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Benedixisti, Domine.
MIGHTY Lord, from this thy land | |
| Never was thy love estrang’d: | |
| Jacob’s servitude thy hand | |
| Hath, we know, to freedome chang’d. | |
| All thy people’s wicked parts | 5 |
| Have byn banisht from thy sight: | |
| Thou on them hast cured quite | |
| All the woundes of synnfull dartes; | |
| Still thy choller quenching soe, | |
| Heate to flame did never grow. | 10 |
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| Now then, God, as heretofore, | |
| God, the God that dost us save, | |
| Change our state; in us no more | |
| Lett thine anger object have. | |
| Wilt thou thus for ever grieve? | 15 |
| Wilt thou of thy wrathfull rage | |
| Draw the threed from age to age? | |
| Never us againe relieve? | |
| Lord, yet once our hartes to joy | |
| Show thy grace, thy help employ. | 20 |
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| What speake I? O lett me heare | |
| What he speakes: for speake hee will | |
| Peace to whome he love doth beare, | |
| Lest they fall to folly still. | |
| Ever nigh to such as stand | 25 |
| In his feare, his favour is: | |
| How can then his glory misse | |
| Shortly to enlight our land? | |
| Mercy now and truth shall meete: | |
| Peace with kisse shall justice greete. | 30 |
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| Truth shall spring in ev’ry place, | |
| As the hearb, the earthe’s attire: | |
| Justice’s long absent face | |
| Heav’n shall show, and earth admire. | |
| Then Jehova on us will | 35 |
| Good on good in plenty throw: | |
| Then shall we in gladdnes mow, | |
| Wheras now in grief we till: | |
| Then before him in his way | |
| All goe right; not one shall stray. | 40 |
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