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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13069	A fourth proceeding in the harmony of King Dauids harp That is to say; a godly and learned exposition of six psalmes moe of the princely prophet Dauid, beginning with the 62. and ending with the 67. Psalme. Done in Latin by the reuerend Doctour Victorinus Strigelius professor in Diuinitie in the vniuersitie of Lipsia in Germany Anno 1502. Translated into English by Richard Robinson citizen of London 1596. Seene, perused, and allowed. ...; Hypomnēmata in omnes Psalmos Davidis. Psalm 62-67. English	Strigel, Victorinus, 1524-1569.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1596 (1596)	STC 23362; ESTC S105184	33,513	60

from other sectes Also that they might be meanes to strengthen the ministerie Dauid therefore offereth bullockes and goates not being bewitched with a pharisaicall opinion but vnderstanding those endes whereof I haue briefly spoken Let vs nowe that the policie and temple of the Iewes is destroyed offer vnto god the calues of our lippes that is thankesgiuing and confession and let vs walke in our vocation for the glorie of God Verse 14 O come hither and hearken all yee that feare God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soule Verse 15 I called vnto him with my mouth and gaue him praises with my tongue Verse 16 If I encline vnto wickednesse with my heart the Lorde wil not heare me Verse 17 But God hath heard me and considered the voyce of my prayer Verse 18 Praised be God which hath not cast out my prayer nor turned his mercy from me Hitherto hath he celebrated the publique deliuerances of the church nowe makes hee mention of priuate deliuerances to the end he would increase and confirme in others faith prayer and hope of deliuerance for as one saide elegantly The examples of godly persons are towers builded vpon the wall of faith Also this place teacheth that god seeth the sighings of our heartes and discerneth hypocrisie from true prayer For prayer is not heard except it be made in spirit and trueth And hee can not pray which hath in him an errour striuing with faith or goeth on forwardes in sinning against conscience because it is written in the first epistle of the holy apostle Saint Paule the sixt chapter and the twelft verse Fight the good fight hauing faith and good conscience Againe God heareth not sinners which do not repent them of their sinnes And it is saide in the first epistle of Saint Iohn the third chapter If our heart condemne vs not then haue wee boldnesse towardes God that whatsoeuer we aske wee receiue of him c. vers 21. and 22. Let vs therefore walke wisely not as fooles that wee may rightly call vpon God PSAL. 67. Deus misereatur nostri To him that excelleth on Neginoth a Psalme or Song or Prayer for the Church to obtaine the fauour of GOD that his iudgementes may bee knowne throughout the world and for the comming of his vniuersall kingdome vnder Christ Iesus THE ARGVMENT THere is extant a most sweete sentence in the first epistle of saint Paul vnto Timothie the third chapter and the sixteenth verse which containeth the effect of this Psalme Without controuersie great is the mysterie of godlinesse which is God is manifested in the flesh iustified in the spirit seene of angels preached vnto the Gentiles beleeued on in the world and receiued vp in glory For thinke with your selfe what a thing it is that the Sonne of God being consubstantial and coequall with his Father hath not taken away the equalitie of God that is hath not abused his power against his vocation but hath debased himselfe taking vpon him the forme of a seruant that is nature of man hauing all the strength and desires proper to nature onely without sinne and at length was made obedient vnto death euen to the death of the Crosse Againe this Messias for vs crucified and raised from death to life is endewed with notable and vnfallible testimonies of the holy ghost for publickly doth the holy ghost beare witnesse touching the person and benefites of this Lord not only by the preaching of the Apostles but also by new strange and vnusuall miracles which were the Seales of doctrine and publickly martyrs and other the godly ones haue felt ioy to bee enlightned in the acknowledgement of Christ which is the vanquisher of death And where he addeth that Christ was seene of Angels let not that bee vnderstood of an idle or vaine contemplation but of that sence or meaning whereof S. Peter speaketh that is To whom the Angels and powers and might are subiect For although we earthly persons doe not greatly maruell at the copulation of the two natures in Christ yet Aungels which are the most wisest spirites and alwaies as S. Math saith Behold the face of the father Math. 18.10 being astonished with maruelling at this mysterie stād amazed and cannot take pleasure inough with beholding it For what is more maruellous then that fleshe of our fleshe and bone of our bones shoulde sit at the right hand of God This mysterie as the Poet saith I'ts not enough we once it see It vayles we still ●t viewing be Furthermore what is so much to bee maruelled at as that the Gospel touching Christ is not only preached vnto the Gentiles but also that the effectes of faith are left in many mens heartes Wee doe lesse maruell that the doctrine of the gospel is spred amongst the Iewes in whom there haue alwaies remained some of the doctrines of the Prophets and honest Disciples But whereas this pearle is cast vnto the Gentiles seperated from the policie of Israel which were nothing but hogges and dogges that indeed is most worthy of admiration For the Ethnikes or heathen people hauing forsaken the doctrine of the fathers haue deuised Idols without end and haue polluted themselues with all vices and sinnes whereof the filthinesse is such that I eschew and tremble with feare to speake of them Neither indeed must wee maruell lesse that the Apostles being furnished with no power and destitute of all humane helpes within a small time haue gathered vnto God out of this rable of mankinde an euerlasting Church For that I may say nothing of the miserable and weake outward estate of the Apostles which estrangeth in a sort many from the gospel who would not by right maruel that the same kind of doctrine ordained farre aboue and beyond the reach of mans reason and ioyned with greatest dangers could take root yea and spread abroad also amongst so many and diuers impedimentes For some doe deride the gospel as it were a monstrous fable and scoffe at this opinion which affirmeth that the death of a man crucified was the cause and merite of Iustification before God and of life euerlasting Others doe iudge this new doctrine to be the fire brand and trumpets of seditions But Hypocrites which are in loue with their owne righteousnesse doe much more bitterly hate the gospel as it were the corruption of good maners and the liberty of discipline Therefore although the thinking heereof seemed hard and almost impossible wherewith wee must withstand so many diseases togither yet the Apostles the sonne of God guiding them and the holie Ghost accompanying them within 40. yeares space haue culled and chosen out of mankinde a good and great part of the Church in spite of the diuels their instrumentes Last of al the sonne of God is taken vp in glory that is He was from death gloriously restored vnto life and when hee had shewed himselfe familiarly for the whole space of 40. daies vnto his Apostles he ascended

glory praise and honour for euer and euer so long as no space of time may fully describe Thou arte to be magnified with word and writings of all men for thy institution and preseruation of the chiefest things wherein shine thy wisedome goodnesse and righteousnesse For whereas nothing may be more excellent then order who maruelleth not by right that mankinde is by Gods prouidence most wisely distributed into three degrees or orders as it were and certes to this end that the true knowledge of God should be of euery one according to their vocation preserued and aduanced For as it is ordained that Physitians do teach that is by the prouidence of the workeman to be directed vnto a certaine rule and to a certaine ende And how great goodnesse is that where these three estates as I may so say are not ouerthrowne by the outrages of the Deuil and the Worlde but are by God effectually preserued and defended for albeit our vnthankefulnesse deserue the vniuersall destruction of our churches policies and matrimoniall estate yet God such is his goodnesse doth withstand infinit molestations and generall hauocke then which nothing may be thought or conceiued more greeuous Last of all the iustice of god shineth and is manifestly seene in the punishments of Heretikes and seditious persons The historie of the tragicall end of Arrius is knowne But no lesse are knowne the histories touching the punishing of seditious persons whose last end agreeth with the rule Matth. 26.52 He that taketh the sword namely not giuen him by the lawes shall perish with the sword These punishments declare that god is a iust Iudge destroying things contrary to his order But why in this place is added before the wordes praised in Sion after some translation in silence Because as Isaias saith 30.15 The churches strength consisteth in quietnesse and confidence That is in patience and hope of Gods helpe And S. Paule willeth the church To pray without wrath or doubting 1. Timot. 2.8 That is without grudging against God such as for most part appeareth amongst men in a great violence of tempests and concourse of calamities and without Academicall doubting touching the wil of God yet howe hard a thing it is to performe both the godly ones do finde by experience in great calamities and temptations wherein they seeme to be forsaken or cast away from God But here is required a meanes of godlinesse and this is the way whether it bee easie or hard by this must we needes go And if any man seeke for any other let him call vpon Fortune as some do vse to say for it liketh me to borrow the same wordes in this place which Plato vseth in Epimaenides praising the studies of the doctrine touching numbers figures and heauenly motions Againe some man would peraduenture aske why maketh hee mention of Sion Verely to bring vs downe to the testimonies wherein god made himselfe knowne for like as Sailers direct their course vnto the little star Cynosura so let vs bend our mindes and eies vnto gods manifesting of himselfe and as in the old testament the prayer of the godly ones was tied vnto the Arke of the couenant so now the whole world is Sion according to that saying Iohn 4 23. True worshippers shal worshippe the Father in spirit and in trueth For now the Propiciator or mercifull Sauiour whom the golden table laid vpon the arke did signifie is prepared or set downe before the face of all the people as Simeon singeth most sweetely verse 3. Also that may be demaunded touching what vowe the psalme may here speake saying Vnto thee shall the vow be performed The answere is most plaine that the vowe in this place signifieth the couenant of the first precept or the promise made in our baptisme for like as the first commaundement rehearseth vnto vs dueties touching Feare and Faith so Baptisme bindeth vs vnto the acknowledgement and prayer of the true God as Peter saith 1. Pet. 3.21 Baptisme is the promise of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Christ For Baptisme is a mutuall league wherein god receiueth vs for his sonnes sake and indueth vs with his holie spirite and nowe againe promise perpetuall due obedience and true woorshippe vnto Almightie God Verse 2 Thou that hearest the prayer● vnto thee shall all flesh come There was in Creet an image of Iupiter without ears which doubtles some Epicure had placed euen to signifie that mens prayers are neglected of God Against this fury the psalme setteth downe a constant affirmation yea he saith as it were our God is neither dumbe nor deafe but hath made himselfe knowne both by his word and notable testimonies and also in purpose and euent prooueth that he heareth the praiers and sighings of the godly ones And lest any man should thinke that there is respect of persons with God he saith expresly that all flesh shall come vnto thee That is all men shal easily come vnto God and that no mans minde is so ready to receiue as God is ready and diligent to giue benefites Whereas then wee doe not obtaine nor attaine vnto all things that comes to passe by our fault and not by gods for although he willingly heareth vs without grudging loathing yet our hearts waxe too cold in praying therefore let vs not accuse God who is liberall towards all men but our owne coldenesse and our slouthfulnes which scarcely asketh any thing faintly much lesse can it strongly knocke at the gates of God or complaine doubtfully and earnestly that God hideth himselfe But let there be alwayes in our heartes eares and tongues sounding and resounding this most sweete title wherewith the psalme aduanceth God Hee saieth God is not onely a hearer but also a full hearer of our prayer whereby it followeth that wee are not onely suters but full suters So in the one hundred and twentie psalme and in the first verse it is saide When I cryed vnto the Lorde in my trouble hee heard me fully Let vs therefore imprint this title no otherwise in our mindes then the image of the seale is printed vpon waxe that wee may most stedfastly beleeue that our praiers are receiued and heard at full Verse 3 My misdeedes preuaile against me O bee thou merciful vnto our sinnes The Psalme taketh away the chiefest impediment of prayer for this obiection troubleth men in time of their praying to wit Iohn the ninth chapter God heareth not sinners I am a sumer with what face then shall I come vnto god who is angrie with sinne● God is a consuming fire That is punishing and destroying the guiltinesse of the offence Dauid graunteth the minor and feeleth sinne by the lawe to be made sinne mightily as appeareth in the seuenth chapter of the epistle of the holy Apostle saint Paul to the Romanes but therewithall hee craueth forgiuenesse of sinne promised in the gospell and such sinners truely repenting and crauing forgiuenes shall without doubt be heard Let vs therefore learne by