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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3. PART.

v. 9.

For lo! the Portion of the Lord
is Israel whom he doth advance,
And Jacob's house is on record
the Lot of his inheritance.

He found him in a forraign Land
in howling desarts waste and dry,
Led him, and made him understand,
kept him as th' apple of his eye.

As th'Eagle stirreth up her nest,
and flutters o're her young ones there,

Spreads out her wings whereon they rest, and on her wings she doth them bear.

So God alone was then his guide,
and there was with him no strange God,
On Earths high place he made them ride,
and on those Palaces he trod.

That he might eat th' increase of fields▪
both of the fruits and of the flock,
And suck the honey which it yields
and oyl out of the flinty rock.

Butter of Kine and Milk of Sheep
with fat of Lambs of Bashan-breed,
And Rams which Bashan hill did keep,
and goats which there likewise did feed.

With fat of kidneys of the wheat
which yieldeth flower so passing good,
For thee, O Israel, to eat,
and thou didst drink the grapes pure blood.