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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

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

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

daie and making his glorious triumph and beginning his euerlasting kingdome in vs he restoreth vs vnto righteousnesse and life euerlasting as Daniel in the 9. cap. 24. verse saith Seuenty weeks are determined vpon thy people and vpon thy holy citie to finish the wickednesse to seale vp the sinnes to reconcile the iniquitie and to bring in euerlasting righteousnesse c. But although this destinction of the effects of the passion and resurrection of Christ seeme vaine vnto manie men yet notwithstanding seeing the Apostle S. Paule so often speaketh hereof and speciallie in the 3. cap. Philippians 10. verse That I may knowe him and the vertue of his resurrection and the fellowship of his afflictions and be made conformable vnto his death c. let vs without feare of cauilling follow the speech or saying of Paule and let vs know that we must consider both the merit and efficacie of Christ crucified and risen from death to life Like as Paul in 5. Rom. 6. ioyneth together grace and the gift by grace And S Iohn Baptist saith 1. cap. verse 17. by Christ came grace and truth These are not spoken to corrupt the article of iustification wherein we discerne wiselie imputation from gifts and expreslie do affirme that we haue remission of sinnes and reconciliation with God and imputation of righteousnesse for the onelie obedience and merit of Christ but so that the full and whole benefit of Christ be not thereby obscured which is not onelie imputation but also a reuiuing and raising againe from death to life and glorie euerlasting To be briefe it is one thing to speake of the article of iustification and an other thing to speake of the whole kingdome of Christ which containeth as the ancients do speake graces priuatiue and positiue that is not onelie deliuerances from euils but also restorings vnto or giftes of euerlasting blessinges But so often as wee dispute of these matters in Churches and Schooles let vs follow Paules rule which biddeth vs 2. Tim. 2. 15. To deuide the word of truth aright and not indirectlie to confuse or separate the members from the bodie against the Analogie of the faith and against the simple and natiue meaning of euerie article The Article of iustification admitteth no copulatiue because of the exclusiues so often repeated Freely without workes without law in the seede not in the seeds And the Article touching the kingdom of Christ cannot be expounded without coupling together grace and the gifte by grace neither doe these striue betweene themselues because when wee seeke for consolation in feares of conscience we do not dispute of giftes but we are troubled touching remission of sinnes and reconciliation with God which is onelie obtained by faith for Christes sake whome in his bloudshedding God hath ordained our mercifull redeemer and Sauiour This is not the wisedome of vaine and secure minde but of the godlie ones who are mortified and quickened yea brought downe into hell and againe are plucked as it were out of the iawes of hell For the Lord heareth the poore and despiseth not his prisoners Let heauen and earth praise him the sea and all that moueth therein For God will saue Syon and build the cities of Iuda that men may dwell there and haue it in possession The posterity also of his seruants shall inherit it and they that loue his name shall dwel therein These last verses in this Psalme need no long decalration or interpretation for they exhort euerie creature to the aduauncing of the honour of God and of his sonne our Lord Iesus Christ and they promise stabilitie vnto the Church according to that saying Matth. 16. 18. The gates of hell shall not preuaile against her Wherefore sith it needeth not to make long commentaries vpon matters so euident I conclude the exposition of this Psalme And I beseech God to seale in the hartes of manie men the natiue meaning of the articles of the Christian faith Amen To him that excelleth ¶ A Psalme of Dauid to put him in rememberance for his deliuerance Deus in adiut orium meum intende The Argument SHort indeede is this Song but long is the effectuall conclusion thereof For it teacheth that by three Engins the walles of Faith are mightely shaken whereof the first is greatnesse of temptation and calamities The second is multitude or concourse of tempests or stormes and the third is the long continuance of these For whom doth not greatnesse ouercome him the same multitude of calamities do weaken and bring low but whome neither of these twaine doe ouermaster yet euen him doth long looking for helpe vtterly discourage These all may be plainely seene in Iob as it were in a looking glasse when worde was brought to this most holy man Iob of the losse of all his substance and death of his children whom his house slew when it fell vpon them Hee was so far from impatience not shewing any token thereof that hee euen as it were praised God with a notable verse saying cap. 1 verse 21. If wee haue receiued good thinges of the handes of the Lord why should we not also suffer euill thinges The Lord hath giuen the Lord hath taken away as it hath pleased the Lorde so is it come to passe blessed therefore be the name of the Lord. But this so holy man when hee could not bee remooued from his purpose with greatnesse of calamities at the verie last of all being vanquished and sore broken with concourse of aduersities and with the long continuance thereof cryed out cap. 3. ver 3. Let the day perish wherein I was borne and the night when it was said there is a man child conceiued c. He therfore that standeth let him take heed he fall not For the diuell knoweth a thousand sleights wherewith the wals and towers of faith except they be by God defended may easilie be raced and ouerthrowne And seeing there is much danger in delay This Psalme three times rehearseth a praier vnto God to hasten his helping hand verse 1. Hast thee O God c. Hast to helpe me O Lord v. 6. Thou art my helper and my redeemer O Lord make no long tarrying For althought it is not in our power to prescribe God anie certaine meane or certaine time of deliuerance yet after a sort we must craue that God woulde euen at the very first instant according to his prouidence deliuer his church and the godly ones which are exercised in greatest miseries This indeed is not only to aske and seeke but also to knocke Or as the lawyers vse to say to cite God peremptorily And such a searching for finding and knocking for opening according to that most sweet saying ceaseth to our most wishful desires Aske and ye shal haue seeke and ye shall find knocke and it shall be opened vnto you Thus much for the Argument of this Psalme ❧ The Psalme and Exposition thereof Haste thee O God to deliuer mee make hast to

tumults in the mindes of manie men at this day But let the godlie ones fully beleeue wee must so esteeme of God euen as hee himselfe instructeth vs in his testimonies These do affirme that there is not onely in Christ humaine nature but also the verie diuine essence of the sonne of God which Saint Iohn calleth cap. 1. vers 1. The worde which is the image of the eternall father And that for breuitie sake I may omit other testimonies certainlie this Psalme discerneth Christ from Moses and other great personages when he saith that the Sauiour shall liue for euer and bee alwayes prayed vnto and worshipped as in the 17. verse His name shall remaine vnder the Sunne among the posterities which shall bee blessed through him Againe verse 5. They shall feare thee as long as the Sun and the Moone endureth from one generation to another Last of all verse 12. All kings shall fall downe before him all nations shall do him seruice for euer In these words is his eternitie most euidently described Before the Sunne that is before the shining Sunne in the heauens was created hee was the Sonne of God For the Hebrew Text vseth in this place a notable worde signifying doubtlesse that the Sonne of God was borne before anie Sunne shined in the worlde Againe also it affirmeth manifestlie that this Sauiour must alwayes bee called vpon yea when he is not seene with our eyes He speaketh not here then of the gestures of the bodies which with reuerence is vsed towards them but by them towardes Christ and hee speaketh generallie of all good mindes which do craue of the same our Sauiour Christ that he would haue mercie vpon vs and bee our Mediator vnto his father that he would forgiue vs our sinnes giue vs his holie spirit and life euerlasting and bee our defender and helper in the daungers of this life against the furies of the Diuels and the wicked ones in this worlde Such a kind of prayer yeeldeth rightlie omnipotencie vnto the Sauiour and witnesseth that he is God But y ● indeed his kingdom is not a worldlie policie but spirituall and eternall These Arguments do confirme the same The benefite of the Sauiour pertaineth vnto the vniuersall Church from the beginning of the world vnto the end of the same Now if the kingdome of Christ had bin politike it should not haue brought anie profit or vtilitie vnto the Fathers and Prophets which haue departed out of this life before the cōming of the Sauiour Therefore nothing shoulde their prayers and hope differ in this case from the dreame of the golden fish wherof the fisher reioyced as Theocritus reporteth Adde herevnto a most ample promise of the calling of the Gentiles which should be vaine and ridiculous if the Iewes onely should carrie all the stately port and beare rule and the Gentiles bee brought into bondage as their slaues But of all others chieflie the sayings of the Prophets confirme this opinion which wee would attaine vnto because they preach of the death and resurrection of the Sauiour D●niel sayeth plainlie cap. 9. vers 26. Christ shall bee slaine And Isayas sayeth cap. 35. 10. He shall lay downe his s●ule for sinne Ergo he shall not haue anie corporall rule or gouernment in this life These and manie other such like when we read may we doubt any thing but that the Iewes and others dreaming of the kingdome of Christ to be politicall are wrapped in the greatest error and blinded in the ignoraunce of the greatest matters Also manie were woont to aske of vs what were the benefites of Christs kingdom Touching this question the Psalme maketh answere That the Sauiour of the worlde shall not giue riches and Countries but Righteousnesse and Peace But Righteousnesse signifieth in this place Forgiuenes of sinnes and reconciliation with God or imputation vnto righteousnes or acceptation vnto life euerlasting wherewith after our resurrection shall be ioyned full and perfect newnesse inflamed with spirituall motions such as the lawe of God requireth This true righteousnes differeth infinitelie from discipline which is onely a shadow of outward workes and a miserable and vncleane hypocrisie Peace in this place may not bee vnderstoode of a politike peace which is nothing but a vaine name as Plato saith but it must be vnderstood touching the true consolation and tranquilitie of mindes which is the ouercommer of death For true it is which Christ our Sauiour said Iohn 16. In the world you shal haue affliction but by me Peace 33. Be ye of good courage I have ouercome the worlde ibidem Last of all let the sayinges touching the calling of the Gentiles the worshippings of the newe Testament and Crosse of the Church bee considered in this Psalme For it interpreteth the promise deliuered vnto Abraham Gene. 22. 17. In thy seede shall all nations bee blessed And it witnesseth that the worshipping of God in the new Testament shall not be circumcision or Leuiticall sacrifices but praiers and thankesgiuings As here in the 12. verse They shall praise him for euer He also addeth a particle wherein not obscurely he signifieth the Church shall bee subiect vnto the Crosse As in verse 14. Precious saith he is the bloud of them in the Lords sight Let these seeme to be sufficiently spoken touching the Argument of this 72. Psalme Now let vs heare the Prophet Dauid excellently prophecying and preaching of Christ Iesus the Sauior that was and is to com● ❧ The Psalme and Exposition thereof Giue the king thy iudgements O God and thy righteousnes vnto the kings sonne WHat maner of speaker Thucidides was in his Drations such a one is the Prophet Dauid in his Psalms so plentifull hee is in copie of matters that the multitude of his wordes almost are supplied with as manie sentences Furthermore so apt and strict he is in wordes that a man cannot tell whether the things are with spéech or the wordes with sentences more beautified For I pray you consider how many great matters are included in one litle verse For first he teacheth what a one God is namelie a iust iudge that is allowing things well done and disallowing and destroying the contrarie And surely such a God he is according to the law but indéede according to the Gospell he is not onelie iust in accusing of sin but also he maketh vngodlie ones become iust which are just by faith in Christ as it is said Rom. ● Secondlie he aduertiseth the Reader touching the mysterie of the Trinitie For it is the euerlasting Father which deliuereth out of his power into the hands of his Son both iudgemeent iustice The son receiueth the power deliuered vnto him from ●is fa●her according to that saying Ioh. 5. 22. The Father iudgeth no man but hath giuen all iudgement vnto his Sonne which wee must so vnderstand touching the first comming of Christ that the father iudgeth not alone but by his sonne hee iudgeth and maketh his iudgement knowne For by his