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¶ The sixth string.

¶ The syxte strynge.

Here David expresseth two thin ges, that he intendeth to do. One is to take the cup of health. The ⟨image 47⟩other to call on the name of the LORD. These are two things, ¹wherein God very much delighteth. First he saith, he will take the cup of health, whereby is understand affliction, trouble, persecution, mortification of old Adam, killing of carnal affects, slaying of fleshly lusts, bearing of the cross, and at the last death, as it appeareth by the words of Christ to the sons of Ze bedeus: Can ye drink, saith he, of ²the cup that I shall drink? Also to his father, Let this cup depart ³from me, whereby he understandeth his passion & death. To recompense partly the kindness of God, David saith, that he will mortify the raging lusts of his own flesh, that fight against the spirit, & never leave until he hath made the body subject to the soul, that in all points it may be obedient to the law and will of God. For this is an high & ⟨image 47⟩acceptable sacrifice to God as David ⁴witnesseth in another place, a sacrifice to God is a troubled spirit, a contrite & humble heart God will not despise. S. Paul also saith, ⁵I beseech you brothers by the tender mercies of God, that you give your bodies a sacrifice, that is quick, holy & acceptable to God, which is your reasonable serving of God. And God himself saith by the Prophet, unto whom shall I look, but