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cause_n	deceive_v	feel_v	great_a	13	3	2.1104	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20489	Psalmes of confession found in the cabinet of the most excellent King of Portingal, Don Antonio, first of that name, written with his owne hand. Wherein the sinner calleth vpon the mercie of God for his sinne. Translated out of the Latine copie, printed at Paris by Federike Morell.; Psalmi confessionales. English	António, Prior of Crato, 1531-1595.	1596 (1596)	STC 690; ESTC S108316	19,806	78

within me and my soule is very much Psal 60. troubled for my sinnes Behold nowe I lay all mine iniquities before thy sight O my God Psal 40. that thou mayest cure heale my soule because it hath sinned against thee For as thou Psal 5. art a God that desirest not iniquitie so wilt thou not the death of a sinner but rather Ezec. 18. that hee should be conuerted and liue For the dead shall not prayse thee O Lord but wee Psal 105. that liue doe blesse the Lord and confesse vnto him for he is good and his mercie is euerlasting Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning c. PSALM V. I Haue reuealed my miseries vnto thee O Lord not to make knowen my wayes vnto thee that diddest know them all from the beginning and hast numbred all my steps for Iob 31. thou knowest the hidden places of darknesse and all things Psal 43. are naked and open to thine eyes and thou doest not onely see but also discerne the lurking Hebr. 4. places of our thoughtes and the marrowe of our affections but I vncouer that thou maiestcouer and protect I reueale that thou mayest hide and knowe in me an humble and contrite spirite and by the Psal 50. offring of this sacrifice which is most acceptable vnto thee be mercifull vnto me and forgiue Luke 18. my sinnes I haue spoken many and great things and yet haue saide little for the worme of my conscience doth Barnard pricke me in more I would to God it might gnaw away the rottennesse that by gnawing it might consume it and withall be it selfe consumed and that it begin not to be cherished in immortalitie but let it bite that it may die and by little and little by biting leaue biting But woe vnto me for when I thinke I haue made an ende of telling my euils then am I constrained to begin againe as it were and my memorie being full of vncleannesse doeth more abundantly remember much more filthinesse for I haue sinned aboue the number of the sands of the sea and if I had a hundred tongues a hundred mouths I shall skarse answere one of a thousand thousand yet that increaseth my griefe that I can not remember all my filthines past and the fleshly corruptions of my soule for while I commit newe sinnes I forget the olde but those that I remember I will not hide not that I wil loue them any more but that I may loue thee most earnestly O my God and that I remembring my most wicked wayes in the bitternesse of my remembrance thou mayest S. Augu. be sweete vnto me O sweetenesse that art not deceaueable O amiable sweetenes O happie and secure sweetenes then enuie was familiar vnto me and charitie was estranged frō me I slandered Kings Princes and the Ministers of the Church and did bite them with a lying murmuring I did disgrace the desertes and praises of the iust and allowed the doings of the wicked if at any time there were a commendable Fra. Petrarch speeche concerning good men I obiected false spots and did discouer their secret infirmities for most light things did accuse them to others as guiltie of a greater crime Againe if there were any infamie of the wicked I did by and by set forwarde their slender vertues and preferred them in desert before their betters and so was cause of their greater ruine If I sawe a thiefe I did Psal 44. runne with him and to fulfill mine iniquitie I raysed offence against my mothers sonne spared not to slander and deceiue my kinsefolke I wished to my neighbours sorrow and ill happe and in his death onely did I set my hope I did not defend the cause of the innocent did vpbraide the guiltie as if I reioyced at their torments I rashly iudged many guiltie of faultes and seeing a litle moate in my brothers eie I did not feele a great beame Luke 6. in my owneeie I loued slouthfulnesse as my mother idlenesse was as my brother and I did auoide all honest exercise and labour I waxed heauie from day to day and did not giue God thankes for his dayly benefites bestowed vpon me and thou O Lord knowest howe seldome I did by night meditate vpon thy lawe and thy wonderfull workes I often spent the whole night without sleepe and when my mind did wander from thee hither and thither to many things thou diddest neuer meet with it I went to bed without thee I lay in my bed without thee I rose from my bed without thee without thee the day shined vpon me passed wholly away without thee and therefore was I alway without thee because I was alway with my selfe who in my darke affections am farre from thee yet if at any time thou camest into my minde and that I did begin to consider thy marueilous workes suddenly the burthen of the worlde as in sleepe is vsuall did sweetely presse me downe and my thoughtes wherewith I did meditate on thee were like the endeuours of those that would wake and yet conquered with the depth of sleepinesse are drowned againe I often purposed to determine of the affaires of my conscience but the present day doeth alway delude me with the expectation of that which is to come I rested vnto a brittle and deceitfull foundation and leaned vpon a broken reede when as trusting thereto I thought I stood sure I fell into the fire and when I S. Augu. fell I knewe howe weakely I had stood I gaped with an vnquencheable thirst after honour and gaine and in these desires I suffered most cruell difficulties Euery disordered vndisciplined man was my friend and I defiled the veine of friendship with the filth of concupiscence and obscured the whitenesse thereof with hellish lust Tragicall spectacles full of the showes of my miseries and the foode of my fire did drawe me and I did not only not shut the passages against death but opened also S. Barnar the windowes vnto it and all my members were seuerall windowes through the which death entred into my soule And so newe filthinesse growing on I haue not purged the olde nay rather from thence did spring in me many sinnes for which I am cast out from before thy face O my God being depriued of the comfort of thy presence I fall almost into desperation knowing not whither I goe but departing from thee whither shall I goe and who wil looke vpon my face if thou turne thine away from me and as a reprobate depriue me of thy sight I shall vndoubtedly become hatefull vnto all men and as a wanderer and runnagate in the land I shal be made a shame skorne vnto them when they shall aske of me where is thy God and wherefore Psal 73. hath he put thee frō him what shall I doe therefore O wretched man