    

Psalm LXXXVIII.  
[Domine Deus.]  

verse 1 GOd of Salvation, hear! for unto thee,  
verse 2 All Day and Night, wasted with Cares, I cry.  
verse 3 My Soul is full of Anguish; and my Life  
Hastes to an early Grave, pierced through with Grief.   

verse 4 I seem like one who is already dead;  
Sorrow has slain me,  my Days are fled.  
verse 5 I'm like the Slaughtered, whom the Sword sets free,  
Released from Life, to th' Grave's dark Liberty.   

And like to them, I unremembered lie;  
Shut from the Light; and, Lord! forgot by thee.  
verse 6 Into the lowest Pit I am sunk down;  
Down into th' Deep, and th' Land of Darkness thrown.   

verse 7 And yet thy heavy Wrath renews the Load;  
As Waves urge Waves, and reinforce the Flood.  
verse 8 No Eye does pity me; I'm left alone;  
My Friends are fled; for Misery has None.   

Chained to my Woes, I, as in Bendage, lie,  
Grief's Captive; and there's None to ransom me.  
verse 9 To Thee, O Refuge of my Soul! I turn,  
Stretch out my Hands all day, and all day mourn.   

verse 10 Lord! wilt Thou show thy Wonders 'mongst the Dead?  
Shall the closed Lip praise Thee? and th' Breath that's fled?  
verse 11 Shall the dark Sepulchre thy Goodness tell?  
Thy Truth be shown, there, where Life's Ruins devil?   

verse 12 In Night's deep Cell, thy buried Wonders known?  
Thy Justice, honoured in Oblivion?  
verse 13 O let the Living praise Thee! O let Me  
Who,  the Dawn appears, wake up to Thee.   

verse 14 Why, Lord! dost Thou my anguished Soul reject?  
And not One Mercy, not One Beam reflect?  
verse 15 In Sorrows spent, 've numbered o'er my years,  
verse 16 And for the Hours 've lived, counted my Fears.   

My God I die; thy Terrors me surround;  
Thine Anger, and the Fury of thy Frown.  
verse 17 Like Waves they swell; farther, and higher, roll;  
And the vast Deluge overwhelms my Soul.   

verse 18 Those few, are yet my Friends, thou dost remove;  
And banish from my sight their useless Love.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm LXXXIX.  
[Misericordias Domini.]  

verse 1 GReat God of Truth and Love! thy Name I'll praise  
Ever; and leave my Song to after Days.  
verse 2 Beyond the Bounds of Time thy Mercy's known;  
And thy Truth's fixed, as stable as thy Throne.   

verse 3 To David I have sworn, raised by my Hand,  
verse 4 Thy Kingdom shall, beyond Time's ruin, stand.  
verse 5 The Heavenly Host thy Wonders, Lord! confess;  
And all thy Saints sing loud, thy Faithfulness.   

verse 6 Who, mighty Lord! with Thee, compared may be?  
Nor Earth can yield, nor Heaven, a God like Thee.  
verse 7 In their Assemblies, Thee, thy Saints revere;  
And all the Great on Earth, with Terror, fear.   

verse 8 Who's strong like Thee? Thee Truth surrounds, with bright,  
But softer Glories, than thy Robes of Light.  
verse 9 Thou check'st the ragings of the angry Deep;  
And in a Calm all its bold Terrors sleep.   

verse 10 Egypt, in vain, withstood thy Powerful Hand;  
Thou didst destroy proud Pharaoh, and his Land.  
verse 11 The heavens are thine; thine is the Earth; and thine  
Nature's vast Wealth, and inexhausted Mine.   

verse 12 All Coasts thou mad'st, praise Thee; and to rejoice  
In Thee, Tabor and Hermon found a Voice.  
verse 13 Great, above power; and high, is the Command  
Of thy Victorious, thine Almighty Hand.   

verse 14 Justice, before thy Throne; and Judgement, wait;  
Mercy and Truth, Heavens' Ministers of State.  
verse 15 O blessed They! who, on th' appointed Days,  
Summoned, attend Thee in thy Feasts of Praise.   

They in thy Light shall walk; whose glorious Beam  
Shed round them, shall direct and cover them.  
verse 16 Blessing thy Name, they pass their happy days;  
And honouring thee, learn the Delights of Praise.   

verse 17 When they the Glories sing o'th' Power Divine,  
verse 18 They boast their Own; theirs is wrapped up in thine.  
Thy Justice them exalts; that strength is theirs,  
And that high favour which for them appears.   

They're safe in thy Defence; and than they sing  
They People's Bliss, when they sing Thee their King.  
verse 19 Thou, to thy Prophet, hast in Vision said.  
To One that's Mighty, I more Help did add.   

verse 20 My Servant David I have chose, and shed  
My sacred Oil, on his Anointed Head;  
verse 21 My powerful Arm shall be his strong Defence,  
verse 22 And guard him from the Sons of Violence.   

verse 23 Before him I'll destroy his Enemies;  
And strike with Plagues, those who against him rise.  
verse 24 But with Himself, my Truth and Love shall stand  
For ever; and exalt his high Command.   

verse 25 His Sceptre from Euphrates shall extend,  
Till in the Western Sea his Regions end.  
verse 26 He shall, Me, Father call; Me, God alone;  
And Me, the Rock, of his Salvation.   

verse 27 And I, Him, Heir will make; the sirst in Birth;  
And First, 'bove all the Princes of the Earth:  
verse 28 My Mercies ne'er shall leave him; but as sure,  
And steadfast, as my Covenant endure.   

verse 29 To his immortal Race, there shall be given  
verse 30 The termless Measure of the Days of Heaven.  
verse 31 But, if they break my Laws, I'II them recall  
verse 32 With Stripes; will punish, but relieve the Fall.   

verse 33 For, my sworn Mercies, and transcendent Love,  
Exceeding, far, their Crimes, I'll ne'er remove.  
verse 34 For, though They break their part o'th' Covenant,  
My Mercy shall confirm the forfeit Grant.   

verse 35 The Holy One of Israel shall not lie;  
Nor th' Oath he swore to David, falsify.  
verse 36 Thy Seed for ever shall endure; thy Throne  
verse 37 Moore glorious, more lasting, than the Sun.   

And shall, beyond heavens second Light, the Mon,  
A Circle of unvaried Glories, run.  
These conscious Lights attest my steadfast Truth;  
Are Witnesses of Me, and of my Oath.   

verse 38 But thine Anointed, now, thou hast forsaken;  
verse 39 As if thou didst thy Covenant revoke;  
Not more regardest his dishonoured Crown,  
But hast strucked of, and cast it to the Ground.   

verse 40 Thou hast his Strengths and his Defences broke;  
And his firm Powers to confusion shook;  
verse 41 Now He's the Spoil and Scorn of All; to All  
Exposed, since Thou art pleased with his Fall.   

verse 42 He boasts no more, his Enemy's overthrow,  
verse 43 Thy David is the Triumph of his Foe.  
verse 44 How are his Glories fallen! and how, their Light  
Not wan and fading, but extinguished quite!   

verse 45 How are his youthful days, not fully ran,  
Cut of! and measured by a shorter Span!  
verse 46 When, for thy Servant, Lord! wilt thou appear?  
When quench the wrath of thy consuming Fire?   

verse 47 Remember, Lord! how swift, Life's Shadow hastes;  
Man's days are lost, whose Hours Affliction wastes.  
verse 48 The longest, freest life, must end; and Death  
Stops our unsimshed Labours with our Breath.   

verse 49 O where, O God where is thy former Love?  
To David sworn, and registered Above?  
verse 50 O think on the Reproaches I endure,  
Cast in my Breast, exposed to th' Men of power.   

verse 51 But stay not there; for what by them is thrown  
'Gainst thine Annointed's Honour, wounds thine Own:  
verse 52 Whose hallowed Name, has, from all Ages, been,  
And be it ever blessed! Amen! Amen!   
Hallelujah.    

Part of the FOURTH BOOK of the PSALMS, paraphrased.  

Psalm XC.  
[Domine Refugium factus es.]  

verse 1 O Thou the Rock of Ages! thy high Seat  
Has to us ever been a safe Retreat.  
verse 2 Before the horrid Night was chased away,  
And severed from the Censines of the Day;  
 Being was; or Motion received Laws;  
But the World slept, in Thee th' Almighty Cause,  
Thou wert: And when their measured Race is run,  
Thou shalt endure beyond Succession.   

verse 3 From out the Dust, thou hast called Wretched Man;  
Than call'st him back, and he is Dust again.  
verse 4 Shouldst thou extend his Span, what would it be,  
Compared, O God to thy Eternity?  
Forth ' Ages of a thousand Years, thy sight  
Beholds, but as the past Hours of One Night.  
verse 5 Upon Times floating Stream, our Years are born;  
verse 6 The River runs not back; nor th' Years return.   

Our Days seem as a sleep; when we awake  
Dying; and on the Dream of life, look back.  
weare like the Flower, which in the Morn was Gay;  
But cropped i'th' Evening, pale, and withered lay.  
verse 7 Our Sins provoke thine Indignation,  
And on our wretched Life, more Plagues call down.  
verse 8 We waste our Years in Vanity, and Care,  
Whilst our dark Crimes exposed to Justice are.   

verse 9 By Trouble, Sorrow, Need, Sickness, is drawn  
The Scene of Life; and Fable of the Man.  
verse 10 Our Life is Seventy Years; if we attain  
Eighty, those feeble Ones, are Years of Pain;  
So soon, or so unuseful our Days run;  
They swiftly haste; and e'er we live, th' are gone.  
verse 11 Yet thy fierce Wrath, though equal to our fear,  
Who minds, till Death's Eternal Hour draws near?   

verse 12 Teach us Time's value; that the Years we have,  
We may redeem; and rescue from the Grave.  
And may learn Wisdom, whilst we draw that Breath  
Which, as a glorious Prize, we gain from Death.  
verse 13 Return, O Lord! and be incensed not more!  
Remit our Sins! and th' Judgements we deplore.  
verse 14 Give us an early Mercy, that yet we,  
Our few remaining Years, may joy in thee.   

verse 15 Make a return of Bliss for those Years spent  
In Woe; and worn out by thy Punishment.  
verse 16 Be these thy Works of Favour, and of Grace,  
Shown unto us, and our Succeeding Race.  
verse 17 O Lord of Glories! with thy Conduct, bless  
Us, and our Works; and crown them with Success.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XCI.  
[Qui habitat!]  

verse 1 WHo the Almighty his Defence has made,  
May rest secure under the Powerful Shade;  
verse 2 'Tis God alone, whose strength can secure me,  
All my dependence, Lord! and hope's in thee.   

verse 3 He shall thee free from the dissembled Snare  
O'th' Guileful, and from the Pest's killing Air.  
verse 4 The safety of his Wing shall cover thee,  
And his sure Promises, thy Refuge be.   

verse 5 Night's Terrors, nor the Arrows shot by Day,  
Shall the sure Peace of thy firm Soul betray;  
verse 6 Nor the dark Pest, which, as in Ambush, kills;  
Nor bolder War, which Day with Slaughter fills.   

verse 7 Thousands on this, Thousands on that Hand dye;  
But the vain Fury shall not come to thee.  
verse 8 But, while thyself in safety art, shalt see  
The just Revenges on Impiety.   

verse 9 O happy thou! who, 'cause thou dost rely  
On God, and fix thy Thoughts on the most High;  
verse 10 Therefore no Plague Shall ever daret' infested  
Thy Dwelling, nor disturb thy happy Rest.   

verse 11 He shall command his Angels to descend  
For thee; the Blessed shall on the Blessed attend.  
verse 12 This unseen Guard, shall in their Arms thee bear  
O'er Dangers, that thy stumbling Foot not err.   

verse 13 Thou shalt the Lion tame, crush th' Adder's Head;  
And on the harmless Poison, safely tread.  
verse 14 Because (says God) his Love on me was set,  
Rescued from Perils, I will make him Great.   

verse 15 He shall his Prayer make, and I will hear;  
And will in Mercy answer his desire:  
In Troubles I'll be with him; set him free;  
And make his Sufferings, his Honour be.   

verse 16 When satisfied with Life, his Years are done,  
I than will show him my Salvation.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XCII.  
[Bonum est confiteri.]  

verse 1 HOw Good, how Pleasant, are the Acts of Praise,  
When we to Heaven our Souls and Voices raise!  
verse 2 Before, the Stars, i'th' Morn, loose their pale Light;  
And when their sparkling Fires relieve the Night;  
verse 3 By all the modes, the trembling Air is shaken,  
When sounds, sounds meeting, are in murmurs broke.   

Upon the Lute and Ten stringed Instrument,  
Joined with the full, and solemn Harps, consent.  
verse 4 Lord! in thy Works does my glad Soul rejoice;  
And, as in Triumphs raised, lift up its Voice.  
verse 5 What Wonders every where, thy Works present!  
How full of Order! full of Ornament!   

How deep thy Counsels! and how dark to Sense,  
Are thy mysterious Ways of Providence!  
verse 6 Ways which the Fool will never comprehend;  
Nor learn his own, and th' Just Man's, different End.  
verse 7 Not learn that Sinners, as Grass fully grown,  
Fatally sprung, only to be cut down.   

verse 8 Eternal Lord! Eternally most High!  
verse 9 See, how thine Enemies fall, and scattered lie!  
verse 10 But me, thou dost exalt; and on my Head  
Thy freshest Oil, and softest Balm hast shed.  
verse 11 While, as in triumph, I my Foes behold  
Punished by thee; and unto Vengeance sold.   

verse 12 The Just, like th' Palm, continual verdures crown;  
Or Cedars on the Head of Lebanon.  
verse 13 In thy blessed Courts, planted, they take deep root;  
And, as by Age renewed, than bear more Fruit.  
verse 14 That all may know, that God loves Righteousness;  
Will Sinners punish; and the Just Man bless.    

Psalm XCIII.  
[Dominus regnat.]  

verse 1 Clothed with Glory, God reigns King alone;  
And armed with Power; for what he wills is done.  
He has fixed Nature's Laws; by his Command  
All things were made; by that Command they stand.   

verse 2 Thy Throne, of Old; when th' World was nothing, stood;  
Thou, from and to Eternity, art God,  
verse 3 The Floods, O Lord! the Floods o'th' mighty rise;  
Their o'regrown Waves the lower Banks despise.   

verse 4 O Mightier, Lord! when thy Frown checks their Pride,  
All their swollen Waves in a low Calm subside.  
verse 5 In vain than they against thy Servants rise,  
Whom thy Truth guards, and thy sure Promises:   

Whom, with the Beauties of thine House, thou'lt bless,  
And the true Decencies of Holiness.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XCIV.  
[Deus Vltionum.]  

verse 1 JUdge of the World! who from thy Powerful Throne  
Beholdest what ever on the Earth is done;  
verse 2 Regard the Proud! and on his guilty Head  
Pour down the Vengeance he has merited.  
verse 3 How long shall He successful mischiefs boast?  
verse 4 In whose pursuit the Peace o'th' world is lost.   

verse 5 He rends in pieces the afflicted Poor,  
And does thy weak, unguarded Flock devour.  
verse 6 Adds Grief to those, already in distress;  
Slays the Widow, Stranger, and the Fatherless:  
verse 7 Forgets the Recompense of the most High;  
For God (says he) does not our Actions see.   

verse 8 Dull thoughtless Fool! When wilt thou learn? Shall he  
verse 9 Who made the Ear, not hear? the Eye, not see?  
verse 10 Shall He, who by his Judgements does reclaim  
verse 11 The Heathen; and teach them to fear his Name;  
Not punish thee? He knows thy thoughts, weak Man!  
Knows thy short reasonings, and those Thoughts are vain.   

verse 12 But blessed is he, who thus thy Fear is taught,  
And by thy Chastisement, to knowledge brought.  
verse 13 For he will Patience learn; and will attend  
The Sinner's fall, and his condemned End.  
verse 14 Knowing that God is Just; and will not leave  
Th' Oppresled, nor th' Oppressor will forgive.   

verse 15 But to his Judgements, Justice shall give Laws;  
And by those Laws, th' Upright shall guide their ways.  
verse 16 In vain from other Powers we aid expect;  
verse 17 God does alone Revenge; alone, Protect.  
verse 18 He saved me; and when my Foot had slipped,  
Sustained by him, I my firm Station kept.   

verse 19 And, 'midst the anxious thoughts perplex'd-my Mind,  
On him reflecting, Joy and Comfort found.  
verse 20 For I considered, Just God does not own  
The  Counsels of the impious Throne:  
Whose black Consults favour th' unrighteous Cause;  
Rules for Injustice frame; oppress by Laws;   

verse 21 Pursue the Just; and in his Blood consent,  
Condemning by a Law, the Innocent.  
verse 22 Wherhfore, by the Just God; my sure defence;  
Who saves me from the Sons of Violence;  
verse 23 Shall all their formal mischiefs be o'erthrown;  
Turned on themselves, and they themselves cut down    

Psalm XCV.  
[Venite exultemus.]  

verse 1 O Come, and let us Sing unto the Lord!  
And with our Voices, let our Heart's accord.  
verse 2 Let us before him, our Thanksgivings bring,  
And Psalms, and Praises, in his Presence Sing.   

verse 3 For God is Great; above all Gods, is Great;  
King, o'er all other Gods, and Powers, set.  
verse 4 The lowest Depths of th' Earth, are in his Hand;  
And by his Strength the threatening Mountains stand.   

verse 5 He made the Sea, and does that Sea command;  
Withdrew its Waves, and raised up the dry Land.  
verse 6 O come than! and fall down! and kneel before  
The Lord our Maker! and his Name adore!   

verse 7 For he's the Lord our God; and we the Sheep  
verse 8 Which his Hand leads, and his own Pastures keep.  
O hear our Shepherd's Voice! Bring Hearts prepar'ad  
Not such as in the Desert: Proud and hard:   

verse 9 Where your Rebellious Fathers tempted me;  
And did those works, of which they doubted, see.  
verse 10 That Generation grieved me Forty Years;  
Their Heart (said I) knows not my way, but errs.   

verse 11 Wherhfore I swore, into my Land of Rest  
They should not come; nor be with Canaan blessed.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XCVI.  
[Cantate Domino. i]  

SIng a new Song to God: Let all conspire  
In his great Praise, and make the World one Quire.  
Give him continual Honour! Let each Day  
His known Salvation to the next convey.   

Sing loud! that Mankind may at distance hear;  
And all the World, their and our God revere.  
Sing, God is Great! and greatly to be Praised;  
His Glory far 'bove other Gods is raised.   

He made the heavens; made that Idolater,  
Who made his God; the stupid Heathen's fear.  
Before him, Honour bows; him Majesty  
Surrounds; Beauty adorns his Sanctu'ry.   

To him, O all ye Sons of mortal Men  
Ascribe all Glory! and all Power resign.  
verse 8 Enter his glorious Courts with Praise; and bring  
verse 9 The great, the acceptable Offering.   

Bring Holiness; Soul's undefiled, and clean;  
Graces of Heaven; and Beauties all-Divine;  
Than Worship; Offering that pure Sacrifice;  
Such as becomes his House of Holiness.   

verse 10 Instruct the Heathen; tell them God does reign;  
That he made th' world; and does his work maintain  
And tell them, he is Judge of all; that he  
Will come, and judge the grieved Earth Righteously   

verse 11 Be glad, O Earth than! and ye heavens rejoice!  
Thou, Sea and all thy Wonders, join your Voice  
verse 12 God comes! let all his joyful works attend  
The mighty Presence; for our God descends.   

Clothed with new Verdure's let the Fields be glad  
And the fair Trees with fresher crowns be clad;  
verse 13 God comes! he, to relieve th' Oppressed, does come;  
Bring Justice back; and give the World its Doom.    

Psalm XCVII.  
[Dominus regnavit.]  

verse 1 GOd reigns! let the glad Earth lift up its Voice  
And all the losser Worlds, the Isles rejoice.  
verse 2 A Night of Clouds round his bright Throne is spread  
His Throne by Truth, and Right established.   

verse 3 Consuming Fires, and Flames before him run;  
verse 4 Destroy his Foes, and melt the Mountains down.  
verse 5 The heavens above declare his Righteousness;  
verse 6 And all the World does its Great God confess.   

verse 7 Ye, who make Gods, theft Worship that fond Power,  
Confounded be! God, All ye Gods adore!  
verse 8 Zion, O mighty Lord! thy Judgements heard,  
verse 9 Which Judah's Daughters in their Songs declared.   

They Sung thy Judgements on those Gods sent down;  
Exalting thee, in their Confusion.  
verse 10 O ye, who love the Lord, love what he loves!  
He hates all III, and Good alone approves.   

The Soul that walks in its Integrity,  
God keeps; and rescues from his Enemy.  
verse 11 Immortal Joys and Glories wait th' Upright!  
Prepared for them in the Fields of Light.   

verse 12 Rejoice ye Just Ones! let your happy Days  
Be spent in the memorial of his Praise.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm XCVIII.  
[Cantate Domino.]  

verse 1 TO new Thanksgivings, let new Mercies move;  
That we may sing the Wonders of Gods Love.  
For he Himself, lent his immediate Hand!  
And God for us, our Victory has gained.  
verse 2 His Righteousness to all the Heathen's known;  
The Conquests of his great Salvation.  
verse 3 His Truth of Old, engaged to Israel,  
Israel redeemed, and all the World can tell.   

verse 4 Tell than, Redeemed World! his Praises tell,  
Who saved his Gentiles, and his Israel.  
verse 5 Bring the inspired Hymn! Give it a Voice!  
With all the Powers of Harmony rejoice.   

verse 6 Bring the loud Cornet, Trumpet, or the Flute;  
verse 7 With the soft purl of the mellow Lute.  
verse 8 Through Nature, at th' approaching of its King  
As from one Soul diffused, One Joy shall spring.   

The Earth and Sea rejoice; the Floods, and Hills,  
A kindly slowing Warmth of Gladness fills.  
verse 9 For God is come to judge the World; and he  
Shall judge with Justice, and with Equity.    

Psalm XCIX.  
[Dominus regnavit irascantur, etc.]  

verse 1 GOd reigns! His Throne guarded by th' Cherubin;  
Tremble, O Earth! approach and Worship him  
verse 2 The Lord, in Zion, where he has fixed his Seat,  
And over all the Powers of Earth is Great.   

verse 3 Is Great in Holiness; in Judgement Great;  
verse 4 And indispensing Equity, and Right.  
verse 5 Fall how before him! and exalt alone  
His Holiness, who is the Holy One.   

verse 6 To Moses, Anon and to Samuel,  
Calling on him, he aid his Will reveal.  
verse 7 To them, from out the Cloudy Pillar, spoke;  
Who, nor the Laws he gave, nor Statutes, brake;   

verse 8 Yea, when they fell he heard; and them forgave;  
Their sin did punish, but th' Offenders save:  
verse 9 O fall before him; and exalt alone  
His Holiness, who is the Holy One.    

Psalm C.  
[Jubilate Deo]  

verse 1 O All the Regions of the Earth,  
Bless God who gave the World its Birth.  
verse 2 Your Souls to him, and Voices raise!  
Learn, and express the Joys of Praise!   

verse 3 God made, and peopled all the Lands;  
Man's not the Work of his own Hands.  
And what he made, he feeds and keeps;  
Th' Almighty Shepherd never seeps.   

verse 4 O than, with Joy, make your address  
I' th' Temple of his Holiness!  
With grateful Hearts aloud proclaim  
The Honours of his Honoured Narne.   

verse 5 For God is Good; is Good alone;  
All Ages have his Mercies known;  
His Truth beyond them shall endure  
Steadfast, and, as his Mercy, sure.    

Psalm CI.  
Misericordiam & Judicium.  

verse 1 MY Song, of Mercy, shall, and Judgement, be;  
Which showered on Us, our Praise returns to Thee  
verse 2 Wnen, in my soul, shall these Perfections shine?  
That what Thine Empire Crowns, may establish Mine.   

verse 3 I will design no wicked Act; from Me  
I'll rend the faithless guiles of Policy.  
verse 4 All crooked, vexed, convenient Truths, I hate;  
Just Truth, shall Our great Reason be of State.   

verse 5 I'll crush the flattering Slanderer, who reveals  
Whispering, fair Lies; as hiding what he tells.  
I will not brook the Proud, who does disdain  
True Worth, and values in himself what's vain.   

verse 6 But will, th' upright alone, and guiless Soul,  
Splendid in virtues, in my Court enrol:  
And who, most glorious, in that Court would shine,  
Must, first be Vertue's Servant, and than Mine.   

verse 7 The glozing Sycophant shall not there remain;  
Nor, who with Lies, his spotted Soul does slain.  
verse 8 All Sinners, I'll root out; cursed, and abhorred,  
None Such must devil i'th' Zion of Our Lord.    

Psalm CII.  
Domine exaudi.  

verses 12 REgard my pressing Griefs, my mournful Cry  
My Godland with thy present help draw nigh.  
verse 3 For, like a Smoke, my wasting Life expires;  
Breathed of, by lingering Grief's continual fires.   

verse 4 Like Grass scorched, up my Heart is withered;  
And I, o'er filled with Grief, mind not my Bread.  
verse 5 I am so spent, so wasted with my Moans,  
That only skin covers my steshless Bones.   

verse 6 So moans the Pelican i'th' Wilderness;  
So moans alone i'th' shades, but She moans lesle:  
So moans alone, the Bird that shuns the Light,  
Ith' Desert of the unfrequented Night.   

verse 7 So moans the Sparrow; so She sits alone,  
Fixed to her solitary, watchful Moan:  
And so, my sleepless Eyes, Griefs hold awake;  
Break my loan Rests, and Slumbers overtake.   

verse 8 Mine Enemies insult o'er my fallen State,  
And 'gainst me joined, Swear their confederate Hate.  
verse 9 Ashes have been my Bread, and 've drank up  
My Tears, which flowing swelled the mournful Cup.   

verse 10 Because of thy fierce Indignation,  
Which raised Me that it more, might cast Me down.  
verse 11 Like Shadows, my declining Days do pass;  
Languish, like dying Flowers, or withring Grass.   

verse 12 But thy Day ever was, ever will be;  
Nor Morn, nor Evening bound Eternity.  
verse 13 Rise Lord, and thy destroyed Zion build;  
Let Mercy rise, now Judgements are fulfilled.   

verse 14 For we behold her Dust with tender eyes;  
Love the Remains; and th' Sacred Ruins Prize.  
verse 15 Than, shall the Kings of th' Earth thy Power own;  
All Kings, of All the Earth, set up thy Throne.   

verse 16 When God, rebuilding Zion, shall advance  
His Glory in its famed Deliverance.  
verse 17 When to the Prayer of the Destitute  
He bends his Ear, and grants their lowly suit.   

verse 18 This shall be wrote for Them of After-days,  
That what One Age has witnessed, All may Praise.  
verse 19 God from above, from out his Holy Place,  
Looked down on the distressed of Human Race:   

verse 20 To hear th' appealing Captives sentenced breath;  
And free him from Captivity and Death,  
verse 21 That He may turn his Breath of Sighs, to Praise;  
And in th' Assembly, thy just Honours raise.   

verse 22 And unto All the world, thy praise may tell,  
That All the world may become Israel.  
verse 23 He weakened me whilst I my Race did run;  
And Life grew weary ere its course was done.   

verse 24 Than cried I to my God; Immortal power!  
Give not to Death, my short, untimely hour:  
Thy years do an eternal circle run;  
A boundless space, unfinished, unbegun.   

verse 25 Thou laidst th' unknown Foundations of the Earth,  
When Time, (now Old) and Being, first had Birth:  
From the same Power, Heavn's immense Fabric came,  
And all the Glories of the stupendious Frame:   

verse 26 They're bright, but dying Glories; for all these  
Must fade; and th' Ages of their Circuits, cease:  
And changed by Thee, appear in Other Sc 〈…〉;  
New Heavns; New ranged Orbs; New-unknown Beams.   

verse 27 But Thou, All changing, art Unchanged Alone;  
O Thou Eternal! ever, ever, One.  
verse 28 The Children of thy Servants, firm shall stand;  
Established by thine Almighty Hand.    

Psalm CIII.  
Benedic Anima mea.  

verses 12 O Thou my Soul summon up all thy Powers!  
Praise Him, who every Blessing on thee showers.  
verse 3 Who, all thy sin, all thine offence forgives;  
And all thy frail Infirmities relieves.  
verse 4 Who saves thy Life; turns back Destruction;  
And thee, with mercy does, and goodness crown.  
verse 5 Who fills thy soul with Good; Life's wastes repairs;  
Sets back thine Age, renewed like Eagles' years.   

verse 6 Who, the Oppressor,, and th' Oppressed sees;  
Judges th' Oppressor, and th' Oppressed frees.  
verse 7 He showed his ways to Israel; who did prove  
His Miracles of Judgement, and of Love.  
verse 8 He stops his Anger; is, to Vengeance slow;  
But Mercies and Compassions ever flow.  
verse 9 His Anger lasts not; but he bounded hath  
The swift contracted Moment's of his wrath.   

verse 10 Limits his Judgements, which unequal be  
To our full Measures of Iniquity,  
verse 11 For, like the space from Earth, to Heaven above,  
So great, to those who fear him, is his Love.  
verse 12 He, further hath removed our fins away  
Than are the East, and Western bounds of Day.  
verse 13 His Chastisements, are like a Fathers, mild;  
Who does correct, but not destroy the Child.   

verse 14 For God knows our weak frame; how he i'th' Clay,  
Kindled the flame of Life, the Lamp of Day:  
verse 15 How, like the Grass, or Flower the tender Clay  
Grew up, grew fair awhile, grew fresh, and gay;  
verse 16 And like that Flower, and like that Grass, how soon  
Blasted, the fading Flower of life is gone.  
verse 17 But an Eternal state of unchanged Bliss  
The Righteous God continues unto His.   

verse 18 To His, who fear him; keep his Covenant,  
Faithful to the Conditions of his Grant.  
verse 19 Thy Throne, O God prepared is on high;  
And over All the Earth's thy Monarchy.   

verse 20 Ye glorious Ministers of Light, who stand  
Round his bright Throne, and wait the great Command,  
Blessed Angels! who in Power and Strength excel,  
And ready are to execute his will,   

verses 21-22 Praise Him! and praise Him, all ye heavenly Hosts  
Who Him obey! Praise Him, through all the Coasts  
Of Being, All his Works! My Soul! Praise Him;  
Join in th' high Praise, for thou art One of them.    

Psalm CIV.  
Benedic Anima mea.  

verse 1 RIse O my Soul! and Thou My God it raise,  
That I, by Thee inspired, may sing Thy praise.  
O Thou Eternal! O alone most high!  
With Honour circled, and with Majesty;  
verse 2 Who dwellest in the immense recess of Light  
Vested with Glories, which forbidden our sight!   

Who spread'st out Heaven, the Curtain of thy Tent;  
Guilding with glittering Orbs the Firmament;  
verse 3 The firm Foundation of whose Pillars sleep  
In the unfathomed Bosom of the Deep:  
Thy Chariot are the Clouds, sustained by  
The stormy Winds, upon whose wings they fly.   

verse 4 Spirits thine Angels are; who minister  
To Thee; and thy bright Agents, slaming fire.  
verse 5 Thou hast the Earth firmly established  
On Nothing; on the soft Air's floating Bed:  
verse 6 It's Face at first was Sea; which flowing round  
Covered the uninhabitable ground.   

verse 7 Which, by thy vayce of Thunder checked, retired  
Sunk down to th' Deep, and the Dry land appeared.  
verse 8 Like Mountains, now their Billows swell, and than  
Subside, and the fallen Waves a Vale again.  
verse 9 In vain they swell, and roar; they know their bound,  
And must not more invade th' usurped ground.   

verse 10 Down from the Hills, the breaking Fountains flow,  
Which gliding on, through the rich Valleys go:  
verse 11 These a Relief to thirsty Creatures yield,  
To all the Beasts o'th' Forest, and o'th' Field.  
verse 12 The neighbouring Birds i'th' Branches lodged, sing high  
Natures rich bounties, Food, and Liberty.   

verse 13 The thirsty Hills He waters from above,  
No place on Earth's abandoned by thy Love.  
verses 14-15 The Clouds into the Bosom of the Earth  
The Seeds of Plenty drop; from whence their birth  
The tender Grass, and powerful Herb derive;  
Which, all thy Creatures, Beasts, and Men relieve.   

Men, taught t' improve thy Gifts; 〈◊〉 from the Vine,  
The Corn, and Olive, gather Bread, and Wine,  
And Oil: Thou giv'st Man strength, and dost allow  
For Joys, for the glad Heart, and cheerful Brow,  
verse 16 No Tree is sapless; bounteous Lebanon  
Sweats Balms, and Gums, and yields virtues unknown.   

verses 17-18 There, the Birds nest; and to their safe heights flies  
‛ The Stork; the Goat from a bold Precipice  
Looks down on danger, timorous Creatures devil  
In Rocks; safe, in the Refuge of a Cell.  
verse 19 Her certain Seasons the uncertain Moon  
Does know; and the Sun knows his going down.   

verse 20 Thou makest Darkness that it may be Night;  
When Beasts of Prey do rouse, who eat the Light.  
verse 21 The Lions roaring, seek their meat of God,  
And ravage in the Night the silent wood.  
verse 22 When Day appears the Herd disbands, and than  
Each severing, betakes him to his Den.   

verse 23 The day man's labour measures; he i'th' morn  
Goes forth to work, and does at night return.  
verse 24 Almighty Power and Wisdom! how immense  
Are th' undefin'd extents of Providence!  
Diffused through All, and over All the Earth,  
All have Relief from Thee, as All had Birth.   

verse 25 Seas share thy gifts; Thousands i'th' fertile deep  
Of Creatures, small and great, or swim, or creep.  
verse 26 By Ships Lands severed mutual blessings hold;  
Ophir has Balsam, and Judea Gold.  
There moves Leviathan, and his numerous train,  
And all the sporting Monsters of the Main.   

verse 27 All these, O Father! wait thy hand, and Thou  
In thine Own time dost apt supplies allow.  
verse 28 What thou dost give they joyfully receive;  
And thine extended hand does All relieve.  
verse 29 If thou dost hid thy face, they drooping lie;  
And if thou tak'st away their breath, they die.   

verse 30 If thou sand forth thy Spirit they revive;  
Dust wakes, the dying, or the dead shall live.  
verse 31 Live ever! who dost live Eternally;  
O Great! O Good! O termless Majesty!  
Who in thyself dost ever blessed abide;  
Pleased in thy works, and by them magnified.   

verse 32 Earth trembles at thy Presence; the high Hills  
Touching he melts; and Day with horror fills.  
verse 33 Soul! while thou liv'st praise God; dying expire  
In praise, and mount to the immortal Quire.  
verse 34 What Heaven have I, when thus I joy in Thee!  
Can think, but cannot speak the Ecstasy.   

Let sinners perish! be their hated root  
Ne'er to be planted, from the earth torn out.  
verse 35 Rise O my Soul! and Thou my God it raise,  
That I, by Thee inspired, may sing thy praise.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CV.  
Confitemini Domino.  

verse 1 O Bless the Lord, and call upon his Name,  
And his great deeds to all the world Proclaim  
verse 2 Speak Him! Praise Him! O be our God alone,  
And His great works, the Subject of our Song.  
verses 3-4 Seek God Rejoice in God what soul can miss  
Of Joy, who makes his God his Happiness?   

Seek than, O seek his strength! his saving Power;  
His favour seek; seek his face evermore.  
verses 5-6 Think O ye sons of Jacob! think upon  
His righteous Laws, his great salvation.  
verse 7 He is our God; the world's great God; His fear  
And his great judgements are known every where.   

verses 8-9 His Covenants unto Abraham made, stand fast,  
And firm to thousand thousand ages last,  
verses 10-11 Made firm by Law; when to his Seed, of old  
He gave our Land, and Canaan foretold:  
verse 12 Whilst they were yet but few, few and unknown;  
Seized but of a believed Possession.   

verses 13-14 Whom, through unknown Lands wand'ring, he sustained  
People's wild Rage, Princes wild Lusts restrained.  
verse 15 Sacred to Me, Touch not th' Anointed Head!  
My Prophets to myself are severed.  
He called a Famine; but before he had sent  
Joseph, unjustly doomed to punishment.   

Held doubly Captive; for the bitter Chain  
Piereed his grieved soul, unmeriting the pain.  
verse 19 Until thy word approved him to be thine,  
Who thy repeated Vision could divine.  
Freed by the King, he managed All alone,  
And Pharaoh only sat upon the Throne.   

He taught his Senate wisdom; to fulfil  
Unknown before, the Precepts of his william.  
verse 23 Israel, invited, than, to Egypt came;  
And Jacob was a sojourner in Ham.  
verse 24 Where, He, to Egypt's jealousy, increased,  
By thine Almighty, fruitful promise, blessed.   

verse 25 Joseph was than forgot; his Merits were  
All sacrificed to faithless, jealous Fear.  
verses 26-27 Moses and Aaron than were sent; who gave  
Proofs of thy power to destroy, and save.  
verse 28 He spoke.— Night rose, and his black Mantle spread;  
Darkness rebelled not, though th' Egyptians did.   

verses 29-30 Nilus ran Blood, and slew their Fish; the Field  
Covered with Frogs, Pharaoh's own Palace filled.  
verse 31 Swarms of loathed Infects he upon them flings,  
All armed with different envenomed Stings:  
verses 32-33 Hailstones for Showers fell down; and Flames for Rain;  
Their blasted Vines and Figtrees bore in vain.   

verses 34-35 What scaped the Flames, the Locusts did devour;  
The withering Grass, and half-scorcht, dying Flower,  
verse 36 Pharaoh still hardened, the Almighty word  
In all the first born sheathed th' Avenging Sword.  
Th' Egyptians terrified, urged them to be gone;  
Rich with ●hose spoils, the ransomed Host 〈◊〉 on;   

All vigorous; covered with shade, and light,  
Th' alternate Wing spread o'er them day and night.  
verses 40-41 The Clouds reigned Quails; and the Clouds Manna gave;  
And Rivers gushed out from the Rocks he clavae.  
verse 42 For he his sacred Oath had not forgot,  
To Abraham made, and those of him begot.   

verses 43-44 Therefore, from Bondage he set Israel free;  
Set free even 'bove the Joys of Liberty:  
For he gave them, what Others Toils did yield,  
Their Sweat; and th' Plenties of the laboured Field.  
verse 35 Thus, God hath blessed thee, O Israel!  
Keep thou his Laws, and he will bless thee still.    

Psalm CVI  
Confitemini Domino.  

verse 1 O Bless our God because our God is Good;  
Because his Mercies have no Period.  
verse 2 But who can speak enough his Acts? How great!  
How good! when they in All are infinite.  
verse 3 Happy the Just who still work Righteousness;  
Offering pure Souls, cleansed and prepared for Bliss.  
verses 4-5 With those thy Favours which extended be  
To thy belov'd Ones, Lord! remember Me.  
O visit me with thy Salvation  
That I may see Israel's Redemption!  
That Both joined, They with Me, and I with Them  
May joy one Joy in thy Jerusalem.  
verse 6 Such as our Fathers were, Such, Lord! are We;  
A Race of Sinners, their true Progeny.  
verse 7 When freed from th' Bondage Egypt held them in,  
Th' ungrateful Multitude even than did sin:   

Sinned on the Bounds of Egypt; whilst they stood  
By the next wonder, the miraculous Flood.  
verse 8 Yet than he helped them, that he might make known  
His Power in their full Redemption.  
He spoke— The Sea risen high on either side,  
And oped the deep valley of its Bed:  
The Host descended the dread way, which gave  
Them, Safety; but th' Egyptians a Grave   

verse 12 Than they believed again, and Than, sung high  
His Glory in the Red-Sea's victory.  
verses 13-14 But soon forge at his works; and to fulfil  
Their Lust, called for another Miracle.  
verse 15 He gave't, but with it, gave a deadly Gust,  
And took their Lives the price of their dear Lust.  
verse 16 'Gainst Moses, than, and Aaron murmured,  
Envying those Guides by whom their God them led.   

verse 17 Earth cleft; and having Nathan swallowed down,  
Covered Abirams Congregation.  
verse 18 Than swift destruction on the Remnant came,  
Rapt by the Torrent of an angry flame.  
verses 19-20 At Horeb, they out sinned Themselves; for there  
The ransomed Israelite turned Idolater.  
Worshipped an Image; th' Image of a Beast;  
A God, in Hay, and plenteous Fodder blest.   

verse 21 Forgot, renounced, the true, the living God,  
The God who saved Them from th' Egyptian Rod.  
verse 22 Forgot, what th' Red-Sea's Coast, what Egypt tells,  
Egypt, the dreadful Scene of Miracles.  
verse 23 And now The had been destroyed; But Moses stood  
Twixt them and vengeance, and turned back the Flood.  
verses 24-25 Than, they contemned the Land, the Promised Land;  
Murmured, and harkened not to God's Command.   

verses 26-27 Wherhfore he swore, that Race should ne'er possess  
His Canaan, but fall in th' Wilderness.  
verse 28 Than, they served Baal; and eat the Sacrifice  
Offered to th' Dead, served whom, and how they pleased.  
This called a Plague; but from it they were freed  
By Phineas' still celebrated Deed.  
verses 32-33 Than sinned at Meribah; where Moses spoke  
Unfitly, and was punished for their sake.   

verse 34 They broke the Covenants upon which he gave  
Canaan to them, and did the Heathen save.  
Mingled with them; and by their customs led,  
Deserted God, and to the Devil fled:  
Learned their abominabel Rites; and threw  
Their Babes to Devils, whom i'th' fire they slew.  
Accursed Gods! Accursed Sacrifice!  
To whom, th' unpitied, flaming Infant dies.   

Thus, by their own Inventions led away,  
From their first God, their first love, went astray.  
And leaving Him, his Israel were not more,  
But Canaan was the Canaan 'twas before,  
God loathed them than; left them i'th' Enemy's power,  
To whose Religion they were slaves before.  
He often delivered them, they as often did sin,  
Snares of their own Opinions held them in:   

These bound them Captive; yet when they did cry  
He heard, and strait his Covenant was nigh;  
And God repent. O the unknown Love!  
The placable, the facile wraths above!  
verse 46 He tenderly beheld them; swag'd their woes;  
Slackened their Chain by th' Pity of their Foes  
verse 47 Save us Dear Lord! gather thy Remnant in;  
That thy Redeemed may their Redemption sing.   

verse 48 Blessed ever, O for ever blessed be  
The God of Israel to Eternity!  
Let Israel, and all the world, join in  
An endless, universal praise! Amen.   
Hallelujah.    

The FIFTH BOOK of the PSALMS, paraphrased.  

PSALM CVII.  
Confitemini Domino.  

verse 1 O Bless our gracious God for ever bless!  
His Mercy's endless, shall his Praise be lesle?  
verse 2 O let the Lord's Redeemed the Lord bless!  
Whom he hath saved from their Enemies.  
verse 3 The scattered Remnant he hath gathered;  
Which round the Coasts of all the Earth were spread.   

verse 4 The wand'ring Exiles, lost i'th' Wilderness,  
No City found; All vast and harbourless.  
verse 5 Consumed with Hunger, and consumed with Thirst,  
Fainted; their way unknown as at the first.  
verses 6-7 No Refuge now, but God; to him they cry  
In this their last, dying Necessity.   

He heard; And to a Place inhabited,  
By a near way, the famished Party led.  
verse 8 O Man! O that thou wouldst Proclaim aloud  
The Mercies, and the Goodness of thy God  
O that his wonders more Thou wouldst confess!  
And that thou more couldst know him, more couldst bless,   

verse 9 He satisfies the longing soul with good;  
Gives it the Plenty of Convenient Food.  
verse 10 Such as sat nigh the deep, th' eternal shade  
Which hover over them death's black wing had made,  
Who i'th' low Cavern of the Dungeon lie,  
Fettered with chains; fettered with misery.   

verse 11 Because against their God they did rebel,  
And slighted the greai counsel of his Will;  
verse 12 Their stubborn heart he broke with heaviness,  
And made them see there was no help but his.  
verse 13 Wherhfore to God, till now despised, they cried;  
He heard; who never th' returning Heart denied.   

verse 14 He broke their Chain; and from their Dungeon they  
Were freed into the Liberties of Day.  
verse 15 O Man! O that thou wouldst proclaim aloud  
The Mercies and the goodness of thy God  
O that his wonders more thou wouldst confess!  
And that thou more couldst know him, more couldst bless   

verse 16 For he hath broke the Gates of Brass; and He  
Struck of the Fetters of Captivity.  
verse 17 They whom their sins and follies had cast down,  
And on the Bed of Languishing had thrown,  
verse 18 Now dying, for their sick tastes loathed all food,  
And could not the expense of Life make good:   

verses 19-20 Cast up their eyes to him; beg a Reprieve;  
He sent his Word, bade them rise up and Live.  
verse 21 O Man! O that thou wouldst proclaim aloud  
The mercies and the goodness of thy God  
O that his wonders more thou wouldst confess!  
And that thou more couldst know him, more couldst bless   

verse 22 Let's joyfully present Our Offering,  
For Incense, Praise; for Blood, Thanksgivingsbring.  
verses 23-24 They who descend into the deep, behold  
A Scene of wonders dreadful to be told.  
verse 25 He speaks— The stormy Winds inc 〈…〉 the Flood,  
Whose waves, swollen high, menace the stooping Cloud.   

verses 26-27 They mount the dreadful Precipice, and than  
By a steep, horrid Gulf, are swallowed again.  
They faint, the giddy Ship like a Drunkard reels,  
Art now despairs, the Ship no Rudder feels.  
verses 28-29 The sacred Anchor they cast forth, they pray;  
He hears, he checks the storms, and th' winds obey.   

verse 30 Than on the gentler Bosom of the Main  
Smoothly they glide, swiftly their Port attain.  
verse 31 O man! O that thou wouldst proclaim aloud  
The mercies and the goodness of thy God  
O that his wonders more thou wouldst confess!  
And that thou more couldst know him, more couldst bless.   

verse 32 That they would in the Congregation,  
His Name exalt, and his great Facts make known.  
verse 33 Who varyes the prove state of Mortal Things,  
Makes thirsty Deserts where before were Springs;  
verse 34 Curses the fruitful soils sinners devil in,  
And blast the fairest Paradise for sin.   

verse 35 Makes fertile the parched Deserts withered scene,  
Fills it with Pools; leads streaming Rivers in.  
verse 36 There plants the hungry soul; blessed in their Fields,  
And blessed by th' Arts their peopled City yields.  
verse 37 They Vineyards plant; labour the fertile Land;  
And wait th' Increase from the great Donor's hand.   

verse 38 He them and theirs doth multiplying bless;  
And suffers not their Cattles to decrease.  
verse 39 Yet when for sin they were again brought down,  
To Plagues, to Vengeance, and th' Oppressor thrown,  
verse 40 When they returned to him with hearts prepared,  
The higher than the highest did regard.   

Threw scorn upon the Great; shamed his success;  
And turned the Ravager to th' wilderness;  
verse 41 Raised up the fallen down; set him on a Rock  
'Bove dangers, and encrcaied him like a Flock.  
verse 42 Behold ye just! and praise; learn praises from  
What ye behold; but let th' unjust be dumb.   

verse 43 Who so these things revolves in his deep mind  
Is wise; and shall th' Almighty's goodness found.   
Gloria of four Verses.   

Psalm CVIII.  
Paratum est Cor meum.  

verses 12 MY hearts prepared, O God Thou dost inspire  
My soul; It kindles and returns the fire.  
Wake Glory! wake my soul! ere rising day  
Chases Night's falling languid fires away.   

verse 3 Sing his loud Praise among the Nations!  
Extend it wide as his Dominions.  
verse 4 Extend it 'bove the Clouds! 'bove th' Heavens extend!  
Mercy and Truth reach thither where's no end.   

verse 5 Exalt thyself 'bove th' Heavens O thou most High!  
And through allth ' earth diffuse thy Majesty.  
verse 6 That thy Beloved, who thy help do crave  
May be delivered; O hear and save!   

verse 7 And thou wilt save; will't the torn Remnant bless;  
For thou hast sworn, sworn in thy Holiness,  
I will, in triumph, Sichem's Land divide,  
And give to mine Succoth's rich valleys pride.   

verse 8 Mine is Manasses, mine fair ahab's Fields;  
Ephraim's my guard; Judah my Sceptre wields,  
verse 8 Moab shall serve; Edom I down will tread;  
And the bold Philistines in triumph lead.   

verse 10 Who into Edom's Forts secures my way?  
And its proud Towers shall in Ruins lay?  
verse 11 Who Lord! but thou? who thine Inheritance  
Deferring, ruind'st; returning shalt advance.   

verse 12 O turn to thy distressed one's again!  
Be Thou our help, for All Man's help is vain.  
verse 13 Trod down by thee, our enemies shall flee,  
And we shall rise; Great God we follow thee.    

Psalm CIX.  
Deus laudem.  

verses 12 GOD of my praise! appear in my defence,  
And vindicate aspersed Innocence.  
For the dissembling, false, malicious tongue  
Blasts my cleanefame, conspiringin my wrong.   

verses 3-4 I gave no cause; they make this false return  
For th' Good I did; whilst I in prayer mourn.  
verse 5 For th' Good Idid they now my En'myes prove,  
Convicted of no Crime to them, but Love   

verse 6 An impious Person be they Governor,  
And Satan be his only Counsellor.  
verse 7 When he is sentenced, let him be condemned,  
And his appealing prayer be contemned.   

verse 8 Ith' mid'sl of Life cut of his shortened days,  
And to his Function another raise.  
verses 9-10 His Widow and his Orphans beg their Bread,  
From their own wasted dwellings cursed and fled:   

verse 11 Give him a prey to the Extortioner!  
And to a Stranger his rapt spoils transfer.  
verses 12-13 Let no eye pity Him, or His; but All  
His Race in the next Age extinguished, fall.   

verses 14-15 His Parents Crimes be ever New; till he  
And his loathed Memory together dye.  
verse 16 Because he shut up his Compassion,  
Oppressed the Poor, th' exposed, the helpless one.   

Trod down again th' Afflicted; and yet more  
The grieved Heart broke that was broke before.  
verse 17 Cursing was his delight; let it return;  
And the devouring pest his own heart burn.   

He hated Blessing; Blessing shall be far  
And fly the soul that Cursing loves, and war.  
verses 18-19 Curses embrace him! flow into his breast  
Like Oil! be girded to him as his Vest.   

verse 20 Let it be thus unto mine Enemies  
Who my wronged Innocence defame with Lies.  
verses 21-22 But, for thine honour, let me ever prove  
Thy mercies, and the goodness of thy Love.   

For I am poor and helpless; Mercy extend!  
And suage the anguish of my wounded mind!  
verse 23 As shadows hast, hasts my declining day;  
Chased, as storms chase the Grasshopper away.   

verses 24-25 Fasts have impaired my strength; all that go by  
Shaking their heads, revile my misery.  
verses 26-27 Help Lord! so help, that they convinced may see  
All my deliverance was wrought by Thee.   

verses 28-29 Bless Thou! that they, confounded, may confess  
They him in vain do curse, whom Thou dost bles●  
Let that confusion cover them! whilst I  
Rejoice, and my Redeemer magnify.   

Whilst, before All, thy Goodness I adore;  
Who, from unrighteous Judges, sav'st the poor.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CX.  
Dixit Deminus.  

verses 12 TH' Eternal Lord said to my Lord, sit thou  
At my Right hand, till thy fallen enemies bow,  
Subdued, beneath thy feet: Thy Sceptre shall  
From Zion sent, rule high, rule over All.   

verse 3 Hearts shall be than the willing Sacrifice;  
Hearts, robed i'th' beauties of true Holiness.  
The humid dews o'th' Morn are as thy Birth,  
In thousand thousand Gems shed o'er the Earth.   

verse 4 Thou art, God swore, who cannot his Oath break,  
A Priest for ever as Melchisedeck.  
verses 5-6 The Lord in thy great day, at thy Right hand  
Shall strike through Kings, and give Thee their Command,   

He shall the Nations judge; and th' Regions fill  
With Carcases of those who do rebel.  
verse 7 Shall be, by sufferance, to Honour led;  
Drink o'th' low Brook, and than advance his Head    

Psalm CXI.  
Confitebor Tibi.  

verse 1 I will in every place thy Name confess,  
Ith' Great Assembly praise thee, and i'th' lesle.  
verse 2 Gods works are Great; the pleasure of all Those  
Who found them Out; Or rap't with wonder, lose.   

verse 3 All full of Glory; full of Honour, All;  
And his firm Righteousness Perpetual.  
verse 4 No Day can blot out what's renewed each Day;  
Whilst on his works, his signal Blessings stay.   

And every Moment, All his Creatures prove  
The Goodness of their Lord, and Present Love.  
verse 5 Of Those who fear Him, He supplies the want;  
Mindful for ever of his Covenant.   

verse 6 His People saw the Power of his Hand,  
When He gave them the vanquished Heathens Land.  
verses 7-8 His stable works on firm Foundations rise;  
Their Natures, All, Eternal verities.   

And, As his Works, his Laws for ever be;  
All done in Truth; All done in Equity.  
verse 9 On the lost, captived Soul, in Bondage thrown  
Mercy looked down, and sent Redemption.   

He established his Covenant without End;  
O Holy ever! ever Reverend!  
verse 10 Wisdom is founded in God's Fear; All They  
True Understanding have, who him obey;   

And who, their Wills, guide by that steadfast Rein,  
Immortal Praise, and Glory shall attain.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CXII.  
Beatus Vir.  

verse 1 WHO, in the Law of God doth place his Bliss,  
And fears his Maker, Happiness is his.  
verse 2 His Seed upon the Earth shall potent be,  
And Blessings follow his Posterity.  
verse 3 A flowing Plenty pours in full supplies;  
But his ne'er wasting store is Rightcousness.   

verse 4 On the just Soul, th' upright, compassionate,  
Who Pity does extend, but not his Hate;  
Midst his dark thoughts, midst the despairing Night  
Of Terrors, breaks in a descending Light.  
verse 5 He, with Discretion, governs his Affairs;  
Lends to the Poor, and his fallen State repairs.   

verse 6 Nor Time, nor Malice, blast his Memory;  
Those wreaths, his virtue's crown, ne'er withring dye.  
Midst the World's Changes, He unchanged appears,  
Nor raised by Hopes, nor terrifid by Fears.  
verse 7 Amidst great Rumours, unconcerned He stands;  
Resigned up to the Conduct of God's Hands.   

verse 8 He trusts his Cause unto his God; and sees  
God glorified upon his Enemies.  
verse 9 He, by dispersing, has increased his Store;  
And made his fruitful Treasury, the Poor.  
Glories hereafter, Glories here below  
Wait him, who reaps the Honour to bestow.   

verse 10 With Malice pined, th' Unjust shall melt and dye;  
He, and his Hopes, shall perish utterly.   
Gloria of four Verses.   

Psalm CXIII.  
Laudate Pueri.  

YE Servants of the living God, Praise Him!  
Whose Praise, no place can circumscribe, nor time.  
O'er all the Earth, as the Sun sheds his Rays,  
So undefin'd the Circuits are of Praise.   

verse 4 Above the heavens is his Dominion;  
And over all the Kings of Earth, his Throne.  
verses 5-6 Who's High, like God? Who must descend, to know  
Th' Affairs of Heaven; yet stoops to these Below.   

verses 7-8 Raised from the Dust, th' ignoble He makes Great;  
And among Princes, does the lowly set.  
verse 9 He makes the Barren, fruitful; makes Her be  
The Mother of a happy Progeny.    

Psalm CXIV.  
In exitu Israel.  

verse 1 WHen God his Israel from Aegyt led,  
And the triumphant Host Himself did head,  
verse 2 His Holy Place was Judah; his high Throne  
Israel, the Seat of his Dominion.   

verse 3 The Sea beheld the glorious March, and fled;  
Jordan ran frighted back into his Head.  
verse 4 Mountains astonished Heights, Horror convells,  
Dancing like Rams; like Lambs, the lesser Hills.   

verses 5-6 Jordan! what aild'st thou? And what ailed thee, Sea?  
What Earthquakes, Hills! did in your Bowels lie?  
verses 7-8 But how can Earth but tremble at its God?  
Who, from Flints, pours a Spring; from Rocks, a Flood.    

Psalm CXV.  
Non Nobis Domine.  

verse 1 NOT unto Us be Praise; Not unto Us;  
But be thy ruth, and Mercy glorious.  
verse 2 Where was their God might than the Heathen say,  
If we should boast, We gave Ourselves the Day.   

verse 3 'Twas not Our Arm gave us the Victory;  
But thine from Heaven; for what thou will'st shall be.  
verse 4 Their Gods, are Gold and Silver; formed by Man;  
Gods, that can do lesle than their Makers can.   

verses 5-6 They gave them Mouths, and Eyes, Noses, and Ears;  
Yet the blind God sees not, tastes, smells, or hears.  
verse 7 Their useless Hands and Feet, nor feel, nor walk;  
Nor through their Throat, the breathless Idols talk.   

verse 8 Who makes Them, as much Idol is as They;  
Or who to th' carved, or painted God, does pray.  
verse 9 But trust in God, Thou House of Israël!  
Make Him thy Hope; He can defend, and william.   

verse 10 O House of Aaron! on thy God rely;  
he'll be thy Strength; he'll thy Defender be.  
verse 11 And O All Ye who fear the living Lord,  
Trust Him! for He will sure Relief afford.   

verse 12 And this, both Aaron's House, and Israël,  
Whom He their God remembered has, can tell.  
verse 13 All those who fear the Lord, his Blessings share;  
The Great are his; the Poor Man is his Care.   

verses 14-15 To you, and yours God shall extend his Love;  
The God who made the Earth, and th' heavens above.  
verse 16 The heavens O God the Heaven of heavens is thine;  
These Praise Thee; Earth's given to the Sons of Men.   

verse 17 But on the Earth, They who i'th' Grave do sleep  
Covered with Night, a lasting Silence keep.  
verse 18 The Living than, the Living must Praise Thee,  
As we do now, and will eternally.    

Psalm CXVI  
Dilexi quoniam.  

verse 1 MY soul O God is ravished with thy Love;  
For Thou hast heard, and saved Me from above.  
verse 2 The Breath Thou hast redeemed, Thee Praise shall give,  
And I will ever bless Thee whilst I live.   

verses 3-4 Caught in Death's Snares, and dragged to th' Brink o'th' Grave,  
Now falling, his Almighty help I crave.  
O Thou! who woundest, and again makest whole,  
Who to the Grave hast brought, bring back my Soul.   

verse 5 Our God is good; Our God is righteous;  
From Him, All Mercy, All Compassion flows;  
verse 6 He does the Simple, the ensnared free;  
I was in Misery, and He helped Me.   

verse 7 Turn than unto thy Rest, My Soul! O blessed!  
O Care of Heaven! Return unto thy Rest!  
verse 8 For he, thy weak, thy falling Step retrieved,  
Dried up thy Tears, and gasping Breath reprieved.   

verse 9 Wherhfore, sustained by Thee, I'll walk upright  
Ith' Land o'th' Living; walk, as in thy sight.  
verses 10-11 Midst my Afflictions, I did still believe;  
Said, Man's Help's false; God only can relieve.   

verse 12 What, O my Soul! shall we return to God,  
For All the Benefits He has bestowed?  
verse 13 Let's taste, and Live! Receive that Cup will crown  
Us with the Joys of his Salvation.   

verses 14-15 I'll pay my Vows. How precious is the Death  
Of Thy, to Thee, who thus lendest back their Breath!  
verse 16 Behold the Soul Thou hast delivered!  
Broke every Chain, and made it free indeed.   

verse 17 I'lI bring the Heart which I have vowed to Thee;  
And on that Altar, Praise shall th' Incense be.  
verses 18-19 All shall behold; All shall with Me accord;  
And All Jerusalem shall Praise the Lord.    

Psalm CXVII.  

verse 1 BLess God, O All ye distant Regions!  
Whom Place does sever, but whom, mercy joins.  
verse 2 Mercy renewing still; His Truth and Love  
Are everlasting as the Days above.    

psalm. CXVIII.  
Consitemini Domino.  

verse 1 O give we thanks unto our gracious God,  
Because his Mercies have no Period.  
verses 2-3 Let Israel's House, and Aaron's, bless their God;  
And say His Mercies have no Period.  
verse 4 And O! Let All who fear the living God  
Confess his Mercies have no Period.   

verse 5 To straits reduced, and hard nccessity.  
Calling He Me enlarged, and set Me free.  
verse 6 The Lord is on my side; Whom should I fear?  
Who's He can hurt, when the Almighty's near?  
verse 7 I, on my Foes, his just Revenge shall see,  
For, with mine Aids, God joins Auxiliary.   

verses 8-9 Nor Small, nor Great, nor Subject, nor his Prince,  
Confirm, as does Our God, Our Confidence.  
verses 10-11 A dreadful Multitude, not to be told,  
Compassed Me round about, enraged and bold.  
But in the name of God, I'll charge the Foe;  
Break Him, and in that powerful Name o'erthrow.   

verse 12 They swarmed like Bees, but fell to that Great Name;  
So Thorns, make a loud Noise but dye i'th' flame.  
verse 13 Vain Wretch! Who mad'st at Me that I might fall;  
As if o'er Him God aids, Man could prevail.  
verse 14 God is my Strength; and He my strength's my Song:  
And He, alone, is my Salvation.   

verse 15 The just, triumphant, sing through all their Land  
The Conquests of his high, victorious Hand.  
verse 16 Sing, how no force, nor power, can e'er withstand  
The Conquests of his high victorious Hand.  
verse 17 I shall not dye, but live; and him, who raised  
My Soul from Death, my Soul shall ever Praise.   

verse 18 The Lord hath chastened, and corrected Me,  
But saved; O Goodness 'bove Severity!  
verse 19 Let All the Gates of Praise be oped than,  
That with Thanksgivings I may enter in.  
verse 20 This is the Gate; this is the glorious Gate;  
Which all the Just, with Praise, shall enter at.   

verse 21 Thee, O my God I'll Praise; Thee, Praise alone;  
Who art become my strong Salvation.  
verse 22 The Stone, refused, the Stone, a Scandal made,  
Binds now the Building on the Angle laid.  
verse 23 This is God's doing; This, He did for Us;  
His Deed, and Love, alike, are marvellous.   

verse 24 O Sacred Light! O blessed Day of Days!  
Designed for Glories, set apart for Praise.  
verse 25 Now, save us Lord! Now, give us Happiness;  
And fill our Souls with thy descended Bliss.  
verse 26 Hail! O immortal Love! Hail! Light of Light!  
Thy Glories in thy Temple we'll recite.   

verse 27 God, is the God, who gives us Light, and Bliss;  
To th' Horns o'th' Altar bind the Sacrifice,  
verse 28 Thee, O our God I'll Praise; still honour thee;  
thou worship still; still, I'll The magnify.  
verse 29 O give we thanks unto our gracious God  
Because his Mercies have no Period.    

Psalm CXIX.  
Beati immaculati.  

1 Part Aleph.  

verse 1 HAppy those blameless Souls, whose righteous Path  
The just Law of their God directed hath.  
verse 2 Whose whole Affection, and aspiring Love,  
Taught by his Laws, seek Him who is above.   

verses 3-4 No stains pollute their Soul; Nor can they stray  
Who eat the false, keep the commanded way.  
verse 5 O that my erring, my declining ways  
Were measured and directed by thy Laws!   

verse 6 So shall no vice seduce Me; no Offence,  
Nor conscious Gild shame my sttained Innocence  
verse 7 O than instruct me in thy Righteousness.  
And with a Heart unfeigned I shall thee bless.   

verse 8 My Soul, O Lord, desires to keep thy way;  
O leave me not! but guide Me that I may.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

2 Part. Beth.  

verse 9 How shall vain youth subdue its prove desires?  
Thy Law will either quench, or cleanse its Fires.  
verse 10 That Law is all my Love; Lord! I seek thee  
By seeking It; O guide and govern Me!   

verses 11-12 Thy Law's my Rule; 'Ve wrote it in my Breast;  
O be it by thyself more deep impressed!  
verses 13-14 I have set forth thy Law; declared thy word;  
And the unknown Delights thy ways afford.   

There I incorruptible Treasures found;  
Gold, that will follow hence, and crown the Mind.  
verses 15-16 Thy word I'll study; and than frame my will  
T' obey; and what I Know, with Joy, fulfil.    

Part 3. Gimel.  

verses 17-18 Lord let me live! so live, as to serve Thee:  
Unveil mine Eyes I may thy wonders see.  
verse 19 I'm here a stranger, and like One, I stray;  
Direct my wand'ring Soul in thy right way.   

verse 20 My longing Soul thy Judgements still desires;  
And fainting, languishes in no Other Fires.  
verses 21-22 The Proud, Thou cursest, who contemn thy Law;  
O save Me from their Scorn, who it obey.   

verses 23-24 Princes revile Me cause I Thee obey;  
And follow the great Counsels of thy way.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Part 4. Daleth.  

verse 25 Low as the Dust, and cleaving to the Dust,  
Lord raise the Soul that in thy Word does trust!  
verse 26 I have confessed my ways, and Thou hast heard;  
O teach Me thine! and teach Me to regard.   

verse 27 Make Me to understand! Wake my dead Eyes!  
Reveal! and I shall teach thy Mysteries.  
verse 28 My Soul, despairing, melts thro' Heaviness;  
O cheer it with thy faithful Promises!   

verses 29-30 I love fair Truth; abominate a Lie;  
Teach Me thy Truth, O Lord of Verity!  
verses 31-32 I love thy Law, confounded Me not! but free  
The Captive, and enlarged, He'll follow Thee.    

Part 4. Herald  

verses 33-34 Instruct Me Lord! and I'll observe thy Law  
For ever; and with my whole Heart, obey.  
verse 35 But guide Me, Lord! that in the Paths I know,  
And love, by thine Assistance I may go.   

verse 36 Teach me thy Laws! by them, in Thee to trust;  
Dethrone myself, and All the Gods of Lust!  
verse 37 O close mine Eyes to Vanity! and than  
Fixed on thy Statutes, wake them up again.   

verse 38 O Lord of Truth! confirm thy word to Me;  
Increase my Confidence and Fear in Thee.  
verse 39 Thy Law is good; Turn back the shame I dread  
From Those, who scorn those ways by which I'm led.   

verse 40 My longing Soul faints for thy Laws, and Thee;  
Behold it Lord! and quickening, satisfy.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Part 6. Vau.  

verses 41-42 Since Thou hast Promised to help, and I  
Did ever on that Promised Help rely;  
Help! that my Foes may see, how thy Defence  
Was never vain, nor vain my Confidence.   

verse 43 O may my Mouth still boast that Promised Word!  
And equal to my Hopes, Relief afford!  
verses 44-45 So shall I keep thy Laws continually;  
Bound by those Laws, whose Bonds are Liberty.   

verses 46-47 Before the Great, thy Laws I will declare;  
And boast, what above All, I love and fear.  
verse 48 Unto thy Laws 've lifted up mine Hand  
And vowed t' observe and keepthy loved Commands    

Part 7. Zain.  

verse 49 Unto my wounded Soul, My God apply  
That Word, on which Thou mad'st Me to rely.  
verse 50 Joys, thence, i'th' Agonies of despairing Grief,  
Quickening my anguished Soul, give it New Life.   

verse 51 Thomas mocked by th' Proud, who dare blaspheme thy Law,  
I'm not ashamed of thy derided way.  
verse 52 For I found Comfort when I think upon  
Thy Judgements against my Foes, and for thine Own.   

verse 53 A Horror seizes Me when I perceive  
Th' Apostate wretches who without Thee live.  
verse 54 Thy Laws are my continual Song; for they  
Are my sole Comfort in my House of Clay.   

verses 55-56 Thinking on Thee, Darkness to Me's no Night;  
Who keep thy Precepts, devil in unseen Light.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Part 8. Cheth.  

verse 57 Thy Word's my Portion, Lord! I naught possess  
Beyond that Wealth, rich in thy Promises.  
verse 58 O satisfy my longing Soul! afford  
Thy promised Aid according to thy word.   

verses 59-60 I did, reflecting, judge of mine Own way;  
Abhorred it, and sought thine without delay.  
verse 61 I'm robbed of All by th' spoiler, and unjust;  
But 'bove their Reach, 've left Me still my Trust.   

verse 62 At Midnight Lord! I will arise, and bless  
Thy powerful Judgements, and thy Righteousness.  
verse 63 Those who observe thy Precepts, and fear Thee,  
I love; and join in their Society.   

verse 64 Thy Mercies, Lord! the spations world do fill  
O teach my grateful Heart to do thy william.    

Part 9 Teth.  

verse 65 Lord! As thy Word, so have thy Mercies been;  
verse 66 Instruct Me! for that word 've trusted in.  
verse 67 In my Prosperity I went astray,  
Affliction has reduced me into th' way.   

verse 68 Teach Me thy Laws! that I may, knowing Thee,  
O only Good! gain true Felicity.  
verse 69 The Proud have falsely flanderd me, but I  
Framed by thy Laws, my Actions justify.   

verse 70 They swell, and reap all the World's Happiness.  
Whilst I, another way am led to Bliss.  
verse 71 Afflictions are my Guide; by Them, I'm brought  
To know thy Laws, by surer Methods taught.   

verse 72 There, I possess a Treasure firm, and stable.  
And 'bove their Thousands, choose th' invaluable.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Part 10. Jod.  

verse 73 Perfect, O God the Creature of thine Hands;  
Finish his Mind, inspired with thy Commands!  
verse 74 All They who fear Thee will rejoice with Me,  
When the Successes of my Hopes they see.   

verse 75 My Hopes far higher, from Afflictions rise;  
For out of Faithfulness thou dost Chastise.  
verse 76 But midst those Trials, thy Supports afford!  
For such, Lord! is the Promise of thy Word.   

verse 77 O Raise Me than! Grant that my Soul may live!  
Live, blessed in the Delights thy Laws do give.  
verse 78 Shame Those, Me wound with causeless violence;  
Who only think on Thee, and thy Defence.   

verse 79 They who fear Thee, and have thy Judgements known,  
Shall turn to Me, and Both, trust Thee alone,  
verse 80 Grant, in thy ways, my Heart may Persevere!  
For I shall ne'er be ashamed that God I fear.    

Part 11. Caph.  

verse 81 My Soul doth faint for thy Salvation,  
But firmly trusts what thy sure word makes known.  
verse 82 But when, O Lord? When wilt Thou comfort me?  
When shall my longing Eyes Deliverance see?   

verse 83 I'm like a Bladder, in the Smoke, or Guard;  
Wrinkled, and shrunk; yet still I trust thy Word.  
verse 84 My days are few, and to their period tend,  
Shall They, ere thou redress my Wrongs, have end?   

verses 85-86 They falsely persecute me; their Laws are Snares;  
Unlike, thy just ones Lord! i my Help declare.  
verses 87-88 They'd almost ruin'd me, yet I kept thy Law;  
My God relieve me, for I'll still obey!    

Part 12. Lamed.  

verses 89-90 Thy word that made the heavens, as Heaven endure,  
Ages pass of, thy faithfulness stands sure  
verse 91 Cause of All Things! All Things on Thee do stay;  
For All Thy Servants are, and Thee obey.   

verse 92 If in thy word I had not found Relief,  
I soon had Perished, in my fatal Grief.  
verses 93-94 Quickened by it, I'll never it decline;  
O save me! for by keeping it I'm thine.   

verses 95-96 In Vain the Sinner threats, his Hate must end;  
But thy Salvations beyond end extend.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Part 13. Mem.  

verse 97 Lord! How I love; and what abundant Cause  
Have I to love, and to observe thy Laws!  
The Subtleties of Foes; ● Science Wise;  
And Prudence of the Aged, fall to these.   

verse 101 My Actions do express my Love, for they  
Eat Ill; He falsely loves who walks astray.  
verses 102-103 These, taught by Thee, I keep; Honey has lesle  
Of sweetness, than to Souls, thy Promises.   

verse 104 Thy Precepts, Me unto true Wisdom raise;  
Therefore I hate the low false sensual ways.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Part 14. Nun.  

verse 105 Thy Word is to my Feet, as in the Night  
To the strayed Traveller a directing Light.  
verse 106 I've sworn, and have resolved to persist  
In keeping of thy Judgements; Lord! assist.   

verse 107 I am cast down, O raise me up again!  
And, as thy Word has promised, sustain.  
verse 108 Teach Me thy Laws! so teach, that I may keep!  
And take from th' Heart, the Sacrifice o'th' Lip.   

verses 109-110 A Death still threatened, a prepared Snare,  
Make not my steadfast Soul, from thee, to err.  
verses 111-112 Thy Word's the Joy, and Portion of my Mind;  
And what that Word directs, I'll keep to th' End.    

Part 15. Samech.  

verse 113 I hate vain Thoughts, and wild Opinions hate;  
But on thy Law, and known Truths meditate.  
verses 114-115 Lord! All my safety's in thy Word and thee;  
Departed ye workers of Iniquity!   

verse 116 Sustain my Life! Thy Promises are just;  
And let Me not be ashamed of my Trust.  
verse 117 Sustain Me Lord! so shall I ever be  
Safe, and observe thy Laws continually.   

verses 118-119 Thy Judgements, on the Dross of all Mankind,  
Does my experienced Trust to thy Laws bind.  
verse 120 But Lord! I dread, and fear what most I trust;  
Even their Examples fear, for who is Just?    

Part 16. Ain.  

verse 121 I do what's Right; Cast me not out to Those  
Who unto Me and Righteousness are Foes.  
verse 122 And, that th' Oppressor do not injure Me,  
Be Thou thyself the great Security!   

verse 123 Mine Eyes look up to Thee, and looking faint;  
Till thou thy promised Salvation grant,  
verses 124-125 Pity thy Servant, for thy Servant's thine;  
Inform his Soul, and to thy Laws incline.   

verse 126 'Tis time, O Lord! t' exert thy powerful Hand,  
For 've made voided, and cancelled thy Command.  
verses 127-128 Because the wicked, hate; thy Law, I prise;  
Eat Ill; and above Gold, choose Righteousness.    

Part 17. Pe.  

verse 129 How wondered, O Lord! thy Precepts are;  
Wherhfore my ravished Soul does them revere,  
verse 130 For, when thy Word Our fallen Heat reinspires,  
The Simple's Wise; and Souls renew their Fires.   

verse 131 My Soul O God which pants, and gasps for Thee,  
And thy Command, possess! and satisfy.  
verse 132 O Look! so Lord! in Mercy look on Me,  
As Thou art want on Those who honour Thee.   

verse 133 Guide my frail steps, by thy just Rules defined;  
And be thy Word sole Regent of my Mind!  
verses 134-135 From man, oppressing man, thy servant free!  
Shine, Lord! and Teach; shine, Lord! and secure me.   

verse 136 O shine on him, who, jealous for his God,  
For Sinners pours down a continual Flood.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Part 8. Tsaddi.  

verse 137 Lord! Thou are Just; and All thy Acts upright,  
verse 138 All thy Commands are Verity, and Right.  
verse 139 My Zeal consumes me, when I see my Foes  
Desert thy Laws, and their Own Counsels choose.  
verse 140 Choose what's adulterate, and refuse the Gold  
Which the just Test of the last fire does hold.  
verse 141 Lord! I am Poor; low, and of no repute;  
Of All things but thy precepss, destitute.   

verse 142 They still remain, and will eternally;  
For Righteousness and Truth immortal be.  
verse 143 I'm Pained, and grieved, but thy Word yields Relief  
Ith' lingering Torments of an anguished Life.   

verse 144 Thy Laws, O God Eternal are; O give  
My Soul true knowledge, that it still may live.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Part 19 Koph.  

verses 145-146 With my whole Heart, to Thee, My God I cry;  
Lord save! and my Soul, rescued, shall serve Thee.  
verses 147-148 Night slowly comes, and the Morn rises late,  
I, Both prevent; and on Thee meditate.   

verse 149 Lord hear! Hear Lord! as Thou art want to hear;  
And my Soul's drooping, languid Heats repair.  
verses 150-151 Lord! thine, and my declared Foes draw nigh;  
But Thou art nigh too, Lord of Verity!   

verse 152 I've known of Old, thy Testimonies be  
All sure; All established to Eternity.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Part 20. Resh.  

verse 153 My God consider mine adversity;  
And, cause thy Word's my Trust, deliver Me.  
verse 154 Pled Thou my Cause! my oppressed Soul relieve!  
And, As thy Word has promised, revive.   

verse 155 The impious Wretch, thy Health descendsnot on;  
Who keeps no Law, finds no Salvation.  
verses 156-157 Thy Mercy's great; Raise Me, O Lord! and free  
Me from my numerous Foes, who still serve Thee.   

verses 158-159 I love thy Law, and for transgressors grieve;  
Think how I love, my God and me revive.  
verse 160 Thy Word, and thy just Judgements steadfast be;  
All measured by the same Eternity.    

Part 21. Schin.  

verse 161 Princes me Persecute without a Cause,  
But 'bove their Threats, Lord! I revere thy Laws.  
verse 162 And 'bove their joys, who ample spoils do found,  
Thy Word's Eternal Treasure joys my Mind.   

verse 163 I hate the low, base treachery of a Lie,  
But honour thy great Law of Verity.  
verse 164 seven times a day, thy Name I magnify  
Great God because thy Judgements righteous be.   

verse 165 What unknown Peace have they, whose Conscience,  
Framed by thy Laws t' itself gives no Offence.  
verses 166-167 My God I wait for thy Salvation;  
For thy Commandments I have loved, and done.   

verse 168 I keep thy Laws, fear Thee, and walk upright;  
For thou art still in mine, I, in thy sight.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Part 22. Tau.  

verses 169-170 Hear Lord! and teach; hear, Lord save!  
From Ignorance, and from Adversity.  
verses 171-172 Teach me O Lord! and my instructed Tongue free Me  
Shall make thy righteous Precepts my glad Song.   

verses 173-174 Thy Precepts are my Choice; my Joys alone;  
Help Lord! grant thy desired Salvation.  
verse 175 Reverse thy Judgements, Lord! Let my Soul live!  
And taught by Thee, my Soul shall Praises give.   

verse 176 Like a lost Sheep, wand'ring, 've gone astray;  
O seek! O turn the strayed into the way.   
Gloria of two Verses.    

Psalm CXX.  
Ad Dominum.  

verses 12 I cried to God in mine Adversity,  
Save, Lord! from the false Lip, and tongues that lie.  
verses 3-4 Darts sharp as thine; Coals quick as thine own Fire,  
(Know thy reward, false Tongue!) shall be thy hire.   

verse 5 Unhappy me! condemned to Mesech's Tent,  
In savage Kedar thrown to Banishment;  
verse 6 My Soul hath dwelled, long dwelled, midst th' Enemies  
Of what all earthly Blessings blesses, Peace.   

verse 7 I offer Peace, and it's fair steps prepare;  
But their rough brutish Souls are all for War.    

Psalm CXXI.  
Levavi Oculos.  

verse 1 SHall I to th' Mountains tops look up, and thence  
From th' Refuge of their Heights, expect defence?  
verse 2 False Refuge! 've not hope but in his name  
Who made the Earth, and th' Heavens stupendious Frame.   

verse 3 He, thy weak, steps, firm, and assured will keep;  
His care who watches o'er thee ne'er does sleep;  
verse 4 The Guards which have the care of thee received  
Ne'er sleep; All watchful still, yet ne'er relieved.   

verses 5-6 Himself's thy Guard; no Sun shall hurt by day,  
Nor in the night, the Moon's pale humid Ray.  
verses 7-8 His constant favour shall thy ways attend,  
Shall keep thy Soul, shall keep it without end.    

psalm. CXXII.  
Laetatus sum.  

verse 1 NOw the returning year presents the days  
When our glad Feet, shall meet i'th' house of Praise.  
verses 2-3 Our Feet Jerusalem! shall stand in thee,  
O blessed! O City built by Unity.   

verse 4 All Tribes to th' Ark of witness come, not one  
Dissenting Israelite straggles alone.  
verse 5 For thy fair Mount, the seat of Judgements on;  
Th' exalted Seat of his Anoynted's Throne.   

verse 6 O pray for th' Peace of our Jerusalem!  
They, who shall seek thy Bliss, God shall bless them.  
verse 7 Peace be within thy Walls! and Plentiousness  
The fruit of Peace, within thy Palaces.   

verse 8 For my loved brethren's sakes, all Israel's Pace,  
May thee, all Bliss, all happiness embrace!  
verse 9 But more, for th' House of God, may all be poured  
On thee that's good, from his own goodness showered.    

Psalm CXXIII.  
Ad Telocavi Oculos.  

verses 12 Allseeing power! who, from thy sacred Throne  
On all the Creatures of thy Hand look'st down,  
Behold thy People! who, with tender Eyes,  
As chastened servants wait, low, and submiss  
Wait for thy Mercy; and shall still attend.  
Till thou, appeased, shalt their chastenings end.   

verses 3-4 Have Mercy Lord! for with the lowest scorn  
Of the Disdainful, Slothful, Proud w' are torn.  
We, low in Misery, and dejected lie;  
And their Contempt treads on that Misery.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CXXIV.  
Nisi quia Dominus.  

IF God himself had not our strength sustained,  
And his own Arm our vanquished Right maintained  
Our Foes had swallowed us alive; when they  
To Fury, quitting all that's Just, gave way.   

verses 4-5 To th' Rage of the deaf Waves we had been thrown,  
And by the Torrent of the Proud born down.  
verse 6 But blessed be God, who snatched our Souls away,  
And from their Jaws, rapt the despairing Prey.   

verse 7 As the lost Bird flattered into the Net  
By the deceit of th' treacherous Fowler set,  
Mounts up when some kind Hand breaks the false Snare:  
Our cheated Souls, so caught, so rescued are.   

verse 8 Father of Being! from whom we took our Breath,  
Thou only who giv'st Life, canst save from Death.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CXXV.  
Qui Confidunt.  

verse 1 WHo, under the Almighty's shade  
Gathered, his wing, their trust have made,  
Shall firm as his own Zion stand;  
Which ne'er can move, by him sustained.   

verse 2 And, as our safe Jerusalem  
Hills compass; so the Lord does Him.  
verse 3 The Rod of the Ungodly must  
Not rest i'th' Portion of the Just:   

Lest He, thinking Himself forgot,  
Murmur, and perish with his Lot.  
verse 4 O Thou! who dost all Good impart,  
Do good to the upright in Heart.   

verse 5 But Those, who do perversely stray  
With Sinners God shall them destroy.  
Whilst that ' fair Wing where Peace doth devil  
Shall overshadow Israël.    

Psalm CXXVI.  
In convertendo.  

verse 1 WHen Judgement was appeased, and from on High,  
Mercy looked down on our Captivity;  
Amazed as men who joyful Visions see,  
We thought we had but dreamt a Liberty:  
verse 2 But, when we found it true, the Vision fled,  
But the dear Ravishments, and high Joys abide.   

The very Heathen said, what has God done?  
What wonders Israel's, God, for Israel shown?  
verse 3 What th' Heathen, Lord! attest, we, more confess;  
Confess thy Mercies, and confessing, bless.  
verse 4 Return, O Lord! and all thy Israel free;  
Bring back the whole redeemed Captivity,   

Turn us, as Southern Floods that plenty bring;  
So turn back, Lord! the flowing Remnant in.  
verse 5 The Soul shall reap in Joy, which sows in Tears;  
The bounteous Harvest shall discount its Fears.  
verse 6 Who weeping sows, but sows good Seed, shall come,  
Shall doubtless come with Joy, and full Sheaves home.    

Psalm CXXVII.  
Nisi Dominus.  

verse 1 EXcept the Lord the prosperous Building raise,  
Man, the Foundation of a Ruin lays.  
Except the City's Guard, God undertakes,  
The careful sleepless Watchman in vain wakes.   

verse 2 In vain, ye early rise; and late sit up;  
The Bread of Sorrow eat, and drink its Cup;  
From anxious cares, He, his belov'd doth keep;  
He gives what's fit; and the Contented, sleep.   

verse 3 Their happy Issue's an Inheritance;  
And does th' increased Parent's strength advance.  
verses 4-5 They are like Arrows in a strong man's Hand;  
And He, by Them, his Enemies, shall withstand.    

Psalm CXXVIII.  
Beati Omnes.  

verse 1 BLessed art Thou who dost thy Maker fear;  
And in his righteous ways dost persevere.  
verse 2 Thy labouring Hand shall what's enough, supply;  
O happy Man! O safe Felicity!   

verse 3 Like as the Vine thine House does beautify;  
So fair thy Wise shall, and so fruitful be.  
Children about thy Table shall be spread  
Like Olive Plants; and there, contented, sed.   

verse 4 Thus, shall the Man be blessed who fears the Lord;  
verses 5-6 Blessed with the Blessings Zion does afford.  
Thou, Aged, shalt thy Child's Children see:  
And all thy days, Israel's Prosperity.    

Psalm CXXIX.  
Saepe expugnaverunt Me.  

verses 12 FRom my youth up, They often have Me assailed  
May Israel say; but never have prevailed.  
verse 3 The Ploughers ploughed long Furrows on my Back;  
But God, who's just, the Cords o'th' wicked brake.   

verse 5 So perish all their cruel Snares, and They  
Who, to their Malice, Zion would betray!  
verse 6 Be they like Grass, which on th' Housetops does spring;  
Does dying, spring; and grows up, withering.   

verses 7-8 Which, nor the Hand, nor Bosom fills with Sheaves:  
Nor Any passing by, One good wish gives.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CXXX.  
De profundis.  

verses 12 FRom out the Depths of Horror, Fear and Care,  
Where conscious Gild still wakes and black despair,  
To thee, O Lord! my anguished Soul does fly,  
Lord hear Me! and admit my woeful cry.   

verse 3 If Thou, O Righteous Judge! shouldst be extreme  
And let thy Justice urge, and try each Crime,  
O! Who? Who may abide? Who's He, of All  
The Sons of Men but must, condemned, fall?   

verse 4 But Mercy, O our God's! with thee, that we  
For Mercy, may revere thy Majesty.  
verses 5-6 That Mercy, Lord! I wait; wait for as they  
Tired with a restless Night, who wait for Day,   

And Lord! I shall not wait in vain; O just  
Of Promise! O faithful of that Word I trust!  
verses 7-8 Trust than in God, My Soul! his Love's unknown;  
The Plenty of his full Redemption.   

O Israel! trus My Soul! trust God with them.  
he'll Them, and Thee, from all Our Sins redeem.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CXXXI.  
Domine non est.  

verse 1 LOrd! I'm not proud! have no disdainful Eye;  
Scorn not the Mean, nor Him who's lefs than Me.  
Nor does my bold presumptuous Reason pry  
Proud of its Strength, on Mysteries too high.   

verse 2 But like a weaned Child, my Soul I wean  
From Pride without, and greater Pride within.  
For what, Proud Clay! can thyself profit thee?  
verse 3 O Israel! trust in God; thyself deny.    

Psalm CXXXII.  
Memento Domine.  

verses 12 REmember David's Troubles, Lord! and how  
He to th' Almighty swore, and vowed a Vow,  
verses 3-4 I'll not come in mine House; will not ascend  
My Bed; no Sleep shall to mine Eyes descend,  
verse 5 Until I found a Dwelling for my God;  
And separate a Place for his abode.   

verse 6 Lord! we have heard, thy Ark to-fore has stood  
At Ephraeta; where we found it in the Wood  
verse 7 But in thy Sanctu'ry 'tis seated Now,  
Where we, before thy Footstool; lowly bow.  
verse 8 Arise, O Lord! Thou, and the dispossessed  
Ark of thy Strength, and come into thy Rest.   

verse 9 Let Stoles of Righteousness thy Priests invest!  
And by thy Saints, be thy glad Praise expressed.  
verse 10 Bless thine Anointed, Lord! for David's sake:  
verses 11-12 To whom, Thou didst thysfaithful Promise' make;  
If thy Sons keep my Laws, their Sons shall set  
For ever, on the Throne of David's Seat.   

As their Obedience to my Laws 〈◊〉 shown,  
So lasting shall their days be on the Throne.  
verse 13 The Lord hath Zion made his Own Abode,  
The Choice, and the Peculiar of its God.  
verse 14 Here will I fix my everlasting Seat;  
Here, ever rest; for Sion's my Delight.   

verse 15 Plenty shall make her Stores, and give forth Bread  
To th' Poor; who by her Bounty shall be fed.  
verse 16 I'll  her Priests with my Salvation;  
With whom, my joyful Saints in Praise shall join.  
verse 17 There David I'll exalt; and round his Head  
Wreathed with his Power, a circling Glory spread.   

verse 18 Upon his Foes, I'll pour Confusion;  
But on Himself, plant his still flourishing Crown.   
Gloria of Four Verses.   

psalm CXXXIII.  
Ecce quam bonum.  

verse 1 O Unity! Celestial Unity!  
Where Good, and Pleasant, in One, joined be;  
Where Peaceful Brethrens do consent in Thee,  
How blessed to All, is the blessed Harmony!   

verse 2 As when on Aaron's consecrated Head  
The precious Unguents, and the Dews were shed,  
Flowed down his Beard; from whence, the lowest Hemm  
Oth' sacred Vest, was laved by th' Balm-like stream.   

verse 3 And as from Hermon's Hill, descending Rain  
Falling, enriches all the humble Plain:  
Or, as both Sion's Tops, the melting Dew  
And th' Valley's withering Verdure does renew.   

On All the Peaceful, so, from God descends  
A Present Bliss, and One that never ends.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CXXXIV.  
Ecce Nunc.  

verse 1 YE Servants of the Lord, who by Night, stand  
In his blessed Courts, fulfilling his Command,   

verse 2 Lift up pure Hands! Lift up pure Hearts on high!  
And bless, and Praise Him in his Sanctu'ry.  
verse 3 And Thou, who dost Him Praise i'th' Sanctu'ry,  
The Lord from out his Sanctu'ry bless Thee!    

Psalm CXXXV.  
Laudate Nomen.  

verses 12 O Praise the Lord ye Servants of the Lord  
Who tread his Courts! All in his Praise accord!  
verse 3 Sing Praise! Speak Praise! The God is good we Praise  
Sing Praise! for pleasant are the Heavn'ly Lays.   

verse 4 Sing Praise O Israel! his Name advance  
Who hath chose Thee for his Inheritance,  
verse 5 For 'bove all Gods, Our God is God alone;  
And 'bove all Powers his exalted Throne.   

verse 6 For what e'te He has willed is done; in Heaven  
In Earth and Sea; his Will, Them, Laws has given  
Nature's Recesses He buried low i'th' Deep,  
Which, unto Man, dark and unfathomed sleep.   

verse 7 He licenses and th' stormy Tempests binds;  
Vnbarrs his Treasury, and let's forth the Winds.  
The Lightnings break forth, and mixed Rains pour down;  
And threat on All Confusions like their Own.   

verses 8-9 His Judgements unto Egypt were made known,  
Fertile in wonders t' its Destruction.  
verse 10 He mighty Kingdoms smote, and Potent Kings;  
And did their Power in Subjection bring.   

verses 11-12 Og, Basan's King; and Sehon, th' Amorite's;  
And Canaan gave to his Own Israelites.  
verse 13 These wonders, Lord! for ever shall be told;  
And their renewed Memorials never wax old.   

verse 14 Wonders, which by thy Judgemenies are made known  
Upon thy Foes; and Mercies on thine Own  
verse 15 Can Gods of Gold, which the vain Heathen please,  
Such wonders do? Such Miracles as these?   

verses 16-17 Can the dumb Mouth, the sightless Eye deas Ear,  
Reagard the Idol-like Idolater?  
The God, his living Workman's far beneath;  
No stroke, no softest Pencil e'er formed Breath.   

verse 18 Who makes Gods, or Them worships, does degrade  
The Man; the Man's false as the God He made  
O Israel's House and Aaron's bless the Lord  
He can, alone, defence and help afford.   

O House of Levi Praise that God with Them!  
From Zion, who dwells at Jerusalem.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CXXXVI.  
Confitemini.  

verse 1 O bless our God, who Mercies still bestows,  
Yet the unwasted Fountain ever flows.  
verses 2-3 O bless the Lord! the Lord of Gods! for sure  
His everlasting Mercies do endure.  
verse 4 By his Almighty Power, All Things were done,  
And every wonder is from Him alone.  
verse 5 Whose wisdom the vast Arch of Heaven has spread,  
verse 6 And raised the Earth 'bove the Seas liquid Bed.  
Mercies thus, He still bestows,  
Yet th' immortal Fountain flows.   

verse 7 By Him Light was; By Him, the glittering Flood  
Diffused at first, in Orbs collected stood.  
verse 8 He made the Sun; and to his brighter Ray  
Deputed has the Government of Day.  
verse 9 To the Stars sparkling Fires, and Moon's pale Light,  
He has assigned the Region of the Night.  
He smote the firstborn of th' Egyptians,  
And thence his Arm brought his inheritance.  
Mercies thus, he still bestows,  
Yet th' immortal Fountain flows.   

verse 13 Who the Read Sea did into parts divide,  
verse 14 And his, through th' glorious, dreadful Valley led;  
verse 15 On Pharaoh's Host the Sea returned again;  
Covered, and not a Witness did remain.  
verse 16 He through the Wilderness his People led;  
Led Them by wonders, and by wonders fed.  
verses 17-18 Who, potent Kings, and mighty Princes smote;  
And into their Possessions Israel brought.  
Mercies thus, he still bestows,  
Yet th' immortal Fountain flows.   

verses 19-20 Sehon, the Amorite's and Og, Basan's King;  
verses 21-22 And Israel did into those Conquests bring.  
verse 23 When we afflicted were, low, and oppressed,  
He, from Above, regarded the distressed.  
verse 24 He set us free, broke of our Captive Bands,  
And rescued us from out our Enemy's hands.  
verse 25 Whose Bounty, to all Flesh, Relief does yield,  
To Man, and All the Creatures of the Field.  
verse 26 Praise Him who all Good bestows,  
Yet th' immortal Fountain flows.    

Psalm CXXXVII.  
Super flumina.  

verse 1 WHilst grieved we sat by th' Streams of Babylon,  
As the Streams glided on, our Tears ran down.  
verse 2 Our Harps untuned, upon the Willows hung;  
Neglected, hung; disordered, and unstrung.   

verse 3 Th' insulting Victor bade his Captives sing.  
" Sing one o'th' Songs sacred to Sion's King!  
verse 4 O how can we midst th' impious Heathen fling  
In their strange Land, sing a devoted Song?   

verses 5-6 O Zion! O Jerusalem! Can I,  
Can my Soul, ever, unremember Thee?  
Cleave to my Mouth my hated tongue! and let  
Forgetting Thee, my Hand its Art forget!   

Or when, 'bove Sion's Tears, I Joys shall prise:  
O Zion! All my Grief; and All my Bliss,  
verse 7 Mind Edom's cries in thy Jerusalem's Day!  
Down with that Temple! All in Ruins lay!   

verse 8 O Babylon! And thy Day too will come;  
Who thy Race ended, must abide thy Doom;  
May he, who vengeance takes, be prosperous!  
And deal with Thee, as Thou hast dealt with us.   

verse 9 And make thy Children in thy Plagues partake;  
And with the Root th' untimely Branches take.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CXXXVIII.  
Confitebor tibi.  

verse 1 THee, O my God with my whole Heart I'll bless;  
And before All the Gods, thy Name confess.  
verse 2 To words thy holy Temple I will bow,  
And for thy Love, and Truth due Praises vow.   

For above All Things, Thou thy word hast set;  
Even 'bove 〈…〉 thy famed Name made great.  
verse 3 When I invoked, Thou didst new Powers inspire;  
And in my Soul, wak'dst its extinguished Fire.   

verse 4 All Kings shall by thy word instructed be;  
And than All crowned Heads shall sing to Thee.  
Sing in thy ways; Sing that All Glory's thine;  
verse 5 And All their Sceptres unto Thee resign.   

verse 6 The Lord thus high, on th' Humble yet looks down;  
But stands far of, and on the Haughty frowns.  
verse 7 Though Trouble, Grief, and Foes encompass Me,  
Thou shalt restrain their fury, and save Me.   

verse 8 Perfect the Creature, Lord! whom Thou didst make;  
Restore thine Image, nor the lapsed forsake.    

Psalm CXXXIX.  
Domine probasti.  

verse 1 ALL-present Lord! No Act of mine can be  
Hid from the view of thine All-searching Eye.  
verse 2 Thou know'st when I lie down: when I arise;  
Nothing withdraws from Thee; naught veiled lies.  
To Thee the viewless shadow of a Thought,  
Before its texture was designed, was brought.   

verse 3 Thou art about my Bed; 'bout all my ways;  
From Thee nor any Deed's removed, nor Place.  
verse 4 Not one word's in my Tongue, Thou dost not know;  
When even our Thoughts are loud are whispers low?  
verse 5 Thou, on the Clay, thine artful Hand hast laid.  
And of th' unfashioned Substance, Man hast made.   

verse 6 Myself amazes Me; I can't attain  
To the deep knowledge of the wonder, Man.  
verse 7 Where, from thy Spirit, than shall I retreat?  
What Land to Thee lies undiscovered yet?  
verse 8 Can I climb up to Heaven, Thou, Lord! art there;  
Or make my Bed in Hell, Thou wouldst be near.   

verse 9 Or mounted on the Morning's Wing, should flee  
Where breaking Light dawns from the farthest Sea;  
verse 10 Even there thine Hand would hold upon Me lay,  
And seize Me midst the twilights of the Day.  
verse 11 If I should say, Darkness fhall cover Me,  
Darkness itself, Lord! is not dark to Thee.   

verse 12 Midnight to Thee is Noon; and Shade is Light;  
Where thy bright Presence comes, there is no Night.  
verse 13 My Reinss are thine; formed and designed by Thee,  
Who in my Mother's Womb hast covered Me.  
verse 14 Lord! Thou hast made Me, made the fearful Frame;  
O! may the Soul that knows it, Praise thy Name.   

verse 15 Thou, whilst the Mass, rude, and inform did lie,  
And moulding was to th' sbape of Man, didst see;  
verse 16 Didst than on the imperfect Substance look,  
Wrote down in the Idea of thy Book.  
Which daily, into Parts grew out of None;  
Unknown than to myself, and yet unknown.   

verse 17 O Wisdom infinite! How high! How dear!  
Great God th' unfathomed Depths thy Counsels are!  
verse 18 I can't th' incomprehended Number tell;  
Silence alone denotes th' ineffable.  
When I awake, Thou present art to Me;  
Let thy work bless thee, Lord! and wake to Thee.   

verses 19-20 Slay the Bloodthirsty Man, and the Profane,  
Who boldly take thine awful Name in vain!  
verses 21-22 Those, who hate Thee, and against Thee do rise,  
I truly hate; for th' are mine Enemies.  
verses 23-24 Search, Lord! my Heart, and Thoughts; and when I stray,  
O guide Me in the everlasting way!    

Psalm CXL.  
Eripe Me Domine.  

verses 12 FRom Those, who violent, and malicious be,  
And Discords daily move, Lord! rescue Me!  
verse 3 Who speak, as Serpent's sting; untruths device;  
Strike through just Fames; and poison with their Lies.   

verse 4 Lord! keep Me from those impious wretches, who  
Where e'er I go, designmine Overthrow.  
verse 5 All fair untruths, and hopeful to betray,  
Like Nets, and Snares, They cover in my way   

verses 6-7 To Thee, My God distressed, I cry; Lord hear!  
As Thou i'th' Day of Battle didst appear.  
verse 8 Defeat their Counsels! Blast their Policies!  
And let Them not exalt Themselves by Lies.   

verse 9 Return th' infected Breath! and let the Pest,  
Whence it first brake, pierce the in venomed Breast.  
verse 10 The Snare, the Fire, the Pit, their Portion be!  
And, cast down, let them perish utterly,   

verse 11 Vengeance shall hunt, and seize the violent;  
Whose flowing words, fair specious mischiefs vent.  
verse 12 For God will vindicate th' Aspersed's Name;  
Assert his Cause and violated Fame.   

verse 13 That by the Just his Name may still be blessed;  
And They, for ever, in his Presence, rest.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CXLI.  
Domine clamavi.  

verse 1 LOrd! unto Thee I call; Hear my loud cries!  
And swiftly let my Prayer to Thee arise!  
verse 2 My Prayer, as Incense, sweet, and flaming rise!  
And th' Hands lift up, be th' Evening Sacrifice!   

verse 3 Set, Lord! a watch before my Mouth! and keep  
From all that's Ill, the guarded Doors o'th' Lip.  
verse 4 O let my Heart be to no Vice inclined!  
But spotless keep the Candour of my Mind.   

In Sinners works let me take no Delight!  
Nor slain my Soul to serve my Appetite.  
verse 5 Let the Good check Me, erring; by their stroke  
My Head not more shall, than by Balms, be broke.   

I will repay the Debt; and when They mourn  
I'll pray for Them, and the kind Balm return.  
verse 6 When their false Guides, slain, in their rough ways, lie,  
They'll hear my words; and warned attend to Me.   

verse 7 Our Bones, by th' Grave lie scattered all about,  
(As Chips from Wood) from Carcases hewed out,  
verse 8 But unto Thee, O Lord! I lift mine Eyes;  
Thou art my Help; do not my Soul despise.   

verse 9 Th' ungodly's wily Snares, and curious Trap,  
Preserved by Thee, Lord! May I still escape.  
verse 10 Let the unrighteous fall in his Own Pit!  
But let Me still avoid, or break the Net.    

Psalm CXLII.  
Voce mea ad Dominum  

verses 12 TO God, I poured my Supplication,  
And unto Him, my troubled State made known.  
verse 3 When grieved, Thou sawst my way; How in that way  
Moore anxious made, the False their Snares did lay.   

verse 4 I looked for Help, but no man would Me know;  
To mine Affliction, every One was Foe;  
verse 5 Than to my God I cried; Lord! Thou alone  
Ith' Land o'th' Living, art my Portion.   

verse 6 Lord! I'm brought low; My God deliver Me!  
And from my powerful Persecutors, free;  
verse 7 Give back my Liberty! and th' Righteous  
joined All with Me, shall All in Thee rejoice.    

Psalm CXLIII.  
Domine exaudi.  

verse 1 HEar, Lord! my Prayer; Consider mine Address  
For thy Truth's sake, and for thy Righteousness;  
verse 2 Judge not thy Servant! for in thy pure sight  
Who's spotless found? who shall be found upright?   

verses 3-4 My Foes, successful, have prevailed; struck down  
My Life; and in the low, dark Dungeon thrown;  
Like One that's Dead, I'm covered o'er with Night;  
Shut from the Day, and the departed Light.   

Lost to All Joys, and buried unto Life,  
Benumbed with Cold, 've no Sense but of Grief.  
verse 5 But yet my Soul looks forth; looks back, and sees  
The wonders of thy Old Deliv'rances.   

I muse on All thy works; and in my Mind  
Free, and enlarged, a whole World I found.  
verse 6 O free me quite! To Thee I lift my Hands,  
Gasp for thy Help, as for Rain, thirsty Lands.   

verse 6 Hear, Lord! I faint; O hear Me speedily!  
My Life's expiring; and the Grave draws nigh.  
verse 8 Lord! with the breaking Light, let Joy return!  
And thy Salvation with the rising Morn.   

Teach me to know the Path where I should tread!  
And in th' instructed way, my frail steps lead.  
verse 9 Lord! Save my Soul from its fierce Enemies;  
Which to thine Arms, for Aid, and Shelter flies.   

verse 10 Let thy good Spirit my faint Soul possess!  
And lead me into th' Land of Righteousness.  
verse 11 For thine Own Glory, Lord! Raise my fallen State!  
And to thy Mercies Honour, vindicate.   

verse 12 Cut of my Foes, and sink Them to the Grave!  
Let not thy Servant be his Enemy's Slave.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CXLIV.  
Benedictus Dominus.  

verses 12 Blessed be the Lord teaches my Hands to War;  
My Hope; my Fortress, and Deliverer.  
Subdues my People; Crowns Me with Success;  
And ends my War in Victory, and Peace.  
verse 3 Lord! What is Man Thou shouldst thus honour Him?  
Thus high, the low, th' valued Thing esteem?   

verse 4 Like the prove shade hasts his contracting Span!  
And the same poise weighs Vanity, and Man.  
verse 5 Lord! Bow the heavens; and let the stooping Cloud  
The flaming Mounts in glorious Horrors shroud!  
verse 6 The piercing Lightnings break their close array!  
And their disordered Troops thy Thunder slay.   

verse 7 Thus on my Foes! On Me descend in Love!  
The Arm that slays can rescue from Above,  
Stretch forth that Arm! and from the mighty wave  
Draw forth my Soul, and from strange Children save:  
verse 8 Whose perjured Lips no sacred Vows can bind,  
Their Hand Plights Faith, but from a faithless Mind.   

verse 9 Than, to the Harp, my voice I'll higher raise;  
And made victorious, sing another Praise,  
verse 10 Sing, that our God alone Salvation brings  
To David, and to his Anointed Kings.  
verse 11 Save Me from Those whose Lips no vows can bind,  
Whose Hand plights Faith but from a faithless Mind.   

verse 12 That like young Plants, vigorous, and flourishing,  
(Our hopeful Branches) All our Sons may spring.  
And, like the Temple's polished Marbles, may  
Our Daughters, fair, and graceful be as they!  
verse 13 May our blessed Stores be with all Plenty filled!  
And our Sheep Thousands and ten thousands yield.   

verse 14 Our Cattles, strong to break the laboured Ground;  
No Cries, no Ravages, our Quiet wound.  
verse 15 Blessed are such People; yea, thrice blessed, are They  
Whom God Protects, and who that God obey.   
Gloria of Two Verses.   

Psalm CXLV.  
Exaltabo Te Domine.  

verses 12 THee, Day by Day, Great God I'll magnify;  
Will Praise Thee now, Praise Thee Eternally.  
verse 3 The Lord is Great, above all Praise is Great;  
No Limits to his boundless power are set.  
verse 4 Age shall tell Age; This, shall tell That succeeds;  
None shall not know, and none not sing thy deeds.   

verse 5 I will declare thy glorious Acts, sing high  
Thy Works, and th' Honour of thy Majesty.  
verses 6-7 Mankind shall hear and spread thy distant Name,  
And All record the Stories of thy Fame.  
Thy Acts of Terror, and thy Acts of Love;  
The Judgements, and Compassions from Above.   

verse 8 The Lord is Good; The Lord is slow to Wrath;  
His boundless termless Love no measure hath.  
verse 9 All Mankind his abundant Goodness prove,  
And All his works share his extended love.  
verse 10 All thy works, Lord! Thee magnify, and All  
Thy Saints confessing thee, before thee fall.   

verse 11 They sing thy Power, sing thy Majesty;  
Sing thy great Kingdom, and thy Praise on high,  
verse 12 That unto All, thy Kingdom may be known,  
And All flesh honour thine exalted Throne.  
verse 13 Thy Kingdom an eternal Kingdom is,  
Beyond the Ages of Posterities.   

verse 14 The Lord sustains the falling; Those fallen down  
He raises up, and lifts them from the Ground.  
verse 15 All Eyes do wait on thee; thy Providence  
Thy Blessings to All Creatures does dispense.  
verse 16 By thine extended Hand they're satisfied,  
And at thine inexhausted Stores are fed.   

verse 17 The Lord in all his do, righteous is;  
And all his works express his holiness.  
verse 18 The Lord, to All who call upon Him's nigh;  
To All who call upon Him and obey.  
verse 19 He'll hear their Prayer, and will save All them  
Who fear, and faithfully rely on Him.   

verse 20 God shall the Righteous bless; but th' hated Root  
Of the ungodly shall be cursed out.  
verse 21 Bless Thou the Lord, my Soul! and join with Me  
All Flesh to bless his Name eternally.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CXLVI.  
Lauda Anima mea.  

verses 12 SOul! Praise the Lord; from him, thou dost receive  
Thy Being; and in him dost move and live.  
O! While that Breath of Life, that Being stays,  
The Donour of that Breath and Being Praise.   

verse 3 Trust not in Princes! in no Mortal trust!  
Not lasting Help can come from him that's Dust.  
verse 4 For when his vanished Life is fled away  
All his Thoughts perish; and the Great Prince is Clay.   

verse 5 But blessed is He, and faithful is his Trust,  
Who hopes in God, the Portion of the Iust  
men's Trusts in Death, or in Oblivion sleep,  
Th' ETERNAL does eternal Promise keep.   

verse 6 Who, Heaven, and Earth, and Sea, and all the Coasts  
Of Nature made peopled with numerous Hosts.  
verses 7-8 The Friendless, Helpless, Poor; th' Oppressed relieves;  
And Food unto the pining Hungry gives.   

Restores the Blind, and makes the dark Eye see;  
Strikes of the Prisoner's Chain, and sets him free.  
Raises the bowed and fallen down; keeps the upright;  
For They're Gods Care, who are their God's Delight.   

verse 9 The Widow, Stranger, and the Fatherless,  
God does protect, but does th' unjust depress.  
verse 9 Such, Zion! is thy King; whose endless Reign  
Shall from, and to Eternity remain.    

Psalm CXLVII.  
Laudate Dominum.  

SIng Praise! 'tis good unto our God to sing;  
Praise is a decent, joyful Offering.  
The Lord his fallen Jerusalem rebuilds,  
Recalls his exiles to their banished Fields.   

To the grieved, anguished Soul, does Joys impart,  
And pours His Balm into the wounded Heart.  
The Stars, the Ornaments of heavens glittering Frame,  
Though infinite, He calls Them forth by Name.   

Great is our God, his immense Power is Great;  
And like his Wisdom, All is infinite.    


verse 13 Let Heaven and Earth their great Creator bless!  
And great above them Both, his Praise express.  
verse 14 He shall the Power of his People raise,  
And They with all his Saints their God shall Praise.    

Psalm CXLIX.  
Cantate Domino.  

verses 12 SIng a New Song! i'th' Saint's Assembly sing!  
Bless Zion! thy Creator, and thy King.  
verse 3 Praise him by every graceful Motion;  
The Dance, and th' various conspiring Tone.   

verse 4 For God delights in his; and he will crown  
The Meek with beauties of Salvation.  
verse 5 With Glory let the joyful Saints rejoice!  
And in their Bed lift up their cheerful voice.   

verses 6-7 His Praise be in their mouths! and in their hands  
A two edged Sword to cut through th' Heathen's Bands  
verse 8 To triumph i'th' Success their Conquest brings  
Upon their Captive Nobles, and their Kings.   

verse 9 To reap the Glories which his Promise grants;  
Such Honour, telling them, have All his Saints.   
Gloria of two Verses.   

Psalm CL.  
Laudate Dominum in.  

verse 1 O Praise God in his Power and Holiness!  
verse 2 His noble Acts excelling Greatness bless!  
Unite each differing Vibration,  
From Air, from Strings, and trembling Bodies thrown!  
The Trumpet, Harp, and waving Cimbal join!  
And let their differing Tones conspire in One.   

verse 6 Each living Soul, that Soul unto him raise!  
And coin its Breath of Life into his Praise. Amen.      

HYMNS Used in the Church Service.  

[Te Deum laudamus.]  

THEE, O our Ood! we praise; and thee  
Confess to be the only Lord.  
To bless thy Name, O thou most High!  
All the dissenting World accord.   

Angels and heavens joynth ' loud Hymn;  
And all the high Celestial Powers.  
The Cherubin and Seraphim  
Thus pass their blessed, Eternal Hours.   

" O Holy, Holy Lord most High!  
" O Holy God of Sabaoth!  
" Full of thy glorious Majesty  
" All Earth is, and all Heaven is both.   

Th' Apostles add themselves to th' Choir,  
And all the Prophets, full of Thee,  
Thy present Vision does inspire  
With Raptures for Eternity.   

Triumphant Martyrs bring their Palms,  
And Songs, and Crowns of Victory;  
And we, thy Militants, our Psalms,  
With all thy Church confessing thee.     



All Glory to the Majesty on High!  
The ever blessing, blessed Trinity.  
As i'th' Beginning was, is now; shall be  
When Time shall pass into Eternity,    

Gloria of six Verses.  

O Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord most High,  
Coequal, Coeternal Deity!  
Who mad'st us; didst Redeem; and dost inspire  
Our Soul's fallen heat with new Celestial Fire,  
We bless thee now, and shall Eternally,  
O Holy! Holy! Holy Lord most High!    

Gloria of eight Verses.  

To God who did created the World's great Frame;  
To God by whom lost Man's Redemption came;  
To God who Graces sends, God th' Holy Ghost,  
We now, give Praise, with all the Heavenly Host.  
Thy early praises i'th' Beginning were;  
When all the Morning Stars made up the Choir: 
Job. 38. v. 7.   
Thee, all thy Works, Angels and Men adore;  
As we do now; and shall do evermore.   
Hallelujah.    


PSALM I  
To this Tune may be Sang all those Psalms, whose Verses are Five Feet, and their Stanza Eight Verses  
Blessings' Crown his fair Soul who does not stray,  
Led by false Counsels in the Sinners way.  
Who hath not sat in the proud scorners Seat,  
Who mock at Piety and God forget;  
But in God's Law hath set his whole Delight;  
And makes that Law his study Day & Night  
He's like the Fruitful Tree, whose spreading Root,  
Fed by the living Streams yield timely Fruit.  Mr. MICH. WISE.  

PSAL. XIX  
To this Tune may be sung any Psalm, whose Verses are Five Feet, and the Stanza Six Verses.  
THe heavens declare a God; Th' extended Sky  
tell that their Maker was not lesle than he.  
Day without voice tells day, and night tells night.  
Twisting Time's winding chain of shade and light.  
What Land's unknown to night, or shuts out day!  
which part the world, and run divided way.   

PSALM LXVII  
To this Tune may be Sung any Psalm whose Verses are Five Feet, and its Stanza Four Verses.  
BE merciful O God chase away Night;  
And bless us with the vision of thy light.  
That unto all the Earth thy way be known,  
Thy u╌ni╌ver╌sal glad Sal╌va╌ti╌on.  Mr. Michael Wise.  

Those Psalms whose Verses are Four Feet, and their Stanza Four Verses, may be sung to the usual Tune of the 100 Psalm. Or of this Gloria.  
TO God the Father, God the Son,  
and God the Spirit; Glory be,  
as was when Time its Race begun,  
and shall be for Eternity.   

PSALM XV.  
To this Tune may be Sung any Psalm whose Verses are Four Feet, and their Stanza Six Verses.  
LOrd who among the Just shall devil?  
Or who rest on thy Holy Hill?  
He, who a guileless Life does lead,  
And in the paths of Justice tread.  
In whose firm Soul Truth sets her Throne;  
Whose Lip's above Detraction.   

PSALM XI.  
Those Psalms whose Verses are Four Feet, and their Stanza Eight Verses, may be sung to the known Tunes of the LIVELY Psalm, or the Lamentation.  
ANd cannot God Defend?  
The God in whose Protection I re╌lie;  
Cannot He secure lend?  
But like a Bird to the Hills for safe╌ty I must fly.  Mr. MICH. WiSE  

PSALM XLVI.  
O Present still! O still protecting Lord;  
Who help to thy distressed dost afford.  
What can us fright? should the fixed Laws o'th' World,  
Be broke, and Mountains into Seas be hurled.  
Though Hills through Tempests, rock; Seas overgrow;  
O'er immense Cliffs the vaster Billows flow;  
' Midst its own Calm, Zion the Storm derides;  
Zion the Holy place where God resides.  
Fear not any mortal Powers!  
Who can hurt, when God is Ours?  Mr. Michael Wise.  

PSALM XXIV.  
verse 1 The Earth is God's and All that is therein;  
All Things all Creatures, and the Sons of men  
verse 2 He, its foundations on the floating Bed  
o'th' Floods hath set; and Firmly established.   

PSALM XXXII.  
verse 1 How blessed! how happy is the man, whose sin  
God covers, and his stained Soul makes clean.  
verse 2 Thrice happy he, whose sins are all forgot,  
And in whose guiless Soul is found no spot.   

PSALM XLIX.  
verse 1 Hear O ye Sons of Men who ere ye are,  
verse 2 High, low, rich, poor, secure, or full of Care,  
One with Another; for All equal be  
In the great doom Passed on mortality.   

PSALM LXVI.  
verse 1 Let all the World their different voices raise!  
And the one only Language, speak of Praise.  
verse 2 Sing forth his honour All! Each his part bear,  
And in his Glory, join the distant Quire.  
See Psalm 67. among the foregoing Tunes.   

PSALM XCI.  
verse 1 Who, the Almighty his Defence has made,  
May rest secure under the powerful shade,  
verse 2 'Tis God alone whose strength can secure me,  
All my dependence, Lord! and Hope's in Thee.   

PSALM XCVI.  
verse 1 Sing a new Song to God Let All conspire  
In his great Praise, and make the World one Quire.  
verse 2 Give him continual honour! Let each day  
His known Salvation to the next convey.   

PSALM CXXXIII.  
O Unity! Celestial Unity!  
Where Good, and Pleasant in one joined be,  
Where peaceful Brethrens do consent in Thee,  
How blessed to All, is the blessed Harmony.