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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

this place is the Messias cléerelie and perspicuouslie distinguished from the eternall father Here he saith Thy God hath sent forth strength that is thy eternal father from whom thou art sent to publish and preach the gospell and to redéeme mankind hath instituted and ratified thy kingdome it shall therefore stand immoueable and shall not be weakened by anie force neither shall it by anie meanes possible be remoued out of place Of this consolation stoode the church in neede when Diotlesian and the other tyrants ruled and raigned who seemed to doe what they could vtterlie to race out the name of Christ from the memo●ie of all posteritie For writers affirm● when Dioclesian raigned there were euerie daie at the least xx godlie persons put to death in the Cittie Alexandria for profession of the gospell And now also in this olde age of the church the Church likewise needeth the same consolation For from the East ●arts the Turkish tyrant assaulteth her and from the West parts the Pope armed and fortified with the defence and cruelty of manie kings vexeth her What is then remaining where with we maie defend our selues from this Turkish and Popish outrage but this most strong wall Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee Stablish the thing O God that thou hast wrought in vs For seeing God is the guide and giuer of this kingdome doubtlesse he will be also the effecter and worker in vs and he only will be the foundation thereof Neither indéed let this praier and promise be vnderstood onelie touching the whole bodie of the Church but let it also bee applied unto euerie particular member and let it alwaies sound in our mindes eares and tongues Let vs dailie with seruent sighing saie Seeing O God thou hast translated vs out of the kingdome of darkenesse into the kingdome of thy light and that these beginnings of life euerlasting are diuers waies assaulted partely by the Diuell partly by the world and partly of our own flesh in which word I comprehend our wandring opinions and affections I humbly beseech thee that thou wouldst establish that benefit thou hast begun in vs and defend vs against our enemies domesticall and externall For as he that buildeth anie thing doth not onlie frame the foundations but goeth forwarde in setting vp the whole building whatsoeuer it be So God will not haue vs begin our conuersions and turnings vnto him but much more will he haue our saluation to bee perfected by him for as it is said 2. Phil. 13. It is God that worketh in vs the will and the deed euen of his good pleasure to the ende some acceptable seruices may be done vnto him For thy temples sake at Ierusalem so shall kings bring presents vnto thee He foresheweth hereby that some kings and princes shall be associates of the true church nursing fathers of them which teach and learne in the same and shall surely be made members of life euerlasting For although Religion do bring forth Riches as one saith elegantlie yet the daughter like an vnthankefull Stockedoue hath deuoured her mother For the Bishops in some ages haue not béene so vpright or sincere as that their estate of life might agrée with their calling that is they taught not the Gospel soundlie nor administred the Sacraments rightlie no they cared not for edifying the people with true doctrine but became stately Lords in kings courts and being ordained to sacred busines they intermedled themselues with prophane matters nothing agreeable to their calling Therefore both of these are best Meane wealth and meane pouertie in such like persons When the companie of the spearemen and multitude of the mightie are scattered abroad among the beastes of the people so that they humblie bring peeces of siluer and wh●n he hath scattered the people that delight in warre He addeth vnto this prophecie of the calling of the Nations a heauie effect touching the kingdom of Antichrist whose chiefest members and as it were twinnes at one birth borne 900. yeares agone are the Pope and Mahomet These hee compareth vnto mightie strong Bulles treading vnder foote the true doctrine and true worshippings of God for to establish their owne power Against these is this Verse as if we in our time should now say O God restraine and ouerthrow the practises of these least the true knowledge of thy most holie name be extinguished in mankind For thy name for thy name sake O God do thou this that thou bee not blasphemed Helpe vs O God our Sauiour and for the glorie of thy names sake deliuer vs and be mercifull vnto our sinnes for thy names sake least at any time the Gentiles do say vnto vs Where is nowe thy God Psal 79. 10. Then shall the Princes come out of Egypt The Morians land shall soone stretch out her hands vnto God This is a notable prophecie touching the calling of the Gentiles and I haue often elsewhere saide that the Reader is to be put in minde of the chiefest matters so often times as the Prophets doe make mention touching the calling of the Gentiles For first this calling is a notable testimonie implying that saying of saint Paule Rom. 5. 15. 20. Grace oueraboundeth aboue sinne For if so great force or effect were not procéeding from the louing sauour and mercie of God he would not haue receyued into fauour nations polluted with Idolatrie lusts and other most filthie and foule sinnes which are partlie so filthie and partlie so flagitious that they seeme euen filthie to speake of them Secondlie the same calling of the Gentiles witnesseth that the promise of the Gospel is vniuersall pertaineth vnto all persons that do trulie call vpon God for in God there is no courtlike respect of persons but God is indéede equall to the equall that is to them which trulie repent and flie vnto the Mediator Touching this consolation mo things are spoken by Paul Rom. 10. verses 6 10 11 13 14. Finally this selfe same vocation of the Gentiles refuteth the Pharisaical opinion which imagineth that ceremonies are righteousnes before God for the Gentiles are by God receyued into fauor without Circumcision and other ceremonies of Moses Sing vnto God O yee kingdomes of the earth O sing prayses vnto the Lord. Which sitteth in the heauens ouer all from the beginning lo he doth send out his voice and that a mightie voyce Ascribe ye the power vnto God ouer Israell his worship and strength is in the cloudes The Epilogue or latter part of the Psalme is an exhortation for he exhorteth all degrées of men vnto Thankesgiuing As if he said séeing the benefits of this king are so great meet it is that hee bee honoured and magnified with all speech and writing O sing prayses vnto God that is acknowledge yee his wisedome righteousnesse and mercie It is Mercie that we are not consumed and brought into nothing nor cast away amongst the Diuels after our first fall It is Righteousnesse that there

beginning of impracation or cursing and of gratulation or reioycing For hee curseth the enemies of Christ but he reioyceth at the welfare of the godly ones The declaration of the Psalme comprehendeth the description of the pompe The Lord commeth and bringeth with him his hoast of them which preach the Gospell Out of these are described the Apostles and Bishops as it were Princes of prouinces or countries which do comfort and refresh these countries afflicted and persecuted The Lord ascendeth vpon high hee leadeth in his triumph the captiues hee distributeth his gifts vnto his soldiours and people and threatneth punishment vnto his enemies The people go before and one commeth after which singeth the song of triumph This is almost the scope of this Psalme which let the godly ones reade not so much for the wonderfull and delectable diuine excellencie of eloquence wherewith it aboundeth ❧ The Psalme and Exposition thereof Let God arise and let his enemies bee scattered Let them also that hate him flee before him Like as the smoake vanisheth so shalt thou driue them away and like as the waxe melteth at the fire so let the vngodly perish at the presence of God LIKE as the next Psalme following describeth Christ humbled upon the Crosse and by reason of our sinnes sirtuing with most bitter sorrowes in this Psalme setteth forth Christ risen from death to life and gloriously sitting at the right hande of his Father He beginneth then with the effects of the most ioyfull resurrection of Christ namelie by the destruction and scattering abroad of his enemies and by the reuiuing or restoring of his church as if he said when Christ was dead and buried not onlie the blind and raging Iewes leaped for ioy but also the Deuill and his companions namelie sinne and death triumphed at full as if Christ shoulde so for euer remaine in the graue But this graund guide of life the third daie rising againe had a glorious triumph ouer the Iewes and the whole kingdome of the Deuill often times repeating that saying of the Prophet Osea cap. 13. 14. O death I will be thy death O graue I will be thy destruction For although the stubborne and vncurable Iewes carried stately mindes as then and resisted the Apostles with a malignant countenance yet in the xl yeare after Christes resurrection they suffered grieuous and iust punishmentes for their outrages And the kingdome of the deuill sinne and death is so broken and crushed in peeces by Christ that it can bring no danger vnto the godlie ones Let vs therefore with S. Paule sing this triumph song 1. Cor. 15. 55. O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victory The sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the Law But thankes be to God which hath giuen vs victory through our Lorde Iesus Christ verse 56. 57. And what is more elegant then the describing of these enemies which he here vseth comparing them unto smoke and ware Great is the pride of smoke when it bursteth out of the top of the chimney and his spreading heat couereth the ayre So an Image of waxe maketh both a terrible shew of grauitie ● of hardnes but as the smoke which séemeth to pearce the verie firmament is scattered by the wind here and there and as the image of ware laide to the fire melteth quite awaie So the enemies of the Gospell and of the Church by the breath of Christes mouth which is both winde and flame are either healed or taken vtterlie awaie and destroied altogether So in like maner Athanasius compared Iulian the Apostat vnto a little cloud whome the Sunne within a while after should so driue away and vanquish that no man should sée anie trace therof more With these debasings and downfalles of the enemies of the gospell and of the church agreeth that sentence of Isay ca. 51. 7. Feare ye not the reproch of men neither be yee afraide of their rebukes verse 8. For the moath shall eate them vp like a garment and the worme shall eat them like wooll But let the righteous be glad and reioyce before God Let them also be merry and ioyfull An other effect of Christs resurrection is the reuiuing or restoring of his Church for as Saint Paule saith Rom. 14. 17. The kingdome of God is not meate and drinke but righteousnesse peace and ioy in the holie Ghost It is indéed Righteousnesse as thus frée remission of sinnes reconciliation with God and free acceptation vnto life euerlasting It is Peace thus Tranquillitie of heart rising from faith hope a good conscience Finallie it is Ioy thus Consolation which is the vanquisher of all feares and doubtings All these benefites are the effects of Christs passion and resurrection which saint Paule acknowledgeth Phil. 3. 12. He hath not yet attained vnto but he tooke he saide the right course whereby he might attaine vnto this reach of wisdome The same thing let vs also confesse and craue of God that hee would illumine and increase in our hearts this light acknowledging the benefites of Christ O sing vnto God and sing praises vnto his name magnifie him that rideth vpon the heauens as it were vpon an horse praise him in his name yea and reioyce before him Not only in the heart saith Dauid let true knowledge of Christ shine whereto is ioyned spirituall ioy but let the toong also magnifie this Lord risen from death to life and raigning for euer who though he be the sonne of Dauid after the Sencalogie yet is hee declared the Sonne of God by his rising from death to life and by sending his holie spirit as in Rom. cap. 1. ver 3. 4 it is said This Lords diuinitie vnited to his humanitie and his victorie triumphes and benefits see that ye honor saith Dauid and in them rest and sweetlie repose your selues For he doth not thumpe nor thunder it out but is carried faire and softlie and suffereth suters to haue easie accesse vnto him Let no man therefore be driuen from him but let all and euerie one come vnto this Lord trusting in his most swéete promise who saith Matth. 11 28. Come vnto me all ye that labour and are laden and I will refresh you And where he saith Magnifie him that rideth vpon the heauens that maie be vnderstoode Make your way before him and is spoken as touching our true repentance not fained with amendment of life for the first step vnto health is To know the disease and seeke a Phisition But contrariwise it is a heauie signe if the minde being sicke know neither the disease nor looketh for phisicke Let vs therefore acknowledge our maladies namely sin and death and let vs craue to haue right medicine laide to these miseries by the phisition and sheepheard of our soules euen the sonne of God who came therefore into the world to saue sinners He is a father of the fatherlesse and defendeth the cause of the widowes euen God in his holy habitation

elsewhere I haue often spoken touching the punishments for tyrants and the sufferings of Martyrs nowe I willinglie omit the recitall of them in this place He shal liue and vnto him shall be giuen of the golde of Arabia prayers shall be euermade vnto him and daylie shall he be praised We do remember that D. Martin Luther oftentimes said In the olde Testament there is a notable witnes of the Godhead of the Sauiour promised which affirmeth that he was called vpon by this propertie the same sauiour is there discerned from other Prophets That most graue witnes was by some complained to be obscured weakned by translating the same inuocation vnto other men And for that one cause saide he the custome of praying vnto others was to bee disallowed But where the Prophet Dauid affirmeth here that this Sauiour shall liue c. Let that be vnderstoode in that meaning touching which Christ saith Iohn 14. 19. I liue and you shall liue That is like as I of mine owne power do liue séeing that I am consubstantiall with the father and second person in deitie so by my merit and through my effectuall working you shall liue also for I in dying haue destroied death and in rising againe haue restored life as in the old godly verse the Church so singeth Yea I will raise vp againe your bodies from death and these euen counited with your soules I will adorne with gifts agréeable vnto the state of life euerlasting There shall bee an heape of corne vpon the earth high vpon the hilles his fruit shall shake like Libanus and shal be greene in the citie like grasse vpon the earth He compareth the fruitfulnesse of the Church or kingdome of Christ vnto the most lightsom flourishing corne which is answerable to the husbandmans praier and expectation For as the thicke growing corne delighteth the beholders so there is no sight more pleasant then to see the flourishing Churches wherein vnto the puritie of doctrine preached the concorde of the teachers is adioined or annexed There is a great force in the Nowne Bar which signifieth most pure wheate as if hee should say In the Church of Christ shall not beare sway anie vaine chaffe of humne traditions which haue no iuice in them but wheat shall flourish which with the body of man hath great affinitie for euē as of liuely wheat the best blood is increased so the Gospel deliuered without corruption bringeth to the godly ones firme consolation His name shall endure for euer his name shall remaine vnder the Sun among the posterities which shal be blessed through him and all the heathen shall praise him This verse glistereth most clearelie like a notable precious stone throughout the whole Psalme for it teacheth the reader touching the divine nature and benefits of the sauior and touching the calling of the Gentils It cleerelie affirmeth that this lord hath alwaies bin as he himselfe saith Iohn 8. 5. 8. Before Abraham was I am And he vseth the word Linnon the generation of the son from the father eternall And therefore Micheas saith 1 Mic. 3. This our deliuerer went forth before the daies of the world That is hee was the sonne of God before he tooke vpon him nature of man Let vs beleeue therefore being confirmed with these like testimonies that the Sauiour is God indeed and by nature the son of God light of light as in the Creed it is said But although there be manie descriptions which teach why and for what cause the son was sent yet the effect of the matter is brieflie in the worde Blessed signified And for that by the wanting of any thing the same may bee better estéemed which we haue as by darknes light let vs see what the curse is All mankind after our first fall was ouerthrowne with the curse of the law that is of gods wrath of euerlasting death by reason of sin as Paule saith Ephes 2 ver 3. We were by nature the children of wrath euen as others were This curse when no creature could take away or blot out the sonne of God tooke vpon himselfe both the wrath of God and our punishments that his father might be at peace with vs. So Paule Gal. 3. 8. interpreteth the promise giuen to Abraham In thy seed shal al the Gentiles be blessed Christ became accursed for vs and redeemed vs from the curse that we might obtaine the blessing of Abraham Last of all let the particle be considered touching the calling of the Gentiles in this verse The posterities shall be blessed in him and all the heathen shall praise him For the calling of Gentiles is a notable testimonie of Paules affirmattion wherein it is saide Rō 5. 15. Grace oueraboundeth aboue sin for no man can without some humbling of his mind read the examples of mischief striuing with the first and second table wherein the Ethnickes wickedlie and filthily with great rashnes and impudencie are defiled Let vs therefore giue God thankes that hee receiueth such castawayes into sauour and coopteth them into the societie of Christs kingdome Blessed be the Lord God euen the God of Israel which onely doth wonderous things And blessed be the name of his maiestie for euer and al the earth shall be filled with his maiestie Amen Amen It liketh me well in this place to set downe the words of D. Luther expounding the 7. ca. of the prophet Mic Like as the deliuerance in the new testament is by many waies greater and more excellēt then that which was out of Egypt so are the new miracles by infinite meanes farre greater then the olde for what might be more wonderfully said then that son of God take upon him nature of man and was borne of a virgin What is more to be amazed at then when the son of god wrastling with death and Sathan suffered himselfe to be ouercome laieth downe his life before these enemies and while he is ouercome conquereth So a speciall miracle it is that Christ dying like a man vpon the crosse did the third day rise againe from death and out of the graue closed vp after this with immortall flesh ascended vnto heauen and sitteth at the right hand of God what may be like notablie said yea or thought of any other miracles in respect of these Therefore belssed be God who onelie doth these and other myracles So be it FINIS Here end the prayers of Dauid the sonne of Ishai Iohn 14. 6 Matth. 5. 13 14 Sopho. 1. 12 The glorious effectes of Christs resurrection The ioy of the faithfull in the triumph of Christ The Church is as a widow and orphane in the world yet comforted and defended by Christ The Lord is carefull for the deliuerāce of his seruants But altogether neglecteth the vngodly ones A sweet Allegorie of the preaching of the Gospel how it is cōpared vnto thunder and raine Christ the shepheard of our soules The publishing of the law and preaching of the Gospell The