Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. IX.
note
A prayer (made by Salomon) for wisdom, 9. wherby Superiors are able
to gouerne: 13. which by only humane wisdom, they can not rightly
performe.
1 God of my fathers, and Lord of mercie, which madest al
thinges with thy word,
2 and by thy wisdom didst appoint
man, that he should haue dominion of the creature,
that was made by thee,
3 that he should dispose the roundworld
in equitie and iustice, and execute iudgement in direction
of hart:
4 geue me wisdom the assistant of thy seates,
and repel me not from thy children:
5 because I am thy seruant,
and the sonne of thy handmaide, a weake man, and of
smal time, and lesse to the vnderstanding of iudgement and
lawes.
6 And if one be perfect among the children of men,
and thy wisdom be absent from him, he shal be counted for
nothing.
7 noteThou hast chosen me king to thy people, and
iudge of thy sonnes, and daughters:
8 and badst me build a
temple in thy holie mount, and an altar in the citie of thy habitation,
a similitude of thy holie tabernacle, which thou didst
prepare from the beginning:
9 and note thy wisdom with thee,
which knew thy workes, which then also was present when
thou madest the roundworld, and knew what was pleasing
to thyne eyes, and what was direct in thy precepts.
10 noteSend
her from thy holy heauens, and from the seate of thy greatnes,
that she may be with me, and may labour with me, that I may
know what is acceptable with thee:
11 for she knoweth al
thinges, & vnderstandeth, and shal conduct me in my workes
soberly, & shal keepe me with her might.
12 And my workes
shal be acceptable, and I shal gouerne thy people iustly, and
shal be worthie of the seates of my father.
13 For note who of
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men is able to know the counsel of God? or who can thinke
what God wil?
14 For the cogitations of mortal men be fearful,
and our prouidences vncertaine.
15 For the bodie, that
is corrupted burdeneth the soule, and the earthlie habitation
presseth downe the vnderstanding that thinketh manie
thinges.
16 And we doe hardly coniecture the thinges that
are in the earth: and the thinges that are in sight, we finde
with labour. But the thinges that are in the heauens who shal
search out?
17 And thy sense who shal know, vnles thou geue
wisdom, and send thy holie spirit from on high:
18 and so the
pathes of them, that are on the earth may be corrected, and
men lerne the thinges that please thee?
19 For by wisdom
they were healed, whoseouer haue pleased thee รด Lord from
the begynning.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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