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A13070	A fift proceeding in the harmony of King Dauids harpe That is to say, a godly and learned exposition of 5. other moe [sic] psalmes of the princely Prophet Dauid: beginning with the 68. and ending with the 72. psalme, being the last part of the first tome, or one halfe of the booke of psalmes. Written in Latin by the reuerend Doctor Victorinus Strigelius: professor of diuinity in the Vniuersity of Lipsia in Germanie. Anno. 1576. Translated into English by Richard Robinson citizen of London. 1594. Seene, and allowed.; Hypomnēmata in omnes Psalmos Davidis. Psalm 68-72. English	Strigel, Victorinus, 1524-1569.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1598 (1598)	STC 23363; ESTC S113498	57,243	82

beginning of impracation or cursing and of gratulation or reioycing For hee curseth the enemies of Christ but he reioyceth at the welfare of the godly ones The declaration of the Psalme comprehendeth the description of the pompe The Lord commeth and bringeth with him his hoast of them which preach the Gospell Out of these are described the Apostles and Bishops as it were Princes of prouinces or countries which do comfort and refresh these countries afflicted and persecuted The Lord ascendeth vpon high hee leadeth in his triumph the captiues hee distributeth his gifts vnto his soldiours and people and threatneth punishment vnto his enemies The people go before and one commeth after which singeth the song of triumph This is almost the scope of this Psalme which let the godly ones reade not so much for the wonderfull and delectable diuine excellencie of eloquence wherewith it aboundeth ❧ The Psalme and Exposition thereof Let God arise and let his enemies bee scattered Let them also that hate him flee before him Like as the smoake vanisheth so shalt thou driue them away and like as the waxe melteth at the fire so let the vngodly perish at the presence of God LIKE as the next Psalme following describeth Christ humbled upon the Crosse and by reason of our sinnes sirtuing with most bitter sorrowes in this Psalme setteth forth Christ risen from death to life and gloriously sitting at the right hande of his Father He beginneth then with the effects of the most ioyfull resurrection of Christ namelie by the destruction and scattering abroad of his enemies and by the reuiuing or restoring of his church as if he said when Christ was dead and buried not onlie the blind and raging Iewes leaped for ioy but also the Deuill and his companions namelie sinne and death triumphed at full as if Christ shoulde so for euer remaine in the graue But this graund guide of life the third daie rising againe had a glorious triumph ouer the Iewes and the whole kingdome of the Deuill often times repeating that saying of the Prophet Osea cap. 13. 14. O death I will be thy death O graue I will be thy destruction For although the stubborne and vncurable Iewes carried stately mindes as then and resisted the Apostles with a malignant countenance yet in the xl yeare after Christes resurrection they suffered grieuous and iust punishmentes for their outrages And the kingdome of the deuill sinne and death is so broken and crushed in peeces by Christ that it can bring no danger vnto the godlie ones Let vs therefore with S. Paule sing this triumph song 1. Cor. 15. 55. O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victory The sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the Law But thankes be to God which hath giuen vs victory through our Lorde Iesus Christ verse 56. 57. And what is more elegant then the describing of these enemies which he here vseth comparing them unto smoke and ware Great is the pride of smoke when it bursteth out of the top of the chimney and his spreading heat couereth the ayre So an Image of waxe maketh both a terrible shew of grauitie ● of hardnes but as the smoke which séemeth to pearce the verie firmament is scattered by the wind here and there and as the image of ware laide to the fire melteth quite awaie So the enemies of the Gospell and of the Church by the breath of Christes mouth which is both winde and flame are either healed or taken vtterlie awaie and destroied altogether So in like maner Athanasius compared Iulian the Apostat vnto a little cloud whome the Sunne within a while after should so driue away and vanquish that no man should sée anie trace therof more With these debasings and downfalles of the enemies of the gospell and of the church agreeth that sentence of Isay ca. 51. 7. Feare ye not the reproch of men neither be yee afraide of their rebukes verse 8. For the moath shall eate them vp like a garment and the worme shall eat them like wooll But let the righteous be glad and reioyce before God Let them also be merry and ioyfull An other effect of Christs resurrection is the reuiuing or restoring of his Church for as Saint Paule saith Rom. 14. 17. The kingdome of God is not meate and drinke but righteousnesse peace and ioy in the holie Ghost It is indéed Righteousnesse as thus frée remission of sinnes reconciliation with God and free acceptation vnto life euerlasting It is Peace thus Tranquillitie of heart rising from faith hope a good conscience Finallie it is Ioy thus Consolation which is the vanquisher of all feares and doubtings All these benefites are the effects of Christs passion and resurrection which saint Paule acknowledgeth Phil. 3. 12. He hath not yet attained vnto but he tooke he saide the right course whereby he might attaine vnto this reach of wisdome The same thing let vs also confesse and craue of God that hee would illumine and increase in our hearts this light acknowledging the benefites of Christ O sing vnto God and sing praises vnto his name magnifie him that rideth vpon the heauens as it were vpon an horse praise him in his name yea and reioyce before him Not only in the heart saith Dauid let true knowledge of Christ shine whereto is ioyned spirituall ioy but let the toong also magnifie this Lord risen from death to life and raigning for euer who though he be the sonne of Dauid after the Sencalogie yet is hee declared the Sonne of God by his rising from death to life and by sending his holie spirit as in Rom. cap. 1. ver 3. 4 it is said This Lords diuinitie vnited to his humanitie and his victorie triumphes and benefits see that ye honor saith Dauid and in them rest and sweetlie repose your selues For he doth not thumpe nor thunder it out but is carried faire and softlie and suffereth suters to haue easie accesse vnto him Let no man therefore be driuen from him but let all and euerie one come vnto this Lord trusting in his most swéete promise who saith Matth. 11 28. Come vnto me all ye that labour and are laden and I will refresh you And where he saith Magnifie him that rideth vpon the heauens that maie be vnderstoode Make your way before him and is spoken as touching our true repentance not fained with amendment of life for the first step vnto health is To know the disease and seeke a Phisition But contrariwise it is a heauie signe if the minde being sicke know neither the disease nor looketh for phisicke Let vs therefore acknowledge our maladies namely sin and death and let vs craue to haue right medicine laide to these miseries by the phisition and sheepheard of our soules euen the sonne of God who came therefore into the world to saue sinners He is a father of the fatherlesse and defendeth the cause of the widowes euen God in his holy habitation

thine indignation vpon them and let thy wrathfull displeasure take holde of them Let their habitation be void and no man to dwelt in their tents For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten and they ●alke howe they may vexe him whom thou hast wounded Let them fall from one wickednesse vnto another and not come into thy righteousnes Let them be wiped out of the booke of the liuing and not be written among the righteous As for me when I am poore and in heauines thy helpe O God shall lift me vp HItherto the first part of the Psalme namelie a prayer full of most sorrowfull affections is expounded Nowe followeth the second part wherein Christ reckoneth vp against the blasphemous Iewes dire and grieuous matters When we read this cursing let vs tremble with feare in all our bodie and let vs scare the wrath of God which is bent against the contempt of the Gospell for If God spare not the naturall branches how much lesse will he spare the wilde branches Rom. 11. 20. 24. 1 And the first degrée of punishments for despising the Gospel is furie and blindnes which wickedly corrupteth the natiue meaning of the worde The impudencie and sawcinesse of the Iewes of late dayes is knowne in peruerting the sayings of the Prophets As when they interpret the 9. ca. of Isay they imagine that the Prophet speaketh there of Ezechias king of Iuda With the same face do they bragginglie striue that the same Prophet in the 53 cap. preacheth not of the Messias or Sauiour that was to come but of the Iewish people So where they busie themselues vpon the ninth chapter of Daniel then peruert with their horrible ignorance and impietie the race of the kings of the Persians so as by all meanes they do but trifle out the prophecie of Daniel Finallie the vniuersall writing of the Prophets which was sometime a table furnished for this people with most wholesome meates is now by their blasphemies no other thing but a snare and offence of falling as in this 23. verse is said 2 The second degree of punishment is perpetuall thraldome and most miserable for although now and then they haue put in practise with warres to recouer their Countrey and restore their Church and policie yet by Gods prouidence being ouerthrowne they acknowledged themselues but to rol the stone with Sysiphus to play at the dice vpon a broken boord that is to be vtterly consumed with vaine contention 3 The third degree is the wrath of God which they cannot by anie meanes escape 4 The fourth degree was the most sorrowfull destruction of their gouernement and of their Temple 5 The fifth degree is that sins are punished with sinnes for they are euerie day more then other become like mad dogs howling stirring vp and heaping vp sinnes and offences 6 The sixt and last degree is the depriuing of them of the life and righteousnesse euerlasting For according to that saying of saint Iohn He that beleeueth not in the Sonne hath not life but the wrath of God resteth vpon him This plague O God vouchsafe thou to turn quite away from vs. I will praise the name of God with a song and magnifie it with thanksgiuing This also shall please the Lord better then a bullocke that hath hornes and hooffes THe thirde and last part of this Psalme is a thankesgiuing which instructeth the reader touching the abrogation of Moses ceremonies The Prophet saith here Hee will not offer vnto God the blood of Bulles and Calues but the true signification of thankfulnes wherewith God is more pleased and delighted then with the Ceremonies of Leueticall sacrifices Well do the Lawiers say Cessante ratione legis cessareipsam legem When the reason or cause of the lawe ceasseth then also ceasseth the verie law it selfe And the speciall reason or cause for which the Lord God ordained these ceremonies was that they should be tipes or figures of one onelie sacrifice taking away the sinnes of the world When this sacrifice was once offered then by good right and reason ceased the Leuiticall sacrifice But what time the Leueticall priesthood flourished the slaughter and sacrificing of beasts without faith and morall obedience pleased not God anie thing at all For it is not inough to do the workes by God commanded except they be done in such order as the wisedome of God hath ordained Nowe then it appeareth plainlie that Faith is the foundation of all worshippings according to that saying of saint Paule Rom. 14. 23. Whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne 2 The second and next degree is morall obedience which containeth loue and other vertnes according to the commaundements 3 The third degree is the vse of ceremonies which as I said please not God except there be first a foundation laid that is a Pediator acknowledged and that remission of sinnes bee had for his sake reconciliation to God and morall obedience begun anew in the heart of man This order of workes doe manie Sermons if the prophets lay open vnto vs As Isay saieth Cap. 1. 11. I will none of your burnt offerings c. But rather vers 17. Seeke ye iudgement and relieue the oppressed c. Againe the same Isay in the 58. cap. 7. Breake thy breade vnto the hungrie c. And the prophet Micheas cap. 6. 7. Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rammes c Hee hath shewed thee O man what is good and what the Lorde requireth of thee surelie to doe iustly and to loue mercie and to humble thy selfe to walke with thy God ver 8. And the Prophet Zacharias sayth cap. 7. 6. When yee did eate and when yee did drinke did yee not eate for your selues and drinke for your selves Thus saith the Lord of hostes execute true iudgement and shewe mercie and compassion euerie man to his brother oppresse not the widow nor the fatherlesse the stranger nor the poore and let none of you imagine euill against his brother in your heart verses 9. and 10 c. The humble shall see this and bee glad seeke ye after God and your soule shall liue The chiefe blessings which the reasonable or sensible creature hath are Wisdome righteousnesse and ioie in God These blessings being lost by Adams transgression Christ againe by his passion and resurrection hath restored vnto vs For he died for our sinnes and rose againe for our righteousnesse that is through his obedience which he performed in suffring his death he deliuered the church from euils namely from Gods wrath the curse of the lawe sinne euerlasting death and the tyrannie of the deuill But if he had remained still in death and in the graue which was a thing impossible he had not restored those blessings vnto vs which are opposed and set against most grieuous euils To the end therfore that deliuerance should not be onelie the remoouing of euill from vs but also the placing of benefits for vs he rose againe from death the third