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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13878	A learned and a very profitable exposition made vpon the CXI. psalme	Travers, Robert, fl. 1561-1572.	1579 (1579)	STC 24180; ESTC S120253	54,089	124

A LEARNED AND A VERY PROFITABLE EXPOSITION made vpon the CXI Psalme Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackfriers 15●9 TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL THE MA●TE● FELOVVES SCHOLLERS and other Students of the Colledge of the holy vndiuided Trinity in Cambridge Grace mercy and peace from God our Father and from our Lorde Iesus Christ AGAINST griefe conceiued in the death of a vvorthy friende often times succour is s●●ghte in a Tombe or other monument thereby to deliuer the deades vertue cōmendable life from the vnkinde forgetfulnesse of vnthankfull men Therefore vvith the familie of the author of this booke and vvith me also vvhich in good vvill to him in his life and sorow for his death come next vnto them it falleth out very well that the sol●ce which our poore estate denieth vs the learned diligence of our deceased friends by making at vnarares his owne tombe in his life time hath supplied vnto vs Now if by dedication of it vnto you it be as it were sette vp in your Colledge it ●hall be I hope a thankefull worke considering that whether you looke to the kinde of a tombe in generall or to this in particuler the worke bringeth you commendations from them both For wheras other tombes are often times the generatiō of full c●sers without cōpany had with any great vertue or singuler learning this is the birth of the ●i● ▪ sanctifying by the true feare and knowledge of god And where others come out of the ●hoppe this cōmeth out of the schole and that of Christ Those may bring vs some message of death but these bring also the good tidings of life and that in death vvith a number such preheminences for which as this kinde of monument ought of right to haue the right hād of the other so ought it to haue gladder eyes to looke rather vpon it thē vpon the other And as for the speciall matter which commendeth this tombe it may be drawē from the workeman of it most plentifully He was first by a scholership and after by a felowship planted in your Colledge Therefore it will rellie the better that it is frute of your owne planting The worke was both made and vttered in your Colledge and for it alone if you shoulde not therefore prepare your selues at the warning of others be yet in a readines at the voyce of your owne and proper trumpet It cost him the loss● of his felowship I might haue sayde of his life which by quietnes in his Colledge should likely haue bene prolōged So that herein it is prouided euen for them to whom dayntie things are not dedicate vnlesse they be deare bought If you looke also that it shoulde be farre fetched the principall and as it were the marble thereof was taken from the highest heauen the grauing from the vtmost parts of the earth whither by an vnsatiable hunger of reading he had sitting in his study trauailed For beginning at Rome I meane the olde and eloquent not this barbarous Rome and from thence taking his iorne into Greece he landed in Canaan where he had gotten not the bare empty ●a●ke of the three the Latine Greeke and Hebrue tongues but with them the good marchandise of arts sciences contained in them For although in the loue which he bare to a simple and plaine handling of the word of God he suppressed the shewe of them yet at the faces which are continually in the Sunne can not but be tanned and slayned therewith so his speach could not but cary some colour of the learning and knowledge wherein he was continually conuersant And as for the chaunge of his life if a good death doe wash away the filth of the former life his death which was such as my soule wisheth and hopeth for the like must needes set a pleasaunt gl●● both vppon the rest of his life that was holily led and vppon this worke especially which thorough conscience of a great dutie discharged therein caused him to goe e●●●●●ragiously to meete with death and as i● were to take it by the hande or euer it had taken him Bring hither therefore your eyes first indifferent to iudge of the sinceritie of it ▪ then discrete that you may discerne his spirite zelous with iudgement and earnest in waighty matters bring thirdly your learned eyes that as in a peece of tapestrie you may see with the varietie of colours the diuersitie also of the knottes and flowers not onely to looke on but to take them out and make the like So shall your profite be pleasant and your pleasure profitable so shall you of his losse get gayne of his payne get pleasure finally so shall that which was to him the valley of Achor be vnto you the gate of hope And I beseech that holy and blessed Trinitie whiche is the patron of your Colledge that he would so fill you with al knowledge especially of himselfe that after you haue brought many to this blessed societie your selues may enter into that holy felowship whervnto in Christ you were chosen before the beginning of the world Amen By him which in the reuerende good will he beareth to you hath taken an obligation of himselfe dayly to pray for you THE VERSES OF M. 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I haue chosen to interprete and speake of this CXI Psal. for the excellencie and perfitnes of the same for although it be but litle short yet the holy Prophet comprehendeth in it the summe of many Psalmes And as when he gaue his minde to the preparing of those thinges which shoulde serue to the building of the materiall temple he disposed in his mind vnto what vse this and that iewell or waight of gold and siluer and a number of other things should be applied So I doubt not but in these Psalmes which this noble and worthy Prophet left for the ornaments of the Church of God which is his spirituall temple

place he sayth that he made a people for himselfe So th●n it was and nowe is muche more euen so muche more as the grace of God is more aboundaunt then it was at that t●me For the grace of God hath appeared in these latter daies as th Apostle saith that bringeth saluation vnto all men it hath appeared instructing vs that denying vngodlines and worldly lustes we should liue soberly iustly and holily in this life wishing for the blessed hope and reuelation of the glory of the great God and our Sauiour Iesus Christ who gaue him selfe for vs that he might deliuer vs from all vnrighteousnes and purge vs vnto him selfe a peculier people seruently and earnestly following good works and in deed most iustly for he speaketh of those dayes whereof Ieremy prophesied that the Lord would strike a new couenaunt with his people not as he had done with then fathers from the which they started but he would not put his lawes in then harts to do them Then seeing the grace of God hath bene so maruelous so excellent and superabundant in these dayes aboue the other by proportion and reason there is greater thankfulnes required of vs to whome such grace and mercy hath bene shewed So that if they meete once for the praise of God we ought to meete seuen times if they had one preacher of it in one citie we in one citie should haue seuen if they had charge that they should put the commaundements and the words of God into their harts soules to bind them for a signe vpon their hāds to be a perpetuall warning in their eyes to teach them their children to talke of them walking in the way and sitting in the house and rising in the morning and l●ing downe in the night to write them vppon the dore postes and corner of the house we surely ought not to performe this alone but euen to dreame of them in the night Daye and night to meditate with our selues of them And if their loue to this mercifull God was as the loue of childrē towards their father or as the loue of wife towards her husband with whome she is one fleshe our loue my brethren ought to be as the loue of a friend who is with his friend one soule For without doubt vnspeakeable is the grace and mercy that is reueiled by the Gospell The eye of none can not see nor eare heare nor hart vnderstand it but such as haue the spirite of God who knoweth the secretes of god Now in that the Prophet Dauid say the he commaunded his couenant for euer he doth not onely prayse it for the perpetuitie and continuance of it in respect of God but also in a word exhorteth all men to faithfull and continuall obedience in performing the conditions of their couenaunt of their part also And of Gods behalfe it had bene great loue if with Abraham alone the father of the people he had striken this couenaunt or with his generation after him for some hundreth yeares but to make it to rest vpon the head of his seede so long after him euen from generation to generation for euer to graunt him this inheritance the riches and fountaine of his mercie appeareth For although that some now are fallen away and their body in a maner dead yet notwithstāding the truth of the couenaunt remaineth at this day And if they had continued faithfull it had neuer bene broken for God remayned still sure of the one partie for the performaunce of the old couenaunt Then thinke a litle of this benefit or rather let it occupy al ou● whole minds in cōsideration of it that perpetually with one people as in an arke that shoulde neuer be broken the Lord laid the precious treasure of his commaundements Although he departed from Siloth left also Sion at the last yet he neuer cleane cast away the roote branches of Israell but kept and kepeth thowsands to him selfe we looke for the rest to be called euen thowsands ten thowsandes in euery tribe This people thorow their much iniqu ty vaned and vanished as the moone oftentimes hath b●ne nowe is in a daūgerous fearefull eclipse But by the grace and mercy of God and his word appearing neare vnto them they haue gotten and doe get some light shal in th end be in the full when God graūt our vnthankfulnes that be of the Gentiles breede not great confusion to vs which haue had them our exāple but would not learne He raised amongest them by his worde that remayned with them not one in one age but many in many ages as it were Angells euen out of their bodies I meane the wise Prophets noble Iudges and deliuerers holy Priestes and Leuits godly Kings and Angellike Nazarits Euen of your young men I raised Prophets vnto you saith the Lorde and of your children Doctors I powred my spirit vpon your seruaunts and vppon your daughters from time to time And last of al as I opened my cōduits in the dayes of Noah for destruction so the conduits of grace were reueiled vnto you from heauen yea the windowes of heauen were opened at the ascention of Iesus Christ and wisedom vnderstanding rained vppon all flesh euen to thends of the world Thus we may remember the commendations of this couenaunt that Dauid comprehendeth in one word And seing there is also now come to vs like grace the same is also to be vnderstoode in our selues Now of the other parte in that he sayeth he commaunded his couenaunt for euer Beside this praise of the mercie of God I haue sayd that he exhorted thē vs to continual faithfulnes in keeping the Lordes couenaunt with vs Nowe if we agree with our selues one of vs with an other a man with his fellowe if we after breake our faith we can not but condemne our selues of great wickednes But if we breake with our betters as some Prince or King it is more both wickednes and shame but if the couenant that we made with God in the beginning by our fathers haue renewed it in our baptisme since be by our sinnes broken of what miserie and shame what sinne and death hangeth ouer vs It behoueth therefore in respect of the couenant it selfe first that we kepe faith truth to the commaundements and that not for an hower or the time while we heare the word or when we come to the communion or for a day we hang downe our heades some mortified consecrat to God in saith and holinesse not only to please our selues if we see a good motion in vs though it be sooner quenched then the lightning but to labour to followe it to nourish it to blowe it vp to make a fire of it that we be not as the vnfaithfull waters which in the sommer are dried vp or as the dead trees which perish in the winter but that we remayne whole and sound perfit as the liuing waters and