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PSALM 132, by                    
First Line: Lord call to mynde, lord keepe in mynde
Last Line: With fame and glorie rise.


Lord call to mynde, lord keepe in mynde:
Thy David, and thy Davids paines
whoe once by oathe, and vowe did bynde
himself to him, whoe aye remaines
That mightie one
The God in Jacob knowne.

My howse shall never harbour mee
nor bedd allowe my bodie rest:
Nor eyes of sleepe, the lodging be
nor eyelidds slenderest slumbers nest
untill I finde
a plott to please my mynde.

I finde I saie, my mynde to please:
a plott, whereon I maie erect
A howse for him to dwell at ease
whoe is ador'd with due respect
That mightie one
The God in Jacob knowne.

The plott thy David then did name
wee heard at Ephrata it laie:
Wee heard, but bent to finde the same,
were faine to seeke another waie
ev'n to the fields
that woodie Jear yeelds.

And yet not there, but here, O here,
wee finde now settled what wee sought
before the Stoole, thy foote doth beare
nowe entring in, wee as wee ought
adore thee will
and dulie worshipp still.

Then enter lord, thy fixed rest
with Arke the token of thy strength
And let thy Priests be purelie drest
In robes of Justice laide at length.
Let them be gladd
thy gracefull blisse have hadd.

For David once thy servants sake,
Doe not oure Kinge his seede reject:
ffor thou to him this oath didst make:
This endles oath: I will erect
and howld thy race
enthron'd in royall place.

Naie if thy race my league observe
and keepe the Covenants I sett downe:
Theire race againe I will preserve
Eternally to weare thy Crowne
no lesse thy throane
shall ever be theire owne

For Sion, which I loved best,
I chosen have no seate of chaunge:
heere heere shalbe my endles rest,
heere will I dwell nor hence will raunge
unto the place
I beare such love, and grace

Such grace, and love, that evermore
as blisse from gracious loving mee
shall blesse her victuall, blesse her store,
that ev'n the poore, whoe in her be
with store of bread
shall fully all be fedd

In her, my priests shall nought annoye
naie cladd they shall with safetie be:
O howe in her with cawse shall joye,
whoe there as Tennants howld of mee
whose tenure is
by grace the fields of blisse.

O howe in her shall sprowte, and springe
the Scepter Davids hand did beare:
howe I my Christ, my sacred kinge
as light in lanthorne placed there
with beames divine
will make abrode to shine.

But as for them, whoe spite and hate
conceave to him, they all shall downe:
Downecast by mee, to shamefull state:
while on him himself his happie Crowne
shall up to skies
with fame and glorie rise.





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