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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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Hymne. X. After our Worke is done.

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Lest (when we have accomplished our intended Works) we lose the benefit of our Labours, by Jmprovidence


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or Vnthankfulnesse; We are hereby put in remembrance to beseech of God that we forfeit not the comfort of them, by our sins.

Sing this as the 100. Psalme.

[1]

That I unthankfull may not be,
Now this my worke is fully done,
VVith Praises Lord, I come to thee,
In whom it was at first begun:
For if my Pains hath compast ought,
From whence, a profit may redound;
Thy Grace, the same in me hath wrought:
Else, fruitlesse, had my deeds been found.

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Let not my Folly, nor my Foe,
Nor past, nor future sins, destroy
The Labours, which I did bestow
An honest profit to enjoy.
But, make my Paines, and their Effect,
To me, still, prosp'rously succeed;
And let me never Lord, neglect
To praise thee, both in Will and Deed.