PSALM VI. August 13, 1653. LORD, in thy anger do not reprehend me, Are troubled; yea, my soul is troubled sore; Who in the grave can celebrate thy praise ? Depart, all ye that work iniquity, Depart from me; for the voice of my weeping The Lord hath heard; the Lord hath heard my prayer; My supplication with acceptance fair The Lord will own, and have me in his keeping. Mine enemies shall all be blank, and dashed With much confusion; then, grown red with shame, ΙΟ 20 PSALM VII. August 14, 1653. Upon the words of Chush the Benjamite against him. LORD, my God, to thee I fly; If the unjust will not forbear, His sword he whets; his bow hath bended Already, and for him intended The tools of death that waits him near. O JEHOVAH Our Lord, how wondrous great When I behold thy heavens, thy fingers' art, The moon and stars, which thou so bright hast set And think'st upon him, or of man begot That him thou visit'st, and of him art found? Scarce to be less than gods thou mad'st his lot; With honour and with state thou hast him crowned. 10 O'er the works of thy hand thou mad'st him lord; And glorious is thy name through all the earth! 20 SCRAPS FROM THE PROSE WRITINGS. FROM "OF REFORMATION TOUCHING CHURCH DISCIPLINE IN ENGLAND," 1641. [DANTE, Inferno, xix. 115.] AH, Constantine, of how much ill was cause, [PETRARCH, Sonnet 107.] FOUNDED in chaste and humble poverty, 'Gainst them that raised thee dost thou lift thy horn, [ARIOSTO, Orl. Fur. xxxiv. Stanz. 80.] THEN passed he to a flowery mountain green, FROM THE APOLOGY FOR SMECTYMNUUS, 1642. [HORACE, Sat. i. 1, 24.] LAUGHING to teach the truth What hinders? as some teachers give to boys [HORACE, Sat. i. 10, 14.] JOKING decides great things [SOPHOCLES, Electra, 624] 'TIS you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, FROM AREOPAGITICA, 1644. [EURIPIDES, Supplices, 438.] THIS is true Liberty, when freeborn men, FROM TETRACHORDON, 1645. [HORACE, Epist. i. 16, 40.] WHOM do we count a good man? Whom but he FROM "THE TENURE OF KINGS AND MAGISTRATES," 1649. [SENECA, Her. Fur. 922.] THERE can be slain No sacrifice to God more acceptable |