Of evil men the wickedness

And their pow'r that do amifs.

But the just establish fast,

Since thou art the just God that tries
Hearts and reins. On God is caft

My defense, and in him lies,

In him who both just and wife
Saves th' upright of heart at laft.

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The tools of death, that waits him near.

(His arrows purpofely made he

For them that perfecute.) Behold
He travels big with vanity,

Trouble he hath conceiv'd of old
As in a womb, and from that mold
Hath at length brought forth a lie.

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le digg'd a pit, and delv'd it deep,

nd fell into the pit he made;

His mischief that due course doth keep,

Turns on his head, and his ill trade

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If violence will undelay'd

'all on his crown with ruin steep.

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Then will Í Jehovah's praise
According to his juftice raife,
And fing the Name and Deity
Of Jehovah the most high.

PSAL. VIII. Aug. 14. 1653.

Jehovah our Lord, how wondrous great

And glorious is thy name through all the earth!

So as above the Heav'ns thy praise to set
Out of the tender mouths of latest birth.

Out of the mouths of babes and fucklings thou
Haft founded strength because of all thy foes,
To stint th' enemy, and flack th' avenger's brow,
That bends his rage thy providence to' oppose.

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When I behold thy Heav'ns, thy fingers art,

The moon and stars which thou so bright hast set In the pure firmament, then faith my heart,

✪ what is man that thou remembrest yet,

And think'ft upon him; or of man begot,

That him thou vifit'ft, and of him art found? Scarce to be less than Gods, thou mad'st his lot,

With honor and with state thou haft him crown'd.

O'er the works of thy hand thou mad'st him Lord,
Thou haft put all under his lordly feet,
All flocks, and herds, by thy commanding word,
All beasts that in the field or forest meet,

Fowl of the Heav'ns, and fish that through the wet Sea paths in fhoals do flide, and know no dearth. O Jehovah our Lord, how, wondrous great ezze And glorious is thy name through all the earth!

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April. 1648. J. M.

ine of the Pfalms done into meter, wherein all, but what is in a different character, are the very words of the text, tranflated from the original.

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PSA L. LXXX.

HOU Shepherd that doft Ifrael keep
Give ear in time of need,

Who leadeft like a flock of fheep

Thy loved Jofeph's feed,

That fitst between the Cherubs bright,

Between their wings out-spread,

Shine forth, and from thy cloud give light,·

And on our foes thy dread.

2 In Ephraim's view and Benjamin's,

And in Manaffe's fight,

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Awake* thy strength, come, and be seen * Gnorera.

To fave us by thy might.

3 Turn us again, thy grace divine

To us O God vouchsafe;

Cause thou thy face on us to shine,

And then we shall be safe.

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Lord God of Hofts, how long wilt thou,
How long wilt thou declare

brow * Gnashanta.

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Thy * fmoking wrath, and angry

Against thy people's prayer!

5 Thou feed'ft them with the bread of tears,

Their bread with tears they eat,

And mak'st them * largely drink the tears

Wherewith their checks are wet.

Shalifh.

6 A ftrife thou mak'ft us and a prey

To every neighbour foe,

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Among themselves they laugh, they

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And* flouts at us they throw.

Return us, and thy grace divine

O God of Hofts vouchsafe,

Caufe thou thy face on us to fhine,

And then we shall be safe.

8 A vine from Egypt thou haft brought,

Thy free love made it thine,

And drov'ft out nations, proud and haut,

To plant this lovely vine.

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