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Psalms 1

Whether it was Esdras, or any other that gathered the Psalmes into a book, it semeth he did set this Psalme first in manner of a preface, to exhort all godly men to study, and meditate the heavenly wisdom. For the effect hereof is, 1 That they be blessed, which give them selves wholy all their life to the holy Scriptures. 4 And that the wicked contemners of God, thought they seem for a while happy, yet at length shal come to miserable destruction.
1.Blessed is the man that doeth not walk in the acounsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful:
2.But his delite is in the *Law of the Lord, and in his bLaw doeth he meditate day and night.
3.For he shal be like a *tre planted by the rivers of waters, that wil bring forth her fruit in due season: whose leaf shal not fade: so cwhatsoever he shal do, shal prosper.
4.dThe wicked are not so, but as the chaff, which the wind driveth away.
5.Therefore the wicked shal not stand in the eJudgement, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6.For the Lord fknoweth the way of the righteous, and the way of the wicked shal perish.

Notes

1-a.
When that man has given once place to evil counsel, or to his own concupiscence, he begins to forget himself in his sin, and so falls in to contempt of God, which contempt is called the seat of the scorners.
2-*.
Deut. 6.6, Josh. 1.8, Pro. 6.20.
2-b.
In the holy Scriptures.
3-*.
Jer. 17.8.
3-c.
God's children are so moistened ever with his grace, that whatsoever comes unto them, tends to their salvation.
4-d.
Though the wicked seem to bear the swing in this world, yet the Lord drives them down that they shall not rise nor stand in the company of the righteous.
5-e.
But tremble, when they feel God's wrath.
6-f.
Does approve & prosper, like as not to know, is to reprove and reject.