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 THE heauens declare the glorie of God, and this wide stretched frame of the heauenlie spheres, called the firmament, doth plain∣lie testifie, that they could not be created by anie other but by God himselfe.

2 The interchangeable course of daie and night, doth minister occasion to drawe out the power of that most wise creator, by that most ample and ne∣uer ceasing race, as it were out of a liuely euer run∣ning fountaine.

3 Yea the heauens do also speake as with an high sounding voice, which may be vnderstood of al people, of al maner of languages.

4 For that same their most cunning workeman∣ship, and the orderlie mouing by most constant and certaine spaces, wherewith chiefelie the Sunne is carried about, by that huge bodie compassed and couered with the heauens, as with a tabernacle, calleth as with a lowde voice vpon al men, from the one end of the world to the other.

5 For the Sunne it selfe like a bridegrome com∣ming foorth of his chamber, glistering with gold and pretious stones: or like a mightie champion stretching himselfe to runne his race,

6 Doth runne foorth from the one vttermost border to the other, without anie wearines, and with a course incomprehensible, and there is none that can be hid from his heate.

7 But wee haue an other farre more excellent schoolemaister and teacher of this wisedome: yea, one that is perfect in deede, euen the doctrine de∣clared

vnto vs from heauen, and appointed of God, which doth fullie restore vs to perfection. By the which the Lord hath opened vnto vs plainelie al that appertaineth to our saluation, and doth teach al men true wisedome, so that they knowled∣ging their want of wisedome, should shew them∣selues willing to be taught.

8 The doctrine, I saie, ordeined of God, which teacheth the true waie of felicitie plainelie and e∣uidentlie, and doth comfort the mindes with true ioie, and lighteneth the eies of the mind with true light.

9 For this is it which declareth the pure and vn∣changeable worship of God, and the maner how to worship God most rightlie and sincerelie.

10 A thing more pretious by much than al gold, how pure so euer: and more sweete than anie honie combe.

11 For heereby thy seruants ô Lord, are taught which waie they should walke, and they that walke this waie, shal feele thee in the end most merciful.

12 But ah! who can vnderstand his faults? wher∣fore I beseech thee mercifullie to deliuer me from these faultes, that I can not by anie meanes vnder∣stand.

13 And suffer not me thy seruant to be ouercome of these vnbrideled affections: but rather graunt that I may leade this life vpright, and free from wickednes.

14 That I neither speake anie thing, nor thinke anie thing in my heart, which may not be accep∣table vnto thee in whose sight I stand, vnto thee I say, ô Lord, my defender and deliuerer.