General Iudgement. the 9. Key.
Christ in his first coming calleth al Nations. 3. in his second wil iudge
the world. 7. In the meane time God exhorteth al men to serue him in puritie of virtue, which he
much preferreth before external sacrifice of the old law. 17. reprehending such as professe or
teach the right way, and liue wickedly.
1 A Psalme to Asaph.
THE God of goddes our Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth, from the rysing of the sunne euen to the going downe.
2 Out of Syon the beauty of his comelines.
3 God wil come manifestly: our God and he wil not kepe silence. Fire shal burne forth in his sight: and round about him a mighty tempest.
4 He shal cal the heauen from aboue, and the earth to discerne his people.
5 Gather ye together his saincts vnto him: which ordaine his testament aboue sacrifices.
6 And the heauens shal shew forth his iustice: because God is Iudge.
7 Heare ô my people, and I wil speake: Israel, and I wil testifie to thee: God thy God am I.
8 I wil not rebuke thee in thy sacrifices: and thy holocaustes are in my sight alwaies.
9 I wil not take calues out of thy house: nor buckegoats out of thy flockes.
10 Because al the wilde beasts of the woods be myne, the cattle in the mountaines and oxen.
11 I haue knowne al the foules of the ayer: and the beauty of the fielde is with me.
12 If I shal be hungrie, I wil not tel thee: for the round earth is myne, and the fulnes therof.
13 Wil I eate the flesh of oxen? or wil I drinke the blood of buckegoats?
14 Immolate to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay thy vowes to the Highest.
15 And invocate me in the day of tribulation: I wil deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.
16 But to the sinner God hath sayde: Why doest thou declare my iustices, and takest my testament by thy mouth?
17 But thou hast hated discipline: & cast my words behind thee.
18 If thou didst see a theefe, thou didst rune with him: and with adulterers thou didst put thy portion.
19 Thy mouth hath abounded with malice: and thy tongue fourged guiles.
20 Sitting thou spakest against thy brother, and against thy mothers sonne thou didst put a scandal: 21 these things hast thou done, and I haue held my peace.
Thou hast thought vniustly that I wil be like thee: I wil reproue thee, and set it against thy face.
22 Vnderstand these things you that forget God: lest sometime he take you violently and there be none to deliuer you.
23 The sacrifice of prayse shal glorifie me: and there is the way, by which I wil shew him the saluation of God.