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A very excel[n]t [and] sweet exposition upon the XXII. [sic] Psalm of David called…A very excelle[n]t [and] swete exposition vpon the XXII. [sic] Psalme of Dauid called…
A very excel[n]t [and] sweet exposition upon the XXII. [sic] Psalm of David called in Latine Dominus regit me, &c. Translated out of high Almain into English by Myles Coverdale.A very excelle[n]t [and] swete exposition vpon the XXII. [sic] Psalme of Dauid called in Latine Dominus regit me, &c. Translated out of hye Almayne into Englyshe by Myles Couerdale.
Southwark: printed by James Nicolson, 1538Southwarke: printed by James Nicolson, 1538
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For the arrows that fly in the day time.
For the arowes that flye in the daye tyme.
For the pestilence that cometh privily in the dark,
For the pestilence that commeth pryuely in the darke,
For sickness that destroyeth in the noon day.
For syckenesse that destroyeth in the noone daye.
For these four adversities set forward and shorten the life of the unbelievers: But the faithful hath such consolation and promise,1 that he needeth not to be afraid. First for the horribleness of the night. That is, for all manner of tentation and deceit, that happen unto men by night in the darkness. For this we all perceive, that in the night and in the darkness, we are weaker minded, of more despair, and more afraid then in the light. The blood runneth to our hearts, & the hairs stand upright, and all the body waxeth cold for fear. Out of this cometh it then, that we think we see, hear & perceive somewhat, which in very deed is not so. Then goeth there one astray, another leseth his colour, the third falleth sick, the fourth is become crocked, the fifth goeth out of his wit. And so men think, that the devil hath done it, where as it is yet a plain natural working of the exceeding great fear, which would destroy a man even by day