To my Christian friend, [...]. F. com [...]ort in Christ during this life, and glory with Christ in the life to come.

WHen I lay at Pinchfield (where I had more leisure and fewer Bookes than I could haue wished, I composed this Selah or Collection of those ver­ses in the booke of Psalms Which the Holy Ghost maks remarkable with this word of attention Selah. VVhich verses I haue set together not accor­ding to the order of the psalmes from whence they be taken, but according to the correspōdency of matter which the verses themselues contein, conside­red with verses adioiyning. Out of wh [...]ch, I somtimes take so much as may make the sense of the verse wherein Selah is more euident to the purpose where­vnto I apply it. The word Selah I vnderstand in eue [...]y verse saue onely in one; In which I expresse it, because the Spirit hath set a double mark vp [...]n that. This collection written I gaue for a Newyears gift to you for whose sake especially it was cōposed. But now, in consideratiō of the calamities of these times it is imprin­ted, that I may bestow it vpon mo then your selfe: For such is the communion of Saints, in the fellowship of the Spirit, that the feelings o [...] the whole Church, and of euery member, be alike, & therefore doth the Spirit in sundry Psalmes, speake both plurally and singularly of one and the same subiect▪ yea▪ sometimes in one and the same verse. Receiue eft-soones this composed Selah, as a token of my remembring the kindnesse which I haue receiued from you and your friends, and shew how you esteeme it, by making some good vse thereof. Fare-well.

SELAH

Complaint.
O God heare my praier, hearkē vnto the words of my mouth, For strangers are risen vp against me, and Tyran [...]s seeke my soule. They haue not set God before them. 54. 2. 3.
3. 2. Many say vnto my soule, There is no helpe for him in God.
They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Adders poison is vnder their lips.
83. 8. Ashur is also ioyned with them, they haue beene an arme to the chil­dren of Lot.
140. 5. The Proud haue laid a snare for me, and spread a net with cordes in my Path-way, and set grinnes for me.
74. 5. If I rewarded euill vnto him that had peace with me; then let mine enemy persecute my soule and take it, yea let him tread my life down vpon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust.
55. 6. 7. I said, O that I had winges like a doue, then would I flie away & rest; Behold I would take my flight farre off, & lodge in the wildernesse.
77. 3. I did thinke vpon God, and was troubled, I prayed, and my spirit was full of anguish.
32. 4. For thy hand is heauy vpon me day and night, and my moisture is turned into the drought of summer.
39 11. When thou with rebukes doth chastise man for iniquity, thou as a moth makest his beauty to consume. Surely euery man is vanity.
89. 48. What man liueth & shall not see death? Shall he deliuer his soule from the hand of the graue?
45. The daies of his youth hast thou shortened, and couered him with shame.
39. 5. Behold, thou hast made my dayes as an hand-bredth, and my age is nothing in respect of thee. Surely euery man in his best estate is altogether vanity.
88. 10. Wilt thou shew a myracle to the dead? or, Shall the dead rise, and praise thee?
7. Thine indignation lieth vpon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy waues.
77. 9. Hath God forgotten to be mercifull? Hath he shut vp his mercy in displeasure?
32. 5. Then I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee, neither hid I mine ini­quity: For I thought, I will confesse against my selfe my wickednesse vnto the Lord, and thou forgauest the punishment of my sinne.
Comfortes.
3. 8. Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord, amd thy blessing is vpon thy people.
66. 7. He ruleth the world with his power, his eyes behold the nations; The rebellious shall not exalt themselues.
50. 6. And the heauens shall declare his righteousnesse; For God is iudge himselfe.
9. 16. The Lord is knowne by executing iudgment, The wicked is snared in the worke of his owne hands: Higgai [...]n Selah.
55. 19. God wil heare and afflict them, euen he that raignes of old.
75. 23. When I shall take a conuenient time, I will iudge righteously. The earth and all the inhabitants therof are dissolued: But I will establish the pil­lars of it.
76. 1. 2. 3. God is knowne in Iudah, his Name is great in Israel: For in Shalem is his tabernacle, and his dwelling in Zion. There brake be the ar­rowes of the bow, the sheild, and the sword, and the battaile.
87. 3. Glorious things are spoken of thee, ô City of God.
6. The Lord shall count, when he righteth thy people, He was born there.
89. 3. 4. I haue made a couenaunt with my chosen, I haue sworn to Dauid my seruant; Thy seed will I establish for euer, and set vp thy throane from generation to generation.
37. He shall be established for euermore as the moone, and as a faithfull witnesse in the heauen.
68. 7. O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou wen­test through the wildernesse.
76, 7. When thou ô God arose to iudgement to help all the meeke on the earth.
77. 15. Thou hast redeemed thy people with thine arme, euen the sonnes of Iacob and Ioseph.
85. 2. Thou hast forgiuen the iniquity of thy people, and couered all their sinnes.
4, 2. O ye sonnes of men, how long will ye turne my glory into shame, lo­uing vanity and seeking lies?
82, 2. How long will ye iudge vniustly, & accept the persōs of the wicked?
62. 3. 4. How long will ye imagine mischeife against a man? ye shall be all slaine, ye shall be as a bowed wall, or as a wall shaken; yet they consult to cast him downe from his dignity. Their delight is in lies, they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with their hearts.
49. 10, 11, 13. Foolish men perish and leaue their riches for others: yet they thinke their houses shall continue for euer, and call their landes by their names. This their way vttereth their foolishnesse, yet their posterity delighteth in their talke.
52. 3. Thou dost loue euill more then good, and lies more then to speake the truth.
4. 5. Thou louest all words that may destroy, ô deceitfull tongue. So shall God destroy thee for euer; He shall take and pluck thee out of thy taber­nacle, and root thee out of the land of the liuing.
4. 4. Tremble, and sinne no [...], examaine your owne heart, and be still.
67, 4. Let the na [...]ions be glad and reioyce. For thou shalt iudge the peo­ple righteously, and gouerne then nations vpon the earth.
Faith.
62. 8. Trust in him alway yee people, poure out your heartes before him: For he is our hope.
81. 7. Thou calledst in affliction, and I deliuered thee, and answered thee in the secret of thunder, I proued thee, at the waters of Mer [...]bah.
24. 6. This is the generation of them that seeke him, of them that seeke thy face, this is Iacob.
84. 4. Blessed are they that dwell in thine house, They wil euer praise thee.
3. 4. I did call vpon the Lord with my voice, and he heard mee out of his holy mountaine.
46. 1, 2, 3. God is our hope, and strength, and helpe in troubles, ready to be found. Therefore will not we feare though the earth be moued, & though the mountaines fall into the middest of the sea, and though the waters ther­of rage and be troubled, and the mountaines shake at the surges of the same.
32. 7. Thou art my secret place, thou preseruest me from trouble, thou compasseth me about with ioyfull deliuerance.
57. 3. He will send from heauen and saue mee from the reproofe of him that would swallow me vp.
49. 15 But God shall deliuer my soule from the power of the graue: For he will receiue me.
46. 7. The Lord of hostes is with vs. The God of Iacob is our refuge.
47. 4. Hee hath chosen our inheritance for vs, euen the glory of Iacob whom he loued.
48. 8. As we haue heard, so haue we seen in the citie of the Lord of hostes, in the Citie of our God. God wil establish it for euer.
Prayer.
67. 1. God be mercifull vnto vs, and blesse vs, and cause his face to shine among vs.
59. 5. Euen thou ô Lord God of hostes, ô▪ God of Israell, awake to visit all the heathen, and be not mercifull vnto all that transgresse maliciously.
13. Consume them in thy wrath, consume them that they bee no more, and let them knowe that God ruleth in Iacob, euen vnto the ends of the world.
16. 20. Put them in feare, ô Lord, that the heathen may know that they are but men.
140. 8. Let not the wicked haue his desire ô Lord, performe not his wic­ked thought, lest they be to proud.
84. 8. O Lord of hostes heare my prayer, hearken ô God of Iacob.
143. 6. I stretch foorth mine handes vnto thee, my soule desireth after thee as a thirsty land.
20. 1, 2, 3. The Lord heare thee in the day of trouble, the Name of the God of Iacob defend thee, send thee helpe from the Sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion: Let him remember all thine offerings, and turne thy burnt offerings into ashes.
Praise.
21▪ 1 [...]. The King shall reioyce in thy strenth ô Lord, yea how greatly shall he reioice in thy saluation! Thou hast giuen him his hearts desire, and hast not denied him the request of his lippes.
60. 3, 4. Thou hast shewed thy people heauie things, thou hast made vs drinke the wine of giddines. But now thou hast giuen a banner to them that feare thee that it may be displayed because of thy truth.
46. 11. The Lord of hostes is with vs. The God of Iacob is our refuge.
24. 19. Who is the king of glory? The Lord of hosts he is the king of glory
57. 6. They haue laid a net for my steps, my soule is pressed downe, they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the middest of it.
44. 7. 8. But thou hast saued vs from our aduersaries, and hast put them to confusion that hate vs. Therefore will we praise God continually, and will confesse thy Name for euer.
61. 4. I will dwell in thy Tabernacle for euer, and my trust shall be vnder the couering of thy wings.
66. 14, 15. I will goe to thine house with burnt offerings, and wil pay thee my vowes which my lips haue promised and my mouth hath spoken in mine aff [...]ictions I will offer vnto thee the burnt offerings of fat rammes, with in­cense. I wil prepare bullockes and goats.
4 All the world shal worship thee, & sing vnto thee, euē sing to thy Name.
68. 32. Sing vnto the Lord ô ye Kingdomes of the earth, sing praises vnto the Lord.
19. Praised be God, euen the God of our saluation, who ladeth vs daily with benefits.

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