PSALM XCV.[243]

Come let vs hartily reioyce and singe

To God our mightie Sauiour, and our Kinge;

Present the prayse which doth to Him belonge,

And show our gladnes in a cheerfull songe;

For God our Lord, the greatest God is Hee,

And Monarch of all gods that worshipt bee.

The Earth's round globe, Hee holdeth in His hand:

And th' highest mountaynes are at His command.

The sea is His, Hee hath it made of old,

And the dry land His blessed hands did mould:

Come let vs worship then, and humble fall

Before our mightie God which made vs all.

Hee is our Lord, and wee His people bee;

Our shepheard, and His proper sheep are wee.

This day yf you His holy voice will heare,

Let not your hearts bee hardned as they were,

When in the desert you His wrath did moue,

And temptinge Him His mightie power did proue.

Full forty yeeres this nation greeud mee so,

Their erringe harts My wayes would neuer know;

Therefore displeas'd by oath I did protest

They neuer should possesse my Land of rest.

[Footnote 243: Written in the centre of the page XCV. G.]

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