The Psalms of David in meter fitted to the tunes used in parish-churches / by John Patrick ...

Part II.

[ 7] Let others foolishly expect How kind the flatt'ring world will prove; I'll seek my God alone to please, And be ambitious of his Love. [ 8] Forgive me all my heinous sins, And then remove thy smarting Rod; Lest Fools should fancy me cast off, And laugh at all my Trust in God. [ 9] As yet I've silently ador'd Thy Justice in my Punishment: [ 10] Remove thy heavy stroak, for else My strength to bear it will be spent. [ 11] How weak and nothing we appear, When God for sin do's man chastise; Like Garments fretted by the Moth, So all his beauty ruin'd lies. [ 12] My earnest pray'r, O Lord, regard, And to my mournful cry give ear: A wandring stranger here on Earth I am, as all my Fathers were. [ 13] Lord, my decaying strength repair, And spare me yet a while, that I May make my peace with thee, before I go away from hence, and die.