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

PSALMES OF CONFESSION found in the Cabinet of the most excellent King of Portingal Don Antonio first of that name written with his owne hand Wherein the Sinner calleth vpon the mercie of God for his sinne Translated out of the Latine copie printed at Paris by Federike Morell LONDON Printed by G. Bishop R. Nuberie and R. Barker Anno Domini 1596. PSALMES OF CONFESSION wherein the Sinner calleth vpon the mercie of God for his sinne PSALM I. WHo shal giue water vnto Esai 9. my head and a fountaine of teares for mine eyes that I may be able to lament and bewayle the losses of my soule with griefe agreeable thereunto for there is a manifest and great cause of sorowe when with the sight of my minde I behold mine auncient dayes and my youthfull yeeres in this meditation my Psal 76. spirite hath failed me for I Psal 79. knowe what I was yea rather what I should haue beene and vnderstand what I am and feare what I shall be and the lesse I sorowe so much the more I feare I would to God I sorowed more that I might feare lesse But woe to me O Lorde for nowe a long time thou smitest and yet I sorowe not thou callest and yet I heare not thou knockest and yet I open not the barre of my heart The sorowes of death Psal 114. compasse me rounde about and being filled with many sorowes without I feele inwardly no sorowe that may worke vnto saluation And I feele not onely the sorowes of old age but I am a man of sorow from my youth vpward and all my Psal 87. dayes are full of trauaile and griefes and yet I sorowe because that alway sorowing I Psal 53. cannot sorowe O marueilous Eccles 2. and vnspeakeable wisedome of the heauenly Physitian O wonderfull goodnesse of the high King O singular benefite of him that is the giuer of all good things for thou O God giuest vnto me sorowe least I perish in pleasures and that I may learne to reioyce without offence thou giuest me sorowe for a time that I may not suffer euerlasting paines thou afflictest my body that thou mayest saue my soule thou scourgest that thou mayest heale and killest that thou mayest quicken But alas vnwillingly doe I receiue thy salue out of the secrete hand of thy mercie and being ignorant doe not acknowledge the soueraigne medicine of healthfull sorowes wherewith thou art mercifully seuere against me and how doe I acknowledge it If I earnestly desire to be deliuered from sorowes who without sorowes cannot be healed for howe shall he be healed without sorowes who by delightes is made sicke Therfore O Lord make me to sorowe and teach me a sauing sorowe that my griefe may be turned into ioy Iohn 16. Psal 12. and that I may reioyce in thy saluation saying Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning c. PSALM II. DAyes passe and yeeres slide away but I vnhappie man who after so many corruptions of my soule after so many most grieuous and long falles doe not yet repent nor am afflicted for my sinnes neglect the often falling againe into them care not for rising from them heaping newe vnto olde and greater vnto lesse What shall I doe O Lord or whither shall I goe Psal 138 when my last time shall come where shall I be hidden from the countenance of thy wrath or whither shall I flie away from thy face when thou shalt call me vnto iudgement and require of me accompt of the talent giuen vnto me What shall I answere vnto thee or howe shall I excuse my negligence when thou shalt sit vpon the throne of thy Maiestie and command me to giue accompt of my stewardship to Matth. 5. Luke 16. the vttermost farthing Surely I will say Lord I suffer violence answere for me for who Esai 38. am I that I shoulde answere vnto thee in iudgement But what if thou compel me to answere I will say as a man confounded fearing and trembling O Lord I haue gained Matt. 25. nothing thereupon Yea I haue Luke 15. wickedly and vainely consumed thy talent and by loose liuing I haue spent thy goods surely I haue spoken foolishly by saying liuing for I should better haue sayed by dying But I then thought I liued and loe I was dead because I liued without thee my true life And if I liued at any time with thee I scarce remember it Yea if the life of a wicked man may rather be called death then life I may worthily say that I sooner began to die then liue For I did not perfectly vnderstand what life was whē I had forsaken thee that art the life of liues and the fountaine of life malice did supplie mine age in manifold wickednesse I was scarce come out of my mothers wombe and already was a sinner Comming into the world being yet ignorant of sinne I did bewaile the sinne wherein my parents begotte me neither did I altogether leaue bewailing others sinnes when I cōmitted mine owne which I knowe and did not be wayle Being an infant I followed iniquities and spent my childehood wherein I S. August should haue beene pure vnpurely there breathed sinfull vapours from the slimie concupiscence of my flesh and the spring of my youth and did shadow my heart that it could not discerne light from darkenesse and the cleerenes of the mind from the mist of lust and traitrous and craftie pleasures did carie my weake forgetfull loose age into the headlong rockes of lust so as I boyled vp in whorings desiring to be satisfied in hell from my childehood I grewe to growing yeeres neither was I sooner growing towards youth then my wickednes did growe ripe and I was bold to growe wilde in diuers and shadowie lustes by the which being drawen and entised with the gulfe of wickednesse I was Iames 1. 1. Tim. 6. drowned to death and destruction The euill and wicked dayes of my growing yeeres passed on and I grewe toward youth but I returned backward so much filthie in vanities as I was elder I was a yong man and came to be a man but vice alwayes florished in me in steade of vertue I waxed olde and gray and did not walke in thy wayes but as a child of an hundred yeres being nowe an olde man I liue childishly Where then haue I beene at any time innocent that I would be iudged of thee according vnto the time of mine innocencie though thou diddest appoint it me vnto iudgement For Psal 118. Psal 61. Iob. 9. thou art iust O Lord and righteous is thy iudgement and thou renderest to euery man according to his workes And I feare all mine because they are the workes of darkenesse and I haue beene a worker of iniquitie from the beginning and haue alway willingly followed the pathes of the vnrighteous I haue wallowed in sinne as the swine

sword my sleepe is troubled with diuers illusions bringing me no rest but trauaile I watch all night in my thoughts when as being wearied I endeuour to giue some sleepe to mine eye lids by and by sleepe departeth from mine eyes and I sleepe alwayes in sorowes being wakened with an vnquiet wearines from the care of the Iob 30. day and all my inward partes are inflamed without rest The Iob 33. meate which before I desired is made abominable vnto my soule and my drinke is mingled Psal 101. with teares and confusion is before mine eies and rednes in my cheekes whē I remember how grieuously I haue offended thee O my God and in howe many sortes I haue abused my strength and thy gitfes I haue spent my dayes in vanities euerlasting cares haue consumed me and being caried hither and thither with senseles cogitations I haue spent my time I fained to my selfe dreames oftentimes and reioyced and vanished away being deluded in my vanities and madnes I ascended into Psal 106. heauen and by and by descended vnto the deepe and while Psal 41. one deepe calleth another my soule did consume in euill I did rot before the eies of men I wished impossible things by the fantasticall fruition of them I was made like vnto them that sleepe and rising from their sleepe haue found nothing in their hands I am a vile worme and yet O Lord I did neuer know thee but with an high forehead haue exalted my selfe alone aboue all I haue rashly boasted of my wordes and in pride thought them to be wisedome I was an enemie vnto my companions and being angrie with many did reproche them without cause I hated patience loued wrath and would be angry without reason I cursed my seruants and familiars yea and my selfe also when I was angrie and scornefully reproched my friends I did vnwillingly beare mine aduersities and haue put my trust in man more then in God I heard the trueth vnpatiently and answered the wise in furie I sought iniuries and reuenges willingly and neuer reserued reuenge vnto God I waxed cruell against him that defended his owne cause neither did a soft answere or a Prou. 6. gentle man please me I tooke pleasure in strife and contention and as a wicked man did often sow discord hatred among brethrē I receiued with mine eares wholesome and good counsels but did not apprehend discipline I did with a milde countenance beholde such counsailours as tickled mine eares but those that spake vnto mee with a free minde I put farre from me I Tobia helde not out my hand to the needie neither did I eate my Tobit bread with the hungrie the beggers and lepers did lie in the streetes and I passed away turning mine eies from them least my bowels should be stirred and I moued with mercie should giue almes vnto them I payed not my debt to them that did lende vnto me and did borowe to satisfie my inordinate desire I coueted to be rich that I might doe vnlawfull things and in all godly dueties shewed my self poore and what I wanted to godlinesse did largely abound vnto my lust I reioyced beyonde measure in all gluttonie and bankets and with vnsatiable greedinesse offended nature that is contented with little My belly was as it were my Philip. 3. god my glory in the shames of those that sauour earthly things I sought the sweetest and most exquisite meates and with the pretence of necessitie I did often shadowe the desire of pleasure I put my Psal 49. portion among the adulterers and my familiar conuersation was among fornicators I was immoderately conuersant in blood and being like vnto bruite beastes I was so ouerthrowne in this vice that I shame to speake what I shamed not to doe Mine eare and my tongue serued vanitie whilest by the one the oile of sinners did make my head fat and with the other I supplied often that which others seemed to want concerning my prayse and as oportunitie serued I did set foorth to others mine owne prayse and did alwayes reioyce to be set foorth both by mine owne and other mens speeches To conclude I liued in all kinde of pleasure of this world being banished farre and wide from the delightes of thy house and if at any time the feare of death and the last iudgement did quicken my slouth and for a litle time call me frō the deepe gulfe of pleasure by and by I returned as a dogge to his vomite Being dead in them I yet liue and abiding in death I hasten to death and see death also swift by comming vnto me But let thy mercy O Lord Psal 78. quickly preuent me before that terrible day of miserie and calamitie doe come the great Psal 25. and bitter day that though I Zeph. 1. die I may liue and declare thy mercies aboue all thy workes Looke backe O Lord and beholde howe my soule lieth in her concupiscences sicke of the palsie and is euill vexed there with deliuer it from the fast birdlime of death that it may cleaue vnto thee alone who onely art the true life and leauing all others follow thee that art aboue all Say vnto my soule O Lord God of my saluation Psal 27. 54. Math. 15 be it vnto thee as thou desirest make me to heare this thy voyce a voyce of reioycing and saluation that I may runne after it and take hold of thee and keepe thee fast and not let thee goe vntill thou sendest me whole away For being sicke to whom shall I goe but to thee that I may be cured or who can heale mine infirmitie but he that for man mankind came downe from heauen that they might be healed of their griefs who can 1. Reg● quicken but he that doth mortifie quicken all things who can saue but thou O my God my Sauiour in the time of tribulation saue therefore and quicken me thou that art the life and euerlasting saluation of al that put their trust in thee And to thee that art without 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beginning be glorie without end to thee be praise and honour to thee be cōtinual worship thankesgiuing thou that art the euerlasting spring of mercies for I was gone farre from thee and did runne away and yet thou doest speedily come to him that is sicke and runne away when he calleth vpon thee doest graunt him health before thou hearest his sighes for to be willing to be healed is ynough that thou shouldest heale and to be willing to liue that thou shouldest graunt life and in the blessing of thy sweetenes doest thou preuent the desire Psal 20. of a sinner that doeth knowe himselfe Therefore I will say vnto thee O Lord and it shall suffice vnto me I knowe mine Psal 50. iniquitie what is it to know but I will bee healed and howe doe I know because all my bones are vexed