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Psalm 67. 3. 4. 3. Let the people praise thee O God, let all the people praise thee. 4. O let the people rejoice and be glad that thou judgest the folk righteously, and governest the Nations upon the earth, &c.

Psalme 67. 3. 4. 3. Let the people prayse thee O God, let all the people prayse thee. 4. O let the people reioyce and be glad that thou iudgest the folke righteously, and gouernest the Nations vpon the earth, &c.

AT what time the Jews had grievously offended God their Lord, forgotten their obedience towards him, and betaken themselves to strange gods, every man wandering after his own lust and fancy; and thereupon God began to plague and punish them with sundry and divers plagues, and with unseasonable weather, so that their grass, their corn, their fruits, & what ever other commodities sprang out of the earth, were all in great danger: then David the Prophet, seeing all these miseries at once fall upon the people, called ⟨image 23⟩them home again, showed them how they should return from their wickedness, & come unto God. For God desireth not our destruction, he is loth to work revengement upon us when we anger & displease him.¹ In what ever hour the sinner shall return from his sin, & come unto me, saith the Lord, I shall be ready to receive him. As for all his sins that he did before, they shall not be thought upon: but in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. In what ever time a man shall hold up his hands, acknowledge gods mercy, & be sorry for his offences from the bottom of his hart, God asketh no more, he craveth no more at his hands, he is pleased only with his humble repentance. And therefore David in the beginning of this Psalm showed the people how they should in this wise come unto God, & desire mercy at his hands, saying: God be merciful unto us, and bless us, & show us the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us.