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Nisi quia dominus.
Psalm. Cxxiiii.
VV.
The people of God, beyng delyuered out of a great danger, acknowledg not to haue escaped by their owne power, but throughe the fauour of God, and shew in how greate perill they were.
Nowe
Israell may say, & that truly,
If that the Lord had not our cause mainteind.
If that the lord had not our right susteind.
Whē all the worlde against vs furiously,
made their vprors, and said we should all die.
If that the Lord had not our cause mainteind.
If that the lord had not our right susteind.
Whē all the worlde against vs furiously,
made their vprors, and said we should all die.
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Now long a go they had deuoure vs all:
And swalowed quick, for ought yt we could deme,
Suche was their rage, as we might well esteme.
And as the flouddes, with mightye force do fall,
So had they now, our life euen brought to thrall.
And swalowed quick, for ought yt we could deme,
Suche was their rage, as we might well esteme.
And as the flouddes, with mightye force do fall,
So had they now, our life euen brought to thrall.
The raging stremes, most proud in roring noice
Had long a go, ouer whelmde vs in the depe,
But loued by God whiche doth vs safely kepe,
From bloudy teeth, and theyr most cruell voyce.
Which as a pray to eate vs woulde reioyce.
Had long a go, ouer whelmde vs in the depe,
But loued by God whiche doth vs safely kepe,
From bloudy teeth, and theyr most cruell voyce.
Which as a pray to eate vs woulde reioyce.
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