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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13878	A learned and a very profitable exposition made vpon the CXI. psalme	Travers, Robert, fl. 1561-1572.	1579 (1579)	STC 24180; ESTC S120253	54,089	124

in Egypt asketh their deliueraunce of the king that they might serue the Lorde in the wildernesse at the day appoynted least the Lorde should slea them And who is he that this daye feareth the hande of the Lorde if he omitte the seruice of God I say not holden from it by Pharaoh but tyed with his owne linkes and chaynes which he hath made vnto himselfe eyther busines or ydlenes ▪ But a day wil come when these deriders and contemners of his worde and the felowship of his children shall account it most extreme myserie to be secluded from them whom yet heere they contemned This doctrine is as playne as iustificatiō by fayth or no merits of works and yet how few authors approuers hath it But herein appeareth our religion that it is in imagination not in fayth or opinion not in iudgement in the braynd not in the heart in worde not in deede and effect It followeth In the assembly of the iust This is a title whiche Dauid giueth to the Church of God therby declaring who they are that haue in deede a place in the temple For although all come both good and badde both the swearer and he that feareth God both the adulterer and he that made a couenaunt with his eyes both the vayne and idle person they that walke in their vocation diligently yet Dauid did see in the worde of God who were right witnesses of the prayse of God and therefore as with a rodde he standeth and seuereth the wicked from this company So in the xv Psalme he asketh of God seeing all go thither who they be that shall dwell and abide for euer in his tabernacle that haue their names as it were written in heauen and belong vnto that companie and he aunswereth himselfe that suche as are pure and cleane in their workes he that is no extortioner no vserer he that feareth God and loueth and maketh muche of them that feare the Lorde And in the xxiiij Psalme This is that generation of Iacob of them that seeke thy face The rest are bastardes and not the true generation of Iacob And in the 50. Psalme the Lorde doth as it were muster his true children from amongst all Israell and seuereth the wicked and forbiddeth them to sacrifice or to do any thing whereby they professed that they serued God seeing they hated to be refourmed and were fellowes and companions of the wicked All which places teache vs how we ought to labour dayly by prayer and those meanes that God hath lefte to profite vs that we maye be counted before God of the number of his true children he meaneth not that those onely whiche are without sinne are of the Churche of God but as it is taken in the Scripture in other places for suche as to their power serue God. So Iob is called a iuste man one that feared God Elizabeth and Zachary are called iust and Noah a iuste man whiche all yet had their great and many sinnes but those he calleth heere iuste who propounded to them selues the feare of God to lyue after it who walked before God in the wayes of righteousnesse and holynesse althoughe they sometime fell so that vnlesse we haue this before our eyes to lyue according to the worde of God to come to the temple or congregation to profite to putte off dayly some peece of our olde man 〈◊〉 to bee enriched and decked with Iesus Christe in Wisedome Iustice Redemption Sanctification more and more by our comming to the Churche we pollute the congregation and infect the verye place and make it a witnesse against vs in the day of iudgemente and we despise the holy company of Angelles who are together present with the children of God witnessers of all their behauiour and we moche and prouoke the Lorde agaynst vs It were better neuer to see the Church neuer to sette foote within the doores then thus proudly presumptuously to breake into the temple of God with so great dishonour to his name For what do we make of God or how do we accompt of him otherwise then of an Idoll who neyther seeth heareth nor knoweth vs when thus impudently we dare take place among the Sainctes of God Therefore lette euery one that is wicked and purposed to remayne in his wickednesse heare what I saye vnto him in the message of the Lord ▪ These gates are the gates of righteousnesse as sayth the Prophet the righteousse shall enter into thē this house is the house of mine honor the contemners and despisers of God haue no inche of roome therein This companie is the Church of Gods Sainctes and children there are no dogges or swine in this number Knowe therefore that the verie steppes of the Church dore are holie grounde and therefore not to be prophaned knowe that there standeth at the dore the Angell of the Lorde with a sword in his hand to hinder thy entraunce into this earthly paradise who will surely smite thee at the last for all this dispite against the Lord. As for vs that by Gods grace are not giltie of this contempt let vs still feare God and worshippe him in spirit and truth let vs be diligent sincere earnest true and faithfull in our duties to God who will in the day appoynted set vs with his Angells for euer to praise him and will cast out the polluted and vncleane out of his Church He will put their names out of the booke of life where they seeme to haue bene wrytten he will cast out with Ismaell all mockers and geue them their portion with the goates This great God righteous iudge saue vs keepe vs from the temptations of Sathan that we may euer sticke vnto him in truth faith Amen Great are the workes of God sought out of all that delight therein This is the first verse of the Psalme of praise which Dauid singeth to the Lorde For the former verse which I haue spoken of is but a preface and a preparing vnto the Psalme whereby he stirreth vp him selfe other to singe and heare this songe In the beginning therefore of the Psalme let vs examine and search the whole purpose and parts of it that th end being vnderstood we may see what causes reasons arguments are the grounds therof which be the parts the strings vpon which he playeth singeth this song that if they be common to vs with him if they be now as mouing as euer they were we ioyne our selues also vnto this fellowship with him First therefore he beginneth at the generall and common workes which are in the whole worlde to praise god After these two verses he beginneth the remembraunce of their deliuerance with those benefits which togither the Lorde shewed them as the spoyle of Egypt the possession of the land of Canaan the benefits of the knowledge of God by his worde and in these pointes consisteth this Psalme We see therefore as I haue