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love_n	john_n	love_v	world_n	13,642	5	5.6658	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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