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Psalm 91 Qui habitat

To him the highest keepes
In closet of his care,
Who in th'allmighties shadow sleepes,
For one affirme I dare:
Jehova is my fort
My place of safe repaire:
My God in whom, of my support,
All hopes reposed are.
From snare the fowler laies
He shall thee sure unty:
The noisome blast that plaguing straies
Untoucht, shall passe thee by.
Soft hiv'd with wing and plume
Thou in his shrowd shalt ly
And on his truth noe lesse presume,
Then most in shield affy.
Not mov'd with frightfull night
Nor arow shott by day;
Though plague, I say, in darknesse fight,
And wast at noontide slay,
Nay, allbe thousands here,
Ten thousands there, decay:
That Ruine to approch thee nere,
Shall finde no force nor way.
But thou shalt live to see,
And, seeing, to relate,
What recompence shared be
To ev'ry godlesse mate,
When once thou mak'st the Lord
Protector of thy state,
And with the highest canst accord
To dwell within his gate:

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Then ill, nay cause of ill,
Shall farr excluded goe:
Nought thee to hurt, much lesse to kill,
Shall nere thy lodging grow.
For Angells shall attend
By him commanded soe:
And thee in all such waies defend,
As his directions show.
To beare thee with regard
Their hands shall both be spred:
Thy foote shall never dash to hard,
Against the stone misled.
Soe thou on lions goe
Soe on the Aspicks head:
On Lionet shalt hurtlesse soe
And on the Dragon tread.
Loe me, saith God: he loves
I therfore will him free:
My name with knowledg he approves,
That shall his honor be.
He asks when paines are rife,
And streight receiv'd doth see
Help, glory, and his fill of life,
With endlesse health from me.