The saints sacrifice

¹This phrase, cup of salvation, is the most difficult and doubtful phrase of all the Psalm. Its here figuratively used, and in that respect more subject to various interpretations. According to the divers significations of this word * cup, some take it one way; ²some another.

¹This phrase, cup of salvatition, is the most difficult and doubtfull phrase of all the Psalme. Its here figuratively used, and in that respect more subject to various interpretations. According to the divers significations of this word * cup, some take it one way; ²some another.

1. 1This was one John Lodwicke, a Spaniard by nation, a Monk by profession, who lived ten years together in England, lodging in an house by Bishops gate, London, who day after day went forth in a beggars attire, and as occasion was offered, belched forth most impious blasphemies against the blessed Trinity, especially against the sacred person of our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ (whom he ordinarily called Devil) and against the holy Scripture, for which he was convented before authority, and being convicted by witnesses and by his own confession was sent over to Spain▪ there to be proceeded against, in the year of our Lord 1618. This blasphemous Heretic accounting the things that were written by the Prophets and Apostles to be mere dotages, said that David was one of the worst, and that in penning this Psalm he showed himself to be a drunkard and a liar, by reason of this, and the tenth verse. As if by taking the cup of salvation, he had intended the drinking of an health, as drunkards use to do. Whereby we see how dangerous it may be to take that literally, which is meant metaphorically.This was one Iohn Lodwicke, a Spaniard by nation, a Monke by profession, who lived ten yeares together in England, lodging in an house by Bishops gate, London, who day after day went forth in a beggars attire, and as occasion was offered, belched forth most impious blasphemies against the blessed Trinity, especially against the sacred person of our blessed Saviour Iesus Christ (whom he ordinarily called Deuill) and against the holy Scripture, for which he was convented before authority, and being convicted by witnesses and by his own confession was sent over to Spaine there to be proceeded against, in the yeare of our Lord 1618. This blasphemous Heretique accounting the things that were written by the Prophets and Apostles to be meere dotages, said that David was one of the worst, and that in penning this Psalme he shewed himselfe to be a drunkard and a lyar, by reason of this, and the tenth verse. As if by taking the cup of salvation, he had intended the drinking of an health, as drunkards use to do. Wherby we see how dangerous it may be to take that literally, which is meant metaphorically.