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A13068	A third proceeding in the harmonie of King Dauids harp that is to say, a godly and learned exposition vpon 17. Psalmes moe of the princely prophet Dauid, beginning with the 45. and ending with the 61. Psalme: done in Latine by the learned Reuerend Doctor Victorinus Strigelius, Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lypsia in Germanie, anno Christi, 1562. Translated into English, by Richard Robinson citizen of London. An. Christi, 1595. Seene, perused, and allowed.; Hypomnēmata in omnes Psalmos Davidis. Psalm 45-61. English	Strigel, Victorinus, 1524-1569.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1595 (1595)	STC 23361; ESTC S117926	98,441	165

be destroyed by the furies of tyrants and heretikes Let vs therefore put great difference betweene the word of God and the word of creatures For he spake and it was done he commaunded and it stoode fast verse 9. Also this place as I saide admonisheth vs touching difference betweene philosophicall assenting and christian faith For in philosophie assent followeth experience as the ●●hysitian hauing approoued that ginger doth warme the stomacke afterwardes affirmeth the same But in diuine consolation we must assent or graunt vnto the externall word and then followeth consolation These things must we learne in the true exercises of repentance and inuocation Verse 8 We wait for thy louing kindnes O God in the middes of thy Temple Verse 9 O God according vnto thy name so is thy praise vnto the worldes end thy right hand is full of righteousnes Verse 10 Let the mount Sion reioyce and the daughters of Iuda be glad because of thy iudgements Forsomuch as thy promises are not fabulous vaine but true ratified and effectuall we looke for mercy according to thy promises that is benefites necessary for the body and soule for mercy is oftentime taken for well-doing and that indeede in the middest of thy Temple that is in the societie of the true church without the which there is neither any saluation nor life Unto this acknowledgement doth spirituall worship and ioy appertaine for rightly and learnedly saide Augustine touching the blessed ones Tantum gaudebunt quantum amabunt tantum amabunt quantum cognoscent They shall reioyce so much as they shalloue they shal loue so much as they shall know For euery affect or motion riseth from the knowledge shewing the obiect as it is saide Ignoti nulla cupido Men desire not that they knowe not To this intent or meaning the Psalme saith here O God according vnto thy name that is thy acknowledgement so is thy praise that is the worship following that acknowledgement For ioy vnspeakeable is the companion both of acknowledgement and worshipping of God which he describing saieth Let the mount Sion reioyce and the daughter of Iuda be glad that is the vniuersall church and all the godly ones because of thy iudgements or because thou art Judge For euen as God sharply punisheth his enemies the epicures and blasphemous persons so he exerciseth lenitie or mercy towardes the godly ones and always in his anger thinkes vpon mercy This great mercy of God mitigating punishementes which we haue deserued all mindes and tongues ought to haue in reuerence like as Ieremy saith Lament 3. 22. It is the mercies of the Lord that we are not destroyed Verse 11 Walke about Sion and goe round about her and tell the towers thereof Verse 12 Marke wel her bulwarkes set vp her houses that ye may tel them that come after Verse 13 For this God is our God for euer and euer he shalbe our guide vnto death Plato saieth Magis amandam esse Patriam quam Matrem quia paetria sit diuinum quiddam We must loue our country more than our mother because our countrey is a diuine benefit But our true countrey ought to be the church and this is diuine indeede for it is the temple of God and the congregation of Christes members Wherfore to loue adorne help and preserue this ought euery man to bestow the addition of their dueties Let the teachers teach aright and with good conuersation adorne the doctrine and let them bee studious of publike concord and let them suffer and beare with some inconueniences lest they troble the publike peace of the church let the Magistrates maintaine peace and discipline and shew themselues nursing fathers of the church and of the schooles Let schollers learne the doctrine necessarie touching God and other good effectes needefull for mankind lest the knowledge of God be extinguished amongst men but let the church be preserued and many bee made heires of eternall life and let discipline be kept in vre Finally let euery one pray for those things which concerne the peace of Hierusalem as in the 122. psalme and sixt verse it is saide which thing who shall so do the hoped for haruest shall not disappoint their good expectation for that psalme promiseth much peace to them that loue the church PSAL. XLIX Audite haec omnes Gentes To him that excelleth a Psalme exhortatory committed to the sonnes of Korah THE ARGVMENT THe whole Psalme is an antithesis or contrary description of the Church and vngodly ones agreeing with the history of the rich Glutton and Lazarus full of vlcers as in the sixeteenth of saint Lukes gospel The thing sheweth that the church is in this life subiect vnto persecution and is oppressed with the kingdomes of this world But contrariwise the vngodly ones rule all at their will and carry stately countenances of credit This inequalitie of euents so troubleth many that they deeme the doctrine of the Church to be like a Cypres tree which though shee be thicke in shew yet is voide and barren of fruit But the Psalme opposeth against this obiection an answer most chiefly agreeing thereto which is borrowed of the issue or euent as if he said Exitus acta probat careat successibus opto c. The end approoues thats done before A wisher may want welfare the more Euery man thinketh the deeds are to be marked by their euents I acknowledge that the Church and all the godly ones for many causes are not opressed with a light burthen of calamities and that the vngodly ones doe by Gods sufferance now and then flourish for a time but at the time of death there is a great difference betweene the godly and vngodly ones For as the dead which die in the Lord that is in true acknowledgement and calling vpon him are blessed Apoc. 14. 13. Because they enioy the eternall company of God So the death of the vngodly ones is the passage vnto eternal misery For as touching the godly ones it is said expresly God shall deliuer my soule from the power of hell because hee shal receiue me verse 15. that is he shall not leaue me in death and destruction But contrarywise of the vngodly ones it is saide They shall neuer see light any more verse 19. That is they shall not feele consolation and gladnesse reposed in God but they shall remaine in torments for euer Seeing therefore all things are in this life short and momentany this Psalm calleth vs from the loue of brittle fading things and carieth vs to the consideration of death and of the future indgement wherein the chaffe shalbe separated from the wheate and the wheate cornes shal for certaine be gathered into the barne of euerlasting life but the vaine chaffe shall be burned with neuer quenched fire If we will regard this iudgement let vs with mightie courage suffer discommodities heere momentany because while we looke and turne vs about as they say behold immortality shall strait be heere Psal XLIX And

highly to be praised in the city of our God euen vpon his holy hill Verse 2 The hill of Sion is a fayre place and the ioy of the whole earth vpon the north side heth the Cittie of the great King God is well knowen in her pallaces as a sure refuge THe Churches proper glory as I haue oft elsewhere said is true knowledge of God with true inuocation worshiping of him this glory doth this psalme with great exiellē●y of words describe For it compareth the Church to a City and a hi● wherein God is praised and worshipped partly with doctrine deliuered from himself partly with obedience which he requireth Furthermore he compareth the church vnto a farre place bringing forth most wholsome balme which healeth woundes without sorowe For the preaching of the gospell which the Church soundeth in the world is a remedy effectuall taking away sinne and death But why maketh he so often mention of the hill Sion Because the Sone of God was in Jerusalem crucifyed and raise● from death to life and after that disperfed his gla● tidings of the gospell throughout the whole world Like as Isayias in his 2. chap. 3 verse and Micheas in his 4. chap. 2 verse did forshew the same Out of Sion shall the lawe goe and the word of the Lord out of Ierusalem Unto this hill shall al the nations runne that is they shall embrace the do●●rme published out of Sion They their which altogether either refuse and despise this worde the preaching where of is begunne in Sion as the Mahometisis and blasphemous Jewes do or they which vngodly filthily corrupt the same as the heritikes of all ages and the stubberne Papistes do Let vs knowe that these are not the Church but the enemies of the sonne of God and the chaffe ordayned vnto the eternall fire But some man will obiect what difference is there betweene the Church of God and other Sectes seeing all men do acknowledge there is a God the creator and ruler of the world and that we must obey him according as there is difference betwene good and bad Truly this is somewhat to purpose but in this thing consists not all things For although other sects do affirme that there is one deuine essence yet not with standing they are ignorant of the three persons the Father Sonne and Holyghost eternall For Christ saith expresly in Iohn 5. 23. Hee that honoureth not the Sonne honoureth not the Father Againe Iohn 14. 6. No man commeth vnto the Father but by mee Furthermore although they knowe in some part the will of God manifested in the lawe or decalogue yet the knowledg of the first table touching the true worshipping of our God and the vnderstanding of the sixt commaundement touching Chastitie is almost vtterly extingushe with people of other Sectes as the horrible Confusion in their worshipings and lustes doth shewe Thirdly they are altogether ignorant of Gods will in the gospell manifested touching remission of sines and life euerlasting freely to be giuen vnto beleeuers for the Soune of God our Lord Jesus Christ sake Therefore they cannot perswade themselues that God is a deliuerer and helper in their miseries but they do remaine in doubting and at length fall headlong into desperation These differences betweene the true Church and other sects let euery one of vs imprint as seales in our minds ●est that wee straying from that Congregation which is and is called the true Church should be entangled with other Se●ts which are condemned by God Verse 3 For loe the Kings of the earth are gatherred and gone by together Verse 4 They marueiled to see such things they were astonied and sodainely cast downe Verse 5 Feare came vpon them and sorrow As vppon a woman in her trauell Verse 6 Thou shalt breake the Shippes of the se a through the cast winde Verse 7 Like as we haue harde so haue wee seene in the cittie of the Lord of hoasts in the Cittie of our God God vpholdeth the same for euer Hetherto hath he described the true Church Nowe addeth he vnto her a consolation touching her perpetuall stability And all men vnderstand that the Church had great neede of this Consolation against Her●tilies Tyrantes and their champions yea against Deui●●●s which rage more cruelly because they knowe within a while their iudgement is at hand where in their filthines shall be plainely manifested or laid open before all Angels and men But to the end the meaning of these verses may be more apparant I will breefely rehearce out of the fourth booke of Theodoretus the history of Valence the Emperor whome God not onely resirained with fearefull famine but also with a tragicall death de●●r●ied that he should not be able to vse cruelty against the Church after the lust of his owne heart When Valens would needes confirme with his subscription letters conteyning a Commaundement to banish quyte Basilius the bishop of Casaria he was not able to make one letter no when as God would he had worne his penne to the vtmost which when it hapned the second time and yet he would needes enforce the confirmatiou of an vngodly decree euen then did his right hand shake and tremble with feare There he at length beeing fearefull troubled straitway cut in peeces the paper which he had taken betweene both his handes and he is a moderator of all his affects though hee had so done well and found that others had tasted like vexation by his sufferance and that Basilius was proued a better man then that he was worthy of any such iniurie Afterward the Gothes hauing taken the streete wherein Valence purposed to hide him selfe beeing knowen by the vproare made by his owne men they both set fire vpon the place and with all burned to death the very same enimy to christian Religion This punishment suffered Valence for his mischefes and that euen in this life But the verse which foloweth last of these Like as we haue heard so haue we seene in the City of our God c. admonisheth the Reader of two cheefe things first touching the efficacie of Gods word next of the difference betweene philosophicall and Christian assenting For the worde of God is not a vayne sound and as the Graetians say No vaine prating or langling but is approued in purpose and euent For seeing God is true he sheweth with horrible examples of punishments that his threatnings are sure and certaine Moreouer the promises of God are not vayne delectations after a sort pleasing mens mindes but are consolations in very deede the efficacy whereof al s●ch as truly repent and beleeue the gospell haue sure triall of For as we do heare that they which are iustified by fayth haue peace of conscience So in true conuersion we feele peace and tranquilitie of heart to rise from confidence or sure trusting in the Mediator Againe like as the promises are published touching stabilitie of the Church so the thing sheweth that the Church cannot