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PSALM 95, by                    
First Line: Come, come, let us with joyfull voice
Last Line: I will so work you never shall obtaine.


Come, come, let us with joyfull voice
record and raise
Jehova's praise:
Come let us in oure safeties rock rejoice.
Into his presence let us goe
and there with Psalmes our gladdnes showe
For he's a God, a God most greate:
above all Gods, a king in kinglie seate.

What lowest lies in Earthie masse,
what highest stands
stands in his hands
The Sea is his, and he the Sea wright was.
he made the Sea, he made the shore:
come let us fall, let us adore,
come let us kneele with awfull grace,
before the Lord, the Lord oure maker's face.

He is oure God, he doth us keepe
wee by him ledd
and by him fedd
his people are, wee are his pasture sheepe
To daie if he some speech will use
Doe not, O doe not you refuse,
with hardned harts his voice to heare:
as Masha nowe, or Meriba it were.

Where mee your Fathers (God doth saie)
did angring move
and tempting prove
Yet ofte had seene my workes before that daie
Twice twentie times my poast the Sunn
his yearelie race to end had runn,
while this fond nation bent to ill
did tempt, and trie and vexe and grieve mee still.

Which, when I sawe, thus said I, loe
theis men are madd
and too too badd.
Err in theire hartes, my waies they will not knowe
Thus therefore unto them I sweare
I angrie can no more forbeare
The rest for you I did ordaine
I will so work you never shall obtaine.





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