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17 BVT thou, ô Lord, continue to embrace me a∣gaine thy most bound seruant, with the same fauour, that I ouercomming al difficulties, may re∣maine to obserue those things which thou hast spoken vnto vs.
18 Roll awaie that vaile, which taketh awaie from the eies of my mind al the vse of the true light, that I may behold those vndoubted wonderful se∣crets, which do shine foorth of that thy heauenlie doctrine.
19 For I am a stranger in the earth, striuing to go to another place, euen to that better heauenlie life: wherefore I beseech thee, hide not from mee thy precepts, which verelie leade vs thither.
20 For I am so inflamed wholie with great desire of knowing and keeping thy lawes, both in prospe∣ritie and aduersitie, that this zeale consumeth me.
21 Thou vsest to rebuke & to destroie the haugh∣tie persons, and such as stubbornlie striue against thee: and they are worthilie appointed to destru∣ction, whosoeuer refuse thy precepts.
22 But these notwithstanding vse to reproch me with al kind of contumelie, but thou remoue these things far from me, because I do folowe thy wil, that thou hast testified vnto vs.
23 For euen the princes and the great men also, assembling themselues together, do take counsel a∣gainst me, and slander me: but I giue my selfe who∣lie to meditate thy statutes, whilest they thus deale with me.
24 These are my delightes, these are the men whose counsel I vse.