CV
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Praise God, O call vpon his name;
The people with his actes acquent.
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Sing vnto him, in psalmes proclaime
His prayse; his wondrous works all vent.
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His holy name let alwayes bee
Your glory. Glade in hart be they
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Who seek the Lord. The Lord seek yee;
O seek his strenth and face for ay.
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The works miraculouslie wrought,
Prodigious wonders of each kinde,
The judgements of his mouth, all broght
To passe by him, still beare in minde,
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Seed of his servant Abraham,
His Choisen Ones, yee Jacob's race.
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Our God Jehouah is by name;
His judgements in all earth haue place.
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Hee keeps in minde his couenant
For ay, his word and promise fast,
The which hee did command and grant
To thousands of degrees to last;
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His league with Abram made, which hee
By oath to Isaake ratifyde;
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To Jacob stablisht by decree,
To Israel firme for ay to byd.
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Canaan's pleasant soyle, (said Hee,)
That fruitfull land, I will mak thine,
Of your inheritance to bee
The proper lote, layd off by line.
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In number few, evin verie few,
And forraineuers when there they stayed;
When as, (encountring straits anew,)
From nation they to nation strayed,
When from one kingdome they did flitt,
And other parts and people prov'd,
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To wrong them hee did none permitt,
Yea, kings hee for their sakes reprov'd.
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Take heed, (sayd hee) lest violence
To mine anointed offred be;
Sie, yee to them give no offence;
Vnharm'd, my propheits lett passe free.
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He famine cald, to which hee gaue
The land; evin bracke the staffe of breade;
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And Joseph sent, (thogh sold a slave,)
A man of place, them to preceid;
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Whose feet, sore payn'd with bolts of brasse,
In irons made fast, they made him lye;
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Till that his word did come to passe;
The Lord did by his word him try.
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The king, the peopl's ruler, sent
To lowse his bands, and him inlairge.
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Instead of strict imprissonment,
Of all his house hee gaue him charge;
Lord therof, yea, of all hee hade
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He ruler made him; to his will
To ty his; that wiser made
His elders might be, by his skill.
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Israell also, full of years,
To Egypt from Canaan came.
Old Jacob, fred of all his fears,
Did sojourne in the land of Chame.
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The Lord his people every way,
There, did exceidinglie increase,
And soone them mightier made then they
Who did themselves their foes professe.
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With hate his people to persew,
Their wicked harts hee did enclyne;
His servants, as their number grew,
By subtilty to vndermine.
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His servant Moses Hee employ'd,
Yea, Aaron chuis'd, amidst the crew
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Wher Chame discent ther lote enjoy'd;
His signes and wonders (there) they shew.
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Hee darknes sent, and darknes all
Envolv'd; his word was not withstoode.
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Their streams turnd blood; both great and small
The fish hee slew of everie flood.
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Their princes' rowmes of frogs not free,
Of them the land brought forth such hosts;
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Hee spake, forth suarm'd each sort of flie;
Yea, lyce did craule in all their costs.
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Haill in ther land and fireflaughts flew,
For nursing raine, which hee held back.
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Their vines and figtrees hee o'rethrew,
And all ther border trees doun brack.
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He spake, and numberles wer found
Locusts and cutwormes, to employ
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Of all the land and fertile ground,
The herbe and fruit which did destroy.
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The first borne all, of all ther land,
Hee smote, the chieff of all ther strength.
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With gold and silver at command,
His people hee brought furth at lenth.
Mongst all the Tribs was none at all
Found feeble, and vnfitt for flight.
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Egipt, in that their fear did fall
On them, was glade at ther good-night.
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By him a cloud was o're them cast.
A fyre to cleare the night was given.
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They ask'd, hee brought them quails in haist,
And fild them with the bread of heavin.
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The rock he opned, from whose veyns
Hee made refreshing waters flow,
Which, gliding through the parched playnes,
Did soone a pleasant river grow.
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For good his holie word hee made
To Abraham, his servant deare;
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And brought his people forth most glade,
His choisen ones, with shouting cheare.
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The peoples' paynes, the heathens' lands,
For them to brooke hee did afford;
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His laws observe, and his com̄ands
That they might keep. O, praise the Lord.
