the multitude of thy tender mercies 25. 18. Looke vpon mine affliction and my paine and forgiue all my sinnes 20. O keepe my soule Psal 25. and deliuer me let me not be ashamed for I put my trust in thee 28. 119. My soule melteth for heauinesse strengthen me according to thy word 2. 51. Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie and cleanse me from my sinne 3. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sinne is euer before me 7. Purge me with Hysope and I shall be cleane Wash me and I shall bee whiter then snow 8. Make mee to heare ioy and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken may reioyce Psal 142. 5. Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the liuing 31. 16. Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant saue mee for thy mercies sake Third Psalme 6. 2. HAue mercy vpon me ô Lord for I am weake ô Lord helpe me for my bones are vexed 69. 3. I am weary of crying my throat is dryed mine eyes faile while I waite for my God 11. Psal 51. Cast me not away from thy presence take not thy holy spirit froÌ„ me 12. Restore to mee the ioy of thy saluation and vphold mee with thy free spirit 8. 17. Keepe me as the apple of the eye hide me vnder the shadow of thy wings 94. I am thine saue me 119. for I haue sought thy statutes 174. I haue longed for thy saluation O Lord and thy law is my delight 5. My soule 62. waite thou onely vp in God for my expectation is from him â—sal 62. 6. He only is my Rocke and my saluation he is my defence I shall not be moued 40. 4. Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust Fourth Psalme 42. 5. VVHy art thou cast downe O my soule and why art thou disquieted within mee Hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God 27. 1. The Lord is my light and my saluation whom shall I feare The Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid 4. Psal 23. Though I walke through the valley of the shadow of death I will feare none euill for thou art with mee thy rod and thy staffe they comfort me 5. 13. I haue trusted in thy mercy my heart shall reioyce in thy saluation 19. 31. O how great is thy goodnes which thou hast layd vp for them that feare thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sonnes of men Psal 36. 7. How excellent is thy louing kindnesse O Lord Therefore the children of men put their trust vnder the shadow of thy wings 9. With thee is the fountaine of life and in thy light shall we see light 145. 9. The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are ouer all his workes 66. 8. O blesse our God yee people and make the voyce of his praise to bee heard 103. 2. Blesse the Lord O my soule and forget not all his benefits 3. Who forgiueth all thine iniquitie who healeth all thy diseases 4. Psal 103. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction and crowneth thee with louing kindnesse and tender mercies 13. 41. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from euerlasting to euerlasting Amen Amen A PRAYER Ephes 1. 17. THe GOD of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of glory giue vnto you the spirit of wisedome and reuelation in the knowledge of him 18. That the eyes of your vnderstanding being inlightened you may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints 19. And what is the exceeding greatnesse of his power to vs-ward that beleeue according to the working of his mightie power 20. Which he wrought in Christ when hee raised him from the dead and set him on his owne right hand in the heaueÌ„ly place 21. Farre aboue all Principalitie and power and might and dominion and euery name that is named not onely in this world but also in that which is to come 22. And hath put all things vnder his feete and gaue him to be head ouer all things to the Church 23. Which is his body the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all Amen The Soules comfort AS by the sacred Fountaine I did passe The streames sent forth such pleasant melody That with deep sighs my soule cryd out Alas Why should I wander from this harmony The sound wherof guides to eternall blisse Diuerting from those pathes which leade amisse The warbling notes resounded still and said Oft hast thou fallen by thine iniquitie Yet lift thy heart to heauen be not afraid Repentance is a constant remedie Then search and try thy wayes returne and know Thy scarlet deeds shall be as white as snow If thou confesse thou hast peruerted right Yet no aduantage hast thereby obtay'nd Thy soule shall liue thy life shal see the light Thy sinnes seeme wooll which were with crimson stayn'd A light is come and darkenesse vanished Beleeue in him alone that promised Afflicted widowes and the fatherlesse To visit is a worke of charitie The poore to helpe and such as in distresse Want comfort to relieue their miserie Yet pleade not merit in thy lost account Trust to that mercy which doth al surmouÌ„t Still dost thou violate the sacred lawes And iustly heapest wrath vpon thine head Yet hast an aduo ate to pleade thy cause Who onely hath the power to interceade He euer liues at the tribunâ—ll seate Mercy for our offences to intreate When neither siluer gold nor earthly price Could vs redeem and purge our hainous sin He shed his bloud his life did sacrifice That for vs which were lost he heauen might winne He lou'd vs though his statutes we forgot And suffered for our sinnes yet had no spot He craues no meed for all that he hath done But with our hearts to feare to serue to loue him His glory is from death he hath vs wonne That we may know there is no power aboue him Then let vs striue to walke in all his wayes And in all things to giue his name the praise And euer listen to those heauenly streames Which yeild such musick for the souls delight Abandoning all mens deceitfull dreames Who through their pride obscure the clearest light Close by this fountaine I resolue to dwell Whose warbles doe all humane art excell FINIS Errata Page 6. 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THE TRVE CATHOLIKE Collected out of the Oracles and Psalteries of the holy Ghost for Instruction and Deuotion 1 TIM 2.4 God will haue all men to be saued and to come to the knowledge of the truth IOH. 14.17 The world cannot receiue the spirit of truth because it seeth him not neither knoweth him 1 COR. 2.10 The spirit searcheth all things yea the deepe things of God EPHES. 5.9 For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodnesse and righteousnesse and truth LONDON Printed for E. BLACKMORE 1628. THE PREFACE OF DOCTOR FRA. RIBERA 〈◊〉 In Coment in Amos Prophet touching the Excellency Dignity profit of finding the holy Scriptures THAT there is no studie either more Excellent more profitable or more worthy of Man then the studie of the holy Scriptures hee shall best know and iudge that applyeth himselfe wholy thereunto and shal perceiue that man to bee worthily called blessed Which meditateth in the law of God day and night Psal 1 2. I doe verily confesse that all the sacred bookes especially those of the Prophets are wrapped and incumbred with many difficulties by which as it were by certaine strict keepers of a most stately Temple The holy Ghost hath straitly prohibited the accesse and misteries vnto prophane and proud men and that it is rightly spoken of them which Socrates is reported to haue said when he hapned vpon Heraclitus bookes of nature That those things which hee vnderstood seemed excellent vnto him and that hee thought so also of them which hee vnderstood not but that it was needfull to haue an Interpreter to them No where can you see more euidently no where can it more appeare which is spoken in the old Greeke prouerbe Those things which are excellent are difficult Or that saying which passeth far neare from Hesiodus concerning vertue That it is scituate in a steepe and high place and that it hath a passage in the beginning hard and full of paine and labour But doubtlesse although the labour be great and continuall it doth sufficiently recompence with profit the paine with ease the earnest endeauour of the minde with rest For although they seeme to haue much hardnesse yet without doubt they haue farre more of true and perfect delight For how great a matter is it to bee led by a King into a wine-Cellar Cant. 2.4 For Charity to be rightly ordered How great a matter is it to sucke those brests better then wine sauoring sweetly with the best oyntments Cant. 1.2 To hold wisedome as the Apostle speaketh among those that bee perfect 1. Cor. 2.6 Yet not the wisedome of this world nor of the Princes of this world which come to nought but the wisedome of God in a misterie which none of the Princes of this world knew 7. 8. To be present at the distribution of heauenly treasures To behold the glory of God with open face Certainely the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the future glory which when wee well vnderstand the sacred bookes shall be reuealed in vs. But the men of our time are quicke and ready to other studies vnto these for the most part they are slow and do imagine that these are to bee left to idle men and such as tarrie at home or else vnto Preachers Whereby it happens that such as are vnfit for sermons though they haue leasure enough doe rather bestow their labour and endeauour in any other matter How much the holy Scriptures doe profit preachers I haue often said and how greatly they stand in neede of them which are excercised in Schoole disputations I could say and perchance will hereafter shew Now this I auouch that albeit these Scriptures bee most profitable to helpe others they iudge very ill who thinke they are to bee studied onely for other mens sakes For if we reade with great profit the bookes of the holy fathers and of other learned men which are called and are spirituall and by reading them doe finde our selues much bettered shall there bee any book so spirituall which may bee compared with those which the spirit of God it selfe by the choycest and wisest men hath deliuered vnto vs If the small brookes doe helpe and as it were satisfie what shall that great Riuer doe which Ezechiell saw Ezec. 47.1 issuing forth vnder the threshold of the Lords house which he could not goe through because the waters of that deepe riuer were risen so that they could not bee passed ouer And when I had returned 5. said he behold at the bank of the riuer were very many trees on either side 7. what are those many trees on either side the banke of the riuer but the ancient writers ioyned to the Law and the Prophets and the new writers who sitting together by the streames of the Euangelists and Apostles doe alwayes waxe greene as most beautifull trees and abound with pleasant fruite the riuer is the same because it is the same author of the Scriptures and the scope the same but the ages and times diuers which are resembled by both the bankes Of these trees and of these waters it is said and he shall be like a tree planted by the riuers of waters that bringeth forth his fruite in his season Psal 1.3 his leafe also shall not fall away and whatsoeuer be doth it shall prosper I was wont to maruaile with my selfe as often as I did reade in Saint Ierome that the study of the Scriptures had wonderfull power to change the minde of man to quench the desires of the flesh to procure the contempt of the world and briefly to gaine all kinde of vertue vntill I perceiued hee spake those things whereof hee had made triall in himselfe and that it is a wrong not to belieue him that hath experience Hee that beleeueth not let him first reade the Scripture not as though hee would interpret it to others but to be turned wholy to his owne profit let him meditate therein day and night he shall feele a stony heart to bee mollified a cold heart to be inflamed with heauenly fire for the words of the Lord are like fire â—er 23.29 and as a hammer that breaketh the rocke in peeces He shall perceiue the loue of the world to vanish away the desire of eternall good things to bee stirred vp in himselfe his minde filled with a certaine incredible delight which he that felt it cried out how sweete are thy words vnto my taste Psal 119.103 yea sweeter then hony to my mouth O wisdome guide of the heauenly life teacher of vertues bane of vices fountaine of light expeller of darkenesse what should wee nay what should the whole life of man be without thee Thou art the companion in labour thou art the comforter in aduersitie the ouerseere and guide in prosperitie the instructer of youth the foundation of manhood the most sweet rest of old age Come therefore let vs ascend vp
Apollonia they came to Thessalonica where was a Synagogue of the Iewes 2. And Paul as his manner was went in vnto thē and three Sabbath dayes reasoned with them out of the Scriptures 17. Ephe. 6. Take the helmet of saluation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God 12. Heb. 4. The word of the Lord is quick and powerfull and sharper then any two edged sword piercing euen to the deuiding asunder of soule and spirit and of the ioynts and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart 2. 1. Pet. 2. As new borne babes desire the sincere milke of the word that yee may grow thereby 15. 1 The word of the Lord endureth for euer and this is the word which by the Gospell is preached vnto you 2. Tim. 3. 16. All Scripture is giuen by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproofe for correction for instruction in righteousnesse 17. That the man of God may be perfect thoroughly furnished vnto all good works 2. Pet. 1. 20. No prophecie of the Scripture is of any priuate interpretation 21. For the prophecie came not in old time by the will of man But holy men of God spake as they were moued by the holy Ghost 7. Psal 19. The law of the Lord is perfect conuerting the soule the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple 6. 12. The words of the Lord are pure words as siluer tryed in a furnace of earth purified seuen times 104. 119. Through thy precepts I get vnderstanding Therfore I hate euery false way 100. I vnderstand more then the ancients because I keepe thy precepts 118. Thou hast trodden downe all them that erre from thy statutes for their deceit is falshood Psal 119. 105. Thy word is a lampe vnto my feet and a light vnto my path 165. Great peace haue they which loue thy law And nothing shall offend them 130. The entrance of thy words giueth light it giueth vnderstanding to the simple Phil 3. 16. Whereto we haue already attained let vs walke by the same rule let vs minde the same thing Gal. 6. 16. As many as walke according to this rule Peace be on them and mercie and vpon the Israel of God The Church 23. Ephes 5 CHrist is the head of the Church and he is the Saviour of the bodie 18. Col. 1. Hee is the head of the body the Church who is the beginning the first borne from the dead that in all things he might haue the preheminence 24. I now reioyce in my sufferings for you and fill vp that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his bodies sake which is the Church 1. Cor. 12. 14. The bodie is not one member but many 18. GOD hath set the members euery one of them in the body as it hath pleased him 19. And if they were all one member where were the bodie 20. But now are they many members yet but one body 24. God hath tempered the bodie together hauing giuē more abundant honour to that part which lacked 25. That there should be no schisme in the body but that the members should haue the same care one for another 26. And whether one member suffer al the members suffer with it or one member bee honoured all the members reioyce with it 27 Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular 25. Ephe. 5. Christ loued the Church and gaue himselfe for it 26. That he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word 27. That he might present it to himselfe a glorious Church not hauing spotte or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should he holy and without blemish 1. Tim. 3. 15. The Church of God is the house of the liuing God the pillar and ground of truth Acts 2. 47. The Lord added to the Church dayly such as should be saued 42. And they continued stedfast in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers Ioh. 10. 27. My sheepe heare my voyce and I know them and they follow me 28. And I giue vnto them eternall life and they shal neuer perish neither shall any man plucke them out of my hand 5. A stranger will they not follow but flie from him for they know not the voice of strangers 37. Ioh. 18. Euery one that is of the trueth heareth my voice 19. Ephes 2. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and forreyners but fellow Citizens with the saints and of the houshold of God 20. And are built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ being the chiefe corner stone 21. In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth vnto an holy temple in the Lord. 22. In whom you also are builded together for an habitation of GOD through the Spirit Traditions Col. 2. 8. BEware lest any man spoile you through Philosohie and vaine deceit after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ 17. 2. Pet. 2. These are wells without water cloudes that are caried with a tempest to whom the myst of darknesse is reserued for euer 4. My speech 2. Cor. 2. my preaching was not with inticing words of mans wisedome but in demonstratiō of the spirit and of power 5. That your faith should not stand in the wisedome of Men but in the power of God 6. We speake wisdome among them that are perfect yet not the wisdome of this world nor of the Princes of this world that come to nought 7. But wee speake the wisdome of God in a mistery euen the hidden wisdome which God ordained before the world to our glory 2. Cor. 3. 19. For the wisdome of this world is foolishnesse with God for it is written he taketh the wise in their owne craftinesse Ier. 23. 28. The Prophet that hath a dreame let him tell a dreame and he that hath my word let him speake my word faithfully what is the chaffe to the wheate saith the Lord. Mat. 16. 6. Take heed and beware of the leauen of the Pharises and of the Sadduces 13. Isa 29. Forasmuch as this people drawe neere mee with their mouth and with their lipps doe honor me but haue remoued their heart farre from mee and their feare towards me is taught by the precepts of men 14. The wisedome of their wise men shal perish and the vnderstanding of their prudent men shall be hid 7. Mar. 7. In vaine they do worship me teaching for doctrines the commandemēts of men Isa 8. 20. To the law and to the Testimony If they speake not according to this word it is because there is no light in them 66. 3. They haue chosen their owne waies and their soule delighteth in their abhominations Ier. 6. 10. Their eare is vncircumcised and
them which keepe the sayings of this booke worship God 10. 19. And I fell at his feet to worship him and he said vnto me see thou do it not I am thy fellow seruant and of thy brethren that haue the testimonie of Iesus Worship God 2. The Lord is great in Zion and he is high aboue all people 5. Exalt yee the Lord our God and worship at his footstoole for hee is holy Iosh 24. 14. Feare the Lord and serue him in sinceritie and in truth and put away the Gods which your fathers serued on the other side of the flood and in Egipt and serue ye the Lord. Isa 8. 13. Sanctifie the Lord of hosts himselfe and let him be your feare and let him be your dread Reuel 14. 7. Worship him that made heauen and earth and the sea and the fountaines of waters 8. Luke 4. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy GOD and him onely shalt thou serue Faith 1. Heb. 11. FAith is the substance of things hoped for the euidence of things not seene 6. Hee that commeth to God must beleeue that he is and that hee is a rewarder of them that diligently seeke him 46. Io. 12. I am come a light into the world that whosoeuer beleeueth on mee should not abide in darkenesse Iohn 3. 36. He that beleeueth on the sonne hath euerlasting life and he that beleeueth not the sonne shall not see life but the wrath of God shall abide on him Galat. 3. 26. Ye are the children of God by faith in Christ Iesus 22. The Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne that the promise by faith of Iesus Christ might bee giuen to them that beleeue Act. 10. 43. To him giue all the Prophets witnesse that through his name whosoeuer belieueth in him shall receiue remission of sins 22. Heb. 10. Let vs draw neare with a true heart in full assurance of faith 23. Let vs hold fast the profession of our faith without wauering for hee is faithfull that promised 9. If thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus Rom. 10. and shalt beleeue in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt bee saued 10. For with the heart man beleeueth vnto righteousnesse and with the mouth confession is made vnto saluation Gal. 3. 9. They that be of faith are blessed with faithfull Abraham 1. Pet. 1. 9. The end of your faith the saluation of your soules Repentance Hos 14. 1. O Israel returne vnto the Lord thy God for thou hast fallen by thine iniquitie Act. 3. 19. Repent yee therefore and bee conuerted that your sinnes may bee blotted out 23. Ezech. 18. Haue I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die saith the Lord God and not that hee should returne from his wayes and liue 30. Repent and turne your selues from all your transgressions so iniquitie shall not be your 〈◊〉 31. Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby you haue transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit 11. Turne ye turne ye 33. from your euill waies for why will ye die 〈◊〉 ô house of Israel Isa 1. 18. Come now and let vs reason together saith the Lord though your sinnes bee as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they bee red like crimson they shall bee as wooll Heb. 6. 9. The Lord is long suffering to vs-ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance Isa 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way and the vnrighteous man his thoughts and let him returne vnto the Lord and hee will haue mercy vpon him and to our GOD for hee will abundantly pardon 40. Let vs search Lam. 3. and trie our wayes and turne againe to the Lord. 25. The Lord is good to them that waite for him to the soule that seeketh him 27. Iob. 33. If any say I haue sinned and peruerted that which was right and it profited me not 28. He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit and his life shall fee the light 7. Psal 130. Let Israell hope in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercie and with him is plenteous redemption 8. And hee shall redeeme Israell from all his iniquities Confession Pro. 28. 13. HEe that couereth his sinnes shall not prosper but who so confesseth and forsaketh thē shall haue mercy Luke 15. 18. I will arise and go to my father and will say vnto him father I haue sinned against heauen and before thee 19. And am no more worthy to bee called thy sonne 5. Psal 32. I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee and mine iniquitie haue I not hid I said I will confesse my transgressions vnto the Lord and thou forgauest the iniquitie of my sinne 4. Dan. 9. I prayed vnto the Lord my God and made my confession and said O Lord the great and dreadfull God keeping the couenant and mercie to them that loue him and to them that keepe his commandements 5. Wee haue sinned and committed iniquitie and haue done wickedly and haue rebelled euen by departing from thy precepts and from thy iudgements Dan 9. 6. Neither haue wee hearkened vnto thy seruants the prophets which spake in thy name to our kings our princes and our fathers and to all the people of the land Nehem. 1 5. O Lord God of heauen the great and terrible God that keepeth couenant and mercie for them that loue him and obserue his commandements 6. Let thine eare bee now attentiue and thine eyes opē that thou mayst heare the prayer of thy seruant which I pray before thee now day and night for the children of Israel thy seruants and confesse the sinnes of the children of Israel which wee haue sinned against thee both I and my fathers house haue sinned 7. We haue dealt very corruptly against thee and haue not kept the commandements nor the statutes nor the Iudgements which thou commandedst thy seruant Moses 10. 2 Sam. 24. Dauid said vnto the Lord I haue sinned greatly in that I haue done and now I beseech thee O Lord take away the iniquitie of thy seruant for I haue done foolishly Luke 18. 13. The publican standing afarre off would not lift vp so much as his eyes vnto heauē but smote vpon his brest saying God be merciful vnto me a sinner 1. Iohn 1. 9. If wee confesse our sinnes hee is faithfull and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse Rom. 14. 11. As I liue saith the Lord euery knee shall bow to me and euery tongue shall confesse to God 12. So then euery one of vs shall giue account of himselfe vnto God 4. Psal 41. Lord be mercifull vnto me heale my soule for I haue sinned against thee Faith and works 22. Iames 1. BE yee doers of the word and not hearers onely deceiuing your owne selues 23.
is certaine we can carrie nothing out 8. And hauing foode and raiment let vs be therwith content 9. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtfull lusts which drowne men in destruction and perdition 10. For the loue of money is the roote of all euill which while some coueted after they haue erred from the faith and pierced themselues thorough with many sorrowes 20. Thou foole this night thy soule shall be required of thee Luk. 12. then whose shall those things bee which thou hast prouided 21. So is he that layeth vp treasure for himselfe and is not rich towards God Pro. 18. 11. The rich mans wealth is his strong citie and as an high wall in his owne conceit 11. 4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath but righteousnesse deliuereth from death Zepha 1. 18. Neither their siluer nor their gold shall be able to deliuer them in the day of the Lords wrath Luke 12. 15. A mans life consisteth not in the abundance of things which hee possesseth 31. Rather seeke ye the kingdome of God and all these things shall bee added vnto you Patience 14. 1. Thes 5. BE patient towards all men 15 See that none render euill for euill vnto any man but euer follow that which is good both among your selues and to all men 19. Rom. 12. Auenge not your selues but rather giue place vnto wrath for it is written vengeaÌ„ce is mine I will repay saith the Lord. 3. Iames 1. The trying of your faith worketh patience 4. But let patience haue her perfect worke that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing Rom. 5. 3. Tribulations worke patience 4. And patience experience and experience hope Luk. 21. 19. In your patience possesse ye your selues Phil. 4. 5. Let your moderation be knowne vnto all men Iam. 1. 19. Let euery man bee swift to heare slow to speake slow to wrath 20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousnesse of God Pro. 16. 32. Hee that is slow to anger is better then the mightie and hee that ruleth his spirit then he that taketh a citie 29. 14. Hee that is slow to wrath is of great vnderstanding but hee that is hastie of spirit exalteth folly 4. Wrath is cruell 27. and anger is outragious 9. Eccles 7. Bee not hastie in thy spirit to bee angry for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles 7. Iam. 5. Bee patient vnto the comming of the Lord behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it vntill he receiue the early and later raine 8. Bee yee also patient stablish your hearts for the comming of the Lord draweth nigh 10. Take the Prophets who haue spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience 11. Behold wee count them happy which indure yee haue heard of the patience of Iob and haue seene the end of the Lord that the Lord is pittifull and of tender mercy 1. Pet. 5. 10. The GOD of all grace who hath called vs into his eternall glorie by Christ Iesus after that yee haue suffered a while make perfect stablish strengthen settle you 11. To him bee glory and dominion for euer and euer Amen Humilitie 6. 1. Pet. 5. HVmble your selues vnder the mightie hand of God that he may exalt you in due time 5. Yea all of you bee subiect one to another and be clothed with humilitie for God resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble â—â—o 16. 19. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly then to deuide the spoile with the proud 11. 2. When pride commeth then commeth shame but with the lowly is wisedome Mat. 11. 29. Learne of me for I am lowly in heart â—uk 14. 11. Whosoeuer exalteth himselfe shall be abased and he that humbleth himselfe shall bee exalted â—phes 4. 1. Walke worthy of the vocation wherein yee are called 2. With all lowlinesse and meekenesse with long suffering forbearing one another in loue 3. Phil 2. Let nothing be done through strife or vaine-glory but in lowlinesse of minde let each esteeme other better then themselues 5. Let this minde be in you which was also in Christ Iesus 7. Who made himselfe of no reputation and tooke vpon him the forme of a seruant and was made in the likenesse of men 8. Hee humbled himselfe and became obedient vnto death euen the death of the crosse Phil. 2. 9. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and giuen him a name which is aboue euery name 10. That at the name of Iesus euery knee should bow of things in heauen and things in earth and things vnder the earth 11. And that euery tongue should confesse that Iesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the father Psal 138. 6. Though the Lord be high yet hee hath respect vnto the lowly but the proude he knoweth afarre off 9. 25. The meeke will he guide in iudgement and the meeke will hee teach his way 34. Pro. 3. Surely he scorneth the scorners but he giueth grace vnto the lowly 6. Psal 147. The Lord lifteth vp the meeke hee casteth the vngodly downe to the ground 10. Luke 18. Two men went vp into the Temple to pray the one a Pharisee and the other a Publican 11. The Pharise stood prayed thus with himselfe God I thank thee that I am not as other men are exortioners vniust adulterers and euen as this Publican Luke 18. 12. I fast twise in the weeke I giue tithes of all that I possesse 13. And the Publican standing a farre off would not lift vp so much as his eyes vnto heauen but smote vpon his brest saying God be mercifull to me a sinner 14. I tell you this man went downe to his house iustified rather then the other for euery one that exalteth himselfe shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted The holy Eucharist 26. IEsus tooke bread Mat. 26. and blessed it and brake it and gaue it to the Disciples and said take eate this is my body 27. And he tooke the cup and gaue thankes and gaue it to them saying drinke ye all of it 28. For this is my blood of the new Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sinnes 22. Iesus tooke bread Mark 14. and blessed and brake it gaue to them and said take eate this is my bodâ— 23. And hee tooke the cup and when hee had giuen thankes hee gaue it to them and they all dranke of it 24. And hee said vnto them this is my blood of the new Testament which is shed for many Luke 22. 19. Hee tooke bread and gaue thankes and brake it and gaue vnto them saying this is my body which is giuen for you this doe in remembrance
all the glorie of man as the flower of gras the grasse withereth and the flower thereof falleth away Psal 62. 9. Surely men of low degree are vanitie and men of high degree are a lie to be laid in the ballance they are altogether lighter then vanitie 39. 5. Verily euery man at his best state is altogether vanitie The end of the world 3. Math. 24. AS Iesus sate vpon the Mount of Oliues the disciples came vnto him priuately saying tell vs what shall bee the signe of thy comming and of the end of the world 4. And Iesus answered and said vnto them Take heede that no man deceiue you 5. For many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceiue many 6. And yee shall heare of warres and rumors of warres See that yee bee not troubled for all these things must come to passe but the end is not yet Math 24. 7. For nation shall rise against nation and kingdome against kingdome and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diuers places 8. All these are but the beginning of sorrowes 9. Then shall they deliuer you vp to be afflicted and shall kill you and yee shall bee hated of all Nations for my names sake 10. And they shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another 11. And many false prophets shall arise and shall deceiue many 12. And because iniquitie shall abound the loue of many shall waxe cold 13. But hee that shall endure vnto the end shall be saued 14. And this Gospell of the Kingdome shall be preached in all the world for a witnesse vnto all Nations and then shall the end come 21. Then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time no not euer shall bee Mat. 24. 22. And except those dayes should bee shortned there should no flesh bee saued but for the elects sake those dayes shall bee shortned 24. There shall arise false christs and false prophets and shal shew great signes and wonders in so much that if it were possible they shall deceiue the very elect 2. Tim. 3. 1. This know also that in the last dayes perilous times shall come 2. For men shall bee louers of their owne selues couetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to Parents vnthankefull vnholy 3. Without naturall affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good 4. Traytors heady high minded louers of pleasures more then louers of God 5. Hauing a forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof from such turne away 6. For of this sort are they which creepe into houses and leade captiue silly women ladē with sins led away with diuers lusts 7. Euer learning and neuer able to come to the knowledge of the truth 2. Tim. 3. 8. Now as Iannes Iambres withstood Moses so do these also resist the truth men of corrupt mindes reprobate concerning faith 9. But they shall proceede no further for their folly shall bee manifested vnto all men as theirs also was Luke 21. 25. And there shall be signes in the Sunne and in the Moone and in the starres and vpon the earth distresse of nations with perplexitie the sea and the waters shall roare 26. Mens heart fayling them for feare and for looking after those things which are comming on the earth for the powers of heauen shal be shaken 27. And then shall they see the sonne of man comming in a cloude with power and great glory 28. And when these things shall begin to come to passe then looke vp and lift vp your heads for your redemption draweth nigh 13. Mar. 13. But of that day and houre knoweth no man not the Angels in heauen nor the son but the father Luke 21. 36. Watch yee therefore and pray alwayes that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe and to stand before the sonne of man 1. Thes 4. 15. For this we say vnto you by the word of the Lord that wee which are aliue and remaine vnto the comming of the Lord shall not preuent them which are asleepe 16. For the Lord himselfe shall descend from heauen with a shoute with the voice of the Archangel and with the trumpe of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first 17. Then we which are aliue and remaine shall bee caught vp together with them in the clouds to meete the Lord in the aire and so shall we euer be with the Lord. The Iudgement 27. Heb. 9. IT is appointed vnto all men to die but after this the Iudgement 7. Eccles. 12. The dust shall returne to the earth as it was and the spirit shall returne to God who gaue it 1. 2. Cor. 5. Wee know if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolued we haue a building of God a house not made with hand eternall in the heauens Rom. 8. 10. The bodie is dead because of sinne but the spirit is life because of righteousnesse Gal. 6. 8. He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reape corruption but hee that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reape life euerlasting Iohn 5. 24. He that heareth my Word and beleeueth on him that sent me hath euerlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death vnto life 18. Psal 37. The Lord knoweth the daies of the vpright and their inheritance shall be for euer 20. But the wicked shall perish and the enemies of the Lord shall bee as the fat of lambes they shall consume into smoke shall they consume away 23. Rom. 6. The wages of sinne is death but the gift of GOD is eternall life thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. 22. The begger died Luke 16 and was carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome the rich man also died and was buried 23. And in hell hee lift vp his eyes being in torments and seeth Abraham afarre off and Lazarus in his bosome 24. And he cryed and said father Abraham haue mercie on me and send Lazarus that hee may dip the tip of his finger in water and coole my tongue for I am tormented in this flame 25. But Abraham said sonne remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus euill things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented 13. Wide is the gate Mat. 7. and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which goe in thereat 14. Straite is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth vnto life and few there bee that finde it 28. Iohn 15. The houre is comming in the which all that are in the graues shall heare his voice 29. And shall come forth they that haue done good vnto the resurrectiō of life and they that haue done euill vnto the resurrection of damnation Mat 25. 46. These shall
goe away into euerlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternall Dan. 12. 2. Many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake some to euerlasting life and some to shame and euerlasting contempt Mat. 25. 31. When the sonne of man shall come in his glory and shall the holy Angels with him then shall hee sit vpon the throne of his glory 32. Mat. 25. And before him shall bee gathered all nations and he shall separate them one from another as a sheapheard diuideth his sheepe from the goates 33. And he shall set the sheepe on his right hand but the goates on the left 34. Then shall the king say vnto them on his right hand come yee blessed of my father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world 41. Then shall hee say vnto them on the left hand depart from me yee cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the deuill and his Angels Iude. 24. Now vnto him that is able to keepe you from falling and to present you faultlesse before the presence of his glory with exceeding ioy 25. To the only wise God our Sauiour be glorie and maiestie dominion and power now and euer Amen Reuel 22. 14. Blessed are they that doe his commandements that they may haue right to the tree of life may enter in through the gates into the citie 15. For without are dogges and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and Idolaters and whosoeuer loueth and maketh a lie PSALTERIES OF THE HOLY GHOST ROM 14 17. The Kingdome of GOD is not meate and drinke but righteousnesse and peace and ioy in the Holy Ghost LONDON Printed for E. BLACKMORE 1628. A PREFACE concerning the PSALMES DAVID is said to be the instrumentall cause of the Psalmes to whom all things were reuealed and by him set downe Hee is also esteemed the greater 2. Samuel 23.2 and more excellent Prophet in that hee did not Prophesie by certaine visions of things or darke couerings of words but by the inward motion onely of the holy Ghost which is most euident because the manifold and most beautifull riches in that tresurie conteined are impossible to be matched by any other Among which the inuocation of Almightie God being the greatest defence for our saluation against the continuall assaults of Satan is most excellently composed for a presedent and direction vnto vs vpon all occasions Eph. 6.18 We are commanded to pray alwayes with all prayer and supplication in the spirit which is impossible for vs to do vnlesse we be learned in the exercise of Pietie and guided therein by the holy Spirit of God The true rule whereof is to be taken out of the Booke of the Psalmes For by reading them we are as well stirred vp to the vnderstanding of our infirmities as admonished and taught how to seeke a sure remedie for them They are doubtlesse the Anatomie of all the parts of the soule for wee cannot finde any disposition or affection of the minde in our selues the forme and proportion whereof is not in this glasse represented When in this language we prepare our selues to speake vnto God we are drawne to so strict an examination of our transgressions that all our secret offences being disclosed and our hearts cleansed from hypocrisie wee cannot but deliuer a reall account and full confession of them By this language which is Verba spiritus sancti The words of the holy Ghost wee haue not onely a familiar accesse vnto God but do also find it more safe and auaileable for vs to acknowledge and confesse our sinnes before him then before men 1. Iohn 1.9 for he is faithfull and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse Psal 118.8 And it is better to trust in him then to put confidence in man In them wee haue examples and directions of thanksgiuing for blessings receiued and dangers escaped They are most comfortable in all times of temptation trouble and affliction The Psalmes therefore ought to be our meditations in all holy exercises both priuate and publike they are the key of knowledge Almost all holy write and misteries are briefely contained in them Their scope is the right way to eternall felicitie Some of the Fathers do counsaile the young souldiers of Christ Iesus Cassidor first to learne them before they learne the other holy Scriptures Others affirme that they are Arma Iuuenum Climac ex sententia Patrum The armour and weapons of young men And I doubt not but they may also truely be accounted Armentaria senum The armories and storehouses of old men Another saith Basil Liber Psalmoâ—uÌ„ quidvi in se complectitur quod vsui sit omni bonae doctrinae promptuaâ—ium est The booke of the Psalmes containeth in it whatsoeuer is vsefull and is the storehouse of all good doctrine In them certainely is expressed as in a liuely resemblance the true rule of religious seruice and worship for the example of a godly man assaulted by all manner of temptations is of more power to moue and incourage vs to flie vnto God in time of necessitie then a Commandement alone In proem in 7. Psal poenitent INNOCENT the third saith Inter omnes orationis species post orationem dominicam perfecta in Psalmis forma orandi reperitur Among all kinds of prayer next vnto the Lords prayer the absolute forme of praying is sound in the Psalmes yet not onely the words are to bee read and rehearsed in our meditations but our hearts also must be attendant and eleuated vnto heauen for wee are taught to lift vp our hands with our hearts vnto God in the heauens The holy Ghost being the dictator and guide of Dauids penne Lam. 3.41 and tongue when they were by him registred It is most meete and requisite that in all times of our deuotion they bee recited with the assistance of the same blessed Spirit which wee must before-hand inuocate lifting vp holy hands 1. Tim. 2 8. without wrath or doubting S. AVGVSTINE in his last sicknesse appointed DAVIDS Penitentiall Psalmes to be written Possidius in vita August and set vpon the foure sides of the wall which on his sicke daies lying on his bed he did behold and reade alwaies shedding forth teares abundantly S. BASIL also being in his death bed desired that the Psalmes might bee read vnto him by GREGORIE NAZIANZEN A man certainely in his greatest sorrow and anguish of conscience occasioned by Gods wrath and iudgement may by them learn to raise vp and comfort himself Come then let vs bring our offering of the finest gold to lay vpon Gods Altar the least graine whereof is more precious in his sight then all the Alcumie of the world Let vs drinke of the purest fountaine and forsake the troubled and muddie riuers Isa 55.1 Euery one that thirsteth come ye to these waters and he that hath no money yea come
buy wine and milke without money and without price Wherefore doe ye spend monie for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Hearken diligently vnto the vndoubted testimonies of our God and eate ye that which is good and let your soule delight it selfe in fatnesse Incline your eare and come vnto him heare and your soule shall liue and he will make an euerlasting couenant with you euen the sure mercies of DAVID PSALTERIES OF THE HOLY GHOST A Psalme of Confession VERSE Psal 25. 1. VNto thee O LORD doe I lift vp my soule 19. 14. Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my redeemer Psal 5. 2. Hearken vnto the voice of my crye my King and my God for vnto thee will I pray 4. Psal 5. For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickednesse neither shall euill dwell with thee 3. 130. If thou Lord shouldest marke iniquities O Lord who shall stand 4. But there is forgiuenesse with thee that thou mayst be feared 5. 86. For thou Lord art good and readie to forgiue and plenteous in mercy vnto all them that call vpon thee 5. 69. O God thou knowest my foolishnesse and my sinnes are not hid from thee Psal 119. 176. I haue gone astray like a lost sheepe seeke thy seruant for I doe not forget thy commandements 51. 3. I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is euer before me 4. Against thee thee onely haue I sinned and done this euil in thy sight 38. 3. There is no soundnesse in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sinne 4. For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head as an heauie burthen they are two heauie for me 5. My wounds stinke and are corrupt because of my foolishnesse 12. Psal 40. Innumerable euils haue compassed me mine iniquities haue taken hold vpon me so that I am not able to looke vp They are more then the haires of mine head therefore mine heart faileth me Of Contrition 1. Psal 38. O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure 2. For thine arrowes sticke fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore Psal 38. 6. I am troubled I am bowed downe greatly I go mourning all the day long 22. 14. I am powred out like water and all my bones are out of ioynt my heart is like waxe it is melted in the middest of my bowels 31. 12. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind I am like a broken vessell 41. 4. Lord bee mercifull vnto me heale my soule for I haue sinned against thee 38. 9. All my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee 18. Psal 38. For I will declare mine iniquitie I will bee sorie for my sinne 17. 51. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit A broken a contrite heart ô God thou wilt not despise 8. 51. Make me to heare ioy and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken may reioyce 10. Create in mee a cleane heart and renew a right spirit within me 11. Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy spirit from me Psal 51. 12. Restore to me the ioy of thy saluation and vphold me with thy free spirit For Remission Psal 51. 1. HAue mercie vpon me O God according to thy louing kindenesse according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie and cleanse me from my sinne 7. Purge mee with Hisop and I shall be cleane wash mee and I shall bee whiter then snow 11. Psal 25. For thy names sake O Lord pardon mine iniquitie for it is great 7. Remember not the sinnes of my youth nor my transgressions according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodnesse sake ô Lord. 16. Turne thee vnto me and haue mercy vpon me for I am desolate and afflicted 18 Looke vpon mine affliction and my paine and forgiue all my sinnes 20. O keepe my soule and deliuer me let me not bee ashamed for I put my trust in thee Psal 39. 8. Deliuer me from all my transgressions make me not the reproch of the foolish 31. 16. Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant saue mee for thy mercies sake 51. 9. Hide thy face from my sinnes and blot out all mine iniquities 141. 8. Mine eyes are vnto thee ô Lord God in thee is my trust leaue not my soule destitute For mercy and direction 16. HEare me ô Lord Psal 69. for thy louing kindnesse is good Turne vnto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies 6. 25. Remember ô Lord thy tender mercies and thy louing kindnesse for they haue beene euer of old 9. 27. Hide not thy face from mee put not thy seruant away in anger thou hast beene my helpe leaue me not neither forsake me O God of my saluation â—sal 86. 3. Bee mercifull vnto me O Lord for I crie vnto thee dayly 25. 4. Shew me thy waies O Lord teach mee thy pathes 5. Leade mee in thy truth and teach mee for thou art the God of my saluation on thee doe I waite all the day 43. 2. For thou art the God of my strength why doest thou cast me off why goe I mourning because of the oppression of the enemie 43. 3. O send out thy light and thy truth let them leade mee let them bring me vnto thy holy hill and thy tabernacles 8. Psal 143. Cause me to heare thy louing kindnesse in the morning for in thee doe I trust Cause mee to know the way wherein I should walke for I lift vp my soule vnto thee 10. Teach mee to doe thy will for thou art my God thy spirit is good leade mee into the land of vprightnesse 11. 40. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from mee O Lord Let thy louing kindnesse and thy truth continually preserue me â—sal 119. 133. Order my steps in thy Word and let not any iniquitie haue dominion ouer me 86. 11. Teach me thy way O Lord I will walke in thy truth vnite my heart to feare thy name 39. 4. Lord make mee to know mine end and the measure of my dayes what it is that I may know how fraile I am For vnderstanding 119. 169. LEt my crie come neere before thee O Lord giue me vnderstanding according to thy Word 26. Psal 119 I haue declared my wayes and thou heardest me teach me thy statutes 27. Make me to vnderstand the way of thy precepts so shall I talke of thy woundrous workes 18. Open thou mine eyes that I may behold the wounderous things out of thy Law 73. Thy hands haue made mee and fashioned me giue me vnderstanding