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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

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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
that I am whē I see my selfe estranged from thy protection and forsaken in the middest of mine enemies that fight mightely against me I wil seeke thy face O Lorde and with sighes beseech thy countenance not to leaue me nor in anger to depart from thy seruant for all mine enemies followe me as a fugitiue that they may take kill me and therefore I must seeke refuge at thy hands to whom I doe flie O my God my strength my refuge and my vertue in the day of my tribulation for as there is no Esai 45. God beside thee so also there is no Sauiour besides thee Thou therefore O Lord that knowest all my miseries and Psal 102 from whom the worke of my weakenesse is not hidden cast behind thy backe all mine offences Psal 7● and doe not remember my old iniquities but saue me Psal 50. according to thy mercie from all those that persecute me and deliuer me because there is none that can redeeme nor saue but thou O Lord who sauest all that trust in thee and Psal 71. deliuerest the poore from the mightie and from the handes of them that are stronger then he hide not therefore thy face from me O Lord neither despise me my sauing God my strength and my deliuerer for Psal 85. Psal 10. I am poore and very needie and thine eyes looke vpon the poore and if thy iustice seeke me hide me in the bosome of thy mercie wherein thou hast with long suffering borne me and inuited me to repentance for thou art long suffering patient Psal 102. and very mercifull and excellent aboue al wickednes Ioel 2. yea nothing is more proper vnto thee then to spare and haue mercie alwayes and therefore thou hast mercie on all because thou canst doe all and dissemblest the sinnes of men for repentance and thou Sapi. 11. sparest all because they are thine O Lorde who louest soules Turne therefore vnto me who am turned vnto thee deliuer mine afflicted soule frō all danger that my mouth may be filled with thy prayse and say vnto thee Blessed be Psal 123. the Lord who hath not suffered me to be deliuered vnto the teeth of mine aduersaries Except the Lorde had beene my helper they had perhaps swallowed mee quicke my soule as a sparrowe was deliuered from the snare of the fowlers the snare is broken and I am deliuered Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning c. PSALM VI. O Wretched man that I am what shall I doe for the great wilde beast hath deuoured my soule and I haue bene made a praye to the enemie he hath spoiled me of all those goods wherewith thou O Lord hadst beautified me and I am afraide to appeare naked before thee I departed rich and beautifull from thy Esai 37. Ierem. 11 Osee 5. face and went wandring after filthinesse in a corrupt way and in the wickednesse of my heart and my soule is made blacke vpon the coales and the excellent colour thereof is Thren 4. changed and I that was nourished with spices haue imbraced dung and I haue so impouerished and deformed my selfe by wearing the vile garments of sinners according to the likenesse of Adams offence as thou O Lord doest not nowe knowe me according to the image wherein thou hast created me and wilt not suffer mee as a scabbed sheepe to dwell among the sheepe of thy pasture Howe then shal I presume to returne vnto the presence of thine infinite Maiestie in whose sight Iob 15. the Heauens are not cleane being emptie vile and vncleane or howe shall I presume to communicate with thy chosen people being made foolish by offending I would hauereturned vnto thee though ashamed and afraide trusting to thy mercie for thou art a sweete father to thy sonne that is trauailing into a farre countrey but much sweeter vnto him when he returneth from a long pilgrimage But O my God I lacke the power to come vnto thee for I am kept fast bound by a most cruell robber not with strong iron but with the iron of mine owne will whereof the enemie hath made a chaine for me and bringeth my heart in hard workes and all wicked Exod. 1. slauerie to bitternesse My refuge Psal 118 is farre from me for saluation is farre from sinners and I am compelled to die in most miserable bondage vnlesse thou O Lord looking downe from Heauen doest helpe me I sticke fast in the slimie claie of the deepe and a tempest of temptations euen like the waves of the cruel sea hath ouer whelmed and crowned me so that I am in despaire of auoiding these imminent dangers vnlesse thou O God shalt take me vp for the more I endeuour to arise the more am I bruised I am both within and without troublesome vnto my selfe euery where I finde domesticall enemies that doe beate me downe I looke on the right hand and the left and I see none to whom I may safely commit my selfe but euery where feare doeth shake me and to whom so euer I come I finde not a faithfull friend how should I finde any that my selfe doe not keepe my faith giuen to my God I haue sought any to comfort me in my afflictions and calamities and there was none of all my deare Thren 1. friendes that woulde comfort me but I met with men that were too full of wordes nay dumbe rather and therefore dumbe because thy word O my God did not sound from their lips but the offence of Psal 58. their mouth the wordes of their owne lips who did condemne my wantes without compassion and triumphing ouer me did hardly and fiercely prouoke strife against me I haue often consented vnto Prou. 18. foolish deceiuers and swaruing from the right pathe I ignorantly agreed to their opinion and by little and little was by them brought to such toyes and madnes as though by the helpe of thy grace I neuer departed from the true religion yet I did beleeue many fables yet am I an vnexcusable man for that when I did knowe thee to be alwayes a God in trueth I did not worship Rom. 1. thee in spirit and trueth but changed thy trueth into lyes and serued the creatures rather then the Creatour and sought my selfe and my pleasures in corruptible things but thou O Lord my sweetenesse and my trust proceede on and as thou hast made me by true faith to acknowledge thee waken mee vp that sleepe in Psal 12. sinne and open mine eyes that I neuer sleepe vnto death Lighten kindle lift them vp Psal 83. vnto thee that in thy light they may behold thee the euerlasting light the vnquencheable light that neuer faileth the Eccle. 24. sweete and delightfull light that they may see and reioyce Sapi. 4. and couet thy light and know Eccle. 11. Psal 68. that nothing is to be
loued beside thee but in and for thee Iohn 1. Thou O Lord which art the true light that doest illuminate all men comming into this world cause this light to rise in my darkenes and make me to desire thy iustification that my soule being melted away by the force of loue may faint into thy sauing health Psal 188. and thirste after thy delightes my soule I say but let me call it thine because thou diddest make it and giue it vnto me and mine because I receiued it from thee keepe therefore thy creature which thou hast specially framed according to thine owne image and suffer not thy precious gifte to perish wherein thou hast lifted me vp aboue all the workes of thine owne hands vpon my body and members worke whatsoeuer pleaseth thee let my flesh be clothed with rottennesse Iob 33. and consumed with wormes But I beseech thee O Lord onely spare my soule and stretch not out thy hand against it bring me backe againe into thy wayes before the going downe of the Sunne for it groweth towarde Euening and compell me to come vnto thee if to call be too little constraine me as it pleaseth thee so I may come and not perish not for my selfe who hauing so often abused thy mercie haue made my selfe vnworthy thereof but for thy holy Name take from me a stonie heart and giue vnto Exec. 36. me a fleshy heart and place thy Spirite in the middest of me that I may walke in thy precepts keepe thy iudgements I come too late vnto thee O Lorde I confesse I would to God I had come sooner but I knowe and am assured that thou prescribest no time to them that come so they come and receiuest the last as gently as the first for that although thou hatest Sapi. 1. sinne thou hatest not the sinner neither doest thou reioyce in his destruction and therefore though hee tarrie very long thou doest patiently looke for him O how sweete and pleasant is that thy saying O Lord wherein thou hast giuen hope vnto my Psal 118. Hiere 3. soule Thou hast played the harlot with many louers yet returne thou vnto me I wil receiue thee How delightfull and pleasant is that worde wherewith thou comfortest sinners that are in despaire of themselues If a sinner repent Ezec. 18. him from all his sinnes he shall liue and not die for is the death of a sinner according to my will With great ioy I heare thee when thou sayest that the sheepe that Luke 15. had gone astray shall be brought home with ioy vpon the shepheards shoulders and S. Augu. that the groate shall be layed vp in thy treasures neighbours reioycing with the woman that found it and the ioy of the solemnitie of that house doeth force teares from me when I did reade of the yonger sonne that he was dead and liued againe Therefore Psal 67. giue O Lord vnto my soule the voyce of thy vertue and not of thy vertue alone which shaketh off the slouthe of soules but also the beame of thy light which doeth both shewe vnto men their sinnes and giueth light also to the hidden places of darkenesse Cant. 2. Let thy voyce sounde in the eares of mine heart and say vnto my sleeping soule why art thou so long oppressed with a deadly sleepe and kept captiue in bandes It is nowe Rom. 13. Esai 55. Cant. 6. time to rise from sleepe and that thou forsake thy waye and returne to me that haue redeemed thee returne O Esai 44. thou Sunamite returne that we may behold thee returne and deferre no longer to come vnto me for I am the Lorde thy God that call thee I am I am he that blot out thine iniquities Esai 43. for my selfe neither carie in remembrance things past then will I say boldly to my soule turne thee to thy Psal 144 rest for the Lorde hath done well vnto thee goe safely vnto him and though thou art wearied by thy wicked wayes goe the swifter that thou maiest the sooner take rest be not made afraid for thy sinnes for if they be as redde as scarlet Esai 1. 44. they shal be made as white as snow as a cloude they shall be put away and feare not to be accused of boldnes where thou art praysed for obediēce Goe and make haste my soule vnto him that came not to call the righteous but sinners and Matth. 8. if thou art a sinner thy God is the God of sinners Wherefore then doest thou feare to goe thou that art not called by a cruell iudge but by the father of mercies that thou mayest obtaine mercie therefore goe now willing being called to mercie that thou be not compelled hereafter to goe vnto iudgement In thee O Lorde my noble Father doe I trust and will not be ashamed to confesse vnto thee my deformities S. August and blasphemies who was not ashamed to professe them before men and to barke against thee Let the Marke 2. Pharise murmure say who can forgiue sinnes but God alone for it is God that speaketh vnto me whose worde is liuely and effectuall he that Psal 76. calleth me is milde and pitiful and is not wonted to containe his mercies in his wrath And therefore vpon thy words will I assuredly come vnto thee O my God my trust and my portion in the land of the liuing I wil come and fall downe before thee and not feare thy Maiestie because thou callest me and that I offende not thine eyes when I shall appeare vncleane in thy sight I will wash away my filthinesse with continuall teares and mine eye lidde shall not rest from weeping but my bed shall be priuie vnto my sorrowe wherein I please thee though I displease my selfe and being by thee conuerted vnto thee I repent me of those things I haue committed that I may praise thee with a cleane Psal 88. heart saying O Lord who is like vnto thee for then is thy Eccl. 15. Psal 125. praise bountifull in the mouth of a sinner and hee that hath sowed in teares shall reape in gladnesse Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning c. PSALM VII HAue mercie vpon me O Lord for I am in trouble and vexed with vnspeakeable miseries for floods of iniquitie doe vexe me the waters Psal 58. haue entred euē into my soule as a riuer that is ouerflowen so my sinnes which I haue hitherunto dissembled and neglected to confesse or amend are growen so high that they haue passed ouer my head and Psal 37. bowed my minde and will to the concupiscence of sensuall desires yea made me subiect to the slauerie of the deuil Wo vnto me for I am altogether mortally wounded there is no health in me from the sole of the foote to the crowne of my head for mine enemie hath supplanted me and as