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A09645	Paraphrase vpon the seaven pen[i]tentiall psalmes of [t]he kingly prophet tra[n]slated out of Italian by I.H.; Sette Salmi della penitentia di David. English. 1635	Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556.; Hawkins, John, fl. 1635.	1635 (1635)	STC 19910.5; ESTC S4824	70,947	262

pleasing accepted of gratefull to God is a spirit a soule contribulated a troubled and afflicted heart not vnlike to a beast brought to be sacrificed vvhich is killed on the Altar vvhich bleateth belovveth and kicketh strugleth in his fall vvhich is vvrought by the sharpe violent instrument of knife and fire suffering in the same manner as vvill thy most blessed Sonne and hence is it that the lamentions the heauy teares of an heart contribulated much greiued ruminating seriouslie on it's offences in meane while praising our good Lord demandeth craueth his grace is accepted by him in place in lievv of a beast victimed offered vp in sacrifice The simple pure cleane sincere and sanctlie minde is alwaies readie through it's loue to suffer martyrdom death and that sacrifice vvhich God vvilleth such a readines of a sincere minde and purelie taken fullie enamored vvith true repentance not farther ouervvhelmed in vvickednes is that host that sacrifice vvhich doth reconcile man vvith God from a contrite and an humble heart God will neuer looke of or despiset but vvill not reguard oxen sheepe and lambes offered vnto him vvithout zeale and vvithout the teares and sorrovv of the heart And assure as anie thing can be true foretold infalliblie it vvill come to passe that the Messias to come shall say vvith a loud voice shall giue notice to the vniuerse to all the vvorld Bulls and beasts I haue at times receiued as sacrifices to me offered but the hearts and minds their pure and sincere meanings not alvvaies then my Lord since that I sacrifice my heart and my minde enritch me vvith thy mercie Through thy infinite goodnes be bountifull gratious and mercifull to Sion vvhich such name haue I giuen to the contemplation and speculation of them vvho though their desire of trueth will obtaine will arriue to the knovvledg of thy Sonne Alas my Lord let it be so I humblie craue at thy mercifull hands that the walls of Hierusalem may be built vvhich I conceiue as a shevv of peace and vnion which ought to be with human kind in human kinde to the praising honoring and adoring thee onelie Stay not delaie not to performe this thy benignitie heretofore within thy selfe resolued of fullie decreed and send thy Sonne by vvhom on vvhom this our new Church must be instructed taught built and grounded and in such manner building raising the vvalls of Hierusalem there vvill be built raised in their soules the excellencie the vertue of thy sapience thy wisedome which will improue them so much enl●…ghtē them will so build and frame in themselues that such vnderstāding which giueth the perceiuance the cleare light and euen the verie vision of eternall peace vvithout vvhich their soules would perish together with their bodyes aswell through the generall ingratitude as also by reason of the sinne of the first father vvhose faults would haue proued Hell damnation to all human kinde vvere it that with thee thy bounteous decree mercifull benignitie had not otherwise stated a supplie a redresse to this inexpressably wofull misery through the hands of that thy selfe-same clemencie and of thy proper bountie who art more inclinable to shevv benignity to Sion then that of the raising of the walls of Hierusalem which I craue not vvho am all teares all penicencie and all scourge of repentance to confirme and assure my selfe in the grace of my Lord and God who when he shall haue sent his Sonne to the vvorld vvill verifie vvith his trueth my wordes When so thy sonne shall descend into the world thou vvilt accept the sacrifice of iustice for it vvill be iustly expedient and it shal be offered vp vnto thee in memorie of his passion and of his death I say that thou vvilt accept holocausts sacrifices laid on the Altar and oblations guifts by which meanes God is acknowledged rendring him glorie apparantlie most euidentlie not without the singular and inexpressible ioy of heares comfort vvhich oftentimes made all cheerefull doth visiblie appeare in the sight of it's sacrifice Lord then vvorthilie calues shal be laid on thine Altar for that they vvho then shall sacrifice to thee may become illuminated by thy trueth hence thou shalt receiue from them not onelie victimes beasts killed for sacrifice oblations and holocausts but likewise the sacrifice of a sincere heart the entire loue of a pure soule and the holocaust that the light yea fire of charitie and true zeale of faith together with the other perfect and holie vertues vvill offer vp to thee and all those externall demonstrations those outward workes wil be receiued frō thy goodnes in signe of those inte●…nall and true ones of the minde and heart These wil be the sacrifices and presents wherevvith thou shalt be honored vvhere with thy Majest●…e shal be glorified and appeased here I end for that thy sprit doth not dictate or prompt me with more which hitherto hath caused me to speake The end of the fourth Psalme THE FIFTH PROLOGVE AFTER that the Prophet had earnesily importuned yea e●…en conjured the great mercy of God to take compassion of him to haue ●…ercy on his trespasses hee was yet on his knees moued not place and fearing that he ●…ght yet againe see the image of his sinne whi●…h gaue signe of punishment euen poin●…ed at the place thereof Hell hee durst not ●…ift vp his head his countena●…ce to heauen ●…hich hee contemplated more with hidden ●…hen hee did vvith open eyes and standing without any motion h●…e recited recorded with his heart to God his lips mouing not ●…t all the forevvritten fore deliuered Psalme and who liuing had seen him and obserued his posture in that venerable gesture vvould not onely haue beheld a sinner truely penitent but he might likewise haue learned how one ought sincerely to repent being burthened vvith sinne and for that it seemed to him that he was vnworthy of pardon in such sort his thoughts on his trespasses did greeueously oppresse him that hee bewailed piteously groned sighed and sobbed deeply Imagin the inexpressible greife for no otherwise was it then as if hee had heard a c●…rtaine voice deliuer vnto him that God almighty had ranged him among the reprobate that hee had altogether abandoned him and had vtterly forsaken him in so much as that hee was for all eternity depriued of his grace and vvhilst thus hee vvas astonished confounded yea meruailously abstracted from himselfe hee measured with the arme of his phātasy of his deepe thoughts the largenes the extent of the body of his trespasses his diligent inquisition finding them immesurable insomuch as hee could not by any meanes giue accounte of the immensity thereof at once hee shooke and trembled all ouer and in that shaking and trembling hee seemed to be a si●…kman now being taken with quiuering shakings and the rigorous pangs of death and much fearing that his scattered and weake prayers through want of words and manner of their deliuery had no audience from God preparing his sorrovvfull and

cast headlong downe to a miserable state through such my lamentable fall And so is it that the magnificent aduancement vvhich v●…ithout any merit of mine I receiued from thy bountie through fault of my ill and peruerse malitious will and ingratitude hath been my vtter and laft ouerthrovv and ruine but thy mercie will not that the punishment of my trangression of my gre●…ueous faults if vve will not our se●…ues prouoking thy displeasure th●…ne anger by new trespasses be the losse of the soule but onelie of the bodie hence may I say that My daies are declined as the Sunne vvhen it goeth dovvne tovvards the Euening and they are become euen as shadovves And vvell deliuereth hee the trueth For if there had not been transgression in our first farher our daies that is asmuch to say our liues vvho haue our descent from him would haue been eternall and not short not suddainlie past ouer as a shadovv vvhence the sonnes of men vvould not liue vvith that care and vvith that feare vvhich they inceslantlie haue of their graues and of death and I Dauid should not haue come vnder the yoke of time of yeares arid dry as hay vvho before ouercome in grenenes the Emeralds and if so it vvere I should not haue to expect the sacrifice of the sonne of my Lord nor vvere I to suffer to participate of the punishment of this transgression through vvhich thou hast not onelie shortned our life but vvee are subject and lyable to the scourge of pennance and sigthe of death But thou my Lord shalt not faile nor come to nothing as a shadovv thou shalt neuer be lessened thou shalt neuer be changed be otherwise then thou art rather thou shalt be and remaine for euer and euer and euen as then thou vvert powerfull to punish vs so likevvise thou shalt vvithout end be powerfull to free vs and the memorie of thee shall remaine from generation to generation in all ages and times nor shall the Heauen euer be beheld be gazed on nor Sea nor Earth but that each one shall vvonder at the povver of thy vertue and for that thou art that mercifull God the memorie of whō ought to last together with thy power to all times and ages thou will deigne to recouer vs againe to receiue vs gratiouslie being the workes of thy hands into the bosome of thy mercie to the end that through all ages all times in the hearts of people susteined and made happie therevvith the memorie of thy goodnes and of thy povver vvhich is infinite as art thou shall remaine vvho Rising againe shalt haue mercie on Sion although the trespasses of our first father and of vs are infinite When thou shalt rise againe I am assured that thou vvilt pittie commiserate and haue mercie on Sion vvhich I figure for human generation for human ki●…de and for that at length the time is come to haue mercie thereon let sinners reioyce vvho through the comming of thy Sonne into this vvorld doe rise and come forth from the place of their sepulchers through the hand of the povver of thy merits mercifullie cōferred on them Let them reioyce vvho vvill knovv to suffer the persecution of the vvicked Giue them courage my Lord and comfort them vvith the hope of arriuing to thy kingdome for that thou hast laid open to them the gates vvherebie they may ascend thether through the vertue of faith and their endurance their sufferance their patience and vvell deserue they to be vvith thee pertakers of Paradice since that Martyrdomes for thy sake are dearly vvellcome to them I say Lord that there vvill arise manie Apostles and seruants of thy sonne resuscitated risen againe to vvhom the stonnes of mountaines shal be more pleasing thē the iewells then the gemmes of the East an●… these such enamored altogethe●… taken vp fullie possessed rapt vvit●… Marty●…domes by vvhich meane●… they may haue place in thy grace they may please thee winne thee t●… them despising sword stones gallovves crosse and prisons will divulge will preach the trueth dictated deliuered appointed to be in th●… tongue of the Gospell and after their passions suffered and at an end to exalt thy name moued through example which thou our Lord wilt giue them praying for their Crucifiers they shall haue compassion of the countreys wherein they suffered I say that the Martyrs shall be moued to pittie to sensible commiseratiō of them who do put thē to death doe Martyrize them praying thee that the authors of their pesecutions be conuerted vvho although they are wicked were yet not vvithstan●…ing framed moulded of the same ●…arth vvhich vvere they themselues ●…amed of by thee And for that thou vvilt haue an ●…mcomprehensible compassion an ●…credible mercy on human kinde ●…r that thy most iust seruants shall ●…ke delight singular consolatiō in Martyrdome which shall be impo●…ed on them inflicted on them in thy ●…eruice Oh blessed truth to appeare ●…o shine in thee vvith more splēdour ●…nd vvith much more cleare light ●…nd countenance then doth the Sun ●…ake shew of vvhen it is euen newly ●…sen from the Ocean the maine ●…ea and through the faithfull meanes ●…f thy preachers all Nations shall ●…ot onelie honour thy name but ●…ey shall tremble at it and feare it ●…nd all the kings of the earth perceiing that their splendor and geeatnes compared to thine are farre lesse then the light of the starres vvhilst the beames of the Sun enlighten the firmament vvith their bright resplendent rayes vvhich imitating thy goodnes vvith the same bounty doth shine on the vvicked as on the good shall feare ●…hy glory more then their subiects their people shall feare them vnder whom they are in obedience in duetie vvhom they obey for that in it in that thy trueth is seated the height of iustice vvhich seuerelie doth execute iustice on all their transgressions vvhich vvithout ought fearing thee haue been hainouslie and mortallie committed in thy sight before or after the knowledg of trueth For our Lord hath built Sion in the pure and sincere hearts of men chosen elected by the holie Ghost thanks for Sion thanks for this ne●… speculation and this new Church there wil be laid open a way an euen path by vvhich vvith fevver readier shorter steps Heauē may be arriued to Paradice acquired and that this is true hee vvilbe seene in his glory Hee shall euidentlie be seene in that direfull most dreadfull day of doome of vniuersall iudgment in vvhich vvill appeare as to his glorie hovv hee she vved himselfe vvhat hee did what hee suffered to redeeme vs it will be then seene how hee dyed for vs hovv hee dyed that wee might ●…ue and not dye it vvilbe also shewen that if it depend not on our obstinacie as to his glory the Deuill shal be ouercome and tyed vp in his proper chaines for that the mercie of redemption ought to extend it selfe to the sauing of vs all and so ought to be and is of such nature for that