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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The renouncing of ill courses and companions.

I Hate vain thoughts, but love thy Law,
thou art my hiding place, O Lord:
My shield, when dangers near me draw,
and I have hoped in thy word.

Ye evil doers from me depart,
your company my course withstands;
For I am purpos'd in my heart
to serve my God, as he commands.

Uphold me, Lord, that I may live,
and, Lord, perform thy promise claim'd;
That of the hope which thou dost give,
I may at no time be asham'd.

Uphold me, for if thou protect,
I shall be very safe thereby;
And I will have a due respect
unto thy Laws continually.

Thou hast in anger under-trod
all those that from thy Statutes stray:
For all their subtle shifts, O God;
is but a foul deceiving way.

For all the wicked of the Earth
as basest dross, thou turnest by,
Therefore as things of greatest worth,
I love thy precepts wondrously.

Yet when I find what judgments fall,
my flesh doth quake for fear of thee,
Whose dreadfull hand so acts them all,
as makes me sore afraid to see.