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A52303	David's harp strung and tuned, or, An easie analysis of the whole book of Psalms cast into such a method, that the summe of every Psalm may quickly be collected and remembred : with a devout meditation or prayer at the end of each psalm, framed for the most part out of the words of the psalm, and fitted for several occasions / by the Reverend Father in God, William ... Lord Bishop of Gloucester.	Nicholson, William, 1591-1672.	1662 (1662)	Wing N1111; ESTC R18470	729,580	564

chief Ruler as 2 Sam. 8.18 1 Chron. 18.17 and so it may have reference to Moses a chief Prince but in the proper sense to Aaron for he was the chief Priest Samuel 2. And Samuel no Priest but a Levite yet chief Judge among those call'd on his name 3. They called upon the Lord for themselves and the people and he answered them Of Moses the story is extant Exod. 32.31 Of Aaron Numb 16. 46 47 48. Of Samuel 1 Sam. 7.5 9 10. 4. Vers. 7 He spake unto them that is to Moses Exod. 33.8 9 11. and unto Aaron Numb 12. from 5. to 8. But unto Samuel we read not that he spake in the cloudy Pillar And now he aptly adds the reason why God so readily heard these three Why he heard them it was because they were his servants and obey'd the commands of their King For as Christ saith He that loves me will keep my Commandments He then that will be heard in his prayers Because they were obedient servants ought to hear God in his Commands So did they 1. They kept his Testimonies those Precepts that were common to all others 2. And the Ordinances he gave them as Publick persons who were to rule in Church and State And that this was a great mercy and favour to them and the people the Prophet acknowledgeth by his Apostrophe to God in the next verse 1. 1 He answered them Thou answeredst them O Lord our God Which the Story confirms Vers. 8 2. 2 He forgave them Thou wast a God that forgavest them that is the people for whom Moses and Aaron and Samuel pray'd For as Moller observes in Hebrew the Relative is often put without an Antecedent 3. 3 Even when he punished the people Though thou takest vengeance on their inventions The Calf was broken Exod. 32. and the false gods put away 1 Sam. 7. Though their sin was remitted yet a temporal and corporal punishment follow'd them Numb 14.23 30. Numb 20.12 2. The second part The Prophet concludes the Psalm Carmine Ambaebaeo with the repetition of the fifth verse The Conclusion of all That we only what he calls there Gods footstool he here calls Mount Zion And in the verse is contained the full scope and intent of the whole which is That we exalt our King and adore him 1. Exalt the Lord our God not that we can do it Vers. 9 or make him higher but we must contribute what we can to his exaltation 1 Exalt God which is then done when we gratefully acknowledge his Power in defence of his Church and his Clemency in hearing our prayers and the Intercessions of his servants for us 2. Worship at his Holy Hill 2 Adore which literally is to be understood of Zion the place which he had chosen for his worship where now the Tabernacle was and after the Temple was built But concerns us also that live in the Catholique Church to serve him in unity meeting together in such holy places which are set apart for his worship 3. For the Lord our God is holy which is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or reason For he is Holy why Zion was Holy and many other persons and things in relation to him A consideration very necessary as Musoulus well observes for this profane age The Prayer collected out of the ninty ninth Psalm O Omnipotent Lord who reignest sitting above she Cherubims and governest the whole world by thy wisdom Vers. 1 though the enemies of thy Church be many yet will we not fear though the whole earth be moved yet will we not be afraid For the Lord is great in Zion and high above all people Vers. 2 Yet because the united force of our enemies is great and their iniquity twisted together for the ruine of thy Church Vers. 3 that they be not alwayes prided with their success and thy people over-much disheartned arise O Lord and make them know that thy name is great terrible and holy so great that thou canst and so holy that thou wilt and so terrible that thou wilt in fury take vengeance upon pride and iniquity We are assured O Lord Vers. 4 that thy authority and Kingly power loves equity that thou doest establish equal Laws and doest execute judgement and righteousness in thy Church by punishing the wicked and rewarding the just Arise up for us therefore in the judgement that thou hast commanded and reward the just according to the integrity of their hearts stir up thy strength and come amongst us and help us for thy Name-sake O God our King and Saviour And if at any time our wickedness go over our heads to provoke thy wrath against us then turn thy face from us upon thy dear Son our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ whose intercession is far more powerfully with thée than that of Moses or Aaron and Samuel could be for thy people He is our High Priest be mindful of his invocation his Sacrifice his Blood his tears his cryes which he offered upon the Altar of the Cross for us His blood speaks better things than that of Abel That of Abel shed by us cryes aloud for vengeance against us and what we suffer are the effects of that cry the revenge of that blood O blessed Saviour still the cry of that blood with thy blood wash the stains of it away with those streams which issued from thy bloody side and for the merit of that blood hear the prayers of Moses Aaron and Samuel who had no hand in that blood but kept and do yet keep thy Testimonies and the Ordinance thou gavest them that offer unto thee for themselves and for thy people They dayly call upon thée hear them O Lord our God and answer them though the sin of this people be great yet forgive them though thou takest vengeance according to their inventions So shall we praise thy great and terrible Name for it is Holy So shall we exalt the Lord our God and worship at his footstool for he is Holy We will exalt the Lord that reigneth over us our God that delivers us and hears our prayers and worship at thy Holy hill and chant with a loud voice that the Lord our God is holy for evermore PSAL. C. A Psalm of Praise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE Title shews the Scope that it was composed for a form to praise God yea and in the publique Congregation and therefore is well chosen to be a part of our Liturgy There be two parts of this Psalm 1. An Exhortation to praise God vers 1 2 4. And the manner how to be done 2. The reasons that perswade to it vers 3 5. 1. He exhorts to praise God In his Exhortation to praise God required it is 1. The first part That the praise be Universal none exempted from it All ye lands or all the earth Vers. 1 2. That it be hearty full and performed with a cheerful soul Make a

and devotes them to Gods judgments he prayes in general for their ruine esteeming them no better than Lyons Saul the old Lyon and his counsel Lyons whelps 1. To God he turns his speech and he prayes against their means to hurt whether near at hand or afar off 2. And then against their persons O God break their teeth in their mouth breakout the great teeth of the Lyons O Lord remove their strength their nearest instruments to hurt to destroy O God when they purpose to harm us eminus afar off let it be in vain when he bends his Bowe to shoot his arrows let them be as cut in pieces Thus let it fall to their arms and offensive weapons but as for their persons 2 Their persons that they may be as waters a Snail an Abortive as a fire of chorns 1. Let them melt away as waters great Brooks that run with a violent force from the Mountains and over-run for a little while the Vallies but quickly are received in the Channels and run continually to the Sea and so swallowed 2. Let them be as a Snail that melts in her passage and leaves a slimy filth behind which yet quickly passeth away so let them or else like a Snail whose shell being taken off growes cold and dyes 3. L●t them be as an Abortive like the untimely fruit of a woman that they may not see the Sun 4. Before your pots can feel the thorns ere they can do much mischief The benefits that thereby would redound to the Church he shall take them away as with a whirle-wind both living and in his wrath 3. The benefit that from this judgment upon the wicked should redound to the Church The third part 1. Joyfulness The righteous shall rejoyce when he seeth the vengeance 2. Amendment being warned by their harms he shall wash his foot-steps in their blood 3. Confirmation of their faith and giving glory to God So that a man shall say verily there is a reward for the righteous doubtless there is a God that judgeth the Earth The Prayer collected out of the fifty eighth Psalm O Merciful Lord God who saidst to Moses I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their Task-masters for I know their sorrows and camest down to deliver them behold we beséech thée our sorrows and afflictions hear our cries and come down and deliver us for of a truth at this time both Pharoah and his Host are gathered against thy people to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel hath determined before to be done A Counsel under pretence of Religion and Piety they have established Ver. 1 a Court under the colour of justice they have erected whence they weigh to us the violence of their hands and turn judgment into gall and justice into wormwood they speak not righteousness they judge not uprightly in their heart they work wickedness and their hands deal with violence From the very womb they brought evil into the World with them and ever since they are gone astray and yet continue to speak lies Their nature is corrupt and full of poyson no Adder more venemous no Serpent more bent on revenge and though thou hast given thy Word to charm them and put it into the mouths of thy servants the Prophets to reclaim them yet They are like the deaf Adder that stops her ear they refuse to hear the voyce of thy Charmers charm they never so wisely O God to whom should we make our moan but to thée to whom should we appeal and flie except to thée either thou must deliver us or our condition is miserable thou must save us or we must perish for our soul is among Lyons Break thou the teeth of the old Lyon O Lord in his mouth break out the teeth of the Lyons whelps O Lord make all their instruments of danger to us of no strength and the means they trust in to harm us of no efficacy Let their Arrows they shoot against us be cut to pieces and their Bowe broken As for their persons let them be as a violent Torrent that suddenly swells and falls even as water that runs apace and returns no more Pull them out of their houses and habitations and make their end like that of a Snail which being outed of his shell quickly shainks and dies or else let them and their endeavours be as the untimely fruit of a woman that never sees the Sun A noise they have kept and a blaze they have made like as the flash of thorns about a Pot but thou O Lord take them away as with a whirlewins while they séem most living and flaming extinguish them as in thy wrath When righteous men shall sée the vengeance thou takest on them they will rej●yce not so much at their overthrow as for that thou hast exalted thy justice and avenged thine own cause and pleaded for thy people And we also which are thy people and shéep of thy pasture shall learn by their example by our wicked wayes not to provoke thy indignation Good God give us the grace to wash our foot-steps in the blood of the ungodly and that we may be warned by their harms Ver. 1 not to work wickedness in our hearts nor to weigh out violence with our hands but rather to speak righteousness and to judge uprightly For verily there is a reward for the righteous doubtless there is a God that now judgeth the earth and will at the last day come to judge both the quick and the dead even so come Lord Jesus PSAL. LIX 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE Argument of this Psalm is the same with some of those before but the occasion particular Saul's purpose to kill him in his house against whose treachery and cruelty he here complains and prayes The Contents of this Psalm are four 1. His prayer for deliverance ver 1 2. and against them ver 5. 2. He complains of and expresseth his enemies cruelty and improbity from ver 3. to 8. 3. He comforts himself being confident of his own preservation from ver 8. to 10. 1. And of their punishment for which he prayes from ver 11. to 14. 2. And of their vain endeavours for which he insults ver 14 15. 4. He concludes with thanks ver 16 17. 1. He begins with a Petition for deliverance defence salvation and perswades it from the qualities of his enemies The first part His Petition for defence 1. Deliver me defend me save me from 2. Ver. 1 Mine enemies 1. Them that rise up against me 2. From the workers of iniquity 3. From bloody men These considerations made him pray O my God deliver c. 2. He aggravates his enemies cruelty c. The second part And yet more particularly he expresseth their cruelty and treachery to aggravate which he pleads his own innocency in respect of them 1. Their cruelty was Lo they lie in wait for my soul

Donec Untill the time that his Word came So long then he lay in Prison and no longer For a time best known to God God hath then his Donec for his servants to suffer and when that Donec comes they shall suffer no longer 1. Vntill the time his Word came His Word i.e. Gods Word for his deliverance 2. Or as others Joseph's word to the Butler came to pass 2. The Word of the Lord tried him God tried his patience Or the Interpretation of the Dreams proving true were a sufficient trial that it was the Word of the Lord which he spake He spoke by the Spirit of God 2. And now followes his Honour and Advancement 1. But taken thence and exalted Pharaoh by his Butler hearing of Joseph's wisdom He sent and loosed him from Prison 2. Even the Ruler of the people let him go free a work fit for a King 2. To be the Rulet in Aegypt And his Advancement followes To free an Innocent a signal Favour but to advance him a greater this Pharaoh did 1. Ver. 21 He made him Lord of his House Majordorno 2. And Ruler of all his Substance He was his Treasurer Gen. 41.40 c. Indeed a great Viceroy a grand Visier 3. Ver. 22 The Kings end in it admirable not only in the Famine to provide bread to feed their bodies To feed them To instruct them but for the good of their fouls also 1. To punish the Rebellious To bind his Princes at his pleasure 2. To instruct them his Counsellors in that Wisdom those Arts Sciences Religion which he excelled in exalted he was to teach his Senators the great Counsel of his Kingdom wisdom and it is supposed That all the learning in which the Aegyptians excelled was first taught them by Joseph 4. Jacob and his Family descends thither The fourth Benefit followes of God toward his people from ver 22. to 37. which was their nourishment their increase in Aegypt their oppression and deliverance thence 1. He begins with Jacobs descent thither 1. Israel also Josephs father went down into Aegypt read Gen. 45. 2. Sojourns there 222. years And Jacob with all his family seventy souls sojourned there then to remain for a time viz. two hundred and twenty two years in the land of Ham viz. in Aegypt so called from Cham the father of Misraim that first peopled it after the Flood 2. And multiply He proceeds with their strange increase there for it is wonderful that in so short a time they should so multiply and grow into such multitudes Exod. 1.7 at their going out they were six hundred thousand besides children Exod. 12.37 And he increased his people greatly and made them stronger than their enemies Exod. 1.9 This was the Occasion of their Afflictions Bondage and Sufferings for 1. But are made Bond-men He turned the Aegyptian hearts to hate his people i.e. He suffer'd them to be turned For there arose another King which knew not Joseph Exod. 1.8 2. Afflicted and subtilly dealt with And to deal subtilly with his servants Come on say they let us deal wisely with them Exod. 1.10 and their wise work was 1. To set over them Task-masters to afflict them with their burdens Exod. 1.11 But when they saw That the more they afflicted them the more they multiplied and grew ver 12. 2. Then they order'd That all the male-children should be strangled by the Midwives ver 16. And when this way took not neither 3. Then Pharaoh charged That every son that was born should be cast into the River ver 22. Thus subtilly they dealt but it hindered not their Multiplications God sends Moses to deliver them there is no Counsel against God Now God seeing their Affliction and hearing their Groans sent them a Deliverer Ver. 26 1. Hesent Moses his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen 2. By signs and wonders which were They shewed his signs among them 1. To the Israelites 2. And wonders in the land of Ham then to the Aegyptians of which the Caralogue followes 1. He sent darkness and it was dark and they i.e. Moses and Aaron rebelled not against his Word 2. He turned their waters into blood and slew their fish 3. The Land brought forth Frogs in abundance in the Chambers of their Kings 4. He spake and there came divers sorts of Flies and Lice in all their Coasts 5. He gave them Hail for Rain and flaming fire in their land 6. He smote the Vines also and Fig-trees and brake the Trees of their Coasts 7. He spake and the Locusts came and Caterpillars and that without number and did eat up all the herbs in the land and devoured the fruit of their ground 8. He smote also the first-born of their Land the chief of all their strength These were the wonders that God wrought in Aegypt by the hand of Moses and Aaron for the deliverance of his people which therefore the Psalmist briefly Records that they might remember to be thankful and praise him 5. The fifth Benefit which God bestowed upon his people is He brought them out and entiched them that he brought them not out Beggars but enriched them with the Spoiles of Aegypt nor in a sickly but healthful condition 1. He brought them forth with silver and gold for they were sent by God to borrow Jewels And when they pretend by their example to rob honester men than themselves whom yet they esteem no better than Aegyptians can shew such an immediate Commission from God to do it content I am that they borrow and never restore rob and spoil whom they please till that be shewn they are Thieves and Robbers and Sacrilegious persons 2. Farther Gave them healthful bodies whereas they left the Aegyptians afflicted with some strange disease of which their first-born was dead in every house they came forth with healthy bodies There was not one no not one feeble person among their Tribes not one among six hundred thousand men The terrour of them was so great and the fear of death so instant And brought fear upon the Egyptians that little regarding their Jewels Gold and Silver they urged them to be gone they thrust them out as glad at heart they were upon terms rid of them which the Prophet thus expresseth Aegypt was glad when they departed for the fear of them fell upon them for Exod. 12. They said We are all dead men 6. The sixth Benefit followes after their departure which was After their departure The Pillar of a Cloud by day and the Pillar of fire by night He spread a Cloud for a covering and Fire to give light in the night Which most interpret As if the Cloud by day did overshadow them and keep off the heat of the Sun He gave them a Pillar of a Cloud and Fire And therefore the Prophet saith He spread it for a covering But Bellarmine conceives it somewhat otherwise grounding his conjecture upon