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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

a most cruell tyrant tormenting me hath depriued me of all my senses leauing onely my vnderstanding that by ioyning the knowledge of my hurt and losse he might also increase my sorow He should litle hurt if he had depriued me altogether of all vse of my senses and had made me vtterly senselesse in all my actions but he hath depriued me thereof for doing that which is good and hath violently inforced me to euill and hath so infected my minde which is altogether bent to outward things with a certaine astonishment of inward senselesnesse that she cannot feele her 1. Tim. 4. inward hurtes for when I should haue heard I was deafe and turned mine eare from the trueth but when it had beene fitte for mee to stoppe mine eares from hearing vnprofitable things and the toyes of many men I was swift to heare and a gentle hearer Heauenly things I tasted vnsauerly my soule lothed all spirituall meate but I iudged earthly things sweeter then the honie the honie combe Psal 100. I was blinde and an earthly man in beholding those things that were Gods but worldly things I looked vpon with a proude eye and desired them with an vnsatiable heart Neither in my senses alone but in my members also which God gaue to me for the seruice of my soule did mine auncient enemie shut vp from me the way of saluation and prepared such ambushes against me in this cruell siege as I was neuer able to auoide them but so often as I tried to flie away I fell into his hands For I did offend both by seeing and refusing to see by hearing and by being deafe speaking and holding my peace standing and sitting sleeping and waking walking and resting to conclude I changed all the peculiar and common vse of my senses and members into a filthie abuse burning in my vncleane desires so that I haue transgressed all the lawes both of God man and nature and haue liued diligent in obseruing onely the law of sinne I would to God I onely had beene so and nowe were not but alas because I am yet the same that before I was and nothing changed from that I followed the worst for my sicke will doeth yet beare rule and my most foule stinking soule that is filled euery where with horrible soares that proceede only from it selfe doeth still perseuere in the old euils I am often angry with my self because I am wearie to liue when I am not weary to sinne I know my folly and am confounded being cōfounded reproue my self saying O carnall louer why doest thou so long wallowe in the mire of thy concupisence why art thou so carefully busie for earthly things and doest so earnestly desire those goods which shall perish or with what reasō callest thou goods those things thou gainest with so much labour and the great hurt of thy soule and being gained possessest in feare and being possessed leesest with griefe O my soule why doest thou forget thine owne proper estate and nobilitie and art not ashamed to endure a miserable and shamefull bondage vnder the corruption of thy corporall senses why art thou deceiued with the vnfaithfull promises of the world markest not that the chiefe good thereof is a vapour that appeareth but a little season and a vanitie of vanities Blush and be ashamed O miserable sinner howe often hast thou departed from thy Creatour and turned to deceitfull creatures and comming againe to thy selfe beholde with any sight of thy minde how cruelly in respect S. Bernar. of a miserable hūting thy soule hath bowelled her selfe whilest with an immoderate desire catching at a vile praye of flies shee hath like the spider made nets for her selfe of her owne bowels Againe and Rom. 6. againe I say Blush at that wherein thou hast had no fruite and lament thy lost time that blushing may bring Prou. 23. thee fruite Yeelde thy heart vnto God and thou shalt pay that thou owest With these speeches I rage against my selfe when being inwardly admonished I enter into my selfe and consider with my heart what I haue lost and what I haue found but I doe Rom. 7. not that good which I like but the euill that I will that I doe for mine enemie holdeth my will and doeth keepe me being fashioned according to the former desires of mine ignorance captiue vnder the law Rom. 8. of sinne But thou O Lorde God of vertues the tower of my strength and the ruler of my life doe not withdrawe thy helpe from me looke vnto my defence and protect me Psal 25 vnder the shadowe of thy wings least I fall in the sight of mine aduersaries and mine enemie reioycing against me say I haue preuailed against him Breake the bands of my reproch vnder which I haue beene made crooked and lose the cordes of my sinnes wherewith I am strongly bounde O most mightie Lorde and make knowen thy power vnto mine enemies that I may offer vnto thee a sacrifice of gladnesse saying Who shall Psal 105 speake the power of the Lord or who shall declare all his prayses that deliuered my soule from death my feete from sliding who hath saued me from the lyons mouth and my lowlinesse from the hornes of Vnicornes To whō should Psal 21. I crie but to thee vpon whom all our fathers haue called and haue beene saued to thee I say who neuer deceiuest them that hope in thee set me therefore neere thee and let any mans hand sight against me for I will feare no euill because thou art with me All my desires are before thee blot out and put away whatsoeuer is strange from thee renue create and confirme whatsoeuer thou hast giuen me that casting away all carnall and vnprofitable desires the sinner may bee praysed in the desire Psal 9. of his heart and coueting to enioy thee the onely Psal 118. true pleasure my request may come before thy face and I may cōfidently say vnto thee Psal 20. graunt vnto him O my God the desire of my soule for I knowe and am assured that Iob 6. no man can desire thee but by thy selfe nor come vnto thee vnlesse thou draw him Drawe me therefore O Lorde and graunt vnto me that I may begin in a good desire that I may ende and perfite it in a good worke before my olde custome oppresse my newe desire my former will strenthened by age conquer my newe will least when right things please me I returne to my old wont Clothe me with the precious garments of thy saluation and thy beautie and put off frō me the vile clothes of my widdowhead wherein Ephes 4. being depriued of thee I walke according to the ancient conuersatiō of the old man doe not any more remember the shame of my widdowhead that being newely clothed in Esai 54. thee become a newe man I may with a newe spirit serue thee in newnes of life and in the

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

sword my sleepe is troubled with diuers illusions bringing me no rest but trauaile I watch all night in my thoughts when as being wearied I endeuour to giue some sleepe to mine eye lids by and by sleepe departeth from mine eyes and I sleepe alwayes in sorowes being wakened with an vnquiet wearines from the care of the Iob 30. day and all my inward partes are inflamed without rest The Iob 33. meate which before I desired is made abominable vnto my soule and my drinke is mingled Psal 101. with teares and confusion is before mine eies and rednes in my cheekes whē I remember how grieuously I haue offended thee O my God and in howe many sortes I haue abused my strength and thy gitfes I haue spent my dayes in vanities euerlasting cares haue consumed me and being caried hither and thither with senseles cogitations I haue spent my time I fained to my selfe dreames oftentimes and reioyced and vanished away being deluded in my vanities and madnes I ascended into Psal 106. heauen and by and by descended vnto the deepe and while Psal 41. one deepe calleth another my soule did consume in euill I did rot before the eies of men I wished impossible things by the fantasticall fruition of them I was made like vnto them that sleepe and rising from their sleepe haue found nothing in their hands I am a vile worme and yet O Lord I did neuer know thee but with an high forehead haue exalted my selfe alone aboue all I haue rashly boasted of my wordes and in pride thought them to be wisedome I was an enemie vnto my companions and being angrie with many did reproche them without cause I hated patience loued wrath and would be angry without reason I cursed my seruants and familiars yea and my selfe also when I was angrie and scornefully reproched my friends I did vnwillingly beare mine aduersities and haue put my trust in man more then in God I heard the trueth vnpatiently and answered the wise in furie I sought iniuries and reuenges willingly and neuer reserued reuenge vnto God I waxed cruell against him that defended his owne cause neither did a soft answere or a Prou. 6. gentle man please me I tooke pleasure in strife and contention and as a wicked man did often sow discord hatred among brethrē I receiued with mine eares wholesome and good counsels but did not apprehend discipline I did with a milde countenance beholde such counsailours as tickled mine eares but those that spake vnto mee with a free minde I put farre from me I Tobia helde not out my hand to the needie neither did I eate my Tobit bread with the hungrie the beggers and lepers did lie in the streetes and I passed away turning mine eies from them least my bowels should be stirred and I moued with mercie should giue almes vnto them I payed not my debt to them that did lende vnto me and did borowe to satisfie my inordinate desire I coueted to be rich that I might doe vnlawfull things and in all godly dueties shewed my self poore and what I wanted to godlinesse did largely abound vnto my lust I reioyced beyonde measure in all gluttonie and bankets and with vnsatiable greedinesse offended nature that is contented with little My belly was as it were my Philip. 3. god my glory in the shames of those that sauour earthly things I sought the sweetest and most exquisite meates and with the pretence of necessitie I did often shadowe the desire of pleasure I put my Psal 49. portion among the adulterers and my familiar conuersation was among fornicators I was immoderately conuersant in blood and being like vnto bruite beastes I was so ouerthrowne in this vice that I shame to speake what I shamed not to doe Mine eare and my tongue serued vanitie whilest by the one the oile of sinners did make my head fat and with the other I supplied often that which others seemed to want concerning my prayse and as oportunitie serued I did set foorth to others mine owne prayse and did alwayes reioyce to be set foorth both by mine owne and other mens speeches To conclude I liued in all kinde of pleasure of this world being banished farre and wide from the delightes of thy house and if at any time the feare of death and the last iudgement did quicken my slouth and for a litle time call me frō the deepe gulfe of pleasure by and by I returned as a dogge to his vomite Being dead in them I yet liue and abiding in death I hasten to death and see death also swift by comming vnto me But let thy mercy O Lord Psal 78. quickly preuent me before that terrible day of miserie and calamitie doe come the great Psal 25. and bitter day that though I Zeph. 1. die I may liue and declare thy mercies aboue all thy workes Looke backe O Lord and beholde howe my soule lieth in her concupiscences sicke of the palsie and is euill vexed there with deliuer it from the fast birdlime of death that it may cleaue vnto thee alone who onely art the true life and leauing all others follow thee that art aboue all Say vnto my soule O Lord God of my saluation Psal 27. 54. Math. 15 be it vnto thee as thou desirest make me to heare this thy voyce a voyce of reioycing and saluation that I may runne after it and take hold of thee and keepe thee fast and not let thee goe vntill thou sendest me whole away For being sicke to whom shall I goe but to thee that I may be cured or who can heale mine infirmitie but he that for man mankind came downe from heauen that they might be healed of their griefs who can 1. Reg● quicken but he that doth mortifie quicken all things who can saue but thou O my God my Sauiour in the time of tribulation saue therefore and quicken me thou that art the life and euerlasting saluation of al that put their trust in thee And to thee that art without 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beginning be glorie without end to thee be praise and honour to thee be cōtinual worship thankesgiuing thou that art the euerlasting spring of mercies for I was gone farre from thee and did runne away and yet thou doest speedily come to him that is sicke and runne away when he calleth vpon thee doest graunt him health before thou hearest his sighes for to be willing to be healed is ynough that thou shouldest heale and to be willing to liue that thou shouldest graunt life and in the blessing of thy sweetenes doest thou preuent the desire Psal 20. of a sinner that doeth knowe himselfe Therefore I will say vnto thee O Lord and it shall suffice vnto me I knowe mine Psal 50. iniquitie what is it to know but I will bee healed and howe doe I know because all my bones are vexed