12. Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses : that we may tell them that come after. VERSE, TWO TREBLES, AND COUNTER TENOR; AND FULL. 13. For this is our God for ever and ever : he will be our guide unto death. Croft. Psalm CII. FULL, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, AND EIGHT VOICES. 107. 1. Hear my prayer, O Lord : and let my crying come unto thee. 2. Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble : incline thine ear unto me, when I call; O hear me, and that right soon. Croft. PSALM CXLIII. VERSE, COUNTER TENOR, AND TENOR. 108. 1. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and consider my desire : hearken unto me for thy truth and righteousness sake. VERSE, COUNTER TENOR, TENOR AND BASS ; AND FULL 2. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. SOLO BASS 3. For the enemy that persecuted my soul, he hath smitten my life down to the ground: he hath laid me in the darkness, as the men that have been long dead. SOLO COUNTER TENOR. 4. Therefore is my spirit. vexed within me: and my heart within me is desolate. VERSE, COUNTER TENOR, TENOR, AND BASS. 5. Yet will I remember the time past, I muse upon all thy works : yea, I exercise myself in the works of thine own hands. VERSE, FOUR VOICES ; AND FULL. 7. Hear me, O Lord, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down to the pit. Croft. PSALM CIV. VERSE, COUNTER TENOR, AND BASS. 109. 33. I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I will praise my God while I have my being. SOLO BASS. 34. And so shall my words please him : my joy shall be in the Lord. I will sing, &c. SOLO COUNTER TENOR. 35. As for sinners they shall be consumed out of the earth, and the ungodly shall come to an end: but praise thou the Lord, O my soul, praise VERSE, FOUR VOICES ; AND FULL. PSALM XXXIV. VERSE, TWO COUNTER TENORS, AND BASS. 110. 1. I will alway give thanks unto the Lord : his praise shall ever be in my mouth. SOLO COUNTER TENOR. 2. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : the humble shall hear thereof and be glad.. VERSE, COUNTER TENOR AND BASS; AND FULL, FOUR VOICES. 3. O praise the Lord with me : and let us magnify his name together. SOLO BASS. 4. I sought the Lord, and he heard me : yea, he delivered me out of all my fear. . SOLO COUNTER TENOR. 7. The angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. VERSE, TWO COUNTER TENORS AND BASS; AND FULL, FOUR VOICES. - I will alway, &c. 'Hallelujah. Croft. PSALM CXLII. VERSE, TREBLE, COUNTER TENOR, TENOR, AND BASS. 111. 1. I cried unto the Lord with my voice : yea, even unto the Lord did I make my supplication. TREBLE AND COUNTER TENOR. 2. I poured out my complaints before him : and shewed him of my trouble. SOLO BÁSS. 3. When my spirit was in heaviness, thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, privily have they laid a snare for me. COUNTER TENOR, TENOR, AND BASS. 4. I looked also upon my right hand : and saw there was no man that would know me. 5. I had no place to flee unto : and no man cared for my soul. VERSE, FOUR VOICES; AND FULL. 6. I cried unto thee, O Lord, and said ; thou art my hope, and my portion in the land of the Croft. no man living. FROM THE BURIAL SERVICE. FULL, FOUR VOICES. 112. JOHN XI., 25.--I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord : he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. 26. And whosoever liveth, and believeth in me, shall never die. JOB XIX., 25._I know that my Redeemer liv. eth : and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. 26. And though after my skin, worms destroy this body: yet in my flesh shall I see God. 27. Whom I shall see for myself; and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. TIM. VI., 7.We brought nothing into this world : and it is certain we can carry nothing out. JOB 1., 21.–The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: blessed be the name of the Lord. Croft. FROM THE BURIAL SERVICE. FULL FOUR VOICES. 113. JOB. XIV., 1, 2.-Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery: he cometh up, and is cut down like a flower : he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. In the midst of life we are in death : of whom may we seek for succour but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased ? Yet, O Lord God most Holy, O God most mighty, O Holy and most merciful Saviour, deliliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death. Croft. |