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A11539	An exposition after the maner of a co[n]templacyon vpon ye .li. psalme, called Miserere mei Deus; Expositio in psalmos Miserere me Deus. English	Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.; Marshall, William, fl. 1535.	1534 (1534)	STC 21789.3; ESTC S106805	28,705	66

so come go But thou art suche a louer as do the neuer chaunge for thy loue is very god Thy loue therfore wherwith thou louest a creature / is to do it good and whom thou most truest / to them art thou moste beneficyall Therfore what meaneth / that thou louest truthe / but that of thy gracious mercy thou makest vs promyses / and fulfyllest them for thy truthes sake Thou dydest promyse vnto Abraham a sonne when he was aged / thou fulfilledst thy promyse in olde and bāreyn Sara / because thou louedst truth Thou promisedst vnto the chyldren of Israell a lande that flowed with milke and honye / and at the last didest geue it thē / for thy truthes sake ¶ Thou madest a promyse to Dauid sayenge I shall set vp thy seate regall one of the frute of thy bodye and it came euen to passe / because thou woldest be founde true There are other iunumerable promystes in which thou hast euer bene faithful because thou louedst truthe Thou haste promysed to synners which wyll come vnto the / forgyuenesse and fauour / and thou hast neues defrauded man for thou hast loued truthe That vnthryftye Sonne Luce. xv that toke his iourney in to a farte countre and wasted all his goodes with royatous lyuynge / when he came to hym selfe / he retourned vnto the sayenge father I haue synned agaynst heuen and before the / now am I not worthye to be called thy sonne / make me as one of thy hyred seruauntes When he was yet a greate waye of / thou sawest hym and haddest cōpassion on him / and rannest vnto hym / fallynge vpon his necke and kyssynge hym / thou broughtest forth the best garment and puttest a rynge on his finger and showes on his fete / thou kylledst that fatted calfe and madest all the house mery saieng let vs eate and be mery / for this my sonne was deade and is alyue agayne / he was lost and is now founde ¶ Why didest thou al this lorde god surelye because thou louedst truth Loue therfore o father of mercies this truthe in me / which returne vnto the frō a far cūtre runne 〈◊〉 wardꝭ me geue me a kys of thi mouth / geue me those chefe garmētꝭ / draw me ī to thy house / kyll the fatted calfe that all which truste in the maye reioyce in me / and lette vs eate together in spyrytuall feastes On lorde wylte thou exclude me alone wylte thou not kepe this truth vnto me yf thou shuldest loke narowly on our wickednesse a lorde Lorde who myght abyde the But lorde thou wylte not be soo strayte vnto vs / for thou louest truth ye and that with a feruent and incomprehensyble loue ¶ Whiche is the truth that thou so louest is it not thy sonne that sayde Iohan .xiiij. I am the waye / truth / and lyfe he is the very truthe of whom all truthe is named in heuen and in earthe / this is it that thou haste loued and in it only haste thou delyted for thou dydeste fynde it pure and with out spotte and woldeste that it shulde dye for synners Kepe therfore Oh god this truthe / beholde I am a greate synner in whome thou mayste kepe it / to whome thou mayst forgeue many synnes / whome thou mayste purifye in the bloude of thy Chryste / and whome thou mayste redeme through his passion why Oh Lorde hast thou geuē me this knowlege of thi sonne / and this sayth of hym Because I sholde se my redempcyon and not to attayne it that I myght by that meanes be the more vexed with sorowe God forbyd But rather that I maye perceyue the remission of my synnes purchased by Christes bloude / and so by his grace maye obteyne it Purge me therefore redeme me oh lorde for thou hast vttered vnto me the vnknowne and secret poyntes of thy wysdome that this knowlege maye helpe me and brynge me vnto health / for truely the Phylosophers neuer knewe these thyngꝭ they were vnknowne vnto them / yea and vtterly hyd frō them And no man knewe these thynges excepte a fewe whom thou louedste entyrelye before thy sonnes incarnacyon ¶ The moste curious serchers of the worlde I meanet the wyse men of this worlde lifted vp theyr eyes aboue heuen yet coulde not fynde this thy wysdom / for thou haste hyd these thynges from the wyse and prudente / and haste opened them vnto babes / that is / to hūble fysshers and thy holy propehtes which also haue vittered them vnto vs. And so hast thou vttered the vnknowne and secrete thynges of thy wysdom and of thy scryptures vnto me / why do I knowe them in vayne I knowe theym surelye in vayne if they profyt me not vnto my helth and saluacion For the philosophers when they knewe god by his meruelous creatures they gloryfied hym not as god neyther were thankefull / but vexed full of vanities in theyr imaginacyons and theyr folysshe hertes were blynded When they counted them selues wyse / they became toles Wylt thou suffer me lorde to be or theyr numbre God forbyd For thou arte euen mercye it selfe which doth neuer vtterly forsake any man Fauoure therefore lorde / fauour and spare thy seruaunt / and cōmaunde hym to be of the numbre of thy babes / that the vnknowne secretes of thy wysdome whiche is an hye / that thou mayste be praysed in the worke of thy mercye whiche thou doste exercyse towardes thy seruante Lorde whiche neuer forsakest them that truste in the. Sprynkle me Lorde with ysope and so shall I be clene / thou shalt washe me / and then shall I be whytter then snowe ¶ Because lorde that thou haste loued the truthe and haste opened vnto me the vnknowne secretes of thy wisdom / I am wel counforted and I trust that thou wylt not cast me out of thy fauoure / but thou wylte sprynkle me with ysope and so shall I be etensed Ysope is a lowe herbe / it is hore and of a good sauour / whiche sygnyfyeth nothynge els / but thy onely sone our lord Iesu chryst / which humbled hym self vnto deth euen vnto the deth of the crosse Which with the hete of his feruent charyte loued vs / and washed vs from our synnes in his bloude Which with the redolent sauoure of his beneuolence and ryghtuousnes replenyshed the hole worlde Therfore with this ysope shalte thou spryncle me / when thou poureste vpon me the vertue of his bloude when Chryste thrughe fayth shall dwell in me when thrughe loue I am ioyned with hym when I shall countrefayte his humylyte and passyon / then shall I be clensed frome all myne vnclennes Then shalte thou washe me with myne owne teares which flowe out of the loue of christ / then shall I syghe vntyll I be weeye / I shall water my bed euery nyght with my teares / so that it shall swymme in them / then shalte thou wasshe me and I shall be whytter then snowe Snowe is whyte and

that worketh in you both the wil and also the dede / euen at his owne pleasure And se that with all mekenes ye submyt your selues vnto the vocacion of god / not seking the lyberty of the fleshe / nether yet despysyng good workes / for faith doth mortefye the fleshe and her workes / the spirite of god whiche resteth in a faythfull man helpeth our insurmitie and fyghteth without intermission agaynste synne / the deuyll and the worlde ¶ The power of faythe THe power of fayth is to iustefye vs that is / to dispoyle vs frome all our vices and laye them on Christꝭ backe whiche hathe pacefyed the fathers wrathe towardes vs and to endue vs with an others ryhtwysnes / that is Christꝭ / so that I and all my synnes are Christes / Christ with all his vertues are myne / for he was borne for vs and geuen vnto vs. Esaye ix Roma .viii. To obteyne this ryghtwisnes god the father requireth nothing of vs but that we beleue in hym and make hym no lyar He that beleueth that god of his mercye hath made vs these promises that for his truthes sake he wil fulfyl them / he setteth to his seale the god is true But he that beleueth not or doubteth of this as much as in him is he maketh him a liar .i. Iohn̄ v. for why sholdest thou doubte in hym excepte thou thoughtest that he were a lyar wold not kepe his pro messe which he made Now yf thou counte God whiche is the verye truthe to be a lyar / arte thou not worthye a thousande dampnacyones ¶ The worke of faythe FAyth worketh by charite / for when my ragyng conscience which fealeth her syn̄e is pacefied set at one with God thrughe fayth / then remembrynge the feruent loue of god towardes me I can not but loue my neyghboure agayne / for there is no man that hertelye loueth the father and can hate the sone / and althoughe the sonne be naught and vnthriftye yet for his fathers sake he wyll helpe to better hym and euen lament and be sorye for the sonnes wyckednesse Lykewyse yf we hertely loue god for his infinyte benefytes done vnto vs / then can we not hate that creature which he hath made after his own lykenes / whō god the father loueth so tenderly that he gaue his owne sonne vnto the death to redeme him / yea whom he hath adopted thrugh Christe to be his sonne and heyre Nowe all be it we se no kyndenes in this man for whiche we sholde loue hym yet hath god shewed vs kyndnes ynough for the which we ought to loue hym so coure hym at al tymes Let vs therfore loue hym for the loue that god his creatoure hathe shewed vs / beare his infyrmitye / yf he faule let vs lyft hym vp agayne / and endue hym with our mysdome all our workes euen as Christ hath done with vs / and this is an euydent token that thou louest god / when thou louest thy brother .i. Iohn̄ .iiij. and seakest al meanes to helpe hym / these are the good workes that folow fayth / and are euydent tokens that thy faythe is ryght and pure Thus seest thou how good workes / flowe out of faythe through charite / charite or loue is the fulfilling of that hole lawe Ro .xiij. ¶ Good workes AMonge good workes the chyef are to be obedyente in all thynges vnto kynges / prynces / Iudges / and suche other offycers as farre as they cōmaunde ciuyle thynges that is to say such thynges as are indyfferente / and not contrarye vnto the cōmaundemētes of god / for then must we rather obaye God then men / actes in the fyrst chapitre although we shold lese both our substaūce and lyfe therto To honour rulers To promote peace To praye for all comynaltyes And to applye al our studyes to profyte them ¶ The nexte are to be obedyent vnto father mother To prouyde for our householde both nouryshyng our famylye with bodelye sustenaunce / and also to enstructe them with the worde of god / and so to be theyr gouernour carnall and spirituall ¶ Then muste we loke howe we oughte to behaue our selues towardes our neygh boures knowlegynge that al the gyftꝭ which are geuen vs of god / are not geuen vs for our owne selfe but for the edefyenge of the cōgregacyō .j. Corynth .xij. yf we bestow them not on that maner we shall surelye geue a rekenyng for them before the lorde Emonge these ought we to haue respecte vnto the preachers and mynesters of the worde / that they maye be had in honoure and well prouyded for And aboue all thinges good bretherne addresse your selues vnto that necessary worke prayer Remembre to praye for all estates / for that is a worke that Chryst his apostles full dylygently exhorted all men vnto / promysynge them that they sholde obtayne theyr perycyons Iohn̄ .xvj. also .j. Iohn̄ .iij. yf they be accordynge to the wyll of god and for his glorye .j. Iohn̄ .v. ¶ Here endeth the exposition vpon the lj Psalme called Miserece meidens Imprented at Londō in Flete strete by Iohn̄ Byddeii / dwellynge next to Flete brydge at the sygne of our lady of pytye / for wyllyam Marshall Cum priuilegio Regali

and haue ben miurious only to the / for I haue not offen ded agaynste ony creature in that I haue set my truste or confidence in it For it was not cōmaunded me that I sholde loue ony creature for it selfe Yf thou haddest cōmaūded me that I sholde haue loued an aungell onely for hym selfe / and I had loued mony for it selfe / then no doubte I had offended agaynst the angell But sith that thou only art to be loued for thy selfe that is to say without ony respecte other of good or euyll and euery creature is to be loued in the for thy sake Therfore haue I surely offended onely agaynst the / for I haue loued a creature for it selfe ¶ But yet haue I worse done / for I haue synned euen ī thy syght I was nothig asshamed to synne before thy face Oh merciful god / how many synnes haue I done in thy syght which I wolde in no wyse haue done before mortal mē / yea that I wolde not in ony case the men sholde knowe I feared men more then the / for I was blinde loued blyndnes / so did I nether se nor ones cōsidre the. I had only fleshly eyes / therfore did I only feare and loke on men whiche ar flesh But thou lokedst on al my synnes and numbred them / therfore I can nether hyde them frō the / nether turne my backe and flye from thy face ¶ Whether shall I go from thy spirite and whether shall I flye from thy face What shall I then do whether shall I turne me whome shall I fynde to be my defender whom I praye you but the my god who is so good who is so gētle who is so mercyfull for thou passest without comparisō al creatures in gentlenesse It is one of thy chyefest propertyes to forgeue and be mercifull / for throughe mercy and forgeuenesse thou dost most declare thy almyhgtynesse I graunt lorde that I haue offended only agaynst the / and haue done that whiche is euyll in thy syght Haue mercy therfore on me expresse thy puysaunce in me / that thou mayst be iustified ī thy wordꝭ / for thou hast sayde that thou camest not to cal the rightwise / but fynners vnto repentaunce Justefie me lorde accordyng to thy wordes call me / receyue me / and gyue me grace to do true workes of repentaūce For this cause wast thou crucyfied / deade and buryed Thou saydest also John̄ iij. whē I am lyfted vp from of the earth / I wyl drawe al vnto my selfe / verefie thy wordꝭ draw me after that let vs rūne to gether in the swetenesse of thyne oyntmentes Besydes that thou saydeste Math. xi Lome vnto me all ye that laboure / and are laden and I wyll case you Loo I come vnto the laden with synnes / laboryng day and nyght in the sorow of myne harte refresh and ease me lorde that thou mayste be iustefied and proued true in thy wordes / and mayste ouercome when thou art iudged / for there are manye that saye he shall haue no so coure of his god God hath forsaken hym Ouercome lorde these parsones when thou arte thus iudged of them forsake me not at any tyme. Gyue me thy mercye and holesome socoure / and then are they vaynqueshed ¶ They saye / that thou wylt haue no mercye on me / that thou wylte cast me clene out of thy fanoure no more receyue me thus art thou iudged of men / and thus do men speake of the / and these are theyr determynacyons / but thou whiche arte meke merciful haue mercy on me and ouercome theyr iudgemētes / shewe thy mercy on me and let thy godlye pytye be praysed in me Make me a vessell of thy mercye / that thou mayste be iustefied in thy wordes haue the vyctorye when men do iudge the / for men do iudge the to be firce and inflexible Ouercome theyr iudgemēt with mekenes beneuolence / so that men may lerne to haue compassion on synners / and that malefatours may be enflamed vnto repentaunce seynge in me / thy pytye and mercye To I was fasshoned ī wyckednes my mother cōceyued me poluted with synne ¶ Beholde not lorde the greuousnes of my synnes / cōsidre not the multitude / but loke mercifully on me whiche am thy creature Remēbre that I am dust / that al fleshe is as wytherd hay / for lo I am fasshoned in wickednes in sinne hath my mother cōceiued me My naturall mother I say hath conceiued me of cōcupiscēce / in hit am I volluted with originall synne What is originall synne / but the lacke of originall iustice of the ryght pure innocēcy which mā had at his creacyon therfore a man cōceiued borne in suche synne is hole croked out of frame The fleshe coueteth against the spirit Reason is slender / the wyl is weake / man is fraile like vanitie / his sences deceiue him his ymagynacyon fayleth hym his ignoraunce leadeth him out of the ryght way / he hath infinite īpedimentꝭ which plucke hym frome goodnes and dryue hym in to euyll Therfore oryginall synne is the rote of all synnes the nurse of all wickednesse for all be it the in euery man of sheyr owue nature it is but one synne yet in powet it is all synnes Thou seiste therfore Lorde what I am and of whence I am for in orgynall synne which conteyneth al synnes and iniquites in it am I fashoned / and in it hath my mother cōceaued me syth then I am hole in synnes and enuyroned with snares on euery side howe shall I escape for what I wolde that do I not / but the euyll that I wolde not that do I. For I finde a nother lawe in my membres rebellynge agayneste the lawe of my mynde / and subduynge me vnto the lawe of synne and deth Therfore the more frayle and entang led thy godly beneuolêce seeth me so much the more let it lyft vp and confort me who wolde not pytye one the is syke who wolde not haue compassion on hym that is dysea sed Come come swete Samaritane take vp the wounded and halfe deade / cure my woundes / poure in wyne and oyle set me vpon thy beest bringe me into the houry / cōmytte me vnto the hoste take out two pence saye vnto hym what so euer thou spendest aboue this when I come agayne I wyll recōpence ye. To thou hast loued truth / the vnknowne secrete tgyngs of thy wysdome haste thou vttered vnto me ¶ Come most swete Samaritane / for beholde thou haste loued truthe / the truthe I saye of thy promyses whiche thou hast made vnto mankynde / theym haste thou truly loued for thou haste made and kepte them / so that thy loue is nothynge els but euen to do good for in thy selfe thou art inuartable immutable / thou vseste not now to loue anon not to loue as mē do neyther doth thy loue