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A13068	A third proceeding in the harmonie of King Dauids harp that is to say, a godly and learned exposition vpon 17. Psalmes moe of the princely prophet Dauid, beginning with the 45. and ending with the 61. Psalme: done in Latine by the learned Reuerend Doctor Victorinus Strigelius, Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lypsia in Germanie, anno Christi, 1562. Translated into English, by Richard Robinson citizen of London. An. Christi, 1595. Seene, perused, and allowed.; Hypomnēmata in omnes Psalmos Davidis. Psalm 45-61. English	Strigel, Victorinus, 1524-1569.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1595 (1595)	STC 23361; ESTC S117926	98,441	165

of his name and to the publique benefit of his church Seeing then God commaundeth so often times prayer to be made for the Magistrate that the gouernment may remaine firme be fully established and that we must not aske that sinnes should be established needeful it is that politike order bee a good thing acceptable vnto God and not to bee sinne But I now omit this disputation of the institution and approbation of the magistrate Seing all men doe well knowe the good admonition which saint Paul gineth vs in the 13. cap. to the Romans form verse 1. to verse 7. Psal LXI And exposition thereof Verse 1 Heare my crying O God giue eare vnto my prayer Verse 2 From the endes of the earth will I call vnto thee when my heart is in heauinesse LIke as physicians vse to say that a mans appetite or stomacke by tart or sharp sirrups is soonest stirred vp or gotten so the best instructer how to pray is necessity for in time of prosperity our prayer is colde but when all feares and dangers doe appeare imminent we not onely prepare our selues by all meanes to pray and deuote our selues but we also do crie out Although flesh therefore eschew and tremble with feare to feele the crosse yet the spirit reapeth of nothing greater profits then of the crosse and of calamities as the 119. Psalme 5. part and 7. verse saith It is good for me O Lord that I haue bene in trouble that I may learne thy statutes And in this psalme Dauid saith When my heart is in heauinesse I will call vpon thee Verse 3 O set me vp vpon the rocke that is higher then I for thou hast bene my hope and a strong tower for me against the enemy Verse 4 I will dwell in thy tabernacle for euer and my trust shall be vnder the couering of thy wings Verse 5 For thou O Lorde hast heard my desires and hast giuen an heritage to those that feare thy name Seeing nothing is more vncertaine nor any thing more deceiueable then humane helps I saith he doe fully repose all the hope of my safety in thee the true and liuing God for thou both wilt and canst helpe me vnto thee therefore as it were vnto a tower of defence doe I flee for refuge and I doubt not but dwelling in thy tabernacle that is remaining a member of the true church I shall finde obteine defence Of this my carefull confidence there are two arguments in no point failing the one an inheritance which thou hast giuen to them that feare thee that is the possession of the true doctrine which to aduance and defend I chiefly desire the other is because thou hast often times heard my prayers at full Let vs therefore learne out of this place that wee shall neuer perish so long as we shall godlily and innsolably keepe still the excellent inheritance or notable benefit of the gospell giuen from God and hereunto adioyne our godly prayers For like as the shippe which carried Paul as passenger in her escaping a great wrecke and ouerwhelming at length saw her wished hauen so no doubt of it the congregation which receiueth and h●loeth fast the true doctrine of God shall yet remaine yea though all the gates of hell grudge thereat and though they send foorth firie flame and thunder flash Verse 6 Thou shalt grant the King a long life that his yeres may endure thorowout all generations Verse 7 He shall dwel before God for euer O prepare thy louing mercy and faithfulnesse that they may preserue him Hitherto hath the godly minde commended his safety vnto God now craues he of God that the gouernment of the common wealth for the churches sake might be happy firme and stable For most true it is that the poet Euripides said Republica male affecta etiam Res diuinae fiunt languidiores The commonwealth once sicke or sore The churches state doth quaile the more First therefore let vs craue of God that he would grant vnto our present gouernours and rulers long time of life and helpe them in gouernment because what shall come hereafter is vncerteine and kingdomes are ofttimes turned into a worse and worse estate Againe that our Gouernour may remaine in the sight of God both priuately and publikėly for so farre as to his person apperteineth let him liue in the feare of the Lord and in faith and let him call vpon God truely let him set forth notable testimonies of confession and in the rule of his office let him take away idolatry and blasphemies with godly duties let him further and help forwards the aduancement of the true doctrine of God let him be carefull to see youth rightly trained vp and taught in churches and schooles that there may alwayes remaine some holy seede Thirdly that he may be mercifull and true because his throne shall with mercy be established and not with tyranie And Salamon saith A dissembling tongue beseemeth not a king But if any man had rather referre this mercy and truth vnto God in this sence or to this purpose preserue gouerne and defend godly gouernours which are alwayes exercised in great danger and distresse for thy mercy and truthes sake against this I will not disdainfully contend for both these meanings are godly and profitable Verse 8 So wil I alwaies sing praises vnto thy name That I may daily performe my vowes Saint Paul willeth vs not onelie to make prayers but also to giue thankes to God for our magistrate Wherefore here Dauid promiseth vnto God for prosperitie of gouernment Thankesgiuing For so much welfare as in gouernment remaineth that is by God effectually preserued according to the saying Psal 127. ver 2. Except the Lord keepe the citie the watchman waketh but in vaine Now vnto the King euerlasting incorruptible inuisible God onely wise be honor and glory for euer and euer So be it FINIS Matth. 8. 8. 2. Sam. 19. 35. Iohn 2. 7. Iohn 5. 9. Ecclus 33. Iohn 2. 10. * This was a certaine tune or an instrument Three things handled in the title 1 The Author of the Psalme 2 The kind of song 3 The subiect of the matter The argument borrowed of a comparison of Mariage and betweene Christ and his Church Fiue speciall signes of sincere matrimony The first mutuall loue betweene the husband and the wife The second Faith vnited of the one to the other The third Consociation or partaking of weale and woe The fourth Generation or procreation of Issen The fift The Husbands protection or defence of his wife The circumstance of this Psalme is a substantiall mariage betweene Christ and his Church The praise of the Messias or spous Christs royall wisedome and power incomparable Christ an inuincible warrior and what his weapons are Cap. 2. 13. Christ the only Prince of peace Exod. 14. 13. Exod. 17. 6. The churches excellent vocation feeling both crosse and consolation Christs kingdome not like worldly kingdomes

the person of the eternall Father these wordes do teach manifestly Therefore hath thy God annointed thee with oyle of gladnes aboue thy fellowes For the Father annointeth this king with the oyle of gladnesse that is with the holy ghost which saint Iohn in his first epistle and second chapter and twentieth verse calleth Chrisma that is Ointment The Messias ●s Christ that is your anointed king of the church But there is a sweete consolation set foorth in this saying And the King shall haue pleasure in thy beauty The psalme praiseth the beuty of the church which seemeth by reason of the Crosse vnto the iudgement of the worlde to be fowle and filthy but also in very trueth is yet still languishing and beareth about her many blemishes ignorance and vi●ious affects Although therefore we are indeed weaklings and defiled with much filthinesse yet let vs beleeue that for and through his great mercy we shalbe acceptable vnto this our King and we shall haue our reputed and published beauty that is some vertues acceptable vnto God as true inuocation aduancement of true doctrine and the remaining new begunne obedience Verse 13 And the daughter of Tyre shall bee there with a gift like as the rich also among the people shall make their supplication before thee The daughter of Tyre signifieth the Church gathered of the nations And I haue often said touching what and how great thinges the calling of the Nations admonisheth vs. For first it witnesseth that grace aboundeth aboue sinne For who can either comprehend in thought the greatnes of Gods mercy or expresse the same in words In which mercy persons polluted with manifolde madde worshipping of Images bloody sacrifysing of men filthy Confusion of lustes and finally with other mast horrible mischefes are called vnto the society of the blessed congregations andre made as Paule sayeth 2. Ephes 19. Citizens in the Citie of God and of the common wealth of the heauenly Citizens Secondly The calling of the Nations is a notable testimony that the promise touching the gospell is vniuersall and free For if the promise were a priuiledge for certaine persons it should not be translated vnto the nations which are horribly polluted with wickednes And that this promise consisteth not vppon our worthinesse but is freely promised and bestoweth eternall benefits vppon true beleeuers that doth the calling of the nations most euidently witnesse For what doe the Nations bring vnto God but filthy and horrible confusions of opinions of worshippings and of manners Such Cast-awayes seeing God receiueth and chuseth them out to place them in the fellowship of eternall blessednes may we any thing doubt but rather affirme that the promise of the gospell parteineth freely Lastly this gathering of the Church out of the Nations refuteth the Pharisaicall opinions touching righteousnes of the lawe For if men were righteous by the lawe the Nations could not without the lawe be made Citizens and members of the people of God Seeing then the nations without the lawe of enemies are made frends and of strangers are made the most beloued Church of God it is a thing very cleare that by faith onely that is by acknowledgement and confidence in the Mediator all the elect ones are saued Verse 14 The Kings daughter is all glorious within her cloathing is of wrought golde Verse 15 Shee shall be brought vnto the King in raiment of needle worke the Virgins that be her fellows shall beare her company and shall be brought vnto thee Verse 16 With ioy gladnes shal they be brought and shall enter into the Kings pallace Albeit the Prophets describing the kingdome of Christ do vse figures taken from the glorious estate of Kinges Courtes yet notwithstanding bycause wee doe knowe that the Church by Gods assured prouidence is in this life subiect vnto the Crosse let vs vnderstand these descriptions not as touching the externall pompe but concerning the inward glorie whereof there are seauen degrees The first is the possession of Gods word and the acknowledgement of the true God as in Psal 147. and in Deuter. 4. Psa 50. 15. Psa 55. 18. The Second is true calling vppon God and his Deuine hearing vs as in Deuter. 4. The Third is his perpetuall preseruation of the body of this Church though shee bee persecuted in some of her members as in Math. 16. Psal 129. The Fourth conteineth Gods onely Deliuerances as the preseruation of Noah in the Deluge Gene. 8. 16. Exod. 12. 2. Luke 9. 56. The fifth conteineth prophecies proper to the Church and miracles accomplished in the prophecies as in Micah 3. 8 and. 2 Kings 5. 8. 2. Peter 1. 19. 1. Pet. 1. 10 1 Cor. 12. 10. 1. Cor. 14. 3 The Sixth is the ornament of many vertues in the suffering members as in Stephen Actes 7. 58 others as in Heb. 11. 36 37 38 39. Laurence Eutrop lib. 9. The Seauenth and last is the inheritance of life euerlasting as in Iohn 17. 3. Tit. 3. 7. Galath 3. 18. 22. 1. Pet. 1. 4. Touching these 7 degrees of glorie which the true Church hath I haue spoken more largely in a certaine oration made by mee at Iena on the 28 day of May in the yeare of Christ 1562. Verse 17. In steade of thy fathers thou shalt haue children whom thou mayest make Princes in all landes Notably saith Plato in lib. 6. de legibus as touching marriage Let this consolation be proposed in marriage that man and wife ought to be carefull for the perpetuity or continuation of humane nature that they leauing behinde them their childrens children may euermore haue some worshippers of God left to succeede them Parents ought to beget and bring vp children which may deliuer a direct order of life as it were a Lampe of light vnto their posterity so as there may alwayes be some worshipping God according to his lawe These hath he spoken touching matrimony for the man and the wife holily and religiously For therefore giueth the sonne of God his worde and holy spirit vnto the Church that he may regenerate many vnto life euerlasting and that there might alwayes be some euen in this life truly calling vpon God and worshipping him For he not onely wonderfully reioyceth and delighteth in the saintes or holy ones which are in heauen but euen in these which are vppon earth as the 16. Psalme witnesseth verse 3. Al my delight is vpon the Saintes that are in earth c. And he calleth Saintes the kings and princes of the earth not in that they gouerne by politike order but when they vanquish the snares of the Deuill the threatnings and inticements of the world and the wandring lustes of our nature and doe gather vnto God an eternall Church Verse 18. I wil remember thy name from one generation vnto an other Therefore shall the people giue thankes vnto thee world without end The last verse preacheth most sweetely as touching the stability of the Church which shall remaine euer among the