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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Hymn 20. A wofull Lamentation (or David's Elegy) for Saul and Jonathan.

2 Sam 1.19.

THY beauty is, O Israel,
in thy high places slain,
O how those mighty Champions fell,
and we the loss sustain!
O tell it not to any one,
nor publish it in Gath,
Nor in the streets of Askalon,
that Israel bears such wrath

20.21.
The Daughters of the Philistins,lest they therein rejoyce,And those uncircumcised ones,lest they lift up their voice.Ye mountains great of Gilboa,let neither Rain nor Dew,Nor fields of Offrings, from that dayfor ever fall on you.

21.

For there the shield of Sovereignty was vilely cast away: The shield of Saul, as if that He had known no Unction-day.

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2. PART.

Verse 22, 23.

From fat of many a mighty Man,
and bloud of enemies slain,
Went not the bow of Jonathan,
nor Sword of Saul in vain.
Lovely were Saul and Jonathan,
and living pleas'd us well,
Division in their death was none,
for both together fell.

23, 25.
Swifter upon the chase they werethan Eagles in their flight:And stronger than the Lyons are,although they fell in fight:Daughters of Israel mourn for Saul,who deck'd you gorgeously,With Gems of Gold, and cloath'd you allin cloth of scarlet-die.

27.

How are the mighty fallen then, as we may sigh and say, Weapons of War and warlike men how perish'd in a day!