1 THAT there is not a God, the fool doth in his heart conclude:

They are corrupt, their works are vile; not one of them doth good.

2 Upon men's sons the Lord from heav'n

did cast his eyes abroad, To see if any understood, and did seek after God.

ap 3 They altogether filthy are,

they all aside are gone;

And there is none that doeth good,
yea, sure there is not one.

4 These workers of iniquity
1 do they not know at all,
That they my people eat as bread,

and on God do not call?

mp 5 There fear'd they much; for God is the whole race of the just.

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6 You shame the counsel of the poor, because God is his trust.

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mf 7 Let Isr'el's help from Sion come: when back the Lord shall bring His captives, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall sing.

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Resignation; Hayne.

1 WITHIN thy tabernacle, Lord,
who shall abide with thee?
And in thy high and holy hill
who shall a dweller be?

m 2 The man that walketh uprightly,
and worketh righteousness,
And as he thinketh in his heart,
so doth he truth express.

3 Who doth not slander with his

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16 St. Leonard; St. Frances. Chant 254.
m 1 LORD, keep me; for I trust in thee.
mp 2
To God thus was my speech,
Thou art my Lord; and unto thee
my goodness doth not reach:
3 To saints on earth, to th' excellent,
where my delight's all plac'd.
mp 4 Their sorrows shall be multiply'd
to other gods that haste:

Of their drink-offerings of blood
I will no off'ring make;
Yea, neither I their very names
up in my lips will take.

m 5 God is of mine inheritance

and cup the portion;
The lot that fallen is to me
thou dost maintain alone.

mf 6 Unto me happily the lines
in pleasant places fell;
Yea, the inheritance I got
in beauty doth excel.

7 I bless the Lord, because he doth
by counsel me conduct;

And in the seasons of the night
my reins do me instruct.

m 8 Before me still the Lord I set:
sith it is so that he

Doth ever stand at my right hand,
I shall not moved be.

mf 9 Because of this my heart is glad,
and joy shall be exprest
Ev'n by my glory; and my flesh
in confidence shall rest.

10 Because my soul in grave to dwell
shall not be left by thee;

Nor wilt thou give thine Holy One corruption to see.

f11 Thou wilt me show the path of life: of joys there is full store

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m 1

Before thy face; at thy right hand
are pleasures evermore.

Melrose; St. Margaret. Chant 246.

LORD, hear the right, attend my cry,

unto my pray'r give heed,

That doth not in hypocrisy

from feigned lips proceed.

2 And from before thy presence forth
my sentence do thou send :

Toward these things that equal are
do thou thine eyes intend.

mp 3 Thou prov'dst mine heart, thou visit'dst by night, thou didst me try, [me Yet nothing found'st; for that my shall not sin, purpos'd I. [mouth

a 4 As for men's works, I, by the word
that from thy lips doth flow,
Did me preserve out of the paths
wherein destroyers go.

mp 5 Hold up my goings, Lord, me guide
in those thy paths divine,

So that my footsteps may not slide
out of those ways of thine.

6 I called have on thee, O God,

because thou wilt me hear :

That thou may'st hearken to my speech, to me incline thine ear.

my 7 Thy wondrous loving-kindness show, thou that, by thy right hand, Sav'st them that trust in thee from that up against them stand. [those

m 8 As th' apple of the eye me keep;
in thy wings' shade me close

9 From lewd oppressors, compassing
me round, as deadly foes.

10 In their own fat they are inclos'd;
their mouth speaks loftily.

11 Our steps they compass'd; and to
down bowing set their eye. [ground

12 He like unto a lion is

that's greedy of his prey,

Or lion young, which lurking doth
in secret places stay.

mf 13 Arise, and disappoint my foe,
and cast him down, O Lord:
My soul save from the wicked man,
the man which is thy sword.

m 14 From men, which are thy hand, O
from worldly men me save,
Which only in this present life
their part and portion have.

Whose belly with thy treasure hi thou fill'st: they children have In plenty; of their goods the rest they to their children leave. ƒ15 But as for me, I thine own face in righteousness will see;

And with thy likeness, when I wake,
I satisfy'd shall be.

18 Ver. 1-6, Salisbury; Lancaster.

7-15, Southwark.

16-30, Greenwich; Resignation. 31-50, St. Magnus; Tottenham..

Chant 264.

The horn of my salvation,
and my high tow'r, is he.

3 Upon the Lord, who worthy is
of praises, will I cry;

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mp 4 Floods of ill men affrighted me,
death's pangs about me went;
5 Hell's sorrows me environed;
death's snares did me prevent.
m 6 In my distress I call'd on God,
cry to my God did I ;
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And then shall I preserved be
safe from mine enemy.

He from his temple heard my voice,

to his ears came my cry.

m 7 Th' earth, as affrighted, then did shake, trembling upon it seiz'd:

The hills' foundations moved were,
because he was displeas'd.

8 Up from his nostrils came a smoke,
and from his mouth there came
Devouring fire, and coals by it
were turned into flame.

9 He also bowed down the heav'ns,
and thence he did descend;

And thickest clouds of darkness did

under his feet attend.

mf 10 And he upon a cherub rode, and thereon he did fly;

Yea, on the swift wings of the wind his flight was from on high.

mp 11 He darkness made his secret place: about him, for his tent,

Dark waters were, and thickest clouds
of th' airy firmament.

m 12 And at the brightness of that light,
which was before his eye,
His thick clouds pass'd away,
and coals of fire did fly.

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hailstones

f13 The Lord God also in the heav'ns did thunder in his ire;

And there the Highest gave his voice,
hailstones and coals of fire.

14 Yea, he his arrows sent abroad,
and them he scattered;

His lightnings also he shot out,

and them discomfited.

m 15 The waters' channels then were seen, the world's foundations vast At thy rebuke discover'd were, and at thy nostrils' blast.

mf 16 And from above the Lord sent down, and took me from below; From many waters he me drew, which would me overflow.

17 He me reliev'd from my strong foes, and such as did me hate;