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P the Lord, for he is good,

for his mercy endureth for ever. a Give praife unto the God of gods,

&c.

for his mercy, 3 Give praife unto the Lord of lords, for his mercy, &c.

4 Who only doth great wondrous works, for his mercy,.&c.

5 Who by his wifdom made the heav'ns, for his mercy, &c.

6 Who on the waters ftretch'd the earth, for his mercy, &c.

7Who made great lights to fhine abroad, for his mercy, &c.

8 The fun to rule the fightfome day, for his mercy, &c.

The moon and ftars to rule the night, for his mercy, &c.

10 Who Egypt (mote with their firft born, for his mercy, &c.

And Ifrael brought out from thence, for his mercy, &c.

12 With mighty hand and out Aretched arm, for his mercy, &c.

13 Who cut the Red lea in two parts, for his mercy, &c.

14 And Ifrael made to pafs through, for his mercy, &c.

15 And drowned Pharaoh and his hoft, for his mercy, &c.

16 Through wildernefs his people led, for his mercy, &c.

17 Who did finite great and noble kings, for his mercy, &c.

18 Yea, and alfo flew mighty kings, &c.

for his mercy,

19 Sehon king of the Amorites,

for his mercy,

&c.

20 And Og the king of Bafan-land,

for his mercy, &c.

21 And gave their land for heritage, for his mercy, &c.

22 Even to his fervant Ifrael, for his mercy, &c.

23 Remembring us in low eftate, for his mercy, &c.

24 And from oppreflours refcu'd us, for his mercy, &c.

25 Who giveth food unto all Refh, for his mercy, &c.

26 Praife ye the Lord of heav'n above, for his mercy, &c.

27 Give thanks unto the Lord of lords, for h's mercy endureth for ever.

Another of the fame by T. C.

Laud the Lord benign,
Whofe mercy ne'er decays:
Give thanks and praifes fing
To God of gods always.
For certainly

His mercies dure
Both firm and fures

Eternally,

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2 The Lord of lords praise ye;
Whofe mercies ever dure:
Great wonders only he
Doth by his power fure,
For certainly, &c.

3 Which God omnipotent
By his great wifdom he
The heaven and firmament
Did frame as we may fee,
For certainly &c.

4 Yea, he the heavy charge
Of all the earth did lay
Upon the waters large
Remaining to this day,
For certainly &c.

5 Great lights he made, for why?
His mercy lafts alway:
The fin moft gloriously,
To rule the lightfom day,
For certainly, &c.

6 Alfo the moon fo clear,
Which fhineth in our fight,
And ftars that do appear
To guide the darksome night,
For certainly &c.

7 With grievous plagues and fore
All Egypt finote he then :
The firit born less and more
He flew of beats and men,
For certainly &c.

8 And from amidit their land
His Ifrael forth brought:
Which he with mighty hand
And out-ftretch'd arm hath wrought,
For certainly, &c.

9 The fea he cut in two
Which stood up like a wall,
And made through it to go
His chofen children all,
For certainly, &c.

10 But overwhelm'd there then
The haughty king Phar'oh,
With his huge hoft of men
And chariots alfo,

For certainly, &c.

11 Who led through wilderness,
His people fafe and found:
And for his love endless

Great kings he brought to ground,
For certainly, &c.

12 And with puiffant hand
Slew kings of mighty fame:
As of the Amoritesland
Sehon the king by name,
For certainly, &c.

13 And Og (the giant large)
Of Bafan king alfo:
Whofe land for heritage
He gave his people to,
For certainly, &c.

14 Even unto Ifrael

His fervant dear, I fay,

That he therein might dwell,
And there abide alway,

For certainly, &c.

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15 Who us remembred when
In our moft low degree:
And from oppreffours then
In fafety let us free,
For certainly, &c.

16 Who doth all flesh with food
Abundantly fupply:
Wherefore let God moft good
Be prais'd incefiantly;
For certainly
His mercies dure
Both firm and fure
Eternally.

PSA L. CXXXVII. W. W.

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Hen we did fit in Babylon the rivers round about: Then in remembrance of Sion the tears for grief burst out:

We hang'd our harps and inftruments the willow trees upon :

For in that place men for their use had planted many a one.

Then they to whom we priforers were faid to us tauntingly,

Now let us hear your Hebrew fongs and pleasant melody.

Alas! faid we, who can once frame
his heavy heart to fing

The praifes of our loving God,
this under a range king?
But yet if I Jerufalem
out of my heart let flide:

Then let my fingers quite forget-
the warbling harp to guide.

5 And let my tongue within my mouth
be ty'd for ever faft,
fI rejoyce before I fee
thy full delivrance paft.

Therefore, O Lord, remember now
the curfed noife and cry
That Edom's fons against us made,
when they ras'd our city.

3 Remember, Lord, their cruel words, when with a mighty found

They cried, Down, yea, down with it unto the very ground.

Even fo fhalt thou, O Babylon,
at length to duft be brought:
And happy thall that man be call'd,
that our revenge hath wrought.

to Yea, bieffed thall that man be call'd,
that takes thy little ones
nd dafheth them in pieces small
against the very ftones.

TS A L. CXXXVIII. N.

Hee will I praife with my whole heart,
Thy Lord my God always:
Even in the prefence of the gods
I will advance thy praife.
Towards thy holy temple I.
will look and worship thee:
And praifed in my thankful mouth
thy holy Name fhall be

3 Even for thy loving kindness fake and for thy truth withal:

For thourthy Name haft by thy word
advanced over all.

4 When I did call, thou heardest me,
and thou haft made alfo
The power of increased ftrength
within my foul to grow.

Yea, all the kings on earth fhall give
praife unto thee, O Lord:
For they of thy mort holy mouth
have heard the mighty word.
6 They of the ways of God the Lord
in finging fhall repeat:
Because the glory of the Lord
is fo exceeding great.

7 The Lord is high, but yet he doth the lowly man refpec:

The proud he knows far off, and them
with fcorn he doth reie&.

8 Although in midit of trouble I
do walk, yet fhall I ftand
Reviv'd by thee, for thou, O Lord,
wilt stretch out thy right hand.
9 Upon the wrath of all my foes,
and faved fhail I be

By the right hand, the Lord God will
perform his work to me.

10 Thy mercies lait for evermore
Lord, do me not forlake:
Forfake me not who am the work
which thy own hand did make.

PSA L. CXXXIX. N.

Lord, thou haft me try'd and know
mitting down doit know

My riling up and thoughts far off,
thou understand'it alfo.

2 My path, yea, and my bed likewic
thou art about always:
And by familiar cuftom art

acquainted with my ways.
3 No word is in my tongue, O Lord,
that is not known to thee:
Thou haft befet me round about
and laid thy hand on me.

4 Such knowledge is too wonderful
and pait my skill to gain:
It is fo high that I unto
the fame cannot attain.
5 From thy all-feeing Spirit then,
Lord, whither fhall I go":
Or whither fhall I fly away
from thy prefence alfo?"
6 For if to heaven I do climb up,
lo, thou art prefent there:
In hell if I lie down below,
e'en there thou dost appear.

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7 Yea, let me take the morning wings; ~
and let me go and dwell
Even in the very utmost parts
where flowing fea doth fwell:
8 Yet, certainly there alfo fhall
thy hand me lead and guide:
And thy right hand thall hold me faft,
and make me to abide.

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9 Or if I fay the darkness thali
throud me quite from thy fight
Even then the night that is molt dark,
about me fhall be light.

10 The darkness hideth not from thee,
bat night doth fhine as day:
To thee the darkness and the light
are both alike alway.

The Second Part.

11 For thou pofieffed haft my reins,
and thou didit cover me,
Within my mothers womb when I'
was there enclos'd by thee.
12 Thee will I praife, made fearfully
and wondrouilly I am:

Thy works are marvellous, right well
foul doth know the fame.

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13 My bones they are not hid from thee, altho in fecret place

I have been made, and in the earth
beneath I fhaped was.

14 When I was formiefs, then thy eye
faw me, for in thy book
Were all my members written and
nought after fashion took.

15 The thoughts therefore of thee, O God,
how dear are, they to me!
And of them all, how very great
the endless number be?

16 If I fhould count them, lo, their fum
more than the fand they be:
And whenfoever I awake'

I prefent am with thee.
17 The wicked and ungodly thou
moit certainly wilt flay:
Therefore now all ye bloody men
depart from me away.

18 Thefe are the men, O Lord, who speak moft wickedly of thee,

And take thy Name in vain, because thy enemies they be.

19 Hate I not them that hate thee, Lord,

and that in earnett wife?

Am I not grieved with all thofe that up against thee rife?

20 I hate them with a perfect hate,
even as my utter foes.

Try me, O God, and know my heart
my thoughts prove and difclofe.
21 Confider, Lord, if wickedness
in me there any be:

And in thy way, O God my guide,
for ever lead thou me.

PSA L. CXL. N.

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Free from the cruel man that means

to cafe my steps to flide.
4 The pro id have laid a fare for me,
and they have fpread a net
With cords in my path-way, and gins
for me alfo have fet.

f Therefore I faid unto the Lord,
thou art my God alone.
Here me therefore, O hear the voice
wherewith pray and mone
60 Lord my God, thou only art
the ftrength that faveth me:
My heat in day of battel hath
been cover'd itill by thee.

7 Let not, O Lord, the wicked have
the end of his defire :
Perform not his ill thought, left he
with pride be fet on fire.

8 Of them that compafs me about,
the chiefelt of them all,
Lord, let the mifchief of their lips
pon their own heads fall.

9 Let coals fall on them, let them be
caft in confuming dame,
And in deep pit, that never they
may rife out of the fame.
10 For no backbiters thall on car
be fet in ftable plight:
And evil to destruction still
fhall hunt the cruel wight.
II I know the Lord th'affitted will
revenge and judge the poor:
The juft fhall praife thy Name and thall
dwell with thee evermore.

PSA L. CXLI. N.

Lord, upon thee do I call,
then hafte thee unto me:
And hearken thou unto my voice
when I do cry to thee.

2 As incenfe let my prayers ftill be
directed in thy eyes,
And the uplifting of my hands
as evening facrifice.

3 For guiding of my mouth, O Lord
fet thou a watch before:
And alfo of my moving lips.

O Lord, keep thou the door.

4 That I should wicked works commit,
incline thou not my heart:
With ill men of their delicates,

Lord, let me eat no part.

5 But let the righteous finite me, Lord,
for that is good for me:

Let him reprove me, and the fame
3 precious oyl fhall be.

6 Such fmiting (hall not break my head,
the time thall shortly fall,
When I fhall in their mifery
fend prayers up for them all.

7 And when in ftony places down
their judges fhall be caft,

Then fhall they hear my words, because,
they have a pleasant tafte.

8 Our bones about the pits mouth sre
all fcattered and found,

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As when one breaketh and doth hew the wood upon the ground.

9 But, O my Lord and God, my eyes do look up unto thee:

In thee is all my trust, let not my foul forfaken be:

10 Keep and preferve me from the nare
which they for me have laid:
And from the gins of wicked men,
whereof I am afraid.

11 The wicked into their own nets
together let them fall,
While I do by thy help escape,
the danger of them all.

PSA L. CXLII. N.

Nto the Lord God with my voice
I did send out my cry:

And with my itrained voice unto
the Lord God prayed I.
2 My meditation in his fight
to pour I did not fpare:
And in the prefence of the Lord
my trouble did declare.
3 Altho perplexed was my foul,
my path was known to thee:
In way where I did walk, a fnare
they flily laid for me.

4 look'd and view'd on my right hand,

but none there would me know:

All refuge failed me, and for my foul none care did show. Then cried I to thee and faid O Lord, my hope thou art: And in the land of the living my portion, and my part.

6 Hear now my cry, for I am brought full low, deliver me

From them that do me perfecute, for me too trong they be.

That I may praife thy Name, my foul from prifon, Lord, bring out: When thou art good to me the just thall compafs me about.

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PSA L. CXLIII. N.

Yea, I do mufe upon the works
that thy hands have create.
6 To thee, O Lord my God, do I
tretch forth my craving hands:
My foul defireth after thee
as do the thirty lands.

7 Hear me with fpeed, my spirit fails,
hide not thy face, leit I
Be like to them that in the pit
fink down, and there do lie
8 Let me thy loving kindness in
the morning hear and know:
For in thee is my truit, fhew me,
the way that I should go.
9 For unto thee I lift my foul,
O Lord, deliver me
From all mine enemies, for I
have hid my felf with thee.
10 Teach me to do thy will, for thou,
thou art my God alway.

Let thy good fpirit to the land

Ord, hear my prayer, and my complaint

which I do make to thee:

And in thy native truth, and in thy justice anfwer me.

2 In judgment with thy fervant, Lord, O enter not at all:

For juftify'd be in thy fight

not one that liveth fhall.

3 The enemy purfu'd my foul,
my life to ground hath thrown,
And laid me in the dark like them
that are to grave gone down.
4 Therefore my fpirit in me is
in great perplexity:
My heart within me is alfo
amited grievoufly.

Yet I record time paft, and on
thy works Imeditate;

of mercy me convey.

11 For thy Name's fake with quickning grace alive do thou me make:

And out of trouble bring my foul, even for thy juftice fake.

12 And of thy mercy flay my foes, let them deftroyed be

That do opprefs my foul, for I a fervant am to thee.

PSA L. CXLIV. N.

Bleft be the Lord my Arength that doth

inftru& my hands to fight:

The Lord that doth my fingers frame to battel by his might.

2 He is my hope, my fort, and tower deliverer and thiela:

In him I trait; my people he fubdues to me to yield.

3 O Lord, what thing is man, that him
thou doft fo highly prize

Or fon of man, that upon him
thou thinkeft in fuch wife?
4 Man is but like to vanity,
fo país his days to end

As fleeting thade. Bow down, O Lord,

the heavens and thence defcend.

The mountains touch,and they shall smoke caft forth thy lightning flame, And featter them; thy arrows fhoot, confume them with the fame.

Send down thy hand from heav'n above
O Lord, deliver me:

Take me from waters great, from hand
of frangers fet me free.

Whofe fubtil mouth of vanity, with flattering words doth treat: And their right hand is a right hand of falfhood and deceit. 8 A new fong will I fing, to thee, O God the Lord most high And on a ten fring'd-lute alfo praife thee moit joyfully.

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Even he it is that only gives deliverance to kings:

Unto his fervant David help

from hurtful fword he brings.

The Lord upholdeth them that fall, their fliding he doth stay.

II The eyes of all do wait on thee, thou doft them all relieve:

10 From strangers hand me fave and fhield And thou to each fufficing food

whofe mouth talks vanity:
And their right hand is a right hand
of guile and fubtilty.

II That fo our fons may be as plants
which growing youth doth rear:
Our daughters as carv'd corner-ftones
Like to a palace fair.

12 Our garners full and plenty may
of fundry forts be found:

Our fheep bring thousands in our streets, ten thousands may abound. 3 Our oxen be to labour ftrong, that none may us invade : No goings out there be, nor cries within our streets be made. 14 The people happy are that with fuch blettings great are ftor'd: Yea, blefied all the people are whofe God is God the Lord.

PSA L. CXLV. N.

Hee will I laud, my God and King and blefs thy Name alway:

For ever will I praife the fame,
and bless thee day by day.

2 Great is the Lord most worthy praife
his greatnefs none can reach :
From race to race they shall thy works
praife, and thy power preach.
I of thy glorious majefty,
the beauty will record:
And meditate upon thy works
moft wonderful, O Lord.

And they hall of thy power, and of
thy fearful as declare:
And I to publish all abroad
thy greatness will not spare.
And they into the mention fhall
break of thy goodness great:
And I aloud thy righteouinefs
in finging will repeat.

The Lord our God moft gracious is
and merciful alfo :

Of great abounding mercy, and
to anger he is flow.

Yea, good to all, and all his works his mercy doth exceed: Lo, all thy works do praife thee, Lord, and honour thee indeed.

8Thy faints do blefs thee, and they do thy kingdoms glory fhow: And blaze thy pow'r, to caufe the fons of men the fame to know.

The Second Part

And of thy kingdoms majefty to fpread the glorious prafe: Thy kingdom, Lord, a kingdomis that doth endure always:

BO And thy dominion through each age gadures without decay,

in feafon due doft give

12 Thou openeft thy plenteous hand
and bounteoufly doit till
All things whatever that do live,
with gifts of thy good will.
13 The Lord is juft in all his ways
his works are holy all:
And he is near all thofe that do
in truth upon him call.
14 He the defires of all them
that fear him will fulfil:

And he will hear them when they cry, and fave them all he will.

15 The Lord préferves all thofe to him, that bear a loving heart:

But he all them that wicked are will utterly fubvert.

16 My thankfu! mouth fhall gladly ípeak the praifes of the Lord: All fleth to praife his holy Name for ever fhall accora.

PSAL. CXLVI. J. H.

foul praife thou the Lord always,

M my God, I will confefs:

While breath and life prolong my days,
my tongue no time thall ceate.
2 Truit not in worldly princes then,
though they abound in wealth:
Nor in the fons of mortal men,
in whom there is no health.

3 For why, their breath doth foon depart to earth anon they fall:

And then the counfels of their heart
decay and perifh all.

4 Blefied and happy are all they
whom Jacob's God doth aid:
And he whofe hope doth not decay,
but on the Lord is ftaid.

5 Who made the earth and waters deep
the heavens most high withal.
Who doth his word and promife keep
in truth, and ever shall.

6 With right always doth he proceed
for fuch as fuffer wrong:
The poor and hungry he doth feed,
and loose the fetters ftrong.

The Lord doth fend the blind their fight the lame to limbs restore: He loveth all that are upright,

and just men evermore. 8 He doth defend the fatherless, and ftrangers fad in heart. He frees the widow from diftrefs; and ill mens ways fubvert. 9 The Lord thy God eternally, O Sion ftill fhall reign: In time of all posterity

or ever to remain.

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