Epithalamium, or Solomons Song Together with the Songs of Moses, Exod. 15 & Deut. 32. ... Digested into a known and familiar meeter, by Samuel Slater |
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The CHURCHES SONG,
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The CHURCHES SONG,
Isa. xxvi.
1.
VVe have a City wch is strongGod will for it ordain
Salvation, and therewith as walls
and bulwarks it maintain.
2.
The gates thereof do ye set ope,that thereinto may pass
the righteous Nation, wch doth keep
the truth, and it embrace.
3.
Thou wilt him keep in perfect peaceeven so shall he be blest
Whose mind is staid on thee, because
on thee his trust doth rest.
4.
Trust ye for ever in the Lord,let him be still your stay;
For in the Lord Jehovah, is
such strength as lasts for aye.
5.
He brings them down that dwel on highhe lays the City low,
Even to the ground, that lofty is,
to dust he makes it bow.
6.
It shall be trodden under foot,the poor on it shall make
Their feet to stand, the needy ones
thereon their steps shall take.
7.
The just mans way is uprightness;thou Lord that art also
The most upright, do streight the paths
wherein the just do go.
8.
Yea Lord, for thee we waited havein way thy judgements be;
Our souls desire is to thy name,
remembrance eke of thee.
9.
Even unto thee, in the night timehath been my souls desire,
Yea with my spirit, for thee I will
seek early, and enquire.
For when thy judgements in the earth
themselves abroad do show,
The worlds inhabitants will then
learn righteousness to know.
10.
Let favour shewed be untothe wicked, ne'retheless
He will not set himself to learn
and practise righteousness.
Even in the land of uprightness
unjustly will he deal,
the Lord doth there reveal.
11.
Lord when thy hand is lifted up,they will not it behold,
But yet they shall be made to see
shame shall on them take hold;
Even for the envy which their minds
against the people bear;
The fire even of thine enemies shall
devour, and shall not spare.
12.
Lord thou for us wilt peace ordainto us it shall be brought,
For why, the works that are in us,
even thou thy self hast wrought.
13.
O Lord our God, even other lordsore us the rule did take,
But by thee; only of thy name
the mention will we make.
14.
But they are dead, they shall not livedeceas'd, and shal not rise.
Thou hast them visited and stroy'd,
their mem'ry fades likewise.
15.
The nation Lord thou hast increastand thou art glorify'd,
Thou hast remov'd it far abroad,
throughout the earth so wide.
16.
O Lord they have thee visitedwhen they in trouble were;
They poured out a prayer, when they
thy chast'ning hand did bear.
17.
Like one with child, whose time is neeryea is in pain, and cries
By reason of her pangs, so we
have been (Lord) in thine eyes.
18.
We were with childe, & in that stateanguish and pain did find;
And that wch is by us brought forth,
is as it were the wind.
We have not wrought deliverance
in earth, no none at all:
Inhabitants eke of the world,
we have not made them fall.
19.
Thy dead shall live, they shal wth mydead body rise and spring:
Ye that do dwell even in the dust,
do ye awake and sing.
For as the dew that falls upon
the herbs, and doth them spread,
So is thy dew, the earth also
it shall cast out the dead.
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