Psalm Xcv.[243]

Come let vs hartily reioyce and singe To God our mightie Sauiour, and our Kinge; Present the prayse which doth to Him belonge, And show our gladnes in a cheerfull songe; For God our Lord, the greatest God is Hee, And Monarch of all gods that worshipt bee. The Earth's round globe, Hee holdeth in His hand: And th' highest mountaynes are at His command. The sea is His, Hee hath it made of old, And the dry land His blessed hands did mould: Come let vs worship then, and humble fall Before our mightie God which made vs all. Hee is our Lord, and wee His people bee; Our shepheard, and His proper sheep are wee. This day yf you His holy voice will heare, Let not your hearts bee hardned as they were, When in the desert you His wrath did moue, And temptinge Him His mightie power did proue. Full forty yeeres this nation greeud mee so, Their erringe harts My wayes would neuer know; Therefore displeas'd by oath I did protest They neuer should possesse my Land of rest.

PSALM C.

Bee ioyfull in the Lord, yee nations all, Cheer vp your harts in mirth, and songs withall; The Lord is God, not wee but Hee alone Hath made vs all, and feeds vs euery one. Then enter yee His gates and courts with prayse, And striue with hart and voice His name to raise. For why? the Lord is sweet, His mercy rare, His truth for euer constant shall endure.

PSALM CIII.

My soule with all thy powers thy Maker praise; Forget not all His benefits to thee, Who pardons all thy sinnes, and doth thee rayse When thou art fal'n through any infirmitie: Who doth thee saue from mischeifs that would kill thee, And crowneth thee with mercies euer more. And with the best of thinges doth feed and fill thee, And egle-like thy youth and strength restore. When men oppressèd doe to Him appeale, Hee righteth euery one against his foe; Hee vnto Moses did His lawes reueale, And vnto Jacob's eare His workes did show. Hee is more full of grace then wee of sinne; To anger slowe, compassionate and kind; Hee doth not euer chide, and never linne, Nor keepes displeasure alwayes in His minde, Nor after our misdeedes doth Hee vs charge; Nor takes Hee of our faults a strict account, But as the space from earth to heauen is large, So farr His mercy doth our sinnes surmount. As east from west is distant farr away, Soe farr doth Hee from us our sinnes remoue: As fathers, kindnes to their sonnes bewray, Soe God to them that feare Him, showes His loue. For Hee that made vs and knowes all, doth know The matter whereof man was made of old; That wee were formèd heer on earth below Of dust and clay, and of noe better mold. Man's age doth wither as the fadinge grasse; He flourisheth, but as y^{e} flower in May, Which when the South-wind ouer it doth passe Is gone; and where it grew no man can say. But God's sweet kindnes euer doth consist; His truth, from age to age, continew shall, To them that in His righteous lawes persist, And thinke vppon them to performe them all. Heauen is God's seat; there doth His glorie dwell, But ouer all, His empire doth extend; Praise Him yee angells which in strength excell, And His command doe euermore attend. Praise Him yee hosts of heauen which serue Him there, Whose seruice with His pleasure doth accord; And praise Him all His creatures euery where; And thou my soule for thy part, praise the Lord.

PSALM CL.

To Him with trumpets and with flutes, With cornets, clarions and with lutes; With harpes, with organs and with shawmes, With holy anthems and with psalmes; With voice of angells and of men Sing! Aleluyia! Amen, Amen.

VIII. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.

Miscellaneous Poems.

OF FAITH THE FIRST THEOLOGICALL VERTUE.

Faith is a sunbeame of th' Æternall light, That in man's soule infusd by grace doth shine: Which giues her dazled eye soe cleare a sight As evidently sees the truith divine; This beame that cleares our eyes, inflames our hearts, And Charitie's kind fire doth there begett: For sunlike, it both light and heate imparts: Faith is the light, and Charitie the heate: This light of faith the noblest wisdome is, For it the onley truith allowes and a'plyes: The virgin's lamp, that lights the soule to blisse; The Jacob's scales, whereby shee clymes the skyes; The eye that sees, the hand that apprehends; The cause of causes, and the end of ends.