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Psalm. Cxxxix.
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Psalm. Cxxxix.
The Argument.
When Dauid mysreported was: that he would Saul subuertHe thus appeald to God hymself, who knew hys giltles hart.
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O God thou hast: ful searcht me out,Thou knowst my harte and reines:
Accused I am: to compasse in,
Both king and realme wyth traynes.
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My sitting downe: my rising vp: my Actes thou knowest echoneThou vnderstandst: my thoughts a far: before I thinke them on.
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My walks thou knowst: my rests & steys: my bed thou goest abouteYea al my wayes: thou hast contriued: all sercht by the no doute.
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No secret word: in all my tonge: so whispered closly inBut thou O Lord: it knowst at whole: although it make no dinne.
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For why thou me: thy selfe didst frame: behynd, before in forme:Thou laydst thyne hand: to this my clay: thy hands did me perform
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This knowledge is: to meruelous: for me to reach I knoow,To hye and hard: for me to fetch: by hye or yet by lowe.
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And whether can: I thinke to goe: fro this thy sprite and thought,From thee in face: how can I flye: or whether shall I flought.
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If I do clime: to heauen aboue: euen there thou artfull neere:If so by low: I make my bed: In hell, thou art lo there.
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If now I take: the morning wings: who spredth her beames so swiftThat strayt I cowd: to fordest Sea: remoue my house to shift.
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Yet there thy hand: shall lede me forth: as pastor guideth his sheepethy strong right hand: would me vphold: by prouidence most deepe
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If eke I say: or thinke at least: that darke shall hide my heade:Than shall the night: as shining day: be round about me spreade.
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For sure the darke so dark: cannot: endarke thy louely sight:The night as day: do shine to thee: so darkenes is as light.
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For iust my reynes: with theyr affects: are thine how hid they be,In wrapst thou me my mothers wombe: with vestures sonderly.
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I geue thee thanks: for that I am: in shape formd straungely,Thy works so hye: be wrought in me, which playnd my soule doth spye.
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My substance first: both bones & Ioynts: were nothing hid fro theIn earth ful depe when I was wrought: and wouen was curiously
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My masse vnshapt: thyne eyes did see: was writ in thine owne bokeBy dayes increase: my parts were formd: whē none on them could looke
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How dere to me: O God appere: thy thoughts, these counsels gretHow manifold: be but the summe: In count if they were set.
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If I would tell: the summe of them: they should exceede the sand:Than this reuolued: I watch to thee, by thee I trust to stand.
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If thou uow wouldst: thy self O God: confound that wicked man:bloud thursty men: whome I defye: would leaue me wholy than.
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For these they be: that fight at thee and speake vngraciously:They vse thy name: in vayne to light: thy foes be puft to hye.
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Do I not hate: all them O Lorde: who thee with hate disdayne?And fret not I: and fume at them: which rise at thee by trayne?
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Yes Lord from hart: I hate them all: with perfect hate and fyneThy foes I take: myne enemies: as they were onely myne.
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Than search me God: and boult my hart: to thee this cause I yeldeWell try and know: in thoughte and driftes: what hauntes in life I held
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And see in me: if any wayes: be founde rebellious,Then lead me forth: the worldly way: of death obliuiouse.
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