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Christian meditations upon eight Psalms of the prophet David. Made and newly set forthChristian meditations vpon eight Psalmes of the prophet Dauid. Made and newly set forth
Christian meditations upon eight Psalms of the prophet David. Made and newly set forth by Theodore Beza. Translated out of French, for the common benefit, into the vulgar tongue by I.S.Christian meditations vpon eight Psalmes of the prophet Dauid. Made and newly set forth by Theodore Beza. Translated out of French, for the common benefite, into the vulgare tongue by I.S.
Imprinted at London : In Bacon house, by Christopher Barker, printer to the Queens most excellent Majesty, 1582Imprinted at London : In Bacon house, by Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1582
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9 Lo why I lye on the earth, living on the dust in stead of meat, and tears for drink, through the deep conceiving of this most horrible indignation, and this so just displeasure against me, whom thou hast thus overthrown, from a state wherein thou haddest superexalted me, in so much as I go fading away, and lost as a shadow ⟨image 48⟩at Sun fall, and am there as cut down grass without force or liveliness.
9 Loe why I lye on the earth, liuing on the dust in stead of meate, and teares for drinke, through the deepe conceyuing of this most horrible indignation, and this so iust displeasure against mee, whome thou hast thus ouerthrowen, from a state wherein thou hadest superexalted mee, in so much as I goe fading away, and lost as a shadowe ⟨image 48⟩at Sunne fall, and am there as cut downe grasse without force or liuelinesse.
1212 But what? yet am I not out of heart, O mighty and eternal God, when I consider that thou art for ever the same, and that it can not be otherwise, but the memory of thy renown must be ever durable. For, this presupposed, albeit thou art not underpropped but of thy self,13 and that nothing may be put too, or taken from thee: Yet, sith it hath liked thee to chose from out of the unworthiest creature, to wit, man, a certain number, which is thy Church, there to make thine infinite glory for ever to shine: I conclude with my self, that of necessity (howsoever it seems sometimes otherwise) as thou hast been cast down in thy Church, now ⟨image 48⟩lying on the ground, so wilt thou raise again thy self, in uprearing her, and all for thy great pity and compassion sake. In deed, Lord, thou hast so promised, and many a time effected it. For, into what straits was thy Church brought during that horrible slavery of Egypt, their pilgrimage in the wilderness, their calamities befalling them under the Judges, the captivity of thine Ark, the renting of Judah and Israel, the dreadful destruction by Babel, when there remained not one stone upon another: thine holy Temple was made an heap of dust, the sacred vessels were sacrilegiously ravined, carried away, and profanely abused: thy sacrificers murdered, the crown of David tumbled to the ground, all the land dyed with blood,