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Exultate deo,
Psalme. lxxxi.
I.H.
An exhortation to prayse God bothe in harte and voyce for his benefytes, and to worship him only: God condemneth the ingratitude, and sheweth what greate benefites they haue loste thorowe theyr owne malyce.
Be
lyghte and glad in God reioyce
which is our strength & staie
be ioyfull and lyfte vp your voyce,
to Iacobs God I say,
prepare your instrumentes most mete
some ioyfull psalme to synge,
stryke vp with harp and lute so swete
on euery pleasant stryng.
which is our strength & staie
be ioyfull and lyfte vp your voyce,
to Iacobs God I say,
prepare your instrumentes most mete
some ioyfull psalme to synge,
stryke vp with harp and lute so swete
on euery pleasant stryng.
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Blow as it were in the new mone,
with trumpets of the best:
As it is vsed to be done,
at any solemne feast.
For this is vnto Israell,
a statute and a trade:
A lawe that must be kept full well,
which Iacobs God hath made.
with trumpets of the best:
As it is vsed to be done,
at any solemne feast.
For this is vnto Israell,
a statute and a trade:
A lawe that must be kept full well,
which Iacobs God hath made.
This clause with Ioseph was decreed,
when he from Egipt came:
That as a witnes all his sede,
shoulde still obserue the same.
When God I say, had so preparde,
to bryng him from that land:
Where as the speach which he had heard,
he did not vnderstand.
when he from Egipt came:
That as a witnes all his sede,
shoulde still obserue the same.
When God I say, had so preparde,
to bryng him from that land:
Where as the speach which he had heard,
he did not vnderstand.
I from his shoulders toke saith he,
the burden cleane awaye:
And from the furnace quit him free,
from burnyng bricke of claye,
When thou in grief, diddest cry and cal
I holpe thee by and by:
And I did aunswer the withall,
in thunder secretly.
the burden cleane awaye:
And from the furnace quit him free,
from burnyng bricke of claye,
When thou in grief, diddest cry and cal
I holpe thee by and by:
And I did aunswer the withall,
in thunder secretly.
Yea at the waters of discorde,
I did thee tempt and proue:
Wheras the goodnes of the Lorde,
with muttering thou diddest moue,
Heare O my folke, O Israell,
and I assure it thee:
Regarde and marke my wordes full wel
if thou wilt cleaue to me.
I did thee tempt and proue:
Wheras the goodnes of the Lorde,
with muttering thou diddest moue,
Heare O my folke, O Israell,
and I assure it thee:
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if thou wilt cleaue to me.
Thou shalte no God in thee reserue,
of any land abrode:
Nor in no wise to bow or serue,
a straunge and forraine God.
I am the Lorde, thy God, and I,
from Egipt set thee free:
Then aske of me aboundauntly,
and I will geue it the.
of any land abrode:
Nor in no wise to bow or serue,
a straunge and forraine God.
I am the Lorde, thy God, and I,
from Egipt set thee free:
Then aske of me aboundauntly,
and I will geue it the.
And yet my people woulde not heare,
my voyce when that I spake:
Nor Israell would not obey,
but did me quite forsake.
Then did I leaue them to their will,
in hardnes of theyr hart
To walke in theyr owne counsels still,
them selues they might peruert.
my voyce when that I spake:
Nor Israell would not obey,
but did me quite forsake.
Then did I leaue them to their will,
in hardnes of theyr hart
To walke in theyr owne counsels still,
them selues they might peruert.
O that my people would haue hard,
the wordes that I did say:
And eke that Israell would regarde,
to walke within my waye.
How soone would I cōfound their foes,
and bring them downe full lowe:
And tourne my hand vpon all those,
that woulde them ouerthrowe.
the wordes that I did say:
And eke that Israell would regarde,
to walke within my waye.
How soone would I cōfound their foes,
and bring them downe full lowe:
And tourne my hand vpon all those,
that woulde them ouerthrowe.
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