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A09645
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Paraphrase vpon the seaven pen[i]tentiall psalmes of [t]he kingly prophet tra[n]slated out of Italian by I.H.; Sette Salmi della penitentia di David. English. 1635
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Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556.; Hawkins, John, fl. 1635.
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cast headlong downe to a miserable state through such my lamentable fall And so is it that the magnificent aduancement vvhich v◅ithout any merit of mine I receiued from thy bountie through fault of my ill and peruerse malitious will and ingratitude hath been my vtter and laft ouerthrovv and ruine but thy mercie will not that the punishment of my trangression of my gre◅ueous faults if vve will not our se◅ues prouoking thy displeasure th◅ne anger by new trespasses be the losse of the soule but onelie of the bodie hence may I say that My daies are declined as the Sunne vvhen it goeth dovvne tovvards the Euening and they are become euen as shadovves And vvell deliuereth hee the trueth For if there had not been transgression in our first farher our daies that is asmuch to say our liues vvho haue our descent from him would haue been eternall and not short not suddainlie past ouer as a shadovv vvhence the sonnes of men vvould not liue vvith that care and vvith that feare vvhich they inceslantlie haue of their graues and of death and I Dauid should not haue come vnder the yoke of time of yeares arid dry as hay vvho before ouercome in grenenes the Emeralds and if so it vvere I should not haue to expect the sacrifice of the sonne of my Lord nor vvere I to suffer to participate of the punishment of this transgression through vvhich thou hast not onelie shortned our life but vvee are subject and lyable to the scourge of pennance and sigthe of death But thou my Lord shalt not faile nor come to nothing as a shadovv thou shalt neuer be lessened thou shalt neuer be changed be otherwise then thou art rather thou shalt be and remaine for euer and euer and euen as then thou vvert powerfull to punish vs so likevvise thou shalt vvithout end be powerfull to free vs and the memorie of thee shall remaine from generation to generation in all ages and times nor shall the Heauen euer be beheld be gazed on nor Sea nor Earth but that each one shall vvonder at the povver of thy vertue and for that thou art that mercifull God the memorie of whō ought to last together with thy power to all times and ages thou will deigne to recouer vs againe to receiue vs gratiouslie being the workes of thy hands into the bosome of thy mercie to the end that through all ages all times in the hearts of people susteined and made happie therevvith the memorie of thy goodnes and of thy povver vvhich is infinite as art thou shall remaine vvho Rising againe shalt haue mercie on Sion although the trespasses of our first father and of vs are infinite When thou shalt rise againe I am assured that thou vvilt pittie commiserate and haue mercie on Sion vvhich I figure for human generation for human ki◅de and for that at length the time is come to haue mercie thereon let sinners reioyce vvho through the comming of thy Sonne into this vvorld doe rise and come forth from the place of their sepulchers through the hand of the povver of thy merits mercifullie cōferred on them Let them reioyce vvho vvill knovv to suffer the persecution of the vvicked Giue them courage my Lord and comfort them vvith the hope of arriuing to thy kingdome for that thou hast laid open to them the gates vvherebie they may ascend thether through the vertue of faith and their endurance their sufferance their patience and vvell deserue they to be vvith thee pertakers of Paradice since that Martyrdomes for thy sake are dearly vvellcome to them I say Lord that there vvill arise manie Apostles and seruants of thy sonne resuscitated risen againe to vvhom the stonnes of mountaines shal be more pleasing thē the iewells then the gemmes of the East an◅ these such enamored altogethe◅ taken vp fullie possessed rapt vvit◅ Marty◅domes by vvhich meane◅ they may haue place in thy grace they may please thee winne thee t◅ them despising sword stones gallovves crosse and prisons will divulge will preach the trueth dictated deliuered appointed to be in th◅ tongue of the Gospell and after their passions suffered and at an end to exalt thy name moued through example which thou our Lord wilt giue them praying for their Crucifiers they shall haue compassion of the countreys wherein they suffered I say that the Martyrs shall be moued to pittie to sensible commiseratiō of them who do put thē to death doe Martyrize them praying thee that the authors of their pesecutions be conuerted vvho although they are wicked were yet not vvithstan◅ing framed moulded of the same ◅arth vvhich vvere they themselues ◅amed of by thee And for that thou vvilt haue an ◅mcomprehensible compassion an ◅credible mercy on human kinde ◅r that thy most iust seruants shall ◅ke delight singular consolatiō in Martyrdome which shall be impo◅ed on them inflicted on them in thy ◅eruice Oh blessed truth to appeare ◅o shine in thee vvith more splēdour ◅nd vvith much more cleare light ◅nd countenance then doth the Sun ◅ake shew of vvhen it is euen newly ◅sen from the Ocean the maine ◅ea and through the faithfull meanes ◅f thy preachers all Nations shall ◅ot onelie honour thy name but ◅ey shall tremble at it and feare it ◅nd all the kings of the earth perceiing that their splendor and geeatnes compared to thine are farre lesse then the light of the starres vvhilst the beames of the Sun enlighten the firmament vvith their bright resplendent rayes vvhich imitating thy goodnes vvith the same bounty doth shine on the vvicked as on the good shall feare ◅hy glory more then their subiects their people shall feare them vnder whom they are in obedience in duetie vvhom they obey for that in it in that thy trueth is seated the height of iustice vvhich seuerelie doth execute iustice on all their transgressions vvhich vvithout ought fearing thee haue been hainouslie and mortallie committed in thy sight before or after the knowledg of trueth For our Lord hath built Sion in the pure and sincere hearts of men chosen elected by the holie Ghost thanks for Sion thanks for this ne◅ speculation and this new Church there wil be laid open a way an euen path by vvhich vvith fevver readier shorter steps Heauē may be arriued to Paradice acquired and that this is true hee vvilbe seene in his glory Hee shall euidentlie be seene in that direfull most dreadfull day of doome of vniuersall iudgment in vvhich vvill appeare as to his glorie hovv hee she vved himselfe vvhat hee did what hee suffered to redeeme vs it will be then seene how hee dyed for vs hovv hee dyed that wee might ◅ue and not dye it vvilbe also shewen that if it depend not on our obstinacie as to his glory the Deuill shal be ouercome and tyed vp in his proper chaines for that the mercie of redemption ought to extend it selfe to the sauing of vs all and so ought to be and is of such nature for that