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A09645	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	Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556.; Hawkins, John, fl. 1635.	1635 (1635)	STC 19910.5; ESTC S4824	70,947	262

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

succeedeth praise and to Gods glorie the conuersion of Nations and to Hierusalem and Sion peace and the speculation the contemplation shall bring ioy singular hearts-comfort true faith obtained the true most perspicuous light of trueth by meanes of the seruants and friends of Christ then shall the world triumphe in it's perfect ioy for that God shal be accorded God shall haue made attonement vvith man in testimonie whereof hee shall forget the disobediēce of him that vvas expelled banished from terrestriall Paradice for hauing valued an aple at an higher rate then God's commandement But vvhen so the name of our Lord shal be preached through all the world congregating and gathering together contemplation speculation and peace in one both kings people to the end they may serue God the Christ ā Church into which shall be collected assembled the people as also Kings Maketh this ansvvere to God who in the vvay of his goodnes his vertue called it his spouse it pleased him to see it held in reuerēce much honored by the selected number of the good Shew me the length of my dayes sincel perceiue I clearlie see my accrease aduancement and glorie Kings and people coming to me for no other end but to serue thee And so much doth it say alvvaies beholding it's greatnes as if it had before it all Hereticks all Antichristians all false Apostles vvho vvill come to molest it to displease it to vvrong it to trespasse against it vvith the malitious peruersnes of their deuillish doctrines vvith the power and might of their abominablie vvretched vvorckes and vvith the deceipt of a fained goodnes And thus earnestly encited prouoked vvith a sensible feare conuerting it selfe to thee vvith all it's feruour possiblie yet againe thus proceedeth Let not thy goodnes call me away in the midst of my dayes Lord thy dayes thy yeares thy time shall out last all generations and shall transcend all ages but I vvho perceiue dangers to be hāging ouer me which tongues ill example and wretched mindes of wicked Christians will attempt to make me headlonglie fall into am in great feare lest I become les●…ened and faile in the midst of my dayes as doe the lambs of a flocke decrease in nūber trhough the rott For it seemeth to me alreadie to be gouerned by the rod of some pastors much more greedie desirous of my blood of the blood of my flocke then vvill they be of my firmenes my strength my constancie and their safetie their saluation hence trembling not vvithout reason not vvithout great cause I humblie craue that thou let not me become lesse faile in the fairest bloome yea flovver of my youth and remember reflect hereō that I am thine handmaid and thy spouse hence is there no reason that I faile to flourish Grāt vnto me that I may liue euer joyned to thee vvho shalt euer be alwaies liue at least as long as the vvorld and human generation lasteth and that shall so be if so thou from age to age from nation to natiō mainteine me in the hearts in the vnion of kings and people Thou Lord in the beginning didst make the Earth and the Heauens are workes of thy hands and in the labours of such operations of such vvorkes thou shevvedst thy povver thy glory thy eternitie so didst thou to the end that vvee might liue here below vntill that our workes might deserue there aboue their revvard so boundles is the loue that thou vvho art the maket of all things dost beare to vs who setting aside the priuiledge which wee haue of being of thy making wee are euē as things of nothing Thou my Lord God madst the Sunne the Moone the Starres vvith other Heauenly vvorkes of thy euerlasting hands and all for vs for our soules to speculate on to looke on to contemplate vvhose soules free in their election in their choise are able if vvilling to be accepted of admitted and to be receiued in the Colledge in the fellowship of Angels in the order in the state and ranke of Archāgels in the number of Cherubins in the quire of Seraphins and in the societie of all the military troopes of Heauen treading vnder our feete the Celestiall signes Planets vvhich shall haue an end if so it shall please thee They shall perish but thou shalt alvvaies be thou shalt alvvaies remaine and they shal be consumed come to nothing like garments It is true Lord that what participateth not in condition in qualitie and substance of thy eternitie shall become fume shall resolue it selfe into smoke shall come euē to nothing but those things vvhich haue measure haue quantitie and substance from thee shall remaine entire for that thou onelie art eternall and the Heauens participaters of thy vertue shall remaine together with all other things that thy omnipotēcie please remaine as our soules vvhich thou createdst for if that they through themselues be not deficient they eternally dwell with thee But each other thing shall decline be vvorse and vvorse euen as daylie worne cloathes are become at length through cōtinuall wearing nought vvorth altogether vvorne out consuming as doe all terrestriall things And in this secōd death wherevvith time armed vvith yeares beateth dovvne and maketh an end of all things thy power and eternity is demonstrated is clearly shevven vvhich can doe vvhat it vvill hence if it please thee thou vvilt likevvise change the Heauens So that it please thee if thou vvilt thou shalt remoue the heauens out of such their now place and thou shalt change them as a garment for the same power thou hast on the world thou hast on the Heauēs thou hast made them and thou canst destroy them thou canst pull them all to pieces vnioynt them remoue them from their proper spheres and in a moment thou canst make other axeltrees new Poles and other lights other Sunn 's other Starres other Moones and the Heauens vvith it's lights shal be subiect to change and increase of number if it so be thy will But thou art alwaies the same vvithout being vnder any other power but thine owne selfe-same and thy yeares vvill not faile for time hath nothing to doe vvith them they are not subjects to time hence they shall alvvaies haue being they shall neuer haue end nor though there pa●…e it importeth not hovv many lusters hovv many ages hovv many hūdred yeares to thee the accompte is euen of one day is not diminished is not vvanting for thou art hee vvho is author of the selfe same Eternitie vvhich ought necessarilie must be vvith thee alwaies in it's proper state in it's proper povver And for that thy pitty commiseration thy mercie is infinite answerable to the affection to the great loue thou bearest vnto vs the ofsprings the sonnes of thy seruant shall liue and inhabite vvith this thy eternity and the generation of them shall euer remaine be conserued for euer and from hence thy graces occasion that thy mercie dilate extend