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A10583	The solace of Sion, and ioy of Ierusalem. Or consolation of Gods church in the latter age redeemed by the preaching of the Gospell vniuersallye. Beeing a godly and learned exposition of the Lxxxvij. Psalme of the princelye prophet Dauid: written in Latine by the reuerend Doctor Vrbanus Regius, pastor of Christes Church at Zelle, in Saxonie. 1536. Translated into english by R. Robinson citizen of London 1587.; Psalmus octuagesimus septimus, de gloriosa Christi ecclesia	Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1587 (1587)	STC 20852; ESTC S119789	35,218	86

and the rest to pronounce vnto the Nations his holy wil word works to preach vnto al true beleeuers his prouidēce presence promises in his church kingdome by Christ and his Gospel of euerlasting saluation In the fourth age of the 〈…〉 the Prophets Christ Iesus the sonne of God came into the world for the saluation of al true beleeuers whō the very Gentiles of the ●ast at his first comming acknowledged worshipped the Iewes afterwards scatered here and there among the Gentiles and many of their Rulers beleeued in him Though the Pharises Scribes and Hipocrites with other wicked Iewes despised his doctrine and persecuted his person and his Apostles also of whom the denying Peter a penitent Pastor among the Iewes and the persecuting Saule a conuert Paul among the Gentiles were also mightie messengers workmen of their maister Christ when with thē the other Appostles and many christian Doctors Martires and mēbers of the Primitiue Church vnder 12. persecutions for the same causes and effectes liued and died the faithfull seruants of Christ and Inheritours of the promised heauenly SION and Ierusalem And as euen in that age the Romane Antechriste began his kingdome to constitute mans traditions a boue Christs institutions whome Tyrants Epicures Sophisters and manifolde miscreantes vpheld had in honor So euen then in the fift age of the world the Lord God stirred vp good and gratious Emperors and kinges godly spiritual persons and religious mēbers of his Church to settle and defend his trueth and aduance the glory of his heauenly kingdome to the subduing of the same Antichrist And now are almost 600 yeares entred into the sixt age of the world the Lordin his holy wil word and work perfourming his prouidence presence and promises in his church and kingdome euerlasting by gathering the same out of euery Nation the faithful of his flock who shal partake with him of the celestial solace infinite ioy in the heauenly SION and Ierusalem in the Sabaoth of eternall rest Towardes the well wishing wherevnto Right honorable worshipful reuerēd in the Lord like as the Apostle Paul writ his louing salutatiōs vnto the Romanes at that time the chosen church of Christ and amongst some of them engrafted in the true faith before himselfe was called praied thē to salute VRBANVS his fellow helper in Christ So do ● most humbly and hartely reuerently dutifully recōmend vnto your honour and worships godly fauourable acceptations of this short but sweet Psalm this little but learned labour published by so faithful a fellow helpen of Paul this VRBANVS REGIVS or kingly Citizen of Christ in our time who as he being present in spirite though absent in body for two yeares sent the same in latine as a token of remēbrance vnto the worshipful Senators of Hamborow his friēds So I a poore Citizen of LONDON wel willer of your worships my good benefactors doe dedicate consecrate this my translation of the same In perperuam Mnemosinā prōptitudinis meae in praecatione praxin pro pietatibus vestris And so humbly beseeching your honour worships to accept my great good wil in so smal a substance though great in effect I hartely pray for the happy long encrease of Gods benefites and blessings vpon this City terrestiall for the end les perfruitiō therof with Christ the immaculate Lāb his Angels elders thousandes thousandes of his elect vnto whome with the father and the holy Ghost they incessantly shal ascribe all power riches and wisedome and strength and honor and glory and praise For euer and euer So be it Your honors and worships humble Orator Richard Robinson The Lxxxvii Psal according to the Hebrues Whereof the Title is attributed A Psalme or Songe of the SONNES of KORACH AVGVSTINE saide well that this Psalme was verye briefe in circumstance of wordes but greate in substance of all the sentences For whereas it hath but seauen verses onely yet notwithstanding it describeth profoundlie the Churche of Christ the Heauenly Ierusalem the spirituall Sion as the fruitfull Mother both of the Iewes and Gentiles what a one how large she shall be when as she shal not only haue Citizens from among the Iewes but from among the Gentiles also throughout the whole worlde And out of this Psalme learne we that Article of our faith I beleeue there is one Catholike holy Church the Cōmunion of Saintes And I suppose this is euen very specially necessary for this ou● age that we may exactlye learne and daylie handle this Article out of the holy Scriptures leaste we be seduced either by the Anabaptistes and Chiliasts of our time carnally vnderstanding the predictions of Prophets concerning the Church either els be carried away with admiration of their glorious and stately Titles who at this day thruste foorth into Christians the inuentions of mans braine for and in steede of the true worshipping of GOD vnder pretēce of the Church As if the Church of whome we daylie make mention in the Apostolike Créede were either a worldlye pollicye or the Author of infinite tradicions which at this day false and tyranicall teachers of this latter age do cast as it were snares into the consciences of christian people like as the Prophet Ezechiell in his 13. Chap. speaketh of those deceiuers That they mighte slaye the Soules of them which die not and giue life to the soules that liue not in lying to my People which beleeue their lies Verse 19. The Lxxxvii Psal vers 1. Her foundations are vpon the holy Hilles Pars 1. The Lord loueth the Gates of Sion more thē al the dwellings of Iacob Pars 2. PAVLE the Apostle wrote in 1 Cor. 10. That all thinges happened to the Iewes in Type or figure as it were vnto a People Tipicall or figuratiue wherfore we will herehence enter our purpose from the Type vnto the trueth and from the shadowe vnto the Light it selfe What notable thing soeuer is any-wheare in the Scripture mentioned as touching Sion Ierusalem Iuda and Israel what so deuine promises of Christ and his euerlasting Kingdome are any wheare set downe all this doth the carnall People of the Iewes referre vnto themselues and the earthly Sion Ierusalem Wherefore in these and such like Prophesies the Iewes notably flatter themselues and most arrogantly despise the Gentiles in comparison of them selues Because as S. Paule sayeth 2. Cor. ● Those Gentiles haue the ●o●e●i●● vntaken from their hearts as in the reading of the Olde Testament and the Kingdome of God is taken from them They also erre not knowing the Scriptures neither shall the Veile or Couering of their vngodly ignorance be taken away except they first be conuerted vnto the Lord. verses 14. 15. 16. So ●as whiles they imbrace not IESVS of Nazareth for theire true Messias or Sauiour fore promised in the Lawe and the Prophets and sente vnto vs from God in the last

Christ may be reckoned amongst the people of GOD that is the Church of Christ Our Scholemaister D. Martin Luther that he might also open the mister●● of the calling of the Gentiles in this place vnto the ●ares of y ● Germanes doth th●● translate it Ich will predigen lassen Rahab vnd Babell das sie mich kennen sollē that is to say I will let pr●●ch Rahab Babilon that they may knowe me And this rightlie and perspicuously so he doth For that this is the rule of a good Interpreter S. Ierome writing vnto Summa and Fretela teacheth vs That he might expresse the phrase of an other language in the proprietie of his owne tongue which thing also amōgst y ● anciēts y ● be slearned writers haue done as Tully in Protagora Platonis in Oeconomi●o Xenophontis in Demosthenes his oration against Aeschines many others In which place heare that folly bragging of the outragions Sinagogue is beaten backe wheras it crieth Abraham is our father we are the heritage of GOD the Gentiles are accursed Iohn 8 vers 39. For it is a cleare and euident Testimonie of the calling of the Gentiles out of the whole world to the Gospel of Christ For by the calling of the aforesaide Nations in this place are all other Nations also to be vnderstood wheresoeuer they be thronghout the worlde And like as the Prophets do prophesi● of the grace of Christ to be imparted vnto the Nations that the kingdome of Christ may be Catholike or vniuersall Therefore not onely shall God remember the posteritie of ABRAHAM after the flesh but also the Gentiles in the whole worlde out of whome by faith he maketh the sonnes of Abraham that if not in consanguinitye yet in the same Faith they may resemble their true beleeuing father Abraham Therefore doeth the Apostle call Abraham the Father of all the faithfull by Circumsision that vnto them also Righteousnesse might bee imputed euen as vnto him beleeuing the promise concerning Christ Faith is imputed vnto righteousnesse Rom. 4. 16. vers 9. 7. Gal. 3. vers 7. 22. The Lawe worketh nothing theare nor the generation as touching the flesh For the promise happened not vnto Abraham by the Lawe nor to his seede That hee should be the heire of the worlde but by righteousnesse of faith Like as in 3. cap. Gal. vers 7. he saith They which are of faith are the Children of Abraham Wee vnderstande here that the flesh hathe no prerogatiue in respecte of iustification but faith in Christe Wherefore wee which were taken from among the Gentiles and which as the same Apostle saieth were once farre off are now made neere by the blood of Christe Ephes 2. vers 13. Who from out both Iewes and Gentiles hath made one and hath broken the stoppe of the partition wall vers 14. Nowe wee both through him haue an Enterance vnto the Father of mercies by one spirite vers 18. This doth the promise of God in this Psalme I will thinke vpon Rahab and Babilon c. that is to say I will call and take vnto me Children from out of al the Nations in the world and not out of Canaan onely which surely ought to be reckoned by good right amongst the glorious thinges which are spoken off touching the Churche of Christ For the Apostle also in the third chapiter to the Ephesians fearmeth the calling of the Gentiles into the Church or Congregation of ISRAEL a Misterye which was not alwayes knowen vnto the Sonnes of men but is reueyled vnto the Holye ones the Apostles of Christ and his Prophets by his holy spirite namely that the Gentiles are fellow-heires with the Iewes members of one body and Coo-partners of the promise of life in Christ And the Prophet Dauid here addeth in the ende of this verse Loe there is hee borne that is to say the people of the nations before remembred Where are they borne I answere wheras hee reconeth vp by the name of those Nations it is certaine that he speaketh of them which are now borne but he affirmeth the misterie of regeneration To be by water the Sperite as in Iohn 3. And he teacheth also that those Nations borne anew theare that is within the gates of SION in the citie of God haue giuen their name vnto Christ forsaking their Idols and are to be conuerted from darknesse vnto light and from the power of Satan vnto the true and liuing God that they may also receiue forgiuenesse of Sinnes and inheritance amongst them which are sanctified by faith in Christ Vers 5 And of SION it shal be reported that manie are borne in her And hee euen the most high shal stablish her IN this place the translation as S. Hierome sayeth to Summa and Fretela according to the places times and pleasures of olde writers differeth frō the Hebrue veritie For that saith Vnto SION it shall be reported many are borne in her But the Greeke translation hath it thus The Mother Sion shall say many persons are borne in her Finallie the west church hath now for a long time read Shal Sion say many are borne c In which place not without cause do we detest the negligence of the Prelates of the Church in whose power at this day consisteth the chéefe regarde of thinges who do surmount the Princes of the Empire both in wealth and reuenues much more are equal vnto them and yet in so many ages not euen one hath bene sound who at the charge of the Church goodes hath reformed the exemplars of the Byble or at least wise the Psalter within all the Churches is song nightes and daies such faithfull Stewardes of God are they for sooth But let vs suffer them to fill vp the measure of their Fathers indeede the Pharises whoe euen themselues with like periurye gouerned their Sinagogue in time past so long that whiles they woulde not repent them they vtterly perished from the face of the earth Firste wee will showe foorth what meaninges the Hebrue Text hath Of SION it shall bee reported that is of the Church of Christe it shall bee preached Manye are borne in her That is euerye one that is regenerate by the Spirite is borne in that SION For in the Church are the worde of life and the Sacramentes of our saluation Wherefore they which remaine out of the Church are the Children of wrath the Children of olde ADAM yea carnall Children dead in sinnes and subiect vnto eternall damnation But they which in SION addresse or reedifye the Cittye of GOD doe finde the Gospell of Saluation and the Sacramentes by the whiche they are borne anewe and are made the Children of grace the Sonnes of GOD and new men are raised vppe from the Death of Sinne and made Spirituall heires of eternall life The Hebrue Phrase is Vir Vir Homo Homo for the worde Vnusquisque Luther whome the Spirite of Christe taught by moste grieuous tribulations not onely to singe with

the voice but also with the spirite and trueth expressed this verse to the Germanes vnderstanding on this maner Man wirt von Zion sagen das aller ley leut drinnē geboren werden It shall be said of Sion all Nations shall be borne therein which we out of the Hebrue text doe thus expound Vir Vir that is euery one in whatsoeuer Nation he be borne at length yet againe hee is borne anewe in SION As Peter also in the Actes Cap. 10. sayeth Of trueth I perceiue that GOD is no 〈…〉 of Persons but in euerye 〈…〉 that feareth him and worketh Righ●●ousnesse is accepted with him vers 34. and 35. According to y e Gréeke edetion we read The mother Sion y is y e church which is the spiritual mother For within y ● ●hurch we were borne a new with w●ter and of the Spirite and in the lap of the Church as infantes are in their mothers bellie And first we are nourished with milke afterward with strong meat that is with the word of God preached vnto vs according to our capacitie vntill we all meete together in the vnity of faith and knowledge of the sonne of God vnto a perfect man and vnto the measure of the age of the fulnesse of Christe as the Apostle S. Paul saith Ephes 4. Unto this spirituall byrth by or from God had Esay respect with whome in his 49. thay The Church marueiling at the multitude of her Children crieth thus Who hath begotten these Seing I am barraine and desolate a Captiue and a Wanderer to and fro and who hath 〈…〉 them And the Lord God answereth her 〈…〉 I will lift vp mine hande to the Gentiles and set vp my Standerde to the people and they shall bring thy Sonnes in their armes and they shall carrie thy Daughters vpon their shoulders ibidem vers 22. And the Apostle S. Paule in the 4. Gal speaking of the Church saith But Ierusalem which is aboue is free which is the Mother of vs all For it is written Reioice thou barraine that bearest no Children Breake forth and crie thou that traueilest not For the desolate hath many mo children then she which hath an husband Esay 54. Augustine in this place vnderstandeth by the word Homo Christ by reason of the disposing of the nature humane taken vpon him which though it haue a godlye ser●e or meaning yet is it not spoken in place Arnobius not marking the Hebrue sence Homo Homo vnderstandeth Adam begetting sonnes which may possesse the earth Christ begetting sonnes which may possesse the Heauens But these wordes make nothing for the purpose For he rehearseth before diuers nations purposing to shewe that not onelye the Iewes but also the Gentiles wheresoeuer in the world they be shal fully attain to that Citie of God and shall be borne anew in her that this second and spiritual byrth may not onely pertaine to Israell after the flesh but without respect of any person euen vnto all Nations For by the Commaundement of Christe The Gospell was to be preached vnto all Creatures Which thinge sith it bringeth regeneration all Nations are altogether to be admitted into this Citty That they might be borne anewe as Peter sayeth not of mortal seed but of immortal seed by the worde of the liuing GOD which abideth for euer 1. Peter 1. vers 23. For so our Lorde himselfe openeth openeth vnto vs all the Prophesies touching the saluation of the Gentiles in Math. 8. and Luke 13. Manye shall come from the Easte and the West from the North and the South and shall rest them with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in the Kingdome of GOD. Mathew 8 verse 11 Luke 13. vers 29. Wee haue also in this place a moste strong weapon against the argumentes of the Iewes and those which embrace Iudaisme who doe wrest and arrogate the promises made vnto this Spirituall SION to them and to their earthlye IERVSALEM as if these so great cōmendations were spoken of the earthly Cittie And in our age the newe Donatistes and secte of Chiliastes most foolishlie also dreame with the Uncircumcised promising themselues earthelye thinges where the Spirite of Christe promiseth in the Prophetes with moste swéet allegories spirituall and celestiall thinges Unto which fanaticall persons also the moste delicate Table of the worde of GOD is turned into a Snare and Trappe yea into an offence and Retaliation Their eies are darkened that they sée not and their backes are alwaies made crooked that they sée nothing but earthlye thinges whereas meere Celestiall thinges are promised vnto the elect ones of GOD. For those Nations whome the Prophet and Psalmograph here reckoneth vp and affirmeth to bee borne in SION for a trueth are not borne in that earthlye SION and IERVSALEM Wherfore we doe most necessarilye vnderstande the verse to bee set downe as concerning the Spirituall SION For so the Apostles and Euangelistes as the Interpreters of the Prophetes taught by GOD haue instructed vs to vnderstand and handle the Oracles of the Prophets on that maner Christ the spirituall king a high Prieste of good thinges to come promised in the Gospell vnto a spirituall people thinges spiritual and eternall and not méere temporall good things wherfore as Augustine writing vpon the 39. Psal admonisheth vs Let no man promise himselfe that which the Gospel promiseth him not The scrip tures promise vs not in this worlde but tribulations persecutions Calamities encrease of sorrowes aboundance of temptations to these thinges let vs speciallye prepare vs least vnprepared wee vtterly fall These saith he That halfe verse The most High euen hee shall stablish the same hath in it more consolation then our slender capacity can comprehend It is a certaine special thing of those glorious ●ytles which are declared of y ● City of God For what can bee spoken more glorious and more excellent of the Church of God then that the same is not founded and estabished by humane handes strengthes or counsels but of the selfe same GOD the workmaister and preseruer of all things For euen he Iesus Christ the sonne of the highest God the power and wisedome of God the father was sent to be a Rocke foundation a Wall and couering of this holy Citie Here vpon it followeth that this Citie shall alwayes be safe from the tyranny of death and of the Diuel which hath dominion ouer Death much more then shall shee be safe from ●ickle fading and britle power of this world For seeing that God himselfe is the founder confirmer and defender thereof it cannot be destroyed nor subuerted yea the foundation of this Citie shall stand vnshaken or immoueable euen to the vtmost and for euer As it is in the 47. Psal God hath founded the same Citie his Church for euer vers 7. Therefore although it bée oppugned or assaulted of most cruell and most mighty enimies without all t●uces namely of Sinne feare of Death the Deuell the World and the Flesh yet it shall not

ioine the Hebrue phrase vnto the Gréeke te●t and you shall see a goodly consonancy Glorious sayinges are ther of thee but in thee O City of God For without thée of thée is all euil spoken For those same glorious thinges which are spoken off touching y e Church are vndoubtedly not spoken of her but in the Church for without the Church the world that is the cōgregation of the vngodly the spouse of the deuil the enemie of Christ with her Ruler is not glorious but speake meer extreame infamies or slaunders of the Church Without the Church wher the Gospell is scorned and hissed out of doores so soundeth the verse Reprochful things are spoken of thee O city of Satan For so also y e vngodly ones flatter thēselues that they are the Catholike Children of God the ancient Christians and the City of God But others not honouring the Pope them doe they cal the children of Satan yea they condemne the Gospel of the grace of God or as the damnable doctrine and errour of Satan At Augusta one of those Papistes a Doctor of the Popes Diuinity by suggestion in presence of Duke Maurice cried out vpon thē which beleeued in y e Gospel of Christ which hee called the new Doctrine as persons infamous and vnworthely requested rightly to beare witnesse of y ● Truth before Judges or Magistrats as we say in Duch Sie sollen mir zukey ●er warheit odder zeugknus gut genug sein So Paul that most excellēt light of the Church was contēptibly reckoned for a Sower of strange doctrine Actes 17. Paule and Silas were called Disturbers of the whole worlde ibidem And●n times past as it appeareth in y e Apollogie of Tertullian against the Gentiles the Christians were of Gentiles named murtherers Church-robbers incestuous persons publique enemies murtherers of Infants procurers of wicked lusts Bawdes and Asse-heades in that they worshipped an Asses head as it were a God which suspition Cornelius Tacitus had stirred vp The assemblye of Christians to the Supper of the Lord was counted of the vngodly ones a Faction Christians were named the cause of all publique mischiefe and of all inconuenience amongst the people of the world If the riuer Tiber rose vp to the walles If the riuer Nilus flowed not vp ouer the fleldes if the Skies stood still if the earth quaked if euer any Famine or pestilence were by and by it was denounced Cast those Christians to the Lions Finally they were reprochfully called vnfruitful in their businesse and not good for any thing They were also called Sarmentitij Semitij because being boūd to a block of greate waight standing vpright and compassed about with fier wood they wer brent to ashes And for this cause also they were accompted desperate and cast away In Ciprians time there was among the enemies of the Christians one Demitrianus a man of great name which saide that all misschiefes whereby the world was tossed and turmoiled was to be imputed vnto the Christians for that the Boddes of the Gentiles wer not worshipped amongst them And then it was an offence to be a Christian Iulianus the Apostate in respecte of reproch called the Christians Galileans as Nazianzenus writeth The Iewes at Rome called the Christian faith and that congregation a Sett Of this sect say they vnto Paule it is knowen vnto vs that in euery place men speake against it Act. 28. Christ the head of the Church the husband and foundation thereof heard himselfe called of the Iewes a Samaritane aSeducer and deceiuer of the people one hauing a Deuill aud a sedicious person And in our time such as beleeue the Gospell and reiect the doctrines of men disagréeable to y ● Gospel y ● I may omit infinite other slaunders are called of the vngodly ones Lutherane Heretikes But Christ the husband of the Church in this world despised and abiect such is his vnsearcheable wisedome turneth euen these slaunders also into glorie for the Christians For who had not rather heare tenne hundreth thousande reproches of the vnprais-worthy Gentiles and vngodly persons abhominable before God and that for the name of Christ then to beare the state of a king and enioy at ease all the honoures and benefites of this worlde ● This one blessing of Christe confoundeth all the cruell curses of this worlde Blessed are you whē men reuile you and shall speake all euill against you for my names sake falsly Reioice and bee glad because your rewarde is greate in heauen Math. 5. verses 11. and. 14. Vers 3 I will thinke vpon Rahab and Babilon with thē that knowe me Vers 4 Beholde the Philistines also and they of Tyre with the Morians loe ther was hee borne FIrst of al the names of the aforesaid Nations must be declared and the meaning of the Prophet shall more easily appeare Rahab therefore is a Sirname which Esay also in his 30 chap. giueth vnto Egipt because it was a proud People in whome when the Iewes put their hope and confidence they were deceiued Wherfore Esayas saieth For the Egiptiansare vanitie and they shall help in vaine Their Rahab or strength is to sit stil And in the 51 chap. Art not thou that same Arme that hath smitten the proud Egipt Arnobius and Augustine vnderstand by that same Strumpet in Iericho those y ● are wise in their owne conceites Unto the other Doctors Rahab seemeth to signifie rashnesse and insolency or pride wherewith the Egiptians are by good right entituled as the speciall Enemies of the the Iewes And Thargus the Hebrue writer in this place hath Mitsarri that is to say Egipt for Rahab Those persons called Allophili as it is in y ● Gréeke translation are Philistines For the Hebrue text hath Phelesser which S. Hierome translateth for Palestine And the same Hierome vpon the first Chapiter of Amos giueth to note that the 70 Interpreters called the Philistines alwaies Strangers borne For wheresoeuer saith he in the olde Testament w●● read Straungers borne they are to bee vnderstoode not commonlye as touching all forraine Nations but properly of Philistines which nowe are called 〈…〉 These Nations that is to say Egiptians Babilonians Palestines Tyrians and Ethiopians were well knowen to the Iewes for their Neighbourhoode and for their malignant mindes towardes them Hereby therefore y ● Prophet teacheth in the person of God that the before mentioned people although hetherto they knewe not God and were manifestly vngodly and accursed as all other Nations being without hope and wanting knowledge of God in the world shall yet notwithstanding be receiued into the grace fauour of the Gospell As if he saide I wil remember those Nations amongst them which will knowe me that is amongst my elect true Christians which knowe and worship me by Faith in Christ Blessed is he which God so thinketh vpon that he is written in the booke of life what maner of life soeuer he led before hee yet through grace by