The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold I. Hopkins & others: conferred with the Ebrue, with apt Notes to synge the[m] withal

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Domine Deus noster.

Psal. viii.

Tho. Ster.

The Prophet considering thexcellent liberalitie, and fatherly prouidence of God towards man. whom he made as it were a God ouer all his workes, doth not only geue great thanks, but is astonished with thadmiration of the same: as one nothinge hable to compasse suche greate mercies, and so endeth.

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Sing this as the thirde psalme.

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O God our Lord how wonderfull,
are thy workes euery where:
Whose fame surmounte in dignitie,
aboue the heauens cleare.

Euen by the mouthes of sucking babes,
thou wilt confound thy foes:
For in these babes thy might is sene,
thy graces they disclose.

And when I see the heauens highe,
the workes of thine owne hand:
The Sunne, the Mone, and al the Starres.
in order as they stand.

What thing is man (Lorde) thinke I then,

that thou doest him remember:
Or what is mans posteritie,
that thou doest it considre.

For thou hast made him litle les,

Herein appeareth the greate loue of god toward man. Hebr. 2.

then Angels in degree:
And thou hast crowned him also,
with glory and dygnitie.

Thou hast preferd him to be Lorde,
of all thy workes of wonder,
And at his fete hast set all thinges,
that he should kepe them vnder.

As shepe and neat all beastes els,
that in the fieldes doo fede:

Foules of the ayre, fishe in the sea,
and all that therin brede.

Therfore must I say once agayne,
O God, that art our Lorde:
How famous and how wonderfull,
are thy works through the world.

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Domine Deus noster.

Psal. viii.