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 IX. A Song to celebrate the restaura∣tion of the CHVRCH.

Have mercy, &c.

Isa. 54.11.

O Thou afflicted Church, and tost with tempest great, Left comfortless in thy distress, while all those storms did beat. Behold! I lay thy stones with colours very fair, Thy corner stones most curious ones with Saphyres to compare.

13, 14.

And great shall be the peace, thy Children are to see, And thou, no less, in righteousness established shalt be. Oppression shall be far, because thou shalt not fear, No Tyranny shall terrifie, nor unto thee come near.

7. Rev. 15.6.

Though, for a little while, I hid from thee my face, My care shall be to gather thee with everlasting Grace. To God in Trinity all glory be therefore: As hath been done, since time begun, and shall be evermore.

2. PART.

Isa. 60.15, 16.

Arise, O Church, and shine, thy light comes in and springs: Thy Saviour now, hath said, that thou shalt suck the breast of Kings. And they shall be design'd for nursing Fathers kind, And unto thee their Queens shall be for nursing Mothers joyn'd.

ch. 33.17.65.16.

Thine eyes shall see the King in all his beauty bright, And God shall crown thee with Renown and everlasting Light. That such as bless themselves (and each man that so doth) May bless themselves in nothing else but in the God of truth.

Because the former times of trouble are forgot; And what men did is past and hid, mine eyes behold it not. To God in Trinity all glory be therefore: As was and is and shall be his henceforth for evermore.