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 YOV sit indeede, I confesse, in a higher place aboue other men that are your subiects, but I, the most high God, am present in that your assemblie, who haue not debarred my selfe of mine authoritie ouer you, neither am I present as an idle beholder, but as your Iudge also.

2 I praie you then, how long shal I suffer you thus to abuse this authoritie giuen vnto you by me, vnder certaine lawes and conditions? and to exer∣cise iudgements, not by right and equitie, but as you fauour the wicked partie?

3 But I haue placed you in this seate, vpon this condition, and giuen it vnto you in plaine com∣mandement, that you should relieue them that are spoiled by violence, that you should defend the fa∣therles, and mainteine the poore against the iniu∣ries of the rich:

4 That you should deliuer, I saie, the miserable and the poore, from the hands of the wicked.

5 But what hath it auailed to haue spoken these things vnto you? I do see that you do care for no∣thing lesse, than to knowe what is your dutie, and therefore are more vnwilling to do your dutie. Wherefore, al things are out of order, and none o∣therwise

confounded together, than if al men were in most extreame darkenes, so that the verie foun∣dations of the earth are moued foorth of their pla∣ces. For what can remaine safe amongst men, when the difference of right and wrong is taken awaie?

6 Heare therefore ye kings and magistrates, who are so negligent, what sentence is giuen vpon you. You are honoured in deede with that name, wher∣by mine authoritie ouer al men is declared: and I haue embraced you with special fauour, as a father his children.

7 Howbeit, I haue not exempted you from my power and authoritie. Therefore you are kings, I saie, but mortal, euen as other men: you shal die, ô ye princes, and you shal stand at my iudgement seate, as euerie most vile and poore man, to giue ac∣count of al things.

8 O God arise! and seeing thou art the onelie Lorde, by ful right and authoritie of al men, thou thy selfe gouerne the empires and the king∣doms.