THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS Collected into English Metre BY THOMAS STERNHOLD JOHN HOPKINS AND OTHERS Conferred with the Hebrew Set forth and allowed to be sung in all Churches of all the people together before and after Morning and Evening Prayer and also before and after Sermons and moreover in private houses for their godly solace and comfort laying apart all ungodly Songs and Ballads which tend only to the nourishing of vice and corrupting of youth James 5. If any be afflicted let him pray and if any be merry let him sing Psalms Colossians 3. Let the word of God dwell plenteously in you in all wisdom teaching and exhorting one another in Psalms hymns and spiritual songs singing unto the Lord in your hearts ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SACRA ¶ Printed by John Field Printer to the University of CAMBRIDGE Anno Dom. M. DC.LX.VI CVM PRIVILEGIO Veni Creator COme holy Ghost eternal God proceeding from above Both from the Father and the Son the God of peace and love ●t our minds and into us thy heavenly grace inspire That in all truth and godliness ●e may have true desire Thou art the very comforter ●●all woe and distress The heavenly gift of God most high which no tongue can express ●●e fountain and the lively spring of joy celestial The fire so bright the love so clear ●●d unction spiritual Thou in thy gifts art manifold thereby Christ's church doth stand pithful hearts writing thy law ●e finger of God's hand ●●●ding to thy promise made ●●u givest speech of grace through thy help the praise of God ●y stand in every place Ghost into our wits ●●d down thy heavenly light our hearts with fervent love serve God day and night mygth and establish all our weakness ●●●eeble and so frail neither flesh the world nor devil ●unst us do prevail ●●ack our enemies far from us grant us to obtain in our hearts with God and man ●●out grudge of disdain grant O Lord that thou being leader and our guide ●●y eschew the snares of sin from thee never slide such plenty of thy grace ●od Lord grant we thee pray ●●●thou may'st be our comforter ●●e last dreadful day strife and distension Lord dissolve the bands ●ake the knots of peace and love langhout all Christian lands ●t us O Lord through thee to know Father most of might of his dear beloved Son ●ay attain the fight that with perfect saith also ●ay acknowledge thee Spirit of them both always God in persons three ●●●nd praise be to the Father to the Son equal the holy Spirit also God coeternal pray we that the only Son safe his Spirit to send that do profess his name the world's last end The humble suit of a sinner M. Lord of whom I do depend behold my careful heart then thy will and pleasure is ●●●se me of my smart seest my sorrows what they are grief is known to thee ●●●cere is none that can remove ●●●ke the same from me ●●ly thou whose aid I crave ●●●se mercy still is pressed all those that come to thee succour and for rest thou seest my restless eyes ●arss and grievous groan unto my suit O lord ●●is well my plaint and moan hath so enclosed me ●●●●past me about ●●●m now ren●ediless ●●●cy help not out ●●●●ral man cannot release gate this pain thy Christ my Lord and God my sins was slain bloody wounds are yet to see ●●gh not with mortal eye thy saints behold them all I trust shall I. sin doth hinder me a while thou shalt see it good I shall enjoy the sight of him and see his wounds and blood And as thine angels and thy saints do now behold the same So trust I to possess that place with them to praise thy name But whilst I live here in this vale where sinners do frequent Assist me ever with thy grace my sins still t● lament Lest that I tread the sinners trace and give them my consent To dwell with them in wickedness whereto nature is bend Only thy grace must be my stay lest that I fall down flat And being down then of myself cannot recover that Wherefore this is yet once again my suit and my request To grant me pardon for my sin that I in thee may rest Then shall my heart and tongue also be instruments of praise And in thy Church and house of Saints sing psalms to thee always Venite exultemus Psal. xcv O Come and let us now rejoice And sing unto the Lord And to our only Saviour Also with one accord O let us come before his face With inward reverence Confessing all our former sins And that with diligence To thank him for his benefits Always distributing Wherefore to him right joyfully In psalms now let us sing And that because that God alone Is Lord magnificent And eke above all other gods A King omnipotent His people doth not he forsake At any time or tide And in his hands are all the coasts Of all the world so wide And with his loving countenance He looketh every where And doth behold the tops of all The mountains far and near The sea and all that is therein Are his for he them made And eke his hand hath fashioned The earth which doth not fade O come therefore and worship him And down before him fall And let us kneel before the Lord The which hath made us all He is our God our Lord and King And we his people are His flock and sheep of his pasture Of whom he taketh care This day if ye will hear his voice Then harden not your heart As in the bitter murmuring When ye were in desert Which thing was of their negligence Committed in the time Of trouble in the wilderness A great and grievous crime Whereas your fathers tempted me And tried me every way They proved me and saw my works What I could do or say These forty years I have been grieved With this same generation And evermore I said they erred In their imagination Wherewith their hearts were sore cumbered Long time and many days Wherefore I said Assuredly They have not known my ways To whom I in my anger swore That they should not be blessed Nor see my joy celestial Nor enter in my rest Gloria Patri All laud and praise be to thee Lord O that of might art most To God the Father and the Son And to the holy Ghost As it in the beginning was For ever heretofore And is now at this present time And shall be evermore The song of S. Ambrose called Te Deum WE praise thee God we knowledge thee the only Lord to be And as eternal Father all the earth doth worship thee To thee all Angels cry the heavens and all the powers therein To thee Cherub and Seraphin to cry they do not sin O holy holy holy Lord of Sabaoth Lord the God Through heaven & earth thy praise is spread and glory all abroad Th' Apostles glorious company yield praises unto thee The prophets goodly fellowship praise thee continually The noble and victorious host of Martyrs sound thy praise The holy Church throughout the world doth knowledge thee always Father of endless Majesty they do acknowledge thee Thy Christ thine honourable true and only Son to be The holy Ghost the comforter Of glory thou art King O Christ and of the Father art the Son everlasting When sinful man's decay in hand thou tookest to restore To be in closed in virgin's womb thou didst not abhor When thou hadst overcome of death the sharp and cruel might Thou heaven's kingdom didst set  to each believing wight In glory of the Father thou dost ●it on God's right hand We trust that thou shalt come our Judge our cause to understand Lord help thy servants whom thou hast bought with thy precious blood And in eternal glory set them with thy Saints so good O Lord do thou thy people save bless thine inheritance Lord govern them and Lord do thou for ever them advance We magnify thee day by day and world without an end Adore thy holy name O Lord vouchsafe us to defend From sin this day have mercy Lord have mercy on us all And on us as we trust in thee Lord let thy mercy fall O Lord I have reposed all my confidence in thee Put to confounding shame therefore Lord let me never be The Song of the three Children O All ye works of God the Lord bless ye the Lord Praise him and magnify him for ever verse 2 O ye the Angels of the Lord bless ye the Lord etc. verse 3 O ye the starry heavens high bless ye the Lord etc. verse 4 O ye waters above the sky bless ye the Lord etc. verse 5 O all ye powers of the Lord bless ye the Lord etc. verse 6 O ye the shining Sun and Moon bless ye the Lord etc. verse 7 O ye the glistering Stars of heaven bless ye the Lord etc. verse 8 O ye the Showers and dropping Dew bless ye the Lord etc. verse 9 O ye the blowing Winds of God bless ye the Lord etc. verse 10 O ye the Fire and warming Heat bless ye the Lord etc. verse 11 Ye Winter and the Summer-tide bless ye the Lord etc. verse 12 O ye the Dews and binding Frosts bless ye the Lord etc. verse 13 O ye the Frost and chilling Cold bless ye the Lord etc. verse 14 O ye congealed Ice and Snow bless ye the Lord etc. verse 15 O ye the Nights and lightsome Days bless ye the Lord etc. verse 16 O ye the Darkness and the Light bless ye the Lord etc. verse 17 O ye the Lightnings and the Clouds bless ye the Lord etc. verse 18 O the earth eke bless the Lord yea bless the Lord etc. verse 19 O ye the Mountains and the Hills bless ye the Lord etc. verse 20 O all ye green things on the earth bless ye the Lord etc. verse 21 O ye the ever-springing Wells bless ye the Lord etc. verse 22 O ye the Seas and eke the Floods bless ye the Lord etc. verse 23 Whales and all that in waters move bless ye the Lord etc. verse 24 O all ye flying Fowls of th' air bless ye the Lord etc. verse 25 O all ye Beasts and  eke bless ye the Lord etc. verse 26 O ye the Children of mankind bless ye the Lord etc. verse 27 Let Israel eke bless the Lord yea bless the Lord etc. verse 28 O ye the priests of God the Lord bless ye the Lord etc. verse 29 O ye the servants of the Lord bless ye the Lord etc. verse 30 Ye Spirits and Souls of righteous men bless ye the Lord etc. verse 31 Ye Holy and ye Meek of heart bless ye the Lord etc. verse 32 O Ananias bless the Lord bless thou the Lord etc. verse 33 O Azarias bless the Lord bless thou the Lord etc. verse 34 And Misael eke bless the Lord bless thou the Lord etc. The song of Zacharias called Benedictus THe only Lord of Israel Be praised evermore For through his visitation And mercy kept in store His people now he hath redeemed That long have been in thrall And spread abroad his saving health Upon his servants all In David's house his servant true According to his mind And also his anointed King As we in Scripture find As by his holy Prophets all Ofttimes he did declare The which were since the world began His ways for to prepare That we might be delivered From those that make debate Our enemies and from the hands Of all that do us hate The mercy which he promised Our fathers to fulfil And think upon his Covenant made According to his will And also to perform the Oath Which he before had sworn To Abraham our father dear For us that were forlorn That he would give himself for us And us from bondage bring Out of the hands of all our foes To serve our heavenly King And that without all manner fear And eke in righteousness And also for to lead our lives In stead fast holiness And thou O Child which now art born And of the Lord elect Shalt be the Prophet of the Highest His ways for to direct For thou shalt go before his face For to prepare his ways And also for to teach his will And pleasure all thy days To give them knowledge how that their Salvation is near And that remission of their sins Is through his mercy mere Whereby the dayspring from on high Is come us for to visit And those for to illuminate Which do in darkness sit To lighten those that shadowed be With death and eke oppressed And also for to guide our feet The way to peace and rest The Song of blessed Mary called Magnificat MY soul doth magnify the Lord My spirit eke evermore Rejoiceth in the Lord my God Which is my Saviour And why because he did regard And gave respect unto So base estate of his handmaid And let the mighty go For now behold all nations And generations all From this time forth for evermore Shall me right blessed call Because he hath me magnified Which is the Lord of might Whose name be ever sanctified And praised day and night For with his mercy and his grace All men he doth inflame Throughout all generations To such as fear his name He shown strength with his great arm And made the proud to start With all imaginations That they beat in their heart He hath put down the mighty ones From their supernal feat And did exalt the meek in heart As he hath thought it meet The hungry he replenished With all things that were good And through his power he made the rich Ofttimes to want their food And calling to remembrance His mercy every deal Hath helped up assistantly His servant Israel According to his promise made To Abraham before And to his seed successively To stand for evermore The song of Simeon called Nunc dimittis O Lord because my heart's desire Hath wished long to see My only Lord and Saviour Thy Son before I die The joy and health of all mankind Desired long before Which now is come into the world Of mercy bringing store Thou sufferest thy servant now In peace for to departed According to thy holy Word Which lighteneth my heart Because mine eyes which thou hast made To give my body light Have now beheld thy saving health Which is the Lord of might Whom thou mercifully hast set Of thine abundant grace In open sight and visible Before all people's face The Gentiles to illuminate And Satan overquel And eke to be the glory of Thy people Israel The Symbol or Creed of Athanasius called Quicunque vult WHat man soever he be that salvation will attain The Catholic belief he must before all things retain Which faith unless he wholly keep and undefiledly Without all doubt eternally he shall be sure to die The Catholic bells is this that God we worship one In Trinity and Trinity in Unity alone So as we neither do confound the persons of the three Nor yet the substance whole of one in sunder parted be One Person of the father is another of the Son Another Person proper of the holy Ghost alone Of Father Son and holy Ghost but one the Godhead is Like Glory coeternal eke The Majesty likewise Such as the Father is such is the Son in each degree And such also we do believe the holy Ghost to be Uncreate is the father and uncreate is the Son The holy Ghost uncreate so uncreate is each one Incomprehensible Father is incomprehensible Son And comprehensible also is the holy Ghost of none The Father is eternal and the Son eternal so And in like sort eternal is the holy Ghost also And yet though we believe that each of th●se eternal be Yet there but one Eternal is and not Eternals three As ne incomprehensible we he yet uncreate three But one incomprehensible one uncreate hold to be Almighty so the Father is the Son Almighty so And in like sort Almighty is the holy Ghost also And albeit that every one of these Almighty be Yet there but one Almighty is And not Almighty's three The Father God is God the Son God holy Ghost also Yet are there not three Gods in all but one God and no more So likewise Lord the Father is and Lord also the Son And Lord the holy Ghost yet are there not three Lords but one For as we are compelled to grant by Christian verity Each of the persons by himself both God and Lord to be So Catholic religion forbiddeth us always That either Gods be three or that there Lords be three to say Of none the Father is ne made ne create nor begot The Son is of the Father not create ne made but got The holy Ghost is of them both the Father and the Son Ne made ne create nor begot but doth proceed alone So we one Father hold not three one Son also not three One holy Ghost alone and not three holy Ghosts to be None in this Trinity before nor after other is Ne greater any than the rest ne lesser be likewise But every one among themselves of all the Persons three Together coeternal all and all coequal be So Unity in Trinity as said it is before And Trinity in Unity in all things we adore Therefore what man soever that salvation will attain This faith touching the Trinity of force he must retain And needful to eternal life it is that every wight Of the incarnating of Christ our Lord believe aright For this the right faith is that we believe and eke do know That Christ our Lord the Son of God is God and man also God of his Father's substance got before the world began And of his Mother's substance born in world a very man Both perfect God and perfect Man in one one Jesus Christ That doth of reasonable soul and humane flesh subsist Touching his Godhead equal with his Father God is he Touching his Manhood lower than his father in degree Who though he be both very God and very man also Yet is he but one Christ alone and is not persons two One not by turning of Godhead into the flesh of man But by taking manhood to God this being one began All one not by confounding of the substance into one But only by the Unity that is of one Person For as the reasonable soul and flesh but one man is So in one Person God and Man is but one Christ likewise Who suffered for to save us all to hell he did descend The third day risen again from death to heaven he did ascend He sits at the right hand of God th' Almighty Father there From thence to judge the quick and dead again he shall appear At whose return all men shall rise with bodies new restored And of their own works they shall give account unto the lord And they into eternal life shall go that have done well Who have done ill shall go into eternal fire to dwell This is the Catholic belief who doth not faithfully Believe the same without all doubt he saved cannot be To Father Son and holy Ghost all glory be therefore As in beginning was is now and shall be evermore The Lamentation of a sinner O Lord turn not away thy face From him that lies prostrate Lamenting sore his sinful life Before thy mercy gate Which gate thou openest wide to those That do lament their sin Shut not that gate against me Lord But let me enter in And call me not to mine account How I have lived here For than I know right well O Lord How vile I shall appear I need not to confess my life I am sure thou canst tell What I have been and what I am I know thou knowst it well O Lord thou knowst what things be past And eke the things that be Thou knowst also what is to come Nothing is hid from thee Before the heavens and earth were made Thou knowst what things were then As all things else that have been since Among the sons of men And can the things that I have done Be hidden from thee then Nay nay thou knowst them all O Lord Where they were done and when Wherefore with tears I come to thee To beg and to entreat Even as the child that hath done ill And feareth to be beat So come I to thy mercy gate Where mercy doth abound Requiring mercy for my sin To heal my deadly wound O Lord I need not to repeat What I do beg or crave Thou knowst O Lord before I ask The thing that I would have Mercy good Lord mercy I ask This is the total sum For mercy Lord is all my suit Lord let thy mercy come The Lord's Prayer or Pater noster OUr father which in heaven art Lord. Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth even as the same In heaven is Give us O Lord our daily bread this day As we forgive our debtors so forgive our debts we pray Into temptation lead us not from evil make us free For kingdom power and glory thine both now and ever be The X Commandments Audi Israel Exod. 20. Hark Israel and what I say give heed to understand I am the Lord thy God that brought thee out of Egypt land Even from the house wherein thou didst in thraldom live a slave None other gods at all before my presence shalt thou have No manner graven image shalt thou make at all to thee Nor any figure like by thee shall counterfeited be Of any thing in heaven above nor in the earth below Nor in the waters beneath the earth to them thou shalt not bow Nor shalt them serve the Lord thy God a jealous God am I That punish parents faults unto the third and fourth degree Upon their children that me hate and mercy do display To thousands of such as me love and my precepts obey The Name thou of the Lord thy God in vain shalt never use For him that takes his Name in vain the Lord will not excuse Remember that thou holy keep the sacred sabbath day Six days thou labour shalt and do Thy needful works always The seventh day is set by the Lord thy God to rest upon No work then shalt thou do in it ne thou nor yet thy son Thy daughter servant nor thy maid thine ox nor yet thine ass Nor stranger that within thy gates hath his abiding-place For in six day's God heaven and earth and all therein did make And after those his rest he did upon the seventh day take Wherefore he blessed the day that he for resting did ordain And sacred to himself alone appointed to remain Yield honour to thy Parents that prolonged thy days may be Upon the land the which the Lord thy God hath given thee Thou shalt not murder Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not steal Nor witness false against thy neighbour be Thou shalt not covet house that to thy neighbour doth belong Ne covet shalt in having of his wife to do him wrong Nor his manservant nor his maid nor ox nor ass of his Nor any other thing that to thy neighbour proper is The complaint of a Sinner WHere righteousness doth say Lord for my sinful part In wrath thou shouldst me pay Vengeance for my desert I can it not deny But needs I must confess How that continually Thy laws I do transgress But if it be thy will With sinners to contend Then all thy flock shall spill And be lost without end For who lives here so right That rightly he can say He sins not in thy sight Full oft and every day Full oft etc. The Scripture plain tells me The righteous man offendeth Seven times a day to thee Whereon thy wrath dependeth So that the righteous man Doth walk in no such path But he falls now and then In danger of thy wrath In danger etc. Then sigh the case so stands That even the man right wife Falls oft in sinful hands Whereby thy wrath mayrise Lord I that am unjust And righteousness none have Whereto then shall I trust My sinful soul to save My sinful etc. But truly to that post Whereto I cleave and shall Which is thy mercy most Lord let thy mercy fall And mitigate thy mood Or else we perish all The price of this thy blood Wherein mercy I call Wherein etc. The Scripture doth declare No drop of blood in thee But that thou didst not spare To shed each drop for me Now let those drops most sweet So moist my heart so dry That I with sin replete May live and sin may die May live etc. That being mortified This sin of mine in me I may be sanctified By grace of thine in thee So that I never fall Into such mortal sin That my so●ss infernal Rejoice my death therein Rejoice my etc. But vouchsafe me to keep From those infernal foes And from that lake so deep Whereas no mercy grows And I shall sing the songs Consirm●d with the just That unto thee belongs Which art my only trust Which art etc. The PSALMS of DAVID in metre Beatus vir Psal. i. T. S. THe man is blessed that hath not bend to wicked read his ear Nor led his life as sinners do nor sat in scorners chair verse 2 But in the law of God the Lord doth set his whole delight And in that law doth exercise himself both day and night verse 3 He shall be like the tree that grows fast by the river's side Which bringeth forth most pleasant fruit in her due time and tide Whose leaf shall never fade nor fall but flourish still and stand Even so all things shall prosper well that this man takes in hand verse 4 So shall not the ungodly men they shall be nothing so But as the dust which from the earth the wind drives to and fro verse 5 Therefore shall not the wicked men in judgement stand upright Nor yet the sinners with the just shall come in place or sight verse 6 For why the way of godly men unto the Lord is known And eke the way of wicked men shall quite be overthrown Quare fremuerunt Psal. two T. S. WHy did the Gentiles tumults raise what rage was in their brain Why did the Jewisn people muse seeing all is but vain verse 2 The kings and rulers of the earth conspire and are all bend Against the Lord and Christ his Son which he among us sent verse 3 Shall we be bound to them say they let all their bonds be broke And of their doctrine and their law let us reject the yoke verse 4 But he that in the heaven dwells their do will deride And make them all as mocking-stocks throughout the world so wide verse 5 For in his wrath the Lord will say to them upon a day And in his fury trouble them and then the Lord will say verse 6 I have anointed him my King upon my holy hill I will therefore Lord preach thy law and eke declare thy will verse 7 For in this wise the Lord himself did say to me I wots Thou art my dear and only Son to day I thee begot verse 8 All people I will give to thee as heirs at thy request The ends and coasts of all the earth by thee shall be possessed verse 9 Thou shalt them bruise even with a mace as men under foot trod And as the potter's sherds shalt break them with an iron rod. verse 10 Now ye O kings and rulers all be wise therefore and learned By whom the matters of the world be judged and discerned verse 11 See that ye serve the Lord above in trembling and in fear See that with reverence ye rejoice to him in like manner verse 12 See that ye kiss and eke embrace his blessed Son I say Left in his wrath ye suddenly perish in the midway verse 13 If once his wrath never so small shall kindle in his breast O than all they that trust in Christ shall happy be and blessed Domine quid Psal. iii. T. S. O Lord how are my foes increased which vex me more and more verse 2 They kill my heart when as they say God can him not restore verse 3 But thou O Lord art my defence when I am hard bestead My worship and mine honour both and thou hold'st up my head verse 4 Then with my voice upon the Lord I did both call and cry And he out of his holy hill did hear me by and by verse 5 I laid me down and quietly I slept and risen again For why I know assuredly the Lord will me sustain verse 6 If ten thousand had hemmed me in I could not be afraid For thou art still my Lord and God my Saviour and mine aid Rise up therefore save me my God for now to thee I call verse 7 For thou hast broke the cheeks and teeth of these wicked men all verse 8 Salvation only doth belong to thee O Lord above Thou dost bestow upon thy folk thy blessing and thy love Cum invocarem Psal. iv T. S. O God that art my righteousness Lord hear me when I call Thou hast set me at liberty when I was bound and thrall verse 2 Have mer●y Lord therefore on me and grant me my request For unto thee uncessantly to cry I will not rest verse 3 O mortal men how long will ye my glory thus despise Why wander ye in vanity and follow after lies verse 4 Know ye that good and godly men the Lord doth take and choose And when to him I make my plaint he doth me not refuse verse 5 Sin not but stand in awe therefore examine well your heart And in your chamber quietly see you yourselves convert verse 6 Offer to God the sacrifice of righteousness I say And look that in the living Lord you put your trust always verse 7 The greater sort crave worldly goods and riches do embrace But Lord grant us thy countenance thy savour and thy grace verse 8 For thou thereby shalt make my heart more joyful and more glad Then they that of their corn and wine full great increase have had verse 9 In peace therefore lie down will I taking my rest and sleep For thou only will't me O Lord alone in safety keep Verba m●a auribus Psal. v. T. S. IN cline thine ears unto my words O Lord my plaint consider verse 2 And hear my voice my King my God to thee I make my prayer verse 3 Hear me betime Lord tarry not for I will have respect My prayer early in the morn to thee for to direct verse 4 And I will trust through patience in thee my God alone Thou art not pleased with wickedness and ill with thee dwells none verse 5 And in thy sight shall never stand these furious fools O Lord Vain workers of iniquity thou hast always abhorred verse 6 The liars and the slatterers thou shalt destroy them than And God will hate the bloodthirsty and the deceitful man verse 7 Therefore will I come to thin● house trusting upon thy grace And reverently will worship thee toward thine holy place verse 8 Lord lead me in thy righteousness for to confound my so's And eke the way that I shall walk before my face disclose verse 9 For in their mouths there is no truth their heart is soul and vain Their throat an open sepulchre their tongues do gloze and fain verse 10 Destroy their false conspiracies that they may come to nought Subvert them in their heaps of sin which have rebellion wrought verse 11 But those that put their trust in thee let them be glad always And render thanks for thy defence and give thy name the praise verse 12 For thou with favour wilt increase the just and righteous still And with thy grace as with a shield defend him from all ill Domine ne in furore Psal. vi T. S. LOrd in thy wrath reprove me not though I deserve thine ire No yet correct me in thy rage O Lord I thee desire verse 2 For I am weak therefore O Lord Of mercy me forbear And heal me Lord for why thou knowst my bones do quake for fear verse 3 My soul is troubled very sore and vexed vehemently But Lord how long wilt thou delay to cure my misery verse 4 Lord turn thee to thy wont grace my silly soul up take O save me not for my deserts but for thy mercy's sake verse 5 For why no man among the dead remembreth thee one whit Or who shall worship thee O Lord in the infernal pit verse 6 So grievous is my plaint and moan that I wax wondrous saint All the night long I wash my bed with tears of my complaint verse 7 My sight is dim and waxeth old with anguish of my heart For sear of those that be my foes and would my soul subvert verse 8 But now away from me all ye that work iniquity For why the Lord hath heard the voice of my complaint and cry verse 9 He heard not only the request and prayer of my heart But it received at my hands and took it in good part verse 10 And now my foes that vexed me the Lord will soon defame And suddenly confound them all to their rebuke and shame Domine Deus meus Psal. seven T. S. O Lord my God I put my trust and confidence in thee Save me from them that me pursue and eke deliver me verse 2 let like a lion he me tear and rend in pieces small While there is none to secure me and rid me out of thrall verse 3 O Lord my God if I have done the thing that is not right Or else it I be found in fault or guilty in thy sight verse 4 Or to my friend rewarded ill or left him in distress Which me pursued most cruelly and hated me causeless verse 5 Then let my foes pursue my soul and eke my life down thrust Unto the earth and also lay mine honour in the dust verse 6 Start up O Lord now in thy wrath and put my foes to pain Perform the kingdom promised to me which wrong sustain verse 7 Then shall great nations come to thee and know thee by this thing If thou declare for love of them thyself as Lord and King verse 8 And as thou art of all men Judge O Lord ●ow judge thou me According to my righteousness and mine integrity The second part verse 9 Lord cease the hate of wicked men and be the just man's guide verse 10 By whom the secrets of all hearts are searched and descried verse 11 I take my help to come of God in all my pain and smart That doth preserve all those that be of pure and perfect heart verse 12 The just man and the wicked both God judgeth by his power So that he feels his might hand even every day and hour verse 13 Except he change his mind I die for even as he should smite He whets his sword his bow he bends aiming where he may hit verse 14 And doth prepare his mortal darts his arrows keen and sharp For them that do me persecute whiles he doth mischief warp verse 15 But lo though he in travail be of his devilish forecast And of his mischief once conceived yet brings forth nought at last verse 16 He digs a ditch and delves it deep in hope to hurt his brother But he shall fall into the pit that he digged up for other verse 17 Thus wrong returneth to the hurt of him in whom it bred And all the mischief that he wrought shall sall upon his head verse 18 I will give thanks to God therefore that judgeth righteously And with my song will praise the name of him that is most high Domine Deus noster Psal. viij T. S. O God our Lord how wonderful are thy works every where Whose fame surmounts in dignity above the heavens clear verse 2 Even by the mouth of sucking babes thou wilt confound they foes For in those babes thy might is seen thy graces they disclose verse 3 And when I see the heavens high the works of thine own hand The Sun the Moon and all the Stars in order as they stand verse 4 What thing is man Lord think I then that thou dost him remember Or what is man's posterity that thou dost it consider verse 5 For thou hast made him little less than Angels in degree And thou hast crowned him also with glory and dignity verse 6 Thou hast preferred him to be lord of all thy works of wonder And at his feet hast set all things that he should keep them under verse 7 As sheep and neat and all beasts else that in the fields do feed verse 8 Fowls of the air fish in the sea and all that therein breed verse 9 Therefore must I say once again O God that art our lord How famous and how wonderful are thy works through the world Confitebor tibi Domine Psal. ix T. S. WIth heart and mouth unto the Lord will I sing laud and praise And speak of all thy wondrous works and them declare always verse 2 I will be glad and much rejoice in thee O God most high And make my songs extol thy name above the starry sky verse 3 For that my foes are driven back and turned unto flight They fall down flat and are destroyed by thy great power and might verse 4 Thou hast revenged all my wrong my grief and all my grudge Thou dost with justice hear my cause most like a righteous Judge verse 5 Thou dost rebuke the heathen folk and wicked so confound That afterward the memory of them cannot be found verse 6 My foes thou hast made good dispatch and all their towns destroyed Thou hast their fame with them defaced through all the world so wide verse 7 Know thou that he which is above for evermore shall reign And in the seat of equity true judgement will maintain verse 8 With justice he will keep and guide the world and every wight And so will yield with equity to every man his right verse 9 He is protector of the poor what time they be oppressed He is maul adversity their refuge and their rest verse 10 And they that know thy holy name therefore shall trust in thee For thou forsakest not their suit in their necessity The second part verse 11 Sing psalms therefore unto the Lord that dwells on Zion hill Publish among all nations his noble acts and will verse 12 For he is mindful of the blood of those that be oppressed For getting not th' afflicted heart that seeks to him for rest verse 13 Have mercy Lord on me poor wretch whole enemies still remain Which from the gates of death are wont to raise me up again verse 14 In Zion that I might set forth thy praise with heart and voice And that in thy salvation Lord my soul might still rejoice verse 15 The heathen stick fast in the pit that they themselves prepared And in the net that they did set their own feet fast are snared verse 16 God shows his judgements which were good for every man to mark When as you see the wicked man lie trapped in his own wark verse 17 The wicked and deceitful men go down to hell for ever And all the people of the world that will not God remember verse 18 But sure the Lord will not forget the poor man's grief and pain The patiented people never look for help of God in vain verse 19 O Lord arise lest men prevail that he of worldly might And set the heathen solk receive their judgement in thy sight verse 20 Lord strike such terror fear and dread into the hearts of them That they may know assuredly they be but mottal men  quid Domine Psal. x. T. S. WHat is the cause that thou O Lord art now so far from thine And keepest close thy countenance from us this troublous time verse 2 The poor do perish by the proud and wicked men desire Let them be taken in the craft that they themselves conspire verse 3 For in the lust of his own heart th' ungodly doth delight So doth the wicked praise himself and doth the Lord d●spight verse 4 He is so proud that right and wrong he setteth all apart Nay nay there is no God saith he for thus he thinks in heart verse 5 Because his ways do prosper still he doth thy laws neglect And with a blast doth puff against such as would him correct verse 6 Tush tush saith he I have no dread lest mine estate should change And why for all adversity to him is very strange verse 7 His mouth is full of cursedness of fraud deceit and guile Under his tongue doth mischief sit and travel all the while verse 8 He lieth hid in ways and holes to slay the innocent Against the poor that pass him by his cruel eyes are bend verse 9 And like a lion privily lies lurking in his den If he may snare them in his net to spoil poor simple men verse 10 And for the nonce full craftily he croucheth down I say verse 11 So are great heaps of poor men made by his strong power his prey The second part verse 12 Tush God forgetteth this saith he therefore I may be bold His countenance is cast aside he doth it not behold verse 13 Arise O Lord O God in whom the poor man's hope doth rest Lift up thy hand forget not Lord the poor that be oppressed verse 14 What blasphemy is this to thee Lord dost thou not abhor it To hear the wicked in their heart say Tush thou carest not for it verse 15 But thou seest all their wickedness and well dost understand verse 16 That friendless and poor fatherless are left into thy hand verse 17 Of wicked and malicious men than break the power for ever That they with their iniquity may perish altogether verse 18 The Lord shall reign for evermore as King and God alone And he will chase the heathen folk out of the land each one verse 19 Thou hearest O Lord the poor men's plaint their prayers and request Their hearts thou wilt confirm until thine ears to hear be pressed verse 20 To judge the poor and fatherless and help them to their right That they may be no more oppressed by men of worldly might In Domino consido Psal. xi T. S. I Trust in God how dare ye then say thus my soul until Fly hence as fast as any fowl and hid you in your hill verse 2 Behold the wicked bent their bows and make their arrows pressed To shoot in secret and to hurt the sound and harmless breast verse 3 Of worldly hope all stays were shrunk and clearly brought to nought Alas the just and righteous man what evil hath he wrought verse 4 But he that in his Temple is most holy and most high And in the heavens hath his seat of royal majesty The poor and simple man's estate considereth in his mind And searcheth out full narrowly the manners of mankind verse 5 And with a cheerful countenance the righteous man will use But in his heart he doth abhor all such as mischief muse verse 6 And on the sinners casteth snares as thick as any rain Fire and brimstone and whirlwinds thick appointed for their pain verse 7 Ye see then how a righteous God doth righteousness embrace And to the just and upright men shows forth his pleasant face Salvum me fas Psal. xii T. S. HE●y Lord for good and godly men do perish and decay And saith and truth from worldly men is parted clean away verse 2 Whoso doth with his neighbour talk his talk is all but vain For every man bethinketh how to flatter lie and feign verse 3 But flattering and deceitful lips and tongues that be so stout To speak proud words and make great brags The Lord soon cuts them out verse 4 For they say still We will prevail our tongues shall us extol Our tongues are ours we ought to speak what Lord shall us control verse 5 But for the great complaint and cry of poor and men oppressed Arise will I now saith the Lord and them restore to rest verse 6 Gods word is like to silver pure that front the earth is tri●d And hath no le●s thou seven times in fi●e b●●● purified verse 7 Now sigh thy promise is to help Lord keep thy promise then And save us now and evermore from this ill kind of men verse 8 For now the wicked world is full of mischiefs manifold When vanity with worldly men so highly is extolled Vsquequo Domine Psal. xiii T. S. HOw long wilt thou forget me Lord shall I ne'er be remembered How long wilt thou thy visage hid as though thou wert offended verse 2 In heart and mind how long shall I with care tormented be How long eke shall my deadly foes thus triumph over me verse 3 Behold me now my Lord my God and hear me fore oppressed Lighten mine eyes left that I sleep as one by death possessed verse 4 Lest that mine enemy say to me behold I do prevail Lest they also that hate my soul rejoice to see me quail verse 5 But from thy mercy and goodness my hope shall never start In thy rele●f and saving health right glad shall be my heart verse 6 I will give thanks unto the Lord and praises to him fing Because he hath heard my request and granted my wishing Dixit insipiens Psal. xiiii T. S. THere is no God as foolish men affirm in their mad mood Their drifts are all corrupt and vain not one of them doth good verse 2 The Lord beheld from heaven high the whole race of mankind And saw not one that sought indeed the living God to find verse 3 They went all wide and were corrupt and truly there was none That in the world did any good I say there was not one verse 4 Is all their judgement so far lost that all work mischief still Eating my people even as bread not one to seek Gods will verse 5 When they thus rage then suddenly great fear on them shall fall For God doth love the righteous men and will maintain them all verse 6 Ye mock the do of the poor to their reproach and shame Because they put their trust in God and call upon his name verse 7 But who shall give thy people health and when wilt thou fulfil Thy promise made to Israel from out of Zion hill verse 8 Even when thou shalt restore again such as were captive led Then Jacob shall therein rejoice and Israel shall be glad Domine quis Psal. xv T. S. O Lord within thy tabernacle who shall inhabit still Or whom wilt thou receive to dwell in thy most holy hill verse 2 The man whose life is uncorrupt whose works are just and straight Whose heart doth think the very truth whose tongue speaks no deceit verse 3 Nor to his neighbour doth none ill in body goods or name Nor willingly doth move false tales which might empair the same verse 4 That in his heart regardeth not malicious wicked men But those that love and fear the Lord he maketh much of them verse 5 His oath and all his promises that keepeth faithfully Although he make his covenant so that he doth lose thereby verse 6 That putteth not to usury his money and his coin Ne for to hu●t the innocent doth bribe or else purloyn verse 7 Whoso doth all things as you see that here is to he done Shall never perish in th●● world nor in the world to com● Conserva me Psal. xuj T. S. LOrd keep me for I trust in thee and do confess indeed Thou art my God and of my goods O Lord thou hast no need verse 2 I give my goods unto the saints that in the world do dwell And namely to the faithful flock in virtue that excel verse 3 They shall heap sorrows on their heads which run as they were mad To offer to the idol-gods alas it is too bad verse 4 As for their bloody sacrifice and offerings of that sort I will not touch nor yet thereof my lips shall make report verse 5 For why the Lord the portion is of mine inheritance And thou art he that dost maintain my rent my lot my chance verse 6 The place wherein my lot did fall in beauty did excel Mine heritage assigned to me doth please me wondrous well verse 7 I thank the Lord that caused me to understand the right For by his means my secret thoughts do teach me every night verse 8 I set the Lord still in my sight and trust him over all For he doth stand on my right hand Therefore I shall not fall verse 9 Wherefore my heart and tongue also do both rejoice together My flesh and body rest in hope when I this thing consider verse 10 Thou wilt not leave my soul in grave for Lord thou lovest me Nor yet wilt give thy holy One corruption for to see verse 11 But wilt me teach the way to life for all treasure and store Of perfect joy are in thy face and power for evermore Exaudi Domine Psal. xvii T. S. O Lord give ear to my just cause attend when I complain And hear the prayer that I put forth with lips that do not feign verse 2 And let the judgement of my cause proceed always from thee And let thine eyes behold and clear this my simplicity verse 3 Thou hast well tried me in the night and yet couldst nothing find That I have spoken with my tongue that was not in my mind verse 4 As for the works of wicked men and paths perverse and ill For love of thy most holy name I have refrained still verse 5 Then in thy paths that be most pure stay me Lord and preserve That from the way wherein I walk my steps may never swerve verse 6 For I do call to thee O Lord surely thou wilt me aid Then hear my prayer and weigh right wel● the words that I have said verse 7 O thou the Saviour of all them that put their trust in thee Declare thy strength on them that spurn against thy majesty verse 8 O keep me as thou wouldst keep the apple of thine eye And under covert of thy wings defend me secretly The second part verse 9 From wicked men that trouble me and daily me annoy And from my foes that go about my soul for to destroy verse 10 Which wallow in their worldly wealth so full and cke so fat That in their pride they do not spare to speak they care not what verse 11 They lie in wait where I should pass with craft me to confound And mu●ing mischief in their minds to cast me to the ground verse 12 Much like a lion greedily that would his prey embrace Or lurking like a lion's whelp within some secret place verse 13 Up Lord in haste prevent my foe and cast him at thy feet Save then my soul from the ill man and with the sword him lu●it● verse 14 Deliver me Lord by thy power out of these tyrant's hands Which now so long time reigned have and kept us in their bands verse 15 I mean from worldly men to whom all worldly goods are rife That have no hope nor part of joy but in this present life verse 16 Thou of thy store their bellies fill'st with pleasure to their mind Their children have enough and leave to theirs the rest behind verse 17 But I shall with pure conscience behold thy gracious face So when I wake I shall be full of thine image and grace Diligam te Dom. Psal. xviii T. S. O God my strength and fortitude of force I must love thee Thou art my castle and defence in my necessity verse 2 My God my rock in whom I trust the worker of my wealth My refuge buckler and my shield the horn of all my health verse 3 When I sing laud unto the Lord most worthy to be served Then from my foes I am right sure that I shall be preserved verse 4 The pangs of death did compass me and bound me every where The flowing waves of wickedness did put me in great fear ● The sly and subtle snares of hell were round about me set ●ed for my death there was prepared a deadly trapping net ● I thus beset with pain and grief did pray to God for grace ●●d he forthwith did hear my plaint ●ut of his holy place ● Such is his power that in his wrath ●e made the earth to quake ●o the foundation of the mount of Basan for to shake ● And from his nostrils came a smoke then kindled was his ire ●●d from his mouth came kindled coals of hot consuming fire ● The Lord descended from above and bowed the heavens high ●●d underneath his feet he cast the darkness of the sky ● On cherubs and on cherubims full royally he road on the wings of all the winds came flying all abroad The second part And like a den most dark he made his hid and secret place ●●th waters black and a●ery clouds environed he was ● But when the presence of his face in brightness shall appear ●●●n clouds consume and in their stead come hail and coals of fire ● The fiery darts and thunderbolts disperse them here and there with his often lightnings he puts them in great fear ● Lord at thy wrath and threaten and at thy chiding cheer ●●e springs and the foundations of all the world appear ● And from above the Lord sent down to fetch me from below plucked me out of waters great that would me over flow ● And me delivered from my foes that would have made me thrall from such foes as were too strong for me to deal withal ● They did prevent me to oppress in time of my great grief yet the Lord was my defence my succour and relief ● He brought me forth in open place whereas I might be free ●●d kept me safe because he had a favour unto me ● And as I was an innocent so did he me regard ●●d to the cleanness of my hands he gave me my reward ● For that I walked in his ways and in his paths have trod have not wavered wickedly against my Lord and God The third part verse 21 But evermore I have respect to his law and decree His statutes and commandments I cast not out from me verse 22 But pure and clean and uncorrupt appeared before his face And did refrain from wickedness and sin in any case verse 23 The Lord therefore will me reward as I have done aright And to the cleanness of my hands appearing in his sight verse 24 For Lord with him that holy is wilt thou be holy too And with the good and virtuous men right virtuously wilt do verse 25 And to the loving and elect thy love thou wilt reserve And thou wilt use the wicked men as wicked men deserve verse 26 For thou dost save the simple folk in trouble when they lie And dost bring down the countenance of them that look full high verse 27 The Lord will light my candle so that it shall shine full bright The Lord my God will make also my darkness to be light verse 28 For by thy help an host of men discomnt Lord I shall By thee I scale and overleap the strength of any wall verse 29 Unspotted are the ways of God his word is purely tried He is a sure defence to such as in his faith abide verse 30 For who is God except the Lord for other there is none Or else who is omnipotent saving our God alone The fourth part verse 31 The God that girdeth me with strength is he that I do mean That all the ways wherein I walk did evermore keep clean verse 32 That made my feet like to the hearts in swiftness of my pace And for my surety brought me forth into an open place verse 33 He did in order put my hands to battle and to fight To break in sunder bars of brass he gave my arms the might verse 34 Thou teachest me thy saving health thy right hand is my tower Thy love and familiarity doth still increase my power verse 35 And under me thou makest plain the way where I should walk So that my feet shall never slip nor stumble at a balk verse 36 And fiercely I pursue and take my foes that me annoyed And from the field do not return till they be all destroyed verse 37 So I suppress and wound my foes that they can rise no more For at my feet they fall down flat I strike them all so sore verse 38 For thou dost gird me with thy strength to war in such a wise That they be all scattered abroad that up against me rise verse 39 Lord thou hast put into my hands my mortal enemy's yoke And all my foes thou dost divide in sunder with thy stroke verse 40 They called for help but none gave ear nor holp them with relief Yea to the Lord they called for help yet heard he not their grief The fifth part verse 41 And still like dust before the wind I drive them under seet And sweep them out like filthy clay that sticketh in the street verse 42 Thou keep'st me from seditious folk that still in strife are led And thou dost of the heathen folk appoint me to be head verse 43 A people strange to me unknown and yet they shall me serve And at the first obey my word whereas mine own will swerve verse 44 I shall be irksome to mine own they will not see my light But wander wide out of the way and hid them out of fight verse 45 But blessed be the living Lord most worthy of all praise That is my rock and saving health praised be he always verse 46 For God it is that gave me power revenged for to be And with his holy word subdued the people unto me verse 47 And from my foe delivered me and set me higher than those That cruel and ungodly were and up against me rose verse 48 And for this cause O Lord my God to thee give thanks I shall And sing out praises to thy Name among the Gentiles all verse 49 That gavest great prosperity unto the king I say To David thine anointed king and to his seed for ay Coeli enarrant Psal. xix T. S. THe heavens and the firmament do wondrously declare The glory of God omnipotent his works and what they are verse 2 The wondrous works of God appear by every days success The nights likewise which their race run the selfsame thing express verse 3 There is no language tongue orspeech where their sound is not heard In all the earth and coasts thereof their knowledge is conferred verse 4 In them the Lord made for the sun a place of great renown Who like a bridegroom ready trimmed doth from his chamber come verse 5 And as a valiant champion who for to get a prize With joy doth haste to take in hand some noble enterprise verse 6 And all the sky from end to end he compasseth about Nothing can hid it from his heat but he will find it out verse 7 How perfect is the law of God how is his covenant sure Converting souls and making wise the simple and obscure verse 8 Just are the Lords commandments and glad both heart and mind His precept's pure and giveth light to eyes that be full blind verse 9 The fear of God is excellent and doth endure for ever The judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether verse 10 And more to be embraced always then fined gold I say The honey and the honeycomb are not so sweet as they verse 11 By them thy servant is forewarned to have God in regard And in performance of the same there shall be great reward verse 12 But Lord what earthly man doth know the errors of his life Then cleanse me from my secret sins which are in me most rife verse 13 And keep me that presumptuous sins prevail not over me And so shall I be innocent and great offences flee verse 14 Accept my mouth and eke my heart my words and thoughts each one For my Redeemer and my strength O Lord thou art alone Exaudiat te Dominus Psal. xx T. S. IN trouble and adversity the Lord God hear thee still The majesty of jacob's God defend thee from all ill verse 2 And send thee from his holy place his help at every need And so in Zion establish thee and make thee strong indeed verse 3 Remembering well the sacrifice that now to him is done And so receive right thankfully thy burned off rings each one verse 4 According to thy hearts desire the Lord grant unto thee And all thy counsel and device full well per form may he verse 5 We shall rejoice when thou us sav'st and our banners display Unto the Lord which thy requests full filled hath always verse 6 The Lord will his anointed save I know well by his grace And send him help by his right hand out of his holy place verse 7 In chariots some put confidence and some in horses trust But we remember God our Lord that keepeth promise just verse 8 They fall down flat but we do rise and stand up steadfastly verse 9 Now save and help us Lord and King on thee when we do cry Domine in virtute Psal. xxi T. S. O Lord how joyful is the king in thy strength and thy power How vehemently doth he rejoice in thee his Saviour verse 2 For thou hast given unto him his godly hearts desire To him nothing thou hast denied of that he did require verse 3 Thou didst prevent him with thy gifts and blessings manifold And thou hast set upon his head a crown of perfect gold verse 4 And when he asked life of thee thereof thou mad'st him sure To have long life yea such a life as ever shall endure verse 5 Great is his glory by thy help thy benefit and aid Great worship and great honour both thou hast upon him laid verse 6 Thou wilt give him felicity that never shall decay And with thy cheerful countenance wilt comfort him always verse 7 For why the king doth strongly trust in God for to prevail Wherefore his goodness and his grace will not that he shall quail verse 8 But let thine enemies feel thy force and those that thee withstand Find out thy foes and let them feel the power of thy right hand verse 9 And like an oven burn them Lord in fiery flame and fume Thine anger shall destroy them all and fire shall them consume verse 10 And thou shalt root out of the earth their fruit that should in crease And from the number of thy folk their seed shall end and cease verse 11 For why much mischief did they muse against thy holy Name Yet did they fail and had no power for to perform the same verse 12 But as a mark thou shalt them set in a most open place And charge thy bowe-strings readily against thine enemy's face verse 13 Be thou exalted Lord therefore in thy strength every hour So shall we sing right solemnly praising thy might and power Deus Deus meus Psal. xxii T. S. O God my God wherefore dost thou forsake me utterly And helpest not when I do make my great complaint and cry verse 2 To thee my God even all day long I do both cry and call I cease not all the night and yet thou hearest not at all verse 3 Even thou that in thy sanctuary and holy place dost dwell Thou art the comfort and the joy and glory of Israel verse 4 And he in whom our father's old had all their hope for ever And when they put their trust in thee thou didst them ay deliver verse 5 They were delivered ever when they called on thy Name And for the faith they had in thee they were not put to shame verse 6 But I am now become a worm more like than any man An outcast whom the people scorn with all the spite they can verse 7 All men despise as they behold me walking on the way They grin they mow they nod their heads and on this wise they say verse 8 This man did glory in the Lord his favour and his love Let him redeem and help him now his power if he will prove verse 9 But Lord out of my mother's womb I came by thy request Thou didst preserve me still in hope while I did suck her breast verse 10 I was committed from my birth with thee to have a●ode Since I was in my mother's womb thou hast been  my God The second part verse 11 Then Lord depart not now from me in this my present grief Since I have none to be my help my succoar and relief verse 12 So many bulls do compass me that be full strong of h●ad Yea bulls so fat as though they had in Basan field been fed verse 13 They gape upon me greedily as though they would me flay Much like a lion roaring out and ramping for his prey verse 14 But I drop down like water shed my joints in sunder break My heart doth in my body melt like wax against the heat verse 15 And like a potsherd drieth my strength my tongue it cleaveta fast Unto my jaws and I am brought to dust of death at last verse 16 And many dogs do compass me and wicked coansel eke Conspire against me cursedly they pierce my hands and feet verse 17 I was tormented so that I might all my bones have told Yet still upon me they do look and still they me behold verse 18 My garments they divided eke in parts among them all And for my coat they did cast lots to whom it might befall verse 19 Therefore I pray thee be not far from me at my great need But rather fith thou art my strength to help me Lord make speed verse 20 And from the sword Lord save my soul by thy might and thy power And keep my soul thy darling dear from dogs that would devour verse 21 And from the lion's mouth that would me all in sunder shiver And from the horns of Unicorns Lord safely me deliver verse 22 Then shall I to my brethren all thy majesty record And in thy church shall praise the name of thee the living lord The third part verse 23 All ye that fear him praise the Lord thou Jacob honour him And all ye seed of Israel with reverence worship him verse 24 For he despiseth not the poor he turns not awry His countenance when they do call but granteth to their cry verse 25 Among the folk that fear the Lord I will therefore proclaim Thy praise and keep my promise made for setting forth thy Name verse 26 The poor shall eat and be sufficed and those that do their deaver To know the Lord shall praise his Name their hearts shall live for ever verse 27 All coasts of th' earth shall praise the Lord and turn to him for grace The heathen folk shall worship him before his blessed face verse 28 The kingdom of the heathen folk the Lord shall have therefore And he shall be their Governor and king for evermore verse 29 The rich men of his goodly gists shall feed and taste also And in his presence worship him and bow their knees full low verse 30 And all that shall go down to dust of life by him shall taste My seed shall serve and praise the Lord while any world shall last verse 31 My seed shall plainly show to them that shall be born hereafter His justice and his righteousness and all his works of wonder Dominus regit me Psal. xxiii W. W. THe Lord is only my support and he that doth me feed How can I then lack anything whereof I stand in need verse 2 He doth me fold in coats most safe the tender grass fast by And after drives me to the streams which run most pleasantly verse 3 And when I feel myself near lost then doth he me nome take Conducting me in his right paths even for his own Names sake verse 4 And though I were even at death's door yet would I fear none ill For with thy rod and shepherd's crook I am comforted still verse 5 Thou hast my table richly decked in despite of my foe Thou hast my head with balm refreshed my cup doth overflow verse 6 And finally while breath doth loft thy grace shall me defend And in the house of God will I my life for ever spend Another of the same by T. S. MY shepherd is the living Lord nothing therefore I need In pastures fair with waters calm he sets me forth to feed verse 2 He did convert and glad my soul and brought my mind● in frame To walk in paths of righteousness for his most holy Name verse 3 Yea though I walk in vale of death yet will I fear none ill Thy rod thy staff doth comfort me and thou art with me still verse 4 And in the presence of my foes my table thou shalt spread Thou shalt O Lord fill full my cup and eke anoint my head verse 5 Through all my life thy favour is so frankly showed to me That in thy house for evermore my dwelling-place shall be Domini est terra Psal. xxiv J. H. THe earth is all the Lords with all her store and furniture Yea his is all the world and all that therein doth endure verse 2 For he hath fastly founded it above the seas to stand And laid allow the liquid floods to flow beneath the land verse 3 For who is he O Lord that shall ascend into thy hill Or pass into thy holy place there to continue still verse 4 Whose hands are harmless and whose heart no spot there doth defile His soul not set on vanity who hath not sworn to guile verse 5 Him that is such a one the Lord shall place in blissful plight And God his God and Saviour shall yield to him his right verse 6 This is the brood of travellers in seeking of his grace As Jacob did the Israelite in that time of his race verse 7 Ye princes open your gates stand  the everlasting gate For there shall enter in thereby the king of glorious state verse 8 Who is the king of glorious state the strong and mighty Lord The mighty Lord in battle stout and trial of the sword verse 9 Ye princes open your gates stand  the everlasting gate For there shall enter in thereby the king of glorious state verse 10 Who is the king of glorious state the Lord of hosts it is The kingdom and the royalty of glorious state is his Ad te Domine Psal. xxv T. S. I Lift my heart to thee my God and guide most just Now suffer me to take no shame for in thee do I trust verse 2 Let not my foes rejoice nor make a scorn of me And let them not be overthrown that put their trust in thee verse 3 But shame shall them befall which harm them wrongfully Therefore thy paths and thy right ways unto me Lord descry verse 4 Direct me in thy truth and teach me I thee pray Thou art my God and Saviour on thee I wait always verse 5 Thy mercy's manifold I pray thee Lord remember And eke thy pity plentiful for they have been for ever verse 6 Remember not the faults and frailty of my youth Remember not how ignorant I have been of thy truth Nor after my deserts let me thy mercy find But of thine own benignity Lord have me in thy mind verse 7 His mercy is full sweet his truth a perfect guide Therefore the Lord will sinners teach and such as go aside verse 8 The humble he will teach his precepts for to keep He will direct in all his ways the lowly and the meek verse 9 For all the ways of God are truth and mercy ●oth To them that keep his testament the witness of his troth The second part verse 10 Now for thy holy name O Lord I thee entreat To grant me pardon for my sin for it is wondrous great verse 11 Whoso doth fear the Lord the Lord will him direct To lead his life in such a way as he doth best accept 12 12 His soul shall evermore in goodness dwell and stand His seed and his posterity inherit shall the land verse 13 All those that fear the Lord know his secret intent And unto them he doth declare his will and testament verse 14 Mine eyes and eke my heart to him I will advance That plucked my feet out of the snare of sin and ignorance verse 15 With mercy me behold to thee I make my moan For I am poor and desolate and comfortless alone verse 16 The troubles of my heart are multiplied indeed Bring me out of this misery necessity and need verse 17 Behold my poverty mine anguish and my pain Remit my sin and mine offence and make me clean again verse 18 O Lord behold my foes how they do still increase Pursuing me with deadly hate that lain would live in peace verse 19 Preserve and keep my soul and eke deliver me And let me not be overthrown because I trust in thee verse 20 Let my simple pureness me from mine enemies shend Because I look as one of thine that thou shouldst me defend verse 21 Deliver Lord thy folk and lend them some relief I mean thy chosen Israel from all their pain and grief Judica me Domine Psal. xxvi T. S. LOrd be my Judge and thou shalt see my paths be right and plain I trust in God and hope that he will strength me to remain verse 2 Prove me my God I thee desire my ways to search and try As men do prove their gold with fire my reins and heart espy verse 3 Thy goodness said before my face I durst behold always For of thy truth I tread the trace and will do all my days verse 4 I do not lust to haunt or use with men whose deeds are vain To come in house I do refuse with the deceitful train verse 5 I much abhor the wicked sort their deeds I do despise I do not once to them resort that hurtful things devise verse 6 My hands I wash and do proceed in works to walk upright Then to thine altar I make speed to offer there in sight verse 7 That I may speak and preach the pralse that doth belong to thee And so declare how wondrous ways thou hast been good to me verse 8 O God the house I love most dear to me it doth excel I have delight and would be near whereas thy grace doth dwell verse 9 O shut not up my soul with them in fin that take their fill Nor yet my life among those men that seek much blood to spill verse 10 Whose hands are heaped with craft and guile their lives thereof are full And their right hand with wrench and wile for bribes doth pluck and pull verse 11 But I in righteousness intent my time and days to serve Have mercy Lord and me defend so that I do not swerve verse 12 My foot is stayed for all assays it standeth well and right Wherefore to God will I give praise in all the people's sight Dominus illuminatio Psal. xxvii J. H. THe Lord is both my health and light shall man make me dismayed Sith God doth give me strength and might why should I be afraid verse 2 While that my foes with all their strength begin with me to brawl And think to eat me up at length themselves have caught the fall verse 3 Though they in camp against me lie my heart is not afraid In battle pight if they will try I trust in God for aid verse 4 One thing of God I do require that he will not deny For which I pray and will desire till he to me apply verse 5 That I within his holy place my life throughout may dwell To see the beauty of his face and view his temple well verse 6 In time of dread he shall me hid within his place most pure And keep me secret by his side as on a rock most sure verse 7 At length I know the Lords good grace shall make me strong and stout My foes to foil and clean deface that compass me about verse 8 Therefore within his house will I give sacrifice of praise With psalms and songs I will apply to laud the Lord always The second part verse 9 Lord hear the voice of my request for which to thee I call Have mercy Lord on me oppressed and send me help withal verse 10 My heart doth knowledge unto thee I sue to have thy grace Then seek my face sayest thou to me Lord I will seek thy face verse 11 In wrath turn not thy face away nor suffer me to slide Thou art my help still to this day be still my God and guide verse 12 My parents both their son forsook and cast me off at large And then the Lord himself yet took of me the care and charge verse 13 Teach me O Lord the way to thee and lead me on forth right For fear of such as watch for me to trap me if they might verse 14 Do not betake me to the will of them that be my foes For they surmise against me still false witness to depose verse 15 My heart would faint but that in me this hope is fixed fast The Lord God's good grace shall I see in life that aye shall last verse 16 Trust still in God whose whole thou ar● his will abide thou must And he shall ease and strength thy heart if thou in him do trust Ad te Dom. ●lamabo Psal. xxviii T. 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THou art O Lord my strength and stay the succour which I crave Neglect me not lest I be like to them that go to grave verse 2 The voice of thy suppliant hear that unto thee doth cry When I lift up my hands unto thy holy ark most high verse 3 Repute me not among the sort of wicked and pervert That speak right fair unto their friends and think full ill in heart verse 4 According to their handiwork as they deserve indeed And after their inventions let them receive their meed verse 5 For they regard nothing Gods works his law ne yet his lore Therefore will he them and their seed destroy for evermore verse 6 To render thanks unto the Lord how great a cause have I My voice my prayer and my complaint that heard so willingly verse 7 He is my shield and fortitude my buckler in distress My hope my help my heart's relief my song shall him confess verse 8 He is our strength and our defence our enemies to resist The health and the salvation of his elect by Christ verse 9 Thy people and thine heritage Lord bless guide and preserve Increase them Lord and rule their hearts that they may never swerve Afferte Domino Psal. xxix T. 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Give to the Lord ye potentates ye rulers of the world Give ye all praise honour and strength unto the living lord verse 2 Give glory to his holy Name and honour him alone Worship him in his majesty within his holy throne verse 3 His voice doth rule the watersall even as himself doth please He doth prepare the thunderclaps and governs all the seas verse 4 The voice of God is of great force and wondrous excellent It is most mighty in effect and most magnificent verse 5 The voice of God doth rend and break The cedar-trees so long The cedar-trees of Lebanon Which are most high and strong verse 6 And makes them leap like as a calf or else the unicorn Not only trees but mountains great Whereon the trees are born verse 7 His voice divides the flames of fire and shakes the wilderness verse 8 It makes the desert quake for fear that called is Cades verse 9 It makes the hinds for fear to calve and makes the coverts plain Then in his temple every man his glory doth proclaim verse 10 The Lord was set above the floods ruling the raging sea So shall he reign as Lord and king for ever and for ay verse 11 The Lord will give his people power in virtue to increase The Lord will bless his chosen flock with everlasting peace Exaltabo te Domine Psal. xxx J. 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ALl laud and praise with heart and voice O Lord I give to thee Which didst not make my foes rejoice but hast exalted me verse 2 O Lord my God to thee I cried in all my pain and grief Thou gay'st an ear and didst provide to ease me with relief verse 3 Of thy good will thou hast called back my soul from hell to save Thou didst revive when strength did lack and keptest me from the grave verse 4 Sing praise ye saints that prove and see the goodness of the Lord In memory of his majesty rejoice with one accord verse 5 For why his anger but a space doth last and slack again But in his favour and his grace always doth life remain Though gripes of grief and pangs full sore shall lodge with us all night The Lord to joy shall us restore before the day be light verse 6 When I enjoyed the world at will thus would I boast and say Tush I am sure to feel none ill this wealth shall not decay verse 7 For thou O Lord of thy good grace hadst sent me strength and aid But when thou turnedst away thy face my mind was sore dismayed verse 8 Wherefore again yet did I cry to thee O Lord of might My God with plaints I did apply and prayed both day and night verse 9 What gain is in my blood said I if death destroy my days Doth dust declare thy majesty or yet thy truth doth praise verse 10 Wherefore my God some pity take O Lord I thee desire Do not this simple soul forsake of help I thee require verse 11 Then didst thou turn my grief and woe into a cheerful voice The mourning-weed thou tookest me fro and mad'st me to rejoice verse 12 Wherefore my soul uncessantly shall sing unto thy praise My Lord my God to thee will I give laud and thanks always In te Domine Psal. xxxi J. 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O Lord I put my trust in thee let nothing work me shame As thou art just deliver me and let me quit from blame verse 2 Hear me O Lord and that anon to help me make good speed Be thou my rock and house of stone my fence in time of need verse 3 For why as stones thy strength is tried thou art my sort and tower For thy Names sake be thou my guide and lead me in thy power verse 4 Pluck thou my feet out of the snare which they for me have laid Thou art my strength and all my care is for thy might and aid verse 5 Into thy hands Lord I commit my spirit which is thy due For why thou hast redeemed it O Lord my God most true verse 6 I hate such folk as will not part from things to be abhorred When they on trifles set their heart my trust is in the lord verse 7 For I will in thy mercy joy I see it doth excel Thou seest when aught would me annoy and knowst my soul full well verse 8 Thou hast not left me in their hand that would me overcharge But thou hast set me out of band to walk abroad at large The second part verse 9 Great grief O Lord doth me assail some pity on me take Mine eyes wax dim my sight doth fail my womb for woe doth ache verse 10 My life is worn with grief and pain my years in woe are past My strength is gone and through disdain my bones corrupt and waste verse 11 Among my foes I am a scorn my friends are all dismayed My neighbours and my kinsmen born to see me are afraid verse 12 As men once dead are out of mind so am I now forgot As small effect in me they find as in a broken pot verse 13 I heard the brags of all the rout their threats my mind did fray How they conspired and went about to take my life away verse 14 But Lord I trust in thee for aid not to be overtrod For I confess and still have said thou art my Lord and God verse 15 The length of all my life and age O Lord is in thy hand Defend me from the wrath and rage of them that me withstand verse 16 To me thy servant Lord express and show thy joyful face And save me Lord for thy goodness thy mercy and thy grace The third part verse 17 Lord let me not be put to blame for that on thee I call But let the wicked bear the shame and in the grave to fall verse 18 O Lord make dumb their lips outright which are addict to lies And cruelly with pride and spite against the just devise verse 19 O how great good hast thou in store laid up full safe for them That fear and trust in thee therefore before the sons of men verse 20 Thy presence shall them fence and guide from all proud brags and wrongs Within thy place thou shalt them hid from all the strife of tongues verse 21 Thanks to the Lord that hath declared on me his grace so far Me to defend with watch and ward as in a town of war verse 22 Thus did I say both day and night when I was sore oppressed Lo I was clean cast out of sight Yet heard'st thou my request verse 23 Ye saints love ye the Lord I say the faithful he doth guide And to the proud he doth repay according to their pride verse 24 Be strong and God shall stay your heart be hold and have a lust For sure the Lord will take your part sigh ye on him do trust Beati quorum Psal. xxxii T. 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THe man is blessed whose wickedness the Lord hath clean remitted And he whose sin and wickedness is hid and also covered verse 2 And blessed is he to whom the Lord imputeth not his sin Which in his heart hath hid no guile nor fraud is found therein verse 3 For whilst that I kept close my fin in silence and constraint My bones did wear and waste away with daily moan and plaint verse 4 For night and day thy hand on me so grievous was and smart That all my blood and humours moist to dryness did convert verse 5 I did therefore confess my fault and all my sins discover Then thou O Lord didst me forgive and all my sins pass over verse 6 The humble man shall pray therefore and seek thee in due time So that the floods of waters great shall have no power on him verse 7 When trouble and adversity do compass me about Thou art my resuge and my joy and thou dost rid me out verse 8 Come hither and I will thee teach how thou shalt walk aright I will thee guide as I myself have learned by proof and sight verse 9 Be not so rude and ignorant as is the horse and mule Whose mouth without a rain or bit from harm thou canst not rule verse 10 The wicked man shall manifold sorrows and griefs sustain But unto him that trusts in God his goodness shall remain verse 11 Be merry therefore in the Lord ye just lift up your voice And ye of pure and perfect heart be glad and eke rejoice Exultate justi Psal. xxxiii J. H. YE righteous in the Lord rejoice it is a seemly sight That upright men with thankful voice should praise the Lord of might verse 2 Praise ye the Lord with harp and song in psalms and pleasant things With lute and instrument among that soundeth with ten strings verse 3 Sing to the Lord a song most new with courage give him praise verse 4 For why his word is ever true his works and all his ways verse 5 To judgement equity and right he hath a great good will And with his gifts he doth delight the earth throughout to fill verse 6 For by the word of God alone the heavens all were wrought Their hosts and powers every one his breath to pass hath brought verse 7 The waters great gathered hath he on heaps within the shore And hide them in the depth to be as in an house of store verse 8 All men on earth both least and most fear God and keep his law Ye that inhabit in each coast dread him and stand in awe verse 9 What he commanded wrought it was at once with present speed What he doth will is brought to pass with full effect indeed verse 10 The counsels of the nations rude the Lord doth bring to nought He doth defeat the multitude of their device and thought verse 11 But his decrees continue still they never slack nor suage The motions of his mind and will take place in every age The second part verse 12 And blessed are they to whom the Lord as God and guide is known Whom he doth choose of mere accord to take them as his own verse 13 The Lord from heaven cast his sight on men mortal by birth verse 14 Considering from his feat of might the dwellers of the earth verse 15 The Lord I say whose hand hath wrought man's heart and doth it frame For he alone doth know the thought and working of the same verse 16 A king that trusteth in his host shall nought prevail at length The man that of his might doth boast shall fall for all his strength verse 17 The troops of horsemen eke shall fail their sturdy steeds shall starve The strength of horse shall not prevail the rider to preserve verse 18 But lo the eyes of God intent and watch to aid the just With such as fear him to offend and on his goodness trust verse 19 That he of death and great distress may set their souls from dread And if that dearth their land oppress in hunger them to feed verse 20 Wherefore our soul doth whole depend on God our strength and stay He is our shield us to defend and drive all darts away verse 21 Our soul in God hath joy and game rejoicing in his might For why in his most holy Name we hope and much delight verse 22 Therefore let thy goodness O Lord still present with us be As we always with one accord do only trust in thee Benedicam Dom. Psal. xxxiv T. S. I Will give laud and honour both unto the Lord always And eke my mouth for evermore shall speak unto his praise verse 2 I do delight to laud the Lord in soul and eke in voice That humble men and mortified may hear and so rejoice verse 3 Therefore see that ye magnify with me the living Lord And let us now exalt his Name together with one accord verse 4 For I myself besought the Lord he answered me again And me delivered incontinent from all my fear and pain verse 5 Whoso they be that him behold shall see his light most clear Their countenance shall not be dash● they need it not to fear verse 6 This  wretch for some relief unto the Lord did call Who did him hear without delay and rid him out of thrall verse 7 The angel of the Lord doth pitch his tents in every place To save all such as fear the Lord that nothing them deface verse 8 Taste and consider well therefore that God is good and just O happy man that maketh him his only stay and trust verse 9 Fear ye the Lord ye holy oner above all earthly thing For they that fear the living Lord are sure to lack nothing verse 10 The lions shall be hunger-bit and pined with famine much But as for them that fear the Lord no lack shall be to such The second part verse 11 Come near therefore my children dear and to my words give ear I shall you teach the perfect way how ye the Lord should fear verse 12 Who is the man that would live long and lead ablessed life verse 13 See thou refrain thy tongue and lips from all deceit and strife verse 14 Turn back thy face from doing ill and do the godly deed Inquire for peace and quietness and follow it with speed verse 15 For why the eyes of God above upon the just are bend His ears likewise do hear the plaint of the poor innocent verse 16 But he doth frown and bent his brows upon the wicked train And cuts away the memory that should of them remain verse 17 But when the just do call and cry the Lord doth hear them so That out of pain and misery forthwith he lets them go verse 18 The Lord is kind and straight at hand to such as be contrite He saves also the sorrowful the poor and meek in spirit verse 19 Full many be the miseries that righteous men do suffer But out of all adversities the Lord doth them deliver verse 20 The Lord doth so preserve and keep his very bones always That not so much as one of them doth perish or decay verse 21 The sin shall slay the wicked man which he himself hath wrought And such as ha●e the righteous man shall soon be brought to nought verse 22 But they that fear the living Lord the Lord doth save them sound And who that put their trust in him nothing shall them confound Judica me Domine Psal. xxxv J. 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LOrd plead my cause against my so's confound their force and might ●ight on my part against all those that seek with me to fight ● Lay hand upon the spear and shield thyself in armour dress stand up for me and fight the field to help me from distress verse 3 Gird on thy sword and stop the way mine enemies to withstand That thou unto my soul mayst say Lo I thy help at hand verse 4 Confound them with rebuke and blame that seek my soul to spill ●et them turn back and flee with shame that think to work me ill verse 5 Let them disperse and flee abroad as wind doth drive the dust ●nd that the angel of our God their might away may thrust verse 6 Let all their ways be void of light and slippery like to fall ●●d send thine angel with thy might to persecute them all verse 7 For why without my fault they have in secret set their grin ●●d for no cause have digged a cave to take my soul therein verse 8 When they think least and have no care O Lord destroythem all ●●t them be trapped in their own snare and in their mischief fall verse 9 And let my soul my heart and voice In God have joy and wealth ●●at in the Lord I may rejoice ●nd in his saving health verse 10 And then my bones shall speak and say ●●y parts shall all agree Lord though they do seem full gay what man is like to thee The second part verse 11 Thou dost defend the weak from them that are both stout and strong rid the poor from wicked men that spoil and do them wrong verse 12 My cruel foes against me rise to witness things untrue to accuse me they devise of things I never knew verse 13 Where I to them did owe good will they quit me with disdain That they should pay my good with ill my soul doth sore complain verse 14 When they were sick I mourned therefore and clad myself in sack With fasting I did saint full sore to pray I was not slack verse 15 As they had been my brethren dear I did myself behave As one that maketh woeful cheer about his mother's grave verse 16 But they at my disease did joy and gather on a rout Yea abject slaves at me did toy with mocks and checks full stout verse 17 The belly-gods and flattering train that all good things deride At me do grin with great disdain and pluck their mouths allied verse 18 Lord when wilt thou amend this gear why dost thou stay and pause O rid my soul mine only dear out of these lions claws verse 19 And then will I give thanks to thee before the church always And where most of the people be there will I show thy praise verse 20 Let not my foes prevail on me which hate me for no fault Nor yet to wink or turn their eye that causeless me assault The third part verse 21 Of peace no word they think or say their talk is all untrue They still consult and would betray all those that peace ensue verse 22 With open mouth they run at me they gape they laugh they fleer Well well say they our eye doth see the thing that we desire verse 23 But Lord thou seest what ways they take cease not this gear to mend Be not far off nor me forsake as men that sail their friend verse 24 Awake arise and stir abroad defend me in my right Revenge my cause my Lord my God and aid me with thy might verse 25 According to thy righteousness my Lord God set me free And let them not their pride express nor triumph over me verse 26 Let not their hearts rejoice and cry There there this gear goes trim Nor give them cause to say on high We have our will on him verse 27 Confound them with rebuke and shame that joy when I do mourn And pay them home with spite and blame that brag at me with scorn verse 28 Let them be glad and eke rejoice which love mine upright way And they all times with heart and voice shall praise the Lord and say verse 29 Great is the Lord and doth excel for why he doth delight To see his servants prosper well that is his pleasant sight verse 30 Wherefore my tongue I will apply thy righteousness to praise Unto the Lord my God will I sing laud and praise always Dixit injustus Psal. xxxvi J. 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THe wicked with his works unjust doth thus persuade his heart That of the Lord he hath no trust his sear is set apart verse 2 Yet doth he joy in his estate to walk as he began So long till he deserve the hate of God and eke of man verse 3 His words are wicked vile and naught his tongue no truth doth tell Yet at no hand will he be taught which way he may do well verse 4 When he should sleep then doth he muse his mischiefs to fulfil No wicked ways doth he refuse nor nothing that is ill verse 5 But Lord thy goodness doth ascend above the heavens high So doth thy truth itself extend unto the cloudy sky verse 6 Much more than hills so high and steep thy justice is expressed Thy judgement 's like to seas most deep thou saw'st both man and beast verse 7 Thy mercy is above all things O God it doth excel In trust whereof as in thy wings the sons of men shall dwell verse 8 Within thy house they shall be ●ed with plenty at their will Of all delights they shall be sped and take thereof their fill verse 9 For why the well of life so pure doth ever flow from thee And in thy light we are full sure the lasting light to see verse 10 From such as thee desire to know let not thy grace departed Thy righteousness declare and show to men of upright heart verse 11 Let not the proud on me prevail O Lord of thy good grace Nor let the wicked me assail to throw me out of place verse 12 But they in their device shall fall that wicked works maintain They shall be overthrown withal and never rise again Noli amulari Psal. xxxvii W. W. GRudge not to see the wicked men in wealth to flourish still Nor yet envy such as to ill have bend and set their will verse 2 For as green grass and flourishing herbs are cut and whither away So shall their great prosperity soon pass fade and decay verse 3 Trust thou therefore in God alone to do well give thy mind So shalt thou have the land as thine and there sure food shalt find verse 4 In God set all thy heart's delight Or else canst wish in all the world thou needest it not to crave verse 5 Cast both thyself and thine affairs on God with perfect trust And thou shalt see with patience th' effect both sure and just verse 6 Thy perfect life and godly name he will clear as the light So that the sun even at noonday shall not shine half so bright verse 7 Be still therefore and steadfastly on God see thou wait then Not shrinking for the prosperous state of lewd and wicked men verse 8 Shake of despite envy and hate at least in any wise Their wicked steps avoid and flee and follow not their guise verse 9 For every wicked man will God destroy both more and less But such as trust in him are sure the land for to possess verse 10 Whatch but a while and thou shalt see no more the wicked train No not so much as house or place where once he did remain The second part verse 11 But merciful and humble men enjoy shall sea and land In rest and peace they shall rejoice for nought shall them withstand verse 12 The lewd men and malicious against the just conspire They gnash their teeth at him as men which do his bane desire verse 13 But while that lewd men thus do think the Lord laughs them to scorn For why he sees their term approach when they shall sigh and mourn verse 14 The wicked have their sword out drawn their bow eke have they bend To overthrow and kill the poor as he the right way went verse 15 But the same sword shall pierce their heart which was to kill the just Likewise the bow shall break to shivers wherein they put their trust verse 16 Doubtless the just man's poor estate is better a great deal more Than all these lewd and wicked men's rich pomp and heaped store verse 17 For be their power never so strong God will it overthrow Where contrary he doth preserve the humble men and low verse 18 He sees by his great providence the good men's trade and way And will give them inheritance which never shall decay verse 19 They shall not be discouraged when some are hard bestead When others shall be hunger-bit they shall be clad and ●ed verse 20 For whosoever wicked is and enemy to the Lord Shall quail yea melt even as lambs grease or smoke that flies abroad The third part verse 21 Behold the wicked borrows much and never pays again Whereas the just by liberal gifts makes many glad and said verse 22 For they whom God doth bless shall hare the land for heritage And they whom he doth curie likewise shall perish in his rage verse 23 The Lord the just man's ways doth guide and gives him good success To everything he takes in hand he sendeth good address verse 24 Though that he fall yet is he sure not utterly to quail Because the Lord stretcheth out his hand at need and doth not fail verse 25 I have been young and now am old yet did I never see The just man left nor yet his seed to beg for misery verse 26 But gives always most liberally and sends whereas is need His children and posterity receive of God their meed verse 27 Flee vice therefore and wickedness and virtue do embrace So God shall grant thee long to have on earth a dwelling-place verse 28 For God so loveth equity and shows to his such grace That he preserveth them always but ' stroys the wicked race verse 29 Whereas the good and godly men inherit shall the land Having as lords all things therein in their own power and hand verse 30 The just man's mouth shall ever speak of matters wise and high His tongue doth talk to edify with truth and equity verse 31 For in his heart the law of God his law doth still abide So that where ever he goes or walks his foot can never slide verse 32 The wicked like a ravening wolf the just man doth beset By all means seeking him to kill if he fall in his net The fourth part verse 33 Though he should fall into his hands yet God would secure send Though men against him sentence give God would him yet defend verse 34 Wait thou on God and keep his way he shall preservethee then The earth to rule and thou shalt see destroyed these wicked men verse 35 The wicked have I seen most strong and placed in high degree Flourishing in all wealth and store as doth the laurel-tree verse 36 But suddenly he passed away and lo he was quite gone Then I him sought but could not fi●de the place where dwelled such one verse 37 Mark and behold the perfect man how God doth him increase For the just man shall have at length great joy with rest and peace verse 38 As for transgressors woe to them destroyed they shall all be God will cut off their budding race and rich posterity verse 39 But the salvation of the just doth come from God above Who in their trouble sends them aid of his mere grace and love verse 40 God doth them help save and delivet from loud men and unjust And still will save them whilst that they in him do put their trust Domine ne Psal. xxxviii J. 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PUt me not to rebuke O Lord in thy provoked ire Ne in thy heavy wrath O Lord correct me I desire verse 2 Thine arrows do stick fast in me thy hand doth press me sore And in my flesh no health at all appeareth any more verse 3 And all this is by reason of thy wrath that I am in Nor any rest is in my bones by reason of my sin verse 4 For lo my wicked do Lord above my head are gone A greater load than I can bear they lie me sore upon verse 5 My wounds stink and are festered se as loathsome is to see Which all through mine own foolishness betideth unto me verse 6 And I in careful wise am brought in trouble and distress That I go wailing all the day in doleful heaviness verse 7 My loins are filled with sore disease my flesh hath no whole part verse 8 I feeble am and broken sore I roar for grief of heart verse 9 Thou knowst Lord my desire my groans fail are open in thy sight verse 10 My heart doth pant my strength doth mine eyes have lost their light verse 11 My lovers and my wont friends stand looking on my woe And eke my kinsmen far away are me departed fro verse 12 They that did seek my life laid snares and they that sought the way To do me hurt spoke lies and thought on mischief all the day The second part verse 13 But as a deaf man I became that cannot hear at all verse 14 And as one dumb that opens not his mouth to speak withal verse 15 For all my confidence O Lord is wholly set on thee O Lord thou Lord that art my God thou shalt give ear to me verse 16 This did I crave that they my foes triemph not over me when my foot did slip than they did joy my fall to see verse 17 And truly I poor wretch am set in place a woeful wight And eke my grievous heaviness is ever in my sight verse 18 For while that I my wickedness in humble wise confess And while I for my sinful deeds my sorrows do express verse 19 My foes do still remain alive and mighty are also ●●d they that hate me wrongfully in number hugely grow verse 20 They stand against me that my good with evil do repay because that good and honest things I do ensue always Forsake me not O Lord my God be thou not far away a Haste me to help my Lord my God my safety and my stay Dixi. Custodiam Psal. xxxix J. H. Said I will look to my ways for fear I should go wrong I will take heed all times that I offend not with my tongue As with a bit I will keep fast my mouth with force and might ●ot once to whisper all the while the wicked are in sight I held my tongue and spoke no word but kept me close and still from good talk I did refrain but sore against my will My heart waxed hot within my breast with musing thought and doubt Which did increase and stir the fire at last these words burst out Lord number out my life and days which yet I have not past that I may be certified how long my life shall last Lord thou hast pointed out my life in length much like a span ●●e age is nothing unto thee so vain is every man Man walketh like a shade and doth in vain himself If annoy ●●getting goods and cannot tell who shall the same enjoy Now Lord fith things this wise do frame what help do I desire Of truth my help doth hang on thee I nothing else require The second part verse 9 From all the sins that I have done Lord quit me out of hand And make me not a scorn to fools that nothing understand verse 10 I was as dumb and to complain no trouble might me move Because I knew it was thy work my patience for to prove verse 11 Lord take from me thy scourge & plague I can them not withstand I faint and pine away for fear of thy most heavy hand verse 12 When thou for sin dost man rebuke he waxeth woe and wan As doth a cloth that moths have fret so vain a thing is man verse 13 Lord hear my suit and give good heed regard my tears that fall I sojourn like a stranger here as did my fathers all verse 14 O spare a little give me space my strength for to restore Before I go away from hence and shall be seen no more Expectant expectavi Psal. xl J. H. I Waited long and sought the lord and patiently did bear At length to me he did accord my voice and cry to hear verse 2 He plucked me from the lake so deep out of the mire and clay And on a rock he set my feet and he did guide my way verse 3 To me he taught a psalm of praise which I must show abroad And sing new songs of thanks always unto the Lord our God verse 4 When all the folk these things shall fee as people much afraid Then they unto the Lord will flee and trust upon his aid verse 5 O blessed is he whose hope and heart doth in the Lord remain That with the proud doth take no part nor such as lie and fain verse 6 For Lord my God thy wondrous deeds in greatness far do pass Thy favour towards us exceeds all things that ever was verse 7 When I intent and do devise thy works abroad to show To such a reckoning they do rise thereof no end I know verse 8 Burnt-offrings thou delight'st not in I know thy whole desire With sacrifice to purge his sin thou dost no man require verse 9 Meat-offerings and sacrifice thou wouldst not have at all But thou O Lord hast open made mine ears to hear withal verse 10 But then said I Behold and look I come a mean to be For in the volume of thy book thus is it said of me verse 11 That I O God should do thy mind which thing doth like me well For in my heart thy law I find last placed there to dwell verse 12 Thy justice and thy righteousness in great resorts I tell Behold my tongue no time doth cease O Lord thou knowst full well The second part verse 13 I have not hid within my breast thy goodness as by stealth But I declare and have expressed thy truth and saving health verse 14 I kept not close thy loving mind that no man should it know The trust that in thy truth I find to all the Church I show verse 15 Thy tender mercy Lord from me withdraw thou not away But let thy love and verity preserve me still for ay verse 16 For I with mischiefs many a one am sore beset about My sins increase and so come on I cannot spy them out verse 17 For why in number they exceed the hairs upon my head My heart doth faint for very dread that I am almost dead verse 18 With speed send help and set me free O Lord I thee require Make haste with aid to secure me O Lord at my desire verse 19 Let them sustain rebuke and shame that seek my soul to spill Drive back my foes and them defame that wish and would me ill verse 20 For their ill feats do them descry that would deface my name Always at me they rail and cry Fie on him fie for shame verse 21 Let them in thee have joy and wealth that seek to thee always That those that love thy saving health may say To God be praise verse 22 But as for me I am but poor oppressed and brought full low Yet thou O Lord wilt me restore to health full well I know verse 23 For why thou art my hope and trust my refuge help and stay Wherefore my God as thou art just with me no time delay Beatus qui intelligit Psal. xli T. S. THe man is blessed that careful is the needy to consider For in the season perilous the Lord will him deliver verse 2 The Lord will make him safe and sound and happy in the land And he will not deliver him into his enemy's hand verse 3 And in his bed when he lies sick the Lord will him restore And thou O Lord wilt turn to health his sickness and his sore verse 4 Then in my sickness thus said I Have mercy Lord on me And heal my soul which is full woe that I offended thee verse 5 Mine enemies wished me ill in heart and thus of me did say When shall he die that all his name may vanish quite away verse 6 And when they come to visit me they ask if I do well But in their heart's mischief they hatch and to their mates it tell verse 7 They by't their lips and whisper so as though they would me charm And cast their fetches how to trap me with some mortal harm verse 8 Some grievous sin hath brought him to this sickness say they plain He is so low that without doubt rise can he not again verse 9 The man also that I did trust with me did use deceit Who at my table eaten my bread the same for me laid wait verse 10 Have mercy Lord on me therefore and let me be preserved That I may render unto them the things they have deserved verse 11 By this I know assuredly to be beloved of thee When that mine enemies have no cause to triumph over me verse 12 But in my right thou hast me kept and maintained always And in thy presence place assigned where I shall dwell for ay verse 13 The Lord the God of Israel he praised evermore Even so be it Lord will I say even so be it therefore Quomadmodum Psal. xlii J. H. LIke as the hart doth breathe and bray the well-springs to obtain So doth my soul desire always with thee Lord to remain verse 2 My soul doth thirst and would draw near the living God of might Oh when shall I come and appear in presence of his sight verse 3 The tears all times are my repast which from mine eyes do slide When wicked men cry out so fast Where now is God thy guide verse 4 Alas what grief is it to think what freedom once I had Therefore my soul as at pits brink most heavy is and fad When I did march in good array furnished with my train Unto the temple was our way with songs and hearts most fain verse 5 My soul why art thou sad always and fret'st thus in my breast Trust still in God for him to praise I hold it ever best By him I have succour at need against all pain and grief He is my God which with all speed will haste to send relief verse 6 And thus my soul within me Lord doth faint to think upon The land of Jordan and record the little hill Hermon The second part verse 7 One grief another in doth call as clouds burst out their voice The floods of evil that do fall run over me with noise verse 8 Yet I by day felt his goodness and help at all assays Likewise by night I did not cease the living God to praise verse 9 I am persuaded thus to say to him with pure pretence O Lord thou art my guide and stay my rock and sure defence Why do I then in pensiveness hanging the head thus walk While that mine enemies me oppress and vex me with their talk verse 10 For why they pierce my inward parts with pangs to be abhorred When they cry out with stubborn hearts where is thy God thy Lord verse 11 So soon why dost thou faint and quail my soul with pain oppressed With thoughts why dost thyself assail so sore within my breast verse 12 Trust in the Lord thy God always and thou the time shalt see To give him thanks with laud and praise for health restored to thee Judica me Domine Psal. xliii T. S. JUdge and revenge my cause O Lord from them that evil be From wicked and deceitful men O Lord deliver me verse 2 For of my strength thou art the God why puttest thou me thee fro And why walk I so heavily oppressed with my foe verse 3 Send out thy light and eke thy truth and lead me with thy grace Which may conduct me to thy hill and to thy dwelling-place verse 4 Then shall I to the altar go of God my joy and cheer And on my harp give thanks to thee O God my God most dear verse 5 Why art thou then so sad my soul and fret'st thus in my breast Still trust in God for him to praise I hold it always best verse 6 By him I have deliverance against all pain and grief He is my God which doth always at need send me relief Deus auribus Psal. xliv T. S. OUr ears have heard our fathers tell and reverently record The wondrous works that thou hast done in older time O lord verse 2 How thou didst cast the Gentiles out and stroyd'st them with strong hand Planting our fathers in their place and gav'st to them their land verse 3 They conquered not by sword not strength the land of thy behest But by thy hand thy arm and grace because thou lov'dst them best verse 4 Thou art my King O God that holp Jacob in sundry wise verse 5 Led with thy power we threw down such as did against us rise verse 6 I trusted not in bow nor sword they could not save me sound verse 7 Thou keptest us from our enemy's rage thou didst our foes confound verse 8 And still we boast of thee our God and praise thy holy name verse 9 Yet now thou goest not with our host but leavest us to shame verse 10 Thou mad'st us flee before our foes and so were overtrod Our enemies robbed and spoiled our goods when we were spersed abroad verse 11 Thou hast us given to our foes as sheep for to be slain Amongst the heathen every where scattered we do remain verse 12 Thy people thou hast sold like slaves and as a thing of nought For profit none thou hadst thereby no gain at all was sought verse 13 And to our neighbours thou hast made of us a laughing stock And those that round about us dwell at us do grin and mock The second part verse 14 Thus we serve for none other use but for a common talk They mock they scorn they nod their heads where ere they go or walk verse 15 I am ashamed continually to hear these wicked men Yea so I blush that all my face with red is covered then verse 16 For why we hear such slanderous words such false reports and lies That death it is to see their wrongs their threaten and their cries verse 17 For all this we forgot not thee nor yet thy covenant broke verse 18 We turn not back our hearts from thee nor yet thy paths forsake verse 19 Yet thou hast trod us down to dust where dens of dragons be And covered us with shade of death and great adversity verse 20 If we had our Gods Name forgot and help of idols sought verse 21 Would not God then have tried this out for he doth know our thought verse 22 Nay nay for thy Names sake O Lord always are we slain thus As sheep unto the shambles sent right so they deal with us verse 23 Up Lord why sleepest thou awake and leave us not for all verse 24 Why hidest thou thy countenance and dost forget our thrall verse 25 For down to dust our soul is brought and we now at last cast Our belly like as it were glued unto the ground cleaves fast verse 26 Rise up therefore for our defence and help us Lord at need We thee beseech for thy goodness to rescue us with speed Eructavit Psal. xlv J. H. MY heart doth take in hand some godly song to sing The praise that I shall show therein pertaineth to the king verse 2 My tongue shall be as quick his honour to indite As is the pen of any scribe that useth fast to write verse 3 O fairest of all men thy speech is pleasant pure For God hath blessed thee with gifts for ever to endure verse 4 About thee gird thy sword O prince of might elect With honour glory and renown thy person pure is decked verse 5 Go forth with godly speed with meekness truth and right And thy right hand shall thee instruct in works of dreadful might verse 6 Thine arrows sharp and keen their hearts so sore shall sting That sulk shall fall and kneel to thee yea all thy foes O king verse 7 Thy royal seat O Lord for ever shall remain Because the sceptre of thy realm doth righteousness maintain verse 8 Because thou lov'st the right and dost the ill detest God even thy God hath anointed thee with joy above the rest verse 9 With myrrh and savours sweet thy clothes are all bespread When thou dost from thy palace pass therein to make thee glad verse 10 Kings daughters do attend in fine and rich array At thy right hand the queen doth stand in gold and garments gay The second part verse 11 O daughter take good heed incline and give good ear Thou must forget thy kindred all and father's house most dear verse 12 Then shall the king desire thy beauty fair and trim For why he is the Lord thy God and thou must worship him verse 13 The daughters then of Tyre with gifts full rich to see And all the wealthy of the land shall make their suit to thee verse 14 The daughter of the king is glorious to behold Within her closet she doth sit all decked in beaten gold verse 15 In robes well wrought with needle and many a pleasant thing With virgin's fair on her to wait she cometh to the king verse 16 Thus are they brought with joy and mirth on every side Into the palace of the king and there they do abide verse 17 In stead of parents left O queen the case so stands Thou shalt have sons whom thou mayst s●t as princes in all lands verse 18 Wherefore thy holy Name all ages shall record The people shall give thanks to thee for evermore O lord Deus noster Psal. xlvi J. H. THe Lord is our defence and aid the strength whereby we stand When we with woe are much dismayed he is our help at hand verse 2 Though th' earth remove we will not fear though hills so high and steep Be thrust and hurled here and there within the sea so deep verse 3 No though the waves do rage so sore that all the banks it spills And though it overflow the shore and beat down mighty hills verse 4 For one fair flood doth send abroad his pleasant streams apace To fresh the city of our God and wash his holy place verse 5 In midst of her the Lord doth dwell she can no whit decay All things against her that rebel the Lord will truly slay verse 6 The heathen folk the kingdoms fear the people make a noise The earth doth melt and not appear when God puts forth his voice verse 7 The Lord of hosts doth take our part to us he hath an eye Our hope of health with all our heart on jacob's God doth lie verse 8 Come here and see with mind & thought the working of our God What wonders he himself hath wrought in all the world abroad verse 9 By him all wars are hushed and gone which countries did conspire Their bows he broke and spears each one their chariots burnt with fire verse 10 Leave off therefore saith he and know I am a God most stout Among the heathen high and low and all the earth throughout verse 11 The Lord of hosts doth us defend he is our strength and tower On jacob's God we do depend and on his might and power Omnes gentes Psal. xlvii J. H. YE people all with one accord clap hands and eke rejoice Be glad and sing unto the Lord with sweet and pleasant voice verse 2 For high the Lord and dreadful is with wonders manifold A mighty King he is truly in all the earth extolled verse 3 The people shall he make to be unto our bondage thrall And underneath our feet the shall the nations make to fall verse 4 For us the heritage he chose which we possess alone The flourishing worship of Jacob his well-beloved one verse 5 Our God ascended up on high with joy and pleasant noise The Lord goes up above the sky with trumpets loyal voice verse 6 Sing praises to our God sing praise sing praises to our King verse 7 For God is King of all the earth all skilful praises sing verse 8 God on the heathen reigns and fits upon his holy throne The princes of the people have them joined every one To Abraham's people for our God which is exalted high As with a buckler doth defend the earth continually Magnus Dominus Psal. xlviii J. H. GReat is the Lord and with great praise to be advanced still Within the city of our God upon his holy hill verse 2 Mount Zion is a pleasant place it gladdeth all the land The city of the mighty King on her north-side doth stand verse 3 Within the palaces thereof God is a refuge known For so the kings are gathered and together they are gone verse 4 But when they did behold it so they wondered and they were Astonished much and suddenly were driven back with fear verse 5 Great terror there on them did fall for very woe they cry As doth a woman when she shall go travail by and by verse 6 As thou with eastern wind the ships upon the sea dost break So they were stroyed and even as we heard our fathers speak verse 7 So in the city of the Lord we saw as it was told Yea in the city which our God for ever will uphold verse 8 O Lord we wait and do attend on thy good help and grace For which we do all times attend within thy holy place verse 9 O Lord according to thy Name for ever is thy praise And thy right hand O Lord is full of righteousness always verse 10 Let for thy judgements Zion mount fulfilled be with joys And eke of Judah grant O Lord the daughters to rejoice verse 11 Go walk about all Zion hill yea round about her go And tell the towers that thereupon are built on a row verse 12 And mark ye well her bulwarks all behold her towers there That ye may tell thereof to them that after shall be here verse 13 For this God is our God our God for evermore is he Yea and unto the death also our Guider shall he be Audite be omnes Psal. xlix J. H. ALI people hearken and give ear to that that I shall tell verse 2 Both high and low both rich and poor that in the world do dwell verse 3 For why my mouth shall make discourse of many things right wise In understanding shall mine heart his study exercise verse 4 I will incline mine ear to know the parable so dark And open all my doubtful speech in metre on my harp verse 5 Why should I fear affliction or any careful toil Or else my foes which at my heels are pressed my lise to spoil verse 6 For as for such as riches have wherein their trust is most And they which of their treasures great themselves do brag and boast verse 7 There is not one of them that can his brother's death redeem Or that can give a price to God sufficient for him verse 8 It is too great a price to pay none can thereto attain Or that he might his life prolong or not in grave remain verse 9 They see wise men as well as fools subject unto death's bands And being dead strangers possess their goods their rents their lands verse 10 Their care is to build houses fair and so determine sure To make their name right great on earth for ever to endure verse 11 Yet shall noman always enjoy high honour wealth and rest verse 12 But shall at length taste of death's cup as well as the brute beast The second part verse 13 And though they try their foolish thoughts to be most lewd and vain Their children yet approve their talk and in like sin remain verse 14 As sheep into the fold are brought so shall they into grave Death shall them eat and in that day the just shall lordship have verse 15 Their image and their royal port shall fade and quite decay When as from house to pit they pass with woe and well-away verse 16 But God will surely preserve me from death and endless pain Because he will of his good grace my soul receive again verse 17 If any man wax wondrous rich fear not I say therefore Although the glory of his house increaseth more and more verse 18 For when he dies of all these things nothing shall he receive His glory will not follow him his pomp will take her leave verse 19 Yet in this life he takes himself the happiest under sun And others likewise flatter him saying All is well done verse 20 And presuppose he live as long as did his father's old Yet must he needs at length give place and be brought to death's fold verse 21 Thus man to honour God hath brought yet doth he not consider But like brute beasts so doth he live which turn to dust and powder Deus deorum Psal. l. W. W. THe mighty God th' eternal hath thus spoke And all the world he will call and provoke Even from the east and so forth to the west verse 2 From towards Zion which place he liketh best God will appear in beauty most excellent Our God will come before long time besprent verse 3 Devouring fire shall go before his face A great tempest shall round about him trace verse 4 Then shall he call the earth and heavens bright To judge his folk with equity and right verse 5 Saying Go to and now my saints assemble My pact they keep their gifts do not dissemble verse 6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness For God is Judge of all things more and less verse 7 Hear my people for I will now reveal List Israel I will thee nought conceal Thy God thy God am I and will not blame thee verse 8 For giving not all manner offerings to me verse 9 I have no need to take of thee at all Goats of thy fold or cast out of thy stall verse 10 For all the beasts are mine within the woods On thousand hills  are mine own goods verse 11 I know for mine all birds that are on mountains All beasts are mine which haunt the fields and fountains verse 12 Hungry if I were I would not thee it tell For all is mine that in the world doth dwell verse 13 Eat I the flesh of great bulls or bullocks Or drink the blood of goats or of the flocks verse 14 Offer to God praise and hearty thanksgiving And pay thy vows unto God everliving verse 15 Call upon me when troubled thou shalt be Then will I help and thou shalt honour me verse 16 To the wicked thus saith th' eternal God Why dost thou preach my laws and hests abroad verse 17 Seeing thou hast them with thy mouth abused And hat'st to be by discipline reform My words I say thou dost reject and hate verse 18 If that thou see a thief as with thy mate Thou runnest with him and so your prey do seek And art all one with bawds and ruffians eke verse 19 Thou giv'st thyself to backbite and to slander And how thy tongue deceives it is a wonder verse 20 Thou sittest musing thy brother how to blame And how to put thy mother's son to shame verse 21 These things thou didst and whilst I held my tongue Thou didst me judge because I stayed so long Like to thyself yet though I keep long silence Once shalt thou feel of thy wrongs just recompense verse 22 Consider this ye that forget the Lord And fear not when he threatneth with his word Lest without help I spoil you as a prey verse 23 But he that thanks offereth praiseth me ay ●●ith the Lord God and he that walks this trace I will him teach Gods saving healtht ' embrace Another of the same by J.H. THe God of gods the Lord hath called the earth by name From whence the sun doth rise unto the setting of the same From Zion his fair place his glory bright and clear The perfect beauty of his grace from thence it did appear Our God shall come in haste to speak he shall not doubt Before him shall the fire waste and tempest round about The heavens from on high the earth below likewise He will call forth to judge and try his folk he doth devise verse 5 Bring forth my saints saith he my faithful flock so dear Which are in band and league with me my law to love and fear And when these things are tried the heavens shall record That God is just and all must bide the judgement of the lord verse 7 My people O give heed Israel to thee I cry I am thy God thy help at need thou canst it not deny verse 8 I do not say to thee thy sacrifice is slack Thou offerest daily unto me much more than I do lack verse 9 Thinkest thou that I do need thy  young or old Or else so much desire to feed on goats out of thy fold verse 10 Nay all the beasts are mine in woods that eat their fills And thousands more of neat and kine that run-wilde on the hills The second part verse 11 The birds that build on high in hills and out of sight And beasts that in the fields do lie are subject to my might verse 12 Then though I hungered sore what need I ought of thine Sith that the earth with her great store and all therein is mine verse 13 To bulls flesh have I mind to eat it dost thou think Or such a sweetness do I find the blood of goats to drink verse 14 Give to the Lord his praise with thanks to him apply And see thou pay thy vows always unto the God mòst high verse 15 Then seek and call to me when aught would work thee blame And I will sure deliver thee that thou mayst praise my Name verse 16 But to the wicked train which talk of God each day And yet their works are foul and vain to them the Lord will say verse 17 With what a face darest thou my word once speak or name Why doth thy talk my law allow thy deeds deny the same verse 18 Whereas for to amend thy life thou art so slack My word the which thou dost pretend is cast behind thy back The third part verse 19 When thou a thief dost see by theft to live in wealth With him thou runnest and dost agree likewise to thrive by stealth verse 20 When thou dost them behold that wives and maids defile Thou lik'st it well and waxest bold to use that life most vice verse 21 Thy lips thou dost apply to slander and defame Thy tongue is taught to craft and lie and still doth use the same verse 22 Thou studiest to revile thy friends to thee so near With slander thou wouldst needs defile thy mother's son most dear verse 23 Hereat while I do wink as though I did not see Thou goest on still and so dost think that I am like to thee verse 24 But sure I will not let to strike when I begin Thy faults in order I will set and open all thy sin verse 25 Mark this I you require that have not God in mind Lest when I plague you in mine ire your help be far to find verse 26 He that doth give to me the sacrifice of praise Doth please me well and he shall see to walk in godly ways Miserere mei Psal. li. W. W. O Lord consider my distress and now with speed some pity take My sins deface my faults redress good Lord for thy great mercy's sake verse 2 Wash me O Lord and make me clean from this unjust and sinful act And purify yet once again my heinous crime and bloody fact verse 3 Remorse and sorrow do constrain me to acknowledge mine excess My sin alas doth still remain before my face without release verse 4 For thee alone I have offended committing evil in thy sight And if I were therefore condemned yet were thy judgements just and right verse 5 It is too manifest alas that first I was conceived in sin Yea of my mother so born was and yet vile wretch remain therein verse 6 Also behold Lord thou dost love the inward truth of a pure heart Therefore thy wisdom from above thou hast revealed me to convert verse 7 If thou with hyssop purge this blot I shall be cleaner than the glass And if thou wash away my spot the snow in whiteness shall I pass verse 8 Therefore O Lord such joy me send that inwardly I may find grace And that my strength may now amend which thou hast swaged for my trespass verse 9 Turn back thy face and frowning ire for I have felt enough thy hand And purge my sins I thee desire which do in number pass the sand verse 10 Make new my heart within my breast and frame it to thy holy will Thy constant Spirit in me let rest which may these raging enemies kill The second part verse 11 Cast me not Lord out from thy face but speedily my torments end Take not from me thy Spirit of grace which may from dangers me defend verse 12 Restore me to those joys again which I was wont in thee to find And let me thy free Spirit retain which unto thee may stir my mind verse 13 Thus when I shall thy mercies know I shall instruct others therein And men that are likewise brought low by mine example shall flee sin verse 14 O God that of my health art Lord forgive me this my bloody vice My heart and tongue shall then accord to sing thy mercies and justice verse 15 Touch thou my lips my tongue untie O Lord which art the only key And then my mouth shall testify thy wondrous works and praise always verse 16 And as for outward sacrifice I would have offered many a one But thou esteemest them of no price and therein pleasure tak'st thou none verse 17 The heavy heart the mind oppressed O Lord thou never dost reject And to speak truth it is the best and of all sacrifice th' effect verse 18 Lord unto Zion turn thy face pour out thy mercies on thy hill And on Jerusalem thy grace build up the walls and love it still verse 19 Thou shalt accept then our offerings of peace and righteousness I say Yea calves and many other things upon thine altar will we lay Another of the same by J.H. HAve mercy on me Lord after thy great abounding grace After thy mercy's multitude do thou my sins deface verse 2 Yea wash me more from mine offence and cleanse me from my sin For I do know my faults and still my sin is in mine eyn verse 3 Against thee thee alone I have offended in this case And evil have I done before the presence of thy face verse 4 That in the things that thou hast done upright thou mayst be tried And eke in judging that the doom may pass upon thy side verse 5 Behold in wickedness my kind and shape I did receive And lo my sinful mother eke in sin did me conceive verse 6 But lo the truth in inward parts is pleasant unto thee And secrets of thy wisdom thou revealed haste to me verse 7 With hyssop Lord besprinkle me I shall be cleansed so Yea wash thou me and so I shall be whiter than the snow verse 8 Of joy and gladness make thou me to hear the pleasant voice That so the bruised bones which thou hast broken may rejoice verse 9 From the beholding of my sins Lord turn away thy face And all my deeds of wickedness do utterly deface verse 10 O God create in me a heart unspotted in thy sight And eke within my bowels Lord renew a stable spirit verse 11 Ne cast me from thy sight nor take thy holy Spirit away The comfort of thy saving health give me again I pray verse 12 With thy free Spirit establish me and I will teach therefore Sinners thy ways and wicked shall be turned to thy lore The second part verse 13 O God that art God of my health from blood deliver me That praises of thy righteousness my tongue may sing to thee verse 14 My lips that yet fast closed be do thou O Lord unloose The praises of thy majesty my mouth shall so disclose verse 15 I would have offered sacrifice it that had pleased thee But pleased with burnt-offerings I know thou wilt not be verse 16 A troubled spirit is sacrifice delightful in God's eyes A broken and an humble heart God thou wilt not despise verse 17 In thy good will deal gently Lord to Zion and withal Grant that of thy Jerusalem upreared may be the wall verse 18 Burnt-offrings gifts and sacrifice of justice in that day Thou shalt accept and calves they shall upon thine altar lay Quid gloriaris Psal. lii J. H. WHy dost thou tyrant boast abroad thy wicked works to praise Dost thou not know there is a God whose merties last always verse 2 Why doth thy mind yet still devise such wicked wiles to warp Thy tongue untrue in forging lies is like a rafour sharp verse 3 On mischief why settest thou thy mind and wilt not walk upright Thou hast more lust false tales to find then bring the truth to light verse 4 Thou dost delight in fraud and guile in mischief blood and wrong Thy lips have learned the flattering style O false deceitful tongue verse 5 Therefore shall God for ay confound and pluck thee from thy place Thy seed root out from off the ground and so shall thee deface verse 6 The just when they behold thy fall with fear will praise the Lord And in reproach of thee withal cry out with one accord verse 7 Behold the man that would not take the Lord for his defence But of his goods his god did make and trust his corrupt sense verse 8 But I as olive fresh and green shall spring and spread abroad For why my trust all times hath been upon the living God verse 9 For this therefore will I give praise to thee with heart and voice I will set forth thy Name always wherein thy faints rejoice Dixit insipiens Psal. liii T. S. THe foolish man in that which he within his heart hath said That there is any God at all hath utterly denayed verse 2 They are corrupt and they also a heinous work have wrought Among them all there is not one of good that worketh aught verse 3 The Lord looked down on sons of men from heaven all abroad To see if any were that would be wise and seek for God verse 4 They are all gone out of the way they are corrupted all There is not one doth any good there is not one at all verse 5 Do not all wicked workers know that they do feed upon My people as they feed on bread the Lord they call not on verse 6 Even there they were afraid and stood with trembling all dismayed Whereas there was no cause at all why they should be afraid verse 7 For God his bones that thee besieged hath scaured all abroad Thou hast confounded them for they rejected are of God verse 8 O Lord give thou thy people health and thou O Lord fulfil Thy promise made to Israel from out of Zion hill verse 9 When God his people shall restore that erst was captive led Then Jacob shall therein rejoice and Israel shall be glad Deus in nomine Psal. liv J. H. GOd save me for thy holy Name and for thy goodness sake Unto the strength Lord of the same I do my cause betake verse 2 Regard O Lord and give an ear to me when I do pray Bow down thyself to me and hear the words that I do say verse 3 For strangers up against me rise and tyrants vex me still Which have not God before their eyes they seek my soul to spill verse 4 But so my God doth give me aid the Lord is strait at hand With them by whom my soul is stayed The Lord doth ever stand verse 5 With plagues repay again all those for me that lie in wait And in thy truth destroy my foes with their own snare and bait verse 6 An offering of free heart and will than I to thee shall make And praise thy Name for therein still great comfort I do take verse 7 O Lord at length do set me free from them that craft conspire And now mine eye with joy doth see on them my heart's desire Exaudi Deus Psal. lv J. H. O God give ear and do apply to hear me when I pray And when to thee I call and cry hid not thyself away verse 2 Take heed to me grant my request and answer me again With plaints I pray full sore oppressed great grief doth me constrain verse 3 Because my foes with threats and cries oppress me through despite And so the wicked sort likewise to vex me have delight verse 4 For they in counsel do conspire to charge me with some ill So in their hasty wrath and ire they do pursue me still verse 5 My heart doth faint for want of breath it panteth in my breast The terrors and the dread of death do work me much unrest verse 6 Such dreadful fear on me doth fall that I therewith do quake Such horour whelmeth me withal that I no shift can make verse 7 But I did say Who will give me the swift and pleasant wings Of some fair dove that I may flee and rest me from these things verse 8 Lo than I would go far away to fly I would not cease And I would hid myself and stay in some great wilderness verse 9 I would be gone in all the haste and not abide behind That I were quit and overpast these blasts of boisterous wind verse 10 Divide them Lord and from them pull their devilish double tongue For I have spied their city full of rapine strife and wrong verse 11 Which things both night and day throughout do close her as a wall In midst of her is mischief stout and sorrow eke withal verse 12 Her inward parts are wicked plain her deeds are much too vile And in her streets there doth remain all crafty fraud and guile The second part verse 13 If that my foes did seek my shame I might it well abide From open enemies check and blame some where I could me hid verse 14 But thou it was my fellow dear which friendship didst pretend And didst my secret counsel hear as my familiar friend verse 15 With whom I had delight to talk in secret and abroad And we together oft did walk within the house of God verse 16 Let death in haste upon them fall and send them quick to hell For mischief reigneth in the hall and parlour where they dwell verse 17 But I unto my God will cry to him for help I flee The Lord will help me by and by and he will secure me verse 18 At morning noon and evening-tide unto the Lord I pray When I so instantly have cried he doth not say me nay verse 19 To peace he shall restore me yet though war be now at hand Although the number be full great that would against me stand verse 20 The Lord that first and last doth reign both now and evermore Will hear when I to him complain and punish them full sore verse 21 For sure there is no hope that they to turn will once accord For why they will not God obey nor yet do fear the lord verse 22 Upon their friends they laid their hands which were in covenant knit Of friendship to neglect the bands they pass or care no whit verse 23 While they have war within their hearts as butter are their words Although their words were smooth as oil they cut as sharp as swords verse 24 Cast thou thy care upon the Lord and he shall nourish thee For in no wise will he accord the just in thrall to see verse 25 But God shall cast them deep in pit that thirst for blood always He will no guileful man permit to live out half his days verse 26 Though such be quite destroyed & gone in thee O Lord I trust I shall depend thy grace upon with all my heart and lust Miserere mei Psal. lvi J. H. HAve mercy Lord on me I pray for man would me devour He fighteth with me day by day and troubleth me each hour verse 2 Mine enemies daily enterprise to swallow me outright To fight against me many rise O thou most high of might verse 3 When they would make me most afraid with boasts and brags of pride I trust in thee alone for aid by thee I will abide verse 4 Gods promise I do mind and praise O Lord I stick to thee I do not care at all assays what flesh can do to me verse 5 What things I either did or spoke they wrist them at their will And all the counsel that they take is how to work me ill verse 6 They all consent themselves to hid close watch for me to lay They spy my paths and snares have tied to take my life away verse 7 Shall they thus scape on mischief set thou God on them wilt frown For in his wrath he doth not let to throw whole kingdoms down verse 8 Thou seest how oft they made me flee and on my tears dost look Reserve them in a glass by thee and write them in thy book verse 9 When I do call upon thy Name my foes away do start I well perceive it by the same that God doth take my part verse 10 I glory in the word of God to praise it I accord With joy I will declare abroad the promise of the lord verse 11 I trust in God and yet I say as I before began The Lord he is my help and stay I do not care for man verse 12 I will perform with heart so free to God my vows always And I O Lord all times to thee will offer thanks and praise verse 13 My soul from death thou dost defend and keep'st my feet upright That I before thee may ascend with such as live in light Miserere mei Psal. lvii J. H. TAke pity for thy promise sake have mercy Lord on me For why my soul doth her betake unto the help of thee verse 2 Within the shadow of thy wings I set myself full fast Till mischief malice and like things be gone and overpast verse 3 I call upon the God most high to whom I stick and stand I mean the God that will stand by the cause I have in hand verse 4 From heaven he hath sent his aid to save me from their spite That to devour me have affaid his mercy truth and might verse 5 I lead my life with lions fell all set on wrath and ire And with such wicked men I dwell that f●et like flames of fire verse 6 Their teeth are spears and arrows long as sharp as I have seen They wound & cut with their quick tongue like swords and weapons keen verse 7 Set up and show thyself O God above the heavens bright Exalt thy praise on earth abroad thy majesty and might verse 8 They lay their net and do prepare a privy cave and pit Wherein they think my soul to snare but they are fallen in it verse 9 My heart is set to laud the Lord in him to joy always My heart I say doth well accord to sing his laud and praise verse 10 Awake my joy awake I say my lute my harp and string For I myself before the day will rise rejoice and sing verse 11 Among the people I will tell the goodness of my God And show his praise that doth excel in heathen lands abroad verse 12 His mercy doth extend as far as heavens all are high His truth as high as any star that shineth in the sky verse 13 Set forth and show thyself O God above the heavens bright Extol thy praise on earth abroad thy majesty and might Si vere utique Psal. lviii J. H. YE rulers that are put in trust to judge of wrong and right Be all your judgements true and just not knowing meed or might verse 2 Nay in your hearts ye mark and muse in mischief to consent And where ye should true justice use your hands to bribes are bend verse 3 The wicked sort from their birthday have erred on this wise And from their mother's womb always have used craft and lies verse 4 In them the poison and the breath of serpents do appear Yea like the adder that is deaf and fast doth stop her ear verse 5 Because she will not hear the voice of one that charmeth well No though he were the chief of choice and did therein excel verse 6 O God break thou their teeth at once within their mouths throughout The tusks that in their great jawbones like lion's whelps hang out verse 7 Let them consume away and waste as waters run forth right The shafts that they do shoot in haste let them be broke in flight verse 8 As snails do waste within the shell and unto slime do run As one before his time that fell and never saw the sun verse 9 Before the thorns that now are young to bushes big shall grow The storms of anger waxing strong shall take them ere they know verse 10 The just shall joy it doth them good that God doth vengeance take And they shall wash their feet in blood of them that him forsake verse 11 Then shall the world show forth & tell that good men have reward And that a God on earth doth dwell that justice doth regard Eripe me Psal. lix J. H. SEnd aid and save me from my foes O Lord I pray to thee Defend and keep me from all those that rise and strive with me verse 2 O Lord preserve me from those men whose do are not good And set me sure and safe from them that thirst still after blood verse 3 For lo they wait my soul to take they rage against me still Yea for no fault that I did make I never did them ill verse 4 They run and do themselves prepare when I no whit offend Arise and save me from their snare and see what they intent verse 5 O Lord of hosts of Israel arise and strike all lands And pity none that do rebel and in their mischiefs stands verse 6 At night they stir and seek about as hound's they howl and grin And all the city clean throughout from place to place they run verse 7 They speak of me with mouth always but in their lips are swords They agreed my death and then would say What none doth hear our words verse 8 But Lord thou hast their ways espied and laughed thereat apace The heathen folk thou dost deride and mock them to their face verse 9 The strength that doth our foes withstand O Lord doth come from thee My God he is my help at hand a fort of fence to me verse 10 The Lord to me doth show his grace in great abundance still That I may see my foes in case such as my heart doth will The second part verse 11 Destroy them not at once O Lord left it from mind do fall But with thy strength drive them abroad and so consume them all verse 12 For their ill words and truthless tongue confound them in their pride Their wicked oaths with lies and wrong let all the world deride verse 13 Consume them in thy wrath O Lord that nought of them remain That men may know throughout the world that jacob's God doth reign verse 14 At evening they return apace as dogs they grin and cry Throughout the streets in every place they run about and spy verse 15 They seek about for meat I say but let them not be fed Not find a house wherein they may be hold to put their head verse 16 But I will show thy strength abroad thy goodness I will praise For thou art my defence and God at need in all assays verse 17 Thou art my strength thou hast me stayed O Lord I sing to thee Thou art my fort my fence and aid a loving God to me Deus repulisti Psal. lx J. H. O Lord thou didst us clean forsake and scatteredst us abroad Such great displeasure thou didst take return to us O God verse 2 Thy might did move the land so sore that it in sunder brake The hurt thereof O Lord restore for it doth bow and quake verse 3 With heavy chance thou plaguest thus the people that are thine And thou hast given unto us a drink of deadly wine verse 4 But yet to such as fear thy Name a banner thou didst show That they might triumph in the same because thy word is true verse 5 So that thy might may keep and save thy folk that favour thee That they thy help at hand may have O Lord grant this to me verse 6 The Lord did speak from his own place this was his joyful tale I will divide Sichem by pace and meet out Succoths vale verse 7 Gilead is given to my hand Manasses mine beside Ephraim the strength of all my land my law doth Judah guide verse 8 In Moah I will wash my feet over Edom throw my shoe And thou Palestine ought it to seek for favour me unto verse 9 But who will bring me at this tide unto the city strong Or who to Edom will me guide so that I go not wrong verse 10 Will't thou not God which didst forsake thy folk their land and coasts Our wars in hand thou wouldst not take nor walk among our hosts verse 11 Give aid O Lord and us relieve from them that us disdain The help that hosts of men can give it is but all in vain verse 12 But through our God we shall have might to take great things in hand He will tread down and ●ut to flight all those that us withstand Exaudi Deus Psal. lxi J. H. REgard O Lord for I complain and make my suit to thee Let not my words return in vain but give an ear to me verse 2 From out the coasts and utmost parts of all the earth abroad In grief and anguish of my heart I cry to thee O God verse 3 Upon the rock of thy great power my woeful mind repose Thou art my hope my fort and tower my fence against my foes verse 4 Within thy tent I lust to dwell for ever to endure Under thy wings I know right well I shall be safe and sure verse 5 The Lord doth my desire regard and doth fulfil the same With godly gifts will he reward all those that fear his Name verse 6 The king shall he in health maintain and so prolong his days That he from age to age shall reign for evermore always verse 7 That he may have a dwelling-place before the Lord for ay O ●et thy mercy truth and grace defend him from decay verse 8 Then shall I sing for ever still with praise unto thy Name all my vows I may fulfil and daily pay the same Nun Deo Psal. lxii J. H. MY soul to God shall give good heed and him alone attend why my health and hope to speed doth whole on him depend For he alone is my defence my rock my health and aid is my stay that no pretence ●●all make me much dismayed O wicked folk how long will ye ●●e craft sure ye must fall ●as a rotten hedge ye be and like a tottering wall Whom God doth love ye seek always to put him to the worse ●ove to lie with mouth ye praise and yet your heart doth curse Yet still mysoul doth whole depend on God my chief desire all ill feats me to defend none but him I require He is my rock my fort and tower my health is of his grace doth support me that no power can move me out of place God is my glory and my health my souls desire and lust ●●f●rt my strength my stay my wealth God is my only trust Oh have your trust in him always folk with one accord out your hearts to him and say our trust is in the lord The sons of men deceitful are on balance but a sleight things most vain do them compare ●●r they can keep no weight Trust not in wrong robb'ry nor stealth let vain delights be gone ●●ough goods well got flow in with wealth let not your hearts thereon The Lord long since one thing did tell which here to mind I call spoke it oft I heard it well That God alone doth all And that thou Lord art good and kind thy mercy doth exceed that all sorts with thee shall find according to their deed Deus Deus meus Psal. lxiii T. S. O God my God I watch betime to come to thee in haste why my soul and body both do thirst of thee to taste in this barren wilderness where waters there are none flesh is parched for thought of thee ●or thee I wish alone That I might see yet once again glory strength and might ●as wont it to behold a thin thy temple bright F●r why thy mercy's fa● surmount t●●s life and wretched days ●ips therefore shall give to thee ●●e honour laud and praise And whilst I live I will not fail worship thee always And in thy name I shall lift up my hands when I do pray verse 5 My soul is filled as with marrow which is both fat and sweet My mouth therefore shall sing such songs as are for thee most meet verse 6 When as in bed I think on thee and eke all the night-tide verse 7 For under covert of thy wings thou art my joyful guide verse 8 My soul doth surely stick to thee thy right hand is my power verse 9 And those that seek my soul to stroy them death shall soon devour verse 10 The sword shall them devour each one their carcases shall feed The hungry foxes which do run their prey to seek at need verse 11 The king and all men shall rejoice that do profess God's word For liars mouths shall then be stopped which have the truth disturbed Exaudi Deus Psal. lxiu J. H. O Lord unto my voice give ear with plaint when I do pray And rid my life and soul from fear of foes that threat to slay verse 2 Defend me from that sort of men which in deceit do lurk And from the frowning face of them that all ill seats do work verse 3 Who whet their tongues as we have seen men whet and sharp their swords They shoot abroad their arrows keen I mean most bitter words verse 4 With privy sleights shoot they their shaft the upright man to hit The just unwares to strike by craft they care or fear no whit verse 5 A wicked work they have decreed in counsel thus they cry To use deceit let us not dread what who can it espy verse 6 What way to hurt they talk and muse all times within their heart They all consult what feats to use each doth invent his part verse 7 But yet all this shall not prevail when they think least upon God with his dart shall sure assail and wound them every one verse 8 Their crafts and their ill tongues withal shall work themselves such blame That they which then behold their fall shall wonder at the same verse 9 Then all that see shall know right well that God the thing hath wrought And praise his witty works and tell what he to pa●s hath brought verse 10 Yet shall the just in God rejoice still trusting in his might So shall they joy with mind and voice whose hearts are pure and right Te decet hymnus Psal. lxv J. H. THy praise alone O Lord doth reign in Zion thine own hill Their vows to thee they do maintain and their behests fulfil verse 2 For that thou dost their prayers hear and dost thereto agree The people all both far and near with trust shall come to thee verse 3 Our wicked life so far exceeds that we shall fall therein But Lord forgive our great misdeeds and purge us from our sin verse 4 The man is blessed whom thou dost choose within thy courts to dwell Thy house and temple he shall use with pleasures that excel verse 5 Of thy great justice hear us God our health of thee doth rise The hope of all the earth abroad and the sea coasts likewise verse 6 With strength thou art beset about and compassed with thy power Thou makest the mountains strong and stout to stand in every shower verse 7 The swelling seas thou dost assuage and make their streams full still Thou dost restrain the people's rage and rule them at thy will verse 8 The folk that dwell full far on earth shall dread thy signs to see Which morn and even in great mirth do pass with praise to thee verse 9 When that the earth is chapped and dry and thirsteth more and more Then with thy drops thou dost apply and much increase her store verse 10 The flood of God doth overflow and so doth cause to spring The seed and corn which men do sow for he doth guide the thing verse 11 With wet thou dost her furrows fill whereby her clods do fall Thy drops on her thou dost distil and bless her fruit withal verse 12 Thou deckest the earth of thy good grace with fair and pleasant crop Thy clouds distil their dew apace great plenty they do drop verse 13 Whereby the desert shall begin full great increase to bring The little hills shall joy therein much fruit in them shall spring verse 14 In places plain the flocks shall feed and cover all the earth The vails with corn shall so exceed that men shall sing for mirth Jubilate Deo Psal. lxvi T. S. YE men on earth in God rejoice with praise set forth his Name Extol his might with heart and voice give glory to the same verse 2 How wonderful O Lord say ye in all thy works thou art Thy foes for sear shall seek to thee full sore against their heart verse 3 All men that dwell the earth throughout shall praise the Name of God The laud thereof the world about is showed and set abroad verse 4 All folk come forth behold and see what things the Lord hath wrought Mark well the wondrous works that he for man to pass hath brought verse 5 He laid the sea like heaps on high therein a way they had On scot to pass both fair and dry whereof their hearts were glad verse 6 His might doth rule the world always his eyes all things behold All such as would him disobey by him shall be controlled verse 7 Ye people give unto our God due laud and thanks always With joyful voice declare abroad and sing unto his praise verse 8 Which doth endue our soul with life and it preserve withal He stays our feet so that no strife can make us slip or fall verse 9 The Lord doth prove our deeds with fire if that they will abide As workmen do when they desire to have their metals tried verse 10 Although thou suffer us so long in prison to be cast And there with chains and fetters strong to lie in bondage fast The second part verse 11 Although I say thou suffer men on us to ride and reign Though we through fire and water run of very grief and pain verse 12 Yet sure thou dost of thy good grace dispose it to the best And bring us out into a place to live in wealth and rest verse 13 Unto thy house resort will I to offer and to pray And there I will myself apply my vows to thee to pay verse 14 The vows that with my mouth I pake in all my grief and smart The vows I say which I did make in dolour of my heart verse 15 Burnt-offrings I will give to thee of oxen sat and rams Yea this my sacrifice shall be of bullocks goats and lambs verse 16 Come forth and hearken here full soon all ye that fear the Lord What he for my poor soul hath done to you I will record verse 17 Full oft I call to mind his grace this mouth to him doth cry And thou my tongue make speed apace to praise him by and by verse 18 But if I feel my heart within in wicked works rejoice Or if I have delight to sin God will not hear my voice verse 19 But surely God my voice hath heard and what I do require My prayer he doth well regard and granteth my desire verse 20 All praise to him that hath not put nor cast me out of mind Nor yet his mercy from me shut which I do ever find Deus miscreatur Psal. lxvii J. H. HAve mercy on us Lord and grant to us thy grace To show to us do thou accord the brightness of thy face verse 2 That all the earth may know the way to godly wealth And all the nations on a row may see thy saving health verse 3 Let all the world O God give praise unto thy Name O let the people all abroad extol and laud the same verse 4 Throughout the world so wide let all rejoice with mirth For thou with truth and right dost guide the nations of the earth verse 5 Let all the world O God give praise unto thy Name O let the people all abroad extol and laud the same verse 6 Then shall the earth increase great store of fruit shall fall And than our God the God of p●ace shall bless us eke withal verse 7 God shall us bless I say and then both far and near The folk throughout the earth always of him shall stand in fear Exurgat Deus Psal. lxviii T. S. LEt God arise and then his foes will turn themselves to flight His enemies then will run abroad and scatter out of sight verse 2 And as the fire doth melt the wa● and wind blows smoke away So in the presence of the Lord the wicked shall decay verse 3 But righteous men before the Lord shall hearty rejoice They shall be glad and merry all and cheerful in their voice verse 4 Sing praise sing praise unto the Lord who rideth on the sky Extol the Name of Jah our God and him do magnify verse 5 The same is he that is above within his holy place That Father is of fatherless and Judge of widow's case verse 6 Houses he gives and issue both unto the comfortless He bringeth bondmen out of thrall and rebels to distress verse 7 When thou didst march before thy folk th' Egyptians from among And brought'st them through the wilderness which was both wide and long verse 8 The earth did quake the rain poured down heard were great claps of thunder The mount Sinai shook in such sort as it would break in sunder verse 9 Thine heritage with drop of rain abundantly was washed And if so be it barren waxed by thee it was refreshed verse 10 Thy chosen flock doth there remain Thou hast prepared that place And for the poor thou dost provide of thine especial grace The second part verse 11 God will give women causes just to magnify his Name When as his people triumphs make and purchase bruit and same verse 12 For puissant kings for all their power shall flee and take the soil And women which remain at home shall help to part the spoil verse 13 And though ye were as black as pots your hue shall pass the dove Whose wings and feathers seem to have silver and gold above verse 14 When in this land God shall triumph o'er kings both high and low Then shall it be like Salmon hill as white as any snow verse 15 Though Basan be a fruitful hill and in height others pass Yet Zion Gods most holy hill doth far excel in grace verse 16 Why brag ye thus ye hills most high and leap for pride together The hill of Zion God doth love and there will dwell for ever verse 17 Gods army is two millions of warriors good and strong The Lord also in Sinai is present them among verse 18 Thou didst O Lord ascend on high and captives leddest them all Which in times past thy chosen flock in bondage kept and thrall Thou mad'st them tribute for to pay and such as did repine Thou didst subdue that they might dwell in thy temple divine verse 19 Now praised be the Lord for that he pours on us such grace From day to day he is the God of our health and solace The third part verse 20 He is the God from whom alone salvation cometh plain He is the God by whom we scape all dangers death and pain verse 21 Thus God will wound his enemy's head and break the hairy scalp Of those that in their wickedness continually do walk verse 22 From Basan will I bring said he my people and my sheep And all mine own as I have done from dangers of the deep verse 23 And make them dip their seet in blood of those that hate my Name And dogs shall have their tongues imbrued with licking of the same verse 24 All men may see how thou O God thine enemies dost deface And how thou goest as God and King into thine holy place verse 25 The singers go before with joy the minstrels follow after And in the midst the damsels play with timbrel and with taber verse 26 Now in the congregation O Israel praise the Lord And jacob's whole posterity give thanks with one accord verse 27 Their chief was little Benjamin but Judah made their host With Zabulon and Nephthalim which dwelled about their coast verse 28 As God hath given power to thee so Lord make firm and sure The thing that thou hast wrought in us for ever to endure verse 29 And in thy temple gifts will we give unto thee O Lord For thine unto Jerusalem sure promise made by word The fourth part Yea and strange kings to us subdued shall do like in those days I mean to thee they shall present their gifts of laud and praise verse 30 He shall destroy the spearmen's ranks the calves and bulls of might And cause them tribute pay and daunt all such as love to sight verse 31 Then shall the lords of Egypt come and presents with them bring The Moors most black shall stretch their hands unto their Lord and King verse 32 Therefore ye kingdoms of the earth give praise unto the Lord Sing psalms to God with one consent thereto let all accord verse 33 Who though he ride and ever hath above the heavens bright Yet by the fearful thunderclaps men may well know his might verse 34 Therefore the strength of Israel ascribe to God on high Whose might and power doth far extend above the cloudy sky verse 35 O God thy holiness and power is dread for evermore The God of Israel gives us strength praised be God therefore Salvum me fac Psal. lxix J. H. SAve me O God and that with speed the waters flow full fast So nigh my soul do they proceed that I am sore aghast verse 2 I stick full deep in mire and clay Whereas I feel no ground fall into such floods I say that I am like be drowned verse 3 With crying oft I faint and quail my throat is hoarse and dry With looking up my sight doth fail for help to God on high verse 4 My foes that guiltless do oppress my soul with hate are led In number sure they are no less than hairs are on my head verse 5 Though for no cause they vex me fore they prosper and are glad They do compel me to restore the things I never had verse 6 What I have done for want of wit thou Lord all times canst tell And all the faults that I commit to thee are known full well verse 7 O God of hosts defend and stay all those that trust in thee Let no man doubt or shrink away for aught that chanceth me verse 8 It is for thee and for thy sake that I do bear this blame In spite of thee they would me make to hid my face for shame verse 9 My mother's sons my brethren all forsake me on a row And as a stranger they me call my face they will not know verse 10 Unto thy house such zeal I bear that it doth pine me much Their checks and taunts at thee to hear my very heart doth grudge The second part verse 11 Though I do fast my flesh to chaste Yea if I weep and moan Yet in my teeth this gear is cast they pass not thereupon verse 12 If I for grief and pain of heart in sack cloth use to walk Then they anon will it pervert thereof they jest and talk verse 13 Both high and low and all the throng that sit within the gate They have me ever in their tongue of me they talk and prate verse 14 The drunkards which in wine delight it is their chief pastime To seek which way to work me spite of me they sing and rhyme verse 15 But thee the while O Lord I pray that when it pleaseth thee For thy great truth thou wilt always send down thine aid to me verse 16 Pluck thou my feet out of the mire from drowning do me keep From such as owe me wrath and ire and from the waters deep verse 17 let with the waves I should be drowned and depth my soul devour And that the pit should me confound and shut me in her power verse 18 O Lord of hosts to me give ear as thou art good and kind And as thy mercy is most dear Lord have me in thy mind verse 19 And do not from thy servant hid nor turn thy face away I am oppressed on every side in haste give ear I say verse 20 O Lord unto my soul draw nigh the same with aid repose Because of their great tyranny acquit me from my so's The third part verse 21 That I abide rebuke and shame thou knowst and thou canst tell For those that seek and work the same thou seest them all full well verse 22 When they with brags do break my heart I seek for help anon But find no friends to ease my smart to comfort me not one verse 23 But in my meat they gave me gall too cruel for to think And gave me in my thirst withal strong vinegar to drink verse 24 Lord turn their table to a snare to take themselves therein And when they think full well to sat then trap them in the gin verse 25 And let their eyes be dark and blind that they may nothing see Bow down their backs and do them bind in thraldom for to be verse 26 Pour out thy wrath as hot as fire that it on them may fall Let thy displeasure in thine ire take hold upon them all verse 27 As deserts dry their house disgrace their off spring eke expel That none thereof possess their place nor in their tents do dwell verse 28 If thou dost strike the man to tame on him they lay full sore And if that thou do wound the same they seek to hurt him more verse 29 Then let them heap up mischief still sigh they are all pervert That of thy favour and good will they never have a part verse 30 And raze them clean out of thy book of life of hope of trust That for their names they never look in number of the just The fourth part verse 31 Though I O Lord with woe and grief have been full sore oppress Thy help shall give me such relief that all shall be redressed verse 32 That I may give thy Name the praise and show it with a song I will extol the same always with hearty thanks among verse 33 Which is more pleasant unto thee such mind thy grace hath born Then either ox or calf can be that hath both hoof and horn verse 34 When simple folk do this behold it shall rejoice them sure All ye that seek the Lord behold your life for ay shall dure verse 35 For why the Lord of hosts doth hear the poor when they complain His prisoners are to him full dear he doth them not disdain verse 36 Wherefore the sky and earth below the sea with flood and stream His praise they shall declare and show with all that live in them verse 37 For sure our God will Zion save and Judas cities build verse 38 Much folk possession there shall have her streets shall all be filled His servant's seed shall keep the same all ages out of mind verse 39 And there all they that love his Name a dwelling-place shall find Deus in adjutorium Psal. lxx J. H. O God to me take heed Of help I thee require O Lord of hosts with haste and speed help help I thee desire verse 2 With shame confound them all that seek my soul to spill Rebuke them back with blame to fall that think and wish me ill verse 3 Confound them that apply and seek to work me shame And at my harm do laugh and cry So so there goes the game verse 4 But let them joyful be in thee with joy and wealth Which only trust and seek to thee and to thy saving health verse 5 That they may say always in mirth and one accord All glory honour laud and praise be given to thee O lord verse 6 But I am weak and poor come Lord thine aid I lack Thou art my stay and help therefore make speed and be not slack In te Domine Psal lxxi J. H. MY Lord my God in all distress my hope is whole in thee Then let no shame my foul oppress nor once take hold on me verse 2 As thou art just defend me Lord and rid me out of dread Give ear and to my suit accord and send me help at need verse 3 Be thou my rock to whom I may for aid all times resort Thy promise is to helpalway thou art my sense and fort verse 4 Save me my God from wicked men and from their strength and power From folk unjust and eke from them that cruelly devour verse 5 Thou art the stay wherein I trust thou Lord of hosts art he Yea from my youth I had a lust still to depend on thee verse 6 Thou hast me kept even from my birth and I through thee was born Wherefore I will thee praise with mirth both evening and at morn verse 7 As to a monster seldom seen much solk about me throng But thou art now and still hast been my fence and aid so strong verse 8 Wherefore my mouth no time shall lack thy glory and thy praise And eke my tongue shall not be slack to honour thee always verse 9 Refuse me not O Lord I say when age my limbs doth take And when my strength doth waste away do not my soul forsake verse 10 Among themselves my foes inquire to take me through deceit And they against me do conspire that for my soul laid wait The second part verse 11 Lay hand and take him now they said For God from him is gone Dispatch him quite for to his aid I wis there cometh none verse 12 Do not absent thyself away O Lord when need shall be But that in time of grief thou may in haste give help to me verse 13 With shame confound and overthrow all those that seek my life Oppress them with rebuke also that fain would work me strife verse 14 But I will patiently abide thy help at all assays Still more and more each time and tide I will set forth thy praise verse 15 My mouth thy justice shall record that daily help doth send But of thy benefits O Lord I know no count nor end verse 16 Yet will I go and seek forth one with thy good help O God The saving health of thee alone to show and set abroad verse 17 For of my youth thou tookest the care and dost instruct me still Therefore thy wonders to declare I have great mind and will verse 18 And as in youth from wanton rage thou didst me keep and stay For sake me not unto mine age and till my head be grey The third part verse 19 That I thy strength and might may show to them that now be here And that our seed thy power may know hereafter many a year verse 20 O Lord thy justice doth exceed thy do all may see Thy works are wonderful indeed oh who is like to thee verse 21 Thou mad'st me feel affliction sore and yet thou didst me save Yea thou didst help and me restore and tookest me from the grave verse 22 And thou mine honour dost increase my dignity maintain Yea thou dost make all grief to cease and comfort'st me again verse 23 Therefore thy faithfulness to praise I will with viol sing My harp shall sound thy praise always O Israel's holy King verse 24 My mouth will joy with pleasant voice when I shall sing to thee And eke my soul will much rejoice for thou hast made me free verse 25 My tongue thy uprightness shall sound and speak it daily still For grief and shame do them confound that seek to work me ill Deus judicium Psal. lxxii J. H. LOrd give thy judgements to the king therein instruct him well And with his son that princely thing Lord let thy justice dwell verse 2 That he may govern uprightly and rule thy folk aright And so defend through equity the poor that have no might verse 3 And let the mountains that are high unto thy folk give peace And eke let little hills apply in justiceto increase verse 4 That he may help the weak and poor with aid and make them strong And eke destroy for evermore all those that do them wrong verse 5 And then from age to age shall they regard and fear thy might So long as sun doth shine by day or else the moon by night verse 6 Lord make the king unto the just like rain to fields new mown And like to drops that lay the dust and fresh the land new sown verse 7 The just shall flourish in his time and all shall be at peace Until the moon shall leave to prime waste change and to increase verse 8 He shall be lord of sea and land from shore to shore throughout And from the floods within the land through all the earth about verse 9 The people that in deserts dwell shall kneed to him full thick And all his enemies that rebel the earth and dust shall lick verse 10 The lords of all the isles thereby great gifts to him shall bring The kings of Saba and Araby give many a costly thing The second part verse 11 All kings shall seek with one accord in his good grace to stand And all the people of the world shall serve him at his hand verse 12 For he the needy sort doth save that unto him do call And eke the simple folk that have no help of man at all verse 13 He taketh pity on the poor that are with need oppressed He doth preserve them evermore and bring their souls to rest verse 14 He shall redeem their lives from dread from fraud from wrong from might And eke the blood that they shall bleed is precious in his sight verse 15 But he shall live and they shall bring to him of Saba's gold He shall be honoured as a king and daily be extolled verse 16 The mighty mountains of his land of corn shall bear such throng That it like cedar-trees shall stand in Libanus full long verse 17 Their cities eke full well shall speed the fruits thereof shall pass In plenty it shall far exceed and spring as green as grass verse 18 For ever they shall praise his name while that the sun is light And think them happy through the same all folk shall bless his might verse 17 Praise ye the Lord of hosts and sing to Israel's God each one For he doth every wondrous thing yea he himself alone verse 20 And blessed be his holy Name all times eternally That all the earth may praise the same amen amen say I. Quam bonus Deus Psal. lxxiii T. S. HOw ever it be yet God is good and kind to Israel And to all such as safely keep their conscience pure and well verse 2 Yet sike a fool I almost slipped my feet began to slide And ere I witted even at a pinch my steps awry began glide verse 3 for when I saw such foolish men I grudged and did disdain That wicked men all things should have without turmoil or pain verse 4 They never suffer pangs nor grief as if death should them smite Their bodies are both stout and strong and ever in good plight verse 5 And free from all adversity when other men be shent And with the rest they take no part of plague or punishment verse 6 Therefore presumption doth embrace their necks as doth a chain And are even wrapped as in a robe with rapine and disdain verse 7 They are so fed that even for fat their eyes oft times out start And as for worldly goods they have more than can wish their heart verse 8 Their life is most licentious boasting much of the wrong Which they have done to simple men and ever pride among verse 9 The heavens and the living Lord they spare not to blaspheme And prate they do of worldly things no wight they do esteem verse 10 The people of God ofttimes turn back to see their prosperous state And almost drink the selfsame cup and follow the same rate The second part verse 11 How can it be that God say they should know or understand These worldly things sigh wicked men be lords of sea and land verse 12 For we may see how wicked men in riches still increase Rewarded well with worldly goods and live in rest and peace verse 13 Then why do I from wickedness my fantasy refrain And wash my hands with innocents' and cleanse my heart in vain verse 14 And suffer scourges every day as subject to all blame And every morning from my youth sustain rebuke and shame verse 15 And I had almost said as they misliking mine estate But that I should thy children judge as folk unfortunate verse 16 Then I bethought me how I might this matter understand But yet the labour was too great for me to take in hand verse 17 Until the time I went into thine holy place and then I understood right perfectly the end of all these men verse 18 And namely how thou settest them upon a slippery place And at thy pleasure and thy will thou dost them all deface verse 19 Then all men muse at that strange sight to see how suddenly They are destroyed dispatched consumed and dead so horribly verse 20 Much like a dream when one awakes so shall their wealth decay Their famous names in all men's sight shall ebb and pass away The third part verse 21 Yet thus my heart was grieved then my mind was much oppressed verse 22 So fond was I and ignorant and in this point a beast verse 23 Yet nevertheless by my right hand thou hold'st me always fast verse 24 And with thy counsel dost me guide to glory at the last verse 25 What thing is there that I can wish but thee in heaven above And in the earth there is nothing like thee that I can love verse 26 My flesh and eke my heart doth fail but God doth fail me never For of my health God is the strength my portion eke for ever verse 27 And lo all such as thee forsake thou shalt destroy each one And those that trust in any thing saving in thee alone verse 28 Therefore will I draw near to God and ever with him dwell In God alone I put my trust thy wonders I will tell Vtquid Deus Psal. lxxiu J. H. WHy art thou Lord so long from us in all this danger deep Why doth thine anger kindle thus at thine own pasture-sheep verse 2 Lord call the people to thy thought which have been thine so long The which thou hast redeemed and brought from bondage sore and strong verse 3 Have mind therefore and think upon remember it full well Thy pleasant place thy mount Zion where thou wast wont to dwell verse 4 Lift up thy feet and come in haste and all thy foes deface Which now at pleasure rob and waste within thy holy place verse 5 Amid thy congregations all Thine enemies roar O God They set as signs on every wall their banners splaid abroad verse 6 As men with axes hue down trees that on the hills do grow So shine the bills and swords of these within thy temple now verse 7 The ceiling sawed the carved boards the goodly graven stones With axes hammers bills and swords they beat them down at once verse 8 Thy places they consume with flame and eke in all this toil The house appointed to thy Name they raze down to the soil verse 9 And thus they say within their heart Dispatch them out of hand Then burned they up in every part God's houses through the land verse 10 Yet thou no sign of help dost send our prophets all are gone To tell when this our plague shall end among us there is none verse 11 When wilt thou Lord once end this shame and cease thine enemies strong Shall they always blaspheme thy Name and rail on thee so long verse 12 Why dost thou draw thy hand aback and hid it in thy lap Oh pluck it out and be not slack to give thy foes a rap The second part verse 13 O God thou art our King and Lord and evermore hast been Yea thy good grace throughout the world for our good help hath seen verse 14 The seas that are so deep and dead thy might did make them dry And thou didst break the serpent's head that he therein did die verse 15 Yea thou didst break the heads so great of whales that are so fell And gav'st them to the folk to eat that in the deserts dwell verse 16 Thou mad'st a spring with streams to rise from rock both hard and high And eke thy hand hath made likewise deep rivers to be dry verse 17 Both day and eke the night are thine by thee they were begun Thou sett'st to serve us with their shine the light and eke the sun verse 18 Thou didst appoint the ends and coasts of all the earth about Both summer-heats and winter-frosts thy hand hath found them out verse 19 Think on O Lord no time forget thy foes that thee defame And how the foolish folk are set to rail upon thy Name verse 20 O let no cruel beasts devour thy turtle that is true Forget not always in thy power the poor that much do rue verse 21 Regard thy covenant and behold thy foes possess the land All sad and dark forworn and old our realm as now doth stand verse 22 Let not the simple go away nor yet return with shame But let the poor and needy ay give praise unto thy Name verse 23 Rise Lord let be by thee maintained the cause that is thine own Remember how that thou blasphemed art by the foolish one verse 24 The voice forget not of thy foes for the presumption high Is more and more in crest of those that hate thee spitefully Confitebimur tibi Psal. lxxv J. H. UNto thee God will we give thanks we will give thanks to thee Sith thy Name is so near declare thy wondrous works will we verse 2 I will uprightly judge when get convenient time I may The earth is weak and all therein but I her pillars stay verse 3 I did to the mad people say Deal not so furiously And unto the ungodly ones Set not your horns on high verse 4 I said unto them Set not up your raised horns on high And see that you do with stiff neck not speak presumptuously verse 5 For neither from the eastern parts nor from the western side Nor from forsaken wilderness promotion doth proceed verse 6 For why the Lord our God he is the righteous Judge alone He putteth down the one and sets another in the throne verse 7 For why a cup of mighty wine is in the hand of God And all the mighty wine therein himself doth pour abroad verse 8 As for the lees and filthy dregs that do remain of it The wicked of the earth shall drink and suck them every whit verse 9 But I will talk of God I say of jacob's God therefore And will not cease to celebrate his praise for evermore verse 10 In sunder break the horns of all ungodly men will I But then the horns of righteous men shall be exalted high Gloria patri To Father Son and holy Ghost all glory be therefore As in beginning was is now and shall be evermore In Judea Psal. lxxvi J. H. TO all that now in Jewry dwell the Lord is clearly known His Name is great in Israel a people of his own verse 2 At Salem he his tents hath pight to tarry there a space In Zion eke he hath delight to make his dwelling-place verse 3 And there he broke both shaft and bow the sword the spear and shield And broke the ray to overthrow in battle on the field verse 4 Thou art more worthy honour Lord more might in thee doth lie Then in the strongest of the world that rob on mountains high verse 5 But now the proud are spoiled through thee and they are fallen on sleep Through men of war no help can he themselves they could not keep verse 6 At thy rebuke O jacob's God when thou didst them reprove As half on sleep their chariots stood no horsemen once did move verse 7 For thou art dreadful Lord indeed what man the courage hath To bide thy sight and doth not dread when thou art in thy wrath verse 8 When thou dost make thy judgements heard from heaven through the ground Then all the earth full sore afraid in silence shall be found verse 9 And that when thou O God dost stand in judgement for to speak To save th' afflicted of the land on earth that are full weak verse 10 The fury that in man doth reign shall turn unto thy praise Hereafter Lord do thou restrain their wrath and threats always verse 11 Make vows and pay them to our God ye folk that nigh him be Bring gifts all ye that dwell abroad for dreadful sure is he verse 12 For he doth take both life and might from princes great of birth And full of terror is his sight to all the kings on earth Voce mea Psal. lxxvii J. H. I With my voice to God do cry with heart and hearty cheer My voice to God I lift on high and he my suit doth hear verse 2 In time of grief I sought to God by night no rest I took But stretched my hands to him abroad my soul comfort forsaken verse 3 When I to think on God intent my trouble then is more I spoke but could not make an end my breath was stopped so sore verse 4 Thou hold'st mine eyes always from rest that I always awake With fear I am so sore oppressed my speech doth me forsake verse 5 The days of old in mind I cast and oft did think upon The times and ages that are passed full many years ago verse 6 By night my songs I call to mind once made thy praise to show And with my heart much tall I find my spirits do search to know verse 7 Will God said I at once for all cast off his people thus So that henceforth no time he shall be friendly unto us verse 8 What is his goodness clean decayed for ever and a day Or is his promise now delayed and doth his truth decay verse 9 And will the Lord our God forget his mercies manifold Or shall his wrath increase so hot his mercies to withhold verse 10 At last I said My weakness is the cause of this mistrust Gods mighty hand can help all this and change it when he lust The second part verse 11 I will regard and think upon the working of the Lord Of all his wonders past and gone I gladly will record verse 12 Yea all his works I will declare and what he did devise To tell his facts I will not spare and eke his counsel wise verse 13 Thy works O Lord are all upright and holy all abroad What one hath strength to match the might of thee O Lord our God verse 14 Thou art a God that dost forth show thy wonders every hour And so dost make the people know thy virtue and thy power verse 15 And thine own folk thou dost defend with strength and stretched arm The sons of Jacob that descend and joseph's seed from harm verse 16 The waters Lord perceived thee the waters saw thee well And they for fear away did flee the depths on trembling fell verse 17 The clouds that were both thick and black did rain full plenteously The thunder in the air did crack thy shafts abroad did fly verse 18 Thy thunder in the air was heard thy lightnings from above With flashes great made men afraid the earth did quake and move verse 19 Thy ways within the sea do lie thy paths in waters deep Yet none can there thy steps espy nor know thy paths to keep hundred Thou ledd'st thy folk upon the land as sheep on every side Through Moses and through Aaron's hand thou didst them safely guide Attendite populi Psal. lxxviii J. H. ATtend my people to my law and to my words incline My mouth shall speak strange parables and sentences divine Which we ourselves have heard and learned even of our father's old ●d which for our instruction our fathers have us told Because we should not keep it close from them that should come after Who should Gods power to their race praise and all his works of wonder To Jacob he commandment gave How Israel should live ●illing our fathers should the same unto their children give That they and their posterity that were not sprung up tho ●ould have the knowledge of the law and teach their seed also That they might have the better hope in God that is above ●●d not forget to keep his laws and his precepts in love Not being as their fathers were rebelling in God's sight ●●d would not frame their wicked hearts to know their God aright How went the people of Ephraim their neighbours for to spoil ●oting their darts the day of war and yet they took the foil For why they did not keep with God the covenant that was made yet would walk or lead their lives according to his trade But put into oblivion his counsel and his will ●●d all his works most magnific which he declared still The second part What wonders to our forefathers did he himself disclose In Egypt land within the field that called is Thaneos verse 13 He did divide and cut the sea that they might pass at once And made the waters stand as still as doth an heap of stones verse 14 He led them secret in a cloud by day when it was bright And in the night when dark it was with fire he gave them light verse 15 He broke the rocks in wilderness and gave the people drink As plentiful as when the deeps do flow up to the brink verse 16 He drew out rivers out of rocks that were both dry and hard Of such abundance that no floods to them may be compared verse 17 Yet for all this against the Lord their sin they did increase And stirred him that is most high to wrath iw wilderness verse 18 They tempted God within theirhearts like people of mistrust Requiring such a kind of meat as served to their lust verse 19 Saying with murmuration in their unfaithfulness What can this God prepare for us a feast in wilderness verse 20 Behold he strake the stony rock and floods forthwith did flow But can he now give to his folk both bread and flesh also verse 21 When God heard this he waxed wroth with Jacob and his seed So did his indignation on Israel proceed The third part verse 22 Because they did not faithfully believe and hope that he Can always help and secure them in their necessity verse 23 Wherefore he did command the clouds forthwith they broke in sunder verse 24 And reigned down manna for them to eat a food of much wonder verse 25 When earthly men with angels food were fed at their request verse 26 He bade the east-wind blow away and brought in the south-west verse 27 He reigned down flesh as thick as dust and fowl as thick as sand verse 28 Which he did cast amid the place where all their tents did stand verse 29 Then did they eat exceedingly and all men had their fills Yet more and more they did desire to serve their lusts and wills verse 30 But as the meat was in their mouths his wrath upon them fell verse 31 And slew the flower of all their youth and choice of Israel verse 32 Yet fell they to their wont sin and still they did him grieve For all the wonders that he wrought they would him not believe verse 33 Their days therefore he shortened and made their honour vain Their years did waste and pass away with terror and with pain verse 34 But ever when he plagued them they sought him by and by verse 35 Remembering that he was their strength their help and God most high verse 36 Though in their mouths they did but gloze and flatter with the Lord And with their tongues and in their hearts dissembled every word The fourth part verse 37 For why their hearts were nothing bend to him nor to his trade Nor yet to keep or to perform the covenant that was made verse 38 Yet was he still so merciful when they deserved tody That he forgave them their misdeeds and would not them destroy Yea many a time he turned his wrath and did himself advise And would not suffer all his whole displeasure to arise verse 39 Considering that they were but flesh and even as a wind That passeth away and cannot well return by his own kind verse 40 How oftentimes in wilderness did they the Lord provoke How did they move and stir the Lord to plague them with his stroke verse 41 Yet did they turn again to fin and tempted God estloon Prescribing to the holy Lord what things they would have done verse 42 Not thinking of his hand and power nor of the day when he Delivered them out of the hands of the fierce enemy verse 43 Nor how he wrought his miracles as they themselves beheld In Egypt and the wonders that he did in Zoan field verse 44 Nor how he turned by his power their waters into blood That no man might receive his drink at river nor at flood verse 45 Nor how he sent them swarms of flies which did them sore annoy And filled their country full of frogs which did their land destroy The fifth part verse 46 Nor how he did commit their fruits unto the caterpillar And all the labour of their hands he gave to the grasshopper verse 47 With hailstones he destroyed their vines so that they were all lost And not so much as wild figtrees but he consumed with frost verse 48 And yet with hailstones once again the Lord their  smote And all their flocks and herds likewise with thunderbolts full hot verse 49 He cast upon them in his ire and in his fury strong Displeasure wrath and evil spirits to trouble them among verse 50 Then to his wrath he made a way and spared not the least But gave unto the pestilence the man and eke the beast verse 51 He strake also the firstborn all that up in Egypt came And all the chief of men and beasts within the tents of Ham. verse 52 But as for all his own dear folk he did preserve and keep And carried them through wilderness even like a flock of sheep verse 53 Without all fear both safe and sound he brought them out of thrall Whereas their foes with rage of seas were overwhelmed all verse 54 And brought them out into the coasts of his own holy land Even to the mount which he had got by his strong arm and hand verse 55 And there cast out the heathen folk and did their land divide And in their tents he set the tribes of Israel to abide verse 56 Yet  all this their God most high they stirred and tempted still And would not keep his testament nor yet obey his will verse 57 But as their fathers turned back even so they went astray Much like a bow that would not bent but slip and start away The sixth part verse 58 And grieved him with their hill-altars with offerings and with fire And with their idols vehemently provoked him to ire verse 59 Therewith his wrath began again to kindle in his breast The naughtiness of Israel he did so much detest verse 60 Then he forsook the tabernacle of Silo where he was Right conversant with earthly men even at his dwelling-place verse 61 Then suffered he his might and power in bondage for to stand And gave the honour of his ark into his enemy's hand verse 62 And did commit them to the sword wroth with his heritage verse 63 Their young men were devoured with fire maids had no marriage verse 64 And with the sword the priests also did perish every one And not a widow lest alive their death for to bemoan verse 65 And then the Lord began to wake like one that slept a time And like a valiant man of war refreshed after wine verse 66 With emerods in the hinder parts he strake his enemies all And put them then unto a shame that was perpetual verse 67 Then he the tent and tabernacle of Joseph did refuse As for the tribe of Ephraim he would in no wise choose verse 68 But choose the tribe of Jehuda whereas he thought to dwell Even the noble mount Zion which he did love so well verse 69 Whereas he did his temple build both sumptuously and sure Like as the earth which he hath made for ever to endure verse 70 Then chose he David him to serve his people for to keep Whom he took up and brought away even from the folds of sheep verse 71 As he did follow th'ews with young the Lord did him advance To feed his people Israel and his inheritance verse 72 Thus David with a faithful heart his flock and charge did seed And prudently with all his power did govern them indeed Deus venerunt Psal. lxxix J. H. O God the Gentiles do invade thine heritage to spoil Jerusalem an heap is made thy temple they defile verse 2 The bodies of thy saints most dear abroad to birds they cast The flesh of them that do thee fear the beasts devour and waste verse 3 Their blood throughout Jerusalem as water spilt they have So that there is not one of them to lay their dead in grave verse 4 Thus are we made a laughingstock almost the world throughout The enemies at us jest and mock which dwell our coasts about verse 5 Will't thou O Lord thus in thine ire against us ever fume And show thy wrath as hot as fire thy folk for to consume verse 6 Upon those people pour the same which did thee never know All realms which call not on thy Name consume and overthrow verse 7 For they have got the upper hand and jacob's seed destroyed His habitation and his land they have left waste and void verse 8 Bear not in mind our former faults with speed some pity show And aid us Lord in all assaults for we are weak and low The second part verse 9 O God that giv'st all health and gracey on us declare the same Weigh not our works our sins deface for honour of thy Name verse 10 Why shall the wicked still always to us as people dumb In thy reproach rejoice and say Where is their God become Require O Lord as thou seest good before our eyes in sight Of all these folk thy servant's blood which they spilt in despite verse 11 Receive into thy sight in haste the clamours grief and wrong Of such as are in prison cast sustaining irons strong Thy force and strength to celebrate Lord set them out of band Which unto death are destinate and in their enemy's hand verse 12 The nations which have been so bold as to blaspheme thy Name Into their laps with seven fold repay again the same verse 13 So we thy flock and pasture-sheep will praise thee evermore And teach all ages for to keep for thee like praise in store Qui regis Israel Psal. lxxx J. H. THou Herd that Israel dost keep give ear and take good heed Which leadest Joseph like a sheep and dost him watch and feed verse 2 Thou Lord I say whose seat is set on cherubims most bright Show forth thyself and do not let send down thy beams of light verse 3 Before Ephraim and Benjamin Manasses eke likewise To show thy power do thou begin come help us Lord arise verse 4 Direct our hearts unto thy grace convert us Lord to thee Show us the brightness of thy face and then full safe are we verse 5 Lord God of hosts of Israel how long wilt thou I say Against thy folk in anger swell and wilt not hear them pray verse 6 Thou dost them feed with sorrows deep their bread with tears they eat And drink the tears that they do weep in measure full and great verse 7 Thou hast us made a very strife to those that dwell about And that our foes do love a life they laugh and jest it out verse 8 O take us Lord unto thy grace convert our hearts to thee Show forth to us thy joyful face and we full sat shall be verse 9 From Egypt where it grew not well thou brought'st a vine full dear The heathen folk thou didst expel and thou didst plant it there verse 10 Thou didst prepare for it a place and set her roots full fast That it did grow and spring apace and filled the land at last The second part verse 11 The hills were covered round about With shade that from it came And eke the cedars strong and stout with branches of the same verse 12 Why then didst thou her walls destroy her hedge plucked up thou hast That all the folk that pass thereby thy vine may spoil and waste verse 13 The boar out of the wood so wild doth dig and root it out The furious beasts out of the field devour it all about verse 14 O Lord of hosts return again from heaven look betime behold and with thy help sustain this poor vineyard of thine verse 15 Thy plant I say thine Israel whom thy right hand hath set The same which thou didst love so well O Lord do not forget verse 16 They lop and cut it down apace they burn it eke with fire ●●d through the frowning of thy face we perish in thine ire verse 17 Let thy right hand be with them now whom thou hast kept so long ●●●d with the Son of man whom thou to thee hast made so strong verse 18 And so when thou hast set us free and saved us from shame Then will we never fall from thee but call upon thy Name verse 19 O Lord of hosts through thy good grace convert us unto thee behold us with a pleasant face and then full safe are we Deo exultate Psal. lxxxi J. 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BE light and glad in God rejoice which is our strength and stay be joyful and lift up your voice to jacob's God I say verse 2 Prepare your instruments most meet some joyful psalm to sing strike up with harp and lute so sweet on every pleasant string verse 3 Blow as it were in the new-moon with trumpets of the best As it is used to be done at any solemn feast ● For this is unto Israel a statute and a trade ●law that must be kept full well which jacob's God hath made ● This clause with Joseph was decreed when he from Egypt came That as a witness all his feed should still observe the same ● When God I say had so prepared to bring him from that land Whereas the speech which he had heard he did not understand verse 7 I from his shoulders took saith he the burden clean away And from the furnace quit him free from burning brick of clay verse 8 When thou in grief didst cry and call I holp thee by and by And I did answer thee withal in thunder secretly verse 9 Yea at the waters of discord I did thee tempt and prove Whereas the goodness of the Lord with muttering thou didst move verse 10 Hear O my folk O Israel and I assure it thee Regard and mark my words full well if thou wilt cleave to me The second part verse 11 Thou shalt no god in thee reserve of any land abroad Nor in no wise to bow or serve a strange or foreign god verse 12 I am the Lord thy God and I from Egypt set thee free Then ask of me abundantly and I will give it thee verse 13 And yet my people would not hear my voice when that I spoke Nor Israel would not obey but did me quite forsake verse 14 Then did I leave them to their will in hardness of their heart To walk in their own counsels still themselves they might pervert verse 15 O that my people would have heard the words that I did say And eke that Israel would regard to walk within my way verse 16 How soon would I confound their foes and bring them down full low And turn my hand upon all those that would them overthrow verse 17 And they that at the Lord do rage as slaves should seek him till But of his folk the time and age should flourish ever still verse 18 I would have fed them with the crop and finest of the wheat And made the rock with honey drop that they their fills should eat Deus stetit Psal. lxxxii J. 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AMid the preass with men of might the Lord himself doth stand To plead the cause of truth and right with judges of the land verse 2 How long said he will you proceed false judgement to award And have respect for love of meed the wicked to regard verse 3 Whereas of due you should defend the fatherless and weak And when the poor man doth contend in judgement justly speak verse 4 If ye be wise defend the cause of poor men in their right And rid the needy from the claws of tyrant's force and might verse 5 But nothing will they know or learn in vain to them I talk They will not see or ought discern but still in darkness walk verse 6 For lo even now the time is come that all things fall to nought And likewise laws both all and some for gain are sold and bought I had decreed it in my sight as gods to take you all And children to the most of might for love I did you call verse 7 But not withstanding ye shall die as men and so decay O tyrants I shall you destroy and pluck you quite away verse 8 Up Lord and let thy strength be known and judge the world with might For why all nations are thine own to take them as thy right Deus quid Psal. lxxxiii J. 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DO not O God refrain thy tongue in filence do not stay Withhold not Lord thyself foe long and make no more delay verse 2 For why behold thy foes and see how they do rage and cry And those that bear an hate to thee hold up their heads on high verse 3 Against thy folk they use deceit and crast'ly they inquire For thine elect to lie in wait their counsel doth conspire verse 4 Come on say they let us expel and pluck these solk away So that the name of Israel may utterly decay verse 5 They all conspire within their heart how they may thee withstand Against the Lord to take a part they are in league and band verse 6 The tents of all the Edomites the Ismaelites also The Hagarenes and Moabites with divers other more verse 7 Gebal with Ammon and likewise doth Amalek conspire The Philistines against thee rise with them that dwell at Tyre verse 8 And Assur eke is well apaid with them in league to be And doth become a sense and aid to Lot's posterity verse 9 As thou didst to the Midianites so serve them Lord each one As to Siser and to Jabin beside the brook Kison verse 10 Whom thou in Endor didst destroy and waste them through thy might That they like dung on earth did lie and that in open fight The second part verse 11 Make them now and their lords appear like Zeb and Oreb than As Zebah and Zalmana were the kings of Midian verse 12 Which said Let us throughout the land in all the coasts abroad Possess and take into our hand the fair houses of God verse 13 Turn them O God with storms as fast as wheels that have no stay Or like the chaff which men do cast with winds to fly away verse 14 Like as the fire with rage and fume the mighty forests spills And as the flame doth quite consume the mountains and the hills verse 15 So let the tempest of thy wrath upon their necks be laid And of thy stormy wind and shower Lord make them all afraid verse 16 Lord bring them all I thee desire to such rebuke and shame That it may cause them to inquire and learn to seek thy Name verse 17 And let them evermore daily to shame and slander fall And in rebuke and obloquy to perish eke withal verse 18 That they may know and feel full well that thou art called Lord And that alone thou dost excel and reign throughout the world Quam dilecta Psal. lxxxiv J. 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HOw pleasant is thy dwelling-place O Lord of hosts to me The tabernacles of thy grace how pleasant Lord they be verse 2 My soul doth long full sore to go into thy courts abroad My heart doth lust my flesh also in thee the living God verse 3 The sparrows find a room to rest and save themselves from wrong And eke the swallow hath a nest wherein to keep her young verse 4 These birds full nigh thine altar may have place to fit and fing O Lord of hosts thou art I say my God and eke my King verse 5 O they be blessed that may dwell within thy house always For they all times thy facts do tell and ever give thee praise verse 6 Yea happy sure likewise are they whose stay and strength thou art Which to thy house do mind the way and seek it in their heart As they go through the vale of tears they dig up fountains still That as a spring it all appears and thou their pits dost fill verse 7 From strength to strength they walk full fast no faintness there shall be And so the God of gods at last in Zion they do see verse 8 O Lord of hosts to me give heed and hear when I do pray And let it through thine ears proceed O jacob's God I say verse 9 O Lord our shield of thy good grace regard and so draw near Regard I say behold the face of thine anointed dear verse 10 For why within thy courts one day is better to abide Then otherwhere to keep or stay a thousand days beside Much rather would I keep a door within the house of God Then in the tents of wickedness to settle mine abode verse 11 For God the Lord light and defence will grace and worship give And no good thing will he withhold from them that purely live verse 12 O Lord of hosts that man is blessed and happy sure is he That is persuaded in his breast to trust all times in thee Benedixisti Psal. lxxxv J. 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THou hast been merciful indeed O Lord unto thy land For thou restoredst jacob's seed from thraldom out of band verse 2 The wicked ways that they were in thou didst them clean remit And thou didst hid thy people's sin full close thou coveredst it verse 3 Thine anger eke thou didst assuage that all thy wrath was gone And so didst turn thee from thy rage with them to be at one verse 4 O God our health do now convert thy people unto thee Put all thy wrath from us apart and angry cease to be verse 5 Why shall thine anger never and but still proceed on us And shall thy wrath itself extend upon all ages thus verse 6 Will't thou not rather turn therefore and quicken us that we And all thy folk may evermore be glad and joy in thee verse 7 O Lord on us do thou declare thy goodness to our wealth Show forth to us and do not spare thine aid and saving health verse 8 I will hark what God faith for he speaks to his people peace And to his saints that never they return to foolishness verse 9 For why his help is still at hand to such as do him fear Whereby great glory in our land shall dwell and flourish there verse 10 For truth and mercy there shall meet in one to take their place And peace shall justice with kiss greet and there they shall embrace verse 11 As truth from earth shall spring apace and flourish pleasantly So righteousness shall show her face and look from heaven high verse 12 Yea God himself doth take in hand to give us each good thing And through the coasts of all the land the earth her fruit shall bring verse 13 Before his face shall justice go much like a guide or stay He shall direct his steps also and keep them in the way Inclina Domine Psal. lxxxvi J. 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LOrd bow thine ear to my request and hear me by and by With grievous pain and grief oppressed full poor and weak am I verse 2 Preserve my soul because my ways and do holy be And save thy servant O my Lord that puts his trust in thee verse 3 Thy mercy Lord on me express defend me eke withal For through the day I do not cease on thee to cry and call verse 4 Comfort O Lord thy servants soul that now with pain is pined For unto thee Lord I extol and lift my soul and mind verse 5 For thou art good and bountiful thy gifts of grace are free And eke thy mercy plentiful to all that call on thee verse 6 O Lord likewise when I do pray regard and give an ear Mark well the words that I do say and all my prayers hear verse 7 In time when trouble doth me move to thee I do complain For why I know and well do prove thou answerest me again verse 8 Among the gods O Lord is none with thee to be compared And none can do as thou a loan the like hath not been heard The second part verse 9 The Gentiles and the people all which thou didst make and frame Before thy face on knees shall fall and glorify my Name verse 10 For why thou art so much of might all power is thine own Thou workest wonders still in sight for thou art God a loan verse 11 O teach me Lord thy way and I shall in thy truth proceed O join my heart to thee so nigh that I thy Name may dread verse 12 To thee my God will I give praise with all my heart O Lord And glorify thy Name always for ever through the world verse 13 For why thy mercy showed to me is great and doth excel Thou sentest my soul at liberty out from the lower hell verse 14 O Lord the proud against me rise and heaps of men of might They seek my soul and in no wise will have thee in their sight verse 15 Thou Lord art merciful and meek full slack and slow to wrath Thy goodness is full great and eke thy truth no measure hath verse 16 O turn to me and mercy grant thy strength to me apply O help and save thine own servant thy handmaids son am I. verse 17 On me some sign of favour show that all my so's may see And be ashamed because Lord thou dost help and comfort me Fundamenta Psal. lxxxvii J. H. THat city shall full well endure her groundwork still doth stay Upon the holy hills full sure it can no time decay verse 2 God-boves the gates of Zion best his grace doth there abide He loves them more than all the rest of jacob's tent beside verse 3 Full glorious things reported be in Zion and abroad Great things I say are said of thee thou city of our God verse 4 On Rahab I will cast an eye and bear in mind the same And Babylon shall eke apply and learn to know my Name verse 5 Lo Palestine and Tyre also with Ethiope likewise A people old full long ago were born and there did rise verse 6 Of Zion they shall say abroad That divers men of fame Have there sprung up and the high God hath founded fast the same verse 7 In their records to them it shall through God's device appear Of Zion that the chief of all had his beginning there verse 8 The trumpeters with such as sing there in great plenty be My fountains and my pleasant springs are compastall in thee Domin● Deus Psal. lxxxviii J. 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LOrd God of health the hope and stay thou art alone to me I call and cry throughout the day and all the night to thee verse 2 O let my prayer soon ascend unto thy sight on high Incline thine ear O Lord attend and hearken to my cry verse 3 For why with woe my heart is filled and doth in trouble dwell My life and breath almost doth yield and draweth nigh to hell verse 4 I am esteemed as one of them that in the pit do fall And made as one among those men that have no strength at all verse 5 As one among the dead and free from things that here remain It were more ease for me to be with them the which are slain verse 6 As those that lie in grave I say whom thou hast clean forgot The which thy hand hath cut away and thou regard'st them not verse 7 Yea like to one shut up full sure within the lower pit In places dark and all obscure and in the depth of it verse 8 Thine anger and thy wrath likewise full sore on me doth lie And all thy storms against me rise my soul to vex and try verse 9 Thou puttest my friend's sar off from me and makest them hate me sore I am shut up in prison fast and can come forth no more verse 10 My sight doth fail through grief and woe I call to thee O God Throughout the day my hands also to thee I stretch abroad The second part verse 11 Dost thou unto the dead declare thy wondrous works of fame Shall dead to life again repair and praise thee for the same verse 12 Or shall thy loving kindness Lord be preached in the grave Or shall with them that are destroyed thy truth her honour have verse 13 Shall they that lie in dark full low of all thy wonders wots Or there shall they thy justice know where all things are forgot verse 14 But I O Lord to thee always do cry and call apace My prayer eke ere it be day shall come before thy face verse 15 Why dost thou Lord abhor my soul in grief that seeketh thee And now O Lord why dost thou hid thy face away from me verse 16 I am afflict as dying still from youth this many a year The terrors which do vex me ill with troubled mind I bear verse 17 The furies of thy wrathful rage full sore upon me fall Thy terrors eke do not assuage but me oppress withal verse 18 All day they compass me about as water at the tide And all at once with streams full stout beset me on each side verse 19 Thou settest far from me friends and lovers every one Yea and mine old acquaintance all out of my sight are gone Misericordias Psal. lxxxix J. 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TO sing the mercies of the Lord my tongue shall never spare And with my mouth from age to age thy truth I will declare verse 2 For I have said That mercy shall for evermore remain In that thou dost the heaven's stay thy truth appeareth plain verse 3 To mine elect saith God I made a covenant and behest My servant David to persuade I swore and did protest verse 4 Thy feed for ever I will stay and establish it full fast And still uphold thy throne always from age to age to last verse 5 The heavens show with joy and mirth thy wondrous work O Lord Thy saints within thy Church on earth thy saith and truth record verse 6 Who with the Lord is equal then in all the clouds abroad Among the sons of all the gods what one is like our God verse 7 God in assembly of the saints is greatly to be dread And over all that dwell about in terror to be had verse 8 Lord God of hosts in all the world what one is like to thee On every side most mighty Lord thy truth is seen to be verse 9 The raging sea by thine advice thou ru●est at thy will And when the waves thereof arise thou makest them calm and still verse 10 And Egypt Lord thou hast subdued and thou hast it destroyed Yea thou thy toes with mighty arm hast scattered all abroad The second part verse 11 The heavens are thine and still have been likewise the earth and land The world and all that is therein thou foundedst w●th tay hand verse 12 Both north and south with east and west thyself didst make and frame Both Tabor mount and eke Hermon rejoice and praise thy Name verse 13 Thine arm is strong and full of power all might therein doth lie The strength of thy right hand each hour thou listest up on high verse 14 In righteousness and equity thou hast thy seat and place Mercy and truth are still with thee and go before thy face verse 15 That folk is blessed that knows aright thy present power O God For in the favour of thy sight they walk full safe abroad verse 16 For in thy Name throughout the day they joy and much rejoice And through thy righteousness have they a pleasant fame and noise verse 17 For why their glory strength and aid in thee alone doth fie Thy goodness eke that hath us stayed shall lift our horn on high verse 18 Our strength that doth defend us well the Lord to us doth bring The holy one of Israel he is our guide and king verse 19 Sometimes thy will unto thy saints in visions thou didst show And thus then didst thou say to them thy mind to make them know verse 20 A man of might I have erect your king and guide to be And set him up whom I elect among the folk to me The third part verse 21 My servant David I appoint whom I have searched out And with my holy oil anoint him king of all the rout verse 22 For why my hand is ready still with him for to remain And with mine arm also I will him strengthen and sustain verse 23 The enemy's shall not him oppress they shall him not devour Ne yet the sons of wickedness on him shall have no power verse 24 His foes likewise I will destroy before his face in fight And those that hate him I will plague and strike them with my might verse 25 My truth and mercy eke withal shall still upon him lie And in my Name his horn eke shall be listed up on high verse 26 His kingdom I will set to be upon the sea and land And eke the running floods shall he embrace with his right hand verse 27 He shall depend with all his heart on me and thus shall say My Father and my God thou art my rock of health and stay verse 28 As my firstborn I will him take of all on earth that springs His might and honour I will make above all earthly kings verse 29 My mercy shall be with him still as I myself have told My faithful covenant to fulfil my mercy I will hold verse 30 And eke his seed I will sustain for ever strong and sure So that his seat shall still remain while heaven doth endure The fourth part verse 31 If that his sons for sake my law and so begin to swerve And of my judgements have none awe nor will not them observe verse 32 Or if they do not use aright my statutes to them made And set all my commandments light and will not keep my trade verse 33 Then with the rod will I begin their do to amend And so with scourging for their sin if that they do offend verse 34 My mercy yet and my goodness I will not take him fro Nor handle him with craftiness and so my truth forgo verse 35 But sure my covenant I will hold with all that I have spoke No word the which my lips have told shall alter or be broke verse 36 Once swore I by my holiness and that perform will I With David I shall keep promise to him I will not lie verse 37 His seed for evermore shall reign and eke his throne of might As doth the sun it shall remain for ever in my fight verse 38 And as the moon within thesky for ever standeth fast A faithful witness from on high so shall his kingdom last verse 39 But now O Lord thou dost reject and now thou changest cheer Yea thou art wroth with thine elect thine own anointe dear verse 40 The covenant with thy servant made Lord thou hast quite undone And down upon the ground also hast cast his royal crown The fifth part verse 41 Thou pluck'st his hedges up with might his walls thou dost confound Thou beatest eke his bulwarks down and breakest them to the ground verse 42 That he is sore destroyed and torn of comers by throughout And so is made a mock and scorn to all that dwell about verse 43 Thou their right hand hast lifted up that him so sore annoy And all his foes that him devour lo thou hast made to joy verse 44 His swords edge thou dost take away that should his foes withstand To him in war no victory thou giv'st nor upper hand verse 45 His glory thou dost also waste his throne his joy his mirth By thee is overthrown and cast full low upon the earth verse 46 Thou hast cut off and made full short his youth and lusty days And raised of him an ill report with shame and great dispraise verse 47 How long away from me O Lord for ever wilt thou turn And shall thine anger still always as fire consume and burn verse 48 O call to mind remember then my time consumeth fast Why hast thou made the sons of men as things in vain to waste verse 49 What man is he that liveth here and death shall never see Or from the hand of hell his soul shall he deliver free verse 50 Where is O Lord thine own goodness so oft declared beforn Which by thy truth and uprightness to David thou hast sworn verse 51 The great rebukes to mind I call that on thy servants lie The rail of the people all born in my breast have I verse 52 Wherewith O Lord thine enemies blasphemed have thy Name The steps of thine anointed one they cease not to defame verse 53 All praise to thee O Lord of hosts both now and eke for ay Through sky and earth and all the coasts Amen amen I say Domine refugium Psal. xc J. 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THou Lord hast been our sure defence our place of ease and rest In all times past yea so long since as cannot be expressed verse 2 E'er there was made mountain or h●●l the earth and world abroad From age to age and always still for ever thou art God verse 3 Thou grindest man through grief and pain to dust or clay and then And then thou sayest again Return again ye sons of men verse 4 The lasting of a thousand years what is it in thy sight As yesterday it doth appear or as a watch by night verse 5 So soon as thou dost scatter them than is their life and trade All as asleep and like the grass whose beauty soon doth fade verse 6 Which in the morning shines full bright but fadeth by and by And is cut down ere it be night all withered dead and dry verse 7 For through thine anger we consume our might is much decayed And of thy fervent wrath and sum we are full sore afraid verse 8 The wicked works that we have wrought thou sett'st before thine eye Our privy faults yea eke our thoughts thy countenance doth spy verse 9 For through thy wrath our days do waste thereof doth nought remain Our year● consume as words or blasts and are not called again verse 10 Our time is threescore years and ten that we do live on mould If one see fourscore surely than we count him wondrous old The second part verse 11 Yet of this time the strength and chief the which we count upon Is nothing else but painful grief and we as blasts are gone verse 12 Who once doth know what strength is there what might thine anger hath Or in his heart who doth thee fear according to thy wrath verse 13 Instruct us Lord to know and try how long our days remain That then we may our hearts apply true wisdom to attain verse 14 Return O Lord how long wilt thou forth on in wrath proceed Show favour to thy servants now and help them at their need verse 15 Refresh us with thy mercy soon and then our joy shall be All times so long as life doth last in heart rejoice will we verse 16 As thou hast plagued us before now also make us glad And for the years wherein full sore affliction we have had verse 17 O let thy work and power appear and on thy servants light And show unto thy children dear thy glory and thy might verse 18 Lord let thy grace and glory stand on us thy servants thus Confirm the works we take in hand Lord prosper them to us Qui habitat Psal. xci J. H. HE that within the secret place of God most high doth dwell In shadow of the Mightiest grace at rest shall keep him well verse 2 Thou art my hope and my strong hold I to the Lord will say My God is he in him will I my whole affiance stay verse 3 He shall defend thee from the snare the which the hunter laid And from the deadly plague and care whereof thou art afraid verse 4 And with his wings shall cover thee and keep thee safely there His faith and truth thy fence shall be as sure as shield and spear verse 5 So that thou shalt not need I say to fear or be affright Of all the shafts that fly by day nor terrors of the night verse 6 Nor of the plague that privily doth walk in dark so fast Nor yet of that which doth destroy and at noonday doth waste verse 7 Yea at thy side as thou dost stand a thousand dead shall be Ten thousand eke at thy right hand and yet shalt thou be free verse 8 But thou shalt see it for thy part thine eyes shall well regard That even like to their desert the wicked have reward verse 9 For why O Lord I only lust to stay my hope on thee And in the Righ'st I put my trust my sure defence is he verse 10 Thou shalt not need none ill to fear with thee it shall not mell Nor yet the plague shall once come near the house where thou dost dwell verse 11 For why unto his angels all with charge commanded he That still in all thy ways they shall preserve and prosper thee verse 12 And in their hands shall bear thee up still waiting thee upon So that thy foot shall never chance to spurn at any stone verse 13 Upon the lions thou shalt go the adder fell and long And tread upon the lions young with dragon's stout and strong verse 14 For he that trusteth unto me I will dispatch him quite And him defend because that he doth know my Name aright verse 15 When he for help on me doth cry an answer I will give And from his grief take him will I in glory for to live verse 16 With length of years and days of wealth I will fulfil his time The goodness of my saving health I will declare to him Bonumest Psal. xcii J. 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IT is a thing both good and meet to praise the highest Lord And to thy Name O thou most High to sing with one accord verse 2 To show the kindness of the Lord betime ere day be light And eke declare his truth abroad when it doth draw to night verse 3 Upon ten-stringed instruments on lute and harp so sweet With all the mirth you can invent of instruments most meet verse 4 For thou hast made me to rejoice in things so wrought by thee And I have joy in heart and voice thy handiworks to see verse 5 O Lord how glorious and how great are all thy works so stout So deeply are thy counsels set that none can try them out verse 6 The man unwise hath not the wit this gear to pass to bring And all such sools are nothing fit to understand this thing verse 7 When so the wicked at their will as grass do spring full fast They when they flourish in their ill for ever shall be waste verse 8 But thou art mighty Lord most high yea thou dost reign therefore In every time eternally both now and evermore verse 9 For why O Lord behold and see behold thy foes I say How all that work iniquity shall perish and decay verse 10 But thou like as an unicorn shalt list mine horn on high With fresh and new prepared oil thine ointed king am I verse 11 And of my foes before mine eyes shall see the fall and shame Of all that up against me rise mine ears shall hear the same verse 12 The just shall flourish up on high as date-trees bud and blow And as the cedars multiply in Libanus that grow verse 13 For they are planted in the place and dwelling of our God Within his courts they spring apace and flourish all abroad verse 14 And in their age much fruit shall bring both fat and well beseen And pleasantly both bud and spring with boughs and branches green verse 15 To show that God is good and just and upright in his will He is my rock my hope and trust in him there is none ill Dominus regnavit Psal. xciii J. H. THe Lord as King a lost doth reign with glory goodly dight And he to show his strength and main hath girt himself with might verse 2 The Lord likewise the earth hath made and shaped it so sure No might can make it move or fade at stay it doth endure verse 3 E'er that the world was made or wrought thy seat was set before Beyond all time that can be thought thou hast been evermore verse 4 The floods O Lord the floods do rise they roar and make a noise The floods I say did enterprise and listed up their voice verse 5 Yea though the storms arise in fight though seas do rage and swell The Lord is strong and more of might for he on high doth dwell verse 6 And look what promise he doth make his household to defend For just and true they shall it take all times without an end Deus ultionum Psal. xciv J. H. O Lord thou dost revenge all wrong that office belongs to thee Sith vengeance doth to thee belong declare that all may see verse 2 Set forth thyself for thou of right the earth dost judge and guide Reward the proud and men of might according to their pride verse 3 How long shall wicked men bear sway with lifting up their voice How long shall wicked men I say thus triumph and rejoice verse 4 How long shall they with brags burst out and proudly prate their fill Shall they rejoice that be so stout whose works are ever ill verse 5 Thy flock O Lord thine heritage they spoil and vex full sore Against thy people they do rage still daily more and more verse 6 The widows which are comfortless and strangers they destroy They slay the children fatherless and none doth put them by verse 7 And when they take these things in hand this talk they have of thee Can jacob's God this understand tush no he cannot see verse 8 O folk unwise and people rude some knowledge now discern Ye fools among the multitude at length begin to learn verse 9 The Lord which made the ear of man he needs of right must hear He made the eye all things must then before his sight appear verse 10 The Lord doth all the world correct and make them understand Shall he not then your deeds detect how can ye scape his hand The second part verse 11 The Lord doth know the thoughts of man his heart he seethe full plain The Lord I say man's thoughts doth scan and findeth them but vain verse 12 But Lord that man is happy sure whom thou dost keep in awe And through correction dost procure to teach him in thy law verse 13 Whereby he shall in quiet rest in time of trouble sit When wicked men shall be suppressed and fall into the pit verse 14 For sure the Lord will not refuse his people for to take His heritage whom he did choose he will no time forsake verse 15 Until that judgement be decreed to justice to convert That all may follow her with speed that are of upright heart verse 16 But who upon my part shall stand against the cursed train Or who shall rid me from their hand that wicked works maintain verse 17 Except the Lord had been mine aid mine enemies to repel My soul and life had now been laid almost as low as hell verse 18 When I did say My foot did slide I now am like to fall Thy goodness Lord did so provide to stay me up withal verse 19 When with myself I mused much and could no comfort find Then Lord thy goodness did me touch and that did ease my mind verse 20 Will't thou inhaunt thyself and draw with wicked men to sit Which with pretence in stead of law much mischief do commit verse 21 For they consult against the life of righteous men and good And in their counsels they are rise to shed the guiltless blood verse 22 But yet the Lord he is to me a strong defence or lock He is my God to him I flee he is my strength and rock verse 23 And he shall cause their mischiefs all themselves for to annoy And in their malice they shall fall our God shall them destroy Venite exultemus Psal. xcv J. H. O Come let us lift up our voice and sing unto the Lord In him our rock of health rejoice let us with one accord verse 2 Yea let us come before his face to give him thanks and praise In singing psalms unto his grace let us be glad always verse 3 For why the Lord he is no doubt a great and mighty God A King above all gods throughout in all the world abroad verse 4 The secrets of the earth so deep and corners of the land The tops of hills that are so steep he hath them in his hand verse 5 The sea and waters all are his for he the same hath wrought The earth and all that therein is his hand hath made of nought verse 6 Come let us bow and praise the lord before him let us fall And kneel to him with one accord the which hath made us all verse 7 For why he is the Lord our God for us he doth provide We are his flock he doth us feed his sheep and he our Guide verse 8 To day if ye his voice will hear then harden not your heart As ye with grudging many a year provoked me in desert verse 9 Whereas your fathers tempted me my power for to prove My wondrous works when they did see yet still they would me move verse 10 Twice twenty years they did me grieve and I to them did say They err in heart and not believe they have not known my way verse 11 Wherefore I swore when that my wrath was kindled in my breast That they should never tread the path to enter in my rest Contate Domino Psal. xcvi J. H. SIng ye with praise unto the Lord new songs with joy and mirth Sing unto him with one accord all people on the earth verse 2 Yea sing unto the Lord I say praise ye his holy Name Declare and show from day to day salvation by the same verse 3 Among the heathen eke declare his honour round about To show his wonders do not spare in all the world throughout verse 4 For why the Lord is much of might and worthy praise always And he is to be dread of right above all gods I say verse 5 For all the gods of heathen folk are idols that will fade But yet our God he is the Lord that hath the heavens made verse 6 All praise and honour eke do dwell for ay before his face Both power and might likewise excel within his holy place verse 7 Ascribe unto the Lord always ye people of the world All might and worship eke I say ascribe unto the lord verse 8 Ascribe unto the Lord also the glory of his Name And eke into his courts do go with gifts unto the same The second part verse 9 Fall down and worship ye the lord within his temple bright Let all the people of the world be fearful at his sight verse 10 Tell all the world Be not aghast the Lord doth reign above Yea he hath set the earth so fast that it can never move verse 11 And that it is the Lord alone that rules with princely might To judge the nations everyone with equity and right verse 12 The heavens shall great joy begin the earth eke shall rejoice The sea with all that is therein shall shout and make a noise verse 13 The field shall joy and every thing that springeth on the earth The wood and every tree shall sing with gladness and with mirth verse 14 Before the presence of the Lord and coming of his might When he shall justly judge the world and rule his folk with right Dominus regnavit Psal. xcvii J. H. THe Lord doth reign whereat the earth may joy with pleasant voice And eke the isles with joyful mirth may triumph and rejoice verse 2 Both clouds and darkness eke do swell and round about him beat Yea right and justice ever dwell and bide about his seat verse 3 Yea fire and heat at once do run and go before his face Which shall his foes and enemies burn abroad in every place verse 4 His lightnings eke full bright did blaze and to the world appear Whereat the earth did look and gaze with dread and deadly fear verse 5 The hills like wax did melt in sight and presence of the Lord They sled before that Rulers might which guideth all the world verse 6 The heavens eke declare and show his justice forth abroad That all the world may see and know the glory of our God ● Confusion sure shall come to such as worship idols vain And eke to those that glory much dumb pictures to maintain For all the idols of the world which they as gods do call ●hall feel the power of the Lord and down to him shall fall ● With joy shall Zion hear this thing and Juda shall rejoice ●or at thy judgements they shall sing and make a pleasant noise That thou O Lord art set on high in all the earth abroad ●nd art exalted wondrously above each other god ● All ye that love the Lord do this hate all things that are ill or he doth keep the souls of his from such as would them spill ● And light doth spring up to the just with pleasure for his part ●reat joy with gladness mirth and lust to them of upright heart Ye righteous in the Lord rejoice his holiness proclaim thankful eke with heart and voice and mindful of the same Cantate Domino Psal. xcviii J. H. Sing ye now unto the Lord a new and pleasant long he hath wrought throughout the world his wonders great and strong With his right hand full worthily he doth his foes devour ●●d get himself the victory with his own arm and power The Lord doth make the people know his saving health and might ●e Lord doth eke his justice show in all the heathens sight His grace and truth to Israel in mind he doth record ●at all the earth hath seen right well the goodness of the lord ●e glad in him with joyful voice all people of the earth ●ethankss to God sing and rejoice to him with joy and mirth Upon the harp unto him sing give thanks to him with psalms Rejoice before the Lord our King with trumpets and with shalms verse 7 Yea let the sea with all therein for joy both roar and swell The earth likewise let it begin with all that therein dwell verse 8 And let the floods rejoice their fills and clap their hands apace And eke the mountains and the hills before the Lord his face verse 9 For he shall come to judge and try the world and every wight And rule the people mightily with justice and with right Dominus regnavit Psal. xcix J. H. THe Lord doth reign although at it the people rage full sore Yea he on cherubims doth sit though all the world do roar verse 2 The Lord that doth in Zion dwell is high and wondrous great Above all folk he doth excel and he aloft is set verse 3 Let all men praise thy mighty Name for it is fearful sure And let them magnify the same that holy is and pure verse 4 The princely power of our King doth love judgement and right Thou rightly rulest everything in Jacob through thy might verse 5 To praise the Lord our God devise all honour to him do Before his footstool worship him for he is holy too verse 6 Moses Aaron and Samuel as priests on him did call When they did pray he heard them well and gave them answer all verse 7 Within the cloud to them he spoke then did they labour still To keep such saws as he did make and pointed them until verse 8 O Lord our God thou didst them hear and answeredst them again Thy mercy did on them appear their deeds didst not maintain verse 9 O laud and praise our God and Lord within his holy hill For why our God throughout the world is holy ever still Jubilate Deo Psal. c. J. H. ALl people that on earth do dwell sing to the Lord with cheerful voice verse 2 Him serve with fear his praise forth tell come ye before him and rejoice verse 3 The Lord ye know is God indeed without our aid he did us make We are his flock he doth us feed and for his sheep he doth us take verse 4 O enter then his gates with praise approach with joy his courts unto Praise laud and bless his Name always for it is seemly so to do verse 5 For why the Lord our God is good his mercy is for ever sure His truth at all times firmly stood and shall from age to age endure Another of the same by J. H. IN God the Lord be glad and light praise him throughout the earth verse 2 Serve him and come before his sight with singing and with mirth verse 3 Know that the Lord our God he is he did us make and keep Not we ourselves for we are his own flock and pasture-sheep verse 4 O go into his gates always give thanks within the same Within his courts set forth his praise and laud his holy Name verse 5 For why the goodness of the Lord for evermore doth reign From age to age throughout the world his truth doth still remain Misericordiam Psal. ci N. I Mercy will and judgement sing O Lord God unto thee verse 2 And wisely do in perfect way until thou come to me And in the midst of my house walk in pureness of my spirit verse 3 And I no kind of wicked thing will set before my sight I hate their works that fall away it shall not cleave to me verse 4 From me shall part the froward heart none evil will I see verse 5 Him will I stroy that slandereth his neighbour privily The lofty heart I cannot hear nor him that looketh high verse 6 Mine eyes shall be on them within the land that faithful be In perfect way who walketh shall be servant unto me verse 7 I will no guileful person have within my house to dwell And in my presence he shall not remain that lies doth tell verse 8 Betimes I will destroy even all the wicked of the land That I may from God's city cut the wicked workers hand Domine exaudi Psal. cii N. O Hear my prayer Lord and let my cry come unto thee verse 2 In time of trouble do not hid thy face away from me verse 3 Incline thine ear to me make haste to hear me when I call For as the smoke doth fade so do my days consume and fall verse 4 And as an hearth my bones are burnt my heart is smitten dead And withers like the grass that I forget to eat my bread verse 5 By reason of my groaning voice my bones cleave to my skin verse 6 As pelicane in wilderness such case now am I in And as an owl in desert is so I am such an one verse 7 I watch and as a sparrow on the housetop am alone verse 8 Lo daily in reproachful wise mine enemies do me scorn And they that do against me rage against me they have sworn verse 9 Surely with ashes as with bread my hunger I have filled And mingled have my drink with tears that from mine eyes have stilled verse 10 Because of thy displeasure Lord thy wrath and thy disdain For thou hast listed me aloft and cast me down again verse 11 The days wherein I pass my life are like the fleeting shade And I am withered like the grass that soon away doth fade verse 12 But thou O Lord for ever dost remain in steady place And thy remembrance ever doth abide from race to race The second part verse 13 Thou wilt arise and mercy thou to Zion wilt extend The time of mercy now the time foreset is come to end verse 14 For even in the stones thereof thy servants do delight And on the dust thereof they have compassion in their spirit verse 15 Then shall the heathen people fear the Lords most holy Name And all the kings on earth shall dread thy glory and thy fame verse 16 Then when the Lord the mighty God again shall Zion rear And then when he most nobly in his glory shall appear verse 17 To prayer of the desolate when he himself shall bent When he shall not disdain unto their prayers to attend verse 18 This shall be written for the age that after shall succeed The people yet uncreated the Lord's renown shall spread verse 19 For he from his high sanctuary hath looked down below And out of heaven hath the Lord beheld the earth also verse 20 That of the mourning captive he might hear the woeful cry And that he might deliver those that damned are to die verse 21 That they in Zion may declare the Lords most holy Name And in Jerusalem set forth the praises of the same verse 22 Then when the people of the land and kingdoms with accord Shall be assembled for to do their service to the lord The third part verse 23 My former force of strength he hath abated in the way And shorter he did out my days thus I therefore did say verse 24 My God in midst of all my days now take me not away Thy years endure eternally from age to age for ay verse 25 Thou the foundations of the earth before all times hast laid And Lord the heavens are the work which thine own hands have made verse 26 Yea they shall perish and decay but thou shalt tarry still And they shall all in time wax old even as a garment will verse 27 Thou as a garment shalt them change and changed shall they be But thou dost still abide the same thy years do never flee verse 28 The children of thy servants shall continually endure And in thy sight their happy seed for ever shall stand sure Benedic anima Psal. ciii T. S. MY soul give laud unto the Lord my spirit shall do the same And all the secrets of my heart praise ye his holy Name verse 2 Give thanks to God for all his gifts show not thyself unkind And suffer not his benefits to slip out of thy mind verse 3 That gave thee pardon for thy faults and thee restored again For all thy weak and frail disease and healed thee of thy pain verse 4 That did redeem thy life from death from which thou couldst not flee His mercy and compassion both he did extend to thee verse 5 That filled with goodness thy desire and did prolong thy youth Like as the eagle casts her bill whereby her age renew'th verse 6 The Lord with justice doth repay all such as be oppressed So that their sufferings and their wrongs are turned to the best verse 7 His ways and his commandments to Moses he did show His counsels and his valiant acts the Israelites did know verse 8 The Lord is kind and merciful when sinners do him grieve The slowest to conceive a wrath and readiest to forgive verse 9 He chides not us continually though we be full of strife Nor keeps our faults in memory For all our sinful life verse 10 Nor yet according to our sins the Lord doth us regard Nor after our iniquities he doth us not reward verse 11 But as the space is wondrous great 'twixt earth and heaven above So is his goodness much more large to them that do him love verse 12 God doth remove our sins from us and our offences all As far as is the sunrising full distant from his fall The second part verse 13 And look what pity parents dear unto their children bear Like pity beareth God to such as worship him in fear verse 14 The Lord that made us knows ourshape our mould and fashion just How weak and frail our nature is and how we be but dust verse 15 And how the time of mortal men is like the with ' ring hay Or like the flower right fair in field that fades full soon away verse 16 Whose gloss and beauty stormy winds do utterly disgrace And make that after their assaults such blossoms have no place verse 17 But yet the goodness of the Lord with his shall ever stand Their children's children do receive his righteousness at hand verse 18 I mean which keep his covenant with all their whole desire And not forget to do the thing that he doth them require verse 19 The heavens high are made the seat And footstool of the Lord And by his power imperial he governs all the world verse 20 Ye angels which are great in power praise ye and bless the Lord Which to obey and do his will immediately accord verse 21 Ye noble hosts and ministers cease not to laud him still Which ready are to execute his pleasure and his will verse 22 Yea all his works in every place praise ye his holy Name My heart my mind and eke my soul praise ye also the same Benedic anima mea Psal. civ W. K. MY soul praise the Lord speak good of his Name O Lord our great God how dost thou appear So passing in glory that great is thy fame Honour and majesty in thee shine most clear ● With light as a robe thou hast thee beclad Whereby all the earth thy greatness may see The heavens in such sort thou also hast spread That it to a curtain compared may be His chamber-beams lie in the clouds full sure Which as his chariots are made him to bear ●nd there with much swiftness his course doth endure ●●on the wings riding of winds in the air He maketh his spirits as heralds to go ●●d lightnings to serve we see also pressed ●is will to accomplish they run to and fro To save or consume things as seemeth him best ● He groundeth the earth so firmly and fast That it once to move none shall have such power ● The deep a fair covering for it made thou hast Which by his own nature the hills would devour ● But at thy rebuke the waters do flee ●●so give due place thy word to obey thy voice of thunder so fearful they be That in their great raging they haste soon away ● The mountains full high they then up ascend thou do but speak thy word they fulfil So likewise the valleys most quickly descend ●here thou them apointest remain they do still ● Their bounds thou hast set how far they shall run So that in their rage not that pass they can God hath appointed they shall not return The earth to destroy more which made was for man The second part verse 10 He sendeth the springs to strong streams or lakes Which run do full swift among the huge hills verse 11 Where both the wild asses their thirst ofttimes slakes A●d beasts of the mountains thereof drink their fills verse 12 By these pleasant springs of fountains full fair The fowls of the air abide shall and dwell Who moved by nature to hop here and there Among the green branches their songs shall excel verse 13 The mountains to moist the clouds he doth use The earth with his works is wholly replete verse 14 So as the brute  he doth not refuse But grass doth provide them and herb for man's meat verse 15 Yea bread wine and oil he made for man's sake His face to refresh and heart to make strong verse 16 The cedars of Liban this great Lord did make Which trees he doth nourish that grow up so long verse 17 In these may birds build and make there their nests In fir-trees the storks remain and abide verse 18 The high hills are succours for wild goats to rest And eke the rock stony for coneys to hid verse 19 The moon than is set her seasons to run The days from the nights thereby to discern And by the descending also of the sun The cold from heat always thereby we do learn verse 20 When darkness doth come by God's will and power Then creep forth do all the beasts of the wood verse 21 The lions range roaring their prey to devour But yet it is thou Lord which givest them food verse 22 As soon as the sun is up they retire To couch in their dens then are they full fain verse 23 That man to his work may as right doth require Till night come and call him to take rest again The third part verse 24 How sundry O Lord are all thy works found With wisdom full great they are indeed wrought So that the whole world of thy praise doth sound And as for thy riches they pass all men's thought verse 25 So is the great sea which large is and broad Where things that creep swarm and beasts of each sort verse 26 There both mighty ships sail and some lie at road The whale huge and monstrous there also doth sport verse 27 All things on thee wait thou dost them relieve And thou in due time full well dost them feed verse 28 Now when it doth please thee the same for to give They gather full gladly those things which they need Thou openest thine hand and they find such grace That they with good things are filled we see verse 29 But sore are they troubled if thou turn thy face For if thou their breath take vile dust than they be verse 30 Again when thy Spirit from thee doth proceed All things to appoint and what shall ensue Then are they created as thou hast decreed And dost by thy goodness the dry earth renew verse 31 The praise of the Lord for ever shall last Who may in his works by right well rejoice verse 32 His look can the earth make to tremble full fast And likewise the mountains to smoke at his voice verse 33 To this Lord and God sing will I always So long as I live my God praise will I. verse 34 Then am I most certain my words shall him please I will rejoice in him to him will I cry verse 35 The sinners O Lord consume in thine ire And eke the perverse them root out with shame But as for my soul now let it still desire And say with the faithful Praise ye the Lords Name Confitemini Dom. Psal. cv N. GIve praises unto God the Lord and call upon his Name Among the people eke declare his works to spread his fame verse 2 Sing ye unto the Lord I say and sing unto him praise And talk of all his wondrous works that he hath wrought always verse 3 In honour of his holy Name rejoice with one accord And let the heart also rejoice of them that seek the lord verse 4 Seek ye the Lord and seek the strength of his eternal might And seek his face continually and presence of his sight verse 5 The wondrous works which he hath done keep still in mindful heart Ne let the judgements of his mouth out of your mind departed verse 6 Ye that of faithful Abraham his servant are the feed Ye his elect the children that of Jacob do proceed verse 7 For he he only is I say the mighty Lord our God And his most rightful judgements are through all the earth abroad verse 8 His promise and his covenant which he hath made to his He hath remembered evermore to thousands of degrees The second part verse 9 The covenant which he hath made with Abraham long ago And faithful oath which he hath sworn to Isaac also verse 10 And did confirm the same for law that Jacob should obey And for eternal covenant to Israel for ay verse 11 When thus he said Lo I to you all Canaan land will give The lot of your inheritance wherein your seed shall live verse 12 Although the number at that time did very small appear Yea. very small and in the land they then but strangers were verse 13 While yet they walked from land to land without a sure abode And while from sundry kingdoms they did wander all abroad verse 14 And wrong at no oppressors hands he suffered them to take But even the great and mighty kings reproved for their sake verse 15 And thus he said Touch ye not those that mine anointed be Ne do the prophets my harm that do pertain to me verse 16 He called a dearth upon the land of bread he stroyed the store But he against the time of need had sent a man before The third part verse 17 Even Joseph which had once been sold to live a slave in woe Whose feet they hurt in stocks whose soul the irons pierced also verse 18 Until the time came when his cause was known apparently The mighty word of God the Lord his faultless truth did try verse 19 The king sent and delivered him from prison where he was verse 20 The ruler of the people than did freely let him pass verse 21 And over all his house he made him lord to bear the sway And of his substance made him have the rule and all the stay verse 22 That he might to his will instruct the princes of the land And wisdoms lore his ancient men might cause to understand verse 23 Then into the Egyptian land came Israel also And Jacob in the land of Ham did live a stranger tho verse 24 His people he exceedingly in number made to flow And over all their enemies in strength he made them grow verse 25 Whose heart he turned that they with hate his people did entreat And did his servants wrongfully abuse with false deceit The fourth part verse 26 His faithful servant Moses then and Aaron whom he chose He did command to go to them his message to disclose verse 27 The wondrous message of his signs among them he did show And wonders in the land of Ham then did they work also verse 28 Darkness he sent and made it dark in stead of brighter day And unto his commission they did not disobey verse 29 He turned their waters into blood he did their fishes slay verse 30 Their land brought frogs even in the place where their king Pharaoh lay verse 31 He spoke and at his voice there came great swarms of noisome flies And all the quarters of the land were filled with crawling lice verse 32 He gave them cold and stony hail in stead of milder rain And fiery flames within their land he sent unto their pain verse 33 He smote their vines and all their trees whereon their figs did grow And all the trees within their coasts down did he overthrow verse 34 He spoke than caterpillars did and grasshoppers abound verse 35 Which are the grass in all their land and fruit of all their ground The fifth part verse 36 The first-begotten in their land eke deadly did he smite Yea the beginning and first-fruit of all their strength and might verse 37 With gold and silver he them brought from Egypt land to pass And in the number of their tribes no feeble one there was verse 38 Egypt was glad and joyful then when they did thence departed For terror and the fear of them was fallen upon their heart verse 39 To shroud them from the parching heat a cloud he did display And fire he sent to give them light when night had hid the day verse 40 They asked and he caused quails to rain at their request And fully with the bread of heaven their hunger he repressed verse 41 He opened the stony rock and waters gushed out And eke the dry and parched ground like rivers ran about verse 42 For of his holy covenant ay mindful was he though Which to his servant Abraham he plighted long ago verse 43 He brought his people forth with mirth and his elect with joy Out of the cruel land where they had lived in great annoy verse 44 And of the heathen men he gave to them the fruitful lands The labours of the people eke they took into their hands verse 45 That they his holy statutes might observe for evermore And faithfully obey his laws praise ye the Lord therefore Confitemini Domino Psal. cvi N. PRaise ye the Lord for he is good his mercy dures for ay verse 2 Who can express his noble acts or all his praise display verse 3 They blessed are that judgement keep and justly do always verse 4 With favour of thy people Lord remember me I pray And with thy saving health O Lord vouchsafe to visit me verse 5 That I the great felicity of thine elect may see And with thy people's joy I may a joyful mind possess And may with thine in heritance a glorying heart express verse 6 Both we and eke our fathers all have finned every one We have committed wickedness and lewdly we have done verse 7 The wonders great which thou O Lord hast done in Egypt land Our fathers though they saw them all yet did not understand Nor they thy mercy's multitude did keep in thank full mind But at the sea yea the Red sea rebelled most unkind verse 8 Nevertheless he saved them for honour of his Name That he might make his power known and spread abroad his fame verse 9 The Red sea he did then rebuke and forthwith it was dried And as in wilderness so through the deep he did them guide verse 10 He saved them from the cruel hand of their despiteful foe And from the enemy's hand he did deliver them also The second part verse 11 The waters their oppressors whel●ed not one was lestalive verse 12 Then they believed his word and praise in song they did him give verse 13 But by and by unthankfully his works they clean forgot And for his counsel and his will they did neglect to wait verse 14 But lusted in the wilderness with fond and greedy lust And in the desert tempted God the stay of all their trust verse 15 And then their wanton minds desire he suffered them to have But wasting leanness therewithal into their souls he gave verse 16 Then when they lodged in their tents at Moses they did grudge A●ron the holy of the Lord so did they envy much verse 17 Therefore the earth did open wide and Dathan did devour And all abiram's company did cover in that hour verse 18 In their assembly kindled was the hot consuming fire And wasting flame did then burn up the wicked in his ire verse 19 Upon the hill of Horeb they an idol-calf did frame And there the molten image they did worship of the same verse 20 Into the likeness of a calf which feedeth on the grass Thus they their glory turned and all their honour did deface verse 21 And God their only Saviour unkindly they forgot Which many great and mighty things in Egypt land had wrought The third part verse 22 And in the land of Ham for them most wondrous works had done And by the Red sea dreadful things performed long ago verse 23 Therefore for their so showing them forgetful and unkind To bring destruction on them all he purposed in his mind Had not his chosen Moses stood before him in the break To turn his wrath lest he on them with slaughter should him wreak verse 24 They did despise the pleasant land that he behight to give Yea and the words that he had spoke they did no whit believe verse 25 But in their tents with grudging heart they wickedly repined Nor to the voice of God the Lord they gave an harkening mind verse 26 Therefore against them lifted he his strong revenging hand Them to destroy in wilderness ere they should see the land verse 27 And to destroy their seed among the nations with his rod. And through the countries of the world to scatter them abroad verse 28 To Baal-peor than they did adjoyn themselves also And eaten the offerings of the dead so they forsook him tho verse 29 Thus with their own inventions his wrath they didprovoke And in his sore enkindled wrath the plague upon them broke verse 30 But Phinehas stood with zeal the sinners vile to ●●ay And judgement he did execute and then the plague did stay The fourth part verse 31 It was imputed unto him for righteousness that day And from thenceforth so counted i● from race to race I say verse 32 At waters eke of Meribuh they did him angry make Yea so far forth that Moses was then punished for their sake verse 33 Because they vexed his spirit so sore that in impatient heat His lips spoke unadvisedly his fervour was so great verse 34 Nor as the Lord commanded them they slew the people tho verse 35 But were among the heathen mixed and learned their works also verse 36 And did their idols serve which were their ruin and decay verse 37 To fiends their sons and daughters they did offer up and slay verse 38 Yea with unkindly murdering knife the guiltless blood they spilt Yea their own sons and daughter's blood without all cause of guilt Whom they to Canaan idols then offered with wicked hand And so with blood of innocent● defiled was the land verse 39 Thus were they stained with the works of their own filthy way And with their own inventions a whoring they did stray verse 40 Therefore against his people was the Lord's wrath kindled sore And even his own inheritance he did abhor therefore verse 41 Into the hands of heathen men he gave them for a prey And made their foes their lords whom they were forced to obey The fifth part verse 42 Yea and their hateful enemies oppressed them in the land And they were humbly made to stoop as subjects to their hand verse 43 Full oftentimes from thrall had he delivered them before But with their counsels they to wrath provoked him evermore Therefore they by their wickedness were brought full low to lie verse 44 Yet when he saw them in distress he harkened to their cry verse 45 He called to mind his covenant which he to them had swore And by his mercy's multitude repent him therefore verse 46 And favour he them made to find before the fight of those That led them captive from their land when erst they were their foes verse 47 Save us O Lord that art our God save us O Lord we pray And from among the heathen folk Lord gather us away verse 48 That we may spread the noble praise of thy most holy Name That we may glory in thy praise and sounding of thy fame verse 49 The Lord the God of Israel be blessed for evermore Let all the people say Amen praise ye the Lord therefore Confitemini Dom. Psal. cvii W. K. GIve thanks unto the Lord our God for gracious is he And that his mercy hath no end all mortal men may see verse 2 Such as the Lord redeemed hath with thanks shall praise his Name And show how they from foes were freed and how he wrought the same verse 3 He gathered them forth of the lands that lay so sar about From east to west from north to south his hand did find them out verse 4 They wandered in the wilderness and strayed from the way And found no city where to dwell that serve might for their stay verse 5 Whose thirst and hunger was so great in these deserts so void That saintness did them sore assault and eke their souls annoyed verse 6 Then did they cry in their distress unto the Lord for aid Who did remove their troublous state according as they prayed verse 7 And by that way which was most right he led them like a guide That they might to a city go and there also abide verse 8 Let men therefore before the Lord confess his goodness then And show the wonders that he doth before the sons of men verse 9 For he the empty soul sustained whom thirst had made to saint The hungry soul with goodness fed and did them eke acquaint verse 10 Such as do dwell in darkness deep where they on death do wait Fast bound to taste such troublous storm● as iron chains do threat The second part verse 11 For that against the Lords own words they sought so to rebel Esteeming light his counsels high which do so far excel verse 12 But when he humbled them full low they then fell down with grief And none was found so much to help whereby to get relief verse 13 Then did they cry in their distress unto the Lord for aid Who did remove their troublous state according as they prayed verse 14 For he from darkness out them brought and from deaths dreadful shade Bursting with force the iron bands which them before did lad verse 15 Let men therefore before the Lord confess his kindness then And show the wonders that he doth before the sons of men verse 16 For he threw down the gates of brass and broke them with strong hand The iron bars he smote in two nothing could him withstand verse 17 The foolish folk great plagues do seel and cannot from them wend But heap on more to those they have because they do offend verse 18 Their soul so much did loath all meat that none they could abide Whereby death had them almost caught as they full truly tried verse 19 Then did they cry in their distress unto the Lord for aid Who did remove their troublous-state according as they prayed verse 20 For then he sent to them his word which health did soon restore And brought them from those dangers deep wherein they were before The third part verse 21 Let men therefore before the Lord confess his kindness then And show the wonders that he doth before the sons of men verse 22 And let them offer sacrifice with thanks and also fear And speak of all his wondrous works with glad and joyful cheer verse 23 Such as in ships and brittle barks into the seas descend Their merchandise through fearful floods to compass and to end verse 24 Those men are forced to behold the Lords works what they be And in the dangerous deep the same most marvellous they see verse 25 For at his word the stormy wind ariseth in a rage And stirreth up the surges so verse 26 Then are they lifted up so high the clouds they seem to gain And plunging down the depth until their souls consume with pain verse 27 And like a drunkard to and fro now here now there they reel As men with fear of wit berest or had of sense no feel verse 28 Then did they cry in their distress unto the Lord for aid Who did remove their troublous state according as they prayed verse 29 For with his word the Lord doth make the sturdy storms to cease So that the great waves from their rag● are brought to●rest and peace verse 30 Then are men glad when rest is come which they so much did crave And are by him in haven brought which they so fain would have The third part verse 31 Let men therefore before the Lord confess his kindness then And show the wonders that he doth before the sons of men verse 32 Let them in presence of the folk with pra●●e extol his Name And where the elders do convent there let them do the same verse 33 For running floods to dry deserts he doth oft change and turn And drieth up as it were dust the springing well and bourn verse 34 A fruitful land with pleasures decked full barren doth he make When on their sins that dwell therein he doth just vengeance take verse 35 Again the wilderness full rude he maketh fruit to bear With pleasant springs of waters clear though none before were there verse 36 Wherein such hungry souls are set as he doth freely choose That they a city may them build to dwell in for their use verse 37 That they may sow their Pleasant land and vineyards also plant To yield them fruits of such increase as none may seem to want verse 38 They multiply exceedingly the Lord doth bless them so Who doth also the brute beasts make by numbers great to grow verse 39 But when the faithful are low brought by the oppressors stout And minish do through many plagues that compass them about verse 40 Then doth he princes bring to shame which did them sore oppress And likewise caused them to err within the wilderness verse 41 But yet the poor he raiseth up out of his troubles deep And ofttimes doth his train augment much like a flock of sheep verse 42 The righteous shall behold this sight and also much rejoice Whereas the wicked and perverse with grief shall stop their voice verse 43 But who is wise that now full well he may these things record For certainly such shall perceive the kindness of the lord Paratum cor Psal. cviii J. H. O God my heart prepared is and eke my tongue is so I will advance my voice in long and giving praise also verse 2 Awake my viol and my harp sweet melody to make And in the morning I myself right early will awake verse 3 By me among the people Lord still praised shalt thou be And I among the heathen folk will sing O Lord to thee verse 4 Because thy mercy Lord is great above the heavens high And eke thy truth doth reach the clouds within the Josty sky verse 5 Above the starry heavens high exalt thy felt O God And Lord display upon the earth thy glory all abroad verse 6 That thy dearly beloved may he set at liberty Help O my God with thy right hand and hearken unto me verse 7 God in his holiness hath spoke wherefore my joys abound Sichem I will divide and mere the vale of Succoth-ground verse 8 And Gilead shall be mine own Manasses mine shall be My head-strength Ephraim and law shall Judah give for me verse 9 Moab my washpot and my shoe on Edom will I throw Upon the land of Palestine in triumph will I go verse 10 Who shall into the city strong be guide to conduct me Or how by whom to Edom land conveyed shall I be verse 11 Is it not thou O Lord which late hadst us forsaken quite And thou O Lord which with our hosts didst not go forth to fight verse 12 Give us O Lord thy saving aid when troubles do assail For all the help of man is vain and can no whit avail verse 13 Through God we shall do valiant acts and worthy of renown He shall suodue our enemies yea he shall tread them down Deus laudem tuam Psal. cix N. IN speechless silence do nor hold O God thy tongue always O God even thou I say that art the God of all my praise verse 1 The wicked and the guileful mouth on me disclosed be And they with false and lying tongues have spoken unto me They did beset me round about with words of hateful spite Without all cause of my desert against me they did light For my good will they were my foes but then began I to pray My good with ill my friendliness with hate they did repay Set thou the wicked over him to have the upper hand It his right hand eke suffer thou his hateful foe to stand When he is judged let him then condemned be therein And let the prayer that he makes be turned into sin Few be his days his charge also let thou another take His children let be fatherless his wife a widow make verse 10 Let his offspring be vagabonds to beg and seek their bread Wand'ring out of the wasted place where erst they have been fed verse 11 Let covetous extortioners catch all his goods and store And let the stranger spoil the fruit of all his toil before verse 12 Let there be none to pity him let there be none at all That on his children fatherless will let their mercy fall The second part verse 13 And so let his posterity for ever be destroyed Their name out blotted in the age that after shall succeed verse 14 Let not his father's wickedness from God's remembrance fall And let not thou his mother's sin be done away at all verse 15 But in the presence of the Lord let them remain for ay That from the earth their memory he may cut clean away verse 16 Sith mercy he forgot to show but did pursue with spite The troubled man and sought to slay the woful-hearted wight verse 17 Ash-did cursing love it shall betid unto him so And as he did not blessing love it shall be far him fro verse 18 As he with cursing clad himself so it like water shall Into his bowels and like oil into his bones befall verse 19 As garment let it be to him to cover him foray And as a girdle wherewith he shall girded be always verse 20 Lo let the same be from the Lord the guerdon of my foe Yea and of those that evil speak against my soul also verse 21 But thou O Lord that art my God deal thou I say with me After thy Name deliver me for good thy mercies he verse 22 Because in depth of great distress I needy am and poor And eke within my pained breast my heart is wounded sore The third part verse 23 Even so do I departed away as doth declining shade And as the grasshopper so I am shaken off and sade verse 24 With falling long from needful food enfeebled are my knees And all her fatness hath my flesh enforced been to lose verse 25 And I also a vile reproach to th●u am made to be And they that did upon me look did shake their heads at me verse 26 But thou O Lord th●t art my God none aid and succour be According to thy mercy Lord save and deliver me verse 27 And they shall know thereby that this Lord is thy mighty hand And that thou thou hast done it Lord so shall they understand verse 28 Although they curse with spite yet thou shalt bless with loving voice They shall aris and come to shame thy servant shall rejoice verse 29 Let them be clothed all with shame that enemies are to me And with confusion as a cloak eke covered let them be verse 30 But greatly I will with my mouth give thanks unto the Lord And I among the multitude his praises will record verse 31 For he with help at his right hand will stand the poor man by To save him from the man that would condemn his soul to die Dixit Dominus Psal. cx N. THe Lord did say unto my Lord Sat thou on my right hand Till I have made thy foes a stool whereon thy feet shall stand verse 2 The Lord shall out of Zion send the sceptre of thy might Amid thy mortal foes be thou the Ruler in their sight verse 3 And in the day on which thy reign and power they shall see Then hereby free-will-offerings shall the peep●● offer thee Yea with an holy worshipping then shall they offer all Thy birth's dew is the dew that doth from womb of morning fall verse 4 The Lord hath sworn and never will repent what he doth say By th' order of Melchisedech thou art a Priest for ay verse 5 The Lord thy God on thy right hand that standeth for thy stay Shall wound for thee the stately kings upon his wrathful day verse 6 The heathen he shall judge and fill the place with bodies dead And over divers countries shall in sunder smite the head verse 7 And he shall drink out of the brook t●at runneth in the way Wherefore he shall lift up on high his royal head that day Confitebor tibi Psal. cxi N. WIth hea●t● do accord To ●ra●● and laud the Lord In presence of the just verse 2 For great his works are found To s●●r●h them such are bound As do him love and trust verse 3 H●s' works are glorious Also his righteousness It doth endure for ever verse 4 His wondrous works he would We still remember should his mercy faileth never verse 5 Such as to him love bear A portion full fair He hath up for them laid For this they shall well find He will them have in mind And keep them as he said verse 6 For he did not disdain His works to show them plain By lightnings and by thunders When he the neathens land Did give into their hand Where they beheld his wonders verse 7 Of all his works ensu'th Both judgement right and truth Whereto his statutes tend verse 8 They are decreed sure For ever to endure Which equity doth end Redemption he gave H●s' people for to save verse 9 And hath also required His promise not to fail But always to prevail His holy Name be feared verse 10 Whoso with heart full fain True wisdom would attain The Lord fear and obey Such as his laws do keep Shall knowledge have full deep His praise shall last for ay Featus vir Psal. cxii W. K. THe man is blessed that God doth fear And that his law doth love indeed verse 2 His seed on earth God will uprear And ●less such as from him proceed verse 3 His house with good he will fulfil His righteousness endure shall still verse 4 Unto the righteous doth arise In trouble joy in darkness light Compassion is in his eyes And mercy always in his sight verse 5 Yea pity moveth such to lend He doth by judgement things expend verse 6 And surely such shall never fail For in remembrance had is he verse 7 No tidings ill can make him quail Who in the Lord sure hope doth see verse 8 His heart is firm his fear is past For he shall see his foes down cast verse 9 He did well for the poor provide His righteousness shall still remain And his estate with praise abide Though that the wicked man disdain verse 10 Yea gnash his teeth thereat shall he And so consume his state to see Laudate pueri Psal. cxiii W. K. YE children which do serve the Lord Praise ye his Name with one accord verse 2 Yea blessed be always his Name verse 3 Who from the rising of the sun Till it return where it begun Is to be praised with great fame verse 4 The Lord all people doth surmount As for his glory we may count Above the heavens high to be verse 5 With God the Lord who may compare Whose dwellings in the heavens are Of such great power and force is he verse 6 He doth abase himself we know Things to behold both here below And also in heaven above verse 7 The needy out of dust to draw And eke the poor which help none saw His only mercy did him move verse 8 And so him set in high degree With princes of great dignity That rule his people with great same verse 9 The barren he doth make to bear And with great joy her fruit to rear Therefore praise ye his holy Name Inexitu Israel Psal. cxiv W. W. WHen Israel by God's address from Pharaohs land was bend And jacob's house the strangers left and in the same train went verse 2 In Judah God his glory shewid his holiness most bright So did the Israelites declare his kingdom power and might verse 3 The sea it saw and suddenly as all amazed did fl●e The roaring streams of Jordan's flood recoiled backwardly verse 4 As rams afraid the mountains skipped their strength did them forsake And as the  trembling lambs their tops did beat and shake verse 5 What ailed the sea as allamazed so suddenly to flee Ye rolling waves of Jordan's flood why ran ye backwardly verse 6 Why shook ye hills as rams afraid why did your strength so shake Why did your tops as trembling lambs for fear quiver and quake verse 7 O earth confess thy sovereign Lord and dread his mighty hand Before the face of jacob's God fear ye both sea and land verse 8 I mean the God which from hard rocks doth cause main floods appear And from the stony flint doth cause gush out the fountains clear Non nobis Domine Psal. cxv N. NOt unto us Lord not to us but to thy Name give praise Both for thy mercy and thy truth that are in thee always verse 2 Why shall the heathen soorners say Where is their God become verse 3 Our God in heaven is and what he will that hath he done verse 4 Their idols silver are and gold works of men's hands they be verse 5 They have a mouth and do not speak and eyes and do not see verse 6 And they have ears joined to their heads and do not hear at all And notes eke they form have and do not smell withal verse 7 And hands they have and handle not and feet and do not go A throat they have yet through the same they make no sound to blow verse 8 Those that make them are like to them and those whose trust they be verse 9 O Israel trust in the Lord their help and shield is he verse 10 O Aaron's house trust in the Lord their help and shield is he verse 11 Trust ye the Lord that fear the Lord their help and shield is he verse 12 The Lord hath mindful been of us and will us bless also On Israel and on Aaron's house his blessings he will show verse 13 Them that be fearers of the Lord the Lord will bless them all Even he will bless them everyone the great and eke the small verse 14 To you I say the living Lord will multiply his grace To you and to the children that shall follow of your race verse 15 Ye are the blessed of the Lord even of the Lord I say Which both the heaven and the earth hath made and set in stay verse 16 The heavens yea the heavens high belong unto the Lord The earth unto the sons of men he gave of free accord verse 17 They that be dead do not with praise set forth the Lords renown Nor any that into the place of silence do go down verse 18 But we will praise the Lord our God from henceforth and for ay Sound ye the praises of the Lord praise ye the Lord I say Dilexi quoniam Psal. cxvi N. I Love the Lord because my voice and prayer heard hath he verse 2 When in my days I called on him he bowed his ear to me verse 3 Even when the snares of cruel death about beset me round When pains of hell me caught and when I woe and sorrow found verse 4 Upon the Name of God my Lord then did I call and say Deliver thou my soul O Lord I do thee humbly pray verse 5 The Lord is very merciful and just he is also And in our God compassion doth plentifully flow verse 6 The Lord in safety doth preserve all those that simple be I was in woeful misery and he delivered me verse 7 And now my soul sigh thou art s●fe return unto thy rest For largely lo the Lord to thee his bounty hath expressed verse 8 Because thou hast delivered my soul from deadly thrall My moistened eyes from mournful tears my sliding feet from fall verse 9 Before the Lord I in the land of life will walk therefore verse 10 I did believe therefore I spoke for I was troubled sore The second part verse 11 I said in my distress and fear That all men hars be verse 12 What shall I pay the Lord for all his benefits to me verse 13 The wholesome cup of saving health I thankfully will take And on the Lords Name I will call when I my prayer make verse 14 I to the Lord will pay the vows that I to him behight Yea even at this present time in all his people's sight verse 15 Right dear and precious in his sight the Lord doth ay esteem The death of all his holy ones what ever men do deem verse 16 Thy servant Lord thy servant lo I do myself confess Son of thy handmaid thou hast broke the bonds of my distress verse 17 And I will offer up to thee a sacrifice of praise And I will call upon the Name of God the Lord always verse 18 I to the Lord will pay the vows that I have him behight Yea even at this present time in all his people's sight verse 19 Yea in the courts of Gods own house and in the midst of thee O thou Jerusalem I say wherefore the Lord praise ye Laudate Dominum Psal. cxvii N. O All ye nations of the world praise ye the Lord always And all ye people every where set forth his noble praise ● For great his kindness is to us his truth endures for ay Wherefore praise ye the Lord our God praise ye the Lord I say Confitemini Psal. cxviii N. O Give ye thanks unto the Lord for gracious is he Because his mercy doth endure for ever towards thee ● Let Israel confess and say His mercy dures for ay ● Now let the house of Aaron say His mercy dures for ay ● Let all that fear the Lord our God even now confess and say The mercy of the Lord our God endureth still for ay ● In trouble and in heaviness unto the Lord I cried Which lovingly heard me at large my suit was not denied ● The Lord himself is on my side I will not stand in doubt Nor fear what man can do to me when God stands me about ● The Lord doth take my part with them that help to secure me Therefore I shall see my desire upon mine enemy ● Better it is to trust in God then in man's mortal seed ● Or to put confidence in kings or princes in our need hundred All nations have enclosed me and compassed me round But in the Name of God shall I mine enemies confound ●1S They kept me in on every side they kept me in I say But in the Lords most mighty Name I shall work their decay ●2 They came about me all like bees but yet in the Lords Name quenched their thorns that were on fire and will destroy the same The second part verse 13 Thou hast with force thrust sore at me that I indeed might fall But through the Lord I found such help that they were vanquished all verse 14 The Lord is my defence and strength my joy my mirth my song He is become for me indeed a Saviour most strong verse 15 The right hand of the Lord our God doth bring to pass great things He causeth voice of joy and health in righteous men's dwellings verse 16 The right hand of the Lord doth bring most mighty things to pass His hand hath the preeminence his force is as it was verse 17 I shall not die but ever live to utter and declare The Lord his might and wondrous power his works and what they are verse 18 The Lord himself hath chastened and hath corrected me But hath not given me over yet to death as ye may see verse 19 Set open unto me the gates of truth and righteousness That I may enter into them the Lords praise to express verse 20 This is the gate even of the Lord which shall not so be shut But good and righteous men always shall enter into it The third part verse 21 I will give thanks to thee O Lord because thou hast heard me And art become most lovingly a Saviour unto me verse 22 The stone which ere this time among the bvilders was refused Is now become the cornerstone and chief to be used verse 23 This was the mighty work of God this was the Lords own fact And it is marvellous to behold with eyes that noble act verse 24 This is the joyful day indeed which God himself hath wrought Let us be glad and joy therein in heart in mind in thought verse 25 Now help us Lord and prosper us we wish with one accord verse 26 Blessed is he that comes to us in the Name of the lord verse 27 God is the Lord that shows us light bind ye therefore with cord Your sacrifice to the altar and give thanks to the lord verse 28 Thou art my God I will confess and render thanks to thee Thou art my God and I will praise thy mercy towards me verse 29 O Give ye thanks unto the Lord for gracious is he Because his mercy doth endure for ever towards me Beati immaculati Psal. cxix W. W. BLessed are they that perfect are and pure in mind and heart Whose lives and conversations from God's laws never start verse 2 Blessed are they that give themselves his statutes to observe Seeking the Lord with all their heart and never from him swerve verse 3 Doubtless such men go not astray nor do no wicked thing Which steadfastly walk in his way without any wand'ring verse 4 It is thy will and commandment that with attentive heed Thy noble and divine precepts we learn and keep indeed verse 5 O would to God it might thee please my ways so to address That I might both in heart and voice thy laws keep and confess verse 6 So should not shame my life attaint whilst I thus set mine eyes And bent my mind always to muse on thy sacred decrees verse 7 Then will I praise with upright heart and magnify thy Name When I shall learn thy judgements just and likewise prove the same verse 8 And wholly will I give myself to keep thy laws most right Forsake me not for ever Lord but show thy grace and might BETH The second part verse 9 By what means may a young man best his life learn to amend If that he mark and keep thy word and therein his time spend verse 10 Unfeignedly I have thee sought and thus seeking abide O never suffer me O Lord from thy precepts to slide verse 11 Within my heart and secret thoughts thy words I have hid still That I might not at any time offend thy godly will verse 12 We magnify thy Name O Lord and praise thee evermore Thy statutes of most worthy fame O Lord teach me therefore verse 13 My lips have never ceased to preach and publish day and night The judgements all which did proceed from thy mouth full of might verse 14 Thy testimonies and thy ways please me no less indeed Then all the treasures of the earth which worldlings make their meed verse 15 Of thy precepts I will still muse and thereto frame my talk As at a mark so will I aim thy ways how I may walk verse 16 My only joy shall be so fixed and on thy laws so set That nothing can me so far blind that I thy words forget GIMEL The third part verse 17 Grant to thy servant now such grace as may my life prolong Thy holy word them will I keep both in my heart and tongue verse 18 Mine eyes which were dim and shut up so open and make bright That of thy law and marvellous works I may have the clear sight verse 19 I am a stranger in this earth wand'ring now here now there Thy word to me therefore disclose my footsteps for to clear verse 20 My soul is ravished with desire and never is at rest But seeks to know thy judgements high and what may please thee best verse 21 The proud men and malicious thou hast destroyed each one And cursed are such as do not thy hests attend upon verse 22 Lord turn from me rebuke and shame which wicked men conspire For I have kept thy covenants with zeal as hot as fire verse 23 The princes great in counsel sat and did against me speak But then thy servant thought how he thy statutes might not break verse 24 For why thy covenants are my joy and my hearts great solace They serve in stead of counselors my matters for to pass dale The fourth part verse 25 I am alas as brought to grave and almost turned to dust Restore therefore my life again as thy promise is just verse 26 My ways when I acknowledged with mercy thou didst hear Hear now eftsoon and me instruct thy laws to love and fear verse 27 Teach me once throughly for to know thy precepts and thy lore Thy works then will I meditate and lay them up in store verse 28 My soul I feel so sore oppressed that it melteth for grief According to thy word therefore haste Lord to send relief verse 29 From lying and deceitful lips let thy grace me defend And that I may learn thee to love thy holy law me send verse 30 The way of truth both strait and sure I have chosen and found I set thy judgements me before which keep me safe and sound verse 31 Since then O Lord I forced myself thy covenants to embrace Let me therefore have no rebuke nor check in any case verse 32 Then will I run with joyful cheet where thy word doth me call When thou hast set my heart at large and rid me out of thrall HERALD The fifth part verse 33 Instruct me Lord in the right trade of thy statutes divine And it to keep even to the end my heart will I incline verse 34 Grant me the knowledge of thy law and I shall it obey With heart and mind and all my might I will it keep I say verse 35 In the right paths of thy precepts guide me Lord I require None other pleasure do I wish nor greater thing desire verse 36 Incline my heart thy laws to keep and covenants to embrace And from all filthy avarice Lord shield me with thy grace verse 37 from vain desires and worldly lusts turn back mine eyes and sight Give me the spirit of life and power to walk thy ways aright verse 38 confirm thy gracious promise Lord which thou hast made to me Which am thy servant and do love and fear nothing but thee verse 39 Reproach and shame which I so fear from me O Lord expel For thou dost judge with equity and therein dost excel verse 40 Behold my heart's desire is bend thy laws to keep for ay Lord strengthen me so with thy grace that it perform I may VAU. The sixth part verse 41 Thy mercies great and manifold let me obtain O Lord Thy saving health let me enjoy according to thy word verse 42 So shall I stop the slanderous mouths of lewd men and unjust For in thy faithful promises stands my comfort and trust verse 43 The word of truth within my mouth let ever still be pressed For in thy judgements wonderful my hope doth stand and rest verse 44 And whilst that breath within my breast doth natural life preserve Yea till this world shall be dissolved thy law will I observe verse 45 So walk will I as set at large and made free from all dread Because I sought how for to keep thy precepts and thy read verse 46 Thy noble acts I will describe as things of most great fame Even before kings I will them blaze and shrink no whit for shame verse 47 I will rejoice then to obey thy worthy hests and will Which evermore I have loved best and so will love them still verse 48 My hands I will lift to thy laws which I have dearly sought And practise thy commandments in will in deed in thought ZAIN The seventh part verse 49 Thy promise which thou mad'st to me thy servant Lord remember For therein have I put my trust and confidence for ever verse 50 It is my comfort and my joy when troubles me assail For were my life not by thy word my life would soon me fail verse 51 The proud and such as God contemn still made of me a scorn Yet would I not thy law forsake as he that were forlorn verse 52 But called to mind Lord thy great works showed to our father's old Whereby I felt the joy surmount my grief an hundred-fold verse 53 But yet alas for fear I quake seeing how wicked men Thy law forsook and did procure thy judgements who knows when verse 54 And as for me I framed my songs thy statutes to exalt When I among the strangers dwelled and thoughts began me assault verse 55 I thought upon thy Name O Lord by night when others sleep As for thy law also I kept and ever will it keep verse 56 This grace I did obtain because thy covenants sweet and dear I did embrace and also keep with reverence and with tear HETH The eighth part verse 57 O God which art my part and lot my comfort and my stay I have decreed and promised thy laws to keep always verse 58 Mine earnest heart did humbly sue in presence of thy face As thou therefore hast promised Lord grant me of thy grace verse 59 My life I have examined and tried my secret heart Which to thy statutes caused me my feet strait to convert verse 60 I did not stay nor linger long as they that slothful are But hastily thy laws to keep I did myself prepare verse 61 The cruel bands of wicked men have made of me their prey Yet would I not thy law forget nor from thee go astray verse 62 Thy righteous judgements towards me so great are and so high That even at midnight will I rise thy Name to magnify verse 63 Companion am I to all them which fear thee in their heart And never will for love nor dread from thy commandments start verse 64 Thy mercies Lord most plenteously do all the world fulfil O teach me how I may obey thy statutes and thy will TETH The ninth part verse 65 According to thy promise Lord so hast thou with me dealt For of thy grace in sundry sorts have I thy servant felt verse 66 Teach me to judge always aright and give me knowledge sure For certainly believe I do that thy precepts are pure verse 67 Ere thou didst touch me with thy rod I erred and went astray But now I keep thy holy word and make it all my stay verse 68 Thou art both good and gracious and giv'st most liberally Thine ordinances how to keep therefore O Lord teach me verse 69 The proud and wicked men have forged against me many a lie Yet thy commandments still observe with all my heart will I. verse 70 Their hearts are swollen with worldly wealth as grease so are they fat But in thy law do I delight and nothing seek but that verse 71 O happy time may I well say when thou didst me correct For as a guide to learn thy laws thy rod did me direct verse 72 So that to me thy word and law is dearer manifold Than thousands great of silver and gold or aught that can be told JOD The tenth part verse 73 Seeing thy hands have made me Lord to be thy creature Grant knowledge likewise how to learn to put thy laws in ure verse 74 So they that fear thee shall rejoice when ever they me see Because I have learned by thy word to put my trust in thee verse 75 When with thy rods the world is plagued I kno● the cause is just So when thou dost correct me Lord the cause just needs be must verse 76 Now of thy goodness I thee pray some comfort to me send As thou to me thy servant het●t so from all ill me shend verse 77 Thy tender mercies pour on me and I shall surely live For joy and consolation both thy law to me doth give verse 78 Confound the proud whose false pretence is me for to destroy But as for me thy hests to know I will myself employ verse 79 Whoso with reverence do thee fear to me let them retire And such as do thy covenants know and them alone desire verse 80 My heart without all wavering let on thy laws be bend That no confusion come to me whereby I should be shent CAPH The eleventh part verse 81 My soul doth sain● and ceaseth not thy saving health to crave And for thy words sake still I trust my hearts desire to have verse 82 Mine eyes do fail with looking for thy word and thus I say Oh when wilt thou me comfort Lord Why dost thou thus delay verse 83 As a skin-bottle in the smoke so am I parched and dried Yet will I not out of my heart let thy commandments slide verse 84 Alas how long shall I yet live before I see the hour That on my foes which me torment thy vengeance thou wilt pour verse 85 Presumptuous men have digged pits thinking to make me sure Thus contrary against thy law my hurt they do procure verse 86 But thy commandments are all true and causeless they me grieve To thee therefore I do complain that thou mightst me relieve verse 87 Almost they had me clean destroyed and brought me quite to ground Yet by thy statutes I abode and therein secure found verse 88 Restore me Lord again to life for thy mercies excel And lo shall I thy covenants keep till death my life expel LAMED The twelfth part verse 89 In heaven Lord where thou dost dwell thy word is established sure And shall for all eternity fast graven there endure verse 90 From age to age thy truth abides as doth the earth witness Whose groundwork thou hast laid so sure as no tongue can express verse 91 Even to this day we may well see how all things persevere According to thine ordinance for all things thee revere verse 92 Had it not been that in thy law my soul had comfort sought Long time ere now in my distress I had been brought to nought verse 93 Therefore will I thy precepts ay in memory keep fast By them thou hast my life restored when I was at last cast verse 94 No wight to me can title make for I am only thine Save me therefore for to thy laws mine ears and heart incline verse 95 The wicked men do seek my bane and thereto lie in wait But I the while considered thy noble works and great verse 96 I see nothing in this wide world at length which hath not end But thy commandments and thy word beyond all end extend MEM. The thirteenth part verse 97 What great desire and servant love do I bear to thy law All the day long my whole device is only on thy saw verse 98 Thy word hath taught me sar to pass my foes in policy For still I hold it as a thing of most excellency verse 99 My teachers which did me instruct in knowledge I excel Because I do thy covenants keep and them to others tell verse 100 In wisdom I do pass also the ancient men indeed And all because to keep thy laws I held it ay best reed verse 101 My feet I have refrained eke from every evil way Because that I continually thy word might keep I say verse 102 I have not swerved from t●y judgements nor yet shrunk any dell For why thou hast me taught thereby to live godly and well verse 103 O Lord how sweet unto my taste find I thy words always Doubt less no honey in my mouth feel aught so sweet I may verse 104 Thy laws have me such wisdom learned that utterly I hate All wicked and ungodly ways in every kind or rate NUN. The fourteenth part verse 105 Even as a lantern to my feet so doth thy word shine bright And to my paths where-ere I go it is a flaming light verse 106 I have both sworn and will perform most certainly doubtless That I will keep thy judgements just and them in life express verse 107 Affliction hath me sore oppressed and brought me to death's door O Lord as thou hast promised so me to life restore verse 108 The offerings which with heart and voice most frankly I thee give Accept and teach me how I may after thy judgements live verse 109 My soul is ay so in my hand that dangers me assail Yet do I not thy law forget nor it to keep will fail verse 110 Although the wicked laid their nets to catch me at a bay Yet did I not from thy precepts once swerve or go astray verse 111 Thy law I have so claimed always as mine own heritage And why for therein I delight and set my whole courage verse 112 For ever more I have been bend thy statutes to fulfil Even so likewise unto the end I will continue still SAMECH The fifteenth part verse 113 The crafty thoughts and double hearts I do always detest But as for thy law and precepts I love them ever best verse 114 Thou art my did and secret place my shield of strong defence Therefore have I thy promises look● for with patience verse 115 Go to therefore ye wicked men depart from me anon For the commandments will I keep of God my Lord alone verse 116 As thou hast promised so perform that death me not assail Nor let my hope abuse me so that through distrust I quail verse 117 Uphold me and I shall be safe for aught they do or say And in thy statutes pleasure take will I both night and day verse 118 Thou hast trod such under thy feet as do thy statutes break For nought avails their subtlety their counsel is but weak verse 119 Like dross thou casts the wicked out where-ere they go or dwell Therefore can I as thy statutes love nothing half so well verse 120 My flesh alas is taken with fear as though it were benumbed For when I see thy judgements strait I am as one astoned AIN The sixteenth part verse 121 I do the thing that lawful is and give to all men right Resign me not to them that would oppress me with their might verse 122 But for thy servant surety be in that thing that is good That proud men give me not the foil which rage as they were wood verse 123 Mine eyes with waiting are now blind thy health so much I crave And eke thy righteous promise Lord whereby thou wilt me save verse 124 Entreat thy servant lovingly and favour to him show Thy statutes of most excellency teach me also to know verse 125 Thy humble servant Lord I am grant me to understand How by thy statutes I may know best what to take in hand verse 126 It is now time Lord to begin for truth is quite decayed Thy law likewise they have transgressed and none against them said verse 127 This is the cause wherefore I love thy laws better than gold Or jewels fine which are esteemed most costly to be sold verse 128 I thought thy precepts all most just and so them laid in store All crafty and malicious ways I do abhor therefore PE. The seventeenth part verse 129 Thy covenants are most wonderful and full ofthings profound My soul therefore doth keep them sure when they are tried and sound verse 130 When men first enter into thy word they find a light most clear And very idiots understand when they it read or hear verse 131 For joy I have both gaped and breathed to know thy commandment That I might guide myself thereby I sought what thing it meant verse 132 With mercy and compassion Lord behold me from above As thou art wont to behold such as thy Name fear and love verse 133 Direct my footsteps by thy word that I thy will may know And never let iniquity thy servant overthrow verse 134 From slanderous tongues and deadly harms preserve and keep me sure Thy precepts then will I observe and put them eke enure verse 135 Thy countenance which doth surmount the sun in his bright hue Let shine on me and by thy law teach me what to eschew verse 136 Out of mine eyes great floods gush out of dreary tears and fell When I behold how wicked men thy laws keep never a dell ZADE. The eighteenth part verse 137 In every point Lord thou art just the wicked though they grudge And when thou dost sentence pronounce thou art a righteous Judge verse 138 To render right and flee from guile are two chief points most high And such as thou hast in thy law commanded us straight verse 139 With zeal and wrath I am consumed and even pined away Too see my foes thy word forget for aught that I do may verse 140 So pure and perfect is thy word as any heart can deem And I thy servant nothing more do love or yet esteem verse 141 And though I be nothing set by as one of base degree Yet do I not thy laws forget nor shrink away from thee verse 142 Thy righteousness Lord is most just for ever to endure Also thy law is truth itself most constant and most pure verse 143 Trouble and grief have seized on me and brought me wondrous low Yet do I still of thy precepts delight to hear and know verse 144 The righteousness of thy judgements doth last for evermore Then teach them me for even in them my life lies up in store KOPH The nineteenth part verse 145 With fervent heart I called and cried nowan swear me O Lord That thy commandments to observe I may fully accord verse 146 To thee my God I make my suit with most humble request Save me therefore and I will keep thy precepts and thy hests verse 147 To thee I cry even in the morn before the day wax light Because that I have in thy word my confidence whole plight verse 148 Mine eyes prevent the watch by night and ere they call I wake That by devising on thy word I might some comfort take verse 149 Incline thine ears to hear my voice and pity on me take As thou wa●t wont so judge me Lord lest life should me forsake verse 150 My foes draw near and do procure my death maliciously Which from thy law are far gone back and strayed from it lewdly verse 151 Therefore O Lord approach thou near for need doth so require For all thy precepts true they are then help I thee desire verse 152 But thy commandments have I learned not now but long ago That they remain for evermore thou hast them grounded so RESH The twentieth part verse 153 My trouble and affliction consider and behold Deliver me for of thy law I ever take fast hold verse 154 Defend my good and righteous cause with speed some succour send From death as thou hast promised Lord keep me and defend verse 155 As for the wicked far they are from having health and grace Whereby they might thy statutes know they enter not the trace verse 156 Great are thy mercies Lord I grant what tongue can them attain And as thou hast me judged ere now so let me life obtain verse 157 Though many men did trouble me and persecute me sore Yet from thy laws I never shrunk nor went wry therefore verse 158 And truth it is for grief I die when I these traitors see Because they keep no whit thy word nor yet seek to know thee verse 159 Behold for I do love thy laws with heart most glad and fain As thou art good and gracious Lord restore my life again verse 160 What thy word doth decree must be and so it hath been ever Thy righteous judgements are also most true and decay never SCHIN The one and twentieth part verse 161 Princes have sought by cruelty causeless to make me crouch But all in vain for of thy word the fear did my heart touch verse 162 And certainly even of thy word I was more merry and glad Then he that of rich spoils and prey great store and plenty had verse 163 As for all lies and falsities I hate most and detest For why thy holy law do I above all things love best verse 164 Seven times a day I praise the Lord singing with heart and voice Thy righteous acts and wonderful so cause me to rejoice verse 165 Great peace and rest shall all such have as do thy statutes love No danger shall their quiet state empair or once remove verse 166 My only health and comfort Lord I look for at thy hand And therefore have I done those things which thou didst me command verse 167 Thy laws have been mine exercise which my soul most desired So much to them my love was bend that nought else I required verse 168 Thy statutes and commandments I kept thou knowst aright For all the things that I have done are present in thy sight TAU. The two and twentieth part verse 169 O Lord let my complaint and cry before thy face appear And as thou hast me promise made so teach me thee to fear verse 170 Mine humble supplication toward thee let find access And grant me Lord deliverance for so is thy promise verse 171 Then shall my lips thy praises speak after most ample sort When thou thy statutes hast me taught wherein stands my comfort verse 172 My tongue shall ling and preach thy word and on this wise say shall God's famous acts and noble laws are just and perfect all verse 173 Stretch out thy hand I thee beseech and speedily me save For thy commandments to observe chosen O Lord I have verse 174 Of thee alone Lord I crave health for other I know none And in thy law and nothing else I do delight alone verse 175 Grant me therefore long days to live thy Name to magnify And of thy judgements merciful let me the favour cry verse 176 For I was lost and went astray much like a wand'ring sheep Oh seek me for I have not failed thy commandments to keep Ad Dominum Psal. cxx T. S. IN trouble and in thrall Unto the Lord I call And he doth me comfort verse 2 Deliver me I say From liars lips always And tongues of false report verse 3 What vantage or what thing Get'st thou thus for to sting Thou false and flattering liar verse 4 Thy tongue doth hurt I ween No less than arrows keen Or hot consuming fire verse 5 Alas too long I flack Within these tents so black Which Kedars are by name By whom the flock elect And all of Isaac's sect Are put to open shame verse 6 With them that peace did hate I came a peace to make And set a quiet life verse 7 But when my tale was told Causeless I was controlled By them that would have strife Levavi oculos Psal. cxxi W. W. I Lift mine eyes to Zion hill From whence I do attend That succour God me send verse 2 The mighty God me succour will Which heaven and earth framed And all things therein named verse 3 Thy foot from slip he will preserve And will thee safely keep For he will never sleep verse 4 Lo he that doth Israel conserve No sleep at all can him catch But his eyes shall ever watch verse 5 The Lord is thy warrant always The Lord eke doth thee cover As at thy right hand ever verse 6 The sun shall not thee parch by day Nor the moon not half so bright Shall with cold hurt thee by night verse 7 The Lord will keep thee from distress And will thy life sure save verse 8 And thou shalt also have In all thy business good success  thou goest in or out God will thy things bring about Letatus sum Psal. cxxii W. K. I Did in heart rejoice To hear the people's voice In offering so willingly verse 2 For let us up say they And in the Lord's house pray Thus spoke the folk full lovingly verse 3 Our feet that wandered wide Shall in thy gates abide O thou Jerusalem full fair Which art so seemly set Much like a city neat The like whereof is not elsewhere verse 4 The tribes with one accord The tribes of God the Lord Are thither bend their way to take So God before did tell That there his Israel Their prayers should together make verse 5 For there are thrones erect And that for this respect To set forth justice orderly Which thrones right to maintain To David's house pertain His folk to judge accordingly verse 6 To pray let us not cease For Jerusalem●s' p●ace Thy friends God prosper mightily verse 7 Peace be thy walls about And prosper thee throughout Thy palaces continually verse 8 I wish thy prosperous state For my poor brethren's sake That comfort have by means of thee verse 9 Gods house doth me allure Thy wealth for to procure So much always as lies in me Ad te levavi Psal. cxxiii T. S. O Lord that heaven dost possess I lift mine eyes to thee verse 2 Even as the servant lifteth his his master's hands to see As handmaids watch their mistress hand some grace for to achieve So we behold the Lord our God till he do us forgive verse 3 Lord grant us thy compassion and mercy in thy sight For we are filled and overcome with hatred and despite verse 4 Our minds be stuffed with great rebuke the rich and worldly wise Do make of us their mocking-stocks the proud do us despise Nisi quia Dom. Psal. cxxiv W. W. NOw Israel may say and that truly If that the Lord had not our cause maintained verse 2 If that the Lord had not our right sustained When all the world against us furiously Made their uproars and said we should all die verse 3 Now long ago they had devoured us all And swallowed quick for aught that we could deem Such was their rage as we might well esteem verse 4 And as the floods with mighty force do fall So had they now our lives even brought to thrall verse 5 The raging streams most proud in roaring noise Had long ago overwhelmed us in the deep verse 6 But loved be God which doth us safely keep From bloody teeth and their most cruel voice Which as a prey to eat us would rejoice verse 7 Even as a bird out of the fowlers grin Escapes away right so it fares with us Broke are their nets and we have scaped thus verse 8 God that made heaven and earth is our help then His Name hath saved us from these wicked men Qui confidunt Psal. cxxv W. K. SUch as in God the Lord do trust As mount Zion shall firmly stand And be removed at no hand The Lord will count them right and just So that they shall be sure For ever to endure verse 2 As mighty mountains huge and great Jerusalem about do close So will the Lord do unto those Who on his godly will do wait Such are to him so dear They never need to fear verse 3 For though the righteous try doth he By making wicked men his rod Lest they through grief forsake their God It shall not as their lot still be verse 4 Give Lord to us thy light Whose hearts are true and right verse 5 But as for such as turn aside By crooked ways which they out sought The Lord will surely bring to nought With workers vile they shall abide But peace with Israel For evermore shall dwell Another of the same by R. W. THose that do put their confidence Upon the Lord our God only And flee to him for their defence In all their need and misery Their faith is sure still to endure Grounded on Christ the cornerstone Moved with none ill but standeth full Steadfast like to the mount Zion And as about Jerusalem The mighty hills do it compass So that no enemies come to them To hurt that town in any case So God indeed in every need His faithful people doth defend Standing them by assuredly From this time forth world without end Right wise and good is our Lord God And will not suffer certainly The sinners and ungodlies rod To tarry upon his family Lest they also from God should go Falling to sin and wickedness O Lord defend world without end Thy Christian flock through thy goodness O Lord do good to Christians all That steadfast in thy word abide Such as willingly from God fall And to false doctrine daily slide Such will the Lord scatter abroad With hypocrites thrown down to hell God will them send pains without end But Lord grant peace to Israel Glory to God the Father of might And to the Son our Saviour And to the holy Ghost whose light Shine in our hearts and us secure That the right way from day to day We may walk and him glorify With heats desire all that are here Worship the Lord and say Amen In convertendo Psal. cxxvi W. W. WHen that the Lord again his Zion had forth brought From bondage great and also servitude extreme His work was such as did surmount man's heart & thought So that we were much like to them that use to dream verse 2 Our mouths were with laughter filled then And eke our tongues did show us joyful men The heathen folk were forced then this to confess How that the Lord for them also great things had done verse 3 But much more we and therefore can confess no less Wherefore to joy we have good cause as we begun verse 4 O Lord go forth thou canst our bondage end As to deserts the flowing rivers send verse 5 Full true it is that they which sow in tears indeed A time will come when they shall reap in mirth and joy verse 6 They went and wept in bearing of their precious seed For that their foes full often times did them annoy But their return with joy they shall sure see Their sheaves home bring and not impaired be Nisi Dom. Psal. cxxvii W. W. EXcept the Lord the house doth make And thereunto doth set his hand What men do build it cannot stand Likewise in vain men undertake Cities and holds to watch and ward Except the Lord be their safeguard verse 2 Though ye rise early in the morn And so at night go late to bed Feeding full hardly with brown bread Yet were your labour lost and worn But they whom God doth love and keep Receive all things with quiet sleep verse 3 Therefore mark well  you see That men have heirs t' enjoy their land It is the gift of Gods own hand For God himself doth multiply Of his great liberality The blessing of posterity verse 4 And when the children come to age They grow in strength and activeness In person and in comeliness So that a shaft shot with courage Of one that hath a most strong arm Flies not so swift nor doth like harm verse 5 Oh well is he that hath his quiver Furnished with such artillery For when in peril he shall be Such one shall never shake nor shiver When that he pleads before the judge Against his foes that bear him grudge Beati omnes Psal. cxxviii T. S. BLessed art thou that fearest God and walkest in his way verse 2 For of thy labour thou shalt eat happy art thou I say verse 3 Like fruitful vines on thy house side so doth thy wife spring out Thy children stand like olive-plants thy table round about verse 4 Thus art thou blessed that fearest God and he shall let thee see verse 5 The promised Jerusalem and her felicity verse 6 Thou shalt thy children's children see to thy great joys increase And likewise grace on Israel prosperity and peace Sape expugnaverunt Psal. cxxix N. OFt they now Israel may say me from my youth assailed verse 2 Oft they assailed me from my youth yet never they prevailed verse 3 Upon my back the plowers ploughed and furrows long did cast verse 4 The righteous Lord hath cut the cords of wicked foes at last verse 5 They that hate me shall be ashamed and turned back also verse 6 And made as grass upon the house which with r ere it grow verse 7 Whereof the mower cannot find enough to fill his hand Nor can he fill his lap that goeth to glean upon the land verse 8 Nor passers by prey God on them to let his blessing fall Nor say We bless you in the Name of God the Lord at all De profundis Psal. cxxx W. W. LOrd to thee I make my moan when dangers me oppress I call I sigh plain and groan trusting to fi●de release verse 2 Hear now O Lord my request for it is full due time And let thine ears ay be pressed unto this prayer mine verse 3 O Lord our God if thou weigh our sins and them peruse Who shall then escape and say I can myself excuse verse 4 But Lord thou art merciful and turnest to us thy grace That we with hearts most careful should fear before thy face verse 5 In God I put my whole trust my soul waits on his will For his promise is most just and I hope therein still verse 6 My soul to God hath regard wishing for him always More than they that watch and ward to see the dawning day verse 7 Let Israel then boldly in the Lord put his trust He is that God of mercy that his deliver must verse 8 For he it is that must save Israel from his sin And all such as surely have their confidence in him Domine non est Psal. cxxxi M. O Lord I am not puffed in mind I have no scornful eye I do not exercise myself in things that be too high verse 2 But as the child that weaned is even from his mother's breast So have I Lord behaved myself in silence and in rest verse 3 O Israel trust in the Lord let him be all thy stay From this time forth for evermore from age to age I say Memento Dom. Psal. cxxxii M. REmember David's troubles Lord how to the Lord he swore verse 2 And vowed a vow to jacob's God to keep for evermore verse 3 I will not come within my house nor climb up to my bed verse 4 Nor let my temples take their rest nor the eyes in my head verse 5 Till I have found out for the Lord a place to sit thereon An house for jacob's God to be an habitation verse 6 We heard of it at Ephrata there did we hear this sound And in the fields and forests there these voices first were found verse 7 We will assay and go in now his tabernacle there Before his footstool to fall down and worship him in fear verse 8 Arise O Lord arise I say into thy restingplace Both thou and the ark of thy strength the presence of thy grace verse 9 Let all thy priests be clothed Lord with truth and righteousness Let all thy saints and holy men sing all with joyfulness verse 10 And for thy servant David's sake refuse not Lord I say The face of thine anointed Lord nor turn thy face away The second part verse 11 The Lord to David swore in truth and will not shrink from it Saying The fruit of thy body upon thy seat shall sit verse 12 And if thy sons my covenant keep that I shall learn each one Then shall their sons for ever sit upon thy princely throne verse 13 The Lord himself hath chose Zion and loves therein to dwell verse 14 Saying This is my restingplace I love and like it well verse 15 And I will bless with great increase her victuals every where And I will satisfy with bread the needy that be there verse 16 Yea I will deck and cloth her priests with my salvation And all her saints shall sing for joy of my protection verse 17 There will I surely make the horn of David for to bud For there I have ordained for mine a lantern bright and good verse 18 As for his enemies I will cloth with shame for evermore But I will cause his crown to shine more fresh than heretofore Ecce quam Psal. cxxxiii W. W. O How happy a thing it is and joyful for to see Brethren together fast to hold the band of amity verse 2 It calls to mind that sweet perfume and that costly ointment Which on the sacrificers head by God's precept was spent It wet not Aaron's head alone but drenched his beard throughout And finally it did run down his rich attire about verse 3 And as the lower ground doth drink the dew of Hermon hill And Zion with his silver drops the fields with fruit doth fill Even so the Lord doth pour on them his blessings manifold Whose hearts and minds without all guile this knot do keep and hold Ecce nunc Psal. cxxxiu W. W. BEhold and have regard ye servants of the Lord Which in his house by night do watch praise him with one accord verse 2 Lift up your hands on high unto his holy place And give the Lord his praises due his benefits embrace verse 3 For why the Lord who did both earth and heaven frame Doth Zion bless and will conserve for evermore the same Laudate nomen Psal. cxxxv N. O Praise the Lord praise him praise him praise him with one accord O praise him still all ye that be the servants of the Lord verse 2 O praise him ye that stand and be in the house of the Lord Ye of his court and of his house praise him with one accord verse 3 Praise ye the Lord for he is good sing praises to his Name It is a comely and good thing always to do the same verse 4 For why the Lord hath chose Jacob his very own ye see So hath he chosen Israel his treasure for to he verse 5 For this I know and am right sure the Lord is very great He is indeed above all gods most easy to entreat verse 6 For whatsoever pleased him all that full well he wrought In heaven in earth and in the sea which he hath made of nought verse 7 He lifts up clouds even from the earth he makes lightnings and rain He bringeth forth the winds also he made nothing in vain verse 8 He smote the firstborn of each thing in Egypt that took rest He spared there no living thing the man nor yet the beast verse 9 He hath in thee showed wonders great O Egypt void of vaunts On Pharaoh thy cursed king and his severe servants verse 10 He smote then many nations and did great acts and things He slew the great and mightiest and chiefest of their kings verse 11 Sehon king of the Amorites and Og king of Basan He slew also the kingdoms all that were of Canaan verse 12 And gave their land to Israel an heritage we see To Israel his own people an heritage to be The second part verse 13 Thy Name O Lord shall still endure and thy memorial Throughout all generations that are or ever shall verse 14 The Lord will surely now avenge his people all indeed And to his servants he will show favour in time of need verse 15 The idols of the heathen are made in all the coasts and lands Of silver and of gold they be the work even of men's hands verse 16 They have their mouths and cannot speak and eyes that have no sight verse 17 They have eke ears and hear nothing their mouths be breathless quite verse 18 Wherefore all they are like to them that so do set them forth And likewise those that trust in them or think they be aught worth verse 19 O all ye house of Israel see that ye praise the Lord And ye that be of Aaron's house praise him with one accord verse 20 And ye that be of Levi's house praise ye likewise the Lord And ye that stand in awe of him praise him with one accord verse 21 And out of Zion sound his praise the great praise of the Lord Which dwelleth in Jerusalem praise him with one accord Confitemini Dom. Psal. cxxxvi N. PRraise ye the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever verse 2 Give praise unto the God of gods for his mercy endureth for ever verse 3 Give praise unto the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for ever verse 4 Which only doth great wondrous works for his mercy endureth for ever verse 5 Which by his wisdom made the heavens for his mercy endureth for ever verse 6 Which on the waters stretch the earth for his mercy endureth for ever verse 7 Which made great lights to shine abroad for his mercy endureth for ever verse 8 As sun to rule the lightsome day for his mercy etc. verse 9 The moon and stars to guide the night for his mercy etc. verse 10 Which smote Egypt with their firstborn for his mercy etc. verse 11 And Israel brought out from thence for his mercy etc. verse 12 With mighty hand and stretched arm for his mercy etc. verse 13 Which cut the Red sea in two parts for his mercy etc. verse 14 And Israel made pass therethrough for his mercy etc. verse 15 And drowned Pharaoh and his host for his mercy etc. verse 16 Through wilderness his people led for his mercy etc. verse 17 He which did smite great noble kings for his mercy etc. verse 18 And which hath slain the mighty kings for his mercy etc. verse 19 As Sehon king of Amorites for his mercy etc. verse 20 And Og the king of Basan land for his mercy etc. verse 21 And gave their land for heritage for his mercy etc. verse 22 Even to his servant Israel for his mercy etc. verse 23 Remembering us in base estate for his mercy etc. verse 24 And from oppressors rescued us for his mercy etc. verse 25 Which giveth food unto all flesh for his mercy etc. verse 26 Praise ye the Lord of heaven above for his mercy endureth for ever verse 27 Give thanks unto the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for ever Another of the same by T. C. O Laud the Lord benign Whose mercies last for ay verse 2 Give thanks and praises sing To God of gods I say For certainly His mercies dure Both firm and sure Eternally verse 3 The Lord of lords praise ye Whose mercies ay do dure verse 4 Great wonders only he Doth work by his great power For certainly etc. verse 5 Which God omnipotent By his great wisdom high The heavenly firmament Did frame as we may see For certainly etc. verse 6 Yea he the heavy charge Of all the earth did stretch And on the waters large The same he did out reach For certainly etc. verse 7 Great lights he made to be For why his love is ay verse 8 Such as the sun we see To rule the lightsome day For certainly etc. verse 9 And eke the moon so clear Which shineth in our sight And stars that do appear To guide the darksome night For certainly etc. verse 10 With grievous plagues and sore All Egypt smote he than The firstborn less and more He slew of beast and man For certainly etc. verse 11 And from amidst their land His Israel forth brought verse 12 Which he with mighty hand And stretched arm hath wrought For certainly etc. verse 13 The sea he cut in two Which stood up like a wall verse 14 And made through it to go His chosen children all For certainly etc. verse 15 But there he whelmed then The proud king Pharaoh With his huge host of men And chariots eke also For certainly etc. verse 16 Who led through wilderness His people safe and sound verse 17 And for his love endless Great kings he brought to ground For certainly etc. verse 18 And slew with puissant hand Kings mighty and of fame verse 19 As of Amorites land Sehon the king by name For certainly etc. verse 20 And Og the giant large Of Basan king also verse 21 Whose land for heritage He gave his people tho For certainly etc. verse 22 Even unto Israel His servant dear I say He gave the same to dwell And there abide for ay For certainly etc. verse 23 To mind he did us call In our most base degree verse 24 And from oppressors all In safety set us free For certainly etc. verse 25 All flesh in earth abroad With food he doth fulfil verse 26 Wherefore of heaven the God To laud be it your will For certainly etc. Super fumina Psal. cxxxvii W. W. WHen as we sat in Babylon the rivers round about And in remembrance of Zion the tears for grief burst out verse 2 We hanged our harps and instruments the willow-trees upon For in that place men for their use had planted many a one verse 3 Then they to whom we prisoners were said to us tauntingly Now let us hear your Hebrew songs and pleasant melody verse 4 Alas said we who can once frame his sorrowful heart to sing The praises of our loving God thus under a strange king verse 5 But yet if I Jerusalem out of my heart let slide Then let my singers quite forget the warbling harp to guide verse 6 And let my tongue within my mouth be tied for ever fast If that I joy before I see thy full deliverance past verse 7 Therefore O Lord remember now the cursed noise and cry That Edom's sons against us made when they razed our city Remember Lord their cruel words when as with one accord They cried On sack and raze their walls in despite of their lord verse 8 Even so shalt thou O Babylon at length to dust be brought And happy shall that man be called that our revenge hath wrought verse 9 Yea blessed shall that man be called that takes thy children young To dash their bones against hard stones that lie the streets among Confitebor tibi Psal. cxxxviii N. THee will I praise with my whole heart my Lord my God always Even in the presence of the gods I will advance thy praise verse 2 Toward thy holy temple I will look and worship thee And praised in my thankful mouth thy holy Name shall be Even for thy loving kindness sake and for thy truth withal For thou thy Name haste by thy word advanced over all verse 3 When I did call thou heardest me and thou hast made also The power of increased strength within my soul to grow verse 4 Yea all the kings on earth they shall give praise to thee O Lord For they of thy most holy mouth have heard the mighty word verse 5 They of the ways of God the Lord in singing shall entreat Because the glory of the Lord it is exceeding great verse 6 The Lord is high and yet he doth behold the lowly spirit But he contemning knows afar the proud and lofty wight verse 7 Although in midst of trouble I do walk yet shall I stand Renewed by thee O my Lord thou wilt stretch out thy hand Upon the wrath of all my foes and saved shall I be By thy right hand the Lord God will perform his work to me verse 8 Thy mercy Lord endures for ay Lord do me not forsake Forsake me not that am the work which thine own hand did make Domine probasti Psal. cxxxix N. O Lord thou hast me tried and known my sitting thou dost know verse 2 And r●●ing eke my thoughts afar thou understandest also verse 3 My paths yea and my lying down thou compassest always And by familiar custom art acquainted with my ways verse 4 No word is in my tongue O Lord but known it is to thee verse 5 Thou me behind hold'st and before thou layest thine hand on me verse 6 Too wonderful above my reach Lord is thy cunning skill It is so high that I the same cannot attain until verse 7 From sight of thy allseeing Spirit Lord whither shall I go Or whither shall I flee away thy presence to scape fro verse 8 To heaven if I mount aloft lo thou art present there In hell if I lie down below even there thou dost appear verse 9 Yea let me take the morning wings and let me go and bide Even there where are the farthest parts where flowing sea doth slide verse 10 Yea even thither also shall thy reaching hand me guide And thy right hand shall hold me fast and make me to abide verse 11 Yea if I say The darkness shall yet shroud me from thy sight Lo even also the darkest night about me shall be light verse 12 Yea darkness hideth not from thee but night doth shine as day To thee the darkness and the light are both alike always The second part verse 13 For thou possessed hast my reins and thou hast covered me When I within my mother's womb enclosed was by thee verse 14 Thee will I praise made fearfully and wondrously I am Thy works are marvellous right well my soul doth know the same verse 15 My bones they are not hid from thee although in secret place I have been made and in the earth beneath I shaped was verse 16 When I was formless than thine eye saw me for in thy book Were written all nought was before that after fashion took verse 17 The thoughts therefore of thee O God how dear are they to me And of them all how passing great the endless number be verse 18 If I should count them lo their sum more than the land I see And whensoever I awake yet am I still with thee verse 19 The wicked and the bloody men O that thou wouldst slay Even those O God to whom Depart depart from me I say verse 20 Even those of thee O Lord my God that speak full wickedly Those that are lifted up in vain being enemies to thee verse 21 Hate I not them that hate thee Lord and that in earnest wise Contend I not against them all against thee that arise verse 22 I hate them with unfeigned hate even as my utter foes verse 23 Try me O God and know my heart my thoughts prove and disclose verse 24 Consider Lord if wickedness in me there any be And in thy way O God my Guide forever lead thou me Eripe me Psal. cxl N. LOrd save me from the evil man and from the cruel wight verse 2 And from all those which evil do imagine in their spirit Which make on me continual war their tongues lo they have whet verse 3 Like serpents underneath their lips is adders poison set verse 4 Keep me O Lord from wicked hands preserve me to abide Free from the cruel man that means to cause my steps to slide verse 5 The proud have laid a snare for me and they have spread a net With cords in my pathway and grins for me eke have they set verse 6 Therefore I said unto the lord Thou art my God alone Hear me O Lord O hear the voice wherewith I pray and moan verse 7 O Lord my God thou only art the strength that saveth me My head in day of battle hath been covered still by thee verse 8 Let not O Lord the wicked have the end of his desire Perform not his ill thoughts left he with pride be set on fire verse 9 Of them that compass me about the chiefest of them all Lord let the mischief of their lips upon themselves befall verse 10 Let coals fall on them let him cast them in consuming flame And in deep pits so as they may not rise out of the same verse 11 For no backbiter shall on earth be set in stable plight And evil to destruction still shall hunt the cruel wight verse 12 I know the Lord th' afflicted will revenge and judge the poor verse 13 The just shall praise thy Name just shall dwell with thee evermore Domine clamavi Psal. cxli N. O Lord upon thee do I call Lord haste thee unto me And harken Lord unto my voice when I do cry to thee verse 2 As incense let my prayers be directed in thine eyes And the uplifting of my hands as evening sacrifice verse 3 My Lord for guiding of my mouth set thou a watch before And also of my moving lips O Lord keep thou the door verse 4 That I should wicked works commit incline thou not my heart With ill men of their delicates Lord let me eat no part verse 5 But let the righteous smite me Lord for that is good for me Let him reprove me and the same a precious oil shall be Such smiting shall not break my head the time shall shortly fall When I shall in their misery make prayers for them all verse 6 Then when in stony places down their judges shall be cast Then shall they hear my words for than they have a pleasant taste verse 7 Our bones about the graves mouth lo scattered are they found As he that heweth wood or he that diggeth up the ground verse 8 But O my Lord my God mine eyes do look up unto thee In thee is all my trust let not my soul forsaken be verse 9 Which they have laid to catch me in Lord keep me from the snare And from the subtle grins of them that wicked workers are verse 10 The wicked into their own nets together let them fall While I do by thy help escape the danger of them all Voce mea Psal. cxlii N. BEfore the Lord God with my voice I did send out my cry And with my strained voice unto the Lord God prayed I verse 2 My meditation in his sight to pour I did not spare And in the presence of the Lord my trouble did declare verse 3 Although perplexed was my spirit my path was known to thee In way where I did walk a snare they slily laid for me verse 4 I looked and viewed on my right hand but none there would me know All refuge sailed me and for my soul none cared tho verse 5 Then cried I Lord to thee and said My hope thou only art Thou in the land of living art my portion and my part verse 6 Hark to my cry for I am brought full low deliver me From them that do me persecute for me too strong they be verse 7 That I may praise thy Name my soul from prison Lord bring out When thou art good to me the just shall press me round about Domine exaudi Psal. cxliii N. LOrd hear my prayer hark the plaint that I do make to thee Lord in thy native truth and in thy justice answer me verse 2 In judgement with thy servant Lord O enter not at all For justified be in thy sight not one that liveth shall verse 3 The enemy hath pursued my soul my life to ground hath thrown And laid me in the dark like them that dead are long ago verse 4 Within me in perplexity was mine accumbred spirit And in me was my troubled heart amazed and affright verse 5 Yet I record time past in all thy works I meditate Yea in thy works I meditate that thy hands have create verse 6 To thee O Lord my God lo I do stretch my craving hands My soul desireth after thee as do the thirsty lands verse 7 Hear me with speed my spirit doth fail hid not thy face me fro Else shall I be like them that down into the pit do go verse 8 Let me thy loving kindness in the morning hear and know For in thee is my trust show me the way where I shall go verse 9 For I lift up my soul to thee O Lord deliver me From all mine enemies for I have hidden me with thee verse 10 Teach me to do thy will for thou thou art my God I say Let thy good Spirit unto the land of mercy me convey verse 11 For thy Names sake with quickening grace alive do thou me make And out of trouble bring my soul even for thy justice sake verse 12 And for thy mercy slay my foes O Lord destroy them all That do oppress my soul for I thy servant am and shall Benedictus Dom. Psal. cxliu N. Blessed be the Lord my strength that doth instruct my hands to fight The Lord that doth my finger's frame to battle by his might verse 2 He is my goodness sort and tower deliverer and shield In him I trust my people he subdues to me to yield verse 3 O Lord what thing is man that him thou holdest so in price Or son of man that upon him thou thinkest in such wise verse 4 Man is but like to vanity so pass his days to end verse 5 As fleeting shade Bow down O Lord the heavens and descend verse 6 The mountains touch and they shall smoke cast forth thy lightning flame And scatter them thine arrows shoot consume them with the same verse 7 Send down thine hand even from above O Lord deliver me Take me from waters great from hand of strangers make me free verse 8 Whose subtle mouth of vanity and fondness doth entreat And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood and deceit verse 9 A new song will I sing O God and singing will I be On viol and on instrument ten-stringed unto thee verse 10 Even he it is that only gives deliverance to kings Unto his servant David help from hurtful sword be brings verse 11 From stranger's hand me save and shield whose mouths talks vanity And their right hand is a right hand of gui●e and subtlety verse 12 That our sons may be as the plants whom growing youth doth rear Our daughters as carved corner-stones like to a palace fair verse 13 Our garners full and plenty may with sundry sorts be found Our sheep bring thousands in our streets ten thousands may abound verse 14 Our oxen be to labour strong that none do us invade There be no go out nor cries within our streets be made verse 15 The people blessed are that with such blessings are so stored Yea blessed all the people are whose God is God the lord Exaltabo te Psal. cxlv N. THee will I laud my God and King and bless thy Name for ay verse 2 For ever will I praise thy Name and bless thee day by day verse 3 Great is the Lord most worthy praise his greatness none can reach verse 4 From race to race they shall thy works praise and thy power preach verse 5 I of thy glorious majesty the beauty will record And meditate upon thy works most wonderful O lord verse 6 And they shall of thy power and of thy fearful acts declare And I to publish all abroad thy greatness will not spare verse 7 And they into the mention shall break of thy goodness great And I aloud thy righteousness in singing shall repeat verse 8 The Lord our God is gracious and merciful also Of great abounding mercy and to anger he is slow verse 9 Yea good to all and all his works his mercy doth exceed verse 10 Lo all thy works do praise thee Lord and do thy honour spread verse 11 Thy saints do bless thee and they do thy kingdoms glory show verse 12 And blaze thy power to cause the sons of men thy power to know The second part And of his mighty kingdom eke to spread the glorious praise verse 13 Thy kingdom Lord a kingdom is that doth endure always And thy dominion through each age endures without decay verse 14 The Lord upholdeth them that fall their sliding he doth stay verse 15 The eyes of all do wait on thee thou dost them all relieve And thou to each sufficing food in season due dost give verse 16 Thou openest thy plenteous hand and bounteously dost fill All things what soever do live with gifts of thy good will verse 17 The Lord is just in all his ways his works are holy all verse 18 Near all he is that call on him in truth that on him call verse 19 He the desires which they require that fear him will fulfil And he will hear them when they cry and save them all he will verse 20 The Lord preserves all those to him that bear a loving heart But he them all that wicked are will utterly subvert verse 21 My thankful mouth shall gladly speak the praises of the Lord All flesh to praise his holy Name for ever shall accord Lauda anima Psal. cxlvi J. H. MY soul praise thou the Lord always my God I will confess verse 2 While breath and life prolong my days my tongue no time shall cease verse 3 Trust not in worldly princes then though they abound in wealth Nor in the sons of mortal men in whom there is no health verse 4 For why their breath doth soon departed to earth anon they fall And then the counsels of their heart decay and perish all verse 5 O happy is that man I say whom jacob's God doth aid And he whose hope doth not decay but on the Lord is stayed verse 6 Which made the earth and waters deep the heavens high withal Which doth his word and promise keep in truth and ever shall verse 7 With right always doth he proceed for such as suffer wrong The poor and hungry he doth feed and lose the fetters strong verse 8 The Lord doth send the blind their sight the lame to limbs restore The Lord I say doth love the right and just man evermore verse 9 He doth defend the fatherless and stranger sad in heart And quit the widow from distress and ill men's ways subvert verse 10 Thy Lord and God eternally O Zion still shall reign In time of all posterity for ever to remain Laudate Dominum Psal. cxlvii N. PRaise ye the Lord for it is good unto our God to sing For it is pleasant and to praise it is a comely thing verse 2 The Lord his own Jerusalem he buildeth up alone And the dispersed of Israel doth gather into one verse 3 He heals the broken in their heart their sores up doth he bind verse 4 He counts the number of the stars and names them in their kind verse 5 Great is the Lord great is his power his wisdom infinite verse 6 The Lord relieves the meek and throws to ground the wicked wight verse 7 Sing unto God the Lord with praise unto the Lord rejoice And to our God upon the harp advance your singing voice verse 8 He covers heaven with clouds and for the earth prepareth rain And on the mountains he doth make the grass to grow again verse 9 He gives to beasts their food and to young ravens when they cry verse 10 His pleasure not in strength of horse nor in man's legs doth lie verse 11 But in all those that fear the Lord the Lord hath his delight And such as do attend upon his mercies shining light The second part verse 12 O praise the Lord Jerusalem thy God O Zion praise verse 13 For he the bars hath forged strong wherewith thy gates he stays verse 14 Thy children he hath blessed in thee and in thy borders he Doth settle peace and with the flour of wheat he filleth thee verse 15 And his commandment upon the earth he sendeth out And eke his word with speedy course doth swiftly run about verse 16 He giveth snow like wool hoar-frost like ashes he doth spread verse 17 Like morsels casts his ice thereof the cold who can abide verse 18 He sendeth forth his mightyword and melteth them again His wind he makes to blow and then the waters flow amain verse 19 The doctrine of his holy word to Jacob he doth show His statutes and his judgements he gives Israel to know verse 20 With every nation hath he not so dealt nor have they known His secret judgements ye therefore praise ye the Lord alone Laudate Dominum Psal. cxlviii J. H. GIve laud unto the Lord From heaven that is so high Praise him in deed and word Above the starry sky verse 2 And also ye His angels all Armies royal Praise him with glee verse 3 Praise him both moon and sun Which are so clear and bright The same of you be done Ye glistering stars of light verse 4 And eke no less Ye heavens fair And clouds of the air His laud express verse 5 For at his word they were All form as we see At his voice did appear All things in their degree verse 6 Which he set fast To them he made A law and trade For ay to last verse 7 Extol and praise God's Name On earth ye dragons fell All deeps do ye the same For it becomes ye well verse 8 Him magnify Fire hail ice snow And storms that blow At his decree verse 9 The hills and mountains all And trees that fruitful are The cedars great and tall His worthy praise declare verse 10 Beasts and  Yea birds flying And worms creeping That on earth dwell verse 11 All kings both more and less With all their pompous train Princes and all judges That in the world remain Exalt his Name verse 12 Young men and maids Old men and babes Do ye the same verse 13 For his Name shall we prove To be most excellent Whose praise is far above The earth and firmament verse 14 For sure he shall Exalt with bliss The horn of his And help them all His saints all shall forth tell His praise and worthiness The children of Israel Each one both more and less And also they That with good will His words fulfil And him obey Cantate Domino Psal. cxlix N. SIng ye unto the Lord our God a new rejoicing song And let the praise of him be heard his holy saints among verse 2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him of nothing And let the seed of Zion eke be joyful in their King verse 3 Let them sound praise with voice of fu●● unto his holy Name And with the timbrel and the harp sing praises of the same verse 4 For why the Lord his pleasure all hath in his people set And by deliverance he will raise the meek to glory great verse 5 With glory and with honour now let all his saints rejoice And now aloud upon their beds advance their singing voice verse 6 And in their mouths let be the acts of God the mighty Lord And in their hands eke let them bear a double-edged sword verse 7 To plague the heathen and correct the people with their hands verse 8 To bind their stately kings in chains their lords in iron hands verse 9 To execute on them the doom that written is before This honour all his saints shall have praise ye the Lord therefore Laudate dominum Psal. cl N. Yield unto God the mighty Lord praise in his sanctuary And praise him in the firmament that shows his power on high verse 2 Advance his Name and praise him in his mighty acts always According to his excellency of greatness give him praise verse 3 His praises with the princely noise of sounding trumpets blow Praise him upon the viol and upon the harp also verse 4 Praise him with timbrel and with flute organs and virginals verse 5 With sounding cymbals praise ye him praise him with loud cymbals verse 6 What ever hath the benefit of breathing praise the Lord To praise the Name of God the Lord agree with one accord The end of the Psalms A song to be sung before morning prayer T B. PRraise ye the Lord ye Gentiles all Which hath brought you into his light O praise him all people mortal as it is most worthy and right For he is full determined on us to pour out his mercy And the Lords truth be ye assured abideth perpetually Glory be to God the Father and to Jesus Christ his true Son With th' holy Ghost in like manner now and at every season A song to be sung before evening prayer BEhold now give heed such as be the Lords servants faithful and true Come praise the Lord every degree with such son●s as to him are due O ye that stand in the Lord's house even in our own God mansion Praise ye the Lord so bounteous which worketh our salvation List up your hands in his holy place yea and that in the time of night Praise ye the Lord which gives all grace for he is a Lord of great might Then shall the Lord out of Zion which made heaven & earth by his power Give to you and your nation his blessing mercy and favour Glory be to God the Father etc. The ten Commandments of God Exod. 20. W W. ATtend my people and give ear Of ferly things I will thee tell See that my words in mind thou bear And to my precepts listen well commandment 1 I am thy sovereign Lord and God Which have thee brought from careful thrall And eke reclaimed from Pharaohs rod Make thee no gods on them to call commandment 2 Nor fashioned form of any thing In heaven or earth to worship it For I thy God by revenging With grievous plagues this ●in will smite commandment 3 Take not in vain Gods holy Name Abuse it not after thy will For so thou mightst soon purchase blame And in his wrath he would thee spill commandment 4 The Lord from work the seventh day ceased And brought all things to perfect end So thou and thine that day take rest That to God's hefts ye may attend commandment 5 Unto thy parents honour give As God's commandments do intent That thou long days and good mayst live In earth where God a place doth lend commandment 6 Beware of murder and cruel hate commandment 7 All filthy fornication fear commandment 8 See thou steal not in any rate commandment 9 False witness against no man bear commandment 10 Thy neighbour's house wish not to have His wife or aught that he calls mine His field his ox his ass his slave Or anything which is not thine A Prayer The Spirit of grace grant us O Lord To keep these laws our hearts restore And cause us all with one accord To magnify thy Name therefore For of ourselves no strength we have To keep these laws after thy will Thy might therefore O Christ we crave That we in thee may them fulfil Lord for thy Names sake grant us this Thou art our strength O Saviour Christ Of thee to speed how should we miss In whom our treasure doth consist To thee for evermore be praise With the Father in each respect And with the holy Spirit always The Comforter of thine elect The Lord's Prayer D. Cox OUr Father which in heaven art And makest us all one brotherhood To call upon thee with one heart Our heavenly Father and our God Grant we pray not with lips alone But with our hearts deep sigh and groan Thy blessed Name be sanctified Thy holy word might us inflame In holy life for to abide To magnify thy holy Name From all errors defend and keep The little flock of thy poor sheep Thy kingdom come even at this hour And henceforth everlastingly Thine holy Ghost into us pour With all his gifts most plenteously From Satan's rage and filthy band Defend us with thy mighty hand Thy will be done with diligence Like as in heaven in earth also In trouble grant us patience Thee to obey in wealth and wo. Let not flesh blood or any ill Prevail against thy holy will Give us this day our daily bread And all other good gifts of thine Keep us from war and from bloodshed Also from sickness dearth and pine That we may live in quietness Without all greedy carefulness Forgive us our offences all Relieve our careful conscience As we forgive both great and small Which unto us have done offence Prepare us Lord for to serve thee In perfect love and unity O Lord into temptation Led us not when the fiend doth rage To withstand his invasion Give power and strength to every age Arm and make strong thy feeble host With faith and with the holy Ghost O Lord from evil deliver us The days and times are dangerous From everlasting death save us And in our last need comfort us A blessed end to us bequeath Into thy hands our souls receive For thou O Lord art King of kings And thou hast power over all Thy glory shineth in all things In the wide world universal Amen let it be done O Lord That we have prayed with one accord The twelve Articles of the Christian Faith ALl my belief and confidence is in the Lord of might The Father which all things hath made the day and eke the night The heavens and the firmament and also many a star The earth and all that is therein which pass man's reason far And in like manner I believe in Christ our Lord his Son Coequal with the Deity and man in flesh and bone Con ceived by the holy Ghost his word doth me assure And of his mother Mary born yet she a virgin pure Because mankind to Satan was for sin in bond and thrall He came and offered up himself to death to save us all And suffering most grievous pain than Pilate being judge Was crucified on the cross and thereat did not grudge And so he died in the flesh but quickened in the spirit His body then was buried as is our use and rite His soul did after this descend into the lower parts A dread unto the wicked spirits but joy to faithful hearts And in the third day of his death he risen to life again To th' end he might be glorified out of all grief and pain Ascending to the heavens high to fit in glory still On God's right hand his Father dear according to his will Until the day of judgement come when he shall come again With angel's power yet of that day we all be uncertain To judge all people righteously whom he hath dearly bought The living and the dead also which he hath made of nought And in the holy Spirit of God my faith to satisfy The third person in Trinity believe I steadfastly The holy and catholic Church that God's word doth maintain And holy Scripture doth allow which Satan doth disdain And also I do trust to have by Jesus Christ his death Release and pardon of my sins and that only by faith What time all flesh shall rise again before the Lord of might And see him with their bodily eyes which now do give them light And then shall Christ our Saviour the sheep and goats divide And give life everlastingly to those whom he hath tried Within his realm celestial in glory for to rest With all his holy company of saints and angels blessed Which serve the Lord omnipotent obediently each hour To whom be all dominion and praise for evermore A prayer to the holy Ghost to be sung before the Sermon COme holy Spirit the God of might Comforter of us all Teach us to know thy word aright that we do never fall O holy Ghost visit our coast defend us with thy shield Against all sin and wickedness Lord help us win the field Lord keep our King and his counsel and give them will and might To persevere in thy Gospel which can put sin to flight O Lord that giv'st thy holy word send preachers plenteously That in the same we may accord and therein live and die O holy Spirit direct aright the preachers of thy word That thou by them mayst cut down sin as it were with a sword Depart not from thy pastors pure but aid them at their need Which break to us the bread of life whereon our souls do feed O blessed Spirit of truth keep us in peace and unity Keep us from sects and errors all and from all papistry Convert all those that are our foes and bring them to thy light That they and we may well agree and praise thee day and night O Lord increase our saith in us and love so to abound That man and wife be void of strife and neighbours about us round In our time give thy peace O Lord to nations far and nigh And teach them all thy holy word that we may sing to thee All glory to the Trinity that is of mighties most The living Father and the Son and eke the holy Ghost As it hath been in all the time that hath been heretofore As it is now and so shall be henceforth for evermore Da pacem Domine GIve peace in these our days O Lord Great dangers are now at hand Thine enemies with one accord Christ's Name in every land Seek to deface Root out and raze Thy true right worship indeed Be thou the stay Lord we thee pray Thou helpest alone in all need Give us that peace that we do lack Through misbelief and ill life Thy word to offer thou dost not slack Which we unkindly gain-strive With fire and sword This healthful word Some persecute and oppress Some with the mouth Confess the truth Without sincere godliness Give peace and us thy Spirit down send With grief and repentance true Do pierce our hearts our lives to amend And by faith in Christ renew That fear and dread War and bloodshed Through thy sweet mercy and grace May from us slide Thy truth may bide And shine in every place The Lamentation O Lord in thee is all my trust give ear unto my woeful cry Refuse me not that am unjust but bowing down thy heavenly eye Behold how I do still lament my ●inss wherein I do offend O Lord for them shall I be shent sigh thee to please I do intent No no not so thy will is bend to deal with sinners in thine ire But when in heart they shall repent thou grantest with speed their just desire To thee therefore still shall I cry to wash away my sinful crime Thy blood O Lord is not yet dry but that it may help me in time Haste thee O Lord haste thee I say to pour on me thy gifts of grace That when this life shall flit away in heaven with thee I may have place Where thou dost reign eternally with God which once did down thee send Where angels sing continually to thee be praise world without end A Thanksgiving after the receiving of the Lords Supper THe Lord be thanked for his gifts and mercies evermore That he doth show unto his saints to him be laud therefore Our tongues cannot so praise the Lord as he doth right deserve Our hearts cannot of him so think as he doth us preserve His benefits they be so great to us that be but sin That at our hands for recompense there is no hope to win O sinful flesh that thou shouldst have such mercies of the Lord Thou dost deserve most worthily of him to be abhorred Nought else but sin and wretchedness doth rest within our ●earts And stubbornly against the Lord we daily play our parts The sun above in firmament that is to us a light Doth show itself more clear and pure than we be in his sight The heavens above and all therein more holy are then we They serve the Lord in their estate each one in his degree They do not strive for mastership nor slack their office set But serve the Lord and do his will hate is to them no let Also the earth and all therein of God it is in awe It doth observe the formers will by skilful nature's law The sea and all that is therein doth bent when God doth beck The spirits beneath do tremble all and fear his wrathful check But we alas ●o● whom all these were made them for to rule Do not so know or love the Lord as doth the ox or mule A law he gave for us to know what was his holy will He would us good but we would not avoid the thing is ill Not one of us that seeketh out the Lord of life to please Nor doth the thing that might us lead to Christ and quiet ease Thus are we all his enemies we can it not deny And he again of his good will would not that we should die Therefore when remedy was none to bring us unto life The Son of God our flesh he took to end our mortal strife And all the law of God the Lord he did it full obey And for our sins upon the cross his blood our debts did pay And that we should not yet forget what good he to us wrought A sign he left our eyes to tell that he our bodies bought In bread and wine here visible unto thine eyes and taste His mercies great thou mayst record if that his Spirit thou hast As once the corn did live and grow and was cut down with lithe And threshed out with many stripes out from his husk to drive And as the mill with violence did tear it out so small And made it like to earthly dust not sparing it at all And as the oven with fire hot did close it up with heat And all this done that I have said that it should be our meat So was the Lord in his ripe age cut down by cruel death His soul he gave in torments great and yielded up his breath Because that he to us might be an everlasting bread With much reproach and troubles great on earth his life he led And as the grapes in pleasant time are pressed very sore And plucked down when they be ripe and let to grow no more Because the juice that in them is as comfortable drink We might receive and joyful be when sorrows make us shrink So Christ his blood out pressed was with nails and eke with spear The juice thereof doth save all those that rightly do him fear And as the corns by unity into one loaf are knit So is the Lord and his whole Church though he in heaven sit As many grapes make but one wine so should we be but one In faith and love in Christ above and unto Christ alone Leading a life without all strife in quiet rest and peace From envy and from malice both our hearts and tongues to cease Which if we do then shall we show that we his chosen be By faith in him to lead a life as always willed he And that we may so do indeed God send us all his grace Then after death we shall be sure with him to have a place R. W. PReserve us Lord by thy dear word From Turk and Pope defend us Lord Which both would thrust out of his throne Our Lord Jesus Christ thy dear Son Lord Jesus Christ show forth thy might That thou art Lord of lords by right Thy poor afflicted flock defend That we may praise thee without end God holy Ghost our Comforter Be our patron help and secure Give us one mind and perfect peace All gifts of grace in us increase Thou living God in persons three Thy name be praised in unity In all our need so us defend That we may praise thee without end FINIS PRAYERS A form of prayer to be used in private houses every morning and evening Morning prayer ALmighty God and most merciful Father we do not present ourselves here before thy Majesty trusting in our own merits or worthiness but in thy manifold mercies which hast promised to hear our prayers and grant our requests which we shall make to thee in the name of thy beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord who also hath commanded us to assemble ourselves together in his name with full assurance that he will not only be amongst us but also be our Mediator and Advocate towards thy Majesty that we may obtain all things which shall seem expedient to thy blessed will for our necessities Therefore we beseech thee most merciful Father to turn thy loving countenance towards us and impute not unto us our manifold sins and offences whereby we justly deserve thy wrath and sharp punishment but rather receive us to thy mercy for Jesus Christ's sake accepting his death and passion as a just recompense for all our offences in whom thou art well pleased and through whom thou canst not be offended with us And seeing that of thy great mercies we have quietly passed this night grant O heavenly Father that we may bestow this day wholly in thy service so that all our thoughts words and deeds may redound to the glory of thy great name and good example to all men who seeing our good works may glorify thee our heavenly Father And forasmuch as of thy mere favour and love thou hast not only created us to thine own similitude and likeness but also hast chosen us to be heirs with thy dear Son Jesus Christ of that immortal kingdom which thou preparedst for us from the beginning of the world we beseech thee to increase our faith and knowledge and to lighten our hearts with thy holy Spirit that we may in the mean time live in godly conversation and integrity of life knowing that idolaters adulterers covetous men contentious persons drunkards gluttons and such like shall not inherit the kingdom of God And because thou hast commanded us to pray one for another we do not only make request O Lord for ourselves and for them that thou hast already called to the true understanding of thy heavenly will but for all people and nations of the world who as they know by thy wonderful works that thou art God over all they may be instructed by thy holy Spirit to believe in thee their only Saviour and Redeemer But forasmuch as they cannot believe except they hear nor cannot hear but by preaching and none can preach except they be sent therefore O Lord raise up faithful distributers of thy mysteries who setting apart all worldly respects may both in their life and doctrine only seek thy glory Contrarily confound Satan and Antichrist with all hirelings whom thou hast already cast off into a reprobate sense that they may not by sects schisms heresies and errors disquiet thy little flock And because O Lord we be fallen into the latter days and dangerous times wherein ignorance hath gotten the upper hand and Satan by his ministers seeketh by all means to quench the light of thy gospel we beseech thee to maintain thy cause against those ravening wolves and strengthen all thy servants whom they keep in prison and bondage Let not thy long-suffering be an occasion either to increase their tyranny or to discourage thy children neither yet let our sins and wickedness be an hindrance to thy mercies but with speed O Lord consider these great miseries For thy people Israel many times by their sins provoked thine anger and thou punishedst them by thy just judgement yet though their sins were never so grievous if they once returned from their iniquity thou receivedst them to mercy We therefore most wretched sinners bewail our manifold sins and earnestly repent us of our former wickedness and ungodly behaviour towards thee and whereas we cannot of ourselves purchase thy pardon yet we humbly beseech thee for Jesus Christ's sake to show thy mercies upon us & receive us again to thy favour Grant us dear Father these our requests and all other things necessary for us and thy whole Church according to thy promise in Jesus Christ our Lord In whose name we beseech thee as he hath taught us saying Our Father which art etc. Evening prayer O Lord God Father everlasting and full of pity we acknowledge and confess that we be not worthy to lift up our eyes to heaven much less to present ourselves before thy Majesty with confidence that thou wilt hear our prayers and grant our requests if we consider our own deservings for our consciences do accuse us and our sins do witness against us and we know that thou art an upright Judge which dost not justify the sinners and wicked men but punishest the faults of all such as transgress thy commandments yet most merciful Father since it hath pleased thee to command us to call on thee in all our troubles and adversities promising even then to help us when we feel ourselves as it were swallowed up of death and desperation we utterly renounce all worldly confidence and the to thy sovereign bounty as our only stay and refuge beseeching thee not to call to remembrance our manifold sins and wickedness whereby we continually provoke thy wrath and indignation against us neither our negligence and unkindness which have neither worthily esteemed nor in our lives sufficiently expressed the sweet comfort of thy gospel revealed unto us but rather to accept the obedience and death of thy Son Jesus Christ who by offering up his body in sacrifice once for all hath made a sufficient recompense for all our sins Have mercy therefore upon us O Lord and forgive us our offences Teach us by thy holy Spirit that we may rightly weigh them and earnestly repent us for the same And so much the rather O Lord because that the reprobate and such as thou hast forsaken cannot praise thee nor call upon thy name but the repenting heart the sorrowful mind the conscience oppressed hungering and thirsting for thy grace shall ever set forth thy praise and glory And albeit we be but worms and dust yet thou art our Creator and we be the work of thy hands yea thou art our Father and we thy children thou art our Shepherd and we thy flock thou art our Redeemer and we thy people whom thou hast bought thou art our God and we thine inheritance Correct us not therefore in thine anger O Lord neither according to our deserts punish us but mercifully chastise us with a fatherly affection that all the world may know that at what time so ever a sinner doth repent him of his sins from the bottom of his heart thou wilt put away all his wickedness out of thy remembrance as thou hast promised by thy holy prophet Finally forasmuch as it hath pleased thee to make the night for man to rest in as thou hast ordained him the day to travail in grant O dear Father that we may so take our bodily rest that our souls may continually watch for the time that our Lord Jesus Christ shall appear for our deliverance out of this mortal life and in the mean season that we not overcome by any fantasies dreams or other temptations may fully set our minds upon thee love thee fear thee and rest in thee furthermore that our sleep be not excessive or overmuch after the insatiable desires of the flesh but only sufficient to content our weak nature that we may be the better disposed to live in all godly conversation to the glory of thy most holy name and the profit of our brethren So be it A godly prayer to be said at all times HOnour and praise be given to thee O Lord God almighty most dear Father of heaven for all thy mercies and loving kindness showed unto us in that it hath pleased thy gracious goodness freely and of thine own accord to elect and choose us to salvation before the beginning of the world and even like continual thanks be given to thee for creating us after thine own image for redeeming us with the precious blood of thy dear Son when we were utterly lost for sanctifying us with thy holy Spirit in the revelation and knowledge of thy holy word for helping and succouring us in all our needs and necessities for saving us from all dangers of body and soul for comforting us so fatherly in all our tribulations and persecutions for sparing us so long and giving us so large a time of repentance These benefits O most merciful Father like as we acknowledge to have received them of thy only goodness even so we beseech thee for thy dear Son Jesus Christ's sake grant us always thy holy Spirit that we may continually grow in thankfulness towards thee to be led in all truth and comforted in all our adversities O Lord strengthen our faith kindle it more in ferventness and love towards thee and our neighbours for thy sake Suffer us not most dear Father to receive thy word any more in vain but grant us always the assistance of thy grace and holy Spirit that in heart word and deed we may sanctify and do worship to thy name help to amplify and increase thy kingdom and whatsoever thou sendest we may be hearty well content with thy good pleasure and will Let us not lack the thing O Father without the which we cannot serve thee but bless thou so all the works of our hands that we may have sufficient and not be chargeable but rather helpful to others Be merciful O Lord to our offences and seeing our debt is great which thou hast forgiven us in Jesus Christ make us to love thee and our neighbours so much the more Be thou our Father our captain and defender in all temptations hold thou us by thy merciful hand that we may be delivered from all inconveniences and end our lives in the sanctifying and honouring of thy holy name through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour So be it Let thy mighty hand and outstretched arm O Lord be still our defence thy mercy and loving kindness in Jesus Christ thy dear Son our salvation thy true and holy word our instruction thy grace and holy Spirit our comfort and consolation unto the end and in the end So be it O Lord increase our faith A confession for all estates and times O Eternal God and most merciful Father we confess and acknowledge here before thy divine Majesty that we are miserable sinners conceived and born in sin and iniquity so that in us there is no goodness For the flesh evermore rebelleth against the spirit whereby we continually transgress thy holy precepts and commandments and so purchase to ourselves through thy just judgement death and damnation Notwithstanding O heavenly Father forasmuch as we are displeased with ourselves for the sins the we have committed against thee and do unfeignedly repent us of the same we most humbly beseech thee for Jesus Christ's sake to show thy mercy upon us to forgive us all our sins and increase thy holy Spirit in us that we acknowledging from the bottom of our hearts our own unrighteousness may from henceforth not only mortify our sinful lusts and affections but also bring forth such fruits as may be agreeable to thy most blessed will not for the worthiness thereof but for the merits of thy dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our only Saviour whom thou hast already given an oblation and offering for our sins and for whose sake we are certainly persuaded that thou wilt deny us nothing that we shall ask in his name according to thy will for thy Spirit doth assure our consciences that thou art our merciful Father and so lovest us thy children through him that nothing is able to remove thy heavenly grace and favour from us To thee therefore O Father with thy Son and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen A prayer to be said before a man begin his work O Lord God most merciful Father and Saviour seeing it hath pleased thee to command us to travail that we may relieve our need we beseech thee of thy grace so to bless our labours that thy blessing may extend unto us without the which we are not able to continue and that this great favour may be a witness unto us of thy bountifulness and assistance so that thereby we may know the fatherly care that thou hast over us Moreover O Lord we beseech thee that thou wouldst strengthen us with thy holy Spirit that we may faithfully travail in our estate and vocation without fraud or deceit and that we may endeavour ourselves to follow thy holy ordinance rather than to seek to satisfy our greedy affections or desire to gain And if it please thee O Lord to prosper our labour give us a mind also to help them that have need according to that ability that thou of thy mercy shalt give us And knowing that all good things come of thee grant that we may humble ourselves to our neighbours and not by any means lift up ourselves above them which have not received so liberal a portion as thou of thy mercy hast given unto us And if it please thee to try and exercise us by greater poverty and need then our flesh would desire that thou wouldst yet O Lord grant us grace to know that thou wilt nourish us continually through thy bountiful liberality that we be not so tempted that we fall into distrust but that we may patiently wait till thou fill us not only with corporal graces and benefits but chief with thy heavenly and spiritual treasures to the intent that we may always have more ample occasion to give thee thanks and so wholly to rest upon thy mercies Hear ●ss O Lord of mercy through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord and Saviour Amen A prayer for the whole estate of Christ's Church ALmighty God and most merciful Father we humbly submit ourselves and fall down before thy divine Majesty beseeching thee from the bottom of our hearts that the seed of thy word now sown amongst us may take such deep root that neither the burning heat of persecution cause it to whither neither the thorny cares of this life choke it but that as seed sown in good ground it may bring forth thirty sixty and an hundre●-fold as thy heavenly wisdom hath appointed And because we have need continually to crave many things at thy hands we humbly beseech thee O heavenly Father to grant us thy holy Spirit to direct our petitions that they may proceed from such a fervent mind as may be agreeable to thy most blessed will And seeing that our infirmity is able to do nothing without thy help and that thou art not ignorant with how many and great temptations we poor wretches are on every side enclosed and compassed let thy strength O Lord sustain our weakness that we being defended with the force of thy grace may be safely preserved against all assaults of Satan who goeth about continually like a roaring lion seeking to devour us Increase our faith O merciful Father that we do not swerve at any time from thy heavenly word but augment in us hope and love with a careful keeping of all thy commandments that no hardness of heart no hypocrisy no concupiscence of the eyes nor enticements of the world do draw us away from thy obedience And seeing we live now in these most perilous times let thy fatherly providence defend us against the violence of our enemies which do seek by all means to oppress thy truth Furthermore forasmuch as by thy holy Apostle we be taught to make our prayers and supplications for all men we pray not only for ourselves here present but beseech thee also to reduce all such as be yet ignorant from the miserable captivity of blindness and error to the pure understanding and knowledge of thy heavenly truth that we all with one consent and unity of mind may worship thee our only God and Saviour and that all pastors shepherds and ministers to whom thou hast committed the dispensation of thy holy word and charge of thy chosen people may both in their life and doctrine be found faithful setting only before their eyes thy glory and that by them all poor sheep which wander and go astray may be gathered and brought home to thy fold Moreover because the hearts of all rulers are in thy hands we beseech thee to direct and govern the hearts of all kings princes and magistrates to whom thou hast committed the sword Especially O Lord according to our bounden duty we beseech thee to maintain and increase the honourable estate of the King's majesty and all his most noble counsellors and magistrates with all the spiritual pastors and ministers and all the whole body of this common-weal Let thy fatherly favour so preserve them and thy holy Spirit so govern their hearts that they may in such sort execute their office that thy religion may be purely maintained manners reform and sin punished according to the precise rule of thy holy word And for that we be all members of the mystical body of Jesus Christ we make our requests unto thee O heavenly Father for all such as are afflicted with any kind of cross or tribulation as war plague famine sickness poverty imprisonment persecution banishment or any other kind of thy rods whether it be calamity of body or vexation of mind that it would please thee to give them patience and constancy till thou send them full deliverance out of all their troubles Root out from hence O Lord all ravening wolves which to fill their bellies seek to destroy thy flock And show thy great mercies upon those our brethren in other countries which are persecuted cast into prison and daily condemned for the testimony of thy truth and although they be utterly destitute of all man's aid yet let thy sweet comfort never departed from them but so inflame their hearts with thy holy Spirit that they may boldly and cheerfully abide such trial as thy good wisdom shall appoint so that at length as well by their death as by their life the kingdom of thy dear Son Jesus Christ may increase and shine through all the world In whose name we make our humble petitions unto thee as he hath taught us Our Father which art etc. The confession of the Christian Faith I Believe and confess my Lord God eternal infinite unmeasurable incomprehensible and invisible one in substance and three in person Father Son and holy Ghost who by his almighty power and wisdom hath not only of nothing created heaven and earth and all things therein contained and man after his own image that he might in him be glorified but also by his fatherly providence governeth maintaineth and preserveth the same according to the purpose of his will I believe also and confess Jesus Christ the only Saviour and Messiah who being equal with God made himself of no reputation but took on him the shape of a servant and became man in all things like unto us except sin to assure us of mercy and forgiveness For when through our father Adam's transgression we were become children of perdition there was no means to bring us from the yoke of sin and damnation but only Jesus Christ our Lord who giving us that by grace which was his by nature made us through faith the children of God Who when the fullness of time was come was conceived by the power of the holy Ghost born of the virgin Mary according to the flesh and preached in earth the Gospel of salvation till at length by tyranny of the priests he was guiltless condemned under Pontius Pilate then Precedent of Jewry and most slanderously hanged on the cross between two thiefs as a notorious trespasser where taking upon him the punishment of our sins he delivered us from the curse of the law And forasmuch as he being only God could not feel death neither being only man could overcome death he joined both together and suffered his humanity to be punished with most cruel death feeling in himself the anger and severe judgement of God even as he had been in extreme torments of hell and therefore cried with a loud voice My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Thus of his mercy without compulsion he offered up himself as the only sacrifice to purge the sins of all the world So that all other sacrifices for sin are blasphemous and derogate from the sufficiency hereof Which death albeit it did sufficiently reconcile us to God yet the Scriptures commonly do attribute our regeneration to his resurrection For as by rising again from the grave the third day he conquered death even so the victory of our faith standeth in his resurrection and therefore without the one we cannot feel the benefits of the other For as by his death sin was taken away so our righteousness was restored by his resurrection And because he would accomplish all things and take possession for us in his kingdom he ascended into heaven to enlarge the same kingdom by the abundant power of his Spirit by whom we are most assured of his continual intercession towards God the Father for us And although he be in heaven as touching his corporal presence where the Father hath now set him at his right hand committing unto him the administration of all things as well in heaven above as in the earth beneath yet is he present with us his members even to the end of the world in preserving and governing us with his effectual power and grace Who when all things are fulfilled which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his prophets since the world began will come in the same visible form in the which he ascended with an unspeakable majesty power and company to separate the lambs from the goats the elect from the reprobate so that none whether he be alive then or dead before shall escape his judgement Moreover I believe and confess the holy Ghost God equal with the Father and the Son who regenerateth and sanctifieth us ruleth and guideth us unto all truth persuading most assuredly in our consciences that we be the children of God brethren to Jesus Christ and fellow heirs with him of life everlasting Yet notwithstanding it is not sufficient to believe that God is omnipotent and merciful that Christ hath made satisfaction or that the holy Ghost hath his power and effect except we do apply the same benefits to us which are Gods elect I believe therefore and confess one holy Church which as members of Jesus Christ the only Head thereof consent in faith hope and charity using the gifts of God whether they be temporal or spiritual to the profit and furtherance of the same Which Church is not seen to man's eye but only known to God who of the lost sons of Adam hath ordained some as vessels of wrath to damnation and hath chosen others as vessels of his mercy to be saved the which in due time he calleth to integrity of life and godly conversation to make them a glorious Church in himself But that Church which is visible and seen to the eye hath three tokens and marks whereby it may be known First the word of God contained in the old and new Testament Which as it is above the authority of the same Church and only sufficient to instruct us in all things concerning salvation so is it left for all degrees of men to read and understand For without this word neither Church Council nor Decree can establish any point touching salvation The second is the holy Sacraments to wit of Baptism and the Lords Supper Which Sacraments Christ hath left unto us as holy signs and leals of his promises For as by Baptism once received is signified that we as well infants as others of age and discretion being strangers from God by original sin are received into his family and congregation with full assurance that although this root of sin lie hid in us yet to the elect it shall not be imputed so the Supper declareth that God as a most provident Father doth not only feed our bodies but also spiritually nourisheth our souls with the graces and benefits of Jesus Christ which the Scripture calleth eating of his flesh and drinking of his blood Neither must we in the administration of these Sacraments follow man's fantasy but as Christ himself hath ordained so must they be ministered and by such as by ordinary vocation are thereunto called Therefore whosoever reserveth and worshippeth these Sacraments or contrariwise contemneth them in time and place procureth to himself damnation The third mark of this Church is Ecclesiastical Discipline which standeth in admonition and correction of faults The final end whereof is excommunication by the consent of the Church determined if the offender be obstinate And besides this Ecclesiastical Discipline I acknowledge to belong to this Church a politic magistrate who ministereth to every man justice defending the good and punishing the evil to whom we must render honour and obedience in all things which are not contrary to the word of God And as Moses Ezechias Josias and other good rulers purged the Church of God from superstition and idolatry so the defence of Christ's Church appertaineth to Christian magistrates against all idolaters and heretics as Papists Anabaptists with such like limbs of Antichrist to root out all doctrine of devils and men as the mass purgatory limbus patrum prayers to saints and for the dead freewill distinction of meats apparel and days vows of single life presence at idol-service man's merits with such like which draw us from the society of Christ's Church wherein standeth only remission of sins purchased by Christ's blood to all them that believe whether they be Jews or Gentiles and lead us to a vain confidence in creatures and trust in our own imaginations The punishment whereof although God oftentimes deferreth in this life yet after the general resurrection when our souls and bodies shall rise again to immortality they shall be damned to unquenchable fire and then we which have forsaken all men's wisdom to cleave unto Christ shall hear the joyful voice Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world and so shall go triumphing with him in body and soul to remain everlastingly in glory where we shall see God face to face and shall no more need to instruct one another we shall all know him from the highest to the lowest To whom with the Son and the holy Ghost be all praise honour and glory now and ever So be it FINIS A Table for the whole Number of Psalms and also in what leaf you may find every of them Psalm A Folio 30 ALl laud and praise 7 49 All people 10 78 Attend my people 16 82 Amid the preass 17 100 All people that 20   B   81 BE light and glad 17 119 Blessed are they 24 128 Blessed art thou 27 134 Behold and have 27 142 Before the Lord 28 144 Blessed be the Lord 28   D   83 DO not O God 17   E   127 EXcept the Lord 26   G   29 GIve to the Lord 7 37 Grudge not to see 8 48 Great is the Lord 10 54 God save me for 11 105 Give praises unto 21 107 Give thanks unto 22 148 Give laud unto 29   H   12 HElp Lord for 4 13 How long will 4 51 Have mercy on me 11 56 Have mercy Lord 12 67 Have mercy on us 13 73 How ever it be 15 84 How pleasant is 17 91 He that within 19   I   5 INcline thine ears 3 11 I trust in God 4 20 In trouble and 5 25 I lift my heart 6 34 I will give laud 7 39 I said I will 9 40 I waited long 9 43 Judge and revenge 9 77 I with my voice 15 92 It is a thing 19 100 In God the Lord 20 101 I mercy will and 20 109 In speechless 23 116 I love the Lord 23 120 In trouble and in 26 121 I lift mine eyes 26 122 I did in heart 26   L   6 LOrd in thy 3 16 Lord keep 4 26 Lord be my Judge 6 35 Lord plead my 8 42 Like as the hart 9 68 Let God arise 13 72 Lord give thy 14 86 Lord bow thine 17 88 Lord God of 18 ●30 Lord to thee 27 140 Lord save me 28 143 Lord hear my 28   M   23 MY shepherd is 6 45 My heart doth 10 62 My soul to God 13 71 My Lord my God 14 103 My soul give laud 20 104 My soul praise the 21 146 My soul praise thou 29   N   115 NOt unto us 23 124 Now Israel 26   O   3 O Lord how are 3 4 O God that art 3 7 O Lord my God 3 8 O God our Lord 3 15 O Lord within thy 4 17 O Lord give eat 4 18 O God my strength 5 21 O Lord how joyful 5 22 O God my God 5 31 O Lord I put my 7 Psalms   Folio 44 Our ears have heard 9 51 O Lord consider 11 55 O God give ear 12 60 O Lord thou didst 12 63 O God my God 13 64 O Lord unto my 13 70 O God to me 14 79 O God the Gentiles 16 94 O Lord thou dost 19 95 O come let us 19 98 O sing ye now 20 102 O hear my prayer 20 108 O God my heart 22 117 O all ye national 24 118 O give ye thanks 24 123 O Lord that 26 129 Oft they now 27 131 O Lord I am not 27 133 O how happy a thing 27 135 O praise the Lord 27 136 O laud the Lord 27 139 O Lord thou hast 28 141 O Lord upon thee 28   P   38 PUt me not to 8 106 Praise ye the Lord 21 136 Praise ye the Lord 27 147 Praise ye the Lord 29   R   61 REgard O Lord 12 132 Remember david's 27   S   59 SEnd aid and save me 12 69 Save me O God 14 96 Sing ye with praise 19 125 Such as in God 26 149 Sing ye unto 29   T   1 THe man is blessed that hath 3 14 There is no God 4 19 The heavens and 5 23 The Lord is only 6 24 The earth is all 6 27 The Lord is both 6 28 Thou art O Lord 6 32 The man is blessed 7 36 The wicked with 8 41 The man is blessed that careful 9 46 The Lord is our 10 50 The mighty God 10 50 The God of gods 11 53 The foolish man 11 57 Take pity for thy 12 65 Thy praise alone 13 76 To all that now in 15 80 Thou Herd that 16 85 Thou hast been 17 87 That city shall 18 89 To sing the mercies 18 90 Thou Lord hast been 18 93 The Lord as King doth 19 97 The Lord doth reign 20 99 The Lord doth reign 20 110 The Lord did say 23 112 The man is blessed 23 125 Those that do put 26 138 Thee will I praise 28 145 Thee will I laud 29   U   75 UNto thee God 15   W   2 WHy did the Gentiles 3 9 With heart and 3 10 What is the cause 4 52 Why dost thou tyrant 11 74 Why art thou Lord 1● 111 With heart I do 23 114 When Israel by 23 126 When that the Lord 26 137 When as we sat 28   Y   33 YE righteous in 7 47 The people all with 10 53 Ye rulers that 12 66 Ye men on earth 13 113 Ye children which 23 150 Yield unto God 29 The●e ye shall have in the beginning of the psalms VEni Creater Spiritus The humble suit of a sinner Venite exulte●ius Te Deum laudamus The song of the three children Penedictus Magnificat anima mea Nune dimittis Quicunque vult The lamentation of a sinner The Pater noster The ten Commandments The complaint of a sinner These ye shall have after the end of the psalms PRaise ye the Lord ye Gentiles Behold now give good heed Attend my people The Lord's prayer The Creed A prayer to the holy Ghost Da pacem O Lord in thee is all my A Thanksgiving Preserve us lord FINIS