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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06112	A very fruitful & godly exposition vpo[n] the. xv. Psalme of Dauid called Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle. Made by M. Ihon Epinus, preacher to the churche of Hamborough: and translated oute of Latin into English by N.L.	Aepinus, Johann, 1499-1553.; Lesse, Nicholas.	1548 (1548)	STC 166.5; ESTC S101644	95,234	320

that the beste Iudges haue ben alwaye the poorest and of smallest substaunce The olde auncient Romaines what time they were rulers alone hauynge no rulers or heades ouer them beinge honest and ciuile wyse men knowing neither God nor his promise toke it for a certeyne argument of great extortion of great briberie and robberie when they did perceiue a senator or an other Iudge to growe fatte in ryches to haue and possesse great landes and rentes on cōtrary wyse that senator whiche was moste poore him they had in moste honour in moste reputation hym woulde they bringe after his death with all solemnitie accompanied with them al the honourable and worshypful personnes of the Citie to his graue in token of his ryghtuousnes and iuste seruice to the cōmune wealth they woulde sette his image of stone or brasse wyth his name on a pillar in the commune places of the Citie where all resorte should be they woulde bestowe his chyldrē to mariages and other promotions on the cōmune purse and charges of the citie that they shoulde not neede neither to pill nor poll nor to do vniustly for to leaue their wife chyldren ryche in great prosperitie and abundaūce of al thynges Thys good iudge dyd thynke no felicitie to be compared to that for to be remēbred after his death to haue his image sette vp to be a memoriall to his successoures of his equitie and good conscience of his indifferēt dealing betwene all parties that he was no pollar of the commune wealth that he dyd chuse rather to dye poore with ministration of ryghte iustice then to leaue to his posteritie greate riches wrongfully gotten and gathered together wyth the dammage and hurte of innumerable In fewe wordesly kewyse as the Lorde is a most rightuous iugde ouer the quicke and deade iudgynge all thynge ryghtuously so must they be here in earth whose roume and place they do occupie for a time otherwise they are not worthie to be called iudges but robbers theues For the name of a Iudge is an holy godly and a heauenly name the iuste ministration of whose office is the preseruation of commune wealthes and otherwyse the vtterly decay and turnyng the name of a commune wealth to a commune destruction and vndoing of the bodie where of they haue the gouernaunce In the ende of the worke as well as in the begynnynge that the workmongars those I saye which do claimesaluatiō by their owne workes and ryghtuousnes shall not in thys place at the handes of the Psalmist take●nie maner of occasiō to maynteyne their presumption and glorie of worhes agaynste the honour and glorie of God bicause that the prophete pronounceth them happie and blessed whiche haue not offended in anie of those vices by hym rehearsed as who shoulde say that by those deedes and workes they should obteyne their iustification and saluation therefore thys authour maister Iohn ●pinus declareth that it was not the mynde of the Prophet to de●lare in thys Psalme wherby we ●re iustified but what maner of men they be whiche are iustified what maner of people they be which are of his militant church ●ere in earth and shal be hereafter of the churche triumphant Whiche thynge no man can per●eyue but by the outwarde workes whiche do sprynge furth of fayth whiche workes they do see outwardly whereby they do perreyue that they be the membres of Christe of the whole bodie of the holy and electe church which the selfe same Christ hath bought not wyth syluer and golde but wyth sheddinge of his bloud not in hypocrisie wyth a counterfeyted and a straunge bodie from all humayne nature but wyth th● same bodie whiche was naturally borne into thys worlde of his mother To the whiche Lorde I commende the gentle reader both bodie and soule that his heauenlie grace maye be alwaye present with the may be all together thy teacher and chiefe guyde that thou maist growe to be perfecte in al godlines and puritie of life to his glorie who be praised and honoured for euer and euer Amen ¶ An exposition on the .xv. Psalme of Dauid made by maister Iohn Epinus Doctor and preacher of the church of Hamborowe ¶ The title ¶ The Psalme of Dauid THys Inscription or title doth shewe that Dauid is the authour of thys psalme whiche psalme is wrytten in that kynde of wrytynge that doeth teache a man thys or that thynge as here by the fruites of a true fayth he declareth whiche be those men that are godly in deede which are the people of God and the holy churche Also who shall obteyne the heauenly heritage and felicitie of eternall lyfe It doeth not shewe playnely howe or by whiche waye we are counted the churche of God and howe we shall obteyne and get euerlastyng health but what maner of mē they be which of ryght ought to be called the people of God and haue of free gifte euerlasting life ¶ Whe effecte and entent of thys Psalme THis psalme declareth that neither hypocrites nor the wicked sorte are the people of God bicause that both these do lacke fayth And that neither of them shal come to the heauenly kyngdome prepared from the begynnyng for the electe bicause the electe sort beinge by the merite of Christe redemed regenerated or newe borne agayne also sealed with the seale of the holy spirite do caste of the olde man wyth all his deedes bicause they do not folowe the fleshe The feythful do caste of the olde man nor fulfyll the desires thereof He that is borne of God synneth not He whiche by fayth is counted iuste with God by the fayth in Christ in the feare of the Lorde doeth lyue and alwaye after the commaundementes of God doth rule and gouerne his affections maners and conditions The disposition and ordre of thys Psalme THys Psalme conteyneth two thynges that is to saye A demaunde an answer It is here demaūded who be of the churche and who shall be saued To that demaunde an answere is made from the spirite of God Who be the people of God That they are taken to be the people of God and none elles and that they shall be saued and none els whiche do rule and ordre their minde and lyfe after the commaūdementes of the Lorde In thys psalme all the preceptes and commaundementes are not rehearsed but vnder those which be rehearsed named al the reste are comprehended And it doeth perteine to al the preceptes which are cōteyned in the seconde table bicause it teacheth that oure lyfe and maners wyth all our affections ought to be framed after the commaundementes of the Lorde ¶ Of Iustification THe greatest moste harde question of the Iustification of mā in this Psalme is rather touched then made playne and open Mannes reason doth deuise diuers causes of iustification The dsuerse opinion of me conternyng iustification Some men do imagen that we are iustified by the dedes of our vertues some by the keepyng of the lawe some