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A20489	Psalmes of confession found in the cabinet of the most excellent King of Portingal, Don Antonio, first of that name, written with his owne hand. Wherein the sinner calleth vpon the mercie of God for his sinne. Translated out of the Latine copie, printed at Paris by Federike Morell.; Psalmi confessionales. English	António, Prior of Crato, 1531-1595.	1596 (1596)	STC 690; ESTC S108316	19,806	78

PSALMES OF CONFESSION found in the Cabinet of the most excellent King of Portingal Don Antonio first of that name written with his owne hand Wherein the Sinner calleth vpon the mercie of God for his sinne Translated out of the Latine copie printed at Paris by Federike Morell LONDON Printed by G. Bishop R. Nuberie and R. Barker Anno Domini 1596. PSALMES OF CONFESSION wherein the Sinner calleth vpon the mercie of God for his sinne PSALM I. WHo shal giue water vnto Esai 9. my head and a fountaine of teares for mine eyes that I may be able to lament and bewayle the losses of my soule with griefe agreeable thereunto for there is a manifest and great cause of sorowe when with the sight of my minde I behold mine auncient dayes and my youthfull yeeres in this meditation my Psal 76. spirite hath failed me for I Psal 79. knowe what I was yea rather what I should haue beene and vnderstand what I am and feare what I shall be and the lesse I sorowe so much the more I feare I would to God I sorowed more that I might feare lesse But woe to me O Lorde for nowe a long time thou smitest and yet I sorowe not thou callest and yet I heare not thou knockest and yet I open not the barre of my heart The sorowes of death Psal 114. compasse me rounde about and being filled with many sorowes without I feele inwardly no sorowe that may worke vnto saluation And I feele not onely the sorowes of old age but I am a man of sorow from my youth vpward and all my Psal 87. dayes are full of trauaile and griefes and yet I sorowe because that alway sorowing I Psal 53. cannot sorowe O marueilous Eccles 2. and vnspeakeable wisedome of the heauenly Physitian O wonderfull goodnesse of the high King O singular benefite of him that is the giuer of all good things for thou O God giuest vnto me sorowe least I perish in pleasures and that I may learne to reioyce without offence thou giuest me sorowe for a time that I may not suffer euerlasting paines thou afflictest my body that thou mayest saue my soule thou scourgest that thou mayest heale and killest that thou mayest quicken But alas vnwillingly doe I receiue thy salue out of the secrete hand of thy mercie and being ignorant doe not acknowledge the soueraigne medicine of healthfull sorowes wherewith thou art mercifully seuere against me and how doe I acknowledge it If I earnestly desire to be deliuered from sorowes who without sorowes cannot be healed for howe shall he be healed without sorowes who by delightes is made sicke Therfore O Lord make me to sorowe and teach me a sauing sorowe that my griefe may be turned into ioy Iohn 16. Psal 12. and that I may reioyce in thy saluation saying Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning c. PSALM II. DAyes passe and yeeres slide away but I vnhappie man who after so many corruptions of my soule after so many most grieuous and long falles doe not yet repent nor am afflicted for my sinnes neglect the often falling againe into them care not for rising from them heaping newe vnto olde and greater vnto lesse What shall I doe O Lord or whither shall I goe Psal 138 when my last time shall come where shall I be hidden from the countenance of thy wrath or whither shall I flie away from thy face when thou shalt call me vnto iudgement and require of me accompt of the talent giuen vnto me What shall I answere vnto thee or howe shall I excuse my negligence when thou shalt sit vpon the throne of thy Maiestie and command me to giue accompt of my stewardship to Matth. 5. Luke 16. the vttermost farthing Surely I will say Lord I suffer violence answere for me for who Esai 38. am I that I shoulde answere vnto thee in iudgement But what if thou compel me to answere I will say as a man confounded fearing and trembling O Lord I haue gained Matt. 25. nothing thereupon Yea I haue Luke 15. wickedly and vainely consumed thy talent and by loose liuing I haue spent thy goods surely I haue spoken foolishly by saying liuing for I should better haue sayed by dying But I then thought I liued and loe I was dead because I liued without thee my true life And if I liued at any time with thee I scarce remember it Yea if the life of a wicked man may rather be called death then life I may worthily say that I sooner began to die then liue For I did not perfectly vnderstand what life was whē I had forsaken thee that art the life of liues and the fountaine of life malice did supplie mine age in manifold wickednesse I was scarce come out of my mothers wombe and already was a sinner Comming into the world being yet ignorant of sinne I did bewaile the sinne wherein my parents begotte me neither did I altogether leaue bewailing others sinnes when I cōmitted mine owne which I knowe and did not be wayle Being an infant I followed iniquities and spent my childehood wherein I S. August should haue beene pure vnpurely there breathed sinfull vapours from the slimie concupiscence of my flesh and the spring of my youth and did shadow my heart that it could not discerne light from darkenesse and the cleerenes of the mind from the mist of lust and traitrous and craftie pleasures did carie my weake forgetfull loose age into the headlong rockes of lust so as I boyled vp in whorings desiring to be satisfied in hell from my childehood I grewe to growing yeeres neither was I sooner growing towards youth then my wickednes did growe ripe and I was bold to growe wilde in diuers and shadowie lustes by the which being drawen and entised with the gulfe of wickednesse I was Iames 1. 1. Tim. 6. drowned to death and destruction The euill and wicked dayes of my growing yeeres passed on and I grewe toward youth but I returned backward so much filthie in vanities as I was elder I was a yong man and came to be a man but vice alwayes florished in me in steade of vertue I waxed olde and gray and did not walke in thy wayes but as a child of an hundred yeres being nowe an olde man I liue childishly Where then haue I beene at any time innocent that I would be iudged of thee according vnto the time of mine innocencie though thou diddest appoint it me vnto iudgement For Psal 118. Psal 61. Iob. 9. thou art iust O Lord and righteous is thy iudgement and thou renderest to euery man according to his workes And I feare all mine because they are the workes of darkenesse and I haue beene a worker of iniquitie from the beginning and haue alway willingly followed the pathes of the vnrighteous I haue wallowed in sinne as the swine

in filthines and as he was fed with coddes so was I delighted with filthie and vaine wordes and grieued with earnest profitable sayings I did communicate with those that wrought iniquitie did banquet with the chiefe of them did glorie in sinne Psal 51. being mightie in iniquitie I loued to excuse and could not accuse my selfe and made heauie my heart and the more vncurable is my sinne for that I did not thinke my selfe to be a sinner Neither did I only not seeke a medicine for my soule that was sicke vnto death but refused it being offered yea with an vnreuerent and vntamed mind was wroth against them that would minister it vnto me I persecuted them that reprooued me and imbraced them that spake pleasingly to me and was delighted in their speeches that had not their heart right vnto thee I studied deuises and lies and in all things loued rather darknesse Iohn 3. then light Beholde O Lord I haue declared my selfe vnto thee this is the course of my life wherein I haue deserued thy wrath This will I answere vnto thee when thou shalt aske me of me But doe Psal 25. not remember the offences of my youth nor my ignorances O Lorde and enter not into Psal 142 iudgement with thy seruant for no liuing creature shall be iustified in thy sight but if thou Esai 61. wilt enter because thou art a God that louest iudgement doe iudgement vnto me but not iustice and iudge me according Psal 18. to the iudgement of those that loue thy name that I may sing vnto thee mercie Psal 106. and iudgement Remember O Lord that though I am wicked yet am I thy seruant and the sonne of thy handmaide Psal 81. and doe not looke vnto the multitude of my miseries but vnto the greatnes of thy mercies Abak 3. and when thou shalt be angrie against me for my wickednesse remember thy mercie that thou bee not angrie with me for euer but haue mercie vpon thy afflicted seruant that my soule may praise thee and confesse thy mercifulnesse Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning c. PSALM III. VVOe vnto me O wretched man because I haue made my Redeemer angrie against me and haue rebelliously neglected his Law I haue willingly forsaken the right way and as a sheepe that Psal 62. refuseth his shepheard I haue beene caried farre and wide round about through drie vnwatered places wandring in the wildernesse and not in the way I haue gone to all rough vnaccessable places and euery Sapi. 3. where was anguish and tribulation I haue beene wearied in the way of iniquitie and perdition and haue walked in hard wayes seeking rest finding none because I did not seeke thee O Lord but was in a barren lande in the countrie of death where is no rest but continuall labour and affliction of the spirit dwelleth there When I was in honour I did Psal 48. not vnderstand but as one of the flocke of brute beastes my dwelling was among the walkes of wilde beasts I dwelt in anguish with pleasures and among thornes did I make my bed and slept in death and hoped for rest in torments Nowe therefore what shall I doe whither shall I turne my selfe in these so great dangers All the hopes of my youth are fallen downe and I am made like one that hath suffred shipwracke who hauing lost his merchandize swimmeth away naked being tossed with wind and sea I am caried farre from the hauen and doe not take hold of the way of saluation but am caried away on the left hand The enemie hath placed nets for me which way soeuer I went and snares for my feete and I despised them and walked securely in slipperie places and flattered my selfe in sinnes I thought youth was not helde by the lawe of death and being deceiued by this confidence I followed the filthie desires of my flesh and gaue the raines beyonde all measure to sensualitie following it whither soeuer the force thereof did carie me and said a foole in my heart wherfore Psal 5● doest thou thinke of the ende before the middle thou hast many dayes yet remaining and maiest be conuerted when thou listest So waxed I olde in sinnes and a most wicked custome was turned into nature and nowe like a bondslaue vnto Barnard sinne I serue as it were inchained and as a mad man haling his owne flesh seeketh to hurt himselfe all reason of deliberation being quenched so I more grieuously and dangerously haue hated mine owne soule for the impenitence of my heart and obstinate wilfulnesse hath layed violente and wicked hands vpon me and hath torne in pieces and exulcerated my soule and so hauing brought vnto my selfe the heapes of hell euery day more and more according to my hardnesse and impenitent Rom. 2. heart I doe whoord wrath against the day of wrath I haue made triall sometime to shake off the olde yoke but am not able because it cleaueth to my bones O that at length it may fall from my necke that I may loue thee though late it shall surely sal away if thou O Lord command and send me helpe from aboue I confesse I haue not deserued it but thou O most gracious giuer who makest the Sunne to rise indifferently vpon the good and bad and grauntest temporall blessings to the vnworthy euen when they aske them not how canst thou denie spiritual things to those that shall require them Haue mercy therfore vpon me O Lord and fulfill the desire of a poore man thou that art riche in mercie Ephes 2. and art woont cheerefully to Rom. 12. haue mercie and doest purge the will from euill custome and hearest the gronings of Psal 101. those that are bound and loosest vs from the bands which we haue made vnto our selues vnlesse we raise vp against thee the hornes of false libertie Giue thy right hand vnto the Iob 14. Psal 36. worke of thine owne hands that when I fall I may not be bruised and being bruised I may not be drawen into the Esai 14. deepe lake wherein is no water Deliuer me frō the mouth Psal 16. of the cruell lyon that is ready for the praye and gapeth after my soule that he may deuoure it for thou onely art my protectour and deliuerer and in thy mercie alone is all my hope Let thy mercie therefore Psal 3● Psal 3● be done vnto me according as I haue trusted in thee I haue trusted and shall not be confounded but obtaining my desire shall sing vnto thee Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning c. PSALM IIII. MY nightes passe away in griese and vexe me with innumerable terrors my conscience shaketh me while I am awake and I am tormented therewith as if I were wounded with a two edged

within me and my soule is very much Psal 60. troubled for my sinnes Behold nowe I lay all mine iniquities before thy sight O my God Psal 40. that thou mayest cure heale my soule because it hath sinned against thee For as thou Psal 5. art a God that desirest not iniquitie so wilt thou not the death of a sinner but rather Ezec. 18. that hee should be conuerted and liue For the dead shall not prayse thee O Lord but wee Psal 105. that liue doe blesse the Lord and confesse vnto him for he is good and his mercie is euerlasting Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning c. PSALM V. I Haue reuealed my miseries vnto thee O Lord not to make knowen my wayes vnto thee that diddest know them all from the beginning and hast numbred all my steps for Iob 31. thou knowest the hidden places of darknesse and all things Psal 43. are naked and open to thine eyes and thou doest not onely see but also discerne the lurking Hebr. 4. places of our thoughtes and the marrowe of our affections but I vncouer that thou maiestcouer and protect I reueale that thou mayest hide and knowe in me an humble and contrite spirite and by the Psal 50. offring of this sacrifice which is most acceptable vnto thee be mercifull vnto me and forgiue Luke 18. my sinnes I haue spoken many and great things and yet haue saide little for the worme of my conscience doth Barnard pricke me in more I would to God it might gnaw away the rottennesse that by gnawing it might consume it and withall be it selfe consumed and that it begin not to be cherished in immortalitie but let it bite that it may die and by little and little by biting leaue biting But woe vnto me for when I thinke I haue made an ende of telling my euils then am I constrained to begin againe as it were and my memorie being full of vncleannesse doeth more abundantly remember much more filthinesse for I haue sinned aboue the number of the sands of the sea and if I had a hundred tongues a hundred mouths I shall skarse answere one of a thousand thousand yet that increaseth my griefe that I can not remember all my filthines past and the fleshly corruptions of my soule for while I commit newe sinnes I forget the olde but those that I remember I will not hide not that I wil loue them any more but that I may loue thee most earnestly O my God and that I remembring my most wicked wayes in the bitternesse of my remembrance thou mayest S. Augu. be sweete vnto me O sweetenesse that art not deceaueable O amiable sweetenes O happie and secure sweetenes then enuie was familiar vnto me and charitie was estranged frō me I slandered Kings Princes and the Ministers of the Church and did bite them with a lying murmuring I did disgrace the desertes and praises of the iust and allowed the doings of the wicked if at any time there were a commendable Fra. Petrarch speeche concerning good men I obiected false spots and did discouer their secret infirmities for most light things did accuse them to others as guiltie of a greater crime Againe if there were any infamie of the wicked I did by and by set forwarde their slender vertues and preferred them in desert before their betters and so was cause of their greater ruine If I sawe a thiefe I did Psal 44. runne with him and to fulfill mine iniquitie I raysed offence against my mothers sonne spared not to slander and deceiue my kinsefolke I wished to my neighbours sorrow and ill happe and in his death onely did I set my hope I did not defend the cause of the innocent did vpbraide the guiltie as if I reioyced at their torments I rashly iudged many guiltie of faultes and seeing a litle moate in my brothers eie I did not feele a great beame Luke 6. in my owneeie I loued slouthfulnesse as my mother idlenesse was as my brother and I did auoide all honest exercise and labour I waxed heauie from day to day and did not giue God thankes for his dayly benefites bestowed vpon me and thou O Lord knowest howe seldome I did by night meditate vpon thy lawe and thy wonderfull workes I often spent the whole night without sleepe and when my mind did wander from thee hither and thither to many things thou diddest neuer meet with it I went to bed without thee I lay in my bed without thee I rose from my bed without thee without thee the day shined vpon me passed wholly away without thee and therefore was I alway without thee because I was alway with my selfe who in my darke affections am farre from thee yet if at any time thou camest into my minde and that I did begin to consider thy marueilous workes suddenly the burthen of the worlde as in sleepe is vsuall did sweetely presse me downe and my thoughtes wherewith I did meditate on thee were like the endeuours of those that would wake and yet conquered with the depth of sleepinesse are drowned againe I often purposed to determine of the affaires of my conscience but the present day doeth alway delude me with the expectation of that which is to come I rested vnto a brittle and deceitfull foundation and leaned vpon a broken reede when as trusting thereto I thought I stood sure I fell into the fire and when I S. Augu. fell I knewe howe weakely I had stood I gaped with an vnquencheable thirst after honour and gaine and in these desires I suffered most cruell difficulties Euery disordered vndisciplined man was my friend and I defiled the veine of friendship with the filth of concupiscence and obscured the whitenesse thereof with hellish lust Tragicall spectacles full of the showes of my miseries and the foode of my fire did drawe me and I did not only not shut the passages against death but opened also S. Barnar the windowes vnto it and all my members were seuerall windowes through the which death entred into my soule And so newe filthinesse growing on I haue not purged the olde nay rather from thence did spring in me many sinnes for which I am cast out from before thy face O my God being depriued of the comfort of thy presence I fall almost into desperation knowing not whither I goe but departing from thee whither shall I goe and who wil looke vpon my face if thou turne thine away from me and as a reprobate depriue me of thy sight I shall vndoubtedly become hatefull vnto all men and as a wanderer and runnagate in the land I shal be made a shame skorne vnto them when they shall aske of me where is thy God and wherefore Psal 73. hath he put thee frō him what shall I doe therefore O wretched man