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Songs of Sion

Set for the ioy of gods deere ones, vvho sitt here by the brookes of this vvorlds Babel, & vveepe vvhen they thinke on Hierusalem vvhich is on highe. By W. L. [i.e. William Loe]

Loe, William

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An hymne or song. Of seauen straines, or strings set to the tone of seaven sobs, and sighes of a seaven times seauen sad soule for sinne

The seuenth straine.

To him that made these Hymnes.

To him that made these hymns

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The seuenth straine.

1

O Lord thou hast me tride,
And day by day dost knovve
My thoughts, my vvords, my lookes my deeds,
My sighs, my groans, my vvoe.

2

My bones they are not hid
Thou knevvst them all each one
For in thy note they vvere all vvrote
Each ioynt, and bone, by bone,

3

Trie still, and search mine hart,
My thoughts proue day, & night
And if the ill doe touch me lord
O leade me to the right.

4

For thou canst rule my raines
As vvhen I vvas in vvombe.
O giude me in this life of mine,
And rest me in my tombe.

5

Keepe me from men that muse
Of bloud of bane of ill,
O let me thinke of thee o lord,
And hovve to doe thy vvill.

6

So shall noe shame me taynt
My corps, my goods, my name
So shall I rest in ioy, and peace,
And touch noe blot of shame

7

So shall thy folke for me,
Be glad, and sing thy praise,
So shall my selfe, my seed, my solue
Be thine in all my daies.

7. Sighe.

O let not my suite come in vaine to thee, but heare o my god, and say to my soule I am, and vvill be thy asse from hell, thy port from the sea of this vvorld, and vvill bring thee to the bay of blisse.