The Psalter of David in english/ purely and faithfully translated after the text of Felyne: every Psalm having his argument before/ declaring briefly th'intent & substance of the hole Psalm. To the reder. BE glad in the lord (dear brethren) & give him thanks/ which now at the last/ of his merciable goodness hath sent you his Psalter in english/ faithfully & purely translated: which ye may nat measure & judge after the comen text. Fo● the troth of the Psalms must b● fetched more nigh the Hebrew veri●te/ in the which tongue David with the other singers of the Psalms firs● song them. Let the ghostly learned i● the holy tongue be judges. It is the spiritual man (saith Paul) which hath the spirit of god that must decern and judge all things. And the men quietly sitting (if the truth be showed them) must judge and stand up & speak (the first interpreter holding his peace) god give you true spiritual and quiet sitting judges. Amen. Beatus vir. Psal. i ¶ The argument of the first psalm. ¶ They that forsake their counseyls/ the ways/ the learning/ and conversation of the ungodly: giving themself holy to the knowledge of gods ●awe/ & to live thereafter/ are blessed: the other are wicked & ungodly. The blessed are likened to a moist fruitful tree fast planted by the wa● side: the ungodly/ to dri barren dust scattered with the wind BEatus vir. Blessed is that man/ which walketh nat in the counsel of the ungodly/ & standeth nat in the way of sinners/ & sitteth nat in the seat of the pestilent scorners. But hath all his pleasure in the law of the lord/ & upon it his mind is occupied both day & night Sith a man shall be like a tree planted by the river ●yde: which will give forth her fruits in due time/ and her leaves shall nat whither/ for what so ever he shall do/ shall prosper. But so shall nat the ungodly: for they shall be like dust which is dispersed with the wind. Wherefore these ungodly shall nat stand in the judgement/ neither these sinners may abide in the company of the rightwise. For the lord approveth the way of the rightwise: but the way of sinners shall perish. The argument into the ii psal. ¶ This psal. showeth who were against god & his son Christ/ their vain study/ how god above scorneth their enforcements/ how that Christ's kingdom standeth & increaseth whiles they perish/ and that the way of health is to trust and to cleave to Christ our king. QUare fremuerunt gentes. Wherefore do the gentiles thus swell & cluster together? Wherefore do the people of the jews thus gnaste in vain? Wherefore conspire the kings of th'earth/ & the chief priests thus cast their hedes together against the lord & his anointed. Saying/ let us break their bonds/ & let us cast of their yokes. But he that hath his residens in heaven derideth them/ the lord scorneth them▪ Than shall he thrust them down in his wrath/ & in his indignation shall he all to trouble them. I have constitute & ordained my king/ to be over Zion my holy hill. I shall show forth the lords commandment/ for he said unto me/ thou art my son whom I have now openly declared. Ask of me/ & I shall give the that nations into thy heritage/ to be thine own possession thorough out all the world. Thou shalt smite them together with an iron sceptre/ & shalt br●ke them like earthen vessels. Now therefore ye kings be wise & understand/ ye rulers of the earth be content to be monished & learned. Serve ye the lord busily/ study to give him his honour joyfully with reverence. Kiss ye the son/ lest (he being wrath) your life perish/ for his anger shall be shortly kindled. And than blessed are all men that trust in him. The argument in to the iii Psalm. ¶ David marveleth & complaineth to the lord of the multitude & boldness of his enemies & committeth him self with great trust to the lord which will shortly smite them down/ for no man else may save/ & no man is partaker of health but he trust in him. The title of the ps. The song or ditty of David fleeing from his son Absalon. Thistori is written in the ii book of kings from the xv. cha. to the xx. DOmine quid. Lord/ see what a sort there are that trouble me: full many there are that rise against me. Many there are that think thus upon my soul/ surely there is no health to be looked for from god/ unto this man. Selah. But thou lord/ thou art my help & my glory/ thou liftest up my heed. The lord I called upon with my prayer/ & he answered me even from his holy hill. Selah. I shall lie down & sleep/ I myself shall upwake me for the lord sustaineth me. I shall fere/ ye thousands folk/ although they besige me round about. A rise lord/ save me any god/ thou shalt give all my enemies such a clap on their chekꝭ/ that anon the teeths of these ungodly shall be broken. It is the lords property to save/ and thy people it be hoveth to be holpen and endued with thy ●enefytes. Selah. ¶ This word Selah/ signifieth the sentence before to be pondered with a deep effect/ long to be rested upon/ & the voice there to be exalted. The argument into the four psalm. ¶ David showeth the goodness of god and his help brought to him/ whiles his son Absalon conjured against him/ he reproveth the madness of the nobles of israhel conspiring against him: & calleth them to repentance/ after this he rejoiceth of the great plentuousnesse/ pease/ & sureness/ restored thorough the goodness of god unto him. The title of the psalm. n1g-nn's song upon an instrument played for his victory. CUm invocarem. When I called upon thee/ thou answeredest me/ which art the god of my rightwiseness. When I was in astrayte/ thou didst set me at large/ have mercy upon me/ and hear my deep desire. O men/ how long intend ye to turn my glory into shame/ how long will ye love vain things & seek lies? Selah I would ye knew it/ that the lord hath set apart & choose unto him his saint/ the lord shall here when I call upon him. All though ye be moved/ yet see ye sin nat/ ponder all things in your mind as ye lie in bed/ that ye might so set your hearts at rest. Selah. Make your sacri●fice with rightwiseness/ & put your trust 〈◊〉 the lord. Many think saying/ se who shall show us our desire/ lord let thy shy●nyng face illumine us. Thou hast poured my heart full of gladness/ wheat & wy●e have been increased unto them in tyme. Now therefore (they restored to peace's I shall lie down & sleep/ for thou (lord) hast so ordered me that I may live free & safe ¶ The argument into the .v. psal. ¶ This psalm. is a prayer of a man oppressed of wicked enemies/ whom when he knoweth to be hated of god/ he taketh heart unto him again trusting that all peril passed he shall thank god his saviour in the congregation of his saints/ wherefore he prayeth god so to lead him/ that he be nat trapped with their snares/ & also to cast them down & to make glad the faithful. The title of the psal. n1g-nn's song played upon an instrument for his victory into the comfort of his people. UErba mea auribus. listen unto my wordis (lord) & consider my loud complaint. give ear unto my crying/ my governor/ & my god/ for before thee/ do I pour forth my prayer. Lord/ thou shalt hear me in the morning/ in the morning shall I make my prayer & look up unto the. For thou art nat the god which may delight in the ungodly/ the wicked men shalt have no place with the. Sinners shall nat abide in thy presence/ thou hatest who so ever are given to wickedness. Thou shalt destroy these troublers with their lies bloodshedders/ and men given to deceit (lord) thou shalt abhor. But I under thy plenteous favour/ shall go to thy house/ & shall worship the with reverent fear in thy holy temple. lead me forth of danger for thy rightwiseness sake/ & from the danger of my adversaries/ & let thy way be defensed for me. For the truth is nat in their mouths/ in their hearts they nourish deceit/ their throat is an open grave/ and with their tongue they flatter. give them into their sin/ o god/ let them fall in their own counsels/ caste them down headlong for the multitude of their sins/ for against the they are rebel. But they mought rejoice who so ever trust in thee/ they mought pray perpetually also/ & thou defend them that they which seek the glory of thy name/ mought be glad of the. For thou lord shalt be favourable & gracious to the rightwise/ thou shalt compass him round about with thy goodness/ like as with a shield. The argument into the vi Psal. ¶ This Psal. containeth a fervent desire/ and prayer of a man grievously de●ecte & wounded in his heart/ & sore fearing death/ but afterward rejoicing of health restored him. The title of the Psalm. The song of David for his victory played of the ten stringed instrument. DOmine ne. Ah lord/ rebuke me nat in thy wrath/ neither chasten me in thine anger. But deal favourably with me (oh lord) for full sore broken am I/ heal me lord for my bones are all to shaken My soul trembleth sore/ but lord how long. Turn thee (lord) & deliver my soul/ save me for thy mercies sake. For they verily that are in this deadly anguish can nat think upon thee/ in this helly pains/ who may praise the. I am weary with sighing/ I shall water my bed every night with my tears/ so that it shall swim in them. My face is wrincled & dried up with care & anger/ my enemies have made it full thin with trouble. Avoid from me ye workers of wickedness/ for the lord hath hard my complaints poured out with weeping. The lord hath hard my deep desire/ the lord hath received my petition. Al mine enemies shall be shamed & astoned/ they shallbe put to flight & confounded suddenly. The argument into the seven. Psal. ¶ In this psal. David desireth to be delivered from the troublous & perilous persecution of Saul: he remembreth his innocency/ he prayeth for the possession of his kingdom that the people might be gathered to god/ all cursed men's hastiness put away/ after this he declareth that this ungodly shall perish with their own sw●rde/ and so at last he concludeth in the praise of god. The title of the ps. The song of David played upon a certain musical instrument which he song to the lord as concerning the business to the which Cush the son of Iemi●● put him. Rede th'history in the two of the kings. the xvi cha This Ps. serveth to be said of a man falsely vexed & troubled. DOmine deus meus. Oh lord which art my god/ my trust is in thee/ save me from all that persecute me & deliver me. Lest this man ravish my life like a lion/ ●earyng my soul/ no man delivering me. Lord/ my god if I have committed this thing/ if I be about to do so wicked a thing. If I have nat done good for evil/ ye/ if I have nat done good to my enemies/ freely delivering them from periles. Let my enemy persecute my soul & take it/ let him cast down my life & bury my glory. Selah. Arise lord & show thyself/ repressing the wrath of my troublous adversaries with worthy vengeance/ make me at the last to enjoy the authority which y● hast given me. For so shall the congregation of thy people be gathered together before thee/ ye/ if there were none other cause/ yet at the lest for deliverance of thy poor congregation set forth thy power. Lord which art the judge of the people judge me after my rightwiseness & innocency which thou espied in me. Let the wickedness of the ungodly (I pray thee) be made once an end of/ & thou (o rightwise god) searcher of heart & reins/ give prosperous good luck to the rightwise. My defence is in god the saviour of them which are of pure & ꝑfet heart. God is a rightwise iuge / & he is the god whose vengeance is ready at all times. If this man will nat turn him from his evil/ but will whet his sword continually/ bend his bow & prepare it to shoot. He shall prepare deadly arrows for his own self/ & smite his own company. Lo/ he traveleth and groveth forth wickedness/ he hath conceived laborious affliction/ & at last bringeth forth lies. He digged a pit & hath made it hollow/ & he is fallen into the dyke which he made. The mischief which he intended me shall fall upon his own head/ & his violens which he ordained for me/ he shall bring upon his own crown. I shall magnify the lord after his own rightwiseness/ & I shall spread the name of the lord which is the most highest. The argument into the viii psal. ¶ This psal. is an high praise of god/ in the which David with great admiration magnified th'inestimable everlasting virtue & power of god/ maker of all things/ declaring him self everywhere gloriously: but especially shewing unto man his favour/ his beneficens: & liberal goodness. The title of the Psal. The song of David committed to the chanter/ to be played upon the harp. DOmine dns nt. Lord/ ye/ our lord how wonderful reverent is thy name in every land/ which haste life up thy high magnificence above the heavens. Ye/ & that of the mouthis of the little souklingꝭ hast thou stablished thy mighty praise against thy enemies/ to smite down adversary/ & him that will avenge himself. I shall therefore look up & wonder at thy heavens/ lo/ this are the works of thy fingers/ the moan & stars/ thou hast set them so goodly. And lo/ what thing is man mortal that thou thus remember'st him? what is the son of Adam that thou regardest him so greatly? Thou hast made him not much less & inferior than Angels/ with so great dignity & glory hast thou endued him. Thou hast made him lord of thy handy works/ thou hast cast all things under his feet. As flocks of sheep all herds of neat/ & also the wild bestis. Fowls of the air & fisshꝭ of the see/ & what soever swimmeth in the water. Lord/ ye our lord/ how wondreful reverent is thy name in all th'earth. The argument into the ix Ps. ¶ David in this psalm/ singeth his song of victory/ in the which he giveth thanks for his noble victory upon Goliath/ afterward he extolleth the rightwiseness of god which delivereth his children in time: at the last he concludeth with prayer desiring god to repress & to quench the ungodly. The title of the psalm. The song of David committed to the chanter of the qu●re to be song upon their musical instruments. COnfitebor tibi do. I shall magnify the lord with my heart/ I shall show forth all thy miracles. I shall rejoice & glory in thee/ I shall spread thy name/ oh most highest. For thou hast brought it so to pass/ that all my enemies are fled/ they are ded/ one falling upon another in their flight. For thou hast given sentence with me/ thou hast affirmed my cause/ thou sittest in judgement a rightwise judge. Thou hast sore blamed the heathen/ the ungodly is fallen down ded/ thou hast quenched their name for ever. O thou adversary/ hast thou destroyed for ever/ hast thou thrown down cities/ is their memorial with them ded/ as thou thoughtest to bring to pass. No verily/ for the lord reigneth yet still for ever/ his seat of judgement is made ready He shall judge the world of his rightwiseness/ & shall give sentence upon the people evenly. The lord shall be a refuge for the poor oppressed in time of affliction. In the shall they trust that know thy name/ for thou wilt nat forsake the sekers of the lord. Sing ye to the lord/ which dwelleth in Zion/ declare his noble faytꝭ among the people. For he maketh enquerance for murder/ & forgetteh not the bloodshedders/ he shall nat forget the crying of the poor afflict Have mercy upon me (lord) behold my affliction which I suffer of my haters/ life me up even from the very thresshold of death. That I might remember all thy praises within the gates of Sion/ I shall rejoice of the health which thou hast brought. The heathen are drowned in their own pit/ and their feet are tied in their own net which they bet so previly. Noble is the lord & full wide is his power/ in that the ungodly is thus trapped in his own snare/ for such is his praise. Selah. The ungodly shall slide down to hell & all heathen that forget god. But the poor forsaken shall nat be forgotten for ever/ neither the good hope of the aflicte shall always be vain. Arise lord let nat the mortal man prevail/ execute judgement upon the heathen. Lord smite them with fear/ learn the heathen to know their selves mortal. Selah The argument into the ten Psal. ¶ This psal. is a prayer against the perverse/ malicious/ & importune men oppressing & undoing the poor afflict with crafty violence/ in the which also their intolerable pride/ their ungodliness & both their craft to hurt and their study are all describe. QUare dne reces. Wherefore abidest thou so far (oh lord) wilt thou be hid from us in time of our affliction? whiles the ungodly is a loft he persecuteth the poor afflict/ let them be snared with their own crafty deceit which they study for. For what thing so ever liketh him that he praiseth/ he bendeth himself all to lucre/ he careth nat whither he speak well or evil of the lord. This ungodly man looketh a fit/ he regardeth nat that there is any god neither is he in his thoughts. What things he take in hand/ they prosper a long time to his mind/ thy punishment is lift up high from him/ he thinketh to cast down all his enemies with a blast of his mouth. He thinketh in his heart I shall nat fall/ I shall continued throw out the worlds without hurt. His words swim in perjury/ fraud/ & deceit/ what so ever his tongue saith/ it is injury & shrewdness. He lieth bend to catch decayed villages/ he killeth the innocent previly/ his eyes are fast upon the poor wretches. He layeth privy watches/ he lieth bend like a lion in his den to devour the poor afflict/ he destroyeth him whiles he draw him into his net. He maketh himself like a sick weak man/ but the poor afflyct fall away thorough his strength He thinketh in his heart/ god careth nat for these men/ he turneth his face from them/ & will never see them. Arise lord (oh god) life up thy hand/ despise nat thy poor afflict. For how long shall this ungodly blaspheme god? for he saith in his here that thou seest nat. But thou seest verily/ for thou beholdest injury & indignation/ & when it shall please thee/ thou wilt declare thyself in very deed. The poor afflict committeth himself to thee/ which art wont to be an helper to the young fatherless. All to break the strength of the ungodly & hurtful man/ follow upon him/ searching out his ungodliness & than shall he nowhere apere. The lord is king for ever/ & these heathen ungodly have perished & are fallen from his earth. The desires of the poor afflyct the lord hath heard/ thou shalt give them aquy●● mind/ & thy ear shallbe intent unto them. To deliver the young fatherless & poor oppressed so that this mortal monster be no more feared upon th'earth. The argument into the xi Psal. ¶ Here David challengeth these men which made him to avoid and to i'll from every part of the lordship of Israhel/ having no place to hide him He doth here also declare his trust in god/ & magnifieth his judgement against both good & evil. Rede the history in the first of the kings/ from the xxii▪ Cham unto the xxvii The title of the ps. For n1g-nn's victory was this Psal. song. IN domino confido. I have put my trust in the lord/ wherefore than by bid ye me i'll down from your hill like a bird▪ For lo/ the ungodly have bend their bow ● & have set their arrows therein/ to smite the perfit in heart espied in privy places. For there is no place sure to abide in/ but what (I pray you) have the rightwise deserved? The lord is resydent in his holy temple/ in heaven is his seat regal/ his eyes look forth/ he be holdeth to espy the sons of men. The lord examineth the rightwise/ but he hateth in his heart the vngodli/ & the man also that loveth violence & wrong. He will send fire upon the ungodly like rain/ burning lightnings/ brimston/ and hot whirlwindꝭ for such part shall they drink. For rightwise is the lord/ he loveth the rightwyseman & favoureth the maintainer of the right. The argument into the xii Psal. ¶ Here David complaineth of the comen fall in every place of rightwiseness and faith/ & that the ●rafty deceitful flatterers occupy all places: he prayeth the lord to have mercy of the poor afflict whom they vex/ & that he would help them according to his promise. SAluum me fac. Help lord/ for full few faithful are left among the children of men. It is but vanity what so ever ●ne speaketh to another/ they flatter falsely chewing one thing with their mouth/ & ●oueryng another in their heart. The lor●e shall cut these proud speaking tongues ●ute of these false glavering mouths. Which say thus of the things which we make/ we will challenge authority of our own tongues/ our mouthis are the authority/ who should be our lord to command us. For the destruction of my poor afflict/ & for the wailing of this nedeons now shall I rise (saith the lord) he shall say with himself/ I shall bring them into saving health. Now the speeches of the lord are purespeches they are like silver purified & tried to the uttermost in earthen caldrens'. Thou lord preserve these poor ones/ keep them from this wicked nation for ever. These ungodly hover about in every place/ & where such belly bestis are promoted/ there increase the wicked children of men. The argument into the xiii. Psal. ¶ Here David set in a jeoperdous strait/ called in his anguish to god for help: left his enemies rejoice of his fall/ & that he rather himself might rejoice of his received health/ & so magnify worthily god his saviour. USquequo. How long lord wilt thou tarry? wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou turn thy face fro me? How long shall I thus continue musing with myself/ filling my heart full of sorrow day by day? How long shall mine enemy be thus exalted over me? Behold & answer me lord/ my god/ keep me waking/ lest the slumber of death come upon me. Ye/ lest peradventure mine enemy may say I prevailed against him/ for if I fall my troublers will rejoice. But I trust in thy mercy/ my heart shallbe glad of thy help/ I shall give thanks to my lord for he hath rewarded me. The argument in to the xiiii. & liii Ps. ¶ Here David complaineth all to be full of ungodly & very damnable men: he describeth their natural disposition which there may no thing be more corrupt/ filthy &/ violent/ & than he showeth that vengeance abideth them: & health abideth the innocentes whom they tread under their feet. DIxit insipience. The foolish wicked men think in their hearts that god is nat. Shrewd & abominable things do they/ nowhere is there one that will do good The lord looked from heavens down upon the men/ to se if there were any that had any knowledge or regarded god. And said/ is every man & altogether swerved so far from the way/ perished & unprofitable/ that there is no man that will do good/ nat one? Are they so far besides 'emself all these workers of wickedness? See/ they devour my people as one should eat up breed/ they are holden with no fear of the lord. Wherefore they shall be feared with fear incomparable: for god hath shaken the bones of thy besegers. Thou shalt despise the because god hath repelled them/ for god is in the just & rightwise nation. They scorned them because they followed the counsel of the poor afflict and put all their trust in the lord. Oh/ would god that the saving health would once come to Israel from Zion/ that the lord would make an end of the captivity of his people/ that jacob might be glad and israhel might rejoice. The argument into the xu Psal. ¶ In this Psalm is describe of what living and with what manners the right citizens of heaven and membres of Christ's church must be adorned and endued. DOmine quis ha. Lord who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? Who shall sit in thy holy hill? Even he that liveth in single & pure innocency studieth to do rightwiseness and speaketh the truth even from his heart. He that backbiteth nat with his tongue/ & in nothing hurteth his neighbour/ neither suffereth him to be reviled or hurt unworthily. But abhorreth such slanderoous and naughty persons/ & such as worship the lord/ he setteth moche by. Ye/ & what soever he sweareth/ he will perform/ although it be to his great hurt & hindrance. And dareth nat his money for advantage/ neither receiveth gifts against any innocent. He that studieth to do these things/ shall abide always & never be moved. The argument into the xvi Psal. ¶ In this Psal. David desireth god's help: affirming that god hath no need of his goods: but that his goods ought to serve his poor neighbours which he call saints/ & they that bestow their goods of any other thing than profiteth these saints/ make Idols with them. COnserua me domine. Defend me (god) for I have trusted in thee: o my soul say thou unto the lord/ my goods profit the nothing at all. I shall therefore study with all my heart to help thy noble saints/ which yet live upon th'earth For they which bestow their goods of any other thing/ shall make them idols/ and followen fervently strange gods. I shall nat offer their bloody sacrifice/ no I will nat know ne remember the names of their idols. The lord is the portion of my heritage & my substance/ my lot is in thy hand. The lots fell to me happily in to pleasant places/ a goodly rich heritage chanced to me. I shall thank the lord which hath well counseled me: but yet my reins teach me these things by night. I set the lord evermore before mine eyes/ for whiles he is at my right hand/ I shall nat slide. Wherefore my heart shall joy and my tongue shall rejoice/ ye/ my body shall have sure rest. For thou wilt nat so forsake my soul/ that it should go and abide in the grave/ neither wilt thou there suffer thy saint to go into corruption. Thou shalt show me the path/ wherein I may go to life/ thy presence filleth men with all gladness/ All joy is ever out laid by thy right hand. The argument into the xvii Psal. ¶ This psalm is a fervent prayer of David to be delivered from the persecution of saul/ as he did in the vii psalm declaring his innocency desiring help: he describeth the proud behaviour & vain study of his pursuers: and at last he knowledgeth his felicity to stand in the knowledge of god. The prayer of David. EXaudi dne justiciam. Lord/ here my rightwise prayer/ & take up my petition/ give heed unto my prayer/ which I bid with pure mouth. Let thy judgement declare my innocency/ show thyself to have respect unto thy right. search my heart/ & look into it even in the night try me as metal with fire/ and yet shalt thou find that my thought differ nat fro my words. I endeavour myself to avoid men's ways/ according to thy wor●e/ and I kept them in the way that fled unto me. Make fast my steppis (I pray thee) in thy paths/ lest my feet slide. Upon that I call for thou art wont to hear me (o god) lay thine ear to me & hear me speak. Declare thy excellent mercy/ which art wont to save me/ trusting in the from the risers against thy right hand. Keep me even as the apple of thin eye/ & hide me as though I were under the shadow of thy wings. Hide me from the violent ungodly/ hide me from my enemies closing me in to take away my life. Which have their privy riches/ & speak proudly with their mouths. Now lay they a wait at our steppis/ their eyes have they fastened upon us to espy if they may at any time cast us to the ground. He lieth bend like a lion even flat down for his pray to be devoured/ he lurked like the young lion in his privy den. Arise lord & prevent him/ cast him down/ deliver my soul from the ungodly whom thou usest for the sword. deliver us from these mortal men which are thy hand wherewith thou smitest/ even the mortal men addict to this world. Which desire their part in this present life/ to have their beles filled with thy treasure/ and their children to have enough/ & also to leave to their nephews. But I armed with thy rightwiseness shall behold thy face and shallbe satisfied when I shall upwake arising in the beauteous similitude. The argument in to the xviii. ps. ¶ This psalm is a noble vyctoriouse song/ in the which David first declareth his fervent trust in god. Than he expresseth with how grievous evils he was oppressed: afterward he showeth the power of god/ and his will toward him and that by the description of a great tempest/ he showeth his deliverance/ his innocency/ god's judgements against all men/ his great victory of his enemies/ the marvelous increase of his kingdom/ his power for ever confirmed/ at last concluding the Psal. with a praise and prophecy of Christ. Rede th'history of David in the two first books of kings. The title. The song of David the servant of the lord which song this praise to the lord when now thorough the lord he having the victory escaped the hands of Saul and of all his enemies DIligam te. To thy mercy shall I cleave (lord) which art my strength/ The lord is my rock of stone/ my bulwark/ my deliverer/ my god/ my defender/ unto whose faithfulness I betake myself/ my child/ my saving power/ my refuge. I magnified and worshipped the lord/ & so was I saved fro my enemies Deadly anguish invaded me/ and the sudden risings like a rosing flood of these men of perdition assailed me. The straight helly ieopardes closed me in/ the snares of death hampered me. But while I was in this straight I called upon the lord I cried unto my god/ and he hard my voice in his kings hall/ my crying came up to his ears. For the earth was moved and trembled/ the feet of the hills staggered and were smitten all to powder/ for he was angry. Smoke ascended/ as ye would say/ into his nostrils/ & fire devouring all things flew out of his mouth/ & he spouted forth burning coals. He left the heavens & came down/ a dark cloud was under his feet. He rideth upon a swift foul & flieth/ born with the wings of the wind. He made him a privy closet/ pouring darkness round about his tabernacle/ congealing there unto black waters into thick clouds. But at his shining presence/ these dark cloudis vanished away again/ with hail stones/ and fiery thunder bolts. The lord thundered in the heavens the most highest sent forth his voice/ with hail stones and fiery thundreboltes. He cast forth his arrows & threw them down/ he sent forth much lightening/ & cast them into great fear Whiles thou thretenest & blamest (oh lord) blowing forth thy wind/ the hollow banks of the floods are seen under dry/ & the foundations of the world stand naked. He put down his hand from above and took me up/ he drew me out of moche waters. He delivered me from mighty enemies/ and from my haters for they prevailed against me. He prevented me being in jeopardy with his help/ the lord was my succour. He led me forth and set me at large/ he defended me because he favoured me. The lord gave me after my right dealing/ and rewarded me according unto the pureness of my hands. I observed verily the ways of the lord & fell nat ungodlely fro my god. For I had all his decrees before mine eyes/ & I did nat thrust away his law fro me. I behaved myself purely & perfectly toward him/ & took great heed lest I should commit any evil thing. And the lord hath rewarded my right dealing/ & the pureness of my handis which he approveth For thou art holy to the holy man/ & offerest thyself pure to the pure man. With the pure innocent thou dealest pure innocently/ & with the shrewd man thou playest the overthwart. Thou hast verily saved thy poor oppressed people/ & hast cast down men that look aloft. Thou (lord) hast lightened my candle/ my god hath put away my darkness with his light. Thorough the have I broken the hole ray of the battle/ thorough my god I overlept the walls. God is he whose deeds are pure and perfit/ the words of the lord are purified/ and tried like as with fire/ he is a buckler to all that trust in him. For who is god but the lord? who is a defender/ but our god? Even the same god which hath decked & endued me with a lordly power & hath furthered my way speedily. He hath made my feet as light as the feet of goats/ and hath made me to overrun placis were they never so high. He hath exercised and accustomed my hands with battle/ & hath made me to break bows of steel with my arms. Thou hast defended me with thy saving shield & buckler/ and thy right hand stayed me/ thy favourable gentleness made me to have the overhand of my enemies. Thou didst hedge in my way that I might go freely therein/ so that my heel's should nat slide. I followed upon my enemies & took them/ & never turned until I had slain them. I slew them/ for they might nat stand in my hands/ they were thrown down under my feet. Thou hast taught me to fight/ ye/ and that with a puissant power/ and as many as rose against me/ thou haste thrust them under me. Thou broughtest it so to pass/ that mine enemies were fain to turn their backs/ and I made them away that hated me. They cried/ but there was no man to keep them/ they cried to the lord/ but he answered them nat. I knocked them together as small as dust laid ready for the wind/ I trod them as small as dirt of the streets. Thou hast delivered me from this chiding/ & contentyouse people/ and haste made me ruler over the gentiles/ the folk of whom I had little knowledge served me. As soon as they heard of me/ they came together & did homage unto me/ the dying alients were made subjects & servants unto me. These aliauntes were made dry for fear/ and trembled whiles they were shut up in strong holds. And yet liveth the lord/ my defender mought be praised/ and god my saviour mought be exalted. Even god which hath given me power to avenge me of my enemies/ and hath subdued the people to me. Which hath delivered me from mine enemies/ he hath set me over them which rose against me/ and hath delivered me from the violent man. Wherefore I shall magnify thee (oh lord) with high praise among the nations/ and shall sing with thanks giving unto thy name. Which hath made great health for his king/ he hath dealt gently with his anointed David/ and also with his seed into everlasting. The argument into the xix psal. ¶ In this psalm David declareth the excellent virtue & power of god/ expressed in the marvelous creation of this present world above: and than he showeth the preciousness of god's law at the last he prayeth to be preserved from sin & that what soever he thinketh or speaketh might he pleasant and accept before god. CEli enarrant. The heavens declare the majesty of god/ and the firmament showeth what are his works. One day succeeding another/ whetteth continually our thoughts/ & one night following another/ increaseth our knowledge These creatures have nether speech nor words/ neither is their voices any where herd. And yet their pointing & showing hath taught all the world/ & their dumb speech hath gone forth into all the costis of the world. He hath fastened in them a tabernacle for the son/ this son cometh forth of his cloudis like a bridegrone ye like a fresh valiant knight to make his course. From the farthest east part of the heavens cometh he forth/ having his recourse unto the other extreme/ neither is there any man that may hide him from his heat. The law of the lord is perfit/ refreshing the soul/ the testimony of the lord is faithful/ ministering wisdom to the unleeved. The commandments of the lord are right/ making glad the heart. The things which god commandeth are plain & pure/ & lighten the eyes. The fear of the lord is pure and holy abiding for ever/ the pleasures of the lord are true & right in every part. More worthy to be desired than gold & precious stones/ sweeter than the honey comb when it dropeth. And thy servant is taught & monished by them/ that same observing of them is a great reward. Who may perceive and consider what thing is sin? purge me from secret evils. Also turn thou these great sins from thy servant/ lest they have domination over me/ & than shall I be pure and clear from every great sin. Let the speeches of my mouth & the thoughts of my heart be pleasant & accept unto the lord my defender and my redeemer. The argument in to the twenty Psal. ¶ This Psal is a prayer in the which the people prayeth for the health of David going to an hard & jeopardous battle: & it is a joyful thanking for his health & victory given him of god. The title of the Psal. The ditty of David committed to the chanter to be song. EXaudiat te dns. When thou art in any straight/ than the lord might here thee/ the name of the god of jacob might set the in safeguard. He might send the health from his holy place/ and from Zion might he strengthen the. He might remember all thy offringꝭ/ & thy brent sacrifices he might accept. Selah He might give the thy hearts desire/ and might stablish all thy intent. We shall rejoice in thy health: in the name of our god lift we up our banners with triumph/ when the lord hath given the thy desire And let every man say/ now do I know that the Lord hath preserved his anointed. He hath heard him from his secret heavenly place/ ye/ and that in the saving power of his right hand. Some trusted in their chariettes/ & some in their horse: but we called upon the mighty name of the lord which is our god. Now they are thrust down and all fallen: but we stand and are made fast. The lord preserved us/ he is our king and answereth us when we call upon him. The argument in to xxi Psal. ¶ This Psalm is a victorious song/ in the which the people rejoiceth with thanks for the victory & other benefits of god/ with the which he endued David so excellently. And they praise god thorough whose goodness he accepted all things thankfully. DOmine in virtute. Lord/ the king shall joy in thy power/ & shall rejoice greatly in thy help. Thou hast given him the desires of his heart/ and the prayers of his mouth thou hast nat turned away. Selah. Thou hast prevented him with all manner of benefits/ thou haste set a crown of precious stones upon his head. He asked life of thee/ & thou gavest it him/ ye/ and that a full long life. Thy help turned him to great glory/ thou hast endued him richly with noble fame & clearness. For thou hast set him in such estate/ that he may flow perpetually in all manner of goodness/ thy comfortable presence maketh him glad. For this king trusteth in the lord/ & he strengthened with the mercy of the most highest shall nat serve. Thy hand hath overtaken all thy enemies/ thy right hand hath holden as many as hated the. Thou hast brent them like a brenning furnace/ when thy indignation waxed hot. The lord swallowed them up in his wrath/ & fire consumed them. Their progeny perished from th'earth/ & their postirite were worn out among the men. For they had bend their mischief upon thee/ they began counseyls which they might nat bring to pass. Thou shalt set them before the for a mark/ that with thy bow thou mightest shoot them even in their faces. Be thou lift up lord in thine own power/ we shall sing with praise/ and magnify thy strength. The argument into the xxij Psal. ¶ Here David declareth himself plainly to be the very figure of Christ. wherefore first of all he singeth & expresseth his great deiectyon and down fall: & anon after his exaltation/ his increase & purchasing of his kingdom/ even to the uttermost part of the land/ & the continuance thereof unto the worlds end. The title of the Psal. It is the song of david committed to the over chanter to be song of the early heart or of the day star. DEus meus deus. My god/ my god lo/ wherefore forsakest thou me? how far is thy help from my out crying? My lord shall I thus cry and call upon the all day/ & yet wilt thou nat here? shall I cry all night and never cease? verily yet art thou that holy on which dwellest in israhel extolling the with praise. Our fathers trusted upon the they trusted upon the & thou deliverest them. They cried unto the & were delivered/ they trusted upon the and were nat shamed. But as for me I am but a worm and no man/ even the very approbry of the men/ and am abject from the vilest folk. All that see me made but a laughing stock on me/ they mocked me with their lips/ & wagged their heddis at me. Saying/ this villain referred all things to the lord/ let him now deliver him if he will/ for he loveth him well. But yet thou art he which leddest me out of my mother's womb mine own refuge/ even from my mother's tears. As soon as I came into this world/ I was laid in thy lap/ thou art my god even from my mother's womb. Go thou nat far fro me/ for my trouble draweth nigh/ neither is there any man that will help. There are beset me round about great sturdy steers/ ye/ that fat bulls of Bashan have hedged me in. Like a roringe lion panting and gaping for his pryan/ their mouths are open upon me naked before them. I sank away like water/ all my bones shaken out of joint my heart within m● melted away like wax. The moister of my body was dried up/ and I was like a po●sherde/ my tongue cleaved to the sides of my mouth/ thou 〈…〉 me to my grave. For even like dogs they came about me/ the chy●●he of noyous men hedged me in/ they digged thorough my hands & feet. A man might have told all my bones/ and they gazing upon me thus petylesse entreated/ took their pleasure. They parted my over clothes to themself/ & for my other cote they casted dice. But thou (oh lord) be nat far/ o my strength/ haste the to come & help me. deliver my life from the death stroke/ and my dear soul from the wodnesse of these dogs. Save me from the mouths of these lions/ and defend my poor simpleness from the horns of these unicorns. I shall spread thy name among my brethren/ in the mids of the congregation/ I shall praise the. I say/ ye that fear the lord/ se that ye praise him all ye of the seed of jacob glorify him/ and all ye of the progeny of israhel fear him. For he hath nat despised nor abhorred the troublous affliction of the poor/ in no manner of wise turneth he his face from him/ but when he cried unto him he heard him. I shall praise the in the great congregation/ I shall perform my vows before his worshippers. The meek men shall eat and be satisfied/ they that seek the lord shall praise him/ their heart shall live & joy for ever. The dwellers in th'extreme parts of th'earth shall remember themselves & be turned to the lord/ & all heathen nations shall fall down before the. For the kingdom is the lords/ & he is lord over all nations. All the rich men of th'earth shall eat & do him homage/ they shallbe bowed down before him & descend in to their graves/ for they may nat prolong any life to their souls. But their posterity shall serve him/ & shallbe numbered to the lord for ever And thus their childder's' children shall show the rightwiseness/ which he hath given to the people/ which is yet to be borne ❧ The argument in to the xxiii. ps. ¶ In this psalm David declareth and setteth forth the marvelous surety of the trust in god & also how blessed a thing it is. The song of Da. DOminus regit me. The lord is my pastore and feather/ wherefore I shall nat want. He made me to feed in a full plenteous battle ground/ and did drive & retch me at leisure by the sewte rivers. He restored my life & led me by the paths of rightwiseness/ for his name sake. Ye/ if I should go thorough the mids of death/ yet will I fear non evil/ for thou art with me/ thy staff & thy sheep hook comfort me. Thou shalt spread & garnish me a table/ ye/ & that in the sight of mine enemies thou shalt supple my head with ointment/ and my full cup shall laugh upon me. Ye/ and thy mercy and gentleness shall follow me all my life/ I shall sit in the house of the lord a long tyme. The argument into the xxiiij Psal. ¶ In this psal. David singeth all things to be the lords/ how wonderful he hath laid the foundation of the earth under the see/ & yet the earth appeareth above it: He asketh a question who shall enter into the kingdom of god/ and answereth thereto/ concluding all things be they never so stout & strong to be obedient to his word/ and to be opened at his pleasure which is the most valiant & glorious king. The title of the psalm. The song of David. DOmini est terra. The earth is the lords/ & all that is contained in it: the round world & all that inhabit it. For in the see hath he set his foundations/ and hath builded her above the floods. Who shall climb into the hill of the lord or who shall abide in his holy place? An innocent in his deeds/ and he that is pure in heart/ that hath nat extolled himself proudly into vanity/ neither hath sworn for any disobeyed. This man shallbe fed with the blessing of the lord/ & with the mercy of god his saviour. This is the nation given all unto him/ & seeketh him this is the very right jacob· Selah. Oh ye gates/ lift up yourselves/ ye gates ever lasting be ye opened/ & this glorious king shall in enter. Who is this king that is so glorious? it is the mighty valiant lord/ Noble in power/ a lord excellent in strength to wage battle. Oh ye gates life up yourself/ ye gates everlasting be ye opened/ & that glorious king shall in enter. Who is this king that is so glorious? it is the lord of hosts it is he that is this glorious king. Selah. The argument in to the xxv Psal. ¶ This Psalm is a prayer of an holy man oppressed with sin and with the hasty violence of his enemies/ wherefore he prayeth the lord to deliver him from his sins: to teach him his ways to deliver him from the fury of his enemies/ and that for his mercies sake/ thorough which he was wont to save such as trusted in him and nat to forsake sinners holden yet with any fear and trust which both he knowledgeth of himself: & at last he setteth to a little prayer for all the people of god. The title of the psal, The song of David. AD te dne levaui. Unto thee (oh lord) I lift up my mind: my god I trust in thee/ let me nat be shamed lest my enemies rejoice upon me. For they shall nat be shamed who so ever depend upon thee: but they shallbe shamed that wrongfully hurt innocentes. Show me thy ways lord/ & wont me to thy paths. lead me forth for thy faithful truths sake/ acquaint me with thee/ for thou art god my saviour of whom I depend perpetually. Lord remember thy mercy & thy gracious favour/ for in these things thou excellest even from the beginning. But the sins of my youth with my ungodliness also/ remember thou nat/ remember me according to thy goodness and for thy mercies sake (oh lord). Good and rightwise is the lord/ wherefore he will instruct & te●he sinners the way. He will make the low lions to go in rightly & in due order: & will teach meek men his way. All the paths of the lord are mercy and faithfulness/ to those men which keep touch and covenant with him. For thy name's sake (oh Lord) forgive me my wickedness/ for it is very much. Who soever that man be that feareth the lord/ he shall tech him the choose right way. His mind shall enjoy good things/ and his posterity shall possess the land as right heritage. The lord is a secret sure thing to them that fear him/ & them shall he make to know his convenant and promise. My eyes shallbe ever open upon the lord/ for he will draw my feet out of the net. Behold me & have mercy upon me/ for I am alone forsaken/ full of affliction. The sorrowful syghꝭ of my heart increase more & more/ lead me out of mine anguish. Behold my poor state & my heaviness/ forgive me all my sins. Consider my enemies/ for they are full many ● & with furious hatred they pursue me. Keep my soul & deliver me lest I be shamed/ for I have put my trust in the. Defend me that I may live rightly hurting no man/ for of the do I depend. Redeem and lose israhel (oh god) from all his adversities. The argument into the xxvi Psal. ¶ Here david declareth in to the example of good men/ how earnestly (god approving it) he was given to innocency fleeing the company of evil men/ giving great study to godliness: afterward he declareth what vengeance abideth the ungodly: whiles he himself lived faithfully and how that he desired nothing more than the glory of god to be spread abroad and known. judica me domine. Be judge for me (Lord) for I am purposed to live innocently/ and whiles I trust in the lord I shall nat waver. Prove me (lord) & search me/ try my reins/ & my heart/ like as metal with fire. For thy mercy is ever before mine eyes/ I lead my life in thy faithfulness. I have nat delighted in the company of vain men/ neither have I associated myself with these hollow & subtle men. I hate the church of hurtful & noyous men/ neither have I conspired with the ungodly. I shall endeavour my hands to be pure/ void all disobeyed/ and thy altar (oh lord) shall I go about. To sing thy praise and to show forth what soever wonderful deed thou hast done. Lord/ dear-beloved is thy house unto me/ & the fear of thy beautiful tabernacle also. Take nat away my soul with the ungodly/ neither yet my life with these bloody men. In whose handis deceit is turned & canvased/ and their right hand is full of bribes. But I live harmless and innocently/ redeem me & have mercy upon me. My feet is fastened in a place well worthy for me/ in the congregations I shall magnify and praise the lord. The argument into the xxvij Psal. ¶ David song this psalm being in some great peril/ in the which he remembering the promise of god/ did animate himself strongly against so present & stormy tempests: promising himself victory upon his enemies & quyet● life in heavenly meditations/ he maketh his vow to give thanks: & thus he confirmed with fas●e hope/ desireth the help of god/ praying to teach him his way: and again he exciteth himself to trust strongly in god. The title. n1g-nn's song. DOminus illuminatio. The lord is my light and my saving health/ of whom than shall I be afraid? The lord is the strong defence of my life/ of whom than shall I be afraid? When the noinous and harmful men which were my adversaries/ fall upon me to devour my flesh: than shall they smite themself against the rock & fall. Ye/ & if they pitch field and bend their ordinance against me/ yet shall nat my heart fear. If battle be bent against me/ yet shall I trust to the promise of god. One petition asked I of the lord which I will follow upon that is/ I might sit in the house of the lord all days of my life. Where I might behold the beautiful regalty of the lord and visit his holy temple. For he hath hid me/ as though I were in his tabernacle in time of persecution/ he shall hide me in the privy place of his tent/ & shall lift me up into a rock. He shall give me the over hand of mine enemies which have compassed me in/ & I shall offer joyful sacrifices/ I shall sing & play the psalms before the lord. Lord here my voice/ I call upon thee/ have mercy upon me & answer me. My heart thought upon thee/ I sought to see thee/ it is the lord that I seek. Turn nat thy face from me/ suffer nat thy servant to styde in thy wrath/ hitherto hast thou been my helper cast me nat now away/ neither forsake me/ o god my saviour. For where my father & my mother failed me/ there the lord gathered me to him. Lord teach me thy way/ & lead me forth in the right path from them that lay await for me. Let them not take their pleasure upon me which are my troublous enemies/ lying witnesses stood together stiff against me. Whose violence had grievously oppressed me/ had I nat believed to enjoy those things which are good among the living men. Depend & wait thou upon the lord/ be thou strong/ it is he that shall strengthen thy heart/ depend upon the Lord. The argument in to the xxviij. Psal. ¶ Here david expresseth his prayer/ whereby he being in some great peril: as peradventure in the coniura●yon of Absalon/ first desireth the help of god: Furthermore he prayeth that he himself being innocent/ might nat be joined with the harmful in vengeance taking: than desireth he/ that worthy judgement might fall upon these ungodly. After this he remembreth a▪ certain Hymn/ wherein he giveth god thanks for his victory and helthe/ and last of all/ he biddeth a prayer for the people. AD te domine clamabo. Upon the lord do I call/ which art my strong defence despise me not/ neither forsake thou me unless I be like men let down in to their graves. Here my prayer/ whiles I cry unto the and lift up my hands unto thy holy temple. Pluck me nat into vengeance with the ungodly/ with those which study for shrewdness/ speaking peaceable with their neighbours whiles they norissh evil in their hearts. give them as they deserve and after their malicious study/ give them after their deeds/ acquit them their deserving. For they regarded nat the works & deeds of the lord/ he shall therefore destroy them/ and nat edify them. Praised be the lord/ for he hath hard the deep desires of my mind. The lord is my strength he is my buckler in him trusted my heart & I was helped/ wherefore my heart rejoiceth and I shall magnify him in my song. The lord is their strength and a saving power to ꝑserue his anointed. Save thy people/ do good to thy heritage/ fede and govern them/ and life them up for evermore. The argument in to the xxix psalm. ¶ This is a praise in the which David magnifieth god for his power & virtue which he declareth by thunder & other heavenly tempests. Also he rejoiceth of his benifycence showed upon his people of israhel. AFferte dno. Give unto the lord ye that excel in mighty power/ give ye unto the lord honour and the praise of his power. give the lord worship worthy his name/ honour the lord in his holy kings hall. The voice of the lord is in the watery clouds/ God/ whose majesty is to be feared with reverence thundereth/ the lord is declared upon great waters. The voice of the lord is passing strong/ the voice of the lord is full of majesty. The voice of the lord smyteh together cedar trees/ the lord breaketh together the ceders of Libany. He maketh the mountains of Libany & Hierion to leap together like calves/ they run together like the calves of unicorns. The voice of the lord casteth & cutteth forth fiery lyghteninges. The voice of the lord maketh the desert to quake/ the lord made even the desert of Kades to tremble. The voice of the lord maketh hearts & does to groan & to bray/ & uncovereth the thick woods/ which all maketh for his praise to be said in his temple The lord ruleth over the universal flood/ the lord there keepeth resydens'/ a king everlasting. The lord ministereth strength to his people/ the lord is beneficial to his people/ giving them prosperous peace. The argument in to xxx Psal. ¶ In this psalm david giveth thanks for his health restored/ whereupon he declareth with a deep afflict the goodness of god which sendeth adversity to his chosen for a good end/ which is but an hour in respect to the joys everlasting here he maketh protestation that he desireth nat long life but only to maintain and to increase though things which make for god's glory/ and the health of his saints. The title of the Psal. A song or a ditty song and played in the dedication of David's house. EXaltabo te domine. I shall exalt thee (lord) for thou hast axalted me/ and hast nat made my enemies to rejoice upon me. Oh lord my god/ I have called upon thee/ and thou hast healed me. Lord/ thou haste led my soul forth of my grave/ thou hast restored my life lest I should have gone down into the pit Ye saints of the lord sing unto him a praise/ and se that ye spread his holy memorial. For it is but a moment that his wrath endureth/ but long is the life that cometh of his benevolence. Weeping and wailing cometh in at the even tide but anon after/ gladness ariseth with the morning. When all things were prosperous about me/ I thought with myself that I should never slide. Lord of thy good will/ thou stablysshedest my kingdom like an hill/ for as soon as thou hadst turned away thy face/ I was astoned and troubled. The lord called I upon/ to the lord did I make my prayer. I said with myself/ what profiteth my life if I be put now in to my grave? shall the dust of my carcase magnify y●/ or yet declare thy faithfulness. Here lord and have mercy upon me: lord/ be thou my help. Thou haste turned my mourning in to joy/ thou hast shaken me out of my mourning sack/ & clothed me with gladness. Wherefore my tongue shall sing thy praise/ and shall nat cease (lord my god) I shall magnify the with praise into everlasting. The argument in to the xxxi Psal. ¶ In this Psalm David showeth by what things he stablished his hope/ what he desired/ of what things he complained/ and in what state he was/ and mind when he was compassed in of Saules host in the desert of Maon/ when he for anguish of mind he sought flyghtes/ but all in vain. After this he moveth us to consider the marvelous goodness of god against every man that feared him/ and exhorteth to seek the knowledge of god which may nat forsake any that depend upon him. IN te domine sperau●. In the (Oh lord) hau● I trusted/ let me never be shamed/ for thy rightwiseness sake deliver me. Bow down thine ear unto 〈◊〉 speed y● to deliver me/ be thou my stony rock where upon I might sit fast/ be thou my strong defenced castle wherein thou mayst preserve me. For thou art my rock & my bulwark/ wherefore lead thou me forth for thy name's sake/ and take the charge of me. lead me forth of the net●e which they have set so privily for me/ for thou art my strength. I betake my spirit into thy hands/ for thou shalt redeem me (lord my god) which keepest true promise at all times I hated these vain witches observing enchantments/ for I cleaved and trusted to the lord. I shall joy and rejoice upon thy mercy/ for thou hast looked upon my affliction/ and hast known my soul being in anguish. Neither hast thou shut me up in the hands of my enemies/ but hast set my feet at large. Have mercy upon me/ for anguish and tribulation are come upon me/ my face/ soul/ & body/ are wasted away for anger. My life is broken sore with sickness and my years with sorrowful sighs/ my strength is wasted for sorrow of mind/ beholding things amiss/ & my bones were consumed I was reviled of all my adversaries/ and chiefly of mine own neighbours/ mine own famyliare acquaintance/ abhorred and feared me/ and they that see me anon renew forth at doors fro me. I fell from their hearts/ clean forgotten as one that had been ded/ I was as a thing all for lost. For I heard great offences put upon me/ ye/ and that of many men/ fere closed me about when they took their counsel together against me/ for they counseled craftily to take away my life. But I trusted in thee (O lord) I said that thou art my god. The time of my age is in thy hand/ deliver me from the hand of mine enemies/ even from them which persecute me. Let thy presens' shine upon thy servant/ save me for thy mercies sake. Lord suffer me nat to be shamed for I have called upon thee/ let the ungodly be shamed and be numbered with them that cease in their graves. Let their lying mouths be made dumb/ which speak proud things arrogantly with despite against the rightwysman. Oh/ how bounteous are tho good things which thou hast laid up in store for thy worshippers? ye/ the which thou hast done all ready to them which/ commit themselves to thy faithful promise/ ye/ and that before all mortal men. Thou keepest them from the stumbling stocks of these proud men/ and hidest them privily before thee/ thou hidest them in thy tabernacle from their slanderous tongis Praised be the lord/ for he hath wrought his excellent mercy marvelously with me ye/ and that in a city well defenced. I when I fled so hastily thought saying/ I am cast out of thy sight/ but yet for all this thou heardest my desire when I tried unto the. Love ye the lord as many as are his saints/ the lord defendeth and keepeth his faithful/ and rewardeth these proud doers plenteously. Be ye strong and he shall stablish your hearts/ as many as depend and trust upon the lord. The argument into the xxxij Psal. ¶ In this Psalm David declareth all punishment to come for sin. wherefore he affirmeth that man to be happy whose sins are forgiven also that the defence of god cometh thorough pure confessing of our sins unto him and instant prayer/ than teacheth he how men should know the judgements of god which dealeth punishment to the ungodly and good things to the good men/ whereof the good men may greatly rejoice in god. The title of the Psal. An instruction or a lesson of David. BEati quorum. Blessed is he whose ungodliness is forgiven/ & whose sins are covered. Blessed is that man to whom the lord reckoneth nat his sin/ neither is there in his spirit any dissembling deceit. Whiles now I held my pease daily musing with myself/ and other whiles cried out/ my bones wasted for sorrow. For day & night thy hand pressed me down/ my moister was dried up/ like as one toasted in the mids of summer. Selah. I shall knowledge my sin and shall nat hide my wickedness. I thought saying with myself I shall confess my ungodliness which is against me to the lord/ and thou even strait forgavest me my wickedness which openeth herself by my outward sin. Selah. For the which/ even every saint shall pray unto the in time of beseeching/ and than if affliction come upon him like a great swelling flood/ yet shall it nat touch him. Thou art my defender from tribulation/ thou shalt keep me/ and shalt make me glad exceedingly for my deliverance. Selah. I shall instruct thee/ and teach thee/ the way wherein thou mayst go/ I shall counsel thee/ and see for the right well. See that ye be nat as horse or mule which are unreasonable/ whose chaws must be refrained with bit & bridle/ lest they strive against the. Many sorrows fall upon the ungodly/ but him that trusteth in the lord/ mercy closeth round about. Be glad therefore in the lord/ and rejoice ye rightwise/ make ye merry all faithful and upright in heart. The argument in to the xxxiij Psal. ¶ This is a very praise/ worthy moche to be noted and red/ in the which first he exhorteth us to magnify god: than he showeth all things to be replenished with his goodness/ making mention of his marvelous creation & governance of this world. And at last he singeth one god to have made & to give all things/ and to be ever merciful present with his beloved. EXultate justi. Be glad ye rightwise for the lords sake/ for praise becometh just men. magnify ye the lord in praise with harp and lute/ sing ye unto him with ten stringed instruments. Sing ye unto him a new ditty/ tune it sweetly with joyful melody. What soever the lord hath institute/ it is right/ all his deeds proceed of faithfulness. He loveth to do all things rightwisely and in due order/ th'earth swimmeth in the mercy of the lord. By the commandment of the lord/ heavens were made/ and all their ornourment at his bidding. He gathered together & included the waters of the see/ as ye would say/ into a bottle/ & laid up their depnesses like treasure. Let all regions therefore fear the lord/ let all the inhabit the round world dread him. For it is he/ which so soon as he had spoke the word/ all things were present/ every thing standeth perfit/ even as he commanded. The lord scattereth the counseyls of the heathen/ & maketh vain the thoughts of the people. But the counsel of the lord standeth for ever/ the thoughts of his heart endure thorough all worlds. Happy is that nation which hath the lord for their god/ even the people whom he chooseth to himself in the place of his possessed heritage. From heavens the lord looketh down/ & beholdeth narrowly all men. From his sure seat/ beholdeth he all the inhabitors of the earth. He made also the hertis of all men/ he understandeth what soever they have done. A king is nat saved because he hath a great host/ neither the valiant captain escapeth perils thorough his own puissant power. That horse shall deceive thee/ by whom thou lookest to be saved/ he shall nat deliver that be he never so strong. But behold it is the lords eye that is upon them which fear him/ & depend upon his mercy. That he might deliver their souls from death/ & nourish them in time of hunger. Our souls might trust in the lord/ he is our help/ & in stead of a buckler. In him shall our heart joy/ for we trust in his holy name. Thy mercy lighten upon us/ oh lord/ even as we depend & trust upon the. The argument into the xxxiiii Psal. ¶ In this psalm david was moved of that same singular benefit/ by the which god marvelously preserved him when he was known of Aches king of Palestine (whose kings were called always Abimelec) where he was in jeopardy of his life: praiseth exceedingly the cure and goodness of god against his beloved. Exhorting every man to the diligent study of innocency and gods worship/ with the which who so ever are endued/ they must needs be delivered from all trouble/ and bond in all manner of goodness. The title of the psalm. The song of David after he had feigned himself mad before Abimelec/ there changing his mouth & his wit whom when he had put out of his house/ he went his way. Rede the history in the first of the kings the xxi Chapter. BEnedicam dnm. I shall praise and magnify the lord at all times/ his praise shallbe in my mouth continually. In the Lord my soul shall glory/ the meek spirited shall here and be glad. magnify ye the Lord with me/ and let us extol his name all together. Busily sought I the lord/ & he answered me/ he delivered me from all things that I feared. Men shall look unto him/ & shall make hast/ & their faces shall nat be shamed. This poor afflict person/ assoon as he called upon him/ the lord heard/ and he preserved him from all straight anguyssh. Even the angels pitch tent round about them that fear the lord/ & deliver them. Taste/ & behold how good is the lord/ happy is that man that trusteth in him. worship ye the lord which are his saints/ for his worshippers shall never want. Strong lions shall faint & famisshe for hunger/ when no good thing shall fail the diligent sekers of the lord. Have done children & hear me/ for I shall instruct you unto god's worship. Who soever thou art which desirest to live/ & lovest long life: to delight in goodness. Keep thy tongue from evil report and thy mouth from deceitful speech. See thou do no man wrong/ but bend thyself to goodness/ seek studiously and follow upon peace. The eyes of the lord are fastened upon the rigktwyse/ his ears listen unto their crying. But the grim countenance of the lord is set upon these that do wrong/ even to cut out their memorial from th'earth. But those men cry & the lord heareth/ & he delivereth them out of every straint. Full nigh is the lord men broken in heart/ he saveth the contrite in spirit. Although full many evils fall upon the rightwise/ yet the lord delivereth them from them all. He keepeth all their bones so that nat one of them be broken. But every trouble shall make an end of the ungodly/ & the haters of the rightwise shallbe shaken away. The lord shall lose & redeem the life of his servants/ neither shall they be destroyed whosoever commit their selves to his faithful cure. The argument in to the xxxv Psal. ¶ In this psalm David standing fast in his innocency/ looking surely for vengeance to be taken upon Saul & his flatterers/ abiding for gods help/ desireth the punishment of Saul with his flatterers/ and health for himself: but these two things desireth he not: but for the good will of god for his glory and praise. judica dne nocen. Lord set against my adversaries/ smite down them that fight against me. Take anon unto thee/ shield & buckler/ and rise up speedily to help me. Set out thy spear/ & come forth to meet my pursuers/ close them in & say thou unto my foul/ I am thy health Let them be confounded with shame and ignominy/ that seek my soul/ let them be constrained to turn their backs/ let them bear opprobry that think me any evil. Let them be like dust before the wind/ & the angels of the lord shaking them to nought. Let their ways be beset with derknesses & slybery/ and thangel of the lord pursuing them. For they have prepared their pitfall and their net for me without cause/ without cause also have they reviled and slandered my soul. Let his injust vexation fall upon his own neck unwares/ let him be hampered in his own net which he hath hid/ let him fall into his own mischief. But my soul might joy in the lord/ & be glad of his help. All my inward parts shall say/ lord/ who is like thee? which deliverest the weak afflict from his stronger/ and the silly vexed from the thief. There arose violent witnesses/ & asked me things which I never thought. They aequyted me evil for good/ leaving my soul all alone without any help. I myself (whiles they were blame worthy) clothed me with sack) & scourged my soul with fasting/ and gave myself hole to prayer for them. I behaved myself to them/ as though every one of them had been my neighbour & mine own brother/ I went bent unto the ground mourning all in black/ as one that had buried his mother. But they (whiles I thus feebled myself) rejoiced/ & were gathered together/ there came with them the most vilest abjects to scorn me/ whom I looked nothing/ for they rent my fame/ & ceased nat. Flattering parasites all thing deriding/ gnasted upon me with their teeths. Lord how long wilt thou see me thus entreated? restore my soul/ from these perilous & seditious men/ deliver my life from these lions. I shall magnify the with praise in the great congregation/ among the mighty people shall I praise the. Let nat my false enemies rejoice upon me/ let nat my haters wink of each other in to my deceit without any cause. For they speak nothing peaceably/ and against the meek spirited of th'earth they paint their coloured deceits. They writhed their mouths against me/ saying/ fie/ fie upon him/ our eyes have seen the thing for which we longed. Ye/ thou hast seen (lord) cease thou/ lord/ no longer/ be nat far absent. Arise/ awake/ for my defence in judgement/ to affirm my cause/ my god and my lord. give sentence with me for thy rightwiseness sake/ lord/ my god/ lest they rejoice upon me. Let them nat say among their selves fie upon him/ we have our pleasure/ let them nat say we have devoured & convict him. Let them be shamed & also confounded together/ that thus rejoice upon my trouble/ let them be clothed with shame & ignominy that thus swell against me. Let them be glad & rejoice the favour my rightwiseness/ & make them to say/ the lord might ever be magnified/ whom it hath thus pleased to set his servant at rest. And my tongue also shall speak of thy rightwiseness/ daily showing forth thy praise. The argument in to the xxxvi Psal. ¶ In this psal. David considereth marvelously the plenteous goodness of god poured out into all things of t●e which consideration the more he resteth the more he marveleth of the frowardness of the ungodly which although it be neun so great yet god shitteth nat his goodness from them/ also he singeth how that the chosen perceive his goodness by a more blessed & especial way than any other. The title. The song of Da. the lords servant. DIxit iniustus. The ungodliness of the sinful man ꝑsuadeth me in my heart/ that there is in him no fear of god. For he standeth in his own conceit/ whiles his worthy iniquity groweth into his extreme hatred. What soever he speaketh it is wickedness & deceit/ he refuseth to be taught because he would nat do well. As he lieth in his bed he studieth and inventeth mischief/ whereupon he set himself in to a way nat good/ and escheweth nothing that evil is. Oh lord/ even up unto the heavens stretcheth thy goodness/ ye/ and up to the clouds reacheth thy faithfulness. Thy ryghtwisenesse is higher than the highest hills/ thy judgements are full deep & bottomless lord/ thou savest man and be'st. How exceeding/ clear & noble (oh god) is thy mercy/ how precious also are they which commit them to thy faithful cure/ as unto the shadow of thy wings. They shallbe satisfied with the plenteous treasure of thy house/ & thou shalt give them drink of thy delicious & pleasant flodꝭ For with the is the very well of life/ & we endued with thy light/ shall see at the last the very light. Stretch thy mercy to them that know thee/ & thy rightwiseness to the upright in heart. Let nat the prounde men fall upon me/ neither let the ungodly move me. There shall fall the workers of iniquity they shallbe cast out/ & may nowher abide The argument in to the xxxvii Ps. ¶ Let nat the prosperity of evil men move the good (saith David here) & that all things shall well happen to the fearers of god/ & to them that live of rightwiseness/ & that these shallbe blessed in time to come when the ungodly (how so ever they appear to flourish here for a time) shallbe cut away and utterly destroyed. NOli emulari. Frete not thyself with these cursed harmful men/ neither envy angrily these workers of wickedness For even like grass anon shall they be cut down/ & like the green fresh ben●e of the flower shall they wither away. But cleave thou to the lord and study to do good/ & thou shalt inhabit the land/ lead thy life in good faithfulness. Thou shalt delight in the lord/ for it is he that shall give the what so ever thy heart desireth. What so ever thing thou takest in hand commit the furtherance thereof to the lord/ trust in him and he shall bring all things to good pass. He shall lead forth openly thy rightwiseness even like the light/ & thy right living shall he make to shine like the midday. Suffer/ be still/ and let the lord work/ abide his pleasure/ be nat angry with him that prosper in his way/ which is the man that is given to deceit. Refrain thyself from wrath let thy anger be blown over/ be nat moved to revenge. For who so ever are harmful and cursed shallbe cut away/ but they that abide the lords pleasure shall inherit the land. It shall nat be long but the ungodly shallbe clean gone/ thou shalt consider his place/ but he shall no where apere. meek spirited with patient suffrers shall inherit the land/ and they shall have pleasure with moche prosperity. And for this cause the ungodly shall have indignation at the rightwise/ & shall grin upon him with his teeth. But the lord shall laugh him to scorn because he seith his day of judgement at the hand. The ungodly shall draw out their swords/ they shall bend their bows to smite down the poor careful afflict/ and to slay the right treders in the way. But their swords shall smite thorough their own hearts/ and their bows shallbe broken. That little is better which the rightwise man hath/ than the many fold riches of the glorious ungodly. For the strength of the ungodly shall be broken: but the lord sustaineth the rightwise. The lord approveth the days of the perfit faithful/ and their heritage shallbe perpetual. In time of adversity they shall nat be shamed/ in time of hunger they shall be well satisfied. When the ungodly shall perish/ and the enemies of the lord being in fat pasture at their highest/ than shall they vanish away like smoke. The ungodly shall borrow & blow together other men's goods & never repay/ but the rightwise shall do mercy & give forth graciously. And they that do good to the rightwise shall inherit the land/ and they that do evil shallbe cut away. For of the lord the steps of this man are directed/ & he favoureth all thengꝭ that he take in hand. When he shall fall he shall nat be hurt/ for the lord putteth under his hand. verily I have been young and old/ and yet saw I never the rightwise forsaken/ or his seed begging their breed. But daily he doth mercy & dareth/ and his seed is in a blessed increase. Eschew evil & do good/ & thou shalt abide for ever. For the lord loveth that that is done rightly & in good order/ neither forsaketh her his saints/ but they shallbe laid up for ever/ when the seed of the ungodly shallbe cut of. The rightwise shall inherit the land/ & shall dwell upon it for ever. wisdom shall ever be in the mouth of the rightwise/ and his tongue shall be occupied in that which god judgeth good. The law of his god is in his heart/ the steps of his feet they shall nat slide. The ungodly beholdeth the rightwise/ and seeketh occasion to slay him. But the Lord will not leave him to his hand/ neither shall he repute him ungodly/ all though he be so judged of the wicked. Abide the lord and observe his way/ and he shall exalt the to his heritage/ when thou shalt see the destruction of the ungodly. I see this sturdy & fearful ungodly roting & dilating himself/ like a tree never removed from his natural first soil/ freshly spreading his branches. And anon he vanished away/ & lo/ he nowhere appeared/ I sought him but he was nat found. Take good heed upon the innocent/ & mark well him that seeketh the right/ for such a man at the last shall enjoy that pleasant rest. But these sinful men shallbe destroyed all together/ at the last the ungodly shallbe cut a way. Health shall come unto the rightwise men from the lord/ he is their strength in time of tribulation. The lord for a surety will help them/ & will deliver them from the ungodly/ and he will save them because they have trusted in him. The argument in to the xxxviij. Psal. ¶ David here cast into a grievous disease desireth god to take of his hand/ although he be worthy to suffer it/ he complaineth here marvelously of the intolerable pain/ of the forsaking of his friends & of the cruelty of his adversaries and at last desireth gods help/ to whom he betake himself. The title of the Psal. The song of David for his remembrance. DOmine ne. Banish me nat (lord) of indignation/ neither chasten me in thy wrath. For thy arrows are sore smitten into me/ and the disease which thou haste cast upon me/ presseth me down sore. There is no health in my flesh for thy wrath/ there is no rest in my bones for my sins. For my sins have pressed down my head like an heavy burden/ they are heavier than I may bear. My old privy sores festered within and now are they broken forth/ for mine own foolishness. I am depressed and sore broken/ I walk in continual mourning. For a foul botch occupieth all my thighs/ so that there is no health in my flesh. I am feeble/ and sore broken/ I gnasted with my teeth for sorrow of my heart. Lord all my desires are before y● & my sorrowfully sighs are nat unknown unto the. My heart trembleth & pasteth for sorrow/ my strength faileth me and even the very sight of mine eyes cease f●om their office. My friends and my fellows stood against my wound/ and my nigh kinsfolk stood all a far. In the mean season they that sought my soul made snares for me/ and they that hunted for my fault spoke deceit/ whispering to deceive me continually. But I/ as it had been one deaf/ heard nothing at all/ and as a dumb man opened nat once my mouth. I was as one that heard nat/ and as one that had nat a word in his mouth to answer for himself For thee/ lord/ do I abide/ thou shalt answer for me/ lord my god. For I said with myself/ these men peraventure will rejoice upon me/ and as soon as my foot begin to slide/ they shall run upon me. For I am but an halting cripple/ ready ever to fall/ my sorrow never goeth fro me. For I confess my ungodliness/ I sorrow for my sins. But in the mean season my enemies live and wax strong/ even they which pursue me falsely are increased in power. Which acquit me evil for good and are against me/ because I sought studiously to profit them. Forsake me nat/ lord/ be nat far fro me/ my god. Speed y● to helhe me/ lord/ my saving health. The argument in to the xxxix Psal. ¶ Here David nat withstanding he was vexed with full bitter and grievous diseases/ yet he refrained his tongue/ l●st in complaining he might have spoken some inconvenient words/ namely his adversaries hearing him/ but to god he complained of those things which he/ suffered & of the shortness of all his life/ and desired of god deliverance of his disease which he knowledged to have suffered for his sin and that worthily. The title of the Psal. The song of David committed unto jeduthun the chief chanter among the singers of a certain order/ in their quere DIxit custodiam. I thought with myself saying/ I shall so keep myself that I will nat offend with my tongue. But that I would be moseld for speaking my adversary being present. By the reason of long silence I was made so dumb/ that I might nat speak of any thing were it never so good/ but in the mean season my sorrow fretted/ me inwardly. My heart brent within me like fire/ whiles I mused with myself/ breaking to no man my mind. But at last I loosed my tongue/ and I broke forth in to these words. Sew me/ lord I beseech thee/ what mine end shall be or what shall be the measure of my life/ let me know/ I beseech thee/ how short is my tyme. Lo/ as for my days they are but an handful/ ye/ they are nothing to thee/ what said I? ye every man/ stand he never so fast is but vanity and nought. Selah. What is he? ye/ every man walketh like a shadow/ it is but vanity & nothing what so ever mortal men enforce. They heap together riches/ but they know nat for whom they gather them. And now/ my lord/ wherefore do I tarry? in that verily my hope is laid up. Wherefore deliver thou me from all my sin/ & set me nat forth for a laughing stoke before the wicked man. I held my pease/ & opened nat once my mouth/ for thou madest me thus to do. Take away therefore thy plague/ for thy strong hand hath almost made an end of me. Surely whiles thou in chastening any man for his sin/ dost but chide him only/ anon thou consumest him. So that what so ever thing is pleasant in him/ anon it perisheth/ as a mought eaten cloth/ what said I? verily every man is but vanity & nothing worth. Selah. Lord/ here my prayer/ give ear unto my crying/ cease nat whiles I weep/ for I given unto thee/ am here but away faring stranger/ as were all my fathers. Spare me that I might breath a little before I cease & go out of this world. The argument in to the xl Psal. ¶ In this psalm David glorieth of his deliverance thorough the help of god from a great peril: he marveleth of the infinite mercy of god toward them that fear him/ for which thing (saying that he desireth no sacrifice: but even man himself) he yieldeth himself to him/ magnifying hi● rightwiseness & mercy: he toucheth that his sins were cause of his peril: and at the last he prayeth god to cast down his enemies/ and to make glad good men with his gentleness. EXpectans expectavi. Whiles I abode/ I tarried for the lord/ & he bowed down his ear to me and heard my crying. He led me out of the tough clay and muddy pit/ the water arising round about me/ he set my feet upon the stone/ and gave quick speed to my steps. And he put in to my mouth a new song to praise therewith our god. Which thing many perceive to be worship to the lord/ began also like wise to trust in him. Blessed is that man that setteth the lord before him for his hope/ & hath no respect to the proud men cleving to vain lies (the truth forsaken) Many things hast thou done (lord my god) thy noble deeds and deep counsels as concerning us/ no man may comprehend/ no man may show ne express them/ neither may they be numbered. Thou delytedest neither in sacrifice nor in oblation/ but hast opened my right ears to here thee/ neither brent sacrifice/ nor yet any slain be'st hast thou desired. And than I said/ lo/ I myself am here present/ of me it is written in the books of the law. It hath liked me well to do thy will/ my god/ thy law is set fast with in me in my very heart. I shall preach thy rightwiseness in the full congregation lo/ I have nat holden my mouth as thou (lord) well knowest In no manner wise have I hid thy rightwiseness within me/ but thy faithfulness & thy saving will have I spread. I have nat cessed to show forth thy mercy & thy truth/ in the full congregation. Neither thou/ lord/ also hast held thy gratyouse mercies fro me thy gentle favour & thy troth preserve me perpetually. For I was overwhelmed with innumerable troubles/ my sins cumbered me so/ that I might nat see them all/ they were far more than the hairs of my heed/ for the which thing my heart failed me. Let it please thee/ lord/ to deliver me/ lord haste the to help me. Let them be confounded that lay await for my life to quench it/ let them be borne backward with open shame & ignominy as many as study to do me harm. Let them be destroyed because they have been about to shame me/ even they which said by me fyghe/ fyghe/ upon me. But let them rejoice in thee/ who so ever seek the & loveth the health which thou bringest/ let these men have ever in their mouth/ magnified & extolled be the lord. I was in adflyction & poverty/ but the lord looked to me/ thou art my help & my deliverer/ my god/ thou shalt nat tarry. The argument in to the xli Psal. ¶ In this psalm David remembreth a certain disease in himself/ in which when he laboured/ his enemies rejoiced greatly/ thinking him to be outquenched thorough the pain of his disease his friends forsook him: but god holp him/ and evermore helpeth: whereof he affirmeth/ that man to be happy/ which knoweth the displeasure of god toward him. BEatus qui intelligit. Blessed is that man which understandeth the very thing/ as concerning the sick man in time of adversity/ the lord shall deliver him. The lord shall keep him/ he shall restore him to health/ he shall enjoy prosperous things upon the earth/ for thou shalt nat leave him to his enemies pleasures. The lord shall strengthen him dying upon his sick heed/ thou shalt so bring it to pass that he shall change all his bed. I verily said/ lord/ have mercy upon me heal my soul/ for I am a sinner against the. My enemies spoke evil upon me saying/ when shall he ones die/ & when shall his name perish? When any of them came in to see me/ he spoke vain lies/ he gathered mischief to himself in his heart and he going forth blowed it abroad. Also/ all my haters whyspred together against me/ and thought evil upon me. Saying some grievous sin hath occupied this man/ and this man thus dying so sick shall nevermore rise. Ye my friend in whom I trusted/ whom I received to my table supplanted me. But lord/ have mercy upon me/ & restore me/ and I shall reward these men. In this thing I knew that thou favourest me/ that my enemy rejoice the not upon me. And in that I am hole/ thou shalt once sustain me/ & set me before the for ever. Praised be the lord god of israhel from world to world. Amen amen. The argument in to the xlij Psal. ¶ In this psal. it is declared/ how that thorough the coniuratyon of Absalon/ David was holden from the holy congregation & feste of the lord: and how he being disquieted with the sinful report of the ungodly (which spoke evil of his godly worship/ whereunto he was given) sorrowed: showing his mind with an earnest complaint before the lord. The title of the. Ps. In instruction or lesson showed to the children of Chore/ and committed of david to the chief chanter to be song in the temple. Quemadmodum desi. Even as the chased heart thirsteth/ gaping for the fresh water/ so do my soul thirst & gape for god. My soul thirsteth for god/ ye/ for the living god/ when shall I ones come to see the face of god? I licked in my tears in stead of meat/ day and night/ whiles it was said unto me daily/ where is thy god? All the heaviness of my mind I powered forth/ as soon as I remembered that I should lead unto the house of god such a joyful multitude/ praising and hallowing the fest day. Wherefore than art thou so deject & so heavy/ my soul/ trust in god/ for yet shall I magnify him/ for the saving help which he giveth me of his favour. My god/ my soul is deject in myself/ because I remembered the in the land beyende jordane/ in the hills of Hermon/ & at the little hill of Myzaar. One grievous sorrow bringeth in another/ for thy water courses sounding so fearfully/ all thy floods & stormꝭ fell upon me. By day/ lord/ thou gavest me to enjoy thy mercy/ & by night thou madest me to sing & to pray to the living god. I said to god/ thou art my rock of stone/ wherefore for gettest me? wherefore go I mourning so sorrowfully my adversary oppressing me? Even my very bones are cut insunder whiles they cast in to my teeth this grievous opprobry/ saying daily/ where is thy god? Wherefore art thou so sorrowfully deject/ my soul/ and so sore troubled in me? trust in god/ for yet shall I magnify him for his help/ wherewith he shall make glad my face/ and declare himself to be my god. The argument into the xliij Psal. ¶ Here it is desired/ that Absalon might be delivered from the company of the conjurers that David might more quietly & worthily speak the praise of god in the holy congregation. judica me deus. give sentence for me (god) defend my cause from the ungodly folk/ from the deceitful and wicked man deliver me. For thou art my god & my strength/ wherefore hast thou put me away/ wherefore go I thus mourning/ my enemy oppressing me? Make thy light & thy faithfulness to shine upon me/ let these things lead me unto thy holy hill/ & let them lead me unto thy tabernacles. That I might once come to the altar of god/ even the god of gladness & the author of my joy/ to praise & magnify the with harp/ god/ my god. Wherefore art thou deject/ my soul/ and thus troubled in me? trust in god/ for yet will I magnify him/ for the help wherewith he hath made glad my face/ and showed himself to be my god. The argument into the xliiij Psal. ¶ In this Psal. it is complained of the cruel punishment which Israel suffered for the name of god & for their true worship/ & that (this natwithstanding/ yet god would nat be with them in present miracles as he was wont to be with their fathers. The title is all one with the xlii Ps. DEus auribus. Oh god/ we have herd with our ears/ our fathers also told us what heavenly works thou hast done in their time before our days. Thou diddest cast out with thy hand the gentiles from their seattes'/ & plantedest our fathers in their place/ thou didst scourge that people & madest our fathers to increase. For they challenged nat nor possessed that land by sword/ neither their own power saved them/ but it was thy right hand/ thorough thy power and favour because thou lovedest them. Thou thyself/ oh god/ art my governor/ which givest health unto jacob. Thorough the did we drive out our enemies/ we armed with thy name/ trod them down which rose against us. For I neither trusted to mi bow/ neither yet my sword saved me. But it was thou that keepest us from our enemies/ & thou shamedest & confoundest our hateful pursuers. We loved god daily/ & magnified thy name with perpetual praise. Selah But yet now thou hast repelled us/ & haste shamed us/ neither wilt thou go forth with our host together with us in battle. Thou madest us to turn our backs to our adversaries/ & they which odyously pursued us/ took their prey upon us. Thou gavest us in to their mouths like a flock of sheep/ thou scatredest us among the gentiles. Thou soldest thy people for nought/ so that in this change there arose no a vantage. Thou settedest us up to be a reviling stock to our neighbours/ to be scorned & shamed of them that dwelled about us. Thou settedest us up for aiesting stock to the heathen/ we were a comen jest among them/ so that who so ever see us/ wagged their heads at us. All ways is mine ignominy before mine eyes/ & even very shame made me to cover my face. Ye/ & that for the revilers/ & chyders/ and for my adversaries so greedy upon vengeance. All this fell upon us/ natwithstandinge yet do we nat forget thee/ neither are we unfaithful unto the in covenant. Our heart fled nat backward/ neither out steps swerved from thy paths. Thou haste dampened us in to the place of dragons/ and hast overwhelmed us with the shadow of death. If we had forgotten our god/ & had stretched out our hands unto any strange god. Would nat God/ think ye/ have espied it? for as much as he knoweth even the very secrets of the heart? For thy sake are we slain daily/ we are reputed as slaughter sheep. Awake/ wherefore sleepest (oh lord) arise up/ wherefore forsakest us for ever? Wherefore hidest thy face/ having no respect to our affliction and oppression? Our soul is depressed to the ground/ our belly cleaveth to the earth. Arise & help us/ redeem & lose us for thy mcies' sake. The argument in to the xlv Psal. ¶ In this psalm the sons of Chore praise king Solomon for his worthy beauty/ for the grace of his eloquence for his strength/ power/ clearness/ & liberality/ both in himself and in his queen: and at last for his lucky issue. In all these things they figured Christ & his church/ and both the power & felicity of his kingdom. The title. A lovely song full of learning made of the sons of Chore/ to be song of Solomon. Eructavit cor meum. My heart thinketh & resteth of a good thing/ my song shallbe of a king/ my tongue shall delyke the pen of a perfit ready scribe. Thou art the most beautiful of all mortal men/ having a marvelous grace in thy tongue/ because that god hath endued the with perpetual benefits. Oh most valiant knight/ gird thy sword upon thy side/ by the which y● mayst declare thy glorious beauty. Entre thou in happily with clear worship/ for that thou excellest in faithfulness/ meekness/ and rightwiseness/ with these things shalt thou be endued/ that thou mayst do noble acts with thy marvelous power. Thy arrows are very sharp/ they shall smite the hearts of the kings enemies/ the people shall fall under the. The s●ate regal/ Oh lord shall stand for ever/ for the scripture of thy kingdom loveth equity. Thou art the lover of rightwiseness and hater of unright/ because that god which is thy god/ hath anointed the with very oil of gladness which art promoted above thy fellows. The pleats of all thy robes savour of must and aumber/ as thou comest forth of thy white ivory palaces. Where the daughters of kings in their precious & rich ornowrementes of thy gift make the glad/ & thy queen on thy right hand also decked in golden apparel. Here daughter & give heed/ bow down thy ear/ & forget thy people and thy father's house. And the king shallbe enamoured of thy beauty/ for he is thy lord/ to him shalt thou do reverence. Tytus shall bring the presentis/ every rich nation shall honour the with gifts. She shall sit next the king in his privy chamber all gloriously/ her apparel shallbe braided with gold. In cloth of tissue she is presented to the king/ her handmaydens' following her are brought together also unto the. They are presented with joy/ & are brought into the kings palace. For the father's/ thou shalt have children/ whom thou shalt constitute to be chief in all the earth. I shall remember thy name thorough out all the worlds/ wherefore the people shall magnify the for ever. The argument into the xlvi Psal. ¶ This Ps. showeth with what trust & sureness holy men are held by gods help in all manner of perils. The title. A song of the sons of Chore upon certain secret committed of Da. to the chanter. DEus noster re. God is for us defence and strength/ he is our most present help when adversity thrust us down Wherefore we shall nat fear although the earth be moved from her place/ and the hills compassed with the see all to shake Let the waters of the see swell and roar and break up her banks/ let the high hills be borne down with her violence. Selah. Let shall the little rivers of the sweet flood refresh the city of god/ which is the most secretest holy place among the tabernacles of the most highest. God sytteh in the mids of this holy place wherefore it shall not be moved/ for god shall help it swiftly. The heathen flocked together seditiously and anon the kingdoms were moved/ he lifted up his voice & than men shrank away. The lord of hosts standeth on our part/ the god of jacob is our high strong tower. Selah. Come ye hither and behold the noble acts of the lord/ what wonderful things he hath wrought in th'earth. He taketh away battle even unto the farthest part of th'earth/ he breaketh their bows/ he unhedeth their spears/ & burneth their chariettes in the fire. Cease ye therefore & let me alone/ see that ye know me for god/ above all nations/ and above all things in the earth. The lord of hosts standeth on our part the god of jacob is to us an high strong tower. Selah. The argument in to the xlvii Psal. ¶ In this psa. the sons of Chore express the glory of god to be spread over all the world/ & how that (christ exalted) the regions & the people were converted to god. The title. A song of the sons of Chore committed to the chanter to be song OMnes gentes. All people clap your hands for joy/ make ye melody to god with great triumph. For high is the lord & greatly to be feared/ he is a right great king over all th'earth He subdueth the people unto us/ and the he●then he casteth under our feet. He hath chosen us for himself/ he hath chosen our heritage/ even the beauty of jacob whom he loveth. Selah. God is life up with mirth and melody/ and with the sound of trumpets. Sing ye to god sing/ sing ye to our king/ sing. For god is the king of all the earth/ sing ye who so ever excelleth in wit. God reigneth over the he●then/ god sitteth in his holy seat regal. The best and chief of the people/ shallbe joined to the god of Abraham. The comens also of the earth/ shall join them unto god/ for he is greatly exalted The argument in to the xlviii Psal. ¶ In this Psal. the sons of Chore sing the exceeding felicity of the church for the present defence of god/ & that under the figure of jerusalem. The title. The song of the sons of Chore. Magnus' dominus. Great is the lord and great praise worthy/ in the city of our god which is his holy hill. The mount Zion is a goodly beautiful place making glad all the land/ upon whose north side is builded the city of the noble king. God is well known in his palacꝭ to be a defensfull castle for all his For lo/ kings came together & passed for by. They see all this & were atoned/ they were afraid/ & driven in to a sudden flight. There they were amazed/ & fear took them/ even such sorrow as taketh suddenly women great with child. Thou breakest all together the ships of the great see of Tharsys/ with the vehement tempests of the east wind. As we have heard/ even so have we seen in very deed/ in the city of the lord of hostis our god/ god hath stablished it for ever. Selah. We have conceived in our mind thy mercy which sittest gloriously in thy holy temple As thy name is spread/ even so wide spreadeth thy praise/ stretching unto the farthest parts of th'earth/ what thing so ever thou dost/ it is rightwiseness. The hill of Zion shallbe glad/ the cities of juda shall rejoice/ for thy so gracious pleasures Go ye about Zion & view it well/ tell ye her tourꝭ. Consider her wallis & look how high are her palacꝭ/ which shall be her memorial into the generation that followeth. For here is god/ ye our god into eunlasting it is he that shall lead us so long as we here live. The argument into the xlix Ps. ¶ This Psal. reproveth the madness of covetousmen & uttreth their wretchedness: which here take their pleasure & felicity in richiss/ afterward to be perpetual wretches in hell. The title is all one with the Psalm before. AUdite he omnes. Here ye this thing all people/ listen unto these things as many as live in this world. As well ye that are of the comen people as ye that are in dignity as well ye that are rich as they that are poor. My mouth shall speak wisdom & the meditation of my heart shall show ye the right understanding. I shall apply mine ear unto a parable/ my harp reighted unto me I shall expound my riddle. Wherefore should I fere in time of adversity/ when my shrewd wait layers besiege me round about. Which trust in their riches & are magnified for their abundant goods. And yet no man be he never so high in dignity may redeem his brother from death/ no man pay to god the price of this redemption. It is without doubt/ no small price/ their lives to be loosed & free from death to live ever. To prolong their lives into ever lasting/ and never to see their grave. Surely they see both wise men die/ shrewd men & foolish/ they die all a like/ and they leave to other men their riches They thought in their mind their households to abide for ever with their habitations/ they extolled their names in the earth. But man in his glistering fortune shall nat abide/ he shall be like the beasts which die down right. This same their own invencyon is their very own foolishness/ and yet their posterity greedily follow their ways. Selah. Like sheep shall they be cast in to their graves/ death shallbe their shepherd/ the light once sprung/ ryghtwismen shall be their lords/ their beauty shall fade away/ hell shallbe their hospital. But god shall lead back my soul from hell/ for he hath taken me up to defend me. Selah. Fear thou nothing when thou seest a man made rich/ & have increased greatly the glorious dignity of his house. For he shall nat bear all away with him when he die/ neither shall dignity his companion go down with him. For his soul shall have her heaven here by life/ men shall praise the whiles thou settest forth and magnifyest thyself. These men shall follow the nation of their father's/ that is/ they shall never see light. That man to whom happeneth prosperous fortune and nat understanding/ the giver thereof/ shall be like a be'st in his departing. The argument in to the l Psal. ¶ In this psalm Asaph declareth how mightily god would call unto him/ all nations of the world by the gospel/ delivering by his mighty power his chosen: also how that he would than require of his/ rather faith & knowledge/ and declaring of his goodness/ than sacrifices or works/ and how grievously he will curse & entreat them that boast them of his religion without the pure study of his true worship. The title of the psalm. The song of Asaph. DEus deorum. The mighty god & lord shall make a cry/ and call unto him all that inhabit the earth/ from the east to the west. God shall set out a lamp from Zion/ which is his most goodly ornament and beauty. Our god shall come & shall nat tarry/ fire shall burn before him/ round about him shall there be a vehement whyrlwinde. He shall call the heavens above/ and the earth also/ that he might deliver his people in judgement. Gather ye together my saints/ which stick to my promise before their own deeds. And ye heavens show forth his mercy wherewith he maketh men rightwise/ for god/ he is judge. Selah. Here (my people) & I shall speak/ israhel hear thou/ and I shall promise thee/ that I am god/ ye/ and that I am even thy god. I will nat reprove the for my suffering or omitting thy sacrifices/ neither will I look for thy beauty sacrifices. I will nat/ neither needeth it me to make from thy house any ox/ either from thy fold any goats. For all the wild beasts of forestes are mine/ the wild beasts that feed in a thousand hills also are mine. I challenge for me all the souls in the hills all the live in the fields are mine. If I shall hunger I will nat tell the thereof/ when the round world all about is mine/ & what so ever is contained therein. thinkest thou that I will eat beef/ and drink goats blood? If thou wilt give god a sacrifice/ give him his praise and honour/ and thus pay thy promise to the most highest. As to call upon me in time of tribulation/ & I shall defend thee/ and thus shalt thou honour me. For unto the ungodly man god said/ wherefore pratest thou of my ceremonies/ & judgest with thy mouth of mye promise. When thou hatest my discipline correcting thy life/ and throwest away my words. If thou espyest any thief/ anon thou runnest to him/ and couplest thyself with adulterers. Thou hast given thy mouth to evil/ & thy tongue craftily painteth deceits. Thou sittest & speakest against thine own brother/ sclanderously and injustly thou verest thine own mother's son. These things thou dost & yet I diffar my punishment/ thou imaginest me to be but another man like unto thee/ but I shall reason with thee/ & set foot to foot against the. This thing consider/ and know/ I pray/ ye that forget god/ lest he pluck you by the sleeve/ & no man may rescue & help you. He that sanctifieth me with praise honoureth me & to him that goth the right way shall I give godly saving health. The argument into the li Psal. ¶ This Psal. is a prayer of a man unfeignedly knowleginge his sins: in which prayer the good man desireth to have the good spirit of god: thorough which spirit all evil concupiscence is refrained/ & rightwise making is sought/ in which consisteth true forgiveness of sin. The title of this Psal. The song of David committed to the chanter: aft that the prophet Natham had been with him/ for that adultery committed with Barsaba Uries' wife Rede th'history ii Regum xii MIserere mei. Have mercy upon me/ god/ for thy gentleness sake/ for thy great mercies sake/ wipe away my sins. And yet again wash me more fro my wickedness/ & make me clean fro my ungodliness. For my grievous sins do I knowledge/ & my ungodliness is ever before mine eyes. Against thee/ against the only have I sinned/ & that that sore offendeth the have I done/ wherefore very just shalt thou be known in thy words & pure/ when it shallbe judged of the. Lo/ I was fashioned in wickedness/ & my mother conceived me polluted with sin. But lo thou wouldest troth to occupy & rule in my inward partis/ thou showdest me wisdom which thou wouldest to sit in the secretis of my heart. sprinkle me with hyssop and so shall I be clean/ thou shalt wash me/ and than shall I be whiter than snow. Pour upon me joy & gladness/ make my bones to rejoice which thou hast smitten. Turn thy face fro my sins/ and wipe away all my wickedness. A pure heart create in me/ oh lord/ & a steadfast right spirit make a new within me. Cast me nat away/ and thy holy ghost take nat fro me. Make me again to rejoice whiles thou bringest me thy saving health/ and let thy chief governing free spirit strengthen & lead me. I shall instruct cursed and shrewd men in thy way and ungodly men shallbe converted unto the deliver me from the sin of murder oh god/ oh god my saviour/ & my tongue shall triumph upon thy mercy wherewith thou makest me rightwise. Lord open thou my lips/ and than my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For as for sacrifices thou delightest nat in them/ or else I had offered them/ & as for brent sacrifices thou regardest them nat. Acceptable sacrifices to god is a broken spirit/ a contrite and a dejected heart thou shalt nat despise (oh god). Deal gently of thy favourable benevolence with Zion let the walls of Jerusalem be edified. Than shalt thou delight in very sacrifices in the right brent sacrifice/ & in the oblation of rightwiseness: than shall they lay upon thy altar the very oxen. The argument in to the lij Psal. ¶ In this psalm david remembreth the perverse mind & study of Doeg. The title. An instruction of david when Doeg Idumeus came to Saul & told him/ saying that david was come to the house of Achimelec. QUid gloriaris. Wherefore gloriest & avancest thyself of thy sin/ oh thou mighty malicious man? the mercy of god standeth forth offered to every man at all times. Thy tongue is occupied in mischief thou dost deceit even as a new set razor Thou lovest rather to hurt than to do good/ to lie than to speak that that right is. Selah Thou delightest to speak what soever bring upon mischief & murder/ & to exercise thy tongue in deceit. Wherefore god shall break the all to pieces/ he shall utterly destroy thee/ he shall scrape the clean out of thy tabernacle/ & thy rote from the earth of this life shall he draw up. Selah. This shall the rightwismen se/ & shall fere god/ but this man shall they laugh to scorn. Saying lo/ the man which set nat god before him for his strength/ but trusted in the multitude of his riches & strengthened himself with fraud & deceit. But I abide like a florisshinge olive in the house of god/ trusting in the mercy of god into worlds/ & into world for ever. I shall magnify the evermore before thy saints/ for thou haste done these things/ and I shall abide thy pleasure/ for it is full gentle and favourable. This liii Psal. is all one with the xiiii DIxit insipience. The naughty foolish men think in their hearts that god is nat. Shrewd & abominable things for their wickedness do they/ nowhere is there any that will do good. God looketh from heaven upon the men/ to see if there were any that knew and regarded god. Are all together so swerved fro me? are they thus lost? is there no man that will do good? nat one? Are all these workers of wickedness so far besides themself? se/ they devour my people as one should swallow in breed/ they are held with no fear of god. Wherefore they shallbe there amazed & atoned with fear incomparable/ for god hath shaken insunder the bones of the besegers. Thou shalt despise them & set nought by them/ because that god hath repelled them. O/ would god that the saving health which cometh from Zion might hap upon israhel/ that god would once make an end of the captivity of his people/ that jacob might be glad & israhel miȝt reiose. The argument into the liiii Psal. ¶ In this psalm David singeth his deliverance from peril by the betraying of the zephytes. The title of the Psal. n1g-nn's instruction committd to the chanter to be song & played at the orgayns/ after that the zephytes had comen & told Saul saying/ thinkest thou that Da. is hide among us? Rede th'history i re. xxii. xxvi. DEus in nomine tuo. Oh god/ save me for thy name's sake/ deliver me by thy power. Oh god/ here my prayer listen to the words of my mouth. For strange men are risen against me/ & strong tyrants pursue my soul/ they have nat god before their eyes. Selah. But lo/ god helpeth me/ the lord is present with them that sustain my life. He shalt acquit evil to my await layers/ for thy truths sake thou shalt tread them down. I shall with good will make a sacrifice to that/ I shall magnify thy name/ o lord for thou art full gentle. For thou wilt deliver me from all trouble/ and mine eye shall see me pleasure upon mine enemies. The argument in to the lu Psal. ¶ In this Psal. David complaineth himself to be brought into the most perilous strait that might be/ and that of the most noughtiest/ and deceitful men/ whom he reckoned to be his chief friends. OH god/ listen unto my prayer/ & hide nat thyself fro my deep desire. give heed and answer me/ I lament in my prayer/ and I cry full loud. And that for the noise of mine enemies and vexation of the wicked/ for they take mysch●ues counsel against me/ & odiously do they pursue me. My heart mourneth/ sore troubled within me/ & even the fear of death falleth upon me. Horror & trembling fere assailed me/ ye they overwhelmed me. And I thought/ would god I had wings like a dove/ & than would I fly away to abide sure somewhere. Lo/ than would I fly far hens/ I would dwell in some wilderness. Selah. I would speed me to a void & to escape from this blast/ which tereth up by the rote and breaketh me so sore. Scatter them lord/ & make their tongues to vary/ for I see nothing in the city but violence & strife These things run about their walls day & night/ within this city is their wickedness & heaviness. Within her are there crafty frauds/ usury & deceit go never out of her streets. For nether was it my enemy that thus shamefully entreated me/ or else I might have borne him/ neither was it one that openly hated me/ that thus did oppress me/ or else I could have conveyed me from him. But it was thou (oh man) even mine own fellow/ my guide/ & my famylare. To whom it was sweet for me to break my mind & to utter my secrets/ we were conversant together even in the house of god. Let death be brought in upon them/ let them go to hell quick: for mischief was in their conventicles/ & even in the hearts of them. I shall call upon god/ and the lord shall preserve me. Evening & morning & midday shall I pray/ & lift up my voice & he shall hear me. He shall redeem my soul from battle which is intended against me/ & shall grew me praise/ for very many shallbe with me. God shall here & shall scourge them whose majesty hath endured from the beginning. Selah. For they change nat themself/ nor yet fear they god. He hath laid hands upon my friends he hath broken promise which he made with them. Their mouths are as soft as butter/ and in their heart nourish they battle: their words are more smooth & pleasant than oil/ and yet are the same words as hard & as sharp as darts. Cast thy careful heaviness upon the lord and he shall ease thee: he shall nat suffer a rightwisman to slide & to fall for ever. verily thou (god) shalt thrust down these bloody & deceitful men into their graves & tombs/ all ready made for them they shall nat bring their days to half their age/ but I shall trust in the. The argument into the lvi Psal. ¶ In this psalm. David maketh mention of the desire of gods help being in peril with Achis the philystene/ king of Gathi. The title of this Psal. The song of David committed to the chanter to be song of a dumb dove fleeing far a way: that is to say/ of David/ when the philystens had taken him in Gathis. The story is i Reg. xxi. MIserexe mei. Have mercy upon me/ oh god/ for man hath almost devoted me/ with continual battle he hath all to broken me. My daily await layers have swallowed me up/ there are many surely that fight against me/ oh right high god. But when fear brought me into a straynte/ I trusted in the. I remembered the promise of god with praise and trusted in god/ wherefore I feared nat what so ever mortal man could do to me. What so ever I began they envy it daily/ all their study was bent to do me a mischief/ they were gathered together and laid await for me/ they observed my feet/ and gaped to catch my soul. By their shrewdness they trusted themself to escape all danger/ but it is god that throweth down people. Thou canst well tell how oft I have fled/ and as for my tears thou hast put them up into thy bottle/ that is to say/ into thy book. When I shall call upon thee/ my enemies shall go back/ by which thing I may know that god standeth on my part. With praise shall I remember the word of god/ with praise shall I remember the promise of the lord. In god shall I trust/ and so shall I nat fear what so ever man may do to me. I shall make my vows unto thee/ oh god/ unto the shall I give praises. For thou wilt deliver my soul from death/ and my feet surely from sliding/ that I might walk before the in the lively light. The title shall declare the Psalm. ¶ The song of david (called Ne pardas. that is to say destroy him not) when he fled from Saul into a certain den The story is red the first of the kings/ the xxii and xxiiii MIserere mei. Have mercy upon me/ oh god/ have mercy upon me/ for my soul hath committed herself unto thy part/ I cry under thy wings to be defended until this violent blast be overblown. I shall call upon the high god even god which fynisheth all things for me. He shall send down from heaven to save me/ and shall cast him in to opprobry/ that would spill me. Selah. He shall send down his mercy and his troth. My soul is in the mids of lions/ I dwell among men which are a fire/ whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue is a sharp sword. lift up thyself/ oh god/ above heavens lift up thy glorious beauty above all the earth. They laid a net for my feet/ this man depressed my soul/ they digged up a pytfal for me/ & they their selves fell into it. Selah. My heart is well set o god/ my heart is well set/ I shall sing and praise. My tongue be thou stired up/ strike up ye fydels & haps/ I shall sing very early. I shall magnify the among the people/ lord/ I shall love the among the heathen. Thy mercy is so great that it reacheth up to the heavens/ & thy true faithfulness lifteth herself up unto the clouds. lift up thyself/ oh god/ above the heavens/ and extol thy beautiful glory above all the earth. The argument into the lviii Psal. ¶ This psalm is an invective against the flatterers of Saul/ thorough the punishment of whom he prophesieth the rightwise to be marvelously made glad. The title. The song of David committed to the chanter to be played upon the orgayns/ which song was called Ne perdas. SI vere utique justi. Do ye pronounce truly (o counsel) that that right is? do ye judge right among the mortal men? No verily/ ye rather paint and conceive wickedness in your mind/ and for equity your hands way violent wrongs in the earth. These ungodly are reprobate persons even from their mother's womb/ they are now strayed from the right way/ ye and that from their birth. They bear venom in them like a serpent/ even like the deaf Asps/ when she stopped her ears. Because she would nat hear the voice of the enchanters/ or of the charmer that well can enchant. O god/ destroy the teeth of the mouth of these men/ even the wange teeth of these lions break thou/ oh lord. Let them sink away like water/ and let them be a mark/ upon the which arrows sent out of a strong bow/ are all to broken. Let them be dried up like a snail in her shell/ and like a child borne before the time which never see son. Let them be taken away like a young thorn before it be grown into a tree/ before their mischief be ripe and sharp take them away with thy sudden indignation. The right wise shall rejoice when he considereth this vengeance/ & shall wash his feet in the blood of the ungodly. And than the people shall say/ verily the fruit of the rightwisman abideth him/ for surely that is god judging in the earth. The argument in to the lix Psal. ¶ In this Psal. David desireth help against his adversaries. The title of this Psal. The song of David called Ne perdas. when Saul sent unto his house to observe & to espy him/ to the intent he would have slain him. th'history is in the first of the Kings. cap. nineteen. ERipe me de inimi. Deliver me from mine enemies/ my god/ take me from these that rise against me. deliver me from these men which are all given unto mischief/ save me from these blodsheders. For lo/ they lay await for my life/ there are come together against me strong and boistous men/ & yet/ o lord/ no fault have I made them. They ran upon me and are now bend to destroy me guiltless/ arise to succour me & behold. And thou lord/ god of hosts/ the god of Israel awake that all nations may know the be thou nat merciful to all men that are against thee/ even of a wicked purpose. Selah They run about here & there in the night hunting & yelling like dogs for me ye/ they seek all the corners of the cite for me. And they seek nothing but death/ swords are in their lips/ for they said who should hear us? But thou/ lord/ shalt scorn them/ thou shalt mock all these heathen. Of the shall I tarry for help/ which now helpest him/ for god is to me a strong castle. Oh my god/ let thy merciful help overtake me/ o god/ let me see my desire fall upon my wait laiers Slay them nat out of hand lest my people forget this thing/ but disperse them to wander among thy people/ cast them down lord/ which art our bokler. For the wickedness of their mouthis/ & their evil speech let them be trapped in their own pride/ & for their perjury & their lies/ let them be a fable in every man's mouth. Consume/ thou kindled into vengeance consume/ that these men nowhere apere/ and let all men even to the uttermost parts of the earth/ know that god is chief governor in jacob. Selah. They run here and there in the night huntynge and yelling like hounds/ seeking round about the city for me. They their selves shall wander about for their meat/ and yet shall they be sure to rest at night with empty belies. But I shall sing of thy strength given unto me/ early shall I rejoice of thy mercy given also/ for that thou host been my defence and my refuge in my trouble. Oh my strength/ unto the shall I sing/ for god is my strong castle/ even thou god/ which wittest well safe to bestow thy mercy upon me. The argument in to the lx Psal. ¶ In this Psal. David remembreth how god some times in his wrath leaveth his people in the danger of their enemies/ but yet again he helpeth them gently giving them clear victories. The title of the Psal. The song of David committed to the chanter to be played at thorgayns called the beautiful Lyle of the testimony for an instruction when he should fight against that part of Syria which is called Mesopotamia/ and against another part of Syria called zoba where jaob returning slew xii thausande ●edomytes in the valley of Salis. Rede the story ii Regum ten DEus re. Oh god/ thou haddest once forsaken us/ thou haddest cast us away/ thou were angry/ but yet hast thou offered thyself peased again unto us. Thou smittest the earth together and all to break it/ heal her breakings (we prayed thee) for she was sore bowed down Thou madest thy people to feal full hard things/ thou gavest us poison to drink. But yet again thou lyftedest up a banner for them that feared thee/ under which they shoulden obtain a prosperous victory/ & this didst thou for thy trouthꝭ sake. Selah. Wherefore thy well-beloved were made sure & safe/ and now save me also with thy right hand & hear me. God hath expressed his mind by word even from his secret holy place/ wherefore I shall rejoice I have now divided Sichem/ and have metout the valley of Succoth. Gilead is mine/ and Manashed is mine/ Ephraim is my strong head city/ juda is my kingdom. Moab is subject unto me/ even as a cauldron to wash in my feet. Aedom shallbe even as a place to cast in my old shois/ Philistea knowledgeth and crieth unto me as to her king. Who shall need now to lead me into any strong defensed city? or who shall need to lead me until I come into Aedom? verily even thou/ god/ which sometime haddest forsaken & cast us away/ and wouldest nat go forth with us among our host. Help thou us & deliver us from our enemy's/ for very vain is the help of man We armed with Gods help/ shall do strongly/ for it is he that shall tread down our troublers. The argument into the lxi Psal. which argument is common to many ps. ¶ In this he prayeth to be delivered from peril. EXaudi deus. God here my out crying/ listen unto my prayer. Unto the I cry with desire of heart full of anguissh from the extremest part of the earth/ lead me up in a higher rock than I of myself am able to climb. For thou art my defence my strong tower/ by the which I am preserved from my enemy. I shall dwell in thy tabernacle for ever/ I shall be sure under the secret defence of thy wingꝭ. Selah. verily thou god) haste heard my desires/ thou haste given thy heritage to the fearers of thy name. Thou shalt heap more days to the kings age/ and shalt draw a long his years in to many generatyons. He shall sit before god for ever/ declare thy mercy and truth with the which thou wilt keep him. And so shall I praise thy name with songs for ever/ that I might perform my daily vows. The argument into the lxij Psal. ¶ Here he teacheth both by example of himself and also by commandment to trust only in god and in no mortal man's power. Nun deo subiecta. My soul verily with silence looked up to god/ for from him cometh my health. It is he/ verily that is my defender/ my saviour/ he is also a castle for me/ I shall nat sore slide. How long shall ye thus ●aye await for whom ye list/ ye all shall be slain & shall be like a reling mud wall/ against the which every man runneth. Surely whom god exalteth/ them they counsel to thrust down/ they cover that thing which they shall never obtain/ they bless and speak fair with their mouths/ and curse in their hearts. Selah. Look up unto god (o my very still soul) for upon him dependeth my abiding. He is verily my defender/ my saviour/ he is also my strong castle/ lest I be moved and fall. Of god dependeth my health and glory/ it is the power of god whereby I am defended and helped. Trust ye in him at all times/ oh people/ power out before him all the heavy cares of your heart/ for it is god that is our defender. Selah. Surely/ mortal men are nought/ men are but vanity/ if they were put together in a pair of balance/ they were lighter than nought. Trust nat in riches gotten with wrong and force/ lest ye mugger up unto you vanity/ and when your riches increase put not to them your heart. Ones/ and yet again god hath spoken/ which two things I have heard/ that it is god/ that hath the very strength. And that it is thou/ lord/ which hast the very mercy/ which givest unto every man after his dealing. The argument into the lxiii Psal· ¶ Here david declareth how that thorough Saules persecution he was holden aback in the desert of juda from the holy feast. The title of the Psal. The song of David/ what time he was banished into the desert of juda. The story is i Regum xxii DEus deus meus. God thou art my god/ early do I sigh for thee/ my soul thirsteth for thee/ my flesh desireth the in this thirsti & wide wildrenes without any water Thus shall I behold thee/ as in thy secret holy place/ that I might see thy power & thy glorious beauty. For thy mercy is more desirous than this same life/ with my lips shall I praise the. Thus shall I magnify the thorowte all my life/ in the praise of thy name shall I life up my hands. Thou shalt satisfy my soul with fat delicious meat/ whereupon my lips shall joy and my mouth shall praise. As soon as I shall remember myself upon my bed/ I shall think upon thee/ even in the watches of the night. For thou verily art he that bringeth me help/ and I being sure in the shadow of thy wings/ shall triumph joyfully. My soul cleaved v●to thee/ for thy right-hand sustained me. These men that seek my life to spill it shall go down into their graves. Men shall drive them upon the edge of their swords/ they shall be hewn & cut into meat for foxes. But the king shall rejoice in god/ and he shall glory that sweareth by him/ for their mouths shallbe stopped. The argument into the lxiiii Psal. ¶ This psalm is a prayer against slanderers and false accusers/ whose natural disposition Da. here describeth & prophesyeth their punishment. The title. n1g-nn's song committed to the chanter. EXaudi deus orationem. God here my prayer: keep my life from my fearful enemy. Hide me from the shrewd counsel & harmful company/ which are all given to mischief. Which whet their tongues like swords/ and like as out of a bent bow/ they shot forth bitter words for arrows. To smite the innocent/ they will smit him suddenly/ and will fear nothing. They studied for a mischief/ & talk among themselves of snares to be previly laid: saying/ who shall espy them? They studied what mischief they might do: & (every man's mind searched) they concluded fast thereupon. But god shall smite them with a sudden dart/ they shall receive their dethꝭ wound. Their own tongues shall smite them selves/ and who soever shall see them/ shall avoid sore atoned. All mortal men shall see this thing/ & shall speak upon the work of god/ & they shall know his deeds. The ryghtwyseman shall rejoice in the lord/ and shall commit himself to his cure/ all rightwise in heart shall rejoice gloriously. The argument into the .lxv. Psal. ¶ In this Psal. David declareth god to have his chief seat in Zion there to be known/ and worshipped of all men. TE decet himnus. Praise abideth thee/ oh god) in Zion/ and men shall perform unto the their vows. Unto thee/ which hearest prayer/ all mortal men shall come. iniquity prevailed against us/ but it is thou that purgest us from our sins. Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen/ & whom thou haste taken to thee/ to dwell in thy house. For he shall be satisfied with the good things of thy house & of thy holy temple. Of thy marvelous rightwiseness shalt thou grant us/ oh god our saviour) wherefore they shall trust in thee/ all that inhabit the farthest costs of the earth/ & of the long see. Thou art he which settest the hills in their strength/ girt round about with power. Which swageste and peaseste the feerse roaring of the sees/ & ceasest the noise of their floods/ and the wood fury of the heathen. They that are in the extremest parts of the earth/ shall fear at thy wonderful tokens/ them that dwell at the east and at the west thou shalt make glad. Thou hast visited the earth with rain when it was full dry/ thou hast made it very rich and plenteous/ the river of god floweth full of water/ thou shalt make her wheat to increase luckily/ for so is it thy pleasure to endue it. Say plain her even vorowes/ & moist them temperately with sweet showers/ and bless thou the spiring of her corn. Thou shalt lead the ear about with thy gentle favour/ thy clouds shall drop fat plentuousness. There shall fall drops upon the mantions of the desert/ the hills shall joy covered round about with plenteous fruit. The plain fields shall be coveted with flocks of sheep/ and the valleys shall be filled with corn/ wherefore every man shall sing and make melody. The argument into the lxvi Psal. ¶ This Psal. is a giving of thanks for the deliverance of the people of israhel from the tyranny of the ungodly. The title. The song of David/ committed to the chanter to be song. IUbilate. Make ye melody to god/ as many as inhabit the earth. give ye glory unto his name in singing give ye unto him glorious praise. say ye unto god/ oh/ how fearful are thy deeds for thy wide power/ even thy enemies shall come creeping & crouching unto the. Unto the shall profess homage & worship/ all that dwell upon th'earth/ they shall sing unto thee/ they shall sing unto thy name. Selah. Come hither & see the works of god/ see his fearful works toward men. He turneth the sees in to dry land/ he maketh men to go thorough the see dry should/ & there we rejoiced of his power. He turneth the world by his power/ his eyes look upon the heathen/ these backslyders from his truth shall never be promoted. Selah. O people/ magnify ye our god/ praise him with loud voices. This is he that hath preserved the life of our soul/ and hath nat suffered our feet once to slide. verily god hath proved us/ he hath tried us with fire/ as men were wont to try silver. Thou broughtest us in to a straight/ and charged our loins with heaviness. Thou laidest sore men upon our heeds we were brought in to fire & water/ and thou leadest us out again in to a place where we were well refreshed. I shall go to the lord at all times/ I shall pay unto the my vows. Which I promised with my lips & made with my mouth/ when I was in affliction. I shall offer unto the fat sacrifices with the rick & savour of motton/ I shall burn unto the oxen & goats. Selah. Come ye hither as many as fear god/ and bear what things he hath done to my soul. I called upon him with my mouth/ and with my tongue I exalted him. If I had set my mind upon iniquity/ than god had nat heard me: but now god hath herd & given heed unto my prayer. Praised be god which hath nat repelled my prayer/ neither hath he withdrawn his mercy fro me The argument into the lxvii Psal. ¶ Here David desireth the favourable presence of god for the people of israhel. DEus misereatur. God might favour and have mercy upon us: he might lighten us with his presence. Selah That thy way might be known everywhere in the earth/ and thy saving health also unto all nations. The people might magnify thee (o god) ye/ all people might magnify the. The heathen might joy and triumph/ in that thou dost right unto the people/ & directest the nations upon th'earth. Selah. The people might spread thy name/ oh god/ ye all people mought magnify the. The earth also might give again her increase/ and god which is our god might do us good. God mought bless us/ and all that inhabit the earth/ even unto the uttermost parts thereof mought fear him. The argument in to the lxviii Psal. ¶ In this Psalm David singeth his victory obtained of the alients/ as of the Syrins/ that the Acdomites and the Amonites. EXurgat deus. As soon as god riseth to help/ his enemies are dispersed/ they flee from him that hate him. He putteth them to flight like smoke/ as wax melteth against the fire/ even so waste the ungodly from the presence of god. But the rightwise joy and are glad before god they leap for joy. Sing ye to god/ sing to his name/ lift him up riding upon the overmost heavens/ THE LORD is his name/ joy ye before him. The father of the fatherless/ helper of widows/ even god sitting in the seat of his secret holy place. Even god which giveth children to the barren/ and loseth men holden in feters/ but the forsakers of him shall dwell in the wide barren desert. Oh god/ when thou weenest forth before thy people/ and walkedest thorough the desert. Selah. The earth was all to shaken and moved/ and the heavens droped at the presence of this god of Sinai/ ye of god/ even the god of Israel. But/ o god/ thou scatterdst rain in good time upon the earth which thou challengest be right heritage/ and when it failed thou restoredest it again. That this flock might dwell there in/ thou hast so prepared for the poor oh god. afflict/ that they enjoy thy goods The lord hath brought it to pass that women should bring good tidings/ and sing the victory of right great powers Kings compassed with great hosts have fled/ they have fled/ & the weak people that sat at home divided the spoil. Also if ye had been as black as men sitting among pots/ now shall ye be white/ as though ye were covered with doves feathers/ which are as white as silver/ and her wings as yellow as gold. When/ for her sake the almighty god broke down the kings/ she was made as white as the hill zalmon. The hill of god is fat/ as is Bashan/ it is an high hill/ a fat hill like Bashan. Wherefore set ye so out yourselves/ ye high hyllꝭ? this hill of god is a pleasant habitation/ for the lord dwelleth in it perpetually. The horsemen and chariettes of god are thousand thousands/ ye many thousands of Angels/ the lord is in mid 'mong them in his holy place. Thou hast lifted up thyself and hast take them whom thou wilt lead captive/ thou hast received some men among as gifts. And even the forsakers of that thou hast compelled to obey thee/ for that in this place god will have his seat which hath his being of himself. Praised be the lord at all times/ he might increase his benefits unto us/ the very same god which is our saviour. Selah. God which is to us both god & saviour is the lord having his being of himself/ in whose hands are diverse kyndis of death. verily god hath smitten the head of his enemies/ even the very crown of the head of the sinful man. The lord said/ I shall restore my well-beloved/ even as I did once restore them from Bashan ye I shall bring them again/ as I did once from the bottom of the see. Wherefore thy foot shallbe read with blood and thy dogs tongues shallbe red with the blood of thy enemies/ both with theirs and with the blood of the king. Thy beloved see/ thy solemn goyngꝭ (o god/ even the goyngꝭ of my god/ my king) sitting nobly in his holy secret place Singers go before/ there follow plaers at the orgayns/ in the myddis went there young maidens playing upon tympanes In the congregations praise ye god the lord/ even ye which are of the seed of israhel. There were of the little tribe of Benjamin certain which bore rule the princes of juda/ their strength/ the princes of zabulon/ the princes of Naphthalim. Thy god hath given the thy strength: stablish (o god) that thing which thou hast wrought for us. In the temple at Jerusalem/ even kings shall bring the gifts. As thou sharply blamest the spear men with thy mighty power among the captains of the host/ so makest thou them to yield and to become tributaries paying their silver. Cast down the people whose delight is to have battle. There shall come of the most noblest from Egypte/ & Ind shall stretch forth her hands swiftly unto god. Ye kingdoms of the earth sing ye to god/ sing ye with praise unto the lord. Selah. Which rideth upon the heavens/ ye upon the everlasting heavens/ lo/ he putteth forth his voice/ ye and that a voice full of power. give ye to god the praise of strength/ his clear majesty is upon israhel/ his strength is in the clouds. Thou art to be feared/ o god/ in thy secret holy place/ the god of israhel/ he shall give strength and power to the people. Praised be god. The argument into the lxix Psal. ¶ In this Psal of David/ which is the figure of Christ the head of all faithful men (whom it becometh to be conformed and made like their head) is contained a great complaint as of one being in grievous present perils/ and afterward a fervent prayer for deliverance. SAluum me fac deus. Save me god/ for waters are risen so high upon me/ that I am in peril of my life. I stick fast in the deep tough clay in the which I can nat continue/ I am brought into the deep flood and the violent stream carrieth me away. I am weary of crying/ my throat is hoarse/ my sight is wasted with looking up unto my god. They that odiously pursue me faultless/ are more in number than the hears of my head they have prevailed which undo me causeless/ & they whet their enymite upon me they constrain me to pay though things which I never took away. God/ thou knowest if I have done any thing foolishly/ it is nat unknown unto thee/ if I have offended. Oh lord/ the lord of hosts/ let them nat be shamed for my sake which depend on thee/ oh god of Israhel/ let them nat be confounded that seek the. For I/ for thy sake have borne the opprobry/ shame and ignominy covered my face. I was made a stranger to my brethren/ & an alyaunte to my mother's children. Even the very love that I bore to thy house eat me up/ the ●●probryes which the ungodly cast against the brent me sore. I give me to weeping/ my body do I scourge with fasting and for thus doing/ I am reviled. I clothed me in hear and sack for their sakes/ and they jested upon me. They fabled upon me that sat at the gates/ and the drunken men in tavers made songs upon me. But I/ lord/ in the mean time made my prayer unto the when time was offered me/ oh god/ for thy infinite mercy & truth hear me/ for the which thou were wont to help. deliver me from this tough clay/ and suffer me nat to be drowned/ let me be delivered from these odious pursuers/ even from these deep waters. Let nat the stream carry me away/ neither the depth swallow me in/ nor the pit shit her mouth over me. Answer me/ oh lord) for full gentle is thy mercy/ look upon me after thy great humanity. And hide nat thy face from thy servant/ for I draw an heavy cross/ speed the to hear me. join the to my soul and redeem it/ lose me fro my enemies. Thou knowest what approbri/ what shame/ and how great confusion I bear/ they that trouble me are in thy sight. opprobry hath broken my heart/ I am scourged/ I looked for one to ease me with comfortable wordis/ but there was none/ I looked up for comforters/ but I found non. For meat/ they gave me gall/ & when I thirsted they gave me to drink vinegar. Let their own table be their trap/ and their own friends their snares. Let their eyes be blinded lest they see/ and make their loins evermore to slide. power forth thy wrath upon them/ and let thy heavy indignation take them. Let their houses be desolate/ and let there be no man to inhabit their tabernacles. For they say that they persecute him/ whom thou wouldest to be smitten/ and they boast themself to chasten him whom thou commandest to wound. Make that unto these men one wickedness be heaped upon another/ and let them never be partakers of thy rightwiseness. Let them be blotted out of the book of life/ & let them in no wise be written with the rightwise. But me/ oh god) for as much as I am afflict/ poor & full of sorrow/ thou shalt deliver with thy saving help. I shall praise the name of god with song/ I shall extol him with solemn praise. For this shall be more accept to the lord/ than ox and calf/ which are armed with horns and houfes. meek spryted men shall see these things and shall rejoice/ the sekers of god shall see these and their hearts shall live. For the lord heareth the poor/ and men laid in prison for his sake he hath nat despised. Heavens & earth shall love him/ the sees also/ & what so ever moveth in them For god shall save Zion/ and shall preserve the cities of juda/ there shall men dwell & possess that land be right inheritance The posterity of his servants shall receive it for their heritage/ who so ever love his name shall have their seat therein. The argument into the lxx Psal. ¶ In this ps. David desireth speedy help & punishment for his adversaries/ and joyeth for his health among the faithful. The title of the Psal. The song of David committed to the chanter to be song for a remembrance DEus in adiutorium. Oh god speed the to deliver me/ oh lord haste the to help me. Let them be confounded with shame & opprobry which lay await for my life/ let them be turned bakewarde/ and in open ignominy which delight in my trouble. Let them be put back because they labour to shame me/ even they which say fyghe/ fyghe upon him. Let them joy and rejoice in thee/ who so ever seek thee/ and they that love to be holpen of thee/ might say/ god be alway extolled. I am a careful poor afflict/ speed the unto me/ thou art my helper and deliverer/ see thou tarry nat. The argument into the lxxi Psal. ¶ This Psal. is of a comen argument wherein David desireth help against his adversaries which were Absalon with other that conspired with him. IN te domine speravi. In the/ lord/ have I trusted/ suffer me nat at any time to be shamed. deliver me for thy rightwiseness and take me up/ bow down thy ear unto me/ and save me. Be thou unto me a rock of stone/ in the which I might keep me and to the which I might ever flee/ hitherto haste thou taken charge of me to keep me/ for thou art my stone and my castle. My god deliver me from the hand of the ungodly man/ deliver me from the fist of the mischievous and violent man. For thou art he of whom I depend/ lord/ lord/ thou art the same unto whom I have cleaved sithen I was a child. Thou sustaynest me fro my mother's womb/ thou drewest me out of my mothers belly/ my laud and praise is upon the continually. I am made a wondering stock unto many men/ but thou art my strong defence. My mouth shall be yet fulfilled with thy praise/ let it daily extol thy clear majesty. Cast me nat away in mine old age/ forsake me nat when my strength shall fail me. For they spoke upon me among themself/ & they which lay await for my soul have counseled in vain. Saying/ god hath forsaken him/ follow upon him/ and take him for there is no man that will deliver him God/ be thou nat far fro me/ my god speed the to help me. Let them be shamed & perish that are against my life/ let them be covered with opprobry & confusion which take so great pain to hinder me. But I shall tarry for thy help/ and shall exceed all men in thy praise. My mouth shall daily speak of thy rightwiseness and saving health/ for I know no end of thy benefits. I armed with the strength of the lord having his being of himself shall come: & remember thy rightwiseness only. Oh god/ thou haste taught me even of a child/ & unto this time do I publish thy marvelous noble acts. Ye verily/ thou shalt nat forsake me even unto my old age and hoar hears oh god/ whiles I show forth thy mighty power unto this present generation/ and thy strength unto all the posterity to come And whiles I extol thy rightwiseness oh god/ which hast done so great things o god/ who may be compared unto thee? Which hast made me to feel many & grievous adflictions/ and thou peased again shalt quicken me/ & shalt bring me again even from the deepest of the earth. Thou shalt increase my dignity/ for thou pleased again shalt comfort me. And I shall magnify thee/ I shall spread thy true faithfulness/ my god/ with music instruments/ I shall sing unto the with harp which makest holy israhel. My lyppis shall triumph for joy and my soul also which thou hast redeemed/ for I shall sing unto the. Also my tongue shall speak continually of thy rightwiseness/ for they shall be shamed/ and in opprobry which took so great pain to hurt me. The argument in to the lxxii Psal. ¶ In this ps. Solomon prayeth that the kingdom of god might come to/ thorough Christ. The title of this psalm. The psalm of Solomon. DEus judicium. Oh god/ give thy authorte in judgement unto the king/ give the kings son th'execution of thy justice. He shall have to do with the people of his rightwiseness/ and shall deal evenly with thy poor afflict. Mountains shall bring peace unto the people: & the hills shall bring th'execution of rightwiseness. He shall deliver in judgement the poor afflict people/ he shall keep the nedyons/ he shall smite down the unjust vexers of men. Men shall worship thee/ as long as the son & moan shall shine in to every age. He shall come down like small rain in to a new mown meadow/ & like rain which soakingly maketh moist the earth. Rightwismen shall flourish whiles he reigneth/ & there shallbe much peace enduring as long as the moon. He shall have dominion from the one see to the t'other/ and from the east flood unto the worlds end. Before him shall fall down the dwellers of the desert/ & his enemies shall lie prostrate lyckinge the dust. The kings of Tharsis & of the yields shall give him gifts/ the kings of Sheba & Sebashall offer unto him honourably. All kings shall do homage unto him: all nations shall serve him. For he shall deliver the poor that crieth unto him/ & the man in heaviness without help. He shall have pity and mercy on the poor nedyons/ and he shall keep the souls of them that are in affliction. He shall redeem their lives from fraud and violence/ and precious shall their blood be in his sight. He shall live and shall have given him of the gold of Sheba/ men shall bless him all times & shall spread his fame. And the earth shallbe so fruitful that of an handful of wheat there shall arise such plenty in the hills/ that it shall wave with the wind like the thick high trees of Lybani/ and shall grow forth before the city as thick as grass. His name shallbe ever spoken upon whiles the son shall endure and shall go from one generation into another/ thorough him shall all nations be blessed & shall extol him with praise. Praised be the lord god/ god of Israel which alone doth marvelous things. Praised be his glorious name/ every land be fusfilled with his beautiful glory. AMEN. AMEN. ¶ Here is an end of the Psalms and prayers of David the son of jishai. ❧ The argument into the lxxiii Psal. Asaph song this psalm for the consolation of the faithful: which fret themself and are offended at the filycitie of the ungodly. The title. The song of Asaph. QUam bonus deus. Right good surely is god unto israhel/ even to those men which are pure in heart. But my feet were almost gone/ my foting had almost failed me. For that the good fortune of the foolish wicked men set me so a fire/ when I see such prosperity of the ungodly. For they are neither cumbered ne constrained to death/ but they are well liking/ they thrive/ and are lusty. They are nat oppressed with heaviness like other men/ they know nat the sorrow and care that other men abide. Wherefore pride hath closed them round about/ & they are clothed with violence as with garments. They are so full of felicity and wealth that they swell/ they set forth themselves in the imagynatyons of their own hearts. They think to be holden and bridled with no laws: they boast their mischievous vexation/ they speak from a loft. They have lifted up their mouths into heaven/ their tongues walked all over th'earth. They called their people unto the same study/ & made them to drink of the same full cup. Wherefore the people was moved to say within them/ how might god know these things? what knowledge may there be in god above? See/ saith they/ these are ungodly men/ and yet are they blessed in this world/ and swim in plenteous riches. verily as for myself/ I trow I have kept my heart pure/ and have studied to have hands washen with innocentes/ clean from wickedness/ but all in vain. For I have been scourged daily/ & I suffered my chastising every morning/ ye/ and that early. But if I shall thus judge and speak of these things/ I should be injurious unto the nation of thy children. I mused and studied fore to know these things/ but it was laborious & hard to see it. until I was brought into the secret holy places of god/ and was taught to make the end of these men. Surely thou haste set them in a slybery place/ even to cast them down/ and to be utterly destroyed. Oh/ how suddenly were they cast down/ & made an end of/ they were destroyed with sudden mischief. They were but as a dream of a man suddenly/ awake/ oh lord/ even their imagis & pictures hast thou made spitful in the city. Surely my heart bleded in bitterness/ and my inward parts were stinged and as pricked with needles. I was a sot & perceived nothing at all/ I was like a brute be'st before the. And yet/ nat withstanding/ was I always with thee/ thou heldest my right hand fast in the hand. Thou leadest me at thy pleasure/ & afterward tookest me up & helpedest me gloriously. Whom therefore in heaven/ whom in earth should I honour & worship but y●? My flesh and my heart long sore for the oh the very strength of my heart/ god is my portion for ever. For lo/ they that absent themself long from thee/ shall perish/ thou wilt destroy as many as forsake the. But I thought it good for me to cleave to god/ I set the lord before me for my defence to th'intent I would show forth thy works. The argument in to the lxxiiii Psal. ¶ In this psalm Asaph complaineth of the destruction of the temple/ & of the faithful people and also of the blasphemy against god and his holy place/ by the ungodly folk. The title of this ps. It is an instruction showed unto Asaph. QUare deus repulisti. Lo/ wherefore (o god) hast thou put us away from the so long? wherefore is thy wrath thus sore kindlid against the flock of thy pasture? Remember thy congregation whom thou hast chosen to the from the beginning/ even the metyarde of thy herytagel whom thou hast redeemed/ this same thy hill of Sion in the which thou were wont to dwell. lift up thyself/ and come to destroy for ever all enemies/ which have brought all mischief unto thy holy temple. Thy adversaries have roared in the mids of thy Synagogis/ they have set up their banners in token of the victory. Like as in time passed full excellent & noble was the works & diligence of them which cut down with axes great trees/ to the building of the temple. even so now are thereof like diligence & labour/ to destroy & to break the carved images in it with twybyll & hammers. They have brent it in the fire/ & thus they throwing down the house of thy name into th'earth/ have profaned & polluted it. They thought in their mind saying/ let us also slay them all together and they have brent up all the sinagogꝭ of god in the earth. We see nat the tokens and miracles which god was wont to show for us/ there is no prophet left us/ there is no man with us which have any knowledge/ but how long shall this endure? What end/ oh god/ shall thy adversary have that thus shamefully revileth thee? what shall become of this sclanderouse enemy/ which thus ungodly blasphemeth thy name? Wherefore haste thou plucked back thy hand? hold nat thy right hand thus still in thy bosom. verily thou art god which hast hitherto been my governor/ thou art even he that bringest health into the mids of the earth. Thou verily thorough thy power troublest the see/ thou breakest the heeds of the dragons in the waters. Thou knockest together the heeds of the great whales/ and givest them for meat to the people of the desert. Thou breakest up the springs/ thou makest dry the floods. The day is thine/ the night also belongeth to thee/ thou haste ordained the light and the son. Thou hast ordained & set all the costs of the round world/ summer and winter thou hast made them. Yet see thou forgettest nat this one thing/ that this enemy thus blaphemously revileth the lord/ & that this wicked foolish folk thus grievously hurt thy name. Let not the life of thy turtle dove come into the company of these adversaries/ the company of the poor afflict forget not for ever. Look upon thy promise/ for among these blind wretches of the earth all are full of violence & trouble. Turn nat away from thee/ these poor lowelyous with shame but rather cause these poor afflict nedions to praise thy name. Arise god & give sentence against thy adversaries remember how blasphemously they reviled thee/ and how chorlysshly these wicked men deal with the daily. Forget nat the proud words of thy adversaries/ let the high swellings of them that resist thee/ climb up still into their own confusion. The argument in to the .lxxv. Psal. ¶ Here first of all Christ our saviour is brought in under the figure of David/ rejoicing of the power given him/ by the which he would restore the world now being ready to fall: and he monisheth/ that no man resist his king/ because that god is he alone/ which exalteth whom he will. The title of this Psalm. The song of Asaph called Ne perdas. COnfitebimur tibi. We thank thee/ god/ we thank thee/ for nigh is thy glorious power/ those men that call upon thee/ & they shall remember thy marvelous deeds. For I shall take up unto me my congregation/ & shall execute true justice The earth & the dwellers there upon begun to slide away/ & I have underset it. Sel. I spoke to these made fools/ saying/ se that ye be nat besydis your wyttis/ I said also unto these ungodly/ se that ye extol nat your power. lift nat up your horns to high/ neither speak ye proudneckedly For this lyftinge up cometh neither from the east nor the weest/ neither yet from the South hills of the desert. But it is god verily the mighty judge/ he casteth down one man and lifteth up another. For there is a cup full of troubled wine in the hand of the lord/ out of which he poureth to be drunk of/ whose very dregs shall be supped of/ for all the ungodly of the earth shall drink thereof. But I/ in the mean season shall show forth continually his glory: and praise my god/ even the very god of jacob. And shall also pluck up by the roots the horns of these ungodly: but the power of the rightwise shall be still exalted. The argument into the lxxvi Psal. ¶ Here Asaph singeth how that Jerusalem was nobly defended of god: wherefore he extolleth his power/ 〈◊〉 to be dreaded than exceeding all men's powers. The title. The song of Asaph committed to the chanter to be song at thorgains. NOtus in judea. God is honourably known in the land of judah/ and his clear fame is nobly spread thorough the land of Israel. His tabernacle is set up in jerusalem/ and his mansion in Zion. There he broke into peses both ●owe & arrows buckler & sword in battle Selah. Thou art passing clear and noble/ worthy to be magnified above the kingdoms full of theft and robbery. They are deprived of their strong heart their slumber hath overgone them/ their hands are benommed/ although they were men valyaunte in battle. For thorough thy fearful thretening rebuke/ o god of jacob/ their horse and carts went all to havoc. Thou art to be feared in deed/ for who may stand before thee/ especially when thy anger wa●e hot. Even from heaven thou causest thy fearful judgement to be herd/ the earth feared and durst nat once quitche. When god should rise in to judgement/ to save all the meek spirited of the earth. Selah. For men's indignation occasioned thy glory/ even whiles thou brydeledest the rest of thy fury. Make your vows and perform them to the lord your god/ for he is in the mids among you. Offer your gifts to him so greatly to be feared/ which taketh breath even from princes/ it is he that is to be feared of the kings of the earth. The argument into the lxxvii Psal. ¶ In this Psal. Asaph declareth his heaviness of mind for the calamity & wretchedness of the holy people. The title of this Psalm. The song of Asaph committed to the chief chanter to be song of the order of those singers among whom jeduthum was chief. UOce mea ad dominum. With my voice to god/ with my voice to god I cried loud/ and he listened to me. In the time of my tribulation/ lord/ I sought thee/ my sore ran all night and ceased nat/ my soul refused all comfort I remembered god/ and I gnasted and grated my teeth together for anger/ I spoke and my sprite was sore vexed being full of anguish. Selah. Thou heldest mine eyes from sleep all the kyght long and I was so tormented in mind that my sleep failed me. I called to mind my days passed/ even the years of my sore age. I remembered my merry night songs/ I spoke in my heart/ and my spirit searched the cause of this heavy judgement. saying/ shall the lord than cast me a way for ever? shall he never call me again into his favour? Is his goodness than thus taken away for ever? is his comfortable promise thus ended for all ages? Hath god than forgotten to have mercy? or will he shut up his mercy in his anger? Selah. And I thought this is but mine own weak abiding/ until the most highest declare his right hand as he is wont to do. Wherefore I will call to mind the works of the lord and I will hold in remembrance thy marvelous noble acts/ which thou haste wrought of old tyme. I shall think upon all thy works/ and talk upon thy wonderful deeds continually. Oh/ how wonderful are thy ways (oh god) which dwellest in the secret holy place? who is so mighty & so great as is god? Thou art god which hast wrought marvelous things/ and haste declared thy mighty power among the people. Thou hast redeemed and loosed thy people with strong power/ even the son of jacob & joseph. Selah. The waters sometime saw thee/ oh god) the waters saw thee/ and they trembled/ even the deep bottomless see was all to troubled. The black clouds sent down rain/ it thundered in the air/ & hail stones came down like arrows. Great thunder claps were herd round about them/ fearful lyghtnynges' smit the ground/ th'earth quaked & trembled. Thy ways lay thorough the see/ and thy paths in mighty waters and yet no man shall know the prints of thy feet. Thou leadest thy people like a flock of sheep/ by the hands of Moses and Aharon. The argument into the lxxviii Psal· ¶ This Psalm warneth us nat to forget the noble acts of the lord and his wonderful benefits done for his people led out of Egypte/ and brought into the land of Canaan. The title of this Psal. An instruction showed unto Asaph. ATtendite popule meus. Take heed my people unto my law/ bow down your ears unto the wordis of my mouth I will open my mouth into parables/ & I shall speak old dark sentences of gravity. even those things which we have heard/ & known our fathers to have told us. There was nothing hid from their children that succeeded them/ for ever one told another the lords praises/ & put each other in remembrance of his strong power and marvelous things which he wrought. He gave this commandment unto jacob/ & put this law unto Israel when he commanded the fathers to declare these things to their children. That their posterity might know these things/ & their children when they are waxen/ might show the same to their children also. And so to put their confidence & trust in god/ & nat to forget the works of god but to observe his commandments And not to be like their fathers which were a froward nation & falling out of kind/ a nation that directed nat their hearts/ and their spirits committed not their selves steadfastly to god. The sons of Ephraym well armed and good archers/ turned their backs in battle. They kept nat touch with god/ they would nat live after his law. They forgot his works/ & his noble acts which he did for their sakes. For he did wonderful things in the land of Egypte/ in the field of Tanies/ their father's being present. He divided the see and led them thorough he made the waters to run together standing up like walls of their each side. He led them forth by day under a cloud and every night with clear light. He cut insunder the rock of stone in the desert/ and gave them drink out thereof like as out of a great deep water. He led rivers forth of the stone & made the waters to run like sweet floods. And yet for all this they sinned against him/ & angered the most highest in the wilderness. They tempted god in their hearts/ when they asked meat to save their lives. And they spoke against god saying may god spread us a table here in the desert? He smit the stone & there flowed out waters plenteously/ but whether may he likewise/ said they/ give us also breed/ and prepare flesh for his people? Wherefore the lord when he heard these things was angry/ and fire was kindled against jacob/ & his wrath was bent against israhel. And that because they believed nat god/ neither trusted they to his help. And yet he commanded the clouds above/ & opened the doors of heaven. And powered them down MAN to eat he gave them heavenly food. So that man eat strong & substantially meat that came from the cloudis/ he let them have meat even their belifull. He turned about the east wind in the heavens/ & by his power brought in the south wind. And rained down upon them flesh/ as thick as dust/ and feathered fowls like the sands of the se. And they fell down into the middꝭ of their tents/ & round about their tabernacles. And they eat/ & were well filled/ for he satisfied their appetites. They were nat disappointed of their lust/ and yet their meat was no sooner in their mouths/ than the wrath of god fell upon them. And slew the chief of them: even the most stoutest of Israel he threw down. But yet above all this they sinned against him/ for they believed nat his marvelous deeds. Wherefore their days were consumed miserably and swiftly/ and their ●ares passed over in perpetual trouble. When he destroyed them/ than they sought him/ they turned & besought god busily. When they called to mind/ the god is their defender: and that the high god is their redeemer. But they flattered him with their mouths/ & lied unto him with their tongues. Their heart was nat right toward him/ neither kept they touch with him in promise. But yet he (natwithstanding) full mercifully forgave them their wickedness/ he did nat destroy them/ he peased his great wrath & cast nat forth all his indignation. He considered that they were but flesh/ a puffed of fleeing wind which cometh nat again. Often times provoked they him to anger in the desert/ & aggrieved him sore in the wilderness. Again/ they tempted god and casteth away him that maketh holy Israel. They forgot his strong hand and the day in the which he delivered them from the troublous oppressors. They forgot his miracles also/ which he wrought in Egypt/ & his wonderful tokens which he showed in the field of Tanis. When he turned their ponds & dyches into blood/ & their rivers also that they should nat drink. He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them/ and frogs to destroy them. And he gave the profit of their grass and corn to be eaten up of worms/ and thei● labours to hot flies. He beat down their wines with hail stones/ & their fig trees were frost bitten. He destroyed their cattle with hail stones/ and smitte down their beasts with lyghtenyngꝭ. He sent into among them the heavy indignation of his hot wrath/ the consuming vengeance of his fearful ire/ anguyssh & violent woodness by noyous spirits. He hedged in the way of his wrath/ he spared nat their lives from death but betook them to pestilence. He smit every first begotten in Egypt and what so ever they had most lief and dear in the tabernacles of Cham. And led forth his people like a flock of sheep/ and drove them forth like an herd of near into the wilderness. He led them forth so surely that they needed nothing to have feared/ for he overwhelmed their enemies with the waters of the see. And he brought them to his holy place/ even to the hill which he challenged with his right hand. He casted out thereof the gentiles before their faces/ and limited unto them their heritage/ and made the tribes of israhel to dwell in their tabernacles. notwithstanding/ yet they tempted and provoked the high god and kept nat his testimonies. They turned their selves from him/ and dealt unfaithfully against him even as did their father's/ they were writhe back like a bow. They angered god with their worship in high places/ and kindled his wrath with their Idols. God heard them and was sore amoved/ & grievously he rejected and reproved israhel. He forsook his habitation in Shilo/ even the tabernacle in the which he dwelled among men. He suffered his glorious mighty seat to be taken/ and his beautiful house to be brought into the handis of his adversaries▪ He betook his people all together in to the sword/ his ire brent so sore against his heritake. Fire devoured their young children/ & their virgins lost the flower of their ma●yages. Their sacrifices were smitten down with sword/ and their wives had no leisure to mourn like widows. And the Lord awaked/ as though he had slept/ and start up with great noise from slumber/ as a man that had surfeited with wine. And smitte his enemies in the nether afterpartes/ and made them to be into perpetual opprobry. notwithstanding all this/ yet he refused & rejected the tabernacles of joseph/ and the tribe of Ephraym he would nat choose. But he chose the tribe of juda/ even the hill of Zion his own well-beloved. And he builded thereupon his temple like high palaces/ and laid the foundation as fast as the earth to abide a long space. And he chose his servant David/ and took him from the shipkote. He led him from the following of his sheep to feed his people/ even Israel his own heritage. And he shall govern and feed them purely with faithful heart/ & shall retche them forth driving them wisely. The argument into the lxxix Psal. ¶ In this Psalm Asaph complaineth of the calamity and wretchedness done to Jerusalem of Antyoch/ & desireth the help of god against him. The title. The song of Asaph. DDus venerunt gentes. The heathen/ oh god) are come into thine heritage/ they have polluted thy holy temple and have brought Jerusalem in to an heap of stones. They have given the carcases of thy servants meat to the fowls of the air/ and the flesh of thy saints to the beasts of the earth. They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem/ and there was none that would bury them. We are made an approbrie to our neighbours/ scorn & derision to them that dwell round about us. How long lord? wilt thou be angry ever? shall thy indignation burn still like fire? power out thy wrath upon these heathen which will nat knowledge thee/ and also upon these realms that call nat upon thy name. For jacob they have devoured/ & have left his habitation desolate. Remember nat our old iniquytes/ let thy merciable gentleness prevent us shortly for we are grievously oppressed and made full poor. Be present with us/ god/ save us for thy glorious name & deliver us/ pardon our sins for thy name's sake. Lest at any time these heathen should say where is their god? Let the vengeance of the bloodshed of thy servants/ declare the among these heathen/ in our sight. Let the sorrowful sighs of them that are in bonds come into thy presens'/ and for thy great power/ make them alive which are now judged to death. And turn unto our neighbours plenteously their opprobry into their own bosoms/ with the which they have reviled the so approbriously (oh lord. Make us which are thy people/ and the flock of thy pasture to magnify the with thanks for ever/ and to show forth thy praises from generation into generation. The argument into the lxxx Psal. ¶ This Ps. is of the same argument with that which goth before. The title of this Psalm. The song of Asaph to be song of the beautiful Lyle committed to the chanter. QUi regis Israel. Thou herdman & feather of israhel/ listen & take heed which drivest joseph like a flock of sheep/ & thou which sittest between the Cherubyus shine unto us. Thou which art before Ephraim/ Benjamin/ & Manasses lift up thy power & speed the to save us. (Oh god) restore us/ make thy face to shine upon us/ & we shallbe saved. Oh lord which art the god of hostis/ how long wilt thou be angry with the prayer of thy people. Thou feedest us with the tears of our eyes/ and madest us to lick in them plenteously in stead of drink. Thou settedest our borderers against us/ and madest our enemies to laugh us to scorn. God of hosts restore/ make thy face to shine upon us/ and we shallbe saved. Thou translatedest thy vine from Egypt and (the gentiles cast out) plantedeste it in their places. Thou provydedest it a place and didst rote it fast/ in so moch that it spread over all the land. She covered the hills with her shadow and her broad leaved branches shadowed the high cedars. Thou madest her to spread forth unto the weest see/ and her broad branches to reach unto the flood Eufratem. Wherefore than haste thou broke up her hedge/ that every man passing forbye may snatch of her fruit. Wherefore do the bores of the forest wrote her up? and the wild beasts of the field feed up on her? Oh god of hosts turn thee/ we beseech the look out from heaven/ behold and visit this vine tree. Even the same vine which thy right-hand hath planted/ and hast underset it for thine own self. Wherefore it is now brent up with fire and broken down? at thy rough challenge and sharp blaming they perished. Challenge them again into thy hand/ for whom thou were wont to declare thy power/ deliver them whom thou haste strengthened to be thine. We serve not from the in any wise/ restore our life/ that we might call upon the. Lord god of hosts/ restore us/ make thy face to shine upon us/ and we shall be saved. The argument into the lxxxi Psal. ¶ In this Psalm Asaph exhorteth us earnestly to worship god. EXultate deo adiutori. Sing ye with triumph unto god our helper make ye melody to the god of jacob. life up your sweet tune/ smit upon your psalteres/ & touch cleanly the strings of your sweet haps. Blow up your trumpets in the fest of the new moan in the fest appointed for your sacrifices. For so it is ordained for Israel/ and commanded of the god of jacob. He commanded straightly joseph to observe this thing when he should come out of Egypte/ I heard a language which I knew nat. I took the burden from his shoulders/ & his handis were delivered from the furnace. Whiles thy enemies assailed the with battle thou calledest upon me & I delivered thee/ I bekened upon the previly when I thundered full loud/ I searched thy heart to prove the at the waters of thy grudging against saying. Selah. Here my people/ & I shall ensure thee/ Israel/ if thou shalt here and believe me. If thou wilt nat have any other strange god/ neither worship any other unknown god. But wilt know & worship me thy god/ which have led the forth of Egypt/ open thy mouth to ask/ & I shall give the all things. But my people gave no heed to my voice/ Israel regarded me nothing at all. And I left them to their own foolish hardness of their hearts/ & they wrought after their own inventions. Oh/ that my people had heard me? Oh that Israel had walked in my ways. How shortly than had I cast down their enemies/ & had brought back my hand upon their vexers? Also other nations that hated the lord had been subdued to them/ but their prosperity should have ever flourished. God should have fed them with the flower of wheat/ & I would have satisfied them with honey flowing out of the very stonnes. The argument into the lxxxii Psal. ¶ He warneth the princes and rulers to seek d●lygently for rightwiseness: and he accuseth the comen sort of them of unrightwiseness. DEus steti● in Syna. God is chief in the congregation of mighty men and playeth the judge in the myddis of the gods. How long will ye judge wrongfully/ & take upon ye the face of ungodly men? Selah. See that ye deliver in judgement the poor & young fatherless/ set the troubled & oppressed men in their right Avenge the por● forsaken & needy/ deliver them from the hands of the ungodly. For these ungodly are without knowledge & understanding/ they wander in darkness and turn all things upso-down. I have called you gods/ & said that ye all were the children of the high god. Natwithstanding like mortal men must ye needs die/ & even like violent princes shall ye fall away. Arise god and judge thou the earth/ for of all nations some shall fall into thy heritage. The argument into the lxxxiij Psal. ¶ The holy people complaineth/ all their borderers to have conspired to beat thaym down in battle. The title of the Psalm. The ditty of the song of Asaph. DEus quis similis erit. God hold nat thy pease/ wink nat at our cause/ neither be thou still/ oh god. For lo/ our enemies wax wood/ & they that hate the set up their bristles. Craftily have they conspired together against thy people/ they are gone to take counsel against thy unknown saints. saying/ haste ye speedily/ let us make them away from the folk/ so that the name of Israel from thenceforth be no more in mind. They are conspired together with one mind/ and have smit hands to be against thee▪ The tents of A●dom & of Ismaelytes/ the Moabites & Hagarens. The Gabalites/ Ammonites/ and Amalekites/ the Philystiens with the Tyrions'. Also the Assirions were confedred with them/ to help the children of Lot. Sel. Serve them as thou once servedest the Madianites/ and like Sesyra the captain of jabin's host/ at the floods of Kysbon. Which were destroyed in the field of Ender/ where the carrions lay stinking like a dunghill upon th'earth. Serve the overmost of these ungodly like the kings of Oreb and zeeb/ and like zebach/ and zalmuna/ which all were tyrants. Which said/ let us challenge unto us/ the cities of god for our heritage. Oh god/ bring these men unto this point/ to be like a turning wheel and like the stuph of hemp cast in the wind. And as the fire runneth in thick rotten wood/ as the brenning flame eateth in the hills. Even so follow upon them with thy storms/ & make them astoned fearfully with thy sudden whirlwind. All to shame them casting them in to ignomynye/ that yet so (and it may be) they might seek thy name. Let them be confounded and amazed for ever/ let them be laden with opprobry that they might perish. That they might yet thus know the to be god alone/ and that thy name is full high over all the earth. The argument into the lxxxiiii Ps. ¶ In this Psalm is described the fervent desire of David to come into the holy congregation. The title of the Psal. The ditty of the sons of Corah committed to the chanter to be played of a music instrument. QUam dilecta. How goodly & amiable are thy tabernacles/ o lord of hosts? My soul burneth and fainteth for desire to come into the proches of the lord/ my heart & my flesh cried unto the living god. Even the little sparrow there found her an house/ & the swallow a nest to lay in her young/ & shall nat I come unto thy altaries/ o lord my king & my god? Happy are they that may dwell in thy house/ for they shall praise the for ever. Sel. Happy are these men whose strength is set in thee/ to whom also thy paths are pleasant. Men shall make plenteous fountains for the goers thorough the wailing valley/ and rain shall fill their cisterns. And men shall go thick/ flock after flock/ of the which every one shall apere before god in Zion. Oh lord ● god of hosts/ here my prayer/ listen unto me god of jacob. Selah. Behold god/ which art our shield/ behold the face of thy anointed. It is better to be one day in thy fore porches of thy temple/ than here a thousand. I had liefer sit at the threshold of the house of god/ than to dwell long in these troublous tabernacles. For the lord god is both son & shield the lord shall give grace and dignity. He shall nat turn y● that good is/ from these men which live harmless. Oh lord of hostis/ blessed is the man which trusteth in the. The argument into the lxxxv. Ps. ¶ This Ps. is a prophecy of the kingdom of Christ/ & a prayer for his coming. The title of this psalm. The song of the sons of Corath. BEnedixisti domine. Thou shalt bear good mind unto thy land/ oh lord/ and shalt turn away the captivity of jacob. Thou shalt take away thiniquity of thy people/ & shalt cover all their sins. Selah. Thou shalt take away all thy wrath/ & shalt pease the fury of thy anger. Restore us god our saviour quench thy indignation against us. wilt thou be angry with us always? wilt thou stretch forth thy wrath in to the worlds end? Thou verily art even he which bringest thyself again to us/ thou wilt quyken us/ in the shall thy people yet rejoice. Lay forth for us/ lord/ thy merciful goodness/ & give us thy saving ●elpe. I will here what it pleaseth god the lord to speak/ for it is he that shall speak peace unto his people/ which are his saints/ and they shall nat fall again unto their foolishness. Surely he shall be nigh with his help unto those men which fear him/ that his beautiful glory might inhabit our land. Mercy and faithfulness shall meet together/ rightwiseness & pease shall kiss each other. faithfulness shall spring out of th'earth and rightwiseness shall flow out from the heavens. Ye/ the lord shall do full gently/ & our land shall yield forh her enccrese. rightwiseness shall go in prosperously before him/ and he shall set her feet swiftly in to the way. The argument into the lxxxvi Psal. ¶ This is a prayer wherein the sayer prayeth that he might live innocently and safe from his enemies. The title of this Psal. The prayer of David. INclina domine. Bow down thine ear/ oh lord) & answer me/ for I am full poor and full of trouble. Keep my life for I study to be good/ save thou thy servant/ my god/ for he trusteth in the without any doubt. Have mercy upon me/ lord/ for I call unto the daily. Make glad the mind of thy servant/ for unto thee (oh lord/ life I up my heart. verily thou/ lord/ thou art both gentle & merciful/ thou bearest a plenteous good will to all the call upon the. God/ here my prayer/ & receive my deep desire. When I am in trouble I call upon thee/ for thou were wont to hear me. Among all the goddess is there nat one to be compared unto thee/ neither is there any of them that may do such things as thou dost. All the nation which thou hast made/ shall come and worship the oh lord god/ and shall extol thy name. For right great art thou which also dost marvelous things/ thou art god alone. teach me thy ways/ lord/ that I may live of thy faith/ knit my heart unto thee/ that it may fear the. I shall magnify thee/ O lord my god/ with all my heart I shall spread thy glorious name for ever. Full great verily have thy merciful goodness been ever toward me: for thou deliverdest my soul even from the nethermost hell. Oh god/ the proud ungodly made insurrection against me/ and the cruel congregation of violente men seek my life/ which have no respect unto the. But yet thou/ lord/ thou art prone unto mercy/ thou art ready to favour & to forgive/ slow unto wrath/ swimming in mercy & faithfulness. Behold me & have mercy upon me/ give thy strength unto thy servant/ and preserve the son of thy hand maiden. Do good unto me openly/ that they that hate me might be ashamed to see that thou lord/ helpest and confortest me. The argument into the lxxxvii Psal. ¶ In this Psal. jerusalem is magnified/ unto whom it is prophesied many of every nation to come The title of the Psal. The ditty of the song of the sons of Corah. FUndamenta eius. Her foundations were laid upon the holy hills. The lord loved the gates of Zion/ above all the cities of jacob. Glorious & passing clear things are spoken of thee/ oh City of god. Selah▪ I shall number unto them that know me/ Egypte & Babylon. Lo/ there shall come with them also the Palestines/ the Tyrions'/ with the Moors of Ind/ for he was borne there. Also it shallbe said of Zion/ this man/ and that/ was borne in it/ & that same man/ even he the most highest shall lay fast her foundations. The lord shall number and write in his people together/ for it is he that there was borne. Selah. Both the singers & the players/ with all manner of melody that pleaseth me shall be in the. The argument in to the lxxxviij Psal. ¶ In this Ps. is contained a grievous complaint of one being in extreme afflictions. The title of this psalm. The song of the sons of Corah & Heman Ezraite/ committed to the chanter to be song of a certain order of singers in the quere for affliction and disease. DOmine deus salutis. Oh lord god the author of my health/ I have cried unto the by day/ & by night also before the. Let my prayer come before the bow down thine ear to my crying. For my soul is cloyed with diseases/ & my life is brought unto my grave. I am reputed as one to be cast into the ꝓytte/ even as a man without all strength I was laid to the dead men/ as one free from the world/ & like men slain sleeping in their graves out of mind/ as a cast away from thy hand. Thou haste put me in to the nether dyche/ even in to dark and deep dongens. Thy hot indignation lay upon me/ and thou overwhelmedest me with all thy floods. Sel. Thou madest men that knew me to fly my company/ thou causedest me to be eschewed of them/ I am closed in & may nat out go. My face is wrinkled & dried up with sorrow/ I called upon the daily/ I stretched forth my hands unto the. Shalt thou work thy miracles with the deed men? or shall the buried men arise again and praise thee? Selah. Shall thy mercy be published in men's graves? & thy faithfulness in our departing. Shall thy miracles be known in darkness? & thy rightwiseness in the forgetful land? But yet I/ o lord) cry unto thee/ and in the morning my prayer came before the. Wherefore/ oh lord) put test thou away my soul/ and turnest thy face fro me? I was tormented in mind and in a manner deed/ even from my youth was I pressed down with thy fear/ and sithen ever it hath continued. Thy wrath peersed me thorough/ thy fere hath digged me thorough. anguish and trouble hath closed me in daily like/ water's/ & have compassed me round about. Thou madest my friends and them that knew me to fly far from me/ and thus my acquaintance thou hiddest fro me. The argument into the lxxxix Psal. ¶ In this Psal. is declared goodly and at large the new and old Testament or covenant which is smitten by Christ the son of David between god & his chosen never to be broken/ & that under the figure of David & of his posterity. For a declaration of the first part of this Psal. and knowledge of these two words merci & faithfulness/ ye shall understand that god of his mercy and goodness first promiseth/ and for his truths sake he performeth it/ which faithful performing/ the prophet calleth faithfulness. wherefore these two words/ mercy and faithfulness/ are commonly joined together in the Psalms The title of the Psal. The song of Ethan. MIsericordias domini. The mercy of the lord shall I praise in my song perpetually/ & thy faithfulness shall I declare with my mouth into all ages. For thus thought I with myself/ thy mercy shall be prepared ever to cont●nue/ & thy faithfulness also to increase in the veri heavens. I smit hands with my chosen/ & swore unto David my servant. I shall stablish his posterity with increase to stand for ever/ I shall set fast his seat regal into all agꝭ. Se. Heavenly men shall celebrate & publish thy marvelous dedis/ oh lord/ saints shall spread thy faithfulness in the congregation. For what man in the clowdꝭ may be compared to the lord? or who among the gods may be likened unto the lord. God is greatly dreaded in the congregation of his saints/ & greatly to be feared among them which are about him. Lord the god of hostis who is like the in power? oh lord/ all things about the are faithfulness. Thou declarest thy power even upon the proud see/ & swagest her high waves. Thou hast smit down and all to broken Egypt/ with thy strong power thou haste dispersed thine enemies. Heavens are thine the earth is thine/ the round world with all that therein is/ thou haste made them. The north & the south thou hast made them/ Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. Thou haste an exceeding strength/ thou strengthenest thy hand and liftest up thy right-hand. In rightwiseness & equity thy seat is set/ mercy & faithfulness go before thy face. Happy is the people/ oh lord/ that knoweth the voice of the trumpets/ they that are endued with the favour of thy presence shall in entry. They shall rejoice upon thy name daily/ and for thy rightwiseness they shall lift up their selves. For thou art the glory of their strength & for thy good wills sake thou shalt extol our power. The lord is our prince & our shield/ it is our king that maketh holy Israel. Than thou spokest in a vision to thy saints/ saying. I have set up a mightty man to be an helper/ I have lift up a chosen man out of my people. I have found my servant David/ with my holy ointment have I anointed him. That my hand should be fast with him/ & that my arms should strengthen him. His adversaries shall nat beguile him/ a shrewd man shall nat vex him. I shall smite together his adversaries before his face/ & his haters shall I destroy. My mercy & my faithfulness are with him/ and in my name shall his power be exalted. I shall throw the see under his power/ & the floods shallbe at his commandment. He shall call upon me saying/ my father art thou/ my god/ my saving defence. Ye/ I shall set him to be my first begotten child/ to be above the kings of th'earth. Into everlasting shall I lay up my mercy for him/ & I shallbe faithful in promise unto him. I shall bring it so to pass that his seed shall ever endure/ & his seat regal shall stand as long as the heavens abide. But if his children shall forsake my law/ & live not after mine ordinance. If they shall defile my ceremonies/ & will nat observe my commandments. With a rod than shall I punish their sins/ & with beatings shall I reward their iniquities. But yet my mercy shall I nat take from him/ neither will I deceive him of my promise. I shall nat frustrate my bargain/ neither will I change that thing which is once gone forth of my mouth. Ones I swore be my holiness/ & in no manner of wise shall I deceive David. His seed shall ever continue/ his seat regal shall abide before me like the son. It shall endure as fast to stand as the moon/ which is in the cloudis a sure forshewer of the tyme. Sel. But yet thou hast repelled/ thou hast abhorred & turned away thy face in thy gre● anger from thy anointed. Thou haste had no consideration of thy covenant smitten with thy servants/ thou hast cast down his diadem to the ground. Thou hast cast down his walls/ & turned his strong defences into his great fear They plucked & tore him/ as many as passed forbye/ he was brought to this state/ that even his own neighbours had him for a laughing stock. Thou maintenedest the right-hand of them that assailed him/ all his enemies thou madest glad verily even thou bluntedest the edge of his sword/ and wouldest nat help him in battle. Thou madest an end of his dignity/ and his seat regal thou threwest down into the earth. Thou cuttest of the days of his youth/ and coverdest him with ignominy. Selah. How long/ o lord) shalt thou thus continually turn the away? shall thy ho●e indignation bren thus still like fire? Remember of how few days I am/ hast thou made all men in vain? For what man is there which must nat die? may there any man deliver his life from the power of his grave? Selah. Where are those thy mercies showed of old time past oh lord/ which thou sworest unto David of thy faith? Remember thy rebukes which are laid upon thy servants/ o lord) I received into mine own bosom all the rebukes of much people. With the which thy enemies reviled us/ oh lord/ they reviled even thy anointed/ because he tarried so long. Praised be the lord for ever more. AMEN. AMEN. The argument in to the. lxxxx. Psal. ¶ In this ps. Moses complaineth of this vain present life: & desireth the favour of god to prosper though things which he hath begun. The title. The prayer of Moses'/ the man of god. DOmine refugium. Lord thou hast been a refuge or sanctuary for us/ & that at all times. Before thy hills were brought forth/ and the earth round about was prepared/ from worlds unto worlds/ thou art god. Thou leadest back man until he be old/ and than thou sayest/ turn ye back again o mortal men. For a thousand years are before thee/ even as yesterday/ which are now past as one of the watches of the night. Thou makest them to slide down all at ones like a sudden great rain/ they are like a dream/ & like a flower anon are they changed. Which flourisheth in the morning/ and receiveth fresh beauty/ at evening it is cut down and withered. verily we are wasted with thy wrath/ and with thy fervent indignation are we thrown down. Thou haste laid our iniquities before thy face/ and our offences haste thou set in the light of thy presence. All our days (thou being angry) shall slide away/ our years go away like a thought. The days of our years are threescore and ten/ & we be somewhat strong/ they are four score/ and the best of them are passed in sin and heaviness/ swiftly we must fly away. What man knoweth the power of thy wrath? but like as men fear thee/ so feel they thy indignation. Wherefore show us plainly the number of our days/ that our heart might get some wisdom. Turn the lord/ how long? be pleased/ set thy heart at rest with thy servants. Fill us anon with thy mercy/ & we shall triumph & rejoice all our days. Make us glad for the days in the which thou hast scourged us/ & for the years in the which we suffered afflyctions. Let thy work shine upon thy servants/ & thy beautiful magnificence upon their children. The glorious majesty of the lord our god be over us/ & make thou to prosper/ what so ever we go about/ what so ever we begin make it to succeed luckily. The argument into the. lxxxxi. Psal. ¶ Here it is declared how sure that man is/ and how fire from all evils which committeth himself with a fast faith unto god. QUi habitat in. Who so ever sitteth in the secret help of the most highest/ & abideth fast under the shadow of the all mighty/ for all alone sufficient. He shall say to the lord/ thou art my trusty defence & my castle/ my god/ I shall cleave unto him. For he will deliver me from the snare of the hunters/ and from their deadly pestilence. He will cover the with his feathers/ & thou shalt be sure under his wings/ defended with his faithful promise/ as with bucler and shield. Thou shalt nat need to be afraid of night bugs/ neither of the arrows that fly by day. Neither of the poison pestilence that creepeth in the dark/ nor yet of the devilish destroyer in the clear midday. There shall fall of thy left side a thousand/ and of thy right hand shall there fall ten thousand/ but such falls shall nat come nigh the. For thou only shalt behold these things with pleasure/ and shalt see these ungodly quited again. For thou lord/ thou art my hope/ thou hast set the most highest to be my refuge. No disease shall come a nigh thee/ neither any plague shall happen unto thy house. For he hath commanded even his angels to be with thee/ & to keep the diligently in all thy ways. Which shall bear the up with their hands/ unless thou smitest thy foot against any stone. Thou shalt walk upon lions and venomous edders/ and shalt tread under thy foot the lions whelps and dragons. Because he hath trusted in me/ I shall deliver him/ I shall give him the over hand because he hath knowledged my name. He shall call upon me & I shall answer him: I shall be present with him in tribulation/ I shall defend him/ and shall endue him with dignity. I shall fill him with long life/ and shall give him my saving health. The argument in to the. lxxxxij. Psal. ¶ In this psalm is expressed/ that in the Sabbath day is the chief opportunity to praise god. The title of this psal. The ditye of the song which serveth for the Sabbath day. BOnum est confiteri. Now is convenient time to magnify the lord/ and to spread thy name with praise/ oh thou most highest.) To sing early thy mercy & thy faithfulness in the night season. And that upon ten stringed instruments/ upon the lute/ the psaltry/ and upon the harp. For thou hast made me glad with thy works/ & I shall triumph upon the deeds of thy hands. How great are thy deeds/ oh lord) marvelous profound and unsearchable are thy counsels and thy thoughts. A dull man shall nat know this thing neither these shrewd fools shall understand them. That is to say even these/ whiles the ungodly shall flourisshe like the flower/ and all that are addict unto wickedness/ shallbe given to spread themself/ to the intent they should be blown away for ever. Than art thou full high to abide in to everlasting/ oh lord. For lo/ thy enemies/ o lord/ for lo/ thy enemies perish/ they are destroyed who so ever were given to wickedness. But thou shalt lift up thy horn like an unicorn/ I shall be anointed & suppled to be made fresh and lusty again. I shall see my desire fall upon my await-layers/ and mine ear shall hear that I longed for of those men which pursued me The rightwisman shall flourish like the palm tree/ and shall exceed in strength like the cedars of Lybani. They are planted in the house of the lord/ & shall flourisshe in the four porches of our god. Ye/ and even now in their old age/ shall they yet be fruitful/ fresh and full of lively sap. To declare/ how indifferent and rightwise is the lord/ my strong defence in whom is there no shrewdness. The argument in to the. lxxxxiij. Psal. ¶ This psalm setteh forth the majesty of god of the creation of the world/ and throwing down of the gentiles most of all be to dreaded. THe lord is king/ his majesty is gloriously decked: the lord hath done upon himself strength/ & hath girt himself mightily. He hath verily builded and set fast the round world/ so that it shall nat be moved. Thy seat was prepared in season: but thou thyself art of everlasting. The floods are risen/ o lord) the floods have roared/ the floods have lift up their streams. Above the noise of the marvelous stormy and troubled see/ marvelous is the lord which hath his residence above. Thy words are certain & very faithful/ thy house is right fair/ holy/ & goodly/ the secret holy place of the lord shall stand into full long times. The argument into the. lxxxxiiij. psal. ¶ In this Psa. the prophet calleth in the judgement of god against the ungodly/ the oppressors of innocentes & poor afflict: & threateneth them to not know though things that here are done. DEus ulcionum. Lord/ god/ the revenger of sins/ god the punissher of sins/ shine upon us. lift up & show forth thyself/ o judge of the earth/ acquit these proud men/ and give them their reward. How long shall these ungodly/ oh lord? how long shall these ungodly thus prosper & rejoice? Shall they thus prate and speak proudly? shall they thus boast themself/ these men addict and all given to wickedness? They oppress thy people/ oh lord/ they scourge them whom thou challengest of right heritage. Poor widows and strangers they slay/ and young fatherless children they put to death. And they think that the lord see nat these things/ neither that the god of jacob perceiveth them. See that ye have understanding ye fools among the people/ and ye sots when at the last will ye wax wise? He that made the ear/ how should he nat here? & he that fashioned the eye/ how should he nat see? He that chastise all nations and giveth knowledge to the men/ shall he nat correct you? The lord knoweth even the very thoughts of men/ and that they are vain & nought. Blessed is the man whom thou/ o lord/ teachest and chastynest/ and instructest him in thy law. That thou mightest set him at rest in a troubelouse season/ even than whilꝭ the pit is yet a digging for the ungodly. For the Lord shall nat cast away his people/ neither will he forsake them/ he hath taken up into his heritage. For yet shall judgement be joined with rightwiseness/ this rightwiseness shall all men right in heart follow. What man will rise for me against the ungodly? who will stand with me against these workers of wickedness. Except the lord had helped me/ my soul had shortly dwelled in the place of silence. But when I thought/ now my foot is slyden away/ than thy mercy/ oh lord/ held me up. These manifold & careful thoughts brent me nat within so sore/ but thy consolatyons refreshed again my soul much more. For what hast thou to do with the fear of these flarering dissemblers? whose manner is to feign injuries. They clustered & were wrapped together against the just man's soul & they shed devilishly the innocentes blood But the lord shall be a castle for me/ in which I may be safe/ and my god is my rock stone in whom I may be defended. And he will acquit them their wickedness/ and whiles they ace about to hurt other with wrong/ he shall destroy than/ the lord our god shall destroy them. The argument into the. lxxxxv. Psal. ¶ This Psalm is a biding to honour God earnestly and to magnify his name. UEnite exultemus. Come & let us triumph/ let us make melody to the lord/ the defender of our health. Let us haste to come in to his presence with praise givynges/ let us sing unto him with hymns. For the Lord is a right great god & king over all gods. In whose hand are the deep secrets of the earth/ and the highthes of the hills. The see is his/ for he made it/ and all contained therein his hands have fashioned. Come therefore and let us worship/ and fall down upon our knees before the Lord our maker. For he is our god/ and we are the people of his pasture/ and the flock whom he driveth/ if we this day give heed and believe his word. See that ye harden not your hearts as they did in the desert of Merybah/ in the time of temptation. When your fathers tempted and provoked me/ and yet they see my works. Forty years I chid with the nation/ and I said/ this people erreth in their hearts/ they allow nat my ways. Unto whom I swore in mine anger/ they shall never entrr in to the land of my rest. The argument into the. lxxxxvi. Psal. ¶ The prophet moveth all creatures/ to the praise of god/ because that he now by Christ reigneth. CAntate. Sing ye to the lord a new song/ sing ye to the lord as many as dwell upon th'earth. Sing ye to the lord and praise ye his name/ preach ye day by day that saving health which he bringeth. Put the gentiles also in mind of his beautiful glory/ & among all his people declare ye his merueles. For right great is the lord & worthy moche praise/ he is to be feared before all gods. For all the gods of the people are nought/ it is the lord that hath made the heavens. Noble fame & clernes is before him/ power and majesty shine in his holy secret place. give ye to the lord honour welworthy his name/ bring ye forth gifts and come into his temple Worship ye the lord in his rich & goodly temple/ fear him ye that inhabit the earth. Tell ye the gentiles that the lord is king/ he shall stablish the world lest it rele/ he shall judge/ and reason with the people indifferently. Be glad ye heavens/ and let the earth joy/ let the see take her pleasure/ & what so ever swimmeth therein. Let the field laugh/ and what so ever is contained in it/ now let all the trees of the wood triumph. Ye/ and that before the lord/ for he is come/ for he is come to govern the earth/ to govern the world with rightwiseness/ and the people of his faithfulness. The argument into the. lxxxxvij. Ps. ¶ In this Psalm David prophesieth of the kingdom of Christ. DOminus reg. exul. The lord is king/ the earth joyeth & many iyldes are glad. He is closed about with a dark cloud/ but his seat regal is set in rightwiseness and equity. Fire goth before him/ and brenneth his enemies round about him. His lightnings smite the world roundabout/ the earth saw them/ and trembled for fear. Hills melted away like wax at the presence of the lord/ they melted even from the presence of the lord of all the earth. The heavens showed forth his xightwysnesse/ & all the people saw his glorious beauty. Let them be shamed who soever worship carved images/ which also glory in feigned pictures of nought/ ye gods all/ see that ye fall down & worship him. Zion have herd and is glad the cities of juda rejoice in thy iugemēt● oh lord. For thou/ lord/ art higher than all men of th'earth/ and far exalted above all the gods. Ye that love the Lord/ se that ye hate evil/ he keepeth the lives of his saints/ & delivereth them from the hands of the ungodly. Light is spread among the rightwise and gladness to the upright in heart. Be glad ye rightwise in the lord/ & spread ye his holy memorial everywhere. The argument into the. lxxxxviij. Psa. ¶ The argument of this psal. is all one with the other before/ & with the argument of the. lxxxxvi. p CAntate. Sing ye to the Lord a new song for he hath done marvelous deeds/ he saved alonely with his right hand and with his holy arm. The lord hath declared his saving health/ he hath opened and set forth his rightwiseness before the gentiles. He remembreth his mercy & his faithful promise to be performed upon the house of israhel. All the costs of the earth have seen the saving health/ which our god hath brought. Make ye melody to the lord all th'earth/ lift up your voice triumph and sing ye. Sing ye to the lord with harp/ play upon harp the ditty with sweet note. With clariers & trumpets/ make ye melody before the king which is the lord. Let the see rumble out her melody and all therein/ ye/ the round world also & all that inhabit it. Let the floods clap their hands gtoither/ & the hills also be glad rejoicing before the Lord. For he is come to govern the earth/ he shall govern the round world with rightwiseness and the people with equity. The argument into the. lxxxxix. Psal. ¶ This Psalm singeth the goodness and power of god/ repesented some time by the Arch given in earnest of his promise. DOminus reg. iras. The Lord is king/ be the people never so wrath he sitteth in his estate upon the arch between the cherubins/ although th'earth be moved thereat. The lord which dwelleth in Sion is right great/ & his power is mighty over all people. Let men spread thy name/ for it is great & to be feared/ & holy also This king excelleth in strength & love of judgement/ thou hast set all things in due order with jacob/ so that they may be now done of equity and right. Extol ye therefore the lord our god/ & fall ye down before his foot stole for he is holy. Moses & Aharon chief among his sacrificers/ & Samuel chief among the callers upon his name/ called upon the lord/ & he granted them. From the shadow beam of the cloud/ he spoke to them/ they marked and kept his commandments and ceremonies which he gave them. Lord thou art our god thou grauntedest these men/ and for their sakes thou forgavest them/ also for these men's sakes thou takest vengeance upon them. Extol ye the lord our god/ and fall ye down before his hill/ for holy is the lord our god. The argument into the. C. Psal. ¶ An exhortation unto the praise of god in the holy congregation. IUbilate. Make ye melody unto the lord/ all that dwell upon the earth. worship ye the lord gladly/ come into his presence joyfully. Knowledge ye the lord that he is god/ he hath made us and nat we ourselves/ we are his people and the flock of his pasture. Entre ye in to his gates with thanks giving/ & into his for porches with praise singing/ magnify him & praise his name. For the lord is right gentle/ his mercy endureth in to everlasting/ & his faith fullness into all ages. The argument into the. C.i. Psal. ¶ Here the prophet promiseth himself to do the office of a Christian and holy prince/ that is to say/ first to live perfectly himself/ and than to vanquish evil men & to promote the good. The ditye of David. MIsericordiam & judici. Of mercy & equity shall be my song/ unto the shall I sing/ oh lord. I shall behave myself wisely living innocently/ when shalt thou come to me? I shall walk in my house with a pure & harmless heart. No shrewd thing shall I purpose/ him that followeth shrewdenes I hate/ and in no wise shall he be to me belonging. A malicious heart shall avoid fro me/ and an hurtful man shall I nat maintain. A privy backebiter of his neighbour will I destroy/ a proud countenance with a swelling heart/ him will I nat suffer. But I search for them that love faithfulness in th'earth/ that such might dwell with me/ he that liveth hurtelesse shall serve me. There shall be no place in my house for him that doth deceitfully/ he that speaketh lies shall nat prosper with me. But swiftly shall I destroy these ungodly upon th'earth/ that I might cut out of the city of the lord all workers of falsehood The argument in to the. C.ii Psal. ¶ This Psal. containeth a grievous complaint of the misery of the holy people/ which now returned from Babylon/ going about to repair the temple and the city suffered great injures and rebukes of the gentiles their borderers/ but there is annexed consolation in that they considered the perpetual goodness of god/ now beginning to shine upon them thorough the favour of Ciri and Darii. Rede the story in Ezra and Nehemiah the Prophet. The title of the Ps. This is a prayer of the poor afflict being in grievous anguish/ and pouring forth his complaint before the lord. DOmine exaudi. Lord hear my prayer/ and suffer my deep desire to come unto the. hide nat thy face from me in time of my tribulation/ bow down thine ear unto me in the day when I call upon thee/ speed the to grant me. For my days verily are vanished away like smoke/ and my bones are dried up like a stowe. My heart is smitten thorough like grass & is weathered away/ in so much as I forsook to take mine own meat I was so dried up with my sorrowful and loud sighs/ that my bones clyved to my skin. I am like an estrege of the wilderness/ & made like an houlet in an old forlaten house. I lie waking & am left alone/ like the sparrow in the thank. Mine enemies reviled me all day/ & they that chid me used my name opprobriously. I eat th'earth in stead of breed/ & lick in my tears in stead of drink. And all is for thy indignation & thy wrath/ for when I was a fit ethou threwest me down. My days are vanished away like a shadow/ & I myself am withered like hay. But thou lord sittest still for ever & thy memorial endureth in every age. Thou shalt rise & have petty on Zion/ for it is time for the to favour it/ for the day appointed is now come. For the stones of it please thy servants verily/ and they favour her soil. Even the haythen also shall worship the name of the Lord/ & all the kings of the earth shall knowledge thy glorious beauty. The lord verily shall build Zion/ he shallbe seen in his beauteful glory. And he shall have respect unto the prayer of the poor forsaken/ his prayer shall he nat despise. This thing shallbe written for the world to come/ and for his cause the people which are yet unmade shall praise the Lord. For he shall look forth of his high holy place/ the Lord even from heaven shall behold the earth. To here the sighs of them that are in bonds/ and to lose the children judged to death. That they might preach the name of the Lord in Zion/ and his praise in jerusalem. When the people & the kingdoms shall be gathered together to worship the lord. He abated my courage in my journey/ & hath cut of my days. I say ● my god take me nat away in the mids of my days/ for thy years endure thorough out all ages. In the beginning thou laidest the foundation of the earth/ and the heavens are thy handy work. They shall perish when thou shalt stand fast/ and all things shall wear old like a garment/ thou shalt dress them again like a garment & they shallbe changed. But thou art even thine own self/ and thy years shall never be ended. The children of thy servants shall dwell still and their posterity shall live prosperously and blessedly in thy presence. The argument in to the. C.iii Psal. ¶ In this Psalm the Prophet praiseth the goodness of god toward men/ which forgiveth their sins and giveth them plenteously the goodness both of body and soul. wherefore he exhorteth both men and angels/ and all creatures to praise god. The ditty of David. BEnedic anima. Praise thou the lord o my soul/ and all that are within me/ praise his holy name. Praise thou the lord o my soul/ & forget nat his benefits. Which forgiveth the all thy iniquities/ and healeth all thy diseases. He redimeth thy life from perdition/ & heapeth upon the on every side his mercy & gentleness. He filleth thy soul with goodness & reneweth thy youth like an Egle. Of rightwiseness and equity/ he restoreth all men that suffer wrong. He hath made his ways known to Moses) & his deeds to the children of Israel. The lord is prone unto mercy and bent unto favour/ he is slow unto wrath/ and plenteous in goodness. He shall nat chide always/ neither keep hatred in mind ever to be avenged. He hath nat deelt with us after our sins/ neither rewarded us according to our iniquytes. But look how high heavens are over the earth/ even so high hath he made his mercy to prevail over them that worship him And look how far the east is from the weest/ even so far hath he set our sins from us. Look how the father's heart yerneth upon his children/ even so doth the lord petty them that fear him. For he knoweth of what frail metal we are/ he remembreth full well that we are but dust. The days of man are like grass/ for as a flower of the field he flourisheth for a tyme. Whom when the wind hath overblowen/ by & by is it gone/ and his place where he was knoweth him no more. But the mercy of the lord endureth from worlds unto worlds over them that fear him/ and his ryghwysnes stretcheth to their chyldres children. Unto those which keep covenant with him/ and hold in mind his commandments/ to th'intent they would do them. The lord hath set fast his seat regal in the heavens/ and all things are subject unto his kingdom. Praise the lord/ ye which are his messengers valiant in power which do his commandments obeying him at a word. Praise ye the lord all his host/ ye that are his ministers which do his pleasure. Praise ye the lord all his works/ ye/ & that in every place of his dominion. The argument in to the. C.iiij. Psal. ¶ This Psal. is a praise wherein the Prophet magnifieth god of the creation of the world/ and of the merciful governance thereof. BEnedic. Praise thou the lord my soul oh lord my god thou art greatly to be magnified/ thou hast ornoured thy self with fame/ clearness/ and glory. Thou deckest thyself with light as with a garment/ thou stretchest out the heavens like a cortayne. He layeth the beams of his tabernacles above in the waters/ he himself is carried in the clouds/ he flieth on his journey with the wings of the wind. He useth blasts of wind for his messengers/ & for his ministers he hath the flaming ●yer. He laid the foundation of the earth ●ast stayed/ of her own self/ so that she shall nat rele for ever. Thou hast wrapped it in/ with the deep see like as with a garment/ for even upon the hills waters shall stand. They fled when thou blamedest them/ & fell down suddenly at the noise of thy thundering. The hills appeared all aloft/ the plain fields lay beneath at their place assigned them. Thou hast limited them their bounds which they over pass nat/ unless they return/ overflow th'earth. He sendeth forth quick springs into rivers which ren down between the hills. Whereof drink the wild beasts/ & wild asses slack their thirst. nigh these sweet floods the fowls of thair have their seats/ & sing among the bows. He watereth the hills even from his over parlours/ with the plenteousness of thy works thou satisfiest th'earth. He maketh the grass to spring & to grow into father for cattle/ & the corn also by man's labour & toylinge/ whereby he might get living out of the ground. As wine which maketh merry man's heart/ & oil which maketh man's face freshly to shine/ & bred which sustaineth thart of man The trees of the lord are refreshed/ even the cedars of Lybani which he planted. In the which the byrdis nestle/ & the Curl● hath their her nest. The high hills are a refuge & succour for the wild goats/ & the stonney rocks for the hares. He made the move to show the appointed festes (the son knoweth when he shall go down. Thou bringest darkness upon/ to make the night/ & than they go to their relief/ the wild beasts of the woods. As the lions roaring for their proie so to ask their meat of god. The son risen/ they are hid again/ and are laid down in their dens. But man goth forth to his work & unto his labour/ until the evening. Oh/ how excellent are thy works/ o lord? all things wisely haste thou made/ the earth swimmeth in thy goodness. This see is great and of marvelous large breadth/ there are things creeping with out number/ and things that have life both great and small. There sail ships/ and there go these whales which thou hast made therein to play. All things wait upon thee/ that thou shouldest give them meat in time. When thou hast given it them/ than they gather/ & when thou hast opened thy hand/ than are they well satisfied with good food. When thou turnest away thy face/ than are they atoned/ when thou gathrest in their breath/ than are they deed and returned into earth. And again when thou breathest upon them/ than are they created a new: and thus renewest thou the face of th'earth. The glorious beauty of the lord standeth for ever/ the lord shall ever rejoice of his works. He beholdeth th'earth & it trembleth: he toucheth thylles & they smoke. I shall sing unto the lord whiles I live I shall sing unto my god as long as I shall have my being. My speech might be sweet unto him/ I shall rejoice in the lord. Let the sinners be consumed upon th'earth/ & the ungodly also/ until that non be left a live. oh my soul praise thou the lord. love IE THE LORD. The argument into the. C.u. Psal. ¶ Here the Prophet exhorteth to the praise of god in his holy congregation at the Arch/ the earnest of his promise of the land of Canaan. COnfttemini. magnify ye the lord and call upon his name/ put the people in mind of his wonderful deeds. Sing unto him and make ye melody/ show forth all his marvelous works. Gloriously spread ye a broad his holy name/ their hearts might be glad that seek the lord. Seek ye the lord diligently/ & his mighty seat also/ seek ye his face alway. Remember his acts which he hath done/ his wonders and judgements which are gone forth of his mouth. Oh/ ye seed of Abraham which are his servants/ oh ye children of jacob his chosen. The lord/ he is our god/ which obtaineth the rule over all the earth. He remembreth his promise thorough all ages/ that his bargain might stand in to thousand generations. Which he smit with Abraham/ & swore unto Isaac. Which he put to jacob for a law/ & to israhel into a perpetual covenant. When he said/ unto the I give the land of Canaan/ the lot & portion of thine inheritance. even when they were but a few silly men and strangers therein. Going from nation to nation/ from their own realm to another people. He suffered nat any man to do them wrong/ & for their pleasures he chastised even the kings. See therefore that ye touch nat my anointed/ neither hurt ye my prophetis. He brought an hunger upon the land/ and wasted all their yearly corn. He sent before them a man/ even joseph sold into bondage. They tormented his feet with fetters/ & his body was cast into yerns. until his deed came into light/ the word of gods own mouth restored him tried with fire like gold. The king sent and delivered him/ and the governor of the people did lose him. He made him ruler of his house/ and the dysposer of his goods. To correct his nobles at his pleasure/ and to teach his sage men wisdom. And israhel after this is comen in to Egypt/ & jacob became a stranger in the land of Ham. And god increased his people exceedingly/ and made them stronger than their adversaries. And afterward turned the hertis of these men/ & made them to hate his people/ & to work disobeyed with his servants. And than he sent them Moses his servant and Aharon his chosen. These men showed his miracles among them/ and wonders in the land of Ham. He cast upon them darkness/ and made dark Egypte/ and they did nat against his words. He turned their waters in to blood/ and slew their fishes. Frogs crept everywhere in their land/ even in the kings bed chambers. He did but say the word/ & there came swarms of flies & lice in to all their costs. In stead of rain he gave them hail stones/ and lightening in their land. He smit their wines & figtrees/ & broke down their trees in their coasts. He spoke the word/ & there came hot flies/ and devouring worms without number. Which devoured & brent up all the grass in their land/ they eat up the fruit in their fields. He smit also every first begotten that they had/ even the first fruits of their wedlock. But he led forth his chosen/ endued with silver and gold/ and there was nat one in their tribes that was sick. Egipte rejoiced in their forth going/ for they were afraid to hold them any longer. He stretched forth a cloud which covered them/ and sent them fire to lighten them by night. They asked/ and their came quails and he filled them with heavenly food. He opened they in the stony rock/ & their flowed out waters/ the floods ran down the wilderness. For he remembered his holy promise/ and also his servant Abraham. And he led forth his people in great joy/ & his chosen with great triumph. And he delivered them the lands of the gentiles/ & they challenged unto them the labours of the flock by right heritage. To th'intent they would observe his ceremonies/ and keep his laws also. love IE THE LORD. The argument into the. C.vi. Psal. ¶ The people of god scattered among diverse nations of the gentiles for their sins: exhort themselves to praise the goodness of god laydforth always to them that seek him. The title of this Psalm. Love ye the lord which hath his beginning of himself/ and all other creatures have their beginning of him. COnfitemini. magnify ye the lord/ for he beareth us good mind/ & his mercy is set forth for us into everlasting Who may express the noble acts of the lord/ who may declare all his praises Blessed are they that observe equity/ and study to do right at all times. Remember me/ oh lord) according to thy good will promised to thy people/ visit me with thy saving health/ which thou hast promised. That I might delight in beholding the prosperity of thy chosen that I might rejoice in the gladness of thy folk/ and that I might glory with thy people/ whom thou haste claimed to be thy right heritage. We are sinners like as our fathers were/ we have committed wickedness and have done ungodly. Our fathers in Egipte regarded nat thy miracles/ neither remembered they thy manifold goodness: they rebelled at the see even at the red see. And yet he saved them for his name's sake/ to magnify his glorious power. He rebuked roughly the red see & it was updried/ and he led them thorough the depth like as thorough a desert. He preserved them from the hands of their adversaries/ & redeemed them from the power of their enemies. And the waters overwhelmed their adversaries/ so that nat one of them was left a live. Than believed they his words/ and song forth praise unto him. But full soon after forgot they his works/ they would nat abide his pleasure. They were set a fire with lust in the desert and they tempted god in the wilderness. And he gave them their asking/ but with it he cast their bodies into a consumption. They envy Moses and angered him in their tents/ and Aharon also the lords saint. Therth opened herself & swallowed in Dathan/ & supped up the congregation of Abyram. Fire consumed their fellowship/ the flame brent up thungodly. They made a calf in Horeb/ & worshipped the cast idol And they turned his beautiouse glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. They had forgotten god their saviour/ even him which did so great things for them in Egypte. They forgot the miracles in the land of Ham/ even the terrible acts/ which he wrought in the red see. And he thought to have banished them had nat Moses his chosen put forth himself a speaker for them reconciled these of broken/ & peasing his heavy indignation unless he shu●●● have destroyed them After this they despised that land so worthy to be desired/ neither had they any faith to his promise. They murmured in their tabernacles/ they gave no heed to the lord. And he lifted up his hand against them to throw them down in the wilderness. Ye/ to cast down their posterity among the gentiles/ & to scatter them into the regions. They were addict & married unto Baalpeor/ & they eat the ded sacrifices. They provoked him to anger with their own inventions/ and vengeance crept in and spread among them Than stepped forth Pinchas & avenged gods quarrel & held back the vengeance. Which fact was a lowed him for a rightwise deed throwout all ages into everlasting. They provoked god also at the waters of their gruging against saying/ & Moses was punished for their sakes. For they troubled & veered his mind/ & he spoke a miss with his mouth. Neither would they destroy the gentiles as the lord commanded them. They meddled & married with the gentiles and learned their works. They worshypt their carved images which turned them to confusion. Also they slew their own sons & daughter's/ offering them up to sacrifices to devils. They shed th'innocent blood/ even the blood of their own sons & daughters whom they slew and offered to the Idols of Canaan/ & the earth was polluted with the blood. They were defiled thorough their own works/ & they were unshamfased in their own deeds. And the wrath of the lord was kindled against his people/ and he turned his face from his heritage. And he betook them into the hands of the gentiles/ & they that hated them were become their rulers. And their enemies oppressed them/ & subdued them to their power. Many times he delivered them and yet they rebelled his pleasure/ & were worn out with their own wickedness. And he beheld when they were sore laid against/ and heard their lamentation. He remembered his promise unto them/ & of his great goodness he turned himself from indignation. And he brought it to pass/ that even they which held them in captivity had pity upon them. Save us lord our god/ & separate us from the gentiles/ that we might publissh thy holy name/ & praise the in thy laudable deeds. The lord of israhel be praised from worlds & in to worlds/ & all people might say. Amen. Praise ye the lord. The argument into the. C.vij. Psal. ¶ Here though Prophet declareth all adversity to be sent in/ & to be taken away also of god only. COnfitemini. Magnify ye the lord/ for he is gracious & of good mind toward us/ & his goodness standeth forth for us for ever. Let them that are redeemed of the lord/ even them whom he hath loosed from so narrow straintes praise him Whom he hath gathered from the partis of th'earth/ as from the Est and west/ from the north & south. For when they err from the way in the desert/ & find no town inhabited. And for hunger & thirst their soul famysheth in them They cry to the lord in such a narawe straynte/ & he delivereth them from their distress. And leadeth them into the right way/ which bringeth them to the city inhabited Of this they magnify the lord for his goodnꝭ/ they publish his marvelous deeds among men. As when he satisfieth a thirsty soul/ and replenisheth an hungry soul with good sustenance. But they that sit in darkness/ and in the shadow of death/ in affliction/ and yearn. Because they rebelled against the words of god/ and casted away opprbriously the counsel of the most highest. Whose hertis he tameth by affliction/ for they fall & there is nat one that will help them. They cry unto the lord in such narrow straintes/ and he delivereth them from their distress. For he leadeth them forth of darkness/ & from the shadow of death/ and breaketh of their bands. And than they magnify the lord for his goodness/ and publish his marvelous acts among the men. When he had broke the doors of steel/ & destroyed the bars of iron. Foles for their sins/ and wikednesses are scourged. Their mind abhorreth all manner of meat/ they are brought even to deaths door. And they cry unto the lord in to their narrow constraint/ & he delivereth them from their distress. For he commandeth with a word/ and healeth them/ and delivereth them from destruction now being at hand. And than they magnify the lord for his goodness/ and publish his marvelous acts among men. They offer unto him the sacrifice of praise/ and show forth his works with great triumph. They enter into the see with ships/ and labour and strive in the broad rough waters. They also see the works of the lord/ & his wonderful things in the deep sees. For at his commandment cometh forth the stormy wind/ & lifteth up the waves of the see. And they now rise up into the heavens/ and anon they fall down into the depths/ so that their hearts are clean gone. They are thrown here and there/ they are tossed/ they rele like drunken men/ they are at their wits end. And they cry unto the lord in this narrow straint/ and he thorough his help delivereth them out of their distress. For the stormy wind avoideth/ that the see might be caume & her waves might be still Than are they glad that they are at rest/ and he leadeth them forth unto their pleasant haven. And than magnify hay the lord for his goodness/ & publish his marvelous acts among the men. And they extol him in the congregation of the people/ they praise him in the presence of the elders. He that turneth the moist and fruitful soil into a dry desert/ & carrieth away waters from the thirsty earth. And bringeth fruitful soil into barons for the offences of the dwellers therein. Bringeth it so to pass/ that the dry desert be turned again in to moist soil/ & waters boil forth of the chyrsty ground. And there than setteth he these hungry and famished men/ they prepare them cities to be inhabited. They sow the fields/ they plant the vineyards/ & they make fruit and increase of corn. He blesseth them and they are increased exceedingly/ their cattle fail nat. And again/ they are minished/ and cast down with barons/ disease/ & sickness. He maketh high princes to be of no reputation/ and he maketh them to err be wide and strange places. But in the mean season he lifteth up the poor man out of trouble/ and maketh him an household like a flock of sheep. The rightwise shall fear & be glad/ & all men given to shrewdenes shall stoup their mouths. Who is wise? let him observe & mark these things/ & he shall perceive the goodness of the lord. The argument in to the. C.viii Psal. ¶ In this psal. the prophet declareth how desirous he was to praise god/ both with mouth and instrument. The title of the psal. The ditty of the song of david. PAratum cor. My heart is full set both to play and to sing a song with my tongue. Come on Psaltery and harp/ for by & by shall I set you in tune. I shall magnify the among the people (oh lord/ and shall praise the among the nations. For thy goodness is so great that it passeth the heavens and thy faithfulness also/ that it lifteth up itself unto the clouds exalt thyself above the heavens oh god/ and thy glorious beauty over all th'earth. That thy well-beloved might be in safeguard/ preserve me with thy right hand and grant me. God hath expressed his mind from his secret holy place/ I shall be glad/ and divide Shecem/ and shall meet out the valley of Succoth. Gilead is mine/ Menasheh is mine/ Ephraim is my chief strong hold/ jehudah is my kingdom. Moab shallbe subdued unto me/ as a cauldron in the which I will wash my feet. Edom shall be unto me like a vile place/ wherein I will cast a way my shoes/ upon Philistea will I take my pleasure. Who shall lead me in to the strong defensed city? who shall lead me unto Edom? verily even thou god which repellest us/ and wouldest nat ones go forth with us among our host. Help thou now us & deliver us from our enemies/ for vain is the help of men. In god we shall strongly prevail/ for it is he that shall tread down our enemies. The argument in to the. C.ix Psal. ¶ The first part of this Psal. are cruel bannings or wisshynges against Doeg and other flatterers of Sau●e/ which with their lies stired him up against David: In the later part he complaineth of his own miserable state/ desiring the help of god. The title of this Psal. The dite of David committed to the chanter. DEus laud. God in whom I rejoice and glory/ hold nat thyself fro me For the ungodly have opened their mouths against me/ & crafty deceivers have communed with me/ but with a dying tongue. They besiege me with odious communication: & beat me down without cause. For that I loved them/ they hated me again/ and yet I pray for them. They quit me evil for good/ & hatred for love. Set some ungodly ruler upon him/ and let some cruel adversary be his superior. So that when he shall come into judgement/ he might go forth like a condemned wretch/ and his own tale for his deliverance mought condemn him. Let his time be short/ and another ready to take his office. Let his children be young and fatherless and his wife a careful widow. Let his children be wandering beggars wretched cravers heavily/ for their living put out of their poor cottage. Let the bribing usurers catch what so ever he hath/ and strange men despoil though things which he had gotten with great labour. Let there be none to pity and to help him/ neither one that will favour & succour his young fatherless children Let his issue be cut of/ and his name be done away in one genetatyon. Let the unrightwiseness of his fathers be brought in mind before god/ and let nat the sins of his mother be forgotten. But let them be before the lord ever/ & their memorial be cast out of th'earth. Because he thought nat to do mercy/ but persecuted & vexed the poor afflict man to slay him broken in heart. He delighted in cursing/ let it therefore fall upon himself/ he turned him from blessing/ let it therefore be far from him. Let him be wrapped in cursings/ as in his clothes/ & let them sink in to him like water/ & in to his very bones like oil Let cursing be as his garment wherewith he be clothed/ & as his girdle wherewith he be evermore girt. Let this be the reward from the lord/ unto these men which are against me/ and speak hurt upon my soul. But thou art the lord/ oh lord/ deal with me for thy name's sake/ for favourable is thy goodness deliver thou me. For I am scourged and poor/ and my heart laboureth and fainteth within me. I vanish away like a gliding shadow and am hunted up from place to place like a locust. My knees fold under me for lack of meat/ my flesh is gone/ my fatness is lost. I was a laughing stock to as many as see me/ they wagged their heads at me. Help me lord/ my god/ keep me for thy mercies sake. Let them knowledge that this is thy hand and that thou/ oh lord/ haste done this thing. Let them curse/ but bless thou/ let them rise against me/ but to their own confusion/ but yet let thy servant rejoice. Let my adversaries be laced in with shame/ and covered with confusion like as with a cloak. I shall magnify the lord diligently with my mouth/ I shall praise him among many. For he will stand at the poor man's right hand/ to keep his soul from tyrants in authority. The argument into the. C.x. Psal. ¶ This Psal. is a song of David wherein he singeth of the kingdom of Christ which began in Zion/ and from thence it is come forth unto th'ends of the world/ and it shall hold until both all the heavenly and earthly creatures worship Christ/ and his enemies be put down to be his foot stole. The title of the Ps. The dite of Da. DIxit dominus. The lord said unto me/ lord/ sit on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy foot stole The lord shall bring forth thy mighty empery from Zion/ exercise thou thy power in the mids of thine enemies. Thy people shall present themselves unto the well-willing/ in such time as thou shalt declare thy power in the city/ in thy noble & holy clearness/ even thy yongons from their mother's womb shall be there present/ as thick as the fresh morning dew. The lord swore/ & he shall nat repent him/ thou art the offerer once for ever to offer thine own self/ according as it was figured in Melchizedech. The lord being ever at thy right hand shall smite down even the kings in time of his wrath. He shall execute judgement upon the gentiles/ & fill all places with their deed caryons/ it is he that shall smite down the heed that reigneth so wide. But of the troublous water must he first drink by the way/ therefore/ than after shall he extol and lift up his heed. The argument into the. C.xi Psal. ¶ This Psal. is a praise in the which the power/ wisdom/ and goodness of god are magnified. The title of this Psal. Love ye the lord. COnfitebor. I shall surely magnify the lord with all my heart in the counsel of the rightwise/ & in the congregation. exceeding great are the works of the lord/ which searched diligently and well thought upon/ a man shall find in them what soever he shall desire. What so ever he doth it is solemn & full of majesty/ & his rightwiseness abideth for ever. He hath brought it to pass that there shall be a memorial of his miracles/ the lord he is gentle/ gracious/ and ready to have mercy. He hath given a prey to his worshippers: he hath remembered his promise into many worlds. He declareth to his people/ with how great power his works were done/ even when he gave them the heritage of the gentiles. What soever he hath done by his power/ they are faithfulness & equity/ what soever he commandeth it is faithful. They are made fast to abide in to every age: for they are done of true faithfulness and right judgement. He hath sent redemption to his people/ he hath commanded that his covenant should be kept holy into every world/ holy and to be feared is his name. The beginning of wisdom is the fere of the Lord/ they savour right holy that give diligence to do his commandments/ the praise of these men continueth everlasting. The argument into the. C.xij. Psal. ¶ In this Psal. the prophet declareth the perpetual felicity of them which fear/ worship and follow god in. doing mercy.. The title of this psalm. Love ye the lord. BEatus vir qui ti. Blessed is that man that worshippeth the lord/ and in his commandments is earnestly occupied. His issue shallbe in great power in th'earth the generation of the rightwise shall prosper. plenteousness & riches are in his house/ and his rightwiseness standeth for ever. To the desyrers of right he maketh light to springe in darkness/ for it is he that is gracious/ bent unto mercy/ and rightwise. A good man shall deal favourably & freely he will dispose his goods with judgement. For he shall nat slide to fall for ever/ a rightwysman shallbe in perpetual remembrance. When he shall here affliction to be at hand/ he shall nothing fear/ for his heart is confirmed/ that is to say stayed in the lord. His heart is underset/ he shall nat fere/ until he see his desire fall upon his enemies. He distributeth & giveth forth to the poor needy/ his rightwiseness abideth for ever his power shall be exalted with dignity. All this shall the ungodly see/ and have indignation/ he shall grin with his teeth & shall consume himself/ for the ungodly verily shallbe disappointed of his desire. The argument into the. C.xiij Psal. ¶ Here the Prophet exhorteth to the praise of god for that he beholdeth/ he governeth/ and at his pleasure changeth all things/ lifting up always the humble men/ & restoring the careful wretches. The title. Love ye the lord. LAudate pueri. Praise ye servants of the lord god/ praise ye the name of the lord. Let the name of the lord be spread in this time/ & into all worlds to come. From the son rising unto the down falling/ the name of the lord be praised. High is the lord above all nations/ his beautiful glory is above heavens Who may be compared to the lord our god/ even he that ruleth on high? I mean him which so humbleth himself/ that he would see all things both in heaven & earth. Which lifteth up the poor from the dust/ & exalteth the needy from the dung. To set him with the best/ even with the chief of his people. Which so restoreth the barren/ that she hath an house full/ and maketh her a glad mother of many children. Praise ye the lord. The argument in to the. C.xiiij. Psal. ¶ In this Psal. the Prophet declareth how joyfully Israel was brought out of Egypt/ and toucheth briefly certain of the chief miracles which the lord did for them. IN exitu. When Israel came out of Egypt/ the house of jacob/ from the people of strange tongue. juda was gods holy people/ & Israel was the folk over whom he would have rule The see saw the host of god come & she gave back/ jordan fled & gave place. The mountains scipped like wether's/ & the hills like the lambs of the flock. What ailed the thou see thus to fly? & thou jordane/ why goest thou back? What mean ye mountains thus to spring wethers? & ye hills to play like lambs. At the presence of the lord the earth must needs tremble & fear/ ye & that at the pnsens of the god of jacob. For he bringeth the hard rock into a pond of water/ even the very stone into plenteous springs. The argument into the. C.xv Psal. ¶ In this Psal. David prayeth god for glory of his name to do good unto the people that it might be openly known/ him only to be god/ & all Images to be but Idols. NOn nobis domine. Nat to us lord/ nat to us/ but unto thy name give the glory and praise/ for thy mercy/ and for thy truths sake. Wherefore should the gentiles say/ where is now their god? When our god is in the heavens/ he doth what soever liketh him. Their images are but gold and silver/ even the work of man's hand. They have mouths & yet speak they nat eyes & see nat/ ears and here nat/ nose and smell not. They have hands and nothing feel they/ feet and go nat/ with their throat make they no noise. Unto these Idols are th●y like that make them/ and as many as trust unto them. But israhel trust thou in the lord/ for he helpeth them and is their shield. Ye/ of the house of Aharon/ se that ye trust in the lord/ for he is their help & their shield. Ye worshippers of the lord/ se that ye trust in the lord/ for he is to them help and defender. The lord will have us in mind/ it is he that will do good/ he will do good to the house of Israel/ & to the house of Aaron. He will be beneficial to the worshippers of the lord/ as well to the little as to the great. The lord might increase his good mind toward you/ toward you & toward your children. Ye are they to whom the lord doth good which hath made heaven and the earth. The heavens/ the veri heavens are the lords but the earth hath he given to the children of men. The deed in no manner of wise shall praise the lord/ neither they that go down to the place of silence. But we shall magnify and praise the lord/ from this time in to everlasting. ❧ Praise ye the lord. The argument in to the. C.xvi Psal. ¶ This Psalm is a thankful song for the help of the lord/ whereby david escaped when he was now compassed in of Saules host. DIleri. I love the lord for he hath heard me/ he hath herd the deep desires of my heart. He bowed down his ears unto me/ wherefore whiles I live shall I call upon him. The sorrowful snares of death held me straight/ straight anguishes hampered me in/ anguish and affliction found me. But yet the name of the lord I called upon I beseech the lord deliver my soul. The lord our rightwise god is prone unto favour/ he is ready & bent unto mercy. The lord keepeth the poor simpleons/ I was full poor & full of care/ and he saved me. Turn the my soul unto thy rest/ for the lord hath rewarded the. For thou hast delivered my soul from death/ mine eyes from tears/ and my feet from sliding. I shall continue and dwell before the lord among the living men. I believed/ and therefore must I needs speak/ but I was fore scourged therefore. So that I thought & said with myself when I fled so hastily/ every man is a liar What shall I give again to the lord/ for all the benefits which he hath given me I shall take the cup in the thankful fift for the help brought me/ and I shall call upon the help of the lord. Now shall I perform my vows unto the lord in the presence of all his people. Precious is the death of his saints/ in the eyes of the lord. Ye verily lord/ for I am thy servant/ I am thy servant/ & the son of thy hand maid/ even thou hast loosed my bonds. Unto the shall I make the sacrifice of praise/ & the name of the lord shall I call upon. Now shall I perform my vows/ before all his people. In the fore porches of the house of the lord/ in the mids of thy jerusalem. The argument in to the. C.xvii. Ps. ¶ In this Psal. the Prophet prophesieth the gospel to be preached to the gentiles. LAudate dominum oens. Praise ye the lord/ all gentiles/ magnify him all nations. For his mercy is spread over/ us/ and the faithfulness of the lord standeth for ever. The argument into the. C.xviii. Ps. ¶ This Psalm is a prayer in which David delivered now from all his afflictions/ and promoted to be king of all Israel/ openly in the tabernacle of god gave him thanks/ & also laid forth the person of Christ in himself. COnfitemini. magnify ye the lord for he is gracious/ & his mercy endureth for ever. Let Israel now magnify him/ for his me●cy endureth for ever. Let the house of Aharon magnify him/ for his mercy endureth for/ ever. Let as many as fear the lord magnify him/ for his mercy endureth for ever. When I was in a grievous straynte/ I called upon the lord) and he granted to set me at large. The lord standeth on my side/ I shall nat fear what so ever man may do unto me. The lord standeth on my side with my helpers/ and I shall see my desire upon them that hate me. It is better for one to commit himself to the tuition & defence of the lord/ than to man's defence. It is better to put our confidence in the lord/ than in men be they never so great When all the gentiles besieged me on every side/ well said I/ in the name of the lord/ for I shall cut them away. They compassed me in/ ye/ they beset me in round about/ well said I/ in the name of the lord/ for I shall cut them away. They swarmed about me like bees/ and invaded me as fiercely as fire that dry thornꝭ but they were soon quenched/ for I said well/ in the name of the lord I shall cut them away. I was cast with great violence ready to have fallen/ but the Lord sustained and helped me. The lord is my strength & the very same whom I praise/ it is he that is my saving health. The voice of triumph/ & of men joyfully publishing their saving help now brought unto them/ is in the tabernacles of the rightwise/ for the right hand of the lord hath brought it so mightily to pass. The right hand of the lord is excellent high/ the right hand of the lord hath brought it so mightily to pass. I shall nat die but live/ and shall publish the works of the lord. He chastised him with grievous & earnest chastemute/ but yet he betook me nat to death. Open ye unto me the gates of the company of rightwysemen/ and I shall enter in at them and magnify the lord. This is the gate of the lord/ the rightwise shall enter in thereat. I shall magnify the for thou hast granted me/ & hast brought me a saving help. The stone which the builders opprobriously casted away/ is made an head corner stone Of the lord this is done/ and this same thing is a miracle in our mind. This is that same day which the lord hath made/ let us be glad and rejoice therein. I beseech thee/ lord/ now help us/ I beseech the lord make us now. Well happen it to that man which is comen in the name of the lord/ we shall pray for your wealth to happen unto you from the house of the lord. The lord is strong/ & he will make light to shine upon us/ tie your sacrifices to be offered/ even to the altaris ends with cords. It is thou that art my god and I shall magnify thee/ thou art my god/ and I shall exalt the. magnify ye the lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever. The argument into the. C.xix. Psal. ¶ This Ps. declareth in how great price & reverence/ the saints or holy men have the laws of god: how earnestly they are occupied in them/ how they sorrow to see them broken & said against of the ungodly: how they pray to be taught them of god: and to be acquainted and accustomed with them/ and (to be short) how they desire those men to be destroyed (what so ever they be) which break and say against them. ❧ The first Octonary. Aleph. BEati immaculati. Blessed are they which live pure & innocently/ even them I mean which live after the law of the lord. Blessed are they which observe his testimonies/ & search them with all their heart. For they shall do no wickedness/ that thus tread his ways. Thou hast commanded/ that thy commandments should be kept with earnest delygence. Would god that my life were so instruct that I might observe thy ordinances. Than should I nat be disappointed/ when I shall have all thy commandments before mine eyes. I shall magnify the with a pure heart/ when I shall learn thy rightwise judgements. I shall observe thy ordinances/ forsake me nat at any tyme. ❧ The second Octonary. Beth. How should the young man amend his living? he shall well amend it in observing thy pleasures. With all my heart have I sought thee/ suffer me nat to serve from thy commandments. In my heart have I hid thy words/ to th'intent I would nat offend the. Lord thou art praise worthy/ teach me thy ordinances. With my lips shall I show forth all the pleasures of thy mouth I shall rejoice of the way which thy testimonies teach/ as upon all manner of riches. Upon thy commandments shall I set all my mind/ & shall set thy paths before my eyes. In thy ordinance shall I delight/ & I shall nat forget thy words. ❧ The third Octonary. Gimel. Reward thy servant/ that I may live/ and observe thy pleasures. Uncover my eyes/ that I may perfitly see the marvelous things in thy law. I am but a stranger in the earth/ yet hide nat thy commandments fro me. My soul is broken with desire/ to know at all times thy pleasures. Thou shalt sharply rebuke the ungodly/ cursed are they that err from thy commandments Take away from me/ opprobry & ignominy/ for I shall observe thy testimonies. Even the chief rulers sit & speak against me/ but yet thy servant is occupied ever in thy ordinancꝭ. Also thy testimonies are my delight and my conselers. ❧ The fourth Octonary. dale. My soul cleaved to the earth/ restore me according to thy promises. My life I have showed unto thee/ & thou hast granted me/ teach me thy ordynauncꝭ Make me to understand the ways of thy commandments/ and than shall I think upon thy merueles. My soul was melted away with sorrow full thoughts/ make me stiff again according to thy promises. Turn thou away fro me the deceitful way/ & make thy law pleasant unto me. The true way have I chosen/ and thy pleasures have I set before my eyes. I cleaved to thy testimonies oh lord/ let me nat be shamed. I shall run in the way of thy commandments/ for thou shalt ease my heart. ¶ The fifth Octonary. He. teach me/ lord/ the way of thy ordinances/ and I shall mark it for ever. give me understanding & I shall keep thy law/ I shall keep it with all my heart. lead me by the path of thy precepts/ for in it is my pleasure. Bend my heart into thy testimonies/ and nat into lucre. Turn away my eyes lest they behold vain things/ in thy way quicken me. Make fast thy promises to thy servant which is addict unto thy worship. Turn away my shame which I feared/ for thy judgements are favourable. Lo/ I desired thy commandments/ restore me for thy rightwiseness. ¶ The sixth Octonary. Uau. Be present with me/ o lord/ with thy mercy/ come to me with thy help/ according to thy promises. That I might have to answer my revylers'/ for I stick to thy promises. Suffer nat at any time the word of troth to be taken fro my mouth/ for I have respect unto thy ordinances. And I shall observe thy law studiously ever world without end. I shall go into be at large restrained with nothing/ for I have sought thy commandments. I shall preach thy testimonies before kings/ & shall nat be confounded. But shall delight in thy precepts/ which I have loved. I shall life up my hands to do thy precepts which I have loved/ & shall think busily upon thy ordinances. ¶ The seventh Octonary. zain. Remember thy promise to thy servant/ into the which y● hast caused me to trust. Thy promise is my comfort in my affliction/ for it is it that restoreth me. These proud ungodly have scorned me sore: but yet I swerved not from thy law I remembered thy judgements which thou hast done even from the beginning/ o lord/ and I was well comforted. It kindled my heart and fretted me sore/ to see these proud ungodly thus to forsake thy law. Thy ordinances were my songs/ whiles I here way fayred a stranger. In the night shall I think upon thy name o lord/ and I shall observe thy law. This grace hast thou given me/ that I might observe thy commandments. ❧ The eight Octonary. Heth. Thou art my lot o lord/ I am full purposed to observe thy commandments. I long for thy presens' with all my heart/ have mercy upon me according to thy promises. I called to mind my ways/ & I turned my feet unto thy testimonies. I hasted myself & differed nat/ to then tent I would observe thy precepts. The ungodly congregation hindered me sore/ but yet did I nat forget thy law. At mydnighte shall I rise up to praise the for thy rightwise judgements. I assocyate myself with all that worship thee/ and with them that observe thy commandments. ❧ The ninth Octonary. Teth. Thou hast dealt favourably with thy servant o lord/ according to thy promise. Learn me rightly to savour & to know/ for I believe thy commandments. Before I was tamed with affliction I erred/ but now I mark thy sayings. Thou art good & gracious/ instruct me in thy ordinances. These proud ungodly framed together their painted lies against me/ but I shall observe thy commandments with all my heart Their gross hearts are congealed like tallow/ but I shall delight in thy law. I was happy that thou tamedest me with affliction/ that I might yet so be instruct in thy ordinances. Better is the law of thy mouth to me/ than thousands of gold and silver. ¶ The tenth Octonary. jod. Thy hands have fashioned me/ and ordained me/ give me understanding to learn thy commandments. They that fear the shall be glad/ to see me so to cleave to thy promises. Now know I lord that thy judgements are right good/ and that thou haste scourged me of a good intent. But I beseech the let thy mercy be my comfort/ according to those words which thou promisedest to thy servant. Let me be in thy favour and I shall live/ for thy law is my delight. Let these proud ungodly be confounded for they go about to destroy me faultless/ but yet shall I in the mean time set all my mind upon thy commandments. Let them that worship the and know thy testimonies/ turn unto me. My heart shall be perfit in thy ordinances / wherefore I shall nat be shamed. ¶ The xi Octonary. Caph. My soul fainted longing after thy saving help/ but yet I lift up my eyes unto thy promises. My eyes dazzled with looking up after thy promises/ & I said/ when wilt thou comfort me? I was dried away like a bladder hanged in the smock/ but yet forget I nat thy ordinances. How long shall thy servant suffer these things? when wilt thou at last give sentence against my pursuers These proud ungodly digged pitfalls for me which have no respect unto thy law. All thy precepts are faithful & true/ they persecute me unworthily/ help thou me. They had almost made an end of me in th'earth/ but yet in no manner of wise forsook I thy commandments. Restore me for thy mercies sake/ & than shall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth ¶ The twelve Octonary. Lamed Oh lord thy word standeth for ever/ in the heavens. From generation to generation continueth thy troth/ thou haste set th'earth and it standeth still. The time continueth still according to thy ordinances/ for all things are at thy commandment. Except thy law had been my delight/ I had perished in my affliction. I shall never therefore forget thy commandments/ for by them thou hast refreshed me. I am thine/ save thou me/ for I searched thy commandments. The ungodly wait to destroy me/ but I in the mean time shall endeavour me to understand thy testimonies. I perceive that every thing comprehensible hath an end/ but thy commandments are incomprehensible. ¶ The xiii Octonary. Men. Oh/ how exceedingly have I loved thy law/ continually do I think thereof. Thou hast made me wiser than mine enemies/ thorough thy precepts/ for they are ever in my mind. I exceeded all me teachers in right understanding/ for I am ever speaking of thy testimonies. I passed even the seniors in true understanding/ for I observe & mark thy commandments. From every evil path I refrained my feet/ to th'intent I would observe thy speeches. I have nat swerved from thy pleasures/ for thou shalt instruct me. Oh/ how sweet are thy speeches in my taste/ they are sweeter than any honey in my mouth. I fetch my understanding at thy commandments/ wherefore I hate every deceytfully path. ¶ The xiiii. Octonary. Nun. Thy words are lantern to my feet/ and light unto my foot path. I have sworn & shall perform it/ to keep thy just pleasures. I am sore feebled with affliction/ lord restore me according to thy promises. O lord I beseech the let the well willing sacrifices of my mouth be accepted/ and teach thou me thy pleasures. I myself bring my life ever in to peril/ but yet the law do I nat forget. These proud ungodly have set snares for me/ but yet I swerved not from thy commandments. I have challenged thy testy moneys for my perpetual heritage/ for they are my hearts joy. I have bowed down my heart to do thy ordinances/ ye/ & that for ever without end. ❧ The xu Octonary. Sameh. The frantic hardnecked do I hate/ and thy law have I loved. Thou art my lurking place & my shield/ I wait for thy promise. Avoid fro me ye hurtful men/ & I shall observe the precepts of my god. Strengthen me according to thy promises that I may live/ let me nat be shamed disappointed of my hope. Stay thou me/ and I shallbe saved/ and I shall delight busily in thy ordinances Thou shalt tread down all that err from thy ordinances/ for all the ●rafty men's study is to deceive with lies. Like rust thou rubbedest away all those proud ungodly of the earth/ wherefore I loved thy testimonies. My flesh trembled for fear of thee/ and I was afraid of thy judgements. ❧ The xvi Octonary. Ain. All my mind was to do equity & rightwiseness/ leave me nat to my unjust vexers. Delight thy servant with good things/ lest these ungodly make me sorrowful with their injuries. My eyes dazzled looking up for thy saving help/ & waiting for the promises of thy rightwiseness. Deal with thy servant merciably/ and instruct me with thy ordinances. I am thy servant/ make me to understand and to know thy testimonies. It is time/ oh lord/ to do judgement/ for they have scattered abroad thy law. And therefore I loved thy precepts/ above gold and precious stones. And for this I knowledge all thy commandments to be rightwise/ and I hate every false path. ¶ The xvii Octonary. Pe. marvelous are thy testimonies/ wherefore my soul observeth them. To come but to the door of thy scripture lighteneth/ and giveth understanding to the unlearned. I drew in my breath faintly/ for that I laboured so sore to attain unto thy precepts. Behold me & have mercy upon me/ according to thy judgements/ wherewith thou governest the laws of thy name. Rule my steppis after thy pleasures/ & suffer no iniquity to have dominion over me. Redeem me from th'injuries of men/ and I shall keep thy commandments. Make thy countenance to shine upon thy servant/ & instruct me in thy ordinance. Streams of what gushed out of my eyes because I see men nat observing thy law. ¶ The xviij Octonary zadic. rightwise art thou/ lord// & right are thy judgements. Thou hast commanded in thy testimonies rightwiseness/ & faithfulness most chiefly. My zeal to thy word killed me/ because my pursuers forgot it. Thy words are purely tried like as with fire/ and thy servant loveth them. I was a lytelon/ and an abject/ but yet forgot I nat thy commandments. Thy rightwiseness is ever lasting righteousness/ and thy laws is the very troth. When affliction and heaviness had taken me/ than thy commandments refreshed me. The believing of thy promises is everlasting rightwiseness/ give me the understanding of this thing & I shall live. ¶ The xix Octonary. Kuph. I called upon the with all my heart/ grant me/ lord/ I shall observe thy ordinances. I called upon thee/ save thou me/ and I shall keep thy testimonies. I prevent the dawning of the day/ & cry unto thee/ I wait for thy promises. My eyes prevented the watches/ that I might be occupied in thy pleasures. Here me lord for thy mercies sake/ quicken me after thy pleasures. My pursuers laid their own faults upon my neck/ but they are gone far back from thy law. Thou art present oh lord/ and all thy precepts are the very self troth. I knew this before of thy testimonies/ for thou haste stablished them to abide for ever. ¶ The twenty Octonary. Res. Behold my affliction and defend me/ for I forget nat thy law. Defend my cause and deliver me/ quicken me according to thy promises. health is far from the ungodly/ for they regard nat thy ordinances. Bountuouse is thy gentleness/ oh lord/ quicken me according to thy pleasure. Many there are that persecute me and are against me/ and yet have I nat swerved from thy testimonies. I see these malicious men & it irketh me because they observed nat thy sayings. Thou seest that I love thy commandments/ lord for thy mercies sake quicken me. The beginning of thy words is truth/ and the judgements of thy rightwiseness stand for ever. ¶ The xxi Octonary. Shin. The overmost in authority persecuted me faultless/ and my heart feared at thy words. I am as glad of thy pleasures/ as one that had found many proyes. I hate & abhor lies/ & I love thy law. Seven times in the day I praise thee/ for thy rightwise judgements. The lovers of thy law shall have much felicity and quietness and no hurt at all. I trusted upon thy help o lord/ & gave diligence to thy precepts. My soul observeth thy testimonies/ and loveth them greatly. I observe thy commandments and thy testimonies/ for all my ways are open unto the. ¶ The xxij Octonary. Tau. Let my crying ascend in to thy presence oh lord/ make me rightly to understand thy words. Let my deep desire come into thy sight/ deliver me according to thy promises. My lips shall power forth thy praise/ thou shalt instruct me in thy ordinances. My tongue shall speak of thy pleasures/ for all thy precepts are rightwiseness. Let thy hand help me/ for I have chosen thy commandments. I desired thy saving help/ oh lord/ and thy law is my delight. My soul shall live and shall praise thee/ and thy judgements shall be my help. I am strayed like a lost sheep/ seek thou thy servant/ for thy commandments have I nat forgot. The argument in to the. C.xx. Psal. ¶ This Ps. is a complaint full of affects/ it is a complaint of an holy man banished into among the ungodly doing althinge with deceit & violence. The title of these xu Psal. following is only this. The song of Ma●hloth/ which word commonly is interpreted stairs or degrees/ supposing these xu Psalms to have be song in an higher tune. Ad dominum cum. When I was in straight anguish I called upon the lord and he granted me. Lord deliver my soul from dying lips/ and from a deceitful tongue. What advantageth it thee/ or what good bringeth it thee/ thou dying man/ thy deceitful tongue? Oh/ sharp arrows of the strong archer/ & hot consuming ienipe● coals. Helas that I am thus long holden in exile among these false and cruel folk of Meshec/ and must yet dwell still with the chorlysshe nation of Kedar. All to long hath my soul tarried among these violent men/ which hate pease. I study for pease/ but when I speak of pease to them/ by and by are they stirred to battle. The argument into the. C.xxi Psal. ¶ This Psalm declareth that of god only/ help is looked and tarried for/ of the faithful men▪ and that he only bringeth it presently. Leuavi oculos. I lift up my eyes into the hills/ from whence help might come unto me. My help cometh from the lord/ the maker of heavens & earth. He shall nat suffer thy feet to slide/ neither he being thy keeper shall sleep. Lo/ neither will he sleep/ nor yet once wink that keepeth israhel. The lord is thy keeper/ the lord is thy defence/ and is ever at thy right hand. The son shall nat smite the by day neither yet the moan by night. For the lord shall keep the from all evil ye/ he shall keep thy soul. The lord shall keep both thy outgoing and thy incomming/ from this time unto everlasting. The argument in to the. C.xxii Psal. ¶ Here under the figure of jerusalem are describe the felicity of Christ's church/ and the desires of the saints thereof. LEtatus sum. I was right glad when men said unto me/ let us go unto the house of the lord. Our feet shall stand fast in thy gates/ O jerusalem. jerusalem is builded goodly like a city well framed together in herself. That thither might ascend the tribes even the tribes of the lord to magnify the name of the lord/ for so was it commanded unto Israel by gods own mouth. For there were ordained and holden the seats of judgement/ even the judgement seats of the house of david. Pray ye for the felicity of jerusalem/ the lovers of the might prosper. They might prosper within thy walls/ they might prosper within thy houses. For thy brothers and thy neighbour's sakes/ shall I now pray for thy felicity. For the houses sake of the lord our god I shall pray for thy wealth. The argument into the. C.xxiij. Psal. ¶ Here the saints laid in the mouths of the wealthy ungodly doing all amiss/ pray to god for their deliverance/ committing themself to his cure. ADte levaui. Unto the lift I up my eyes/ which rulest in heavens Behold/ for as the servants eyes are ever upon their masters/ & the maidens waiting upon her masters/ even so are our eyes looking up unto the lord/ our god/ until he have mercy upon us Have mercy upon us lord/ have mercy upon us/ for we are out of measure filled with ignominy. Our soul is filled out of measure with scorns & derision of these wealthy rich men/ & with ignominy and shame of these arrogant & proud men. The argument into the. C.xxiiii. Psal. ¶ Here the saints of god give thanks and rejoice/ that they are delivered by gods help from so present perils. NIsi quia. Except the lord had been with us (let Israel now speak. Except the lord had been with us/ when these men rose against us. Without doubt (their wrath thus kindled against us/ they had devoured us quick. Waters had wrapped us in with their waves/ the flood had gone over our soul. The troublous flood of these importune men/ had run over our souls. But praised be the lord which hath nat given us in to their teeths for their proy. Our soul is delivered like the bird from the snare of the fouler/ the snare is broken and we are escaped. Our help cometh thorough the name of the lord/ which hath made the heavens and earth. The argument in to the. C.xxv. Ps. ¶ Here is declared/ the congregation of god to be sure/ god defending them and to prosper/ the lord favouring/ and weeding the ungodly out of them. QUi confidunt. They that stick to the lord shall never stagger/ but shall stand fast for ever like the mount of Sion. And like as jerusalem is girt about with hills/ even so closeth the lord his people from this time unto everlasting. He will nat suffer the power of the ungodly to oppress the land of the rightwise/ lest the rightwise put forth their hands unto any wickedness. Deal thou gently with good men/ and with men right in their hearts. Them that serve from the right way unto shrewdness/ the lord might lead a way with men given unto wickedness. The argument in to the. C.xxvi. Psal. ¶ Here is declared the gladness of the people returned from Babylon: and under this figure is it showed also the gladness of the faithful whom/ christ hath verily delivered from the captivity of sin and death. IN convertendo. When the lord shall bring again us of Zion from capt●uyte/ we shallbe like men dreminge for joy Than shall our mouths be filled with laughter/ and our tongues with triumph than shall it be said among the gentiles/ that the lord hath wrought mightily with these men. The lord shall work mightily with us we shall be refreshed with great gladness. Bring us again from captivity o lord for so shalt thou fill us with joy: as if thou shouldest give plenteous floods to the dwellers in the thirsty south desert. They that sow with tears/ shall reap with gladness. When they went forth to sow/ they went weeping/ taking with them their seed cods. But when they shall come again/ they shall come with great joy/ bringing their hands full of corn. The argument into the. C.xxvij. ps. ¶ This Psalm teacheth us: the house and family: the sure custody of the city/ to have meat/ rest/ and children well disposed and toward/ all cometh of the grace of god. NIsi duns. Except the lord build the house/ the bilders thereof labour but in vain. Except the lord keep the city/ the keeper thereof watcheth but in vain. It is all in vain that ye haste your selves to rise so early/ and again to defer your down sitting to eat your careful breed (except god give it all). For it is he that thus shall give unto his well-beloved/ quiet sleep and plenteous refection with good food. Lo children are the heritage/ which the lord giveth/ the fruit of the womb is his reward As arrows are in the handis of mighty men/ even so shallbe the children of thy youth. Blessed is the man which hath his quiver filled with these arrows/ for they shall nat be shamed when they shall have to do with their enemies in judgement. The argument into the. C.xxviij. Ps. ¶ This Psal. teacheth us that the worshippers of god shall prosper both privately and openly. BEati omnes. Blessed is he who so ever worshippeth the lord/ which also walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labours of thine own hands/ & shalt have prosperous encrase. Thy wife shall be fruitful as the vine tree/ within the walls of thy house/ thy children shall stand roundabout thy table like the plants of the olive trees. Lo/ thus shall that man be blessed/ which worshippeth the lord. The lord shall do the good from Zion/ & thou shalt delight/ beholding the prosperity of jerusalem all days of thy life. And thou shalt see thy childer's children and the felicity of jerusalem. The argument in to the. E. xxix. psa. ¶ This Psalm showeth us/ that the ungodly although they vex long and sore the people of god: yet shall they nat prevail/ but at the last to perish/ god's people being free and safe. SEpe expugna. grievously have they vexed me/ even fro my youth/ now let Israel speak. grievously have they vexed me even fro my youth/ but yet they preveyle nat against me. Upon my back these plowmen ploughed and have cutforth their long vorowes. But the rightwise lord hath cut away the bondis of these ungodly. They shallbe shamed & put to flight/ who so ever hateth Zion They shallbe as grass that groweth upon the house ryggꝭ/ which is wethred before it be pulled up. With the which neither the reaper filleth his hands/ nor yet the gatherer filleth his arms. Neither the goers forbye so regarded them as to say one's god bless you/ or we well wish you in the name of the lord. The argument into the. C.xxx. Psal. ¶ This Psalm is an earnest prayer full of affects of a man here oppressed with adversity for his sins/ but yet promising himself with fast faith & hope from god/ to have both forgiveness of his sins: & deliverance from his afflictions. DE profundis. from my most deepest painful troubles/ called I upon the lord. Lord/ here y● me/ let thy ears be attent unto my deep desire? If thou shouldest look narrowly upon our wycdkenesses/ o lord/ o lord/ who might abide thee? But there is mercy with thee/ and therefore art thou worshipped. I abide the lord/ my soul abideth him & I tarry looking up always for thy promises. My soul waiteth for the lord/ as desirously as the watch men in the morning watch/ desire the day spring. Let Israel wait for the lord/ for with the lord is there mercy/ & plenteous redemption. And it is he that shall redeem Israel/ from all his wickednesses. The argument in to the. C.xxxi. Psal. ¶ Here in this Psal. the prophet showeth himself to be without all pride/ & to have followed humility: wherefore he trusted to be exalted of god DOmine non. Lord/ my heart is nat proud/ neither look I a loft/ I take nat stoutly upon me in great matters/ neither presume I in marvelous things above my estate. But verily I repressed and put my soul to silence like a wainling from his mother's teat/ even like a wainling was my soul in very deed. Let israhel wait and trust upon thee/ lord/ from this time into everlasting. The argument into the. C.xxxij. Psal. ¶ This Ps. singeth the perpetual felicity of christes kingdom/ & of the presence of god in his congregation/ & this all/ is meant under the figure of Dautds' kingdom & of the Arches set in Zion. MEmento dne. O lord remember thou David/ & his affliction also. Which swore to the lord/ and made his vow to the mighty god of jacob. Saying/ if I enter into the tabernacle of my noun house/ if I ascend into my decked bed. If I suffer my sleep to come into mine eyes/ or mine eye lyddꝭ once to wink. Uncyll I shall find a place for the lord/ a mansion for the mighty god of jacob. I pray god I die. Lo/ we heard of this house in Ephrata and have found it in the bushy field. We shall come into his mansion/ and shall fall down before his foot stole. Arise o lord/ & come into the place of thy rest/ come in thou with the Arch of thy strength. Let thy sacrificers be clad with rightwiseness/ and thy saints triumph joyfully. For thy servant n1g-nn's sake turn nat a way thy anointed. The lord swore unto david of his troth and shall nat revoke it/ I shall set upon thy feat regal one of the fruit of thy body. If thy children observe my cowenaunte and my testimonies/ with which I shall instruct them/ than even their children shall sit upon the seat regal for a long space. For the lord hath chosen Zion/ it is his pleasure there to have his seat. This shallbe the place of my rest into all worlds/ here will I sit/ for this seat have I desired. Her yearly fruit shall I favourably increase/ her poor nedyons will I satisfy with food. Her sacrificers shall I clothe with health and her saints shall rejoice even from their very hearts. Here shall I make david's empery to flourish prosperously/ I have provided a lantern for my anointed. I shall wrap his enemies in confusion and shame: but in him shall I flourish the beautiful crown regal. The argument into the. C.xxxiij. psal. ¶ Here in this ps. Da. praiseth brotherly concord ECce quam bonum. Behold how pleasant and how joyful a thing it is/ brethren to dwell together and to be all of one mind. They are like that precious good ointment which powered upon Aaron's heed ran down into his beard/ into the beard of Aharon/ & into the skirts of his clothꝭ. Ye this brotherly love is like the dew/ which fell upon the hills of Hermon/ and upon the hills of Zion. For there the lord giveth forth his blessing/ and life everlasting. The argument in to the. C.xxxiiij. Psal. ¶ Here david exhorteth unto prayer/ and to praise god/ and that in the night. ECce nunc. Behold/ & praise ye the lord all servants of the lord/ which continually appear in the house of the lord nightly. lift up your hands unto the holy secret place/ & praise ye the lord. The lord might do the good from Zion/ which hath made the heavens & earth The argument into the. C.xxxv. Psal. ¶ Here the Prophet exciteth the people to praise god/ he publyssheth his power both by miracles done for them/ & in that he so exalted them above other: also he promiseth his help to the believers in him (Idols and their worshippers laughed all to scorn). The title of this psal. Praise ye the lord. LAudate nomen. Praise ye the name of the lord/ praise ye that are the servants of the lord. Which appear continually in the house of the lord/ & in the porches of the house of our god. Praise ye God for he is a good Lord/ praise his name for it is glorious. For god hath chosen unto him jacob/ even Israel into his own proper people. For I have known that great is the lord and our god to be greater than all gods. What so ever liked him/ the lord hath made in heavens and in earth/ in the sees/ and in all deep waters. Which carrieth up clouds from the farthest parts of th'earth ● he maketh lightenings with rain/ he leadeth forth the winds of his treasure houses. Which smit the first begotten in Egypte/ both of man and beast. He sent forth tokens and wonders in to the mids of Egypte/ against Pharaoh and all his servants. Which smit the most greatest nations and slew right valiant kings. As Syhon king of the Amorreons/ and Og the king of Bashan/ and all the kingdoms of Chanaan. And gave their land into an heritage/ even into heritage unto Israel his people. Lord/ thy name is setforth for ever/ and thy memorial into all ages. For the lord shall avenge & deliver his people/ which satisfied with their punishment shall be pleased again with his people. The feigned images of the gentiles are but gold & silver ● the works of men's hands. They have mouths and speak nat/ eyes and see not. They have cares and hear nat/ neither is there verily any breath in their mouths. They that make them are like them/ & they also that trust in them. Ye of the house of Israel praise the lord the house of Aharon praise ye the lord. The house of Levy/ love ye the lord/ ye that fear the lord love ye the lord. The lord be praised from Zion/ which hath his seat regal in jerusalem. Love ye the lord. The argument into the. C.xxxvi, Psa. ¶ Here the Prophet exciteth men to the praise of god/ & to kindle them thereto/ he putteth them in mind of the creation of the world/ and of the miracles showed for the deliverance of israhel. COnfitemini. Honour ye the lord for he is favourably good/ and his mercy is set forth for ever. Honour ye god which is the god of all gods/ for his mercy is set forth for ever Honour ye the lord of lords/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. Which alone doth the great miracles/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. Which by his heavenly wit hath made the heavens/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. Which hath spread abroad th'earth above the waters/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. Which hath made the great lights/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. The son to have the pre-eminence of the day/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. The moon & stars to bear rule in the night/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. Which smit the Egyptions in their first begotten/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. And led forth Israel even from the mids of them/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. Which cut the red see into twain parts/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. And led over Israel thorough the myddis thereof/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. And threw down Pharaoh & his host in the red see/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. Which led his people thorough the wilderness/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. which smit down great kings/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. Which slew noble kings/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. As Sihon the king of the Amorrens/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. And Og the king of Bashan/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. And gave their land in to an heritage/ for his mercy is set forth. etc. Even into heritage unto Israel his servant/ for his mercy is set. etc. Which remembered us when we were cast down/ for his mercy is setforth for ever. And redeemed us from our enemies/ for his mercy is set forth. etc. Which giveth meat to every thing living/ for his mercy is set forth for ever Honour ye the god of heavens/ for his mercy is set forth for ever. The argument into the. C.xxxvij. psa. ¶ In this Psal. it is declared/ that the Babylonytes asked songs of the Israhelytes being with them incaptivyte/ which answered/ their haps to be hanged up/ all gladness gone away and to lament perpetually the destruction of jerusalem: After this the Aedomites stired up the Babylonites again to require the same/ which Babilonites handled the Israhelytes full cruelly Supper flumina. At the rivers of Babylon we sat down together and wept/ when we remembered Zion. Upon the sallow trees there we hanged up our harpꝭ. When there they that took us required songs of us/ & said/ when we had hanged up our merry instrumentis/ sing unto us some of your songs of Zion. And we answered/ se/ I pray you/ how should we sing the songs of the Lord in a strange land? O jerusalem if I forget thee/ let my right hand forget her office on the harp. Let my tongue cleave to my mouth if I remember the not ye/ if I prefer nat Jerusalem all mine own mirth Oh/ lord remember the sons of Aedom saying/ in the day of the destruction of jerusalem/ make all bare in it/ destroy it/ lay it wide open even with the ground. O city of Babel well worthy to be destroyed/ blessed shall he be that shall reward the as thou hast rewarded us. blessed shall he be that shall take thy young babes/ & throw them against the stones. The argument in to the. C.xxxviii. Ps. ¶ In this Psal. David praiseth the mercy of God which delivering him from all perils had exalted him lukely unto his regal dignity. ¶ The title of the Psal. The songs of David COnfitebor. I shall magnify the with all my heart/ and shall praise the in the presence of thy gods. I shall fall down upon my knees at thy holy temple/ and shall magnify thy name/ for thy mercy and truths sake. For thou haste extolled thy name/ and thy word above all things. In what time so ever I called upon the thou grauntedest me/ thou encresedest great strength in my soul. All the kings of the earth shall magnify thy o lord/ for they have heard the decrees and pleasures of thy mouth. And their song shall be of the ordinances of the lord/ for excellent is the glory of the lord. For the high lord beholdeth humble and lowly things/ and a proud man he knoweth a far. If it chance me to be in the mids of affliction/ yet thou wilt restore me/ thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies/ and shalt preserve me with thy right hand. The lord will bring all things to pass for me/ o lord thy mercy standeth forth for ever/ thou shalt nat forsake the works of thy hands. The argument in to the. C.xxxix. Ps. ¶ Here David expresseth that all his deeds and thoughts are searched of god & open unto him/ for he hath made him and all things in him/ and that god is every where present with him beholding all things that he doth. The title of the Psal. The song of David committed to the chanter to be song in the temple. DOmine probasti. Lord thou hast searched me deeply/ and thou knowest full well what I am. Thou knowest wherefore I do sit and wherefore I upstande/ even my thought thou triest and knowest before. My ingoing and downliing to sleep thou compasest narrowly/ and all my living thou foreseest clearly. For my tongue is nat about to speak a word/ but anon (lord) lo/ thou knowest it all before. What so ever is within me/ behind and before thou hast made it/ and thou haste put to thy hand to my shape. The knowledge of this my shape is hide fro me/ & higher than I can attain there unto. Whether shall I fly from thy spirit/ and whether shall I fly from thy face? If I climb up into the heavens/ there art thou/ if I make my bed in my grave lo/ yet there art thou present. If I take unto me the swift wings of the morning beams/ and so in the twinkling of an eye be conveyed into the uttermost parts of the west see. Even there yet shall thy hand take me/ and thy right hand shall set hold upon me. I thought than that I would be covered and hid with derkenesses/ but with thee/ even the night is all shining. The very derkenesses may hide nothing from thee/ ye the night shineth like the day/ and the derkenesses are to the even the very light. For thou possessest my inward affects and didst fashioned me in my mother belly I shall magnify the for thou hast fashioned me marvelously/ to behold thy works are to be marveled above measure/ as knoweth my soul. My strength in my bones & sinews were nat unknown unto the when I should be made secretly in my mother's womb/ & knit together in the low privy earth. Where when I was yet without fashion thou seest me with thy eyes all my limbs fashioned by times thou hadst drawn like as in a paper/ when there was nat one of them yet set full perfitly. How clear are thy thought unto me o god? oh/ how exceed they in number? If I would number them/ they exceed the sands of the see/ but yet I labour busily to consider them/ & I cleave ever unto the. O god/ I would it were thy pleasure to destroy these ungodly/ ye bloody men avoid out of my sight Which speak wickedly against thee/ and rail spytfully upon thee/ these are thy enemies. Them that hate the oh lord/ I hate verily/ & I abhorrew i'th' great indignation them that rise against the. I hate them extremely/ and repute them as enemies. Search me oh god/ & know thou my heart examine me and try thou my paths. And look if I have begun any shrewd way/ and lead me there out in to the way everlasting. The argument in to the. C.xl Psal. ¶ Here in this Psal. David prayeth to be delivered from the deceitful lies of Doeg and of his fellows/ and that they for their false deceit might be cast away/ that those men which study to do right and to be good/ might the more freely give themselves to the holy service and praise of god. The title of this psalm. The song of David committed to the chanter. ERipe me. deliver me/ o lord/ from this mischievous man/ save me from this violent man. Which thinketh mischief in their hearts/ and continually run to battle. They have whetted their tongues like serpent's/ edders venom is under their lips. Selah. Keep me/ o lord/ from the hands of this ungodly man/ save me from this cruel man/ which thinketh to supplant me. These proud men have set a privy snare for me/ & have bent their nets/ even by my path have they laid their gins for me. Selah. I said/ lord/ thou art my god/ hear lord/ my deep desires. O lord thou art my lord my god/ & my mighty saving health/ thou shalt defend my head/ what time I shall take me to armour & weepen. Lord suffer nat the ungodly to take his pleasure on me/ let nat his mischievous intent prospcre with him lest these proud heads be axalted. Selah. I mean these heads that thus besiege me on every side/ whose heavy labour of their own lippis might overwhelm them. Let coals of fire fall upon them/ caste them down into the fire pits/ out of the which they may never arise. Let nothing prosper in th'earth with this busy tonged & dying man/ let his own mischief hunt forth this violent man/ until it hath cast him down headlong. I know that the lord will avenge the poor afflict/ and deliver the nedyons. The rightwise verily shall magnify and spread thy name/ the pure in heart shall dwell in thy presence. The argument into the. C.xli Psal. ¶ David chased away from the tabernacle of god/ prayeth first to obtain the spirit whereby he might prefer the friendly sharp rebuke of the saints the favour of th'ungodly (their felicity despised) afterward he desireth worthy vengeance to his enemies & his own deliverance. DOmine clama●i. Lord it is thou that I call upon/ haste the to me/ here me as soon as I call upon the. Let my prayer ascend luckily in to thy sight like incense/ let the lifting up of my hands be in the stead of the evening sacrifice. Lord/ set a keeper to my mouth and keep thou diligently the door of my lips. Bow thou nat my heart into any mischievous thing/ lest I be about to commit ungodly deeds with men given all to wickedness/ & so eat their dainties with them. Let the rightwise smite me for my soul's profit/ for I had liefer he chastyned me than the soft ointment of th'ungodly should supple my heed. For yet do I stand instantly with my prayer against their malice. Let their chief rulers be cast down hedlynge in to stonnye places/ that yet other men might bear my sweet words. As one that plougheth/ slytteth/ and divideth the earth/ even so were we shaken a sondre/ and our bones were scattered about our graves. Wherefore unto the can lord/ lord/ my eyes are lift up/ when in the put I my trust power thou nat out my soul. Keep me from their snares which they have bent for me/ and from the traps of them/ which are given all to wickedness. Let these ungodly fall in to their own snares/ whiles I escape for ever with other men. The argument into the. C.xlij Psal. ¶ Here Da, remembreth his flight from Saul in to a certain cave where he abode (as he believed) his own taking/ & was in a grievous straynte/ but he prayed to the lord. Rede the history in the first of the kings/ the xxiiii Chap. The title. This psalm is the instruction of David and his prayer when he was in the cave. UOce mea. Unto the lord I cry/ before the lord I fell down & made my prayer. Before him I powered forth my heavy meditation/ before him I laid my straight anguish. When my spirit was sore tormented with in myself/ & thou knewest my way/ they setted snares for me in the paths where I went. I looked on my right-hand/ and I looked on my lift hand/ & there was nat one that would make any knowledge to me/ all refuge was taken fro me/ there was nat one that would seek to save my life I cried unto thee/ O lord/ and I said/ thou art my help/ thou art my portion among the living men. Attend unto my crying/ for I am in a grievous and wretched state/ deliver me from my pursuers/ for they have prevailed against me. Lead my soul out of prison/ that it might spread thy name/ let me be compassed about with rightwysmen/ for it is thou that shalt do me good. The argument into the. C.xliii. Psal. ¶ This psalm hath the same argument with the psalm before/ for it entreateth the same matter. The title. The song of david. DOmine exaudi. O lord hear my prayer/ listen unto my fervent beseeching for thy truths sake/ grant me for thy rightwiseness. Have thou nat to do with thy servant in judgement/ for in thy presence no man living is reputed rightwise. A cruel enemy verily persecuted my soul/ he hath cast down my life in to the earth/ he hath set me in darkness/ like as men judged to death. My spirit is sore troubled within me/ & my heart waxeth cold in my breast. But at last I remembered the days passed I considered all thy works/ and pondered in mind the deeds of thy hands. I stretched forth my hands unto thee/ my soul desirously panted and breathed for thee/ I gaped for the like thirsty earth Selah. Haste the to grant me o lord for my spirit fainteth/ hide nat thy face from me/ unless I be like men going down into their graves. Make me shortly to hear of thy mercy able goodness/ for in the do I trust/ show me the way wherein I may go/ for unto the have I lifted up my soul. deliver me fro my enemies o lord my god/ for at the do I hide myself. Teach me to do thy pleasures/ for thou art my god/ thy good spirit might lead me in to the right way. For thy name's sake lord restore me/ for thy rightwiseness lead my soul out of this straight anguish. Ye & for thy mercies sake all to destroy my enemies/ & shake away all that trouble my soul/ for I am thy servant. The argument into the. C.xliiij. Psa. ¶ Here in this psalm David the prophet praiseth the lord god/ for that he hath delivered him from all perils/ and from all his troubelouse enemies and hath made him king/ & his kingdom to flourish with all manner felicity. BEnedictus do. Praised be the lord which fighteth for me/ which hath instruct my hands to battle/ and learned my fingers to fight. Which is my mercy/ my bulwark/ my castle/ and my deliverer/ my shield/ and he in whom I trust/ which casteth the people under me. O lord/ what thing is man/ that thou thus moche settest by him? what is this mortal man that thou thus regardest him? Man is like a thing of nought/ his days are but a vain flying shadow. But the lord letteth down thevens & descendeth/ he toucheth the hills and they smoke. He casteth forth lightenings and scattereth them/ he sendeth forth his arrows and distroubleth them. Let down thy hand from above/ & deliver me/ deliver me from these mighty waters & from the power of strange men. Whose mouth speaketh vain things/ & their riȝthande is a riȝthande doing deceit. O god/ I shall sing a new ditty unto thee/ with cut and ten stringed instruments shall I sing unto the. Which bringest help unto kings/ which haste delivered david thy servant from the mischievous sword. Take me up and deliver me from the hands of strange men/ whose mouths speak vanities/ & whose right-hand is a right hand that doth disobeyed. That our sons might grow like well thriving plants/ & our daughters gorgeously set forth like the cornered houses might represent the beauty of the temple. Let our garners be replenished with all manner of corn/ & our sheep with thousand fold increase might fulfil every way. Let our oxen be strong for draft & burden/ no breaking in/ no running out no out crying in our streets. Happy is that people with whom it goeth thus/ happy is that people which holdeth the lord for their god. The argument into the. C.xlv. Ps. ¶ In this Psal. David declareth the mercy of god to be so poured forth into every man/ that all things do praise and magnify it/ but chiefly the faithful men which are most plenteously filled with it. The title. The hymme of David EXaltabo. I shall extol thee/ god/ o king/ and shall publish thy name throughout all the world. continually shall I magnify & praise thy name/ throwout all the worlds. Great is the lord & worthy moche praise/ his greatness can nat be searched. From age to age thy works shallbe praised/ and they shall declare thy noble acts. All my mind shall be earnestly set at all times to declare thy clear and glorious fame/ and also to publish thy marvelous deeds. Men shall speak forth the mighty power of thy miracles/ and I shall put them in mind of thy might. Men shall show forth the memorial of thy plenteous mercy/ and shall joyfully triumph of thy rightwiseness. The lord is favourable & bent unto mercy/ slow unto wrath and of plenteous goodness. Gentle is the lord unto all men and his merciable gentleness swimming over all his works. All thy works shall magnify thee/ and thy mercy shall declare thyself. Men shall preach the beautiful glory of thy kingdom/ and shall extol thy deeds with words. That they might certify and show men his noble acts/ his glory & his clearness Thy kingdom is a kingdom in to all worlds/ and thy power is a power thorough out all ages. The lord stayeth who so ever slideth, and as many as are thrust down he lifteth up again. The eyes of all things look up & wait upon thee/ and thou gavest them meat in tyme. Thou openest thy hand/ & satisfiest all things living for thy goodwill rightwise is the lord in all his way/ he is good in all his deeds. Present is the lord to as many as call upon him/ to as many as call upon him of true belief. To them that fear him he maketh all things acceptable/ he heareth their erienge/ and saveth them. The lord keepeth all that love him/ and all the ungodly he will banish. My mouth shall speak the praise of the lord/ & every thing living shall spread his holy name into all the worlds. The argument into the. C.xlvi. Psal. ¶ This Psal. is a praise of like argument with the Psal. before/ save that here the Prophet dissuadeth chiefly the trust in to men/ when it is so that god is he which alone both may save & will save all that trust in him, The title of the Psal Praise ye the lord. LAuda anima mea. Praise the lord my soul. I shall praise the lord whiles I live/ I shall sing unto my god/ as long as I shall have my being. Trust nat in princes which are but men/ in whom there is no saving health. Their breath goth forth of their bodies/ and by & by they are turned in to their earth in the same day all their counsels perish Happy is he that seeketh help of the god of jacob/ & whose hope is the lord/ his god. Which hath made heavens and earth/ the see/ and what so ever are contained in them which keepeth his promise for ever. Which avengeth men vexed wrongfully which giveth meat to the hungry/ it is the lord that loseth men in hold. The lord giveth light to the blind/ the lord lifteth up men oppressed/ it is the lord that loveth the rightwise. The lord keepeth strangers/ he lifteth up the young fatherless & the widows/ and the purposꝭ of thungodly he turneth up so down. The lord shallbe king for ever which is thy god/ o Zion/ in to all ages. Praise ye the lord. The argument into the. C.xlvij. Psal. ¶ In this Psalm the prophet exhorteth israhel by name to the praise of god: and also the citizen's of jerusalem, LAudare dnm. Praise ye the lord for it is a pleasant and a joyful thing to praise our god/ there is no thing so to be desired as the praise of him. The lord shall restore Jerusalem/ & shall gather together the scattered out laws of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart/ and easeth their heavy labours. He numbereth the stars/ & giveth namꝭ to them all. Grace is our lord & grace is his power/ his wit may no man comprehend The lord lifteth up the meek lowlyons/ & the proud ungodly he casteth down to the ground. Sing ye to the lord with thanks giving/ sing ye unto our god with harp. Which overledeth the heavens with clouds/ and prepayreth rain for the earth/ and bringeth forth grass in the hills. Which giveth cat all their food/ & meat also to the ravens chekens calling for it. He delighteth nat in strength & strong steeds/ neither hath he pleasure in the trumpets of men. But his pleasure is in them that fear him/ & trust upon his mercy. Praise thou the lord o Jerusalem/ praise thy god o Sion. For it is he that shall strengthen the bars of thy gates/ & shall lad thy citizens within the with plenteous gifts. He endueth thy costs about the with pease/ and satisfieth the with the most purest flower of the wheat. He sendeth forth his pleasures in to the earth/ his commandments run forth swiftly. He giveth down snow like wool/ & the door frost he scatreth like ashes. He casteth forth his hail like gobbetꝭ of bred/ who may abide his cold? He sendeth forth his word and melteth them away/ he leadeth back his wind/ and the waters drop down. It is he that told his pleasures to jacob/ & vis ordinance and decrees unto Israhel. With no nation hath he thus dealt/ neither to any other did he publish his decrees. The argument into the. C.xlviii. Psal. ¶ In this Psal. the Prophet exhorteth all creatures both heavenly & earthly to the praise of god. The title of the Psal. Praise ye the lord. LAudate dnm. Praise the lord ye heavenly minds/ praise ye him all that are above. Praise him all angels/ praise him all his host roundaboute him. Praise him son and moan/ praise him all bright and shining stars. Praise him the most highest heavens/ and ye waters that are above the heavens. Praise ye the name of the lord/ for he made all things with a word. And hath made them to stand fast into all worldis/ he hath given them a law which they break not. Praise ye the lord all creatures of th'earth/ dragon's & all deep waters. Fire/ hail/ snow/ ice/ stormy wind's/ doing his commandment. Mountains and all high hills/ fruitful trees/ & all cedar trees. All wild beasts & tame/ all things that creep/ & feathered fowls. Kings of th'earth & all people/ princes & all rulers of th'earth. single men & maidens/ old men & young praise the name of the lord for it is only high and spread over earth and heavens. He shall lift up the power of his people/ it becometh his saints to praise him/ which have professed him/ even israhel his own people which cometh unto him. The argument into the. C.xlix. Psal. ¶ In this Psal. the Prophet exhorteth Israel to praise god. The title. Praise ye the lord. CAntate. Sing ye to the lord with a new ditty/ his praise shall be in the congregation of the saints. israhel shall rejoice of his maker/ and the citizens of Zion of their king. They shall praise his name with trumpet/ sing ye unto him with taberet & harp. For the lord well pleased with his people shall or nowrne lowlions with his help. Saints shall rejoice even from their hertis/ & the nobles shall triumph in their couches. The exalting of god is in their fhrotes/ and in their hands a twoedged sword. To take vengeance upon the gentiles/ & to correct the people. To bind their kings in chains/ & their most noblest rulers in feters of iron▪ To execute judgement among them as it is written/ this glory shallbe unto all that are his saints. The argument into the. C.l. Psal. ¶ In this Ps. the prophet exhorteth to the praise of god & that nat only with voice but with all manner of musical instrument. the ti. praise ye the lord LAudate do. in sane. Praise him that keepeth his residence in his secret holy place/ praise him that reigneth in the firmament/ the seat of his power. Praise him for his strength/ praise him for his almightiness. Praise him with sown of trumpets/ praise him with lutes & haps. Praise him with tympany and taberet/ praise him with orgayns and pipes. Praise him with soft claricymbales/ praise him with loud claricymbales. What so ever thing is endued with breath/ let it praise the lord. Love ye the lord. Finis. ¶ The table. A Ad te dne levaui. ps xxv Ad te dne. cla. ps. xrviii Afferte domino. ps. xxix Audite hoc. o. gen. ps. xlix Attendite. Psal. lxrviii Ad dnm. Psal. C.xx Ad te levaui. psa. Cxxiii B Batus vir the first ps. Beati quorum. ps. xrxii Bnndican do, psal. xrxiiii Beatus qui intelli ps, xli Bene dixisti do. ps. lxrxv Bonner est confi. plas. xcii Benedic the first. p. Ciii Bnndic the sec. psa. Ciiii Beatus vir qi. psa. Cxii Beati imma. Ps. C nineteen Beati oens. psal, Cxrviii Bn dictus do. ps. Cxliiii C ¶ Cum invocaren, ps. iiii Confitebor tibi, psal. ix Conserua me. Psal. xvi Celi enarrant, psal, nineteen Confitebimur ti, ps, lxxv Cantate the first ps. x●vi. Cant, the two. psa. xCviii Confit, the first, ps. Cv Confit. the second, ps, c vi Confit the third. ps. cvii Confitebor the sec. ps. cxi Confit the fourth p. cxviii Confi. the v. ps. cxrxvi Conf the third p. cxrxviii Cant the third. ps. Cxlix D Domine quid. psal. iii Domine ne the i. psa, vi Domine deus: Psa. seven Domine duns: psal. ulii Dixit insipiens. ps. xiiii Dne quis habi. Ps. xv Diligam te. Psal. xviii Dne in virtute. psal. xri Deus meus deus. ps. xxii Dominus regit. ps. xxiii Dni est terra. Ps xxiiii. Dns illumina ps. xrvii Dixit iniustus ps. xrxvi Do. ne the ●●. ps. xrxviii Dixit custodian ps. xrxix Deus auribus Ps. xliiii Deus n● re. Psal. xlvi Deus deorum Psal. l, Dixit insipiens Ps, liii Deus in nomine tuo ps, liv Deus repulisti Psal. lx Deus deus meus ps, lxiii Deus miscrea●, ps. lrvii Deus in adiuto, ps. lxx Deus judicium ps. lxxii Deus venerunt ps. lx●ix Deus stetit in sy, p. lxrxii Deus q̄s simi. ps. lx●xiii Donine de fa. p. l●rxviii Domine refugium ps. xC Dns reg. deco Ps. xCiii Deus ultionum ps. xCiiii Do. reg exul Ps. xCvii Do, reg iras, Psa. xcix Domine ex the i. ps, Cii Deus lauden Numantian p, Cix Dixit dominus Psa, cx Dilexi quoniam ps. cxvi De profundis psal. cxrx Domine non psal, cxrxi Domine proba p, cxrxix Domine clamavi p, cxli Dune ex. the two, psa, cxliii E Exaudi domine ps. xvii Exaudiat te do, psal. xx Exaltabo te do, psa, thirty Exultate justi. ps. xrxiii Expectans expe, psal, xl Eructavit cor me. p, xlv Exaudi deus ora. ps, lv Eripe me the i. psal. lix Exaudi deus depre. p. lxi Exaudi deus ora, p. lxiiii Exurgat deus ps, lxviii Exultate deo ad, p, lxrxi Ecce quam bonum p. cxrxiii Ecce nunc psal. cxrxiiii Eripe me the two. psa, cxl Exaltabo te deus ps. cxlv F Fundamenta eius p. lxrxvii I In domino con psal. xi judica me domi. p, xrvi In te do, speravi p. xrxi judica domine ps. xrxv judica me deus ps. xliii jubilate the i. psa. lxvi In te domi the ii p. lxxi Inclina domi. ps, lxrxvi jubilate the two. psa, Cix In exitu Israel p, cx●●● In convertendo p, cxxvi L Laudate pueri ps. cxiii Laudate dumm. ps, Cxvii Levaui oculos, ps, c xxi Letatus sum. ps. C xxii Laudate nomen, p, cxxxv Lauda anima mea, p. c xlvi Laudate do quo, p cxlvii Laudate do. de. p. cxlviii Laudate do. in sanc, ps. cl M Magnus do. ps. xl viii Miserere thee, i, ps, li. Miserere the ii ps: lvi, Miserere the iii ps lvii. Misericordias do. p, xci Misericordian & in, p. Ci Memento do. Ps. cxxxii N Noli emulari ps. xxxvii Nun deo sub. ps. lxii Notus in iudic. p. lxxvi Non nobis domi. Cxv Nisi qr dominus p, cxxiiii Nisi do, edi. Ps, cxxvii O Oens gentes Psal. xlvii P Paratum cor. ps. Cviii Q Quare fremuerunt Ps two Quare do reces. Psal. x Quenadmodun de. ps. xlii Quid gliaris in ma. p, iii Quam bonus ps, lxxiii Quare deus repu p. lxxiiii Qui regis. Isra. ps. lxxx Quam dilicta p, lxrxiiii Qui habitat in psal, xci Qui confidunt ps, cxxv S Saluum me fac d, p. xii Si vere utique iu. p. lviii Saluum me fac de. p, lxix Sepe expugna ps. cxxix, Super flu. Ba, ps, cxxxvii T Te decet hymnus Ps, lxv U Uerba mea auribus, ps, v Usquequo do, Psa, xiii Ut quid do. re, ps, lxxiiii Uoce mea ad Ps. lxxvii Uenite exultemus ps, xcv Uoce mea the two. ps, cxli Finis, ¶ Printed at London by Thomas Godfray. ❧ Cum privilegio Regali. Praise ye the lord. Amen,