vpon the graues of them that had sacrificed vnto them 5. And hee burnt the bones of the Priests vpon their altars and cleansed Iudah and Ierusalem 1. Sam. 7 3. If ye doe returne vnto the Lord with all your hearts then put away the strange Gods and Ashtaroth from among you and prepare your hearts vnto the Lord and serue him onely 4. The children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth and serued the Lord onely 10. Ier. 10. The Lord is the true God he is the liuing God and an euerlasting King at his wrath the earth shall tremble and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation Inuocation 13. Rom. 10. WHosoeuer shall call vpon the name of the Lord shall be saued 15. Psal 50. Call vpon mee in the day of trouble I will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie me 9. Zepha 3 I will turne to the people a pure language that they may all call vpon the name of the Lord to serue him with one consent Act. 7. 59 They stoned Steuen calling vpon God and saying Lord Iesus receiue my spirit Luk. 11. 2. When ye pray say Our father which art in heauen hallowed bee thy name Thy kingdome come thy will be done as in heauen so in earth 3. Giue vs day by day our dayly bread 4. And forgiue vs our sinnes for we also forgiue euery one that is indebted to vs. And lead vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euill 23. Io. 16. Whatsoeuer yee shall aske the father in my name he will giue it you 28. Mat. 11. Come vnto me all ye that labour and are heauie laden and I will giue you rest 16. Heb. 4. Let vs come boldly vnto the throne of grace that we may obtaine mercie and find grace to helpe in time of need 14. Psal 50. Offer vnto GOD thanksgiuing and pay thy vowes vnto the most high 3. 18. I will call vpon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be saued from mine enemies 6. In my distresse I called vpon the Lord and cryed vnto my God Hee heard my voice out of his Temple and my crie came before him even into his eares 5. 3. My voice shalt thou heare in the morning O Lord in the morning will I direct my prayer vnto thee and will looke vp 13. 3. Consider and heare me ô Lord my God lighten mine eyes least I sleep the sleepe of death 1. King 8. 39. Heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place forgiue and doe and giue to euery man according to his waies whose heart thou knowest for thou euen thou onely knowest the hearts of all the children of men 16. Isa 63. Doubtlesse thou art our father though Abraham be ignorant of vs and Israell acknowledge vs not thou ô Lord art our father our redeemer thy name is from euerlasting 5. Eccle. 9. The liuing know that they shall die but the dead know not any thing neither haue they any more a reward for the memory of them is forgotten 6. Also their loue and their hatred and their enuy is now perished neither haue they any more a portion for euer in any thing that is done vnder the Sunne Iob 14. 21. His sonnes come to honour and he knoweth it not and they are brought low but hee perceiueth it not of them Psal 99. 6. Moses and Aaron among his Priests and Samuel among them that call vpon his name they called vpon the Lord and he answered them 7. He spake vnto them in the cloudy pillar they kept his testimonies and the ordinance that he gaue them 12. Rom. 10. The same Lord ouer all is rich to all that call vpon him Adoration 18. Psal 145. THe Lord is nigh vnto all them that call vpon him to all that call vpon him in truth 23. Io. 4. The true worshippers shall worshippe the father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to worship him 24. God is a spirit and they that worshippe him must worship him in spirit and in truth Psal 51. 17. The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart ô God thou wilt not despise 1. Cor. 6. 20. Ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirit which are Gods 1. Pet. 2. 5. Yee also as liuely stones are built vp a spirituall house an holy Priesthood to offer vp spirituall Sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ Philip. 3. 3. We are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit and reioyce in Christ Iesus and haue no confidence in the flesh 20. Ier. 6. To what purpose commeth there to me Incense from Sheba and the sweete cane from a farre countrie your burnt offerings are not acceptable nor your sacrifices sweete vnto me 23. Amos. 5. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs for I will not heare the melody of thy viols 24. But let iudgement run downe as waters and righteousnesse as a mighty streame 8. Micha 6. What doth the Lord require of thee but to do iustly and to loue mercy and to walke humbly with thy God Isa 1. 16. Wash ye make ye cleane put away the euill of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do euill 17. Learne to doe well seeke iudgement releeue the oppressed iudge the fatherlesse pleade for the widdow Deut. 13. 4. Ye shall walke after the Lord your God and feare him and keepe his commandements obey his voice and ye shall serue him and cleaue vnto him 12. 10. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to feare the Lord thy God to walke in all his waies and to loue him and to serue the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule 13. To keepe the commandements of the Lord and his statutes which I command thee this day for thy good 30. Mar. 12. Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule and with all thy minde and with all thy strength this is the first commandement Iosh 22. 5. Take diligent heed to doe the commandement and the law which Moses the seruant of the Lord charged you to loue the Lord your God and to walke in all his wayes and to keepe his commandements and to cleaue vnto him and to serue him with all your heart and with all your soule Col. 2. 18. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humilitie and worshipping of Angels intruding into those things which hee hath not seene vainely puft vp by his fleshly minde 8. When I had heard Reuel 22. and seene I fell downe to worship before the feete of the Angel which shewed me these things 9. Then saith hee vnto me see thou do it not for I am thy fellow seruant and of thy brethren the Prophets and of
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
of me 20. Likewise also the cup after supper saying this cup is the new Testament in my blood which is shed for you 16. 1. Co. 10. The cup of blessing which wee blesse is it not the Communion of the blood of CHRIST The bread which we breake is it not the Communion of the body of Christ 17. For we being many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread 23. The Lord Iesus the same night in which hee was betraied tooke bread 24. And when hee had giuen thankes he brake it and said take eate this is my body which is broken for you this doe in remembrance of mee Cor. 11. 25. After the same manner also hee tooke the cup when he had supped saying this cup is the new Testament in my blood this doe as oft as ye drinke it in remembrance of me 26. For as often as yee eate this bread and drinke this cup yee doe shew the Lords death till he come 27. Wherefore who soeuer shall eate this bread and drinke this cup of the Lord vnworthily shall bee guiltie of the body and bloud of the Lord. 28. But let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate of that bread and drinke of that cup. 29. For he that eateth and drinketh vnworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himselfe not discerning the Lords body 3. Cor. 10. Our fathers did all eate the same spirituall meate 4. And did all drinke the same spirituall drinke for they dranke of that spirituall rocke that followed them and that rocke was Christ 35. Iesus said Ioh. 6 I am the bread of life he that commeth to mee shall neuer hunger and he that beleeueth on me shall neuer thirst 51. I am the liuing bread which came downe from heauen If any man eate of this bread he shall liue for euer and the bread that I will giue is my flesh which I will giue for the life of the world 56. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him 58. Not as your fathers did eate Manna and are dead he that eateth of this bread shall liue for euer 63. Iohn 6. It is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speake vnto you they are spirit and they are life 28. 16. I came forth from the father and am come into the world againe I leaue the world and go to my father 7. It is expedient for you that I goe away for if I goe not away the comforter will not come vnto you but if I depart I will send him vnto you 2. 14. I goe to prepare a place for you 3. And if I goe and prepare a place for you I will come againe and receiue you vnto my selfe that where I am there yee may be also Mat. 26. 29. I will not drinke henceforth of this fruite of the vine vntill that day when I drinke it new with you in my fathers kingdome Mar. 16. 19. After the Lord had spoken to them hee was receiued vp into heauen and sate on the right hand of God Heb. 10. 13. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstoole 14. For by one offering he hath perfected for euer them that are sanctified 1. Col. 3. If yee bee risen with Christ seeke those things which are aboue where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God 20. Phil. 3. Our conuersation is in heauen from whence also we looke for the Sauiour the Lord Iesus Christ 21. Acts 3. Whom the heauen must receiue vntill the times of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began The happinesse of Gods seruants Psal 37. 37. MArke the perfect man and behold the vpright for the end of that man is peace 92. 12. The righteous shall flourish like the Palme tree he shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon Hosea 14. 6. His branches shall spread and his beautie shall be as the Oliue tree and his smell as Lebanon Psal 92. 13. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of our God 14. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall bee fat and flourishing 23. 37. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in his way 24. Though he fall he shall not vtterly bee cast downe for the Lord vpholdeth him with his hand 12. 25. What man is hee that feareth the Lord him shall hee reach in the way that he shall choose 13. His soule shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the earth 14. The secret of the Lord is with them that feare him and hee will shew them his couenant â—sal 103. 17. The mercy of the Lord is from euerlasting to euerlasting vpon them that feare him and his righteousnesse vnto childrens children 18. To such as keepe his couenant and to those that remember his commandements to do them 65. 4. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach vnto thee that he may dwell in thy courts he shall be satisfied with the goodnesse of thy house euen of thy holy Temple The vanitie of the world 15. LOue not the world 1. Iohn 2. neither the things that are in the world if any man loue the world the loue of the father is not in him 16. For all that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world 17. And the world passeth away and the lust thereof but hee that doth the will of God abideth for euer Eccles 1. 14. I haue seene all the workes that are done vnder the Sun and behold all is vanitie and vexation of spirit Col. 3. 2. Set your affection on things aboue not on things on the earth Iames 4. 4. Whosoeuer will be a friend of the world is the enemie of God Mat. 6. 24. No man can serue two masters for either hee will hate the one and loue the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other ye cannot God and Mammon 15. Luke 16. That which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God 14. What is your life Iames. 4. It is euen a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away 4. Psal 144. Man is like to vanitie his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away 15. 103. His dayes are as grasse as a flower of the field so he florisheth 16. For the winde passeth ouer it and it is gon and the place thereof shall know it no more 2. Iob 14. He coÌ„meth forth like a flower and is cut downe he flieth also as a shadow and continueth not 1. Pet. 1. 24. For all flesh is as grasse and
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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