PSALM XCI.

1 Who vnder the Most High Himselfe doth hide,
In most assurèd safety shall abide.
2 Thou art, O Lord, my hope and my defence,
My God, in Thee is all my confidence.
3 Hee shall preserue thee from the hunter's snare,
And from the pestilent contagious aier.
4 His winges shall both protect and cherish thee,
His faithfull promise shall thy buckler bee.
5 Noe terror of the night shall thee dismay,
Nor Satan's arrow flyinge in the day,
6 Nor mortall plague, which in the darke annoyes,
Nor that ill angell which at none[241] destroyes.[242]
7 Thousands, ten thousands shall about thee fall,
Yet noe such ill shall thee approach at all;
8 Yea with thine eyes thou shalt behould and see,
The iust reward of such as impious bee;
9 Thou art my hope, I will on Thee rely,
Thy tower of safety, Lord, is sett soe high.
10 Noe mischeefe, noe mischance shall thee betide
No plague come near the place where Thou shalt bide.
11 The Lord His angells will Thy keepers make,
In all Thy righteous wayes which thou shalte take;
12 They in their hands shall thee sustaine and stay
That Thou shalt neuer stumble in thy way.
13 Uppon the basilisk and adder's head,
Dragon and lyon thou shalt safely tread.
14 Thy loue to Mee shall saue thee from mischance,
Thy knowledge of My name shall thee aduance.
15 I will him hear, and help him in His trouble;
I will protect him and his honour duble.
With length of dayes, hee satisfied shall bee,
And hee at last shall My saluation see.

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,[244]
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 ye 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[245] 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.