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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1. METRE.

Isa. 61.10.

I greatly will rejoice
In God that is so good;
My soul shall sing with cheerfull voice
unto the Lord my God.

For he hath cloathed me
With that delightfull dress
Of saving health and sanctity
and Robes of Righteousness.

As Bride-grooms, that have wealth,
With ornaments are deckt;
And as a Bride adorns her self
with jewels most select.

Or as the bud that springs
Out of the pregnant earth,
And gardens sow'd with choicest things
doth richly bring them forth:

So God will make, likewise,
His righteousness and praise
Spring forth in all the Nations eyes
now in the latter days.

Let Israel's God therefore
be prais'd perpetually:
And let us all for evermore
give praise to God most high.