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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

particle must we diligently consider where he saith I paide them the things that I neuer tooke That is he hath peformed our duties for euerie bond is cancelled and made voide when the debt is paid neither is it materiall whether he that oweth the debt do pay it or an other for him Then this our Redeemer tooke quite away or rather frustrated our obligation wherein wee were bound to the curse of the lawe and euerlasting punishments because he performed for vs the dutie by vs owing to the lawe according to that saying Galat. 3. 13. Christ being made a curse for vs redeemed vs from the curse of the lawe God thou knowest simplenesse and my faultes are not hid from thee How great humilitie was that where Christ prostrating himselfe before his father did beare his wrath as if he had polluted himselfe with the most heinous sins of all men This is no Rhetoricall spéech nor vaine amplification but indeed such was the sorrow of Christ taking vpon him the wrath of God as if he himselfe had committed these our sinnes But who can at full declare the greatnesse of this humilitie Where the sonne of God yéeldeth himselfe as a guiltie person in so great and grieuous sinnes This humilitie doth Paule with excellent wordes thus describe 2. Cor. 5. 21. Him that knewe no sinne made hee sinne for vs that by him we might bee made the righteousnesse of God Most trulie said Aristotle Iustitiam esse Hespero Lucifero formosiorem Iustice is more beautifull farre then the morning or the euening starre For there is nothing better nor more excellent then the congruencie with the whole law which is a rule of righteousnesse in the will of God Contrariwise nothing is more filthie then sinne wherewith God is horriblie angrie For the Sonne of God taketh and turneth vnto himselfe this deformitie and bestoweth vpon vs his obedience that by his meanes wee might be righteous before God But the excellencie of this purpose in God can neither the eloquence of Angels nor of men sufficientlie disclose or manifest vnto vs I do therefore exhort the reader to consider the same diligently and to giue thankes vnto Christ Iesus the sonne of God for his wonderfull humilitie and seruent love towards vs. Let not them that trust in thee O Lord of hostes bee ashamed for my cause let not those that seeke thee be confounded through me O Lord God of Israel And why for thy sake haue I suffered reproofe shame hath couered my face The sonne of God in this verse applyeth his sacrifice vnto the Church for it belongeth unto the Priests dutie not onelie to offer some thing but he must haue therwith a mind to pray for him touching whom the sacrifice is made and testifying that for his sake he performeth this obedience Therefore that these wordes in this place and in the 17. cap. ver 19 of S. Iohn are recited by Christ the son of God we are faithfullite to remember I saith he do sanctifie my selfe for them that euen they also might be sanctified in the truth Againe vers 9. I pray not for them onelie but for all those which shall beleeue in me for my wordesake Here doth Christ openlie affirme that his sacrifice is effectuall not onlie for his Apostles but for all them that embrace the gospell But this application must we firmelie take holde vpon by faith and wee must beleeue that the fruite of this sacrifice perteineth vnto vs and that by meanes of this sacrifice the wrath of god is vnfainedlie pacified towardes vs yea that we are receiued into gods fauour heard and saued by him Therefore saith Paule Rom. 3. 34. We are freely iustified by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Iesus whom God hath ordained our propitiator or mercifull Sauiour by faith in his blood So saith he is he thy mercifull Sauiour when thou beleeuest that by means of his sonne Christes death god is pacified with thee This doctrine of application let vs for euer and with speciall care remember I am become a stranger vnto my brethren euen an aliant vnto my Mothers children For the zeale of thine house hath euen eaten mee and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen vpon mee The worde zeale signifieth a displeasure in vs driuing awaie the iniurie from that which we loue or striuing that the person whom we loue be not taken awaie form vs As when Sampsons wife was taken from him euen he a man of most mightie courage conceiued great sorrowe and displeasure that for the loue he bare to his wife he woulde either plague and scourge the Philistians or else haue her to him home againe Also by this zeale are manie motions or rather passions of the minde intermixed in men like as Virgill saieth Mixta est Insania luctu Euen with verie mourning mood is mixed motion mad or wood And the Poet Ouid with notable wordes describeth this mixture of affections where hee saith Cor dolet atque it a mixtus abundat amor The heart of louers sorroweth sore and loue abounds by mixture more So Scipio was in person present at thrée battles where he saine his country ouercome These ouerthrowes brought him both great sorrow and enflamed his anger to restore the ancient glorie of this countrie and to subdue or represse Annibal This great affection or rather passion did Christ feele in suffering aduersitie which he must and would needes beare to restore the glorie of his eternall father and to deliuer his Church which he loued feruentlie and knew the would not be otherwise deliuered except the himselfe should be made a sacrifice for her Therefore saith he in this 9. verse The zeale of thine house hath euen eaten me That is consumeth me in that I hasard my life for deliuerance of the congregation which I loue and to vanquish and ouercome those reproches wherewith God is agréeued which bring me great sorrow and prouoke my anger against the balsphemous person I wept and chastened selfe with fasting and that was turned to my reproofe I put on sackloth also and they iested vpon me They that sit in the gate speak against me and the drunkards make songs vpon me Well it is said by Augustine Bona conscientia mihi mea causa opus est sedbona fama opus est propter proximum I had néed in anie my cause to haue a good conscience but I haue néede of a good name by reason of my neighbor For although a guiltlesse conscience maie well scorne lying reportes so far as to the effect of the cause apperteineth because the knoweth that Truth at length wil haue y e victory ouer sclanders yet y e vertuous or noble mind is sore grieued with the lewd iudgments of men and had rather suffer great punishments in the bodie then to heare the poisonfull backbitings stickled on with popular and plawsible arguments Wherefore séeing Christ was tempted by all means as we are tempted except

elsewhere I haue often spoken touching the punishments for tyrants and the sufferings of Martyrs nowe I willinglie omit the recitall of them in this place He shal liue and vnto him shall be giuen of the golde of Arabia prayers shall be euermade vnto him and daylie shall he be praised We do remember that D. Martin Luther oftentimes said In the olde Testament there is a notable witnes of the Godhead of the Sauiour promised which affirmeth that he was called vpon by this propertie the same sauiour is there discerned from other Prophets That most graue witnes was by some complained to be obscured weakned by translating the same inuocation vnto other men And for that one cause saide he the custome of praying vnto others was to bee disallowed But where the Prophet Dauid affirmeth here that this Sauiour shall liue c. Let that be vnderstoode in that meaning touching which Christ saith Iohn 14. 19. I liue and you shall liue That is like as I of mine owne power do liue séeing that I am consubstantiall with the father and second person in deitie so by my merit and through my effectuall working you shall liue also for I in dying haue destroied death and in rising againe haue restored life as in the old godly verse the Church so singeth Yea I will raise vp againe your bodies from death and these euen counited with your soules I will adorne with gifts agréeable vnto the state of life euerlasting There shall bee an heape of corne vpon the earth high vpon the hilles his fruit shall shake like Libanus and shal be greene in the citie like grasse vpon the earth He compareth the fruitfulnesse of the Church or kingdome of Christ vnto the most lightsom flourishing corne which is answerable to the husbandmans praier and expectation For as the thicke growing corne delighteth the beholders so there is no sight more pleasant then to see the flourishing Churches wherein vnto the puritie of doctrine preached the concorde of the teachers is adioined or annexed There is a great force in the Nowne Bar which signifieth most pure wheate as if hee should say In the Church of Christ shall not beare sway anie vaine chaffe of humne traditions which haue no iuice in them but wheat shall flourish which with the body of man hath great affinitie for euē as of liuely wheat the best blood is increased so the Gospel deliuered without corruption bringeth to the godly ones firme consolation His name shall endure for euer his name shall remaine vnder the Sun among the posterities which shal be blessed through him and all the heathen shall praise him This verse glistereth most clearelie like a notable precious stone throughout the whole Psalme for it teacheth the reader touching the divine nature and benefits of the sauior and touching the calling of the Gentils It cleerelie affirmeth that this lord hath alwaies bin as he himselfe saith Iohn 8. 5. 8. Before Abraham was I am And he vseth the word Linnon the generation of the son from the father eternall And therefore Micheas saith 1 Mic. 3. This our deliuerer went forth before the daies of the world That is hee was the sonne of God before he tooke vpon him nature of man Let vs beleeue therefore being confirmed with these like testimonies that the Sauiour is God indeed and by nature the son of God light of light as in the Creed it is said But although there be manie descriptions which teach why and for what cause the son was sent yet the effect of the matter is brieflie in the worde Blessed signified And for that by the wanting of any thing the same may bee better estéemed which we haue as by darknes light let vs see what the curse is All mankind after our first fall was ouerthrowne with the curse of the law that is of gods wrath of euerlasting death by reason of sin as Paule saith Ephes 2 ver 3. We were by nature the children of wrath euen as others were This curse when no creature could take away or blot out the sonne of God tooke vpon himselfe both the wrath of God and our punishments that his father might be at peace with vs. So Paule Gal. 3. 8. interpreteth the promise giuen to Abraham In thy seed shal al the Gentiles be blessed Christ became accursed for vs and redeemed vs from the curse that we might obtaine the blessing of Abraham Last of all let the particle be considered touching the calling of the Gentiles in this verse The posterities shall be blessed in him and all the heathen shall praise him For the calling of Gentiles is a notable testimonie of Paules affirmattion wherein it is saide Rō 5. 15. Grace oueraboundeth aboue sin for no man can without some humbling of his mind read the examples of mischief striuing with the first and second table wherein the Ethnickes wickedlie and filthily with great rashnes and impudencie are defiled Let vs therefore giue God thankes that hee receiueth such castawayes into sauour and coopteth them into the societie of Christs kingdome Blessed be the Lord God euen the God of Israel which onely doth wonderous things And blessed be the name of his maiestie for euer and al the earth shall be filled with his maiestie Amen Amen It liketh me well in this place to set downe the words of D. Luther expounding the 7. ca. of the prophet Mic Like as the deliuerance in the new testament is by many waies greater and more excellēt then that which was out of Egypt so are the new miracles by infinite meanes farre greater then the olde for what might be more wonderfully said then that son of God take upon him nature of man and was borne of a virgin What is more to be amazed at then when the son of god wrastling with death and Sathan suffered himselfe to be ouercome laieth downe his life before these enemies and while he is ouercome conquereth So a speciall miracle it is that Christ dying like a man vpon the crosse did the third day rise againe from death and out of the graue closed vp after this with immortall flesh ascended vnto heauen and sitteth at the right hand of God what may be like notablie said yea or thought of any other miracles in respect of these Therefore belssed be God who onelie doth these and other myracles So be it FINIS Here end the prayers of Dauid the sonne of Ishai Iohn 14. 6 Matth. 5. 13 14 Sopho. 1. 12 The glorious effectes of Christs resurrection The ioy of the faithfull in the triumph of Christ The Church is as a widow and orphane in the world yet comforted and defended by Christ The Lord is carefull for the deliuerāce of his seruants But altogether neglecteth the vngodly ones A sweet Allegorie of the preaching of the Gospel how it is cōpared vnto thunder and raine Christ the shepheard of our soules The publishing of the law and preaching of the Gospell The

beginning of impracation or cursing and of gratulation or reioycing For hee curseth the enemies of Christ but he reioyceth at the welfare of the godly ones The declaration of the Psalme comprehendeth the description of the pompe The Lord commeth and bringeth with him his hoast of them which preach the Gospell Out of these are described the Apostles and Bishops as it were Princes of prouinces or countries which do comfort and refresh these countries afflicted and persecuted The Lord ascendeth vpon high hee leadeth in his triumph the captiues hee distributeth his gifts vnto his soldiours and people and threatneth punishment vnto his enemies The people go before and one commeth after which singeth the song of triumph This is almost the scope of this Psalme which let the godly ones reade not so much for the wonderfull and delectable diuine excellencie of eloquence wherewith it aboundeth ❧ The Psalme and Exposition thereof Let God arise and let his enemies bee scattered Let them also that hate him flee before him Like as the smoake vanisheth so shalt thou driue them away and like as the waxe melteth at the fire so let the vngodly perish at the presence of God LIKE as the next Psalme following describeth Christ humbled upon the Crosse and by reason of our sinnes sirtuing with most bitter sorrowes in this Psalme setteth forth Christ risen from death to life and gloriously sitting at the right hande of his Father He beginneth then with the effects of the most ioyfull resurrection of Christ namelie by the destruction and scattering abroad of his enemies and by the reuiuing or restoring of his church as if he said when Christ was dead and buried not onlie the blind and raging Iewes leaped for ioy but also the Deuill and his companions namelie sinne and death triumphed at full as if Christ shoulde so for euer remaine in the graue But this graund guide of life the third daie rising againe had a glorious triumph ouer the Iewes and the whole kingdome of the Deuill often times repeating that saying of the Prophet Osea cap. 13. 14. O death I will be thy death O graue I will be thy destruction For although the stubborne and vncurable Iewes carried stately mindes as then and resisted the Apostles with a malignant countenance yet in the xl yeare after Christes resurrection they suffered grieuous and iust punishmentes for their outrages And the kingdome of the deuill sinne and death is so broken and crushed in peeces by Christ that it can bring no danger vnto the godlie ones Let vs therefore with S. Paule sing this triumph song 1. Cor. 15. 55. O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victory The sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the Law But thankes be to God which hath giuen vs victory through our Lorde Iesus Christ verse 56. 57. And what is more elegant then the describing of these enemies which he here vseth comparing them unto smoke and ware Great is the pride of smoke when it bursteth out of the top of the chimney and his spreading heat couereth the ayre So an Image of waxe maketh both a terrible shew of grauitie ● of hardnes but as the smoke which séemeth to pearce the verie firmament is scattered by the wind here and there and as the image of ware laide to the fire melteth quite awaie So the enemies of the Gospell and of the Church by the breath of Christes mouth which is both winde and flame are either healed or taken vtterlie awaie and destroied altogether So in like maner Athanasius compared Iulian the Apostat vnto a little cloud whome the Sunne within a while after should so driue away and vanquish that no man should sée anie trace therof more With these debasings and downfalles of the enemies of the gospell and of the church agreeth that sentence of Isay ca. 51. 7. Feare ye not the reproch of men neither be yee afraide of their rebukes verse 8. For the moath shall eate them vp like a garment and the worme shall eat them like wooll But let the righteous be glad and reioyce before God Let them also be merry and ioyfull An other effect of Christs resurrection is the reuiuing or restoring of his Church for as Saint Paule saith Rom. 14. 17. The kingdome of God is not meate and drinke but righteousnesse peace and ioy in the holie Ghost It is indéed Righteousnesse as thus frée remission of sinnes reconciliation with God and free acceptation vnto life euerlasting It is Peace thus Tranquillitie of heart rising from faith hope a good conscience Finallie it is Ioy thus Consolation which is the vanquisher of all feares and doubtings All these benefites are the effects of Christs passion and resurrection which saint Paule acknowledgeth Phil. 3. 12. He hath not yet attained vnto but he tooke he saide the right course whereby he might attaine vnto this reach of wisdome The same thing let vs also confesse and craue of God that hee would illumine and increase in our hearts this light acknowledging the benefites of Christ O sing vnto God and sing praises vnto his name magnifie him that rideth vpon the heauens as it were vpon an horse praise him in his name yea and reioyce before him Not only in the heart saith Dauid let true knowledge of Christ shine whereto is ioyned spirituall ioy but let the toong also magnifie this Lord risen from death to life and raigning for euer who though he be the sonne of Dauid after the Sencalogie yet is hee declared the Sonne of God by his rising from death to life and by sending his holie spirit as in Rom. cap. 1. ver 3. 4 it is said This Lords diuinitie vnited to his humanitie and his victorie triumphes and benefits see that ye honor saith Dauid and in them rest and sweetlie repose your selues For he doth not thumpe nor thunder it out but is carried faire and softlie and suffereth suters to haue easie accesse vnto him Let no man therefore be driuen from him but let all and euerie one come vnto this Lord trusting in his most swéete promise who saith Matth. 11 28. Come vnto me all ye that labour and are laden and I will refresh you And where he saith Magnifie him that rideth vpon the heauens that maie be vnderstoode Make your way before him and is spoken as touching our true repentance not fained with amendment of life for the first step vnto health is To know the disease and seeke a Phisition But contrariwise it is a heauie signe if the minde being sicke know neither the disease nor looketh for phisicke Let vs therefore acknowledge our maladies namely sin and death and let vs craue to haue right medicine laide to these miseries by the phisition and sheepheard of our soules euen the sonne of God who came therefore into the world to saue sinners He is a father of the fatherlesse and defendeth the cause of the widowes euen God in his holy habitation

Although the Church is doubtlesse in the world a widowe and an Orphane for she is both of enemies cruellie persecuted and of false friends forsaken yet the sonne of God leaueth her not without defence and succour but partly nourisheth her with inward consolation which is called here His holie habitation and partly he prouideth for her some resting place for succor and giueth her Halcion daies that she may happily naurish and bring up her birds Hither to pertaineth that notable saying of the sonne of God Ioh. 14. ver 16 18 I will not leaue you comfortlesse but I will come vnto you I will aske my father and he shall giue you another comforter euen the spirit of truth which shal abide with you for euer And whatsoeuer is true touching the whole bodie the same may in like maner bee applied of all the members thereof For to let passe the examples of other Orphnaes and speak of my selfe surely euen me who haue beene left an Orphane euen from the verie thirde yeare of my age hath Christ the sonne of God succoured and helped not onely with things necessarie for my bodie as meate and drinke defence from harme good health and honest residence or dwelling place among men c. but also vnto these adding greater benefites as for example bringing me out of the kingdome of darkenesse and translating me into the kingdome of this sonne of God wherein wee haue by his blood full remission of our sinnes To the end therefore a publique testimonie of my thankfulnesse may appeare I giue vnto this father of Orphans Iudge of widowes causes so great thanks as my mind is able to conceiue for his cherishing and mainteining of mee so manie yeares and for his benefits necessarilie bestowed vpon me both for my bodie and soule which in the life to come euerlasting I shall more feruently commemorate and magnifie his name therefore He is the God that maketh men to bee of one mind in an house and bringeth the prisoners out of captiuity but letteth the runnagates continue in scarcenesse Christ in the 9. cap. of Isay vers 6. is called not without cause The euerlasting father because in all ages by the ministerie of his worde and sacraments hee regenerateth many vnto life euerlasting whom the Church fostereth and bringeth vp and so is shee made of a barren or solitarie woman a mother of manie children according to the prophesie of Isay Cap. 54. verse 1. Reioyce O barren that diddest not beare breake foorth into ioy and ' reioyce thou that diddest not trauell with childe for the desolate hath mo children then the married wife hath Of this consolation the godlie ones haue néede least they take offence at the small number of true beleeuers and the great number of other sectes Also this Lord in time conuenient setteth Captiues at libertie that is not in such sort as we thinke but in his meruailous prouidence as in the 4 Psalme it is saide The Lord knoweth how to deliuer his holy one verse 3. And the prison out of which we are deliuered as S. Paule saith 2 Cor. 7. 5. Are inward feares c. outwarde fightings For the godlie ones for most part are tossed with inwarde and outwarde stormes of calamities and at length getting out of the great stormes of trouble do see their wished hauen But the vngodlie ones and disobedient persons hee despiseth as the base gotten children of this worlde neither chasteningnor comforting them till they come to vtter destruction O God when thou wentest forth before the people when thou wentest through the wildernes The earth shooke and the heauens dropped at the presence of God euen as Syna also was moued at the presence of God which is the God of Israell Thou O God sentest a gratious raigne vppon thine inheritance and refreshed it when it was weary Hitherto hath hee made the hearer or learner attentiue and docible as in beginnings it is a thing vsuall nowe goeth he to the height of the cause namelie into the place mentioning of Christ and the Gospell and compareth the publishing of the lawe with the propagation of the gospell where he saith When thou publishedst the lawe the earth was in one place moued and the heauens dropped at thy presence But now that the gospell by preaching is spread abroad of the Apostles all the whole earth is moued as in Haggias the Prophet it is said cap. 2. verse 7. Yet a little while I wil shake the heauens the earth the sea and the drie land c. and a gracious raine is powred vpon all parts of the world where by the Church is gathered both from among the Iewes and Gentiles and is watered as it were the inheritance of God And what is there more sweete then that the preaching of the Gospel is not onely compared vnto thunder but vnto raine also For like as the earth bringeth forth fruit partlie made warme with the heate of the sunne and partly watered with raine and waters So the Church is refreshed and recreated of the holie Ghost by the ministerie of the Gospell Let no man therefore kéepe backe this raine from his Orchardes but let euen all our furrowes and glebe landes receyue the same with great desire That is let our hearts without loathing and surfetting heare the doctrine of the Gospel that they may take thereby most ample fruit and profite Touching which saint Paule speaketh Rom. 1. 16. The Gospell is the power of God vnto saluation for al that beleeue Further more Christ is here called the God of Sinay of Israel by reason of the testimonies of his manifestations or appearings made in mount Sinay and in this people For the pollicie or gouernment of Moyses was no other thing but a storehouse of diuine appearences and witnesses Vers 10 Thy congregation shall dwell therein for thou O God of thy goodnes hast prouided for the poore Christ is our sheepheard because hee teacheth vs comforteth gouerneth and defendeth vs healeth vp our woundes and finallie carieth vs lying as it were vpon his shoulders not pretermitting anie kinde of dutie which a faithfull shéep heard might vse or is able to bestowe upon sillie and weake shéepe Let vs therefore remember in our dailie prayer that we are the shéepe of this shéepheard and let vs run for succour vnto him and let vs craue helpe gouernement and defence of and from him But touching this purpose I haue spoken sufficiently inough in the xxiii Psalme The Lord gaue the word great was the company of the Preachers S. Paule in the 3. Gal. 19. and Heb. 2. verse 2. saith The lawe was giuen by the ministry of Angels but the preaching of the Gospel was immediatly published by the sonne of God and commended to his Apostles as an excellent gift and treasure of great price For although the world outraglouslie despise the preachers and teachers of the Gospell and iudgeth them as S Paule saith 1. Cor. 49. as gasing