Psa. 87.
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A Psalm or song for the sonns of Chorah. It
describes the scituation & glorie of the Church typified by
Syon; prophetically declareth, that all Kingdomes shall
be incorporated into that Citty of God; & that all Nations
shall there obtaine their New-birth &c. It serves
(among other vses) to informe, that God's Church
excludeth no Nation &c.
[1]
The Lord, hath his Foundations plac'd
Above the heighest mountaines crownes;
Yea, Syons ports, he more hath grac't
Then all the rest of Iacob's Townes
And, glorious things, are fam'd abrode
Of thee (oh Cittie) lov'd of God.
2
For, God accounts, as borne in thee,
Egiptians, if they him desire;
Nay; though from Babell sprung they be
From Chush, Philistia, or from Tyre.
For, he hath sayd, that all on earth
In Syon, may renew their Birth.
3
The God most high will strengthen her,
And shall record each faithful soul,
As having had first-beeing, there:
When hee his people doth enrowl,
For, there are, all that play or sing;
And, thence proceeds each blessed thing.