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A13878
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A learned and a very profitable exposition made vpon the CXI. psalme
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Travers, Robert, fl. 1561-1572.
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1579
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STC 24180; ESTC S120253
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had bene worthy continuall prayse and remembraunce howe muche more nowe in this sinnefull and miserable lyfe For let vs examine and trie our selues ⪠let vs laye out liues to the rule of the Lawe of God let vs looke and beholde them in that glasse which râuââlâth all thinges and seeing we haue the vse of these creatures by no other condition but by the obedien e of Gods commaundementes what grace and mercy may we see in that they are not euery moment taken away from vs I maruell that the sunne which is witnesse of so great and innumerable faultes vppon the earth standeth so long in the heauens that the heauens melt not for the infection that âân them by our corruption and that Iesus Christe commeth not to burne them the earth so polluted with our sinnes to make that newe heauen that nâwe earth wherein righteousnes shall dwell Which of vs is he that perceiueth not to âise out of him If as out of a filthy bottomlesse pitte âmoââ infection that were able to darkeÌ the sunne and couer al the coÌpasse of y heauens that may not iustly wonder at the Lordes mercy iâ that the earth is able to beare vs so laden with vngodlinesse and vnrighteousnesse O Lord thy mercy reacheth vnto the heaueÌs thy goodnes vnto the highest heauens Thy pity and compassion is infinite wonderfull and yet who is he that considereth these things ⪠Thus I will leaue the consideration of the mercy of God in this parte to your godly meditation and come to the more nââe and perfect sight knowledge oâ God which appeare th m h s Church onâlâ ãâã you by the glârâ of God and louâ oâ Iâsâs Chââst thât ââââmember sâeing the hââuens and âarth and sâeing all things in thâm are ours ãâã the mercies of God they continue ãâ¦ã ãâã vse that we maââ also âe Christ âs as thapostle herâoâ meâââeth that ãâ¦ã to the loue of his worde and ãâ¦ã his Gâspâll euân aâ hâw âs in all thing obedient to god Thus we ãâ¦ã the glory mercy of God out of the creatiues whichâ hâ hath appâyntâd ãâã witnesses thereof in the wholâ world ãâ¦ã only one place but al thâ whole world may bââallâd ãâã because thâ Lord âââeâleth his glory mercy in euery part therof but yet if we compare this knowledge ââ the glory mercy of God lerned here out of his creatures to that which may be knowen out of his Church out of his worde we shall perceiue that in the creatures we see but his backe hinder parts we see him but daââly as in a glasse of steelâ but as in the nether outward courtes oâ his temple here in the church we shall ãâã his glory as in the holiest place of all ãâã in the place of the oraclâs is n a glâssââ Christall and as it were face to face Wherefore let vs draw neare come vnto the temple let vs looke into this glasse and bâhold his fatherly countenance He hath made tâ his wânderfull worke remembrances The Prophet in this verse sheweth the passing and wonderful workâ that he hath done for his Church the exceeding loue that he beareth to his church For although we haue already seene the mercy goodnes which he hath declared aswel to them as to other euen in the verse of his coÌmon creatures yet because they are coÌmon to others with theÌ the particuler priuate loue which the Lord beareth vnto theÌ aboue othârs doth not so clearly appeare Therefore here the Prophet beginneth a Catalog although not with many words yet fullâ ãâã remeÌbring all and calling them to minde bâ generall wordes And first that this speciall and partiâular care which he hath of his Churche may be knowen to passe the common and vniuersall order of things I thinke it may be noted out of the conferences of the words In the seconde verse he sayth Great are his wârkes c. Here he vseth a greater worde and sayth they are wonderfull for although this Prophet in other places call the common workes of God wonderfull and are so in deede in them selues considered yet âopaâed with these they are great and these wonderfull so in halfe of the third verse he sayth his goodnes remayneth c. But here he vseth wordes which seeme to come out of the Lords heart and bowellâs gracious and mârââfull and he doubleth them because his loue is double and triple and manyfolde vpon them This greatnes of the woders of God he coÌmendeth in these words He hath made the remembrance or memoriall of them c. Not that the goodnes of God which riseth out of his creatures is to be forgotten oâ negligently to be regarded for we know therefore the Lord in the beginning to haue instituted the Sabboth for a perpetuall memory to vs of his great loue goodnes mercy and wiâdome which appeareth in the world Dauid hath also made diuers Psalmes in their remeÌbrance whereof some âs that of the Sabboth was song in the temple But he speaketh after an excellent sort ãâã principally chiefly giuing remembranâe vnto theÌ as if that in coÌparison of thâsâ thother be forgotten âoâ as the Prophet speaking of the benefite of the deliueraÌce oâ rather resurrection of the Iewes out of Babilon sayth that it shall no more be sayd then the Lord ââueth which brought the children of Israel out of Egypt but they shall speake of the Lord thus the Lord liueth which brought them out of Babilon meaning that this shall be so excellent that in respect thereof the former although so notable and as it is here also thus highly coÌmended should be no more spokeÌ of so in this place the benefites which he hath shewed to his Church in their deliueraÌce after a sort maketh the other to be forgotten And Esay speaking of the light of the Gospel in the kingdome of Christ saith that in that day the sunne shall giue no light nor the moone appeare meaning also that in coÌparison of the light which shal be seueÌ times greater theÌ the light of the sunne eueÌ the sunne shal be darkned as the moone at his presence so in this place the lord hath the remeÌbraÌce of these his works so famous and glorious that the former benefite like the starrs at the rising of the sunne are obscured and hidden For iâ they were woâthy once to be spoken of these are worthy âften times if those to be written with a pen in paper these are worthy to be written in vâon and with an Adâmant stone if those with the hand of a man these are to be printed with the singer of god For as high as the heauens are in coÌparisân of the earth so muche hath the âââd magnified the measure of his graces and benefites towardes the Churche aboue the rest of the sonne of men But lât vs consider particularly what they were The Prophet meaneth the signes wonders which the Lord