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A19303	A godly meditacion vpon. xx. select and chosen Psalmes of the prophet Dauid as wel necessary to al them that are desirous to haue ye darke wordes of the prophet declared and made playn: as also fruitfull to suche as delyte in the contemplatio[n] of the spiritual meanyng of them. Compiled and set furth by Sir Anthony Cope knight.	Cope, Anthony, Sir, d. 1551.	1547 (1547)	STC 5717; ESTC S109096	127,918	198

in dominum Psalm .xxii. Rom. viii euen frō the breastes of my mother and by the same hope I trust fyrmely to be saued The good husband mā ploweth his ground soweth it reapith and thresheth his corne and al vpon hoope of the profyte i. Corhint ix whyche thereon ariseth Euen so Lorde wyl I abide in hope and trust of thi glory that is to come and that not onely in youth A custodia matutina vsque ad noctem or one tyme onely of my lyfe but continually frō the mornyng watch vnto the nyght from the tyme of youth in which thou gauest me fyrst my descretion vnto the laste ende of my lyfe For whosoeuer casteth away hys hope before the night of death come loseth al that he watched for before Genes xii The wife of Loth kept wel her way of a great whyle styll lokyng on forward but at the last she coulde not forbeare but loked backe vpon her coūtry wherin she before had plesure and was turned into a saltston It was not without a great misterye that the Leuites were commaunded to offre vnto thee Lorde Leuit. i bothe the head and the tayle of the beast offred for sacrifice Wherby is mēt that thou dost not alowe a good beginnyng vnles there folowe also a good ende For he that continueth to the ende shal be saued This hope in thi promise hath my poresoule firmly reposed in her bosome or brest Mathew .xxiiii. and this hope it is mete that al Israel Speret Israel in dominum that is all chrysten menne which by faith se God should haue For blessed is the man which trusteth in the merciful God and curssed are they that put theyr trust in man Of thi grace and mercy only cometh al our goodnes Thy mercy forgeueth dayly our sinne Quia apud dominum misericordia the painful death of thi sonne Christ deliuered vs from al the paynes dewe for our offēces Et copiosa apud eum redemptio Thou boughtest vs not with golde and siluer or any such vile price nether yet with the bloud of a goate or any other beast 1. Peter .i. But with the precious bloud of that lambe without spot thy blessed sonne Whose death had bene sufficient for a hundreth thousand such worldes The greatnes of thy loue caused the plentiful payment of the price of our redemption Ecclesi xxxix Thi blissing did flow vpon vs as a mightie flodde whose greate inundations do moysten all the grounde The charite of thi sonne hath brente vp and consumed by his death al our iniquities Wherfore the faithful beyng thus deliuered from all daungers by thyne onelye goodnes maye nowe geue praises and thanckes vnto thy myghtie maiestie restyng in hope to haue after this lyfe the thyng for whiche thei so long haue hoped which is ioye euerlastīg through the perfect visiō of thi blissed deitie euen as it is Which who so seeth enioyeth all thinges that his hert can desire The C.xxxviii Psal ¶ The faythfull man gyueth prayse to God wyth thākes for his mercie shewed to him and exhorteth all other to do the same THe myghtie power of thi deuine maiestie O Lord of Lordes and God of al Gods with the plentifull aboundaūce of thi goodnes dayly declared to al mankynd Deute ● enforceth me to consider myne owne weakenes and insufficiencie in yeldyng to the any recompence Thou Lord arte omnipotent and madest all thynges of naughte I am thy symple creature made wyth thy hande and withoute thy helpe iiii Reg. v. I am able to do no good thynge Thou art the God eternall besyde whom there is no God I am a worme of the vyle earth not worthy to beare the name of a chrystian man for that through myne owne act of synne I haue defaced the beaultie of the principall part of man which is my soule made to thy godly image Neuertheles synce thou art the refourmer of mens hertes and the inspiratour of all grace and goodnes I mooste humblye beseche the to correcte by thy power that whyche throughe my frayltie is a mysse Redres by thy pitie that whiche I haue marred through my follye make me able to yelde vnto the that whiche thou requirest of me that is to acknowledge myne owne insufficiencie Cōfit●bor tibi domine and to rendre vnto the noble prayses and louyng thankes for thy manifolde gyftes of grace wherwith thou hast of thi mere leberalitie endued both my soule and my body Make me worthy to laude the which by no meanes maye be but by wyping away al myne iniquities Ecclesi xv In toto corde meo For thy prayses be not semely in the mouthe of a synner Yea Lorde I pray the enflame my hert with the loue of the. So that from the botome therof I maye speake them and thine honour to extol not myne nor to loue any thyng in this worlde but the and for the. Thou art the true God and sauiour and there is none els but thou Esaye .xlv. Out of thy mouth cometh the worde of ryghteousnes whiche no man may turne Wherfore al other Gods set a syde to the onelye wyll I synge prayses and confesse the onely to be the liuyng God and that wyl I knoledge before the hole congregation of the faythful ii Corin. vi Adorabo conuersus ad templum sanctum tuum Thou knowest the inwardes of the hert of man and in the hertes of the faythful is thy seat or resting place The soules of the iust are the temples wherin thou dost inhabit To this temple wyl I turne my selfe by consideryng the estate of myne owne soule which whē by thy grace I make clene of vices then am I mete to receiue the to honour the to geue praises to thy high maiestie Actes .xvii. Since that thou beyng Lorde of heauen and earth and of al that therin is cōtayned delitest not to dwel in temples made with mās handes Dauid wold haue made the a temple and was forbidden by the Prophet Nathan to whō thou saydest thou wast not vsed to dwel in any house ii Regum .vii. iii. Regum .v. And although thou diddest afterwarde cause Salomon his sonne to buylde the a material house for the congregatiō to assemble in and therin to honour the yet chifely Lord the hert or soule of man is thy pleasaunt habitation Wherfore Christ thy sonne sayde to the woman of Samarie Iohn .iiii. that nether on that moūtayn nor yet in Hierusalem should men worshyp the but that the true worshippers shold worship the in spirit and in truth The true worshippers must leaue earthly affections and inwardlye beholde the spiritual heauenly ioyes desiryng to be the pertakers of them with the aungels So shal they beyng thy holy temple here on earth behold thy noble spiritual temple in heauen Et confitebor nomin● tuo super misericordia tua et veritate tua Thus shal we worthely praise thy

thyne honoure and prayse And to extolle the wyth my wordes whiche maye sprynge frome a pure and vncorrupte herte as cleane water doth from a cleare and vndefyled foūtayne This am I much moued to do by the consyderation of thy goodnesse shewed after the fall of thy bryght angelles whose places to fulfyll in thy heauenly Citie of Hierusalem Edificans Hierusalē dominus and to repayre the ruin of those stones whiche fell from thence thou madest mākinde entendynge by hym to restore at length the fyrste noble buyldynge therof But man alas when he shoulde haue bene hewed to the purpose of that noble edifice could not endure to be squared and tryed by the perfecte rule of thy godly commaundementes wherfore he also fell from paradyse as a stone abiecte and not worthy to be there placed He folowed the instigation of his enemie the deuyll wherfore he was caste from that pleasaunte place to wander abrode in thys present worlde as in a paynfull pilgrimage here traueylyng longe in miserie both he and all his posteritie as people dispersed into all partes thereof tyll thou Lorde of thyne exceadyng charitie dyddest sende downe thyne onely begottē sonne to shedde his bloud for the redemption of al the worlde who hath erected here one temporall Citie of Hierusalem his Citie of peace his holy and pure spouse the christen cōgregation calling to the erection of that his buylding his faythful people from the foure wyndes that is from the foure partes of the worlde which are the lyuely stones gathered together as well of the gentiles as of the Iewes Iohn xi Di●pertiones Israelis congregabit which were before as out castes dispersed and scattered into al partes of the worlde He soughte them of his mercie whiche sought not him and founde them whiche loked not for hym Qui sanat contritos contritos cuide alligat contricion●s corum He healed the grieffes of those that were brused in the sayed perillous fall byndynge vp theyr woundes and layed the holsome plaister of his passion and the oyle of his grace to as many of them as are contrite in herte Psalm .xxxiiii. To such art thou Lorde nere at hande and healpest those which be of an humble spirite Thou healest them I saye of theyr woundes here in thys worlde but not to the very perfectnes of health vntyl the resurrection of the iust and elect persons at which tyme they shall shyne in beautie and clearnes as sterres in the firmament worlde wythout ende Dauid .xii. Math. ix yea they shall shyne as bryght as the sunne in thy glorious kyngdome The sunne the mone and the sterres are the noble garnishyng of the firmamēt So are thyne electe persons the glorious ornamentes of thy churche here militant In whiche through theyr vertuous lyuyng they giue an example of vertue for other to folowe them and being in the middes of the peruerse and croked nations they shyne as lyghte in the worlde holdyng fast the worde of lyfe Philip. ii Qui numerat multit●dinem stellarum om●bus eis nomina imponit Wherfore like as thou knowest the numbre of the sterres in the firmament which were of thyne owne making by thine eternal mynde wherin all thinges are conceyued and forsene before they were created and gyuest them all seueral names according to theyr distincte natures and properties euen so is the nūbre of thine electe knowen vnto the Io. xiii Luke .x. Magnus dominꝰ noster et magna virtus eius et sapientie eiꝰ 〈◊〉 est numerus theyr names are wrytten in the boke of euerlasting lyfe Great therfore art thou Lorde and great is thy power yea thy wysedome is infinite by whiche thou hast made and ordered all thynges in measure numbre and weyght Sapi. xi Neades muste thou farre exceade oure numbring for among vs numbre it selfe can not be numbred much lesse maist thou be included in numbre Thys thy wysedome is the bryghtnes of thyne euerlastynge lyght Sapi. vii the vndefyled myrrour of thy diuine maiestie and the image of thy goodnesse through whiche thy goodnes thy sayed wisedome conueyeth her selfe into the soules of thyne holy electe people there workynge the ryches of thy grace Duscipiens mansueos dominus graffyng in them the graffe or braūche of humilitie vpon the fruitefull rote of fayth and makynge therwyth all good workes to sprynge Thine apostle Paule declairng the fruites of the spirite in the good christian Sala v. puttteth mekenesse to be one of the principal saying that those which are endewed therwyth are not subiect to the law Wrathe and angre are in the bosome of the foule but mekenesse and suffering do rest in the bosome of the wyse The meke doest thou defende Ecclesiast vii take vnto thy protection and exalte highly in the tyme of thy visitasion ●umilians autem pec●tores vsque ad terrā But the vngodly and proude people thou bryngeste downe to the grounde that is to vtter confusion Graunte vs therefore mooste gentle heauenly father thy grace to expell from vs all pryde of mynde whereby we are made as straūgers vnto the. And gyue vs an humble wyll to synge vnto the wyth prayses and thankes gyuynge ●audate dominū in cō●ssione for the exceadynge goodnesse whiche we haue and dayly do receiue of the wherby we may moue all other to the lyke exaltynge of thy mightie magnificence that not onely wyth the voice or confession of the mouth ●sa●●ite deo nostro in thara but also wyth the spirituall harpe of good workes that as oure mouthes wholy be imployed to the settynge forth of thy godly honoure so maye oure handes execute thy holy preceptes of charitie to the comforte of oure neyghbours and that with a glad and a ioyfull herte wythout grudgynge ● Corhinth ix knowynge that thou louest a cheirfull gyuer and mercie is to be shewed wyth cheirfulnesse Roma xii and loue without dissimulation Worthy art thou I saye moste mightie God to haue honoure and prayse gyuen vnto the whiche couerest the heauen wyth cloudes kepynge vs from the syghte of the pure element for a season Qui operit eclum nubibus through the thicke darkenesse of the waterie substaunce that hangeth betwene it and vs. I meane that thou haste couered thy holy scripture wyth such figures and secrete misteries that wythout thy healpe no man is able to atteyne to the perfecte beholdyng therof Thy sonne Christe spake therfore to the Iewes in parables and similitudes Luce. viii to the entent that when they did see they should not see when they dyd heare they should not vnderstande Yet haue we not in that any cause of desperation for those same cloudes haste thou prepared to rayne vpō the earth Et patat terre pluuiā they were gathered vp of a waterie substaunce whyche at the descente or fallynge vpon the earthe causeth great fertilitie Thy goodnes Lorde hath so plentifully poured thy