Bee ioyfull in the Lord, yee nations all, Cheer vp your harts in mirth, and songs withall; The Lord is God, not wee but Hee alone Hath made vs all, and feeds vs euery one. Then enter yee His gates and courts with prayse, And striue with hart and voice His name to raise. For why? the Lord is sweet, His mercy rare, His truth for euer constant shall endure. PSALM CIII. My soule with all thy powers thy Maker praise; Forget not all His benefits to thee, Who pardons all thy sinnes, and doth thee rayse When thou art fal'n through any infirmitie: Who doth thee saue from mischeifs that would kill thee, And crowneth thee with mercies euer more. And with the best of thinges doth feed and fill thee, And egle-like thy youth and strength restore. When men oppressèd doe to Him appeale, Hee righteth euery one against his foe; Hee vnto Moses did His lawes reueale, And vnto Jacob's eare His workes did show. Hee is more full of grace then wee of sinne; To anger slowe, compassionate and kind; Hee doth not euer chide, and never linne,[244] Nor keepes displeasure alwayes in His minde, Nor after our misdeedes doth Hee vs charge; Nor takes Hee of our faults a strict account, But as the space from earth to heauen is large, So farr His mercy doth our sinnes surmount. As east from west is distant farr away, Soe farr doth Hee from us our sinnes remoue: As fathers, kindnes to their sonnes bewray, Soe God to them that feare Him, showes His loue. For Hee that made vs and knowes all, doth know The matter whereof man was made of old; That wee were formèd heer on earth below Of dust and clay, and of noe better mold. Man's age doth wither as the fadinge grasse; He flourisheth, but as y^{e} flower in May, Which when the South-wind ouer it doth passe Is gone; and where it grew no man can say. But God's sweet kindnes[245] euer doth consist; His truth, from age to age, continew shall, To them that in His righteous lawes persist, And thinke vppon them to performe them all. Heauen is God's seat; there doth His glorie dwell, But ouer all, His empire doth extend; Praise Him yee angells which in strength excell, And His command doe euermore attend. Praise Him yee hosts of heauen which serue Him there, Whose seruice with His pleasure doth accord; And praise Him all His creatures euery where; And thou my soule for thy part, praise the Lord. [Footnote 244: = cease. G.] [Footnote 245: 'to mankind for' written here and erased: 'doth consist' and its corresponding rhyme two lines below, 'persist,' written in a later hand. Originally the former line read 'But God's sweet kindness to mankind for euer,' and to rhyme with this, the corresponding line ended with 'perseuer.' G.] PSALM CL.