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.

HYMN 367. (2. METRE)

Argument.

He cheers his soul in God's free love, And Comforts flowing from above.

Give Laud, &c.

Psalm 43.

[verse 1] MY judgment, Lord, maintain, and plead my needfull case, Against a Nation vain, and destitute of grace. O save thou me From men unjust, and such as trust in treachery.

[verse 2] For thou art my support, my God, my strength and stay: Why seem'st thou ••n such sort to cast me clean away? Why do I go So mournfully, oppressed by my cruel foe?

[verse 3] O Lord send out thy light, send out thy word most true; And let them lead me right, and let them bring me to Thy holy Hill, That dwelling place where thy sweet grace abideth still.

[verse 4] And then, O Lord, will I unto thine Altar go, To God my wondrous joy, from whom my comforts flow. There I'le give laud, And honour thee with Psaltery O God, my God.

[verse 5] Why art thou then so low dejected O my soul? Why do such waves of woe within thy bosome roll? And why art thou With fear and dread disquieted within me now?

O let thy hope be set on God that helpeth thee: For I shall praise him yet for his great aid to me When undertrod, Who doth advance my countenance and is my God.