Psalm 105

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Halelujah. It typically expresseth (by God’s deliverances of the Jewes & his Covenant with them) the spiritual League & graces vouchsafed to us, &c. We should therfor sing it not only historically but with a respect also to the Covenant of grace & his mercies, by Christ Jesus.

1. Come praise the Lord, invoke his Name;
To all men make his actions knowne:
In Psalmes of praise, sing forth his fame,
And speak what wonders he hath done.
Let them who seek the Lord be glad;
Let of his Name, their boast be made.

2. O search God’s powre & seek his face;
Still minde what wonders he hath done:
Let all that are of Abraham’s race,
And Jacob’s, his elected-one,
God’s wondrous works, record with heed,
And minde what he hath fore-decreed.

3. He is our God, our mighty Lord;
His Judgments through the world are spread;
He beares in minde his promis’d word,
Unto a thousand Ages made;
Ev’n that which he to Abr’ham swore,
And vow’d to Isack heretofore.

4. To Jacob came the same decree,
In Isr’el to continue still;
To thee & all thy seed sayd he,
The Land of Canan give I will.
Yea, thus he spake when fewe they were,
And they themselves meer strangers there.

5. When forraigners they liv’d among,
(And oft from place to place remoov’d)
He suffred none to do them wrong;
But for their sakes, ev’n kings reproov’d.
My prophets harme ye not, sayd he;
Untouch’d, let my Anointed be.

6. Then he by dearth, their Land made pore,
And did the staff of bread withhold;
But Joseph, he first sent before,
Ev’n him whome for a Slave they solde.
With fetters there, his feet they pain’d,
And him in irons, they detain’d.

7. But when his Triall was decreed,
God’s word, his innocence disclos’d;
The king did send to have him freed,
And by the prince, he was unlos’d.
His cheef commander, he was made,
To rule his house & all he had.

8. Of all his Lords, he had command,
That he his Counsellers might guide.
Then Isr’el came to Egipt-land,
And Jacob did with Cham reside:
And so his Children thrivèd there,
That stronger than his foes they were.

9. Whose hate & fraudulent intent,
When to his Folk he well made knowne.
His servant Moses then he sent,
And A’ron his Elected-one
Who wrought great marvailes in his Name
And wonders in the Land of Ham.

10. He darknes cal’d & dark it grewe;
(For his commands were not withstood)
Throughout their Coast, their fish he slewe
And chang’d their waters into bloud.
Upon their land, he froggs did bring
Which climb’d the chambers of the king.

11. He spake, & flies of divers formes
And lice through ev’ry quarter craw’ld;
Insteed of raine, he gave them stormes,
And hayle & lightnings forth he cald.
Which downe their vines & figtrees brake,
And in their groves, great spoile did make.

12. The Locust came at his command;
And Caterpillers did abound:
The grasse they wasted from the land,
And ev’ry fruite upon the ground.
Then he their Eldest-borne did smite,
The very prime of all their might.

13. His people, rich from thence he brought;
Among his Tribes, no weaklings were:
All Egipt joy’d when they went out;
For why? of them, they stood in feare.
A Canopy of Clouds they had;
To give them light, a fire he made.

14. The people askt & quailes he gave;
With heav’nly bread, he fillèd them:
The Rocks, likewise for them, he clave,
And through dry Lands he sent a Streame:
Because to minde that promise came
Which he had made to Abraham.

15. His people & his chosen bands,
He brought away with joyfulnes;
To them, he gave the Gentiles’ lands,
And they their labours did possesse:
That they might mark what he decreed,
And keep his lawes with carefull heed.

Preserve us, O Lord, from that hardnes of hart for which thou sendest thy dreadfull Judgments into the world; withhold alsoe thy plaugues from our Kingdome: But especially that spirituall Darknes & those Judgments which are mistically signified by Lice, froggs, Locusts, & the rest of the Egiptian plagues; And as a meanes of this favour, make us mindfull of that Covenant which thou hast made unto us & we unto thee in Christ Jesus. We confesse thou didst gratiously lead our Fore-fathers in the wildernes, feeding, guiding, & preserving them by thy miraculous powre; Be thou also, we pray thee, our Assistance & protector in this our Pilgrimage, feeding us with that heavenly Manna & refreshing us out of that spirituall Rock, whereof they had the type; that we may followe them who are gone before into the Land of the living, & there praise thee, world without end. Amen.

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Tunes (First Lines): Meadville: Come, let us with our Lord; Melita: Eternal Father, strong to save; St. Catherine: Faith of our fathers; St. Petersburg: Before thy throne, O God; Surrey: Creator Spirit, by whose aid.