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 Al ye people, heare what I shal saie: giue eare, al ye inhabitants of the earth.

2 Both noble and simple, both rich and poore.

3 For I wil speake of things, which who so regar∣deth, is verie wise: and I haue meditated with my selfe, things that al men ought to vnderstand.

4 I my selfe wil diligentlie consider, that I haue determined to teach vnto others, euen great and most hid things, that this my harpe may be percei∣ued to haue sounded, not onlie vnto others, but vn∣to my selfe also.

5 For why should I tremble? though I be neuer so much oppressed, and be set round about with my mightie enimies compassing me, and following my verie foot-steps.

6 They trust, I graunt, vnto their riches, and are proud, resting vpon their great wealth, as though it were lawful for them to doe what they lust.

7 But, I beseech you, what is more vaine than this momentanie confidence? for the vse of riches dout∣les is no longer durable, than the life it selfe, which is most short, although a man should possesse them to the last minute of his life. For no man can re∣deeme another, much lesse himselfe, with his ri∣ches, neither can he make anie couenant with God for the restoring of life.

8 For the price of the life is greater, than that it can be paied by anie man, much lesse that a man should get immortalitie to himselfe by anie riches.

9 Naie, no man can obtaine vnto himselfe the pro∣longing of his life by anie summe of monie.

10 For the verie experience of al ages doth teach, that al men must die, be they wise, be they foolish: and that there is no difference in this thing, either of kind, or of age, or of state of the person: and that those goods, which they leaue when they die, do commonlie go vnto others, euen whome they knowe not.

11 Yet notwithstanding, such is the foolishnes of manie, that they so leade their life, as though they should neuer depart hence, whiles a fained imagi∣nation doth occupie their mindes, as though their families remaining for euer, and their faire houses that they had built, should continue alwaies vpon the earth in their name.

12 Howbeit, there is nothing more vaine, than the madnes of these men, seeing man doth not remaine long in this worldlie honour: so that they which liue thus minded, are not much differing from the beasts.

13 For their life is nothing else but meere foolish¦nes, and yet their posteritie, being no wiser tha•• they, praise their example, and followe it.

14 Howsoeuer it is, and howsoeuer these men doe please themselues in these fantasies, yet like beasts shut in the night in the stable: so these men, when the euening of their life commeth, are gathered in∣to the graue, where death doth eate and deuoure them, as it doth others: Contrariwise, although they must die also, which walke the right waie, yet another light shineth out in due time, at the rising whereof it shal appeare, how much more excel∣lent these be, than those mad men. For that sha∣dowed power of them shal streightwaies be chan∣ged into the graue, the which shal deuoure them caught awaie from these their glorious buil∣dings.

15 But God contrariwise, wil bring the godlie from the prisons of the graue, and wil receiue them to himselfe.

16 Therefore I wil thee to be quiet, and not to bee discouraged at the sight of anie proude rich man, howsoeuer thou see him to abound in riches.

17 For the time shal come, when his dead bodie shal lie in the graue, spoiled of al this dignitie, and his glorie shal not followe it so farre.

18 Wherefore, let them delight themselues, and please themselues as they list, and iudge none o∣ther to be happie, but them that giue themselues to pleasure after their example.

19 Yet, if thou consider their great grandfathers, of whom they boast, and al their continuance, thou shalt find, that they are buried with an euerlasting death, the which doth manifestlie condemne the foolishnes of their posteritie.

20 Finallie, although anie man be increased with riches and honours: yet if he want true wise∣dome, he is to be counted to differ little or no∣thing in this life from the beastes, which wholie perish.