The whole booke of Psalmes collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold, I. Hopkins, & others, conferred with the Ebrue, with apt notes to synge the[m] with al ; faithfully perused and alowed according to thordre appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions ; very mete to be vsed of all sortes of people priuately for their solace & comfort, laying apart all vngodly songes and ballades, which tende only to the norishing of vyce, and corrupting of youth.
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The whole booke of Psalmes collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold, I. Hopkins, & others, conferred with the Ebrue, with apt notes to synge the[m] with al ; faithfully perused and alowed according to thordre appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions ; very mete to be vsed of all sortes of people priuately for their solace & comfort, laying apart all vngodly songes and ballades, which tende only to the norishing of vyce, and corrupting of youth.
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Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549.
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Imprinted at Lo[n]don :: By John Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate,
1562.
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Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms -- Paraphrases, English.
Psalters.
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"The whole booke of Psalmes collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold, I. Hopkins, & others, conferred with the Ebrue, with apt notes to synge the[m] with al ; faithfully perused and alowed according to thordre appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions ; very mete to be vsed of all sortes of people priuately for their solace & comfort, laying apart all vngodly songes and ballades, which tende only to the norishing of vyce, and corrupting of youth." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13988.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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I wayted longe and sought the Lorde, and patiently did beare:At length to me he did accorde, * 1.1 my voyce and cry to heare. [verse 2] He pluckt me from the lake so deepe, out of the mire and clay:And on a rocke he set my feete, and he did gide my waye.
[verse 3] To me he taught a psalme of prayse, whiche I must shew abrode:And sing new songes of thankes alwayse, vnto the Lorde our God. [verse 4] When all the folke these thinges shall see, as people muche afrayde.Then they vnto the Lorde will flee, and trust vpon his ayde.
[verse 5] O blest is he whose hope and hart, doth in the Lorde remayne:That with the proude doth take no part, nor suche as lye and faine. [verse 6] For Lorde my God thy wondrous dedes, in greatnes far doo passe:
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Thy fauour towards vs excedes, all things that euer was.
[verse 7] When I entend and doo deuise, thy workes abrode to shew:To suche a reckning they doo ryse, therof no ende I know. [verse 8] Burnt offringes thou delightste not in, I know thy whole desire:With sacrifice to purge their sinne, thou doest no man require.
[verse 9] Meate offering and sacrifice, thou woldst not haue at all:But thou O Lorde hast open made, mine eares to heare withall. [verse 10] But then said I behold and loke, I come a meane to be:For in the volume of the booke, thus it is sayd of me.