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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52303	David's harp strung and tuned, or, An easie analysis of the whole book of Psalms cast into such a method, that the summe of every Psalm may quickly be collected and remembred : with a devout meditation or prayer at the end of each psalm, framed for the most part out of the words of the psalm, and fitted for several occasions / by the Reverend Father in God, William ... Lord Bishop of Gloucester.	Nicholson, William, 1591-1672.	1662 (1662)	Wing N1111; ESTC R18470	729,580	564

David's HARP Strung and Tuned Or an easie ANALYSIS Of the whole BOOK of PSALMS Cast into such a Method that the Summe of every Psalm may quickly be collected and remembred With a Devout MEDITATION or PRAYER At the end of every Psalm framed for the most part out of the words of the Psalm and fitted for several Occasions By the Reverend Father in GOD WILLIAM by the Divine providence Lord Bishop of Gloucester LONDON Printed for William Leake and are to be sold at the sign of the Crown in Fleet-street between the two Temple-Gates 1662. To the Right Honorable EDWARD EARLE of CLARENDON Viscount Combury Baron of Hyndon Lord High Chancellor of ENGLAND and Chancellor of the University of OXFORD and one of His MAJESTIES most Honorable Privy Councel Right Honorable A KING and a Prophet greet you well And yet it is the same Person under two names who under either notion I presume shall be welcome For you have a King in your heart and admit the Prophet into your bosome The great services you perform to the one and the great affections you bear and real courtesies you do the other hath embol●●ed me to present these my Meditations unto your protection I shall lesse fear the rigid Censures of others if in your Lordships deep judgment I have contributed the least mite that may help forward devotion You are the great Moderator of the rigor of the Law and therefore what I cannot claim in justice I humbly beg in equity that is a favourable sentence for exposing these my crude conceptions under your Name and I am enough honoured if no dishonour be cast upon you by fixing your Honors name to a Work so unworthy This indeed I had not done had not your Lordships favour in particular obliged me to it 'T is by your Lordships influence upon me that I glimmer as a little Star in the Church and that I yield a more vigorous luster is your Lordships endeavor for which I have little to return but thanks in this poor acknowledgment That you are a Patron to the Muses in general is too large and universal Propositions are as Catholica Catholick medicines that cure few That you have been a Patron to my studies puts life into my old blood not to be faint and weary A vice to which old age is subject that is to waste and go out except there be oile in the Lamp That I no sooner medled with this subject was because I durst not The Mysteries herein contain'd and the Art in the delivery were so superlative that I always held them fit for a mature judgment which by length of years and observation is heightned in old men till they wrack upon dotage Besides I have observed that the best of Expositors have presented their thoughts upon the Psalms in their riper years and made them one of their last works Heavenly raptures they met with in this Book which raised their spirits and hearts and beforehand prepared them to that place to which they did approach I have therefore written after their Copy and brought it to light as the child of my old age and then 't is supposed there may be many infirmities in it which that your Lordship cover with your mantle will be a signal Act of charity The Motive that chiefly was most powerful with me to undergo this task were those Meditations and Devotions of others which I used and perused upon these Hymns These to my judgment weak I confesse relish'd more of the Composers own Cenius than of Davids spirit To remedy this I conceived no better way than to compose the Prayer in Davids words which for the most part is here done and though the order of the Verses be here often inverted yet this is done for the better Connexion of the whole The scope and intent of the Psalmist is strictly observed Pray and Sing we ought with understanding and that is not possible till we understand what we Pray or Sing Now to beget this knowledge in those whom I do desire to animate and render devout in those duties the easiest way I could think on was to present the whole Summe of every Psalm in a brief Synopsis This consideration produced that Analysis which I here offer How happily or unhappily this is perform'd I leave it to your Lordships exacter judgment And yet there was another reason which cast me on this Subject The face of the times were sad and cloudy and our Mother the Church in a mourning weed as Rachel lamenting for her children because they were not and yet upon the promises of God there was hope of a resurrection As then those who accompany their dearest friends to their last home though covered over with vests of sadnesse yet mourn not as men without hope So I in this doleful and general funeral as it were of this our Mother followed her to the grave as the bitter and enraged enemies of hers hoped and boasted with a sad heart and waterish eye and yet in this depth of sorrow I received this comfortable assurance that the day of resurrection would appear for Zion that her walls would be rebuilt and flourish which beyond my expectation God be blessed for it I have lived to see and by your Lordships favor enjoy a large and honorable portion in it Now that I might have somewhat suitable and at hand ready to expresse both these passions I could not find any part of Scripture so apt and pertinent as this little Epitom of the whole By which I have been taught to grieve and hope to lament and joy to complain to my God and comfort my self in the deepest of those complaints with those lively and inspiriting encouragements which this Swan of Bethlehem hath left to be sung by all the good people of God in their extremities The whole is Davids the Method only mine and if it shall find a Candid interpretation from others and a favorable acceptation from your Honour you shall oblige me to remain what I am Your Lordships in all due observance WILL. GLOUCESTER A PREFACE To the EXPOSITION of the Psalms THERE is no way by which Man may learn but by the same God vouchsafes to teach him There is Liber Naturae and Liber Scripturae The Book of his Creatures and his Book of Scriptures The Book of his Creatures is as it were a great Common-place Book written in Folio for all Nations and Languages and able to Catechize all men in these two Principles That there is a God and that he is to be worshipped 2. Sect. But his Book of Scriptures is as it were his own Book of Statutes written for his own peculiar people the Church wherein by Precepts he instructs by Requests he exhorts by Promises he allures by Threats he terrifies and therefore hath he sent his servants for the attaining of these ends with divers qualities Some like Moses to teach some like Esau to comfort some like Jeremy to mourn but David with his