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A13069	A fourth proceeding in the harmony of King Dauids harp That is to say; a godly and learned exposition of six psalmes moe of the princely prophet Dauid, beginning with the 62. and ending with the 67. Psalme. Done in Latin by the reuerend Doctour Victorinus Strigelius professor in Diuinitie in the vniuersitie of Lipsia in Germany Anno 1502. Translated into English by Richard Robinson citizen of London 1596. Seene, perused, and allowed. ...; Hypomnēmata in omnes Psalmos Davidis. Psalm 62-67. English	Strigel, Victorinus, 1524-1569.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1596 (1596)	STC 23362; ESTC S105184	33,513	60

into heauen and nowe sitteth at the righthand of his father giuing vs his holy spirite and other necessarie giftes for the body and the soule Dauid thinking vpon so great matters praieth most feruently that the Messias euen at the first time would come vpon earth destroy the workes of the diuell sin and death and vnto his church gathered from both Iewes and Gentiles would restore life and righteousnesse euetlasting The Psalme and Exposition thereof Verse 1 God be mercifull vnto vs and blesse vs and shew vs the light of his countenance and be mercifull vnto vs. Verse 2 That thy way may bee knowne vpon earth thy sauing health among all nations BY the law saith S. Paul commeth the acknowledgment of sin and the law worketh wrath Rom. 3.20 For there is a spirituall iudgement accusing all sinnes in men Inward and outward and denouncing the wrath of God according to that saying Deut. 26 27. Cursed be euery one c. But in the gospel there is reuealed the mercy of God and the blessing is promised by through and for Christes sake that is full deliuerance from sinne and death and the restoring of righteousnes and life euerlasting Wherefore Dauid looking into the glasse of the law and therein beholding sinne and the wrath of God craueth that God woulde send his sonne as a most sure pledge of mercie and to blesse vs with all spirituall and heauenly blessing and to loue vs for his beloued sonnes sake For then doth God with a cheerefull and louely countenance looke vpon vs when hee reconcileth vs vnto him in Christ not imputing vnto vs our sinnes loueth vs with the same fatherly affection wherwith This foundation once laid that is we acknowledge the mediatour and receiuing by his meanes and for his sake forgiuenesse of sinnes and reconciliation wee may cry aloud with that most holy old Simeon Now Lord lettest thou thy seruaunt depart in peace according to thy word For mine eies haue seene thy saluation which thou hast prepared before the face of all people To bee a light to lighten the gentiles and to be the glorie of thy people Israel But seeing the sayinges of Isaias wherein Christ is called the saluation of God are knowne vnto all men they seeme not needfull for me heere to recite them at this time Verse 3 Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee Verse 4 O let the nations reioice and be glad for thou shalt iudge the folke righteously and gouern the nations vpon earth Verse 5 Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee Quod latet ignotum est ignoti nulla cupid● That which is kept close is not knowne the thing vnknowne no man desireth How shall they beleeue if they heare not Howe shall they heare if none doe teach Hee therefore craueth of God not only to send his sonne but also to aduaunce the gospel whereby is gathered vnto the sonne an euerlasting inheritance both from amongst the Iewes and Gentiles And I haue spoken in the argument as also elsewhere how great a benefite the calling of the nations is to the societie of the true Church and vnto life euerlasting And there is not any vice or wickednesse wherewith the Ethnickes or heathen people haue not wickedly and filthily defiled themselues For they haue deuised a great number of Gods they haue called vpon dead men they haue slaine men for their sacrifices they haue mixed their lusts with sacr●fices and finally all kindes of mi●chiefes as it were furies sent out of hell haue wandered euerie where Whereas then such outcastes are cooptate or chosen and regenerate of God into the societie of the euerlasting Church that ought all mens mindes and tongues celebrate or haue reuerence For if God should deale with seuere iudgement towardes blinde and miserable persons he might or should haue stricken downeright all men with the thunderclap of his wrath and caused the ground to swallow them vp into euerlasting destruction But he in his wrathfull displeasure thinking vpon his mercy hath not brought vs vtterly to nothing nor cast away this our wretched lumpe of ours into euerlasting tormentes but with an vnspeakeable equitie and lenitie hath graunted vs a space to turne vnto him and hath giuen vs Teachers which might call vs backe from our errour and idolatry vnto true acknowledgement of God to the right vse of calling vpon him Therefore let euery one say with Ieremie Lamentat 3.22 It is the mercies of God that wee are not consumed And againe with the patriarck Iacob I am vnworthy O Lord of all thy mercies bestowed vpon me Genes 32.9 10. Verse 6 Then shal the earth bring forth her increase and God euen our owne God shall giue vs his blessing Verse 7 God shall blesse vs and all the endes of the world shall feare him In the latter verses are two notable places one of the efficacie of the ministerie of the gospell an other of the mysterie of the Trinitie Truely the teachers and preachers of the gospel seeme to profite no more therein then as the prouerbe is The Oxen plowing vpon the sand or as he that rolleth a stone vp against a hill But that the labour of them which teache in the church is not in vaine these sayings doe witnesse Isay 55.10.11 Surely as the raigne commeth downe and the Snow from heauen and returneth not thither but watereth the earth and maketh it to bring forth and budde that it may giue seed to the sower and bread vnto him that eateth So shall my word be that goeth out of my mouth it shall not returne vnto me void but it shall accomplishe that which I will and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it In the first Psalme 3. verse A Teacher of the Gospel is cōpared vnto a fruitfull tree Which bringeth forth sweete and whole some fruites In the 15. of S. Iohns Gospel 16 verse the sonne of God saith I haue ordained you that yee doe go and bring forth fruite and that your fruite remaine c. That is the labours of them which teach shall not only for a small time profite mankinde but shal gather vnto God an euerlasting Church and the same Doctors or Teachers shall haue their euerlasting rewardes With these and such like sayinges let godly teachers comfort themselues and let them not forsake their standing by reason they finde contempt of the word now and then also pouerty banishmēts and other daungers but let them go with merry and ioyfull mindes and with hope lighten their damages But not in vaine nor without good cause is The name of God here repeated thrice For although there is one diuine essence yet notwithstanding there are three persons of this Godhead namely the Eternall father who sent his sonne to take our humane nature vpon him The same sonne who is called by Iohn 1. cap. verse 1. the word and by Isayas cap. 7.14 cap.

from other sectes Also that they might be meanes to strengthen the ministerie Dauid therefore offereth bullockes and goates not being bewitched with a pharisaicall opinion but vnderstanding those endes whereof I haue briefly spoken Let vs nowe that the policie and temple of the Iewes is destroyed offer vnto god the calues of our lippes that is thankesgiuing and confession and let vs walke in our vocation for the glorie of God Verse 14 O come hither and hearken all yee that feare God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soule Verse 15 I called vnto him with my mouth and gaue him praises with my tongue Verse 16 If I encline vnto wickednesse with my heart the Lorde wil not heare me Verse 17 But God hath heard me and considered the voyce of my prayer Verse 18 Praised be God which hath not cast out my prayer nor turned his mercy from me Hitherto hath he celebrated the publique deliuerances of the church nowe makes hee mention of priuate deliuerances to the end he would increase and confirme in others faith prayer and hope of deliuerance for as one saide elegantly The examples of godly persons are towers builded vpon the wall of faith Also this place teacheth that god seeth the sighings of our heartes and discerneth hypocrisie from true prayer For prayer is not heard except it be made in spirit and trueth And hee can not pray which hath in him an errour striuing with faith or goeth on forwardes in sinning against conscience because it is written in the first epistle of the holy apostle Saint Paule the sixt chapter and the twelft verse Fight the good fight hauing faith and good conscience Againe God heareth not sinners which do not repent them of their sinnes And it is saide in the first epistle of Saint Iohn the third chapter If our heart condemne vs not then haue wee boldnesse towardes God that whatsoeuer we aske wee receiue of him c. vers 21. and 22. Let vs therefore walke wisely not as fooles that wee may rightly call vpon God PSAL. 67. Deus misereatur nostri To him that excelleth on Neginoth a Psalme or Song or Prayer for the Church to obtaine the fauour of GOD that his iudgementes may bee knowne throughout the world and for the comming of his vniuersall kingdome vnder Christ Iesus THE ARGVMENT THere is extant a most sweete sentence in the first epistle of saint Paul vnto Timothie the third chapter and the sixteenth verse which containeth the effect of this Psalme Without controuersie great is the mysterie of godlinesse which is God is manifested in the flesh iustified in the spirit seene of angels preached vnto the Gentiles beleeued on in the world and receiued vp in glory For thinke with your selfe what a thing it is that the Sonne of God being consubstantial and coequall with his Father hath not taken away the equalitie of God that is hath not abused his power against his vocation but hath debased himselfe taking vpon him the forme of a seruant that is nature of man hauing all the strength and desires proper to nature onely without sinne and at length was made obedient vnto death euen to the death of the Crosse Againe this Messias for vs crucified and raised from death to life is endewed with notable and vnfallible testimonies of the holy ghost for publickly doth the holy ghost beare witnesse touching the person and benefites of this Lord not only by the preaching of the Apostles but also by new strange and vnusuall miracles which were the Seales of doctrine and publickly martyrs and other the godly ones haue felt ioy to bee enlightned in the acknowledgement of Christ which is the vanquisher of death And where he addeth that Christ was seene of Angels let not that bee vnderstood of an idle or vaine contemplation but of that sence or meaning whereof S. Peter speaketh that is To whom the Angels and powers and might are subiect For although we earthly persons doe not greatly maruell at the copulation of the two natures in Christ yet Aungels which are the most wisest spirites and alwaies as S. Math saith Behold the face of the father Math. 18.10 being astonished with maruelling at this mysterie stād amazed and cannot take pleasure inough with beholding it For what is more maruellous then that fleshe of our fleshe and bone of our bones shoulde sit at the right hand of God This mysterie as the Poet saith I'ts not enough we once it see It vayles we still ●t viewing be Furthermore what is so much to bee maruelled at as that the Gospel touching Christ is not only preached vnto the Gentiles but also that the effectes of faith are left in many mens heartes Wee doe lesse maruell that the doctrine of the gospel is spred amongst the Iewes in whom there haue alwaies remained some of the doctrines of the Prophets and honest Disciples But whereas this pearle is cast vnto the Gentiles seperated from the policie of Israel which were nothing but hogges and dogges that indeed is most worthy of admiration For the Ethnikes or heathen people hauing forsaken the doctrine of the fathers haue deuised Idols without end and haue polluted themselues with all vices and sinnes whereof the filthinesse is such that I eschew and tremble with feare to speake of them Neither indeed must wee maruell lesse that the Apostles being furnished with no power and destitute of all humane helpes within a small time haue gathered vnto God out of this rable of mankinde an euerlasting Church For that I may say nothing of the miserable and weake outward estate of the Apostles which estrangeth in a sort many from the gospel who would not by right maruel that the same kind of doctrine ordained farre aboue and beyond the reach of mans reason and ioyned with greatest dangers could take root yea and spread abroad also amongst so many and diuers impedimentes For some doe deride the gospel as it were a monstrous fable and scoffe at this opinion which affirmeth that the death of a man crucified was the cause and merite of Iustification before God and of life euerlasting Others doe iudge this new doctrine to be the fire brand and trumpets of seditions But Hypocrites which are in loue with their owne righteousnesse doe much more bitterly hate the gospel as it were the corruption of good maners and the liberty of discipline Therefore although the thinking heereof seemed hard and almost impossible wherewith wee must withstand so many diseases togither yet the Apostles the sonne of God guiding them and the holie Ghost accompanying them within 40. yeares space haue culled and chosen out of mankinde a good and great part of the Church in spite of the diuels their instrumentes Last of al the sonne of God is taken vp in glory that is He was from death gloriously restored vnto life and when hee had shewed himselfe familiarly for the whole space of 40. daies vnto his Apostles he ascended

power for euer his eyes behold the people and such as will not beleeue shal not be able to exalt themselues Heere is a notable description attributing vnto God immense and eternall power and affirming that God careth for mankinde for like as hee made of no thing all things so thenceforth he hath beene willingly present at his worke and either helpeth the order of second causes or hindereth them or altogether changeth them Non igitur est Deus noster numen Parcarum carcere clausum Our God then is no such god at all as Death shuts vp in his prison wall Ipse potest Solis currus inhibere volantes Ipse velut scopulos flumina stare iubet The shining Sunnes swift race he staies And makes floudes stand like rockes in seas And although many are the testimonies of Gods prouidence yet the iustice of God is specially seene in his punishments for by vsuall rules grieuous punishments alwayes are companions of grieuous offences and the examples of Tyrants are so vsuall as the Poet crieth out Ad generum Cereris fine caede vulnere pauc●● Descendunt reges sicca morte tyranni Vnto Dame Ceres sonne in lawe few kings go downe we see From death or wound or tyrants with a drie death scape scot fr6ee And Claudianus the Poet confesseth that hee was by Ruffinus his punishment vehemently confirmed against doubting of gods prouidence in these verses Saepe mihi dubium traxit sententia mentem Curarent Superi terras an nullus inesset Rector incerto fluerent mortalia casu c. Postea Abstulit hunc tandem Ruffini paena tumultum Absolu●tque deos iam non ad culmina rerum Iniustos cr●uisse quaror Tolluntur in altum Vt lapsu grauiore ruant c. In English thus This sentence oft in doubt hath drawne my minde Whether that the gods had of the earth regard Or that there were no gouernor assignde Or humane matters ranne by hap hazard c. Afterwards But this same doubt Ruffinus death did cleere Pardoning the gods That people now vniust I say clime not so high but lift vp heere With greater fall they downe lie in the dust Verse 7 O praise our God yee people and make the voyce of his praise to be heard Verse 8 Which holdeth our soule in life and suffereth not our feete to slip He repeateth the proposition exhortacorie and laieth vnto the same a new reason because he saith the Lord is the author and fountaine of life not onely of that life heere which is common vnto vs with plantes and other liuing creatures and which is the passage to death but of that life also which alone is to be named a life For as it is said in Deut. 30.20 For he is our life and the length of our dayes in him we are liue and mooue And as it is said in the 17. chapter of the Actes For in him wee liue and moue and haue our being verse 28. But seeing this life figuratiue is not stedfast to continue long but scarce for one day for reckon our longest age with eternitie we shall be found almost in the same shortnesse of life as Aristotle saith the silly wormes of the earth do liue but one day God such is his goodnes doth also impart vnto vs the fellowship of life euerlasting then which no thing may be thought better nor more abundant in all blessings In the meane while He suffereth not our feete to slip that is he gouerneth vs with his holy spirit lest we should fall headlong into epicureall furies or other fanaticall errors This gouernement if any do thinke it to be a slender benefit they are more foolish then the Thracians which as Aristotle writeth coulde not in numbering reckon any further then fiue onely Verse 9 For thou O God hast prooued vs thou also hast tried vs like as siluer is tried Verse 10 Thou broughtest vs into the snare and laidest trouble vpon our loynes Verse 11 Thou sufferedst menne to ride ouer our heades we went through fire and water and thou broughtest vs out into a wealthy place As saint Paul saith Rom. chap. 5. verse 2. We reioyce not vnder the hope o● the glory of God onely but also wee reioyce in tribulations knowing that tribulation bringeth forth patience and patience experience and experience hope And hope maketh not ashamed because the loue of God is shed abroade in our heartes by the holy ghost which is giuen vnto vs verses 2 3 4 5. As if he saide we esteeme it a thing to be reioyced of not onely to haue ful deliuerance from sinne and death but also when wee performe obedience vnto God in our calamities For first we our selues which endure calamities do more feruently call vpon god then others doe which are in prosperitie Next of all in this obedience we do make our selues knowne to serue God not for pleasure or profite sake but for the regarde of his glorie Thirdly our calamities are testimonies touching the doctrine which we professe and that immortalitie which shall followe after this life for what wise man is he ●hat for imaginations of opinions or trifling matters to speake of would bring his life into danger Furthermore who would without hope of better life cast downe his body to death or by wound receiued die a faire death No man dieth willingly yea though hee knowe hee should suffer iust punishment by the lawes Therefore the afflictions of the holy ones are not onely exercises of faith and prayer but also testimonies of two most speciall things namely of Doctrine and Immortalitie Last of all the holy ones by their example confirme the weake ones and mooue others vnto the acknowledgement of the true God Verse 12 I will goe into thy house with burnt offerings and will pay thee my vowes which I promised with my lippes and spake with my mouth when I was in trouble Verse 13 I will offer vnto thee fat burnt sacrifices with the incense of Rammes I wil offer bullockes and goates It is an vsual thing in this life of lewd men which Pindarus the poet saieth Vetus gratia dormit homines sunt immemores Olde grace and fauour sleepeth And man little in minde keepeth And many are so false of faith that the earnest vowes which they made in their miseries they trifle out with vngodly mockery There is extant an apologie of one suffering shipwracke who when amongst flouds and stormes he had promised vnto god a recompence aboue his degree afterwards comming to shoare laughing saide he sawe no man claime that he promised and that hee could pacifie God with a salt cake Such vnthankefulnes is not in Dauid who both acknowledgeth by whome he is preserued and performeth promised thankfulnesse with a good faith And I haue often saide that Leuiticall sacrifices were not therefore ordained to take away sinnes but to be signes of the promise touching the Deliuerer that shoulde come and markes discerning this people