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 O My God, my King, I wil highlie extol thee, and celebrate thy name for euer and euer.

2 I wil consecrate al the daies of my life to

set forth thy glorie, and wil amplifie thy name with songs that neuer shal haue end.

3 For thou art great, ô Lord, and no praise is suffi∣cient for thee, neither can anie man attaine to thy greatnes.

4 For thy wonderful works endure not for one generation and age alone: but as one age succee∣deth another, so likewise must some men commit the memorial of them vnto others, vnles they wil be negligent in doing their dutie.

5 Wherefore truelie be it far from me, that anie thing should be of greater authoritie with me, than that I should carefullie thinke that the brightnes of thy Maiestie, which shineth vnto vs in the verie dailie vse of things, and that thy deedes are greater than can be comprehended by the admiration or by the capacitie of al men.

6 And doubtles, though verie manie be most bloc∣kish and wonderful thanklesse: yet can there neuer be wanting some, which shal euen against their wils confesse at the least thy terrible power: but admit that other be silent, yet wil I neuer cease to declare thy greatnes.

7 But God forbid that I alone should labour to doe this my dutie: for verelie there wil be alwaies some assemblie, which wil by al meanes testifie the remembrance of thy peculiar goodnes, and thy most vndoubted promises:

8 Namelie, that thou art most merciful, and most readie to exceeding mercie: and of whome a man may almost doubt, whether he be more slowe to wrath, or more prone to pardon.

9 For is there anie thing, ô Lord, void of thy good∣nes? naie, what is there in this whole world anie-where, which doth not testifie thy clemencie euen in this point, that thou doest suffer so manie ages this world that is defiled so sundrie waies?

10 Therefore, ô Lord, thou hast created nothing:

nothing was done of thee, since the world was first made, which doth not euen of it selfe set foorth thy glorie: but onelie thy chosen people doe acknow∣ledge thee, and giue vnto thee due and conuenient praise.

11 For these alone do knowe & declare by experi∣ence what thy dominion is, and what is thy power:

12 That is to saie, the publishers of thy most vali∣ant acts, committing the glorie of thy kingdome to their posteritie.

13 For indeed, thy kingdome is not limited in any bounds of time, for that it alwaies endureth one, and vnchangeable from al eternitie.

14 And how iust and moderate this thy rule is, hereof it is euident, ô Lord: because thou dost staie vp euerie one, how vnworthie soeuer, which else should fal: and also liftest vp those that are alreadie fallen downe.

15 And what maner of benefit is this of thine, which is common to al? that the life of al liuing cre∣atures is attributed to thee their creator and pre∣seruer, and thou againe giuest them nourishment in their due and conuenient time.

16 For whatsoeuer hath life, liueth not by anie o∣ther means than herevpon, that thou bestowest vp∣on euerie one, as it were willinglie reaching foorth thine hand, & compelled by thine alone liberalitie.

17 Neither doth both thy iustice, and thy most bountious liberalitie lesse appeare in gouerning those things which thou hast made, and directing them what waie soeuer thou wilt, to the end ap∣pointed by thee.

18 Yet thou manifesting thy selfe principalie, and with a certaine peculiar testimonie of thy fauour in defending them carefulie, which worship and reue∣rence thee with an earnest affection of the heart, thou dost as it were neuer depart from their sides:

19 Insomuch that they can aske nothing of thee

aright, which thou dost not grant them, and alwaies helpest them when they crie.

20 And euen as thou safelie keepest al those that loue thee, so thou destroiest al the wicked.

21 Wherefore, by good right, ô Lord, I wil declare thy praises, euen with a sounding voice: and it be∣commeth al men, to whome thou grantest the vse of this life, to doe this thing diligentlie and conti∣nuallie.