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Family-hymns gathered (mostly) out of the best translations of David's psalmsFamily-hymns gather'd (mostly) out of the best translations of David's psalms
Family-hymns gathered (mostly) out of the best translations of David's psalms.Family-hymns gather'd (mostly) out of the best translations of David's psalms.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1695
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Hymn LIV. [For the like occasion.]
Psal. 90.1, 2, 3, 4. LORD thou hast been in Changes past Our Refuge and Abode, From Age to Age, beyond all Time, Thou art Eternal God. ⟨p. 61⟩When thou recallest Man to dust, He can no longer stay, A thousand years are in thy sight Past off as yesterday.
5, 9. Swept with a hasty torrent hence Like a vain dream we pass, Spring up, and grow, and wither soon As doth the short-lived Grass. For in thy wrath our sinful days To a swift Period tend. Our years, by us unheeded, like An idle Story end.
5, 9. Swept with a hasty torrent hence Like a vain dream we pass, Spring up, and grow, and wither soon As doth the short-liv'd Grass. For in thy wrath our sinful days To a swift Period tend. Our years, by us unheeded, like An idle Story end.
10, 12, 14. Our Age to seventy years is set, Or if we do arrive To fourscore years, it's all but grief, We rather dye than live. Lord, teach us this Religious Art Of numbering out our days, That so we may apply our heart To sacred Wisdom's ways. O fill us early with thy Grace, That so we may rejoice, And all our days, to the last breath, Triumph in heart and voice.