Psalm 108

(L.P.M.)

A song or Psalme of David. This is composed of the later parts of the 57. and 60 Psalmes; yet differs from both: for those beginn with lamentations & end with rejoicings; but this is wholy triumphant & personates the Church praising God for her enlargement, &c. We may sing it when the Church is released from some persecution, or her limitts extended farther &c.

1. My hart is fixt; & I, O Lord,
Will in my songs, thy fame record,
And with my tongue, sing praise to thee:
My Harp & Psaltry are awake;
And I, my selfe, will readie make
To praise thee where Assemblies be.

2. For through the heav’ns, thy Truth doth stretch;
Above the Sphears, thy mercies reach.
O God, be still exalted high!
Thy praise through heav’n & earth extend;
Let thy righthand, thy Dear defend,
And still vouchsafe me thy replie.

3. For as thy holy Voice declard,
With triumphs, Shechem I have sharde;
And I have measur’d Succoth Vale.
Mine, Gilead & Manasseth are;
My head, mount Ephraim high doth bear;
In Judah stands my judgment Stall.

4. Proud Moab is my drugding slave.
My foot in Edom, fixt I have;
And Palestine doth joye in me.
For who to Edom was my guide
Or to the Citty fortifide?
But God of whome despisd were we.

5. O God, who didst our hoasts forsake;
From us our greefs, thus alwaies take;
For man’s vaine succours, we contemn.
Through God, we valiant Acts have done;
Our foes by him are overthrowne:
And he shall sett his feet on them.

O Lord God of Hoasts, true in thy word & powerful in thy performances! According to thy auncient promises, thy Church is wonderfully enlarged; & thou hast now thy lot of Inheritance in those places where they have bene enimies to thy Truth. We beseech thee more & more, to enlarge thy Kingdome, & to be continually present with us in all our Spiritual conflicts: that by thy powre we may tread under foot, the world, the flesh, & the Devill; making servants unto us (in the execution of thy will) those affections which have heretofore prevailed against us. We rely on thee only: On thee only our harts are fixed: And for thy goodness, we desire with all our faculties to praise & magnify thy Name, for evermore. Amen.

(L.P.M.) Long Particular Meter or 888.888

(rhyme scheme: aacbbc)

Tune (First Line): Christus Rex: Christ is the King! O friends upraise.