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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
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.
A meditation upon the 130 Psalm.
A meditation vpon the 130 Psalme.
1O My poor soul, fall not flat down, vex not thy self out of measure: the burden of thy sins presseth thee sore in deed, but be not for all that, quite overwhelmed: thou art thrust down so low into the deepest deeps, that thou haddest need cry loud for to be heard of him, which dwelleth in the highest heights: And the ever burning hell fire is not far from that lake, whither thine iniquities have plunged thee, so as thou mayest, as it were, perceive the Echo of their cries & desperate howlings, which be there cast without all hope of ever coming forth. But the Lord which brings even to the borders of hell his best ⟨image 53⟩beloved, when they forget themselves, knows also how well to bring them back again. Go no further then downward, but lift up thine heart together with thy cry, and say not in thy self, God hath rejected me from before him, for, such language God likes not. Thou criest unto God, and wherefore, but only because he hath awakened thee? For lo, what he crieth in thine ears: My people, what have I done to thee? or wherein have I grieved or irked thee?2 O my God, what shall I answer thee hereto? He which receiveth the offence, goeth first about to excuse him: The Judge falleth a beseeching of the guilty party: and what can I say, my God, but that I can not comprehend that which thou doest for me, who could not so ⟨image 54⟩much as have any being, haddest not thou made me? And after thou haddest made me, either I forgot all that thou haddest done for me, or else the remembrance thereof representing unto me mine unthankfulness, astonisheth my sense, and stoppeth my mouth. Rather thou thy self Lord, declare unto me what thou hast done for me, so as I may never forget it. Thou madest me of nothing in the person of my first father, and is it not somewhat to be made somewhat of nothing? Thou hast fashioned me in my mothers womb, thou hast taken me from thence, as it were by thine own proper hands: thou hast suckled, nourished and brought me up, by raising up unto me such as did it according to that will and ability, which thou gavest them. Throughout