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<P>THE PSALMS OF <HI>DAVID</HI> In Meeter.</P>
<P>Newly tran&s;lated, and diligently compared with the Original Text, and former Tran&s;lations.</P>
<P>More plain, &s;mooth, and agreeable to the Text then any heretofore.</P>
<P>Allowed by the Authority of the General A&s;&s;embly of the Kirk of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and appointed to be &s;ung in Congregations and Families.</P>
<P><HI>EDINBURGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Thomas Brown,</HI> one of His MAJESTIES Printers: <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1678.</P>
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<HEAD>The PSALMS of <HI>DAVID</HI> In Meeter.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. I.</HEAD>
<L>_THat man hath perfect ble&s;&s;edne&s;s</L>
<L>who walketh not a&s;tray</L>
<L>In coun&s;el of ungodly men,</L>
<L>nor &s;tands in &s;inners way,</L>
<L>Nor &s;itteth in the &s;corners chair.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> But placeth his delight</L>
<L>Vpon Gods Law, and meditates</L>
<L>on his Law day and night.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> He &s;hall be like a tree that grows</L>
<L>near planted by a river,</L>
<L>Which in his &s;ea&s;on yeelds his fruit,</L>
<L>and his leaf fadeth never.</L>
<L>And all be doth &s;hall pro&s;per well.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The wicked are not &s;o:</L>
<L>But like they are unto the chaff</L>
<L>which wind drives to and fro.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> In judgement therefore &s;hall not &s;tand</L>
<L>&s;uch as ungodly are:</L>
<L>Nor in th'a&s;&s;embly of the ju&s;t</L>
<L>&s;hall wicked men appear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> For why? the way of godly men</L>
<L>unto the Lord is known:</L>
<L>Whereas the way of wicked men</L>
<L>&s;hall quite be overthrown.</L>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. II.</HEAD>
<L>VVHy rage the heathen? and vain things</L>
<L>why do the people mind?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Kings of the earth do &s;et them&s;elves,</L>
<L>and Princes are combin'd</L>
<L>To plot again&s;t the Lord, and his</L>
<PB REF="3">
<L>Anointed, &s;aying thus,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Let us a&s;under break their bands,</L>
<L>and ca&s;t their cords from us.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> He that in heaven &s;its, &s;hall laugh:</L>
<L>the Lord &s;hall &s;corn them all:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Then &s;hall he &s;peak to them in wrath,</L>
<L>in rage be vex them &s;hall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Yet notwith&s;tanding I have him</L>
<L>to be my King appointed:</L>
<L>And over Sion my holy hill,</L>
<L>I have him King anointed.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> The &s;ure decr&eacute;e I will declare:</L>
<L>the Lord hath &s;aid to me,</L>
<L>Thou art mine only Son, this day</L>
<L>I have begotten thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Ask of me, and for heritage</L>
<L>the heathen I'le make thine;</L>
<L>And, for po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, I to th&eacute;e</L>
<L>will give earths utmo&s;t line.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Thou &s;halt, as with a weighty rod</L>
<L>of iron break them all,</L>
<L>And as a potters &s;heard, thou &s;halt</L>
<L>them da&s;h in pieces &s;mall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Now therefore Kings be wi&s;e, be taught</L>
<L>ye Iudges of the earth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Serve God in fear, and &s;&eacute;e that ye</L>
<L>joyn trembling with your mirth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Ki&s;s ye the Son, le&s;t in his ire</L>
<L>ye peri&s;h from the way,</L>
<L>If once his wrath begin to burn:</L>
<L>ble&s;t all that on him &s;tay.</L>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. III.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> Lord, how are my foes increa&s;'d?</L>
<L>again&s;t me many ri&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Many &s;ay of my &s;oul, for him</L>
<L>in God <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;uccour lies.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Yet thou my &s;hield and glory art,</L>
<PB REF="3">
<L>th'uplifter of mine head.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> I cry'd, and from his holy hill</L>
<L>the Lord me an&s;wer made.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> I laid me down and &s;lept, I wak'd,</L>
<L>for God &s;u&s;tained me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> I will not fear though thou&s;ands ten</L>
<L>&s;et round again&s;t me be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Ari&s;e, O Lord, &s;ave me, my God;</L>
<L>for thou my foes ha&s;t &s;troke</L>
<L>All on the ch&eacute;ek-bone: and the t&eacute;eth</L>
<L>of wicked men ha&s;t broke.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Salvation doth appertain</L>
<L>unto the Lord alone:</L>
<L>Thy ble&s;&s;ing, Lord, for evermore</L>
<L>thy people is upon.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. IV.</HEAD>
<L>GIve ear unto me when I call,</L>
<L>God of my righteou&s;ne&s;s,</L>
<L>Have mercy, hear my pray'r, thou ha&s;t</L>
<L>enlarg'd me in di&s;tre&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> O ye the &s;ons of men, how long</L>
<L>will ye love vanities?</L>
<L>How long my glory turn to &s;hame,</L>
<L>and will ye follow lies?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> But know that for him&s;elf, the Lord,</L>
<L>the godly man doth chu&s;e:</L>
<L>The Lord, when I on him do call,</L>
<L>to hear will not refu&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Fear, and &s;in not, talk with your heart</L>
<L>on bed, and, &s;ilent be:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Offrings pre&s;ent of righteou&s;ne&s;s:</L>
<L>and in the Lord tru&s;t ye.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> O who will &s;hew us any good?</L>
<L>is that which many &s;ay:</L>
<L>But of thy countenance the light</L>
<L>Lord, lift on us alway.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="4"> Vpon my heart, be&s;tow'd by thee,</L>
<L>more gladne&s;s I have found,</L>
<L>Then they, ev'n then when corn and wine</L>
<L>did mo&s;t with them abound.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> I will both lay me down in peace,</L>
<L>and quiet &s;leep will take:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e thou only me to dwell</L>
<L>in &s;afety, Lord, do&s;t make.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. V.</HEAD>
<L>GIve ear unto my words, O Lord,</L>
<L>my meditation weigh.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Hear my loud cry, my King, my God;</L>
<L>for I to thee will pray.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Lord, thou &s;halt early hear my voice;</L>
<L>I early will direct</L>
<L>My pray'r to thee, and looking up</L>
<L>an an&s;wer will expect.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For thou art not a God that doth</L>
<L>in wickedne&s;&s;e delight:</L>
<L>Neither &s;hall evil dwell with thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r fools &s;tand in thy &s;ight.</L>
<L>All that ill doers are thou hat'&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Cur'&s;t off that liare be:</L>
<L>The bloudy and deceitful man</L>
<L>abhorred is by thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> But I into thy hou&s;e will come,</L>
<L>in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hine abundant grace:</L>
<L>And I will wor&s;hip in thy fear</L>
<L>toward thy holy place.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e of tho&s;e mine enemies,</L>
<L>Lord, in thy righteou&s;ne&s;s</L>
<L>Do thou me lead, do thou thy way</L>
<L>make &s;traight before my face.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> For in their mouth there is no truth,</L>
<L>their inward part is ill;</L>
<L>Their throat's an open &s;epulchre,</L>
<L>their tongue doth flatter &s;till.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="4"> O God, de&s;troy them; let them be</L>
<L>by their own coun&s;el quell'd:</L>
<L>Them for their many &s;ins ca&s;t out,</L>
<L>for they 'gain&s;t thee rebell'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> But let all joy that tru&s;t in thee;</L>
<L>and &s;till make &s;houting noi&s;e:</L>
<L>For them thou &s;av'&s;t: Let all that love</L>
<L>thy Name, in th&eacute;e rejoyce.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> For, Lord, unto the righteous man,</L>
<L>thou wilt thy ble&s;&s;ing yeeld;</L>
<L>With favour thou wilt compa&s;s him</L>
<L>about, as with a &s;hield.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. VI.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd, in thy wrath rebuke me not,</L>
<L>Nor in thy hot rage cha&s;ten me,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Lord, pity me, for I am weak:</L>
<L>Heal me, for my bones vexed be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul is al&s;o vexed &s;ore:</L>
<L>But, Lord, how long &s;tay wilt thou make?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Return, O Lord, my &s;oul &s;et free:</L>
<L>O &s;ave me for thy mercies &s;ake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e tho&s;e that decea&s;ed are,</L>
<L>Of thee &s;hall no remembrance have:</L>
<L>And who is he that will to thee</L>
<L>Give prai&s;es lying in the grave?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> I with my groaning weary am,</L>
<L>I al&s;o all the night my bed</L>
<L>Have cau&s;ed for to &s;wim, and I</L>
<L>With tears my couch have watered.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Mine eye con&s;um'd with grief, grows old,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e of all mine enemies.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Hence from me wicked workers all.</L>
<L>For God hath heard my weeping cryes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> God hath my &s;upplication heard;</L>
<L>My pray'r received graciou&s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Sham'd, and &s;ore vex'd be all my foes,</L>
<L>Sham'd, and back turned &s;uddenly.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<PB REF="5">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L>In thy great indignation,</L>
<L>O Lord rebuke me not;</L>
<L>Nor on me lay thy cha&s;tning hand</L>
<L>in thy di&s;plea&s;ure hot.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Lord, I am weak, therefore on me</L>
<L>have mercy, and me &s;pare:</L>
<L>Heal me, O Lord, becau&s;e thou know'&s;t</L>
<L>my bones much vexed are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul is vexed &s;ore; but, Lord,</L>
<L>how long &s;tay wilt thou make?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Return, Lord, fr&eacute;e my &s;oul, and &s;ave</L>
<L>me for thy mercies &s;ake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e of th&eacute;e in death, there &s;hall</L>
<L>no more remembrance be:</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e that in the grave do ly,</L>
<L>who &s;hall give thanks to thee?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> I with my groaning weary am,</L>
<L>and all the night my bed</L>
<L>I cau&s;ed for to &s;wim: with tears</L>
<L>my couch I watered.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> By rea&s;on of my vexing grief,</L>
<L>mine eye con&s;umed is;</L>
<L>It waxeth old becau&s;e of all</L>
<L>that be mine enemies.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> But now depart from me, all ye</L>
<L>that work iniquity;</L>
<L>For why, the Lord hath heard my voice,</L>
<L>when I did mourn and cry.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Vnto my &s;upplication,</L>
<L>the Lord did hearing give;</L>
<L>When I to him my prayer make</L>
<L>the Lord will it receive.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Let all be &s;ham'd and troubled &s;ore,</L>
<L>that enemies are to me;</L>
<L>Let them turn back, &amp; &s;uddenly</L>
<L>a&s;hamed let them be.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<PB REF="5">
<HEAD>PSALM. VII.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> Lord my God, in thee do I</L>
<L>my confidence repo&s;e:</L>
<L>Save and deliver me from all</L>
<L>me per&s;ecuting foes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Le&s;t that the enemy my &s;oul</L>
<L>&s;hould like a lion tear.</L>
<L>In pieces renting it, while there</L>
<L>is no deliverer.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> O Lord my God if it be &s;o</L>
<L>that I committed this:</L>
<L>If it be &s;o that in my hands.</L>
<L>iniquity there is.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> If I rewarded ill to him</L>
<L>that was at peace with me</L>
<L>(Yea, even the man that without cau&s;e</L>
<L>my foe was, I did free)</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Then let the foe pur&s;ue and take</L>
<L>my &s;oul, and my life thru&s;t</L>
<L>Down to the earth, and let him lay</L>
<L>mine honour in the du&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Ri&s;e in thy wrath, Lord, rai&s;e thy &s;elf.</L>
<L>for my foes raging be.</L>
<L>And to the judgement which thou ha&s;t</L>
<L>commanded, wake for me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> So &s;hall th'a&s;&s;embly of thy folk</L>
<L>about encompa&s;&s;e thee:</L>
<L>Thou therefore, for their &s;akes return</L>
<L>unto thy place on hie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> The Lord he &s;hall the people judge:</L>
<L>my Iudge Iehova be,</L>
<L>After my righteou&s;ne&s;s, and mine</L>
<L>integrity in me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> O let the wicked's malice end,</L>
<L>but &s;tabli&s;h &s;tedfa&s;tly</L>
<L>The righteous: for the righteous God</L>
<L>the hearts and reins doth try.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="6"> In God, who &s;aves th'upright in heart</L>
<L>is my defence and &s;tay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> God ju&s;t men judgeth, God is wroth</L>
<L>with ill men every day.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> If he do not return again,</L>
<L>then he his &s;word will whet;</L>
<L>His bow he hath already bent,</L>
<L>and hath it ready &s;et.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> He al&s;o hath for him prepar'd</L>
<L>the in&s;truments of death;</L>
<L>Again&s;t the per&s;ecuters he</L>
<L>his &s;hafts ordained hath.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Behold he with iniquity</L>
<L>doth travel as in birth;</L>
<L>A mi&s;chief he conceived hath,</L>
<L>and fal&s;hood &s;hall bring forth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> He made a pit and dig'd it deep,</L>
<L>another there to take:</L>
<L>But he is fallen into the ditch</L>
<L>which he him&s;elf did make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Vpon his own head, his mi&s;chief</L>
<L>&s;hall be returned home;</L>
<L>His violent dealing al&s;o down</L>
<L>on his own pate &s;hall come.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> According to his righteou&s;ne&s;s</L>
<L>the Lord I'le magnifie:</L>
<L>And will &s;ing prai&s;e unto the Name</L>
<L>of God that is mo&s;t hie.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. VIII.</HEAD>
<L>HOw excellent in all the earth,</L>
<L>Lord our Lord is thy Name!</L>
<L>Who ha&s;t thy glory far advanc'd</L>
<L>above the &s;tarry frame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> From infants and from &s;ucklings mou<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>thou dide&s;t &s;trength ordain,</L>
<L>For thy foes cau&s;e, that &s;o thou might'&s;t</L>
<PB REF="6">
<L>th'avenging foe re&s;train.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> When I look up unto the heav'ns</L>
<L>which thine own fingers fram'd,</L>
<L>Vnto the moon, and to the &s;tars,</L>
<L>which were by th&eacute;e ordain'd;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Then &s;ay I, What is man, that he</L>
<L>remembred is by th&eacute;e?</L>
<L>Or what the &s;on of man, that thou</L>
<L>&s;o kind to him &s;hould&s;t be?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> For thou a little lower ha&s;t</L>
<L>him then the angels made,</L>
<L>With glory and with dignity</L>
<L>thou crowned ha&s;t his head.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Of thy hand-works thou mad'&s;t him lord;</L>
<L>all under's f&eacute;et did&s;t lay:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> All &s;h&eacute;ep and oxen, yea and bea&s;ts</L>
<L>that in the fields do &s;tray.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Fowls of the air, fi&s;h of the &s;ea,</L>
<L>all that pa&s;s through the &s;ame:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> How excellent in all the earth,</L>
<L>Lord, our Lord, is thy Name!</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. IX.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd thee I'le prai&s;e with all my heart,</L>
<L>thy wonders all proclaim:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> In thee mo&s;t high I'le greatly joy,</L>
<L>and &s;ing unto thy Name.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> When back my foes were turn'd, they &s;ell</L>
<L>and peri&s;ht at thy &s;ight:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For thou maintaind'&s;t my right and cau&s;e,</L>
<L>on throne &s;at'&s;t judging right.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> The heathen thou rebuked ha&s;t,</L>
<L>the wicked overthrown;</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t put out their names, that they</L>
<L>may never more be known.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> O enemy! now de&s;tructions have</L>
<L>an end perpetual;</L>
<L>Thou cities re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d, peri&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> with them&punc;</L>
<PB REF="7">
<L>is their memorial.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> God &s;hall endure for ay, he doth</L>
<L>for judgement &s;et his throne:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> In righteou&s;ne&s;s to judge the world,</L>
<L>ju&s;tice to give each one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> God al&s;o will a refuge be</L>
<L>for tho&s;e that are oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>A refuge will he be in times</L>
<L>of trouble, to di&s;tre&s;t,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> And they that know thy Name, in thee</L>
<L>their confidence will place:</L>
<L>For thou ha&s;t not for&s;aken them</L>
<L>that truly &s;eek thy face.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> O &s;ing ye prai&s;es to the Lord,</L>
<L>that dwells in Zion hill:</L>
<L>And, all the nations among,</L>
<L>his deeds record ye &s;till.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> When he enquireth after blood,</L>
<L>he then remembreth them;</L>
<L>The humble folk he not forgets,</L>
<L>that call upon his Name.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Lord, pity me, behold the grief</L>
<L>which I from foes &s;u&s;tain.</L>
<L>Ev'n thou who from the gates of death</L>
<L>do&s;t rai&s;e me up again.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> That I in Sions daughters gates,</L>
<L>may all thy prai&s;e advance:</L>
<L>And that I may reioice alwayes</L>
<L>in thy deliverance.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> The heathen are &s;unk in the pit</L>
<L>which they them&s;elves prepar'd,</L>
<L>And in the net which they have hid,</L>
<L>their own feet fa&s;t are &s;nar'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> The Lord is by the judgement known</L>
<L>which he him&s;elf hath wrought;</L>
<L>The &s;inners hands do make the &s;nares</L>
<PB REF="7">
<L>wherewith them&s;elves are caught.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> They who are wicked, into hell,</L>
<L>each one &s;hall turned be;</L>
<L>And all the nations that forget</L>
<L>to &s;eek the Lord mo&s;t hie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> For they that needy are, &s;hall not</L>
<L>forgotten be alway.</L>
<L>The expectation of the poor</L>
<L>&s;hall not be lo&s;t for ay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Ari&s;e, Lord, let not man prevail;</L>
<L>judge heathens in thy &s;ight,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> That they may know them&s;elves but men</L>
<L>the nations, Lord, affright.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. X.</HEAD>
<L>VVHerefore is it that thou, O Lord,</L>
<L>doth &s;tand from us a far?</L>
<L>And wherefore hide&s;t thou thy &s;elf,</L>
<L>when times &s;o troublous are?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> The wicked in his loftine&s;s</L>
<L>doth per&s;ecute the poor:</L>
<L>In the&s;e devices they have fram'd,</L>
<L>let them be taken &s;ure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> The wicked of his hearts de&s;ire,</L>
<L>doth talk with boa&s;ting great;</L>
<L>He ble&s;&s;eth him that's codetous,</L>
<L>whom yet the Lord doth hate.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The wicked through his pride of face.</L>
<L>on God he doth not call:</L>
<L>And in the coun&s;els of his heart,</L>
<L>the Lord is not at all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> His wayes at all times grieveous are;</L>
<L>thy judgements from his &s;ight</L>
<L>Removed are; at all his foes</L>
<L>he puffeth with de&s;pight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Within his heart he thus hath &s;aid,</L>
<L>I &s;hall not moved be:</L>
<PB REF="8">
<L>And no adver&s;itie at all</L>
<L>&s;hall ever come to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> His mouth with cur&s;ing, fraud, deceit,</L>
<L>is fill'd abundantly:</L>
<L>And underneath his tongue, there is</L>
<L>mi&s;chief and vanitie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> He clo&s;ely &s;its in villages:</L>
<L>he &s;layes the innocent:</L>
<L>Again&s;t the poor that pa&s;&s;e him by,</L>
<L>his cruel eyes are bent.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> He lion-like lurks in his den;</L>
<L>he waits the poor to take:</L>
<L>And when he drawes him in his net,</L>
<L>his prey he doth him make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Him&s;elf he humbleth very low,</L>
<L>he croucheth down withal,</L>
<L>That &s;o a multitude of poor</L>
<L>may by his &s;trong ones fail.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> He this hath &s;aid within his heart,</L>
<L>the Lord hath quite forgot;</L>
<L>He hides his countenance, and he</L>
<L>for ever &s;ees it not.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, do thou ari&s;e; O God,</L>
<L>lift up thine hand on hie</L>
<L>Put on the meek afflicted ones</L>
<L>out of thy memory.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Why is it that the wicked man</L>
<L>thus doth the Lord de&s;pi&s;e?</L>
<L>Becau&s;e that God will it require,</L>
<L>he in his heart denies.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Thou ha&s;t it &s;een, for their mi&s;chief</L>
<L>and &s;pite thou wilt repay:</L>
<L>The poor commits him&s;elf to thee,</L>
<L>thou art the orphans &s;tay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> The arm break of the wicked man,</L>
<L>and of the evil one:</L>
<PB REF="8">
<L>Do thou &s;eek out his wickedne&s;s</L>
<L>until thou finde&s;t none.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> The Lord is King through ages all:</L>
<L>ev'n to eternity:</L>
<L>The heathen people from his land</L>
<L>are peri&s;ht utterly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, of tho&s;e that humble are,</L>
<L>thou the de&s;ire did&s;t hear:</L>
<L>Thou wilt prepare their heart; and thou</L>
<L>to hear wilt bend thine ear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> To judge the fatherle&s;&s;e, and tho&s;e</L>
<L>that are oppre&s;&s;ed &s;ore,</L>
<L>That man that is but &s;prung of earth,</L>
<L>may them oppre&s;&s;e no more.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XI.</HEAD>
<L><HI>I</HI> In the Lord do put my tru&s;t;</L>
<L>how is it then that ye</L>
<L>Say to my &s;oul, Flee as a bird</L>
<L>unto your mountain hie?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> For lo, the wicked bend their bow,</L>
<L>their &s;hafts on &s;tring they fit,</L>
<L>That tho&s;e who upright are in heart,</L>
<L>they privily may hit.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> If the foundations be de&s;troy'd,</L>
<L>what hath the righteous done?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> God in his holy Temple is,</L>
<L>in heaven is His Throne.</L>
<L>His eyes do &s;ee, His eye lids try</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> mens &s;ons. The ju&s;t be proves:</L>
<L>But his &s;oul hates the wicked man,</L>
<L>and him that violence loves.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Snares, fire &amp; brim&s;tone, furious &s;torms</L>
<L>on &s;inners He &s;hall rain:</L>
<L>This, as the portion of their cup,</L>
<L>doth unto them pertain:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e the Lord mo&s;t righteous doth</L>
<L>in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e delight.</L>
<PB REF="9">
<L>And with a plea&s;ant countenance</L>
<L>beholdeth the upright.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XII.</HEAD>
<L>HElp, Lord, becau&s;e the godly man</L>
<L>doth daily fade away;</L>
<L>And from among the &s;ons of men</L>
<L>the faithful do decay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Vnto his neighbours every one</L>
<L>doth utter vanity:</L>
<L>They with a double heart do &s;peak,</L>
<L>and lips of flatterie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> God &s;hall cut off all flattering lips,</L>
<L>tongues that &s;peak proudly thus,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Wee'l with our tongue prevail, our lips</L>
<L>are ours: who&s;e Lord ov'r us?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> For poor oppre&s;t, and for the &s;ighs</L>
<L>of needy, ri&s;e will I,</L>
<L>Saith God, and him in &s;afely &s;et</L>
<L>from &s;uch as him de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> The words of God are words mo&s;t pure&punc;</L>
<L>they be like &s;ilver try'd</L>
<L>In earthen furnace, &s;even times.</L>
<L>that hath been purify'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Lord, thou &s;halt them pre&s;erve and keep</L>
<L>for ever, from this race:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> On each &s;ide walk the wicked, when</L>
<L>vile men are high in place.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XIII.</HEAD>
<L>HOw long wilt thou forget me, Lord,</L>
<L>&s;hall it for ever be?</L>
<L>O! how long &s;hall it be, that thou</L>
<L>wilt hide thy face from me?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> How long take coun&s;el in my &s;oul,</L>
<L>&s;till &s;ad in heart &s;hall I?</L>
<L>How long exalted over me</L>
<L>&s;hall be mine enemy?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="9"> O Lord, my God, con&s;ider well,</L>
<L>and an&s;wer to me make:</L>
<L>Mine eyes enlighten, le&s;t the &s;leep</L>
<L>of death me overtake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Le&s;t that mine enemies &s;hould &s;ay,</L>
<L>again&s;t him I prevail'd:</L>
<L>And tho&s;e that trouble me, rejoyce</L>
<L>when I am mov'd and fail'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> But I have all my confidence</L>
<L>thy mercy &s;et upon:</L>
<L>My heart within me &s;hall rejoyce</L>
<L>in thy &s;alvation.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> I will unto the Lord my God</L>
<L>&s;ing prai&s;es thearfully:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e he hath his bounty &s;hown</L>
<L>to me abundantly.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XIV.</HEAD>
<L>THat there is not a God the fool</L>
<L>doth in his heart conclude:</L>
<L>They are corrupt, their works are vile,</L>
<L>not one of them doth good.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Vpon mens &s;ons the Lord from heav'n</L>
<L>did ca&s;t his eyes abroad;</L>
<L>To &s;&eacute;e if any under&s;tood,</L>
<L>and did &s;&eacute;ek after God.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Vhey altogether filthy are,</L>
<L>they all a&s;ide are gone:</L>
<L>And there is none that doeth good;</L>
<L>yea, &s;ure there is not one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The&s;e workers of iniquity,</L>
<L>do they not know at all,</L>
<L>That they my people eat as bread,</L>
<L>And on God do not call?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> There fear'd they much: for God is with</L>
<L>the whole race of the ju&s;t:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> You &s;hame the coun&s;el of the poor,</L>
<PB REF="10">
<L>becau&s;e God is his tru&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Let I&s;ral's help from Sion come;</L>
<L>when back the Lord &s;hall bring</L>
<L>His captives, Iacob &s;hall rejoyce,</L>
<L>And I&s;rael &s;hall &s;ing.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XV.</HEAD>
<L>WIthin thy tabernacle, Lord,</L>
<L>who &s;hall abide with thee?</L>
<L>And in thy high and holy hill,</L>
<L>who &s;hall a dweller be?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> The man that walketh uprightly</L>
<L>and worketh righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And as he thinketh in his heart,</L>
<L>&s;o doth he truth expre&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Who doth not &s;lander with his tongue,</L>
<L>nor to his friend doth hurt,</L>
<L>Nor yet again&s;t his neighbour doth</L>
<L>take up an ill report.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> In who&s;e eyes vile men are de&s;pi&s;'d:</L>
<L>but tho&s;e that God do fear</L>
<L>He honoureth, and changeth not,</L>
<L>though to his heart he &s;wear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> His coin puts not to u&s;ury,</L>
<L>nor take reward will he</L>
<L>Again&s;t the guiltle&s;s. Who doth thus</L>
<L>&s;hall never moved be.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XVI.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd, keep me, for I tru&s;t in thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> To God thus was my &s;peech,</L>
<L>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u art my Lord, and unto thee</L>
<L>my goodne&s;s doth not reach:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> To &s;ain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s on earth, to th'excellent</L>
<L>where my delights all plac'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Their &s;orrows &s;hall be multiply'd,</L>
<L>to ot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er gods that ha&s;te.</L>
<L>Of their drink<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> offerings of blood</L>
<PB REF="10">
<L>I will no offering make;</L>
<L>Yea, neither I their very names</L>
<L>up in my lips will take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> God is of mine inheritance.</L>
<L>and cup the portion:</L>
<L>The lot that fallen is to me,</L>
<L>thou do&s;t maintain alone.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Vnto me happily the lines</L>
<L>in plea&s;ant places fell:</L>
<L>Yea, the inheritance I got,</L>
<L>in beauty doth excel.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> I ble&s;&s;e the Lord becau&s;e he doth</L>
<L>by coun&s;ell me conduct:</L>
<L>And in the &s;ea&s;ons of the night,</L>
<L>my reins do me in&s;truct.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Before me &s;till the Lord I &s;et:</L>
<L>&s;ith it is &s;o, that he</L>
<L>Doth ever &s;tand at my right hand,</L>
<L>I &s;hall not moved be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e of this my heart is glad,</L>
<L>and joy &s;hall be expre&s;t</L>
<L>Ev'n by my glory: and my fle&s;h</L>
<L>in confidence &s;hall re&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e my &s;oul in grave to dwell</L>
<L>&s;hall not be left by thee.</L>
<L>Nor wilt thou give thine holy One</L>
<L>corruption to &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Thou wilt me &s;hew the path of life:</L>
<L>of joyes there is full &s;tore</L>
<L>Before thy face; at thy right hand</L>
<L>are plea&s;ures evermore.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="17" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XVII.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd, hear the right, attend my cry:</L>
<L>unto my prayer give heed,</L>
<L>That doth not in hypocri&s;ie</L>
<L>from feigned lips proceed.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="11"> And from before thy pre&s;ence forth</L>
<L>my &s;entence do thou &s;end:</L>
<L>Toward the&s;e things that equal are,</L>
<L>do thou thine eyes intend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Thou prov'd&s;t mine heart, thou vi&s;it'&s;t m<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>by night thou did&s;t me try,</L>
<L>Yet nothing found&s;t: for that my mouth</L>
<L>&s;hall not &s;in, purpo&s;'d I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> As for mens works, I by the word</L>
<L>that from thy lips do flow.</L>
<L>Did me pre&s;erve out of the paths</L>
<L>wherein de&s;troyers go.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Hold up my goings. Lord; me guide</L>
<L>in tho&s;e thy paths divine,</L>
<L>So that my foot&s;teps may not &s;lide</L>
<L>out of the&s;e wayes of thine.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> I called have on thee, O God,</L>
<L>becau&s;e thou wilt me hear:</L>
<L>That thou may&s;t hearken to my &s;p&eacute;ech,</L>
<L>to me incline thine ear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Thy wondrous loving kindne&s;s &s;how,</L>
<L>thou that by thy right hand</L>
<L>Sav'&s;t them that in thee tru&s;t, from tho&s;e</L>
<L>that up again&s;t them &s;tand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> As th'apple of the eye me keep;</L>
<L>in thy wings &s;hade me clo&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> From lewd oppre&s;&s;ors compa&s;&s;ing</L>
<L>me round, as deadly foes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> In their own fat they are inclo&s;'d:</L>
<L>their mouth &s;peaks lo&s;tily;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Our &s;teps they compa&s;t, and to ground</L>
<L>down bowing &s;et their eye.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> He like unto a lion is,</L>
<L>that's greedy of his prey,</L>
<L>Or lion young, which lurking doth</L>
<L>in &s;ecret places &s;tay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="11"> Ari&s;e, and di&s;appoint my foe,</L>
<L>and ca&s;t him down, O Lord:</L>
<L>My &s;oul &s;ave from the wicked man;</L>
<L>the man which is thy &s;word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> From men which are thy hand, O Lord,</L>
<L>from worldly men me &s;ave,</L>
<L>Which only in this pre&s;ent life</L>
<L>their part and portion have:</L>
<L>Who&s;e belly with thy trea&s;ure hid</L>
<L>thou fill'&s;t, they children have</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n plenty, of their goods the re&s;t</L>
<L>they to their children leave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> But as for me, I thine own face</L>
<L>in righteou&s;ne&s;s will &s;ee:</L>
<L>And with thy likene&s;s, when I wake,</L>
<L>I &s;atisfi'd &s;hall be.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XVIII.</HEAD>
<L>TH&eacute;e will I love, O Lord, my &s;trength.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> My fortre&s;s is the Lord,</L>
<L>My rock, and he that doth to me</L>
<L>deliverance afford:</L>
<L>My God, my &s;trength, whom I will tru&s;t,</L>
<L>a buckler unto me,</L>
<L>The horn of my &s;alvation,</L>
<L>and my high tow'r is be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Vpon the Lord, who worthy is</L>
<L>of prai&s;es, will I cry;</L>
<L>And then &s;hall I pre&s;erved be</L>
<L>&s;afe from mine enemy,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Floods of ill men affrighted me,</L>
<L>deaths pangs about me went.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Hells &s;orrows me invironed:</L>
<L>deaths &s;nares did me prevent.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> In my di&s;tre&s;s I call'd on God,</L>
<L>cry to my God did I:</L>
<L>He from his temple heard my voice,</L>
<PB REF="12">
<L>to his ears came my cry.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Th'earth as affrighted then did &s;hake,</L>
<L>trembling upon it &s;ei&s;ed;</L>
<L>The hills foundations moved were,</L>
<L>becau&s;e he was di&s;plea&s;ed.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Vp from his no&s;trils came a &s;moak,</L>
<L>and from his mouth there came</L>
<L>Devouring fire, and coals by it</L>
<L>were turned into flame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> He al&s;o bowed down the heavens,</L>
<L>and thence he did de&s;cend,</L>
<L>And thicke&s;t clouds of darkne&s;s did</L>
<L>under his feet attend:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> And he upon a cherub rode,</L>
<L>and thereon he did fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">:</L>
<L>Yea, on the &s;wift wings of the winde.</L>
<L>his flight was from on hie,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> He darkne&s;s made his &s;ecret place:</L>
<L>about him for his tent</L>
<L>Dark waters were, and thicke&s;t clouds</L>
<L>of th'airie firmament.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> And at the brightne&s;&s;e of that light</L>
<L>which was before his eye,</L>
<L>His thick clouds pa&s;t away, hail-&s;tones</L>
<L>and coals of fire did fly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> The Lord God al&s;o in the heav'ns</L>
<L>did thunder in his ire,</L>
<L>And there the highe&s;t gave his voice,</L>
<L>hall-&s;tones and coals of fire.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Yea, he his arrows &s;ent abroad,</L>
<L>and them he &s;cattered;</L>
<L>His lightnings al&s;o he &s;hot out,</L>
<L>and them di&s;comfited.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> The waters channels then were &s;een,</L>
<L>the worlds foundations va&s;t,</L>
<L>At thy rebuke di&s;covered were,</L>
<PB REF="12">
<L>and at thy no&s;trils bla&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> And from above the Lord &s;ent down,</L>
<L>and took me from below:</L>
<L>From many waters he me drew,</L>
<L>which would me overflow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> He me reliev'd from my &s;trong foes,</L>
<L>and &s;uch as did me hate:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e he &s;aw that they for me</L>
<L>too &s;trong were, and too great.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> They me prevented in the day</L>
<L>of my calamitie,</L>
<L>But even then the Lord him&s;elf</L>
<L>a &s;tay was unto me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> He, to a place where liberty</L>
<L>and room was, hath me brought;</L>
<L>Becau&s;e he took delight in me,</L>
<L>He me deliverance wrought.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> According to my righteou&s;ne&s;s</L>
<L>He did me recompen&s;e:</L>
<L>He me repay'd according to</L>
<L>my hands pure innocence:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> For I Gods wayes kept, from my God</L>
<L>did not turn wickedly,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> His judgements were before me, I</L>
<L>His laws put not from me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Sincere before him was my heart,</L>
<L>with him upright was I;</L>
<L>And watchfully I kept my &s;elf</L>
<L>from mine iniquity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> After my righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, the Lord</L>
<L>hath recompen&s;ed me,</L>
<L>After the cleanne&s;s of my hands</L>
<L>appearing in his eye.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> Thou gracious to the gracious art,</L>
<L>to upright men upright.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> Pure to the pure froward thou ky<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hes</L>
<L>unto the froward wight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="13"> For thou wilt the afflicted &s;ave,</L>
<L>in grief that low do ly;</L>
<L>But wilt bring down the countenance</L>
<L>of them who&s;e looks are by.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> The Lord will light my candle &s;o,</L>
<L>that it &s;hall &s;hine full bright;</L>
<L>The Lord my God will al&s;o make</L>
<L>my darkne&s;s to be light.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> By th&eacute;e, through troups of men I brea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>and them di&s;comfit all:</L>
<L>And, by my God a&s;&s;i&s;ting me,</L>
<L>I over-leap a wall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> As for God, perfect is his way:</L>
<L>the word of God is try'd;</L>
<L>He is a buckler to all tho&s;e</L>
<L>who do on him confide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> Who but the Lord is God; but he</L>
<L>who is a rock and &s;tay?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="32" UNIT="verse"> It's God that girdeth me with &s;trengt<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>and perfect makes my way.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="33" UNIT="verse"> He made my &s;eet &s;wift as the hindes,</L>
<L>&s;et me on my high places.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="34" UNIT="verse"> Mine hands to war he taught, my arm</L>
<L>brake bows of &s;teel in pieces.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="35" UNIT="verse"> The &s;hield of thy &s;alvation</L>
<L>thou did&s;t on me be&s;tow;</L>
<L>Thy right hand held me up, and great</L>
<L>thy kindne&s;s made me grow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="36" UNIT="verse"> And in my way my &s;teps thou ha&s;t</L>
<L>enlarged under me,</L>
<L>That I go &s;afely and my feet</L>
<L>are kept from &s;liding free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="37" UNIT="verse"> Mine enemies I pur&s;ued have,</L>
<L>and did them overtake:</L>
<L>Nor did I turn again, till I</L>
<L>an end of them did make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="38" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="13"> I wounded them, they could not ri&s;e:</L>
<L>they at my feet did fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="39" UNIT="verse"> Thou girde&s;t me with &s;trength for war:</L>
<L>my foes thou brought&s;t down all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="40" UNIT="verse"> And thou ha&s;t giv'n to me the necks</L>
<L>of all mine enemies:</L>
<L>That I might them de&s;troy and &s;lay</L>
<L>who did again&s;t me ri&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="41" UNIT="verse"> They cryed out, but there was none</L>
<L>that would or could them &s;ave:</L>
<L>Yea, they did cry unto the Lord,</L>
<L>but he no an&s;wer gave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="42" UNIT="verse"> Then did I beat them &s;mall as du&s;t</L>
<L>before the wind that flyes:</L>
<L>And I did ca&s;t them out like dirt</L>
<L>upon the &s;treet that lyes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="43" UNIT="verse"> Thou mad'&s;t me free from peoples &s;trife,</L>
<L>and heathens head to be:</L>
<L>A people whom I have not known,</L>
<L>&s;hall &s;et vice do to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="44" UNIT="verse"> At hearing they &s;hall me obey,</L>
<L>to me they &s;hall &s;ubmit.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="45" UNIT="verse"> Strangers for fear &s;hall fade away,</L>
<L>who in clo&s;s places &s;it.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="46" UNIT="verse"> God lives, ble&s;t be my rock: the God</L>
<L>of my health prai&s;ed be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="47" UNIT="verse"> God doth avenge me, and &s;ubdues</L>
<L>the people under me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="48" UNIT="verse"> He &s;aves me from mine enemies:</L>
<L>yea, thou ha&s;t lifted me</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">bove my foes: and from the man</L>
<L>of violence, &s;et&s;t me free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="49" UNIT="verse"> Therefore to thee will I give thanks</L>
<L>the heathen folk among:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd to thy name, O Lord, I will</L>
<L>&s;ing prai&s;es in a &s;ong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="50" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="14"> He great deliverance gives his King,</L>
<L>He mercy doth extend</L>
<L>To David his anointed one,</L>
<L>and his &s;eed without end.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XIX.</HEAD>
<L>THe heavn's Gods glory do declare,</L>
<L>the skyes his hand-works preach.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Day utters &s;peech to day, and night</L>
<L>to night doth knowledge teach.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> There is no &s;peech nor tongue, to whic<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>their voice doth not extend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Their line is gone through all the ear<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>their words to th'worlds end:</L>
<L>In them he &s;et the &s;un a tent:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Who bride-groom like forth goes</L>
<L>From's chamber, as a &s;trong man doth,</L>
<L>to run his race, reioyce.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> From heav'ns end is his going forth,</L>
<L>circling to th'end again:</L>
<L>And there is nothing from his heat</L>
<L>that hidden doth remain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Gods Law is perfect, and converts</L>
<L>the &s;oul in &s;in that lyes:</L>
<L>Gods te&s;timony is mo&s;t &s;ure</L>
<L>and makes the &s;imple wi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> The &s;tatutes of the Lord are right,</L>
<L>and do reioyce the heart:</L>
<L>The Lords command is pure, and doth</L>
<L>light to the eyes impart.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Vn&s;potted is the fear of God,</L>
<L>and doth endure for ever:</L>
<L>The iudgements of the Lord are true,</L>
<L>and righteous altogether.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> They more then gold; yea, much fine<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>to be de&s;ired are:</L>
<PB REF="14">
<L>Then honey, from the honey comb</L>
<L>that droppeth, &s;weeter far.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Moreover, they thy &s;ervant warn</L>
<L>how he his life &s;hould frame:</L>
<L>great reward provided is</L>
<L>for them that keep the &s;ame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Who can his errours under&s;tand?</L>
<L>O clean&s;e thou me within,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> From &s;ecret faults. Thy &s;ervant keep</L>
<L>from all pre&s;umptuous &s;in,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd do not &s;uffer them to have</L>
<L>dominion over me:</L>
<L>Then righteous and innocent</L>
<L>I from much &s;in &s;hall be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> The words which from my mouth proc&eacute;ed</L>
<L>the thoughts &s;ent from my heart</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ccept, O Lord, for thou my &s;trength</L>
<L>and my Redeemer art.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XX.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">Ehovah hear thee in the day</L>
<L>when trouble he doth &s;end.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd let the name of Iacobs God</L>
<L>thee from all ill defend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> O le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> him help &s;end from above</L>
<L>out of his &s;anctuarie:</L>
<L>From Sion his own holy hill,</L>
<L>let him give &s;trength to thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Let him remember all thy gifts,</L>
<L>accept thy &s;acrifice.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Grant th&eacute;e thine hearts wi&s;h, and fulfil</L>
<L>thy thoughts and coun&s;el wi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> In thy &s;alvation we will ioy;</L>
<L>in our Gods Name we will</L>
<L>Di&s;play our banners, &amp; the Lord</L>
<L>thy prayers all fulfil.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Now know I, God his King doth &s;ave;</L>
<PB REF="15">
<L>He from His holy Heaven</L>
<L>Will hear him with the &s;aving &s;trength</L>
<L>by His own right hand given.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> In chariots &s;ome put confidence</L>
<L>&s;ome hor&s;es tru&s;t upon:</L>
<L>But we remember will the Name</L>
<L>of our Lord God alone.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> We ri&s;e, and upright &s;tand, when they</L>
<L>are bowed down and fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Deliver, Lord, and let the King</L>
<L>us hear when we do call.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXI.</HEAD>
<L>THe King in thy great &s;trength, O Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>&s;hall very joyful be,</L>
<L>In thy &s;alvation rejoyce</L>
<L>how vehemently &s;hall he;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Thou ha&s;t be&s;towed upon him</L>
<L>all that his heart would have,</L>
<L>And thou from him did&s;t not withhold</L>
<L>what e're his lips did crave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For thou with ble&s;&s;ings him prevent'&s;t</L>
<L>of goodne&s;s manifold;</L>
<L>And thou ha&s;t &s;et upon his head</L>
<L>a crown of pure&s;t gold.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> When he de&s;ired life of thee,</L>
<L>thou life to him did&s;t give:</L>
<L>Ev'n &s;uch a length of dayes, that he</L>
<L>for evermore &s;hould live.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> In that &s;alvation wrought by thee,</L>
<L>his glory is made great,</L>
<L>Honour and comly maje&s;ty</L>
<L>thou ha&s;t upon him &s;et.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e that then for evermore</L>
<L>mo&s;t ble&s;&s;ed ha&s;t him made.</L>
<L>And thou ha&s;t with thy countenance</L>
<L>made him exceeding glad.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="15"> Becau&s;e the King upon the Lord</L>
<L>his confidence doth lay,</L>
<L>And through the grace of the mo&s;t high,</L>
<L>&s;hall not be mov'd away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Thine hand &s;hall all tho&s;e men find out</L>
<L>that enemies are to thee.</L>
<L>Ev'n thy right hand &s;hall find out tho&s;e</L>
<L>of thee that haters be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Like fiery ov'n thou &s;halt them make</L>
<L>when kindled is thine tre:</L>
<L>God &s;hall them &s;wallow in his wrath,</L>
<L>devour them &s;hall the fire.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Their fruit from earth thou &s;halt de&s;troy,</L>
<L>their &s;eed men from among.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> For they beyond their might, 'gain&s;t th&eacute;e</L>
<L>did plot mi&s;chief and wrong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Thou therefore &s;halt make them turn back</L>
<L>when thou thy &s;hafts &s;halt place</L>
<L>Vpon thy &s;trings, made ready all</L>
<L>to fly again&s;t their face.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> In thy great pow'r and &s;trength, O Lord,</L>
<L>be thou exalted hie:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o &s;hall we &s;ing with joyful hearts,</L>
<L>thy power prai&s;e &s;hall we.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXII.</HEAD>
<L>MY God, my God, why ha&s;t thou me</L>
<L>for&s;aken? why &s;o far</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rt thou from helping me, and from</L>
<L>my words that roaring are?</L>
<L>All day, my God, to thee I cry,</L>
<L>yet am not heard by thee;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd in the &s;ea&s;on of the night</L>
<L>I cannot &s;ilent be.</L>
<L>But thou art holy, thou that do&s;t</L>
<L>inhabite I&s;ra'ls prai&s;e.</L>
<L>Our fathers hop'd in th&eacute;e, they hop'd,</L>
<PB REF="16">
<L>and thou did&s;t them relea&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> When unto thee they &s;ent their cry,</L>
<L>to them deliverance came:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they put their tru&s;t in th&eacute;e</L>
<L>they were not put to &s;hame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> But as for me, a worm I am,</L>
<L>and as no man am pri&s;'d:</L>
<L>Reproach of men I am, and by,</L>
<L>the people am de&s;pi&s;'d.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> All that me &s;ee laugh me to &s;corn:</L>
<L>&s;hoot out the lip do they,</L>
<L>They nod and &s;hake their heads at me,</L>
<L>and mocking, thus do &s;ay,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> This man did tru&s;t in God, that he</L>
<L>would free him by his might:</L>
<L>Let him deliver him, &s;ith he</L>
<L>had in him &s;uch delight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> But thou art be&punc; out of the womb</L>
<L>that did&s;t me &s;afely take,</L>
<L>When I was on my mothers brea&s;ts,</L>
<L>thou me to hope did&s;t make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> And I was ca&s;t upon thy care,</L>
<L>ev'n from the womb till now:</L>
<L>And from my mothers belly, Lord,</L>
<L>my God and guide art thou.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Be not far off for grief is near;</L>
<L>and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">one to help is found.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Bulls many compa&s;s me, &s;trong bu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>of Ba&s;han me &s;urround.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Their mouths they op'ned wide on<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>upon me gape did they,</L>
<L>Like to a lion ravening</L>
<L>and roaring for his prey.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Like water I'm pour'd out, by bone<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>all out of joynt do part:</L>
<L>Amid&s;t my bowels as the wax,</L>
<L>&s;o melted is my heart.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="16"> My &s;trength is like a pot&s;heard dry'd:</L>
<L>my tongue it cleaveth fa&s;t</L>
<L>Vnto my jaws; and to the du&s;t</L>
<L>of death thou brought me ha&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> For dogs have compa&s;t me about;</L>
<L>the wicked that did meet,</L>
<L>In their a&s;&s;embly me inclo&s;'d,</L>
<L>they pierc'd my hands and feet.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> I all my bones may tell, they do</L>
<L>upon me look and &s;tare.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Vpon my ve&s;ture lots they ca&s;t,</L>
<L>and cloaths among them &s;hare.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> But be not far&punc; O Lord, my &s;trength;</L>
<L>ha&s;te to give help to me;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> From &s;word my &s;oul, from pow'r of dogs</L>
<L>my darling &s;et thou free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Out of the roaring lions mouth</L>
<L>do thou me &s;hield and &s;ave:</L>
<L>For from the horns of Vnicorns,</L>
<L>an ear to me thou gave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> I will &s;hew forth thy Name unto</L>
<L>tho&s;e that my brethren are:</L>
<L>Amid&s;t the congregation</L>
<L>thy prai&s;e I will declare.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Prai&s;e ye the Lord who do him fear;</L>
<L>him glorifie, all ye</L>
<L>The &s;eed of Iacob: fear him all</L>
<L>that I&s;ra'ls children be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> For he de&s;pi&s; d not, nor abhor'd</L>
<L>th'afflicted's mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>Nor from him hid his face, but heard</L>
<L>when he to him did cry.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> Within the congregation great,</L>
<L>my prai&s;e &s;hall be of thee;</L>
<L>My vows before them that him fear,</L>
<L>&s;hall be perform'd by me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="17"> The meek &s;hall eat, and &s;hall be fill'd:</L>
<L>they al&s;o prai&s;e &s;hall give</L>
<L>Vnto the Lord, that do him &s;eek;</L>
<L>your heart &s;hall ever live.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> All ends of th'earth remember &s;hall,</L>
<L>and turn the Lord unto:</L>
<L>All kindreds of the nations</L>
<L>to him &s;hall homage do.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e the Kingdom to the Lord</L>
<L>doth appertain, as his:</L>
<L>Likewi&s;e among the nations</L>
<L>the Governour he is.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> Earths fat ones eat, and wor&s;hip &s;hall:</L>
<L>all who to du&s;t de&s;cend</L>
<L>Shall bow to him: none of them can</L>
<L>his &s;oul from death defend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> A &s;&eacute;ed &s;hall &s;ervice do to him,</L>
<L>unto the Lord it &s;hall</L>
<L>Be for a generation</L>
<L>reck'ned in ages all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> They &s;hall come, and they &s;hall declar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>his truth and righteou&s;ne&s;s,</L>
<L>Vnto a people yet unborn,</L>
<L>and that he hath done this.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXIII.</HEAD>
<L>THe Lord's my &s;hepherd, I'le not want</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> He makes me down to ly</L>
<L>In pa&s;tures gr&eacute;en: he leadeth me</L>
<L>the quiet waters by.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul he doth re&s;tore again;</L>
<L>and me to walk doth make</L>
<L>Within the paths of righteou&s;ne&s;s,</L>
<L>ev'n for his own names &s;ake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Yea, though I walk in deaths dark vale</L>
<L>yet will I fear none ill:</L>
<L>For thou art with me, and thy rod</L>
<L>and &s;taff me comfort &s;till.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="17"> My table thou ha&s;t furni&s;hed</L>
<L>in pre&s;ence of my foes:</L>
<L>My head thou do&s;t with oyl anoint,</L>
<L>and my cup overflowes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Goodne&s;s and mercy all my life</L>
<L>&s;hall &s;urely follow me:</L>
<L>And in Gods hou&s;e for evermore</L>
<L>my dwelling place &s;hall be.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="24" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXIV.</HEAD>
<L>THe earth belongs unto the Lord,</L>
<L>and all that it contains:</L>
<L>The world that is inhabited.</L>
<L>and all that there remains.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> For, the foundation thereof</L>
<L>he on the &s;eas did lay,</L>
<L>And he hath it e&s;tabli&s;hed,</L>
<L>upon the flouds to &s;tay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Who is the man that &s;hall a&s;cend</L>
<L>unto the hill of God?</L>
<L>Or, who within his holy place</L>
<L>&s;hall have a firm abode?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Who&s;e hands are clean, who&s;e heart is pure</L>
<L>and unto vanity</L>
<L>Who hath not lifted up his &s;oul,</L>
<L>nor &s;worn deceitfully.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> He from th'Eternal &s;hall receive</L>
<L>the ble&s;&s;ing him upon:</L>
<L>And righteou&s;ne&s;s, ev'n from the God</L>
<L>of his &s;alvation.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> This is the generation</L>
<L>that after him enquire,</L>
<L>O Iacob, who do &s;eek thy face</L>
<L>with their whole hearts de&s;ire.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Ye gates lift up your heads on high</L>
<L>ye doors that la&s;t for ay</L>
<L>Be lifted up, that &s;o the King</L>
<PB REF="18">
<L>of glory enter may.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> But who of glory is the King</L>
<L>the mighty Lord is this;</L>
<L>Ev'n that &s;ame Lord that great in might,</L>
<L>and &s;trong in battel is.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Ye gates lift up your heads, ye doors,</L>
<L>doors that do la&s;t for ay,</L>
<L>Be lifted up, that &s;o the King</L>
<L>of glory enter may.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> But, who is he that is the King</L>
<L>of glory? Who is this?</L>
<L>The Lord of ho&s;ts, and none but he</L>
<L>the King of glory is.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="25" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXV.</HEAD>
<L>TO thee I lift my &s;oul:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, I tru&s;t in thee:</L>
<L>My God, let me not be a&s;ham'd,</L>
<L>nor foes triumph ov'r me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Let none that wait on thee</L>
<L>be put to &s;hame at all;</L>
<L>But tho&s;e that without cau&s;e tran&s;gre&s;s,</L>
<L>let &s;hame upon them fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Shew me thy wayes, O Lord,</L>
<L>thy paths. O teach thou me:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> And do thou lead me in thy truth,</L>
<L>therein my teacher be:</L>
<L>For thou art God that do&s;t</L>
<L>to me &s;alvation &s;end:</L>
<L>And I upon thee all the day</L>
<L>expecting do attend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Thy tender mercies, Lord,</L>
<L>I pray thee to remember,</L>
<L>And loving kin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne&s;&s;es; for they</L>
<L>have been of old for ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> My&s;tus and faul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s of youth,</L>
<L>do thou, O Lord, forget;</L>
<PB REF="18">
<L>After thy mercy think on me:</L>
<L>and for thy goodne&s;s great.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> God good and upright is,</L>
<L>the way h&eacute;e'l &s;inners &s;how:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> The m&eacute;ek in judgement he will guide,</L>
<L>and make his path to know.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> The whole paths of the Lord</L>
<L>are truth and mercy &s;ure,</L>
<L>To tho&s;e that do his cov'nant keep,</L>
<L>and te&s;timonies pure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Now for thine own names &s;ake,</L>
<L>O Lord, I thee intreat</L>
<L>To pardon mine iniquity:</L>
<L>for it is very great.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> What man is he that fears</L>
<L>the Lord, and doth him &s;erve?</L>
<L>Him &s;hal he teach the way that he</L>
<L>&s;hall choo&s;e and &s;till ob&s;erve.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> His &s;oul &s;hall dwell at ea&s;e;</L>
<L>and his po&s;teritie</L>
<L>Shall flouri&s;h &s;till&punc; and of the earth</L>
<L>inheritours &s;hall be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> With tho&s;e that fear him, is</L>
<L>the &s;ecret of the Lord:</L>
<L>The knowledge of his covenant</L>
<L>he will to them afford.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Mine eyes upon the Lord</L>
<L>continually are &s;et:</L>
<L>For he it is that &s;hall bring forth</L>
<L>my feet out of the net.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Turn unto me thy face,</L>
<L>and to me mercy &s;how:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e that I am de&s;olate,</L>
<L>and am brought very low.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> My hearts griefs are increa&s;'d:</L>
<L>me from di&s;tre&s;s relieve.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="19"> See mine affliction and my pain,</L>
<L>and all my &s;ins forgive.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Con&s;ider thou my foes,</L>
<L>becau&s;e they many are:</L>
<L>And it a cruel hatred is,</L>
<L>which they again&s;t me bear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> O do thou keep my &s;oul,</L>
<L>do thou deliver me:</L>
<L>And let me never be a&s;ham'd</L>
<L>becau&s;e I tru&s;t in thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Let uprightne&s;s and truth</L>
<L>keep me, who thee attend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> Redemption, Lord&punc; to I&s;rael,</L>
<L>from all his troubles &s;end.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="25" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L>TO th&eacute;e I lift my &s;oul, O Lord:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> My God, I tru&s;t in th&eacute;e:</L>
<L>Let me not be a&s;ham'd, let not</L>
<L>my foes triumph ov'r me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Yea, let thou none a&s;hamed be,</L>
<L>that do on thee attend;</L>
<L>A&s;hamed let them be, O Lord,</L>
<L>who without cau&s;e offend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The wayes, Lord, &s;hew: teach me thy paths.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Lead me in truth, teach me:</L>
<L>For of my &s;afety thou art God</L>
<L>all day I wait on th&eacute;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Thy mercies that mo&s;t tender are</L>
<L>do thou, O Lord, remember,</L>
<L>And loving kindne&s;&s;es; for they</L>
<L>have been of old for ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Let not the errours of my youth,</L>
<L>nor &s;ins remembred be:</L>
<L>In mercy for thy goodne&s;&s;e &s;ake,</L>
<L>O Lord remember me:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> The Lord is good and gracious,</L>
<L>He upright is al&s;o:</L>
<PB REF="19">
<L>He therefore &s;inners will in&s;truct</L>
<L>in wayes that they &s;hould go.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> The m&eacute;ek and lowly he will guide,</L>
<L>in judgement iu&s;t alway:</L>
<L>To meek and poor afflicted ones</L>
<L>h&eacute;e'l clearly teach his way.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> The whole paths of the Lord our God,</L>
<L>are truth and mercy &s;ure,</L>
<L>To &s;uch as k&eacute;ep his covenant</L>
<L>and te&s;timonies pure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Now for thine own names &s;ake, O Lord,</L>
<L>I humbly thee intreat</L>
<L>To pardon mine iniquity,</L>
<L>for it is very great.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> What man fears God? him &s;hall he teach</L>
<L>the way that he &s;hall chu&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> His &s;oul &s;hall dwell at ea&s;e, his &s;eed</L>
<L>the earth, as heirs, &s;hall u&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> The &s;ecret of the Lord is with</L>
<L>&s;uch as do fear his Name,</L>
<L>And he his holy covenant</L>
<L>will manife&s;t to them.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Towards the Lord my waiting eyes</L>
<L>continually are &s;et:</L>
<L>For he it is that &s;hall bring forth</L>
<L>my feet out of the net.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> O turn th&eacute;e unto me, O God,</L>
<L>have mercy me upon:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e I &s;olitary am,</L>
<L>and in affliction.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Enlarg'd the griefs are of my heart:</L>
<L>me from di&s;tre&s;s relieve.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> See mine affliction, and my pain,</L>
<L>and all my &s;ins forgive.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Con&s;ider thou mine enemies,</L>
<L>becau&s;e they many are,</L>
<L>And it a cruel hatred is,</L>
<PB REF="20">
<L>which they again&s;t me bear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> O do thou keep my &s;oul, O God,</L>
<L>do thou deliver me:</L>
<L>Let me not be a&s;ham'd, for I</L>
<L>do put my tru&s;t in thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> O let integrity and truth</L>
<L>keep me, who thee attend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> Redemption, Lord, to I&s;rael,</L>
<L>from all his troubles &s;end.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="26" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXVI.</HEAD>
<L>IUdge me, O Lord, for I have walkt</L>
<L>in mine integrity;</L>
<L>I tru&s;ted al&s;o in the Lord,</L>
<L>&s;lide therefore &s;hall not I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Examine me, and do me prove,</L>
<L>try heart and reins, O God.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For thy love is before mine eyes,</L>
<L>thy truths paths I have trod.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> With per&s;ons vain I have not &s;at,</L>
<L>nor with di&s;&s;emblers gone,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Th' a&s;&s;embly of ill men I hate:</L>
<L>to &s;it with &s;uch I &s;hun.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Mine hands in innocence, O Lord,</L>
<L>I'le wa&s;h and purity:</L>
<L>So to thine holy altar go</L>
<L>and compa&s;s it will I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> That I with voice of thank&s;giving,</L>
<L>may publi&s;h and declare,</L>
<L>And tell of all thy mighty works,</L>
<L>that great and wondrous are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> The habitation of thy hou&s;e,</L>
<L>Lord, I have loved well;</L>
<L>Yea, in that place I do delight,</L>
<L>where doth thine honour dwell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> With &s;inners gather not my &s;oul,</L>
<L>and &s;uch as blood would &s;pill:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="20"> Who&s;e hands mi&s;chievous plots, right hand</L>
<L>corrupting bribes do fill.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> But as for me, I will walk on</L>
<L>in mine integritie:</L>
<L>Do thou red&eacute;em me, and, O Lord,</L>
<L>be merciful to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> My foot upon an even place</L>
<L>doth &s;tand with &s;tedfa&s;tne&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>Within the congregations</L>
<L>th'Eternal I will ble&s;s.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="27" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXVII.</HEAD>
<L>THe Lord's my light and &s;aving health,</L>
<L>who &s;hall make me di&s;maid?</L>
<L>My lifes &s;trength is the Lord, of whom</L>
<L>then &s;hall I be afraid?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> When as mine enemies and foes,</L>
<L>mo&s;t wicked per&s;ons all,</L>
<L>To eat my fle&s;h again&s;t me ro&s;e,</L>
<L>they &s;tumbled and did fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Again&s;t me though an ho&s;t encamp,</L>
<L>my heart yet fearle&s;s is:</L>
<L>Though war again&s;t me ri&s;e, I will</L>
<L>be confident in this.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> One thing I of the Lord de&s;ir'd,</L>
<L>and will &s;eek to obtain,</L>
<L>That all dayes of my life I may</L>
<L>within Gods hou&s;e remain:</L>
<L>That I the beauty of the Lord</L>
<L>behold may, and admire,</L>
<L>And that I in his holy place</L>
<L>may reverently enquire.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> For he, in his pavilion, &s;hall</L>
<L>me hide in evil dayes:</L>
<L>In &s;ecret of his tent me hide,</L>
<L>and on a rock me rai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> And now, ev'n at this pre&s;ent time,</L>
<PB REF="21">
<L>mine head &s;hall lifted be</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bove all tho&s;e that are my foes,</L>
<L>and round encompa&s;s me:</L>
<L>Therefore unto his tabernacle</L>
<L>I'le &s;acrifices bring</L>
<L>Of joyfulne&s;s; I'le &s;ing, yea, I</L>
<L>to God will prai&s;es &s;ing.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, give ear unto my voice,</L>
<L>when I do cry to thee:</L>
<L>Vpon me al&s;o mercy have,</L>
<L>and do thou an&s;wer me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> When thou did&s;t &s;ay, Seek ye my face,</L>
<L>then unto thee reply</L>
<L>Thus did my heart, above all things,</L>
<L>thy face, Lord, &s;eek will I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Far from me hide not thou thy face,</L>
<L>put not away from thee,</L>
<L>Thy &s;ervant in thy wrath: thou ha&s;t</L>
<L>an helper been to me:</L>
<L>O God of my &s;alvation,</L>
<L>leave me not, nor for&s;ake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Thogh me my parents both &s;hould leav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>the Lord will me up take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> O Lord in&s;truct me in thy way,</L>
<L>to me a leader he</L>
<L>In a plain path, becau&s;e of tho&s;e</L>
<L>that hatred bear to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Give me not to mine enemies will:</L>
<L>for witne&s;&s;es that lie,</L>
<L>Again&s;t me ri&s;en are, and &s;uch</L>
<L>as breath out crueltie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> I fainted had, unle&s;s that I</L>
<L>believed had, to &s;ee</L>
<L>The Lords own goodne&s;s in the land</L>
<L>of them that living be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Wait on the Lord: and be thou &s;trong</L>
<L>and he &s;hall &s;trength afford</L>
<PB REF="21">
<L>Vnto thine heart: yea, do thou wait,</L>
<L>I &s;ay, upon the Lord.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="28" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXVIII.</HEAD>
<L>TO th&eacute;e I'le cry, O Lord, my rock,</L>
<L>hold not thy peace to me:</L>
<L>Le&s;t like tho&s;e that to pit de&s;cend,</L>
<L>I by thy &s;ilence be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> The voice hear of my humble pray'rs;</L>
<L>when unto thee I cry:</L>
<L>When to thy holy oracle</L>
<L>I lift mine hands on hy.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> With ill men draw me not away,</L>
<L>that work iniquity:</L>
<L>That &s;peak peace to their friends, while in</L>
<L>their hearts doth mi&s;chiefly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Give them according to their deeds,</L>
<L>and ills endeavoured;</L>
<L>And, as their handy-works de&s;erve,</L>
<L>to them be rendered.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> God &s;hall not build, but them de&s;troy,</L>
<L>who would not under&s;tand</L>
<L>The Lords own works, nor did regard</L>
<L>the doings of his hand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> For ever ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord,</L>
<L>for graciou&s;ly he heard</L>
<L>The voice of my petitions,</L>
<L>and prayers did regard.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> The Lord's my &s;trength &amp; &s;hield, my heart</L>
<L>upon him did rely,</L>
<L>And I am helped; hence my heart</L>
<L>doth joy exceedingly.</L>
<L>And with my &s;ong I wil him prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Their &s;trength is God alone;</L>
<L>He al&s;o is the &s;aving &s;trength</L>
<L>of his anointed one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> O thine own people do thou &s;ave,</L>
<L>ble&s;s thine inheritance:</L>
<PB REF="22">
<L>Them al&s;o wilt thou feed, and them</L>
<L>for evermore advance.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="29" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXIX.</HEAD>
<L>GIve ye unto the Lord, ye &s;ons</L>
<L>that of the mighty be,</L>
<L>All &s;trength and glory to the Lord,</L>
<L>with cheerfulne&s;s give ye.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Vnto the Lord the glory give,</L>
<L>that to his Name is due;</L>
<L>And in the beauty of holine&s;s,</L>
<L>unto Iehovah bow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> The Lord's voice on the waters is,</L>
<L>the God of Maje&s;ty.</L>
<L>Doth thunder, and on multitudes</L>
<L>of waters &s;itteth he.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> A pow'rful voice it is, that comes</L>
<L>out from the Lord mo&s;t hie;</L>
<L>The voice of that great Lord is full</L>
<L>of glorious Maje&s;tie</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> The voice of the Eternal doth</L>
<L>a&s;under cedars tear:</L>
<L>Yea, God the Lord doth cedars break</L>
<L>that Lebanon doth bear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> He makes them like a calf to skip;</L>
<L>ev'n tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> great Lebanon,</L>
<L>And like to a young unicorn,</L>
<L>the mountain Sirion.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Gods voice divides the flames of fire:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> The de&s;ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> it doth &s;hake:</L>
<L>The Lord doth make the wilderne&s;s</L>
<L>of Kade&s;h all to quake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Gods voice doth make the hinds to cal<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>it makes the forre&s;ts bare:</L>
<L>And in his Temple every one</L>
<L>his glory doth declare.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> The Lord &s;its on the flouds: the Lor<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>&s;its King, and ever &s;hall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="22"> The Lord will give his people &s;trength,</L>
<L>and with peace ble&s;s them all.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="30" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXX.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd, I will thee ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ol, for thou</L>
<L>hath lifted me on hie,</L>
<L>And over me, thou to rejoyce</L>
<L>mad'&s;t not mine enemie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> O thou who art the Lord my God,</L>
<L>I in di&s;tre&s;s to thee</L>
<L>With loud cryes lifted up my voice,</L>
<L>and thou ha&s;t healed me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, my &s;oul thou ha&s;t brought up,</L>
<L>and re&s;cu'd from the grave:</L>
<L>That I to pit &s;hould not go down,</L>
<L>alive thou did&s;t me &s;ave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> O ye that are his holy Ones,</L>
<L>&s;ing prai&s;e unto the Lord:</L>
<L>And give unto him thanks, when you</L>
<L>his holine&s;s record.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> For, but a moment la&s;ts his wrath;</L>
<L>life in his favour lyes:</L>
<L>Weeping may for a night endure,</L>
<L>at morn doth joy ari&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> In my pro&s;perity, I &s;aid,</L>
<L>that nothing &s;hall me move.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, thou ha&s;t my mountain made</L>
<L>to &s;tand &s;trong by thy love:</L>
<L>But when that thou, O gracious God,</L>
<L>did&s;t hide thy face from me,</L>
<L>Then quickly was my pro&s;perous &s;tate</L>
<L>turn'd into mi&s;erie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Wherefore unto the Lord, my cry</L>
<L>I cau&s;ed to a&s;cend:</L>
<L>My humble &s;upplication</L>
<L>I to the Lord did &s;end.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> What profit is there in my blood,</L>
<L>when I go down to pit?</L>
<PB REF="23">
<L>Shall unto thee the du&s;t give prai&s;e?</L>
<L>thy truth declare &s;hall it?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Hear, Lord, have mercy, help me, Lord</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Thou turned ha&s;t my &s;adne&s;s</L>
<L>To dancing; yea, my &s;ackcloth loo&s;'d,</L>
<L>and girded me with gladne&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> That &s;ing thy prai&s;e my glory may,</L>
<L>and never &s;ilent be:</L>
<L>O Lord my God, for evermore</L>
<L>I will give thanks to thee.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="31" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXXI.</HEAD>
<L>IN th&eacute;e, O Lord, I put my tru&s;t,</L>
<L>&s;ham'd let me never be:</L>
<L>According to thy righteou&s;ne&s;s</L>
<L>do thou deliver me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Bow down thine ear to me with &s;peed</L>
<L>&s;end me deliverance:</L>
<L>To &s;ave me, my &s;trong Rock be Thou,</L>
<L>and my hou&s;e of defence.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e thou art my Rock, and thee,</L>
<L>I for my fortre&s;&s;e take:</L>
<L>Therefore do thou me lead and guide,</L>
<L>ev'n for thine own Names &s;ake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> And &s;ith thou art my &s;trength, therefore</L>
<L>pull me out of the net,</L>
<L>Which they in &s;ubtilty for me</L>
<L>&s;o privily have &s;et.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Into thine hands I do commit</L>
<L>my &s;p'rit; for thou art he,</L>
<L>O thou, Iehovah, God of truth,</L>
<L>that ha&s;t redeemed me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Tho&s;e that do lying vanities</L>
<L>regard, I have abhor'd:</L>
<L>But as for me my confidence</L>
<L>is fixed on the Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> I'le in thy mercy gladly ioy;</L>
<PB REF="23">
<L>for thou, my mi&s;eries</L>
<L>Con&s;idered ha&s;t; thou ha&s;t my &s;oul</L>
<L>known in adver&s;ities;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> And thou ha&s;t not inclo&s;ed me</L>
<L>within the enemies hand;</L>
<L>And by thee have my feet been made</L>
<L>in a large room to &s;tar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, upon me mercy have,</L>
<L>for trouble is on me;</L>
<L>Mine eye, my belly, and my &s;oul,</L>
<L>with grief con&s;umed be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e my life with grief is &s;pent,</L>
<L>my years with &s;ighs and groans:</L>
<L>My &s;trength doth fail; and for my &s;in</L>
<L>con&s;umed are my bones.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> I was a &s;corn to all my foes,</L>
<L>and to my friends a fear;</L>
<L>And &s;pecially reproacht of tho&s;e</L>
<L>that were my neighbours near:</L>
<L>When they me &s;aw, they from me fled,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Ev'n &s;o I am forgot,</L>
<L>As men are out of mind, when dead;</L>
<L>I'm like a broken pot.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> For &s;landers I of many heard,</L>
<L>fear compa&s;t me while they</L>
<L>Again&s;t me did con&s;ult and plot,</L>
<L>to take my life away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> But as for me, O Lord, my tru&s;t</L>
<L>upon thee I did lay,</L>
<L>And I to thee, Thou art my God,</L>
<L>did confidently &s;ay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> My times are wholly in thine hand;</L>
<L>do thou deliver me</L>
<L>From their hands, that mine enemies</L>
<L>and per&s;ecutors be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Thy countenance to &s;hine, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o thou</L>
<L>upon thy &s;ervant make;</L>
<PB REF="24">
<L>Vnto me give &s;alvation</L>
<L>for thy great mercies &s;ake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Let me not be a&s;ham'd, O Lord,</L>
<L>for on thee call'd I have:</L>
<L>Let wicked men be &s;ham'd. let them</L>
<L>be &s;ilent in the grave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> To &s;ilence put the lying lips,</L>
<L>that grievous things do &s;ay,</L>
<L>And hard reports, in pride and &s;corn,</L>
<L>on righteous men do lay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> How great's the goodne&s;s thou for the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>that fear thee, keep&s;t in &s;tore;</L>
<L>And wrought'&s;t for them that tru&s;t in thee,</L>
<L>the &s;ons of men before!</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> In &s;ecret of thy pre&s;ence, thou</L>
<L>&s;halt hide them from mans pride,</L>
<L>From &s;trife of tongues, thou clo&s;ely &s;halt,</L>
<L>as in a tent, them hide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> All prai&s;e and thanks be to the Lord;</L>
<L>for he hath magnifi'd</L>
<L>His wondrous love to me, within</L>
<L>a city fortifi'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> For, from thine eyes cut off I am,</L>
<L>(I in my ha&s;te had &s;aid)</L>
<L>My voice yet heard&s;t thou, when to thee</L>
<L>with cryes my moan I made.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> O love the Lord, all ye his &s;aints;</L>
<L>becau&s;e the Lord doth guard</L>
<L>The faithful, and be plenteou&s;ly</L>
<L>proud doers doth reward.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> Be of good courage, and he &s;trength</L>
<L>unto your heart &s;hall &s;end,</L>
<L>All ye who&s;e hope and confidence</L>
<L>doth on the Lord depend.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="32" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXXII.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> Ble&s;&s;ed is the man, to whom</L>
<L>is freely pardoned,</L>
<PB REF="24">
<L>All the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions he hath done,</L>
<L>who&s;e &s;in is covered.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Ble&s;t is the man to whom the Lord</L>
<L>impu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eth not his &s;in,</L>
<L>And in who&s;e &s;p'rit there is no guile,</L>
<L>nor fraud is found therein.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> When as I did refrain my &s;p&eacute;ech,</L>
<L>and &s;ilent was my tongue,</L>
<L>My bones then waxed old becau&s;e</L>
<L>I roared all day long.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For, upon me both day and night,</L>
<L>thine hand did heavy ly;</L>
<L>So that my moi&s;ture turned is</L>
<L>in &s;ummers drought thereby.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> I thereupon have unto thee</L>
<L>my &s;in acknowledged,</L>
<L>And likewi&s;e mine iniquity</L>
<L>I have not covered:</L>
<L>I will confe&s;s unto the Lord</L>
<L>my tre&s;pa&s;&s;es &s;aid I;</L>
<L>And of my &s;in thou freely did&s;t</L>
<L>forgive th'iniquity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> For this &s;hal every godly one</L>
<L>his prayer make to thee,</L>
<L>In &s;uch a time he &s;hall thee &s;eek,</L>
<L>as found thou maye&s;t be.</L>
<L>Surely, when floods of waters great,</L>
<L>do &s;well up to the brim,</L>
<L>They &s;hall not overwhelm his &s;oul,</L>
<L>nor once come near to him.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Thou art my hiding-place, thou &s;halt</L>
<L>from trouble keep me free;</L>
<L>Thou, with &s;ongs of deliverance,</L>
<L>about &s;halt compa&s;s me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> I will in&s;truct thee, and thee teach,</L>
<L>the way that thou &s;halt go,</L>
<L>And with mine eye upon thee &s;et,</L>
<PB REF="25">
<L>I will direction &s;how.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Then be not like the hor&s;e or mule,</L>
<L>which do not under&s;tand:</L>
<L>Who&s;e mouth, le&s;t they come near to thee</L>
<L>a bridle mu&s;t command.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Vnto the man that wicked is,</L>
<L>his &s;orrows &s;hall abound:</L>
<L>But him that tru&s;teth in the Lord,</L>
<L>mercy &s;hall compa&s;s round.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Ye righteous in the Lord be glad,</L>
<L>in him do ye rejoyce:</L>
<L>All ye that upright are in heart,</L>
<L>for joy lift up your voice.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="33" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXXIII.</HEAD>
<L>YE righteous in the Lord rejoyce,</L>
<L>it comely is, and right,</L>
<L>That upright men with thankful voice,</L>
<L>&s;hould prai&s;e the Lord of might.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Prai&s;e God with harp: and unto him</L>
<L>&s;ing with the p&s;altery:</L>
<L>Vpon a ten &s;tring'd in&s;trument</L>
<L>make ye &s;weet melody.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> A new &s;ong will I &s;ing, and play</L>
<L>with loud noi&s;e skilfully.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For right is Gods word, all his works</L>
<L>are done in verity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> To judgement, and to righteou&s;ne&s;s,</L>
<L>a love he beareth &s;till:</L>
<L>The loving kindne&s;s of the Lord</L>
<L>the earth throughout doth fill.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> The heavens by the word of God,</L>
<L>did their beginning take;</L>
<L>And by the breathing of his mouth,</L>
<L>he all their ho&s;ts did make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> The waters of the &s;eas he brings</L>
<L>together as an heap,</L>
<L>And in &s;tore-hou&s;es, as it were,</L>
<PB REF="25">
<L>He layeth up the depth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Let earth and all that live therein,</L>
<L>with reverence fear the Lord;</L>
<L>Let all the worlds inhabitants</L>
<L>dread him with one accord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> For He did &s;peak the word, and done</L>
<L>it was without delay:</L>
<L>E&s;tabli&s;hed, it firmly &s;tood,</L>
<L>what ever He did &s;ay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> God doth the coun&s;ell bring to nought,</L>
<L>which heathen folk do take:</L>
<L>And what the people do devi&s;e,</L>
<L>of none effect doth make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> O! but the coun&s;el of the Lord,</L>
<L>doth &s;tand for ever &s;ure,</L>
<L>And of His heart the purpo&s;es</L>
<L>from age to age endure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> That nation ble&s;&s;ed is, who&s;e God</L>
<L>Iehovah is: and tho&s;e</L>
<L>A ble&s;&s;ed people are, whom for</L>
<L>His heritage he cho&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> The Lord from heav'n &s;ees and beholds,</L>
<L>all &s;ons of men full well.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> He views all from his dwelling place</L>
<L>that on the earth do dwell,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> He forms their hearts alike: and all</L>
<L>their doings he ob&s;erves.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Great ho&s;ts &s;ave not a King: much &s;trength,</L>
<L>no mighty man pre&s;erves.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> An hor&s;e for pre&s;ervation,</L>
<L>is a deceitful thing:</L>
<L>And by the greatne&s;&s;e of his &s;trength,</L>
<L>can no deliverance bring.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Behold, on tho&s;e that do him fear,</L>
<L>the Lord doth &s;et his eye:</L>
<L>Ev'n tho&s;e who on his mercy do</L>
<PB REF="26">
<L>with confidence rely.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> From death to free their &s;oul, in deat<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>life unto them to yield.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Our &s;ould doth wait upon the Lord,</L>
<L>he is our help and &s;hield.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Sith in his holy Name we tru&s;t,</L>
<L>our heart &s;hall joyful be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> Lord, let thy mercy be on us,</L>
<L>as we do hope in thee.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="34" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXXIV.</HEAD>
<L>GOd will I ble&s;&s;e all times: Hjs pra<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>my mouth &s;hall &s;till expre&s;&s;e:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul &s;hall boa&s;t in God: the meek</L>
<L>&s;hall hear with joyfulne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Extoll the Lord with me, let us</L>
<L>exalt his name together.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> I &s;ought the Lord, he heard, and did</L>
<L>me from all fears deliver.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> They look'd to him, and lightned were</L>
<L>not &s;hamed were their faces,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> This poor man cry'd, God heard, and &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>him from all his di&s;tre&s;&s;es.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> The Angel of the Lord incamps,</L>
<L>and round incompa&s;&s;eth</L>
<L>All tho&s;e about that do Him fear,</L>
<L>and them delivereth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> O ta&s;te and &s;ee, that God is good:</L>
<L>who tru&s;ts in him is ble&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Fear God his &s;aints: none that him</L>
<L>&s;hall be with want oppre&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> The lions young may hungry be,</L>
<L>and they may lack their food:</L>
<L>But they that truly &s;eek the Lord,</L>
<L>&s;hall not lack any good.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> O children, hither do ye come,</L>
<L>and unto me give ear:</L>
<L>I &s;hall you teach to under&s;tand</L>
<PB REF="26">
<L>how ye the Lord &s;hould fear.</L>
<L>What man is he that life de&s;tres,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o &s;ee good would live long?</L>
<L>Thy lips refrain from &s;peaking guile,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd from ill words thy tongue.</L>
<L>Depart from ill, do good, &s;eek peace,</L>
<L>pur&s;ue it earne&s;tly;</L>
<L>Gods eyes are on the ju&s;t, his ears</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ce open to their cry.</L>
<L>The face of God is &s;et again&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ho&s;e that do wickedly;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">at He may quite out from the earth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ut off their memory.</L>
<L>The righteous cry unto the Lord,</L>
<L>He unto them gives ear;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d they, out of their troubles all,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y Him delivered are.</L>
<L>The Lord is ever nigh to them,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat be of broken &s;p'rit,</L>
<L>them be lafety doth afford,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">at are in heart contrite:</L>
<L>The troubles that afflict the ju&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> number many bee:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t yet at length out of them all,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he Lord doth &s;et them free.</L>
<L>He carefully his bones doth keep.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat ever can befall:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">at not &s;o much as one of them</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n broken be at all.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ll &s;hall the wicked &s;lay: laid wa&s;te</L>
<L>all be, who hate the ju&s;t.</L>
<L>The Lord redeems his &s;ervants &s;ouls:</L>
<L>one peri&s;h that him tru&s;t.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="35" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXXV.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ead, Lord, with tho&s;e that plead, &amp; fight</L>
<L>with tho&s;e that fight with me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="27"> Of &s;hield and buckler take thou hold,</L>
<L>&s;tand up mine help to be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Draw al&s;o out the &s;pear, and do</L>
<L>again&s;t them &s;top the way.</L>
<L>That me pur&s;ue: unto my &s;oul,</L>
<L>I'm thy &s;alvation, &s;ay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Let them confounded be, and &s;ham'd,</L>
<L>that for my &s;oul have &s;ought:</L>
<L>Who plot my hurt, turn'd back be they,</L>
<L>and to confu&s;ion brought.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Let them be like unto the chaff,</L>
<L>that flyes before the winde,</L>
<L>And let the Angel of the Lord</L>
<L>pur&s;ue them hard behinde.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> With darkne&s;&s;e cover thou their w<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>and let it &s;tippery prove.</L>
<L>And let the Angel of the Lord,</L>
<L>pur&s;ue them from above.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> For, without cau&s;e have they for me</L>
<L>their net hid in a pit;</L>
<L>They al&s;o have without cau&s;e,</L>
<L>for my &s;oul digged it.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Let ruine &s;elfe him unawares,</L>
<L>his net he hid withal</L>
<L>Him&s;elf let catch: and in the &s;ame</L>
<L>de&s;truction let him fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul in God &s;hall joy, and glad</L>
<L>in his &s;alvation be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> And all my bones &s;hall &s;ay, O Lor<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>who is like unto thee,</L>
<L>Which do&s;t the poor &s;et free from him</L>
<L>that is for him too &s;trong;</L>
<L>The poor and needy from the man</L>
<L>that &s;poils and does him wrong?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e ro&s;e; to my char<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>things <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> not knew they laid.</L>
<L>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> of my &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ul,</L>
<PB REF="27">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">me ill for good repaid.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> But as for me, when they were &s;ick,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n &s;ackcloth &s;ad I mourn'd:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y humbled &s;oul did fa&s;t, my pray'r</L>
<L>unto my bo&s;ome turn'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> My &s;elf I did behave, as he</L>
<L>had been my friend or brother,</L>
<L>heavily bow'd down as one</L>
<L>that mourneth for his mother.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> But in my trouble they rejoyc'd,</L>
<L>gathering them&s;elves together;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">a, abjects vile, together did</L>
<L>them&s;elves again&s;t me gather;</L>
<L>knew it not, they did me fear,</L>
<L>and quiet would not be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> With mocking hypocrites, at fea&s;ts</L>
<L>they gna<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ht their feeth at me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> How long Lord, look&s;t thou on? from tho&s;e</L>
<L>de&s;tructions they intend:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e&s;cue my &s;oul, from lions young,</L>
<L>my cariing do defend,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> I will give thanks to thee, O Lord,</L>
<L>within th' a&s;&s;embly great;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d, where much people gathered are,</L>
<L>thy prai&s;es forth will &s;et.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Let not my wrongful enemies</L>
<L>proudly rejoyce ov'r me;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">or who me hate without a cau&s;e,</L>
<L>let them wink with the eye.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> For peace they do not &s;peak at all:</L>
<L>but crafty plots prepare</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">gain&s;t all tho&s;e within the land</L>
<L>that meek and quiet are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> With mouths &s;et wide, they 'gain&s;t me &s;aid,</L>
<L>Ha, ha, our eye doth &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> Lord, thou ha&s;t &s;een, hold not thy peace,</L>
<PB REF="28">
<L>Lord be not far from me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Stir up thy &s;elf, wake that thou may</L>
<L>judgement to me afford:</L>
<L>Ev'n to my cau&s;e, O thou that art</L>
<L>my only God and Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> O Lord my God, do thou me judge</L>
<L>after thy righteou&s;ne&s;s,</L>
<L>And let them not their joy 'gain&s;t me</L>
<L>triumphantly expre&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> Nor let them &s;ay within their hearts</L>
<L>Ah we would have it thus;</L>
<L>Nor &s;uffer them to &s;ay, that he</L>
<L>is &s;wallowed up by us.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> Sham'd and confounded be they all</L>
<L>that at my hurt are glad:</L>
<L>Let tho&s;e again&s;t me that do boa&s;t,</L>
<L>with &s;hame and &s;corn be clad.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> Let them that love my righteous can</L>
<L>be glad, &s;hout, and not cea&s;e</L>
<L>To &s;ay, The Lord be magnifi'd</L>
<L>who loves his &s;ervants peace.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> Thy righteou&s;ne&s;s &s;hall al&s;o be</L>
<L>declared by my tongue:</L>
<L>The prai&s;es that belong to thee,</L>
<L>&s;peak &s;hall it all day long.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="36" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXXVI.</HEAD>
<L>THe wicked mans tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>within my heart thus &s;ayes,</L>
<L>Vndoubtedly the fear of God</L>
<L>is not before his eyes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e him&s;elf he flattereth</L>
<L>in his own blinded eye:</L>
<L>Vntil the hatefulne&s;s be found</L>
<L>of his iniquity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Words from his mouth proceeding, ar<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>fraud and iniquity.</L>
<PB REF="28">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e to be wi&s;e, and to do good,</L>
<L>hath left off utterly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> He mi&s;chief lying on his bed,</L>
<L>mo&s;t cunuingly doth plot;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e &s;ets him&s;elf in wayes not good,</L>
<L>ill he abhoreth not.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Thy mercy, Lord, is in the heaven:</L>
<L>thy truth doth reach the clouds.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Thy ju&s;tice is like mountains great;</L>
<L>thy judgements deep as flouds;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ord, thou pre&s;erve&s;t man and bea&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> How precious is thy grace!</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">herefore in &s;hadow of thy wings</L>
<L>mens &s;ons their tru&s;t &s;hall place.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> They with the fatne&s;s of thy hou&s;e</L>
<L>&s;hall be well &s;atisfi'd:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rom rivers of thy plea&s;ures, thou</L>
<L>wilt drink to them provide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e of life, the fountain pure</L>
<L>remains alone with thee:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd in that pure&s;t light of thine,</L>
<L>we clearly light &s;hall &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Thy loving kindne&s;s unto them</L>
<L>continue that thee know;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd &s;till on men upright in heart,</L>
<L>thy righteou&s;ne&s;s be&s;tow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Let not the foot of cruel pride</L>
<L>come and again&s;t me &s;tand:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd let me not removed be,</L>
<L>Lord, by the wickeds hand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> There fall'n are they, and ruined,</L>
<L>that work iniquities:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">a&s;t down they are, and never &s;hall</L>
<L>be able to ari&s;e.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="37" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXXVII.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">Or evil doers fret thou not</L>
<L>thy &s;elf unquietly,</L>
<PB REF="29">
<L>Nor do thou envy bear to tho&s;e</L>
<L>that work iniquity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> For, even like unte the gra&s;&s;e</L>
<L>&s;oon be cut down &s;hall they:</L>
<L>And, like the green and tender herb</L>
<L>they wither &s;hall away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Set thou thy tru&s;t upon the Lord,</L>
<L>and be thou doing good.</L>
<L>And &s;o thou in the land &s;halt dwell,</L>
<L>and verily have food.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Delight thy &s;elf in God, hee'l give</L>
<L>thine hearts de&s;ire to thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Thy way to God commit, him tru&s;t,</L>
<L>it bring to pa&s;&s;e &s;hall he.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> And like unto the light, he &s;hall</L>
<L>thy righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e di&s;play,</L>
<L>And He thy judgment &s;hall bring forth</L>
<L>like noon dide of the day.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Re&s;t in the Lord, and patiently</L>
<L>wait for Him: do not fret</L>
<L>For him, who pro&s;pering in his way,</L>
<L>&s;ucce&s;&s;e in &s;in doth get.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Do thou from anger cea&s;e, and wrath</L>
<L>&s;ee thou for&s;ake al&s;o:</L>
<L>Fret not thy &s;elf in any wayes,</L>
<L>that evil thou &s;hould do.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> For tho&s;e that evil doers are,</L>
<L>&s;hall be cut off and fall:</L>
<L>But tho&s;e that wait upon the Lord,</L>
<L>the earth inherit &s;hall:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> For yet a little while, and then</L>
<L>the wicked &s;hall not be:</L>
<L>His place thou &s;halt con&s;ider well,</L>
<L>but it thou &s;halt not &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> But, by inheritance, the earth</L>
<L>the meek ones &s;hall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e:</L>
<PB REF="29">
<L>They al&s;o &s;hall delight them&s;elves</L>
<L>in an abundant peace.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> The wicked plots again&s;t the ju&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd at him whets his teeth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> The Lord &s;hall laugh at him becau&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">his day he coming &s;eeth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> The wicked have drawn out the &s;word,</L>
<L>and bent their bow to &s;lay</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he poor and needy, and to kill</L>
<L>men of an upright way.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> But their own &s;word which they have drawn,</L>
<L>&s;hall enter their own heart;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">heir bows, which they have bent, &s;hall break,</L>
<L>and into pieces part.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> A little that a ju&s;t man hath,</L>
<L>is more and better far,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hen is the wealth of many &s;uch</L>
<L>as lewd and wicked are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> For &s;inners arms &s;hall broken be&punc;</L>
<L>but God the ju&s;t &s;u&s;tains.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> God knows the ju&s;t mans dayes, and &s;til</L>
<L>their heritage remains.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> They &s;hall not be a&s;ham'd, when they</L>
<L>the evill time do &s;ee;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd when the dayes of famine are,</L>
<L>they &s;ati&s;fi'd &s;hall be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> But wicked men, and foes of God,</L>
<L>as fat of lambs decay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hey &s;hall con&s;ume; yea into &s;moak,</L>
<L>they &s;hall con&s;ume away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> The wicked borrows, but the &s;ame,</L>
<L>again he doth not pay:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hereas the righteous mercy &s;howes,</L>
<L>and gives his own away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> For &s;uch as ble&s;&s;ed be of Him,</L>
<L>the earth inherit &s;hall;</L>
<PB REF="30">
<L>And they that cur&s;ed are of him,</L>
<L>&s;hall be de&s;troyed all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> A good mans foot&s;teps by the Lord</L>
<L>are ordered aright:</L>
<L>And in the way wherein he walks,</L>
<L>he greatly doth delight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> Although he fall, yet &s;hall he not</L>
<L>be ca&s;t down utterly:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e the Lord with his own hand</L>
<L>upholds him mightily.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> I have been young, and now am old:</L>
<L>yet have I never &s;een</L>
<L>The ju&s;t man left, nor that his &s;eed</L>
<L>for bread have beggers been.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> He's ever merciful, and lends,</L>
<L>his &s;eed is ble&s;t therefore.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> Depart from evil, and do good:</L>
<L>and dwell for evermore.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> For God loves judgment, and his &s;ai<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>leaves not in any ca&s;e;</L>
<L>They are kept ever: but cut off</L>
<L>&s;hall be the &s;inners race.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> The ju&s;t inherit &s;hall the land,</L>
<L>and ever in it dwell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> The ju&s;t mans mouth doth wi&s;dom &s;pe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>his tongue doth judgement tell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> In's heart the law is of his God,</L>
<L>his &s;teps &s;lide not away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="32" UNIT="verse"> The wicked man doth watch the ju&s;t,</L>
<L>and &s;eeketh him to &s;tay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="33" UNIT="verse"> Yet him the Lord will not for&s;ake,</L>
<L>nor leave him in his hands;</L>
<L>The righteous will he not condemn,</L>
<L>when he in judgement &s;tands.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="34" UNIT="verse"> Wait on the Lord, and keep his way,</L>
<L>and thee exalt &s;hall he,</L>
<PB REF="30">
<L>Th'earth to inherite, when cut off</L>
<L>the wicked thou &s;halt &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="35" UNIT="verse"> I &s;aw the wicked great in pow'r.</L>
<L>&s;pread like a green hay tree.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="36" UNIT="verse"> He pa&s;t, yea, was not, him I &s;ought,</L>
<L>but found he could not be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="37" UNIT="verse"> Mark thou the perfect, and behold</L>
<L>the man of uprightne&s;s;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ecau&s;e that &s;urely of this man</L>
<L>the latter end is peace.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="38" UNIT="verse"> But tho&s;e men that tran&s;gre&s;&s;ours are,</L>
<L>&s;hall be de&s;troy'd together,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he latter end of wicked men</L>
<L>&s;hall be cut off for ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="39" UNIT="verse"> But the &s;alvation of the ju&s;t</L>
<L>is from the Lord above;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e in the time of their di&s;tre&s;s,</L>
<L>their &s;tay and &s;trength doth prove.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="40" UNIT="verse"> The Lord &s;hall help, and them deliver&punc;</L>
<L>he &s;hall them free and &s;ave</L>
<L>From wicked men, becau&s;e in him</L>
<L>their confidence they have.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="38" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXXVIII.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">N thy great indignation,</L>
<L>O Lord, rebuke me not:</L>
<L>Nor on me lay thy cha&s;tning hand,</L>
<L>in thy di&s;plea&s;ure hot.</L>
<L>For in me fa&s;t thine arrows &s;tick,</L>
<L>thine hand doth pre&s;s me &s;ore.</L>
<L>And in my fle&s;h there is no health,</L>
<L>nor &s;oundne&s;s any more.</L>
<L>This grief I have, becau&s;e thy wrath</L>
<L>is forth again&s;t me gone;</L>
<L>And in my bones there is no re&s;t,</L>
<L>for &s;in that I have done.</L>
<L>Becau&s;e gone up above mine head</L>
<L>my great tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions be:</L>
<PB REF="31">
<L>And as a weighty burden, they</L>
<L>too heavy are for me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> My wounds do &s;tink, and are corrupt:</L>
<L>my folly makes it &s;o.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> I troubled am, and much bow'd down;</L>
<L>all day I mourning go.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> For a di&s;ea&s;e that loath&s;ome is,</L>
<L>&s;o fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ls my loins with pain:</L>
<L>That in my weak and weary fle&s;h</L>
<L>no &s;oundne&s;&s;e doth remain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> So feeble and infirm am I,</L>
<L>and broken am &s;o &s;ore;</L>
<L>That through di&s;quiet of my heart,</L>
<L>I have been made to roar.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, all that I do de&s;ire,</L>
<L>is &s;till before thine eye:</L>
<L>And of my heart the &s;ecret groans</L>
<L>not hidden are from thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> My heart doth pant unce&s;&s;antly,</L>
<L>my &s;trength doth quite decay:</L>
<L>As for mine eyes, their wonted light</L>
<L>is from me gone away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> My lovers and my friends do &s;tand</L>
<L>at di&s;tance from my &s;ore;</L>
<L>And tho&s;e do &s;tand aloof, that were</L>
<L>kin&s;e-men, and kind before.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Yea, they that &s;eek my life, lay &s;nare<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>who &s;eek to do me wrong,</L>
<L>Speak things mi&s;chi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vous, and deceits:</L>
<L>imagine all day long.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> But as one deaf, that heareth not,</L>
<L>I &s;uffered all to pa&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>I as a dumb man did become</L>
<L>who&s;e mouth not opened was.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> As one that hears not, in who&s;e mout<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>are no reproofs at all;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="31"> For, Lord, I hope in thee, my God,</L>
<L>thou'lt hear me when I call.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> For I &s;aid, Hear me, le&s;t they &s;hould</L>
<L>rejoyce ov'r me with pride:</L>
<L>And ov'r me magnifie them&s;elves,</L>
<L>when as my foot doth &s;lide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> For, I am near to halt, my grief</L>
<L>is &s;till before mine eye.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> For, Ile declare my &s;in; and grieve</L>
<L>for mine iniquity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> But yet mine enemies lively are,</L>
<L>and &s;trong are they be&s;ide:</L>
<L>And they that hate me wrongfully,</L>
<L>are greatly multipli'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> And they, for good that render ill,</L>
<L>as enemies me with&s;tood:</L>
<L>Yea, ev'n for this, becau&s;e that I</L>
<L>do follow what is good.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> For&s;ake me not, O Lord: my God,</L>
<L>far from me never be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, thou my &s;alvation art,</L>
<L>ha&s;t to give help to me.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="39" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XXXIX.</HEAD>
<L><HI>I</HI> Said, I will look to my wayes,</L>
<L>le&s;t with my tongue I &s;in:</L>
<L>In &s;ight of wicked men, my mouth,</L>
<L>with bridle Ile keep in.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> With &s;ilence, I as dumb became,</L>
<L>I did my &s;elf re&s;train</L>
<L>From &s;peaking good, but then the more,</L>
<L>increa&s;ed was my pain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> My heart within me waxed hot,</L>
<L>and while I mu&s;ing was,</L>
<L>The fire did burn: and from my tongue</L>
<L>the&s;e words I did let pa&s;&s;e;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Mine end, and mea&s;ure of my daies,</L>
<L>O Lord unto me &s;how,</L>
<PB REF="32">
<L>What is the &s;ame: that I thereby</L>
<L>my frailty well may know.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Lo, thou my days an hand-breadth mad<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>mine age is in thine eye</L>
<L>As nothing: &s;ure each man at be&s;t</L>
<L>is wholly vanity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Sure each man walks in a vain &s;hew,</L>
<L>they vex them&s;elves in vain:</L>
<L>He heaps up wealth, and doth not know</L>
<L>to whom it &s;hall pertain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> And now, O Lord, what wait I for?</L>
<L>my hope is fix'd on thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Free me from all my tre&s;pa&s;&s;es,</L>
<L>the fools &s;corn make not me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Dumb was I, opening not my mouth,</L>
<L>becau&s;e this work was thine.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Thy &s;troke take from me, by the blow</L>
<L>of thine hand I do pine.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> When with rebukes thou do&s;t correct</L>
<L>man for iniquity,</L>
<L>Thou wa&s;tes his beauty like a moth:</L>
<L>&s;ure each man's vanity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Attend my cry, Lord, at my tears,</L>
<L>and pray'rs not &s;ilent be:</L>
<L>I &s;ojourn as my fathers all,</L>
<L>and &s;tranger am with th&eacute;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> O &s;pare thou me, that I my &s;trength</L>
<L>recover may again,</L>
<L>Before from hence I do depart,</L>
<L>and here no more remain.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="40" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XL.</HEAD>
<L><HI>I</HI> Waited for the Lord my God,</L>
<L>and patiently did hear;</L>
<L>At length to me he did encline</L>
<L>my voice and cry to hear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> He took me from a fearful pit,</L>
<L>and from the myrie clay,</L>
<PB REF="32">
<L>And on a rock he &s;et my feet,</L>
<L>e&s;tabli&s;hing my way.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> He put a new &s;ong in my mouth,</L>
<L>our God to magnify:</L>
<L>Many &s;hall &s;ee it, and &s;hall fear,</L>
<L>and on the Lord rely.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> O ble&s;&s;ed is the man who&s;e tru&s;t</L>
<L>upon the Lord relyes:</L>
<L>Re&s;pecting not the proud, nor &s;uch</L>
<L>as turn a&s;ide to lyes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> O Lord my God, full many are</L>
<L>the wonders thou ha&s;t done:</L>
<L>Thy gracious thoughts to us-ward, far</L>
<L>above all thoughts are gone:</L>
<L>In order none can reckon them</L>
<L>to thee: if them declare,</L>
<L>And &s;peak of them I would, they moe</L>
<L>then can be numbred are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> No &s;acrifice, nor offering</L>
<L>did&s;t thou at all de&s;ire,</L>
<L>Mine ears thou bor'd&s;t, &s;in-offering thou,</L>
<L>and burnt, did&s;t not require.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Then to the Lord the&s;e were my words,</L>
<L>I come, behold and &s;ee:</L>
<L>Within the volume of thy book,</L>
<L>it written is of me:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Lo do thy will, I take delight,</L>
<L>O thou my God that art:</L>
<L>Yea, that mo&s;t holy law of thine,</L>
<L>I have within my heart.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Within the congregation great</L>
<L>I righteou&s;ne&s;s did preach:</L>
<L>Lo, thou do&s;t know, O Lord, that I</L>
<L>refrained not my &s;peech.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> I never did within my heart</L>
<L>conceal thy righteou&s;ne&s;s:</L>
<PB REF="33">
<L>I thy &s;alvation have declar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d,</L>
<L>and &s;hown thy faithfulne&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>Thy kindne&s;&s;e which mo&s;t loving is,</L>
<L>concealed have not I,</L>
<L>Nor from the congregation great</L>
<L>have hid thy verity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Thy tender mercies, Lord, from me</L>
<L>O do not thou re&s;train,</L>
<L>Thy loving kindne&s;&s;e, and thy truth</L>
<L>let them me &s;till maintain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> For ills pa&s;t reck'ning compa&s;&s;e me,</L>
<L>and mine iniquities</L>
<L>Such hold upon me taken have,</L>
<L>I cannot lift mine eyes:</L>
<L>They mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e then hairs are on mine head,</L>
<L>thence is mine heart di&s;maid.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Be plea&s;ed, Lord to re&s;cue me:</L>
<L>Lord ha&s;ten to mine aid.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Sham'd and confounded be they all</L>
<L>that &s;eek my &s;oul to kill:</L>
<L>Yea, let them backward driven be,</L>
<L>and &s;ham'd that wi&s;h me ill.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> For a reward of this their &s;hame,</L>
<L>confounded let them be.</L>
<L>That in this manner &s;coffing &s;ay,</L>
<L>Aha, aha, to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> In thee let all be glad and joy,</L>
<L>who &s;eeking thee abide:</L>
<L>Who thy &s;alvation love, &s;ay &s;till,</L>
<L>the Lord be magnifi'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> I'm poor and needy, yet the Lord</L>
<L>of me a care doth take:</L>
<L>Thou art my help and Saviour,</L>
<L>my God no tarrying make.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="41" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XLI.</HEAD>
<L>BLe&s;&s;ed is be that wi&s;ely doth</L>
<L>the poor mans ca&s;e con&s;ider;</L>
<PB REF="33">
<L>For when the time of trouble is,</L>
<L>the Lord will him deliver,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> God will him keep; yea&punc; &s;ave alive,</L>
<L>on earth he ble&s;t &s;hall live:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd to his enemies de&s;ire,</L>
<L>thou wilt him not up give.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> God will give &s;trength when he on bed</L>
<L>of langui&s;hing doth mourn:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd in his &s;ickne&s;&s;e &s;ore O Lord,</L>
<L>thou all his bed will turn.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> I &s;aid, O Lord, do thou extend</L>
<L>thy mercy unto me;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> do thou heal my &s;oul, for why,</L>
<L>I have offended thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Tho&s;e that to me are enemies</L>
<L>of me do evil &s;ay,</L>
<L>When &s;hall he die, that &s;o his name,</L>
<L>may peri&s;h quite away?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> To &s;ee me, if he comes, he &s;peaks</L>
<L>vain words, but then his heart</L>
<L>Heaps mi&s;chief to it, which he tells,</L>
<L>when forth he doth depart.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> My haters joyntly whi&s;pering,</L>
<L>'gain&s;t me, my hurt devi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Mi&s;chief, &s;ay they, cleaves fa&s;t to him:</L>
<L>he ly'th, and &s;hall not ri&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Yea ev'n mine own familiar friend,</L>
<L>on whom I did rely,</L>
<L>Who eat my bread, ev'n he his heel</L>
<L>again&s;t me lifted hie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> But, Lord, be merciful to me,</L>
<L>and up again me rai&s;e,</L>
<L>That I may ju&s;tly them requite</L>
<L>according to their wayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> But this I know, that certainly</L>
<L>I favour'd am by thee:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e my hatefull enemy</L>
<PB REF="34">
<L>triumphs not over me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> But as for me, thou me uphold&s;t</L>
<L>in mine integrity:</L>
<L>And me before thy countenance</L>
<L>thou &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t continually.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> The Lord, the God of I&s;rael</L>
<L>be ble&s;t for ever then.</L>
<L>From age to age eternally.</L>
<L>Amen; yea, and amen.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="42" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XLII.</HEAD>
<L>LIke as the hart for water brooks</L>
<L>in thir&s;t doth pant and bray;</L>
<L>So pants my longing &s;oul, O God,</L>
<L>that come to thee I may.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul for God, the living God,</L>
<L>doth thir&s;t; when &s;hall I near</L>
<L>Vnto thy countenance approach,</L>
<L>and in Gods &s;ight appear?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> My tears have unto me been meat,</L>
<L>both in the night and day;</L>
<L>While unto me continually,</L>
<L>Where is thy God, they &s;ay?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul is poured out in me,</L>
<L>when this I think upon:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e that with the multitude</L>
<L>I heretofore had gone:</L>
<L>With them into Gods hou&s;e I went,</L>
<L>with voice of joy and prai&s;e;</L>
<L>Yea, with the multitude, that kept</L>
<L>the &s;olemn holy dayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> O why art thou ca&s;t down, my &s;oul,</L>
<L>why in me thus di&s;maid?</L>
<L>Tru&s;t God: for I &s;hal prai&s;e him yet,</L>
<L>his countenance is mine aid,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> My God, my &s;oul's ca&s;t down in me:</L>
<L>th&eacute;e therefore mind I will</L>
<PB REF="34">
<L>From Iordan's land, the Hermonites,</L>
<L>and ev'n from Mizar hill.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> At the noi&s;e of thy water-&s;pouts,</L>
<L>deep unto deep doth call:</L>
<L>Thy breaking waves pa&s;s over me:</L>
<L>yea, and thy billows all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> His loving kindne&s;s yet the Lord</L>
<L>command will in the day,</L>
<L>His &s;ong's with me by night, to God,</L>
<L>by whom I live I'le pray.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> And I will &s;ay to God, my Rock,</L>
<L>Why me forget&s;t thou &s;o?</L>
<L>Why for my foes oppre&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>thus mourning do I go?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> It's as a &s;word within my bones,</L>
<L>when my foes me upbraid:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">v'n when by them, Where is thy God,</L>
<L>it's daily to me &s;aid?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> O! why art thou ca&s;t down, my &s;oul?</L>
<L>why thus with grief oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>Art thou di&s;quieted in me?</L>
<L>in God &s;till hope and re&s;t;</L>
<L>For yet I know I &s;hall him prai&s;e,</L>
<L>who graciou&s;ly to me,</L>
<L>The health is of my countenance,</L>
<L>yea, mine own God is he.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="43" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XLIII.</HEAD>
<L>JVge me, O God, and plead my cau&s;e,</L>
<L>again&s;t th' ungodly nation;</L>
<L>From the unju&s;tand crafty man</L>
<L>O be thou my &s;alvation.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> For thou the God art of my &s;trength,</L>
<L>why thru&s;ts thou me thee fro?</L>
<L>For th' enemies oppre&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>why do I mourning go?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> O &s;end thy light forth, and thy truth:</L>
<L>let them be guides to me;</L>
<PB REF="35">
<L>And bring me to thy holy hill,</L>
<L>ev'n where thy dwellings be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Then will I to Gods altar go,</L>
<L>to God my chiefe&s;t joy;</L>
<L>Yea, God my God, thy Name to prai&s;e,</L>
<L>my harp I will imploy.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Why art thou then ca&s;t down, my &s;oul?</L>
<L>what &s;hould di&s;courage thee?</L>
<L>And why, with vexing thoughts, art thou</L>
<L>di&s;quieted in me?</L>
<L>Still tru&s;t in God, for him to prai&s;e</L>
<L>good cau&s;e I yet &s;hall have;</L>
<L>He of my countenance is the health,</L>
<L>my God that doth me &s;ave.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="44" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XLIV.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> God, we with our ears have heard,</L>
<L>our fathers have us told,</L>
<L>What works thou in their dayes had&s;t done</L>
<L>ev'n in the dayes of old.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Thy Hand did drive the Heathen out,</L>
<L>and plant them in their place;</L>
<L>Thou did&s;t afflict the nations,</L>
<L>but them thou did&s;t increa&s;e,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For, neither got their &s;word the land,</L>
<L>nor did their arm them &s;ave:</L>
<L>But thy right hand, arm, countenance,</L>
<L>for thou them favour gave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Thou art my King, for Iacob, Lord,</L>
<L>deliverances command.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Through thee, we &s;hal pu&s;h down our foe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>that do again&s;t us &s;tand.</L>
<L>We through thy Name, &s;hall tread down tho&s;e</L>
<L>that ri&s;en again&s;t us have.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> For in my bow I &s;hall not tru&s;t,</L>
<L>nor &s;hall my &s;word me &s;ave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> But, from our foes thou ha&s;t us &s;av'd,</L>
<L>our haters put to &s;hame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="35"> In God we all the day do boa&s;t,</L>
<L>and ever prai&s;e thy Name.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> But now we are ca&s;t off by th&eacute;e,</L>
<L>and us thou put'&s;t to &s;hame:</L>
<L>And, when our armies do go forth,</L>
<L>thou go'&s;t not with the &s;ame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Thou mak'&s;t us from the enemy</L>
<L>faint-hearted to turn back:</L>
<L>And they who hate us, for them&s;elves</L>
<L>our &s;poils away do take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Like &s;heep for meat thou gave&s;t us:</L>
<L>'mong heathen ca&s;t we be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Thou did&s;t for nought thy people &s;ell,</L>
<L>their price enricht not th&eacute;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Thou mak'&s;t us a reproach to be</L>
<L>unto our neighbours near:</L>
<L>Deri&s;ion, and a &s;corn to them</L>
<L>that round about us are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> A by-word al&s;o thou do&s;t us</L>
<L>among the heathen make:</L>
<L>The people in contempt and &s;pite,</L>
<L>at us their heads do &s;hake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Before me my confu&s;ion</L>
<L>continually abides;</L>
<L>And of my ba&s;hful countenance,</L>
<L>the &s;hame me ever hides.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> For voice of him that doth reproach,</L>
<L>and &s;peaketh bla&s;phemy:</L>
<L>By rea&s;on of th'avenging foe,</L>
<L>and cruel enemy.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> All this is come on us, yet we</L>
<L>have not forgotten thee,</L>
<L>Nor fal&s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in thy covenant</L>
<L>b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hav'd our &s;elves have we.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Back from thy way our heart not turn'd<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>our &s;teps no &s;traying made:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="36"> Though us thou break&s;t in dragons place,</L>
<L>and covere&s;t with deaths &s;hade.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> If we Gods Name forgot, or &s;tretcht</L>
<L>to a &s;trange god our hands:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Shall not God &s;earch this out? for he</L>
<L>hearts-&s;ecrets under&s;tands.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> Yea, for thy &s;ake we're kill'd all day;</L>
<L>counted as &s;laughter &s;heep.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Ri&s;e, Lord, ca&s;t us not ever off,</L>
<L>awake, why do&s;t thou &s;leep?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> O wherefore hide&s;t thou thy face?</L>
<L>forget&s;t our ca&s;e di&s;tre&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> And our oppre&s;&s;ion? For our &s;oul</L>
<L>is to the du&s;t down pre&s;t.</L>
<L>Our belly al&s;o on the earth</L>
<L>fa&s;t cleaving hold doth take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> Ri&s;e for our help, and us redeem,</L>
<L>ev'n for thy mercies &s;ake.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="45" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XLV.</HEAD>
<L>MY heart brings forth a goodly thing:</L>
<L>My works that I indite</L>
<L>Concern the King: my tongue's a pen</L>
<L>of one that &s;wift doth write.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Thou fairer art then fons of men:</L>
<L>into the lips is &s;tore</L>
<L>Of grace infu&s;'d: God therefore thee</L>
<L>hath ble&s;t for evermore.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> O thou that art the mighty One,</L>
<L>thy &s;word gird on thy thigh:</L>
<L>Ev'n with thy glory excellent,</L>
<L>and with thy Maie&s;ty:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For meekne&s;&s;e, truth and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>in &s;tate ride pro&s;perou&s;ly:</L>
<L>And thy right hand &s;hall thee in&s;truct</L>
<L>in things that fearful be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Thine arrows &s;harply pierce the hearts</L>
<L>of th' enemies of the King;</L>
<PB REF="36">
<L>And under thy &s;ubjecton</L>
<L>the people down do bring,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> For ever and for ever is,</L>
<L>O God, thy throne of might:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he &s;cepter of thy Kingdom, is</L>
<L>a &s;cepter that is right.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Thou love&s;t right, and hate&s;t ill;</L>
<L>For God thy God mo&s;t Hie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">bove thy fellows hath, with th' oyl</L>
<L>of joy anointed thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Of Aloes, Myrrhe and Ca&s;&s;ia,</L>
<L>a &s;mell thy garments had;</L>
<L>Out of thy ivory palaces,</L>
<L>thereby they made thee glad.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Among thy women honourable,</L>
<L>Kings daughters were at hand:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">pon thy right hand did the Queen,</L>
<L>in gold of Ophir &s;tand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> O daughter, hearken and regard,</L>
<L>and do thine ear incline;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ikewi&s;e forget thy fathers hou&s;e,</L>
<L>and people that are thine.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Then of the King de&s;ir'd &s;hall be</L>
<L>thy beauty vehemently:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e he is thy Lord, do thou</L>
<L>him wor&s;hip reverently.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> The daughter there of Tyre &s;hall be,</L>
<L>with gifts and offrings great:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e of the people that are rich,</L>
<L>thy favour &s;hall intreat.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Behold, the daughter of the King,</L>
<L>all glorious is within;</L>
<L>And with imbroideries of gold,</L>
<L>her garments wrought have bin.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;hall be brought unto the King</L>
<L>in robes with needle wrought:</L>
<PB REF="37">
<L>Her fellow-virgins following,</L>
<L>&s;hall unto thee he brought.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> They &s;hal be brought with gladnes gr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>and mirth on every &s;ide,</L>
<L>Into the palace of the King,</L>
<L>and there they &s;hall abide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> In &s;tead of tho&s;e thy fathers dear,</L>
<L>thy children thou may&s;t take,</L>
<L>And in all places of the earth,</L>
<L>them noble Princes make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Thy Name remembred I will make,</L>
<L>through ages all to be;</L>
<L>The people therefore evermore</L>
<L>&s;hall prai&s;es give to thee.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="45" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L>MY heart inditing is,</L>
<L>good matter in a &s;ong:</L>
<L>I &s;peak the things that I have made,</L>
<L>which to the King belong:</L>
<L>My tongue &s;hall be as quick</L>
<L>his honour to indite,</L>
<L>As is the pen of any &s;cribe</L>
<L>that u&s;eth fa&s;t to write.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Thou'rt faire&s;t of all men,</L>
<L>grace in thy lips doth flow:</L>
<L>And therefore ble&s;&s;ings evermore</L>
<L>on th&eacute;e doth God be&s;tow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Thy &s;word gird on thy thigh,</L>
<L>thou that art mo&s;t of might;</L>
<L>Appear in dreadful Maie&s;ty,</L>
<L>and in thy glory bright.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For meekne&s;&s;e, truth and right,</L>
<L>ride pro&s;perou&s;ly in &s;tate:</L>
<L>And thy right hand &s;hall teach to thee</L>
<L>things terrible and great.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Thy &s;hafts &s;hall pierce their hearts,</L>
<L>that foes are to the King:</L>
<PB REF="37">
<L>Thereby into &s;ubjection</L>
<L>the people thou &s;halt bring.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Thy royal &s;eat, O Lord,</L>
<L>forever &s;hall remain:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he &s;cepter of thy kingdom do&s;h</L>
<L>all righteou&s;ne&s;s maintain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Thou loves right, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">sill:</L>
<L>for God, thy God mo&s;t hie,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ve thy fellows hath with th'oyl</L>
<L>of joy anointed thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Of myrrhe and &s;pices &s;weet,</L>
<L>a&s;mell thy garments had:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">et of thy ivory palaces,</L>
<L>whereby they made th&eacute;e glad.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> And in thy glorious train,</L>
<L>Kings daughters waiting &s;tand;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d thy fair Queen in ophir gold,</L>
<L>doth &s;tand at thy right hand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> O daughter, take good heed;</L>
<L>incline, and give good ear;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ou mu&s;t forget thy kindred all</L>
<L>and fathers hou&s;e mo&s;t dear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Thy beauty to the King,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hall then delightful be:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d, do thou humbly wor&s;hip him,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ecau&s;e thy Lord is be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> The daughter then of Tyre</L>
<L>there with a gift &s;hall be,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd all the wealthy of the land,</L>
<L>&s;hall make their &s;uit to thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> The daughter of the King</L>
<L>all glorious is within;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d, with imbroideries of gold,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">er garments wrought have bin.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> She cometh to the King</L>
<L>in robes with needle wrought,</L>
<PB REF="38">
<L>The virgins that do follow her,</L>
<L>&s;hall unto thee be brought.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> They &s;hall be brought with joy,</L>
<L>and mirth on every &s;ide,</L>
<L>Into the palace of the King,</L>
<L>and there they &s;hall abide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> And in thy fathers &s;tead,</L>
<L>thy children thou may'&s;t take,</L>
<L>And, in all places of the earth,</L>
<L>them noble princes make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> I will &s;hew forth thy Name</L>
<L>to generations all:</L>
<L>Therefore thy people evermore</L>
<L>to thee give prai&s;es &s;hall.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="46" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XLVI.</HEAD>
<L>GOd is our refuge, and our &s;trength,</L>
<L>in &s;traits a pre&s;ent aid.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Therefore, although the earth remove,</L>
<L>we will not be afraid:</L>
<L>Though hills amid&s;t the &s;ea be ca&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Though waters roaring make,</L>
<L>And troubled be, yea, though the hills</L>
<L>by &s;we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tng &s;eas on &s;hake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> A river is who&s;e &s;treames do glad</L>
<L>the City of our E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d:</L>
<L>The Holy place, wherein the Lord</L>
<L>mo&s;t High ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h his abode.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> God in the mid&s;t of her doth dwell:</L>
<L>nothing &s;hall her remove;</L>
<L>The Lord to her an helper will,</L>
<L>and that right early prove.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> The heathen rag'd tumultuou&s;ly,</L>
<L>the Kingdoms moved were:</L>
<L>The Lord God uttered his voice,</L>
<L>the earth did melt for fear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> The Lord of Ho&s;ts upon our &s;ide</L>
<L>doth con&s;tantly remain:</L>
<PB REF="38">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e God of Iacob's our refuge,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;afely to maintain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Come, and behold what wondrous works</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ave by the Lord been wrought:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e, &s;ee what de&s;olations</L>
<L>He on the earth hath brought.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Vnto the ends of all the earth</L>
<L>wars into peace He turns:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e bow He breaks, the &s;pear He cuts,</L>
<L>in fire the chariots burns.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Be &s;till, and know that I am God:</L>
<L>among the heathen I</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ill be exalted I on earth</L>
<L>will be exalted by.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Our God, who is &s;he Lord of Ho&s;ts,</L>
<L>is &s;till upon our &s;ide:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e God of Iacob our refuge</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> ever will abide.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="47" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM XLVII.</HEAD>
<L>All people clap your hands, to God</L>
<L>with voice of triumph &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> For dreadful is the Lord mo&s;t High,</L>
<L>great King, the earth throughout.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> The heathen people under us</L>
<L>Ye &s;urely &s;hall &s;ubdue:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> He &s;hall make the nations</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nder our feet to bow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The lot of our inheritance</L>
<L>choo&s;e out for us &s;hall He,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> Iacob whom he loved well</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">v'n the excellencie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> God is with &s;houts gone up the Lord</L>
<L>with trumpets &s;ounding hie,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Sing prai&s;e to God, &s;ing prai&s;e, &s;ing prai&s;e,</L>
<L>prai&s;e to our King &s;ing ye.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> For God is King of all the earth,</L>
<PB REF="39">
<L>with knowledge prai&s;e expre&s;&s;e:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> God rules the nations, God &s;its on</L>
<L>His throne of holine&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> The Princes of the people are</L>
<L>a&s;&s;embled willingly,</L>
<L>Ev'n of the God of Abraham</L>
<L>they who the people be.</L>
<L>For why the &s;hields that do defend</L>
<L>the earth, are only his:</L>
<L>They to the Lord belong; yea, he</L>
<L>exalted greatly is.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="48" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XLVIII.</HEAD>
<L>GReat is the Lord, and greatly he</L>
<L>is to be prai&s;ed &s;till:</L>
<L>Within the city of our God,</L>
<L>upon his holy hill.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Mount Sion &s;tands mo&s;t beautiful,</L>
<L>the joy of all the land;</L>
<L>The city of the mighty King</L>
<L>on her north &s;ide doth &s;tand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> The Lord, within her palaces</L>
<L>is for a refuge known:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For lo, the Kings that gathered were</L>
<L>together by have gone.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> But when they did behold the &s;ame,</L>
<L>they wondring, would not &s;tay;</L>
<L>But, being troubled at the &s;ight,</L>
<L>they thence did ha&s;te away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Great terrour there took hold on them,</L>
<L>they were po&s;&s;e&s;s'd with fear:</L>
<L>Their grief came like a womans pain,</L>
<L>when &s;he a child doth bear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Thou Tar&s;hi&s;h &s;hips with ea&s;t wi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> brea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> As we hav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> heard it told:</L>
<L>So in the city of the Lord</L>
<L>our eyes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ld it behold,</L>
<PB REF="39">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n our Gods city, which his hand</L>
<L>for ever &s;tabli&s;h will.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> We of the loving kindne&s;s thought,</L>
<L>Lord in thy temple &s;till.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, according to thy Name</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hrough all the earth's thy prai&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d thy right hand, O Lord, is full</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> righteou&s;ne&s;s alwayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e thy judgments are made known</L>
<L>let Sion mount rejoyce;</L>
<L>Of Iudah let the daughters all</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nd forth a chearful voice.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Walk about Sion, and go round,</L>
<L>the high towers thereof tell:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Con&s;ider ye her palaces,</L>
<L>and mark her bulwarks well,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat ye may tell po&s;terity;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> For this God doth abide,</L>
<L>at God for evermore, he will</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">v'n unto death us guide.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="49" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XLIX.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">Ear this all people, and give ear</L>
<L>all in the world that dwell.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">oth low and high, both rich and poor.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> My mouth &s;hall wi&s;dom tell:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y heart &s;hall knowledge meditate.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> I will incline mine ear</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o parables, and on the harp</L>
<L>any &s;ayings dark declare.</L>
<L>Amid&s;t tho&s;e dayes that evil be,</L>
<L>why &s;hould I, fearing doubt?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">en of my heels th'iniquity</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hall compa&s;s me about.</L>
<L>Who e're they be, that in their wealth</L>
<L>their con&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nce no pitch,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d boa&s;t them&s;elves, becau&s;e they are</L>
<PB REF="40">
<L>become exceeding rich.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Yet none of tho&s;e his brother can</L>
<L>redeem by any way,</L>
<L>Nor can he unto God, for him</L>
<L>&s;ufficient ran&s;om pay;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> (Their &s;ouls redemption precious is,</L>
<L>and it can never be)</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> That &s;till he &s;hould for ever live,</L>
<L>and not corruption &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> For why? he feeth that wi&s;e men die,</L>
<L>and bruti&s;h fools al&s;o</L>
<L>Do peri&s;h, and their wealth, when dead,</L>
<L>to others they let go.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Their inward thought is, that their h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>and dwelling-places &s;hall</L>
<L>Stand through all ages; they their lan<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>by their own names do call.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> But yet in honour &s;hall not man</L>
<L>abide continually;</L>
<L>But p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ing benes may be compar'd</L>
<L>unto the bea&s;ts that die.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Thus bruti&s;h folly plainly is</L>
<L>their wi&s;dom and their way;</L>
<L>Yet, their po&s;terity approve</L>
<L>what they do fondly &s;ay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Like &s;heep, they in the grave are l<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>and death &s;hall them devour;</L>
<L>And, in the morning upright men</L>
<L>&s;hall over them have pow'r;</L>
<L>Their beauty from their dwelling &s;hall</L>
<L>con&s;ume within the grave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> But from hells hand God will me<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>for he &s;hall me receive.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Be thou not then afraid, when one</L>
<L>inriched thou do&s;t &s;ee,</L>
<L>Nor when the glory of his hou&s;e</L>
<L>advanced is on hie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="40"> For he &s;hall carry nothing hence,</L>
<L>when death his dayes doth end;</L>
<L>Nor &s;hall his glory after him</L>
<L>into the grave de&s;cend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Although he his own &s;oul did ble&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>whil'&s;t he on earth did live,</L>
<L>(and when thou to thy &s;elf do&s;t well,</L>
<L>men will thee prai&s;es give)</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> He to his fathers race &s;hall go,</L>
<L>they never &s;hall &s;ee light.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Man honour'd wanting knowledge, is</L>
<L>like bea&s;ts that peri&s;h quite.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="50" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. L.</HEAD>
<L>THe mighty God the Lord</L>
<L>hath &s;poken, and did call</L>
<L>The earth, from ri&s;ing of the &s;un,</L>
<L>to where he hath his fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> From out of Sion hill,</L>
<L>which of excellency,</L>
<L>And beauty the perfection is</L>
<L>God &s;hined gloriou&s;ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Our God &s;hall &s;urely come,</L>
<L>keep &s;ilence &s;hall not He;</L>
<L>Before Hime fire &s;hall wa&s;te, great &s;torms</L>
<L>&s;hall round about Him be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Vnto the heavens clear,</L>
<L>he from above &s;hall call.</L>
<L>And to the earth likewi&s;e, that He</L>
<L>may judge his people all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Together let my &s;aints</L>
<L>unto me gathered be,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e that by &s;acrifice have made,</L>
<L>a covenant with me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> And then the heavens &s;hall</L>
<L>His righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e declare;</L>
<L>Becau&s;e the Lord him&s;elf is He</L>
<L>by whom men judged are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="41"> My people I&s;rael hear,</L>
<L>&s;peak will I from on by,</L>
<L>Again&s;t thee I will te&s;tifie,</L>
<L>God ev'n thy God am I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> I for thy &s;acrifice,</L>
<L>no blame will on thee lay,</L>
<L>Nor for burnt offrings, which to me</L>
<L>thou offred&s;t every day.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Ile take no calf, or goats,</L>
<L>from hou&s;e or fold of thine:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> For bea&s;ts of forre&s;ts, cattel all</L>
<L>on thou&s;and hills are mine.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> The fowls on mountains high,</L>
<L>are all to me well known:</L>
<L>Wilde bea&s;ts which in the fields do ly,</L>
<L>ev'n they are all mine own.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Then if I hungry were,</L>
<L>I would not tell it thee;</L>
<L>Becau&s;e the world, and fulne&s;s all</L>
<L>thereof belongs to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Will I eat fle&s;h of bulls?</L>
<L>or g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ats blood drink will I?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Thanks offer thou to God, and pay</L>
<L>thy vows to the mo&s;t hie:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> And call upon me when</L>
<L>in trouble thou &s;halt be;</L>
<L>I will deliver thee, and thou</L>
<L>my F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ame &s;hall glorifie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> But to the wicked man</L>
<L>God &s;ai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h, my laws and truth</L>
<L>Should&s;t thou declare? how dar&s;t thou ta<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>my cov'nant in thy mouth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Sith thou in&s;truction hat'&s;t,</L>
<L>which &s;hould thy ways direct;</L>
<L>And &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h my words behind thy back</L>
<L>thou ca&s;ts, and do&s;t reject.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="41"> When thou a thief did&s;t &s;ee,</L>
<L>with him thou did&s;t con&s;ent,</L>
<L>And with the vile adulterers</L>
<L>partaker on thou went.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Thou giv'&s;t thy mouth to ill,</L>
<L>thy tongue deceit doth frame;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Thou &s;it&s;t and 'gain&s;t thy brother &s;peak&s;t,</L>
<L>thy mothers &s;on do&s;t &s;hame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e I &s;ilence kept,</L>
<L>while thou the&s;e things have wrought;</L>
<L>That I was altogether like</L>
<L>thy &s;elf, hath been thy thought:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> I will thee reprove,</L>
<L>and &s;et before thine eyes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n order ranked thy mi&s;deeds,</L>
<L>and thine iniquities.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> Now, ye that God forget,</L>
<L>this carefully con&s;ider;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;t I in pieces tear you all,</L>
<L>and none can you deliver.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Who &s;o doth offer prai&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e glorifies, and I</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ill &s;hew him Gods &s;alvation</L>
<L>that orders right his way.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="50" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L>THe mighty God the Lord hath &s;poke,</L>
<L>and call'd the earth upon,</L>
<L>Ev'n from the ri&s;ing of the &s;un,</L>
<L>unto his going down.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> From out of Sion, his own hill,</L>
<L>where the perfection hy</L>
<L>Of beauty is, from thence the Lord</L>
<L>hath &s;hined gloriou&s;ly,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Our God &s;hal come, and &s;hal no more&punc;</L>
<L>be &s;ilent but &s;peak out:</L>
<L>Before him fixe &s;hall wa&s;te, great &s;torms</L>
<PB REF="42">
<L>&s;hall compa&s;&s;e him about.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> He, to the heavens from above</L>
<L>and to the earth below</L>
<L>Shall call, that He His judgment may</L>
<L>before His people &s;how.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Let all may &s;aints together be</L>
<L>unto me gathered;</L>
<L>Tho&s;e, that by &s;acrifice with me</L>
<L>a covenant have made.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> And then the heavens &s;hall declare</L>
<L>his righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e abroad:</L>
<L>Bcau&s;e the Lord him&s;elf doth come,</L>
<L>none el&s;e is iudge but God.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Hear, O my people, and Ile &s;peak,</L>
<L>O I&s;rael by name,</L>
<L>Again&s;t thee I will te&s;tifie,</L>
<L>God ev'n thy God I am.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> I, for thy &s;acrifices few,</L>
<L>reprove thee never will;</L>
<L>Nor for burnt-offrings to have been</L>
<L>before me offred &s;till:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Ile take no bullock nor hee-goats</L>
<L>fr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m hou&s;e&punc; nor folds of thine:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> For bea&s;ts of forre&s;ts cattle all</L>
<L>on thou&s;and hills are mine.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> The fowls are all to me well known,</L>
<L>that mountains high do yeeld;</L>
<L>And I do challenge as mine own,</L>
<L>the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ilde bea&s;ts of the field.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> If I were hungry, I would not</L>
<L>to the for need complain;</L>
<L>For earth, and all its fulne&s;&s;e, doth</L>
<L>to Me of right pertain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> That I to eat the fle&s;h of bulls</L>
<L>take plea&s;ure, do&s;t thou think?</L>
<L>Or, that I need to quench my thir&s;t,</L>
<L>the blood of goats to drink?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="42"> Nay, rather unto me, thy God,</L>
<L>thank&s;giving offer thou,</L>
<L>To the mo&s;t High perform thy word,</L>
<L>and fully pay thy vow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> And, in the day of trouble great;</L>
<L>&s;ee that thou call on me;</L>
<L>I will deliver thee, and thou</L>
<L>my name &s;halt glorifie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> But God unto the wicked &s;aith,</L>
<L>why &s;hould thou mention make</L>
<L>Of my commands? how dar'&s;t thou in</L>
<L>thy mouth my cov'nant take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> With it is &s;o, that thou do&s;t hate</L>
<L>all good in&s;truction;</L>
<L>And &s;ith thou ca&s;ts behinde thy back,</L>
<L>and &s;lights my words each one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> When thou a thief did&s;t &s;ee, then &s;traight</L>
<L>thou joyn'd with him in &s;in;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd with the vile adulterers,</L>
<L>thou ha&s;t pertaker bin:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Thy mouth to evill thou do&s;t give,</L>
<L>thy tongue deceit doth frame,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Thou &s;it&s;t &amp; 'gain&s;t thy brother &s;peak&s;t,</L>
<L>thy mothers &s;on to &s;hame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Tho&s;e things thou wickedly ha&s;t done,</L>
<L>and I have &s;ilent bin:</L>
<L>Thou thought that I was like thy &s;elf,</L>
<L>and did approve thy &s;in:</L>
<L>But I will &s;harply thee reprove,</L>
<L>and I will order right,</L>
<L>Thy &s;ins and thy tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions,</L>
<L>in pre&s;ence of thy &s;ight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> Con&s;ider this, and be afraid,</L>
<L>ye that forget the Lord,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e&s;t I in pieces tear you all</L>
<L>when none can help afford.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="43"> Who offereth prai&s;e, me glorifies:</L>
<L>I will &s;hew Gods &s;alvation</L>
<L>To him that ordereth aright</L>
<L>his life and conver&s;ation.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="51" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LI.</HEAD>
<L>AFter thy loving kindne&s;s, Lord,</L>
<L>have mercy upon me:</L>
<L>For thy compa&s;&s;ions great, blot out</L>
<L>all mine iniquitie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Me clean&s;e from &s;in, and throughly wi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>from mine iniquitie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For my tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions I confe&s;s,</L>
<L>my &s;in I ever &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> 'Gain&s;t thee, thee only have I &s;inn'd,</L>
<L>in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ight done this ill;</L>
<L>That when thou &s;peak&s;t thou may&s;t be ju&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>and clear in judging &s;till.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Behold, I in iniquity</L>
<L>was form'd&punc; the womb within:</L>
<L>My mother al&s;o me conceiv'd</L>
<L>in guiltine&s;s and &s;in.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Behold, thou in the inward parts,</L>
<L>with truth delighted art;</L>
<L>And wi&s;dom thou &s;halt make me know</L>
<L>within the hidden part.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Do thou with by&s;&s;op &s;prinkle me,</L>
<L>I &s;hall be clean&s;ed &s;o;</L>
<L>Yea, wa&s;h thou me, and then I &s;hal</L>
<L>be whiter then the &s;now.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Of gladne&s;s and of joyfulne&s;s</L>
<L>make me to hear the voice;</L>
<L>That &s;o thefe very bones which thou</L>
<L>ha&s;t broken, may rejoyce.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> mine iniquities blot out</L>
<L>thy face hide from my &s;in.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Treat a clean heart: Lord, renew</L>
<L>a right &s;p'rit me within.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="43"> Ca&s;t me not from thy &s;ight, nor take</L>
<L>thy holy &s;p'rit away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Re&s;tore me thy &s;alvations joy;</L>
<L>with thy free &s;p'rit me &s;tay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Then will I teach thy ways unto</L>
<L>tho&s;e that tran&s;gre&s;&s;ours be:</L>
<L>And tho&s;e that &s;inners are, &s;hall then</L>
<L>be turned unto th&eacute;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> O God, of my &s;alvation, God,</L>
<L>me from blood guiltine&s;s</L>
<L>Set fr&eacute;e: then &s;hall my tongue aloud</L>
<L>&s;ing of thy righteou&s;ne&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> My clo&s;ed lips, O Lord, by th&eacute;e</L>
<L>let them be opened:</L>
<L>Then &s;hal thy prai&s;es by my mouth</L>
<L>abroad be publi&s;hed.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> For, thou de&s;ir'&s;t not &s;acrifice,</L>
<L>el&s;e would I give it thee;</L>
<L>Nor wilt thou with burnt-offering</L>
<L>at all delighted be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> A broken &s;pirit is to God</L>
<L>a plea&s;ing &s;acrifice,</L>
<L>A broken and a contrite heart,</L>
<L>Lord, thou wilt not de&s;pi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Shew kindne&s;s, and do good, O Lord,</L>
<L>to Sion thine own hill;</L>
<L>The walls of thy Ieru&s;alem</L>
<L>build up of thy good will.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Then righteous offrings &s;hal thee plea&s;e,</L>
<L>and offrings burnt, which they</L>
<L>With whole burnt-offrings, and with calves</L>
<L>&s;hall on thine altar lay.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="52" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LII.</HEAD>
<L>WHy do&s;t thou boa&s;t, O mighty man,</L>
<L>of mi&s;chief and of ill?</L>
<L>The goodne&s;s of Almighty God</L>
<L>endureth ever &s;till.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="44"> Thy tongue mi&s;chievous calumnies</L>
<L>devi&s;eth &s;ubtilly,</L>
<L>Like to razor &s;harp, to cut,</L>
<L>working deceitfully.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Ill more then good, and more then truth,</L>
<L>thou love&s;t to &s;peak wrong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Thou love&s;t all devouring words,</L>
<L>O thou deceitful tongue!</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> So God &s;hall thee de&s;troy for ay,</L>
<L>remove thee, pluck thee out</L>
<L>Quite from thy hou&s;e, out of the land</L>
<L>of life he &s;hall thee root.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> The righteous &s;hall'it &s;&eacute;e, and fear,</L>
<L>and laugh at him they &s;hall:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Lo, this the man is, that did not</L>
<L>make God his &s;trength at all:</L>
<L>But he i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his abundant wealth,</L>
<L>his confidence did place;</L>
<L>And he took &s;trength unto him&s;elf</L>
<L>from his own wickedne&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> But I am in the hou&s;e of God</L>
<L>li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e to an olive green:</L>
<L>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> confidence for ever hath</L>
<L>upon Gods mercy been.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> And I for ever will thee prai&s;e,</L>
<L>b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cau&s;e thou ha&s;t done this:</L>
<L>I on thy Name will wait, for good</L>
<L>before th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;aints it is.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="53" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LIII.</HEAD>
<L>THat there is not a God&punc; the fool</L>
<L>doth in his heart conclude:</L>
<L>They are corrupt, their works are vile,</L>
<L>not one of them doth good.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> The Lord upon the &s;ons of men</L>
<L>from heav'n did ca&s;t his eyes,</L>
<L>To &s;ee if any one there was</L>
<PB REF="44">
<L>that &s;ought God, and was wi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> They altogether filthy are,</L>
<L>they all are backward gone,</L>
<L>And there is none that doeth good,</L>
<L>no not &s;o much as one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The&s;e workers of iniquity</L>
<L>do they not know at all,</L>
<L>That they my people eat as bread,</L>
<L>and on God do not call.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Ev'n there they were afraid, and &s;tood</L>
<L>with trembling all di&s;maid,</L>
<L>Whereas there was no cau&s;e at all,</L>
<L>why they &s;hould be afraid:</L>
<L>For God his bones that th&eacute;e be&s;iedg'd</L>
<L>hath &s;cattered all abroad,</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t confounded them, for they</L>
<L>de&s;pi&s;ed are of God.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Let I&s;ra'ls help from Sion come,</L>
<L>when back the Lord &s;hall bring</L>
<L>His captives, Iacob &s;hall rejoice,</L>
<L>and I&s;rael &s;hall &s;ing.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="54" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LIV.</HEAD>
<L>SAve me, O God, by thy great name,</L>
<L>and judge me by thy &s;trength:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> My prayer hear, O God, give ear</L>
<L>unto my words at length.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For they that &s;trangers are to me,</L>
<L>do up again&s;t me ri&s;e;</L>
<L>Oppre&s;&s;ours &s;eek my &s;oul, and God</L>
<L>&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> not before their eyes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The Lord my God my helper is,</L>
<L>lo therefore I am bold,</L>
<L>He taketh part with every one</L>
<L>that doth my &s;oul uphold.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Vnto mine enemies be &s;hall</L>
<L>mi&s;chief and ill repay;</L>
<PB REF="45">
<L>O for thy truths &s;ake cut them off,</L>
<L>and &s;w&eacute;ep them clean away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> I will a &s;acrifice to thee</L>
<L>give with free willingne&s;s:</L>
<L>Thy Name, O Lord, becau&s;e it's good,</L>
<L>with prai&s;e I will confe&s;s:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> For he hath me delivered</L>
<L>from all adver&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ies;</L>
<L>And his de&s;ire mine eye hath &s;een</L>
<L>upon mine enemies.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="55" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LV.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd, hear my pray'r, hide not thy &s;elf</L>
<L>from my intreating voice:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Attend and hear me, in my plaint</L>
<L>I mourn, and make a noi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e of th'enemies voice, and for</L>
<L>lewd mens oppre&s;&s;ion great;</L>
<L>On me they ca&s;t iniquity,</L>
<L>and they in wrath me hate.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Sore pain'd within me is my heart,</L>
<L>deaths terrours on me fall;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> On me comes trembling, fear and dre<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>ov'rwhelmed me withal.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> O that I like a dove had wings,</L>
<L>&s;aid I, then would I flie</L>
<L>Far <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ence, that I might find a place</L>
<L>where I in re&s;t might be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Lo, then far off I wander would,</L>
<L>and in the de&s;ert &s;tay:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> From windy &s;torm and tempe&s;t I</L>
<L>would ha&s;te to &s;cape away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, on them de&s;truction bring,</L>
<L>and vs their tongues divide;</L>
<L>For, in the city, violence</L>
<L>and &s;tri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> I have e&s;pide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> They day and night upon the walls</L>
<L>do go about it round:</L>
<PB REF="45">
<L>There mi&s;chief is, and &s;orrow there</L>
<L>in mid&s;t of it is &s;ound.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Abundant wickedne&s;s there is</L>
<L>within her inward part:</L>
<L>And from her &s;treets deceitfulne&s;s</L>
<L>and guile do not depart.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> He was no foe that me reproach'd,</L>
<L>then that endure I could,</L>
<L>Nor hater that did 'gain&s;t me boa&s;t,</L>
<L>from him me hide I would.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> But thou man, who mine equal, guide,</L>
<L>and mine acquaintance wa&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> We joyn'd &s;w&eacute;et coun&s;els, to Gods hou&s;e</L>
<L>in company we pa&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Let death upon them &s;ei&s;e, and down</L>
<L>let them go quick to hell;</L>
<L>For, wickedne&s;s doth much abound</L>
<L>among them where they dwell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Ile call on God, God will me &s;ave,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Ile pray, and make a noi&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Evening, morning, and at noon;</L>
<L>and he &s;hall hear my voice.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> He hath my &s;oul delivered,</L>
<L>that it in peace might be,</L>
<L>from battel that again&s;t me was,</L>
<L>for many were with me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> The Lord &s;hal hear, and them afflict,</L>
<L>of old who hath abode:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they never changes have,</L>
<L>therefore they fear not God.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> 'Gain&s;t tho&s;e that were at peace w^t him:</L>
<L>he hath put forth his hand:</L>
<L>The covenant that he had made,</L>
<L>by breaking he prophan'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> More &s;mooth then butter were his words,</L>
<L>while in his heart was war:</L>
<L>His &s;peeches were more &s;oft then oyl,</L>
<L>and yet drawn &s;words they are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="46"> Ca&s;t thou thy burden on the Lord,</L>
<L>and he &s;hall thee &s;u&s;tain;</L>
<L>Yea, he &s;hall cau&s;e the righteous man</L>
<L>unmoved to remain,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> But thou, O Lord, my God, tho&s;e men</L>
<L>in ju&s;tice &s;halt o're throw,</L>
<L>And in de&s;tructions dungeon dark</L>
<L>at la&s;t &s;halt lay them low.</L>
<L>The bloudy and deceitful men</L>
<L>&s;hall not live half their dayes:</L>
<L>But upon thee with confidence</L>
<L>I will depend alwayes.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="56" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LVI.</HEAD>
<L>SHew mercy, Lord, to me: for man</L>
<L>would &s;wallow me outright:</L>
<L>He me oppre&s;&s;eth while he doth</L>
<L>again&s;t me daily fight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> They daily would me &s;wallow up,</L>
<L>that hate me &s;pitefully:</L>
<L>For they be many that do fight</L>
<L>again&s;t me, O mo&s;t his.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> When I'm afraid, Ile tru&s;t in thee:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> In God Ile prai&s;e his word,</L>
<L>I will not fear what fle&s;h can do,</L>
<L>my tru&s;t is in the Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Each day they wre&s;t my words, their though</L>
<L>'gain&s;t me are all for ill.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> They m&eacute;et, they lurk, they mark my &s;tep</L>
<L>waiting my &s;oul to kill.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> But &s;hall they by iniquity</L>
<L>e&s;cape thy judgement &s;o?</L>
<L>O God, with indignation, down</L>
<L>do thou the people throw.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> My wandrings all, what they have been,</L>
<L>thou know'&s;t, their number took,</L>
<L>Into thy bottle put my tears,</L>
<L>are they not in thy book?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="46"> My foes &s;hall when I cry, turn back,</L>
<L>I know't, God is for me:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> In God his word Ile prai&s;e, his word</L>
<L>in God &s;hall prai&s;ed be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> In God I tru&s;t, I will not fear</L>
<L>what man can do to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Thy vows upon me are, O God:</L>
<L>Ile render prai&s;e to thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Wilt thou not, who from death me &s;av'd</L>
<L>my feet from falls keep free,</L>
<L>To walk before God in the light</L>
<L>o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e that living he?</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="57" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LVII.</HEAD>
<L>BE merciful to me, O God,</L>
<L>thy mercy unto me</L>
<L>Do thou extend, becau&s;e my &s;oul</L>
<L>doth put her tru&s;t in thee.</L>
<L>Yea, in the &s;hadow of thy wings</L>
<L>my refuge I will place,</L>
<L>Vntill the&s;e &s;ad calamities</L>
<L>do wholly overpa&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> My cry I will cau&s;e to a&s;cend</L>
<L>unto the Lord mo&s;t hy,</L>
<L>To God who doth all things for me</L>
<L>perform mo&s;t perfectly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> From heav'n he &s;hall &s;end down, and me</L>
<L>from his reproach defend</L>
<L>That would devour me; God his truth</L>
<L>and mercy forth &s;hall &s;end.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul among fierce lions is,</L>
<L>I fire-brands live among,</L>
<L>Mens &s;ons, who&s;e t&eacute;eth are &s;pears and darts,</L>
<L>a &s;harp &s;word is their tongue.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Be thou exalted very high</L>
<L>above the heav'ns, O God:</L>
<L>Let thou thy glory be advanc'd</L>
<L>ov'r all the earth abroad.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="47"> My &s;oul's bow'd down, for they a net</L>
<L>have laid, my &s;teps to &s;nare:</L>
<L>Into the pit which they have dig'd</L>
<L>for me, they fallen are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> My heart is firt, my heart is fixt,</L>
<L>O God, Ile &s;ing and prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> My glory wake, wake p&s;altery, harp;</L>
<L>my &s;elf Ile early rai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Ile prai&s;e th&eacute;e 'mong the people, Lord,</L>
<L>'mong nations &s;ing will I;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> For great to heav'n thy mercy is,</L>
<L>thy truth is to the sky.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, exalted be thy Name,</L>
<L>above the heavn's to &s;tand:</L>
<L>Do thou thy glory far advance</L>
<L>above both &s;ea and land.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="58" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LVIII.</HEAD>
<L>DO ye O congregation,</L>
<L>ind&eacute;ed &s;peak righteou&s;ne&s;s;</L>
<L>O ye that are the &s;ons of men</L>
<L>judge ye with uprightne&s;s?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Yea, ev'n within your very hearts</L>
<L>ye wickedne&s;s have done:</L>
<L>And ye the violence of your hands</L>
<L>do weigh the earth upon.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> The wicked men e&s;tranged are,</L>
<L>ev'n from the very womb;</L>
<L>They &s;peaking lies do &s;tray, as &s;oon</L>
<L>as to the world they come.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Vnto a &s;erpent poy&s;on-like</L>
<L>their poy&s;on doth appear;</L>
<L>Yea, they are like the adder deal,</L>
<L>that clo&s;ely &s;tops her ear:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> That &s;o &s;he may not hear the voice</L>
<L>of one that charm her would;</L>
<L>No, not though be mo&s;t cunning were,</L>
<L>and charm mo&s;t wi&s;ely could.</L>
<PB REF="47">
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Their teeth, O God, within their mouth</L>
<L>break thou in pieces &s;mall;</L>
<L>The great teeth break thou out, O Lord,</L>
<L>of the&s;e young lions all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Let them like waters melt away,</L>
<L>which downward &s;till do flow:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o pieces cut his arrows all,</L>
<L>when he &s;hall bend his bow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Like to a &s;nail that melts away,</L>
<L>let each of them be gone:</L>
<L>Like womans birth untimely, that</L>
<L>they never &s;ee the &s;un.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> He &s;hall them take away, before</L>
<L>your pots the thorns can find,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">oth living, and in fury great,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s with a &s;tormy wind.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> The righteous when he vengeance &s;ees,</L>
<L>he &s;hall be joyful then:</L>
<L>The righteous one &s;hal wa&s;h his feet</L>
<L>in blood of wicked men.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> So men &s;hal &s;ay, The righteous man</L>
<L>reward &s;hal never mi&s;s;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d verily upon the earth</L>
<L>a God to judge there is.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="59" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LIX.</HEAD>
<L>MY God, deliver me from tho&s;e</L>
<L>that are mine enemies:</L>
<L>And do thou me defend from tho&s;e</L>
<L>that up again&s;t me ri&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Do thou deliver me from them</L>
<L>that work iniquity;</L>
<L>And give me &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ely from the men</L>
<L>of bloody cruelty.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For lo, they for my &s;oul lay wait;</L>
<L>the mighty do combine</L>
<L>Again&s;t me, Lord, not for my fault,</L>
<L>nor any &s;in of mine,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="48"> They run, and without fault in me,</L>
<L>them&s;elves do ready make:</L>
<L>Awake to meet me with thy help,</L>
<L>and do thou notice take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Awake therefore, Lord God of ho&s;ts,</L>
<L>thou God of I&s;rael,</L>
<L>To vi&s;it heathen all: &s;pare none</L>
<L>that wickedly rebel.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> At evening they go to and fro;</L>
<L>they make great noi&s;e, and &s;ound,</L>
<L>Like to a dog, and often walk</L>
<L>about the city round.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Behold, they belch out with their mouth</L>
<L>and in their lips are &s;words;</L>
<L>For, they do &s;ay thus, Who is he</L>
<L>that now doth hear our words?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> But thou, O Lord &s;hal laugh at them,</L>
<L>and all the heathen mock.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le he's in pow'r, Ile wait on thee:</L>
<L>for God is my high rock.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> He of my me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cy that is God,</L>
<L>betimes &s;hal me prevent:</L>
<L>Vpon mine enemies God &s;hal let</L>
<L>me &s;ee mine hearts content.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Them &s;lay not, le&s;t thy folk forget;</L>
<L>but &s;carter them abroad</L>
<L>By thy &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ong pow'r, and bring them dow<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>O thou our &s;hield, and God.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> For their mouths &s;in, and for the words</L>
<L>that from their lips do fly;</L>
<L>Let them be taken in their pride,</L>
<L>becau&s;e they cur&s;e and ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> In wrath con&s;ume them, them con&s;ume</L>
<L>that &s;o they may not be:</L>
<L>And that in Iacob God doth rule</L>
<L>to th'earths ends let them &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="48"> At evening let thou them return,</L>
<L>making great noi&s;e and &s;ound</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ie to a dog, and often walk</L>
<L>about the city round.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> And let them wander up and down</L>
<L>in &s;eeking food to eat;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d let them grudge, when they thall not</L>
<L>be &s;atisfi'd with meat.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> But of thy pow'r Ile &s;ing aloud,</L>
<L>it morn thy mercy prai&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">or thou to me my refuge wa&s;t,</L>
<L>and tow'r in troublous dayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> O God, that art my &s;trength, I will</L>
<L>&s;ing prai&s;es unto thee;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">or God is my defence, a God</L>
<L>of mercy unto me.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="60" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LX.</HEAD>
<L>O Lord, thou ha&s;t rejected us,</L>
<L>and &s;cattered us abroad,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hou ju&s;tly ha&s;t di&s;plea&s;ed b&eacute;en,</L>
<L>return to us, O God.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> The earth to tremble thou ha&s;t made;</L>
<L>therein did&s;t breaches make:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> thou thereof the breaches heal,</L>
<L>becau&s;e the land doth &s;hake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Vnto thy people thou hard things</L>
<L>ha&s;t &s;hew'd, and on them &s;ent:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd thou ha&s;t cau&s;ed us to drink</L>
<L>wine of a&s;toni&s;hment.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> And yet a banner thou ha&s;t giv'n</L>
<L>to them who thee do fear:</L>
<L>That it by them becau&s;e of truth</L>
<L>di&s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ayed ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> appear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> That thy beloved people may</L>
<L>delivered be from thrall;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ave with the power of thy right hand,</L>
<L>and hear me when I call.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="49"> God in his holine&s;&s;e hath &s;poke,</L>
<L>herein I will take plea&s;ure:</L>
<L>Shechem I will devide, and forth</L>
<L>will Succoths valley mea&s;ure:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Gilead I claim as mine by right,</L>
<L>Mana&s;&s;eh mine &s;hall be:</L>
<L>Ephraim is of mine head the &s;trength,</L>
<L>Iudah gives laws for me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Moab's my wa&s;hing-pot, my &s;hoe</L>
<L>Ile over Edom throw:</L>
<L>And over Pale&s;tina's land</L>
<L>I will in triumph go.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> O who is he will bring me to</L>
<L>the city fortifi'd?</L>
<L>O who is he that to the land</L>
<L>of Edom will me guide?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> O God, which hade&s;t us ca&s;t off,</L>
<L>this thing wilt thou not do?</L>
<L>Ev'n thou&punc; O God, who dide&s;t not</L>
<L>forth with our armies go:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Help us from trouble: for the help</L>
<L>is vain which man &s;upplies.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Through God we'l do great acts: he &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>tread down our enemies.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="61" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM LXI.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> God, give ear unto my cry,</L>
<L>unto my pray'r attend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> From th' utmo&s;t corner of the land,</L>
<L>my cry to thee Ile &s;end:</L>
<L>What time my heart is overwhelm'd,</L>
<L>and in perplexity;</L>
<L>Do thou me lead unto the Rock</L>
<L>that higher is then I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For thou ha&s;t for my refuge been</L>
<L>a &s;helter by thy power;</L>
<L>And for defence again&s;t my foes,</L>
<L>thou ha&s;t b&eacute;en a &s;trong tower.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="49"> Within thy tabernacle I</L>
<L>for ever will abide:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d under covert of thy wings</L>
<L>with confidence me hide.</L>
<L>For thou the vows that I did make,</L>
<L>O Lord my God, did&s;t hear:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ou ha&s;t given me the heritage</L>
<L>if tho&s;e thy Name that fear.</L>
<L>A life prolong'd for many dayes</L>
<L>thou to the King &s;halt give:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ke many generations be</L>
<L>the years which he &s;hall live.</L>
<L>He in Gods pre&s;ence his abode</L>
<L>for evermore &s;hall have:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o thou truth and mercy both</L>
<L>prepare that may him &s;ave:</L>
<L>And &s;o will I perpetually</L>
<L>&s;ing prai&s;e unto thy Name,</L>
<L>That having made my vows, I may</L>
<L>each day perform the &s;ame.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="62" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXII.</HEAD>
<L>MY &s;oul with expectation</L>
<L>depends on God indeed:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;trength and my &s;alvation doth</L>
<L>from him alone proceed.</L>
<L>He only my &s;alvation is,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd my &s;trong Rock is He;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e only is my &s;ure defence;</L>
<L>much mov'd I &s;hall not be.</L>
<L>How long will ye again&s;t a man</L>
<L>plot mi&s;chief? ye &s;hall all</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e &s;lain, ye as a tottering fence</L>
<L>&s;hall be, and bowing wall.</L>
<L>They only plot to ca&s;t him down</L>
<L>from his excellency;</L>
<L>They joy in lies, with mouth they ble&s;&s;e;</L>
<PB REF="50">
<L>but they cur&s;e inwardly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul, wait thou with patience</L>
<L>upon thy God alone:</L>
<L>On him dependeth all my hope</L>
<L>and expectation.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> He only my &s;alvation is,</L>
<L>and my &s;trong Rock is be;</L>
<L>He only is my &s;ure defence,</L>
<L>I &s;hall not moved be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> In God my glory placed is,</L>
<L>and my &s;alvation &s;ure:</L>
<L>In God the Rock is of my &s;trength,</L>
<L>my refuge mo&s;t &s;ecure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Ye people place your confidence</L>
<L>in him continually:</L>
<L>Before him pour ye out your heart:</L>
<L>God is our refuge by.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Surely mean men are vanity,</L>
<L>and great men are a ly:</L>
<L>In ballance laid, they wholly are</L>
<L>more light then vanity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Tru&s;t ye not in oppre&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>in robbery be not vain:</L>
<L>On wealth &s;et not your hearts, when as</L>
<L>increa&s;ed is your gain,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> God hath it &s;poken once to me;</L>
<L>yea, this I heard again,</L>
<L>That power to Almighty God</L>
<L>alone doth appertain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Yea, mercy al&s;o unto thee</L>
<L>belongs, O Lord, alone;</L>
<L>For, thou according to his work</L>
<L>rewarde&s;t every one.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="63" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXIII.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd thee my God, Ile early &s;eek,</L>
<L>my &s;oul doth thir&s;t for thee,</L>
<PB REF="50">
<L>My fle&s;h longs in a dry parcht land,</L>
<L>wherein no waters be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> That I thy power may behold,</L>
<L>and brightne&s;s of thy face,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s I have &s;een thee heretofore,</L>
<L>within thy holy place.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Since better is thy love then life,</L>
<L>my lips thee prai&s;e &s;hall give.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> I in thy Name will lift my hands,</L>
<L>and ble&s;s thee while I live.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Ev'n as with marrow and with &s;at,</L>
<L>my &s;oul &s;hall filled be;</L>
<L>Then &s;hall my mouth with joyful lips,</L>
<L>&s;ing prai&s;es unto thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> When I do thee upon my bed</L>
<L>remember with delight,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd when on thee I meditate</L>
<L>in watches of the night.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> In &s;hadow of thy wings Ile joy,</L>
<L>for thou mine help ha&s;t been.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul thee follows hard; and me</L>
<L>thy right hand doth &s;u&s;tain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Who &s;eek my &s;oul to &s;pill, &s;hall &s;ink</L>
<L>down to earths lowe&s;t room:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> They by the &s;word &s;hall be cut off</L>
<L>and foxes prey become.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Yet &s;hall the King in God rejoyce,</L>
<L>and each one glory &s;hall</L>
<L>That &s;wear by him: but &s;topt &s;hall be</L>
<L>the mouth of liars all.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="64" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXIV.</HEAD>
<L>VVHen I to thee my prayer make,</L>
<L>Lord to my voice give ear;</L>
<L>My life &s;ave from the enemy,</L>
<L>of whom I &s;tand in fear.</L>
<L>Me from their &s;ecret coun&s;el hide,</L>
<PB REF="51">
<L>who do live wickedly;</L>
<L>From in&s;urrection of tho&s;e men</L>
<L>that work iniquity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Who do their tongues with malice whet<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>and make them cut like &s;words;</L>
<L>In who&s;e bent bows are arrows &s;et,</L>
<L>ev'n &s;harp and bitter words?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> That they may at the perfect man,</L>
<L>in &s;ecret aim their &s;hot:</L>
<L>Yea, &s;uddenly they dare at him</L>
<L>to &s;hoot, and fear it not.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> In ill incourage they them&s;elves;</L>
<L>and their &s;nares clo&s;e to lay,</L>
<L>Together conference they have,</L>
<L>Who &s;hall them &s;ee? they &s;ay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Thy have &s;earcht out iniquities,</L>
<L>a perfect &s;earch they keep,</L>
<L>Of each of them the inward thought,</L>
<L>and very heart is deep.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> God &s;hall an arrow &s;hoot at them,</L>
<L>and wound them &s;uddenly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> So their own tongue &s;hall them confoun<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>all who them &s;ee &s;hall fly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> And on all men a fear &s;hall fall;</L>
<L>Gods works they &s;hall declare:</L>
<L>For they &s;hall wi&s;ely notice take</L>
<L>what the&s;e his doings are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> In God the righteous &s;hall rejoyce,</L>
<L>and tru&s;t upon his might;</L>
<L>Yea, they &s;hall greatly glory all</L>
<L>in heart that are upright.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="65" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXV.</HEAD>
<L>PRai&s;e waits for thee in Sion, Lord,</L>
<L>to thee vows paid &s;hall be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> O thou that hearer art of pray'r,</L>
<L>all fle&s;h &s;hall come to thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Iniquities I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e,</L>
<PB REF="51">
<L>prevail again&s;t me do;</L>
<L>But as for our tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions,</L>
<L>them purge away &s;halt thou.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Ble&s;t is the man whom thou do&s;t chu&s;e,</L>
<L>and mak'&s;t approach to thee:</L>
<L>That he within thy courts, O Lord,</L>
<L>may &s;till a dweller he:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e &s;urely &s;hall be &s;atisfi'd</L>
<L>with thy abundant grace;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd with the goodne&s;&s;e of thy hou&s;e</L>
<L>even of thy holy place.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> O God of our &s;alvation,</L>
<L>thou in thy righteou&s;ne&s;s</L>
<L>By fearful works unto our pray'rs</L>
<L>thine an&s;wer do&s;t expre&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>Therefore the ends of all the earth,</L>
<L>and the&s;e a far that be</L>
<L>Vpon the &s;ea, their confidence,</L>
<L>O Lord will place in thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Who, being girt wi&s;h power &s;ets fa&s;t</L>
<L>by his great &s;trength the hills.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Who noi&s;e of &s;eas, noi&s;e of their waves</L>
<L>and peoples tumult &s;tills.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Tho&s;e in the utmo&s;t parts that dwell,</L>
<L>are at thy &s;ignes afraid:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">h' out-going of the morn and even</L>
<L>by thee are joyful made.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> The earth thou vi&s;it'&s;t, watering it,</L>
<L>thou mak'&s;t it rich to grow</L>
<L>With Gods full flood; thou corn prepar'&s;t,</L>
<L>when thou provid'&s;t it &s;o.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Her ridges thou watere&s;t plenteou&s;ly,</L>
<L>her &s;urrows &s;ettle&s;t:</L>
<L>With &s;howrs thou do&s;t her molifie,</L>
<L>her &s;pring by thee is ble&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> So thou the year mo&s;t liberally</L>
<PB REF="52">
<L>do&s;t with thy goodne&s;s crown;</L>
<L>And all thy paths abundantly</L>
<L>on us drop fatne&s;s down:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> They drop upon the pa&s;tures wide,</L>
<L>that do in de&s;erts ly:</L>
<L>The little hills on every &s;ide</L>
<L>rejoyce right plea&s;antly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> With flocks the pa&s;tures cloathed be,</L>
<L>the vales with corn are clad;</L>
<L>And now they &s;hout and &s;ing to thee,</L>
<L>for thou ha&s;t made them glad.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="66" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXVI.</HEAD>
<L>ALl lands to God in joyful &s;ounds</L>
<L>aloft your voices rai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Sing forth the honour of his Name,</L>
<L>and glorious make his prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Say unto God, How terrible</L>
<L>in all thy works art thou?</L>
<L>Through thy great pow'r thy foes to thee,</L>
<L>&s;hall be con&s;train'd to bow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> All on the earth &s;hall wor&s;hip thee,</L>
<L>they &s;hall thy prai&s;e proclaim</L>
<L>In &s;ongs: they &s;hall &s;ing chearfully</L>
<L>unto thy holy Name.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Come, &amp; the works that God hath wrong</L>
<L>with admiration &s;ee,</L>
<L>In's working to the &s;ons of men,</L>
<L>mo&s;t terrible is he.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Into dry land the &s;ea he turn'd,</L>
<L>and they a pa&s;&s;age had,</L>
<L>Ev'n marching through the floud on foot,</L>
<L>there we in him were glad.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> He ruleth ever by his pow'r,</L>
<L>His eyes the nations &s;ee:</L>
<L>O let not the rebellious ones</L>
<L>lift up them&s;elves on hie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="52"> Ye people, ble&s;s our God, aloud</L>
<L>the voice &s;peak of his prai&s;e:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Our &s;oul in life who &s;afe pre&s;erves;</L>
<L>our foot from &s;liding &s;tayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> For thou did&s;t prove, and try us, Lord,</L>
<L>as men do &s;ilver try;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Brought'&s;t us into the net, and mad'&s;t</L>
<L>bands on our loins to ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Thou ha&s;t cau&s;'d men ride o're our heads,</L>
<L>and though that we did pa&s;s</L>
<L>Through fire and water, yet thou brought'&s;t</L>
<L>us to a wealthy place.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Ile bring burnt-offring to thy hou&s;e,</L>
<L>to thee my vows Ile pay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Which my lips utter'd my mouth &s;pake,</L>
<L>when trouble on me lay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Burnt-&s;acrifices of &s;at rams,</L>
<L>with incen&s;e I will bring</L>
<L>Of bullocks, and of goats I will</L>
<L>pre&s;ent an offering.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> All that fear God, come hear, Ile tell</L>
<L>what he did for my &s;oul.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> I with my mouth unto him cry'd,</L>
<L>my tongue did him extoll.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> If in my heart I &s;in regard,</L>
<L>the Lord me will not hear:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> But &s;urely God me heard, and to</L>
<L>my prayers voice gave ear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> O let the Lord our gracious God,</L>
<L>for ever ble&s;&s;ed be,</L>
<L>Who turned not my pray'r from him,</L>
<L>nor yet his grace from me.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="67" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM LXVII.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd, ble&s;s and pity us,</L>
<L>&s;hine on us with thy face:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> That th'earth thy way, and nations all</L>
<L>may know thy &s;aving grace.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="53"> Let people prai&s;e th&eacute;e Lord,</L>
<L>let people all thee prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> O let the nations be glad</L>
<L>in &s;ongs their voices rai&s;e.</L>
<L>Thou'lt ju&s;tly people judge,</L>
<L>on earth rule nations all:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Let people prai&s;e thee, Lord, let them</L>
<L>prai&s;e thee both great and &s;mall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> The earth her fruit &s;hall yeeld,</L>
<L>our God &s;hall ble&s;&s;ings &s;end.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> God &s;hall us ble&s;&s;e, men &s;hall him fear,</L>
<L>unto earths utmo&s;t end.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="67" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd, unto us be merciful,</L>
<L>do thou us al&s;o ble&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And graciou&s;ly cau&s;e &s;hine on us</L>
<L>the brightne&s;&s;e of his face.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> That &s;o thy way upon the earth</L>
<L>to all men may be known,</L>
<L>Al&s;o among the nations all,</L>
<L>thy &s;aving health be &s;hown.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> O Let the people prai&s;e thee, Lord,</L>
<L>let people all th&eacute;e prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> O <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he nations be glad,</L>
<L>and &s;ing for joy alwayes:</L>
<L>For rightly thou &s;halt people judge,</L>
<L>and nations rule on earth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Let people prai&s;e thee, Lord, let all</L>
<L>the folk prai&s;e thee with mirth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Then &s;hall the earth yeeld her increa&s;e,</L>
<L>God our God ble&s;&s;e us &s;hall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> God &s;hall us ble&s;&s;e, and of the earth</L>
<L>the ends &s;hall fear him all.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="68" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXVIII.</HEAD>
<L>LEt God ari&s;e, and &s;cattered</L>
<L>let all his enemies be;</L>
<L>no let all tho&s;e th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t do him ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<PB REF="53">
<L>before his pre&s;ence flee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> As &s;moke is driv'n, &s;o drive thou them</L>
<L>as fire melts wax away,</L>
<L>Before Gods face let wicked men</L>
<L>&s;o peri&s;h and decay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> But let the righteous be glad,</L>
<L>let them before Gods fight</L>
<L>Be very joyful; yea, let them</L>
<L>rejoyce with all their might.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> To God &s;ing, to His Name &s;ing prai&s;e,</L>
<L>extol him with your voice,</L>
<L>That rides on heav'n, by his name IAH:</L>
<L>before His face rejoyce.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e the Lord a Father is</L>
<L>unto the fatherle&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>God is the widows Iudge within</L>
<L>his place of holine&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> God doth the &s;olitary &s;et</L>
<L>in families and from bands</L>
<L>The chain'd doth free, but rebels do</L>
<L>inhabite parched lands.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> O God, what time thou did&s;t go forth</L>
<L>before thy peoples face:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd when through the great wilderne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>thy glorious marching was;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Then at Gods pre&s;ence &s;hook the earth&punc;</L>
<L>then drops from heaven fell;</L>
<L>This Sinai &s;hook before the Lord,</L>
<L>the God of I&s;rael.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> O God thou to thine heritage</L>
<L>did&s;t &s;end a plenteous rain;</L>
<L>Whereby thou when it weary was,</L>
<L>did&s;t it refre&s;h again.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Thy congregation then did make</L>
<L>their habitation there:</L>
<L>Of thine own goodne&s;s, for the poor,</L>
<PB REF="54">
<L>O God, thou did&s;t prepare.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> The Lord him&s;elf did give the word,</L>
<L>the word abroad did &s;pread;</L>
<L>Great was the company of them,</L>
<L>the &s;ame who publi&s;hed.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Kings of great armies foiled were,</L>
<L>and forc'd to flee away,</L>
<L>And women, who remain'd at home</L>
<L>did di&s;tribute the prey.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Though ye have lyen among the pots,</L>
<L>like doves ye &s;hall appear;</L>
<L>Who&s;e wings with &s;ilver, and with gold</L>
<L>who&s;e feathers covered are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> When there th' Almighty feattred kings</L>
<L>like Salmons &s;now 'twas white.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Gods hill is like to Ba&s;han hill,</L>
<L>like Ba&s;han hill for hight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Why do ye leap, ye mountains high?</L>
<L>this is the hill where God</L>
<L>De&s;ires to dwell; yea, God in it</L>
<L>for ay will make abode.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Gods chariots twenty thou&s;and are,</L>
<L>thou&s;ands of angels &s;trong:</L>
<L>In's holy place God is, as in</L>
<L>mount Sinai them among.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Thou ha&s;t, O Lord, mo&s;t glorious,</L>
<L>a&s;cended up on hie,</L>
<L>And in triumph victorious led</L>
<L>captive captivitie.</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t received gifts for men,</L>
<L>for &s;uch as did rebell;</L>
<L>Yea, ev'n for them, that God the Lord</L>
<L>in mid&s;t of them might dwell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Ble&s;t be the Lord, who is to us</L>
<L>of our &s;alvation God,</L>
<L>Who daily with his benefits</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s plenteou&s;ly doth load.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="54"> He of &s;alvation is the God,</L>
<L>who is our God mo&s;t &s;trong:</L>
<L>And unto God the Lord, from death</L>
<L>the i&s;&s;ues do belong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> But &s;urely, God &s;hall wound the head</L>
<L>of tho&s;e that are his foes:</L>
<L>The hairy &s;calp of him that &s;till</L>
<L>on in his tre&s;pa&s;s goes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> God &s;aid, My people I will bring</L>
<L>again from Ba&s;han hill:</L>
<L>Yea, from the &s;eas devouring deeps,</L>
<L>them bring again I will:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> That in the blood of enemies</L>
<L>thy foot imbru'd may be;</L>
<L>And, of thy dogs dipt in the &s;ame</L>
<L>the tongues thou maye&s;t &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> Thy goings they have &s;een, O God,</L>
<L>the &s;teps of Maje&s;tie</L>
<L>Of my God, and my mightie King</L>
<L>within the Sanctuarie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> Before went &s;ingers, players next</L>
<L>on in&s;truments took way;</L>
<L>And them among the dam&s;els were</L>
<L>that did on timbrels play.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> Within the congregations,</L>
<L>ble&s;s God with one accord:</L>
<L>From I&s;ra'ls fountain do ye ble&s;s</L>
<L>and prai&s;e the mightie Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> With their prince little Benjamin,</L>
<L>princes and coun&s;el there</L>
<L>Of Iudah were, there Zabulons</L>
<L>and Naphtalies princes were:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> Thy God commands thy &s;trength: make &s;trong</L>
<L>what thou wrought&s;t for us, Lord,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> For thy hou&s;e at Ie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;alem</L>
<L>Kings &s;hall thee guts afford.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="55"> The &s;pear-mens ho&s;t, the multitude</L>
<L>of bulls which fiercely look:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e calves which people have forth &s;ent,</L>
<L>O Lord our God, rebuke,</L>
<L>Till every one &s;ubmit him&s;elf</L>
<L>and &s;ilver pieces bring:</L>
<L>The people that delight in war,</L>
<L>di&s;per&s;e, O God, and King.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> Tho&s;e that be princes great &s;hall then</L>
<L>come out of Egypt lands,</L>
<L>And Ethiopia to God</L>
<L>&s;hall &s;oon &s;tretch out her hands.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="32" UNIT="verse"> O all ye Kingdoms of the earth,</L>
<L>&s;ing prai&s;es to this King,</L>
<L>For he is Lord that rule hall,</L>
<L>unto Him prai&s;es &s;ing.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="33" UNIT="verse"> To him that rides on heav'ns of heav'ns,</L>
<L>which He of old did found.</L>
<L>Lo, He &s;ends out His voice, a voice</L>
<L>in might that doth abound.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="34" UNIT="verse"> Strength unto God do ye a&s;cribe,</L>
<L>for his excellencie</L>
<L>Is over I&s;rael, His &s;trength</L>
<L>is in the clouds mo&s;t hie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="35" UNIT="verse"> Thou'rt from thy Temple dreadful Lord</L>
<L>I&s;ra'ls own God is He,</L>
<L>Who gives his people &s;trength and power,</L>
<L>O let God ble&s;&s;ed he.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="69" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM LXIX.</HEAD>
<L>SAve me, O God, becau&s;e the flouds</L>
<L>do &s;o inviron me,</L>
<L>That ev'n into my very &s;oul</L>
<L>come in the waters be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> I downward in deep myre do &s;ink,</L>
<L>where &s;tanding there is none:</L>
<L>I am into deep waters come.</L>
<L>where floods have ov'r me gone.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="55"> I weary with my crying am,</L>
<L>my throat is al&s;o dry'd:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ine eyes do fall, while for my God</L>
<L>I waiting do abide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Tho&s;e men that do without a cau&s;e</L>
<L>dear hatred unto me,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">en are the hairs upon my head,</L>
<L>in number moe they be.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ey that would me de&s;troy and are</L>
<L>mine enemies wrongfully</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e mighty: &s;o what I took not</L>
<L>to render forc'd was I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Lord, thou my folly know&s;t, my &s;ins</L>
<L>not covered are from thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Let none that wait on thee be &s;ham'd,</L>
<L>Lord, God of Ho&s;ts, for me.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> Lord, the God of I&s;rael,</L>
<L>let none, who &s;earch do make,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d &s;eek thee, be at any time</L>
<L>confounded for my &s;ake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> For I have born reproach for thee,</L>
<L>my face is hid with &s;hame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> To brethren &s;trange, to mothers &s;ons</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n alien I became.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e the zeal did eat me up,</L>
<L>which to thy hou&s;e I bare;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd the reproaches ca&s;t at th&eacute;e,</L>
<L>upon me fallen are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> My tears and fa&s;ts t'afflict my &s;oul</L>
<L>were turned to my &s;hame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> When &s;ackcloath I did wear, to them</L>
<L>a proverb I became.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> The men that in the gate do &s;it,</L>
<L>again&s;t me evil &s;pake:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hey al&s;o that vile drunkards were,</L>
<L>of me their &s;ong did make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> But in an acceptable time</L>
<PB REF="56">
<L>my pray'r, Lord, is to thee:</L>
<L>In truth of thy &s;alvation, Lord,</L>
<L>and mercy great, hear me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Deliver me out of the mire,</L>
<L>from &s;inking do me keep;</L>
<L>Free me from tho&s;e that do me hate,</L>
<L>and from the waters deep.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Let not the flood on me prevail,</L>
<L>who&s;e water overflows;</L>
<L>Nor deep me &s;wallow, nor the pit</L>
<L>her mouth upon me clo&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Hear me, O Lord, becau&s;e thy love</L>
<L>and kindne&s;s is mo&s;t good;</L>
<L>Turn unto me according to</L>
<L>thy mercies multitude.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Nor from thy &s;ervant hide thy face,</L>
<L>I'm troubled &s;oon attend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Draw neer my &s;oul, and it redeem:</L>
<L>me from my foes defend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> To thee is my reproach well known,</L>
<L>my &s;hame and my di&s;grace:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e that mine adver&s;aries be,</L>
<L>are all before thy face.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Reproach hath broke my heart, I'm<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>of grief; I look'd for one</L>
<L>To pity me, but none I found;</L>
<L>comforters found I none.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> They al&s;o bitter gall did give</L>
<L>unto me for my meat:</L>
<L>They gave me vineger to drink,</L>
<L>when as my thir&s;t was great.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> Before them let their table prove</L>
<L>a &s;nare; and do thou make</L>
<L>Their welfare and pro&s;perity</L>
<L>a trap them&s;elves to take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Let thou their eyes &s;o darkned be,</L>
<L>that &s;ight may them for&s;ake.</L>
<PB REF="56">
<L>And let their loins be made by thee</L>
<L>continually to &s;hake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> Thy fury pour thou out on them</L>
<L>and indignation;</L>
<L>And let thy wrathful anger, Lord,</L>
<L>fa&s;t hold take them upon.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> All wa&s;te and de&s;olate let be</L>
<L>their habitation.</L>
<L>And in their tabernacles all</L>
<L>inhabitants be none.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e him they do per&s;ecute,</L>
<L>whom thou did&s;t &s;mite before;</L>
<L>They talk unto the grief of tho&s;e</L>
<L>whom thou ha&s;t wounded &s;ore.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> Adde thou iniquity unto</L>
<L>their former wickedne&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>And do not let them come at all</L>
<L>into thy righteou&s;ne&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> Out of the book of life let them</L>
<L>be raz'd, and blotted quite;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mong the ju&s;t and righteous</L>
<L>let not their names be writ,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> But now become exceeding poor,</L>
<L>and &s;orrowful am I:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y thy &s;alvation, O my God,</L>
<L>let me be &s;et on hie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> The Name of God, I with a &s;ong,</L>
<L>mo&s;t cheerfully will prai&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd I, in giving thanks to Him,</L>
<L>His Name &s;hall highly rai&s;e:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> This to the Lord a &s;acrifice</L>
<L>more gracious &s;hall prove,</L>
<L>Then bullock, ox, or any bea&s;t</L>
<L>that hath both horn and hoofe.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="32" UNIT="verse"> When this the humble men &s;hall &s;ee,</L>
<L>it joy to them &s;hall give;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> all ye that do &s;eek the Lord.</L>
<PB REF="57">
<L>your heart &s;hall ever live.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="33" UNIT="verse"> For God the poor hears, and will not</L>
<L>his pri&s;oners contemn,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="34" UNIT="verse"> Let heav'n, and earth, &amp; &s;eas Him prai&s;e,</L>
<L>and all that move in them.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="35" UNIT="verse"> For God will Iudahs cities build,</L>
<L>and he will Sion &s;ave;</L>
<L>That they may dwell therein, and it</L>
<L>in &s;ure po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion have.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> And they that are his &s;ervants &s;eed,</L>
<L>inherit &s;hall the &s;ame;</L>
<L>So &s;hall they have their dwelling there,</L>
<L>that love his ble&s;&s;ed Name.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="70" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM LXX.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd, ha&s;t me do deliver,</L>
<L>with &s;peed, Lord, &s;uccour me:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Let them, that for my &s;oul do &s;eek,</L>
<L>&s;ham'd and confounded be:</L>
<L>Turn'd back be they and &s;ham'd,</L>
<L>that in my hurt delight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Turn'd back be they, Ha, ha, that &s;ay,</L>
<L>their &s;haming to requite.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> In thee let all be glad,</L>
<L>and joy that &s;eek for thee:</L>
<L>Let them who thy &s;alvation love,</L>
<L>&s;ay &s;till&punc; God prai&s;ed be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> I poor and needy am,</L>
<L>come, Lord, and make no &s;tay;</L>
<L>My help thou and deliverer art,</L>
<L>O Lord make no delay,</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="70" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L>MAke ha&s;t, O God, me to pre&s;erve,</L>
<L>with &s;peed, Lord, &s;uccour me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Let them that for my &s;oul do do &s;eek,</L>
<L>&s;ham'd and confounded be.</L>
<L>Let them be turned back, and &s;ham'd,</L>
<L>that in my hurt delight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="57"> Turn'd back be they, Ha, ha, that &s;ay,</L>
<L>their &s;haming to requite.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, in thee let all be glad,</L>
<L>and joy that &s;&eacute;ek for th&eacute;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e them, who thy &s;alvation love,</L>
<L>&s;ay &s;till, God prai&s;ed be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> But I both poor and needy am:</L>
<L>come, Lord, and make no &s;tay;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y help thou and deliverer art,</L>
<L>O Lord, make no delay.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="71" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXI.</HEAD>
<L>O Lord, my hope and confidence</L>
<L>is plac'd in thee alone:</L>
<L>Then let thy &s;ervant never be</L>
<L>put to confu&s;ion.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> And let me in thy righteou&s;ne&s;s</L>
<L>from thee deliverance have?</L>
<L>Cau&s;e me e&s;cape, incline thine ear</L>
<L>unto me, and me &s;ave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Be thou my dwelling rock, to which</L>
<L>I ever may re&s;ort:</L>
<L>Thou gav'&s;t commandment me to &s;ave,</L>
<L>for thou'rt my rock and fort.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Fr&eacute;e me my God, from wicked hands,</L>
<L>hands cruel and unju&s;t.</L>
<L>For thou, O Lord God, art my hope,</L>
<L>and from my youth, my tru&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Thou from the womb did&s;t hold me up:</L>
<L>thou art the &s;ame that me,</L>
<L>Out of my mothers bowels took;</L>
<L>I ever will prai&s;e th&eacute;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> To many I a wonder am;</L>
<L>but thou'rt my refuge &s;trong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Fill'd let my mouth be with thy prai&s;e,</L>
<L>and honour all day long.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> O do not ca&s;t me off when as</L>
<L>old age doth overtake me;</L>
<PB REF="58">
<L>And when my &s;trength decayed is</L>
<L>then do not thou for&s;ake me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> For tho&s;e that are mine enemies,</L>
<L>again&s;t me &s;peak with hate:</L>
<L>And, they together coun&s;el take</L>
<L>that for my &s;oul lay wait.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> They &s;aid, God leaves him; him pur<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>and take: none will him &s;ave,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Be thou not far from me, my God:</L>
<L>thy &s;peedy help I crave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Confound, con&s;ume them that unto</L>
<L>my &s;oul are enemies:</L>
<L>Cloath'd be they with reproach and &s;ham<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>that do my hurt devi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> But I with expectation</L>
<L>will hope continually;</L>
<L>And yet with prai&s;es more and more</L>
<L>I will thee magnifie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Thy ju&s;tice and &s;alvation</L>
<L>my mouth abroad &s;hall &s;how.</L>
<L>Ev'n all the day; for I thereof</L>
<L>the numbers do not know.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> And I will con&s;tantly go on</L>
<L>in &s;trength of God the Lord:</L>
<L>And thine own righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, ev'n thine</L>
<L>alone I will record.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> For even from my youth, O God,</L>
<L>by thee I have been taught;</L>
<L>And hitherto I have declar'd</L>
<L>the wonders thou ha&s;t wrought.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> And now Lord, leave me not when I</L>
<L>old and gray-headed grow;</L>
<L>Till to this age thy &s;trength and pow'r</L>
<L>to all to come I &s;how.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> And thy mo&s;t perfect righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>O Lord is very high,</L>
<PB REF="58">
<L>Who ha&s;t &s;o great things done, O God,</L>
<L>who is like unto thee?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Thou Lord who great adver&s;ities</L>
<L>and &s;ore to me did&s;t &s;how,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">halt quicken, and bring me again</L>
<L>from depths of earth below.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> My greatne&s;&s;e, and my pow'r thou wilt</L>
<L>increa&s;e, and far extend;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n every &s;ide, again&s;t all grief,</L>
<L>thou wilt me comfort &s;end.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> Thee, ev'n thy truth Ile al&s;o prai&s;e,</L>
<L>my God, with p&s;alterie:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hou holy One of I&s;rael,</L>
<L>with harp Ile &s;ing to thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> My lips &s;hall much rejoyce in thee,</L>
<L>when I thy prai&s;es &s;ound:</L>
<L>My &s;oul which thou redeemed ha&s;t,</L>
<L>in joy &s;hall much abound.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> My tongue thy ju&s;tice &s;hall proclaim.</L>
<L>continuing all day long;</L>
<L>For they confounded are, and &s;ham'd,</L>
<L>that &s;eek to do me wrong.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="72" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXII.</HEAD>
<L>O Lord, thy judgements give the King,</L>
<L>his &s;on thy righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> With right he &s;hall thy people iudge,</L>
<L>thy poor, with uprightne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> The lofty mountains &s;hall bring forth</L>
<L>unto the people peace;</L>
<L>Likewi&s;e the little hills the &s;ame</L>
<L>&s;hall do by righteou&s;ne&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The peoples poor ones he &s;hall judge,</L>
<L>the needles children &s;ave:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd tho&s;e &s;hall he pieces break</L>
<L>who them oppre&s;&s;ed have.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> They &s;hall thee fear, while Sun and Moon</L>
<L>do la&s;t through ages all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="59"> Like rain on mown gra&s;s he &s;hall dro<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>or &s;howers on earth that fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> The ju&s;t &s;hall flouri&s;h in his days,</L>
<L>and pro&s;per in his reign:</L>
<L>He &s;hall, while doth the Moon endure,</L>
<L>abundant peace maintain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> His large and great dominion &s;hall</L>
<L>from &s;ea to &s;ea extend,</L>
<L>It from the river &s;hall reach forth</L>
<L>unto earths utmo&s;t end.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> They, in the wilderne&s;s that dwell,</L>
<L>bow down before him mu&s;t:</L>
<L>And they that are his enemies,</L>
<L>&s;hall lick the very du&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> The Kings of Tar&s;hi&s;h, and the I&s;le<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>to him &s;hall pre&s;ents bring;</L>
<L>And unto him &s;hall offer gifts</L>
<L>Sheba's and Seba's King.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Yea all the mighty Kings on earth,</L>
<L>before him down &s;hall fall:</L>
<L>And all the nations of the world</L>
<L>do &s;ervice to him &s;hall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> For, he the needy &s;hall pre&s;erve,</L>
<L>when he to him doth call;</L>
<L>The poor al&s;o, and him that hath</L>
<L>no help of man at all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> The poor man and the indigent</L>
<L>in mercy he &s;hall &s;pare:</L>
<L>He &s;hall pre&s;erve alive the &s;ouls</L>
<L>of tho&s;e that needy are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Both from deceit and violence,</L>
<L>their &s;oul be &s;hall &s;et fr&eacute;e:</L>
<L>And in his &s;ight right precious</L>
<L>and dear their blood &s;hall be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Yea, he &s;hall live, and giv'n to him</L>
<L>&s;hall be of Sheba's gold;</L>
<PB REF="59">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n him &s;till &s;hall he pray, and he</L>
<L>fall daily be extol'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Of corn an handful on the earth</L>
<L>on tops of mountains hie,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ith pro&s;perous fruit &s;hal &s;hake like trees</L>
<L>on Lebanon that be.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e City &s;hal be flouri&s;hing,</L>
<L>her citizens abound</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> number &s;hall like to the gra&s;s</L>
<L>that grows upon the ground.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> His Name for ever &s;hall endure,</L>
<L>la&s;t like the &s;un it &s;hall:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n &s;hall be ble&s;t in him, and ble&s;t</L>
<L>all nations &s;hall him call.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Now ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord, our God,</L>
<L>the God of I&s;rael,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">or He alone doth wondrous works,</L>
<L>in glory that excell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> And ble&s;&s;ed be his glorious Name</L>
<L>in all eternitie:</L>
<L>The whole earth let his glory fill:</L>
<L>Amen, &s;o let it be.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="73" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXIII.</HEAD>
<L>YEt God is good to I&s;rael,</L>
<L>to each true-hearted one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> But as for me, my &s;teps neer &s;lipt,</L>
<L>my feet were almo&s;t gone.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For I envious was, and grudg'd</L>
<L>the fooli&s;h folk to &s;ee,</L>
<L>When I perc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iv'd the wicked &s;ort</L>
<L>inio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pro&s;peritie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For &s;till their &s;trength continueth firm,</L>
<L>their death of bands is free:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> They are not toil'd as other men,</L>
<L>nor plagu'd as others be:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Therefore, their pride like to a chain</L>
<L>them compa&s;&s;eth about;</L>
<PB REF="60">
<L>And, as a garment, violence</L>
<L>doth cover them throughout.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Their eyes &s;tand out with fat, they ha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>more then their hearts could wi&s;h.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> They are corrupt, their talk of wrong,</L>
<L>both lewd and lofty is.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> They &s;et their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">uth again&s;t the heav<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>in their bla&s;phemous talk;</L>
<L>And their reproaching tongue throughout</L>
<L>the earth earth at large doth walk.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> His people oftentimes for this</L>
<L>look back, and turn about,</L>
<L>Sith waters of &s;o full a cup</L>
<L>to them are poured out.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> And thus they &s;ay, How can it be</L>
<L>that God the&s;e things do know?</L>
<L>Or can there in the Highe&s;t be</L>
<L>knowledge of things below?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Behold the&s;e are the wicked ones,</L>
<L>yet pro&s;per at their will</L>
<L>In worldly things, they do increa&s;e</L>
<L>in wealth and riches &s;till.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> I verily have done in vain</L>
<L>my heart to purifie:</L>
<L>To no effect in innocence</L>
<L>wa&s;hed my hands have I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> For daily, and all day throughout,</L>
<L>great plagues I &s;uffered have;</L>
<L>Yea, every morning I of new</L>
<L>did cha&s;ti&s;ement receive.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> If in this manner fooli&s;hly</L>
<L>to &s;peak I would intend,</L>
<L>Thy childrens generation,</L>
<L>behold, I &s;hould offend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> When this I thought to know, it was</L>
<L>to hard a thing for me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="60"> Till to Gods Sanctuary I went,</L>
<L>then I their end did &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> A&s;&s;uredly thou did&s;t them &s;et</L>
<L>&s;lippery place upon:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">m &s;uddenly thou ca&s;ted&s;t down</L>
<L>into de&s;truction.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> How in a moment &s;uddenly</L>
<L>to ruine brought are they!</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ith fearful terrours utterly</L>
<L>they are con&s;um'd away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Ev'n like unto dream, when one</L>
<L>from &s;leeping doth ari&s;e;</L>
<L>thou, O Lord, when thou awak'&s;t</L>
<L>their image &s;halt de&s;pi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Thus grieved was my heart in me,</L>
<L>and me my reins oppre&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> So rude was I, and ignorant,</L>
<L>and in thy &s;ight a bea&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Neverthele&s;&s;e continually,</L>
<L>O Lord I am with thee:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hou do&s;t me hold by my right hand,</L>
<L>and &s;till upholde&s;t me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> Thou with thy coun&s;el, while I live,</L>
<L>wilt me conduct and guide;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d to thy glory afterward</L>
<L>receive me, to abide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> Whom have I in the heavens high,</L>
<L>but thee, O Lord alone?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd in the earth, whom I de&s;ire,</L>
<L>be&s;ide thee there is none.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> My fle&s;h and heart doth faint and fail,</L>
<L>but God doth fail me never;</L>
<L>For of my heart God is the &s;trength,</L>
<L>and portion for ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> For lo, they that are far from thee,</L>
<L>for ever peri&s;h &s;hall:</L>
<PB REF="61">
<L>Them, that a-whoring from th&eacute;e go,</L>
<L>thou ha&s;t de&s;troyed all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> But &s;urely it is good for me,</L>
<L>that I draw near to God:</L>
<L>In God I tru&s;t, that all thy works</L>
<L>I may declare abroad.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="74" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXIV.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> God, why ha&s;t thou ca&s;t us off?</L>
<L>is it for evermore?</L>
<L>Again&s;t thy pa&s;ture &s;heep why doth</L>
<L>thine anger &s;moke &s;o &s;ore?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> O call to thy rememberance</L>
<L>thy congregation,</L>
<L>Which thou ha&s;t purcha&s;ed of old,</L>
<L>&s;till think the &s;ame upon.</L>
<L>The rod of thine inheritance,</L>
<L>which thou redeemed ha&s;t,</L>
<L>This <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ion hill, wherein thou had&s;t</L>
<L>thy dwelling in times pa&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> To the&s;e long de&s;olations</L>
<L>thy feet life, do not tarry:</L>
<L>For all the ills thy foes have done</L>
<L>within thy Sanctuary.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Amid&s;t thy congregations</L>
<L>thine enemies do roar:</L>
<L>Their en&s;igns they &s;et up, for &s;igns</L>
<L>of triumph, thee before.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> A man was famous, and was had</L>
<L>in e&s;timation:</L>
<L>According as he lifted up</L>
<L>his ax thick trees upon.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> But all at once with axes now</L>
<L>and hammers they go to,</L>
<L>And down the carved work thereof</L>
<L>they break, and quite undo.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> They fired have thy Sanctuary,</L>
<L>and have defil'd the &s;ame,</L>
<PB REF="61">
<L>By ca&s;ting down unto the ground</L>
<L>the place where dwelt thy Name,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Thus &s;aid they in their hearts, Let us</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e&s;troy them out of hand:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ey burnt up all the Synagogues</L>
<L>of God within the land:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Our &s;ignes we do not now behold,</L>
<L>there is not us among</L>
<L>Prophet more, nor any one</L>
<L>that knows the time how long.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> How long, Lord, &s;hall the enemy</L>
<L>thus in reproach exclaim?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;hall the adver&s;ary thus</L>
<L>alwayes bla&s;pheme thy Name?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Thy hand, even thy right hand of might:</L>
<L>why do&s;t thou thou thus draw back:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> from thy bo&s;ome pluck it out,</L>
<L>for our deliverance &s;ake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> For certainly God is my King,</L>
<L>ev'n from the times of old,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">orking in mid&s;t of all the earth</L>
<L>&s;alvation manifold.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> The &s;ea by thy great pow'r to part</L>
<L>a&s;under, thou did&s;t make;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">od thou the dragons heads, O Lord,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ithin the waters brake:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> The leviathans heads thou brake</L>
<L>in pices, and did&s;t give</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">im to be meat unto the folk</L>
<L>in wilderne&s;&s;e that live.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Thou clave the fountain and the floud</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hich did with &s;treams abound;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hou dryd'&s;t the mighty waters up</L>
<L>into the very ground,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Thine only is the day, O Lord,</L>
<L>thine al&s;o is the night;</L>
<PB REF="62">
<L>And thou alone prepared ha&s;t</L>
<L>the &s;un and &s;hining light.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> By thee the borders of the earth</L>
<L>were &s;etled every-where:</L>
<L>The &s;ummer and the winter both</L>
<L>by thee created were.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> That th'enemy reproached hath</L>
<L>O k&eacute;ep it in record;</L>
<L>And that the fooli&s;h people have</L>
<L>bla&s;phem'd thy Name, O Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Vnto the multitude do not</L>
<L>thy turles &s;oul deliver;</L>
<L>The congregation of thy poor,</L>
<L>do not forget for ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Vnto thy Cov'nant have re&s;pect;</L>
<L>for earths dark places be</L>
<L>Full of the habitations</L>
<L>of wicked cruelty.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> O let not tho&s;e that be oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>return again with &s;hame:</L>
<L>Let tho&s;e that poor and needy are,</L>
<L>give prai&s;e unto thy Name,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> Do thou, O God, ari&s;e, and plead</L>
<L>the cau&s;e that is thine own:</L>
<L>Remember how thou art reproacht</L>
<L>&s;till by the fooli&s;h one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Do not forget the voice of tho&s;e</L>
<L>that are thine enemies:</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e the tumult ever grows</L>
<L>that do again&s;t thee ri&s;e.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="75" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXV.</HEAD>
<L>TO thee, O God, do we give thanks,</L>
<L>we do give prai&s;e to thee:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e thy wondrous works declare</L>
<L>thy great Name near to be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> I purpo&s;e when I &s;hall receive</L>
<L>the congregation,</L>
<PB REF="62">
<L>That I &s;hall judgment uprightly</L>
<L>render to every one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Di&s;&s;olved is the land, with all</L>
<L>that in the &s;ame do dwell;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ut I the pillars thereof do</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ear up, and &s;tabli&s;h well.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> I to the fooli&s;h people &s;aid,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> not deal fooli&s;hly:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ad unto tho&s;e that wicked are,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ift not your born on hy.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Lift not your horn on high, nor &s;peak</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> with &s;tubborn neck: But know</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t nor from Ea&s;t, nor We&s;t, nor South</L>
<L>promotion doth flow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> But God is Iudge; he puts down one&punc;</L>
<L>and &s;ets another up.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> For in the hand of God mo&s;t high</L>
<L>of red wine is a cup:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> full of mixture, he pours forth,</L>
<L>and makes the wicked all</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ring out the bitter dregs thereof&punc;</L>
<L>yea, and they drink them &s;hall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> But I, for ever will declare,</L>
<L>I Iacobs God will prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> All horns of lewd men Ile cut off&punc;</L>
<L>but ju&s;t mens horns will rai&s;e.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="76" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXVI.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">N Iudah's land God is well known.</L>
<L>His Name's in I&s;rael great:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> In Salem is his tabernacle,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n Sion is his &s;eat.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> There arrows of the bow he brake,</L>
<L>the &s;hield, the &s;word, the war.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> More glorious thou than hills of prey,</L>
<L>more excellent art far.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Tho&s;e that were &s;tout of heart are &s;poil'd</L>
<PB REF="63">
<L>they &s;lept their &s;teep out-right;</L>
<L>And none of tho&s;e their hands did find</L>
<L>that were the men of might.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> When thy rebuke, O Iacobs God,</L>
<L>had forth again&s;t them pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Their hor&s;es and their chariots both</L>
<L>were in a dead &s;leep ca&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Thou Lord, ev'n thou art he that &s;houl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>be fear'd, and who is he</L>
<L>That may &s;tand up before thy &s;ight,</L>
<L>if once thou angry be?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> From heaven thou judgement cau&s;e hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>the earth was &s;till with fear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> When God to judgment ro&s;e to &s;ave</L>
<L>all m&eacute;ek on earth that were.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Surely the very wrath of man</L>
<L>unto thy prai&s;e redounds:</L>
<L>Thou to the remnant of his wrath</L>
<L>wilt &s;et re&s;training bounds.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Vow to the Lord your God, and pay</L>
<L>all ye that near him be,</L>
<L>Bring gifts and pre&s;ents unto him:</L>
<L>for to be fear'd is he.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> By him the &s;p'rits &s;hall be cut-off</L>
<L>of tho&s;e that princes are:</L>
<L>Vnto the Kings that are on earth</L>
<L>be fearfull doth appear.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="77" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXVII.</HEAD>
<L>VNto the Lord I with my voice,</L>
<L>I unto God did cry,</L>
<L>Ev'n with my voice, and unto me</L>
<L>his ear he did apply.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> I in my trouble &s;ought the Lord;</L>
<L>my &s;ore by night did run</L>
<L>And cea&s;ed not, my grieved &s;oul</L>
<L>did con&s;olation &s;hun.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> I to remembrance God did call,</L>
<PB REF="63">
<L>yet trouble did remain;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ad overwhelm'd my &s;pirit was,</L>
<L>whil&s;t I did &s;ore complain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Mine eyes debar'd from re&s;t and &s;leep</L>
<L>thou make&s;t &s;till to wake;</L>
<L>My trouble is &s;o great that I</L>
<L>unable am to &s;peak.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> The dayes of old to mind I call'd,</L>
<L>and oft did think upon</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he times and ages that are pa&s;t</L>
<L>full many years agone.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> By night my &s;ong I call'd to minde,</L>
<L>and commune with my heart,</L>
<L>My &s;p'rit did carefully enquire</L>
<L>how I might ea&s;e my &s;mart.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> For ever will the Lord ca&s;t off?</L>
<L>and gracious be no more?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> For ever is his mercy gone?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ils his word evermore?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Is't true that to be gracious</L>
<L>the Lord forgotten hath?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd that his tender mercies he</L>
<L>hath &s;hut up in his wrath?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Then did I &s;ay that &s;urely this</L>
<L>is mine infirmitie:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e minde the years of the right hand</L>
<L>of Him that is mo&s;t hie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Yea, I remember will the works</L>
<L>performed by the Lord:</L>
<L>The wonders done of old by thee</L>
<L>I &s;urely will record.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> I al&s;o will of all thy works</L>
<L>my meditation make,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd of thy doings to di&s;cour&s;e,</L>
<L>great plea&s;ure I will take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> O God, thy way mo&s;t holy is</L>
<PB REF="64">
<L>within the &s;anctuary:</L>
<L>And what God is &s;o great in power,</L>
<L>as is our God mo&s;t by;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Thou art the God that wonders do&s;t</L>
<L>by thy right hand mo&s;t &s;trong:</L>
<L>Thy mighty power thou ha&s;t declar'd</L>
<L>the nations among.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> To thine own people with thine arm</L>
<L>thou did&s;t redemption bring:</L>
<L>To Iacobs &s;ons, and to the tribes</L>
<L>of Io&s;eph that do &s;pring.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> The waters, Lord, percived th&eacute;e;</L>
<L>the waters &s;aw th&eacute;e well:</L>
<L>And they for fear a&s;ide did fl&eacute;e,</L>
<L>the depths on trembling &s;ell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> The clouds in water furth were pour</L>
<L>&s;ound loudly did the skie.</L>
<L>And &s;wiftly through the world abroad</L>
<L>thine arrows fierce did &s;lie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Thy thunders voice along&s;t the bead<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>a mighty noi&s;e did make:</L>
<L>By lightnings lightned was the world,</L>
<L>the earth tremble did and &s;hake:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Thy way is in the &s;ea, and in</L>
<L>the waters great thy path:</L>
<L>Yet are thy foot&s;teps hid, O Lord,</L>
<L>none knowledge thereof hath.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Thy people thou did&s;t &s;afely lead</L>
<L>like to a flock of &s;h&eacute;ep,</L>
<L>By Mo&s;es hand and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arons thou</L>
<L>did&s;t them conduct and k&eacute;ep.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="78" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXVIII.</HEAD>
<L>ATtend, my people, to my Law,</L>
<L>thereto give thou an ear:</L>
<L>The words that from my mouth proc&eacute;ed,</L>
<L>attentively do hear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> My mouth &s;hall &s;peak a parable,</L>
<PB REF="64">
<L>and &s;ayings dark of old:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> The &s;ame which we have heard &amp; known,</L>
<L>and us our fathers told.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> We al&s;o will them not conceal</L>
<L>from their po&s;teritie;</L>
<L>Them to the generation</L>
<L>to come declare will we:</L>
<L>The prai&s;es of the Lord our God,</L>
<L>and his Almighty &s;trength,</L>
<L>The wondrous works that he hath done</L>
<L>we will declare at length.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> His te&s;timony and his law</L>
<L>in I&s;rael he did place,</L>
<L>And charg'd our fathers it to &s;how</L>
<L>to their &s;ucc&eacute;eding race.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> That &s;o the race which was to come,</L>
<L>might well them learn and know;</L>
<L>And &s;ons unborn, who &s;hould ari&s;e,</L>
<L>might to their &s;ons them &s;how:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> That they might &s;et their hope in God;</L>
<L>and &s;uffer not to fall</L>
<L>His mighty works out of their minde:</L>
<L>but keep his precepts all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> And might not like their fathers, be</L>
<L>a &s;tiff rebellions race,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">race not right in heart with God</L>
<L>who&s;e &s;p'rit not &s;tedfa&s;t was.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> The &s;ons of Ephraim, who nor bows</L>
<L>nor other arms did lack,</L>
<L>When as the day of battle was</L>
<L>they faintly turned back.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> They broke Gods cov'nant, and refu&s;'d</L>
<L>in his commands to go.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> His works and wonders they forgot,</L>
<L>which he to them did &s;how.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Things marvellous he brought to pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>their fathers them beheld,</L>
<PB REF="65">
<L>Within the land of Egypt done</L>
<L>yea ev'n in Zoans field.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> By him divided was the &s;ea,</L>
<L>he cau&s;'d them through to pa&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>And made the water &s;o to &s;tand,</L>
<L>as like an heap it was.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> With cloud by day, with light of fire</L>
<L>all night he did them guide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> In de&s;ert rocks he clave, and drink</L>
<L>as from great depths &s;upply'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> He from the rock brought &s;treams, li<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> flow</L>
<L>made waters to run down</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Yet &s;inning more, in de&s;ert they</L>
<L>provok'd the highe&s;t One.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> For, in their heart they tempted God,</L>
<L>and &s;peaking with mi&s;tru&s;t,</L>
<L>They gr&eacute;edily did meat require</L>
<L>to &s;atisfie their lu&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Again&s;t the Lord him&s;elf they &s;pake,</L>
<L>and murmuring &s;aid thus,</L>
<L>A table in the wilderne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>can God prepare for us?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Behold, he &s;mote the rock, and thenc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>came &s;treams and waters great;</L>
<L>But can he give his people bread?</L>
<L>and &s;end them fle&s;h to eat?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> The Lord did hear, and waxed wroth,</L>
<L>&s;o kindled was a flame</L>
<L>'Gain&s;t Iacob; and 'gain&s;t I&s;rael</L>
<L>up indignation came:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> For they believ'd not God, nor tru&s;t</L>
<L>in his &s;alvation had:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Though floods above he did command,</L>
<L>and heav'ns doors open made;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> And Manna rain'd on them, and gave</L>
<L>them corn of heav'n to eat.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="65"> Man Angels food did eat, to them</L>
<L>he to the full &s;ent meat.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> And in the heaven he did cau&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n Ea&s;tern winde to blow;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd by his power he let out</L>
<L>the Southern wind to go.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> Then fle&s;h, as thick as du&s;t, he made,</L>
<L>to rain down them among;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d feathered fowls like as the &s;and</L>
<L>which ly'th &s;he &s;hore along.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> At his command amid&s;t their camp</L>
<L>the&s;e &s;howres of fle&s;h down fell,</L>
<L>Around about the tabernacles</L>
<L>and tents where they did dwell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> So did they eat abundantly,</L>
<L>and had of meat their fill;</L>
<L>For he did give to them what was</L>
<L>their own de&s;ire and will.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> They from their lu&s;t had not e&s;trang'd</L>
<L>their heart and their de&s;ire;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t while the meat was in their mouth,</L>
<L>which they did &s;o require.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> Gods wrath upon them came and &s;le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>the fatt&s;t of them all;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o that the choi&s;e of I&s;rael</L>
<L>ov'rthrown by death did fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="32" UNIT="verse"> Yet notwith&s;tanding of all this,</L>
<L>they &s;inned &s;till the more;</L>
<L>And though he had great wonders wrought</L>
<L>believ'd him not therefore.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="33" UNIT="verse"> Wherefore their dayes in vanity</L>
<L>he did con&s;ume and wa&s;t,</L>
<L>And by his wrath their wretched years</L>
<L>away in trouble pa&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="34" UNIT="verse"> But when he &s;lew them then they did</L>
<L>to &s;&eacute;ek him &s;hew de&s;ire:</L>
<PB REF="66">
<L>Yea they return'd, and after God</L>
<L>right early did inquire.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="35" UNIT="verse"> And that the Lord had been their Rock</L>
<L>they did remember then:</L>
<L>Ev'n that the high Almighty God</L>
<L>had their redeemer been:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="36" UNIT="verse"> Yet with their mouth they flattered him</L>
<L>and &s;peak but fainedly,</L>
<L>And they unto the God of truth,</L>
<L>with their fal&s;e toungues did ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="37" UNIT="verse"> For though their words were good, the hea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>with him was not &s;incere:</L>
<L>Vn&s;tedfa&s;t and perfidious</L>
<L>they in his covenant were,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="38" UNIT="verse"> But full of pity he forgave.</L>
<L>their &s;in, them did not &s;lay;</L>
<L>Nor &s;tir'd up all his wrath, but oft</L>
<L>his anger turn'd away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="39" UNIT="verse"> For that they were but fading fle&s;h,</L>
<L>to minde he did recall;</L>
<L>A wind that pa&s;&s;eth &s;oon away,</L>
<L>and not returns at all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="40" UNIT="verse"> How often did they him provoke</L>
<L>within the wilderne&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>And in the de&s;art did him grieve</L>
<L>with their rebelliou&s;ne&s;&s;e?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="41" UNIT="verse"> Yea turning back, they tempted God,</L>
<L>and limits &s;et upon</L>
<L>Him who in mid&s;t of I&s;rael is</L>
<L>the only Holy One.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="42" UNIT="verse"> They did not call to mind his pow'r</L>
<L>nor yet the day when he</L>
<L>Delivered them out of the hand</L>
<L>of their fierce enemie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="43" UNIT="verse"> Nor how great &s;ignes in Egypt land</L>
<L>he openly had wrought</L>
<PB REF="66">
<L>What miracles in Zoans field</L>
<L>his hand to pa&s;&s;e had brought.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="44" UNIT="verse"> How lakes and rivers every-where</L>
<L>he turned into bloud;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o that nor man, nor bea&s;t could drink</L>
<L>of &s;tanding lake or floud.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="45" UNIT="verse"> He brought among them &s;warms of flies</L>
<L>which did them &s;ore annoy;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd diver&s;e kinds of filthy frogs</L>
<L>he &s;ent them to de&s;troy.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="46" UNIT="verse"> He to the caterpillar gave</L>
<L>the fruits of all their &s;oil:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">heir labours he deliver'd up</L>
<L>unto the locu&s;ts &s;poil:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="47" UNIT="verse"> Their vines with hail, their &s;ycomores</L>
<L>he with the fro&s;t did bla&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="48" UNIT="verse"> Their bea&s;ts to hail, he gave, their flocks</L>
<L>hot thunder-bolts did wa&s;te.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="49" UNIT="verse"> Fierce burning wrath he on them ca&s;t,</L>
<L>and indignation &s;trong.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd trouble &s;ore, by &s;ending forth</L>
<L>ill angels them among.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="50" UNIT="verse"> He to his wrath made way, their &s;oul</L>
<L>from death he did not &s;ave:</L>
<L>But over to the pe&s;tilence</L>
<L>the lives of them he gave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="51" UNIT="verse"> In Egypt land the fir&s;t-born all</L>
<L>he &s;mot down every where;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mong&s;t the tents of Ham, ev'n the&s;e</L>
<L>chief of their &s;trength that were.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="52" UNIT="verse"> But his own people like to &s;heep,</L>
<L>thence to go forth he made:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd he amid&s;t the wilderne&s;s</L>
<L>them&punc; as a flock, did lead.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="53" UNIT="verse"> And he them &s;afely on did lead,</L>
<L>&s;o that they did not fear:</L>
<PB REF="67">
<L>Whereas their enemies by the &s;ea</L>
<L>quite overwhelmed were.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="54" UNIT="verse"> To borders of his Sanctuary</L>
<L>the Lord his people led:</L>
<L>Ev'n to the mount, which his right hand</L>
<L>for them had purcha&s;ed.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="55" UNIT="verse"> The nations of Canaan</L>
<L>by his Almighty hand,</L>
<L>Before their face he did expell</L>
<L>out of their native land;</L>
<L>Which for inheritance to them</L>
<L>by line he did divide,</L>
<L>And made the tribes of I&s;rael,</L>
<L>within their tents abide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="56" UNIT="verse"> Yet God mo&s;t high they did provoke,</L>
<L>and tempted ever &s;till,</L>
<L>And to ob&s;erve his te&s;tmonies</L>
<L>did not incline their will.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="57" UNIT="verse"> But like their fathers turned back.</L>
<L>and dealt unfathfully:</L>
<L>A&s;ide they turned like a bow</L>
<L>that &s;hoots deceitfully.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="58" UNIT="verse"> For they to anger did provoke</L>
<L>him with their places hie,</L>
<L>And with their graven images</L>
<L>mov'd him to jealou&s;ie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="59" UNIT="verse"> When God heard this, he waxed wroth,</L>
<L>and much loath d I&s;rael then:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="60" UNIT="verse"> So Shilohs tent he left, the tent</L>
<L>which he had plac'd with men.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="61" UNIT="verse"> And he his &s;trength delivered</L>
<L>into captivity,</L>
<L>He left his glory in the hand</L>
<L>of his proud enemy.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="62" UNIT="verse"> His people al&s;o he gave over</L>
<L>unto the &s;words fierce rage;</L>
<PB REF="67">
<L>So &s;ore is wrath inflamed was</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">gain&s;t his heritage.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="63" UNIT="verse"> The fire con&s;um'd their choi&s;e young men:</L>
<L>their maids no marriage had.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="64" UNIT="verse"> And when their prie&s;ts fell by the &s;word,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">heir wives no mourning made.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="65" UNIT="verse"> But then the Lord aro&s;e, as one</L>
<L>that doth from &s;leep awake;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d like a gaint, that by wine</L>
<L>refre&s;ht, a noi&s;e doth make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="66" UNIT="verse"> Vpon his enemies hinder-parts</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e made his &s;troak to fall:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o &s;o upon thm he did put</L>
<L>a &s;hame perpetual.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="67" UNIT="verse"> Moreover, he the tabernacle</L>
<L>of Io&s;eph did refu&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e mighty tribe of Ephraim</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e would in no wayes chu&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="68" UNIT="verse"> But he did chu&s;e Iehudahs tribe</L>
<L>to be the re&s;t above,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d of mount Sion he made choi&s;e,</L>
<L>which he &s;o much did love.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="69" UNIT="verse"> And he his &s;anctuary built,</L>
<L>like to a palace hy,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e to the earth, which he did found</L>
<L>to perpetuity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="70" UNIT="verse"> Of David that his &s;ervant was,</L>
<L>he al&s;o choi&s;e did make;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ad even from the folds of &s;heep</L>
<L>was plea&s;ed him to take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="71" UNIT="verse"> From waiting on the ews with young,</L>
<L>he brought him for to feed</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rael his inheritance,</L>
<L>his people Iacobs &s;eed.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="72" UNIT="verse"> So after the integrity</L>
<L>of his heart he them fed:</L>
<PB REF="68">
<L>And by the good &s;kill of his hands,</L>
<L>them wi&s;ely governed.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="79" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXIX.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> God, the heathen entred have</L>
<L>thine heritage, by them</L>
<L>Defiled is thy hou&s;e; on heaps</L>
<L>they laid Ieru&s;alem.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> The bodies of thy &s;ervants, they</L>
<L>have ca&s;t forth to be meat</L>
<L>To ravenous fowls, thy dear &s;aints fle&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>they give to bea&s;ts, to eat.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Their blood about Ieru&s;alem</L>
<L>like water they have &s;hed;</L>
<L>And there was none to bury them,</L>
<L>when they were &s;lain and dead.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Vnto our neighbours a reproach</L>
<L>mo&s;t ba&s;e become are we;</L>
<L>A &s;corn and laughing-&s;tock to them</L>
<L>that round about us be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> How long, Lord, &s;hall thine anger la&s;t;</L>
<L>wilt thou &s;till keep the &s;ame?</L>
<L>And &s;hall thy fervent jealou&s;ie</L>
<L>burn like unto a flame?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> On heathens pour <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hy fury forth,</L>
<L>that have thee never known.</L>
<L>And on the&s;e Kingdoms which thy Name,</L>
<L>have never call'd upon.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> For the&s;e are they which Iacob have</L>
<L>devoured cru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y,</L>
<L>And they his habi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ation</L>
<L>have cau&s;ed wa&s;te to ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Again&s;t us mind not former &s;ins;</L>
<L>thy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ender mercies &s;how,</L>
<L>Let them prevent us &s;peedily;</L>
<L>for we're brought very low.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> For thy Names glory help us, Lord,</L>
<L>who ha&s;t our Saviour bin.</L>
<PB REF="68">
<L>Deliver us; for thy Names &s;ake</L>
<L>O purge away our &s;in.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Why &s;ay the heathen, Where's their God?</L>
<L>let him to them be known;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen the&s;e, who &s;hed thy &s;ervants blood,</L>
<L>are in our &s;ight o'rthrown.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> O Let the pri&s;oners &s;ighs a&s;cend</L>
<L>before thy &s;ight on by:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">re&s;erve tho&s;e in thy mighty pow'r</L>
<L>that are de&s;ign'd to dy.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> And to our neighbours bo&s;ome cau&s;e</L>
<L>it &s;even-fold rendred be,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">'n the reproach, wherewith they have,</L>
<L>O Lord, reproached thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> So we thy folk, and pa&s;ture &s;heep</L>
<L>&s;hall give thee thanks alwayes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">od unto generations all</L>
<L>we will &s;hew forth thy prai&s;e.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="80" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXX.</HEAD>
<L>HEar, I&s;raels Shepherd, like a flock</L>
<L>thou that do&s;t Io&s;eph guide:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hine forth, O thou, that do&s;t between</L>
<L>the cherubims abide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> In Ephraims and Benjamins,</L>
<L>and in Mana&s;&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;ight,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> come for our &s;alvation,</L>
<L>&s;tir up thy &s;trength and might.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Turn us again, O Lord, our God,</L>
<L>and upon us vouch&s;afe</L>
<L>To make thy countenance to &s;hine,</L>
<L>and &s;o we &s;hall be &s;afe.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> O Lord of ho&s;ts, Almighty God,</L>
<L>how long &s;hall kindled be</L>
<L>Thy wrath, again&s;t the prayer made</L>
<L>by thine own folk to thee?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Thou tears of &s;orrow gives to them,</L>
<L>in &s;tead of bread to eat&punc;</L>
<PB REF="69">
<L>Yea, tears in &s;tead of drink thou gives</L>
<L>to them in mea&s;ure great.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Thou make&s;t us a &s;trife unto</L>
<L>our neighbours round about:</L>
<L>Our enemies among them&s;elves</L>
<L>at us do laugh and flout.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Turn us again, O God of ho&s;ts,</L>
<L>and upon us vouch&s;afe</L>
<L>To make thy countenance to &s;hine,</L>
<L>and &s;o we &s;hall be &s;afe.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> A vine from Egypt brought thou ha&s;t,</L>
<L>by thine out-&s;tretched hand:</L>
<L>And thou the heathen out did&s;t ca&s;t,</L>
<L>to plant it in their land.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Before it thou a room did&s;t make,</L>
<L>where it might grow and &s;tand:</L>
<L>Thou cau&s;ed&s;t it d&eacute;ep root to take,</L>
<L>and it did fill the land.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> The mountains vaild were with its &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e</L>
<L>as with a covering:</L>
<L>Like goodly Cedars were the boughs</L>
<L>which out from it did &s;pring.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Vpon the one hand to the &s;ea</L>
<L>her boughs &s;he did out &s;end;</L>
<L>On th'other &s;ide, unto the floud</L>
<L>her branches did extend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Why ha&s;t thou then thus broken down</L>
<L>and t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne her hedge away?</L>
<L>So that all pa&s;&s;engers do pluck,</L>
<L>and make of her a prey.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> The Boar who from the forre&s;t comes</L>
<L>doth wa&s;te it at his plea&s;ure:</L>
<L>The wild bea&s;t of the field al&s;o</L>
<L>devours it out of mea&s;ure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> O God of ho&s;ts, we thee be &s;eech;</L>
<L>return now unto thine:</L>
<L>Look down from heav'n in love, behold</L>
<PB REF="69">
<L>and vi&s;it this thy Vine:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> This vinyard which thine own right hand</L>
<L>hath planted us among:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d that &s;ame branch which for thy &s;elf</L>
<L>thou ha&s;t made to be &s;trong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Burnt up it is with flaming fire,</L>
<L>it al&s;o is cut down:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hey utterly are peri&s;hed</L>
<L>then as thy face doth frown.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> O let thy hand be &s;till upon</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> man of thy right hand;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he &s;on of man, whom for thy &s;elf</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ou made&s;t &s;trong to &s;tand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> So henceforth we will not go back</L>
<L>nor turn from thee at all:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> do thou quicken us, and we</L>
<L>upon thy Name will call.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Turn us again, Lord God of ho&s;ts,</L>
<L>and upon us vouch&s;afe</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o make thy countenance to &s;hine,</L>
<L>and &s;o we &s;hall be &s;afe.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="81" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXXI.</HEAD>
<L>SIng loud to God, our &s;trength, with joy</L>
<L>to Iacobs God do &s;ing.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Take up a P&s;alm, the plea&s;ant harp,</L>
<L>timbrel and p&s;altry bring:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Blow trumpets at new moon, what day</L>
<L>our fea&s;t appointed is;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For charge to I&s;rael, and a law</L>
<L>of Iacobs God was this.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> To Io&s;eph this a te&s;timony</L>
<L>he made, when Egypt land</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e travel'd throgh, where &s;p&eacute;ech I heard</L>
<L>I did not under&s;tand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> His &s;houlder I from burdens took</L>
<L>his hands from pots did free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Thou did&s;t in trouble on me call,</L>
<PB REF="70">
<L>and I delivered thee.</L>
<L>In &s;ecret place of thundering</L>
<L>I did th&eacute;e an&s;wer make;</L>
<L>And at the &s;treams of Meribah</L>
<L>of thee a proof did take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> O thou, my people, give an ear,</L>
<L>Ile te&s;tifie to thee;</L>
<L>To thee, O I&s;rael, if thou wilt</L>
<L>but hearken unto me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> In mid&s;t of thee, there &s;hall not be</L>
<L>any &s;trange god at all;</L>
<L>Nor unto any God unknown</L>
<L>thou bowing down &s;halt fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> I am the Lord thy God, which did</L>
<L>from Egypt land thee guide:</L>
<L>Ile fill thy mouth abundantly,</L>
<L>do thou it open wide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> But yet my people to my voice,</L>
<L>would not attentive be;</L>
<L>And even my cho&s;en I&s;rael</L>
<L>he would have none of Me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> So to the lu&s;t of their own hearts</L>
<L>I them delivered:</L>
<L>And then in coun&s;els of their own</L>
<L>they vainly wandered,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> O that my people had me heard,</L>
<L>I&s;rael my wayes had cho&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> I had their enemies &s;oon &s;ubdu'd,</L>
<L>my hand turn'd on their foes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> The haters of the Lord, to him</L>
<L>&s;ubmi&s;&s;ion &s;hould have fain'd,</L>
<L>But as for them, their time &s;hould have</L>
<L>for ever more remain'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> He &s;hould have al&s;o fed them with</L>
<L>the fine&s;t of the wheat:</L>
<L>Of honey from the rock thy fill</L>
<L>I &s;hould have made thee eat.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="82" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<PB REF="70">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXXII.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">O gods a&s;&s;embly GOD doth &s;tand:</L>
<L>He judgeth gods among.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> How long, excepting per&s;ons vile,</L>
<L>will ye give judgement wrong?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Defend the poor and fatherle&s;s,</L>
<L>to poor oppre&s;t do right.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The poor and needy ones fet free,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">id them for ill mens might.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> They know not, nor will under&s;tand.</L>
<L>in darkne&s;&s;e they walk on:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">l the foundations of the earth</L>
<L>out of their cour&s;e are gone.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> I &s;aid that ye are gods, and are</L>
<L>&s;ons of the Highe&s;t all;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> But ye &s;hall die like men, and as</L>
<L>one of the princes fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> O God, do thou rai&s;e up thy &s;elf,</L>
<L>the earth to judgement call:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n thou as thine inheritance,</L>
<L>&s;halt take the Nations all.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="83" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXXIII.</HEAD>
<L>KEep not, O God, we thee intreat:</L>
<L>O keep not &s;ilence now:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o thou not hold thy peace, O God,</L>
<L>and &s;till no more be thou.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> For lo, thine enemies a noi&s;e</L>
<L>tumultuou&s;ly have made;</L>
<L>And they that haters are of thee,</L>
<L>have lifted up the head.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Again&s;t thy cho&s;en people they</L>
<L>do crafty coun&s;el take:</L>
<L>And they again&s;t thy hidden ones</L>
<L>do con&s;ulta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ions make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Come, let us cut them off, &s;aid they,</L>
<L>from being a nation;</L>
<L>That of the name of I&s;rael may</L>
<L>no more be mention.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="71"> For, with joynt heart they plot, in lea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>again&s;t thee they combine.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> The tents of Edom, I&s;hmaelites,</L>
<L>Moabs, and Hagars line.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Gebal and Ammon, Amalek,</L>
<L>Phili&s;tines, tho&s;e of Tyre;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> And A&s;&s;ur joyn'd with them, to help</L>
<L>Lots children they con&s;pire.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Do to them as to Midian,</L>
<L>Iabin at Ki&s;on &s;trand;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> And Si&s;era, which at Endor fell,</L>
<L>as dung to fat the land.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Like Oreb, and like Z&eacute;eb make,</L>
<L>their noble-men to fall;</L>
<L>Like Zeba, and Zalmuna-like,</L>
<L>make thou their princes all:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Who &s;aid, For our po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion</L>
<L>let us Gods hou&s;es take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> My God, them, like a wh&eacute;el, as chaft</L>
<L>before the wind, them make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> As fire con&s;umes a wood, as flame</L>
<L>doth mountains &s;et on fire;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Cha&s;e and affright them with the &s;tor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>and tempe&s;t of thine ire,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Their faces fill with &s;hame, O Lord,</L>
<L>that they may &s;eek thy Name.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Let them confounded be, and vext,</L>
<L>and peri&s;h in their &s;hame,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> That men may know, that thou to whom</L>
<L>alone doth appertain</L>
<L>The Name Iehovah do&s;t mo&s;t high</L>
<L>ov'r all the earth remain.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="84" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXXIV.</HEAD>
<L>HOw lovely is thy dwelling place,</L>
<L>O Lord of ho&s;ts, to me,</L>
<L>The tabernacles of thy grace,</L>
<PB REF="71">
<L>how plea&s;ant, Lord, they be!</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y thir&s;ty &s;oul longs vehemently;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ea, faints thy courts to &s;ee:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> very heart and fle&s;h cry out,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> living God, for thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Behold, the &s;parrow findeth out</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n hou&s;e wherein to re&s;t;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e &s;wallow al&s;o for her &s;elf</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ath purcha&s;ed a ne&s;t:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n thine own altars, where &s;he &s;afe</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">her young ones forth may bring,</L>
<L>thou Almighty Lord of ho&s;ts,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ho art me God and King,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Ble&s;t are they in thy hou&s;e that dwell,</L>
<L>they ever give thee prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Ble&s;t is the man who&s;e &s;trength thou art,</L>
<L>in who&s;e heart are thy wayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Who pa&s;&s;ing thorow Baca's vale,</L>
<L>therein do dig up wells;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o the rain whith falleth down,</L>
<L>the pools with water fills.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> So they from &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ength unwearied go,</L>
<L>till forward unto &s;trength,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">till in Zion they appear</L>
<L>before the Lord at length.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Lord God of ho&s;ts, my prayer hear,</L>
<L>O Iacobs God give ear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> See God, our &s;hield, look on the face</L>
<L>of thine anointed dear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> For, in thy courts one day excells</L>
<L>a thou&s;and; rather in</L>
<L>My Gods hou&s;e will I keep a door,</L>
<L>than dwell in tents of &s;in.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> For, God the Lord's a &s;un and &s;hield,</L>
<L>he'l grace and glory give;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd will with-hold no good from them</L>
<L>that uprightly do live.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="72"> O thou that art the Lord of ho&s;ts,</L>
<L>that man is truly ble&s;t,</L>
<L>Who by a&s;&s;ured confidence</L>
<L>on thee alone doth re&s;t.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="85" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL LXXXV.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> Lord, thou ha&s;t been favourable</L>
<L>to thy beloved land:</L>
<L>Iacobs captivity thou ha&s;t</L>
<L>recall'd with mighty hand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Thou pardoned thy people ha&s;t</L>
<L>all their iniquties,</L>
<L>Thou all their tre&s;pa&s;&s;es and &s;ins</L>
<L>ha&s;t cover'd from thine eyes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Thou took'&s;t off all thine ire, and turn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>from thy wraths furiou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Turn us, God of our health, and cau&s;e</L>
<L>thy wrath 'gain&s;t us to cea&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Shall thy di&s;plea&s;ure thus endure</L>
<L>again&s;t us without end?</L>
<L>Wilt thou to generations all</L>
<L>thine anger forth extend?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> That in thee may thy people joy,</L>
<L>wilt thou not us revive?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Shew us thy mercy, Lord, to us</L>
<L>do thy &s;alvation give.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Ile hear what God the Lord, will &s;pea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>to his folk he'l &s;peak peace,</L>
<L>And to his Saints, but let them not</L>
<L>return to fooli&s;hne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> To them that fear him, &s;urely near</L>
<L>is his &s;alvation;</L>
<L>That glory in our land may have</L>
<L>her habitation.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Truth met with mercy, righteou&s;ne&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>and peace ki&s;&s;'d mutually,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Truth &s;prings from earth, &amp; righteou&s;ne<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>looks down from heaven hie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="72"> Yea, what is good the Lord &s;hall give,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r land &s;hall yeeld increa&s;e.</L>
<L>Iu&s;tice, to &s;et us in his &s;teps,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">all go before his face.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="86" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL LXXXVI.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> Lord, do thou bow down thine ear,</L>
<L>and hear me graciou&s;ly:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">cau&s;e I &s;ore afflicted am,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd am in poverty.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e I'm holy, let my &s;oul</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y thee pre&s;erved be:</L>
<L>thou my God, thy &s;ervant &s;ave</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut puts his tru&s;t in thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ith unto thee I daily cry,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e merciful to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Rejoyce thy &s;ervants &s;oul, for Lord,</L>
<L>I lift my &s;oul to thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> For thou art gracious, O Lord,</L>
<L>and ready to forgive,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d rich in mercy, all that call</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pon thee to relieve.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Hear, Lord, my prayer, unto the voice</L>
<L>of my reque&s;t attend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> In troublous times Ile call on thee,</L>
<L>for thou wilt an&s;wer &s;end.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Lord there is none among the gods</L>
<L>that may with thee compare;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d like the works which thou ha&s;t done</L>
<L>not any work is there.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> All Nations, whom thou mad'&s;t &s;hall come</L>
<L>and wor&s;hip reverently</L>
<L>Before thy face, and they O Lord,</L>
<L>thy Name &s;hall glorifie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e thou art exceeding great,</L>
<L>and works by thee are done,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hich are to be admir'd; and thou</L>
<L>art GOD thy &s;elf alone.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="73"> Teach me thy way, and in thy truth,</L>
<L>O Lord, then walk will I:</L>
<L>Vnite my heart, that I thy Name</L>
<L>my fear continually.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, my God, with all my heart</L>
<L>to thee I will give prai&s;e:</L>
<L>And I the glory will a&s;cribe</L>
<L>unto thy Name alwayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e thy mercy toward me</L>
<L>in greatne&s;&s;e doth excell?</L>
<L>And thou delivered ha&s;t my &s;oul</L>
<L>out from the lowe&s;t hell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> O God, the proud again&s;t me ri&s;e,</L>
<L>and violent men have met,</L>
<L>That for my &s;oul have &s;ought; and thee</L>
<L>before them have not &s;et.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> But thou art full of pity, Lord,</L>
<L>a God mo&s;t gracious,</L>
<L>Long-&s;uffering, and in thy truth</L>
<L>and mercy plenteous:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> O turn to me thy countenance,</L>
<L>and mercy on me have:</L>
<L>Thy &s;ervant &s;trengthen, and the &s;on</L>
<L>of thine own hand-maid &s;ave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Shew me a &s;ign for good, that they</L>
<L>which do me hate, mey &s;ee,</L>
<L>And be a&s;ham'd; becau&s;e thou, Lord,</L>
<L>did&s;t help and comfort me.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="87" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM LXXXVII.</HEAD>
<L>UPon the hills of holine&s;&s;e</L>
<L>He his foundation &s;ets.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> God, more then Iacobs dwellings all</L>
<L>delights in Zions gates.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Things glorious are &s;aid of thee,</L>
<L>thou City of the Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Rahab and Babel, I to tho&s;e</L>
<L>that know me, will record:</L>
<PB REF="73">
<L>Behold, ev'n Tyrus, and with it</L>
<L>the land of Pale&s;tine,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd likewi&s;e Ethiopia;</L>
<L>this man was born therein.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> And it of Zion &s;hall be &s;aid,</L>
<L>This man, and that man there</L>
<L>Was born; and he that is mo&s;t high</L>
<L>him&s;elf &s;hall &s;tabli&s;h her.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> When God the people writes, he'l count</L>
<L>that this man born was there.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> There be that &s;ing and play, and all</L>
<L>my well-&s;prings in thee are.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="88" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXXVIII.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd God, my Saviour, day and night</L>
<L>before thee cry'd have I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Before thee let my prayer come,</L>
<L>give ear unto my cry.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For troubles great do fill my &s;oul:</L>
<L>my life draws nigh the grave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> I'm counted with tho&s;e that go down</L>
<L>to pit, and no &s;trength have.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Ev'n free among the dead, like them</L>
<L>that &s;lain in grave do ly,</L>
<L>Cut off from thy hand, whom no more</L>
<L>thou ha&s;t in memory.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Thou ha&s;t me laid in lowe&s;t pit,</L>
<L>in deeps and dark&s;ome caves.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Thy wrath lies hard on me, thou ha&s;t</L>
<L>me pre&s;t with all thy waves.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Thou ha&s;t put far from me my friends,</L>
<L>thou mad'&s;t them to abhore me:</L>
<L>And I am &s;o &s;hut up, that I</L>
<L>find no eva&s;ion for me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> By rea&s;on of affliction,</L>
<L>mine eye mourns dolefully:</L>
<L>To thee, Lord, do I call, and &s;tretch</L>
<PB REF="74">
<L>my hands continually.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Wilt rhou &s;hew wonders to the dead</L>
<L>&s;hall they ri&s;e, and thee ble&s;&s;e?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Shall in the grave thy love be told?</L>
<L>in death thy faithfulne&s;&s;e?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Shall thy great wonders in the dark,</L>
<L>or &s;hall thy righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e?</L>
<L>Be known to any in the land</L>
<L>of deep forgetfulne&s;&s;e?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> But, Lord, to thee I cry'd, my pray</L>
<L>at morn prevent &s;hall thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Why, Lord, do&s;t thou ca&s;t off my &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>and hid'&s;t thy face from me?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Di&s;tre&s;t am I, and from my youth</L>
<L>I ready am to dy;</L>
<L>Thy terrours I have born, and am</L>
<L>di&s;tracted fearfully.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> The dreadfull fiercene&s;&s;e of thy wrath</L>
<L>quite over me doth go:</L>
<L>Thy terrours great have cut me off,</L>
<L>they did pur&s;ue me &s;o.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> For, roand about me every day,</L>
<L>like water they did roul:</L>
<L>And, gathering together, they</L>
<L>have compa&s;&s;ed my &s;oul.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> My friend thou ha&s;t put far from me,</L>
<L>and him that did me love,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e that mine acquaintance were</L>
<L>to darkne&s;&s;e did&s;t remove.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="89" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. LXXXIX.</HEAD>
<L>GOds mercies I will ever &s;ing,</L>
<L>and, with my mouth, I &s;hall</L>
<L>Thy faithfulne&s;&s;e make to be known</L>
<L>to generations all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> For, mercy &s;hall be built, &s;aid I,</L>
<L>for ever toendure:</L>
<PB REF="74">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y faithfulne&s;&s;e ev'n in the heav'ns</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ou wilt e&s;tabli&s;h &s;ure.</L>
<L>I with my cho&s;en One have made</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> cov'nant graciou&s;ly;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">to my &s;ervant whom I lov'd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> David &s;worn have I:</L>
<L>That I thy &s;eed e&s;tabli&s;h &s;hall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ever to remain;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d will to generations all,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y throne build and maintain.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e prai&s;es of thy wondrs, Lord,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> heavens &s;hall expre&s;&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> in the congregation</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> Saints, thy faithfulne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>For, who in heaven with the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ay once him&s;elf compare?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o is like GOD among the &s;ons</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> tho&s;e that mighty are?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">reat fear in meetings of the Saints,</L>
<L>due unto the Lord;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> he, of all about him, &s;hould</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ith reverenc be ador'd.</L>
<L>O thou that art the Lord of ho&s;ts</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat Lord in mightine&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ike to thee? who compa&s;t round</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t with thy faithfulne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">v'n in the raging of the &s;ea,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ou over it do&s;t reign;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> when the waves thereof do &s;well,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ou &s;tille&s;t them again;</L>
<L>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hab in pieces thou did&s;t break,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ke on that &s;laughtered is;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> with thy mighty arm thou ha&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;per&s;t thine enemies.</L>
<L>The heavens are thine, thou for thine own</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e earth do&s;t al&s;o take:</L>
<PB REF="75">
<L>The world, and fulne&s;s of the &s;ame,</L>
<L>thy pow'r did found and make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> The North and South from thee alo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>their fir&s;t beginning had;</L>
<L>Both Tabor mount, and Hermon hill</L>
<L>&s;hall in thy Name be glad.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Thou ha&s;t an arm that's full of pow'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>thy hand is great in might;</L>
<L>And thy rigt hand exceedingly</L>
<L>exalted is in hight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Iu&s;tice and judgment of thy throne&punc;</L>
<L>are made the dwelling-place:</L>
<L>Mercy, accompani'd with truth,</L>
<L>&s;hall go before thy face.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> O greatly ble&s;t the people are</L>
<L>the joyfull &s;ound that know</L>
<L>In brightne&s;&s;e of thy face, O Lord,</L>
<L>they ever on &s;hall go.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> They in thy Name &s;hall all the day</L>
<L>rejoyce exceedingly,</L>
<L>And in thy righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;hall they</L>
<L>exalted be on hy.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e the glory of their &s;trength</L>
<L>doth only &s;tand in thee;</L>
<L>And in thy favour &s;hall our horn</L>
<L>and pow'r elalted be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> For, God is our defence, and he</L>
<L>to us doth &s;afety bring;</L>
<L>The holy One of I&s;rael</L>
<L>is our Almighty King.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> In vi&s;ion to thy Holy One</L>
<L>thou &s;aid&s;t, I help upon</L>
<L>A &s;trong one laid: out of the folk</L>
<L>I rai&s;'d a cho&s;en One:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Ev'n David, I have found him out</L>
<L>a &s;ervant unto me;</L>
<L>And with my holy oyl my King</L>
<PB REF="75">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ointed him to be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> With whom my hand &s;hall &s;tabli&s;ht be,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">aine arm &s;hall make him &s;trong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> On him the foe &s;hall not exact,</L>
<L>for &s;on of mi&s;chief wrong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> I will beat down before his face</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll his malicious foes:</L>
<L>will them greatly plagne, who do</L>
<L>with hatred him oppo&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> My mercy and my faithfulne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>with him yet &s;till &s;hall be.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> in my name his horn and pow'r</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en &s;hall exalted &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> His hand and pow'r &s;hall reach afar,</L>
<L>Ile &s;et it in the &s;ea:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d his right hand e&s;tabli&s;hed</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hall in the rivers be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> Thou art my Father, he &s;hall cry,</L>
<L>thou art my God alone:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d he &s;hall &s;ay, Thou art the Rock</L>
<L>of my &s;alvation.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> Ile make him my fir&s;t born, more high</L>
<L>than Kings of any land:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> My love Ile ever keep for him,</L>
<L>my cov'nant fa&s;t &s;hall &s;tand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> His &s;eed I by my pow'r will make</L>
<L>for ever to endure;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d as the dayes of heav'n, his throne</L>
<L>&s;hall &s;table be and &s;ure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> But if his children &s;hall for&s;ake</L>
<L>my Laws, and go a&s;tray,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d in my judgements &s;hall not walk,</L>
<L>but wander from my way.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> If they my Laws break, and do not</L>
<L>keep my Commandements,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="32" UNIT="verse"> Ile vi&s;it then their faults with rods,</L>
<PB REF="76">
<L>their &s;ins with cha&s;ti&s;ments.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="33" UNIT="verse"> Yet Ile not take my love from him,</L>
<L>nor fal&s;e my promi&s;e make;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="34" UNIT="verse"> My cov'nant Ile not break, nor chang<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>what with my mouth I &s;pake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="35" UNIT="verse"> Once by my holine&s;&s;e I &s;ware,</L>
<L>to David Ile not ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="36" UNIT="verse"> His &s;eed and throne &s;hall as the &s;un</L>
<L>before me la&s;t for ay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="37" UNIT="verse"> It like the moon &s;hall ever be</L>
<L>e&s;tabli&s;ht &s;tedfa&s;tly.</L>
<L>And like to that which in the heaven</L>
<L>doth witne&s;&s;e faithfully:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="38" UNIT="verse"> But thou di&s;plea&s;ed, ha&s;t ca&s;t off,</L>
<L>thou did&s;t abhore and loath;</L>
<L>With him that thine anointed is</L>
<L>thou ha&s;t been very wroth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="39" UNIT="verse"> Thou ha&s;t they &s;ervants covenant</L>
<L>mad void and quite ca&s;t by;</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t profan'd his crown, while it</L>
<L>ca&s;t on the ground doth ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="40" UNIT="verse"> Thou all his hedges ha&s;t broke down</L>
<L>his &s;trong holds down ha&s;t torn.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="41" UNIT="verse"> He to all pa&s;&s;ers by a &s;poil,</L>
<L>to neighbours is a &s;corn.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="42" UNIT="verse"> Thou ha&s;t &s;et up his foes right hand,</L>
<L>mad'&s;t all his enemies glad.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="43" UNIT="verse"> Turn'd his &s;words edge, and him to &s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>in battell ha&s;t not made.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="44" UNIT="verse"> His glory thou ha&s;t made to cea&s;e,</L>
<L>his throne to ground down ca&s;t;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="45" UNIT="verse"> Shortned his dayes of youth, and him</L>
<L>with &s;hame thou covered ha&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="46" UNIT="verse"> How long, Lord, wilt thou hide thy &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>for ever in thine ire:</L>
<L>And &s;hall thine indignation</L>
<L>burn like unto a fire?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="47" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="76"> Remember, Lord, how &s;hort a time</L>
<L>I &s;hall on earth remain:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> wherefore is it &s;o that thou</L>
<L>ha&s;t made all men in vain?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="48" UNIT="verse"> What man is he that liveth here,</L>
<L>and death &s;hall never &s;ee?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r from the power of the grave</L>
<L>that man his &s;oul &s;hal free?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="49" UNIT="verse"> Thy former loving kindne&s;&s;es,</L>
<L>O Lord, where be they now?</L>
<L>tho&s;e which, in truth and faithfulne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>to David &s;worn ha&s;t thou.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="50" UNIT="verse"> Mind, Lord, thy &s;ervants &s;ad reproach</L>
<L>how I in bo&s;ome bear</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;cornings of the people all,</L>
<L>who &s;trong and mighty are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="51" UNIT="verse"> Wherewith thy raging enemies</L>
<L>reproach'd, O Lord, think on;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">herewith they have reproach'd the &s;teps</L>
<L>of thine anointed one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="52" UNIT="verse"> All ble&s;&s;eng to the Lord, our God</L>
<L>let be a&s;cribed then:</L>
<L>forevermore &s;o let it be,</L>
<L>Amen, yea and amen.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="90" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XC.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd, thou ha&s;t been our dwelling place</L>
<L>in generations all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Before thou ever had&s;t brought forth</L>
<L>the mountains great or &s;mall:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re ever thou had&s;t form'd the earth,</L>
<L>and all the world abroad,</L>
<L>Ev'n thou from everla&s;ting art</L>
<L>to everla&s;ting God.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Thou do&s;t unto de&s;truction</L>
<L>man that is mortal turn:</L>
<L>And unto them thou &s;ay'&s;t, again</L>
<L>ye &s;ons of men return.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="77"> Becau&s;e a thou&s;and years appear</L>
<L>no more before thy &s;ight,</L>
<L>Then ye&s;terday, when it is pa&s;t,</L>
<L>or then a watch by night.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> As with an overflowing floud</L>
<L>thou carrie&s;t them away:</L>
<L>They like a &s;leep are&punc; like the gra&s;&s;e</L>
<L>that grows at morn are they.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> At morn it flouri&s;hes and grows,</L>
<L>cut down at ev'n doth fade:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> For by thine anger we con&s;ume,</L>
<L>thy wrath makes us afraid.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Our &s;ins thou, and iniquities</L>
<L>do&s;t in thy pre&s;ence place,</L>
<L>And &s;et&s;t our &s;ecret faults before</L>
<L>the brightne&s;&s;e of thy face.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> For in thine anger all our dayes</L>
<L>do pa&s;&s;e on, to an end;</L>
<L>And as a tale that hath b&eacute;en told</L>
<L>&s;o we our years do &s;pend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Three&s;core and ten years do &s;um up</L>
<L>our dayes and years we &s;ee:</L>
<L>Or if by rea&s;on of more &s;trength,</L>
<L>in &s;ome four&s;core they be,</L>
<L>Yet doth the &s;trength of &s;uch old men</L>
<L>but grief and labour prove;</L>
<L>For it is &s;oon cut off, and we</L>
<L>fly hence, and &s;oon remove.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Who knows the power of thy wrath</L>
<L>according to thy fear</L>
<L>So is thy wrath: Lord, teach thou us</L>
<L>our end in mind to bear:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> And &s;o to count our dayes, that we</L>
<L>our hearts may &s;till apply</L>
<L>To learn thy wi&s;dom and thy truth,</L>
<L>that we my live thereby.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Turn yet again to us, O Lord;</L>
<PB REF="77">
<L>how long thus &s;hall it be?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">et it repent thee now, for tho&s;e</L>
<L>that &s;ervants are to thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> O with thy tender mercies, Lord,</L>
<L>o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> early &s;atisfie:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o we rejoyces &s;hall all our dayes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d &s;till be glad in thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> According as the dayes have been</L>
<L>therein we grief have had,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d years wherein we ill have &s;een,</L>
<L>&s;o do thou make us glad.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> O let thy work and pow'r appear</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hy &s;ervants face before:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d &s;how unto their children dear</L>
<L>thy glory evermore.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> And let the beauty of the Lord</L>
<L>our God be us upon:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or handy-works e&s;tabli&s;h thou</L>
<L>e&s;tabli&s;h them each one.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="91" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XCI.</HEAD>
<L>HE that doth in the &s;ecret place</L>
<L>of the mo&s;t High recide,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">der the &s;hade of him, that is</L>
<L>Th'Almighty, &s;hall abide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> I of the Lord my God, will &s;ay,</L>
<L>he is my refuge &s;till;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e is my fortre&s;&s;e and my God,</L>
<L>and in him tru&s;t I will.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> A&s;&s;uredly he &s;hall thee &s;ave,</L>
<L>and give deliverance</L>
<L>From &s;ubtile fowlers &s;nare and from</L>
<L>the noi&s;ome pe&s;tilence.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> His feather's &s;hall thee hide: thy tru&s;t</L>
<L>under his wings &s;hall be:</L>
<L>His faithfulne&s;&s;e &s;hall be a &s;hield</L>
<L>and buckler unto thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="78"> Thou &s;halt not need to be afraid</L>
<L>for terrours of the night,</L>
<L>Nor for the arrow that doth flie</L>
<L>by day while it is light.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Nor for the pe&s;tilence that walks</L>
<L>in darkne&s;&s;e &s;ecretly,</L>
<L>Nor for de&s;truction that doth wa&s;te</L>
<L>at noon day, openly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> A thou&s;and at thy &s;ide &s;hall fall,</L>
<L>on thy right hand &s;hall lie</L>
<L>Ten thou&s;and dead, yet unto thee</L>
<L>it &s;hall not once come nigh.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Only thou with thine eyes &s;halt look,</L>
<L>and a beholder he;</L>
<L>And thou therein the ju&s;t reward</L>
<L>of wicked men &s;halt &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e the Lord, who con&s;tantly</L>
<L>my refuge is alone,</L>
<L>Ev'n the mo&s;t high is made by thee</L>
<L>thy habitation.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> No plague &s;hal near thy dwelling come</L>
<L>no ill &s;hall thee befal:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> For thee to keep in all thy wayes,</L>
<L>his angels charge he &s;hal.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> They in their hands &s;hall bear thee up,</L>
<L>&s;till waiting thee upon;</L>
<L>Le&s;t thou at any time &s;hould da&s;h</L>
<L>thy foot again&s;t a &s;tone.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Vpon the Adder thou &s;halt tread,</L>
<L>and on the Lyong &s;trong:</L>
<L>Thy feet on Dragons trample &s;hal,</L>
<L>and on the Lyongs young.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e on me he &s;et his love:</L>
<L>Ile &s;ave and &s;et him free:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e my great Name he hath known,</L>
<L>I will him &s;et on high.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="78"> He'll call on me, I'le an&s;wer him,</L>
<L>I will be with him &s;till</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n trouble to deliver him,</L>
<L>and honour him I will.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> With length of dayes unto his mind</L>
<L>I will him &s;atisfie:</L>
<L>I al&s;o my &s;alvation</L>
<L>will cau&s;e his eyes to &s;&eacute;e.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="92" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XCII.</HEAD>
<L>TO render thanks unto the Lord</L>
<L>it is a comly thing,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd to thy Name, O thou mo&s;t high,</L>
<L>one prai&s;e aloud to &s;ing.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Thy loving kindne&s;&s;e to &s;hew forth,</L>
<L>when &s;hines the morning light:</L>
<L>And to declare thy faithfulne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>with plea&s;ure, every night.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> On a ten &s;tringed in&s;trument,</L>
<L>upon the p&s;allery;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d on the harp, with &s;olemn &s;ound,</L>
<L>and grave &s;weet melody.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For thou, Lord, by thy mighty work</L>
<L>ha&s;t made my heart right glad;</L>
<L>And I will triumph in the works</L>
<L>which by thine hands were made.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> How great, Lord, are thy works, each though<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>of thine a d&eacute;ep it is;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> A bruti&s;h man it knoweth not,</L>
<L>fools under&s;tand not this.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> When tho&s;e that lewd and wicked are,</L>
<L>&s;pring quickly up like gra&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And workers of iniquity</L>
<L>doth flouri&s;h all apace.</L>
<L>It is that they for ever may</L>
<L>de&s;troyed be and &s;lain;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> But thou, O Lord. art the mo&s;t high</L>
<L>for ever to remain&punc;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="79"> For lo, thine enemies, O Lord,</L>
<L>thine enemies peri&s;h &s;hall:</L>
<L>The workers of iniquitie</L>
<L>&s;hall be di&s;per&s;ed all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> But thou &s;halt, like unto the horn</L>
<L>of th' unicorn, exalt</L>
<L>My horn on high; thou with fre&s;h oyl</L>
<L>anoint me al&s;o &s;halt.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Mine eye &s;hall al&s;o my de&s;ire</L>
<L>&s;ee on mine enemies;</L>
<L>Mine ears &s;hall of the wicked hear,</L>
<L>that do again&s;t me ri&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> But like the Palm tree, flouri&s;hing</L>
<L>&s;hall be the righteous one:</L>
<L>He &s;hall like to the Cedar grow</L>
<L>that is in Lebanon.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Tho&s;e that within the hou&s;e of God</L>
<L>are planted by his grace</L>
<L>They &s;hall grow up, and flouri&s;h all</L>
<L>in our Gods holy place.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> And in old age, when others fade</L>
<L>they fruit &s;till forth &s;hall bring;</L>
<L>They &s;hall be fat, and full of &s;ap,</L>
<L>and ay be flouri&s;hing.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> To &s;hew that upright is the Lord,</L>
<L>he is a rock to me:</L>
<L>And he from all unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>is altogether free.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="93" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XCIII.</HEAD>
<L>THe Lord doth reign, and cloth'd is he</L>
<L>with maje&s;ty mo&s;t bright;</L>
<L>His works do &s;hew him cloth'd to be</L>
<L>and girt about with might.</L>
<L>The world is al&s;o &s;tabli&s;hed,</L>
<L>that it cannot depart.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Thy throne is fixt of old, and thou</L>
<L>from everla&s;ting art.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="79"> The flouds, O Lord, have lifted up</L>
<L>they lifted up their voice;</L>
<L>The flouds have lifted up their waves,</L>
<L>and made a mighty noi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> But yet the Lord, that is on high,</L>
<L>is more of might by far,</L>
<L>Then noi&s;e of many waters is,</L>
<L>or great &s;ea billows are!</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Thy te&s;timonies, every one,</L>
<L>in faithfulne&s;&s;e excell:</L>
<L>And holine&s;&s;e for ever, Lord,</L>
<L>thine hou&s;e becometh well.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="94" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM XCIV.</HEAD>
<L>O Lord God, unto whom alone</L>
<L>all vengeance doth belong.</L>
<L>O mighty God who vengeance own&s;t,</L>
<L>&s;hine forth avenging wrong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Lift up thy &s;elf, thou of the earth</L>
<L>the &s;overaign judge that art,</L>
<L>And unto tho&s;e that are &s;o proud</L>
<L>a due reward impart.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> How long, O mighty God, &s;hall they</L>
<L>who lewd and wicked be,</L>
<L>How long &s;hall they who wicked are,</L>
<L>thus triumph haughtily?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> How long &s;hall things mo&s;t hard by them</L>
<L>be uttered and told?</L>
<L>And a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l that work iniquity</L>
<L>to boa&s;t them&s;elves be bold?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Thy folk they break in pieces, Lord,</L>
<L>thine heritage oppre&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> The widow they, and &s;tranger &s;lay,</L>
<L>and kill the fatherle&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Yet &s;ay they, God it &s;hall not &s;ee,</L>
<L>nor God of Iacob know.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Ye bruti&s;h people under&s;tand,</L>
<L>fools, when wi&s;e will ye grow?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="80"> The Lord did plant the ear of man,</L>
<L>and hear then &s;hall not he?</L>
<L>He only form'd the eye, and then</L>
<L>&s;hall he not clearly &s;ee?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> He that the Nations doth corect,</L>
<L>&s;hall he not cha&s;ti&s;e you?</L>
<L>He knowledge unto man doth teach,</L>
<L>and &s;hall him&s;elfe not know?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Mans thoughts to be but vanity,</L>
<L>the Lord doth well di&s;cern.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Ble&s;t is the man thou cha&s;tne&s;t, Lord,</L>
<L>and mak'&s;t thy Law to learn.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> That thou may&s;t give him re&s;t, from day</L>
<L>of &s;ad adver&s;itie,</L>
<L>Vntill the pit be dig'd for tho&s;e</L>
<L>that work iniquitie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> For &s;ure the Lord will dot ca&s;t off</L>
<L>tho&s;e that his people be,</L>
<L>Neither his own inheritance</L>
<L>quite and for&s;ake will he.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> But judgment unto righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>&s;hall yet return again,</L>
<L>And all &s;hall follow after it</L>
<L>that are right hearted men.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Who will ri&s;e up for me, again&s;t</L>
<L>tho&s;e that do wickedly?</L>
<L>Who will &s;tand up for me, 'gain&s;t tho&s;e</L>
<L>that work iniquitie?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Vnle&s;&s;e the Lord had been my help,</L>
<L>when I was fore oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>Almo&s;t my &s;oul had in the hou&s;e</L>
<L>of &s;ilence been at re&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> When I had uttered this word,</L>
<L>my foot doth &s;lip away,</L>
<L>Thy mercy held me up O Lord,</L>
<L>thy goodne&s;&s;e did me &s;tay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="80"> Amid&s;t the multitude of thoughts,</L>
<L>which in my heart do fight:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y &s;oul le&s;t it be overcharg'd.</L>
<L>thy comrorts do delight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Shal of iniquity the throne</L>
<L>have fellow&s;hip with thee.</L>
<L>Which mi&s;chief cunningly contriv'd,</L>
<L>doth by a law decree?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Again&s;t the righteous &s;ouls they joyn,</L>
<L>the guiltle&s;&s;e blood condemn:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t of my refuge God's the Rock,</L>
<L>and my defence from them.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> On them their own iniquity</L>
<L>the Lord &s;hall bring and lay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d cut them off in their own &s;in,</L>
<L>our Lord God &s;hall them &s;tay.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="95" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XCV.</HEAD>
<L>O Come, let us &s;ing to the Lord,</L>
<L>come, let us every one,</L>
<L>joyfull noi&s;e make to the Rock</L>
<L>of our &s;alvation.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Let us before his pre&s;ence come,</L>
<L>with prai&s;e and thankfull voice,</L>
<L>Let us &s;ing P&s;alms to him with grace,</L>
<L>and make a joyful noi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For God a great God, and great King.</L>
<L>above all gods he is.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Depths of the earth are in his hand,</L>
<L>the &s;trength of hills is his,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> To him the &s;pacious &s;ea belongs,</L>
<L>for he the &s;ame did make:</L>
<L>The dry land al&s;o from his hands</L>
<L>it's form at fir&s;t did take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> O come, and let us wor&s;hip him,</L>
<L>let us how down withall,</L>
<L>And on our kn&eacute;es before the Lord,</L>
<L>our maker let us fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="81"> For he's our God the people we</L>
<L>of his own pa&s;ture are,</L>
<L>And of his hand the &s;heep: to day,</L>
<L>if ye his voice will hear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Then harden not your hearts, as in</L>
<L>the pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">cation,</L>
<L>As in the de&s;art, on the day</L>
<L>of the ten<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ation.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> When me your fathers tempt'd &amp; prov'd,</L>
<L>and did my working &s;ee:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Ev'n for the &s;pace of fourty years</L>
<L>this race hath grieved me:</L>
<L>I &s;aid this people erres in heart,</L>
<L>my wayes they do not know;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> To whom I &s;ware in wrath, that to</L>
<L>my re&s;t they &s;hould not go.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="96" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XCVI.</HEAD>
<L>O Sing a new &s;ong to the Lord,</L>
<L>&s;ing, all the earth, to God:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> To God &s;ing, ble&s;&s;e his Name, &s;hew &s;till</L>
<L>his &s;aving health abroad.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Among the heathen nations</L>
<L>his glory do declare:</L>
<L>And unto all the people &s;hew</L>
<L>his works that wondrous are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For great's the Lord, and greatly he</L>
<L>is to be magnifi'd:</L>
<L>Yea, worthy to be fear'd is he</L>
<L>above all gods be&s;ide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> For all the gods are idols dumb,</L>
<L>which blinded nations fear:</L>
<L>But our God is the Lord, by whom</L>
<L>the heavens created were.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Great honour is before his face,</L>
<L>and Maje&s;ty divine:</L>
<L>Strength is within his holy place,</L>
<L>and there doth beauty &s;hine.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="81"> Do you a&s;cribe unto the Lord,</L>
<L>of people every tribe.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">lory do you unto the Lord,</L>
<L>and mighty power a&s;cribe,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Give ye the glory to the Lord</L>
<L>that to his Name is due.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">me ye into his courts, and bring</L>
<L>in offering with you.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> In beauty of his holine&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>O do the Lord adore:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">kewi&s;e let all the earth throughout</L>
<L>tremble his face before.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Among the heathen &s;ay, God reigns:</L>
<L>the world &s;hall &s;tedfa&s;tly</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> fixt from moving, he &s;hall judge</L>
<L>the people righteou&s;ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Let heavens be glad before the Lord</L>
<L>and let the earth rejoyce,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">et &s;eas and all that is therein,</L>
<L>cry out and make a noi&s;e:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Let fields rejoyce, and every thing</L>
<L>that &s;pringeth of the earth:</L>
<L>Then woods and every tree &s;hall &s;ing</L>
<L>with gladne&s;&s;e and with mirth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Before the Lord, becau&s;e he comes,</L>
<L>to judge the earth comes he:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e'l judge the world with righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>the people fai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hfully.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="97" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XCVII.</HEAD>
<L>GOd reigneth, let the earth be glad,</L>
<L>and i&s;les rejoyce each one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Dark clouds him compa&s;&s;e, and in right</L>
<L>with judgement dwells his throne,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Fire goes before him, and his foes,</L>
<L>it burns up round about.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> His lightnings lighten did the world,</L>
<L>earth &s;aw, and &s;hook throughout.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="82"> Hills at the pre&s;ence of the Lord,</L>
<L>like wax, did melt away:</L>
<L>Ev'n at the pre&s;ence of the Lord,</L>
<L>of all the earth, I &s;ay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> The heav'ns declare his righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>all men his glory &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> All who &s;erve graven images,</L>
<L>confounded let them be:</L>
<L>Who do of idols boa&s;t them&s;elves,</L>
<L>let &s;hame upon them fall.</L>
<L>Ye that are called gods, &s;ee that</L>
<L>ye do him wor&s;hip all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Sion did hear, and joyfull was,</L>
<L>glad Iudah's daughters were.</L>
<L>They much rejoyc'd O Lord, becau&s;e</L>
<L>the judgements did appear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> For thou, O Lord, art high above</L>
<L>all things on earth that are:</L>
<L>Above all other gods thou art</L>
<L>exalted very far.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Hate ill, all ye that love the Lord,</L>
<L>his &s;aints &s;ouls keepeth he,</L>
<L>And from the hands of wicked men</L>
<L>he &s;ets them &s;afe and free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> For all tho&s;e that be righteous</L>
<L>&s;own is a joyful light,</L>
<L>And gladne&s;s &s;own is for all tho&s;e</L>
<L>that are in heart upright.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Ye righteous in the Lord rejoyce,</L>
<L>expre&s;&s;e your thankfulne&s;s,</L>
<L>When ye into your memory</L>
<L>do call his holine&s;s.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="98" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XCVIII.</HEAD>
<L>O Sing a new &s;ong to the Lord,</L>
<L>for wonders he hath done:</L>
<L>His right hand his holy arm</L>
<L>him victory hath won.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="82"> The Lord God his &s;alvation</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ath cau&s;ed to be known;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> ju&s;tice in the heathens &s;ight</L>
<L>he openly hath &s;hown.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e mindful of his grace and truth</L>
<L>to I&s;raels hou&s;e hath been;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ed the &s;alvation of our God</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll ends of th'earth have &s;&eacute;en.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">et all the earth unto the Lord</L>
<L>&s;end forth a joyful noi&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t up your voice aloud to him,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ng prai&s;es and rejoyce.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> With harp, with harp, &amp; voice of P&s;alms</L>
<L>into Iehovah &s;ing.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> With trumpets, cornets gladly &s;ound</L>
<L>before the Lord the King.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Let &s;eas, and all their fulne&s;s roar,</L>
<L>the world and dwellers there.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Let flouds clap hands, and let the hills</L>
<L>together joy declare.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Before the Lord, becau&s;e he comes,</L>
<L>to judge the earth comes he:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e'l judge the world with righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>his folk with equity.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="99" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. XCIX.</HEAD>
<L>TH' Eternal Lord doth reign as King,</L>
<L>let all the people quake</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e &s;its between th cherubims,</L>
<L>let th'earth be mov'd and &s;hake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> The Lord in Sion great, and high</L>
<L>above all people is.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Thy great and dreadful Name (for it</L>
<L>is holy) let them ble&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The Kings &s;trength al&s;o judgment loves,</L>
<L>thou &s;ettle&s;t equity,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">u&s;t judgement thou do&s;t execute</L>
<L>in Iacob righteou&s;ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="83"> The Lord our God exalt on hie,</L>
<L>and reverently do ye</L>
<L>Before his foot&s;tool wor&s;hip him:</L>
<L>the Holy One is he.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Mo&s;es and Aaron 'mong&s;t his prie&s;ts,</L>
<L>Samuel with them that call</L>
<L>Vpon his Name; the&s;e call'd on God,</L>
<L>and he them an&s;wer'd all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Within the pillar of the cloud</L>
<L>he unto them did &s;peak:</L>
<L>The te&s;timonies he them taught,</L>
<L>and laws, they did not break.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Thou an&s;wer'd&s;t them, O Lord, our God</L>
<L>thou wa&s;t a God that gave</L>
<L>Pardon to them, though on their d&eacute;eds</L>
<L>thou woulde&s;t vengeance have.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Do ye exalt the Lord, our God,</L>
<L>and at his holy Hill</L>
<L>Do ye him wor&s;hip; for the Lord</L>
<L>our God is holy &s;till.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="100" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. C.</HEAD>
<L>ALL people that on earth do dwell,</L>
<L>Sing to the Lord with chearfull voice.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Him &s;erve with mirth, his prai&s;e forth tel</L>
<L>Come ye before him and rejoyce.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Know that the Lord is God ind&eacute;ed,</L>
<L>Without our aid he did us make:</L>
<L>We are his flock, he doth us f&eacute;ed,</L>
<L>And for his &s;heep he doth us take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> O enter then his gates with prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Approach with joy his courts unto:</L>
<L>Prai&s;e, laud, and ble&s;&s;e his Name alwayes</L>
<L>For it is &s;&eacute;emly &s;o to do.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> For why the Lord our God is good,</L>
<L>His mercy is for ever &s;ure:</L>
<L>His truth at all times firmly &s;tood,</L>
<L>And &s;hall from age to age endure.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="100" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<PB REF="83">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> All ye lands, unto the Lord</L>
<L>make ye a joyfull noi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Serve God with gladne&s;&s;e, him before,</L>
<L>come with a &s;inging voice:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> know ye the Lord&punc; that he is God,</L>
<L>not we, but he us made;</L>
<L>We are his people, and the &s;heep</L>
<L>within his pa&s;ture fed.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Enter his gates and courts with prai&s;e.</L>
<L>to thank him go ye thither:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o him expre&s;&s;e your thankfulne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>and ble&s;&s;e his Name together.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e the Lord our God is good,</L>
<L>his mercy faileth never;</L>
<L>And to all generations</L>
<L>his truth endureth ever.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="101" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CI.</HEAD>
<L><HI>I</HI> Mercy will, and judgment &s;ing,</L>
<L>Lord, I will &s;ing to th&eacute;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> With wi&s;dom in a perfect way</L>
<L>&s;hall my behaviour be.</L>
<L>O when in kindne&s;&s;e unto me,</L>
<L>wilt thou be plea&s;'d to come;</L>
<L>I with a perfect heart will walk</L>
<L>within my hou&s;e, at home.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> I will endure no wicked thing</L>
<L>before mine eyes to be:</L>
<L>I hate their work that turn a&s;ide,</L>
<L>it &s;hall not cleave to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> A &s;tubborn and a froward heart</L>
<L>depart quite from me &s;hall:</L>
<L>A per&s;on giv'n to wickedne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>I will not know at all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Ile cut him off that &s;landereth</L>
<L>his neighbour privily:</L>
<L>The haughty heart I will not bear</L>
<PB REF="84">
<L>nor him that looketh hie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Vpon the faithful of the land</L>
<L>mine eyes &s;hall be, that they</L>
<L>May dwell with me, he &s;hall me &s;erve</L>
<L>that walks in perfect way.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Who of deceit a worker is,</L>
<L>in my hou&s;e &s;hall not dwell:</L>
<L>And in my pre&s;ence &s;hall be not</L>
<L>remain, that lies doth tell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Yea, all the wicked of the land</L>
<L>early de&s;troy will I;</L>
<L>All from Gods city to cut off,</L>
<L>that work iniquity.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="102" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM CII.</HEAD>
<L>O Lord, unto my pray'r give ear,</L>
<L>my cry let come to thee;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> And in the day of my di&s;tre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>hide not thy face from me:</L>
<L>Give ear to me: what time I call,</L>
<L>to an&s;wer me make ha&s;te:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For as an hearth my bones are burnt,</L>
<L>my dayes like &s;moke do wa&s;te.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> My heart within me &s;miten is,</L>
<L>and it is withered,</L>
<L>Like very gra&s;&s;e, &s;o that I do</L>
<L>forget to eat my bread.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> By rea&s;on of my groaning voice,</L>
<L>my bones cleave to my &s;kin.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Like Pelican in wilderne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>for&s;aken I have bin:</L>
<L>I like an Owl in de&s;art am</L>
<L>that nightly there doth moan:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> I watch and like a &s;parrow am</L>
<L>on the hou&s;e top alone.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> My bitter en'mies all the day</L>
<L>reproaches ca&s;t on me:</L>
<L>And being mad at me, with rage</L>
<PB REF="84">
<L>again&s;t me &s;worn they be:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> for why I a&s;hes eaten have,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ke bread in &s;orrows deep;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> drink I al&s;o mingled have</L>
<L>with tears that I did weep.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Thy wrath and indignation</L>
<L>did cau&s;e this grief and pain:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r thou ha&s;t lift me up on high,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd ca&s;t me down again.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> My days are like unto a &s;hade</L>
<L>which doth declining pa&s;&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> I am dry'd and withered,</L>
<L>ev'n like unto the gra&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> But thou, Lord, everla&s;ting art,</L>
<L>and thy remembrance &s;hall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ntinually endure and be</L>
<L>to generations all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Thou &s;halt ari&s;e, and mercy have</L>
<L>upon thy Zion yet;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he time to favour her is come,</L>
<L>the time that thou ha&s;t &s;et.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> For, in her rubbi&s;h and her &s;tones</L>
<L>thy &s;erva<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s plea&s;ure take;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ea, they the very du&s;t thereof</L>
<L>do favour for her &s;ake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> So &s;hall the heathen people fear</L>
<L>the Lords mo&s;t holy Name:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd all the Kings on earth &s;hall dread</L>
<L>thy glory and thy &s;ame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> When Zion by the mighty Lord,</L>
<L>built up again &s;hall be,</L>
<L>In glory then and maje&s;ty</L>
<L>to men appear &s;hall be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> The prayer of the de&s;titute</L>
<L>he &s;urely will regard,</L>
<L>Their prayer he will not de&s;pi&s;e,</L>
<L>by him it &s;hall be heard.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="85"> For generations yet to come</L>
<L>this &s;hall be on record:</L>
<L>So &s;hall the people that &s;hall be</L>
<L>created: prai&s;e the Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> He from his &s;anctuaries height</L>
<L>hath downward ca&s;t his eye,</L>
<L>And from his glorious throne in heav'n,</L>
<L>the Lord the earth did &s;py.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> That of the mournfull pri&s;oner</L>
<L>the g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oanings he might hear,</L>
<L>To &s;et them free that unto death</L>
<L>by men appointed are:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> That they in Zion may declare</L>
<L>the Lords m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t holy Name,</L>
<L>And publi&s;h in Ieru&s;alem</L>
<L>the prai&s;es of the &s;ame:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> When as the people gather &s;hall</L>
<L>in troops with one accord,</L>
<L>When kingdoms &s;hall a&s;&s;embled be</L>
<L>to &s;erve the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">igh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> My won<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed force and &s;trength he hath</L>
<L>abated in the way;</L>
<L>And he my dayes hath &s;hortened:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> Thus therefore did I &s;ay,</L>
<L>My God, in mid-time of my dayes,</L>
<L>take thou me not away.</L>
<L>From age to age, eternally</L>
<L>thy years endure and &s;tay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> The firm foundation of the earth</L>
<L>of old time thou ha&s;t laid:</L>
<L>The heavens al&s;o are the work</L>
<L>which thine own hands have made.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> Thou &s;halt for evermore endure,</L>
<L>but they &s;hall peri&s;h all;</L>
<L>Yea, every one of them wax old,</L>
<L>like to a garment, &s;hall:</L>
<PB REF="85">
<L>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> as a ve&s;ture &s;hall them change,</L>
<L>and they &s;hall changed be.</L>
<L>But thou the &s;ame art, and thy years</L>
<L>as to eternitie.</L>
<L>The children of thy &s;ervants &s;hall</L>
<L>continually endure,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d in thy &s;ight, O Lord, their &s;eed</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hall be e&s;tabli&s;ht &s;ure.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="102" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd, hear my pray'r, and let my cry,</L>
<L>Have &s;peedy acce&s;&s;e unto thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> In day of my calamity,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ide not thou thy face from me:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ar when I call to thee, that day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> an&s;wer &s;peedily return:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> My dayes like &s;moke con&s;ume away:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d as an hearth my bones do burn,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> My heart is wounded v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ry &s;ore</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> withered, like to gra&s;&s;e, doth fade:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> forgetfull grown therefore</L>
<L>a take and eat my daily bread.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> By rea&s;on of my &s;mart within,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ed voice of my mo&s;t grievous groans.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> fle&s;h con&s;umed in, my &s;kin.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> parcht, doth cleave unto my bones,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> The Pelican of wilderne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he Owl in de&s;arts I do match.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> And &s;parrow-like companionle&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">pon the hou&s;es top I watch.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> I all day long am made a &s;corn,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">proacht by my malicious foes;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he mad men are again&s;t me &s;worn,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e men again&s;t me that aro&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> For I have a&s;hes eaten up,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o me as if they had been bread;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o with my drink I in my cup</L>
<PB REF="86">
<L>Of bitter tears a mixture made,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e thy wrath was not appea&s;'d,</L>
<L>And dreadfull indignation,</L>
<L>Therefore it was that thou me rai&s;'d,</L>
<L>And thou again did&s;t ca&s;t me down.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> My dayes are like a &s;hade alway,</L>
<L>Which doth declining &s;wiftly pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And I am withered away</L>
<L>Much like unto the fading gra&s;&s;e:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> But thou, O Lord, &s;hall &s;till endure</L>
<L>From change and all mutation free,</L>
<L>And to all generations &s;ure</L>
<L>Shall thy remembrance ev'r be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Thou &s;halt ari&s;e, and mercy yet</L>
<L>Thou to mount Zion &s;halt extend:</L>
<L>Her time for favour which was &s;et:</L>
<L>Behold, is now come to an end.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Thy &s;aints take plea&s;ure in her &s;tones</L>
<L>Her very du&s;t to them is dear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> All heathen lands, and Kingly throne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>On earth, thy glorious Name &s;hall fear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> God in his glory &s;hall appear,</L>
<L>When Zion he builds and repairs,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> He &s;hall regard and lend his ear</L>
<L>Vnto the needies humble pray'rs.</L>
<L>The' afflicteds pray'r he will not &s;corn:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> All times this &s;hall be in record,</L>
<L>And generations yet unborn</L>
<L>Shall prai&s;e and magnifie the Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> He from his holy place look'd down,</L>
<L>The earth he view'd from heaven on hie,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> To bear the pri&s;oners m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urning groa<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>And free them that are dam'd to die:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> That Zion and Ieru&s;alem <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oo</L>
<L>His Name and prai&s;e may well record.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> When people and the Kingdoms do</L>
<PB REF="86">
<L>A&s;&s;emble all to prai&s;e the Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> My &s;trength he weakned in the way,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">es of life he &s;hortened.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> My God, O take me not away</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> mid-time of my dayes, I &s;aid:</L>
<L>My years throughout all ages la&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> Of old thou ha&s;t e&s;tabli&s;hed</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e earths foundation firm and fa&s;t:</L>
<L>My mighty hands the heav'ns have made:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> They peri&s;h &s;hall, as garments do,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> thou &s;halt evermore endure:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e&s;tures thou &s;halt change them &s;o,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> they &s;hall all be changed &s;ure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> But from all changes thou art free,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y endle&s;s years do la&s;t for ay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> Thy &s;ervants, and their &s;eed, who be</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">bli&s;h'd &s;hall before thee &s;tay.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="103" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CIII.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> Thou, my &s;oul, ble&s;&s;e God the Lord,</L>
<L>and all that in me is</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;tirred up his holy Name</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">magnifie and ble&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">le&s;&s;e, O my &s;oul, the Lord, thy God,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d not forgetful be</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ll his precious benefits</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> hath be&s;tow'd on thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ll thine iniquities who doth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;t graciou&s;ly forgive:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o thy di&s;ea&s;es all and pains</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">h heal, and thee relieve.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ho doth redeem thy life, that thou</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> death may not go down:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o thee with loving kindne&s;&s;e doth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o tender mercies crown,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ho with abundance of good things</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">h &s;atisfie thy mouth;</L>
<PB REF="87">
<L>So that, ev'n as the Eagles age,</L>
<L>renewed is thy youth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> God righteous judgement executes</L>
<L>for all oppre&s;&s;ed ones.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> His way to Mo&s;es, he his acts</L>
<L>made known to I&s;raels &s;ons.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> The Lord our God is mercifull,</L>
<L>and he is gracious,</L>
<L>Long-&s;uffering and &s;low to wrath,</L>
<L>in mercy plenteous.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> He will not chide continually</L>
<L>nor keep his anger &s;till.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> With us he dealt not as we &s;inn'd,</L>
<L>nor did requite our ill.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> For as the heaven in its height</L>
<L>the earth &s;urmounteth far:</L>
<L>So great to tho&s;e that do him fear,</L>
<L>his tender mercies are,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> As far as Ea&s;t is di&s;tant from</L>
<L>the We&s;t, &s;o far hath be</L>
<L>From us removed, in his love,</L>
<L>all out iniquity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Such pity as a father hath</L>
<L>unto his children dear,</L>
<L>Like pity &s;hows the Lord to &s;uch</L>
<L>as wor&s;hip him in fear:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> For he remembers we are du&s;t,</L>
<L>and he our frame well knows.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Frail man his dayes are like the gr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>as flower in field he gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ws,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> For over it the wind doth pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>and it away is gone,</L>
<L>And of the place where once it was</L>
<L>it &s;hall no more be known.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> But unto them that do him fear,</L>
<L>Gods mercy never ends;</L>
<PB REF="87">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d to their childrens children &s;till</L>
<L>his righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e extends:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> To &s;uch as keep his co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">enant,</L>
<L>and mindfull are alway</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> this mo&s;t ju&s;t commandements,</L>
<L>that they may them obey.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> The Lord prepared hath his throne</L>
<L>in heavens from to &s;tand:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> ev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ry thing that being hath</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> his Kingdom doth command.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> O ye his angels, that excell</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n &s;trength, ble&s;&s;e ye the Lord,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> who obey what he commands,</L>
<L>and hearken to his word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> O ble&s;&s;e and magnifie the Lord,</L>
<L>ye glorious ho&s;ts of his,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> Mini&s;ters that do fulfill</L>
<L>what ev'r his plea&s;ure is,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> O ble&s;&s;e the Lord, all ye his works,</L>
<L>wherewith the world is &s;tor'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> his dominions every where:</L>
<L>my &s;oul ble&s;&s;e thou the Lord.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="104" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CIV.</HEAD>
<L>BLe&s;&s;e God, my &s;oul, O Lord my God,</L>
<L>thou art exceeding great,</L>
<L>With honour and with maje&s;ty</L>
<L>thou clothed art in &s;tate.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> With light, as with a robe, thy &s;elf</L>
<L>thou covere&s;t about,</L>
<L>And like unto a courtain, thou</L>
<L>the heavens &s;tretche&s;t out.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Who of his chambers doth the beams</L>
<L>within the waters lay;</L>
<L>Who doth the clouds his chariot make,</L>
<L>on wings of wind make way.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Who flaming fire his mini&s;ters,</L>
<PB REF="88">
<L>his angels &s;p'rits did make:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Who earths foundations did lay:</L>
<L>that it &s;hould never &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ke.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Thou did&s;t it cover with the d&eacute;ep,</L>
<L>as with a garment &s;pred:</L>
<L>The waters &s;tood above the hills,</L>
<L>when thou the word but &s;aid.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> But at the voice of thy rebuke</L>
<L>they fled, and would not &s;tay:</L>
<L>They at thy thunders dreadfull voice,</L>
<L>did ha&s;te them fa&s;t away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> They, by the mountains do a&s;cend,</L>
<L>and by the valley ground</L>
<L>De&s;cend, unto that very place</L>
<L>which thou for them did&s;t found.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Thou ha&s;t a bound unto them &s;et,</L>
<L>that they may not pa&s;&s;e over,</L>
<L>That they do not return again</L>
<L>the face of earth to cover,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> He to the valleys &s;ounds the &s;prings,</L>
<L>which run a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">t the hills:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> They to all hearts a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> held give drnik,</L>
<L>wilde a&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s drink their &s;ills.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> By them the fowls of heaven &s;hall have</L>
<L>their habitation,</L>
<L>Which do among the branches &s;ing</L>
<L>with delectation,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> He from his chambers watereth</L>
<L>the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ills when they are dry'd,</L>
<L>With fruit and increa&s;e of thy works</L>
<L>the earth is &s;atisfi'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> For cattell he makes gra&s;&s;e to grow,</L>
<L>he makes the herb to &s;pring</L>
<L>For th'u&s;e of man, that food to him,</L>
<L>he from the earth may bring.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> And wine that to the heart of man</L>
<L>doth ch&eacute;erfulne&s;&s;e impart,</L>
<PB REF="88">
<L>Oyl that his face makes &s;hine, and bread.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat &s;trenhtheneth his heart.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> The tr&eacute;es of God are full of &s;ap,</L>
<L>the cedars that do &s;tand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> Lebanon, which planted were</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y his Almighty hand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Birds of the air upon their boughs</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o choo&s;e their ne&s;ts to make:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> for the Stork, the fir-trees &s;he</L>
<L>doth for her dwelling take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> The lofty mountains for wilde Goats</L>
<L>place of refuge he;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e Chri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s al&s;o to the rocks</L>
<L>to for their &s;afety &s;lee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> He &s;ets the Moon in heaven, thereby</L>
<L>the &s;ea&s;ons to di&s;cern:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rom him the Sun, his certain time</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">f going down doth learn.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Thou darkne&s;&s;e mak'&s;t, 'tis night, then bea&s;ts,</L>
<L>of forre&s;ts creep abroad.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> The Lions young roar for their prey,</L>
<L>and &s;eek their meat from God.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> The Sun doth ri&s;e, and home they flock,</L>
<L>down in their dens they ly,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Man goes to work, his labour he</L>
<L>doth to the evening ply.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> How manifold, Lord, are thy works</L>
<L>in wi&s;dom wonderfull:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hou every one of them ha&s;t made;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">arth's of thy riches full.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> So is this great and &s;pacious &s;ea,</L>
<L>wherein things cr&eacute;eping are,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hich numbred cannot be; and bea&s;ts</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">oth great and &s;mall are there.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> There &s;hips go, there thou make&s;t to play</L>
<L>that Leviathan great:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="89"> The&s;e all wait on thee, that thou ma<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>in due time give them meat.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> That, which thou give&s;t unto them,</L>
<L>they gather for their food;</L>
<L>Thine hand thou opene&s;t liberally,</L>
<L>they filled are with good.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> Thou hid'&s;t thy face, they troubled ar<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>their breath thou tak'&s;t away,</L>
<L>Then do they die, and to their du&s;t</L>
<L>return again do they.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> Thy quickning &s;pirit thou &s;end'&s;t fort<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>then they created be:</L>
<L>And then the earth's decayed face.</L>
<L>renewed is hy thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> The glory of the mighty Lord</L>
<L>continue &s;hall for ever:</L>
<L>The Lord Iehovah &s;hall rejoyce</L>
<L>in all his wor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s together.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="32" UNIT="verse"> Earth, as affrighted, trembleth all,</L>
<L>if <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e on it but look,</L>
<L>And if the mountains he but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">uch,</L>
<L>they pre&s;ently do &s;moke.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="33" UNIT="verse"> I will &s;ing to the Lord mo&s;t high,</L>
<L>&s;o long as I &s;hall live;</L>
<L>And while I beeing have, I &s;hall</L>
<L>to my God prai&s;es give.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="34" UNIT="verse"> Of him my meditation &s;hall</L>
<L>&s;weet thoughts to me afford.</L>
<L>And as for me, I will rejoyce</L>
<L>in God, my only Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="35" UNIT="verse"> From earth let &s;inners be con&s;um'd,</L>
<L>let ill men no more be:</L>
<L>O thou my &s;oul, ble&s;&s;e thou the Lord,</L>
<L>prai&s;e to the Lord give ye.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="105" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CV.</HEAD>
<L>GIve thanks to God, call on his Nam<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>to men his deeds make known:</L>
<PB REF="89">
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ng ye to him, &s;ing P&s;alms, proclaim</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s wondrous works each one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ee that ye in his holy Name</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o glory do accord:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> let the heart of every one</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ejoyce that &s;eeks the Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The Lord Almighty, and his &s;trength</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ith &s;tedfa&s;t hearts &s;&eacute;ek ye:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> ble&s;&s;ed and his glorious face</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">eek ye continually.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Think on the works that he hath done,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hich admiration breed;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> wonders and the judgments all</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hich from his mouth proceed.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> O ye that are of Abrahams race,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">is &s;ervant well approv'n,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> ye that Iacobs children are,</L>
<L>whom he cho&s;'d for his own,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e he, and he only is</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he mighty Lord, our God;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d his mo&s;t righteous judgments are</L>
<L>in all the earth abroad.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> His covenant he remembred hath,</L>
<L>that it may ever &s;tand:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> thou&s;and generations</L>
<L>the word he did command.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Which covenant he firmly made</L>
<L>with faithfull Abraham.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d unto I&s;aac, by his oath</L>
<L>he did renew the &s;ame:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> And unto Iacob for a Law,</L>
<L>he made it firm and &s;ure.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> covenant to I&s;rael,</L>
<L>which ever &s;hould endure:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> He &s;aid, I'le give Canaans land</L>
<L>for heritage to you:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="90"> While they were &s;trangers there &amp; few<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>in number very few.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> While yet they went from land to land<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>without a &s;ure abode:</L>
<L>And while, through &s;undry kingdoms, the<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>did wander far ab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oad,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Yet notwith&s;tanding &s;uffered he</L>
<L>no man to do them wrong:</L>
<L>Yea for their &s;akes, he did reprove,</L>
<L>Kings who were grea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and &s;trong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Thus did he &s;ay, Touch ye not tho&s;e</L>
<L>that mine anointed be,</L>
<L>Nor do the prophets any harm</L>
<L>that do partain to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> He call'd for famine on the land,</L>
<L>He brake the &s;taff of bread.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> But yet he &s;ent a man before</L>
<L>by whom they &s;hould be fed.</L>
<L>Ev'n Io&s;eph whom unnaturally</L>
<L>&s;ell for a &s;lave did they;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Who&s;e feet with fetters they did hurt,</L>
<L>and he in trours lay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Vntill the time that his word came</L>
<L>to give him liberty:</L>
<L>The word and purpo&s;e of the Lord</L>
<L>did him in pri&s;on try.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Then &s;ent the King, and did command</L>
<L>that he inlarg'd &s;hould be.</L>
<L>He that the peoples Ruler was,</L>
<L>did &s;end to &s;et him free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> A Lord, to rul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">amily,</L>
<L>he rai&s;'d him, as mo&s;t fit</L>
<L>To him, of all that he po&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t,</L>
<L>he did the charge commit.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> That he might at his plea&s;ure binde</L>
<L>the Princes of the land;</L>
<L>And he might teach his Senatours</L>
<PB REF="90">
<L>wi&s;dom to under&s;tand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> The people then of I&s;rael</L>
<L>down into Egypt came:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd Iacob al&s;o &s;ojourned</L>
<L>within the land of Ham.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> and he did greatly, by his pow'r,</L>
<L>increa&s;e his people there;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd &s;tranger then their enemies</L>
<L>they by his ble&s;&s;ing were.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> Their heart he turned to envy</L>
<L>his folk maliciou&s;ly,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ith tho&s;e that his own &s;ervants were</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o deal in &s;ub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ilty</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> His &s;ervan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Mo&s;es he did &s;end,</L>
<L>Aaron his cho&s;en one:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> By the&s;e his &s;ignes and wonders great</L>
<L>in Hams land were made known,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> Darkne&s;&s;e he &s;ent, and made it dark:</L>
<L>his word they did obey.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> He turn'd their waters into blood,</L>
<L>and he their fi&s;h did &s;lay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> The land in plenty brought forth frogs</L>
<L>in chambers of their Kings.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> His word all &s;orts of flies and lice</L>
<L>in all their borders brings.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="32" UNIT="verse"> He hail for rain, and flaming fire</L>
<L>into <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">heir land he &s;ent:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="33" UNIT="verse"> And he their vines and fig-trees &s;mot,</L>
<L>tr&eacute;es of their coa&s;ts he rent.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="34" UNIT="verse"> He &s;pake and caterpillars came,</L>
<L>locu&s;ts did much abound,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="35" UNIT="verse"> Which in their land all herbs con&s;um'd</L>
<L>and all fruits of their ground</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="36" UNIT="verse"> He &s;mote all fir&s;t-born in their land,</L>
<L>chief of their &s;trength each one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="37" UNIT="verse"> With gold &amp; &s;ilver brought them forth,</L>
<PB REF="91">
<L>weak in their tribes were none</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="38" UNIT="verse"> Egypt was glad when forth they went,</L>
<L>their fear on them did light.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="39" UNIT="verse"> He &s;pread a cloud for covering</L>
<L>and fire to &s;hine by night.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="40" UNIT="verse"> They askt, and he brought Quails with bread</L>
<L>of heaven he filled them.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="41" UNIT="verse"> He opened rocks, floods gu&s;ht and ran</L>
<L>in de&s;arts like a &s;tream.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="42" UNIT="verse"> For, on his holy promi&s;e he,</L>
<L>and &s;ervant Abraham thought.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="43" UNIT="verse"> Wi&s;h joy his people, his elect</L>
<L>with gladne&s;&s;e forth he brought.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="44" UNIT="verse"> And unto them the plea&s;ant lands</L>
<L>he of the heathen gave:</L>
<L>That of the peoples labours they</L>
<L>inheritance might have;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="45" UNIT="verse"> That they his &s;tatutes might ob&s;erve,</L>
<L>according to his word,</L>
<L>And that they might his Laws obey,</L>
<L>give prai&s;e unto the Lord</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="106" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CVI.</HEAD>
<L>GIve prai&s;e and thanks unto the Lord,</L>
<L>for bountifull is he:</L>
<L>His tender mercy doth endure</L>
<L>unto eternity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Gods mighty works who can expre&s;&s;e?</L>
<L>or &s;hew forth all his prai&s;e?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Ble&s;&s;ed are they that judgment k&eacute;ep,</L>
<L>and ju&s;tly do alwayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Remember me, Lord, with that love,</L>
<L>which thou to thine do&s;t bear:</L>
<L>With thy &s;alvation, O my God.</L>
<L>to vi&s;it me draw near:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> That I they cho&s;ens good may &s;ee,</L>
<L>and in their joy rejoyce.</L>
<L>And may with thine inheritance</L>
<PB REF="91">
<L>triumph with ch&eacute;erfull voice.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> We with our fathers &s;inned have,</L>
<L>and of iniquity</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">oo long we have the workers b&eacute;en,</L>
<L>we have done wickedly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> The wonders great which thou, O Lord,</L>
<L>did&s;t work in Eygpt land,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ur fathers, though they &s;aw, yet them</L>
<L>they did not under&s;tand.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ad they thy mercies multitude</L>
<L>kept not in memory,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t at the &s;ea, ev'n the Red-&s;ea,</L>
<L>provok'd him grievou&s;ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Neverthele&s;&s;e he &s;aved them</L>
<L>ev'n for his own Names &s;ake;</L>
<L>That &s;o he might to be well known,</L>
<L>his mighty power make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> When he the Red-&s;ea did rebuke,</L>
<L>then dried up it was,</L>
<L>Through depths, as through the wilderne&s;s</L>
<L>he &s;afely made them pa&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> From hands of tho&s;e that hated them,</L>
<L>he did his people &s;ave,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd from the enemies cruel hand,</L>
<L>to them redemption gave,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> The waters overwhelm'd their foes,</L>
<L>not one was left alive;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Then they believ'd his word, and prai&s;e</L>
<L>to him in &s;ongs did give.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> But &s;oon did they his mighty works</L>
<L>forget unthankfully,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> nd on h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s coun&s;el and his will</L>
<L>did not wait patiently.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> But much did lu&s;t in wilderne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>and God in de&s;art tempt.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> He gave them what they &s;ought, but to</L>
<L>their &s;oul he leanne&s;&s;e &s;ent.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="92"> And again&s;t Mo&s;es in the camp,</L>
<L>their envy did appear:</L>
<L>At Aaron they, the &s;aint of God,</L>
<L>envious al&s;o were.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Therefore the earth did open wide,</L>
<L>and Dathan did devour,</L>
<L>And all Abirams company</L>
<L>did cover in that hour.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Likewi&s;e among their company</L>
<L>a fire was kindled then.</L>
<L>And &s;o the hor con&s;uming flame</L>
<L>brunt up the&s;e wicked men.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Vpon the hill of Horeb, they</L>
<L>an idol calf did frame,</L>
<L>A molten image they did make,</L>
<L>and wor&s;hipped the &s;ame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> And thus their glory, and their God,</L>
<L>mo&s;t vainly changed they</L>
<L>Into the likene&s;&s;e of an ox</L>
<L>that eateth gra&s;&s;e or hay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> they did forget the mighty God,</L>
<L>that had their Saviour been:</L>
<L>By whom &s;uch great things brought to pa&s;&s;e</L>
<L>they had in Egypt &s;een.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> In Hams <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">and he did wondrous works:</L>
<L>things terrible did he,</L>
<L>When he his mighty hand and arm</L>
<L>&s;tretcht out at the Read &s;ea.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Then &s;aid he he would them de&s;troy,</L>
<L>had not, his wrath to &s;tay,</L>
<L>His cho&s;en Mo&s;es &s;tood in breach,</L>
<L>that them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;hould not &s;tay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> Yea, they de&s;pi&s;'d the plea&s;and land,</L>
<L>beli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ved not his word:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> But in their tents they murmered,</L>
<L>not hearkning to the Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> Therefore in de&s;art, them to &s;lay,</L>
<PB REF="92">
<L>he lifted up his hand:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> 'Mong nations to o'rethrow their &s;eed,</L>
<L>and &s;catter in each land.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> They unto Baal-Peor did</L>
<L>them&s;elves a&s;&s;ociate:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he &s;acrifices of the dead,</L>
<L>they did profanely eat.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> Thus by their lewd inventions,</L>
<L>they did provoke his ire;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd then upon them &s;uddenly</L>
<L>the plague brake in, as fire.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> Then Phineas roa&s;e and ju&s;tice did,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd &s;o the plague did cea&s;e:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> That to all ages counted was</L>
<L>to him for righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="32" UNIT="verse"> And a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the waters, where they &s;trove,</L>
<L>they did him angry make,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n &s;uch &s;ort, that it fared ill</L>
<L>with Mo&s;es for their &s;ake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="33" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e they there his &s;pirit m&eacute;ek</L>
<L>provoked bitterly,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o that he uttered with his lips</L>
<L>words unadvi&s;edly,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="34" UNIT="verse"> Nor, as the Lord commanded them,</L>
<L>did they the nations &s;lay;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="35" UNIT="verse"> But with the heathen mingled were,</L>
<L>and learn'd of them their way.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="36" UNIT="verse"> And they their idols &s;erv'd, which did</L>
<L>a &s;nare unto them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urn,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="37" UNIT="verse"> Their &s;ons and daughters they to devils</L>
<L>in &s;acrifice did burn.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="38" UNIT="verse"> In their own childrens guiltle&s;&s;e blood</L>
<L>their hands they did embrew,</L>
<L>Whom to Canaans idols they</L>
<L>for &s;acrifices &s;lew.</L>
<L>So was the land defil'd with blood.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="39" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="93"> They &s;tain'd with their own way,</L>
<L>And with their own inventions,</L>
<L>a-woring they did &s;tray.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="40" UNIT="verse"> Again&s;t his people kindled was</L>
<L>the wrath of God therefore&punc;</L>
<L>In&s;omuch that he did his own</L>
<L>inheritance abhore.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="41" UNIT="verse"> He gave them to the heathens hand,</L>
<L>their foes did them command:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="42" UNIT="verse"> Their enemies them oppre&s;t, they were</L>
<L>made &s;ubject to their hand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="43" UNIT="verse"> He many times delivered them,</L>
<L>but with their coun&s;el, &s;o</L>
<L>They him provok'd, that for their &s;in</L>
<L>they were brought very low.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="44" UNIT="verse"> Yet their affliction be beheld,</L>
<L>when he did hear their cry:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="45" UNIT="verse"> And he for them his Covenant</L>
<L>did call to memory:</L>
<L>After his mercies multitude</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="46" UNIT="verse"> He did repent; And made</L>
<L>Them to be pitied of all tho&s;e</L>
<L>who them did captive lead.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="47" UNIT="verse"> O Lord our God, us &s;ave, and gather</L>
<L>the heathen from among,</L>
<L>That we thy holy Name may prai&s;e</L>
<L>in a triumphant &s;ong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="48" UNIT="verse"> Ble&s;t be Iehovah, I&s;raels God,</L>
<L>to all eternity:</L>
<L>Let all the people &s;ay, Amen,</L>
<L>Prai&s;e to the Lord give ye.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="107" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CVII.</HEAD>
<L>PRai&s;e God, for he is good, for &s;till</L>
<L>his mercies la&s;ting be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Let Gods red&eacute;em'd &s;ay &s;o, whom he</L>
<L>from th'enemies hand did free;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="93"> And gathered them out of the lands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">om North, South, Ea&s;t and We&s;t,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> they &s;tray'd in de&s;arts pathle&s;&s;e way,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">city found to re&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> For thri&s;t and hunger in them faints</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> their &s;oul. When &s;traits them pre&s;&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ey cry unto the Lord and he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">em frees from their di&s;tre&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Them al&s;o in a way to walk,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">at right is he did guide,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ut they might to a city go,</L>
<L>herein they might abide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> O that men to the Lord would give</L>
<L>prai&s;e, for his goodne&s;&s;e then,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d for his works of wonder done</L>
<L>unto the &s;ons of men.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> For he the &s;oul that longing is</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">th fully &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">isfie,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">h goodne&s;&s;e he the hungry &s;oul</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">oth &s;til abundantly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Such as &s;hut up in darkne&s;&s;e deep,</L>
<L>and in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s &s;hade abide.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hom &s;tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">gly hath affliction bound,</L>
<L>and iro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s fa&s;t have ty'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> (Becau&s;e again&s;t the words of God,</L>
<L>they wrought rebelliou&s;ty,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd they the coun&s;el did contemn</L>
<L>of him that is mo&s;t hie.)</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Their heart he did bring down with grief</L>
<L>they fell, no help cloud have.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> In trouble then they cry'd to God,</L>
<L>he them from &s;traits did &s;ave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> He out of darkne&s;&s;e did them bring,</L>
<L>and from deaths &s;hade them take,</L>
<L>The&s;e bands wherewith they had b&eacute;en bound</L>
<L>a&s;under quite he brake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="94"> O that men to the Lord would give</L>
<L>prai&s;e, for his goodne&s;&s;e then,</L>
<L>And for his works of wonder done</L>
<L>unto the &s;ons of men,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e the mighty gates of bra&s;&s;e</L>
<L>in pieces he did tear,</L>
<L>By him in &s;under al&s;o cut</L>
<L>the bars of iron were.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Fools for their &s;in, and their offence</L>
<L>do &s;ore affliction bear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> All kind of meat their &s;oul abhores,</L>
<L>they to deaths gates draw near.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> In grief they cry to God, he &s;aves</L>
<L>them from their mi&s;eries:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> He &s;ends his word, them heals, and the<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>from their de&s;truction fr&eacute;es.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> O that men to the Lord would give</L>
<L>prai&s;e, for his goodne&s;&s;e then,</L>
<L>And for his works of wonder done</L>
<L>unto the &s;ons of men.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> And let them &s;acrifice to him</L>
<L>offrings of thankfulne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>And let them &s;hew abroad his works</L>
<L>in &s;ongs of joyfulne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Who go to &s;ea in &s;hips, and in</L>
<L>great waters trading be,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> Within the deep the&s;e men Gods works</L>
<L>and his great wonders fee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> For he commands, and forth in ha&s;te</L>
<L>the &s;tormy tempe&s;t flies.</L>
<L>Which makes the &s;ea with rouling waves</L>
<L>aloft to &s;well and ri&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> They mount to heav'n, then to the depths</L>
<L>they do go down again,</L>
<L>Their &s;oul doth faint, and melt away</L>
<L>with trouble and with pain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="94"> They reel and &s;tagger like one drunk,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> their wits end they be:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> Then they to God in trouble cry,</L>
<L>to them from &s;traits doth free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> The &s;torm is chang'd into a calm.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">his command and will,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat the waves which rag'd before,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o quiet are and &s;till.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> Then are they glad, becau&s;e at re&s;t.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d quiet now they be,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o the haven he them brings</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ch they de&s;ire to &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> that men to the Lord would give</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">lle, for his goodne&s;&s;e then,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> for his works of wonder done</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">to the &s;ons of men.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="32" UNIT="verse"> Among the people gathered,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t them exal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Name:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ong a&s;&s;embled Elders &s;pread</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s mo&s;t renowned fame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="33" UNIT="verse"> He to dry land turns water-&s;prings,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd floods to wilderne&s;&s;e:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="34" UNIT="verse"> For &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s of tho&s;e that dwell therein,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t land to barrenne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="35" UNIT="verse"> The burnt and parched wilderne&s;&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> water-pools he brings;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> ground that was dry'd up before,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">eturns to water-&s;prings.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="36" UNIT="verse"> And there for dwelling he a place</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">th to the hungry give,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t they a city may prepare</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">mmodiou&s;ly to live.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="37" UNIT="verse"> There &s;ow they fields, &amp; vineyards plant,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> yeeld fruits of increa&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="38" UNIT="verse"> His ble&s;&s;ing makes them multiply,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s not their bea&s;ts decrea&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="39" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="95"> Again they are dimini&s;hed,</L>
<L>and very low brought down,</L>
<L>Through &s;orrow and affliction,</L>
<L>and great appre&s;&s;ion.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="40" UNIT="verse"> He upon Princes pours contempt,</L>
<L>and cau&s;eth them to &s;tray</L>
<L>And wander in a wilderne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>wherein there is no way.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="41" UNIT="verse"> Yet &s;etteth he the poor on high</L>
<L>from all his mi&s;eries;</L>
<L>And he much like unto a flock,</L>
<L>doth make him families.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="42" UNIT="verse"> They that are righteous &s;hall rejoyc<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>when they the &s;ame &s;hall &s;ee;</L>
<L>And as a&s;hamed, &s;top her m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uth</L>
<L>&s;hall all iniquity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="43" UNIT="verse"> Who &s;o in wi&s;e, and will the&s;e things</L>
<L>ob&s;erv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and them record,</L>
<L>Ev'n the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;hal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> under&s;tand the love</L>
<L>and kindne&s;&s;e of the Lord.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="108" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PALM CVIII.</HEAD>
<L>MY heart is fixt, Lord, I will &s;ing,</L>
<L>and with my glory prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Awake up P&s;altery and Harp,</L>
<L>my &s;elf Ile early rai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Ile prai&s;e th&eacute;e 'mong&s;t the people, Lor<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>'mong nations &s;ing will I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For above heav'n thy mercy's great</L>
<L>thy truth doth reach the sky.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Be thou above the heavens, Lord,</L>
<L>exalted gloriou&s;ly:</L>
<L>Thy glory all the earth above</L>
<L>be lifted upon hie,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> That tho&s;e who thy beloved are,</L>
<L>delivered may be;</L>
<L>O do thou &s;ave with thy right hand,</L>
<L>and an&s;wer give to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="95"> God in his holine&s;&s;e hath &s;aid,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">irein I will take plea&s;ure:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">chem I will divide&punc; and forth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ill Succ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ths valley mea&s;ure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Gilead I claim as mine by right,</L>
<L>Mana&s;&s;eh mine &s;hall be,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hraim is of my head the &s;trength:</L>
<L>Iudah gives laws for me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Moab's my wa&s;hing-pot, my &s;hoe</L>
<L>Ile over Edom throw,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">der the land of Pala&s;tine</L>
<L>I will in triumph go.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> O who is he will bring me to</L>
<L>the city fortifi'd!</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> who is he that to the land</L>
<L>of Edom will me guide!</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> O God, thou who had&s;t ca&s;t us off,</L>
<L>this thing wilt thou not do?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ad wilt not thou, ev'n thou, O God,</L>
<L>forth with our armies go?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Do thou from trouble give us help&punc;</L>
<L>for helple&s;&s;e is mans aid.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Through God we &s;hall do valiantly,</L>
<L>our foes he &s;hall down tread.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="109" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CIX.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> Thou the God of all my prai&s;e,</L>
<L>do thou not hold thy peace:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> For mouths of wicked men, to &s;peak</L>
<L>again&s;t me do not cea&s;e.</L>
<L>The mouths of vile deceitful men</L>
<L>again&s;t me opened be:</L>
<L>And with a fal&s;e and lying tongue</L>
<L>they have accu&s;ed me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> They did be&s;et me round about</L>
<L>with words of hatefull &s;pight:</L>
<L>And though to them no cau&s;e I gave</L>
<L>again&s;t me they did fight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="96"> They for my love became my foes,</L>
<L>but I me &s;et to pray.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Evil for good, hatred for love</L>
<L>to me they did repay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Set thou the wicked over him,</L>
<L>and upon his right hand</L>
<L>Give thou his greate&s;t enemy:</L>
<L>ev'n Satan leave to &s;tand,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> And when by thee he &s;hall be judg'd,</L>
<L>let him condemned be:</L>
<L>And let his pray'r be turn'd to &s;in,</L>
<L>when he &s;hall call on th&eacute;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Few be his dayes, and in his room</L>
<L>his charge another take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> His children let be fatherle&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>his wife a widow make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> His children let be vagabonds,</L>
<L>and beg continually;</L>
<L>And from their places de&s;olate</L>
<L>&s;eek bread for their &s;upply.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Let covetous extortioners</L>
<L>catch all he hath away:</L>
<L>Of all for which he labour'd hath</L>
<L>let &s;trangers make a prey.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Let there be none to pity him,</L>
<L>let there be none at all.</L>
<L>That on his children fatherle&s;&s;e</L>
<L>will let his mercy fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Let his po&s;terity from earth</L>
<L>en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> off for ever be:</L>
<L>And in the following age, their name</L>
<L>be blo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ted out by thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Let God his fathers wickedne&s;s</L>
<L>&s;till to remembrane call:</L>
<L>And never let his mothers &s;in</L>
<L>he blotted out at all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="96"> But let them all before the Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">pear continually,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">t he may wholy from the earth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> off their memory.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e he mercy minded not,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t per&s;ecuted &s;till</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> poor and needy, that he might</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he broken-hearted kill.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> As he in cur&s;ing plea&s;ure took,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> let it to him fall;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e delighted not to ble&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le&s;&s;e him not at all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> As cur&s;ing he like clothes put on,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">to his bowels &s;o</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> water, and into his bones</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e oyl down let it go.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> like to that garment let it be</L>
<L>which doth him&s;elf aray,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> for a girdle wherewith he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s girt about alway.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> From God let this be their reward,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat enemies are to me.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d their reward, that &s;peak again&s;t</L>
<L>my &s;oul maliciou&s;ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> But do thou for thine own names &s;ake,</L>
<L>O God, the Lord, for me:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">th good and &s;weet thy mercy is,</L>
<L>from trouble &s;et me free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> For I am poor and indigent,</L>
<L>afflicted &s;ore am I;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y heart within me al&s;o is</L>
<L>wounded exceedingly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> I pa&s;&s;e like a declining &s;hade,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> am like the locu&s;t lo&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> My knees through fa&s;ting weakned are,</L>
<L>my fle&s;h hath fatne&s;&s;e lo&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="97"> I al&s;o am a vile reproach</L>
<L>unto them made to be:</L>
<L>And they that did upon me look,</L>
<L>did &s;hake their heads at me,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> O do thou help and &s;uccour me,</L>
<L>who art my God and Lord:</L>
<L>And for thy tender mercies &s;ake,</L>
<L>&s;afety to me afford.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> That thereby they may know, that th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>is thy Almighty hand,</L>
<L>And that thou, Lord, ha&s;t done the &s;ame</L>
<L>they may well under&s;tand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> Although they cur&s;e with &s;pite, yet Lor<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>ble&s;&s;e thou with loving voice:</L>
<L>Let them a&s;ham'd be, when they ri&s;e:</L>
<L>thy &s;ervant let rejoyce.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> Let thou mine adver&s;aries all</L>
<L>with &s;hame be clothed over.</L>
<L>And let their own confu&s;ion</L>
<L>them as a mantle cover.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> But as for me, I with my mouth</L>
<L>will greatly prai&s;e the Lord;</L>
<L>And I among the multitude</L>
<L>his prai&s;es will record.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> For he &s;hall &s;tand at his right hand</L>
<L>who is in poverty,</L>
<L>To &s;ave him from all tho&s;e that would</L>
<L>condemn his &s;oul to die.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="110" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CX.</HEAD>
<L>THe Lord did &s;ay unto my Lord,</L>
<L>Sit thou at my right hand,</L>
<L>Vntill I make thy foes a &s;tool</L>
<L>whereon thy feet may &s;tand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> The Lord &s;hall out of Zion &s;end</L>
<L>the r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d of thy great pow'r:</L>
<L>In mid&s;t of all thine enemies</L>
<L>be thou the Governour.</L>
<PB REF="97">
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> A willing people, in the day</L>
<L>of pow'r &s;hall come to thee.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> holy beauties from morns womb:</L>
<L>thy youth like dew &s;hall be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The Lord him&s;elf hath made an oath.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd will repent him never,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> th'order of Melchi&s;edeck</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hou art a Prie&s;t for ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> The glorious and mighty Lord,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s at thy right hand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">all in his day of wrath, &s;trike through</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ngs that do him with&s;tand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e &s;hall among the heathen judge,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;hall with bodies dead</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e places fill, o're many lands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e wound &s;hall every head.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> The brook that runneth in the way</L>
<L>with drink &s;hall him &s;upplie:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d for this cau&s;e, in triumph he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hall lift his head on hie</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="111" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXI.</HEAD>
<L>Rai&s;e ye the Lord: with my whole heart</L>
<L>I will Gods prai&s;e declare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">here the a&s;&s;emblies of the ju&s;t</L>
<L>and congregations are,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> The whole works of the Lord our God</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">re great above all mea&s;ure,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ught out they are of every one</L>
<L>that do therein take p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ea&s;ure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> His work mo&s;t honourable is,</L>
<L>mo&s;t glorious and pure,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d his untainted righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">or ever doth endure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> His works mo&s;t wonderfull he hath</L>
<L>made to be thought upon;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e Lord is graci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us and he is</L>
<PB REF="98">
<L>full of compa&s;&s;ion.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> He giveth meat unto all tho&s;e</L>
<L>that truly do him fear;</L>
<L>And evermore his Covenant,</L>
<L>he in his mind will bear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> He did the power of his works,</L>
<L>unto his people &s;how,</L>
<L>When he the heathens heritage</L>
<L>upon them did be&s;tow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> His handy-works are truth and right,</L>
<L>all his commands are &s;ure;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> And done in truth and uprightne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>they evermore endure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> He &s;ent redemption to his folk</L>
<L>his Covenant for ay</L>
<L>He did command; holy his Name</L>
<L>and reverend is alway.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Wi&s;doms beginning is Gods fear:</L>
<L>good under&s;tanding they</L>
<L>Have all, that his commands fulfill:</L>
<L>his prai&s;e endures for ay.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="112" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CXII.</HEAD>
<L>PRai&s;e ye the Lord, the man is ble&s;t</L>
<L>that fears the Lord aright,</L>
<L>He who in his commandements</L>
<L>doth greatly take delight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> His &s;&eacute;ed and off-&s;pring powerfull</L>
<L>&s;hall be the earth upon:</L>
<L>Of upright men ble&s;&s;ed &s;hall be</L>
<L>the generation.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Riches and wealth &s;hall ever be</L>
<L>within his hou&s;e in &s;tore:</L>
<L>And his un&s;potted righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>endures for evermore.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Vnto the upright light doth ri&s;e,</L>
<L>though they in darkne&s;&s;e be:</L>
<PB REF="98">
<L>Compa&s;&s;ionate and merciful.</L>
<L>and righteous is he.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> A good man doth his favour &s;hew,</L>
<L>and doth to others lend.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e with di&s;cretion his affairs</L>
<L>will guide unto the end.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Surely there is not any thing</L>
<L>that e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er &s;hall him mode:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e righteous mans memorial</L>
<L>&s;hall everla&s;ting prove.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> When he &s;hall evil tidings hear,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;hall not be afraid;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> heart is fixt, his confidence</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pon the Lord is &s;taid.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> His heart is firmly &s;tabli&s;hed,</L>
<L>afraid he &s;hall not be,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ill upon his enemies</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e his de&s;ire &s;hall &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> He hath di&s;per&s;'d, giv'n to the poor,</L>
<L>his righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;hall be</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> ages all: with honour &s;hall</L>
<L>his horn be rai&s;ed high.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> The wicked &s;hall it &s;&eacute;e and fret,</L>
<L>his teeth gna&s;h, melt away:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat wicked men do mo&s;t de&s;ire,</L>
<L>&s;hall utterly decay.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="113" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXIII.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">Rai&s;e God: ye &s;ervants of the Lord,</L>
<L>O prai&s;e, the Lords Name prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Yea, ble&s;&s;ed be the Name of God,</L>
<L>from this time forth alwayes;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> From ri&s;ing Sun to where it &s;ets,</L>
<L>Gods Name is to be prai&s;'d.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Above all nations God is high,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">bove heav'n his glory rai&s;'d,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Vnto the Lord our God that dwels</L>
<PB REF="99">
<L>on high, who can compare?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Him&s;elf that humbleth things to &s;ee</L>
<L>in heav'n and earth that are</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> He from the du&s;t doth rai&s;e the poor,</L>
<L>that very low did ly,</L>
<L>And from the dunghill lifts the man</L>
<L>oppre&s;t with poverty.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> That he may highly him advance,</L>
<L>and with the Princes &s;et,</L>
<L>With tho&s;e that of his people are</L>
<L>the chief, ev'n Princes great:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> The barren woman hou&s;e to keep</L>
<L>he maketh; and to be</L>
<L>Of &s;ons a mother full of joy:</L>
<L>Prai&s;e to the Lord give ye.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="114" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CXIV.</HEAD>
<L>WHen I&s;rael out of Egypt went,</L>
<L>and did his dwelling change:</L>
<L>When Iacobs hou&s;e went out from tho&s;e</L>
<L>that were of language &s;trange:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> He Iudah did his Sanctuary,</L>
<L>his kingdome I&s;rael make:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> The &s;ea it &s;aw, and quickly fled,</L>
<L>Iordan was driven back.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Like rams the mountains, and like lambs</L>
<L>the hills skipt to and fro:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> O &s;ea why fled&s;t thou? Iordan back</L>
<L>why wa&s;t thou driven &s;o?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Ye mountains great, wherefore was it</L>
<L>that ye did skip like rams?</L>
<L>And wherefore was it little hills</L>
<L>that ye did leap like lambs?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> O at the pre&s;ence of the Lord</L>
<L>earth tremble thou for fear,</L>
<L>Whileas the pre&s;ence of the God</L>
<L>of Iacob doth appear.</L>
<PB REF="99">
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Who from the hard and &s;tony rock</L>
<L>did &s;tanding water bring,</L>
<L>And by his power did turn the flint</L>
<L>into a water &s;pring.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="115" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXV.</HEAD>
<L>NOt unto us, Lord, not to us</L>
<L>but do thou glory take</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nto thy Name, ev'n for thy truth,</L>
<L>and for thy mercies &s;ake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> O wherefore &s;hould the heathen &s;ay,</L>
<L>Where is their God now gone?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> But our God in the heavens is,</L>
<L>what plea&s;'d him he hath done</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Their idols &s;ilver are and gold</L>
<L>works of mens hands they be:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Mouths have they, but they do not &s;peak;</L>
<L>and eyes but do not &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Ears have they, but they do not hear;</L>
<L>no&s;es, but favour not:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Hands, feet, but handle not, nor walk,</L>
<L>nor &s;peak they through their throat.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Like them their makers are, and all</L>
<L>on them their tru&s;t that build.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> O I&s;ra'l tru&s;t thou in the Lord,</L>
<L>he is their help and &s;hield.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> O Aarons hou&s;e tru&s;t in the Lord,</L>
<L>their help and &s;hield is be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Ye that fear God tru&s;t in the Lord:</L>
<L>their help and &s;hield he'l be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> The Lord of us hath mindfull been,</L>
<L>and he will ble&s;&s;e us &s;till;</L>
<L>He will the hou&s;e of I&s;rael ble&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>ble&s;&s;e Aarons hou&s;e he will,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Both &s;mall and great that fear the Lord,</L>
<L>he will them &s;urly ble&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> The Lord will you, you and your &s;eed</L>
<PB REF="100">
<L>ay more and more increa&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> O ble&s;&s;ed are ye of the Lord:</L>
<L>who made the earth and heaven.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> The heav'n, ev'n heav'ns are Gods, bu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>earth to mens &s;ons hath given.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> The dead, nor who to &s;ilence go,</L>
<L>Gods prai&s;e do not record.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> But henceforth we for ever will</L>
<L>ble&s;&s;e God. Prai&s;e ye the Lord.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="116" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXVI.</HEAD>
<L><HI>I</HI> Love the Lord becau&s;e my voice</L>
<L>and prayers he did hear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> I while I live will call on him,</L>
<L>who bow'd to me his ear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Of death the cords and &s;orrows did</L>
<L>about me compa&s;&s;e round,</L>
<L>The pains of hell took hold on me,</L>
<L>I grief and trouble found.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Vpon the Name of God, the Lord,</L>
<L>then did I call and &s;ay,</L>
<L>Deliver thou my &s;oul, O Lord,</L>
<L>I do thee humbly pray.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> God merciful and righteous is;</L>
<L>yea, gracious is our Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> God &s;aves the meek: I was brought low</L>
<L>he did <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e help afford.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> O thou my &s;oul, do thou return</L>
<L>unto thy quiet re&s;t;</L>
<L>For largely, &s;o the Lord to th&eacute;e</L>
<L>his bounty hath expre&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> For my di&s;tre&s;&s;ed &s;oul from death</L>
<L>delivered was by thee,</L>
<L>Thou did&s;t my mourning eyes from tear,</L>
<L>my feet from falling free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> I in the land of tho&s;e that live</L>
<L>will walk the Lord before,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="100"> I did believe, therefore, I &s;pake:</L>
<L>I was affl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cted &s;ore.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> I &s;aid when I was in my ha&s;te,</L>
<L>that all men liars be:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> What &s;hall I render to the Lord,</L>
<L>for all his gifts to me?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Ile of &s;alvation take the cup,</L>
<L>on Gods Name will I call.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Ile pay my vows now to the Lord,</L>
<L>before his people all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Dear in Gods &s;ight is his &s;aints death:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Thy &s;ervant, Lord, am I,</L>
<L>Thy &s;ervant &s;ure, thine hand-maids &s;on,</L>
<L>My hands thou did&s;t unty.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Thank-offerings I to thee will give,</L>
<L>and on Gods Name will call.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Ile pay my vows unto the Lord,</L>
<L>before his people all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Within the courts of Gods own hou&s;e,</L>
<L>within the mid&s;t of thee.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> city of Ieru&s;alem,</L>
<L>Prai&s;e to the Lord give ye.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="117" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PALM CXVII.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> Give ye prai&s;e unto the Lord,</L>
<L>all nations that be:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ikewi&s;e ye people all accord</L>
<L>his Name to magnifie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> For great to us-ward ever are</L>
<L>his loving kindne&s;&s;es:</L>
<L>His truth endures for evermore,</L>
<L>the Lord, O do ye ble&s;&s;e.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="118" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXVIII&punc;</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> Prai&s;e the Lord, for he is good:</L>
<L>his mercy la&s;teth ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Let tho&s;e of I&s;rael now &s;ay,</L>
<L>his mercy faileth never,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="101"> Now let the hou&s;e of Aaron &s;ay,</L>
<L>his mercy la&s;teth ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Let tho&s;e that fear the Lord, now &s;ay,</L>
<L>his mercy faileth never,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> I in de&s;tre&s;&s;e call'd on the Lord,</L>
<L>the Lord did an&s;wer me;</L>
<L>He in a large place did me &s;et,</L>
<L>from trouble made me free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> The mighty Lord is on my &s;ide,</L>
<L>I will not be afraid</L>
<L>For any thing that man can do</L>
<L>I &s;hall not be dismaid.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> The Lord doth take my part with them</L>
<L>that help to &s;uccour me:</L>
<L>Therefore on tho&s;e that do me hate</L>
<L>I my de&s;ire &s;hall &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Better it is to tru&s;t in God</L>
<L>then tru&s;t in mans defence.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Better to tru&s;t in God, than make</L>
<L>Princes our confidence</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> The nations joyning all in one</L>
<L>did compa&s;&s;e me about:</L>
<L>But in the Lords mo&s;t holy Name</L>
<L>I &s;hall them all root out.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> They compa&s;&s;e me about, I &s;ay</L>
<L>they compa&s;&s;e me about:</L>
<L>But in the Lords mo&s;t holy Name</L>
<L>I &s;hall them all root out.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Like bees they compa&s;&s;e me about:</L>
<L>like unto thornes that flame</L>
<L>They quenched are, for them &s;hall I</L>
<L>de&s;troy in Gods own name.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Thou &s;ore ha&s;t thru&s;t, that I might fall&punc;</L>
<L>but my Lord helped me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> God my &s;alvation is become,</L>
<L>my &s;trength and &s;ong is he.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="101"> In dwellings of the righteous</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> heard the melody</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> joy and health: the Lords right hand</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">oth ever valiantly</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> The right hand of the mighty Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">xalted is on hie:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he right hand of the mighty Lord</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">oth ever valiantly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> I &s;hall not die, but live, and &s;hall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he works of God di&s;cover.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> The Lord hath me cha&s;ti&s;ed &s;ore,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t not to death given over.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> &s;et ye open unto me</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e gates of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">en will I enter into them,</L>
<L>and I the Lord will ble&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> This is the gate of God, by it</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he ju&s;t &s;hall enter in,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Thee wil&punc; I prai&s;e, for thou me hard&s;t</L>
<L>and ha&s;t my &s;afety bin.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> That &s;tone is made head-corner &s;tone,</L>
<L>which builders did de&s;pi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> This is the doing of the Lord,</L>
<L>and wondrous in our eyes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> This is the day God made, in it</L>
<L>w&eacute;e'l joy triumphantly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> Save now, I pray th&eacute;e, Lord, I pray</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">end now pro&s;perity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> Ble&s;&s;ed is he in Gods great Name</L>
<L>that cometh us to &s;ave.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e from the hou&s;e, which to the Lord</L>
<L>pertains, you ble&s;&s;ed have.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> God is the Lord, who unto us</L>
<L>hath made light to ari&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">inde ye unto the alters horns,</L>
<L>with cords the &s;acrifice.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="102"> Thou art my God, Ile the exalt:</L>
<L>my God, I will thee prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> Give thanks to God, for he is good,</L>
<L>his mercy la&s;ts alwayes.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="119" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM CXIX.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="&alef; (1)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>ALEPH. The fir&s;t par<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HEAD>
<L>BLe&s;&s;ed are they that undefil'd,</L>
<L>and &s;traight are in the way:</L>
<L>Who in the Lords mo&s;t holy Law</L>
<L>do walk, and do not &s;tray.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Ble&s;&s;ed are they, who to ob&s;erve</L>
<L>his &s;tatutes are inclin'd;</L>
<L>And who do &s;&eacute;ek the living God</L>
<L>with their whole heart and mind.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Such in his wayes do walk, and</L>
<L>do no iniquity:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Thou ha&s;t commanded us to keep</L>
<L>thy precepts carefully.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> O that thy &s;tatutes to ob&s;erve</L>
<L>thou would'&s;t my wayes direct:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Then &s;hall I not be &s;ham'd, when I</L>
<L>thy precepts all re&s;pect.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Then with integrity of heart</L>
<L>thee will I prai&s;e and ble&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>When I the judgements all have learn'd</L>
<L>of thy pure righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> That I will keep thy &s;tatutes all</L>
<L>&s;te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ly r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">v'd have I:</L>
<L>O do not then mo&s;t gracious God,</L>
<L>for&s;ake me utterly.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&bet; (2)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>BETH. The 2. part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> By what means &s;hall a young man learn<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>his way to purifie?</L>
<L>If he according to thy word</L>
<L>thereto attentive be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Vnfainedly thee have I &s;ought</L>
<PB REF="102">
<L>with all my &s;oul and heart:</L>
<L>O let me not from the right path</L>
<L>of thy commands depart.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Thy word I in my heart have hid,</L>
<L>that I offend not thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, thou ever ble&s;&s;ed art,</L>
<L>thy &s;tatutes teach thou me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> The judgements of thy mouth each one</L>
<L>my lips declared have:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> More joy thy te&s;timonies way</L>
<L>then riches all me gave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> I will thy holy precepts make</L>
<L>my meditation:</L>
<L>And carefully Ile have re&s;pect</L>
<L>unto thy wayes each one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Vpon thy &s;tatutes my delight</L>
<L>&s;hall con&s;tantly be &s;et:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd by thy grace I never will</L>
<L>thy holy word forget.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&gimel; (3)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>GIMEL. The 3. part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> With me thy &s;ervant, in thy grace,</L>
<L>deal bountifully, Lord;</L>
<L>That by thy favour I may live,</L>
<L>and duely k&eacute;ep thy word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Open mine eyes, that of thy law</L>
<L>the wonders I may &s;ee,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> I am a &s;tranger on this earth,</L>
<L>hide not thy laws from me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul within me breaks, and doth</L>
<L>much fainting &s;till endure,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hrough longing that it hath all times</L>
<L>unto thy judgements pure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Thou ha&s;t rebuk'd the cur&s;ed proud,</L>
<L>who from thy p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ecepts &s;werve.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> Reproach and &s;hame remove from me,</L>
<L>for I thy laws ob&s;erve.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="103"> Again&s;t me Princes &s;peak with &s;pite,</L>
<L>while they in coun&s;el &s;at</L>
<L>But I thy &s;ervant, did upon</L>
<L>thy &s;tatutes meditate.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> My comfort, and my hearts delight</L>
<L>thy te&s;timonies be,</L>
<L>And they in all my doubts and fears</L>
<L>are coun&s;ellers to me.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&dalet; (4)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>DALETH. The 4. part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul to du&s;t cleaves: quicken me</L>
<L>according to thy word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> My wayes I &s;hew'd, and me thou heard&s;t</L>
<L>teach me thy &s;tatutes, Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="27" UNIT="verse"> The way of thy commandements</L>
<L>make me a right to know:</L>
<L>So all thy works that wondrous are,</L>
<L>I &s;hall to others &s;how.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="28" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul doth melt and drop away,</L>
<L>with heavine&s;&s;e and grief:</L>
<L>To me according to thy word</L>
<L>give &s;trength and &s;end relief.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="29" UNIT="verse"> From me the wicked way of lies</L>
<L>let far removed be</L>
<L>And gaciou&s;ly thy holy law</L>
<L>do thou grant unto me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="30" UNIT="verse"> I cho&s;en have the perfect way</L>
<L>of truth and verrity:</L>
<L>Thy judgements that mo&s;t righteous are</L>
<L>before me laid, have I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="31" UNIT="verse"> I to the te&s;timonies cleave:</L>
<L>&s;hame do not on me ca&s;t,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="32" UNIT="verse"> Ile run thy precepts way when thou</L>
<L>my heart enlarged ha&s;t.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&he; (5)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>HE. The 5. part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="33" UNIT="verse"> Teach me, O Lord, the perfect way</L>
<L>of thy precepts divine:</L>
<PB REF="103">
<L>And to ob&s;erve it to the end</L>
<L>I &s;hall my heart incline.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="34" UNIT="verse"> Give under&s;tanding unto me,</L>
<L>&s;o keep thy law &s;hall I;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">, ev'n with my whole heart I &s;hall</L>
<L>ob&s;erve it carefullie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="35" UNIT="verse"> In thy laws path make me to go,</L>
<L>for I delight therein.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="36" UNIT="verse"> My heart unto thy te&s;timonies,</L>
<L>and not to greed incline</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="37" UNIT="verse"> Turn thou away my &s;ight and eyes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om viewing vanitie,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o in thy good and holy way</L>
<L>be plea&s;'d to quicken me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="38" UNIT="verse"> Confirm to me thy gracious word</L>
<L>which I did gladly bear,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d, n to thy &s;ervant, Lord, who is</L>
<L>devoted to thy fear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="39" UNIT="verse"> Turn thou away my fear'd reproach;</L>
<L>for good thy judgments be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="40" UNIT="verse"> Lo for thy precepts, I have long'd:</L>
<L>in thy truth quicken me.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&vav; (6)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>VAU. The 6. part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="41" UNIT="verse"> Let thy &s;weet mercies al&s;o come</L>
<L>and vi&s;it me: O Lord,</L>
<L>Ev'n thy benign &s;alvation,</L>
<L>according to thy word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="42" UNIT="verse"> So &s;hall I have wherewith I may</L>
<L>give him an an&s;wer ju&s;t,</L>
<L>Who &s;pitefully reproacheth me:</L>
<L>for in thy word I tru&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="43" UNIT="verse"> The word of truth out of my mouth</L>
<L>take thou not utterly:</L>
<L>For on thy judgments righteous</L>
<L>my hope doth &s;till rely.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="44" UNIT="verse"> So &s;hall I keep for evermore</L>
<PB REF="104">
<L>thy law continually:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="45" UNIT="verse"> And &s;ith that I thy precepts &s;eek,</L>
<L>Ile walk at liberty.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="46" UNIT="verse"> Ile &s;peak thy word to Kings, and I</L>
<L>with &s;hame &s;hall not be mov'd:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="47" UNIT="verse"> And will delight my &s;elf alwayes</L>
<L>in thy laws, which I lov'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="48" UNIT="verse"> To thy commandments which I lov'd,</L>
<L>my hands lift up I will:</L>
<L>And I will al&s;o meditate</L>
<L>upon thy &s;tatutes &s;till.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&zayin; (7)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>ZAIN. The 7, part</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="49" UNIT="verse"> Remember, Lord, thy gracious word,</L>
<L>thou to my &s;ervant &s;pake,</L>
<L>Which for a ground of my &s;ure hope,</L>
<L>thou cau&s;ed&s;t me to take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="50" UNIT="verse"> This word of thine my comfort is,</L>
<L>in mine affliction:</L>
<L>For in my &s;traits, I am reviv'd</L>
<L>by this thy word alone.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="51" UNIT="verse"> The men who&s;e hearts with pride are &s;tuft,</L>
<L>did greatly me deride:</L>
<L>Yet from thy &s;traight commandements</L>
<L>I have not turn'd a&s;ide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="52" UNIT="verse"> Thy judgements righteous, O Lord,</L>
<L>which thou of old forth gave,</L>
<L>I did remember, and my &s;elf</L>
<L>by them comforted have.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="53" UNIT="verse"> Horrour took hold on me, becau&s;e</L>
<L>ill men thy Law for&s;ake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="54" UNIT="verse"> I in my hou&s;e of pilgrimage</L>
<L>th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Laws my &s;ongs do make.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="55" UNIT="verse"> Thy Name by night Lord, I did mind,</L>
<L>and I have kept thy Law.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="56" UNIT="verse"> And this I did, becau&s;e thy word</L>
<L>I kept, and &s;tood in aw.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&het; (8)" TYPE="section">
<PB REF="104">
<HEAD>CHETH. The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. part</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="57" UNIT="verse"> Thou my &s;ure portion art alone,</L>
<L>which I did choi&s;e, O Lord:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> have re&s;olv'd and &s;aid, that I</L>
<L>would keep thy holy Word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="58" UNIT="verse"> With my whole heart I did intreat</L>
<L>thy face. and favour free:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ccording to thy gracious word,</L>
<L>be mercifull to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="59" UNIT="verse"> I thought upon my former wayes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd did my life well try;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> to thy te&s;timonies pure</L>
<L>my feet then turned I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="60" UNIT="verse"> I did not &s;tay no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> linger long,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s tho&s;e that &s;lothful are</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ut ha&s;tily thy Laws to keep,</L>
<L>my &s;elf I did prepare.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="61" UNIT="verse"> Bands of ill men me rob'd; yet I</L>
<L>the precepts did not flight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="62" UNIT="verse"> I&punc;le ri&s;e at midnight thee to prai&s;e,</L>
<L>even for thy judgments right.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="63" UNIT="verse"> I am companion to all tho&s;e</L>
<L>who fear and thee obey.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="64" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, thy mercy fills the earth:</L>
<L>teach me thy laws I pray.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&tet; (9)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>TETH. The 9. part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="65" UNIT="verse"> Well ha&s;t thou with thy &s;ervant dealt,</L>
<L>as thou did'&s;t promi&s;e give.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="66" UNIT="verse"> Good judgment me and knowledge teach</L>
<L>for I thy word believe,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="67" UNIT="verse"> Ere I afflicted was I &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y'd,</L>
<L>but now I k&eacute;ep thy word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="68" UNIT="verse"> Both good thou art and good thou do&s;t:</L>
<L>teach me <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hy &s;tatutes, Lord,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="69" UNIT="verse"> The men that are puft up with pride.</L>
<L>again&s;t me forg'd a ly:</L>
<PB REF="105">
<L>Yet thy commandments to ob&s;erve</L>
<L>with my whole heart will I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="70" UNIT="verse"> Their hearts through worldly ea&s;e and weal&s;h</L>
<L>as fat as grea&s;e they be.</L>
<L>But in thy holy law take</L>
<L>delight continually.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="71" UNIT="verse"> It hath been very good for me,</L>
<L>that I afflicted was,</L>
<L>That I might well in&s;tructed be,</L>
<L>and learn thy holy laws</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="72" UNIT="verse"> The word that cometh from thy mouth</L>
<L>is better unto me.</L>
<L>Then many thou&s;ands, and great &s;ums</L>
<L>of gold and &s;ilver be.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="yod (10)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>JOD The 10. part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="73" UNIT="verse"> Thou mad'&s;t &amp; fa&s;hioned&s;t me; thy laws</L>
<L>to know give wi&s;dom, Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="74" UNIT="verse"> So who thee fear, &s;hall joy to &s;ee</L>
<L>me tru&s;ting in thy word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="75" UNIT="verse"> That very right thy judgements are</L>
<L>I know and do confe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And that thou ha&s;t aflicted me</L>
<L>in truth and faithfuln&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="76" UNIT="verse"> O let thy kindne&s;&s;e merciful,</L>
<L>I pray thee, comfort me,</L>
<L>As to thy &s;ervant faithfully</L>
<L>was promi&s;ed by thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="77" UNIT="verse"> And let thy tender mercies come</L>
<L>to me, that I may live;</L>
<L>Becau&s;e thy holy laws to me</L>
<L>&s;wee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> delectation give.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="78" UNIT="verse"> Lord, let the proud a&s;hamed be:</L>
<L>for they, without a cau&s;e.</L>
<L>With me perver&s;ly dealt; but I</L>
<L>will mu&s;e upon thy laws.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="79" UNIT="verse"> Let &s;uch as fear thee and have known</L>
<L>thy &s;tatutes, turn to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="80" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="105"> My heart let in thy laws be found,</L>
<L>that &s;ham'd I never be.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&kaf; (11)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>KOPH The 11. part:</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="81" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul for thy &s;alvation faints;</L>
<L>yet I thy word believe.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="82" UNIT="verse"> Mine eyes fail for thy word: I &s;ay,</L>
<L>When wilt thou comfort give;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="83" UNIT="verse"> For like a bottle I'm become.</L>
<L>that in the &s;moke is &s;et:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">m black and parcht with grief, yet I</L>
<L>thy &s;tatutes not forget.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="84" UNIT="verse"> How many are thy &s;ervants dayes;</L>
<L>when wilt thou execute</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;t judgement on the&s;e wicked men</L>
<L>that do me per&s;ecute?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="85" UNIT="verse"> Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> proud have digged pits for me,</L>
<L>which is again&s;t thy laws.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="86" UNIT="verse"> Thy words all faithful are: help me</L>
<L>pur&s;u'd without a cau&s;e</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="87" UNIT="verse"> They &s;o con&s;um'd me that on earth</L>
<L>my life they &s;carce did leave:</L>
<L>Thy precepts yet for&s;ook I not,</L>
<L>but clo&s;e to them I clave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="88" UNIT="verse"> After thy loving kindne&s;&s;e, Lord,</L>
<L>me quicken, and pre&s;erve:</L>
<L>The te&s;timony of thy mouth</L>
<L>&s;o &s;hall I &s;till ob&s;erve.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&lamed; (12)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>LAMED. The 12. part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="89" UNIT="verse"> Thy word for ever is, O Lord,</L>
<L>in heav'n &s;ettled fa&s;t</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="90" UNIT="verse"> Vnto all generations</L>
<L>thy faithfulne&s;&s;e doth la&s;t</L>
<L>The earth thou ha&s;t e&s;tabli&s;hed</L>
<L>and it abides by thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="91" UNIT="verse"> This day they &s;tand, as thou ordain'd:</L>
<L>for all thy &s;ervants be,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="92" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="106"> Vnle&s;&s;e in thy mo&s;t perfect law</L>
<L>my &s;oul delights had found,</L>
<L>I &s;hould have peri&s;hed when as</L>
<L>my troubles did abound.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="93" UNIT="verse"> Thy precepts I will nev'r forget:</L>
<L>they quickning to me brought.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="94" UNIT="verse"> Lord, I am thine: O &s;ave thou me:</L>
<L>thy precepts I have &s;ought.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="95" UNIT="verse"> For me the wicked have laid wait,</L>
<L>me &s;eeking to de&s;troy:</L>
<L>But I thy te&s;timonies true</L>
<L>con&s;ider will with joy.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="96" UNIT="verse"> An end of all perfection</L>
<L>here have I &s;een, O God:</L>
<L>But as for thy commandment</L>
<L>it is exceeding broad.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&mem; (13)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>MEM. The 13 pa<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="97" UNIT="verse"> O how love I thy law: it is</L>
<L>my &s;tudy all the day.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="98" UNIT="verse"> It makes me wi&s;er then my foes:</L>
<L>for it doth with me &s;tay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="99" UNIT="verse"> Then all my teachers now I have</L>
<L>more under&s;tanding far:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e my meditation</L>
<L>thy te&s;timonies are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="100" UNIT="verse"> In under&s;tanding I excell</L>
<L>tho&s;e that are ancients;</L>
<L>For I endeavoured to keep</L>
<L>all thy commandements,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="101" UNIT="verse"> My feet from each ill way I &s;taid,</L>
<L>that I may keep thy word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="102" UNIT="verse"> I from thy judgments have not &s;werv<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>for thou ha&s;t taught me, Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="103" UNIT="verse"> How &s;weet unto my ta&s;te, O Lord,</L>
<L>are all thy words of truth:</L>
<L>Yea, I do find them &s;weeter far,</L>
<L>than honey to my mouth.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="104" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="106"> I through thy precep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat are pure</L>
<L>do under&s;tanding get:</L>
<L>therefore every way that's fal&s;e</L>
<L>with all my heart do hate.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&nun; (14)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>NUN. The 14 part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="105" UNIT="verse"> Thy word is to my feet a lamp,</L>
<L>and to my path a light.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="106" UNIT="verse"> I &s;worn have, and I will perform</L>
<L>to keep thy judgements right.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="107" UNIT="verse"> I am with &s;ore affliction,</L>
<L>ev'n overwhelm'd: O Lord:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> merey rai&s;e and quicken me,</L>
<L>according to thy word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="108" UNIT="verse"> The free will-offrings of my mouth</L>
<L>accept, I thee be&s;eech:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd unto me thy &s;ervant, Lord.</L>
<L>thy judgements clearly teach:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="109" UNIT="verse"> Though &s;till my &s;oul be in my hand,</L>
<L>thy laws Ile not forget.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="110" UNIT="verse"> I err'd not from them, though for me</L>
<L>the wicked &s;nares did &s;et.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="111" UNIT="verse"> I of thy te&s;timonies hade</L>
<L>above all things made choifs,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o be my heritage for ay,</L>
<L>for they my heart rejoyce.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="112" UNIT="verse"> I carefully inclined have</L>
<L>my heart &s;till to attend,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat I thy &s;taintes may perform</L>
<L>alway unto the end.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&samekh; (15)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SAMECH. The 15. part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="113" UNIT="verse"> I hate the thoughts of vaulty,</L>
<L>but love thy law do I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="114" UNIT="verse"> My &s;hield and hiding place thou art,</L>
<L>I on thy word rely.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="115" UNIT="verse"> All ye that evil doers are,</L>
<L>from me depart away;</L>
<PB REF="107">
<L>For the commandements of my God</L>
<L>I purpo&s;e to obey.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="116" UNIT="verse"> According to thy faithful word</L>
<L>uphold and &s;tabl&s;h me.</L>
<L>That I may live, and of my hope</L>
<L>a&s;hamed never be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="117" UNIT="verse"> Hold thou me up, &s;o &s;hall I be</L>
<L>in peace and &s;afety &s;till,</L>
<L>And to thy &s;tatutes have re&s;pect</L>
<L>continually I will.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="118" UNIT="verse"> Thou tread&s;t down all that love to &s;tra<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>fal&s;e their deceit doth prove.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="119" UNIT="verse"> Lewd men like dro&s;&s;e, away thou put<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>therefore thy law I leave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="120" UNIT="verse"> For fear of thee my very fle&s;h</L>
<L>doth tremble all di&s;maid;</L>
<L>And of thy righteous judgements, Lord,</L>
<L>my &s;oul is much afraid.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&ayin; (16)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>AIN. The 16. par<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="121" UNIT="verse"> To all men I have judgement done,</L>
<L>performing ju&s;tice right:</L>
<L>Then let me not be left unto</L>
<L>my fierce oppre&s;&s;ours might.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="122" UNIT="verse"> For good unto thy &s;ervant, Lord,</L>
<L>thy &s;ervants &s;urety be:</L>
<L>From the oppre&s;&s;ion of the proud</L>
<L>do thou deliver me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="123" UNIT="verse"> Mine eyes do fail, with looking long</L>
<L>for thy &s;alvation,</L>
<L>The word of thy pure righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>while I do wait upon.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="124" UNIT="verse"> In mercy with thy &s;ervant deal,</L>
<L>thy laws me teach and &s;how:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="125" UNIT="verse"> I am thy &s;ervant, wi&s;dom give,</L>
<L>that I thy Laws may know</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="126" UNIT="verse"> It's time thou work; Lord for they had<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>made void thy law divine:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="127" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="107"> Therefore thy precepts more I love</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hen gold; yea gold mo&s;t fine.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="128" UNIT="verse"> Concerning all things, thy commands</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ll right I judge therefore:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> every fal&s;e and wicked way</L>
<L>I perfectly abhore.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&pe; (17)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>PE The 17. part</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="129" UNIT="verse"> Thy &s;tatutes, Lord, are wonderful;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y &s;oul them keeps with care.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="130" UNIT="verse"> The entrance of thy words gives light</L>
<L>makes wi&s;e who &s;imple are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="131" UNIT="verse"> My mouth I have wide opened,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d panted earn&s;tly,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">le after thy commandements</L>
<L>I long'd exceedingly</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="132" UNIT="verse"> Look on me, Lord, and merciful</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o thou unto me prove&punc;</L>
<L>thou art wont to do to tho&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hy name who truly love.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="133" UNIT="verse"> O let my foot&s;teps in thy word</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> right &s;till ordered be:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t no iniquity obtain</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ominion over me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="134" UNIT="verse"> From mans oppre&s;&s;ion &s;ave thou me</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> k&eacute;ep thy laws I will.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="135" UNIT="verse"> Thy face make on thy &s;evant &s;hine:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">each me thy &s;tatutes &s;till.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="136" UNIT="verse"> Rivers of waters from mine eyes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">id run down when I &s;aw</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">w wicked men run on in &s;in,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd do not keep thy law.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&tsadi; (18)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>TSADDI. The 18. part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="137" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, thou art mo&s;t righteous,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hy judgements are upright.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="138" UNIT="verse"> Thy te&s;timonies, thou command<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;t &s;aithful are and right.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="139" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="108"> My zeal hath ev'n con&s;umed me,</L>
<L>becau&s;e mine enemies</L>
<L>Thy holy words forgotten have,</L>
<L>and do thy laws de&s;pi&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="140" UNIT="verse"> Thy word's mo&s;t pure: therefore on<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>thy &s;ervants love is &s;et.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="141" UNIT="verse"> Small, and de&s;pi&s;'d I am, yet I</L>
<L>thy precepts not forget:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="142" UNIT="verse"> Thy righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, is righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>which ever doth endure.</L>
<L>Thy holy law, Lord, al&s;o is</L>
<L>the very truth mo&s;t pure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="143" UNIT="verse"> Trouble and angui&s;h have me found,</L>
<L>and taken hold on me:</L>
<L>Yet in my trouble my delight</L>
<L>thy ju&s;t commandments be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="144" UNIT="verse"> E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ernal righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e is in</L>
<L>thy te&s;timonies all:</L>
<L>Lord to me under&s;tanding give,</L>
<L>and ever live I &s;hall.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&qof; (19)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>KOPH. The 19 part</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="145" UNIT="verse"> With my whole heart, I cry'd, Lord, heare<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>I will thy word obey,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="146" UNIT="verse"> I cry'd to thee, &s;ave me, and I</L>
<L>will k&eacute;ep thy laws alway.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="147" UNIT="verse"> I of the morning did prevent</L>
<L>the dawning, and did cry:</L>
<L>For all my expectation</L>
<L>did on thy word rely.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="148" UNIT="verse"> Mine eyes did timou&s;ly prevent</L>
<L>the watches of the night,</L>
<L>That in thy word with carefull minde,</L>
<L>then meditate I might.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="149" UNIT="verse"> After thy loving kindne&s;&s;e hear</L>
<L>my voice, that calls on thee:</L>
<L>According to thy judgment, Lord,</L>
<L>revive and quicken me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="150" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="108"> Who follow mi&s;chief they draw nigh,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ey from thy &s;aw are far:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="151" UNIT="verse"> But thou art near, Lord, mo&s;t firm truth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ll thy commandments are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="152" UNIT="verse"> As for thy te&s;timonies all,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">old this have I try'd.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t thou ha&s;t &s;urely founded them,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> ever to abide.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&resh; (20)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>RESH. The 20. part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="153" UNIT="verse"> Con&s;ider mine affliction,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;afety do me &s;et:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ver me, O Le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d, for I</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;aw do not forget.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="154" UNIT="verse"> After thy word revive thou me;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">de me and plead my cau&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="155" UNIT="verse"> Salvation is from &s;inners far;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r they &s;eek not thy laws.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="156" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, both great and manifold,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y tender mercies be:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ording to thy judgments ju&s;t</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e and quicken me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="157" UNIT="verse"> My per&s;ecuters many are</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d foes which do combine:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> from thy te&s;timonies pure</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y heart doth not decline.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="158" UNIT="verse"> I &s;aw tran&s;gre&s;&s;ours and was griev'd:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> they kept not thy word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="159" UNIT="verse"> See how I love thy law! as thou</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> kind, me quicken Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="160" UNIT="verse"> From the beginning all thy word</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ath been mo&s;t true and &s;ure:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y righteous jugdments every one</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">or evermore endure.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&shin; (21)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SCHIN The 21. part.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="161" UNIT="verse"> Princes have per&s;ecuted me,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">though no cau&s;e they &s;aw:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ill of the mu&s;t holy word</L>
<PB REF="109">
<L>my heart doth &s;tand in aw.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="162" UNIT="verse"> I at thy word rejoyce as one</L>
<L>of &s;poil that finds great &s;tore.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="163" UNIT="verse"> Thy law I love, but lying all</L>
<L>I hate and do abhore,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="164" UNIT="verse"> Seven times a day it is my eare</L>
<L>to give due prai&s;e to thee:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e of all thy judgments, Lord,</L>
<L>which righteous ever be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="165" UNIT="verse"> Great peace have they who love thy la<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>offence they &s;hall have none.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="166" UNIT="verse"> I hop'd for thy &s;alvation, Lord,</L>
<L>and thy commands have done.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="167" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul thy te&s;timonies pure</L>
<L>ob&s;erved carefully:</L>
<L>On them my heart is &s;et, and them</L>
<L>I love exceedingly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="168" UNIT="verse"> Thy te&s;timonies and thy laws</L>
<L>I kept with &s;pecial care:</L>
<L>For all my works and wayes each one</L>
<L>before thee open are.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="&tav; (22)" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>TAU. The 22 par<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="169" UNIT="verse"> O let my earne&s;t pray'r and cry</L>
<L>come near before thee, Lord:</L>
<L>Give under&s;tanding unto me</L>
<L>according to thy word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="170" UNIT="verse"> Let my reque&s;t before thee come:</L>
<L>after thy word me free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="171" UNIT="verse"> My lipes &s;hall utter prai&s;e, when thou</L>
<L>ha&s;t taught thy laws to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="172" UNIT="verse"> My tongue of thy mo&s;t holy word</L>
<L>&s;hall &s;peak, and it confe&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e all thy commandements</L>
<L>are perfect righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="173" UNIT="verse"> Let thy &s;trong hand make help to me</L>
<L>thy precepts are my choi&s;e,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="174" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="109"> I long'd for thy &s;alvation, Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d,</L>
<L>and in thy law rejoyce.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="175" UNIT="verse"> O let my &s;oul live, and it &s;hall</L>
<L>give prai&s;es unto th&eacute;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> let thy judgements gracious</L>
<L>be helpfull unto me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="176" UNIT="verse"> I like a lo&s;t &s;heep went a&s;tray,</L>
<L>thy &s;ervant &s;eek, and finde:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r thy commands I &s;uffered not</L>
<L>to &s;lip out of my minde.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="120" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXX.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> my di&s;tre&s;&s;e to God I cry'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd he gave ear to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> from lying lips and guilefull tongue,</L>
<L>O Lord, my &s;oul &s;et free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> What &s;hall be given thee? or what &s;hall</L>
<L>be done to thee fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e tongue?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Ev'n burning coals of Iuniper,</L>
<L>&s;harp arrows of the &s;trong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o's me that I in Me&s;ech am</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;ojourner &s;o long;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">at I in tabernacles dwell</L>
<L>to Kedar that belong.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> My &s;oul with him that hateth peace</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ath long a dweller been.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> I am for peace: but when I &s;peak</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">or battel thy are keen.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="121" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CXXI.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> To the hills will lift mine eyes,</L>
<L>from whence doth come mine aid:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> My &s;afety cometh from the Lord,</L>
<L>who heav'n and earth hath made.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Thy foot h&eacute;e'l not let &s;lide, nor will</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e &s;lumber, that thee k&eacute;eps:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ehold he that k&eacute;eps I&s;rael</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;lumbers not, nor &s;l&eacute;eps.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="110"> The Lord th&eacute;e k&eacute;eps, the Lord thy &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>on thy right hand doth &s;tay:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> The Moon by night thee &s;hall not &s;mite,</L>
<L>nor yet the Sun by day.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> The Lord &s;hall keep thy &s;oul, he &s;hall</L>
<L>pre&s;erve thee from all ill:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Henceforth thy going out and in</L>
<L>God keep for ever will.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="122" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CXXII.</HEAD>
<L><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="verse"> Ioy'd when to the hou&s;e of God,</L>
<L>go up, they &s;aid to me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Ieru&s;alem, within thy gates</L>
<L>our feet &s;hall &s;tanding be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Ieru&s;alem as a city is,</L>
<L>compactly built together:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Vnto that place the tribes go up,</L>
<L>the tribes of God go thither,</L>
<L>To I&s;raels te&s;timony, there</L>
<L>to Gods Name thanks to pay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> For throns of judgement&punc; ev'n the thron<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>of Davids hou&s;e there &s;tay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Pray that Ieru&s;alem may have</L>
<L>peace and felicitie:</L>
<L>Let them that love thee and thy peace</L>
<L>have &s;till pro&s;peritie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Therefore I wi&s;h that peace may &s;till</L>
<L>within thy walls remain.</L>
<L>And ever may thy palaces</L>
<L>pro&s;perity re retain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Now for my friends and brethrens &s;ake</L>
<L>peace be in thee, I'le &s;ay:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> And for the hou&s;e of God our Lord,</L>
<L>Ile &s;eek thy good al way.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="123" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXXIII.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> Thou that dwelle&s;t in the heav'ns</L>
<L>I lift mine eyes to thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="110"> Behold, as &s;ervants eyes do look</L>
<L>their ma&s;ters hand to &s;ee.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s hand-maids eyes their mi&s;tre&s;&s;e hand,</L>
<L>&s;o do our eyes attend</L>
<L>Vpon the Lord our God, until</L>
<L>to us he mercy &s;end</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> O Lord, be gracious to us</L>
<L>unto us gracious be:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e repleni&s;ht with contempt</L>
<L>exceedingly are we.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Our &s;oul is fill'd with &s;corn of tho&s;e</L>
<L>that at their ea&s;e abide,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d with the in&s;olent contempt</L>
<L>of tho&s;e that &s;well in pride.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="124" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CXXIV.</HEAD>
<L>HAd not the Lord b&eacute;en on our &s;ide,</L>
<L>may I&s;rael now &s;ay:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Had not the Lord b&eacute;en on our &s;ide,</L>
<L>when men ro&s;e us to &s;tay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> They had us &s;wallowed quick, when as</L>
<L>their wrath 'gain&s;t us did flame:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Waters had covered us, our &s;oul</L>
<L>had &s;unk beneath the &s;tream.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Then had the waters, &s;welling high,</L>
<L>over our &s;oul made way.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Ble&s;t be the Lord, who to their t&eacute;eth</L>
<L>us gave not for a prey.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Our &s;oul's e&s;caped as a bird</L>
<L>out of the &s;owlers &s;nare:</L>
<L>The &s;nare a&s;under broken is</L>
<L>and we e&s;caped are,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Our &s;ure and all-&s;ufficient help</L>
<L>is in Iehovahs Name;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is Name who did the heav'n create,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd who the earth did frame,</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="124" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<PB REF="111">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame</HEAD>
<L>NOw I&s;rael</L>
<L>my &s;ay, and that truly,</L>
<L>If that the Lord</L>
<L>had not our cau&s;e maintain'd:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> If that the Lord</L>
<L>had not our right &s;u&s;tain'd</L>
<L>When cruel men</L>
<L>again&s;t us furiou&s;ly</L>
<L>Ro&s;e up in wrath</L>
<L>to make of us their prey.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Then certainly</L>
<L>they had devour'd us all</L>
<L>And &s;wallowed quick,</L>
<L>for ought that we could deem:</L>
<L>Such was their rage,</L>
<L>as we might well e&s;teem:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> And as fierce flouds,</L>
<L>before them all things drown.</L>
<L>So had they brought</L>
<L>our &s;oul to death quite down,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> The raging &s;treams,</L>
<L>with their proud &s;welling waves,</L>
<L>Had then our &s;oul,</L>
<L>ov'rwhelmed in the deep:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> But ble&s;t be God,</L>
<L>who doth us &s;afely keep</L>
<L>And hath not given</L>
<L>us for a living prey</L>
<L>Vnto their teeth</L>
<L>and bloody cruelty.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Even as a bird</L>
<L>out of the foulers &s;nare</L>
<L>E&s;capes away,</L>
<L>&s;o is our &s;oul &s;et free:</L>
<L>Broke are their nets,</L>
<L>and thus e&s;caped we:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="111"> Therefore our help</L>
<L>is in the Lords great Name,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ho heaven and earth</L>
<L>by his great power did frame.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="125" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXXV.</HEAD>
<L>THey, in the Lord that firmly tru&s;t</L>
<L>&s;hall be like Zion hill,</L>
<L>Which at no time can be remov'd</L>
<L>but &s;tandeth ever &s;till.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> As round about Ieru&s;alem</L>
<L>the mountains &s;tand alway:</L>
<L>the Lord his folk doth compa&s;&s;e &s;o</L>
<L>from henceforth and for ay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For ill mens rod upon the lot</L>
<L>of ju&s;t men &s;hall not ly:</L>
<L>Le&s;t righteous men &s;treach forth their hands</L>
<L>unto iniquity.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Do thou to all tho&s;e that be good</L>
<L>thy goodne&s;&s;e, Lord, impart;</L>
<L>And do thou good to tho&s;e that are</L>
<L>upright within their heart.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> But as for &s;uch as turn a&s;ide</L>
<L>after their crooked way:</L>
<L>God &s;hall lead forth with wicked men;</L>
<L>on I&s;rael peace &s;hall &s;tay,</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="126" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CXXVI.</HEAD>
<L>WHen Zions bondage God turn'd back,</L>
<L>as men that dream'd were we:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Then fill'd with laughter was our mouth</L>
<L>our tongue with melody:</L>
<L>They 'mong the heathen &s;aid, The Lord</L>
<L>great things for them hath wrought.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> The Lerd hath done great things for us,</L>
<L>whence joy to us is brought.</L>
<L>As &s;treams of water in the &s;outh,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ur bondage, Lord, recall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="112"> Who &s;ow in tears, a reaping time</L>
<L>of joy enioy they &s;hall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> That man, who hearing precious &s;eed,</L>
<L>in going forth doth mourn:</L>
<L>He doubtle&s;&s;e, bringing back his &s;heaves,</L>
<L>rejoycing &s;hall return.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="127" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXXVII.</HEAD>
<L>EXcept the Lord do build the hou&s;e,</L>
<L>the builders lo&s;e their pain:</L>
<L>Except the Lord the city keep,</L>
<L>the watchmen watch in vain:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> It's vain for you to ri&s;e betimes,</L>
<L>or late from re&s;t to keep,</L>
<L>To &s;eed on &s;orrows bread: &s;o gives</L>
<L>be his beloved &s;leep.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Lo, children are Gods heritage,</L>
<L>the wombs fruit his reward.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The &s;ons of youth as arrows are</L>
<L>for &s;trong mens hands prepar'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> O happy is the man that hath</L>
<L>his quiver <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">iil'd with tho&s;e,</L>
<L>They una&s;hamed in the gate</L>
<L>&s;hall &s;peak unto their foes.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="128" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXXVIII.</HEAD>
<L>BLe&s;t is each one that fears the Lord,</L>
<L>and walketh in his wayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> For of thy labour thou &s;halt eat,</L>
<L>and happy be alwayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Thy wife &s;hall as a fruitful vine,</L>
<L>by thy hou&s;e &s;ides be found:</L>
<L>Thy children like the olive plants</L>
<L>about thy table round.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Behold the man that fears the Lord,</L>
<L>thus ble&s;&s;ed &s;hall he be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> The Lord &s;hall out of Zion give</L>
<L>his ble&s;&s;ing unto th&eacute;e:</L>
<PB REF="112">
<L>Thou &s;halt Ieru&s;alems good behold,</L>
<L>whil&s;t thou on earth do dwell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Thou &s;halt thy childrens children &s;&eacute;e,</L>
<L>and peace on I&s;rael.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="129" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXXIX.</HEAD>
<L>OFt did they vex me from my youth,</L>
<L>may I&s;rael now declare:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Oft did they vex me from my youth,</L>
<L>yet not victorious were.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> The plowers plow'd upon my back,</L>
<L>they long their &s;urrows drew.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> The righteous Lord did cut the cords</L>
<L>of the ungodly crew.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Let Zions haters alll be turn'd</L>
<L>back with confu&s;ion,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> As gra&s;&s;e on hou&s;es topes be they,</L>
<L>which fades ere it be grown:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Whereof enough to fill his hand</L>
<L>the mower cannot find.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">or can the man his bo&s;ome &s;til</L>
<L>who&s;e work is &s;heaves to bind.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Neither &s;ay they who do go by</L>
<L>Gods ble&s;&s;ing on you re&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e in the Name of God the Lord:</L>
<L>do wi&s;h you to be ble&s;t.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="130" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CXXX.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">Ord, from the depths to thee I cry'd:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> My voice, Lord do thou hear:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nto my &s;upplications voice,</L>
<L>give an attentive ear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Lord, who &s;hall &s;tand, if thou, O Lord,</L>
<L>&s;hould&s;t mark iniquitie;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> But yet with thee forgivene&s;&s;e is,</L>
<L>that fear'd thou maye&s;t be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> I wait for God, my &s;oul doth wait,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y hope is in his word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="113"> More then they that for morning watch</L>
<L>my &s;oul waits for the Lord:</L>
<L>I &s;ay, more then they that do watch</L>
<L>the morning light to &s;ee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Let I&s;rael hope in the Lord</L>
<L>for with him mercies be,</L>
<L>And plenteous redemption</L>
<L>is ever &s;ound with him,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> And from all his iniquities</L>
<L>be I&s;rael &s;hall redeem.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="131" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM CXXXI.</HEAD>
<L>MY heart not haughty is, O Lord,</L>
<L>mine eyes not lofty be,</L>
<L>Not do I deal in matters great</L>
<L>or things for me too hie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> I &s;urely have my &s;elf behav'd</L>
<L>with quiet &s;p'rit and milde,</L>
<L>As child of mother wean'd: my &s;oul</L>
<L>is like a weaned childe.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Vpon the Lord let all the hope</L>
<L>of I&s;rael rely,</L>
<L>Ev'n from the time that pre&s;ent is</L>
<L>unto eternity</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="132" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CXXXII.</HEAD>
<L>DAvid and his afflictions all</L>
<L>Lord, do thou think upon:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> How unto God he &s;ware, and vow'd</L>
<L>to Iacobs mighty One.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> I will not come within my hou&s;e,</L>
<L>nor re&s;t in bed at all:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Nor &s;hall mine eyes take any &s;leep,</L>
<L>nor eyes-lids &s;lumber &s;hall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Till for the Lord a place I find,</L>
<L>where he may make abode:</L>
<L>A place of habitation</L>
<L>for Iacobs mighty God,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Lo, at the place of Ephratah</L>
<PB REF="113">
<L>of it we under&s;tood:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd we did finde it in the fields</L>
<L>and city of the wood.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Wee'l go into his tabernacles,</L>
<L>and at his foot&s;tool bow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Ari&s;e, O Lord, unto thy re&s;t,</L>
<L>th' ark of thy &s;trength and thou.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> O let thy prie&s;ts be clothed, Lord,</L>
<L>with truth and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d let all tho&s;e that are thy &s;aints</L>
<L>about loud for joyfulne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> For thine own &s;ervant Davids &s;ake,</L>
<L>is not deny thy grace,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r of thine own anointed one</L>
<L>turn thou away thy face.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> The Lord in truth to David &s;ware,</L>
<L>he will not turn from it,</L>
<L>of thy bodies fruit will make</L>
<L>upon thy throne to &s;it.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> My cov'nant if thy &s;ons will k&eacute;ep,</L>
<L>and laws to them made known:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">eir children then &s;hall al&s;o &s;it</L>
<L>for ever on thy throne.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> For God of Zion hath made choice,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ere he de&s;ires to dwell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> This is my re&s;t; here will I &s;tay,</L>
<L>for I do like it well:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Her food Ile greatly ble&s;&s;e, her poor</L>
<L>with bread will &s;atisfie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Her prie&s;ts Ile clothe with health, her &s;aints,</L>
<L>&s;hall &s;hout forth joyfully.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> And there will I make Davids horn</L>
<L>to bud forth plea&s;antly:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">or him that mine anointed is</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> lamp ordain'd have I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="114"> As with a garment, I will clothe</L>
<L>with &s;hame his enemies all;</L>
<L>But yet the crown that he doth wear</L>
<L>upon him flouri&s;h &s;hall.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="133" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXXXIII.</HEAD>
<L>BEhold, how good a thing it is,</L>
<L>and how becoming well,</L>
<L>Together &s;uch as brethren are,</L>
<L>in unity to dwell.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Like precious ointment on the head,</L>
<L>that down the beard did flow.</L>
<L>Ev'n Aarons beard, and to the skirts</L>
<L>did of his garment go.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> As Hermons dew, the dew that doth</L>
<L>on Zion hills de&s;cend:</L>
<L>For their the ble&s;&s;ing God commands,</L>
<L>life that &s;hall never end.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="134" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXXXIV.</HEAD>
<L>BEhold, ble&s;&s;e ye the Lord, all ye</L>
<L>that his attendants are,</L>
<L>Ev'n you that in Gods Temple be,</L>
<L>and prai&s;e him nightly there.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Your hands within Gods holy place</L>
<L>lift up, and prai&s;e his Name.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> From Zion hill the Lord thee ble&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>that heaven and earth did frame.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="135" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXXXV.</HEAD>
<L>PRai&s;e ye the Lord: the Lords name prai&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>his &s;ervants prai&s;e ye God:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Who &s;tand in Gods hou&s;e, in the courts</L>
<L>of our God make abode.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Prai&s;e ye the Lord, for he is good,</L>
<L>unto him prai&s;es &s;ing:</L>
<L>Sing prai&s;es to his Name, becau&s;e</L>
<L>it is a plea&s;ant thing.</L>
<L>For Iacob to him&s;elf the Lord</L>
<L>did choi&s;e of his good prea&s;ure,</L>
<PB REF="114">
<L>And he hath cho&s;en Irael</L>
<L>for his peculiar trea&s;ure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e I know a&s;&s;uredly</L>
<L>the Lord is very great,</L>
<L>And that our Lord above all gods,</L>
<L>in glory hath his &s;eat.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> What thing &s;oever plea&s;'d the Lord,</L>
<L>that in the heaven did he,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd in the earth, the &s;eas, and all</L>
<L>the places deep that be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> He from the ends of earth doth make</L>
<L>the vapours to a&s;cend:</L>
<L>With rain he lightnings makes, and wind</L>
<L>doth from his trea&s;ures &s;end.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Egypts fir&s;t-born from man to bea&s;t</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Who &s;mote. Strange tokens he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n Pharaoch, and his &s;ervants &s;ent,</L>
<L>Egypt, in mid&s;t of thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> He &s;mote great nations, &s;lew great kings</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Sihon of He&s;hbon king,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d Og of Ba&s;han, and to nought</L>
<L>did Canaans kingdomes bring.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> And for a wealthy heritage</L>
<L>their plea&s;ant land he gave,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> heritage which I&s;rael</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">is cho&s;en folk &s;hould have.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Thy Name, O Lord, &s;hall &s;till endure,</L>
<L>and thy memoriall</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ith honour &s;hall continued be</L>
<L>to generations all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> For why the righteous God will judge,</L>
<L>his people righteou&s;ty,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">oncerning tho&s;e that do him &s;erve</L>
<L>him&s;elf repent will he:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> The idols of the nations</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;ilver are and gold,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y the hands of men is made</L>
<PB REF="115">
<L>their fa&s;hion and mold.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Mouths have they, but they do not &s;peak,</L>
<L>eyes but they do not &s;ee:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Ears have they, but hear not, and in</L>
<L>their mouths no breathing be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Their makers are like them, &s;o are</L>
<L>all that on them rely.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> O I&s;raels hou&s;e, ble&s;&s;e God, ble&s;&s;e God,</L>
<L>O Aarons family.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> O ble&s;&s;e the Lord of Levies hou&s;e,</L>
<L>ye who his &s;ervants are;</L>
<L>And ble&s;&s;e the holy Name of God,</L>
<L>all ye the Lord that fear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> And ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord our God,</L>
<L>from Zions holy hill,</L>
<L>Who dwelleth at Ieru&s;alem:</L>
<L>the Lord, O prai&s;e ye &s;till.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="136" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXXXVI.</HEAD>
<L>GIve thanks to God, for good is he;</L>
<L>for mercy hath he ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Thanks to the God of gods give ye:</L>
<L>for his grace faileth never.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Thanks give the Lord of lords unto:</L>
<L>for mercy hath he ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Who only wonders great can do:</L>
<L>for his grace faileth never.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Who by his wi&s;dom made heavens hie</L>
<L>for mercy he hath ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Who &s;tretcht the earth above the &s;ea:</L>
<L>for his grace falleth never.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> To him that made the great light &s;hine:</L>
<L>for mercy he hath ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> The Sun to rule till day decline:</L>
<L>for his grace faileth never.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> The Moon and Stars to rule by night</L>
<L>for mercy hath he ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="115"> Who Egypts fir&s;t-born kill'd outright:</L>
<L>for his grace faileth never.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> And I&s;rael brought from Egypt land,</L>
<L>for mercy hath he ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> With &s;treacht out arm, and with &s;trong hand:</L>
<L>for his grace faileth never.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> By whom the Red-&s;ea parted was;</L>
<L>for mercy he hath ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> And through its mid&s;t made I&s;rael pa&s;s,</L>
<L>for his grace faileth never.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> But Pharaoh, and his ho&s;t did drown:</L>
<L>for mercy hath he ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Who through the de&s;art led his own:</L>
<L>for his grace faileth never.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> To him great Kings who overthrew:</L>
<L>for he hath mercy ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Yea, famous Kings in battel &s;lew,</L>
<L>for his grace faileth never.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Ev'n Sihon King of Amorites:</L>
<L>for he hath mercy ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> And Og the King of Ba&s;hanites.</L>
<L>for his grace faileth never.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Their land in heritage to have,</L>
<L>(for mercy hath he ever)</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> His &s;ervant I&s;rael right he gave:</L>
<L>for his grace faileth never,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> In our low &s;tate who on us thought:</L>
<L>for he hath mercy ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> And from our foes our fr&eacute;edom wrought:</L>
<L>for his grace faileth never.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> Who doth all fle&s;h with food relieve:</L>
<L>for he hath mercy ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> Thanks to the God of heaven give:</L>
<L>for his grace faileth never.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="136" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L>I Raife God, for he is kind;</L>
<L>His mercy la&s;ts for ay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="116"> Give thanks with heart and mind</L>
<L>to God of gods alway:</L>
<L>For certainly</L>
<L>His mercies dure</L>
<L>Mo&s;t firm and &s;ure</L>
<L>Eternally.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> The Lord of lords prai&s;e ye</L>
<L>Who&s;e mercies &s;tiil endure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Great wonders only he</L>
<L>Doth work by his great power:</L>
<L>For certainly, &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Which God Omnipotent,</L>
<L>By might and wi&s;dom hie,</L>
<L>The heav'n and firmament</L>
<L>Did frame, as we may &s;&eacute;e:</L>
<L>For certainly, &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> To him who did out &s;treach</L>
<L>This earth &s;o great and wide,</L>
<L>Above the waters reach</L>
<L>Making it to abide:</L>
<L>For certainly, &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Great Lights he made to be,</L>
<L>For his Grace la&s;teth ay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Such as the Sun we &s;&eacute;e</L>
<L>To rule the light&s;ome day:</L>
<L>For certainly, &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Al&s;o the Moon &s;o clear,</L>
<L>Which &s;hineth in our &s;ight:</L>
<L>The Stars that do appear,</L>
<L>To guide the dark&s;ome night:</L>
<L>For certainly. &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> To him that Egypt &s;mote</L>
<L>Who did his me&s;&s;age &s;corn;</L>
<L>And in his anger hot</L>
<L>Did kill all their fir&s;t-born;</L>
<L>For certainly, &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="116"> Thence I&s;rael out he brought:</L>
<L>For his grace la&s;teth ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> With a &s;trong hand he wrought,</L>
<L>And &s;tretcht out arm deliver.</L>
<L>For certainly, &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> The &s;ea he cut in two;</L>
<L>For his grace la&s;teth &s;till.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> And through its mid&s;t to go</L>
<L>Made his own I&s;rael:</L>
<L>For certainly. &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> But overwhelm'd and lo&s;t</L>
<L>Was proud King Pharao,</L>
<L>With all his mighty ho&s;t,</L>
<L>And chariots, there al&s;o:</L>
<L>For certainly, &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> To him who powerfully</L>
<L>His cho&s;en people led,</L>
<L>Ev'n through the de&s;art dry,</L>
<L>And in that place them fed:</L>
<L>For certainly, &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> To him great Kings who &s;mote:</L>
<L>For his grace hath no bound.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> Who &s;lew and &s;pared not</L>
<L>Kings famous and renown'd:</L>
<L>For certainly, &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Sihon th'Amorites King:</L>
<L>For his grace la&s;teth ever.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Og al&s;o who did reign</L>
<L>The land of Ba&s;han over:</L>
<L>For certainly, &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Then land by lot he gave;</L>
<L>For his grace faileth never,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> That I&s;rael might it have,</L>
<L>In heritage for ever:</L>
<L>For certainly, &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Who hath remembered</L>
<L>If <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s in our low e&s;tate;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="117"> And us delivered</L>
<L>From foes who did us hate:</L>
<L>for certainly, &amp;c.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="verse"> Who to all fle&s;h gives food:</L>
<L>For his grace falleth never.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="26" UNIT="verse"> Give thanks to God mo&s;t good</L>
<L>The God of heav'n for ever,</L>
<L>For certainly, &amp;c.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="137" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXXXVII.</HEAD>
<L>BY Babels &s;treams we &s;at and wept,</L>
<L>when Zion we thought on:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> In mid&s;t thereof we hang'd our harps</L>
<L>the willow trees upon.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For there a &s;ong required they</L>
<L>who did us captive bring;</L>
<L>Our &s;poilers call'd for mirth, and &s;aid,</L>
<L>a &s;ong of Zion &s;ing.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> O How the Lords &s;ong &s;hall we &s;ing</L>
<L>within a forreign land?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> If th&eacute;e Ieru&s;alem I forget,</L>
<L>skill part from my right hand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> My tongue to my mouths root let cleave</L>
<L>if I do thee forget,</L>
<L>Ieru&s;alem, and thee above</L>
<L>my chief joy do not &s;et.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Remember Edoms children, Lord,</L>
<L>who in Ieru&s;alem day,</L>
<L>Ev'n unto its foundation,</L>
<L>raze raze it quite, did &s;ay,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> O daughter thou of Babylon.</L>
<L>n&eacute;er to de&s;truction,</L>
<L>Ble&s;t &s;hall he be that thee rewards,</L>
<L>as thou to us ha&s;t done:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Yea, happy &s;urely &s;hall he be.</L>
<L>thy tender little ones</L>
<L>Who &s;hall lay hold upon, and them</L>
<L>&s;hall da&s;h again&s;t the &s;tones:</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="138" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<PB REF="117">
<HEAD>PSALM CXXXVIII.</HEAD>
<L>THee will I prai&s;e with all my heart,</L>
<L>I will &s;ing prai&s;e to thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Before the gods: And wor&s;hip will</L>
<L>toward they Sanctuarie.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">'le Prai&s;e thy Name, ev'n for thy truth,</L>
<L>and kindne&s;&s;e of thy love:</L>
<L>For thou thy Word ha&s;t magnifi'd</L>
<L>all thy great Name above.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Thou did&s;t me an&s;wer in the day</L>
<L>when I to thee did cry.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d thou my fainting &s;oul with &s;trength</L>
<L>did&s;t &s;trengthen inwardly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> All Kings upon the earth that are,</L>
<L>&s;hall give thee prai&s;e, O Lord,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen as they from thy mouth &s;hall hear</L>
<L>thy true and faithful Word:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Yea, in the righteous wayes of God</L>
<L>with gladne&s;&s;e they &s;hall &s;ing:</L>
<L>For great's th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> glory of the Lord,</L>
<L>who doth for ever reign.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Though God he high, yet he re&s;pects</L>
<L>all tho&s;e that lowly be;</L>
<L>Whereas the proud and lofty ones</L>
<L>afar off knoweth he.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Though I in mid&s;t of trouble walk,</L>
<L>I life from thee &s;hall have,</L>
<L>Gain&s;t my foes wrath thoul't &s;treach thine, hand</L>
<L>thy right hand &s;hal me &s;ave.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Surely that which concerneth me.</L>
<L>the Lord will perfect make:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ord &s;till thy mercy la&s;ts, do not</L>
<L>thine own hands works for&s;ake.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="139" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CXXXIX</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> Lord, thou ha&s;t me &s;earcht and known,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Thou know&s;t my &s;itting down,</L>
<L>ri&s;ing up; yea, all my thoughts</L>
<L>F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r to thee are known.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="118"> My foot &s;teps, and my lying down</L>
<L>thou compa&s;&s;e&s;t alwayes;</L>
<L>Thou al&s;o mo&s;t intirely art</L>
<L>acquaint with all my wayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> For in my tongue, before I &s;peak,</L>
<L>not any word can be,</L>
<L>But altogether, lo, O Lord,</L>
<L>it is well known to th&eacute;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Behind, before, thou ha&s;t be&s;et,</L>
<L>and laid on me thy hand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Such knowledge is too &s;trange for me,</L>
<L>too high to under&s;tand.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> From thy Sp'rit whither &s;hall I</L>
<L>or from thy pre&s;ence fl&eacute;e?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> A&s;cend I heaven, lo, thou art there;</L>
<L>there if in hell I lie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Take I the mornings wings, and dwell</L>
<L>in utmo&s;t parts of &s;ea:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Ev'n there, Lord &s;hall thy hand me lead,</L>
<L>thy right hand hold &s;hall me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> If I do &s;ay that darkne&s;&s;e &s;hall</L>
<L>me cover from thy &s;ight,</L>
<L>Then &s;urely &s;hall the very night</L>
<L>about me be as light.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Yea, darkne&s;&s;e hideth not from thee,</L>
<L>but night doth &s;hine as day:</L>
<L>To thee the darkne&s;&s;e and the light</L>
<L>are both alike alway.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> For thou po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed ha&s;t my reins,</L>
<L>and thou ha&s;t covered me,</L>
<L>When I within my mothers womb</L>
<L>inclo&s;ed was by thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> Thee will prai&s;e, for fearfully</L>
<L>and &s;trangely made I am;</L>
<L>Thy works are marvelous, and right well</L>
<L>my &s;oul doth know the &s;ame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="118"> My &s;ub&s;tance was not hid from thee,</L>
<L>when as in &s;ecret I</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">as made, and in earths lowe&s;t parts</L>
<L>was wrought mo&s;t curiou&s;ly,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Thine eyes my &s;ub&s;tance did behold,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">et being unperfite:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o in the volum of thy b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ok</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ay members all were writ.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ich after in continuance</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ere fa&s;hion'd every one,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">en as they yet all &s;hapele&s;&s; were</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d of them there was none.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> How precious al&s;o are thy thoughts</L>
<L>O gracious God to me:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> in their &s;um how pa&s;&s;ing great</L>
<L>and numberle&s;&s;e they be?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> If I &s;hould count them. then the &s;and</L>
<L>they more in number be:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat time &s;oever I awake,</L>
<L>I ever am with th&eacute;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> Thou, Lord, wilt &s;ure the wicked &s;lay:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ence from me bloudy men.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> Thy foes again&s;t thee lewdly &s;peak,</L>
<L>and take thy Name in vain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Do not I hate all tho&s;e, O Lord;</L>
<L>that hatred bear to thee?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ith tho&s;e that up again&s;t thee ri&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">an I but grieved be?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="22" UNIT="verse"> With perfect hatred them I hate,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ny foes I them do hold.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="23" UNIT="verse"> Search me, O God, and know my heart,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hy me, my thoughts unfold.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="24" UNIT="verse"> And &s;ee if any wicked way</L>
<L>there be at all in me;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d in thine everla&s;ting way</L>
<L>me a leader be.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="140" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<PB REF="119">
<L>LOrd, from the ill and froward man</L>
<L>give me deliverance;</L>
<L>And do thou &s;afe pre&s;erve me, from</L>
<L>the man of violence.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Who in their heart mi&s;chievous thing</L>
<L>are meditating ever:</L>
<L>And they for war a&s;&s;embled are</L>
<L>continually together.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Much like unto a &s;erpents tongue</L>
<L>thir tongues they &s;harp do make;</L>
<L>And underneath their lips there lyes</L>
<L>the poy&s;on of a &s;nake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Lord, keep me from the wickeds hand</L>
<L>from violent men me &s;ave,</L>
<L>Who utterly to overthrow</L>
<L>my goings purpo&s;'d have.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> The proud for me a &s;nare have hid,</L>
<L>and cords; yea, they a net</L>
<L>Have by the way &s;ide for me &s;pread,</L>
<L>they grins for me have &s;et:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> I &s;aid unto the Lord, thou art</L>
<L>my God: unto the cry</L>
<L>Of all my &s;upplications,</L>
<L>Lord, do thine ear apply.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> O God, the Lord, who art the &s;trengt<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>of my &s;alvation:</L>
<L>A covering in the day of war</L>
<L>my head thou ha&s;t put on.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Vnto the wicked man, O Lord,</L>
<L>his wi&s;hes do not grant,</L>
<L>Nor &s;uffer thou his ill device,</L>
<L>le&s;t they them&s;elves &s;hould vaunt.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> As for the head and chief of tho&s;e</L>
<L>about that compa&s;&s;e me.</L>
<L>Ev'n by the mi&s;chief of their lips</L>
<L>let thou them covered be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="119"> Let burning coals upon them fall,</L>
<L>them throw in fiery flame,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d in d&eacute;ep pits, that they no more</L>
<L>may ri&s;e out of the &s;ame.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Let not an evil &s;pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">r be</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n earth e&s;tabli&s;hed:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;chief &s;hall hunt the violent man</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ill he be ruined.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> I know God will th'afflicteds cau&s;e</L>
<L>maintain, and poor mens right.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Surely the ju&s;t &s;hall prai&s;e thy name,</L>
<L>th'upright dwell in thy &s;ight.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="141" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXLI.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> Lord, I unto thee do cry,</L>
<L>do thou make ha&s;te to me,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d give an ear unto my voice,</L>
<L>when I cry unto thee:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> As incen&s;e let my prayer be</L>
<L>directed in thine eyes;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd the uplifting of my hands</L>
<L>as th' ev'ning &s;acrifice.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Set Lord, a watch before my mouth,</L>
<L>keep of my lips the door.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> My heart incline thou not unto</L>
<L>the ills I &s;hould abhore.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">a practi&s;e wicked works with men</L>
<L>to work iniquity</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">d with their delicates my ta&s;te</L>
<L>let me not &s;atisfie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Let him that righteous is me &s;mite,</L>
<L>it &s;hall a kindne&s;&s;e be:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">et him reprove, I &s;hall it count</L>
<L>an precious oyl to me.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">uch &s;miting &s;hall not break my head:</L>
<L>for yet the time &s;hall fall,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">en I in their calamities</L>
<L>Fo God pray for them &s;hall:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="120"> When as their Iudges down &s;hall be</L>
<L>in &s;tonie places ca&s;t,</L>
<L>Then &s;hall they hear my words, for the<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>&s;hall &s;weet be to their ta&s;te:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> About the graves devouring mouth,</L>
<L>our bones are &s;catt'red round,</L>
<L>As wood which men do cut and cleav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>lies &s;cattered on the ground.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> But unto thee, O God the Lord,</L>
<L>mine eyes uplifted be:</L>
<L>My &s;oul do not leave de&s;titute,</L>
<L>my tru&s;t is &s;et on thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Lord, keep me &s;afely from the &s;nare,</L>
<L>which they for me prepare,</L>
<L>And from the &s;ubtile grins of them,</L>
<L>that wicked workers are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Let workers of iniquity,</L>
<L>into their own nets fall,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t I do hy thine help e&s;cape</L>
<L>the danger of them all.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="142" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL CXLII</HEAD>
<L><HI>I</HI> With my voice cry'd to the Lord,</L>
<L>with it made my reque&s;t:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Pour'd out to him my plaint, to him</L>
<L>my trouble I expre&s;t.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> When in me was o'erwhelm'd my &s;p'ri<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>then well thou knewe&s;t my way:</L>
<L>Where I did walk a &s;nare for me</L>
<L>they privily did lay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> I look'd on my right hand, and view'd,</L>
<L>but none to know me were;</L>
<L>All refuge failed me no man</L>
<L>did for my &s;oul take care.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> I cry'd to thee, I &s;aid, thou art</L>
<L>my refuge, Lord alone,</L>
<L>And in the land of tho&s;e that live</L>
<L>thou art my portion,</L>
<PB REF="120">
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e I am brought very low,</L>
<L>attend unto my cry;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e from my per&s;ecutors &s;ave,</L>
<L>who &s;tronger are then I.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> From pri&s;on bring my &s;oul, that I</L>
<L>thy Name may glorifie:</L>
<L>The ju&s;t &s;hall compa&s;&s;e me, when thou</L>
<L>with me deal'&s;t bounteou&s;tie.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="143" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXLIII.</HEAD>
<L>LOrd, hear my pray'r, attend my fuits,</L>
<L>and in thy faithfullne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ve thou an an&s;wer unto me,</L>
<L>and in thy righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Thy &s;ervant al&s;o bring thou not</L>
<L>in judgemnt to be try'd;</L>
<L>Becau&s;e no living man can be</L>
<L>in thy &s;ight ju&s;tifi'd.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> For th'enemy hath pur&s;u'd my &s;oul,</L>
<L>my life to ground down tread;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n darkne&s;&s;e he hath made me dwell,</L>
<L>as who have long been dead.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> My &s;p'rit is therefore overwhelm'd</L>
<L>in me perplexedly;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ithin me is my very heart</L>
<L>amazed wondrou&s;ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> I call to minde the dayes of old,</L>
<L>to meditate I u&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n all thy words: upon the deeds</L>
<L>I of thy hands do mu&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> My hands to thee I &s;tretch: my &s;oul</L>
<L>thir&s;ts, as dry land, for thee,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Ha&s;te, Lord, to hear, my &s;pirit fails</L>
<L>hide not thy face from me:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;t like to them I do become,</L>
<L>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at go down to the du&s;t:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> morn let me thy kindne&s;&s;e hear,</L>
<L>For <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> thee do I tru&s;t.</L>
<PB REF="121">
<L>Teach me the way that I &s;hould walk,</L>
<L>I lift my &s;oul to thee:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Lord, free me from my foes, I flee</L>
<L>to thee, to cover me.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e thou art my God, to do</L>
<L>thy will do me in&s;truct:</L>
<L>Thy &s;p'rit is good, me to the land</L>
<L>of uprightne&s;&s;e conduct.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Revive and quicken me, O Lord,</L>
<L>ev'n for thine own Names &s;ake:</L>
<L>And do thou for thy righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>my &s;oul from trouble take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> And of thy mercy &s;tay my foes;</L>
<L>let all de&s;troyed be</L>
<L>That do afflict my &s;oul, for I</L>
<L>a &s;ervant am to thee.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="143" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L>OH hear my prayer, Lord</L>
<L>And unto my de&s;ire</L>
<L>To vow thine ear accord,</L>
<L>I humble thee require.</L>
<L>And in thy faithfulne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Vnto me an&s;wer make,</L>
<L>And in thy righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Vpon me pitie take.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> In judgement enter not</L>
<L>With me thy &s;ervant poor:</L>
<L>For why, this well I wot,</L>
<L>No &s;inner can endure</L>
<L>The &s;ight of th&eacute;e, O God,</L>
<L>If thou his deeds &s;halt try,</L>
<L>He dare make no abode</L>
<L>Him&s;elf to ju&s;tifie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Behold the cruel foe</L>
<L>Me per&s;ecutes with &s;pight.</L>
<L>My &s;oul to over throw:</L>
<PB REF="121">
<L>Yea, he my life down quite,</L>
<L>Vnto the ground hath &s;mote,</L>
<L>And made me dwell full low</L>
<L>In darkne&s;s, as forgot,</L>
<L>Or men dead long ago.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Therefore my &s;p'rit much vext</L>
<L>O'rwhelm'd is me within;</L>
<L>My heart right &s;ore perplext,</L>
<L>And de&s;olate hath bin.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Yet I do call to mind,</L>
<L>What ancient dayes record;</L>
<L>thy works of every kind</L>
<L>I think upon, O Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> lo, I do &s;tretch my hands</L>
<L>To thee my help alone,</L>
<L>For thou well under&s;tands</L>
<L>All my complaint and moan:</L>
<L>My thir&s;ting &s;oul de&s;ires,</L>
<L>And longeth after thee,</L>
<L>As thir&s;ty ground requires</L>
<L>With rain refre&s;ht to be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Lord let my pray'r prevail,</L>
<L>To an&s;wer it make &s;peed,</L>
<L>For lo, my &s;p'rit doth fail;</L>
<L>Hide not thy face in need.</L>
<L>Le&s;t I be like to tho&s;e</L>
<L>That do in darkne&s;s &s;it,</L>
<L>Or him that downward goes</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nto the dreadful pit.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e I tru&s;t in thee,</L>
<L>O Lord cau&s;e me to bear</L>
<L>Thy loving kindne&s;s free,</L>
<L>When morning doth appear:</L>
<L>Cau&s;e me to know the way</L>
<L>Wherein my path &s;hould lie</L>
<L>For why my &s;oul on hie</L>
<PB REF="122">
<L>I do lift up to thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> From my fierce enemy</L>
<L>In &s;afety do me guide,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e I flie to thee,</L>
<L>Lord, that thou may'&s;t me hide.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> My God alone art thou;</L>
<L>Teach me thy righteou&s;ne&s;s:</L>
<L>Thy &s;p'rits good, lead me to</L>
<L>The land of uprightne&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> O Lord for thy Names &s;ake,</L>
<L>Be plea&s;'d to quicken me,</L>
<L>And for thy truth forth take</L>
<L>My &s;oul from mi&s;erie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> And of thy grace de&s;troy</L>
<L>My foes, and put to &s;hame</L>
<L>All who my &s;oul annoy:</L>
<L>For I thy &s;ervant am.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="144" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXLIV.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> Ble&s;&s;ed ever be the Lord,</L>
<L>who is my &s;trength and might,</L>
<L>Who doth in&s;truct my hands to war,</L>
<L>my fingers teach to fight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> My goodne&s;s, &s;ortre&s;s, my high tow'r,</L>
<L>deliverer and &s;hield,</L>
<L>In whom I tru&s;t, who under me</L>
<L>my people makes to yield.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Lord, what is man, that thou of him</L>
<L>do&s;t &s;o much knowledge take?</L>
<L>Or &s;on of man, that thou of him</L>
<L>&s;o great account do&s;t make?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Man is like vanity: his dayes,</L>
<L>as &s;hadows, pa&s;s away.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Lord, bow the heavens, come down, touch thou</L>
<L>the hills, and &s;moke &s;hall they.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">a&s;t forth thy lightnings, &s;catter them:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> arrows &s;hoot, them rout.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">and &s;end from above, me &s;ave</L>
<PB REF="122">
<L>from great depths draw me out:</L>
<L>And from the hand of children &s;trange:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Who&s;e mouth &s;peaks vanity:</L>
<L>And their right hand is a right hand</L>
<L>that works deceitfully.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> A new &s;ong I to th&eacute;e will &s;ing,</L>
<L>Lord, on a p&s;alterie;</L>
<L>I, on a ten &s;tring'd in&s;trument</L>
<L>will prai&s;es &s;ing to thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Ev'n he it is, that unto Kings</L>
<L>&s;alvation doth &s;end:</L>
<L>Who his own &s;ervant David doth</L>
<L>from hurtful &s;word defend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> O fr&eacute;e me from &s;trange childrens hands,</L>
<L>who&s;e mouth &s;peaks vanity:</L>
<L>find their right hand a right hand is</L>
<L>that works deceitfully.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> That as the plants our &s;ons may be</L>
<L>in youth grown up that are;</L>
<L>Our daughters like to corner &s;tones,</L>
<L>carv'd like a palace fair.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> That to afford all kind of &s;tore</L>
<L>our garners may be fill'd;</L>
<L>That our &s;heep thou&s;ands in our &s;treets,</L>
<L>ten thou&s;ands they may yeeld.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> That &s;trong our oxen be for work,</L>
<L>that no in breaking be,</L>
<L>Nor going out, and that our &s;treets</L>
<L>may from complaints be free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> Tho&s;e people ble&s;&s;ed are, who be</L>
<L>in &s;uch a ca&s;e as this:</L>
<L>Yea, ble&s;&s;ed all tho&s;e people are</L>
<L>who&s;e God IEHOVAH is.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="145" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXLV.</HEAD>
<L>I'Le thee extoll, my God, O King</L>
<L>I'le ble&s;s thy Name alwaye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> race,</L>
<PB REF="123">
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Thee will I ble&s;s each day, and will</L>
<L>thy Name for ever prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Great is the Lord, much to be prai&s;'d,</L>
<L>his greatne&s;s &s;earch exceeds.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Race unto race &s;hall prai&s;e thy works,</L>
<L>and &s;how thy mighty d&eacute;eds.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> I of thy glorious Maje&s;ty</L>
<L>the honour will record;</L>
<L>Ile &s;peak of all thy mighty works,</L>
<L>which wondrous are, O Lord.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Men of thine acts the might &s;hall &s;how,</L>
<L>thine acts, that dreadful are:</L>
<L>And I, thy glory to advance,</L>
<L>thy greatne&s;s will declare.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> The memory of thy goodne&s;s great</L>
<L>they largely &s;hall expre&s;s:</L>
<L>With &s;ongs of prai&s;e they &s;hall extoll</L>
<L>thy perfect righteou&s;ne&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> The Lord is very gracious,</L>
<L>in him compa&s;&s;ions flow,</L>
<L>In mercy he is very great,</L>
<L>and is to anger &s;low.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> The Lord IEHOVAH unto all</L>
<L>his goodne&s;s doth declare:</L>
<L>And over all his other works</L>
<L>his tender mercies are.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Thee all thy works &s;hall prai&s;e, O Lord,</L>
<L>and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hee thy &s;aints &s;hall b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;s:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> They &s;hall thy kingdoms glory &s;how,</L>
<L>thy pow'r by &s;peech expre&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> To make the &s;ons of men to know</L>
<L>his act<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> done mightily,</L>
<L>And of his kingdom th'excellent</L>
<L>And glorious Maje&s;ty.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ingdom &s;hall for ever &s;tand,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> through ages all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="123"> God rai&s;eth all that are bow'd down,</L>
<L>upholdeth all that fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> The eyes of all things wait on thee,</L>
<L>the giver of all good,</L>
<L>And thou in time convenient</L>
<L>be&s;tows on them their food.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Thy hand thou opene&s;t liberally,</L>
<L>and of thy bounty gives</L>
<L>Enough to &s;atisfie the need</L>
<L>of every thing that lives.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> The Lord is ju&s;t in all his wayes;</L>
<L>holy in his works all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> God's near to all that call on him,</L>
<L>in truth that on him call.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> He will accompli&s;h the de&s;ire</L>
<L>of tho&s;e that do him fear:</L>
<L>He al&s;o will deliver them,</L>
<L>and he their cry will hear.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> The Lord pre&s;erves all who him love,</L>
<L>that nought can them annoy;</L>
<L>But he all tho&s;e that w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">edare</L>
<L>will utterly de&s;troy.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> My mouth the prai&s;es of the Lord</L>
<L>to publi&s;h, cea&s;e &s;hall never:</L>
<L>Let all fle&s;h ble&s;s his holy Name</L>
<L>for ever and for ever.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="145" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<L><HI>O</HI> Lord, thou art my God and King,</L>
<L>Thee will I magnifie and prai&s;e:</L>
<L>I will thee ble&s;s, and gladly &s;ing</L>
<L>Vnto thy holy Name alwayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Each day I ri&s;e, I will th&eacute;e ble&s;s,</L>
<L>And prai&s;e thy name time without end.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Much to be prai&s;'d, and great God is,</L>
<L>his greatne&s;s none can comprehend.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Race &s;hall thy works prai&s;e unto race,</L>
<PB REF="124">
<L>The mighty acts &s;how done by thee:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> I will &s;peak of the glorious grace,</L>
<L>And honour of thy maje&s;ty;</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Thy wondrous works I will record,</L>
<L>By men the might &s;hall be extold</L>
<L>Of all thy dreadful acts, O Lord:</L>
<L>And I thy greatne&s;s will unfold,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> They utter &s;hall abundantly</L>
<L>The memory of thy goodne&s;s great,</L>
<L>And &s;hall &s;ing prai&s;es cheerfully,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t they thy righteou&s;ne&s;s relate.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> The Lord our God is gracious,</L>
<L>Compa&s;&s;ionate is he al&s;o,</L>
<L>In mercy he is plenteous:</L>
<L>But unto wrath and anger &s;low.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Good unto all men is the Lord:</L>
<L>O're all his works his mercy is.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Thy works all prai&s;e to th&eacute;e afford,</L>
<L>Thy &s;aints, O Lord thy Name &s;hal ble&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> The glory of thy Kingdom &s;how</L>
<L>Shall they, and of thy power tell,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> That &s;o mens &s;ons his deeds may know,</L>
<L>His Kingdoms grace that doth excel.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Thy Kingdom hath none end at all,</L>
<L>It doth through ages all remain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> The Lord upholdeth all that fall,</L>
<L>The ca&s;t-down rai&s;eth up again.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> The eyes of all things, Lord, attend,</L>
<L>And on th&eacute;e wait, that here do live:</L>
<L>And thou in &s;ea&s;on due do&s;t &s;end</L>
<L>Sufficient food them to relieve.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Yea, thou thine hand do&s;t open wide,</L>
<L>And every thing do&s;t &s;atisfie</L>
<L>That lives, and doth on earth abide,</L>
<L>Of thy great liberality.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> The Lord is ju&s;t in his wayes all,</L>
<L>And holy in his works each one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="124"> He's near to all that on him call,</L>
<L>who call in truth on him alone.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> God will the ju&s;t de&s;ire fulfill</L>
<L>Of &s;uch as do him fear and dread:</L>
<L>Their cry regard, and hear he will,</L>
<L>And &s;ave them in the time of need.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> The Lord pre&s;erves all, more and le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>That bear to him a loving heart:</L>
<L>But workers all of wickedne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>De&s;troy will he, and clean &s;ubvert.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="21" UNIT="verse"> Therefore my mouth and lips I'le frame.</L>
<L>To &s;peak the prai&s;es of the Lord:</L>
<L>To magnifie his holy Name,</L>
<L>For ever let all fle&s;h accord.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="146" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXLVI.</HEAD>
<L>PRai&s;e God, the Lord prai&s;e, O my &s;oul.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Ile prai&s;e God while I live:</L>
<L>While I have beeing, to my God</L>
<L>in &s;ongs Ile prai&s;es give.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Tru&s;t not in Princes, nor mans &s;on,</L>
<L>in whom there is no &s;tay:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> His breath departs, to's earth he turns,</L>
<L>that day his thoughts decay.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> O happy is that man and ble&s;t,</L>
<L>whom Iacobs God doth aid,</L>
<L>Who&s;e hope upon the Lord doth re&s;t,</L>
<L>and on his God is &s;taid.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Who made the earth and heavens high,</L>
<L>who made the &s;welling deep.</L>
<L>And all that is within the &s;ame:</L>
<L>who truth doth ever keep.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Who righteous judgement executes</L>
<L>for tho&s;e oppre&s;t that be;</L>
<L>Who to the hungry giveth food,</L>
<L>God &s;ets the pri&s;oners free.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> The Lord doth give the blinde their &s;ight,</L>
<L>the bowed down doth rai&s;e:</L>
<PB REF="125">
<L>The Lord doth dearly love all tho&s;e</L>
<L>that walk in upright wayes.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> The &s;trangers &s;hield, the widows &s;tay,</L>
<L>the orphans help is he:</L>
<L>But yet by him the wickeds way</L>
<L>turn'd up-&s;ide down &s;hall he.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> The Lord &s;hall reign for evermore,</L>
<L>thy God, O Zion, he</L>
<L>Reigns to all generations:</L>
<L>Prai&s;e to the Lord give ye.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="147" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXLVII.</HEAD>
<L>PRai&s;e ye the Lord: for it is good</L>
<L>prai&s;e to our God to &s;ing:</L>
<L>For it is plea&s;ant, and to prai&s;e,</L>
<L>it is a comely thing.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> God doth build up Ieru&s;alem:</L>
<L>and he it is alone</L>
<L>That the di&s;per&s;t of I&s;rael</L>
<L>doth gather into one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Tho&s;e that are broken in their hearts,</L>
<L>and grieved in their minds,</L>
<L>He healeth, and their painful wounds</L>
<L>he tenderly up-binds.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> He counts the number of the &s;tars,</L>
<L>he names them every one.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Great is our Lord, and of great pow'r:</L>
<L>his wi&s;dom &s;earch can none.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> The Lord lifts up the meek, and ca&s;ts</L>
<L>the wicked to the ground.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Sing to the Lord, and give him thanks,</L>
<L>on harp his prai&s;es &s;ound:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Who covereth the heav'n with clouds,</L>
<L>who for the earth below</L>
<L>Prepareth rain, who maketh gra&s;&s;e</L>
<L>upon the mountains grow.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> He gives the bea&s;t his food, he feeds</L>
<L>the ravens young that cry,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> <PB REF="125"> His plea&s;ure not in hor&s;es &s;trength,</L>
<L>nor in mans legs doth ly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> But in all tho&s;e that do him fear,</L>
<L>the Lord doth plea&s;ure take,</L>
<L>In tho&s;e that to his mercy do</L>
<L>by hope them&s;elves betake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> The Lord prai&s;e, O Ieru&s;alem:</L>
<L>Zion thy God confe&s;s:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> For thy gates bars he maketh &s;trong,</L>
<L>thy &s;ons in thee doth ble&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> He in thy borders maketh peace:</L>
<L>with fine wheat filleth thee.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="15" UNIT="verse"> He &s;ends forth his command on earth,</L>
<L>his word runs &s;peedilie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="16" UNIT="verse"> Hoar fro&s;t, like a&s;hes, &s;cattereth he:</L>
<L>like wool he &s;now doth give:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="17" UNIT="verse"> Like mor&s;els ca&s;teth forth his ice;</L>
<L>who in its cold can live?</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="18" UNIT="verse"> He &s;endeth forth his mighty word,</L>
<L>and melteth them again:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">is winds he makes to blow, and then</L>
<L>the waters flow amain.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="19" UNIT="verse"> The doctrine of his holy word,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o Iacob he doth &s;how:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;tatutes and his judgements he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ives I&s;rael to know:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="20" UNIT="verse"> To any nation never he</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">h favour did afford:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> they his judgements have not known:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> do ye prai&s;e the Lord.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="148" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXLVIII.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ai&s;e God. From heavens prai&s;e y^e Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>in hights prai&s;e to him be.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ll ye his Angels prai&s;e ye him:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s ho&s;ts all prai&s;e him ye.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> prai&s;e ye him both Sun and Mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<PB REF="126">
<L>prai&s;e him all &s;tars of light:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Ye heav'ns of heav'ns him prai&s;e &amp; floud<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>above the heavens hight.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> Let all the creatures prai&s;e the Name</L>
<L>of our Almighty Lord:</L>
<L>For he commanded, and they were</L>
<L>created by his word.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> He al&s;o for all times to come,</L>
<L>hath them e&s;tabli&s;ht &s;ure:</L>
<L>He hath appointed them a law,</L>
<L>which ever &s;hall endure.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> Prai&s;e ye IEHOVAH from the eart<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>dragons, and every deep:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> Fire, hail, &s;now, vapour, &s;tormy win<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>his word that fully keep.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> All hills and mountains, fruitful tree</L>
<L>and all ye cedars hy.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Bea&s;ts and all cattel, creeping thing</L>
<L>and all ye birds that fly.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Kings of the earth, all Nations,</L>
<L>Princes, earths Iudges all.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Both young men, yea, and maidens</L>
<L>old men, and children &s;mall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Let them Gods name prai&s;e: for his<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>alone is excellent:</L>
<L>His glory reacheth far above</L>
<L>the earth and firmament.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> His peoples horn, the prai&s;e of all</L>
<L>his &s;aints exalteth he:</L>
<L>Ev'n I&s;raels &s;eed, a people near</L>
<L>to him: The Lord prai&s;e ye.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="148" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>Another of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THe Lord of heav'n confe&s;s;</L>
<L>On high his glories rai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Him let all Angels ble&s;s:</L>
<L>Him all h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> armies prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Him glorifie,</L>
<PB REF="126">
<L>Sun, Moon, and Stars:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> Ye higher &s;phears,</L>
<L>And cloudy skie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rom God your beings are,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m therefore famous make:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> all created were,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">en he the word but &s;pake.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> And from that place.</L>
<L>Where fixt you be</L>
<L>By his decree</L>
<L>You cannot pa&s;s.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rai&s;e God from earth below</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> dragons, and ye de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ps:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">re, hail, clouds, wind and &s;now,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hom in command be keeps:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> Prai&s;e ye his Name</L>
<L>hills great and &s;mall:</L>
<L>Trees low and tall:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="verse"> Bea&s;ts wild and tame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All things that creep or fly:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="11" UNIT="verse"> Ye Kings, ye vulgar throng.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ll Princes mean or high.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="12" UNIT="verse"> Both men and virgins young.</L>
<L>Ev'n young and old,</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="13" UNIT="verse"> Exalt his Name,</L>
<L>For much his fame</L>
<L>Should be extold.</L>
<L>O let Gods Name be prai&s;'d</L>
<L>above both earth and skie:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="14" UNIT="verse"> For he his &s;aints hath rai&s;'d,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd &s;et their horn on hie:</L>
<L>Ev'n tho&s;e that be</L>
<L>Of I&s;raels race,</L>
<L>Near to his grace.</L>
<L>The Lord prai&s;e ye.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="149" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CXLIX.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>PRai&s;e ye the Lord: unto him &s;ing</L>
<L>a new &s;ong, and his prai&s;e</L>
<L>the a&s;&s;embly of the &s;aints</L>
<L>in &s;weet P&s;alms do ye rai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Let I&s;rael in his maker joy.</L>
<L>and to him prai&s;es &s;ing:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t all, that Zions children are,</L>
<L>be joyfull in their King.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> O let them unto his great N<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>give prai&s;es in the dance:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">et them with timbrel and<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>in &s;ongs his prai&s;e advan<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<PB REF="127">
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> doth plea&s;ure take in tho&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> own people be:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> he with his &s;alvation</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he meek will beautifie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> And in his glory excellent</L>
<L>let all his &s;aints rejoice:</L>
<L>Let them to him upon their beds</L>
<L>aloud lift their voice.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> Let in their mouth aloft be rai&s;'d</L>
<L>the high prai&s;e of the Lord:</L>
<L>And let them have in their right hand</L>
<L>a &s;harp two-edged &s;word.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="verse"> To execute the vengeance due</L>
<L>upon the heathen all,</L>
<L>And make de&s;erved puni&s;hment</L>
<L>upon the people fall.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="verse"> And ev'n with chains, as pri&s;oners bind</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir Kings that them command;</L>
<L>Yea, and with iron fetters &s;trong</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he nobles of their land.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n them the judgement to perform</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd written in his word,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">is honour is to all his &s;aints,</L>
<L>O do ye prai&s;e the Lord.</L>
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<DIV2 N="150" TYPE="metrical Psalm">
<HEAD>PSAL. CL.</HEAD>
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<L>PRai&s;e ye the Lord: Gods prai&s;e within</L>
<L>his &s;anctuary rai&s;e:</L>
<L>And to him in the firmament</L>
<L>of his power give ye prai&s;e.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="verse"> Becau&s;e of all his mighty acts</L>
<L>with prai&s;e him magnifie:</L>
<L>O'prai&s;e him as he doth excell</L>
<L>in glorious maje&s;tie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="verse"> Prai&s;e him with trumpets &s;ound; his prai&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ith p&s;altery advance:</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> timbrel, harp, &s;tring'd in&s;truments,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> in the dance.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> cymbals loud, him prai&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ding hie.</L>
<L><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="verse"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> thing prai&s;e the Lord:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> give ye.</L>
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