Paraphrase vpon the seaven pen[i]tentiall psalmes of [t]he kingly prophet tra[n]slated out of Italian by I.H.

THE PREFACE.

GENTLE READER,

TAke in good part my coun∣saile ingenuouslie heerein tendred vnto thee; convert it to thy vse. Contemplate on the subiect following, & that leriouslie. Indeed, it cannot likely bee: but that in soe doeing thou freely vendicate thy selfe, of time it's losle: For verily; there is to bee read the dolefull la∣mentations, and noe lesle; there is shewen through euen most curious shadowes, then conspicuous lights, the heart its comforts of the Kingly Prophet. Thou mayest well appre∣hend, if there vnto thou lend thine eare: that it, though written, may bee

taken, foreuē a Figure, an Embleme, yea rather, a more liuely Image as well of deepe griefe, as also meruai∣lous reliefe. Beholde a true Com∣punct deciphered there. What more? and such an one, as on whom thence shined Devine inspirations: which by him sweetlie received, made him an evected, with that high dignitie, of a Registred, in the booke of sanc∣titie.