them which keepe the sayings of this booke worship God 10. 19. And I fell at his feet to worship him and he said vnto me see thou do it not I am thy fellow seruant and of thy brethren that haue the testimonie of Iesus Worship God 2. The Lord is great in Zion and he is high aboue all people 5. Exalt yee the Lord our God and worship at his footstoole for hee is holy Iosh 24. 14. Feare the Lord and serue him in sinceritie and in truth and put away the Gods which your fathers serued on the other side of the flood and in Egipt and serue ye the Lord. Isa 8. 13. Sanctifie the Lord of hosts himselfe and let him be your feare and let him be your dread Reuel 14. 7. Worship him that made heauen and earth and the sea and the fountaines of waters 8. Luke 4. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy GOD and him onely shalt thou serue Faith 1. Heb. 11. FAith is the substance of things hoped for the euidence of things not seene 6. Hee that commeth to God must beleeue that he is and that hee is a rewarder of them that diligently seeke him 46. Io. 12. I am come a light into the world that whosoeuer beleeueth on mee should not abide in darkenesse Iohn 3. 36. He that beleeueth on the sonne hath euerlasting life and he that beleeueth not the sonne shall not see life but the wrath of God shall abide on him Galat. 3. 26. Ye are the children of God by faith in Christ Iesus 22. The Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne that the promise by faith of Iesus Christ might bee giuen to them that beleeue Act. 10. 43. To him giue all the Prophets witnesse that through his name whosoeuer belieueth in him shall receiue remission of sins 22. Heb. 10. Let vs draw neare with a true heart in full assurance of faith 23. Let vs hold fast the profession of our faith without wauering for hee is faithfull that promised 9. If thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus Rom. 10. and shalt beleeue in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt bee saued 10. For with the heart man beleeueth vnto righteousnesse and with the mouth confession is made vnto saluation Gal. 3. 9. They that be of faith are blessed with faithfull Abraham 1. Pet. 1. 9. The end of your faith the saluation of your soules Repentance Hos 14. 1. O Israel returne vnto the Lord thy God for thou hast fallen by thine iniquitie Act. 3. 19. Repent yee therefore and bee conuerted that your sinnes may bee blotted out 23. Ezech. 18. Haue I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die saith the Lord God and not that hee should returne from his wayes and liue 30. Repent and turne your selues from all your transgressions so iniquitie shall not be your 〈◊〉 31. Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby you haue transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit 11. Turne ye turne ye 33. from your euill waies for why will ye die 〈◊〉 ô house of Israel Isa 1. 18. Come now and let vs reason together saith the Lord though your sinnes bee as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they bee red like crimson they shall bee as wooll Heb. 6. 9. The Lord is long suffering to vs-ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance Isa 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way and the vnrighteous man his thoughts and let him returne vnto the Lord and hee will haue mercy vpon him and to our GOD for hee will abundantly pardon 40. Let vs search Lam. 3. and trie our wayes and turne againe to the Lord. 25. The Lord is good to them that waite for him to the soule that seeketh him 27. Iob. 33. If any say I haue sinned and peruerted that which was right and it profited me not 28. He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit and his life shall fee the light 7. Psal 130. Let Israell hope in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercie and with him is plenteous redemption 8. And hee shall redeeme Israell from all his iniquities Confession Pro. 28. 13. HEe that couereth his sinnes shall not prosper but who so confesseth and forsaketh thē shall haue mercy Luke 15. 18. I will arise and go to my father and will say vnto him father I haue sinned against heauen and before thee 19. And am no more worthy to bee called thy sonne 5. Psal 32. I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee and mine iniquitie haue I not hid I said I will confesse my transgressions vnto the Lord and thou forgauest the iniquitie of my sinne 4. Dan. 9. I prayed vnto the Lord my God and made my confession and said O Lord the great and dreadfull God keeping the couenant and mercie to them that loue him and to them that keepe his commandements 5. Wee haue sinned and committed iniquitie and haue done wickedly and haue rebelled euen by departing from thy precepts and from thy iudgements Dan 9. 6. Neither haue wee hearkened vnto thy seruants the prophets which spake in thy name to our kings our princes and our fathers and to all the people of the land Nehem. 1 5. O Lord God of heauen the great and terrible God that keepeth couenant and mercie for them that loue him and obserue his commandements 6. Let thine eare bee now attentiue and thine eyes opē that thou mayst heare the prayer of thy seruant which I pray before thee now day and night for the children of Israel thy seruants and confesse the sinnes of the children of Israel which wee haue sinned against thee both I and my fathers house haue sinned 7. We haue dealt very corruptly against thee and haue not kept the commandements nor the statutes nor the Iudgements which thou commandedst thy seruant Moses 10. 2 Sam. 24. Dauid said vnto the Lord I haue sinned greatly in that I haue done and now I beseech thee O Lord take away the iniquitie of thy seruant for I haue done foolishly Luke 18. 13. The publican standing afarre off would not lift vp so much as his eyes vnto heauē but smote vpon his brest saying God be merciful vnto me a sinner 1. Iohn 1. 9. If wee confesse our sinnes hee is faithfull and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse Rom. 14. 11. As I liue saith the Lord euery knee shall bow to me and euery tongue shall confesse to God 12. So then euery one of vs shall giue account of himselfe vnto God 4. Psal 41. Lord be mercifull vnto me heale my soule for I haue sinned against thee Faith and works 22. Iames 1. BE yee doers of the word and not hearers onely deceiuing your owne selues 23.
THE TRVE CATHOLIKE Collected out of the Oracles and Psalteries of the holy Ghost for Instruction and Deuotion 1 TIM 2.4 God will haue all men to be saued and to come to the knowledge of the truth IOH. 14.17 The world cannot receiue the spirit of truth because it seeth him not neither knoweth him 1 COR. 2.10 The spirit searcheth all things yea the deepe things of God EPHES. 5.9 For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodnesse and righteousnesse and truth LONDON Printed for E. BLACKMORE 1628. THE PREFACE OF DOCTOR FRA. RIBERA 〈◊〉 In Coment in Amos Prophet touching the Excellency Dignity profit of finding the holy Scriptures THAT there is no studie either more Excellent more profitable or more worthy of Man then the studie of the holy Scriptures hee shall best know and iudge that applyeth himselfe wholy thereunto and shal perceiue that man to bee worthily called blessed Which meditateth in the law of God day and night Psal 1 2. I doe verily confesse that all the sacred bookes especially those of the Prophets are wrapped and incumbred with many difficulties by which as it were by certaine strict keepers of a most stately Temple The holy Ghost hath straitly prohibited the accesse and misteries vnto prophane and proud men and that it is rightly spoken of them which Socrates is reported to haue said when he hapned vpon Heraclitus bookes of nature That those things which hee vnderstood seemed excellent vnto him and that hee thought so also of them which hee vnderstood not but that it was needfull to haue an Interpreter to them No where can you see more euidently no where can it more appeare which is spoken in the old Greeke prouerbe Those things which are excellent are difficult Or that saying which passeth far neare from Hesiodus concerning vertue That it is scituate in a steepe and high place and that it hath a passage in the beginning hard and full of paine and labour But doubtlesse although the labour be great and continuall it doth sufficiently recompence with profit the paine with ease the earnest endeauour of the minde with rest For although they seeme to haue much hardnesse yet without doubt they haue farre more of true and perfect delight For how great a matter is it to bee led by a King into a wine-Cellar Cant. 2.4 For Charity to be rightly ordered How great a matter is it to sucke those brests better then wine sauoring sweetly with the best oyntments Cant. 1.2 To hold wisedome as the Apostle speaketh among those that bee perfect 1. Cor. 2.6 Yet not the wisedome of this world nor of the Princes of this world which come to nought but the wisedome of God in a misterie which none of the Princes of this world knew 7. 8. To be present at the distribution of heauenly treasures To behold the glory of God with open face Certainely the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the future glory which when wee well vnderstand the sacred bookes shall be reuealed in vs. But the men of our time are quicke and ready to other studies vnto these for the most part they are slow and do imagine that these are to bee left to idle men and such as tarrie at home or else vnto Preachers Whereby it happens that such as are vnfit for sermons though they haue leasure enough doe rather bestow their labour and endeauour in any other matter How much the holy Scriptures doe profit preachers I haue often said and how greatly they stand in neede of them which are excercised in Schoole disputations I could say and perchance will hereafter shew Now this I auouch that albeit these Scriptures bee most profitable to helpe others they iudge very ill who thinke they are to bee studied onely for other mens sakes For if we reade with great profit the bookes of the holy fathers and of other learned men which are called and are spirituall and by reading them doe finde our selues much bettered shall there bee any book so spirituall which may bee compared with those which the spirit of God it selfe by the choycest and wisest men hath deliuered vnto vs If the small brookes doe helpe and as it were satisfie what shall that great Riuer doe which Ezechiell saw Ezec. 47.1 issuing forth vnder the threshold of the Lords house which he could not goe through because the waters of that deepe riuer were risen so that they could not bee passed ouer And when I had returned 5. said he behold at the bank of the riuer were very many trees on either side 7. what are those many trees on either side the banke of the riuer but the ancient writers ioyned to the Law and the Prophets and the new writers who sitting together by the streames of the Euangelists and Apostles doe alwayes waxe greene as most beautifull trees and abound with pleasant fruite the riuer is the same because it is the same author of the Scriptures and the scope the same but the ages and times diuers which are resembled by both the bankes Of these trees and of these waters it is said and he shall be like a tree planted by the riuers of waters that bringeth forth his fruite in his season Psal 1.3 his leafe also shall not fall away and whatsoeuer be doth it shall prosper I was wont to maruaile with my selfe as often as I did reade in Saint Ierome that the study of the Scriptures had wonderfull power to change the minde of man to quench the desires of the flesh to procure the contempt of the world and briefly to gaine all kinde of vertue vntill I perceiued hee spake those things whereof hee had made triall in himselfe and that it is a wrong not to belieue him that hath experience Hee that beleeueth not let him first reade the Scripture not as though hee would interpret it to others but to be turned wholy to his owne profit let him meditate therein day and night he shall feele a stony heart to bee mollified a cold heart to be inflamed with heauenly fire for the words of the Lord are like fire â—er 23.29 and as a hammer that breaketh the rocke in peeces He shall perceiue the loue of the world to vanish away the desire of eternall good things to bee stirred vp in himselfe his minde filled with a certaine incredible delight which he that felt it cried out how sweete are thy words vnto my taste Psal 119.103 yea sweeter then hony to my mouth O wisdome guide of the heauenly life teacher of vertues bane of vices fountaine of light expeller of darkenesse what should wee nay what should the whole life of man be without thee Thou art the companion in labour thou art the comforter in aduersitie the ouerseere and guide in prosperitie the instructer of youth the foundation of manhood the most sweet rest of old age Come therefore let vs ascend vp
Congregation stone him 6. 2. Sam. 6. Vzzah put forth his hand to the Arke of God and tooke hold of it for the oxen shooke it 7. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Vzzah and God smote him there for his error and there he died by the Arke of God 19. 1. Sam. 6. And hee smote the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the Arke of the Lord euē hee smote of the people threescore thousand and threescore and ten men 30. Math. 25. Cast ye the vnprofitable seruant into vtter darkenesse there shall bee weeping and gnashing of teeth Iam. 3. 2. In many things wee offend all 1. Iohn 1. 7. And the bloud of Iesus Christ cleanseth vs from all sinne Will. Gen. 6. 5. GOd saw that the wickednes of man was great in the earth and that euery imagination of the thoughts of his heart was onely euill continually 8. 21. The imagination of mans heart is euill from his youth 23. Ier. 10. O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himselfe it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps 18. 31. Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised as a bullocke vnaccustomed to the yoake turne thou me and I shall be turned thou art the Lord my God 24. Pro. 20. Mans goings are of the Lord how can a man then vnderstand his owne way 1. 16. The preparations of the heart of man and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. 5. Iohn 15. I am the vine ye are the branches he that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth foorth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing Psal 32. 8. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way that thou shalt goe I will guide thee with mine eye Hosea 13. 9. O Israel thou hast destroyed thy selfe but in me is thine helpe Iohn 6. 44. No man can come to mee except the father which hath sent me draw him 2. Cor. 3. 5. We are not sufficient of our selues to thinke any thing as of our selues for our sufficiency is of God 13. Philip. 2. It is God which worketh in you both to will and to doe of his good pleasure 17. Iames 1. Euery good gift and euery perfect gift is from aboue and cōmeth downe from the father of lights with whom is no variablenesse neither shadow of turning 18. Of his owne will begate hee vs with the word of truth that wee should bee a kinde of first fruits of his creatures 15. Ye ought to say Iames 4. if the Lord will we shall liue and doe this or that Acts 18 21. I will returne againe vnto you if God will 1. Cor. 4. 19. I will come vnto you shortly if the Lord will Heb. 6. 3. This will wee doe if God permit Ezech. 36. 26. A new heart will I giue you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will giue you an heart of flesh 17. And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walke in my statutes and ye shall keepe my iudgements and doe them 45. Luke 24. Then opened hee their vnderstanding that they might vnderstand the Scriptures 12. Iohn 1. As many as receiued him to them gaue he power to become the sonnes of God euen to them that beleeue on his name 13. Which were borne not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God Hipocrisie 8. Iames 4. CLeanse your hands ye sinners and purifie your hearts ye double minded Luke 12. 1. Beware ye of the leauen of the Pharises which is hypocrisie Pro. 30. 12. There is a generation that are pure in their owne eyes and yet is not washed from their filthinesse Iob 36. 13. The hypocrites in heart heape vp wrath Isay 58 2. They seeke mee dayly and delight to know my wayes as a nation that did righteousnesse and forsook not the ordinance of their God they aske of mee the ordinances of Iustice they take delight in aproaching to God 5. Mat. 23. But all their workes they doe for to be seene of men 23. Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharises Hypocrites for yee pay tythe of mynt and annise and cūmyne and haue omitted the weightier matters of the law iudgement mercy and faith these ought yee to haue done and not to leaue the other vndone 27. Ye are like to whited sepulchers which indeede appeare beautifull outward but are within full of dead mens bones and of vncleanenesse 28. Euen so yee also outwardly appeare righteous vnto men but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie Luk. 11. 39. Yee Pharisees doe make cleane the outside of the cup and platter but your inward part is full of rauening and wickednesse Mat. 23. 26. Cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter that the outside of them may bee cleane also Luk. 11. 40. Ye fooles did not he which made that which is without make that which is within also 41. Rather giue almes of such things as you haue behold all things are cleane vnto you Riches 1. Eccles 6. THere is an euill which I haue seene vnder the Sunne and it is common among men 2. A man to whom God hath giuen riches wealth and honour so that hee wanteth nothing for his soule of all that hee desireth yet God giueth him not power to eate thereof but a stranger eateth it this is vanitie and it is an euill disease 1. Tim. 6. 17. Charge them that bee rich in this world that they bee not high minded nor trust in vncertaine riches but in the liuing God who giueth vs richly all things to enioy 18. That they doe good that they bee rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate 19. Laying vp in store for themselues a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternall life Iames 5. 1. Goe to now ye rich men weepe and howle for your miseries that shal come vpon you 2. Your riches are corrupted and your garments moth-eaten 3. Your gold and siluer is cankred and the rust of them shall be a witnesse against you and shall eate your flesh as it were fire yee haue heaped vp treasure together for the last dayes 24 Woe vnto you that are rich Luke 6. for ye haue receiued your consolation 19. Mar. 4. The cares of this world and the deceitfullnesse of riches and the lusts of other things entring in choake the word and it becommeth vnfruitfull Luk. 16. 13. Yee cannot serue God and Mammon 1 Tim 6. 6. Godlinesse with contentment is great gaine Psal 62. 10. If riches increase set not your heart vpon them 1 Tim. 6. 7. For we brought nothing into this world and it
buy wine and milke without money and without price Wherefore doe ye spend monie for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Hearken diligently vnto the vndoubted testimonies of our God and eate ye that which is good and let your soule delight it selfe in fatnesse Incline your eare and come vnto him heare and your soule shall liue and he will make an euerlasting couenant with you euen the sure mercies of DAVID PSALTERIES OF THE HOLY GHOST A Psalme of Confession VERSE Psal 25. 1. VNto thee O LORD doe I lift vp my soule 19. 14. Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my redeemer Psal 5. 2. Hearken vnto the voice of my crye my King and my God for vnto thee will I pray 4. Psal 5. For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickednesse neither shall euill dwell with thee 3. 130. If thou Lord shouldest marke iniquities O Lord who shall stand 4. But there is forgiuenesse with thee that thou mayst be feared 5. 86. For thou Lord art good and readie to forgiue and plenteous in mercy vnto all them that call vpon thee 5. 69. O God thou knowest my foolishnesse and my sinnes are not hid from thee Psal 119. 176. I haue gone astray like a lost sheepe seeke thy seruant for I doe not forget thy commandements 51. 3. I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is euer before me 4. Against thee thee onely haue I sinned and done this euil in thy sight 38. 3. There is no soundnesse in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sinne 4. For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head as an heauie burthen they are two heauie for me 5. My wounds stinke and are corrupt because of my foolishnesse 12. Psal 40. Innumerable euils haue compassed me mine iniquities haue taken hold vpon me so that I am not able to looke vp They are more then the haires of mine head therefore mine heart faileth me Of Contrition 1. Psal 38. O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure 2. For thine arrowes sticke fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore Psal 38. 6. I am troubled I am bowed downe greatly I go mourning all the day long 22. 14. I am powred out like water and all my bones are out of ioynt my heart is like waxe it is melted in the middest of my bowels 31. 12. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind I am like a broken vessell 41. 4. Lord bee mercifull vnto me heale my soule for I haue sinned against thee 38. 9. All my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee 18. Psal 38. For I will declare mine iniquitie I will bee sorie for my sinne 17. 51. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit A broken a contrite heart ô God thou wilt not despise 8. 51. Make me to heare ioy and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken may reioyce 10. Create in mee a cleane heart and renew a right spirit within me 11. Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy spirit from me Psal 51. 12. Restore to me the ioy of thy saluation and vphold me with thy free spirit For Remission Psal 51. 1. HAue mercie vpon me O God according to thy louing kindenesse according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie and cleanse me from my sinne 7. Purge mee with Hisop and I shall be cleane wash mee and I shall bee whiter then snow 11. Psal 25. For thy names sake O Lord pardon mine iniquitie for it is great 7. Remember not the sinnes of my youth nor my transgressions according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodnesse sake ô Lord. 16. Turne thee vnto me and haue mercy vpon me for I am desolate and afflicted 18 Looke vpon mine affliction and my paine and forgiue all my sinnes 20. O keepe my soule and deliuer me let me not bee ashamed for I put my trust in thee Psal 39. 8. Deliuer me from all my transgressions make me not the reproch of the foolish 31. 16. Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant saue mee for thy mercies sake 51. 9. Hide thy face from my sinnes and blot out all mine iniquities 141. 8. Mine eyes are vnto thee ô Lord God in thee is my trust leaue not my soule destitute For mercy and direction 16. HEare me ô Lord Psal 69. for thy louing kindnesse is good Turne vnto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies 6. 25. Remember ô Lord thy tender mercies and thy louing kindnesse for they haue beene euer of old 9. 27. Hide not thy face from mee put not thy seruant away in anger thou hast beene my helpe leaue me not neither forsake me O God of my saluation â—sal 86. 3. Bee mercifull vnto me O Lord for I crie vnto thee dayly 25. 4. Shew me thy waies O Lord teach mee thy pathes 5. Leade mee in thy truth and teach mee for thou art the God of my saluation on thee doe I waite all the day 43. 2. For thou art the God of my strength why doest thou cast me off why goe I mourning because of the oppression of the enemie 43. 3. O send out thy light and thy truth let them leade mee let them bring me vnto thy holy hill and thy tabernacles 8. Psal 143. Cause me to heare thy louing kindnesse in the morning for in thee doe I trust Cause mee to know the way wherein I should walke for I lift vp my soule vnto thee 10. Teach mee to doe thy will for thou art my God thy spirit is good leade mee into the land of vprightnesse 11. 40. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from mee O Lord Let thy louing kindnesse and thy truth continually preserue me â—sal 119. 133. Order my steps in thy Word and let not any iniquitie haue dominion ouer me 86. 11. Teach me thy way O Lord I will walke in thy truth vnite my heart to feare thy name 39. 4. Lord make mee to know mine end and the measure of my dayes what it is that I may know how fraile I am For vnderstanding 119. 169. LEt my crie come neere before thee O Lord giue me vnderstanding according to thy Word 26. Psal 119 I haue declared my wayes and thou heardest me teach me thy statutes 27. Make me to vnderstand the way of thy precepts so shall I talke of thy woundrous workes 18. Open thou mine eyes that I may behold the wounderous things out of thy Law 73. Thy hands haue made mee and fashioned me giue me vnderstanding
the multitude of thy tender mercies 25. 18. Looke vpon mine affliction and my paine and forgiue all my sinnes 20. O keepe my soule Psal 25. and deliuer me let me not be ashamed for I put my trust in thee 28. 119. My soule melteth for heauinesse strengthen me according to thy word 2. 51. Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie and cleanse me from my sinne 3. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sinne is euer before me 7. Purge me with Hysope and I shall be cleane Wash me and I shall bee whiter then snow 8. Make mee to heare ioy and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken may reioyce Psal 142. 5. Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the liuing 31. 16. Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant saue mee for thy mercies sake Third Psalme 6. 2. HAue mercy vpon me ô Lord for I am weake ô Lord helpe me for my bones are vexed 69. 3. I am weary of crying my throat is dryed mine eyes faile while I waite for my God 11. Psal 51. Cast me not away from thy presence take not thy holy spirit froÌ„ me 12. Restore to mee the ioy of thy saluation and vphold mee with thy free spirit 8. 17. Keepe me as the apple of the eye hide me vnder the shadow of thy wings 94. I am thine saue me 119. for I haue sought thy statutes 174. I haue longed for thy saluation O Lord and thy law is my delight 5. My soule 62. waite thou onely vp in God for my expectation is from him â—sal 62. 6. He only is my Rocke and my saluation he is my defence I shall not be moued 40. 4. Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust Fourth Psalme 42. 5. VVHy art thou cast downe O my soule and why art thou disquieted within mee Hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God 27. 1. The Lord is my light and my saluation whom shall I feare The Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid 4. Psal 23. Though I walke through the valley of the shadow of death I will feare none euill for thou art with mee thy rod and thy staffe they comfort me 5. 13. I haue trusted in thy mercy my heart shall reioyce in thy saluation 19. 31. O how great is thy goodnes which thou hast layd vp for them that feare thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sonnes of men Psal 36. 7. How excellent is thy louing kindnesse O Lord Therefore the children of men put their trust vnder the shadow of thy wings 9. With thee is the fountaine of life and in thy light shall we see light 145. 9. The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are ouer all his workes 66. 8. O blesse our God yee people and make the voyce of his praise to bee heard 103. 2. Blesse the Lord O my soule and forget not all his benefits 3. Who forgiueth all thine iniquitie who healeth all thy diseases 4. Psal 103. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction and crowneth thee with louing kindnesse and tender mercies 13. 41. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from euerlasting to euerlasting Amen Amen A PRAYER Ephes 1. 17. THe GOD of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of glory giue vnto you the spirit of wisedome and reuelation in the knowledge of him 18. That the eyes of your vnderstanding being inlightened you may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints 19. And what is the exceeding greatnesse of his power to vs-ward that beleeue according to the working of his mightie power 20. Which he wrought in Christ when hee raised him from the dead and set him on his owne right hand in the heaueÌ„ly place 21. Farre aboue all Principalitie and power and might and dominion and euery name that is named not onely in this world but also in that which is to come 22. And hath put all things vnder his feete and gaue him to be head ouer all things to the Church 23. Which is his body the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all Amen The Soules comfort AS by the sacred Fountaine I did passe The streames sent forth such pleasant melody That with deep sighs my soule cryd out Alas Why should I wander from this harmony The sound wherof guides to eternall blisse Diuerting from those pathes which leade amisse The warbling notes resounded still and said Oft hast thou fallen by thine iniquitie Yet lift thy heart to heauen be not afraid Repentance is a constant remedie Then search and try thy wayes returne and know Thy scarlet deeds shall be as white as snow If thou confesse thou hast peruerted right Yet no aduantage hast thereby obtay'nd Thy soule shall liue thy life shal see the light Thy sinnes seeme wooll which were with crimson stayn'd A light is come and darkenesse vanished Beleeue in him alone that promised Afflicted widowes and the fatherlesse To visit is a worke of charitie The poore to helpe and such as in distresse Want comfort to relieue their miserie Yet pleade not merit in thy lost account Trust to that mercy which doth al surmouÌ„t Still dost thou violate the sacred lawes And iustly heapest wrath vpon thine head Yet hast an aduo ate to pleade thy cause Who onely hath the power to interceade He euer liues at the tribunâ—ll seate Mercy for our offences to intreate When neither siluer gold nor earthly price Could vs redeem and purge our hainous sin He shed his bloud his life did sacrifice That for vs which were lost he heauen might winne He lou'd vs though his statutes we forgot And suffered for our sinnes yet had no spot He craues no meed for all that he hath done But with our hearts to feare to serue to loue him His glory is from death he hath vs wonne That we may know there is no power aboue him Then let vs striue to walke in all his wayes And in all things to giue his name the praise And euer listen to those heauenly streames Which yeild such musick for the souls delight Abandoning all mens deceitfull dreames Who through their pride obscure the clearest light Close by this fountaine I resolue to dwell Whose warbles doe all humane art excell FINIS Errata Page 6. Line 6. reade the for thy p. 13 l 1 r. Ia 1. for Isa 1 and 21. for 16 p. 44. l. 8 r. from among you p. 65. l. 10. r. ruine for raigne l. 19 dele ye p. 112. l. 18. r in the Synagogues p. 117. l. 8. dele Sanctuary p. 149. l. 4 r. make you perfect