Spiritual Songs, or, Songs of Praise to Almighty God Upon several Occasions Together with The Song of Songs Which is Solomons. First Turn'd, then Paraphrased in English Verse. The Second Edition, Corrected, with an Addition of a Sacred Poem on Dives and Lazarus [by John Mason] |
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 | Spiritual Songs, or, Songs of Praise to Almighty God Upon several Occasions |  |
I. A General Song of Praise to Almighty God.
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How shall I Sing that MajestieVVhich Angels do Admire?
Let Dust in Dust and Silence lie,
Sing, Sing ye Heav'nly Quire,
Thousand of Thousands stand Around
Thy Throne, O God, most High;
Ten Thousand times Ten thousand sound
Thy Praise; But who am I?
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Thy Brightness unto them appears,Whilst I thy Footsteps trace.
A Sound of God comes to my Eares,
But they behold thy Face.
They Sing because thou art their Sun,
Lord, send a Beam on me,
For where Heav'n is but once begun
There Hallelujahs be.
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Enlighten with Faiths Light my Heart,Enflame it with loves Fire,
Then shall I Sing and bear a part,
With that Celestial Quire.
I shall I fear, be dark and Cold,
With all my Fire and Light:
Yet when thou dost accept their Gold,
Lord treasure up my Mite.
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How great a Being Lord is thineWhich doth all Beings keep!
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To Sound so vast a Deep.
Thou art a Sea without a shore,
A Sun without a Sphear,
Thy Time is now and evermore,
Thy Place is every where.
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How good art thou whose Goodness isOur Parent Nurse and Guide;
Whose Streams do water Paradise
And all the Earth beside.
Thine upper and thy Nether Springs
Make both thy Worlds to thrive.
Under thy warm and sheltring wings
Thou keep'st two Broods alive.
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Thine Arm of might, most mighty King,Both Rocks and Hearts doth break.
My God, thou canst do every thing
But what would shew thee weak.
Thou canst not Cross thy self, or be
Less then thy self, or poor;
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That canst thou do, and more.
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VVho would not fear thy Searching Eye,Witness to all that's true?
Dark Hell and deep Hypocrisie
Lie plain before its View.
Motions and thoughts before they grow
Thy Knowledge doth Espy.
VVhat unborn Ages are to do
Is done before thine Eye.
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Thy VVisdom, which both makes and 'mends,VVe ever much Admire.
Creation all our VVit Transcends;
Redemption rises Higher.
Thy wisdom guides stray'd Sinners home,
'T will make the dead VVorld rise,
And bring those Prisoners to their Doom.
Its Paths are Mysteries.
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Great is thy Truth, and shall prevailTo Unbelievers shame.
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Thou ever art the same.
Unbelief is a Raging wave,
Dashing against a Rock.
If God do not his Israel Save,
Then let Egyptians mock.
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Most pure and Holy are thine Eyes,Most Holy is thy Name,
Thy Saints, and Laws, and Penalties
Thy Holiness proclaim.
This is the Devils scourge and sting,
This is the Angels Song,
VVho Holy, Holy, Holy Sing,
In Heavenly Canaans Tongue.
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Mercy, that shining Attribute,The Sinners hope and Plea!
Huge Hosts of sins in their Pursuit
Are drown'd in thy Red-Sea.
Mercy is Gods Memorial,
And in all Ages prais'd.
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That Mercy might be Rais'd.
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Thy bright Back-parts, O God of GraceI Humbly here Adore.
Shew Me thy Glory and thy Face,
That I may praise Thee more.
Since none can see thy Face and live,
For me to die is best.
Through Jordan's streams who would not dive
To Land at Canaan's Rest?
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