i WOODFORD (Samuel) D.D. A Para- 
 phrase upon the Psalms of David, fine front, 
 by Loggan, 4to, calf, 5s 1667 
 
 With the autograph of Simon Harcourt, 1724. 
 
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TO, THE 
 
 Right Reverend Father in God, 
 
 GE OR G E 
 
 Lord Bishop of 
 
 WINTON. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 ^!l|2^f He favourable fentence^ow 
 Lordjhip paft on the follow- 
 ing Paraphrafe, when it 
 flrft appeared before you as its judge, 
 has encouraged me to make choice 
 
 A? of 
 
7 he Epi/lle Dedicatory. 
 of you alone for its Tatron : and 
 I heartily wifli it were as fit an ob- 
 ject of your TroteBion now, as 
 it was then of your Clemency. 
 There is nothing, I confefs, worthy 
 its Commendation to fo (jreat a 
 JsQtme, but the Argument on 
 which it is employ'd * and having 
 defign'd it to the Service of the Mtar, 
 I was convinc't there was no hand 
 more proper than your Lordfhips to 
 offer it up there. For befide the 
 per feci: under flan ding , which your 
 Lordfljij) has of affairs of this 
 nature ( being able not only mod 
 juftly to decree according to the old , 
 but to give new , and more fubftan-. 
 tial Laws to all kinds of Poefy) the 
 moft confiderable part of the enfuing 
 Work was done under your Lord* 
 ^/^•fjurifdiclion* in a place where I 
 
 had 
 
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 had the happinefs to enjoy all the 
 contents of a private Retirement, 
 and amongft the reft , that fecejfum 
 fcrihentis , &otia t which the great 
 Mafter of Verfe knew abfolutely 
 neceflary to fuch an undertaking. 
 So that by the fevered form of De- 
 dication , your Lord/hip has an un- 
 deniable right to this , and it would 
 be a piece of great injuftice, to make 
 a Trefent of that to another , which 
 to your felf only is a true and war- 
 rantable debt. For fuch indeed it is , 
 as refpedting your Lord/trips Title, 
 who,over and above all other qualifi- 
 cations,are the mod obliging 'Promo- 
 ter of thefe ftudies; and on my part 
 fo eafie to fatisfie, that it amounts 
 to little more than a bare acknow- 
 ledgement, like the prefenting a 
 %ofe once a year, and doing Fealty 
 
 A 4. for 
 
The Epi/lle Dedicatory. 
 
 forfome great Tenure; thefmalleft 
 Chief-rent that can be paid by any 
 Tenant , efpecially him , who has 
 an ambition to hold of none, rather 
 thanyourLordfiip, all tho{zT)emefnes 
 of Chriftian Poefy, if he may fo 
 call them, of which, under you alone, 
 he deiires to be look't upon as the 
 Vnwrtby Improver, and to profefs 
 himfelf with all manner of Devotion, 
 
 My Lord, 
 Jour Lord/hips moft faithful 
 and obedient Servant, 
 
 Bended Haunts, 
 
 1667. 
 
 
 SXX7 
 A M. W OODFORD. 
 
 
 
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 The Preface. 
 
 T is not my intention to fiend time in 
 tranjeribing thofe fever a I Elogies 3 
 which Holy men in their writings 
 have given the Book.of Pfalmesi, For 
 to do that here ? were but to make a 
 tedious repetition of the fame things 
 and ufurping another s Province, but meanly to pursue 
 that D which is no left powerfully .fh an frequently incul- 
 cated by the Divine Oratory of the Church. I thinly 
 there is none but will acknowledge that it is a part 
 of Scripture, which is, an djl) all for ever be ejieemed 
 worthy the care, andftudy both of the greatefi Scho- 
 lars, andfublimefl Wits of all ages 5 and where, as 
 the weakejl under]} an dings mayfinde enough for their 
 fatisfaclion , the fever eft and moji curious Critic kf, 
 may havefcope and opportunity to exercife , and im~ 
 prove their richeji Talent. For what can be moreplea- 
 fant than to inquire 3 who were the Compojers, to ex- 
 plain the many obfeure Titles, and frequent allufions to 
 fever al cujioms by us utterly unknown, and to let the 
 World underfl and, what it is yet ignorant of , where- 
 in confjied the true nature of the Hebrew Poefy ? But 
 thefe , as above my Capacity , ifial/purpofely omit, 
 
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 and tn<ik§ it niy bujinej? only to give fo me little ac- 
 count of the defign p and conduit of the following 
 Work. 
 
 But before 1 can proceed to that , Imnfl here, by 
 way of Apology for my undertaking it 5 freely confefi 
 that fuch an argument as this , would have appear d 
 much better in the hands of one, who had made Divi- 
 nity his chief efifiudy : and can only fay for myfelfthat 
 as I did it to pleafe fome part icular friends 9 andfor 
 my own diverfton {next to that great dejign of the glory 
 of God, andfervice of his Church : )Jo having now at 
 length finifljt it, and by them, and fever al others urgd 
 to make it more public^, I thought my felf bound, by 
 fome fuch Preface as this , to provide for this ijjue of 
 my brain, with the lame diligence and care that other 
 Parents are wont for their legitimate Children. Not 
 that I have fo good an Opinion ofthefe labours , as 
 fondly to believe they deferve it , but becauje their na- 
 tural deformities require the greater Portion to put 
 them off'. For I am too confeious of their nrany de- 
 fers, and my own inabilities for fo great an affaire, 
 as in good earneft to attempt their defence : or, if I 
 would have no way left to make it, but that , which 
 to all ingenuous fpir its is very difagreeable 5 by throw- 
 ing the blame on others better able, and who have had, 
 it may be , much fairer opportunities than my felf of 
 performing fo worthy an enterprise. Had any fuch 
 excellent perfonfo employed his vacant hours, it might 
 have prevented the publiflnng thefe rudeEffays ofmine^ 
 whereas now all that I can expeB from them k, that 
 after affvere cenfure,they may happily befo fortunate, 
 0$ to give occafonto another s better thoughts: And I 
 
 heartily 
 
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 heartily mflj fome One of Our many Reverend \ and 
 Learned Divines, who have a true undcrflanding and 
 gufifor Poejy , would hereby be provol(t to undertake 
 fo noble ajubjeff. For as there is not any condition of 
 men fo fitted for the fublime notions of Toe fy as they\ 
 there is nofiudy whatfoever , which either is fo truly 
 worthy of or comes neerer their Profejfwn. Theology 
 and Poejy have in all ages of the World gone hand in 
 hand nor is there really fuch a difparity between their 
 Natures, as is generally^ though without any reafon 5 
 imagined. For if one has been look} on as containing 
 the Will and Pleafure 3 the other no left has been 
 reckoned the Stile , and Language of Heaven. Mufck^ 
 and Numbers, the chiefeji of the Liberal Arts, Jerve 
 but as Hand-maids to this Great and All-command" 
 ing Mijlrifi. 'Tis I k$ow not what /find of Divine 
 Science, purely jingular,and only like itfelf which even 
 in the Opinion of all, has more of Divinity in it than 
 words can exprefi and therefore was continually al- 
 lowed a Stall in the Temple , and received into the 
 Devotions of the moji Religious, and Civilized, as 
 well as Barbarous Nations. If we look^into the 
 Jewijh Adminijiration , we fh all finde that the People 
 of Ifrael were nofooner delivered from the ^Egyptian 
 chains, and that the fame Sea , which parted itfelf 
 to mak§ them way, returned upon their Enemies , but 
 immediately Mofes 3 their great Law-giver, continues 
 the remembrance both of the Miracle , and their 
 deliverance in a moil excellent and Poetical Jong: 
 which 1 verily believe is not only the moji antient piece 
 of Poetry now extant, but written as foon, if not be* 
 fore any other part of the Pentateuch. Nay God him*- 
 
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 fclf we afterwards finde^ gave him particular charge ', 
 and inspiration^ a little before his death Jo compofe a- 
 nother Hymn^ withjlrift command to teach it the Peo* 
 pie who thereby having it continually in their mouths, 
 {fitch he knew was the charm of verfe,') might both be 
 encouraged in their duty. and become witnejjes againji 
 t hem/elves, when at any time they turned to idolatry. 
 If the Book_of ]obfljall be efteemed by any of an 
 ancienter date {which I fiould very hardly be per- 
 fuaded to afjent to, at imagined to be done, though 
 by the fame hand, yet during his retirement with his 
 Father-in-law, before he wasfent on his great EmbaJJy 
 to Pharao) from the beginning of the third chapter, 
 to the middle of the laji , it is one continued Poem: 
 in which there are fuch lofty and exalted MeUphors , 
 lively Similitudes , pompous Defcriptions 3 Jirength 
 of Elocution, and prodigious flights of Wit and Fancy, 
 that you cannot meet any thing to compare with it in 
 the choicefi collections of all the Old Poets. Ton 
 there may fee Divinity flourifnng upon a root of Poefy^ 
 and that again loaded with the generous produUions 
 of Divinity: both fo infeparably united each to other, 
 that Ukejiock andcyon they make but one plant, and 
 leave it hard to be judged whether the Author were the 
 greater Divine , or Poet. The Latines very properly 
 comprehended both thefe fublime Functions under the 
 fingle Title of their Mates, accounting it nolefs unfit 
 than unreafonable, that two offices fojtr ait ly united of 
 thofe of the Pricji and Poetflwuld be known by dijtinff^ 
 and different Names. I pall not here inquire into the 
 Reafons they had for fo doing only this lam affured^ 
 how many andfirong fo ever t hey were they cannot 
 
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 compare with Ours of the true Religion. The infpira- 
 tions of both proceed from the fame father of Spirits, 
 and are Cele/iial flames, that darted from above, are 
 never well but when they are thither rifing up again : 
 Only Poefy like that Sacred fire , which God font down 
 of Old to conjume the Sacrifices, returns with a little 
 more fmoke. 1 hey both came down from Heaven. and 
 thither arc alwaies taking their flight j but Divinity 
 never feems to make fuch hafl 9 as on the wings of 
 good Voefy, I muficonfefat this day, but by what ill 
 Fate I know not , they are looked upon without the 
 leafi relation to each other , and grown themfelvesfo 
 much fir angers , that like fifier -fir earns once parted 
 from the Springy they run different courfes,and are fo 
 far from meeting again , that they veryfeldom come in 
 fight of each other. For though the Precepts of the 
 School ferve excellently , if rightly apply ed, to adorn 
 and enrich hk Fancy, who hath a natural Genius to 
 Voefy , yet we dayly fee them ineffectual to create it. 
 And he who findes not in himfelf thofe hidden Alines 
 of Invention, and mofi happy and unaffected Facility, 
 which only make the Poet, ffjould never be perfuaded by 
 me to attempt the ravifhing her by force , whom by 
 fair means he cannot allure to be hk Miflrijt. For to 
 what but this may we attribute thofe many lame , and 
 imperfect draughts of Poems , both Originals , and 
 Tranflations , which are to be feen in almofi every 
 language £ where, if they have been the Authors own , 
 they are his bare thoughts and lifelefs Profe [for I 
 fpeak^now efpecially of Modern Poefy ) made worfe by 
 the uneajy fljackles of confining Metre : and if ver- 
 fions fo exaUly laboured ad verbum , that what by 
 
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 the unlucky tranfpofing of words 3 what by leaving 
 out fome little particles , wherein the grace of the 
 jentence did ccnfiji 5 they lofe all their former beauty , 
 and from excellent Profe, though the language continue 
 the fame , degenerate into very in different 3 and 
 untuneable Rhyme. This has been a failing fo general, 
 that I need not feekfar to illujirate it by examples. 
 But none in my opinion have been fo guilty of it , as 
 thofe, who have had for their argument fome excel- 
 lent piece of Scripture or pious matter, which 
 with the embelliJJjments of Art, and the true Poets 
 eafmefs, and invention would, upon them oft durable 
 foundations , have made the faireftfaperftru&ures in 
 the World. But how miferably have the great eft 
 part been overfeen, whilft all their pains have 
 been beftow'd to comfofe a few ill-contrivd Cadences, 
 putting themfelves to an unimaginable torture to 
 mak§ thofe conceptions intolerable by the ftraitneftof 
 verfe , which elfe might have done well enough in 
 loofer Profit Thefe are the men to whom we 
 are in a great meafure beholden for the low 
 efteem Poejy new has amongji us 5 though at the 
 fame time they have not only rendred that ridicu- 
 lous 3 but humbled Divinity , which fupplyes the 
 Poet with his nobleft, and moft lofty fubjeSs. And 
 I am very apt to believe , that a man of an Har- 
 monious foul (fuch as all true Poets are) though he 
 be but indifferently skil'd in the controverfies of 
 the School- men , and the nicer points of Divinity, 
 (by which pojfibly the Peace of the Church has been 
 more difturbed, than ever it was advantagd*) 
 fiall make much better work, ** hi* w a y tf 
 
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 an Argument tah§nfrom the Holy -Bible, than the 
 fublimeji and mofl Scholajiical Wit, who is unac- 
 quainted with the laws of Poefy. But how few are 
 there of thefe fevere Scholars , and only learned 
 men (as they would be thought) in an age, who 
 have any reliifl) , or the leaji ejieem for Poefy , but 
 rather judging it by the abufe . look^ on it as a 
 fruit left , and moji unprofitable jludy , unworthy 
 the thoughts of fuch as are advanct in years j 
 and the greateji incentive to loojnejS \ and debau- 
 chery in youth? Others there are of a quite dif- 
 ferent humor , who though pojjibly they may have 
 for it the higheji , and mofl reverend ejieem , yet 
 thinks Holy- Writ is barren of all good jubjeffs , 
 and the only thing that is incapable of its gay and 
 fplendid embroyderies. I pall make it my bufinefS 
 therefore , in f Japing an anjher to both thefe , at 
 once to defend Poejy in the general from thoje 
 calumnies, which are no lefs malicioujly, thanfaljly 
 charged upon it, and then give a fljort ajjay to the 
 rejioring Divine Poefy to its ancient dignity and 
 lujhc. 
 
 If therefore we confider Poefy in her firji injlitu~ 
 tion , ere fide became a common Profiitute to lufl^ 
 flattery, ignorance, and ambition, we fh all find her 
 alone acknowledged as the Soveraign Prince fs of 'the 
 civilized World, and behold her from her Throne 
 giving Laws , not only to their Religion and Policy, 
 but a jo to their manners. Her Court was ejieemed 
 the proper ^ and only jchool of Virtue , to which the 
 greateji Princes form,4 theirs , and under her cujiody 
 ahne was ktpt feaCd that Fountain, whence all 
 
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 the profitable injiruBions of life were to be drawn. 
 Phylofophy it felf was a thing of no ufe 5 and dejii- 
 tute of arms , till fie fupflyd them > nor dnrfi it 
 appear in the World without the eajy chain of Verfi^ 
 in token of fubmijfwn to her, for its pafs-port. And 
 when afterward the Torch and Academy by main 
 force brake it off^ the jiriBefi Precepts of the moji 
 rigid SeB D as to the regulating of Manners 5 came 
 infinitely fort of thofe examples 5 which fi)e exhibi- 
 ted on her Theaters* The fame may be faid ofal- 
 mofi all other Arts 5 that from her they receivd 
 their birth and vigor. Neither was this Divine 
 Mijirifs lefs courteoufly receivd into the Cam^ 
 where her foft Numbers were with pleafure heard 
 amids the confufed noife of Arms. Hence mighty 
 Generals had the befi InflruBion both for their 
 ConduB^ and Valour 3 and were encouraged by the 
 Records of Antiquity 3 which fome Poet had faith- 
 fully prejervd, to do them/elves famous ABs wor- 
 thy the like praife of Pojierity. This was that , 
 which in all their ViBories they ejpecially fought , 
 and in perpetual acknowledgement^ that they thence 
 receivd their great eft honour in their mofi [olemn 
 Triumphs^ when Crowns of Gold were only in Jiate 
 carried before them they chofe themfelves to wear 
 the Poets Meede^ Laurel^ Chaplets. 
 
 Such was Poejy of old 3 with a command as ab- 
 folute , and unconfind as her Dominions, and al- 
 w ayes found either ferving at the Altars^ or ofCounfel 
 Royal to the great eft Princes. E?4 it was not long 
 that fije continud in this great dignity and repute 5 
 For in pnnifijment for her early defeBion from the 
 
 fervice 
 
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 fervice of the True God, where fie firft attended, to 
 that of Devils, of a Vrince[sfl)e became a /lave , and 
 fenfibly, though by degrees loft all her Title to Sove* 
 raignty , and abfolute jurifdiffion, for in the Temples 
 of the Heathen Deities, though by a kind of Spiritual 
 Authority , Jfje kept in awe whole Nations , which 
 from her mouth receivd all their Oracles, yet even 
 there, by her ownPrie/is wasfije her /elf abus'd, and 
 knew no Infpirations , but what either they did in- 
 vent , or were fuggejiedto her by the great Deceiver • 
 Here it was, that by frequent ufe , fl)e learnt all man- 
 ner of Prophanefs , and by often ascribing that to 
 falfe gods , which was the alone glory of the True, 
 from low, and mean thoughts of him, foe brake forth 
 into open rebellion , purfuing Heaven with her blaf- 
 phemies , and fending all her impieties up thither f 
 whence at firfb fie obtained all her Power 5 like a 
 River, whofe pa/fage is obftruUed , that runs bac\ 
 upon its own/pring, carrying mud and flime along 
 with it , and overflows , an d defiles thofe Altars 9 
 which in its clear and un- interrupt edcourfe before it 
 did butwa/l). Having thus humbled her, it wasfome a- 
 ges ere the grand Tyrant offered her any other violence , 
 and even f ear lefs of a revolt , permitted her the free 
 ufe of that command flie had gain d ore the minds of 
 men , and flill continue to be , according to her own 
 nature , the Patronefiof all true and Heroical virtue. 
 But in process of time from his and the Priefls , fl)t 
 was made the peoples Idol, and no longer remaining 
 fo much as a Juppos'd Virgin , became perfe&ly obfe~ 
 quious to the wills and humors of fitch as had the 
 confidence to debauch her ( though a perpetual curfe 
 
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 of Poverty confiantly followed the committers of \° 
 great a Rape ) to pleafe them fie began to affeS new> 
 andimmodejl drejjes, which to all the world elfe ren- 
 dred her fiill more deform d 3 and in awhile guilty of 
 all that obfcenity 3 which fie had before condemned 
 upon thejlage. 
 
 And in this flat e of flavery is fijeloo^t or, by the 
 mofi part of men ', who only judging of her by t he pre- 
 fent,and what hurt file may do, by what fie has already 
 done ( like Artillery byfurprife come into the Enemies 
 hand) forget how fervice able file has notwithfianding 
 formerly been to the civilizd , and may yet be to the 
 Chriflian World. Injiead ofcenfuring and condemn- 
 ing her^ it were good I thinks, to take her byforce,and 
 rejlore her to the Church of God, where fiie has been too 
 long a fir anger* Poems of Morality, which have been of 
 late no left aufpicioujly 3 than worthily begun (fetch 
 Epiifc and Lyrifc Poems I chiefly mean , though the 
 Drammatify alfo may be of excellent ufe , fo it be 
 kept within its due bounds 3 as with all the liberty 
 of Invention, riches of Fancy and the true Poets 
 Art, have been contriv d to exprefs the real Portrait 
 of Virtue in all its various appearances 3 and to de- 
 fer ibe Vice in its lively, though otherwayes mojl hate- 
 ful colours 3 thefe I fay) make thefirftfiep to her con- 
 verfion : and it may in my poor opinion be promoted 
 amongfi us, by translating anew the beflofthe ancient 
 and {ome few Kjfidem Poets [ who have made it their 
 bufinefs to cloath excellent Morality , and various 
 learning in a chaft jiile , and by gracefully rendring 
 them in our own language : fo that the fenfe may nei- 
 ther feem torturd , and put on the rad{ by too fir ait a 
 
 verjion , 
 
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 verfion, nor be out of knowledge in one too looje and 
 flowing. But this great task can never be perfected , 
 fince we are to expect no new Revelations , tillPoejy 
 comes again to be fettled upon her firji great Bafts, 
 The Divine inspiration , reveal d in the holy Scrip- 
 tures. 
 
 And this brings my difcourfe to them , who con- 
 fidently , though without any reason , offer t that the 
 J acred Word has notfub\e&s agreeable enough for this 
 kind of writing. But because Mr. Cowley in that 
 part of his Preface before his Poems , which con- 
 cerns his incomparable Davideci has taken the pains 
 fully to remove that ill report , which was brought on 
 this happy Land, if I may fo call it, either igno- 
 rant ly or malicioufly , iJJjall give myfelf the Ufs trou- 
 ble, and refer my Reader to the place itfelf, where he 
 may have allthatfatisfaUon that either Reafon or Reli- 
 gion can expeff. Nor can thofe authorities he brings 
 be excepted againji , feeing he hath fo ftrongly con* 
 firmed them by the Poem it felf, where though the 
 Argument be wholy Divine , there is to be found, as 
 much a* could be expe&ed for the firji fitting , what 
 ever is requifite to make an Heroic\ Poem beautiful: 
 found judgement , happy invention, graceful dijpofi- 
 tion , unaffeftedfacility 9 flrid obfervance of decen- 
 cies, and allfet off with that majefiy and fweetnefs of 
 verfe, that it is to be lamented he had not an oppor- 
 tunity before his death , to finifi it according to his 
 own Model, and the provipon he had laid up to that 
 purpofe* And truly all his Divine Poems , have I 
 know not what greatnefs of fpirit which you pall 
 feldom meet with elfewhere , and in which generally 
 
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 he hat as much out-done himfelf, at in the reji equal 1 d 
 the mofl happy of our modern Poets. So that if 
 Religious D and Pious compositions , at has been often 
 obferved, pleafenot , the fault can be no longer un- 
 jujily thrown upon the Materials D but muji return 
 vpon the Compofers want of skill to manage them to the 
 beji advantage. The Holy Bible doubtlefs is an excel- 
 lent Soil 3 and of fuch kindly nature , that if it were 
 cultivated either as it ought , or only as the barren 
 fand of Antiquity 3 and all the tedious fables of the 
 Beathenijt) fuperjiition too often have been, it would 
 produce the greateji , and mofl rich increafe. For 
 hefides, that like them it has never yet been throughly 
 broken up 3 the mofl unfruitful part of it , at leaji 
 that which mayfeemfo , abounds with inexhaujiible 
 Mines 5 which would plentifully reward any that 
 Jfjould labour in them. And it were bejide unreafon- 
 able to think, that Paleftine alone, which was Jo 
 fruitful of all things elfe, Jlwuld be barren only of 
 Laurels. 
 
 To blame our language is a fondnefs every whit as 
 extravagant , efpecially conjidering the great fupply , 
 which hath been of late y eat s , and is daily brought 
 to it by unexpeUed difcoveries of Nature $ and Im- 
 provement of the Arts, which do not only furnifl) the 
 Poet with incredible variety of new and unufual con- 
 ceits to exercije his Fancy , but with an immenfe com- 
 pany of words alfo to enrich his exprejficn. But to 
 fitch ObjeSors 1 fliall only [ay , that if the Englifi 
 Dialed , not only as it isfpokenat this day , but as it 
 was in ufe the laji age, were ferioufly and impartially 
 examined 3 it will appear not only as copious and 
 
 fignificant 
 
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 Jtgnificant for Profe , but as comprehenfive of the fub- 
 limeji notions of Verfe as any modern Language in 
 Europe j and to equal , if not in fome qualities ex- 
 ceed^ thofe of old Rome and Athens. But for 
 Numbers it is Jo naturally fuited that excepting the 
 Rhyme , which in fo great a choice of words as we 
 have is very eafte to be found, even in ordinary fpeakc 
 ing, or writing, they can hardly and not without 
 fome pain ( // it were curioufly inquired into ) be 
 avoided. But my zeal for Poefy has carried me, 1 am 
 afraid, too far ', and made me almoji forget what 
 I pro mi fed in the beginning Jo give afhort account of 
 the following work. 
 
 It is now therefore Come years Jince I hadmyfirji 
 and great defire to turn the Book of P faints into 
 Englifi verfe, and in order thereto did , very lit- 
 tle different from what at prefent it is , the CI V. 
 Pfalm. But I know not how, on a fuddain, all my 
 heat was laid , and the greatnefs of the labour , 
 together with my own injufficiency , deterrd me 
 at that time from proceeding any further. Here- 
 upon for about three years the dejign flept with me, 
 till reading over with a little more than ordinary 
 intention the CXIV. P/alm of Mr. Cowleys , 
 I was again warmd 3 and in imitation of him 
 I was refolved once more to try how well or ill I 
 could write after fo excellent a Copy, Not becaufe 
 I was^ by that time grown more confident of my 
 jlrength {which I muft confefl I found all along very 
 unequal to fo weighty an affair ) but becaufe I hoped 
 thereby to encreafe it , and fix my mind otherwije 
 fleeting. and uncertain upon Jomething that might 
 
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 be of advantage s if not to the VublicK, yet atleajl 
 
 to my Freinds , and my own private Meditations. 
 
 Confldering alfo the infinite variety with which 
 
 this part of Holy Scripture was repleniflft , I 
 
 judged the tedioujhefs of the pajfage would thence, 
 
 and by the many rejiing places I fhould meet with by 
 
 the way , be very much abated. And that my 
 
 Fancy might be as little confind as my time , / 
 
 ever uid to take that Vfalm to paraphrafe ? which 
 
 befl fuited with my prefent temper , and Jo letting 
 
 out the chain a little longer, and never trying 
 
 how far it reach t, I fcarce remembred that 1 was 
 
 bound. And this is fome reafon , though not the 
 
 whole, of that different manner, which is to be 
 
 feen in my Verfion. For even the Ffalms them- 
 
 felves are not all of a kind , that being no more 
 
 neceffary than that all precious Jlones fl)ould be 
 
 Rubies , or Diamonds. If you look, in one place 
 
 you ft all fee fome , taking rife from their lofty fub- 
 
 je8s , fire above the clouds 3 like Birds of Para- 
 
 dife , as it were h all wing , and as if defignd for 
 
 nothing lower than the Heavens : If in another 5 
 
 fome of an humbler fort , in their Jlrains lowly 3 
 
 and trailing on the ground , fo far from attempting 
 
 fuch a bold flight, that they dare hardly look, fo 
 
 high : fome are all gaudy . and embroydred, others 
 
 again in a fad , and mournful drefs, according as 
 
 the condition of the Church or Author was at the 
 
 time they were compofed. This fo great difference 
 
 therefore being in the Original, no wonder if it yet 
 
 appear more plainly in my rude and imperfeff Copy. 
 
 Befides I have been forcd to make ufe , though as 
 
 fparingly 
 
The Preface* 
 
 fparingly as I could D of fever al terms 3 and man* 
 tiers offpeakiffg not to be found in our late ex- 
 aB Writers^ nor fo well fitted for the numerofity 
 of verfe as might be wif/jt 9 which yet by reafon of 
 our Tranflation of the Holy Bible 3 and by frequent 
 ufe feem not altogether fo rough as elfe they would : 
 rather chufing to confine my felf to exprej/ions and 
 phrafes generally known 3 and allowed of in the 
 Churchy than appear guilty of any innovation. This 
 may particularly be obfervd in the CXIX. Pfalm^ 
 where I have kept exaUly (as they fell in our Text 
 without Jynonimous names) the Words 3 Statutes, 
 Wayes, Tejiaments, Precepts , &c. Nor was it more 
 eafe to my /elf, than I hope it will be a pleafure to 
 fome few, who prefer fuck a tranflation before any 
 other , where is taken a greater liberty. But Imufi 
 confefs ingenuoujly , I did it meerly to five the 
 labour of a larger Paraphrafe 5 which in a Pfalm 
 of that length, and plainncfs, would have been both 
 tedious , and unnecejjary. In other places I have 
 done what lay in my power to make the Pfalmifls 
 Jpeak. as intelligible and proper EngliJI) as I could 
 (though I have not altogether negle&ed it even in 
 that') not introducing any obfolete , or fantaflical 
 words , or omitting thofe little particles of fpeech, 
 the grace of any language 5 which make Poefy of 
 all other kinds of writing the mofi dijiajiful, and 
 obfcnre. And indeed the manner of fpeaking amongU 
 the Zfews , by reafon of their infenjibk connexions y 
 and frequent change an dfji fting of perfons, difcerna- 
 ble enough by our own versions , is fo difficult and 
 harjl) to our ea r s , even in the profe 3 that it very 
 
 ill 
 
The Preface. 
 
 ill needs the flraitnefs of Numbers to make it more 
 dark, and untuneable. To avoid this fault pojfi- 
 bly I have been more prolix than I ought , though 
 J cannot but fay I was forewarned of it by a very 
 judicious friend Mr. Thomas Sprat. Tet if it be an er- 
 ror I have chofen rather to offend with Sieur Godeau D 
 a forreigner, in the fulnefs of my Paraphrase, than 
 with any of our own Countrymen in too Jirait a 
 confinement* The only Perfon who fee ms to have 
 kept a mean between thefe two extreamsjs G.Bucha- 
 nan, by that bare name better known , than all my 
 art is able to exprefs him. It would be too long 
 to reckon up the many worthy men in this nation , 
 {without mentioning King James of bleffed memory , 
 who amids the great affairs of his Crown thought 
 it not unbecoming his Royal cares to divert himfelf 
 with thefe Meditations of the princely Prophet and 
 Poet ) who have within this laji age beflow'd their 
 labours on this Book 3 among whom the moji known 
 are the Right Reverend Bifliop of Chichefter , notv 
 living, and Mr. George Sandys. There is aljo in 
 private hands a Manuscript of fo mew hat an anci- 
 ent er date , which for the Perfon s fake, though out of 
 its due time and place Iffalljoyn with them , and 
 that is of the truly Honorable and Learned Gen- 
 tleman Sir Philip Sidney. // was a long time 5 
 from my firft hearing of it ere I could get a fight 
 of the Tapers , neither fiould I at laji have ob- 
 tained the favour \ had I not us'd the mediation 
 {amongtt fever al others, to whom I am obliged, ) 
 of one to whom all good Learning of what k$nd So- 
 ever it be, mufi remain perpetually indebted ^ and in 
 
 this 
 
The Preface. 
 
 this all will agree with me when they know I mean the 
 Learned Dr. John Wilkins Dean of Rippon. This Pa- 
 raphrafe as I remember Dr.Donne^/// by the name of 
 Sir Philips and the Count ef^ of Pembroks tranflation, 
 and net without good re afon, as far as I could judge by 
 that curfory view 1 had of it, during theffjort time it 
 remained in my hands- There appearing that difference 
 as I conceived in the composition, which is wont to be in 
 the aires of Brother , and Sifter 3 not fo unlike , as to 
 have no refemblance , nor yet fo perfectly refembling , 
 as to have nothing but the f ex to diftinguifi them. I 
 mention not here a thoufand others who have done 
 excellently particular Pf aim s , as my Lord Bacon^r 
 Hen.Wotton, Bif/jopUM^Mr. Herbert^ &c. and in- 
 fleadofmany more, that abfolutely compleat Gentlewo- 
 man^ whofe leave I very hardly obtained to honour this 
 volume of mine with two or three verfions, longftnce 
 done by her , the truly vertuous Mrs. Mary Beale, 
 amongfl whofe leafi accompliffjments it is , that 
 foe has made Painting and Poefy which in the Fan- 
 vies of others had only before a kjnd of Hk§nefi, in her 
 own to be really the fame. The Reader I hope will 
 pardon this public /^acknowledgement which L make to 
 fo deferving aperfon, when Iffjall tell him that while 
 as a Friend and one of the Family, I had the conveni- 
 ence of a private and moji delightful retirement in the 
 company of her worthy Husband and her fe If I both 
 began andperfeffed this Paraphrafe. 
 
 But without all thefe in naming the twofirft above 3 
 {the BiQiop of Chichefter and Mr. Sandys) / have 
 faid enough to call my felf into quefiion for during to 
 offer anything at this part of Scripture , after them. 
 
 (c) Imufi 
 
The Preface. 
 
 Imufi therefore clear my felf , and here doit 5 of all 
 ambition to vie with 3 or envy to detract from the true 
 value of their labours., which muft be judged meriting 
 all Praife : and I am fur e neither ef theft can be longer 
 cbje&edagainji me, than till any one fl)all be p leafed to 
 take the pains to compare all three together ,and then 
 it will immediately appear 5 how great the difference 
 is between us, both as to the file, manner of compoft- 
 tion anddifpoftng of the Numbers. The Bifljops is clofe, 
 exactly anfwering the Text, and for that kind ofmea- 
 fure , which himfelf has truly obfervd to be the leaji 
 graceful of any, veryfmooth, and roundly expreffed 5 
 though that Fffay of his on the CXXX. Ffalm in 
 Heroick verfe , par aphrafed for an Anthem , make it 
 to be xvijlft , he had us'd alike freedom in the reft. 
 Mr. Sandys on the otherjide D though he hasconfind 
 himfelf to almojl as near a rendring of the words , 
 has usd greater variety of meafures , and fuch as 
 have by experience been found to be very agreeable to 
 Muftc\ the life andfpirit of Poejy. In mine mil yet 
 appear a greater liberty 3 both as to the exprejfion and 
 the different fort of Jianzas which I have us'd 5 but 
 with whatfuccefi I mufl refer to my Reader, of whofe 
 favour Jfia/l have greater need to excufe my faults , 
 than juftice, and fever ity to examine them* I know 
 all that has ever yet been affayd may be infinitely out- 
 done ,and 1 fiould be fo far from grieving at it, though 
 now a little concern 'd, that I heartily wifli this way of 
 mine may give ihefirfi occaftm to fome excellent Fer- 
 fon to undertake another verfon , and publif the 
 Evcl^ofPfalms with greater beauties than ever it has 
 appeared in.fuice it left Jcrufalem. In the mean time 
 
 I could 
 
The Preface* 
 
 / could be content , 1 mufi confefs , that this try al of 
 mine might be kindly received , that fo J might there- 
 by be encouraged to proficute another defign {in this 
 way} which at prefent lies before me, The Hijiory of 
 the firfi great weel^ of the World , wherein new difco- 
 veries of that 3 and nature, make the fubjeB more 
 large and comprehenfivefor verfe than ever it has been^ 
 and in the performance of which I promife my [elf 
 great ajjjfiance , by the unwearied and moji fuccefsful 
 labours of The Royal Society 5 which feems to be 
 rats' din this laji age, not only for the improvement 
 of Natural Vhilofophy in the general 3 but amids the 
 invention of new , for the rejiauration of decay d 
 Arts , and amongji them all of none more than this 
 of ferious, profitable , and fiber Poejy. 
 
 As for the manner , which I have endeavoured 
 to observe , it has been to give , as near as I 
 could , the truefenje and meaning of the Vfalm , and 
 in as eafy and obvious terms as waspoffible 3 fitting 
 them to the Capacity of the meaneji : which I found 
 myfelfthe better able to do, by having the difficulties 
 refolvd to my hands , by the labours of that truly 
 Thus, and Learned Divine Dr. Hen. Hammond 
 {though I madeufe alfo as occafion required of other 
 Commentators. ) If I have in any place notperfeUly 
 agreed with him , as in fever al left them , fince it is 
 not in matters of Faith, I beg that the fame libtvty may 
 be given to me, which is indulg'd to all who write this 
 way. I have bound my felf all along to observe one 
 certain meafure in a Vfalm, and after I had fix t the 
 firfi Jlanza, made the reft like it, endeavouring fo to 
 difpofe my Numbers, that neither the length ofthefiaff 
 
 (n) fhould 
 
The Preface. 
 
 fljould cauje a too chfe and often repetition of the fame 
 Rhyme 9 nor the J/jortnefi of the meafure confine the 
 Fancy and hinder the freedom ofexprejfion : generally 
 clofing it with a verfe of more than ordinary length, as 
 being not only weft proper for that place, as a hand to 
 ihejiajfi andfenfe 3 hut more tuneable, and graceful. 
 For this reafon alfo have I taken notice of the Verfus 
 intercalares, as I may call them, where they fell and 
 madenofcruple , onoccajiongivenin the text, though 
 it may be the words were not the very fame, to make 
 them more evident in my Verfion. For the Hijlorical 
 Vfalms Ichofe the HeroickSfir five foot couplets) as mofi 
 fuitable, ufingit very fparingly elfewh ere. TheXVUI. 
 L. LXVIII. and CIV. I have done after Mr. CoW- 
 leys Pindaric!^ way, endeavouring by the kind of 
 verfe , which is various and uncertain , to imitate 
 the many andfuddain changes, which areinthofe 
 Vfalms. The XXI. and LXXII. I have with very 
 little fir aining of the Text brought down to out times, 
 and without offence to any, I hope , in the firji 
 paralleled his Majefties [offerings with thofe of 
 David 5 in the other the Happinefi and Glory of his 
 Kingdom with that of Solomon , heartily mfiring 
 that the fincerity of my Prayers may make amends 
 for the defers of my Numbers. 
 

 To my dear Friend Mr. Samuel 
 Woodford, upon bis Tarapbrafe 
 of t be ^P [alms. 
 
 HAppy the firft, and harmkfs daycs ! 
 When the young World , like Children bred at home 
 Though froward mil and troublefbme, 
 Was by its cartful Parent taught the ways 
 Of ealy Duty , and of natural Praife. 
 When every cheap Delight , and every pleafant Art,, 
 And all that Wit and Fancy could impart, 
 Like the rirft Iflues of each vital thing , 
 Of all the ftock the Pledge and King 
 Which the glad Owners either did redeem or bring, 
 Were freely given up and Coniecrate, 
 The great Creator's Praife to Celebrate. 
 When the chart Numbers of the Pipe , and Voice, 
 And all the Inftruments that Art could (how , 
 The very Mutick of the Feet , and Body too, 
 And whatfoever could delight 
 And feaft the various Appetite , 
 Were us'd as well to Worfhipas Rejoyce. 
 And every Mask, and eVry Ball, 
 And ev'ry folemn Feftival, 
 
 (<?$) The 
 
The publick Triumphs, and the Holy days, 
 
 The very Pdftimes, and the Plays 
 Were legal Rites of Honour and of Praife. 
 
 Of ev"ry clean and fpotlefs Beait 
 
 The mofi delicious and the belt, 
 That Nature for man's ufe, or Pleafure did afford 
 
 Was at God's board > 
 One part was Sacrifice , and all the reft a Feaft. 
 
 II. 
 
 So uncorrupted then, (b chafte and White 
 
 Were all the Daughters of Delight i 
 
 But none of all the Family 
 So innocent, and fo divinely bright 
 
 As the fair Virgin Poefy , 
 The earliefr, and the ftriclreft Votary * 
 
 Dwelt at the firft in holy ground , 
 In facred Groves , and Temples only could be found > 
 
 Still at the Altar did appear , 
 
 Brought her Firft-fruits, and Perfumes there i 
 
 Of all Gods Priefts ("and without blame 
 
 Her Office will allow the Name, 
 
 Though fcarce her Sex) 'twas (he alone 
 That offered up to God Devotion i 
 Did the purelncenfe of the Fathers praife, 
 
 And holy Vows , to Heaven raife •, 
 And like a faithful Veftal kept the Fire , 
 
 That did nor Day, nor Night expire, 
 Whoever a true Worlhipper w T ould be 
 Was taught his Duty firftby Poefy , 
 Of HentMi and of Afaph learnt the wayes 
 
 Of Penitence^ and Praife, 
 By which Gods anger toappeafe, and Glory rarfe. 
 
 II I. This 
 
III. 
 
 This was her firft Choice, and D.fire , 
 In Gods Houfe to retire , 
 In which (he took her Vow, and folemnly Profcft, 
 
 ("And happy had (he been and bleft , 
 If (he had kept the reft 
 As well as the leaft needful of the Three 
 
 Unhappy Poverty J 
 But in the compafs of this Privacy , 
 She was not alwaies at her Beads, and Book, 
 But did her bended Thoughts with various Arts releafe , 
 Whether in Shepheards Guife with Reed, and Hook, 
 
 The Nuptial Song (he do's exprefs 
 Of mighty Solomon, and by his fide 
 
 The comely black Egyptian Bride, 
 
 A wondrous Song, but faid to be 
 Not for their fakes alone, but holy Myfterie. 
 
 Or elfe with bold,. and skilful I hand 
 Works the known Story of the promised Land j 
 
 How God the People went before, 
 
 And brought them from th' Egyptian (bore, 
 
 By the two Brothers brought them thence, 
 That is, by Power, and by Eloquence, 
 
 Two things which ieldom fail 
 Over the mightieft Adver£ary to prevail , 
 Or when (he pleafes Nature draws and Wars 
 Pens the Heroick A&s of famous Conquerers, 
 And Sayings of Philofophers > 
 Rich are the Works of Nuns , but none fo rich as Hers. 
 
 I V. So 
 
IV. 
 
 So grave and hopeful was her youth, 
 So dear a Friend fhe was to Piety and Truth % 
 That God himfelf, who did btftow 
 Number, and Meafure to each Thing , 
 And in whole Nature living Poerry did (how, 
 Of Her took care, from whom fhe firft did fpring \ 
 
 And for her Guardians did aflign, 
 The mighty Men of Valour and Renown, 
 Whom he had truiled hrft with Concjueft, and a Crown, 
 Or did in peaceful Arts, and Wifedom thine, 
 All full of Vertue, and of Power divine , 
 He would not fuch a ripe, and vertuous Wit 
 ( As Jacob would not Benjamin) commit 
 
 To any hand that was unfit , 
 Only to Judah did the Truft alcribe , 
 Judah the Royal , and the Valiant Tribe. 
 To you (fares God^ whom by my fpirit T raife 
 To right my Battailes , and my Works to praife, 
 Wonders to perform, and fee, 
 And publifh Laws , and Myfterie, 
 And find out Nature, and Philofophy , 
 Princes, and Prophets, and the Sons of War, 
 To you this Charge I give , and to your Care 
 Commit this bright, and beauteous Heire \ 
 
 Bright and beauteous is ihe now, 
 And by your Guidance may improve, 
 If the vain fhow, 
 And Breeding of her Sex you not allow, 
 And keep her but from idlenels, and wanton Love. 
 
 V.So 
 
So wife a Care, one would have thought, 
 Might ferve however to prevent the worft, 
 
 In one Co well inclin'd at firft, 
 Though by the powerfulf ft Charms, and Courtfhip lough' 
 
 But, Oh, the treacherous Arts of Wit ! 
 C Arts which upon the Sex too often gun ) 
 To which even Poefy herfelf do's (till fubmif^ 
 And bear the pleafant Tyrannies of it, 
 Although fometimes in bitter language She complaine, 
 Wit was her Friend, and her Companion ftill, 
 
 Did chalenge, and imploy her skill, 
 
 But was fo wanton, and Co wild. 
 With every painted Thing, and every Shew beguifd, 
 
 Did fuch pleafant Sports devile, 
 
 And fuch fantaftick Refveries, 
 
 Be witch' t th' unwary Lovers Eyes. 
 Out of her Cell the Votarefs then would go, 
 And loolly wandred into every Show » 
 
 Would needs herfelf refign 
 Unto the Female Government of Nine, 
 And the mad Inspirations of the God of Wines, 
 
 To whofe wild Revels She was born, 
 And did his Triumphs, and his Groves adorn *, 
 Did nor the Stage, nor the Piaiza fcorn > 
 
 But, like a wandring River, flow, 
 That viiits every Land, and every City views, 
 But with the Travel do's th n impurer grow, 
 
 And the bright Nymph ftill more abufe i 
 She did no filthy Luft refufe, 
 Nor whatfoe're could come 
 Or from th' Excefs of Greece, or Wantonefs of Rome. 
 
 (dj VI. But 
 
VI. 
 
 But all along the time of this Apoftacy , 
 Some mighty Men arofe , 
 Whom God in mercy chole , 
 
 Thefe wand ring Follies to oppole, 
 And to redeem her Fame, and native Liberty * 
 
 That fertil Land of all the reft 
 With Pleafure, and with Poets bleft , 
 W'here Wit, and Nature full are frefli, and green, 
 
 And Tiber's golden dreams are feen , 
 Has to the world in every Age fet forth 
 
 Some Phoenix of immortal worth , 
 
 Whofe Monuments of noble Verfe 
 
 Pofterity (hall ftill difperfe, 
 Which the bold Fame of wanton Wit aifwage 
 And expiate the Follies of the loofer Stage. 
 
 Nor is the Brittijh glory lefs, 
 The Brittijh Poets with a ripe fuccefs 
 
 The weighted Arguments exprefs, 
 Like a deep Chryftal ftream , 
 Spread a pure fpirit through the manly Theam. 
 One of each Sex this fruitful Age has fhown, 
 
 (And fruitful had fhe been , if none 
 
 But that immortal Paire were known > ) 
 
 Though ihe has many more to boaft, 
 Cowley^ and bright Orinda do adorn it moft. 
 
 VILCtvrity 
 
VIT. 
 
 Cowley , and bright Orinda (hall for ever live > 
 And you f my Friend^) who with them ftrive 
 
 Of bsft and greateft Things to write 
 And the rich Monuments of Eaftern wit revive, 
 Wit, that does, like the Sun, there firfc in fight, 
 
 Serve the Worlds profit and delight, 
 And, like the Sun too, with the World (hall laft i 
 Your Memory (hall with theirs be placet > 
 
 Thcir's, who in heavenly verie 
 Do their own praife in Gods rehearfe. 
 The facred Harp , which lay unftrung , 
 Broken, and out of tune as much 
 As when upon the Willows once it hung, 
 No Englijh hand could hit the graceful Touch, 
 Cowley took up , and with an artful ftroke 
 One Leflbn playd > One Leflbn did provoke 
 Your tuneful Soul, which could no longer ftay 
 Till it found out this only skilful way •, 
 At length the skilful way you found , 
 With a true Eare judg'd the melodious found , 
 And with a nimble hand run defcant on the Hebrew ground, 
 
 Jam, Gardiner* 
 
 (dz) f 
 
To the Author > on his excellent Verfion 
 of the Tfalms. 
 
 APindariqu'Ode. 
 i. 
 
 SEE ( Worthy Friend ) what 1 would do t 
 ( Whom neither Mufe, nor Art injpire y 
 That have no friend in all the fared §>uire ) 
 Tojhew my kjndnefs for your Boo^ andyou, 
 For St to difparage what I would admire ! 
 Bold man, that dares attempt Pindariqu' now y 
 Since the great Fmdzt'sgreateft fon 
 From the ungrateful Age is gon y 
 Cowley has bid th* ungrateful Age Adieu ! 
 Apollo's rare Columbus He 
 Found out new worlds of Poetrie 9 
 He Ufa an Eagle tower 9 d aloft 
 
 Tofeize hit noble prey \ 
 Yet a* a Dove's, his foul wasfoft, 
 §uiet as night, but bright as day. 
 to Heaven in fiery Chariot He 
 Afcended by Seraphief^ Poefie, 
 But which of us poor Mortals fince can find. 
 Any infpiring Mantle that he left behind. 
 
 (*3) zMis 
 
His powerful numbers wight ha done you right > 
 
 He could hafpardyou immortality ', 
 
 Vnder that Chieftains banners you might fight , 
 
 J {fur* d of Laurels, and of Victory. 
 
 Over devouring time, & fword, and pre, 
 
 And]ov£s important ire. 
 
 My humble verfe would better p^g 
 
 David the floepheard, than the King : 
 Andyet methinl^s ^tisftately to be one, 
 
 (Tho' of the meaner fort ) 
 ■Of them that may approach a Frince's Throne, 
 
 If r twere but to be feen at Court. 
 Such (Sir,) is my ambition for a name, 
 Which 1 Jh all rather take of Ton, than give '-> 
 For in Tour 'Book T cannot mifs of fame^ 
 
 But by contad pall live. 
 Thus on your Chariots wheel pall I 
 Ride fafe, and look^ as big as iEfbp^ Flie, 
 
 Who fromth' Olympian race new come, 
 
 Andncw triumphantly got home, 
 Jo his neighbours of the Swarm thus proudly (aid, 
 cc Don't you remember what a Duft I made ? 
 
 Where e're the Son of JenVs Harp Jh all found, 
 Or Ifizdsfweeteft fongs be fung 
 ( Lik? Sampfon'5 Lionfweet and prong ) 
 ton and your happy Mufe Jhall be renown d > 
 1o whofe kind hand the Son of JeiTe owes 
 His lafl deliverance from all his foes ; 
 Blood thirfiy Saul ( lefs barbarous than they ) 
 Hisperfon only fought to kjll? 
 The fe did his death lefs Poems flay 
 And fought immortal bloodtofyill. 
 
 to 
 
To fing whofe Songs in Babylon would be 
 
 Anew Captivitie. 
 Vepofidby thefe Rebels, Ton alone 
 Reftore the glorious David to his Throne. 
 Long in difguife the RoyalTrophet lay 
 
 Long from his own thoughts banijhed : 
 Ne'refince his death till this illuftriowi day 
 Was Scepter in his hand, or Crown fet on his head 
 He feenCd as if at Gath he ft ill had been, 
 As once before proud Achifli he appeafd^ 
 
 His face befmear'd) 
 
 Andfpittle on his beard, 
 A laughing ftoc\ to the infulting Philiftin , 
 "Dreft in their Rimes he looks as he were Mad 9 
 In Tijjue Xou> and Tyrian Purple have him clad. 
 
 Thomas Flatman 
 M. A. 
 
to the Redder. 
 
 Notwithftandingthe great care and diligence that ha< been all along 
 ufed , many faults by reafon of the Authors ahfence the whole time , 
 have efcaped the Prefs , fome whereof diflurb the fenfc vey much, 
 many the verfe -, The reader therefore is defircd with his pen to 
 fupply the place of the Corrector, and to take the pains to mend the 
 grofTeft, noted in the following lift, by which he will not only do the 
 Author juftice,but hiufelfjif he means to peiufe the book,aCourtcfie. 
 
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THE 
 
 FIRST BOOK 
 
 OF 
 
 PSALMS. 
 
 TheFirftPfalm. 
 Beatus Vir qui non abut^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 THrice happy man, who in the beaten waycs 
 Of Carelefs finners, never blindly ftrayes 
 In their aflemblies, nor maintains their part, 
 Their feoffs, or their debates will hear, 
 But leaves the place as well as Chair, % 
 And keeps hrs ears as guiltlefs as his heart ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Who in th' Almighties Law his age do's fpend, 
 Grows old in that which will his age commend y 
 By day he reads it, meditates at night, 
 
 Makes it his Guide, makes it his Stay, 
 
 His greateft bufinefs night and day •, 
 But lefs his bupnefs makes it, than delight ! 
 
 III. 
 
 He (hall be like a Tree by th* Waters fide, 
 W hofe root receives the Tribute of the tyde > 
 The tender plant do's into vigor grow, 
 
 Is alwayes green, has alwayes fruit, 
 
 Exten ds into the ftreams its root, 
 And fpreads in top, as that do's fpread below. 
 
 B I\\ 
 
A Paraphrase Lib. i. 
 
 IV. 
 So ftiall the Righteous flourifh, and that hancb 
 Which planted him at firft, (hall make him ftand > 
 No ftorm or drought againft him fhall prevail. 
 But bending to theftreams his root, 
 He (hall be green, he fhall have fruit, 
 Which till they ceafe to flow, fhall never fail. 
 
 V- 
 But the unjuft by every billow toft, 
 Shall in the ftcrms himfelf has raif'd, be loft : 
 Shall be like Chafife, with which the Wind do's play, 
 That now flies here, and now falls there, 
 Now on the ground, now in the air, 
 Till that which raif'd it, blow it clean away. 
 
 VI. 
 
 And when th'Eternal Judge to th* Bar fhall bring 
 Each fecret thought, and every hidden thing, 
 The difference then much greater fhall appear ; 
 
 For when the Juit to glory go, 
 
 The Wicked fhall begin their woe, 
 More unlike in another World than here. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.i. upon the II. Psalm, 
 
 PfalmIL 
 guare fnmuerunt gevtes. 
 
 I. 
 
 WHat makes this ftir > Why do the People rage ? 
 And all their little Kings engage ? 
 Their ancient ftrifes they mind no more, 
 Forget they once were Enemies, 
 And though they ne're agreed before. 
 Now all confpire againft their God to rife. 
 
 II. 
 
 Their God's become their Common Enemy, 
 And his Anoynted they defy : 
 " OrT with his yoak, let's break His bands, 
 " Away with all his Chains, they fay, 
 " Our necks we know, let's try our hands, 
 
 u If they can rule, as well as thofe obey / 
 
 III. 
 
 But He, who reigns above, fees all their pride, 
 
 And do's their boafts and threats deride i 
 If they go on, He'll to them fpeak, 
 And if God fpeaks, fure man (hall hear, 
 For when His voyce do's Cedars break, 
 
 Proud Libanus, which bears them, quakes for fear. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Yet let them rife, and do their worft, my Throne 
 Stands rixt, as th'Hill 'tis fet upon : 
 ( Sion which cannot be remov'd *, ) 
 And that no further doubt maybe 
 Whether God has my choice appro v'd 
 
 I'll fhew His Seal, and publifh His Decree. 
 
 B 2 
 
AParafhrase Lib a. 
 
 V. 
 
 * c Thou art my Son *, This day I Thee begot j 
 
 (He (poke the Word, who changes not. ) 
 " Ask of me, and the World is Thyne •, 
 " The utmolt skirts of all the Earth, 
 cc Nations unknown, beyond the Line, 
 
 a Whofe Countreys yet have neither Name, nor Birth, 
 
 VI. 
 
 u Thou (halt their Soveraign be, and to Thee all, 
 " Who will not ftoop (hall lower fall. 
 " Their potfheards fhall Thy Scepter feel , 
 " For fince its rule they'l have no more, 
 c< From gold it fhall be turned to lteel, 
 
 c< And make them duit, who were but earth before, 
 
 VII. 
 
 Be wife, O Kings, and you, who others give 
 
 Their Laws, hear Mine, that you may Live i 
 Great as you are, look not too high, 
 For one above you Itills your noife > 
 Yet fince your Office calls you nigh, 
 
 Serve Him with trembling, and with fear rejoice / 
 
 VIIL 
 
 Leaft He be angry kifs the Eternal Son / 
 
 Happy are they, who thus have done i 
 And there have plac'd their Chief defire I 
 Unto your felves, and Him return -, 
 For if His anger once take rire, 
 
 Thofe Flames which mould but only warm , will burn ! 
 
 PfaJm 
 
Lib. i. upon the III Psalm. 5 
 
 Pfalm III. 
 Dcmine quid rnnltiplhati) <&c* 
 
 I. 
 
 LOrd, how are they increatt who trouble me \ A Pfalm of 
 
 How many, Lord, againlt me rife, David when 
 
 ■ For Thy fake are my Enemies, he fled from 
 
 Yet would perfwade me I am fa to Thee ? -Abfalom 
 
 u God has no help for him, they fay 5 &£ &mt 
 
 As if they knew Thy Will, or Power j 
 But when thou Plagues on them doit fhower, 
 C/re me Thou (halt Thy Love difplay, 
 And raife my head, when theirs Thou in the dull (halt lay. 
 
 ir. 
 
 To God Almighty, my defence, I cry'd, 
 
 Who heard me from His Holy Hill, 
 With praife my heart, and mouth did fill, 
 And me from trouble in His hand did hide : 
 I layd me down, and rofe again, 
 , Nothing (hall make me now afraid, 
 Though thoufand Enemies me invade ^ 
 For God, who did their rage reftrain, 
 Whilft I fecurely flept, awake will me foftain. 
 
 in. 
 
 Arife, my God '•, fee where my God do's rife \ 
 
 And how His foes before Him fall i- 
 
 Already He has fmote them all, 
 Already has (truck out their teeth, and eyes / 
 
 Thus by unknown, and fecret wayes, 
 
 The Lord do's help, and fave His own y 
 
 Salvation comes from Him alone, 
 
 Who ehus delights His Name to raife : 
 Ojiince He fends the help, let Him have all the Praife t 
 
 B Pfalm 
 
AP 
 
 ARAPHRASE JLtb.U 
 
 Pfalm IV. 
 Cum invocarem exaudavit^ &c> 
 
 I. 
 
 A VCilm of /" j^Hou, who haft heard me heretofore, 
 
 David I And help beyond my Prayers did ft fend v 
 
 ' - 1 - Gav'ft me my Right, and do'it that Right defend, 
 
 Thy wonted aides I now implore \ 
 To my fad miferies incline Thine ear, 
 And them,my God,and with themThine own Mercies hear / 
 
 II. 
 
 Fond Men / how long will you, in vain, 
 God, and my Glory thus defpife ? 
 
 Him you reject, when againit me you rife, 
 For I, but as His Vice-Roy, reign. 
 
 By Him I rule, and He, you ought to know, 
 Firli: judg'd me fit to be your King, then made me Co, 
 
 III. 
 
 To Him I call, He hears my Cry, 
 If you are wife, in time forbear .' 
 Be ftill,leaft He your murmurings alfo hear, 
 For though you fee not, He ftands by : 
 Behold His Face, but if that Sun's too bright, 
 Confult your own black thoughts, and treafons, when 'tis 
 
 (night/ 
 IV. 
 Your feign'd fubmiflion, and falfe Vows, 
 How bafely with your God you deal, 
 When under them you falfer hearts conceal, 
 
 He who's their Judge, and fearcher knows ; 
 A pure heart, and clean hand's the Sacrifice, 
 Which carry their acceptance with them, as they rife. 
 
 v: 
 
Lib. I. upon the IV Psalm, 
 
 v. 
 
 Wealth, fince it is fo hard to get, 
 Mult be the ehiefeft Good, moil fay , 
 
 And call them wife, who thither rind the way, 
 Though ftrayd from Thee in feeking in 
 
 From Thee my Portion, Lord, whocanii bellow 
 More with one look , than all their pains can rind bslow 
 
 VI. 
 
 Let them to hundred fields increafe, 
 And their redoubled wifhes have, 
 Till they no longer know what more to crave, 
 
 Harvefls of Plenty, years of Peace i 
 Their rields with fruit, with oyl their faces fhine, 
 Their jollity's butmadnefs,.if compar'd with mine. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Olive and Vine Thou art to mee, 
 Thofe bleftings, and a thoufand more, 
 
 Which thou haft layd up in thy boundlels ftore, 
 Unknown to all, who know not Thee ^ 
 
 Therefore in peace fecure Til ileep, Thy Grace, 
 Which gives me reft, will alfo guard my Refting place. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
8 A Paraphrase Lib.v 
 
 . Pfalm V. 
 Verba ntea auribus fercipe ) &c. 
 
 A Yfiltn of T Orel to my earneft Prayers incline Thyne ear, 
 David. __ t And thofe deiires v which Thou firft gav'ft me, hear .' 
 
 'Attend, my King, my God, unto my cry, 
 For to Thy Name alone I fly / 
 If thou art longer filent, what that meant 
 ril ask no more, but ftill will pray, 
 And haften with my calls the day, 
 And filence then (hall witnefs Thy aflent, 
 
 II. 
 
 To Heaven Til look, arid pray with confidence, 
 
 For I am fure of help, and pitty thence i 
 
 I know Thou canft not wickednefs indure, 
 Nor fhall the wicked be fecure, 
 
 Hated by Thee, as Thee he ne're did min.d s 
 His own day dazles his weak light, 
 And how then can he bear Thy light > 
 
 If his own dazles, Thyne will ftrike him blind. 
 
 III. 
 
 Thou (halt deftroy him, and his lying tongue 
 
 Shall to himfelf alone do all the wrong ^ 
 
 That blood of other men, which he has fhed. 
 Shall juftly fall on his own head. 
 
 Whilit to Thy Temple I will come with praife, 
 And make Thy love the fubjed bee, 
 Whence I'll take wing to mount to Thee, 
 
 And in my flight towards Heaven, Thy glory raife, 
 
 IV. 
 
 O, bring me thither, and make ftrait my way, 
 And let me fee the f hares my Enemies lay I . 
 
 Be 
 
Lib.u upon the V Psalm. 
 
 
 Ec Thou my guidei that I the path may know, 
 And lead me, where I ought to go / 
 
 I dare not truft them though they feem to blefs, 
 For even their flatteries poyfon have;. 
 Their tongue is death, their throat the grave, 
 
 Wicked their hands, their heart is wickednefs. 
 
 V. 
 
 Deltroy them, Lord, but not by Thy right hand, 
 That (ignal juttice from their own command .' 
 By their own fecret counfels let them fall, 
 
 And fend thofe plagues, for which they call .' 
 In their tranfgrcflions let them be o'rethrown, 
 
 Burlt with that pride, with which they (Weld, 
 For againft Thee they have rebell'd, 
 And let the Curfe they luffer be their owrj f 
 
 VI. 
 
 But let all thofe, who trull in Thee, rejoyce, 
 
 And where their hearts are, lift on high their voice ,' 
 
 Let them be fearlefs who adore Thy N ?.::::. 
 
 Preferv'd by their own heavenly flame / 
 For Thou all times the Righteoas wilt defend, 
 Thy mighty Power mall be his ilneuj. 
 Never o'recome, hene're {hall vieid-, 
 But certain Gonqueft (tall his arms attend ' 
 
 C mm 
 
JO A Paraphrase Lib. \. 
 
 PfalmVI. 
 Domne^ ne in furore tno^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 Affalm of TT Ord, in Thy wrath rebuke me not, 
 David. Nor in thy fury chaiten me / 
 
 For fuch weak things that furnace is toohot ? 
 I . Fenite?i~ And by my clay no more endur'd can be, 
 
 tial Pfalm, Than my injuitice, and repeated wrongs by Thee. 
 
 II. 
 
 Uphold me, Lord, for I am weak, 
 WhiFft Thou Thy hand dolt on me lay ; 
 My bones are fhaken, and my heart will break > 
 Heal me with Speed, and take Thy hand away, 
 Or let me know how long, and I'll with patience ftay / 
 
 III. 
 
 ' Return, and for Thy Mercy fake, 
 My Soul from this afflidipn fave / 
 6 now fome pitty on thy lervant take, 
 For Thou in death canft not Thy praifes have, 
 But they, and I (hall be forgotten in the grave / 
 
 IV. 
 
 I weary out the day with fighes, 
 And when that's done, the night with tears ', 
 So vail a deep comes rolling from my eyes, 
 That down its tyde my bed it almoft bears, 
 Yet though k wa(h my couch, it cannot drown my fears. 
 
 V. 
 
 My eyes are hollow and decayd, 
 And from their windows hardly fee *, 
 Quite buried in the graves my tears have made, 
 
 They 
 
i.iki. upon the VI Psalm, n 
 
 They only fhew where they were wont to be. 
 So that what age to others, grief has done to me, 
 
 VI. 
 
 But hold y why do I thus complain, 
 Like one whom God do's never hear I 
 
 For God has heard me, and I'll pray again ; 
 
 Avoid Profane, avoid, kail while yo'are near, 
 That wickednefs,which hardens yours,fhould flop His car / 
 
 VII, 
 
 The Lord has heard me, and my tears 
 
 Have found acceptance in His eyes : 
 My %hes already have blow T n o"re my fears, 
 And fcatter'd. with their breath my Enemies ; 
 So let them fly with fhame, all who againil me rife / 
 
 C i Pfalm 
 
u A Paraphrase Li&i 
 
 Pfalm VIL 
 Domine Deus V' J ™ S , 
 
 I. 
 
 A Tfalm of 4 Lmighty God, to Thee for help lay, 
 
 David, /A And on Thy Power alone rely i 
 
 which he Thou haft preferv'd me, and once more 
 
 fang unto the Thy ancient favours I implore, 
 
 Lord con- The fame, which Thou halt granted heretofore. 
 
 ce-rning the Thy hand has rais'd me, when brought low, 
 
 words of In my diitrefs Thou didft Thy mercy fnow, 
 
 Cufh the May that ftrong hand, which rais'd me then, defend me 
 Bpijamite. Lord, from my Enemy deliver me, (now/ 
 
 And let my flight from him, be but to Thee ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Shouldft Thou withdraw .or not let me come near, 
 My Soul he would in pieces tear i 
 Juit like a Lyon, having found 
 His helplefs prey, who looks around, 
 
 And only with his eyes gives the tirft wound : 
 But when he fees the guards are gone, 
 
 And fhepheardsfcattred, he falls boldly on, 
 And with his paws do's rmift, what his eyes begun, 
 
 Such w T ould, O Lord, my certain ruine be; 
 
 Didft not Thou interpofe to refcue me / 
 
 III. 
 
 Yet, Lord, if I have done this wicked thing, 
 For which they charge me to the King > 
 Or if, for fome unworthy end, 
 I did but in my thoughts intend ; 
 ( Wretch as I was ) a mifchief to my friend j 
 
 Yea, if I have not fpar'd my foe, 
 Who without any caufe of -mine was fb, 
 And when thy hand had given him to me, let him go : 
 
 Then 
 
Liku upon the VII Psalm. if 
 
 Then let my Enemy take my life away, 
 And fpurn that honour I fo low did lay / 
 
 IV, 
 
 Lord, in Thine anger to my caufe ante, 
 
 Againlt my vengefull Enemies / 
 
 Awake, and up in Judgement iiand, 
 
 The fame, which Thou doftme command , 
 And take both Scales, and Sword into Thy hand / 
 
 Then let the Congregation fee, 
 That they themfelves are blind, who fancy Thee, 
 Filleted, as they feign- and make their Juftice bee/ 
 Return Thou therefore, for their fakes on high, 
 That they may know trier's in Thy hand an eye. 
 
 V. 
 
 For Thou indeed art Judge : and Lord begin 
 
 With me when Thou halt purg'd my fin / 
 
 Remember my Integrity, 
 
 And after that Thy feryant try, 
 Who to Thy Bar do's for juft judgement fly / 
 
 That wickednefs may have an end, 
 When thus to every caufe Thou fhalt attend, 
 And let Thy equall lentence upon ail defcend I 
 I'm fare to be abfolv'd, at this debate, 
 For He, that's Judge, mall b: my Advocate. 
 
 VI. 
 
 God {hall the Righteous clear, and but delay 
 
 The Wickeds fentence for a day •, 
 
 For every day with him He's griev'd, 
 
 He is not pardon'd but reprieved, 
 Not into favour, but on proof received : 
 
 And if he turns not to the Lord, 
 Out from His mouth {hall come thadreadful Word, 
 His bow's already bent, and He will whet His fword : 
 The inftruments of death all furbiflit are, 
 And for the blow th'Almighty arm's made bare, 
 
 C3 VI L 
 
ty A Paraphrase Lih.h 
 
 VII. 
 
 But unconcerned, he travayles with his fin, 
 
 And falfhood to the birth do's bring ; 
 
 Leaves not, till having digg'd a pit, 
 
 He falls himfelf the firft in it, 
 A juft reward, and for the maker fit ; 
 
 On his own head his fin returns, 
 He feels the weight of his own heavy fcorns, 
 And in a quenchlefs rire, which he rirft kindled, burns % 
 So righteous art Thou, Lord, fo juft Thy wayes, 
 Thy Name to heav'n do's reach, fo (hall my Praife / 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib. i. upon the VIII Psalm, 15 
 
 Pfalm vi i r. 
 
 Domine^ dominus nofier^ &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 SOle Monarch of the World, Prince of all Powers, A VCilm of 
 
 Fountain of Beings, glorious King, David' 
 
 Who can enough Thy praifes ling, 
 Who art the Worlds great Lord, as well as Ours ? 
 Fondly by Verfe we ftrive Thy Name to raife, 
 When it already is above our higheil praife. 
 
 II. 
 
 Thou and Thy Name alike are excellent, 
 
 And though we fomething fee below, 
 
 The greateii part we cannot know, 
 Glorys, which are above the Firmament : 
 Heav'ns of heav'ns a mean extent would be, 
 And low as hell, were they in height compar'd to Thee, 
 
 III. 
 
 Great as Thou art, yet fometimes Thou doit love 
 
 Some glory for Thy felf to raife, 
 
 Let' it babes, and infants fpeak thy praife, 
 And do below what Angels do above : 
 Open'if their mouths,when Thou wilt check the pride 
 Of fuch, who open theirs, but only to deride. 
 
 IV. 
 
 When I my ferious thoughts do entertain 
 
 W T ith thofe great works Thy hand has done, 
 The Heav'ns, and in thofe heav'ns the Moon, 
 
 Whom Thou halt made o're all the ftars to reign, 
 
 More glorious in Attendants, though lefs bright 
 Than he, who rules the day, and fends her out at night. 
 
16 A Paraphrase Lib.u 
 
 V. 
 
 Lord, what is Man, then ro my felf, 1 fay, 
 
 Or, what is Mans Polterity, 
 
 That he thus vifited fhould be, 
 Be made to rule, when fuch great things obey > 
 Be little lower than Bleft Angels made > 
 And have at lait their glory to his honour laid ? 
 
 VI. 
 
 For King of all Thy works, with Thine own hand 
 Thou on his head halt fet the Crown, 
 En joyning all his Power to own, 
 And his obey, as if 'twere Thy command s 
 Creatures, which at his feet the yoak now bear, 
 But would have higher rifen, if not, by Thee plac'd there, 
 
 VII. 
 
 They are his ilaves, and juft obedience fliow, 
 All in their offices attend, 
 Th eir lives all in his fervice ipend, 
 
 And count their honour for his ufe to grow ; 
 
 All that the Sea inhabit, or the sky, 
 And Earth, or for his pleafure live, or at it dye, 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Sole Monarch of the World, Prince of all Powers, 
 Fountain of Beings, glorious King, 
 Who can enough Thy praifes ling, 
 W T ho art the Worlds great Lord, as well as Ours ? 
 Fondly by Verfe we ftrive Thy Name to. raife 3 
 When n already .is above our bighe.ft Praifc 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Liku upon the 1 X Psalm; 17 
 
 Pfalm IX. 
 Confitebor tibi Domine^ &c> 
 
 I. 
 
 LOrd, I will praife Thee, and Thy Works declare > A Tfalm of 
 OfallTl wsAflsrchcrfcj David, 
 
 M) v praifes (hall not fpa 
 
 But with their numbers I will raife my Verfe : m 
 In Thee I will beglad, in Theerejoyce, 
 And where Thou art, on high, fend up my voice. 
 
 II. 
 My Enemies, by Thee perfu'd, gave back, 
 
 In vain they ftrove to fhun Thy light, 
 
 My En'mies Thou didli overtake, 
 And thole, whofcap'd the battle, fell in flight : 
 Thou heard Y: my caufe, and did.il my right maintain, 
 Take then the Crown, who didft the Vjft'ry gain, 
 
 III. 
 
 God on the Throne did Gt, a finall doom 
 
 On the Rebellious World to pafs, 
 
 Their troops alone were noto'recome. 
 But their vile Names He alio out did r-afe : 
 So totally by Him they were o'rethrown, 
 That only in fuch fongs they fnall be known, 
 
 IV. 
 
 At length, O Enemy, thy boafts are done, 
 
 And thy deitrudions have an end } 
 
 The next that comes, will be thy own, 
 And at the door (win; ruine do's attend j 
 As of the towns thou fackWt there is no fign. 
 But ev'n their Names have perifht, (o (hall Thyne ^ 
 
 D V. 
 
8 A Paraphrase Lib. r. 
 
 - .. 
 
 V. 
 
 God, who for ever reigns, has fixt His Throne, 
 And to His bar the Earth will call •, 
 In righteoufnefs He (hall come down, 
 
 And by His equall Juitice fentence all : 
 
 Under His wings fecure the Juft (ball lye, 
 
 And Hell their refuge be, who to Him fly. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Lord they,, who know Thy Name, will truft in Thee, 
 For power, and ftrength, and fafety's there, 
 That quiver cannot empty'd bee, 
 
 And thofe, who bear fuch arms, need never fear ; 
 
 For never yet thou any man did' It leave, 
 
 Who was Thy help but willing to receive. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Praife to that God, who care of Sion takes ! 
 
 And all His wonders tell about ■-> 
 
 For when He Inquifiticn makes. 
 The blood which now is iilent, will cry out : 
 Aloud 'twill cry, nor will God (top His ear 
 To blood, who keeps it open for a tear. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Arife, My King, to Thee for help I pray, 
 
 Behold the Mis'ries I endure ; 
 
 Thou, who from death didft guard my wayy 
 And mad' ft me ftand from all his (hafts fecure : 
 That in Thy houfe I may Thy love record, 
 And where He has return' d me, praife the Lord / 
 
 IX. 
 
 Down in the pitt, which for me they had made, 
 Yt\\ pit the heathen are funk down > 
 Are taken in the toyles they laid, 
 
 Whileft by fo juft a judgement God is known, 
 
 That 
 
Lib.i. upon the IX Psalm, ip 
 
 That when the heathen fall by their own fnare, 
 Thy Juft, for whom 'twas laid, in fafety are, 
 
 X. 
 To hell they {hall be turn'd, and with them all 5 
 
 Who God or know not, or forget > 
 
 But thofe, who for His fuccour call, 
 Shall have it, like their expectation, great : 
 For though at prefent God feems not to hear. 
 His hands are only held, and not His ear, 
 
 XL 
 
 Appear, O lord, and let not man prevail, 
 
 But judge the Nations in Thy light , 
 
 The Nations, who dare Heav'n aflail, 
 And overthrow them with Thy glorious light ! 
 And, when Thou haft fubdu'd their forces, then 
 Let them know Thou art God, themfclves but men f 
 
 D 2 pfaim 
 
20 AParafhrase Lib a* 
 
 Pfalm X. 
 Vt quid Domine recejjijii^ &c. 
 
 MY God, why doft Thou thus Thy -felf withdraw, 
 And make as if Thou didft not fee 
 Thofe miseries, which are better known to Thee, 
 Than him, who bears their fharpeft law ? 
 Why doft Thou thus Thy face in trouble hide ? 
 TVere hell, mould I be ever (6 deny'd. 
 
 II. 
 
 Look how the wicked, in his pride encreaft, 
 
 Deftroys the poor, who flies to Thee ! 
 
 May all the plots, he layes, difcover'd be, 
 
 And on himfelf their vengeance reft / 
 
 May the deftru&ion, which he did intend 
 
 For Thine, in his own ruine only end .' 
 
 lit 
 
 He boafts of that, which Thou like Him, doft hate. 
 His loo(e,and uncontroll'd defires, 
 
 And to no greater happinefs afpires, 
 
 Than what flows from a great eftate : 
 
 Applauds the Covetous, and counts him wife, 
 
 And valiant, who for earth can Heav'n defpife. 
 
 IV. 
 
 He has a better God than what rules there, 
 
 And need not any further try > 
 Alas, he has no wings to mount on high, 
 
 • Give him a God, that will be near y 
 That may be handled, like his baggs, and told. 
 And can give folid comfort, like his gold. 
 
Lib.i. upon the X Psalm. 21 
 
 v. 
 
 No other Dc'ty with the wretch goes down, 
 
 This takes up all his thoughts, and mind : 
 No matter what report he leaves behind, 
 
 For what (hall be, to him's unknown > 
 Above,.in Heav'n, ht hears Thy Judgements are,. 
 And is content they mould be alwayes there. 
 
 VI. 
 
 His Enemies he laughs at, thinks their plots- 
 More worthy of' his (corn, than rage, 
 
 FearkTs againft all itorms he do's engage, 
 
 His even-fpun thred is without knots i 
 
 Perpetual peace, conitant Profpenty, 
 
 Has been his lot, and mall his portion be. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Thefe are his thoughts, and thus unmoved he fiands, 
 
 With fraud, and curfes in his mouth, 
 His feet ne're trod the facred paths of Truth, 
 
 And like them are his cruell hands : 
 But in the lonely fields in wait he Ires, 
 And itains the groves with humane facrifice. 
 
 / 
 VIII. 
 For as a Lion, in fome fhady breach, 
 
 Humbles himfelf, and couches down, 
 His prey with greater force to fet upon, 
 
 If it fhall come within his reach, 
 Do's all the poftures pf fubmilllon feign, 
 Till to refill: he knows their itrength is vain : 
 
 IX. 
 
 So do's he couch, but having caught the poor, 
 
 With his difguife atide do's lay 
 His feign'd humility, and tears his prey, 
 
 Nor, whil'lt ther's life, thinks it fecure : 
 And all the while flatters himfelf, that he 
 To the All-feeing eye conceal'd fhall be, 
 
 D 3 X. 
 
%z A Paraphrase Lib.fi 
 
 x. 
 
 Arife, O God, to ftrike lift up Thy hand, 
 
 And on Thy En'mies let it fall / . 
 
 That thofe, who daily for Thy mercy call, 
 May thence Thy pitty underftand : 
 
 That Thou do'ft not their miferies forget, 
 . But that their helps mall, like their pains, be great / 
 
 XT. 
 
 Why fhould the Wicked man Thy Power defpife. 
 Or whileft Thou only doit forbear, 
 
 Think that indeed Thou canit not fee or hear, 
 
 Deaf, as himfelf, to th 1 poor mans cryes ? 
 
 For Thou haft feen, and wilt his rage requite. 
 
 That by Thy hand he (hall confefs Thy fight, 
 
 XII. 
 
 With Thee the Poor entrufted has his wayes, 
 And Thou preferv'ft the Fatherlefs : 
 
 To Thee he makes- his fuppliant addrefs, 
 
 And on Thy mighty goodnefs ftayes : 
 
 Therefore appear, and by one fatall blow, 
 
 The wicked, and his wickednefs cf rethrow / 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Then as Sole Monarch, Thou o're all (halt reign, 
 When thus Thou haft fecur'd Thy land, 
 
 When thus they fall, who flighted Thy commands 
 And all their fpoils refign again : 
 
 W T hen on the heathen Thou Thy chain (halt lay. 
 
 And make their proud Ufurpcrs to obey. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 For this the humble, and oppreft do pray, 
 
 W ith groans, that God delights to hear. 
 
 Though not to fee the miseries, which they bear r 
 For them He feels, as well as they ; 
 
 Arife then, Lord, to help the Fatherlefs, 
 
 Nor let the Sons of Earth; Heav'ns feed opprefs ! 
 
Lib.i. upon the XI Psalm, 23 
 
 Pfalm XL 
 In Domino covfido^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 I Know my truft, on whom I have bcliev'd, ^ f{alm of 
 
 So certain that I cannot be deceived : David. 
 
 God is my rock, and all in vam, 
 You like a bird to trf hills would have me fly, 
 For he, who can this rock but gain, 
 His Enemies arrows may derie, 
 The bird, whole feathers wing them, never foar'd To high. 
 
 II. 
 
 I faw the wicked draw the fatall bow, 
 And from the firing I faw the arrow go * 
 
 It leveFd was at the upright, 
 And had affur'dly funk into his heart \ 
 
 His Innocence had been the White, 
 
 Had not th' Almighty took his part, 
 And on his head, who fhot it, turn'd the vengeful dart. 
 
 III. 
 
 Th' Almighty God, whofe power all things fuftains, 
 Heav'ns dreadful King, who in His Temple reigns, 
 
 And with a look all hearts do's try, 
 Sentencing every work, and word, and thought, 
 
 There, as they all unform'd do lye, 
 
 E're they are to perfection brought, 
 And into all their feveral fhapes, and faftiions wrought. 
 
 IV. 
 
 He fees the Righteous and the Wicked too •, 
 Without His help, what can the Righteous do ? 
 
 They are His love : but fire, and rain, 
 And floods of Brimftone on th' unjuft He'l poure > 
 
 Fire, which (hall ne're be quencrTd again, 
 
 But 
 
^ A Paraphrase Liki] 
 
 But light thofe rivers with its ffcower 3 
 Whofc burning gulf at once (hall both drown., and devour, 
 
 v.- 
 
 Such is the mixture fills the wickeds Cup, 
 A brimfull bowle, and he (hall drink it up : 
 
 parknefs without one gleam of light, 
 Torments, which have no meafure, or allay, 
 And after all Eternal night j 
 Whirft Godfrom heav'n (hall dart a ray 
 - Upon the Juft roan ? and be both his Sun and day. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib. i. upon the X 1 1 Psalm. 25 
 
 Pfalm XII. 
 Salvum me fac Domine^ &c* 
 
 1. 
 
 A Rife, O God, and lave '•> 'tis time to rife, ^ Pfalm of 
 
 And with Thee bring all Thy fupplyes ! David, 
 
 Help, for the Faithful man no more 
 Has either place referv'd, or power^ 
 Is not at all, and was bat only fcorn'd before. 
 
 II. 
 
 There's not a jult man left, they flatter all, 
 And Prudence, what God hates, mifcall : 
 To one another lye, and feign, 
 And what they kafl intend, maintain, 
 And as their tongue is falfe, their daring heart is vain. 
 
 III. 
 
 But God fuch tongues (hall cut out, and fuch hearts 
 Wound, and ltrike through with their darts i 
 'Gainit Him, and Heav'n they up were thrown 3 
 But on themfelves are all hurl d down, 
 And, by the wounds they make, they find they are their 
 
 ( OWllo 
 IV. 
 
 " Who's Lord o're us, with dev'lifh mouth they fay, 
 " Or who is He we (hould obey ? 
 w That's I, fays God, now I'll arife, 
 " And fmcemy Kingdom youdefpife, 
 " And fubjedrs fcorn to be, you (hall be Enemies. 
 
 V. 
 
 " I'll rife now, and in fafety fet the Poor j 
 " From all the ft orms you raife, fecure : 
 That word has faid it, which is try'd 
 Like Silver, feven times purifi'd > 
 Pure without any drofs> too great to be deni'd. 
 
 E VI. 
 
i6 A Paraphrase Ltb. it 
 
 VI. 
 
 Thou (halt preferve them, Lord, by Thy Right hand, 
 fth' midft of a rebellious land, 
 Where baleit men moft honour'd are, 
 Some on the Throne , fome in the Chair j 
 And they as Criminalls ftand fentenc'd at the Bar. 
 
 4 * ■ ' ■ » 
 
 Pfaltn 
 
Lib. I. upon the XIII Psalm, %y 
 
 Pfalm X 1 1 L 
 
 Vfque quo Domine^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 HOvv long, my God, wilt Thou thus hide Thy face, 
 And thus withdraw the prcfence of Thy grace \ 
 How long (hall I forgotten be, 
 As if indeed it were in vain 
 Of all my mis'ries to complain, 
 And I might fooner mount the rocks, than Thee ? 
 I look, and (igh, and wait, O, come away, 
 Why mould my En'my triumph,whcn Thou doit but ftay > 
 
 II. 
 
 Arife, O God, and with Thee bring frefh aid, 
 Thy very fight will make my Foes afraid .' 
 
 By it o'recome, they'll fall afleep, 
 
 Too weak to bear Thy glorious light, 
 
 Will here begin their endlefs night, 
 WmTft Thou my eyes (halt ever waking keep j 
 Let them not on Thy fervants ruine (land, 
 Leaft what Thine only did, they challenge to their hand / 
 
 III. 
 
 Thou art my confidence, in Thee I truft, 
 And, though I am afflicted, God is juft : 
 
 I in His mercy mail rejoice, 
 
 In that Salvation He has brought, 
 
 In that deliverance He has wrought, 
 Something my heart (hall do, fomething my voice ; 
 Both heart, and voice in foDgs of praife fhall move, 
 And fince I am Thy Care, Lord, Thou malt be my Love .' 
 
 E i Another 
 
28 APar a PHRASE Lib A. 
 
 Another Verfion of the fame. 
 By M M. B. 
 
 1. 
 
 HOw long, O God, (hall I forgotten ly, 
 As one cart from Thy memory ? 
 Wilt Thou from me Thy face forever hide > 
 For fo that time, which nothing is to Thee, 
 
 Seems an Eternity to mee, 
 Who only on Thy favour have rely'd. 
 
 II. 
 
 Wilt Thou no period to my griefs allow, 
 Butfrefh afflictions on me throw, 
 
 Which I as little as Thy wrath can bear ? 
 
 To fee my Enemies triumphing ftand, 
 And my felfftoop to their command, 
 
 W r ho only Thee, and Thy command mould fear. 
 
 III. 
 
 In mercy, Lord , again remember mee, 
 And from OpprefTors fet me free / 
 
 Unto Thy fervants prayers attention give, 
 
 Revive his hopes, and let Thy glorious light 
 His joys renew, that in Thy fight, 
 
 Though now caft out, he may for ever live / 
 
 IV. 
 
 Why fliould my Enemy encreafe his pride, 
 With Thee, and conqueft on his fide ? 
 
 And thofe, who trouble me, in this rejoice. 
 
 That I am exilM from Thy refting place, 
 The facred prefence of Thy grace, 
 
 Who oft have glori'd that I was Thy choice ? 
 
Lib. i. upon the XIII Psa^m. i? 
 
 V. 
 
 But I have trufted in Thy power, and love, 
 That Thou wilt all my fears remove : 
 
 And this fure hope with joy Co fill my mind, 
 
 That I will now Thy mighty praifes (ing, 
 Fi om whom my happinefs (hall fpring, 
 
 Whofe bounty, like Thy felt, is unconrin'd. 
 
 E 5 
 
 Pfalm 
 
JO 
 
 A Par a phrase Lib.u 
 
 Pfalm X I V. 
 Dixit infipiens in corde^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A PCalm of C V- 1 <Here is no God, the fool ias heart do's lay, 
 pv ^- 1 And that his life may not his heart betray, 
 
 He like one, that believes it, lives : 
 Do's with blafphemous mouth deny 
 The very Being of the Deity, 
 
 And in his works that lye, 
 Which he to man dares not, to Heav'n profanely gives. 
 
 II. 
 
 From heaven th' Almighty God came down to view 
 What He there faw, and there could punifh too : 
 Yet down He came, and look'd around, 
 He feareh'd, if He might any fee, 
 Any of His, leait they fhould numbred bee 
 To th' Common mifery, 
 He fearch'd, but not a Juft man in the Number found* 
 
 III. 
 
 Are they all thus, O God, all gone afide, 
 As if from Thee they could their follies hide > 
 Are all thus greedy to devour, 
 And eat Thy People up like bread , 
 Thanklefs for that, and not fome judgement dread, 
 Like thofe by quailes once fed, 
 Tempting that Heav'n, which Manna down before did 
 
 ( mower. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Amids their jollity in fears they were, 
 Their meat a trap, their table proved a fnare : 
 But God himfelf defends the Poor, 
 W r ill both their caufe, and right maintain, 
 
 And 
 
Lib. I. upon the XiV Psalm. 31 
 
 And though the proud their Innocence would Train, 
 The fpot (hall out again, 
 And God, who fends them help, (hall with it that reltoi . . 
 
 V. 
 
 From Sion, Lord, may Ilraels help appear, 
 Thence come, fince all his confidence is there ,' 
 Bring back their long Captivity ; 
 That Ifrael may adore Thy wayes, 
 And Jacob to Thy Name give all the praife. 
 Together ftrive to raiie 
 Thy Honour, and admire Thee, as thou ought Yt to be I 
 
 Pfalm 
 
A 
 
 Davi 
 
 |t AParaphrase £/£.r. 
 
 '•ttahn XV. 
 
 D owine cptkhahitabit ) &c 
 
 I. 
 
 ?/*/*« gf \ /f Y God, who fhall Thy Holy Mount afcend, 
 ivid. j y J And/in Thy Houfe his life and praifes fpend ? 
 
 Bleft Soul, who always fhall be 4 near, 
 David. Nearer than any other can, 
 
 When he his God may fee, his God may hear, 
 
 And where his God is, frill b: there, 
 O tell me who it is, or let me fee the Man .' 
 
 rSO. 
 
 II. 
 
 *Tis one who from his heart the Truth do's fpeak \ 
 Whofe company, and laws he n'ere do's break : 
 
 His Heart's the wheel, which rirft do's play, 
 And all the other wheels commands, 
 Vr hofe motion all the other wheels obey, 
 All go, when that rirft leads the way, 
 Truth and his heart rirft move, and then his feet and hands, 
 
 III. 
 
 He dares not his juft Neighbour viliiie, 
 ' Nor give his conicience with his mouth the lie : 
 Dares not fpeak fair, b.fore his face, 
 And once withdrawn, retrad his tear, 
 Sinning to bring another in difgrace, 
 
 But chinks, what if 'twere his own cafe > 
 And againft him, lefs than againft himfelf will hear. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Whofe heart againft a wicked man do's rile, 
 And fliewes true fcorn, yet pitty by his eyes : 
 
 The good he honours, counts them dear 
 
 Worthy his love and favour too, 
 
 All 
 
 
Lib a. upon the XV Psalm. 35 
 
 All who in truth my Sacred Name do fear \ 
 And when he to his Word do's (wear, 
 What he has fworn, though he is lure to lofe will do. 
 
 V. 
 
 He puts not out his Gold to Ufury, 
 Nor by Extortion into wealth do's Aye : 
 
 No bribes will take againit the Juft, 
 
 Or ballance with thofe weights his hand, 
 Which there inclines where thecaufe merits moft ; 
 
 And having thus difcharg'd his truft, 
 He on my Holy Mount (hall dwell, and like it itand. 
 
 ¥ Pfelm 
 
A Paraphrase Lik i. 
 
 . Pialm XVI. 
 Conferva me Domwe^ &c» 
 
 Mkbtam, "jT^Referve me, Lord, for unto Thee I flee h 
 ATfalm of I ti who upon thee heretofore have (kid, 
 jvjravid. And when I faw Thee not have (aid, 
 
 cc Thou art my God, and though my Good to Thee 
 " Can never come, yet Thine may reach to mee. 
 
 II. 
 
 My good like gold to Thee can ne're extend, 
 Though it to airy thinnefs I mould b:at : 
 
 The diftance ftill would be too great, 
 Nor will it's drofs let it to Heav'n afcend : 
 Q, may it fpread below, and know no end .' 
 
 III. 
 
 . Spread to the Saints, in whom is Thy delight, 
 And who, as they Thy pleafure be, are mine : 
 
 Let others to dumb Idols joyn, 
 Their very Idols once (hall do them right, 
 And though they could not help, againlt them fight, 
 
 IV. 
 
 VI not approach them, Lord, lead for their fake, 
 I (hare the forrows, which on them are laid : 
 
 I of their OrTnngs am afraid, 
 For all who* to them facri rices make, 
 Are their own Vidrims, and fth flames partake. 
 
 V. 
 
 God is my Portion and maintains my Lot, 
 My lines are in a pleafant Country caft, 
 
 My Heritage (hall fall at laft, 
 And in a time when I expect it not ^ 
 God has both given, and will fecure the Spor. 
 
 VI. His 
 
Lih.i. upon the XVI Fsalm. §5 
 
 V I. 
 
 His Name VI therefore blefs, who coun&lM me, 
 Make Him ray meditation every night; 
 
 Till the young Sun brings back the Light y 
 As I in His, He in my fight (hall be*, 
 Nor (bail theX>arkne(s hide His face from me. 
 
 VI L 
 
 Unmoved Fl Hand His mighty praife to tell, 
 My very flefli in certain hope Hull rell 
 
 Of th* Refurre&ion of the Bleft > 
 For Lord, Thou (halt not leave my Soul in Hell, 
 Nor let Thy Holy One with Corruption dwell 
 
 VIII. 
 
 To the fafe paths of Life direct my way, 
 Thy Prefence, where perpetual joy es flowo're, 
 Whofe Pleafures fpring for evermore ; 
 By thefe clear ftreams let me delighted (lay, 
 And melt away in love, as well as they / 
 
 F i Pfal 
 
 m 
 
y& AParafhrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfclm XVII. 
 
 Exaudi Dowine jufiitiam^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A Prayer of •^iRcat God of all th 1 Earth, to Thee I fly, 
 David \T And to thy jail Tribunals Barr appeal j 
 
 Thou know'lt my caufe-j 8c Thou (halt hear my cry, 
 And,what Thypleafure on it is, reveal; 
 Upon Thy fentence I depend, 
 Let that my (hit, and troubles end h 
 For Thyne own fake my right maintain, 
 Heart did ne're clofer joyn with lips, nor they lefs feign / 
 
 II. 
 
 Lord, Thou haft fearchM me, and my heart haft known, 
 Then, when conceal'd from all the World, but thee, 
 The lilent Night had left me all alone, 
 By Thee examin'd, mine own Judge to be : 
 In thoufand flames I have been tryM, 
 But as gold throughly purify'd, 
 From thoufand flames I came more bright, 
 For I before had paft Thyne All-difcerning fight. 
 
 III. 
 
 As my heart thought, fo my lips al wayes (pake, 
 And with them both my hands did freely joyn > 
 With theDeftroyer I did ne're partake, 
 But al wayes left his paths to follow Thyne ; 
 
 Thou wert my rule, and Thou my guide. 
 
 When I or flipt, or turned a fide, 
 
 Thus guarded let me ever go, 
 For as Thy ways are certain, my fteps (hall be fo / 
 
 IV. 
 
 Lord, Thou haft anfwer'd me, when heretofore, 
 In my diftrefs I made my Prayers to Thee ! 
 
 Incline 
 
Lib a. upon the XVII Psalm. 37 
 
 Incline Thyne ear to my deiires once more, 
 And as then, let me now Thy mercy fee / 
 
 Thou, whofe Almighty hand do^s fave 
 All thofe who its protection crave, 
 Thy mighty hand for me extend, 
 No power but Thyne can to my mifenes put an end. 
 
 V. 
 
 And as the Eye around with guards is fett, 
 And fafely compafs'd in on every fide, 
 To keep off dangers (which may hazard it) 
 Difplay its glory, or its beautys hide •, ■ 
 
 Under Thy wings fo let me lye^ . 
 
 Secure, as under thofe, my Eye / 
 
 For as thofe guards my eye enclofe. 
 For fafety, lam girt, tor ruin by my foes. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Riches to them are Shield, and Coat of Mayle, 
 Whil'ft with vile mouth they bafely God derie : 
 They, more than Innocence, are their Brazen Wall, 
 Which as their own proud thoughts they wilri were high* 
 
 With fat their eyes are clos'd around, 
 
 And though mil faftned on the ground, 
 
 No confeious marks of guilt da-bear, 
 Nor view it as their own defert, but wifli me there. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Juft like a Lionefs, that wayts her prey, 
 Urg'd by her young whelps hunger, and her own, 
 All threatning force afide (he feemsto lay, 
 And try's new plotts, when that is ufelefs grown : 
 Unto fome fhady Covert flyes, 
 And there as dead, or dying lyes, 
 — That if her fcent infedt the wind, 
 She may her felf appear the prey, (he there would find. 
 
 F 2 VIII. But 
 
58 A Paraphrase Liki, 
 
 VIII. 
 
 But rife O God, and difappoint his rage, 
 And where himfelf has vow'd, there let him fall / 
 May he no longer Thy great power engage, 
 Nor againit Thine, wichThy own arms prevail / 
 The Sword he brandiihes is Thine, 
 Thou guid'-ft his hand, and mak'ft that mine, 
 Without Thy help he could not be 
 Or thus Thy feeming friend, or thus my Enemy. 
 
 IX. 
 
 This portion here below the Wicked have, 
 The World, and all it's boundlefs (lores are theirs, 
 Though when they once defcend into the grave, 
 They All behind them leave, and Children heirs , 
 But my great Portion is to come, 
 When happy death (hall bring me home, 
 When I (hall in Thy fight appear, 
 And, to Thine Image changed, be with Thy Son Coheir, 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib A. upon the XVIII Psalm, y) 
 
 Pfalm XVIII. 
 Diligam te Domine Fortitndo^ &c. 
 
 A Pfilm of David the Survtnt of the Lord, whojpa!^. unto the 
 Lord the words ofth'is Song^in the day that the Lord deliver r d 
 him from the hands of all his enemies, and from the hand of 
 Saaf -— And he faid, 
 
 L 
 
 I. 
 
 ORD J will love Thee,and Thy mighty praife 
 My humble Song to Heaven (hall raife ; 
 Thou art my Rock, my ftrength, my Power, 
 My God, my Help, and ever juft, 
 My Buckler, Fortrefs, and (trong Tower, 
 Who hail been always, and malt always be my trull, 
 To Thee the Spoyls I conlecrate, 
 Which by thy hand I from my Enemies took, 
 That, when in time to come, I on them look, 
 Thinking how in their ruin Thou preferv'dft my ffate, 
 And thofe remains of Triumph fee, 
 1 may new Trophies dreis to Thee, 
 Who only (av'dft, and only worthy of my praife canft be. 
 
 II. 
 
 5 Twas the moil gloomy day I ever fa w, 
 And Death in all its horrid fhapes ftood by \ 
 Trouble without, within difpair did ly, 
 And not content by drops my blood to draw, 
 And leave when glutted, it my heart did gnaw, 
 That fenfibly I could perceive my felf to die. 
 Hell compafs'd me with all her waves, 
 Enlarged her mouth, and thence did throw 
 In pitchy itreams her terrors, and the graves 
 That by its train death might more dreadfull fhbw, 
 And I, before hand, all its cruelties might know. 
 
 Before 
 
A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Before it lay devouring cares, 
 Envys, diftruits, and bands of ihares, 
 Sufpicions, jealoufies, and fears, 
 
 Chains, and imprifonment, a wretched lif:, 
 
 Beyond the reach of fancy or belief, 
 
 With which around 'twas blockM fo fad, 
 That thoufand deaths mud firft be pail, 
 E're one could touch the Bleit,and Happy One at lad. 
 
 III. 
 
 What to refolve, or what to do, 
 Which way to turn, or where to go, 
 I had no friend to tell me, nor my felf did know. 
 At laft to Heav'n Ilook'd, and there 
 A pafFage for my flight did fee, 
 The Coaft all empty, wide and clear i 
 But who on high my Soul could bear, 
 Or give me wings that I might thither flee > 
 And then aloud to God I cry'd, 
 And in my trouble made a noyfe, 
 Anguifh did help to raife my voyce, 
 And heard I would be, though I were deny'd. 
 
 " Lord bow Thyne ear, (aid I, to mee, 
 " Or fuffer that my prayers afcend to Thee .' 
 And up I fent them with a gale of fighs, 
 That fooner than my thought, had piere'd the skyes 
 9 And entrance found, or made to His ears, 
 Whirit I too flow to follow with mine eyes, . 
 Reflecting ever on my fears, 
 Could only their deflYd return expedin tears, 
 
 IV. 
 
 I lookt not long, e're th' Earth began to fliake, 
 The Rocks to tremble, and the Hills to quake, 
 And, toatteftthe pretence of its God, 
 Who to the Judgment on a Cherub rode, 
 The World its iixt foundation did forfake > 
 Out from His noflrils athickfmoak did go, 
 
 And 
 
Lib a. upon the XVIII Psalm. 41 
 
 And from His mouth devouring fire, 
 Which more impetuous, as it large did grow, 
 And made theHeav'ns alrnolt with trf heat expire. 
 
 He bowM theHeav'ns, and then came down, 
 
 Under his feet chainM Darknefs lay, 
 And tempefts, that no will but His will o.wn, 
 In haft flew on b:fore, to make Him way^ 
 He follow'd clofe, and their ilow pace did chide, 
 Bid them with greater fpeed and fwiftnefs ride i 
 
 And that He dreadfull might appear, 
 
 Yet not confame till got more near, 
 Dark waters and thick clouds His face did hide 
 
 V. 
 
 Such His Pavilion, fuch the fecret place, 
 To which His Glory did retire, 
 
 But yet how thick fo e're the covering was, 
 The waters could not quench, nor clouds conceal the fire 3 
 But it through both did force its way, 
 
 And all the louder thunders calls obey : 
 
 In thunder God aloud from Heav n did call, 
 
 And made His voyce o're all the World be heard, 
 
 Hayl-ftones,and coles of fire did at it fall, (der,fear'd. 
 Hail-f tones & coles of fire, which thofe,who flighted thun- 
 
 Thefe were the poyfond arrows, which He threw, 
 
 In vain with Heaven they faw it was to fight > 
 
 And fince fo fwift it did their guilt purfue. 
 As vain thought all their flight, 
 And it was truly curfe enough, to fee the light, 
 
 VI. 
 
 Then were the Channels of the Ocean feen, 
 And Earths foundations did appear 
 Never fo low before the Sun had been, 
 Or faw the wonders, which he met with there. 
 And down he ftoopt his watry bed to view, 
 Which he till then ne're truly faw, or knew, 
 
 - G And 
 
A.% * A Paraphrase Lik U 
 
 Andicarcebehev'd, that what hefaw was true. 
 
 At thy rebuke, O God, it open flood, 
 
 And the fame breath, which made, did part the Flood. 
 
 To Heav'ns high Vault the waves did rife, 
 And threatned all to break upon my head, 
 But I prevented them with fnrieks and cries, 
 And from that deep Thou didft thy fervant lead : 
 Which as the billows fa w, more fraid than I, away they fled : 
 
 VII. 
 
 God from my Enemies my life did fave, 
 
 And thole who were too ltrong for me, fubdu'd : 
 
 No fooner could I his affiftance crave, 
 
 But with my prayers, I faw my help renew'd j 
 
 That weaknefs, which my foes did moll enrage, 
 
 And to the certain prey did call, 
 Was my beft argument His power t 'engage, 
 
 Who did,unlook'd for, on them fall, (ftopt up all. 
 And found a way to conqueit, when they thought they'd 
 To a large plain he brought me out, 
 Where I might fee His wonders all about, 
 And by new tryalls His fure mercies prove : 
 He refcu'd me, becaufel was His love. 
 The Juftice of my Title did defend, 
 
 And on my head fet faft the Crown i 
 His wonted goodnefs to me did extend, 
 And, recompenfing what my hands had done, 
 Their innocence both witnefsM,6c rewarded with His own. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 He faw how constantly I kept His way, 
 And ne're to th'beaten roads of fin withdrew i 
 How I His Judgments did obey, 
 And all His Laws before me lay, 
 To be my guides, lead I mould ftray, 
 And when I fail'd, how I my Cov'nants did renew. 
 
 From 
 
Lib.i. upon the XVIII Fsalm. 43 
 
 From my own fin my (elf I kept, " 
 
 And found acceptance in His light, 
 He raisM me up, and held me, when 1 dipt, 
 And I before Him ^counted] was upright., 
 
 So that forgetting what I did, 
 My Sins He only, not His Mercies hid : ' 
 
 My righteoufnefs did recompenfe, 
 And both approv'd, and crown'd my Innocence. 
 For like Thy felf, O God, Thou doit impart 
 Molt juft rewards to every mans defert > 
 And what he is to Thee, to Him again Thou art. 
 Mercydoft on the mercifull bellow, 
 
 And with the Righteous art upright, 
 
 Thy purity the perfect know, 
 
 (For thou alone rirft mad'ft them fo) 
 And to perfection by Thy ftrength they grow j 
 But thofe, who fcom Thee, Thou as much doit flight : 
 Bring'ft down high looks, the Poor dolt raifei 
 
 And Thy arfli&ed land to fave, 
 
 Haft helps, as different as Thy ways, 
 And thofe, as many from it, as Death has to the grave, 
 
 IX. 
 
 'Twas Thou who mad'lt my darknefs bright, 
 
 And from the pit did'it bring me backv 
 Reftor'dft, what I deipair'd to fee, the light, 
 
 And, that I fhould no beauties lack, 
 Did'ft add new glories from Thioe own great fight. 
 
 By Thee I Nations have fubdu'd, 
 Conquering, when I their troops but only view'd, 
 And Victory as much as them, purfu'd. 
 Through arms I follow'd her, o're Forts,and Walls, 
 
 Nor, till pofTefs'd would give her o're. 
 
 Her flight but fore'd me on the more. 
 
 And anew made me help implore 
 Of Him, who gives it thofe, whom he to battle calls, 
 
 The mighty God, whofe way is juft, 
 
 m And Word like Silver try'd, 
 
 G 2 But 
 
44- AFaraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 But more than fllver purify \3, 
 The Widows and the Orphans truit : 
 Who never aid to them, who wanted it, deny'd, 
 The mighty God, who only is the Lord, 
 And as a Pvock, on high, has fet His Word, (fword. 
 From whence He has made bare His Arm, and flaming 
 With that I girded was to th' fight, 
 More fatal than Goiiabs^ and more right, (flight. 
 For 'twas in war my Sword, furer than Parthian fhart m 
 
 X. 
 
 For flyeldid, but 'twas like them to overcome, 
 My feet were Hinds, both to o'retake, and bring me home} 
 I faw, and wounded from afarr i 
 God taught my hands the fubtle arts of Warr, 
 And gave them itrength a bow of Steel to draw r . 
 And brake a barr of Iron as if it were but ftraw. 
 His Shield protected me, His Difcipline 
 Both held me up, and guarded round my head, 
 
 Above me made new glories fhine, 
 And for myfootfteps Palms and Laurels fpread h 
 Which having thence a larger compafs gained, 
 O're alltheplains fecure from Hiding reignd. 
 
 And then once more to th' Camp I went, 
 And with new heat my En'miesdid ailail, 
 
 Their flight could not my hand prevent, 
 But certain death it after fent, 
 That both pujrfu'd, o'rejook, and did prevail, 
 Down to the Earth, but never more to rife, 
 I, by Thy flrength, did hurle them to the ground. 
 
 My own could not their force confound, 
 But Thine did guide, and blefs my Victories., 
 And now my Song Thy praifes mail refound , 
 To Thee I will Thy right refign, 
 And fince Thou didit my Triumphs meet, • 
 And put my En'mies necks below my feet, v 
 Thoie Laurels, which Thy conduct has made mine, 
 By Thine own purchafe, 6c my prefent {hal again be Thine. 
 
 XL Small 
 
Lib. i. upon the XVIII Psalm. 45 
 
 Small as the dull I to the empty wind 
 Them and their pride together did expofe h 
 A while they mounted, but fell where they rofe, 
 Again with mire and common dirt were joyn'd, 
 Like diois caii out, and never more with rire to be rehVd, 
 
 They cry'd for help, but none would favc, • 
 
 To God, but He attended not, 
 Whim to my prayers He gracious anflvers gave, 
 And for me kept thofe Honours He had got. 
 In Civil Warrs preferv'd me fafe at home, 
 Made me abroad fierce Nations overcome. . 
 
 Who heard nofooiier of my Name, 
 
 But to fubmit their Empires came, 
 And,by accepting me to be their King^encreas'd their Fame, 
 
 With them came people quite unknown, 
 And from my hand each Prince receiv'd a Crown, 
 Which he more gloried in, and valued than his own ^ 
 When thofe, who yielded not, yet hop'd by flight 
 
 To fcape the fhame they got in right, 
 
 My luftre only made more bright, ( light. 
 
 And like thick darknef^fcattfed at th'approach of morning 
 
 XII. 
 
 Bleft be that God, who this has done / 
 My fhield, my Rock, whofe mighty hand 
 At once avenged me, and fubduM my Enemies land, 
 
 And when to Hell He threw them down 
 My head not only rais'd, but did with mercy crown b 
 
 Who from the violent man deliver'd me, 
 And from his Throne made me the fubjeft Nations fee. 
 My Laws, and their own Kingdoms take upon the knee, 
 Therefore to Him alone my Verfe l'l raife, 
 And what I fmg, the Heathen teach His praife, 
 That They, as well as I, may know, and fear His Ways. 
 
 g 3 ri 
 
±& A Paraphrase Lih.l. 
 
 VI tell the glories, which to Him belong, 
 
 How great His Power, His arm how ftrong, 
 
 And this fhall be the bearing of my Song, 
 
 " 'Twas He that gave deliv'rance to our King, 
 " Who did to David mercy (how, 
 " And from that never failing Spring, 
 "Will caufenew bleffings, on his feed to overflow. 
 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib. I. upon the XIX Psalm, 4.7 
 
 Pfalm XIX. 
 Cceli warrant gloriam Dei^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 THat boundlefs fpace we fee above, 
 The Heav'i^where all the Stars their courfes run, A Pfalm 
 Where greateft Stars have room enough to move, David. 
 And feem but points to th' vaft Expanfion j 
 
 The Heav'ns, whofe Arms the World embrace, 
 Which o're our heads, under our feet do go, 
 And alike neer themfelves make every place, 
 
 Their great Creators glory mow -, 
 The mighty God, who by His powerfull hand 
 At fir ft did make, and with His Word does bid them ftand . 
 
 II. 
 
 His Will gives Laws unto the day, 
 Makes darknefs in its turn fucceed the Light i 
 Both light, and darknefs*, His commands obey, 
 And by alternate powers rule day and night : 
 
 Through the whole World their Line is gone, 
 All Nations do their language underftand, 
 Nor was there ever favage Nation known, 
 
 Who in them could not read His hand, ' 
 In their own tongues all read what's written there. 
 For Heav"n alone's the Universal Character. 
 
 III. 
 
 From thence God makes His Sun to mine, 
 Which like a Bridegroom from his bed does rife, 
 Blumes at firft, but then looks gay and fine, 
 And with his luftre dazles our weak eyes : 
 
 At firft he gently feems to move, 
 And Heavens fteep hill in ftate walks up, but when 
 Mid~day is toucht, like's own beams from above, 
 
 To th' Earth he (hoots himfclf again i 
 
 From 
 
48 A Paraphrase Lib a. 
 
 From Eaft to Weft round the whole world does wheel,* 
 And makes dull minerals, unfeen, his influence feel. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Thefe Works of .Thine we fee below, 
 And in them Thy great Wifdom all adore s 
 But by Thy Law we come our felves to know, 
 And what we-ort have heard, t* experience more : 
 
 Juft as Thy Q\t are all Thy Wayes, 
 Thy Statutes, and Commandments pure,and right ^ 
 Teaching us how we mould exalt Thy praife, 
 
 One gives us joy, the other light : 
 To Thee they all. direct, our Leaders are, 
 And where Thou art, not only bring, but rix us there. 
 
 V. 
 
 The Fear of God true plea fare is y 
 Is always clean, is always full of love, 
 Opens the way to an etemall blifs, 
 And by its conitancy its truth does prove : 
 
 Un/uit that fentence cannot be, ■ 
 Which from the Righteous Judge of all does go -> 
 His Judgments are from all injustice free, 
 
 Are Juft themfelves, and make us fo : 
 The rineii gold near them looks wan, and pale, 
 And hony from the Comb do's of its wonted fweetnefs fail. 
 
 V I. 
 
 Gain, and reward in them are found, . 
 Sometimes they are my ftarf, fometimes my guide, 
 But, Lord, how often have I fell to ground, 
 And in my iccret wandrings gone alide.' 
 
 Cleaufc me, O God, and through Thy grace 
 Let not prefumptuous fins of me take hold, 
 But let my Innocence iiill keep its place, 
 
 And make me in the Judgment bold / 
 Hear me,0 Thou, who my Salvation art, (my heart. 
 Thar when my "heart moves my lips,Thy Spirit may move 
 
 Pialm 
 
Lib.i. upon the XX Psalm. 49 
 
 S 
 
 Pfilm XX. 
 Exaudiat te Dominus^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 <0 may Thy God be always near, ^ ?film of 
 
 Nay Jacobs God all Thy Petitions hear, David. 
 
 And when Thy Enemies huge Armies fend, 
 
 As if they would Thy land devour, 
 
 And with their numbers Thee ore' power, 
 
 Then may His Name be Thy ftrong Tower, 
 To break their rage, and Thee from danger to defend / 
 
 II. 
 
 From Sion may Thy aids appear, 
 Invincible as He, who governs there '•> 
 With fire from Heav'n may he Thy Offrings crown > 
 And as with every Sacrifice, 
 Thy prayers and that again do's rife, 
 Till they together reach the skies 
 Let thy God meet them, and as they afcend come down / 
 
 III. 
 
 May He Thy juft defires fulfill, 
 And always tix Thy counfels to His Will / 
 r Tis done, O King, and in itwerejoyce, 
 
 Let the whole World our (heatings hear, 
 
 What we adore, let them all fear, 
 
 Honour Him far, and dread him near, 
 Let the whole W r orld hear Ours.cc God Himfelf Thy voi;e I 
 
 IV. 
 
 Our God fhallhear Thee, and His hand, 
 Mov'd by His ear, deliv'raace (hall command: 
 From Heav'n He mail His mighty arm unbare, 
 
 Brandifh His Sword, and make it km. 
 
 Nothing but blood {hall come between, 
 
 H And 
 
50 
 
 A Paraphrase. Lib. i. 
 
 And He, who has Thy Saviour been 
 Shall be Thy praife as once the iubjecl: of Thy prayer. 
 
 V. 
 
 Let others on their Troops rely, 
 Chariots and Horfe which VicFry can out-fly > 
 We on the Name of God will only flay, 
 That (hall Our Horfe and Chariots bee^ 
 Our Armies, and Our Vi&ory > 
 Let but us, Lord, be kept by Thee, 
 We (hall itand Conquer ours, when they fall, or run away. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Already they are all brought down, 
 But on Thy head God has (et fait the Crown/, 
 May He be (till to Thee propitious, 
 Always incline a willing ear, 
 To His Anoynted (till be near, 
 And Thy petitions ever hear, 
 And as He hears Thee, Gracious King, mayft Thou hear us / 
 
 Pfelm 
 
Lib.i. upon the XXI Psalm. 51 
 
 Pfalm XXL 
 D ominc in virtntc ink, &c* 
 
 GReaf God, who Wonders for Oar land haft done, ^ pr, m / 
 And favM Our K ing, whom Thou mad'it fo^ r^Li. * 
 Again haft fct Him on the Throne, 
 And made His Fathers foes before Him bow s 
 Our King (hall in Thy ltrength rejoyce, 
 That He was Thine, as well as His own peoples choice / 
 
 II. 
 
 Thou didft not ever His requests deny, 
 Nor to His Vows fhut up Thine ear. 
 In vain He did not always cry, (hears 
 
 Though Heav'n, which faw His wrongs,letmM not t© 
 For the detires He thither lent, 
 Thou with unhop'd for bleflings didfr at laft prevent. 
 
 III. 
 
 He only fueMfor Life, Thou gave" ft a Crown, 
 And on His head haft fet it fafi •, 
 ' TheRoyall Diadem never (hone 
 With fo great lultre, or fo long to lad, 
 
 To Kings, which from Him (halt proceed. 
 Not to His head alone fecur'd, but to His feed* 
 
 IV, 
 
 Home Thou haft brought Him, and fo fixt Him here, 
 All fay His power is molt like Thine i 
 The Honours Thou haft made Him bear 
 Haverendred Him, and Monarchy Divines 
 That for their Kings Our Sons (hall with, 
 Like Him they all may be, and all their Reigns like His. 
 
 H 2 V. For 
 
i% APaRAPHRASE Lib. I 
 
 V. 
 
 For in the Lord His confidence He plac'd, 
 And up to Heav'n for help did fly, 
 And having there His anchor cait, 
 Our Seas, He knew, could never rife fo high '■> 
 And that the Ocean, which was there, 
 Was all Pacifique, and no feed for ftorms did bear. 
 
 VI. 
 
 In vain from Thee, O God, His foes would fly, 
 And having fhun'd His hand, fcape Thyne* 
 But their dole walks are in Thine eye, 
 And all around thern do's Thy glory fhine * 
 His Enemies Thou count'it Thine own, 
 And what His hands reach not,by Thine flial be o 1 rethrown. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Thou on them their own Conferences (halt turn, 
 Thy wrath fhall on their darknefs light > 
 For like an Oven it fhall burn, 
 With flames that fcorch, and even as Hell affright*, 
 And when it has rag'd all about, 
 Upon the guilty ftanders by it fhall break out. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 But, if refer v'd for future miiery, 
 
 Thy vengeance here they fhall iurvive> 
 'Tisbut to fie, before them, dye 
 
 Thofe children, in whofe names they hop'd to live : 
 Yet though like them their Names fhall rot, 
 They full fhall want the happinefs to be forgot. 
 
 IX. 
 
 For Thee, O King, the mifchief they defign d, 
 Which on Thy Fathers head did light* 
 And with you both the Crown was joyn'd, 
 
 That was theCaufe did animate the fight > 
 
 WhiMt 
 
Lib. i. upon the XXI Psalm. ^ 
 
 WhiFft Heav'n was all the while defi'd, 
 To fee the rule eftablilht there, on earth deny'd, 
 
 X. 
 
 Heav'n faw the Treafons, and did arm'd appear, 
 Return'd the darts they up had thrown, 
 Now, lefs with feathers wing'djthan fear, 
 
 And in all wounds the arrows were their own : 
 Lord, fince Thou 'halt thus prefer v'd Our King? 
 Uphold His Throne,that with Him,we Thy praife may ling/ 
 
 H ) Pfalm 
 
5^ A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 PfalmXXII. 
 Deus i Deus mms^ quare dereliquifii^ &c. 
 
 L 
 
 A Ffalm of A M Y Go ^ my God, why art thou turn'd away, 
 David. 'It! And thus forfiuVit me in my agony j 
 
 Shall I in vain for ever pray, 
 And pour outfruitlefs words, which reach not Thee ? 
 All day I cry, but Thou feerrfft not to hear, 
 The night do's witnefs to my roarings bear, (ear. 
 
 Yet though they rend my heart, they cannot move Thine 
 
 IL 
 
 But Holy hall, and Righteous, Lord, art Thou, 
 And worthy of Thy People Ifraels praife, 
 
 Who on Our Fathers did'it beitow 
 Freedom from Chains, and conduct in their ways ^ 
 On Thee they truited, and to Thee they cry'd, 
 Who heardYt their groans, 8c conquering out did'it ride 3 
 Their truft met no reproach, nor was their prayer deny'd. 
 
 f II. 
 
 But Vm a Worm, my God, and not a Man, 
 Reproach of Men, and fhame o'trT multitude, 
 Whole mockings with my grief began, 
 And ever grew, as that encreas cl, more rude : 
 With all the antick looks that fhew difgrace, 
 Distorted mouth, and head, and ri Vied face, 
 They me the Common butt, for all their fcorns did place. 
 
 IV. 
 
 cc Let's fee, faid they, with jefts more (harp than (words, 
 And mortaller than all the wounds they gave, 
 
 cc Let's fee, if yet, for all His Words, 
 cc The God on whom He trulls, His life will fave > 
 " If He fo dearly loves him, at his tall 
 
 " Why 
 
Lib A. upon the XXII Psalm. 55 
 
 c< Why comes He not, we challenge Him and all, 
 <c For without that, this (ingle conqued would be (mail. 
 
 V. 
 Yet dill in Thee I all my truft have plac'd, 
 Who art the God, who took'it me from the womb i 
 
 On whom I from the bread was call, 
 And to thefe years through thoufand cares have come \ 
 To Thee, who haft defended me I die, 
 And on Thy power alone for help relie, 
 Be not farr offto fave, (ince trouble is fo nigh / 
 
 VI. 
 
 Around with Bulls I fiercely was befet, 
 
 Bafans Wilde Bulls whom none but Thou couidd tame i 
 
 And with their hoofs the ground they beat, 
 And open mouth'd upon me bellowing came i 
 Like ravening Lions halting to the prey, 
 That roar, and call their fellow beads away, 
 Such was their noyfe, and hade, but (avager were they. 
 
 VII, 
 
 My blood and fpirits like water are pourd out, 
 And all my bones are from their joynts removed > 
 
 My heart it (elf to trT lire is brought, 
 And melted down, like Silver to be prov'd y 
 A Potfheard from the fornace is lefs dry, 
 My flinv'led tongue clofe to my jaws do's ly, 
 And 1 bear all trf erleds of death, before I die. 
 
 VIIL 
 
 Dogs hunted me, nay worfe than dogs, thofe men 
 I came to fave, in judgment on me (ate j 
 
 My Good deeds were forgotten then, 
 Nor could my innocence their rage abate *, 
 But fentence given, lots for my Coat they cad, 
 And on a rack my naked body plac'd, 
 W r hofe daring bones, only by them could be out-facM. 
 
 IX. On 
 
$6 A Paraphrase Lib 
 
 IDA. 
 
 IX. 
 
 On me they ftarM, and furious through their pride, 
 With cruel nails pierc'd through my hands and feet \ 
 Then open'd with a Spear my iide, 
 
 To fee my heart where all thofe wounds did meet :] 
 But, mighty Saviour, be not farr away, 
 Rife to my help, and make no longer itay, 
 
 Lead to their bloody Sword my Soul be made a prey / 
 
 X. 
 
 Thou, who haft fav'd me from ftrong Unicorn c , 
 Now from the Lions mouth. Lord, refcue me .' 
 
 Thefe hungry Dogs, and fierce Bulls horns, 
 Nor to their rage let me deliverM be / 
 Then to my Brethren f 1 Thy power declare, 
 And Trophies to Thy mighty conqueft rear, (fair. 
 
 And with the Captive Spoyls Thy Courts fhall look more 
 
 XI. 
 
 All you, who fear the Lord, recount His praife } 
 And you, bleft Jacobs feed, His Honour fing ! 
 
 Who, though molt fearfull in His ways, 
 And the Worlds Judge, is both your God, and King .' 
 Who never has the poor mans fuit deny'd, 
 Nor from my tears His glorious face did hide, 
 But heard, and anfwer'd me, as loon as e're I cryU 
 
 XII. 
 
 Of Him alone my numerous Song (hall bee, 
 To whofe great hand I all my fafety ow : 
 
 And in Thy Church f 1 pay to Thee 
 Whatever there I in my fears did vow : 
 Then fhall the poor, with famine long oppreft, 
 Eat, and bz full, the weary be at reft, 
 And thofe, who fear Thy Name,with peace and joy be blef I 
 
 XIII. The 
 
Lib.u upon the XXII Psalm. 57 
 
 xnr. 
 
 The worlds wide ends, when they Thy power fhal know. 
 Again to their Allegiance fhall return : 
 
 Their Kings fhall to Thy Footftool bow, 
 And now in love for their Rebellions burn i 
 Acknowledge Thee the Univerfal King, 
 Who on their Princes do'lt confufion bring, 
 And make Heav'ns Vault, with their loud acclamations ring, 
 
 XIV. 
 
 My feed (hall ferve Him, for they fhall be His, 
 And tell the wondrous works, which He has done > 
 
 How Righteous, and how Good He is, 
 And to the Age to come His Name make known : 
 That thofe, who long hence fhall a People bee, 
 When they the Records of thefe times fhall fee, 
 May truftin Him, who did all this, as well as Wee. 
 
 I Pfalm 
 
58 A Par a phrase Lib.u 
 
 Pfalm XXIII. 
 
 Dominus regit mc & nihil^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A Tfilm of / I V H E Mighty God, who all things do's fuftain, 
 David* That God, who nothing made in vain , 
 
 Who nothing that He made did e're difdain » 
 The Mighty God my Shepherd is, 
 He is my Shepherd, I His fheep, 
 Both He is mine, and I am His h 
 About His Flock, He alwaies watch do's keep * 
 When God provides Poor Man can nothing need, 
 And He, who hears young Ravens cry, His Sheep will feed. 
 
 II. 
 
 And as His Flock the Faithful Shepherd leads 
 To purling Brooks, and flowry Meads, 
 
 And by (oft ilreams in pleafant Paftures feeds ? 
 So do's the Mighty God with me, 
 Conduct's me to the bubling fprings, 
 Himfelf is pleased my Guide to be, 
 
 And when I ftray again me homewards brings j 
 
 Making His love in thoufand favours known, 
 Not for my goodnefs lake, but only for His own* 
 
 IU 
 
 Secured by Him, I will no danger fear, 
 Not death it felf, if it were near, 
 
 And fhould in its moft horrid fhape appear j 
 Death's gloomy fhadow by His Sun 
 Shall chearfull grow, as morning light, 
 And at the day His eye ha's fprung, 
 
 The grave it felf (hall with new beams look bright, 
 
 Thy Staff (hall bear me up-, My Way, O God, 
 Not by my Scepter (hall be guarded, but Thy Rod. 
 
 IV. 'Tis 
 
Lib. i. upon the XXIII Psalm. jp 
 
 IV. 
 
 * Tis Thou, who all times doft my Table fpread, 
 
 Bothfilfitmy Cup, and crown'it my head » 
 And by the fame hand I am favM and fed : 
 
 My Enemies fee it, and repine, 
 
 And when they look that I mould fall, 
 
 Behold me with more glory fhine, 
 And that Almighty Hofts are at my call : 
 Lord, fince Thy mercies thus to me extend, 
 My life thou bed know'ft when, let my Praife never end/ 
 
 I % Pfalai 
 
£6 A Paraph rase Lib.u 
 
 Pfalm XXIV. 
 Domini eft terra^ &pknitudo> &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 A TCalm of HPH E Earth, and all the Earth contains, 
 David Infinite Hills, innumerable Plains, 
 
 With all their Riches, are that' Gods, who o*re them reigns* 
 
 II. 
 
 The Univerfe is His, and all 
 Thofe glorious Beings , which compleat this Ball , (caff. 
 The Hand which holds it, and them firft from nought did 
 
 III. 
 
 God founded it upon the Flood, 
 Firft made the world, then faw that it was good, 
 And on unliable waves unmov'd it fince has flood, 
 
 IV. 
 
 He all things made, but Sion chofe, 
 Before all places for His own repofe, 
 Sion His Palace, who no other builder knows. 
 
 V. 
 
 But who fhall Sions Mount afcend, 
 Be counted worthy there his life to fpend, 
 And undiiturb'd may at thy Altar, Lord, attend >- 
 
 V I. 
 
 He whofe pure hands no ftains deiile 5 
 Whofe heart is innocent and free from guile, 
 And tongue blafphemes not God,nor do's the Truth revile, 
 
 VII. 
 
 This is the Man, who fhall receive 
 Bleflings from Him, who do's all bleilings give, 
 Both feeks His Face, and on His Hill (hall ever live. 
 
 V ILL Lif c 
 
Lib a. upon the XXIV Psalm, 61 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Lift up your heads, O Gates, make room, r 
 
 Open ye everlafting Doors, for home * f l m ' 
 
 The King of Glory to £fi$ Kelt, through you, will come / 
 
 IX. 
 
 Ask you who is this Glorious King > Rejf. 
 
 The Lord of Holts is He. His Triumphs fing, 
 Who VidFry, that you gaiiVd not,to your Gates do's bring / 
 
 X. 
 
 Lift up your heads, O Gates, make room / Verfk. 
 
 Open ye everlafting Doors / for home 
 The King of Glory to His Reft, through you, will come I 
 
 XL 
 
 Ask you who rs this Glorious King > £ t ,A 
 
 TheLordofHoftisHe. His Triumphs ling. 
 And whom you cannot fhut out, open and let in / 
 
 I ; Pfakn 
 
4i A Paraphrase Lib. u 
 
 Pfaim XXV. 
 Adte Domwe Uvavi 9 &c> 
 
 I. 
 
 TO Thee, O God, my troubled foul I raife, 
 Who hall been heretofore my Truft, 
 xij* v .m. And (hale be Hill, tor Thou art ever juit ', 
 
 Let not my Enemies reproach Thy Waies, 
 Nor me count that my fhame, which is my chiefelt Praife^ 
 
 It 
 
 To follow Thee, my God v let them do £o 
 
 Who fin and no reward can gain, 
 But find too late, that all their plots are vain •, 
 When thofe, who wait on Thee mil bolder grow, 
 And through Thy Sacred Waies like Mighty Victors go. 
 
 III. 
 
 Shew me thofe paths, for, Lord, to Thee I pray, 
 
 Then lead me in them by the hand, 
 Elfe when they're rough I mall difcourag'd Itand, 
 And to Tome ealler paflage hope to ftray, 
 But loofe my own 9 and never find (I fear) Thy Way. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Let not my fins to Thy Remembrance come, 
 
 Nor all thofe fpots which itain'd my youth; 
 But wafh them out, and mindfull of Thy Truth, 
 Receive the Prodigal returning home, 
 And let Thy Mercy for Thy ancient Love make room / 
 
 V. 
 
 In this Thou gloried, as Thy chiefeft praife, 
 
 Repenting finners to receive 
 And when unable to come on, they grieve , 
 The weak Thou leader, the fallen up doft raife, 
 And anew fhew'ft and guid'ft them in Thy pleafent Waits / 
 
 V I. Truth 
 
tiki, upon the XXV Psalm* C% 
 
 VI. 
 
 Truth and Thy Mercy make them fmooth, and plain. 
 
 And though far off they rough appear, 
 They are with Rofes ftrew'd, when I come near > 
 Purge my great fin, and lead me there again, 
 For that alone, and not Thy Waies are full of pain / 
 
 VII. 
 
 Thofe, who th' Almighty fear, His Will (hall know* T 
 
 And to His facred fteps form theirs s 
 Bleft in their lives, and happy in their Heirs, 
 To whom the Lord will all His fecrets mow, 
 And what He fhall command, fupply with ftrength to do. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 My God, to Thee I look, on Thee depend, 
 
 For Thou my feet canft only guide, 
 To fhun thofe fnares, the wicked for me hide, 
 Thou know'lt what I, and what their plots intend, 
 And with one look can'ft them, and all my troubles end. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Behold their Numbers, how they are increanS 
 
 And how like waves new pains fucceed 5 
 Forgive my fins, whence all thefe tempefts breed, 
 Let me be calm, my Enemies oppreft , 
 And the foul Sea, and ftorm be only in their breaft / 
 
 X. 
 
 Prevent their malice, and my Saviour be, 
 
 For Thou haft been, and art my Truft / 
 Let Thy protection fhow that I am juft j 
 Preferve me, for I only wait on Thee 5 
 But chiefty Ijfctf/fave, what e're becomes of me,' 
 
 PJalm 
 
6\ AParap it r a s e Lih.u 
 
 PfaimXXVI. 
 $iicUca mc Domhie qHoniam &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A Pfalm of TTU^ge ine, OGod, for I to Thee appeal^ 
 
 David. i Who only knows my innocence, 
 
 Who doit the fccrcts oi my heart reveal, 
 And all hypocriiie halt banihYt thence •> 
 Thou heretofore in . need halt been my Trull, 
 And to Thy Word Tm fure to find Thee juft. 
 
 ii. 
 
 May I be found fo, Lord, O try my waies, 
 
 And prove that heart, which Thou dolt fee s 
 Thy mercies have been with me all my daies, 
 Still in my eyes, as I am viewd, by Thee s 
 That Truth, which is Thy love, Lord, has been mine, 
 And from its paths I never would decline. 
 
 III. 
 
 In Council with the vain I never fate, 
 Nor with diilemblers have I gone ; 
 Their private conferences did alwaies hate, 
 And left the place, when once the caufe was known t 
 Have heart, and hand alike kept innocent, 
 And from the Laver to Thy Altar went, 
 
 IV. 
 
 There did I all Thy wondrous acts proclaim, 
 
 And undifturb'd recount my joyes • 
 And with my facrifices holy flame, 
 That thence to Heaven went up, I fent my voice •" 
 Thy Temple, Lord, with us, Thou know'ft I love, 
 But much more that Thy prefence makes above. 
 
 V.Numbe* 
 
Lib a. upon the XXVI Psalm. 65 
 
 V. 
 
 Number me not with fierce, and cruel men, 
 
 Nor make me to pofTefs their fears I 
 Our lives, Thou know'ft, have very different been, 
 Let Our deaths too, and mine not h: like theirs / 
 iTth* right hand bribes, afword iW left do's mine , 
 And to Oppreflion,murdcrous thoughts they joyn. 
 
 VI. 
 
 But as for me, though poor, I'm (till upright, 
 
 My Jumce do's unihaken ftand * 
 Preferve me Lord, and maKe my Innocence bright, 
 And left I flip, uphold me with Thy hand / 
 So when my foot mail a fure ltanding gain, 
 Equal to Hills my fong mall raife the Plain. 
 
 K Pfelm 
 
6$ A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm XXVII. 
 Dominns illuminaiio mca^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 AFfdm of TTT T Hen in the illence of the Night, (Years > 
 
 David W Til ^ t darknefs, which fcould hide,creates new 
 
 When darknefs quickens my dull fight, 
 And profound filence rills with noyfe my ears -> 
 
 Prefenting there, and to mine eye 
 Horrors, which in my fancy formM do ly j 
 God through the darknefs darts a ray, 
 And He, who made the Light, becomes Himfelf my day. 
 
 II. 
 
 Since God's my truft, whom need I fear > 
 He, who firit gave it, will my life fecure, 
 
 Will make my En'mies difappear , 
 When (His clear light unable to endure, 
 
 By it (truck blind J they fall, a prey, 
 Into thofe fhares which they for me did lay : 
 
 For though to fwallow me they came, 
 The ruin, which has buried theirs, fhall raife my name. 
 
 III. 
 
 Though mighty Kings againil me rife, 
 And with their Armies compafs me around, 
 
 Armies and Kings I would defpile, 
 Themfelves, not me, their numbers mould confound : 
 
 On high Td look, and Legions call 
 From Heav'ns great Hofts triumphant Generall 5 
 
 He to my refcue mould come down, 
 And thofe who fcap'd His hand,fhould perifh by their own. 
 
 IV. 
 
 But neither's this my chief defire, 
 Nor the too halty glories of a Crown, 
 
 Not 
 
Lib.i. upon the XXVII Psalm. 67 
 
 Not to be Great do I afpire, 
 Or from on high on others to look down •, 
 
 But this is my unfeign'd requeft, 
 And to Thy pleafure, Lord, I leave the reft, 
 That in Thy Temple I may dwell, 
 And all Thy beauties there to after Ages tell / 
 
 V. 
 
 There would I reft, and be at eafe, 
 Counting it both my hiding place, and Rock * 
 
 There fhould I finde perpetual peace, 
 And ftand unfliaken by their rudeft (hock ■-, 
 
 When windes and weaves engaged (hall be, 
 And finde themfelves that grave they threatned me, 
 
 Louder than them my voice I'd raife, 
 And in dark clouds of Incenfe thunder out Thy praife. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Lord, to my prayers Thine ear incline > 
 Nor let them, or my confidence be vain .' 
 
 With favour on Thy Servant fhine, 
 And to Thy Temple bring me back again / 
 
 No Eccho can more ready be 
 To anfwer the quick call, than I to Thee $ 
 
 For when Thou fayft, u Seek ye my Face, 
 My Soul returns the word and fays, " Fl feek Thy Face, 
 
 VII. 
 
 O turn not then that Face away, 
 Nor let my fins between Us interpofe •, 
 
 Thou heretofore haft been my day, 
 When darknefs did my Enemies encloie h 
 
 Now that my Friends for fear draw back, 
 Do not Thou too, my God, Thy Childe forfake , 
 
 Who Fatherlefs indeed fhould be, 
 Wert not Thou, the Almighty Father, One to me . r 
 
 K 2 VIII. Shew 
 
$8 A Paraphrase Lib a. 
 
 viit. 
 
 Shew me Thy path, and make it plain, 
 To me, Lord, plain, but to my Enemies 
 
 Rugged, and broken, full of pain, 
 And unto heights, they dare not venture, rife / 
 
 Dired them by fome other way, 
 And make me not unto their teeth a prey / 
 
 On them their perjuries return, 
 And let their own breath make the fire they kindled burn. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Under thefe troubles my fupport 
 Is only that I hope Thy Power to fee, 
 
 My Confidence is my ftrong Fort, 
 Which PI maintain, wrnTitlcan look to Thee: 
 
 Then bear up Soul, and God attend, 
 Expect the fuccours which He '11 furely fend ; 
 
 Bear up, but till this Storm is o're, 
 And wait, Soul, but a^vhile,and Thou malt wait no more, 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib a. upon the XXVIII Psalm. 69 
 
 Pfalm XXVIII. 
 Acl it Domine clamabo Deus-> <&c. 
 
 I. 
 
 /"TT^O Thee, O Lord, my Rock, I cry, A Pfalm of 
 
 O be not filent to my Prayer, David, 
 
 Leaft if Thou art, now Seas are high, 
 The Floods away my confidence mould bear j 
 And I befwallowM up by the next wave. 
 My God be not a Rock to hear, though Thou art one to fave. 
 
 II. 
 
 The voyce of my Petitions hear, 
 When I for help to Thee (hall cry j 
 Let my hands feel, that Thou art near, 
 Though I unable am Thy Face to fpy / 
 Hear me, when tow'rds Thy Oracle I pray, 
 And as I thither look.be pleas'd to cad one glance this way / 
 
 IIL 
 
 Number me not with the Unjuir, 
 
 And thofe who ftudy to do wrong > 
 
 On whom, if any poor man truft, 
 Their heart is warr, though peace be in their tongue : 
 Let equal punifhments purfue their fin, (been / 
 
 And may their juft rewards be, as their bafe deferts have 
 
 IV, • 
 
 They never mind what Thou halt done 9 
 Nor what Thy mighty hands can do i 
 What wonders Thou haft for me ihown, 
 And for me wilt continue mil to ihow : 
 But they (hall fee them, and confumM with pain, 
 Into the loweft pit defcend, to view it thence more plain, 
 
 K 3 y.Blefi 
 

 7© A Paraphrase Lib. i. 
 
 V. 
 
 Bleft be that God, who bow'd His ear 
 To thofe requefts I to Him made*, 
 He is my fhield, my ftrength, my fpear, 
 And was my help, when I unto Him pray'd : 
 On Him I trufted, and in Him rejoyce, > (Voice. 
 
 My Heart 3 that's gone before to Heav'n, Tl follow with my 
 
 VI. 
 
 He is their Shield, His ftrength their Spear, 
 Who on Him for thofe Arms depend i 
 The Lords Anointed need not fear, 
 For God who is His King fupplies will fend : 
 O, fave the People, who indeed are Thine, (mine. 
 Feed thcm,and Lord,lift up their head,as Thou haft rais'd up 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lih.i. upon the XXIX Fs alm. 71 
 
 Pfalm XXIX. 
 Ajferte Domino Filii Dei &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 *Ou, whom your birth for Scepters has defign'd, A Pfalm of 
 Whom God has bleft with wealth to guard your birth, David , 
 From Sons has made you Lords of thf Earth, 
 
 And on yours ftampt the Portrait of His minde, 
 
 Your Scepters to Him yield, they are His due, 
 
 Who only to ferve Him, firft gave them You. 
 
 Y 
 
 11. 
 
 He is your King, and though you reign below, 
 You are but Varfals to His Throne above i 
 
 Your fear do's your dependance prove, 
 And when He fpeaks, before Him you all bow j 
 When from above He thunders, all your Powers 
 Scatter like Clouds, and melt away in mowers. 
 
 III. 
 
 He thunders from above, and with the noyle, 
 Whether they will or no makes Seas to hear > 
 
 For at His Word they all croud near, 
 Exalted up to Heav"n by His great Voyce ; 
 A voyce which fure is full of Majefty, 
 When fluggim Seas are by it rais'd iohigm 
 
 IV. 
 
 Affrighted Libanus begins to heave, 
 
 Like his own Cedars trembles, they all quake, 
 
 Their roots, as much as branches, make, 
 And both look which mould firft the other leave : 
 Like a young heifer Syrian ftarts away, 
 But do's through fear, what that is wont at play. 
 
 V. From 
 
Ji A Paraphrase .Lib.i, 
 
 v. 
 
 JromHeav'n it came, a Fire before it went, 
 Cqnfuming Fire behiade brought up the rear, 
 
 That all might fee, as well as hear, 
 And by the Meflage know from whom 'twas fent : 
 Kades did at the Clap bow down his head, 
 And whom all fear'd, his frighted Lions fled. 
 
 VI. 
 
 The fearfull Hinde, hearing the thunder roar, 
 Cait her untimely Calf with fpeed to fly, 
 
 And thinking by this {hot to dy, 
 Forgot the Dogs her only dread before: 
 The Lightning made the gloomy Forelt bright,- 
 And what the Sun could not, difplayM at night. 
 
 VII, 
 
 The whole World is Gods Temple, all things bow 
 Before His Footltool, and recount His praife, 
 
 All in their place His glory raife, 
 And unto man, by theirs, his duty (how : 
 Lightning and Thunder to ferve Him contend, 
 And His great charge proclaim to trT Earths wide end. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Upon the Floods He fits, Floods to Him bring 
 Their gifts, and humbly at his feet lay down 
 Their Spoyls as Cuftoms to His Crown, 
 And worfhip Him, as their puiiTant King : 
 He Hills their noyfe j and God, who raging Seas 
 Stills with a word, (hall give His people Peace. 
 
 Pfelm 
 
Lib.i. upon the XXX Psalm, 73 
 
 M 
 
 Pfalm XXX. 
 Exalt abo tc Domne^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 Y God, I will to Thee give* praife, A Ffalm of 
 
 Becaufe Thou haft exalted me h David, at 
 
 Thou from the grave my life did'fr raife, the Vedica- 
 And now my Song mail honour Thee : tion of hi/ 
 
 When againft me my foes did come, Houfe. 
 
 And fhar'd the prey, and in their minds led home 
 Their CaptiveSjThou appeard'il, and would'ft not let them 
 
 Covercome. 
 
 II. 
 
 'Twas then that to my God I cri'd, 
 And He, who wounded, made me whole • 
 All other helps, which I had try'd, 
 Did but afflict, not eafe my Soul \ 
 Even then He me did keep alive, 
 My ranfoirfd life did from the grave reprieve , 
 And a new Leafe, when I had forfeited the old, did give. 
 
 IIL 
 
 O, ye His Saints, ling to His Name, 
 His Holinefs with thanks record ; 
 Thence take new fewelto your flame, 
 Sing Holinefs unto the Lord ! 
 His wrath a moment may remain, 
 But love (hall make the ftorm a calm again, 
 And give a life as free from danger as it is from pain. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Trouble, and grief may laft all night, 
 And to its difmal made add theirs * 
 But when the morning brings the light, 
 Darknefs fhall fcatter, and my fears : 
 
 L And 
 
j± A Paraphrase Lib, i. 
 
 And as the Sup, which guilds the day, 
 Out from the briny Ocean makes his way, 
 My Sun,which breaks through tears.fhali brighter fhine,and 
 
 (look more gay. 
 
 V. 
 
 Fixt on my Throne, with mercy crown'd, 
 Unmov'd like lbme huge Rock, I flood ^ 
 Me thoughts with plealure I look'd round, 
 And faw T my feet kifs'd by the flood : 
 cc Sure now I'm pafx all fear, I faid, 
 (Thy favour Lord, my Rockfo ftrong had made,) 
 " Others may well of me, but I of none can be afraid, 
 
 VI. 
 
 But as I thus exprefs'dmy pride, 
 \ Forgetting Him, w T ho made me fo, 
 
 Thou, Lord, Thy face didft from me hide, 
 And then I came my felf to know : 
 Trouble, and pain, no certain ground, 
 Which way fo e're I look'd, new griefs I found,- 
 And the fame rloods,"which kifs'd my feet before, my head 
 
 (fur round. 
 VII. 
 
 Then to Thee, Lord, again I cry'd, 
 " What profit is there in my blood, 
 " If in the pit I muff abide, 
 " Can Thy praife there be understood > 
 cc Shall the grave praife Thee, or declare 
 cc Thy Truth, and Mercy, what their glories are, 
 " The grave, which is as fenfelefs as the duff that's buryed 
 
 (there ? 
 VIII. 
 
 Hear me, O God, and mercy fhow, 
 Unto my Help Thy felf come down / 
 My God has heard me, and I know, 
 By this, He will His fervant own : 
 
 To 
 
Lib. i. upon the XXX Psalm. 75 
 
 To laughter He has turn'd my tears, 
 With gales of joy, has blown away my fears, 
 And He, who mourn^now a Triumphant Robe and Lau- 
 
 (rel wears, 
 
 IX. 
 
 For this I will Thy praifes ling, 
 And never in them iilent be ■■> 
 My glory lhall its Anthem bring, 
 And faint not while 'tis praiiing Thee. 
 Thy Mighty Power the ground mail give, 
 My nobldt skill to manage it {hall ftrive, (live .' 
 
 And when I ceafe, my God, to praife Thee, let me ceafe to 
 
 L 2 Pfalm 
 
j6 AParafhrase .Liku 
 
 Pfalm XXXI. 
 In te Dowmefperavi not? confundar^ <&c. 
 
 I. 
 
 / T~" X ^ 0U art my ^ope, ^ ^ oc ^ m wnom I trufi, 
 ^4 F/^w of I Let not my confidence procure me iharaei 
 
 David. g ut f a y e me jjj y^y Truth, for Thou art Juft, 
 
 And in my great efeape confult Thy Name i 
 Leaft thofe, who know itnot,Thy care mould blame / 
 To my complaint, and cries incline Thine ear, 
 And by Thy help make me aiTur'd, that Thou dofthear / 
 
 H. 
 
 Thou art my Rock, where till the florin is pall, 
 Above the floods I (hall fecurely ftand , 
 At Sea a Rock, where all my fafety's plac'd, 
 And a itrong Tower and Arfenall at land > 
 O bring me thither by Thine own Right hand / 
 Guide me, my God, who only art my ltrength, 
 And by the pleafures of the way, deceive its length / 
 
 nr. 
 
 Remove the fnares, which for my feet are laid, 
 Thou, to whofe hands my fpirit I refigii; 
 
 Of all I am the purchafe Thou haft made, 
 And' fo redeemed, I can be only Thine, 
 And what's Thy love, or Hatred (lull be mine ', 
 Lyars, and their fond vanities I hate, 
 But truit in Thee, who haft preferv , d my life,and itate. 
 
 IV. 
 
 In Thee will I be glad, in Thee rejoyce, 
 
 Who haft my troubles feen, and heard my ayes b 
 
 To th' .Songs my heart begins, Til tune my Voice, 
 
 And count of all Thy glorious Victories, 
 
 And on their wings to HeaVn in Triumph rife. 
 
 I'll 
 
Liki. upon the XXXI Psalm. 77 
 
 Tilling how for me Thou mad'ft bare Thy hand, 
 And let me in a place., where round I might command. 
 
 V. 
 
 This Thou haft done, and thefe Thy Works I'll praife ■ 
 But yet my- troubles have not their full end, 
 . Fears and continual fnares furround my wayes, 
 And grief to th'Earth my foul (6 low do's bend, 
 That fcarce in fighs I can to Heav'n afcend ; 
 Confum'd with care my bones, and life decay, 
 And m my wafted flefh unwillingly do ftay. 
 
 VI. 
 
 On my wing'd groans away my years do fly. 
 And for my fins my ftrength do's fail : 
 Nor am I only fcorrtd by my' Enemy, 
 But friends, with whom my forrows mould prevail^ 
 With fcorfs he thought too fharp, my life ailail. 
 A Feaft I'm to my own, and thofe who fee 
 My miferies afar off, lefs fly the plague than mee, 
 
 VII. 
 
 Like a dead man, forgotten in the grave, 
 An earthen VeiTel, all to Olivers broke, 
 Which Art too late would or repair, or fave, 
 My old acquaintance ftrangely on me look, 
 And tremble, as they fee me, at Thy liroke : 
 Traytor the Great ones call me, and as fo, 
 My life they have decreed (hall for my treafons go. 
 
 V 1 1 1, 
 
 In this fad ftate to Thee, my God, I cry, 
 Knowing Thou all their Threats canft countermand: 
 Their malice by Thy ftrength I can defie, 
 For all my Times are meafur'd by Thy hand, 
 And in Thy Sacred Roll recorded ftand * 
 For my deliverance (hew Thy Power Divine, 
 And for Thine Honours fake upon Thy Servant mine / 
 
 L 3 IX. Guard 
 
n% A P a rap h R a s e Lib. i. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Guard mc from mame, for I have call'd on Thee *, 
 And make it theirs to whom Thy Name's unknown / 
 Let filence and the grave their portion- bee, 
 And may all thofe, who on the Juit have thrown 
 Reproach, find it rewarded with their own / 
 Stop lying mouths, which ufe proud things to fpeak, 
 And with their cauflefs envy let them fweli and break / 
 
 X. 
 
 But who enough Thy Goodnefs can adore, 
 Or knows the treafures, which thou up hail laid 
 For them who fear Thee, in Thy boundlefsitore, 
 How glorious they hereafter fhall be made, 
 O're whom Thy wings already are difplay'd ? 
 There flialt Thou hide them from the ftrife of tongues, 
 And on their proudeit Enemies return their wrongs. 
 
 XI. 
 
 So was I hid, and thus His power have feen, 
 (Bleft be His Name,) when girt with Foes around, 
 He interpos'd Himfelf, and came between. 
 In a ftrong City made me keep. my ground, 
 And foes too potent for me did confound > 
 " I'm loir, I laid, cut off, and quite undone, 
 Yet, when I cry'd, was heard by Him I call'd upon. 
 
 XII. 
 
 By my example love Him, all His Saints, 
 Who for the Faithfull do's fo well provide j 
 But on the ftubborn multiplies restraints, 
 His Face for ever from their fuit do's hide, 
 And on them pours the vengeance they defy'd : 
 Chear up, all you who on the Lord depend, 
 The prefent Storm in an Eternal Calm fhall end/ 
 
 Pfalm 
 
lib.i. upon the XXXII Psalm. yp 
 
 Pialm XXXII. 
 Beati quorum remijjk funt> &c 
 
 I. 
 
 HE whofe iniquities are purgM away, The II, Pe* 
 
 And he alone indeed is bleft , nitential 
 
 Short of True Happinefs all others ftay, Tfilm. 
 
 And, where they cannot have it, ieek for reft : j Yfjlm of 
 
 No other path the way to life do's (how, David, 
 And only that which leads from fin do's thither go. 
 
 II. 
 
 Bleft is the Man, whofe faults remitted are, 
 
 To whom the Lord imputes no (in : 
 Vvhofe hands are guiltlcfs, and Whofe heart is clear, 
 Without all pure, and all renVd within : 
 Whofe filthy (pots of luft appear no more, 
 But now one Koyall Purple dyes his Soul all o're. 
 
 III. 
 
 This when I knew not, nor what eafe it gave 
 
 My faults before Thee to confefs ; 
 My grief, which could no certain meafare have, 
 Daily increas'd, inftead of being lefsj 
 I griev'd indeed, and mournfully complain'd, 
 Of fins erTecfts, ne're thinking that the Cauie remaiird, . 
 
 IV. 
 
 Grief, and Thy hand upon me night and day, 
 
 Low as the earth'did beat me down -, 
 And all the tears, which I had thrown away, 
 But dryer left me, when their flood was gone •> 
 Dry as the thirity earth for wane of rain, 
 W'hen all the moyfiure which it gave, Heav'n takes again. 
 
 V.At 
 
80 A Paraphrase Lib.i] 
 
 v. 
 
 At length perceiving all my groans were vain, 
 
 I thought upon fome other way i 
 To thee I did difclofe my fin and pain, 
 Thou in return their fury didit allay : 
 No fooner, " Til confeis my fins, I faid, 
 But He, who heard, forgave them me, e're I had pray'd. 
 
 VI. 
 
 For this (hall every Juft man thee implore, 
 
 And call when Thou wilt furely hear *, 
 The Seas, which now againft him proudly roar, 
 May fpend their Mouths, but never fhail come near : 
 He is above their reach, and fhall defpifc 
 Their greater! rage, and fcorn them,when they higheit rife. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Thou art my hiding place, my life wilt fave, 
 And teach me Songs of praife to fing* 
 Others, who of Thy Wayes no knowledge have, 
 Guided my felf by Thee, Til to thee bring : 
 Then be not, Man, more brutifh than thy Mule, 
 Which thou thy felf haft broke, and with a Curb canlt rule ; 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Perpetua* fcrrows, i rouble without eafe, 
 Is the whole portion of fh' Unjuft: 
 Wl.ilV thoufatid Mercies, and eternal Peace 
 Encpmpafs mofe, who on th' Almighty trufl : 
 Mercies and Peace, rcompa.s them around, 
 With thefe their feci are {tabiinV,& their heads are crown'd. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Rejoyce, ye Righteo is, and fhout forth your praiie, 
 
 Be glad in Him, who is Your King / 
 In the Almighty God, whofe wondrous wayes 
 Give life, and fpirit to the dulleft firing/ 
 He is Your God, and Him with praife adore, 
 If any to rejoyce have caufe, fure you much more. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.X. upon the XXXIII Psalm, 8i 
 
 Pfalm XXXIII. 
 Exultate $nfii in Domino ! &c 
 
 REjoyce ye Righteous, and to God fing praife, 
 With all the Numbers Mufick can invent, 
 The Harp, and Lute,and ten-firing' d inftrument, 
 And with their found to Heav'n your voices raife / 
 
 Exprefs your thanks thus, and your love- 
 And in the Confort joyn with Saints above i 
 In Anthems His great Name adore, 
 Nothing can pleafe Him better, or become you more / 
 
 II. 
 
 Make Him your Song •, and of His Acts reherfe, 
 Whofe Word is like the God, who (pake it, true i 
 And every day His conftant praife renew, 
 Who is the Soveraign of the Univerfe ! 
 
 W'ho the whole Earth with goodnefs fills, 
 With Flowers the valleys cloaths, and crowns the hills *, 
 
 Whofe care to all His Works extends, 
 And the itrait bounds of Time, as well as Space tranfcends / 
 
 in. 
 
 Beyond new Lands, which undifcovered lye, 
 Beyond the Circuit of the Tradrlefs Air, 
 Beyond thofe Heav'ns which rir(t created were. 
 And in the skirts of His vaft Empire bee i 
 
 His breath did all the Frame compofe, 
 The Heav'nly Hoftsby it from nothing rofe i 
 
 Thofe fparkling rires we fee above, 
 In which His power appears, declare to us His love. 
 
 M IV. He 
 
8s A Paraphrase Lib a. 
 
 IV. 
 
 He fpake the Word, and Seas obedient prove, 
 Stood up in heaps the Earth to overflow, 
 Till He their bounds fet out,plac'd fome below, 
 And treafurM others in His ftores above : 
 
 The raging Deep in Prifcn laid, 
 And of its Jaylor bid it be afraid*, 
 
 The fand which chains it to the fhore, 
 With Law to over-look, but never to.pafs oVe. 
 
 V. 
 
 Let the whole World before their Maker fall, 
 And of His Power the Nations itand in aw / 
 For He, whofe Spirit from nothing all did draw, 
 Has ruin no lefs ready at His Call. 
 
 His Counfels fhall for ever ftand, 
 Their plots though ne're fo deep to countermand^ 
 Making them know they are but Men, 
 And lefs than fo, when He His breath fhall call again. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Thrice happy Soul, who here has fixt his joyes,. 
 And on the Lord alone for help depends, 
 Such conftant happinefs His Love attends, 
 That even their land is lo, who are His choyce,. 
 God, who from Heav'n with curious eyes 
 Sees every heart, and all their actions try es > 
 To whom all hearts are better known, 
 For He firft made them, than t'each fingle Man his'own. . 
 
 VIL 
 
 In vain Fond Kings expect fure Victories 
 From numerous Armies, and a mighty Hoft, 
 For Victory on airy wings is toft, 
 And only to the fide He favours, flies : 
 
 The greateft Champion cannot feve 
 His own head, fentene'd by Him to the graves 
 
 And 
 
Lib.u uponthe XXXIII Psalm. 83 
 
 And all the fpeed his horfe can make, 
 In flying one, is a worfe ruin to o'rctake. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Thofe only are fecure, who have His eye, 
 On whom He looks for good, who fear His Name, 
 And prefent hopes by ancient love can claim i 
 When chey in need for help, or mercy cry, 
 
 Their lives He from the pit brings back, 
 And what was once their fear, their Song do's make : 
 In famine they by Him are tcd t 
 Who is at once th'JELternal God, and living bread. 
 
 IX. 
 
 On Thee, O God, we wait, Thou art our fhiekU 
 Nor will we to another fortrefs flie, 
 There have we placM our truft, refolv'd to die, 
 If the Almighty will no fuccour yield : 
 
 But He will help, and fend new joyes, 
 To fill our hearts, and to employ our voyce* 
 
 And only as we truft in Thee, 
 So let Thy Mercy, Lord, and our Salvation bee. 
 
 M z Pfal 
 
 m 
 
84 A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm XXX IIII. 
 Benedicam Dominum^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 f T 0RD l wil1 bkfs Thee > and Thy P raife 
 
 A Tjalm of ^jj up tQ Heav ' n my Vo ; ce am j nurn b ers ra -f e . 
 
 David,*/** -fl-i Qf Thee my Soul aU tjmes ^jj boa ^ 
 
 he changed who fave ' dft mc? when j gave my fdf for lo(l . 
 
 his bebavi- And wkh us ftall rhe humbk j oy ^ 
 
 our bejore Hopin g T h ou wilt their refuge be, as Thou wert mine. 
 
 who drove j j 
 
 him arra ->J Come, ye bletf Saints, and let us rife 
 
 and he de- Together with our Songs, and reach the skies / 
 t jrte "' Praife Him, who my fir(t groans did hear, 
 
 Yet with His hand feem'd to prevent His ear, 
 And when, like mine, your troubles be, 
 But look to Him, that hand (hall fave you, which help'd me. 
 
 III. 
 
 Tell Him the Wonders He has Ihown, 
 What for my fake He did, and what for 'His own } 
 
 Say, " Lord, This poor man to Thee cry'd, 
 <c And Thou heard' ft him, why then am I deny'd ? 
 " I, who no lefs am Thy great care, 
 * v Since equally round both encamp cl Thy Angels are ? 
 
 IV. 
 
 Trie Kim but thus, and thou (halt know 
 Thine own as certain as my joyes are now, 
 
 How Good He is, how happy they, 
 Who make His Power their hope, His love their ftay : 
 Dread Him, for if He has Thy fear, 
 Thcu may'it be confident Thy wants (hall have His ear / 
 
 . V.Hee'll 
 
JLib.i. upon the XXXIV Psalm. 85 
 
 V. 
 
 Hee'Jl be himfelf Thy mighty (tore, 
 When favage Lions f^iall for hunger roar j 
 
 Whiritthofe, who glory in their Gold, 
 And in his own Chains would the Prifoner hold, 
 
 Spoylers themlelves are Captives made, 
 And into fuddain want, which they leaft fear'd^etray'd. 
 
 IV. 
 
 But, Children; yield to me your ear, 
 I'll tell you whom, and how you ought to fear / 
 
 Would you have life, and happy dayes ? 
 Keep well your tongue,and that will guide your wayes. 
 
 Do good, and from all vice abitain, 
 No eafier road than Peace, and no way more plain. 
 
 VIL 
 
 On fuch God looks, and to their cryes 
 His ears are open, to their griefs His eyes : 
 
 They for deliv'rance need but pray, 
 The hand which faves, (hall wipe their tears away > 
 
 But to the wicked He's a flame, 
 Which (hall coniume their very Memories with their Nam*. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Himfelf Hec'll to the Juft reveal, 
 The humble fave, and broken hearts will heal : 
 
 Their pains indeed are (harp, and long, 
 Yet till deliverance comes, He '11 make them ltrong: 
 
 And all the while they *re on the Rack, 
 Will fee that thofe, who torture them, no bones (hall break , 
 
 IX. 
 
 But as the wicked live, they die, 
 The Juft man's, but their own wprft Enemy : 
 Their own defigns (hall haiie theii death, 
 KilFd by that poyfon, which themfelves did breath ; 
 Whilst God redeems the Souls ot His, 
 And (hews His help more certain than their trouble is. 
 
 Pfilrri 
 
8d AParaphrass Lib a. 
 
 Pfalm XXXV. 
 Judka Dontine nocentes^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A Pfalm of ^>Reat God, and Judge, to hear my Caufe arifc, 
 
 David. I t And on my part juft fentence give j 
 
 Subdue and fcatter all my Enemies, 
 And only to be conquered, let them live / 
 Go out, and in the battell itand, 
 Thy Shield in one, and glittei ing Sword in t'other hand / 
 
 II. 
 
 Let it be drawn, and with their blood all ftain'd, 
 
 Make a Red Sea around to flow ^ 
 Let it maintain the paifage it has gain'd, 
 And fafely guard the way where I mould go / 
 Say to my Soul that I am Thine, 
 And that for my defence Thou make'ft Thy glory fhine / 
 
 III. 
 
 Thofe, who dare mil refill, too ftout to yield, 
 
 And with new heat my Soul purfue, 
 Let them with ihame and infamy be mTd, 
 And find the battell, though they flye, renew / 
 Upon Thee let them turn their back, 
 To be Thy Butt, and all Thy poyfon'd arrows take / 
 
 IV. 
 
 Let them like charTbe driven before the Winde, 
 
 And by Thy Angels, Lord, be chasM / 
 Let them i'th dark a way fo llippery rind, 
 That headlong ruin may attend their halt I 
 OVewhelm them in the pits they made, 
 And take theirs in the net, which for my feet they laid / 
 
 V. Let 
 
Lib.u upon the XXXV Psalm, 87 
 
 V. 
 
 Let their defirudfron haften, unperceiv T d, 
 The fame which they decreed for me i 
 WhiFfi I for better dayes am ftill repriev'd, 
 And my deliverances afenbe to Thee : 
 
 That Thy Great Name may be my Song, ( ftrong I 
 Who thus the weak and Poor, fave'ft from the proud and 
 
 VI. 
 Falfe Witnefles did up againit me rife, 
 
 With charge of Crimes I never knew j 
 My good deeds anfwer'd with indignities, 
 And to the death my Soul did clofe purfue h 
 Thofe, for whofe griefs I truly mourned, 
 And pray'd for,fick, though on my felfthe prayers return'd, 
 
 VIL 
 
 For my beft Friend I could have done no more y 
 
 Nor more, had he my Brother been : 
 I did as heartily his lofs deplore, 
 As if I then my Mothers grave had feen * 
 
 Though in my troubles they re Joyce, 
 And all my griefi outbrave with their infulting voice, 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Bafcft of men againfi me make an head^ 
 
 And unawares my Name did tear ; 
 Scoffs fpent on me, was all they pay.'d for bread, 
 And gnalhing teeth for their delicious fare : 
 
 And mall it thus for ever be ? 
 Lord, from thefe Lions fave my Soul, redeesi'd by Thee / 
 
 IX. 
 
 Let not my caufkfs enemies rejoyce, 
 
 Nor me with fcornfull looks upbraid / 
 Whofe hearts are viler than the common voyce 5 
 And feemfor difcord only to be made, 
 
 Then. 
 
88 A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Then I Thy fame to Heaven will raife, 
 And in Thy Peoples fight return Thee all the Praife. 
 
 X, 
 
 On mee with open mouth they railing came, 
 
 " And this, faid they, we wifht to fee* 
 My God, behold it too, and let a flame 
 Dart from thy fight that they confumM may be / 
 Arife great Judge, and come away, 
 Stand up, nor longer,e're Thou pafs the fentence, ftay. 
 
 XI. 
 
 Be Thou our Judge, who art my Advocate, 
 
 Nor let my Enemies thus boaft, 
 " So we would have it, and'tis now too late, 
 For God to help, though he in God mould truft. 
 
 But let them be to ruin brought, (thought. 
 
 Who thus have rais'd themfelves, thus low of Thee have 
 
 XII. 
 
 But let all thofe who favour my Juflcaufc, 
 
 Continually with (houting fay, 
 " Bleft be Our God, who with fuch equal Laws, 
 " Peace on His flock, chains on His foes do's lay I 
 
 His Righteoufnefs (hall be my Song, 
 And all my life to praife Him mall not feem too long. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.h upon the XXXVI Psalm, 89 
 
 Pfalm XXXVI. 
 Dixit injujlus ut delinquat^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 BAfe hypocrite, think'it thou by this difguife, £ j>r a [ m f 
 
 To' impofe on Him, who fees thy heart, David, the 
 
 And more than thou, its guiles defer ies, firvantqftbe 
 
 Both knows it whole, and fearches every part ? j^/. 
 
 Thy wicked words thy thoughts declare, 
 And like them both thy actions are, 
 Speaking aloud, what once to think thou fnould'il not dare, - 
 
 II. 
 
 They tell me thou doft not th' Almighty fear, 
 
 . Though thou would'ft have me think thou doft : 
 
 But God do's all thy whifperings hear, 
 And could'it thou Him deceive,thou then mightft boafh 
 
 At length, like fire, (in will break out, 
 
 With vengeance, which thou (halt not doubt, 
 When it like fire (hall burn, and fcatter all about. 
 
 III. 
 
 To wrong the eafie is his chief defign, 
 
 Mindlefs of doing any good, 
 
 This takes up all his thoughts, and time, 
 And every night he lays new trains for blood : 
 
 But, Lord, Thy Mercy far extends, 
 
 And the clofe bounds of Heav'n tranfeends, 
 Without beginning ever was, and never ends. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Thy Righteoufnefs, my God, do's fxandfecure, 
 
 Fixt like the everlafting hiils i 
 
 Deep as the Sea, yet flowes more fure, 
 Though nothing its unfathom'd Ocean fills ; 
 
 N Full 
 
po AParaphrase Lib a. 
 
 Full from it felf no Ebb it knows, 
 
 But into thoufand channels flowes, 
 
 And to this deep both Man andBealt its Being owes. 
 
 V. 
 
 And as Thy Righteoufnefs, fuch is Thy Love, 
 Therefore to Thee for help we fly * 
 On Thine own wings we towards Thee move, 
 
 And cover'd under them in fafety ly : 
 This is our comfort, while below, 
 That we beyond our fears can go, 
 And what we fhall enjoy, in part before hand know. 
 
 VI. 
 
 For when this wretched life an end (hall have, 
 And our unpinionM Souls fly home • 
 When freedom mail ipring from the grave 
 And death the fertile womb of lik become > 
 No forrows then our joy mall fpoyl, 
 Nor mail we need the day beguile, 
 Eternity it felf fhall feem a little while. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Pleafures and joy eternally fhall flow, 
 
 For Thou their Spring fhalt ne're decay > 
 That Region do's no darknefs know, 
 
 For Thou the Suns Sun art Thy felf its day : 
 A Sun which makes all objedts light, 
 Without the leaft allay of night, 
 A Sun, whereby we may fee Thee, it is fo bright. 
 
 VIIL 
 
 Till Thou art thus enjoy 'd fomeglimps beftow. 
 Let from above Thy glory (nine, 
 Dart but one ray, that I may know, 
 
 Though yet I fee Thee not, that I am Thine 1 
 
 Thy 
 
Lib.i. uponthe XXXVI Psalm. 91 
 
 Thy Righteoufnefs aifign the juft, 
 Thy Mercy thofe who on Thee truft, 
 .md let the proud, though rais'd, be driven like the duft / 
 
 : ix. 
 
 Againft Thy fervant let him not prevail, 
 Nor to offend him raife his foot. 
 Let all hisToyls, and Engins fail, 
 And his hands prove too weak to ftif my root / 
 But lo / hee's fallen to the ground, 
 The Earth did with the (hock refound, 
 And opening made a way, whofe trad (hall ne're be found. 
 
 N z Pfalm 
 
$z A Paraphrase Lib.u 
 
 Pfalm XXXVII. 
 Noli <emulari in malignantib. &d 
 
 AT>n« rf 1 ,Rct not % fcM" t0 & e tne profperous ftate 
 
 A Tjahn oj Jh Qf him> who dearlybuyes k wkhhis fm . 
 
 ' Nor thy content for his abundance hate *, 
 
 Thou know'ft not how hee's lafht and torn within s 
 The Worm, which at the root do's ly\ 
 And though the Flower look ne're To fair, 
 Though hand, or Scythe its life fhould fpare, 
 By this inteftine Enemy, 
 Which firft affails the heart through all its guards, 'twill dy. 
 
 II. 
 
 Ne're envy him, but all thy Confidence 
 There only place, where it fecur'd may be > 
 On God, who bleilings do's around difpenfe, 
 Yet what He gives, expedfc again from Thee j 
 Like His, Thy goodnefs muft extend, 
 For thus Thou malt the Land poffefs, 
 Thy Land enjoy the fruits of Peace, 
 On its ne're-failmg ftock malt fpend, 
 Till there's no further need, and thou toHeav'n afcencL 
 
 III. 
 
 Let the Almighty be thy love, and care, 
 Thy Counfellor, to whom thou may' it commit 
 All thy diftrufrs, thy troubles, griefs, and fear, 
 And judge that always belt, which He thinks fit I 
 Then to thy prayers fhall he incline, 
 Grant thy deiires, and bring about 
 Affairs, whofe end thou molt didft doubt, 
 Make thee to His thy will refign, 
 That having done His Pleafure,thou may'ft fay 'tis thine. 
 
 • IV. Tha 
 
Lib. i. upon the XXXVII Psalm. 9$ 
 
 IV. 
 
 Then fhall thy Juftice like the clay appear, 
 Firft breaking through the dungeon of the night, 
 Backward it looks, and fees behind all clear, 
 And bids the Sun clofe follow with his light •> 
 
 Thy Righteoufnefs fhall be that Sun, 
 
 Which ail the Mines of night difplayes, 
 
 And all its treaibns open layes, 
 
 Clear as his own fair beams at Noon,. 
 When he has reacht Heav'ns top,and half his courfe has run, 
 
 V. 
 
 W T hat though thy forward prayers his help outgo, ' 
 And that the time, thou hadft prerixt, is paft j " 
 Wait mil, for God the ritteft time do's know, 
 And what's deferr'd a while, (hall come at lait / 
 
 Thy murmuring do's but feed thy pain, 
 
 For envy, rage, and guilt makes way, 
 
 And vice, which in no bounds will ftay i 
 
 Indulge thy (elf but to comphin, 
 Thy hand e'relong,as much as mouth, will need a rein. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Why fhouldYt thou envy him, whole great eftate 
 Prepares him only for the greater blow i 
 Which fhall be fwift, and certain as his fate, 
 And his vaft riches to another go ? 
 
 They 're gone already, and behind • 
 
 There's nothing left of all he did., 
 
 The glories of his houfe ly hid, 
 
 And with his fame are turn'd to wind, 
 Whofe very ruins, though thou fcek'it, no where canft rind, 
 
 VII. 
 
 But thofe, who patiently on God depend , 
 He with a numerous family will blcfs i 
 P. No tunpeft can their ietled calm offend, 
 
 But they in peace their Souls, and Land poifefs : 
 
 N. 3 . . No 
 
94* A Paraphrase Lib a. 
 
 No matter, though incens'd with rage, 
 The wicked curfe them in his pride, 
 God do's no lefs his threats deride, 
 Sees him in his declining age, 
 And the Scene finifht, with him will remove the ftage. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Againft the Righteous, with drawn Sword he Hands, 
 Has bent his bow, and let the arrow fly, 
 Would in his blood embrew his cruel hands, 
 And his lealt threatning is, that he (hall dy ; 
 But God, who do's the Poor fuftain, 
 By his own Sword (hall make him fall '■> 
 Againft him his own aids fhall call, 
 Which he to fly fhall (eek in vain, 
 When in his heart the arrows, which he (hot, remain. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Better's that little, which the Righteous have 
 Than all the ftores whereof the Wicked boaft i 
 God fhall difperfe what he rak'd up to fave, 
 And there moftfcatter, where he gath'red molt : 
 For He the Juft mans way do's know, 
 What lie hasfurT'red, what has done, 
 Lending His arm to lean upon, 
 .Will fhow him, where he ought to go, 
 And after a long life Heav'n in reward beftow. 
 
 X. 
 
 In War he fhall be kept,in Famine fed, 
 In the worft times, nor blufh, nor be afraid •, 
 God, who's his fhield, Himfelfwill find him bread, 
 And only make his Enemies difmay'd : 
 They like the fat of lambs fhall wafie, 
 And only leave a fmoke behind, 
 To be the triumph of the wind • 
 Their goods ill gotten fhall not laft, 
 But like their fuddain growth, their end fhall come as fall. 
 
 XI. The 
 
Lib a. upon the XXXVII Psalm. 95 
 
 XL 
 
 'The wicked borrows, but ne're means to pay, 
 The Righteous gives, and counts for fo much more : 
 For God returns it him another way, 
 (That God, whofe Word makes either rich or poor) 
 
 Diredts his paflfage through the land. 
 
 Upholds him as he goes along, 
 
 By this afliiiance makes him itrong ■-> 
 
 And when he ftumbles gives His hand, 
 Eoth leads him when he flips, and makes him firmer fund. 
 
 XII. 
 
 Through all my life, which has fo wondrous been, 
 From its rirft journey Youth to this lait itage, 
 Where every day I have new wonders feen, 
 And been my felfthe greater!: of the age, 
 
 The Liberal man I ne're knew need, 
 
 Himfelf quite left, or Children crave 
 
 An alms, but what he lent, they have, 
 
 For thus he did but cafe that Cqc^ 
 On whofe increafe they live, and plentifully feed. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Fly Vice, and that thou may'ft a blefling leave 
 For Childrens Children, to Gods w T ays form Thine .' 
 Return that juitice, which thou didit receive, 
 So (hall thy help be from the hand Divine / 
 
 That on thee (hall pour mercies down, 
 
 Below fhall give thee many dayes. 
 
 And happy all, then after raife 
 
 Thy head to an immortal Crown, 
 WhiFit the whole race of wicked fhall to Hell be thrown. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 As his heart thinks, the Juft man ever fpeaks, (Hows j 
 From Gods Law there, like ftreams right judgement 
 The Statutes he commands, his hand ne're breaks, 
 And where that points, his foot unerring goes: 
 
 In 
 
$6 A Paraphrase Lib.\. 
 
 In vain the Wicked fnares do's lay, 
 And fpreads in vain for him his nets, 
 To take his life the way b:fets, 
 For God (hall in the Judgement day, 
 When he clears him, the privy murderer juflly flay. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Wait on the Lord, and fee what end Hee'll make * 3 
 Keep clofe to His, and He fhall guard thy way : 
 Thy duty's all the care He'd have thee take, 
 And only to pofTefs the Land, ob.y. 
 
 And when thy Enemies turn to dull, 
 And like that vanifh from thy fight, 
 Thou fhalt b:hold it with delight : 
 On His own terms trf A lmighty truft, 
 For He, who prorrnVd thee, and threatned them, is juft. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 How could that be elfe, which mine eyes have fecn > 
 The Wicked in great power, exceeding high, 
 Like fome proud Cedar ftand,and evergreen, 
 With his leafage, Heav'n with his head derie> 
 But yet hepafVd, and yet he fell, 
 An hand immortall gave the wound \ 
 No more could root, or branch be found, 
 Ilook"d, and ask'd, but none could tell, 
 Where was the place it grew, or whence it funk to hell, 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Unlike the Perfect man , whom God defends, 
 For if you mark him, and obferve tlY Upright, 
 Mercy his lire, his death-bed peace attends, 
 Without all irorm, or Confcience to affright : 
 
 W T hile that o'rethrow the wicked have 
 
 Is a light tafte of what fhall be 
 
 Their portion, to Eternity \ 
 
 From which their riches lefs can fave 
 Their siulty fouls, than their vile bodies from the grave. 
 & XVIII. In 
 
Lib.i. upon the XXXVII Psalm* 97 
 
 xvnr. 
 
 In God the Poor do's all his truft repofe, 
 To Him in trouble flyes, in (traits complains > 
 Who In return confounds His bloody foes. 
 And leads them captive in eternal Chains , 
 For none e're yet his eyes did raife 
 To Heav'n for help, and fought it thence, 
 With certain hope, and confidence, 
 But Heav'n did crown his head with bayes, 
 And turn'd his Prayers into triumphant Songs of Praife, 
 
 Pfalm 
 
pg A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm XXXVIII. 
 Dowine tie in furore tuo arguas me^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 LORD., in Thy wrath rebuke me not, 
 Nor in Thy fury chaften me j 
 nitential For fuch weak things that Fornace is too hot, 
 
 Tfalm of And by my clay no more endur'd can be, 
 
 David, Than my injuitice, and repeated wrongs by Thee. 
 
 II. 
 
 In vain Thy wrath I ftrive to fly, 
 And from my felf in vain make hafte j 
 For,lo, the dart, by which I needs rauft die, 
 At once has piere'd, and in my fide flicks fail, 
 By no hand to be drawn, but His, from whence 'twas call. 
 
 III. 
 
 'Tis Thou alone my life mull fave, 
 For not my lead part, Lord, is found > 
 My bones with rottenneis prevent the grave, 
 Turn'd to that duft, the dead are, under ground, 
 And my whole body is, all o're, but one great wound 
 
 IV. 
 
 My fins, like billows, o're me roll, 
 The {inner all engaged to drown •, 
 
 And with huge weights fo prefs my helplefs Soul, 
 
 That it, unable to relift lyes down 
 Under the load, that's yet made heavier by Thy frown. 
 
 V. 
 
 Uneafie weight, which as it lies 
 New galls and bruifes me all o're, 
 Under whofe burden I fcarce hope to rife, 
 
 For 
 
Lib. i. upon the XXXVIII Psalm, 99 
 
 For if I do, I (hall afrefh but roar, 
 As long as that remains, which caus'd at firft my fore. 
 
 VI. 
 
 My foolifhnefs, which like a fire, 
 That inward burns, takes reins, and heart, 
 Fed with that blood, by which it (hould expire, 
 Seifing, e're felt, the bed, and nobleft part, 
 Beyond the cure of herbs, or helplefs Phyficks art. 
 
 VI h 
 
 Thus weak, and broken, thus caft down, 
 
 To Thee alone my prayers I make, 
 Who all my fighs, and tears, and wounds haft known, 
 And the great cure can ft only undertake, 
 Now all my friends, me, as a dying man, forfake. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Nor is this all j my Enemies 
 
 Leaft I fhould fcape, new toyls prepare » 
 Their tongues fpeak out the malice of their eyes, 
 And, what too long they had conceal'd, declare > 
 Lord, what's their hand,if even their words thus cruel are ? 
 
 IX. 
 
 As one paft hope they of me fpeak, 
 
 And think by that to make me fear '-> 
 But all their words, nor can my filence break, 
 Nor them convince, that I fo much as hear j 
 Without reproofs as dumb, patient as without ear. 
 
 X. 
 
 But Thou, O God, art my great truft, 
 And unto Thee my heart do's pray * 
 Hear me, My God 3 left they who fo much boaft, 
 Seeing me fall, prefumptuoufty inveigh, (away. 
 
 'Twas caused by theirs, when Thou but took 9 ft Thy hand 
 
 O 2 XL I 
 
ioo A Paraphrase Lib a. 
 
 XI. 
 
 I know I have defeiVd to fall, 
 And even to Hell to be call down •, 
 But let my tears Thy help, and pardon call / 
 I grieve, Thou fee' It, and my tranfgrefljons own, 
 Forbear Thine, Lord, where fentence has already gone. 
 
 XII. 
 
 For this my Enemies encreafe, 
 My fins, I know, have made them ftrong •, 
 For this all thoughts of former kindnefs ceafe, 
 And my juft deeds they recompenfe with wrong ; 
 Yet ftill I'll follow Thee, though t\\ way be rough & long. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Forfake me not, but be my guide, 
 And lead me, that I never itray. : 
 For fhould'ft Thou go too faft before, or hide 
 Thy gracious fight, I fliould benighted itay, 
 And itill the more I fought, the more fhould lofe my way, 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lift.u udoh the XXXiX Psalm* ioi 
 
 Pftlm XXXIX- 
 Dixi cujlocliam vias^ &c, \ 
 
 L 
 
 •« T Et him go on for me, I faid, ^ jg. , 
 
 M X-j And into his rude pafllons break*, -^ < , ■' 
 
 ,c ril keep the resolutions I have made, Uavia. 
 
 • l And though he urge me to it, will not fpeak > 
 
 u Will not of all his injuries eomplain, 
 11 For though his words are Spears, his fight fhall be a rein. 
 
 II. 
 
 This, while the wicked was in fight, 
 I with my felf refolv'd to do - y 
 My ftubborn mouth was filenter than night, 
 Grief ftrook me dumb before, his prefence now : 
 Not one good word did from my lips once fall, 
 Leait I fhould fpeak amifs, I would not fpeak at all,. 
 
 III. 
 
 But as a wild unruly fire, 
 The more 'tischeckt, the more't do's burn. 
 My heart, inrlarrTd by vehement defire. 
 To anfwer him, did on it felf return '■> 
 And there it rag'd and there it burnt Co long, 
 Till it brake out at lall, and kt on fire my tongue, 
 
 IV. 
 
 •• Lord, faid I then, make me to know, 
 •• W T hat bound is fet to my few dayes / 
 " How long from thee.I muft remain below, 
 " Strange to my own, but ftranger to Thy wayes : 
 *' How frail I am, how near unto my end, 
 41 That what's Thine own,I may before hand to Thee fend'/ 
 
 O 3 V. '<! 
 
loz A Paraphrase Lib. i. 
 
 v. 
 
 cc I know I'm frail, and if with Thyne 
 
 lc I my uncertain life compare, 
 ,c That age, which I may truly fay is mine, 
 " And all my dayes to Thy years nothing are : 
 " Mans beft eftate is but an empty ftrife, 
 cc And if there can be lets than nothing found, 'tis Life. 
 
 VI. 
 
 cC The faint refcmblance of a made, 
 " That fcarce can in conception be •■> 
 cc And yet how great a Have poor Man is made, 
 cc Whom God at ririt appointed to be free, 
 <c An airy thing that only lives by Fame, 
 * c And whom unweildy paflions, ruin give and Name. 
 
 VII. 
 
 " He loves, and hates, and hopes, and fears, 
 ct And with frefh wounds renews his pain : 
 41 Troubles himfelfat every thing he hears, 
 " And fcarce recovered, flips,and tails again *, 
 cc Ere&s vaft Piles, and endlefs wealth do's fave, 
 ,' c Yet knows not who the fruit of all his cares fhall have. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 '* What then my God, can I expedl, 
 " Truly my hope depends on Thee * 
 <c May'it Thou Thy Servant from all wrongs protect, 
 c '~ And from my fins fworfe Foes) deliver me / 
 41 Not that they were unheard, I dumb did Hand, 
 14 But when they fpake, upon my felf I felt Thy hand. 
 
 IX. 
 
 " W T hen Thou doft man for fin chaftife, 
 " And with Thy judgments on him falH 
 *• No beauty in his own 5 Lis in Thine eyes, 
 ** Is left of that, which he did beauty call : 
 
 "But 
 
Lib.i. upon the XXXIX Psalm, io$ 
 
 tc But like a garment, which the Moth has fret, 
 •■ Juft fuch a thing is Man, though ne're fc high and great. 
 
 X. 
 
 " Remove Thy hand, for, Lord, I faint / 
 
 11 Thy wrath 1 can no longer bcar^ 
 " From Heav'n bow down, and hear my fad complaint v 
 " Speak, Lord, that I may know I have Thine ear .' 
 11 O from my tears turn not Thy face away, 
 \ s They on Thee call,and be not Thou more dumb than they. 
 
 XI. 
 
 •■ Thou know'ft I have no refting place^ 
 
 c< I, nor my Fathers here below } 
 u They're gone, and I muft follow them apace^ 
 11 Spare me, before I that great Journey go > 
 <l Lord fpare me, who e're long (hall be no more, 
 l[ Forgot by mine, as 1 have thofe, who went before/ 
 
 Pfalm 
 
IP4- A Paraphrase Lib a. 
 
 Pfalm XL. 
 Expe&ans expeffavi, &c< 
 
 IN my great trouble, when all hopes .did fail, 
 I patiently for God did wait, 
 And found my Prayer then to prevail, 
 When all means elfe, or ufelefs prov'd, or came too late. 
 
 II. 
 
 The Lord unto my voice inclin'd His ear, 
 And from the pit delivered me-, 
 A pit, whofe fight ftrook me with fear, 
 And, only as my dungeon, could more drea^full be. 
 
 III. 
 
 There fluck my feet, and thence He brought me out, 
 And on a rock to fall no more, 
 But to view Him, and look about, 
 As high He rais'd me, as I was caft down before. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Where as I flood I fang with chearfull Voice 
 His praifes who delivered me *, 
 Whirft thofe who fear'd before, rejoyce 
 A certain Providence in all events to fee. 
 
 V. 
 
 Bleft is that man, who makes the Lord his truft, 
 His firmeft ftay, and confidence > 
 UnbyafsM by anothers lull, 
 And keeps his own from having any influence/ 
 
 VI. Many 
 
Lib. i. upon the XL Psalm. 105 
 
 VI. 
 
 Many and fearfull things Thy hand has done •, 
 And whofe can with Thy works compare ? 
 But could Thy thoughts to us be known, 
 Numberlefs, Lord, and like Thee infinite they are. 
 
 VII. 
 
 I heard Thee fay Thou doR not blood defire, 
 No O/Trings, or Burnt-Sacrifice, > 
 That Altars fmoak with daily rire, 
 And with the clouds they upward fend, obfcure the skies : 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Inftead of them my felf I bring to Thee, 
 And in Thy Roll, if Thou but look, 
 5 Tis written there concerning me, 
 Nor is my Name alone, but Office in Thy Book. 
 
 IX. 
 
 'Tis entred there what my delights have been j 
 And that I more to Thee might draw, 
 How I Thy Righteoufnefs have (een, 
 And what I knew and kept, to others preach' d Thy Law. 
 
 X. 
 
 Thou know'it, O God, my tongue has not been (till, 
 And that Thy Word I ne're conceaFd , 
 But as I knew what was Thy Will, 
 Its Truth and Faithfulnefs have in Thy Church re veafd. 
 
 XI. 
 
 Thy wonted Grace, ah .' do not then withhold / 
 But in Thy mercies. Lord, draw near, 
 Thofe mercies, which have been of old, 
 And in my help with greater luflrewill appear. 
 
 P XII. For 
 
lod A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 XIL 
 
 For thoiafand evils have begirt me round, 
 And all my fins upon me feife> 
 With penfive eyes rixt on the ground, 
 I dare not upward look, their numbers Co encreafe. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 If to the sky, I in the sky behold 
 
 Stars,whichoneyet mayfooner count> 
 My hairs, could every hair be told, 
 Compar'd with them, are loft, and to no fumm amount 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Wherefore, my God, be plcasM to come away, 
 And to my relcue make more hafte ! 
 WeT P' My troubles call, O, do not ftay, 
 
 Nor let Thy help be flow, when they -come on fo faft , 
 
 XV. 
 
 Now come, and with Thy Prefence, Lord, confound 
 My proud, and cruel Enemy : 
 Level his greatnefs with the ground, 
 And when he furely thought to conquer, let him fly / 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Let him be backward forced, and for the fcorn, 
 His curfed malice threw on me, 
 Let on his head that fcorn return, 
 And be himfelf as low as he wifht I mould be / 
 
 XVII. 
 
 WhiFit thofe who on the Almighty's Arm do truft, 
 In Thee, who their Salvation art, 
 Always rejoyce that Thou art Juft, 
 And have their mouths as full of praifes, as their heart. 
 
 XVIII. May 
 
Lib. i. upon the XL Psalm. \oJ 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 May I my God, one of that number bee j 
 For though at prefent I am low, 
 Thou know'il I (till belong to Thee, 
 And only for my fins, till they are purg'd, am fo / 
 
 XIX. 
 
 Then help me, Lord, O do not ever flay, 
 But to my refcue come at laft *, 
 
 My troubles call Thee now away, Vtrjur. 
 
 Let not Thy help be flow, when they come on fo fait / 
 
 P * Pfalm 
 
I0 8 AParaphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm XLL 
 
 . Beatns Vir qui inteltigit^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A Pfalm qf T3 Left 1S that man > w ^° c * ' s tJie P 00r r ^ieve, 
 
 David. (3 Anc * ^ eels l ^ c er ies > willcJl he ^ ees tnem bear > 
 
 The Lord will fure deliverance to him give, 
 
 And alvvay to his Prayers incline His ear : 
 
 Will fet him from his troubles free, 
 
 And his paft griefs with pleafure let him fee. 
 
 II. 
 
 Godwill preferve him from the rotting grave, 
 And here, on earth, let him behold His face y 
 His life from all his Enemies will fave, 
 And grant him now the prefence of His grace : 
 
 His Enemies Wills mall fioop to His, 
 And here he (hall begin his endlefs blifs. 
 
 III. 
 
 W T henon the bed of ficknefs he (hall ly, 
 His bed that God, which holds him up, will make * 
 Will give him ftrength, though able Icarce to cry, 
 And faithfull hands, which Heaven by force fhall take : 
 
 That Mercy then, which he has fhown, 
 And all he gave, fhall truly be his own. 
 
 IV. 
 
 41 Dear God, faid I, on whom all things depend, 
 u Though I have thus by Thy commandment, done, 
 " 1 merit nothing, Lord, for I have finn'd, 
 tc And what I gave Thee, was before Thine own > 
 " Yet grant it mine i, Lord, heal my Soul / 
 •' For Silver ftr earns cleanfe not, what Sin makes foul 
 
 V. My 
 
Lib. i. upon the XLI Psalm, 109 
 
 V. 
 " My Enemies, Thou know'it, arTault my Fame^ 
 •< When will he die, fay they, and leave behinde, 
 " That, which wec'll look (hall not bide long, his Name^ 
 <c But to it given, be quickly .turn'd to winde? 
 
 And when one comes to vifit me, 
 Inftead of Comfort, he fpeaks Vanity. 
 
 VI- 
 
 Notice of every groan he feems to take, 
 And weeps, andiighs to bear me company, 
 But gone, a fport of all my grief do's make, 
 And laughs to think how he imposM on me : 
 
 Abroad he tells where he has been, 
 And lies invents of what he there has feen, 
 
 VII. 
 
 41 A bafe difeafe, fayes he, to him cleaves fafr, 
 (Thus, Lord, Thou knowilthcy (till againft me fpeak) 
 * c This (kknefs cannot choofe but be his laft, 
 *' His bodies pain his heart will doubtlefs br£ak ; 
 
 44 He cannot fcape as heretofore, 
 " But this time fallen, he (hall rife no more. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Then to encreafemy mifenes, my Friend, 
 
 Whom I, till then more than my felf could truft, \ 
 
 Who of my bread did eat, new cares did fend, 
 
 And then molt faif d, when he was wanted molt : 
 
 Agamit me has lift up his heel, 
 And for my love made me his malice feel, 
 
 IX. 
 
 But Thou, O God, to me be mercifull, 
 And raife him up whom Thou halt cait thus lew >' 
 Vengeance may I upon my Enemies pull, 
 And up toHeav'n my ft If more freely grow / 
 
 Hence 
 
no A Para phrase, Sec. Lib.il 
 
 Hence 'tis I know Thy love to mee, . 
 That from their hands by Thine I am fet free. 
 
 X. 
 
 Thou, art my ftay, and Thou dofl me uphold* 
 Elfe my integrity would quickly fail : 
 In Thy warm Sun I never mail be cold, 
 Nor in Thy fight my darknefs, Lord, prevail 
 
 To Jacobs God let all fing praife, 
 And to His Name Eternall Arches raife / 
 
 Amm and Amm, 
 
 The End of the Firft <Boo{ 
 of Tf alms. 
 
[II 
 
 THE 
 
 SECOND BOOK 
 
 OF 
 
 PSALMS. 
 
 Pfalm XLIL 
 §^Hemadmodnm dejiderat^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 LOok as the Hart by dogs and men purfu'd, ^ Ffalm for 
 
 ( Seeing his heels betray their flight, t y Som J 
 
 When he of both had loft the fight ) Korah, 
 
 Pants for the itreams, and takes at Jaft the flood, 
 With hopes by changing thus the Element, 
 To cool his heafj and in its itreams to drown the fcent : 
 
 II. 
 
 After my God io pants my chafed Soul, 
 My Soul fo thirlts for Thee, my King \ 
 When wilt Thou me to Sion bring, 
 Where I may ferve Thee, Lord, withoi-t controll ? 
 Thou know'it my grief, how tears have been my food, 
 When my infultmg Foes have cry'd, " Now where's your 
 
 (God ? 
 III. 
 I grieve, but when I think the time will come 
 That I mall to Thy Temple go, 
 And on my Harp Thy wonders (how, 
 How I again in triumph (hall come home, 
 Thefe happy thoughts difpell my darkeit fears, 
 And what grief did before, my joy di.Tblves in tears. 
 
 IV. Why ; 
 
ox A Paraphrase Ltb.il 
 
 IV. 
 
 Why art Thou troubled Soul, and reftkfs grown, 
 y- e . r i l As if forgotten, through defpair, 
 
 As if Thy God had left His care, 
 And lower, than indeed Thou art cait down ? 
 Trull: in Him ilill, for Thou His Name (halt praife, 
 And whom His abfencc has deprefs'd, His fight (hall raife ! 
 
 V. 
 
 Down to the Earth my troubled Soul is call, 
 Yet will I Lord rememb.r Thee i 
 The whole World is Thy Royalty, 
 Mijfar^ and Herman part of Zkns Waite i 
 Whither from thence my eyes delight to ftray, 
 And though they cannot fee it, love to gaze that way. 
 
 V-I. 
 
 Deeps upon Deeps in lowder tempefts call, 
 The Seas above to them b:low, 
 Together o're my head they go, 
 And on they bid the conquering billows fall, 
 In troops they come, as to divide the prey, 
 And hollow to their fellow waves to hade away, 
 
 VII. 
 
 Fall on proud wayes, on meipend all your rage, 
 I can withftand your roughen: fhock, 
 Fall on, and break againft this Rock, 
 Which dares your pride, and for me do's engage / 
 My God will fnli your noyfe, your fury lay, 
 And change this difmal night into a glorious day. 
 
 IX. 
 
 But where' s my God, that I to him may fing ? 
 
 Let me not ever fufFer thus, 
 
 But to me be propitious, 
 Break forth, O Sun, and healing with Thee bring 
 
 n 
 
 Pierc'd 
 
Lib.%. upon theXLII Psalm. 113 
 
 Piercfd to the Heart,Thou know*ft I could weep blood, 
 V> hen my infulting foes fay daily, cc Where's your God. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Why art Thou troubled Soul, and reftlefs grown, 
 
 As it forgotten, through defpair, 
 
 As if Thy God had left His Care, 
 And lower, than indeed Thou art, caft down > Vttfm t 
 
 T. uft in Him lull, for Thou His Name (halt praife, 
 And whom His abfence has deprefs'd,His fight (hall raife / 
 
 Pfalm 
 

 ha AParaphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm XLIII. 
 Judica me Deus & difcerne^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 THou, who art Judge of all the World>b: mine : 
 Be both my Judge, and Advocate 
 My Caufe both (entence, and debate, 
 And let the ifTue prove that I am Thine : 
 From the deceitfull Man deliver mee, 
 Others he may deceive, but neVe impofe on Thee / 
 
 II. 
 
 Thou art my ftrength, and on Thee I rely \ 
 Why do's my God this diftance keep, 
 Whil'ft I ly buryed in the Deep, 
 And only with my fighs can upward fly > 
 Pitty my Darknefs, Lord, difpell this night, 
 And from Thy facred Hill fend forth Thy Truth and Light/ 
 
 III. 
 
 That glorious Light, which may direct my way, 
 And where Thou always art, bring mee > 
 That we may mil together bee, 
 In Sion where Thy Prefence makes it day : 
 Then with my Harp I'll to Thy Altar go, 
 And, what above fhall never ceafe, begin below. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Why art Thou troubled, Soul, and reftlefs grown, 
 As if forgotten, through defpair, 
 As if Thy God had left His care, 
 Ferjk* And lower, than indeed Thou art, caft down ? 
 
 Truft in Him ftill, for Thou His Name (halt praife, 
 And whom His abfence has deprefs'd^ His fight fhall raife. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib. z. upon the XLI V Psalm, 115 
 
 Pfalm XLIV. 
 Deus auribus nojiris audivimns^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 GReat God, we oft have heard our Fathers tell A p^ r f 
 
 The Mighty works which Thou of old halt done, ^ £ f 
 When to make room for them,where they might dwell, Korah 
 
 And in a Land of thine own choice fit down, 
 The Natives by Thy hand were overthrown i 
 How Egypt at Thy Signs admiring flood, 
 And thinking to purfue, were drown'd iW flood, r 
 
 II. 
 
 'Twas not their Bow or Sword, which forc'd their way, 
 
 Nor the weak aids their helplefs arms could bring \ Verfits. 
 
 But Thou, whofe Word the Sacred Holts obey, 
 
 Made'fl certain Victory attend their firing, 
 
 And as their arrows flew, diredt her wing : 
 
 Thy Light and Favour was their Arms and Guide, 
 
 And when they fought, to conquer Thou did'fl ride. 
 
 III. 
 
 May'fl Thou again do thus, who art Our King / 
 
 And new deliv'rance for their Seed command s 
 
 Thou only canfl fuch great Salvation bring, 
 
 As may again return us to Our Land, 
 
 And make us on our Enemies necks to fland : 
 
 And when Thy Power Thou on our fide fhalt (how, 
 
 And beat them down, through Thee wee'll keep them Co. 
 
 IV. 
 
 ' " Tw'as not our Bow, or Sword that helpt, wee'll fay, 
 " Nor thofe weak aids our ufelefs Arms did bring 5 Verfu& 
 
 ,c But He whofe Word the Sacred Hods obey, " 
 ,g Made certain Victory attend our firing, 
 " And as our arrows flew, direct her wing: 
 
 <L* : t "Hc 
 

 Ii6 AParaphrase Lib.i. 
 
 lt He put our Enemies to flight, and fhame, 
 * c And His great Praife for ever wee'll proclaim. 
 
 V. 
 
 But we, alas 3 not they, are forc'd to fly, 
 
 Since Thou, who lead'it our Armies out of old, 
 
 Art now become Thy felf an Enemy, 
 
 And make'lt them more fuccefsfull grow r and bold, 
 
 That what with wrong they got, by force they hold : 
 
 Like one great flock of Sheep, we featured are, 
 
 And wolves devour thofe, whom the Shambles fpare. - 
 
 VI. 
 
 We openly are fold, but 'tis for nought \ 
 Nor do's Thy treafure by our fale encreafe •> 
 By thofe, who hate us we for flaves are bought, 
 Nor by our miferies do's their fury ceafe, 
 But wee in Warr lefs furT'red than in Peace : 
 A fhame, reproach, and proverb, wee are made, 
 In fcorn to hands, which were of ours afraid. 
 
 VII. 
 
 'Tis not our disappointments, and difgrace 
 
 That are the only caufes of our fhame j 
 
 Not thefe alone with blufhes fill our face, 
 
 But the fad thoughts that Thou fhould'ft bear our blame, 
 
 And have expos'd with us Thy Sacred Name : 
 
 For what's our own we could with Patience bear, 
 
 But Blafphemies gainft Thee can never hear. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Yet both Lord we have heard, and both have born, 
 But in our furl 'rings not forgotten Thee 5 
 Refblv'd our iteps trom 1 hy Laws ne're to turn, 
 How rough, and hard foe're the way may be, 
 Or in Thy Oath to deal perfidioully : 
 Though for our Mailers we fierce Dragons have, 
 And all our fervice is in fight o^ th' grave. 
 
 IX. Had 
 
Lib.i. upon the XLIV Psalm. 117 
 
 IX. 
 
 Had we forgotten His, or to ftrange Names 
 Of Idol-gods fhetch'd out our fuppliant hands, 
 Should not God know, and vifit this in flames, 
 Who the valt Empire of all hearts commands, 
 And thoughts, more than we actions, underitands ? 
 But for His fake alone all day we 'are flain, 
 Like Sheep, and where we fed, have dy\l the Plain. 
 
 X. 
 
 Awake why ileep'AThou, Lord, awake, and rife! 
 And turn nor us, nor Thy bright face away •, 
 Let our diitrefs find pity in Thine eyes •, 
 Which fee the weights they on our moulders lay, 
 And how we proftrate for Thy fuccour pray / 
 Ah, caufe Thy. face for Thy loves fake to fhine, 
 And for our help arife, who Itill are Thine. 
 
 a? 
 
 ?f, 
 
 aim 
 
n8 A Paraphrase Lib. i. 
 
 Pfalm XLV. 
 ErnUavit Cor meum verbum^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A c o of A Thoufand fancies from my heart the Spring, 
 
 T /A (Like a fwolnftream which banks can ne're control, 
 
 ove * Increafing mil as it along do's roll, 
 
 And grown impetuous, fcorns to bs kept in ) 
 Too great already in my Soul to Hay 
 
 They out willburft, and by my tongue, 
 Flow in a fwift, and numerous Song, 
 Will there, or find, or force their way, 
 And make my hand, which cannot ftop^o run as fait as they. 
 
 II. 
 
 Dread Sov'reign, when the argument is Thine, 
 And Thou art pleas'd to give me leave to (ing 
 Of all that grandure, which enthrones my King, 
 No wonder if my Verfe be gay and fine •, 
 Thy beauty, not my skill do's make it fo, 
 Thou, who in beauty doll: excell 
 The faireft Souh which heft do's dwelU 
 From whofe foft lips there ever flow (beilow^ 
 That Grace, and Blefling Heav'n till now on Man did nc*re 
 
 III. 
 
 Go on then, Valiant Prince, and gird Thy Sword, 
 Wherewith Thou haft lo often Conquerer been *, 
 Appear more glorious than Thou e're wert feen, 
 And let the whole world own Thee for their Lord / 
 Then mount Thy Chariot, and in triumph ride, 
 With Meeknefs, Truth, and Equity, 
 And all the Virtues running by. 
 Whim VicTry do's Thy journeys guide, 
 And flies before new Conqueits,and frefh Laurels taprovide/ 
 
 IV. Then 
 
Lib.i. upon the XLV Ps alm. up 
 
 IV. 
 
 Then (hall Thy arm for (laughter be made bare, 
 And Thy proud Enemies receive the darts, 
 Which Thou (halt throw, and bury in their hearts, 
 Whifft thofe that yield, Thou dolt as freely (pare > 
 Nor Time, nor place (hall Thy Dominion bound, 
 The Juftice of Thy Righteous fway, 
 Shall make all Lands, all men obey, 
 And wherefoe're Thy Name (hall found, (found. 
 Amids Thy foes, new Subjects of Thy Kingdom (hall be 
 
 V. 
 
 That Righteoufnefs Thou lov'ft (hall be Thy Crown, 
 And at Thy Feet Envy and Hate (hall lie > 
 The Mighty God, who rais'd Thee up fo high, 
 Above Thy Fellows, pour His Undrion down, 
 With greater luftre make Thy Face to (hine, 
 
 When He the Sacred Oyl (hall (hed, 
 
 Himfelf, upon Thy Royall Head, 
 
 And, to exprefs the Love Divine, 
 Meekneis with Majeity,and to Thy Joys, Thy Peoples joyn . 
 
 VI. 
 
 They (hall rejoyce, when from the Iv'ry Throne, 
 
 Clad in Thy Pvobes of State, Thou (halt appear, 
 
 When all the perfumes, which the Eaii do's bear, 
 
 And the bright Sun or makes, or looks upon, 
 
 To Thine their Spirits and richeit Odours add, 
 And breathing out their Souls (hall fay, 
 Thou haft more Sweets, more Charms than they » 
 Thus near Thee to have come, are glad, ("had. 
 That they may higher fcents receive thence,than at rirft they 
 
 vil; 
 
 Daughters of Kings make Thy illuftrious train. 
 To do what e're Thy pleafure fhall command', 
 And chain our eyes, but that at Thy right hand 
 The Queen with hers remands them back again > 
 
 Next 
 
120 A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Next Thee (he ftands, Her Pall with Gold all wrought, 
 Where curious Art and Nature ftrive 
 Which greater Ornament (hall give, 
 Beyond Inventions "barren thought, ("brought. 
 Made of the richeit Spoyls were e're from Ophirs treafure 
 
 VIII. 
 
 And Thou O Queen, incline Thy willing ear, 
 Forget Thy Father, and Thy Countrey too ; 
 What was theirs once, is now a Sovereigns due, 
 W r ho merits all Thy honour, love, and fear. 
 The Kings, who (hall no lefs make Thee to reigfy 
 And to Thy Rule Himfelf fubmit, 
 To Sol Empire of Thy Eyes, and Wit, 
 Become their Have, and take the Chain, 
 And what Thy hands prefented Him, to them refign again. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Tyre with, a Prefent (hall her daughters fend, 
 To feek thy favour, and thy love entreat, 
 'Tisthy Alliance, which fhall make them great, 
 And not their own wealth, though it knows no end j 
 Not that their gifts and (tore can add to Thine, 
 The rich embroydery of Thy Veil, 
 Where all the Needles art 's expreft, 
 To Beauties which are more Divine, 
 And all within, unfeen by mortal eye, far brighter (hine. 
 
 X. 
 
 Thus (halt Thou be conducted to the King, 
 WrnTft all the Virgins, who Thy Pomp attend, 
 In (houts to Heaven their acclamations fend, - 
 And as they follow to the Palace, fmg, 
 " Hail Faireft Queen, forget Thy Fathers land, 
 " Nor let His Throne difturb thy mind, 
 <c For Thou inllead of them (halt rind 
 c * Children, who with the Suveraign Wand 
 '■* More Empires than He Cities governed, (hall the World 
 
 (command. 
 XI. My 
 
Lib.i. upon the XLV Psalm. izi 
 
 XL 
 
 My Verfe (hall praife Thee too, and Thy great Name 
 Shall in its lafting Monument furvivc, 
 My Verfe Eternity to Thee (hall give, 
 And thus it (elf perpetuate in Thy Fame: 
 For when the Age to come by that (hall know 
 The(e wonders, and renew Thy Praife, 
 In Altars which their Zeal (hall raife, 
 Thou then (halt make my Verfe to grow, 
 And what to Thee it gave, Eternity on thatbeftow / 
 
 R Pfalm 
 
m AParaphraje Lib.il 
 
 Pfalm XL VI. 
 Dens nojler Refugium^ &e 9 
 
 I. 
 
 A Song for ? ■ X) Armies fome for refuge fly, 
 
 the fins of Others to Walls, which they muft firft defend j 
 
 Korafe. But God's our help, and when to Him we cry. 
 
 Or He our troubles foon will end, 
 Or to a City where they come not, us will fend. 
 
 II. 
 
 We will not fear, though tempefts roar, 
 And one ftorm mingle Sea, and Earth, and all, 
 Though reall Mountains, torn from the loofe fhoar ? 
 
 To Heav'n be toft, and Heav'n quite fall, 
 The God, who is our help, will then be near our call, 
 
 III. 
 
 Fly ye fwift winds, tempefts be gone, 
 Ee ftill proud Seas, there is no need of you, 
 We have a ftream, which though it foftly run. 
 
 Can more than all your bullows do, 
 Both cleanfe the Holy City, and refrefh it too. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Slow Siloah, which fo gently glides, 
 
 As if 'twere unrefolv'd to go away, 
 
 And palling where the Moft High God refides, 
 
 To view the place fo long do's ftay, 
 
 The enamour'd River one would guefs forgot its way. 
 
 V. It 
 
Lib. i. upon the XL VI Psalm. n$ 
 
 It Sion views, where God do's, dwell, 
 Sion His Throne, which like the Earth remains , 
 Heav'n is her guard, and all the Powers of Hell 
 
 Shall ne*re move her, for there He reigns, 
 Who is the God oW Hills, and layes on Vales His Chains. 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Heathen Kings began to rage, 
 And all their ftrength againit her did command * 
 But God Himfelf to fave her did engage, 
 
 Utt'red His Voyce, and fhewM His hand, 
 And though the Earth did melt, Sion unmov'd did ftand. 
 
 VII. 
 
 The God of Battles fights for us, 
 On whom the Holts of Heav'n and Earth attend i Veiks 
 
 Through Him our arms (hall be Victorious, 
 And when our Prayers to Him afcend, 
 He that is Jacobs God, His Ijrael will defend. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Come, and behold, what He has done, 
 The mighty works, which His right hand has wrought, 
 How on their Foes He turn'd deltrudfcion, 
 But to His own deliverance brought, 
 And made them Conquerours, when He for them fought 1 
 
 IX. 
 
 All the World o're He ends all Warrs, 
 And in their room brings plenty, mirth, and eafe > 
 •He hides with Laurel the Triumphers fcarrs, 
 And all, but in their Pomps, makes ceafe 
 The Trumpets noyfe, and turns the broken arms to Peace. 
 
 R 2 X. u Be 
 
xz4- 
 
 AParaphrase Lib.z, 
 
 X. 
 
 <c Ee (till, faid He, and fee my Power, 
 tc Only be ftill, that's all you need to do, 
 " For on your Enemies I'll vengeance (ho wer, 
 a Exalt your heads, but lay theirs low, 
 " And they as well as you, That I am God, (hall know J 
 
 XL 
 
 The God of Battles fights for us, 
 On whom the Hofls of Heaven and Earth attend > 
 Verfcf. Through Him our Arms (hall be Victorious, 
 
 And when our Prayers to Him afcend, 
 Me that is Jacobs God, His Ifrael will defend. 
 
 Pfal 
 
 m 
 
Lib.i. upon the XLV1I Psalm. 115 
 
 Pfalm XL VII. 
 Omnzs gentes plaudit e mambus^ &c t 
 
 RE Joyce O World and you, who dwell therein, A Pfalm for 
 
 This Solemn day your mirth commands / the Sons of 
 
 Rejoyce, for the great Show will now begin, Korah. 
 And lift your voice up with your hands / 
 Let them both joyn, whiles you His Praifes fing, 
 
 Who only is the Univerfal King. . Verfits, 
 
 II. 
 
 Mighty, and terrible, the Lord of all, 
 
 His entrance thofe who will not meet, 
 Too proud to kifs his hands, mail lower fall, 
 
 And yield their necks unto His feet •, 
 So Jacobs feed He will make glorious, 
 And what Himfelf has done, afcribe to Us, 
 
 III. 
 
 God is gone up, afcendedwith a (hour, 
 
 With found of Trumpets rifen on high 5 
 And having put His enemies to the rout, . - 
 
 Upon their Trophies up did fly : 
 Sing praifeto God, your Praifes to Him fing, 
 Who only is the Univerfall King/ VerStf 
 
 IV. 
 
 God only is the Univerfall King \ 
 
 His Name with underltanding praife / 
 And in the Services you to Him ling, 
 
 Let that infpirit all your layes ,' 
 
 R 3 The 
 
\i6 A Paraphrase Lib. i. 
 
 The World around His juft Commands (hall own, 
 For Holinefs is the Throne He fits upon, 
 
 V, 
 
 See how the Tributary Kings croud in^ 
 
 Ancf one united People make, 
 Their Crowns to deck His Victories they bring, 
 
 And from His hands all new ones take : 
 Each in His Temple Homage to Him yields, 
 And there hang up their Confecrated Shields, 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lih.i. upon the XLVIII Psalm. 127 
 
 Pfalm XL VI 1 1. 
 Magma Dominus^ &e, 
 
 h 
 
 GReat is our God, and greatly to be prais'd, 
 Upon that Hill, which He himfelf has rais'd ; A Pfalm fir 
 Sion, which He His City made, the Sons of 
 
 Beautifull Sion, whom the World obey'd, Koraii* 
 
 And for whofe Peace as for their own all Countreys prayd j 
 Which on the North J'crufalem do's guard, 
 
 Safer than gates moft furely barr'd ; 
 Which on the North do's on Jerufakm fhme, 
 So that around it has the Sun, or Naturall, or Divine. 
 
 II. 
 
 , Within her Palaces the Lord is known, 
 
 For not hers more He counts them, than His own ; 
 
 The Kings perceiv'dit, marching by, 
 But thither they no fooner caft their eye, 
 But from the conquering fight, as foon they trrove to fly ^ 
 Away they halted thence, but all in vain, 
 
 Their fears purfu'd them with frefh pam, 
 'Like Child-bed throes till there is born a Son, 
 A greater pang fucceeds, as foon as e're the prefent's gone, 
 
 III. 
 
 In Ships they thought their Spoyls to carry home. 
 But Thou at Sea their Navy didit o'recome j 
 
 All this, O Lord, we heard before, 
 And now believe, becaufe we fee Thy Power, 
 But who that had feen half fo much,would not do more ? 
 God will eilablifh Sion, and command 
 The Sacred Pile unmov'd to ftand - y 
 Thither wee'U come for help, in our diitrefe, 
 And where he has bid us blefs him,expeft he us fhould blcfs. 
 
 IV. Lord 
 
18 AParaphrase Liki 
 
 Iv - 
 
 Lord, as Thy Name is, fo (hall be Thy Praife, 
 And to adorn it wee'll invent new wayes ; 
 
 To the wide Earths extreameft end, 
 From Eaft it (hall unto the Weft extend, 
 And when it has hi I'd all below, to Heav'n afcend j 
 That goodnefs which Thy hand around do^s throw, 
 
 Like fruitful! feed, (hall upward grow j 
 Soljma to Thy Courts her gifts (hall bring, 
 And all her Cities (hout forth Acclamations to their King. 
 
 V. 
 
 Walk about Sion, all her Bulwarks count, 
 The humble Vallies, and the Holy Mount, 
 
 Her lofty Towers, up to the Skie, 
 To which the Heavens defire to be more nigh, 
 And their own heights, to kifs her facred Spires, deny ; 
 Round it again, and her great Wonders fee, 
 
 To tell the Age which is to bee j 
 And that Her God will Ours till death abide, 
 And through the Graves dark gloomy way to Heav'n our 
 
 (paflage guide. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.%. upon theXLIX Psalm. 129 
 
 Pfalm XL IX. 
 Audit e fj£c omms gcntes attribute &c, 
 
 I. 
 
 ATtend, O World, and bid thy Nations hear, 
 Thofe, who ly furtheft off, and thofe more near, , F J alm fi r 
 Both rich, and poor, and high, and low, *£ S ™ s °f 
 
 My Song no diffrence makes, and none do's know, Koran. 
 
 But thofe who ferve, and thofe who rule, 
 The Souldier, Statefman, and the Fool, 
 The young, the old, the great, the final!, 
 It do's without distinction call, 
 And like the grave, alike concerns, and equals All. 
 
 J I. 
 
 With God my Song : His Wifdom moves the Lyre, 
 And makes the chords in lofty founds confpire : 
 
 With Him will I begin my Song, 
 His Wifdom {hall conduct the ftrairis along, 
 
 Shall life, and breath, -and motion give, 
 
 Make them, and they my Voice to live ■-, 
 
 Then the (tops chang'd, on the fame firing, 
 
 I will in mighty Numbers fin* 
 Triumphant Death, which next Him is the greateft King. 
 
 III. 
 
 What profit 's it to hoard up endlefs (tore 
 Of wealth for others, and my felf be Poor? 
 
 Prevent my evil day with Cares, 
 To leave a Curfe, and forrow to my Heirs > 
 
 Since he who has-moil chains of Gold, 
 
 The Pris'ner life can never hold i 
 
 Can never pay a ranfbm down 
 
 For the fleet Soul away once gone, 
 And from the grave redeem his Brothers, or his own. 
 
 S IV. Death 
 
i^O A Paraphrase Lib.z. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Death throwes an heavier Chain than that o're all, 
 And proudeft Monarchs at His Foot/tool fall . 
 
 Look how the Wife, theBrutifh dye, 
 And in one Urn their lots and allies lye : 
 The longer! livers only have 
 A tedious journey to the grave > 
 Whim moll a fhort way thither rind, 
 And have their Pafs-ports fooner fign'd, 
 Whither all come at lair, and leave their wealth behind, 
 
 V. 
 
 In vain by Monuments men hope to live, 
 
 And their fond Names to Lands and Houfes give , 
 
 In vain they huge foundations lay 
 For Tombs, which have their Fate, as well as they * 
 No Honours bayl in this arreft, 
 But the fame death waits Man, and Beair : 
 And though enough the Children know 
 Their Fathers folly, choofe to go 
 With them, and count thofe greater fools, who do not fc. 
 
 VI. 
 
 They follow cloie their iteps, their layings hold, 
 Like Sheep they follow to th'Eternal fold i 
 
 Where till the Morning they are penn'd, 
 The Morning of that day, which ne're fhall end j 
 Which Titles fhall again renew, 
 And dirT'rences the Grave ne're knew > 
 From fome all beauty take away, 
 In greater luftre fomedifplay, 
 Pxaifingthem Gold, who buryed were but only Clay. 
 
 VI h 
 
 Then fhall I rife too, and with glory (hine, 
 
 From the Graves power, kept by the power Divine , 
 
 It (hall no longer trouble mee, 
 Nor know I why the Wife fliould troubled bee, 
 
 . To 
 
Lib. i. upon the XLIX Psalm. 151 
 
 To fee anothers ftores encreafc, 
 Since they diliurb His prefent eafc, 
 And mult be left all, when he dyes i 
 Then heavy gold begins to rife, 
 And with his breath, away an empty Honour flies. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 His former pleafures then avail him not, 
 But are by him, as he by his forgot : 
 
 Nothing remains of all he did, 
 When with his Fathers, he in night lyes hid > 
 
 That Wifdom only do^s abide, 
 
 Which for the future did provide : 
 
 'Tis Wifdom fets the Man on high, 
 
 Wifdom the badge to know him by, 
 Without which like a Beait he lives, and all mult die, 
 
 S z Pfalm 
 
vp, A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm L. 
 Dens Deorum Dotninus^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 . r V-j"^Is paft, and by irrevocable doom 
 AFJalm oj | Deaeed that all the World t0 j u d gment come . 
 
 Ala P Out From the Eaft kt the great fummons go; 
 
 Swifter than Morning light, 
 In it's firfl: undif : l:urb''d !) and lufty flight, 
 When on the Wetiern Hills it hafts to (how 
 It's Conquefts, and drives thence the Captive Night h 
 
 Then let the Weft to th' voice give ear, 
 And all thefcatt'red winds, which ly between, 
 
 Be ready on the wing , 
 And oVe the Earth the dreadfull Meftage bear / 
 Make the deaf North, and South to hear I 
 Proclaim it in the open Sky, 
 
 That the laft day isnigh j 
 A day which none e're yet did fee, 
 And which but few, till it comes, believe will bee, 
 When God the hearts of all (hall open lay, 
 And bid the World to make room for the Selfion, haft away/ 
 
 II. 
 
 When Sion was the Refidence Divine, 
 
 God empty'd all his glories there > 
 Sion did with refulgent beauty fhine, 
 And only what was lovely durft appear : 
 
 The Air was calm, Heav'n feemM more bright, 
 As if from thence it had received new light j 
 Before hand would officioufly come down, 
 
 And take the forward Sacrifice, 
 E're it began to rife, 
 And with a facred flame the Victim crown : 
 
 Or if it gathered in a Cloud, 
 'Twas but fome greater Majefty to fhroud* 
 
 No 
 

 Lib,i. upon the L Psalm. i^ 
 
 No ctycs were heard there, or (ad grones, 
 Nothing that could dilturb the quiet of the place. 
 But joy and mirth were feen in every Face, 
 And lett their traces on the ftones. 
 The very walls were glad, 
 MournM not in breaches, nor in Yawns lookt fad, 
 But the bright Liveries of Peace did wear i 
 The walls look'd gay, the Altars fair, 
 And with perpetual throngs 
 Of thofe who came to worfhip there, 
 The Courts were ever fill'd with Incenfe, or with Songs. 
 
 Nay God Himfelf attention feerrfd to give, 
 And held His own the Homage of their Voices to receive, 
 
 III. 
 
 But now that time is pa ft, nor as before, 
 Will he m love draw neer 
 But all in Flames appear, 
 Will in the charming murmurs be no more, 
 
 But up Hee'l hit His voyce, and roar, (devour, 
 And thofe flames which the Viftim burnt, the Altar fhall 
 A tempeft fhall before Him ride, 
 And forward poll the fluggifh winde, 
 With thoufand Captives running by His fide, 
 
 Of Lands which he has empty made, 
 Clearing the way for Plagues which come behind, 
 And of the following Thunder be it felf afraid. 
 Along the Heav'n the Thunder like a Sea fhall roll, 
 And make its noyfe be heard to either Pole \ 
 With all the Fears, which horror can invent, 
 W T ith lightnings, not to purge the Air, 
 And its decays repair, 
 Bat to make greater, and difturb it, fent, 
 To riot there without control!, 
 And fynge what it e're long (hal burn>that beauteous Scroll. 
 
 S 3 IV. Then 
 
134- A Paraphrase L'tb. i. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Then (Ball God come, and with a dread full voyce, 
 Which layes thofe iiorms, & checks that Thunders noife, 
 Making the Dead who heard not them awake, 
 And Heav'n and Earth, and Sea affrighted quake } 
 When thus He cites thern to appear ; 
 And bids them to the Barr draw near, 
 His Pleafure, and their Charge to hear, 
 u Return, Hee'l to them fay, Return your dead, 
 
 " To meet the Souls which from them fled, 
 41 And both be feutencM, for what both together did / 
 
 " Into my great Exchequer bring 
 " The Debtors, whofe accounts are giv'n in, 
 " And who fo many Ages have your Pris'ners been / 
 " Refign O Earth, and Skie and Sea your truft, 
 " Be lure no guilty Criminall you hide, 
 
 •' But that all come, and all be try'd, 
 *' You long enough have unaccounted for their duft \ 
 " But firit bring in my Saints, who to my barr appeal, 
 41 To me their feveral Names are known, 
 " And in my book their labours are fet down, 
 " How they to my juit Law did Seal, 
 " Or with their Sacrihces blood, or with their own. 
 
 See how they trembling ftand, 
 Receive the charge, and tinifh the Command, 
 And to the great f r:b unall bring the fhakled band ? 
 The Prifon-gates are open thrown, 
 And not till now to their Eternali home, 
 Thofe who mifrook the grave for it, are truly come i 
 The Grave,which Lac an houfe forfook, it felf falls down.' 
 With their own bodies all arile, 
 Thea&ive duit begins to heave, 
 And ask its fellow if it live, 
 Scarce daring to believe its ears or eyes •> 
 
 A 
 
Lib.i. upon the L Psalm. 1^5 
 
 A hollow Voice is heard around, 
 Of Souls, which to the Bodies call, 
 Ya wifh that neither -might be found, 
 And till they come, would have the Mountains on them fall ^ 
 The Mountains frighted worft of all, 
 Would for themfelves rind fhelter under ground. 
 The Sea returns her dead, and her's the Sky, 
 Which now again from thence like Lightning rly, 
 But down to Hell, and in eternal rlames to ry*. 
 
 The whole World is one mighty Street, 
 Where Old acquaintance meet, 
 And though againft their Wills are fore'd to greet, 
 
 Whilft up on high, 
 The Judges equall Sentence to declare, 
 The Saints are to the Bench calFd from the Barr, 
 And guilty Souls, by their own Wiunefs call, 
 
 Exped: to have conrirm'd at laft, ( pail, 
 
 That fentence, which they long before upon themfelves had 
 
 VI, 
 
 " Attend, O Ifiae!, to thy God give ear, 
 ( 'Tis He who fpeaks, and Him thou ought'it to hear ) 
 * I charge thee not for Thy unfrequent Sacrifice, 
 tf Thy feldom OrTnng?, and Thy bloodlefs Vowes, 
 
 u That perfumes do fo rarely rile, 
 " And with their clouds meet, and obfeure the Skie? ; 
 cc I'll take no Bullock from Thine houfe, 
 ,c Nor from Thy fold a rank He-Goat r 
 " For every Forreft, and all beafts of note, 
 t; The great who rule, the leiler who obey, 
 w The beafts of Pleafure, Service, and ©f Prey. 
 
 cc Alike are Mine, 
 u And all the Hills whereon they feed, as well as they ; 
 tc When Thou by afalfe Title fondly callYt them Thine, 
 " They no fubjection to thee owe, 
 cc But what my pleafure gave at rrrft : 
 M And when unto Thy Yoak they bow, 
 " "Tis notfrom any Power of Thine, but that 1" 
 
n6 A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 " Who them to ferve,for Thy Sin only curft, 
 cc And make them thus their juit dependance mow. 
 " Nay Birds themfelves, whom I gave wings to fly, 
 " Mount up to Heav\ to come more nigh, 
 - c And the fame Homage beafts below, they yield on high. * 
 
 VII. 
 
 " If I were hungry, why mould I tell Thee, 
 cc When the Earth's fulnefs all belongs to Me ? 
 " Or if I eat, mull: Thou needs witrTt acquainted be ? 
 cc Think'it Thou that fucb grofs meats as thefe, 
 " Bulls blood, or flefh my talte do pleafe, 
 " And are fit things my anger to appeafe? 
 cc No, Wretched Mortal, to the God molt High 
 " Firft pay thy vows, then fend thy praiie, 
 cc In thy dittrefs unto Him cry, 
 « ^ n j where it may be alwayes warm, an Altar raiie v 
 " Within thy heart, where groans, and figh c , 
 ■ c; May be the daily Sacrifice / 
 " For in fuch OtFrings He delight?, 
 cc Thefe are His folemn" and accepted Rites, 
 
 cc Flames,which toHeav n will furdy come,froomf 
 ' " And both thy paiTage thither clear,and for thee then make 
 
 VIII. 
 
 But to the Wicked the Almighty faycs, 
 
 " What halt thou, wretch, to do with my juit Wayes ? 
 
 cc To take my Word into thy mouth? 
 " Expound my Statutes, or declare my Truth ? 
 "As if an Enemy would Trophies to his Conqueror raife, 
 Or I from thee get any Praife j 
 Who Counfel, which thou doit another give, 
 Wilt not thy. felf receive, 
 And what thou teacheft, dolt or (light, or not believe '? 
 V ho when thou faw'ft a Theif, didft with him ileal, 
 His theft didft or partake in, or conceal j 
 
 With bale Adulterers wert fo, 
 " Didft never ufe thy tongue a wound to heal, 
 
 "But 
 
Liki. upon the L Psalm. 137 
 
 t: But with it made'it a light one two *, 
 <c Mo!) Enemy to them, who never did thee any wrong, 
 u And whom thou oughtYt to blefs 3 ha(t murdefd with thy 
 
 '• I Taw all this, and held my peace, ("tongue. 
 
 c; Expecting when thou would'tt repent, 
 cc But (ilence thou didft felfly judge content, 
 M Thought!!: me juft like thy ielf,and that fuch ways as thcfe, 
 
 Cc Since they unpunifht fcap'd, muft pleate 5 
 
 cc But I'll reprove thee, and they all 
 cc Shall be my Wicneiles, when I to Judgement call ; 
 LC Then thou too late (halt know, 
 
 " This patience from my love did flow, 
 c - And dearly pay both for thy fin, and my forbearance too. 
 
 IX. 
 
 "Remember this, you who the Lord forget, 
 " And yet at lalt, if you are wife, return, 
 " Tempt not thofeflames,which will break out 6c burn, 
 " And make your Judgement like my Patience great fj 
 " Return, e're yet it be too late, 
 cc See how I call, fee how I wait, 
 Cc There's no repenting in a future irate, 
 " Deliverance then you (hall expect in vain, 
 " And fruitleily complain, 
 cc When all your grief (hall ierve but to encreafe your pain *, 
 
 " Return now, whii'it you may, and now receive 
 " Thofe Mercies, which I freely orler, freely give, 
 " And that you may be ever fo, Now happy live / 
 tc He honours me, who offers praife, 
 " For he exalts mine, and Til blefs his Wayes i 
 " Will be his refuge, till the ftorm is paft, 
 cc And make him on a Rock itand fill, 
 " Secure him here,and to my felf will bringhim home at laft. 
 
 T Pfalm 
 
I]8 A P A R A P H R A S E Lib. I. 
 
 Pfalm LI. 
 Jlfjjercre mn Dewr fecundum^ &c 
 
 I. 
 
 Ihc IV. ?e- '' |"MIou, who art full of bounty, and of love, 
 
 nitential The Jufi, and yet the Gracious God, 
 
 Pfilm of Whofe Mercy has nor bound, nor Period, 
 
 David,n?/;<72 Let my djftrefs Thy pity move \ 
 
 Nathan the Lord, for Thy Mercies fake blot out my fin. 
 
 Prophet came Whofe fum lefs infinite than that has only been / 
 
 to Him^after 
 
 he had gone 1 1. 
 
 in to Bath- To Thee I come, O cleanfe and purge away 
 
 'fhcba. That filth, which do's Thy fight offend, 
 
 Receive with favour thole requeits I lend, 
 And give Thy anfwer when I pray / 
 
 Wafh my foul Soul, that's itain'd all o're with fin,' 
 Without I mould b: clean, if I were lb within / 
 
 in. 
 
 'Tis great, I mud confefs, and wondrous foul., 
 
 So ugly that its lhape affrights. 
 All day it haunts me, with me flays whole nights, 
 
 And with new horrors fills my Soul : 
 On me it flares, and when I turn afide, 
 To fhun the Fiend, I meet it where I thought to hide. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Againil Thee only have I done this thing, 
 And to Thy Jul! award mull ftandi 
 If now upon me Thou fhouldil lay Thy hand, 
 
 'Twill not be heavier than my fin : 
 Whate're the fentence be I mull confels, 
 Though (harp that,Lord, in Juftice Thou could'il do no lefs. 
 
 V. For 
 
Lib.i. upon the LI Psalm. i]9 
 
 v. 
 
 For I iti fin was born, in fin conceived, 
 
 Full grown in that, when but a Cvldc i 
 My Nature, and my Life are both dehTd, 
 
 And Thee by both, Lord, have I griev'd • 
 Truth in the inward pares is Thy delight, (&&**' 
 That I may plcafe Thee make me know, then do what s 
 
 VI. 
 
 Purge me with Hytfbp, and I (hall be clean, 
 
 Let through my Soul Thy waters flow ', 
 My blacknefs (hall be changM to purefl Snow, 
 
 And all my (tains no more be (ben : 
 The Snow with me compared, (hall (eemleis white, 
 And look as fairer! colours do for want ©flight; 
 
 VII. 
 
 ' No (boner (halt Thou make me hear Thy voice, 
 But all my pains (hall flee away "> 
 The bones, which on the rack all broken lay, 
 
 Then knit more rirmly, (hall rejoyce : 
 Lord, as a Sinner look no more on mee, 
 Or if as fuch, whom Love has. reconciFd to Thee/ 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Give me an heart Thou canft ungriev'd behold, 
 
 And a right Spirit in me renew •■> 
 'Tis full as ealie, Lord, for Thee to do^ 
 
 As undertake to mend the old : 
 Call me not from Thy gracious tight away, 
 But let Thy Spirit, with mine renewed thus, ever flay / 
 
 IX. 
 
 Make it my Comforter, with me to 'abide, 
 
 And all my Joyes again retiore •> 
 And that I ne're from Thee may wander more, 
 
 As I to others, be my Guide .' 
 
 T 2 Who 
 
i^o A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Who fhall by my example learn Thy wayes, 
 And chang"cl,like me,in Songs recount! hy wondrous Praife. 
 
 X. 
 
 Let not the guiltlefs blood, which I have died, 
 
 And all its waves upon me roll •, 
 But when thy fprinkling fhall make clean my Soul , 
 
 Let thySalvation crown my head : 
 Then fhall my Harp of all thy love reherfe , 
 And thy Salvation be the fubjeft of my Verfe. 
 
 XI. 
 
 Open my mouth, Thy praife f 11 fpeak aloud, 
 
 For didft Thou Bulls or Rams defire, 
 A cruell Offring, and perpetual lire, • 
 
 I blood would expiate then with blood : 
 But God all Sacrifice for that withftands, 
 Only a bleeding heart attones for bloody hands. 
 
 XII. 
 
 Be good to Sion, build her Cities wall, 
 That all the Vows, which me has made, 
 
 With mine, may be upon thy Altar laid, 
 And Hecatombs before it fall ! 
 
 No cloudy darknefs then {ball veil the Skies, 
 But day all night break from the Erening Sacrifice. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.i. upon the LII Psalm 
 
 141 
 
 Pfalm LIL 
 g^uld gloria) is wwalitia^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 INhumane Bead, more treacherous, than firong, 
 For Treafon only makes thee io, 
 And by perfidioufneisThy Power dos grow, 
 Why boaifit Thou thus in doing wrong, 
 And arm"* it weak hands with a malicious tongue ? 
 The Almighty Goodnefs ever dos remain, 
 More firm, and liable than thy threats are vain, 
 
 II. 
 
 Sharp as a Lancet, which is newly whet, 
 
 Thy tongue dos pierce, and touch the quick, 
 
 Wounds mortally, before "'tis felt to prick, 
 Difcovers plots, framM by deceit, 
 
 In thy defigns, and malice only great, 
 
 Who fin before the chiefeft Good doft love, 
 
 And lyes more than the Truth, that's from above. 
 
 III. 
 
 Bitter, and cruel Words are thy delight, 
 
 And all the joy of thy bale tongue, 
 But neither thou, nor it (hall profper long : 
 
 For God on thee fhall turn its fpight, 
 Deftroy thee from this Land, and H:s own fight-, 
 And in reward for all your bitter fruit, 
 Both cut thee down, and pluck that up by th'root. 
 
 IV. 
 
 The Righteous (hall behold it, and afraid, 
 
 Shrink at thy plagues, but laugh at tliQc^ 
 
 And fay, when They thy tuddain mine fee, 
 c; Lo this Man on his riches flaid, 
 
 " And fought help from the Gods his gold had made, 
 
 T 3 a Negle&ing 
 
 A Pfalm of 
 David 
 When Docg 
 the Edomite 
 came and\ 
 told Saul 
 andfald un- 
 to him Da- 
 vid k come 
 to the houje 
 of Ahime-, 
 lech. 
 
4-1 A Paraphrase Lib. i 
 
 cc Neglecting Him, who fhould have been his Truft, 
 " For them, who thus deceiving him are juft. 
 
 V. 
 
 But like an Olive-tree fill fre(h, and green, 
 
 I in Gods Houfe (hall ever (land, 
 Planted and watered there by His own hand, 
 
 And on my boughs have fruit be feen, 
 Where He may (nine, and no cloud come between : 
 On Him I'll wait, whofe Mercies have no end. 
 And as they fall , my Praifes (hall afceud. 
 
 Another 
 
Lib.i. upon the LII Psalm. 14.3 
 
 v Another Verfion of the fame 
 By M % M. B. 
 
 MOnfter of Men, who canft fuch mifchiets aft, 
 And proudly triumph in the bloody fad, 
 Muit this thy power declare, 
 That they, who at Jehovabs Akar ftood, 
 The Prielts themfelvcs,all ftain'd with their own blood. 
 The guiltlefs Victims of thy Fury were ? 
 Yet not even this was able to affwage 
 Thy own cur ft malice, or thy wicked Mailers rage. 
 
 II. 
 
 But though my ruine thou didfr molt de'fign, * 
 
 And that no blood mould quench thy thirtt but mine, 
 
 Know, wretch, that God is good 
 And has been alwayes Co in ages part, 
 Nor (hall Eternity His love exhaufU 
 Wherefore 'tis not thy force, though like a flood, 
 Nor all thy fecret Plots, which (hall avayl, 
 Uiilefs thou canlt againft th" Almighty firii prevail. 
 
 III. 
 
 Within thy heart ly hid thofe poyfonous feeds 
 Of treafon, which thy tongue provokes to deeds : 
 
 So piercing are thy words 
 They feem the Razors dulnefs to upbraid, 
 As if unrit for a&icn, or afraid, 
 And have more edge than all my Enemies Swords : 
 By thefe thou doit the juft enfnare, and llay, 
 And low as earth, their hopes^ and lives together lay. 
 
 IV. But 
 
! 44 
 
 A Far a phrase Lih.i. 
 
 IV. 
 
 But who, think'!! thou, thefc actions will admire, 
 Since thou 'rt infpir'd by an infernal tire? 
 
 A flame, which ftrongly moves 
 To lying mifchicfs, and unjuft deceit, 
 And all the falfe delights, which on them wait, 
 Or fin prefents to excite and raife new loves / 
 Hence 'tis that Juftice fcems fo mean, and low, 
 Nor longer fit for great men, than to make them fo. 
 
 V. 
 
 Devouring words do thy b^ft love command, 
 And to them thou haft joyrfd a bloody hand : 
 
 But the Almighty God 
 In thy deitrudlion (hall His Power make known, 
 Which in eternall torments thou (halt own, 
 When he makes bare His Arm, and (hakes His Rod, 
 Removing thee from thy beloved place, 
 And from the Earth roots out thy trayterous name and race* 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Righteous, when they fee the overthrow, 
 Shall fear His Power, who has brought thee fo low, 
 
 And fhouting at thy fall, 
 Cry out, " Lo, where's the man, who fixt his trull, 
 " Not in our God, but his own glittering dult, 
 " Which, ufelefs now, can yield no help at all : 
 " Look how that ltrength,which he in fraud once plac'd, 
 " Is by the breath of the Eternall Word defae'd / ' 
 
 VII. 
 
 But whif ft this wretch deplores his dolorous ftate, 
 My God, who on him threw the mighty weight, 
 
 Will me affign a place, 
 Within His Courts, where, like an Olive-tree, 
 With fruit and blofToms I (hall loaded bee, 
 And feel the kindeil Influence of His Grace; 
 
 'tis 
 
Lib.i. upon the LII Psalm. 14.$ 
 
 'Tis in His Mercies I'll forever trufr, 
 Whofe Love, and Wrath thus fhown, declare that He is juft. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Then will I of fome nobler fubjed img, 
 And to exalt my God frefh praifes bring \ 
 
 Then, like my Sacrifice, 
 In flames of pureft Love Fie mount on high, 
 To Him, who favM me from my Enemy, 
 And in my pafTagc perfume all the Skies 
 To Heav'n j nor mort of His dread Prefence ftay, 
 Whil'ft the admiring Saints rife up to make me way. 
 
 U Pfalm 
 
 - . •- ■ 
 
i^6 A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm LIIL 
 Dixit injipiens in Corde 7 &c. 
 
 I 
 
 A Tfalm of "'■"■' ^Here is no God, the Fool ins heart do's fay, 
 David. 1 And tnat ^ s h'fe may not his heart betray, 
 
 He like one, that believes it, Lives v 
 Doth with blafphemous mouth deny 
 The very Being of the Deity, 
 
 And in his works, That lye 
 Which he to Man dares not, to Heaven prophanely gives. 
 
 II. 
 
 From Heaven th' Almighty God came down to view 
 What He there faw, and there could punifli too > 
 Yet down He came,.. and lookM around, 
 He iearcht, if He might any fee, 
 Any of His, left they mould numbred be, 
 To th' Common Milery, 
 He fearch't, but not a Juft man in the Number found. 
 
 III. 
 
 Are they all thus, O God, all gone atlde, 
 As if from Thee they could their follies hide ? 
 Are aH thus greedy to devour, 
 And eat Thy People up, like Bread, 
 Thanklefsfor that, and not fome Judgement dread. 
 Like thofe by Quails once fed ( fhowre. 
 
 Tempting that Heav'n , which Manna down before did 
 
 IV. 
 
 Amidft their jollity in fears they were, 
 Though all around appeared no caufe of fear* 
 For unawares God (mote them all, 
 Scat'red them by His Mighty hand j 
 
 And 
 
Lxb.i. upon the LIII Psalm. 14.7 
 
 And as He there Invifible did (land, 
 
 Their Plots did countermand, 
 And made them by their own defigns in fcorn to fall 
 
 v. 
 
 From Zion, Lord, may Ifiaels help appear, 
 Thence come, fince all His Confidence is there ! 
 Bring back, their long Captivity, 
 That Iftael may adore Thy Wayes, 
 And Jacob to Thy Name give all the praife -, 
 Together drive to raife 
 Thy Honour, and admire Thee, as Thou ought' ft to be. 
 
 U i Pfalm 
 
A Tfalm of ( ) 
 
 148 AParaphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm LIV. 
 Dens in nomine tno^ &c» 
 
 I. 
 
 Thou, who Ifiaels Saviour art, be mine, 
 Be both my Judge, and Advocate, 
 David, Appear, e're yet it be too late, 
 
 Whm the Now make Thy Name, and Glory mine, 
 
 Ziphims ^nd not preferve me only Lord, but make me Thine. 
 came to Saul, 
 
 and faid^ \ \ t 
 
 " ZVj not Incline Thine ear to my complaint, and cry ! 
 
 David hide And (in ce Thou haft commanded me, 
 
 bimjelf with \ n my diftrefs to cry to Thee, 
 
 ns * Let not me cry, and Thou not hear, 
 
 Then fartheft of, when Thou haft promis'd to be near. 
 
 III. 
 
 Strangers, my God, fuch as Thy Law defpife, 
 And would both That, and me o'rethrow, 
 Who nor Thee, nor Thy Judgements know, 
 Oppreifors in great Numbers rife, 
 And (hall Thy aids be fewer, than my Enemies* 
 
 IV. 
 
 But fee how gracious the Eternal is, 
 Who not my Life alone defends, 
 But to my Helpers iliccour fends, 
 And truly is a God in this, 
 Both my fwift prayers to anfwer, and prevent my WifL 
 
 V. 
 
 Nor fhall my Enemies unpunifh't be, 
 
 Their own defigns mail vengeance call *, 
 Their mifchief framed fhall on them fall, 
 And in their ruine I (hall fee 
 My eyes delight j thy Wrath on them, and Love to me. 
 
 VI. My 
 
LiLi. upon the LI V Psalm« 14.9 
 
 VI. 
 
 My God has featured them, and heard my cry> 
 To Him my chearful praife Tie ling, 
 To Him my Songs, and Trophies bring, 
 For though I have the Victory, 
 'Twas He alone whogain'd it for me, and not I. 
 
 U3 Pfalta 
 
i5fo A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm LV. 
 Exaudi Dens Orationem^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A P falm of T Ord, to -my Prayer incline Thine ear, 
 £) av id. I And turn nor that, nor Thy bright Face away ! 
 
 J ~~' Behold the miseries, which Fbear, 
 Whenthofe, who are its guards, my Crown betray : 
 
 In my deftru&ion they rejoyce, 
 Their wrath on me, to Heav'n have fent their noife, 
 May mine be heard above the tumults of their voice. 
 
 II. 
 
 vSeis'd by this fright, my heart do's quake, 
 And all the terrors of the grave appear -•> 
 
 Hope, and my Truft their holds for fake, 
 And yield the fortrefs to ufurping Fear : 
 
 Around I look, but in mine eye 
 Only ctefpair, and grizly horror ly, 
 And none but Heav'ns great road is clear, if I could fly. 
 
 III. 
 
 And then I wifh, that I had wings, 
 And like a Dove could 'fcape, and be at reft, 
 
 Beyond the Cares, which trouble Kings, 
 And have that eafe they find not, in my breaft j 
 
 How to the Woods then would I fly, 
 And as I there fccure, and hidden ly, 
 See unconcern'd the Winds, and Thunders marching by. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Divide their Counfels with their tongues > 
 Theirs, who Thy City fill with violence, 
 
 And publifh on its 'Walls the wrongs, 
 Not which they bear, but do juft Innocence : 
 
 Both 
 
Lib.%. upon the LV Psalm. 151 
 
 Both night and day they it furround, 
 Murders, and Rapes in every frreet are found, ( found. 
 And with th' Oppreflbrs mixt cries of the Opprefs'd re- 
 
 V. 
 
 Had all this by an Enemy, 
 Or one, who only hated me > been done, 
 
 I could have bom it, and defie 
 The Treafbn, when the Traytor once is known : 
 
 My force to his I would oppofe, 
 And to decide our right in battle dole, 
 Or had he been too ilrong, have fled, and Umpires chofe, 
 
 VI. 
 
 But it was Thou, my Friend, my Guide > 
 The happy Partner of my Cares, and Throne, 
 
 In whofebreaft I could fafely hide 
 Thole iecrets I fcarce trufted in my own ; 
 
 Who with me to Gods Houfe would go, 
 And Zeal for that, which I molt honour' d (how, 
 And like my felf, but better, all my thoughts did know, 
 
 VII. 
 
 But may he now no journey go, 
 But what's to Hell, and by no hand be feiJ, 
 
 Let Sin, which fills his dwelling now, 
 His bones, and heart with thoufand plagues invade* 
 
 For God himfelf (hall guide my Way, 
 To Him at morning, noon, and night Tie pray, 
 And He mall hear me, when I thus crown every day » 
 
 VIII. 
 
 'Twas He preferv'd my Soul in Peace, 
 And gave thofe Wars, which threatned it, an end ; 
 
 Made the {brill noife of Trumpets ceafe, 
 And unexpected aids was pleas'd to fend I 
 
 He ftill fhall hear me, and once more 
 
 Make 
 
I?2 A P A R A PHRASE Ltb.l. 
 
 ■ Makebare His Arm, and (hew His mighty Power, 
 Who is the fame to fave now, that He was before. 
 
 IX. 
 
 But Him they fear not, and mifcall 
 Their Treafons, when they profper, Loyalty ^ 
 
 No crofs event did ever fall, 
 Which might the Juftice of their Caufe deny ; 
 And then afrem they Cov'nants make, 
 t And their Allegiance for new Oaths forfake, 
 W T hich they with caution, only during pleafure, take. 
 
 X. 
 
 Murder, and Rapes, Revenge, and War, 
 Rebellion, and Injuftice rage within j 
 
 Though fmooth as Oyle their Speeches are, 
 And like that us'd, to make the Razer keen > 
 
 But, Soul, on God Thy burden cart, 
 Only believe, and make not too much haft, 
 He, who protects Thee Now, will Victory give at lad. 
 
 XI. 
 
 God will the Righteous Man defend, 
 But down to Hell in wrath the Wicked throw , 
 
 Blood, and Deceit (hall hafte his end, 
 And clear the way, which he to death (hall go : 
 
 His dayes (hall evil be, and few, 
 And as they with his crimes to ripenefs grew, 
 Both (hall together fall ; He faid it, who is True. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.i. upon the LVI Psalm. ift 
 
 Pfalm LVI. 
 Miferen mci Deu* qnoniam^ &c. 
 
 Ercy, my God, on me Thy Mercy fhow ! D * d ** 
 
 And if thy pleafure do's, my need fayes, Ndw. r „. ' *' , 
 
 Now, when my Foe is ready to devour, nL .,V 
 
 M 
 
 Threatning to do it every hour, * ll J"V" w 
 
 And grows in malice, as he do's in Pow'r. too^tnm 
 
 in 
 Gath. 
 
 II. 
 
 To fwallow up my Soul they ready are, 
 And gape todo it, but I am Thy Care > 
 They needs muft many be, O Thou Moft High, 
 
 When I have no place where to fly, 
 But from one to another Enemy. 
 
 III. 
 
 But when I fear, Thou fhalt my Refuge be, 
 That fear (hall give me wings to mount to Thee •, 
 On Thee Tie truft, until my Titles try'd, 
 
 Refolving ne're to be deny'd, 
 Till Thou, who gav'ft it me, my Right decide. 
 
 IV. 
 
 On Gods Almighty Word, will I depend s 
 On God Fie truft, who certain help will fend : 
 There will I reft, and if my God but finite, 
 
 Or He thefe doubts will reconcile, Verfetf* 
 
 Or make me fcorn, what Flefh can do the while. 
 
 V. 
 
 Me and my words to wreft they never ceafe, 
 
 And make them mo it offend, when meant to pleafe : 
 
 Their thoughts for evil areagainit me let, 
 
 X And 
 
m 
 
 AParaphrase Lib.i. 
 
 And when they are in Counfel met, 
 Contrive how by my fall they may be great. 
 
 Shall they efcape unpuninYt in their wayes, 
 And in Profperity fpend all their dayes I 
 Lord, in Thine Anger let them be o^rethrown, 
 Thou need'ft but only on them frown, 
 Lower than me, that look will caft them down ! 
 
 ■VII. 
 
 Thou all my wanderings, every pace do'ft kno w 3 
 And notf ft how many fteps I from Thee go •, 
 See'ft my tears too, what they were fhed about, 
 
 And in thy bottle they are put, 
 Whence, with a Sponge, what's in Thy Book blot out ! 
 
 VIII. 
 
 When to my God in my diftrefs I cry, 
 My very Prayers make all mine Enemies fly \ 
 My ilghs (hall backwards turn them, in the Rear 
 
 They (hall a greater Enemy fear, 
 And in that ftill voice know that God draws near, 
 
 IX. 
 
 On Gods Almighty Word I will depend, 
 VirM* On God Tie truit, who certain help will fend : 
 
 There I will reft, and if my God but fmile. 
 
 Either thefe doubts he 1 reconcile, 
 Or make me fcorn, what Fle(h can do the while. 
 
 X. 
 
 Thy Vows are on me, and Tie give Thee praiie. 
 The Field is Thine, and Thine (hall be the Bayes : 
 Thou haftpreferv'd my Soul, wilt Thou not blefs, 
 
 My Aiding feet with fteadinefs ? 
 The greater^ done, and wilt not do the k£s ? 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.i. upon the LVII Psalm. 155 
 
 Pfalm LVII. 
 Mferere mti Deut i ntiferere, &c. 
 
 V I. 
 
 OThou on whom my Soul for help rclyes, A Pfalm of 
 
 Let my diftrefs find pitty in Thine eyes ! David, 
 
 Thou art my Trull, on Thee 1 (lay, When be 
 
 Under Thy Wings, let me conceaFd abide, fled from 
 
 And till thefe ftorms are pad, me hide Saul in tfo 
 
 Under their (hade, elfe on them let me fly away ! Cave. 
 
 n. 
 
 To my great Saviour, who above do"s reign, 
 Whole Mighty Power do's me, and All fuilain, 
 
 To Him rie cry, who down (hall fend 
 From Heav'n, and lave me by His own right hand 
 
 From thofe, who Hun. and me withfland •, 
 His Truth (hall ilay them, dad His Mercy me defend. 
 
 III. 
 
 Among fierce Lions, Lord, hid in their den, 
 With beafts more fierce than Lions, Cruel Men, 
 
 Whofe teeth be arrows, and (harp Spears, 
 Their tongue a two edg'd Sword, their eyes all fir e, 
 As if in this they did confpire, 
 By fevcral Torments, to create me feveral fears : 
 
 IV. 
 
 With tlufe I live, among thefe men I lye, 
 And hardly for my thoughts gam liberty. 
 Above the Clouds exalted be 
 
 X 2 Lord, 
 
i$6 A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Verfiis. Lord, fet Thy glory far above the Skies j 
 
 And though io high I cannot rife, 
 From Heav'n do Thou defcend, when I look up to Thee. 
 
 V. 
 
 I could not fcape, they had fo girt me round, 
 My very Soul lay proitrate on the ground ^ 
 
 But, as I look'd, I law them fall, 
 And though for me they had prepar'd the net, 
 That I might (tumble, digg'd the pit, 
 Into that pit they fell themielves, their fiiare and all . 
 
 VI. 
 
 I am refolv'd, nor will I any more 
 Diftruft my God, as I have done before i 
 
 No, I will praife Him, and my heart, 
 Which ha's fo oft betrayM rneinto fear, 
 
 Its burden iri the Song lhall bear, 
 And when my Harp begins, (hall take thehigheft part. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Awake, my Harp, 'tis time for thee to" wake, 
 Prevent the day, and thy great fubjecl: take > 
 
 Put all thy firings on, {hew thy skill, 
 God, and my Soul are ready, be not flow, 
 
 For if we mould before thee go, (Hill ! 
 
 Thy firings would never halfway reach up Heav'ns High 
 
 VIII. 
 
 We Come, O God, and with us up will raife 
 
 High as Thy Love and Truth, to Heaven, Thy Praife *, 
 
 The World (hall hear, what Thou had done, 
 How fignally Thou haft appeared for me, 
 
 By Thy great Power haft fet me free, ('known, 
 
 And for His Works praife Him, whofe Name they have not 
 
 IX. Then 
 
Lib.i* upon the LVII Psalm. 157 
 
 IX. 
 
 Then to the Clouds we will together fly, 
 
 And take new Wing to mount to the Moft Higfo 
 
 Above the Clouds exalted be 
 Lord, fet Thy glory far above the Skies s Verfa, 
 
 And if fo high We cannot rife, 
 Defend Thy felf, and bear us up along with Thee / 
 
 X 2 Pfalm 
 
158 AParaphrase Lib. i. 
 
 Pfalm LVIII. 
 Si vcre utifi jhjlitiam^ &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 a Mm of A RE y0ll > asb yy° ur P lacc y° uou g ht ^^ 
 
 5 -V r\ True Judges ok the Poor mans wrung? 
 
 x Or rather do you not his fuit prolong, 
 And then bind o're, when you fhould fet him free ? 
 
 You would bethought both good, and jufr, 
 And if not fo, at leaf t Juit though fevere % 
 
 But when you perfoliate it mod, ( fpare i 
 
 Your mouth condemns that, which your heart would 
 
 For when bribes hold the Scale, the lightelt caufe molt 
 
 ( weight do's bear. 
 
 II. 
 
 The Wicked from the womb are gone aftray, 
 Their wanderings with their life begun. 
 
 And will no fooner than their life be done, 
 
 Nor feek they, what they know not, the right way : 
 Under their tongues conceafd, and clofe, 
 
 A deadlier poyfon than the Serpents lyes > 
 Adders lefs caution ily expoie 
 
 Their ears to Charms, than they to hear the Wile. 
 As deaf to Couniel, as they greedy are of flatteries. 
 
 III. 
 
 {freak out the Lions teeth, nor let them more 
 
 The Innocent fo proudly tear ! 
 Let the young Lions, Lord, themfelves in fear, 
 Not o\e their prey, but torn with famine roar ! 
 
 And as the Sand., though kind HeaV'n poures 
 The like ftreams there, as on the fruitful Plain, 
 
 To Heaven returns no thanks in flowers, 
 But only as it fills, drinks up the rain, 
 Like rain by Sand drunk up, let them be never rais'd again ! 
 
 IV. When 
 
Lib.%. upon the LVII1 Psalm, 159 
 
 IV. 
 
 When againft rac they throw their poyfoiVd darts, 
 And in their, rage their bows do bend, 
 
 Or let them be too weak the (hafts to fend ? 
 
 Or turn the Pykes into the Shooters hearts ! 
 And as a Snail, which leaves behind 
 
 A filver film, along the way (he pafs'd, 
 But if you follow it you find 
 
 Both that, and her inflime conclude at lad, 
 So let them pcri(h,and from filthy ilime, to Nothing waft! 
 
 V. 
 
 Like an Abortive, which ne're faw the Sun, 
 
 But dy ? d, e're ft had any birth, 
 Born only that it might be thrown to th' Earth, 
 Let their Race end, e're it be well begun ! 
 
 E're briars with the thorn can clofe, 
 And in their clafping Arms each other take, 
 
 Which grew acquainted as they rofe, 
 And only forc't by fire, their holds forfake, 
 Let their ends be as fuddain,as thole their embraces make ! 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Juft (hall fee't, and at the fight rejoyce, 
 And in their blood his Garments wa(h •, 
 
 Without fear (hall this Red Sea view, and pals, 
 
 And with fuch Acclamations raife his voice, 
 u . Lo, for the Juft what Crown remains ! 
 
 "And what Reward God do's for Him provides 
 16 There is a King, who o're all reigns, 
 
 " And He with Jufxice (hall each caufe decide, fare try'd, 
 ic By whofe mod Equal Laws judges themfelves,andThrones 
 
 Pfalm 
 
xtfo A Paraphrase Lih.i. 
 
 Pfalm LIX. 
 Eripe me de inimicis meis De#s &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 /* T^Kcferve me, Lord, and by Thy hand o'rethrown, 
 A ijaun nj ■--'Let them, who feek my mine, rind their own! 
 ■P* v ' From envious Men my honour fave, 
 
 Jy ben Saul ^ n( j tQ ^ cme j make me not a prey ! 
 jent^ and j ncver C2LU fe c f wrath, or malice gave, 
 
 thejtvatcbt T j iat tQ entra p me t h U s, they (hares mould lay, 
 the houje to An j w | iat f Qr t ^ Qm j CQU ^ j^ve fpent, my life, betray. 
 hi! kiim. ■ 
 
 II. 
 
 Awake, my help, and to my aid come down, 
 To vifit, and dellroy, Thou need^ft but frown \ 
 Spare none of them, my God, that they, 
 Vtrfus. Like hungry Doggs which have no Carkafs found. 
 
 At night may, difappointed of their prey, 
 With howliiigs only rill the Streets around, 
 And fee the blood they hunted for, in their own wou nd .' 
 
 ii r. 
 
 Look, how they belch out poyfon, mortal Wor;ds, 
 And how one death attends their tongues, and fwords ! 
 
 " Yet who, fay they, What God do^s hear ? 
 Even Thou, O Lord, who wilt their threats deride, 
 ' * And having tu'rn'd upon them their own fear, 
 In their ddtru&ion for my Life provide, 
 Who only on Thy ftrength, and bounty ha^ve relyM. 
 
 IV. 
 
 They fhall prevent my wifh, and kt me fee 
 It granted, e-re my Prayers are made to Thee -, 
 
 Yet at one blow deiiroy them not, 
 But let them wander, and feel how they dye j 
 Leaft by my (elf the Mercy be forgot, 
 
 ' And 
 
Lib. i. upon the L1X Psalm. 161 
 
 And without Monument to touch mine eye, 
 A fwift Oblivion follow a fwift Viftory. 
 
 V. 
 
 Let their own Lips, and pride their ruine be '•> 
 And take them in the toiles they laid for me ! 
 
 Upon themfelves their Curfes turn, 
 And in Thy Wrath, my God, confume them all ! 
 Under them may they fee the Furnace burn, 
 WhiPft they in vain for help to Thee will call, 
 And from their heights into the flames but lower fall ! 
 
 VI. 
 
 Then (hall they know how far Thy Rule extends, 
 From Thy Throne Sion, to th'Earths utmoft ends > 
 
 When they to (bun the light, and day, 
 Like hungry Dogs, at midnight only found, Vtrtus 
 
 Beat up and down in vain to feiie their prey, ^ 
 
 With howlings filling all the ftreets around, ( wound. 
 And have no blood but what they draw from their own 
 
 VII. 
 
 I the meanwhile will of Thy Power reherie, 
 And call the Morning up to hear my Verfe, 
 
 Of Thee Fie fing, who heretofore 
 For my defence appear'd it both great, and ftrong, 
 And for my fafety haft new aids in (tore $ 
 Nor mail Eternity it felf feem long, 
 When all the while My Strength, and Saviour is my Song. 
 
 Pfilm 
 
i6i 
 
 A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 A Fjalm of 
 David. 
 To teach 
 When he 
 ftrove with 
 Aram Na- 
 haraim and 
 Aram Zo- 
 bah, when 
 Joab return- 
 tdandjmote 
 in the Vally 
 of Salt of 
 Edom. 
 XII. M. 
 
 Pfalm L X. 
 Deus repulijii nos &c, 
 
 I. 
 
 LOrd, Thou haft fmote us, turiVd Thy Face afide, 
 And all thy Mercies dolt in fury hide i 
 Like us Our very Mountains quake, 
 Return, leaft We, and They together fall ^ 
 
 For if Thou com'ft not to Our Call, 
 We (hall Our Land, that its Foundations will forfake. 
 
 II. 
 
 Low as the Earth, prefs'd down with miferies, 
 As little hope is in our heart, as eyes *, 
 
 And though, O God, we mil are Thine, 
 And only of the Cup Thou giv'it us, drink, 
 
 We cannot of Thy Covenant think, 
 Inftead of help, aftonifhment is in the Wine. 
 
 III. 
 
 Low as we were, God did His. Power difplay 3 
 And in a moment chas'd our fears away i 
 
 Under His Banner Ifraelwent, 
 The Lord of Hofts did on their fide appear. 
 And though their Troops encamp'd in fear, 
 The God, who led them out, deliverance to them fent, 
 
 IV. 
 
 God did it, that His Glory might be known. 
 And with what eafe He could defend His Own y 
 
 He bowM His Ear, and heard my Cry, 
 His Promife paft, and in it I rejoyce. 
 Gave me of all the World my Choice, 
 And on my Gods Almighty Promife I relye* 
 
 V. Sechem 
 
Lib.i. upon the LX Psalm. itf$ 
 
 V. 
 
 Secbem is Mine, I will divide its Plain, 
 
 And o"re the Vale dEStiocfitb throw my Chain •, 
 
 The Tribes oilfrael (hall obey, 
 Thofe, which lye turtheft of, or nearer (land, 
 
 Shall yield themfelves to my Command, 
 Shall (erve, while J«^ gives themLaws,and holds the fway. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Moab\ my Wafh-pot, and (hall fue to be 
 A ValTall to my bafeft drudgery * 
 
 Fbiliflia (hall my Chariot meet, 
 Honour'd enough if (he may bear that Yoke, 
 
 Proud Edom ha's fo often broke '•> 
 And Edom (hall fubmit her neck, and take my feet. 
 
 VII. 
 
 But who to Edom will dired my Cour(e, 
 And entrance for me into Bozra force ? 
 
 God (hall diredt me to the Town, 
 God, who of late ha's feem'd to difappear *, 
 
 And when He comes, knowing He's there, 
 The Walls, to make Him way, (hall open, or fall down. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Help Us, O God, for we in vain implore 
 AForraign Aid* which wants our (uccour more ; 
 
 Thou art my help, through Thee my head 
 With Laurel (hall be crown'd, and in my wayes, 
 
 Some Enemies neck the ground (hall raife, 
 So that my feet (hall triumph too, and on them tread. 
 
 Y 2 Pfalm 
 
irf4- 
 
 AParaphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm LXI. 
 Exaudi Deus deprecationew, &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 f T^ ar me m y ^ av ^ our ' f° r t0 Thee I cry, 
 
 A TJalm oj J^J And let Thy anfwer (hew that Thou art nigh 1 
 David. BanifrVd, forlorn-, and under deep fufpenfe, 
 
 Lord, lead me to fome higher Rock, 
 Where I thefe ftraits may overlook, 
 And though I come not thither, fee Thy Temple thence! 
 
 II. 
 
 Thou haft my refuge been, Thy Strength my Tower, 
 And in, my weaknefs I have feen Thy Power s 
 And {hall behold it frill, and yet abide, 
 For all this abfence, on Thy Hill, 
 And there my prefent Vows fulfill, 
 Brought on thofe wings,under whofe fhadow now I hide. 
 
 III. 
 
 f m confident, for Thou haft heard my Vows, 
 And my experience fpeaks, but what it knows i 
 For to the Throne my way Thou firft did'ft fhow, 
 To rule or^e them, who fear Thy Name j 
 And fince Thou alwayes art the fame, 
 Thou, who haft made Thy Servant King, wiFt keep him fb. 
 
 IV. 
 
 His Life Thou wilt prolong to many dayes, 
 
 His Seed.in th'Age to come, Thy name (hill praife *, 
 
 Preferve him, Lord, let Truth and Mercy be 
 
 The chief Supporters of his Throne, 
 
 By all the Graces waited on, 
 That He may pay, as well as make His Vows to Thee / 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Liki. upon the LXII Psalm. i6f 
 
 Pfalm LXII. 
 Nonne Deo fubjefta erit, &c. 
 
 o 
 
 I. 
 
 N God alone my Soul depends, ^ Pfalm ef 
 
 From Him do's my falvati on come , David 
 
 Himfelf is the falvation, which He fends, 
 And for my Conquefts His great Arm makes room j 
 
 He is my Rock, and fure defence, VerCm. 
 
 And all that I expect is thence •, J 
 
 There I unmov'd fha.ll fund, when tempefts roar, 
 And Seas,which threaten me, are dafh't againft the fhore. 
 
 I L 
 
 How long then will you plots devife, 
 - Againft a Man, who is upright > 
 Upon your felves fhall fall your fland'rous lyes, 
 And your own arms againft you turn the right. 
 ' By your own mifchiefs, you fhall fall, 
 Be like a great, but bowing wall, 
 Whofe own weight, when too weak to ftand, 'tis grown, 
 Do's but with greater violence help to bear it down. 
 
 III. 
 
 God ha's advanc'd me to the Throne, 
 Above the malice of their eye 5 
 Thence,, if they could, they ftrive to pull me down, 
 And undermine, what out of (hot do's lye : 
 Deceit, and gall is in their hearts, 
 And there they dip their poyfon'd darts , 
 _ Their hearts they think can by no eye be feen, 
 If once the Vifor of bafe Flatt'ry come between* 
 
 Y 3 IV. Bur 
 
\66 A Paraphrase Lib.i 
 
 IV. 
 
 But Thou, my Soul, on God depend ! 
 From Him muft Thy Salvation come, 
 Himfelf is the Salvation, which He'l fend, 
 And for Thy Conqueft His great arms make room : 
 He is my Rock, and lure defence, 
 V er J m ' And all that I expect is thence* 
 
 There I unmov'd (hall ftand, when Tempefts roar, 
 And Seas, which threaten me, are dauYd againft the fhore. 
 
 V. 
 
 In God is all my Hope, and Stay, 
 The Rock of Ages is my Shield i 
 By me, O World, to Him dire&Thy way, 
 And like Thy Guide, feek Him, who help can yield ! 
 He is Our Hope, when all means fail, 
 And when none elfe, His hands prevail > 
 The Poor want help, the Rich are but a Lye, 
 And to be weigh'd, are lighter both than Vanity. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Then in Oppreffion never truft, 
 Nor Riches though they beincreas'd J 
 They will deceive you, for they are- but dull, 
 And the worft Arms, though fondly judgM the bell ; 
 'Twas once fpokeby th' Almighty's Words, 
 I heard it twice, All Towers the Lords : 
 Mercf , O God, do's alio fpring from Thee, 
 And as each Mans Work is, to his reward (hall be. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lihi. upon the LXIII Psalm* \6j 
 
 Pfalra LXIII. 
 Dens 3 Dens meus^adte^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 EArlymyGod, before 'tis Light, A p ^, » 
 And all the Stars are up, but that which makes the day, d^^ 
 
 Whirft Heav'n alone with flames is bright, wh V 
 
 And all below is hurlM i'th fable veil of night, wTinthz 
 
 Which they can neither draw, nor take away \ Wide (I f 
 
 Early Tie worfhip, and one glance from Thee, Tudah 
 
 E're 'tis with others day, fhall make it noon with me. ^ 
 
 II. 
 
 * 
 
 And as this dry, and thirfty land, 
 Where the ground ready to expire for want of rain, 
 
 Gaping, and out of breath do's (land, 
 And (hews its very bowels fhriv'ledlike its fand, 
 And having drunk, gapes for more drink again, 
 The Wildemefs and I in this agree, 
 For as that thirfts for rain, So Lord, I thirft for Thee, 
 
 III. 
 
 I thirft Thy glorious power to lee, 
 
 As I have feen it in Thy Temple heretofore v 
 
 When ravinYt with Thy love to me, 
 To dye I was content, could I but Co love Thee, 
 
 And fo to dye, this life would choofe no more *, 
 
 Theie thoughts fo high my fainting Spirit do raife, 
 That through my lips they force their way in fongSvofpraife, 
 
 IV. 
 
 For this Tie blefs Thee, and on high 
 To Thy Great Name fend up my praifes, whirft I live y 
 
 For 
 
i68. AParaphrasb Lib.i. 
 
 For fince at prefent I enjoy 
 
 A mind content, it (hall prepare for more fupply, 
 Though Thou at prefent only that do'ft give i 
 Even that (hall bring my famifrYt Soul more good, 
 
 Than what my Body ha s, from moft delicious food. 
 
 Marrow , and Fatnefs i t (hall be, 
 And all the folid meats, which pleafe, and feed the ftroiig i 
 
 For I (hall come at laft to Thee, 
 Who art the Ble(Ted End of all Felicity, 
 And the beft fubjedt of my humble fong : 
 And ©n my bed, when 1 revolve Thy might, 
 My Praifes (hall, inftead of Watches, part the night. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Exil'd, diftreiVd, and wondVous low, 
 Under Thy wings fecurel in my trouble lay v 
 
 Since I (b well their covert know., 
 Fie follow hard, o'retaks, and never let Thee go, 
 Unlefs on them Thou bear me too away \ 
 Then (hall I be upheld by Thy Right hand, 
 And on the empty Air, as on a Mountain (land. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Then (hall my Enemies fall down, 
 By their own fwords, and hafting to th'untimely grave, 
 
 Reap truly, what themfelves have fown, 
 And their vile Carkafles to Dogs, and Foxes thrown, 
 Receive no better Burial than they gave j 
 Such living Monuments, which fhall decay, 
 And be in other Beafts entomb'd as well as they. 
 
 VIIL But 
 
Lib.i. upon the LXIII Psalm. i6p 
 
 VII I. 
 
 But I (hall in my God rejoyce, 
 And as He raigns above, be ftablifh't in my Throne below > 
 
 For I am His, and He my Choice, 
 And as m/heart now prai(es Him, fo (hall my voice s 
 And all who fear Him, and the Wonder know, 
 In joyous (houts, (hall their longiilence break, 
 Whifft my Foes, burft with envy, want all power to (peak, 
 
 Pfa ! 
 
 
170 A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm LXIV. 
 
 Exaucli Dens oratiomm^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 p - • ^ 1 Ord to my voice incline Thine ear, 
 
 ^* A' " And fet me free from danger, and from fear ! 
 
 David. i_j H ^ e me from t ^^ ^ v j iQ wicke j pj ots j ev if e ^ 
 
 Are my profefs'd, yet fecret Enemies *, 
 
 Who whet their tongues, inftead of Swords, 
 And moot for poyfonM arrows, bitter Words. 
 
 II. 
 
 They bend their bow, and out of fight, 
 Watch how they unperceiv'd may wound th' Upright 
 At him they fearlefs (hoot, and plot, the while, 
 If this difpatch him not, what Engine will > 
 
 ct Through our dilguifewhat man can fee, 
 Or how, fay they, can we difcoverM be ? 
 
 III. 
 
 No art they leave untry'd, but round 
 Seek, and ne'r reft, till what they fought is found y 
 Each ha's his (everal way, their heart's fo deep, 
 That each, though partners, their own counlel keepy 
 
 And dare not one another truft, 
 Though all in this agreed againft the Juft. 
 
 IV. 
 
 But God fhall ftrike them with a dart, 
 That (hall divide between the thoughts, and heart 5 
 Both (hall be wounded, both together fall, 
 And their own tongues (hall give like death to all ; 
 
 To fpare their lives no man (hall pray> 
 But frighted at their mine flee away. 
 
 V. By 
 
Jjb<is upon the LXIV Psalm, 171 
 
 v. 
 
 By their deitru&ion all ftnll fear, 
 And dread the judgement, which they fie fo near \ 
 Shall think, and fpeak of what the Lord ha's done, 
 And joy in Him, whofe Pow'r was thus made known \ 
 
 The Righteous in Him fhall re Joyce, 
 And up to Heav'n in praifqs lift their voice. 
 
 Zi Pfalm 
 
17a A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm LXV. 
 Te decet hymnwDeusl 
 
 I. 
 
 jr vri 4 J~\^^ s f° r Thee'in Sion, Lord, attend, 
 Arjaim oj lesion, the faircft Stage in Hcav'ns great road, 
 L^avicL JL whence thoufand Praifcs daily do afcend, 
 
 And come in troops to Thy Divine Aboad > 
 There I my vows will pay, 
 And with the Convoy they find there, dired their Way. 
 
 II. 
 
 P Thou, who all times do'ft th'afflided hear, 
 From the Worlds ends all Flefh mall come to Thee ! 
 My fins I know may juftly flop Thine ear, 
 And make a greater breach 'twixt Thee and me > 
 But purge them, Lord, and I 
 Shall never pray in vain ? and Thou be alwayes nigh, 
 
 III. 
 
 Thrice happy man, on whom Thou wiltbeflow^ 
 That Grace, which of a Slave, mail make him Thine \ 
 Thy Friend, who in Thy Houfe Thy love (hall know, 
 And fee Thy Glory as it there do's mine 5 
 When He (hall to thee pray, 
 Nor Thine own Face.nor his Prayers wilt Thou turn away„ 
 
 IV. 
 
 By fearfull things in Truth, Lord, anfwer us, 
 Who fav'it Thy People, and do'lt take their part ! 
 And not theirs only, but propitious 
 Th'Earths ends have found Thee,6c their help Thou art :. 
 The Earths ends to Thee are near, ( doft hear. 
 
 And on rough Seas,through ftorms-and clouds,Thou prayers 
 
 V.God 
 
Lib. i. upon the LXV Psalm. 173 
 
 V. 
 
 God by His ftrength the Mountains ha's fct fa ft > 
 Mountains, whole heads arerais'd above the Sky, 
 His Word, not their Foundations, makes them laft ? 
 Though they as low, as the World's Center lye : 
 Their tops no ftorm can (hake, 
 Yet at His pretence, like the little Hills they quake, 
 
 VI: 
 
 The Sea, when up to Heav'n its billows fwell, 
 As if it fcornM in its old bounds to ftay, 
 He with his girdle binds the mighty Well, 
 With charge the fandy Jaylor to obey i 
 Who, when it heaves, and roars, 
 Its fury checks, and makes it keep within itsihores. 
 
 VII. 
 
 And as tempeftuous Seas His Word obey, 
 And at His lowder Call their voice hold ftiJ], 
 The People, a more troub'lous Sea than they, 
 In all their tumults hearken to His Will j 
 His Thunder makes them fear, 
 And thote,who get molt off, yet think they are too near, 
 
 VIII. 
 
 From the bright Eaft Thoumak'ft Thy Sun to go, 
 Before him creeps in Chains the Captive night. 
 And in the Weft, when he from us draws low, 
 'Tis but to fpread his Conquefts, with his Light : 
 And till he comes again, 
 Bids the Moon fill his place, and in his ftead to ra , 
 
 IX. 
 
 Thou vifiteli the Earth, and giv'ftit rain 
 Of Thy richbleiling it do's freely (pend , 
 The Earth returns its thanks to Heav'n again, 
 In flowers, which thither their fweet Odours ll . 
 
 Z 2 As 
 
ij± A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 As Cuftoms, which they pay 
 To Thy dread Throne, who doft their Mothers heat allay, 
 
 X. 
 
 The Hood of God, whofe Spring-head's in the clouds. 
 When on the weary ground it fhowers diftills, 
 The foftned ridge unto its furrow crowds, 
 And all it's clots the quick'ning moyfture fills \ 
 Thou by degrees doft bring 
 The Tillage on, and Harveft to fucceed the Spring, 
 
 XL 
 
 Plenty with every fhower from Heav'n pours down > 
 The Earth do's by thy conftant bounty grow ^ 
 Thy goodnefs do's the year with bleflings crown, 
 And all Thy ftepsdrop fatnefs where they go: 
 They on the Deferts drop, 
 Whofe parched Sands drink deep, of Thy o'reflowing Cup. 
 
 XII. 
 
 The little Hills drink deep, and look more fair, 
 The Valleys pledge, till they can drink no more ^ 
 The Shepheards, and their flocks both merry are, 
 And all the Plains with Corn are cover'd o're : 
 With peace, and fruits abound, 
 And make the diftant Mountains with their Songs refound. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib a. upon the LXVI Psalm. 175 
 
 Pfalm LXVI. 
 jubilate Deo omnis terra, &c, 
 
 RE/oyce, O World, and to Thy God ling praife! A ? r alm 
 
 Let Seas, and Illes,and Lands His Name reiound i SonL 
 Together with His Sun your voices raife, 
 
 And in Eternal Jubilees go round ! Verfitf. 
 For if that rife His mighty Power to fhow, J 
 
 Much more mould you, on whom it mines do Co. 
 
 II. 
 
 Say to the Lord, "How mighty is Thy Power, 
 
 " Which even Thy Enemies muft unforc't confefs? 
 
 " To th"Earth they bow themfelves, and would fall lower, 
 
 " But that mftead Thou tak'ft this poor addrefs ; 
 
 " Th'Earth (hall worfhip Thee, and their loud fame, 
 
 tc Shall fill her Trumpet only with Thy Name, 
 
 III. 
 
 See what He did to raife it, how His hand 
 At once declar'd Him Terrible, and Good ! 
 When raging Seas were tumM to firm dry land, 
 And Iftael pail through th' admiring Flood j 
 Then 'twas we view'd, and troad His fecret Waves,. 
 And roaring Deeps flood lilVning to His Praife, 
 
 IV. 
 
 He rules o^re all, Him Heaven, and Earth obey, 
 
 The Univerfall and Eternall King-, 
 
 His eyes the Wicked, and the Goodfurvey, 
 
 And under chains His Hand the Proud do's bring •, 
 
 (j 
 
 Raife not Thy felf too high proud duft, for fear 
 The Wmd which rills, thy fayles fhould overbear, 
 
 V. Re- 
 
tj6 A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 FetfPU 
 
 V. 
 
 Rejoyce ye Nations, and to God fing praife ! 
 Let Seas, and Iiles, and Lands his Name refound > 
 Together withHis Sun your voices "raile, 
 And in Eternal Jubilees go round ! 
 For He from falls our Aiding feet do's (ave, 
 And with new Life returns us from the grave* 
 
 VI. 
 
 Like Silver in the Furnace, we were tryM, 
 And felt unufual flames rage all about > 
 But thence, as Silver, throughly purify'd, 
 We only left our drofs, when we came out s 
 The purer metall had no bafe alloy, 
 And all our griefs made way for greater joy. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Low were we brought, the net upon us call, 
 And on our loyns prodigious weights were laid \ 
 Through Water tryal, and through fire we paft, 
 And a derifion to our foes were made : 
 But He, who there upheld us by His hand, 
 Brought us Himfelf, at lad, to'th' Promised Land. - 
 
 VIII. 
 
 With praife to Thy Houfe, my King, Tie go, 
 And make my thanks in clouds of Incenfe rife', 
 There folemnly Tie pay the willing Vow, 
 Which my lips off red in my Miferies : 
 Bullocks, and Ramms Tie on Thy Altar lay, 
 And thence with Flames renew the Wafted day. 
 
 IX. 
 
 You, who have known t\\ Almighty,Love, draw near. 
 And to my Speech your ready minds incline h 
 Attend to that juft witnefs, which I bear, 
 ' And to your own experiences take Mine ! 
 
 " wh 
 
Lib.i. upon the LXVI Psalm. 177 
 
 u When I in fighs to God my voyce did raife, 
 
 " And pray'd in groans, He turn'd them into praife. 
 
 X. 
 
 Hadlkeptfome refer ve within my Heart, 
 In hope to hide it, He had itop't His Ear \ 
 But I unbowefd my molt fecret part, 
 And then He did not only fee, but hear j 
 Praife Him, who thus His glory did difplay, 
 Nor tum'd His own Face, nor my Prayers away ! 
 
 A a Pfalm 
 
■7« 
 
 A Paraphrase Li hi. 
 
 A Tfalm or 
 Song* 
 
 Pfalm LXVII. 
 Deus mifereatur nojiri, &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 SAve us O God, and Thy poor Servants bleft ! 
 Thy Goodnefs and Thy Pow'r declare ! 
 In Mercy help us, in Our great diftrefs, 
 And We no more will doubt Thy Love or Care * 
 
 Let through the World Thy Mighty Name be known, 
 Verficmus. ^^ w j lat We p ra jfe 5 mav tne w hole Earth with Rev'rence 
 
 Verficulus. 
 
 Vvrficnlus. 
 
 II. 
 
 (own! 
 
 Rejoyce, ye Nations, for your God is here, 
 
 Who by His Wifdom rules o're all / 
 The Kings, and Kingdoms governs, and that fear 
 , They ftrike in you, He makes on them to fall : 
 
 Let through the World His Mighty Name be known> 
 And what we praife, may the whole Earth with Rev'rence 
 
 ( own / 
 III. 
 
 Then fhall the Lord our Land both fave and bkfs* 
 
 His Goodnefs, and His Power declare i 
 And then Our fields (hall give their full increafe, 
 And with His blefling look more gay and faire : 
 The Lord (hall blefs us, and His Name make known, 
 And what We praife, the whole Earth fhall with Reverence 
 
 ( own ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Likz. upon the LXVIII Psalm. 179 
 
 Pfalm LXVIII. 
 Exurgat Deus y & dijfipentur^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 GRreat Leader of the Sacred Hofts, arife, 
 And featuring Thy Proud Enemies, A P fi^ m °f 
 
 Encreafe Our Triumphs with Thy Victories / David - 
 
 Let thofe, who hate Thy Name, before it flye, 
 Like Clouds ofSmoke, chas'd by the Wind, 
 Which vanifh as they mount on high, _ - 
 And undiihnguifh't from the Common Skie, 
 No more in ftrange Fantaftick figures lye, 
 But without mark, to know them by, 
 Leave not the fmalleft ftain behind, 
 That in the air, one may their empty traces find : 
 Let their deftru&ion fuddain be, 
 Sooner than Wax do's melt, 
 When once the flames are felt, 
 And in Thine eye may they the fire, which burns them fee ! 
 But let the Righteous in Thy Pow'r re Joyce, 
 With Flutes, and Trumpets make a cheerful noife, 
 Aad the whole Confort joyn, and per fed with their voice ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Make God your Song, Ye Juft, and from His Waves, 
 Which are in Heav'n, take theam your Verfe to raile ! 
 
 In Heav'n, where He in glory rides, 
 And with His rein the Winds, which bear them guides, 
 And by His Name Jehovah celebrate His Praife ! 
 ' Above He rules, but His great Pow'r extends 
 To what foe' re is done below, 
 The Cares of all His Creatures He do's know, 
 And vifits the wide Earth's extremeft ends : 
 Is a kind Father to the Fatherlefs, 
 
 The Widdows Counfel, and do's ble& 
 Deiparing Nuptials with a large increaie > 
 
 A a 2 Making 
 
i8o A Paraphrase Liki. 
 
 Making dead Wombs His voice to hear, 
 And her, that barren was, a numerous feed to bear : 
 
 And when co Him poor Captives cry, 
 
 Their t^ars movepitty in His eye-, 
 And with His Arm He gives them Liberty , 
 
 Again returns them to their Land, 
 
 Made fruitful by His plenteous ram, 
 
 When on the Pi oud, He throwsthe Chain,. 
 And turns then Paftures to a dry, and barren Sand. 
 
 III. 
 
 Lord, when Thou through the Wildemels di<Tfx go, 
 And their great Journeisto thy Ifrael [how/, Cloud below, 
 And,though Thou fiU'dft the Heav'ns^onfind'ft Thy felf to'a 
 Simi did at Thy Prefence quake, 
 The Rocks bowM down, and the whole Earth did fhake, 
 And ftubborn Ifrael in their horrors did partake ; 
 Thou thundred^ft, and to own Thy Power y 
 The Heav'ns let fall a mighty (hower y 
 With whole cool drops Thou did'ft reiiorc 
 The fully'd beauties of the fhriv'led Earth, 
 Giving its fruits, and flowers new birth, 
 And made'ft it fairer, than it was before : 
 The defert with Thy blelllngdid abound, 
 New ftreams refrehYt the weary ground, 
 And Jacob there a fafe retreat from bondage found. 
 There He fecurely dwelt, 
 And all th* effects of mighty goodnefsfclt : 
 There for His poor Thou did'ft prepare, 
 And of His Armies tookYt the care, 
 Still guiding them by Thine own hand, ( mis'd Land. 
 Till by fafe Conduct Thou hadft brought them to th 1 Pro- 
 
 IV. 
 
 Before the Camp God march't, and Victory 
 
 Follow'd Him dole, in view of all, 
 
 Our Wives, who law the Enemy fall, 
 To meet our triumphs laid their diftafls by~ 
 
 Ani 
 
Lib. i. upon the LXVifl Psalm. 181 
 
 And took the Cymbal, and the Lute, 
 And fang to them that praife we fhouted to the Flute. 
 
 They fang of Armies, and of Kings, 
 
 How Toon their troops were put to flight, 
 
 E're they had wcllrefolv'd to fight, 
 With all the Mnth, which certain conqucft brings : 
 
 Now God abroad did overcome, 
 And they divided the rich fpoil at home ^ 
 And though amongft the Pots they long had lain, 
 
 Condemned to Brickilns, and the Mine, 
 How all the flames did but their Oar refine, 
 
 And made them with more Luftre fhine, 
 When all their former beauties it had rirft reftor d again. 
 Like fpotlefs Doves in their molt glorious flight, 
 Reflecting from their wings the trembling light, 
 In thoufand colours, which the eye both dazle, and invite, 
 
 V. 
 
 . And Co look'd Palejline, when trY Heathen fell, 
 And fpoils of Kings were fcat'red there , 
 The Land, which was before as dark as Hell, 
 ReceivM freih verdure, and became with Trophies fair : 
 On high its head did bear, 
 As if with fiiowy Salmon, 'twould compare : 
 Bafans high Hill God did with bleffings crown, 
 
 And on it mow^rd fuch plenty down, 
 One would have thought that God had chofe it for His own, 
 But hold, O Hill, raife not Thy felf too high, 
 
 For Sion yet (hall o're Thee reign, 
 With Her compared, Thou muft fall down again, 
 
 And flat as Thine own Vallies lye •, 
 For God in Sion to refide intends, 
 
 There muft His Houfe, and Altar be i 
 His dwelling place to all Eternity, 
 
 And the whole World to Her fhall bow, 
 And yield their necks as well as Thou ^ 
 To Sion^ whofe Vaft fway all bounds tranfeends, 
 Beyond the boundlefs fpace, where furthelt Nature ends. 
 
 A a 3 YL On 
 
i8z A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 VI. 
 
 On Her trTEternal will ered His Throne, 
 God, whom the Powers of Heav'n, and Earth obey, 
 At whofe dread Prefence Sinai fled away, 
 When thither He to Ijrael, all in fire, came down. 
 
 Smoke and thick Lightning did the mountain bound, 
 With twenty thouland flaming Chariots girt around, 
 The Guard Divine, whofe wheels in Thunder did refbund. 
 And when He thence arofe, and up on high 
 Afccnded with His glorious trains, 
 He lead Captivity in Chains, 
 And gifts on men beftowM, as well as liberty : 
 To Traytors pardon granted, and a Land, 
 Which was the purchafe of His Own right hand i 
 And if no more they would rebell, 
 W r ith promife there to make His Court, and ever dwell. 
 To Him alone be all the Praife, 
 Who thus His Name, and Us can raife, 
 And with ten thouland BleiUngs crowns Our dayes/ 
 
 VII. 
 
 'Tis He, who faves Us, and to Him belong 
 The keyes of th* Adamantine Gates of Death : 
 He opens, and none (huts, gives, and recalls Our breath, 
 Whofe Name is, Our Salvation, Great and Strong : 
 Who will the Wicked tumble to the ground, 
 And make His Soul a pafTage through His Wound. 
 But to His People fayes " I will again 
 cc Repeat the Wonders, which I heretofore have fhown j 
 cc And greater do, than e^re I yet have done, 
 " On Bafangct my felt a Name, 
 cc Bow down His neck, and raife in Mounts the liquid Plain : 
 " The Sea once more divide, to make you way, 
 cc Now truly Red with purple ftreams, which flow, 
 c * From your fierce Enmies veins, and my great blow, 
 " That Sea, as well as JEgypfs, trembling mall obey, 
 " And there you mail fecurely pafs, 
 u And there your feet, and garments waflr, 
 
 < c Your 
 
Lib.i. upon the LXVIII Psalm, 185 
 
 " Your very dogs (hall drink the blood, ( Flood. 
 
 " And gorg'd,with humane fleiTi,fhall fport alone thefcarlet 
 
 VIII. 
 
 And fothey did, and then Thy paths, O God, were feen, 
 And all Thy goings, nothing came between > 
 How Thou didft both their way, and Armies lead. 
 Before the Singers went, and then the Flutes, 
 The Maidens followed with their Lutes, 
 And fearful Women heard fhrill Trumpets without dread. 
 cc Blefs ye, faid they, the Mighty God ! 
 " Ye ftreams, which from Old Jacob's ipring proceed, 
 " The Faithfull Jacob's happy feed, 
 • " And with you ftabliuS His Divine Aboad ! 
 " Let little Benjamin be there, and there 
 " The Governours dijudab, farrTd for War, 
 " Whirit Learned Naptbali, zndZabulon 
 " For the great day, and folemn pomp, compofe a Song, 
 " And with their Numbers all the Tribes condudt along ! 
 " Let God Himfelf new ftrength command, 
 " And fince He ha's fuch wonders done, 
 « Perfect what is (b well begun, 
 M And as we all before His Temple ftand, 
 " Thofe heads,which he ha's fav'd,exaU with His own hand ! 
 
 IX. 
 
 There, Lord, Oar fpoils to Thee We'll conftcrate-, 
 
 And Princes thither (hall their Tribute bring > 
 
 And fwear Alleg'ance to Thee as their King, 
 Thy Peace, andFriendfhip fupplicate, 
 And on their knees receive new Titles to their State » 
 
 Thofe who refufe, and think their Pow'r fo great, 
 
 That it or can relift, or vye with Thine, 
 
 And Heav'n with open blafphemies dare threat, 
 
 Againft their Spears, Lord, make Thy Lightening fhine, 
 And or o'rethrow, or force them to a bafe retreat / 
 
 And to thofe roaring Bulls prefumptuous noile, ( voice ! 
 And bleating of their Calves, oprx>fethe Thunder of Thy 
 
 Till 
 
84. A Paraphrase Lib.l. 
 
 Till they for pardon fue, and all fubmit, 
 And as Thou on Thy Throne do"fi: fit, 
 Their necks and gits lay humbly at Thy Feet ! 
 Till JEgypt-i and the Lybian Nations come, 
 And leaving all the Gods they had at home, 
 In S ion only feek the True, and Holy One! 
 
 X. 
 
 Praife Him all Kingdoms, and all Lands, 
 That God, who ha's in Heav'n fet faft His Throne, 
 And all its Armies with His voice commands, 
 And makes them trembling His Dominion own ! 
 His Mighty Voice abroad He fends, 
 That Voice, which talkft Cedars rends, 
 And makes His Thunder heard, to th' Worlds utmoft ends! 
 Wifdom,and Strength, and Majelty, 
 To Ijraels Strength and Wifdom give, 
 Honour, and Praife to theMoft High, 
 And endlefs Rule to Him, who doth for ever Live ! 
 To Thee, O God molt Worthy to be prais'd, 
 And in Thy Temple to be fear'd of all *, 
 
 Who Jacob from the duft haft raisM, 
 And fo uphokTft, that He (hall never fall : 
 
 Whofe Sacred, and Eternal Name, 
 That for Him conquered thus, thus overcame, 
 Can only founded be by an Immortal Fame. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Ltb.il upon the LXIX Psalm. 185 
 
 Pfalm LXIX. 
 Salvum me fac Dens quoniafft^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 SAve me,0 God, for thoufand billows roul, ^ Pfalm of 
 
 And mighty Floods come tumbling o're my Soul : David. 
 Th' unliable Wave, no certain footing yields, 
 And when within my depth I reach the ground, Verfus. 
 
 The Quick-fands draw, amd in thofe wat'ry fields, 
 Where Mounts of Seas are caft up, there's no (landing found. 
 
 II. 
 
 So tir'd I am that I no more can cry, 
 My Throat i'th' midft of all thefe Seas is dry, 
 My eyes, and heart with expectation fail, 
 WhiFft all around I am with foes befet, 
 Which daily grow, and as they grow prevail, ( great. 
 More numerous than my hairs, like their own Numbers 
 
 III. 
 
 Uninjur'd, Lord, they are my Enemies, 
 And cauileily for my deftrudtion rife \ 
 For though from them I never ought did take, 
 And what I had, was all my own before, 
 For wrongs ne're done, I fatisfadtion make, 
 And, as a thief convict, they force me to reftorc. 
 
 IV. 
 
 All this Thou know'lt, For what is hid from Thee, 
 Who doit my fecret Sins and Follies lee ? 
 But with them too my Innocence is known -, 
 For my fake then let thofe receive no fhame, 
 Who have befide the guards, which are their own, 
 C A guiltlefs mind ) for their defence Thy Mighty Name I 
 
 Bb V. 'Tis 
 
i8d A Paraphrase Lib.%. 
 
 v. 
 
 'Tis true, for that Affe&ion, which I've born 
 To Thee, I'm made my felf the Common fcorn \ 
 My Brethren as a ftranger on me look, 
 And though one blood alike fills all Our veins, 
 And all our (breams we from one Fountain took, 
 Like dreams divided once, we never meet again. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Yet neither this mall make me from Thee turn, 
 But in a Sacred Flame my Zeal (hall burn : 
 Fie flight the Scorns, which they have on me thrown, 
 Though all the temped break upon my head, 
 And in a thoufand deaths comes pouring down, 
 For 'tis no more than what againft Thee firft was faid, 
 
 VII. 
 
 I wept, and with an holy Difcipline 
 Chaft'ned that Soul, which abitinence did pine > 
 In mournful Sackcloth did my beauties hide, 
 Which from reproach could not fecure me long, 
 But thofe, who faw it did my grief deride, 
 I was the Aged's By-word, and the Drunkard's Song. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 But all the while to Thee I made my Prayers, 
 Which even then found admittance to Thine Ears i 
 Lord, as Thou heard' ft me then,defend me now ! 
 Now, for Thy Mercy fake deliver me, 
 Thou could'ft not in a fitter time bellow 
 Thy Favours, nor could they, I think, more welcome be ! 
 
 IX. 
 
 Save me, My God, for thoufand billows roul, 
 And mighty Floods come tumbling o're my Soul » 
 Wtrtuf* ^' unable Wave no certain footing yields, 
 
 And 3 where within my depth I touch the ground, 
 
 The 
 
X 
 
 Lib.i. upon the LXIX Psalm. 187 
 
 The Quickfands draw, and in thoie wat'ry fields, 
 Where Mounts of Seas are caft up, there's no (landing found. 
 
 X. 
 
 From my infulting Foes deliver me, 
 Who worfethan all thefe Floods and Quick-fands be / 
 Let not their Waves my (hip wrack' t Soul o'reflow, 
 Nor in their deep Abyfs convey me down i 
 Let not the filent grave Thy anger mow, 
 Nor (hut me up, where Thy great Name's unknown ? 
 
 XI. 
 
 But for Thy mercy fake incline Thine ear, 
 And Thine own Pitty, and companions hear ! 
 Hear me betimes, nor from Thy fervant hide 
 Thy glorious fight, or take Thy hand away, 
 But fave Thou Him from his Oppreflbrs pride, 
 Who know'ft them all,and all the (hares they for him lay, 
 
 XII. 
 
 Reproach and fhame have torn my very heart, 
 When none of all that fa w me took my Part , ♦ 
 
 For iome kind foul I look'd, but all in vain, 
 No Comforter, or pitty could be found * 
 But fuch, who ftriving to encreaie my pain, 
 Gall with my meat, my drink with Vinegar compound* 
 
 XIII. 
 
 May their own table, Lord, be made a fnare ! 
 A trap their dainty and luxurious fare ! 
 With conftant tremb'ling make their loins to fhake f 
 And let them fee no more the joyful light, 
 But may Thy wrath fure vengeance on them take,, 
 And clofe attended be with an Eternal night ! 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Let utter defolation on them feize ! 
 And lavage beafts defile their Palaces ! 
 
 Bb % No 
 
gg AParaphrasb Lib.i. 
 
 No more for men let them pofTeflions be, 
 But dark repairs of Solitude and fears =, 
 For as if all, which I had born from Thee, 
 Was not enough, to Thy (harp ftroke they added theirs. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Let in repeated Sin their age be fpent ! 
 And make their crime become their punimment ! 
 Let them th' erTedts of Mercy never feel ! 
 But in Thy Book draw o're their Names a blot ! 
 And when they fuddenly defcend to Hell, 
 Let their Memorial by the Righteous be forgot ! 
 
 XVL 
 
 But I am poor, my God, and proftrate lye, 
 By Thy Salvation to be rear'd on high : 
 That in my Songs I may Thy Name reherfe, 
 And up to Heav'n in grateful Anthems rife* 
 To Thee, who doft more kindly take a Verfe, 
 Than a young Bullocks blood, or horn-hoof d Sacrifice. 
 
 XVIL 
 
 The humble fhall behold it, and re Joyce b 
 To Thee incline their hearts, and raife their voice ; 
 For to the Poor God do's bend down His Ear, 
 And their requefts nor flights, nor difregards 5 
 But when to Him they cry, He ftoops to hear, 
 And to His Prisoners gives both freedom, and rewards^ 
 
 XVIIL 
 
 Let Heav'n, and Earth, and Sea to God fing praifc ! 
 And Angels on their Wings His honour raife ! 
 For He will Sionikv^ her walls rebuild, 
 And Ifrael to their Land again reftore -, 
 The wafted Cities (hall with Men be filf d, 
 ConfjrmM with Charters to their Seed for evermore ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.i. upon the LXXPsALMi i8p 
 
 Pfalm LXX. 
 
 Dew in adjutorium menm^ &c. 
 
 A Tfilm of 
 *■ David, 
 
 MY God, why do's my God thus ever flay. To bring to 
 
 And to my refcue make no haft ? Remem- 
 
 My Trouble calls Thee now away, brance . 
 
 Let not my help be flow, when that comes on fo faft ! Verjus. 
 
 II. 
 
 Now come, and with Thy Prefence, Lord, confound 
 My proud and cruel Enemy : 
 Level his greatnefs with the ground, 
 And when he furely thought to conquer, make him fly ! 
 
 III. 
 
 Let him be backward forc't, and for the fcorn, 
 He in his malice threw on me, 
 Let on his head that fcorn return, 
 And be Himfslf as low, as he wiih't I mould be ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 Whirft thofe, who in th' Almighties fuccours truft, 
 In Thee, who their Salvation art, 
 Rejbyce, becaufe their God is juiT, 
 And have their mouths as full o^praifes, as their heart, 
 
 V. 
 
 May I, my God, one of that Number be j 
 For though I am at prefent low, 
 Thou know'ft I ftill belong to Thee, 
 And only for ray fins till they are purged am fo. 
 
 Bb 3 VI. Help 
 
ipo 
 
 A Paraphrase Lih.i. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Help me, my God, O do not ever ftay, 
 v (~ But to my refcue come at laft / 
 
 e ^ m * My troubles call Thee now away, 
 
 Let not my help be flow, when they come in fo faft ! 
 
 Another 
 
Lib.i* upon the LXX Psalm. ipi 
 
 Another Verfion of the fame, by M. M. B. 
 
 L 
 
 ALmighty God, whofe Pow'r is infinite, 
 Who with a WorcTdicTft all things make>f quake, 
 So great, that when Thou fpeak'ft, the Mountains 
 Let my deliverance alio (hew Thy might, 
 And by its certain fpeed make that appear more bright ! 
 
 II. 
 
 The Proud, when he is from his greatnefs thrown, 
 
 And do's with (hame, and horror find 
 Nothing of all his glory left behind, 
 Who when Thou, Lord, in wrath do'll: on him frown, 
 His very Soul is with the heavy weight prefs'd down : 
 
 III. 
 
 Make his the Portion of my Enemies, 
 ( Who in their curfed rage contrive 
 To flay my Soul, when Thou would' ft have it live ) 
 That they may fee by this their fad furprife, 
 It was- not only me, but Thee they did defpife ! 
 
 IV, 
 
 Let thofe, who wim my hurt, and would rejoyce. 
 
 As fenielete of my mifery, 
 Be like to conquer'd troops, which fcatt'red fly, 
 And with confufron tremble at the noife, 
 That's rais'd by their own fear, and mighty Enemies voice ! 
 
 V. 
 
 For a reward let fuch be driven away ; 
 And quite aftonifh'd, may they find 
 No hopes of comfort to relieve their mind, 
 Who at my griefs in fport triumphing fay, 
 " This is as we would have it be, Aha ! Aha ! 
 
 Vt, But 
 
ipi AParaphrase Lib.i. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Bat on Thy People make Thy Face to fhine ! 
 
 Let them from fears be al wayes free, 
 ( Except it be fears of offending Thee ) 
 The facred Flame their heart fhall fo refine, 
 That now their joy fhall only be that they are Thine ! 
 
 VII. s 
 
 Such as to Thy Salvation burn in love, 
 
 Let them perpetual prailes ling / 
 And with rejoycing this their OrPring bring, 
 With fuch Expreffions let them forward move, 
 " Our Cod be magnify'd on Earth, and Heav'n above/ 
 
 VIII. 
 
 But I am poor, and needy, much diftrefsM *, 
 
 Wherefore, O Lord, make hafte to me ! 
 For all the Springs of Mercy are in Thee > 
 And can I want, while I upon Thee reft, 
 Whofe Word alone commands deliv'rance to th'Opprtft ? 
 
 IX. 
 
 Thou, in whom all my confidence do's lye, 
 
 My help and hope in my diftrefs, 
 Let not my Mifery make Thy Pcw'r be lefs ! 
 On Thee I wait, to Thee, O God, I fly, 
 Make hafte, and be Thou on the Wing as well as I ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.i. upon the LXXI Psalm, ipj 
 
 Pfalm LXXI. 
 In te Dominefperavi non cotifundar ! &c\ 
 
 I. 
 
 THou art my hope, O God, in whom I trull. 
 Let not my Confidence procure me (hame , 
 But fave me in Thy Truth, for Thou art Juir, 
 And in my great efcape confult Thy Name, 
 Left thofe, who know Thee not, its care mould blame ! 
 To my Complaints, and cryes incline Thine Ear, 
 And by Thy Help make me afuVd that Thou doft hear ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Be Thou my Rock, where till the Storm is paft, 
 Above the Floods I may fecurely ftand ! 
 Thy promis'd aids for me {end out at lan\ 
 Who art my Rock at Sea, my Fort at Land, 
 And by Thine fave me from my Enemies hand ! 
 The bloody hands of fierce and cruel Men, 
 And all their (hafts on their own heads return again ! 
 
 III. 
 
 For Thou, O Lord, my ancient hope haft been, 
 
 And from my youth I have Thy Mercies known > 
 
 Thy Power was in my firft conception feen, 
 
 When from the Womb Thou did'it Thy Servant own \ 
 
 And thence He into Thy great arms was thrown. 
 ^ Praife is the leaft that I can offer Thee 
 For all the care, which then, and (InccThou took'ft of me. 
 
 IV. 
 
 BiuyLord, defpis'd I'me made the (corn of all, 
 A greater Wonder Now than heretofore > 
 Yet ftill Thou art my God, on whom I call, 
 My Magazten, whereas laid up all my ftore : 
 Nor till Thou favTt me, will I give Thee o're : 
 
 C c Asd 
 
ipfy AParaphrasr Lib.i. 
 
 And then my Song (hall glory in Thy Praife, 
 And I'll both honour, and admire Thee all my dayes. 
 
 V. 
 
 Now that Fm Old, my God, and feeble grown, 
 And both my eyes, and ftrength together fail, 
 Leave me not now, by them to be o'rethrown, 
 Who with continuall plots my life affail, 
 And or to dye relolve, or to prevail ! 
 Who fay, cc We'll fight, o'recome, purfue, and take, 
 "And him, whom God ha's left,Our Slave 6c Captive make, 
 
 VI. 
 
 Thou, who all this, and more then this doft hear, 
 Make hafte to help me, and no longer ftay ! 
 Let thofe, who thought Thee farr off, find Thee near, 
 When in confuming flames they melt away, 
 And to Eternal Wrath are made a prey ! 
 Let fhame, Reproach and Scorn their Portion be, 
 And all the fnares their malice had defign'd for me ! 
 
 VII. 
 
 Then to Thy Name Til make new Songs of Praife, 
 By this experience taught to doubt no more j 
 Recount of Thy great Wonders all my dayes, 
 And of Thy Righteous Mercies, boundleis (lore, 
 Which I fufficiently can ne'r adore: 
 By Thine own Power, Til of Thy Power rehearle, 
 And make Thy Righteoufhefs the fubjectof my Verie. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Thou from my Infancy haft made me fee 
 Thy Wond'rous Works, which I abroad have mown. 
 Now that f m Old continue them to me, 
 That I may perfect what I have begun, 
 And tell Pofterity,what Thou haft done ! 
 How great Thy Bounty is, How great Thy Love, fabove! 
 Like whom there's none below, like whom there's none 
 
 I X. Great, 
 
Lib.i. upon the LXXI Psalm, \p$ 
 
 IX. 
 
 Great, and fore troubles, for Thy hand I've born h 
 But know Thou wilt reftore ray joyes again : 
 And when from death Thou malt my Soul return, 
 Thy Comforts (hall exceed my prefent pain, 
 And on my Throne I mall be fixt again \ 
 Shall to my Harp of all Thy Favours ling, 
 Who art the Holy God, my Hope, and Ifratfs King. 
 
 X. 
 
 The joy that*s in my heart, my mouth (hall fpeak, 
 And all my Life be one continu'd Song •, 
 My Soul, whofe wringing fetters Thou did'ft break. 
 Shall find, or make its paifageby my tongue, 
 And think no time for Thy great praife too long ; 
 For Thou to th'Earth my Enemies halt thrown, 
 And iivThy Wrath on them, Thy Care of me made known. 
 
 C c i Pfalm 
 
196 AParaphrase Lib.i. 
 
 Pfalm LXXII. 
 Dens judicium tunm Regi 9 &c* 
 
 I 
 
 A Pfalm for ^~>iReat God, Thy Judgements to Our Soveraign give, 
 Solomon. I -jAnd kt His Throne like Thine abide ! 
 
 May the Young Prince before Thee Jive, 
 And on His Enemies necks in Triumph ride ! 
 
 Put on His head Thy Righteous Crown, 
 And to His Fathers glorys add Thy own ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Then (ball He judge the People, and difpenfe 
 That Juftice, which He has receiv'd*, 
 To Him the Poor fhall look, and thence 
 
 Have both their naileries pitty'd, and relieved > 
 The Needys CaufeHe (hall maintain, 
 
 And on their Enemies turn their wrongs again ! 
 
 III. 
 
 So (hall the barren Gifts with ihouts refound, 
 And all the little Hills rejoyce •, 
 The Valleys from the lower ground, 
 
 Shall thence receive the Image of the Voice j 
 Sweet Peace on every Hill (hall raign. 
 
 And Jufiice once more guide the humble Plain. 
 
 IV. 
 
 "Whilit time can meafure it, His Rule fhall latf, 
 And when even that fhall be no mores 
 When Time it felf expirM is caft 
 
 WW Urn, that had all duft but his before, 
 No Ages left to count it by, 
 
 It (hall bemeafur'dby Eternity. 
 
 V And 
 
Lib.i. upon the LXXII Psalm. 197 
 
 V. 
 
 And as foft rains on the mow'd grate come down. 
 
 And give the Meads a fecond Spring ^ 
 
 As fhow'rs are to a Land new (own, 
 Which (well the Seed, and help it forth to bring, 
 
 Making the Fields all frefh and gay, 
 Such (hall his Gover'ment do, but more than they. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Peace, and Her fruits fhall profper in His dayes, 
 
 And under His Aufpicious Raign, 
 
 The Palm rhall rlourifh, andtheBayes, 
 And Juft ice to the Earth return'd again, 
 
 To Heav'n no more be forc't to go, 
 But with Him keep Her Reildence below. 
 
 VII. 
 
 His far ftretch'd fway Nature alone can bound. 
 
 Which (hall from Sea to Sea extend , 
 
 As far as there is any ground, 
 And only where the World rinds her's, have end : 
 
 Thtnupto Heav'n His Fame fhall fly, 
 And fill the Mighty Circle of the Sky. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Black Etbhpia at His Feet (hall bow, 
 
 Her neck, for Him to tread upon, 
 
 Honour'd enough, if thus He (how. 
 Acceptance of the Footftool for His Throne \ 
 
 Down in the duft His Foes fhall lye, 
 With heads more low, than once their thoughts were highv. 
 
 IX. 
 
 The Weftern Continent and fartheft Ifles, 
 
 And both the Indies gifts fhall bring, 
 
 To Him they fnali prefent the fpoyles 
 Of Sea and Land, as Univerfal King 5 o 
 
 Cc 3 All 
 
pg A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 All Kings before Him {hall bow down, 
 And do for Theirs, Juft Homage to HiS Crown. 
 
 X. 
 
 Kingdoms Oppreft, mall His Protection crave, 
 And Needy States unto Him fue : 
 Th'Oppreft He with His Arms mall fave, 
 
 And with the Needy His Old League renew : 
 Redeem their Slaves, defend their Right, 
 
 And {hew their blood, was precious in His fight b 
 
 XL 
 
 Thus mall He live and reign, and thus receive 
 The Tributes which to Him are paid j> 
 Some Myrrh, fome Frankincenfe {hall give, 
 
 And Gold, which {hall like Stones be Common made : 
 And the due Service of each day 
 
 Shall be to praiie that King, for whom we pray. 
 
 XII. 
 
 Then {hall th'Earth produce her richeft ftore, 
 And Mountain tops be lately ploughed *, 
 Which, though they barren were before, 
 
 With Lihanus mall vye and {hout as loud : 
 Nor {hall the City rlourim lefc 
 
 Than Her parchfd Hills, but like the fields encreafe. 
 
 XI II. 
 
 And when to God he {hall refignHis breath, 
 Yet in His Name He mil {hall live : 
 Above the Pow'r of Grave, or Death, 
 
 And to Immortal Verfc a Subject give : 
 
 Which of His Happy Reign {hall fing, 
 
 And count that Land To, which ha's fuch a King ! 
 
 r XlV.Blef 
 
Lib.i. upon the LXXII Psalm. ipp 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Blefs Him, whofe Word thefe Miracles obey, 
 
 And who mud all thefe gifts beftow ! 
 
 To IfraeCs God, let /jf/Wpray, 
 That from His Spring fuch ftreams may ever flow ! 
 
 For ever blefs His Holy Name, 
 Nor bound with lefs than Heav'n His Mighty Fame ! 
 
 The Prayers of David the S o n of 
 fejfe are ended. 
 
 The end of the Second c Boo\ofTfalms. 
 
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 THIRD BOOK 
 
 PSA LM S. 
 
 PfalmLXXIII. 
 
 guam bonus iftadDeushk^ &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 IT is enough, nor will I more diftruft, j VCalm of 
 
 As I have done, the Almighty Love > Afaph* 
 
 I know Hee's kind, as well as Juft, 
 And by my felf this certain Truth can prove, 
 How crofs fo 'ere His Waves may go, 
 At Ieaft feem crofs to Us below, 
 Nor Him, nor Them have Ifrael or the Ju# found Co. 
 
 IL 
 
 But e're I learn' t this LefTon it was l©ng, 
 
 And many a weary Stage I went j 
 
 My Aiding feet were almoft gone, 
 And I at laft could hardly yield alTent : 
 
 Whilft with thefe narrow fteps of mine, 
 
 I thought to pace the wayes Divine, ( fhine. 
 
 Slippery asglafsthey were, though they with flowers did 
 
 III. 
 
 For when I faw the Wicked's Profperous State, 
 
 And thoufand Bleffings He enjoyes, 
 
 Maintained by that, which God do's hate, 
 In the Worlds glory, and its greateft noyie, 
 
 Dd Mv 
 
201 AParaphrase Lib.i. 
 
 My heart did at His honours rife, 
 And though I did the Beaft defpife, 
 In all his Trappings, on him look'd with envyous eyes.. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Lulty and ftrong he laughs at thofe weak bands, 
 
 Which death on all the World do's lay y 
 
 And when the reft of Mankind ftands 
 With fear appalfd he dares the evil day y 
 
 Troubles, which otherMortals fright, 
 
 He boldly challenges to fight, 
 And makes devouring plagues before him fcape by flight. 
 
 V. 
 
 Hence fprings his pride, with which the Violent 
 
 Adorns his neck, as with a Chain, 
 
 More for difgrace than Ornament, 
 And fuited to his garments bloody ftain h 
 
 Plump as the grape his face do's ftiine,. 
 
 With eyes more fparkling than his Wine, 
 And to vaft Wealth he do's unequal wifhes joyne- 
 
 VI 
 
 Difdainfully he looks on all below, 
 
 As worthy er of his fcorn, than fear *, 
 
 Him and themfelves He'll make them know, 
 And high as his proud minde his head do's bear , 
 
 But not content his mouth to fpend,, 
 
 Making it heard to the Worlds end, 
 He up on high to Heav'n his blafphemies do's fend. 
 
 VII. 
 
 This as the Righteous fee, and thence return 
 Their (everal Wayes to think upon, 
 In bitternefs of heart they mourn, 
 And the Lords Councels meafure by their own : 
 " How is it poflible, fay they, 
 " That Juftice thusprovok'd can rtay 
 "Her hands, and the known Criminal forbear to Hay? 
 
 VIII. Thefe 
 
Lib.y. upon the LXXIII Psalm. 203 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Thefe are the Men, yet being fo they thrive, 
 
 Grow rich and wealthy, dwell at eaie, 
 
 Drones of repute, itTi Worlds great hive, 
 And feed on the induftrous Bees increafe \ 
 
 Secure thy life from grief, and care, 
 
 Calm y, and fmooth their faces are, 
 And could you fee their hearts, no itorm came ever there, 
 
 IX. 
 
 In vain, my heart, to cleanfe Thee have I ftrove, 
 And guiltlefs hands have wafh'd in vain s 
 My Innocence nor can remove, 
 Nor tell how long I mull: endure my pain : 
 Then Fare well, helplefs Innocence, 
 With fuch a Friend I can difpence, 
 Who makes me furTer only with the greater fence. 
 
 X. 
 
 But hold, Fond Tongue, confider who do's hear, 
 And whom Thy babling do's offend , 
 A feed, who are th' Almighties Care, 
 And whom in love He do's afflictions fend : 
 Therefore to fearch the Point again, 
 And how I might the caufe maintain, 
 A-new to ftudy I refolv'd, but all in vain. 
 
 XL 
 
 In vain I try'd, for I ne're found it out, 
 Till to Thy Temple Lord I went •, 
 Though I fought for it round about, 
 Till thither come, I knew not what I meant : 
 There firft I under (rood their end, 
 And what was Thynethus to contend, 
 And poyfon'd (hafts of blefiings through their hearts to fen J. 
 
 Ddz XII. Surelv 
 
ao^ A Paraphrase Lib.i. 
 
 XII. 
 
 Surely for ruin they were fet on high, 
 As men condemn'd, in view of all j 
 And though the Scaffold touch the sky, 
 'Tis but that thence they may bee ftcn to fall: 
 Down they are fallen, fled away, 
 As Phantafms at the approach of day, 
 Like their own dreams, but more ridiculous are they. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 What a beaft was I then, Lord to repine I 
 
 A very fool to grieve my heart, 
 
 When all this while I have been Thine, 
 And though unknown fecurM my better part : 
 
 Thy Right hand has upholden me, 
 
 Thy Counfel fhall my convoy be 
 Unto that reft, which I can only have with Thee. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Thou art my Portion, and from Thee alone 
 
 My Peace, and Happinefs do flow > 
 
 In Heav'n befides Thee I have none, 
 And Heav'n it felf Thy Prefence Lord makes (b : 
 
 And could I hoard up endleis ftore 
 
 Of that the World as God adore, 
 Without thy fulnefs, I fhould empty be, and Poor* 
 
 XV. 
 
 Dry up then, when you pleafe, Ye fayling Springs, 
 
 Or fcek iome other to deceive, 
 
 Who reft on fuch unftable things, 
 With you can quench their flames, and on you lite ! 
 
 For I am only fick of love, 
 
 Nor can your ftreams my thirft remove, 
 For ftillmy fleftr and heajt pant for the ftreams above. 
 
 XVI. Coa* 
 
Lib.%. upon the LXXIIl Psalm. 205 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Confounded be all thofe, whofe (bttifh lufi 
 To fenfelefs Idols bowes them down ! 
 For when they moil upon them truft, 
 
 Then they molt farcly (hall be overthrown : 
 For my part, Til to God draw near, 
 Make Him, my hope, who is my Fear, 
 Happy I (hall hereafter be, contented here. 
 
 Dd$ 
 
 Pfalm 
 
zo6 A Paraphrase Lib.^ 
 
 Pfalm LXXIV. 
 Vt quid repulijli in finem^ &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 A Tfilm of £>hall We for ever then be caft off thus, 
 Afaph. ^ Aiid will Our God no more remember Us ? 
 
 Shall then His flock no longer be His Care, 
 But more His rage, than once His love they were ? 
 Forget not, Lord, Thy Purchace, and Thy Choyce, 
 
 Sion, which Thou haft made Thine own, 
 The Wonders Thou for Her, and Us haft done, 
 And let Our Prayers be heard amidft Our Enemies noyfe ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Arife, and to their great deftrudtion come, 
 Who to Thy Temple Gates have brought it home j 
 Thy Holy Place, and its Divine Recefs, 
 Inftead of ftopping, do's their rage encreafe : 
 Thither they break, and thence profanely bear 
 
 The Sacred Treafures of Thy Houfe, 
 It's VelTds fet apart from Common Uie, 
 Ai id on Thy Captive Altars their proud Trophy s rear. 
 
 III. 
 
 Our fad complaints Axes, and Hammars drown, 
 As if it were fome grove they would hew down : 
 And all i\\ Adornments of Thy Dwelling place, 
 They or to powder beat, or elfe deface : 
 And to compleat Our ruin, when no more 
 
 The Ax, or weary hand can do, 
 They lire into Thy Sandfuary throw, 
 And what Thou fo didft confederate, with tire devour. 
 
 I V. « Them, 
 
Lib.^. upon the LXXIV Psalm* 207 
 
 IV. 
 
 " Them, and their Seed, let Us deftroy, they fay, 
 
 u And in one ruin with their Temple lay ! 
 
 " What more accepted Flame to Heaven can rife, 
 
 "Than an whole Synagogue for Sacrifice ? 
 
 " And they (hall follow. This We fee, and hear ; 
 
 But have no Signes or Prophet more 
 To tell us when this Temped will be o're, 
 Or How long, what too long already, we muft bear, 
 
 How long, Dear God, (hall Our Proud Enemy 
 Not us alone, but Thy Great Power defy ? 
 Shall his vile mouth for ever thus defame, 
 Thy Sacred, and Unutterable Name ? 
 Or wilt Thou alwayes thus Thy hand recall, 
 
 That Hand where all Our fuccours lie,. 
 And only lift it from our fight on high ? 
 Let it return at length, and heavier on them fall ! 
 
 VI. 
 
 Thou heretofore haft made Thy Strength be known, 
 And Wonders, which none elfe could do, haft done •, 
 Dividing by th' Almighty Wand the Flood, 
 And mad'ft it truly a Red Sea with blood : 
 When there the Chamian King by Thy Right Hand, 
 
 That great Leviathan of the Main, 
 Sunk in the deep, which raft Him up again, 
 That what its glutted Hoft s had left, might feaft the land. 
 
 VII. 
 
 'Twas Thou, whomadYt the Rock in ftreames to flow, 
 And Floods ftand (till, to let Thy Ifrael go j 
 The day , and night with all its lamps are Thine, 
 Ligh'tfrom that Sun, which Thou madTt firft to fhine*, 
 
 By 
 
2o8 A Paraphrase Lib.^. 
 
 By Thee the bounds of the Round World are call, 
 
 Both where they fhall begin, and end, 
 Summer, and Winter on Thy Word attend, 
 All for Thy Pleafure made, and during it fhall laft. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Thou, who haft done all this to raiie Thy Name, 
 Guard it from thofe, whofe lips would blaft its Fame ! 
 Let not Thy mourning Dove become a prey 
 To Vulturs, but take wing, and fly away ! 
 Deliver her, and minde Thy ancient Care, 
 Thy Covenant with Our Fathers made, 
 For th' Enemy Our very Graves invade, 
 And where we thought to lie retirM, their Counfels are 1 
 
 IX. 
 
 Some an fwer to Our Prayers at length return, 
 Leait (hame confound Us, and we ever mourn ! 
 Arife, and Thine OwnCaufe Thy felf defend, 
 And let Thy Enemies Malice have an end ! 
 Forget them not, their blafphemies, and pride, 
 
 Now that their Sin for vengeance cryes > 
 For they their heads have raisM above the skies, 
 And Heav'n, with all its Thunders, to the Affault defyU 
 
 Pfalra 
 
1 
 
 Lib.%. upon the LXXV Psalm, 209 
 
 Pfalm LXXV. 
 
 Confitzbimur Tibi Deus &c 
 
 I. 
 
 LOrd We will praife Thee, and Our chearful Song A VCalm of 
 
 Shall of Thy mighty Name reherfc", Afaph, 
 
 For all the Wonders, which to it belong, v ' • 
 
 Are truly great, and Co (hall make Our verfe : 
 To it We'll fly, and reft us there, 
 Adore its Power, and beg its care, 
 And make it both the Subject of Our Song, and Prayer. 
 
 II. 
 
 " When the Time comes, fayes God, that I (hall call God, 
 
 " The World to Judgement, my Right hand 
 " Alike its Juftice (hall difpence to all, 
 " And none its equal fentence (hall withftand i 
 
 " It (hall reward, it (hall chaftife, 
 
 " Some lower caft, and make (bme rife, 
 "And as my Hand's impartial, (b (hall be my eyes. 
 
 III. 
 
 " The Earth (hall melt, and all that in it dwell 
 
 " To their rirlt nothing turn again i 
 cc By its own weight it long o're this had fell, 
 " But that its mighty Pillars I fuftain : 
 
 " Fond Man, then (aid I, what mean'ft Thou > ffo pfalmift 
 
 " No more in vain Juft Heaven purfue 
 " Too great to be oppos'd, to be gainfaid too true ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 " For (hame defift, and your weak plots give o 1 re 1 
 
 U They cannot take Heavn is fo High ! 
 " Againft your maker vilely fpeak no more, 
 " For though His Face you fee not, He (lands by : 
 
 E "His 
 
zio A Paraphrase Lib.y, 
 
 c; His breath it is whereby you fpeak, 
 <c He with one frown your pride can check, 
 " A gh you hold it ne'r fo itiif,bow down your neck. 
 
 V. 
 
 " The Sun, which every day the World furrounds, 
 
 ( " Father of all the Mines below, ) 
 cc And with a careful eye furveys his grounds, 
 " Cannot the Riches, which he makes, beliow : 
 cc Though he in purple Cet^ and rife, 
 Ci And rides in Triumph o're the skies, 
 " Can give nor wealth, nor honour to his Votaries. 
 
 VI. 
 
 " His God at will dipofes of his gold, 
 cc And all his honours gives away ; 
 " Whilfi his chief Work is only to behold, 
 w And brighteft thine on them, who fhaiehis prey : 
 u The Poor he rayfes to the Throne, 
 w And from it throws the Mighty down, 
 a Is Judge of all, and knows no pleafure, but His Own. 
 
 VII. 
 
 " For in His hand there is a dreadful Cup, 
 " Whole fparkling Wine is red with gore*, 
 
 cc 'Tis large, and rilTd with mixture to the top, 
 
 So full the a&ive liquor do's run o're } 
 " Of it all drink, and when ''tis done, 
 " The dreggs are for the Wicked wrung, 
 " But ne^r fhall quench their thirft, o . ever cool their tongue, 
 
 VIII. 
 
 But I to future ages will declare 
 
 The prailes of th' Eternall King •? 
 And lince Lb Wonderful His glories are, 
 Of none but Jacobs God the Praifes ting: 
 The Wicked down to Hell Hce'l throw, 
 The Righteous up to Heaven fhall grow, 
 And Heaven to his exalted head fhall feem hut low. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.%. upon the LXXyl Psalm. hi 
 
 PfalmLXXVI. 
 
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 I. 
 
 The True, the Only God in Judah reigns, A? film of 
 
 There is His Temple, there His Court, Afaph. 
 
 To Salem all the Tribes refort, 
 And learn to ling His Name in lofty (trains : 
 No place fuch tokens of His love do's bear, 
 His Chariot He has fet up there, 
 There broke the Arrows ,and there burnt the fhield & Spear. 
 
 IT. 
 
 Sion, more glorious than the Hills of Bey, 
 
 How excellent doft Thou appear ? 
 
 How full of Majefty, and Fear, 
 When from them the Befitgers fteal away ? 
 Away the valiant ran, but knew not why, 
 
 Till a dead ileep faid Death was nigh, 
 And chaining up their hands, fcarce left them Heels to fly. 
 
 III. 
 
 At Thy rebuke, O God, afleep they fell, 
 The Horfe and chariot were o're took, 
 The Rider ftopt at Thy Rebuke, 
 And bow'd adown to the All-conquering fpell : 
 Thou art indeed to be ador'd in fight, 
 ' Who thus canft arm Thy felf with light, 
 But,Lord,what are Thy Hands, if thus Thou kill'/t at fight ? 
 
 IV. 
 
 W T hen from above Thou mak'ft Thy voice be heard, 
 
 The Sea ftands ftill, and Earth do's (hake > 
 
 Even Heav'nit felf unloosed do's quake, 
 God thundred from above, and they all fear'd : 
 
 E 2 The 
 
zil A Paraphrase Lib.% m 
 
 The Clouds to make Him way afunder rent, 
 An hideous fhriekthe Mountains iuit, 
 When God, to judge the Meek by them in perfoa went. 
 
 V. 
 
 Nor do thefeonly, Lord, Thy Power declare, 
 But the fierce wrath of Wicked Man, 
 Which Thou doit punifh, or reftrain, 
 Whence to get praife amongft thy Wonders are : 
 Vow to the Lord, and what you vow fee pafd ! 
 For Vows are debts, when once they^are made, 
 And none deferves your praife like Him to whom you prai'd. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Adore Him, all ye lands, and tongues around, 
 
 And to Our God your praifes fing ! 
 
 To Him alone your preients bring, 
 And thus with fearfeek Him, whom W r ee have found ! 
 With God the greateit Kings cannot compare, 
 
 They Crowns but at His pleafure wear, 
 And when He Frowns, they and their Honours turn to air. 
 
 Pfal 
 
 m 
 
tik^. upon the LXX VII Psalm. x\^ 
 
 PfalmLXXVlL 
 
 Voce tnea ad Domixum , &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 IN my great trouble to the Lord I cried, A Ffalm of 
 
 I erf d aloud, And He was pkas'd to hear, Afaph, 
 
 And when the night His Face did hide, 
 With ltretch'd out hands I felt it, He was near : 
 I praf d, and was refolvM to pray, 
 Rifus'd all Comfort but my tears, 
 Who(e ilreames I thought my Feavour might allay, 
 And as they forc't my heart for pafTage, move His Ears, 
 
 II. 
 
 Sometimes in groans, fometimes in Words I prayed, 
 And fluent as my griefs my fbrrows fpake s 
 
 But iuddenly my fpeech was ftay'd,. 
 And interrupting iighs its order brake : 
 
 And then I could nor (peak, nor fleep, 
 
 Thou Lord didft hold my eyes, and tongue ^ 
 Only my mind its even frame did keep, ( nrong, 
 
 And with weak hands, and muttering lips became more 
 
 III. 
 
 Then of Thy Wonders did I meditate, 
 
 Our Fathers dayes, and what their age did fee \ 
 
 How Thou upheld'it the Tottering State, 
 And in their troubles mad'ft them truft in Thee : . 
 
 Frefh to my mind then came a Song, 
 
 Which heretofore I did reherfe, 
 An Anthem which had been forgotten long, - 
 Where my Soul with me joyn'd, and thus began the Verie, 
 
 IV, "And 
 
A Paraphrase hib.i 
 
 IV. 
 
 "And can it be that God will thus reject, 
 " Be always angry, and ne'r pleas'd again, 
 
 VerpiSc " W *^ ^ c ^ 1S $&& no more protedt, 
 
 " But let us ever, as this day, complain > 
 " Has He forgotten to be good, 
 " Or fhall HisPromife everceafe, 
 cc Who has His Pleafure, or His Power witMood, 
 w That where He (huts up Warr , He mould imprifon Peace > 
 
 V. 
 
 ct Hold Soul , I faid, 'tis Thy infirmity 
 Antiftropbe. cc Makes Thee thus judge of God, whofe Will (hall ftand 
 cc Immovable, as it is High, ( Hand ! 
 
 "Where Thou Thy wings fhould , ft guide, to his right 
 " Of that think with me, and His Power, 
 " The Wondrous Works which He has done, 
 " They fhall my talk and ftudy be each hour, 
 " To (hew Our children, what Our Fathers Us have fliown. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Thy Wayes, O God, are far above my fight, 
 
 And where Thou hid'it Thy felf in Heav'n, lie hid j 
 
 Ther's none like Thee fo full of might, 
 Whofe Power I tear, by what Thy hand once did : 
 
 When from above Thou mad' it it bare, 
 
 Ifrael, and Jofipbs Seed to lave, 
 When their Redemption did Thy ftrength declare, 
 And Egypt took the Chain to be her Captives Have. 
 
 VII. 
 
 The Waters faw Thee, and the Waters fled, 
 The Depths were troubled, and ran back for fear h 
 
 The Clouds raind Seas, Heav'n Darknefs fpread, 
 From whence there came a voyce, which rocks did tear > 
 
 TV Earth 
 
Lib.%. upon the LXXVIl Psalm. i\% 
 
 Trf Earth trembled, and the Mountains fhook, 
 Egypt it felf abhor'd the light, 
 Which from the flafhescame, and horror ilrook 
 More terrible, than when three days they felt their night. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Thou for Thy People didfr prepare the way, 
 And through thofe Floods a fafe retreat they have, 
 
 Which Thou Thy Glory to difplay, 
 Refolvd'ft ftiould after be proud Pharaohs grave > 
 
 Along they went, by Thy Command, 
 
 Who of the Sacred Flock took'ft Carei 
 Mofes and Aaron only fhew'd Thy Hand, ( were. 
 
 For the Great Shepherd Thou, and they Thy Heards-men 
 
 Pfalm 
 
ll6 AParaphrase Lib.\. 
 
 Pialm L X X V 1 1 1. 
 
 Attendite Topnlm meus^ &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 ISrael, Gods own Inheritance, draw near, 
 And wh a i He did to make Thee fo, now hear I 
 Of Ages long (nice part, and arntes I iing, 
 And to Thy dayes their ancient glories bring : 
 5 Acts, which withibund belief would never Hand, 
 But that all done by the Almighty Hand s 
 Our Fathers witnelsto their Truth did bear, 
 And what we hear with wonder, faw with fear. 
 They told them Us, that we might publifh down, 
 10 To Child rens Children, how His Power was known. 
 Such was His charge, that late Pofterity, 
 And Generations, which mould after be, 
 People as yet unborn, might know His Waves, 
 And what they learnt, their children teach His Prayfe. 
 jc That they in Him their Hope might alwayes place, 
 His ftatutes keep, and alwayes feek His Face : 
 Never forget His Works, but mil improve 
 His former Favours, and His prefent love : 
 That like their Fathers they rebel no more, 
 20 Unlefs they'd feel the Wrath their Fathers bore : 
 Bafe ttubbom Nation,who their God withflood, 
 Molt crofs to Him, who alwayes did them good ! 
 His Wrath this kindled nrit, then made it burn, 
 Trf enraged fire on Ephraims Tribe did turn. 
 25 Ephraim, ( which durftthe itouteft Foe affail, "p 
 And never of the certain conqueft fail, j* 
 
 But us"d to Come, and See, and fo Prevail, J 
 So terrible His bow, fo fure his hand, 
 Tn* unerring fhaft did death at will command ) 
 30 Ephraim turn'd back, butftrove in vain to flie, 
 By His own (hafts o'retook, did wounded lie, 
 Worthy thus lignally in Warr to fall, 
 Whom Peace with all Her Charms could ne'r recall .' 
 
 The 
 
Lib.$. upon the LXXVIII Psalm* uj 
 
 The law they brake, that Covenant which they took, • 
 
 And without cauie that, and their God forfook i 25 
 
 Forgot His Works and their own Worthy Stemm, 
 
 Their Fathers Truft, and what He did for them. 
 
 Marvellous things He did in Pharaohs land, 
 Zoan itill witnefs of His Plagues do's frand. 
 When Z/nze/faw His Wonders all about, 40 
 
 How He preferv'd them there, and brought them out. 
 When He no Common Road did make them keep, 
 But like His Own, their wayes were in the Deep. 
 The Deep amaz'd flood up , as they pafs'd o're, 
 Admir'd their fuddain rix'd-nefs, and new more : . 4$ 
 
 How in a moment they were rais'd fo high, 
 And fell not when they faw no ftorm was nigh. 
 By day a Cloud did their great journies hide, 
 At night a Sacred Flame theHoft did guide > 
 Before them pafs'd, and where their paflage lay, 5° 
 
 Not only fhew'd, but alfo made their Way. 
 Hard Rocks, as they went by, pierc'd through did groan. 
 That fire, which dri'd the Deep, did melt the (tone* 
 Out gufht new ftr.eam$,fo conftant, and fo f trong, 
 They made their Channels as they ran along. 55 
 
 Yet mil they finif d, and tempted Him the, more, 
 Lack'd meat, who only Water begg'd before. 
 Nor did they clofely think, but fpeak their Sins, 
 And with vile Mouth the Murmurer thus begins ', 
 " Can He give Bread too ? fure if He be God, 6© 
 
 cc That may as well as dreams obey His Rod : 
 " Let Him now ftrike more Rocks, and make them Bread, 
 " That we may hope Our Armies (hall be fed ! 
 " Nothing but Manna ? Can He flefh provide ? 
 " Here in the defert let His Power be trf d ! 65 
 
 £c And if He do's this, we'll diftruft no more, 
 "But all Our murm'rings, as we ought, give o're. 
 
 God heard them from above, and in a flame. 
 To fee, and be reveng'd upon them came. 
 Down came the fire, and like thatM ighty Power, * 
 
 Which gave Commiflion, did uncheckt devour : 
 
 Ff The 
 
218 A Paraphrase Lib.%. 
 
 The trembling Camp could not but fay Was juft, 
 And that no other flame could purge their luft. 
 Thus were they puninVd for their unbelief 
 «- Who only in a plague knew Fear, or Grief. 
 
 They would not trull: Him, though they all had ieen 
 How conftant to His Word, and them He' had been. 
 Though from the Clouds, He did their bread command, 
 And Heav'n did th' Office of a fruitful land i 
 gQ Whole fourty years, once a day, open flood, 
 And at their dores they gathered Angels food* 
 Made by an Angels hand for them to eat, 
 But mil they difcontented would have meat. 
 And Co they {hall— -A ftrong Eaft Wind did blow, 
 85 And o're the Eaft th' Allmighty Word did go : 
 They heard it ruftle, but without all fear, 
 And never, dreamt another plague was near. 
 It blew all night, and at morning along with the day, 
 Brought (hoales ofQuales, which round the Army lay. 
 90 The Murmurers (aw them, but yet (carce believ'd 
 The Miracle, and wiftvt they were deceiv'd j 
 They (aw them lie in heaps, the Camp around, 
 So thick they^feem'd a burthen to the ground : 
 Enough a greater Holt than theirs to feed, 
 ^5 Would but th' event like the beginning (peed. 
 But while the flefh was in their Mouths that God, 
 Who can of every Blefling make a Rod, 
 ScourgM them with this, and though they faw it not, 
 In drefling, Death was truly in the Pot. 
 2,00 And down their ltomachs with the Quales it went, 
 And thence unto the Heart its poyfonsfenti 
 So fwift, they found it was in vain to flie, 
 And Hill eat on that they might (boner die, 
 The Rebel Princes in that plague did fall, 
 20«j And God was Gracious not to ruin all. 
 
 Yet ftill they finn'd, and would not yet believe, , 
 And only, when He flew them thus, would grieve* . 
 Wherefore in vanity their years He (pent, 
 Waiting to fee, if thence they would repent > 
 
 For 
 
Lib.%. upon the LXXVUI Psalm, up 
 
 For when He flew them they ador'd His Waves, 1 10 
 
 And unto God their Rock gave all the praife > 
 
 Only to flatter Him, for frill their heart 
 
 Was only conftant from Him to depart : 
 
 Yet He forgave them, and deftroy'd them not, 
 
 And both His anger, and their Sins forgot. 1 1 5 
 
 He knew they were but flefh, a fuddain Wiad, 
 
 Which palTes by, and leaves no trace behind. 
 
 How did they tempt Him in the Wildernefs? 
 Many their plagues, their Sins were Numberlels. 
 When in ftraight bounds they would that God confine, 1 20 
 
 Whofe boundlefs Power beyond all bounds do's mine: 
 And meafuring by themfelves the Holy One, 
 Becaufe they faw no help, thought there was none. 
 How little did they mind His Mighty Hand, 
 Then conquering, when He only bid them (tend? 1 2$ 
 
 What ilgns in Pharaohs coalt He for them wrought, 
 And gave deliverance e're He (carce was fought ? 
 When with deep gore He ftain'd the Chryftal flood, 
 And Egypt could not drink, though thirft for blood > 
 Infinite (warms of flies did fill the air, 13® 
 
 Through whofe thick clouds the Sun could fcarce appear : 
 Armies of Frogs did the whole land invade : 
 And active lice of nimble duft were made : 
 Then martial Locuftscame, and bore away, 
 What the Hayl left untoucht, for their rich prey > *-3 5 
 
 For th' Hayl before had tome the fturdie Oak, 
 And what fcap'd that fell by the Thunders ftroak : 
 Cattle and Flocks fmote down together lay, 
 And fcattered limbs of Men ftre w'd every way : 
 No Common Thunder, 'twas the Prince of th' Air, *) 144 
 With all the powers of Hell were ralh'd there, Si 
 
 God let them loofe, and bid them nothing (pare : j 
 Murrain on beafts, Ulcers on men did rage, 
 An hand unfeen againft them did engage > 
 Darknefs upon their Palaces did reft, * *4$ 
 
 A too faint Emblem of that in their breaft. 
 
 Fi2 They 
 
%%q A Paraphrase Lib. 3, 
 
 They would not fee though God from Heaven came down, 
 And killing their Firft-bom ehofe Ijraeis for His Own. 
 Then like a Flock they were through Kadejh led, 
 
 \ko ^y Mofis hand, but God himftlf their Head : 
 
 Through Seas He lead them, which more fcar'd then they, 
 Rofe up in halt, and epen'd them a way : 
 But when gone oVe, they look'd upon the Main, 
 Pharaoh lay drown'd, their -way was Sea again. 
 
 555 Through thoufand dangers, thoufand Enemies pahy 
 To th' PromisM Canaan they were brought atlaft i 
 The Heathen conquer'd, He gave them their Land, 
 Houfes and Towns itood ready built to hand. 
 The Sacred lot did for each Tribe divide, 
 
 160 And what Gqd gave, was not by Man deny'd. 
 
 Yet here they linnM and did their God provoke r 
 And all His laws and their Own Covenants broke : 
 So hard it is to fix a Crooked bow, 
 And make that ftrait, which Nature made not fb. 
 
 165 High places now they feek, and fhadie Groves, 
 And to foul Idols profritute their loves, 
 This when God heard, and faw His laws abusM 
 By them, whom He fo tenderly had us'd, 
 He Ifrael hated, Sbilp did for fake, 
 
 170 And left that Ark, which made His Foes to quake j 
 Who with Triumphant layes did bring it home. 
 After it had fb often overcome. 
 'Tis taken, and the Captive People fall, 
 And onefmall fire gives troops a Funerall : 
 
 5 7 5 No Marriage Songs are heard in all the Coaft, 
 But Amorous Harps are in fhnll Trumpets loft : 
 And every Virgin may before fhe die, 
 Unfworn, bewayl her fad Virginitie > 
 Wives hear their husbands death without a groan, 
 
 j go And Preifts unmournM for die, now th' Ark is gone. 
 'Twas then God (like a Gyant rous'd from fleep, 
 Whom Wine beyond His hour did Pns'ner keep, 
 That fhouts and fights ) fell on and made theiri flie, 
 And on their backs ieveng\d their curious eye* 
 
 The 
 
Lib. y upon the LXXVIII Psalm. 2m 
 
 The Ark returns, but Sbilo now no more 185 
 
 Shall be its Refidence, as it was before j 
 
 Epbraim to Judab, Sbilo to Sion yields, 
 
 And to the Sacred Mount, their fruitful fields : 
 
 So God would ha ve't, who chofe Himlelf the Place, 
 
 Sion^ the Habitation of His Grace j j y 
 
 'Tis there He's known, there He His Temple made, 
 
 Whofe ground work ftable as the Worlds was laid ; 
 
 Davids defign, when from the Ewes with young, 
 
 By Him he was anointed to the Throne. 
 
 His Fathers flocks he carefully did keep, f p j 
 
 And therefore made Chief Heardsman of Gods fheep \ 
 
 Where all his time he fed them, withfuch Care, 
 
 They never were fo ftrong, nor ever lookt fo fair. 
 
 Pfatoi 
 
ill A Paraphrase Libq. 
 
 Pfalm LXXIX. 
 
 Dew wnzrunt gentes in , &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A PJalm of "I Ord fee the Miferies, which we undergo, 
 Afaph. I And how with us Thy Temple fuffers too ! 
 
 Thither at length the Enemy is come, 
 And Solyma on heaps has layed, 
 Sion is but one Mighty Tomb, 
 And the Worlds glory, now the fcorne of ail is made. 
 
 II 
 
 Thy murd'red Saints in trf reildsunburied lie, 
 
 A prey to beafts and fowl, which vengeance crie * j 
 Their blood before was round Jerus'lem fhed, 
 
 Increaft its brooks, and wait its ftones, 
 
 Yet death cannot fecure the dead, 
 But thofe that took their lives, again expole their bones. 
 
 III. 
 
 Living, or dead one fhame attends us all i 
 Nor with left rage Our neighbours on us fall s 
 Their mirth do's only by our pains increafe, 
 And fuch deep wounds their mercies give* 
 That death it felf we think were eafe, 
 And our (lain friends more happy count, than us who live. 
 
 IV. 
 
 When fhall Thy wrath and jealoufie expire, 
 QuencrTd by that blood, which now but feeds the fire ? 
 Lord on the heathen pour the tempeft down, 
 Whole nations, which ne'r pray to Thee, 
 Kingdoms, where yet Thy Name's unknown, 
 And let not what's their due, Thy femnts Portion be ! 
 
 V. And 
 
Lih.^. upon the LXXIX Psalm. lis 
 
 V. 
 
 And when their Sins to Thy remembrance come s 
 Let this be added to compleat the Sum, 
 That they have wafted Jacob, and Thy land ! 
 But let not Our iniquities, 
 Our former Sins new load Thy hand, 
 Left when to refcue us, to ruin Thou arife ! 
 
 VI. 
 
 Prevent us, Lord, for we are very low, 
 And let us now Thy ftrong Salvation know ! 
 Now fave us, for the glory of Thy Name, 
 
 And for its fake Our Sins blot out > 
 
 Upon Our foes return the fhame, ( doubt ! 
 
 That though in fcornthey ask, none may Thy pretence 
 
 VII. 
 
 Appear, OGod, and let us wit nefs be 
 
 They know, and fear Thy Name as well as we ! 
 
 Revenge the guiltlefi blood, which they have fhed, 
 
 And hear Our chains, how loud they cry i 
 
 Upon the living right the Dead, 
 And by Thine Armfeve thofe, who feniencM are tody, 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Reproach, which they defign d to caft on Thee, 
 And its increafe their juft reward fhall hc\ 
 And then Thy People, Lord, Thy facred FolJj, 
 
 Shall make the Plains with joy to ring^ . 
 
 The Lambs {hall all Thy A<fts be told, 
 And their Great Shepherds praife, bothlearn^ and ever Gng, 
 
 Pfalm 
 
224. AParaphrase Lib. £ 
 
 PfalmLXXX. 
 g)ui regis Ijrael int en de^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A Ffiim of /""^Reat Shepherd of the Hebrew Race, 
 
 Afaph. ff jWhofe numerous Flock all IJrael was, 
 
 For Thou dill guide them with Thy Hand, 
 They knew Thy Voyce and followed Thee, 
 Th' Invifible between the Cherubins did fee, 
 And thence receive th' Oraculous command j 
 Between the Cherubins again appear, 
 . And give Our chains Thine eye, and prayers Thine ear ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Shew us Thy Glory, Lord, once more. 
 As thou didit Ephraim heretofore '•> 
 When all the Tribes from bondage led, 
 Thy Prefence chas'd their Enemies, 
 For if again Thou make Thy Ark, and ftrength to rife. 
 Ours (hall flie too, as .theirs before Thee fled : 
 Verficulus* Turn us again and caufe Thy Face to fhine, 
 
 We fhall be fav'd, and all the praife be Thine ! 
 
 TIL 
 
 How long wilt Thou be angry thus 
 Both with Our Prayers, Great God, and us ? 
 Thou know'it how tears have been our food, 
 The mixture of Our meat and drink, 
 Whilit Our infcl ting Neighbours laugh infcorn, to think 
 That when thole ftreams fhall ceafe, the next is blood ; 
 VgrficHluf. But turn us, Lord, and caufe Thy Face to mine, 
 
 We fhall be fav'd and all the praife be Thine ! 
 
 IV. A 
 
Lib.%. upon the LXXX Psalm. 22$ 
 
 IV. 
 
 A Vine God into Canaan brought, 
 
 And having thrown the Heathen out, 
 
 A proper foyi did tor it find •, 
 
 From Mgyft He the plant did bring, 
 Where it was bruis'd, and torn when it began to fpring, 
 By men trod down, and broken by the Wind : 
 But when it could not there fecurely ftand, 
 In Canaan it took.root, and rilfd the JLand. 
 
 V. 
 
 The Sun-burnt Hills it cloath'd around, 
 
 Their heads were with it cool'd, and cro wnd > 
 
 Above the Hills its branch did rife, 
 
 And vy'd with talleit Cedars there, 
 As gay it look't, and full as high its top did bear, 
 
 And its rich clutters touchTd the neighbouring Skies : 
 With one it laid hold of the Weftern Strand, 
 And touch't the River with its other hand* 
 
 VI. 
 
 But why haft Thou her hedge broke down ? 
 And her enclofures open thrown h 
 So that the ftranger who rides by, 
 Though nothing there he ha's to do, 
 Comes rudely in, and tears both fruit, and branches too ? 
 Thither the Wild Bore from the Wood do's fly, 
 And after bids his fellow beafts to hafte, 
 To'a Vineyard, which they may more fafely wafte. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Return, O God, and on us mine, 
 From Heav'n look down, and lee Thy Vine ! 
 This Vineyard, which Thy right handmade, 
 By thus tranfplanting fair, and (trong, 
 And under which it fpred, and flourifrft ha's thus long, 
 For if Thou frown 'twill be to th' Common laid : 
 
 Gg 'Tis 
 
n6 AParafhrasr Lib.\* 
 
 Tis burn't already, but may yet bear fruit, 
 
 If though the branch be gone, Thou Ipare the root. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 May Thy right hand prefer ve Our King/ 
 
 And to an end His troubles bring / 
 
 Let Him again be great, and ftrong / 
 
 As by Thy help He was before. 
 
 And then nor He, nor we fhall ever leave Thee mo* e, 
 
 But freely joyn in one Eternal Song ! 
 
 r Turn us, O Lord, and caufe Thy Pace to (bine, 
 
 Verficulut. We ^ be fiy ^ and aU the praife be Thine * 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.^ upon the LXXXI Psalm, iij 
 
 T 
 
 PfalmLXXXI. 
 Exult ate Deo Adjntoru 
 
 I. 
 
 O God our ftrength let Jjfr#?/fing, a PJilm tf 
 
 Triumphant Songs to Our Vi&orious King • Afaph. 
 
 Awake the Harp, the Pfaltery, and Flute, 
 And fill the Air, with an harmonious noife, 
 Call in thje Sackbutt, Cornet, and the Lute, 
 And as He raised His hand for you, t'Him lift your voice / 
 
 II. 
 
 In the New Moon the Trumpets blow, 
 His antient Law makes it your duty Now > 
 When He at firft ordain'd this folemn day, 
 And bid Our Fathers keep the Pompous Feaft >' 
 IJrael, and Judab did His word obey, 
 And thus His praifes duly fang, who gave them Red. 
 
 III. 
 
 'Twas then vthenlftael left that Land, 
 Whofe Language they could never underftand : 
 A fpeech as barbarous as its Nations were -, 
 " When from the weights and pots I fet them free 
 ic From cruel tasks, fayes God, no more to bear 
 u JEgyptian burdens, but my light ones, and ferve me. 
 
 IV. 
 
 u I faw their trouble, heard their Cry, 
 " And my quick Hand took Lightning from my eye »' 
 "From Heaven I thund'red, made my voice be heard, 
 " And there I prov'd, and there I Ifiael try'd i 
 a But whom at thund'ring Sinai Iftael fear'd, 
 u Iftael at Mmbah with raurmurings deny'd, 
 
 Gg 2 V.«¥et 
 
228 AParaphrase Lib.^ 
 
 v. 
 
 " Yet to my Law again give ear, 
 a Once more Tie publim it if Thou wilt hear / 
 cc No other God but Me, (halt Thou adore, 
 " For I alone am God, and none befide, 
 " I broke the Chains, which you in JEgypt bore, (wide. 
 a And now can fill your mouths, though op'ned ne're. fo 
 
 VI. 
 
 " But all in vain, they would not hear, 
 cc And though I bow'd mine down, denyM their Ear 5 
 * c So up I gave them to their loole defires, 
 " Their brutifh Lufts, and no deftrudtion fent, 
 cc No flames but what were kind'led by thofe fires, (ment. 
 <c That what they made their choice, might be their punifh- 
 
 VII. 
 
 " O had they heard Me ! and been wife, 
 cc Thofe Wayes to follow, which they did defptfe" j. 
 <c To Victory their Armies I have led, 
 " My Hand their Enemies fhould have o'rethrown, 
 " And ferc't to yield their necks, but on their head 
 u Had put a never fading and Eternal Crown. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 " Plenty and Peace (hould all Their dayes 
 a Have fhew'd frefh Palms, and Rofes in their Wayes > 
 " And open'd all the Treafures of the Field * 
 M Even I my felf new Miracles would (how, 
 M Not water only the pierc'd Rock mould yield, 
 But living Honey from the Flinty Hive (hould flow. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.%. upon the LXXXII Psalm, up 
 
 Pfalm LXXXII. 
 Deus Jietit in Sjnagoga &* t 
 
 L 
 
 YOU Judges of the World, and Gods below, 4 Tfalm f 
 
 Who at your pleafure fentence all, Afaph. 
 
 And never think to whom that Power you owe, 
 By whofe Decree your felves muft (land or fall, 
 The Mighty God do's all your Counfels view, 
 And as you others judge, He judges you, 
 
 ir. 
 
 He fees how partially you fentence pais h 
 
 And will you alwayes wrong your truft ? 
 By looking through a falfe, and flattering glafs, 
 Acquit the Wicked, and condemn the Juft ? 
 In your own fcales thofe rife, and thefe fink low, 
 But whom their virtue weighs down,you keep Co.. 
 
 III. 
 
 Rather defend the Poor, and FatherleG, 
 And hearken to the Orphans cry, 
 Initead of helping, do not moreopprefe, 
 Leaft Godhimfelf beftow what you deny ! 
 Deliverance for the Needy Soul command j 
 And give them not your Ear alone, but hand V 
 
 IV. 
 
 But all in vain, their duty they'll not know, 
 Nor what they might will underftand h 
 Hating the day, in darknefs love to go, 
 And bring to ruine, with themfelves, their Land > 
 If its Foundations (hake, and totter thus, 
 No wonder if the World be ruinous. 
 
 Gg 3 V.Y'are 
 
rjo A Paraphrase Lib.%. 
 
 V. 
 
 Vare Gods, I faid, and Sons of the Moft High \ 
 
 His Children, who in Heav'n do*s reign j 
 Who therefore cloath'd you thus with Majefty, 
 That, among Men, you (hould His PowV maintain : 
 Y^are Gods, but muft to death your Scepters bow, 
 Nor of your Titles will the grave allow. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Immortall only is the God above, 
 
 That equall Judge, and glorious King •, 
 Like whom none is fo juft, or full of Love, 
 Who to the Barr (hall every iecret bring: 
 Arife, O God, The World to Judgement call, 
 No Judge fo fit as Thou, who'art Lord of AIL 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.%. upon the LXXXIII Psalm c 231 
 
 PfalmLXXXIII. 
 
 Dens quisjimilk erit tibi ? w taceas, &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 ENough, My God, Thou hafi been mil, j fjaf m f 
 
 Now give the Word, and raife Thy Voice > Afaph. 
 
 Their Ears, with the amazing Thunder fill, 
 Who think they have o'recome Thine with their noife I 
 See how they rife, and lift their heads on high, 
 
 Make tumults, and deep plots contrive, 
 To ruine thofe Thou hid'ft to fave alive, 
 And not Heavens feed alone, but Heav'n it (elf defie ! 
 
 II. 
 
 tt Come, fay they, on them let us fall, 
 
 " We are too eafie thus to fpare *, 
 " Let the whole Nation perifh, Name and all, 
 " And make Our purple with their blood more fair ? 
 The Motion all embrace, and to the Al-arm, 
 
 With one confent together come 
 Some Troops from Edom, and from Moab lome, 
 All whom or rapine can perfwade, or envy arm* 
 
 III. 
 
 With them are joyn'd the Ijhmaelites^ 
 
 Ammon^ and Jhnatec^ and Tyre, 
 The bold Ajfyrian in the Quarrell fights, 
 And executes the Treafons they confpire ; 
 But let them plot, and fight, and conquer'd fly, 
 
 By their own fears like Midian fall*. 
 Let Jabyr? s Fate, and Siferas wait them all, 
 And by a Womans hand, firll routed be, then dye \ 
 
 IV. Ac 
 
i^z A Paraphrase Lib.%. 
 
 IV. 
 
 At Kifons Brook the Army fell, 
 And with their (laughter ftain'd the Flood -, 
 The torrent did with crirrfon waters fwell, 
 And Earth's great body had true veins of blood : 
 Endors fat fields became more freih and gay, 
 
 And its crown'd head aloft did bear, 
 
 Proud of the Canaanitifk Spoils, and there, 
 
 In living Monuments of grace, th'Unburied lay. 
 
 V. 
 
 Oreb^ and 2<eb Thy hand did feel, 
 
 And could not fave their lives by flight h 
 
 Zzba^ and Salmana fcap'd not his fteel, 
 
 Who fought Thine, and whofe Battles Tfcou didft fight* 
 
 So let them fly, and fo be overthrown, 
 They who have faid, "Come let's oppreis 
 
 cc The Holy Seed, Our Fathers Lands poflefs, 
 
 cc And what from us they took,make once again our own* 
 
 VI. 
 
 - But like a wheel, Lord, turn them round, 
 And giddy made, lend them no ftay ! 
 Then with a whirlwind fnatch them from the ground, 
 And having, raised it, blow the duit away / 
 Make them a Wood dn fire, chac'd by the Wind, 
 
 Whofe Plame above the Hills do's rife, 
 Leaping from tree to tree, and grows as 't flies 
 Before purfuing (forms, which follow clofe behind. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Be Thou that Wind, and make them fear ! 
 Till every Face, with dread, and fhame '•> 
 Till they to expiate their fin draw near 
 And what before they curff, adore Thy Name ! 
 Thar when the World their change, or ruine fee, 
 
 ■It may look higher, and above, 
 Find the Firft Caufe,at whofe great Will they move, 
 And know One God rules Heav'a & Earth,3c Thou art He. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.%* upon the LXXXLV Psalm, z^j 
 
 T 
 
 PfalmLXXXIV- 
 gukm dikfta Tabernacnla tua, &c+ 
 
 I. 
 
 triumphant General of the Sacred Hoft, . «, - 
 Whom all the ftrength of Heav'n and Earth obey, fln J*^ c 
 
 Who haft a Thundering Legion in each Coaft, ~ & ' 
 
 And Mighty Armies lifted, and in pay * FT* 
 
 How fearfull art Thou in their head above, e " m \ 
 Yet in Thy Temple, Lordi how full of Love ? 
 
 II. 
 
 So lovely is Thy Temple, and fb fair, 
 So like Thy felf, that with defire I faint > 
 My heart and flefh cry out to fee Thee there, 
 And could bear any thing but this restraint ; 
 My Soul do's on its old Remembrance feed, 
 And new defires by my long abfence breed. 
 
 III. 
 
 The Sparrows there have found themlelves a neft, 
 And there their untun'd notes the Swallows fing > 
 A place where undifturb'd they all may reft, 
 And have lome gift, which they to Thee may bring : 
 Their young ones, which they on Thy Altar.lay, 
 And may not I as happy be as they ? 
 
 IV. 
 
 Thrice happy Man, who in Thy Houfe refides / j 
 For He Thy glorious Name fliall ever praiie> 
 For whole neceffities my God provides ! 
 And is the Faithfull Guide of all his Wayes \ 
 Though through the Vale oiBaca he do's go, 
 My King, who guides his Way, will blefs it too.| 
 
 Hh V.That 
 
Z34- A Paraphrase Lih.\> 
 
 v. 
 
 That thirfry Vale, where fcorching drought do's reign, 
 Shall in New ftreams, and Rivers overflow, 
 Their tears fhall help to water the fad Plain, 
 And make the Mulberies morefruitfull grow : 
 See how in troops they march, till all at length 
 To Sion come, and there renew their ftrength ' 
 
 Vt 
 
 Triumphant Generall of the Sacred Hoft, 
 Verfki* Whom all the Po w'rs of Heav'n , and Earth obey. 
 
 Who halt a Thund'ring Legion in each CuahS 
 And mighty Armies lifted, and in pay, 
 Let not the noife of War io fill Thine Ear, 
 But that Thy Love through it my Prayers may hear ! 
 
 VII. 
 
 Great God of Battles, Thou who art my Shield, 
 JacoVs ftrong God, on Thy Anointed fhine ! 
 If Thou encamp'ft, I'me fure to gain the field, 
 And overcome, becaufe the Vidfry's Thine : 
 I long to fee Thy Glory as before, 
 And by this Abfence learn to prize it more. 
 
 VI 1 1. 
 
 For one day in Thy Temple to attend, 
 
 Before an age of Pleafure I preferr \ 
 
 And might I in that Place my Life but fpend, 
 
 The meaneft Office is advancement there : 
 
 There mould I count I had more honour won, 
 
 Charg'd with a Dore, than hereto wear a Crown, 
 
 IX. 
 
 My God would there upon His Servant (hine, 
 And when that Sun is or too hot, or bright, 
 Become a fhield againft the rayes Divine, 
 And on Himfelf reflect the glorious light ; 
 
 Himfelf 
 
Libfy upon the LXXXIV Psalm. 235 
 
 Himfelf would interpofe, and be my Screen, 
 And nothing but Himfelf fhould come between. 
 
 X. 
 
 Grace Now, hereafter Glory will He give * 
 Nothing that's good, will He from His with-hold \ 
 He only looks they mould uprightly live, 
 And for returns expect a thoufand fold : 
 Lord, fince to Thine All for the Beft (hall be, 
 Not only give, but choofe what's fit for me ' 
 
 XI. 
 
 Triumphant General of the Sacred Hoft, 
 Whom all the Pow'rs of Heav'n, and Earth obey, 
 Who haft a Thund'ring Legion in each Coaft, 
 And Mighty Armies lifted, and in pay, 
 Bleft is that Man, who on Thy Pow'r do's truft. 
 Others may only conquer, but he muft. 
 
 Hhi Pfalm 
 
1)6 AParaphrase Lib,]. 
 
 A Tfaltn 
 
 A 
 
 Pfalm LXXXV. 
 Benedixijii Domine terram^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 T length, O God, Thy People are returned, 
 And now Thy Landenjoyes her Peace *, 
 for the Sons XX For emptinefi before (he mourn'd, 
 oj Corah. ^ n j t ^ at k er re ft produc'd. no rich encreafe : 
 Ifiael to His inheritance is Come, 
 And Jacob from Captivity brought home. 
 
 IT. 
 
 |Thou haft their fins forgiven, and paftby; 
 
 Thofe fins with which they fiain'd Thy Land, 
 And having hid them from Thine eye, 
 Unle'fs it were to help, with-held'ft Thy hand : 
 Thy wrath, whereby they were confuirfd before, 
 ChangM all to Love, ha's flames, but burns no more. 
 
 III. 
 
 Great God, who haft been fo propitious, 
 And made Thine anger thus to ceafe, 
 As Thou halt turn'd Thy fel£ turn us, 
 And let this Truce conclude in Happy Peace I 
 A Peace, which none may dare to violate, 
 And from this very day let it bear date ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 Will God bealwayes angry, ever chide 
 With them, who daily feek His Face ? 
 And though a while He turn afide, 
 
 Shall not one look revive us, and Our Race? 
 
 Shew us Thy Love, and Thy Salvation grant, 
 
 Our fulnefs fliall exceed Our former Want. 
 
 V. Atten- 
 
Lib.%. upon the LXXXV Psalm, x^j 
 
 V. 
 
 Attentively what God ihallfpeak Til hear, 
 
 And liilen what Hell pleale to fay s 
 
 'Tis juft His Saints incline their Ear, 
 To that which none can claim fo much as They : 
 Peace to His People, and His Saints He'll fpeak, 
 If they by Sin do not their Cov'nants break. 
 
 VI. 
 
 To fuch His help is nigh, and power's at hand. 
 
 And thofe, who fear Him, He will love : 
 
 His Glory mall o'reflow Our land, 
 And Truth and Mercy kils here, as above \ 
 Mercy and Truth never to part mail meet, 
 And Peace Her old friend Equity {hall greet, 
 
 VII. 
 
 Truth from the Earth fliall fpring ( the heft increafe 
 
 Our land e're hop'd for, or did yield ) 
 
 And as it grows up, Righteoufnels, 
 The fruit of Heav'n, (hall meet that of the Field h 
 Juftice, which has the Earth folong forfook, 
 Shall dwell, where me of late durlt hardly look, 
 
 VIII. 
 
 A thoufand Blefllngs God to thefe fhall joyn. 
 
 And only of All Goods the Beft •, 
 
 The generous Olive, and the Vine, 
 And recompence with fruit their former reft j 
 Righteoufnefs here (hall make her conftant ftay , 
 Nor go to Heav'n, till (he prepare Our Way. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
128 AParaphrase Lib. j. 
 
 Pfalm L XXXV I. 
 Inclina Domine aurem tudm, &c, 
 
 I. 
 
 A PCalm of /^\ Tll0U > who doft th ' Afflic3:ed hear > 
 
 D vid K^J From Heay1n ' ° ^ od > bow ^ own Tnine Eare • 
 
 ^-^ Never fuch need as Now, 
 
 Never was I fo low, 
 Or Thou, though never out of call, lefsnear! 
 
 II. 
 
 Preferve the Soul, which Thee adores, 
 And out that Soul unto Thee poures ! 
 Thy Servant trufts in Thee, 
 In vain let it not bee, 
 But let Thy Son, O God, break through thefe fhowers ! 
 
 III. 
 
 Be Merciful to Me, O Lord, 
 For I depend upon Thy Word i 
 To Thee alone I cry, 
 To Thee for help I fly, 
 Rejoyce Thy Servants Soul, and help afford ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 I know, OLord, that Thou art Good, 
 Thy Mercy is a plenteous Flood >• 
 The dead Thou mak'ft to live, 
 And finncrs doit forgive, 
 May not Thy Pow^r be by my Sin withflood ! 
 
 V. 
 
 But to that Prayer, O God, attend, 
 Which from unfeigned lips I fend ! 
 
 When 
 
Lib. 5. upon the LXXXVT Psalm. 2 $p 
 
 When troubles compafs mec, 
 Then will I call on Thee, 
 For Thou wilt to thofe troubles put an end. 
 
 VI. 
 
 I knew, Lord, Thou wilt anfwer Mee, 
 And that none elfe can do but Thee*, 
 Amongft the Gods there's none, 
 That one can truft upon, 
 Nor can their Works to Thine compared be! 
 
 VII. 
 
 Therefore to Thee all lands (hall come, 
 And to Thy glorious Name fall down \ 
 
 For Thou doft wondrous things, 
 
 And art above their Kings, 
 Art God alone, and all muft waite thy doom. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Teach me the way, where I fhould go, 
 The Way of Truth unto me fhow / 
 
 To that unite my heart, 
 
 That it may never (tart 
 From Thee, Lord, as 'tis wont with me to do ! 
 
 IX. 
 
 Then will I praifes to Thee fing, 
 And to Thee all my fervice bring y 
 Thy Word for ever more, 
 Shall full fupply new ftore, 
 Nor will I ever end, when I begin, 
 
 X 
 
 Thy Mercy to me, Lord, is great, 
 For me from Hell it free has (et » 
 That Hell, which lies fo low, 
 Where I did haft to go, 
 And didft not Thou reftrain me (hould do yet, 
 
 XL The 
 
2^o A Paraphrase Lih.%. 
 
 XL 
 
 The Proud Q God againfi me rife, 
 And I have many Enemies \ 
 
 But be not Thoumy Foe, 
 
 I fear not what they do, 
 Who never have fet Thee before their eyes / 
 
 XII. 
 
 For of Compafllon Thou art full, 
 Though I am heartlefs, Lord, and dull, 
 
 Gracious, Long-furFering 
 
 Whole Truth and Mercie Spring, 
 And with their Streams o're flow my very Soul. 
 
 XIII. 
 Dear God, at length unto me turn, 
 Look, how I for Thy abfence mourn ! 
 Srengthen Thy fervantLord, 
 According to Thy Word, 
 To Thy Hand-maid, and Thy Hand-maids Son return / 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Shew me fbme token of Thy love, 
 That fhame may in my Enmies move / 
 Make haft to fuccour me, 
 And comfort bring with Thee, 
 And of Thy fervant, thus, my God approve. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.], upon the LXXX VII Psalm, i^i 
 
 Pfalm LXXXVII. 
 
 Fundamenta ejm in montibus^ &c> 
 
 I. 
 
 TWas God himfelf the ground furvey'd, I A Pfalm for 
 
 CompafsM the Mountains round about, the Sons of 
 
 Among the Mountains chofe This out, Korah, 
 
 In Holy Sion His Foundation layM, 
 And for His fervice took the Place His Pleafute made. 
 
 II. 
 
 Glorious City, Sacred Place, 
 Where God Himfelf delights to be. 
 Glorious things are told of Thee, 
 How much Thou doftall Cities elfe furpafs, 
 And how the Worlds Great God,Thy Mighty Founder was, 
 
 III. 
 
 Philiitia to the Lord is known, 
 He reckons up, who was born there h 
 But none with Sion may compare, 
 Nor "Ethiopia, Tyre, nor Babylon, 
 For Sion God above all lov'd, and made His Own. 
 
 IV. 
 
 \ God has eftablifht Swwfaft, 
 
 'Himfelf is both Her Towers, and Wall*, 
 
 Such and fo ftrong as ne're mall fall, 
 Such and fo ftrong, as none (hall ever wafte, 
 Till He, who was their Builder, throw them cjown at laft. 
 
 Ii V. And 
 
%^% AParaphrase Lib.*}. 
 
 And* when the Grand Inqueft is made, 
 And God (hall write the Nations down, 
 Firft beginning with His Own, 
 * This Man was born at Sion^ 't (hall be faf d, 
 " And for a Bearing to His other Honours lafd* 
 
 VI. 
 
 " From Sion fprings His Pedigree, 
 " I both His Name and Office know, 
 cc What place He ferv'd me in below, 
 <c But by His Birth place He ihall numbred bee. 
 Where e're mine was, let me, O Lord, belong to Thee! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.%. upon the LXXXVIII Psalm, 24.3 
 
 Pfalm LXXXVIII. 
 
 I. 
 
 GReat God, whence my Salvation comes alone, A Pfalm of 
 
 And who that Great Salvation art Heman the 
 
 Thou day and night haft heard me groan, Ezrahite. 
 O, let Thine Ears at length aflfecl: Thine heart ! 
 To Thee I pray, let my Prayer come to Thee, 
 Or if that cannot reach fo high, ftoop Thou to me! 
 
 II. 
 
 Hear me, my God for I am wondrous low, 
 
 And to the grave my life draws nigh i 
 
 Loaded with cares my Soul do's go, 
 And in the Pit is readie down to lie : 
 Already I am numbred with the Dead, 
 Andthatfmallftrengthlhad ( Weaknefs at bcft ) isfkcL 
 
 III. 
 
 Free as the Dead, and like one long fince (lain, 
 
 Who is forgotten in the Grave, 
 
 And never (hall return again, 
 Or, but upon his Tomb, Memoriall have \ 
 Low in the Pit I'm lai'd down in the Deep, 
 And its rough waves my head do under water keep* 
 
 IV. 
 
 Far from me Thou haft put my Near eft Friend% . 
 
 Who asforiaken look on me* 
 
 Becaufe my God no fuccour fends, 
 They think me hated, or unknown to Thee % 
 
2*|4 A Paraphrase Lib.}. 
 
 As in a Peft-houfe quite given o're I'm laid, 
 And thofc, who pitty me, are of my Sores afraid. 
 
 V. 
 
 My eyes with teares o'recome yet look to Thee, 
 
 And for Thy help I daily cry ; 
 
 When at night I cannot fee, 
 With itretcht out armes I feel if Thou art nigh : 
 " Wilt Thou, (ay I to th'Dead Thy wonders {how, 
 "Let me but fee them, Lord, and Thou do'ft truly fo ! - 
 
 VI. 
 
 " Shall the Dead rile, and praife Thee, or Thy love, 
 
 " Be in the Land of Darknefs feen ? 
 
 " Shall in the Grave Thy Praife improve, 
 "Sung there, where illence has for ever been ? 
 <c Where dark oblivion uncontrolf d do's reign, 
 * l And difmal Horror riots o're the empty Plain i 
 
 VII. 
 
 And then again I new Petitions make, 
 And would prevent Thee with my Prayer \ 
 With Thee the Morning do's partake, 
 And with my tears inftead of dew looks fair : 
 But thou withdraw'/!: Thy fclfy and out of fight, 
 Hid'fl; in thick Clouds that Face, which gives me all my light, 
 
 VIII. 
 
 From my youth up I have Thy Terrors felt, 
 Ready with grief and pain to die h 
 Thy Wrath like fire my Soul do's melt, 
 And quite coniumes, what it mould purifie j 
 Or like a troubled Sea do's o're me roll, 
 And thus by feveral Deaths, or burns, or drowns my Soul. 
 
 I X. Far 
 
Lib,y upon the LXXXVTII Psalm. 14.$ 
 
 IX. 
 
 * 
 
 Far from me Thou haft put my Nearelt Friend, 
 
 Whom Thou at firft to me didtt give* 
 
 ( Through Death Our Friendship cannot end. 
 For in the fad Survivour it (hall live. ) 
 My Dear Acquaintance in the grave is laid, (made. 
 
 And Two, whom God made One, Death again Two has 
 
 P. M. O. C. 
 
 Ii5 
 
 Pfalm 
 
1^6 A Paraphrase Lib.%. 
 
 • PfalmLXXXIX. 
 
 Mfcricordias Domini in £temum 7 &c* 
 
 A ffiln of TN flowing Numbers I rcfolvc to fing 
 
 Ethan the I The Truth, and Mercies of th' Eternal King ; 
 
 Ezrabite. That late pofterity His love may know, 
 
 Both what He did, and what He'siworn to do > 
 5 That Faithfullnefs, which He has faid fhall ftand, 
 . Like Heaven firft made, and ftablifht by His hand » 
 When thus He (pake, " I have to David pall 
 tc My Word, and with an Oath have bound it fait, 
 " Saying, Thy feed I'll blefc, upon Thy Throne, 
 10 " And make its rule Eternal like my own. 
 
 Angels for this Thy Wonders muft declare, 
 Such praifes too fublime for Mortals are, 
 Who only can below admire Thy love, 
 Not joyn with, but attend the Quire above > 
 1 5 For who in Heav'n with Thee can be compared. 
 Whom all adore, as Thou by all art fear'd } 
 Or who among the mighty Sons ef Earth, 
 Is like to Thee, who gav'it their Mother Birth > 
 Before whofe Throne Bleft Saints, and Angels bow, 
 20 And caft thofe Crowns, which to Thy hand they owe. 
 Whofe great Commands the Heavenly Hoit obey, 
 And execute the charge, which Thou dolt lay. 
 So Juft, fo True, fo full of Ma jetty, 
 Lord, like Thy felt Thou art, and none like Thee. 
 25 The Sea when it to Heav'n in ftorms do's rife, 
 At Thy Rebuke in Humble Vallies lies. 
 Alunder Thou didft break the threatning Wave, 
 And in its bowels mad'ft Proud Fbaraobs grave. 
 The Heav'n with all its glorious Flames are Thine, 
 * And with reflection from Thine eye they (bine. 
 1 he Earth, and all the ftores the Earth containes, 
 Of rhy firft fulnefs are the Mighty Dreins. 
 
 Thou 
 
Lib. }, upon the LXXXIX Psalm, 247 
 
 Thou bid'ft it ftand unmovM above the Flood, 
 And faw'ft, what er'e Thy hand had done was good. 
 The North and South and all its coafts around, * * 
 
 Thou for Thy Pleafure rirft did'ft make, and bound. 
 7aboi\ and Hermon in Thy Name rejoyce, 
 And up to Thee the Vallies raife their Voice. 
 No Pow'r can Thy All-conqif ring Arm with-fiand, 
 So (trong is that, fo high is Thy Right Hand. A0 
 
 Juftice, and Faithfulnefi uphold Thy Throne, 
 Mercie and Truth's the Bafe it refts upon. 
 A thoufand Graces round about Thee flie, 
 And take new life and vigor from Thine eye. 
 Thrice happy land, whofe Sovereign Lord Thou art, 4 5 
 
 Who hear Thy Law, and to it yield their heart / 
 Who in Thy gracious Prefence ever dwell, 
 And all theftoriesof Thy Power can tell ! 
 Who have Thee for the fubjecS of their Verfe, 
 And every day can of Thy Truth reherfe ! 5° 
 
 Thine, Lord, who art their itrength, their Fort and Tower, 
 And on their heads the Anointing Oyl doft poure. 
 Thou art Our God, and we Thy Praife will ling, 
 Who in Thy ftead o*re us mad'it David King. 
 ( For thus His Will God to His Prophet told, 55 
 
 And in a Vifion made Him it behold, 
 Saying, ) " I fearcht the People all around, 
 And now to my Own Heart a Man have found ; 
 Vavid^ on whom the Burden fhall be laid, 
 el Of ruling Ifiael, and their King be made. do 
 
 " I have anointed him, with Him my Hand 
 <c Shall both to conquer be, and to command. 
 " I from Confpiracies his Crown will guard , 
 tc And all his gates (hill be moil furely barrM. 
 " Before His Face his Enemies fhall fall, 65 
 
 <c And unto me in vain for fuccour call. 
 " For down Til tread them, but his head will raife, 
 " And with my Truth and Love make plain His Waves. 
 * His Empire to the River (hall extend, 
 44 And only where the Earth finds hers, have end. 70 
 
 "All / 
 
24.8 A Paraphrase LiL £• 
 
 u All Lands, and Seas to him (hall tribute yield, 
 
 " And of his conquefts be the fruitful field. 
 
 " By Name of Father to Him I'll be known, 
 
 " Of God, and Rock, and he (hall be My Son. 
 ^- "My Firft-born, higher than the Kings of th* Earth, 
 
 " With Rule, and Subjects worthy of his Birth. 
 
 c< My Oath and Covenant (hall with him (land fail; 
 
 <6 And Tllthat Promife keep, which I have paft. 
 
 *' Nor (hall it be conhVd to him alone, 
 So ' * But his feed too (hall have their Fathers Throne. 
 
 ct Which as the daycs ofHeav'n (hall conftant be, 
 
 " And know no bounds but vaft Eternity. 
 
 " If they my Statutes, and my Lawsforfake, 
 
 <c And break the Covenant, which this day I make, 
 g- " Then I their Sins will vifit with a Rod, 
 
 " But never ceafe to be their King, and God. 
 
 c> My Mercie and my Truth will ne"re remove, 
 
 cc Nor take away, though I may hide, My love. 
 
 cc My Promife, and my Vow I'll never break, 
 90 ct Nor change the Word, which once my Mouth did (peak. 
 
 " For by my felfl once to David fwore, 
 
 " And by MyHolinefs confirmed once more. 
 
 " His feed and Throne like Heav'n (hall conftant be, 
 
 " And know no bounds but Vaft Eternity. 
 95 u Wjtnefs ye, Heav'ns, which in my fight remain, 
 
 " And you, bright itars, that in your Courfes reign, 
 c 'Both Sun and Moon againft Me Witne(s be, 
 cc If Time it felf endures fo long as He / 
 
 This Thou had: faid, O God, and thus haft (worn, 
 1 00 How comes it then His Kingdome is all torn ? 
 
 That Thou haft caft or^ and abhorM Thy King, 
 
 As if he never had anointed been ? 
 
 Made vofd Thy Cov'nant, and to th" 1 Earth flung down 
 
 ( Snatcht from His Royal Head ) the Sacred Crown ? 
 j 05 DeftroVd his Pallace, and his ramparts broke, 
 
 And on his neck and Sions lai'd the yoak > 
 
 No more that Sion^ which (he was of old, 
 
 Who in her hands the reins of th' Earth did hold \ 
 
 Queen 
 
Lib. y upon the LXXXIX Psalm, i^p 
 
 Queen of all Cities, Glory of the World, 
 
 But in one mine, with her Captives hurl'd ', no 
 
 Difmantled, fack'd, with rubbifh hid all o're, ' 
 
 And now their fcoru, whofe fear (he was before. 
 
 Our Sov'reign too Himfelf isforc'd to fly, 
 
 Defpoil'd of all the Robes of Majefty. 
 
 Whil'ft his ftrong Enemies, by Thee made (b, 115 
 
 Load him with fetters, and in Triumphs go. 
 
 In vain He conqueft from his Sword expects, 
 
 When God the threat'ned head from harm protects. 
 
 And when it fhould moft execution do, 
 
 Turns it on him, whofe hand did make thee blow. 12 o 
 
 And back he yields, and all his Glories ceafe, 
 
 And with Him, fall Profperity, and Peace. 
 
 I'th' mid'ft of *s dayes he do's untimely fall, 
 
 By an inglorious Death, and Funeral. 
 
 Shall it be ever thus, and will Thine eyes, ia< 
 
 Thofe Miseries, which they fee us bear, defpife ? 
 For ever fhall Thy Wrath devour like fire, 
 And in it's flames Thy ancient Love expire ? 
 Remember, Lord, the Number of our dayes, 
 How few they are to celebrate Thy Praife ! 150 
 
 Nor let it be in vain Thou life did'fi give, 
 But whil'ft we have it, let us truly Live ] 
 For no man long his ranfom'd head can fave 
 From death, or the inexorable grave : 
 Where then are all Thy former Mercies, Lord, 
 And Oaths, whereby Thou did'ft confirm Thy Word ? 
 Behold our wrongs, and that reproach we bear, 
 For making Thee Our Truft, Thy Word Our care ? 
 And what malignities Men on Thee throw, 
 Becaufe Mefltalfs Coming is fo flow ! 
 But We believe, and in His day rejoyce, 
 And whom We look for haften with our voice. 
 
 Amen, and Amen. 
 
 The End of the Third Book, of Tfalms. 
 
 K k THE 
 
 135 
 
251 
 
 THE 
 
 FOURTH BOOK 
 
 OF 
 
 PSALMS. 
 
 Pfalra XC 
 Domine Refugium faUus es 9 &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 LOrd, We have been Thy ancient Care, A Prayer of 
 
 And Thy experienc'd helps all times have known i Mofes the 
 Though Time it felf to Thee no Age do's bear, Man of God. 
 
 And in companion, would feem but Young : 
 For e'reThy Fertile Word, had made the Earth, 
 And the World travail'd with the Mountains birth. 
 Thy Days, Lord, with Thy Being firfi: begun, 
 
 With that which no Beginning had, 
 And when an end of all things (hall be made, 
 Only with that^ which has no end, (hall they be done, 
 
 K k 2 II. Such 
 
%$% A Paraphrase Lib. 4.. 
 
 IT. 
 
 Such is Thy Care, and fuch Thy Age, 
 WhiFit on Thy brcath,Poor Man hangs all his truft, 
 And foon ha's run his lait, and longeit ftage, 
 If whence Herofe Thoufcntence him to Duft : 
 That fond thing life, which he by years do's count, 
 ( Should to a Thoufand Suns the fiimm amount, 
 And all to come, ) to Thee as ycfterday, 
 
 When it is part and gone appears, 
 So looks the numerous train of coming years, 
 Or as a Watch, which on Sleeps Wings iia's flown away, 
 
 III. 
 
 In times fwift torrent down they roll, 
 Whofe ftream no (luces fpend, or banks can ftay > 
 In vain by Art, we would its courfe controll, 
 And flop that Flood, which (hall bear all away : 
 Like a fleet aiery dream, Our Age do's fly, 
 Which fprings from Fancy, and deludes the eye : 
 Like Flowers, which in the Morning gay and fine, 
 
 Rile with the Sun and mount their heads, 
 But Noon once pail, look down upon their Beds, 
 And tow'rd the Earth,their grave with him at night decline, 
 
 IV. 
 
 Our very pleafures hafte our end, 
 And with ten thoufand fnares befet us round •, 
 But when tothefe Thou dolt Thy Armies fend, 
 What fcarce was felt, now gives a Mortal Wound : 
 Sicknefsand pains, thedireetfe&sof Sin, 
 ( Which makes their way, ) at the wide breach rum in : 
 Our fccret fins before Thee open lye, 
 
 And this Juft pimiihment we bear, 
 The Tale of Life is done, e're we're aware, 
 And thofe Thy wrath confum'd, in Thy difpkafure dye. 
 
 V. Our 
 
Lib.^. upon the XC Psalm. 253 
 
 V. 
 
 Our Life t< > feventy years we count, 
 And that he's Old, who thither do's arrive j 
 But if through Strength itfhould to Fouricore mount, 
 Age is a Sicknefs, and 'tis Death to live : 
 The fwift wing'd years will foon be numbered o're, 
 And overtake their fellows gone before? 
 Which though we fee, and know, and each day hear, 
 
 As unconcerned we full look on, 
 Till in the Common ruine we fall down, 
 And rind too late Thy Wrath is equal to Our Fear. 
 
 VI. 
 
 May We at laft True Wifdom gain ! 
 And having feen how much of lite is fpent, 
 And how uncertain' s all that do's remain, 
 Be on Eternity and Heav'n intent ' 
 Return, O Lord, for we have born Thy hand, 
 And Now expecting the dread Sentence Hand / 
 Repent Thee then, Lo, how Thy Servants bow, 
 
 And to Thee all their (ins confefs, 
 Which more by tears than Words they would exprefs j 
 And fhall Thy Servants, Lord, repent, and wilt not Thou ? 
 
 VII. * > 
 
 For all that we have undergone, 
 Thofe years of our fewdayes in troubles pait, 
 Now make Thy Mercy and Thy Pow'r be known, 
 And let the Joy we wait for come at laft ! 
 Let it proportion to our forrows bear, 
 As conitant in its courfe,, as e're they were ! 
 Let us behold the beams of Love, and Grace, 
 Making our darkneib diiappear, 
 • And having made Our Heav'n with glory clear, 
 Their kmdeit Influence, Lord, beitow upon our Race ! 
 
 Kk-5 VIII. Let 
 
254 A Paraphrase Lib.fy 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Let us uninterrupted fee 
 On all Our wayes Thy choicer! bleflings {hine ! 
 Make thofe our guides to bring us up to Thee, 
 And with Thy Holy Flame our drofs refine / 
 To Thee we look and Heaven efteem Our Home, 
 But only through Thy Strength can thither comei 
 Thy Hand alone Our journeys muft dired, 
 
 Firll (hew, then lead us in the Way, 
 Uphold us that we never fall, or ftray, 
 And what Ours cannot, let Thy Hand for us effect. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.^. upontheXCI Psalm. 255 
 
 Pfalm XCI. 
 Qui habitat in Acl\ntorio. &c. 
 
 A FJalm 
 
 . 
 
 I. 
 
 HE, who do's with th* Almighty God refide, David. G 
 
 And in His fecret place abide, ^. wwa:] 
 
 Under thofe feathers fafe mall lye, ^ 
 
 With which he thither firft did flye, 
 Where trouble dares not come near the Moft High. 
 
 II. 
 
 Thither I'll fly, my God, Til thither come, 
 
 No other place (hall be my Home •, 
 
 Thy Pow'r I will my Bulwark call, 
 
 My Forti efs, and my Brazen Wall, 
 Which (hall unmov'd remain, though Heav'n (hould fall. 
 
 III. 
 
 Jhen fear not, Soul, for Thou preferv'd fhak be, 
 
 From all the Snares defign'd for Thee •, 
 
 The Plague that All-confuming ill, 
 
 Which do's the Air with Poyfons rill, 
 Near Thee (hall lofe its force, and ceafe to kill. 
 
 IV. 
 
 For as the Eagles wings protect her young, 
 
 Till they have pinnions of their own, 
 
 Under God's wings (halt Thou abide, 
 
 And either there fecurely hide, 
 Or from Thy Fears away upon them ride. 
 
 V. 
 
 His Truth (hall be Thy Battle- Ax, and ShieM, 
 Both to maintain, and get the field h 
 
 Neither 
 
l$6 A Paraphrase Lib.±. 
 
 Neither the Terrors of the Night, 
 Nor dangers of the Mid-day light, 
 Unfeen fhall touch, or feen (hall thee affright. 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Peftilence, which in thick darknefs walks, 
 
 And in the empty City (talks, 
 
 The Sword, which on whole Lands do's prey, 
 
 And to bear witnefe calls the day, 
 When Thou appear'ft, fhall turn another way. 
 
 VII. 
 
 On Thy left hand it {hall a thoufand finite, 
 
 And kill ten thoufand on Thy right -, 
 
 But nigher mall not come to Thee, 
 
 Only Thine eyes with joy fhall fee, 
 What the Rewards of all the wicked be. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Becaufe Thou to my Rock for help did'ft fly, 
 
 Above Thy fears, to the Moft High, 
 
 There fhall no evil Thee befall, 
 
 Near Thee fhall come no Plague at all, 
 Who art beyond their reach, ancUowdtft call. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Around in Bands His Angels fhall attend, 
 And guard Thee to Thy Journeys end '■» 
 To lead Theefome, and fome to ftrow 
 Thofe wayes with flowers, which others fhow, 
 
 And make the paths all fmooth, where Thou (halt go. 
 
 X. 
 
 Thou on the Bafilisks proud neck (halt tread, 
 The Lion fhall bow down his head j 
 With them fhall conquered Dragons meet, 
 And humbly flooping at Thy Feet, 
 
 Their Captive Chains unto each other greet. 
 
 X I. " To 
 
Lib.\. upon the XCII Psalm, ijj 
 
 XI. 
 
 « To Me, faies God, he look'd, and therefore I 
 
 " Will where he look'd fet him on high > 
 
 "I was the Object of his Love, 
 
 " For as his Prayers did upward move, 
 " 'Twas that they founded in my ears above. 
 
 XII. 
 
 " To Me in all his troubles fhall he cry, 
 
 " Fie anfwer him, and fpeedily : 
 
 Cl Will bring him out with fongs of praife, 
 
 u Give him long life, and happy daies, 
 " And after crovvH him with Eternal Bayes. 
 
 L 1 Pfal 
 
 m 
 
278 AParaphrase L\h.^ % 
 
 Pfalm XCII. 
 Bonum eji confiteri Dominum^ &c. 
 
 TT THat Saints in Heav'n and Angels do, 
 A Fjalrn for W%/ rie count my Dut y 5 and my Honour too : 
 the Saobatt- ^ ▼ v Morning and Night, Great God, to raife 
 d*r $vty Song as high as Thou haft fet Thy Praife > 
 
 Wkh all the Numbers Mufick can invent, 
 J^T^oice, and Harp, and Ten-ftring'd Inftrument, 
 That what from Thee rirft came, my back to Thee be feat, 
 
 II. 
 
 Thou haft defervM it, and my Song 
 Shall tell abroad, what Thy great hand ha's done , 
 
 And in Thy wondrous Works I will re Joyce, 
 And with the lofty fubjeci fill my voice \ 
 But Lord, what Verfe can with thy Power compare, 
 And (hew Thy thoughts, or what Thy Counfels are, 
 Which Fools defpife, and none can as they ought declare ? 
 
 III. 
 
 For when like Grafs the wicked fpring, . 
 And profper for a feafon in their tin, 
 
 'Tis that like Grafs they may be mown, 
 And dung that Field, which they before did crown j 
 Thou, who on high doft all their malice fee, 
 And that lefs mine, than they were foes to Thee, 
 Haft thus deiign'd, that their eternal fall fhould be. 
 
 IV. 
 
 But Thou on high (halt raife my head, 
 And on it make the Sacred Oyl be fhed * 
 
 And raife it as the Unicorn, 
 To guard his Empire, lifts his Sovereign Horn : 
 
 And 
 
Lib.^. upon the XCII Psalm. 279 
 
 And then upon my bloody Enemies 
 My ears (hall have their wi(h, and then my eyes. 
 Without regret their mifery (hall fee, and hear their cryes. 
 
 V. 
 
 Then like the Palm the Juft (hall grow, 
 And as if under weights, more beauteous fhowi 
 
 Like Cedars (hall be ever green, 
 The World's renown, as they the Woods have been s 
 His hand, which planted them, (hall make them thrive 
 The Sacred Earth new roots and Tap (hall give, 
 Both in His Courts to flourifh, and in HisHoufe to live,A 
 
 VI. 
 
 There (hall they live ; and have a Spring, 
 As conftant as the foil they're planted in i 
 
 Age (hall but render them more fair, 
 More gay and fruitful than in youth they were^ 
 That all the World Thy Power, O God, may know, 
 And to Thy Kingdom's Righteous Scepter bow, 
 W T ho mak'fl the Green Trea wither, and the Dry to grow. 
 
 L 1 z Pfalm 
 
280 AParaphrasb LibA { 
 
 Pfalm XGIII. 
 Dominus regnavit^ decorem^c. 
 
 I. 
 
 Submit your Crowns, O Kings, for God do's reign, 
 And ha's Himfelf put on His Crown * 
 Throw at His Feet your Scepters down, 
 And pardon by your quick fabmiffion gain 1 
 Unto your felves alcribe His Power no more, 
 But what He firft gave you, to him again reftore ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Girt round with Majefty the Lord do's reign, 
 His Kingdom is the World He made, 
 And onluch fare Foundations laid, 
 That like his Word it fhall unmov'd remain ; 
 'Tis there he rules, but Heav'n is fit alone 
 For our heft Wifhes/fmce He there ha's fet His Throne. 
 
 III. 
 
 There as He fits, the Floods would to Hkn rife, 
 Their threatning heads on high they bear > 
 But hopelefs ever to come near, 
 Roar, and fend up their clamours to the skyes s 
 Above He hears, and icorns them, ftilfc their noife, 
 And in their loudeft roaring, makes them hear His voice. 
 
 IV. 
 
 All things obey His Will, whofe Law's fo fare, 
 That all things by it firmly ltandj 
 From.N€jSiing that did firft command 
 Their Beings, and now makes them to endure : 
 Thy Power, O God, do's reach us every where, 
 Bin in Thy Temple do's Thy Holinefs appear. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
L\b.\* upon the X C I V Psalm, i 
 
 Pfalm XCIV. 
 Dem ultionum Dominus^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 Judge of the Univerfe, Great Lord of All, 
 Equal Difpofer of Rewards, and Punifliments, 
 Arife, and to Thy Barr, the Nations call, 
 Both for their Actions to be judg'd, and their intents ! 
 
 Arife, Great Judge, that by Thy Juft Decree, 
 As are the Proud Man's Merits, his Reward may be ! 
 
 II. 
 
 How long, my God, (hall He unpunilht go, 
 And then moft profper, when he molt do's Thee offend ? 
 
 Speaking hard things of what he do's not know, 
 And make to patient Heav'n his blafphemies afcend ? 
 
 To Heav'n he raifes his exalted Crown, 
 And under-foot Heaven's Holy feed the while treads down. 
 
 III. 
 
 A Widdow now, and then a Stranger flayes, 
 And with theirs drinks the blood of th'murd'red Fatherlefs v. 
 
 Ha's teveral baits to throw for feveral preys, 
 And feveral fnares, which he can unfufpe&ed drefs, 
 
 So clofq he faith, and from fulpition free, 
 That Jacob's God, though He flood by, mould never fee. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Canft thou be then fo bruufh and unwife, 
 Fond Man, to think He fees not, or not hears, 
 
 Who made at firft the light, and gave Thee r cyes, 
 And form'd for founds the fubtil windings of thy ears ? 
 
 Or can the World's juft Ruler partial be, 
 Or God Himfelf know nothing, who at firft taught thee ? 
 
 L 1 3 V. He 
 
 81 
 
282 A Paraphrase Lib.e^. 
 
 v. 
 
 He knows the Heart, and the mod fecret thought, 
 How vain are Our defires, Our hatred, love, and fears > 
 
 And happy Man, who ha's the skill been taught, 
 To know Himfelfjthough he withchaftening learn't,6c tears! 
 
 In trouble God will give him reft, and peace, 
 And by the wicked's fell his glory (hall increafe. 
 
 VI, 
 
 For the Wife God will not His choice forfake, 
 Nor His inheritance to flrangers ever leave \ 
 
 Juftice, and Right again the Chair fhall take, 
 And injured Innocence then clear'd its Crown receive : 
 
 Never to be oppreft, or fuffer more, 
 But have rewards above the wrongs it felt before. 
 
 VII. 
 
 " But whence, faid I, fhall come my prelent aid, 
 cc Or who againft my foes my Title will defend ? 
 
 Hadft not Thou, Lord, my help, and fhield been made, 
 The grave e're this had put to that, and me an end : 
 
 But when I flipt, Thy Mercies me fuftain'd, 
 And in the tumults of my thoughts Thy Comforts reign'd. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 " For can God, faid I, or the Holy One, 
 u Be joyn-'d with them, who ict up miichief by a Law ? 
 
 " Shall Juftice, and Oppreffion fhare the Throne > 
 " Or rapine to its party conquer'd virtue draw, 
 
 " Againft the Juft together to confpire, 
 
 u And doom the Innocent, and guilty to one fire ? 
 
 IX. 
 
 But God's my help ■■> the Rock whereto I fly, 
 My Fortrefs, and high Tower, where darts in vain are fent, 
 
 Their feathers cannot bear them up fo high, 
 But on the Carter they fhall turn in punifhment ; 
 
 And filling thus -in wrath he fo hurl'd down. 
 That wounded, every man fhall fay, the Dart's his Own. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Ub.+. upon the X C V Psalm, 283 
 
 Pfalm XCV. 
 
 Vemte exultemm Domino^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 COme! let us fing unto the Lord, 
 And all His deeds with thankfulnefs record ! 
 Unto Our God, Come, let us fing, 
 And to His Courts with fhouts Our Prefents bring ! 
 He is Our Rock to Him Our Verfe we'll raife, (Praife. 
 And He, who heard Our Prayers, mall now attend Our 
 
 II, 
 
 Great is Our God, and rules o're all, 
 Above all gods, who at His Foot/tool fall > 
 
 The Earth is His, and all its Deeps, 
 His Word the Hills on their Foundation keeps •, 
 He made the Sea, and bounded it with Sand, 
 And bid the heavy earth above the waters Hand. 
 
 HI. 
 
 Come ! let us worfhip and fall down, 
 And as we ought, Our Great Creator own ! 
 
 He is Our God, His Flock we are, 
 Th# Sheep of 's hand, the People of his Court ; 
 Look, how He calls, look, how He bends His ear. 
 Thus by inclining His, to fee if Ours will hear ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 To day let's hear, nor be like them, 
 Who in the defert did His Power contemn ! 
 
 That hardened there did God provoke, 
 And though He ftill kept His, their Covenant's broke ! 
 " 'Twas then, faies God, they prov'd and tempted me, 
 " When all around I had my Wonders made them fee. 
 
 V. "Forty 
 
zS^- -A Paraphrase Lib.^. 
 
 V. 
 
 " Forty years long their fins I bore , 
 " And from deftroying them as long forbore > 
 
 cc Fond People, faid I, thus to ftray, 
 " And when I {hew'd it, not to know my Way ! 
 cc Therefore in wrath I did againft them (wear, 
 u Siiace they defpis'd my Reft, they never mould come there. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lik\. upon the XCVL Psalm, ify 
 
 Pfalm XCVL 
 Cant ate Domino Canthumj&c. 
 
 I. 
 
 NEw Songs of Praife to the Almighty fing, 
 And to Him let the World their Offerings bring ! 
 Sing to Our God, and blefs His Holy Name, 
 From day to day His Adts declare, 
 How wondrous, and how great they are, 
 And let the Nations joyn to celebrate His Fame. 
 
 II. 
 
 Great is the Lord, and worthy of all Praife, 
 Above the Trophys we can to Him raife ! 
 No Pow'r like His we can adore, or fear, 
 
 For thole to whom the Gentiles bow, 
 
 Are Idols, and an empty (how, (there. 
 
 But He made Heaven, and all the Hofts, whkh ferve Hira 
 
 III. 
 
 Honour and Majefty attend His Throne, 
 Beauty, and Strength His Temple's built upon h 
 Therefore to Him alone ye People bow, 
 
 His Praiie with daily thanks renew, 
 
 Reftore to Him, what is His due, 
 And at His Altar pay, what there you firft did vow J 
 
 IV. 
 
 Let the Earth tremble, and its Kingdoms fear, 
 And all unto the Mighty Word give ear v 
 Among the Heathen fay, "that God do's reign^ 
 Who made the World, and bid it (land, 
 Till He fhall judge it, whofe Command 
 To its firft Nothing mail return it back again. 
 
 Mm V, Be 
 
iS6 AParaphrase Lib.q, 
 
 ■ i 
 V. 
 
 Be glad, O Heav'ns, and Thou O Earth rejoyce, 
 
 And to your Confer t take the Seas Deep Voice ! 
 
 Let the huge Sea in dancing billows rife, 
 
 And though confinM within its Shore, 
 
 By Sands which barr the Mighty Door, 
 
 Send up to HeaVn its fhouts, and force the yielding Skyes \ 
 
 VL 
 
 Let joyfull Songs be heard in every Plain, 
 And Hills refledt the Voices Face again ! 
 Then let the Trees, the Glories of the Wood, 
 In mutual Murmurs all confpire, 
 And joyn with Birds to fill the Quire, 
 As if like Men they Parts, and Mufick understood J 
 
 VII. 
 
 At their Own Numbers let them come away, 
 And where their God mall pafs, lead on the way \ 
 He comes ! But who His Prefence can abide, 
 That the Great Judge of all (hall be , 
 Yet who would not His Entrance fee, 
 When He with equal Juftice, (hall each caufe decide ? 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.%* upon the XCVII Psalm. %$y 
 
 PfalmXCVlL 
 Dominm regnavit^ exultet Terra^ &c* 
 
 THe Lord do's reign, let the whole Earth rejoyce, 
 The lfles be glad, and lift on high their voice ^ 
 Louder than Seas, which all around them roar, 
 And with their (houts fhake Heav'n, and rend the Shore \ 
 In the thick darkneis God His Glory fhrouds, 5, 
 
 And o"re His Brightnefs thro ws a veil of clouds : 
 Juftice and Righteoufnefs uphold His Throne, 
 And their firm Balis it do's reft upon. 
 In vain for Him their Toils His Enemies lay, 
 That Fire confumes them, which prepares His Way, * 9. 
 
 For on the Nations He His Lightning threw, 
 And o're the World the fwift-wing'd Terrour flew. 
 The Earth beheld it, and began to fear, 
 The Hills complain'd,that Heav'n approached too near \ 
 And melted with the heat, like Wax, flo w'd down, 1 5. 
 
 Whilft in the Plains ran ftreams of burning Stone. 
 At the Almighty Prefence they did flow, 
 Whofe breath the Fire His eye had made did blow. 
 The Heav'ns His Juftice, and rfis Power declare, 
 And to His Truth the Earth do's witnefs bear, 2& 
 
 May then all perifh, who to Idols bow, 
 And boaft of Gods, which they make only fo \ 
 WorfhipHim, all ye Gods, Angels fall down, 
 And at His Feet caft every One His Crown ! 
 Sion with joy (hall hear, Jmtfakm 25. 
 
 Shall fend her Daughters to improve the Theam > 
 For He above all Gods is rais'd fo high, 
 To Him we only by Our Praife can rly. 
 PraifeHim, ye Righteous, who advanc't above, 
 Would have you thus exprefs, and fend your Love ! %o* 
 
 Your Love upon Himfelr" alone beftow, 
 And Hatred only to what's evil (how. 
 
 Mm 2 So 
 
i$$ A Paraphrase Lib.%, 
 
 So with deliverance He fhall furely come, 
 And having, here prefer vM you, take you home. 
 
 35. To Heav'n, in whole large fields refined Light, 
 Sown for the Julr, looks againft Harveft white. 
 Harvefts, which as they reap, the Righteous ling, 
 And with Eternal fhoutings carry in j 
 Be glad, ye Righteous, and in God re Joyce, 
 
 40. for what His hands have done deferves your Voice 2 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.q.* upon the XCVIil Psalm. 289 
 
 Pfalm X C V 1 1 1. 
 Cantatt Domino Canthum tiovum^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 NEw Songs of Praife to the Almighty ling, f 
 
 Trmmphall Songs to our Vi&orious King : A V r 2 ' m ' 
 
 Whofc own right Hand ha's got Him Victory, 
 And for us mighty Wonders done, 
 Has mighty Eifmies overthrown, 
 And by its Holinefs has made the Wicked flye / 
 
 II. 
 
 The Lord ha's fav'd us, and His Power difplay'd. 
 His Righteoufnefs made all the World afraid > 
 Th'amazcd World ftood, and admir'd His hand. 
 
 And when poor Ifrael feem'd to be 
 
 Hopwkfs of ever getting free, 
 Wondred how He could then fuch miracles command. 
 
 III. 
 
 Praife Him, O World, and fear His Mighty Name, 
 From whence all that at which Thou wondreft came ! 
 Call all Thy forces up the Song to raife, 
 
 With Trumpets, ani with Harps rejoice, 
 
 The Sackbut, Clarion, and the voice, 
 And with fhrill Cornets up to Heav'n (end all Thy praife / 
 
 IV. 
 
 Let the Sea roar, and all that dwells therein 
 Joynin His praife, when thus the Shores begin / 
 Let the Floods too their parts in anfwering bear 3 
 Lift up their heads, and clap their hands. 
 Rife, and look o're their bounding fends, (there / 
 
 And fee what's done at Land, though they cannot come 
 
 Mm 3 V.Lct 
 
po A Paraphrase Lib.fy 
 
 n - . M 
 
 .-. God will ex n c an 
 - : ai u K3 EfisPrcfena cap a) 
 hall be i 
 > . : tnee tic, 
 
 lleathcai ,? 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.fa upon the X C I X Psalm, jpi 
 
 Pfalm XCIX. 
 Dominus regnavit^ irafcaniur. & c. 
 
 I. 
 
 TH E Lord do's reign, let the Earth fear, 
 And tremble, til] its old Foundations (hake. 1 
 For though Mount Sion He His Court do's rrr 
 His Empire reaches every where ', 
 Let the whole World before His Name fall low, 
 For it is Holy, and moft rais'd when they do fo / 
 
 II. 
 
 He Righteoufnefs and Truth do's love, 
 Is the Kings itrength, as they His glory are-, 
 Jacob H:s Judgements had, and was His Care; 
 
 Exalt our God, who reigns above, 
 The Holy God, and at His Fc bow, 
 
 For then you raife Him moft, when the 
 
 III. 
 Mofix, and Aaron^ and the Quire 
 Of Brieils, which alwayes in His Court at ten 
 Samuel, with thofe whofepraifes ( end, 
 
 And from His Altar have their fire, 
 In their diftrefc, when they did to Him fly, 
 He, who their trouoles faw, as freely heard 
 
 IV. 
 
 He heard them, and that very Flame, 
 Which to His Prefence did their Prayers conveigh. 
 iefs for His return prepar'd the w 
 Which through the Cloudy Pillar came \ 
 He anfwerM them, and as He heard forgave, 
 And though reveng'd yet did ; 
 
 V. 1 
 
2?£ ^Paraphrase Lib. 
 
 4 
 
 V. 
 
 Thus He of old their Faith did prove 
 And unfien by them, through the darknefs faw 
 How they obiervd His Word, and kept His Law : 
 
 fcxalt our God, who reigns above 
 
 irj " S ' v u C H °' y God ' aild in His Tem Ple bow 
 
 tor then you raife Him moft, whea there you fallmoftlow ! 
 
 Pikira 
 
Lib.^. upon the C Psalm. ip. 
 
 Pfalm C. 
 jubilate Deo omnk terra ! 
 
 I. 
 
 YO U, who throughout the World that Power adore, 
 Which rirft made it, and then made you, 
 Give to the Lord, what is His due, 
 And what Man ha's ufurpt, His Praife reftore ! 
 
 It. 
 'Tis God alone, who by His Word made All, 
 
 And by His Word that All fuftains > 
 
 And Nothing by the Wonder gains, 
 Except to fave and hear us when we call. 
 
 III. 
 
 We are His People, He Our Maker is, 
 
 Our Shcphcard He, and we His fheep, 
 
 Whom He fecure aVs ever keep, 
 And praife is all that He expe&s for this. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Approach His Courts, and enter them with praife 5 
 
 And of His Mighty Power rehearie ! 
 
 Make that the fubjed of your Verfe, 
 And up to Heav'n with it His Goodncis raife ! 
 
 V. 
 
 Who moft (halt blefs Him, let's together ftrive ! 
 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 
 His Truth for ever fhall endure, 
 What can we leis, when He fo much do's give ? 
 
 Nn Pfalm 
 
ip^ A Paraphrase Lib.^. 
 
 Pfalm CI. 
 Mtfericordiam & JqftitiaiM, &c. 
 
 t 
 
 A Flalm of T win of J&dgpment, and of mercy fing, 
 ^ ^ J The greateftPraifescf the greateft King, f bring. 
 
 And fince mine's nothing worth, His own unto Him 
 
 II. 
 'Twas He difcover'd to me rirft the Way, 
 I'll follow where He (hew'd the paflage lay j 
 O, come, and lead mq Lord, that I may never ftray ! 
 
 iit. 
 
 With my integrity I'll never part, 
 But be my Seed's as Thou my Pattern art, 
 And as Thy Way is perfect, fo mail be my Heart. 
 
 IV. 
 
 No wicked thing will I with pleafure fee, 
 My Innocent eyes no more (hall guilty be, 
 Or look fo low, fince they have once been rais'd to Thee. 
 
 I'll hate the work of him, who turns afide, 
 His way from life, and happinefs lyes wide, 
 And as he fhuns me, from him I my face will hide. 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Privy flanderer I will ore'throw, 
 Rejedt the Proud, nor with the fro ward go, ( low. 
 
 Their great heights, when they fall,fhall make them fink more 
 
 VII- 
 
Likfauponthe CI Psalm. 2pj 
 
 VII. 
 
 But he in mine mall be, as in Thy fight, 
 Whofe heart, and wayes Thy Laws have made upright, 
 To Thee a Servant, but my Friend and chief delight. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 He in my houfe (hall dwell, but never there 
 Shall the deceitful, or falfe Man appear > 
 Deftruction cannot be far of, when they are near. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Early I will deftroy them, and my hand 
 Shall cut them off, and guiltlefs make the Land, 
 And on their fpoils, Gods City fhall triumphing ftand / 
 
 N n 2 , Pfalm 
 
ip6 A Paraphrase Lib. ^ 
 
 Pfalm CI I. 
 Domine exandi orationem^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 The V foil- Tt |"Y dearefl God, let my Pray'r come to Thee, 
 untlil Pjai. I V 1 Nor at my iighes, and cry offended be ! 
 
 Dart through thefe pitchy clouds one ray Divine, 
 A Frayer of And make Thy glorious Face appear ^ 
 
 the sljkcicd If Thou art pleas M again to Dune, 
 
 vehinht U I will no longer fear, 
 
 overwhelmed But hope that He, who fees my Pain, will bend His ear. 
 and pourej 
 
 out his com- II- 
 
 plalnt before But hear me then, and anfwer (peedily 
 the Lord. '£ re ' r ' s t0 ° ^ at ^ ar, d I no more can cry / 
 
 For as dry wood do's in the fornace burn, 
 And vanifhes in fmoak avvay, 
 So all my itrength to fmoak do's turn, 
 And teels its own decay, 
 Whir It on my bones, and heart a fire unfeen do's prey- 
 
 III. 
 
 So fierce it rages, that I quite forget, 
 Through pain, and grief my very bread to eat > 
 The tears I fhed do but the flame encreafe, 
 f My bones, and fkfh become more dry s 
 • And all the while I held my peace, 
 Lefs burnt, then now I cry j 
 And grais the Sun ha's toucht, is not Co fcorch't as L 
 
 I V. 
 And asthefblitary Pelican, 
 And widdow'd Turtle for their mates complain i 
 
 Juft 
 
Lib.^. upon the CI I Psalm. ipy 
 
 Juft like the Owle, which do's in defarts dwell, 
 Hating, and hated of the light, 
 That to the Rocks her moans do's tell, 
 So fhun I every fight 
 By day, and weary with my mournfull cryes the night, 
 
 V. 
 
 Both night, and day I'm made the common (corn, 
 And thofe, who hate me, are againft me fworn i 
 Afhes and Tears have been my meat, and drink, 
 Whil'ft I continually did grieve, 
 Of Thy Juft wrath, and hand to think, 
 What mortal wounds they give, 
 Lifting me up a greater fall but to receive. 
 
 VI. 
 
 And as the fhaddow with the Sun declines, 
 And difappears, when that no longer mines ; 
 As with the Summer heat flowers pine away *, 
 So pafs my years e're well begun : 
 But an Eternal Now do's flay 
 On Thyne, ne're to be done, 
 When thoufand Ages mall their feveral Race have run, 
 
 VII. 
 
 The mis'riesof Thy Sion Thou haft feen, 
 How great Her Sorrows, what her Cares have been* 
 To lave Thy Sion,Lord, at length anfe ! 
 Her mighty Jubilee is come, 
 And now her very duft we prize, 
 Her rubbifh and Her lome, 
 And humbly begg Thou would'ft return her captives home ! 
 
 VIII. 
 
 So fhall the heathen fear Thy Holy Name, 
 
 And all their Kings Thy Kingdomes rule proclaim : 
 
 Nr : When 
 
2,p8 A Paraphrase Lib.±. 
 
 When thus again Thou Sion fhalt rebuild, 
 And in Thy glory there appear, 
 When all Her Courts with Vowes are fill'd, 
 . And Thou inclin'ft Thine Ear, 
 The Prayer of the Forfaken, and their groans to hear. 
 
 IX. 
 
 For the next age this ftory we'll record, 
 That they, as well as We, may praife the Lord, 
 Who from the height of Heav'n,His Throne,look'd down, 
 And did from thence the Earth behold, 
 Thence heard the dying Pris'ners gronc, 
 Saw Juftice chained with gold, 
 And favM both Her, and them, for bribes unjuftly fold. 
 
 He fav'd them, that they might His Power declare, 
 And tell in Sion, what his Praifes are j> 
 When all the Nations there (hall gathered be, 
 And to the Sacred Mount afcend \ 
 When the whole World His Power fhall fee , 
 And all its Kings contend, 
 Who (hall the lowed ftoop, or richeft prefents fend. 
 
 XI. 
 
 O might I live to fee that happy day, 
 And not be cut or] in the middle way 1 • 
 iC My God, what aie my yeais to Thee, faid l> 
 
 Ci Or what my age compared with Thine, 
 
 " If eVc my Noon is reach't I dye ? 
 " For Thee no Times conrine, 
 " Nor ages meafurceat Thy ©ayes, as hours do mine. 
 
 XII, 
 
 Of old Thou haft the Earth's Foundations laid, 
 An don Thy Word the Heavens all times have (hid i 
 
 Thy 
 
Lih.\> upon the C 1 1 Psalm. 2P9 
 
 Thy Word (hall make them both fall down again > 
 Be like a Garment thrown afide, 
 A Veil with fome great rent, or (lain •<> 
 And all their Ancient pride 
 Or (hall deftroy, or under Formes more glorious hide. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 But Thou the fame, which Thou haft al wayes been, 
 Shalt never end, as Thou did 'ft ncte begin i 
 When Time itielf (hall dye, and be no more *• 
 And as Thou art, O God, like Thee, 
 ( Excepting what Thou wert before ) 
 Thy Servants Seed fhall be, 
 And have for them, and theirs a Poft-Eternity. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
500 A Paraphrase Lib>$. 
 
 Pfalm C 1 1 1. 
 Bencdie anima tnea, Domino^ &£. 
 
 A Vfalm of Rife my g^ aR(1 tQ ^'Almighty King, 
 
 David. f\ Sprightly, and cheerful Hallelujahs ling ! 
 
 Verficulus. X A^, aU thy Forces u ^ thy Lq ^ tfay f^ 
 
 And every part compleatly fill, 
 Be Cure no Idle Paflion, Soul, be there, 
 But to thern joyn thy Judgement, Fancy, and thy Will ! 
 With every fence, and every power rejoice, 
 And add to all a well tunM voice j> 
 Verficulw. Thus rife, my Soul, and to th'Almighty King, 
 
 Sprightly, and cheerfull Hallelujahs ling ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Let thy Song be of what thy ielf ha's known, 
 And to the Worlds experience bring Thine own/ 
 Sing of His Name, who caft thy iins away, 
 
 And made them all forgotten be, 
 AncHhough His hand awhile upon thee lay, 
 'Twas only that i eftor'd thou mighfft His Bounty fee -■> 
 Who beyond Hope thy life from death did fave ? 
 
 ty hen all had doom'd it to the grave ', 
 And for thofe thorny cares, which girt it round, 
 Thy head with love,^nd tender mercies, crown'd. 
 
 III. 
 
 He Thy Old Age do^s with new favours blefi, 
 And as thy years His kindneffes increafe \ 
 Thy years have not the Symptomes of decay > 
 
 For all the Eagle (till grows young, 
 And moulting her old plumes again looks gay. 
 As youthfull aslheever was, and full as ftrong, 
 
 After 
 
Lth^ upon the C I 1 1 Psalm. 501 
 
 After her prey as Iuftily can fly, 
 
 As e're fhee did, and loir as high, 
 He like the Eagles do's Thy youth renew, 
 And gives Thee both its ttrength, and beauty too* 
 
 IV. 
 
 Thofe whom the Wicked with opprefiion grieve, 
 The Lord do's or avenge, or elfe relieve. 
 Thus unto Mofes He His Way made known, 
 
 And helplefs Ifiael this did fee, 
 When from the cruel chains, which kept them down, 
 But farr more cruel Matters, He rirft fet them free : 
 'Tis not a little thing His wrath will move, 
 
 Inflame His rage, or quench His love - y 
 Nor for Our Sins will He for everthide, 
 But feeks them rather, than his Face to hide. 
 
 V. 
 
 Such are His Mercies, when we mutt confefs 
 Our Sins might juftly make their number lefs, 
 And him a (harper fentence to have paft '■> 
 
 But when to be put farr from Thee, 
 Behind Thy back we fear'd, Lord, to be caft, 
 Our Sins were only fet, where we defervM to be : 
 And this alone for Thy dear Mercies fake, 
 
 Without the leaft claim we could make, 
 To which Our good no more proportion bcares, 
 Than the fmall point of Earth to Heaven's vaft Sphears* 
 
 VI. 
 
 Hcyv could it elfe be that they durtt appear, 
 Whofe guilt had added horror to their fear ? 
 Love made Him break the knott, and fet Our Sins 
 
 'As far from us, but from Him more, 
 Than the bright Eaft, where the young Sun begins 
 To take his Journy, is from the W T eft where he gives o're : 
 The moft indulgent Fathers tender Love 
 Is hate, compar'd to His above ■> 
 
 O o For 
 
5 oi A Paraphrase Lib. 4*. 
 
 For none fb well as He, who made, can fpare, 
 Who both knows whence we came, and what we are. 
 
 VI I. 
 
 From Earth Our mean Original we have, 
 A part of what muft be e're long Our grave : 
 Frail Mortal Man, whofe dayes are like the grafs, 
 
 A Short-liv'd flower,which ftands a while, 
 But like thcfe blufkring ftorms, that o're it pa£, 
 Flies with them, and is gon e're it began to fmile ; 
 But to Eternity Gods Love extends, 
 
 And all the bleflings which He fends, 
 To Childrens Children, and their Seed endure, 
 To them, who keep it, like His Covenant fure, 
 
 VIIL 
 
 Above the Heav'n God has prepared His Throne, 
 Hcav'n's but the Cloth of Mate He treads upon -, 
 There do's He rule, and Sovereign Laws difpence., 
 
 And Kingdoms where He pleafe, beftow, 
 Sceptirs, and Crowns are all received from thence, 
 And Kings to Him their Thrones, as well as Beings ow : 
 The Angels are his Minifters of State, 
 
 And to obferve His Pleafure wayt => 
 Blefs Him ye Angels, who in ftrength excell, 
 And what His Will is, you who do it, tell ! 
 
 IX. 
 
 You hear the Words, which from His Mouth do flow . 
 And having hear'd, (trait to perform them go, 
 As fwift, as you are ready at His call, 
 
 Praifc Him, who made your place (b high , 
 And let weak Mortals, who did lower fall, 
 To w horn you oft arc fent, on your wings upward fly ! 
 Praife Him His Works, 'tis all that you can do, 
 For Him, who did io much for you ! 
 Verficrinf* PraifeHim, my Soul, and to th 1 Almighty King, 
 Sprightly, and cheeifall Hallelujajis fing ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lik^. upon the CI V Psalm, ^ 
 
 Pfalm CIV. 
 Benedic anima mea Domino ^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A Rife, My Soul, and to th' Almighty King, f , 
 
 Sprightly, and cheerful Hallelujahs ling ! Vcrjmuui. 
 
 To God, who oVe all gods renown'd, 
 WithMajefty, and Glory crown'd, 
 Lets Thee His prayte refound ; 
 And though thy flame can never equal rile 
 Unto His height, accepts Thy Sacrifice ! 
 
 'Tis He, who with Eternal Light 
 Obfcures Himfeif, as we are hid m night '> 
 Who in the eleareft beams do's cover 
 A more fublime, and piercing ray, 
 Making Our Heav'n, and Common day, 
 B, t like a Curtain to be fhifted over ^ 
 Who, as He is, to Bleffed Souls is ken^ 
 In glories farr above the Sky, 
 Without the help of light, or ey, 
 The only meanes we fee Him by, 
 Whoalwayesfce Him with the Veil of Heav'n between. 
 
 IT. 
 
 The Waters are to God as ground, 
 Who in truir floods has His fo .nidations lay'd, 
 
 Has all their Ebbs, and Flowings ftjyM, 
 
 And in their depth a bottom found h 
 Waters are (olid, when He layes the Beams 
 
 Of'His Chambers in their iwifteltitreames , 
 He makes the Clouds His Chariots, Clouds which are 
 
 EnvyM by Angels wayting there, (bear. 
 
 1 hat when they go before, the C'ouds their God (horrid 
 Th"* ambitious Wmds afide their blurring lay, 
 And ftrew their downy Feathers in His way > 
 
 O o 2 The 
 
^©4- A Paraphrase Lib.^% 
 
 The Heav'nly Hoft before Him run, 
 Swift as the Air they tread upon \ 
 Flames of fire His way prepare, 
 So bright, and yet fo terrible His Servants are. 
 
 III. 
 
 Below the Center of the Mighty Deep, 
 Where undifturb'd the Aged Waters keep, 
 And in Eternal Calms ly faft afleep, 
 There God the Piles for this huge World has lay'd, 
 And on their firm importers bid it ftand 
 Immoveable, unmov'd ltrefts at His command, 
 And one Vaft Iiland of th' whole Earth is made. 
 
 The Sea about it hov'ringftood, 
 
 As though it knew not what to do, 
 Would have fome fhoare, yet would be wider too, 
 At laft became a Mantle to the World, 
 
 And o'reits fhoulders hurld, 
 Let its head ftand fecure above the Flood : 
 Secure it ftands by the Almighty Word, 
 By Him, who fpake it, the Eternal Lord : 
 
 The Deep is to its fervice held, 
 
 Both to enrich, and to defend, 
 And though lome times to Hills the ftrugling Billows Sweld , 
 Higher thanfteepeft Hills, to Heav'n their rage extend, 
 
 Let Himbutfpeak, away they fly, 
 
 Affrighted at his Thunders noyfe, 
 Roaring Seas hearken to a Louder voyce, 
 And hufht into a Calm with murmuring dy. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Thou gates, and barrs haft to the Ocean placed, 
 Thus far to go, and at this bound, 
 Since move it mull, again go round, 
 One foot beyond it cannot waft > 
 
 No 
 
I 
 
 L\h.\. upon the CIV Psalm. ^05* 
 
 No , though it feme, and the next wave 
 PrefsM forward by a greater force, 
 That by an inexhaufted fource, 
 Threatning to make the Earth one watry grave j 
 Let thoufands then on one another croud, 
 And of their Empire proud, 
 Exalt their Thrones above the Land, 
 When here Thy Hand 
 Moves a retreat, Hills into plains are toft, 
 And mounts of Seas in humble Valliesloft : 
 To their own place they go, their rage give o*re, 
 Andiiknt as they were before, 
 Only with trembling pay their Tribute to the fhore. 
 
 V, 
 
 The other fprings, thofe many veines 
 
 Which thou hail fcattred here, and there, 
 Over the Earth frefh nutriment prepare, 
 And in perpetual Circulation 
 
 Into the Sea their mighty Ciftern run, 
 
 Whence they refunded are again, 
 With newfupply 
 
 Alwayes to flow, and ne're be dry > 
 And in their itreames have ftore c f drink to give 
 
 The Beaits, which in the defart Live. 
 There the wild Ailes their hot thirft allay, 
 By them the Fowlesof Heav'n delighted ftay, 
 
 Making by every Rivers fide 
 
 Sure habitations for their young, 
 
 Where all the Quire intend their Song, 
 And tune their notes to th' bubling of the tyde : 
 The craggy rocks, which have not equal need, 
 
 Thou doit by other Conduits feed, 
 
 Rayning down (howers •, and with his dew 
 God do's the dry'd up moyfture of the Hills renew, 
 
 O05 vi. 
 
yo6 A Paraphrase Lih.^. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Be the whole Earth do's fatisfie, and food 
 For all that live do's from its bowels bring, 
 Cauiing the herbs to grow, and grafs to Spring, 
 ( Roots of all forts, woich have the Name of Good ) 
 And from this Common Parent gives us Life & Uvely-hood. 
 
 No (hort allowance, and what may fuffice 
 Barely to keep up Life, but great Varieties ', 
 Wine that makes glad the heart, and gives 
 New Spirits, and loll powers retrives i 
 The grape with which a nobler dy 
 Staines all our cares, and makes them undiflinguift ly •,. 
 
 And Oyl to make Our faces fhine, 
 And be without as gay, as we are fmooth within > 
 Bread, Wine, and Oyl without all meafure 
 l'\\ Earth brings from her never failing Trealure. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Such is Our Mother Earth, on whole fair brow 
 
 The taD, and long-liv'd Cedars grow, 
 Trees wl ich are full of Sap, whofe heads defy 
 
 The Beav'ns, and near-approaching sky : 
 Cedars the glory of all Woods, and King of Trees* 
 In whofe fair boughes the Eagle hasher nelr, 
 And undifturbM can reft, 
 
 None but the Sun her Airy Sees, 
 
 When in his purer flames (lie tryes 
 
 How her young brood can dare the Light, 
 And had they wmgs, in'his beames dire&ly ri(e-> 
 
 Able to blind anothers light, 
 
 And hazard more their plumes than eyes •, 
 The Stork a Story Lower takes her place, 
 
 And for an houfe the Firr-tree has. 
 Till an appointed Time 
 
 Recall her to fome other Clime h 
 
 Whilft underneath the craggy chft 
 
 A Refuge for the Goat is left ^ 
 
 And 
 
Lib.\. upon the CIV Psalm. 307 
 
 And weaker Conys by Gods Providence, 
 Have from ftrong rocks,more than their heels,afure defence. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 f th' Sky above the Power of God is feen, 
 Whether we view one (ingle light. 
 The Emprefs of the filent night, 
 Or thofe innumerable flames between, 
 Which Heaven in one continu'd flame unite * v 
 The Moon, whether a World, or Star, 
 Or only as we judge the other Luminaries are, 
 For times and feafons fet, to tell the day, 
 Now it mull fpring, now itmuft poit away v 
 The Sun no lefs the minute knows, 
 When to fet, and when to rife, 
 When to withdraw, and when to cheer Our eyes, 
 Giving by his retreat the darknefs way 
 To ruk the Night, as he doth guide the day. 
 Then from their denns the Savage Bsafts walk out, 
 Fierce Lions roar, and for their prey beat all about y 
 Till at Cock-Crow, 
 Lions that men, and weapons fcorn, 
 Alarm'd at the approach of Morn, 
 Through fome undifcoverM Plain, 
 Steal to their Caves again > 
 And or for Work, or Pleafure leave the day to Man. . 
 
 IX, 
 
 Eternal Minde, {hould we each Aft of Thin: 
 
 Recount, and mention every thing, 
 At which of Thy Great works (hould we begin > 
 Or what Almighty Numbers can confine 
 
 The Love, and Providmce Divine ? 
 Thy Works are like Thy Self fublime, and high, 
 The Power and Wifdom of the Deity, 
 
 More 
 
^o8 A Paraphrase Lib.Af 
 
 More numerous than the fand, 
 
 Embracing in its Armes the Sea, 
 
 Though every (and (hould reckoned be, 
 And all in one long row like Cyphers ltand, 
 The Sea at head, for a great figure to* command, 
 
 Tth' Sea His mighty aids appear, 
 
 In all the Armes and armies there, 
 
 The Gyant and the Pigmeefry, 
 
 Which in the Sounds , and Shallows Iy, 
 
 And at His will or tight, or fly, 
 Where Great Leviathan Leads up the Vann, 
 
 Leviathan whom He mide to play 
 In that great W a fte, in that great Walk bear fway, 
 
 Scorning the rage or' fifty Man, 
 Leviathan , whom Sea c , as He do's Thee obey. 
 
 X. 
 
 There go the Ships thofe floting I'fles, 
 Proud with the Lands, and Oceans fpoiles, 
 
 Advancing to Our Shore 
 The Silver Mine, and Golden Oare, 
 And in their paiTagc through the deep their God adore. 
 
 On Him all Creatures way t, 
 And at that Common Table, which His hands have fprcd 
 
 With Providence, and plenty, all are fed i 
 A Table to which none can ever come too late. 
 Thou fced'ft the Wicked, and the Good, 
 To Thee they look, Thou giv'it them food ^ 
 From Thine Own felfart full, and ne're drawn dry, 
 Quft all alone, as thou doft all fupply '■> 
 
 Hide but Thy Face and then, this World 
 Has Horror and confuiion o're it hurld > 
 They dye, and ftaften to thdr duft, 
 They dye, and make one Common ruft. 
 In which when they have Ages buried lain, 
 Thy Spirit bdtows another birth, 
 Breath's a new life, new frocks the Earth, 
 And to the World, the World returns again. 
 
 XT 
 
Lib.^. upon the CIV Psalm. 309 
 
 XI. 
 
 So fhall alternate life, and death 
 Make W3y for them, who muft hereafter live. 
 
 Leave one and give another breath, 
 And from its Fate the Aged World reprieve : 
 
 Till God enough have liv'd fhall fee, 
 Till for His Glory God command an end to be. 
 
 'TisCome — See how the Earth do's (hake, 
 
 The Rocks bow down, and Mountains quake* 
 
 See how the Hills, all fet on fire, 
 
 Are beacons to each other made, 
 One Hill is of another Hill afrafd, 
 And melted in the All-confuming Flame expire. 
 Where are they ? Juft fo (hall the Sinner dy, 
 Juft fo confum'd ', ever confuming ly. 
 
 XII. 
 
 I the meanwhile will to my God ling praife, 
 
 Unfearchable in all His Wayes •, 
 My Meditation of Him (hall befweet, 
 And with my Praife I will His Wonders meet : 
 His who can Phoenexesfrom Our cold Afhes raiie. 
 
 'Tis God alone, whofe Mighty Power 
 
 Shall, when the Wicked be no more, 
 
 Rerine His Chofen by thefe flames, 
 
 Give then new and better Names, 
 And make themfarr more glorious than they were before! 
 
 Ariie, my Soul, and to th' Almighty King, 
 
 Sprightly, and Cheerful Hallelujahs ling ! VerfcHlut. 
 
 p P 
 
 Pfalm 
 
$xo A Paraphrase Lib.^. 
 
 Plata CV. 
 Confitemini Domino^ & invocate^ &c. 
 
 Give thanks unto Our God, and let your Verie 
 Both of His wondrous Ach and praiie reherfe ! 
 Let them give life, and Numbers to your Song, 
 And couni the Glorys, which to Him belong ! 
 5 All you who fear His Name in it rejoice, 
 And (hew your heart is cheerful by your voice t 
 Seek ye the Lord, and feek His Mighty Power, 
 And never, till you fee His Face, give o're \ 
 Remember all the Wondets He has done, 
 10 The Words He fpake, the Signcs His hand has (hone ! 
 You, who of Abraham, the Almighties Friendj 
 Ard of His chofen JacobfSecd defcend ! 
 He is the Lord His Judgements are abroad, 
 And all the World by them (hall fear Our God i 
 15 The Word He pan; is ever in His mind, 
 To thoufand Ages, which are yet behiFid : 
 The Faithful Covenant He with Abraham made, 
 And unto Ifaac with an Oath eonveigh'd, 
 Conrirm'd it then to Jacob for a Law, 
 20 From when now Ifrad their bed Title draw, 
 Saying, 
 
 11 To thee Til Canaan give, that Happy land, 
 " And where Thou fojourn'ft now,Thou (halt command. 
 He faid it when they were in number few, 
 Hardly a Number, were but only two i 
 *5 Two, who were one, and Grangers, fore'd to flee 
 Thofe Kingdoms, which their own (hould after bee, 
 
 Yet 
 
Lib.^ upon the C V Psalm. 311 
 
 Yet then He furFered none to do them wrong, 
 
 Reprov'd Kings for them as they pafs'd along > 
 
 " No hurt to my Annoynted, (aid He, do, 
 
 " Nor vex my Prophets, lead it fall on you. ^o 
 
 Then on the Land He for a dearth did call, 
 To break that ftarf, whofe prop before was fm.il!. 
 The itarfof bread that they again might hold, 
 He that mud fell them bread, was by them fold. 
 Sold for a Slave, and that, in Prifon cad, y* 
 
 Where his bruis'd feet in fetters were kept lair. 
 But that He bore* the fmart t' his Soul did pafs, 
 When he remembred by whofe means it was. 
 Till the Word came, J<>fepl\ good Word for Thee, 
 Which prov'd Thee guiltlefs and which made Thee free. ^ 
 The King in hafte to loofe the Pris'ner fent, 
 And though the Meffengers too (lowly went*, 
 Made Him high Steward of his houie, with Power 
 Greater than ever fubje& had before j 
 
 His Realms fubmitted to his ruling hand, , s 
 
 And that his will for Sovereign Law mould (rand* 
 Whether his Princes he in Chains would lay, 
 Or teach her wife Men how they fhouid obeys 
 Pull down, fet up, controll things as,hepleafe, 
 Be King in all except the Name, and Eafe. 
 
 'Twas then that Ijraelmto Egypt came, 
 And Jacob fbjourn'd in the Land of Harn, 
 Where He increas'd, and did a Nation grow, 
 More numerous than the ilaves, which kept them fix 
 And by Gods bleflirig did Co propagate, 
 That whom their Enemies could not hurt, fhey hate, 
 New taskes impofe, and harder bonds contrive, 
 And plott their death whom He had fay'd mould live. 
 Hence as EmbarTadors, before He went, 
 Mofis and Aaron He to Egvpt fent. <fc 
 
 To make His wonders in their land be known, 
 Who were, and had fo many of their own. 
 
 Pp 2 He 
 
 50 
 
 5S 
 
$u A Paraphrase Lib., 
 
 He to thick darknefs turnM their Noon day Light, 
 And made them feel, as well as fee their night, 
 
 6 J The Rivers did With Purple Streams abound. 
 And the true dye in every Fifh was found. 
 The Laud did princely Frogs unnumbred breed, 
 Which lay with Nobles, and with Kings did feed. 
 He fpake the Word, and there came Holts of Flyes, 
 
 70 Lice reign* d below, and they ufurpt the skyes : 
 He gave them hail for rain, and fire for dew, 
 Both to oVethrow , and to confume them too: 
 Smote all > heir* vines, and with the Fatal Stroke,' 
 What hail and Lightning fparM, the Thunder broke : 
 
 7S Then came up armed Locuits, and their train, 
 In fuch great bands ne're to be feen again, 
 And what was left by all the plagues before, 
 Swept clean away and the whole Land run o*re. 
 At laft x\\ Almighty, when this would not do, 
 
 80 Came down Himfelf and EgyptsFirft-born ilew. 
 And for the f ime that Ifiael there did iky, 
 They pa 'd themfllves, before they went away^ 
 Took with them rigypts Silver^ and its Gold, 
 By great, as it was Lent them, and untold 5 
 
 85 Away they went more Luity and more Strong, 
 Than when at firft they came,' Thoufands for One. 
 And when they went, Egypt rejoye'd to hear 
 Their parting whom She always faw with fear. 
 Thus freed a Cloud did their great journy fhow, 
 
 90 And inthe Cloud which lead their way, they go. 
 A Cloud by day when all Heav'n elfe was bright, 
 But that ob r cur'd a dancing Flame by night : 
 And as they pafs'd, and murmur' d there for meat, 
 He gave them Qjayles,and Angels bread to eat : 
 
 95 Open'd the Rock which kept the Waters in, 
 And turn'd its flinty bowels to a fpring i 
 A fpring whofe ftreams in Rivers did run o're, 
 Andfollow'd clofe the Camp which marcht before. 
 
 His 
 
Lib.^. upon the C V Psalm. 313 
 
 Hisfervant Abraham to His Minde did come, 
 
 HisCov'nant, what it was, and made with whorm 100 
 
 So He their Hofts did out of Bondage bung, 
 
 Whilft by the Way they did His Praife fing \ 
 
 Brought them to Labours which were not their own. 
 
 And Loaded Harvefts, that they had not fown '■> 
 
 To Canaan, thence to be remov'd no more, 105 
 
 But hold of Him, who was their Lord before > 
 
 Keeping fuch La wes, fuch fervices to do, 
 
 As by His Covenants He had bound them to. 
 
 Hallelujah. 
 
 Ffalm 
 
3 1^- A Paraphrase Lib. ^. 
 
 PfalmCVI. 
 
 ConfiUmini Domino quoniam^ &c. 
 
 Hallelujah. Q?* n & t0 ^ e Lorc *> ^ or He a * 0ne is Good > 
 !^His mercies fure, for ever fo have fiood / 
 
 But who their Verfe can to His Glory raile, 
 
 Or as His Ads deferve, fhevv forth His Praife ? 
 
 5 Thrice happy they, who His Commandments Love, 
 
 And by their Conttancy their fervice prove ! 
 
 On me, unworthy wretch, O God, look down, 
 
 And grant thofe favours, which Thou (hewft Thine Own ! 
 
 That I may taft how good 'tis to be Thine, 
 
 IG And in the Underfong to blefs Thee join ! 
 
 Lord, wehavefinnM, we, and Our Fathers too, 
 And what they vilely did, as vilely do. 
 In Egypt they could not Thy Wonders fee, 
 As if its night had drawn a veile o're Thee *, 
 
 j,- They minded not the fignes Thou there didft mow, 
 And thence but to provoke Thee more did go > 
 Provoke Thee at the (ea, the Red fea, where 
 Thou brought'ft them down, to make Thy hand appear. 
 Yet then God fav'd them for His own Names fake, 
 
 20 That like their fins His Power He known might make, 
 Heftroke the Sea, the Sea afunder broke, 
 ItsChriftall could not bear th' Almighty ftioke. 
 And as it broken there in p.ices lay, 
 Gods fecret path was Ijraels Great High Way. 
 
 2 ^ Through which, as through the Wildernefs they pafs, 
 Only thefe fands were wall'd about with glafs. 
 Thus from their Enemies He kt them free, 
 Whiifr the admiring waves flood up to fee. 
 But when the facred Army was gon o're, 
 
 50 The feas no longer own'd their new made more ^ 
 
 But 
 
Lib>%. upon the C VI Psalm. ^ 
 
 feut o're it leapt, as friends returned to greet 
 
 And in their eld embraces haft to meet > 
 
 Trf Egyptian Troops, which fcattred lay between, 
 
 And thought to tell at home what they had feen, 
 
 Swift as that thought were buried in the waves, 3 5 
 
 And not one left to (hew their empty Graves^ 
 
 Then IJrael fear'd His Word, and fang His Praife, 
 But foon forgot that, and His Wondrous wayes. 
 Did in the Wildernefs His Power diilruit, 
 And for full Tables in the Defert lull. ^ 
 
 He gave it them, but therewith leanefs ient, 
 Into their very Souls the Poyfon went. 
 
 Next againft Mofes they in tumults rile, 
 And Aaron the Almighty s choyce defpife : 
 But God Himfelf from Heaven His Choice approv'd, 45 
 
 And from His fight the Murmurers remov'd. 
 The Sea before, the Earth do's now obey, 
 And frighted at His prefence ran away : 
 Loomed its hold, and as apart it fell, 
 
 Let Vathari and Abiran quick to Hell. 5$ 
 
 And thofe, who to the Prielthood did afpire, 
 And off red hicenie, were confum'd by Fire, 
 
 At Horeb they had griev'd him long before, 
 When there they did their molten god adore. 
 At Horeb where they that great Voice did hear, J 5 
 
 Which fill'd the molt rebellious breaft with fear, > 
 And ftrcok the Soul, as it furpriz'd the Eare. j 
 Thus to an Ox their glory they compare, 
 And thefe , cry they, " Thy Gods O Ijrael are. 
 Not becaufe they the true one did not know, fo 
 
 But their old love to Egypt thus would ihow > 
 Forgetting what in Egypt He had done, 
 Both for their Nations honour and His own. 
 And all His Wonders in the Mighty Deep, 
 Making a Caufey there, that they their way might keep. ^5 
 
 Wherefore 
 
21(5 A Paraphrase Lib.^. 
 
 Wherefore about deftroying them He fpake, 
 And that He Mofes a great Name would make *, 
 Mofis, who in the breach before Him flood, 
 And would have given His Own to lave their blood. 
 
 70 That pafs'd \ the Happy Canaan they contemn, 
 But more the God,who promised it to them. 
 To Egypt they again had rather go, 
 Than ferve new Mailers whom they did not know. 
 Therefore in wrath He rais'd His vengefull Hand, 
 75 To Strike, and fwear they (hould not fee the Land j 
 And that all thofe, who fell not by His own, 
 Should by their Eifmies fwords be overthrown. 
 
 Sure they will try it, and to Peor turn'd , 
 Before dumb Idols ate, and Incenfe burn'd > 
 
 80 Thus were they only conftant in their fin, 
 And knew no meafure till the Plague brake in. 
 Had fome new folly to enflame His Ire, 
 And let the Mine He layMfo deep a fire > 
 Till Phineas flood up, and with dextrous skill, 
 
 85 Three En'mics at one happy blow did kill, 
 Zzwr/, and Cosbi and the Plague did flay, 
 Which weltring in their gore, and breathlefs lay. 
 An Ad, whofe Memory God H imfelf would fa ve, 
 And for reward to His Houfe t.iePri eft- hood gave. 
 
 go Another time at Meriba they ftrove, 
 
 And their meek Guide did with their murmurings prove. 
 Full ill it went with Mfes for their fake, *V 
 
 Who unadvis'dly in His Pallion fpake, > 
 
 And with them both in fin, and judgement did partake, j 
 
 25 The Nations, of which God in charge did give 
 Should be deftroy'd, they wererefolv'd mould live -, 
 And come to Canaan, to preferve their Cccd^ 
 Were mingled with them, and did by them breed. 
 Learn d all their works, their Idols did adore, 
 
 100 Curs'd to Them now, though for their lakes before : 
 
 Idols, 
 
Lik^. upon the C VI Psalm. yy 
 
 Idols, that Devils were, yet unto whom 
 
 All fmearM they in their Childrens blood muft come, 
 
 No och.r Sacrifice but that will pleafe ; 
 
 Nor any blood, but the Innocent appeafe s 
 
 Their childrens blood, with which their Gods were ftainM, I0 * 
 
 They and their Gods, and with their own the land* 
 
 Thus juftly plagued for th.ir impiety, 
 
 That Gods of their own making fhouU Co cruel bee ! 
 
 This blew the Heav'nly wrath up to a Flame, 
 TurnM love to hatred, Mercy rage became v i I0 
 
 Up to the Heathen He His People gave, 
 And Ijrael in His own land was a (lave ^ 
 Thofe, who moft hated them, for Lords did reign, 
 And thofe they conquer'd, conquer'd them again ; 
 When God delivered them, they yet linn'd more, 
 Tempting new plagues they never felt before > 
 Yet to their cry He gently bow'd His Ear, 
 And though they would not Him, their grones did hear. 
 According to His Covenant Mercy lent, 
 And taught them by His oft, once to Repent ; 
 Made their proud Lords refent their Mikries, 120 
 
 And fhew lefs cruel hands, and more indulgent eyes. 
 
 Save us O God, and bring Thy Captives home, 
 That wc with prayfe may to Thy Temple come ! 
 To Ifiaels Kinglet thanks be ever pay'd, 
 And let Amen by all the World be fay'd ! 
 
 Hallelujah, 
 
 S 
 
 The end of the Fourth Book, ofPfalm, 
 
»p 
 
 THE 
 
 FIFTH BOOK 
 
 OF 
 
 PSALMS. 
 
 PfalmCVIi; 
 Gonfitemini Domino quoniam^ <frc, 
 
 Chorus Omnium* 
 
 AL L you, who on th' Almighty Love depend, Chorus Om* 
 
 And by His liberal hand improve, 
 Let with your voice your thanks afcend, 
 And here begin, what you {hall do above ! 
 His Mercy like His Truth is ever lure, 
 And fo your Praife fhould be, as conftant, and as pure. 
 
 mum. 
 
 Verfits I, 
 Let His Redeem' d fay fo, that Ifiael^ whom 
 Their Enemys Captive led, but He brought home ! 
 Then brought them home, when from the fartheft Eaft 
 They were difpersM, and fcatrred to the Weft > 
 When North and South their weary ftepsdid know, 
 But they,nor where they went, nor where, to go > 
 
 Qj} 2 Now 
 
 Verfitl. 
 
3*o A Paraphrase Lib. jr. 
 
 Now in the Defart an untrodden way, 
 
 Where they could hardly p:(s, yet durft notftay ♦, 
 
 Where they no City ;q n \ i n none to tell 
 
 Wh ch o d to take, or in wha Place todwell i 
 
 H n^i y and thirfry, do tbtful in their mind, ( find-. 
 
 Sc i ce knowing what they fought, or what they'd wifli to 
 
 Chorus Minor. 
 rl > \V- Then to the Lord in their diftrefs they cry'd, 
 They ay'd aloud, and He did hear •, 
 And though His Face He feem'd to hide, - 
 By His *;reat Handdeclar'd that He was near > 
 For when in vain they had look'd round about, (out. 
 And faw no help, towards Him they look'd 3 8c were brought 
 
 Verfus Rejponderifo 
 Verfus Re- He led them forth Himfelf by the right way, 
 /pendens. Their paflage made, as their great journey lay : 
 And City founded for them, and did tell 
 Not only where, but made them in it dwell. 
 
 Chorus Omnium. 
 Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praife. 
 Chorus 0, And talk of all that He has done f 
 
 How Truth and Mercy are His wayes 
 To the whole W r orld, as well as to His Own y. 
 For to the longing Soul He grafts His Will, 
 And with that Goodnefs, which He is,do's th' hungry fill 
 
 Verfus. IL 
 Thofe who in darkneis, and in Horror fit, 
 Verfus IL And fo near death, 'tis in the fhade of it, 
 Bound in Affliction, and in heavy chaines, 
 Inpnfon, where there noyfe, and lilence reignes, 
 Feeling their fins in all they fuifer there, 
 Whofe weight more rings than th' Irons, which they bear, 
 Their hearts fink lower than their bodies ly, 
 And there's as little hope., as in their eye. 
 
 Chorus M. 
 
Likf, upon the C V 1 1 Psalm. p T 
 
 Chorus M, 
 
 Then to the Lord in their diftrt fs they cry'd, ^r 
 
 They cry'd aloud, and he did hear i Chorus M. 
 
 And though His Face He feem'd to hide, 
 By His great hand declarM that He was near i 
 For when in vain they had look'd all about, (out. 
 
 And faw no help,tow'rds Him they look'd,& were brought 
 
 Verfis Rejp. 
 
 He broke their Chains afunder, fttt them free, v f V 
 
 And made their Irons a new Bearing be \ - er ^ us 
 
 From darknefs freed them, where they once did fit, 
 Not from Death only, but the (hade of it. 
 
 -Chorus Omnium. 
 
 Lit all the Earth th'Eternal Bounty praile, 
 And talk of all that He has done ', Chorus 0> 
 
 How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes 
 To the whole World, as well as to His Own \ 
 For gates of Bars againft Him could not ftand, 
 But open fell, Iron prov'd ltubble to His Hand. 
 
 Verfis 1 1 1. 
 
 Thofe Foolifh tinners, who in fottifh Love Ferfus 1 1 L 
 
 Confume their Age, negledhng that above, 
 Are juftly punihYd for their fond difdain, 
 And have for all their love, no love again : 
 How do they pine away, and loath their meat, . 
 Feeding their paflion more, the lefs they eat > 
 To fullen rocks lament^ as if the grones 
 Which tear their breaits, would pierce thefenflefs ftones ? 
 But all - t in vain, thole meanes but fruitleis prove, 
 One Death alone can end their Lives, and Love. \ 
 
 Chorus Me 
 
p% A Paraphrase Lib.f. 
 
 Chorus M. 
 
 Then to the Lord, in their diftrefs they cry'd 
 
 , f They cry'd aloud, and he did hear *, 
 
 Chom fSh And though His Face ^ e fcem , d tQ h . de ^ 
 
 By His great hand declar'd that He was near : 
 For when in vain they had look'd all about, ( out 
 
 And faw no help,tow'rds Him they looked, & were brought 
 
 Verfies Rejp. 
 Verfm K. He Tent His Word which did refine their love, 
 No more on Earth, but plac'd it all above > 
 'Twas a difeale no longer, knew no pain, 
 But for the love it gave, had love again. 
 
 Chorus Omnium. 
 Chr.rus 0. Let all the Earth th' Almighty Bounty praife, 
 
 And talk of all that He has done j 
 How Truth, and Mercy are His Wayes 
 To the whole World, as well as to His Own ! 
 And let all thofe, who by His Goodnefslive, 
 The hearts He thus has changed an Offering to Him give ! 
 
 Verfus I V. 
 y tT r m I v. They who into the Sea in Ships go down, 
 
 ^ And feek by Wayes they know not, lands unknown, 
 
 Who make theuntrae'd Ocean be their Road, 
 Which with their keels they tear, and burdens load, 
 They in the Deep His dreadfull Wonders fee, 
 ( Of which themfelvesas great as any bee ) 
 How He commands theilormes, and do's unbinde . 
 The airy fetters of theitrugling Winder 
 Out they all tumble and the rough Sea invade, 
 Which now their fcom, as much as fport is made , 
 To Hcav'nlifc up its floods, as if (o call 
 Hrlp thence, but e're 'tiscome, down kt them fall, 
 Low as their depth, whiles the fcar'd paflingers 
 Look evjry wave fhould drown them, and their fears ', 
 
 Stagger 
 
Lib.*}, upon the CVII Psalm. 425 
 
 Stagger 1 ike drunken Men, reel to, and fro 
 Their feci lets fteady than their Veflels go ^ 
 And in heir teeth the Winds their fighs do (end, 
 Making them e're the ftorms, at their Witts end. 
 
 Chorus M. 
 Then to the Lord, in their diftrefs they cry'd. 
 They cry'd aloud, and He did hear •, chom M - 
 
 His Face the Tempeft could not hide, 
 Nor raging Seas or dull, or flop His Eare : 
 For when in vain they had look'd round abouf, ( out. 
 And faw no help 5 tow'rds him they look'd & were brought 
 
 Verjus Kejp. 
 He bid the Sea be calm, the Winds be (till, VerCm R 
 
 And only whh bi isk gales their canvafs rill 5 
 Then brought them fmooch and calmy as the Sea, 
 To the wifh'd Haven, where they long'd to be. 
 
 Chorus Omnium. 
 Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praife, 
 And talk of all that He has done i Ch(tm °' 
 
 How Truth, and Mercy are His Wayes 
 To the whole World, as well as to His Own ! 
 And let all thofe, who on the Seas have been, 
 Sing in His Church His praife, and tell what they have feen. 
 
 Verjus. 
 When for their fin God do's chaftize a land. 
 Their fprings He turnes into a Parched fandi 
 A Wildernefs, which drinks their Rivers up, * tr F w> 
 
 And not a Rofe budd yields to crown the Cup *, 
 But barren as thelalt, which is fown there, 
 Nor herb for man, nor grafs for beaft do's bear. 
 
 Re$. 
 The Wildernefs He turns into a Pool, 
 
 And fills the parched fand, with fprings brim full 5 K p m, 
 
 There Jt 
 
324 A Paraphrase Lib. 4 ) 
 
 Jlejp : There for the hungry Soul provides His -meat, 
 
 And for the Colonys He leads , a feat : 
 With corn they low thtir fields, new Vineyards plant. 
 And neither Citizens, ror Cities want ; 
 He blcffes fhem, and makes them Co increafe, 
 Their very Cattle feel the fruits of Peace. 
 
 Verfus. 
 Again to punim them they are brought low, 
 laps. TIlat hand deftroys them, which firit made them growi 
 
 For He on mighty Kings contempt do's lay, 
 And thofe, who His forfake, lofe their own way. 
 
 R#. 
 Refp, Bat He the Poor from trouble lets on high^ 
 
 Whence He may fee His long Pofterity. 
 
 Chorus Omnium. 
 Let all the Righteous in their God rejoice, 
 Chorus 0. But t ] ie unjuft, with envy break ! 
 
 Thofe ihew their triumph by their voice, 
 While thefe have neither Will, nor power to fpeak I 
 Thrice happy Man, who treafuring in his minde 
 Thefc feveral Mercies, fome one for his life canfinde* 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lih$. upon the C V 1 1 1 Psalm. 9 ft 
 
 PfalmCVIlL 
 
 Varatutn ejl Cor weum. &<?* 
 
 U 
 
 IT is re r ol v'd, nor will I any more d p f alm °J 
 
 Diftruft my God, as I have done before s David. 
 
 No .' I will praife Him, and my heart, 
 Which has foort betray'd me into fear, 
 Its burden in the fong (hall bear, 
 And, when my Harp begins, (hall fing the higheft Part- 
 
 II. 
 
 Awake, my Harp, 'tis time for thee to'awake^ 
 Prevent the day, and Thy great fubjeft take \ 
 
 Put all Thy ftrings on, (hew Thy skill > 
 God and my foul are ready v be not flow, 
 
 For if we (hould before Thee go, (Hill. 
 
 Thy ft rings would never halfway reach up Heav'ns high 
 
 III. 
 
 We come, O God, and with us up will raile, 
 
 High as Thy Love, and Truth, to Heav'n Thy praiie. 
 
 The World (hall hear what Thou haft done, 
 How (ignally Thou haft appear'd for me, 
 
 By Thy great Power halt let me free, ( known - 
 
 And for Thy works praife Him, whofe Name they have not 
 
 IV. 
 
 Then with Thy Mercy to the Clouds we'll flie, 
 Aud take new wing to mount to the Moft High ; 
 
 Above the Clouds exalted be, 
 Lord fet Thy glory far above the skies. 
 
 And if (b high we cannot rile, 
 From Heav ndo Thou defcend, when we look up to Thee x 
 
 Rr V. Defcend, 
 
^x6 A Paraphrase Lib.f. 
 
 v. 
 
 Defcend, and by the way Thy Name make known, 
 What Thou wilt do, by what Thy hand has done > 
 
 He ir me My God has hcarM my Cry, 
 
 Has putt His Word^ and in it I rejoice, 
 
 Ha< given me of all lands my Choice, 
 And on my Gods Almighty promife I rely. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Stchcm is Mine, I will divide its Plain, 
 
 And oVe the Vale oiSuccoth throw my Chain > 
 
 The Tribes of Ifrael (hall obey, 
 Thofe which ly fartheft off, or nearer (land, 
 
 Shall yield themfclves to my Command, 
 Shall ferve,whil(t Judah gives them lawes 5 6c holds the (Way. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Moab^s my Wafh pot, and (hall fae to be 
 A VafTal to my bafeft drudgery *, 
 
 Thiliflia (hall my Chariot meet, 
 Honourd enough, if (he may bear the yoke 
 Proud Edom has fo often broke, 
 And Edom (hall fubmit her neck and take my Feet. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 But who to Edom will direct my courie 3 
 And entrance for Me into Bozra force ? 
 
 God (hall direel me to the Town *> 
 God, who of late has fccirfd to di(appear, 
 
 And when He comes, viewing Him there, 
 The Walls to make Him Way mall open, or fall down. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Help usO God, for we in vain implore, 
 
 A forreign aid, which wants Our fuccour more ! 
 
 Thou art my help, through Thee my head 
 
 With Laurel (hall be crown'd, and in my Wayes 
 
 Some Enemies necks the ground (hall raife, 
 
 So that my feet (hall triumph too 3 and on them tread. 
 
 Pfafm 
 
Libj. upon the CI X Psalm. ^ 
 
 Pfilm C I X. 
 Deus laudem meam ne tacnerk^ &s. 
 
 i. 
 
 Guard of my Life, and Goi of all my Praile, 
 Who fte'ft the Outrage oiPred me, 
 Thy (elf, and Power for my juft fentence raife, 
 Nor let the WiOiigs I bear reflecl: on Thee ! 
 Thoa hear' it what cruel Words the wicked fpeak 5 
 Let not them only, and not Thou Thy Silence break ! 
 
 II. 
 
 With words of hatred I am girt around, 
 And from all parts they with me fight : 
 So hard, that I am all but one great wound, 
 And the whole caufe I give them is my Right , 
 With prayers for them their malice would reprove, 
 But thofe with Scorn, with hatred they reward my Love. 
 
 III. 
 
 Let him fome Tyrant lerve, be made a Slave i 
 
 And Satan place at his right hand > 
 No other pitty find than what he gave, 
 And at his Enemies tribunal Hand ! 
 Let him be judg'd, condemn'd, and all his prayers 
 Be made in vain to deaf, or elie to ftubborn eares ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 Let fuddain death his wretched life attend, 
 
 His office to another give ! 
 Let on his wife and feed the curie defcend, 
 They Fatherlelsand fhe a Wjddow live 1 
 Let them be vagabonds, and begg their bread, 
 And have have no certain place to hide, or reft their head * 
 
 Rr2 V.Lee 
 
 A Pjslm Q f 
 David, 
 
;:S A Paraphrase Ubj. 
 
 v. 
 Lcf the ExtOrtiODd catct alilic (us, 
 And ftrangers 1 o his lab.: urs c rj me / 
 Lcf . - .. wh< - cafe, 
 
 I new miCei a encreafc the G mm! 
 
 N ; • . . ;; K v . 
 
 Or ou his Fathe Ericadl] I 
 
 VI. 
 Let the - . . ■ cui thrii craft Name 
 
 In the nf v got * 
 
 Or if the) be remembred, let their fhame 
 On the : ArJiicvrnentsbe a oonitant blct ! 
 Lei his fore-Fathers Sins be-in Thine ey, 
 
 And all his Mo:hers lufo afrelh for icngeir.ce cry ! 
 
 VII 
 Let Hence cr reproach upon him reit r 
 
 And asi: neVe was in hi? mkde, 
 E :'-..: :. foot r, cm relieve :r.' ppi i 
 Ntither rehefe, a rravoarkthimfiudJ 
 Bur ~ ; the Needy hew th wrongs perfiiM, 
 On his own bead, Let then t e lUagam renewed .' 
 
 V 1 1 1. 
 As he L ~"'d curling, let him in ll be curfl / 
 
 An J hated blefling feek in vain/ 
 Withe : ■• . Pd him, let him burft, 
 
 And then Kkewatt , hi him tunTit again > 
 [ike Cv e let it to puree, 
 
 And like thofe nimes^which boyle it be,but far more fierce,' 
 
 IX. 
 
 Ghre him no ether garment for his pride, 
 
 Thau : bis, with which he was array'd ; 
 Gfofi ■ g ird k let es be ty'cl 
 
 Tv ills :e:r;:, :■; hiT«:V.faf::ii ' 
 
 And 
 
Lib. 4 ), upon the C IX Psalm. 32P 
 
 An3 execute Hid Li.:.. 
 
 Lett 
 
 X. 
 But, Lore rr.y ^ hk; 
 
 Andfoi ihy Merq refci 
 
 the pooi in i lata 
 
 A r iffiii the 
 
 Look how I ;•■ r'd to trfgrc 
 
 Eut there ro hobcan find to cafe; ....... mj 
 
 XL 
 
 My dayes, and agear: 
 
 1 the Sun withdraw * i 
 
 A:.d as thelocufl driven up md : :• • 
 
 From held, to field, from Li d r: lar.d 1". 
 
 ukd m . with C i - 
 
 £AL 
 
 Eur, Lcrd rr.y God, foi rhinc Own gnat Names . 
 
 Ar.d t.r Tr.v Mac j refine 
 That all may know the cue Thou 1 art pleas'd tc :. 
 And in my fj.re dt'iveranae h:no-r Thee 
 Bk&Thou, and kt them aide, confound their jo 
 And mak^ them ah amam'dywfa If] I in Thci re wcx 
 
 XIII. 
 Shame, and confnfion tc my Enemk 
 
 L^r it their Yei: and P;::.;r. be ' 
 Wmlfi I to Heaven :n tuneful Numbers r.iV 
 Ar.d tell abroad what G:c has done f:: me ! 
 How from Oppe;;::.: he the Poordid have, 
 And what his judges had denyM, pa ■;: gave ! 
 
 
}$© A Paraphrase Lib.f. 
 
 Pialm CX. 
 Dixit Dominw Vcmino mco^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 TH E Lord faid to my Lord, 
 The Mighty God to the Eternal Word, 
 .**»** " Sit Thou at my Right handy 
 
 " Till I Thine Enemies command 
 " To be the Foot-ttool to Thy Throne, 
 u And freely yield their necks tor Thee to tread upon ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Sion's that glorious Throne. 
 Whence with difdam Thy foes Thoulook'it upon, 
 Thence Thou around (halt reiga, 
 And by Thy Power new (ubjedts gain > 
 Thy Enemies (hall They obey, 
 And once returnd, none fhall more Loyailbe than they. 
 
 II I. 
 
 And as the Summer Sun, 
 When Winters paft, and all its rage is done, 
 Do's every Morning view 
 His way all ftiew'd with pearly dew, 
 Whofe Numbers cannot reckoned be, 
 'Tis a faint Emblem of Thy long Posterity. 
 
 IV. 
 
 His Oath God will not break, 
 But King and Prkft Thou' art like hhkbifcduc : 
 ! The Lord at Thy Right hand 
 Shall let no Proud Ufurper ftand, 
 But Kings fhall bow, and in Thy Train, 
 Be -captive led* whdft there's made Trophies of the fla ; n. 
 
 V. He 
 
Libj. upon the CX PsAL.\f. ^x 
 
 V. 
 
 He the Great Head (hall wound, 
 When it (hall Q^eeen of all the World be crown d : 
 Drink of the brook i'tV way, 
 And follow, till He gives the day > 
 But when His Crofs (nail death ftrike Dead, 
 TV Eternal God Himfelf fhall rait, and crown Hjs head. 
 
 Pfclin 
 
M* A Paraphrase Lib. 4 }. 
 
 m\m CXI. 
 
 Cohfitebor tibi Donrine^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 Bjtlelajak T X Tfeh my whole heart Til praife the Lord, (Word, 
 
 Y/Y/ And where Hechofe to nonour it,exalt His 
 
 In the Afllmblies of the juft, 
 There will I all His noble Works difclofe, 
 His Famous Adts, fought out of thofe, 
 Who them their pleafure mike, and Him theft Truft. 
 
 II. 
 
 His glorious Works are great, and high, 
 No more ro be conceivM than feen by mortal eye. 
 
 And (hall for ever fo remain . 
 Eternity it felfisfcarce enough 
 
 To praife His Mercy, and His Love, 
 And what we now unknown admire, make plain. 
 
 III. 
 
 He for His People did provide, 
 And never broke His Word, or Covenant denf d > 
 They (aw His Signes beheld His hand, 
 How for their fake He made His power appear, 
 
 Prepared them conqueits by the fear, 
 Which He fent firil into their Enemies land, 
 
 IV. 
 
 Juftice, and Truth are all His Waves, 
 And on Eternal FaithfulneG His Promiie llaies : 
 
 Beyond all ages they (hall lait, 
 And when Old Time it felf away (hall flee,. 
 
 Remain as firm as now they bee, 
 And on their own great Bafis fixt, Itand fait. 
 
 V. Deliverance 
 
Lib.j. upon the CXI Psalm. ^ 
 
 Deliverance He for Ifiael wrought, 
 And to fave them Hisgreateft plagues on Egypt brought: 
 
 'Twas then they (aw He was the lame, 
 Which to their Fathers He was wont to be > 
 
 When He fo ftrangely fet them free, 
 The Holy God, and Reverend is His Name. 
 
 VI. 
 
 To worfhip Him true Wifdom is, 
 And to obferve His Laws the only way to blifs : 
 
 No guide to knowledge like His fear, 
 For all befide, what e're they may pretend, 
 
 Through a bad way reach a worfe end, 
 But HisPraife ever Ms, and every where. 
 
 S s Pfalm 
 
Itt 
 
 AParaphrase Libj. 
 
 Pfalm CXI I. 
 Beatw Virqut timet &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 HaMujab. / ■ ■ r SHat Man is truly bled, who feares the Lord, 
 1 And with delight His Praeccpts hears, 
 Who therefore loves, becaufe He fears, 
 Loves, and yet trembles at the Sacred Word : 
 His feed upon the Earth renown'd (hall be, 
 And he himfelfbleft in his feed (hall fee ; 
 Riches and Wealth, a full encreafe, 
 No fear of ever being Poor, 
 Defires contented, and a lafting Peace, 
 Alwayes unto his houfe are fure, 
 And ever conftant, as his Righteoufhefs endure, 
 
 II. 
 
 Clear day at night do's onthe Juft arife, 
 Some gkames His Spirit to Main, 
 Some cheerful hopes amids his pain, 
 And what he gave, he finds in others eyes : 
 That mercy which inclined His heart to lend. 
 In all his wants fupplies do's ever fend, 
 His works with Prudence manag'd are, ■ 
 Nothing his foot (hall ever move > 
 Both of his wayes and him God takes the Care, 
 And though he may his Servant prove, 
 He will reward his Righteoufnefc, and Crown his love, 
 
 III. 
 
 How do the wicked tremble, when the Juft 
 
 Secure in all his Fears is made ? 
 
 Tth' midft of fears is not afraid, 
 But has his heart as fixed as his Truft ? 
 
Lib.f. upon the C XII Psalm. %tf 
 
 Fix'd on his God, nothing (hall make him fear, 
 Though all around he fhould fee ruine near : 
 
 For, lo, even then his juft deiire 
 
 Shall be fulfill' d on his Enemies, 
 When in their own wild flames they all expire, 
 
 And he behold the facrifice 
 To Heav'n in fire, and clouds ofpitehy fmoak atife. 
 
 IV. 
 
 His armes (hall be, what he has given away, 
 
 Or lent at any time the poor, 
 
 Whole Memory ever (hall endure, 
 And with no fretting ruft of age decay : 
 How he with Honour gam'd the Victory, 
 On Htav'ns Arch (hall with' his Name begrav'd on high. 
 
 Whereas it Hand in fight of all, 
 
 The Wicked at it (hall repine, 
 Shall (ee it fix'd, when they muft lower fall ; 
 
 And thole, who did before combine 
 Againft him, from their depth (hall fee it brighter mine. 
 
 Stz Pfalm 
 
$$6 A Paraphrase Ub.j. 
 
 Pfalm ex 1 1 1. 
 Laudato fueri Dominum^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 Hallelujak "T"\Raife Him, ye Servants of the Heav'nly King, 
 I^And to His Name your gratefull Praifes fing : 
 That Name, which is fo full of Power, 
 And from Eternity was fo, 
 Let the whole World before it bow, 
 And to Eternity that Name adore ! 
 Praife Him, for fince at tirft the World He made, 
 *Tis tit this Chief-Rent to Him, mould by All be pai'tl ! 
 
 IL 
 
 Above the Heav'ns He God o're all do's reign, 
 Nor can the Heav'n of Heav'ns His power contain :. 
 
 His glory, farr above the sky, 
 
 Exceeds the Compafs of frail fight, 
 
 Invilible by Mortal light, 
 C Thofe too weak means we view his greatneft by ) 
 Our eys to Him we ne're can hope to raiie, ( praife 
 
 For they'll come (hort, but we may reach Him with our. 
 
 III. 
 
 Above He dwels, yet fometimes do's He bend, 
 And Hoop to hear the praife we upward (end. 
 Humbling Hi mfelf fometimes to fee 
 Thofe beauties, which in the Heav'ns are, 
 And at this diitance look (b fair, 
 Which of his Word the great Creation be i 
 Nay lower, to the Earth He oft draws near, ( there 
 And with His Prefence makes it Heav'n, when He comes 
 
 IV, In 
 
Lib. 9 }, upon the C X 1 1 1 Psalm* #7 
 
 IV. 
 
 In Heaven and Earth all things obey His Will, 
 And though to them it be unknown, fulfill ; 
 At pleaiure He bellows the Crown, 
 Honour and Wealth are in His hand, 
 And to the poor He gives Command, 
 Exalting him, but throws the Mighty down : 
 Makes barren wombes with joy their fruit to bear, 
 And that which as the grave was deaf, His voice to hear. 
 
 Ffa 
 
 in 
 
3$ AParaphrase Lib.f. 
 
 Pfalm CXIV. 
 In exith Jfrael de Fgypto^ &c 
 
 I. 
 
 WHen Iirae! hzd thrown offtrT Egyptian yoke, 
 And all the Chains offer vitude, 
 A fpeech like them, who usM if, rude, 
 And had their tongues unloosed, and fetters broke j 
 Th' Almighty Po^ver, who did that Wonder (how, 
 Conducting by His mighty hand 
 His People to the Promised land, 
 Did greater Wonders do, 
 Not only told them whether, but which way to go, 
 
 II. 
 
 The Sea farr off the Marching Camp beheld, 
 Saw how the Sacred Fire made way, 
 Yet knew not where their journy lay, 
 And to look round in higher billows fwel'd : 
 But when to' its more it faw the Hoftdraw nigh, 
 The mighty Sea began to fear, 
 And backward bid its floods to bear, 
 And thofe, which could not fly, 
 Stand up in ranks, and let the Ifiaelites pafs by. 
 
 III. 
 
 Jordan fell back, and to his Spring did haft i 
 Alarum'd at His fcareM Floods retreat, 
 The Aged Spring loft all his heat, 
 And boifd no more, but fainting fwoon'd at Iaft : 
 The mountaines faw the flood, and they ran too i 
 The little Hills, for Company, 
 Followed to fee the Mountains flee, 
 
 Like frighted Lambs, which go ( fhow. 
 
 ( Though unperuYd ) thofe wayes their trembling Mothers 
 
 IV. What 
 
Lib.f. upon the CXI V Psalm. 339 
 
 IV. 
 
 What aifd the Sea, that it fhould backward ftart ? 
 Or what made frighted Jordans Spring 
 Swoone and keep all his waters in, 
 Likefpirits (carce able to fecurethe Heart ? 
 Why ran the Hills ? Why did the mountains fly > 
 Tremble, O Earth, Thy God is near, 
 God, who can make deaf Rocks to hear, 
 And when Thy Springs are dry, 
 From out their flinty Bowels fetch a new fupply ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
540 A Paraphrase Lib. U 
 
 Pfalm CXV. 
 Non nobis Domine^ Non tiobis^ c£v» 
 
 I. 
 
 NOT unto us, Lord, not to us, 
 But to Thy Name give all the praife \ 
 Thou Worthy art to be exalted thus, 
 For Truth and Mercy are Thy Waves : 
 Why fhould the World deride Our truir, 
 And ask, c< Where is the God whereof you boaft > 
 Our God in Heav'n do's reigu, and what's His Will, 
 Both Heav'n, and Earth obey, and Seas fulfill. 
 
 II. 
 
 The Heathen Idols rule notfo, 
 Nor by their own power can they ftand » 
 Themfelves do not their mean Original know, 
 Not how made God?, nor by what hand > 
 And though their Votaries them adore, 
 They are the fame vile clay they were before » 
 Or if of Gold, debas'd, and more can do 
 l'th' Ingot, e're if s a God, then once made Co. 
 
 III. 
 
 T has mouth indeed, and eyes, and eares, 
 
 And the fain'd organs of quick (enfe, 
 But the dull thing nor fpeakes, nor fees, nor hears : 
 
 And what good can be look'd for thence > 
 
 'T has feet, 'tis true, and golden hands, 
 That ne're gave bribe, but to receive them ftands : 
 And nofe, that though the flames to it afpire, 
 Cannot the Incenie fm-ell, nor fcent the Fire. 
 
 I V. Then 
 
Lib. 1 ), upon theCXV Psalm. ™ 
 
 IV. 
 
 They and their Framers are alike, 
 
 And neither fenie, nor reafon have \ 
 But if they 'are gods, let's fee them any ftrike, 
 
 Or from the curfe their makers fave ! 
 
 Blind Deities, but Blinder they, 
 Who knowing it, to their own work will pray ! 
 Or think the Itock, which do's its titles ow 
 To them, can any thing they want beftow. 
 
 V. 
 
 But on Thy God, O Ifiad truft ! 
 
 He only is Thy help, and fhield i 
 O houfe of Aaron flee to Him that's Juft ! 
 
 For He is Thine, and help will yield. 
 
 All you, who fear th' Almighty Lord, 
 Upon Him truit, and flee unto His Word ! 
 For He's your help, and He will be your fhield, 
 And though you rlee, it is to gain the held ! 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Lord has mindful of us been, 
 
 And He will all Our joyes reftore h 
 The houfe of Ifraelhwc His blenmg feen, 
 
 And He will blefs them more and more ; 
 
 The houfe of Aaron He will blefs, 
 And all who fear Him (hall by' His love encreafe : 
 Twixt rich, and poor He do's no difference know, 
 3ut by His blefling both in numbers grow. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Blefs'd of that God, who all things made, 
 
 Both Earth, and Sea and glorious Heaven : 
 High HeavV s His feat, and of Him is afraid. 
 
 But He to Man the Earth has given : 
 
 'Tis there that wc a Imire His Wayes, 
 Before enc grave ihut us ap, and His Praifei, 
 There will we blefs the God, in whom we live, 
 And as He life to as. Him praties give. 
 
 T t ' H£elu)*b. 
 
 Halm 
 
%\z A Paraphrase Lih.% 
 
 PfalmCXVI. 
 Dclexi quoniam exaudwit^&c. 
 
 I. 
 
 I Love Thee, Lord, with my whole hcart 3 
 For Thou doft my petitions hear *, 
 Bccaufe Thou to me haft inelinM Thine ear* 
 And thus propitious to Thy fervant art, 
 With new requefts I'll ever prove Thee, 
 And (hew by that I love Thee 
 
 II. 
 
 The pains of death enclos'd me round, 
 Grief held my heart, and teares my eyes *, 
 
 My giave ftood open, and death theace did rift, 
 
 Trouble and Horror, on all fides I found j 
 
 - Death it felf waited underneath, 
 Above the pains of Death. 
 
 III. 
 
 Yet to the Lord Icry'd, and faid, 
 
 ct My God Thy help I now implore, 
 " Deliver me, as Thou haft done before, 
 " When in my trouble I unto Thee pray'd ! 
 
 Though I dtferv'd to be denfd, 
 Yet to the Lord Icry'd, 
 
 IV, 
 
 To wrath He' s flow, abounds in love, 
 
 Our fins moft ready to forgive \ 
 The Innocent upon His bounty live, 
 In Him they live, who reigns their Goi above : 
 
 He helpM me, when I was brought low, 
 For He to wrath is flow. 
 
 V. Then 
 
Uh.%, upon the CX VI Psalm. 34.3 
 
 V. 
 
 Then to Thy reft, my Soul, return ! 
 
 For God has kindly dealt with Thee i 
 Thy feet from Hiding, life from death (et free. 
 Nor (hall Thy failing eyes in farrow mourn. 
 
 Thy dayes to praife Him are increas'd, 
 Return, Soul, to Thy reit! 
 
 VI. 
 
 Lord, I believe, and therefore fpeak, 
 
 I knew I mould Thy Mercy praile \ 
 Though when afflicted, and in rugged waves, 
 One forrow did my heart and fiknce break : 
 
 Then I all flelh the ly did give, 
 And yet, Lord, I believe. 
 
 VII. 
 
 What fhall I bring and yield the Lord, 
 
 For all His Favours fhown to me ? 
 A thankful heart my facrihee fhall be. 
 Fll praife Him, and rely upon His Wosd. 
 
 New fongs of thanks, I'll to Him fing, 
 And this at leaft will bring. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 My Vowes, which in diftrefs I made, 
 
 Before His People will I pay : 
 His People (hall rejoice that folemn day, 
 Whilft thofe, who are His Enrnies be afraid ; 
 
 When He His plagues upon them throws, 
 And do's accept My Vowes. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Dear in His fight His fervants are, 
 
 He will Himfelf repay their wrong * 
 Though in forbearing He may feem too long, 
 It is more deep to ftrike, and not to fpare ; 
 
 Tt 2 Nor 
 
 Verfus. 
 
344 ^ Paraphrase Lib. J. 
 
 Nor is the de*thof the upright, 
 Lefs pretious, in His fight. 
 
 X. 
 
 Lord, T am Thine, and thine will be, 
 
 Thy Handmaids Son, whom Thou did'ft fave y 
 
 My GodHimfelfaranfomefor me gave, 
 
 And to a nobler fervice let me free : 
 
 Thou brake'll; my bonds, and made'ft me mine, 
 And now, Lord, I am Thine. 
 
 XI. 
 
 This will I bring, and yield the Lord, 
 Verfw. For all His Favours (hown to me, 
 
 A thankful heart my facririce (hall be, 
 Til praife Him, and rely upon His Word ; 
 New fongs of thanks Til to Him img, 
 And this at leaft will bring. 
 
 XII. 
 
 My Vowes, which in diftrefs I made. 
 
 Before His People will I pay : 
 His People (hall rejoice that fokmn day, 
 And where I made them, there (hall fee them pai'd : 
 
 Within the Courts of the Lord's Houfe, 
 There will I pay my Vowes. 
 
 ' HjEehtjah 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib. 4 }, upon the CXVII Psalm. 3^5 
 
 Pfilm CXVII. 
 Laudate Dominnm Omnes^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 AL L you, who to the Lord, your Beings ow, 
 All Nations, with His bleiTings crown'd, 
 All people through the World rcnown'd, 
 Sing praifes to that God, who made you fo ! 
 
 II. 
 
 To God, whofe Mercy do's to all extend, 
 Is great to us, and good to you, 
 And with His Truth do's ftill renew, 
 
 But like Himfelf, knowes neither bound nor end i 
 
 HaKehijafr 
 
 Pfalm 
 
#6 
 
 AT* 
 
 RAPHRASE 
 
 Lib.$. 
 
 Pfalm CXVIII. 
 Confitemini Domino quoniam^ &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 The People. >HpO Go( *- S Almi S ht Y Namc ^8 P raife > 
 I And you, who know how good He is, 
 Refign to Him, whatVtruely His, 
 Verfe. And Arches of His own great Mercies raife / 
 
 For like His Word they have been fare, 
 And to Eternity endure ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Iftael, the great Jehova's choice, 
 Who all His fearful Works have feen, 
 Who His great Care have alwayes been, 
 Let Ifrael now confefs with thankful voice, 
 His Mercies have been everfure, 
 Verficulus. And to Eternity endure ! 
 
 III. 
 
 Let thofc, who by their place attend, 
 And at His Altar daily wait, 
 Their own experiences relate, 
 Sing as they fee the facred flame afcend, 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 Verficulus. And to Eternity endure. 
 
 IV. 
 
 And to advance the BlefTed King, 
 Let all the Righteous with them join, 
 And in a fervice thus Divine, 
 Bear their part too, and in the Chorus ling, 
 His Mercies have been everfure, 
 
 Verficulus. And t0 Eternit Y endure •' 
 
 V. To 
 
Lib.j. upon the C X V II I Psalm. 3^7 
 
 V. 
 
 To God on high for fosjp I cri'd, jy t Kin „ 
 
 Who from His Temple anfwer'd me, 
 
 Both heard my prayers andfet me free, 
 The Lord of Holt Himielf was on my fide *, 
 3 I will not fear, what man can do, 
 
 Since I've a God to flee unto. 
 
 VI. 
 
 With thofe, who help'd me, He was feen, 
 His Pretence brought my greateft aid, 
 Nothing (hall make me now afraid, 
 He'll be my fword, who has my Buckler been : 
 And when my Foes (hall be o'rethrowne, 
 I'll boaft of what His hand has done. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Thole, who their Care on God do caft, 
 And know no other will but His, 
 Of fure recruits (hall never mifs, 
 But as a Rock, i'th' midft of ilormes, Hand fail i 
 On God 'tis more fecure to trult, 
 Than man, who muft return to du ft. Vcrfuulm. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 He never yet did any fail, 
 
 Moft fin e, when moft reli'd upon s 
 
 And though His Power fubfcnbes to none, 
 He lets weak prayers o'reHeav'n, and Him prevail 5 
 v On God 'tis more fecure to trull, v C 1 
 
 Than Princes, who mud turn to duft, V&JKHIM , 
 
 IX. 
 
 Let Barbarous Nations girt me round, 
 And for my ruine all engage, 
 My truft is plac'd above their rage, 
 And Hands unfhaken on the higher ground h 
 
 For 
 
54.8 A Paraphrase Likj, 
 
 For on the Lord of Hofts Til call, 
 Verfuulm And in His Name deftroy them all. 
 
 Round let them compafs rue, and round, 
 And for my ruine all engage, 
 My Truft is placM above their rage, 
 And ftands unlhaken, on the higher ground i 
 For on the Lord of Hofts I'll call, 
 Verf. And in His Name deftroy them all. 
 
 XI. 
 
 Let them like Bees about me fwarm, 
 And all to be my death engage, 
 Like fire in Thornes or ftubble rage, 
 My head (hall be defended by this Charm, 
 For on the Lord of Holts I'll call, 
 Vcrjl And in His Name deftroy them all. 
 
 XII. 
 
 The bloody Man thruft at rne hard, 
 And hop'd at length to fee me fall, 
 But when I on the Lord did call, 
 That fword brought death to him, wh ; ch me had (par'd : 
 God, who 's my ftrength (hall be my long, 
 And whoml caLTd, Til (by upon. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 The voice of Triumph, and ofpra ; (e, 
 The juft mans mouth do's ever fill, 
 His voice is like his trumpet (hrill, 
 When up to Heav'n Thy V icYries he do's raife : 
 'Twas thou the Conqueft did obtain, 
 Vtrficulw. And Thy Right hand the day did gam . 
 
 XIV. The 
 
Lib.], upon the C X V II I Psalm, ^p 
 
 XIV. 
 
 The Lords right hand did mighty things, 
 No power betbre His power could ftand > 
 For when He made bare His Right hand, 
 Armies before Him n\d, and Potent Kings j 
 'Twas That the Conqueft did obtain, 
 And His Right hand the day did gain, Vcrftculut. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Empty Thy Quiver, Death, elfe where, 
 Be gon, and puree fome fofter heart, 
 For I defie Thy (harpeit dart, 
 Am both above Thy malice, and Thy fear ! 
 I know I (hall not dy, but live, 
 AndpraifeHim^ who my Life did give. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Low as the duft I was brought down, 
 To the dark Suburbs of the grave, 
 But He was pleas'd my life to fave, 
 And what He up had raised, my Head did crown : 
 Open the Gates of Righteoufnefs, 
 For, lo, I am return'd in Peace ! 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Bled gates of the Divine aboad, 
 Which to the Holy Place let in, 
 Where all the juft their Offrings bring, 
 And hafte into the Prefence of their God : 
 There, Lord, Til praifes ling to Thee, 
 For Thou halt bow'd Thine eare to mee. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 1 he itone the Builders did refute, Frieftr. 
 
 Had often tn'd, oft thrown away, 
 Is now the Mighty Fabricks flay, 
 God chofc it for the Nobleft place, and ufe ; 
 
 U u This 
 
350 AParaphrase Lib.f. 
 
 This is His doing, and when thus 
 God builds, His Work is marvellous. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 This is the day, which He has made, 
 Hofannas now befit our voice \ 
 Come, let us in Our God rejoice, 
 And in the day which He has made, be glad ! 
 That He Profperity may fend, 
 And to Our troubles put an end. 
 
 XX. 
 
 Sacred EmbafTador of God, 
 Who hither in His Name do's ccme, 
 We in His Ten. pie make Thee room, 
 And blefs Our King from His Divine aboade ! 
 He is Our Saviour , Come away ! 
 The Victims at the Altar ftay. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 Bind them with cords, and tye them fail, 
 To th' Altars horns, and make them bleed. 
 Then let the Flame upon them feed, 
 And in thick clouds to Heav'n afcend at lait ! 
 K xn & My God I will fing praife to Thee, 
 
 Who art my God, and fong (halt be. 
 
 XXII. 
 
 To God's Almightie Name fing praife, 
 And you, who know how Good He is, 
 Relign to Him, what 's truly His, 
 Verffc* And Arches of His Own great Mercies raife ! 
 
 For like His Word they have been fure. 
 And to Eternity endure ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.*}, upon the CX IX Psalm, 351 
 
 Pfelra CXIX. 
 Beati tmmacuUti in via 9 &c. 
 
 Aleph. I. \,p arL 
 
 THrice happy Men, who pure, and undefiFd, 
 By the great Rule direct their Way \ 
 Walk where that points, and never go aftray. 
 But to Gods Law fincere obedience yield > 
 Who iearch for that with their whok heart, 
 And keep His Teftimomes as their better part ! 
 
 II. 
 
 To no iniquity they turn afide, 
 
 So plain His Wayes before them ly > 
 And it through ignorance they ftcp awry, 
 His ipirit,which guides, will hold them when they Ride j 
 
 That I Thy Precepts, Lord, fulfill, 
 Is Thy defire, and Mine, but firft to know Thy Will, 
 
 III. 
 
 Teach me Thy Will, the Way where I fhould go, 
 
 How I Thy Statutes may obferve j 
 Order my paths, that I may never fwerve, 
 And what's Thy Righteous Pleafure to me (how ! 
 That (hame may blufh to follow me, 
 Who Thy Commands p^rfue, and follow none but Thee \ 
 
 IV. 
 
 And when Thy Judgements I (hall thus be taught, 
 
 W r kh upright heart, I'll ting Thy Praife > 
 The dull thing I as yet can hardly raife, 
 So low with former griefs it has been brought : 
 
 Then all Thy Statutes I'll obey, 
 And Thou with me for ever (halt delight to (lay. 
 
 UU2 Beth. 
 
052 A Paraphrase Lib. 5. 
 
 Beth. 
 In quo corriget) &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 BU T how {hall Youth this Wifdom, Lord, attain, 
 Unbridled Youth to choofe His Way > 
 Youth that perfues new follies every day, 
 Will in Thy Word find both a bit, and rein : 
 With all my heart I have fought Thee, 
 That I ne^e ftray,make Thy Commandments known to me. 
 
 II. 
 
 Within my Heart Thy facred Word I layM, 
 
 I lay'd it up, and hid it there, 
 And to its counfel gave my willing eare, 
 And thence took heart of Sin to be afraid i 
 
 Lord Thou art worthy of all praife, 
 Teach me Ihy Statutes that I may Thy glory raife ! 
 
 III. 
 
 This my defire has been, and mil (hall be j 
 
 Of all Thy Judgements to recount '•> 
 The fumm to which Thy Teftimonies mount, 
 Is infinite, and only like to Thee : 
 
 Riches, of which the World do's dream, 
 Are piercing cares, and emptinefs compared with Them. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Of all Thy Prsecepts will I meditate, 
 And have refped to all Thy Wayes •, 
 
 Thy Statutes my delight, and love (hall raife, 
 
 And at Thy Oracle Til ever waite : 
 Within my heart Thy love (hall gain, 
 Such conqucJts, that the Trophies mall like Heav'n remain. 
 
 Gimcl 
 
Likf. upon the CXIX Psalm. ^ 
 
 Girael. III. Part, 
 
 Retribue Servo tuo^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 O, May Thy Servant of Thy love partake •, 
 And what Thou* haft fworn of old, fulfill ! 
 That He may keep Thy Word, and do Thy Will, 
 And pay the vowes He heretofore did make ! 
 Yet nearer , Lord, unto Him draw, 
 And clear his fight to view the wonders of 1 hy Law ! 
 
 II. 
 
 I am a ft ranger, and the rule I have 
 
 O're Nations , only comes from Thee > 
 I give them Lawes, but Thou mud give them me, 
 From Thy Commandments I afliftance crave > 
 My Soul is waited with deiire, 
 And with the Love Thy Judgements kindled, all a fire, 
 
 III. 
 
 The proud, who from Thy juft Commandments err, 
 
 Arc curs' d becaufe from Thee they go - , 
 Curfe great enough^ if it were only fo, 
 But all their wayes are girt around with fear : 
 
 Reproach, which they for me have lay'd, 
 Send them, fori Thy Tenements my guard have made ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 Kings too, as they in judgement on me fat, 
 
 Derided me for that great Love 
 I bore Thee, Lord,, invifible above, 
 But on Thy Statutes I did meditate ■> 
 
 Thy Tefti monies in my need 
 Were my belt Counfellors, and taught me how to plead. 
 
 DaJeth. 
 
554- AParaphrasb Libj. 
 
 I v. fart Daleth. 
 
 I. 
 
 DOwn to the Earth my humbled foul is caft, 
 Raife me according to Thy Word / 
 No power but Thine can any help afford, 
 For where 'tis thrown, it to the Earth cleaves faft ', 
 My wayes I have declar'd to Thee, 
 Teach me Thy Statutes, and (hew 1 hine to me ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Make me Thy Wayes and Prsecepts underftand, 
 
 So (hall I all Thy Works relate, 
 How Thou in me a new heart didft create, 
 And help'd/t me do, what Thou didft firft command * 
 
 My Soul for grief do's melt away, 
 Strengthen me with 1 hy Word, and bid the ftream to ftay/ 
 
 III. 
 
 Lying, and every falle defire remove, . 
 
 And freely to me grant Thy law .' 
 Thus my ArTe&ions Thou wilt to Thee draw, 
 And keep them in that Way of Truth I love •, 
 
 Thy Judgements I before me lay'd, 
 And what' s Thy Pleafure, the juft rule of mine have made. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Clofe to Thy Testimonies have I cleav'd, 
 
 And there to reit refolv'd I am \ 
 O let me never, Lord, be put to fhame, 
 Or when to Thee I fly, not be receiv'd ! 
 Thus when Thy W ill is on me done, 
 The Wayes of Thy Commandments IT1 delight to run. 
 
 He. 
 
Lib.* upon the C X I X Psalm, 355 
 
 He # v. fare, 
 
 Legem fone nrihi^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 TEach me, my God, and (hew me how I may 
 Up to Thy Sacred height afcend } 
 How all Thy Statutes I may keep to th' end, 
 Direct me with Thy Spirit, and point the Way \ 
 Let me Thy Lawes but understand, 
 My heart as firmly fhali obey them, as my hand ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Tth' paths of 1 hy Commandments make me go I 
 
 For there is placMnr.y chief delight, 
 Since 't willcondudt me to Thy glorious fight, 
 Where confrant joyes, and lalting pleafures flow : 
 
 And to Thy Teltaments incline 
 My heart, which covets nothing more, than to be Thine, 
 
 III. 
 
 From Vanity, and Folly turn my eyes ! 
 
 Let them be only fix'd on Thee ! 
 And m I hy wayesfuch beauteous objecTs fee, 
 That I my race may quicken by the prize ] 
 Perform Thy Word, which Thou hall pail, 
 And let it like Thine Own Love, and my fear ftand faft ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 My fear of Thee, for which 1T1 ever pray, 
 
 Though I by it reproach (hoald gain ^ 
 Thy Righteous Judgements (hall its rage reilrain, 
 Or turn the Fatall pile fbme other way : 
 
 Lock how Thy Praecepts I detire, 
 O, let the Righteoufrxfs, which made it, ftirr the Fire ! 
 
 Vau. 
 
y$6 A Paraphrase Libj. 
 
 VL fart, Vau. 
 
 Vt veniat fufer tne^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 LOrd, Let Thy Mercies on my Soul mower down ! 
 And as Thy Word my hope has fed, 
 May Thy Salvation reft upon my head, 
 And be the faireft Jewell in my crown ! 
 So when I (hall derided be, 
 That Word I truft,(hall with an Anfwer furnifh me ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Then take not, Lord, the Word of Truth away, 
 
 But let Thy Promife reft fecure, 
 Firm, and unfhaken, like the W r orld endure, 
 • For I have made Thy Judgements all niy ftay / 
 
 And when the graving is thus deep, 
 Thy Lawes, which are fo plain, I (hall for ever keep. 
 
 III. 
 
 Then will I fearelefs walk at liberty, 
 
 And for Thy Precepts Waves enquire, 
 Follow them hard, and i*th' perfuit expire, 
 When by their Conduct I am brought to Thee ; 
 Thy Teftaments I will proclaime, 
 Send them, fori Thy Teftaments my guard have made / 
 
 IV. 
 
 Then in Thy great Commandments I'll delight. 
 
 For they have been my deareft Love : 
 By keeping them my fear of Thee I'll prove, 
 And thus before 1 hee walk,, and be upright : 
 Will of Thy Statutes meditate, 
 And Them the more I love, the deadlier Sin will hate. 
 
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Lihf, upon the CX IX Vskiul \fj \ 
 
 Zain, yilttm. 
 
 1 Mmor tjto Vtrli iui 9 &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 REmember, Lord, Thy Word of old to me* 
 Which hitherto has been my Truft, 
 Whereia I hope, though humbled to the dull, 
 And in my griefs let it my comfort be \ 
 On that alone my So -il relies, 
 And fetches thence in all its troubles frefh fupplies, 
 
 IIj 
 
 A By-word to the Proud, and (corn f m made, 
 
 Yet I'll nor break, nor leave Thy Law : 
 But from Thy Judgements will new arg'ments draw,. 
 To make mc more of Thy great hand afraid ; 
 
 Nor (hall this interrupt my joyes, 
 But make them greater, fines thatfear has been my Choice* 1 
 
 III. 
 
 For them I'll tremble, who Thy Lawes defpiie,. 
 
 And leave the pleafant roads of Peace v. 
 Their direr condemnation to encreale, 
 Nor thither will be guided by their eyes ; 
 
 But Lerd, Thy Statutes are my long, 
 And make that journy (hort,whichel(e would feem too long, 
 
 IV. 
 
 And when the night do's the whole Earth enfold, 
 
 And all but I enjoy their red, 
 At thought of Thee, new day fprings in my breaft, 
 And up I rife of Thy Law to take hold, 
 
 Which may direct my Way to Thee =, 
 For whilft I keep Thy Precepts, 'tis (till day with mc, 
 
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 cc y E T wno 's will take the World for me, I fay'd, 
 " Thou only art my Portion, Lord .' 
 -*— ' Above all riches let me keep Thy Word, 
 
 Who that before all wealth my love have made ! 
 'Tis for Thy Favour that I fue, 
 And haftiiingof that Promife,which Thy Word makes due. 
 
 II. 
 
 On my paft wandrings I with horror thought, 
 
 And for their ftainsin lecret mourn'di . 
 But into joy my tears were quickly turned, 
 And by Thy Tettaments I home was brought 
 Then did I grieve my former wafte 
 Of Time, and Thy Commandments to obferve made haft 
 
 lit 
 
 Thy Wayes fcarce entred, bands of theives Imet, 
 
 And to their rage became a prey i 
 Yet fpoil'd of all I itill would keep my way, 
 Thy Lawes made me account the lofs not great : 
 Thy Judgments it to mind did bring, 
 And of Thy Mercies I at midnight rofe to ling ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 Thofe, who love Thee, my God, are my delight, 
 
 And more my boaftjng than my Crown j 
 For to Thy Prxapts we fubje&ion own, 
 And feek a greater Kmgdcm in Thy fight : 
 Thou, who the Earth with good doil fill : 
 Teach me Thy Statute?, that I may perform Thy Will ! 
 
 Tech. 
 
Zab.1. upon the C X I X Psalm. ^ 
 
 » 
 Teth. Part. IX. 
 
 Bonitatem fecijli cnm^ &t. 
 
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 THou for Thy Servant wondrous things haft done 
 And all the effe&s of love F have felt > 
 To my fins juft defer t Thou haft not dealt, 
 But after Thine own Word to me made known : 
 Sound Judgement to thefe blefllngs give, 
 Thofe juft Commands to keep, which now>Lord I believe ! 
 
 II. 
 
 In my Profperity I went aftray, 
 
 And to By-paths was turn'd afide > 
 But when Affli&ion came to be my guide, 
 I kept Thy Word, and found again Thy Way : 
 With goodnefs Thou doft ever flow, 
 That I may do fo too, Thy Statutes to me fhow ! 
 
 III. 
 
 The proud againft my fame have forg'd bate lyes, 
 
 But I Thy Praecepts will obey •> 
 A plenteous ftate has mad&them lofe their way,* 
 As it did me, and all Thy Lawes delpife : 
 * Gainft them, and Heav'n they boldly fight, 
 Whilft I reclaim'd, have treafur'd there my beft delight. 
 
 IV. 
 
 I am the Man, who have afflictions feen, 
 
 And happy me, who thus was taught ! 
 Thy Statutes, and from all my wandrings brought ! 
 Mercy to me, not judgements have they been » 
 
 1 hy Lawes they taught me to efteem, 
 And, think, that gold no lufter has,compar'd with Them, 
 
 X x 2 Jod. 
 
 Ay 
 
3<So A Paraphrase Lik^, 
 
 X.Part, 
 
 Jod. 
 Manus tv£ fecerunt &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 TH Y hands, God, firft made, and fafhion'd me, 
 And by Thy Power it is I live > 
 Good Underftandingto Thy Servant give, 
 That by Him Thy Commands oblervM may be ! 
 That thofe, who fear Thee may rejoice, 
 Jo fee Thy Word perform'd, and add to mine their voice. 
 
 II. 
 
 Iknow, my God, Thy Judgements all are right, 
 
 And that my felf I mult condemn, 
 E're I Unfaithtulnefs can charge on them, 
 My fbrrows, with my tins compared, are light i 
 
 But as Thou thus haft wounded me, 
 According to Thy Word, let me Thy Comforts fee ! 
 
 III. 
 
 Upon me let Thy Grace, and love dcfcend, 
 
 That I may yet before Thee live / 
 And to Thy Lawes, my lifes Remainder give ! 
 Whilft conftant fhame, and fcorn the proud attend. 
 
 Me without any caufe they hate, 
 But to Thy Precepts that (hall ne're my love abate. 
 
 I V. 
 
 Let thofe, who have Thy Tefti monies known, 
 
 And all, who truly worfhip Thee, 
 Hither turn in, and joyn themfelves with me s> 
 To tell abroad, what thou for us haft done ! 
 
 Nor let me ever be afharnd 
 T To keep Thy Statutes, or for love to Thee bee blam'd • 
 
 Caph, 
 
Lib. 4 }* upon the CXIX Psalm. $6l 
 
 Caph. 
 Defecit in faint are tuum anima^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 MY Soul, O God, for Thy Salvation faints ', 
 Yet in Thy Word my hope I place i, 
 For that I languilh, (new at length Thy Face, 
 Nor let me weary Thee with my Complaints / 
 Or fay " When (hall thefe troubles end, 
 cc And God, or give deliverance, or fome comfort fend ! 
 
 II. 
 
 My flefh is fhriverd. and my bones arc dry, 
 Smoak'd by that fire, with which I burn •> 
 Yet from Thy Statutes will I never turn. 
 But its worft rage courageoully defy : 
 Say, Lord, how long, how many dayes, 
 Are yet behind, e"* re Thou Thy felf to Judgement raife ? 
 
 III. 
 
 The proud for me deep pitts and fnares havelay'd, 
 
 But not according to thy Law ;> 
 From Thy Commands, they ftrange Conclufions draw 3 
 As if to reach me only they were nude : 
 But they all Faithfull are, and right, 
 Preferve Thou him, whofe juftice isoppos'd by Might / 
 
 IV. 
 
 My life through care is almoft brought to th' grave, 
 
 And all as dying on me look •, 
 Yet I Thy Praeorpts never yet forfbok, 
 From Thee., and Them a new life let me have ! 
 
 So in Thy fight I ftill (hall live, 
 And fall Obedience to Thy Teftirnonies give, 
 
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 XI. Part. 
 
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 Tart. xll. Lamed. 
 
 In Sermtm Domlnc^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 FOR ever, Lord, Thy Word in Heav'n remains, 
 In that almighty Frame tit fall > 
 'Its Faithfulnefs has reacht all ages part, 
 And, what at full it made, the Earth fuftaines : 
 And as it has been ever (lire, 
 Like the great fpeaker, it for ever (hall endure. 
 
 IL 
 
 All things the Order Thou firft gav'ft obey, 
 
 And on Thy mighty Will depend ; 
 All are Thy Servants, and on Thee attend, 
 And mail continue firm, as to this day : 
 
 Thefe Works of Thine my Soul affright, 
 But with Thy Law conficTred, fill me with delight. 
 
 III. 
 
 That, and Thy Prsectpts, will I ne're forget, 
 
 For by Them Thou haft quickned me j 
 Save me, my God, for I belong to Thee, 
 And for Thy lake, on Them my love have Cct J 
 To Them that I am Thine I ow, 
 May They be alwayes Mine, that I be alwayes fo. 
 
 IV. 
 
 The wicked plot how I may be betray'd, 
 
 But I Thy Tcftimonies love i 
 My Care, and Hope are finely hVd above, 
 And where nor they, nor Time can hurt them, layM : 
 Thersno True Happinefs below, ( (now 
 
 But where the Way to* it lyes Thy Juft Commandments 
 
 Mem, 
 
Libj. upon the C X I X Psalm. 363 
 
 Mem. Frrf. xHi. 
 
 Quotnodo dilexi Legem tuarn^ &c\ 
 
 I. 
 
 LOrd, how I love Thy Law ! 'tis ray delight, 
 My Meditation all day long, 
 By which Tm wiler made, and much more ftrong 
 Than all thofe Enemies, with whom I right > 
 All Thy Commands, with me abide, 
 And in my, Hearty to keep them fafe, Thy Lawes I hide. 
 
 II. 
 
 With me compared my Teachers all are dull, 
 
 Thy Teftirnoniesmy beft love 
 Havegiv ii me of that Wifdom from above, 
 Which with Its floods has filPd my Soul brim full > 
 
 Age lefs experience has then I, 
 Who alwayes have Thy Precepts, in my heart, or eye. 
 
 III. 
 
 By thefe to guide my feet I have been brought, 
 
 That I Thy Word might alwayes keep , 
 And from Thy Righteous Judgements never flip. 
 But firm abide in what 1 tirft was taught : 
 
 From them I never did depart, 
 But like Thy [di they freely did Command my heart. 
 
 IV. 
 
 So fweet Thy Words are, and (b full of grace, 
 
 And all fo pleafar.t to my Tafte, 
 That hony which from flowing Hives makes haite, 
 Inlipid to them is, and yields its place > 
 
 I through Thy Precepts knowledge get. 
 And hate all wayes, that may decline, or ft ray from if. - 
 
 Nun. 
 
jfi% A Paraphrase Lib.$. 
 
 XY< Tart. Nun. 
 
 Lucerna pedibuf^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 IN ail my Wayes Thy Word directs my feet, 
 And as a lamp do's give them light. 
 What I have (worn, Imce what I (wore is right, 
 The juft performance, with my Vowes (hall meet : 
 To keep Thy Judgements I have (worn, 
 That I may keep Them, mayft Thou never from me turn ! 
 
 II. 
 
 With (harp ArrMions, down to th" Earth I'm caft, 
 
 But let Thy Word my life reltore ! 
 That in Thy Church I may Thy Power adore , 
 And of the Rivers of Thy Pleaiuretafte*, 
 
 Lord by Thy Judgements make me wi(e> 
 And what Thou me halt given, accept for (acrirlce ! 
 
 III. 
 
 Thole dangers, which have compafs'd me around, 
 
 Where I faw only Care, and Fear, 
 Ready exposed, my life have made me bear, 
 Yet through Thy Law I kept it, and my ground: 
 Snares, and a trap the Wicked lay'd, 
 But I (hnnM both, for I my guide Thy Prsecepts made. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Thy Testimonies are my Heritage, 
 
 And (hall my double Portion be > 
 My joy, for Thty alone conduct to Thee, 
 And to obferve Them Til my heart engage .* 
 
 My heart Til to Thy Statutes joyn, 
 And make Thy glory, which is Their Chief end, be mine. 
 
 Samcch 
 
Libj. upon the CXIX Psalm, ffi 
 
 Samech. xy. Tart, 
 
 Iniqnos odia habni^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 VAin thoughts, and alt their follies I abhor, 
 But for Thy Law preserve my Love \ 
 Thou art my hiding place, and from above 
 My help- fhallcome, fmcelThy Power implore ; 
 Thou art my fhield, defend me, Lord, 
 For I all times, have only trufted in Thy Word ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Avoid Protane, farr hence Profane depart. 
 
 Fori my God's Commands will keep ! 
 Uphold me, Lord, that I may never (lip, 
 And to Thy Word both give my life, and heart ! 
 
 So farr from (hame to call Thee Mine, 
 That I will all my glory count it, To be thine. 
 
 III. 
 
 If Thou upholdft me, then (hall I ftandfait. 
 
 And to Thy Statutes homage yield > 
 Wh jfe falfe defpifers Thou with (hame haft filfd, 
 And of the cup they others gave, made tafte > 
 
 DeceL and guile are m their wayes, ( praite. 
 
 And only him they would throw down,they load with 
 
 IV. 
 
 But Thou all Inch (halt from the Earth deftroy, 
 
 Whilit as Reriners purg their drofs, 
 And by pure metal recomp^nce the !o(s, 
 Thine (hall be fuch without the lealt alloy : 
 My {elf that Inquitiiion fear, 
 Yet in my Soul it truly by Thy Judgements bear. 
 
 Yy Aku 
 
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 p^.xvi. Ain . 
 
 Feci judicium^ &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 JUfticc, my God, has been my chiefeft care,. 
 To thofe who hate me, leave me not ! 
 Let not my ancient fcrvice be forgot, 
 Nor thole who juftly fuffred be my rear ! 
 Let not OppreiTors trouble me, 
 But fave Thou Him, who oft has the Opprefs'd let free ! 
 
 II. 
 
 My eyes expecting Thy Salvation fail,. 
 
 And for Thy Righteous Word I waite j 
 At lait 1 hy Mercy grant, tis ne're too late, 
 And let my importunity prevaile ! 
 
 Thy Promifes to me fullrill, 
 And to Thy Statutes both my eare incline, and \#ill !: 
 
 III. 
 
 I am Thy Servant and Thy Handmaids Son, 
 
 That I Thy Tenements may know, 
 True Wifdom, a^d good Undcrftandingfhow, 
 And now appear, as thou of old haft done ! 
 "lis Time ior Thee, Lord, now to rife, 
 For thole who mould obey Thy Law, its rule deipife, 
 
 I V, 
 
 But I difvalue gold, with it compar'd,. 
 
 And Thy Commandments more than gold, 
 And all its chains me in Obedknce hold, 
 For much above'it Thou know 1 It I Them prefer'd ^ 
 
 Thy Praeapts above All I love, 
 And this bk&d Paflipn.by my flight 
 
 by my flight from fin will prove. 
 
 Pe, 
 
Lib.j. upon the C X I X Psalm. %6j 
 
 Mirabilia Tejimottla, &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 TH Y Teftimonies Lord are wonderful!, 
 Therefore I. make Them all my Care * 
 The very entrance of Thy Word is fair, 
 And with its beams inlightens my dark Soul : 
 l£ fuch the Porch, and Entrance be, 
 What Wonders may we in Thy Sanctuary fee ! 
 
 I* 
 
 I longM for Thy Commandments, and the air 
 
 BrcatrTd thence, into my Soul ; drew y 
 Me thoughts it did my Spirit again renew, 
 And deai 'd the itoppages, which prefs'd me there : 
 Look down, and to me be the lame 
 As Thou art us'dto be to them who love Thy Name ! 
 
 III. 
 
 According to Thy Word my fteps direct, 
 
 Nor let me be by Sin o'rethrown, 
 Who juft Allegiance to Thy Prseapts own, 
 And from fure ruine the Ot pres'd protect ! 
 Let me no more a Captive be 
 To luft, lincc Thou haft broke my Chains, and fit me free ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 Lord, on Thy Servant make Thy Face to (hine. 
 
 And me Thy Righteous Statutes teach, 
 That I to others may Thy Goodnefs preach, 
 And how like me, they too may be made Thine ! 
 For floods of teases run down my eye% 
 And for Thy Broken Lawes Seas from thufe Fountains rife. 
 
 Y y 2 Tfaddi. 
 
3^3 
 
 A Paraphrase Lib.j. 
 
 kviil Tfaddi. 
 
 Jufius es Doming &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 AS Thou art, fuch, my God* Thy Judgments are, 
 Thou Righteous, and They all upright* 
 Thy Teftimonies govern lefs by Might, ( f a i r : 
 
 Than Juftice,wherewith Thou hall: made I hem 
 And thofe, who to Thy Scepter bow, 
 Which is fo right,and faithful!, are themfelves made fo. 
 
 II. 
 
 My Zeal has burnt me up,and all on fire 
 
 I faint to fee Thy Word forgot \ 
 Thy Word that 's try'd, and from the Fornace hot 
 In facred flames of love makes me expire i 
 
 And wonder, who through cold can d)\ 
 Who has fo hot and pure a fire to warm him by. 
 
 III. 
 
 Thou know'ft Vm poor, deipis'd, and wondrous low, 
 
 Yet will I not Thy precepts leave, 
 But even thence hope new vigor to receive, 
 How poor and low fo e're I may be now ; 
 
 Thy Laws and Truth Co certain be, ( free. 
 
 That what Thou once haspromis'd^rom all change (lands 
 
 IV. 
 
 This only was my Comfort in my grief, 
 
 When anguifh fait hold of me took, 
 That I Thy juft Commandments ne're forfook, 
 And they, which were my love brought me relief > 
 That I may ever with Thee live, 
 Sound knowledge of Thy Teftimonies to me give ! 
 
 Coph 
 
Lib.$> upon the C XIX Psalm, tfo 
 
 Coph. X I X. Tart. 
 
 Clamavi in toto corde^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 With my whole heart, in my diftreis I cryM, 
 Aloud I cry'd, but more for fear 
 To break Thy Statutes, than my Pains to bear 
 " O let me never, fayM I, be deny'd ! 
 cc But rile my God to reicue m^ 3 
 cc And Til Thy Teftimonies keep, and honour Thee ! 
 
 II. 
 
 The Morning, with my Prayer I did prevent, 
 
 For in Thy Word my hope I plac'd \ 
 The Morning, with my cry 1 bid make hafte 5 
 But e're it came my Vowes I up had fent : 
 
 'Twas then a pleafure not to deep, 
 For all the while Thy word with me the watch did keep. 
 
 III. 
 
 Lord for Thv Mercy fake, to me give eare, 
 
 And in Thy Jufiice vifit me ' 
 May, they agreed, my Mighty Saviours be, 
 And as I Thine, make Thee my Voice to hear ! 
 
 O be not farr off from my cry. 
 When thofe, who hate Thy Law,and Me,are come fo nigh ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 But chear up, Soul, fee where Thy God do's ftand, 
 
 Thy God, whofe juit Commands are True, 
 Who with a Word can all Thy Foes fubdue, 
 And publifh His great Victories in all lands / 
 
 Whofe Teftimonies Thou haft found, 
 Eternity alone in its vaft Space can bound. 
 
 Reft, 
 
%yo A Paraphrase Lib.j. 
 
 Vide humilHatem, &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 COnfider my affliction and my Pain, 
 And lave Mc, for I keep hy law ! 
 Defend my cauie, and from my Weaknefs draw 
 • Such arguments, as may Thy Power maintain ! 
 For 1 hy Words fake deliver me, 
 [I he fafety, like redemption from the grave mall be .' 
 
 II. 
 
 Salvation from the proud is farr away, 
 So much they on thcmfelves d pend, 
 But never to 1 hy Statutes Voice attend, 
 Which only are my Prop, and mighty Hay i 
 Thy Mercies great and wondrous be, 
 Yet, Lord, according to Thy Judgements quicken me ! 
 
 III. 
 
 Many my Foes, againft me thoufands rife, 
 
 Yet 1 Thy Teftaments obey j 
 And others would perfwade to tike Thy Way, 
 W ho only are for that my Enemies : 
 For them Tm fure I truely grieve, 
 Becaufe they Thy Almighty Word will not believe. 
 
 IV. 
 
 For my own partlikeThee I nothing love, 
 
 Th) Praecipes are my chief delight, 
 That I my alwayes think them fo, Jet light, 
 And an Eternal day break from above ! 
 Thy Word for ever True has been, 
 Nor have Thy Righteous Judgements any variance feen. 
 
 Schin 
 
Lib. 4 }* upon the CXIX Psalm # 371 
 
 Schin. p a rt. XXL 
 
 Princifes perfecuti^ &t. 
 
 I. 
 
 T^yRinces without caufe are my Enemies, 
 I -^ But of Thy Word I ftand in aw'; 
 
 Lying I hate, but have obferv'd Thy Law, 
 And (0 their threats, and malice can defpiie : 
 And if for them I have a fear, 
 Into my heart I look, and fee a greater there. 
 
 II- 
 
 Thy Word, which is at once my fear, and truft, 
 
 Makes me in mighty fhouts rejoice, 
 As one that finds great fpoil, or has His Choice, 
 For it will make me, Lord, as Thou art, Juft •, 
 
 For that (even times a day IT1 praife v ( raife, 
 
 And with Thy righteous Judgements,my fmall Numbers 
 
 III. 
 
 Great peace to them, who love Thy Laws, belongs. 
 
 And nothing (hall their reft crT.nd, 
 But all their lives they (hall in pleafurc fpend, 
 And thence, take lofty Subjects for their longs i 
 In Thee, my God, I, truft alone, 
 And thofc Commands rLougav'il me to obferve,have done*. 
 
 IV. 
 
 My Soul has .all Thy Testimonies kept, . 
 
 And they have been my purelt love, 
 I by their condudt did my joqrnies move, 
 Nor from the W a y, which they iirit (hew'dme, ftept : 
 
 They and Thy Praecepts were my guide, 
 Nor. did Iitrivemy paths from tr.y. bright face to hide. 
 
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ijz AParaphrasb Lib.<>. 
 
 xxil.P*". Taw, 
 
 Appropwquet deprccatio, &c, 
 
 I. 
 
 LOrd, kt my cry at length approach Thine ear, 
 And Under (landing to me give, 
 To know Thy Word, and by its rule to live, (hear ' 
 And all the prayers,which here I 'have made Thee 
 Lord, for Thy Word to fave me rife, 
 And then I may be confident Thou hear'ft my cries I 
 
 IL 
 
 Then (hill my fong of all Thy Power reherie, 
 
 And of the Change Thy Statutes wrought * 
 How by Thy Word 1 home to Thee was brought, 
 And by thole fteps to Heav'n Til raife my Verfe ! 
 
 For Thy Commandments righteous are, ( Care ! 
 And thofe,who make them theirs,mall bz themfelves Thy 
 
 III. 
 
 May I be fo, for they have been my Choice, 
 
 And in Thy Precepts I delight \ 
 Thy Law's my Meditation day and night, 
 And all times do's my hearf employ, or voice , 
 For Thy Salvation, Lord, 1 wait, 
 Make hall: and come away, before it be too late! 
 
 IV. 
 
 Like a loft fheepfrom Thee I went aftray, 
 
 Nor to the fold again mould come, 
 But feek me, Lord, and bring Thy Servant home, 
 For He do's yet Thy great Commands obey ! 
 Around me let Thy Judgements mine, 
 And thus from danger fav'd, the Praife ftiall all be Thine ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.f. upon the C XX Psalm. %*fi 
 
 Pfalm CXX. 
 
 Afmgof 
 
 Ad Dotninntn cum tributarer^ &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 IN my diftrefs unto the Lord I cry'd, Degrees.' 
 
 And though my troubles made me fear, 
 That God His tace would from mc hide. 
 Even then my God was pleased to hear, 
 And then inclin'd His Willing ear, 
 And anlwer'd me, when I molt looKt to be deny'd. 
 
 II. . 
 
 Thou heardftme, and Thyfolf didft let mefree, 
 My Enemies faw their fwords were vain, 
 And with their tongues did (hike at me, 
 With lyes my Innocence fought to (lain - y 
 Lord, on rhem tarn their lyes again, 
 And let their tongues, weak as their fwords, to hurt me be ! 
 
 III. 
 
 But what reward, falfe tongue, dolt Thou defire, 
 Or who to give't Thee dares come nigh > 
 Thou wounded, when Thou doft retire, 
 As Parthians right molt when they fly, 
 Thy Words then kill, when thou runn'ft by, 
 Like Juniper Coles are fweet,but burn worfe than their fire* 
 
 IV. 
 
 Unhappy Man, who thus am fore'd to Itay, 
 Exn'd from Him I love moft dear ! 
 From Thee, my God, O Come away? 
 Let me not be without Thee here! 
 But where Thou art let me appear / 
 Any where Lord, To Thou wilt but Thy ielf difplay. 
 
 Z z V. Then 
 
374 A Paraphrase Lib.?. 
 
 v. 
 
 Than Mejech can a place more favage be, 
 Where all to Peace fworn Enemies are, 
 And for Her fake are fo to me > 
 Kedar with Mefechtmy compare, 
 I cry up Peace, They call for Warr > 
 Yet that were nothing, Lord, could I but there have Thee. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Libj. upon the CXXI Psalm. $75 
 
 Pftlm OX XL 
 
 Levavi oculosmtos in MonUs^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 UNto the Hills I rais'd my drooping eyes, A fang of 
 
 And look'd if any help were there, Degrees. 
 
 Loaded with tears I made them rife, 1 1. 
 
 To watch, and give the fign, when help drew near ? 
 I rais'd them up but all in vain, 
 I could not keep them fo, 
 Their own weight prefs'd them to the Earth again, 
 On high they would not be, when I was (unk (blow • 
 
 II. 
 
 Up to your tops, O Hills, Til look no more, 
 An unexpected help is nigh i 
 I overlook'd this help before, 
 Look'd, when I thought not high enough, too high i 
 For, lo, my God my part do's take, 
 On my fide do's appear j 
 God whofe great word,both Heav'n and Earth did make, 
 And what need other help, when the Almighty 's near ! 
 
 III. 
 
 * Thy Foot, He faid it, all times fixt (hall ftand, 
 And He (hall watch about Thee keep j 
 The Lord (hall lead Thee by the hand, 
 And never, though thou flumbreft, fall afleep : 
 For Tjrael He is ftill awake, 
 His eyes (till open be ;> 
 And He, who of an Ijrael care can take, 
 Fear not, but He can well enough provide for Thee I 
 
 Z z 2 I V. Twixt 
 
%y& AParapmrasb Lib.i. 
 
 IV. 
 
 TwixtHim, and Thee no cloud (hall interpofe, 
 But He foall be HimfelfThy (hade* 
 To break the Maliee of Thy Foes, 
 The Eternall God, (hall be Thy refuge made : 
 The Lord (hall be Thy fure defence, 
 Thy guard both night, and day, 
 Shall fweeten every Planets influence, 
 And toferveThee, make both the Sun, and Moon obey. 
 
 V. 
 
 God (hall defend Thee, and Thy life (hall be 
 Secur'd from danger by His love > 
 And all things, which belong to Thee, 
 The Care, which He has of Thy Soul (hall prove : 
 Without, He (hall direct Thy Way, 
 Within, (hallblefs Thy (tore* 
 And all the while from Him Thou 'rt fore'd to ftay, 
 Shall what Thou haft make ferve Thy turn, or give Thee 
 
 ("more ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.i. upon the C X X 1 1 Psalm, 577 
 
 Pfalm CXXII. 
 Lftatus fum in hk qmt^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 TWas the beft news I wifh to hear, . ^ r m n f 
 
 My veiy Soul ftood raviftit at my ear , Ve frees of 
 
 <; Let's go, they fay'd > Come ! Let's away ! David. 
 cc Already wc have tarried long enough, XII, 
 
 ct Now let our fpeed declare Our love •, 
 " Why mould we thus from Sion ftay, 
 " And only be unhappy by our Own delay ? 
 
 II. 
 
 cc Lefs go •, fee at the City gates 
 ec How God Himfelf to greet Our coming waits ! 
 
 "We Come, O Gocl, nor will we reft, 
 " Till we the place have in Jemfalem found, 
 
 cc Till we have trod that Holy ground, 
 
 « Which Thou of all the World lov'ft beft, 
 "Which Thou of all the World haft with Thy Prefcnce bleft. 
 
 III. 
 
 Jerufakm is ftrong, and fair. 
 Glorious above what other Cities are 5 
 
 The Seat of the Eternal King, 
 Whofc lofty Palaces approach the skies, 
 
 And to fre near t^eir God ro'Heav'n rile ; 
 
 T.uthei the Tubes their Oderuigs bring, 
 And from their featured Cities come His Praile to fine. 
 
 IV. 
 
 There are the Thrones of Judgement fet, 
 Her Power is large, and Her Dominion great ; 
 
 Z z 2 The 
 
}78 AParaphrase Lib.j. 
 
 The Thrones of David there ftand faft, 
 The Lord Himfelf in Sion founded them, 
 Has fixt them in Jewfakm^ 
 Subject to neither change, or Waft, 
 But fuch, as fhall by Him upheld, for ever lad, 
 
 V. 
 
 Triumphant City v Mayft Thou be 
 Happy like Him, who firft eftablifht Thee ! 
 
 May He from Warrs Thy gates iccure, 
 And like Thee Thy well-wifhers ever blefs, 
 
 Give Thee a lc ng, and certain peace, 
 
 Make all His blefiings to Thee lure, 
 And may Thy Peace, as conitant as His Power endure ! 
 
 VI. 
 
 For Ijraels fake Thou haft my love, 
 Second to none but His who rules above > 
 
 For Sions (ake I'll happinefs 
 On all Thy Palaces, and Borders pray •-> 
 Thy Palaces (hall ne're decay, 
 Within Thy Borders Warr (hall ceafe, 
 For He, who is Thy Guardian, is the God of Peace. 
 
 Pfal 
 
 m 
 
ZAf.upon the C X X I II Psalm. 37 6 
 
 T 
 
 Pfalm C X X 1 1 L 
 Ad te Levdvi oculos mcos^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 O Thee, O Lord, I lift rr>y careful eyes, 4 fomrof 
 
 To Heav'n, where Thou fitft cloath'd with light, y ei , r J~ s 
 And though I hoppers am to reach Thy fight, ' jy 
 
 I cannot choofe but let them thither rife-, 
 Tow'rds Heavii they look, and feek Thee every where, 
 And though they lee Thee not, know Thou art there. 
 
 II. 
 
 As Servants on their Matters ilgn depend, 
 
 Know what to do, what to forbear, 
 From thence, though they no other language hear. 
 And with quick eyes unto their hands attend : 
 Way ting on Thee, we more dependant (how, 
 And though Thou art inviiible, do fo. 
 
 III. 
 
 We wait, and waiting never will give o're, 
 
 Till Thou to us Thy Mercy (how, 
 O, on us Now Thy Mercy, Lord beiiow, 
 And what we long have lolt, again reftore ! 
 Thy Mercy, Lord \ and iir.ee Thou 'rt Juft, and firong. 
 Repeal Our miferies, and revenge Our wrong ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 Revenge the wrong, which we endure from thole. 
 
 Who at us fcorfj becaufe We 're Thine, 
 Againfftas only for Thy fake combine, 
 And are Our envious and malicious foes ! 
 Their lloth, and eale make them Our pains deride, 
 And all Our grief's the Tnumph of their pride, 
 
 Pfalm 
 
380 A Paraphrase Lib.*}. 
 
 Pfalm CXXIV. 
 Niji quia Dminus^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A fong of cc TTA D not the Lord our Cauie maintained 
 
 Degrees of H" The Lord Himfelf, may Ifrael&y, 
 
 David. cc Had not the Lord the Vi&oryfor us gain'd, 
 
 V . ct Inftcad of getting, We had loll the day, 
 
 " And Captives been to them, who now are made Our prey, 
 
 II. 
 
 On us they came, and like a flood, 
 Which would within no banks be held, 
 They fiercer grew, the more they were withftood. 
 Increased in rage, when we their force repcll'd, 
 And by Our oppoiition higher only fwelPd. 
 
 III. 
 
 God on the banks in view did ftand, 
 And when the floods did Low deft rore, 
 Mov'd o're the floods His All-commanding hand, 
 They itood awhile and gaz'd, then backwards bore, 
 And chid their fellow waves, which came too How before. 
 
 IV. 
 
 The Lord HimfJf has made Our Way, 
 And from their fnares has 11 1 us free. 
 The fnares are broke, which they for us did lay, 
 And when they lookM that we mould taken be, 
 God who firft loos' d the net, did give us wings to flee. 
 
 V. 
 
 God is Our refuge, and m vain 
 Frail Man again it Him thinks to ftand '•> 
 His Word made all things, all things do's fuitain., 
 And He deliverance for us will command, 
 Has part His Word to do it, and will ufe his Hand ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.'), upon the CXXV Psalm. 581 
 
 Pfalm CXXV. 
 gui confidnnt in Domino \ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 AL L thofe, who on th 1 Almighty God rely, 
 On God, who do's o're all command, A fi n & of 
 
 UnmovM (hall like Mount Sim ftand, Degree* • 
 
 Shall ftand as firm, and bear their heads as high j V I. 
 
 And what Mount Sions to Jemfakm^ 
 The Rock of Ages (hall Himfelf be made to Them. 
 
 II. 
 
 Thrice happy City, girt with Mountains round. 
 
 On wnom, acknowledging Thy Itate, 
 
 The leifer Hills rife up, and wait, 
 By God Himfelf Q_een of all Cities crown'd, 
 Impregnable,and irecp rocks defend Thy Coatfs, ( Hofts! 
 But would prove vain, were not their guard The Lord of 
 
 III. 
 
 He only is Thy Strength, and not thole Hills, 
 
 Yet as thofc Hills girt Thee about, 
 
 The Lord furrounds^ and rinds His out, 
 Is alwayes near, iince every Place He fills ; 
 God thall right for them make their Enemies fly, 
 Left feeing them ihllprofper, They mould Him deny. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Arife, O God, and fhew Thy Mighty hand, 
 
 Let not the Righteous be oppres'd ! 
 
 Do good to Them, but for the reft, 
 Let them fhy Wrath by bearing underft and 1 
 On Ifiazl Peace, and Thy Chief Bk (lings (ho wer, 
 But on their Enemies floods of Fire, and Brimftone poure 
 
 A aa Pfalm. , 
 
;8a A P a r a p h r a s e Lih.%. 
 
 Pfalm CXXVI. 
 
 In convertendo Dominus. 
 
 I. 
 
 a r f T 7T T Hen God a Miracle for Sion wrought, 
 
 V tfs! W And home Her Cxil ' d Ca P tives brou ght, 
 (Exiles, whofe long Captivity 
 
 Made them forget they e're were free, 
 
 And almoft wilh, but as they were to be) 
 
 Th' Almighty did the Work fo fail, 
 
 Wc thought it but a pleafant dream, 
 
 Yet wifht that dream might ever laft, 
 
 It did fo pleafant to us ieenv, 
 ADieam, which though we did not homewards go, 
 Made us believe we did, and hope 'tvras Co. 
 
 II. 
 
 But when Fruition had Our hopes o'recomc, 
 And we indeed awak'd at home, 
 A Dream Our fufferings then feem'd more, 
 Than Our deliverance did before, 
 
 A Dream we thought what we in bondage bore y 
 And cheered at Our arrivall there, 
 Like men rous'd by. fome fuddain fright, 
 Who in fuipence 'twixt joy, and fear, 
 Wake anu fpeak of i(, when 'tis light, 
 
 We whom Oui feares (truck dumb His praifes fpoke^ 
 
 Who iirft Our chains, and then Our filence broke . 
 
 III. 
 
 The very heathen, as We part along, 
 Joyn'd with us in Our cheerful fong, 
 u The Lord has done great things, they faf d, 
 c Great things for us, we anfwer made 
 
 The Lord has done great things, whereof we're glad !. 
 
 Like 
 
Lib.f. upon the C X X V I Psalm. 383 
 
 Like us may He the Remnant bring, 
 
 Bring back the whole, Captivity, 
 
 And fince there 'sWater in the Spring, 
 
 O, may not long the tkeames be dcy ! 
 But, Lord, like Rivers in the parched South, 
 Make thefe outflow, as Thou fuppli'ft their drougtfi f 
 
 IV. 
 
 He, who his future hopes in grief do's low, 
 
 And makes them with his tears to grow, 
 
 With joy (hall (ee a fruitful! fpring, 
 
 With joy His harveft home (hall bring, 
 And all his (heaves with (howting carry in : 
 
 As when the Carefull Husbandman, 
 
 His feed into the ground has thrown, 
 
 Rejoyces at a foaking rain, 
 
 To water that, which he has fown, 
 Pknty diftills fromHeav'n with every drop. 
 And a moyft Seed-Time makes the faireft crop. 
 
 A a a x Pfalm 
 
 
3$^ A Paraphrase Lib. ?• 
 
 Halm CX XV II. 
 Nifi Dominus edipcavmt^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A fong of T""X O wn to the very Centre of the Earth, 
 Degrees of J Let the foundations fink as low, 
 
 Solomon. As its proud Towers in height do go, 
 
 V 1 1 1. To Heavn above, and touch Hell underneath. 
 If God the Mighty Pile do's not fuftain, 
 The weaker buttreffes are all in vain : 
 Either an Earth-quake to the ground 
 Shall overthrow, and level! all v 
 Or God Himfelf the Babel (hall confound, 
 And then the difference is but fmall, 
 Whether it ftand a Babel, or a Palace fall, 
 
 II. 
 
 Bring all the Forces of the Ci tie out, 
 
 Guard every port, and every ftreet, 
 
 A double guard upon them let, 
 And girt the Walls as they girt you about ? 
 Yet after all to Heaven you open ly> 
 ( Heav'n the beft friend, but the worft Enemy ) 
 
 No guarding againft that can lave, 
 
 But without help from thence is loft, 
 And thofe, who would from Heav'n protection have, 
 
 Muft: keep their hearts,more than their Coafts, (Holts. 
 Muft keep there, what muft them preferve,the Lord of 
 
 III. 
 
 " The Sun's already up, and I mull rile, 
 " How foon the day has chas'd the night ! 
 But when that has expell'd the light, 
 
 " How foon 'tis Night I the painfull labourer cries ! 
 
 r With 
 
Z/fe.upon theCXXVI i Psalm. 385 
 
 With care he rifes, and with care lyes down, 
 An@thers makes the profit, Care his Own : 
 
 This though unhid, is his fure gueft, 
 
 Unfeen into his bed do's Aide, 
 And al way es hinders, orelie breaks his reft * 
 
 Poor Man, who thinks by this falfe guide, 
 To find that Eafe, which God from all but His do's hide ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 God eaie, and Children to His Own do's give, 
 
 Crowns all their Cares with this encreafe, 
 
 Makes their great care their greateft eafe, 
 Children, in whofe Poilerity they live ^ 
 For by thefe (hafts beyond the grave they fly. 
 And triumph o^re their greateitEnerjay. 
 
 The Man, whole quiver loaded is 
 
 With fiidi as thefe, need fear no ihame, 
 Some may reach home, though fome fall fhort, or rnifs i 
 
 Happy Man, who has to guard His Fame, 
 More than great Kings a life-guard of his blood,and Name ! 
 
 Pfalra 
 
$6 A Paraphrase hib.%. 
 
 Pfalm CXXVIIL 
 Beati otnnes qui timefit^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A fmg of T)^ e ^ * s tne ^ an > wn °fc tea* do's prove 
 
 Degrees r^Only his guide in the Right Way, 
 
 I X. Whofe fear makes him the Lord obey, 
 
 And is the belt incentive to his love : 
 He of the Labour of his hands (hall eat, 
 The Lord (hall alvvayes blefs his ftoie, 
 His bleffiiigs alwayes (hall flow o n re, 
 And God, who makes him good, will make them great. 
 
 II. 
 
 His Wife, like to a fruitful Vine, 
 
 Shall into breadth and clufters run, 
 
 To him {hall look, as to her Sun, 
 And ftill have fruit on which that Sun may dune : 
 Like Olive plants his children round his board. 
 
 With fpreading branches garnifhed, 
 
 Shall with their bloflbms crown his head •, 
 And thus mail he be bleft, who fears the Lord. 
 
 III. 
 
 The Lord (hall blefs Thee, (hew Thee good, 
 
 And all Thy dayes (hall let Thee fee 
 
 Jerufakms Profperity, 
 And wonder how lb long unmov'd it flood : 
 Thou into Childrens Children (halt increafe, 
 
 Shalt fee them into Children grow i 
 
 And, what will make it Heaven below, 
 Shalt IJrael ail the while behold in Peace ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.j. upon the CXXIX Psalm, 587 
 
 Pfalm CXXIX. 
 S#pe exfugnaverunt) &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 UP from my Youth may Ijrael fay, 
 From my Youth up I have great troubles feen, A f on & °f 
 Trouble, and life did at a time begin, Degrees 
 
 Bear date from the fame place, and day, V 1 1. 
 
 Together came, together flay, 
 Scarce any joy appears between, ( been. 
 
 Yet through that God, who helps me, I have Conqueror 
 
 II. 
 
 My Enemies came, and with their plough 
 My tender back did cruelly run o're, 
 My tender back with cruel furrows tore, 
 
 They p!ow\J, but nothing hop'd would grow, 
 
 But then God did the furrows fow, 
 
 From my frefh wounds new armes I bore, ( before. 
 And o're them brought the wheel, who plo w'd o're me 
 
 III. 
 
 The Righteous God has ftrook in two, 
 And broke thole fnares, which for Our feet they made, 
 His all their plots, and mifchiefs openlai'd, 
 
 And though they thought He did not know, 
 
 Difcover'd what they thought to do, 
 
 Made them of their own fnares afraid, 
 May Sions foes with their own wrongs thus be repafd ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 May God upon their glory blow, 
 And like the grals, which on fome aged Wall, 
 Looks frefh, and gay, and almoft out of call, 
 
 With fcorn beholds the fields below, 
 
 So 
 
588 A Paraphrase LiLj. 
 
 So may they flourim, wither To, 
 So may they (land, fo may they fall, 
 Till in one ruine perim grafs , and mound, and all. 
 
 V. 
 
 The Reaper cannot fill his hand, 
 In vain the husband mm do's give it reft, 
 In vain expedb with (heaves to fill his breaft, 
 It thrives not like his other land, 
 That growes, but this is at a Hand, 
 That by each patfenger is bled, 
 Bat none for this do's ever put i.p one requeft. 
 
 VI. 
 
 There ftirrs not as you pafs a prayer, 
 But all (truck iilent, as they there go by, 
 liril look up, if their prayers will reach fohigh, 
 And think them better us'd dCc where j 
 Nor like thefe lhall you wifh.es hear, 
 " Th' Almighty grant profperity, 
 cc And what Our blefllngs want,may His to Thee fup ply ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Lib.], upon the C XXX Psalm. ^8p 
 
 Ffalm CXXX, 
 
 De profuffdk ckmavi^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 OU T of the depths unto the Lord I cry'd, 
 
 Deep Seas of Miferie Where I lay, v ■• F ^i' 
 
 But o're my foul the waves did ride, tentialPjatm 
 
 And louder roar'd, when I began to pray, ofDegws. 
 Ah! itill their noife, and be- not, Lord, as deaf as they ! x *• 
 
 II. 
 
 I know I have deferv'd theie miferies, 
 
 And greater plagues might juftly fear* 
 
 And if Thou fhould'ft to judgement rile, 
 Indeed deipair of ever coming near, 
 For thole great fins, which harden mine, may (top Thy ear, 
 
 III. 
 
 But, Lord, there is forgiveneil (till with Thee, 
 
 Thou wait'fi Thy Favours to bellow, 
 
 I wait when Thou wilt gracious be, 
 My hope alone do's from Thy Mercie flow, 
 And iince Thou wait'ft, Lord, to be gracious, Ah, be Co ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 For as the Watchman, who has Hood all night, 
 Upon the guard do's long for day, 
 Looks when the Sun will make it light, 
 Juft fo attending on the Lord We flay, 
 Till the bright Sun of Righteoufnefs His beames difplay. 
 
 V. 
 
 Hope in Thy God', O IJrael, and Thy trull: 
 All times upon His Mercie place > 
 He who has promis'd Thee is juit, 
 And if with confidence Thou feek His Face, 
 Thy fins He'l take away, and freely give His Grace. 
 
 Bbb Another 
 
3po A Paraphrase Lih.j. 
 
 Another Verfion of the fame., by M. Jkf. b. 
 
 PLung'd in the depths of fin and miiery, 
 Where I could nothing fee but Death 
 Ready to ftifle my complaining breath, 
 With which to Thee my God I fent my Cry, 
 
 Hoping at length to reach Thine ear, 
 And by my often calls get Thee to hear, 
 Hear me, I faiJ, kt not my Cries be vain, 
 Left I no ftrength mould have to Cry again. 
 
 I I. 
 Eterriall God, mould Thy all-feeing eye 
 
 Severely marke Our often (trayes ■■> 
 Our wandrings i'th' forbidden dangerous waves, 
 Ofbafeftfin, and fond Iniquity, 
 
 Who then could m Thy preience ftand, 
 Or bear the weight of Thy enraged hand >' 
 But Thou art mighty iir Thy Pardoning love, 
 O let us fear that we may grateful prove. 
 
 III. 
 Wherefore Til wait for Thee, my gracious Lord 5 
 
 Till Thou Thy Favours (halt difpence, 
 And make me feel their powerful influence, 
 My Soul for this .(hall hope in Thy fure word : 
 
 For Thee Fll wait with more deiire 
 Than they, who for the Morning light enquire. 
 That from their weary watch they may be freed } 
 Yea more than they, wherefore my God make fpeed! 
 
 IV. 
 Let Ifiael on the Lord repofe His truft, 
 
 Wkh whom both Merck is and love, 
 The conftant ftreames that flow from Him above .- 
 Like whom there's none fo good, yet none fojuft: 
 
 For though He did a ranfom rind, 
 'Twas fuch as through't His Juftice brighter fhind'2 
 From Him Redemption (hall to Ijratl come, 
 Which to their land and Him (hall bring them home. 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Libj. upon the CX XXI Psalm. 391 
 
 Pfalm CXXXI. 
 Domine not eft exaltatum^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 NO, Lord, Thou knowft I am not Co, A fongof 
 
 And yet Thou all my (bul'doit know* Degrees of 
 
 Alike before Thee open ly David. 
 My Innocent heart, and humble eye, XII. 
 
 Which have no pride, but from the malice of my Foe. 
 
 II. 
 
 I do not to the Crown afpire, 
 Nor what's my Sovereigns, Lord, defire s 
 Such thoughts beyond m' ambition go, 
 Too high for me, who am fo low, 
 And yet my humble Soul,beneath the Crown,looks higher, 
 
 HI. 
 
 To Thee I look, on Thee attend, 
 Hoping Thou wilt my Right defend, 
 The Crown is but an empty thing, 
 And what it has not cannot bring, 
 Not after that but Thee O God my prayers I fend ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 For I reftrain my felf in this, 
 Jul* Hke a child that new wean'd is, 
 From 'his Mothers breaft, who though he cry, 
 And grieves at firft thofe Itreames are dry, 
 Forgets it, and (height loaths what he was wont t© kifs. 
 
 V. 
 
 As I have doae may Iftael do, 
 And wean'd from all things here below, 
 Unto their God alone attend, 
 And only on His help depend, 
 On God, who greater things than Kingdoms can befxow \ 
 
 Bbb 2 Pfalm 
 
m 
 
 A Paraphrase Likj. 
 
 Pfalm C XXX II. 
 Memento Domine David. 
 
 Lord. I. 
 
 A fong of m r*% Emember David, and His vow, 
 Degrees. pw And all the troubles He did undergo^ 
 
 XIII.. *■ Whilft for Thy Ark He fought a Refting place 
 Abroad He fuffred , and at home, 
 But when He thought the worft was overcome, 
 This ftili remain'd, and His great trouble was. 
 
 II. 
 
 Remember, Lord, the Oath He made, 
 And how felicitous to fie it pai'd ! 
 " Within my houfe, faid He, I'll come no more, 
 
 cc Nor on foft couches wait for deep, 
 cc My very Bed fhall watch ag&mii it keep, 
 " Girt round with Pious Cares, and arm'd all o're. 
 
 III. 
 
 "HI fearchfill I the place (hall find, 
 "Which God Himfelfhas for His Reft defign d : 
 We know it, Lord, and to it each remove, 
 
 How firft at Shilo Thou didft reign, 
 Then in a grove, and unfrequented plain, 
 Places frill innocent, becaufe once Thy love. 
 
 TV. 
 
 Look how Thy Courts we reach with praife, 
 And as W T e bow Our knees, Our voices raife! 
 Anfe, O God, and Thy great journy take, 
 
 Thoiij and Thy Ark together rife, 
 Before Thee icacter all Thine Enemies, 
 And Sion> Thy delight. Thy Residence make ! 
 
 V. Let 
 
L&f.upon the C X X X 1 1 Psalm. ^ 
 
 V. 
 
 Let all Thy Priefts Their praifes ting, 
 And wit h loud (houts Thy Saints their Orfrings brii^g ! 
 Let Thy Annointed m the Roll be one, 
 
 And for Thy Servant Davids fake, 
 To whom Thou freely didft Thy Promife make/ 
 This Happinefs confirm unto His Son ! 
 
 VI. 
 
 In Truth Thou didft to David fwear, 
 ( WitnefsThy felf) "Thou (halt not want an heir, 
 " But of Thy kcd I on Thy Throne will fet i 
 
 " And if Thy Children Faithfuli be, 
 "And keep the Laws tranfmitted here to Thee, 
 " Their Throne like Thine (hall ftand, and be as Great. 
 
 VII. 
 
 cc For I have Sion made my Reft, 
 tc The place, which I of all the World love belt, 
 " My houfe for ever, where I choofe to dwell, 
 
 " All Her Provifions I will blefs, 
 ce And thence Her poor (hall look for their increafe, 
 " And when they fee it, wonder how it fell. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 cc There fhall her Priefts my Praifes fing, 
 tc And with Loud Shouts My Saints their OrTrings bring* 
 " 1 he Horn of David there I'll make to bud, 
 
 " An Horn of Plenty, full, and green, 
 " Where fome New bloifoms ever (hall be icti\ 
 " Whofe fruit 's as generous^, as the root is good, 
 
 IX. 
 
 " There for my King I'll fet a light, 
 cc My eye (hall make it burn, and keep it bright \ 
 cc Obfcurity (hall on His Foes be cart, 
 
 " Covered with.mame they (hall ly down, 
 <c But on His head I'll put a glorious Crown, 
 ct And I, who put it on, will hold it fad. 
 
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 Pfalm CXXXIII. 
 Ecce cjum bonnm^ & quam 9 &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 P*«w </ T^, ft day ! wherdn l live t0 fee 
 David K e Tribes ' like Brethren > al1 agree, 
 
 A-^Like Brethren ftriving,who (hall my beft Subjects be. 
 
 II. 
 
 God has by them reftor'd my Crown, 
 And they fecur'd what was their Own, 
 For what on me they pour'd, upon themfelves fell down. 
 
 III. 
 
 TV Annointing Oyl, they on mefpent, 
 On them in Ads of Favour went, 
 As if for them, as much as me, the Oyl was meant. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Like that, which on the High-Prieft fhed, 
 At fir/t it only wet His head, 
 But then o're beard, and cloaths, and all was quickly ipred. 
 
 V. 
 
 Or like thofe mills, which from the Main 
 The fun draws up, to fend again, 
 In dcwSj hrlt on theHills,and then the humble Plain. 
 
 VI. 
 
 With fuch th' Almighty loves to dwell, 
 And Souls agreed His Praife can tell, 
 How on them ble(Iings,when on others vengeance fell. 
 
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Lib.j* upon the CXXXIV Psalm. 59? 
 
 Pfalm CXXXIV. 
 
 Ecu nunc benedicite^ &c % 
 
 I. 
 
 PRaife Him, Ye Servants of th' Eternal King, A fong of 
 
 Who alwayes in His Temple ftay, Degrees. 
 
 Till your loud fongs the cheerful Morning bring, ] x V. 
 And having chas'd the Night away, 
 Call to attend your Sacrifice the rifing day ! 
 
 II. 
 
 And as you praife Him, let your thankfull hands 
 
 Th<;ir part in all the Service bear, 
 They have their language, which He underftands, 
 
 Though none befide their voice do's hear, 
 For them referves His eye, and for your lips His Ear ? 
 
 ur. 
 
 The Lord from Sion on Thy Borders reign 
 
 Showers, like that Heav'n which fends them, free ? 
 Return Thy Bleillngs on Thee back again i 
 Let them Thine own, and greater be, 
 That Gods, who Hcav'n and Earth did make,& all for 1 hee ! 
 
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%p6 A Paraphrase Libj. 
 
 Pfilm CXXXV, 
 LaudaU ttomm Domini^ &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 Hallelujah. "^T^ Servants of th' Immortal King, 
 Y His Matters of requeft below, 
 
 To whom, when We our juft Petitions bring, 
 Immediately to Heav'nthey go* 
 And by your means, who there attend, 
 fth' flames which burn the Sacrifice, afcend, 
 To His Great Name, which He delights to raife, 
 Though far above your reach, direct your Praife ! 
 
 II. 
 
 There's none like Him, fofull of love, 
 
 On whom you can your praife beftow > 
 And if great Goodnefs can atfe&ion move, 
 
 Then praife His Name for that is Co ! 
 
 For Jacobs teed He gave His voice, 
 And placed His Treafure, where He made His choice » 
 So great that none can contradict His will, 
 But when they moft refift it, moft fulfill. 
 
 III. 
 
 His Pleafure Heav'n, and Earth obey, 
 
 And Laws which He firft gave them keep j 
 •He chains the Sea, and bounding fands do's lay 3 
 
 For mighty fetters on the Deep * 
 
 Caufes thick vapours to afcend, 
 And in one cloud moift Hail, and fire do's blend > 
 Out of His Treafures brings th' unruly wind, 
 And Captive Tempefts with ftrong Cords do's bind, 
 
 IV. In 
 
 
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 IV. 
 
 In Egypt) when He did begin, 
 
 Thus He their Friit Born would not fpare > 
 The Beails were punifht for their Matters fin, 
 
 Under the Curie becaufe they were j 
 
 His Wonders God before Him tent, 
 And thither afterwards in Perfon went > 
 Egypt, Thou faw'fl His hand fthmid'it of Thee, 
 When Pharaoh, who did bear it, Would not fee. 
 
 V. 
 
 He mighty Kingdoms overthrew, 
 
 Scattred their Forces, flew their Kings, 
 And Victory, which abroad at Pleafure ftew, 
 
 Made ferve at home without her wings > 
 
 Sehon and Ogg before Him fell, 
 In whole Pofleflions Faithfull Tfiael dwelU 
 That Promifed Land, which He their Fathers gave, 
 Who from that gift their fureft Title hare. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Eternal God, like Thee Thy Name 
 
 Endures to all Eternity, 
 And as Its Power is conftantly the fame. 
 
 So fhall Its |uft Memorial be h 
 
 For Thou wilt for Thy People rife, 
 Subdue, and Scatter all their Enemies, 
 That under yoaks they (hall no more remain, 
 But to Thy Houfe, and City be reftor'd again. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Dumb Idols (hall not Thee withftand, 
 
 Nor thoufand Gods fond men adore > 
 For all, though fafhion'd by the W r orkmans hand, 
 
 Remain the Clay they were before j 
 
 Dull Clay, which neither kes, nor hears, 
 Though Art has given them eyes, and made them ears, 
 
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 Moft Eafy Gods to whom when any cry, 
 They therefore grant becaufe they can't deny. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Without or Speech, or breath, or fenfe, 
 
 Though they of All the Organs have > 
 In vain is help to be expected thence, 
 
 Where's mot enough themfelves to lave: 
 
 Blind Deities, but blinder they, 
 Who knowing it, to their own Work will pray > 
 Ne're thinking that it cannot to them turn, 
 And that one tire will god, and Incenie burn. 
 
 IX. 
 
 But Thou, O Ifiael, Blefs Thy Lord \ 
 
 O Houle of Aaron^ blefs His Name ! 
 And you, whoferveat th' Altar by His Word, 
 
 With coales from thence encreafe your Flame! 
 
 Let joy in every Face appear, 
 And blefs the Lord, whom you have made your Fear I 
 From Sion blefs Him, who reigns King above, 
 But at Jtrufakm is The God of Love ! 
 
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Libj. upon the CX XX VI Psalm. £pp 
 
 PfalmGXXXVL 
 Ccnfitemini Domino gupniam, &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 OPraife The Lord, for He is Good, 
 And let the World His love adore, 
 For though His Power may aw them more, 
 His Love guards thofe, who are by that withftood, 
 His Mercies have been ever fore, 
 And to Eternity endure, 
 
 II. 
 
 Praife Him, who o're all gods do's reign, 
 The God of 6ods, of Kings the King, 
 To whom all Thrones this Homage bring, 
 What He firft gave them, to reflgn again f 
 His Mercies have been ever lure. 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 III. 
 
 All that We fee His hand has done, 
 Who makes His Mighty Power appear, 
 With wonder ftrikes us, and with fear. 
 For His own fake He did it, and alone : 
 His Mercies have been ever fure. 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 IV. 
 
 He made the Heav'ns, that glorious fpace, 
 Which has no bound, and knows no end, 
 Whofe greatnefs man can comprehend 
 As little, as that God, who made the Place > 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
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4.0© A Paraphrase Lib.f. 
 
 v. 
 
 The Flood at firft hid all the Land, 
 Till He raised it above the Flood, 
 Where it unmov'd e're fince has flood, 
 He ftretcht it out, by reaching out His hand , 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Lamps of Heav'n ow all their light 
 To Him, who caus'd them firft to (hine. 
 He on them look'd, they like a Mine, 
 From thence took fire, and ever fince are bright ; 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 VII. 
 
 He charg'd the Sun to rule the day, 
 Gave him His beams and influence, 
 Laws how he fhould his Flames diipence y 
 And when he rules, then do's he moft obey \ 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 VI 1 1. 
 
 The Moon and Oars at night attend, 
 And on the guard in turns all wait i 
 Some go of fboner, fome more late, 
 And to relieve them God.do's others fend \\ 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 IX. 
 
 PraifeHrm, who for their Fathers fin, 
 
 Smote Chatns firft born, did none pafs o're, 
 
 Sent death to look on every dore, 
 
 Who frighted at no blood without, went in. 
 
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 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 Who with ftrong hand, and out-ftretch'd Art. 
 Dehvcr'd Ifrael from the Yoke i 
 Who all the Egyptian fetters broke, 
 And made His Ifraels March, be their Al-arm, 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
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 Who all times did His Promife keep, 
 The Red-Sea for them did divide > 
 And what the Waves before did hide, 
 Made them His Wayes fee truly in the Deep, 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 % XII. 
 
 The liquid Deep in. Walls did ftand, 
 Of pureit Chryftal, through whofegla/s 
 The Floods behind faw Ifrael pafs, 
 And there, as in themtelves, admir'd His hand. 
 His Mercies have been ever fure. 
 And to Eternity endure, 
 
 XIII. 
 
 But when the army was gon o're, 
 God took His rein from of the Wave, 
 And Jacobs way wis Egjps grave, 
 Was Sea again, and wafh'd its ancient fhore* 
 His Mercies have been ever lure. 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
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4>oz AParaphrase Jjb.%. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 God did Himfelf diredt their Way, 
 A fiery Pillar was their Moon \ 
 Night followed cloie, when they were gon, 
 And from their Foes hid where their journies lay. 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 X V. 
 
 He potent Kings did overthrow, 
 Their Forces fcattred, (cora'd their rage, 
 Himfelf did for His Flock engage, 
 And made them conquer, when He bid them go, 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure, 
 
 XVI. 
 
 SebQKy who did their Way deny, 
 Found all His Troops to be but vain. 
 When God their Battles did maintain, 
 Inftead of flopping them, himfelf did fly. 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Ogg heard his fall, but would come out, 
 Thinking a double Victory, 
 Would raife his glory to the sky ^ 
 But God, who Sebonftcw, againlt him fought. 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 God to the Conqueft wav'd His hand, 
 Defcending in the Sacred Flame, 
 Weak Ijrael by His Power, o'recame, 
 And they, who askM butpalTage, fhar'd the Land. 
 
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 His Mercies have been ever (lire, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 Praife Him, who in Our low eftate 
 Did many Victories for us gain, 
 Unfecn Our weaknefs did fuftain, 
 Redeem' d us , when we thought is was too late ! 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 XX. 
 
 Who for all Creatures do's provide, 
 Of His Own fulnefi gives them food, 
 Feeds both the Wicked, and the Good, 
 Who from His Treafures alwayes are fupply'd ! 
 His Mercies have been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 Who to frail Man the Earth has given, 
 And made Him King, and God below, 
 Where all things to His Scepter bow, 
 But is Himfelf Mans King, and God of Heav'n 1 
 His Mercies h-ave been ever fure, 
 And to Eternity endure. 
 
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4©4 
 
 A Paraphrase Lib. 5^ 
 
 Pfalm CXXXVII. 
 Super flumina Babylonk^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 AS on the banks ofCbebar we ftatedown, 
 Lamenting Sions Miferies, 
 At Sions Miferies wc forgot our own, 
 And wilht fo* her fuch Rivers in our eyes : 
 We envyM there the rolling tide, 
 That at Our feet did gently Aide, Cghde. 
 
 That at our feet more ftreames, than from our eyes did 
 
 II. 
 
 The Willows to our plaints bowM down their ear, 
 
 And did in hollow murmurs grone ^ 
 The Willows bow'd as though they long'd to hear 
 Again thofe griefs, which they before had known : 
 They bow'd, and on their heads we hung 
 Our Harps untun'd, Our Harps unftrung, 
 Sorrow their firings unloos'd, but tefter ty'd Our tongue. 
 
 III. 
 
 9 Twas then we fuffred double mifery, 
 When to us Our rude Ipoilers came, 
 
 And to deride our (ad Captivity, 
 
 Imbittred it with Captive Sions Name; 
 Our felves we only grievM before, 
 "But when Their fcorns juft Sion bore, 
 At Her great furrririgs, of our own we thought no more. 
 
 IV. 
 
 " One of your fongs let's hear,they proudly cry'd, 
 
 u And one of Sions Anthems play, 
 cc Your griefs and penfive cares now throw afide, 
 cc Sion is here, (ince we brought you away ! 
 
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 As if we, at their bafe Commands, 
 Could (ing, forgetfull of our bands, ( hands. 
 
 Could play, when they who ilep'd our inouths 3 had ty'd our 
 
 V. 
 
 Nol No ! in forreign Lands if we do thus, 
 
 For Sion thus forget to grieve, 
 Let Her God too forget to .pity us, 
 And thefe fond tongues clofe to their palats cleave ) 
 
 Her Praifcs firft our mouths did fill, 
 
 From Her Our hands rirft learn* t their skill, 
 No wonder then, if Sion mourns, that they lie mil f 
 
 VI. 
 
 Remember Edom^ Lord,who in the day 
 
 Jerusalem was a Captive made, 
 Joyn'd with Her Enemies, and (har'd the prey. 
 And made us more than Babylon afraid I 
 
 cc Rale it, they crfd, down with the Wall, 
 
 "To the foundations Levell all, 
 cc She that to Babylon will not lioop, 'tis fit She fall ! 
 
 VII. 
 
 Hold Babylon — where will thy rage extend ? 
 
 God has enough to Sion done, - 
 Hold, and prepare Thee Babylon for Thy end, 
 What mayft Thou fear, if thusHeferve^ His Own? 
 
 Mayft Thou in Thine Our miferies fee, 
 
 And all the wrongs we bore from Thee, 
 And knoWjthat lefs than what Thou haft deferv'd,they be ) 
 
 VIII. 
 
 May Thy own Mercies on Thy head return, 
 
 Thofe Mercies which are Cruelties, 
 Mayft Thou in flames of Thy own kindling burn % 
 And fend in vain to Heav'n Thy fruitleis cries ! 
 And Happy He, who on the ft ones, 
 On Flints ihall dafh Thy little ones, 
 And haye than flints lefs bowels fox theix dying gronesi 
 
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 Pfalm CXXXVIII. 
 Conjitebor Ubi Dontim in toto corde^ &c* 
 
 I. 
 
 1 Ord, I will blcfs Thee, and my cheerful voice 
 A mm oj Before the gods ftall tdI my j oks . 
 
 David. J — 'xhofe glorious Powers, to whom Thou doft impart 
 Thy Name, and Office here below, 
 Shall fee me pay the praife I ow, 
 And as I had Thy ear, return my Heart. 
 
 II. 
 
 Then to Thy Sacred Hill my eyes Til raife, 
 And fetch new fubje&s for my Praile ; 
 
 My Song (hall count of what Thou didftfor me. 
 Of Mercy, and of Truth I'll ling j 
 And when Thave wearied out that firing, 
 
 Thy Faithfulnefs another ground (hall be. 
 
 III. 
 
 Thou haft exalted it, and why not I ? 
 
 For when to Thee I Loud did cry, 
 To Thee, my God, and mourn'd in my diftrefs, 
 
 My dolefull groanes Thy heart did move, 
 
 Thou didft refrefh me from above, 
 And anfwer gav'it of Thine Own Faithfulnefs. 
 
 IV. 
 
 The heathen Kings, when they Thy Wonders hear, 
 Shall both rejoice and ferve with fear •, 
 
 By My example in Thy Wayes fhall ling, 
 Afcribe to Thee what is Thine Own, 
 Can; at Thy Feet their Scepters down, 
 
 And do their homage to Thee, as their King. 
 
 V. God 
 
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 v. 
 
 God over all, whofe Throne is (it on high, 
 
 Above the Circle of the sky, 
 The humble, and their proud Oppreflbrs knowes * 
 
 The difference only lies in this. 
 
 Though well known to Him either is, 
 When He delivers thole, He thefe o'rethrows. 
 
 VI. 
 
 No ! I'll ne're fear, though trouble me furround, 
 
 Moft fixt whenlfhalL feel no ground: 
 Thou wilt revive me, and with Thy Right hand, 
 
 Thy poor afflicted Creature fave, 
 
 My Enemies wrath an end {hall have, 
 And on his ruin I mall rirmer ftand. 
 
 VII. 
 
 The Lord will perfect what He has begun, 
 
 And riniihwhatis yet undone j 
 Thou, whofe Companions all Thy Works tranfcend, 
 
 Care of the Iffue alfo take, 
 
 Nor me Thy handy-Work forfeke, 
 But with eternal Triumphs crown the end! 
 
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^q% AParaphrasb Lib.% 
 
 Pfalm GXXXIX; 
 Domine frohajii M-e y &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 A mm of "f N vain, O God, my folly, and my pride 
 David. I Make me in vain perfume to be, 
 
 -"- By all my (hifts, conceaFd from Thee, 
 When from my felf, my felf I cannot hide > 
 Thy day ftill breaks into my night, 
 Still gives me of my felf the fight, 
 For Thee to fee me by, (hall it not be more bright ? 
 
 II. 
 
 Thou 'haft fearch'd me, Lord,and all my life haft known s 
 Know'ft every Action of my life. 
 When with my felf or Thee at ftrife^ 
 
 Thou know'ft my rifing up* and lying down : 
 My thoughts, and heart, to Thee are clear, 
 Thou art their Judge, and al waves near, 
 Do'ftfee, and fentence both, before I know. what's there, 
 
 III. 
 
 Where e're I go, in what place e're I ftay, 
 W'hether I wake, whether I ilecp, 
 Thy Spirit by me watch do's keep^ 
 
 Is my Companion in the clofeft way -, 
 If I but whifper, that ftands by, 
 Awd though unfeen by Mortall eye, 
 Takes from my Lips the word, and to Thine ear do's fly. 
 
 IV, . 
 There's no avoiding Thee, behind, before. 
 On all fides Thou haft girt me round > 
 My God, Thy Wifdom's too profound, 
 Too deep to fathom 3 higher than I can foar > 
 
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 Thy hand flrft made, and fafhion'd me, 
 Thy Will commands me no\* to be, 
 Being or life I cannot have, unlefs in Thee. 
 
 V. 
 
 Then whither (hall I from Thy Pretence fly > 
 
 If up to Heav'n my Way I take, 
 
 Thou Heav'n Thy Refidence doft make, 
 And to get further off I come more nigh j 
 
 If down to Hell, the Devils there, 
 
 Tell me Thou 'rt prefent by their fear, 
 They tell me what I merit, by the pains they bear. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Quick as my thought, could I remove me hence 5 
 And in the furtheit Eaft remain, 
 Below the Sea fome covert gain, 
 Thy Sun would {hew me as hfi rifes thence : 
 If I fay darknefs, and the night, 
 Which (hut out all, (hall barr Thy fight, 
 That Darknefs, which is fo to me, to Thee is light. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Thou art within me too, clofe as my heart, . 
 Within my heart, unknown to me, 
 For when that firit was made by Thee, 
 Thy breath, Lord, was my bed, and chiefeit part s 
 Thou threw Yi Thy felf in, and m vain : 
 To fly from Thee, my felf I pain, 
 For ever fince Thou doit wiihinmy heart remain* 
 
 VIII. 
 
 I know I am Thy Matter-piece, and all 
 I m the greater World admire, 
 Find in my leif, and fomething higher, 
 Am Heav'n in Perfpe&ive, and Earth in (mall : 
 By Thee was wonderfully made, 
 Nor is Thine Image fo decay'd, 
 But when I view my felf, I am of Thee afraid. 
 
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 IX. 
 
 Nothing of me, not my lead part's unknown, 
 
 Then, when I firft was wrought below, 
 
 Thy eyes, and hands difpos'd me fo, 
 My Members in Thy book were entred down \ 
 
 Entred before all time they were, 
 
 When none of them did yet appear, 
 And what Thou then defign'dit them, now in time they are. 
 
 X. 
 This as I think of, and what Thou haft done. 
 The wondrous pledges of Thy love. 
 By whom I live, in whom I move, 
 My heart is ftruck as filent, as my tongue > 
 Thcypafs the Sands upon the Shore, 
 And had I told their Number o're, ( before. 
 
 Thofe would more numerous feem, than they appear'd 
 
 XI. 
 
 But as Thou 'rt gracious, Thou art alio juft, 
 And wilt the Wicked Man o'rethrow, 
 Teaching him by Thy Power to know, 
 How great that God is, which he Would not truft ; 
 Down with them, Lord, deftroy them all, 
 Let their own Curfes on them fall, 
 Who on Thy Name, but in their Oaths, did never call ! 
 
 XII. 
 
 Do not I hate them, Lord, thofe who hate Thee, 
 
 And are not they my Enemies, 
 
 Who in their rage againft Thee rife ? 
 Thou know'ft I hate them, and they 're fo to me : 
 
 Search me, and try me, found my heart, 
 
 Its moft retir'd, and deepeft part, 
 And lead me to that life, whole Way and Guide Thou art ! 
 
 Pfalrri 
 
Lib.f. upon the C X L Psalm. 4.11 
 
 Pfalm CXL 
 Eripe we Domine ab, &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 LOrd, from the evil man my life defend, 4 pf a j m f 
 
 Nor let his Treafons, or his violence, David 
 
 His open force, or clofe pretence, « 
 Work ill to him, who do's on Thee depend !. 
 His thoughts Thou know'ft are ever fet on Warr^ 
 And now to give me battle rallied are. 
 
 II. 
 
 Inftead of fword he fharpens a falfe tongue, 
 More venemous than that, which ferpents bear > 
 
 The poyfon from an Adders fpear, 
 Wounds not fo mortally , nor kills fo long : 
 O, by Thy Power may I his plots withftand, 
 For if his tongue's thus cruel, what"s his hand ? 
 
 III. 
 
 The ginns are lai'd, and all the toiles are fet, 
 They are refolv'd my Footftepsto o'rethrow ^ 
 
 And where they guefs I needs mult go, 
 In the mid-way the proud have fpread their net > 
 " Moft Holy Lord, Thou art my God, I faid, 
 £C And now 's Thy time to help, fince I have pray'd ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 When thoufand dangers had begirt me round. 
 And all my Foes were ready in the field, 
 
 Thou wer't my helmet, and my fhield 3 
 And fav'dft that head, which Thou before hadft crown'ch 
 May thedefires of all the Wicked fail, 
 Left when I flip, they think their hand prevail ! 
 
 •V. Let 
 
^\% A Paraphrase Lib.f* 
 
 v. 
 
 Let them not by my ruin higher rife, 
 
 And judge by the fuccefs their caufe is good ! 
 
 But (tain their fwords with their own blood. 
 And be aveng'd on Thy falfe Enemies ! 
 Let burning coals fall on them in Thine Ire, 
 And let their own lips help to blow the Fire ! ' 
 
 VI. 
 
 Then throw them down into the Flame, nor more, 
 Unlefs it be to Judgement, may they rile ! 
 
 And after bear frefh miferies, 
 Sharper than all, which they endur'd before ! 
 Let vengeance hunt the violent man to' his grave. 
 And fo much earth may he for 'his portion have I 
 
 VII. 
 
 I know the Lord will to the poor do right, 
 And plead Himfelf, as well as judge their cau(e 3 
 
 Trying them by fuch equal laws, 
 That their clear'd Innocence (hall look more bright 1 
 So that the Righteous on their God (hall ftay, 
 And in His fight enjoy Eternal Day. 
 
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 Pfalm CXLL 
 
 Dmin* ekmwi mi i% &c, 
 
 I, 
 
 MY God, When in diftrefs I ery ? . vri t 
 
 And on my long.wing'd fighes unto Thee fly, £ ™ a ' m °f 
 Make hafte to meet me, Come away, David, 
 
 Ah, do no longer from me ftay, 
 But by Thy Prefence (hew, Thou hearft me,when I pray ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Let my requefts like incenfi rife, 
 Not to o're-cloud, but to perfume the skies ! 
 And when the day rcfigns to night, 
 Let it again receive new light, 
 And by my Sacrifices Flames become more bright ! 
 
 III. 
 
 Before my mouth, Lord, fet a guard, 
 And let its double gates be alwayes barr'd ! 
 Keep my heart too, and be its guide, 
 That to no ill it turn afide, 
 And left I for them long, fins flatting pleafures hide ! 
 
 IV- 
 
 The juft mans check I can endure, 
 His ftroke wounds not, but do's advance the cure j 
 Let him finite me, 't (hall be inftead 
 Of Ointment, to refrefh my head, 
 Ointment which cheares the living,and preferves the Dead' 
 
 V. 
 
 For him I'll pray, as he for me, 
 His blowes were balm, and Co my Words (hall be> 
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4-1^ A Paraphrase Lib.j. 
 
 When his cursM judges overthrown 
 From their great heights (hall be caft down, ( done. 
 And in the plagues they bear fee all the wrongs they 'have 
 
 VI. 
 
 Our fcattrcd bones no buriall have, 
 Nor know the kind Corruption of the Grave > 
 Like th' armes of fome great tree they ly, 
 Which while its head was rais'd on high, 
 Stood the woods glory, now the fcorn of all pats by. 
 
 VII. 
 
 But (till my eyes are up to Thee, 
 Thou art my Truft, and (hz\ 9 t my refuge be i 
 Let not my Soul of fuccour fail, 
 And though the Wicked me aflail, 
 Let not his open force, or hidden plots prevail ! 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Break all the fnares, which he has made, 
 Or let them only for himfelf be lai'd ! 
 Down in his own pits Let him fall, 
 In vain for help, or fuccour call, 
 Whilii I, for whom he made them, have no hurt at all ! 
 
 Ffalm 
 
Likf. upon the CXLII Psalm. 4.15 
 
 M 
 
 Pfalm CXLII. 
 Voce mea. ad Domtnum^ &c. 
 
 I. 
 
 -Y heart juft broke, and only ftrcngth enough a ».,„ £ 
 
 Left to difcharge my debt or grief, and love, n*vT ° f 
 
 Aloud I to th' Almighty cri'd i urZ ij 
 
 My Lips perform^ the chiefeftpart, w .** 
 
 For I before had fent my heart, (£L 
 
 And where this flrft was gon, thither I thofe did guide. 
 
 II. 
 
 Before my God I cmptiM out my prayer, 
 And dropt for every word I {pake a tear *, 
 
 My griefs I did before Him lay, 
 
 And when I knew not what to do, 
 
 Which way I went, or where to go, 
 He knew my A&ions then, and did dire&my Way, 
 
 III. 
 
 Better than I, He knew what plots were lai'd, 
 And all the fnares, which for my feet they made 5 
 
 On my right hand I looked, but there 
 
 No man my juft defires would own, 
 
 On me they look'das one unknown, 
 So far from lending me an hand, they ftop'd their ear. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Then to the Lord, to Thee again I prafd, 
 
 And in the dolour of my (pirit faid > 
 " Thou my Salvation art below, 
 tc Even here Thou doft my caufe defend, 
 " Even here Thy aids my prayers tranfeend, ( know. 
 ft And, Lord,though none elfe will, Thou doft my trouble 
 
 E e e z V. * Heat 
 
^16 AParaphrase Lib.%. 
 
 V. 
 
 cc Hear me, my God, and from my Enemies hand, 
 iC Deliv'rance, which Thou only giv'ft, command ! 
 c€ Thou fec'ft they are too ftrong for me, 
 u How daily they encreafe in power* 
 u But I Thy wonted helps implore, 
 tc For yet, my God, they cannot be too ftrong for Thee. 
 
 VI. 
 
 tc From priion bring me, that I may declare, 
 
 cc How ready for Thine Own Thy Mercies are ! 
 
 God will deliver me, and I, 
 
 Who now unjuftly fuffer wrong, 
 
 Shall make His praifes be my long, 
 And all the Juft {hall triumph in my Victory. 
 
 PfaH 
 
 m 
 
Lib.$. upon the CXLIIl Psalm, 417 
 
 Pfalm CXLIIl. 
 Domine ex audi oration&m mcam^ &c, 
 
 I. 
 
 GReat Saviour, to my mournfull Prayer give car, V II 
 
 And of Thy Mercy pittie me ! Penitential 
 
 O Thou, .who fee'fl my troubles hear, ffilm of 
 
 And as they need, fo let Thy anfwer be ! David. 
 
 I know Thou canft do this, and more, 
 For Thou haft done it heretofore ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Behold my troubles, Lord, but not my Sins I 
 
 For if Thou once fhouldft be fevere, 
 
 What heart quakes not, when God begins, 
 To judge, and lets up His Tribunal there ? 
 
 What Flefh can in His fight be juft, 
 
 Or to His breath expofe its duft ? 
 
 III. 
 
 See how the Enemy my Soul perfues, 
 
 And how no fafety can be found, 
 
 Whilft he his daily wrongs renewes, 
 Unlefs I, with the dead, dwell under ground, 
 
 Unlets a wretched life to fa ve, 
 
 I enter quick into the grave. 
 
 IV. 
 
 This grieves my heart, nor would it longer hold. 
 
 But that on Thee I meditate, 
 
 Remembring what Thou didit of old, 
 How Nothing was too hard, no time too lite ; 
 
 I think of what Thy hand has done, 
 
 And take Thy Arm to lean upon. 
 
 V. The 
 
a 8 A Paraphrase Lib. ?. 
 
 v. 
 
 The thirfly earth, with drought confum'd, and heat, 
 
 Do's not more gape, and long for rain, 
 
 Than I whofe thirit is full as great, 
 Am rcftlefs grown till I fee Thee again i 
 
 Hear me my God, hear fpeecftly ! 
 
 The Earth Thou hear'ft and why not me } 
 
 VI. 
 
 No longer turn Thy glorious Face away ! 
 
 Or if I muft in darknefs fit, 
 
 Let it be fuch, as brings the day, 
 And not eternall, like that in the pit! 
 
 At night, my God, give me Thine ear, 
 
 And in the morning let me hear ! 
 
 VI I. 
 
 Let me Thy Mercies hear, for, Lord, on Thee 
 
 Alone for Mercie I rely j 
 
 Thy way be pleas'd to (hew to me, 
 And give me wings that I to Heav n may fly ! 
 
 There I flcure fhall be at reft, 
 
 Nor of my Truft be difpoiTeft. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Teach me to do Thy Will, for Thou art Minej 
 
 And lead me to Thy Sacred land ! 
 
 Ah, quicken me, for I am Thine, 
 And by Thy ftrcngth alone muft firmly ftand : 
 
 And would Thy Spirit but guide my Way, 
 
 I fhould not care, Lord, where it lay. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Now for Thy Mercies fake, my troubles end, 
 
 For only Thou knov/ft what I bear ! 
 
 Let on my Foes Thy wrath defcend, 
 And Thine eye be like theirs, too fierce to (pare ! 
 
 Let them Thy Indignation know, 
 
 B i;t to Thy Servant favour (how ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Libj. upon the C X L I V Psalm, a t 
 
 Pfalm CXLIV. 
 
 Eened&us Dominm Dzus, &c. 
 
 3 
 
 I. 
 
 SUpream Commander of the Sacred bands, . ^ 
 
 Strength of my heart, Inft rudter of my hands ^ ™ a { m *f 
 
 Who Hrftdidft forme all the Rules of War lay down, avid ' 
 And made'ft that Victory mine,which truly was Thine own' 
 My fhield, my Tower, and ever Good, 
 The Rock, where I fecure from danger ftood, 
 Who up on high my head didft raife, 
 And at my kct didft for me Mighty Kings fubdue, 
 
 Made'it my Own people ferve anew, 
 Thou^who hall all thefe Wonders done, take all the praife r 
 
 II. 
 Lord, what is Man,that Thou mouldYr mindfull be 
 Of one, who do's fo feldom think of Thee ? 
 Or what am I Thou on me fet'lt fo great a price 
 But little in my Own, and lefs in others eyes ? 
 Frail Man, whofe daies away do fly, 
 And like Himfclf are fpent in Vanity j 
 Man, whom one fcarce can give a Name, 
 So light the Subt'left vapour, which the Sun exhales, 
 
 A Dream, or Shaddow turns the fcales, 
 Man, who yet impudently to the W r orld layes claime ! 
 
 III. 
 Lord, bow Thy Heav'n, & in bright Flames come down, 
 The fmoaking Hills with dreadful thunder crown ! 
 There take Thy ltanding,and on my Proud Enemies throw 
 De/troying lightnings, and make (ten Thy bloody bow ! 
 Extend Thy Arm, my Saviour be, 
 And from the Mighty flood* deliver me ! 
 From Strangers, who that love pretend, 
 Which I dare never truft, their mouths io proudly fpeak i ^M/#> 
 
 Whofe right- hands faith they plighted break > 
 And fwords,which they have drawn,into their bowels fend! 
 
 IV.Then 
 
Vtrpculuf. 
 
 aio AParaphrase Lib.}* 
 
 IV. 
 
 Then will I to Thy glorious Name fing praiK, 
 And in my Song recount of all Thy Wayes; 
 More tuntfull Meafures will invent > new brings put on, 
 And raife my Harp with the great Subject to Thy Throne : 
 For God Salvation gives to Kings, 
 And David out of all His troubles brings ; 
 From ftrangers, who that love pretend, 
 Which He dares never truft 5 their mouths fo proudly {peak, 
 Whofe right hands faith they plighted break '■> ( fend. 
 And fwords which they have drawn, into their hearts (hall 
 
 V. 
 
 He makes Our Tons like Fruitful plants to grow, 
 And their increafe to Him alone we owe j 
 Our daughters to be Corner {tones, politht, and fair, 
 Which different Houfes joyn, and their fupporters are ; 
 From Him alone comes all Our (tore, 
 And that Our prdfes with new Wine run o're j 
 That Our full Barnes no want have known, 
 Oar flacks no emptinefs,>but with thofe (heaves arecrown'd, 
 
 With which He iirit did load the ground, 
 And now them fo,that with the mighty weight they groan. 
 
 VI. 
 
 He to ten thoufands multiplies Our fheep, . . 
 
 More than our folds can pin, orpaftures keep* 
 Our Oxen fat, and (trong, not it as labour know, 
 But freely yield their necks to th' Service of the Plow j 
 Down at Our Gates no Enemie fits, 
 There's no Al'arm, or mourning in our ftreets*, 
 Thrice happy lands which thus can fay, 
 And urditturb'd can thus enjoy the fruits of Peace, 
 
 ( If there be any lands like thefe ) 
 Yet thofe,whofe God's the Lord are happier far than They, 
 
 Pfalm 
 
LH?j. upon the CXLV Psalm, qi\ 
 
 Pfalm CXLV. 
 Exaltabe tc Deus mw Rex, &c. 
 
 MY God, My King, I will fing praife to Thee, 
 Till like Thy Name, my fongs Eternal be ! 
 Every day, Lord will I ling praile to Thee, 
 Till like Thy Name, my fongs Eternall be ! 
 
 Great is the Lord, and worthy of all Praife, 5 
 
 And as Himfelf, Unfearchable His Waves ! 
 
 One age to count His Works will ne're fafrke, 
 
 Their number to fo great a Turn do's rife > 
 
 The next (hall take it, and the next from them, 
 
 And in their fongs improve the lofty Theam. 10 
 
 Sing of the Honour of His Majefty, 
 
 How farr He is exalted, and How high-, 
 
 Speak of His Reverend Acts, His grcatnefs (how, 
 
 Above how full of Love, of dread below \ 
 
 Of all His Goodncfs, and what He has done, j <- 
 
 Both for His Peoples Glory and His Own. 
 
 The Lord is gracious, do's with Love o'reflow, 
 Plenteous in Mercy, and to anger flow > 
 Kind as a Father, o're whofe Works there (hine 
 Glories of Mercy, mixt with rayes Divine. 
 
 All Thy Workes praife Thee, and Thy power proclame. 
 Thy Kingdoms beauties, and Thy Holy Name. 
 Thy Saints (hall blefs Thee, and Thy Acts make known, 
 And to Posterity continue down, 
 
 How to Eternity Thy Rule extends, ( ends. 
 
 And that Thy Empire,Lord ? knowcs neither bounds nor 
 
 Fff The 
 
4^ A Paraphrase Lib.*} . 
 
 The Lord upholds all thole, who fall, do r s raiie 
 The Poor on high, that they may fee His Wayes. 
 On Him the eyes of all His Creatures wait, 
 30 To Him they look, and He provides them meat > 
 Opens His Hand, do's their defires fulfill, 
 And as He anfwers theirs, performes His Will. 
 So Juft is He, fo Righteous in His wayes, 
 That were We (ilent, Hones would (peak His Praife » . 
 3 5 And to 'His afflidfced Peoples Prayers fo near , , 
 That their requells e're finifht, granted are. 
 And when to Him for help they fend their cryes, 
 His Truth prevents them oftner than denies. 
 4.0 For the dtfires of fuch, who Him do fear, 
 Shall be fulfil 1 d and He their groans will hear •>> 
 Will crown their Love, and with His Own right hand 
 Deftroy their Foes, and on their ruins make them ftand! 
 
 Let the whole World, O God, ling praife to Thee, 
 And like Mine, may thejr fongs Eternall be ! 
 
 Pfalm 
 
Libj % upon the CXLVI Psalm. 4.25 
 
 Pfalm CXLVI. 
 
 Lunda animn men Dominum^ &£• 
 
 !• HaUdnjak 
 
 A Rife my Soul, and Thy great fubje& take, 
 The Worlds Creators praifes ling | 
 That Ground Thy Numbers will more flowing make, 
 And fill with fpirit the heavieft firing *, 
 He is my fong, and He my Verfe (hall raiie, 
 And only with my life, (hall end my Prai(e. 
 
 II. 
 
 Truft not in Princes, for their ftrength is vain, 
 
 In Kings place hot yGur confidence ! 
 The greatell King cannot himfelf maintain, 
 
 But lives himfelf at Gods expence*, 
 Is Earth, and when He but His breath recalls, 
 Into that Earth, whence he was taken, falls. 
 
 III. 
 
 Death layes him level with his vileft Slave, 
 
 No more his Acts remembred are > 
 Though his Achievements follow to the Grave, 
 
 And deck his Herie, they leave him there : 
 With his laft breath to air his Counfels go, 
 And his high thoughts ly with his Carkafs low. 
 
 IV. 
 
 But hapoy he, who has his truft in ftore, 
 
 And do's on Jacobs God depend ! 
 He need no forreign fuccour to implore, 
 
 But up to Heav'n his wifhes fend, 
 
 F f f z And 
 
A24- A Paraphrase LiLf. 
 
 And of his certain aids he ne're (hall mifs, 
 For the true God his mighty keeper is. 
 
 He Heav'n and all the glories of it made, 
 
 Thofe beauteous fires we fee above s 
 Where greatnefs makes His Enemies afraid* 
 
 But in His Saints, enflames their love > 
 Who on the floods commands the Earth to ftand, 
 And holds them in the hollow of His hand. 
 
 VI. 
 
 To Him for Juftice the OppresM do cry, 
 Who all their groans and plaints do's hear y 
 
 And to His great Tribunall when they fly, 
 He on their Judges turnes their feares : 
 
 With His good things the hungry Soul do's fill, 
 
 And makes deaf chaines hear, and obey His Will.. 
 
 VII. 
 
 He made the eye, and gave it all its light, 
 
 Lifts from the duft the poor mans head > 
 Renews each morning, both their life, and fight, 
 
 Whom fleep had numbred with the dead : 
 His Common Providence is over all, 
 But His Choice bieflings on the Righteous fall ! 
 
 VIII. 
 
 The unreguarded (hanger is his care, 
 
 And He for th' Orphan do"s provide \ 
 Himfclf comes down, and heares the Widows prayer r 
 
 When her deaf Friends are turned afide: 
 Th 1 inexorable Wicked man o^rethrowes, 
 And makes him feel the weight of his own blowes. 
 
 IX. Such 
 
Libj. upon the C X L V I Psalm, ±1$ 
 
 IX. 
 
 Such is Thy King, O Sion, whofc Command 
 
 Being, and life gives every thing > 
 Exempt from his Dominion is no land, 
 
 Thy God, O Sion, is Thy King i 
 His Powerfull influence do's around extend, 
 And as His Rule, Thy Praife fhould know no end / 
 
 HjL'cImj ih % 
 
 Fffj Pfal 
 
 m 
 
a&6 A Paraphrase Ukf. 
 
 Pfalm CXLVIi; 
 Landate Uominum qnoniam^ &c t 
 
 To His great Name fing praife 1 
 
 HdlelujJt. trOU, who th' Almighty God adore, 
 
 His Power you cannot honour more, 
 Nor more advance your laies ! 
 This is the Service, which to Him you owe, 
 And this of all he belt accepts below. 
 
 II. 
 
 Jerufakm, the Great, the Fair, 
 'Tis God who made Her Co i 
 Her People, though they icattred arc, 
 He like Her (tones do's know : 
 And both will gather, both in 'His hand will take, 
 His City One, th' Other His Temple make. 
 
 III. 
 
 The troubled heart, with care depreft, 
 
 He up on high do's raife j 
 Refrcfhes weary Souls with reft, 
 And iinners (hews His Wayes : 
 And like a Friend, who all their miferies feel?, 
 Binds up the broken, and the wounded hcales. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Thofe rich Enamels of the sky, 
 
 The Stars, which mine above, 
 Have feveral Names He knowes them by, 
 
 And at His Will they move ; 
 
 To 
 
Libj. upon the CXLVII Psalm. 417 
 
 To Him they look, and looking, only thence 
 Have all their lufter, Formes, and Influence. 
 
 V. 
 
 Great is our God, of great renown, * 
 
 Whole Wifdome *s infinite i 
 To th' Earth He cafts the Wicked down, 
 And raifes the upright : 
 Sing Praifes to His Name, with thanks rejoice, 
 And make the Confbrt perfect with your Voice* 1 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Heav'ns with clouds He covers o're, 
 
 And all their beauty hides '■> 
 Yet thence the Earth has its bed (tore, 
 Rain which He there provides : 
 W'hence Plenty comes, but lefs from what is (own, 
 Than from the Faithful feafons He pours down, 
 
 VII. 
 
 Mountains, thole Pillars of the Air, 
 On- which Heav'ns Fabrique lies, 
 Who£ verdant Chapiters are fair, 
 And in mixt Orders rife, 
 With FrutagesHe covers, and with Ihowers 
 Allaies their heat, and crowns them all with flowers, 
 
 VIII. 
 
 To Him all Creatures look, and live, 
 
 All at His Table eati 
 He to bruit-beaits their food do's give, 
 And to young Ravens meat : 
 An horfe to Him, and all his Itrength, is vain, 
 And in his fight as poor as this is M3n. 
 
 IX. In 
 
4?8 A Paraphrase Lib. J. 
 
 IX. 
 
 In neither can He Pleafure take, 
 
 But do's in th' J uft delight •, 
 And they who Him their refuge make, 
 Shall flour ifh in His fight \ 
 Then to Thy God, Jerufalem , fing praife, 
 Sion y exalt Him, who Thee firft did raife! 
 
 X. 
 
 'Tis He who do's Thy Walls defend, 
 And all Thy Gates make ftrong s 
 Who do's Thy Colonics extend, 
 And keeps Thee alwaies young : 
 Who with a numerous offspring do's Thee blefs, 
 And gives Thy Land the Happy fruits of Peace. 
 
 XL 1 
 
 And this, becaufe it is His Will, 
 
 Whofe Pleafure all obey \ 
 Both Heaven and Earth His Word fulfill, 
 And at it hafte away : 
 On the cold Rocks He His Froft-Mantle throwes, 
 And cloaths the naked Hills with woolly fnows. 
 
 XII. 
 
 When on the firearm He I ayes His Chain, 
 
 And Capiive Floods do's bind, 
 What Power can fet them free again, 
 Till He fend out His W'ind > 
 But when on them He caufes it to blow, 
 The melted glafs in ftreams begins to flow, 
 
 XIII Thefe 
 
Lib. 4 }, upon the CXLVII Psalm. 4^9 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Thefe Works of His by all are feen, 
 
 But Jacob has His Word > 
 No Land befide Co blcft has been, 
 Or favour'd by the Lord : 
 For He to Ifr&l has His Judgements fhown, 
 When His difpkafure all Lauds elfe have known. 
 
 Haudu)ih> 
 
 Ggg Pfalm 
 
4}© AParaphrase Lib.y 
 
 Pfilm CXLVIII. 
 
 Laudaie Dotntnum de C&lfc, 
 
 I. 
 
 Hallelujah t 70a blefled Souls, who Hand before 
 Y Th' Eternal King, and Co long fee 
 His glory that you changed bee 
 Into that glory you adore , 
 
 Praife your great Founder , and above 
 Admire His Power, and blefs His Love ! 
 
 II. 
 
 You, who when Lucifer did fall, 
 Kept your firft Handing, and remain 
 Commanders of that mighty Train, 
 
 Of which the Lord is Gcnerall : 
 Angels, extoll th* Almighty King, 
 And Songs of Triumph to Him ling. 
 
 III. 
 
 Praife Him from whom Thy light do's flow, 
 Thou, whom as God the World adore, 
 Renounce that honour, and no more 
 
 Ufurp a fervice Thou doft ow ! 
 
 Praife Him, O Sun, when Thou 'rt mod bright, 
 Whofe beams to darknefs turn Thy light. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Thou too, who with a borrowM ray, 
 When all the Lamps of Heav'n hang out, 
 In the Nights filence walk'it about, 
 
 And with Thy torch reftor'it the day : 
 Fair Moon and Starrs exalt Gods Name, 
 And in your dance His Power proclaim. 
 
 V. Ye 
 
Lib.$. upon the CXLVIII Psalm, <j.ji 
 
 v. 
 
 Ye Heavens, whom none can comprehend, 
 
 Infinite Waters , where the sky 
 
 As if beyond it felf 'twould fly 
 Exceeds all thought, yet flndes no end f 
 
 Praife Him, who farther do's out- go 
 
 Your height, than you what ere's below. 
 
 VI. 
 
 He (pake the Word, and you were made, 
 
 His firft Decree has bound you faft, 
 
 Appointed you how long to laft, 
 Th' Almighty Word your wandrings flay'd i 
 
 Praiie Him whofe Word fo much can do, 
 
 And as it made, deftroy you too ! 
 
 VII. 
 
 Let from the Earth His Praifcs rife, 
 
 Ail Creatures, whom He plac't below, 
 
 Let them their gratefull praifes fhow, 
 And in that fervice reach the skies! 
 
 Dragons and Whales i'th' confort move 
 
 A tunefull Bafe to th' Quire above ! 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Sea praife Him , when Thy billows roar! 
 
 And muftring up the force of th' Main, 
 
 The once drown'd World aflault again, 
 And feek i'th' Heav'ns alone a fhoar : 
 
 Praife Him, who when He moves His hand, 
 
 Both falls, and chains Thy waves with fand. 
 
 IX. 
 
 All Meteors praife the Name of God, 
 
 Vapors, and Winds that nothing fpare. 
 
 But of His Wrath the Armies are. 
 Lightning's His Scepter and His Ro J \ 
 
 Ggg 2 IC£ 
 
fyZ A Paraphrase Lib. 4 }. 
 
 Ice praife Him , who makes Thee a rein 
 To curb fwift ftreams, and back the Main. 
 
 X. 
 
 Mountains at His great Name rile up, 
 
 Who lo ordain ci by His command, 
 
 All in your ranks and orders (land, 
 Like Piles Heav'ns Arch to underprop : 
 
 Praife Him who your raised heads did crown, 
 
 And low as Hell, not throw you down ! 
 
 XI. 
 
 Cedars, who one loft higher go, 
 
 And Natures Vanes to Mountains are, 
 
 Knowing no other motion there, 
 Than what the amorous Zephyrs blow : 
 
 Plants and Fruit-trees, the pride o'th' Fields 
 
 In generous (tores your praiies yield. 
 
 XII. 
 
 Bead and all Cattell, creeping things, 
 
 Infedte unminded, the great care 
 
 Of Him by whom you formed were, 
 And Birds who with your downy wings 5 
 
 Cut the foft air, your Prefents bring, 
 
 And in wild notes His Praiies ling ! 
 
 XIII. 
 
 King?, to whom God His Name do's give> 
 
 And as Vice- gods has fct on high, 
 
 True Portraits of the Deity, 
 Praife Him in whom your fclves do live, 
 
 And who, though Homage is your due, 
 
 Firft made the Right, then gave it you* 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Praife Him all People, every llate 
 And Sex, and Age, Virgins, and Youth 
 With all the beauteous trains of both. 
 
 Or long fince born, or bom of late > 
 
 Praife 
 
Lib."), upon the CXLVIII Psalm, 4.33 
 
 Praife Him old Men , and fince agen 
 Age (peaks you Children , fhew y'are Men. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Let the whole World His Praife reftore, 
 
 And lift above the Firmament, 
 
 That Name He counts fo excellent, 
 And what none fully know, adore : 
 
 For from the Deep it all things rills, 
 
 Up to the Everlaiting Hills. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Ifrael praife Him, Ifiael for whom 
 He made all thefe, and greater things, 
 The Land fubdu'd , and Potent Kings, 
 
 Bringing them thoufand Vidt'ries home, 
 Such wonders wrought, and more than this, 
 Whom He redeem'd, and fo made His. 
 
 Hallelujah, 
 
 Ggg $ Pfalm 
 
m 
 
 APARAPHRASE Lib. ?. 
 
 Pfalm CXLIX. 
 Cdntate Domino Canticum^ &c 
 
 I. 
 
 tt v r ' U 1W 1^ W Songs of Praife to Great Jehovah ling, 
 
 H*UelH]M. r^ And m His Temple kt His Namc rcfound . 
 
 This fmall return his Saints may bring, 
 For all thole favours wherewith they arc crown'd > 
 Let Ijrael in His Makers Love rejoyce, 
 And Sion crown again Her Sovereign with Her Voyce. 
 
 II. 
 
 In the High Dance His great Name let them praife, 
 And that it may approach His Throne above, 
 
 The fervice with fhrill Trumpets raife, 
 And lend up Theirs, as He mowers down His Love : 
 They are His Pleafure, and His chiefeft Prize, 
 And though in others mean,yet beauteous in His eyes. 
 
 III. 
 
 Let the Saints praife Him, who their Glory is * 
 And on their beds, when they no Comfort lee, 
 
 Then let them fing, for they are His, 
 And of falvation confident may bee ! 
 Hee^l raife them up, and by His Powerfull Word, 
 Put in their mouths His Praife,and in their hands a Sword. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Thus (hall they fight, and conquer, throw down all, 
 Who dare oppofe, and to retilt them Itand > 
 
 The Heathen (hall before them fall, 
 And in that ruin feel His vengefull Hand: 
 Their Captive Kin^s they (hall in fetters bind, 
 And make their ftouteft Princes walk in Chains behind. 
 
 V. That 
 
Libj. upon the CXLIX Psalm. 435 
 
 v. 
 
 That Wrath which was denounc'd, to execute, 
 And all the long fince written Doom fulfill, 
 
 When their fierce Enemies all ftruck mute, 
 Shall yield their Lives to th' Pleafure of their Will - y 
 Such Glorious Freedom follows Their Reftraints, 
 And this great Honour, after fuffering, haye the Saints. 
 
 HaVelvjah* 
 
 Pfalm 
 
a<i$ A Paraphrase Lib. ? • 
 
 Pfalm C L. 
 Landate Dominum^ &€. 
 
 I. 
 
 ».,.., S m M "^He Holy God in His Sanctuary praife ! 
 
 Halted There wheK He loyes H]mfdf tQ {how . 
 
 And having fung His Praife below , 
 From thence to Heaven,that, and your voyce together raife. 
 
 II. 
 
 In Ileav'n He makes His Mighty Power be feen, 
 Praife Him, who makes it there appear .' 
 For if that Greatnefs awe us here, 
 What would it do, came not fo valt a fpace between ? 
 
 III. 
 
 Together ftrive, who (hall exalt Him mod, 
 What Inftruments the fitteft are, 
 Whether of Love, whether of Warr, 
 Shrill Trumpets, or foft Harps to praifc the Lord of Hoft ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 Trumpets, and Harps (hall in one Confort move, 
 The Cornet, and the Amorous Lute, 
 The Cymbal, and the Warlike Flute, 
 For He who is the Lord of Hoil, is God of Love. 
 
 V. 
 
 Let the whole Earth their praifes to Him bring > 
 Whate're has being, lite, or breath > 
 Angels above, and Men bvneath, 
 And all, whom He has Voyces given, His Praifes fing ! 
 
 S. Woodforl At Hallelujah. 
 
 Albroo\ HantSy 
 7Martif, \6d\ 
 
 F IN I S. 
 

 TABLE 
 
 OFTHE 
 
 PSALMS. 
 
 Pfalm. 
 
 if. (rer 
 
 120 JSi ® Vominum cum tribute- 
 Jt\. 2$AdteVowineclaYHabo 
 25 Adte Vominelevavi 
 12 3 Ad te levavi oculos twos 
 29 Afferte Domino Filii Vet 
 7%Attcnditepfuk 
 49 Audiu h£c omnts gentes 
 
 B. 
 n .9 Be aii immaculati 
 128 Beati otnnes qui 
 32 Zfetffj quorum remips 
 41 Beatus qui imeVigit 
 1 Beatus vir qui non 
 
 P'ge 
 
 IN mydifuefsunto the Lord 373 
 To thee O Lord my Rock 
 
 Hbh 
 
 To thee O God my 
 To thee O Lord I lift 
 You whom your birth tor 
 Iirad Gods own inheritance 
 Attend O World and bid 
 
 Thrice happy men, who 
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