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The Quiere.
The Lord for hys grace: so to sing in our quiere
The wonders he doth: for the children of men,
Whose mercy so nere: to all doth appeare.
To all doth appeare.
The Meane.
Due thankes to hym extende:
For good he is: whose gentlenes,
Shall last till world doth ende.
Whom he redeemd: from cruell hand: of troublous enmitie.
From East and West: from North and South: in citie safe to byde.
And found no way: to dwelling towne: to stay in restfulnes.
Whose hartes within: dyd melt away: for needefull nourishment.
The Rectors.
To God in meeke complaintes:
He them dyd saue: most louingly,
From all theyr hard constrayntes.
Both ryght and prosperous:
Wherby they dyd: a citie fynde,
To dwell commodious.
The Quiere.
The Lord for hys grace: so to sing in theyr quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the children of men,
Whose mercy so neare: to them dyd appeare,
Where thirsty they strayd: as wyth anguishe opprest:
Theyr soule dyd he ease: of theyr hunger in speede,
To set them in rest: wyth foode of the best.
The Meane.
Afflict in bondes: and iron chaynes: and felt all comfortes lacke.
The counsayles eke: they did despise: of all the worthiest.
They fell full faynt: none helpyng them: so far rebellious.
The Rectors.
To God in meeke complayntes:
He them dyd saue: most louingly,
From all theyr hard constrayntes.
From darke and deadly shade:
He brake their bondes: and fetters strong,
To freedome they to wade.
The Quiere.
The Lord for hys grace: so to sing in theyr quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the children of men,
Whose mercy so neare; to them dyd appeare.
The gates that in brasse: were inuincible fast,
As also the barres: that in yron were folde,
By hym were they brast: set ope at the last.
The Meane.
And were for al theyr sinnes afflict: by sicknes fell excesse.
And then came nigh: to death hys gates: to stop theyr breth and sight
The Rectors.
To God in meke complayntes:
He them did saue: most louinglye,
From all their hard constrayntes.
He them restord by myght:
Wherby they scapte: destruction,
From perill saued quite.
The Quiere.
The Lorde for hys grace: so to sing in their quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the childer of men,
Whose mercy so neare: to them did appeare.
Iust thankes of their lippes: out of hart so to rayse:
Hys workes to renome: so the world to allure.
His walkes and his wayes: most gladly to prayse.
The Meane.
To worke theyr feates: in waters depe: for lyfelodes great auayle.
His meruels eke: of thynges so houge: in depe also in flote.
Which vp do hoyse: the bellowes rage: in gastly grisly formes.
Thus tosse in waues: the mariners: great feares their hartes apall.
Theyr arte thē faylth: theyr wits be gone: they fare as men but sonke
The Rectors.
To God in meke complayntes:
He them doth saue: most louingly,
From all their harde constrayntes.
the waues he stilleth their dinne:
Safe hauen he driueth them in.
The Quiere.
The Lord for hys grace: so to syng in their quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the childern of men,
Whose mercy so neare: to them dyd appeare.
Downe set as they be: with the people in place:
To prayse hym aright: for indempnitie wrought,
Where elders in space: their courtes do embrace.
The Meane.
Which turnth moist soyle: to wildernes: & dryeth vp springs to land
The dwellers sinnes: be cause therof: where in their liues be found
And soyle most dry: from barennes: by runnyng brookes he bringes.
To build themselfe: a city strong: as Forte therto to renne.
Sweete frutes to beare: of yeres increase: to feede their neede & want
And suffreth not theyr cattell once: to droupe or yet to dye.
By cruell powers: he bringth them low: with cares opprest & payne
The Rectors.
By Princes great abuse:
Though out of way: a tyme they stray,
At last he them reduce.
Doth rayse from misery:
His householdes yet: he makth in part,
As flockes of sheepe to ligh.
The Quiere.
As righteous man: in his duety so glad:
Is prest to reioyce: wyth a godly delyte,
Where mouth of the bad: shall dumly be sad.
Pure thankes to procure: to hys God for his cure,
And thus hys deuise: may he iustly comprise,
Ryght oft is hys vre: by loue to allure,
Kynde mercy so sure: in hym doth endure,
Extoll hym I say: both by night and by day,
Ren neuer astray: from his mercifull way.
The rearefreyt of the Psalme.
God graunt that we would: prayse euer agayne,
The Lord for hys grace: so to sing in our quiere
The wonders he doth: for the children of men,
Whose mercy so nere: to all doth appeare.
To all doth appeare.
The Meane.
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O prayse the Lord all ye,Due thankes to hym extende:
For good he is: whose gentlenes,
Shall last till world doth ende.
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Let them say thus in thankes: who were by God made free:Whom he redeemd: from cruell hand: of troublous enmitie.
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And whom he gatherd nye: from countries strange and wyde:From East and West: from North and South: in citie safe to byde.
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Who wandred out of way: in desertes wildernes:And found no way: to dwelling towne: to stay in restfulnes.
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When hunger felt and thirst: nye pynde by famishment:Whose hartes within: dyd melt away: for needefull nourishment.
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Who thus afflict: when they did cry,To God in meeke complaintes:
He them dyd saue: most louingly,
From all theyr hard constrayntes.
7
For he led them: the way full kynde,Both ryght and prosperous:
Wherby they dyd: a citie fynde,
To dwell commodious.
The Quiere.
8
God graunt that they would: prayse hartely then:The Lord for hys grace: so to sing in theyr quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the children of men,
Whose mercy so neare: to them dyd appeare,
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For that he refresht: theyr bodely neede,Where thirsty they strayd: as wyth anguishe opprest:
Theyr soule dyd he ease: of theyr hunger in speede,
To set them in rest: wyth foode of the best.
The Meane.
10
And they that sate in darke: in deadly shadowes blacke:Afflict in bondes: and iron chaynes: and felt all comfortes lacke.
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They thus deserud for why: gods wordes they did detest,The counsayles eke: they did despise: of all the worthiest.
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He then brought downe their hartes: wyth griefes most tedious:They fell full faynt: none helpyng them: so far rebellious.
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Who thus afflict: when they dyd cry,To God in meeke complayntes:
He them dyd saue: most louingly,
From all theyr hard constrayntes.
14
For he them brought: from sorrowes long,From darke and deadly shade:
He brake their bondes: and fetters strong,
To freedome they to wade.
The Quiere.
15
God graunt that they would: prayse hartely then,The Lord for hys grace: so to sing in theyr quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the children of men,
Whose mercy so neare; to them dyd appeare.
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For that he releast: their burdenouse holde,The gates that in brasse: were inuincible fast,
As also the barres: that in yron were folde,
By hym were they brast: set ope at the last.
The Meane.
17
And fooles that lewdly did: by surfet foule transgres,And were for al theyr sinnes afflict: by sicknes fell excesse.
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Who meat in tast abhord: though sweete and wholesome dyght,And then came nigh: to death hys gates: to stop theyr breth and sight
The Rectors.
19
Who thus afflict: whan they do crye,To God in meke complayntes:
He them did saue: most louinglye,
From all their hard constrayntes.
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For he then sent: his worde anone,He them restord by myght:
Wherby they scapte: destruction,
From perill saued quite.
The Quiere.
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God graunt that they would: prayse hartely then,The Lorde for hys grace: so to sing in their quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the childer of men,
Whose mercy so neare: to them did appeare.
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That offer they may: the sacrifice pure,Iust thankes of their lippes: out of hart so to rayse:
Hys workes to renome: so the world to allure.
His walkes and his wayes: most gladly to prayse.
The Meane.
23
And they that enter do: the sea wyth shyp and sayle,To worke theyr feates: in waters depe: for lyfelodes great auayle.
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They see Gods dreadfull workes: in tempestes them they note,His meruels eke: of thynges so houge: in depe also in flote.
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God speakth and strait ryse vp: the wyndes of blustring stormesWhich vp do hoyse: the bellowes rage: in gastly grisly formes.
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Theare ships rise vp to heauen: agayne to deepe they fall:Thus tosse in waues: the mariners: great feares their hartes apall.
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They to and fro be tost: they reele as man full dronke:Theyr arte thē faylth: theyr wits be gone: they fare as men but sonke
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Who thus afflict: when they do cry,To God in meke complayntes:
He them doth saue: most louingly,
From all their harde constrayntes.
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For he the stormes: doth calme in sea,the waues he stilleth their dinne:
30
Then glad are they: that still they be,Safe hauen he driueth them in.
The Quiere.
31
God graunt that they would: prayse hartely then,The Lord for hys grace: so to syng in their quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the childern of men,
Whose mercy so neare: to them dyd appeare.
32
Hys fame to aduaunce: as duely they ought,Downe set as they be: with the people in place:
To prayse hym aright: for indempnitie wrought,
Where elders in space: their courtes do embrace.
The Meane.
33
So let men note Gods myght: in dread of hym to stand:Which turnth moist soyle: to wildernes: & dryeth vp springs to land
34
A fruitefull earth he makth: as salt and barren ground:The dwellers sinnes: be cause therof: where in their liues be found
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So he the desert makth: to flow wyth water springes:And soyle most dry: from barennes: by runnyng brookes he bringes.
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And there he setth to dwell: all hungry nedefull men:To build themselfe: a city strong: as Forte therto to renne.
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And there the fieldes they sowe: and vineyardes large they plantSweete frutes to beare: of yeres increase: to feede their neede & want
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All them he blessth wyth store: they then increase most hye:And suffreth not theyr cattell once: to droupe or yet to dye.
39
But when they fall to sinne: he them decayth agayne:By cruell powers: he bringth them low: with cares opprest & payne
The Rectors.
40
When thus afflict: they feele decay,By Princes great abuse:
Though out of way: a tyme they stray,
At last he them reduce.
41
For he the poore: returnd by smart,Doth rayse from misery:
His householdes yet: he makth in part,
As flockes of sheepe to ligh.
The Quiere.
God graunt that they would: prayse hartely then,
The Lorde for hys grace: so to sing in their quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the chylder of men,
Whose mercy so neare: to them did appeare.
The Lorde for hys grace: so to sing in their quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the chylder of men,
Whose mercy so neare: to them did appeare.
42
That tymely they may: this ponder aryght,As righteous man: in his duety so glad:
Is prest to reioyce: wyth a godly delyte,
Where mouth of the bad: shall dumly be sad.
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The conclusion.
Mans hart that is wise: these things wil aduise,Pure thankes to procure: to hys God for his cure,
And thus hys deuise: may he iustly comprise,
Ryght oft is hys vre: by loue to allure,
Kynde mercy so sure: in hym doth endure,
Extoll hym I say: both by night and by day,
Ren neuer astray: from his mercifull way.
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