Halelviah or, Britans Second Remembrancer, bringing to Remembrance (in praisefull and Poenitentiall Hymns, Spirituall Songs, and Morall-Odes): Meditations, advancing the glory of God, in the practise of Pietie and Vertue; and applyed to easie Tunes, to be Sung in Families, &c. Composed in a three-fold Volume, by George Wither. The first, contains Hymns-Occasionall. The second, Hymns-Temporary. The third, Hymns-Personall. That all Persons, according to their Degrees, and Qualities, may at all Times, and upon all eminent Occasions, be remembred to praise God; and to be mindfull of their Duties |
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Hymn XCIIII. For Remission of sin in generall.
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This Hymn is a brief confession of sin, and a prayer for pardon for the same. And it was prepared, to assist their devotion who need such helps; and to be a Remembrancer to those who need them not.
Sing this as the .22. Psalme.
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How many Lord! how foule! how great!Do my offences grow?
How have I multipli'd the debt,
Which unto Thee I owe?
Though ev'ry day thou dost forgive,
And wipe great Summs away,
Yet, ev'ry day, I do perceive
New Summs, new Scores to pay.
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A Debt my Parents left on me,Which (far) my Stock exceeds:
And, though it pardned were by Thee,
Much Trouble, still, it breeds.
For, thence, my flesh occasion takes,
That Fancies to admit;
Which, of those Longings, guiltie makes,
That Active-Sins, beget.
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And, when a Sin is once begun,That sin brings others on,
The punishments or shame, to shun,
Which follow'd thereupon:
Till so encreast Offences are,
And, Grace defaced so
That we have neither Shame nor Fear,
Nor sense, of what we do.
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Lord, that my Sins may never come,To this accursed height;
And, at the last, exclude me from
Thy Grace, and Favour, quite
I come to Thee (while Time I have,
And Leave, and heart to pray)
Discharge, for all those faults to crave,
Wherein I walke astray.
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By nature, so unsound, and base,My State; my Tenures be;
That, for a new estate of Grace,
I, now, petition Thee.
Ev'n that which my Redeemer bought;
And sealed with his Blood.
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This Deed, I know, is good.
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This Deed I plead; and by this Deed,Would that Estate renew,
Which through my Deeds, is forfeited,
Vnlesse, Thou Favour shew.
Lord, now, and whensoe're I shall
Plead, what is mention'd now:
With a Release of Errors, all,
My Plea, do thou allow.
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I guilty am, of many Crimes,Which I did fore-intend:
And, twenty thousand, Thousand Times,
I heedlesly offend:
But, since my self I do condemn,
And seek my Peace in Thee;
Oh! let compassion cover them,
That, they condemn not me.
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Blot all my Sins out of the Book,By my Accusers writ.
Vpon my Follies do not look;
My youthfull Crimes remit.
My publike Faults remember not;
My Secret Failings, hide:
And, let not Mercy be forgot,
Thy Servant, though thou chide.
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Yea, though small feeling of my Sins,My Fleshly-Nature hath,
Till she by some event begins
To feel, or fear thy wrath:
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Lamenting for the same,
Impute not unto me that Ill,
For which, I merit blame.
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