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THE Whole Booke of Psalmes . Collected into English meeter by T. Sternhold , I. Hopk . and others : conferred with the Hebrew , with apt notes to sing them withall .

Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches of al the people togither before and after Morning and Euening prayer , as also before & after Sermons ; and moreouer , in priuate houses , for their godly solace & comfort , laying apart al vngodly songs and Ballads , which tend only to the norishing of vice and corrupting of youth .

Printed for the Company of Stationers . 1614.

A Treatise made by Athanasius the Great , concerning the vse and vertue of the Psalmes .

ALl holy Scripture is certainly the teacher of all vertue , and of the true faith : but the booke of the psalmes doth expresse after a certaine manner the very state and condition of the soule . For as he which intendeth to present himselfe to a King will first compound himselfe to set in good order both his gesture and his speech , least els hee might be reputed rude and ignorant : euen so doth this godly booke informe all such as be desirous to lead their life in vertue , and to know the life of our Sauiour , which he led in his conuersation , putting them in mind in the reading thereof , of all their affections and passions wherto the soule is inclined .

Moreouer , the psalmes informe and teach euery man with diuers instructions , whereby he may not onely spy the affections and state of his soule , and to winne a good paterne and discipline how hee may please God , but also with what forme of words he may amend himselfe , and how to giue God thanks , least if he should speake otherwise then were conuenient , he should fall into impiety by his vnreuerent estimation of God : for wee must all make account to the Iudge , as well of our idle words as our ill deserts .

IF therefore thou wouldest at any time describe a blessed man who he is , and what thing maketh him to be so , thou hast the 1.32.41.112.128 . Psalmes .

2 If thou wouldest rebuke the Iewes for their spight they haue to Christ , thou hast the 2. psalme .

3 If thine owne familiars pursue thee ; and if any rise against thee , say the 3.143 . Psalmes .

4 If thus in trouble thou hast called on God , and hast tarried vpon his help , and wouldst giue him thanks for that he hath heard thee with his help sing the 4.40.116 . psalms .

5 If thou seest that euill men lay snares for thee , and therefore desirest Gods eares to heare thy prayer , sing the 5. psalme .

6 If thou feelest Gods dreadfull threats , and seest thy selfe afraid of them , thou mayst say the 6 38.88 . psalmes .

7 If any take counsell against thee , as Achitophel did against Dauid , if thou be admonished thereof , sing the 7. psalme .

8 If thou in beholding the grace of our Sauior spred on euery side , especially for the restoring of mankind to saluation , wouldst speake thereof in meditation to God , sing the 8. psalme

9 If so againe thou wilt sing in giui●g thanks to God for the prosperous gathering of thy fruites , use the 8. psalme .

10 If thou wouldest haue thine aduersarie , kept , backe & thy soule saued , trust not in thy selfe but in the Son of God , singing the 9. Psalme .

11 If thou perceiuest God to bee wroth with his people , as though he regarded them nothing thou hast to pacifie him , to complaine thereof , the 10 , 60 , 74 psalmes .

12 If any man would put thee in feare , haue thou thy hope in God , and sing the 11. psame .

13 If thou behodest the pride of many men , and seest malice to abound , so that there is no godi●es among men repaire then and sing the 3 6 , 21 , Psalmes .

14 If thine aduersary lye long in wait against thee , dispayre not as though God had forgotten thee , but call vpon the Lord , and say the 14 , 55 , psalmes .

15 If thou hearest any to blaspheme God in his prouidence , be not partaker with them in wickednes , but make hast to God , and say the 12. psame .

16 If thou desirest to know who is a Cittizen of heauen , sing the 15 , psame .

17 If thou hast need of prayer for such as be against thee , & haue closed thy soule on euery side , sing the 16 , 17 , 86 , 141 , psa .

18 If thou hast escaped from thine enemies , and art deliuered from them who pursued thee , sing thou the 18 , 9 psames .

19 If thou dost wonder at the order of things created by God , considering the grace of the deuine prouidence , sing the 19 , 24.

20 If thou ●eest any man in aduersity , comfort him , and pray for him with the 20. psalme .

21 If thou perceiuest thy selfe to be defended & fed by God , and to liue prosperously , reioyce therein , and si●g the 23. psalm .

22 If thine enemies conspire against thee , lift vp thy soule to God , and say the 23 , psalme and thou shalt espy them to labour but in vaine against thee .

23 If thine enemies cluster agai●st thee , & go about with their bloudy hands to destroy thee go not thou about by mans helpe to reue●ge it , for all mens iudgements are not trusty , but require God ●o be Iudge , for he alone is iudge , & say the 26 , 35 , 43. psa .

24 If ●hey presse more fiercely on thee though they be in numbers like an armed hoast , feare them not which thus reiect thee , as though thou wert not annointed and elect by God , but sing the 27. Psalme .

25 If they be yet so impudent that lay waite against thee , so that it is not lawfull for thee to haue any vocation by them , regard them not , but sing to God the 48 , Psalmes .

26 If thou wilt exhort and p●ouoke Kings and Princes to submit their power to God , & regard his honour , sing the 29. 82. ps.

27 If thou renew and builde thine house , bo●h of thy soule , whereto thou receiuest God to hoast , a●d of thy temporall habitation , sing the 30. 48 , 127 psalmes .

28 If thou seest thy selfe had in hate for the truths sake of thy friends and kinsfolke , leaue not off thy purpose , nor feare them which be against thee , but thinke on them which follow , & sing the 31. psalme .

29 If thou beholdest such as be baptised , & so deliuered from the corruption of theyr birth , praise thou the bountifull grace of God , and sing the 32 , psalme .

30 If thou delightest to sing among many , cal together righteous men of godly life , and sing the 33. Psalme .

31 If by chance thou fallest amongst thine enemies and yet hast fortunately scaped them if therefore thou wilt giue thanks , call together meeke men , and sing the 34 , psalme .

32 If thou seest wicked men contend among themselus to do mischiefe , thi●ke not that their Nature doth impell them by necessity to worke si● against their will , as certaine heretikes suppose , but consider the 36 psalme , and thou shalt perceiue that they be to themselues their owne occasion of sinning .

33 If thou seest how wicked men do much wickednesse , and that yet simple folke praise such , when thou wilt admonish any man not to follow them to be like vnto them , because they shall be shortly rooted out and destroyed ; speake to thy selfe and to other the 37 psalme .

34 If thou hast decreed to take heed of thy selfe & seest thine enemy approch nigh thee as against one whom the aduersary , is more prouoked to come with assault , and therefore wilt prepare thy selfe , sing the 39 , psame

35 If thou seest many poore men to beg , & wilt shew pitty to them , thou mayst both thy selfe receiue them to mercy , and also exhort other to do the same , saying the 41. psalme .

36 If thou hast a desire to Godward & hearest thine enemies to vpbraid thee , be not troubed , but consider what fruit of immortality riseth to thee for this desire , comfort thy soule with hope to God , and so therein relieuing and asswaging the heauinesse of thy life , say the 42 , psalme .

37 If thou wilt remember Gods benefits which hee did to thy fathers both in their out going from Egypt and in the desert , & how good God was vnto them , but they vnthankfull to him . thou hast the 44 , 78 , 89 , 102 , 114 , 117. psalmes .

38 If thou hast made thy refuge to God , and hast escaped such trouble as was prepared against thee , if thou wilt giue thanks & shew out his kindnesse to thee , sing the 46. psalme .

39 If thou wilt know how to giue thanks to God when thou doest resort to him with sound vnderstanding , sing the 47 , 48.

40 If thou wilt exhort men to put their trust in the liuing God , who ministreth all things aboundantly to good mens vse , and blame the madnesse of the world , which serue their God Mammon so inordinately , sing the 49 , psalme .

41 If thou wouldst cal vpon the blind world for their wrong considence of their bruit sacrifices , and shew them what sacrifice God most hath requited of them , sing the 50. psalme .

42 If thou hast sinned and art conuerted , and mooued to doe penance , desirous to haue mercy , thou hast the words of confession in the 51 , psalme .

43 If thou hast suffered false accusation before the , King , and seest the deuill to triumph thereat , go aside & say the 52. psalm .

44 If they which persecute thee with accusations would betray thee , as the Pharisies did Iesus , and as the Aliants did Dauid , discomfort not thy selfe therewith , but sing in good hope to God the 54.57 , 69. Psalmes .

45 If thine aduersaries which trouble thee do vpbraid thee , and that they which seeme to be thy friends , speake most against thee , wherevpon if in thy meditation thou art somewhat grieued thereat thou mayst call on God saying the 55. psalme .

46 If persecution come fierce on thee , & vnawares chance to enter into the caue where thou hidest thy selfe , feare not : for in this strait thou hast expedient words both to comfort thee , & to put thee in remembrance of his old mercy , with the 57 , 142 , psal.

47 If thou wilt confound Hypocrites which make glorious shewes outwardly , speake their conuersion with the 58 , psalme .

48 If thy pu●suers commaund thy house to be watched ; when thou art escaped , giue thanks to God , and graue it in the Tables of thine hart for aperpetuall remembrance , and say the 59. psal.

49 If thine enemies cruelly assault thee , and would catch thy life , offer thy subiection to God against them , and bee of good comfort : for the more they rage , the more shal God subdue than , and say the 62 psalme .

50 If thou flyest persecution , and gettest thee into the wildernes , feare thou not , as thought thou wert there alone , but hauing God nigh vnto thee , rise to him early in the morning , singing the 63. psalme .

51 If thine enemies would put thee in feare , and neuer cease to lay traines for thee , & picke all manner quarrels against thee , though they be very many , giue no place to them ; for the darts of babes shall be their destruction , if thou saist the 61. 68 , 70 71 , psalmes .

52 If thou wilt laud God with a psalm or hymne , sing the 65 66. psalmes .

53 If thou hast need to confesse God , sing the 67. psalme .

54 If thou wouldst sing to the Lord , thou hast what to say in the 96.98 . psalmes .

55 If thou hast need to confesse God with thankes , sing the 71 , 75 , 62 , 108 , 117 , 118 , 136 , 138 , 139. psalmes .

56 If thou seest wicked men prosper in peace , be not offended thereat , but say the 113. Psalme .

57 If thine enemies haue beset the waies whither thou flyest and art thereby in great anguish , yet in this trouble dispaire not , but pray , and if thy praier be heard , giue God thanks , and say the 77. psalme .

58 If they perseuer still , and defile the house of God , kill the elect , and cast their bodies to the Foules of the ayre , feare not their cruelty , but shew pitty to them which be in such agonie , and say the 29. psalme .

59 If thou wilt informe any man with the mystery of the refurrection . sing the 8. psalme .

60 If thou wilt sing to the Lord cal together Gods seruants on the feastiuall day , and sing the 81 , 95 , 34. psalmes .

61 If thine aduersaries flock together on euery side , & threaten to destroy the house of God , and make their conspiracies against thy Religion , let not their number and power trouble thee , for thou hast an anker of the words of the 83 , psalme .

62 If thou castest an eye to Gods house and to his eternal tabernacles , and hast a desire thereto , as the Apostle had , say thou also the 84. psalm .

63 If Gods wrath bee ceased , and the captiuity ended , thou hast cause how to giue thanks to God with Dauid , recounting his goodnesse to thee and others , with the 96 , 85 , 116. psalms .

64 If thou wilt rebuke Paynims & heretickes , for that they haue not the knowledge of God in them , thou maiest haue an vnderstanding to sing to God the 86 , 115. psalmes .

65 If thou wilt see and know the dissent that the Catholike Church hath from schisme , and wouldest conuert them ; or to discerne the Church concerning the outwarde appearance and sinnes thereof , thou mayst say the 87 , psalme .

66 If thou wouldst know how Moses prayed to God , and in his meditation , recounting the brittle state of mans life , desired God to direct so his short life that he might follow wisedome , read the 90. Psalme .

67 If thou woudlst comfort thy self and others in true Religion , and teach them that hope in God , wil neuer suffer a foole to be confounded , but make it bold and without feare of Gods protection , sing the 9 psalme .

68. If thou wilt sing on the Sabbaoth day ▪ thou hast the 92. psal.

69. If thou wilt sing on the Sunday in meditation of Gods word , desiring to bee instructed therein , whereby thou mayst rest in Gods holy will , and cease from all the workes and doctrines of vain men , reuolue that notable psalme 119.

70 If thou wilt sing in the second day of the Sabbaoth , thou hast the 95. psalme .

71 If thou wouldst sing to the Lord , thou hast what to say in the 69.98 . psalmes .

72 If thou wilt sing the fourth day of the Sabbath , sing the psal. 94 for then when the Lord was betraied he began to take vengeance on death , and to triumph of it : therfore when thou readest the gospeil , where thou hearest the Iewes to take councell against the Lord , and that he standeth bodily against the Deuill , then sing the foresaid psalme .

73 If thou wilt sing on Good-friday , thou hast a commendation of the 63. psalme , for then was the house of Gods Church builded and groundly founded , though the enemies went about to hinder it for which cause sing to God the songs of triumphant victory with the said psalme , and with the 98. and 129. psalmes .

74 If there be any captiuity wherein thy house is laid wast , and yet builded againe , sing the 96. psalme .

75 If the land bee vext with enemies and after come to any rest by the power of God , if thou wilt sing therefore , sing the 97 psalm .

76 If thou consideredst the prouidence of God in his gouernance so ouer all , and wilt instruct any with true faith and obedience when thou hast first perswaded them to confesse themselues , sing the 100 147. psalmes .

77 If thou dost acknowledge in God his iudiciall power , and that in iudgement hee mixeth mercy , if thou wilt drawe nigh vnto him , thou hast the words of the 101 psalme . to the end .

78 If for the imbicil●ty of thy nature , thou art weary with the continually miser●e and griefes of this life , and wouldst comfort thy selfe , sing the 102. psalme .

79 If thou wilt giue thankes to God , as it is most conuenient and due for all his gifts : when thou wilt so do , thou hast how to reioyce thy soule thereunto with the 103 and 104. psalmes .

80 If thou wilt praise God , and also knowe how , and for what cause , and with what words thou mayst do it , consider the 113 , 117 13● 1●6 . 147. ●●8 . 149. 150. psalmes .

81 I● thou hast faith to such thinges as God speaketh , and beleeuest that which in prayer thou vtterest , say the psalme 116. to the end .

82 If thou feelest thy selfe to rise vpward in degrees of well working , as though thou saidst with S. Paule , I forget those thinges which be behind me , and set mine eyes on thinges which bee before me , thou hast the 130. psalme .

83 If thou beest holden in thraldome vnder straying and wandring thoughts , and seest thy selfe drawne by them , whereof thou art sorry , then stay thy selfe from henceforth , and tarry where thou hast sound thy selfe in fault , set thee down , and mourne thou also as the Hebrew people did , and say with them the 137. psalme .

84 If thou perceiuest that temptations be set to prooue thee , thou oughtest after such tentations to giue God the thankes , and sing the 139. psalme .

85 If yet thou be in bondage by thine enemies , and wouldst saine be deliuered , say the 140. psalme .

86 If thou wouldst pray and make supplication , say the 141 , 142 , 143. psalmes .

87 If any tyrannous enemy rise vp against the people , feare you not , no more then Dauid did Goliah , but beleeue like Dauid , and sing the 144 psalme .

88 If thou art elect out of long degree , specially before other , to some vocation to serue thy bretheren , aduance not thy selfe too high against them in thine owne power , but giue GOD the glory , who did chuse thee , and sing thou the 11● . psalme

89 If thou wilt sing of obedience , praising God with Alleluia , thou hast the 105. 106. 107. 111 , 112. 113. 114. 115. 117. 135. 136. 146. 147. 148. 149. 150. psalmes .

90 If thou wilt sing specially of our Sauior Christ , thou hast of him in euery psalme , but most chiesly in the 25. 45. 100. psalms .

91 Such psalmes as shew his lawfull generation of his father , and his corporall presence , be the 11. 69 psalmes .

92 Such as doe prophecy before of his most holy Crosse and passion , telling how many deceitfull assaults he sustained for vs , and how much he suffered , be the 2. 129. psalmes .

93 Such as expresse the malicious enemies of the Iewes , and the betraying of Iudas are the 21. 50. 55. 69. 72 , 109. psalms .

94 Such as describe his agony in his passion , death and sepulture , be the 22. 28 psalmes .

95 For his dominion & presence in the flesh , read the 116. ps.

96 Such as shew the glorious resurrection of his body , be the 99 psalmes .

97 Such as set out his ascension into heauen , are the 93. 96. 98 99 psalmes .

98 And that he sitteth on the right hand of his Father , the ●10 . psalme maketh manifest .

99 Such as shew that he hath authority of his father to iudge expressing his iudiciall power , both in condemning the diuell , & al wicked Nations , are the 50. 72 , 82 , psalmes .

Finis .
Veni Creator . COme holy Ghost etrrnall God , proceeding from aboue , both from the Father and the Sonne , the God of peace & loue : Visit our minds , and into vs thy heauenly grace inspire , that in all truth and godlines , we may haue true desire . Thou art the very Comforter in all woe and distresse : The heauenly guift of God most high which no tongue can expresse . The fountaine and the liuely spring of ioy celestiall : The fire so bright , the loue so cleare and vnction spirituall . Thou in thy guifts art manifold whereby Christs Church doth stand In faithfull hearts writing thy law , the finger of Gods hand : According to thy promise made thou giuest speech of grace : That through thy helpe the praise of god may stand in euery place . O Holy Ghost into our wits send downe thy heauenly light : Kindle in our harts with feruent loue , to serue God day and night . Strength and stablish all our weaknesse so feeble and so traile : That neither flesh , the world nor Diuell against vs do preuaile . Put backe our enemies far from vs , and grant vs to obtaine : Peace in our harts with God and man , without grudge or disdaine . And grant O Lord , that thou being our leader and our guide : We may eschew the snares of sinne and from that neuer slide . To vs such plenty of thy grace ( good Lord ) grant we thee pray : That thou maist be our Comforter , at the last dreadfull day . Of all strife and dissention O Lord , dissolue the bands : and make the knots of peace and loue throughout all Christian Lands . Graunt vs O Lord through thee to know the Father most of might : That of thy deare beloued Son , we may obtaine the sight . And that with perfect faith also we may acknowledge thee , The spirit of them both alwaies , one God in persons three . Laud and praise be to the Father , and to the Son equall : and to the Holy spirit also , one God coeternall . And pray we that the onely Sonne , vouchsafe his spirit to send : To all that do professe his name , vnto the worlds end .
The Humble sute of a Sinner . M. O Lord of whom I do depend behold my careful heart , and when thy will and pleasure is release me of my smart : Thou seest my sorrowes what they are , my griefe is knowne to thee And there is none that can remoue , or take the same from mee . But onely thou whose ayde I craue , whose mercy still is prest : To ease all those that come to thee for succour and for rest . And sith thou seest my restlesse eyes , my teares and grieuous groane : attend vnto my sute O Lord marke well my plaint and moane . For sinne hath so inclosed me , and compast me about : That I am now remeddilesse , if mercy helpe not out . For mortall man cannot release , or nuttigate his paine : But euen thy Christ my Lord and God , which for my sinne was slaine . Whose bloudy wounds are yet to see , though not with mortall eye : Yet do thy Saints behold them all , and so I trust shall I. Though sinne doth hinder me a while , when thou shalt see it good : I shall enioy the sight of him , and see his wounds and blood . And as thine Angels and thy Saints , doe new behold the same : So trust I to possesse that place , with them to praise thy name . But whilst I liue heere in this vale , where sinners do frequent : Assist me euer with thy grace my sinnes still do lament . Least that I tread in sinners trace , and giue them my consent : To dwell with them in wickednesse , whereto nature is bent . Onely thy grace must be my stay , least that I fall downe flat : And being downe , then of my selfe cannot recouer that . Wherefore this is yet once againe my sute and my request : To grant me pardon for my sinne , that I in thee may rest . Then shall my heart my tongue , & voice , be instruements of praise : and in thy Church and house of Saints sing Psalmes to thee alwaies .
Venite exultemus . Psal. xcv . T. S. Sing this as the Benedictus . O Come and let vs now reioice , and sing vnto the Lord : And to our onely Sauiour , also with one accord . O let vs come before his face with inward reuerence : Confessing all our former sinnes , and that with diligence . To thanke him for his venefits , alwaies destributing : Wherefore to him right ioyfully , in psalmes now let vs sing . And that because that God alone , is Lord magnificent : And eke aboue all other Gods , a King omnipotent . His people doth not he forsake , at any time or tide : and in his hands are all the Coasts of all the world so wide . And with his louing countenance , he looketh euery where : and doth behold the tops of all , the mountaines farre and neare . The Sea and all that is therein are his , for he them made : And eke his hands hath fashioned the earth which doth not fade . O Come therefore and worship him and downe before him fall : and let vs kneele before the Lord . the which hath made vs all . He is our God , our Lord and King , and we his people are : His flocke and Sheepe of his pasture , on whome he taketh care : This day if ye will heare his voice then harden not your heart : As in the bitter murmuring , when ye were in desert . Which thing was of their negligence committed in the time Of trouble in the wildernesse , a great and grieuous crime . Whereas your Fathers tempted me , and tride me euery way : They proued me and saw my works what I could do or say . These forty yeares I haue beene greeued , with all this generation : And euermore I said they erred in their imagination : Wherwith their harts were fore cumbred long time and many dayes : Wherefore I know assuredly , they haue not knowne my waies . To whome I in mine anger swore , that they should not be blest , Nor see my ioy celestiall : nor enter in my rest .
Gloria Patri . All laud and praise be to the Lord O that of might art most , To God the Father and the Sonne , and to the Holy Ghost : As it in the beginning was , for euer heeretofore , And is now at this present time , and shall be euermore .
The Song of Symeon , called Te Deum . WE praise thee God we knowledge thee , the onely Lord to be : And as eternall Father all the earth doth worship thee . To thee all Angels cry the Heauens and all the powers therein : To thee Cherube and Seraphin to cry they do not lin. O holy , holy , holy , Lord , of Sabaoth Lord the God : Throughout heauen and earth thy praise is spread , and glory all abroad . The Aposties glorious company yeeld praises vnto thee : The Prophets goodly fellowship , praise thee continually . The noble and victorious hoast , of Martyrs sound thy praise : The holy Church throughout the world , doth knowledge thee alwaies . Father of endlesse Maiesty they do acknowledge thee : Thy Christ thine honourable , true , and onely Sonne to be .