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A13070	A fift proceeding in the harmony of King Dauids harpe That is to say, a godly and learned exposition of 5. other moe [sic] psalmes of the princely Prophet Dauid: beginning with the 68. and ending with the 72. psalme, being the last part of the first tome, or one halfe of the booke of psalmes. Written in Latin by the reuerend Doctor Victorinus Strigelius: professor of diuinity in the Vniuersity of Lipsia in Germanie. Anno. 1576. Translated into English by Richard Robinson citizen of London. 1594. Seene, and allowed.; Hypomnēmata in omnes Psalmos Davidis. Psalm 68-72. English	Strigel, Victorinus, 1524-1569.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1598 (1598)	STC 23363; ESTC S113498	57,243	82

of the man tooke him also with them and when they arriued at Tuneta and had openly shewed their prize they declare vnto the King a rare and memorable acte who though he were a Prince barbarous and enemy to Christianity yet merueiling and perceiuing the vertue of the man did set him and his wife both at liberty and commaunded them to bee registred as of the number of those which were the guard of his person So the sonne of God leaped from high and heauenly beatitude into the sea of our mischiefes and miseries and of free became bondman of rich poore that by his virtue and power hee might obtaine liberty for vs and coopt vs into the society of heauenlie blessings Let vs therefore be ashamed of our pride and impatience wherein we disdaine to suffer some sorrowe to profit the Church thereby The spirituall meditation of the passion of the sonne of God consisteth in Feare and in Faith Feare is to tremble with acknowledgement of Gods wrath against sinne whose speciall testimony is the death of the sonne of God For although the threatnings added vnto the Law and horrible examples of punishments and feares of conscience doe shew the iudgements of God destroying contemptuous persons yet if we looke well into this glasse of Christ crucified wee shall see a far more euident signe of Gods horrible wrath For seeing God could not be pacified with the obedience of anie creature but did decree that his Sonne should be the propitiator or attonement maker in his bloud as S. Paule saith Assuredly me must confesse that great earnest and vnspeakeable is the wrath of God against sinne And least this acknowledgement of Gods wrath should leaue in our minds the stinges or darts of seruile feare which is a sorrowe without faith and a grudging against God and a horrible fleeing from God as was in Saule and Iudas let faith take roote in vs whereby the hart is stirred vp in the acknowledgement of Gods mercie promised for his sonnes sake For seeing God hath not spared his only begotten sonne but giuen him for vs all surely it cannot otherwise be but with him also he will giue vs all thinges Therefore spirituall meditation is not only to knowe the history touching the passion and to beleeue the same but also to feele in our hart sorrowes and consolations The exemplary or imitatiue meditation of Christes passion is to follow the humility and patience of Christ as S. Peter saith 1 Pet 2 21. Christ suffered for vs leauing vs an example that wee should follow his steps And although none of vs in this our imbecility or weakenes is able to follow the example of Christ yet notwithstanding let there bee some lineaments agreeable in vs with this Image of imitating Christ ❧ The Psalme and Exposition thereof Saue me O God for the waters are come in euen vnto my soule I sticke fast in the deepe myre where no grounde is I am come into deepe waters so that the flouds runne ouer mee I am weary of crying my throate is drie my sight faileth me for waiting so long vpon my God SOme men do merueile whie the Euangelistes write That the sonne of God was grieued with sorrow and vexed in mind when he was in the Orchard seeing it seemeth a thing vnméete for a strong graue and constant person to weepe and waile and ware pale with feare of death as women vse to do For of Hercules addressing to cast himselfe into a burning fire Seneca saith thus Quis sic triumphans laet us in currustetit Victor Quis illo gentibus vultu dedit Leges tyrannus quanta paxobitium tulit Vultus petentis astra non ignes erant Who did so ioufull victor triumph make What Tyrant with such austere countenance Prescribed lawes to Nations for their state How great a peace toth' skies did him aduance No fiers they were But let vs knowe that Christ vare upon him a greater burthen then Hercules did for he was not in anguish and veration of minde for death onelie and for thinking vpon the tormenting of his bodie but he felt the wrath of God to bee turned vpon him against mine thine and all mens sinnes This féeling of Gods wrath sore vexed and grieued his most sacred breast For although euerie creature groneth and moneth when it is burthened aboue the abilitie of bearing the same yet the greatnesse of this burthen expressed in Christ not onelie teares but also drops of water and blood mingled togither which the Grecians call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therfore omitting disputations let vs tremble with feare in acknowledgement of Gods wrath against our sinnes and with the Prophet Isay let vs saie Surely he hath borne our infirmities and caried our sorrowes c. He was wounded for our transgressions hee was broken for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was vpon him and with his stripes we are healed say 53. verses 4 5. They that hate me without a cause are mo then the haires of may head they that are mine enemies and would destroy me guiltlesse are mightie I paide them the things that I neuer tooke The former thrée verses contained a description of feares inwardlie in his heart This verse setteth forth his outward enemies As in truth for most part alwayes inward feares and outward fightings and hostile inuasions do méete togither But we are admonished by this saying They that hate me without cause c. that we suffer not as murtherers and theeues c. but like vnto Christians c. 1. Pet. 4. 15 16. That is for the confession of the Gospel And there is a notable ardent affect in the particle without a cause As if he had said They hated me not only as one neither guilty of sin nor hurting them but also most feruentlie coueting to do them good yéelding with great humilitie and taking vpon my selfe the punishments which they temselues deserued not séeking any reuenge but rather with great sorrow deploring or bewailing their wilfull obstinacie and destruction For this great good will and full of sorrow and lamentation for them and earnest desire to do them good do I beare this hatred Let Teachers or Preachers consider this figure and let them know that it is a common disease almost in all mankinde to be vnthankfull and let them for their great good will and great benefits suffer with patience to haue euill will hatred reproches and other mischiefes rendred them like as all Hystories are full of examples of vnthankfulnesse The Citie of Athens kept Miltiades in prison almost euen to his verie death and banished Aristides Themistocles and Cimon who had well deserued of the same Citie Finallie there is an infinite number of such whose examples maie admonish vs that we for Gods cause be carefull to do well not for reward of man and that we be not dismaid when mens indeuours and duties are not answerable to our good will and deseruings And that

stockes vnto the worlde yet in verie truth the chiefest and greatest blessing vppon earth is when men may heare the preachers and teachers stirred vp by God to aduance and set forth the doctrine of the Gospell wherein true acknowledgement of God and prayer vnto him are shewed which are the consolation of mens mindes and direct rules of good life Kings with their armies did flee and were discomfited and they of the houshold deuided the spoile Christ our Sauiour in the 9. cap. of S. Markes Gospell verse 49. giueth charge vnto the Apostles and to the teachers of the gospell That they haue salt in themselues that is to retaine the puritie of doctrine and to be at vnitie and concord amongst themselues And in S. Iohns Gospell cap. 17. verse 17. 21. Christ in his agonie praieth that God would sanctifie vs in his truth and make vs to be one in him For the chiefe ornaments of Gods church are purity of doctrine and concord of teachers So in this place the Psalme affirmeth that the Apostles shoulde be all of one minde and not trouble their godlie consent with Ambition or other foolish desi●es But how rare a thing such concord is amongst the other teachers not onlie ancient histories but also the examples of this age sufficientlie declare Eusebius bishop of Caes●ia sorrowed in seeing Basill to prosper and oppressed him what hee could Betwéen Epiphanius and Chrysostome there was such a contention and controuersie that Epiphanius in heate of anger said Thou shalt not die O Chrysostome within thy iurisdiction And Chrysostome made and answere That Epiphanius should not return aliue into his country To these cursings or gainsayings the euent it selfe answered For Epiphanius sayling into the Ile of Cyprus died before he came thither Chrysostome not long after was banished his Country S. Hierome framed his inuectiue against Ruffinus with whom hee liued manie yeares most louinglie and most familiarlie But why do I recite olde examples séeing this our age aboundeth with such examples For like as with Epaminundas prince of Thebes the liberty or freedome of his country was also buried and vtterlie extinguisht euen so when D Luther departed this life and was buried then also ceased the concord of teachers For nowe Some not with learned speach cōtend But with euil tearms their cause defend as the Poet Ennius saith And the teachers like vnto Cadmeys brethren striue one against another with hatred ambition and slanders Therefore more are the subtle deceits of false brethren to be feared then the enterprises and practises of our enemies But I cut short this complaint and I beseech God to cure our wounds and to restore vnto his Church a godly and prosperous concord And further it is not indeed a thing obscure to consider why the Apostles and Bishoppes are here called Kinges with their hoasts because they fight the battels against the Diuels and their instrumentes and are furnished not with brasen péeces but with the word and prayer For the sonne of God armeth and setteth forth his soldiours with a mouth and wisedome which all the enemies are not able to resist Luke 21. 15. And as S. Paule saith 2. Cor. 10. 4. 5. 6. The weapons of our warfare are not carnall but mighty to cast downe holds which bringeth to captiuity euerie thought vnto the obedience of Christ and hauing ready the vengeance against all disobedience c. Finally they of the houshould That is the spousesse or church of the son of God Though ye haue line among the pots yet shall ye be as the winges of a Doue that is couered with siluer wings and her feathers like gold He compareth the teachers of the gospell vnto Doues of diuers colours because of the diuersitie of giftes For one excelleth in the knowledge of languages an other hath the giftes of interpretation another iudgeth right soundlie the controuersies touching opinions Finallie The holie ghost giueth vnto euery one some gifts for the building vp of the church as S. Paule saith 1. Cor. 12. 28. He also here alludeth vnto the simplicitie of Doues as Christ saith Matth. 10. 16. Be ye simple as Doues For the Doue is without gall hurteth not with her bill and hath harmelesse clées Furthermore like as Goshawkes and kites do assault and deuoure sillie Doues So tyrants practise all meanes they can vtterlie to subuert all godlie teachers The Church therefore is an hoast of doues which are laide open for all the weapons of tyrants But if anie man in this place had rather applie the mixture of siluer and golden colour vnto that shewe which polished or bright shining armour and warlike furniture hath with Ensignes and weapons displaied in tents where fields are fought Against this I nothing contend any waie When the almighty scattered Kings for their sake then were they as white as snow in Salmon This verse admonisheth the Reader of two thinges The first touching the vocation of ministers concerning which in 10. Rom. 15. it is saide How shall they preach except they be sent And in 9. Matth. 9. 38. Christ saieth Pray ye vnto the Lord of the haruest that hee would thrust forth workemen into the haruest Let vs therefore acknowledge that the ministers which deliuer sound doctrine are the excellent and singular giftes of God and as it were the mothers own brests wherewith she giueth vs sucke Secondlie let vs learn what is the effects of the gospell namelie to restore light by driuing awaie most filthie darkenesse such as are heathen and popish errors Therefore S. Peter compareth 2. Pet. 1. 19. the scriptures propheticall vnto a lanterne with a candle giuing light in a darke place And this our Prophet Dauid saith Psal 1 19. Patt 10. versse 1. Thy word O Lord is a Lanthorne vnto my feete and a light vnto my steps For without this light men doe wander in greatest darknesse of error and in the ignorance of the chiefest matters For no man except Gods word first giue him light knoweth the essence will of God no man rightly repenteth him neither doth any mā rightly call vpon God Except he follow the guide and good gouernment of Gods word Let vs then walke in the light while wee haue light least the darkenesse do oppresse vs. Then which case nothing can be thought more sorrowfull As the hill of Basan so is Gods hill euen an high hill as the hill of Basan Why hop ye so ye high hils This is Gods hill in the which it pleaseth him to dwell yea the Lord will abide in it euer The first effect of the gospell as I said is a light shewing the true acknowledgement and prayer unto God The other fruit is fatnes that is a consolation to bee opposed against sinne and death For they which are destitute of this fatnesse they must néeds waxe leane that is he plunged into desperation For Philosophicall consolations are nothing but idle pratings and ●anlings

presence and helpe in calamities Also his mitigation and deliuerance from the same And it is a speciall deliuerance whereas by Iordan that is by the miseries of this life the sonne of God leadeth vs into the land of Canaan that is into the life euerlasting But the whole doctrine touching causes and remedies of humane miseries is elsewhere plentifullie expounded He that will may from thence borrow more matter For we do not now write of places but we interpret Psalms and least this Commentarie appeare too much in matter we are contented with the direction of those places which are extant in all mens hands God shal wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalpe of such a one as goeth on still in his wickednes The Lord hath said I will bring my people againe as I did from Basan mine owne will I bring againe as I did from the deepe of the sea That thy foote may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies and that the tongue of thy dogges may be red through the same He addeth vnto the description of the triumphant pompe a prophecie touching the destruction of the Iewish nation for their blinde obstinacie striuing setting themselues against the Gospel And this prophecie agréeth with the saying of Christ Luke 19. 44. All those things shall come vpon thee because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation Nowe indéed it is sufficientlie apparant that the Iewes for their contempt of Christ hauing lost their kingdome and priesthoode do wander in perpetuall banishment and are the most miserable persons of all others vppon whome the sunne shineth And although the greatest multitude of the Iewes be with tragicall punishments oppressed yet notwithstanding out of this skum of mankinde God hath culled or picked out some remnantes as in the 2. cap. Actes When Peters preaching was heard 3000. Iewes were conuerted vnto Christ and in the next yeare after the resurrection of Christ Paule the apostle was conuerted And there is extant in the 11. cap. of S. Paule to the Rom. 27. a prophecie touching the downefall of the Chruch of the Gentiles and of the conuersion of the Iewes It is well seene O God how thou goest howe thou my God and King goest in thy sanctuary The singers go before the minstrels follow after in the midst are the Damsels playing with the timbrels He returneth vnto the triumphant pompe whose ornament was musicke For the greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is by the description of a figs leafe and the foote Iambus in verse For nothing is more swéete then victorie and the foote Iambus is most speciallie applied vnto the following of enemies which are led captiues in the triumph And what maner of song the people both going before and also following the chariot ought to sing S. Paul in the 5. Ephes v. 19. and 4. Coloss verse 2. there prescribing the rule of spirituall musicke teacheth vs at large Giue thankes O Israell vnto God the Lorde in the congregations from the ground of thy hart This little verse is short but it admonisheth the Reader touching the greatest matters God will not haue vs to serue him with the sacrifice to Ceres shut vp in close place of vs. For as Christ saith Matth. 5. 15. No man lighteth a candle and afterwards putteth it vnder a bushell But he will haue the church to bee a visible congregation and to haue honest meetinges publikelie wherein the preaching of the Gospell maie sound and hee heard touching the sonne of God And therfore doth he with a meruailous power saue yea and shall preserue his church in honest congregations and he wil haue euerie man to helpe and maintaine the preseruation of these publique méetings that the ministery of teaching maie bee preserued There will God haue a common praier and thankesgiuing to be made there will hee haue confession to be shewed which kind of doctrine euerie man may embrace And he biddeth vs to take the doctrine of the church not out of the cesterns of mans traditions nor out of Aristotles Ethickes but out of the holie and sacred fountaines of Israell that is from the Prophets and Apostles for all other sectes without the true church do onelie teach a particle of the law touching externall and ciuill duties and some of them do bring with them other worshippings of Idols But they are altogether ignorant of the sonne of God and of his gospell that is the promise of the free remission of sinnes also of our reconciliation and of our inheritance of life euerlasting to be giuen vs by faith in the sonne our Mediator But the Church draweth out of the welspring of Israel the sound perfect and vncorrupt doctrine of the law and the gospell and the pure knowledge of the sonne of God for vs crucified and raised from death to life There is little Beniamin their ruler and the Princes of Iuda their Counsaile The princes of Zabulon and the princes of Nephthaly Although the world do iudge the Apostles to be miserable wandring persons and hateth and curseth them as gasing stocks the ofscourings of the world 1. Cor. 49. 13. yet the holie ghost adorneth these ministers with the most praise worthy title of princes For the Apostles haue the testimonie of the holie ghost that they do not erre in doctrine These Captaines do other teachers and preachers in the church followe vnto whom no credit must bee giuen except their confession do agrée with the foundation of the Apostles as S. Paule saith 2. Ephes 20. And are built vpon the foundation of the Prophets Apostles Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone But why doth he here saie There is little Beniamin their ruler Certes it may signifie that only of all the Apostles Paul being borne of the tribe of Beniamin a great and good part of the Church should be gathered out of Europe and Asia I stand not to be precise touching the speciall dignitie of anie apostle but I reuerence them al as the instruments of God sounding forth the preaching of the gospell throughout all the world And yet cannot this bee denied that Paule himselfe with a liuelie voice witnesseth of himselfe and letting passe most vpright testimonies of others He did greater thinges then the other Apostles like as he himselfe not vntruly glorieth Let vs therefore giue thankes to God for this excellent Organ or instrument and like little hounds let vs licke vp the crums falling from Paules table which are full of excellent words and sentences Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee Stablish the thing O God that thou hast wrought in vs. First in this verse let the misterie of the Trinitie be well marked For like as in 45. Psal the persons of the godhead are discerned where he saith in the 8. ver of the psal Therefore God euen thy God hath anointed thee with oyle of gladnes aboue thy fellowes So in

helpe me O God Let them be ashamed and confounded that seeke after my soule let them bee turned backeward and put to confusion that wish me euill Let them for their reward be soone brought to shame that crie ouer me there there LIke as when we take an oath which is a kinde of taking God to witnesse in calling vpon him we craue that God woulde bee witnesse of our promise and a iust Iudge in punishing the partie which breaketh promise So in euerie our praier wee must craue of God that he would confirme the worke that he hath begun in vs and that hee would destroy the workes of the diuell and his instruments As when we recite these wordes Hallowed be thy name we do not onelie craue that the glorie of God maie bee made more excellent both by the true doctrine and by good examples but that also all wicked opinions in Religion and lewde examples in life by reason wherof the name of God amongst y e nations is blasphemed might euerie where be vtterlie extinguished So in like maner Dauid craueth helpe and defence in a good cause and the subuersion of his malicious cruell enemies whose diuelish malice and euill custome in working mischiefe was such that both their will was groedilie desirous of hurting their tongue earnestlie giuen to manifest the same and their hands nights and dayes prepared to shed the blood of the godlie lie ones Against these poysonfull Aspes prayeth Dauid here for their euill successe of their enterprises and except they will bee spéedilie conuerted for their vniuersall destruction So let vs craue of God that hee would with his mightie hand restrain or vtterlie cut off both Pope and Turke the two strong armes of Antichrist and that he would not long deferre the execution of his most iust iudgement but that hee would make haste to punish the enemie for the glorie of his names sake But let all those that seeke thee bee ioyfull and glad in thee and let all such as delight in thy saluation say alway the Lord be praised As for me I am poore and in miserie haste thee vnto me O God Thou art my helper and my redeemer Lord make no long tarrying Vnto the godlie ones which exercise faith in their dailic calamities and dangers these speeches of Dauid are not obscure I am poore and in miserie That is destitute of mans helpe and defences Thou therefore OGod bee my helper and deliuerer and that indeed without tarrying helpe and saue me least I perish or be ouercome of the cruell enemie for thou knowest thine owne creature out infirmitie is knowne vnto thee Thou knowest also that the Diuell goeth about and seeketh whom he may deuour and destroy 2. Pet. 5. 8. Wherefore seeing thou art a faithfull God do not thou suffer vs to be tempted aboue our strenght but giue with temptation an end that me may be able to endure that thou laiest vpon vs. A Psalme of Dauid In te Domine speraui c. The Argument ALthough certaine persons too much louers of themselues do imagine in their mindes that they excell in wisdome and strength the first flower of mankinde yet notwithstanding the thing it selfe sheweth that the nature of man as it were barren is at this day more weake and of lesse strength then it was in the beginning For most trulie is it saide of the learned ones In prima eatate mundi regnasse rationem gubernatricem inuentricem optimarum artium Deinde successisse aetatem bellatricem in qua armis imperia constituta sunt quatuor Monarchiae orbem terrarum rexerunt In hac vero Senecta mundi dominars That is In the first age of the world Reason ruled as gouernesse and inuenter of good artes After that succeeded the warlike age wherein by force of armes kingdomes were ordained and the foure Monarchies ruled and gouerned al the world But now in this olde age of the worlde concupiscence reigneth for nature of man being now made weaker neither studieth for wisdome as they did of olde neither taken vpon her those toyling labours of warfarre which strong men did in times past but as it were weakned in the sinewes seeketh after delites and pleasures This infirmitie of nature in vs doth the diuell more outragiouslie assault at this day and as it were leaning vpon a bending wall stirres vp Heretikes and tyrants partlie with craft or guile and partlie with manifest violence to ouerthrow and vtterlie destroy all the holie ones yea and extinguish the name of Christ whom this foresaid deadly enemie of ours well knoweth shall hereafter not long to come and iudge all people and giue vnto his Congregation euerlasting blessings and shall cast away these diuels with all the wicked ones into eternall destruction and torments Therefore now greater and more difficult is our necessitie cause then euer it was at any time in the church because wee haue against vs the skem and ende of the worlde that same extreame outrage of the Pope and of the Turke who as D. Martin Luther sayeth seeke to deuour vs. And I pray you how many trouble the Church now in her olde age with mouing vnnecessarie or needlesse disputations and like peeuish olde women dauncing out of order stirre vp a great dust as the Greeke Prouerbe saith And others like wawling Cats running away out of this life leaue an euill smell behind them This masse of mischiefes and miseries Dauid foreseeing to come in his time craueth most feruentlie of God that hee would not forsake nor cast away his Church in her extreame olde age so fowly deformed but that he would succour and defende her against the Diuell who in the ende of his tyrannie rageth more cruelly Seeing then Dauid foreseeing future stormes and tempestes in his time made such prayers for the ship which bare the Church of what minde behooueth it vs nowe at length to bee who are tossed with the verie same stormes But the verie same thing happeneth vnto vs which did to the Apostles which neither vnderstoode the greatnesse of Christes sorrowes nor are yet greatlie grieued in minde therewith no rather are wee ouercome with heauie sleepe as the Apostles were Let vs therefore correct this securitie and negligence and let vs craue of God that hee would helpe gouerne and strengthen vs least either our carelesse mindes fall headlong into Epicureal contempt of God or else being oppressed with the burthen of calamities bee vtterlie destroyed with desperation like as Ely Saule and innumerable others were ❧ The Psalme and Exposition thereof In thee O I orde haue I put my trust let me neuer bee put to confusion but rid me and deliuer me in thy righteousnesse encline thine eare vnto me and saue me WHere as before in the II. Psalme verse 6. and 8. these words are sufficientlie expounded I wil now onelie admonish the reader touching the little worde righteousnesse which is vsed in some places actiuelie in