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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Free favours to Colonies or Planters.

THE praise of God let those express
That wander'd in the wilderness,
In solitary desart Ground,
Where they no dwelling City found.

5, 6.

Hungry and thirsty by constraint, Their very souls did in them faint; Then cry'd they in their bitter grief To God, who sent them sweet relief.

7, 8.

He led them forth by ways direct, Fit Habitations to select: O that men prais'd God's goodness then, And wonders done for sons of men.