'THERE IS NOE GOD,' THE FOOLE SAYTH IN HIS HEART, Yet dares not with his tongue his thought impart; All are corrupt and odious in God's sight, Not one doth good, not one doth well, vpright. God cast His eyes from Heauen on all mankinde, And lookt if Hee one righteous man could finde; But all were wicked, all from God were gone, Not one did good, in all the world, not one; Their throat an open graue, their flattering tongue And lyinge lips, like stinge of wasps haue stung. With bitter cursing, they their mouthes doe fill; Their feet are swift the guiltles blood to spill; Sad, wretched mischeife, in their wayes doth lye But for the wayes of peace they passe them by; Noe feare of God haue they before their eyes, Nor knowledge, while these mischeifes they devise; While they God's people doe with might oppresse And eat them up like bread with greedines; And since on God they neuer vse to call, They fear'd when cause of feare was non at all. But to the righteous man and to his race, God present is with His protectinge grace; Though fooles doe mocke the counsell of the poore, Because in God hee trusted euermore. Who shall saluation out of SION giue To ISRAELL but God? Who shall releiue His people and of CAPTIUES make them free: Thou JACOB joyfull, Israell glad shall bee. PSALM XV. LORD! WHO SHALL DWELL IN THY BRIGHT TENT WITH THEE And of Thy rest in heauen pertaker bee? Euen hee that is vpright in all his wayes[188] And from his hart speakes[189] truth in all hee sayes; Who hath forborne to doe his neighbour wrong Nor him deceau'd or slaunderèd with his tong; Who of himselfe an humble thought doth beare But highly valewes them which GOD doe feare; Who of his promis doth himselfe acquitt, Though losse hee suffer by performinge it; Nor hath for bitinge vse his monie lent, Nor tooke reward against the innocent; Who shall obserue these poynts, and doe them all, Assuredly that man can neuer fall. [Footnote 188: Written here, as elsewhere, not by the contraction-sign of the plural 'es' but in full. G.] [Footnote 189: Another example in the MS., of the plural 'es' in contraction-sign, preceded by 'e.' G.] PSALM XVI.