is here girding besieging and constreining strictnes affliction or distress which is here argued by the contrary releasing inlargeing saveing and helping prosper Pro. 11. Mark the repetition help save releas distress besiegers c. Cheth to prostrate is argued by exalting likewise as up awake a bove the heavens to the cloudes â—xâ—lt over all the earth also to lay prostrate and tread down Bothe the letters make Quach of Laquach to take or receive as for ones own or proper or belonging and doth intend propriety and right to thes countryes which hee chalengeeth as for his proper people by the often itterateing of the habit and term of propriety in expressing his officers Deuteronomy The reciteing and repeating of their conquest by their singing and celebrating of â—ods highe way which is grace and truthe kindenes and faithfullnes of his word Io. 1. which shineeth above the skyes in his wonderfull works by subdueing of the countryes within the promiss and bringing them into subjection these wilde countryes to the word according to the letters as before in makeing them of the Church and to appertain unto it That makeeth men so glorious over all the world The light and glory of God that is farr out of reach and not atteined unto And hereto hee setteth his hart and his whole delight And wher hee sayeth thes are the words c. Hee meaneth the effect and the summ of them an Eternall life That is Gods promiss I will divide c. PSALM CIX NOw because the mouthes of the wicked are full of dissembling opened against him and talking with him and they compass him with hatered and backbite him for nothing and are against him for his love while hee is in prayer and playeth implyâ—th himself herein putting upon him evill for good and hatered for his love The thing that hee moste hateed loathed detested and abhorred Ps. 26. in steed of that which hee moste longed for and affected falshood for truth the Instrument of all his glory Ps. 4. gall for meat and vineger for drink Psal. 69. for all his charity and because of the mercylessnes of the wicked that never thinketh of any compassion on the afflicted but pursue the poore to make an end of the brokeen harted Psal. 35. loveing cursing and not blessing hee prayeth the God of his prais that is all Iustice reason and equity to hear him as Ps. 4. That a wicked man may bee sett over him and that is adversary may have the better hand of him and when hee is to bee censureed that hee bee counted a guilty and a wicked man and all his prayers and requests sinfull and faulty That for his dissembling and falshood and repugning without caus wherby hee deceiveth injures all and mischeeffs every thing may likewise deceive him and inflict injury and mischeeff on him That hee may have nothing in deed and in truthe that hee desireeth and would have or keep any thing that hee hath or injoy ought that hee delighteth in But that all things may faile him as Ps. 5.37 That hee may dye quickly and loos his office leave his childeren fatherless his wife a widow that his childeren may goe about and beg and seek out of their desolate Cotes and have none to have compassion or pitty upon them That the deceiver may catch all that hee hath and strangeers robb him of his labour That for the iniquity of his father and mother hee may bee cut off and have no posterity or memory in the next generation That the Curs may light upon him all blessing may bee far from him upon an other hill Deut. 27. That hee may allwayes wear it about him In sum that hee suffer all adversity and misery and bee frustrate of all his hopes that hee bee every way accursed for a just reward of God upon them that slander his life and speak ill of him And that the Everlasting would have commiseratioÌ„ compassion on him for his names sake deliver him his hart beeing slain with affliction with in him his age declineing fadeing his knees faile with fasting and his flesh will not bee fatt and hee is a mocking stock a reproche with them and help him and save him That they may know it to bee his dooing and that hee will turn their cursing to blessing that they his adversaryes may bee ashameed all over them of their riseing against him and his servant may rejoyce and that hee may set foorth the Eternall with the instrument of his mouth and prais him openly assisting him and saveing the needy and destitute man from his condemner And this from the curs of the Serpent and enimyes of the Church Gen. 2. For prayer and for the cursed Construction Quoph to compass or besiege or inviron and such are hatred and the words of hatred called Sineah doubled For improsperousnes of sinisterity and left hand affayres signifyed by the letter Sin called Smol with his prick on his left hand thus ש to paint out the crossnes and untowardnes of the devill Ps. 119. Sh. They goe about and oppugne c. Hee dealeth also e diametro by the opposit point Satan the adversary Bothe the circumventing and the resisting Enimy Mark the repetition put on wear upper garment to be wrapping weed girdle gird c. goe about E diametro oppugne bee or stand against adversary c. right haÌ„d c. kindenes c. intangle blessing cursing c. Teth to decline or sweep a way as a declineing driven away weak knees lean flesh c. Bothe the letters make Quot to bee yrksom and greevous His way is wholey yrksom and advers to all good motion Mark the repetition prayer Mark again the declineing of Jehovah into Iehovi to shew the Mystery Deuteronomy His whole life is an yrksom way and without the compass of grace or favour fâ—om God and his reward from God is as yrksom God giveth him all adversity improsperity that can bee and worketh him no deliverance because hee is fals and mercyless God forsaketh him and hee dyeth accursed and his name is out See name blot remembrance c. doubled The recitation is destruction and deliverance Heer mercy and truthe kiss not ech other but are far a sunder Ps. 85. and have no habitation in such And somuch for a Deuterosis or an enumeration of a cursed and wicked man PSALM CX THe Kings right hand is his Ministry By discipline fayth and prayer the Serpents head is brokeen and the Church delivered from bondage and thus hee commeth to conquer him and cleer the Grammer Yf God bee on our side who can bee against us yf God fight for us whom should wee fear Therfor yf hee take our part wee may sitt down and bee still And yf the quarell bee his what need wee stirr God hath no quarell but for his Church which heer is personed by David the defendour and head of the same Which because it is a flock of perfect and
upright men and are not many but have many adversaryes God will by their own consistance of righteousnes and peace the fruit therof subdue their Enimyes and bring their Enimy the Devill and Satan underfoot which shall fall by their own wrong and perish by their wicked wayes for what can bee the fruit of wrong but destruction By the flowerishing rod of Iustice and judgement the strength of the Law and ten commandements out of Sion ten stâ—inged instrument of the Decalogue Ps. 92.98 Hee shall subdue them and rule among them for their wrongfull resisting the promiss and their right to Canaan Which rod of governement that divideeth waters and bringeth doctrine out of hard rockes of Scripture beeing once cast out of their handes was turned to serpent like Enimyes of God as Ps. 92. But Moses was shewed by catching it by the taile and the returning to a rod that they should have the governement again which should bee an iron rod and hard governement as Ps. 2. to the Resisters For his battail hee will have none but Levites and the first born the flower and choise of the wombe and seed of woman the best lerned in the Church The right hand and dexterity of the Ministry shall wound kings his Enimyes and heades of them as Ps. 68. when hee is angry even the head of the Arch-enimy the King of the land of Rabbah of the Amonites by uncrowning him and tortureing the bodyes of his people striveing with him Hee drank of the river of doctrine the discipline of the Law Ps 36. Thus by the Church shall God bring Davids Enimyes under his feet and hee shall conquer and hold up his head as Ps. 92. and shall bee a Priest for ever Is. 61. like Melchizedeq not born of flesh and blood nor of the will of man Io. 1. but of the spirit of God and to walk with God without father and without mother without beginning or end of the dayes of life or any worldly respect And hee shall sit at Gods right hand Ps. 16. and continue in speciall favour and grace with God for the Eternity of the Church And this from the conquest of the Serpent Gen. 3. For the Instrument of subjection and goverment for the sweetnes of majesty Lordship Rule and Dominion and victory of ש Shin over Sin yee sheep to the right hand and yee goates to the left Iamin over Smol the right hand over the left the Ministry over the devill and Satan and all temptation Psal. 119. Sh. Construction Quoph to compass or besiege is expressed by Enimyes as Ps. 17. that are all wayes attempting mischeeff invadeing upon all sides which is the subdole and hurtfull serpent Ge. 3. to the Church The second letter Iod for a hand is expounded by the right hand the Ministry favour and pre-emenence of God Mark the repetition Hee sheweth how the armed with the word Sem or Melchizedeqs Kingdom Isa. 33. the seed of Sion Is. 2. They are the destruction of the Serpent and his adherents by the power and glory of the Kingdom and â—eople of â—xpedition Ps. 68. in the Church Mark the wordes head and wound repeated day when Lord and judgement c. Hee alludeeth also to the dexter point that makeeth ש Shin that signifyeth weaponed men as Ps. 68.119 N. and the victory the inevitable power of Gods mâ—ssuage Mich. 4.5 2. Sam. 17. like dew over the Heathen and the head of them Mark how Shin is compassed with the next letters on both sides Resh and Tau in the first and last wordes to shew the allusion Deuteronomy The recitation is God wil have it is own work and the victory his and that a wonderfull work and way of the Law and word of God the rivers in the Law called the way Ier. 31. conceived and born in Sion And the Serpent by a Gospell preached the river of wisdom out of Sion Prov. 18. shall bee made to stoope for a footstoole and to lick the dust Psal. 72. and heathen Kings subdued and Archenimyes conquered and the head of his Anointed shall bee exalted that medleth not So that with the armour of God and his hoste and excercise only the Serpents head is brokeen And this is a great kindenes Ps. 119. N. Ps. 68. And such were the soldiers of Christ of another world preachers and not fighters Ioh. 18. tormentors of the divills free men and voluntary 1. Cor. 6. Ps. 119. N. Ps. 68. Spirituall men against spirituall Adversaryes Mat. 8. PSALM CXI HEer hee passeth from the Instrument to the work according to the order in Ps. 92. to shew us the miraculous effect of the Law and covenant and promiss which in his mercy and compassion hee preached to his people hee recorded to feed them And the mightynes of the work of God by this Instrument of his appeareth by his conquest of the heathen and recovery of their country again out of so many strong handes and lions clawes consisting in truthe and certainty and judgement justice and mercy and the fear of God wherin it excelled Wherby it becommeth durable and credible for at end of the 430 and after the fourth generation intended in the vers Lamed and again in Tau hee sendeth for his Church out of Aegypt by his covenant and his promiss in the handes of Moses Aaron feeding them all that space by faith in his promiss and covenant which hee made last for ever unto them and redeemed them And because this Instrument beeing vseed for all their delightes and sportes by his everlasting Iustice worketh also great worship and honour wisdom which is begunn in the fear of God their profession and perfected by performing the Law as ps 99. Hee willeth the same evermore to bee reverenceed and hallowed And because his works by this Instrument are so many so mighty so great so sweet and delightfull and searchable hee willeth all the whole Church in all meetings to prais and worship God as hee will doo the same himself with all his hart And this from the promiss Gen. 15. for the spirits of the Law and works of performance and possession of Canaan for the Spirit and worship and reverence and fear of God the profession that beginneth wisdom and therfor together with the next psalme is made by the Abce also the 119. wher the performance of the Law bringeth good understanding To perform the commandements satisfyeth this Appitite and temptation and the Kingdom of heaven hath all Hee that is wise will undeâ—stand and observe thes things Io. 14. Christ calleth himself the way the truthe and the life which hee spake hebraically This to bee translateed into our phrase is the true and liveing way or the true and very way of life And this consisting so much of the grace of God and so much of faith and truthe that it is beyond all imagination his work and his way is called so wonderfull is fitt matter for continuall prais dayly worship repetition the subject of
are before thee and pleasures at thy right hand for euer XVII A Prayer of David O ETERNALL marke well my righteous cry and heare my prayer with vndeceitfull lips I will bee iudged by thee thine eyes behold the right which proovest and seest my hart in the night and tryest mee to the vttermost I meane not to overshoot with my mouth by the word of thy lips I take heed to the workes and pathes of the ROBBER keep my steps in thy high wayes that my feet slip not When I call thee answer mee ô thou Mighty one turn thine eare to mee heare my Saying Thou that savest by thy right hand them that relye theron conceal mee by thy Kindenesses from them that rise vp against mee Keep mee as the aple of thine eye hide mee in the shaddovv of thy vvinges from my vvicked Enimies that in minde cast about to destroy mee vvith their mouthes they speak svvelling vvordes vvhich are closed vp vvith their fatt Novv they goe round about mee vvach to lay mine vpright steps an the ground like Lions grady of prey and Lions vvhelps lying close in their dens Vp ô ETERNALL and stand before him make him crouch and by thy svvord reskue my life from the VVicked by thy hand ô Eternall reskue mee from vvorldly men that haue their part in this life and haue their bellies full of thy store and their Children haue enough and leaue their residue for their babes after them for when I awake and behold in RIGHTEOVSNES the Image of thy countenance I am satisfyed XVIII By the Cheeff by David cheeff Servant of the ETERNALL who vttered to the ETERNALL the wordes of this Song when the ETERNALL delivered him from the gripeing of all his enimyes and from the handes of Saul and sayd I yeeld thee mercy ô ETERNALL my fortification the ETERNALL that is my Rock and my Fortresse my Reskuer my Might and Safegard my Defence my Releeff and Horne of Salvation in whom I relyed I called on the ETERNALL who is to be praised and I was saved from mine Enimies Deadly sorrowes compassed mee whole floodes of the wicked frighted mee the very cordes of Hell were round about mee and snares of death before mee In my destresse I called on the ETERNALL who hard my voyce in his Temple my shoute before him came into his eares And the erth quaked and gaue a crack the foundations of the Hills stirred and they quaked for it kindled him his anger smoked and waxâ— a fire out of his mouth and devoured the coales burnt by it He bowed the Heavens came downe with mirknesse vnder his feet rideing and flying vpon Cherub and spread vpon the winges of the winde hideing himselfe in darknes and covering himselfe all about with the thicke watery cloudes of the sky At his brightnes his cloudes went haile stones and coles of fire and the Eternall thundered in heauen and the High-one gaue his clap and sent abroade all his arrowes and disturbed them with haile stones and coales of fire and great lightnings At thy rebuke ô Eternall at the blasting breth of thine Anger the water chanels were seen dry and the foundations of the world were revealed Who sent from an high and tooke mee and drew mee out of the great waters and deliuered mee from my mighty Enimies and foes that were to strong for mee and had advantage over mee in my calamity But the Eternall was the staff I leaned on and hee brought mee foorth into a large place and released mee because hee delighted in mee The Eternall restored mee according to my RIGHTEOVSNES and rewarded mee according to the cleanes of my handes because I keep the wayes of my God the ETERNALL and haue not wickedly-swarved from him for all his Iudgements are by mee and I cast not his prescriptions from mee and I am whole with him and keep mee from mine iniquity and the ETERNALL hath rewarded mee according to my righteousnes and purenes of my handes before him Thou with the kinde art moste kinde with the intire moste intire with the pure moste pure with the froward moste perverse because thou savest the oppâ—essed people and humblest the proud lookes because thou lightedst my candle and my God the ETERNALL cleered my darknes For by thee my God I runn leaping on the garreson wall The way of the Almighty is perfect and the Saying of the ETERNALL a tryed saying Hee is a DEFENDOVR of all that rely on him For what God or what safegard is there besideâ— our God the ETERNALL The Almighty that girded mee with valour made my way perfect makeing my feet like hindes feet to stand vpon my high places that teacheth my handes for bataile and mine armes to breake a bow of steel For thou gauest mee the shield of thy Saluation and heldest mee vp with thy right hand and with thy lowlines hast made mee great Thou madest broad my footsteps vnder mee and my ancles reeld not I pursued mine Enimies and overtook them and turned not again till I had made an end of them I wounded them that they cold not stand but fell vnder my feet for thou girdedst mee with valour for battaile thou hast bowed downe vnder mee them that rose vp against mee thou gavest mee the neck of mine Enimies and them that hatched mee and I dissolued them They shouted and there was no Saviour vpon the ETERNALL but hee answered them not I layd them like durte in the street and beat them as small as dust before the winde thou savedst mee from the contendings of people Thou settest mee cheeff among the Hethen a people that I knew not served mee as sone as they heard of mee they obeyed mee Strangers revolted to mee the forein fadeed away and shrunk from their holdes Let the ETERNALL live and blessed bee my Defendour and the God of my Saluation bee exalted The God that giveth mee revenge and commandeth nations vnder mee that reskeweth mee from mine Enimies yea thou takest mee vp from mine Insurrectours and deliuerest mee from the iniurious man Therefore I will thanke the ô ETERNALL and sing praise vnto thy Name among the Hethen The ETERNALL that gives his King so greate salvation and sheweth such kindenes to his annointed to David and his seed for ever XIX For the Cheeff A Psalme of David THE Hevens declare the glory of God and the FIRMAMENT setteth
and let coles be throvven vpon them in hot coles that they never rise againe That noe foul tonged man be established in the earth and that the Malice of the Iniurious man hunt him to Destruction I know the ETERN will doe the right Sentence of the Afflicted and needy seeing Iust and vpright men shall sit and celebrate thy NAME and remaine before thee CXLI A Psalm of DAVID O ETERNALL I CALL on thee ô hasten to mee ô hear my Voice when J call vnto thee Let my PRAYER be made burnt JNCENSE before thee and the lifting vp of my handes an Evening Offring Set ô ETERNALL a wach to my mouth to ward at the Dore of my Lippes Incline not my minde to any bad matter to enterprize enterprizes wickedly with Molesters let not mee eat of their deinty meates let the Iust man beat mee in Kindenes and reproove mee and let not my head refuse pretious oyle because while they are in their Miseryes also my PRAYER shall bee That their condemners be smitten by the Rock that they hear my Sayings beeing sweet As of a hevver or cleever on the earth our bones are scatered at the pits mouth But tovvard thee ô ETERN ô LORD are mine eyes and in thee doe I relye ô shake not off my life keep mee from the traps they tile for mee and the snares of Molesting men Let the VVicked fall into the Meashes therof vvhile I escape at once CXLII A Maskil of DAVID A Prayer vvhen hee vvas in the Cave WITH my Voice J cry vnto the ETERN with my Voice I make REQVEST to the ETERN I power out my Complaint before him and tell my Distresse before him When my spirit fainteth on mee and they hide snares in the way that I goe and thou knowest my Pathes Look vpon my right hand and see and J have noe acquaintance all Refuge is perished from mee and ther is none that careth for my life I CRY vnto thee ô ETERN and Say O thou my RELY and PORTION in the living world hearken to my Loud PRAYER because J am exceedingly spent O deliver mee from my Pursuers for they are to strong for mee ô bring my Life out of Hold to vvorship thy NAME vvith the Just ones about mee for thy Boūtifullnes vpon mee CXLIII A Psalm of DAVID O ETERNALL heare my Prayer and hearkē to my Supplications And in thine owne TRVTH and Righteousnes consider mee And enter not into Iudgement With thy Servant for noe living creature is Iust before thee Because the Enimy pursueth my Soul and beates down my life to the ground and make-eth mee dwell in obscurity like them that are dead for ever And my spirit fainteth on mee and my hart is wasted within mee I remember the dayes of old and Meditate of all thy Work I talk of the Doing of thy handes J spread my handes vnto thee open my minde like a thirsty land vnto thee surely Make hast and consider mee O ETERNALL and hide not thy Face from mee for my Spirit is spent I am to be compared with them that are going to the Pitt Betimes let mee hear thy LOVEING KINDENES because I trust in thee and let mee know the WAY that I should goe because I open my minde vnto thee Deliver mee from mine Enimyes ô ETERNALL my concealing is vvith thee Teach mee to doe thy vvill ô thou my GOD by thy good Spirit lead mee in plain Ground For thy NAMES sake ô ETERNALL revive mee by thy Righteousnes bring my Soul out of Distresse and in thy LOVING KINDENES dissolve thou mine Enimyes and destroy all them that torment my Life for I am thy Servant CXLIV Of DAVID BLESSED be the ETERNALL my Rock that maketh my handes cunning for warr and my fingers for the Battail my KINDENES FORTRESSE RELEEFF and RESCVER my DEFENSE that J relye on that bringeth in commande my People vnder mee ô ETERNALL what is wreched man that thou take-est Notice of him make-est reckning of him man that is like vnto Vanity and his dayes like a shadow that passeth by O ETERNALL bow the Heavens com down touch the Mountaines that they smoke Lighten with thy Lightning and scater them send out thine Arrowes and disturb them Send thy handes from an highe rid mee and deliver mee from great WATERS from the handes of Alians Whose mouth speaketh falshood and whose right hand is a right hand of wrong ô GOD that I may sing a NEW SONG vnto thee and a PSALM vpon the ten-stringed Viol. Which giveth SALVATION to Kinges and rids his Servant David from the hurtfull sword ô rid mee and deliver mee from the handes of Alians whose mouth speaketh falshood whose right hand is a right hand of wrong That our Sonnes may bee like Plantes well grown in their youth and our Daughters like Buttresses well carved of the building of the Temple That our Buttryes be full conteining from Meale to Meale That our Sheep may be come many Thousandes in our streetes That our cattell may be well lode-en that ther bee noe Robery nor runing out nor Out-cry in our open streets Happy is the people that it is so with and happy is the people whose GOD is the ETERNALL CXLV A Praise of DAVID I Will extoll bless thy NAME ô my GOD ô KING for evermore I will dayly blesse Praise thy NAME for evermore Great is the ETERNALL and exceedingly to be praise-ed and of his Greatnes ther is noe serching Let one Generation commend thy Workes to another and declare thy Excellent Acts. The Maiesty of the Glory of thy Worship and thy Wonderfull Acts I will talk of Let them tell thy Terrible Mighte and I will reckon vp thy Greatnes Let them buble out the Remembrance of thy great GOODNES and sound out thy JVSTICE The ETERN is Gratious and Mercyfull and Patient and of Great Kindenes the ETERN that is Good to all and hath Mercy vpon all his Workes let all thy Workes set thee out ô ETERN and thy Gratious Ones blesse thee let them tell out the Glory of thy KINGDOM speak of thine Excellency To make his Excellent Acts knovvn to the Sonnes of Adam and the seemly Glory of his KINGDOM Thy KINGDOM is a KINGDOM of all Age-es and thine EMPIRE is in every Generation The ETERN is an
to keep him from falling as Ps. 15 and beeing sure by these graces hee shall not dye till hee bee perfect in the way of life and see the full Ioy and pleasures of the word and sweet exposition therof by the Ministry the Kingdom of Heaven a celestiall government and Ioy of the holy Ghost ps 49.27 hee is made exceeding merry therwith and accounting all other invocation or relye intolerable hee will have all his welth and good and delight and pleasure whatsoever to be nothing in respect of God and this his Name and way of Salvation Ps. 4. And becaus his whole relyeing is upon God and hee is a Saviour of all them that relye on him Ps. 17. and this is all his way of Salvation and becaus hee will haue no other God nor worship nor esteem any thing in the world but him he prayeth to bee preserved by him And this from preserving the tree of Life Gen. 3. And so purgeing himself of all idolatry vain triumphing pride glory and reioyceing in worldly things and relying whole-ly vpon God and makeing divinity his portion and is counselled by his word and preferreth his Law Ps. 127. hee is greatly cheered and is throughly confident of all preservation and of a long and pleasant life that is ever before God propounded by his Ministry called his right hand in his church as Psalm 73.110 Construction The two letters pointeing at Jehovah shew absteining from all strange Gods and also his Ioy in the Ministry hee taketh Iad a hand in all his senses for might welth Sorrow place lot or quarter of inheritance to counsel teach and maintein and the right hand for promotion Vau is taken privative with negative signes that though the signification be craveing as is the term hook or crook yet by construction it is sayd as wel to leave and let goe as to hold as both are the propertyes of a hand also Genesis The kindes of quiescents are many as welth and pleasure and delight and Ioyes and counsell and instruction from God They are for his harts ease like a Mariage day Gods word gives him all content by the Ministry his right hand in which words the Name of the Eternall so sweetly resteth and that without deficiencey For hee refuseth all the contrary with note of deficients as Iod in Iissarowni and Nun thrise with bal. And thus by avoyding of Defection hee mainteineth the Quiescents PSALM XVII LAy up for your selues treasure in heaven wher neither moth nor canket corrupteth nor theeves break through and steal David observeth from Samuel that moth-eaten and rusty imagination of Saul how hee robs God of his honour by his disobedience and the worm of his corrupt conceit that all together neglect his commandement and break it to have his own will and pleasure fullfilled for som respect that hee graved to himself and worshipped by his estimation of the goodly things of the world Princees and fatlings Which becaus it is rebellious transgression and a willfull offense against the Law of God not to obey the word of his mouth but to bee bewitched with his pleasure and to make an Idol of his will and marking this well hee excuseeth himself of counterfeiting in his prayer or dissembling in his request unto God but that all is according to justice and equity and that hee will bee tryed by God that seeth all Therfor hee requesteth ernestly that his steps may be kept still in the Law of righteousnes Ps. 16. that his feet slip not into the wayes of them that fall and that hee follow not a king or please a multitude in doing of evill and for this hee justly prayeth unto him that is saviour of all by his ministry that rely on him Ps. 18. and hee haveing repose-ed all his treasure in God his undefiled way of righteousnes Ps. 16. that hee will hide his grace-es and favours from them that rise against him and that hee will keep him as watchfully as the eyelid saveth the sleepy eye Ps. 77. and protect him and save him by his truthe called the shadow of his wings Ps. 91. from all his wicked enimyes that spoyl him Ps. 12. and his ill wishers that on every side lay siege for his life that haue greasy thoughtes and proud words and watch as greedily and as privily to overthrow him as a lion for prey Now his life beeing in hazard thus among his opposits that haue their bellye 's full of the treasure and blessings of this life and spare for their children after them that have their portion and delight therin that are their own carvers in this world and worship the work of their own handes and their wicked inventions becaus they be enimyes of God that with his sword and his power hee would stand before him make them stoop beat him down and deliuer him seeing when hee awakes and beholdes in righteousnes but the image of Gods Law called his countenance and hath a perfect understanding therof hee hath enough and is satisfyed and hath all hee looketh for with full contentment Construction It beginnes with the letter Zain to hear and therfor hath all the words of that sense comming together in divers places The other letter Iod or Iad a hand reacheth all over the Psalme in the attributes wayes and exploites of the wicked and also salvation by Gods right hand and by his sword and his hand from all such bothe the letters make Iez to sprinkle for the proud aspersion of the wicked Genesis For defectives hee sheweth his own syncerity that his mouth and his hart agreeth and hee abandoneth the way of ravenous incrocheing and defective men which he maketh the moste prosperous in this life which doth most spoyle The token of deficients bal thrise repeated mortall men twise They are counted dead men and deficient that haue their part only in this life The wordes of deficiency that in minde cast about to destroy c. His quiesciencey is in the image of God PSALM XVIII THe full assureance of understanding and the riches therof is to know the Mystery of God the father and of Christ in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge Thou art my beloved sonn in thee I am well pleased in the last Psalme 17. hee prayeth hartily for the heavenly light and revelatiō heerof and in this Psalme hee seeth the effect of his prayer The heavens open the spirit of meeknes descendeth after affliction and hee becommeth wise Psal. 119. th after a sea of troubles whē hee is baptized and haue passed through fire and water and cō to refreshing Ps. 66. and seeing hee is saveed for putting all manner of rely and confidence in God and God heard him and is angry with his enimyes and commeth with a mighty rage and terror secrecy and swiftnes against them and bringeth him out of affliction and releaseth him to shew his love unto him and that hee should not call upon God in vain that keepeth his wayes but
LEt your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven Hee that honoureth father and mother more then mee is not worthy of mee and the honour of Parents is the fulfilling of the Law and Commandements of God Which is heer don by praying for the king the preserver and defender therof And this maketh the womb happy for bearing and the paps for giving suck Hee that in his distress calleth upon God doth glorify God and hee it is that shall be set in the way of Salvation Ps. 50.91 and see his fill of dayes with all contentment Ps. 21. And therfor becaus the King is father and mother in this sens for fostering and mainteyning as well as God and his Law for creating it may well be sayd fear God and honour the King for fear God and keep his Commandement and honour thy father and mother and hurt not thy neighbour for an only religious and a devout man Now with great devotion hee cryeth God save the king and prayeth for him That God would honour him with all salvation and giue him all his requests hee glorifyeth God by calling upon him in distress and that the Kings religious service of God may comfort and succour him in all distresses that the whole church may sing and display their coulours for his salvation With this conjecture and note of assureance therof that the calling upon God standeth in more steed and is more victorious to prolong his life and mainteine his inheritance then Chariots and horses as is seen For the service of God is the honouring of father and mother and the calling vpon him the onely help to prolong their dayes And for this they bless the King and pray for him for the mainteining of a right ministry Construction The name of the letter being Caph a hand hee worketh upon all the propertyes from holding apprehending or conceiving The word Iagnan is made to hear and this goeth through the Psalme thrise used Fortification help and upholding giveing offering and erecting filling all work of the hand and the right hand for the Ministry caph also is to crouch Genesis The Quiescency the staff and stay and salvation of the King is in the calling upon God and remembring of his Name as Psalm 18. therfor is Name so oft repeated also Wherby they hold abide and stand upright and haue their fill of harts ease and rest consultation and request fullfilled with all contentment The word salvation 4. times repeated Which is a royall quiescencey when the contrary trust and all vain confidence shall allwayes crouch and haue defeat So as the King standes by the Ministry his salvation and safe standing is in the perfection therof The crouching which is another sens of Caph and falling is the signe of Deficiencey the Vowells by the Grammarians Elias and others are called Kings which may be sayd to call upon the letters Iehova for to them the quiescents haue relation respect also and are for a recreation or restauration of mankinde PSALM XXI THe strongest hold lasteth longest so the Kings dayes and inheritance is made everlasting for sticking to the strength of the Ark of God Ps. 68.59 and the life and righteousnes of the law that is in it From whence hee hath his Dominion and crown of Glory and honour and worship and all blessings that his hart or lips can desire as Ps. 8.3 and is cheeâ—ed and whet on with the joy of his countenance Ps. 4.41 That for his fayth and love to God Gods loveing kindedenes shall lengthen his dayes a thousand generations against all reproche ps 4. Highth and depth is not discerned a farr no more is the hart of a king by his people that they should be angry with him And becaus fooles bolts are soon shott and easyly slay with reproche Ps. 14.15 and put out his light and extinguish his glory by Ignominy Ps. 4. The Church willeth the King to bee glad and rejoyce in God and to bee thankfull to the power of his Law and Love for his Salvation They pray that Gods power and his Ministry called his right hand may ever finde out all his Enimyes and them that hate him by his Iealousy and burn them with his firey presence like a furnace Ps. 58.83 and anger them with the opening of the word and consume and devoure them by laying the Scriptures before them and makeing them as a butt to shoot at And that God would bend the Scriptures at them and aime at their face-es to destroy them to the third and fowerth Generation for angring of him and his Anoynted for endevouring and attempting evill against him and diviseing mischeeff that they could never atchive an Imagination impossible to Kill him That Gods strength may bee extolled and his excellent power and virtue bee sung out in Psalmes and commended Thus hee thanketh God for his mighty and unspeakable blessings upon the King with a presumption that hee shall never bee stirred becaus hee trusteth in the Eternall who of his loveing kindenes defendeth them that trust in him Ps. 18. and findeth out all his enimyes and destroyeth them that the church may haue matter to sing Praises and commendations of him when the King is safe and they are poseed or oppose-ed by the word of God and as it wear slayn by Objection Construction The letters are interpreted Caah or cavah to be obscure and dark and troubled First in the contrary sense as of his countenance that it be lightsom and to be in sight thou hast set before him c. makest him cheerfull before thee c. at the time of thy presence c. a but c. bend against theiâ— faces c. Cavah to burn To make them black with wrath as a firey oven put them out of the sight of men and of the world by destruction and obscure them Such is the repetition of the sense and words also to make it cleer Genesis His Glory and honour and worship and prosperity and length of dayes beeing all that hee can desire is The Kings quiescency Ioy and delight is in the Confidence and preservation of the Eternall without defect let the King rejoyce in thy strength c. And seeing hee trusteth in the Eternall c. Bee thou exalted in thy Strength O Eternall c and for Constancey put them as a crown c. thou puttest upon him c. Set them as a firey Oven c Set them as a butt which is to plant fast and so oft repeated that whether for the quiescent or Defective it be firm The constancey of the Letters of Jehova or Ehevi the letters of the quiescents is great delight and ornament to vowels that call on them PSALM XXII IN the last Ps. 21. the King by trusting confidently in the eternall and the supremacey of godlines and excellencey of the promiss Ps. 138. And soveraignty and way of love is sure of salvation And this is his
out his handy worke Day vpon day and night vpon night it vttereth speech and manifesteth knowledge and in all languages their tonge is vnderstood For their Rulles goe over all the erth and their wordes are heard in the farthest part of the worlde In them hath hee made a dwelling for the SVNN that riseth like a Bridegroome coming out of his Bride Chamber cheerfull like a strong man to runn a race The end of all the Hevens is his going out and his compasse towards the endes thereof that nothing can be hid from the heat thereof The LAW of the ETERNALL is most perfect and converteth the minde his Testimony is faithfull to advise the simple The Statutes of the ETERNALL are plain and cheere the hart The Commandement of the ETERNALL is pure and lighteneth the eyes the feare of the ETERNALL continueth euer cleare the Iudgements of the ETERNALL are true and Iust. They are better to mee then gold yea then much fine gold and sweeter then honny and the dropping of the honny combes Yea by them is thy Servant warned and for keeping of them I haue good reward There is no man that vnderstandeth all his owne faultes wherefoâ—e clense mee from my hidden ones and restrain thy Servant from proud presumptions that they doe not overcome mee That I may be perfect and cleere of much transgression and all my wordes and thoughts be in acceptation before thee ô ETERNALL my Creator and Redeemer XX. For the Cheeff A Psalme of David THE ETERNALL heare thee in thy destresse the CALLING vpon the God of Iacob fortifie thee and send the help from his Holy place and support from Sion and thinke vpon thy meat offerings and fatten thy burnt offerings surely and giue the thy hartes desire and fullfill thy minde That wee may sing out vpon thy salvation and in the NAME of our God put vp our coulours Now I know the Eternall saveeth his anointed by the vertuous salvation of his right hand and heareth him from the heavens of his Sanctuary Som set their mindes on chariots and som on horses but wee make allwayes mention of the NAME of our God the Eternall They haue crouched and are fallen but wee stand vp and are yet remaining The ETERNALL save the King and heare vs when wee call XXI For the Cheeff A Psalme of David O ETERNALL let the King reioyce in thy STRENGTH and be very glad for thy Salvation Thou hast given him what his heart could wish and denyed him nothing that his lips requested Surely Thou hast set before him many blessings and hast put a crowne of fine gold vpon his head and thou hast giuen him the life hee asked of thee long dayes everlasting and perpetuall Great is his glory by thy Salvation worship and honour thou hast layd vpon him because thou puttest vpon him blessings perpetually and makest him cheerfull before thee and seing the King trusteth in the ETERNALL by the Grace of the moste High hee shall not bee mooved Let thy hand finde out all thine Enimies and thy right hand them that hate thee Sett them as a firy oven at the time of thy presence that the ETERNALL in his anger may devour them and his fire consume them Destroy their fruit and let their seed fade away from among men for intending euill against thee and imagining mischeâ—ff beyond their might Set them as a butt and vpon thy string make ready against their facees Be thou exalted ô ETERNALL in thy STRENGTH that wee may sing out thy power and chaunt thy worthynes XXII For the Cheeff vpon Ajeleth Hashahar A Psalme of David MY God my mighty God why hast thou left mee and art farre from my Salvation considering my roaring My God I cry all day and thou answerest not and all night and haue no attendance and thou the Holy one that inhabitest all the PRAYSES of Israel In thee our Fathers trusted and thou reskuedst them to thee they cryed and were delivered in thee they trusted and were never abashed But I am as a worm and not a man the skorn of men and the basest of all the people every one that seeth mee mocketh mee and they lett passe with their lips wagging their heads Hee trusted in the ETERNALL let him reskew him let him deliver him because hee hath delight in him Because thou wast my creeping out of the belly and my trust vpon my mothers brest vpon thee was I cast from the bearing and thou hast been my MIGHTY God from my Mothers womb ô bee not thou farre from mee when my destresse is at hand and there is none to help mee Many mighty bulles of Bashan inviron mee about they com with open mouthes vpon mee like roaring and preying Lions My bones are fallen out of ioint my hart is like molten wax in the midle of my bowells and I am powered out like water my virtue is as dry as a sheard and my tong steeks to my iawes and thou puttest mee even in the dead dust For a company of malitious doggs are come about mee and like Lions teare mee hand and foot They stand looking on mee while I tell all my bones they divide my clothes among them and cast lotts for my garments but thou ô ETERNALL be not farre from mee make haste to help mee ô my MIGHTY-ONE Deliver my life from the sword and my solitary soul from the doggs save mee from the Lions denn and from the Vnicorns hornes receive mee I may declare thy Name to my Bretheren and in the midle of the congregation praise thee All yee that feare the ETERNALL praise yee him yee that are of Iacobs SEED glorifie him and all yee the SEED of Israel stand in aw of him For he doth not despise nor disdain the MISERY of the afflicted nor hideeth his face from him but heareth him when hee cryeth vnto him From thee shall bee my Praise in the great Congregation and I will pay my vows before them that feare him that the lowly ones may eat their fill they that seek him praise the ETERNALL that your harts may be refreshed perpetually Let all the endes of the erth haue minde to com to the ETERNALL and all families of the Hethen worship before thee For all KINGDOM is the ETERNALLS hee rulleth the Nations Let all the ashes of the erth worship and eat and all that are going to dust and they whose liues haue no
my LORD think on mee that am vvreched and Needy thou that art my help and Rescuer and tary not O my GOD. XLI For the Cheeff A Psalme of DAVID HAPPY is hee that well considereth the Poor and Empty man The ETERNALL vvill dravv him out in Time of Evill the ETERNALL vvill keep him and refresh him and hee shall be BLESSED in all the Land thou vvilt not put him in his Enimyes vvill the ETERNALL vvill Souccour him vvhen hee is vveak and feeble on his bed thou vvilt make his Lodgeing in his Sicknes I SAY ô ETERNALL have thou Pitty on mee and heal my Soul for I have Sinned against thee Mine Enimyes when I am ill SAY when will hee dye and his Name perish and if he comes to see mee all his TALK is COVNTERFET for in his hart hee thinketh to molest him and as soon as hee is gon out hee telleth it abroad besides all my Haters WHISPER against mee and DEVISE against mee while I am in Misery Some discommodity oppresse him that hee may never rise again when hee is down Yea my Peaceable FREEND that I trusted and that eat of my meat Kicked at mee But ô ETERNALL haue thou Pitty on me and RAISE mee again and I shall acquite them Hereby I KNOW thou hast pleasure in mee For mine Enimyes doe not Triumph over mee thou mainteinest mee in mine VPRIGHTENES and settest mee before thee for ever Blessed be the ETERNALL the GOD of Israel from Everlasting to Everlasting indeed and indeed THE SECOND BOOK XLII For the Cheeff A Mascil of the Sonnes of Corah AS the hunted Deer doth LONGE for water-streames so doth my Soule longe for thee ô GOD. My Soule is a thirst for GOD to com to the LIVING GOD and appeer before GOD. My Teares are all my Meat day and night while they SAY still vnto mee Where is thy GOD When I think on these things I euen power out my SOVLE for greeff for mee Seing I went out with them and conveyed them and protected them euen to the house of GOD with great Triumph and Thanksgiuing and a solemne feast Be not abase-ed and troubled for mee ô my SOVLE waite thou on GOD for I will yet confesse the SALVATION of his presence ô GOD my SOVLE is abased for mee wherefor I think on thee from thee Hills of Hermon from the Hill Mizaar in the Land of Iarden Thy Chanells call all the Deeps together all thy Breaches and Waves goe over mee Let the ETERN send his LOVE KINDNES by day and in the nighte let his SONG be with mee A PRAYER to the GOD of my Life I SAY to the Almighty my Rock VVhy hast thou forgotten mee vvhy goe I mourning by the oppression of the Enimye With a Slaughter in my bones doe my Besiegers reproch mee while thy SAYE still VVhere is thy GOD Be not abaseed and troubled for mee ô my Soule waite thou on GOD for I vvill yet confesse him my present SALVATION and my GOD. XLIII PLEAD thou my Quarell ô God Shift mee from an vnkinde Nation rescue mee from deceiptfull and vniust men ô GOD of my Strength put not thou mee back why goe I mourning by the oppression of the Enimy Send thy LIGHTE thy TRVTHE to Guide and Lead mee and bring mee to thy Holly Hill and into thy Tabernacles and that I may com to the Altar of GOD to GOD the Ioy of my Mirth and Thank thee vpon the Harp ô GOD my GOD. Be not abased and troubled for mee ô my SOVLE vvaite thou on GOD for I vvill yet confesse him on my present SALVATION and my GOD. XLIV For the Cheeff of the Sonnes of Corah A Mascil O GOD our Eeares haue hard it and our Fathers haue told vs of the WORKES thou wroughtest in their dayes and in the dayes before Thou vvith thy hand didest dispossesse the Heathen and plantedst THEM and didest deale hardly vvith the Nations and didest setle THEM For not by their ovvn svvord did they possesse the Land neither did their ovvn Arme save them but thy Righte hand and thine Arme and the LIGHT of thy COVNTENANCE did it because thou didst accept of them O thou the same GOD my KING send IACOB deliuerances that by thee wee may push down our Besiegers by thy NAME trample vpon our Insurrectors for I trust not in mine own bow and mine owne sword that they should saue mee that when thou hast saued vs from our Besiegers and abashed our foes Wee may Glorifye GOD dayly and set out thy NAME for euer surely Yea thou drawest back and refuseest to goe foorth with our Armyes and shamest vs thou make-est vs turn back from the Besieger so that our foes suppresse them thou hast skatered vs among the Hethen and giuen vs among them like sheep for their meat thou hast sold thy people and hast noe welth for them and art neuer the richer for their price Thou hast set vs a Reproche to our Neighbours and a Derision and a Mocking-stock to them round about vs thou fettest vs a Byword among the Hethen and a Beckoning among the Nations my Shame is dayly before mee and Bashfullnes all over my face for the VOICE of the Reprochefull and Revileing spitefull Enimye Yet for all this wee haue not forgotten thee nor been false in thy Covenant For all thou hast beaten vs down into the place of Dragons and heiled vs ouer in Obscurity our Minde is not gon back nor our Steps turned out of thy pathes If wee haue forgotten the NAME of our GOD and spred our palmes vnto a strange GOD will not GOD finde it out seeing hee knoweth the secrets of the hart for for thee are wee dayly killed and counted as slaine sheep Awake and arise ô LORD doe not sleep and draw back continually ô doe not hide thy face forget not our misery and oppression when our Soule is humbled to the dust and our Belly cleevs to the ground Stand vp a HELP for vs and redeem vs for thy LOVEING KINDENES fake XLV For the Cheeff vpon the Lillyes or Lira of the Sonnes of Corah A Mascil A Loue-song MY Hart aboundeth with a good matter and I will tell my WORKE of the King and my tonge shall be as swift as the Pen of any Scribe Thou art fayrer then any Human vvight
I like the neernes of GOD and put my whole Relye in my LORD the ETERNALL that I may declare all thy messages LXXIV A Mascil of ASAPH WHY drawest thou back still O GOD that thine angry countenaÌ„ce smokes against the sheep of thy Pasture remember thine Assembly which thou purchasedst long agoe and the shaft of thine Inheritance which thou redeemedst this Hill of Sion wher thou dwellest ô deliver thy foot-steps at perpetuall DESOLATIONS The Enimye spoyleth all in the Sanctuary thy Besiegers roar in the midle of thy Synagogue and make their monstrous Signes it was known at the bringing to perfection the Axes wear in the thick woodes and now the grauen vvork and all they knock dovvn vvith bietles and Hammers they cast thy Sanctuary into the fire they break dovvn the Tabernacle of thy Name to the ground They say in their mindes and their Ofspring also Burn all the Synagogues of GOD in the Land Wee see not our Signes we haue no more Prophetes ther is none with vs can tell how long How long ô GOD shall the Besiege-er reuile shall the Enimy blaspheme thy Name for ever why returnest thou thy hand eveÌ„ thy right hand to bee noe more out of thy bosom and GOD my King of old the worker of SALVATION in the midle of the Erth Thou diuide-edst the Sea by thy strength thou brake-est the heades of the great Dragons by the vvaters thou crushedst the heads of the Leuiathan in peeces gauest him to the Ilanders to eat thou didst cleaue vp the flovving springes and dryedst vp mighty riuers The day and night are thine thou ordeinedst the light of the Sunn thou Settest all the boundes of the Erth yea Sommer and VVinter them thou formedst Remember this ô ETERNALL the Enimy reproche-eth and the vile people blaspheme thy Name giue not the life of thy Turtle Dove to the Beasts and forget not thy gentle Congregation for euer Look to thy COVENANT how the rude-ignorant people of the world fill their houses with Injury let not the contrite the poor and wreched ones that Praise thy Name goe away with reproche Vp O GOD mainteine thy quarell remember thy Reproche from the vile ones dayly Forget not the voice of thy Besiegers and the Pride of thine Insurrectors which continually increaseth LXXV For the Cheeff Al tashcheth A Psalm A Song of ASAPH WEE THANK thee O God vvee THANK thee that thy Name is nighe and that they declare thy vvonderfull vvorkes That I haue opportunity that I JVDGE vprighte I measure the molten Pillars of the Erth and all her Inhabitants Surely I SAY to the Vaine glorious fooles Boast you not and to the Wicked Hold not vp your hornes hold not vp your hornes a highe and speak not vvith a stiffneck for neither from East nor VVest nor VVildernes is Aduancement but GOD is hee that Iudge-eth hee humbleth and hee aduaunceeth For the Cup is in the hand of the ETERNALL and a vessell of Seething vvine full of Liquor and hee dravveth out of it but all the VVicked of the erth shall vvring out and drink vp the dregs thereof And I vvill tell sing Psalms vnto the GOD of Iacob That I may cut off the Hornes of the Wicked and that the Hornes of the Iust may bee exalted LXXVI For the Cheeff in Song Musicque A Psalm of ASAPH GODS Name is greatly known in Iudah Israel haveing his dwelling Tabernacle in Shalem and Sion wher hee brake the flightes and shieldes and swordes of battaile surely Thou appeerest greater then the devouring MOVNTAINES The Stoute harted wear bereft and slept their sleep the valiant men found not their hands At the Rebuke O GOD of Iacob both Chariot Horses were in a swefen Thou art very terrible and who can stand before thee when thou art angry When GOD arose to Iudgement to save the Lowely ones of the Erth Thou vtteredst thy Sentence from Heaven and the Erth feared and was at quiet Surely Seeing the Chafe of men doth make thee famous gird on the rest of thy Chafeings Pay you your Vowes to the ETERNALL your GOD all yee that bee about him and waft giftes to your Dred that crops the spirit of PRINCE-ES and is terâ—ible to the KINGS of the Erth. LXXVII For the Cheeff over Ieduthum A Psalm of ASAPH I Cryed with my voyce to GOD vnto GOD I cryed with my Voyce that hee would hearken to mee in the day of my destresse I sought the LORD my hand was streched out by night and is not weery and my soul refuseed comfort I remembred GOD and cryed out that my spirit fainted surely Thou holdest myne Eye-waches and I was strooken that I spake not I thought vpon the dayes of old and the yeeres of many worldes I remember my LEDEN in the night which I vttered with my hart and my Spirit invented Will the LORD ever bee averse and never bee pleased more Js his Loueing Kindenes ceased for euer and his Promiss at an end for all Generations hath GOD forgotten to be gratious or hath hee stopped vp his mercyes vvith anger Surely And I sayed that which I will sing is the YEERS of the RIGHTE HAND of the Most Highe I vvill remember the Excellent VVORKES of the ETERNALL remembring thy Miracles of old and meditat vpon all thy VVORKS and SPEAK of thy most Excellent ACTS O GOD thy vvay is in thy Sanctuary vvhat MIGHT is so great as GOD Thou art the Mighty one that hast don vvonderfull thinges and manifested thy Povver among the Nations vvith thine Arme thou ransomedst thy People The Children of Iacob and Ioseph surely Assoone as the vvaters savv thee O GOD vvhen they Savv thee they Trembled yea the Deepes wear stirred The cloudes showred down waters the Skyes gaue a Clap yea thine Arrowes went every way thy Thunder claps wer in the round Orbs thy Lighting 's Lightned the whole World the Erth stirred and quaked Thy way beeing in the Sea and thy Pathes in the Great Waters and thy footsteps vnknown thou leddest thy People like Sheep by the hands of Moses and Aaron LXXVIII A Mascil of ASAPH HEAR ô my People my DOCTRINE and hearken to the WORDES of my mouth I will open my mouth in PARABLES and vtter ancient ridles
haue made the carcases of thy Servants meat for the fowles of Heaven and the flesh of thy Gratious ones food for the beasts of the erth They haue shed their blood like water round about Ierusalem and ther is none that buiryeth them and wee are a Reproche a Laughing stock and a Mocking stock to all our Neighbours round about vs. O ETERNALL wher to wilt thou be angry for euer how lōg shall thy Ialousy burn like fire ô powre out thy hot Wrath vpon the Hethen which know thee not and vpon the Kingdoms that call not vpon thy NAME Because it hath eatē vp Iacob and they haue made his goodly dwelling desolate Remember not our former Iniquityes but set thy mercyes quickly before vs for wee are greatly waste-ed Help vs ô GOD for the GLORY of thy NAME and deliuer vs and make reconciliation for our sinnes for thy Names sake Why shall the Hethen SAY Wher is their GOD Let him be known manifestly among the Hethen before our eyes a Revenge of the blood of his Servantes that is shed Let the Prisoners groneing come before thee and according to the greatnes of thine ARME restore thou them that are condemned to dye And to our Neighbours turn into their bosomes seven times ô Lord their Reproche which they have reproched thee and wee thy People and the sheep of thy pasture will publish and tell out thy PRAYSE for ever yea for all Generations LXXX For the Cheeff vpon Shoshannim Edbuth A Psalm of ASAPH O Sheephard of Israel hear vs thou that conductest Ioseph like a flock of sheep Inhabitest the Cherubs SHINE out Rouse vp thy STRENGTH before Ephraim Benjamin and Manasses and come and help vs. Guide vs O GOD by the Shineing of thy COVNTENANCE we may be safe O ETERNALL GOD of hostes How long wilt thou FVME against the PRAYERS of thy People thou feedest them with bred of weeping and make-est them drink with abundance of Teares Thou settest vs a Taunt for our Neighbours and our Enimyes make a Mock at them O GOD of Hostes Conduct vs by the Shineing of thy COVNTENANCE wee may bee safe Thou remoovedst a VINE out of Egypt and expelledst the Hethen and plantedst it thou madest a clean riddance before it and madest her rootes take root fill the Land and the hilles wear covered with her Shadow her branches beeing like mighty Ceders her short bowes and sucking shoots shee reached out to the Sea and to the Rivers Why hast thou broke-en down her hedgees that all Travailers doe curss her The Savage Swine out of the wood and the wilde beestes of the feeld waste it and devoure it ô GOD of Warr com look vpon I pray thee out of Heauen and behold and visit this Vine the Stock which thy right hand hath planted and vpon the SONNE which thou hast confirmed to thy self which are burnt with fire as of a purgeing and perish with thy chideing Countenance Let thy Hand bee vpon all human men of thy Right hand which thou hast confirmed vnto thee that wee may not slip back from thee quicken vs to call vpon thy NAME ô ETERNALL GOD of Hostes Guid vs with the Shineing of thy COVNTENANCE that wee may be safe LXXXI For the Cheeff vpon the Git Instrument A Psalm of ASAPH SOVND out to our MIGHTY GOD of STRENGTH Sing aloud to the GOD of Jacob take vp the Psaltery and take the taber the sweet harp and the Viol and at our feast-dayes in the new-moones appointed blow the Trumpet for that was a prescribe-ed custom of the GOD of Iacob vnto Israel hee set it a TESTIMONY in Ioseph of his going out against the Land of Egypt I heard Lips that I knew not hee whos shoulders I took from the burden and his handes went from the basket in distresse thou didst call J released thee I answered thee in secret thunder tryed thee at the waters of Meribah surely Hear O thou my People of Israel and I will protest of thee if thou wilt hear mee that ther bee no strange GOD within thee neither wilt fall down to worship any forain GOD I the ETERNALL thy GOD which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt open thy mouth wide and I will fill it But my People Israel would not hearken to my VOYCE nor consent vnto mee and I let them goe in the torment of their mindes and walk in their own counsells If Israel had hearkened to mee and had walked in my wayes J would had soon abased their Enimyes and layed my hand on their foes The Haters of the ETERNALL had been devoteed to him and their time should had lasted for Ever and hee would had fed him with wheaten flower and I would had satisfyed thee from the Hony rock LXXXII A Psalm of ASAPH GOD standeth cheeff in the Assembly of GOD and is IVDGE among the Godes themselves Why will you doe wrong JVDGEMENT and accept the face of the vvicked ones Surely Iudge yee the Empty and the fatherlesse the oppressed and poor-man with Iust IVDGEMENT Free and deliuer the Empty and Needy out of the handes of the VVicked But they know nothing nor vnderstand any thing they walk in darknes that all the foundations of the Erth are moved I sayd Yee are Godes and I call yee all the Children of the Most Highe but like men shall yee dye and fall like any one of the Prince-es Vp thou O GOD and Iudge the Earth for thou hast inheritance in all Nations LXXXIII A Psalm Song of ASAPH O GOD bee not thou silent hold not thy peace nor sit thou still ô ALLMIGHTY one For behold thine ENIMYES that hate thee make a noyse and hold vp the head they take crafty counsell against thy People and consult against thy Preserved They say Come let vs cut them off from a Nation that the NAME of Israel bee never remembred more for they consult in their mindes together and make a Covenant against thee The Tabernacles of Edom and Moab and the Ismaelites and them of Hagar Gebal and Ammon and Amalek and Phelistia with the Inhabitantes of Tyre yea Assur also is ioyned with them and wear a helping Arme to the Children of Lot surely Doe thou to them as thou didst to Midian as thou
the Earth That thy beloued ones may be released saue vs with thy right hand and hear vs. GOD SPEAKE in his Sanctuary I was glad I vvill diuide Shechem and meat out the vale of Succoth Giliad shall be mine and Manasses shall bee mine Ephraim shall bee my Cheeff strength Judah shall bee my Lavv-maker Moah my vvashing pot vpon Edom vvill I cast off my shoes vpon Palestina vvill I triumph Who conducted mee to the Citty Mibhzar who brought mee to the strong Citty Edom didst not thou ô GOD that dost giue vs the back and goest not foorth with our Armyes O GOD ô giue vs help in distresse for vaine is the help of man Through GOD wee shall doe prosperously and hee will tread down our Besiegers CIX For the Cheeff A PSALM of DAVID O GOD of my PRAYSE bee thou not Deaf for the deceiptfull mouthes of the Wicked are opened vpon mee and with false tongs they talk with mee and with hatefull wordes goe they about mee and oppugne mee for nothing for my loue they are against mee and I PRAYE them and they put vpon mee evill for good and hatred for my Love Set over him a Wicked man and let the ADVERSARY stand at his right hand and when hee is iudged let him goe out a Wicked man and his PRAYER be sinfull let his dayes bee few and another take his Oversight let his children be fatherles and his wife a Widow and let his Children goe about asking and seeking from their desolate dwellings Let the Creditor intangle all hee hath forrein Enimyes make a Prey of his labours Let him haue none to extend KINDNES let ther be none to pitty his Fatherless ones let his Posterity be cut off and in another Generation let their Name be clean blotted out Let the iniquity of his Fore-fathers be remembred vvith the ETERNALL and his Mothers sinn not blotted out Let them bee allvvayes before the ETERNALL that hee may cut off their Remembrance out of the Earth Because hee remembred not to doe KINDENES and pursued the afflicted and needy one to sley him of a contrite hart and loued cursing Let it com vnto him and had noe delight in blessing let it be far from him And let him put on Cursing as his Robe let it soke into him like vvater and like oyle into his bones let it bee to him like a vvrapping vveed and for a girdle to gird it allvvayes to him Let this bee the Revvard of them that STAND VP against mee from the ETERNALL and speake ill against my PERSON And thou ô ETERNALL ô my LORD shew mee for thy Names sake thy Favour and for thy Bountifull KINDENES deliuer mee because J am miserably afflicted and my hart is slaine vvithin mee as a Shadovv at his declineing I am gon I am driuen avvay like locusts my knees are feeble vvith fasting my flesh denyeth fatnes and J vvhich am a skorn to them and they vvag their heads vvhen they see mee ô ETERNALL my GOD. Help mee and according to thy LOVING KJNDENES saue mee That they may know that thou O ETERNALL with thy hand hast don this very thing When they reuile doe thou blesse when they rise vp let them be confounded that thy Servant may reioyce let them that stand vp against mee put on shame and wear their Confusion like an vpper garment that with my mouth I may exceedingly set foorth the ETERNALL and prayse him in the midst of many Because hee standeth at the right hand of the Destitute man to saue him from the Condemners of his life CX Of DAVID A Psalm THE ETERNALL SAYETH to my LORD Sit thou at my right hand vntill I set thine Enimyes thy foot stoole The ETERNALL will send the rod of thy STRENGTH out of Sion and Rulle thou in the midst of thine Enimyes Hee will send thee thy PRINCIPALL People in the day of thy Battail the timelines of the Womb and dew of thy youth in thy seemly Sanctuary The ETERNALL hath SWORNE and will not repent Thou shalt bee a Priest for euer like MELCHISEDEK By thy right hand the LORD will wound Kinges when hee is angry hee will Iudge among the Hethen his fill of Bodyes Hee will wound the Head over the Land of Rabbah Hee drank of the river in the way therfor shall hee hold vp his head CXI PRAISE the ETERNALL in the Counsell and Assembly of VPRIGHT men I will worship the ETERNALL with all my hart Great are the WORKES of the ETERNALL and to be sought out with all their DELIGHTS WORSHIP and HONOVR is his VVORKE and his RIGHTEOVSNES that standeth for euer Hee hath made remembrance of his WONDERFVLL WORKES The ETERNALL beeing GRATIOVS and MERCIFVLL Hee gaue food to them that fear him and was euer mindefull of his COVENANT Hee declare-ed the MIGHTYNES of his WORKES to his People to giue them the JNHERITANCE of the Heathen The Works of his handes are Truthe and Iudgement all his Precepts Faithfull They are established for euerlasting Eternity being made vvith TRVTH and PLAYNENES Hee sent Redemption to his people his Couenant that hee commaunded for euer holly and reuerend be his Name The beginning of Wisdome is the Feare of the ETERNALL and a good Vnderstanding haue all they that doe them His Prayse to stand for euer CXII PRAISE the ETERNALL Happy is the man that Feareth the ETERN and greatly delighteth in his Commandemēts his Seed shall be mighty in the Earth and the Generatiō of Vpright men shall be blesse-ed He shall haue vvelth Riches in his house and his Righteousnes shall indure for euer In darknes ther ariseth Light for Vpright men the Gratious the Mercifull and Iust man that a good man beeing Pittifull and lending may mainteine his Substance vvith Judgement because the Iust shall neuer be mooued hee shall be had in perpetuall Remembrance of any ill Nevves hee shall not bee afrayed his hart is firme and confident in the ETERNALL His hart is established that hee shall not bee afrayed vvhen hee looketh vpon his Foes Hee DISTRIBVTETH GIVETH to the Needy ones his Righteousnes shall last for euer And his HORNE shall be highe in GLORY vvhen the VVicked man seeth it hee shall freat and gnash his teeth and melt The Longing
of Wicked men shall perish CXIII PRAISE the ETERNALL Praise yee ô Servantes of the ETERNALL praise the NAME of the ETERNALL let the NAME of the ETERNALL be blessed from this time till for euer from the Riseing of the Sunn to his Goeing downe let the NAME of the ETERNALL be praised The ETERNALL that is highe aboue all Nations and his GLORY is aboue the Heauens VVho is like the ETERNALL our GOD that hath his Dvvelling a highe in the Heauens and humbleth to look vpon the Earth That raiseth the empty man out of the dust and setteth vp the Needy from the donghill to make him sit vvith Prince-es and vvith the Principall of his People makeing the barren vvoman to inhabit the House and to be a joyefull Mother of children the ETERNALL be praised CXIV WHEN Israel came out of Egypt and the House of Iacob from the Barbarous People and Iury was his SANCTVARY and Israel his DOMINION the Sea saw and fled and Iordan turned back The Mountaines DAVNCE-ED like Lambes and the little Hilles like yong Sheep What is the matter with thee ô Sea that thou fledst thou Iordan that thou turnedst back yee Mountaines that yee daunceed like Lambes and yee little Hilles like yong Sheep For the Presence of the LORD tremble ô Earth for the Presence of the GOD of Jacob that turneth the hard-stony rock into springing vvater pooles CXV NOT vnto vs ô ETERNALL not vno vs giue GLORY but vnto thy NAME for thy LOVEING KINDENES and thy TRVTH Wherfore should the Hethen SAY VVher I pray you is their GOD and our GOD is in Heauen doth vvhatsoeuer hee pleaseth Their Images of siluer and gold the work of mens handes haue mouthes and speak not they haue eyes and see not and eares and hear not and noses and smell not and wag not with their handes nor walk with their feet they haue noe talk in their throates So be their makers and euery one that trusteth in them Israel trust thou in the ETERNALL whose help and Defence hee is Thou House of Aaron trust yee in the ETERNALL whose help and Defense hee is Yee that fear the ETERNALL trust yee in the ETERNALL whose help and Defense hee is That the ETERNALL that remembreth vs may blesse hee may blesse the House of Israel and blesse the House of Aaron and blesse them that fear the ETERNALL small and great That the ETERNALL may ad abundantly vpon you vpon you and vpon your Children bee yee the blessed of the ETERNALL maker of Heaven and Earth The Heavens of Heavens are the ETERNALLS and the Earth hee hath giuen to the Children of men the DEAD shall not praise the ETERNALL nor they that are gone into SILENCE Therfor wee will blesse the ETERNALL from this time and for ever The ETERNALL be praised CXVI I Loue the ETERNALL because hee hath hard my VOYCE of my SVPPLICATIONS and because hee hath turned his eares vnto mee in the dayes of calling The snares of death had hold of mee and the torments of Hell came vpon mee and I found greevous misery And I CALLED vpon the Name of the ETERNALL J beseech thee ô ETERNALL reskew my Life And the ETERNALL that is GRATIOVS and JVST and our GOD that is moste MERCIFVLL the ETERNALL that preserveth the simple ones VVhen I vvas vtterly spent holpe mee Turne to thy REST ô my Soul for The ETERNALL hath don BOVNTIFVLLY for thee For thou hast released my Person from death mine eyes from teares and my feet from Scatering that J might vvalke before the ETER among the liuing I beleeved for I SPAKE when I was exceedingly afflicted and I SAYED in my hast All men are lyers What shall I RETVRNE to the ETERNALL for all his GOOD-TVRNES bestowed vpon mee J vvill take the CVP of SALVATION and make Invocation vpon the NAME of the ETERNALL I vvill pay my VOVVES to the ETER yea in the Sighte of his People the death of his Saintes beeing deer in the sight of the ETERNALL O ETERN I BESEECH thee because I am thy Servant I am thy Servant and sonne of thy Handmayde loose my bandes that I may Sacrifice SACRIFICE-ES of Thanks-offering and make Invocation vpon the NAME of the ETERN and pay my Vowes to the ETERN in the sight yea of all his people in the Courts of the House of the ETERN and in the mids of thee O Ierusalem praised be the ETERNALL CXVII PRAISE the ETERNALL all yee Nations commend him all yee People for his passing LOVEING KINDENES vpon vs and the TRVTH of the ETERN that is for euer The ETERNALL be praised CXVIII WORSHIP the ETERNALL because hee is GRATIOVS For his Loveing Kindenes is for euer Let Israel SAY that his Loveing Kindenes is for euer O let the House of Aaron SAY that his Loveing Kindenes is for euer O let them that fear the ETER SAY that his Loving Kindenes is for euer Out of my Affliction I Called vpon the ETER the ETER heard mee at large The ETERN is with mee I am not afrayed vvhat man shall doe vnto mee The ETERN is with mee among my HELPERS and J doe look vpon my foes It is better to RELY on the ETERN then to put any TRVST in man It is better to RELY on the ETERNALL then to put trust in Principall men For all the People came about mee and in the NAME of the ETERNALL J cut them off For vvhen they compassed mee yea and had be set mee rounde about in the NAME of the ETERNALL I cut them off They came about mee like bees but they vvent out like a thorn fire and in the NAME of the ETERNALL I cut them off Thou hast cast mee sore downe and I fell and the ETERNALL hath holpen mee My Confidence and Sonet shall bee the ETERN that hath been my SALVATION a loud VOYCE of SALVATION in the TABERNACLES of the RIGHTEOVS The right hand of the ETERNALL hath done valiantly the right hand of the ETERN bee exalted the right hand of the ETERN hath done valiantly and while I liue and am not dead I will DECLARE the DOOINGS of the ETERNALL The ETERN corrected mee sorely yet gaue mee not vnto death open yee righteous gates I may enter in by them and worship the ETERNALL This is the Gate
of Great and mervilouse things for his Everlasting Kindenes That by his VNDERSTANDING made the Heavens for his Everlasting Kindenes That streched out the Earth vpon the waters for his Everlasting Kindenes That made the great LIGHTES for his Everlasting Kindenes The Sunn to rule the day for his Everlasting Kindenes The Moon and the Stars to rule in the Night for his Everlasting Kindenes Him that smote Egypt in their first-born for his Everlasting Kindenes And brought Israel out of the mids of them for his Everlasting Kindenes With a stout hand and a streched out arme for his Everlasting Kindenes Him that cutteth the Suph-Sea in partes for his Everlasting Kindenes And brought Israel over in the mids therof for his Everlasting Kindenes And overwhelmed Pharoh and his host in the Suph-Sea for his Everlasting Kindenes Him that led his People in the Wildernes for his Everlasting Kindenes Him that smote great KINGS for his Everlasting Kindenes And slew famous KINGS for his Everlasting Kindenes Sihon King of the Aemorites for his Everlasting Kindenes And Og King of Bashan for his Everlasting Kindenes And gave their Land an INHERITANCE for his Everlasting Kindenes An Inheritance to Israel his Servant for his Everlasting Kndenes Which in our Low estate remembred vs for his Everlasting Kindenes And free-ed vs from our Tormentours for his Everlasting Kindenes Him that giveth bread to all flesh for his Everlasting Kindenes Worship the MIGHTY GOD of Heaven for his Everlasting Kindenes CXXXVII BY the Rivers side of Babel wher wee sate and wept when wee remembred Zion and vpon the Willowes in the middes of it wee had hanged vp our Harpes when as ther our Captivers and Inthrallers Asked vs som mery Songes Sing vs som songes of Zion Hovv shall vvee sing a SONG of the ETER vpon a forain soile If J forget thee Ierusalem let my Right hand forget and my Tong cleeue to the roof of my mouth If J remember thee not and aduaunce not Ierusalem Aboue my cheeffest mirth Remember ô ETERN the children of Edom in the day of Ierusalem vvhich SAYD Downe with it downe with it to the ground with it ô Babel tovvne of destruction happy is hee that repayeth thee fully as thou hast dealt vvith vs. Happy is hee that taketh thy babes and dasheth them against the stones CXXXVIII Of DAVID I Will worship thee with all my hart and set thee out with Psalmes before the GODES I will bow downe at thy Holly Temple and worship thy NAME for thy LOVEING KINDENES and thy TRVTH Because thou hast made thy SAYING great aboue all thy NAME Because thou hardest mee in the day I called and inlargedst mee vvith Strength in my Minde Let all the Kings of the Earth worship thee O ETERNALL when they heare the Sayings of thy mouth and sing of the VVayes of the ETERN for the Glory of the ETERNALL is great Because the ETERN is highe beholdeth the Lovvly and being lofty kenneth a farr If J vvalk in the hart of Distresse that thou revivest mee and settest thy hand vpon the face of mine Enimyes vvith thy Right hand savest mee The ETERNALL that did all for mee ô ETERNALL that thy KINDENES is for ever forsake not thou the Workes of thy handes CXXXIX For the Cheeff of David A Psalme O ETERNALL thou serchest mee and knowest Thou knowest my sitting downe and my riseing vp and vnderstandest my meaning a farr Thou goest round about my pathes and my couching and art vsed to all my wayes for behold ther is not a word in my tong but thou ô ETERN knowest it all thou besiegest mee behinde and before and layest thy hand vpon mee To wonderfull is the knowledge for mee and so highe that I comprehend it not Whether shall J goe from thy Spirit and whether shall J fly from thy Presence If J goe vp to Heaven thou art there if J goe down to Hell behold thou art there If I take the winges of the morning dwell beyond the Sea also thither shall thy hand lead mee and thy right hand seize vpon mee And if J SAY but Darknes shall comprehend mee the Night shall bee Light about mee yea the Darknes shall not darken from thee the Night shall giue light like the day as well the Darknes as the Light Thou obteinedst my Reynes coveredst mee in the belly of my mother I thank thee for because J am fearfully overheeled and wonderfull are thy WORKES which my Soul knoweth right well My FASTNING is not hid from thee which am wrought in Secret and stiched vnder the earth Thine Eyes see my WINDEING vp and they wear written vpon thy book the dayes they wear formed when ther was not one among them And to mee hovv deer are thy thoughtes ô ALMIGHTY hovv mighty are the Summes of them If J tell them they are more then the sand of the Sea All while I am awake I am with thee VVilt thou kill the VVicked that is idlely caried avvay thy Enimyes that stirr and vex thee vvith vvicked ImaginatioÌ„s Yea yee bloody men depart yee from mee Doe not J hate thos that hate thee ô ETERNALL and vex my self vvith those that raise themselues vp against thee I hate them vvith perfect hatred and they are to mee for Enimyes Serch mee ô ALMIGHTY and try mee know the Thoughtes of my Hart and see if ther be any way of Impiety in mee lead mee the way of Eternity CXL By the Cheeff A Psalme of DAVID RELEASE mee ô ETERN and preserve mee froÌ„ all Malicious iniurious men which devise Mischeeff in their hart meditate warrs continually Whose tonges are as sharp as a Sâ—rpents with the poison of an Asp within his lippes O ETERN keep mee from the handes of the Wicked man and preserve mee from all Iniurious ones VVhich devise to destroy my steps surely The Haughty ones hide a trap snares for mee they spred a net by the vvay and set Toyles for mee surely I SAY to the ETER ô my ALLMIGTY GOD O ETER heare the voice of my Supplications O LORD the Strenghth of my Salvation that coverest my head in the day of Battail Graunt not the DESIRES of the Wicked and content not his minde that they be exalted surely O thou my Helmet let the PAYNS of their ovvn lipps ouerheel them let it cast them in the fire
with all speed deliver him presently save him The mistery of this Psalme is easily gathered from the first wordes which are plain from the promiss as for the 400. yeers in Ribhah Ribhi wher the two Arrs make the 400 of affliction by their travail and servitude and unhumane usage whom God will judge The same wordes com again to the same purpose in Psalme 119. R. 74. And thus hee intendeth to tune his harp in this book wholely to the first commandemēt play upon the promiss Gen. 15. for the strength of beleeff that hee would never give over his confidence for any affliction bee it never so long or so sore For Truthe the other part of the way of God Construction Mem waters For nations and deceitfullnes and failing also Iob 6. light and truth for the waters of the Law Other kindes and propertyes in the last Psalme oppression Enimy trouble confess which is to make to flow abrode c. Ghimel for reward is heer answered by judgeing and revengeing Gen. 15. for the equity and justice in the office of a judge 1. Sam. 24. And by his solemne celebration as a sacrifice Ghimel for waining also as by his waiting Ps. 131. Mog both the letters are to melt as when the soul is troubled and the hart fainteth Exodus Gods name his strength confidence and his Mirth and his celebration as Ps. 28. For his salvation his mirth depends upon his salvation and his salvation upon his presence and that upon his fayth And these are Termes and definitions of God-head as Names of God PSALM XLIIII AS the people of God in old time prospered not by the strength of their own armes as appeered still by the ods against them but by their wise direction Ministry and discipline called the right hand and arme of God and the knowledge of the Law called the light of his countenance and his favour because their Religion pleased him God himself beeing leader of their armyes as a sheepheard leadeth his sheep and seeing God hathe now failed to goe with his people erring in their understanding and made no reckoning of them but hath given them and sold them for nothing to their Enimyes obscured them among the Dragons the Hethen to shame them that they suffer all manner of reproche of all about them that Iacob is ashamed of his commande now because hee himself trusted not in his own strength for salvation but hee and they all of the same faith and the same Religion and that they never failed a Iot of the covenant between God and them notwithstanding their misery but held themselves from all forain worship and for that all their punishment was for him that is for their Religions sake The church as Ps. 134. prayeth for his loveing kindenes likewise that hee would consider their oppression not to sleep as Ps. 121. but redeem and help them and by his Name deliver them That they might have a victorious Issue over their Enimyes with shame to them and prais to his Name for ever In the first part of this Psalme is the manifest majesty souveraignty worship of God in his workes of old as Ps. 111. hee makeeth him a king for the bringing of the childrē of Israel out of Aegypt by his judgemēt in his Law placeing thē in the lād of promiss pittying their case favouring thē Makeing Iacob a cunning wrestler to trise up the heeles of the hethē supplant thē So now as the church hath need hee prayeth God to help Iacob the Church against their Enimyes because their trust is onely in him not in weapons the strength of man In the second part hee sheweth that the Church is in wors case them that in Aegypt and their suffering slavery subjection and servitude far greater in somuch as hee sheweth heerin true sacrifice for the love of God Affliction standeth for Sacrifice as sacrifice is a Type of affliction in the Law which beeing indure-ed for the love of God and his Law and covenant doth chalenge favour from God reconcilement to him Now the Church offereth to bee tryed by God to whom no secrets of the hart are hid that dureing all this heavy burden of oppression they haue never forgotten nor been fals in his covenant neither in thought nor deed have once fallen back or turned their steps aside out of his way or have been out of minde of him or haue once held up their handes or besought any other God And for this great love they beeing thus dayly slain according to the second commandement as it belongeth to the first hee prayeth for Gods favour and redemption out of their low estate by affliction and oppression with a sound hope and confidence of salvation as they have offered their syncere and clean harts and upright and pure mindes the sacrifice of righteousnes and innocencey before him as Psal. 4. from Abrahams offering of his sonn Gen. 22. Construction Mem waters As the Hethen Nations and peoples Enimy afflictors misery and oppression place of Dragons great rivers or sea of Aegypt Daleth a door the door of hope Hos. 2. Is. 65. from Ios. 7. door for a vally The Entrance of their plantation in Canaan Which was in the vally of Akor wher they received discomfiture and fled before Aie The Allusion is plain by repeating of the word Achor beeing of the same sound Is. 45. Their turning back Ther is a kinde of entrance by the sword which is called a door Likewise the door of faith Actor 14. by the Ministry called the right hand Arme of God And by the light of Gods presence which is instruction Wher by Christ calleth himself a door and a sheepheard for goeing in and out by him and his feeding of them Ioh. 10. as of Cirus Is. 45. Mad to meat for the division of the land by Iosua Mad a garment for both the letters Exodus His King and his Lord the God of Isaack that hee would not sleep when hee is called upon and let his people be made a laughing stock to the world but rise and help them In Isaak was his covenant Iacob hitherto hath syncerely kept it therfor they would not be made a scoff to the world a reproche shame to their neighbours and all ignominy to suffer as sacrifice when they have Gods Name in such singular honour and reverence From Isaaks Name and sacrifice Gen. 17.22 which is heer meant by the vilenes of reputation and sorenes of affliction which they got by their defect in warr when Gods word and his presence shined not unto them Remember the Echo like sheep for their meat c. like slain sheep c. Again thou puttest us a laughter c. thou puttest us a byword c. PSALM XLV HE sheweth in this psalme the Espousals of the Lamb and his wife of Christ and the Church the Kingdom and majesty of God Ps. 145. and the heavenly Ierusalem the
and so terriblely confounded the spirit and wits of Kinges and Princees cropping highe trees and Kingdoms for them to performe his Promiss Gen. 12. c. as Ps. 2. Whence this psalme is formed which sheweth that that psalme together with the first hath his authority from the beginning of the booke and is a Narration to the whole Pile and is no later work Construction Gnajin an eye or prospect as the word of God hath out of Ierusalem and Zion and hee is admirable for his Name ther. A contrary property of the eye is sleep they slept their sleep c. Bothe chariot and hors were in a swefâ— c. that he is more eminent and more in sight then any savage mountain or promontory whatsoever Thou appeerest greater c. thou art very terrible c. even as a lion Amos 3. Vau the second letter for a hook or crook betokeneth feat Their weapons fell out of their handes and they could not hold them for feare Feare of the Iudgement of God pulleth them back As a lion is terrible in his sight and voice so is God terrible in rebuke and anger wrath c. and crosseth all projects stoppeth and perverteth the wayes of men La. 3. By both the letters Gnav from Gnavah to cross or pervert or marr Leviticus The Scriptures and preaching of the word of God make the handes of the wicked to shake it dauntes their courage and taketh down the stoutest to save and help the poor in Zion Hee is cheeffly honoured where hee hath don most for his people hee requireeth his ministers office with diligence for this favour in these wordes yee that be about him c. to bee allwayes mindefull of his benefits and with great devotion to serv him The whole is fear and terror Gods Name is a lion in Iudah Gen. 49. Amo. 3. Apo. 5. PSALM LXXVII THinking upon the dayes of old as Ps. 143. and the yeeres of the right hand of the moste highe which is the time that Israel was burdened in distress and in sore affliction and was wonderfully and mightyly redeemed and miraculously saveed and delivered as Ps. 114. by their cryeing and complaining unto God their Saviour in their distress Seeing now hee cryeth moste incessantly in his distress and will never leave calling nor bee pacified haveing been long therin without attendance stretching out his unweeryed handes with an uncomforted soule crying himself out of breath stareing with his eyes and amased Ps. 17. that hee knoweth not what to say at the long suffering and tarying of the Eternall his God but wondereth at his highe displeasure whether in his anger hee hath forgotten his promiss of Grace and loveing kindenes or hath sealed and stopped up all his mercyes with anger so considering Gods mighty redemption of the church when they cryed by his walking on the waters and pathes in the seas Psal. 8.65 hee wondereth hee is not heard Construction Gnajin an eye or sight I sought c. by all meanes my hand was stretched out c. thy way c. 1. Sam. 1. heerto hee alludeeth in things in sight and things out of sight the sight of the eye myne eye-watches c. the waters seas c. to remember and call to minde sight of the minde soul hart spirit c. for a kinde of seeing turning away and forgetting and Meteors c. lightnings c. as Chronicles by the term world generation ever never more c. Zain to hear by compulsion of a continuall voice by all kinde of meanes in a hiphil or coactive sens by force of sound as touching his prayer and also the Elements As the eares bee daughters of musicque so his songs and meditations and his talke and commemoration in the night are to open his eares Concerning both the letters they signify 77. the limites of Iudgement of condemnation wrath and revenge which is the boundes of Chronicles seven fold and seventy fold vengeance And that now Mercy was to bee looked for after such an expiration And the same letters spell Gnaz strength for Gods unspeakable Acts don by his Arm and right hand his Ministry mark the doubling of the generall and speciall that is all kindes and propertyes whatsover Leviticus Thy way is in thy Sanctuary c. and thy way is in the Sea and in the great waters of the Scriptures c. and becaus thy steps are hard to finde it is to be preached by the Ministry for conducting of the people as it was by Moses and Aaron that mercy and truth bee all wayes set before them which is the way of God Ps. 25. And the fidelity of Gods promiss and covenant by which his people live In this Psalme the term Iehovah is not used at all but Adona and El to express power and dominion accordingly So doo the Teachers becom Rulers as the Levites had charge of the Ark and word of God and the regularity therof that mighty strength PSALM LXXVIII EPhraim by Idolatry started from the Church and rebelled in Ieroboam that Hosea sheweth which is the parable of this Psalme pointing out by this all the stubbornes and perversnes of Israel and faithfullnes of the Church and their often temptations and revoltings How they continually vexed and angered God that at the last notwithstanding all his compassion and reconciliation hee destroyed and cast them off in Shilo as Ps. 132. and refuseed Ephraim and chose Sion for to dwell at and chose the tribe of Iudah for his inheritance and out of it his servant David to feed them as Ps. 108. So seeing every transgression hath just recompense Hee recounteth all from Aegypt to David and willeth the Church to bee warned by the example of Ephraim who for shooting aside and refuseing of God was soon rejected by God and this is the sum of all Hosea and the doctrine of this parable Construction Gnajin or Gnen the letter for 70 as for an age or generation which is seventy yeers by the term Dor so often doubled Gnaijn or Gnen the word for an eye or look as for parables or ridles which are to the eye to look unto or seeming truthes And after the manner of truthes when they bee revealed Heerto belong great wonders secrets miracles and mystryes of the Scriptures The Sea the cloud the fire of the Law Deut. 33. The rock and bread and flesh 1. Cor. 10. Ioh. 6. Math. 16. see hee clave the sea c. hee clave the rocks mark all the repetition of the words rock c. when hard and cloudy dark and hid sayings are brought to light and to a heavenly sense as Gnen for fountaine and rivers of doctrine broken up So likewise concerning the plagues hee sent ill generations and ill kindes of men and angry occasions Ps. 105. for a destruction Apo. 21.16 Châ—th the other letter for Fear bringeth-in all the terrible things of God fire and sword and all plagues for tempting angring of him for not keepeing his way baptizeing with
the holy Ghost and with fire Mat. 3. Marc. 1. Luc. 3. Ioh. 1. and firey judgement of the Law And mercy also faith and confidence c hope in the promiss and dispaire Hee smote the Enimyes of the Church for the Church and the Church for themselves and their own misbeleeff Leviticus David beeing now Pastor and leader of the people of God maketh all the opening of the Scriptures the releeff and redemption of the Godly the plaguing and damning of unbeleevers Which is the work of the preacher His calling was from God and hee gave himself to the service of him God his own elect Ps. 89. For interpretation of parables and all hard things and figures Iob. 33. Is. 43. Proverb 1. Hab. 2. as good Rulers are bread and water to the people Is. 3. PSALM LXXIX THe Church considering the miserable and hard estate that they are in their siege their desolation and captivity as Psal. 74. And shewing all the abusees of the heathen with a sore complaint against them for entring Gods proper inheritance counfounding all service and prophancing all the civility and statelynes of Ierusalem contrary to his ordinances and makeing havok of the blood of his moste deer and pretious servants and carion of all their gratious personages and bringing all their pretious lives into reproche with their neighbours and thâ—nking that they have felt enough of his wrath considering their calling upon him and dayly service of him they now pray that hee will turn his hand to the heathen and destroy them that have thus consumeed the Church and bee blasphemers of his Name and that for â—he ancient glory of his Name hee would not think upon their iniquityes any farther but speedyly to let them see his mercey and his reconciliation for their sinnes for his Name sake And the end is that the Heathen may bee disappointed of their glory Gods just revenge of his servants may appeer in might by hearing the prisoners groneing and redeeming their captivity and multiplyeing of their reproche of him and his servantes many fold into their own bosoms even seven times seventy for the seventy yeeres captivity 490 yeers taught in A B C of Psalme 25 by the letters T s r r to consume the oppressours and bring finall redemption that Gods people may set foorth his prais for ever Dan. 1.9 Construction The letter Gnajin for 70 implyeth the 70 yeers captivity of Babylon that great reproche of the Church which to be seven times multiplied for judgement and vengeance upon the Enimyes make 490 yeers And Gods merceyes are according therunto Ps. 119. R Gnajin the word for an eye or sight is for the appeerance and presence therof for the glory of God and his name sake The two letters Gnat from Gnit or Gnatah to cover or object as love covereth sinnes by reconciliation and the grave bodyes which be kindes of covering as reproches are for opprobrious ignominious and abominable Objects Leviticus God is Pastor and shepheard Psal. 15.80 Ioh. 10. when his Ministry is stain and his Church defiled his lerned inheritance layed waste and all their preaching and teaching becom a laughing stock c. His people and sheep pray for his mercey and redemption to glorify himself in the salvation of them by his mighty Arme in this time of desolation that they may prais him Because all vengeance and mercy is Gods PSALM LXXX IN the marching of Israel towards Canaan and their camping the whole host was divideed in warlike manner into fower squadrons three tribes to every squadron three before eastward and three upon either side and three behinde this three was Ephraim Benjamin and Manasse Within thes squadrous was left large room for petty squadrons of Priests and Levites ordered in like manner haveing their severall chargees and several offices about the Tabernacle which they garded accordingly Now within the tabernacle was the Ark and upon it the mercy seat and over it the Cherub wings the figure of their protector in the Ark was the Law and in it the strength of Israel which for the justice beeing the Godhead and protection of Israel hee prayeth to the God of warr for the shineing out and for the rouseing the strong defense therof to save them in their lamentable Misery and desolation as hee now walked before Ephraim Benjamin and Manasses That notwithstanding now the whole Church lyeth waste and the hedgees of the Law are broken and they are a mockery to their Enimyes the transplanted vine of Ioseph troden under foot and devoured by the swineish and beastly Hethen as Psal. 74. and 79. and left accursed and Ephraim the sonn of his right hand is scorched with this chideing countenance for transgression yet because of his blessing of them with his right hand they pray God that the shining of God and of the Law may guide him That from heaven hee would look out som mercy upon the work of his own handes revive them and raise them again out of their thralldom and captivity hee beeing the sonn of his right hand confirm them root them well and save them That they may not turn back from him as Ps. 14.53 but seek him and call upon him to save them haveing been long as dead men in the true service of him Construction The letter Pe is 80. The word Pe signifyeth a mouth and heer to hee bringeth eating and feeding Kal and Hiphil active and coactive The swine devoure c. God is sheephard and feeder Hee feedeth with weeping and teares c. hee prayeth to bee fed with the cleer light of the Law called his countenance for a kinde of feeding to salvation and to be turned and wended by the word like sheep Conduct us and guide us c. mark the repetition To quicken by calling upon him These bee the two meates adversity and salvation c. Leviticus That hee would look upon the Church the vine God is heer sheep heard Pastor and feeder and conducter of them c. by the fire light of the Law of the Church beeing scorched with his smokeing wrath Gods firy and Angry look strife and scoffing chideing countenance and fumeing against their prayer which burneth or eateth Is. 33. For the fire and cloud and lightning hee is prayed to shine out by clearnes of truthe and mercy and look upon it and save it because his right hand the Ministry in Ioseph and Ephraim Gen. 49 and the tribe whom hee had tyed to his service hath planted it And lay his hand upon the Ministry and bless al the labourers in the Church Mark the doubling of thes wordes Sonn for the Church Psal. 2. right hand confirm c. vine c. That they may be quickened by hearing and riviveed by calling upon the Name of God That they may profit and goe forward and not fall back from him PSALM LXXXI THat they should lay no fault upon God this Psalme concludeeth the justice of the desolation in all
the word for meeting or kissing as mouth to mouth or face to face or neer or present by the itteration of the termes kindenes and truthe and righteousnes or Iustice and peace c. He to behold for the privative Thou forgavest and coveredst and thou contractedst break off c. For the habit shew Vs c. And the prospect of Truthe and righteousnes For his presence mark the doubling of the wordes Salvation Ps. 42. country and land The Eternalls likeing and goodnes to it In the first and last wordes Leviticus The good will of him that dwelt in the bush Deut. 33. is to his holy Land Exod. 3. his presence glory bounty Exod. 33. Ios. 5. and faith love and righteousnes and peace and salvation the rest of the Godly Armour and holy weapons and weedes of the Ministry Ps. 132. For mercy and remission and salvation in perill for sin that they bee not consumed with the flame of Gods wrath when they look in the Law Ministers of righteousnes shall goe before and lead as Prophets to direct his feet Luc. 1. PSALM LXXXVI THis Psalme is fitted to the former by the very wordes of the 25. That the reader should not misse but have an eye thither to mark the starr of his redemption and line of Gods Iustice and judgement which is seven fold the misery that they inflict upon the just and Gods vengeance and revenge upon the wicked and his payment of them to bring the Poor their hopes of inheritance and peace eternall with all plenty and delight with it by an utter rooting out of the wicked for ever as Ps. 37. And this is all for his kindenes and faith toward the Poor and distressed which hee calleth his way which also is his work which together is wonderfull that ther is none the like nor any God like him This way with many just reasons to be heard hee prayeth to bee taught and his hart to bee sharpened that hee may walk by the word of truth in the fear of his name to publish and glorify him for ever for his great deliverance by it as Ps. 88. That when many proud and terrible Tyrants which set not God nor his Law before them seek his life that God in the Kingdom of his compassion and kindenes would pitty them and bestow upon him his strength which is his Law and therby save the childe of the Church called the sonn of his hand maid and to shew som signe of this good unto him that the highe and fearfull looking men may bee abashed and abased when they see that God doth take his part against them Construction Pe a mouth for calling cryeing voice and prayer and name and hearing heaâ—kening and considering c. Relatives Mark the doubling of these wordes with requests and reasons which also is for Vau thâ— other letter for a crook a kinde of crooking or fetching by petition Likewise the two letters together make Po heer or hither which is also toward Which is the nature of pitty and kindenes also wordes often repeated By his mighty pulling of them out of hell and pittes of distresses and saveing them Mark the doubling of these words His perswasions and inducements Hee is poor hee is pittyfull hee trusteth to him hee calleth on him hee setteth his minde on him c. God is wonderfull kinde and a wonderfull doer 2. Cor. 4. And saveth strangely c. to the great glory and prais of his Name and calling upon him Ps. 50.91 and a shame to his foes by a signe of prosperity Leviticus Hee is com from Pastors Rulers and Kings and Gods and Angels and hostes Armyes exercisers or soldiers in the former Psalmes now to Ministers works creatures and servantes of God Psal. 134.103 Mark the often doubling of the word servant and son c. and the word Lord the relative to implye the same Such as bee the Priests dayly Callers upon God as was Moses and Aaron and Samuel Psal. 99. and Ezra c. For Saver or Helper of the people PSALM LXXXVII THer is no such mother as the Church of God nor any parentage like unto God his word ther is no such Church as Ierusalem and Sion from whence the word of God and the Law issueth that the gates the goeings in and out of Sion are better beloved with the everlasting then all the dwellings or cittyes of Iacob or the Church elswhere beside For when other citâ—yes are mentioned that this man or that man was born in them of Sion it is sayed more that this man was born in her in that which the most high built and established And when hee writeeth up his people hee will not leave out the place of their birth that were born there because of the excellent springs of musique that are in it And this commendeth the Childe of the Church and expoundeth the sonn of the hand maide in the former Psalme to shew the pretiousnes of the children of God the deernes of his servantes blood and the worthynes of their redemption Construction Pe a mouth by the ineffable fame of Ierusalem the mouth and talk of all the world By the words unspeakeable mention be sayd reckon c. for kindes of utterance springes singers and pipeers For mouth musique Zain for hear for the renowm and prais of the citty and what an honour it was to bee born in it and to bee brought up ther. Mark the word born doubled Zain for Zeh this for certainty by the repetition of that termn and sens so oft This man hee and hee or every one and hee c. both the letters make Paz for gold The golden citty new Ierusalem Apoc. 21. also Paz strength Gen. 49. Leviticus For the Church and Assembly and deer hous of God and his beloved Ministry for the place of highest degree of honour and prais called the gates of Sion The holy hill dwelling of Iacob Citty of God Gods founding and establishing c. for his service a place of harmony that ther is no place nor Church of the like Glory and strength authority The Leviticall office heer are the Musitians and praisers of God of which ther were 4000. 2. Cro. 23. PSALM LXXXVIII BEeing now in the Cadence and conclusion of this book and service also which is the proper place of praising and gloryfying of the name of God that in this Psalme by true cours nothing els câ—n bee expected but commendation and prais of the Everlasting for his great works of love and kindenes towards them Now by the languishing of the Church and their oppression in long captivity the Estate beeing altered the Memory and glory of Ierusalem dyeing and decaying every day seeing they now tell of their birthes in divers Nations and Cittyes and at length the Ierusalemites grow few as the Egyptian generation in the wildernes and they are estrangeed and their acquaintance obscureed and their estate abhorred and beecom abhominable like dead men now beeing thus
dead in sorrowfull lives buryed deeply in distresses and covered with wrongfull oppression shutt up from their freindes and acquaintance by remotenes and terriblely amaseed by affliction and Gods angry terror upon them Now how can they confess him aright as Psalm 86.137 and shew his kindenes and faithfullnes among the Destroyers and make his Miracles plain among them that understand nothing or manifest his Iustice wher it shall not bee remembred For this hee prayeth aloud in the night as Psalm 134. And holdeth up his handes and calleth dayly for salvation and redemption with early shouting and praier for the same to wit their return to Ierusalem to prais him counting all placees els in the world but an absolute state of death whersoever they were captiveed Construction Pe a mouth mouth to mouth or face to face for manifest as by prayer and Oration to God Affliction is the contrary for obscureity signified by the whole nature of the grave and dead men What theyr estate is mark his presence in these words before thee praying shouting and cryeing and calling confess told manifested Gods wrath remember And a miserable estate is compareed to a grave for all propertyes So his life is full of all evills none evill escapes him Hee is at the mouth of the pitt expireth Hee is dead slain weak out of minde cutt off in the deep in the dark in place of destruction land of forgetfullnes out of his acquaintance in abhomination shut up for ever In wrath hee rejects and hides his face Hee doth no wonderfull and secret thing his mercey is not revealed Cheth fear prostration and breaches amaseed terrors terrible passions oppression c. Bothe the letters spelt make Pach a Governour Duke or Prince Neh. 5. according to Ie. 48. also a snare which for his adversity hee maketh death and the grave as Ps. 18. Leviticus Nehemiah chap. 5. sheweth by useing the like wordes of this Psalme that hee is the Cryer and Governour and cheeff Prelate heer meant haveing the like occasion in the behalf of the church PSALM LXXXIX THe faithfullnes and kindenes and justice and judgement of the Everlasting by which the heaven and earth and all thrones are built and preserved must bee for ever sung And happy are the people that can delight and bee merry in the presence and light of the Everlasting beeing exalted by him Wher hee hath ordeined the sounding out of his Name And that ther is none to bee comparâ—ed either in heaven or earth to the Eternall for his warlikenes for might or counsell or terror for beating down the proud Nations and scattering of his Enimyes Now haveing exalted David and covenanted with him and sworn that his Throne shal be for ever and his seed after him and that hee would so strengthen him that no enimyes should hurt or oppress him and that hee would make him as deer as his Eldest sonn and give him a supremacey above all the kinges of the Earth and that hee would never take his kindenes from him onely correct him with â—odds for transgression of his Law Now hee noteeth that the Enimye hath the advantage and rejoyce God is angry and breaks his covenant Ierusalem is takeen and layd desolate the crown of his Anointed is cast on the ground the church is in captivity even in their prime their swordes nor their hartes have any edges to battell and his Throne is overturned and hee is abashed and is a reproche to his neighbours and prayeâ—h that hee would no longer now hide his face in his angâ—y dealing thus against them but remember what stripes they bee able to carry and not to make an end of them in his wrath but let them see his salvation in time and redeem them and to think of what continuance they are seeing oppression makes an end of the strongest and what was their Creation worth wâ—thout Redemption and think upon his kindenesses again and faithfull covenant to David and consider all his wayes after this correction and the Reproche that the church putteth up at the handes of thes great Nations their Enimyes that cannot abide his steps Construction Pe a mouth for all kindes of speech covenant swear confess triumph sing be mery with exalt speaking saying falsifying of promiss violating of covenant breaking his word changeing the thing that is gon out of his lipps lying reprocheing c. covenant law Iudgements prescriptions commandements his word or mouth Kindes of mouthes the edge of the sword the hand of hell or mouth Ps. 141. gaps in hedges and breaches in walls thou hast broken down all his walls c. Tet dirt or clay as beating for dust his throne is down and his garland and crown and all his exalting defiled in the ground and abaseed and all Kingdom and honour in the dust and shame and reproche to cover it His song is the Merceyâ—s and miraculous dealing of God and his truthe in promiss which is all his way Ps. 25. his mighty way of salvation rule and assistance See the repetition of kindenes and faythfullnes and wonders for kindenes and walk of divers writeing to bee noteed Mark the eternity and throne of God wher hee sitteth in his word which is his mouth for ever world without end for the wisdom and uprightnes therof Iudgement and Iustice. Leviticus The Seed of the woman shall crush the serpents head Ge. 3. Michael the Archangel of the covenant is cheeff prince and prelate heer Da. 7.10.12 Zac. 3. Ap. 12. Iude. Like Immanuel Is. 7.8 Nu. 13. as by Gods Name of might and strength to help and rule and commande El and Chasin Iah c. Mark the admiration who among the children of the Gods c. who is so mighty a God c. So Mi Ca El signifyeth who is like God Deut 33. cheeff in the congregation and counsell of the holy ones Hee beateth down the grown seas and lofty billows and heads of the Enimyes By his ministry called his Arm and right hand and strength therof which is called his help For this help hee peeked David out of the people to conquer the Enimyes one that no Serpent could prevent Ge. 3. The seed of his doctrine shall bee for ever Mark for the creation of the church the woman out of the Mans side from â—ll the wordes repeated build help before or for finde Enimy for serpent c. beguile c. onely the serpent shall reproche his steps and blaspheme or hurt his heeles Mark still the repâ—tition THE FOVVERTH BOOK PSALM XC COmpareing the age of man with the age of the Church they finde the ods to bee infinite not a wakeing in the night to a thousand yeers which they call but a shower of a sleep that they were in God before the creation and hath lasted ever since without extinguishment His servants bee brought to a few and pounded to dust but hee reviveeth them with sonns and daughters and when they flowerish moste their youthfullnes in iniquity angreth God
the kingdom of heaven for the righteousnes and peace and salvation therof For this hee sheweth all kinde of of rejoycieing approoving therof amendment of life and a welcom singing leaping daunceing vaunting of all creatures and boasting and publishing therof which is the meat offering in his courtes at Ierusalem the joy of all the earth for the raigning of righteousnes and of the word And so commeth the kingdom of heaven to bee meat and drink by joy in the holy ghost and a heavenly delight in the power and glory therof the prevailing of the word in man and the lustre of a godlye life Mark the wordes and the insisting theron For Vav a crook or to take hold hee dealeth by the contrary to give and offer and bow unto and doo reverence and worship and tremble by the word yeeld c. Take up presents c. Mark the iteration Tsav of Tsivvah both the letters signify commend commaund or bequeath or send to the same purpose for the comming of the kingdom for which wee pray Math. 6. As all kingdom is with power and strength and commande Ps. 68. Numbers The wildernes heer is the wilde nations and marches of the Heathen wher the word of God and this Kingdom of a godly man is to bee preached and published all abroad to setle them in a sound doctrine that they may never bee moved more What a delight they have to entertain it what a rejoyceing and a welcom is at the comming of righteousnes Is. 52. when the nations bee conquered by it and the church increased mark the doubling of the word Hethen Nations familyes people c. what a God hee is in respect of their Idoles that is so to bee commended mark the charge bless him preach him tell out his glory c. And this for true and righte Iudgement the stay of the whole world Mark the doubling again PSALM XCVII THe kingdom of heaven of righteousnes and of God is not with outward observation but hee reigneth in darknes with a cloud about him in a dark and obscure stile of speaking that his Enimyes may not perceive him For right judgement and understanding of the minde is his Throne and the fire of the Law hee sets before him that burns round about his foes The flashes of his lightnings make all the earth afrayed and the hartes of great kingdomes the Mountains of the world to melt as wax at his presence and to becom soft and yeeld unto him And his Glory beeing like the heavens putteth down all idolatry and bragging worship and saveth his gratious ones from the wicked and to preserve their lives by forsakeing of ill by that subintellectuall light which is preached unto them And for these benefits may the Ilandes rejoyce and triumph keep holy Sabbath for the peace that preserveth their trade Mount Sion and Iudah for his Iudgements and advauncement of their God aboue all the Godly for their preservation and the just for light and understanding Construction Tsade for meat or food which is the delight which they have in the Kingdom of God and raigning of righteousnes by preaching and instruction of the Sabbath that all the earth may bee glad of And also for Gods excellent Iudgements of Zion Ps. 19. to rejoyce in Another part of the kingdom of God is his judgement and punishment sevenfold upon his foes when hee teacheth the Godly and his deer ones how to save their lives and this by fire work of his wrath out of the Law before him according to the letter Zain for sevenfold Mark the doubling of both partes of the throne the one part is of justice and of light and the other of darknes and of firey judgement The buissines of rejoyceing is all over light to the righteous and judgement upon the wicked that the earth tremble at Mark all the repetitions and relative speeches for that Numbers The wildernes heer is Gods Enimyes opposed to his beloved and deer ones and the Idolaters of the Nations and Image-makeers they are the cheeff that bee daunted and abashed at his Glory inviteed to his worship for his excelling of all Gods for judgements beeing Lord of all the earth Mark the relation and repetition between light and darknes God and Idoles rejoyceing c. And this for the glory of the kingdom PSALM XCVIII WOnderfull strange workes of salvation hath the Everlasting wrought by the Dexterity of his holy ministry and his righteousnes in the Law called his right hand and holy Arm even in the sight of the heathen which hee fullfilled in carrying them through the sea and drawing them out of mighty waters as Ps. 18. beeing kinde and faithfull to Israel that all the world have taken notice of the salvation of their God Therfor now they are to sing a new song unto him And that with all solemnity and greatest triumph that can bee before their king with Iubeling and chaunting psalmes and sonets with hart and musicall voice with shrill soundes of trumpets that the sea and all that is in it the world and all the dwellers in it rivers and hills and all creatures wher ever men goe may thunder and sound out Echoes of Ioy and gladnes and rejoyce and keep holy day before him hee commeth to judge the earth that judgeth all justly divideing the word Construction Tsade for meat or food They are fed with the great joy of his salvation by revelations and cleer interpretations of his mysteryes and hid things of the word Act. 14. Ier. 15. At his comming and raigning with righteousnes Eph. 3. and a cleer judgement within them Wherto all the world ought to bee obedient they are made wise unto salvation and to judge right with in them selves His food of mercy and truth they live by Mark the repetition salvation wonderfull work and reveled made known remembred and see relatives Mark the doubling of all the words reacting his prais joy The two letters Tsach cleer or to cleer Is. 66. by loudnes shrillnes plainnes c. the letter Cheth for fear is spareed becaus of the insisting upon rejoyceing the contrary Numbers The wildernes is implyed by the Heathen the endes of the earth and the confuseed world and her inhabitants that before the comming of the word unto them were without God in the world or any true judgement unto salvation to delight in Mark the repetition word judge justly c. They must needs therfor greatly rejoyce at the comming therof PSALM XCIX HOw bewtifull are the feet of him that preacheth good tideings and bringeth news of peace and salvation in his lips Now Righteousnes raigneth in the Ministers the Angels and Cheruâ—s woe bee to the Gentiles and nations of the Heathen And while God is so great in Zion and so farr exalted above them they were best to incline to his Kingdom and worship his Name that is so great so reverend and so holy For all the strength of a Kingdom is the lovâ—ing of Iudgement and prepareing
With speaking against it or denieing it Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass or invireon for the kindenes of God that doth allwayes stand about the faithfull and protecteth them and helpeth them and comforteth them that trust in him Ps. 32.33 Quotou they are yrksom lothsom and tedious as are the Images that ther is no use of For ther is no light in us but in the Law of God that is the makeer of heaven and earth See the repetition God thrise for the opposeing of Imagees God can doo all things and they nothing Eternall for affection and preservation of the whole church Trust help and defense c. Prais Iah 15. by the works of Iehovah and for the spirit therof that images have not Ps. 135.149 Deuteronomy The reciteing and Rehersall heer is the generall blessing of God for his grace and the wonderfull light of his truthe through faith Mark the repetition Israel Aaron and all that fear God bless Eternall twise abridged Jah for Jehovah heaven upon you twise c. For multiplyeing of his grace for ever And this serveth for an admiration of the wonderfull way of God Imagees and dead men can say nothing to it it belongs to the liveing to register the Acts of the Eternall That they may bee of blessed memory and have a fruitfull posterity Consider the infinite increas and fructifyeing in Egypt Deut. 10. Num. 2. According to the Name of Ioseph in phrase of adding as Act. 2. And his blessing Gen. 49. Deut. 33. As the like is in the next of Iosuah in phrase of saveing Dealing upon the story as it goes PSALM CXVI THis psalme is joined to the former by shewing why the Name of God should bee so glorifyed above all as Ps. 92. And the effect of calling upon him for at what time so ever hee calleth in what distress so ever hee bee and whatsoever hee requesteth it is readily graunted and hee is heard and reveeled When for misâ—rable distress and greeff the very pangs of death and the grave had fallen upon him and had hold of him as Psal. 18. that hee doubted of life and hee was quite exhausted and spent as David Psal. 142. hee prayeth for life and hee was holpen that is the Everlasting that is just and kinde in all things of his wayes and works and preserveth the simple ones by his word as Ps. 19. saveed him When hee was so spent with affliction and misery that no promiss of life or salvation could possess him or comfort him and all that was promissed was incredible unto him and seemed unpossible and yet for the deer respect of his saintes hee savâ—ed him delivering him from death and pain and wandering to walk before God and his Saintes in immortality For this grace hee professeth the love of God and willeth his minde and soule to bee content and at quiet and throughly satisfyed and take rest seeing God hath dealt so bountifully with him as nothing more is to bee demanded nor any thing can bee a sufficient reward for his good turns so doubled and trebled upon him Therfor hee will take the Scriptures the book of the Law of the promiss of the Covenant and all the doctrine called the book of salvation and from thence throughout them all wassail and call upon the Name of God Ps. 119. Q. and sacrifice his devotion in Sermons of Thanks unto him in presence of all his people in witnes therof and willeth him to bee praised And as hee is his Minister and servant at his right hand and sonn of his handmaid the Church hee requesteth that hee may bee loosed and at liberty to doo the same accordingly Now seeing God calleth his sonn the Church out of Egypt heer is likewise their invocation the mercey of God upon them in redeeming them from sorrow and bringing them home to Eden their promissed rest of Canaan the gift of the Nations and their contentment and love and thankfullnes for the same to the study and contemplation of the Law of God for the love therof For their continuall succour and satisfaction safe conduit and comfort by the righteousnes and glory and pureity therof as Ps. 19. recovering them even from the chaines and thralldoom of ignorance and pit of despaire by his miraculous grace and reconciliation to serve him in all perfet knowledge and understanding in the Church and Paradise of God for ever wherto they are also thankfull and devoteed above measure And seeing all thes may well content hee willeth his soul to turn to her rest shewing how bountifull God hath dealt with him and resolving to pay ample vowes for the same Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to invireon or compass is heer dilateed by snares and torments and bonds and misery strict affliction and with releas and deliverance the opposit terms Iod a hand for death and hell and bondes that apprehended him and had hold of him Vav a crook hath the same sens but by way of saveing redeemeing and deliveringe and pulling him out of the snares and grave of affliction c. Hee would fain bee loosed that hee might serv him becaus hee is his servant See the repetition The three letters make Quaju they vomited hee dealeth on the contrary which is his love and good digestion of the good turns and merceyes of God upon him Which agree well with the godly by their deliverance when they call upon him Ier. 25. in so much that they mean to make him recompense by the thankfull service of him The Mercifull Eternall Jah the Name of Iehovah is fifteen times repeated Hee dealeth heer upon Ghimel as in the 103. And Iah and therfor ther want three verses of the A B C. Mark diligently the repetition and the kindes of instruments Deuteronomy Hee will call and speak and preach much of the Name of God and celebrate and proclaim his wonderfull merceyes by daily service offering and sacrifice for a recitation For hee redeemed them from slaveish death of Egypt and satisfyed them and gave them rest by Iosua by phrase of helping or saveing Mark the words Name Call beseech death liveing bountifull good turns Eternall for merceyfull Gratious invocation servant pay vowes in the sight of his people doubled in the place of rest Heb. 4. They make earnest heer of their delusion of Pharoh by their excuse of departure Ex. 4.5 c. PSALM CXVII THis Psalme by grace in the last psalme reaching to the kindenes and truthe Psal. 115. for which Gods name is so laudable and glorious and so to psal 92. wher it is to bee chaunted out for it and seeing it lighteth upon a seventh and therfor to require a rest as also for sanctification of the seventh yeer after the forty from Aegypt with a Sabath work of rest for the land according to the 47. dayes rain before the entering the Ark also for the number of the subdueed nations beeing seven which the loveing kindenes of God and his faithfullnes overcame and the strength
of his everlasting truthe and his word hath conquered for them as psal 18. and his gentlenes of doctrine hath excelled and prevailed over them and fitteth on them ps 29. the Church now wher kindenes truthe aboundeth seven times a day yea infinitely doo wish the nations and the heathen to prais him and commend him for his kindenes with a book of commendations for it for growing of the word of God and waters of the Law through them and among them as the number of clean creatures for the pureitey of language and preferment of a pure profession ps 19. becaus ther is so excellent reward of truth and kindenes the way of Godlynes psal 25. Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass is heer the mercy of the Eternall whose property is salvation for the compassing and saveing of them and pardoning of the Godly Which is ment the compassing waters by the nations and people heathen of one kinde and the waters of kindenes and truth another kinde And the wordes to abound or flow over and asswage Iod the second letter from Iadah to flow and so from Hodah to confess heer for prais and commend severall words of one sens so that the sens is doubled as Shabach to allay the flood And bothe agreâ— with Iod to confess or publish preach or celebrate for a note of repetition Zain the third letter is for the auditory to hear For hearing is supposed by great commendation prais and confession and often repetition Deuteronomy The Deuterosy and recitation heer is the buissines of prais and commendations of the way of God and the wonderfull abundance and riches of his grace upon them Ps. 103. Rom. 5.6 Eph. 1.2 This hee would have the nations take notice of How greatly his mercy and fidelity and waters of life exceeded over them By the name Iehovah which hath heer a new division into How and Iah as in termination Eli-jahu Ieshang-jahu c. also by inchoation as in Ie-hosuang Ie-hoseph c. for assistance Achaz-jah Jeho-shaphat Io-nadab c. For addition PSALM CXVIII HEe now propounds in this Psalme the Cup which he promissed as Ps. 116. of the waters of life freely to the Church out of the Law filled from Psal. 92. with the benefit of the worship of God and invocation of his Name and the worthynes of his reward to God for all even faith through which hee feareth not the threats nor looks of his Enimyes which is more worth then any confidence in man Therfor when hee is infinitely besett and afflicted and corrected hee findes life and salvation in the word of God and calling upon his name by works of strange success and kindenes from him as the whole Church can witnes whom hee willeth to worship God therfor And all his testimony shall bee of his salvation which is true and his oâ—ely note and song perpetually of his strange deliverance Ps. 143. This is the song of salvation that hee goeth into the Church to worship with and his invocation upon the Law in the Psalm following when the Church with great admiration and joy doe entertain salute and bless him with a Hosanna wishing all prosperity in the Church for comming in the name of the everlasting God And the better to welcom him and that God may the better accept of him and shine unto them they sacrifice to him that hee may worship and extoll the Almighty his God Hee now greets the Church with a Salve or Ave hail or wassail and cup of salvation by entring the Ministry and becomming a Preacher of righteousnes which was strange unto them For because of the uncleannes of his hands and impurity of his hart as Psal. 15.24.51 rejoiceing at the mercyes of God in him thâ—y wish all blessing and prosperity of the same as Ps. 15.2.4 with the like congratulation for the Church And that they had fed upon the rest therof in remembrance and token of their full and mighty redemption and great salvation from God so that the whole Church may confess the everlasting kindenes of God and worship him Because his throne is the right hand of God as psal 110. and the right hand of God is the Ministry and that is the word of God and that is judgement and Iustice mercey and fidelity as psal 89. the conqueror truthe the written word that rideeth upon the white hors and fighteth valiantly from which oracle all victory and succour proceedeth and all battailes are the Lords and the discipline his hee now exalteth greatly the dexâ—erousnes and prosperity therof And prayeth for an open door of the righteousnes of the Law and knowledge of the word that hee may enter into the service of him and extoll him and finde the way to pleas him That his testimony and song and burden of his song bee nothing but the everlasting kindenes and salvation of God and the faithfull recording testifying therof in presence of his saintes as psal 149. and with the help of them Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass or inviron Heer are divers kindes of compassing helping afflicting helping in thes wordes kindenes that is continuall help and salvation grace to help Heb. 4. Tit. 2. Eph. 1.2 It is of this sort God is by him and present with him allwayes The Eternall is with mee c. hee is the onely relye and trust and confidence they compass him c. but by his invocation hee circumcised them and cutt them off Mark the doubling of the wordes and kindes of compassing nations bees and circumcideing c. Iod for a hand by the right hand doubled Jod to confess and publish by worship Cheth to prostrate to cast down c. Ier. 23. the three letters Quiach of Quoach to take or receive are intended by the gates entertainment hearing and welcom in his name and also by the term of rejection or refuseing Hee prayes God to bid him welcom out of his word and the hous of God Gen. 28. Mark the repetition wee beseech thee give salvation bid God save you bid God prosper you wee bless c. Deuteronomy Gods everlasting kindenes in his word is an eternall liveing and food for human men mighty matters and wonderfull are don by his name and his right hand for which hee is to be worshiped Therfor for his recitation heer hee useeth the wordes worship declare exalt extoll say beseech c. sonet and loud voice for the mightynes of his Acts of salvation The term Almighty is doubled and also the abreviation Iah for Iehovah and Iehovah the Eternall six and twenty times according to the letters Iehovah for the mightynes of his salvation and kindenes Psal. 136. to shew the same and how beneficiall God hath allwayes been to his people by his Name Exo. 33. Mark the terms repeated PSALM CXIX THe door of righteousnes is a strait gate and prayer is a narrow entrance and the way of life is hard to finde and principles are the surest keyes therfor
invadeers Like the frozen and setled ones Zeph. 1. The despisers and deriders Iob. 12. Ne. 4. Mat. 6. Luc. 16. Pro. 30. Caph of Caphaph the second letter to bow oppressed made to stoop bowed Ghimel the third letter reward the giveing of grace and countinance for their waiting as fit gifts for children And this as it is the work of the eye Prov. 30. So hee that dwelleth in the heavens the great regarder and great derideer is prayed unto Psal. 2. Maâ—k the repetition through out agreeing Deuteronomy Hee that prayeth unto God doth glorifye God Psal. 50. hee that commeth unto God confesseth that God is his praying for countenance is as much as confessing and publishing of his grace and repeating of his eternall life and everlasting way and wonderfull work of salvation Thes 15 Psalmes have a figurative excellence in them Is. 38. returning and reciteing and climeing higher and higher to heaven and understanding by words PSALM CXXIV MOnt Sion was the glory of Ierusalem and the Musitians the glory of Sion as Psal. 87. and thes Psalmes the glory of the Musitians The mery songs of Sion which they so much longed to hear and inquireed for in Babilon Ps. 137 by which men are sung alive again from death every Psalme beeing a step from misery and a step to honour and that of the Kingdom of heaven from the greatest ignorance and darknes to the greatest knowledge and light Heerby the Apostles sing open the prison doores and sing off the bandes of their feet for the word of God is not bound Psal. 68. Act. 16. 2. Tim. 2. and take the keeper prisoner For heer is a new earth a new citty and a new Sion and a new tabernacle of God with men and a new and a heavenly knowledge in man a new man which captiveeth all power and can not bee captiveed The fruit of the spirit beeing in all goodnes righteousnes and truthe sendeth out such hymnes and Psalmes and spirituall songes of thanks of melody in their hartes for salvation that maketh all manner of subjection captivity and bonds and imprisonment tolerable God is ever good unto his people and ever neer his elect as Ps. 73 to glorify his chosen as Psal. 84.86 when all the troubles and malice and anger in the world aros and kindled against them And hee cracketh all the building and plots of the Enimye by his goodnes kindenes when hee is called upon as Ps. 118. After long waiting as Ps. 40. and great affliction as Ps. 90.109 when the people of God bee even eaten up alive with reproche and scornful biteing and defamation at the handes of the proud at last God useeth to bee good and gratious and mercyfull and comfortable unto them by takeing theÌ„ out of thos lions jawes which in long gapeing get the cramp and neuer close again And though a world of nations like stoods of Enimyes set upon them yet ther is that dullnes in their understanding and sottery in proceeding dissention and division and imperfection in the manifacture of their cordes which they lay that they are soon brokeen for the devill beeing author of confusion of discord they no better agree one with another then they agree with the Church and their work is soon destroyed For the works of discord are not stâ—ong nor durable And thus ofteÌ„ times by the muteny of the Enimye the Church is safe as in Aegypt Assur Babilon c. Absolom c. wher the salvation of the Godly is out of the sight of the wicked and they have a miraculous deliverance and all by their invocation and calling upon the Name of God and serving of their Creator as 92. which in due time heareth yf they faint not And this is the Experience and hope which they have by patience wherby this Psalme suiteth with the former Construction Quoph of Jaquaph to inviâ—on is of the compassing of the Eâ—imy by the abundance and inundation of them compared to the swelling of Iordan and the proud warrs of the men of Adam their invasion Ios. 3. of the Church Iob 22. Ps. 42.116 Ier. 12. Ion. 1. The opposition is Gods present assistance and standing to them and with them by his existens and name Iehovah And about them in helping Rom. 8. Consider the first and last wordes doubled Caph for bowing down and pressing of the Enimye in captivity by snares and waters to wit the 70 of Babel See the affecting of Iod with Zain in Azza and in Zedonim to be multiplyed for 70. as Zain Gnain Ps. 25.34 Daleth a door is Gods discipline and remedy as the Medes and Persians to dissolve the captivity of the Babylonians Mark the repetition to all Deuteronomy Thes songes of return bee sufficient confâ—ssion of Gods mercyfull and miraculous deliverance which hee would have the Church still in minde of and to use them for repetitions as beeing so much bound for their salvation to him PSALM CXXV THey that beleeve not shall not bee established Righteousnes and God and the Kingdom of God is the same thing for other gifts of government are conteined in it Ther is no stedfastnes but in justice nor any trust or beleeff or assurance but in the everlastingnes therof becaus for this are Gods people immutable and immovable haveing the light of the Law and the glory therof shineing about them to guard them for ever That ther shall no wicked dominion Lordship or punishment rest wher the righteous dwell becaus they doo not wrong as Psal. 15. and that the wicked doo overgripe themselves that medle with them and are forceed to loos their hold and releas their captivityes Therfor hee that seeketh righteousnes seeketh all and hee that seeketh it findeeth all It is found in the Law called the face of God as Psal. 24. that pure Israel only seeketh and is blessed therwith The Church now prayeth for judgement favour to the upright strait and plain mindeed men and condemnation to the variable and crooked and declineers in hell with the mischevous and evill dooers as Ps. 5. That Israel may once have peace and the Ark have rest and the Church never faile Mat. 16. Construction Quoph the compassing heer is in the term about as the hills and the eternall Existence God doth guard his people by his providence the wicked shall not rest among them for fear of corrupting them the confident and faithfull shall not miscarry no more then hills or rockes Mat. 16. and this is the Eternall presence of God the faithfull according to the third letter He behold and the absence of the wicked that must not com nighe the Righteous The faithfull are defineâ—d good and upright strait and direct in their harts against declineers and benders and wrong and crooked wayes and this for Caph to bend or crook also So the cherishing of the good and the banishing of molesters is the way of peace Caph a hand or a shaft or rod as of the wicked Mark the
and this teaching and hearing is the Sabbath work of refreshing and reviveing the miserable and dead-comfortless soule of man ps 113. This is the food of the congregation the miraculous sustenance out of the Law and Testaments that lasteth from meal to meal with full cupbordes for ever as ps 144. That whereof every disciples basket and his store is blessed with increas and for this is the day to be kept holy and sanctifyed for the presence of God and his word in it that sanctifyeth the hearers Which presence yf God vouchsafe not the people are forsaken and perish for want of his kingdom Now that in this psalme hee may seem to sanctifie the Sabbath and to keep it holy he layeth down precisely all the circumstance of his behaviour and the worship and keeping of it and that most from ps 92. that hee may seem more capable of this food and sanctifycation of the spirit by the manner the presence the place the end and the reason of all As thus he will worship God with all his heart he will chant him out before the gods and Angels and judges hee throwes himself prostrate at his temple hee worships his Name for his loveing kindenes and his faithfullnes and that because he hath made his promise greater than all his Name ps 12. Now becaus his worship is so perfect hee desireth to bee heard in the day and time of his calling and that he would sustein with great strength in his minde and releev him largely That all the kings of the world might likewise worship God when they have him and his wordes and sing of his wayes and of his great glory which are his miraculous and wonderfull woâ—ks of kindenes also of his promiss and faithfulnes Now becaus he is high and beholdeth the low and the mean ones psal 113 and seeing hee is lofty and kenneth farr and his word findeth men out every wher hee prayeth now that God would bestow his heavenly food and bread of sustenance uppon him That as we labour all the week to rest the sabbath so that we may be fed in the sabbath to bee able to labour all the week That is that of a man in great distress and in the midst of sorrows he would make him a cheerfull man and revive him and being besieged round about with adversity that he would lay his hand upon his enemies face and blindefold them and by the prosperous and dexterous right hand of his ministry save him And that God who is the onely doer about him and his kindenes is for ever would not now forsake the works of his own hands and creatures of his Law and that he would never fail them with his kingdom that bringeth all things with it but let him see the fulnes and pleasure and joy at his right hand beeing his portion and cup and inheritance ps 16.116 Construction Quoph to compass the kindenes of God about him to strengthen him in affliction giâ—deth him Mark Gnoz and Zarrah seven seventies and 490 ps 25.34.119 see kindenes repeated Ion. 2. Lamed Lerning is heer a larger extent of Gods Name it is all his Law and his word and his work and his way which is grace and truth that shineth after him by effect that with his glory ps 29. putteth out his enemyes eyes spieth the afflicted being never so deep or farr from him to releeve him It commendeth the reading of the Law and Prophets and for this the word saying and Name and hand is repeated Cheth to prostrate by bowing down c. and lowly c. all his humble supplication and adoration in deep distress ps 5. Is. 18. all the letters qualach from whence qualachah a caldron for affliction Deuteronomy his dayly worship and psalming in the Temple can be nothing but of his mervilous acts of grace towards his church and creatures and of the life of the word that feedeth them and disgrace to his enemies Ier. 20. Mark the word worship for a repetition or confession Hee fullfilleth all his saying and all by his saying PSALM CXXXIX IN this psalme beginning with Trespass hee sheweth by the stones of triall in the brest-plate of judgement described as ps 149. by the law is a mans life spanned out and made square every way that God is made privy to them all If it be in position by lyeing down and riseing up hee knoweth their miscarriage therein If it bee in their travail or their rest hee keepeth round about all their wayes and pryeth into every trick of them If it be in speech or language hee knoweth every word Hee besets them round about they cannot go forth nor back but his hand is uppon them which is their conscience of sinne against the law which he calleth a wonderfull and a higher knowledge than he can attain unto from the sight of which trespass and conscience of sinne becaus ther is no escapeing neither in heaven nor hell nor beyond sea nor in the dark whatsoever hee committeeth by imagination or worship but hee is every wher with them and alwaies in sight of them and hee can no way out-goe him or hide from him nay that God possessed his reins before he was born and becaus he was fearfully hidden and he knew that his works were wonderfull and that hee saw his bones though they were made in secret and that hee was set together under the earth and his clue and windeing and his dayes recorded before he was born now for this hee devides himself from the wicked deerly to think of God as a father and to worship and honour him for his creation and that his cheeff and deerest and most honourable thoughts are mighty and wonderfull many of him even above the sand of the sea in number seeing as long as hee is awake hee is never out of minde of him Hee will have no fellowship with any wickednes with such as rebell and risâ— against God in fals and vain imagination idolatrous trespass Ps. 119. S. And throughly hateth all the enemies of God and they to him are for deadly Enimyes And all the sinister side for Sin ps 109.119 sh. and hath God on his right hand as ps 16. to shew his conversion repentance and amendment Now seeing nothing can be hid from God and from his all seeing presence in his Law and conscience but they shall bee visited to the third and fourth generation hee prayeth to bee searcheed and his heart and thoughts to be tryed and known throughly to see yf ther bee any way or work of idolatrie or sorrowfull trespass in him Yf ther bee that hee would lead him the way and work of eternity and amendment of life and forgive him And this is a resurrection which the Law performeth by long looking into the hearts and consciences of men to restore them and deliver them out of the bonds of sin and death and hell and the divell and from all slavery wherinto they are sunk by offences yf ther be
Iustice and equity of the matter like sine pom-granats and aples of gold that the righteousnes of the Pâ—ists lips might ring that though his bones lye so nigh the pitt yet becaus his trust is onely in God and his eyes are allwayes upon him that hee would not strip him out of all and overthrow him and deprive him by it but that hee would keep him out of all the snares of the workers of greeff and molestation and temptation which they lay for him which are every howre as an open pitt ready to swallow him and that the wicked may justly fall into the meashes of their own nets and into the pitt of their own makeing While hee escapeth and hath his issue out of temptation and is delivered Construction Quoph to compass or stand or sett about as a watch and ward to his mouth 2. Cor. 11. or deinty meates Mem waters for the waters of Idolatry opposed to the pleasant and sweet waters of the Law of God Ps. 16.36 c. taken heer for adultry Hee sheweth the way of it by the mouth the hart the handes snares and fruit of it And that all is sorrow as the corrupt calling upon God Gen. 4. By Cains posterity And should deserv to bee stoneed Ezech. 16.22 Lev. 18. Is. 37. Deut. 7.19 hee prayeth to bee righted though hee feel it and smart for it And this from Aleph to instruct That his wits bee not confounded by her nor his strength ill bestowed beeing so nighe perishing Hee prayeth their judges or Gods may bee smitten c. so hee intendeth the destruction of all their trust by the pureitey of his prayers and Gods acceptance of him Hee sacrifyeeth by prayer as Psal. 50. all is for Instruction against Instruction Mark the number of repetitions Deuteronomy Hee sheweth another way of declineing and missing of Eternall life as Math. 19. by spirituall adultery And as hee handleth yet the word and name of God so heer hee termeth their Gods and Idols judges as Psal. 82. and for the certainty heerof is Jehovah made Iehovih and vowelled like Elohim which is judgement that property of God His calling and prayer serveth for confession and recitation as Psal. 50.91 PSALM CXLII THer is no such theeft as to take men from the service and Altar of God Psal. 26. Now to bee applyed properly to this Psalme seeing all persecution is theeft and robbery and becaus David was now chaseed by Saul into the Cave Psal. 143. hee findes a way of excerciseing his Kingdom of patience as yf hee should say blessed are they when men revile them and persecute them to steal away their good name or rob them of their liberty or substance speaking all manner of evill against them for Gods sake falsly Math. 5. for then great is their reward and not to resist evil And this is that which David waiteth for for his singular patience and suffering not seeking any revenge or restitution or amends and hee will not seek to mend his portion in this life but that God and his relye and his Kingdom shall bee all circumscription therof to wall him in and confine him and content him And thus hee sticketh fast to the mercy of God because all kingdom is his and serveth for a reproof for Saul and a comfort for himself Therfor beeing now in a disperate case and in great distress that his spirit fainted and that hee was intrapped in all his courses and snares layed for him which way soever hee went and that ther is no refuge at his right hand to be found or any man at all to distinguish or entertaine him or any bosom to receive him or to disscern or help him or that careeth for him to save his life hee now cryeth unto God and beseecheth him makeing him his portion and setting him att his right hand as Psal. 16. that considering his great poverty of distress hee would hearken to him deliver him from his persecutors seeing they were too strong for him that hee would inlarge him and make it a wonderfull and bountifull deliverance that beeing shod with the Gospell hee may worship his name with the just ones for so great a reward upon him Construction Quoph to compass as distress seege and want of succour about him naked in the cave Psal. 141. Hee would faine have the congregation about him c. and be at liberty to serve God and repair to him Mem waters which are affliction Psal. 124. Beth a hous bring out of hould c. repetitions are not only heer but argument of theft by the letter He behold because all stealing is privily Ioh. 10. divers sorts of He-es doo appeer as curiously in the word goe Psal. 143. and liveing and bring out c for curiosity and rareitey intimateth as well as repetition And the whole Psalme is indicative Hee bewrayes all to God that they should not steal his servant Deut. 24. Is. 42. willed Psal. 50.91 Mark the repitition Voice cry Eternall to thee before him life or person So powre out tell look see acquaintance present or absent worship c. with the contrary hide overcom or faint hold c. Deuteronomy Hee confesseth his wonderfull distress and prayeth for deliverance that they make not a prey of Gods servant That hee may have matter to worship his name for his bounty which serveth for a memoriall of his mercy and way of life in his word which is in crossing of theeft PSALM CXLIII HEe prayeth not to be called to account or strictly examined lest hee bee condemned of the breach of this commandement For the keeping of which hee propoundeth to himself to depart from evill as Psal. 37. and that as far as hee can goe which hee makeeth the resisting of the Divill that hee may fly from him And sheweth that in all his perplexity and adversity beeing chased by his Enimy into the ground as Ps. 142. and to obscure dwelling like as yf hee were dead feeling faintnes of hart and all his courage and spirit spent and his hart by guiltynes wasteed and shivered within him that hee recedes now as far from fals testimony against his neighbour as hee can devise which is to the rememebrance of the ancient kindenes and wonderfull works of Gods handes as Psal. 118. and to a meditation witnes and true testimony of them and to tell of them to study the Scriptures for his comfort and to keep them in minde and bear record of them which is the opposition which hee propoundeth and this with a great longing Therfor that now when his spirit is so nigh spent and himself almoste at the grave with greeff and that hee truststeth in God and maketh all his Kingdom the righteousnes therof hee now requesteth that hee would hear him and answer him therwith and whisper him in the ear by his word and teach him the way of deliverance from his Enimyes and to doo his will And because hee is his servant that by his good spirit
this book Construction Quoph â—o compass or invireon the band of covenant and strictnâ—s of promiss Neh. 9. the secâ—nd letteâ— Iod for a hand or to worship is to confess or repeat and remember c. For allusion to Jod in Sara the tenth vers is divideed and cast to the ninthe and the eleventh for Iod in Sara and the operation of the two He-es in the words Hodh Vehadhar in the letter He for example and princely habit of godlines Ps. 104.45.145.21 and reward of righteousnes makeing the one a Princess the other â— Monark according to Iah in prais of the Name of God which conteineth Iod and two He-es Aleph for their dayly instruction in the promiss and in the word wherwith they are sed to a perfect understanding All three letters spell Qui to vomit hee worketh by the contrary the good operation digestion and delightfullnes of Gods works beeing glorious and mighty Mark the repetition Deuteronomy The Recitation is the wonderfullnes of the work and way of God in the mystery of his promiss thus concealed Mark the repetition prais worship fear reverend convenant truthe rememberance works gracious and mercifull for ever for the eternity of the life and work and way of God and the comendation of it His works are wonderfull they are so delightfull so reverend so seemly so just so loveing and kinde and pittyfull so mighty so true so judicious and discreet and his word so faithfull and so plain PSALM CXII MErcifull and just men have more light then other men That when for pitty they lend that beeing good they may provide their matters by Iudgement because they remain still and are remembred for ever And having their faith and confidence upon this sure foundation of the righteousnes of the Law and their hart so established therin that for any ill report of the spyes and the promiss to Abraham or ill or hard look of their enimyes they fear not They likewise bestow their goodes upon the poor that heerin their righteousnes also may last for ever and that they may bee highly glorifyed therby Wheras in this the wicked for want of his desire melteth and gnasheth his teeth for envye to see it Now doth happines consist in abundance of riches or shall wee take care to fullfill the lusts of it or think yee that riches in godlynes No Godlynes is great riches yf a man bee content with that hee hath and great reward and happines followeth the profession therof Therfor laying away this shadow let us com to the light the sens then is that mens hartes by the fear of God shall bee storeed and mightyly blessed with knowledge and doctrine of the Law and promisses Psal 145. as also with great judgement to use it as Ps. 40. and great alacrity to impart it as Ps. 41. which is the riches of grace and of God and of the word of God and the constant preaching therof to those that want understanding and are without the same Which is the breaking and giveing to the poor thus cooling the tongs of the thirsty Through which the righteous are for ever blessed and their righteousnes remaineth for ever Ps. 1. in despight of all malignity of the wicked and to the great horror and tormenting of them This Psalme alludeeth wholely to the first because that is the beginning of wisdom shewing the everlasting prospority of righteousnes that tree of a godly life Psal. 1. Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to turn back or about As at hearing ill newes or sight of an Enimy by the word fear doubled and opposed to confidence reputed for righteousnes in Tsedhaquah Which letters yeeld a hundred ninety and nine to bear at the fruit of godly life That Abrahams great riches was the promiss which hee beleeved at 75 by the words Hon Vegnosher in the letter He. Iod for the commutation of the letter Iod idle in Sara the mutuall love and faith of them bothe by divideing and casting that vers of Iod the tenth into the nineth and eleventh like the former Psalm for Abraham According to Iah Gods name of eternity that counteineth in it Iod the two He-es Beth a hous for everlasting Mark the repetition Iust upright fear righteousnes remain for ever gracious pittiful c. Deuteronomy The recitation is the way of a just man that feareth God that shall bee mighty in haveing and mighty in dooing and greatly blessed in the way and work of eternall life mercey and truthe and faith and love and delight in the Law And hee shall have wonderfull and strange success to his harts desire when the way of the wicked shall melt PSALM CXIII THis psalme hangeth to the last by receiving tâ—e word from aloft from the Angels and Ministers from heaven beeing preached to the Poor and divideed and distributeed to the simple and destitute of knowledge and unlearned such as have need of understanding and are in distress and misery Likewise it prayeth by the prayer and confidence of Hannah for a third heaven of understanding Concerning the literall sens hee sheweth fiâ—st that ther is none so mercifull or compassionate nor to bee compareed for humility with God that vouchsafeth from his glorious dwelling to visit the base earth and to redeem them that bee troden to dust by oppression and as it were cast awayes and such as are throwen to the dunghill for things of nought and of no valew to make them valewable with the best and promote them to the highest and to quicken the dead and fruitless wombs and to cheer the barren woman with a houffull of children and to make the despiseed and upbraided woman an honorable mother and wipeing away all teares from the eyes Now beecaus ther is such prosperity by calling upon God and praying to him hee praiseth him again and again and willeth his Ministers from morning to Everning and for ever as long as the sunn shineeth to prais and bless the Name of the Everlasting So the excellent and moste soveraigne Name of God beeing Scriptures wherin hee is nameed the whole word and Law of God wherin hee is mentioned and beeing meditateed or preached or meditateed and preached is so repleat with Grace and mercey and favour and compassion from on highe on the afflicted and low degree that it giveth them all life and consolation and resurrection and comfort in the spirit Hee recordeth heer the prayer and prais of Hannah 1. Sa. 1.2 and Mary Luc. 1. for Sara Gen. 11. Merry for Isaak Gen. 18. For power and might and glory of creation Gen. 1. And whole dayes service of the Sabath Construction Quoph to compass or invireon Like houses and dwellings and Company by the multiplyeing the termn dwelling by sitt dwell and inhabit hous c. also doubling the word with people princees and childeren opposeed to barren or one rooted out poor desolat or cut off Is. 54. Iod of Hodah to confess publish or commend by the multiplyeing the termn prais for