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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

presence and helpe in calamities Also his mitigation and deliuerance from the same And it is a speciall deliuerance whereas by Iordan that is by the miseries of this life the sonne of God leadeth vs into the land of Canaan that is into the life euerlasting But the whole doctrine touching causes and remedies of humane miseries is elsewhere plentifullie expounded He that will may from thence borrow more matter For we do not now write of places but we interpret Psalms and least this Commentarie appeare too much in matter we are contented with the direction of those places which are extant in all mens hands God shal wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalpe of such a one as goeth on still in his wickednes The Lord hath said I will bring my people againe as I did from Basan mine owne will I bring againe as I did from the deepe of the sea That thy foote may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies and that the tongue of thy dogges may be red through the same He addeth vnto the description of the triumphant pompe a prophecie touching the destruction of the Iewish nation for their blinde obstinacie striuing setting themselues against the Gospel And this prophecie agréeth with the saying of Christ Luke 19. 44. All those things shall come vpon thee because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation Nowe indéed it is sufficientlie apparant that the Iewes for their contempt of Christ hauing lost their kingdome and priesthoode do wander in perpetuall banishment and are the most miserable persons of all others vppon whome the sunne shineth And although the greatest multitude of the Iewes be with tragicall punishments oppressed yet notwithstanding out of this skum of mankinde God hath culled or picked out some remnantes as in the 2. cap. Actes When Peters preaching was heard 3000. Iewes were conuerted vnto Christ and in the next yeare after the resurrection of Christ Paule the apostle was conuerted And there is extant in the 11. cap. of S. Paule to the Rom. 27. a prophecie touching the downefall of the Chruch of the Gentiles and of the conuersion of the Iewes It is well seene O God how thou goest howe thou my God and King goest in thy sanctuary The singers go before the minstrels follow after in the midst are the Damsels playing with the timbrels He returneth vnto the triumphant pompe whose ornament was musicke For the greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is by the description of a figs leafe and the foote Iambus in verse For nothing is more swéete then victorie and the foote Iambus is most speciallie applied vnto the following of enemies which are led captiues in the triumph And what maner of song the people both going before and also following the chariot ought to sing S. Paul in the 5. Ephes v. 19. and 4. Coloss verse 2. there prescribing the rule of spirituall musicke teacheth vs at large Giue thankes O Israell vnto God the Lorde in the congregations from the ground of thy hart This little verse is short but it admonisheth the Reader touching the greatest matters God will not haue vs to serue him with the sacrifice to Ceres shut vp in close place of vs. For as Christ saith Matth. 5. 15. No man lighteth a candle and afterwards putteth it vnder a bushell But he will haue the church to bee a visible congregation and to haue honest meetinges publikelie wherein the preaching of the Gospell maie sound and hee heard touching the sonne of God And therfore doth he with a meruailous power saue yea and shall preserue his church in honest congregations and he wil haue euerie man to helpe and maintaine the preseruation of these publique méetings that the ministery of teaching maie bee preserued There will God haue a common praier and thankesgiuing to be made there will hee haue confession to be shewed which kind of doctrine euerie man may embrace And he biddeth vs to take the doctrine of the church not out of the cesterns of mans traditions nor out of Aristotles Ethickes but out of the holie and sacred fountaines of Israell that is from the Prophets and Apostles for all other sectes without the true church do onelie teach a particle of the law touching externall and ciuill duties and some of them do bring with them other worshippings of Idols But they are altogether ignorant of the sonne of God and of his gospell that is the promise of the free remission of sinnes also of our reconciliation and of our inheritance of life euerlasting to be giuen vs by faith in the sonne our Mediator But the Church draweth out of the welspring of Israel the sound perfect and vncorrupt doctrine of the law and the gospell and the pure knowledge of the sonne of God for vs crucified and raised from death to life There is little Beniamin their ruler and the Princes of Iuda their Counsaile The princes of Zabulon and the princes of Nephthaly Although the world do iudge the Apostles to be miserable wandring persons and hateth and curseth them as gasing stocks the ofscourings of the world 1. Cor. 49. 13. yet the holie ghost adorneth these ministers with the most praise worthy title of princes For the Apostles haue the testimonie of the holie ghost that they do not erre in doctrine These Captaines do other teachers and preachers in the church followe vnto whom no credit must bee giuen except their confession do agrée with the foundation of the Apostles as S. Paule saith 2. Ephes 20. And are built vpon the foundation of the Prophets Apostles Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone But why doth he here saie There is little Beniamin their ruler Certes it may signifie that only of all the Apostles Paul being borne of the tribe of Beniamin a great and good part of the Church should be gathered out of Europe and Asia I stand not to be precise touching the speciall dignitie of anie apostle but I reuerence them al as the instruments of God sounding forth the preaching of the gospell throughout all the world And yet cannot this bee denied that Paule himselfe with a liuelie voice witnesseth of himselfe and letting passe most vpright testimonies of others He did greater thinges then the other Apostles like as he himselfe not vntruly glorieth Let vs therefore giue thankes to God for this excellent Organ or instrument and like little hounds let vs licke vp the crums falling from Paules table which are full of excellent words and sentences Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee Stablish the thing O God that thou hast wrought in vs. First in this verse let the misterie of the Trinitie be well marked For like as in 45. Psal the persons of the godhead are discerned where he saith in the 8. ver of the psal Therefore God euen thy God hath anointed thee with oyle of gladnes aboue thy fellowes So in