Seuen Sobs of a Sorrowful Soule for Sinne Comprehending those seuen Psalmes of the Princelie Prophet David, commonlie called Poenitentiall; framed into a forme of familiar praiers, and reduced into meeter by William Hunnis ... Whereunto are also annexed his Handful of Honisuckles; the Poore Widowes Mite; a Dialog between Christ and a sinner; diuers godlie and pithie ditties, with a Christian confession of and to the Trinitie; newly printed and augmented |
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Domine exaudi. Psal. 143.
The first part.
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O Lord, long time I wandred haue,and gone from thee astraie.
And lost the portion yu me gau'st,
in wastful sinners waie.
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With grace thou didst replenish me,therewith to follow thee;
But lust and liking of the flesh
hath driuen the same from me,
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So that vnworthie far I am,for to be cald thy Sonne;
My wickednes so foule appeares,
and fauits that I haue donne.
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Yet with the wastful child, ô Lord,I do my selfe accuse;
And am with shame surprizd & caught,
I did my selfe abuse.
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Wherefore Lord ponder my desire,and heare me when I praie,
And for thy truth and righteousnesse,
attend to that I sate,
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Thou hast with gifts indued me,of bodie and of mind,
And I the same abused haue,
and shewd my selfe vnkind,
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Thy iustice still dooth threaten me,with euerlasting paine,
Thy mercie yet doth promise me
to be restord againe.
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Enter not into iudgement then,with me, I humblie praie,
For in thy sight no man is iust,
as of himselfe to saie.
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We all by sinne our selues haue mademore lothsome then the swine,
And fouler to be looked on,
wert not for mercie thine.
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Which shall vs make like to the woollin colour faire and white,
When al our sinnes thou shalt forget,
and cleane put from thy sight,
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But yet the diuell mine enemie,my soule pursueth still,
And hath brought low my life in earth,
a seruant to his will;
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And with his net me compast round,where vaine delights do dwell,
Where lust vncleane and wickednes
to bide doth me compell.
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He hath me set in darkenesse such,as men that no life haue,
Or as those people being dead
are couered in the graue.
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Now, Lord, My spirit so vexed is,my heart is greeu'd also.
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of anguish mine and wo.
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My wisedome, Lord confused isby reason of my sin,
Repentance great my heart doth rent.
to thinke what I haue bin.
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I call to mind the daies of old,and works that thou hast wrought,
The maruellous deeds that thou hast done,
I muse on in my thought.
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As in the time of Moses law,where mercie was not showne,
And he that did the same transgresse,
by death was ouerthrowne:
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Yet in this hard and seuere time,thy mercie forth was sent,
By prophets thine, with promise made,
to all that did repent.
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If thou in time of crueltiecouldst then such mercie showe,
Much more ô Lord, in time of grace
on me thy mercie throwe.
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I haue spred forth my hands to thee,my soule for helpe doth crie,
As doth the earth that moisture wants,
where water none doth lie?
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That is, my life I changed haue,from vaine delights that bee,
And haue my soule spred forth at large,
that thou hir filth mightst see.
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For as the earth that moisture wants,must barren be by kind,
So if my soule be void of grace,
no good is there to find.
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But yet through moisture of ye gracefrom thee that doth proceed,
Vouchsafe I may thy mercie haue,
and that, ô Lord, with speed.
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Heare me, ô Lord, and that right soone,for why my spirit is weake
And feeble made; much like a man
that wanteth power to speake.
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The feare is such that I possesse,I readie am to fall,
The strength whereby my bodie liues
is gone awaie withall.
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This feare of endles punishment,which I deserued haue,
Had well nigh brought me in despaire,
yer I possesse the graue.
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Good Lord turne not thy face away,least I be like to those
That do descend into the pit,
where nought but horror growes.
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Thou wilt not Lord the death of himthat hath offended thee,
But rather that he should returne,
and saued so to bee.
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Thou art the true and onlie God,the sauiour of mankind;
Without thee there is nothing else
that we shal mercie find.
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Then turne to me thy countenanceof amiable grace,
And let thy mercie shadow me,
while life I haue and space,
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And laie not to my charge good, Lord,the sinnes that I haue doone,
But them forget, and me forgiue,
for Christes sake thy sonne.
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And cause thy mercie to be heard,of me before the prime:
For I in thee haue put my trust,
alone from time to time.
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Most blessed Lord, grant that I maiethy mercie sweet obtaine,
And that right soone thou me release
from my deserued paine.
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With great repentance do I cal,my hope assureth mee,
Thou wilt forgiue me all my sinnes,
because I trust in thee.
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I know that thou art nigh to allthat call vpon thy name,
And wilt direct their steps aright,
that craue of thee the same.
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Wherefore good Lord shew me the waieI ought for to walke in,
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to thee with al my sin.
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Lord many times in deed thou hastdirected me the waie,
And I haue purposd in my selfe,
no more to go astraie:
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Yea, when I haue repentant bin,and vowed in my hart
Thy law for to obserue and keepe,
and neuer to depart;
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The diuell my dailie enimiecontriu'd the matter so,
What his deceit, yer I was ware,
gaue me the ouerthro:
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And Lord without assistance thine,he vanquish wil yer long
the kingdoms vpon the earth,
he is become so strong.
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Deliuer me from al my foes,for vnto thee I flie,
And giue me strength, my God to do
thy will effectuallie.
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For of my selfe no power I haueto do the good I should,
One for to wish or thinke the good
that verie faine I would.
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Thy mercie onelie Lord, it isby which I must preuaile,
A man without the helpe and aid,
of purpose needs must faile.
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Thou hast with reason and with wilindued me I know;
But wil (of force) without thy grace,
must reason ouerthrow.
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Wherefore, Lord, let thy holy spirit,conduct me in the waie,
Vnto the land of righteousnesse,
I thee beseech and praie:
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Where thine elect and chosen sortthy brightnesse shall behold,
With such heauenly felicitie
as cannot here be told;
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Not that I haue deserued, Lord,for to possesse the same,
But for thine endlesse mercie sake,
and for thine holy name.
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Thou wilt not, Lord, the death of himthat daily doth offend,
But that he rather do conuert,
and so his life amend.
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This is thy will, this is thy mind,though I a sinner be;
If by repentance I doo turne,
then wilt thou turne to me.
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And then shall I receiued be,and be reuiu'd againe,
And through thy equity be freed,
of euerlasting paine.
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For whereas I by sin am deadspirituallie to saie,
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and for thy mercie praie.
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My bodie now by nature weake,shal then in strength arise,
And shall in glorie shine more bright,
than doth the sun in skies.
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Where now the same, ô Lord, is giuento lust and lewd delight,
Shal then arise al spirituall,
and yeeld to reasons might.
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No grossenes then, but that it maypearse through the thickest stone,
And as for things corruptible,
it shal haue mind of none.
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Immortall it shall euer be,impassible withall,
Betweene the bodie and the soule
shal then no strife befal.
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Thus Lord, Thou shalt bring foorth my soulefrom troubles al that be,
And shalt mine enemies destroie,
through mercie shewd to me.
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Thou shalt them vtterly confound,that do my soule molest,
If I by grace thy seruant am,
and in thy mercie rest.
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Good Christ which gaust thy life for meand suffredst on the tree:
Preserue my bodie and my soule,
and mercie haue on mee,
Amen.
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