Englands Hallelujah
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ENGLANDS Hallelu-jah. OR, GREAT BRITTAINES Gratefull Retribution, for God's Gratious Benediction.
In our many and most famous Deliuerances, since the Halcyon-Days of ever-blessed Queen ELIZABETH, to these present Times.
Together, with diverse of David's Psalms, according to the French Metre and Measures.
By I: V:
Psalm, 103.1.2.
Bless the Lord (ô my Soul) and all that is within me, bless his holy Name. Bless the Lord (ô my Soul) and forget not All his Benefits.
Non est dignus dandis,
Qui non est gratus pro datis.
Printed at London by The: Purfoot, for Henry Seile, and are to be sold at the Tigers Head in S. Paul's Church-yard. 1631.
TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull his most worthy and highly honored Friends, Sir Hugh Hamersley Knight, and Mr. Alderman Parkburst, Two of the principal Governors of Christ's-Hospital; I: V : wisheth the Kingdom of Grace here, and the Kingdom of Glory hereafter.
THis Poem (Right Wor:) being intended as a promoueing Spurre and incitemen • to that most excellent and amiable duty of Gratitude, of which, sweetly saith St. Augustine, Quid melius animo geramus, aut ore promamus, ant calamo pingamus, quam Graetias? Hoc, nil breuius dici, nil suauius andiri, nec fructuosius ab bominibus agi potest. What (says He) can we better bear in our mind, or utter with our tongue, or set-forth with our pen? than Thanksgiuing : a man can speak nothing more succinct, hear nothing more sweet, nor do anything more aduantageous, than This of Thankfulness. I, therefore (most worthy Sirs) knowing my Self deeply indebted to your Worships for many former Fauours and continued Courtesies towards me, was duly incited yea stimulated to apprehend this fit and fair opportunity to intimate my long obliged Gratitude, by an humble Dedication of this small Symbol of my sincere Thankfulness to your good Worships. Which (had not the malignity of the Times prohibited) was intended for the year of your, as pious as prudent honorable Maioralty of this Citty, whose Gates, at this day, do bless you (as Jerusalem's did good Nehemiah ; Nehem: the 13.22.) for your (then) honorable and godly care of the Lord's sacred Sabbath. Accept (worthy Sirs) I humbly pray you, This poor Presentation of my obliged service (now) for, though it comes lately, yet it comes loyally ; and from his heart, who, in all due and true observance desires most respectively to Rest.
Your good Worships, ever to be commanded, John Vicars.
To the Christian Reader.
S
Vch (good Reader) are the
Crimes
Of these
graceless, gratelesse Times,
Such, man's gross
Ingratitude,
For
God's mercies
multitude:
So forgetful of his
Kindnesse,
So possessed with carnal
Blindness,
That we need, King
Phillips-Boy,
Eu'ry morning to employ:
At the
Door
of each man's
Heart,
To perform th'
Aduisers
part,
Long, and loud, and oft to cry,
Man, Remember God on high.
I,
considering
This
great
Need,
And, how
few,
thereto proceed;
Have (for want of
One
more fit,)
Bouldly undertaken
It
:
Even a
Monitour
to be
To the Soul of
Thee
and
Mee,
Daily, duly to repeat,
Past,
and
Present Mercies
great;
Counting it the
Queen
of
Labors
To re-count
God's
boundless
Fauours
▪
Wherein, if
Thou
give consent,
I enjoy my
Hearts
content,
I obtain what
I
desire,
Having kindled
This
blest
Fire
:
Which, thus, kindled, ô
I
pray
It
may never die, decay,
But, burn-forth, with
Zeales
bright
Flame
To the
Praise
of
God's
great
Name:
This, This
only, seeks and prays
He, that truly rests, always.
Thine in the Lord Jesus, John Vicars.
TO HIS SINGVLAR good Cousen M R. JOHN VICARS. The most Praise-worthy Author OF England's Hallelu-jah.
Refresht my
Soul,
and rauisht have, my
Heart;
So great
Content
and
Comfort,
in
Mee,
bred,
I could not choose, but to
your-se
•
fe,
impart:
They have
Mee
changed, for
once,
& made me
Poet,
Your
Muse, Nought-else,
that I do know, could do it.
I will
Say
in
Prose,
what you do
Sing
in
Verse
Most Christianly;
The Lord is to be praised;
And in a home-spun Speach, I will still rehearse,
What you most sweetly, soundly, here, have phrased.
In this
Angellike Song,
a part I Love;
Thomas Vicars. B: D:
England's Hallelu-jah.
1.
MY thankful
heart
and
hand
do undertake
To write, indite, some holy heavenly
Song
;
Some sacred Song of
Love
and
Land
to make
Which may to England's Lord alone belong:
O that my Pen were prompt as that sweet writers,
That sacred, sugared, Kingly Praise-Inditers!
2.
O,
everliving, euerlouing,
Lord,
Father of Mercies, Fountain of all Grace;
Whose noble
Name
and
Fame,
Heaven, Earth, record
Glorious in Heaven, in Earth, in every Place:
Who art far fairer in thy beauteous praise,
Than is the Sun, in all his brightest rays.
3.
Thou art most glorious in the Worlds
Creation,
Wherein are various
Works
of wonder shown;
Wherein was
Mercies-Miracle
well known:
Thy
works
(ô Lord) indeed are wondrous great,
But yet, thy
Mercies
must have supreme seat.
4.
The
Heavens
declare thy handy-
works,
ô Lord,
The
Sea,
a Sea of
Wonders
doth afford,
Full fraught with Fishes, huge, innumerable;
But yet thy
Love
to
Man
amongst them all,
I justly most admire, and ever shall.
5.
Man, out of
Dust
(base dust) at first created,
Yet after thy blest
Image,
blestly made;
Man,
Lord
of all thy Creatures ordinated,
Man, by them all, in Earth, Air, Sea, obeyed:
Yet,
Man,
by Pride and Hells malignity,
Deprau'd
of Bliss,
Depriu'd
of's Royalty.
6.
To
Man,
much
blest,
in his pure
Generation,
To
Man,
most
cursed,
in his
Degenerous
-case;
By
Christ, Mans
sole
Peace-maker, Spring
of Grace:
To
Man
(I say) and of all
Men,
to
Those,
Whom, He, by
Faith,
to be his
Flock
hath chose.
7.
And, of all
These,
to
Vs
his
Little-flock,
To
Vs
(I say) his
English-Israelites
;
And to
Our
Land of
Goshen
; whom the frights
Of foreign
Foes
and home-bred
Enemies,
By
force
and
fraud,
have, oft, sought to surprise.
8.
Thy
Love
(ô Lord) I say, to
Our
poor
Nation,
Beside
Spiritual-Graces,
largely given;
Thy
Word
and
Sacraments,
Food of Salvation,
The best
Highway
for us to walk to Heaven:
Thy many
Temporal Protections
great,
From all the dangers, which fell Foes did threat.
9.
From all the
Terrors
of our Foes without us
From all the
Horrours
of our Foes within;
From all that rose against us, round about us,
From
Truth,
to
Error,
us to work and win:
This
thy great
Love,
our great
Deliverance,
This,
would my grateful
Voice
and
Verse
advance,
10.
That (maugre all the
might
and
spite
of
Spain,
Thou hast and wilt thy
Churches
right maintain,
And turn
Rome's
Curses to hir own dire doom:
Blessing,
whom he would
Curse,
crossing the hate,
11.
And, as hard hearted
Pharaoh
and his
Traine,
In
Egypt,
by God's fearful
Plagues,
oft, smarted;
But, still his
Goodness Goshen
did sustain:
And to
his
people
Light
and
Love
imparted:
Propping, protecting These
with sweet aspection,
Cropping, Correcting Those,
with foul infection.
12.
Even so proud-hearted
Antichrist
of
Rome,
And
•
is
Crown-thirsting Paramour
of
Spain,
Heavens,
just displeasure hath with heavy doom
Oft,
foiled, spoiled,
with their impious
Traine
:
Our
English-Goshen
being still protected,
Such
was his
Goodness, So,
he us affected.
13.
Witness, ô ever witness, may those days,
Those
Malcyon-Days
of sweet
Eliza's
Rain;
That
Friend
to
Faith,
That
Scourge
to
Rome,
&
Spain
:
All
present, past,
and
future
Ages
Glory,
Worthy prime
Place
and
Grace
in datelesse Story.
14.
By
whom,
the Lord so many
wonders
wrought,
To
whom
the Lord so great
deliverance
gave;
For
whom
in their own
Snares
hir
Foes
he caught,
In
whom
his
Church
(poor
Church
) he oft did save:
By wondrous, glorious, world-admired protection,
Such
was to
Hir
and
Hirs,
Heavens firm affection.
15.
Witness (I say) the
Treasons
often contrived
Stukely,
and f
•
lse
Mendoza
; yet none thrived,
For Heaven did
see,
and
smile,
and
Them befool
;
That impious person
Parsons,
Irish-
Sanders,
Campian, Rome's Champion, All
full fraught with slander▪
16.
Englefields Plott,
and
Rosses enterprise,
Parries
pernicious practice'd
Jnsolence,
Savages
savage plotted
Villanies:
Babingtons
barbarous
Treason, Percies Spleene,
And Jewish
Lopez, All
to kill
That Queen.
17.
Throgmorton, Stafford, Stanly,
and
Tyrone,
Implacable
Conspiratours,
were, All;
Like
Samson's Foxes
tide by th'
Tailes
in
One,
All ran like
Fire-brands
fierce to work the fall
Of that rare
Queen, Christ's Church
to ruinate,
As
Reverend Carleton
sweetly doth relate.
18.
Some sought and wrought, with
Poisons, Pistolls
fierce,
Hir harmless
Heart
injuriously to pierce,
Some by
Rebellions
aim'd at foul
Intents
:
All
aim'd, amiss, and
All
did miss the
White,
And
Law
and
Vengeance
paid them
All
their right.
19.
But, if you will see,
Sisera's
Pride at height
Against that English
Deborah
most sweet;
Behold it in his
Eighty-Eights
great Fleet:
His great
Armado,
shipps most huge and tall,
Which, He,
Invincible
did fondly call.
20.
This
Fleet
did
float
upon our
English Seas,
With
This,
he had even swallowed up, in hope,
Our
Albions Island,
Nothing, Les
•
e, could please
The hungry Appetites of
Spain
and
Pope:
And
This
fierce
Force,
and factious
Parts
within,
Promis'd, assu
•
'd, they should the Conquest win.
21.
Thus
Phillip
having with insulting Pride,
On every part, beset us with his power;
Gaping (but fondly gaping) every tide,
Our Liues and Lands like Quicke-sands to devour:
Even then, the
Wooden-walls
of
Jericho,
The breath and blast of
God's
wrath down did blow.
22.
Then did the Lord, arise a Lord of Hosts,
And all our Foes disperse and dissipate,
And to us did their
Captains
captivate:
The raging waves their ships did sink and batter,
And all their formidable Forces scatter.
23.
Then was our England's
Deborah
most dear,
(By God's all-potent power, all-patent Grace)
Made most triumphant over foes and fear,
Heaven did from
Hir,
proud
Sisera
quite chace:
The stars in order, winds, waves, seemed to fight,
To vindicate hir
Innocence
and Right.
24.
Thus, for that time, th' insatiate thirst of
Spain,
Was quenched, to his cost and high disgrace;
Most of his mighty ships spoiled, sunk and ta'ne,
Those that escapit, crept home in shameful case:
But spite of
Home-bred Traitors, foreign Foes,
Eliza
lived and died a fragrant
Rose.
25.
This was the Lord; Let thankful hearts declare it,
For, tis exceeding wondrous in our Ears;
That year of
Eighty-Eight,
ô never spare it,
To blaze the praise of
That year,
all thy years:
Let English Isre'll, sing and say all ways,
Not unto us, but to the Lord be praise.
26.
But, what? had
Rome's
inveterate spite and spleen
Oh no:
King James
succeeding that fair Queen,
Against Him, they their Plotts again did bend:
The
Cause
continuing works the same
Effect,
And
Spain
and
Rome
their
Dagon
must erect.
27.
Then, for th' advancement of their Cath'like-Cause,
Rome's
apish Popish
Priests
are firebrands, first,
A Romish-project, Treason most accurst:
But, if you will see a Mapp of
All,
in
One,
Look on their
Pouder-Plot,
oh There tis shown.
28.
A
Plott
of Treason, hatched, first, in Hell,
Bred and brought forth, by
Men,
like
furies
fell,
Incarnate
Devils,
only
Men
in face:
Nourisht, and cherished, by
Rome's Man
of
Sin,
By
Whom,
all Treasons
End
or else
Begin.
29.
A Treason 'twas, transcending all compare,
Though
True,
yet
Strange
to all Posterity;
Such, as whose
fullness, foulness
to declare,
Would seem t' exceed the bounds of Verity:
Yea, no true story from Earths first Creation,
Could ere relate so cursed a
Coniuration.
30.
A
Priest
was
Prouost
in this foul design,
Hellish incarnate
Garnet,
this was He;
And with
Gun-Pouder,
then, It, stuffed must be:
Wherwith, King, Queen, Prince, Prophets, Peers, & All,
Should with
One Blow,
have had
One
fatal fall.
31.
The mixture of
Nocents
with
Innocents,
Would naught avail;
All
should have drunk
One Cup
;
With
Pouder, All,
at
Once
had been
Blowne up:
Hearts worse then
Nero's,
void of mercy quite,
Whole Kingdoms Heades, at
One stroke,
off to smite.
32.
But our supernal
Isre'ls Shepherd
good,
Who never sleeps nor slumbers over his flock,
Close by us (by his
Providence
) then, stood;
He
sat,
and
saw,
and
smiled,
and them did
mock
:
Turning the
Counsel
of
Ahithophel,
Into mad
Folley,
Folly fecht from
Hell.
33.
And, in the
Snare,
which they for us had made,
Perillus
-like, Themselves were justly snared;
Our Souls did by God's goodness, safe evade,
Whilst They, amongst themselves, their mischief shared:
Haman,
and all his
Popish
impious
Fellowes,
Were hanged,
All,
upon their own high
Gallows.
34.
Oh here were
Work
for endless Meditation,
To make the thankful
Heart
break forth in Praise;
With fire of zeal and holy exultation,
To live, to love,
•
nd laud the Lord always:
His endless, boundless Goodness to proclaim,
And cause our Children's Children do the same.
35.
But yet, ô
English heart,
go one with me,
And taste and see that God was yet more gracious;
His never-emptied
Hands
still forward, free,
To fill thy Soul, with blessings, specious, spacious:
A
Type
of
Justice
on the Rabble of
Rome.
36.
Whose circumstances, (yet) considered right,
May justly move us to admire the Lord,
In all his works of wonder, grace and might,
And matter of much thankfulness afford:
To see
Rome's
forward
Pride
and Impudence,
By
God's
own
Hand,
receive due recompense.
37.
Nouembers
5
t
. with Vs, Their
Pouder-Plott
;
In
This,
or
Plott
or
Pouder,
there was not,
This
to disgrace,
That,
to destroy our Church,
But in
Them Both,
Heaven left them in the Lurch.
38.
In
That, They
sought our guiltless blood to spill,
But
We
escapt and
They
were paid with Blood;
In
This, Themselves
were
Authors
of their ill,
Whiles
They,
our
God's
and
Nations
Laws withstood:
Their
woeful
Ends,
I meddle not withal,
For,
Both,
did to their M
r
.
stand
or
fall.
39.
But, leaving
Them
(I say) to
God
most just,
And yet most gracious, to true
Penitents
;
I, yet a little farther lead thee must,
To see God's Love, in yet more large extents:
That so thy,
Heart,
with
David's
may say well,
Truly the Lord is good to Israel.
40.
O whoso'ere had (not long since) but ey'd,
How
Hollow Hearts
('mongst us) swam with the tide,
Out-beard, out-brave us, yea and to our face
Contest, contend,
Christ's Gospel
to disgrace.
41.
Who ere (I say) did
This,
then see, did
say,
Or (at least)
Fear, Religion
was nigh dead;
That all hir
Beauty,
almost buried lay,
Romish Recusants
had got such a
Head
:
And, quite (all most) to let
Hopes Life-blood
out,
See, what, it pleased the Lord to bring about.
42.
Our (then)
Prince Charles,
our staff of future joy,
Unto our sudden,
All-supposed
annoy,
From
Albion
fair, to black
Iberia
went:
Our
Day
was darkened with the
Fogs
of
Spain,
〈◊〉
quite disheartened, till it cleared again.
43.
Our
Pearl
of peerless price, was locked up fast,
In a polluted
Cabinet,
too-sure;
Ouer our
Sun,
a
Spanish Cloud
was cast,
Which did our
English Light,
delight, obscure:
(Under pretext of a
mis-matched Match
)
Till
Matchiuill
of
Rome
and
Spain
could hatch
44.
Could hatch (Isaiah) their
Egges
of
Policy,
To wind and bind to
Theirs, Our Church
and
State
;
To weave
Their Webbe
of
Europes Monarchy,
Wherein, They (then) seemed workmen fortunate,
So cunningly
They
had contriu'd each thing,
That
Hope
and
Hap,
seemed
Both,
to Crown them King.
45.
With
Craft,
lay close, his
Egges
to heat and hatch;
His M
•
, on
Ambitions Horse,
did hie,
No less, than our
Great Britain's Crown
to catch:
But, when
This
thought himself safe set in the' Saddle,
His
haste, made waste,
Tothers Egges All,
prou'd addle.
46.
In their own Counsels, strangely did besot;
His love to us, made them, themselves to cheat,
What they had got, they stupidly forgot;
What they so long did long for, thirst, affect,
Then, put upon them, they did slight, neglect.
47.
O, here, I cannot, but admire, adore,
The wondrous
Wisdom
of the
Lord, alone
;
Oh, here, I may not easily pass-ore,
The Contemplation of God's mercy shown
To
England,
happy
England,
in
This Act
Of
Mercy,
wherein,
Many
are compact.
48.
For, first, Had
Spain,
like
Saul,
his
Micholl
wedded
To many Woes, of
All-Wisemen
(then) dreaded,
By false feigned
Friends,
mere
Foes,
without, within:
What might
That Saul
have cared tohave spared a
Daughter
?
Whereby he thought tohau
•
wrought good
David's
slaughter.
49.
Some
Troian-Horse,
by
Spain's Pelasgan Art,
With sacred show, our Kingdom might have entered;
A
Spanish Fleet
(at least) tovphold the part,
Of urged Reformation had been ventred:
A
Fleet
(I say) full fraught with armed protectio
•
,
To bring the
Puritans
to due subjection.
50.
Again, had
Spain
never meant to make the
Match,
(As that's most sure) yet, had they still protracted,
Protested, vowed, advantage (still) to watch,
(Which part they oft have finely, falsely, acted)
With sly delays, tohave wyer-drawn their wiles;
What might they not have wrought on us, the whiles?
51.
Might they not, thus (at least) have bound our hands,
From least assistance to our
Neighbor-Friends
;
Till they had over-run the
Netherlands,
And everywhere obtained their proud Ends:
Whilst we (alas) stood looking at all
This,
And, in
Them,
saw, for
Vs, Rods
laid in
pisse.
52.
Oh then, that royal
King
and
Queen of Hearts,
Bohemiaes
Princely
Paire
and pleasant
Plants,
Had found Afflictions added to their smarts▪
Had then been drowned in helpless woes and wants:
Had been a prey fit for those hungry
Iawes,
•
hich, long, had gap'd to gripe them in their
Pawes.
53.
Then, oh then had
Religion
restlessely,
Then
Edom's
Sons had raisd a cruel Cry,
Like bloody
Blood-Hounds
vndefatigated:
'
•
et no memorial of it, ere, be found.
54.
But see, oh see, how our good
God
arose,
Like a most glorious
Sun
with gracious
Rayes
;
At whose
up-rise,
that monstrous
Cloud
of
woes,
Was quite dispelled, dispersed; And to Heavens praise,
Those threatened
storms
of
Spain's, Rome's
Rain & thunder,
Were turned into a
Calme
to our great wonder.
55.
For why,
God's Love,
led, yea pulled-forth our
Prince,
From
Spain's
foul
Fogs:
So that our
Sun
most fair
Hath clearly, cheerely, on us, ever since
Shined, and shut-out all our deep despair:
Sodainely, sweetly, to our admiration,
He came to us, to our
Hearts
exultation.
56.
He
came,
came
safely,
yea, he solely came,
Solely (I say) free from all
Spanish voake
;
Yea, which is most and best, (blest be
God's
name)
He came untainted of least
smell
of
smoke,
Of
Romish, Spanish Coals
of
Heresy,
God's
Grace
did guide, guard, his
Sincerity.
57.
Into
That Egypt
by his
God
and
King
;
Those many growing
Mischiefes
to prevent,
Which through all
Europe,
rank began to s
•
ring:
To shield us from a
Famine,
not of
Bread,
But of
God's Word,
which most men, most did dread.
58.
For why?
Rome's S
•
uen Lanke-Headed
hungry
Beast,
Hungering for
Blood,
yea
Blood
of
God's
blest
Saints
;
Had his devouring
Rage,
so much encreast,
And our fair
Peace
brought to so hard constraints,
That all our former
Full-felicity,
Was nigh deuourd, throughout all
Germany
▪
59.
But, as I said,
What
our
false fears
of strife,
Like
Joseph's Brethren,
did misterme, mistake;
Wrought on good
Joseph,
spoil of him to make:
That
did the
Lord
convert to our great good,
And well he went, as
then
our
Cases
stood.
60.
Oh
England, England,
What canst
Thou
repay?
What
Retribution
hast
Thou
for thy
God?
Thy God,
who,
Thus,
hath been thy staff and stay,
And freed
Thee,
thus, from
Spanish, Romish, Rod:
From
cruel Men,
which are
God's Sword,
indeed,
Whose
Mercies
are but
Mischiefes
bloody
Seed.
61.
O what canst thou to
God,
thy
God,
repay?
Which wondrously,
Life
out of
Death
hath brought;
Light
out of
Darkness,
from black
Night,
bright
Day,
Which from such
Bondage,
hath such
Freedom
wrought:
Which hath thy stooping, drooping,
Heart
revived,
And of their impious
Ends
thy
Foes
deprived.
62.
A thankful
Heart,
God's mercies oft to mind,
A helpful
Hand,
to his poor Members kind,
This
triple-Tye,
is
All
; yea,
This,
a
•
ways,
He most expects, he best respects, requires,
This
p
•
yes all
Debts, This
props all
new de
•
ires.
63.
With holy
David,
thankfully to take
The
Cup
of
Sauing Health,
to bless the Lord;
Recitall,
is
Requitall
thou must make,
His
many Mercies,
to recount, record:
Yea,
All
his
Blessings,
oft, to ruminate,
Is thy
best
means,
Then
to remunerate.
64.
But, how unthankfull,
England,
hast Thou been,
For
These, all these, God's
Mercies unto
Thee?
Of gross
Ingratitude,
may justly be
A woeful witness, how thou hast neglected,
Thy
God,
and all his
Goodness,
disrespected.
65.
How bruitishlie, how like a sottish
Swine.
Hast thou, the
Akornes
of
God's mercies
free,
Up to the
Oke
of
Grace, Life-giving Tree
:
Of
God's
mere
Mercy, Bounty,
whence alone
All these great
Goods,
like
Floods,
have to thee flown
66.
How-far unlike the little
Chickin,
grateful,
As if, by
Nature,
taught to hold most hateful,
Ingratitude,
even for least
Blessings
given:
But
Thou,
than any Creature, more unkind,
God's many, mighty Gifts,
blot'st out of mind.
67.
For, whereas
He
hath
Loaded Thee
with
Love,
(Witness those wondrous
Mercies,
pre-recited)
Plenteouslie poured, showered from Above,
Only because his
Love
in thee delighted:
Yet
Thou,
thy
Lord
hast
Loaded
with thy
Crimes,
With
Sins
transcending
Those
of elder
Times.
68.
And, as himself, b
•
's Prophet doth complain,
Long time, hath scarce been able to sustain
The weight of thy
innumerous sins
forborne;
Forborne (I say) with wondrous patience,
Not laying on thee
Sins
due recompense.
69.
With such
paternal Longanimity,
Each day, week, month, yea Yeare by year expecting
Thy due
Conversion,
with
Sincerity,
Thy Souls salvation
Fatherlike
affecting:
But all in vain his gracious expectation
Was frustrate still, by thy ill provocation.
70.
So that (as by another Prophet, He,
And can, no
longer, linger,
patient be,
From strict, exact, judicial, Conuenting
Of
England
and hir
Sons
foul
sins
before him,
Who thus forgot, for's
Goodness
to adore him.
71.
And since the
Music,
of his
mercies
sweet,
Could neither thy dull
Heart,
nor deaf
Ears
charm;
To cause thee with due
Laud
his
Love
to greet,
And so
prevent, th' event
of future harm:
Therefore the
Thunder
of his
Judgments
fierce,
He
now
doth
vow,
thy
Heart
shall plague and pierce.
72.
His prudent
Justice
therefore thought not fit,
To
Cockney
or to
Cocker
thee in
Sin
;
With too indulgent
Silence,
still, to sit,
But now to judge thee justly will begin:
For
strokes
of
Love,
to give thee
stripes
of
woe
•
',
To make thy
Cup
with bitterness oreflow.
73.
Which, how effectually it came to pass,
When thy incensed
God
did (late) alas,
With a fierce
Plague,
in justice vifite thee:
Thy
Beauty
into
Baldness
quickly turning,
Sweet
tunes
into sad
tones
; Mirth into mourning
74.
If ever
Jeremiah's
loud Lamentation,
For Captiuated
Salems
pitteous plight,
Were personated, pattern'd-out, most right:
Oh then, who
Salems
sorrow heard or knew,
Might thereby
London's
loud Lamentings view.
75.
London,
I say, which (as
Jerusalem
)
Was
Queen
and
Lady
of all other
Cities
;
Great Britain's
Pride and precious Diadem,
A Subject fit fought
Panegyricke Ditties
:
This fair Metropolis,
object
of Eyes,
Abiect,
by sin, filled with sad Elegies.
76.
How didst thou
London,
solitary sit,
Whi
•
h formerly with people full wast filled?
How didst thou
London,
sadly Widow it,
Who wast of
Provinces,
the Princesse held?
How didst thou wail all day, weep sore all night,
Both night and day thy Cheekes with tears bedight
77.
Yea, how wast thou, by thine own
Sons
forsaken,
How were thy neighbouring
Friends
become thy
Foes
?
By frights and fears how wast thou overtaken?
Oh how hadst thou
want
added to thy
woes
:
At home, by
Epidemicke Plague,
infected,
Abroad, b'
vnhospitable Friends
neglected.
78.
Thy Gates and Streets most desolately left,
God's fierce
Destroying Angel
smiting dead;
Whereby were
Thousands
of their lives bereft,
Thy
Priests
and
People
from thee frighted, fled,
Thy
Priests
(I say) whose piety and Pity
Should have redressed, and dressed thy wounded City.
79.
But
These
and
Those
like heartless
Harts
were fled,
Spiritual
Plastures, Pastures
thee denying;
Nothing more heard than
Knells
of
Bells
for Dead,
And cries of
Watery-Eyes
for friends a dying:
For
Friends,
yea
Fathers,
whom they durst not see,
Nor, as they would or should, assistant be.
80.
Oh, who is able rightly to relate,
Thy
sad
thy
bad
condition to condole;
When
Death-Tryumphant
sat in Chair of State,
When his Dead-wounding Weapon, Sick and whole;
Yea
Poor
and
Rich
did to the
Grave
annex,
Without distinction of or
Age
or
Sexe.
81.
When naught was heard, but loud alarm's for death,
When naught was seen but
Trophies
of his Spoiles
When naught was felt or found but stifled breath
To put a period to
Liues
restless Toyles:
When all our
Gallants-Coaches
gave large room
For
ghastly-Coarses
passage to the Tomb.
82.
When
Tombes
into wide-gaping
Pitts
were turned,
When Parents, Children, Youngmen, Maides,
All
mourned,
When
All
were frighted, free from Fear not
Any
:
Whenas, instead of
Signs,
each Houses door
A
Red-Cross
and a
Mournefull-Motto
wore.
83.
When buried
Bodies
in their
Beds
of Clay,
Were piled-up on heaps, like Fagot-stackes;
Where
All
they mingle,
None
they single lay,
Yea, some Dead Corps due
Dormitorie
lacks:
When
None
suruiu'd, but might with
David
say
Thousands, Ten Thousands, Dead about him lay.
84.
When thus (I say) thy
Citty
populous,
By that fierce Epidemical destruction,
Wa
•
made, all most, a Desert ruinous;
A
Golgotha,
a
Chaos
o
•
Corruption:
When passions and Compassions reluctance,
Was tenter'd-up to highest aggravation.
85.
When
these, all these,
yea
more
than
these mishaps
Came flocking, fl
•
wing, flying, round about thee;
Besides, worse fears, of yet-worse
After claps,
When
horrou
•
s, terrors,
were within, without thee:
When
•
very minute, every Man did look,
From hopeless Life, to be soon snatched and took.
86.
The
•
, oh, even then, London, like
Nineveh,
In
•
able
Sack-cloth,
sobbing, sighing, satt;
In Fasts and Prayers▪ a loud to Heaven did cry,
Wi
•
h conscio
•
s Co
•
sterna
•
ion falling flatt:
With
••
e
Sub
•
ission,
true
Contrition
bending,
And up to Heaven, hir pressed petitions sending.
87.
And Then, even then, ô see, and to admire,
The wondrous mercy of our
Lord
of Love;
〈◊〉
didst th
•
u supplicate, desire,
Me
••
y and gracious pardon from above;
Nay, sooner than thou calldst,
He,
answer gave,
And while thouspak'st,
He
heard and did thee save.
88.
Yea, He was found of Thee that sought'st Him not,
He ran to thee, who from him fast didst fly;
He minded thee, though thou hadst him forgot,
And though thou wouldest not, cured thy Maladie:
Yea, though thou
Him provoked'st
to his face,
Yet, He
prevented Thee,
with his good Grace.
89.
'Twas not thy
Fasts
(faint Fasts) that he respected,
'Twas not thy hollow, half-
Humiliation
;
To be, a day or two, in Soul, dejected,
Or, rather, seeming so, for ostentation:
In Sack-Cloth sadly, down thyself to spread,
Or like a
Bull-rush
to hang-down thy Head.
90.
Was
This
the
Fast,
which God of Thee would have?
Was
This
the humble-contrite
Heart
he asked?
Was
This
the true
Repentance
God did crave?
Oh no: yet, under
Only-This,
was masked
Thy seeming sorrow, weak
Humiliation,
Yea, in the midst of
This,
much
Prouocation.
91.
So, that the Lord,
This
just complaint might make,
Of Vs, and our best
Acts
iniquity;
Oh
London,
what could I do more, for thee?
Thy
Goodness
being, but like
Clouds
in the day
Or
Mornings-dew,
which passeth soon away.
92.
Oh 'twas the Lord's mere
Mercy
plenteous,
That We, all we, were not consumed quite;
Because his sweet Compassions fail not Vs,
But, are renewed, eued every Morne and Night:
For, when we call, or Crie, he hears us strait,
Yea,
He
on our
Repentance
(oft) doth wait.
93.
Oh Lord, though our perverse Iniquities,
Our great
Transgressions,
'gainst us testify;
Are grown unto strange multiplicity;
Yet, for thy
Names-sake
thou hast mercy shown,
In time of trouble, We thy Truth have known.
94.
Thou, that acceptedst
Ahab's
faind Submission,
Thou that e
•
en pittiedst
Hypocrites
false Feares;
Hast kindly taken our but mean Contrition,
And botled-up our few, unworthy Tears:
Thou,
Israel's-Keeper,
steadfast Hope most kind,
To do us good, hast had us still in mind.
95.
If, what
Benhadad's
Servants said, was true,
How much more sure, canst
Thou
both say and show,
That from
Heavens-King, All Grace and Goodness
springs,
Our
Isr'ells King,
That
He's
most kind and sweet,
When
Sinners, Him,
with true Repentance meet.
96.
Witness, and ever witness may That love,
Th
•
t wondrous Love of
His,
to
Thee
(late) known
That most admired Mercy from above,
To
London,
latelie louelie, seen and shown:
To thee ô
London,
in thy woeful state,
When
Death
and
Dearth
sought
Thee
to ruinate.
97.
When sodainlie, beyond all expectation,
The
Lord
in Love, did look upon thy woe;
And to his
Glory
and thy
Admiration,
Th'ore flowing
Flood-Gates
of his
Grace
let-go:
Whereby
full Streames
of mercy issued out
And soon refreshed thy City round about.
98.
Brought down to
Hundreds, Hundreds,
brought to
Ten
;
Thy
Ten,
to
One,
thy
One
to
None,
thy
Fear,
To safe
Security
was turned, and Then;
For
Mourning,
thou hadst
Mirth,
for
sorrow, Joy,
For
Sickness, Health,
sweet
Solace
for
Annoy.
99.
Thy Streets, were then re-peopled and replenished,
Thy
tears
dry'd-up, thy
fears
were from thee banished,
Thy late
fled-Sons
and
Daughters
home resorting:
To their long-hoped
Homes
flocking amaine.
Thy
Houses,
yea
God's Houses,
filled again.
100.
Then thy sad
Fasts
into glad
Feasts
were turned,
Thy
City
fraught with Hir Inhabitants;
Then,
Joy
possessed the
Hearts
of those that mourned,
Plenty
supplied the place of woeful
wants
:
This was the
Lord,
and twas most admirable,
This was our
God,
whose Mercies are most stable.
101.
Nay, yet a little stay and stand amazed,
In admiration of
more Mercy,
yet;
Wherein the
Lord
is, yet, more to be praised,
For (yet) another wondrous
Benefit
:
Wherein we may most visibly perceive,
God
leaves not giving, till to ask
we
leave.
102.
But
first,
(oh and tis
worst
) consider well,
How well, thou
England
didst requite thy
God
?
Whose
Grace,
whose
Goodness,
thus did flow, excel,
So soon, so sweetlie laying by his
Rod
:
Didst thou requite
Him
as he merited?
Wast thou made better,
humbler-spirited
?
103.
Nay didst thou not (
Back-sliding England
) rather
Rebelliouslie back to thy
Vomite
hasten?
Didst thou not seem to re-collect and gather,
More strength, thyself to
Sin
more firm to fasten:
And like the
Snake
late
f
•
stred
at the fire,
Hast
festered All,
and re-incensed
God's
Ire.
104.
And since thy
Heart
grew so obdurate, hard,
That
Pharaoh
-like naught but the
Rod
could tame thee;
That thy late pricking
Plague
thoudst not regard,
That neither
Words,
nor
Wounds
would yet
•
e-clame
•
t
That nothing could thy
hard heart
mollify,
But thou grewst worse and worse rebelliouslie.
105.
Since thou thyself, thy
Sins
wouldst not bewail,
And
we
•
thy
Heart,
and weep thy part in tears;
But wouldest by
Sin,
thy Self, thy Soul assail,
And
block
it up, with
black
affrighting
Feares
:
Such
Feares
therefore forthwith upon thee came,
As able were a stoutest
Heart
to tame.
106.
Of piercing
Death,
by pining
Dearth
made hast;
With macerating, fierce and pinching pangs,
Our
Sins
fat
fullness, foulness,
to lay waste:
Their
Prouinder
from
pampered Colts
to take,
More tame and tractable them th
•
s to make.
107.
Such sad, incessant
Shewers
unseasonable,
Whose rainey Influence did menace Dearth,
And (for our
Sins,
unkind, unreasonable)
Did pour upon our
Corn-fields
most fair,
Fierce frequent
Floods
their beauty to impair.
108.
Wherewith they (waxing to the
Harues
•
white,
And almost ri
•
e and ready for the
Sickle
)
Were, all, so
drenched,
nigh
drowned
(a pitteous sight)
With
Heaven-shed-Tears,
which did in streams downet
•
That our glad
Hope
of
Harvest
justly left us,
Sad
Fear
of
Famine,
thereof quite bereft us.
109.
A dreaded
Deluge,
on us therefore growing,
And we with doubtful
Danger
all-su
•
rounded;
Huge
Shewers
of Rain from th' angry
Heavens
flowing,
And all our
Graine
with
Rain
like to be drownded:
Then, not till then our heart the
Rods
smart felt,
Our
Rockey-hearts,
then into tears gan melt.
110.
Then like
stiff-necked Israel
we did stoop,
Then our distress forced us to cry and call;
Then sighs and sorrows made us
drop
and
droop,
Then were we humbled and did humbly fall
Before
God's Foot-stool,
at his
Mercy-seat,
And weep and wail for our offenses great.
111.
Yea, then (I say) our
King
religiouslie
Then,
All
were ordered in Humility,
With broken-hearts before the
Lord
to stand:
Mercy to crave and
Reconciliation,
On true
Repentance
and due
Reformation.
112.
And see (oh see and never cease t' admire)
God's infinite, ineffable compassion;
Readier to give, than we are to desire,
Yea, even upon appearance, shape and fashion
Of
Penitence, Humility,
and
Fear,
See, see how soon, He
lends
and
bends
his ear.
113.
No sooner did our
Griefe,
his
Grace
entreat,
No sooner did we, prostrate, promise make,
Sin to forsake, but
He,
in mercy great,
His
Wrath
forsook, his
Kindnesse
did re-take:
And on
bare-promise
(oh twas
bare
indeed)
He did no farther in his wrath proceed.
114.
That
very-day
on which that
Fast
was kept,
Whereon, the
Kingdom
was assembled dulie,
God graciously, the
Sluice
of Heaven did stop,
Immediatelie it ceased to rain,
one drop.
115.
When
we
gan
weep,
the
Heavens
began to
smile
Whe
we
were
sad
and sorrowful for
Sin,
The
Sun
began to
laugh
on us the while,
As if, with us, it n'ere had angry been:
The
Heavens
grim cloudy
Countenance
grew clear,
And did our
Hearts
with happy
Change
re-cheer.
116.
Most extraordinary clear and fair,
It constantly continued▪ to display,
(Without least intermission)
Sun-shine
rare:
Till, by
God's goodness
and his favor great,
It banished
Fear
and made our
Joy
complete.
117.
Until (I say) our
Harvest
happily,
Not only in
due season
was possessed;
But (ô the
Lord's
boundless
Benignity
)
Our
Rarnes
were
All
with great abundance blest:
A
Copious Croppe
of
every kind
of
Graine,
Did unto
All men, Every where,
remain.
118.
And is thy God (ô
England
) so propitious?
So prone, so pressed, with mercies to embrace thee?
Unto thee still so louinglie auspicious,
With so sweet
Fauours
graciously to grace thee?
How
gratefully
shouldst thou such
Grace
repay?
How should thy
Heart
thy
thanks
express always?
119.
O how much
care
and
Conscience
should be showed,
So many marchlesse mercies fair to write
In datelesse
Rubrickes
of pure
Gratitude
?
And there to keep of them perpetual sight.
And at so sweet a sight, amazed to stand,
Admiring
God's great Love
unto thy
Land,
120.
And in this contemplating
Admiration,
To praise the
Lord
and promise faithfully,
To walk more worthy of so great Salvation;
To hate, those
Sins,
with zealous fervency,
Which are the
cursed Cause
of all this
Ill,
Which
force perforce God's
anger 'gainst thee still.
121.
But, oh, ô woe, I tremble to relate it!
O yet, not yet, do
All these Mercies
move thee;
And as for
Judgment, Thou
even seemest to hate it,
Nothing availeth to reclaim, reprove thee:
Thou neither wilt for
Judgments
or for
Love,
Forsake thy
Sins
or fear the
Lord above.
122.
Well, if his
Rod
may not reform thy
Riot,
Take heed and tremble, for
He
hath an
Axe
;
Wherewith he can thee quickly quail and quiet,
If thou in
Sin,
wilt
worse
and
worser
wax.
And if his
Axe
be laid to th'
Roote
'oth'
Tree,
O then without redemption, woe is thee.
123.
Then,
He,
that with such
Longanimitie,
Hath stood and knocked at thy
hard-Hearts
door;
Will stay no longer, but most angrilie,
As thou hast grieu'd his
Spr'it, He'l
grieve thee more:
Then thou shalt cry but
He
will give no care
Because when
He
did call,
Thou
wouldst not hear.
124.
Then, mayest Thou fear, least in his high displeasu
•
Instead of thy late dreaded
Dearth of Bread,
He send a
Famine
fearful, out of measure,
Even of his
Word,
whereby the
Soul
is fed:
Without which
Food
the
Soul
will starve and die,
And be exposed to utmost
Miserie.
125.
Oh then I say (but,
ah,
good
Lord
forbid)
Our
Candlesticks
being from us ta'ne away,
Our
Souls
caelestiall
Light
would quite be hid,
Our
Feet
at every
step
would
slip
and
stray
Into the
mire
and
Mudde
of odious
Error,
And we made
Subjects
of all woe and Terror.
126.
Then, since we did our
Fathers stripes
deride,
He'l give us over to his
Servants Rage
;
A
gap,
a
gate,
He (then) will open wide,
To let in
Foes,
whose
fury
to asswage:
Nought shall suffice, till they
Vs
quite devour,
And Captiuate our
Princes
to their power.
127.
O
England, England,
call to mind these things,
Recant, repent, thy great
Ingratitude
;
Cease to incense Heavens glorious
King
of
Kings,
B
•
times return, before
He
thee exclude;
Oh
yet
tis time,
now
then return with speed,
Before his
wrath
to
This
extent proceed.
128.
Return, Return, I say, Break off thy Sin,
Why wilt thou perish,
English Israel?
Oh, now, to sue for
Sauing Grace,
begin▪
To cease from
Ill,
and truly to
do well
:
And which is
most
and
best,
obedient be,
To
All,
thy
God,
in
Ought
commandeth thee.
129.
And, what (ô
England
what doth
God
require?
What special
Thing
doth
He
from
Thee
expect?
O He hath
told,
and taught thee his desire
What
Sacrifice
his
Soul
doth most affect:
Justly to deal, and Mercy to embrace,
Humbly to walk, before his sacred Face.
130.
Justice (I say) to Love and do what's Right,
To do to
All,
what
Thou
'd'st have done to thee;
To have a pious and a pitteous Sprite,
Wrongs to forgive, as thou'dst forgiven be:
To walk before the
Lord
with Constancy,
And a pure
Heart,
in true Humility.
131.
To pay those
Vowes
which
Thou
to
God
didst make,
In bitterness and sorrow of thy Heart;
That thou wouldst Sin, yea
All
thy
Sins
forsake,
Yea, from
Sins Least Appearance
to depart:
Sins
nauseous Vomite
to euaporate,
And n'ere, with
Dogs,
It re-ingurgitate.
132.
To search thy Heart, to search and seek, and find
That traitorous
Achan, Sin-bane
of thy
Soul
To pay and punish it, in
Jts
due kind,
The pride thereof to pull-down and control:
Thy self, for
Sin,
to judge, condemn, arraign,
So,
God,
thy
Judge
from judgment will abstain.
133.
That so,
thou
turning from thy
Paths
perverse,
Thy
God
from thee may turn his
Plagues
away;
And his vindicatiue
Verdict
reverse,
His heau'd-up
Hands
from striking
strokes
may stay:
That thou returning to his
Courts
of
Grace,
He may return to thee with
Loves
embrace.
134.
That, as thou yerst in
Sin
didst take delight,
So, now thy
Love
may on the
Lord
be set;
That so thou mayest be gracious in his sight,
Thy
Savior
having satisfied Thy
Debt
:
And by his
Merits
made
Redintegration,
Twixt
God
and
Thee
for thy poor Souls salvation.
135.
He hath not dealt with
every Nation,
thus,
Nor have the
Heathen
knowledge of his Law;
He hath not loved
them,
as he loveth
Vs,
Nor
wrought
or
sought
so many ways, to draw
Them from their
Lusts
unto his
Lo
•
e
and
Lure
:
As unto
Vs, Vs
to protect, secure.
136.
For which, even
These, All these
blest
Arguments,
These
good,
these
great,
these
gracious
signs of
Love
;
For
these, All these
vnpatternd Presidents,
Of boundless
Bounty,
Mercy from above:
A holy Life, an upright Conversation,
And thankful Heart is best retaliation.
137.
These are the
Twins
that
wins
his
Love
and favor,
These only make a Compleate
Sacrifice
;
This
Franckincense
and
Myrrh
hath sweetest savor,
These make most aimable in
God's Eyes,
The
Person
and the
Present, Abel
-like,
And into
God,
new force of favor strike.
138.
This
Picture
pleaseth most his sacred
sight
;
This
savory Meat
is for
God's Palate
meet,
This
fragrant Po
•
ie
doth his
smell
delight:
This
silver-tuned-string
to
strike
and
touch.
God most affects, besides
These,
there's none such,
139.
O then, that
We
had
Hearts
as full of
Praise,
As
God
hath
Hands
full fraught with
blessings
store,
O that our
Hearts
and
Hands
would join always
God's
Goodness, Greatness,
duelie to a door:
Like
Jonathan
and
David
faithfully,
Two
individual Friends
in Loyaltie.
140.
To publish and proclaim in
Verse
and
Voice,
In
Words
and
Works
the
Mercies
of the
Lord
;
With grateful
Hearts
(God's, only louelie Choice)
His works of wonder truly to record:
O that our
Tongues,
our
Hearts, Hands, Liues
and
All,
In
Gratitude,
could be reciprocal.
141.
That so the
Lord
might still more pleasure take,
Daylie to
Loade
us with his
Gifts
of
Grace
;
To Crown us with
new Comforts
and to make
Our
Nation,
th'only
Station
and prime
Place,
Wherein to
show
the
Sun-shine
of his
Love,
Whereon to
shewre
his
Blessings
from above.
142.
To make our
Land
the
Land-mark
and example
Of
Mercy, Plenty, Peace
and
Victory
;
Under our Feet our
Foes
to tread and trample,
Which at his
Zion,
have an
evil Eye
:
Out of their
Heads
to make the
Eye
to fall,
That
longs
and
looks
to see his
Israel's
fall.
143.
Mean while, Let
Vs
and all the
World
accord,
Let
Heaven
and
Earth,
and
Sea,
with us combin
•
Let all our
Fellow-Creatures,
help afford,
Let
Winds
and
Waters,
with us all conjoin;
To sing
and
sound,
to
preach
and to
proclaim,
The
Lord's victorious, ever-glorious Name.
144.
Let
Kings, Peers, Prophets, People
sing his praise,
Let
Old
and
Young,
Let
high
and
Low, Rich, Poor
;
Let
Fishes, Fowls,
and
Beasts
his bounty blaze,
Let
Wells,
and
Woods,
let
Hills and Dales,
adore
The sacred
Name
of
God
our
Lord
supernal,
For
All
his
Mercies,
Temp'rall and eternal.
145.
Let
Men,
Let
Saints
and
Angels,
bless the
Lord,
And,
Him,
forever praise and Magnifie;
Let
All
that is in
Heaven
and
Earth
record
The
Name
and
Fame
and matchless
Memory
Of our
eternal-ternall
heavenly
Lord
:
Let
England,
and
All English-Hearted,
then
With
Mee,
bless
God,
and say,
Amen, Amen.
FINIS.
Gloria in excelsis Trin-Vni Deo.
Divers of DAVIDS Psalms, According to the French Form and Metre.
Psalm the 1.
1.
HAppie, thrice happy is
that
holy
Saint,
Which doth
Himself
with no bad Course acquaint:
Nor in the
ways
of
wicked-workers
walketh,
Nor
Sits
ith'
Seat
of
Him
that proudly talketh.
But in
God's Laws, God's Holy Word
most bright,
His Soul doth
choicely, chiefly,
take delight;
Prizing
This Pearl,
above all Earthly
Treasure,
And,
Herein Night
and
Day,
planting his
Pleasure.
2.
He,
surely
He,
justly compared may be,
Unto a
fair,
a
fruitful
spreading
Tree,
Planted by
Springs
of
Grace, Fruit
(timelie) bringing:
Euer
in
All-Things
blest, in
Goodness
springing.
But for the
rotten Roote
and
tainted Stem,
Of
wicked Workers,
'It is not
So
with
Them
;
For, when with worldly
Hopes,
Themselves
they
flatter,
The
Wind
of
God's Wrath, Them,
like
Chaff
shall scatter.
3.
The
Wicked,
therefore, (oh most wretched case)
Shall never be able to approach the
Face
Of
God,
in
Judgment,
and just indignation;
Nor
Sinners
come into
Saints
Congregation.
For,
God
doth
like, allow-of,
much
respect,
The
Ways
and
Works
of
All
his
Saints Elect
;
But,
He,
the
Paths
of
Peruerse-Men
rejecteth:
Perish they shall, For,
He,
them
All,
neglecteth.
Psalm 2.
1.
WHy did the
godless, graceless Heathen Crew,
So
rage
and
rave
with furious Indignation?
Why did the
faithless Pharisaicke Jew
Strive
to make
thrive
his vaineimagination?
Why did Earths
P
•
inces, Potentates,
with Might,
So
bend
and
band,
Themselves, with wrath appointed?
So troupe together, armed with deadly spite,
Against the
Lord
and
Christ,
his dear
Anointed?
2.
Let us say
They,
(ah
fond
and
foolish
choice)
With our strong
Hands
their
Bands
and shackling
Fetters,
In pieces break; And disobey their voice,
And shake their
Yoke
from
Vs,
and our
Abettours.
But
God,
whose habitation is on High,
On his caelestiall
Throne sits, sees, derideth
Them
and their
Counsels
: And (then) angrilie
To Them,
He'l
speak, when's Wrath on them resideth.
3.
Then, to their
shame
and
sorrow,
thus He'l say;
J,
yea even
J,
have on My sacred
Zion,
Set
and
Set fast
my King, to rule, for Aye,
(On this blest Mount)
All,
which do
Him
rely-on.
Now I will show
God's Counsaile
and
Decree,
Which
He,
to
Mee,
in Mercy hath expressed;
Thou art my
Son,
I have begotten
Thee,
This
Day
and in my
Kingdom
interested.
4.
Ask of
Mee,
then, and I will on
Thee
bestow,
All
Pagan-People,
with their
Pomp
and
Treasure
▪
All
Crowns
and
Scepters
of the Earth below,
To
stoop
and
stand
at thy
Command
and
Pleasure.
Thou
them shalt
manage, master, curb
and
crush,
As, with an
I
•
on-Mace,
with
Princely-Power,
As,
Potters Vessels, Those
thy
Vassalls,
hush,
Thy
Might
shall make most
meek,
or soon devour.
5.
Be wise, therefore, ye Potent
Princes, All,
Ye
Judges
grave, be
prudent, provident,
In awful reverence, at
God's Foot-stool,
fall,
Serue
Him,
with
humble-Joy,
most diligent.
With kindly
Kisses
(signs of
Homage
true)
Salute the
Son,
Least his just indignation,
Being soon enflam'd,
ye
meet
Death
as your
Due
:
Blest, then, are
They,
in
Christ
that seek salvation,
Psalm the 3.
1.
O Lord, what
Numbers
rise
Of
armed-Enemies,
With
Wrath
and
rage
incited,
How many
furious Foes
Me compass and enclose,
Against
Mee, All
Vnited.
How many
say
and
swear
My
Soul
to fright and fear
That
God
is from me parted,
And that I am (now) left
Of
hope,
of
help
bereft
And shall be soon subvert
•
d.
2.
But,
They
themselves deceive
My
God
will
me
never leave
But be my strong
Defender
:
My
Sword
and
shield
of might
My
Glory
and
Delight
Thou,
Lord,
my
Life
dost tender.
Therefore with
Heart
and
Voice
I made the
Lord
my
Choice
And called upon
Him
solely;
And
He
in wonted
Love
Did hear
me
from above
Out of his
Mountain
holy.
3.
I, thus most safely kept,
Lay-down
and sweetly slept
And
rose,
much recreated;
For,
God,
my gracious
Guarde
Did 'bout me
watch
and
ward
And me in
safety
sta
•
ed.
Though, then, Ten-Thousand
Foes
Should me surround, oppose,
With
might
and
mischief
armed:
I would not be afraid,
Nor any whit dismayed.
For I could not be harmed.
4.
Rise-up, therefore, ô
Lord,
Thy gracious
help
afford
For,
Thou
my
Foes
hast foiled;
And broke the
Teeth
and
Cheeke
Of wicked men that seek
My
Life
to have quite spoiled.
Thee
only,
Lord
therefore,
My
Soul
doth pressed adore
And praise for my
Salvation
:
Thou dost thy
Folke
defend
And all good
Graces
send
To thy blest
Congregation.
Psalm the 4.
1.
O
Lord
my
God
my
Rights
defender,
O hear my call attentively
Thou
of my
Liberty
art lender
And in
disgrace
my
case
didst tender,
Have
mercy
(then) and hear my cry.
O Sons of mortal men why muse you?
To turn my
Glory
into shame;
Why, fondly, vain
devises
choose you?
Why, forged, feigned,
Lying
use-you?
And so
your-selves
deface, defame.
2.
Know
this,
and be thereof assured,
That
God
above in
Love
doth choose
The man to
Piety
inured;
By his good
Grace
to be secured,
And will not his
Request
refuse.
To sin, therefore, oh shame, oh shake-you
To search your
Hearts
most seriously
Into your
Clossets
close betake you
In Bed to
God,
petition make-you
With
silence
and
Sincerity.
3.
Then, give to
God
a blest
Oblation,
A
Sacrifice
of
Righteousness
A
•
erfect-Hearts Humiliation,
And free from anxious
Dubitation,
Trust in the
Lord,
in
All
distress.
Most men, for,
Wealth
make inqui
•
itio
•
,
And
Goods,
as
God's,
do most embrace;
But, as for
Vs,
our pressed
Petition,
Is, for a
free
and
full fruition,
Of
God's
blest
Beams
of heavenly
Grace
▪
4.
For,
This, This
brings to
Mee,
more
Pleasure,
My
Heart, Herein,
takes more delight,
Than
They
can find in all their
Treasure
Their
Oil
and
Wine
in wondrous measure
Whereon they
plod
to
please
their sight.
I being (therefore) safe secured,
Will rest in peace and sweetly sleep
Because I know and am afsured
God's Goodness
hath me round-immured,
And
He, He
only, will me kee
•
e.
Psalm 5.
1.
VNto my submiss
Supplication
attend,
Lord
lend thy gracious
Eare
;
be pleased, be pressed, my voice to hear,
Regard from
Heaven,
thy
Habitation
My
Meditation.
2.
O hearken to my poor
Petition,
my sacred
God,
my sovereign
King,
for, only unto
Thee
I bring,
In humble, hearty, due submission,
My
Souls
Contrition.
3.
Lord,
timely,
let me be respected,
for,
tim
•
lie,
I to thee will call;
betimes,
ô
hear,
and
help
withal:
On thee I wait to be protected,
And safe direct
••
4.
For,
Thou,
ô
God,
all gods excellest,
in
Goodness
and in
Faithfulness,
and lovest not least
Wickedness,
With wicked-
Workers,
Thou n're dwellest,
But,
Such
repellest.
5.
Fond
Fools, Thou
evermore reiectest,
they dare not stand in thy blest sight,
and all that do in
Sin
delight,
Thou, utterly, ô
Lord
neglectest,
And dis-respectest.
6.
The
smoothing Flatterer, soothing Liar,
that calls
Good, Evil; Evil, Good
:
The
Homicide
that thirsts for
Blood,
God will (in fine) confound with
Fire,
In his fierce
Ire.
7.
But, I will in thy Congregation,
in thy blest Temple,
Thee
adore;
and trusting on thy
Mercies
store,
Express my Hearts
Gratification,
With due Prost
••
tion.
8.
Lord,
guard,
and
guide,
and safe
protect-me,
in wonted
Love
from all my
Foes,
their
Stratagems
and
Plots
disclose,
In thy plain
Paths,
ô
Lord direct-me,
And still
affect-me.
9.
For, in
Them, lightness, lewdness
reigneth,
their
Hearts
are fraught with fr
•
ud and guile
their
Throat
a gaping
Grave
most vile,
Theit lying
Tongue
no
Truth
retaineth▪
But falsely f
•
ineth.
10.
Lord,
therefore, let them quite be quelled,
let all their
Counsels
come to naught;
despise, disperse,
their
ill-works
wrought,
For,
they
against
thee
have rebelled,
And proudly swelled.
11.
But, Let all those whose expectation,
is fixed on
Thee,
in
Thee
rejoice,
and let thy
Love
lift up their voice,
In triumph and true admiration,
Of thy Salvation.
12.
For,
Thou,
thy
Saints
and
Sons
defendest,
and with thy
Grace
as with a
shield
;
to
Them
dost
saf'ty, succor,
yield,
On them,
Thou
all thy
blessings
sendest,
And kindly tendest.
Psalm the 6.
1.
LOrd, in thine
Jndignation,
And just
exasperation,
Correct not mine offense:
And though, I blame do merit,
Yet, let me not inherit,
My
Sins
just Recompence.
2.
But, in thy
Mercy
rather,
Entreat
me
as a
Father,
And mildly with me deal:
For, all my Bones do quiver,
My
flesh
for
fear
doth shiuer:
My
so
•
es Lord
(therefore) heal.
3.
My
Soul
is also troubled,
My
sorrows,
thereby doubled,
With inward
Griefe
and
Paine
;
But, oh good
God
be speedy,
To help Mee, poor and needy,
Oh do not, long, refrain.
4.
In wonted
Grace
be pleased,
To see my sorrows eased;
Return and pity take:
No
merit
in
me,
count-I,
But, for thy boundless
Bounty,
And thy mere
mercies
sake.
5.
For why? If
Death
once take-us,
And
vital-Breath
forsake-us,
Thy
fame
we cannot blaze:
And in the
Pitt
infernal,
Who can extol th'
External,
And his due
Glory
praise.
6.
My
Soul,
with inward anguish,
In
sighs
and
sobs
doth languish,
And ready is to faint;
And, for sweet
Rest
and
Sleeping,
My
Bed
even swinnes with
Weeping,
Salt-shewers
in
Singes
complaint.
7.
Through my incessant crying,
My
Heart
is oft near dying,
My
sight
grows dim and old;
In high
despite, displeasure,
To see, in such high measure,
My
foes,
so
bad,
so
bold.
8.
But, now away ye wicked,
Which at
God's Grace
have kicked▪
Be packing everyone;
For,
God
is pleased in
Pitty,
To hear the doleful
Ditty,
Of my deep
sighs
and
moan.
9.
The
Lord,
to my
Petition,
Hath granted kind admission,
And heard
me
from on high,
He did not only hear me,
But graciously did cheare me,
And grant me full supply.
10.
An
•
now my
Foes
are frighted,
Wh
•••
Mee
so much despighted,
And causelessly did wrong:
••
ey suddenly are wounded
And shamefully confounded
By
God
my
Guardian
strong.
Psalm the 8.
1.
Omnipotent
Lord God,
most great, most glorious
Whose noble
Name
and
Fame
is most victorious
Above the
spacious, specious
Heavens high,
Yea, all the World throughout thy
praises
fly.
2.
Yea, even by the
mouths
of
Babes
most tender
Thou hast made known thy
might
and glries
splendor,
And by their,
mouths
hast stopped the
mouths
of those
Which were both
Thine
and
Their
revengeful
Foes.
3.
And when I
see
(as
oft
I
see,
admiring)
The
Heavens
most fair, in all their rare
attyring,
The splendent
Sun,
the
Moon
and
Stars
most bright
Those
twinkling-Spangles,
ordered
All
aright.
4.
Lord,
•••
nke I then (as well I may, amazed)
Oh what is
Man,
whom thou so high hast raised?
Or what's the silly
Son
of all
man-kind
?
That thou art pleased to have him so in mind.
5.
For,
Thou,
ô
Lord,
our good our great
Superior
To
Angels,
haste
him
made, not much
Inferior
:
And hast him Crown'd with
dignity
and
Grace
And in thy arms of
Love
dost him embrace.
6.
He is made
Lord
of all thy
Works
of wonder
He,
solely, wholly,
is to keep them under;
As, their
great-Master, Earths-Monopolite,
To crouch
and
creep
at his most awful sight.
7.
Oxen
and
Flocks
of
Sheep,
on
Mountains
straying▪
And Beasts in
woods
and
Wildernesses
preying;
Birds, Foules,
and
Fishes,
which in th'
Ocean
play,
And
All
that there do cut and keep their way.
8.
Therefore (ô
Lord
) I must reiterate
Thy glorious
Name,
thy
Fame
perpetuat
•
;
And
sing
and
say
; of how rare excellence?
Is thy due
Praise,
through
Earths circumference.
Psalm the 10.
1.
WHy standest thou (o
Lord
) aloofefrom
Thine
▪
Why art thou not more near, propitious▪
Oh let thy lovely
Beauty
on us shine▪
Now at
this time,
a
time
so perilous:
Thy
Presencath
••
r
•
s,
thy
Abse
•
ce
troubles us
For,
wicked-Men,
in pride, pursue the
Lowly
;
But, let their
Craft,
be their
confusion
wholly.
2.
Of his lewd
Lusts
he hath a high conceit,
And thinks his own
Inuentions,
fine and fair
The Covetous accounts
Himself
most great
Hold himself
blest
and
best,
a man most rare:
But,
He
to leave, neglect the
Lord
doth dare
His impious
Pride,
his
Heart,
so eleuateth,
God
he forgets, on
God,
never meditateth.
3.
Because his
ways, always,
do prosper well
He
(therefore)
Thee
and all thy
Laws
neglects;
Because thy
Will,
his
Wit
doth far excel,
Therefore thy
Hests
he hates and dis-affects:
Defies his
foe
which friendly
Him
corrects;
In
Heart,
he says, no change can overthrow-me▪
My
state
no
fate
can fell, no
Fear
o'reflow-me.
4.
His
mouth
with
curses
is both
foul
•
and
full,
His
Tongue
is tipped with
fraud
and
flattery,
He is most prompt,
Goodmen,
with
Guile
to
gull
▪
And in his
Lips lies mischief
secretly:
And still he travails with
Iniquity,
For guiltless
blood,
he waits in privy
places
The Poor to
spoil,
into his
Toile,
He chaces▪
5.
And like a
Lyon
lurking in his
Den,
He
secretly
and
slily
spreads his nets;
To
catch
and
crush,
poor, silly, simple men
Whom, he by
craft
and
cozenage
to him gets,
And with his
smoothing, soothing,
on them sets
Thus, multitudes of
Poor-men,
he betrayeth,
A
•
d pitiless, on them he proudly preyeth.
6.
And then He
fondly, falsely,
says in heart
Tush, God regards not, what we do or say,
He hath forgotten or is gone a part,
He neither sees, nor knows our work, or way:
Arise, therefore (ô
Lord
) make no delay,
Lift up thy hand, let Ill men be distressed,
Guarde
and
regard
the
Poor,
by them oppressed.
7.
O why should bold blasphemous
Imps,
most vile,
Falselie affirm that
thou
regardest not?
Yet
Thou
dost
sit
and
see
and at them
smile,
And pai'st their
Vice
with
Vengeance,
their just
Lot
:
But friendless
Orphans,
thou hast not forgot;
And since, they
solely, wholly, Thee
rely-on,
Thou'
•
t be their
Helper,
from thy sacred
Zion
▪
8.
Pernicious
and
malicious
men convince,
Their
Arms
and
Harmes,
their
fraud
and
force
destroy;
For,
Thou
art our eternal
Lord
and
Prince,
Let not the
Heathen,
thy sweet
Land
enjoy;
Lord bear
the
Poor
and
clear
them from annoy:
Yea, thou dost
hear
and
help,
at need dost render,
And right the wrong of
Poor
and
Orphans
tender.
Psalm the 15.
1.
O
Lord
of
Love
what
Man
shall rest▪
Within thy
Tabernacle
?
Or, who (ô Lord) shall be so blest▪
Of
Zion-Hill
to be possessed
For's happy
Habitacle.
2.
The
Man
whose gracious
Guide
thou art,
In
Paths
of sure
Sincerity
;
Whose
words
and
works,
whose
Hand
and
Heart
In equal
balance
bear a part,
Whose
Tongue
speaks all pure
Verity.
3.
Who takes no pleasure or delight
In false
Calumniations
;
Who, in
Himself,
doth not backbite,
And suffers
none,
his
friend
to smite,
By forged
Defamations.
4.
Who doth
condemn, contemn,
despise,
The
proud, profane,
malicious;
But, in his heart doth
praise
and
prize
The,
Godly, Gracious, Grave,
and
Wise,
And is, to
These,
propitious.
5.
Who
Payes
(though to his prejudice)
Things
promised, or protested:
Who hates
Vfurious-Avarice,
Who
loves
all
Virtue, loathes
all
Vice
;
Shall be in
Heaven
invested.
Psalm the 23.
1.
Isr'ells
great
Shepherd
is my
Shepherd
kind,
In him (therefore)
All
needful things I find;
Corporal
Comforts, aliment
external,
Spiritual
Dainties, Manna, Food
supernal:
In
Fields
He
foulds
Mee, full of tender
Grass,
Where
silver-streams
do smoothlie, sweetly pass.
2.
And, when my
Soul
with
sorrow
seems deprest,
The Lord re-cheers
It,
, with sweet
Peace
and
Rest,
And me with
Rules
of
Righteousness
instructeth,
And me (in
Goodensse,
graciously conducteth:
So that in
Deaths
dire
Dale
I walk secure,
Thy
Rod,
thy
Staff,
supporting
Mee
most sure.
3.
And, maugre all the
malice
of my
foes,
My
Cup,
with
All
choice
Blessings
ouerflowes,
My
Table
is with
Dainties
well appointed,
My
Head
with
Oil
of
Gladness
is anointed:
And, all my days,
God's Grace
shall
me
defend,
And in his
holy-House,
my
Life
I will spend.
Psalm the 51.
1.
OH,
Euerliuing, Euerlouing Lord,
Compassionate
Mee
wicked
Wretch
of
Wretches,
And in thy
Mercies
boundless, endless Riches
Remit, remove my
Sin,
thy
Love
afford:
Oh wash and
rench
and
drench
and cleanse my
Soul
▪
From this my crying
Crime,
my fact most bloody,
Which, in
Sins slime,
and
puddle
miry, muddy,
My
Soul
with
soil,
hath made both
full
and
foul.
2.
Deserued
shame
and
sorrow,
me compel,
To make
pathetical complaint, confession,
And, to
recount, recant,
my gross
transgression
Which in my
presence, present,
still doth dwell.
Against
Thee Lord,
against
Thee
most of might,
I,
surely,
•
orely, solely,
have offended
If
Thou
(therefore) 'gainst
Me, All-Plagues
hadst bended,
Yet, had thy
Doome
been
duty, truly,
right▪
3.
In Sin (alas) I was both
Borne
and
Bred,
From
Parents paps,
the
milk
of
sin,
I sucked,
And from their
Loines,
the
seeds
of
sin
have plucked,
And, still, on
Weeds
of
Wickedness
have fed.
But,
Thou
(ô
Lord
of
Truth
and
Right,
Dost like and love
plain Truth
in pure
affectirn,
And in
me
hast infused, for my direction,
Internal
Wisdom,
my best
Light, Delight.
4.
With
Mercyes-Hyssop,
purge and purify,
My
Sin-full, Sin-foul Heart,
most blackly blotted,
Wash
me,
•
h wash
me,
all with
sin
bespotted;
So s
•
all I pass white
Snow
in
Purity.
So shall I
re-enjoy
a
joyful
Voice,
My
Maladie,
to
Melodie
be turned:
My broken
Bones,
which have, with
Groanes,
even burned,
For
Tones
of
Moane,
in
Tunes
of
Mirth
rejoice.
5.
Oh, no more
chide,
but
hide
thy frowning Face,
From
This
my
heinous, hideous, horrid Error
;
One-smile
re-cheers,
One-frown
renews my
Terror
▪
My sin from Thee' my shame from Mee (then) chace.
In me,
create,
oh
re-create,
I prays
A pure, a perfect
Heart,
an upright
Spirit
;
From me
transplant,
what-ere thy
Wrath
may merit,
And in me
plant,
whatf'ever please thee may.
6.
Oh do not, as an
Abiect, Me reject
;
Nor
Mee
from thy
Heart-Cheering Presence
•
ever,
Thy
Grace-inspiring Spirit,
from me, Never
O
Lord
remove, which should me (safe) protect▪
Restore, repair
in
me,
such sacred
Joy,
As may assure my
Soul
of sure
Salvation
;
In
me,
let thy
free-Sp'rit
find
Habitation,
Mee
to instruct;
Sin,
in me, to destroy.
7.
Thus, I
my-self
having thy ways well known,
Shall,
Others,
well
instruct, conduct,
therein;
Sinners, to
Thee Conform'd, reformed
from
Sin,
Thy perfect
Path-way,
shall, by
me,
be shown.
Oh
quit,
oh
quite
remit my bloody
Crime,
O
God,
my
Souls
best
Guide,
my
Guardian
blessed,
My
Hope,
my
Help,
when I am most distressed,
So shall I sing thy
Praise
in sacred
Rhyme.
8.
Vnlocke my
Lips
(ô
Lord
) my
Tongue
untie,
(Thou keep'st the
Key
which opes and shuts, at pleasure)
So shall my
Voice
in most melodious measure,
•
hy peereles
Praise,
make known and magnify.
For,
Thou
hast no
desire
and less
delight,
〈◊〉
burnt
Oblations,
outward
Sacrifices
;
In
Hecatombes,
of n'ere so
precious-prices,
Though
These, all-These,
to
Thee,
I offer might.
9.
But, Thou dost
tender,
a most
tender-Heart,
A
broken-Spirit,
full of true
Contrition
;
A Soul that
sues,
and
shows Its
due submission,
With
This, This offering, Thou
best pleased art.
To
Zion
(therefore)
Lord
propitious be,
Jerusalem's
weak walls re-edify;
Not for their
Merit,
but thy
Mercies
free,
So, we with
Hearts
most free, most thankfully,
Shall, our
Oblations
to thine
Altar
bring;
Peace-offerings
due to
Salems
peaceful
King.
Psalm the 52.
1.
OF wicked
Works,
thy
Heart
intendeth,
Why vaunt'st thou,
Tyrant
vile?
Since
God's love
lasteth, never endeth:
Thy
Tongue
with
mischiefs file,
Like
Razor
sharp, doth deadly wound,
Fraud,
in thy
Facts,
is found.
2.
Thy
Mind
all
mischief
meditateth,
Thou wilt not walk upright;
Thy
Tongue
untruth, still machinateth,
In
Lyes
is thy Delight:
With
Wiles
and
Guiles,
ô double-
Tongue,
Thou, ready art, to wrong.
3.
Therefore shall
God
supplant, displace-thee
Out of his
Holy-Land
;
Finally, fearfully,
deface thee,
Not suffer
thee
to stand:
The
Righteous
shall see thy decay,
And fear and scorn and say,
4.
This Man, his
Goods
as
God's
adored
And on his own strength stayed,
God's help
and
Ayde,
he never implored,
See (now) his
folly
paid;
But I, who trusted
God
my
King,
Shall like an
Olive
spring.
5.
For ever (therefore) I will praise thee,
My
Heart,
my
Verse,
my
Voice
;
For
These
thy wondrous
Works
shall raise thee,
In
Thee
now to rejoice:
Yea, in thy
Saints
most sacred
fight,
For,
This
is my delight.
Psalm the 53.
1.
THe faithless
Fool
in
Heart
his
God
denies,
Their
Facts
are sull of foul
Abomination
;
Ill,
is the
end
of all their
Consultation,
None
of them will good
Actions
exercise,
All
are unwise.
2.
On
Man
below,
God
looked from
Heavens
high
Throne,
To see, if
Any
wisely
Him
affected;
But,
All
were naught,
All
had the
Lord
neglected,
Goodness was gone,
Good men
(alas) were
None,
Oh no, not
One,
3.
The wicked
Workers
of
Iniquity,
Know not, that
They,
like
Caniballs
detested,
As
Bread, My Peoples Flesh,
have eat, digested,
Not minding
Me
: And, when
no-cause
was nigh,
Fear
made them fly
4.
The
Lord
hath broke thy bold
Bestiegers
bones,
And them destroyed▪ which never
God
rely-on;
But, thy
Salvation,
out of sacred
Zion,
Give, to thine
Ir'ell
mitigate their moans,
Their
Sighs
and
Groanes.
When
God
in
Goodness,
and his own
free-Choice,
His
People-Captiu
'd,
Captains
makes, victorious,
And with firm
freedom
makes them glad & glorious;
Then,
Jacob's Heart
and
Isre'ls
shall rejoice,
With cheerful Voice.
Psalm the 55.
1.
LOrd look upon my poor
Petition,
Hide not thine
Eyes
at my
Contrition
;
But, grant my
Suite,
my
Supplication
;
Attend,
ô
bend
thine
Ears
to me,
My doleful
cries,
my
sorrow,
see,
Oh
see
and
send
me thy
Salvation.
2.
For why, my furious
foes
take pleasure,
To
vex, perplex
me without measure;
The
wicked
work me
vile-vexation
:
With most malicious
madness,
They
Foule
blots
and
spots
upon me lay,
With much
despite,
much
Molestation.
3.
My
Soul
with
fear
doth faint and tremble,
The
pains
and
pangs
of
Death
assemble,
And
me
(ô
me
) have so surrounded;
That
dreadful, direful
shiuerings make;
My heart, each vital
Part,
to quake;
In woe I am
wound-up
and
wounded.
4.
Then▪ thus I wisht, wi
•
h
sorrow
stinged,
Oh that I were with
Dove-wings,
winged;
Swi
•
tly
•
o fly,
sweetly
to ease me;
Oh
〈◊〉
I would fly far away,
Then would I in some
Desert
stay,
This,
in
this case,
would somewhat ease me.
5.
Then from these
Stormes
and
Blasts
loud-blowing,
Fast would I fly, swiftlie be going;
Timelie to seek some safe
Protection
;
Their
Tongues
(ô
Lord)
divide, forth-pull,
For, I have seen their
Cities,
full
Of
Rage
and
Wrongs
most foul
Infection.
6.
With
wickedness,
like
Walls,
tis closed,
Within, without,
of
Si
•
ne
composed,
They,
Day
and
Night
are 'bout it walking:
All
Guilt
and
Guile
are in their
streets,
Deceit, Debate, (There
) slilie greets,
There, sin,
and
shame
are stoutlie staulking.
7.
Had
open-Enemies
thus us'd-me,
Or had my
foe,
I know abused-me;
I could, their wrong have
shunned
or
shielded
;
But it was
Thou,
my
Bosom-friend,
Which
friendship, favor,
didst ptetend,
Whose
company
much
comforr
yielded.
8.
With whom in
Public, private
talking,
Abroad, At-home
I oft was walking,
And
frequently God's House frequented:
Since (therefore)
craft
and
mischief
•
dwells,
Within their
Cities
and their
Cels,
Let them be with
Hells-plagues
tormented.
9.
But
I,
with
Hearts
low consternation,
Will call to
God
my
Souls
salvation,
For,
He
will soon
succor
and
save me
:
At
Morning, Euening,
and
Noone-tide
;
When instantlie to
God I
cride,
He heard, and what
I
crau'd, He gave me▪
10.
Though,
Wars
and
Jarres
me sore assailed,
Yet, 'gainst
me
have they not prevailed,
For
Heavens Angellicke-Hoaste
stood by me;
The
Lord
that reigns both
first
and
last,
Shall
Me lift-up
and
Them Down-cast,
His
mercy
he will nere deny-me.
11.
Because they see no
change, mischances,
Because their
fate,
their
state
aduances,
Therefore they have the
Lord
neglected:
On
friends
they lay injurious
Hands,
Of
f
•
iendship,
they do break the
Bands,
To be
Peace-Breakers
most affected.
12.
With
smoothing, soothing, Honey-speeches,
With
cr
•
oching, creeping
sly
beseeches,
Their
Hearts
of
Gall,
like
swords
have wounded:
But, cast thy
Care
upon the
Lord,
For, He
sweet succor
will afford,
The
Just
shall
never
be confounded.
13.
Blood-thirsty-Homicides
pernicious
Deceitfull-Jugglers,
sliely vicious,
Thou
Lord
wilt bring to dire
Perdition
;
They
shall not
live-out
half their
Days,
But, thy sure
Help,
my
Hope
shall raise,
And I will trust in thy
Tuition.
Psalm the 56.
1.
A Gracious
Guardian, Lord,
be
thou
to
me,
Least I by wicked men ingulfed be,
Who
me
with
War,
incessantlie molest;
My furious
foes
each hour,
Addressed are
me
daily to devour,
Huge
hostile-Heapes,
of
foes
most fearful power,
(Oh supreme
Lord,
my strong defensive
Tower
)
do fight and me infest.
2.
When of my
foes
I was (at first) afraid,
To thee, ô
Lord,
alone,
I
looked for
Ayde,
And on thy
mercy,
meerelie, did depend;
And did rejoice in thee,
For, in thy
Word,
as in a
Glass
to me,
Thy
promise
of
protection I
did see;
Therefore, of
flesh
afraid
I
will not be,
For,
God,
will me defend.
3.
Mine own
advise,
hath daily
ill-success,
My
foes
also, full fraught with
wickedness,
Set all their
Thoughts
a
work,
to
work
me ill;
With joint consent they join,
And
secretly,
and
slily
they combine,
And privately they pry to undermine,
My
ways
and
works,
that so they may infine▪
My
Soul
ensnate and kill.
4.
They
think
(but
falsely-think
) they shall escape,
And though they
swim
and
swell
in
Sin,
they gape,
And fondlie dream, after
Impunity
;
But, oh my
God
arise,
In
wrath
confound
thy foes, mine enemies,
Recount, record,
my many
miseries,
And
bottle-up
the
Tears
of my sad
Eyes,
In
Records
let them lie.
5.
When
I
the
Lord
my
God
do invocate,
My
foes
in flight from me do properate,
This
firm,
I
find, for,
God
is on my side;
In
God, I joyful
trust,
In him
I joy
and in his
promise
just,
Upon his
Word,
my
Self I
therefore thrust;
And say and shall,
I
fear not
Wormes
and
Dust,
For,
such
is
Mans
best
Pride.
6.
My
Vowes
(therefore) which
I
ô
Lord
have made,
Shall
duly, truly,
unto
Thee
be paid;
Praise
will
I render, tender,
in thy
sight
;
Especially because,
Thou hast my
Soul
redeemed from
Deaths
Iawes,
And staide my straying
feet
from
Errors
claws;
That so I
might, upright,
walk in thy
Laws,
With
such
as live in
Light.
Psalm the 101.
1.
OF
Mercy
and of
Judgment,
I am writing,
Thy most due
Praise,
my
Laies
are now inditing;
For unto
thee
(ô Lord) alone belongs,
Such
Psalms,
such
Song
2.
In prrfect
ways
my
feet
shall walk precisely,
And I, at home, my
works
will order wisely,
Until my
Soul
sincere, aproach thy
sight,
All-blest, all-bright.
3.
By me, bad
works
shall not be imitated,
By me,
Back-sliders Actions,
ever hated
These, All
of these, my
Heart
shall quite disdain,
refuse, refrain.
4.
My upright
Soul
shall never be acquainted,
With
Wicked men,
whose
works
with
sin
are tainted;
From me, a
Peeuish
and a
perverse heart,
Shall
pack,
shall
part.
5.
Back-biters Tongues
that with wickedly have wounded
Neighbors Good name,
by
me
shall be confounded;
I never could a
supercilious look,
Once
b
•
are,
once
brook
6.
Mine
Eyes
of
Love
shall ever be reflected,
On
faithful-men,
to be by me protected;
With
me
The
man
that lives religiouslie,
Shall
Live
and
Dye
▪
7.
A
Fellow
fraught with sly
Dissimulation,
Shall never have, with me,
cohabitation
;
A
Liar,
from my
Presence, presently,
Shall
fall,
shall
fly.
8.
I will destroy (and that, with
Expedition
)
All
wicked-willful-workers
of
Transgression
;
Not
one
of
These,
in
God's
most
Holy-Land,
Shall
stay,
shall
stand.
Psalm the 103.
1.
MY
Soul,
laud thou the
Lord
of thy salvation,
And be thou filled with humble exultation;
Praise him, my
Heart,
and every
part
within:
O praise the
Lord,
for all his
Gifts
be grateful,
Which
hides
and
heals All
thine
offenses
hateful,
Enormities, Deformities,
of
Sin.
2.
Whose
Love,
my
Life
from dreadful
Death
protecteth,
Who
me
with matchless mercy still affecteth,
Who hath
me filled
and
fraught
with
All
good things:
Whereby my youthful
years
seem fresh renewed,
Like
Eagles,
having their old
Bills
eschewed,
God's justice
to th'oppressed,
comfort
brings.
3.
His
Paths
and
Praecepts, Moses
well hath learned,
His wondrous
works,
his
Isr'll
clear discerned;
The
Lord,
is like a
Fountain
full of
Grace
;
Most
slow
to
wrath,
most
swift
to
love
and
favor,
Most ready to
remit remiss Behauiour,
He chides not long, nor to his
Ire
gives place.
4.
Our
ill-wrought works,
he hath not
ill-rewarded,
Nor with
sins
due our
sinning-Souls
regarded;
But, As
Heavens
bright
star-glorious Curtain
fair,
Is, in
unknown, vnshowne, Sublimity,
Full distant from
Earths
deep
Profunditie,
So, to his
Saints,
much more his
mercies
are.
5.
God
doth
remit
to
us,
our foul
offenses,
God
doth
remove
from
Him
our
negligences,
Even full as far as th'
East
is from the
West
;
And, as a
Father,
to his
Child
extendeth,
Paternall
Pitty,
though he
Him
offendeth;
Like
Love,
the
Lord,
hath to his
Saints
expressed.
6.
For,
God,
the great
Creator
of each
Creature,
Doth know our
mould
our
fashion
and our
feature
;
His
All-seeing Eye
doth
spy-out
every
part
;
How
fickle
and how
brittle
is our
Nature,
How soon cast down in our most
stable stature,
Once struck with
Deaths All chilling, killing Dart
▪
7.
He also knows that
Man
is altogether,
Like
Grass
or
Hay,
which instantlie doth wither;
Such
is his
Time, such
his
condition
true:
And that the
fragrant-flower
which shows most brightlie,
Our fading
Person personateth,
rightly,
Now
fair,
now
foul,
dispel'd like
mornings Dew.
8.
For, As when mighty
storms
do
blow
and
bluster,
Upon fair
flowers
and
Blossomes
in their
cluster
;
They
fall
and
fade,
and are not (after) seen:
So, is
man's
fairest
form transformed
quickly,
Assaulted, by distemp'ring
Tumours
sicklie,
And
now
He
fades,
who
yerst
was
fresh
and
green.
9.
But, as for
God
his
Goodness,
aye, remaineth,
And his deer
Children's Children's state
sustaineth,
Even
All
that worship him Religiouslie:
Which in their
Breasts,
his
Hests
and
statutes
treasure,
And
truly
know and
duly
do his
pleasure,
With
Hand's
and
Hart's
intact
Integrity.
10.
Within the azure
starry-skye
supernal,
The
Lord
hath placed his
Regal-Throne
eternal,
And rules the
World
by his
Imperial-might,
Ye potent
Angels,
who are most obedient,
To
work
his
will
in
All-Things,
most expedient,
Publish, proclaim, his
Honors
glorious;
Right.
11.
O ye his
Hosts,
most valiant, most victorious,
Officious
Servants,
Praise his
Name
all-glorious;
You, which are
pressed, addrest,
to do his will:
Let
All
his
Works,
in
Every-place
applaud-Him,
Yea, let my
Heart,
my
Mind,
my
Spirit,
La
•
d-Him,
And
All,
within me,
prize
and
praise Him,
still.
Psalm the 105.
1.
O Laud the
Lord
with
Invocation,
Amidst his holy
Congregation
;
Shew-forth
his
Works, set-forth
his
Fame
:
Sing
praise,
sing
praise,
unto his
Name,
And let the
Heart,
the
Tongue
and
Voice,
Of
Them
that love the
Lord,
rejoice.
2.
O seek the
Lord
our
God
eternal,
O
seek
and
search
his
Power
supernal;
O
seek
and
sue
to come in sight,
Of his most lovely
Beauty
bright;
Of his most aimable
Face,
Full of refulgent heavenly
Grace.
3.
Keep still in due
Commemoration,
Recount with true
gratification,
The wondrous
Works
which
God
had done:
By famous
facts,
His
Honor
won,
Let not his
Judgments
just depart,
From your most
mindful, thankful Heart.
4.
Ye sacred
Sons
re-generated,
Ye
Saint-like Seed,
first propagated,
From
Abraham, God's
Servant dear:
Which,
Him
in
Faith
doth love and fear,
Ye
Sons
of
Jacob,
his
Delight,
Extoll the
Lord's maiesticke Might
▪
5.
For,
He
which safely
Vs
preserveth,
He only,
of
Vs
best deserveth,
To be our
Lord
and
Sovereign
blest:
Haning apparently expressed,
His
Judgments
just, his
Equity,
Which all the
World
can testify.
6.
What he hath
promised
and
protested,
To
All
that on his
Promise
rested,
Even to his
Saints,
a
Thousand-fold
;
Which, on
Him,
with
Faiths-Hand
lay-hold,
Unto his everlasting
Praise,
His
Word
he hath
made good
always.
7.
Even,
That
blest
Promise
once compacted,
That Cou'nant-good,
once, prae-contracted,
To
Abraham
and
Isaac's Seed
;
And so to
Jacob
was decreed,
And unto
Jsr'ell
stablished sure,
To
Times
last period to endure.
8.
When, in these
words
the
Lord
affirmed,
And (thus) to
Those,
his
Truth
confirmed,
Behold, I
Canaan,
freely give,
To
you,
and
yours,
therein to live;
The
Lot
of your
Inheritance
My
Name
and
Fame
(their) to advance.
9.
And, though the number of
that Nation,
Was, yet of
slender
valuation,
Did,
yet,
but very
small
appear:
When (thus his
Love
esteemed
Them
dear,
And that, Beside their
Number small,
They, in the
Land
were
Strangers-All.
10.
Walking from
Nation
unto
Nation,
Without all settled
Habitation,
Now
Here,
now
There
; Conducted still,
By their
all-prudent Pilots
will;
Who suffered
No-man wrong
to take,
But plaug'd great
Princes
for their sake.
11.
And, where they came,
Thus,
charged, appointed.
Let
None
offend
My dear-Anointed,
Nor use my
Prophets
spightfullie!
For,
These
are precious in mine
Eye
;
Fierce
Famine
(then) the
Land
ore-laid,
Whereby Their
Staff
of
Bread
decaide.
12.
But,
God,
good
Joseph,
then ordained,
By whom (fore-sent) They were sustained,
Though thither,
He
a
Slaue
were sold:
Though
Foes
in fetters,
Him
did hold,
Until, in
Heavens
appointed time,
God
heard his
Cause,
cleared him of
Crime.
13.
Pharaoh
him found a faithful
Liver,
And
him
from
Prison
did deliver,
Th'
Egyptian King
was to him kind:
And in him did such
wisdom
find,
That of his
Kingdom
and whole
state,
He made
Him Lord,
prime,
Potentate.
14.
That
All
his
Peers
might be instructed,
And to his
Lore
and
Lure
conducted,
His
Senators
by
Joseph
raught:
Then
Jacob
was to
Egypt
brought,
I'th'
Land
of
Ham
(then)
Israel,
Did as a harbor'd
stranger
dwell.
15.
His
flock
his
stock
(there) fructified,
And to great
Number
multiplied?
And, thus their
foes
did far transcend:
Which inly did their
foes
offend,
Which turned their
Love
to
Hatred
great,
Their
Smiles
to
Guiles
and sly
Deceipt.
16.
Milde
Moses,
then, the
Lord
elected,
And holy
Aaron
much respected,
Both-whom
to
Egypt
soon he sent:
There to declare his great intent,
And in the
Land
of
Ham,
to show,
His
signs
and
wonders
to their
woe.
17.
Darkness,
strange
Darkness,
his Commission,
Did, them, obey, with expedition,
And over-spread
All Egypt Land
:
And by
Heavens All-ore-ruling Hand,
Their
Waters-All,
gore
Blood
became,
And slew all
Fishes
in the same.
18.
With croaking
Frogs
He them infested,
Their
Land
and
Lodgings
where they rested,
Not sparing
Pharaoh's Chamber
neat:
He sent huge
Swarmes
noisome and great,
Of crawling
Lice
and stinging
Flies,
'Mongst their
hard-hearted Enemies.
19.
Instead of
Rain, Hail-stones
he rained,
And with fierce
flames
of
fire,
them bained,
And thereby totallie ore-threw:
Vines, Fig trees,
yea,
All Trees
that grew
Then
Caterpillars
did abound,
Great
Grashoppers
their
fruits
confound.
20.
Their
first-borne Babes
he deadly wounded,
And strongest of their
Land
confounded,
Yea, even the
prime
of all their strength;
And led his
Servants
forth at length,
All,
fraught with
Gold,
and
Silver,
store,
Not
One
was
feeble, faint
or
poor.
21.
Th'
Egyptians Hearts
were then revived,
Being of their
Presence
(thus) deprived,
Such fear
of
Them
had broke their
Heart
;
And as they thus did thence depart,
A
Cloud
by
Day,
hid them from
Heate,
Their
Guide
by
Night,
a
Fire
most great.
22.
At
Their
rebuest, He,
Quails
down-rained,
With
Manna
sweet, their
state
sustained,
Whiles, through the
Wilderness
they went:
And then the rigid
Rocks
he rent,
From whence did
Floods
of
Water
flow,
To quench their
thirst,
as they did go.
23.
For, as he ever was delighted,
With
mindfulnesse
of
Promise
plighted:
So (then) the
Lord
did mind the same:
And to his everlasting
fame,
He brought them fo
•
th with
mirth
and
Joy,
Whence, they had lived in dire
Annoy.
24.
Yea,
such,
to them was his good
Pleasure,
That, all the
Labors, Lands,
and
Treasure,
Of
Heathen-folk,
his
flock
did take;
That they might not his
Laws
forsake,
But faithfully observe his
Lore,
Oh let us praise the
Lord
therefore.
Psalm 107.
1.
Our good
GOD
ever-living,
O laud and magnify;
For,
He
delights in giving,
Good
Gifts
incessantly;
Let
Those,
preach and proclaim,
God's
powerful
Preseruation,
Whose fierce
foes
he did tame,
Freeing them from
Vexation.
2.
Them, scattered,
He
collected,
From th'
East
unto the
West
;
And brought them (thus affected)
From
North
and
South All
-blest:
Yeo, when in
Wilderness,
Bereft of
House
or
Citty,
They wandered in distress,
He showed
Paternall Pitty.
3.
When fearfully they fainted,
All
pin'd with
Penurie
;
With thirsty
Drought
even tainted,
And ready for to die:
With
sorrow,
thus, over-charged,
Heavens
help they then implored,
Then
God
his
Love
enlarged,
And them to
Joy
restored.
4.
And from their
Desolation,
He led them like a
Guide
;
Unto a
Habitation,
Where they might safe abide:
Let thankful
Persons,
then,
The
Lord's
great
Love
be telling;
And to the
Sons
of
Men,
His wondrous
Works
excelling.
5.
For, He in bounteous
measure,
The hungry
Soul
hath filled;
And his caelestiall
Treasure.
On thirsty
Hearts
hast stilled.
But
Those
that do reside,
In
Deaths
dark
Habitation,
Fast fettered-up and tide,
With
Chaines
of
Desolation.
6.
Because they had rebelled,
Against
God's Holy-writ
;
And gainst his
Counsels
swelled,
Esteeming
them
no whit:
Yet, when his heavy
Hand,
Had brought them in
Subjection
;
When they in
woe
did stand,
Quite frustrate of
Protection.
7.
Then with much
Lamentation,
God's
help, they did implore;
Who, from deep
Desolation,
Did them to
Joy,
restore.
And from the gloomey
shade,
Of
Death,
where they were closed;
In
Jron-fetters
laid.
He powerfullie them loosed.
8.
He snapped their
Snares
a sunder,
Their
Bolts
and
Barres
of
Brasse
;
And op'd th
•
ir
Gates
with wonder,
To
•
et the
People
pass:
•
e
•
thankful
Persons
then,
The
Lord's
great
Love
be telling;
And to the
Sons
of
Men,
His wondrous
works
excelling.
9.
Fond
Fools
hy their
Transgression,
And foul
Deformities,
Are forced to feel oppession,
And many
Miseries:
Their
Soul
in
Languishment,
Sweet
Nutriment
distasted,
In this sad Exigent,
Even to
Deaths
door, they hasted.
10.
Then,
Ayde,
they impetrated,
In
this
their deep
distress
;
And w
•
re commiserated,
And found a full
redress
:
The
Lord
sent forth his
Word,
With potent
operation,
Which, did them
Help
afford,
Unto their
Souls Salvation.
11.
Let grateful
Men
be telling,
The
Lord's
great
Goodness,
then,
His wondrous
Works
excelling,
Unto the
Sons
of
Men.
Let them with joyful
Hearts,
Prepare a sweet
Oblation,
And praise
God's
glorious
Parts,
And
Works
of
Admiration.
12.
Such
as use
Nauigation,
In
Ships
to
Sea
being sent,
With indefatigation,
Their
Marchandize
to vent;
Those men
see and behold,
The
wonders
of the
Ocean
;
God's maruailes
manifold,
In
Sea's
most mighty
motion.
13.
For, at his
Voice,
like
Thunder,
The
Waters
rise and rage;
Winds blow, Floods flow,
with
wonder,
Their
Surges None
can swage:
Alo
•
t, they lifted rise,
That
Heaven
they touch, They think;
Straite plund'g in woeful wise,
They seem to
Hell
to sink.
14.
Then,
to
and
fro,
they tumble,
Like
men
in
drunken-fits
;
They,
Art-less, heart-less
stumble,
Bereft of
Sence
and
wits.
Then cry they to the
Lord,
With loud
eiaculation,
Who quickly doth accord,
To send them
Preseruation.
15.
For, at his
Becke
and
Pleasure,
The sturdy
Stormes
lie still;
The
Waves
in wondrous
measure,
Obey his
Word
and
Will
:
The
Mariners
thereby,
Are filled with
Joy
and
Gladnes
;
That their wisht
Haven
they spy,
In
safety
free from
Sadnes.
16.
Let grateful
Men
be telling,
The
Lord's
great
Goodness
then;
His wondrous
Works
excelling,
Unto the
Sons
of
Men
:
And let them laud his
Might,
In the great
Congregation
;
And in great
Princes
sight,
Proclaime his sweet
Salvation.
Huge
Waters-Inundation,
He makes a
Desert
dry;
And with strange alteration,
Dries-up
Springs
presently:
And, for the sinful
Band,
Of bad
Inhabitants
;
He makes a fruitful
Land,
Fruitlesse and full of
Wants.
18.
Again, dry
Wildernesses,
Huge flowing
Floods
he makes;
And
dry-Lands
He redresses,
To
Springs,
and
Pooles,
and
Lakes.
And, for Poor
People,
there,
Prouides an
Habitation
;
Where they may
Cities
rear,
With pleasant
Situation.
19.
Where, they infruitfull
measure,
May sow and
Vineyards
plant;
And so augment their
Treasure,
That
None
need live in
want
:
And
God
doth bless them so,
In time of
Peace
or
Battle
;
That they most
Wealthy
grow,
In
Coine,
in
Corn,
in
Cattle.
20.
But, when his
Saints
are wronged,
Diminisht and brought low;
And,
what,
to
Them
belonged,
Are forced to for-go:
Then, their proud
Enemies,
Though
Princes,
He distresses;
And doth so blind their
Eyes,
To err in
Wildernesses.
21.
Yet, out of all their
Troubles,
Poor
Humble-Hearts
he frees;
Their
stocks
and
flocks
he doubles,
Like
Sheep
or
Swarmes
of
Bees
:
The
Righteous
this shall see,
And joy with hearty
Gladness
;
But,
Bad-mouths
stopped shall be,
With most malicious
Madness.
22.
Oh, who is godly, wise,
And free from willful
Blindness
;
To
mark
and
memorize,
The
Lord's
great
Love
and
kindness.
Psalm the 123. Paraphrased by way o • thanksgiving for our great deliverances from the Papists Pouder-Plot. King David against the Philistines; King James against the Antichristians.
1.
NOow may
England
Confess and say surely;
If that the
Lord,
Had not our
Cause
maintained,
If that the
Lord,
Had not our
State
sustained;
When
Antichrist,
Against us furiouslie,
Made his proud
Brags,
And said, We should
All
die.
2.
Not long ago,
They had devoured us
All
;
And swallowed quick,
For ought that
We
could deem:
Such
was their
Rage,
As We might well esteem:
And as proud
Floods,
With mighty
force
do fall;
So their
mad-Rage,
Our
Liues
had brought to
Thrall.
3.
Our
King
and
Que
•
ne,
The
Prince
and
Princely-Race
;
Their
Counsel
grave,
And chief
Nobility
;
The
Judges
wise,
•
nd prime
Tribe
of
Levi
;
•
Vith all the prudent,
•
tates-men
of the
Land,
B
•
Pouder
fierce,
Had perished out of hand.
4.
Th
•
raging
streams,
O
•
Rome
with roaring noise,
Had with great
Woe,
Ore-whelm'd
us
in the
Deepe
:
〈◊〉
blessed
Lord,
Thou didst us safely Keep,
•
rom bloody
Teeth,
And Their devouring
Jawes
;
Which as a
Prey,
Had griped us in their
Clawes.
5.
〈◊〉
, as a
Bird,
Out of the
Fowlers Grin,
Escapes away:
Right
so
it far'd with
Vs
;
Broke were their
Nets,
And
We
have scaped,
Thus,
God
that made
Heaven
And
Earth
was our
Help
His
mercy
saved us (
then
)
From these wicked
Men.
6.
O let us therefore,
With all
thanks
and
praise,
Sing, joyfully,
To
Christ
our heavenly
King
;
Whose
Wisdom
high,
This
fact
to
light
did bring:
Grant then ô
Lord,
We
do thee humbly pray,
•
e may accord,
〈…〉
thy
Name
always.
Amen.
〈…〉 shall see, Gladness Theodorus Beza, In Hispanorum Classem, Diuinitus Ab Anglis prostigatam. Anno Domini. 1588.
STrauerat, innumeris
Hispanus
Classibus
Aequor,
Regnis
iuncturus
Sceptra Britanna,
Suis.
Tanti huius rogitas, Quae motus
Causa? Superbos,
Impulit
Ambitio,
vexic
A
•
aritia.
Quam been,
Te Ambitio
mersit, Vanissima,
Ventus,
Et
tumidos tumida, Vos
superastis
Aquae!
Quam been
Raptores Orbis
totius
Iberos,
mersit inexhaustiiusta
Vorago Maris
!
At
Tu,
cui
Venti,
cui totum militat
Aequor,
Regina,
ô
Mundi
totius
Vna Decus
!
Sic, regnare
Deo,
perge,
Ambiti
•
ne
remota,
Prodiga,
sic opibus, perge, iuuare
Pios
:
Vt
Te, Angli
longùm, longùm
Anglis, Ipsa
fruaris;
Quam
dilecta Bonis,
Tam
metuenda Malis.
Thus Englished, by I. V.
PHillips
huge
Fleet
did
Floate
upon the
Maine
;
Lab'ring to link fair
England's Crown
to
Spain
:
Do'st ask, what
Motiues,
moved
Him
to
This Ill
?
Twas
His Ambitious, Auaritious Will.
Well, was His
Puffe
of
Pride,
by
Winds,
ore-blown;
His
swelling
Will
by
swelling waves,
ore-flown:
Well was His
Hope
of
Earthes
whole
Monarchy,
Ingulf'd in
Seas
immense profundity.
But thou (ô
Queen) Worlds-Wonder,
sole
Delight,
For
Whom,
the
Heavens, Earth, Seas, Winds, Waves,
do
•
ight;
Still
Rule,
still
Rain,
from foul
Ambition,
free,
Gratefull
to
God, Helpefull
to
Good-men,
be.
That
England Thee, Thou England, Long
mayest nourish
Foes
to Confound▪
Friends
graciously to Cherish.
De Strage, Classis Hispanicae Anno. 1588. Incerto Authore.
VNde Haecatra
Maris Facies
? Tantae vnde
Procellae?
Et pro caeruleo
Spuma, color
tumens?
Hispanum
vasto, Nune, gurgite, mergitur
Agmen,
Quot vix submersos,
aequoris Vnda
capit.
Sie
Tharao
commissa petens sacra
Agmina Mosi,
Factus
Erythraei, Piscibus Esca, Maris.
Hostis
vterque
Dei, Sanctorum
et
Gentis
vterque,
Curribus, Hic,
multis,
Nauibus, Ille,
potens,
Exitio, Currus, Nauesque
feruntur, eodem,
Sanguinis
vt satiet purior
Vnda, Sitim,
Et regredi vt posset (Quoniam est
Aggressor
vterque)
Neutri, commoti
Numinis Ira
dedit.
Sic, reliquas
Auidus Mundi
sibi subdere
Gentes,
Subijcit
Anglorum Colla
superba
Iugo.
Quique
alios spreuit,
Vulgi
fit
Fabula,
Vt alta
Qui
viuens
perijt,
mortuus ima
petat.
Quinetiam ardenti medijs occurrit in
Vndis,
Non minus ardescens et ferus
Ille DRACO.
Iste,
quidem
Paetriae
succensus
amore
tuendae,
Ille, Anglas,
sitiens,
totus Auarus, Opes.
Sic,
Flammae Vltrices, Flammas
supera'
•
tis auaras;
Et
Deus
est
Flammis,
est quoque
Victor Aquis.
Thus Englished by I: V.
WHat
means
the
Maines Foule-face,
strange stormy-state,
And foamy
Floods,
whose
Hew
was
Blew,
of Late▪
The
Reason's
ready:
Phillips Fleet,
of
Spain,
Is drowned i'
••
'
Deepe,
whose like, never sunk, in the
Maine.
Thus
Pharaoh
following
Moses Holy-Band,
Was swallowed-up in the
Sea,
by
Heavens
Command.
Both,
were both
GOD'S
and his
deer-Saints Foes
vowed;
His
Chariots, Pharaoh; Ships
made
Phillip
proud,
But,
Shippes
and
Chariots,
in the
Gulf
were drowned;
Their
Thirst
of
Blood,
the
Flood
did quench, confound.
And, since,
Those
bold
Assailants
malice great,
Had
Heaven
incensed,
Neither,
made safe
Retreate.
For,
Spain,
that would imperiously rule
All,
Was forced under
England's yoke
to
fall.
And,
This
proud
Scorner,
was to
All
a
Scorn,
His
high-built Hopes,
ith'
Deepe
were left forlorn.
For, dauntlesse
Drake,
with
martial-fire
enflam'd,
Affronts the
Fire
of
Spain's Rage,
timely tamed.
He
full of
zeal
his
Countries Foes to
foil;
Spain
spur'd with
Heate
of
Hate,
our
State
to spoil.
But,
Flames
of just
Reuenge, Pride's Flames
ore-came,
Thus, GOD
was
GOD
both of the
Floods
and
Flame.
FINIS.
Omnis,
Trin-Vni Deo
soli, sit
Gloria.
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