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.

PSALME. XI.

The Argument.

The Prophet doeth heere teach, that the godlie are in this world like vnto birds, which are compelled to wander to and fro without certaine habitation, for the foulers snares: yet are not they to be heard, which thinke that a man should leaue his calling, either imagining that things are lead by fortune, or that the godlie otherwaies should perish. For the end wil declare it selfe, that al and euerie particular thing is gouerned by Gods prouidence, who wil neuer forsake them that trust in him, neither wil suffer them vnpunished that dispise him. And it seemeth that Dauid made this Psalme, when the courti∣ers laboured, vnder the colour of friendship, to driue

him out of the Court, as though otherwaies he should be slaine by Saul: the which thing he counted not meete to do, vnlesse he were constrained by extreme necessitie.

THE PARAPHRASIS.

1 IN the Lord put I my trust, how saie yee then, as men careful for my life, Flee awaie into your mountaines.

2 For lo, saie ye, the wicked haue bent their bowe, and haue laid their arrowes vpon their string, to shoote at those priuilie that are of vpright heart.

3 And whereas the verie foundations are shaken, what can the righteous do?

4 The Lord sitteth in his holie temple, the Lords throne is in the heauens, his eies doe behold al things, and he trieth mortal men with his eie lids.

5 The Lord trieth both the good and the bad, and he vtterlie hateth and abhorreth him that is giuen to wickednes.

6 He wil raine vpon the wicked, coles, fire, and brimstone, and stormie tempests, this is their por∣tion appointed.

7 For the iust God loueth righteousnes, and he alwaies beholdeth them that do right.