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The .xiii. Psalme of Dauid.

[The foolysh wicked men can saye]

Dixit insipiens.


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The foolysh wicked men can saye
they holde of god ryght perfectly.
yet are they farre out of the way
for in theyr hartes they hym deny
corrupte and abbominable are they also
in al the thynges that they do

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there wyll not one do good truly.

Gen. 11 b. &. 18.

The lorde dyd loke here downe frō heauen

Men to consyder and theyr doynge
To se yf any men were geuen
To gods knowlege aboue all thynge
yf there were any that perfectly
Regarded god so earnestly
To folowe his worde in his lyuynge.
Then sayd god these wordes moreouer
Is euery man gone so farre by
Swarued so farre now all together
From the ryght waye so parlously
So vnprofitable and peryshed
That no man wyll do good in dede

Ro. 13.

No not so moche as one truly.


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Are they out of theyr myndes so farre
All these workes of wickednesse
Beholde now/for they nothynge care
My people to deuoure for gredynesse
As one shulde eat a pece of bread
The lordes feare is out of theyr heade
They do not regarde it moch doutlesse.
wherfore they shalbe feared truly
with feare incomparable and endlesse
O ryghtuous man thou mayst be mery
for they that beseged the gyltles
Theyr bones hath god shaken altogether
Now shalt thou despyse them for euer
For god hath left them confortles.
God is in iust mens company
And in the ryghtuous nacyon
But wicked men mocke them dayly
for none other cause nor reason
But for because they folowe the mynde
Of the poore afflicte which was Gods frende
To trust in the lordes redempcyon.

Esa. 59 Ro. 11.

O wolde God that the sauynge health

wolde come from the hyll of Sion
That Israel myght haue his wealth
And God to lowse hym from preson
Then shulde Iacob be full of ioye
And Israel shulde make full mery
Because of his redempcyon.