Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David, Title page – Imprimatur
MEDITATIONS AND DISQVISITIONS, UPON SEVEN CONSOLATORIE PSALMES OF DAVID: NAMELY,
The 23.
The 27.
The 30.
The 34.
The 84.
The 103.
The 116.
By Sir RICHARD BAKER Knight.
LONDON, Printed by J. D. for F. Eglesfield, and are to be ſold by Henry Twiford at the ſigne of the Beare over againſt the middle Temple gate, in Fleetſtreet, 1640.
A CATALOGVE OF THE SEVERALL Treatiſes written by this Authour.
NAMELY,
MEditations and Diſquiſitions upon the Lords Prayer.
Meditations and Diſquiſitions vponupon the 1 Pſalme.
Meditations and Diſquiſitions vponupon the ſeven Penitentiall Pſalmes.
Meditations and Diſquiſitions vponupon ſeven Conſolatorie Pſalmes.
Alſo a Poem of his entituled Cato Variegatus, or Cato's morall Diſticks va…ied.
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, WILLIAM Lord CRAVEN, Baron of Hamſtead, &c.
MOST HONOURED LORD,
I Shall perhaps move Envie to ſay, Quae te tam laeta tulerunt ſ…ecula? but for my ſelfe, I am bound to ſay it, who have received from your Lordſhip, indeed a great Favour, the remiſsion of a great Debt; for which notwithſtanding I account my ſelfe to ſtand obliged ſtill, though in a leſſe profitable, yet in a more binding Obligation, to bee your perpetuall ſervant. I am called upon by Gratefulneſſe, to erect ſome Monument in honour of your Bountie; and a more laſting Monument, I could not thinke of, within the compaſſe of my poore abilities, then to Dedicate theſe Pſalmes of David, to the memorie of your Name: for though your owne Heroick vertue have made you a Monument of the ſame mettall that Fames Trumpet is made, which is likely, and worthy to laſt long; yet this perhaps, may prove Monumentum Fama perennius; a Monument that will continue your memorie, when Fame it ſelfe ſhall be buried in oblivion. But how long ſoever it ſhall continue, yet not ſo long as my Devotion to be, as my Deſire to be accounted to be.
Your Lordſhips humble, and obliged ſervant, Richard Baker.
Imprimatur,
Tho: Wykes, R. P. Epiſc. Lond. Sacell. Domeſt. Septemb. 11. 1639.
THE TVVENTIE THIRD PSALME OF DAVID.
Verſe 1 THe Lord is my Shepheard; I ſhall not want.
Verſe 2 Hee maketh me to lye downe in greene paſtures; he leadeth me beſide the ſtill waters.
Verſe 3 Hee reſtoreth my ſoule; hee leadeth mee in the paths of righteouſneſſe, for his Names ſake.
Verſe 4 Yea, though I walke through the Valley of the ſhadow of death; I will feare no evill: for Thou art with mee; Thy rod and thy ſtaffe, they comfort mee.
Verſe 5 Thou prepareſt a Table before me, in the preſence of mine enemies; Thou anoynteſt my head with Oyle; my cup runneth over.
Verſe 6 Surely, goodneſſe, and mercy, ſhall follow me, all the dayes of my life; and I will dwell in the houſe of the Lord for ever.