The Psalmes of Dauid truly opened and explaned by paraphrasis, according to the right sense of euerie Psalme. With large and ample arguments before euerie Psame, declaring the true vse thereof. To the which is added a briefe table, shewing wherevnto euery Psalme is particularly to be applied, according to the direction of M. Beza and Tremellius. Set foorth in Latine by that excellent learned man Theodore Beza. And faithfully translated into English, by Anthonie Gilbie, and by him newly purged from sundrie faultes escaped in the first print, and supplied with the principal pointes of euerie Psalme, summarilie set downe in a table at the end of the booke.

THE PARAPHRASIS.

1 PRaise yee the Lord, and celebrate his name: for he is of most excellent and euerlasting goodnes.

2 Who is able to set foorth in words the wonde∣rous works, which he hath done for vs? who is able sufficientlie to set foorth his praise?

3 O blessed is that man, who at al times, and in what estate soeuer he is, neuer declineth from vp∣rightnes and iustice!

4 But thou, ô Lord, be mindful of me, of thine vn∣measurable mercie, which thou hast alwaies shew∣ed to thy people, and regard me, to make me parta∣ker of thy saluation:

5 That I being a witnes of thy bountie towards thine elect, may ioie and reioice together with that thy people, which thou hast chosen for thy peculiar heritage.

6 We verelie, I grant, euen as our elders also haue erred, haue sinned, and haue done wickedlie.

7 For, to begin the matter from the first original, those our fathers neither had anie regard of so ma∣nie miracles wrought in Aegypt, neither were they mindful of the multitude of thy benefits: for they did striue with thee at the red sea.

8 Yet God (ô the incredible goodnes!) that he might prouide for his owne glorie, and testifie his owne power, hath preserued them, though most re∣bellious.

9 For he rebuked the sea, which incontinentlie dried vp, and he led his by the surges of the waters, euen as by the drie ground.

10 So did they escape safe out of the enimies hands, God deliuering them.

11 But their oppressors, being swallowed vp with the waters, did perish: so that not one of them re∣mained aliue.

12 And the Israëlites, being ouercome by this fact, began then verelie to beleeue in the Lord, and did sing foorth his praises.

13 But lo, when this was scarse finished, when they suddenlie forgetting al these things, would not suf∣fer themselues to be gouerned by the wil of God, and his counsels:

14 But with immoderate lust desired flesh in the wildernes, and began to tempt and trie the power of the mightie God:

15 Therefore he granted vnto them that thing which they so greedilie desired, but to their great hurt: for these delicates brought them leanenes and consumption.

16 Yea, and they went about through enuie to dis∣place Moses himselfe, and Aaron that holie priest of the Lord.

17 Therefore the earth gaped, and swallowed vp Dathan, and couered Abiram with the verie taber∣nacles.

18 But the fire also beginning in the assemblie of the rebellious, the flame did burne them vp toge∣ther suddenlie.

19 The same men made a calfe in the mount Ho∣reb, and worshipped, when they had molten it,

20 Changing that their honour and ornament, euen the euerliuing God (ô miserable men!) into a dead image of a bullocke that eateth haie,

21 And casting awaie the memorie of God the sa∣uiour, which had shewed so manie wonders in Ae∣gypt:

22 Who had declared so manie miracles vnto them in the land of Cham, and had done so horri∣ble things at the red sea.

23 Wherefore he was about to destroie them at once, but that Moses deerlie beloued of him aboue other, setting himselfe before God in the midst of the slaughter, restrained his wrath, that it should

not be fierce to vtter destruction.

24 What more? when he was about to bring them into the countrie promised, they not beleeuing his words at al, did refuse the land, which ought to haue bene most deere vnto them:

25 And therfore disdaining to heare God speake, they stirred vp a tumult in their tents.

26 Therefore, he stretched out his hand worthi∣lie against them, to destroie them in the desert:

27 And did scatter their posteritie amongest the nations, and cast them so into diuers regions.

28 For also they ioined themselues with Baal Pe∣or, that abhominable idol, and did eate the sacrifi∣ces that were offered to things that had no life.

29 Against the which wickednes, God being most iustlie angrie, did fal vpon them, and strike them with a most greeuous plague.

30 But Phinees rising vp with great courage, did auenge that horrible fact, and the Lord ceased streightwaie to strike them.

31 And Phinees was counted to haue done that thing iustlie, and therby did obteine the praise that should remaine to al posteritie.

32 But they notwithstanding, prouoked God vnto wrath, at the waters which were therefore called the waters of strife, to the great damage of Moses.

33 For they so stirred his mind, that he also spake something vnaduisedlie.

34 And Moses verelie therefore died in that wil∣dernes, but they that were brought into that land of Canaan, were nothing more obedient to Gods commandements than their fathers: for they spared the people, whome God had streightlie comman∣ded to be slaine.

35 And they mixing themselues amongest them, did streightwaie learne their manners:

36 And serued their idols, to their most certaine destruction:

37 Euen comming to this madnes, that they did slaie their sonnes and their daughters vnto diuels:

38 That they offered, I saie, the bloud of their sonnes and innocent daughters, & powred it foorth willinglie to the grauen images of the Canaanites, and defiled the whole countrie with most cruel slaughters.

39 Behold therefore their most horrible facts, be∣hold the abhominable whooredomes, wherewith they of set purpose polluted themselues.

40 Wherewith God being most iustlie greeued, did so burne foorth in anger against this people in the end, that though he had chosen them vnto him∣selfe before, he now abhorred them.

41 He deliuered them into the hands of the Gen∣tiles, and laied them open to the lust and pleasure of their enimies.

42 Wherefore they were after sundrie sorts vexed by them afterward, and oppressed at their pleasure.

43 Notwithstanding, he did deliuer them againe ofter than once, by the which benefits yet it was so farre off that they did recouer anie better mind, that contrariwise, they following their owne lusts, ceased not to prouoke him to anger, whilest that they being forsaken of him, consumed in that their owne wickednes.

44 And who would not here haue in admiration the infinite goodnes of God? For lo, though he had profited nothing with them so manie ages, neither by benefits, nor by chastisements, yet heard he their cries in their distresse:

45 And remembring his couenant, and of his infi∣nite mercie suddenlie changing his mind,

46 He caused that euen they, which had carried them into captiuitie, should haue compassion vpon them.

47 Go to then, ô Lord our God, finish the worke that thou hast begun, and gather vs at the length

home vnto thee foorth of the Gentiles, that we may praise thy name, and set foorth thy praises for euer.

48 Let euerlasting glorie be vnto thee, ô Lord God of Israël. O al ye people agree vnto me! and saie with one mouth, Amen. Praise ye the Lord.