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A12260	A sacred septenarie, or, A godly and fruitful exposition on the seven Psalmes of repentance viz. the VI. XXV. XXXII. XXXVIII. LI. CXXX. CXLIII. the 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. of the penitentials. Seruing especially for the direction and comfort of all such, who are either troubled in minde, diseased in body, or persecuted by the wicked. The second impression. By Mr. A. Symson, pastor of the church at Dalkeeth in Scotland.	Simson, Archibald, 1564-1628.	1623 (1623)	STC 22568; ESTC S107775	256,267	548

yea his write and seale that he should haue it at the time promised the subiect hath nothing to depend vpon but the kings bond and word which both may faile him for princes are changable because they may die within the time appointed for performance of their promise Psal 146.3 Trust not in worldly princes whose breath is in their nostrells they may alter and may become vnable to doe that which they promised But our God if he promise and we beleeue it he can doe he will doe Heauen and earth shall change Mat. 5.18 but one title of his word shall not faile Psa 119.96 I haue seene an end of all perfection but thy word is exceeding large Hope is an ancer to which thou being tied thou art in safetie albeit thou see no natural cause of thine hope yet hope aboue hope Rom. 4.18 as Abraham did when he sacrificed his sonne In these two verses he doth foure times make mention of his hope and attendance vpon God and his word to let vs see how sure an holde we should take on God Hope a sure refuge in time of tentation and many temptations our faith is assaulted with when we can see no reason of it There is nothing will beare vs vp but hope Spero meliora What encourageth husbandmen men and marriners Simil. against the surges and waues of the sea and euill weather but hope of better What comforteth a sicke man in time of sickenes Simil. but hope of health or a poore man in his distresse Simil. but hope of riches or a prisoner but hope of libertie or a banished man man Simil. but hope to come home All these hopes may faile as oftentimes wanting a warrand Albeit a phisitian may encourage a sicke man by his faire words yet he cannot giue him an assurance of his recouerie for his health dependeth on God friendes and courtiers may promise poore men releife Our hope in God cannot faile vs. 1. Cor. 10.13 Nota. onely God is faithfull who hath promised Therefore let vs fixe our faith on God our hope on God for he will stand by his promise No man hath hoped in him in vaine neither was euer any disappointed of their hope Dauid was thirtie yeares of age before he attained to the kingdome 2. Sam. 5.4 which was promised to him being a child The Israelits were in Aegipt foure hundred yeares Exo. 12.40 and in the wildernesse fortie yeeres Amo. 5.23 yet at last came home to Canaan God brake not his promise to Abraham The Iewes were seuentie yeares in Babilon yet at last God brought them backe according to his promise Ier. 38. by Ieremiah So our hope shall neuer be disappointed My soule hath waited By this doubling and ingemination of his esperance and hope he would signifie that vnfainedly without simulation he attended the promises of Gods mercifull deliuerances Out of which we may gather that he was not onely patient and constant before men but he nourished his patience secretlie before God which is the onely and best triall of faith for albeit there be many that are ashamed through their ambition to murmure against God in their troubles and to vtter to men their distrust and diffidence yet there is not one among twenty who will keepe himselfe from secret murmuring and grudging before God and who can awaite patiently the day of Gods deliuerie as that king said Why should I attend on the Lord any longer 2. Ki. 6.33 But we should not precipate and hasten He that hopeth is not too hastie he that hopeth will not be too hastie but waiting patientlie on Gods time attend his leasure willingly for his time is our best time And I haue trusted in his word He setteth downe the ground of his trust euen the word of God and Gods promise otherwaies we deceiue our selues by vaine hopes and dreames if we thinke God will giue that to vs Faith and hope depend on Gods word which he neuer promised neither we beleeued faith and hope doe not leane on imaginations but vpon the sure truth of Gods word Therefore saith he Remember thy word to thy seruant in which thou gauest me hope Psa 119.49 Bellermine citeth this same place of Scripture which maketh much against himselfe Those who leaue to any thing but Gods word rest on sandie foundations who biddeth men beleeue those vnwritten verities and decrees of councells as if they were the written word of God and whereto doth all papisticall seruice relie but vpon the traditions of men And who relieth on those their hopes are in vaine and themselues like vnto those that leane to dreames and visions or to oracles of diuils shall be illuded because they rest vpon false grounds So if you would be assured of eternall life take a sure hold of the holy Scriptures a sure rocke to leane vnto in thy trouble and aduersitie Whatsoeuer saith Paul is written is written for our instruction Rom. 15.4 that by patience and comfort of the Scriptures we might haue hope The Apostle stablisheth the word the onely ground of his faith and hope and affirmeth that our faith is in vaine vnlesse it forme vs to true patience and attendance vpon his promise and good will to vs. Herein of all heretiques the papists are most to be blamed Against the papists with holding of the Scriptures from lay people Ioh. 3.30 who deny the vse of the Scriptures to Christians thinking that thereby their knauerie in abusing the people would be discouered and made manifest to the eyes of the world He that doth euil hateth the light How can the people see when the candle is put vnder a bashell But now seeing the light not of a candle but of the Sunne shineth I would wish you all Simil. not as hooded hawkes whose eies are closed and are led they doe not know whether not to be led blind folded to hell but in time desire that your eies may be opened that you may see the word and by it try who speaketh truth who teach erroneous doctrine Search the Scriptures for in them yee will find eternall life Ioh. 5.39 My soule waiteth on the Lord. This is the fourth time that he sheweth that his soule that is his inward affections waited on the Lord and this is the sixt time that he maketh mention of the Lord one God and one faith one hope that God was the onely ground of his hope that he could not goe by him and to declare the feruencie of his attendance he compareth it to the expectation and looking of the morning watch for the breake of day yea more then they Bellarmins opiuion concening this verse refuted This verse is falsly peruerted and translated by Bellermine who saith that the Latine vulgar translation Videtur partim mutila partim redundans cum non habeat bis à custodia matutina vt habet hebraica veritas at habeat vsque ad noctem

his mercy is aboue all his works extending to a thousand generations Exo. 20.6 Psal 100.5 Hos 6.6 whose mercie endureth for euer With the Lord is mercie and great redemption I will haue mercie and not sacrifire His mercies are often repeated in the Scriptures as Psal 5.6.12.16.17.20.22.23.24 thrice 25.30 thrise 32. twise 35. thrise 39. twise 41. thrise 47.50.50.58 thrise 60.61.62.63.68 twice c. Ioel 2.13 Mica 7.18 M●th 12.7 rich in mercie ● Tim. 1.2 Eph. 2.4 c. The Apostles salutation is Grace mercie and peace Since so it is As a gardē is replenished with flowers so is the Scriptures with mercie that this herbe of mercie groweth in euery corner of the garden of holy Scriptures and all the Prophets and Euangelists by plucking thereof haue nourished themselues let vs also in our greatest distresses run vnto it perswading our selues that God will as soone denie himselfe vnto vs as he will denie his mercie if we come with penitent hearts and beg it with such humility as becometh supplicants such faith as beleeuers such hope and patience as becommeth the elect we need not doubt he is faithfull who hath promised The Papists Bellarmine and Larinus in their translations Lorinus Bellarmine adde to the Scriptures following the Septuagints and not Saint Ierome as they confesse do adde magnam great giuing greater credit to their owne translation then to S. Ierome who was knowne to haue bin a godly and learned translator or to the Hebrew veritie They confesse the Scriptures in the originall language to be the best and yet do not spare to adde or pare therefrom as pleaseth them and therefore that curse must fall vpon them in the 22 of the Reuelation that God will adde all the curses of the law vpon those who adde to the Scripture and the words of this book and put their name out of the booke of life who diminish any point of them What need haue they to put in magnam great as though the multitude which followeth did not include the greatnesse O God The person to whom he prayeth is God Obiect Against i●uocation of Saint● But in regard of his basenesse and vnworthinesse why doth he not make suite to Abraham Moses Samuel Iob or some other holy men onely contenting himselfe with God For I thinke the sinners of old time had as much need of the suppliment of the old Patriarkes and Fathers of the Church as we haue now of the helpe of our Apostles and Saints If they had not mind of such Mediators ●●●si● but fled onely to God I thinke we should follow their footsteps When God is deficient then let vs go to them and when the Sunne of righteousnes doth not shine it is time to light our halfe ●pennie candles Paul saith O foolish Galatians Gal. 4.3.1 who hath bewitched you and I say O foolish Papists when will you leaue off your folly If Christs intercession being God who knoweth all our necessities and pitieth them were not perfect then we might claime some subsidies but it is vaine to seeke other● when he hath all for that doth greatly derogate to his glorie as I haue spoken in another place He vseth the word Elohim representing the holy Trinitie He inuocateth the whole Trinitie of which some of the ancients haue this coniecture because he failed against the Fathers omnipotencie when he abused his regal power in slaying Vriah against the Sonne being the wisedome of the Father vsing deceitfulnesse and fraud in this murder against the Spirit when he by his filthinesse abused his holinesse who is the Spirit of sanctification Therefore say they he now prayeth to Elohim Iudge of this nomination as ye please Elohim representeth the Trinitie as Iehouah the vnitie of both which Saint Augustine in his Confessions admonisheth vs We should saith he ne●er remember the vnitie of the essence but we should as soone remember and dissolue our mind vpon the trinitie of the persons and not so soone thinke vpon the trinitie of the persons but to gather in our minds the vnitie of the nature which albeit they be vnspeakable and incomprehensible to vs it is enough that we speake with the Scriptures beleeue with the Scriptures and pray at the direction of the Scriptures whose direction if we follow we cannot erre in whose paths as being the vndoubted writs of God if we walke we cannot fall According to thy louing kindnesse The thing which he reposeth and resteth vpon Against merits is not his owne deserts but Gods good wil. Iudge ye if this ouerthroweth merit or no. For if any man might haue pretēded good works it was he Psal 16. I giue saith he my goodnesse to the Saints I am companion to all them that feare thee I wash my hands in innocencie and compasse thine altar Looke the 101. Psalme concerning the gouernment of his family and his owne person Of his vpright life he saith Iudge me according to my righteousnes While he hath to do with men there was no man more pure in life and religion but when he hath to do with God he renounceth all and taketh him to Gods kindnes and fauour While we looke downe to the earth our sight is sharp enough and we may see far and cleerly Simil. but when we looke to the Sunne then our sight is dazled and blinded so before men we may brag of our vprightnesse and honestie but when we looke vp to God we are ashamed of our selues yea of the least thought of our harts The Lord of his mercie keep vs from presumption that we presume not in any good thing we do seeing that it is Gods worke in vs let him take the honour of his owne worke and let vs say with Dauid Shame belongeth to vs but glorie to thee Out best actions are contaminate with such imperfections and spots that we haue cause to ●top our mouthes and blush and be ashamed of them we are conscious of the manifold faults and defects which are in them According to the multitude of thy compassions put away mine iniquities He exaggerateth the weight of his sin in that it hath need of many mercies whereby he testifieth that his sinnes were many passing the number of the heires of his head and like waters that had gone ouer his head So Gods mercies are more then mans miseries many sinnes require many mercies Men are greatly terrified at the multitude of their sinnes but here is a comfort our God hath multitude of mercies If our sinnes be in number as the heires of our head Gods mercies are as the starres of heauen and a● he is an infinite God so his mercies are infinite yea so far are his mercies aboue our sinnes as he himselfe is aboue vs poore sinners By this that he seeketh for multitude of mercies The godly account one sin t● be many he would shew how deeply he was wounded with his manifold sinnes that one seemed a hundred where