Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton.

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Title: Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton.
Author: Barton, William, 1598?-1678.
Publication: London :: Printed by J. Heptinstall for William Cooper ...,; 1688.
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Song of Solomon -- Paraphrases, English.; Hymns, English.
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BUT Sion said (so sad was she)
The Lord hath quite forsaken me:
And now the Lord hath me forgot
As one whom he remembreth not.

What? can a mother meek and mild
Ever forget her sucking child?
Can her compassions find no room
For the dear son of her own womb?

Yea, (saith the Lord) they may forget
And not remember Natures debt:
Yet will not I forgetfull be,
But always will remember thee.

Behold thy Name engraven stands
Upon the palms of both my hands:
Thy walls are ever in my sight
To keep them safely day and night.

Let Israel's God be blest therefore
From first to last for evermore,
And let us all with one accord
Say here Amen, Praise ye the Lord.