The choice and flower of the old Psalms collected by Iohn Hopkins and others and now revised and amended by William Barton ...

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Title: The choice and flower of the old Psalms collected by Iohn Hopkins and others and now revised and amended by William Barton ...
Author: Barton, William, 1598?-1678.
Publication: London :: Printed by G. Miller and are to be sold (alone or together with the new) by S. Gillibrand ..., I. Kirton ..., Tho. Underhill ..., and Stephen Bowtell ...,; 1645.
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms -- Paraphrases.
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VVIth heart and mouth unto the Lord
will I sing laud and praise:
And speak of all his wondrous works,
and them declare alwaies.

I will be glad and much rejoyce, in thee O Lord most high: And with my songs extoll thy Name above the starrie skie.

Because my foes are driven back, and put to shamefull flight: They fall down flat, and are destroyed by thy great power and might.

¶Know then that he which is above for evermore shall reign, And in the seat of equity true judgement will maintain,

He is protector of the poor, what time they be opprest: He is their succour in distresse, their refuge and their rest.

¶Sing Psalms therefore unto the Lord, that dwels in Sion hill. Publish among the nations all, his noble acts and will.

For he is mindfull of the bloud of poor oppressed 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Forgetting not the afflicted heart, but hea••s their sighs and groans.

He lets the heathen fall into the pit that they prepar'd: And in the net that they did set, are they themselves insnar'd.

But sure the Lord will not forget the poor mans grief and pain:

The patient people never look for help of God in vain.

O Lord arise, lest men prevail, that be of worldly might: And let the heathen folk receive their judgement in thy sight.

Lord strike such terrour, fear and dread into the hearts of them: That they may know assuredly, they be but mortall men.