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B02400	Two letters of the right reverend father in God Doctor John Cosin, later Lord Bishop of Durham, with annotations on the same. Also the opinion of the Reverend Peter Heylin, D.D. concerning the metrical version of David's Psalms, with remarks and observation upon them. / By R. Watson, D.D.	Watson, R.; Cosin, John, 1594-1672.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1686 (1686)	Wing C6363B; ESTC R220851	37,011	111

complied so readily with the counsel of the learned Vatablus for turning the Psalms into Metre which the said Professor first interpreted for him out of the Hebrew into Prosaic French notwithstanding which preparatory assistance both translation and paraphrastical explanation so dull was he of apprehension as he is reported to have committed many foul faults two of which sort they take particular notice of in the very first Psalm he entered on which if Vatablus had called his Scholar to account for the task he had put upon him methinks might have been amended before they came out in Print though the Majestick style of the Prophet himself it was not expected he should keep up much less improve to that height which ascendant Poetry is wont to do and their more learned Paraphrast Bishop Godeau perhaps some his admirers think has effected This first essay at Paris ended with the thirtieth Psalm the Doctors in Theology there remonstrating to the King that nothing could be more dangerous than Marots Version of the Psalms cette infidelle fraduction as they styled it for which and somewhat else they pretended to have discovered of him he made another escape to Geneva where his old friend Mr. Calvin says the Sieur Maimbourgh encouraged him notwithstanding to adventure at twenty more as he did with no better success than the former yet what they wonder at somewhat more is that while he was so well employed upon so divine a subject his course of life was not more reformed than to relapse there into such a hainous crime as for which Sentence of Death passed upon him by the publick Magistrate and had been executed if Calvin's interest had not commuted it with the publick lash about the Carfouo After which scandal and disgrace he fled toward the Alpes and kept close in Piemont and there died a Huguenot about the sixtieth year of his age But this goes upon the Sieur Maimbourgh's credit for it 's confessed I have not met with it in any of the Reformed Writers I have had in hand The other hundred Psalms he agrees with Strada were versified by Beza and when finished bound up with the Geneva Bible and otherwhile with Calvin's Catechism the better to disperse them with their Reformation about the Countreys and sweetly to propagate their Rebellion by ' em Their first exercise of this new harmony was in and about Paris where people most frequented for a pleasant walk which the Roman Catholicks took for a high affront no less to be Sung than Beaten out of their Promenade insomuch as the Parisians that were zealous the other way resolved to Arm and to assault them in a fit of fury but that the care and courage of their Magistrate prevented by allaying the tumult and imprisoning two observed the most earnest to chant their Psalms in this Seditious manner But this alas was nothing to what followed in greater numbers Not to mention the fray seven or eight hundred of them made in Vassy where the Duke of Guise travelling one Sunday Anno 1562. made a little stay on purpose to hear Mass at which time the foresaid number being met in a Grange as rendered adjoining to the Church where his Highness was on his knees they having some notice of it elevated their voices to such a height in chanting Marot's Psalms as disturbed the Prince at his Devotion whereupon two or three of his Officers but desiring them to forbear a while or at least to sing somewhat lower they instead thereof raised their note to a louder Tune made a fierce sally out on his company which were not more than a fourth part of themselves yet with drawn Swords in their hands offered to encounter 'em but it came to throwing of Stones at last with one of which the Duke himself who was fain to quit his Church receiving a shrewd blow on his Jaw became all bloody which incensed his followers so as they made use of their Weapons and some few were killed nothing like what could in reason merit the odious character of a Massacre though not other than such by the Huguenots was it reported at Court and accordingly complaint made of it to the King of Navarre as a manifest infraction of his late Edict for Pacification which was otherwise resented by him as appeared by the check he gave to Mezeray cet insolent Ministre as he called him not liking what he had misrepresented of this affair More inexcusable was the greater tumult at Valenciennes the chief City of Haynalt and Tournay the chief City of Flanders Gallicant where the Calvinists began to try their fortune in those Provinces which lay next to France In the first of which the Preacher having sinished in the Market-place where he made his Sermon was followed in the Streets by no fewer than one hundred people but in the other by a train of six hundred or thereabouts all of them singing Davids Psalms of Marot's Translation according to the custome of the Hugonots amongst the French Some tumults hereupon ensued in either City for the repressing whereof Florence of Momorancy Lord of Montigny being the Governour of that Province rides in post to Tournay hangs up the Preacher seizeth on all such Books as were thought Heretical and thereby put an end to the present Sedition But when the Marquess of Bergen was required to do the like at Valenciennes he told the Governess in plain terms that it was neither agreeable to his place or nature to put an Heretick to death which had been a good Christian answer if the Rioters had not been more Rebels than Hereticks and Fellons certainly because Sacrilegious robbers here in Purpose as elsewhere divers parties of them in Fact which occurr in the Histories of both Countries for these tumultuous waves were rolling directly toward the Dominican Cloyster which the Rebels had in design to sack and then set in flames But changing their mind on a sudden they diverted toward the Prison being increased then to the number of two thousand forced the Gates and set at liberty two of their company whom the publick Magistrate had seized on and clapt up there sending him a modest message if you will so take it and not rather for a jeer or scorn that they had not acted nor intended more But at some months distance afterward they paid their due to Justice one of the two rescued Prisoners who was retaken and divers others who either were or boasted themselves as if they had been principals in the tumult qui tumultum aut animosius fecerant aut jactantius sibi vendicaverant are Strada's words somewhat more particular than what I borrowed before from our own Historian who yet addeth hereunto what seems likewise to be taken from him Those of Valenciennes had refused to admit a Garrison encouraged by their French Preachers to that disobedience but being besieged by Norcarmius Deputy-Governour of Haynalt for the Marquess of Bergen they were compelled in the end to submit to mercy which

was so intermixed with Justice that thirty-six of the Incendiaries were beheaded some of their Preachers hanged and some Souldiers executed the Liberties of the City being seized and declared to be forfeit till the King should be pleased to restore them If I would yet enlarge upon the rebellious attempts and outrages which the French and Flemish Calvinists daily multiplied and prosecuted with ungovern'd zeal if not rather sanatick fury I could transcribe Volumn and be no more a plagiary than they that have writ before me for History is not to be invented but taken upon trust by us that are at distance from the transactions of it but I will chuse to remit you Sir unto the triumvirate I have had occasion to cite hither more than once and borrow the conclusion only of a more doleful Tragedy acted by them at Antwerp the chief City of Brabant where after some calmer Scenes or little essays made of their following mischief being become not only more numerous but better armed they marched confusedly not in Rank and File to the chief Church of that City at the Evening Service which ended they compel the people to forsake the place and possess themselves of it having made fast the doors for fear that some disturbance might break in upon them one of them begins to sing a Psalm in Marots Metre wherein he is followed by the rest that such a holy exercise as they were resolved on might not be undertook without some preparation which fit of Devotion or Profanation rather being over they fell to work first they pulled down a massy Image of the Virgin and such other Saints as they found advanced there on their several Pedestals offering many indignities to those representatives and the others Painted on Walls or Windows beside many unhandsome usages of what the Roman Catholicks account most Sacred demolishing all they could And this they did with such dispatch so easily and pleasantly goes off a hand the hardest work when facilitated by the tune of a Psalm select and apposite as no doubt it was that one of the fairest Churches in Europe richly adorned with Statues and Massie Images of Brass and Marble and having in it no fewer than seventy Altars was in the space of four hours defaced so miserably that there was nothing to be seen in it of the former beauties Proud of which fortunate success so my Author continues they brake into all other Churches of that City where they acted over the same spoils and outragious insolencies and afterwards forcing open the doors of Monasteries and Religious Houses they carried away all their Consecrated Furniture entred Store-houses seized on their Meat and drank off their Wine and took from them all their Money Plate and Wardrobes both Sacred and Civil not sparing any publick Library wheresoever they came A ruine not to be repaired but with infinite summs the havock which they made in the great Church only being valued at four hundred thousand Ducats by indifferent rates whereunto is added That the like outrages they committed at the same time in Gaunt and Oudenard and all the Villages about them That in the Province of Flanders only no fewer than four hundred consecrated places were in the space of ten days thus defaced and some of them burnt down to the ground A blessed Character among thousands more of Presbytery and Geneva Jiggs as some slightingly call them All which makes me not a little to admire the fond and facile connivance of our Reforming Ancestors in or about the sixth year of K. Ed. 6. and afterward in the Reign of the glorious Q. Eliz. that is at the entrance and intermediate continuance of a like or in good truth a far worse translation a meer Rhiming Paraphrase into and in the Churches they were then planting or purging from all Superstition and Profanation having so fresh and so notorious a Precedent before their Eyes of what had been wrought by the same model in foreign Countreys Of which I can conceive no better reason if I may be licensed to render any than for the first a little inclinations the Protector and some in Council had to the Geneva-Platform so soon as Calvin had put in his Finger and offered the further assistance of his Head and Heart too toward perfecting the work they were about And for the latter some little politick compliance so much as is signified with them whom the Queen supported by Men and Money to prevent perhaps the overgrowing of either Monarchy though to the no small hazard of ruining her own in this Century as may be apprehended from Divine Justice that in a season which we may not understand as such will vindicate the general right of Kings to the exact obedience of their Subjects by some particular judgement on their Persons or Successors who have acted ought toward the diminution of it within the third or fourth generation after their decease By whom this English Paraphrase of the Psalms was made and how advanced to so favourable a reception not only among the vulgar who pleasing themselves with the Tune had little regard to the sense of what they sung but among many the great the wise and truly intelligent of our Nation may be worth enquiry to the explication or further illustration of that clause in the Deans Letter which put me upon the Discourse The two principal we have expressly named in the Printed Title Page before the Book Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins the former Groom of the Privy Chamber who is said to have translated only thirty seven of the Psalms the latter one of those who fled England and resided at Geneva in Q Maries days to whom I think we are to attribute the Translation of so many and no more as have J. H. the Capital Letters of his Name prefixed to 'em the first of which as I turn 'em over appears to be the 24 where a break is to the 27 and thence again to the 30 giving way to T. S. whom I take to be Sternhold Ps 32. and so likewise at Ps 34. Psal 23. is entitled to W.W. a more obscure person than the former who comes in again at Psal 37. so that Psalm at least is not to pass upon Sternholds account but some other for it Thence J. H. sallies or skips to Psal 50. And afterward steps in a greater stranger with half a name under a single Letter N. Psal 101.102 as alike does M. a no less uncertain quidam Psal 131. So that if we will bring the whole number parcelled among the several Capitals and own 'em to be distinct composers as they would be thought the portions allotted to each are these viz. To T. S. Psal 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20.21.22 and 23. as posted after W. W. who has the preference of the two Paraphrasts 25.26.28.29.32.33.34.41.43.44.53.63.66.68 73.103.120.123.128 To J. H. Psal 24.27.30.31.35.36.38.39.40.42.45.46.47.48.49.50 Set after one entitled to W. W. as in like manner is Psal