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By Mr. MICHAEL WISE, late Organist of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, one of the Gent. of the Chapel Royal, and Almoner of St. Paul's.

Three

Voices.

9.

Bass,

Tenor,

Contra

tenor.

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PSAL. LVII.

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Wake up, my glory; awake, lute and harp: I my felf will awake right early.

10. I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the people : and

I will fing unto thee among the nations. 9. Awake, &c.

11. For the greatness of thy mercy reacheth unto the heavens: and thy truth unto the clouds.

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9. Awake, &c.

12. Set up thy felf, O GOD, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth.

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ISA I. LII.

Wake, awake, put

on thy strength,

O Sion; put on thy beautiful gar

ments, O Jerufalem, thou holy city.

Contra

tenor.

2. Shake

2. Shake thy felf from the dust, O Jerufa-
lem: loose thy felf from the bands of
thy neck, O captive daughter of Sion.
7. How beautiful upon the mountains are
the feet of him that bringeth good tid-
ings, that publisheth peace; that bring-
eth glad tidings of good, that publisheth
salvation, that faith unto Sion, Thy GOD
reigneth!

9. Break forth into joy, Hallelujah; fing
together, ye waste places of Jerufalem :
for the LORD hath comforted his people,
he hath redeemed Jerufalem.

10. The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the fight of all nations, and all the ends of the earth shall fee the falvation of our God. Hallelujah.

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Repare ye the way of the LORD, Bass, make straight in the defert a high- Contra

way for our GoD.

tenor,

Two Tre

4. Every valley shall be exalted, and every bles.
mountain and hill shall be made low :
and the crooked shall be made ftraight,
and the rough places shall be made plain.
5. And the glory of the LORD shall be re-
vealed: and all flesh shall fee it toge-

ther.

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6. And

6. And the voice said, Cry. What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.

8. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth : but the word of the LORD shall stand faft for ever.

9. O Zion, that bringest glad tidings, get thee up into the mountains: O Jerufalem, that bringest glad tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; and say unto Judah, Behold thy GoD. 9. O Jerufalem, that, &c.

By

By Dr. WILLIAM TURNER, one of the
Gent. of the Chapel Royal to K. Charles
II. K. James II. K. William, Q. Anne,
K. George I. and to his present Majesty.

1.

PSAL. XC.

ORD, thou haft been our re-
L fuge: from one generation to

another.

Three

Voices.

Bass,

Tenor,

Contra

2. Before the mountains were tenor.

brought forth, or ever the earth and the
world were made: thou art God from
everlasting, and world without end.

3. Thou turnest man to destruction: again
thou sayeft, Come again, ye children of

4.

men.

For a thousand years in thy fight are but
as yesterday: seeing that is past as a
watch in the night.

5. As soon as thou scatterest them, they
are even as a fleep: and fade away fud-
denly like the grass.

9. For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

10. The

10. The days of our age are threefcore years and ten; and though men be so ftrong, that they come to fourscore years: yet is their strength then but labour and forrow; fo foon passeth it away, and we

are gone. 4. For a thousand, &c.

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